The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-08
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Sermon ut the Tabernacle by tho Rev. A. III.
Ciapp-What is True Liberty 1.-THE Franco
Prussian War.
At the Jersey City Tabernacle yesterday there was
q slim attendance, which can only be accounted
for by the absence Of many members OF the congre-
CATION being In the country. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. A. II. Clapp, who took his
text from John will, 24-"Verily l say
unto you, whatsoever committeth sin is the ser.
want of SIM" These words were addressed
by the Saviour to people who had already begun
TO believe In Him. And yet how hard 1t was to
make them understand that there is moral and an
intellectual as well physical slavery. Is 1t not
true that least with the young their course Of folly
and Of sin is regarded by them as OF free
don9 They do not realize that life OF sin is life
OF bondage They have false ideas as TO the nature
OF true liberty and accordingly they
COMPOUND LIBERTY WITH LICENSE.
man may live seventy years in undisturbed
security Of person and property, and yet during
those years ne may be the very slave OF ignorance,
superstition, begOtry ana sensuaity. Un the other
hand we find man prosecuted ignored neglected and
desplsed by the world while in the intellectual and
times is the Interpretation Of liberty even by
civil authorities. They aim at nothing more than
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Is 1t not melancholy TO see those cOntending ma
tons on the other Continent lighting for this lower
lngdOr physical liberty which cOmprehends nothing
more elevated than the mere animal idea. That was
not the liberty winch our fathers sought on these
shores. With them the freedom OF the mind and the
intellect was paramount In other words they aimed
at moral acknowledgment. the disenthralment Of
the soul. Go out on the street and see the
MEN WHO CALL THEMSELVES FREE
the drunkards, the debauched, the sensual. They
cali themselves free but are they free In any sense9
even turn at times whittier their desires lead them.
Take the case OF Plate He saw the iooK OF con-
scious Innocence in the Saviour. Yet he would not
incur the dspea;ure OF the multitude nor yet entail
the responsibility OF an unjust sentence, SO he sent
the Lord gutiess and dismiss HIM Because Ai he
was himself the slave OF SIM He knew well that
other tribunal had the power to pronounce sentence
Of death. He
CROUCHEs TO THE MULTITUDE,
whoGe rage he lears may be turned against himself
anhood the moral courage to be just, to break the
chains OF sin which are fastened around him. See
him wash his hands in attestatiOn Of his innocence
while conscience smites him for his meanness and
ialsehood. There are
MANY PILATES IN THE WORLD.
We find such meanness and falsenOOd almost
every day. Man is made to the Divine image. en-
d0wed with the sublime faculty Of reason with ca
pces FOR in and
the Armament God has set before man
great lesson, but he heeds 1t not. He follows the
dictates OF impulse Having no will OF his own he
must OF necessity be tossed hither and thither as he
In intellect and corrupt IN his affections Is that
man ireer de will tell you II you go TO him and ask
him to reform That ne Will not give up his liberty.
But yesterday the alurement was
SPIDERS WEB.
Custom In sin brings on other alurements, and he
goes ON adding strand to strand till he Is cabled
now. 1t Is not of necessity, young men, that you
remain In SIN. The Creator has given you a con-
science to warn and guide you. There Is power
TO restore you. lie who at his ascension into
heaven declared that all power given TO Him In
heaven and on earth can deliver you. and He always
comes to the and OF those who supplicate Him. Fly
to the Great Deverer from the bondage OF sin to a
life OF freedom. Overthrow that
MASSIVE STRUCTURE OF SIN
which you have been rearing all your lives, and 90
not like him Of old, crush yourselves under 1t along
with your captOrs Emerge from this lie OF slavery,
and thus and thus only Will you be truly and really
In the enjoyment Of liberty