The New York herald., 1870-12-12
CHRIST CauReE.
Sermon by Or. Ever.

sermon Dy Ur. Ewor.
The dim righteousness Of the light In Ohristchurch
the choir OF white-robed boys, the ntoned service
and various other rirualistlc appurt SAVIOR
strongly OF high church. yet DR.. Ewers yes
ter lay In some respects not unlike one reported
OF long since from that radical OF radicals, Froth-
ipgham. So in these latter days extremes
meet, and everywhere public teachers beginning
to preach the doctrine OF q present salvation from
ignorance and superstition and present heaven OF
love to men. After the ordinary services, which
were very impressive, DR.. Ever said that his text
would be found In Luxe H., 62-"And
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor
with God and man, Christ was an ideal man, and
one design OF God in sending HIN on earth was
that the world might have
AN IDEAL CHARACTER
II Is not meant that gil men should be poor,
should be unmarried and childleSs, should devote
themselves wholly TO religion. There are multltu-
dnous things to 90 on the earth. Cities to be built
land to be cultivated. Each has his own work to do
and his own life TO 1--we. But Christ is the complete
Model showing In Himself our whole many-sided
human nature The whole race In & &epltome was pre-
fore He died for the human race; when He arose he
arose for all. What He told the samaritan woman
q the wen He whsPsTa Gnys all ss %sn Ros n
she did It for her Children, but when
CHRIST STRUCK BLOW At SATAN
In the wilderness he did 1t FOR human nature. Jesus
increased In the general and the individual sense.
1t Is the design OF God that the race shall increase In
wisdom ana purify. we OfUeu tnl0K t0e GHurcu
is for the individual. But does God care for parts
alone? Does he care for planets and satellites, and
leave the world in dlsorder3 God cares not alone
for Individuals but for mankind. AS the individual
may improve or rctrograde, SO may the race. God
would have the world
OUTGRow NATIONAL BLOoDsHED
and robbery and war. God would have His Church
u saving and enduring element In the race. The
Church has something else to do besides save the
individual soul hereafter. lndivdualism Is essen
tial sclfshness. The business OF tho Church 15 to
save men on earth as well as in heaven; to save
them from barbarism and from brutality. Did not
God make the earth beautiful and does He not want
men to be as o race beautiful, to0Y Think you
this generation owes no duty to the next' What
right have Christians to hand down disease to their
chdrenY Let every young man listen to me and
by temperance and purity do his duty to those to
come after HIM. We want to be saved on earth from
and, above oil things, from the death OF seshness
We are each looking out for ourselves, and this Is
the Christian ideal. What has not the Church op
posed at one time OF anotherY Music has been op-
posed adornmentS IN Dress the science Of astrono-
my and geology. In spite OF Rome the earth con-
tinued to move round the same Let tho Church
learn wisdom from the past 1t is Gods design that
factory as well as saving institution. Be yc holy
as Christ was holy, but be ye also courageous and
manly as he was.
Fix YOUR EYES ON YOUR LEADER
and be calm and brave in duty as he was. Chris
tan courage Is what every day demands. DO the
duty that God and conscience tell you to do DO
right though the heavens fall. Calmly await the
call Of God and answer It whatever II may be. God
wants great souls now Be ye dauntless, be ye
cheerful. answering; for God would people heaven
not with millions OF saved wrecks but with the true
nobility Of great strong souls.