New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-04
RELIGIOUS.
THE POWER OF GOOD EXAMPLE.

lie "a
sermon yesterday morning. As usual the church was
crowded
In the East that which Is needed Tor tire common soo
,,npuishes Roads we're repaired ons on great occasions
when the king was coming. The figure is striking Lie
,s road, which all must travel Tue WAIT OF "ue an"
large ideal OF what ls to be Ctrsti9r Is y 70
frequent stumbling. The attempt 10 i've aec h King
conventional rules makes the WAY % % Of every true
Christian Is larger manhood an Sn9" o, are my
in the face and e am your Son. an" nortion 10
Father" Our ChrstaW ideal is great IN Piopor'On "
conception OF God. -, r., spa,neuts |
and sim fall shss being good Men aro rye r az
low of feeling terCGr ana shnnld GLOW 80
that all who see will knowa once tlaI tney @
troncal snn Christian graces are like all plants tnae
do not require dir to roe. m ood things
but not for lntensyies When men see miensrys rug
are called Ss scra has not word to say mod
Grafton When the child sho*s lhat ne ~ qe ay 20 II lis
,e 10 SHARED ne win make great man" :" would TO
God" the speaker, that there were more te,pa a.
tons TO fanaticism than there are" Wme al Oh
tie lower feelings excitement in the higher
Hber u the soa Tnere in our Christian life Lack Of
Why is 1t that there are so many VINO anne" t
};od Who ever oommunes with Christ in spirit of con.
versaon, truly devoat One does not pray WITH effect
praying Just when the touch Of the Infinite beginning
70 be felt Prayer is the breath OF e nVSS od are ike
men attempting TO supply the ocean with water I'd. py
%S" Of os presence The man who look up
the heavens at midday. and see no God. pity:
Hight ns who or ' listen ''' To the Voices Of the
,s and r% mot keeps Ss Sa in Ny
everywhere. There is nothing more worthless aian
hat does not result in action wastes nwardy and
centrally lowers the tone Of the moral nature Emouon
are 40 better monks cells than ont of them When
e known OF Many people who very s
isicTs. fhey loved God much that they had none
men attempt lead Christian life outside Of their APP
E hS Place 10 serve him. Let every person
the calling wherein be is called The FIRST im9s sto
ads G@ pcema nae 'Ha Our daily duty is in itself means
grace Every lawyer should not so outside of the office
Those who say they cannot be Christians as they are
Ssttle st onee wherever you are The world viii never
make much headway until II ceases DIVIDING lie INTO
clip j. good but those who live much in society
like trees growing IN dense foress-topheavy ana spnd
ling We should participate IN pleasures that do not
make us grow better and stronger Pleasures tnat itn
beats higher than selfndugence Rights must be sub
jected 10 the law OF love have rght 10 drink wlhe
All things must be used to promote the glory OF
God and tho welfare OF man We are bound 10 grow IN
s SSS and We 40 hO' We arc 0'OHu A0" '
BLEECKER-sT. UNIvERsALIsr CHURCH-THE REV.
T.. c. swEETsER-THE JUDGMENT.
The Rev. f. c. Sweetser preached, last even
ing, TO large audience choosing, as his subject, The
Judgment" and announcing, as his text, Matt 1920:
"a bruised reed shall he break, and smoking fax
shall he not quench till lie send forth judgment unto vic
tory" What is the Judgment, and what the Judgment
Day. 30 frequently referred TO in the Bblei The
speaker proposed to add one more to the general stock
that undefnabe conception of the Judgment which has
Which stii serves as the great religious bugbear with
which thousands Of men and women and even children
are frightened outward conformity to the rules OF
the church, but rather in the attempt TO make clear
and the Scriptures offer us, and which Is so
essential to the leading Of Christian NE on earth and
life to come The truth involved in The doctrine Of the
judgment which lies at the very basis Of all natural
debased superstition and itolary they yet have
we want IS 10 reduce tins natural and vague idea to
clear and true comprehensive aud precise conception
The speaker then defined upaS moral sciencs AL
Of mmntaGie law and the certainty Of its action. As
long for instance as men supposed t6e deaEey o1d n
according to their own eaprcious Wills no science OF
astronomy was possible was o Tnen Inc ae Of
that notion that the science OF astronomy was born
So The speaker contended that all idea
OF abitrsriness be removed. else have right
call science. When he spoke of the la~ Of retrbu
something which could be studied seieutic principles
and he believed that this matter OF the Judgment OF man
kind was regulated by scientific prncples-that is. by
eternal and unaerable lawjnst as certainly as he be-
Jeyed that the earth moved III It's orbit i'll accordance
He then reviewed some of the theories of the Judgment
the yrer sprang upon the hand Of Paul the barbarans
thought Paul murderer, and that this |
which the retrbutive idea takes shape Nature is |
seed and is supposed to exercise the powers OF judge
ard This notion Is not yet entirely eradeated
from the minds Of even Christian Yen The speaker |
thought we all had little Of the old superstition left
ana some have great deal Of it, We expect the laws of
external nature in some way to be more lenient toward
the good man than the bad man. But both experience
and lie Bible contradict that view. Earthquakes swa
low good and bad men indiscriminately The healthy
bnave sleeps sounder than the good man who Is troubled
with disease. God sends his ram aud sunshine impair
tally upon the unjust and the just From the conception
of an arbitrary God In nature, judging man. most
Christians have passed to that OF an arbitrary
the speaker, is equally false. There is no such
inng God enlrey external to the souls
of men, sitting in Judgment upon them. God
judges the soul from within, not from without, as
divine principle not as personal presence In support
The Father iudgeth no man. but hath committed all
judem the SON" We mus make distinction often
overlooked between person and principle For in
stance II used to be thought that the thunder the
direct voice of God. Now, know that God Himself
does not thunder but lie has committed all such voices
of nature TO the charge Of natural so God
Judges, bat has committed all judgment 10 the Sou And
for IN the Gospel Jesus again, IL any man
come not TO udge the world but to save the world"
enplher enunciator aud embodiment OF the
have spoken, the same shall judge mnl," The
word by which oil iDen judges is then, not God or
truth. those moral laws which God ordans and
Christ enumerated aud exenplined The great law OF
Judgment is this: with what Judgment we Judge We
shn De Judged" We stand before the moral law be-
fore MIRROR und by our thoughts and actions judge
FROM this premise logically follows lst the certainty
of Judgment; 3D. the hnmedisteDess Of Judgment OPP
posed remoteness and 81, the victory OF judgment
1c moral law, like the law OF gravitaoD unerrng in
action. and reaches 10 the pebbles well 10 the
uounaius OF good or evil ia our lives For every idle
word II judges The law OF retriDution VIII
for any tate repentance: II judges us az The
moral law Is patient and by ts patience u will conquer
10 fOrsake evil and do righteousness. All dominion OF
evil all power aud authority of sin shall be subdued aud