The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-04
CauRCH OF THE STRANGERS.

by the Rev. DIR. Deems.
Although the weather yesterday was not all that
could have been desired, there was, nevertheless,
very large attendance at the Church OF she Strang
ers in University place. ON the previous sunday
night DR.. Deems had deilved q discourse on IAN
things work. showing the law which pervaded the
universe. This morning he took the next word in
the text, Romans will, 20.
2eN T0GErHER-
showing the manner In which this law was obeyed
The difference between chaos and cosmos he de-
clared lay In that word "together.n IL expressed
harmony, as distinguished from anarchy--chaotic,
energetic, operative The monuments OF one sup
plement and are supplemented by another showing
the orderiness OF that mind which governs all. He
showed this first In the dynamics operating on dead
matter, from which he drew many deeply interest
ing examples. For instance, the centrIpeta and
centrifugal motions the nice balance OF these forces
and the proof they afforded OF the truth Of the
nebular theory, in which the Doctor evidently be-
lieves All created matter lay as In
A HUGE FOOL.
He represented Gods bro0ding over matter a. the
stirring OF that pool. giving vast and prodgous
rotation to the mass, which thus produced the
planets, the satellites and the planetoids. Also the
relation OF the law Of graviratiOn TO light which
so few people knew or noticed, and he explained
now the prodigous density OF the SUMS mass pro
stances on the surface, raising them TO such q tenn
perature rs TO produce the brilliant protosphere
which gives US our light.
Then it was shown how man works together with
man. Some movements are made far apart and yet
In their results come together. The work Of some
man produces necessity which the work OF another
supplies. SO even the generations work together.
We have the results OF all former thinkers and dOers
This generation would not be what II is but for
Shakespeare and Bacon, OF Luther and Calvin, OF
Charlemagne, Caesar and Alexander. And we shall
wifi aft la
latiOns.
Nature works together with man. and man with
nature. How helpless would be the soul without the
body, ana what lump of useessness the body with
out the soul
THIS SPLENDID UNIVERSE
would not he splendid without man. There could
be no light without an eye and no eye without light
The BRAN In the observatory takes In the sweep OF
worlds al glance and reads the history of mlleil-
NUNS In IL brief mathematical formula. Years ago.
the preacher said, he had paid visit TO New Eng
land and DR.. Hitchcock had shown him at Amherst
College u large fragment oil rock on which i'm
pressed distinctly the iootscp of huge
bird OF \ species no individual Of which now
existed. When another rock was being formed n
was manfesty raining, and the raindrops lett their
marks. Mans MIND acting on facts In nature like
sns reached not simply mp ystens Of science hui
The liloe speaks OF good aud EVIL spirits and
everywhere sets before believers the
SUBLIME PICTURE OF AN IMMENSE SOCIETY
OF active spirits working on the universe and work
Ing with men. Good and evil work together. Above
all, God works together with man. In HIM We
live ana move. He works with good men and with
bad, seizlng the evil deeds OF even the wicked
making the wrath OF man to praise Him, and re-
stIaining the remainder. So God works with
nature--that II, works now with the pro-
duets OF former works. Ii il Il wonderful
confederation; not link able TO break yet the whole
swinging IN perfect freedom Not the least amazing
OF these phenomena was shown TO De the relation be-
tween mans perfect freedom OF VIII and Gods per.
feet sovereignty What visions for the intellect wha
for the heart Is herep Think Of the grandeur
Of that measureess adalnantlne chain, uphodpg al
things, and swung by the omniPotent hand Of The
Heavenly Father!