The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-21
sIXTH UsTEaSsL.sT CNIRCH.

The Lessons Of Wintcr--Scgm0n by Rev. j.
Ne. Pullman.
The pretty little unlycrsaist church, Tnirty-ffth
street. between fnth and Sixth avenues Is wen at
tended every sunday, and the congregation have,
undoubtedly, reason to feel satisfied with the ar
engagements for their comfort, the excellence Of their
choir anu The oratorlca ability Of their pastor, the
Rev. j. M. Pullman.
the services IN the UnIversalist churches as most
people are aware, are conducted with what is
termed simplicity. The minister wears nothing to
distinguish MIN from any ordinary citizen, and no
ecclesiastical emnems meet the eve OF the worship
per save the gilt cross over rhe desk and u small
white one painted in front 0. 1t.
The preacher was very happy In the selection OF
h subject yesterday evening. The weather was
cold enough TO make lurs and overcoas almost o
necessity, ana The congregation mus have ielt tho
appropr aieness Of the lesson read BY the minister
which was the i4.th Psalm from which he tnen took
as his text the words "Ile sendeta His snow ike
wool, WHO snail uulde tae iace OF Ills cold I" lhc
preacher said as
Tas CHANGE OF SEASONS
comes around and the winter arrives in the year,
we should ask ,sirseves II Ne have gathered up all
the lessons God has wrapped under me snow and
whether We nead not that any man should teach US
what Is meant by the change o. seasons The WIN
ter the stern It's desoiatlon spreads over
all the beautiful things that taught us God WAS good
we ma ii almost literally impossible to about
with us tile same feelng OF Ills atherly tenderness
Men seeking 10 undcrs aud why the earth sholld DO
periodically visited DJ sucn dcsoialion take up.
sometimes unWlsely the parable OF the seasons.
The cold VIII emil the little chtd whom inc Saviour
would take up into his arms were lie Oh the earth,
aud The cold freezes 70 death the traveller for Wnom
the wife prays fer safely TO the Lord.
DOES THls PlTII.EssNEss REPRESENT GODS
Not lls feeling or Iis nature; hut it does repre-
sent HIS Methods, Tor lie has hard, wbd rude, IN
calcu!abe ways ~ bringing us TO ann. Our Coo Is
NOT simply summer God a .
lie is A WINTER GOD,
The u.e of water Is 10 telch us THAT Gods benef
cence not exhausted wholly III the mud seasons.
We all know the uses VI Spilnc ana summer and
we connect the goodness Of God with physical uses.
But III winter, Wncn understand that oil the
GOODNESS a.u hardness are only conducive 10
APPARENT WASTE Or TINE,
It sets us thinking, and we find our winter mind Is
not our summer nlind. Inc mind ana wnole physl-
illogical beng undergoes change which has Its
eject on the moral nature We spread ourselves
abroad upon nature III summer, but the winter Is
the dine Tor
CLOSE CONSECUTIVE THOUGHT.
Substitute Mexico or ocotlant ald Scotland for
MEXICO. What change In The suniner regions
the earth al the influences tend TO make you
care.eas; lat the winter in northern climate shuts
q man up within himself as H. wraps his uvercoaC
around hn aad fees tnat he needs some protection
from the clements Wlater AWAKEN sense of
want within US, which is very beneficial. Some
hearts, having passed through
/, A sTOHM or pESoLATION.
are like the lealess branches OF the tree, and the
point 10 to awaken Them 10 sense Oh want as
wiatef does Man can make heaven more real to
himself IN winter. In summer he mas
A TYPE OF TIE WORLD TO COME:
but 1t Is a one. Winter shows MN the per-
ishanle nature Of all around and improves him as
spiritual being. The preacher then showed how the
cold ol northern countries makes the people provl-
dent, While the people VI regions Wnere summer Is
perpetual are careless. Again. the winter gathers
the New England children into their New England
homes, while tno WORD home has no equivalent in
Gvutleln languages, and concluded by saying winter
was the time for rejection the time for Charity aud
nor sympathy for al. conditions OF men.