The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-11
TRINITY CHURCH.
True Freedom sermon by the Rev. DIR.
Vint0n.

True Freedom - sermon by the Rev. DIR.
vint0n.
The Rev. Or. vinton preached the sermon at the
morning services In Trinity Church yesterday. He
took for his text the sixth verse OF the eighth chap
ter OF st. John, In which Saviour rs described
inviting all sinners to throw OF their Jokes and
10 him, when he promises them they ''Sha be free,
indeed" The reverend orator opened by stating
that sin was Incompatible with true freedom for
IN sin could not hold his judgment In suspense
rs he pursued but one train Of thought. For in
stance, there was the ambitious man. He hated
with hearty hate all rivals OF his advancement.
His selfaggrandzement his god, and any one
who came between him and that he wished to de-
stroy. Was such o man free2 Then there was the
rich man--that class whose sole aim In life is the
boarding up OF gold and silver. He toed for moth.
ing else. He dreamed OF nothing else. Every object
In life he made subjective to this idea OF hlsthe
accumulation Of riches. He never gave thought to
the other world; never stopped In counting his
moneybags to think that he had an Immortal soul
which might be made.
EXTERNALLY HAPPY OR Externally MISERABLE
and that there was a world after this which ought
to give us thought once In a WHILE Was such man
freeS Again, mother lives but 10 see her daughter
outshine all rivals. She brings her up to be vain OF
vain things, to think OF nought but her personal
attractions and the best way she can make sensa-
ton In the world OF fashion. The girl grows up
dead to religion. in q bondage that years make
The hand OF Tune wthers the features sn
looks so pampered IN youth. Then come feel
ings OF jealousy OF her younger neighbors. whose
fractions she cannot outrval. and there Is bitter
ness in her heart that makes her life miserable liz
| such woman ireey Some people imagine that Il
| man without occupation was free man; but
A MIND VACANT IS A MIND DISTRESSED.
| IL was every mans duty to labor; the privilege
| and duty of every one. The dler is therefore a
| a A "
sciously clings to. An idler Il tile devouing prey
| OF the dev-in fact, his instrument to do evil with
Every sin finds place In the vacuum OF the dler's
mind, and it was thus that IL would be seen that IN
| doence was greater slavery than labor. IL was
for this very reason that men or business who
wealthy continued In the harness to the last,
keep their minds busy ana avoid evil And yet
there were those who would say the wealthy man
with no occupation was free. IL was not necessary
| to show that man who Is not good man IN the
sight OF God - slave by taking up Isolated cases
only types OF evil made conspicuous. Where, then,
could be found pattern OF morality SO pure that
real freedom would be found with ity
He IS NOT FREE WHO CLENCHES HIS TEETH,
whose face turns pale with rage and VINO disre-
CARDS the admonlon to forgive instead OF revenging
an injury done HIM: nor he who gives way TO temp
tatlon who clings TO an object that he knows viii
prove his ruin, and who punges into crime even
when he bushes to commit II. A man TO be really
free must be pure He must overcome temptation,
| do good and avoid evil, and such man God gives
grace to- because citizen OF the New Jerusalem
above, which Is a free city. Some people thought
that he was the priest who could 60 about and DO
ne liked, unheeied by anybody without any guide
but his own inordinate desires: IN fact that the
ner was the free man, and the Christian, because he
submitted to certain usages certain divine laws, the
slave. Was tins true
WHEN A FIRE BREAKS OUT
In house and envelops IL 80 that escape s impos
sibe for the inmates In whose heart in the alarm at
the approach OF deathf In that OF the sinner,
prepared TO meet his God or Of the good man, who
knows that he will by death but step from one
world into anotherf When ship Is going 10 pieces
In mid ocean. and the Christian knees calmly in
prayer TO meet nus end what does the sinner lie
raves he beQs, he implore5 for fe for he knows MS
soul Is heavily laden and viii sink to the depths In
the sea OF eternity. Which OF the two Is the free
manf Certainly the good Christian. The reverend
gentleman then spoke OF the inerabe sweetness Of
the death OF the good man as contrasted with that
ton to the congregation TO so act as To merit the
happiness OF death not made terror by the
memory OF SINS unrepented OF.