The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-12
CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, or.
MOND PLACE.

| sermOn by DR.. Scuddcr-TOuching Peace and
| the High Commission.
| AT this church yesterday morning DR.. Scudder
delivered the sermon OF the day to a very large and
interested congregation Taking as The basis Of his
somewhat erratic discourse Matthew ", o. inculcat-
ing the doctrine that the makers OF peace are
blessed, the preacher by variety Of illustrative
anecdotes, impressed upon his audience the fact
| that an innate desire for
| PEACE IS THE HARsINGER OF SUCCESS
| In almost any human undertaking. Gathering
strength from the growing and blooming Of flowers,
he strewed them along the pathway OF hts subject
and certainly strongly impressed upon his hearers
the benefits arising from peaceful, genial method
OF intoxicating, not only divine truths, but also all
the other and c0ngenial lessons which make up the
duty Of life.
After many pertinent proofs OF thu soundness OF
the lesson OF his text the somewhat erratlc divine
proceeded to declare, with personal "reminiscences
that in the education OF the mass we must train our
humor. Quoting from Solomon, he showed the
ADVANTAGES, IN teaching, Of merry heart over
s0ured, InofOse and iOrDlddlng character. Speaking
OF the latter he Impressed the belief that gong TO
SUCH FELLOWS,
S aeoea snHr
and mental maKe-up-the very antipodes or an in.
ollnalion to please; In illustration Of his view on
TINS subject he told The story OF the time when he
was a school teacher IN India. There he found
highly excitabe congregations aS ready as a COM
mune frenchman TO ny oil on the ghost appearance
Of anything bordering upon what they might not
choose to ike, and in dealing. with them he had
iul, always genial, and to put upon even their
imagined troubles the klndliest possible aspect
was always the most impressvely received when
presented III pleasant. genial way. A tlmeiy Joke
alwa, mad better and more lasting effect than an
untlmely curse Even among such specimens Of
humanity he had always found that they were really
better than they appeared, and that an effort to I'M
Thanh n IrNylnn
ways the more effective the more kindly the effort
was made. And IN lmpressing the lesson OF the
iact-that with man whose duty 1t was to teach
found almost invariably that even his wife was
ar1m6rv ana saisarreaan I nv au 0oa, S GiUss,
pleasant way OF declaring his truths.
LESSONS UNNECESSARILY GIVEN
were very apt 10 be unpieaSantly received and
persistence IN unpleasantness IN the teacher Was
sure to provoke Its growth IN those he taught;
precisely 0pposite eject he proved by an llustra-
ton that came right home to the point. lie was
a time in
going somewhere, and to the lesson involved 1t
matters little where. on the way they met a wagon
Iearlully bad-as country roads always are-and
when the coach arrived opposite the other wagon
IL Was simply question OF who SHOULD turn
at the driver Of me other vehicle would
middle Of Inc road. He had equal right Of way, In
his own regard; and TO have informed him OF the
nave made him riled. That course was not pnr.
sued. Instead OF informing the driver the 0ppos-
ing vehicle that the vehice III front OF him was q
pubic conveyance. and that such conveyance had
prior right OF way, the driver was spoken to pleas
antly; informed OF The fact tnat the stage was
stage and that 1t was nearly iull, that 1t would be
exceedingly difficult to squirm 1t around IN the mud
and ASKED II he wouldn't as favor.
JUST SWING HIS CART OUT or THE WAY.
And he did 1t-took warm-hearted pride In doing
it-anh the stage Went on It's way Ana tnat was the
way always. Use kindly words, and II what you say
Is right you find more and more earnest followers
than epilhets can command. In continuation ana
he told the story OF the vicious man who, with de-
nunciatory curses followed father to his door.
heapng profanity upon him because he had lost his
way, and VINO was molllied and made ashamed
when me old gentleman, on reaching his
him bring the lantern, ade him light the stranger
father the way. Thus did the preacher prove that
THE WAYS OF PEACE
were the ways or pleuSantneSs. And thus did he
show that all that we do should show that we are
promoters OF peace and encOurager5 OF tranquility,
ana ny doing what we do In accordance with the
ma kim laid down, he proved that the effect Of the
lesson would be to elevate aspirations--to rem.
der quarrellIng more dillcult and peace more en-
during; and In lmpressing the lesson OF his dls-
course upon his congregation he made reference to
JOINT HIGH COMMISSIONERS,
for whose work he was thankful, and for whose
effort in the OF honorable peace he expressed
the warnest thanks. Formerly the minds Of states
men had been engaged IN solving the problem how
best and most nunerously to Kill. The later effort
upon the nations at large must, he felt, be good,
and, following the train OF thought laid down with
his text he claimed that the course which was good
for The nation without was good Tor the man within.
In all our movements In every effort good kind
ness should underlle our actions, friendly feeling he
the melting power, amt more OF good would follow
than from any opposing course
Nvyry-S