The New York herald., 1871-11-06
LYRIC HALL UKIvERsALIsT CHURCH.

Rev. O. d. FrothlDgham ON the Jewish and
Christian Dream Of Heaven, and tho Duty
Of Coed lien In Our Present Dlunicipal
Crisis.
II having been understood that Mr. rockingham
would SPEAK on municipal and election matters
yesterday, a large congregation gathered In Lyrc
Hall, to whom he expounded his theory OF the king
dom OF heaven and It's relation pres mt crisis.
Ills text was Mathew xi, IL, 'The kingdom OF heav
suereth violence and the violent Jake r FORCE"
Toe kingdom Of heaven. no SAID, is q dream-0ne
OF the sweetest and Oldest Of mankind. II was
dreamed away In the ages when history
was not known. II was dreamed IN Egypt
long ago by name long since gone. 1t was dreamed
in Greece; 1t was dreamed In Spain bv Cairnac,
in France by Fenelon In Britain and Ireland by
harrison and Thomas Moore and oshcrs, and In our
own and Dy men burning with the Same expecta-
uon and ardent feeling as animated the jewish
dreamers. From age 70 age It has been received In
beauty, until when Jesus came he found BODY OF
people who entertained this dream IN Its purity, as
we fnd 1t in the New Testament. 1t was the dream
OF Jesus too and in ai his ministry 1t was ofenest
upon his lips. "rhe Kingdom OF heaven Is within
you,v ssThe kingdom OF heaven Is at hand" was his
constant cry 1t Is certain that we shall never un
derstand Jesus. His dream was one OF
NEW SOCIAL STATE
though his followers entertained another kind Of
VISION. they dreamed Of kingdom OF heaven
which was to be yonder-not here. This world,
ney said was about to close up and all our interest
In 1t must cease, because religion was the only end
1noro was to DC no more marriages or births NO
further accumuations Of properly Or comforts Of
home Society was to be gradually drawn IN and
new kingdOm set up on the otner side. And tney
put words in the mouth OF Jesus as Il he, too,
world. doubt IT, said the pfeAcner: Tne dream
wos always 10 the same direction. The elements
were always the same. There were to be No more
wars or con niois between parties; fraud de-
ceit hypocrisy. But there was also another con-
cepifOn Of II. IL was TO have grades and dign,ties
and ranKs--wnat the Churon wou.d call . nicrar.
chy: Some things were 70 20 at tne TOP ana others
10 have authority over others. Plato mad similar
conception whom ne SAID that society was composed
OF golden peoDo-rulers; silver pc0pie-wari0rs
in this light also, for no held out the promise that
hts folio ers should sit ON thrones Judging
the twelve tribes Ol Israel Was 1t Q Iancy
wild and cnfnerlcalr he tnought not. Here are
which receive the dews and rains and transmit
them TO the Valleys below. Ii there was no eleva-
ton there could be no fertility TINS arrangement
OF gradatiOn IL fOun0 In the mineral, the vegetable
aud tue animal Kingdoms as well as IN human
society. This thought was calculated BY the
preacher. A. the bottom man Is instinct. His ap.
petltes aud passions rule Above tnat u intelligence
tncn sentlnentallty, and above a the moral power.
GOD Ii NOT DEMOCRAT
In the vulgar sense. he Is no leyelier, aud every
thing depends upon the preservntlsn VI that order.
Tne most vicious classes says hooers "a Spencer ~ are
themselves they readily bow the kneo to any one
who comes along with unScl crown ON ms head.
Tney were the ALLIES OF the Save power IN THIS
ideas of power Dut tue nation and the COM
muniLy must insist upon this nrmly estaD-
iished order and keep thom at tho bottom.
where they properly belong. Those ba9 men