The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-17

Money.
Tho opening lines OF Herbert's beautiful hymn
s Ts sr S:y 3: Ss s. e calm: .aa bright
must have fingered tenderly IN the memories OF
many churoh-goers yesterday for surely never was
Sabbath morning purer, camer or brighter. or
course on such q day Plymouth church was more
than crowded, and OF course Mr.. Beecher was ol0.
quent and every Individual Of the vast congregation
full OF eager interest
The text was Matthew w.. 33-"Seek first the king
dom OF heaven ana Its righteousness. and all these
things shall be added unto you''-was the text Of all
others to bring out Mr.. Beecner's peculiar powers
Of apt and witty Ill ustratl0n and his
CHARACTERISTIC COMMON SENSE =.
METHODS OF dealing with the problems Of human
He began by asking what things are meant
by tho Scripture, ''all things shall be added unto
you" They may be summed up as all secular
necessary wants. 1t is declared that the way to
gain comfortable livelihood In this world IS not to
seek the lowest wants with the best feelings and
best time, but to seek the kingdom OF God and oil
other good will follow In his remarkable passage
Of the Savi0ur's teaching there Is clear enuncla-
ton OF the doctrine OF q divine personal pr0vi-
dence-of Gods personal care OF oil His creatures.
The doctrine Is not that men must wait In
PATIENT NDULENcE.
The economy OF this world Is such that the small.
est, least powerful things are cared for and sup
Piled. each In Its sphere. The worm has in Its
nature the means OF taking Of itself In its
life. The bird cares for itself by the appropriate
Of its organism; even the vegetable feeds and de-
veops according to Its own nature. Now In this ar.
rangement OF the universe shall the lowest
and the least be amply provided for and
the highest and best be ioreottenr But
IN the morning and hunting industrOusy. How Is
the lily cared fora II pushes out It's roots and con-
further; in a blind way il has enterprise. The
Master says. "Are ye not better Than theyW Is
there not given to you equal n, opportunity, you
ism Is higher SO much are your chances multiplied.
Therefore
The words In the text mo thought" m can no fret
ting thought no useless, disturbed thought; no hot
we fear. The text Is, then, firstly, declaration or
the doctrine q Providence. secondly, It lorbids
manded not to seek iirst our bodily comforts
Secular prosperity ought not to be ilrst thought
but We forbidden seek 1t first. To be sure, In
mere matter OF time we must care Tor the body but
In the matter OF importance the manhood must be
attended to first. The text does not teach
AN INDIsCRIMINATE PROVIDENCE
1nas taxes care OF me dligent ana the lazy alike
what IL shines on. The declaration Is twOlOd one,
OF a experimenting Providence but coupled on our
kingdom OF God. and then all these things shall De
adled; Put all your noblest powers INTO good use
and Providence Will work with you. They that
work for the kingdom o. GOD Will be
SURE TO SUCCEED.
not only IN the thing itse. put w,ii draw all lower
10 the lowest The sum OF the teaching, then. Is
this:-Let every man make his spiritual interests
paramount There Is Providence that takes care Of
individual men. No object TO believing this
We all have our hours OF conscious weakness, when
we are baiiied, aud feel that II would be transcend
emily blessed TO have God TO take the blossoms OF
our purposes and make them bear fruit. But men
6y laws They Say God governs the worldly laws,
and men that obey them reap the ruit. and II they
So% we do not say that this o'pso
is one that supersedes law bat we say that 1t Is by
law and through law There - sustaining power
on these subects They say that great natural laws
govern the gloDe. Is not man part OF tnis globe
Is not
ana all the rest husksf Are we walking powerless
among all these natural agenciess Some men use
DIE IN THE POOR HOUSE;
others so that they die In home with home angels
and heaven angels about them. Because can't
make one hair white or black, does it make no DIFF
terence 10 my child what do for hlmi Man is so
me that AD God ,'u HELPLESS, p ses he he
this world and set 1t going. see that father down
there blessing his family. wish could bless my
family say that II God averages as well as on
natural laws.
WOOL WAS MADE TO GROW
on q sleeps back, but Is natural law violated
when 1t is drawn out from the housewives spindle.
Gods providence works by the natural law nearest
outside Of YOU but bg the %ora laws ur w s Ms
succors. you through your own powers. God Dest
helps those who have learned to help themselves.
Thirdly the whole experience Of the world goes to
prove that the man who aims ut
THE HIGHEST MANHOOD
Will secure the most OF all the things that lie below.
There are times when men are thrown out OF their
normal conditions, tunes OF war and persecution,
the man that gives himself to q cause AMI lives in
poverty Is happier than the man who has become
rich through The selfish use OF his lower nature
The power OF being happy Is not measured by the
things that you have, but by the number OF chords
III the nature that
vIBRATE WITH JOY.
II the man that lives for noble ends airy fingers
touch strings, OF whose existence gross men never
know. Take the lives OF the most
SUCCESSFUL MEN IN POLITICS,
men who have risen even to be Vice Presidents (and
that otice usually finishes man, and write out all
worry, all the plotting and counterpart:
ting. and reading the record VINO would
All this lifelong they are going be- napps BE-
lieve that Garrison. accommodated with eggs that
nobody else had use for, felt more exhillration
and JOY In the days OF his persecution, to moth
ing OF his serene old age, than these socaled sue
cessful men: 1t is very simple. II you play on the
dull music from the lower chords. There is more
JOY often In the prison than In the palace more JOY
clhed There Is more JOY In giving SELF than In grow
ing rich by giving nothing.
HAS CIVILIZATION DEPENDED UPON BRUTE FORCE,
or has II followed the good the true and the beauti
full What class In the community pr0spersS
Single men may succeed iE spite OF moral law, but
In classes which succeeds Those who lie and for
swear themselves Or the true and the honest. Take
the Calvinists OF New England they believed their
doctrine and built themselves upon the rock OF
principle. Men may say what they please
or them, but these are the facts OF
their prosperity. The blood OF the Yankee has been
the salvation OF the Continent. The calculating
brain OF the Yankee has developed the resources OF
the Continent. You may
DAMN THE YANKEE
as much as You please but t WAS his conscientious
heart that soe the devil OF slavery, and 1t ia his
organizing industry that links the Continent with
railroads and builds school houses all along the
line. II man puts mis- moral principle highest ne
may suffer for II, but In the end
HE WILL GAIN.
The worlo Ia SLOWLY experimenting the principles
that the 1alilean peasant so strangely enunciated