The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-05
BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
Characteristic Discourse by Henry Ward
acknowledgements Of seH-The Rev. Mr..
Chapman on the Falsity OF Vari-
Gus Systems Of philosophy.
PLYMOUTH CEURGH

AneHd-SlOW& GOWtn "A spiritual as w ell
Natural Law.
Mr.. Beecher preached yesterday to his usual large
congregation from John XIV, 4, 5-sAbide IN me
and In you. AS the branch cannot bear fruit OF
itself except 1t abide In the vine, no more can ye
except We abide In me. am the vine, We are the
branches. He that abide In me and IN him the
same bringeth forth much fruit for without
me We can do nothing.n This statement, said he,
runs far deeper than we have been accustomed to
suppose. Whatever emphasis we may have put
upon our dependence upon God, we have failed TO
get ut the inner truths OF these multarous decara
tions OF the New Testament The progress Of know
ledge, the development OF the human understanding
Is tending In strange way TO corroborate these
great central truths that point to mans immediate
personal connection with God. One OF the
STRANGE FEATURES
of the Savours teaching the place He gives Himself
in His own Instructions. His teaching Is not SO
remarkable for the amount OF truth as for few
great truths, that, when accepted. work out all the
rest. Thus HIS distinctive teaching is-"Come unto
me;" 81 am the light OF the world;n "He that
eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall live by
me-" The central truth that man lives truly only
in God Is taught by every conceivable image. Man
cannot bear fruit OF himself any more than the
branch broken from the tree 81 am the vine,n says
Christ land We are the branches. He that abideth
in me and In him the same shall bring forth much
fruit; for
WITHOUT ME YE ARE NoTHING.n
Christ to us stands as God. He represents so much
OF the formless spirit be shown IN form under
the limitations OF time and place. To receive vital
influence from Christ Is to receive 1t from God. Man
is incomplete in himself and cannot become COM
plete without influence from God. We may as well
expect to produce blossoms and fruit by lamplight,
shutting the sum- 10 have true growth IN our
selves without God. we do not know Gods methods
winch man acts upon man. The whole theory OF
mind Is yet nebulous and
WE ARE IGNORANT OF OURSELVES
as we are OF God. We have reason 10 believe that
the direct influence OF God upon the human soul Is
vital truth, and we do not need to know the
method. we have reason 10 believe that we are not
rounded into perfect development Till the divine
mino Is brought into connection with ours. What
is MANHOOD III the nations out OF God2 Yet there IS
a reaching towards Him IN the most degraded
i ,dfna , plst grown IN dagS cellar is poor
best 60 grow towards the one point oil light TO which
ITS instinct directed 1t, and when We LOOK at heathen
lsmas
BLIND MAN GRoPING TOWARDS LIGHT
we see what Is the growth OF the human soul with
vengeful and cruel they are not more cruel than
many OF the accepted doctrines Of theology. II you
LOOK at the development that takes place under I'M
perfect knowledge OF God what do you seer Just in
proportion as the idea OF God IS low character is low
character. Wherever a notion conception II God
prevails In the line OF this conception character is
developed. IL God Is conceived OF as mighty
governor, monarch, claiming admiration and
admitting himself, then men will develop In tnat
direction Wherever the character OF God is shown
as paternal, where de Is shown as being willing
: TO
!. SUFFER RATHER THAN INrIIcT SUFFERING,
there all the amenities and all self-denlas have
sprung up. A savage never has a sweet God. gen.
eral man that loves blood makes a bloody god The
truth stands that Just in proportion God s under
stood to be loving ana tender ana caretaking, man
grows in that direction, and the full MANHOOD Is to
into the atmosphere of the divine mind
and is refined. On the side, then, nearest to God
Is MANHOOD on the side furthest is animalhood.
Men have been accustomed TO accept this in q
general way. They nave thought that the mind OF
GOD makes itself felt indirectly THIS Is also true,
but there can never be reelected lights without first
lights shall we say That God Is reflected through
nature and not through the living neart2 As tne
the morning, so d-es
awake us to our true life We must believe that IL
is the direct influence OF God upon our souls that
evolves our best development without the sun
what Is there in the germ OF wheatl All 1t has Is
the power IN Itself 10 be quicSened by the sun. So
is the soul OF man. IL Is capable OF being quick
ened by God, but in itself II can grow 10 no noble
results. The world then, from this point Is vast
system OF development now III crude state.
norton OF The human race Is little above aninalIsm.
The instinct oil force, of selfshness, reigns. The
world IL moved by the lower side Of the human
mind. The whole Continent OF Africa scarcely has
enough in IT to.make single man; Asia scarcely
enough 10 make village. and Europe Christian
SWEET, GENTLE, LOVING
Spain; dear, energetic Italy; Christian France and
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