The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-22
BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
MIR. Beccher breaches ON the Psychology
of Rejoicing-Thc Use OF the Sorrow and
Pain OF the Notwithstanding Ilustra-
lions followers, Babies and Pianos.

Mr.. Beccher breaches ON the Psychology
of Rejoicing-Thc Use Of the Sorrow md
Pain OF the Notwithstanding Illustra-
tions followers, Babies and Pianos.
There the usual crowd within and without
Plymouth church yesterday morning. When the
house was packed by the nshers, after the most APP
proved principles, there was sti large overflow
that went away Borrowing, carrying their discon-
tent with them, to some neighborng church. The
choir, that next to the pastor is the attraction OF
the service, was strengthened and made
more meodlous by the presence of Miss
Sterling whose absence has been rendered
conspi cuous for the last few weeks and will be
more manifest shortly when she retres finally from
the membership OF the choir. Mr.. Beecher's SUBJ
ject was the Psychology Of Rejoicing He selected
his text from Pauls episte to the Philippians, w.
47-"ReJoice In the Lord Away; and again say,
rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all
men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing
but in everything by prayer and duplication, with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto Cod And the peace of God that passeth all
understanding shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus" The introduction was an
answer to the inquiry whether in the sermons
on the Mount in the New Testament generally, and
in Christianity, a whole, there was more of joy
than sorrow. The answer given, which, in the CIV
was that there was more OF joy. One of the Illus
trations was as follows, and will serve to indicate
the main thought OF the Introduction FLORISTS adj
verise packets OF seeds; twenty for dollar; thirty
for dollar and half and so on, and the papers
IN which the seeds are packed they describe the
colors Oh the MOWERS that are TO come fOrthone Is
TO be gorgeous PURPLE another q ''beautiful
pink You take the seeds; you plant them in cold
ground, IN an unfriendy shade: you neglect them
after you have planted them, and there come up
MORE WEEDS THAN FLOWERS,
ana PROBABLY all you get Is one or two shabby,
straspng, thin blossoms Yon say that the man
VINO soid yon the seeds Is q humbug for you have
not got Your gorgeous purple nor your "beautiful
PINK" But you might have had II you had only
treated The seeds fairly ills so with Christianity.
Men say that they dont get the Joy out of religion
that the New Testament leads them TO expect hut
You don't treat Christianity right, else YOU would
Now ne that takes the Lord Jesus Christ as He is
revealed to rs by the Apostles win, ind
N Him God drawn near TO Him. and
hnd himself brought into personal relations
with God. We cannot see God by our mere senses
We look up IN our sorrow to the blue ether as
though we would see God, and how cold it looks
we say IN our despair, rs there Gody Is He rl0rc
tlan an engineer who mas set this vast machine of
the universe going ~ And We have no answer.
except in tls--God Is brought near TO us by Jesus
Christ Christ came that He might bring God n oar
to man. III Christ there is divine energy from
which there arises divine intercourse between
this divine nature and the human soul. Now. the
greatest satisfaction to me Is that God does do
everything OF His own supreme WILL There
is no prayer that j can utter with more
earncstness than that which says, ''Thy will be
donc" IL is the divine nature that loves TO
men--loyes to recuperate men. Have You never
seen the little children in the family gather around
the grandmother's lap, and look up into her vene-
rable face? Have you never seen her with her
clean white frilled cap, and her serene, happy coUn-
tenance, with her slvcred head, bending over the
happy groupY Why does she draw all these little
ones fresh with their young life, to herr Why, be-
she loves to do IL; It Is her nature IL IL her
supreme delight; aud her love and her delight
brings the children to her. You get Into the