The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-13

He then introduced some remarks about that
and on this ,point gave an exhortation to
love ones neiglbor for the love OF God. The
sermon was both eloquent and profound, full
OF Scriptura truths and theological doctrine put
before the audience In simple but most expressive
language. The description OF the Saviour's love In
sending the Paraclete, which was to come from the
Father himself, contained many passages sublime
in the exalted thoughts with which they aeounded.
.o wmote We,o or the
sympathy OF the audience, and sought Tor recog-
milton OF the doctrines incucated AS Is usnal Win
this preacher, he closed his DISCOURSE by lnviting
his congregation to adopt the truths set before
them as their own, and to act accordingly.
In the evening the first grand concert of the New
York Choral Society was given at this Oh urch In aid
OF the New York Founding Asylum. Archbishop
McCioskey and number ofpriests were present.
ST. PAULs METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The Promises OF God and Thor Fulfill
mcnt-sermon by DIR. Eddy, OF WASH
inSton.
In st. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, Twenty
second street and Fourth avenue the services were
conducted yesterday and the sermon preached by
DR.. Eddy pastor of the metropolitan church, Wash
ington, d. @. DR.. Eddy Is one OF the most distln-
guished scholars and brilliant preachers In the
Methodist Church, and the mere announcement OF
hts name was sufficient to fill st. Paus with large
and fashionable congregation.
He took for his text tho fourth verse OF the first
chapter OF the second epistle Of ST. Petcr"Whereby
are given to us exceeding great and precious
promises" He said:-The promises OF Goa
and the hopes held out to us In them arc the
divine assurances OF merces and blessings.
They bring pardon to the guilty, help
to the helpless, compassion to the
sorrowing and comfort to the needy. They are
limited by no time and curtaled by no circum-
stances. The conditions have only to be observed
ana the reward is sure. He that pleads q divine
power however, must be certain that he is the per-
son and his the condition indicated In the PROMISE or
the Word will be of none effect. The guilty cannot
claim the promise held out tothe penitent; the har-
dened man cannot put himself IN the place OF the
contritc one. But let the conditions be observed,
and the fumcnt is certain. II it can be shown that
any one OF Gods promises ever failed In accomplish
ment we are willing to admit that the record In
which they are given is uninspired. We must con-
sent wholly and without reservation to repose our
trust In God, and rely upon His promises to obtain
the exceeding great and precious things they pro-
mise.
They hold out to us two things-Arst, to escape
the corruptlons OF the world and, secondly to OBJ
tain the reward OF our constancY Sin is the dark
Incubus that broOds like spectre over the other
wise fair and beautiful world. 1t Is 1t that fills our
jails peoples our lunatic asylums, des0lates so
many homes and opens 80 many graves. II we
would escape nom Its slavery and get free from Its
pollution we have to look to Jesus through the eye
Of faith to obtain assistance. The conquest with
the dread enemy is no easy one. He who would
conquer must fight, and, laying hold OF faith,
claim representation In the glorious
franchise OF saintshp. we would
escape from bondage to the great haven OF rest we
must lean upon Jesus as broken reed; our eter-
nal reliance must be upon His all cOnquerng power.
So the exceeding great and precious promise. that
we will be made rartakers OF His divine nature.
This is the reward OF our constancy and our
struggles to be one with the Father-Godlike In
heart and Godlike In life, Godlike In will and God
ike in action. To reach this divine nature we must
trample under foot the cOrruptions Of the world,
proclaim eternal war with sin, turn our faces
towards purity and backs towards mpurty,
and the future Is certain.
The promises are SO lofty and noble In the divine
heights to which they point, so touching In their
commend themselves alike to the grandest faculties
and the simplest intellect. Royal in their lineage.
the regal power OF will they are attainable. We
are not OF those who look upon the exercise OF viii
absurdty That to pray for its suppression Is
Is the baidest mockery. TO be great we must be
decided, assert the principles of our manhood and
OF our Heaycn-sent principles The union
OF the human with the Divine nature does not de-
and our powers only that they are purified and
Strengthened by the power Of the Divine nature.
The sun shines upon the eart but II does not cease
the fertzing rays; upon the ocean, ana IL Is only
the more the ocean nom the countless beauties that
sparkle on its surface. SO we In our union with
the Saviour do not cease to be men, but on the
contrary put on the perfection OF manhood. There
Is world OF meaning In this Thought of the infinite
In our childhood we can remember the thoughts
that used to gather around our opening
years, our mind travelled over creation ana us
/ we have traced them to their source, where did
1 God begin Have you ever stood at the foot OF
| high mountain and looked IN, with Its darkening
| shadows around you, gone to the brink of the
ocean and gazed upon the vast eXpanse oil waters
to see If you could distinguish the other side and
see the cloud-capped spires OF the Old World, your
mind filed with vague longngs after something in.
tangible that you cannot define In the STIFFNESS 81
q starless night YOU wait and watch until rcrcnance
d star peeps out of the darkness like beacon or
heaagn ana you Dreas ana sigh OF relief that yon
| ness ana the darkness. What are all these but
ongings after the infinite for the sonl must have
an Infinite ocean in which to swim or It would not
| have rest There are many things In the plan OF
creation and redemption we cannot understand
Nature Is full OF mysteries You may question this
and dispute that but how can we who do not mn
derstand creation presume to measure the Gre
atorS Between the Old and the New World
there Stretches tiny piece of cable. You look
at 1t, but you cannot understand its meaning
monsters that inhablt IT and the countless treas
ures 10 engulphs; nothing OF the buried steamer
and the doomed sailor OF the subterranean caverns
with which tradition peoples it; 1t utters no word
the stories Gifts Eorapces qpd its novels are un;
it all the time; for when 1t touches the other slide
then it speaks, and President communicates te
Monarch and Monarch 70 President, Premier "a
Secre tary and Secretary to Premier SO Is IL with
many things in the realms OF providence and grace
In the chain OF promise that stretches from earth
! to heaven the puzzles that occupy the brains oil
| eehQomen may not be explained, but we speak on
ca .th and Cod answers In heaven, and we want no
more. ~l-' Trsr -r->~. .--,,-,~-- =,
The still, small voice Of mercy speaks In All these
promises or God. He stands behind them end
guarantees their certainty. This Is age OF force
! and we want TO have more faith. There lis q cease
1 less conflict OF contending powers waging, and in
II Is the war Of science against orthodoxy, or the
upheavng OF an earthquake, which destroys or