The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-01
ALL SOULS CHURCH.

The Value OF Sterling Character nd How
1t May BE Attained-A Hint to Omcials
and Would-Bo Amazons.
The effect Of the cheated term was az painfully
apparent In All Souls church yesterday morning
as the finger marks OF sloveny cook upon newly
painted kitchen door, DR.. Bellows had been waited
away to o more salubrious cline. and the con-
gregstion was melted down to the smallest
possible speck In field OF "Innnitessmal
nOthingnessr And yet the church was
CHEEKY in It's embellishments the music
was such as arouses somnolent souls from sumber,
and the sermon was as thoughtful spirited and
dignlhcd as II composed under the invgorating In
nuences OF the season for gathering grain.
The preacher was Rev. f. E. Hale, OF Boston, who,
lately escaped from the
pIsTRAcrtNd JARGoN OF THH JARRINa JUBILEE.
took as his text what he called the "desert of
Names" commencing with the second verse Of the
first chapter Of Matthew, In which 1t Is recorded
that Abraham begat Isaac, and running down
through the genealogical list to the birth Of Christ.
he selected this text because as he intimated, the
up and given an interest by the names Of David,
solomon, Joseph and Christ, and because, read In
the light OF to-day, It was as well fitted to the ex.
istlDg conditions OF our time as to the days OF
which 1t spoke. There was then wilderness of
people as now, and. as was said Of the sandwich
any Tee sn.es 70 II ,h sas were
tons OF men that but few were distinctively
known. because few were distlnctively good and
who we're and are good and great were not and are
not known a. such TO themselves. There were
some who would never say TO themselves,
I'VE ARR THE LEADERS or MEN IN OUR Day.
and yet these were such a. marked the impress OF
their characters upon the conditions OF their times
sequence wnen o G s Tsf M %e IF @
doings or sayings were such as 10 both their
successes and their failures aud also their mis-
Eal N hn Cd xav tu A.p asN1t haa
gated result OF every day became the history OF the
child and man. The acts Of such men were, 70 the
ny out from bed Of burning Goals or the leaves
that fall from tho forest Of ,rees--sngly they ore
scarcely sea n9tSsd but they all as It were fall Into
tans the thread-lines OF all, and make, OF them .
whole,
And II was, he said the worth OF this character
thus formed, upon which was the dependence for
success and endurance. AZ an illustration OF his
meaning he used instance the life Of Sir Isaac
Newton many years ago In London. While Newton
lived there were those around him who filed
the masses; and yet, and at that time, even the
Prime Minister Of England felt sense OF personal
qualification II Newton even touched his hat to
him he passed. There were around him the
more noted actors and actresses OF his day; the
PARrrsANs, GREEDY roR PLACE AND POWER,
and the authors OF fvorlte books OF the time. But
now the actors and actresses then prominently
greedy for place and power, and even the authors.
are nearly Gil fallen and forgotten, while the work
OF Newton stands as potently TO day as at any
former time for Newton In his work brought us
ONE sTEP NEARER TO GOD.
And this result he claimed, as did Newton him
SELF WAS not reached through any inherent bril-
liancy In Newton, but purely through persevor
ingiy industrious appllcat ton OF the talent and
knowledge which he possessed. And In that con-
nection he 1.-THE preacher) deemed IL necessary TO
say that there
WAS NOT A woODCHOPPKR
nom Maine to Minnesota who did not understand
that moro depends upon the force applied to the
axe than upon even It's sharpness. And these same
men knew that our habits had much TO DO with tho