The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-20
RELIGIOUS.
PentecOSt Sunday---PrayerS and Pulpit
POlemicS in the Protestant and
Catholic Churches.
Or. PECK ON TIE. DIVINITY OF CHRIST.
pontifical High Mass at st. Pat
rick's Cathedral---A Scene of
Gorgeous Splend0r.
BEECNER ON TIE BATTLE OF LIFE.
Father Hickey on tho Tishermen'S Preaching
and the Descent of the Holy Ghost.
Mr.. Hepworth's Invitation to
Sinners.
The Gift Of Languages DiScOurSed on at
the Church Of the Messiah.
DR.. Fowler at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music.
Full Organization of the Catholic Church
of st. Charles Borromeo.
Opening Of New German Catholic Church
at IIobOken.
The Gift Of Languages DiscOurSed on at
the Church Of the Messiah.
DR.. Fowler at the Brooklyn
Academy Of Music.
Full Organization of the Catholic Church
Of st. Charles Borr0meo.
Opening Of a New German Catholic Church
at IIobOken.
LYRIC HALL.

Men of Inspiration and Men Of Aspiration
Contra stcd-Discoursc by Rev. q. b..
rockingham.
A theme OF peculiar interest," sMen of Inspiration
and Men of Aspiration formed the subject OF the
discourse yesterday morning at Lyric Hall, Sixth
avenue, near Forty-secono street, OF Rev. o. b..
rockingham. He took no text, and the large con-
gregation listened with deep and unnagging ear
nestness to the discourse, although nearly an hour
was occupied in its delivery. There was great
difference, he began, between men Of inspiration
and men OF Inspiration. One class bow to inspiration
the solution ofthe earths mghtness The other strive
to work their way into the mystery before them.
One class think the truth is before them and that 1t
will be received in due time; the other think
they must grasp after the truth The one empties
himself OF all prejudgment; the other gathers
about him all matter of light. The men who oc-
cupy the one attitude cannot occupy the other.
Let this be Illustrated in
IDEA OF GOD.
1t has been long believed that the knowledge
of God comes by Inspiration. The knowledge is
supposed to break in upon the world by rushes OF
feeling, or by the Inspired word which Is supposed
TO contain the living life, or by some instinct in
human soul-a deep, settled consciousness This
Is inspiration. BY aspiration God is the unknown
The seeker after him studies the stars, turns over
the granite leaves of the earths crust or studies
human nature or human history. He looks forward,
looks to knowledge to be gained slowly, not to
knowledge impaired suddenly. Take the
IDEA OF TUE CHRIST.
Would you know the Christi Go where he lives
to the priest, to the Church. The aspirant says
things for granted. BY toll and study he would get
at the fact. This special method has this OF
organ. This method dIscourages search The
simple aspira,nt is put on and assigned low
All questions that touch the moral nature or moral
law are supposed to be wrought into the very tex
tnre Of the human soul-wrought in way that win
give the assured distinction between right and
wrong. Acting upon the rational method, these
things are slowly learned i REQUIRES long and
is at first no right and wrong-no false or
true. We learn the alphabet; one method
little by little, teaches the right rom the wrong,
the false from the true. Enlarging at length on
this point, and enforcing It by various ftustra-
betrayed by the different theories OF aspiration and
Inspiration. In Utah the
SYSTEM PoLYGAMY =
Is defended as coming to them by inspiration
as the custom Of the old Patriarchs: The
Meow 1ds the IN ss
inspiration-the Lord against the Lord. Look at
the doctrine OF peace The ideal ethics Of the New
Testament Is peace. II Is Gospel OF peace. This
pure ethics Of the kingdom Of heaven are spoken Of
as OF inspiration. The millennium isthe ofspring of
this inspiration-that epoch when there shall be no
more man. when the swords shall be beaten into
pruning hooks, when Christ's Kingdom will be
sssaoed ,ssstser earth a sweet ana beautiful
hope. The aspirant that during thousands
OF years OF wars-wars OF nations, OF races OF the
eements-we have reached our present point. He
deplores war. Applying thus at further length,
he called attention to
THE COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY.
This also was grandly beautiful idea. The prob
lem, however, is far from being solved. The man
aspiration looks with interest upon trades asso-
Citations, strikes and all that, as tending to
bring about the great heavenly ideal. Hav-
Ing In this connection alluded to Socialism and
fourrerlsm, he traced the previous ideas OF the
system OF slavery and then argued that society
here has got TO be improved by aspiring men, by
earnest workers. We cannot discount Providence.
Men OF inspiration insist that
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
ior men ana women Is an inalenable right. The
temperance man appealed to inspiration. The
man OF inspiration says burn the stills and shut up
the whlskey shops The man OF aspiration says that
UNIVERSAL temperance may be achieved; but 1t IL
SLOW work, the work of self respect, of moral sua-
sion, OF regard for purity and health God works
slowly. Millions OF years were taken to give per-
lection or beauty to the lilly. Men Of aspiration
must pattern after God-be slow, patient, hopeful.