The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-15
Professor Green on tho Light
of the Word.
1he Signs Of the Times Described by Dr.. Ed.
ward Bsseher, at Plymouth Church.
Reconstruction Of the BROOKLYN
Catholic Cathedral.
Or. Peabody Dlscourses at the Church Of the
Messiah on the FatherhOOd Of God.
CHURCH 0P THE MESSIAH.

OhY1st1 nifty Not . Stern Father, but q
Fostering Mother-It Exacts Nothing
but Good Fellowship to Man and Love
90 God-sermon by Rev. DIR. Peabody.
ze congregation at the Church OF the Messiah,
corner OF Park avenue and Thirty street,
was yesterday, for the advanced stage Of
the season, unusually large. Rev. A. p
Peabody, who conducted the services, chose
Nr his subject christianity not the
imposer but the hghtener OF burdens,n based his
DISCOURSE upon Matthew xi., So--"My yoke is easy
ana my burden is light" Jesus, lie commenced,
iAys NO yoke, imposes no burden upon us. The
Y6sssSss LAID UPON Us
are laid upon US by the necessity of our being,
ne burdens by sin. These yoKes, these burdens
Jesus makes lighter. He takes them to Himself.
How unjust, then, the inndes' cry calling 1t exact.
ing how unjust the many charges that do not belong
20 it, Christians have burdens because they en-
brace their belief too late They must suffer all
their mortal days because, like the tardy invalid,
they took no remedies In time. Like him they
could have been cured; like him they must now
suffer for their delay. There is
PREVALENT IDEA
mat Christianity has its own severe standard Of
duty; that It calls for many Things to be Gone and
for nothing but the obligations of OF God, of
brother OF man, or citizen OF this world. We re-
anysas e sas an IN
Furnishes us-punishes us not because We are diso-
beying the commands OF Christ, but because we are
laws operate from our birth. 10 obey them s a
crushing duty. Although Christ did not impose
Me a the
Gus happiness on eartn, immortality IN heaven. 1t
follows, then, that
RIGHTEOUS RETRIBuTIoN
b continually falling. Many are appalled,. But is
not human life the same : Does not death follow
Mn OH the believer and the unbeliever akes Does
not OF history show that there la
NO PEACE FOR THE wlcKBDf
And the penal code OF God In this world is pro
heavy yoke, let us remember 1t is not Of Christ, II
eul doing is necessarily suicidal, He has taken
Hs leaves "a no room Tor no room
{0f doubt. But 1t may be said that christianity
imposes selfrepioach SefrepToach can come from
sin Alone Christianity has OF 1t the least. Mark
The Pagan atoning Tor
BLOODY DEEDS
With blood, murder with murder. With ms how
60me may say that Christ imposed Feifdenial on
his apostles. He painted to them toe slories Of
obedience. To obey wss 40 self-Jenial. We know
selves others. We can cultivate pleasutes'e sem
sHa or or
pleasures are soon stated, and while they last are
continually shortening tho horizon. They lead TO
main, ruin, death. Let the body be denied for
Ne soul, and with every succeeding stage
Of progress there Is Improvement and Joy. Inc
speaker ne xt compared selnshness anu benevoence
Eelfshness, he said, is continually narrowing the
p0ul and lessening our happiness. Bsnevolence en-
hrges the sonl and has as many sources OF happ
ness as there hearts by us 10 be cheered. II We
prefer temporal to eternal interests this life as VIC
advance becomes narrower and narrower. In old
Age oil the good lies behind u.s. On the other band
cur horizon
BROADENs AND BRIGHTsNe
There is life, peace hope, Joy. Whatever OF bodily
good we can secure without hurting any enc or
ourselves Is ours TO enjoy and utilize, and we best
show our gratitude to our Heavenly Father by
drinking In the most good from every fountain-by
Deriving the most good nom every faculty.