The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-24
ST. AIMS ON THE HEIGHTS.

Schenck's Sermon Yesterday Morning.
Some Sensible Suggestions.
The warm weather has had the effect of decreas.
ing the attendance at st. Ann's Many OF the
members OF the congregation have left the city for
the summer months, so that yesterday morning the
congregation was not as large by third, perhaps,
as that which crowded the beautiful edhce up to
within month past. One Of the great features at
st. AIMS is the music The choir, which is large
one is composed entirely of voun teers The solosts
are Miss Debbie Lee and Miss Ely, soprani; Mrs.
Christianson and Miss Drill, contralti; Mr. Chaun.
cey Ives tenor, and Messrs. William Mills G. A.
LOretz and Gustavus Bresee, bassi, in addition to
whom there is a chorus of fifty voices. Professor John
NJ. Loretz, Jr., is the Organist. During Professor
Loretz's temporary absence during the summer his
position as organist will be filed by Mrs. A. E.
Muse.
The special music yesterday morning included
the "Te Deum" in A FIAT by Ives, and the ''Jubate"
by E. Howe, Jr.
DIR. sCHENCKs SERMON
was upon the subject Of Observation-Disclosures
each others burdens in this world and thereby
obeying the law Of Christ. He said that after all
the heaviest burdens we had to bear those Of
other people. Bearing our own burdens was mat
ter Of simple endurance but bearing the burdens Of
other people was more than endurance-it was the
excitement of emotion besides. 1t was the bearing
of the weight and the feeling of sympathy. There
fore it was that we had this injunction that we
bear another's burdens. When Christ at
Gethsemane manifested the agony OF His soul He
then bore others burdens to such an extent that
they became His own and He lifted the weight Of
the worlds sin and bore 1T upon His own Shout
ders-bore 1t away, farther away than the East is
from the West. Bearing one another's burdens,
therefore, was fulfilling the law OF Christ
the highest law of Christ. In the If
teenth chapter of Romans, ct the first verse,
".
we who were strong should bear the infirmities of
the weak Here was clue to the philosophy of the
subject OF burden bearing and 1t was explanatory
of the language of the text In perfect condi-
ton of the moral world every one might be sup
conceive, however. of a perfect moral adjustment
in which one would not be at all dependentsupon
''''O' MEN OF MIGHTY STRENGTH
men who were equal to herculean feats. We had
great leaders of hosts, born kings of men. we had
Caesars. Then we turned to the men of little minds
and less emotion-men without magnetism and
vital lorce-men who had the ordinary gifts Of
reason that lifted them above the brutes, but men
who had no emphasis or vitality, no transtive
power.
DR.. Schenck said that the omnipotcnce of God
had no finer Illustration than in the great disparity
of His human creation. Apply the microscope To one
cube OF matter and then to another, and no two
present the same supercies. ScrutiniZe the leaves
of the forest and no two were alike in confgura-
ton. Look at the faces OF men, and there were no
two that precisely reflected each other. But the
grandest Illustration OF Gods omnpotence, the
preacher thought was that there were scarcely two
men on earth who had the same natural endow-
ments that it was that here in this world there
was chain, and we were the links In this chain,
every one being dependent upon the other. Unfor-
tunately the strong had little liberation for the
weak; they had no compassion for the liabilities of
the weak.
DR.. schenck asked, "what are burdens sr Not
PACK SIN
which was pnoned to the shoulders of men. MOI
that load had to be borne by men, and no man was
asked to help We were not asked to bear any
classes of burdens-personal infrmity, which might
be called suffering and moral trouble, which might
be called sympathy. The great charities
dens OF the people, but we were called
upon in our general relationship to men and
women as we met them, to bear their burdens.
The question, "Who is my neighbour was not TO be
answered by saying. ''The man who lives next
door," We had responsible relationship to every
body whom we met in this world. II you are strong
and he Is weak, and his weakness Is manifest, you
are called upon to help bear the burden of the in
trinity. There were many little weaknesses, or
meannesses, il you choose, that we encounter in
daily life-so many things we meet in men that we
despise and scorn That should not be. In many
Instances they were constitutional. There were
thousand things that would make a man can
man but don't despse him for 1t. His home might
be anything but
A BREEDING PLACE OF NoBILrrIEs,
and the consequence was that the man was made
what he was. Try and make something better out
of him by bearing his burdens. II he be mean give
him an example of nobility and teach him lesson.
bear the burdens of the weak in the matter of
children and servants The preacher said lie often
wondered why IL was that children were sweet
and forgivng and loving as they were when there
were many tyrannies exercised over them by
thoughtless parents How little did we put up
with peoples ignorance in this world We were
ready to give hasty word to the one who was not
equal to us in intelligence. Ifa man had preu-
dice we would say that this was the result OF his
ignorance, forgetting that prejudice had found
lodging place in the truest heart.
REBUKE.
There was no class of people in the world he
said who were much attacked az members of
the church. not only by nonmembers, but members
Of the church, who thought they were better than
the others were. How many there were who.
when they had seen member Of the
communion doing wrong, did not 20 to
him, and in kindness and sympathy adj
wise him to do differently On the contrary, how
many there were who had not come with little
morse OF sweet gossip under their tongues saying
"Mr. So-and.so had been doing such and suchyn
DR.. Schenck said that 1t was not their business to
nure those who had fallen, but to bear each others
burdens thus fulfilling the law Of Christ lie did
not believe that should give up our lives entirely
to it, He did not believe that the Bible expected
us to be common carriers or to
60 ABOUT LIKE AN ASS
with panniers, In which anybody could put their
loads and weigh you down; but It was our duty to
help the weak. Those who had surplus should
give to those who had poverty There were thou
sands who only wanted YOU to talk and be kind to
.hem. IL Waa more uroC GUS than all your gold In