The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-06
some length explaining the meaning OF the text
ana ended by pronouncing the benedicti0n.
LYRIC HALL.
""ocssing tho OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by
Rev. o. b. Frothingham.


"oScssing tho observation-disclosures by
Rev. o. b. Frothinghsm.
Al the services yesterday morning at Lyric Hail.
oh olAth avenue, near Forty second street. there
was the usual large congregation. After the Gus
tomary preparatory services Rev. O. b. Frothing
nam preached, his subject being "Education OF the
conscience" and his text the words OF ST. Paul.
"herein 40 exercise myself to always have con.
sciehce Void OF Onence toward God and toward
men. me DISCOURSE was continuation OF that
upon inc same text on the previous Sunday, the
SUBJECT tnen being, as will be remembered ssThe
integrity OF conscience" After defining the mean
ing OF exercise as used In the text he said that the
SYMPHONY or THE c0NscIENcE
came rolling up In grand accord from the re.
hottest portions OF the globe. From the ruins OF
ancient Thebes, from the temples OF classic Rome.
from oil that IL ancient as well as modern comes
the same universal symphony. Was conscience a
moral principle or Is 1t the result OF law He be-
ieved 1t was the latter. He believed In the law OF
evolution. He believed that the race began at the
bottom, and had thence grown to Its present state
AS soon as men emerge from savage state they
begin to accommodate themselves to one another.
Before books were written men worked through
storm and Aro and water. In all So
Ciety three things must be secured First was
life. In savage state every man Is slayer. Society
for the preservation or your life you must preserve
the lives OF others In semibarbaric times, or now
on the borders, when men 90 around with bowie
knives, there Ia loose conscience. No odds are
taken. There Is no shooting in the dark. Here 1t
is different Everybody feels safe. The next con-
sderatiOn was that referring to property. There
was the
ooNscrRNoR or PROPERTY.
There is complete network of rulers In this re-
tity OF the family relation. The man who tries to
break up the family relation Is cursed. This
the corner stone OF social life. The principle I'M
derlytng all these considerations the same. There
could be no society founded on violence or fraud.
When society attains It's greatest perfection con-
worked themselves up to
THE GRAND POINT
of allegiance to one another. Society is mixed in
New York. We have all the elements; we have
here Thebes and here Ninevah. After quoting John
Randolph and Lord Macaulay on this point
ety-the leaders, the lighters, the
vast hosts Of court folowers-the last representa-
tives Of the barbar0us ages-the last men who would
pilage the dead and rob the dying soldiers. New
York is full OF such men. Some occupy high places
Some are judges; they are cannibas, Bedouins.
Have all these classes the same conscience No;
moral sense Is earned by simple conformity to social
facts-facts between man and man. The
ALTERATIONS OF CONSCIENCE
arise from the fact that men have been
referred to the soul of the Indian conscience
causing the widowed wife to burn herself
II woman would do this she would enjoy the
feicities Of Paradise in the companionship OF her
husband thrty-fiv millions OF years. SO deep
seated was this conscience that 1t took the English
government, with oil the stringency OF Its laws, a
generation to uprOOt the custom. This was con-
science based on mere fancy, not on fact. SO II
people drowned themselves in the sacred waters Of
the Gauges; so with the nquisitOrs in the burning
OF hereticS. Both were founded on foolish fc-
tiOns. PiOus people brought negroes from Africa
to save them from perditiOn. The managers OF
THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
are another example. They Will not allow literary
publication In their rooms because the leading
article Is written by Herbert Spencer In opposition
to the Evangelical religion. No one can be an
officer OF the organization unless he is member or
the Evangelical Church. They act up to their con-
science. What Is their conscience based Onp 1t il
based on fancy. There Is not square inch OF fact
In 1t. They believe that those who do not believe
~ they do will go to he'll. What can be more Chi
mcrical? The
CONSCIENCE OF NEW WORKERS
is made up from the facts and relations
of things in New York. Conscience Is based on the
fact of relationship. Underlying this Is the whole
problem Stick to this and you have mastered all
lie enforced this idea by copiOus and cogent Illus
tratiOns, showing all the various relations In so
ciety between man and man, and wherein the con-
science in each could be educated to high and per-
feet standard. He urged, in conclusion, that con.
science was simply faithful allegiance to the bond,
making men, In all the relations Of life true, honest
loyal, upright and good and that to have con-
science void of offence toward ones neighbOr Is to
have conscience void OF offence toward God or,
in other words, that II We obey the Golden Rule that
there will be no trouble about conscience.