The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-29
PLYMOUTH CHURCH, BROOKLYN.

Arrogant Selfshness Worse than the Sins that
Men Punish-Sermon by Rev. Henry Ward
Beec aer.
Mr.. Beecher preached yesterday morning from
Galatians W.. 2-"Bear ye one another's burdens
and 80 fulfil the law Of Christ" To bear one an
others burdens. said he, does not take the
burden or from our neighbours shoulders, but to
help bear 1t. This does not exclude the bearing Of
burdens OF physical character; but 1t not con-
fined to these. Whatever Is burden to man we
are to help bear. and there is no place where
man so needs help as inside. Our passions
are the chariot horses or the sun, and
we are the characters, taking the rens
with untricd hands. We are to bear these
burdens for each other, and so fulfil the law of
Christ No one can adapt himself to those he would
help except by love. 1t IS the most complex the
finest the most artistic work. II man fall, help
him; If he fall restore him, remembering that you
are liable to the same fall; and 90 this in the spirit
OF love. Christ-ike plety may then b. known, not
only by its purity. but by its hepfulness to all.
The temper Of divine love is to be nourishing
and healing: There is duty sometimes
must be moral shocks over against wrongdoing.
Pam Is often the best way to produce moral repug
are coarse Criminals are sentenced without any
conception OF desert as measured by motive. In
the household we nave the only adequate conc,p-
older grow the more certain am OF the sinful.
ness Of men, and the more charitable am |; for
believe that men are almost universally weak. l
don't expect men to carry heavy burdens. All men
are temptabe In some directions. One man NAV
tempted by his gentle, yielding nature. All metals
may De fused, but each meal at different degree
Of heat The grace OF God God v.x.
but, considered as man, there Is penetraDle place
somewhere IN every man. sympathy Is essentially
curative. In our great conflict when the rebel in
the hospital was gently nurSed by the Northern
man, he was better cured Of dslOyalty than by the
pose by the mothers sorrow than by the fathers
rod BOtn hardness and gentieness are necessary
times benevolent and love is sometimes the hardest
punishment This curative quality, so plain IN the
household is hard, nay, impossible to reduce to
terms In theology Can you describe heroic love that
beats In a mans blood and reduces his whole
nature to sweetness and harm ony and purity No
qusitely selfish. We are emigrants going over the
plains together. We have no right to separate our
must 1--we together. The top OF the tree would
wlther without the root. 1t Is the duty OF the
to aase care 81 ane weak rs, the day OF
honest to take care OF dishonesty. We must
PLUNGE INTO THE BATTLE
and help men. and not surround ourselves with our
virtues as we would by singing birds, and sit and
enjoy ourselves. We must not rejoice In iniquity.
II man hunts for the criminal columns In the
newspapers he likes iniquity IN this sense. l would
as soon set up my house In tue central sewer or
the newspapers into my life. In the household the
parents are bound TO bear up the child in It's weak
est parts. Nineteen, out OF twenty children are
taught to he BY tner parents r, lie
raises. Let parents be careful that they
do not make their children lie by harsnness. Men
with power OF any Kind should help the weak ana
helpless. Here Is woman that IS orderly; every
drawer is foreordaIned to certain articles. TO this
person comes child with not particle OF order
The standing question Is, "Where did that child get
these traits % and the standing answer is, "Not
FROM me, my dear" and "Not from me, my DEAR"
man tnat Is dry Is immensely shocked at the man
tnat is juicy. A man that is courageous is out OF
patience with the coward. man Is hard and you
are geutlc. You avoid him; you should run over
to him and cover his bluntness with your vines.
There are many men walking to-day In open WICK
edness whom the Lord Jesus Christ
DOES NOT BLAME
as much as He does you In your unsullied purity.
There are women in New York whom you would
not walk q square with tV save them. whom Christ
would speak OF as He once spoke. Our blessings
should not make us Pharisees. BY the grace OF God
We are what ye are. You are not 10 take the GOOD
ness that God has nurtured In you 10 play the
tvrant with. There Is one thought that helps me
What has Christ done Tor meY Is there any man
with so great discrepancy between him and me
az between me and CHRISTI 1t Is cross bearing IN
love that makes you the disciples OF CHRIST not Tie
form Of your belief