The New York herald., 1872-10-14
LYRIC HALL.

Error tho stepping stone 20 Truth-IIOw
Creeds Are Made OF Errors and How
Doubt Makes Better OMes-Sermon by
q. Ii. FrOthingham.
Lyric Hall, on Sixth avenue, opposite Reservoir
square. contained, at yesterday mornings servi-
ces, the same large and fashionable congregation.
lev. o. B. rockingham preached having as
usual, a startling and paradoxical subject. '.Last
Sunday" he began II spoke Of The Soul OF Good
ba Things Evil,' to-day propose to speak OF The
Soul OF Truth In Error choose no text from the
Bible because there Is none in 1t to serve my pur
pose. IL teaches the direct reverse. Satan IL the
Prince of wickedness and darkness. When he
spcaketh a lie he speaketh himself, for hc IL the
Father OF Lies. The angel lays hold Of Satan the
Old serpent, binds him and throws him into u dun
gcon for thousand years, to give the peo.
pie fair start. With those simple people there
was shading as there is with us. Ii was white
or black, perfect wickedness perfect virtue.
THIS arose from earnestness of disposition; but
earnestness 0f disposition Is sometimes objection.
able; it is Objectionable when man calls a man
differing from him liar, impostor, hypocrltc.' As
soon as \ full conviction dawned upon them they
sbhorred all that disbelieved. Thirty years ago
Mohammed was spoken OF as the liar, the apostate
the prime impostor. 1t took three hundred years
to soften the word to liar. century after his
time painter represented him and AntlChrist as
together,
wRITHING IN HE'LL.
When the Catholic missionaries went to India
they were surprised to find that the people had
religion almost like their own Had they called
themselves Catholics 1t were miracle. God had
been before them; as it was the devil had been
before them. The Protestants, in the argumenta.
tive age, believed the Catholic religion 10 be sys.
TEN OF impostures. Each sect assumed iniallibiity
and all the other sects impostors and their
enemies. How strange 1t Is that people will not he
certain when 1t ls necessary, and VIII be certain
when IT Is Impossible. Ihey will confess themselves
ignorant OF the administrations OF society, but not
Df the administrations Of the universe They arc
perfectly content To go on day by day, confessing
that they know not what a day may bring forth,
bur do not suggest TO them their want Of knowl
Oniable. Why is this We can give reason. This
CLAIM OF INFALLIBlLlTY
has instled into US spirit Of doubt II doubt
lhink, say any thing but do not doubt. In an
honest doubt Is more faith than In all the creeds.
Creeds are doubts at present put to rest doubts
ARE the fathers of newer better creeds Its doubt
That bearn witness to the live mind. With the FIRST
Jingle OF reason in the brain doubt begins. The
)ong breaks them TO discover their secret This
was fomerly considered
II is the growing, not the wicked mind. The
older Guild breaks his toys. Why Is the Bible con-
ordered oss. as written BY divine Inspiration Why WY
doctrine, all Unitarians hold tnat
i THE UNITY or CHRIST IL AN ERROR,
nm error In Scripture, an error I'm philosophy and
Rn error In common sense. II Is Incredible that u
man could be God-Godman. II God could be man
De would cease 10 be God. IL Is a gull between the
tnAnte and the finite. What questions did the peo
pile frst ask when they heard this doctriney Ali the
Sest human qualities; they were also the sweetest
Giiyinc powers. And when they thought OF the best
pf men they thought OF these qualities perfected.
divinity came down and met mankind ascending
hake the old doctrine, which represents man rs
made perfect and In garden where flowers and
fruits grew spontaneously. We say this Is a mis-.
take--we know 1t Is q mistake Naturalists tell US
that the farther back we 60 the wilder was nature
Man was very rudimental creature, perhaps
BORCERfNG ON AN APE.
It was beautiful alegory. They were Keeping