New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-02-24
A SERMON on THE HEREAFTER
THOUGHTS on HEAVEN AND RETRIBUuyE JUS


The Rev. John Weiss conducted the services
at Lyric Hall yesterday, place OF M Frohngham.
The announcement that he 20 preach drew together
a very large audience.
Ny subject, ne said, II 1.-THE Hereafter, and SHAH
discuss lis elements and probabilities, for the pur-
pose Of awakening a personal interest IN the matter
when the earth was without form and void, IL was
a mere mass Of gaseous elements stretching into
space, which had not yet curded into planet. We can
only Judge Of space by relations TO other objects
The Infinite know succession OF events every
thing exists ali once in eternal moment 10 one
who did not begin and Of cannot end
He has reason to say " hereafter" Eternity
dispenses with that little word II the ideas OF time ana
space are only human, mat OF space must be. Ii
arises from The idea that body is not big as the
whole world outside of IT, Ts earth is one place where
we learn how many more there are outside OF it, Our
idea Of the hereafter depends upon what we Know 10
one man it is hunting ground To the old Greeks it
was meadow strcwn with amardntIs. To another, OF
more modern culture, it celestial tract, abonndng
in souls with or without palm branches. Another and
later idea is landscape OF spiritual forms which
spond with those of earth There is not one OF these
which could have been derived from the Infinite Intc
gence. The place provide corresponds with the
tent Of knowledge. Several years ago We began
with little bit of this earth out in the
East. II FIAT as plate, and furnished with
dishcover fitting close TO its edges When that dish
cover began 10 move the probability OF place began TO
dawn upon So the place, which belongs 10 ideas
of the hereafter, slowly usO accordance wth
moral state There Heaven and hell, until men
began 70 have Of justice. The elements which
we classify into Heaven and he'll exist in the undivided
knowledge Of the mind from which tine aud CON
ditions flow.
DO you think that God created a Heaven when man
became good. eKtenpOHzed a hell when he became
Wicked You cannot nterpOate time into Gods world.
L very PLAN to that these conditions have crys-
ta!zed INTO very distinct ideas. They can be found
imbedded in every mind. Ideas only rule but or
ganjze They nstnc:iyely refuse 10 remain abstract
and are known from the institutions they form. IL Ger.
tanly is alarming to reflect how many such ideas
may have passed into the hereafter and
set up an institution there making present OF TO the
reluctant set We cannot death itself to expunge
much FROM the mind. These preachers have only to
conspire TO make hell Of Heaven. Perhaps this has
already aken place Heaven is governed BY Universal
Suffrage Seriously, this irony Of mine Is not without its
PURPOSE You cannot refuse 10 notice whatever may be
within private procliyity. think you have got
ceinow thoroughly this idea OF hereafter has taken
possession OF The human conscience You say that
il is only word which expresses the driit Of human
characters Yor may show. you can 10 the satsiac
ou of the intellect that there neither time place
nor space In the ip6nite existence Bat We finite
We have had our beginning and earliest act is 10
dlstng gsh ourselves from The initiate 10y I.ocing the
time spd place which rule our lie. Our spiritual
conditions correspond with these and are so bOpnd MP
with our mental structure that they must act together
in creating hereafter. II o. 20 nnderafe or
deny the eemegts which D0uHsbed the ruling ideas OF
our personal Coincidence. At the root Of them all is
human sense OF justice The long immunity o. great
offenders painful 10 the moral sense. When jury
dlssspees ip IA case Of murder or emberzemeut we IN.