New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-08

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animals begin. or II possible lower. born into weak,
and through weakness long W az DiIep
wisdom and power by the ordinary ILLUSTRATIONS of
tbs d,Xne which is in sympathy with God which brings
US into relationship this comes only through the
tbs No scientist teaches this No economist teaches
this Il is taught of God only by the power OF God from
And again Paul speaks to this eert when in writing
to Corinthians he declares the motives which brought
and in much trembling sAnd my speech and my preach
ing not with entciDR words OF mems wlsdom;" not
SONS but in demonstration of the spirit OF powor
that faith should not stand IN the wisdom OF men,
model Of the Lord Jesus Christ is perfect manhood,
making according to the new theory OF psychology,
omy which the most perfect exempar and pattern is
the Lord Jesus Christ and attempting TO develop IN
that close IDEAL OF the force and power which comes
from the Immediate contact the Divine soul with the
human soul; not despising reason not despisng
imagination, not dospising ell tho faculties OF
the human soul, but giving to them the
yivacity and power Of the direct impact by
attempted. by the Christian ministry, to bring mankind
into the royalty OF the new manhood which is in christ
jesus II then 1t be asked what Is needed IN our age
the pulpit II propose to me TO discuss the pulpit IN
the present what its object In what respects ooes
IL need reinforcing where Is its power, where Is s
weakness. say that the first power needed In every
pulpit i that 50 siGnsy made known in the mrs, hrst
limitations OF their ignorance OF their want OF their
eau It by Tft you d PeadSe yHSt
sinfuness dsobedience, ignorance call 1t ana
undiscpned whatever you choose 70 eau IT, IL there Is
the soul in the plying consciousness, OF every human
being-midwie at birth, nurse at the next STEP ana
SSE a sense ns sRRe o from that TOP all the
wealth that from hearts In Christian
the Of HIM who Who the soul
that is the first thing that man needs; man iul OF
that there not bird that does not hatch ont more
perfect children than man does SO poor that the non
The child born to the nobest mother that laughs ana
weeps at the same moment OF all the things upon the
it gets lost in it, is man There is so little mistake
the lion that he always grows up TO be perfect non
lis OF all created things, and In him contaminated
the hints found everywhere else. SO much is there OF
ton, 80 much OF moral element reaching out every
where and losing itself in selfish year1nipgS 80
of himself aud build himself up. And 80 there is no
creature beginning so low with such prospects tnst
present give The eye the heart can
feel and the understanding can aspire, but the help
from the whence souls is necessary for
our perfect BIRTH when 1t is the beginning OF That
manhood of which Christ the most perfect example in
The next requisite in the pulpit the "God with
U.S." 1t is good thing to believe that there is God
that we shall Que day He s. We have seen Him
as we thought He was, we imagined He was and we
have Him we have been taught here and there
by vain aduerated philosophy; but, after ALL we see
through glass darby and only then face to face We
all know and all believe that there is this supreme
revelation Of God by the Holy Ghost in
the hearts Of men which. although it cannot
more than philosophy. 1t amounts to force.
1t s precisely that which the Apostle expressed when
than the natural effects from human oausahon And
tor We know he was such by his letters He could not
help himself Paul could not have spoken without being
orator He used the wisdom OF Athens when he be-
longed to Athens, and Rome no did as the Romans
did-n things THAT were good tIaughterl We know per
fecty well that all the Instruments by which human life
Influenced fOmented,
but there was something behind all this There in
his soul the consciousness there was power before
which all other things elements of power paed and
that the power OF God not him that dwels behind
or within philosophy, but God with us, God might
feel God that fires the soul, that lifts with strange
Civilizations above ourselves that gives power and
unaccountable enthusiasm of love 10 God and filth in
God, by which when one man Is possessed Of the
Holy Ghost he becomes power altogether transcendng
the or ordinary IL this of tue
belief OF God the belief that the Divine spirit is poured
out the souls Of men as directly the sunlight is
poured out on the soil when 1t makes flowers and into
flowers when it gives prSTs and co9rs and into both
supply OF God, endless hunger ana the endless
power, the nothingness of the beginning and the
iranseendent glory Of the end when we shall be pre-
are the two great elements of the Christian ministry
And no man have them and DO ignorant and
beside these and he Will have little fruit 1t sympathy
"a human want-and it ia faith and feeling Of God in
the sOuthe two combined that constitute Christian
minister and that opens the door the invisible gate
which leads to say "what Of itf moves back the
morning star such astronomers tell is morning
star it is the of righteousness that rises in the
and ii is this that gives the strength and the power 10
the Christian minister. When that power is in
mentod in thousand ways; it may be made
more ehicacious by adding those elements Of
among men, by which control the forces them
But the primary constituent OF the true Christian min
lster refined sense OF sympathy in the snuness OF
man not man sinner because he Is sinner. and the
essential certainty that great overreaching and
human family, and that by that power men
may be lifted out OF animal-hood into more than
son of God. Here. then, is the end and aim of the
Christian ministerto create such manhood that 1t
more than phiIanthropist, it to be of Cod IL
is on which the Light never fades which hath no
as long al God. Who but feels this great
ness Of Cod as made manifest IN the Lord Jesus
translated from one language into another. but who
shall translate God, who shall tell what His thoughts
what mothers love is, and what fathers love is.
You know what the love OF noble hearts one to another
re q love that carries in 1t true justice and in its vast
ness and altitude and its dignity and glory willing to
Law down and suffer and become road that men may
Walk s TPC@ eon:ervtve &C Cod bleeding God y%pa
thising Coz that is Jesus Chrfs Interpretation OF
precise TTe thing that Paul declared when he said
that he never would hide himself, nor
o y sdens S tss face Sc1 PlsEs% d
must be perfect God, and to be perfect God he must
he lifted above all else perfect statue is, and
cold The idea of those medieval times was OF a God
iifted above all care grand he q sovereign.
reening BY centripetal forces who sat central and
ceved all gulf into which all praise ran; bnt the God
tSat Paul ouvered before with intense admiration
whom he could not sleeping waking. liv
ing or dying fOrget-is the God inter
rreted by Him, who showed His great
love by laying down His life. That Is the God that the
croshe sacrifice OF the cross the shame Of dying the
eakness that put His head, the willingness Of
cod 20 die defeated and overthrow, and yet suffering
for man. as Interpretation OF the nnermost nature
~ God who dWells in the fullest self-sacrihce.
Think Of the grandeur and beauty of this
great fatherhood of God who y Justice, j. the
was suffering God. suffering for man. Is there any
thing so sac TO look human life with an inside eye
AT the ieaousies raspngs, The yearnnRs, without
Al,n,r, ~ IL so