The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-26

gone to Europe and the latter somewhere
else. Mr.. Pullman preached in the Church of
the Divine Paternity on God as consuming
fire, in explanation Of which he intimated the
existence of purgatorial fires or ''the fire
that burned US clean" But such fires
must be red-hot or burn long time
to clean and purify some mems souls.
How much easier it is to submit to the cleans
ing efficacy Of the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, which the Scriptures assure us
"cleanseth from all sin /" Mr.. Clute, Of New
ark occupied DR.. Bellows place, and for the
bread Of life gave the congregation q stone,
and then triumphantly asked, Glow shall the
everlasting Gospel be taught in forms
that are suited to the ever-changing
times?" Any one who has read the
sermon sketches which we have printed for
months past, with some honorable exceptions,
must be satisfied that the sever-changing
times" are abundantly supplied with ever
changing forms Of the Gospel The sins at
which the Gospel strikes are never-changing.
They are the same in every age and cline.
and to combat them an Everlasting" or I'M
changing Gospel is much more needed in
place of the sickly sentimentalities which are
too often sent out from the pulpits under the
guise of sermons
Dr. Ormiston was absent from his
pulpit also yesterday, and DR.. vermilyea
stood in his place and preached on the in
herent truths Of the Christian religion, and
the evidences on which they rest.
Bishop Foster preached his farewell sermon
in st. Lukes Methodist Episcopal church
preparatory to his departure on an episcopal
tour to Europe and South America. His
theme was "The Paternity Of God" and
hence the brotherhood Of the human and the
angelic races. The chilling representations
Of God, as given from many pulpits, the
Bishop deprecated, and showed them to be
unscriptural and ungodlike.
Mr. rockingham encouraged general OBJ
servance of Decoration Day and the removal
of all distinctions in regard to the sectional
habitation Of the dead, and in the following
sentence hints at something like the new the
DRY of euthanasia by which the helpless and
the worthless are to be quietly transferred
man organization becomes unfit for the souls
environment the golden chain should be
snapped, the bond broken and the useless
frame committed to the dust"
Mr.. Beecher undertook the task Of improv-
ing some of the Saviour's precepts in the
Sermon on the Mount He did it, too, we
have no doubt, to the satisfaction Of the con-
sciences of many who heard and of many
more who shall read his discourse to-
day. And, by similar rule of
Interpretation, very few precepts Of the
Gospel could Withstand the washing-away.
1t is merely the difference between the
letter and the spirit. The former is belittled
by Mr.. Beecher that the latter may be exalted.
But Mr.. Beecher seems to forget that the
letter is as necessary as the spirit, and, to
many minds, much more so, and, if we
adopt his theory, we shall ultimately abolish
both the letter and the spirit in our interpre-
tations of the Gospel.
From Kingston, N. Y, we have sermon by
Mr.. vandevere on the spherity of Christianity
and the moral fo0lishness of trying to de-
n. 'olish sin with handful of proof-texts.
Sin is fact that proves itself, and no complete
idea of it can be derived from the statistics of
the pen. itentiary or the confessions of MUIR
derers. That is pernicious and fabby
philosophy which denies the existence Of
what it condemns. and yet that is what, in Mr.
vandevere's opinio.,, the new philosophy is
doing or trying to do. de shows us better
way. We must see men as Christ saw them
and feel as He felt toward, them' and then
the true reformation will set in. -,
Rev. Mr.. Culver, of Poughkeepsie, gave the
Governors veto of the Local Prohibition BIZ.
an overhauling yesterday, and regretted that
General Dix should have SO summarily and on
such frivolous pretexts at once blighted the
fondest hopes Of temperance men on this ques-
ton. He classed drunkenness with murder
and gambling, and insisted that we had as
good right and need to suppress intemper-
ance as these. The temperance people must
have patience. Their turn will come by and
by, and then the opponents of this reform
must wait.
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