The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-16
THE WEEKLY Worship.
The Metropolitan Congregations at Their
DevOtiOnS Yesterday.
A DAY OF DULNE S S.
The Sacred Shepherds Putting Sinners to Sleep
with Soothing Sermons.
Hepworth on Death Disarmed of Its
Terrors and the Soul as
Its Conqueror.
DIR. CHEEVER ON LOVE
DIR. Cuyler on the Moral Mirror
Which God Holds Up to Us.
aTHE OFFICE OF TEMPTATION"
The First New York District Methodist Con-
ferencs-A "Love Feast" and
General Good Time.
Father McCready on the Real Presence Of
Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Father Quinn Inviting Sinners
to Repent.
BEECHER'S UNIVERSALISM.
A Plea for the Personality Of God and the
Pure Happiness of Mankind.
Father Quinn Inviting Sinners
to Repent.
BEECHER's UNIvERsAL1sM.
A Plea for the Personality Of God and the
Pure Happiness Of Mankind.
Talmage's Last Sermon Of the
Summer on the Lessons Of
the CrucifXion.
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.
Death Disarmed OF It's Terrors-scrm

Death Disarmed OF Its Terrors-ScrmOn
by the Rev. George II. Hspworth.
IT is very evident from the undlminished attend
ance at the Church OF the Disciples, corner OF Mad
son avenue and Forty-ffth street, that the hegira
into the country incident to the advance OF the
Summer solstice has not very sensbly affected the
congregation worshipping here. At the services
yesterday morning there was present the usual
large and fashionable congregation and the SER
mon, for that matter by the popular pastor Rev.
George II. Hepworth, was more than usually elo
quent. The theme OF his discourse "Heaven
Very Close 10 Earth,n and his text was Psalms
xiii. Although walk through the valley Of the
shadow OF death, will fear no evil" ! come this
morning. he began, in my course Of lectures to the
consideration OF a very important subject 1t is
the sternest fact in the
CAREER OF THE HUMAN SOUL
And yet il is a fact which must be faced. 1t is
one OF those mysteries in the presence OF which we
feel oppressed with its awlu! sublimity. There is
kind of uncer sanity, just enough to make fear
the ordeal. 90 not propose to speak Of death in
doleiu, way: cloOse ia Their to call 1t triumph,
and would c2l! that dark hour the hour Just before
the dawn. l wou Id speak OF the soul not the
vanquisned, but as the conqueror. Death is sub
jugated by our trust in God. And yet 1t Is
strange thing. Before you lies a sweet form,
and, as by an instinct, you shudder. What has
happened? The physical machinery has come to
dead standstfll. That is all The wheel OF life,
pulse, has stopped and no exertion on your part
can move II one inch.
WHAT is LIFE
Where Is 1t Where is that wondrous essence
that looked through the eye and was felt IN the
presence OF the hand II Analogy furnishes us with
no comparison TO it. Steep is very much like
oblivion. 1t is marvellous state which you enter
every night, and from which you emerge every
morning. Now death L. a sleep that continues
how long we do not know, and as some dear voice
arouses US from our sleep so, after the long sleep,
fnn 10 lAA hft1la 1f
Again. how curious II is that men are dying ali the
time and yet there is no on our mind.
Who knows whose name shall be called next2
Every mans
LIFE HANGS BY THREAD
and yeu cannot tell when 1t will break. II Is related
that once upon time King Harold saw an arrow
IN the air. Whose heart, think YOU, that arrow
will strike ~ said he, turning to bis courticrs.
They thought that IL would not come them
and the king turned his attention 10 SEINE thing
else. But that arrow pierced his heart ana he fell
dead. There is an arrow in the AR all the time !;
whose heart it will hit God alone knows. | confess
to you brethren, that the only faith have in the
comes . from Christ Il It
old, but there is something about the
life OF Christ that banlshes this dreadful feeling.
faith be found only ia the life and teachings OF
Christ. said He to his disciples, II go to prepare a
place for you,n and while He telling OF heaven
they thought he was telling OF EARTH They hoped
all the while for kingdom that was made by
hands. All the morality OF the New Testament
Is based upon the assumption OF 4 future life.
These are really moral because upon 1t depends
the future bliss. After further enlargement upon
this subject he spoke OF the resurrection OF Christ
He said Ii was
NoAILEGoRY NO INTERPOLATION.
1t Is az firmly rooted part OF the Bible the Ser
mon on the Mount, and upon II base my indiiTer-
ence to the things OF this lie and my regard to the
things OF the life to come. We are but grubs in this
world, and 1t Is not till we enter the next world
that we shall put on our beautiful wings The
speaker concluded with narrating custom in some
OF the Eastern islands. The fishermen are obliged
TO go far out to sea, and IL sometimes happens that
a log sets in and hides the land When
this occurs all the mothers, wives aud sis
ters leave the town and proceed down to
the shore OF the ocean, and then sing with iull
the fisherman towards his home, and on the
very rises and falls ii is answered by the in the
rowlock. How can you meet this factY You can
meet II triumphanty, and you can feel that you are
III Gods hands all the time and that no harm can
come 10 you. "Yea, though / walk through the
valley OF the shadow OF death, VIII lear no evil
TOT Thou art with me; Thy stan and Thy rod they
comfort met