The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-02

ened His corpse is quickening His biogra-
ply and raising it from the grave q
antiquity, and. through the work Of sanctifca-
ton, enabling men everywhere to understand.
appreciate, love and obey Him.
"He who entertains thorough contempt for
his fellow man is prepared to commit against
him any conceivable crime. To hold man in
contempt is to hold God in contempt" So
said Rev. 8. II. Taft in the Church OF the
Messiah To admit that these words contain
the truth, and nothing but the TRUTH would be
20 assert that God and man are essentially
synonymous. We do not hold that contempt
OF man is contempt of God. There are some
men so unlike God or anything that is God
like, that we can scarcely have any other
feeling than contempt for them. Nor do
we believe that contempt for men would lead
us to commit any conceivable crime against
them. The contempt for criminals in olden
times, which wc are assured was something
outrageous, has given way to great affection
for them and degree of contempt for their
victims in our days; 80 that our advance or
improvement in this regard is only partial.
BY and by. II we advance at the same rate, we
shall probably set our greatest criminals in
the cheapest places of power, and Immediately
after we may look out for the millennium or
something worse
DR.. Holme, discussing on the guilt and
consequences of suicide, treated his people to
some scraps Of ancient history, sacred and
profane, and to contrast of the lives of dis
tinguished philosophers and great and good
men OF ;,ible history. While many Of the
former took their own lives not one of the
latter ever committed suicide. Those re-
corded in the Bible as having taken their own
lives, from Saul to Judas, were bad men.
The teachings of the philosophers tend to
death, those of the prophets and apostles to
life. The subject is an interesting one and
worthy Of more general attention and consid-
Grafton.
Mr.. rockingham finds so much poetry in
religion that there is very little prose left for
us who may not be so poetic as he. All the
great events recorded in the Old and New Tes-
taments are poetic fancies and pictures of the
imagination. Eden, with its fruits and flowers
and its innocent couple communing with
God; Moses crossing the Red Sea- Elijah
fed by mvens; Christ's birth in the
manger, and His transfguration on the
mount, which no geographer has ever found
or will fnd-these and many more are but
poems or paintings of the imagination. IL
Mr.. rockingham himself a fiction or an i'm
aginary being? Or are we printing and COM
a. - sxal1
and he sane man? Will some one apply his
rule and answer?
Mr.. Beecher yesterday gave his congregation
q pretty good peep at his tendency toward
Universalism, which has been looked for for
some time. Because God has said he will
have mercy upon whom He will have mercy
there is a presumption in Mr. Beecher's mind
that sinners may be admitted to heaven-in
low plane to be sure, but the outer boundary
OF heaven is far better than the highest place
on earth. Indeed, is it SO? II it was pos
sible for q pure spirit to sin in
one sinner or the second or third who may get
even to the outer boundary to take a summer
sault therefrom to the pit also? Or is it any
more likely that o man who has lived his
three-score years and ten here without an ex-
perimental knowledge of God will by death
be brought any nearer to God in heaven, even
if he should get there? These are queries
that may have some bearing upon this theory
Of Mr.. Beecher.
Mr.. Talmage gave his congregation few
arousing considerations why they should
awake to righteousness. One is the obstacles
that lie in the way of our salvation another
is the value Of the soul involved, and third
the glory to be won.
At the open air services in Lefferts Park.
Brooklyn, the Rev. George A. Hubbell
preached a justification by faith and the con-
sequences thereof
The Catholics of fremont laid the corner
stone ola new church in that place yesterday,
at which the Rev. DIR. McGlynn delivered an
address.