, 1873-12-08

Sermon by the Rev. Charles Edward
Cheney on the New Departure.
Dedication Of Unity Church,.
Sermon by DR.. Furness.
Episcopal Services in tile Method
ist Church Block.
THE LOVED AND LOST,

Yesterday morning Prof. Swing preached to
IN Immense audience ut MoVickor'a. His text
Was: Here wo have no continuing city, but We
sock ono to come.h Tho sermon, which waH In
memory OF Mrs. Dan Goodwin and hor childron,
lost IN the villo du Havro, WAS % follows:
Tho word "city' on1bodiea go much OF
all that is great and beautiful IN fo, that shall
consider 1t a. a term embracing all human
achievements md qualities Of greatoBt worth.
In tho worlds cities have always been gathered
tho arts, tho aconcos, tho religions, tho philoB-
ophioR tho education, and refinement Of tho race,
because in them nre tho riches that can support
tho arts and the multitude that can admire, aud
encourage, and enjoy. Tho country's solitude
may posscss peculiar forms Of valuo-a value for
q poet, or a dreamer, Or d devotee; but OF mans
widest life. most useful and most happy, the city
In tho cause and tic arena. It brings tho cause
to the lawyer, tho audience to The lecturer, and
tho pooplo to the orntor, and tho library to
all. Tho city prepares tho canyas for
tho painter, the public taste Tint
creates tho demand, the gold that can purchase
tho picture, ind tho homo having a wall
large enough, or good enough, upon which to
place it, and cultivated fricnda enough to admire
it. Thus all tho forms Of thought and erudition
find In the idea Of city the boss conditions Of
their life, md thu8 city becomes tho place
whero all tho paths Of mon meet. por this rea-
son, Hoavon is called city, and for this roason,
also, our text Introduces tho torn as bearing
within itsolf oil that is valuable in man. Wo
havo no continuing city horo,-no abiding. love,
wisdom or art, or joy, or friendship, or friends.
This grandeur Of tho idea Of city. aH place
where tho worlds greatuosa has always gathered.
and thon the equally oyidont fact that all this
grandeur il Of briof duration, compel reason to
expect city to como which Hhau con-
tinuo in greatness and duration.
70 my mind. nothing moro powerfully
argues q life beyond this thau the failure Of
ideals here, Earth gives us only fragments Of
humanity, fragments Of mind, fragments Of
hoart, Fragments Of charity, lovo, and vrtuo aud,
instead Of being world, il only handful OF
seeds, out Of which full-blown world might
grow, but has not yot grown. We haye all
been accustomed 10 infer q future lifo from the
phenomenon of unfinished juatice seen hero.
Whom, TO demand, is tho difference to become
manifest betwoon the murderer and his victim,
botwcon tho unjust and tho honorable? But
tho works Of justice nro no more unfinished Than
are the works Of loyo, and study, and humanity,
aud happiness. Man comos only to the border
Of these forms Of being and action, and then
dios, wishing to 80 forward in friendship and
thought and bonevolonce aud happinops. Tho
diHcord between these ideals and the external
facts ia great and perpetual. There il
scarccly valuable element In human lifo
that is not slain in it's very youth
in this aroua Of man. Tho pursuit Of knowledge
torminates In tho aunset of brief day, tho
friends gather around us eoon to disperse, lone
is built up that the loved ones may ho carried
from it's chambers to tho tomb, aud that the
vino may wi:hor upon the wall and prayers arc
whispered in the morning and evening" that
science may wonder whether any answor ever
camo to tho heart from its God. Thus, in
tho economy Of Garth, all that is noblo Lifts it's
head only to bo stricken down. as though the
pleasure Of destruction wore tho Divine .raason
Of creationa, as though death wero an e1ouso for
The dlacord between fact and ideal is not 80
great In tho domain OF man Az in the domain Of
God. With earth alone as our Witness tho
proposition COMMONLY held, as to tho
nature Of God. almost wholly fails.
terminate at mans grave there are fow facts
upon which to baso that grand definition OF God,
found in some croeds-"that He is q Spirit,
almighty, most wise, most holy, most just, most
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