The New York herald., 1873-01-20
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.

Universal Bondage to sin-Christ the
Delivercr-True Christia ty-Sermon
by the Rev. George H. Hepworth.
Steinway Hall contained ut the morning services
yesterday very large congregation. Alter the
usual introductory exercises were concluded Mr..
Hepworth commenced his sermon, having for his
subject ''The Only Way Out Of the Wilderness"
His text was Exodus xiv, 22-"And the children
Of Israel went into the midst OF tile sea upon the
dry ground" One OF the peculiaritics Of the
Scriptures is that they are typical or symbolical.
You may take almost any incident, and you viii
md that In some way 1t has some reference to
some experience Of your own.
THE EVENTS OF A THOUSAND YEARS AGO
stand this moment symbol OF some state Of
mind in which you stand. And there is kind OF
logical order in the whole thing Take, for in
Stance, the captivity Of the Hebrews God gave
them laws and made covenant With them:-
Prosper in the land; increase in numbers and
power; be happy in private life on condition Of
strictly and implicitly following my directions
Hide nothing from me. that made thee can read
thee The laws which i make may seem at first
hard, but they are for your development, to give
sou wisdom and power. They broke that cove
nant, disobedient as wanton children. They were
Astubborn people, who obeyed by
PITS AND STARTS
They worshipped God dcvouty and then lapsed
into idoatry until another season OF true worship
trusting God and then themselves. But finally
they fell into slavery and drudged for 400 years Al
last they prayed to Jehovah agatn-"ln iniquity al
We arc, We ask forgiveness Tor our sins and fol
those OF our loreiathers" And God determined tt
dead OF night departed nom their masters. They
travelled all that nigh; and the next day, ana on
the following evening they beheld crimson cloud.
''The God OF Isaac Is with U.s." The next day the
hosts OF Pharaoh were in sight No wonder that o
million slaves were panic stricken, Tor there were
DO swords like those OF Egypt But still that cloud
:Hed serenely on and hey trIveled E al that day day
was death; before them was death.
THEY WERE IN TRAP
0, God. why did You lead US out TO treat US thus?
But still there Is the cloud. Could they not trust
thatS And they walked IN 0 solid phalanx TO the
on either hand, aud That multitude walked don on dry Try
hand in the midst OF the sea- But Pharaoh's host
was stun pursuing. When the last man. the last
babe in its mothers arms was safe across, the
waves, Obcdent u their Masters win, and with the
thunder OF thousand cannon, rushed over the
delivered multitude stretching from hill top to hill
top, what did they doY They raised song Of praise
object Of the Scriptures to be symbolica and the
question IL, Is God with Us az He was fifteen hun
dred years before Christ with the Hehrewsf hut
you say there Is no pillar OF fire. No. The day OF
VISIBLE RECOGNITION
10 past. The Hebrews were children and we are
men 10. There here Is no need o. IA pillar Of are: When
know that the spirit OF God has como TO you.
You say again. but does God make covenant with
Nsf What else is the New 1estamentS Ii is u con-
tract between you and God. Who or us is not Ia
captivity Where stands the freeman, good for the
present and sure Tor the iutureY You must put
your arms around the foot OF the cross and keep
them there tightly. What Is the way out OF our
captivity Christ says, ~ a0l the way.n Did He
Know what He was saying Would lie have spoken
on such solemn subject IL He did not f you
viii obey Me nothing snail touch your souls IN this
world or in the world to come. There is but one
door. and | am 1t. After further enlargement
on this part OF his discourse the speaker besought
the members or the Church to be in more deadly
earnest about the saving OF other souls ! do not
care II you believe creed as long to the moon
end back again. AT the bar Of heaven those souls
will be demanded Of you, anu fyou say you let them
60, you will CO. Believe IN Christ raise the
wretched and instruct the ignorant. This IL
Christianity. Everything else is
ALL BOSu.
The old Roman conquerors used to chain their
captives TO their chariots and drag them in their
triumphal procession. Let us take our captivcs by
the hand, their chains cast of, and lead them TO
their Saviour