The New York herald., 1873-12-08
SABBATH. SERVICES
Sermons Illustrated with Lessons from
Pubic Events.
rockingham in Favor OF
Free Divorce.
The Vile du Eayre Disaster, the New Re-
Ggious Movement of Bishop Cummins,
the Ring Convicts and Other Sensa-
tional Topics Touched Upon.
QUAKER PROGRESSION.
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.

Life and Death-Loss of the Willie du
Havre-Scrmon by the Rev. George Il.
Hcpworth.
The subject OF Mr.. Hepworths discourse yester-
day morning was 'srhe Uncertainty OF Life and the
Certainty OF Death.r His text was Mark xiii, 32-
"But OF that day and tnat hour no man knoweth." !"
] want-he began-to speak, to you this morning
upon subject serious but not melancholy.
would try TO color my statements with hope,
rather than fear. Dependency is natural, but
hopelessness denotes disease. Shadows viii some.
times come but only TO the blind is night ALWAYS
staress. Never yet did God give medicine TO
any man the taste OF which was en-
tirely bitter. His aim is not 1or our
chastisement, but for God is best glori-
fed by strength. and not by weakness; by hopeful
ambition, and not by despair. The whole earth
suggests the mornings theme Who can look back
on the history OF his country and not know that
life is evanescent. Every wind that blows has hid
den somewhere in its bosom
REQUIEM OVER THE DEAD.
And yet we do not appreciate this We see others
60 but we do not think OF our own going. That
is put tar from us. Ii Is a distant possibility We
do not stop TO think pass over this bridge
tnat connects the cradle and eternity that We
must some day reach the end our souls say 10
themselves, "Others may die; but have prophetic
feeling that shall always live.n We should not al
ways i've as IN the presence OF DEATH Why throw
come Tor heightened periods entirely absorbed in
the business OF this world; but, on the other
hand. there never was a man WHO had not In some
moments thoughts OF better land. These are
common experiences. | do not believe that
thoughts OF death should crush out the glorious
merrment OF youth or the ambition OF ripper man
hood or womanhood. Yet no one should live with
out any provision Tor the uture ANY plan that
embraces only this world is 4 failure. This Is not
our abiding place. The other life becomes a part
OF the philosophy OF this. Ihat is the basis OF all
long-sightea thought. No man should be unmind.
=
come TO Others Men are absorbed III ac-
qurlng riches; death comes upon them
unawares. They are perfectly astonished.
No man has right 10 do business unless he is
prepared to be taken OF at any time, SO that those
station. Every man should be quick sighted Tor
to-day and lar sighted for tomorrow. SO spIritu-
ally man has no right to happy family, unless
he looks through MS walls OF brick, to the walls
not made by human hands, and prepares for death
az any moment. Now, death sometimes comes
IL Tor hail hts lie. The existence OF sucn men
% seems 70 be as elastic as q piece q lndia-rabber
dimensions Other lives are here, and they are
gone-they break at the nrst trial. Such Instances
OF frailty always unnerve US. The other day
vessel started from our shores, and II you have
seen such a sight you know what pleasure and
hustle there is about Ii. Friends bidding each other
'GooD BY AND 6oD-sPEED.n
In little while the ropes are cast of, and the
huge fabric moves slowly down the bay. Before
nightial they are out on the broad expanse OF
water The land has laded away. On board tnat
ship were those that you and loved and many a
There was the ambitious artist, with his great
castles; there was the Minister, who had done mis-
duty in our cou1try, fastening home again. And
this little village OF over 800 souls sped its
way across the deep. VINO would have thought OF
danger And so they pushed on, each one feeling
secure. Secure Every man holds his life by
thread. Hundreds slept IN their berths with ap-
parent safety, when suddenly-one cannot describe
1.-THE great Prov OF another vessel came crush
ing through the iron timbers OF
THE WILLIE DU HAvRE.
The village began to totter and reel, until old
Although
this is startling to US, we might have been that
vessel. They felt as strong we do. Shall sucn
things as these throw an irrepressibe gloom over
lives No. We bend down with grief one
moment, and stand up the next with a new hope.
And so ask what Is the relation between life and
death2 IL Is the relation of friend to friend. /
am not afraid or death. Before Christ came men
were afraid TO die: bnt Christ has disarmed death
OF It's terrors. Christ open tomorrow to mel II
j can see the turrets OF the New Jerusalem ! could
not fear TO die. We Will there be reunited to those
whom We nave lost. We viii rise up from the
thraldom OF tins world into liberty Though we
must die, we die not unto the sod but-unto the
otner lie; no; INTO the sod, but into health and
vigor.