The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-21

sunshine being moderated to the EXTREMIST degree
OF comfort by the cooling sea breezes, there
is strong temptation to 90 to church
for the sake of enjoying the ride back and forth,
II nothing more. At all events, all the places Of
worship were this morning well filed. There was
an unusually large congregation at the Centenary
Methodist Episcopal church In the city. As is well
known, 1t is here
PRESIDENT GRANT
Is in the habit OF attending church, when he goes
to church at ALL during his Summer sojourn in his
cottage by the sea- He attended this morning
Accompanying him were ex-Secretary Borie and
Jessie Grant, the Presidents youngest son. There
were four clergymen in the pulpit-Rev DR..
Fowler, OF Chicago; Rev. Dr. carroll, Rev.
Mr. Morrell and Rev. Mr. Brown, all
OF wnOm participated In the preliminary
exercises Rev. DR.. Fowler preached the sermon.
His te xt was Isaiahv,, D Wherefore do you spend
money Tor that which Is not bready' BY money,
he began he understood capacity, power BY
bread he understood that supporting life. The
question involved was tie problem OF our exist
ence, or, In other words, the economy OF power,
the best use OF power. The sailor does not all the
time keep his eye on the compass but he sees the
sun ana the stars. So we were TO look on all the
facts OF life. There were various kinds OF power, me
regard power in its broadcast definition, as that
bringing things to pass. We early learn that In
the universe OF God there
GREAT STOREHOuSES OF POWER.
Imagination involves corresponding facts. Ideals
are but projected vOtions. The burdens we are
ders awaiting burdens and burdens awaiting
shoulders. There forests to be cut, lands to be
TILED, cities 10 be built, railroads. TO lie con-
structed. Look at the burrows ON the brow asking
Tor power to bear the burdens. There must come
from from somewhere the power to bear them:
how to use 1t. Almost any one can make
q dollar; 1t requires hnancicr to know
slip out oil our hands. Look at God. lie is great
economizer OF power. What is lost in oae pace Is
brought into play in another. We waste nineteen
twentieth OF all the coal We use God wastes no
power. After illustrating this truth by several ex-
amples, he dwelt upon the various things a out
Us requiring the exercise OF the forces in US,
and then applied II to moral power. Very much OF
life, tac largeness OF life, turns hinges These
hinges need lubrcating. Anybody can be good
natured when every thing gees his way. wait TILL
you are in the gap alone, when you have to
STAND AND BIZ WOUNDED
when all tongues are adders' tongues and sting us.
Thcn,t you are patient and take hold OF lies great
work Alright, the end wilbe right. Some have to
be pushed cornerwisc. Their wills are not harmoni-
GUS ith Godswll!. Such waste their power try
ing to shrink the burdens; trying to do something
Of waste is dissipation .' They re reach cS'''
point where nature refuses to honor their
drafts 70 they nave h,odS Taey
their vells A man should be well poised at all
points; should keep everything well in hand.
DEAD LIFT.
1t was, How much can we carry? General Shcri-
dan SAID that almost any one can do as much as he
did If he could sit IN the saddle iorty-eight hours
without WEAKNESS Very much of lite depended
on powers OF endurance. The trouble is, we are
lifting by human agency and not by Gods agency.
Obedience to God was the only path of safety. II
we arc Obedient to Him we shall achieve the
largest possible results Our comfort. our
with Him. in oneness with God. Then this world OF
ours will be great grand anthem. Men scatter.
ulAy far salV at an tnlu hat
amount TO anything Somebody said to Rothscii!d,
'iou don't want your son to grow up and know
want him. answered the worlds greatest banker.
Somebody has interpreted genius as the capacity
to oGS lor thirty id MINUTES ,ssn at the END Of
It ana wink. 1t Is concentration makes power;
dlnuseness Is weakness. Many are willing by
speech to shed the last drop OF blood, but not IN
act TO spend the first drop. There are men whose
philanthropies extend to the remote and unreach-
able but who have no sympathy for the suffering
ana lost about them Success Is the end of busi-
ness lite success should be the end OF our relig-
ious lives. Our piety win come to perfection just
In proportion as We reduce 1t to
HARD BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.
A good bishop said that the first thing he read
He thus .elt the public pulse. Here was pan-the
looking out the best ways to accomplish the best
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power, Tor use, to be men. They were trusted with
force that might be developed beyond all present
life with reference to eternity Having
exhausted this branch OF his subject,
he alluded, in conclusion to the waste in govern.
ment. The English government he described as
having sent US emigrants enough to pay half our
national debt-a waste to them. q gain to us-a
waste that had been turned to golden coinage on
our Western prairies and mountains. The greatest
prOdgality OF waste he next described as central
ized In ROme-a waste that had been gong on
through long centuries OF the past
The sermon, which was unusually protracted, &C.
cupyng nearly an hour In the delivery, and OF
which the above Is but brief and imperfect epit-
Ome was listened to throughout with the most
earnest and undivided attention.