, 1874-03-30

| vet the good Ia treasured up in tho world, and
God will count its worth III tho day whom Flo
] makes Ills final award to the children Of mon.
UNCONVENTIONAL LoYALTY.
Sermon by tho Rev. Arthur SsvnZcy, Of tho
| Ashland Avenue Chnrcl.
Tho Roy. Arthur Swazcy proached yesterday
morning to tho congregation Of the Ashland
Avonuc Church. Els toxt was:
Now tlcro divcrstcs Of gtfts but the aplr
IT, And there nre differences of administrations, but
tho san.e Lord And there dlvorsities Of opera
tlons but 1t is the samo God which worke.h al In a
Cor, xii.. At.
take these words as d koy-noto In making
some Remarks on denominationnl loyalty. What
hnyo to Hay will not DO in tho why OF formal ar
gumcnt, but rather Of fragmontary discourse.
Tie demand for reoponlng the debate On tho
foundation of UNCONVENTIONAL right comes from
every quarter. The churches arc agitatod by
| men of two classcs,-by men wloso typo OF
| Thought, or whose opinion on matters OF usage
aro froor, aud more sensibIy affected by tho re-
lgiouB thought outside Of the denomination,
and by mon, on tho other hnnd, who arc alarmed
| ut anything dlttercnt from the usual modes Of
coucoiving or expressing religious opinions. Wo
shall only tako look toward tho great questions
at issue.
Our business is rather with tho Presbyterian
| Church, tho Church we love and honor; tho do
no bolioye to haye tho best Of all Church politics.
to present tho host underlying system Of the
| ology yot propounded, mud to be not inferior to
any other IN oil TINT constitutes true liberty q
church whoae doctrine may be carcatnred into
theological monstrosity By . hostile critic or an
| unwiHe friend; o church whose polity may bo
perverted TO purpose Of tyranny; but after all .
church which, in doctrine and polisy. is vast
e.ld bonolcent power in this world, and which
comnlends iteelf more and more to the moral
aud intellectua Judgment of Christian believers:
It is not necessary to inquire into tho right Of
| denominations to exist. They oxiHt as matter
Of fact, There may, possibly be too many Of
Ss asy sa tSpaassys tp1ssIs 9S ei iGS e %seS %oi
each on some separate vein Of tho
| public wealth. The denominations, with ex.
ee,}tiouB, work, each on some separate yoin Of
evangelical wealth. Besides, they seem to be as
balance and complement caoh other: eivon
denomination may be Il poor thing In it8olf, but
good thing with thu rest as Mercury and Venus,
and Mars arc poor worlds to live IN, but good
10 unity is too ideal for human nature. Or, may
I not say, too formal, as contrasted with spirit
| ual2 Organic unity would probably be truth
sterootyped not IN tho workshops Of heaven, but
in very different places, or the workshops Of tho
theo!ogiaus. So long ns tho inspiration OF be.
LEVERS is lower or less than the inspiration Of
apostles, tho Church must content itself
with something short OF complete truth. Tho
Roman Church. claiming 70 be the handspring
OF inspiration. the authorship Of tho Now Iesta-
ment, IL Logical, aud is the only church which il
logical, III Ginning uniformity. From any other
Standpoint there are yet stores Of wealth in tho
Now TESTAMENT to be Developed. Commerce.
governmental, the arts. eolonces, and phllo6o-
phiea, u,ako ever new conditions Of life. Man is
the same, but always In new conditions. Noth-
ing but that Which il strictly iivine-in its spirit
and IN it's forco, in substance aud IN detail, in
suit tho changing condition of man. Tho New
Testament forever; the iutoronceB from tho
New Testament; tho uninspired handicraft,
whether of poity or doctrine, for time longer or
| shorter III the neou nlay be.
taly truo,"sa Ills is wise," Two challonge tho
world to ind a better" It ia one Of tho inaani-
tios to say, I'VE have surveyed every inch Of
will over rightly blot or add a line." Tic ma
tlooal observatory OH Pixies Mountain IL found
to DO ut al elevation Of something moro than
14,000 feet, instead Of II, coo feet, as said the
formor survoyera. 1t may DO some theological
pictures WIS onco hung IN the okhbitiou-roon
wrong side up. Tho sumo thing has happened
lately to picture of 1suskin'e There arc studios
in 'Inolyohromem in the Now Testament
aomo Of them are hung III tue galleries Of history
top downward. The mountaing, however, are
surveyed with proxi'nato accuracy. Most Of
the pictures arc rightly related to zenith and
Nudir, ala arc hung, If not in tho bcst, ut loast
in q tolerab1y favorable, light.
1t ia. enough to Justify aesertlonB tonacity,
and obedience II We haye tho last proximato ot
truth. There arc agea in Thought. in oloauenoo,
! into ! publiu assembly, oyen though Chatham,
Wobster, Clay, or Woi,del Phillips 10 tlare, ex..
ttireoEs aud 0omans heard III thor timo. va
i -. hail. ~
Iiaphaei, Titlaa, Or lsombsanlt. we do not OK.
peot Chicaso architects to ButpasB Michael An
, gelo. Thought IL something diTorent from
modes and forms Of speech or beauty. Art IL
: largely individual genius. Though. is tho as.
orationa Of toiling men. And yot the.c arc groaI
, tlood~tldeA Of thought. Thoro is also ebb Oh
vol as flood. Tho land bloHsoma by tue over.
tlow Of rlyors, tho outbreaking OF springs long
: rosa but not by IN evou growth. "A frat for
CIT 1nay be gigantic, tho noxt growth dwariiBh
{ aud tho next lArgor than the first.
Tho art Ut printing, the marinor's oompaHH
i a,,d g,l'powlor, yauutol as modern European
discoveries, came in fact from tho heathon CT
tlluy, w!lera they woro known lung, long ago. So
i did Sevros porcelain. 30 lid tho Hegolan pill
losnphy. rrogrcsa has such laws tint modosty
r and humility, aud royoront looking back, bo
: como Indispensable factors iu truo wisdom
+ There arc nam,os that mover die. There Ii
I thought Which nayor becomcH obsoleto. Confu'
!, clus, Orlgen,. Augustine. Abelard, oulyin, Yves
. Icy, the EdwaraAes, arc tue, great mAaters
! are not mastolB, howayer, iu all the lotail o.
: thought. Mon much smaller than thoy, mo,
wl,oHo names do uut outliyo thu family mourn
: ing, may think more correctly. muster.
y foun'ler only can cast aolumbad. A cnn1no,
Il workman may lilo on tho spurs, or oven dlscoyo
tl,at there IL too much motai On ono or tho otho
: side Of tho gums bearing, or divine now clio
n sro imnmlaa II tin napt ia that xht,,, r,vo