The New York herald., 1874-11-02
CHURCH OF The NEW JERUSALEM
The Effect of Sin Upon the spiritua
and the Material BOdy-SermOn by thu
Rev. Chauncey Giles.

The Effect OF Sin Upon the Spiritual
and the Material Body-Scrmon by tho
Rev. Chauncey Giles.
The neat little Swedenborgfan church in Thirty.
1ith street, between Park and LIE xington avenues,
was'weh filed yesterday morning by fashionable,
but by no means large congregation. Rev. Chaun-
cey Giles, the regular pastor, occupied the pulpit.
His text was from st. Matthew, ninth chapter ana
last clause OF the second verse-"Be OF good
cheer thy sins be forgiven thee" The forgive
ness OF our sins, he began, is the most important
subject which can claim our attention. sin is the
only poison In the cup OF life. We
cannot consider the subject too carefully,
and a study OF 1t is very important
to us; in fact it Is o subject In which our vital
interest centres. SIN Is disease of
body-a distortion, a malformation, a spiritual
death. 1t Is paralysis OF all mans spiritual facul-
ties He is stricken as by disease: he wanders
sckens and dies. Our conceptions OF this subject
are too abstract we do not bring 1t home to us. !
intend to present the subject in a somewhat novel
manner this morning. The Holy Scriptures tell
that the Lord made man in His image After
infinitely perfect model, then, was man
moulded He was TO become the perfection OF
human nature. We can have no adequate concep-
tion OF the capacities OF the human for beauty
1t overtops the mountains in grandeur; 1t rivals
the tints OF summer sunset. The human face
can be brighter than the day. We sometimes see
faces whose expression is loveness itself. There
are
FACES WHOSE LOOK Is A BENEDrCTIoY.
The Holy Scriptures tell US what the human face
Is capable OF becoming. When Moses came down
from the mountain his face shone 80 that he had
TO cover 1t with veil. The logical conclusion is
that so far as man becomes the embodiment OF
Divinity he Will become transformed into a like
\ a face s a nm urhio
the heart writes the lie history Joy illuminates
IL; IL can he as bright and warm as summer day.
Y ~ can be as suen and wratnlul as q tempest. The
face changes the body into It's own form. In some
faces the eye looks uneasy and sinister, the tn
q rets even when II is quiet and the whole lace be-
comes a perpetual snarl; a melancholy disposition
+ casts its clouds over the countenance. You see
imaginary sorrows stealing across the features.
But the baser passions show more terribly
\ how the feelings Of the heart change the express
sion OF the features. The forehead Will retreat be-
cause thcrS ~ no need In Intellect, the law Will be
prominent ana large. and heavy, debauched.
I bestal expression Will gradually settle upon all
/ the features. You see men and women every day
! who remind you OF ANIMALS. There Is always q
/ change going on IN connection with mental cul-
ture. The inward dcformty will show Itself as the
Keen observer has long ago discovered. satan is
always trying 10 conceal his cloven foot The
changes when we see wrought in the material
body are not the changes of a short time The
face is low and animal because 1t cores ponds
with the spirit which Is WITHIN. Here we have the
principle.
and its tendency Is to change the whole spiritual
body and afterward the material body into It's own
nideous image. one action Is not sufficient TO
produce change In either direction. When the
spiritual form is bent aud twisted into sins hor-
rlble likeness the mark ~ left upon the material
lace. young woman cannot permit her brow 10
lrown with anger, or her lip 10 curl with scorn,
and escape an traces OF the disaguring power.
Her lace Will bear the expression OF IT, giving
way to passion backcDs the lace, darxens the
brow, and twists the lace into It's own repulsive
embodiment OF some Iniernal desire. such Ii tue
inevitable result OF expressing eyu PASSIONS The