New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-29


would be the side OF Divine nature that the crou
W. DO wbip Children we don't whip men, The rod in
the family Is good whatever people may S say o Mssh
rod can dnd ont when IN thousands OF instances, IL
could DO found out in any other way. va yas
Take person got child or two living ID anu,
ence with SO much time that she don't know wnat 10
do with IT,, who can lake care vi OIL, e, 90 that ~
and watch beforehand, and turn the SWITCH so tnal ~
every point the child must necessarily run on tue ke
track and IL very nice and easy Tor sucn onc ~ u
Indignant ut the brutal discipline OF some other mother
and 10 say the way to govern children IS TO win them W
love. and Undue them with all knowedRe' ID htIra 49,"
case OF a washerwoman with eight or nine ehiihIren,
who goes away from home and is obliged To SIT up ate
night the seanty ranents OF her nlne qurru,
children. tell you she has got TO use ne is.ru
ments she can use and those instruments are apparent
everybody in this audience that has been Droagnt up
in New England [Llughter.l That when Is tIde ~
the lower sphere Of existence IL true everywhere
You according 10 the thing To- De
fishing place. and he was to throw his lines and
people be brought In aud were To- DC All Jews
paan and that he is TO sit upon the throne OF the
cathedral and throw out his lines ana Dring eVeryD9u
In and make them Episcopalans. But now goou "a .
thing IL Is that amid the ordinations OF theology, now
and then there laughing spot; for think WIT anu
humor and laughing are the natural antagonists o .o
magn and furious. The devil never laughs. And SEQ
how people coming 10 think OF the unity OF tne
have unity" say the churches. "0h. ye,
there must be government ana Now
them church contains the greatest liberty OF wVt
ship and the greatest simplicity OF Wofsp, mpu the
statement OF the truth revealed IN the BlDle, anu ~
expected that shalt give up tnat winch Is
az clear as daylight For unity it only requires tnat
men shall accept this creed and government ana we
Episcopal Church says, Why, Unity it is the great
desire OF the heart OF God aud the world Is WAITING oI
IT, and why should not be Do Tine h a onr
form worsh and government and then we shall al
be united in ons the b Sa sho1d AK
the EpscOpaan tue Presby IN TO give up ms sys
thing buf this Bring together all sorts OF people, and
lei them vote just exactly what they Will do; Ley them
determine what shall be their gpVefnne Ina !,
stands substantially on us own platform, aIu soy "
everybody else: "My dear friends, let Us De 4nlten'
Let Inc swallow you, and we VIII all DO one lLausn
And so 1t was the old Jews interpreted language Ike
my text. 1t revealed to them that God was Coz
of the whole earth. But," say they, mat - gool
The Assyrans have got to turn Jew. ana tue Komans
every one OF Them have got TO come ana kiss the lOuhu
tons of the temple In Jerusalem We are His people
and we to sublue everybody and they are all 10 De
under Him through us" need not say 10 you that,
when yon see spirit delineated through Others YOU
how large conception u Is OF tae DIVINE hat G
Of the whole earth Just First II He be the God OF
whole earth, He is God OF all those pny seal cond
tons under which men born God or those laws OF
descent which make the character OF the parent 60 down
through child Tor many generations ne Is tle Goi
by whose and DEGREES disease descenis the drunk
ards children shall inherit their fathers proelvtes
Deceit tends propagate deceit Honor begets honor
He is the God OF the climate in wnlch every person Ves
What is Gods decreel Every great natural fact IS de-
cree Of God. Every great natural law ~ decree Oh
God His DEGREES not limited simply To the spiritual
world Gods decree seen in the eternal summer OF
the tropc, and the eternal snow OF the north; Ia the
nard work of the who tolls on the mountain SIDE
aud in the easy and ndoent life OF the nau no seeks
the bosom OF the fat and fruitful valleys. All these
causes divine If they be not II you say they are
not then to You God is the God OF the whole world
In our conception in theology OF Cod We must not Tor
get these facts, and 1t Tor tue nunS ou VI
today that science IL at work. There are not million
OF elect people In the world II you should Try them oy
the confession OF faith on my soul an 70 aa
IT, few get in and few get out; and the Angdo OF
God entered by the act OF the confess2n Oh it o
CuIiIe Or
confession of faith, or not at ALL III my judgment theIe
would not be enough good N any IN one ~
up and down, but there would not be many even OF
them (LIughterl so narrow has become tle sense OF
rho divine nature that shines over the RlODe aye 10
which the globe its III Is but sunsp0t on the universe
which swels out ilmltaby. rolling on past research
by other creations differing from and everywhere
the universal and Almighty God extends His providence
physical and by the providence which watches over
men AS tenderly and gently as mother watches over
most benighted heather OF the African tropics. And
the God OF whole earth shalt He be caled-not yet
DIi He lie S be- the &c of the Whole then all those
seminal aud ideas , common TO ,ns nrn
Him, and their concurrent tendencies are test-
monies or promises of the Outcomng OF things in this
world. He God OF the household and all of those
influences which sprung from IFS love, It's responsible
es Its That tendency which leads to develop
Inent winch OveroOmeS the animal which Is IN man,
that develops Of that the social quality and out Of
that moral qualities the civil qualities, the spiritual
quaities-all these instruments aud the in winch
they work the fruits they bring forth are the results
o. the divine DEGREES by Him who is God all. In
every OF the globe these tendencies are the same
He not God OF select people, or II He 49, not to the
exclusion of others. He Is God III that He has revealed
to the world the paternity OF Jesus Cnrist.
There is the church life bringing home Of Gods
relations to man; but we must not make the mistake
within the Church that the Jews made within their
church. namely, that because God has ordained them
for the special purpose to be the Instruments in His
hands of the civilization Of the globe that He Is exclu
sivey their God. can understand the concet OF the
man that keeps the lighthouse who may think
at last that light in his little house Is the only
that there is upon the globe in the night. But in the
Jewish Church they thought that God was a monopoly
II may be dificuit to explain myself without your
misapprehending my meaning. You or believe the
common schools useful or necessary but suppose
that any neighborhood the boys have aud yet
determined to have an education IL does not alter
II Is easier to get education through
school than without one nor does IL alter the fact that
II boy cannot 20 to school, It ~ better to get au
education without it, Now in Gods Church 1t Is better
If there be instrucng body that men should gather
themselves there, bat when church says, II you
don't gather yourselves here you have no right to our
God" then they saying what is untrue and wrong.
Churches which advocate the ownership Of all the truth
OF God that has been Important TO the world and when
they stand and say this God Is the God OF the whole
earth n you come into the Church" they belle their
Office their Maker and their God There Is not church
Oh the earth In which man may not know God and
tnd salvation by faith In the Lord Jesus Christ There
not place outside OF the Church on earth in which
may not be saved In every place or the created
earth there is in the aonement which is God
Himself o. that atoDement, which is Of Himself Christ
the translator He brought 1t out made 1t apparent,
but power to forgive sins lies in theirrresstbe love
Inherent nature Of God Himself No 50 powerful
actor individual Is like the being And in the
aonement Of Jesus Christ there Is power which, II
you may not be able to feel It, Interpret it, apply
conform to OF received philosophy-there
that 1t is universal 1t reaches out TO every
human creature. He that limits 1t withdraws ii, Is,
think, a that steals medicine from hospital
bread from the famihed city OF water from those per-
ishing with thirst.
We coming more and more into democratic age,
in the highest and best sense. We coming to that
when men growing to such extent That they
beginning and to be larger lndiv iduals
They thinking and acting through motives within
themselves, and merely through exterior Influences
that age needs that shall satisfy the wants Of
the great mass OF growing and thinking That has
been the OF ages that men have made gods
after their hearts They have embalmed their own
PASSIONS they have made them gods of fear and gods
Of lust. But moving In In which the ideal