New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08
va,-un,il Gods own good time when his glory soa'
revealed.
HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS.
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Him." Among other things nc saiu'
We have traced the diverse characteristics and recas
~ the four gospels presenting as they do the same
natural aud supernatural character OF Christ win a
ferent measurements Of Divine truth and glory In HIM.
nv differing lengths Of fathoming lines ana p'umme.S
let down into the infinite. Four gospels WIN .no''
varieties determined and wrought out by tne DiVihe
Shirt on purpose that man might DO sahctneu W 'o
truth as the truth Is In Jesus; ali these u'neio"0o'
directed and nbreathed by that one and the sell same
s,rit dividing TO every one severally He will :" that
there should be four no MORE less Divine arrange
ment OF Infinite wisdom OF the reasons OF which
we are s4e in our study of Christ through the
medium of these four For, though all that Is Ior US
%.som Of II the III Holy &
what we gain by them four is better suited 10 our
comprehension of Sison delight and dispose
i iicn IN study study And the four pyramid
-four de ascon mp To the Cod sssps through Christ
Christ in 1t is the squarng of the circle t OF N tnS
Jerusalem living four square. having the glory OF COO
every gate leading 10 the central glory VI wa
and The Lamb the light thereof In the four GOSPELS NO
have four witnesses and guides each taking us III eyery
excursion to Of four grand ana vast S s,dent
and believer should have the advantage Of personal
Examination and should be able successfully to place
epd To- the interest Of change variety and COMPARISON
thus wrought out and the greater amount OF
by any combination OF all in And then each view PC
ing by the same Divine inspiration the place Vi nn \.
cannot be supplied lby any harmony OF tnem All con
triyed by human study however perfect; Learned
accurate profoundly studied harmony suca as Dr. Eu s
ward Pobnson's, has inestimabe advantages IN ls
way being great and precious help to every student
But the natural irresistible attraction and pathway TO
Christ is for all sons without any other guide thah tue
divine spirit and Word winding way OF each Cos
pei along the urnngs OF the river of the water OF LIE,
and how the same river soe out Of and parted
four heads but they eanno: ma Chr, U bvine
Witnesses by the simple testimony OF God. me SIM
pciy OF the gospels IS omnipoent and ne Una. S nr
| IA, ,Dlnr in ha
digest of theology If men store up the wisdom
of The Bible in propositions which men must take
their supplies for the Christian hfe apart from the
Bible neglecting It, then, IN propOruEn w 'o tr
will be the mischief Of 1t, separating the mind RON
God. to rest in mems words instead OF SoS has
ever vet been accomplished but men have attempted
it unsuccessfully thousand times They have been
struggling for centuries to conquer some post OF aDso
lutte Contradiction but they cannot do It, 1t is Just
war; renewed generation after generation TO get posses
sion OF Gibraltar, and now and then hshng smack pc
longing to the fortress run and sunk possibly
frigae burned in the harbOr or an invading party
mole But the rock remains under England's govern
ment aud Of its guns is senced nor street nor
"a house captured nor even garden disturbed. Even
so does our Christianity hold inch OF ground and
every cogn and vantage OF defense that 10 had WIEN
other disciples for the conquest OF the world III truth
and love. so many minds have been employed WIN in
croscopic acuteness diligence, and accuracy upon the
gospels separate and III unison and so many or the APP
discrepancies disappear on patient ana minute
investigation, that the remnant presents no more rear
difficulty than the unresolved or unanalyZeu hcpuie
OF the starry universe But even II tnere were many
so long as they leave the character of Christ
and his reasonings untouched in their supernatural
Simplicity and pS yeve ana 1nS the
confined perplexties would be 50 lmmeasuraoy
outweighed by the pressure OF realities
Of doubt hesitation than the discovered spots IN the
can be admitted as grounds for DENYING tne ds,ng
mate seeds of unbeef. or admitted as contrary WIT.
nesses Like what is called In science the paralax Of
asymptoies" growing out OF andtnecesstated by the
nature OF truths be recorded they really greater
proofs of the absolueness of those truths therefore,
the necessary and only absolute method OF coming 10
the perfect truth There Is balance and average or
different views owing at once to the myriad-sdedness
of the object viewed and the inevitable singesidedness
possibly look along the same radius to the center
And there may different worlds In the ted OF ysoD
Christ The four together could could they tell
exactly the but the comparison and balancing OF
II NAV he not inadequaely illustrated by the history
discovery and perfection in the method OF compens
ton for securing the time In matchmaking. The
first great Improvement was the application coIcu
harspnng for the balance Ine vibrations ,c Q, Sucn
tached to its excursions IN equal time, whatever
might be their length The next important step was the
next advance to perfection consisted in compromising
watch was gradually brought TO accuracy 1t was
found that fluctuations OF heat and cold altered the pro
portions of machinery, so as seriously TO disturb uni
formy OF movement. Tie main derang cement occurred
IN the balance U contracted with the cold and the VI
brations being Qunckened, the watch gained time; 1t
EXPANDED with heat, aud lost time. Let there be
change of thirty or forty degrees and the watch would
vary three minutes day. This source OF error
must be removed for to ascertain ships longitude she
must have the exact time Great rewards were offered
for such an Improvement of the chronOmeter would
enable a ship to determine her position within thirty
miles After many years the prize was gained by the
II on this principle namely that heat expands differ
ent unequaliy, brass nearly twice as much as
steel The of the balance therefore, is divided into
sections, the outer rim OF brass, and the inner rim
aud cross bar Of STEEL so that the expansion OF one
half balances the contraction Of the other
Cold, acting the inner steel rim, would reduce the
circumference, but contracting the brass rim at the
same time enarges It, Thus IN Wen adjusted watch,
whether the temperature rises OF falls the expansions
aud contractions are so admirably played of against
each other the balance remains constant through
ali seasons. Now this is beautiful illustration OF the
be- obtained from differences than could be got in any
other way; differences OF witnesses according
recting the overmucn Overlitte expansions
fractions OF the other The four gospels play among
themselves with such balances OF compensation giving
greater exactness out OF each others differences
self-balancing and adjusting certainty with lmp0ss-
that the God Of truth and without nquity with neither
variabeness shadow OF turning in his benevolence,
the voyage to eterniy infaible time-pie aud
perfect chart He has done 1t for good and upright Is
The fact that it is sinners that he has deal with,
ners save, and that the whole Bible given even
repentance insures nfalbie truth in Gods revelations
God might afford loose or inaccuratey constructed
and nine that went not asray, who are in themselves
nothing but perfect truth. aud toward others nothing
and In no danger from q few admitted inaccuracies In
tepiece sent to left with them. But he could
afford for sinful fallen creatures any other thing
than perfect integral accurate records Of the truth
above all concerning the method OF salvation, the truth
the truth is In Jesus the way Of life Him through
faith that worketh by love- Bible earth
must be infable for angels and saints in heaven it
could not indeed be any thing else but IL fability
were possible any where, i could be safely admitted
only there On earth God has made record Of truth,
only by various witnesses all diviDely inspired but
them with such idosyncrases such personal
and relative characteristics preferences, faculties,
| qualities Of genius and intuition, that the varta-
lions In their natures might the whole CIR
| cumfereDce Of being and strike more perfect
| balance Of truth, and evolve more OF it, than
| in any other way could have been possible.
Then the different experiences with which, be-
levers In Christ they aud felt the light falling
their souls and found different parts OF 1t at