, 1874-12-14

Ec:,nah by tlo REV. Es. Ilclncr, of tho
Cniom pnrlt Congregational Church.
| Tho loT. Dr.. llelmer, pastor Of tho Union
Park Congregational Church. took tho following
toxis for tho subject OF lis sermon NJ tho mora-
ing service yesterday:
pesaaycnt@ra thow sill! comprehend the uscra Of
e. qo:' mud will "a out tho Almighty psF'ss''y-''''
nleeaed tho clean Of heart for thcy shall 500
WHO ouy hath Immortality and inhnttcth Hight In
ACCESSIBLE whom no man iatll Geeu nor ice, IL
whon hs hons,r ana einpssc everlasting. AmeA.-1
I Timothy, ": TO-.
The following ia dgcat Of his discourse
Tho supreme subject OF thought and object Of
intore8t in all religion is tho Dviu1 Being. No
+! question can prccolo logically aud Fundamental
| ly that concerning the existence Of God. For
| tunatefy this question mankind has not loft to
| the philosophers to Bottlo. Thero iB TINT ia
human nnture which looka for and cries ont u1l-
| I'll just such being is found as our hi,heat
ideal attempts to present. The human foul IL
like tic human infant. Childhood aud father
hood are corrolatyo forms. All tho religions OF
the world express tho natural outcrjcs tue yoarl,-
| iugs, tue upreachings Of man toward tic
Heavenly Father. THO temples, tho shrincs, the
| idols oven, arc all 80 many outward forms Of
universal and irresistible dcnlaud Of lumau
soul.
III all the agen when mon have looted up into
1 the blue Of Tho daytime, aud into the slar-!it
| wonders Of tho oyorhanging night. they llnyo
! Ind foclng Of Suprdme Presence aboye it
| all, An tho oyo gapcey from tho ,,1ouutain to
the gtar aboyo L, no lp there M iutor!or ORGAN
Of vision that glanccs IRON tho star itself to tue
Divine Eoing beyond it. There uro misconcop-
tionu in this natural ruigion, bu. iu aud through
nll thoso appears ono srao thing, aud thas ~,
THAT God il II ncccsHaiy idea and fact to tho llll-
mat mind. ThiN. then, n1Ht ba tho basis and
startng-roint from which to proceed to furtnor
considerations
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