New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25

a.. m. law Of God require Of mankind for the law OF
siod can be nothing shan the law Of ideal perfect
Va. n: Ia. isph s% Ss
most that i the meaning OF the term a: employed
in Epsss for no Hp0,ss who n wrote them we're
ssm free from the bondage Of the Mosaic economy
hs% s sns DIVINE s9ssas on we are
in determining right aud WRONG the issues OF life and
with tho Mosaic law, nor with society law
with other than thIs the ideal law OF perfect
ness az God regards II In reference TO men.
such law as this demands perfect conditions Of the
body for mind more act rightly without its con-
pecons In this world than steam engine can to sea
without ships hull under t. We ali know that the
mind grows sick with the body and grows well with tho
body 10 certain degree aud though We may not be able
TO mark the limitations OF connection yet the general
truth universally admitted that me body and mind IN
the other and dependent upon the other so for the
highest mental action there must De the highest bodily
God requires demands rignt use, under proper
limitations among themselves-a government OF
economy, for there no passions whose abuse has
Sssn waeS the world that are not in their
nature and purpose divine. Whyf They are necessary
ass of them, limiting them supply to their normal fnnc
tions that Is demanded by the meal law OF God That
affections and In right lines and associations, and the
education likewise and the performance OF all moral
continent and the spiritual elements that are in men
All this ia to be done light Of reason of the mag
nation, OF the higher forms OF inteiiisence 40
have bad health Some born with appettes for drink
and for which no more be helped than crooked
leU Vet no man has bill OF items when he Is
ine so much brains so much heart Tie boy must find
it out hnsof minister finds 1t out at last; the law.
yer stumbles into 1t; and what revelation Is there OF
mans Qualities when he Is born am not exaggerat
ing 1t is worse than | can possibly tell you. How
many there are who born perverted anu vicious ana
how many born into sehold under all favorable cir
cumstances Consider what must be the condition, not
of people born under favorable circumstances but OF
mankind What kind OF theology II that which takes
into consideration only the aItalnments belonging 20
these favorable conditions There are men who will
bow down TO q text hut Will jump fact. Look at our
conditions What II you should be told to 90 to sea on
raft and build ship OF II while you are ut seat Yet that
is precisely our condition. and told to be perfect
make ourselves perfect aecoraiIg 10 tne idea laW
WHAT If men are to be Judged VIGOROUSLY what IL
perfection IL to be demandedf say TO administer an
ideal law, as 1t seems as goa aenahdea TO- 20 De au
YOU bring your moral sentiments to bear on the ques
ton tho more 1t becomes aonoTIea' 70 you; ana YOU
must have in else We die. IL We do there Is no
of the iprcne Fitner is that Of Being sitting high,
demanding perecness periectness' perIecfne5s All the
nr minute i'm patience as well in love. The teacher
OF art is he who is sensitive to art hlnsc aDd what
kind OF a teacher could be be il he had patience
with the hands OF tao beginner ana the common
worker, aiming at an ideal all The tune.
text and never see it again going to take
last Grace, as in our text meaus diyne mercy and
patience and love- IL Is no tralkins Transaction IL
IL the shining OF Gods disposition on u.s. Ii Is by the
grace OF God that We are saved not through any ehot
OF ourown. remember very Wen when they were put
ting our organ here ana we gave up our iere-fooh
to II, and that was Uttered all over WITH pipes dnd
stops and II man VINO khe% a1 h ap on IA o org Va
supposed If had told him what II was To bel Wnat
de would he have had OF the beautiful instrument IL
now appears and what thought OF the tender and heart
felt sounds that proceed from III IL il 50 with US
We are all beginnings, mudings. and we are yet TO bo
made up periectncss that God waiting for Us
TO acquire Is not dangerous To teach men that there
is Infinite in gracei No. can understand how in bar
barrie times the conceptions of God mast - be effective,
have been drawn from coarse symbols but In higher
form of civilization we must nave nlgher symbols.
must have not much the ideas OF power or rigorous
justice the conception OF long suffering OF mercy o
grace Ii is by tho grace OF God that saved.