New-York tribune., 1874-06-01
TIE FRUITS OF CHAsTIsEMENT.
The Rev. a. L. Cuytr d. d., at ~ Laaysft'ao. Fre''V>''"
Church, Brooklyn.


The Rev. Theodore l.. Cuyler, -. H.,
preached in tho Lafayetteave. Presbyterian Church
yesterday morning. The text on which his discourse
was based was For they verify for a few days chas-
tened us after their pleasure but He for our pron
that we might be partakers OF His honess'-lieDrc"s
xii, 10. DR.. Cuyler said IN part
Who are they Our earthly fathers. Who is Iof our
Heavenly Father Our earthly fathers chasten us Tor
tme and we feel in hearts for them how
much rather should feel reverence for our Heavenly
Father, who chastens that we may live How I'M :
porant 1t is that feel just right toward our rather 10
Heaven. Have you all come IN here to-day WIN .n
feeling in Your heart Have you all felt II throughout
the week Just endedl DOyou not dsrust Cod ana douO
His Kindness in secret II not openly IL Is iue tr' M @ we
feel II God were not dealing WIN Us l1r our our
profit under all circumstances. No one IN an TINS
assembly is tainted with the heresy that thIs world ,as
into being by chance, without the manu- ,ho o
God. No. you all accept the record ln Tue
first verse Of the great Record OF TINS Unyerse
"In the beginning God created the heaven anu
the earth" All cay is put aside IN that particular lou
cavil not against God a. your Creator but as your
Father and the Director OF your daily io, Iaere Is
the fatal leading TO inhdelty and atheism: Inere
il is we faith to heal the friction OF the wound
wish TO bring you acknowledge practically as wei as
theoretically, that whatever God docs 10 YOU anu o
Is right and that His dealing fatherly dealing one
phase OF HIS Government call discipline OF chasten
ing. The word itself is not pleasing AMI the experience
is harder than the word There persons here to-day
coming TO get truths that they will soon need coming 10
kndle the lamp they VIII soon want Inc pioCo's % d "
foresight God takes His own way. Gods discipline Is
corrective Who knows thoughts as He knows them
How much pity God has for our alllngs than we
have for the faiDgs OF children. He knows what
His earthly children may become, what they ought 10
come and what they Will become in the High school
OF Heaven The high ideal IS In Gods mind all the time
Think what ideal must always have been IN tue minus
OF such scuptors as Powers or Palmer before tney be-
gan their WORK And the image progresses tne scup
tor sees fault here, and he taxes It away Inc chse
and the sandpaper must perfect and polish H. But God
works for eternity and you doubt that lie VIII use
the chisel OF correction He never cuts away beauty
however; is only the imperecton. Where there Is
sinfnness there look for the blow and you VIII discover
how offensive it was in Gods sight II you touch the
body where it is well there Is no hurt but you touch
it where the evil Is you VIII suler pain. IL
never hurts when God touches US IN M neatIy places
He Is the weakest Of fathers II He does not strive to
correct our faults God must he steadily az work. leading
higher IDEAL II COD sees , errors @ Ia uT tue
first we know Of IT,, His rod strikes the error IL we
were wiser ishould say; "Oh: Father stay not Tny
hand DO as seemeth good TO phee' noI 10 us Pursue
II seems like severe process when we see the plow
cutting roughly through the SOIL but the farmer knows
tho grass will give place to wheat, and tue weeds to
corn And yet when God runs the plow through our
hearts our family or our business, how we cry out
frnits of righteousness. Our Fathers action Is pre-
ventive. Gods discipline is preventive by pro.
aud me, And also what might occur You and
I are prevented from a journey Goo knew that
served Us from perils than we ever dreamed Of
God sometimes takes away the fortune OF a Hnrisan
times strips the spars OF canvas because the sails are
sending vessel toward the lee shore lie sometimes
takes the idols hands when He foresees our
worship them May ne not have taken more than one
darling child when He from what lie was saving IL
He NAV have the precipce and the child going
n into the abyss below. Why should we stand at q
chd's grave and cry out against Him for saving the
child from the evil to GOMEZ
God must have process Of developing the Christian
In His refining process, grain OF gold Is lost. When
the silversnh puriyin the metal and has got 1t TO
the point he keeps his eye upon IT, and when he
can see face In the silver then the instant to
take 10 off, Shall ask II God stops In His process be-
fore He has wrought out His own consummate work Z
There was not q single moment when God might not
have STAYED Abrahams hand IN the sacrifice OF his
But it was until the knife was lifted that lie could
saw: "Now | know thy faith" The very grace that
God aims bring must be brought out by chasten-
ing-perhaps TO make one stronger. perhaps 10 make
one weaker. II God gives us cross let's shoulder IL
IL requires ampuation let 3 submit TO II. There is
sometimes much patriotism shown In the hospital as
the field and many a brave fellow whose grave blooms
yesterday showed greater herosm IN lying on the
geons table than all the vaor and shout and eclat OF
the battle There be representative Idea OF dis
cpine One suffers for another Christ suffered for
We may suffer for others, The father is sometimes
stripped of wealth for the sake OF his children. Two
artists frescoing the ceiling OF grand cathedral
The work nearly completed. and one drew back
the scaoldng, view II from little distance. Further
and further he withdrew his eyes still fixed the fres
Going He was within few inches OF the edge; his
companion his peril, and with one dash OF his brush
smeared the beautiful resco The other sprang forward
to arrest him. and he then tho peril he had been
in another moment he would have been dashed to
nieces God often lays his hand on the rescong. We
love 1t and rush forward to protect IT, and are saved
from peril