The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-20

handy IT may be, makes poor men; 1t may make
Liberty however many struggles 1t may nave, or
however, many storms 1t may ave, IN the long
run makes stronger cltizens and more resources
tial IN the Church AS in the state ana no man
ordained to preach has any authority over any
name o. God is Just as monstrous and just as de-
test lu,ie, as 90 asy government on the earth
lortn ana hold up its tenets as the
light for other mems consciences-saying, 'believe
this and IN this way or be damnedpi Ii should be
very grave offence when an individual man in re-
spect to his own afiairs says, you be damned"
but let an oflcer OF the Church put on the great
robe oil his onice, split cap on his head and long
stan in his hand, and let him say, you be
damned and 1t IS claimed he has done no wrong.
churchman's lips than from the lips OF any other
man; 1t IS vulgar, az any rate, and offica ''De
damned" Is great deaf worse than personal one.
You cannot develop the fruits OF the spirit by
coercive influences. The fruit OF 'sthe Spirit is
love, JOY, peace, long SUFFERING gentleness good
ness, iaith meekness, temperance" GO out now
with cannon and sword to my side hill for | have
great deal Of grass there that seems reluctant to
come up. turn the fire company into that patch OF
ground 10 iorce the grass to grow by squirting
water at IT; send the military TO IRE at it, magis
trates, with warrants IN their hands, to bring the
grass up. Can they make 1t growf No 1t has got to
grow Oh ITSELF All you can do Is 10 make the tenn
perature little better-that comes with the revolv-
Ing sun-and TO nourish 1t and care for it. No man
can go with crowbar and, driving under the root
OF tree. say Grow, or perish,u or to a bush and
say, BLOSSOM, or be bghted.r And il you cannot do
1t with these physical attributes or clements how
much less can you 40 y with those qualities OF the
soul that spring forth at will Can you 90 TO
another and say, Glove me-" and make that i'm
perious and expect obediences No more
than you can while being lovely, avoid
being loved. Can You say, "Be joyful" when
men are bent down with sorrow Can you say to
the troubled, "Have peaceYr There was voice that
could say to the storms, Hush !" ana they obeyed
but has man that pOwers And can he successfully
say to anguish, TO bereavement and remorse,
"Peace, be stillpi2 These 'fruits OF the SpIrIt''
are 70 DC sent forth into the world, and can you
develop them by arrogance OF conscience No.
There must be spontaneity or there will be moth
ing and all that arrogance OF authority over men
is an assumption not deriyable from Gods Word,
and in all its experience constantly showing itsel
10 be OF the earth, earthly.
MALLGN POWER IN CHURCH ORGANIZATION.
The Introduction, secondly, OF the malign ee-
ment by which II mas been attempted to spread
Christianity has been capital offence, ana the
reason why so little progress has been made. III
Paus "reminiscences OF his labors among the
Corinthians he gives u some account OF himself
lie must have sad "Here am j, wandering Jew
going 10 the most dlssolute and elegant city o
Greece, city devoted to pleasure full OF sopnists
rhetoricians philosophers, genteel and eiegan
men Of science and literature, Now. now small