The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-10

Doctor remarked, and there md everything ~
left it. am tou ched BY IL. Ny memory brings
back the oy gone days, but while have
0UrGROwN THESE SURROUNDINGS
they continue as they were. could no more
enjoy them now as did when was boy than
could wear the pants OF my youth to-day. Just SO
Is 1t with the religious rites Of the past that are
held to for no better reasons than the remem-
brances OF what they were to as in our youthful
DAYS. We don't eat and drink because father and
mother ate ana drank, but because 1t Is neces-
sity OF our nature to do 80. And we
must not think that God sights the
BODY because He makes so much account OF the
soul. We must n0urish 1t from day to day. We
must not eat and drink the spiritual 1000 OF the
Bible merely because our fathers and mothers
loved It but because Y van give us strength q
the food that you give the or ripper years,
out both need nOurishment. And so the child
learns rom the Bible how 1t may prepare for youth
and manhood, and the man receives from 1t such
spiritual iood rs will ut him Tor OLD age, ana the
aged. in his turn, viii be thereby prepared for his
future and eternal nome But we must each feel
the need Of TINS nourisnment ere we seek 1t IN the
so Bs s sr tS S0n Us
them by the hand OF Moses. and He gives 1t now by
the hands OF His minister's; and we are not
at liberty to declare these commandments OF Coo
out OF time or place. Everything must have
its own shape and garment, and the spirit must
have its garment We may all think ourselves
good artists until we try to paint, good singers
until we are tested in opera or oratorio. And we
know not how hard It is 70 keep the command
Can any one declare any OF those commandments
to be obsoletes Certainly not. For no man Is
these commandments were transmitted to the
children OF Israel. And the Torah was not given
Tor Moses sake. bur for Israels sake. They are
the rounds by which we are reach the top OF the
ladder. They are the terraces by which we as
cend TO the elevated plateau beyond. We cannot
HIGHER IDEAL MAN
than we find in the Bible. The plan OF your house
10 Nettvn tNr,ilA ser
and as you build you will erect your scatfolding.
but atcr your spiritual building is complete you
our spiritual life and character can't be better ex-
pressed than It Is in the Btbe-"T0 love the Lord thy
Goo with an tny SOU ana mind ana strength ana my
the crudeness Of the Ideas OF the ancients, who
offered slaughtered SACRIFICES for everything, ana
the murdered one might take the life OF the man
slayer II he found HIM. Moses tried to restrain
Sencs he PROVIDED cities OF rsinge into
which the manslayer might nee until HIS
case nsu neen properly adl9dicatea: !! was tae
instance, in the lesson read to-day. we get an in
sight into Moses estimate OF the social and civil
test OF the intellectual and social culture oil q
community or q nation, Even among the Israel
they not aowed 70
carry on business or to own property. Hence the
daughters Of zelophenad VINO inherited Their
mere the trst woman's rights question arose.
Tney had no brother, and their neighbOrS feared
that they, exercising their natural right to marry
whom they pleased, would wed some by whom the
property OF their father would be alienated from
his tribe The law gave them the right to inherit
and possess property, but
THE PREJUDICES OF THE PEOPLE
required them to marry in their own tribe and
among their own kindred, 80 that the estate
should ever remain intact. Moses would elevate
women, but the prejudlces OF the times were
against him. This law was however, for that
generation only. We should always have before
eyes the spirit that is IN the Bible, which Is she
spirit Of every day lie, to nourlsh our souls as the
food we eat does our BODIES: We should not have
from creating new. We find In the Bible just
what we search Tor In 1t. II we seek the living
Word III IT we shall have every day something new,
yet it will be like the garments that the Israeli
ties wore In their journey through the wilderness
that never waved old. When Sir w alter Scott was
dying ne called for the Book. and being asked
what book he answered there was but one book,
the Bible. The Bible Is the Book or books; let Us
cherish it and receive 1t as the Word OF the living
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