The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-06

Hear their knocking at the doors OF colleges;
a acar o,, Their plea for knowledge and light
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witness witness this earnest criticism OF the evils OF
see this imperative demand for honor ana
nonesy and truth In public servants Hear this
eau ior nobler civil service. Mark this determine
eagernsss H1 o. shall be pored Observe the
sraou .s 70 those who have lived wen and fought
Men 'nTr Dastie: Tns Is the rising OF the Son or
some respects these are evi tmes-that the Son
o %e man Is All ISa ing 5S% the
our times SO ugly TO consider, we must not forget
the opposition to II all-the keen eye, the quick
this-nor the otner-is the sign that cha c,er1es
this generation Of ours. The other has aIwavs
been this comes out late. ""'"
And you will not, l am sure thtnt that an,
going TOO ar rom my subject II draw an illustra-
zion OF my thought from this movement Of women
against the sin OF 1ntemperance. Here "a Grave
In which the son OF Man has long been buried-s
grave, how darki There the worm dieth NOT:
It'll Not only the poor, the ignorant, the STUPID.
the gOOd-for nothing; not only those whose lives
seem 20 be Of little moment 60 their kind but the
hearts, men and women OF genius, people whose
promise OF life would otherwise be Of the very very
grave and they cannot extricate themselves.
NO WILL, NO PRAYER
on their part Will roll away that heavy stone and
enable the m TO come out into the light and free
dom that they were born TO. Who shall speak the
word q deveraaces Men n,, have tried to do it
tried to do It IN vain. The angel must come nom
above; ana in women there Ia, perhaps, the angel
getting all the objections to the method employed
m aae the q
OF education, the want Of experience to the llmi-
tation OF thought In which these women move.
But out OF II see this Woman, first or ALL coming
forward to lay what spell she has at her command
upon one Of the crqsest of the evils
est sufferer, the tenderest helper. ' sfG see
her putting authority and violence away, dis
caadns 70 the
forms OF reason, the real justice OF the case.
me, and indicates, under another form, the pro.
cess OF the resurrection or the Son OF Man from
hts enemy, the grave. And the participation Of
OF every kind the elements or tenderness and
trust and feeling that are infused, the warm en-
our communities, are signs that the Son OF Man,
the pure Humanity, is beginning to assert ITSELF
not OF q man and woman, bur OF q woman.
And 1t Is the welcome OF that Son OF Man that we
cherish. Let this spirit spread, and may we not
hope to see society OF men and women that we
shall dare to think will live after they seem to be
dead?
lustraton-the resurrection Of the Son OF Man in
the form OF religion. II the Son OF Man oil the
New Testament was characterized by any one
thing more tnan another IT was by His complete
superiority to the carnal in religion, His elevation
above forms and ceremonies, HIS emancipation
from brick and mortar, the freedom with which He
walked above all the definitions that men give OF
God or man or the soul or OF the future Here does
really seem to nave been one whose soul lived IN
the presence OF o God whom He dared call His
Father, whose trust was boundless and simple,
whose conscience was clear as 1t was tender and
all the sweetness OF the saint; person who repre-
sentec the purest and freest religion, and this at
ad IN and where a ws1e
or tremendous strength, where the soul was
swathed round with all manner Of official incum-
brances In nation that had become welded TO
It's forms, that all but worsnipped brick and NOR
tar, That believed that God actually dwet lnsnar-
bic halls. rms Son Of Man rose above It all, ana
ever since those who have sought this spirit. who
have felt the power OF that resurrection. have IN
the same way assembled until they moved In
plane that was high table land, to which our
GOD HIMSELF Is NOON AND SUN.
Take symbol o. It. the other day in wsstm ane
world, the greatest in England, the type OF anti
qulty, OF venerabeness, 81 old magnifcence-
and dignity, and OF the noblest Scholarship intro
duced professor Of phiiology to lecture
openly avowed the doctrine that all faiths were q
brotherhood. that Chrisiendom was not to APP
proach the Moslem, the Turk or the East indian
In spirit OF lofty superiority, but was to go in
the spirit OF frlendness and fraternity; that the
best faith was that which produced the best men
overcome the world 1t must do 1t through It's re-
formers and Its saints and It's character-thaU is
III must SNOW LUeTe Is u man, IQere IL the SYM
bol-Westmnster Abbey. Dean Stanley, Max MIL
ler-and that symbol Is only emblem OF move
ment that IL passing over, not our land alone, but
all civilized countries; movement OF faith, Of
freedom, OF emancipated thought, OF open wor-
Ship OF clear sight aud insight. Why, people VINO
can hand down such faith as that; people who can
continue TO be religious and yet so tree, are
already risen-rlsen from layers upon layers OF
dusky DEATH
Take tins single belief In the immortal life which
Chrlstendom Is celebrating to-day, and see the
effect OF the resurrection Of this Son OF Man, this
pure Humanity III that Take the belief as fact
IN the world and see what complete transforms.
ton 1t has undergone simply through the open
heart OF man. The old belief dwet on the resur-
recton OF the body. IL lived III the charnel house;
Its anticipation was OF time when all the limbs
and members that had been buried time out OF
mind should come dying together through the air
and meet at a particular point OF time and space
and there present themselves at the throne Of
oes vsS in srays
yards and that dragged the graveyard up
into Heaven; Marx the change: Grave:
waste away ike a WORKOUT garment. Dust may
have Its dust ashes may nave their ashes-let 1t
a person. not a bundle OF members; heart, a
thinking being. Consider the immense change
that has passed over the human MIND since it
entertained the thought OF living, happy i'm
mortality, instead OF reproduction OF swaddling
bands and cerements IL Is in the men VINO enter
tain new faith like that. And the idea is not
spectral, for these immortal persons are thought OF
now as living sympathetic, useful working all the
time, helpful all the time, keeping up their old as
tended indefinitely over the future. There, again,
is q sign OF a great advance In thought in the
whole conception, not merely OF the future life,
but OF this lie, and Of men and women.
And consider, again. that the future life is
thought OF as opening out OF this. 1t was formerly
thought OF not as connected with this at all, ex-
cept as the earth Is connected with person who
leaps up from 1t into the air This form OF exist
ence was spurned.
But NOW THE SPIRrTUALIST,
the foremost modern believer in immortality, re-
fleets back upon this lie. 1t is this world; It Is
the man In this world W no Is to 1--we again. Con-
slider the reaction. People WAC thus think Of
immortality must think oil themselves here as
immortal beings, ana OF their interests here as
immortal interests, and OF their work here as
undying work. The element OF progress comes
In; and progress implies persons who can
pr0gress-capability, the possibility OF develop.
ment. And at once, at that thought we stand
upon our feet. We cultivate ourselves. We
believe in knowledge IN advance, IN expert
ence, In refinement We aspire. We think
OF ourselves not as mere perishable creatures OF
dust but as creatures who can learn more and
gain fervor. Is not that something? II seems