The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02
FrothinghaHn on behef
and Practice.
Defence of the Common School System
by Baptist Clergyman.
BEEeHER ON FAITH AND SIGHT
A Memorial Sermon to DR..
Livingstone.
LYRIC HALL.

Belief nd Praetice-The Jewish Belief
and Life, the Christian Belief and Life
and Mr.. Frothing hams Utopian Be-
lief and Life.
Theatrical handbills are not generally considered
the proper thing in church, but in Lyric Hau yes
ter0ay morning, confronting you in the vestloule
and staring at you from every settee ana chalr
were handbills headed "Lyceum Theatre" rms,
OF course was all right enough, or else 1t would
not have been allowed from the Independent So
clety meeting here and particularly as this par
ticular playful announced that the particular
Dheatrcal entertainment in Jtturo specified in the
handful was under the particular ''ausplces OF
Rev. O. b. rockingham" and more particularly
as it was to be given for the benefit OF the poor.
The subject of Mr.. Frothingham's discourse
was "Belief and Practice" His opening sentences
were uttered so inaudibly that It was utterly i'm
possible to catch his words a few seats back. This
was a matter or widespread complaint among
his numerers hearers. Mr.. rockingham said
Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount. "Let your
hight shine before men, and he goes on to con-
trast those who merely entertain fine sentiments
He points the finger Of scorn at the Pharisees be-
cause oil the difference between their professions
and their actions They are
PAINTED SEPULCHRES.
they did not bring their life into correspondence
with their ideas. belief that Is not praCtlSed is
dream. Any practice that has not belief for Its
foundation must be unsubstantlal 1t then de-
ponds upon caprice or chance There is undoubt-
edly great deal of hypocrisy and pretence in the
our best hours and the actions OF our every day
lie. All ideas do not involve an equal degree or
naivdua hSw as a5 i've
to their bellies. Ii person holds a be.
nef that is unpopular it requires heroism perhaps
the drift OF the opinion OF the people among whom
We live. The best appointed train in the world
WIN not run forty miles an hour over stuoble
uelQ. MOST OF us ACT from Impulse we
things because they are easy or be-
takes up a large mass OF people and holds them
for some time must work itself out in peculiar
practices Thus the monarchical idea eliminates
In monarchy. Ii you see a standing army you
know that 1T results from the idea that the sta
bnty OF government rests ultimately force.
The essence Of the Hebrew people was that they
were
AN ELECT PEOPLE.
TN that thread all the events OF Hebrew history
are strung 1t produced the Old Testament; it
made out their after history. This belief that they
are chosen people makes them brothery TO one
another, to observe their laws and to preserve the
purity OF their race. To-day in New York they
hold to their Old faith, their Old laws, their old Gus
toms, did their ancestors. They are brothers;
they do all that their beheT requires. What is the
essence OF the belief OF ChristendOm That Christ
Is the Saviour and Redeemer Of mankind. The
rst effect that will follow belief is that people
hold the salvation OF their Souls as OF primal
Importance, to let nothing worldly allure them
from the straight path which leads to heaven; in
the next place. to lead in the fold as many others
As they can. They consider every religion but
Bible no sure means for getting to heaven. These
Christians are jealous OF all advancement in the
sciences and Of the general diffusion OF education.
They are AFRAID OF everything that may, perhaps,
shake their faith. On the other hand, there are
people who believe this world Is everything.
And some OF these people are good people, too.
They say If this life is all let us make it as good
and wholesome as we can. They take quite as
much interest in the affairs Of this life Christians
do in the affairs OF the next. Do you ask Tor more?
You must seek it in a faith that comprehends, not
only the world to come, but this word-a belief in
which God and immortality are more than sound
ing words. This noble belief will produce a noble
action forever and forever. As the attempt, so
the cause.