New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10
TUIRSTING FOR RELIGION.
he Rev. Nm Orraos D. d. III: ColLgisk Du.ch RCorn,'
Church on tnh-1pe.

church o Ftnh-ars.
The Rev. VIM. OrmistOn preached yesterday
morning in the Collegiate Ditch Reformed Church at
Fory-eghth-st and Fifth-ave using for his text the
18th OF the second chapter OF jeremiah For my
people have committed evils. They have forsaken
me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them ont
cisterns, broken cisterns. that hold water"
Among other things he said:
The passage l have read to You was uttered as al
tulation the Jews when they persisted In IDOL
airy and wckedness. 1t tells them they have committed
two evils having changed their gods. and finally charges
home with the appalling allegation: aye have forsakcn
Me-" Now this charge not made to the Jews alone
but may be applied to the whole world and as
well as any At first told that God created man
in his own image made him high, pure, noble. even
almost good as the angels he was created with capa
hiiitics of holding win HIM VINO was MS
Father but unmndtul OF these blessings he fell and
whole world. whether His love for fiji, chosen
peOple" greater than n II Tor us shall not
these modern DAYS we 1--we IN nSht more
radiant atmosphere more pure than ana inc ancient
Jews My hearG goes out IN pity for the soul tat mas
strayed from ITS Creator Conscious OF It's reai loss
haunted by its ghost followed % its glory it longs with
o an gods Each tGrt IN this direction has
proved failure, among tue wise as well rs the FOOLISH
Ierpcr into distress. Every false religion has expired
with great cry of despair The history OF our world -
remind, me that fd2lcd man OF old who tagged ana
aUured to roll great heavy stone to the brow Of MI,
and crashing back into the valley from which he had
expended his energies and worn his powers to raise IT,
/, not this instance ike that OIL poor solitary
human soul striving 10 hew out a religion OF
It's own just e point OF success losing It's hold
tie soul had striyen to lift H. Jesus Christ hlInsolf
knowing man well He did tnirveled at The unOe
lief around Him. Tue text ~ not meant To apply solely
to actual wOrshlpers oi IDOLS but to all the uhSody
Very many men seea their sole satisfaction ID me Woru
of sensen the posse OF everything they desire IN
this world. Aud these men expect the portals Ot heaven
open TO them AS though they had been he ho1l ue
f,la d
are Others whose young ite Is rleh promise OF
bright futurty, whose golden grandeur ana genius
glorious flash, feverish briancy. which after all IL
like the flash OF rocket, Which, WHOM us upWarl iran
il spont falls the ground charred stick When one
of Gods creatures gives his whole lie, his whole Thought
To the problem OF now to get through the world WITH
The least excrtion. who does 10 good, VINO does
nothing, THIS is only a refined 5ensnany. lie may Oe
gwen strictly intellectual pursuits and may learn to
support himself any hight by his own effort lie may
even into the most sacred places to Dmd up MS
cl,terus, but he Is just much condemned. may
bud my IdJl in church, II Is an ldol stu. Inc
case Is even more asSranatea "hen PER,
our poor msed, aboriginal brothers come ana tel you
now they have sought peace and have not found It,
How they have sought II in the fire and in the flood ;
now they have searched Tor II III the kne reehnS VIVA
blood and IN the torture stake ana still 1t does
come know of nothing, my dear Christian hearers,
will hurt so nucn as cOld freezing loralty OF
before God You may as well put your foot
in Chinese your soul IA position to which it
IA not used GOdl Can folly go 50 far as TO believe
that gded sham bring peace to being destined
by the robes OF eternal glory to sit By his
side on his Heavenly throne.
Thus we ind that the rel gions OF sensuay OF intel
ect and perverted not the really true ones
They may all be fair TO the eye, but false 10 tpe heart
and fatal to both They fail iii the very nature OF their
taste for they hold no water Water here Is used as
metaphOr and beautiful IL Is, for II suggests nrs
that thirst religion and finally that thorough salts
faction OF cooling draught to the thirsty soul. We
need each Of us to-day something adapted to our TASTE
we do not want a flicker. we want a not "a drink,
a fountain; not "a mirage which attracts the gaze
and the weary traveller approaches fades away into
the dim distance but something that Will endure some
thing Will with us forever There Is no gnt
or life or peace, or Joy apart from God Each OF you
should know this to be Weary wanderers Will We
not return your Fathers house ask not how prod-
val Won have been, how much OF your substance you
have wasted 1t may have been your promising youth
IL may have your glorious manhood care not for
this say. Only get up You are II may be III rags,
but 90 partake of His bread. Do not fOrsake God Think
what lie promises YOU life to-day aud life forever after
satisfaction to-day aud eternal satisfaction. Amen.