New-York tribune., 1874-11-23

may lift herself higher. nearer to Godi knew man
once noble chivarie, generous, who married selfish
was like a wasp In the mans hat. tlaughter.l HIS
existence became torment. He became narrowed,
there retrenchment Of the heart, until at last he
became as dry hickory post cut 20 years What
thank God for 1t. We shocked hear a wish
another was dead but greater mercy cannot wish
These things described much oftener in novels
But what pulpit where you are afraid TO INTO the
wants and necessities of and cleanse them THIS
Il there an acer shall ca It one How c
those heartongngs developed aud brought out In the
light of Divine trnh from the pllp yet how they exist
real life hold be my duty to speak out upon
this subject and to point ont the necessity Of the higher
life as means OF securing after happiness.
STRENGTH AND BEAUTY OF HOLINESS.
lyn, E. D.
The Rev. DR.. E. S. Porter, pastor of the
First Reformed Church of Brooklyn, E. d. preached a
yesterday morning the church at Bedfordave
and Cymer-s from the following text, selected from
the latter portion of the 9th OF the Goth Psalm
strength and beauty in his sanctuary" The
authorship OF the quoted PSALM the preacher then sad
uncertain; but outflow OF thought, antic
patng the erection Of the temple which afterward
TO stand forth in all its beauty and strength. 1t was
evidently composed for OF those great solemntes
which the Jewish tribes celebrated In honor Of their
composed to give glory to the God Of Heaven and
Earth associatng with the honor and majesty of the
Divine Ruler both strength and beauty. Architecture
was educational. Thoughts might be put into words;
SO, Also institutions could be put into edihces.
Tie temples Of Egypt representations OF egyptian
civilization while 81. Peters at Rome represented all
that was known outside of Romanism. 1t was temple
of art dedicated to O religion OF art As In pubic
edifces, so in private dwellings; the home gave inc
character of its inmates From the foundation to the
roof, from basement to garrett the home was ednca,
The more the me th was 5ne
and religion could be put into ed6ces The temple OF
Solomon was different from any other then existing II
represented heaven, and the symbolism OF Mount MORAN
was an incubation Of principles. At the porch were
two pillars obellsks the one called Jachn. meaning
These names declared that God would establish
the temple in strength. The pillars were crowned with
the lily being the gentlest purest and yet the most
beautiful OF flowers Above thus were chains OF pome
from the estabshme9t Of the temple These were @
at 1ae 9P Sr M % n There we're
and beauty in the Holy and Most Holy places In the
ings and tributes paid to the one Holy God and it was
called the Sanctuary. In the Holy OF HOLES was placed
pure White robes with the eweed piae on his breast
worshipped the Most High In the beauty OF holiness
discourse and wished TO present It with the view of
showing its bearing upon the present age III was iac
snas ale AND %p beauty The Greeks Styled the things
Cosmos" indicating beauties. IL mattereu nothlng
rious In light Greeks the spirit of beauty In all
and called IL Cosmos" But true beauty was always
associated with strength. Tho world was afraid OF
strength without beauty excited alarm and produced
fever had also respect for beauty without strength
When Christ brought handful OF lilies. He meant to
forth that there was strength In every my Or those
which no opposition had yet been able to withstand,
was the Christ Jesus. Tue faith of the Bloe or
the prophets and Of the martyrs was the fah OF the
Christians OF to-day The Bible was the key to all
mysteries. and was illuminated through Jesus
Saii''' was bforo ro' the H6Tahamic period, and
search might call up prehistoric Kingdoms
e G1s TR Of who
opposed the progress pf Christianity might be called up
but Where we're they nowi their as well as
their bones had crnmbled to dust. the force Of all
others was that of Zion Stars had vanished since the
historic period cities had gone down and been lost TO
sight mountains had sunk under the sea- but, despite
the prosecutions oppostions and cruelties pracced
today than ever The sanctuary rested on the strength
of God who would manifest that strength so as TO Lift
mankind out OF ignorance h them for the temple
I'm the skies The walls of SOOmons temple were formed
polished stones put together without noise Ihe King
great day of Pentecost when world shall be shaken
as the Of the forest In Summer time under the In
fuence of the west wind No man can count the pol
jsled stones In the Temple of the Living Cod the num-
bers upon numbers of earnest Christians who make the
walls the noble examples which form tho keystones to
tine arches the temple. Strength was in the fonnda
ton and the walls. All the attempts OF centuries to
invaiidate the Bible by infdeiy and philosophy had
helped In the end Indelity had only succeeded for
ntte but the Bible in the end came up triumphant,
and those who opposed 1t had been rerued aud in many
cases converted by the power Of the Holy Ghost La
this age controversy the book OF years had
not been assaled by any theories. The fashionable
indety of to-day nothing pat OF old Pagan
ISM The Bible would not be cast down during the pres
ent age Error always dies or changes It's form; but
truth never dies and never changes.
The beauty Of Zion was the beauty OF God The world
in general worshiped monstr0us god-one OF revenge,
lust and other vile passions in fot the devil worship
was prevalent. Men feared God and avoided Him. or
sought buy Precipitation for their SINS Tie CnlDese
and the ancient Greeks sacrificed to vengeful God,
while others bought redemption through purgatory.
But God, which should be worshiped had the
attributes of everything that was lovely After all that
human character has to be looked into for the highest
expression OF strength and beauty. The Greek Apollo
was the perfection Of Grecan arta perfect ideal OF
god; but the character deled with SINS Hercules
was the representative OF all That was powerful and
beautiful In strength but he was monster Of immortality
The only perfect man OF to-day in all this WORLDS his
tory was Jesus Christ In many respects lie could not
be compared with Hercules. Apollo or the great war
but he dealizes not only the human frame. but
that combination of qualities, strength OF WILL under
standing. affection, and sympathy Analyze all these,
aud a submity OF beauty would be found in the har-
monious strength OF the noble qualities After reading
the production Of poets the history OF heroes &C., there
was but acknowledged Kinc-Jesus Christ Those
the opposites TO the attributes OF Christ Love
strong, but hate was weak; generosity was beautiful
charity were DIVINE while seshness and avarice were
the exact opposite. Strength and beauty were en-
twined in the sanctuary of today, and the
Where else, In times Of bereavement and sorrow,
could be found that strength which enabled the tri-
umpAant conquest to be won SO with the The
Spring brings forth floral beauty in order that after the
Summer song, the strength OF the Autumn fruits and
GOLDEN fields could be found in the harvest The lily
the Spring forth the OF Summer to
be followed by the glorious strength OF the Autumn
The preacher then urged hearers to seek for tnat
strength which could only be found In the beauty Of
holiness set forth by Jesus Christ to be strong
rock and yet beautiful as the flower that clung
TO be strong the faith ana yet gentle the bird
that caroled the glory Of God.
THE SUPERIORITY OF MANHOOD.
The Rer. james H. Pullman at u. Church Of Savior