The New York herald., 1874-09-14

respect to civil matters. and that which Is true in
respect to civil matters Is true IN respect to po-
htlcal affairs. Liberty does not mean resisting
governmental means absolute submission to
government provided 1t IL a right government
one that Is cOniOrmable TO our bodily structure,
our social makeup, our intellectual condition and
our moral nature. He Is freeSt who submits to the
most laws and submits 10 them the most implicitly.
No man gets possession OF himself untl he has
gone through these processes. the trouble and
curse OF daily life IN every direction is the want OF
unconscious or automatic action as the result or
training and obedience to law, and that which is
true in pect to our external relations you Will
find to be true IN respect to our higher relations
intellectual development, physical elevation, &c.
Men learn, when put TO the deveopmenJ OF their
highest faculties, In the same way that they do in
The lower spheres oil education. No man can
learn read except by first spelling out his words
no man learns So simple thing as writing except
ulations. The result OF training is what we call
"hablt." Habit, IN the popular mind, consists
merely in dong Things easily, but 1t is really
AUGMENTATION OF FACULTY;
u Is new power gained by the repetition Of acts:
No man knows how TO do anything perfectly until
he has been so long accustomed to 1t that, as it
were, 1t does ITSELF No person mas thoroughly
learned trade until he has been 30 subdued by
that Trade that 1t Is subdued TO him; person
has learned 70 do anything until he can do IL with
out knowing 1t. All government OF family, all
methods OF civli government, all institutions Of
education and OF religion ought to set this idea
before themselves. The whole drift of civil gov
ernments, churches, schools and families should be
to make men larger, more symmetrical, 1reer by
means OF discipline and drill and Acknowledge
ment of laws and submission to them. But that
END AND DRIFT OF THIS DISCOURSE
is what does religion mean IN a manY The de-
rvative meaning OF the word Is TO bind, to tie up,
and unfortunately the effort OF a large number or
the religious people OF the globe mas been Tor the
most part 10 tie up; the idea has been. very
largely when man becomes Christian he
agreed with himself to give up dancing and swear
ing and gambling and lying and Sabbath break
creed, If he were to let 1t out, would bel will
not 90 this, will not do that, viii not DO that
will not do that and will not do that, until 1t
ha a q q ont NJ q cmu
tree. Negatives are not TO be derided nor despsed
but a man who has nothing but negatives Is a iOo
ness. The true religious man Is Q man who posi-
tive and affirmative. man who Is a real man
OF men who have more honor and VINO
come nearer to the royal idea OF manhood,
although tney do bad things than many negative
hristlans, because tney are positive and because
they 90 something. true man that IS Chris
tan ought to be hundred times larger IN every
way than he was before he became Christian;
even the passions ought to be larger and in being
made larger they ought to be made better and
healthier by being brought into subjection to love-
Every part or a mans nature is to be built upon
subordlnation to this supreme element. There IS
passion no appetite no Taste, social feeling,
no sentiment no intellectual element that cannot
be brought into perfect accOrd and made nOber
and better by obedience TO law. The world is
the eternal heavens with bessedness, ana he that
accepts this royal love OF liberty and wills himself
in 1t until 1t Is more easy to be gracious ana
benevolent than not to be, has become q man IN
Christ Jesus and citizen Of the commonwealth of
the universe, and Is absolutely Tree.
Christian brethren, this Is just what we need.
We all are now lighting the same bat ties that we
twenty years ago, because we don't go
through that training and come into the state OF
Obedien ce which alone can secure to us the liberty
OF the sons OF God.
CHARITABLE COLLECTION.
collection was taken up at the close OF the ser
mon, the object being to raise additional funds
paying of the mortgages Oh the farm OF widow in
this nelghborhood. One mortgage OF $14O mas been
taken up and another remains OF abOnt S400. over
$500 have been raised ior this benetcent purpose.
Last week $l20 were also raised among the guests
OF the hotel to send to q lady OF reduced circum-
stances in Mississippi. These acts OF benefcence
show that the people here are not bent on pleasure
alone, but are filing up their time with good
works as well.
The exercises concluded with the Doxology.