New-York tribune., 1874-11-23
CHRISTIANS MEN OF THE FUTURE.
Ias Rev. Hugh Ta0mpson Christ Church ro's''dHf Eps

CHRISTIANS MEN OF THE FUTURE.
Ts Rev. Hugh aQsr Taompson CHRIS. Chue tProsaRt Ep
copaD.
The Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson preached
Yesterday morning at Christ Church at Ffthave and
Thirty aeth-st, taking for his subject Progress and
Hope" Among other things he said:
The last Sunday OF the Church comes in the sad
dest portion OF the whole year. Icomes In the season
OF bare boughs and cold cloudy skies Tue poet speaks
of the rosy 1ngers of time and paints with glowing
coors the brilliant present. but this Is only picture OF
the hours they como. not as they co. Inc signs OF
decay In nature about us are signs Whch create ony
sorrow and yet it is such time as this that choose
to speak to you on text that springs forth lac
sound of the trumpet 1t speaks of the faturo and Tor
sakcs the past and the key note OF progress and life
When Paul spoke this passage TO the Cornthans he haa
no sorrow regrets for the portion OF lis lfe already
past he had forgotten that and thought ony OF the f
ture This is the attitude Of Cnristan according
to st. Paul's concession. When tho apostle gave
uterance to that In which the law or progress
was conferred. no know how much he put behind hn
He must thought Of that which had separated him
from Judaism. from his father and mother, ana his
brethren. fe of mutual sorrow pain aud suf5ringa
life had been wasted and hal come TO nOtn-
ing all that and more lay behind ST. Paul lie mas told
Corinthians what he had orsaken for the Christian
life: he has told them what position he had sacFnceu
for his present liie Said he: living In the pres
eat not In the dead pas Cnris the Lord, has anontef
with the oil OF hope, and he has SO anointed al ns
cadrcn."
There s no ruer word be said OF Christians than
those words Of ST. Paul Chrtlans axe the men OF the
future. ST. Paul looked forward into futry and that
vision mingled as when he looked BACK OF tho
past, Did he sec busef going out to delthf Did he see
they led him tohs martyriomf II did, he not
appalled, II he could have seen the whole OF the sue
ceedng six years OF his lfe no would not havo been
frightened By 1t. His future was not OF Tomorrow
OF all eternity He looked upon the end 0f human
beyond In fact as he draws near &e coae OF his
IN this world he grows more enthusiastic anu more
goious before him, Inhabited by the beings OF
Gods heart. He all this more aud more brgnuy
as he advanced toward the end just the weary and
ootsOre traveller coming gradually upon the town which
lie has been sraning every nerve TO reach ana sees
before m. gstening as they are glded by the rays OF
the setting sun-growing iargsr and nearer, as he
approaches, uGtii with mighty heart-oound
ali THIS St. Paul was only the type Of
envy on the cain coneas Of the Deists Of the sd wno
know sorrow, but are content with What they have
accompshes one thing and Is immediately seized with
wish to do something greater No success IN
is equal to success 10 hope; aud tnds we have been
driven through all tho ages OF tho world ever Struggling
ISr with the res And from tls very thing
progress. IL is blessing 70 tho world that God made
had sciences, civilization. no anything If you
wish to have son become anything IN life, do you
thingti When he comes home from at school
do not TO him. as no shows you what progress
WI What nt mus. be- dono the next ext Every proSn ts
solves only shows hun hundred more to De solved
Every book he reads shows him that there Is great
library OF books which no has NOS perused II Is tine
law OF Nature and must be- The most successful people
the perseyerinR. aud cases. the
temptible people IN world The most degraded and
were contentei with ther veA. Tue who 20 about
with hungry hearts are always the oacs who succeed
When some nexplainable impulse makes men tniDk OF
the future then Inc world has progress Law Is stamped
all fuurty Discomfort for the present and hope for
tha fair hlVa h1pn a ylnl Af
Paul could have had no thought that the lightning
fash on the road to Damascus would have made him
Christian and changed his whole hfe and yet, years
after he says he will forgot even tbs c0Iversion and
look only to the future leave yesterday rehlnd, he
ages OF the world has been unaaned. 30 let as pat all
things-God and our own conscences only know what
that is to come Let the deaf past bury It's dead"
What Martha the sister OF Lazarus said to Jesus has
God gives this hope to US when he endows US with His
religion and tells US through the Bible to leave the past
10 itself and TO buid our hopes on the future What has
been done in the past only the groundwork for moro
In time to come: SO leave all tho tmo gone ~ TO take
umD6s behind. We to-day how we failed yesterday.
We are not to fail tomorrou Why spend tune on what
Is NINE; yesterday is 6hrsrs. There is no
doubt ous that g. Paul npd ID his sins rs; but
God We have our sins also. bat we must not forget
Them all We are not to remember them as SINS oat at
There Is way TO kn man that Is SO certain as to
chain him 70 TIE dead bodies OF h 5 sin; , and failures
right dc for God and Christ. whatever commands
they may nslst having 0beyed. do not do that In
saying this speak NOS OF sadness bat rather OF hope
give me, and does everybody else Let us think
OF tho better days to Of the heaven where we are
TO Ls u. think OF the beauty OF the place, OF the
woods, beautiful In their eternal Summer sheen. We
have Just begun TO live. have only lived my 80 or 40
years. and they only the beginning Of the long long
ages l shall 1--we, II will, with God. have only
expended d'a farthing and am millionaire. 10 days
Let us bury ali tnat bad in our past Whether you
do that or whether that past shall rise again to
blast you at tho judgment day. when God and Jesus
Christ sdal como TO the front. will depend on whether
you pressing IN Jesus. Out Of Jesus there 10
neither hope JOY. He who Is living outside the inhu
ence Of Christ would better far call on the hills "
cover him, for to him there be no Light no hope,
Lo life.