, 1874-11-09

Of tho Aixtoenth chapter Of Matthews II will
give uuto thee tho keys OF tho Klugdom OF
IeATou." Tho hormon waH as follows,
IL you utndy tho passage whiqh loads to my
toxt, YOU will 500 w1nt thia metaphor OF tho
koys must havo meant srton Jusus uaed 1t, anu
what 1t means now md fotovor. Tho question
has boon aakod by tho Master himself, Whom
do mon Say that tho Son OF Man Am? and tho
Disciples answered: Some say Thou art John tho
Baptist aone Eljah, aud othors Jeremiah, or
QUO OF the prophetn. TAon JcsNa says. But
whom say 70 that / ami and Feter tnBtantly
anawcrs: Thou art Christ, tho Son Of tho
living God, aud this answer brings tho bonodlo-
ton, plossod at thou. Simon, aon Of Jonah, for
iloah ard blood had not rosoaloa this to thco,
but my Father which Ia In hosvan. And I say
alao unite thee that tho1 art Potter, and upon this
holi @ shall not preyal againsE It,; aud Vii gtSo
unto tl,eo tho koys OF Tho Kingdom Of Heaven,
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on Garth shall bO
bound In heaven, and whatsoever thou Bhalt
loose on Garth BhAil be looaed in hoayon.
Hero, tlon ia tho nearing of ll,ie doctrine OF
tho koyH. Tho idea waa abroad that this now
prophet waa simply one Of tho old dprophota como
TO lsfo again. whoBe business It would DO Of
conrBe 10 thko up tho thread Of the old thought
tino,-to aay the old things with new omphasis.
do tho old things with q now rowor. mud no bring
tha anoiont order to pcrfeos1on. This was whae
tho people wore thinking who stood outside
the orolo jesus had drawn about Him, but
when they report tho rnmor at which Posor, with
tho hoadlong forvor which very often urged him
on 10 say or do eole roYal thing his cola-boodad,
level-headed companions always miss. Potter
crleB "IhoN ait the Christ tho Son OF tic living
God" by which ho n1oana-if understand him
-llsia Ia not restoration nc nre witnessing, but
revelation, not M old life over again, bss new
life fresh from tho heart OF God. It IL tho wny,
the truth, and the llfo Of this new tmo IN which
we arc living, thon-for tliR Eara insight, though
aI y e Gny ns s c tho qevsto e ' Psor R
nude tho pcrsonincntion Of tho truth he ind
told, mud doizng hia nnrno fora symbol, Jesus
anyB, 4'rhou art a rock, aud oil this rock will I
build my Church. and Will give tllco tho keys Of
haaven:' l1e holds him for n moment. in the
whlto light OF tho thing ho Ind said, and makes
him q type Of an order of men, aud 80 will have
us understand, onoo for I'LL, how tllis is
tho truth on which Ills Church muat stand, TINT
the son Of tho living God iy not dcad aud gone,
God into tile new time, saying, worda fresh from
tho heart Of tho Eternal. doing deeds ny tho
power from Heaven, the manifestation Of God
In the flcBi Of day, md that tho men who can
eoe this truth and toll It, and work 1tH glorious
lives, hold tho keys Of heaven.
This however. you know, ia not tho moaning
that has boon given to the doctrine Of tho koya
tho Church horsalf. You know alao with what
4 terriblo ruthleBHnesa sho has inHiHtod On her
own Interpretations from, tho day whom tho
England, forbid Chrlstia,, baptism, wolook, and
burial whom these things wero oons,dered
osaontial to salvation, ,and bring Q groat
British King, to- walk barefoot three days
aud open tho door for himself ind hts klngdom
to tho mercy Of God, This doctrine OF tho
keys haB boon stern hard thing from that old
day to last Sunday, when mother, whose daagl-
ter's funeral attended fow days ago. came to
mo with sud cloud in her oycs, and begged mo
to toll her wl1othor that daughter, who was rs
truo and good woman aa we had iu this city, had
gono to God at,d to heaven, soclng that slio had
nnvor belonged to any church. That aorrowful
naother Ind lived all ler lifo IN community and
worsnipctl in church whore the whole glst, or
shall call it chatf, Of doatriae had gone to Prove
that thnro Ia no hope for tho human soul which
haa not accented cortaih dogmaa OF salvation
aud tlono certnla things rs proof of lsH Bincer-
ity. she know her daughter Ind not glyon this
proof. 1Ier natural coneuaina was that tho
gatos Of life wore oloRod against ller, but some
thng said ns l stood beside tho coffin
gayo her gloam Of hope. and 40 sho
came OIL her aad orrand.. and said with
"Do you think, indeed, my child haa Eouo to
leavens" Then eoamed to sae, as never
saw teforo wl,at fearful thing thia doctrine
Of tho kesn may be in tho hands Of tho ao.cailc
Evangelical churchoa, as we'll Us Of the Church
hayo forged the1n may hrsaiae mothcrs aud chil-
dron until tl,oy arc black with tho ugly and in
fcrnal atrolioa, and give a darker color even to
tho shadow of death. / 1emomber how, when
my own father fell down dead at Ills anvil, my
elder sister, who IL, among all tho wonlon eyer
knew, groat of hoast and hraip, lnoaned to me :
"0la. brother, ia there no hopa2 Do you not
remember how ono says;
sanet:nea salvation 11aa heen found
HetEcGp tho stIrrup aud tho grullul"?
And SO it seemoa 80 hard. and bittsr md had,
this idea of razor odgo botwoau the turn Of tho
keys this way and that; tue worn face was DO
woofnl With WOO whioh onght not to hayc beon
thore, that was Btrtal to nny this word to sou
about thu real meaning Of tlais ox1nisite symbol
u will give unto thao tho koya. Of Aeavon."
For, III order 10 teach tho roal moaung of tho
Master, wa n>ust remember, first Of I'LL, that
hoavo,, does not lio 90 nuuh in wilero no go ps
in what wo are. II Ia guilty rather tllRn place.
aud you do do not find, YOU bear it rather out OF
So tint Father Tnylor hold tho koy to tho whole
question whom tloY told him onco iu Boston
that ono Of tho very ohoicoat nun Wo havo in
America was an iutldo aul would go 10 hell.
Tppn TIM old anlt answered. oheorilY; 'tI1is
presence thole will ohango tho climate, and tho
tide OF emigration will turn that way."
I fund t,To mon IN Colorado this summer
who arc in tie outer oourta of heaven aud he'll
already. Ono Of them said TO mo: II nm gn~
Ing To get out OF this. / aln in misery The
uklltI aAu AtA4 Ah IMPLY ~ Will 10 OPs
They bud the rs mo aun and seasons tho aamo
earth unaor their foot, and the 5pne stars above
thom. The mountains tipped nith snow wcro
there for both alike, and Tie intervals af1an,o
with spring flowers and autumn gloriea, oil out
ward forms and presencoB wero tho Hamo to
each uaa from Jnnnary to Deeembsr, but tho
Qua was already OF tho gaton Of hotl, and tho
other ut tho gaieB Of heavpn. Now, what made
this inconcevablc diifsronoo2 1hore is but QUO
answer. Jesus said tho Kingdom Of Heaven ia
within you. Vow possass the key, or may r,osaess
it, if you will. have not come from the Father
to tell you that in this high spiritual
and another millionaire. have como to cot
nj l'berty thom that ate bound 10 proclaim the
acceptable foar OF tho Lord, in winch every man
s endowed afresh with what came to lin by hia
birthrighs "a Gods own ohi|d and my own
brother; to brush away tho film OF superstition,
ignorance, and iear about tho future, and to
show Won that tho man who foars heaven horo III
a puro heart mud q right Bpirlt need mover
trouble hmsolf about heaven hereafter mo
matter what tho priests aay-any moro than the
man who aowa good seed in good soil STEADILY
along when Hocd timo comes aud takes care Of
Aimholf need trouble himself about tho arYost.
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