New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-07
RELIGION OUTSIDE OF SELF.


TIE R<r ImIs TmIIgs In the Fvh Areaue Bap,. Church
The Rev. DR.. Thomas Armitlgc preached in
the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church Personal Rel zion
in IFS Relations TO Domestic Life, Business and Politics."
His text was Yo are the salt Of the EARTH" Matthew
", IS.
Salt, said DR.. Armitage. is rot only preventive
against corruption andan element of nutrition. but an
active force preservation. 1t is usod, therefore, in
the text Indicate the sanitary power of the love Of
tho people God As salt gives and preserves
the disciples OF Christ may by their holy examples Of
life preserve all from the pollution OF SIM AS salt I'M
parts its sanitary to other bodies SO our per-
sopal religion should impaired to others This ia tho
idea of the text 1t is not the salt of or Of
munity but of the whole earth. The picy of the world
Is It's 1t is good In times ike these to look broadly
at things for tho tendency OF political and religious
thought to-day in the direction of Naturalization.
Much OF political and religious preaching OF the day
seems to counenanee the maxim: Every
that individual interests are identical win
universal interests It is impossible to convert the
world until every man in 1t is converted. One cannot
get along without tho others. 30 in school, those in
must wait for the Ounce. Some say what 1t that
thousand miles away even in the next street.
something to You You be perfect while they
are imperfect The who Contributes to the uniyer
sal we-being advances his best interests. Chris
tan he is well illustrated by tho growth Of tree. In
It's stage of existence il IL only seed utterly self
grow it looks to be in sympathy With ali around it, It
is IN the stage of preparation. While Its branches
spreading wider, its roots and stem are growing
stronger, prepare it TO stand up against the storm
Tic most widely branching tree has also the strongest
roots II takes and t gives out equally. when In ma
ture VIC have the sublime form OF receiving we have also
the sublime form S 0s g gD 30 os should Gs % per
itself ways in the person Tne That shall 90 10
The sou cries 20 be SATISFIED Bat as child, when It
the smile Of affection it Is attracted and interested
the family TO tho national and through the national
the universal therefore II Is that Jesus Christ kens
the Kingdom Of God 10 grain OF mustard seed, which,
being put EARTH into great tree and the
fowls Of he air seek shelter IN its branches As long
the religious life expresses itself in mere sefconcern IL
is weak. narrow and in the first stage OF existence
When man becomes wrapned up in himself reglously
does not simply 10 watch the crucfxion, or to
accept it historical fact The chief question must
which grows out OF It: 'Iow shall do good9' A
Christian should not ask 70 be shown 70 all the good he
get but to lead into the mystery or Chriss death
As long the spiritual life is concerned only with Itself
II Will stuntcd, feeble and shut from light and
air. selfindulgent or self-opinionated man
be- spiritual. Se1shness must sink Itself into truth
Take personal religion out OF yourself and put
into your domestic fe The nation recruits itself In
homes The home is the nursery ideas, sentiments.
and feelings. II ideas are not born at home they are
must be one Of the family in whom ali frust-one viii
before which all other Wills will bow. Home without
ASCENSION and unhappiness Tne family must be the
nursery then. of the religious life OF its members 1t
should be filed with sunshine, in which the young life
may bask and grow. The whole world has been divided
into gardens for 70 cultivate BY cuyating
garden We cultivate the entire world. When we have
cleared garden OF rubbish and made IL bloom
there look with kindly interest over the wall
neighbours, TO that 10 blooms too. The who
builds bis character cares aOOut the character
others The salt Is In hun III atom. and he sends it
out all the world In Parents responsible for
the form OF family life They must III home with love.
who is magisieral IN his home cannot expect To
win the love Of his child He cannot be fatherly until
be- is childke. Children cannot feel too much
the Organic unity or the family Tho whole home train
ing OF the child IL 10 III him for the wider society Of the
business world. The anxiety OF many fathers to save
endowng them with COMPETENCY Is as much cruelty
as It is TO endow church. III both the endow-
Dent results IN Generalization. Toll ana difficulty are
necessary TO the training OF man. Parents 10
guard their child from temptation, but he will
know that he Is man until he has faced and
IT, Every man should have IA business. Every has
by this he innisterstO the body polite Beside this
Christian has another higher calling In the
Lord Jesus. Both spring from the grain Of salt in his
being.
the higher with him. aud II elevates his work. The
maker OF boots who Is true Christian will make better
boots than II he were not u CHRISTIAN. lie Will not
deceive his customers. This Is applicable every
sphere OF life. The spirit Of Christ exalts him
Ia every way. Business Is business Is maxim that
made TO sort OF bad method. But man
In domestic life. 10 Is mistake that business
be carried principles every way tstinaOle. what
terrible iaacy this that the first thing IL 10 succeed
and the second 10 do right The order OF
Is always to do right nrs In doing this fan
In the eyes OF the world but will before lodi
In the worlds eyes 20 man made such q terrible
failure as Jesus Christ but yet what sublime
his Ii IL poss bile religion business
them as IL done at school, What Ia needed Is thu
Spirit OF God not the power OF memory. IL must inform
u mans whole business life. In this sense
CONSCIOUS Is better than conscious religious