New-York tribune., 1874-09-21


Adams in his sermon on The Truth of Christianity"
made brief reference to the Belfast Lecturers"
The Rev. DIR. Miner President of Tufts College met
Prof TyndaIl more openly in sermon on " Mind ana
Matter y which will be found on another page Inc
Rev. DIR. Fulton preached 1.-THE Rights OF the Col
ored Race"
THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD.
M Rev. Ro'r' o''~ Of t1a'1sSss AsasT =. H' '"''" ~ ''''
The Church of the Messiah at Park-ave. ana
Thirty opened yesterday for the first time
since the Summer large audience ATTENDED, a'
the Rev. Robert Collyer Of Chicago conducted tne ser
vices. He took for the subject OF his Sermon tno
Church Of the Living God" ana enlarged upon VIC
attributes necessary in the earthly church. ne uu NOV
torOe In his prayer the unfortunate victims OF the ran
River disaster and at the close Of his sermon MADE
ouet hit at choir singing, by apologizing ior tne
length Of the services. pleading that IN MS OWN
church there choir aud In carrying out us own
form he had Intentionally heightened the meeting
Tho text was from 1st Timothy, Iii, IT, Ihe Churcn Oh
the living God"
Matthew Arnold says in one Of his later books the
preacher began that there is power outside ourselves
which makes for righteousness. he goes on 10 sno"
how this power is the living God and then now israeli
seeking the living God through His prophets unto tue
days of Christ the channel through which the
Bible came to u.s. which book he finds the intensest
world he tells us that II don't believe him we can
look for any words outside the Bible and then for those
inside and then which will really kindle US most
surely to the religious spirit which he defines 10 Dc the
highest morality set fire by strong spiritual emoons
BE shows also how and steady this power Oh tne
living God flows on not like great river pouring along
in the sun from the head waters TO the sea-
but rather like one near where was born,
which seems lost for wbile IN the
faults OF the limestone and then, few miles further on
rushes out in gre ater volume. So with the prophets
They appeared and disappeared, calling the people 10
the primitive truths. Then in the full time, when the
need of Him has come be very s0re Jesus comes sun
In the line. We find in Him what we cannot hnd In
those who came before Him. For as down In Pennsy-
vana many streams 80 10 make tne Scnuy mn, eaon
with some impurity and when at last they How TO-
gether stream this so tempers tnat as 20
pure and good river Jesus Christ all that comes
before combine TO make that stream which makes gaa
the City Of God Nothing comes nome 10 mem Inc IN ts fS S
the sense OF the Imperial qualty OF ts poWor ,
ourselves which makes for righteousness; the Ieedo
with which 1t sweeps above our WINS ihn oon,er nug
OF all these revelations, and which we cannot taper
with or turn back, any more than we can iurn PACK
Niagara Sach a quality seems to me to abide forever
in the breast Of the living Ged II has nothing TO say TO
our likes disikes It's because this power s IN the
world again that there is also In the word ehuroh
which cannot destroy. Iyndall has SAID that When
you trace matter back 10 its ultimate atoms there Is
still something cannot reach; so when we trace the
nearest things to their springs there IS stI whn the
divine secret They themselves ascrioe these eondl-
tions to God again. We driven TO the conclusion
that the OF this life rest with the Eternal Ihs
true only OF the genesis OF this truth but OF s
propagation This power returned have reason
10 think dies and you cannot stamp IL out any
more than you can an ocean. Very much OF our
a new thought Of God out of the world, when
got In But IL always ends in the defeat OF
the prosecution. II is this sovereign power at WORK
again for conservation OF is trdth think some
times 1t must have been this CONVICTION OF heavens t sq
Apostles say such things about H. which were turned
S of His fooWerS in our tune do not appear to
see, that the new truth may rpen so that you sha
truth bossoming and ripening in the OF Heaven.
The poor limited harps and bagppes have gwen place
You Will see how for the stckening fear
Of which talking, of the death and burial OF re-
igop Its not hands TO destroy the harvest The
Church of the living God was not built by human
might; human might cannot pull 1t down. Special re-
which makes for righteousness is lndestructbe so
may how any particular denomination may die. as
found that they drifting as to destroy children
instead Of saving them. so Will church die, matter
divine but an internal business in this world. think
we see too as science grows up into beauty and
have thought eternal veres. The discoveries of
new truths have swept away great many tnngs al,
this has DONE The Church OF the living Goa wei,
comes science, not as an handmad OF renglon, put
as our sister, 1t is not Cain aud Abel
business in which the elder says the younger
Science cannot any more destroy religion tnan an
back to the same hand Forms OF worship may
pass away, but worship never. As As sur surely as
hem into c6uches and while customs ordinances
may alter, tell you there VIII always De signs anu
unto the pful heart of Cod they VIII know thaG IL can
be touched by the feeling of their ana t3e ove
of God will reach from 10 God and from God to
man. 1t must follow from the premises that any
church which opens It's heart 70 19e new Sn bar shu
The secret of continuance. L suppose you know now
men and WHO can reSo9s S eoon aG1 bu
whose grip on the moral em9uGnS nin Is sncn uc
oh m ovOur ks
fall off Then there are those whose m0ranty Is
be more Indifferent more lnsensibe to reHgous emo
tons. Others again, are men ana women OF me
morality aud re gious emotion as far as 10 goes put IL
ia the emotion Of the brook DaDOling over the stones
IT experience OF the seeds sowed last year IN my
garden spent dollars for seeds but got only one ear
of corn and a cucumber that afraid to be SEEN
MY wife told me had not sown them deep enough
There is still another man with morality ana emouon
and inwarduess but who fails in self5acrce. take
TINS fourfold dehnition TO DO good. Pure morality,
spiritual emotion nwardness or the communion OF the
soul and this sefsaeree say with perfect confidence
that church whose members have these Is church OF
became church OF the living God. For such church
there is continuance Iu strictly spiritual sense. all
II they embody the higher TRUTH then they reach TO
the heart Of the Eternal and can never aae out o. 1he
moro striking tnan the Antslayery movement by all
have about in the way did 1t was the Imperial
right Of heaven which would not let men IKE 0arfisOn
stand back This is the secret OF the work whicn re-
mains to be done through every great reform pure
moral purpose, spiritual fervor inwardness and SELF
sacrifce-there can be no fear Of the result.
have no idea where The line runs between VIII
and "I must" My little girl thought she had IL an
fxed We got TO talking tea table about predest
nation and free WILL she SAID Papa think IL Is pre-
destination, alter all you have To- - where you must
The Youngest answered tell you sister, II Is no
such thing. IL hot predestinatOnlt Is pedestrian
ism. You walk where you want TO-" Ibls Know,
that the Eternal confines ana women for His puf-
poses for them just He made the Christ
II thus church show these four qualities then this
is counted Que of churches OF tue living God. III n
our lives We show these qualities we shall have incal-
culable gain. 1t is not dream, Il Is the battle
of every saint who wears the crown OF
life. Then possibilities are yours aud mine. Then
reward is ours when the WORK done. These the
sole conditions OF Immortality for to those who by faith
fn conIinuance ia wei doing seek Immortality God WIZ