New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-16
LOVE THE ESSENCE OF LIFE.

Rsu. Dr q Nc ChNTtt u ne D!f'D iitsrfhy
The Rev. T.. ii. Chaplin, ID. d., preached yes
terday morning from the text; . But love ye your
enemies, aud do good, aud lend. hoping for nothing
again and your reward shall be great, aud ye shall be
the children OF the Highest for He is kind unto the un-
thankful and to the evil" Luke viz.
Human nature is the meetingpoInt OF two different
types Couscouco creates class of beings that cannot
be called mineral. vegetable. or even ANIMAL for even
the lowest grade OF mankind Is far removed from AM
mails by conscience How much OF mans nature that IL
80 contradictory il explanabe by the fact that one
hemisphere OF life turned to nature and tho other
hemisphere il, turned to God. This nature Is plainly
dlscernble among different OF the same nativity
In many cases the appettes and lODgtngs have been
shafpeued Nv contact with civilization, and these
men for tue influence OF CIVIL
IL alton. There whose impulses gulde
them solely; these are sometimes almost angels;
while at Other times they are brues 1t Is unnecessary
for me l.. :, % through a series OF illustrations.
aye s0ll be children OF the Highest" This evidently
signifies that all by possession OF spiritual life are
children OF God, in his lowest estate, even
though he does know Him. even though addicted TO
the worst types of vice they are still His children
The text speaks Of special relationship to God Those
who follow the precopt there laid down are not only
related to Him. but they resemble Him. We see that
through hi gh and pure life rise to be children OF
IA ghest The teachings of Christ were not in oppo
sltiou TO the laws of those days, they were
in advance Of the laws. Ii Christs had been
an antag0nistio religion it might have been
doubted. There were other reli giOn5 at that
tte but was not Chrsts policy to be antagonstic
to them He from the to the principle In the
New Testament you do not nnd prescriptions laid down
the form OF worship and life 70 DO pracced as in
other religions. Open to the Sermon on the Mount;
there Is the elimination OF Dyinepaoodness Laws are
made for the purpose Of endesvorng to restrain by
force all evil that cannot be otherwise controlled.
ayila at mn
goodness. The man who commits murder while in
state frenzy he passes under the influence OF civil
zatIon becomes cured Of that dspOstOn and yet how
there in our modern society who
are restrained from acts OF violence only by fear of
the penalty attached to such deeds The great principle
OF Christ that he who hates his brother ia murderer,
has yet to be learned There is great difference be-
tween the whom goodness is born and the man
who has to educate himself up to higher life. Some
men have but thought but one insDraton-to get
money. 5meumes TINS evII commences In their needy
days, when there IL necessity for era ping economy,
and the only mode OF sustaining life be-
haUlt which 1t Is impossible to eradicate An,
my hearers, lite in many cases by losing and not
by gaining. that the highest life is not acquired.
many suppose, by getting, for he 40 practices
that mode of 10 does not come up 70 Cnrsts the high
some men are marked for their external clesnness
may be lkened 10 the Pharsee who went up to the
temple aud thanked God that he was not sinful like his
noigubors. These men are generally REGARDED as-in
one worl-respectable. They commit legal Ofense.
but every day depreda upon the laws OF God.
They do harU by doing good Their morality is not
of the living spring; the morality of kind Of bar
II take work OF art that Is made accord
ing the liked rules II has power. The sculptor
must strike his chise into tho marble according
to the impulses OF inspiration, In order to make
"A great masterpiece. All great works are wrought
by love the subject. There many
mon who, after gaining reputation for high.
impulsye actions, resort to rules, and in many
cases their reputation by doing II God
septed thunderbOlt. who by che slightest movement
of Hi, will send TO hell TO heaven il He Is rep
resented as sovereign who commands respect from HIS
subipcts we will Him, not from choice, but from
"A strength; but when He represented
loving Father asking the respect and obedience or
His children, drawn toward him by the invisible
though irresistible bonds OF love- The Of life is
love, and God 10 love.
Let any man upon whom the sun shines sereney. who
IL prosperous ana follows certain idea OF religion,
let him ask himself why believes in his religion. Is
he is brbed, he has undergone
trouble 1 say it is better for q TO hell
doing right than To 20 to heaven doing wrong
Oh 10 do right to others long others
right by y0u but IL Is great trial that tests the
Many souls made better by SORROW while Others sit
down when their skies darkest and KIM their ex-
perence general law, begin think that the world
has off her rudder and TO doubt the existence OF
God They believe from bitter Experiences that honesty
the best policy long 10 Is policy to be honest IL
you love people that love you, what reward have you
But If you love them that nate relationship
God great indeed. verify believe that In Gods
verse good will be the strongest IN the end Christ
has revealed Fdther at the sacrifice Of his life. The
greatest and hottest love is to be Ike him ID kind
the unthankful and to the evil.