The New York herald., 1874-07-13

talk and . positive misfortune thus TO feel The
religion OF Jesus Christ Ia the one fact which is OF
vital Importance. 1t Is Gods life acting on men
and in men. Man does not hold it: ne cam OF
destroy 1t. Tho isith OF man determines hIs
character and Influences his conduct The man
WAC is a believer ana has faculty OF making
his faith known is power If he believes right
thinks wrong he becomes an unmitigated curse. A
iaith Horace Greeley had. lie believed, and there
quently said of him that he did not discriminate
hB faith. whatever II was ruled him. His speecn
giowed IN the hight OF his faith. Because OF this
furnishes grander contrasts. Like the apostle, he
knew how to be abased and how to abound. how
N. H., February B. lsll IN the very vale OF poverty.
he was early taught tne seyerest lessons OF econ.
omy and industry he grows up without special
His early nie is passed by her sido. He becomes
proficient In reading At an early age, because he
the talent to be great but not the opportunity fol-
low this lad, busy with all the mean occupations
with mis- father to Vermont. where, among otner
labors, he digs up pine roots, binds them
S ,sn sSndss 70 Ssss for aud ndE ss sa TO 5Ss
See MIN borrowing books and reading everything
ting or the canal boat at the New York Battery.
lrisndess, without an Introduction, beginning lie
what has Hes Two tnings-a s.ade and an in
domitaole energy. He had learned printing at
nome He does not beg-he works Defeats come
to him-he chambers over them. Honesty OF
speech and OF life was his glory. His lile read IKE
romance. He begins on the Mo,1st"9 Posi- II
goes the @ tns o rabn sdsa ao me he
leaps to the New York Tribune, and at length sue.
ceeds in becoming the foremost Journalist OF
HIS FAITH WAS DERIVED
not nom the study OF the Word OF God, but from
ol the treatment OF the Athenians by Demetrius.
one Of the Successors OF the Macedonian mad
man alexander, which pictures the conqueror
entering the city from which he had been repused
and banlshed gathering the Inhabitants INTO the
theatre. surrounding them with AIMED troops,
and while they were hall dead with fright dlssipat
ing their fears by addressing them in o kind tone,
by pardoning their offences and restoring them TO
favor. This impressed him as the model god and
he called It divine he e. ianclsd n led Coz nysnsea ~ Il;
vine truth. For this faith the Word OF God was
set aside.
This faith ruled him. From the age Of fourteen
he became the champion oi Unversalism. The
value OF positive faith was never more apparent
than 1t was In his case. Time and again society
IL in San Francisco: they have done it In New
York. The people understand that all our oless-
lngs come from the enforcement, under govern
ment. OF tie teachings Oi the gospel The people
saw that. though his views might be full or thoughts
OF mercy there was no justice In them, and they
voted against him, which broke his heart. His re-
lection or the punitive portion OF the Bible led to
terrible mistakes. 1t caused him to take ground
against caDita punishment and kept HIM from
standing with God on great moral questions.
The man who at ten years Of age rejected the
Bible for his own musings and turned from the
lawgiver on Mount Sinai to find his teacher In the
creek theatre, perceived that hts views, though
they had been appleuded, though they mad secured
him not0rety. were built upon the sand, and when
the food came and when the tempest broke upon
his house 1t tell, and great was the fail OF 1t. In
the light of this sad story let me invite you to
make Gods word the rule OF your faith and prac-
their entirety, to i1nd welcome to the heart and
a rule IN the lie for time and Tor eternity.