The New York herald., 1875-11-08
Beecher on the Potency OF
Inacticn.
The Lessons Of the Great
Scandal Trial.
rockingham Speaks Of the Love
Of the World.
Hepworth on the Reading
Of the Bible.
DR.. Fulton Will Not Desert His
Flock.
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.

RIGHT WAY TO READ THE BIBLE.
Mr. Hepworta's church was well filed al usual
yesterday morning MI Hepworh preached a very
earnest and interesting sermon on Corner stones"
The Of the Lords Supper was administered
aer the service All who loved Jesus we're in
vi,ed without regard TO denomination sect Mr..
Hepworths text taken from ST. Luke, xiv,
a2-'And they said to another, Did not
heart burn within uE, whllo no talked with US by
the way, while he opened 70 Us tho scripturcsS"
And with very good reason indeed their hearts
burned within them. They must have been nlled 10
overlooking with the consciousness that something
mysterious and unusual happening II is the first
time record Of the Bible being interpreted 10
BY ts author, and, beginning at Moses and all the
prophets He expounded unto them In all the Scrip
tures the things concerning HIMSELF and be rcmem
bered that those whom lie talked tho journey TO
Emmous were of the apostles but simple minded
simple hearted and simple hammered men. Christ
dealt then, now, with kings only phough He
the instructor or kings, but with all, in whatever
sphere in If who believed in HIS and searched
after His truth. II my object, then to inquire
eernng the origin and value Of this book and to gvc
you II may some hints to the proper TO which
il may be put and the way which be used
In stating my propositions however, let not rely on,
my own Judgment but rather quote the book itself In
III Timothy third chapter sixteenth verse, the object
which Christ had IN the revealing Hord unto
the heart or man. which word has become the law Of
society and the Impulse Of progress All Scripture s
given by inspiration OF God, and Is profitable for
doctrine. which is mans Judgment concerning the
sentia things of life for il IL necessary before be-
gins TO build character that he should have certain
stable ana prominent convictions Tho difficulty of
THEOLOGY FOR OURSELVES
recognized by God and avoided, and He has given
this book because Il profitable for doctrine In tho
FIRST place Tor repr0of and correction In the second
place and Tor instruction 10 righteousness that The
M d be nd thoTOupftty
nlshcd in all good works In that book the i'm
pulse thai av In the heart OF God when He raised up
one to be our instructor holy things This passage
is proof Of Gods pity for In the second plaee'wo
told, IN the twenty-fourth chapter Of Matthew,
thirty verse, somcih hing concerning the stability
Of the Scriptures Jesus says there distinctly that
'Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall
not pass away and Inclined to be critical We
understand what God meant by that. The ord-
nary conclusions OF science change with Advancement
but there certain fundamental truths which never
change certain central and solar principles which are
firm az the foundations o God Himself, as those Of
eternity and have been true in al past and Will
be true long after the earth has been turned up ike
scroll
the WORD or GOD SHALL LAsr
longer than the earth 70 s part OF
himself, and bccapsc IL Is cternay true Now breth-
concerning your relations 70 II aud mine, we are
told Jesus Christ always decisive His uttcranccs
He never up a mans fault with compliments
mans iniquity with hattery. He thinks
II best 10 tell the simple truth 50 He says-no In the
way Of d threat, but though He announcing a
law true and txcd as the law or grayitati0n
.sWbosoeyer Therefore shall be ashamed OF me and
my word OF him shan The Son Of man he ashamed
when be comcth IN the glory of hts father, with the
holy angels" and IN these words lie phces I'M
mense responsibility upon for acceptance
lection OF the Scriptures In the h chapter Of John,
twenty fourth verse, told what will be the
sulL II believe and accept the word Of God Very,
verify, say unto you he that heareL my word and be-
neyeth him that sent me hath everlasting lie and
shall not come into condemnation but is already
passed from death the death OF selishness and sin
into life into intimate communion with the God or
light Now, brethren, these are
Of the building You can measure them for yourself,
Judge Of their weight and ability 70 hold the superstruc
tnre which Il raised thereon These are four impor-
tant statements Of facts which every comprc-
hend, though lie be unottercd. We are held responsi
BILE by the word Of God and the last day these four
70 appear before you each nterroga-
tion point, and your reply these four viii
control the doom of your soul all ages come Now
iet look closely brethren What ~ remarka
Bile about the Bibof Why ought TO prize IL?
why ought we not 10 neglect H. a. we do many or ug
What there that claims attention and establishes
II "A authority beyond which there s no appealY
Why - i demanded Of 10 regulate lives accord
ing % IL ruesf Why u u that we are commanded
" look up 70 with reyerenceY Well 1rst Of ALI you
know Il Is the oldest book the world. There
record extant thai Will compare in age with IT, Long
before Homer born parts q that book written.
While ths human race var ~ IL owaddhng clothes that
book given 70 us in part II did from
cultured and educated people. II was
HpHLED Rnoa
hke meteor into The midst Of an uncutured, untu-
toreG and 10 many renpeca an utterly barbarOus peo
pie. Therein les the wonder of its origin, that words
can have bceu uttered FAR away that you
scarcely see the dmineBt outlines, that gave tie
their character; that laws should have been given
wise, mighty lar seeing That after four thousand
years they vital AZ the ast fact science has
discovered The oldest book the world and The
mightiest when gaze on an old cathedral, the
cathedral planned by Michael Angelo and walk
through It's naves and arches aud sLon the far on
echo Of music, while look 1T gorgeous prceless
pictures that adorn s walls, ! struck,
only by the building Itself by the conscious ncsg
that am readng whore past ages have stood. Across
abe golden threshold generation after generation
have come to admire, to behold and 10 be lifted up
into the world Of the unseen and unknown, aud long
aner | shall have gone back % tAe dust whence
came long years and centuries after the grass has
faded away from the grave where rest Others shall
and stand still, as ia the presence Of the Al
mighty Oh, there = something marvellous IN age
whom age Is magnihccnti something 9~iul IN an
tquity when antiquity Is gigantic; and when look at
that Book remember that it came from the far DIS
tant past and the Bible impresses me on account Of
mroRrAScE or THE SUBJECTS
which are treated In IL What ofser Is there
than that which discovered the end OF the universe2
The DAT OF God forth and there light the day
began and ever since that hour TN the present
ment that orb has been creeping upward perchance
COW are standing beneath its vertical rays From
hc st gray strehks 0 dawn u the last beam Of orange
The and the end an there Il you VIII but read.
Dh brethren, 4 seems 70 mo when read that Book
lhat reading The ordinary conversation of men,
feel as were stretching up 90 reach the hand Of
giant These men have died and never viii die.
fonder IN the desert stands monument In height i
seems " touch The skies and its shadow fAls 70 tho
tdge OF the horizon Those men cast their shadow on
lundrcds Or generations before them. We are
HMking IN the shadow cf Noses Then,
20 crown all the Bible the only authority cooccru
ing the future here al least you admit thai Al
possibility Of human discovery ceases We can .rUess.
winch
srRxrcHKs OFT IT'S SPECTRAL uGxn
toward the future. THIS is The only bocs hat har 4
word 70 say about the future and thAt tells - AZ teaf
~ best iorlus 70 know LttA enough bet enogrt
shank God Ny dear friends. / want 70 svess vs~y
plainly. The Bible ought " be daily guide tae ~.
knowiedged chief o our souls We ought "a resd + -
ptanty. They tell me Mr.. Mo0dys Bible : ii CO..
cred with thumb marks and IN some places \. : -
Boled that 10 scarcely be read That the xpe n
Bible God lkos "A clean Bible Is ahomlnaslou urts
the Lord think, In the other world certain ares -
be kinded With the drawing room Biblcs That blessed