The New York herald., 1875-10-25
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.

MR. BEEcHER ON GODS SYMPATHY WITH MANS
IaNoRANCE-THE LowLIEsT HAVE PART IN
GLoRFYINa HIM.
Plymouth church not only crowded at the morn.
ing service yesterday but after all available space had
been utilized members still remained without eager for
accommodation. On both sides of the pastors chair
and the little table at his right hand placed
tall vases filled with choice flowers and prettly marked
and notified autumn leaves, forms and bright berries
from tho woods In prominent pew sat William NJ.
Evarts and Lord Houghton. Mrs. H. b. Stowe occupied
Mr.. Beechers pew
In his opening prayer Mr. Beecher invoked bless
ing ''thc religious services commenced this day."
doubtless meaning though he did not specifically
mention it, tho effort Of Messrs Moody and Sankcy.
The text OF Mr. Becchcr's sermon was taken from
l. Corinthians, ill.,, 9-"For We are aborers together
with God" He said:-Thc greatest Of all workers
is God. The old conception of pcrfectness, con-
sidering IL as residing OF necessity in perpetual
calm, will never do, except for poets and men whose
philosophy has accustomed them to cooness nor 1t
possible to believe the universe under the conduct OF
God If VIC imagine him sitting passive in all its cvou
tions originating forces to relieve him from toll That
form of call solcitudc, which springs from
an anectonate sympathy with the afction OF others
cannot be absent from his character In compassion
God suffers. If in man the finest and noblest impulses
are but reflection OF the infinite, how vast too must
be the heart throbs reflected through humanity hav-
ing birth whore they not numbered mixed with
the flesh but spring from sympathizng sorrow of
mans ignorance II is not within the realm Of imag
nation to believe that God, who entered human life to
suffer- is not
A SUFFERER sTnI.
He tills and tolls BY the apostle are pronounced
to be tocrs with Cod Tho figure OF speech is an ad
mrablc ono, and poetic too is all perfected truth
But It is not merely So like all figures is intended to
illustrate something behind IT, The idea that
saws that when good and engaged in the worship
OF God and the avoidance OF evil workers with
Him will not do 1t is good enough so far as it
goes, but it must be augmented. 1t gives no
adequate conception Of tho scope OF intervening by
which God may be gorncd. 1t Is but small part OF
the truth shall endcayor to enlarge IL so sup
port the declaration that IN Him we live and move and
have our boing AS a power separate from considcra-
tons external to himself man is nothing-nothing
more than a shadow. We talk Of the power, dignity,
glory Of man, magniyng by every term the grandeur
of the human race, and not improperly. Yet mans
power is in himself His power IS in utilizing the
forces manfcstng God that lie about us In making
ourselves strong borrow divine strength. lie whose
life against divine laws grows weak; he who obeys
them aud works with them Is made strong God differs
from in that the source Of power Is in
HIMSELF for man, in and Of HIMSELF has no
power All the bodily forms and functions run along
line OF channels marked ont before so long these
performed according divine will, man Is hcne-
fitted; but when they leave their course mischief
cccds tho change. All rs law; IL rules our duties to
ourselves and our relations 10 each other.
plscoRD y CREATION.
And though you may sec disrupticn and convulsion
ana apparent disorder, the tempest in It's fury s
obcdlont 10 the beat OF law with that which Is ap
mrenty the fruit Of the brain " rs the same The
brain Is productive because has become the seed bed
oi law All the world contains Of good evil has IN
~ something susceptible OF g0riiying God. Even tho
passions OF man are TO be cherished or they be
applied as parts Of the divine economy IL is only
,hclr abuse wrong exists So Is IT with the affections
ana moral sentiments No man does any.
thing Win body or soul in obedience to divine will
expressed ~ law who Is not working with God
All this takes place in accordance with great scheme
OF Providence, which has been put under the micro
scope. examined, and by disowned. But for all
that there Is Providence. There have been settled
tendencies in the world from the beginning The his
tory OF the human race has the whole been from the
animal toward the spiritual It's course has been up.
ward and onward. Civilization Is not myth Ii has
thrown deality mans powers dcvcloping his rc.
hncmenf and bringing INTO play his Imagination If
the original forces IN man Of the earth carthy II
he Is but cmanation from lower animal existence
born under nero physical law, how huvo his desires
mounted upwardl And how Is IL that since Homer's
time have seen with the eyes OF the spritY Now
broad is mans TODD alone, nor are all his desires
material, All called cultured live in the mind making