The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-19
WASHINGTON SQUARE METHODIST
EPIS( yOPAL CHURCH.

rHx COMING or CHRIST A FULrMMENT OF
GODS PRoA1sl s-sERMoN BIZ REV. WILLIAM
LLOYD.
The Washington square Methodist Episcopal
church was rlled TO its utmost capacity yesterday
BY congregation eager 20 listen TO the words OF
tire newly appou ited PASTOR Rev. William Lloyd.
Alter q few words 20 his hearers In regard to the
change OF pastors ana an earnestly expressed
wish that IL might result Tor the welfare or all the
minister announced as his text the second verse
oil the thirty sec ond chapter OF Isaah-"And
man shall be a. - hidden place from the wind, and
q covert rom eli o tempest.n Alter drawing most
vivid picture OF the condition or the jews Gnder
the reign OF iIhas o monarch whose scnsuality
furnished all within his reach, the speaker re-
Ierred 10 tnti text as the words or promise
tnat had been spoken 10 that oppressed race. they
mad trusted Cod and he intended 10 help Them
OF their troubles, and this lie aid by sending
among tnenl q new klng. This blessed promise
applied TO OF to-day just as well as IL dld TO the
Jews centur les ago. Our naroor from Inc tempest
was the 10. "a Jesus Uurlst and In Him alone could
we Ind a iding place rom me winds We're TINS
men wouiSi be cold and irultess. IL was 10 Christ
aione ths.t we must look for happiness on earth
and Dl essed rest hereafter. Men were apt 10
look ups Little SINS on the soul as they do little
CLOUDS "a the sky-tncy were MT worth noticing;
but TN Time wou.d come when these little
clouds would gather into one great one and then
the ten peat would break upon and destroy the
soul, n icy would one day become vast crime
agains 500, and chen where would be- the nnal
sheltel from the tempes. IL required earnest
ana susa niast prayer TO cleanse from SIN ana 10
NJ Us TO take refuge IN the bosom OF Christ, the
true al ling place from the WIND and covert from
the Ie npest lie had IN HIS own earnest and
beanLli vi way oesougnt TO come TO Him. lie
wab p man OF many sorrows Himself, but He was
WILLIE ~ TO take our sorrows also II We would but
SEEK. HIN IN the true spirit. Man mad always
need OF prayer; even II he mad never slnned
he woutd have need OF 1t. Then how mucn
Greater that need now. The lives OF tine
s.postes, OF the greatest oivlnes the world
Aas ever produced uas clearly proved this, and
prayer we could never ma tnaJ snield and covert
that has been promised Men should reflect
upon q promise so great as this, anu Try md
reaIZe III. Ii was easy to cast our eyes around
aud 10 notice the happiness OF the praJ ing men
midst VINO trusted IN that promise ana
on their death beds declared that IL had
never Ialed them; Tor they had fought The
good hgnt ana tnelr reward was certain. Inc
preacher said that the enemies OF God used the
speclous argument thar lie Visit ed wordy troubles
upon good men, as wen as upon bad ones, and
that prayer ola NJ good; but sucn was not
case; prayer saved tile soul, and IL was the ouly
way III winch we could enter tnat shield irom the
WINDS and covert from the tempest; and ne earn
estiy besonght those IN the sound oil MS voice 10
at once seek that only sure covert, Christ Jesus.