New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-07
PREACHERS APPEALS.


L. WALKER, THE REV. pRs. Il. ). ROWLAND T.
n ANDERSON. AND S. H. WESTON, THE REV.
GEoEGE D. MATTHEWS, The REV. Dr. MGLYNN,
AND OTHERS.
In Plymouth Church yesterday to a great congre-
cation the Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr preached upon
Gods law that men shall reap what they SOW. In
the Madison Square Presbyterian Church In TINS
CITY the Rev. George L. Walker of New-Haven took
for his theme the holy intimacy of Christians with
the Savior Tho subject of the Rev. DR.. L. H.
Chapin. at the Church of the Divine Paternity, was
christianity Approved by its Results" In the
University Place Presbyterian Church, the Kew.
Theodore Wyncoop from India preached concerning
mission work in that country. In the Roman
Catholic Church of st. Stephen the Rev. Dr. Nc
Glynn took for his subject the devotion to the
Sacred Heart" The pastor of the FIRST Baptist
Church. the Rev. Dr. T. d. Anderson, preached upon
the exaltation of Christ In addition to these dis
courses there are given below other noteworthy
sermons delivered from we'll known New-York pull
pits yesterday.
THE LAW THAT MEN REAP WHAT THEY SOW
The Re, Henry Beecher at Plymouth ChuTeA (O"9'e
odtiOndp.
There was the usual crush of people inside
Plymouth Church yesterday, ard outside In Orahges..
there was the throng OF late comers VINO "a'eu
until the voluntary played and then dispersed dsaP
pointed The floral decorations about tho platform "eio
remarkably Gne. Ex-Judge John r. forter vi MI.
Beecher's counsel came in as early as lo;oo H., ""
was given seat in the front Of pews in the gallery
at tho left Of tie platform Miss Bessie turner sV in '"o
second pew back from the platform In the pastor pc"
wero Mrs Beecher Mrs Harriet BeechcrStowe ana MIS-
Perkins Mr.. Becchers sisters. and Herbert beechci'
John L. ILL., Of Mr. Beechers counsel sat near Tue pui-
pit. -. ,o,
Mr. Beecher assembled the platform promptly az io9
nd in hpa
oneped with the singing of solo by Miss Lasar. Ia
giving The notices, Mr. Goecher SAID that the REV. III
Jeareys OF the Baptist Church OF Brooklyn had hhu!
10 urcach for him in the evening, and remarked
that Dr. Jereys very earnest ana sincere predchel
and had felt it his duty permit the members OF his
church TO follow their ncnaiOns as 10 cosehess UT
freedom of communion For THIS hperah'y no
had boon dsfellowshiped by the parent Dody'
take great pleasure in knowing, MI Beecher aoueu'
that one church can stand alone without visible recog
milton other churches, and be recognized ny Chrst
snd Inv the community and 20 with its work, and IN
spite OF every effort you can't disfellowshplt CITY
set on hill cannot be hid and church that STANDS Oh
the hill of Zion cannot put down and cannot be put
out and YOU can't in Christian community pass any
vote that will make virtue less than admirable ana
fidelity less than admirable; ard any CHRISTIAN
churches who love the Lord Jesus Christ In
truth, who are really well ordered Households
who are preaching and practising the great
precepts of the gospethey will stand and shine In spite
Of all Jurisdiction, and you cannot dsfellowship them
You can say, You shant come unto our council;
You shan't unto our convention ;; or lou
shant come into our Presbytery but you can't say,
You shan't come into my heart rejoice that the
time has come when church can be disfranchsed With
out serious discontinue In other words, dsfranchse'
ucnt has lost its terror. And suppose that this little
experience Of our brother Jeeys won't make him. hit
less admirable with you"
After the services were over Mr. Beecher sat down on
Tho Qlr.fh
him. and for fifteen minutes there was continuous
hand shaking with exchange Of mods smiles and words
OF greeting the pastor and his congregation MT
Beecher's text Romans H.. and H. mciusVe'
"who will render every man according to bis deeds
10 them who by patient continuance In well doing seek
for glory and honor and immortality, eternal lie but
unto them that are contentious and do not obey the
truth but obey unrghteousness Indignation and wrath,
trbulaton and anguish upon every soul Of man that
doeth evil of the Jew FIRST and also of the Gentie but
glory and peace to man that worketh good
the Jew first and also TO the Gente Tor There Is no
respect OF persons with God"
II WAS a habit OF the Hebrew mind said Mr. Beecher,
10 regard Coo the immediate cause OF oil tho phe-
lightning the fash of His eye the thunder was His
voice the clouds were His cushioned throne; ne caused
learned that though TINS was true was true true
0ny tS IN p mae A but the ess wonderful when It
found out that 1t was exercised through
the Visible objects of life were supposed to be the subject
~ volitio OF God much more than that the ys
terous aud the occult. Then there knowledge of
the human mind When had ardent thoughts no
person the Hebrew nation ever would have SAID mat
mr. was pure and vitaizng blood, and this the
highest state of health but rather that was the emotion
throughout the Old Testament that in so far as man
e of God the mind was supposed to reside
wherever they felt anything And so we still speak OF
the heart as & @ n S be hea %e sno%
that the brain is responsible for them, but still we shall
afectiens. although it has nothing to with it. And
find the old Hebrews placing the passions IN the bowels
When t5erefore It God IL respeeter Of
.GOd administers by universal and inyariaDe laws"
sheS raj iy% applies that
ally falls upon all And in this passage-the whole Of it
what is this but declaration OF the great law Of cause
and eecti "God win render 10 every man according to
doing to all who obey the great moral laws who do it,
not by impulse who do 1t, not occasionally, VINO DO
iI II; nSs in ywedOng sees"whafs moment
AIRY sensationi No character and a destiny seek
REGARDING the substance of their Whole manhood and
Their whole @ ny sesk to w 40 sev ape sG4 e Gn
do it TO the Greek well to the jew God had Gov
naat that excluded anybody else that lived right
10 those who cOmbatiye, destructive. animal, who
Great boundary ines~to ali such God will render indig-
nation and wrath, tribulation and anguish,
on the Jew first, as having most light, and
therefore being culpabe unto tho Gentle next
being under the same law; but glory and honor and
peace those who DO good For there respect Of
persons with God HindOo that lives according to the
great laws morality and i0n they are revealed
in nature will have rendered to him his reward Here Is
the specific declaration in Scrptme-God viii render
justly God Is not sectaTian and does not set himself
in any church SO that this is when translated into
modern habits OF thought, His declaration that
living in a moral government in which cause and
they do in other positions Of life. Men
believe that there is such thing as inmutabe cause
and invariabc effect and that hope TO have
life or health, Skill that has not knowledge OF what
the laws respecting these and tie necessary obedi
70 those laws. We understand perfectly well that