The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-03
CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY.

4 THE WAY TO ATTAIN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
by THE REV. Z. H. CHAPLIN.
Rev. E. II. Chaplin preached, taxing his text
from Matthew. ", 6--"Blessed are they which DO
hunger and thirst after righteousness; Tor they
shall be filed" First, he began, wish to draw
your attention to the condition or the beatitude
and then to the strength OF the beattude. The
spiritual condition referred in the text that
OF hunger, and IL is a hunger that must be Salts
fed. Hunger Is one or those terrible
instincts that makes the brute predominant
in man. This thing, appetite, holds despotic
pow er over the human soul In Culerldges pic
ture OF the 'Ancient Mariner" in that sunllt
vessel. still as "a painted ship upon painted
ocean," we have the power OF intense thirst. II
one would nave his spiritual desires satisfied he
must long for righteousness. He must read the
whole Sermon the Mount. They came to
Jesus seeking honors in HIS kingdom, and that
sermon was, as 1t were, a dissipation OF all such
desires. Jesus showed them their true needs.
Would 1t not seem startling If person such as
Jesus Christ was should 20 on Broadway or into
Wall street and use words ike these in our text
to those whom he found there striving Tor mill
ions and for all kinds OF earthly pleasureS 1t is
not saying
II LOVE GoD,n
that answers to this question of beatitude; IL
sentiay needs hungertng and thirsting for We
must turn attention to what is considered
righteousness We speak OF o righteous man as
an upright man. But 1t means more than this.
No virtue can be absolutely single, for this quality
Is only perfect by the light OF all tine rest. We
may think man can entertain virtue and be
otherwise corrupt Is man honest when he s
selfish Without all the virtues one virtue Is linn
tied and lacks power. The word ''righ eousnessv
means the spirit out OF which all good qualities
and acts emerge. great many people pray Tor
righteousness now many are willing 60 WORK for
1t? desire Tor being rghteous-that Is what the
Is what iI means. the goodness OF God
aud the righteousness OF God are exempliied
in the character or Jesus Christ. such Is the con-
dllon oil the beattude set forth In the text. In
regard TO the nature OF IL who longs for right
eousness ana goodness shall be nlled with them
that Is. they VIII be adapted to has nature But In
another sense he IS never satisfied, out Is always
longing Tor more. what are you seeking Tor In re.
lgion, ana what are you going to churcn forf You
are seeking for heaven, you say.
WHAT Is HEAVEN r
place we SHAH come 10 by and oy, when we
have no more powers OF earthly enjoyment. Then
you seeking heaven, as you Gail IL, not seeking
for goodness and righteousness, but Tor something
else. You simply seeking heaven Tor some
outward good-to escape hell. WHAT Is eternal
life some men are crying out "Let US have
eternal llfen To know Goa and Jesus CHRIST IS
the eternal life. IL is the essence of all other
POSSESSIONS man could desire. With this man has
all substantial good. Man Is being OF llmitlesS
nature. The only thing that can satisfy him ID
the assimilation TO God In the goodness OF God.
Let us consider the nature OF the thug TO which
we are aspiring, and whence this aspiration. We
are living 10 an age when men are trying to tell
us that there is no creative intelligence as the
foundation OF things. According TO these material
lstlc conclusions we are world OF mere atoms
II so, whence came the Idea OF goodness ana
OF goodness the lives OF good men relute these
materIalIstlc Ideas.