New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-26


tar like those gone ont i'll heaven. tits when
fcence of verture and bloom and grand works OF
tnan that his believes In God and eternity In one Oh
Great and pure souls OF earth she believes easily in inn
mortality but when she thinks Of the swa1ns OF human
africa the dream of Immortality fades and she feels that
ath is all the throngs are verify 70 receive sucn -
lie idea the language, OF that writer ad the great
souls of the last 500 years concentrated upon TINS ne
nd permitted the Sermon upon the Mount to be their re
beiOn, should now possess an earth nom WHOSE
bighs OF politics and education aud reason aud nnver
happiness it would he 10 look upward and as
sued Of God and heaven The grander earth is' lhe
Llore willing 10 confess God for It's creator, anu
tod for its resurrection and life. ,,,,, J.. ,,
Nothing impedes the progress or ChIlsuanltt oahN
the SORROWS brought upon man by those VINO nhs
study OF questions that posses answer and OF ques
tions whose answers possess value When Draper ana
Buckle and Paine and Hume and that vast multitude
look back what are the that cover the great
horizoni They see wretchod neglected common people.
science OF farming or OF cooking They see the monks
demonstrating the trinity aud thep begging for crust o,
followed 10y naked, starved children such group nan,
Ing by an image OF er e n TSy see great
coming together from all compass points. ny hgd'
hereto The tReolcgians beg food on the way and have
left at home poor children and poor wives powing lne
Sg t %1h see tSe OLD ,eon joined
sonte Of earth S and by it aS 1Daach S IN dea Of
its divine origin. II only grand human e tnia can
bear any witness to the truth OF Chrsrah few
men such as Luther and Wesley, and Han. and Chal-
than uPS a Law ne 6sss of Se es The points at
winch religion Of Christ has touched earth ana made
1t better are the only that protect ii to-day against
The ice OF unbeief and the attacks Of rdice lnides
grow silent far Christianity has blessed earth
STUDY Of eternity past and 10 come had the effect
10 render theology less credible in its results ana less
penetratcs directions the less rational are the
conclusions il reaches gaze sfnd into
the stories OF religion only carries 1 ,ne nn,"
further away from harbor or Anchorage me c3hcen
traed attention OF past centuries upon diihc problems
in theology only deepened the mystery. inefS a' P Th
water which are cearcst when most lGt aohe. tho
bottom is such that any disturbance only clouds the
crystal II Is much this way IN theology "heh nc hu
man mind deals only with the surface soopS ana dlhks
all II needs irolh the quet spLhS az, - u I'D chem
determines TO move into the waters ana Souha ihIn
was beautiful Just in advance of his rude feet me
studies OF the old theoosans IN which studies
they formulated the DEGREES and the everlasting SON
ship and Eternal Procession of the Holy Ghost shed
no light upon the character OF God. but indeed lathel
robbed the world of it's best ideas OF Father Son. and
Holy Spirit. Those studies We're an eclipse. mus inc
too much like the fixed stare OF the unwOTshpeis,
path TO blindness rather than to light, Ill.,, .,o.,,
that extreme study of things beyond human reach has
resulted in deep injury TO the life that now Is large
oi the present have been taught feel that religion j:
contempt this ife and under this influence these hity
seventy years are permitted TO DOW MUMMY ois s
being only the souls days OF misfortune 10 ScOr he
world was pety. Sometimes il occurs TO the heart that
the future life IS wrapped IN mystery, Is Ndied irom us
that We may all clasp our homes and loved ones ana
duties tCndGfly 10 our boSOuS vi tls may
not sure but of this may he certain that CHRISTIAN
y offers only few great outline truths that emo
may accept and then beckons away to the love ana
service of this life II does not define heaven or nell IT
offers most vague outline Ii does not dcnhc INC nc
Trinity. II only draws Tor us strange Ihrec III one III
attempt to declare the whole nature of Christ
II does not indicate just who viii lind the heaven ana
form that all will need to watch aud pray. Hence from
the pages of the Bible thousand different readers so
mathematical formula is not there ana they that seek
seek the gulf between earth and eternity ana
.u1t. in gtX lNEaV
blessed and beautiful earth In the attempt 10 cross the
gulf between this world and the next mankind nave zen
orally fallen the dark abyss and instead of having
found the hidden things of God they have ruined state
stream. Its singular that Clilsts sermons apply Closely
Weary Of the futess efforts of thco
logans. I would plead a profounder study
aud love of their life We suffer from two causcs-irom
the religious zcaots who undciate this world ana from
the nfdel minds that underrate the next by the former
beautiful world robbed Of the value OF its Tact by inc
latter class this life is robbed of the value OF heavens
mystery Let speak of those who jurc earth by then
exclusive and too ruess study OF what they call the
eiern" Great Is the wrong 1"lI lS WorIp 10 heS'tt
tIs world as the monks and old CHRISTIANS neglected IT,
Trinity and eternity and leave the visible the invs
ible and ofentnes the actual for the impossible Is
or De- INV here Is TO look ut eternity as through glass
dlrkly hut slave chains a child in ignorance or
fc0W-man in calamity We are to behold face to aec IL
pubic and private life, to your daily walk and
acciing charity the schooGoHse tic slave the orphan
morals. the theology when should All WIN
obs glass between. Earth is planet so moment
account OF the presence upon it OF "a thousand
IiOn souls, that Christianity must be USED for It's DC
ycopm MT and decoration that II may be sweet nome
for thu next thousand million 70 come to its continents
Instead of flying with your Christ 10 some chemist 10
have him analysed. ty with Him TO government ana 1T
crarc and art and home life Ia the altar OF marriage
and the rcside OF the dear children ana suier INN 10
blend with this world Inste&d of burning at stake
those who hold not analysis take to Ior heart al
the soul 1t is the first act in the long drama
Whatever wherever heaven may be. the millions must
hnlAn II.
march through this land in their plant formative
years Hence the CHRIST needed mere i not lno os, O
whom Mary and John met and loved, the Jesus
thai ureacbcd upon the mountain and who loved
His enemies The ancens Onamented the eatestlIOugh
which their troops were TO march We mus Win oul
which 80 many millions TO march on their way to i'm
mortality. Our ancestors seem To have thought diner
entity and to have made heaven accessible only to hu-
man race that should 20 toward il through desert OF
burning sand. What kind OF place must heaven be
that must 20 TO 1t with shorn heads and dirty
clothes, aud shrunken, mean spirits that they must
make earth a closet garrett from which men must be
caih put away in napkin till Che Lord do conc ~
Beautiful the character Of the OLD man who IN ms
last yea. planted trees Tor whoever nSh conc 10 ms
home after him. Christianity must set about the deve
Opmeut and adjoining of cartA, for into tins world our
children are to come ana Ihty must az ualSn through
this realm their way to eternity They viii need not
life an art q marriage a home with Christ them each
and all There is another class besides those who over:
this world Alongside the dry and dead theologan who
studies nothing but eternity, we must class those VINO
niaterialist in his shop are much alike in their
relations 10 this world. The monk destroys the
charm of earth, the materialist the charm OF
beaver and from both OF them comes forth robbed
Of precious Jewell Though the fun details of eternal
things are not given 10 nortas though We look toward
the through obscure glass, yet that outline
vision is the most powerful before the soul Could
Stuart Mill have escaped the passion for mathematical
proof and have enjoyed the glimpse oil immortal HE ana
of living God through atmosphere having only some
cloud and much life the earth wOnd have seemed to him
10 float IA Of hope and gold, rather than TO be
sinking in one Of SORROW BE the future mystery, IT is
mystery all need. 1t is well known that the future