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

with the current oycnt IL were not TO the honor and
praise Of the Master who has kept the hearts Oh ts
people, instead of scattering and driving them on rs
there was much to fear there might De- IL
has rather sanced them and brought them nearer 10
the Throne of Grace. and fitted them more especially oy
their trouble to trust tho word Of God among men, ana
this is the first fruit OF the labor More there are peh"u
not q few who coming soon into tho communion vi
the Church OF Christ but next Sabbath morning thero
are more than 100 Now, on occasions OF TINS Rd We
have found 1t more convenient ana pleasing 10
have them arranged in the pews front OF me- around the
rather than to interrupt the great congregation by
ATTEMPTING 10 have them come out and come forward
and the request that have to make Is that the happy
possessors OF the three pews from that aisle arouho "
that will quarter themselves upon their Irchus anu
ncighbors next Sunday mornng-the first three pe"s'
including NY own and will gladly help In this dislner
ested object by giving up my pew by the iac' 'lia'
never sit in it, (Laugherl On higher moti'es'
YOU can initiate my example OF cheeriuihcSs'
IT, therefore those that occupy the hrst three Pe"' o
pillar 10 pillar will make arrangements by winch 'ney
NAV sit elsewhere they will show that the preaching III
this house does not mako people sefindulgent ana
selfish and they profDg in the Gospel III 'pa'
they are willing to sit somewhere else Tor one SUNDAY
There has been committee appointed for the purpose OF
providing for those pewhoders, but thinK u gi
deal better for the holders OF those pews 10 pursue o
American fashion by letting every man take care Vi nun
self After this preface Mr. Beechcr entered upon MS
sermon.
The text was the 1st chapter OF H. Corinthians "a ana
An verses: blessed be God, the Father OF our
Lord Jesus Christ the Father OF merces ana Inc 1ou VI
all comfort who comforteth us in all our tlbua'oh ''
we NAV be able comfort them which are III any uoo
ny the comfort wherewth ourselves are coorted OF
God" And the 5th verse too: For as the suncngs Vi
Christ abound in u.s. so consolation also abounde'h by
christ The 9TH chapter of the H. Corinthians and the
10th verse For cody wOrkeh repentance TO sal
walton not to repened Of but the sorrow OF tne Wou
worketh death" There not two kinds OF SORROW
one of which is in its end malignant and deadly ana
the other in its own end suferabe ana Wholesome ana
spiritually nourishng 1t is the sorrow, but treated
in one way il is deadly; treated in another way II ia
wholesome The one insoluble mystery of human life is
the fact of universal suffering For that there has never
been solution does il appear as II there ever coud
be The reasons OF 1t lie so lar PACK appdiuiuS
of the world which necesSitatcs suffering must De
reveal onIy When we are lifted to the higher
sphere of understanding know II mas peen soNeu ~,
il meant to keep men within the law but that does not
touch the question How should man have been MADE
and put into situation in which ths IaeS o. 70
ing law should have required suffering tcnuebcy w
stop themi As if the tendency that required sunsinS
icaIy so made as that suffering should he necessary IA
to stop up the gap that sprung ron sme vtny
is the means OF working out the greatest good
upon the whole. Undoubtedly, but that does nor n
The means of working out the greatest gO0df Or 10 put
it in another shape why should system OF creation ana
of moral government, which is announced ~ oeerins
unon the nrncpr of beneyolencc, whose submcst Illus
tratiOn was that of Divine Being himself, suffering
rather than that others should sliier-why should
creation that has that its charter and center be so
constructed that suffering should De pait Oh ~ o
For what man is there that lived what man that
shall ever live, that win not be sufferer A.. ..,,o
No answer seems TO me possible except 'hat "hlCh
Paul gave III like emergency which was rather mouth
stopper than an argument There are great nan! an
answer. And when Paul was REASONING III e 9,n VI
Romans the subject OF the dscrlmathg pomrn, OK
elective and choosing power OF God he says IN "Swf
Nay, but" He represents the director, saying. WY
doth He Yet find FAULT For who hath resisted ls Will
Pants answer is, Nay but o man VINO alu aaon .na ~
repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say 10
hin that formed it, Why mast cr t1Sa a d IMAGE Of 'e e same
lump 10 make vessel unto honor, ana aho'ncr nho
answer and that is perfectly fair and perfectly conciu
sive. aud was the intended answer ana mas Den o'Sl
on fair thing this that there question where all
mysteries stop one point at which AL Questions ana y
lie made it And that is question tnai Hon1y cam
answer ana If anybody undertakes to iind anlt- WY
backS Why did He make some d thiT Y f ipro
a1G s sSmf s" oq soc or 6tnes Into the
world am Why did He make man bipcdai instead Q,
Ne do not Know That is back of all possible reason
Icing and framed into organic unity we have per
feet right TO argue to tendencies and their relations 10
necessary causes but when we go back OF al tat 10 tne
h Gd Th make GG so ap nd s S9 Ny
who art thon that quesoneth God on TINS mater a
buzzng OF the wheel and there are Humps VI S my NM
and he takes wad and slips on to the wheel ana Win
and lays it aside And then another wad OF clay OF the
kind and puts it on, and shapes 1t on III me graceful
exquisite in FORM and the child says; Iathcr why
did you make one dunpy, round bowl. and the other
long slender, pretty pitcher" Wet the papa say; pe-
cause he was mind to. lie cannot ten why he DID 1T
he might. or lie might not. And when you ask how God
shapes things as great 3itei turning ON rngs on h
the potter talk TO his little child, but Cod don't ak
to MS. Aud, therefore when you question my uu Ire
a.. 41tue
questions all come back upon yourself Inc S"Ice vi
suffering may be sought the use oi suffering may oc
In the first place. think accustomed TO gencr-
atc loo nuch and 10 make gcneralies respecting suf
Srng gcnrrcaIlv which are truc OF certain specific
kinds but not true of every kind of suffering The moral
character i different For example, man receives CON
stitnfional tendency toward suffering by birthrg The
sins OF the father and Of the mother do go over ana arc
visited upon the chdrcn-not in our narrow, technical
sense OF the word sn"but certain habits, good or
bad certain tendencies good OF paa, are are; Ia IRAN,
with nIaIfor1nations and you cannot make IA
gymnast of him. you cannot make man that Is porn
Without the average number of his senses or the or
binary Of his limbs stand on par with other men,
if man is born in such way as that ne hcreitane
suer not on OF any sin OF his own ana not on
account OF any social liability. but simply on account OF
ancestors to the poserity certain traces Of good
or S@d that he a is GSs himself that he that
corrupts his physical frame and his moral constitution
trails down through Gmse sst these " socs
is benefactor nations yet unborn to release genera
tiOns the good and the bad stored uD III nans Nolu-
tary actions organic in him in such sense that IL
becomes legacy to those that come after him WHO dd
sim this his parents, that he should be born bndl
Neither of them said Christ, but that the works or
God may manifest" That is part OF the orig
nal design Of God. We must therefore take the subject
of suffering into consideration. We know that great
deal OF suffering in this world comes to persons VINO are
moi responsible it they be for the use they put
it to- tho origin Of it, have noticed III regard
TO suffering that it lies in the nerve system mat
is, the sensitive part Of the mans system. With
out q nerve there is no more feeling than
there in the shell of the tortoise The muscles 90 not
fhat inliD
There different quality of nervous systems ana some
persons born into this world with morbid nervous
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