The New York herald., 1875-10-18
rockingham on the 1iv-
ing God.
An Atheist Nan Without Bloom or yerdlre,
Who WOrships Ills Body and Turns
on His Own Axle
MASONIC HALL.


FRoTHNGHAM.
sThe Living Godp was tho title OF Mr. 0.
Frothingham's address yesterday morning, and the
orieest synopsis Of his discourse would be comprised in
lhe assertion that Cod that preachers conception
Is the embodiment Of love, honesty and truth
whether there be a God2 If SO, whore he IS how
He shall be seen and received the most important
questions Of the day What splitting Of hairs; what
subtle shades of division between pantheism and
lhesn. If only matter of definition, or dia-
lectics its true comprehension would not he 50 vitay
necessary, but there impression that something
unde1nable Of goodness Of wisdom, Of love- attaches
10 1T We cannot define the word only; feel
90.
GREAT QUESTION
The word atheist ii the popular mind, embodies
main without faith hope yearniug; who is every
thing to and Of himself and nothing anybody ese
who is touched with no verdure blessed with no bloom
who turns on his axis and worships his body
only. The question is. rs God alive; is this power
force, whatever IS alivef" Therefore the anxiety
10 make God appear a living being How wild these
endeavors arel The commonest form Of forming this
this belief is the attempt to demonstrate that God
bodily alive many hundred years ago There the
sweet Christ, and tho Holy Spirit down the
gentle wings of the dove and the gates OF heaven
opened and down the assurance that God had
Neiy graves ylSi0su W
dead.
GOD OF THE PAST OF 40 ACCOUNT
This is a very difficult task Go to the Holy Land
You Will nothing but dust and ashes and ruin
The Lake Of Nazareth is surpassed in beauty BY Lake
George, and the flowers that grow there are trans
cended in fragrance and sweetness by those that bios
in your garden. Even if We accept tho re-
vered records Of Christs life in the Eoly Land we
should only come to tho sad conclusion that tho God
laAa arpln j nd hgs pDua tho
light Of the night watch might well be put out.
living God is not lived God, and God who does not
live now buI did two thousand years ago nothing
me
THE ORTHODOX GOD
Another attempt escape from atheism Is the asser-
ton that At the end Of time beyond the grave, shall
have demonstration Of the living God. What is this
but TO say that We must come 70 another life in
60 see Him? He is, then, God whose term Of life
can be mapped out by the statistcan. most singular
God The God who lived in Palestine or who liveth
heaven is not living God TO us. The reviyasts know
that, and their device is to bring Him in Common
ignorant sprtualsts by dint or obstreperous singing
think they summon the divine presence which
would not come in sweet silence Thus the revival
lists think that If they only pray hard enough,
II only sufficient number of people
shout loud enough He will down They say
Snow is the appointed time we have secured Him for
m hour, seize your chance" DO you tell me that
their work Is only made for the purpose OF bringing
people TO God But the method is equally eccentric
this case. 'You must put yourself into spasmodic,
eccentric condition" they say IN order 20 God
Then this God Is only epnemera, only lasting spas
modicaiy2 Wil you say that Irving god s less
And steady than q living man
GOD IN SATCRE
The best method OF seeing God IS through nature II
teaches that whatever life has been this earth
is thereon now that every atom of the universe pull
safes warmly with life IL did millions of years
ago, that there has not been moment when the hand
If hand there is-has been lifted up from this palp-
tating universe The rain, the snow, the SUM- the
moon the stars-they all follow the same physical
laws which they obeyed thousands and millions Of
years ago Creation, science shows, Is a process,
not art God did not finish but He only has begun.
THIS universe is not skful contrvance, but is
gomeration Of living powers and laws. The physician
goes deeper this revelation when he goes
for healing and regenerating forces; the artist with
single eye 70 the loveness and beauty OF nature paints
Il on the living canvas.
GOD IN MAN
But, after all, nature does not reveal the Deity in its
full developments IL is only when you meet living
man, living SOUL living heart that the Deity starts
into fulness or being The mind OF Richard Proctor is
grander testimony TO the living God than all the
steilaons he measures. When science belts the globe
and the waves Of thought rush hither and thther
have another grand revelation Of the Deity The leap
OF love Is quicker than the leap Of lightning say God
Is revealed in man-the working God In the working
man, the loving God IL the loving
GOVERNOR TfLDES cUMPLfaENTED.
Inc men who turn suddenly to the unseen God be-
cause q calamtes worship Him only the savages
do mountain which has dropped boulder upon their
village Times Of distress are indeed, proper times to
think Of the living Cod But whore shah we find Him
Have you ever seen mountain stripped Of It's soft
verdure and observed tile fierce cataract underneath
80 now, when We have been robbed Of comfort and
happiness discover the volcano that was under our
feet II you ask me where sec the living God viii
lead you to who trying redress some wrong
who exposing canal frauds who are studying sta
sistcs IN order 70 arrest paupersm. will point you
20 the honest and women who are irving 10 live
they are there Is the recreatlng, the regeneratng
power Of the living God.