New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-04
PULPIT TEACHING.
THE INDwELLING OF THE DIVINE MIND.
IN. hrr IL W R.cA<r Plymouth OAnrch tOonQregaIonaO

unable 10 catch sight OF tho preacher much loss W hoa
his voice. accordance with tho usual custom Oh 'h
church. 1880 is the hour at which those who nave no
pews are permitted to enter. Up to that time only .oe
members OF the church and the pew-owners nave tne
privilege OF passing tho ineIora6le ushers anu Qie'
getting seat but not moment later Asthe last ho''
OF the great bell rolls out, the ushers give
way and there is great rush ior Sea's'
80 great was number Of strau Yesterday MORN
ing that Ave or ten minutes after lA o'clock every seat
filed. the aises crowded. and the doots @eIs
paraded before the doors, now peepn2 through tue
crack Of door, another. and thon hastenIng ~
same fate. Before the sermon five new members were
received into tho church. and tho annSuhGemes ,Se
also made that entertainment would De gwen ny l1
Amaranth Amateur Dramatic ASSOCIATION, IN TUG % the
envy Of Music IN aid OF the widow ana Snt
late Police Captain Bourne, who was Accidentally sn1s
by newspaper reporter two or tnree weeks nso. nj
Beecher also had remark TO make aOous ' no oo"ow
evening rain or shine" The sermon was pa'ee on tne
Jobn io"1q ss m ' Answered ana said unto him.
love me he will keep my wor%s s a md saka our
Inc three evaugellsts Matthew Mark, and Luke deal
very largely with external experiences and relations
John dstIlgplhably rom all the others reveals the IN
terror Ife II Christ IL IA remarkloie now iar b All
OF education in our day from things TO ideas ana re
tiOns. We reasOners; we use tacts AZ sIapes"l9
used for the sake OF the wne that be pressed out OF
wine the facts lacera.od for the sake OF cue %
illusions; any rate there Is unquestiQna9y Iee
ing that he that upon causes ne hat IS aoe "
fix his mind upon abstract ideas to construct them into
world OF their own Is most advanced, Is uhd
So then men ethics are very good put docttihe Is
great. Now, with tue exception, perhaps, OIL , .no
| Apostle Paul, who had received liberal eduea.
non. there is not single pnil1,i,o I x1nls
spirit represented in the whole BlDe Almost te TnE.d
body of writers, tho results OF whose WOrh arc %
| I'm our Sacred Scripture. of the Old aud OF the now
Testament all OF taeh Tepsn r,mtrd INFO sc,e'io
forms Of thought and Is translation Dy preachers
iaon and We nave paraphase rather than the actual
Specification Of tho orr ANAL You see ofen tnereIote
n ho GhTo almost S notn1: OF that style OF thinking
which prevalent in our caechlsns ana lh our uuuoo
OF divinity. Among the Jour- JoAh stauuS "'ono ""u p
II may he said that tho keynote OF this Gospel is the
docrine Of tho intCrsphcrng OF the DIVINE NINA Win
the human an,u; - o M Of facts as much ms
Matthews Gospel but tho facts stated are interior ana
not exterior. Ia tho passage which We nave Iesu .Gn
its correlated passages is the ndweng OF Goa IN tno
| human heart. Now read this In cur.Ort manner
and because not convey any very intelligent luea
f them men are accustomed TO pass IL by being met
apborca Agurative; and tins tendency to pass Is by
| is Increased by TINS use WI, Wnich tes wLn
have been them. the mystical mind loves
a thing in proportion IL is faint scientific nature
toI: the mystical like things which arc not definitely
measurable. such minds have reJolced Ia John; rny
ha W. ANN an many gossamer webs much that others
would not appreciate, that there has como redcu 0n
As a consequence CON; think we make so nuch OF te
dwelling Of Divine Mind In ours Is IS mtue III
Scripture may be made, and which VIII mako US very
fruitful and very happy II we aeeompS farn Of bepq "a
that which contains in Itself tho germ tho seed OF al
| @
those qualities which faculties were organzed 70 ex
press and which lie back Of faculty As Tor instance
love which is Itself and in its infinite rel atoms UNI
sna9tably beyond anything when interpreted TO rs
by a faculty. Our knowledge springs from the expert
the sons Of God, something IN us which inter
pres God, not quantity Of being, not power; but all
these qualities have experienced ONLY In our rela-
lions TO one another. society aud in comparatively
low plane OF The vast ranges which these
| very same experiences take on In beings OF
| a higher mold know nothing about ana
still less what are the modes, conditions. aud experl,
III mi Y
Himself must be- The distance between Goethe am tue
PEASANTS of Germany between SHAKES naafc ana 'he u
niH boy Of MassichuSetts, is great they
almost be said 10 not the same beings and to be sub
those that dwell among u.s. how much Is II when
YOU lit yourself all human beings aud consider
idea of the interspheEiag Of mind WITH mind and not
We rise from lower to tho higher Though the outward
| thc Inward life grows larger and larger and we
sniff the unit value, whereas IN tho lower forms OF
associated life among mon 1t jdxtaposition, IL - tho
skill 1t capacity of man with his body 70 develop
one or another phenomenon, or the admiration or de-
the body becomes less All thai she body does only
The representative OF that which wthn and our inter
not by action by tase. and by the properties OF
matter, by imagination. and by emotion, ana men are
| not so much by contguy as by In
ward slmiartes or ropugnances There arc many
that i've under the same ROOF that never were within
thousand leagues OF each Other ana there bo many VINO
never came together tUat arc one. Iuero IL no man
| whom | have known, author, no writer, who has
| filed me with enthusiasm, with knowledge, with tho
subtle leayen OF Imagination aud 80 enriched my whole
| life. around whose name haVo garahded thousand
precious thoughts and emotions but that man lives In
me live He Is nearer to mo than though
he dwelt in my house. 1t possible to be and
DO far away It possible TO DO far away and yet 10 be
near and be interspersed one with another There Is
| absolute freedom the higher sphere OF human life;
bondage and crcumscrp upton belong to the animal life
What then, must he the terms OF Intercourse between
beings lifted above the sphere OF mortal life where they
| come together by that which we perceive even in
and what must the nature Of that Father OF all
tendencies, Himself representing them most perfectly
Wnen therefore, in the Word of God 1t declared that
| lie comes TO and abides IN them We are
| not to turn over tho leaf and say, :" figure"
nor are we attempt TO reduce 1t without consdera
tion the level Of our experience ana 10 give TIA
coarse and economic explanation. saying well, we live
with men somewhat when We ike them; we dwell IN
| men when we are obedient TO them aud they control
usO That beginning OF an explanation, but 1t no.
where all she funess OF the idea tnat IL
conveyed IN these passages VIZ, tnat there IL power
given men TO open their souls 10 love III such way
that the divine influence ntersperses the human faculty.
the soul moves TO the touch VI the divine Mind ln
! dwelling permanently.
| Though there Is possible parallel experience and
| though there is no absolute analogy In the line OF
thought which have followed, yet suggests much
While tho lower animals only by juxtapOsltlOn influence
another externally and casually. that Intercourse
becomes enlarged as we rise into the human family and
from the lower classes OF the human family into the
cultivated and more developed and 1t becomes
ultimate, absolutely inexplcable outrunning even
aSalyze then your intercourse with those that are
nearest to you you will be struck with the fact. how
them, and how largely it is that you think Of them by
they internally their disposition, their mental
nature; our Master promised His disciples that II thew
on He uttered truth unfamiliar to us by the
the lOwness OF lives, and truth that belonged TO
the su6Imes and universal de yeopment of truth
as 1t relates to the human mind. We taught dis
tncuy that the avenue, tho door through which the
the dominion OF the maign photographic, van
appetite prssSHs @n ana inert a
fecton and that Is peryaded and con-