The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-26
SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPIS-
COPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN.


NOTES IN THE cANDLE-NEED FOR SUMMER
sANcTITY-FREE-LovER DENoUNcED-sER-
MON BY REV. MIR. PARKINSON.
The services at the Seventh avenue Methodist
Episcopal church, Brooklyn, were pretty well at
tended. The sermon was preached by Rev. w. G..
Parkinson, who took for his text the words found
In the Gospel of st. Matthew, NTH chapter and
sixteenth verse-"Let your light so shine before
men,"
He desired that the light OF religion should
shine as a ely set on the mountain. The city to
which he referred was very conspicuously located.
IL lay among the mountains aud was 2,650qeet
in height. and commanded grand stretch OF
view OF hills and valleys, lakes and rivers and POD
uloas cities. such was the situation OF the city
to which Christ pointed while He was
preaching the Sermon on the Mount "a
light Get on q hill cannot be hid.n In the
physical world there is nothing so Important as
light All our strength is derived from the sun.
All that we eat. drink and wear Is strengthened
by the solar rays and nurtured into life. well,
Just as important as That sun which shines with
such splendor this mernlng In our physical world
IL Gods Church 10 the life and strength OF the
moral world. The Church OF Christ is Ike grand
lumnary and our individual worship is simply
the lighted taper. Scientists tell US that there
are spots on the sun, and that these spots have
been growing year after year and age after age
But this was net 80 when God made the sun.
When He said, Let there be light; and there
was hght,u then there were none of these specKs
on the How illustrative OF the Cnristlan frame
is the beginning and the condition OF the
sun to-day, for the Lord Is the sun OF nature
when God converts the soul He makes It grand
ane beautiful. The converted soul speaks with
new tongue, comprehends with new IN.
derstanding and judges with a new judy
ment. All our senses are expanded when Cod
speaks TO our hearts; when we feel for the first
time power and the guiding light OF salvation
shining through our souls You can sec the
change In the man. Still don't know but that
there many conversions 10 tue world nova
Gays that we can't believe In.
TRUE CONVERSION
must be OF the heart The real germ must be born
ia the soul. Alas how many OF US VINO start out
on our religious life without spots become dark
eDed as We move on In our career. One OF the
things which tend 20 thls Is our personal habits.
There are many things which are 70 be condemned
BY the wording which we by iorce Of habit CON-
nit The speaker would suggest that the indi-
vidual weigh those habits which are perni-
cious for himself In his cool and calm Judgment
and then decide within his own heart as to his
duty toward Cod Having detected the evil,
let MIN exert himself to overcome it, Then
there is much lukewarmness even in the
Church. eve have II In North Carolina
said the speaker, ,'anq you nave IT suppose, in
In New YORK. occupied IN his ONCE oil day and OF.
ten III late IN the evening, Is so engrossed In hs
his nina. Hence IL is that Coo sometimes comes
in and
l. CUTS THE MONEY BAGS
or such men and SINKS the fortunes. to beget which
drove The vision OF tue creator from the mind In
their worldly trials they come back to God and TO
salvation. There Is more Iaan one millionaire
In New YORK who thanked Coo for the
shock Of Black Friday and for the hard
times Of 1875, because these things
cleared away the notes rom their
eyes ana turned their hearts to Goa. 1t is well
for man 20 get rico and hoard CD his dollars,
| but not at the cost OF his own soul, we should
| beware that temporal prosperity does not darKen
our religious lie. 1t would be better we should
| go down TO our graves as paupers than TO die un-
sancti1ed and unsaved. IL would be letter, for
| we would be happier. Another thing 10 be
guarded against Is the painful disposition on the
/ part particularly OF young people not to acknowl-
! edge God; 10 be ashamed 10 admit that they are
members Of the Church. They fear that it may
AFFECT their Eocial standing. God pity such,
! y0uuS aud OIL. On, for the Chris.
| tans VINO have the power to say
yea and nay as God may denns I'd Tegsrdloss Of
| their immediate surroundings. Ashamed or
ChTat II would bs beEseg that thar should ex-