New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-02

between the sOuls of men and Jesus Chrlst. L can
bear witness that my affection for the Lord Jesus
Christ as the ideal of all that is grand, all that is
most sweet most beautiful and tender, grows, and
that He was never so much the inspiration OF my
life. the ground and secret spring of my public
life, as now. / never loved Christ as love
Him to-day, not perhaps, as some other men do not
as many of you do, but in my own way, as every
man must. / have found out my way to the Lord,
as He has found ont His way to me, and He is to
me "the chief among ten thousand, the altogether
lovely :" my cheer, my hope, my confidence, my
friend for the present, and my exceeding great re-
ward by and by Now love Him in the flesh, as
Paul says by faith and therefore, it Is that love
to preach.
TIE PLYMOUTH PASTORS AIM II PREACHING.
never had any art of preaching great sermons
You give me set occasion and let me know that the
people are expecting great sermon and they VIII
always get small one but let me have small
cabin or TOom and let me know distinctly inc
tronble and the want, and that is the time love
to preach. My preaching does not mean intellectuh
exercitatOn. 1t means solely inspiration. III Is 10
make known to- the spirits of others the affectloh
which my spirit feels for the Lord Jesus to bring
men nearer TO Him, to make them love HIM. III 10
not to fill men with formal statements OF truth ana
doctrine but 10 kindle in their minds the
neNtl-falllDB lamp VI IONo "i'NH
them. Therefore / am often very thankful
when / have to preach in vacation. love
to preach just as people love to eat when choice food
is set before them. In the past Summer have been
placed under unusual circumstances for a variety of
reasons which need not be mentioned until my audi
ence has been larger than at home, and l have
reason to believe that the demonstration of the truth
has not been without fruit. look back upon the
labor Of the Summer with gratitude and with
some inward satisfaction but it has been very lapp
u0us ] have found preaching in a tent to o,OOO
people far more labOIi0us than preaching AT nome III
my own church, yet am glad OF IT now, ana look
back upon il with great satisfaction. Now, looking
back over the vacation which your kindness has
offered TO me, there have been sunny days, social
associations rest by the way, and refresh
ment but the part which love best TO
recall is that which has been upon the spiritual
plane That does not die ont. The other is sunk in
obscuity, and passes away, but that which has ex-
erciscd the nobler faculties i'll work from God and
for God in laboring for the exaltation OF men and
their Christian perfection, that experience sun
abdcs with me-
return TO save myself the necessity of repeating
il TO you individually in very good health indeed.
sleep WELL eat well. digest WE'LL am well.
return, therefore, with matter of gratitude to God
work shall be, time will disclose. l have an APP
petite for preaching, and / propose in this
year no demonstrations of an astonishing
character no extraordinary matters or meas
ures. but | trust a deeper insight into spiritual
things. and hope more tenderness, moro feryor
and more fidelity, believe, and more intense appli-
cation of the truth to tine understandings and the
cousciences and the hearts OF men. | feel very
grateful to You for your personal affection for me-
II is my treasure and my glory, and | can say with
tho APOSTLE my joy aud my crown"
SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE IN THE CHURCH.
But that which earnestly desire is a spiritual CO.
operation in this church. | believe in rcvyals of
religion. believe that they are, however, the ex-
preston of a very imperfect and low condition Of
things in the community. They are normal, they
are rational. they are necessary in the present
condition of things; but the highest CONDITION ia
which community can live is that in which the
household, the great body OF Christian men, are nv
ing in an atmosphere full of the Spirit so full OF
all affection, and joy, and gladneSs, that when men
come among them they are caught and lifted mp,
almost without cOnsciOuSneSS-llfted up INTO con-
seriousness of another life aud OF another way
of feeling and living You ought to
form that kind of atmosphere, that Summer
for the souls of men that come in among you and II
You do while they look to You for instruction, and
inspiration and Influence while yOu look lnt3 eaeh
Others faces gathering gladDess, while the Sabbath,
and the sanctuary and the lectllre-rOOm, ana the
school all will 60 TO perform their various minstra
ti0ns one thing-ony one thing-one supreme thing
is ncedful ana that is present and personal knowl-
edge Of Christ by each individual one. III ~ not
enough that YOU are socially enjoying yourselves it
is not enough that you have cheerful lie ana eX-
pericnce. 1 am very much struck with one passage
in Mark, where, after Christ had addressed great
crowd the Apostle writes: " And when they were
alone he instructed them" To he a one with Jesus
that is what every one needs. TO be with Christ
in the CONGREGATION. to be with Christ socially in the
household, is needfu but We need one step be-
Christ personally and alone to bring mp
and compare with him in his conscious
and vital person our own tastes, our
own pleudices, our strlvings our daily life.
Tor rs "A viOlinist never goes to performance,
never goes to a concert or even to his own room,
without trying every cord and Strengthening some
wonderful and most sensitive OF instruments, the
human soul, is always getting out OF tune, and
it needs above all other instruments to be
poised and TO do this we must be with Jesus alone
the world shul out, men shut out, and the picture
of the full feeling of the Savior, and the communion
with IIim-that is what we need. And when we
have left the things that tend to grow vulgar, and
when we have brought them up, when we have
toned down the pride that Is often with the sympa-
thy of the world, when we have brought
our sorrow into His presence as they brought
when bring all our thoughts IN The
presence OF Christ and form habit OF doing 1t day
by day. then we say that the life we lead is by
faith and sight of the Son of God. And thus may
the good Spirit OF God give yOu that baptism, and
then what care we. Let things come, let them 60
Neither breadth hight nor depth, nOrthingS present
nor things to come, nor any creature can separate Us
from the love Of God which is in Christ Jesus.
After the address, Mr.. Beecher asked if the hymn
d" Charles Wesley" was in the Plymouth Collection,
and looked nquirngly over the assemblage. There
were a good many answers some said no." and
some "ye.s" Finally, somebody suggested that it
was at a certain place in the supplement to
the book. Mr. Beecher turned the pages
quickly and found it, and then said, smiling
" We learned it and sung it at the White
Mountains, and must sing il here.