New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-26
MR.. BEECHER'S POSITION.
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the world just good any other bridge until it
II tested. Wait till q great railroad train passes
over it. That is the test. IL it stands this it is good
The 9TH Regiment-magnifcent regiment but what
IL is is not to be known by what you see of 1t in
New-York, or in Boston, on charming parades, with
men wen dressed hair well pomatumed, and
everything all right crowds looking on, and the
ladies cheering. When the regiment has gone down
with Sherman to the sea. and has come back, who
ever is left has got the man in him.
You take a sweet, amiable child. o whole house,
hold Of them they are of good stock, they
are shielded from all trouble, they expert
ence religion when they are IL or Is years
old, and they try to have horrible con-
victons of their sinfulness and all that you might
a. well ask rose to have horrible convictions and
II it please God that they shall go all through
life without any of the grand marks and character
istcs of human experience, they are not tested,
they are not tried. BY aud by our charm
ing girl Is married, and all bright pros
poets 20 with her; and in . year or two the
busband-his blood is not what they thought
grows neglectfu and unkind and she goes on hiding
her sorrow and various descending steps are takei
and she finds herself at last at the very bottom
and where is that rejoicing in going into the church.
the Christmas carols, the professions, and all
the nice things that belong To girlhoOd, and
the tentative parts 1 might say. OF
religion What was the power of religion with herf
Did il prolong patience Did it awaken in her dis
interested love- Did it lift her above the visible
70 the invisible Did it take away the squalor and
the darkness and the ten thousand petty annoyances
Of earth. and day by day stand over her and take
care of her II it did that then SORROW and trouble
met countervailing force.
GENUINE RELIGIOUS LIFE TESTED.
Now, this testing men is the thing that we
are 10 look to. / do say that that part OF
your religious life which is genuine and good is in
test which is on the surface Why, what do you dof
II you love those that love you. why anybody could
do that We expect more, because the ideal
N higher We expect more because the
means are more-because the power developed
An us Is greater, and we have therefore night 10
expect more from Christians. And when men speak
evil of YOU when men doubt you and mistrust you,
when YOU don't know who to trust, when you are
standing in the very porch OF death-how DO you
carry yourself them Let me see how man csrTes
himself in bis troubles.
But | dou't mean exactly that Not in those
things which would have troubled other people, but
those things which would troubled yourselves. For
example. some men are not trouble when they
lose money. AIN not. lLaughter.l Ii would
have been better for me if cared more for it, can
lose thousand dollars and not for 1t, not feel
it-not care for it more than that snapping bis I'm
ger). If an old man, who has been avaricious all
his life should see me lose q thousand dollars
he would look upon me aud say, "What sustaining
Rrace you must have" Not at ALL 1t is not grace.
lLaughter.) 1t is not trial for me. 1t does not
trouble me- it troubles him. Now, when
you look at man you must see
whether the trouble Is personal and peculiar
20 him.. 1t is against nature. it is other
than nature. The is to obtain victory
through Jesus Christ; 10 obtain victory over the
world. victory over himself. and victory, not by
his own power. but by the power of God through
Jesus Christ working in him.
MANS SECURITY UNDER DIVINE CARE.
In the first place. just soon as a man believes
Chat God loves him, and watches him. he has got
one refuge. do not mean that You should admit
this or that argument necessary. That is not II.
don't mean that yOu should believe III this
o. that creed. That is not il. / mean
belief that IL to you atmosphere; that Is just
- useful a. your belief in nature. There is not
man of you who does not recognize the law OF grav
ttatiOn You don't step of so feet as If it were six
inches. Now, this is true of the unseen, until the
Divine presence and power comes to you. and with
love and sympathy guards you. whose arm caresscs,
that thinks for you. plans for you Individually; and
the power of that name makes you feel His power
almighty, In whose sight spheres are gov
erned-God. Do You believe that God lie nearer
Gsterf / do. / bear that witness before you
my brethren. God is real. He is my God and am
His child, and feel His aid day by day and honr by
hour know it | feel it. 1t tingles at my fingers
ends, and, whether living or dying, / am the
Lords. lLoud and long applsuse.l And in that
there is everlasting truth. There is IN it JOY and
peace. for if God be- for you aud yon know it, you
know perfectly well that can successfully DO
against you. "If God be for you. who can be
against you'll" You are victorious.
THE STRENGTH GIVEN BY GOD.
This Is no mere reasoning, no mere argument. II
b conviction as large the capacity of my
life Do you suppose that anything can
reach Ms 90 az to disturb the peace Of the
heart that believes in God, and eyer loves
Coda God that gives strength 10 the weak, that
gives power to the weary 1t is not mine because
preach; IL is not mine because / have Any
special charter; 1t 10 from God. II for
the youngest people, the child, the lisping
maiden, the young man, the mlddle-aged man,
the old and weak. The moment that nan feels that
he has Coils grace, that God is his and he is Gods,
be is three times a How strong man is who
i strong III the Lord when he strong III the Lord
Think of those things which are eternal. have
thought of il all the afernoOn. lying In my he'd.
sitting on my front step. Tbey seem to me like
i sbonlS be- ashamed in nv innermost soul
If the manlness Of being greatly disturbed
by these little things or little eddes that are In the
river Of life just as live, just as sure as
you live. am going live forever. am not ll"ing
In nv own house now. This is mere little
shanty, put mp while am travelling here; bit
] am 10 five evermore; aud through all the hurly
burly of this world TO the man who knows perfect
love and believes i'll the eternal life il is not very far
before hiIn-fve years ten years, fifteen years, at
the outside twenty years. And then what will all
amount tO-all these thingsf
! have dim recollection of years ago. when COM
tDg down from Connecticut in August, with the hay
fever on me, l was suffering very much. was III
the cars nearly blind. l was nearly
ehoked Through the dust and cnders IL