New-York tribune., 1875-09-27
THE TRUE CHRISTIANITY.

Te Rev. Dr. H. w. BeilotcS at Al SOts Church tUnhcridj
The Rev. DR.. II. w. Bellows occupied his
pulpit yesterday morning in All Souls Church, at Fourth
ave. and Twentiehs, preaching sermon from isaian
XIV o. "LOok unto me, and be saved all the ends OF
the earth for am God, and there is none else"
It's no more that the nations of earth however
separated and unknown to each other look to one sun
for light and heat than is that all tribes and races OF
men, in all times and ages have been under the proIec-
ton and guidance of God, who has left them some
aense of His character and some indication OF His VIII.
We hear Of different creeds OF different nations OF
the many religions and various forms OF worship Dut
think OF these many forms of faith there only re-
gon which was stamped upon the human soul when God
made 1t in His own image For 1t is with the founda-
tions Of religion as 1t is with the foundations OF
morality and social order The wise and penetrating
observer who visits tribes of savages will discover that
in these various forms a essential principles OF
traceable with all their customary 1eelng ana lGeas
these connries Thus there are many forms of govern
ment in the world but there only one standard Vi po
tical Justice, and all nations at work IN the one
great problem, namely how to receive liberty equality
and justice for all with order and stably Russia En-
gland s ana Sasa Sfe of SUCCESS m arc
and dlssimilsr but the impulse OF all Is the same same
the they same e' KIND KIND Of loss and troubles the
yielding up Of arbitrary powers or OF prvegea oraeis
and equality in their laws and customs Now Christian
ity often contrased violently with all other religions
nanty All other forms of religion, all forms Of faith
are tentative or dim pf ss Of e whch @ s the
holy and benecent God e NE object and m the moral and T
SSy SSy nTe Tsns aa aSS SSe obey anu HIM
S S1t @pGn m ane is the whole hole Of true re-
gion The Gospel oomprehends it all in the two great
thyself The key to these great commands lies in own
hearts if they carry tner Own Ta WIN Wen te s
soul who processes TO love- adore and worship God asks
"Who Godf or, "what is God g. it really in that qnes
ton denies its spiritual lineage The reason for low
ing God is that He is father in more incllig
bic than that in which our natural progentos are % our
child It is the yeaGng ing Of y R spiritual e
aEes e hes ms me- what He is declare His pres
and bring His name into my heart my conscious
witness Of the distant into which its wsters flow
The least and eebest human soul that ever existed bears
est spark of fire the existence Of the Sky and
ocean, forest and mountain have been peoped with spr
it's good and bad kind and threatening but no tribe yet
discovered, however many ideals and Intermediate del
ties it has wOrshped has been without dim sense or
their failtes The GOd the dear God, the God whose
Spirit lives in and above our spirit the God who impants
something higher than ourselves is never without wor
shippers equally dear and equally wise IN all countries and
all ages, spite Of all supersttOns, DO VIC heed much
what people say about their religion or profess to believe
or think that they believe, do we mind much what
The world has stili need OF creeds and conventional
forms OF worship and it will need them for time to
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religion from the pure wheat; but then it is not neces
sary swallow all the chat in order that We may obtain
the little pune wheat which comes with it, What bless
ing is to discovered that il not the foe and
natural enemy Of faith but rather her sister, and that
to regard life here as an everlasting probation, in
which the chances OF ruin outweigh the chances OF escape
but as school, with various pains and pleasures and
with lessons, none Of which are given without
kind and intelligent All OF these are to be con-
sidered as our education for higher lfe-a school In
which life s to be formed What blessing is TO
have worship unconnccted with the idea that God Is
askmaster ready TO put on the black cap OF the
judge and condemn countless millions OF his creatures TO
eternal misery The most sublime triumph Of Christian
ny comprehensive power TO interpret al other re-
cOns Thus 1t prepares to supersede them as II super
seeded Judaism not by fighting their ideas but by giving
them clear and intelligent expression.
Dr. Bellows closed by saying that what he bad preached
he believed TO be the true Christianity To live such
Christianity the nObest well the hardest work
for to do. 81 commend 1t to y0u by word and by
example now enter anew upon this season OF labor
May Gods blessing rest upon our new season OF wOrk
and the renewal OF those ties between minister and peo
third Of a century. Amen"