New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-10

Of e men have sad But is not the Spirit Of God work
Ing With you'll Beware! bewarei lest ye grieye the
natural, innocent unfolding Of the feelings! nj,
,nanrnee has brought limitations OF view perverons OF
view: and instead Of making God made him less
harder 10 be approached less enoycd-fOr O all beings
thai are large and generous and feeling and nconsd
crate for themselves none to he compared WIN God
IIc that made the hcaycns-IIs the globe
but the palm His hand and The ISLES but dust In
the baanccs He TO be represented M nervous and cap
tous and dashing away from mcni There II nOtmhg 80
considerste, long-suifering ~ the Divine spirit.
Is there then reyela3n OF the Dy ~ splr' as sepd
me any Other question viii say yes But II you ask me,
what Is the Faheri and what the sond and VIVA, II
of the sl and body nerve and brain with their contents
and and T ET p nt sh" such omS that Knows so
mental philosophy HIMSELF assume that he can rise into
the Divine realms and scan the surroundingsl DO be-
ieve in the Trinity whyi Because it is, easier
to believe In than not to under the n cur
to show the relations OF the Divine Spirit 1t quite
enough for to sIy that there exists the Divine
spirit and that il is the of human life in all its
higher ranges. There IL Divine influence that acts on
the higher nature OF man. But in matters Of knowledge
i'm matters Of herosm. OF scsacrice for another, or
one for many-pariOsm, In all the higher developments
which make the gloomy history OF the race to shine in
spots-athough am not prepared to say demagoghey,
this is the supreme function Of the Divine spirit = 1t i.
enough to say that as we understand the teachings OF
the scripture the object OF God IL to work on that side
OF nature which is nearest to God and give II CA
altatiOn.
Look for moment. However the race comes into the
empty sack. Whatever is be filled with thereafter
is to he gained Paupers come, absolutely helpless,
without power 70 get, Ting in the of wisdom love.
ana power and TO learn everything and by unfolding cx-
Government In the fipest Experience Of life we come
limpIng into the society of morality. When you
IN With no insignia OF power, but the
whole world cries walks, and is weak in every direction
SO by the decree of God the march Of every generation
begins through the door % zero from nothing slowly up
TO nothing, and TO little morality and to little more
morality First animal slowly unfolding out Of 1t to soci.
ay. And from this slowly to reason and reasoning and
last, slowes hardest and most imperfect moral excel
nations, whether bond Free Christian or unchrhtian,
this is the course of ALL Now If this be the Divine ere
stand over against q world so created by Divine
force, and that there is provision in the physical
and other nsrunc ntalitics provision for the unfolding
OF his intellectual nature, there should somewhere be
sentiment the moral naturethat which allies itself to
God When il is fact that the Divine Spirit works upon
this higher element OF manthat for which there Is no
provision, none at all III the moral currents that move
mankind-does not any one say that this Is view OF
We feel that just as an astronomer makes MS
calculation and determines that there must be an
invisible planet somewhere to account for the perturba
tons OF neSlborng oIbs, so too We may calculate from
there he in the celestial space certain great forces
else the scheme OF life cannot he accounted Tor what
fcshi What do you need teach you centleness and
courtesy and oDglng ways within the households Mhat
do you need 10 teach you rugay III the society in which
you dwell II would be worth a mans life TO be
moral and yiruous, if he were to live only
T 1fr i lives the easiest c But if this life but
STEP and If To be transported into higher life,
then the cn aC a%n %bo H HG OK ay s down
to sleep But there Is not human soul that does not
times feel strangely excited, and they say that Sone
thing as them They know not what it is But there Is
the voice OF the everlasting and sense OF the inyis
dry leaves before an Autumn gale. A sense OF
the unfolding nature e in us, aud we feSi
gives these clements for the exhausted
nature Of man-that Is the nature Of God Himself So
while God reaches by Instruments all the way up, lie
reaches us indirectly in regard 10 these elements which
in divine, and which are fosghts OF the qualities
of the other life The doctrine OF the Divine spirit NOV
ing on and stimulating the hearts OF men Is doctrine
which adaps itself not only to an average c0ndioh Oh
needs more stimulus than society gives. We necdoVcr
all churches temples and cathedIals[we heed tr lei
fable We need that power that il in God and when Is
the power that is represented Iii the WOrd OF uod ny INC
Divine Spirit of Goo. -. c.,.
Now far it from TO say that the Divine Spirit
exerts itself only by direct impact II may so say
that falls down upon e human SOU as the suti 's
does but do desire to that that IL not the
liable in this llie but see mat niIe'enins ol
them are made so by our own relations
The humblest house this continent Is
house that you think Of as being more radiant than any
pearl, any gem-a house where every window rateS
Sankct Thsrc the creaing old wei stood where there
was no yard where perhaps the lower animals fed at
You say would give more to that old house than
any place earth" Why remember my old mother;
ing OiG in 'H. but how Gcau" it looks to You
walk around the and say To myself HumDh, this
il where he was born Heaven save him." And you go
around the room, and, after time, you say Let us 20;
house. there is nothing in t-nO Ncncnccs no house
hold absolutely repulsive. What makes it beautiful TO
him IL is the memories. il Is the ten thousand things
that come up III mans heart Many man VIII tax about
steps and doors and say This Is the very door where
are affecting us-why should not they become
medium through which the spit of God should reach us
hiNsina mi
fundamentally of Nature, through thousand means IN
a mans social life; but is there nothing else say
the New Testament that Gods spirit works by direct
upon the soul Of man ond e eT i if by
my experience. 1t is not enough Tor child
that the mother SITS W SpSn ONE by sac word og
hurt by fail, and speaks TO it. The little Child
OF all consolation there is nothing like the mothers
bosom and the soul wearied, badgeTcd, rocked to and
Ir S ogs 10 e w6y o should we stand off from it. Why
should not take it without question do. and rest
also in direct ways and may understand them by the
lie Himself said. will come aud dwell in YOU" God
by the Spirit 10 dwell iii mems souls rs If they were
temples.
Now we come back to that passage that warns not
This IL made question Of curiosity. 1t need not be
practical question: for we are taught-and the teaching
nature-wo are taught that the body cannot
God. Opaque matter is not in it, nothing that
nature there is possibility OF under
standing God except as a God OF ideas, and
"A God OF ideas is icice Nothing lives in the north
nothing fourishes but cOngelaon. God that is built
upon philosophical reasoning il not fit for us. man
eats and drinks and sleeps and awakes and eats and
drinks sleeps again, and the curriculum OF life is
body's child have burned nobody's house live at
homo and pay my taxes am good man. what lack
yetb The man who has made his belly his god and who
X constantly saying. I" Feed me, feed me- feed
me-" and with nothing on earth except palate,
tongue and stomach, says, What lack l
vet 81 on. thckr man, pork man. thou
gOh i-all devOurng monster, jaw and stomach
and aourishes The horizon OF thy life is Fulton Mar
ke What is there In the years 10 come. OF nobility TO
man OF grandeur to the country that dost interest thee
IN. he ID