, 1875-01-25
Wherein ttc Is Debtor Doth TO The
Wise and tho UnWise."
A Reply to DR.. Ryder's Structures on
the Turner Hall Matter.
The New Pastor OF the Third
Unitarian Church.
a Warm Public Welcome to the
I{cy. Il. T.. Powell.
CREEKS AND BARBARlANS.

Tho llcv. Robert G01tycr's Sermon Mt Unlfy
Church featcrlny.
Tho Row Robert COllyer preached heforo
largo aud Interested congregation ut Unity
Church yesterday forenoon. tho subject Of his
discourse being "Grceks md BarEarinna.'
Alto. tho usual preliminary exercises, Mr.. Col
lyeg said:
Ny text has been opened by tile majority OF
tho expositors, az II Paul Ind Baid, II owe Il
debt to Heaven which I can only rny through
preaching tho Gospel to the Crooks and bar-
barinnB, and TINT l mcan 10 do when got to
1lone." And iii some clear sense this no doubt
is truc for this grateful heart tho man turns to
1Gcavon, come what will ia perhaps tho earliest
trait Of His wonderful manhood. Yet, beside
this motive which touches what wo may call tho
divine sidc Of his character, I cannot but believe
lie has another which touches the human side.
lie feols somehow lie Is dobtor to tic Greeks
and the burbarians III tho simple sense Of being
beholdon to them. They have dono him "good
turn," as wo say, and to repay thom he
wants to open tho Gospel to them az tho very
best thing ho can brius. lilo would do that at
any ratio iii gratitude to God. All tho moro he
will do 1t in return for what they havo a!ready
done for him.
We hayp to notice also that, In order to pay
this debt, lie must go to them and toll them all
about it. They are not aware Of any obligation.
They wonld never think of 1t If ho did not tell
them, md ho might 1.-Two aud prcach in
Jerusalem or Corintl until tho angels
came to fetch him homo. and they
would never lear him or know, perhaps, there
was such man in the world. 1Iis mcoting-
house Is sort of magic risclo to keep then, out,
i. ehall not keep him III; lo will find llom on
thoir own ground, meet them an-fashion, look
into their eyes, clasp their hands, speak to them
II no can in their own tongue, through tho cAan-
rcls OF their own sympathes, In tho line OF thoir
familiar ilyaR; and If ho 1inds they orc on q
lower level than Tint to which he has heen lifted
by tho blessed truth which has transformed the
world mud opened tho heayens to iIim-aul thia
is What Ao quite expectB-thcn he will risk Ills
thought aud life againHt thoiss, and fear tho re-
suit 10 moro than Jesus feared the result Wien
lo made himself perfectly At home il, tho house
of q u,an Of no hetter reputation, probably, than
nlember Of the Pacific Mail eang Is this week,
or that otior result Ut aupplcmcutng tho feast
Ut the marriage ut Cana.
Neither ia 1t hard to gtlesB from what We know
of the snau, In whnt happy human ways ho
would meet these Qreeks and barbarlanB, whoA
h1 ouco got At thon and found hiulsolf fAirly in
| their conpany. Paul, 10 fat as I can
sos into his quality, was never. after tho great
| change canlo over him, ono Of those
mon who imagine TINT thoy true to their call
ing III ministers OF tho Gospel, III tho measure OF
their power, to be unlike The rank and nls about
tenn, so that tho moment you soc them you coli~
| clude by their dress, their Ealt, aud thor coun-
| tenance, that vou arc meotiug minister; aud,
II you haso not shaken or Il certain fear OF your
Childhood for that sort Of pozsou. eau notice
| your face change ak the distance Of half block,
and, II two Of you IRE talking tosoLhcr, the prob.
abilities arc that you will lower your tones OF
change tho subject until Ae gots past, in dofet'
ouce. Al you phrasn it with tlno aptncss, fci
| RI IL. 3,.4 At.1 ~
our creed as It wcre. TINT ono nun hare in Amer
lea il as good AZ nnuthor, yet, i'll reverence soEne
tunes, in dofereuc0 sometimes, and sometimes In
Hypocrisy, Wo sLow our fceliuG wherever we &C
that no other nun eau begin to be as good as
minister, II these outward slgns arc worth my.
| thing At oil. But Paul WAS man Of the wptlt
| in tho purest mud best seune, al well ns man
above the world. There WAS some such
difference between Lis spirit aud that Of !
man like Ictor, az there was botwoen Willlau
Penn and George Fox, hs there IL to-day betweer
| ArchbiAt,oD Manning and Dean Stanley; or. K
touch The highest point Of all, IS tlore waa be-
twoon Johu tho baptist aud the Savior. Pau
was the broadcast churchnan Of Aia ngo. III
worth OF the truth which lay Outside tho Law
nllu the Gospel, and OF the life outside that o
Ills own nation. Hc cell well imagine, therefore
IN what arko sad catholic M splrl. he VII slos
them Ill The Imperial City. How he would try t.
enter into their ways OF thinking, 30 AZ to b.
able. pleasa God, to allow them q better way
How ha would sit It their tables, sleep In thei
gueat-rooms, coufolm a. far as le could to thei
household Ways, look over their books pick ou
tue immortal passages In their poetR and pAiloso
p!lcrs, comment on thsn with Tho exquisite In
Bight OF an equal ganlus, aud say- frankly hot
very much Ao owed 10 this man and that Of tioi
raco. How when he came in contact with til
largo, fresh nature Of tho barbar!ans, just Oh
OF the woodB, the men md tho women WHO ha
tho strength and a~oetncsB Of nature III thor
with conv!otions Of right aud duty Old ~ th
hills, aud tho fragrance Of reYeronca fe
tlleir own Most High f1es!, from the Aeart, rnl
nad rough and barbaFots aa they arc 10 oth0
ways, how lo would glory IN their nature, AM
. 900 that it only needed what no had to give
tue grace Of God TO develop into tho ,graildei
manhood the world had eyor Heen and tlo III
voutost, How eagerly In would ask thoa
13titons and dauls aud Germans to tell him c
, their thought and lie In their native land, au
llalt wn them by tho sheen in lis eyes aud IL
| trcmnlous Tenderness about his mouth, rs tAt
talked until tlloir harsh yoicea fell into mus
about tiIer riyorB aud mountains, and lnooss ar
7 meadows, talked with the far-away look OF exii
: sick TO get home. '.Aye, ave." lie would ~
: "a bonnie land and good" 10 he would i
+ with them, those uroeks mud barbarians. wit
: mon and fools, taking the tono aad color for Il
: moment Of the 0feelI philosophy: that he migl
give them In rotusn tho deep and sure reality
. the Christian faith. Entering With oil hs boa
j into tho natural nobility Of tho barbarian th
o might inssi into Il thereby tho lufier noblli
= Of tue cross OF Christ, glad to co
ter OF wisdom with tho wisest that
might show them 1t last tho wisdom
(iod, and to tho foolish he would DO ~ wise al
i tender ~ my dear friend who {H Ut tho heal
tho Asylum in Syracuse, 1lo tallls like the rea
il Ing made easy, and ths hcars Of Chriht in one,
% lie lapless children who arc brought under
l. blessed cnre-talks 10 that ho may first got ne
l. them on their own ground and then win Tie
ia to take at least ono short stop toward where o
% moro forsunRnte children stand in tho euullK
j. Of all s!la ngea, In somo such wise way ~ Il
., Paul would talk to tho 1oosl, hut to tho foo
It to those res0tute, wrong headed people vi
l. thought they know all about 1t aud had nothi
10 to learn Heaven can teach. ho would have VI
ID different mission, ~ We eau SOC whenever
n meptiouB that sort OF man In A!s letters.
10 And have been led into this liuo OF remi
" in thinking now and then. md especially Of In
ID about the way in which this truth Paul tells
10 OF Ais debt to tue 01eoka and bazbatianB in
l. t1no may sweep out into very wide application
u and tLoa how the way IN which he went
K work, % he tells US, himself becoming all thr
10 to all men In order to- pay these debts, II
le teach tLose who feel At all ~ he
iii uhut to do In order to mGet their obllgatio
hid Aud this take to be the truth to-day, al it ,