New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-20
CHRISTIAN LIFE AND MANHOOD.
ne Rsp Henri Ward Beeeaer al Plymouth Church. brooklyn
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Notwithstanding the intense cold yesterday,
Plymouth Church filed with the usual large audi
ence Horatio C. King played the In the absence
OF John Zundel. Mr.. Beecher his text from Mat
thew " 90 ~, 40. aud AZ: For say unto You that
except your righteousness shall eed the righteousness
sfthc serbes and Phasees We shall in into
the kingdom Ct Heaven "That ye may be the chill
dren Of your Father which Is in Heaven, for He
n,akeih His sun 10 rise the evil and
on the good, and seudeth rain the just
anc on the For We love them which love You,
what reward have YET Do not even the puAlcans the
same r. And II We salute your brethren only, what do
We more than others DO the pubiicans 80 Z"
Tie kingdom which the Savior 20 establish said
M Beecher Was not an outward visible secular king
dom II was condition and state and IL might appear
uner any o. outward government or ecciesiacal
government. IL presented ideal manhood. II was
TIE showing the way % the higher thouchtlte
and emoiicnal-,s and characteristic. whether 10 WAS
cultivated or not was left to circunsa whether
it developed Itself under the Jewish Church or
within il. OF under subsequent Christian organlza-
tons, ana Il IL these, whether IL one sect or in
another whether Il de seoped itself cut Of all secta or
outside Of Christianity itaeh among EeaiAen' among
tI i,, tf ~ Co., M iiT~ was a cod Of cser,cfer
and of place nor Of Organization. And therefore
,, No loel N 40 - tie S.riaes a,i Phari-ces as
the best ,nchers and main the best specimens
OF MIA nan could be- under Jewish institutions That
il the God OF Heaven. rms new aad higher
deyci0pment your righteousness, your ldedi
thai ~ Of the sstlbe~ and higher than that OF
the Phar1sees." The technical question, according 20 or
way OF thinking aud according 10 ops ume Whether me
scribes and Pnares were saved OF not old not come
the mind OF the savior. lie had before HIM ne"
departure. the mind Of man, In Tie individual ana M
tn whole race lie YOU cannot Dee Of that school
ur.oss yea have higher conception OF rign.oG 'e>a
than you now have anu Wu"5'e Maa Oh it AsiieI ~ le
and school De- that Cod, Dew or GENTLE. II was
God VITO taught 10 Use himself That harmony and
happiness should bc pOsspe uhlcI ~ cutui.S.'nc,s
Thcre nave been times when men nave ueen laueA,
ard there are yet existing many forms 81 tIs
Ind tlat the pains are equivalent 10 the
ps, y ~ ii ~ .r6e TO sSu for <, al sources o.
Joy. make yourself exile and SletcIcd ia l-ns NE
Il worth your while. That TIC aScStlc SIDE o. feAlO
bur ChIisJs dea was never that That STATE or mi4d
which he .ave was only meant TO make neu supremacy
happy, anu JOY ~ the Language OF le Apostle Is 20 te
HOy Ghost, righteousness tAA.t' t.liio ' al .l'.,
the Holy Ghost There existed IN The time OF the SAVIOR
three great sccts the sduce-s, fasees, anu the Is
and trlsts: then the Std0ueees, who were
s1t-ct-d ,fh t,re- piio-oubF: ana then there were
TIE Ersenos. who had striking RESEMBLANCE 10 the
Shakers " dog IN al tArI doctrines, 'ut were more
yigo'oIs IN ter practice they hated the Phari-
80 eT gycrc without ca tlrc refinement; they fed
OIL whatever they able 10 gather WITHOUT trouble OF
labor John came neither eating drinking and they
ss1 = mad a devil md a demon. Tie son Nan came
right over against john present NJ precisely an opposite
pissa Christ says the son OF alan came eating aHd
dT,u1n- nc oLer men; lie came accepting t-e Aosp
trlv OF tire rich going with priests, going Win Phaf
see eating and drinking just Ike any other man, right
o. against Jonu, john the suei ana men sSlO lie
WIS "A clutfuu ana a WLuc-llD5cr.
The tygsual teaches 10 Dc happy IN misery,
friurisonnfnt and hat e0. Inc Gospel Lifts man u 80
tlat these Things have dominion over MIN; ht VIII
lie above them look down upon tAcin end conlol mem
Ills Gospel ada ts tsef - an classes OF nanAlh' n-e
pred. low bred, cultivated, Jew, Gentle, bdfoa3au
bond free. high. lOW-every body. 10 you kAO" WHY
the Bible place la spite VI the assaults tat nave
I4en made upOn r, which would XIII al! Door
other tsan H. 10 is because u Is a1aP,ed 10 the
Ito glt and ana wants OF the poor ana sO-
row Tie Ol trouble. lu4s glai Wolid Il u
revolution II fan Of confusion II u fl ~ JOY WicM IF
sOuudl.s, aEd of lIat walls ana IS hedl- Inc
stuDae ID arku IS, Tie uhsAaLcd desires tlc nun
gerng ambition te crash of hou euoulis, lhe Cls'tt
ion OF trs the want Of fe low ship tie want OF iIle-
sh.p-eigr al come 10 mankind they belong 70 man
Lid But bring IuaLliud a gleater conception o.
mankind. and various troubles are i-e-ie' anu
man Is iuadC % appear happy IN the uGst oi mem ll
ID wa- God MO brought the knowledge OF lbt uiFlhs
Life ~ IL AZ and brought him face 10 lace WIN ne Goo Oh
Heaven And c. dnIty teaches that Iie ia Col "Do
all taEe upon Himself the amplitude OF human suffering
rather taan allow su1cr. The universe Is con
tol.ea W lAis principle % love. 81, 1870.
~ Ieacrf lien spoke a. some length on Tue sU5cct
of d.,fb He smoke Of those Who had gone before hh
LIE eh..reu his father hs mOther, lis college mates
sud closed W SAVING thar be had not lost t1ein tley AaI
ooiv PRECEDED him, and De soon 90 follow he con
elused ms sermon y Bppea q CHRISTIANS 10 co nst
NOT because they expected " 10 ~ D. thOse 40
we're not Christians. but ~ do Ilt IrOA piIuclie anu
from their GVS.