The New York herald., 1875-11-22
The Utterances Of the Preach
ers Yesterday.
THE SOUL HERE AND HEREAFTER.
Mr.. Beeeher Protests Against the Abandonment
Of Pleasure TO the Worldly.
THE EVIL OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY.
Beautiful Ceremonies Of the Forty
Hours Devotion.
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.

CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.
THE SOUL HERE AND HEREAFTER-DR. HEP
woRTH's SERMON on CORNER STONES.
The inclemency OF the weather yesterday morning
made considerable decrease in the attendance at the
Church OF the Dscples but still the church mod
erately well filled. Dr. Hepworth preached very log
ical sermon, taking for his text, St. Luke, viii,
14-"And he said, Young man, say unto
thee, arise = It was a sad procession that which
was making It's way beyond the limits Of the little ham
let OF Main, that the widow might lay her only son
under the sod but il glad and joyful company
that returned homo after il had looked the face OF
Jesus Filled with compassion, always ready TO do
His Fathers work, He the company OF mourners
touching the bier He bsde the whole procession to
halt Perhaps of those present had beheld some
Of the miracles He had achieved, but no
ono had such deed as He about 10 perform.
They must have been filed with wonder when they
Christ standing the presence Of death and assum-
ing power be its conqueror When they heard that
narvellously sweet voice saying "Young man, say
unto thee, arise = strange sights II was the end OF
rAe old dspensation and the beginning Of one entirely
now At no time till then had any one trodden our
green planet to whom Death was captive Men might
dread nothing else, but they all dreaded him. When
the grim messenger from the dark regions OF night
knocked the door he would enter whether they bade
him or not; the
ISscRUTABLE MYSTERY
was death No one understood It, Jesus at the same
moment brought light as well as immortality into life,
and from that moment 1t has been all sunshine about
us The incident l have related and the topics which
1t suggests wish 10 discuss We interested in the
end of life than its duration. There is certain
kind OF dismay hearts that looks to the shadow
that comes in every man life one time or other and
we shrink within ourselves the professions pass
and we think that our time may come any moment
You and | believe in Immortality, but If you were
called 10 give for il you might hesitate
and yet so important dogma as our hereafter ought
TO have sure foundation II ought to be laid on the
Hound rock OF reason ana Gods revelation, not on
the shifting sands OF our own feelings. Now,
there two facts which would like 10 state. The
first is this scientific have been hard at work for
many ages in order to hnd out how matter into
existence and when matter VIII to oxist They
have al last come to the strange conclusion that an
atom created never be annihated. The ctcr-
nifty Of matter is OF the verltes OF sciences you
not destroy particle Of intangible dust that floats in
the sunshine Ii may change its shape but cannot be
uDcreated. Ii cannot be hurled back 10 the oblivion
from which Il came. II Will exist TIL the last
OF the last day, the trump shall sound and earth
shall be destroyed and the heavens turned up like
scroll That is the truth. Water is drawn by the rays
OF the sun into the clouds, and aerward dcscends to
earth again IN rain, only 70 60 through the same
process Not q drop Is destroyed. Now, let
take the next step. We are told by science
only that matter Is tndesruciibic, but that that
which We call force also ndcstructble For instance
heat is a force 1t cannot be destroyed. II may be
changed to notion the motion electricity and then
back again; but ii viii always remain force Now
these my two facts as foundation Man consists OF
both these clements Of which have been speaking
First. be IS the representative Of matter You can
IL in his organization. Then he has within him very
curious something else Let me for the sake of argu
call il force. Man consists, then, OF two eIe
ments matter and force, and they are ntertwned
about each other during the period call life We
made Of matter and then breathed upon by God and
man becomes living soul, not an automatic machine.
THE GRAND MYSTERY OF CREATION
Now, mans body changes its form at gwen time
hero a in inns Wl q
shock. The wheels stop, the pullcys cease TO move
and we pnt the worn out machine under the sod
After years we look and find nothing-earh has taken
back her own. Now, think have the authority Of
science for saying that the force which makes man
living soul Is indesructblc, that the matter is nde
structble, that the energy is indestructibc Mans
body goes TO earth and assumes other shapes MANS
soul goeswhero2 / viii try 70 show The next ques-
tion to be settled is thisIou say what reason have
you for supposng the energy called soul preserves its
identity? Ny answer is plain First, from the Bible
which is my authority; second from reason which Is
some mems authority. Ii Is one OF the few
points In human experience where mans reasoning
powers and intuition agree with the Word Of Cod
You cannot take out Of the feeling that he has
soul Not travels the earth but stands in
Of judgment day that may come.
The Scriptures say in Romans xiv, 10-ll-sRut why
dos thou judge thy brothers or why dos thou set at
nought thy brotheri for shall all stand before
the Judgment seat Of Christ For IL is written, As
live saith the Lord. every knee shall bow 10 me. and
every tongue shall confess to Cod" Well. whom
After death. cannot give an account Of myself il the
soul is 10 be mctamorphosed into animal rock.
when die this energy must remain with me and
retain ny individuality else there this
revelation. / my own character, my own identity,
must and viii appear.
In Matthew, XIV, 81, find that wonderful account
Of the coming Of the Son of Man, IN that day when
Gods fat shall 90 forth and the world return into
nothngness and only souls VIII livethe good in glory
the bad IN everlasting and sorrow Ii IL true
that timo shall stand before the judgment seat
II is also true that when buried the best part
or us preserves individuality, and enters into
other sphere OF existence where IL VIII be conscious
1t blessed thought brethren, the force that Is in
Is from the nostrils Of God and retains lbs shape
and power; once man. always to the end OF
eternity God sent Christ into the worl because He
loved that part OF u.s. What a blessed thing to look
forward to the future and when get heaven there
viii be glare Of the sun, but the genial gentle light
Of the presence Of God This life is but the ante.
chamber 10 the palace, but the robng Of the
ma future, and all to get ready that may be
ushered into the presence Of Him who calls us by
name blessed Christianity. which came when
sitting In darkness and showed the way to
light God be thanked for the antechamber but how
can we thank Him for the palace Thank God for
ever