New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-04

what the teacher can In one sense everybody ia self
educated IN another sehsg no mp%so Which we derive
from without kindng us and directing US tnot iusU 5
trrc nunil there are few more powerful influences In
life than the personal inHucncc-the living power OF
Thinking emotivc soul on disciples pupils We see II
in a ruder form in clanshp aud among soldiers following
their generals. their chietuns, ther heroes suS
although personal influence not be yet as ieSou
ms widely difscd, subject to such range ana use as
highest triumphs Of force to be those which spring
from living personality eNerted on living personae'.
II is the soul that has in il the most stimulus Tor sous
while we believe in the great physical laws OF the World
and in the social and in the civil, ana rScoshze o "
secondary or collateral influences the primary power Oh
the universe for the highest good in man inc eAeio'e
on living soul OF another living soul or o. many
We are prepared, then, 20 understand more tu W.
philosophy that Christ is the manifestation 81 U', ol
that translation or me lfoaon. o. ''V I human he
condition which shall be operative un9h hnltI 1v,
Since this is the great power we shGI N O's S row In
grace, and as 1t Is SAID IN inc seeus 70 me
following the Greci sreculaton-widi IA Chri ~
wisdom Of God and the power OF God unto salvation"
which is the only point OF Investigation open 10 Us ~
nature OF Christ ms related to the Eternal Father What
Is Christs related TO the GOdhcad " toS
trition nor is there any analogy by when we can
by inference reach the settlement OF the qulsuion'
percce utterly beyond the reach OF men, ana a the
long study, and exquisite range, ana me ~,
question OF the relation OF hist 10 the GodheaI Is
loves labor lost no, loves labor be4un' Ioi
Side Of truth as ia in Christ which is within reach
what He is to the human soni And that not rom So
which religious reasoning has fallen as II we were 10
derive all our ideals aud conceptions oil DIVINE auI
tritiou from the imperfect machinery anu t-oohcu
policy of earthly courts and gOvernmcns as II we COM
hnei ortidcia forms which are necessary for 1!e
rangcmc OF man by reason Of his weakness his htay
rcs transferring when we were to open the
of
of the moral government OF G2d. lhere
more truth Of God in the mothcrs hr3aI nan III t ~,
household than in all the courts and all the eSs s
lures and all the JidEenS t,r '"G tbat hearty
Enthusiasm Of oye-f might say. bcngnant 1anatl-
csm-conld be carried in the human soul toward beng
Who had no exposition 70 US whatever through ne
senses. which the Imagination could take ho!a OF
Knastie when he declares that We God through
GAS da,Iy when We think OF Him as pure spirit For
we are not pure spirits and we never saw one Wien
ri c,t appears il has to appear makebelicNc form
il may not be OF gross matter but il comes 50 far MO II
IT, if"' # ~" am TO know what is in Greek
book must he interprc Ted to elt2 the hg7
Ter than do in lie origna, Homer may charm in
Greek but not until the poets of my own inocr tongue
render him in English IS ne poet 70 me Ahn goa my
reign and Heaven chant sadnc'S ana the oHrhai;
spheres be full, He is no God interpreted 10 nc Ihtn
behold Him under those conditions rom Which al Aho"I
edge comes TO me.
men fhe conception OF God in the Old Testament dispen
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob JIG was Drought near 70
them 10y spirit OF patriotism; but Wnat tne
law gave to 'hi Siaba In wo G Now % i it was ra
problem how to bring within Tie sphere OF ordinary con
government, if that was the object of the lncnaton
was a failure. Iut ii the purpose was To
co unSersta4d apprcciae, follow drawing him near
TO it, then it was success, and Christ ~ de
Of God ana the power OF God unto saliva
ton to every one that believed. And this IS The
jesus Christ ministercd that all men might have
personal sympathy personal righteousness love- succor
came Himself into tie world in the person of
Jesus Christ. not that we might rack our brains
We might spend lives in that way
but that that which has proved to be in ri; time the
chief power of the world, personal power might stream
nnon man. ogcReIng his Understandings and bis
every sense-his sense of Kindness. mercy.
ana giving him new aspirations and eie-
personal power Now the uGcring and death Of Christ
in relation eXposory. The theory is sara almost
in words Greater love hath man than mat he give
his life for lis friend" lie gave His life In other words
His life is the measure OF quality, and ChFist came 10
greatest nobes aud best do not that there was
nothing moro than that. take it that there were
there were heavenly OF it of which we have no con
cepion but so faras man Is concerned the death ot
Christ has no remedial influence upon theology. ina,
which we know least Of Whereas when we LOOK upon II
from the opposite standpoint then TINS slep oi Cst ~
terpreted God in way to touch the sympathy OF MN
Bmd.
tits true that Of the Re Of Christ the greatest part Of
it has had no record Ncyerh my eranaiy does not
contain the thoUsaEd part OF that which saw in the
field when it was growing our love Of minute history,
tie world, lead men to doubt; lead men
10 say, If Christ was the MANI } IS ,li,;
for record how is 1t that His apostles did not think "
II for twenty years after and even then The record
but fragmenary Blu; tOIemcmber that tlerrcord
is not literary He literateur lie Is power an
inucqee and that %Ic was u Chs Jesus IVA Vas nor
VINO HIS mother was, vino His brethren were nov many
times He spoke and all things that He said The rev
elation OF God in Christ Jesus could be made manifest by
few factsj well by many, and the question Of guc'
ne conceVtop OF divinity which The world never had
before, which is full OF power and influence thai
the world has never begun to crow up 10 lti has
that been achieyedi Then, II IT has, we don't ntcd the
organ through which it calno to Us drive not al t,e
BILE and straw which tit and necessary for ITS pro-
duction, l leave them: bat That winch Is pro-
eat the chaT The chaf was the mothers bosom while
growing, but the char when IS done has no onseI
any function. And yet do not feel that we have lost
fFSy '" chSf, is blown away And there is the
ten us that because cattle eat bran folks ought to eat IT.
have the harvest Now there is much historical straw
that has not been recorded there is much OF the ccr
nal work Of Jesus Christ that was not recorded.
il had been. should like TO have known what lie said
when lie sa; in the olives OF (ietsemane every eFenS
when the great led day had been blazing with prrsecn
ton, when the day RI, was 8, gone ana lie .,,, si'
YOU cannot know. But That which Is uonSCendeut t.
everything elsc is what i The thought oi Cod. what -
Gods disposition, what does lie think OF me WHAT Is nc
willing to do for me- That is open to the understand
inc of tie savage, OF The child and yet we a:e
foTpycr gaining the knowledge of II and never coming 10
on end 1t is the wisdom and power of God into saliva
ton, and it Is the character ad c ana soI!scrA'e on
Jesus C4riSt. Men 40 not want ~ Nr
skcntics There times when skopticsin
Was ugiign in 50 much II was embiitcrcd NAeu re-
gio represents itself lay philosophical church and he
philosophical church Was dc3ioc, men were hs3red by
n desire for cnaucp.t They were rS1'. NUiidire
was more of q Christian with all his soothing than Chris
tians were his age, they were called as lhey were
represented by pres hood. But there Is no skopicsn
possible I'm true religion As God watches the race, -
the temper this thought that OF severity Does lie