The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-26
TRINITY CHURCH.

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''sELF-DIscrpLNE AND THE CORRECTION OF
OUR FAULTS" BIZ REV. DR. MORGAN
DIX.
ssHe that beeveth shall not make haste furnished
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix OF Trinity church, the text for
impressive discourse yesterday "Selfdiscpline
and the Correction OF Our Faults He stated that
faith is OF the bost gifts Of God to man. With
God there is no such thing haste; IL belongs ex-
pressly to men. Between Gods work and mans work
there is this dincrence-that God takes His time
to work out His own good purposes. while we are al
ways a hurry. God makes haste; there
twelve hours each day with in which we strive to
do great things. Gods time is a ncver-cnding day.
These thoughts suggest the necessity for sclf.disci
plnc and the correction of faults. Men hear God
say, blessed thcy who hunger and thirst after
righteousness. for they shall be hed' They thirst
after this righteousness aud expect 1t at once. They
are In hurry; they think that tomorrow or
within week at least it Will be fulfilled,
but when they ind they do not get it
they become impatient God promises to. give us IL,
but He does not say when His promise will be fulfilled.
THIS habit OF mpatience. the rector showed was nat
ural 10 man, and he characterized the rclgionsts who
tell sinners that God will change them in the twinkg
OF eye cacua ted to increase tho Impotence OF
Uses. There are men who promise TO teach us French
and German in twelve lessons Just SO we arc prom
iscd by some reIig0niss great spiritual changes at
once In the twinking Of an eye
TIKI SINNER Is TO BE SAVED.
DO Gods works and bde His time TO make HIS works
manifest Now q man cannot have faith who is in
haste You want to master something's you become
impatient; you do not succeed quick enough; you
think you are going to FALL you distrust yourself and
your lath declines II you had faith you could wall
You grow furious and excited. Apply these principles
to spiritual things and tho cure OF your faults Gods
grace, be II remembered, is sufficient to cure all
diseases Of the soul Your faith in Him and His
grace must DO firm All man must do IS put
in twenty minutes God may take twelve years to WORK
out Man must just take things quietly and not make
will come without hurrying. Impatcncc is as much
sign OF decreasing fath as parchcd tongue ard hot
system. When you become impatient You doubt Gods
power DO you doubt His promisess Then
WHY ARK you DIscouRAGEDy
be IN haste 81 and 70 be
show that you have faith Him. They that endure
tho last viii somewhere have their Look at it
rs you will, thcro for impotence. Real
and spiritual changes come very slowly, and as you
strive against sin not one of you knows how hard his
hear. is until he looks into it He secs what no did not
before; he feels what no did not feel before Now
let US go 70 work not ha,tly, but slowly with full
sure Of beating our spiritual enemy at the last
CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY.
WHERE Is YOUR FAITH ?-sERMoN BY THE REV.
DIR. CHAPLIN.
Al tho Church OF the Divine Paternity, corner OF
Forynh street and Fifth avenue. yesterday forenoon
Dr. Chaplin preached on faith. The congregation,
owing no doubt to the heat not very largo
Dr. Chaplin took for his text Luke viii, 25--"And he
said unto them, whore Is your faith?" These wero
Christs words being awakened by His disciples in
their alarm while sailing with Him during storm
the Sea OF Gaec. This narrative, said DR.. Chaplin,
often gives rise to criticism Of the disciples faith in
Some such wise as this eve would not have
doubted, y or "Dd they not know that He whom they
carried was competent 10 saver" But such
prise at this apparent lack Of faith only an
indication of The oaso with which people
criticise after an event We know that the dis
had fear but then It Is fair to ask,
would in thor places have shown greater or less
ans People not all subject to the same tests, or,
properly that which would be test for one
man Is iath would be OF anothers Therefore, in
order TO gauge our own faith we should consider how
We would meet our own peculiar tests not how we
would have met those that tried others sorcly But,
continued the preacher,
THERE ARE THEE CONDITIONS PATH
TO which / would call your attention-the object or
your faith the Of your faith and the readiness OF
your faith FIRST what Is It upon which you cmphati
caily rely? Speaking OF this point Dr. Chaplin said
that there Is scarcely any man who has not faitn
In something. Sceptcs, 1t is true say that faith IS
very good IN It's place, or that they VIII not believe
arght that they cannot and others speak OF faith
MS though it were put in the place OF works But they
entirely distinct, notwithstanding that there can
In absolute sccp,c.sm for he who believes in life il
Is without thing behind H. has crcdulty than
he who believes in the ideal Tho most genuine object
Of a mans iaish that for which he sacrifices the
most Christians show by their lives and the martyrs
did by their deaths, their faith in an unseen
reality, and practical men the
who mako the ideal the real mans acts will
indicate MS faith Speaking Of the nature Of faith,
DR. Chaplin condemned traditional, liberal and formal
faith. To DO useful and good, faith should be
be he thought for true faith s founded reason. and
men of faith are The who moved and Will ever
move the world. Then a mans faith should be worn
80 TO be safeguard against sudden surprises And
the true Christian should always have his iath availa
bic ia tho hour Of temptation and other emers enccs.
These three conditions OF faith necessary and i'm
peo in tho words OF the tex-wherc Is your faith :"