National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-02-21
SWEDEN ORGIAN.
SeI mon ty Rev. Jabsz Fox.

oeImon ~ rev. JabsZ toE.
The small but handsome place of worship of the
New Jerusalem Society was attended BY a con-
sregation nearly as large as It would ac.ommo-
date yesterday. The decorations Of the house,
with the sheaf Of wheat over the Word, and the
beautiful flowers In the blp,ismal fOunt, gave,
with the cOlOrs m ade by the sun passing through
the blue, red and golden glass of the Windows, a
quieting effect, that helped prepare the mind for
true worship oil the Lord. Tue music was In
pressive.
Rev Jabez Fox preached from the text, And
Joseph died, and all his brethren, aud all that
Reneration'-Exodus,i :6. lie said spiritu ,Ily, by
generation, is meant generation Of the Church.
Each Church consists of many generations,
marked by changes in he degrees OF knowledge
and faith. The Introduction OF higher r-uthsinto
the Church initiate the succseding generation,
Not iteli changed as TO its SUBSTANTIALLY, II has
become man through its reception OF these new
truths, and 1t leaves the pas: generation the for
mer statt-the boy, ms il were-dead. But this
charge is more perfectly exemplided ia the change
10 the HE OF aIegeneratiog Individual, tor there
the char gea are more rapid. He who 10 youth
be gins he labor o. reducing bis lite conformity
with the ruth. and actively and tntellIgeotly
pursues the purpose 10 a green and gentle old
age, Will have undergone mauy auh very great
changes OF faith and charity 10 life. He ~ have
began with the ultimate forms OF the area, naa.
mental doctrines OF The Church clearly estao-
lished in bis mind, and none OF his changes may
have been from one ultimate form TO another, cut
he will have constantly learned and reduced to
lie more interior ideas OF uCc,rinc Thus he will
have sdysrced from lower TO higher forns, both
OF goodness apd truth. and will see that these
changes are affected by the death of what 10 eX-
ternal, cOrpoTeal and worldly in our affections,
and resurrection OF the internal. spiritual and
immOItal-the perpetual leaving OF the inte N
pure and imperfect and rlsiOg again toward the
Infinite and pure.
From this may be seen that the death OF Joseph,
his brother, and that generation is not the ex-
tinction OF the Church, but the Introduction of
new, higher and holier states of the Church, aud
the removal of the more external and lower.
For when the Church is established with a man:
that is, when the unconscious states Of good
within have attracted truths from without, till
tie man is well indOctrinated in true principles
Of lie from the Word, then the good OF the
Church. which is good life according to the
truth and for the sake of the truth, begins.
This is the good Of the spiritual life, and Is so
called 10 distinguish It from merely natural
good life. Externally the good Of the spiritual
life and the good OF the natural life are alike,
though internally I different in the very important
and the world, while that is from principle OF
confeteIce. They are as unlike as heaven and
earth. hOwsoever they may appear. When man
obeys the truth and lives accordIugIy from the
love Of Going what the truth teaches, he grows In
the good lie Of the Church and daily Increases in
himself for the moro perfect understanding OF the
truth agreeably to the Loro's Word: "lf any man
90 his will, he shall know OF the doctrine" The
growth OF the good with US Is small In this world
The cares ana trials incident to the struggle for
natural existence causing many Instructions. but
In every man, If man himself permits, the Lord
good Tor the sake Of good. And in the other life
the growth Of this spiritual life is immense, con-
tinued perpetualiy TO all eternity.
The lecture in the evening was on the second
coming OF Christ and the object OF that coming.
Missionary Anniversary az Foundry Church.
The juvenile missionary society connected with
DR.. Cleveland's church held its anniversary
meeting yesterday afternoon at the church. The
president Of the society, Mr.. K. N. Tilton, occu.
pied the chair. DR.. Peter Parker opened the
meeting with prayer Tho annual report was
showing a sum OF 1928 in the treasury
The blind orator, Rev. W. II. MIlburn, deIIv-
cred an address, as sharply cut as a diamond,
upon the life, conversion and works of st. John
Chryscston.
DR.. Peter Parker delivered an address, refer
ing tGuchirgly TO bis long missionary lsbOrs In
China, and hoping that some OF the boys Of to day
would enter the held.
The Rev. e. n. MARSHALL ID. D., OF Mississippi,
an eloquent man, evidently very much at home
on the PLATFORM entertained auc thrilled the
children with incident and appeal.