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

Christs spirit and delights in His example From tine
ons nSoSss Il. ~ oss bus IL. sSa
our notice. Christ into the world maniiesting
a.. peculiar spirit and having peculiar
understand and n has learned very slowly
TO believe IN IL But II Is time IL was then; IL
. have not the spirit oil Cnrist he Is none OF His
Christ pleaded not Himself and Christ declared the
disciple above his master; and II man will
come after Ne let him deny himself and take up his
anu follow Me- The ethical side OF discipleshp
approves itself 10 the consciences OF all men, The
did thinker ard the Christian student easily appre
ciae its worth and power, and hence TO such man
stif dogmatism OF theory and orthodoxy; NO partisan
zeal for this or that physical iormua no passionate
trust IN Christs death take the place OF loving
faith In His temper and life; ecstatc worship OF
Christ a divine person be set of against the
neglect OF Christ - an example Of the ideal Of human
perfection
The next condition oil permanent frut from life is
intelligence in tho exomplihcation OF the Christian
ideal. To Christ the inspiration OF ono
living Is not enough. We must learn how TO realize
the conditions OF our everyday life Tho Son OF Man
same eating and drnkng-this trend Of publcans and
cinners Though He lived - no man ever lived IN the
tsnscendent purity and bamelessness OF His spirit He
irequented the scenes of'pubc and domestic activity
waking IN the highways and byways OF common life,
being at feass and in tho svnnsoguss BY day
and resting in the auie. q modest friends at night
would DO like their Master. So must Il
be with any man who proposes that hrs
life should be fruitful He must only accept the
ideal Christ with his heart but he must hts intellect
70 mako him practical IL abstract Christianity
which the world waits for for, but Il IL tho
Christian in the concrete and the deta the Christian
parent and the Christian chl0 the Christian neghbor
the Christian friend the Christian teacher and the
Christian pupil the Christian buyer and the Christian
seller the Christian magistrate AM the Christian cit
zcn the Christian politician and tho Christian CITIZEN
and all these together living and organized the Chris
tian commonwealth and the Christian Church
by the intelligent applications OF Christian prin-
ciplcs anu ideals the varied conditions OF
human society Such applications require in
teligencc TO discern between what Is possible and
what simply neutrality-suspicious. that is slow 10 OBJ
and willing to be taught by iath The world has
had IT'S lair share OF Christian romancng from that
bsnd OF children which went forth TO disappointment
and death In imitation Of the ianatical madness Of
priests, kings and knights and peasants down to tho
thousands and tens OF thousands now living who waste
their energies and squandcr their fortunes and dream
out their lives in some quixotc enterprise, or somo
mantle theory OF the Kingdom Of God, ubniindtul OF
the simple words OF the Master, Lo, tho Kingdom OF
God is within you.n "Whatsoever things arc trne,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
just &c. be not children in understanding, but in
dcrstarding be 20 men,"
Tho preacher then proceeded to show that practical
wisdom which studies the relation Of means 10 ends
will not overlook the attractveness of refinement and
culture, that energy il another condition OF fruitful
discplcship, and that such energy only comes from
faith IN Chrst's person He then considered, under
several heads, deliberately and minute detail the,
permanent fruit which follows the life described
GLIDING with the usual address to the graduating class
numbering 1913 students, who occupied seats In the
chapel near the pulpit The language of address
Of the most beautiful and touching kind and many
In the congregation were affected bv IL.
The exercises Of commencement take place on Thurs
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