The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-04
THE METHODIST MINISTER'S
THE RESURRECTION AND ITS ANALoGIEs IN
EATURE-sEcTARIAS LEGISLATION TO BE
IOOKFD ATsT,rR

THE RESURRECTION AND ITS ANALooEs IN
LOOKED AFTER
The Methodist preachers meeting usually devotes
the FIRST Monday every month purely religious ex-
ercises Some OF the number or an invited brother
from another place breaches addresses the meeting
They have had during the past year this feature
introduced many excellent sermons delivered bo-
fore them, but the pictorial emotional line
to surpass, If indeed to equal that which the Rev.
John Johns Of the Free Tabernacle church in West
Thirty-fourth street. presented yesterday the meet
ing His theme was the analogy between the death Of
a corn Of wheat and the death Of Christ-"Except
corn ofwheat fall into the ground and die il abideth
alone but If it die it brngeth forth much fruit" Tho
death Of Christ and the death Of the grain analo-
gous in lis preparation The poughshare goes before
the seedbasket There was a long time or
preparation for Christ's coming, but the plough
share OF truth busy in the world all the
time. -Four thousand years, according to our chron
ology in this preparatIon but in the funess
of time, Christ the great corn Of the race
die Many OF us wonder why long time of prepare
ton needed. This is Gods way. Time IS an i'm
portant element in all that He does; and when His
work is done it is done forever Not SO however with
man He Is continually pulling down bis barns that he
NAV build greater He does his WORK hurrtediy ana
has TO do IL and over many times The analogy
extends also to the need But 1t differs In this that
with the need exists before the remedy Small
pox before vaccination fire before the water sup-
ply to put 1t out but with God the remedy goes before
tho need. Hence, Christ is not only the Lamb OF
God, but the Lamb slain from the foundation Of tho
world Long before man was wounded there
balm In Gilead there good physician there The
analogy Is seen also in the actual processes Tho
gram 10
but as soon as is buried it begins to die II does not
die instantly it is days in dying. Here Mr. Johns
"A
sunerngs of Christ in the garden OF Gethsemane, in
the judgment halls and Calvary and remarked that
His death not the act of an instant but was a slow
process. He suffered long and keenly for man. The
death OF the seed is the death of necessity Don't put
II away and 1t won't come back; don't put it in tho
grave to die and il Won't live II it does not die we
de- It is tho stat OF our life The analogy agrees also
by way of mystery It dies to live and IL does not
die does not live And out OF the death OF little
comes 100 and il has been known to produce as
many 1000 Why don't men reject the loaf because
OF It's mystery as they do the atonement OF Christ
the same groundY The analogy is seen also in expert
ence, and the results much fruit The discourse
touched the emotions the preachers and the exer
cscs more like old fashioned revival meeting
than an ordinary gathering Of Methodist preachers
But moment or two served to bring them from the
emotional TO the practical When the report of ''the
Gray Nuns Committee was called for tho committee
asked for more time Their work TO grow
their hands Or. Wheatiey remarked that il is not
only the House of Refuge that Is being depleted to I'll
the Catholic Protcctory, but the schools on Randallg
Island, from whence have been removed lately between
400 and 500 children 10 be placed In two Catholic inst
tutons and forty-six to Protestant institutions Tho
cost of the support OF those children on the island is
$53 each per year; the cost in the Protectory $40
DR. Curry remarked that the committee had before them
three distinct matters and yet which closely related
they had heard Of but the features havo yet
to light The original charter secured them i'm
munity from interference by the Courts of this State
The next is the Catholic Protectory, to which Dr.
Wheatley had referred and the third is that
ferred to by morning paper day or
This piece of legislation takes ofthe hands OF the city
authorities its for the poor children and transfers
this duty practically Catholic institutions while tho
city pays $57 per capita year for the privilege
of the transfer. There is only place this
side of hell where they could be put and that is in tho
county poorhouscs of the State Aud if they 20
the bad place the Doctor would prefer that they go
by way Of the Catholic Church. Tho Doctor opposed
these laws because by them the State recognizes the
religious profession Of the individual, ana 1t has
right do this than notice his color cond-
ton. The Doctor will speak Monday the
nectonal union OF the Methodist Episcopal churches.