The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-07
LAFAYETTE PLACE CHURCH.

THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD-SbR-
MON BY THE REV. Mr.. SCOTT
Tho majority of the members Of the regular congrc
CATION Of the Dutch Reformed church in Lafayette
place out of town. and there consequently but
few persons attendance divine service yesterday
forenoon. The sermon preached by tho Rev. Mr..
Scott who took for his text the eighth verso OF tho
thirty second chapter OF Deuteronomy which reads MS
foows:-"When the Most High divided to the nations
their inheritance when lie separated the sons OF Adan
Hdset the bonds OF the people according to the number
OF tho children OF Israel" We were, the reveren
gentleman said, living in stirring times, and no one
could tell what the next move the chess board Of
human events would be or what the grand result. For
six thousand years the Most High had been pre-
pairing the way for His Kingdom, and It
seemed that the angel about to take wing.
put the trumpet his mouth and the great
contamination at hand. Men, he said, who engage in
the chase of wild animals contracted their lines
that when the beast stirred up II could be easily
pursued and struck down. In like manner tho provi-
dences OF God contracted their circles around some
purpose OF heaven until 1t was stirred up and made
triumphant The Jews had what they called their
preparation for the Sabbath, and Why them should
not have millennium Sabbath Of the earth? The
prophet Daniel and John the Evangelist had revealed
he inspired record Of 260 years ending in the de-
struction OF antiChristian purposes Whether the
Euphrates, where sat the real Babylon,
the riber, where thrives the mystic Baby
Ion, Gods purposes always triumphed- Unless
were at Iault IN our reading OF Gods
Word In tho SCRIPTURES the tul6Imcnt OF the
prophecies must come TO pass very soon. The over
throw OF the antC Christian Papal beas must WI
the cycles of the present revolving years The shadow
OF darkness at times, 1t was true, chilled our hearts
but YET, for he believed that the very
threshold OF The most momentous events OF history.
II We were only spared another hundred years
would witness the most tremendous changes IN men
and the Kingdom OF God 1t might be OF blood;
Tor We all know that Gods purposes we're often ac-
Compshcd through dcsoatiOn and sorrow, and
have 10 shudder al tho prospect but His work must
proceed. When God lea His people TO Canaan there
were carnage and blood beforehand, and when Jer-
usaem overthrow Tor tho elect It's overthrow
sgnazed by tribuaiion and sorrow Was not all this
a type OF the second coming OF Christ? But after the
the calm after the carnage the proclamation OF
truce, and alter all this period Chrst's
glorious triumph itself! The student OF the
tho majesty OF God was asonished ut the revolutions
among nations he read OF as he went aong, aud Ielt
that he could not understand how God is acting 1t
a my sery to us looking at things with our Unite
view, why He had permitted the Saracsns To lay waste
OF the farest lands on earh and had allowed them
still hold possession there; why the Crusaders
and again defeated and their bones whiiencd
the plains OF Palestine There was key to all these
mysteries, but we had it not. From before the ioun
cations OF the world God had dccreed that Christs
kingdom should and all these things each in It's
own way, were destined TO bring II about Though wo
could understand why He piled up the granite
mountains tossed the seas with destructive tempests
aud spread the sands In the desert, did UNDER
stand that He will establish at last His great white
throne Thus could look back 10 the past
witness the present and anticipate The future, aud
see in them all the wonderful workings Of the Al
mighty with the one end in viewthe establlshmentof
His AIngdom on earth Alter showing that God had
divided the earth among the nations for "a pur-
pose Mr. Scott said the nations OF the eieenh
Jury must be obedient TO the work of God Us he
quired the nations spoken of In the Old Testament to
be ohedient If they were not they would perish
There human hearts that said there God,
that 1t were, the globe revovcd without axis but
they were out lew; mankind generally recognized that
he ruled in the armies oil heaven and among the ma
OF the Garth The reverend gentleman cited
the history OF the Bonapares 10 show that potentes
who disregard the will OF God were set aside the
whirlwnd sweeps down the iacst trees OF the Forest
and pointed TO tho present condition OF Turkey to
show that she had been Tried IN the balance, found
wanting and would sooner or later TALL He closed
by exporting his hearers TO exert themselves ndividu
ally in the work OF God that His will would be done
IN all things.