, 1876-01-24
The CHURCH.
The Necessity Of Being
Alive Unto God.
Sermon by the New Pastor Of
the Fourth Presbyte-
rian Church.
The ReE. DR.. Cooper Explains
What and Where tho
Church Is.
Formal Recognition Of the Har-
rison Street Chapel by
the Baptists.
Canon Street Resigns the
Charge of st. Petcr'a
Mission.
Miscellaneous Church and
Pulpit News.
Miscellaneous Church and
Pulpit News.

| ALIVE UNTO GOD.
| SERMON NJ THE a1v. DR.. 5Esx1ys,
h,t ,a- ~ ~. g a.a,n...s.,s, ssu " "mu..1'' a@es
80, ~ .on Auo uo"'s'1n1'n.'ea pastor OF tna
foufta ffonp9sefsan} preached hts fiat regular
sermon to hlasge audience yesterday morning,
taking as tlls tsrt:
Romans, RI, 1, s@~S' SAt''' 'Os 1''sa-
part ~ III. ta,t amid ,oro. In ,,ou. IN.
,.s s .'" .,'o4 w n1o.u 'oAo"5
~" Noea1a asos5 uooo's1ooo tnao uo"' Hot "nen
u WAS Written did eaon know AZ no" what 1t is to
be alive. They a1o alive to money. No chance
of making II esrnnas thon, rta r.,nrt.,i d,,.
covcrv ri atvor go,d dt.nond.S,st ~ ua.a.,
" oo.' sot.'' u4A'4ooaS-'e' II s'*c'i
tnen over 80 1a'htlys % ever 10 seenly confirmed
fluids them sensitive, responsive, and OF they
90 10 much uncertainty but With great courage
aud homo for tho coyetad treaanre, Thora ia
ru,nor ~ =, ost.,a l., r,.I.,, -. s,..-,..,.
uA1o' ~ ~ os.4'o y. cn6'aeu VI e!no"uese Heea'
I'll fall 10 looking no Genealogios; give money to
make good their claim to the estate. A rare nc.
curronco Is to tsko place 10 tho hcavouo It ia
bost scen At defiant points. Men ara ali alive to
iuto strange lands or TO straneo Hators tho met,
eager to coo tho unusual phenomenon, Hocrota
Of The earth, OF tho uuiforse, ubscut cly eucxcst
cd, men ara alive to. Juss NOW English ships
closed their track behnd them md ahut thom il
fuf two years OF waiting and soarchtnr. "a
koon,y alvs arc mon to Tic mystcr,os hId IN tl,st
h!thoflo une1p.ored zooo. 1t "a tho eau,p With
edgo about them f.o1n libraries in con.
vents. from sncteut scrolls In wild and
ungoverned regioua full OF DAGGER, oxcltoy men.
maken thom reatlosH, brave. and starts them ID
on ror,ious tousueyn, 70 learnlue OF sIl kinIs
men a1a a!i;e ~ noycr befose, Ricb mau aud and
women onuoW schools and colieRos, and croHdB
OF youth Iock to theu, uti;,R tho rcport OF enf.
ferers needing help. and men arc sl1o to their
needs. Let ! city burn in The West, 1esoryolr
story Of tic want and suffering thus ~ oarssel M 10 10
buaY merchants, and they asop and give gener-
ourlY Tor relief, 10 alive a1e mon 10 Guuau
II any one exhoststion could in those d.ys bo
nure in.sl1igible tnan auy Other 1t il tho oxLor-
tatton to be alive. Wo prido ourselves on tLis
very thug. OIL being more alive than tho gonora-
That ho 10 live man. Thoro 10 = uniVersai aud d
imperative clAuor for such They Are wanted
10 busless, In echools, in puipits. With tI,s
iostuEo Of our tinieB its o1actpD Of life 10 mon,
docs the exhoItation Of tho toxt agreo. The
century ia tn 1t. De alive, Tho text dots not
stop nheEe tho popular domand does. Moro is
required by 1t than that men 6o alivo. They ME-
to DO alsso unto God. thus require
cannot be a!ivo unto God without
tho capacity Of such life. Las he this capaclty7
IL tue point OF our inquiry.
Tue eIlstouce ot Gud IL supposed to be con.
coded. Taea Nc ha7o tho ln.meuao probability
shat, since thcre is = God. 1nan will feei Him.
Mon fool richos hid dcep below the earth's sur
facs. fastlockod in eudutlng etouo, aud d.etaut
thousands Of mllea.. hlon {eel facts CONCEALED
At tho polea and 1t Is altogether probauIe they
will ieol God. Let 1t bo that sonic shure in The
uniyeEsc uod Ia. Mon will foel Him, probably,
THIS p, p,obabllity is augmented by the TACT ti1at
mao iH Gods oroature. Man IL not tho less this
II ho came by successive developments to hla