The New York herald., 1876-07-03
CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR.
The NATIONS IIFE-sERMoN By THE REV.
JANIS NJ PULLMAN.

JANIS NJ. PULLMAN.
In this neat and cool church yesterday morning
therc good sized congregation. The pulpit
seemed very appropriately decorated with the Stars
and Stripes when Mr.. Pullman announced as his SUBJ
ject "The Nations Life" His text Isaiah xvi,
2"In that day shall this song be sung the land of
Judah We have strong city; salvation will God APP
point for walls AMI bulwarks. Open ye the gates that
the righteous nation which kecpeth the truth may
entcr n." You may compare the one hundred years
Of our national progress he began, the growth of
tree In our discourse il is impossible to all
the roots that have nourished this great
all directions and the fruits failing everywhere
Leaving it for dengcds, whose business II is 10 Halter
tor their purposes let us see in what the concerted
greatness of country consists In what are we
great? wo answer, In number But China has II far
greater population. We are great in wealth; but
wealth is often the corrupter and demofaI'zer OF
nation. We are wealthy III inventions; but there is
nothing moral IN machine there Is nothing III all the
appliances Of our art and science to guarantee 10 us
any moral worth. They are INSTRUMENTS not only fur
good but also for evil They are merely passive III the
hand that them What we did was TO open the
doors OF this fresh fountain. Muttudes have come
running to these shores from the Old World. We
have stood in our doors and have invited them come
in. We have always kept our country as refuge for
the oppressed We may at the end OF one hundred
years look back and sly there mas been no reirogres
sion. Other great countries have had moral and
material value. We have furnished homes for mill
ions. prosperous nation materially, such as ours,
"A
happy homes and the children born with equal chances
education But this IS material glory, therefore we
turn the moral glory Of our nation, in which tho
only true glory OF every country consists. What
kind oil manhood has its institutions developed? Tor
manhood is the only thing OF true worth in this world
and as far as VIC know, IN the next Are VIC going
on or degehcrating? We are not dcseneratiug but
beginning lose that vcneration Tor ideal char
actcrs which is the safeguard OF any people. What
does his nation above all other tings worship? We
might say money We tcach our children that success
Is the great thing TO strive for and depends
II h~nr
worship smart men, that they are willing to give into
their hands whacver they love cherish But all OF
this is merely the surface. A. the first glance
appear TO worship money; but the Of the rebellion
showed us what IN reality wc worship. There is
among us, apparently, decline OF reverence. Let
die out OF mans heart and you put him
a descending plane. We have to deporc "a de-
cline IN reverence, not only toward parents, who very
often anSwerabic themselves for the lack OF dcicr
shown them. but toward the great founders Of
country. There is one illustration Of this in
literature Some works saturated with light kind
OF wit which consists ia burlesquing some great name.
You can scarcely pick up paper without hpdpg that
some hcdciing With callow wings has attempted
little piece OF wit, whose only strength
is some great mans name. AS look at our
fruits that hang ihckly clustered the branches
see the church OF universal hope. Whom we have
all passed away II will be glory to our nation 10 know
that she has osercd the Unversast Church, the rst
God would save all HIS children. The highest govern
ment can conceive of is one which not only pun
shes crime, but finally compcs the obedience Of the
criminal. This is the government OF God. We should
engendcr in all our children love for their country,
such love springs from the truc conception Of the
ties. Fling out your banners TO the breczcs and teach
your children What thcy symboiizc.