The New York herald., 1876-11-13
MASONIC TEMPLE.
CERTAIN TRUTHs-sERMoN BIZ REV. o. b.

FRoTHINGHAM.
Mr. rockingham began his sermon yesterday morn
ing by saying that the demand for certainty was 30
common that II might almost be called universal
Doubt said tho speaker is agreeable or dsagreeabls
according to tho temperament Of the person who en-
terlains it. There are men and women eager In the
pursuit Of TRUTH glad In the Joy that comes in the
search for It, that doubt is agreeable to their minds as
. stmulant for further research They would prefer
not to know. There others to whom doubt briggs
simply indifference Why admit conclusions Of things
they say. that cannot be solved? Devote your life 10
material pursuits get wealth, get influence get post
on but let these questions about the hereafter OF the
soul Wait until tho veil lifted These people are
simply crushed by doubt Doubt shuts the door that
opens into eternity They become careless, indirer.
ent, prosaic. Their lives become utterly without in
spiraon. Such people TO be the most profoundly
pued, because they have gwen up the simple
quest after truta and beauty which digni-
hes, ennoblcs and gIorifcs tho human being.
Then there are others who sensitive shy delicate
who suIicr agonies from doubt; 10 whom tho copdi-
ton OF doubt Is the cond ton Of tho uttermost
tress; who must icel sure, who must have their
ieet stand upon rock These by lar the greatest
number The facts that have certified ure but very
lew but the smallest worth all tho conjecture OF the
mind. single thing that sure of at all s
worth more 10 us than all the grand systems OF the
oogy and philosophy that science has been trying
buId up II there is one truth known IL win be q
greater support 10 our weakness better consolation
m,
than anything that the Imagination CONCEIVE be-
side
In speaking OF the theory OF chance Mr. Froth-
ingham said there was time when everything was
considered to come by chance; but now there is
such thing world Of chance. IL was not so very
long ago when world OF chance seemed to be all tho
natural world thcre was Further law Was seen,
and now chance is law; tho world OF chance is tho
world Of law. Out OF the bosom OF chance comes the
denial OF chance. Once moro, an administration
OF the fact that have insisted from another
quarter-Dameiy, the realm Of waste How wde II Is
million OF things lost tor thing secured Billions
Of seeds wasted Tor one that terminates Tho sower
filings broad his eeed right and LETT some of perishcs:
only little OF II falls on good ground and produc-
tive IL Is so IN fruit, in flowers, of an imsls and
man. But enough was saved TO meet the OF
Kind The harvest Is plenty from year year. There
are flowers enough there fruits enough
there animals OF all kinds enough--as
many needed Tho waste never touches
the realm OF necessity. II will be discovered
by and by that Things were saved which were lost
before, aud saved because the conditions were
better understood Than they ever before. Tho
oil desire, how vain Isl Written upon tho
OF human lilo the word Illusion. Life ia filled with
disappointment Nothing quite comes up to our cx-
pcctation. Pleasure comes 10 nothing IL turns
10 the modth IT turns TO decay in the
vet the pursuits OF pleasure comes men aud women
with such intensity as though always brought last
Ing qualification. The futIisy OF the pursuit Of happ
ness has passed into proverb, and yet thcro Il
nos man Or wsnAn bus desires happinsss Thu