, 1876-01-31
RELIGIOUS,
FIRST Sermon of tile Rev.
Brooke HEcrtOrtI.
Why He Came Here, and What
His Work Will Be.
Tie Rev. Henry T. miller Also For-
mally Begins Ills Pastoral
LabOrs.
Tho Duty Of Pastor to People, and
Of Flock to Shepherd.
DIR. Williamson Explains Why the
MASSES Do Not Go to
Church..
WHY pIDI GOMEZ

WHY Ulp CuMET
Ttnsr sTnM0x ny THE REV. BROOKE HEREFORD.
The Rev. Broo'.o Herford, Of Manchester, En-
gland, recently called as pastor Of tho Church
OF ths Messiah, entered upon Ills charge yceter-
day, and In tho morning preached from tho fol-
lowing text:
wu. sent for: nbk. the1cfors for what Ia.
tent ~ havo acnt for me.-Aeh. r., -.
11o spoke as folIowa:
ThIa was Peters question to tho 1loman Con-
turion, Cornelius. You will remember that
pctor, whilo prenching among hts own JowiBh
rcoplo at Joppa, Was chilled nway 10 tho Roman
settlement ut Cessroa, whcrc this man, tho conf
mander Of tho garrison, and htH friondB. wanted
to hoax his gospel. And though 1t looked a
strange thing to Peter, something quite outside
Of whnt ho had ever contemplated in Ills work,
vet tho call came In euch caEneat fashion that
he could not hoIp feeling that tho Lord meant
him 10 go. And 60 ho wont. And yet when ho got
there amongst thom all-Lo, simple, rigid jew,
brought up to think it wrong thing to have
anything 10 do with men of other nations, right
In tho midst Of q great company OF Gontilo Ro-
mans-it seemed 10 strange to him that he could
not help putting It to them--whns did It mean,
for what intent had thoy sent for i,im7
o1n not quito III such strange case AZ Peter
WA to-day aud yet there is sufficient that is
unusual in this position that ! begin to-day to
occupy; to act no putting much tho ssme cues
tiou. To do what. Ia 1t. thhr you hayc naked mo
to break away from tho nssociatlons Of five sad
twenty happy years Of ministry nmoug my own
people ? What is the work thas nm hero for
tho nero aiming at which tustit3es such 2
your shores, and como, day by day. closer to
tho actual beginning Of my work among you,
hAvo often put TINT question to myself. And
to-day I fot that1 must aak you to put Il to
10 sEape It than ia this old tcxt: ~ havo como
INTO you without gaingaytng as soon as waa
sont for. I ask, therefore, for what intont yo
have sont for mo-" Aud II not only eak tho
eanao DO not trast your nnawer, but bocauso I
do tsuet It. 1t is q common work TINT We have
to do, It ss not my, work only. I should bo
poHo.leas alone. It ts yours aud mine together.
s0a s0a it ds, + '''sa' IT, tint We sop4 ss4a nys a
one ktrops purpose; and 1t IL pecauro
have faith in tho carnestneHs OF your purpose
that I dare vonture to interpret 1t by my own.
tho matter. tako it to be this: That tbo ono
deepest need Of thta strong, eager Western life,
OF which this Chicago Of yot1s Ia a sort Of con-
| tre and metropolis. ia tho simple religion Of
| Jeaus Christ; and YOU have aout for me bccause
you thought you felt in mo aono power to set It
forth so ss to make It moro roal aud living TO
you nud 10 thoso about you.
This matter OF tho religious mood Of your
Western isfe, and Of tho ola religion Of Josus
Christ provided 1t DO freed from ths many cor
rt1psions which hayo grown up about 1t, bolng
| tho truo nnawcr 70 THAT need, IL something about
which must speak to you Eatlaor fully; for on
this matter my coming out to you last ynar VRn
an experience. Of spooal moment to nc. You
! would gather from tho tenor Of my preaching,
| then, that I am ono OF those who have been
accustomed to look worry much to CllriHtanity to
rest upon ito foel IL to bo qnita above al
other 1ehgions OF tile world, the Divine nnswnl
to men'a doubts, tho Daviuo leadership Of life
| do not think have been less FREQ shnn others.
I hhye been thtnking. studying thoao grcat cub.
jects ever since passed out Of boyhood with oil
tho powor have Ind, unfettercd In any way,
without bias TINT know Of, only longing "a
find tho brightest light Of truth. and not only tho
brightest but the most nnsadsng and unchanging,
something that 1 might fccl abiding aud good
Of Of see!ng, ~ aud all tho froest tiuhas have boet
hble TO do has just led mo back for thi8 te
Cbtist,- to the Christ OF tho cIocds, exaR
gesated and goriacd out Of all likoncss to what
lilo really was but to tho simple. human Ghrst
true teacher and leader for human soulBl
bava often bean told I make quite too muci
OF this. sometimes havo feared. myaelf. les
II might bo 60. cannot toll you how often
during these past twenty five years. / have fount
myself digging right down to the foundation
again 10 make euze whether was building upo.
mere worn out sontmont Or whether was VI
tho rock OF reality and fact When came ou
knew tbat / Wa coming. in this g1oat West, Int,
tie mtdst Of 1ife nnG mentI atmoepbore dif
feTent from that WIS used to, know il waa /
ifs bsokon looso to LARGE extcnt from tbe Ol.
Worlds traditIonai weYs and tbuuebts, star.in
In great moasnre afrcsh On its own account
VitL little disnosition to acccpt tho authority O
what IL old, or, indeed, INV authority at If.
knew that It was q llfe instinct with tho MOS
new dircctions Of sEentican and anccnlafion
kuow that Il WaJ liz 90 mnoh more oarcr al,
Intense than that Of nv old country thai moth
lux but the strongost spiritual realities ooul
bayo ANY clapco will il. and that il wonid inny.
tablY Ind out and oyertbrow whatnYor va
merely conventional OF sentimental in nv faitb
or in nv setting forth Of nv fAith. va M
afraid, eyen though 1 foit n,icht hnya tn o;g
m some old eettIed copyIctioos. / fall thst II
ma thinc sacred ia tho tratn.-the thtnc fiat T.
H., ;u Whst aIanc ran etsnI, ana II Sfsit ~