The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-09
SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP.

HOW TO ARREST SPIRITUAL PAUPERIsM-A
RABBITS ESTIMATE OF RELIGIOUS REVEALS.
In the temple Lexington avenue and Fifty-nfth
street yesterday the Rev. Dr. Huebsch discoursed TO
large congregation from the prophecy ofIsaah Kill IL
The poor and the needy seek water and there Is none
their tongue is dried up with thirst the Lord will
answer them; !, the GOD OF Israel will not iorsake
them" Richly, said the Doctor has the Lords mercy
set the table for and provided for all his earthly
necessities Sea and land, plain and mountain abound
with the choicest Of blessings So copiousy, in
deed these gifts bestowed that it puzzles the mind
to know how such deep poverty exist amid such
abundance The solution OF the problem is found in
the shortcomings of man and not in any fautness Of
Gods provisions in nature. Men may refuse TO
knowledge Supreme Gver, but they won't refuse
the gifts provided by His kindness and care
And herein the atheist appears most inconsistent
and ungrateiul He nhales Gods arr lives on
food and water provided by God lives and finds final
resting place in Gods EARTH and yet after enjoying all
the comforts and pleasures OF life and earth he says
like the fool there is no God subtle philosophy
may abrcate syllogisc excuses nay ustidcatons for
such course; common sense however, in its unsO-
pbistcated way will abide by the sentence; he who
enters a house and finds there kind hospitality and
says there is no host to whom bound in gratitude
is poor sort OF philosopher. do not know whether
in face of the immense universe with its duration of
millions OF years, man with his threescore and ten
years of earthly life is entitled to the boast of being
the chief work Of the Creator but know that the di
vine part, God image, that bears within him. ee
Yates him far above the OF creation. The number
less rolling the infinite space have their
ing silvery light, the have their golden rays
and warmth but earth has man, and man has
spirit and this fact gives TO our obscure little planet the
foremost rank in the system OF creation and justles
the statement of tie Scriptures that sun, and
stars created for the of the earth and the
earth herself for the of The Psalmst says;
'Man was made little less than angels and been
crowned with honor and glory God has given him do
minion over the works of His hands; everything has
God placed beneath his feet" These words are not
the outpourngs of an overlooking human vanity for
few lines above the same bard says in deep humility
''What is the mortal that Thou remembered him
And the OF man that Thou thnkest of him ?"
These words rather solemn the recognition of mans
spirituality and the unreserved admission that we are
bound in gratitude to Him who has laid all this glory
upon Let wsest socialists provide u scheme to
arrest the spread Of pauperism and they will lind
better weapon than gratitude toward God
Cold and selfish in heart is the man who deems him
self tho sole creator of his prosperity; meek and
benevolent is mind deeply imbued with the
seriousness Of its dependence upon the Supreme
Power When poverty appeals to such man his
grathed, and he that refresheth others be also
freshed himself" This fact, however, that Is
endowed with spark from the Divine Being, leads
the conclusion that God did coniine His mercy
tho care and provision for mans bodily wants only In
HIS faherly grace He has set the table for the soul
also with the best spiritual food and all
partake. But do not readily hear aud heed the
call Of Divine host Many stay away and
think they will get along just well in life without
religion. But they wander on and on always looking
toward earthly goods until tho time when they
are seized with spiritual hunger and thirst to hear the
word OF the Lord. And sooner later every OF
experience the truth that without God there is hap
piness for But some do accept Gods invitation
and SIT down at His table but they take the vessel for
the contents Spiritual pauperism is spreading every
where, spiritual socialists try to tho evil
and the dioscuri OF revivas shines the
horizon OF religion but what is their
raodus operdndi9 Instead OF eternal truths dark
myths of olden times offered to the listening null
ttudes These not apt TO promote love and peace
and common brotherhood, those unmistakable prod
ucts Of true religion II is, of course, highly proper
think and for the poor spirit but II should
be done in the proper way. Give them the genuine
bread Of heaven and the true water OF salvation and
noticed them with old husks, which can never still
their hunger quench their thirst
The Doctor, in closing exhorted his congregation to
the right enjoyment and the right dispensaton Of
Gods worldly and spiritual gifts so as to remove
want and need and to spread the knowledge Of God,
true enlig tenment, peace aud love among mankind