The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-29
A TRUE CHRISTIAN LIKE A PALM.
Beecher on the Head and the Heart
Systems Of Theology
THE GOLDEN RULE A NATIONAL LAW.
A Minister Who Refuses 10 Trim" and
Vindicatrs Personal Liberty.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.

DEEcHER on THE GREEK AND HEBREW TEN
DENOTES or RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AS rELr
IN OUR DAY.
The antagonistic tendencies of the Greek and He
brew minds they perpeluated to our own day
formed the subject of Mr. Beechers discourse yestcr
day ST. Paus words to the Corinthians expressed in
the latter halt OF the thirteenth chapter OF the first
episc formed the text OF tho scrmon-chariiy never
facth; but whether there be prophecies they shall
fall whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
whether there be knowledge IL shall vanish away For
we Know in part and we prophesy in part But when
that which perfect is come then that which part
shall be done away. When was a child, spake us
child, understood rs child, thought n child,
but when became man, put away childish things.
For now through glass darkly; but then face
TO tace now know in part but then shall know
rs also am known. And now abdeth faith hope.
charity, these three; but the greatest OF these is
rhariy.n
This, the preacher said, Is not only an admirable
srogy upon the divine principle of life, but 1t
ground unsupported far wide than that In
both Of these letters OF the apostle the Corinthian
Church you may be SAID to the battle of the He
brew genius with the Greek genius The latter be-
Ieved in tho supremacy of the intellect in ideas in
knowledge, and that ordering of knowledge which we
call philosophy. believe in that; but The Greek be-
eved this TO be the end and tho aim OF excellence
md that character perfected the school of phil
osophy, all of all knowing The Hebrew believed in
dispositions, in righteousness proceeding from certain
fixed moral aptudes for righteousness And although
the Greek believed IN goodness as something subor d.
nate, something springing incden tally from philoso
ply, and though tho Hebrew believed in reasoning
and in ideas something concom liant, yet the end
of existence moral disposition. The Greek
says thought; the Hebrew says emotion. Tho
xtirn bpfa
each should believe and disbclievc the ohcr
the question was (which is primary; which Is
dominantg' This question does not stop in the
Equities. II is just wide awake and more, to-day
Ihan 1T was in the time of tho apostles. In day
see this controversy renewed For example
Buckle in his uncompeted works, by which he has
made large contribution OF rudmcntary knowledge
TO man. cndenvors to show that the advances of tho
human race had always taken place outside OF moral
education, by physical Influences by intellectual
enlightenment, and that moral had had nothing
only unmporian, part TO play in the great evou-
ion OF civilization. Without propoundng this. any
thing like this, the dynamic influence of tho scientific
controversy OF our day works in the direction,
giving priority OF emphasis to right knowing and to
large knowledge and TO precision and accuracy in
knowledge 1t is the old question that is debated still
in The pulp-thc question between faith and science
Essay after essay and tract after tract Is appearing
WORKS.
Which is TO lead which Is TO follow, the head
hcartg
In preaching an exalted manhood rs the aim OF hu.
mainly Mr.. Beechcr SAID he only uncovcrng an
old altar that was erected In Inc time of The aposrlss
but which had been burned beneath the debris OF
mems reasoning and bringing out again clear in all
lis lines and forms the original idea that the whole
scheme of redemption turns upon making God
hke--maklng salvable, that they may be saved
changing them into newncss OF lille and ncwncss OF
may be saved not by trick by some CONNER
rial arrangement, but by having put into hem
lcaycn by which they shall grow up steadfasty into
The form of tho living God
Assuming this to be true, MIR. Becchsr argued that
The
NoDEnS ArHoRIsas SCIENCE
pamcly that the true scientist must love the truth
the truths without regard To its practical benefit
liable to great misncrpretaton and produce
very great error He admitted that when man is
reasoning ascertain what the truth Is, during the
process Of reasoning IN regard TO yshysical and sem
iuous truth he must be able TO keep his mind I'M
oasscd. hut the truths that and radiate this
world are the truths which We call social and moral,
ana the preacher averrcd that far mans being
In better state to understand moral truth when his
mind Is coorcss and cooI that the highest moral
truths cannot be understood by colorlcss mind and
cool one; and the Mathematician that comes to moral
questions with precisely the principles that are
right mathematics VIII stumble upon the very
threshold. Upon the principle That judge
In regard TO any elements OF musical proportion in
art unless he has working and throbbing his intel
ect something OF that which he has to discern
arts Another aphorism also ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
that true scientific spirit Is that has regard 10
what becomes OF truth In this world. only that II is
true. The true scientific philosopher Mr.. Bccchcr
SAID who believes that while knowledge 4
dspcnsabe to the welfare OF the human race, the well
fare OF the important the knowledge
itself; and that the use OF all knowing is make beng
and that the creation OF manhood is larger than the
oil things There is more benefit in scicn-
nhc knowledge that has relation to VOL being
OF mankind than there Is bencnt the brooding
clouds OF the morning The arrog OF philosophy.
therefore. u stands over religion, essentially Greek
.'iy CENTENNIAL YEAR"
or the whole sch ,mc OF advance, the preacher con
tinucd of which in this centennial are called
upon to observe We may be proud The DEVELOPMENT
nrl M a. I AZ rod Axf al
comfort, but by nober standard than that But IL
mcn are lett substantially as they were. II men
better purer liner u makes no difference u they have
cattle on thousand bulls where their ancestors had
none; il makes difference II they live in fine houses
where their ancestors lived in small ones or
Tue growth Of the 10 be measured from WITHIN.
II is true that roads, bridges, canals railways shors
and warehouses. rightly used augment those condi-
Ct care and those elements OF power which mako
mankind better. There IS no doubt that redeem
time from the disposition 81 matter that they may de-
II TO scientific and intellectual culture All these
things ought 10 make mankind better more honest
more truthful, moro hountnL, more spiritual But do
thcyr ~ y question worthy OF profound con-
sidcration whether what Is called the fruit
OF civilization IN our day Is not growing
the animal man great deal faster and
stronger than II ~ the spiritual And yet the
worlds advantages are squandcred and thrown away
II The animal grows faster Than the man--if the out
side dominates over the inside IL the third place
the pulpit has anconsciousy lent Itself to THIS
great danger ui making belief more important Than
Iiie Not IN terms Tor any pulpit IN the explicit
terms declares that the actual CONDITION OF the heart
before 10! J. tho most important thing but there -
way OF advocating hing IN terms an. opposing "
In isc. II IL more inc emphasis than thc statement
that determines the effect IN preaching m a man
Should declare in every sermon IN the year that God
u love and then 20 and preach God Jus, only his
statement that - love worid practically perish
the emphasis OF the repetition OF the disclosure OF
Divine justice And men would conceive God a. vast
machine ruling mighty wheel. and thst all who
~ the OF that would be crushed. Thousands
Of men are Impressed with The idea that, while they
ousA. 10 10 right ~ heart, II they substantially
corrcst Their belief they great deal better on
III notaingas sacy are, end that little goodness
with great deal OF orthodoxy Ia far prcsGippsys
OF safety than CREST dca ~
KAccxD ORTHODOXY.
In other WORKS. it IS spurious and bastard form OF
the Greek mind, that knowledge Is the end
iscncc TIA 10 be accurate and think right the main
thing Ntn goodness ~ the sequence o. knowledge
there those that this j. not true, then, you,
probably IL Is not But II there lie those that
convicted their souls Al review OF what they have
seen and what they have felt they viii join me IN
lnt that there danger that viii substitute the
philosophy OF religious experience for that experience,