The New York herald., 1876-07-10
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.


DR. MURRAY, OF PRINCETON COLLEGE.
Selecting for his text the nineteenth verse Of the
Third Eplstle OF Timothy, Rev. Dr. Murray, OF Prince
ton College, yesterday preached an impressive sermon,
IN the FIRST Presby terisn church. of Eleventh
street and Fifth Dr. Murray will I'll the pull
pi, every Sabbath of ihcsummer, during the absence
of the pastor Tho subject OF his discourse
"Faiih and Conscience" and while the congregation,
owing the cx heat, very sparse those who
were present seemed to be deeply impressed by she
discourse. Faith and conscience, the minister showed
are so bound together that cannot separate
them, that cannot harm one without harming the
other II is n delormed conscience that leads many
a man into pndelty. An evil conscience has
often shipwreck OF ones faith until II lies in
oi,en the cause OF shipwreck aud dlserdered con-
science the compass that makes shipwrecK OF tho
soul. He considered tho KIND OF conscience
man might hold; men may pcrvert Il,
and it engine OF evil; IT be we'll
trained 1t noble thing for good II is evident, he
that the denied moral sense OF mau is due TO sin
The smallest child, as well as the most experienced
man, knows something OF guilty conscience:
darksns the soul; therefore gully con.
scence must be bad conscience How,
then, the guilty conscience be made good The
Gospel of Jesus Christ can take It awaycan cleanse the
sou-and then conscience becomes peaceful How
hopccssy dsmantled were the souls OF Judas scarot
and Saul OF Tarsus, who went about breathing out
threatennss against the fohowers OF our LORD so
when the sinner's conscience becomes ceansed 1t be-
comes under the heAnnS power OF the
pei its spiritual THIS is verified by abundant
iac's delivered in The inspired Word The advice
of the Lord was, ''Go AMI SIN no more" You
shall every genuine OF repentance reeen-
Grated conscience instead OF painful sense or wrong
doing--a sense OF peace with God We know less OF
good Of cleansed conscience because we are 50
often falling back OLD habits Unless man keeps
up the tight, like Grcaheart in the "PilSrims Prog
ress' he can have but little knowledge OF the
nature OF a cleanscd conscience We need the faculty
OF distinguishing between right and wrong II con
science be power In The soul 1t must be edu
Gated 1t needs enlightenment, as IN the case OF
plants, TO make II grow God has provided for the
human conscience light, just as he has provided light
for the human eye; and Of the purposes OF
istcr uext considered the relations between morality
and religion and said that the Bible makes the
terrible mistake Of dvorcng morality from religion.
man must DO religious to be u moral man. aud tho
Bible Will always be tho text book or the education Of
the conscience. He spoke Of tho sacrifice man must
asserted that need to have our con-
sciences rc-cnghtened as to tho
noblcncss OF dong Gods WILL To that,
10 be truo, pure and good is infinitely
better than ythng hope Tor. After discuss
ing what is to be conscientious the reverend doctor
stated that good conscience rcigEs tho whole
life, and II given to him to make man happy and
Gospel give us peace Of conscience Shall 1t bo the
good that shall sweeten lie darken mans
entire earecry Faith and good conscience live to-
gcther harmoniousy. BY turning away good con-
peace wrecked The Gospel will always give
you reiet Tor burdencd conscience Take IL; lay II
HIS utonement which cleauses from all sin, give you
the pure, good conscience Go to Him and 1nd a con-
void Of offence before God man, and find II
in simple faith In The Lord Jesus Christ