The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-01-01
ALL SOULS CHURCH.

THE LAST DAY-SERMON BY REV. DIR. BELLOWS.
Yesterdays sunshine lit up the beautifully deco
rated church and happy faces OF large congregation
gathered hear Dr. Bellows talk OF the last day Of al
years Taking his text from John, H., a. Dr. Bellows
said There are several references in the New Tesa'
ment, especially In tho Gospel OF ST. john to he last
day." always carrying certain loneliness of suggcs-
ton aud involved in that mystic haze which hangs
round tho word OF prophets and seers II their i'm
port were too broad and deep for definition and yet
evidently intended to thoughts OF final judg
al the close OF all human affairs II is for that
last day that We are all exhor.ed TO prepare. When
brought before the bar OF Christ the Judge OF quick
and dead, shall give account OF the things done
In the body whether they be good or whether they be
evil Then, according 10 the principles OF eternal JUS
tice, clearly announced His Gospel shall hear the
final verdict passed upon earthly conduct and In
the presence of our fellow creatures, perhaps
of assembled universe, find ourselves classed
with the sheep or the goas called with that greatest OF
Welcomes 'Come. ye blessed OF my Father, inherit
the Kingdom prepared Tor you from the foundation Of
the world, or punished with that most awful Of
rebuns, "Depari from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels" Such Is
the startling and solemn imagery OF the New Tesla.
mcnt IN connection with the last day. l pro-
posing my brethren, this last day OF the year 10
fill your imaginatons with scnsuous images OF heaven
and hell with intoxicating thoughts oil the joys pre-
pared thai love God and keep His command
mens, or maddonng suggestions Of the woes that
await tho obstinate and haDtual breakers OIL Gods laws
and Chrst's precepts.
THERE LAST DAY?
do not expect any last day the literal scnsc OF
final winding up OF human affairs In the probate OF
eternity confronting OF Christ IN person our judge
a detailed summary Of our offences In thought deed
as in legal specification OF criminal charges, actual
arrangement at bar OF judgment, and declaration OF
acauiital OF condemnation 10 everlasting woe But
do believe that the moral and spiritual issues OF lilo
are not less solemn and important, not less worthy
OF our attention. than II all these things literally
true Beneath this awful ana alarming phruseology,
pictorial and rhetorical MS II ia, there eternal
realities the truth OF which We need not 90 beyond
this present lie own breasts TO see the posi-
tive proof Of 'The last day" has It's echoes in tho
most private circle and heart Here within these
sacred walls consecraed to quictudc and mediiaion
here in this sober and dec0rous assembly of worship
pers are all the materials and all the ncccmpanments
and realities of 1.-THE last day'God passing judgment
and executing sentence upon HIS creatures and sub
Jects. DR.. Bellows closed by saying:-"lf | had
one only prayer utter u should BIO this Hoy God
leave me not in the power OF my own sins. Abandon
mo not to my blindness. Spare not my shrink
ing flesh leave hiding place tor my follIcs. WASH
me- though in the bitterness of gall, II only SO can
be clean Cruelty me like my Master, II only SO may
rise with HIM TO the true knowledge o Thy Father.
hood And as this 10 the last wish and prayer OF
this dying year. this last day, may II be the endless
prayer and longing OF my soul in ha last day of this
mortal llfe--n the glorious morning Of that last day
which is TO know no night and no to morrow, because
il 10 eternity ITSELF #"