Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-05-22
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TUESDAY. MAY g, 1877.
Henry Ward Beeeher's sunday Ser

Henry Ward Reeeker's, Sunday Ser.
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Last Sundayin Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
: Rev. Henry dBeechcr read three Verses from
! Philippians, wherein Paul acknowledges hIs
iuperfecoDs and cE Ehpr,s the brethren to be
+ like minded II Paul should come unknown
into lifI low ant'mioese amoog Christians Mr..
Beecber said 'rhat tcr oao Ecaaan or another lie
would stand rejected etthc door Of most Chr.s>
,ian churches He would be o little too liberal
for macy and a little too st,ngeuG for others.
Into the, High Church, SO called, he could not
come. because while he rccogul2 ID governments
be also recognized that they we're worthless as
compare dlo the freedom Of men; ard because
while ho beloved in ordiuaDccs he preached
that lbe7 were abolished in Jesus Chris lst.
While Paul would have been 10 sympathy with
many sysleMs Of philosophy Embedded 10 theo!.
oly; Yet the moment they began TO appear 10
cast iron creed his tenderness would have led
him to side with the bereiics. There: were
many among U.s. Mr. Beccher' continued, who
| were fond OF speaking Of themselves as having
attained to state Of perfectlor. There were
! half do2en styles Of rsrlecion-the Wesleyan.
| The Oberliu, the Higher I.itc aid he did not
/
kooW how many more. ....
Paul could never have joiued with those.
| He says ~ have not attained. Poor tel.
low" said the preacher, ''he could not get III
among them; hc would haro to walk around
amoug the rest OF lis s!Ducrs outside" Paul
also said, Il couut not myself 10 havo appro.
| tended" aud Instead of dwelling 90 his faults
he passed over them. Forgetting those things
| which are behind, aud reaching forth uoto
hose things Which are before, press toward
| hc mark for The pre- of the high calling o!
God in Christ Jesus" The emphasis aud The
| intensity of Pa1rs life consisted II making at
| taiument in following alter the Ideal law which
never could be reached, aGd thu5 striving and
growing ever. Mr.. Beccher said Ec found
| great comfort 10 this, Tor he ccraluy had not
attained himself. Paul regarded the law as
the divine ideal CT human love aud human
| duty. 1t Was simply matter OF lmpossltlAy
| 10 come up to the law interpreted 10 this way.
lake the command :-"Lovc the Lord thy
| God with all thy heart and thy ncighbor as
tbyseIf." Either Of these things hlr. Beechcr
said, ia simple impossible in this life; or, if
possible 10 this lie, only as the fruit Of the
whole Of it and not as a thing to be command
cd and to be obeycd to-day. One might as
we'll 90 to an infant class aud command 1t
| TO rcclto in. Integral calculus or the Pnn-
clpia Of, Newton, aud say to them Child
| rcu, you have uudeyoloped 10 you the
CAPACITY for understanding these things, now
YOU ought to know them" Dealing in the
| realm Of human nature, and with things that
ge can understand, We would say that such
| hing IVES absurd. Growth was an element 0!
| mans physical and bis higher naturt; Tor his
| gradual development: and the mauncr in which
| be was 10 cone 10 q kro"ledgo OF the law atn.
plc provision had b9eu made. 1t was the duty oi
every man to love the Lord with all bis heart but
| the knowledge OF God, the scpsc ct His beauty
| and Iove-1hcsc were educational results, and
all education i'm piled time and al unfolding.
| Men could not obey at once the command TO
| love their Dcighu0rs as themselves. As Well
| miyht the preacher command bis hearers to
! make themselves two tect taller thau they we're.
! Men had to learn to lovc God, lust as th"v
iearn everything else in lie.
L. short no man keeps The law Of God even
! 10 those respects in which he can attain TO A.
and in larger seusc he does rot keep the la"
Of God simply because it Is 81 !argc that 1t -
| to be reached in is amplitude only through
ages aud through other spheres 81 beng. Men
are all to obey according 70 their ability at any
one lime aod then 20 on ever reaching turthcr
aud further. The foolish ductrlnc that man
could 90 10 the utmost limit OF his possibilities
at once places stumbling blocks IN inc
way Of snncra and Iesds TO no emu
OF .. coDfusou. lie doctrine "l 1pno
that q map should be wiling to lay down his
,ite for bis brother had scicrcac9 10 higher
Estate thsatbat OF average mca. "Suppose
s,werc cdafft6icr volunteers, sad Sir. Baecher,
hny many Of you would las down gonr i'Vos,iOr
Others? "WrlI, oA*eITc you ali keyp, yGllr
sna,.. AID yuu DO right, y0u arc tue. IL ca
not fylIow because n.au could not cone up TO
| he law that i; you'd be Ut as well to iay It
| aside, ,Studens OF painting s;raVe' 70 copy
Michael Angelo and Raphael aud drew l1apira'
| lion from thcir works, slIhUU9t they conid net
,t,sin 10 them. Al artist who should btcom"
dssanrapct because his cCi,y vas not rs goo1
| "A the orlginal-Has net pc!i"ct-.na VINO
shouIS slb,tt,-e as trts-idee4 ns!r al OF Mienaei
Appeie, some village pala cr, aud s!I0u1" there
.upon cry oat that he had a!aILcu prllectlJD
necause his vas as good as his master s-ihat
> man would be actiug precisely ike those Who
+ in religious GigtlcrS Calm 20 nave a'!a'htn to
nrrGction. They have lowered 'hcir Ideal.
, Mr, BsCcaer exno-ict those VITO lou"d ~theG
selves unable TO reaan thor IDEAL @G' TO DC, un
happy. but, like Paul, 20 fJrg't the past, and
prrss forward with th": eyes Tx upon Toe
: law. The jew he SAID, wins s!sttcd OUT 90 x
1 he 10 Jc1usaem to attend least u taoelha
1 CeS was CO DIS way " 'li'. I'sJ '''' =" "
!, crossed the threshold Of lis door miles away
Hs was nGf at Jerusalem. hut be was S6lOi to-
var Tit j would reach it in duo tune. .--AeH
YorI; Hrald. .''''.'
If persons opened III, ir widows betweein 81
, aud sevep IN. Tor vauliation and then et'se'
them and also the blinds aud Kept 'hem close
all day, they would, Indeed, kn9w what hap
: nipess sincere mcaut. Wc ado Ted this pat
some :lct gears ago, AMI our i1ous: has Away
beep-tweuty. five or thirty drgrees cooier'ths'
! out doors. 1t j. on the. same prlcciplG as re
Itrigerator. 1.-the doors arc ksp; usUtly cose'
Il. will retain lis coiduess bat II they are lhfI*
open the cold air escapes me ice mFlss, aut :,
? abort time the refrigerator hss 'hc saulc tcin
I ne.atrre az the air without.
The vii, of Mr.. A. Vi. Wood, a daughter
rho late President Taylor b qHealhS all hc