The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-28

enough here for . round OF sermons There Is only
one single point of It that intend to take up this
morning Alter referring TO the personality that
inseparablo from the teaching OF Paul. Apollos and
Ccphas and that the consequence OF this was that
their hearers said II take the truth as Paul taught
and as Apollos taught and Cephas taught" ne said
thst the beginningo that glorious history
which has kept the world In hot since Iii
God that lies behind them-n all these tcachersthat
gives them the power aud the increase. No planting
and no watering give the increase without the
power that lies at the back OF tho Instruments Tho
final application which Pau gives Is that the truth,
accepted by whomsocver preached Is that the Chris
all things present his whether Things present
LIFE AN UNFOLDING
II you will take notice human life goes through an
unfolding series perpetuay. All human lite is work
ing away from the material 10 the SPIRITUAL In each
development we rise little by little. aud reach God at
last, as represented to us through the Lord Jesus
Christ In this development we only step by
STEP but each step we take IS In the direction OF the
right The child has right 10 broad, butsthe ohiid
learns that he lives not by bread alone As Tho
child manhood hts ideal enlarges and he
tue complex relations Of hts lie He sees their
su0ticty and their intrcacy The moment any man
sees any great truth he has a right in that
truth. A man Identifies himself with the truth; IL
becomes part OF the emolion part Of tho will. No
any right To withhold IT IRON him. So, then,
large IN proportion as they come into the
knowledge oil God and into communion with God him.
self IL Is IN this sense that Paul says Gan things
are yours" Man has within him the elements that
connect him with every SIDE OF tho universe either
nascent undcveloped or developed There are there.
lore, enable bounds Tor man, either IN this lite
that which Is 10 come. Mon are greal, therefore,
not by what they arc In themselves but by assocang
themselves IN all The dv Inc movements aud currents
oil the Hence ali men that work. ny for
scidshncss, for PRIDE Tor tho lower life. for the
the man, then, who holds these things
Tor material ends that IS the great man.
ineaos that shall give per manency 10 the greatness
OF men. Who, then, comes into Gods spirit comes
into sympathy with universal beng
HOW sECTs ARE FORMED.
If this be so, then we have gauge by which
the forces and the dangers OF tho
organ lxations by winch men mould themselves INTO
secls The historic Church has been Church under
the law OF the hesh The churches do not represent
the netable the supernatural, the divine. They have
not the ideal conception. The aabaster may DO
there, but there Is very little OF the precious ointment
II you to exclude the household IRON the world
Each sect thinks It is SO much right
than The other that 1t thinks 1t right TO
warn It's children OF that other sect Ii you
are going to have a historic church why not 20
TO Rome at once? We have true history say the
Romanists The congregatonaisls say II you want
strict government come &c u.s. The Unitarians II you
want unity come TO u.s. The sects nave all got their
little bit OF truth, and they all say they havo the
whole OF It, Sccts that are appropriating and are
building up that which s only peculiar TO themselves
yoursn Neither is there any form OF worship that
have not a rightto. have never preached sermon
during forty years against Catholics and never intend
to do So When | was mau-boy made covenant
with myself that would not quarrel with any body
whose face set in the same direction mine
Whatever that good In that Church. in its worship Is
Chrst'g and CHRIST Is NINE. There Is no pilgrim
that goes to Rome to do honor to Plus TX. that
VIII manifest more reverence (morc reverence that is
scnsible) than | feel toward Him. Am | to set
aside the great Church OF the Orient because there
webs OF error spun around III Whatever there Is in
that Church that " good and true Is nine.
NOT IMAGINATION.
lfyou that III Is mistake, That this Is imagina
tive preaching. then say that there such being
Christ such being God. then there such thing
spiritual universe and we are fitted for II by every
door that will shut out sin IRON ''There Is a rest
for the people OF God." There different
different doctrines, yet there Is
In which they one; but II ~ sense which they
who support and hold them don't recognize.