The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-07
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
SERMON BY MR.. BEEcHEE on ''TnE SIGNS OF

SERMON BY MR.. BEEcHEE or "THE SIGNS OF
THE HEAVENLY LIrE"-ADMIs ION CT MEM
BEgs--TnE MISSING oRGANIsT RETURNS
The latest Plymouth Church sensation has collapsed.
Mr.. Henry Eyre Brown, the new organlst, who had
been missing from his homo since Friday last pre-
sided at the organ yesterday, entering, Mt the proper
tme and place, upon those duties to which he had
been appointed by the church. The explanation gwen
OF his strange absence that he 10 Albany,
taken sick and became so Frustrated that ho
bic to communicate with his friends
The first Sunday May is always rcd-lottcr day in
the calendar OF Plymouth churcD NIncty-scvcn per-
sons publicly admitted MEMBERS comprising
husbands and wives, brothers and SISTERS
sion OF groups OF families a well as individuals. The
sixty.hve who entered profession Of faith sgni-
fed their allegiance to tho following covenant by the
Inclination OF the hoad after 1t read TO them in
solemn tones by Mr. Bcechcr:-
Do you now the Lord Jehovah to be your God,
sanctder Kenouncing dominion OF this world
you DO you % Your ~qe soul anu BODY TO- e ser
lite and by Ills rracc assisting YOU will you pcrsevcre in
Eighteen Of the members not having been
cpients OF the rite OF baptism In their infancy
baptized and "named" by the PASTOR each dcvoutiy
knecng ut his feet he sprinklcd their ioreheads
with water. This rendered necessary the temporary
removal by the ladies' Of their new spring bats.
The subject OF Mr. Bcechers sermon was .srhc
Signs OF the Heavenly Liie and the text selected
from Hebrews, xii ~ aud 20.
Mr. lycecbcr commenced by saying that this whole
chaptor was the nature Of lclurc. IL Is an in-
fgcuce rather than knowledge. aud yet how shall
ouc Joel influenced except through the reason
knowcdcey But II is the way OF Tie highest lnstruc-
zion 10 enter through the imng naton ana come 10 the
reason in that way THIS the genius, certainly OF
Tho New Testament In the description oil the lilo
a1oye-thc life that Is come IL never denncs II
never describes by CLEAN right lines; u never gives
bills OF items which viii bear scrutiny aud which can
DO reduced 10 the basis OF actual inct IL seeks
not so much knowledge, as wo should call In tins
states OF feeling UnskiIicd men writing without ~
su,raton OF the great after life would have fallen into
thar mistake oil attempting 10 give to men IN revealed
d.stinctncss and accuracy opinions respecting our
Freedom or our existence, which we cannot compre-
bend when inspiration writes ~ poetizcs heaven,
the writer becomes divine dramatist ana gives 10
men conceptions through their imagination. Alter all
what men need h To be spurrcd up 10 DO raised 10
thai which IS promotivc oil the higher spiritual ne
What 40 need il Imagination that viii propel US
along the plane present lie, make US earnest
altninl and digcnt in business. but az the same tmc
serving the Lord IL TO hs that The Book OF Rove
tends II TO tnIs that the Pauline touches tcnd
TYPOGRAPHICAL HEAVEN
All efforts, therefore, 10 describe Typographical
heaven a geological heaven, or chemical heaven an
heaven, when the dcscribors aspire
10 be meets or give pen and pencil drawings, are ~
very poor Indeed, the noon oil heaven - IKE kToas
many other THINGS; there Is nothing more exquishe
han a flake OF snow unless you put II on the palm OF
our hand, and then you have not got any was ING