, 1877-10-22

INDIVIDUALITY.
A SERMON Rr THE rEv. pr. II. ". THOMAS.
Centenary Churr!, was crowded almost to
overaowlnz yesterday morning Oh the Mtas'on
Of tho delivery uf the Rev. DR.. Tllotnas' first
sermon tlnrc Lis return to Chicago. The rever-
cnd gentleman chose for his text:
speak as T. wise nen; Judge - what say.--
l. Cor, r, 10.
OF The tonc, hut very Interesting. sermon
preached from tlis theme, thu following ab-
straet ia given:
One OF the many strange things 10 he met
with In the study Of orr.c1vrs, sa!l Dr. Thon,a+,
was Tie fact Of Individuality. Each human lie
WAS 30 sct mart for ltscif that It must eat,
drink, think for Itself. Man wns born In this
Individuality, lived In It, died In It.
the feeling which overcau,c mems Individuality
md brought them together on a common foot
Ing on some highvr plane. II was only in The
Imaginative mind that the noctic acntncn, had
n place, and not IN the facts ot life. IN the
stinly OF tife. vast aranuns Of rs interests
came from, this n,cctiug Of individuals, this
coming together Of many different minds. IL
Jaa Sns .s s rs the pexer To- Iesia, e t
lun,ar, mind. Take from lIou,cr. Shakespeare,
Milton, their indirt,1uol character. nnl their
works would ecasc 70 BE- real. Takee
fhc proplcts, tic Einrs, and, above u,], the
Eav1or ii lin w,rijl. mil il would crasc 10 }m
living book. History lived tIrougl, tic char.
aetcrt ot famous ncn whose deeds lIa.l tnaac
history. Paul, as m Individual mind. u: n
wnri;i H. n sn,,f. md. insnlrc,f With lie mi
dignity Of thls thought, he gave uttera,lce to
tlc ysor,is Of tbs tcxt, Ont Of thIs Individual
and t.s w1ra sane aT os tsssy
rmtli nat have s1,ch a world nnl life m We now
tavc. 1t was this coming together Of
iniiylduatitics, this comIug together oi
interest to tie prrscut oecasjnl,.
Thrrs wa another reason: They were not ali
strangers, but had run the Christian race tt,~
rethcr. In nratn cu,pinr to talk 10 tho tcop,c
the many. lie did not assume tho 'cast mental
s,lneriorfty in apIritual matters There hal
been tIniu whcl, The clergy hal felt themselves
nnye tho Common multitude, but tl,at ay was
Tie nycus,cs III learning were freu Il, uil. Jicnye
he fv,t, rs each modest man mist Iccl, unless
Le VIA birut or On tltgt,-uu,I Que
via On pjnne with the ull1tr,--thoi
there were 1i,e9 and wome,, In f. audisnte
honrst CLERGYMAN must hc reu.ty to WELCOME
nny honcst truth, whether promulgated by the
men who read thu start. tile men who fig up
fossils, The men who wrought In thy various
Mind mct tnirtl, md heart met heart, thcrc
,,,,,si be- so,ncth,,r II, common, sotne,ju. 10
hr!1lg mcn together, some medium of tito inter.
chnnsc oi thought and iceiing. Somehow, njl
IuaI,, nearly allkc,-a lnutis ia q
.cmse acclng nike. and njl heart,
in sense feeling alike. Otl,erxt.e
Inv co,tiI there bu Iris co,ltn. togetler-thls
meeting Of Mind viii, niuIt sttntl utd heart
,nust bc somehow nut u1ton tlc eatnc Crcas mt
tnr~' Thrrs wrrc ccrtnlu PRINT bt,fwnss' nf
mental and spiritual truth III whicl, pcop6 ca.nc
together, Tic utcstiuu whIcl, tic AI,ustic t.atl
lmcn considering was thu question OF the saeya.
,ns,t. md in Els letter to tho Corinthians liz
hu1i u,,i..fir rrnlkc them fUr turning tl,at hoiy
errvErc intn ritnis rxecsscs by sayfnr In effect,
III timnk ~ to ,yise men: you eail Judge for
vours,.ir"s a. will ~ can't kn thcrr wtr, ,rr
la,, questions nowustafs wl,eru men wcre in
to Iurt,, theIr own Judgments. God had gEyru
the outline world IT truth, aud left the wotju
tn mn II up, Not only were tuc,, to judcu 1f
tht Gt,,ess OF things, bl1t Of what was truc. IL
taIn a,not1nf of rilnaifs In religion and atly re.
ii1,i,,n withoit this rutvnaltY uG,ut It was 1tsn
to tGs susniyiou OF rot being true. lu tMtl The
Old aud New Testaments G'sis people wer.
was rlgdt. Men were very mucls mistaken
wfrn iit.v thought thew l,i,,,urctI God by mt
thinking. by moi lookup; wltr, tl,ry thought
TO honor GvI by TRACKING tAincs That
uod was true, lust, and rlght, and many Of Tic
th!nrS ti,at haI 5ccu taught in rcCat,, 10 tho
grcnt Questions Of jlfe ha!l gnno to tt,plr last
slcep. Tha,lks TO Luther. Wtalcy, Claiming,
thought WA free; neither pri,lcipallttys n,r
nowfrs could lead men to The stake fUr darling
10 think. Kclfgion was never 50 safe % wIlcii
thought had frcc euurse. Thu I,utnan Cutln,ltc
to ihe chur,l ultar, sud ,,a unsnfe
f,r lis M.uns 10 read AMI Think. ltenaliican.
i'm differed rum m oliEurclty in that i trusted
people to think. ai,i religion WIS never 60 safe