Daily Republican., 1878-12-23
DR.. H.nlon ~ the Union Church. ).

!. DR.. HanlOn ~ the Union Church
. Notwithstanding the inclsmency ,
u the weather and tbs slipp4ry pavement
yesterday morning the Union NJ, 4
!. Oh irch was filed with an appreciativ
!. congregation to hear Rev. DR.. Hanlou
o President of the Pennington Seminary
r New Jersey, preach the gospel, an
Q although the people expected feast q
l fat things, they were not prepared 70
! s ich asurfiet Of unanswsrable logic. ar
, guments and eloquence as the Docto
) gave them. In the forenoon DR.. Han
} Ion took his text from the 18th chapt..
Of First Corinthians and the 18th verse
''For now VIZ s-e through a glass dark
! but then face to face; now knoy
part, but then shall | know even al
| am known
} Dr.. Hanlon CONNER enced his discours,
ina low tone Of voice but gradual,
warming up with his subject h. be
came impressive and eloquent. Hs
said it might bs thought strange that
on a subject upon which 80 much de.
pended 30 little should be known. The
Doctor then divided his subject, and
showed how we were prone to look
through q glass darkly. The double
nature of man he said was one of the
reasons why he saw through a glass
darkly. He showed by a child how
that the animal nature has the best OF
us and then he pictured the gladness
and joy of mother at the Il rst evidence
of intelligence in the babe. Childhood
he said was opposed to a spiritual pa-
ture, and even young people undo
twenty, were perfectly satisfied with
the world and speak to them of spir.
itua life it was to them glass through
which they saw darkly.
Even in middle age when the youth
of the past had become the heads of
families, they had become so engrossed
with business that to them death was a
glass through which they saw darkly.
We cannot follow the eloquent divinr
mentally through his discourse, as it
had to be heard to be Appreciated. In
the closing part of the sermon he
showed how the spiritual nature of man
ena abled him to acc 'pt thefuture through
faith without knowing the bottom facts
of everything. His illustrations were
striking and to the point. His references
to Bayard Taylor showed that he looked
upon him as model American citizen,
but one who saw through the glass
darkly.
Had he kno vi the day before when
he was sitting at his desk pen in hand
performing the duties Of his position
that on the next day he would be dead,
his hand would have fallen palsied by
his side. lie seen through the glass
darkly. In reference to knowing as We
are known the Doctor did not believe
that spirits in tn. other world knew us
in the flesh, but he believed they knew
us and sympathized with US in the
spirit. Spirits there were in state of
JOY and happiness and it wonld not be
pleasant for them to know the hearts
ackes and the sorrows that attict US
here.
He showed By pasoniug OF learn
ed scientists and sIologlsts that the
body changes r' seven years. He
knew hims.lr .,t his finger nails
changed an ones he now had were
not the same ue had before, and why
should not the body cLanges But the
spirit was the same, |, undergoes no
change. He illustrated this idea by the
boy who climbed up the craggy precipice
day by day to watch the eggs in the
eagles eyrie, but one day Lo assembled
tn. lofty precipice only to find the
shells remaining. Lamenting his dis
appointment, he turned his eyes up
ward and there he brheld the young
sagles perched upon the branch of
tree basklng in the beautiful sunlight
Of heaven.
So with the spirit released from its
clay shell. Looking upwards it may
be Seen by faith sitting upon tie silver
bough of the tree of life singing itself
away to everlasting bliss. During the
peroratien of the doctors sermon con-
siderable emotional feeling was stirred
up in the congregation, and all seemed
sorry that he closed so soon. A col
lection was then taken up for the worn
)ut preachers of the Conference and
me or two other benevolent collections,
Rev. Mr.. Mann asking for 500. The
amount raised was s94, leaving small
'alance to raise in the evening.
In the afternoon DR.. Hanlon visited
he Sunday School of the Union church
md made a stirring address.
In the evening Doctor Hanon again ,
Preached to still larger congregation
han listened to him in the morning,
aking for his text the last clause of
he Sd verse of the Sd chapter of St.
Ohm: "V"rily, verify, | say unto thee
xcept man be born again he cannot
ee the kingdom of God" His dis /
curse, like the one in the forenoon was ,
ogical and eloquent, showing that ,
lOwever moral a man might he, that
Vould not save him.
A collection amounting to $l5 was
AIKEN up to complete the subscription
t the morning. Rev. J. B. Mann is =,
ntitled to much credit for procuring ,
he services of such an eminent preach ,
+.
Betchrr will be open all day Christ !
las. Come early.