The New York herald., 1878-11-04
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
pIRITUAL BORROWING AND LENDING-sERMoN

gPIRITUAL BORROWING AND LENDING-sERMoN
By THE REV. MR.. BEEcHER.
Much that is called hearsay or laxity of belief or
abandonment Of the great doctrines of the Christian
Church. said Mr. Beccher. is. the contrary. at
tempt to rescue them. In every age men have given
the best account that they could Of spiritual phe-
nomena; but they have never had
an accurate knowledge of the workings of
the mind they could only reproduce certain
Impressions which they had received. 1t
is however, a matter OF historical verify That the
knowledge Of things recognized by the senses has
dragged slowly along through the ages. The and
sciences have been developed but gradually. The
progress Of interior knowledge has been yet
slow and imperfect. and all the way down from the
remote past through the more thoughtful genera
tions the operations Of the human soul
those which have been the least understood.
There has been more false philosophy, more inn
perfect statement this ground than any other.
1t has been fashionable TO assert the continued
consequence to Of the original sinful act, and the
inheritance by Of the righteousness of the Saviour.
Those OF you who have been brought up under my
ministry have heard from me very little imputaton
Of Adams guilt of Christs righteousness. 1t has
been maintained that the sins Of Adam have been
passed over 10 us and must be repented OF by us.
while we are held TO strict account for ourselves.
My father once said this in my hearing. guess he
laughed when he walked mp In heaven and found what
fool he had been. Simply to state this proposition
a. to refutc IT, IL Is impossible 10 take the moral
consciousness out Of You take the works out
of one clock and put them into another. Men have
tried in the best light Of their day explain by inn
putation the glorious constitution Of things by which
we are attain 70 state Of perfect existence.
The apostle Paul-and here Mr.. Beecher recurred to
his text tCoossians, ill., 10-has told us, "And ye are
complete in Him. which Is the head Of all princi-
pality and power"
MANS TMPERFEcTIoy.
yitrt thia does not that perfect. The
outward world IN necessary 70 us We stand in need
OF each other 10 help our incompeteness II a
shuts himself mp alone he loses more than onc-hnlf Of
himself There be love If there is one 81 love.
In Intellect as in society, incomplete. We de-
pend upon each for activity and thought, and
fanIy we do for results, for no man IL universal
harvester. Each labors only In a small way but
NAV become the repository for universal nvestiga-
tons Ii is often said that every Is independent
by his own Judgment: but this is preposterous, for
no one can be competent in the whole round of
knowledge The harvest is for all, but not the gather
inu of H. No man is evenly constituted. One may
have where another is deficient; one may be
practical anotser ideal; one phosophic, another ar
tistic; rich in imagination, another IN emotion ,
one endowed with courage, another with caution. ~
IL implied that each IL predonnans in certain forces
or In certain elements aud that each has certain
wants. perfect physique seldom seen, and IL ~ bo
found ID is seldom combined with the intellectual
graccs still less is u united with the artistic or the
cthc. Upon this inequality In the human f1ulties.
they oxist In the individual is based the helpful