The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-09

natural law was, then disable and comfortable was
God weaker than His creatures more ignorantf And
having before Him a scheme of natural law covering
the globe could not He put His hand upon 1t and exc
cute providence without violating the natural law
nay by using it just as we 90 m lna .sv., Was
in fear and trembling because God was
working in and outside of us and for us.
Men brought to the knowledge of God first
through thought, then through the physical forms on
the natural world Only more element was
needed and that the element of the affections in
order 10 bring into such relations with God that
might be said to live in Him rs well as by HIM;
and that element was introduced through the domestic
element of God presented in the character OF our
Lord Jesus Christ. through which we could form
conception of the disposition OF God. These were
the successive steps by which man was brought to
feel that he was ut one with God.
EDUCATION IN SPIRITUAL THINGS.
The preacher then proceeded to inquire In what
way men could come into this continuous peaceful
state enjoyed by those who were at rest III Christ
1t did not come he said. by itself. as bones and
muscles form-wthoIt the votion of the subject. 1t
was subject the law of education like every other
mental power. and this simple statement Mr..
Beecher considered one of the most important to
modern pety that could be uttered. Every one of
the fruits OF the Divine Spirit subject to educa-
ton under precisely the same laws that every other
evolution Of the mind was subject to. Mr.. Beecher
held that every step in the Christian life was founded
upon the proper application of the laws OF education
much was knowledge of music or mathematics.
The OF the divine presence did not slip in upon
men without any striving; it had to be sought by
appropriate methods. These views Mr.. Beecher
claimed elevated all physical nature and removed
from the human soul the mournfulness begotten or
the thought that life is so transient
TRANSIENT NATURE OF FAME.
Expatiatng upon this feature he remarked that
even great now forgotten in a few days
after deatlor would be if it were not for the news
papers. We told by them for week. said he.
that a certain man is going to die then for week
that he is dying and after that they tell us for week
that he is dead When drop out. said Mr.. Beecher
i'll this connection the loom is not going to stand
still; there's another thread waiting and longing
to get into my place. and the loom Is rolling
and 1t makes about as much differ
ence whether leaf falls out of the maple tree
before my house TO the life of that tree as
it does to the world whether l drop out. Now men
do not like the thought of being forgotten. don't
You may be more humble than am, but like to
have a of continuity, and to think that am OF
some Importance and some power. And have 1t,
because the life that am living now is not my life;
am my way toward power and toward glory.
Mr. Beecher expressed the hope that good horses
and dogs may have little place of immortality lie
had sympathy, he said. with the under-creation.
and thought only fair that faithful animals that
had suffer abuse and starvation under brutal mas
tiers should have chance in another life For that
matter. said he. you don't know anything about
it, We don't half understand God and the life Of or
ganized beings