The New York herald., 1878-11-04
DEAN STANLEY.
He breaches His Farewell Sermon
in the New World.
GRACE CHURCH CROWDED
His Impressions of the Material Prog
ress of New York.
AN EVENING DISCOURSE.

AN EVENING DISCOURSE.
'What is thy name p cried Dean Stanley from the
pulpit Of Grace Church yesterday morning. He did
not address the question to any individual OF the
mighty congregation that crowded the pews. packed
the aises and thronged the outer vestbules 80
as to prevent the doors being closed; it was simply
the text of his sermon, taken from the thirty
chapter Of Genesis. It Is the query which the angel
put to Jacob with whom he wrested. This. said
the Dean, is the last day on which shall have an
opportunity of speaking from the pulpit in this coun
try on the great question which concerns all have
chosen for my subject that mysterious conflict which
In the book Genesis is described between the patr
arch Jacob and the unknown traveller in the middle
Of the night tho heights Of Peniel 1t has often
been used. and may fairly be used. as figure by
which to describe the struggle Of the human
soul in perplexed day like this in .
search Of the divine truth Divested Of its outward
imagery it represents the twofold problem which
lies at the basis Of all religion-What is man and
what Is God In the discourse Of this morning
propose to consider the first of the questions which
the text suggests concerning the nature OF man. The
question concerning the relation Of the Divine to tho
human being and the struggle as it Is described In
The primeval record. is-What is thy name7 It Is the
same question which from time to time arises in the
heart Of every thoughtful inquirer. There is
sonquerable desire to have in our mind some know
ledge Of the origin Of the Divine nature.
WHAT HE PROPOSED SHOW.
Ny object will be to state in broad outlines the gen.
ma spirit Of the teachings Of the Bible this sub
ect First in regard to the outward frame Of man.
let US ask what the Bible tells US. whether in the dim
visions of the ancient records Of the Book of Genesis
in the direct teachings of the New Testament
We not to expect In the Bible systems Of anatomy
Dr. Of physiology. The smile and the tear are the
biblical appeals to the conscience and the aections
but there elements Of thought Of imagery Of sug
gestivU indication which the philosopher need not de-
spse and which the religious man may hail, II for no
other purpose at least stepping stones in passing
from sphere to another To however low origin
we may trace man cannot 60 lower down than does
st. Paul the Book Of Genesis. 1.-The Lord God. !"
Bays the latter made man out Of the dust of the
sarth; out Of the rude nanimate particles of earthly
dust No theory. no tradition concerning the origin
Of our race can possibly affect knowledge. our
certainty Of what tits There is nothing surpris-
ing in being told that the whole of mankind
from the dust Of the earth any than there is in
being told that Newton Shakespeare has sprung
from q small creeping infant without conscience or
1t would be against religion the Bible COM
mon and experience to be told that because
were Of the earth earthly we should never be-
come refined and spiritual This is not required Of
rs by philosophy or religion.
NOT ASHAMED ORIGIN.
When therefore, we are asked. ..what is man p we
may reply fearessly that are not ashamed Of our
lineage or hopeless of destiny. Man looks for
ward. not backward; upward. not downward; and it
Is in the direction which he looks far than in
the actual look itself which gives MS to understand
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man which reveals his true nature. "Do what you
like" said the ancient philosopher with my body;
my body Ii not me- and OF myself much higher
reckoning must be made"
HUMAN SOUL.
And this brings to the second part Of the biblical
account Of man, according to that division which
Hnd especially in the New Testament and which q has
lies behind the outward frame Of man II is that
which the Bible. in the largest sense Of the
tual and moral faculties which make him feel what
he Is, which when I'VE look into tho face of .
the face Of dead friend we feel is no longer there
In our outward frame we have much In common with
the lower and degraded animal creation. while our
nnermost being we share in common with God Him.
Belf While the spiritual part Of man constantly
advances the first man, who was OF the earth
the Whole remained the same The intellectual part
has advanced immensely. Tho affections-the
spiritual part of man-have advanced. even in re-
gions where the intellect has remained stationary The
real destiny Of depends not ON his material or
intellectual progress, but our moral nature; on
what we do. on what we admire. on what we love- on
what we hate The moral and spiritual nature Of man
outlasts all the commissions OF this life, and WILL we
humbly hope, outast death itself There Is some
thing greater than the resurrection of the body IL Is
the immortality of the soul: and there Is yet some
thing greater than the immortality OF the SOUL
and that s the living quckening vivifying power
OF the Spirit 1t is this doctrine of the superiority of
The spiritual nature of man above his physical frame
which. it is safeguard against the materalism
of the scientific lecture room 10 also our best safe
guard against the materalism OF the altar and the
sacristy. When for thousand years the Christian
Church believed that the eternal veal woe of
human beings depended on the immersion of the
human body In a bath basin Of water when the
regeneration of nations in the Middle Ages. and even
In the seventeenth century, was supposed to depend
upon the preservation OF dead bones or fragment
of wood-these were all so many attempts to sink the
MISSION OF THE REFORMATION
Il was the mission Of the Reformation to proclaim
their material but IN their moral essence. This is
declared in the Bible. from first to last Whenever
the mind Of tho worshipper whether in Catholic or
the inward the accidental instead of the essential the
temporal instead of the eternal then in that proper
ton the original spirit Of the Gospel il exchanged for
Protestant churches whether I'm heathen in Christian
lands, the magical gives place to the reasonable. the
holy and the living sacrifice Of the human being to
God. from the rising up Of the sun until the going
down of the same pure moral sacrifice Ii the true
spiritual incense by which alone man can hope 70
prevail with his Maker.
MANS DUAL NATURE.
The Dean again referred to the answer OF the angel
telling the patriarch he should longer be called
Jacob the buppanter, but Israel, the Conqueror of
God. That Is to say he WAS two beings. M IL wcrc
wrapped mp in one--two natures two enemies each
striving for the mastery. This brings us TO
the remark that there is not only the question
What is man but the question What is this man
What art thou, oh man what In thy name? And in
each Of in the very seat Of our being there
two, nay three four or Ave men--as many sepa-
rate characters fighting for the mastery II liz that
conflict between two contending principles that dia
logue. between the two voices. which is
of the profoundest mysteries Of our nature. but
which the Bible fully acknowledges We IL In the
dark struggle within the single mind of the author
Of the Book of Eccesastes and In the contention
which In described between the regenerate and the
unregenerate in the seventh chapter Of st.
Paul's Epistle to the Romans. We see 1t not
only In the twofold character of Jacob. but
In that of David. We IL in the hux and