The New York herald., 1878-09-30
DEAN STANLEY.
Sermon by the Learned English Divine
in Philadelphia.
G O DIS w IL l..
Analysis Of the Hierarchy
Of Heaven.


Westminster, who will roman in this city Until to-
morrow as the guest of Mr. George W. Cnilds,
preached to-day at ST. James Protestant Episcopal
Church. The edifce packed TO its utmost ca
pacity and hundreds were unable TO gain admission
The sermon showed great scholarship and research,
and was lisioned 10 with great attention.
TIE SERMON
The text was taksp from Matthew, VIZ 10-"fhy
will be done earth, AS II Is in heaven" Said The
preachert Is on the last part OF these words pro.
OF this day-Michaelmas Day. Bat there is time
IN which we may raise thoughts from earth
the errlng, confused, imperfect ways Of the
performance OF God's Will in this troublesome per-
better and higher state II Is to TINS that our
thoughts shall be fixed This morning. do not pro-
pose 10 dwell at any eogth ON what Is told Us con
cerning holy angels II Is not easy necessary
separate what we have learned concerning the an
gels from the Bible aud what we nave learned from
the great OF them IN painting and Ia
poetry. But the general idea which the beliei IN
angels expresses Is deeply rooted ~ tho
Christian heart and rs full. OF Instruction
Ii thoughts concerning them are
drawn from Milton than the Bible, YET
Milton has In his splendid poem laid hold OF solid
doctrine, at once Biblical philosophical The idea
oil the heavenly nest OF angels includes The opera
and HIS ministrations through the spirits OF
men, whether now or here liter. IL Includes
that ideal world to which the greatest OF heathen
philosophers ondly looked the sphere in winch re-
the great ideas, The perfect images oi which ali
shadows Il includes tne Thou ghls OF tnat beautiful
and lovely type OF human character TO which.
for want OF any other word. .we have in mod
times gwen the name VI angels or
angelical; superhuman, yet not divine; not
heroic nor apostolic nor saintly yet exactly what We
call ssrapnc angelic eevatng, attracting with the
t0rce of noDleness and beauty. lie VINO mas seen Ia
woman" says Luther, ga gehteness Without ell
fort the whole through aid through
he has seen the coors wherswith no IN " pant Tor
himself what Is meant by AN angel" The idea be-
aud poetry combine. Religious belief has lur-
nished the materials, but poetry has wrought
primeval religion never knew, but which he
latest religious culture Of mankind can
far we can the outlines OF that perfect fuidIment
OF the Diviuc will Of which here we see only the
scau,y and partial promses FIRST the viii OF Gods
perfectly done in heaven because It is, as
we believe, done with tho unoroken, un-
interrupted sense of the presence OF Goa.
Here we see THIS in a glass darkly-tnere, face 10
iace II Is well to think mere Ut wnat IL and what
shall be thereto know, TO do. TO be III perfect sym
pathy with tho will OF God, feel truly the tie
oil all that Is little, and to fcel less truly
the greatness Of all that is truly great; to have
just measure OF what is transtory, partial,
secondary, indifferent, and Of what is eternal,
perieci, primary and ait0 look beyond the mar
row present to The past aud the arreach
ing iu.ure-this. which we may believe the unvary-
ing instinct OIL the biessed inteiligences which stand
around the throne oi God, ought to be the aspiration.
dilicul aod arduoas, yet not impossible, OF those
struggling here earth. The Lord sttctn above the
| cheru0im, be The earth meyer so unquiet. We may
strive TO look upon things on earth, AS we imagine
that He looks them who their beginning,
mddlo and end. This is the first ground Tor the be-
OUR PAruEK's HOUSE
Again, the Scripture speaks, and our own heart
| versai sense Of Gods presence ana law, there
| Is iu the celestial world wide diversity
% as ,no.o yo ,nsy
| reveal to 10 such variety oil form and beauty
as naturally oeit the pattern and exempiar OF this
universe learfu;ly and dcruily maue. OF this
marvellous complex,ty of humun souls and spirits
created in one divine image but In thoussud types
the seraphs nre We are Taught 10 thnE, different
| from q cherubs strength, tho archangel's trump
iroln the minis,ering SPIRITS Whisper. The
each with each, with eagle and eagle with lion
lion with man, ono star differing from her In
glory, then q rainbow like unto emerald, tnen tho
| IighInipgs and thunder ngs and the lamps
| burning before the throne, which are the seven
souls, following the LAMB whitnersoever no gosth;
there toe multitude IN white robes, with palms In
their hands, tha; nave come out oil great trbuation-
| there ihe armed soldiers OF heaven horses
gsiloppng to victory Truly Ia our Fathers house
many mans'ons truly.lhe gates Of that city are open
| continually, day ana niglt. In these many man.
sons, through those open gates, by those divers
| gifts. our Fathers will is dono IN heaven.
1t has been one happy characteristic Of the English
Church that ncd Dotn sues OF Cnrlstan
character within Its pale. There is IN Westminster
| Abbey a window dear to American hearts, because
erected by an honored citizen OF Philadelphia, IN
which these elements aud separated
ecclesiastical royast, prieslike phase Of urch,
George Herbert OF The other side tue sacred poet,
| the church, William Cowper. That diversity is an
example OF tho way IN which Gods Will is wrought on
earth as IL is In heaven. have SAID that we dare
| not speculate the names nature OF the
angels, yet symbols Of the Divine operations they
may be most useful to US In the raooinical and
medi1val theology this divinity used TO be repre-
sen by the manifold Titles OF lis various prime
ties and powers Most oi these have now dropped
out OF use. But there some lew winch, either
| from their mention tho Biblical or spoc-
ryphal books or from the transngurng hand
OF artistic poetic genius have survived, Micnaei,
the leader OF the hosts OF heaven the champion OF
good, the immortal youth Of Gudo's magnificent pie
ture tramping the postraie dragon tue bac BONE
| H.
riel, the pacific harbinser OF glad tidngs, tho
insprcr OF heavenly thoughts by whose gracious
touch the greatly beloved prophet was sustained, the
propnst In the cave looked Tor INSPIRATION 10 whom
| Milton assignee the delightful post Of guarding the
gates oil the earthly paradise; Raphael, tho sociabe
spirit, tue travelling eompsnlon Of the good Tobias,
the idea! oil those angels whom, In mental form, we
| sometimes entertain unawares
| THE CELESTIAL HIERARCHY.
| Uriel, the regent oi the sun, the knight OF God,
| ID seen for a moment 10 the books OF Enocn
| and Esdras, but in Mton's poem tue glow
"the sharpest sighted spirits OF all In heaven" Ihu-
rol the searcner. the dstovoser OF trutb with the
spear whose touch OF celestial temper no ialsehood
| can endure, Aodie. the everlasting example us long
the EngsD language livos OF courageous isolation.
| the dreadIess angel
| Among the faithiess. faithful only he;
| Among innumersDie talse unmovsd
m'ss.s@ ror ss. Was ssipSase Iii Sis care. an''rrn'e
| To stand approved in sisht . Cod though worlds
| judged him perverso.
Such tho divine ideals which tho angelic 30 wcrs
| r, present. They bring before us the SUBMITS Of
and also It's dIvergcnces. As In heave then
let US learn, so tar as Is possible, that no light
| oi however a different Iusire from own, DO
extiDguishsd; tnat no etrergth OF purpose con.
science however diverse from be smut tnas
no aspiration after truth or duty, however wayward,
be stincd; that no spark even thsugn IL be that uf
the smosing hax, be qusncned that no soaring pnon
| be clipped In its upward ngnt; that OF all the
many -colvred shades OF all the mutipyng
aivcrsties, whether Of English universal Chrisen.
dom, none be regarded useless worthless; that
every good and perfect gft whether In man nature,
whether IN the Ola World. with All its ancient and
| Venerable forms, or In the New World, with
! all IT'S youth and vigor, be alike hailed
MS smiling down IRON tho Father Of Light,
| with whom 10 no varisbleness, neither shadow OF
turning Not la the exglusiyonoss OF the courts OF
heaven, but IN tDsr width and openness snail
jocs hereafter not by the excusveness Of any school
on earth, not by the equaity Of all human character
but by this inequality and by our patient endurance