The New York herald., 1878-10-21
MASONIC TEMPLE.
TIE REALITY OF GoD-sERMoN By MR.. o. D

THE REALITY OF GoD-sERMoN By MR.. o. D.
FRoTnINGuAM.
1.-THE Real God, or the Reality Of God" formed tho
subject OF Mr. U. B. Trolningham's sermon In Ma
sonic Temple. He intimatcd that his object to
show in what sense God is living reality. 10 did
not desire to discourse about the gods OF men for
that would DO to treat Of success, wealth. pleasures,
victory, which are the dcities most preferred by
human kind. There is q great difference between the
gods OF men and the God Of the Scriptures Men will
talk Of their deity and tha. OF their neighbor gbiy
US II the subject were not OF awful seriousness.
and hearing them talk you nnd out that It is some-
thing mean, sordid and Of roai value which most
occupies their thoughts. Tho mass OF mankind really
bolicve in a vcrable, operative Deity. They cannot
describe denue IT, but they believe firmly In that
incomprehensibie something whose roaI presence IL
felt soul In the By ways Of lilo viii bs found
steady sincerity and truthfuiness OF faith
for only IN The senss feeling ana impression that out
sldo OF themselves there Is living powor which CON-
pels the world to tho obedience Of Its ways In
tho intellectual pursuits OF science. literature, tho
arts, nnd this conviction for themselves. aud
when natural state. Taco to face with nature,
they have not . speculative but really living God.
Superstition - an agent that soes In object thing
Of Of loveIinoss IL Ii simply effort 10
catcn the reality OF the Deity which gov
sho world The deitics Of Greece were idos and
models OF human beauty so, toe, the things set up
In minds the Idols OF our thoughtA Idols
express what the mind cannot grasp. rncy are The
material behind which Is the aivine image, ana al
last came 10 worship tno idol tor the reality.
The ark OF Mosos Dut attempt TO locaiix3 the
Deity. Wo know inaecd but little Of the Noses
deity; but II We know ANY thing II DO concluded
purely Inteiisc;ual dciIy-a deity with
out any form win which The imagnatlop could asso-
ciate 1t was Impossible that IN me prehistoric
sges could or long centuries continue TO enter
tain so pure and ethereal an idea as this Tho ARK
OF time hopes aud Tears of the people became
trci upon that chest and It's presence or abssncc
prcssged good or evil Tho Christian idea 10 take
Goa oi the skies and make HIM a 10 SIT at
mems own tables, conversing with them and rasipg
up by the miraculous HIS divine
power. THIS was the conception around which the
early Christian Church gathered AZ present must 10
believed that the omnprssent, omuipotent Deity
preacher has said, "Christ is4ny cod 10 Him alone
pray" Tho Roman Catnohc Church did Its bcsL TO
realize God IN Tho Sacrament, IN drops o water
at Dapssm In tho consccraied waller and the priests
touoh Tue water was a bond 10 consooraic the indi-
vdual 10 the Deity tho Sacrament was the body OF
Gou, aud Ia eat,ng ths Almighty In extrsno JUNCTION
deity tricklcd IRON the nnsers OF the priest That
was deity that the people could appreciate, Tor they
could not conceive bread alone to DO tod Himself.
idea oI being blessed ana consccratsd 70 HIM VINO
was God. 10 tho Protestant The Bible ts a part OF
the Deity mat he can put IN his pocket
no goes; In holels and steamboats, and
rairoads--evcryw whore II rs TO DO soon. 10 road
thu Bib eais 10 participate In sanctifyinE act that Is
the pest uncon Tor sinful souls The last effort 10
Iocaze Dsity IS the attempt 10 incorporate God In
the constitution OF the Uniled States 1t seems TO
be the idea that the placing of HIS nametBert woua
be tho potent means OF bearing The American nation
TO unprecedented success, greatness, prosperity.
Philip III. OF spain made the zane attempt to utilize
The name OF Deity, ana hc was one OF the worst Of
under tho sun Napoleon the Great and Pope Pius
x. did IL, 10 what ends Did Napoleon change sns