New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-22
A BRIGHT, SUPREME ANNIVERSARY.
me Rec Henry Ward Bechr at Plymouth Church (Congrga
tiOHdi)

A BRIGHT, SUPREME ANNIVERSARY.
me Bee Henry Ward Beeohr at Plymouth Church tCongrsga
ti0nGl
Handsome bouquets of flowers were placed
upon the platform and the pastors table in Plymouth
Church, yesterday morning. In them were mlhgieu
callas tulips Of various cOOrs crocuses Vcets Iehs'
hyacnth heotrope trailing arbuus and other flowers
The opening voluntary by the choir was an Easter an
them nv J. d. Wilson, OF Hartford. Mr.. Bcechers text
was COl0ssians ILL.,, IL
Wherever the sun traverses earth this morning he
said 1t arouses universal sympathy and rejoicing Ihat
this centres around sacred themes is itself matter OF
graduation Surely there is other anniversary tna'
can cmpare with this with the resurrection OF Christ
comes universal Joy. This gives the Church the
right TO pronounce this anniversary the bright
est and most supreme that men Celebrate
No other anniversary stands for such parsonage as
this His character spOtless and perfect lie STOOD
FOR Immortality and in His resurrection we have the
pledge that shall rise to Immortality What in the
history Of Is comparable 10 thisl And yet around
about this day have ragged the fercest controversies
Of antiquity For long time. when was boy II you
were born NewEngland you knew nothing OF Easter
II was considered to belong to the Roman Church
ti mark Of progress in the Church. that are now
accepting after 200 years. many OF the customs OF the
mother Church We not in danger OF being too gay
or Of being too much msled by garniture The day Is
coming when beauty shall be Joined to pety and the
"beauty OF holiness" shall become something more than
q
once thore were not enough Roman CatnOh,s to go
round as specimens there dense COMMUNITIES of
the mother Church, as they ike TO can thcmselVer'
There strong bent now in this country toward cele
mouonsness. II could say it without it going
abroad should say tnat Cbur rfClce reat d tn9
more than would of no Church at all. believe there
are as many devOu doing Gods will IN that Church
ms there are in the great Protestant denominations We
have given them our revivals and sunday
and they giving some good things VIII DeneVe
good where good 1t is matter OF graduation tha
we are accepting the Christmas Day and the Thanksgv
ing Day the Good Friday and the Easter Sabbath In
deed, accepting about all Tie days excepting TIC
This il the one day of all the calendar because the
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ seal and surety of i'm
mortality mankind. Everywhere there is a longing
for continued existence. We long ior InmOrluily. we
cannot bear the conception OF l0slng sr 9
candle for thousand reasons Harriet d t uo
this, but think in that she puts herself apart from
her kind am not willing to 60 BACK 10 dust I MEYER
without sorrow. 1 have sympathy with broken and
wrecked locomotive Mfh thinks and feels he is ever
nigh calling along the line of every feeling and every
faculty. His work is incomplete, and can this be all
cove the gift Of life rs boom When Christ says we
shall rise accept it by the evidence that comes from
uty cries out &" II should be II should be So
This day is also q witness and an answer TO
believe that any considerable thing persisted We
past, but it Is only the early Spring we wish
herOrs of the knowledge yet 10 be revealed We
want 10 the solution OF the moral questions OF the
world. l believe tnat by and by | shall understand
all these procuring causes which now nasccn when
shall be perfect harmony, ana star hal answer
star, and the whole universe thunder the chorus Whth
shall below and nothing below or above
but God, and humanity transformed by God.
Then there mystery OF the future, the compile
ton of Gods universe. believe tBat part after pat
OF Gods scheme Is being wrought out There Is COM
ing time when all the discordant and dshevelied ele-
ment shall De gathered up. want 10 be there 10 see H.
am wiling work in the quarry and The mine 50 that
bv and by may see the outcome And at last shall
see Him, and with Hun shall my own. AT last |
shall JON my father and see my mother Again III my
arms shall cradle my babies But hsh above all, chicf
among tcn thousand and altogether lovely, shall be
Jesus, nv Saviour and my God. Then VIII say: Not
unto me not untO me- o Lord but unto they name De
praise az glory, forever and ever.