The New York herald., 1878-10-21
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.

IN NECESSITY or LEADING Two-FoLD
IFE-sERMoN BY REV. HENRY WARD
EECuER.
You are. OF course, not all expected 10 attend IT,"
saihr. Beechsr, yesterday, referring 20 lecture by
Re Dr. Courtsnay. s.since IL Is addressed 10 tho
thking portion OF tho oommupity." Tho effect
oil this little speech was TO make one
tht OF tho congregation smile, another
tht frown and tho remainder elevate their eye
bros The subject OF Mr. Beecher's sermon was tho
s,rs 10 reach IT, and the necessity tnat men should
ilvdn that higher world In order 10 perform we'll
the part In this lower IL is, no said, the unit
for teaching Of tho Old and Now Testaments that
Ihs two worlds intorsphere that Il 10 she duty
sf m TO live In and IN the other Two striking
lus.ccs OF the sustaining power OF this
mupn with tno invisible were furnished In
Mo-, and PsuL Ihe iormer, aged man,
rou never have endured forty years In
ihcidernsss with horde Of stifI-neck slaves who
hadl shs vices OF the ERyptians without any OF
thevirtuss, except Tor such support "Hc endured
all hings as seeing him that Is invisible"
Pauas second in the order Of enooss produced He
waahinksr, who, above all others, had inspired
anastructed tho race. Dwelling at considerable
ieni upon character and Lie OF apostle the
preler proceeded call attention the fact that
Pauss forth tho secret OF his endurance ~ pre-
eisahat which supported Moses-''We look not at
the ngs that are seenn
t4f1 nArnRfALIsn or THB AGg.
Tdrift OF thought to-day, MI Boecher observed,
Wa8the direction oil uhwliin gness TO believe In
thiDiritual Kingdom, and feelDg was growing
up the age was cms ncipasing US from supersti-
tiond that all things were supers,i,ieus which
coulot be subjected TO physical tests. Men seemed
20 b forgotten, while reasoning about nature ana
mstsnd The divino method IN matter, that IN all
"A th~r.s a. m A
is single human soul, and that ali tbe facts Of
phyl creation there are no such facts as ic IN the
sxpncs oil ono we'll kept soul; nature 10 more per-
feotseIf tDan any mountains, strata, astronomical
mot, or any oil the physical laws OF the globe
Theef fact Of nature 10 man, ana man not Ia rela-
ttonlhe world beneath, bus win reference 20 tho
worbovc. "rhcy have taken away my Lord and
I kunot where they have laid Him" would be tue
pad licm OF the human race should men bc robbed
pf Y istIh 10 the unseen. but Mr. beeener
tnou tho reaction IRON The extreme materlalsm
Of ~ would place tho Christian teaching on
bsgnround than u ever had been beisre.
a PRACTICAL NEcKssirr FOR PATH.
~ not gwen 10 genius alone 40 10 1--we as 10 500
Himo is invisible, but TO all mon. When men
stoosore God and In the glory Of the eternal King
dom ould De Iound that tho intellectual capacity
10 IN rs inferior 10 the moral power of the alice
uonshoso who said they mad no Time Jeff Tor tho
hsxmis, that thor whole beng was absorbed by
busi, we're assured by Mr.. Bcecner that they
mosLeded this upliit. No man made such
goodsc OF ms time In his business as
he WAS cool and calm and had most comprc-
hons.nd perspective views OF life. "whenever
you man not with little pincbing cares and
annocs," said he, 'you may depend upon IL he
Tits sell INTO the tall trees" Men sald tney
souid get on In business without giving their
voc waoi. 20 % H. .,. Mr s ssschst replied .way don't
yourIr and animal nature anu rossen 10 your
busin A man Is not master OF his circumstances,
but vthe higher nfc hc can bc master ot himself
undei circumstances. lhc thermometer had
no n,sit was everlasting, travelling up ana down a
scaie- u had any lumber Of reproductions In