The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-02

God Searches Man by Pros
perity and Adversely.
THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
Reopening ofMany City Churches
Yesterday.
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE

THE SEARCHING OF THE LoRD-sERNoN BIZ
The REV. T. DE WITT TALMAoE.
Mr.. Tamage preached yesterday morning In the
Brooklyn Tabernacle the 'Ssarching OF the Lord"
taxing his text from Psalm, cxxxix., 23-'Ssarch mo
Lord and know me, and try and know my way,
ana II there DO any evil way in and load me in
the way everlasting" 1t takes about Aity sixty
years Of hard study, said M Talmsse,
learn how little we know. There IL
time in early lie whom know everything;
We impatient OF the counsel OF superiors in
age, and with toss Of the head we say, ~ guess
know what about" The youthiu III Detsnist pulls
tho Hover pieces and gives scientific names TO ca
part, and thinks he has exhausted the flower. The
young geologist takes his hammer and breaks the
rock and classihes II, ana thinks no has exhausted
the rock But after while como up 10 some
hard, impossible fact Tho question OF child three
years oil age baiks U.S. II then that God searches
Us there DO any evil IN us. In the first place
not arrosanl,'' but the holy spirit says, ''You
are" Again, God searches man by prosperity and by
rulion OF tho world How admire all pictures
which represent the sunerngs OF Christi Whyv Be-
Us patience - and GU Monday morning il IA man calls
you liar you knock him down. That Is all the pa
BACK. God sends these trials to search us some
out OF tnom better, and othcrs como out more
cross, sponetc. acrtd, msanthropic and Queer than
wheu they were In.
Sometimes God tries US by sickness. From other
mistortunes wo can run away; but Hat on our back,
u PAIN in tho head heart aud limbs, can't
AWAY. No school, however well endowed and supplied
with faithful instructors AMI professors teach
the school VI the SICK bed God 81
ing l Will try him by every cough, chtlI
aud resiessness; by every paraiytic twinge, neural
Ella, night sweat oy every exhaustion
l viii search hun through aud through. "
You have seen those people say,
''it Is all Tor the bcst " and you think that
IL rs Gods eternal truth. All things work together
Tor good. For those VINO love God II II all the
besl. God tries with bereavement Ito searches
u man by taking away his loved Hsw nard
realIze that hen our friends 20 away from
they not stolen, but only trsnspianted, irrsdt-
ated, paradiscd. We don't know rebeiii0ux .
soul we possess until Goa takos some OF
Our loved away. Ought not
selves up The stupidity which Is proved by the
Of our siDs unless we know what they arep Wouldn't
II be morcy II God would take our sins to-day
anu Stay them before our eycsf
There ought to be soothing power these
thoughts Tor those VINO are troubled. IL takes Just
many turns OF tho potter's wheel 10 make u vase
cup ana the pitcher OF election needs just many
OF the wheel sf calamity. Do you realize, then,
that you ure III Gods keeping, that all thihgs
working together Tor your good that Of darkness
He viii bring light and out OF defeat victory Each
person Ia all TINS house has much need oil tho
scar ing OF God as though he the only
person IN all tho universe G0d Ia a fortress which
muy all DO sale Complain of your trials; they
nro hcalthfuL educational, elevating. All tor The
best. All Is Tor the best.