The New York herald., 1878-12-19
INSTALLATION OF REV. G. G. MILN.


BAPrIsTs, PREsBYTERIANs AND CONGREGATION
ALIsTs FRATERNIzE OVER THE EyENr-ELo-
ouENT ADDREssEs-BEEcHER AND NOBLE AB-
SENT.
After many delays and postponomens the instalia-
ton of Rev. George G. Min took place last evening
in the East Congregational Church. The pulpit plat
form was very tastefully set off with flowers ferns
and trailing vines. The church was well filed, but
not crowded. At eight o'clock DR.. Joseph L.
Duryea OF Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church;
DR.. Il. $. Stone, the Moderator OF the Coun'
ell which examined and admitted the church.
and DR.. II. S. Carpenter of the Bedford Congresa-
tonal Church, took seats on the platform. double
male quartet introduced the exercises by chanting
the .Ie Deum," after which DR.. II. 5. Stone real
portion of Scripture from Isaiah vi. and offered
prayer at the conclusion OF which he brehy re-
counted the steps by which the Church had come to its
present condition duly organized and recognized
Church the Lord Jesus Christ sound III the faith ana
in harmony with every Christian Church and in fellow
ship ~th sister churches. 1t is known to you how the
Council came to its conclusion and how it left to the
NJ derator the duty express its fellowship to you
on this OCCASION There perfect unanilnity III
the Council to your rise and progress hitherto.
except in the form of the covenant BY which you
admit members into your fellowship. Every one Of
us would have preferred that that covenant which
opens the door to every true Christian should
have guarded little against the admis.
sion of any but true Christians in at least
And this is apparent by the vote--1o to 7by which
you admitted into fellowship. The majority.
however were willing to trust you. They had SO
solemn a conviction of Gods care for you and of
Your pastor's orthodoxy, coupled in the minds OF
some tnat Won win make the change which we would
have been glad you had made at the beginning that
they could not refuse to recognize you whom
Godhad recognized and blest. We cannot attempt to
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whom you called, but who declined and have persis-
tently declined to sit in any council constituted as
as legally as IL act had been done by general
council of all the Congregational churches in the
land Wherefore, brethren, said Dr. Stone in closing,
you are no longer strangers ana ioresners, put le
low citizens % 9f the =, saints , and Of T. hG H OF
| shine upon you and give you peace.
After singing hymn 7l7 the congregation listened
to an admirable sermon by DR.. J. T. Dnryca. pastor
of the Glasson Avenue Presbyterian Church. on the
truth as it is in Jesus-Ephesiaas. ~, u. What
this signify What is truth, and how can it be
found in Jesus Truth the Doctor said. is idea
not in the human mind. but answering to something
that is in the mind 1t is knowledge; in its broadest
it is all that God knows, The truth
! is III Jesus in that sense because Jesus knows
all that God knows. But the word is used here in
narrower sense; it means that knowledge which is
ncedful for salvation. SO much at least concerning
/ the being, character, ways and will OF God may
produce in obedience. God is known to us in ma
ture, in human nature and in the Scriptures. 1t is
! evident that we must know what God ls before We
receive God in Christ Jesus The Doctor traced
the power of truth in forming character and expert
Saving the character. he said. is saving the
and there is other salvation for any OF us.
The practical end for which the Scripture was given
is that we may know God The trust Of the true
Christian must be in Jesus The Doctor showed
how impossible it is for man to have any true con-
ception Of God He revealed in Jesus Christ.
and added that the English speaking world Is suffer-
ing from the influence Of Millions Paradise Lost"
wherein God is placed on one side and Jesus on the
oa uar snx Who a"ds hs pound
of flesh. But Jesus declares that God so loved tho
world that He gave his only begoten Son. DR.. Dur
yea also offered the installation prayer.
HUMOROUS PASTORAL CHARGE.
DR. Hugh Smith Carpenter charged the pastor on
few points. He bade him give the people what he
! got from God, not what he gets from tradition
what he concocts III his own brain. There is differ
ence between inspiration and illumination; between
4 Immediate answers to prayer ana answers prayer
III edate There is in these days great lack OF con-
4 ccntration in the one work OF the ministry There
| is to-day large class of dissipated minister's
men whose mental habit and active life is wasted in
this direction and that tor the want of the true con
centration of a single purpose He would rather
Mr.. Miln pound the Bible, as ministers of old did.
than to have him pat it as many do now He advised
the new pastor not to make sermons, but to take
them. You have been installed at last, my brother,
said DIR. Carpenter and that that you shall go
the road steady hereafter Dr. Carpenter bade the
pastor beware and not be capvated by the laughing
or languishng eyes of the women Of his congrcga-
souls which he should 80 for. He bade him also 90
alone to the seaside or the hillside for study, which
fellowship to the pastor, reminded him. meant Pros
pcct Park and Coney Island DR.. jeffrey gave the
charge to the people. and the ceremonies did not
close until half past ten p. NJ.
| Dr. Noble. or New Haven, who to have
preached the sermon. having come in once before.
could not because of the frequent dsappointments
in this case hold himself free ut this time.
| II was rumored that his declinaton due to the
| presence. supposed, of Mr. Beecher on the COM
mittee of Installation. But Mr.. Min assured
| the writer that there truer friends
| III the denomination than DR.. Noble and
| Mr.. Beecher. And the fact that the former
came hither before when Mr. Beecher was expected
to take part taken corroborativc proof. MIR.
Beecher, too, absent on his ecturing tour and
his place taken by DR.. Jeffrey Leaving the SER
mon out of view. for ii serious and instructive,
| the other addresses charges were of humorous
character and kept the people patiently in their seats
for than three hours. Mr.. Min at last is tree and
untrammeled full hedged Congregational min