The New York herald., 1878-08-26
SEEDS OF TRUTH.
Family Discipline Must Be Calm
and Continuous.
CHRISTIANITY IS VIGOROUS.
THE World Has Always Been
Too Ignorant OF God.
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Ssx LITTLE AND LIrTLE-sgrMoN DY 7

BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
SsY LITTLE AND LIrTLE-sgrMoN yy THE
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
Mr. Talmage preached yesterday morning In the
Brooklyn Tabernacle from the text Exodus xiii
.so-"By little and little" That is God's way; cter-
unity is not a great while TO God. We hasten and
worry and die, but GOD waits. Gsd's stupendous
projects 60 on grandly, slowly, inch by inch. This
theory OF graduation has its illustration IN the
achievement OF spiritual knowledge and the driving
out of Canaapitish Ignorance. The swest reper-
torial pen Jailed in attempting to make a per-
pendcuiar stroke the boys copy book The printer
whose hngers are as electric as the lightning, once
pulled out from case, slowly and steadily, type
by type all spiritual knowledge 1t Is by httIc
and little that we advance. In the building up Of
Christian character 1t is the same patchwork Con-
version Is work, the building up
OF character by little and littc There is the
great difference between conversion and sanctn-
cation.
FORMATION OF HABITS.
Again II Is the formation OF bad habits. Take
the nabit OF lying. man begins with what is called
white lie, and after while there is limit to his
Talsehood. So in the habit OF using tobacco There
Is no danger OF my beng personal IN my remarks, tor
you all use it, (Laughter) You begu, perhaps, with
cigar which your father or some minister has
thrown away, aud you have gone TIL you
slave to naDt which IL ruinous to any man oi
temperam0nt SO with the habit OF
ance Tue first day man DON'T 60 ana wailow in the
ditch If he is well of he begins with sparkling
or 10 three ns x Now
deiirious pillow, he cries out to the doctor
20 10 give MIN rum n.,, On. young man. rs"au stand
you should charge me with Hioernicsm. will risk
It and say, Stop before you start. You say. ~
mngle with evil associates and yet am not contain
mated" But II you stand anywhere near them you
viii get splashed with miro and pollution and moral
DIRT. This panther OF evil habits has velvet coat
and sleek skn and comes softly through the night
mans temptation and squats before the soul. But
you have felt the clutch OF his claw and sharp
ot his teeth God pity you. Remember we may not
only go down gradually ourselves but take others
with Us little by little.
GOVERNMENT
Domestic discipline in the family government s for
the part by fits and starts. Family discipline is
worse than nothing unless II be calm, tin and
all through boynood and Rrlhood This theory of
graduation Illustration tho lifting OF our world
to its better state. The whole world be
evangeiized at once Things done that way.
Swords 10 be turned into ploug ghshArss and vet
ever and anon Springfield ana Troy armorers are
working day and night TO MI up some new orders for
bownzers muskstry. oh. ye cavillers you do not
realize way God thingsl Let God control the
great Affairs OF the universe Let US, each one. his
hsle work, each dong his work his own
way according his own capacity. by little and little
fhen God will the last gather up all these frag
snail see i. and under arcSe. Of lsn. and bowers Of
beauty we shall see the consummation. Amid that
not DO ashamed to announce that ali this grandeur
little
WASHINGTON SQUARE M. E. CHURCH.
AN INTIMATE RELATIoNsHP WITH cHRIsT-
MoNAsTIo sEcLUsIoN CoNDEMNED-sERMoN
By REV. DE. KING.
Rev. DR.. James NJ. King preached at the Washington
Square Methodist Episcopal Churcn, Fourth street,
near Sixth He took his text from the Gospel
of ST John, xviii, 15-'l pray thou shouldst
tako them out OF the world, but That thou shouldst
keep them from the evil" In The FIRST portion Of
discourse he dwelt upon tho necessity OF human re.
lationsnip with the Saviour. Perhaps tho greatest
obstacle, ne said, In the way OF vigorous aud
healthy growth In grace and In the knowledge OF God
was to be found in the m,sco oncsption of the human
mind to the possibilities Of It's intimate relation
ship with Jesus Christ Just in proportion as
the mind came to feel that it might como
Into scauaintanceship with Jesus the soul de-
veloped into the image OF Christ. Bo thought that
specimens OF Christian fidelity Of growth
In grace 10 be found In those souls that
The Saviour as confidently and As simply as child
might 10 to its mother. One OF the most bea utlfu
passages in the Scriptures that which said OF tho
dscipies when they were overcome by persecution
toward Christ" Ths. too. was our duty il was
incumbent u.s. far as possible, to think Of HIM
human personality for when We touched HIS
humanity we touched HIS divinity also. The disciples
we're on very intimate terms with Christ, aud the
simple TACT that thcy clave TO Him Implied that they
we're bound by strong ties OF personal friendship Ho
lard strong emphasis the preacher said. upon the
wnctner the dsci pies, until alter the resur-
rection, had any very settled conviction
That He was the Son OF God. Assuming
that they had he thought that the apostasy OF ST.
Peter and the defcctons Of others would have been
impossible. Tne Infinitely wise Christ was IN inti-
mate relationship with and had learned TO love HIS
rude AND comparatIvcly uneducated companions. He
then suffering under the appalling weight OF the
shadow oil HIS coming death, and at such juncture
He might, had He chosen, have taken the disciples
from the evils and from The battle and persecu-
Uons which they would have 10 confront In coming
days But He did not choose 10 do HIS prayer
not that they might be taken out OF the world,
but that they light be kept from It's evil In that
prayer the acknowledgment that there
power In God 10 keep them in the world and yet
OF It,
In this portion the preacher strongly
condemned solitude aud monasticism. Occasional
SOLITUDE, he granted, was necessary TO healtbiul
spiritual growth but, on the other hand perm anent
had proved TO be most disastrous, Tor II
effect con Icssion that tho grace oil God not
equal TO keeping man from evil
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH.
ETERNAL LIFE-sEEMoN By THE REV. DR. 4
O. TAYLOR.
OF It's problem theme OF the Rev. II. G. Tay-
lor, d. d., Of Providence, Il l., at the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, Second avenue. He TOOK bis
from ST. Johns Gospel, xviii, B. In the OF the
he said tho grand question involved IL, whas
is eternal iie3 wo sinners not In the condition
believers. The man who is already within tho power
OF Niagaras dreaded tall needs something than
theory 70 serve or save him. Time b.rries us on