The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-13

practise what they believe aud those who believe
put do not make such profession. Let us inquire
this morning the duty of the Church. of the
believer and OF the disbeliever to cure in
fidelity. The Church should be pronounced in her
doctrina belief that God is the and preserver
of all things the moral ruler of the universe and
the Heavenly Father in whom We may trust; that
Christ God manifest in the flesh and the Saviour
the world; that the Holy Ghost is the representa-
tive of Christ and exerts supernatural power upon
the human heart; that man is fallen being and his
regeneration is sublime fact; that there is a state
of future rewards and punishnients, and that the
Bible is an inspired book
IN the expression OF this faith there should be no
equivocation. Only convictions generate convic-
tons. The pews should watch the pulpit with eter-
nal vigilance and the minister should be expelled
who should express doubts as to the fundamental
truths of Christianity. The great of the Church
to-day is an intelligent and courageous laity, COM
petent to defend their faith aud to give for
the hope that is within them. In their homes should
be libraries stored with the weapons OF defence and
attack They should never allow their religion to
be assailed without q burning reply. Their lives
should be illuminated Illustrations of the
the Church to-day is not devotion. benevoence.
but holy life. They should give to the Bible two
feet to 60 errands of two hands to bestow
charity two to hear the cries OF distress, two
eyes to take the gauge of poverty and two lips to
utter the truths of God. Each Christian should be
living. walking, loving Christ. The Church should
enter the arena of science and sanctify education
Science must be pited against science The Christian
scholar must measure arms with the infdel scholar,
and meet philosophical inquiry on its own chosen
ground. The Church should endow chairs OF phys
ical sciences. that the competent professor re-
Greek can devote himself to original experiments.
Then science would cease to aid the cause of inf
delity The arena is opened to the Christian scholar
FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
SONGS IN THE NIGHT SERMON BY REV. DR.
ARMfTAGE.
"Songs in the Night" was the subject upon which
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the forms of paradox. Jesus gives several notable
cases OF this sort as "Happy they that mourn >"
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Jobs friends and partakes of this character
He. uttered complaints against God as if Jehovah
we're too hieh TO notice either rood or evil whereas
II he had called upon God in his dark ness and
gloom his Maker would have filled his heart with
SONGS Nieht in the Scriptures is a symbolical term
for sdversi1y-a fitting season to represent mental
and moral dreariness But we often make our trou-
HES more ireary than thew really are by compla in
ing of their severity and BY attrlbuting them to