The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-27


was formerly very rare sight. The services
sisted of the usual hymns. prayers and cornet solos.
The sermon was on "Chrsts Resurrection" the
text being taken from Romans, 8. xxxiv. :-"Who is
He that condemneth? 1t is Christ that died, yea
rather that is risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh ntercesson for u.s."
Paul. said DIR. Talmage. flung this challenge at the
feet of all civil and ecclesiastical authority. syna
gogues and Neros. What puts him IN such tr-
umphant mood? The thought of Saviour dead, q
saviour risen a Saviour exalted a Saviour interced-
inq How was 1t possible for Il large nature like
Pauls to get any pleasure out or the horrible
death scene at Calvary How could the tender
hearted Paul rejoice i'll the funeral of God? 1t
was because in that death he and all generations
might escape worse disaster. The glttering steel
of the execuoner's spear in his eyes kindled into
a torch to light men heavenward The prosecutors
read the cross five words. but Paul saw only
one-expiation. Christ's burden was illmitable
First He bent down under His troubles. On
that was piled the loneliness His old mother
that the sins OF the Jewish nations then the sins
of the preceding 1000 years. the agonics of hel
the chains and prisons and eternity Of suffering
"Now." said Paul. II am free. That suffering was
for my deiverance God never collects debt twice.
have receipt in full" II all the legons of hell
with machinery made in foundries of darkness and
launched from the doors of eternal death, should
search for 10000 years for any of the forgiven
sins of life they could not fetch it up.
From tragedies in the theatre men sometimes 20
home exhausted to pass sleepless nights but there
is tragedy that soothes and Gains and saves all
who see it aricht-Calvary the stage the curtains of
the night falling at midnoon the drop scene thun-
ders or falling rocks the orchestra, angels in the
galleries aud devils in the pit. The tragedy cruc
fxion. at is Christ that died."
The second cause OF Paul's exhlaration-if Christ
had stayed in the grave we never would have got
out. He was there just long enough to fit up the
place for us when we get there. He there two
nights, so that he knows the need of plenty OF
light and has flooded it with glory. If Christ had
not been able to break out rescue would
have been failure. 1t would have been like John
Brown attempting to free the slaves. himself hanged
An aged Christian woman said, "If they have
much going on there in heaven don't know what is
to become of my poor head" Heaven is a place
where there will be everything going that is
blessed Is it not possible that God will forget us?
NO for we have Christs intercession. Everything
depends on who pleads A poor lawyer is
than Christs specially is that OF taking
the bad cause OF sinner and pleading before God
plead innocence, but we are confessodly guilty;
Sometimes IN alibi. but we we We're found on the
spot where the offence committed. Christs
plea in our behalf Will be His own martyrdom, and
that secures an eternal clearance Constable let
also maketh intercession for us.
LESSONS FROM IHE BLAIR TRIAL.
THE NEED OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BY REV.
DIR. FoRREsTER, OF NEWARK.
pulpit Lessons from the Blair Trial" formed the
subject of q discourse at Park Hail. Newark. by the
Rev. DR.. j. E. Forester, late pastor Of the Church
of the Redeemer in that city. The gentleman is an
advocate Of the abolition of capital punishment.
large congregation gathered to hear him. 'Let him
that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall"
Il. Corinthians 12) formed the text. "This admo-
milton of the Apostle" began the reverend Doctor,
1--WE all need, and never do we feel it more than
when startling event rises to the surface of
social life which shows how weak the forces Of
resistance to evil in our hearts and how liable We
are to fall before the assaults of fierce temptation
After showing that the Christian teacher, above all
other men, should be the first to discover and apply
these lessons of life to the people. the Doctor said
For days and weeks we, in common with the whole
community and the whole nation, have been stand
ing in doubt and uncertainty before the problem of
guilt or innocence OF citizen accused before the
courts of the highest crime known to our civliza-
ton and our laws
.'There has been heart hard that it has not
been greatly touched by the recital of grief and
and the dramatic situations. they have from time
to time been pictured before the mind by the public
press have been such as no one could create, and
could only como from the dread and awful reality
that lies ut the Foundation OF a great wrong
Men whose eyes never overflow with tears
of personal sorrow have wept for the
and peril OIL man whose home, for
tune, reputation and all he held dear not
only in jeopardy but sure to be broken and bruised
in any event. Never in the history OF this city
has there been such deep and profound sentiment
of interest; never trial whose after effects vii
numbers Of people. Why this peculiar in
terest? Why this intense excitementp Not simply
been tried. convicted ana hanged here. in the very
centre Of this same community, but such feeling
was awakened and no such interest was created in
their behalf. Why this unwonted interest al the
fate Of this manY Was 1t not largely due the
fact that crimes OF this magnitude seldom come
from that class whose social and cultivated life no
represents? We look the list OF criminals
whose deeds black. cruel and bloody. and they
are found to come from another and lower stratum
of human society.
''such people live and have their being beneath the
shadows OF costly churches which they never enter,
schools which never help them society which never
improves and never puriies their souls bodies.
They plague spots upon the fair face of human
nnda hi tAr uQrNa n thA alinnv Of Iacn
Christ. When murder, dobauchery and crime stalk
abroad in the land nstinctively to this class
the source whence surges through the streets OF
every American city dark. long, shuddering stream
OF woe and wretchedness When it comes from
higher grade in socinl life wonder at
a strange thing The speaker next dwelt upon the
apathy and wicked indifference OF the people to the
whole subject OF crime He denounced the state OF
affairs which permits the appointment of Judges
and other officers who care little and know less
about criminal system. He showed the vital
necessity for an enlightened public opinion and the
Christanizng of tho Republic 'by effort to ban
ish heathenism and its contempt and hatred Of
men which heatheuism teaches aud sustains."
TEMPTATIONS OF FAsHIoSADLR LIFE.
The ambition and luxury Of fashionable life
tempt thousands to crimes of the deadliest nature
Much that is wEked at in the ordinary course OF
fashionable society is itself cupable the
offences that send their perpetrators to prison.
this country for the last few years abundanty
show. Embezzlements, frauds. thefts and even muir
der are now common III cultivated society. Learn
ing il not OF itself moral force. Only the radical
love of God and man can save us against public I'M
morality. inc cnarltaule lnstltutlOns arc real
temples of christianity. In them And the
grandest affairs OF human love. The only security
sacrcdness as the gift of God. The lesson
that springs out of the recent tragic event is
the vital need OF self-control. speak not now OF
the guilt innocence OF the man. higher tribunal
has passed upon that-one that have right to
questionable q silent grave In strange land
which few tears have alen. those which the
angels she'd will ever appeal to another soul in the
agony OF suspense and sometimes of despair for
weeks and months-a family of culture and refine
ment, with black, ugly shadow hanging their
name that only tho resurrection morning scat
ter. All these things have come surely effect
follows from uncurbed temper and
uncontrolled passion. This near to
us ALL SO LET him that thinkcth lac standotn take
lns he fall