The New York herald., 1879-02-03
THE CHRISTIAN CODE.
Pastors Laying Down the Laws to
Their Congregations.
MORALITY IN RELIGION.
The World Turned Upside Down
Haste to Grow Rich.
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.

SOD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BY THE REV. DIR.
HEPwoRTH.
That which God has set for Himself said DIR.
Hepworth in the Church of the Disciples yesterday
morning, will be accomplished. If
on the side of Christ. the
side of ultimate victory. There may be
years of conflict; but the end is not doubtful There
may be bloody paths for our feet to tread burdens
to be and trials to be undergone but after the
cross the crown-sfter the smoke of battle. the vic
ors laurel wreath. 1t is said by st, Paul
that the world is the body and that Christ
Is the heart or the brain. What the heart
and brain to the body that will Christ
eventually become in the government of the world
We apt to say that man resembles the world
that he is in himself sort of microcosm. Man is
bundle of possibilities faggot of contradictions
There are some qualities of character almost heav
enly while others are almost beastly The world.
like man. has had its infancy. its youth it's time Of
romance and its full maturity. The world, like man.
will be perfect when Christ its brain and Christ
rs its heart shall give direction to thought and i'm
pulse to emotion.
FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY
Strange it is, that in such dark days those in
which the New Testament written. it could be
possible to prophesy absolute and complete success
tor Christianity. Nothing seemed little likely to
rome to pass; idea appeared so impossible of re-
llization But Gods promise is absolute assurance.
prophesied that it would not be long before
his people should possess all that smiling
landscape-not by their might. but with the aid
of God. So God himself standing some emf
nence looks into the future, dim and clouded to
u.s. but to Him bright day. and says that the
hour shall come when every knee shall bow and
every tongue confess that Jesus is the Lord 1t may
prophecy. Let us stand for a moment under the
shadow of the on that Friday when Christ said,
'It is finished" What then seemed so improbable
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the world? Nothing then powerful the
Roman Empire, and surely nothing seemed weak
to the cross. The great truteller, whose scathing
criticisms. though acknowledged to be just had
they thought. the penalty Of His temerity:
The poor wanderer, who had been followed
wnen some seeking health others 9m novetx a
and others to confound Him. was now caught in the
net, though not by His enemies skill. Suppose
had said to the Roman soldier by your side
"The empire you represent is destined to
man, however low. need do honor to the
power of Rome" he would have looked upon you
is an imbece. He would have said, There is
power like that of the spear. Destruction to
Rome is impossible: Her soldiers are nvincible;
her throne is founded on o rock. Rather say her
influence shall extend till all the compassed
by her bounds" The Pharisee and the Sadducee
would have thought the soldiers argument weghty
one while hoping it to be far otherwise Suppose
that. pointing to the malefactor the cross. His
hands bleeding with fresh wounds. the women ut
around utterly dispiried and disconsolate. believing
that the end had come-suppose you had said to
the soldier and to the Pharsees and Sadducees That
malefactor is to rule the world; He win sit not on
the throne of Rome, yet in the courts of Jeru-
salem, but will be enthroned and worshipped in
every human heart" Your hearers would have
laughed in derison. Nothing could have seemed
more utterly preposterous. But we all know that
Christianity did not die. 1t entered upon
period Of conflict, but in the end
crowned. See what 1t has accomplished
in the world large. Centuries ago it the bus
ness of men tight; it is their business
tain peace. Little by little it has been determined
that Justice shall be done. The arbtrament of war
is giving way by slow degrees to the arbtrament of
IDEAS Christ is encouraging good and crushing out
evil. We what because Christianity Is in
the hearts of men and in the halls of legislation.
WHAT CHRIST DONE DOES
want to speak of Christ incarnate in the individ
uls of whom the world is composed. You and are
interested in Christianity because Of what 1t do
for 1t can give us what is beyond the reach Of
philosophy and of science. II has showered upon the
present the glory of the future. and gives aid
couragement peace and JOY. There is no time when
Christ will not help you no experience either of JOY
of sorrow. which cannot be made good use Of If
Christ will teach how. There is no power under
heaven to lit men up but that of Jesus Christ. He
makes our less acute and our JOY more
preme. In the hour of death the Christian wraps
the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down
to pleasant dreams His mind is disturbed by
certainty fear to the future.