New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-10
CONSCIOUS PRESENCE OF GOD.


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Brooklyn
Two reasons were assigned for the unuSu-
ally large assemblage in Plymouth ChuIch when
throDged the capacOus building TO the doors yesterday
morning one that yesterday WAS the first sunday
afer the annual remit * Of the pews and all who Dad
secured for the year were present To DC
cupy them and The other that the Friday night
meeting In which lack Of spirituality In the church
discussed had stirred IN the members OF the cnurch
Mr. Beecher preached upon the advantage OF bearing
through life CONSCIOUSNESS Of the daily presence or
God. The txt Hebrews XII %: " b. faIth Moses
forsook Egypt fearing the wrath Of the kings for he
endured az seeing Hun which is invisible" In part the
preacher said:
AS this man Moses stands depicted In the Scriptures
the greatest in antiquity. II 1t is romance
grand dramatic characters and II you call 1t his
tory do, he IL OF the greatest heroes Of historical
narrative Born OF a slave, rescued from death by
princess reared all the culture OF great nation ex
allied to great honor cast from all by his love for his
Kind made an exile and living shepherd until old |;
then taking up his fe's work and leading forth tue
alayepeople making them "a nation, carving and fash
oning their institutions wandering for forty until
all with the vices of slavery had died. tnen taking them
TO their Own land, he closed the drama with death ut
whIch all he lived and longed for was IN moment
da she'd from He left HIS people without farewell,
and disrObed. went to the mountain tOD took linger-
ing look, and lay down. NJ man KNOWS where ne IS
buried but his name lives In glory through all time In
the Ia said he did all this because no lived as If he
saw God every day.
us OF the conscious presence OF COD. Faith 10
the truth seen by tue Imagination superst nsuons
truth We live by faith, said Paul, not by gut.
christ was to Paul what jehovah was to Moses.
there mus. be right conception Of ODD An out
God. whom, II he existed IN human form. We
should call devil, helps one. Every man. In sense.
makes his own God; that develODes his own ncep
uon TO have an Influential God. one mnst conceive
pc sonal deity pan helsiic God does nOt warm or
comfort "a man. But man can CONCEIVE personal
God, complete In al HIS features II ~ ~ large that no
man can compass II. the lnnaerial and unbounded
NJ "A
ness cannot he contained IN human mnd r. conceive
too great Tne personality vary according to
mind AMI the mood. As creator God appears 10 one
class Of minds. 10 another lie Is the upnOdeF and
governor. This is vague but It Is comfortable. It's
great comfort know that there government; that
things at and ems not ~ Kaleidoscope,
shifting daily. In the early scriptures fnl rrgnauG
monarch. Later HIS disposition was mad known HIS
f,tncrhood Ills infinite love. working pun Of
pniy lie WAS redeemed from the base qu Ilitles
cnrd Him God was the same III all ages, bat mans
conception ~ Hun cang"s thr"ugh ume. He justice.
purity and truth and also the embpdmpnt IF all that l.
beau ~ lItc and action known 10 w.. We frame our
conception from all we Know oi noble Qualities He
contains all there j. In intnltude and ampn ie. Mems
emotions ale mn TX and rciuX IKE the noon-drawn
ocean, ami tholr ldcs OF Goa mas chsiA AMY vary No
ON" niis GOd nor conceived Him directly thou
sand years. viii thousand days. with thousand hous
hnu thousand experiences "Onu ~ ntciru 10 gam
complete nea of the lnhtity OF God But the general
and blessing Tne idea OF God with Ms redeen1 secr'sy
from danger Of inquiry. society would never
Cult-rc H. everything were reNc Heal Every man has IA
chamber sccrrsy winch Ec clrrr1 IN The mlnutlc
tire at IDEAS. The higher mans lie Is raised.
not ntIc Gul. "" redeemed by the
slant presence God from the dangers OF sccrrsy. rhe
things nru suddrr speak carried Ia their minds
no one hr d. hs II the lhyS~ OF mems passions
The cOnscousnr.- Of Gods presence and inluO, ing
hrlt,s IN another way. -. Pam and DLrHin
rrprr- fret an ANIMAL first hat winch -
natural that Nucd j. spiritual some said
To Ice unprarilra. and others know how To act in
life We take the wOr,u II eXis-, but cannot
cnnfrOi 10 without knowing thar God We
hIr from HIM. controls the world best bY having
M SrrudrUCY the tanga wJirh relate % The
bic and the imaginative. In all rXgcucic- life men
are borne aside bY sOcial surroundings. We told
tnat We Tree agents. Yes, In little circ. %,
there Is "a spot where free agents bur our
cOndit uns aud SURROUNDINGS not free agents.
am not whether | viii he born among the
Zlus In South Africa, or III the FIVE Points
IN New OrA-wOrSP yet To certain degree
1 eau resist tnc surroundings but % greater
degree cannot. Men are ncdgrd in by cOnventional-
ties this life. II man carries the CunSiOn. presence
God he resist All. Tnen IN the sudden eInergrn-
Clcs OF life: has been riding the chariot Of
wealth. and the wheel comes on Men met shIpwreck
aud disaster. BUT II God ~ VITA You nothing
come yUn. II Go l. with ypl. no. p1ccmIn a
aus watcher, uui ~ great Lover. what il poverty
yuu what disaster aud wreck! In tur-
uui and storm men run to he tower siren ;tn in God
seriousness b"ing other II man mas
his he can't Afford 10 deal with the trivial details and
PLAYS OF trouble III ne. Men VINO fly hgh re-
hcVru the troubles al rrtn They and
unIrOubl,d. lie haS If 81 him 3clf up all
from beside God walks through life cheerful and
CONSCIOUS of Power stronger IMAM lie Is which ever |
helps him.