Daily Republican., 1881-01-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
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Special Correspondence Of tie Republican.
BRsoKLYY, N. Y, Dec. A -Th'
churches in this city on Sunday wsr'
largely attended. Especially was thil
the case at Plymouth church, in the
morning. Rev. Henry Ward Beecbel
preached upon the parental relation
ship of God to His creatures. The dis.
course was OF q very interesting char.
aoter and the delivery was replete with
|oratorioal ability. The text was select
cd from IJohn 3 1.5. There is in
this passage, said Mr.. Beecher, GER.
tsinty and an uRsertsinty, certainty Of
utterance as to the So1s Of God, but
an utter uncertainty as to the nature Of
God. The law OF knowledge is that VIZ
should have things measured to us by
something that we should kRow, but in
acquiring knowledge of God there is
nothing that we can use that we can
give q measurement of Him. All the
way through the Word Of God itself de-
clsIes that We cannot perfectly uZder-
stand God.
He is revealed to us as a Ruler, Re-
deemer. Guide, Friend, but after all
what this means in its tulness we don't
know. There is nothing pure enough
on earth to represent the purify Of
God. The nearest approach tina: we
can get to a Relation Of what the love
Of God to man is We may find shown in
the relationship between the parent
and his children. The love Of the par
ent to the child is au'instinct. No
mother sits down with the babe in her
lap and says to that babe, eve ought
to love one another" and then sets
forth q schedule Of reasons for doing it.
You might as we'll ask why is sweet.
sweet--sour, sour. There Is no going
back on these ultimate facts. As the
parental love goes out it puts on differ
ent forms, but the original love still
runs through it.
God loves His children because they
are His own, and the magnanimity o.
this love is found in the fact that it 80
in the nature of God to love things that
are not in themselves iRtrinsically low
able. That is the most blo1soming and
most fragrant Of Gospel truths. That
is God that no athieat would desire
to annihilate. The love Of God is, then,
if this view is correct, interpreted to us
by the love Of parents and by the love
Of children for their parents.
One reason why men do not love
God is found in the fact that He has
been represented to them as 8 God of
fear. Men are told again and again
that God abhors and Furnishes sim
think very well,o my old sChoolmaster.
| never did like the rattan and the
ruler. II my scbo olmaster was presen-
ted to my mind as nothing elsa but as
the rattan and the ruler | should not
feel very cordially toward him. The
Ideas Of God that have been presented
to men is that God is a God Of justice,
and, mostly, that God got another God
to die i0r Him. While life and being
last shall love love, for cannot love
hate.
What is the effect of this love, prac.
ticslly speaking' When the divine
message was first sent to the world it
was sent to the poor. And why
Because they are the most numerous
and thsy had the most need OF this
message. The world is full of persons
whose aspirations are spent, whose
life seems to have accomplished nothing
bat this message Of love shows TO them
that this life is pilgrimage, and,
though they are crossing the wilder
ness, it will not be many days before
they shall be in the populOus country,
where there will bs just as much
pleasure for the poor as for the rich.
After &imonishing his hearers not to
put away the acceptance of this love,
Mr.. Beeoher invited all who were be.
levers in the Lord jesus Christ, ire
spective Of fect, to unite with tho mem
bers of the church in the oommunnien
service that was held Immediately
after the pronouncing of the beneiic-
tion.
The annual renting of the pews and
aisle seats in this church will take
place this evening. Each pew has
fixed valuation, and the choice Of all in
the house is offered, without reservs-
ton to previous occupants, to the
highest bidder. Bach aisle seat has a
fixed valuation. The Tseats are know
By the same numbers as the pews to
which they are attached. The psws
and seats are rented with the under
that if not occupied at least
ten minutes before the commencement
Of the services they may then be as
signed to strangers. Upon the ground
floor the value of pews is from FIVE to
1ne-hundfed and-twenty doilsrs. The
value of the aisle seats average from
one 10 twelve dollars.
DR.. Talnage preached to q vast cor
yregation in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
,n Sunday. Before the conclusion OF
the services he said: Gas a celebrated |
French actress has seen fit TO ass2il me
N print, ayerring that have said
hings adverae to her character, where
ss, as you all know, ! have not made
the slightest allusion to her until this
propose to preach on Suu-
lay next a sermon upon the drama
md what We are to do with the dra-
natic elements in our natures"
Thousands visited the Egyptian
aonolith on Sunday greater num-
Ter than ever before sincs its arrival
n America.
Rev. John w. Kramer, NJ. D., the
Master of St. Johns Guild, of New
fork City, reports that 70, 1853 persons
lave been benefited by the ministra-
ious of the Guild during the past
ear. Mr.. Kramer was a great friend
4 John Barr, now deceased, but for
nerly an EDITOR of Wing organ in
delaware.