New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-30
TALKS FROM THE PULPIT.

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B1hop Clark a, CALGARY Church Frot,stont Ep(scopqb
Bishop Clark, CT Rhode Island, preached
yesterday In Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church al
Fourtave and Twenty hrstst from the text Leyiteu.
| xix. 10: "Thou shalt not thy field with mingled
seed" The following is report OF the main portion,
| Of the sermon:
am afraid that there iss large amount Of minOis,
seed scattered about in churches and Sunday
as well along the ordinary paths OF life. We havs
great varieties Of doctrine taught from pupits and
among those who set to teach children we End
endless diyersities in the degree OF their intelligence
And even II the seed sown Sundays altogether
pure. It would get mixed in the week with
great deal that Is neither pure wholesome
All this emphasizes point and that Ia the immense
Importance OF watching carefully the style OF culture TO
which our children subjected especially In the
sunday-sohools Of the Church There three great
purposes which intended to be accomplished by th,
tnstitutionthe incubation of sound religious opinions
the promotion OF devout habits and the culture Of
| healthy moral character.
The first beliefs OF child arc received entirely on
trust not the ground OF evidence, but because Of
his confidence in the source from whence they come
Until circumstances have occurred which tend impair
his implicit faith in the parents teachers from whom
he derives his earliest impressions they appear
TO him as absolutely infallibe. But that child
ish faith has to be tested. IL often happens
that those who have been educated in the most
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embrace OF an equally rigid Romansm. fall into tho
widest unbeief What we should aim at is this First,
not to sow the field with mingled Seed but only with the
true seed of the Word The purpose OF the Sunday
school liz not to teach natural science history,
the principles OF Christian art, the aesthetics OF
religion except all these things may be helps. Sym
bo and banners and floral decorations and professions
carols, and all the other paraphernaa OF Sunday
school celebrations have subordinate value but
that is all IL is not to teach the philosophy OF dogma.
and to puzzle the youthful mind with the Drcaces and
mysteries OF doctrne-the food which nourishes adult
may kill the chld-but it is teach the simple truth
1t in Jesus This is the work Of the Sunday
1t ia possible to SOW too deep You must make your
self ineligible 70 the child II you would do him any
good There are certain tough Questions when some
which they consider TO be essential to complete faith
that had better be let alone In our dealing with children
Matters which have perpexed theOOgians for ages and
will continue to do as long as they are considered TO
be OF vital Importance hardly be made clear TO
children, if indeed they have been made clear to
anybody Christ taught many things, which at the time
things absruse or in themselves hard to be under
stood the trouble was that those whom he addressed
were slow OF heart and this made them slow OF under
standing do not to say that children TO be
taught no spiritual facts except such as fall within the
limits Of their comprehensoni II So they could be told
nothing about God; but simply protest against che
ATTEMPT to indocrinste them INTO class o. dogma;
which. they true have no direct bearing upon
their preparation for holy and useful life.
The second great OF the sundayschool Is tho
formation Of deyOut habits little more than cen
rem except regular morning and evening services Of
the church As general rule they were then in their
parativey few are to be found there now aud fac,
some Of churches are not capacous enough to hold
its sunday school scholars, even no other person were
present. And the Sunday has become the
chidren's church, and they know no other worship or
teaching but these found there IL may be said In favor
OF this change that the Sunday school exercises
shorter and better adapted to Children and that when
they are old attend there any LONGER the habits Oi
worship formed there will lead them into the Church
But the other hand 1t may be URGED that
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up without any OF those peculiar associations
wOrshp and that the sunday school was not Intended
to supersede the church We should look to this matter
because in this the element Of devotion needs TO be
especially cultivated. IL is inquiring sDecula
tive Of wonderful activities, but 1t s not
praying age. The forums of worship are preserved and
Ia quarters these are made more elaborate than
ever before certain proportion OF our people Is regu
lar 10 attendance al chnfch. puI hot tne maotlty
would be understood 10 favor the cultivation OF that
unnatural aud onesided petism III the child Of which
sometimes read In good books, and very rarely SEQ
exemplned In actual life. The religion OF ehid, nv
be genuine and true, VIII partake OF Tbs Ghds nature.
and glsh form Ike fountain III SUNSHINE rather luan
creep along Ia the turod waters OF seifreproach and
/ nave left only a short space which to speak of the
third purpose of the sunday school, which Is the culture
of ligaOn are intended make symmetrical men and
women-pure, holy, unsehsh and useful II TINS result
Is In measure attained, our labor In the sunday
school and Ia the Church Is lost The young need To De
enlightened in the details of morality-a matter which,
fear ia less attended to in our sunday schools than
others Of less importance heathy moral organ
zatIOn, sound, well balanced ncOfruptibe character
the world needs most to-day, and the church.
The devout church goei VINO cannot DO trusted on
weekday, is the present scandal OF ChIlslendom. -
These vi the spJ,Dliltles tutt are on
the parent and teacher Ii you do got appreciate thei
willing to toll and study and pray to accomplish
successfully, Oeseech you 10 rtlln9 lIsl IL al once
Bur if you and faithful and patient ana ac
i've God will help you and you Will HIS great worn
prosper your hands And al he Last day you wl Ge
able to say Lord, these the fruits OF my humble
labOrs III Thy vineyard. have sOwn no mingled seed
have watched DAY and night to Keep The enemy IRON
sowing tares in the Held. have watered the ground
with my tears. have tried 10 be faithful, and now hy
work eartu is done and asking for no other recOm
Pense but the approval or my Master no" rest Hon
my toll forever
NEED OF ACTIVITY FOR CHRISTIANS
The Reo Dr. Robinson tie Memorial PresbysTidn church
In the Memorial Presbyterian Church, AT
Madlson-aye and Fury thrst yesterday morning, the
Rev Dr. s. Robinson, pastor of the church, preached
from the text Isaiah viz 81 Also, heard the voice Of
the Lord saying Whom shall send and who will ~ foi
u.s. Theu said 1, Here am send me-
The effect OF pardoned sin, said the speaker, is desire
for activity and for usefulness When Paul fell blinded
on the way to Damascus his prayer was, Lord "ba'
wilt Thou have me do r. So Isaiah, the scrptuIesteA
ma when the coal had touched his lips and lifted lis In
ouity from him. was anxious to serve the Lord IL some
way and even though he knew neither the message
itself nor 1t destination nor the perils oil Its delivery
seeing no one else coming forward. he answered Here
am I ; send me There may De others "or'noi
than l. but do not hear them speaking, so send me- no
natter where no when, matter for what ana
whatever the cost; never mind, SEND me-.
Now lamentati0n rises all sides. that the whole
Church of Christ If behindhand, that IL
ia not active enough In saving Souls
There ia some cause for tnis, 10 be sure. but we
shall gain nothing by mourning and lamentation VIII
tell you few things which think are not the causes
this awkwardness do not think Is owing to the Will
m rejection of personal service duty by Christians
Most OF the Christians have known been perfectly
willing TO labor for their Heavenly Master, and donI