New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-27
SITTING; IN HEAVENLY PLACES.
Bishop Huntington the CALGARY Protestant Epscopat
Church.


Church
Bishop Huntington, whose diocese Is Cen
tra New-YOrk preached yesterday at the Cal
vary Protestant Episcopal Church at Fourth
ave. and Twenty-hrst-st. His text was RON
Ephesians ii, 4, 5, and 8: For His great love
wherewith he has loved hath quckened us together
with Christ and raised together and made us
SIT together in heavenly places in Christ jesus The
Bishop has a large head well set in stout frame OF me-
dunn height He has sn0w-wite hair and gray beard;
his upper lip il clean shayen He reads from manuscripts
without any attempt at cocution His remarks were III
part follows:
We are given here our standing in the Christian life
which is too high to be easily seized by We ait as
Christians in heavenly places, but we are not TO st
always they that have been healed are tn 90 forth ana
heal St. Paul gets upon his feet and walks abroad IN
charity. First, however, before we 20 about any w0sk
for the beterment of this world we must know beyond
doubt just how we stand toward the world above u.s.
That is wherein so many nowadays fail The radical
clty with religious condition Is that we do no'
see into the spiritual or supernatural world We CHI
this faith faith is the light OF the soul We oeheNe
when we apprchend and hold before unseen persons
and unseen things Go persons and things about us
in visible shape We can touch them They
influence us as the sun, the atmosphere and land
scapes do This is more than great many Christian
people attain man may say that he believes all '"e
articles of Apostles Greed, yet they are not to MIN
what his shop, his ledger his friends or Ills meals are
1t nome,
can hold off the supernatural life at armslength IN three
directions including God and His Angels, Christ and
His gfts OF grace and the judgment. Some people pro
ject the spiritual world into space, indefinitely remote
Heaven is beyond the stars. Communications are alu'
and uncertain. We have TO go there to be sure OF !"
Religion is all in the air. Others put Christianity III ne
past. There Christ in Judea once ana Wohnerim
incidents were connected with His life He left SOME
thing behind Him when He went away But Ills orul
| once monuments not tokens or living power 20 HOn
der they grow indifferent to the AZ ineIy lecs ~ M IA
tiquated grace glory! According 10 Ileln Iunson
traditional and nothing more, ana the HOineiI' me-
minds are applied to L they y, p SsrstS1s with
| the memory and not WIN the ne1rt a." ~
will Books are wrltten-s9me OF one s"e, what is
tell what religion has done IN o'Jr 49, wss once
left of it is not supposed TO be a ali Wnat ySonent
Leave out of view the heavenly world ~ thG 80 mnon
and constant source of living power, a h eburc6 61th
US, and not long hence Nature ana tat The Cory
body aud soul. will sink ont OF view togetne how sar2
will fade religion VIII degenerate no ma yer NV nnral
somely you dress It, society viii fall 70 ~ Ge ~ fbo
eternal life OF the Kingdom Of Heaven down ana s bis
toman how Paul sets us right beginning, time in
master did at The upper end. He lived FOR some t at
The supernatural world himself and he knew no" ~ 4.
Is the wherewth God has loved us ana ina' that we
have been lifted into a very lofty spirit above WORTHY
mindedns;ss fs,h9n GO ibSt we stand on
6egnt. having foreheads touched with the lght Ss
INA and acceptable, do you think we should
eiI If abroad that church people IN TINS Guy t y
ting toge nsi. IN Exactly What ST. Paul had mind he
- WHITING tn Christian believers III no way ,Vls -
us In many respects Ephcsus was haiuer pIace "
S CHRISTIAN I'm than New York. These men anu wolne
ouiokened and sitting together In heavenly ploe 49, 40
hsiness men and their families rich anu NOT TIL tiss
vo1 are They knew nothing OF Christs rehgion, h nm
yon do not know and they had not the testimony VI ~
,veds of wears OF Christian history and tne wn' Tbs
sants living dying in the faith az you M and by
Annste WAS not speaking OF what woulu po " ss,t
heaven To come after death, but OF what rs o@au
~ The Christians whom he addressed Wvio uViSJ
their manifold work In this world, IN their thry
| The markets and society, and mol ohy "v'e ,bsrs
,nst IA good for it, but far better. ~ eayiy
"a so great difference between ~, tnese 60 MOI
di.oioes and us here, what makes II Ihey ~e ,ssnS,
caTnng salvation aud laying up their wass ~. renre
a., ,.o that tbey were saved already Ihls LEA
satat,on OF our religion and Of the Churcn anu live
am h,h il aeon TO come down to take man up 'o
him and 10 bless him, and TO make him roy al a an
rhs mia world and the other world open into on
other The Diylne story is not story OF In copins
mn 70 God but a story Of the loving Srea'or the
| down and walking about over the iahd " saw
| souls he has made. -, A.. a., In soc,etv YOU SEQ
WHY we can do nothing until We take holu Oh .ao b in
Mas OF faith The ngdom of God Is not N wo, nsvis
hover 30 more than preaeh-cleanse aha ne and
pnossess and polute men, by drunkenness sn y, cod
icenousncss The power OF the fresh new ,o I,rtng
a. strong i'm YOU TO conquer them. Cast the s snme
order and happiness into the drunkards s and in
| Hiring back 70 tho pure wife the husband py'' 4 u
| hn right mnd. How aIraofon'