Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-06

The almshouse expenses include the sup
port and care of 22o inmates and the salaries
of all who are employed there.
The relief sums are small in each case. One
hundred and two orders for half-tons of coal
were given and orders for seventy pairs OF
Shoes
George Street MI. T.. Church.
Rev. MIR. Corbit Replies to Henry Ward
Reecher-An Able DiscOurse-A Large
Audience In Attendance.
Last evening, according to announcement,
Rev. William P. Corbit, pastor of the George
street church, preached an able discourse to
a large audience. The preacher gave as the
basis of his remarks the words found IN
jeremiah xvii. chapter, 9th verse: 1.-THE
heart is deceitful above all things, and des
perately wicked who can know it?
In his opening remarks the preacher said
The subject before us tonight is the most
important that can possibly occupy the at
tention of human being. Religion is not
to us what it was to Adam before the fall,
but is designed as a restoration of the soul to
the knowledge and image of it's God. We
must know our complaint, our disease, in
order to appreciate the remedy. The heart
is deceitful above all things. 1t is not only
wicked but desperately wicked. We have
nothing to do as Gods ministers, with the
likes or dislikes of any man. In the discus
sion of the subject tonight I propose to
point out some things wherein the heart of
the sinner deceives him. This book declares
that the heart of the wicked is at enmlty
against God, and without God is without
hope in the world Now I want to ask my
have set upon themselves You say it is not
You say you are moral, you are amiable, you
are just. You will not say that you are per-
feet. But you do say that your integrity
is not to be called into question.
You say that this gospel was written for
thieves, murderers and slanderers. But the
Bible declares that the whole race is lost and
depraved Farther we arg11e that your heart
has deceived you, and eSsry Christian man
They have different ideas f the subject after
change of heart, and tn; will tell you that
it is just as much as,-% Acan do to keep
I from a state Of cond ,ionsSa They VIII
lsSs2a you that it is coz .ad warfare. The
hast friends you haye<got in the universe OF
Cod W, ill tell So Would that father or
~ otp--~ sasf yours deceive you in this matter
Now If they are right you are wrong. There
is not man or woman but what will say
| that it is the easiest thing in the world to be
/ mistaken so your hearts have deceived you.
For example, young ladies will say, am ami
| able and inoffensive and do no wrong
| but is that the love of God in
no wrong; but will that save you !
No it will not and here is another evidence
| that your heart has deceived you. If you
| are amiable, why should you not love God
| You say that you strive to do right; why
| then should you not pray in your family
| Why should you be afraid to die? 1t is be-
| cause that in your restlessness something
| tells you that your heart has not been
| changed We see, then, that the heart OF
l the sinner deceiyes him in regard to his duty
1 toward God. Again, you think you have nc
undue attachment to wealth. but how do you
| feel when your riches take wings and fly
called upon to contribute to the Lords
cause? You cannot let your money go
There is necessity of something more thar
good work. Do you believe it? No, yor
| do not, or you would seek for change Of
heart at once. You think you have some at
tachment to this Bible, but you deny it,
teachings and you do not in your heart be
lieve them. Yet you think that you are no
opposed to the duties of religion. The gay
| the beautiful, tell us there is no danger, bu
you go beyond a certain point and you are
lost. You think you can take a social glass
at New Years call, and the lady of YOU
choice pours into the wine cup the beverage
she loves; you take the glass, knowing tina
| if you drink you may be lost and it may pu
I i,,o orI1
hell You may go to the theater, but stane
here tonight and declare that this is one O.
the most active agencies to ruin for young
men, and take them down to the depths O.
eternal despair. So with the tempta
| lions of the gambling hell. Let MI
say to you young men tonight, let me urge
you if you do 80, to leave these ways tina
take hold on hell before you are irretrlevably
lost. No man knows the power of tempta
ton Sinner, how many times have yor
promised that you would be a Christian
Yet not one of your promises have beer
fulfilled but all away along through the turn
pike of life you have broken promises. Th'
frosts of the winter of death are gathering
around you. See, your heart has been deceiv
ing you all the time and you are farther from
being converted than you ever were. You
heart says don't seek religion now and ha,
been telling you so all these years.
Now, my philosophic friend, word te
you don't say that human depravity hat
its seat in the body or the intellect; but il
| has its seat in the heart until damning de-
pravity seizes the whole man. If you have
searched your heart you have not begun tc
| reach the depravity there is in it. The heart
is unsearchably wicked and the purest in this
house don't begin to know it's depravity.
say to you, sinner, that you will take the
| most hateful thing you can imagine to your
bosom in preference to the Holy God.
! Now I want to refer to Mr.. Beecher.
| think he is one of the greatest men intellec-
! tually in the world, but, my friends, that is
what makes him dangerous. He utters things
man processes to be guide, then his ut
| terances are such as guide the mind but if
| the blind lead the blind, then both fall into
| the ditch Mr.. Corbit then read from Mr.
Beecher's sermon of last Sunday in which he
opposed the old doctrine of Adams fall.
Now, said the preacher, which is right,
Mr.. Beecher or this book? Are we
to throw away this book and believe Henry
Ward Beecher's ipse diGit. This book is as
true to-day as it ever was and the man vino
departs from it makes, to say the least, a
mistake. I warn you not to follow this ha-
ranguer, this defiler of the gospel of God
my Saviour.
Again reading from Mr.. Beecher, the
preacher said the orthodox church never be-
leved that the man was never converted
by the instantaneous interposition of the
Holy Ghost. Mr.. Corbit denied this doc
trine of Mr.. Beecher and related manyinstances
where persons were instantaneously convert
3D. reciting his own case for an example
when he was converted in ten minutes after
bowling at the altar.
In closing he said How can you with a
corrupt and deceitful heart merit heaven i?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ can
save you. Thank God you need not die.
Christ was bruised for your iniquities and
you may come to him. You cannot get the
darkness out of your heart, but you may open
the window and let Jesus in.
Presentation at Whitney Armory to the
Retiring Secretary.
An inter esting event occurred at Whitney
armory on Saturday noon. Mr.. Henry w.
Church, secretary of the Whitney Arms
company for over fifteen years past, while
busy at his desk, was waited upon in an un-
official manner by Mr.. Grover of the factory
and asked to step cut and look at some guns
which they had been getting ready to ship.
IL. IL II