New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

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the spirit spiritual service, in ITSELF is far harder "a
perform than ritual service. But the law OF Christ Il an
easy yoke to the Christian because Christ helps him In
IT. Chrsts law enjOns duties that are universally
and efernaily binding IL Is the truth made known NV
heaven to earth Weare told that God is love and that
love Is the fuflment OF the law. Hence love Is tho
principle underlying all true life waen our LORD wa.
asked, Master which Is the great commandment o. he
said Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with All thv
heart and secondly, Thou shalt love thy neglbor AZ
myself
Now what the burdens OF fellow men that W..
commanded to bear Not sin for that can be borne
from sin not condemnation that Is the resalf as
sin. Sickness ir.orance. perpiexity and beresys.
unworthy may be, be should have our sympathy nv
ne Is suffering But some people get into the halt OF
they very sorry that Mrs A. has been unfor1ate
and yet they take great deal OF satisfaction IN saying
So They talk alphabetically with Mr. B. who has
failed In business and hasten to his forced auction 10
Duy his new piano for $50 and bid shilling per yard on
yet they buy anything at her shop without beating
down the price and mang her wait two or three months
for her money No ill;timed curiosity no unseemly OH
ciousness carries the Christian TO the house OF mourning
he ought to be cheerful but with cheerfulness that il
not incompatible with sympathy and sorrow Geometry
Is With t5e c6ri.tsn chsTacter The Serfct Cb ~
is IDEAL IL does not exist One OF the greatest obsa-
sistency Of Christians. Christ said Love another
as have loved YOU making his Own love and
example.
must bear the burdens OF his fellOw-man'
THE NATURE OF CONFINEMENT.
The Rev. DIR. Parkhurst preached from Philippians r..
2 For have learned, in whatsoever state am
therein TO be content" "Contentment what is It, and
how is it to be secured o. he asked our text gives
hint have learned, said the Apostle, and Content
ment lesson to be learned like all virtues it comes
only by striving for It, The word in the Greek translated
content is dudrkes Now what Is Its exact sigdcancei
Thucyddes in speaking Of certain people, says they are
not dependent upon any other country for support
or defence and he calls them GultrLes
that IS 'selsupportng selfsustaining' Contentment
then, in the sense used by the Apostle, Is not simply
given endurance OF what cannot DC helped, but II Is
inward state OF sefsuiency not toward God, but
toward environment There Is indeed, some relation
between outward condition and inward cOntentmeht
pleasant home, with luxurious appointments and artistic
adornmens does contribute something ones peace
but IL Is surprising how great conteItment we sometimes
the midst OF the greatest abundance Given mans OUT
ward condition. you cannot infer his inward state.
nervous ACTIVITY Ills lecture was called the GOSPEL u
Relaxation Goodwin Smith, In commenting the pro-
adjust ourselves to the things about but by getting tho
eternal grace within Man should give complexion To
the things about him, and not take his complexion frD
them"
sELF-NEss AND sELFISHNEss.
In the course OF his in Plymouth Church. which
was devoted TO consideration of man.
Dir Beecher said that the command TO love neghbor
as ones self was not original with Christ, but was
workingout OF human experience But the full light Of
IL was known In Its philosophical relations until Christ
enunciatedi It, BY 1t mans love for himself mado
the measure OF moral excellence. There wide
difference between sefness and selfshness The former
was wise care of ones self What needed from
nature and from society 1t right TO have But
selhshness was inequitable OF selfness.
1t was seeking good at the expense OF others welfare
The point OF transition where sefness passed into
benevolence the germinant point OF moral
ment The steps by which men pass from animal
caring for others The rt step was found I'D parental
love This marvellous that IL seemed hardly 10
be accounted for In evolution but more Ike an midtown
inbreahed influence 10 was brave leap from sefcaIe
TO caring for others The roots OF true communal lie
were I'm the household. Next to IL was neighb0rhOOd
life Then national life was developed, but Ii
known in its strength until II is brought out by an event
ike the bOmbardment OF Fort Sumter. But the ultimate
law OF human life was the universal brotherhood Of man.
Most OF the difficulties in society were due to care OF self
Christ struck at the of things In saying, aye
must DO born again" Men must 70 DaeA
This was the grand method Of Fighting society. Al evils
were done away By the development OF beleyoleneein
socety This the aim and object OF religion II
the power to deliver man from his low and animal self
into other-seeking sell 9enehtlng men. All schemes
Of reformation would fail < not on the basis OF helping
Sibplsu vas the doctrine of destroying government
laws and customs, that new life, law and custom
might spring up; just II all existing customs had not
P5 iV inst as they We're aud destroy only the acre
tons OF ages OF wrong. This was not phloSoph-
zeal method OF reforming the world Nlhism
temptible, except showing mans suteIings and
their Ignorance OF how to remedy them. The
real truth was vital selhshness. This also true
In The scheme OF Fourier and Comte, and the social
writers Of to-day. They left out the prime factor OF the
evil or all the forms Of suffering and misgoy
human and animal seshness the root All efforts 10
effect by the correction of human evils were inerec-
tial The true reformation was IN transforming the ma
ure Of men the change of the moral All the jars
andcosions between labor and capital resulting from the
seshness OF power could only be removal
of selishness There advancement truly except
the Kingdom OF God In men In their passing lfOm
selhshness to self-ness
THE VALUE OF A HUMAN SOUL
Before beginning his in the forenoon, Mr.. Tai
mage re adj the names OF members received into the
church. fortysx in ALL making the present membership
2969 more he sad than can be satisfactorily seated
n the pews the LIST OF January old settlers and
others will all have opportunity OF choice" His text
was John w.. 35. In hyperborean regions" he sald
farmers SOW their seed just after sunrise and reap the
fruit lust before sunset but the day is there six months
In length. In Palestine interval OF four months
elapses between seedtime and harvest. The Lord has
said Decsse you want four months for natural haryes
N does not follow you will have 10 wait so long for
spiritual harvest OF souls. Look about and the heds
will be found already white for harvest The soul ives
forever Its value Is nestimabo. III all tue paper nom
all the paper mills written on by the neetest pens
Tor zen thousand years there would not be expressed one
half the value Of soul Emersons can preach phlpso-
ply, Ngassizs preach sceuce, but the humOest
preachers can preach the Gospel 10 aud teach tho
value OF the human soul"
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