New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-21
PULPIT THOUGHTS.
EXTRACTS FROM YESTERDAYS SERMONS.
TOO MUCH EXPECTED OF ADAM AND EVE.

r,,Igo og,inst Adam Adam ia the black sheep thu
az .raccd the human family We don't speak Waterway
OF the first pair. We don't like 10 name children ater
them Eve &; more roundly abused than Adam himself
We are like the French police; when mythin; hlpnens
they say Find the woman But If I've lid sin first,
il was despic,ble I'm Adam, the only maI
in the world to flee from the only
woman in the world, when she needed him most
Did yon ever think what To be the first or first
womam-the very frstl We expect too much OF Aaaa
and Eve. They had to fluid everything out Tor The nisC
time. No mother nursed Eve. They had to taste the
fruits OF the garden for the first time; they had TO he
burned before they could dread the IRE. Now You ana
d be e S f acs 81 s T s hand and whispers 6c mutt
good and pleasant, may covet the forbidden tr DIt
cheap S aOE talk about Adam in tRs nineteenth century
Christ never reflected on Ada ~ch AaS ai COD a. fe
lel, but it was a fan Upward and not downward In
he WHO hardly knows good from evil never tempted; or
he fights with the devil in the wilderness and eonguers
distance to the devil. The tried man Is the grandest St
Paul is worth more to humanity than ten eg0ns Q,
sunk Ia the Delaware River than that George washington
ana s GSa lost D bo o boy must
light above that OF the sun on the way to Damascus
We have no time for knocking down men OF straw bid
Moses is covered up in Christ. All things become
cism. DO a little rcpenting. Leave ADAM pass on to
Christ the Way the Truth the Life of whom half has not
been told"
THROUGH THE TEMPORAL TO THE ETERNAL.
At Grace Church. Bishop Jaeger, of kenym College,
OHIO preached at o'clock from Genesis xvii g. 81 will
give thee and to thy seed after the land wherein
thou art stranger, all the land of Canaan, for
lasting possession" The peculiar fact to be noted he said
that this promise not realized by Abraham nor
by his seed Abraham wandered the land asranger,
finding at last indeed a tomb in the land but this he
bought. For II short time under David and
Solomon his descendants held the land, but
captivity soon followed. Was Abraham deceived The
New Testament throwns light this Christ taught that
God not the God Of the dead but OF the living so
tho resurrection accomplished for Abraham what life
had not. He looked through the temporal to the eternal
For u.s. too the present does not exhaust Gods promises
look TO the future for full uon The Epcurean thinks
promise IS only In the temporal the Ascetc only in
lied through the temporal which Is like dssoving views
each ono brighter than TIC last and making clearer our
pierce through and beyond then salts
he'd with the temporal but look through II, and live
through IT, for the city Of rest"
CONSCIENCE AND FAITH.
The Rev. D. j. r. Day, of st. Paul's Methodist Epsco
pal Church. taking for his text, Holding faith and good
conscience" said: AFTER all your creeds and church
dogmas conscience the only guide to TRUTH Yes
says the morast, the who relies on his natural
faculties No need OF Bible the spiritual capabilities
arc sufficient lead the soul in righteous ways Others
think that something higher and nober 70 guides
power which is outside the realm OF the finite mind
| Conscience is not the voice OF God. More
| likely It is the voice OF habit training
in order 20 he true moral guide It must be the
times There different views OF right with differ
/
there would he endless confusion II there were nothing
to show the truth Conscience can be reasoned out OF
certain vgor but in short time the sting Is gone and
death subbornness IS sometimes mistaken for
| conscience"
| THOUGHTS THE TEST OF CHARACTER
| In his morning sermon, the Rev. Dr. Patton said
Thoughts the ultimate test OF character The sig
niicancc Of act lies in the thought behindh In ife
as in law, is presumed TO intend the legitimate
result Of his actions But II the dominant philosophy
ah1a Of
cumstances should control daily life would
have hold that bad man Is TO blame for his
| crimes than a snake is for biting, and we would put
dangerous out OF the way before he did har just as
Son G0 test Of charaer Nothing lies closer to the
soul and though cannot see the soul ITSELF we can see
evil lie only in words and actions maintain then
the stroke OF paralysis that sealed the tongue and sted
the hand would be blessing for IL would remove from
us the possibility wrong doing But life ia made
up chiefly thoughts duty requires us TO keep watch
over them one cef harm the theatre the novel and
our thoughts and hinder boiler thinkingG"
| GOODNESS IS PROFITABLE.
The Rev. Dr. John Hail. in his morning sermon, said:
"Young men of this day much interested in physical
! culture The gymnasium Is popular Il is said, how
ever physical culture proneth htte but godness is
profitable all things, having promise OF the lie that
now is and that which TO Two lives are spoken
of. the one is seen and temporal the and
sprual Men who disguised with this ife launch out
into the next forget the other is with this In
nrcticol sense Some think that gOdiness Is visionary
cd mama that II should he emiuently practical and
make life worth living. Godlness is not mere spiritual
| dreaming its power TO uIt you 10 something hgneI
II Implies place, belief in the word OF God
Emerson was mistaken IN calling 1t the most original
book in world Goodness nph submission Oh Tue
will and a keeping Of the Comnan 1mchts. Goa II ruler
over the universe. get out OF Gods universe
and obeying His laws is goodness The misery IN ttle
world l. due more to the want Oh godes' IMAM W ING
want OF bread and money
THE PRESS AND SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
The Rev. Dr. Justin d. Fulton, in his
opening prayer in the Brooklyn Temple, asked
that it might be put into the hearts OF "thc
men who held the responsible positions of rulers OF the
press" that they might "sand up for the Sabbath and
onno.e Sabbath desecraton OF which theving
murder and all Of evil" In his sermon he said IN
nart standug right the path Of the proper OBJ
seryancc OF the sabbath IL the press In almost every
town in this country there Is published Sunday news
uaper and such papers supported by the cooperation
| OF Christian people vino purchase them. The men who
control the Sabbath press the champions OF Sabbath
proclamation. Those Who wanted 20 0oey 'Iod ia the n
Ter the exhibition for the BartHoh statue Oy closing IL
on the sabbath were sconed at ny tne press ana "
The conduit OF n9 pd9G ay n nosble thar the MN
istes of the land afraid OF the jaw Of the sunday
OF opening Of the Barnodi statue exhibition
the Sabbath visited Coney Island and saw the great de
6rcanse CO.'S DAY had been dishonored there in
other place on the continent r
THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY
The Rev. DR.. Deems at tho Church OF the Strangers
speaking of the spread OF Christianity, In his morning
sermon sad THE prophecies o; nhdelity regarding the
dectence Of Christianity long tine In being full
filed yotaire said at the beginning Of this century
that before It's close there would be Bible exant in
Christendom Is curious fact that the very house
in Germany in which he penned those words Ia Bible
Society house. and the very room IN which he lived was
aued the other day. from floor TO ceiling with Bibles for
switzerland The London Bible Society House, which
distributes thousands Of Bibles annually stands on the
| very spo where wyclife's Bible was burned so many
-. ore held m hall originally dedicated 10 the dissen
nation OF liberal views and the overthrow OF the Gospel
hee il great cause for encouragement IN giving OF our
snstnno. for the spread Of Christianity abroad This
missionarv church. II undenOminatfOual We belong