Connecticut western news., 1884-06-04
A SUNDAY SERMON.
A Few Striking Notes From Beecher's sun-
 day Talk.

A Few StrlhlnR NOtes From beecner@s . sun day Talk.
 "That was the Wall street of those days" said Mir. Beecher as he read his text Sunday, commenting upon the passage, "And he fell among thieves. " The sermon treated of the relative value of generosity and liberality. Mir. Beech CT said in his sermon:
 'It is right for one to feel the influence of nation, of family, of profession and of social circles, but it is wrong to neglect all outside of it, as if the claims of hu- manity on us were confined in the ratio of tho nearness of persons to us."
 "Of all faeile graces in Christian expe-- no, in religious experience, there is no grace like that of hating. It is called justice sometimes-standing for the right; it is called proper discrimi- nation of character and conduct; it is called all sorts of things; but the Lord knows and the devil knows that it is right down good hating that is exercised by calling themselves Christians.
 "The good Samaritan is admired by all sects and races-and occasionally is initiated"
 "A habit of generosity is like oil on machinery, and makes life smooth; and there is more in 1t to teach man to love man than in all the preaching in the world"
 "There are thousand things that might gradually be better for the inter- pretation of truth in its larger sphere; but, after all, an act of kindness brings Gods angels nearer to man than almost any other form of teaching."
 "I recollect that the most painful times in my life, and the least profitable, were when folks were talking religion to me. Oh /! did dread pious man who was always talking religion, and I made up my mind that if I ever got pious-- which I never expected-that I would never bore people with religion. There isn't man, woman or child that can say ever talked shop to them personally, of my own accord, or that have ever found me unwilling to talk religion when they wanted to talk it. 1 never push religion on anybody"
 "Liberality endeavors to do more than transient kindness. It is study ing how to do kindness in such way that it shall be wholesale one and not retail one. It looks along the line of probabilities and sees where mischiefs will be likely to occur, or where benefits will be likely to be appreciated or need ed, and undertakes, by organization, to extend kindness down through the generations.
 Generosity works by sight, iberality works by faith, and, like ourselves, they work better when they have both sight and faith"
 'It is good to relieve one orphan, but it is better to establish an institution that will relieve ten thousand; it is a much higher manifestation of true love and benevolence.
 "Let not iberality cheat generosity let not generosity scoff at iberality; let them go into an alliance one with the other"
 "Don't do your good through commit tees if you can do it personally; the face of the giver is better than the thing given often; but if you can do some. thing through committee besides what you do personally do that"
 "It is the selfshness of riches that is it's bane; it is the laying up for one's self; but he that with constant, proper regard for his own household, yet has ar ambition to go beyond that, and by his life and in it to make men on every side of him happy, how heroic is such man and such life l"
 "The man who lives for himself will have the privilege of being his OWL mourner when he dies" .-.
 "I hear men say, 'Ahl you are taking a collection to-day for foreign mission. aries; what are you church folks doing in such and such aneighborhood 2 Now I have taken notice that the man who won't give to foreign missions generally won't give to home missions. They arc the men who are always quoting Char ity begins at home,' and with them i always stays at home"