New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-07
PULPIT THOUGHTS.
EXTRACTS FROM YESTERDAYS SERMONS.
AN ATTACK on THE HIGH LICENSE SYSTEM
1.-THE Monopoly of Abomination" was the title

movement yesterday. Speaking from the text In Mat
thew xvii. G at IL not lawful to cover them into the
treasury 1t is the price OF olood lie saia;
For Sl5 Judas IscarOt had sold Christ and, disguised
because he had not made more lucrative bargain, he
threw the pieces of silver the floor There was SEN
ment that the money could not be used for governmental
or religious purposes 1t boodmoney, so the
first Potters Field bought for the burial OF paupers
We are AT the point In this country when IL proposed TO
restrict stop the sale OF ardent spirits by competing
merchants pay high license of $500 or $1,000 us
thought this will have the tendency to close tho small
drunkeres and help support tho poorhouses Allied by
drink, and the PRISONS l which men are confined
for crime committed when drunk, and pay the
judges and the courts for trying them, don't you see
How any man or be so hoodwinked as not TO
see that this whole high license movement surrender
of the temperance principle cannot understand
1t would make rumsellng highly respectable. CLOSE
the small stores and open the large The small estao
lshmens are only the rash the body polite tho large
ones gather the pus and poison In huge earouncie
There you'll have lyered footmen and pictures, ana
mirrors, and velvet carpets Ike Turkish barem' ana
dyans TO rest when gentleman Is taken mysteriousy
sick by drinking too much champagne. High license
strikes at hosts homes America, and here In
the presence OF my God stamp It rs tho monopoly OF
anti-demonstrated-facts and an-Christian. How
dare You propose for $500 to lot ole man sell swesened
dynamite deny the right to the other because he can
raise but Sl00i plead Tor the rights OF these men Wbo
are doing small, proVident economical bnslsesS Ia
| gelliug extract OF lOg-wOOd, strychnine ana
blue vitrol High license is the property qualification in
its most offensive shape II rumseng nght Ss US US
Government Applause DO not Wish ior any outward
ndcule the idea by proposng hugh licenses for
thef blasphemy and murder and alluded 10 me prOlaho
address Speaker of the New Jersey Legislature the
watering stock by officers or commercial companies
and the difficulty OF fixing the crime on murder:rS with
money and influence and then continued: An IRONY
aside. II rumselling is right all should have It. Is
wrong five million dollars In hard cash ought not to pr
chase immortality. II Is time to keep nome oy woes tue
dwelling pohouse politicians OF Albany and Harris
but FOR the liquor traffic II is antagonistc the work
ing II Is the sweerins aud purifying curse OF
ana Kansas and failed. 1t ia the white nag OF |
truce out by Alcoholism to Prohibition to make It's
army OF decaners and bottles better order Away with
IT, I'll fire on III Either rum must be defeated or the
Church God and civilization will DO. Better compro-
mise with the panther 10 his jungle the cyclone In It's
agG with an Gas pag1b IN It's lex
Alter paying 100000 TO buy spcctacles to enable the
LIQUOR interest is now trying to have the Constitution
amended that any promblory law passed by states
ment gong hold the balance OF power IN this ooun
try and expect President Of the United states
uG is imperial mi but viii 6c 6TOGon befo
the ConquorOr OF earth and heaven
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORDS SUPPER
At tho West Presbyterian Church sacrament OF the
Lords Supper was administered DR.. Paxton said 1--WE
do not eat sectsrian supper You andl
to-day celebrate the genius, the spirit OF the Christian
world. Right here the gates OF the old dspensation
closed; right here modern history Degdn 10 10
We do not celebrate faith hope only but tho
power OF what you call civilized society In these embems
of the broken body and shed blood what turned
the world upside down. These links Of the chain from
that upper room been broken. Again. 1t Is
memofisI ser vice We need IT, Absence the tomb of
love, We must keep those love. Again It, COM
you and quets the faulthnder This does not say
have taken degree in the university OF hol
ness. Let the loOkerOn not expect too much we don't
profess any holiness we simply CONFESS Christ
THE OLD GRACE AND THE NEW
pr at No (hurcl AZ the Strangers.
Grace is Ike love- It grows The 1rst love have for
our children Ike the love OF tgress for her cubs,
but il grows in intensity, until the love OF |
for her grown up son Is marvellous. 80 |
IN true marriages. How little the bridegroom |
cares for his bride In comparison with the deep |
love for the one who has stood by his side for fifty
years So an old Christian has deep experiences and
cracrs that dreamed OF in his early experience
Tbis grace Increases tho years 90 by Men
say to stick the Old things, and glmble that things
are not as they TO be, the old are better Horace
rdcued this propensity years ago. Men lose the Of
youth hut receive the grace OF middle ages they lose
that and acquire the grace Of old In hall century
grace has been Increasing and we Will continue to re-
ccve better grace for the old grace Men like Matthew
Arnold are complaining because the old wOr-
shin IL gone away They would put up
Greek affairs and tripods again, and regain the
old heather worship. The Hebrews long for the
old grace ana long to hear again the singing Of the
Ieyites. II Is all a mistake. Almost anything that
makes men unhappy Is a mistake. Christianity swept
ceremonial law out II was splendid. Our Catholic
brethren have yielded the love Tor ritual and ant
see as the old dpensaOn the priests sweep in with
robes ornamented and adorned. don't d5parage the
other grace instead oft lie has given US worship
that is spiritual instead OF the Old sensuous forms In,
stead Of temples Christianity has hospitals temples OF
mercy; instead Of monuments over dedd men we nave
the hy.g m4hucts u NJ" hov i boG Wei o 1
worship. The temples were beautiful but they dsap-
not them down. They disappeared before better
dspensation does the rainbow fade away after short
e...ttFafa iaR tn AM al
changes In arr and ia music nave been good since
Christ in Who ever looks at the god OF the sun,
and thinks OF the God made the SUM- We look upon
the remnants OF ancient art as mere curosltles. Our
GaLeuI avs G1 f me last ro Lnndrrd years his
surpassed all former efforts Christianity has made music
and shouts Of our fsh and sweeer purer songs Of
immortal love Compare our paintings with the old
rescOes OF Pompei do not say that the principal rea-
son Jesuss coming was 10 give us better art music
temples and living but tley nave sprung rom me pain
OF the Mighty COnqueror VINO came 10 put mon Into
better and kindltr relation to their Maker The little
pewter lamp is taken out OF the world and the great
eectrc light takes its place Receive the grace eternal
the grace terrestrial go"
THE LESSON OF CHRIsTs DEATH.
The Rev Dr. William NJ. Taylor: al remember how
many views one in switzerland OF Mt. Blanc tower
Ing b gh above the other mountains. so Chriss death
appears TO in different hghta First, must under
stand that died only for but instead OF
But some men object to this and ask how justice
allow one mau to suffer the penalty Of anohe's wrong.
Rather, put the question this way: How one man
Justly offer to suffer anotherl The objections all
vanish before that way OF stating It, Second Chrst's
death Ia 10 US reminder Of the Fathers love- But
can only 10 so II 1t necessary act Two leap
over the bulwarks ship into the one, without
any definite purpose the other 20 save human life.
There can be love IN the first neither is there in
Chrisps death unless 1t had object in view Was It
necessaryi We feel that 1t was; experience OF
gut ia the witness see in the Divine character
law or Justice whatever you choose TO call It, another
necessity FOR that death Thirdly, Christs death testl
fes how far the Divine love surpasses any human az
snowt she persisted, because she had taken her
cothng TO preserve tho life of her little child. Chriss
iove IA even greater that would dcpTecato
the nopeness or the death OF those who gaYo their
iivea IN Dreserye the Union that Is nothing