News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
IN THE PULPIT.
Passages from the Sunday Sermon of
Henry Ward Beecher.

| Il preacn THIS morning, said Mr.
Beecher in the beginning of his Sunday
sermon, con the manifold Christ" The
text was taken from John xiv, IA, Is.
Some of the passages were:
"Christ is revealed to great many, in
SO far as they know anything about it,
simply as the Christ of the record, the
historic Christ. The imagination under
takes to construct picture from the
materials of history"
"There is a Christ of the intellect:
the product of the thought power, pure
and simple; analysed; all the parts Of
His life dissected and separated one by
one-His incarnation; His childhood
and growth: His inspiration; His mir
acles; His trial, deaSh resurrection and
ascension.
"a man may be a Perfect and drilled
theologian, SO that his thoughts upon re-
ligion would fill as many tones as now
lie musty upon library shelves; and yet
he may not know Christ"
''There is symbolic Christ, addressed
to lively sympathies, but mostly to the
sympathies that clusteT round about
mans aesthetic nature. The Christ of
the church has been very largely such
one."
"Then we come to the Christ in you.
Every man has in him a Christ that fits
and adapts itself to the peculiar struc-
L, &1,of 1o s,o1o
the various events and evolutions and
experiences of his hfe-so much his
that nobody else could have it; put into
anybody else it would not express itself
as to him."
ST don't suppose that there are two
persons in this congregation who when
they think of Jesus ever think of Him
alike. If there was such thing as
spiritual photography, SO that we might
each project our thought and feeling of
Christ, there would be at least three
thousand of them here
ssThe vision of Christ that comes to
you through your personal experiences
is higher than that which comes through
ny philosophy. Whena man out of his
soul experiences finds before him a con-
slant picture that is a Joy to him, let
him not undertake to repaint it by
the reason"
"Don't let philosophy take your
Christ away from you. Let Him be
more and more your own. Though all
the world thiuk my child homely, it is
handsome to me-"
Theology may take It's hat and walk
out of the sanctuary while the soul is
praising and rejoicing in its Christ. 1t
has no business to interfere. 1T would
be like justice of the peace undertak-
ing to overrule the Chief Justice of the
United States"
81 am not one of those taat think that
this world is all that there is of the
manifestation of the g5ofy of God, I
would sooner think t54at all there is Of
the majestic pines thaiT trown from the
ridges of California Isl contained in a
seed no bigger than pea. That seed is
to be planted; it is to develop. God for
bid that L should ippoverish the con-
ception of Gods great providence by
limiting it to the possibilities of this life.
l believe no such thing"
"There are great many that would
like Christ if he could only be flashed
into them. Christ is born into every
one baby-an alphabetic Christ.
''There are thousands who only have
Christ that they carry around in a dark
lantern of orthodoxy. They take it out
now and again when they want to read
something, and then shut it up again. "