New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-21
PULPIT THOUGHTS.
TRACTS FROM YESTERDAYS SERMONS

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crowded congregation in Grace Church. He said I'm
part Paul had the double knowledge, how TO be
abased,' and how TO abound. The two distinctly
separabe-each In way conditions the other. There
Is far too little OF the knowledge how abound. lew
men who abound come asking how to abound. Men
think hard enough 10 rich but very easy thing %
be rich. The moral Of adversely monopolIze
thought But il Is also the who wealth
! and doesn't fee from It, but uses IT well, docs
nobly than the ascetic In his cell II Is
| not mine TO tell Of riches TO throw their
riches away. but to tell them Of their privileges and
responsibilities Beyond the duty Of being anything IL
the higher duty Of Knowing how b. be anything No man
has a right be any unless Le has the knowledge
Of how 10 be that thing. When Paul says, know how
70 abound he Is thinking Of anything which makes life
III" of rcat 2nirtt1aI homes and eYn@rrDcc, PAM
didn't all these, and he had the knowledge
| TO use them The power by winch he cOnd roo abind
OF its dangers, the KNOWLEDGE OF the true per
lection OF soul IN serving Christ All do not know
how TO be rich The genefOis, sympathetic active KIND,
OF his money. what's more ptabe than the bunderer
who holds wealth and knows not now TO IT, IN toe
grand lesson to be learned how to glOnfy God with
what We have. Sometimes rich man feels that ifbe
could only get rid OF MS money ne would become better
and stronger man. 1t IL the Old story OF the man "a
tue Nortn Pole the oucIy OF tho poor II not Against
rich men, but against rich men who don't know how 10
be rich The pride vulgay, cruelty and seIhshness OF
boil oh that all rich men and women in this land
There il also needed knowledge Of bow TO know
truth Here is scholar who can give you any intoaa
deep convictions, no faith He has grown less
human He values : his knowledge not Ss a, bot
Gardener his plants The highest knowledge by
comes mo- Tine when The soul feels itself living IN great
spiritual abundapce-sacred days when the Joy IL 700
deep There the danger OF sefsatisfacon
or reactOusry fear and distrs II peace ana heavenly
vision come to YOU make them your own 9y inc 40 g E
tabernacle which man can MAKE MS nome IN me i
all abundance by coming TO God We can attain to the
knowledge OF how to abound No lot Is 700 rc9 ioI te
] viii he a
love OF man"
THE TEST OF CHARACTER.
The Rev Dr. william NJ. Taylor preached from tho
parable Of the Good Samaritan, saying In part: COP
portunityis the test OF character man grows mp
without unusual temptations and leads life Of integrity
Others see exemplary life and put him into rspon-
sble position suddenly he breaks down morally, and
men say they cannot understand It, II was because
the test Of his character had come and he conld
not endure IT, Opportunity thus reveals the bent OF hui
II an nature and brings ont un'u7pected s'ln'hnces'
there /. tremendous pc il IN opportunity Inc test OF OPP
porunity comes when Is not expected 10 grt Tue pes.
picture OF man, it must be taken when nc Is uncoh-
sclOus Of it, Otherwise he PliS 9lIaln upon LIS la'r
that The picture does not lOnk IKE NM poI ul'S o
character when least suspect IT, IL Is nor 30 mucR "
he tosf comes Every day this Fial goes Yesterday
ChrIst.was an huugeled did We x We INN meat or no.i
alive answer to chi, test is not enough Ind MeDOfes
fayorte phrase to petitioners was Cant you let II
Not DO wrong is here vastly different thing from doing
rignt his The positive sacrifice OF self aud our own
mir65or.' ph"t alone Stands tne test"
GODS CONCERN FOR NATIONS
The Rev W j. Coleman, in the Fourth Reformed Pres'
bytean Church. "Oue-ourth Of the whole Bible Is taken
nm with Gods dealn with nations, but men live ~
though that OnefOurh had been botted out JONAH inc
Hrst Of the prophets sent on his first prophetic mis-
sion 10 preach against national sins lie was not sent 10
the Church for there was synagogue in Nmeveh nor
10 the individuals Of Nneyeh, but to the city The king
understood be national affair." so did the noDes'
for they all tasted His the most momentous mes
sage ever sent by city OF million lnhaoi-
uts As he the city he cries; Yet forty Gays
/ and Nineveh shall be overthrown' NneYeh had seen
I 200 wears of prosperity. Was she to he alarmed by
! forty DAYS warningl SO we say with 100 years OF
nrosperty But you say, Where little Is gwen LITTLE
/ will he reouired' Nmeveh did not have nty-
two sabbaths with two sermons each. Yet God
called Nneveh to an account But %9en m9cn Is Gyen
know our duty well that IL woud be almost Impossible
~ yer an audience ON any day the week except 81 lday,
vel our Government received last year S9lOJOOOO for
licenses and in one place where was tns hIei UTE
we're four divorces 10 every seven marriages Our SAD
bath is desecrated by every device that can M men
pockets and empty their souls The NneVes asted ana
turned from the evil OF ther ways Gnu uou sPaoL III
Three years nation tasted ana prayed Tor me IRE
nf arIe d. and wondered that God did not answer our
nraverT; bur there much Woke lness there
after that day prayer before there were as many
tasted and prayed but turned not rom the evils OF our
way on, wonder or prayers Iee not ahswrGd
repented OF Of slavery and turned from 1t we
would have had no war
Mr. Reecher at Plymouth Church: Christ is revealed
60 many "a the Christ Of recOrd-the historic Christ Tha
imaruaon recOn5tTucs picture OF Him as reyealeiln
history We Christ walking at Jerusalem talking
,virb men we follow Him to the Mount OF Olives AID
r,cture The outrageous hear his conversation
t Bethany Now all this history s very inspiration 10
vou il ont OF IL grows your history if is materially to
frame personal Christ But the historical picture Is no
more the real Christ TO you than the Holy Chld anu
mother were the Virgin and son OF God TO the Cd artists
Their mistresses sat to them Tor the IKE.
IS and they painted her and called the picture Ma.
~ Rut what did they for the reality II the color
80 ht and the picture famed in the galeryi II was
v an imaginary thing framed i'll history for artistic
purposes
,brnug Lent and mark HIS progress TO the Rcsurrec
ton and Ascension and still see nothing more than
,,mac picture and He is more 10 us than Hamlet or
any heroic creation history 1t Is empty aud void ofs
,I,or ,ossiblity But it is not harmful unless we think
tLa ~ thong t~power the result OF analysis Tho
mind looks parts or His lie anu ussects them one
Ny TyytS one its psychological Inquiries; the mir
acies they real possible or mag
srerIine il His trial and DEATH was It natural phe'
nomenon infused with mysterious sptnaIiy us
iaIon TO cod Was lie man. or pure God or God near
nodl This involves the widest sphere Of human expc-
e he whole problem mora. government, ana OF nut
nm lie This is the peculiar Held OF Theology But man
may be drilled in all toeooSy' anu nav nT6 b ,n
,ct ia only good far as 1t helps ana nVlSOrates tho
| $500 ~ of,ith and love- but alone II Ia no
moe Christ than the anatomy OF msn Is you,
,atber or husband IL il only a structural and
| an,ivtic Christi yet this is the christ tlat
men have FOUGHT for II Is the orthodox
met the one that all the sects that call
| ,bnnrss,,,ves orthodox contend for. Then there
taere il the symbolic Christ that all the aesthetic nature
- baauty and artloving nature feels IL Il the Christ
o pictures crosses, ceemones and processlons
- nisfer, only to one side OF human nature and aG
tr ~ Inc glorious reality offered 10 him who compre'
/ bends vii sides OF Christ. AT last we come 10 ths
Thrs5 I'm Won as described in the New Testament
nan il privileged 10 have Christ born III
i ni ~ the clements OF necessity In him. o MT us ma
nun o hs svcnts and oyolutOus OF his life Christ IN
tle anu az orv' he Is formed out OF your yeaIn,