Connecticut western news., 1884-04-30
IN THE PULPIT.
Passages from the Sunday Sermon of
 Henry Ward Beecher-

"I preach this morning." said MT. Beecher in the beginning of his Sunday sermon, lon the manifold Christ" The text was taken from John xiv, 14, 15. Some of the passages were:
 "Christ is revealed to a 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 ot His life dissected and separsted one by one-His incarnation; His childhood and growth; His inspiration; His mir acles; His trial, death, resurrection and ascension"
 "A man may be perfect and drilled theologian, so that his thoughts upon re- hgion would fill as many tonnes as now lie musty upon library shelves; and yet he may not know Christ"
 "There is a symbolic Christ, addressed to lively sympathies, but mostly to the sympathies that cluster round about mans aesthetic nature. The Christ of the church has been very largely such a 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- ture of his nature; that Is fitted into all the various events and evolutions and experiences of his lfe-so much his that nobody else could have ii; put into anybody else 1t would not express itself as to him."
 ''I 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"
 ''The 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- stant 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 reiolcing in its Christ. It has no business to interfere. It would be like justice of the peace undertak- ing to overrule the Chief Justice of the United States"
 ''I am not one of those that think that this world is all that there is of the manifestation of the glory of God, I would sooner think that all there is of the majestic pines that frown from the ridges of California is contained in a seed no bigger than pea. That seed is to be planted; it is to develop. God for bid that I should impoverish 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 dark lantern of orthodoxy. They take it out now and again when they want to read something, and then shut it up again. ,