New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-11
PULPIT THOUGHTS.
EXTRACTS FROM YESTERDAYS SERMONS.
THE NATURE OF DOUBT AND IT'S USE.

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all splendid revelations Of truth, both in science aid
religion Doubt the fuctuatiOn Of the mind the ss
pension " the Judgment waiting for more PROOF. Inc
doubter is like wayfarer who has come to crossroads
and knows not which path TO take. But he Il a way
farer. He is making progress not standing SIN. fof
doubt is denial Denial is the essence OF inndeny
aId atheism The inquirer pauscs in loving doubt ana
like st. Thomas Lord help thou my unpeheL me
atheist Ike the fool says in his head There Is DO you
Doubt Is the stepping-stone true belief which Is not
dull acqUscence IN anything It's the thoroush NC
ceptance Of a fact by a man VINO mas examiner anu
knows. The man who has never doubted mas never
believed II with belief with the muscle OF the arm
Exercise makes II great The true douhter Is not IN
search OF negative result He is looking for belief He
tries the strength OF proposition in order to believe It,
Therefore is Il form Of belief Bacon says he who be-
gins with doubts viii end with certantes ana the con
verse true for he who begins this life by accepting
everything runs much danger OF settling into atheism
Faith has open and keen eye. IL questOhS II COT
believe but let those fear believe who are anxious
10 doubt. Much Of modern scepticSm is Naked pInh
creation They make dull aching void, and leave their
disciples despair They tell you that your theory OF
vessel loaded to the gunwae with denals, lies at the
wharf and never leaves the port but ros where u mes
These represent thought only in their Van
ty Columbus doubted the geography Of his time, but he
substituted for 1t noble hypothesis which his
strain They nothing, do nothing and lead to moth
ing True doubt IS the preliminary OF nene iase dono
OF Scripture the other"
RELATIONS BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY.
The Rev. Dr. H. Y. satterlee said There is strong
antagonsm between soul and body. Two kinds of ex-
stence perpeuay striving with each other for the
mastery. There Is within a physical life which be-
longs wholly to the world and dies with the body It's
highest law self qualification Then there Is the spr
itua life whose law Is do not its will hut the Will
of God 1t strives to crafty bat to sacrifice self
Manichasm was founded upon the apparent opposition
between the soul and body All flesh was thought TO be
bad and all matter inherently evil This system was dis
tinguished by rigorous ascetcism. hermits lie was
considered the highest state of holiness But every false
thing has Its day Slowly but surely the pendulum OF hui
man thought begins to swing TO the other side Ihe
masses are satisfied with sober truth In the re
bound from the false of the past TO seems
very divinity TO he worshpped. The physical world has
come between us and God The whole element modern OF
civilization for the body 70 the exclusion every
thing The thought Is 10 discover some new luxury
to-day just blind aud just as much II bond
hcreses that have arisen know OF none more dangerous
than this matcrasm because IT offers no restraint TO the
temperament and constitutional bias The body pro
eced that fast degeneTating into race OF tmd
dan GERS but how to avoid them. When held back
from religious acts. from private deyotons, we never
put body first and the soul second We
for lost physical comfort than for lost spiritual
power"
THE BIBLE AS A LAMP TO MEMS FEET.
The Rev. DR.. Hamilton, Of the Scotch Presbyterian
Church in FOurteenth-st.. said:
''The Word God is lamp lantern TO the feet by
night and by day, light like the light Of the SUM- the
one guide of the soul from earth heaven This is
claim for the Bible There nothing more remarkable
than the respect given the Bible today We may say
has no enemies may have critics but they friendly,
among Matthew Arnold representing modern schol
srship and literature, and Huxley representing modern
science We do the Bible to science Orphoso
ply God has left such things for the develop
VIC 90 to It for the perfect revelation OF the truth But
II this Is our claim for the Bible. why IS II
so curiously constructed, not only golden
maxims but wide literature Of many authors writing
in Hebrew and Greckritua legislation dialogue and doc
time The answer IS the book has throughout only
iife lis death and What lie accomplished in His life on
is the theme that makes the Bible book
esns IS In II all; the might OF His spirit pervades It all
Biblical research Is useful for growing comprehension OF
the book but II dreadful mistake to miss It's message 10
the soul BE sure Of this you will find no more in the Bble
than Won look for II you would have the Bible for your
lamp and light YOU II with faith and love. Its
gt not revealed to intellectual research; only those
who become personally attached to the Scriptures learn
to know the Muster OF the book
TIE PATTERN n TIE MOUNT.
The Rev. Dr. rarkhurst, in preaching On Exodus XIV,
40, saidi
"Moses did his work from plan and did not get bis
plan from hE work. Reality is prior to the shows Of
tself There are painless seeds. farreachng plan
the best one Calculation Is better than caprice. We
wiser IN the long reach OF thought than IL the short
each We are lost in tho woods because have no
Dom for long look. You say life short. Better live
the short Of long circle than describe little cir
lie with the line. Immediate results meare
ults Plan sohdiles. Power is measurable by purpose.
llfessness Is a name for aimlessuess. Tomorrow de-
lends On to day, but to-day depends tomorrow also
asst aud present sustain each other Plan gives moral
atc-rlard Adam fell because he had nothing to
10, and the first act In the Tedemptve scheme |
vas to set him to work Satan recruits his rauks from
he vagrants. The Apostles working men, The I
nfing boat drifts down stream. Young amlessness Is
be beginning OF old inquity. Empoymentis subsdi-
~ means Of conversion. Character, purpose and ap-
are Let far apart Moses brought down
is pattern from the Mount. There a celestial way OF
DING earthly things. Earthly success is a quotation
rom overhead Our ideals from patterns II the
Iount There something IN them never put them
Whence are our ideals We have never seen perfect
hing What do We moan by using the wOrdi We must
men have SO much faith as in their ideals and there il
Othng which II Is so hard 10 explain. We 10 not make
han gravity. There may a myth about Sinai but Il is
ne were bound to Invent II It never was reality. The
IObem OF life Is 70 make the ideal real. once 1t
one N Galilee The two meet In Jesus"
TIE LOVE OF GOD TO MAN
At the Church Of the Messiah the Rev Robert Colyer
reached from the text God Is love-" mo single dis
CURSE" said he, begin to compass so vast theme
ut we be first Of Gods love TO before we
An eIhot TO love God. Certain theological dOgmas
Calvanism have made hate God rather than love
in. Our good old Puritan preachers, many Of them,
lught that God loved none but those whom he had
ected TO be saved eternaiy. But who reads
text with proper insight has right 70 say that any
an is not within tho circle OF Gods love-
nd although CalvaDistc theo,og!ans have tried
parcel out Coos love by scales adjusted
their logical preudce and by doing have hindered
en- from loving God, God has not aOated His love 70
On. He loves them with bOuudless affection. The
OF creatures for their kind Is the type Of Gods love
7 his children. Bat we must not abuse this love.
Though God loves u.s. and His tender over
His works, yet every elects himself misery or
JOY. Each OF US Is nursing angel devil Let our
YES be sweet and full OF good deeds that may be
orthy Of Gods love. Gods love mercurial
hateyer may be the changing atmosphere OF our love
ward Him, His love toward remains constant God o