The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-06-12
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a SERMON WORTH AIDING
4 LESSON ON PERSONAL !NFLU-
ENce.
MIR. BEECIIE2 TELLS Is FROM TIE
PULPIT HOW WE COULD MAKE OUR
LIVES SUBLIME.
rrOm the New York Herald

lhefe never WAS city since the
world began. said Henry Ward
Beecher in his Sunday sermon, just
preceding the taking up of the
collection, that had more need Of
Christian sympathy and succor than
this city Of Brooklyn. When l
came to Brooklyn. thirty seven
years ago, there were less than so,
900 people here. To-day there are
more than 100000, and l suppose
before the five years census is taken
in Brooklyn the city will have very
near million inhabitants. 1t is the
one city Of the future on this con-
tinent. Manhattan is 4 bottle
island-when it's full it's full; but
Brooklyn has all Long Island to
spread out on. There are but five
cities in all Europe that are equal
in population to Brooklyn-London,
Paris, Berlin, Vienna and st. Pc
tersburg. Besides these, Brooklyn
surpasses every city on the CONT
nent Of Europe. We are giving q
very close chase to New York it
self. We are growing faster than
New Iork--a good deal faster than
New Iori--and for obvious rca-
sons; and there is no measuring
what will be the rapidity Of its
growth in the future. New York
in 1883 issued $4,000 permits for
building. Brooklyn in 1888 issued
26.0S8 The difference is very
great on our side. In that part OF
the year that is now elapsed--eight
or nine months--the permits issued
are in still larger proportion Of gain
ever building in New York. We
are surprising New York in the
number Of factories and in the i'm
portance Of those that are building.
We are surprising New FORK in all
the industries that require the water
edge, having here 4 shore line Of
more than twenty-five miles. Now
while there are in this great city
nearly 100000 people, there are
only 265 churches, chapels and
houses Of worship. which gives one
church to every 1924 Inhabitants.
In the outlying wards, with a popu-
lation of 100000 people, there is
church seating for only about so,
600. leaving about 100000 people
in those outlying wards who have
no churches. no Sabbath, no moral
teaching. And yet Of the 2G5
churches that exist, in the city on
the average they are not half filled
and where they are not half filled
it is because there is nothing there
that draws or that meets the wants
Of the great industrial populations
lying around about them. Under
these circumstances what shall we
do? l an not going to make 4 plea
for church building, although l an
| glad to see churches going up. But
the churches are not going to edu-
cate our population. We have got
to have 4 wandering ministry; we
have got to have ministers who go
from house TO house, as the apostles
| did. and that preach to men in their
sorrows. in their siclinesses. We
want missionary men and women who
will 60 into places of vice. l don't
think we have half proved the pow
er Of the Gospel Of Jesus Christ.
The Influences that men throw
out to those around about them in
the world was the subject Of Mr..
Beecher's sermon, his text being
Romans, Ky, Ia. Tho following
passages are picked out here and
there from the discourse -
I'VE are perpetually acting as
if we were instruments Photographic
We are throwing pictures; VIC are
throwing shadows; we are throwing
light upon one, ten. scores, hun
dreds. Every time we come into
tie presence Of men something or
other happens to them, for men are
as sensitive to influence as we are
powerful in developing influence.
~ person whose life is just as
regular as q checker board--oh Of
ell the melancholy singing that l
ever heard was that Of a bullfinch
in 4 cage that had been taught q
little operate air-(and Mr.. Beech
cr showed how the bullfinch whis,
tled)-and then over and over and
over again, until | wanted to wiring
its neck
"A!l real education brings men to
men. and wherever You see men by
the force Of education separating
themselves from and living above
their fellow men, you may be sure
they are uneducated and vulgar just
in that degree, for the essential
spirit of evolvement toward the
good in man is the Christianlike
spirit.
The command to be orthodox is
not TO be found anywhere in the
New Testament. Organized beliefs
are all very well-among other
things; but organization is not the
sum of religion, nor even the need
of religion"
Il don't object to elective affini-
ties; I don't object that men who
are alike intellectually should fel.