Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-02
The Plymouth Divine Forgets His
Notes, but Delivers a Glow
ing Discourse.
Modern Art Tending Toward Cor.
porai, Rather than Spiritual.
Beauty The Standards.
Different Kind OF Christians Re,l,n.a
A nigh Tyre Of Moral ncne,y
tho Christian standard.
speolal o No earollc.

HEAUTY.
NEw YORK, Nov. Plymouth church
was packed, as usual, at the morning
service to-day. Mr.. Beechcr preached o0
Tue word Beautiful. Before the sermon
ne told the congregation that In changing
nus coat he had left his notes at home, SO
v his sermon proved too short or Too long
they should bear with him.. He rend the
scriptural text describing the carrying of
thc lame man up 20 the gate OF the temple
called beautiful lie contrasted
TliE GREEK ANp TnE IIrBpisw
Ideas OF beauty. The Greek idpa was
sensual; It took IN eycrythlng that ~
pealed to the eye. Il was the beauty
of form. There was nothing
spiritual In It, On the other side among
the ancient people stood tho Hebrews
There was not much OF physical and oui.
ward beauty permitted IN the Upbrow
worship. The beauty was of hiuher
order the beauty of conduct, character
and OF the moral qualities. There was
the Thought of God IN il, and the por-
reliability OF the human race. The
modern peoples, such az England and
France, followed me Greek better than
the Hebrew idea of beauty. Tho Ger
mans also In q less degree, Modern an
tended toward corporal, rather than
spiritual beauty As for us In thIs
country, we have as yet
80 sCilOUl or AnT
Mr.. Reechor proceeded to dcyclbp tho
noble Ideal of llobrow and Christian
beauty. The poor were profoundly
blessed In tho Scripture That BLESSING
was there In poverty. Those who bore
the yoke Of Christ were blessed. An Who
endured suffering, trial and resignation
were blessed Jo those Who bore thclr
burden and His yoke meckly was pron-
pcd pcuce. Thu wrest OF ltiugs in this
great tempcstuoltS world OF ours rs peace
and the peace Of Christ
The moral qualities shonld DC maGn To
shine SO thai they muy attract ma not
repel That constituted the beauty ofa
true Christian liie what a sermon there
70 M lovely Christian HE, walk and oon-
yerallon. The process ami develop
ment may be slow and rugged and un.
l9Vtiy ~ uppeetapce The growth is IKE
that AZ cactus II "a rupEh, Rldnny,
hornyi but yet whit eaH b.
moro beautiful than the blossom
and flower! Religion Is beautiful but
not IN The raw n IS beautiful in its re.
alilation and tulGlmcnt what Il lhpre
beautiful oWliGosS mud poverty accord
ing 20 the pagan idoaY What rs there
beautiful IN slayeryy Yet look at tho
slave who makes himself father and
mother 20 Il child, how he watches IA and
cares for it, aud almost duuhlc-taXcs hm-
self for it. TX there no beauty IN such
seli-sacrilcing devotion?
The fruit oi The spirit ia the garden of
the Lord Is love Tho soft tinRip oI the
bcll OF love makes the sweetest mush IN
The world Religion Is love ard jay;
peace, perfect pence There MS
dsaarCeablc ChIistiaup. Some ~ them
are "too awlully" good, They weary one
with their excess OF plcty. 'ihcy may be
saved, and by IRE, and doubtless VIII
get 70 heaven at The end; but II their
heaven Is Ike them | don't want to go
there. Such Christians belle Chrlstianl.
~. The element of beputlfulnces Us left
out Of their nature. Then there arc the
Just mcn-straight, rigorous, unccring,
sharply cut to every angle OF propricty.
They are MS hard ns they are just Theirs
rs NuT ruE JUA1NEss or CllRIsr.
There are also the learned, the intel.
lectual Christians who combine their
Christianity TO tbcIr Intellect. They do
not represent in their lives the beauty of
holiness, aud there are the watch dogs,
who simply sit nj the door and bark aud
howl and make a disturbance. There ls
nothing beautiful IN Christianity Of this
kind. There Is nothing more beautiful
than the thrill Of the violin IN the hands
OF master. But how is the
same instrument In the hands OF diHci-
pie while lcarning2 How IL IL for the
ncighbors2 II rs SO with tho development
Of Christian life Except To The moth
ci's eye what Is there beautiful IN the I'm.
folding Of the Infants Her But when the
child ~ rounded aud formed, N there q
more beautiful object Va naturcY Now
there are those protestant saints derided
as sold naidsn you 200 pictures
Of them IN old books aud the
illustrated Journals Raunt angular,
unloyely 70 look upon yet these are The
women who give up their lives TO the
service Of Others. They are our protestant
saints. | was brought mp by an aunt.
Her lie was tull Of moral qualities ana
sanity services ! would permit no man
70 sneer In unmannery or humanity im-
periincnec at Aunt Esther as "an old
maid.n She was an
UNMARRIED ANGEL, THAT's All
Mr.. Beccher depleted the Imaginative
Christian who lived 10 dreAms and In Il
spiritual realm Of shimmerng nnteality.
There was no beauty insuch. The beauty
sprlpgng from q sound, moral cUnstitu-
ton does not belong 10 them Tho
su1erings ot Christ, the crnci1xion
Of Christ, chat Was tie perfection Of
beauty. How beautiful we're his rela-
lions yith all What beautiful story
Is that OF Mary and MNrihl ana Chrlsps
Intimacy with them! What can be more
touching and beautiful than the scene at
tho rich mans Table when the woman OF
many Sins came IN aud Amounted Ilis
feeti His hie was 80 full OF beauty that
the Sanhedrin feared He would
DRAW ALL TIKI rgopLE AFTER niM.
The mothers crowded round Hin with
their children, insisting that they, too,
should listen 70 Him, and That He might
bless the little ones His life WAS per
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