New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-15
THE SERMON AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.
cHRIsr's CONCEPTION OF A UNIVERSAL RELIGION
THE WouIp limited.

CHRlsTS CONCfffiON OF UNi'hnoh "i-Ii"Ao~'
THE WORLD UNITED.
Providence, June 14.-The Rev. Dr. X. >.
Macarthur preached the baecaaureate sermon at Brown
University to-day. His text was; "For determined
not to know anything save Jesus Christ ana
Him crucined"-I Cor, H., 2. He said In part:
leading to an Austrian city there is bridge IN the
parapeis wich there twelve statues OF Christ
ono represents & as tho sower another as ihe
Shepherd, another rs the Carpentrrsd another Us .e
Physicians others as the Pilot, Prophet, Priest anu
King and still represent Aim in still other char
actcrs. The supplemented country people coming INTO
market, pause aud pray before Christ the sower A
little later tho artisan on his way to his workshop wor
ships the Carpenter Later still. when the sun has
scattered the msts of the morning and has Hooded tne
earth With his END rI 11s air n nSc
presents his morning prayers to Christ the Phy se,'
Is much OF superstition In this Worship
bnt there is In it also great truth. Each worshps the
Christ who il nearest TO hinsc-tho CHRIST VINO DesI
interpres hsown thoughtsand best supplies Dis peculiar
wants. .,, ~.
everybody the world Tonight lift before You
Christ aud Him crucined This - the view OF CHRIST
which gives significance and glory to all other represen-
CT tho peerless Apostle the maChless missionary PAUL
which captivated his Imagination, controlled his intel
there not to Paul such life as Chrsts ana IN
all the life of Christ there was no such glory as that
which gathered around His cross.
Tho highest point OF human greatness men ever reach
Him their Lord and God. Away with the devils
trumsl respectfully decline to be orphaned III my
Fathers world. We want the Old, old GOspel-old as
eternity and the last sunbeam which has kissed
your cheek Nothing but the bread Of heaven can feed
The hungry soul Nothing bur the balm oil iead can heal
the heari's sorrow. Blessed God His Gospel will
lose its power until satan Is crushed beneath our feet
and Christ ~ worshpped rs Lord Of ALL
When Jesus Christ conceived the idea OF universal
religion lilo took the foremost place among tho world
thnkcrs The philosophers OF Greece and Rome ana OF
the dreamy Oriental never had such thought. | put
the my LORDS brow the foremost thinker III
tine worlds history Christianity must push its Victories
10 the ends of Tho earth Tnis il is doing. All Gods
proyidences are tending 10 this result The world IL
both larger and smaller than beiore-arger IN re-
points Of contact with our daily lives;
In regard TO the facility with which the contact Is made
We have been reminded that now there are no hermit
nations. Inspired by mlifying and sympathetic I'M
pulse the nations have risen above their former bound
ries anu have their liberated waters lhoh great
OF national life and Christian endcayor. steam
ships and railways make once distant continents near
world n Whispering gallery" They repeat IN
sublime proportions the marves OF each
and uped heart the whole civilized world stood by the
bedside ~ General Garieid-the man for whom more
tears were shed ad praIei offered man Tor any otler
man who ever Iiycd-whlc he was hghtinS his terrible
counted. Princes and peasants listened with mingled
hope and fear FOR his hsarL trObs. All the world Is KIN
enemy whom he may not conquer. America wait, with
anxiety 10 the news Of the standing or the fd
has large and a warm place IN American hearts ITO
grows gruder the shadows OF evening fall about him
nud tue humble Christian happily blended standing or
falling he Is the peerless man O tie world today ms
community and kindness Of feeling bstween nations
augurs well lor the spread OF Christianity In our day
Weilye IN the hour OF Christian missions. Irda IS
as near to to-day Liverpool was generation ago.
H. Is glorious to work Tor Goa ana man III this favored
day. Tho old Omcrc heroes represented rs standing
hill OF Greece aud sending out their voices
Into IT, clear air u brother heroes seven miles away
The missionary spirit Is the heroic spirit, the mission
AIRY tho here OF tho nineteenth century This spirit
sends voice the continent from the mighty AZ
lautic mghtler Pacific IL GRIZZLIES the world lts
voice shall blend with the music Of every river and
ocean. ike the sound OF many waters IL shan wake
the echoes In the valley Congo. until IN Africa as In
America hilltop shall answer 10 hilltop, and valley To
valley with the Old Old story OF Jesus and His love
Christ IL King. The dcyu shall not have the bost OF
every thing. When good Or. Warren saw ship leaving
the dock AZ ScwYork. with grOap Of missionaries on
her deck. he said That D. what ships are made Tor
He right. all discoveries all sceGoe ana art l. Tor
J.sus When Ills pierced hand shall bc lad on all the
marvellous discoveries OF this stirring period the mr.
rays the of mileunal day shall color the SKY wan
It's ersison aud gold. ThAt day Is dawning Tho world
IL growing better on. young men, Into the opening
fields %! toll Who will giye himself TO Jesus In mission
ary consecratsn We need men. born OF Col, men
God TO carry the good news OF saVatiOn
to tic last that tho dumb sing for Joy and the
desert may blossom as the rose