Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BEECHER ON THE BIBLE. The Late Cardinal McCIos-
 keys Virtues. THE FLOOD ROCK EXPLOSION. Opinions of Jay Gould On
 Railroad Strikes. A STRANGE STORY OF CRIME. Fatal Termination Of A Family
 Feud In Pennsylvania.
A STRANGE STORY OF CRIME.
HENRY WARD REECHER

Discussing The old And New Testa- ment-He EuIOg1zes The Deceased Cardinal McCloskey.
 NEW YORK, Oct 11.-In his opening prayer this morning Rev. Henry Ward Beecher referred with deep feeling to the
 death of the cardinal and besought that his simple and rightminded nature might be raised up to succeed. In the course of the the deceased prelate was offered. Mr. Beech
 CTS text was comprised in the first four
 verses of Revelations xxi. Mr. Beecher
 said:
 A thoughtful and unbiased contrast of the
 Old Testament with the New will show that
 the Old Testament dealt with the clements of
 duty and their relation to this life. The
 past was employed, but only a spur to
 the present, and the present was the pivot
 on which all things revolved. It is book of
 maxims, experiences and commands refer
 ring to conduct in this life. The heroes of
 early days. Abraham, and significantly
 Moses, have not left trace of teaching as to
 future life. If there be some flashes of
 recognition later in the Old Testament
 there were none in the beginning, and any
 dealing with the text that shall
 seem to make the earlier heroes of
 the Old Testament dispensation believ-
 CTS in a future existence is an unjust
 and dishonest dealing with the text. Only
 when poetry began to speak are there
 glimpses of any knowledge of 8 possible ex-
 istence after death. There are lyrical snatch
 es, poetry of the prophets that give appar-
 ently poets thought of possible future.
 But if you turn to the New Testament for
 the contrast you will find the future life is the real genius of the whole book as the life that nov is was the genius of the Old Testa-
 ment, and finally the New Testament closes with wonderful panorama made up of gor geous symbols; dramatic spectaeles set be- fore us the conflict through time between good and evil and then it marches before us chanting the blessedness of heaven as the outcome of time and the word
 Now is it not remarkable that after all the New Testament develops so little of the hereafter; what our personality shall be and what the methods of our life are to be? On these we have not line. The reality is taught of a future existence, and that too upon absolute au- thority. But the make up of that life is left to the imagination. All the emblems em- ployed by the apostles are addressed to the imagination, and the confusion among com mentators has come from attempts to reduce to intellectual forms that which was ad- dressed to the imagination. The effects up- on the soul of the other life is the point and genius of revelation. It does not under take to tell from what source your happiness will come, but it assures you of happiness. It perplexes us why Christ did not throw some further light on the results of the res urrection. He declared to his disciples: 'Where am ye shall be also-" That was blessed but when you come to details where he is to be, what are the modes of his life, how we to be with himl There is no answer.
 The future must be left to the imagination of all Christians with this limitation that the pictures that our imagination shall invent must be confined to the highest affection, the noblest occupation known to good men, and so you may frame your picture as often and adversely as you please. You have the sprit- ual artists right to your own palette and your own brush and your own picture. It will be in strict accord with the genius of the Testa ment, such conception of heaven using only the higher and spiritual elements therein. Such conception as will bring the most happiness to you. We go immediately into the spiritual life but shall not take the body. That true old man that has gone up from amidst those who have loved him and nour- ished him, Cardinal McC1oskey; it was all we'll enough that there should be the cardi- nals throne and the enshrining cathedral and the altar and the incense and the acolyles and the orders of priesthood; all very well that there shouldhave been the symbols of spiritual authority, but the moment that he emerges no velvet, no purple, no tiara, no symbol will be with him. Like you and me, and all of Gods dear children, he will stand on his spiritual conscience entirely and in- and will have no occasion any more for organ nor choir, nor for congrega- ton nor for temple.
 There is no temple. There is no temple there. The Lord God is the temple. Here we are the children of matter, but there we are the children not of matter but of a very much higher substance and element. To- day he lifts his venerable head-no he is young; years shall never hurt him again. No rude experience shall turn his hair grey: nor furrow his face. He is as young as God; he shall remain in an eternal youth with all those whom he loved on earth and with all those to whom he administered and with all that great hcck of those whom he feared were doomed to eternal destruction; he shall find them in that land without contro- versy, without theology, without division, and they will be as dear to him as if they had come out of the chrysm of his own hands. I rejoice in his emancipation as I do in the saints that that great sect has sent to heaven in days gone by and in the legacies of holy books and holy truths that it has transmitted and that have been the bread of life to hungry souls from age to age and will be from age to age yet to come.