New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-13
GODS REVELATION TO MAN.
HOW SOME PREACHERS EXPLAIN 1T.

HOW SOME PREACHERS EXPLAIN 1T.
DR. KING ON MANS CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD"
The Rev. Dr. James NJ King of the Park Avenue Meth
edist Episcopal Church. preached yesterday morning on
sMans Consciousness of God.- saying In substance:
take man rs man his history and with unerrfng
regularity moral produce thr designed effects
The balance OF Justice may swing slowly. butt VIII weigh
CORRECTLY The hope OF the unjust In the long run is be-
He'd and DESIRE Of the Just blossoms into beauty In due
season God reveals himself TO what is Mans life.
whether will consciousness Of God To
that men differ spiritual character 10 that God
appears TO them differently An honest life differs from
roguish life mercifu life differs from misery life
pure life differs from uncean life. kind heart
not have unkind experience OF God for inspiration de-
cares With the mercifu wilt show thyself merci
ful with upright thou wilt show thysef upright;
with the pure thou wilt show myself pure
II Is assumed by some that there men who actually
lead wicked lives and suffer remorse; and
thus argue from this that there is no
future retTibution then there Is harm
In what called wckedness But all the remorse in this
world Is written the human face Tortured feat
often masked by sme and dissipation is fire.
suenty only the refdge OF renerse conscience goad
hg ay from themselves
Bat in estimating the difference between lives in their
relationship there something besides freedom
from be considered There is positive side
question The Of being good is In the fact
stupid uncultivsted win walk in the midst Of
halls rich elories OF and experience neither
pleasure remorse. he the less loser
cultivated hfenin tread IN the steps and he
scious Of the possession OF wealth have in this
city poor and plainly clad girl from home where to
secure the necessities OF life struggle,
standing in the midst Of private picture gallery the
property of of fabulous wealth aud she appropr
sted and carried away with her in actual value than
she proprietor retained Was loss this that
he could possess what he had paid for in money
In weighing good and bad men. cultivated and
stupid is the question OF suffering alone that
he niufOf buf
ment Here is a misery man. who has into the
church and holds Of the chief and they often
tla insurance company he pays his pew rent and his
Snf narrow in his Sene6cepce stIl what Conscience he
has docs trouble him with Across the aisle
eroushearted considering himself but the
steward OF the Lords money moving among men like
the fragrant flower with waving censor Which pew is
the seat and source OF personal happiness Here Is
in whom sensual impurity has dominion over the
spiritual; passion and appetite at war With reason And
here is another In love with purity and goodness Illus
and In the rustfuiness OF childhood. these
live in different enes 50 II = That T H az nasa arrv v
experiences Of Him As man thnketh in his
human heart what every human heart differ In
their thoughts Of God and thus determine His character
formulated creed they have Gods many and Lords many
G Tso T bS many b So1 e poS has @
trated and inearnated the creed
No man apprehends God as a Of love who hates his
felow-man No man can believe In God as God OF
SO Is The God Of his conception and experience and ne
scrptraI doctrine OF the possibility OF the loss
soul The soul not found is lost already The punish
il begun when mans conception OF God is Of a
being either he feared hated The soul found and
its reward begun when 1t has learned TO love righteous
and purity and truth The spirit exercising nte
pity and Kindness and love Will always ma these attrl-
S See' ig Deed be said Of the heaven oeyond
for soul that has such conceptions OF God when the
clog Of clay and falls on will go TO heaven by the
Law of grayauon."
RELATIVE DUTY OF THE PEW AND THE PULPIT
The Rev. Dr. Edmund Guilbert. in the Church of the
Holy Spirit Madison-ave and prefaced
his with few words the changes made i'll the
prayer book by the Chicago Convention He said; 1.-The
prayer book had cast-iron for instance.
compelled the minister say Dearly beloved breth-
rem when only sister the service The Apos
Greed has made conform that Of the Eng
nsh prayer book by inserting the word again in the
clause, The third day he from the dead. The
changes made have given pancy TO the prayer book and
liberty to who are 10 use it,
In he followed the appointed theme for the
day The Clerical Calling" Upon noted first
that minister lecturer. that term Is
popularity taken Neither he essaytsr. nor is he the
representative himself alone that is, ne not 70
fn to his way thinking but TO be true
OF Lord Jesus Christ and faithfully set forth tne Cos
pei / try forget this fact and TINS Is why we
must take up doctrines and dogmas haId 70 oe uiueI
stood during me year y, mn World as dreary viii
derness full OF sorrow and sadness then We SPEAK p'
sneas OF sorrow and tears and pain one dsagrees,
because the very evidences eacn one mas N pn
further; must speak OF Remuneration, Oh te
incarnation of the Trnity-hings hard to be understood
B. you h 80: main and easy subjects reuaini
answer: Religion the binding together OF man ana OOu
SNEAK OF mysteries Man a great mystery but God Is
one Infinitely reater-and union OF the TWO M1o Sar
The chtratan, smatterer and Tie Preteuue
tell YOU explain them all but Ills e1 plahatons
they cloud over his understanding oil tne suoeo
' Sow. Tori about how minister should be received
The pews have right TO ask that we give you al Vic
S1.riUr
you only Scripture teaching ADDING 70 tne Jun r
moi 10 critse speaker You, not one OF you you
listened in right frame OF spirit ever nea,n nt Sd "oI
mat did grain OF truth III H. that uu no
do YOU good You do stop 10 examine the hann~rIT
mo- Won are eager TO hear message so hear the mes
sage OF God through his servants
WILL THE HEATHER BE sAvEDi
AT St Marks Church yesterday Dr.. Ryiance saio In
PAGAN noets and philosophers were constantly look
ing back TO golden age that had passed The Hebrew
prophets looked forward All through the Ola Testament
we 1nd PROMISES of the better day TO come anu King
who should rule righteousness This desire was Kept
alive by religious leaders and symbolic rites. Inc
Hehrews had the light God upon them and the nations
around were favored. yet they had Nature ana
conscience and noble instances of virtue are FOUND
The stern theology OF John Calvin consigned all heAhen
peope TO eternal but some Of his theological
children have ventred hint TO the world that this
vhoesle condemnation of myriads of men because they
wer born in one place and not in another monstrous
nv our Theological pharsees and scbes as reasonable 70
the life and truth OF Chrlsts Gospel Let US nope a'
Die sarbes are wrong, they have often peen-
LET us dare hope there u mort
merry in God than IL would be bitter part OF
Tie worlds history should refuse 70 admit the moral
ability pagan philosophers and sopnss Anolg sieu1
We meet piey sefdenial, and charity that would put 70
shaIue good deal Christian virtue surely IN the
minds and hearts OF such the spirit OF God was al
work All truth aud goodness are Ion the same source
In an forms worship. wherever Jew or Semitic we ma
fur great re ligous sacrifices. presthoOd noy
places and great We come upon sscrlnce III an
a-es among savages and people OF nigh refinement,
Wherever we meet is expressive OF the most solemn