The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-25

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Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher preached at the City
Temple yesterday morning. Mr.. Beecheris text
was from First Corinthians. xiii, part of verse
ID: But the greatest OF these is love-" In point
of delivery the sermon was of the composite order
sometimes the preacher read from a manu-
script, sometimes he spoke extemporaneollsy
and the passages so spoken were usually
the most effective. 1t was a sermon of
great power, emphaticaly the expression OF a
strong personality, and with all its other char
acteristics subordinate to this leading one of a
dominating will The preacher seemed to be
very much In earnest, and not least so in his
many humorous effects. The congregation often
smiled, and sometimes laughed outright; yet
there was no sense of incongruity, mainly be-
cause the humor seemed always the mere acci
dent of expression, and not thing sought for
itself. Love vaunteth not ITSELF" said the
apostle. at does not, every time it lays gol
den egg, rise from the nest to cackle," said Mr..
Beecher 1t is unfair, perhaps. to pick out these
lighter sayings, but they are most readily re-
memb ered, and they very characteristic of
the American pulpit style. Glove is not pulled
up" said Mr.. Beecher, quoting St Paul, and
then he added for himself: "Oh, that there
were some men that could be touched with a
lancet-how the puffedness would come
DOWN. sudden and slight initiation of the
cheek helped to exemplify the need of the opera
ton.
TASTE for soon, by some new development of the
argument, we need all our attention for fierce
apostrophe to the hypocrite Yes, call your
self by holy names and live like the devil. "
Then again the outbursu comes to a dignified
close in passage on the endurance of calumny
and Misrepresentation and on the beauty of
knowing how Ito stand in misunderstanding
IAN attainment much to be desired, and one of
which there have undoubtedly been some ex-
amples in Christian experience" We are to
trust one another, Mr. Beecher goes on to say;
that is the great lesson of prudence. we'll as Of
love. Cavour said he had found wide mis-
trust of men the worst of mistakes. Now, if
that is true in Italy and in diplomacy, good
heavens, where isn't it trueF
Soon we are out in the open of general, as dis
tlnguished from special, exposition, and in chas-
tening conflict with a class of weaklings whom
DIR Beecher has always found it peculiarly hard
to endure. These the men who believe
everything they are INSTRUMENTATION, pre-
destination, the Trinity, total depravity; "they
swallow them at a gulD' "And the wrath to
Gomez adds the catechist for ordination. eyes,
that too," whimpers Mr. Beecher in initiative
suggestion of the postulant's feebleness of mind.
The one thing they are never asked is-"Do you
love one another2" Yet this would settle the
matter of their fitness for ordination by the
simplest of all tests. Men often take the trouble
to believe too much. 1t is easy to mako
a noise in professions "There amt so preten.
tious an instrument in all the band as the drum
nor one so empty" You may hear man say:
II was converted at o'clock in the afternoon of
the 10th of June, eighteen hundred and so-and-
So" "Ahl your clock was right no doubt; but l
think you are wrong" II saw a great light"
"Are you sure it was not tallow candleP And
bow hard they can be sometimes these facile
professors-how hard and bitter in this assur-
ance where nothing is sure; how merciless!
"You have not, / believe, much experience in
England of certain hypocritical insect known
to US in America as the mosquito Well, the
mosquito always says prayer before he puts his
bill in to suck your block" ''Ah, what horri-
BILE betrayal of Christ has been the history os
churches and of sects"