St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-01
CHRIST,S INTERCESSION,
The subject OF Mr. Reecher's Ser
mon Yesterday Morning.

Special to the GLOBE.
NEW YORK, Jan. S1.-Rev. Henry Ward
Beeeher's sermon this morning was from
the following texts: whittier the fore
runner is for us entered, even Jesus. -
Hebrews vi, 90. Wherefore He is able
10 save them to the uttermOst that came
unto God, by Him seeing. He ever liveth
TO make interceSSOn for them."-
Hebrews vii, %. Mr.. Beecher said: He
even hyeth 10 make intercesSiOn. An
advocate, one who pleads. What is he
pleading fOrP l do not know; know the
result that he expects from the intercession.
1t may De said that Christ's intercession,
His fOrerunnIng and advocacy, is simply
doing everything in the invisible world that
is necessary to bring men out of the visible
world up there. Now there is no revela-
ton in nature of this thing at all, yet it is
the trueSt revelation of the Bible. Science
knows nothing about 1t, yet science repre-
sents the best and most completed thoughts
OF men in regard TO Gods administration OF
the material world. Faith, in the largest
acceptance of the term, is magnihcently
more advanced than mans senses, and
THE REASONING POWER
that superintends them. Shall a man
live again? Science says: Il know not.
There is no evidence" If there is there
fore TO be any conviction produced by force
of reasoning it must be conviction based on
testimony, not ON our experience. And it
is just here that Christ comes in as a wit
ness. Il have descended from God.
know the truth" And when he says: Il
know, declare that in the realm where
my Father dwells there is ample apartment
and room for all of you, and L shall go 10
prepare place for you, that where l am,
there We may be also" That Is what we
call revelation. All the questions which
the soul would ask we can in some degree
answer through Jesus Christ. They are
answerless without him. Is there a cradle
thereT Are the infants there? The
couch and the cradle can learn nothing of
themselves. WHAT is the occupation of
the emancipated? Science can give us
nothing in answer to these questions.
When you can understand a single analogy
/ think you can understand why. The
silk worm lives by gnawing leaves. 1t
seems TO enjoy it, and doubtless its highest
idea Of lie is
SUCKING LEAVES
and gets enough OF it. By and by it weaves
its own silken shroud. and when it wakes up
IL finds itself butterfly. Now imagine the
silkworm saying TO some fellow worm: 'If
there Is an after life for me / will come
back after lm dead and tell you all about
II" l should like to know how the worm can
know how 1t Is To get a living by sucking
honey from the flowers. The TeOrganiZa-
ton puts the old and the new creatures on
such different platforms that the experience
of one has no relation 10 the experience or
capacity of the other, and men in this life
going through that peculiar part of God 5
experiment which he requires, husk, waste,
chat, living in the body, and in conditions
adapted to bodily wants. When they 20
out Of that into the grain itself, or the
flower and fruit itself, how can they in their
lower state and condition understand that
which belongs to the eAtireiy new and SUI
periOr conditions of existence? This does
not solve all intellectual questions. There
are profound depths for which no solution
has Yet been gwen. We throw the line and
the plummets run out and out and out,
and there seems to be
NO BOTTOM.
But in regard 10 the not understanding of
the upper and higher states. in a generic
way, / think it is sufficient for any reason
able man. While this life seems to us to be
bustling and busy place, and it surely is,
and the other seems 10 have nothing in it,
no sound, nothing that ordinarily attracts
mems senses, yet the business of the uni
verse is in the invisible. and ali the rack,
and ali the care, all the dust and defiement.
all the preparation is down here; this is the
lumber-roOm of the universe, the workshop
of God, and all the things most active SUI
pernate, divine, are going on above our
heads and out of our sight. and beyond our
consciousness, but faith discerns and ae-
cepts. Beyond the evening, behind the
clouds, beyond the report of the senses.
there is an eternal provision going on for
US. God thinks for us. The world is like
a cradle. God rocks it and hears the in
fant's cry, and knows its need and the eter-
nal Father cares continually for his crea-
lures upon earth.