New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-01
SERMONS WORTH READING.
XIV
GOD IN NATURE AND m GRACE.
THE REV; DE-. O. II. TIYFANY, OF ST. JAMES,
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SHOWS
HOW THE DIVINE POWER Is
MANIFESTED.

Il Sp "a ANAiVW pOpuidf cnufcDe6 Is Ilo OBJ 5hauca
hothost Episcopal, At Madson-sye and ODe-hundred-
and-twenty-sxth-st In which The Rev. Or. o. Il IF
fanny breaches 70 large and interested audiences Or.
Tfanys previous Ecw-York pastorate Eas at Madison
ave. and sIxtiethst He eame 10 HIS present parish
from Philadelphia. In both this city and IN others
| where he has ministered his work has been marked
with signal success; success permanent In It's effects
because attained By faithful service and not by sesa-
honal devices. The character Of this preacher NAV
be inferred from tho topics discussed yesterday God
N Nature and IN Grace and q God In Redemption
No one seeing these subjects advertised would be at
| tracted by their novelty.
That Dr. Tiffany is able 10 present familiar truths
| in an entertaining snd instructive manner. may be
gathered from the following synopsis Of ono Of bis
sermons yesterday Taking for his teri these words
from the Gospel Of Luke; whether It Is castor 10
ssy,' no called attention to the miracle rather the
double miracle, IN the narration Of which tey were
used pictured In vivid language tho healing Of tho
paralytio by the Saviour and then added:
Nothing but . deeRseated faith in Chrisvs power
stimulated the mans four friends to undertake the
task; and Christ saw them, and hs saw their faith
tae up thy bed and Walk and The man arose took up
his bed and went forth before them ell, new current
q ~ VINO ns veins IN bis S
back to his homo with the stropg step Of vigorous
manhood and the bounding heart Of ysrdoned saint.
this man spoken Of In this recital was brought TO
Christ TO DO healed Of Q physical jnnEmty. No human
had been sufficient but the Devotion Of his loving
Irienos bad saved him. This required divine power.
rst to change the character of the created being.
MODERN FAITH CURES NOT ACCEPTED
The impression was general and prevalent among
the Jews that suffering the offspring Of SIM and
therefore that the removal of sin and the removal Of
suffering required forgiveness and the bloting out Of
the SIN Itself, and this pardOning prcrogstive
ercised BY Christ, and Il was sufficient for him
whom It had been wrought. The psralyttc required
no further evidence of Christian power to pardon him.
He was psrdoned. He felt the peculiar influence Of
the %U ssS % him sent RT up Eod ossr @
his sins forgiven. They carried Into his deepest
saviour they broke into the nnsrnost depths Of his
soul The effect Of these words ON hts conviction was
forgiven since. They knew It. be knew It. They
have the witnesses IN themselves tho highest proof Of
who experiences IT But Christ intends that this no
SUI should 30 accepted BY Others besides the ndi.
the miracle OF tho pardOning of SIN the miracle o.
healing the body. that they may know that the Son Of
Now, q course thIs narrative gives US no warrant
for believing that bodily cures arg 50 related to tho
Sons taih certainly not IN any sush senss as Is The
81 faith. think Il has been SbundSnfiy dsmoUstFa
Ted and as well demonstrated at LouIdes as 10 poS
ton but as to faith IN The power Of faith or faith IN
70 accept the impression Of the individual a. to bow
Of By S IN saint he
ploteness Of the cure, and we may well hesitate In
Chit has gwen no aSsr M of Hs rmpness sn 70
be called to tho relief Of the exceptionally few. On
the n contrary The motive that he gave for HIS Sours;
these ouDs have been made OF people who believe
have made S psp Ssv 1n6 s s
and these cures have been equally received by those
who believe In Christ
THREE WAYS IN WHICH GOD SHOWS HIS PowEE;
There three principal lines or directions in which
God exhibits His power There Is tho force Of
creation, there tho conserving power Of preserve
ton or providence and then there is the redeoming
power OF salvation think arc too apt IN these
latter days TO discuss these they wore different
forces as they the forces of different beings
acting at different times Rightly understood II seems
to me they exhibit God moving on different lines.
In one direction He seems 10 DO creating: IN another
be saving; but it l. one God Besides Him there Is
grandest wsris for man Is redemption, and 90 He has
given man nature competent 70 comprehend tho
There arc three general lines on which God can act
with reference to man. There is his outer physical
Then there Is the intelligent soul through which and
on which God acts in conserving or preserving tho
spirit tSst is capable Of compehendng The the forces
which God expcnds in redemption or salvation. So,
bodies S ss mere sRS question Wor S1s ossr g
say He merely ssserts that It : no moro diiieplt
g preservation or from preservation 90 redemption.
than Is hSE for q man to change til the form Of eca
IL is easier to say. God can with equal facility move
on either hand and exhibit His power with equal ease
truth Is calculated to be empcnty helpful to every
one Of us, and We may DO greatly assisted by the
creating 10 preserving and rodeemng God IS the
actor and Sse1s IN all directions Il must Se helpful
wherever transferred, IS the operation Of one Goa
moving IN varied / directions who 9 nay employ the
our personal needs. So that the power OF preser
Walton may 30 turned into salvation. The change
of speech, whether it is easier to say
CREATING, PRESERVING AND SAVING A WORLD.
So that when man wants to know tho power Of
God let him look out into the universe and famiarEo
himself with tho creative acts OF God Let him 60 out
into the past and Him speaking light into being
and stretching out the heavens the clouds Lot him
estimate the originating force by which all things
became possible and actual Lot him grasp these |
facts when he comes 10 ask for tho pardon Of his
sins and It win be easy for him TO believe that God
who made the world can put all this power of world
has done for tho universe how in all It's operations
there has never been Jar or colliSon Of the stars,
that they have all moved in harmony, that the sun
and moon are set for times and seasons that He holds
IN their places and controls the seasons, that 1t
quite as true that the heavens declare HIS glory,
that the roaring His o. that are standing
hers with ell creation beneath us and Providence |
above US, and we know that God has created IL and
when / remember how God preserves all vegetable |
and animal life by sending His rain upon the just |
and the unjust alike, and when know as DO that He
has promised to save me, Is refreshing 20 Know that
while all the coal that could be raised by mon nom
the earth in thousands Of years would not give out
heat enough 10 produce BY evaporation the esrth's
sunbeam Astronomers toll us that there are stars
so UNNECESSARILY distent from the earth that thcir
ligt though it has been passing through space since
the beginning of crcaon has never yet reached the
earth or been seen by tho eye Of man But that
the rariaed space through which II Is passing VIII
yet some day strke the earth, and may first DO soon
By the eye OF some poor orphan lad looking upward
for his God. Now ask you, can It DO true that
Cod, who takes His sunbeamS and impr!sons them In
coal who takes tho rays Of the stars and brings them
through nilnite space to give light and heat to tho
EARTH WIN He suffer the culdren oil HIS choosing,
made In HIS own likeness, capable Of approaching tho
greatness Of His work, to Disappear whether Il