New-York tribune., 1890-04-03
TIE TRUE RELIGION OF HrMANITY

A large audience manifested their appreciation o
the able missionary sermon preached last evening ~
the church by the Rev. DG. j. klclaid' '">"' TIC
pastor Of the Park Avenue Church. Dr. E"yIc hi'
been in this charge for two years, lie was born III
Philadelphia, his father being Methodist pieach =
before linn. For four and . half year, ho a''Neu III
the Union Army, during the war Of the EcbcIho''
mart Of that time being a1Jntant Of the llth Penn
sylvania Regiment, of which his father wa major
Last fall he delivered the Grafton AT the I'm
yelling Of the rcgmcntal monument al 'ctty-bnrg
He has been the pastor OF many important
churches in the Philadelphia, Wilmington, Newark and
New York conferences His charges nave been III the
following places ShcnamdoaI Penn, '7l-'73; Ebc
nezcr Reading ~ 10; First Church. Lancaster
'77'7s: Christ Church. Philadelphia. 1881 Western
Philadclphia So Grace Church. Wilmington, ~; -
It. paur, Church. Newark, ~ j., 'oG'o' Park Avenue
Church. Ncw-lork City, since 80
At the meeting the Rev. DR.. Osiandcr presided, and
the Rev. Dr. Reid led ia prayer. AT the close o'
Dr. Eoyle's sermon the Rev. Dr. T. :. johnson, who
with his wife has just returned to TINS conntry from
India, where he has been hboring Tor twenty c'gh'
wears told a short but interesting story of his cN
pcrenccs.
Dr. Boyle chose for his subject The Religion OF
Humanity His text was Ana thio GOSPEL "i 'hc
Kingdom shall be preached IN AL the world i9r o.. q
witness unto all nalions.' Matthew Axiv. H. TWO
primary truths assumed ~ TINS declaration o.
ic Lord. which led to the subject OF TIE .pcahci
meditatons. First there is Gospel OF the Kingdom
Of In this vera. ON the presumption Of man ,
moral agency, there is there must ne, ne -ad, "a ru
religion accessible to HIM. lurilcf IMAM 'H7' NV
facts which render one religion necessary T." man
make more than ono imp ssiDc 10 him. IL follows.
then, that men need ana can have but ono genuine
rel gon. The unity OF human nature. and he nnliy
Of the Divine government and Godlcld alike forbd
,nv other concln,ion zone Lord, one faith. one
baptism /, necessary trinity 1t can neither M Ie
divided nor duplicated. Upon this postulatc, ne
entered the plea Of the text and the lihlc Ims ns -
the Gospel Of the Kingdom OF God Chrisanny '.o ~
the religion Of universal humanity. II pfnic',c,,
itself dlvincly derived and divincly given th.es',
conquest universal impeachment Is it, foeofuhcu
fate. u ,,.,,. !, ,o ,h.
Dr. Boyc, in affirming Christianity to Dc the
(ospel Of the Kingdom Of God compared IL with the
sva systems, the cthnc religions. which are con
tending with II for the faith Of mankind, ana arrived
at this conclusion Mt one Of the rIv'l, oi
Christianity ever authenticate itsclf TO nahhlh1
as the Gospel Of the Kingdom Of God MS hcNi
point that the principles of the true 'oSpc oi
The Kingdom, Of God will commend themselves I'd thr
n ason and faith Of mankind at large. ana tiat
This the doctrines OF the cthnic religions can never
do. lie then showed that Christianity Is doing IN al
these essentials precisely what all other religious
systems have failed to accomplish IT Is autIenu'