Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-10
THE COMFORTER.

Ing at Trinity MethOdiss Episcopal
 Church.
 A large audience listened to Rev. Mo- Chesney at Trinity M. E. church last night. He chose his text from John xiv, 16-1S: "And will pray the Father and he shall give you smother comforter" "I will not leave you comfortless. I will come unto you."
 The comforter referred to is not an in- fuenoe, but a person, said Dr. McChesney. In the New Testament all the attributes of personality and diety are ascribed to the Holy Ghost. The bsptismal formula i'm plies that he is co equal with the Father and the Son in dignity and power and glory.
 The true convert is not like piece of tim Der lying upon lumber pile. He is framed in, has union with Christ and with his church. The Jews claimed to be spiritual men, but they blasphemed the name of scriptures and . vast fund of ecclesiastical learning besides, but they did not have the spirit of God. "Whom the world cannot rs- ceive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him." No man can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Ghost. Some men can only find Christ at the end of syllo- gism. Their Christ is only vanishing im-
 
 dream. The holy spirit comforts true be- lievers by taking the things of Christ and showing them unto us. The spirit reveals Christ, not merely at the thresheld of con- sciousness, but brings him in and places him on his proper throne.
 The Christian age opened with Christ man. fest in the flesh and then blossomed into the manifestation of the spirit.
 The one dear name of that spirit is to troubled souls the name of Comforter" There is no trouble more real than that of sin guilt, impurity, unrest. agitation, arc terrific facts in human history. For theae there is but one Comforter" Any experi- enced pastor has seen more of the power of religion than the books can tell us about over sin, and finally over death. But he has also seen nominal professors who could not die in peace until by repentance and faith they had done their first works over again. Court gaisties of life as you will, but there Is no comfort in them. That American poet who had witticisms for breakfast, dinner and supper was clouded in his last years with awful melancholy. The religion of Christ l teaches us how to get our mourning done up | in good time and out of the way, 50 that we can cross eternity's threshhold radiant with divine ioy. Some men will not carry Q watch unless it is adjusted to heat and cold positions. Strange if the maker of g watch can adjust that and the cre- ator of the soul cannot. The soul reaches its true adjustment only when under the sovereign sway of the spirit of God. Be- ware of false comfort. Some so-called Chris- tian workers hush the anxiety of seekers when they ought to direct those anxieties in the right channel until comfort Is reached. Seek not for abstract comfort, but seek the comforter. By sending the comforter Christ gives the oil of joy for mourning and tho garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. statue Portrait of Professor Plass.
 The statue portrait of Professor Platt, which has been on exhibition at the Century club in New York, will be placed in Cutters art store tomorrow, and after remaining there few days 1t will be taken to its place in the Yale law school. It belongs to Mr. F. Wayland Fellows.