New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-13


and the current kent we'll within them, spilled over
into an unctuous margin Of slough, sush and swamp
land His views like the Atlantic IN the Wicth
their but like the sharpness OF the NewEneanu
coast In which they frontercd and rimmeo
'AI things are lawful for me-" It IS then only such
things as are not Automatically wrong in and OF
themselves he is thinking OF here Some things are
always wrong; others have character OF their OVID
apart from the circumstances OF the case. And these
latter now Just at the time when this Cornthian letter
was written make out much OF the material OF con-
duct By far the greater part OF what we every Jay
do IS neither right in in Itself. and tie
first clause states that whatever Is not III
herently wrong st. Paul proposed TO CONSIDER as rgh
Failure initiate him is doubtless one reason why We
make so tardy progress settling questions OF casusty
IL Is like putting up building and after you have reach
the third having TO 20 back and DO some
thinking and cling in the underpnnng osc1latg
between the the cellar building at all over
at instead of finishing the bottom, and when that
done putting the balance of the house on the top OF H.
DIR. CROSBY AND THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
When Paul lived there good deal Of discussion
In regard question whether IL right Tor Chrls
tlan eat meat that had been offered to IDOLS rSui
says eyes idol isn't anything" To man aDie, a.
he was survey the matter with an eye that looKeu
straight forward Of him. that had in it no confusion
this eating Of meat that had been so offered was not au
ethical question. There was no ingredient OF rght OF
wrong inhcring in 1t. At the time, If his eating
such meat going hurt anybodys feelings ana DruSe
my ones conscience would abstain nom II as long as
the world STOOD but he wasn't going TO give up saying
vas right to eat IT, In that respect he just exactly
Ike god Dr. Crosby the liquor question 1t would nave
Dr. Crosby iust.a much pain TO kno" that ne
had broen the any mans conscience by drinking
wine as 1t Paul to know that he had done
the same thing by eating meat offered In saolce But
tat would not hinder Doctor the hCusandth part oil
second from saying and insisting 1t that 1t was right
for him to do it wine-drnkng was net an ethical
question in sense, that the act involved no inherent
wrong
he
intense that the threads Of their thinking
never curled and knked primary questions they
settled first and took to get the bottom masonry
well I'm before they scattered oil to the matter OF erderS
stud, and lathng; and while st. Paul did great deal
more to crush doatry the scIupuous Corinthians
who had to say nor the VII 10 Kho" a'
there was Inherent in eating SACRIFICED meat We
may also remark partial analogue to that that there
Is prlbay no temperance worker In this city that mas ac
con so much as Dr. Crosby In the OF restraining
the very evil he has been so many times mistakenly
charged with encouraging There Is no GEAR appreciation
vet OF what his death this particular is going TO
cost MS Other men can found that scholarly a.
he. that can preach the and the Gospel with as much
acceptance effect he and that VIII guard as 'g
anu NJ he against the intrusion into the Church OF what
seemed TO him corruption in practice and unsoundness IN
doctrine But is man known that can take tle
o NJ Howard Crosby the alert UncCmpromlsing and
ndomitable antagonist OF the rumpower OF New-fok CITY,
There was tumble made in his mlnd any more tah III
St PauIs Ly mixing abstract poprey win concrete en-
pug
",u things are lawful for me-" As though he had
said "Al these matters which are neither right nor
,rnc intrinsicay. but which a, and worry over In
WAYS than are so petty and scrupulous all these rights are
,obt are sauarey in the OF all this sayh clubbing
r,,plositv am going TO stand up and frankly insist
Tint they are right" But" Now we are ready W
move on and nterogae the clause th these initial words
omen INN His bottom masonry IS all In The broad pre-
Iipsrv oue.tion Is settled and l. not going 10 be re-
o,aned A given act may be right and yet be iHeX
ent but the inexpcdency OF it is not going TO turn
around and make act Itself wrong For instance WI"
Messing the spectacular not be inherently WRONG Ou
attendance upon spectacular exhibits may be lneXpeulehI
but If they were wrong before they were nexpedient e
inexpedency is going to MAKE them wrong however
wrong IL NAV make me II act regardless OF the mex
pedimcy.
PAUL, HELD THE RIBBONS AND DROVE.
But even granting that ching is right and that the
doing OF IL not liable work harm to the conscience o
others there is still additional inquiry 30 be made before
ones course OF conduct be settled upon quite ssc!
and confidently and that inquiry reaches Us III Ie seeo
clause Of our text and introduced by the word But
AN thing, are lawful for me, but viii not be brought
-, the novar OF any," A deed practice, might
ma entirely harmless for all that he cid not propose
that it should run away with him. lie ealcuia1eo "
,age the pracce instead OF letting the practice manage
him He was not the to surrender his autonomy
He had no idols. and God was the only being ne ever
r-neeIed TO- lie was a man, and had natural impulses
proper enough in their own way but II those ipuiso
worked out into overb 1t because he auoWea em
~ II YOU have ever watched runaway you nave oo
served that while the on the box was perhaps hous
~ lines the horse was doing te driving Paul held the
Ihboos and Paul drove, too His esrnal nature never
van away with him. impulse might In i'seli Dc We'll
nouoh and that only kind OF Impulse that comes
80 o,.ev lust now) an impulse might in itself be well
oongb but 10 was kept tethercd and never any sack
aloved in the tether, margin left within whlch IL
could do Just a little as II wanted TO-
Paul lived too in the midst OF world OF usages' Gus
toms and opinions. He was Of too generous nature "
fron fnpFs
-, them hut YOU have only 70 read his history so
Ca, a. IL Is given Book OF the Acts and TO deteco
his quality as IL betrays itself in his letters to know that
whatever position he took in regard 10 any matter VI
or opinon he It, not somebody assigned IL 70
Mn, On that account he did train readily with other
M" NJ IA ma TALENT for succumbing. He was not q