The herald., 1893-08-07
SOME OF YESTERDAYS SERMONS
Thoughts by Leading Divines
Spiritual Subjects.
Dr.. Stewart at Emmanuel Church
Before a Large Congregation.
Rev. Clark at Christ Church-Rev. DR..
Campbell Welcomed at the First
Methodist Church by His
Congregation.


the pulpit Of Emmanuel church during
the absence OF DIR. Chichester, de-
livered very strong and thoughtful
sermon yesterday on the subject of Sin
cerity Without Judgment or Intelli-
gence. He said that the greatest
crimes in history had been perpetrated
by men who were sincere. The bigots
who had burnt men and women at the
stake were sincere. The men who ride
hobbies and bring about great misfor-
tunes 70 their kind are not tinged with
hypocrisy. Those who make everybody
unhappy by the plainness with which
they criticize their neighbors can truly
say that they are sincere. What they
lack in their sincerity is broadness,
liberalitv and wisdom. These people
consider themselves good Christians,
but they ignore the very foundation
stone of Christianity when they out
rage the grand and universal precept
laid down by Christ himself when He
said, 'Do unto others as you would be
done by" Sincerity without the bal
ance OF intelligence and broadness is a
false quantity, and is the source
of more suffering and wrong to
the human family than all the
disasters that have been invoked by
incontestably bad men. In politics they
ride hobby until 1t cryetalizes into
laws and into arrangements that lead to
wars and inbred prejudices between
peoples that provoke the greatest calam.
tiles to the human race. In religion
they are lost to the broad and liberal
precepts of the Master, and become the
slaves of human creeds and the rigid
clamorers for an orthodoxy which ex-
ats the letter and ignores the spirit
of the teachings of the divine lawgiver.
They have built out of their narrow
cult q rough and tortuous read to
lief they thrust into the abyss all who
in the slightest degree deviate from the
course they have mapped out. They are
rendered sour, austere and forbidding
by their own narrowness, and repulee
from the church those who want to find
in it haven OF repose and q asymposium
OF brotherly love. They 90 to human
convocations for definitions, and find
their crseds in the fulminations of pre-
scriptive interpreters. II he were to
advise the struggling spirit to seek
for o creed to which all could
cling through sunshine and storm
q creed which would console in
adversity and cheer in every stage of
life, he would 90 to the teaching of
Jesus. He has told his followers here
to find heaven. He has stamped with
the imprimatur of his great authority
the controlling truth that heaven is in
ourselves. live love Jesus by follow
ing his divine example; If we take all
his wonderful teachings in the spirit
and not degrade them by making the
letter in Its narrowness our rule of
guidance; If we become human as he
became, and exalt the best attributes
cf humanity by crystallizing In our
Ives that tranEcendent precept Of
ding to others as we would be done by
II in our intercourse with our kind our
sincerity is tempered with wisdom, with
clarity, and with the broadness of lib
ejal intelligence ;-if, in short, we seek
FIR safe example to follow, for safe
ode to govern our conduct, our actions
and our lives, we can find it in the
human life of the divine saviour, and in
the priceless lessons he inculcated both
by precept and example.
AT CHRIsTs CHURCH.
Ohrists church was we'll filed at the
services yesterday. The rector, Rev.
IA. S. Clark, occupied the pulpit and de-
livered one OF his accustomed scholarly
and able sermons.
Communion services were held in the
morning. Woodlands communion day
service WAS rendered by the choir.
This difficult music was sung most ex-
ce1lently. The choir is one OF the finest
in this city and the class of music it
renders is of the highest order.
Mr.. Clark took for his text yesterday
morning the last part of the forty-sec-
ond verse of the ninth chapter of Luke,
"And Jeeus rebuked the unclean spirit
and healed the child and delivered him
again to his father" The following is a
brief synopsis OF Mr.. Clark's remarks:
when Raphael painted his famous
picture OF the TRANSPORTATION OF Christ,
across the central line Of his majestic
canvas. ut the end OF his painters
brush he rolled mass OF somore heavy
clouds above which is seen the noun
heavenly radiance. ia which is seen the
uplilted and TRANSPORTED Christ. His
two attendant messengers from the
spirit world and the three chosen Sleep
ing disciples, while below is seen the
demoniac boy, his grieving parents, the
confused disciples, and, the doubting
Jews. With matchlees genius did the,
painter thus divide by clouds hia can
vae into two panels. while at the came
time uniting them by means of the
mountain revealed above and below the
clouds. A year ago your preacher pic.
tured for you the vision on the mount.
Today he takes the scene at the base of
the mountain, yet on this as on the
former occasion following the painters
scheme, uniting them both in one
grand unison OF religious import" 8
A certain section of religious thought
would fain compare the church OF God
to the wavering disciples unable to ex-
ercise the evil spirit from human hearts,
forgetful of the fact that the organic
body Of Christ has pledged to her the
presence of her Lord and that her past
history proves beyond doubt that in
faithfulness to her divine trust che has,
like her Master, ameliorated the condi-
ton OF hnman kind. True there may be-
failure here and elsewhere. From the
first pages OF revelation even to these
days the church historian has pictured
for us warning Of impending disaster to
taithless churches. Though a branch
here and there may show signs OF decay
and fail to use the spirit power for the
conversion and regeneration OF the
world, yet, in the main, the church shas
proved faithful to her divine condition
A Leader.