New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-27
LENox AVENUE UNITARIAN CHURCH.

hing ip itself but we employ every to drive IL
out Here then Is the distinction which would en-
phasze between hating the evil and loving the one IN
whom IL is found. No matter how low and degraded
Villain man may be, still 1t Is our duty TO discriminate
% hate the evil but love- with that love which is
enduring and beneficial the personal being who Is the
instrument and bearer believing that through this
long. suffering such one can be brought 70 new
name OF life and there established as true man.
That H. in some measure the meaning OF the text as
yell a Of those passages Psalms where II is said
We hate the wicked Though In old times, doubtless the
hatred referred aud worldly, we can under
ssand IL now In that way which shall make 1t tolerabe
sod . discipline to u.s. being angry and grev1ng not
maintaining integrity divine human beags, and a.
De same against spot Of evil from without
To love the Lord and hate evil should be the right
and the left hand OF Christian manhood We are not 70
h. one. sded Every affirmation implies its negation
That the vtndcaton and the explanation Tor all op'
parent negauon larger Affirmative BELIEF mat SHOWS
bow Q may sometimes emphasize the negative anu
sometimes the affirmative SIDE II he emphasize the
neesye IL is because he lives BY larger Affirmative
But II he lives Affirmative 1t is because he Is sbo'e
~ negation.
Tho first things which present themselves in life In his
toy end In the individual being error and evil Not
from their eEn standpoint only viewed from the stand
point Of US who have passed beyond and comprehend
criticise standpoint Since we are all OF Us I'M
yerfect beings the first view must be limited ana de-
isetye one We were never perfect orthodoxy 10 the
contrary We started Ignorant and innocent at the best
Ignorance is not safeguard against vice. 1t Is not
prophylacc against The moment we advance Itom
these positions most liable TO step into error
Given innocence and ignorance and this pushing active
blind life which sends US Into exercise ana amirn
uon we hardly where step into error ana Into
evil That is origin Of that NEUROLOGICAL statement
sbou the Fail Of Man. Then come criticism. reflection
md consideration and the error is parted from the truth
Not perfectly again, but according TO the insight ana
Nsength Of mon And new start rs taken.
md that little germ OF evil and error which lay there
begins ferment and leaven the lump, and once more
mere Is tumid cxcrescenee. and error and evil make
themselves manifest and there reform and excison
Ny Is that those things
eeng first the field, and truth and goodness In their
beauty and completeness being last In the field there
III be and advance at all the man VINO makes
must first begin least implicitly aud facility. by de-
~, operation an excelsior, removal Of the in
eeer To have for the The first aspect OF any
nth. religious political, scientific, Is TO DENY and
sounee that which OF late bad but TO deny only In
- interest Affirmation denounce only that
ny announce. That is the Characteristic OF that Old
Ns>luent and New TIE lament Book which we call our
Ink. end whence many OF the sect derive all OF their
ssh. Jescs, despite the statement that lie came to
~ end destroy did virtusy destroy the old forms
Hing them full that there q faith and
- after lie had got through with 1t. 1t is impossible
wholly and exclusively affirmative that no signs
neeation appear. NcgatIon its place. and IS
oeey correct II balance and weigh IL by greater
maton That is the only safeguard and commission Of
- ndicai, that he shall know what he is doing The
~ Justification needed is forget the end in the
ob we deny only IN the interest OF the larger amrn1'
a That 10 the duty liberalism, and that is the virtue
claim. which lie explicit or implicit In It,
There unbeevcrs. IN popular gaze.
0e Christians In the first centuries OF They
- called atheists and irreverent They had field
1nnsive and continuous and complete that the mind Of
- Aeans could not grasp IL. Every Of the great
SsssnenA OF Chr!stendom has started mega.
~ movement. Professionalism is the religion Of
sssa dissent Is the religion Of dissent; non.con.
Caav something which did not agree 70 the accepted
eas end conventions The only method Of advance and
ess and reformation the only safety and salvation Of
nee. the only hope Of humanity lie not In those who
- etnehed lists conserve In that oldfashioned way
- onte been delivered the sants but In those
have penetration Of mind sufficient and resolution
WI sufficient 10 the evil In thing and come out
u " condemn IL. rebuke II. blast Il. withcr It 10
eae u b false and that there larger truth which
p Aed and state. Such the leaders, the re-
Se" 0e pioneers Of the iacc-thc who lead into
~ promised land" which soon shall be left for
ensed isnd Of the future. greater yet In the pro.
- = Gsd's providence st1.
= - speaker then u number Of extracts from
vufnu Of Canon Freemantle, p whom he ~
= ~ t1s AaA yet - ysvegent,s and com.