New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-13

the alignment OF human service and the world cursed
to-day with the dead weight OF drone and towards who
doing this very thing all their lives long But there
Is Of these people any one OF US who has u.s.
owned the obligation lear any part OF the common
burdens OF life who has not learned long ago that such
policy OF existence leads neither 10 happiness nor frce'
dom. who the who cry out most hereby against
the order OF society those who find that IL VIII not
suffer them 10 be ideis and obstIuconst- without pay
ing .Re peraity idness Society is fofbcaiins
ms.Neousy forbesr.ng, but its forbcaiance has limit
THE NEED OF UNsELFIsH MEN.
This line OF reflection has particular application
which this place especially must feldy occur TO you
There be done in the world men ana brethren
which can only be forwarded cectually when all those
IL their help shall fail into Inc ana sf'e win
one shoulder. At tie beginning OF i6ims al 'he De-
ginning in the middle and at the end OF az gOol goNcI'
mcnt there must be the appreciation OF this iuhdancnta
r,ncple Until we can realize that the triumph Of hight
is of more consequence than the triumph OF our own per-
sona whm separate idiosyncrsy great many heeded
reforms for which the word Is waiting VIII ufooP anu
anguish.
And ~ no less surely will the Church OF God. It
Is the glory OF our age say, that it has in spiritual
things cmancpatcd it.ef from the tyrmny OF authority
Hut il ought be plain u us that In things eccesasuc as
in things civil that have dcthronci the desposm OF
priests and must lind some eizns ana
governing force to take place. church is first oil
all all organism it has history. II has
heritage be held and taught 1t has ministry
and sacrament. besides these it must have wof"
ing constituency. Without that IL Is merely a huge
machinery with nothing 10 do. But how can II have
constituency II you and I and the rest OF the world
simply appoint ourselves It's critics. and stad apart 70
fault its methods and demcciate its methods
why do you no: join the Church, sad an apea
Bishop on frontier many years ago TO one VINO had
talked much and loudly 0. his interest In such matters
Il would Bishop" the repy, III there were not 20
nanv bad men in the Church. ! am waiting to ma a
ne,tect ChuIchn "You will never find It, my young
brother said the Bishop sadly for uness you claim ior
yourself more than 1 think you will care to- wheh you
once have Joined IT, it will to be perfect Church,
THE CHURCH AND ITS LEADER.
And therefore. brethren instead Of ooSing for that
ideal which infrmite- make as Neo hioSs'o','
why will we not bring shoulders 10 the task OF al
yancing fellowship which DESPITE Its human
ton has God its Founder ana Christ foF It's Leau ana
King For two thousand years this ul'ie so.'0'
ha, been in the world. What volumes OF 'eiquy nave
becn hurled against The snecrs which you may near
today ~ YOU will are every Of them at lca@t thou
sand ye,rs old. And what in all this time has CRITICISM
done? What better thing has IL given w WhsV AVDer
truth has it brought 10 light WHAT wothcr Ma'er "h
+, oe, us9 open that letter OF Pauls to the Church IN
phnn and read Wherefore tod hath highly exalted
Him and given Him name which Is above every name,
that at the name OF Jesus every Knee shouiu DOW
Tell me- 0 critic and doubter what name VIII you VITO
above that name The world Is today some twenty
centuries older than Jesus Of Nszrcth entered It,
Search IL round from and from shore TO shore
ransack the pages Of history and the monuments OF me
mast Gather the philosophers OF the 0d World ana INC
New Lad forth the teachers who arc worthy Of our
and deserving OF homage and tell US which
one among them you could bid US 10 substitute Ter the
Christ Of the Gospels
We hear much in these days o. destructive criticism
There destructive criticism whose fruits manifest
on every hand let not mistake mat which 1t has
DESTROYED. destroyed the faith OF the weak ana
the credulous the unstable. But against the truth oil
Christ /, has hurled itself in vain That endures He
endures who gave IL. That endures tho church en-
dures TO which lie has committed ii. And that Church
Is His body its Is in His keeping ana It's Fellow
shin Is His fellowship no ess. Come then my brother
nd claim YOUR privilege TO this brotherhood and then
10 serve your Master the ranks OF His disciples There
Is pacc for you 70 fill. There work for you to DO.
Put your shoulder the task and then 'csI upon ue
name Of the Lord"