The herald., 1894-09-17
snrnIces nt Pnopls,s Church.

Inc Rev. Js IL. nllllpS oouBrokabiou
at the Peoples church were asked to
listen, Sunday morning, to a discourse
founded upon the words of st. Paul to
the Corinthians. 10Th chapter, 26th
verse: "The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death"
Mr.. Phillips not only pointed the GUS
tomary moral to adorn his discourse, but
propounded rational scientific basis
for the faith that was ia him. and which
be preferred as pabuum for his auditors
1t 10 the cheering sign OF the times to
thinking minds when they can sit under
the droppings OF the sanctuary and
listen to moral discourse freed from big
otry and dogma. and hear the teachings
| OF q theologian divorced from cant, and
40 presented as to appeal to an enlight-
ened understanding and invite q critical
study.
The preacher said he had often won
dered why the life OF Christ had been 80
10th to move the thoughts of mon to q
realization of truths the Master so
clearly taught and exemplified in His
! life. Coming in His inimitable sim
plicity and meekness, preclaiming, in q
warlike, licentious and pantheistic age.
q gospel of peace. virtue and immortal
| life, why were not He and His pure
thoughts more cordially received and
IA .rssajilY ii ufeffnttail lflt, aoH laestizsl
| the immortal life as above all mortal
gain. For ages men had verified the
| futility of wealth, the enervation of lux.
ury and ease, the insuficiencv OF civic
honors and earthly glory. Yet when
| Jesus came, in his sympathy with
oppressed and benighted man, and
/! told to that age, and all
subsequent times that the way of life
was through the practices OF peace and
! truth and virtue here, which alone lead
on to aD Immortality of life and Bliss
hereafter, men were slow to believe in
Him and to accept the wisdom of His
philosophy. We are still living as
though the evanescsnt pleasures of life
were sufficient, thoughtless OF the fu-
ture; and yet, when we reaeon seriously
with ourselves. it is the immortal life
that we all desire, and men would sacri-
flee wealth and civic honors, everything,
to attain the life everlasting were it de-
pendent upon thess.
The preacher took it that ell that ever
lived, lived today. The fundamentally
of msnifesting that life may have have
cuauy6u, Dub tuo cplIlb VI 0OuS vi WnlCu
we are, and of which all life ia but
manifestation, cannot destroy itself,
cannot die.
The palpsble tangible man is, not the
real man, but the consciousneas and
actuating spirit within as, which are
not bounded by the senses. These it is
that make US realize our spiritual ex.
istence.
But how about this proposition that
death must be destroyed? II, upon the
incinerated residue of once incsndes-
Gently heated world, the spirit of
Elohim could breathe the breath of
life, and through cycles of changing life
could transmute man at last, from the
crudest physical organisms in the be-
ginning, so that man stands forth today
the crowning glory OF creation, should
it be difficult for Us to follow the anology
of reasoning and realize in rational
thought, what the most advanced
scieRce has already intimated, that he
ultimate of all matter is mindP Already
we have seen how, under Gods evolu-
tionsry order of working. His all per-
vading spirit has acted upon what We
have been wont to call gross matter, un-
til. through multiform changes of ami
NAL and vegetsl life, He has evolved in
man a microcoam of the spiritual 30
closely allied to Himself that you and |
can follow forth the equation of our
master builders mind, till we can grasp
the thought of Christ when. in HIS full
consciousness OF the spirituality OF all
Gods universe, He vouchsaied the az
surance that "the last enemy to be de-
stroyed was DEATH"