New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-01
DIR. KING breaches TO STUDENTS.
o.cc,N.pr,TF SERMON BEFORE THE GRADU
ATING CLASS or THE NETWORK
UNIVERSITY

The haccalaureate sermon was preached before 'he
graduating class Of the New-York University IN inc
Union Methodist Episcopal Church, IN west for-
ty-eighth-st. last evening by the pastor the rev
DR. James VI King Or. King took as MS text
John VIII a. And ye snail know the truth and the
truth shall make YOU free" The sermon was is
tened to with deep interest by the students Or.
King said In part:
This statement was made by the Saviour 70 some
ployrd IN the Scriptures but here II clearly means
Christie holy and blessed Gospel and this Includes
every other definition OF truth. The kno"lcdge ~
the ruth may be merely mental by hearing and
reading the Gospel VIC may know all iis FACTS ana
here MAY be 10 enec; on the heart or lie Christ
and PLATE and Tberius may be- known alike AK, bu,
truth may be known eNp"rimentaIy. me NV
man. which after God IS created N righteousness
different from the unruly, mental ouraenins OF
memory with historical facts and dates and theo-
from tho mechanical movements OF skeleton This
experimental knowledge Is alone saving. NO extent
OF merely mental speculative knowledge can make
free or lay the foundation for future glory. He who
has found In his Bible the material Tor DEBATE ana
OF undis;urbed peace Righteousness and peace. and
Joy In the Holy Ghost" though he may be very
has vet the alphabet u learn in the dialect Of the
Spirit. for the things Of God know"th no man. but
The influence OF an experimental knowledge OF the
This experimental knowledge OF the truth makes
free from the bondage OF merely human Views.
Until God in the person and Gospel OF christ gave
the truth there was no common ana final standard.
The new age and dspensaton began with il. II
demands the freedom Of opinion which - alb
soute necessity 10 vigorous thought. II gives the
freedom to the nhdel which permits him 10 abuse
edge that 1t tells man 4 his origin ami destiny.
II intellectual activity by provoking Opposi
ton. God hath not gwen us the spirit Of fear,
but OF power. and OF love. and OF sound mind
This truth in the consciousness splritualizes the
objects OF the senses investing them with a moral
meaning All nature is pervaded with delicate
and hidden meaning that can be appreciated only
by the religious culture OF the affections II
hearts only minds liberated by the truth can
1.-THE laws OF moral nature answer to those OF mat
ter face 10 face In the glass"
The Gospel OF Christ does not claim be scientific.
morals derive their life from It's great ideas OF God
of the soul and OF its immortality and responsibility
The Jewish rabies who made the earliest version OF
the Pentateuch. which the first transla ton
OF any book Into another language, translated tho
emancipation proclamation OF both man and lltera-
And now. Will. Mt the foot OF the Cross we come
by which possesses the power TO make us free
And here Is the place TO ask the question All have
seen prophecy and law. and types. and shadows
and languages terminating abruptly hero. We
the Man who said a short time before 20 A few
believing Jews. And ye shall know the truth and
middle cross between two indicators -, 'hrist
cruched the power OF God and the wisdom of God
and this power and wisdom consisting i'm the fact
that He is the Son OF God. This is the truth the
knowledge of which makes free. For God 80 loved
the world that He gave His only begotten Son
have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son
into the world TO condemn the world but thtt the
world through Him might be saved. He that be-
leveth In Him Is not condemned but he that be-