The herald., 1898-05-19

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Human Nature was the subject of
Rov. Nyron w. Reeds sermon at the
Broadway Temple yesterday morning. He
oaid:
Last Sunday repeated to you portion
81 the conversation between Napoleon and
DsrtrAnd. The place was st. Helena. and
Napoleon . prisoner Of the world. His
career was all behind him. No more
bridge Of Lodi; no more Austerlitz. The
smoke OF his cannon had gone into the gen.
eral atmosphere. He knew he had been
great. Now he was shrinking. With
nothing else to do he picked UP a New Tes-
lament and meditated on Jesus Christ.
Here he saw One with all his career before
him. He said to Bertrand: II know men,
and say to you that Jesus Christ is not
man. II you do not perceive this, then
did wrong when made you a general"
\ great man generally recognizes great
IAN. but perhaps may not be able to un-
derstand him. When we do not under
stand. we have q habit Of calling 1t
miracle.
We have drawn an arbitrary line between
secular and sacred. Such a line does not
really exist God is not up or down. He
Ii In the midst. The high priest minister
ing at the altar Is no more sacred than the
servant who In reverent spirit carries out
the ashes. Whatever needs to be done in
high work or low work is Gods work. All
these titles. doctor of divinity and
reverend" ought to be dropped. / am no
more reverend than the man who puts
this place in order for Sunday morning
meeting. This is divine service. perhaps.
80 Is psddling milk Sunday morning. 1
have little gift. perhaps, at sermon max
ing. There is lady at my house who has
! great gift at getting my dinner ready.
I do not see any hard and fast division be-
tween sacred and secular. Mary listens to
Jesus and Martha gets supper for him.
Short and Savage
Lieutsnant Greeley was starving and
frsesing in the ice Of the Arctic, and the
United States sent the Bear to find her
people and bring them home. If you should
and such story as that In the Bible, the
theological professors would call 1t ''sa-
cred history"
On Z nsighboring island people have
BEEN starved and hacked to pieces for
years. The United States has sent res
cue party to stop this murder. hope the
war--if you please to call it war-will be
savage and short; savage In order that 1t
may be short According to Hamlet, one
must be cruel In order to be kind. The
hearts Of this temple go with our men.
Napoleon looked at Jesus Christ and
recognized him. but did not understand
him. He had failed with artillery and was
in a cage. Jesus Christ had the freedom
Of the world, and was going about bare
headed. 30 Napoleon said Jesus Christ is
not man.
In primitive times, whenever hero ap-
peared, the people made god Of him. And
as q rule he permitted it. do not suppose
that there is any hare and fast line be-
tween divine and human. I do not find
any such line in the Bible. st. Paul re-
minds the Athenians that their own poets
tell US that we are the offspring Of God
David tells VI that we are ''sons Of the
Most High" Jesus Christ tells US that we
are his brethren. We unite with him in
prayer to Our Father.
Napoleon had done what a man could In
his way and 1t hurt his feelings that some
other had done better thing, and an en-
during, growing thing. Napoleon did not
intend to have a mere man greater than
himself. So he calls in the miraculous,
and says Jesus greater than Is not man.
He himself knew himself to be as great in
bis line a. the greatest. 1t was not con-
ceit. There was not q god Of Rome or
Greece who had a better staff about him.
His marshals were the select of soldiers.
He was great In the power to attract great
men to work for him.
Fs' Limit on Nature
Where Napoleon failed in his estimation
Of Jesus Christ was in his placing limit
on human nature. do not know how tar
It can fail. do not know how far It can
rise.
peror Nero. Out of that same blood and
nest comes Marcus Aurelius. If were
shut up TO three books, would take 1.-THE
Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius," EN-
peror Epictetus slave" and the book of
Job. If there were room in the knapsack
I would take along Henry Esmond' and
what Confederate war prisoner told me
was Lies Miserables.'
We drop into the notion that the young
man w see on the streets are inferior 10
the young men Of '76, 1912, 81. Oh no!
remember "the Dandy Fifth" Of Pennsyl-
van1a, sons of bankers and merchants
In 1855 they were the raggedest. muddiest
regiment ever met. They just looked at
the thing for month or so and then went
in like, Common clay. They consorted with
the Eighth Kansas" There is no repub-
lie like the army and the graveyard
OF course we like to read Of the Roman
soldiers standing steady while the volcano
burned Rompeii. do not know about the
story. It Is q good one, and do not be-
LEVI in spelling good story for the sake
Ola vulgar fact. But here is fair Ro-
11an-A herican story: Captain, have
Che honor to report to you that the Maine
e blown up and Is sinking"
PUjtarch would have liked that sailor.
Believe N evolution. AS far as these
bodies are concerned. they are made of dust
md water. There is nothing in the hu-
lian material body to be very proud Of
! strongly suppose that on the animal ma
tsrial side we are related to the sponge and
the CLAM. There is a long procession that
= hfotiA6 and Tow animal Mfe dies or is pro-
NOTED. There is a main Travelled road be-
twsep sponge and Shakespeare. have
heath = h1shop say: "If you want a mon
kay Tor your ancestor, all right; we don't"
kfd tAs peoblp oheered. He suppressed
Darwin With two lines. That will go In
"a eoe1sHas6lcal conference with a chicken
dl18 - oght. But have lived to see
pih0(&-hine in . hundred people who read
eopHs with covers on them believing in
~evolution"
On the material side we are comrades
r. evegy living thing. Mr. Gregg says that
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