New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-20
DIR. HILLS BEGINS HIS WORK
WARMLY GREETED BY THE CONGREGATION
OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH

OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
At the fTst service OF the Rev. Or. Newell Dwight
Hills pastor OF Plymouth Church. Brooklyn yea
terday morning. a hymn was sung which # Is said
had been heard only twice before In the church
on the return OF Henry Ward Beccher from
his famous anti-slavery tour I'm England. and
on the day when the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott was
Installed pastor OF the church The hymn begins:
We bid thee welcome IN the name
or Jesus Exalted Head.
Come as servant 20 lie &C. came.
Or Hills came on from Philadelphia. where his
wife Is seriously H. because she especially de-
sired that he keep his appointment 10 begin his
?astorate. II could be seen by those In the audi
ence that Or. Hills laboring under n great
mental strain and the Rev. Horace Porter. the
assistant pastor conducted all the preliminary ex-
ercises
DR. Hills preached again in the evening but will
return to Philadelphia by the first train this morn
ing. During h!s stay In Brooklyn he was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas G. Sherman. on
Columbia Heights.
After each service Or Hills he'd a brief recep-
ton at which he was greeted by the members or
the church. TIE text OF the morning sermon was
from John xiv. s. Il am the way" He said In part;
The supremacy OF Christ among men OF genius IS
strikingiy iIustrated by his use OF paraoles ana
literary artist Nothing taxes the intellect ike me
construction OF emblems and symbols that NH
great principles plain and simple. Mediocre minds
can fashion arguments and fashion tosrtner Sys-
TENS Of philosophy. but the scientist has dis
covered the worldwide principle the probiern re-
mains now 10 make this truth clear 10 the un-
thinkinC mulfitudes Then in the interest 81 sim
pliCity the great man goes up ana down me Wot ~
seeking for some parable that VIII condehse ms
principle into a single picture. Ana a. mon go
toward greatness they toward skin IN TINS diNhe
art OF illustration. I'm me rea.n OK intf!''l ~.
are five sons OF supreme genius-Moses. fau
Homer. Dante. Shakespeare. But every one or
these ten-talent men has MS supremacy 'hrouE"
the word pictures that mag nation palht's. g.
The theolOgian requires scores OF Noluurs ~.
outlining his system OF divinity: Augustine WORK.
are i'm thirty volumes. talVin's requir" forly
volumes The first theological work puphsnod IN
this country has these words on the tlue-pase \
lectures upon the Assembly Shorter Catechisn.
But all these theological systems may be rtuuctu
10 Christs one parable OF the prodigal SON JUS rs
ten thousand sunheans are condensed IN one SUM-
ing drop named the diamond
When Christ called himself the way y seemed
10 weary men as If no other symbol was fo ron.
80 FUN Of hidden suggestion. not one tnaf was
clothed with such sweetness ana beauty nor on"
that was so deep and serviceahle And 10 the nlul-
fitudes lost i'm the wilderness Christ became the
wav home For the philosophers representing me
intellect Christ is the way 10 COO. GLORIOUS III
deed Is the company OF tho scholars who nave
sought the Unseen one. Yet after NE NJ lnVesu-
cation the saees have one cry. "ph. that Knew
The way 10 Gods throne tho philosophers nave not
even been sure of His name.
For The common people alone, LhrSt mas neen
n .yra,. ont oe HES wilderness For the children
or rrosperiv blessed with leisure luxury. friends
and travel inc life that now is s So pleasant that
hoy can afford 70 trust 10 Providence. but Tor me
-r,itf'udes worn with trouble n T. not enough
that scholars that God Is mack OF ne N.dis
vcrsc. ripening the harvest and ordering the sum
mo and winters