The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-11
BERKELEY SERMON.
Eloquent Discourse by Bishop Law
 renee of Massachusetts

| ItHCt uL IldSHdGIluSGllS'
 The Right Rev. William Lawrence
 p. D., Bishop of Massachusetts
 preached the Berkeley sermon at Trim
 ity Episcopal church Sunday night
 The discourse was one of the most elo
 quent and powerful ever delivered il
 that edifice and was heard by an i'm
 mense congregation, The topic was, 'I
 Body" Before preaching the sermon
 Rev. Dr. Lawrence spoke in most
 praiseworthy language of the late Rev
 pr. Harwood. They had been close per
 sonal friends for more than thirty
 years. The speaker paid high tribute tc
 the life of the deceased and of his noble
 life work
 The sermon was in part as follows:
 Some thirty years ago while student
 at college I had heard the great sclen-
 tist Agassiz argue against certain
 claims of the DarWinlan theory, saying
 that they could not be substantiated
 claims which have since become the commonplaces of science. Some people
 would say that because the Christian | thought of to-day is not that Of the ec-
 clesiastic of thirty years ago Christian
 thought has been outmanoeuVered ol | driven back by science. The fact IS
 that there has been great movement l forward in the realms of thought ot | theology and of science, and while there
 have been transient misunderstandings
 each has been the helpmate of the oth-
 CT Theological thought has not been
 outmanoeuvered or driven back, but
 has advanced with rapid strides" The speaker then spoke of the beginning or the world, the creation of it by God and
 of Adam ane Eve.
 tWe would lose sight of God during good deal of history, but once in a | while He would act. God was always | in wonders, in the surprises, the excep- tional action, the breaking into the or der of things; the more there was or miracles the more there was of God. He was in the still small voice of silent law and order in the movements of na-
 
 the last thirty years during the present generation our whole conception of the
 world and of man, of the universe and of Gods relation to the universe and to man has changed, expanded and been lifted up in infinite measure. The whole realm of nature and of the mate rial universe in the form through which God reveals himself. It is the body through which the personality. the character of God, for God is spirit and character, reveals itself. God has nev- CT arbitrarily or spasmodically stopped or interferred with the orderly move ment of nature, but we who believe in God believe also that He is limited by the eternal laws of His nature. My friends, young men, under any theory of life, the agnostic, atheistlc or any other, there are mysteries unfathomed. Under the Christian theory there are mysteries which together with all the most commonplace and familiar facts may be resolved into one comprehen- sive conception of the universe God, the God of spiritual order. free, express ing himself in and through the clements and the movements of the universe, material and spiritual nature and man. This Aggression, the speaker said, was to get all away from the mar row conception of God of the part gen. eration Through all the changes which have been wrought since the be- ginning of the world in the fight for ex- istence, the survival of the Attest, God has been behind and in every move ment, bearing in with His own life and image upon the life of man. All this has been in the orderly ascent of man toward his ideal. In the whole move ment of men, in all the history of man kind: with all their joys, glories, pomp and greatness, with characters here and there almost divine-all sinned all died In nineteen centuries under the inspiration of the life of Jesus Christ men have steadily ascended in the realms of character; still as they glance backward down the centuries they all confess that He alone stands forth sin less. He is the consummation of mans ideal and of Gods conception of man. He was the first to conquer death, the first to conquer sin and the first fruits of all them that sleep. There is some thing in the naturalness of Christs res which compels me to believe that there is a philosophy under the words of St. Paul. So is the resurrec- ton of the dead" It is sown natural body, it is raised not an immortal soul but "a spiritual body" There is natural body and there is a spiritual body. Who knows what eternal mis- chief may be wrought by the sins of the flesh here? "Tf any man defle the tenn pie of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.' Whatever questions and doubts as to the resurrection of the body one may have, this is sure, that if there be a personal future life at all, the man here is the man there. We may shuff1e off this mortal coil, but we can not get rid of self. Yes life is one, here and there. The risen life begins here in the raising of the power of the spirit over the flesh. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are