Year: 1874

III. p> B,.,y Ward B,,Ar al Plymouth Church (Cen09dond


As the days of vacation approach the num-
Der OF attendants upon Divine worship at Plymouth
Church increases until is reminded OF the Winter
crowd and discomfort Only two Sundays more and the
velloyed pastor will be gono for long Summer and
for a rest from the labors OF eventful year. Mr.
Beecher forget in the anticipation OF his yearly
deght-rural livngto yield to his parishioners the
majority Of whom also TO separate widely, basket
or two guratively speaking Of the choicest fruits OF
his thought as parents put up for departing sons and
daughters pleasant and practical reminders OF home'
love, aud skill Yesterdays effort on Mr.. Beechers
part grew of of his happest and kndest moods
He took text from Revelations xivth. 18th " AND
heard a voice from Heaven saying unto mo, write,
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth Yea. saith the spirit that they may rest
from their labors and their works do follow them."


This he began is the benedction. This Is kind OF
parallel the passage which read In the opening ser
vice. viz: the beatudes, the benedicons, which ChIst
pronounced when He taught His disciples the blessings
OF poverty aud meekness The New Testament teach
always working in two worlds-the visible ana
the invsible-and their standpoint is always In the
great spirit world-the invisible-and their thought
rests upon the right man, the consummated character
the life that is life without death aud 80 whe tney
are perpetuay recognizing things that present to
the senses, they forever judging OF tbem their
issues and results by tests which lie above ana
beyond senses, and that which is condemnatory II
Il were to be construed simply according the laws OF
the world 1t is declared that those who die In the
Lord In Spirit that they rest from their labors
There that irradates life in enterprise
plans energetic executions and when one Is
Ia health and strength even endurance becomes
q manly pleasure and men look back cheer
fully upon the things they have suffered; but
IN all working the friction, there the per-
pexes there is the imperfect result the mistake the
sin-there are thousand hinderances. We working
with men who are imperfect and we are in every way
working in such manner that the Drawer and more
aspiring Is the greater the checks and hinderances
OF his labor Now blessed the dead who die in the
Lord They from that part of their labor which is
imperfect by OF want OF knowledge stress Of
temptation passion 1t would be blessed II men
could work all lives long towards right ends, In
harmonious relations, having nothing but the natural
outplay Of spirit which requires sleep and waking
again. That which makes life burdensome is not the
labor incidental elements, the imperfectons Of
labor Often what does not do is heavier than what
he does do II blessed TO live, but yet by living
we'll may be pleasant TO die and for this reason that
works follow US. Men cling to their work by that
very force which enables them to be useful We could
we were so Indifferent tasks and resp0n-
sbiities that we could let go easy This very tenacy
and life adhesion becomes at last hinderaDee so long
bound to life bound to be interested in
the things OF this lfe So therefore, say men cling to
this life as though were needed, when IL nature In
transitu or nature relative only particular period
OF life. And when men taken out Of life, In the
fuI men they were and yet they We're removed Why
was iti VINO will take up their work. and what will


very little void in this world Indeed when Christ
OF the Apostles stopped nothing; it sped much They
died but their works lived after them.


The effects Of mans life are not simply those things
which you can count, enumerate and describe. man
NAV build a mansion He may be able and willing to
and storing his house every element of beauty and
yet dying he have done very ttle while over the
way Is who never built house, except the airy
house OF character The precious stones lad In the walls
the New Jerusalem he laid around about his character


He left little his inf1ence but that influence,
from day To day exerted, fell into sensitive souls
good mans heart seedsol ana goodness Is perpetu
ally throwing Itself out and out The air Is ru OF In
visible seeds nyriads and myriads or them-th0ughts.
feelings because you cannot see them,
or even trace effects back 10 their cause men ignore
them unconscious OF them but simply DenS goOu
is in itself power than which there is greater


What 90 children remember OF their motherf The
restraint the Sabbath day Tue drilling ana teac1
ity that specified anayzed with this or nat
the other r out they hang before US as the CLOUDS
do. The air hiled with their patience, genteness
goodness purity and seli-saerce So that that which
recognize IN those near TO us Is the UNCONSCIOUS
power that out from their love, geneness pa


Iience. fidelity kindness, and humility ana the nncoh-
scious influence Of these transcend in the volume al
most all ply force or Invisible nnuences o Oh
working; Influence has not gone your aspirations
may be and Gancne again n ye ths
dead that ChrIst-f they lived In Christ before
they died." ior their works shall follow them. Inls
quality OF unconsclousncss has Often very aHeeng III
old slender creature-5er name have forgotten, II
ever So delicate and attennated was she that



through the school where had so often been
Kicked and thumped aud had my ears pulled Here
came this specter Of human being whose eyes were
lustrous Of another world. can remember her as a
dream. but feel to tins hour distinctly that many
things TO were born out or that womans gem
tie aud noble influence. She has in some sense been
preaching as long rs have preached. Many who have
heard preach Will preach themselves and derive
influence from Thus unconscously she lives in the
Influence engrafted upon me. Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord. They rest from their
labors and their works do follow them.


THE EQUALITY OF MAN.