Year: 1874

fresh at the close. The text for the sermon was
from the chapter he had read-"For as we have
many members in one body, and all members
nave not the same once, so we being many. are
one body In Christ and every one members one Of
nother."-Romans Kill, As.


ia this .vmno,.na,s THE SERMON SERMON ,. =, -.
church life Are these words meant to explain
simply this: that when great numoer OF persons
are Joined IN church connection they are a
spiritual sympathetic unity. Yes, 1t means that |;
put IL means that on the way to something great
deai larger than that 1t Is the declaration that
the ideal condition OF the human race Is one In
which mankind are knit together by sympathy
whlch makes one man brother TO another man,
IN corinthians, the twelfth chapter, without regard
70 as nationality, or sect. or condition IN ne.
Church or out OF the Church.


THE IDEAL CONDITION


or that condition into which Gods providence Is
steadily conducting the races OF the world, and
which they will reach when they shall be ripe, ls
the CONDITION In which every man snail leel every
otner man IS part OF himself; or In other words, In
which every man shall feel as a parent reels in the
family, where every person In the household is in
one sense part OF himself Mankind Will yet come
to that condition in which nothing win be near
TO the heart OF man as man, without regard to the
TACT OF relationship kindred, interest or neighbor-
hood The mere TACT that one IS q human being
VIII open and kinde the human heart toward him
In all sympathy and in all kindness. 1t is OF THIS
matter OF the sympathetic unity Of soul with soul
that shall speak this morning.


THE CHURCH AS SCHOOL.


a nave saia lhis was not question OF the art-
upon the Church simply as an instrument, as an
educating institution, by which God attempts to
diffuse the light and the knowledge Of true man.
hood to the race 1t Is q subservient institution;
II IS not ltseit primary end; 1t Is secondary. lt
Is ua o. grandeur ana excellence. IL ls simply
Is the salvation Of the world. II Is the deyerance
and elevation of every living human being on the
gi0De tnat lies before the Divine mind as the
reason and the motive Of administration, through
the periods OF time, and the Church bears relation
70 .as great m emu JUST as the common scnoo bears
out tue community. We believe IN schools and
academies, but We believe in the community more
Than we do even In them; and their value lies IN
ths-that they are blessing the community. Not
that they are themselves sacred; they are good
for what they do, and not for what they say, and
the Church is good for what 1t accomplishes. That
which is greater tnan any Church Is that Tor which


se are "as to aha
God Is working for the Jews or Tor the Gentiles,
for the Asatlc or or the African, for the Euro
are not to suppose that Divine Providence is
watching over good people, vlrtuous people,
healthy people. He watches over the good ana


SUN AND RAIN FALL ALIKE


upon the human mind, and the Divine purposes
have respect 10 every one, without regard to ma
tonahty or condition. That Is the Ideal state. and
toward this feeling OF sympathy of benevolence
aS 1 or we see speak y ue
which all mankind are seeking We shall not be able
to form just opinion respecting 1t unless We take





wants unity in the churcnes everybody Ia striving
to unite the churches, and there will be no diff
vantage would it be in village il persons Should @
and @ should remove their houses together
so that they touched each other, ana should ali
call themselves by the one name "Adams," and
should all have breakfast at the same minute at
the stroke OF the be9 They might thus march as
soldiers on parade in an external physical, mate
rial unity, but 1t would not raise u single one a
step in the scale OF Intelligence or make him kinder
0r hat ttar Ar <lO
no good, and yet the Churches have been calling
Tor unity, and each separate church has sought to
particular doctrines ana modes OF government.
But that is not the kind of unity which Is needed.


THE TROUBLE WITH SECrS.


The fact that there are separate denominations
themselves and do not quarrel and are not arro-
CANT and DO not pretend that they are the only
people that know God, aud do not claim to be Or
dained to rule over their fellow men, and do not
sit on their peculiar throne, according to their
Cnurch order and say to others, Bow down to
us when you hear our sackbut and psatteres.'' 1t
Is not that there are so many sects but that they
in that which IS bad. That makes the
trouble: It is not organic, unity nor
never saw man that was big enough to report
the whole truth in respect to anything that he
looked az, and IT has not been considered safe, 1
think. ia heaven, wnerS tnat mandatory OF men
a., a. TO put everything In everybody, One man car
ries So MUCH, another SO much and another 50
much. and It taxes twenty men to make one



elements, but NO one man represents all elements.
This Thought MIR. Beecher enforced by variety Of
striking Illustrations, IN which the hopeful man
and the cautious man. the reflective man and the
perceptive man, the COOL collected man and the
man and the unsympathetc man. the generous
man and the selfish man, the proud man and the
humble man, were all made to play part Aliud.
soak him in q joke for month"; and 1t would not
get through the skin. 1t Is not by unity, but BY


ORGANIZED VARIETY,


that community IS strong, and the CnurCn OF
Christ is strong, not by its likeness but BY its
eve man ID was
not so. Some are tanners, some are hatters,
some are weavers, some are carpenters,
Is rich by the variety OF its artsans and the
Church Is rich in the variety OF the elements which
poslerous it is therefore, for any Church TO under
take to give solution OF the nature OF God, which
involves every conceivable question of human dis
position, for there Is only SO much or God as we
have sparks OF In ourselves that We can compre-
hend God laughs when He sees lo0lish man try
the strfes and quarres in the difrerent sects, to
bring everybody 70 s see things as they see tnem
will never be done. You cannot have


EXACT UNITY OF BELIEF


from the very structure OF the human mind; but
sympathetic unity. when men like each other
ns ahey may think there Is unty p
ence perfectly compatible with unity. Are there
not fOur parts to good tune, and do not all these
parts help each otherY The differences are only
methods of unity, provided they are concordant.
In this Twin Mountain House to. day there Is more
unity than In any church or sect in Christ
endom, although there are hardly two OF
you OF the same name. You are crowded together
here under circumstances OF great inconvenience,
and yet you are polite. Each OF you Is willing
Jaat all the others should have seat after you
have got one yourselves: There Is no strife here.
You are harmonious. You wish well TO the house
and all that are In ir. You are kindly disposed to
believe what say and yet you are OF many differ
ent churches and sects. There Is genial kindly
sympathy prevalent here. In short, you are gen.
temen and ladies'. For the time being everything
moves In unison, and l will venture to say that
there Is not a room In this house where there
will not be greater happiness after
the services OF this morning. will venture to
say that you will feel more kindly toward each
other and nearer to each other and more helpful
oil each other during this week, for the experience
OF this morning; and | ask You II unity ike this
Is not the best KIND OF unity BY this


SPIRIT OF SYMPATHY


all hatreds and all injurious conduct under differ.
ent fOrInS are done away. 1t lOrbids envy and
ieaOuSv of kind. IL fOrbtdg all Indifference