Year: 1875

SERMON HY rHoFIsSoR DAVID SWING, or CHICAGO.


TAe Tumpkius avenue Congregational church, Brook
yn we'll attended at the forenoon services ycstcr
day. Professor David Swing preached, taking his text
from tho Gospel Of ST. Luke, xi, 55"Ani turning hc
Febuked them, saying You know not OF what manner
or spirit you arc" Whom tho Samari,ans fnled TO
receive Lord and Saviour His disciples bccamc
Indignant, and With spirit OF anger they asked H1,
lord, wilt thou that command Are to come down
fro heaven and thems ?" Christ refused their
request and rebukcd thcm saying lie cans not TO
destroy but 10 soas, and they were i'npcrihng
their souls by entertaining thoughts OF revenge Hc
told them that they ignorant of tho splrit
which should persade their hcorts, and Witch up
psrmost IN the mind Jesus Christ mans duty and
pleasure Tho speaker said that his previous Sunday
dIscourscs had been tho influence OF Christ in busi
ness life and he would then speak Or the influence or
tho Saviour upon the spirit Of man. BY the word
"aprit" something different from the mind and even
different from the soul understood As the other
world Is invisible and unknown. excepting in tho
vague manner therefore all that pertains it is the
most ideal Of world. We know tho meaning Of
the word spirit and yet when it comes near Us the
human heart turns round to greet like the sunhowcr
to The sun. II warns TO IT, 1t conveys tous


THE 0IoRIhs And DKYEcrs ov MANS JIrE.


1t impreses him with the general presence OF his
soul For example, We say the "Father of Waters"
tho Mississippi, runs south; all its tributaries
toward she Mexican Gulf To have great spirit is an
nmation Of life that rises In tho heart and is OF tho
soul We read OF men who are said TO have shown
lofty spirit Tho soul must stir the heart just enough
70 help 70 define the word spirit and when at last
tho Son OF Man shall come in His final glory He will find
all His children sitting before Him In this great spirit
Mark hc slow tendency OF society action through the
example led by the Saviour. No man can
follow history without being reminded OF the
early influence OF Christ on barbarism. In
noting tho progress Of divine influence tho only ques
ton is whether to begin at Eden millions OF years
back. It's immateria, however, where begin but
find that has risen only rapidly in intellect
and tho soul ~ tho world has driven away fasehood
and implanted truth in the heart Every great exploit
snd noblo recurring gave each new ation us
rame up IN" csampic by which TO profit Adam and


ve fell because no generation had passed before them
from which they could learn. They didn't know which
was the greatest-Go6, in one end OF the garden or
eatan a. the other end Our first parents tell because
thsy had no surroundings which they understood.
Queen Faustne had she lived in later centuries might
have been noted for many virtues which now ad-
rreat only IN their beauty So far as The multitude have
any good hours CHRIST stands alike responsible for
then,for the better moments OF mankind He did not
speak In that spirit found only in the Church. The
aprt OF Christ s also 10 be found outside OF churches
whero there is recognition OF the Son of Man and
life IS animating men, This is exemphcd in the great


THE PAruERuooD or GOD


and the brotherhood of man. This influence Of equality
10 religion extending all the carth-that a man
with soul 10 equal to man with sceptre. The
humble maid Is the equal Of the queen The thrones of
hc earth founded the so6shness ofhuman nature
The history of the nst hundred years has shown that
these thrones were kept up with difficulty No sooner
kings achievcu peace tnan tho brotherhood be-
como rectless and the kings proceed to procure
powerful guns, and new nrmorcs and ordnance in
demand. II Is the effect OF republican influence
cicty. il Is man that is benefited by Chrst's Gospel
not man rich, nor man poor, man high. nor man low,
but man who 1gdres in tho great drama of life and
death. Behold the miracles OF Christ while earth.
they performed chiefly among the poor and lowy


Tho last shall be rst and the first shall be last y I'm
der Him king and subject found common level, and
children under His ministry came to the 'front.' For Of
such is the Kingdom OF heaven" There those who
not under Chrst's but who are under sectarian
agency There churches which conceal Christ
Let no Church come between you and the directing
power OF Christ lie high above the heavens, all
churches.


In the oce OF the church this beautiful equality per-
meatcs all the churches Burns who wrote "a mans
for a. that" didn't draw that democratic idea
from the Catholic Calvinstic Church II came from
influence born of the spirit


Churches places where tho glory of Christ is
blended with the nhrmity of He goes in and out
of every church. and when the minister will not cx-
press the spirit II better that he should sing
hymn and breathe prayer. BY baptism in the name
OF the Holy Spirit all made heirs OF heaven and
NIL one level. For 'He makes the rich humble
and comforts the poor, and there all earthly distnc
tons fail In the beauty OF the sublmity of death
alike The influence of equality steadily march
ing along to tho spirit echoed for the first time by
Christ After dwelling upon the Immortality OF the
soul, which was assured TO us in unmstakabe terms
the speaker closed his discourse