Year: 1874

FROM that time the ears OF the people were shut
iai'h put with scorn ana contempt, rejecting mis-
teacning. Mr.. Beecher here traced the life of
Snrist, from this point down to the time when the
scene OF the transnguraton occurred detailing
HIS, MS experience In the various places that lie
At the reception which He and His instructions re-
ceived Then he recounted Incidents con
length the characters Of osss asneang nd as
who appeared with the saviour as witnesses
OF His glorncation. The fact that Peter desired
that they should build taDernacies and stay on the
Mount or TRANSPORTATION, instead OF gong down
TO the IOot OF the mountain ana mnIstering TO
was made the basis OF q valuable lesson addressed
TO those VINO were inclined, when glorious exper-
fences are vOucnsaIed to them, to remain IN those
experiences instead OF returning 10 their duty as
men belonging to this lower spnere while travelling
the intent Se Of the transuurat sa,H


1t Is matter profoundly 10 be grateful for that
our saviour was bodily tired and hungry an out
cast at tines that He had not where to lay His
head; that He hOmesick There Is nothing
more touching than the hOmesckness OF CHRIST.
He had wrought until HIS body seemed spent; had
come to the very climax OF His popularity, and tie
had been rejected by HIS own people. Now no
man who loves his nation can bear to be set aside
from 1t. l know that in the old days OF the anti
slavery conflict there was nothing that ever
pierced per my soul more deeply than that loved
hall OF 1t, and | understand how CIR st felt when
he was rejected by his people, and was spent by
longed for the wilderness No man undertakes to
do great things Tor his time and his people that





the more you love men the more impossible it is
sometimes to endure them. Sometimes men 90
INTO the forest when the trees seem moro 10 them
than


Tue sELFIsHNEss AND HEARTLEssNEss OF MEN,
ana It's comforting to me 10 know that my Master
was homesck and wOrksick. and longed TO get
into the wilderness W aere no man could find him.
Being Being hn,, IN human o conditions and sunerings
aged. and it was necessary that he
should be built up again, and 1t pleased God TO
Him nvigoration. he had hours Of darkness and
He had hours OF illumination, and He needed these
hours OF illumination to arm Him for the last scene
OF HIS forty days. passion. The TRANSPORTATION
was next meant to comfort the apostles. Peter,
there He was to have month OF conflict with the
educated, scholarly Jews before He went among the
OF sight That was very perlious time Tor the
disciples, the three days of darkness, when
their Their Master, master, being cut on was entombed and
should the disciple band mold together9 Well, do
you not know tnat the imagination Is stronger
from the tact that the Bible employs the imagina-
ton ten times where 1t does philosophy once.
! do they most remember ? Are they arguments
Not a. all. They are things which have impressed
discipies went down TO Jerusalem and saw Christ
arrested. carried before the tribunals, subjected
10 a mock trial, condemned dragged lorth igno-
miniously, scotied at, taunted lifted up on
the cross, crucihed; when they saw HIS
enemies triumphant and exultant Christ buried,
the stone rolled up, the tomb sealed and saw
guards placed to watch the Sepuchre, there was
every inducement In the world for them to have
said to themselves. "You have been living like
bubble, and 1t has burst; 1t Is ended-it Is gone"
and they could not give reason for thinking that
1t was not gone; there was nothing that they
could understand which helped their ialth; but
! they remembered how Christ looked when work
ing MIRACLES when performing deeds OF mercy and
! when hanging before them in TRANSPORTATION on
the mountain top. and against their reason aud
their senses there was something that led them
! to mold on till the stone was rolled away, and
| Christ appeared again to their longing vision.
AS then the TRANSPORTATION was comfort to the
| hnarf Nf IoottS n
ciples lOr the tribulation winch was before them,
keeping them steadiast to the end. Christian
brethren, there Is some


INSTRUCTION THAT OUGHT TO DE DRAWN


out OF TINS beautiful picture to you and to me-
IL has been as bosom to child TO me. have
have been made stronger, healthier. patlenter,
bett n by that which 1ows to me rom TINS heavenly
luminous hours. Alas most men use them
as as their hours Of luxury, and they, say,
| II we could always be Just as we we're at
the end OF that meeting. when the last hymn was
sung and the last stanza was sounded outl on, il
We could always be as were at the winding up
OF such sermon that aroused and inspired usl
they are so transient they 90 not see them some.
times Tor months, and sometimes not for years.
1ne s are not nss do mot


think would be without instruction 1t is sOlitari-
ne ness tnas m makes 6s thing striking things tnat we
oI Illumination when God gives to men men
to repeat them you want to build tabssrnacles and
sit down in them. Mems idea OF being Christian


they ee IKE Angels to stay on tne Moan OF
TRANSPORTATION while the devil Is working at the
bottom OF It; but tnat Is not the true idea. Being
deem you from the laws OF this world or from So
ca or from pStica We
breaking hearts are and where sorrows gush like
springs from the mountain, there Is where we live
and where we should be, and If we are occasionally
taken into these higher experiences, let US bless
! God .0r shem and use them to strengthen US Tor
out his salvation better in tears and under burdens
than wnen he seems to himself to be an angel
about to ay to the kingdom Of glory; i is not
suffer most and suffer most patiently under bur-
dens and trials. Not when he rides into the city
alter victory Is the general most noble, but when
he is In the wilderness and every thing Is dark
and lowering, and by his courage and indomltaDle
man rises above his circumstances and moods
that true manhood shows itsell in him. These
mine duties aud courses "wSat snail man 9 ae ao,;
Is y question that is occurring every day, and
what man snail do will be settled by higher or
lower court; IN common life tue lower court OF
mans nature, where pride, and seifishness, aud
avarce and vanity reside, settles almost every
question and II aim st always settles 1t wrong II
says, Take care oil yourself; If every man would
taKen aKe care sre one the whole ars would be
best, the 30 noDiess 'n the w,sess thing, but s%s
hes he says. & LET me saKe second thought;' and
!
THIS manliness But In those hours, when your
best nature Is in the ascendant, then is the time
TO settle your method OF procedure. Take your
highest thoughts and follow them. One other
thing. After all the beauty and solemnty OF this
wonderful miracle wrought upon the person OF
Jesus Christ and alter all the instruction con-
nected with 1t, 1t still comes back to me in the
light OF the apostles joyful yet sad utterance-
Now we see through glass darkly, but then
face to face" We are poor children. All OF us
are ignorant We know In part; we are partial.
fsts Nobody knows great deal; but the time is
coming when we shall know as we are known.


Christian brethren, ere long we shall stand in
Zion and before God. We shall see Him as He Is.
We shall be like Him and we snail rejoice with
Him forever and forever May He so incline your
hearts to wisdom, your souls to love ana your
lives TO faith and to holy obedience that, when
brighter q thousand times than Mount HermOn
and the TRANSPORTATION, the vision OF God shall
rise upon you in tne other lie, your eye shall not
Dlanch nor your heart be daunted.


The sermon being ended, collection was taken
up-ln the language OF Mr.. Beecher-"To rele ase
u widow from the thrall and bondage OF a mort