Year: 1878

IMAM AND THE HEAvENs"-sERMoN BY THE


REV. s. A. cALTHEoP


The Rev. S. A. Calhrop of Syracuse, N. Y, occrl-
pied the pulpit of the Church of the Messiah the SUBJ
ject of his discourse being Man and the Heavens"
His text was Psalms viii 3 and 4 4:-"When consider
Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers. the
moon and stars, which Thou hast ordained,
what is man that Thou art mindful of him?' The
sack of the city of Antwerp said the preacher is the
most awful in the history of Felix of Spain. when he
attempted to crush out Professionalism. The cutters
filed with blood and the dead lay about every
where in countless numbers. The Spaniards for the
time seemed TO cast off the appearance of human
beings, and old and young suffered in the
indiscriminate massacre. But above all this
slaughter, the bell of the Cathedral was
tolling out in sweet tones, "Peace ON earth, good
will to men, This leads us to think Of the great
contrast always between the peace that is above and
the passions that below. 1t hard to think
that this earth which live is among the sister,
hood of worlds. Yet it is within knowledge that
there is strange community of nature between our
world and the others about us. This CON-
munity of nature goes very deep. The very
dust shows the kinship between this
and other worlds. The moon. which shines down
upon placidly. IL convulsed with volcanic
action more terrible than we can conceive Of. You





the worlds about the A few days ago hurri-
cane observed in Jupiter travelling the rate of
hundred miles an hour. IL the wind should
travel here a. this rate New York would know II. 1t
is SAID that this is forSaken world. because of
somebody's sin. We are governcdin the matter Of
life laws. just the whole galaxy of worlds
about We cannot discern trace life
in the latter, but can assume with much reason
that the life same in those worlds as with us
In every round planet like is probable that the
laws of life the II death did not here
you couldn't walk the streets without stepping upon
some living being. In fifty five years IL would be So
this. death or standing III solve this
problem of life of these planets 1t can be
solved in the others.


HEAVEN AROUND Us.


Incidentally this leads TO the subject of immor-
tality, continued the preacher. And God does not
mean that in his eternal should be shut In
chest. / jealous of this world, this particular
heaven, and OF the many angels that here. Does
any one suppose that q guardian III in particular
place and has wings? Do you suppose that heaven is
in particular spot? No. Heaven is where there


company of believing souls The lesson of Christ
that when the eternal gets into man he is to
heaven. God makes heaven in New York well as
elsewhere. People think that heaven il going to a
you do the business of going to heaven. no
would trust you. The preacher loved the lessons
of science because they tell him that he is in the
midst of the laws of eternity. Take justice, truth
II Justice. truth and mercy win the battle here.
they will win IL everywhere. The moment good
leads of this planet he leaps into the of
God When you are about TO die you can easily be-
lieve; IL in cheap then to believe; but here now In
the midst of doubt, where God Is weak, you
asked to be honest and true. IL you so, you are
the right side; II you wait until you go where
God Is strong. You may be on the wrong side. Don't
Go TO heaven Make your life that there will
always be n heaven around you.