Year: 1872

Under the inspiration Of last week 8 festival.
or silver wedding. in Plymouth church. Mr..
Beecher yesterday indicated golden futurs
which awaits not only his own local church.
but the Christian Church universal. We now
hear but the first notes in the gray dawn OF
the progress Of Christianity in the world, but
by and by We shall hear the grand chorus Of a
world redeemed This is certainly grand m
spiration to labor ~ well as Q noble purpose 10
live and toll for. and with the praying fathers
and mothers which Mr.. Bsecher says his
church contains. they ought if they concentrate
all their energies and prayers on winning souls
from darkness into the marvellous light oe
Gods grace to see wonderful work. not only
In Plymouth church, but In all the churches OF
Brooklyn. sIt is never too late to mend, never
too late to be sowing seed" said Mr. Beeoher, ALL
of which is true. but all of which will have,
disbelievers In the future as it has had in
the past so that men will still SOW the wind
and reap the whirlwind, and characters will go
unmended still. Mr. Talmage in his highly.
wrought theatrical style, drew q picture
Of Christ's sufferings, by which, accord-
ing to supposed fgurative allu-
sion in Solomon's writings his hair
turned white with trouble And this event
Mr.. Talmage thinks took place ON the eve OF
His crucifxion. There is much more of Christ
and His Gospel in this sermon of Mr.. TalmRge
than in that reported last week, probably
owing to the HERALD's structures on that
occasion. But still it is SO surrounded with
certain serio-comic caricature "Humpty-
Dumpty" style that we hardly know whether
the preacher Is serious or not, when he exhorts
all to seek the Being whom he has pantomimed
on the Tabernacle stage; and no doubt the
people 60 away from the place as they
would from q theatre, feeling that they
have been admirably entertained and
amused, while their hearts remain unaf-
fected. In answer to the question, ''What is
TRUTH" asked by PLATE ages ago. Dr. Soudder
pointed out the three kinds Of truth which are
known to exist-namely, physical intellectual
and spiritual. The first and second are built
merely to uphold the third, wherein the soul
sits calmly and investigates all moral and
spiritual truth. And though men had sought
question In each Of these departments no man
could stand up and say he had discovered
absolute truth. But Christ declared Himself
to be ''the truth" This He is in His nature
as the Goldman and also as a teacher
of truth spiritual and eternal. For
centuries the truths which He has
taught have been put to the test
and have come out untarnished; and these
considerations were used by the Doctor to
induce his hearers to accept the Gospel and
Christ as the TRUTH the life and the way.
Rev. DR.. Wild insisted that as Christ was the
living flesh and fact of Gods Word or good
will and loving kindness to mankind, so should
believers be the living epistles Of Christ, known
and read Of all men; that as Christ is the
wisdom and power of God SO are the saints
the wisdom and power of Christ. In the in
carnation of Christ God met suitably the uni
versal instinct Of man for q visible God. But
having gratifed that instinct men now look
upon Jesus of Nazareth as nothing more than
a man, though good one, and they still seek
way into the kingdom of grace and glory
beside the living way which God hath Or
dained.


In the department of speculative theology
Mr.. rockingham will probably always lead
New York preachers as he does now. His
discourses cannot be called sermons, nor can
they be properly judged by the same standard
as the latter. They are designed more to
please the intellect than to renovate the heart.
Yesterday he spoke of 'The Soul of Truth in
Error" and evolved the idea that creeds are
founded on error and that doubt steps in and
produces or collates true creed. Speaking
of the claim Of infallibility, which he declared
is made by Protestants as well as Catholics.
he said it had instilled into men spirit
of doubt, but for the time being the doubt is
put to rest by creed, for creeds are
doubts at present put to rest The doctrine
of the unity of the two natures in Christ, Of
the creation Of a perfect man in Eden, Of
total depravity, the doctrine of election and Of
the eternal damnation Of the wicked, were
judged by the light Of Unitarianism false
doctrines and false creeds, from which doubt
and scepticism are evolving better creeds and
purer truths. DR.. Bellows, in his dis,
course on the almost universally felt need Of
men making their peace with God, paid an
eloquent tribute to the Christian character Of
the late William H. Seward, whose dying
advice to his children to love one another
showed that he had made his peace with
God.


Rev. DR.. Rogers, Of the South Reformed
church, having returned from an extended
tour in Europe, was yesterday welcomed by
his people, and preached q discourse appro-
pirate to the occasion. He hoped his congre->
CATION would seek the true rest of the soul in,
Christian activities and life of active service
in the cause OF Christ. The demands for these
are to be found on every side, and the oppor-