Year: 1873

ways OF Attaining Higher Lie.


The prayer meeting last evening was crowed
Toward the close an excitement was caused by
some one having dt, everyone thinking it fre,
and getting ready TO make general stampede
After they were quieted man rose to speak, wno
has persisted In making himself very dlsagreeaple
for couple OF weeks He had spoken once before
and he now began TO make speech about the dis-
turbance. when Mr. Beecher said


my friend, once in an evening is suficient"


After the usual services Mr.. Beecher said The
subject OF last Friday night has brought great
have been asked to speak OF the physical hili-
ORANGES which affect the development OF a higher
life Iapprehend before we go into that matter,
] might as well say that with rare exceptions,
there are lew who enjoy the tranquility OF high
spiritual lie. Now and then we find nature
harmonious, cheerful, reproducing, so that 10
throw on care and be happy is easy but the great
body OF men live in practical, business lie, with
their share OF enjoyment. We read Of


EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES,


but 1t Is very seldom that books put in interme-
date experiences They collect the most remark
able instances; IL Is probable that between these
experiences come months, perhaps years, oi
quiet commonplace life, but the impression given
Is that they live from year to year In those expert
ences when in reality tney may be very rare. For
the most part these experiences must come in the
line Of natural lie; 1t will be in conception OF
men pursuing their daily avocations, and II Will
show its results in various ways. The preparation
OF man for his daily energies Is q divine insplra-
ton, and we are not to think we are saints when



ring out IN loud tones.


Now as TO the hindrances-the constitutional
hindrances-tnose which belong TO earthly expert
ences Clearly, persons cannot live Ia harmony
with law ana violate IL at the same time any more
than we can violate the laws OF eating and have
perfect health. great many persons are ignorant
and others cannot restrain their appetite. They
violate the law OF God as written in the stomach.
Then they are tempted of the devil: they think,
they begin to have doubts and don't see clearly.
No wonder But. then, disease often interposes
between them and their perceptions.


We ra IA fhp m a nra q
in a sort OF prison house; we can compare the body
to a building. Some bodies are as houses oil glass
perfectly transparent and letting in all the light
and some are as houses having windows, a great
many OF them and some as having windows, out
few; and some as having small windows, and not
clear; and some don't seem TO have any windows
at all and you have 70 open the door. There is a
vast difference in the recognition OF the spirit and
God we must remember that the gifts
ale not all given alike; remember that
they are gwen yen h, with respect to our needs and
through practical life: some men have enhancing
views, aud 1t is given to some men a lower form
o. living. So the divine spirit maniests itself differ
emily in different persons, and all these differences
are wrought by the sell same spirit. l open you
the expression OF the apostle himselfin order
rect the view OF continued high spiritual Lille. He
says, 81 was with you IN weakness and IN lear and
IN much tremoling.n Now If the apostle went
through such experience II the


APOSTLE PAUL


made such confession, 1t ought to comfort those
who are not PaulS.





one to speak. brother said To-day was called
into my parlor TO see an Old man. | dld not
recognize hlm, but yet there was something in his
iace that seemed familar. and AFTER while
recognized the superintendent OF the first sabbath
school in which ever worked as , teacher. ! had
lost sight OF MIN since. Ii was Jeremiah Taylor,
brother of James Brainard Taylor, who If you can
Judge by his memoirs, was one OF those men so
constituted as to live in that higher life
you have told US Of Jeremiah Taylor
was merchant in New York, and yet found
time to do great many kind acts. He is always
cheerful and happy; he Is not rich: he tailed IN
business and he Is a sort OF missionary going
round, always cheerful, always happy. | never
saw him when he had had any ecstatic experiences
Another brother said-You were asked last Fri
DAY night how this higher lie was obtained. You
said you were not prepared to answer them. Are
you prepared nowY


Mir. Beecher sald-I have said that the


DIVINE INSPIRING


works out in different individuals with different
degrees OIL power. In some 1t results in practical
wisdom, some patience, some charity and lorbear-
ance but 1t gives TO ali great elevation; but there
are many persons who do not think OF themselves
as inspired, because OF their humble POSITION but
Goo recognizes 1t just as much as II he wrote his
experience out IN poems. All right experiences,
divine spirit, possible TO all, and increased by edu-
cation and endeavor. II you ask me how TO attain
this you ask me TO tell you how to do everything.
You ask me how to be patient. don't know any
better way than to be patient when you don't leel
like 1t at all. But he who keeps himself nearer TO
God will be near the fountain OF lie. Work out
your own salvation. You cannot pray it out. You
can't get 1T done Tor you. 1 can get ready made
clothes hut don't believe you can get ready made
clothes OF God. He says II will cOthe youn but the
way he does 1t Is to set you TO sewing them your
seif He helps us by teaching us to help ourselves.