Year: 1872

Year-Signifcanceo OF the Inner Man.
Dr. E. II. Chaplin preached at his church on Fifth
avenue and Forty.1fth street yesterday to the
usual large and fashionable congregation on the
essons OF the closing year. He took for his text
the sixteenth verse Of the fourth chapter OF Paus
Second Epistle to the Corinthians-"For which
cause we faint not; but though our outward man
perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by
day." The Apostle Paul, said the reverend gentle
man, recites herein his troubles and prosecutions,
and makes no statement Of any ameliorating con-
dition by which he was enabled to endure except
his own inward spiritual resources. He draws
great contrast between the mere material man and
that inner life that Is part OF our being; for, he
says, though our outward man perish yet the in
ward man is renewed day by day. The conditions
Get forth by Paul are most worthy Of consideration
now as we draw lesson from the closing year.
Nothing can more forcibly illustrate the reality Of


OUR OUTWARD MANS DECAY.


Hours and days glide by and we do not notice
them. just as small coin may be distributed here
and there and never accounted for; but when
year draws to a close with its large sum total OF
hours and days, so large and important portion
Of our earthly life, we feel that we must stop and
consider II to see where we stand, as the business
man feels the necessity OF accounting for large
sum disbursed. One year is large sum taken
from she capital OF lile and life is capital forever
wasting and not to be recruited. II there is any
portion Of humanity that grows and improves 1t is
the infant; and yet as the babe grows year by
ence wastes away. and each birthday that adds to
the years OF its existence dcducts from its term OF
life. We may not be able to look upon the changes
in ourselves, produced by the Meeting years. but
there Is an old story OF


AN ENCHANTED HALL


where q million mirrors reflect the man. not as he
feels himself to be, but as he is-and In life may
look upon the persons Of our acquaIntances and
friends and see IN them the images OF ourselves,
not as we feel but as we Their whitening hairs
and weakening limbs may indicate the decay that
is upon us, and our consideration OF the old year
will lead 10 some good II it impresses 1t upon us
that decay is real. All things perish Our granite
th wr 1l fe Gh
oi life there Is no other account than that OF


PROFIT AND LOSS


ana In this business OF life men look at il,
be all on our side. We lose hours, days and years.
They go from us and there is no returning equiva-
lent. Our physical frames decay, and there is no
recruiting OF strength. But is there galnS Is 1t
quick-wrought struggle, with no aim beyond the
present-it is over and there's an end; that man
perishes-eyen the great globe ITSELF


And like the baselcss fabric OF this vision,


Leave not wreck behind


Even II this were 50 there would remain


HIGH DUTIES IN LIFE,


noble duties and noble work to be done. Even
without the eternal future that opens up before US,
bic for that TO have the same zeal to do the
same work who accepts the materialistic view as
-
and stretches out to limitiess eternity.


Again, my hearers, Paul says 'tle inward man Is
renewed day by day." 1t is not dreamer who says
this. Paul was nethera u dreamer nor a fanatic;
but he was an enthusiast, as every man Is whose
heart Is in his work. There is more


COMMON SENSE


packed In his epistles than In two-thrds OF the
books in the libraries OF the world He was not
dreamer or a fanatic, but an eminently practical
man, so well informed and so experienced that had
nc gone into Broadway or into Wall street he would
have been noted there for his uncommon executive
laE n inv .ap1
cannot be taken as the pressing of a scholar the
cant OF the pulpit. In the revolutions and upheav-
ngs That go on around us In the constantly faithful
succession OF the seasons, the strict enforcement
OF the laws OF nature there is to be recognized the
and his little lie but mere episode in the great
history that is making. Tie influence OF this
greater power shapes or oyerthrows oar actions,
directs our tides and ebbs, and rules and controls
LIVING GULF STREAM


! In every man, however low and debased, there
s yeatning, sense OF something noble ana goo !.
story is told OF an engineer who was crushed
with his engine in collision, and when dragged
stuck by the engine to the last.n What was there
m @ y shs engine a 1a wto wNa s M
this inner emotion, this desire for good repute
nfterward, SO strong In the minds OF menS II is
believed that the grandest ber0ism is displayed on
The field OF maryrdom and Ia battle, but here is
grand heroism, aud 1t is imbued in the minds OF
significant OF that inward character which Paul
calls the inner man. see how soon the mere ma.
terial


MAN Is FORGOTTEN.


lie sinks and the waves close over hm-a ripple
follows, and the broad stream rushes on as before.
IL Is the inner man alone that lives aterward. 1t
Ii given only TO q few TO be consultations OF great
ness blazing Ia the armament and seen rom all
points Of the horizon. Tie inner life is renewed
day by day--renewed by truth, never obsolete
truth, exhaustless truth, and renewed by love- The
selfish man, who lives only 10 himself, shrivels up
like mummy jammed into sarcophagus.


THE SEASON OF CHRISTMAS


Is emnently significant Of that love that renews
the inner man. The genial warmth within, the
hearty generosity, the universal socIabity supply
the aspects OF Summer that are wanting IN the
bleak desolation OF the Winter without. The storm
that has fallen upon this city, with It's wild fury
and snowy desolation is typical OF the lives Of
many OF the poor In our midst-a life that has
been always storm blockade In helping them we
may renew our inner lile The year that Is draw
tpg near It's close has been an eventful and sad
one. Men that clntchod enlpires have been pushed
from their stools, great nteects have been
guenchcd IN darkness, and from among ourselves