Year: 1876

ing winds OF the moral atmos phsreihe shifting opin-
ions Of the community. Take, for instance, the belief
in inmortality-the happy hereafter Has that moth
ing To do with daily lifcy II has very much Do
we not need hope and the inspirations OF hope at
step li;ey Do not the sick and the dying
need hope and hope of The hereafter There is some
thing in the breast OF every human being that hopes
and that must have scope for the exercise OF It's
longings and aspirations And snail say tha,
while men have hope here that hope expires with
their mortal es We can't admit H. The heart OF
humanity repels the idea and revos against the doc
trine. But from wnom did man learn to hopes He
mighs have learned 10 carry burdens from beasts OF
burden; he might have learned ideas OF industry from
the bee the au architecture from the brd The
bee. bu. neither insect bird beast could have
taught him 10 hope. IL something that nature could
not have Impaired 10 nm. Outward things do not
teach 10 hope. They do not inspire this quality in
man TO be sure, Job says the aree hath hope but
man, wherc he. These words OF JoD
not tho last words III the Bible. and even
Job ADDS cxul.ingy, 81 know that my Redeemer
livcth THIS that the hopo OF Immortality is In
the human heart, and the reflex OF this is that hope
manifested in our daily life and in our Transactions
with fellow men, And still there are many men
who would cxtngulsh the great hope in the heart Of
humanltythe belief IN the immortality OF the soul; I;
the belief IN the nereaser lney would, u .ney could
But still men hope the same as ever. Philosophy
teaches that II you cut away the roots the branches
Will wther, and II want TO have hope we mast be-
lieve IN hereafter ana in the SOUPS immortality.
Otherwise naught but darkness and gloom Will
exist for US Now, II ! have ths Croton
water in my house. SAID the Doctor. and
can draw IL whenever please are not the means
bv which ii is brought to my home of minor conse
quence? And what would you think OF the water
purveyors who would allow that element 10 become so
that II would disappear first IRON one floor and
then from another and VINO should then tell you to be
careful Of the and wash yourselves 700 often
lest you waste ity You al once that the time 10


look out for the scarcity OF water before the scarcity
comes and the time 10 lay bold Of The hope Of mmor
taIity before you go into the hereafter Now, every
cup OF life's 10Y 10 drawn from religion There Is no
JOY IN life that IS not


PaoprcED RELIGION


And can we enjoy the gifts OF religion and yet neg


ect or ignore lis source II We would have the waters
OF salvation In abundance We mus, guard we'll the
fountains and the streams thereof The spring Is not,
however In ourselves, but away III the distance-n
God. Or, take another illustration. After has
gathered IN his hurvests and fruits do YOU think he
wou ID be foolish TO say why can have fruits
without and harvess without tllng sowing the
groundY and straghtway cut down his fruit trees and
cease his planting? He would not realize his mistake
and his oAs until he had exhausted the contents or his
storehouse and granary But then, as he looked for
the harvest and tho orchard, whose fruits were 10 re-
that his mistake or his negec. was fatal Even SO


Will II be with the who throws away his hope of
Immortality and runs alter an ethical or philosophical
phantom. This picture ought to enable us TO under


stand the raonastic tendencies OF our times and the
consequent miseries thereof Our men remember tho
| fathers that taught them religion, and our women
| weep they remember the mothers from whom they
6rs received the inspirations o religious hope Even
| better in other days But they look upon tho
rich harvests which faith and hopo havo produced


ana they think they good harvests without
those grand inspirations as they have had with them
| But in the production Of results


MORALS


corresponds to that OF physics and the who does
not SOW aud plant can't gather aud reap nor MI his
with the fruits Of the earth his soul and lite
with the riches OF faith. And suppose the raiionastc
policy should prevail the time might come when tho
world wOut want men TO battle with inhdelity, and
where would they come from? The picture OF what
exists part, but what will certainly exist in a
deporabe degree II the sceptical counses OF some
teachers hrvo and bring forth tho hoped Tor harvess


is apty described by Solomon Proverbs xxxii, IL.
righteousness and the faith and hopo that speak OF
has produced and Will continue to produce lovc-love
TO parents and children TO friends and fellow men.
and above all. to God. But godncss has produced
and must produce all those cold sentiments that
here pictured by the wise II you those
prevail said tho Doctor 90 and destroy the trees OF
love your homo and in your hearts; but II you do
want such irus cherish the faith and hope which
religion gives and Keeps fresh In the soul.