Year: 1875

''wHAT WE SHALL BE- SERMON BY THE REV.


w. T. CLARKE


At the Church of the Messiah corner of Park avenue
and Thirty fourth street, the yesterday
ing was preached by the Rev. W. T. Clarke, who took
his text the first letter OF John, third chapter
and proceeded to discourse on "what shall bc.''
The faith that we succeed and the hope that we
shall do So the pleasures of life II we knew that
the victory 1t would take away from the
pleasure of the struggle is mercy that the curtain
dropped before eyes, lest might the future
There is single thing that proves immortality
but there thousand considerations which point
the conclusion. The creation of being like man in
wolves greater difficulties to the minds contemplation
than the belief in the continuation OF existence. II
not certain knowledge of the next fe but faith enough
that makes this life joyous It Is hope that gladdens
and pioneers the soul its upward way Give
hope and shall conquer. The place We 20 TO is of


little consequence compared to the character we bring
with Wherever the criminal dwels there is pen-
tentiary The mother who hears Of an absent sur
rounded with pomp in a foreign land heeds not the
riches but inquiries what sort of life he is leading
Colonize heaven with the sensual and the vile and they
would make hell oft Send the virtuous to perditon
and they would make of place of peace The idea
of current religion is that only the few good and
that the majority are gradually sinking. Every incu
cation of Jesus is that goodness shall triumph and that
in every soul IL shall prevail at last What We call per-
dition Is only the road to paradise An niinty
Of Gods love pervades the universe, The worst
of us that lives is the brother or him who thinks
he Is holier than the suffering mortals around him.
Hereafter shall be physically disembodied and re-
leased from the flesh We know not what spirit is.
But know that shall be free from this imprson-
of cay that shall be free to ENJOY every noble
aspiration We shall also be rid OF every surrounding
circumstance that helps to drag down. We are in
debtcd to accident for what are In going to the
lower wards of this city do not wonder that there Is
much crime there but that there is much virtue
and JOY. 1t makes great difference whether is
born in Five Points attic Filth avenue mansion.
Between what call the saved and the lost there
first but q circumstance. We look forward TO tho
time when every soul will be surrounded with congenia
sympathy. We look forward to heaven to find home
where everything Is more perfect where every
circumstance conspres TO make US supremely happy.
We also look to the world TO have all faculties
completely developed Man is better and more beauti-
full than he knows, and those faculties for which
have no here and which lie dormant will all shine
forth In the world to In mesmerism, cairvoy-
ance and the phenomena OF spiritualism elements
which may be eucdated If these phenomena
unintelligble natural faculties, then there scope
for the human mind IL only developed We
what VIC may be- Most men do not make them
selves anything 1t is here that the cndeavor make
ourselves what shall be should begin, for here is
laid the foundation OF the character TO bear for
eternity. Though do not know what shall be
hereafter still every generous thought every noble
deed, every lofty aspiration, helps to make what
want to be in the life TO come