Year: 1876

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AND WHAT IT TEACHES.


Nr. Beecher seemed in excellent spirits yesterday
morning and preached with his usual vim. His text
from the central clause Of the twenty ninth verse
of the eleventh chapter OF Matthew-"Learn Of me "
Our Saviour he said regarded by His countrymen
as a rabbi OF a Jewish doctor, He not q member
Of that class and yet He public teacher. Not
one conventionally authorized, but among the Jews
there was an extraordinary liberty Of personal develop
ment, and our Saviour taught and was regarded be-
cause all men went to hear Him accredited
teacher and addressed Him Rabbi" They came to
Him to teacher


WHAT IS A SCHOOL,


place or an arrangement by which men may perfect
themselves IN various degrees in knowledge; and the
condition OF beng scholar the condition Of being in
want of knowledge and being the time willing
to know When man conscious Of not knowing goes
10 school that be may know, there is understand
Ing tact agreement which inheres in the very rela-
lonshp Of the parties that the master shall teach and
the scholar shall his teaching. Now, where is
Chrsts schoo2 | might answer this question by
asking Where is II not For Christs school IS every
place where seek to know what the nobler
elements OF knowledge and how TO employ them in
human lie; wherever there are scholars seeking a
nobler manhood-that is the end OF the school That
school the soul of the individual and every strug
gle that goes in the human soul tending toward
good rs part OF the teaching OF the school OF Christ
As the school Is everywhere II includes everything
Whatever 10 make man healthier stronger IN
body more skiul, adept and adroit or augments the
bulk OF true physical manhood is part and parcel OF
that school


heekness and humility among the elementary
branches of instruction in the school OF Christ and
they stand in the midst Of world Of farces, The
world has been controlled by the lion, the wolf and the
fox II Is yet 10 be controlled by the lamb and the
dove Another branch the school OF Christ is pa
tience Now all men learn patience IRON the school
master necessity Men learn finally how TO bear and
endure for the sake certain ends they have vew
and patience one OF the things that are


TAUGHT NATURE AND By GOD


working through nature and society But patience in
The school Christ branch OF knowledge that to
patient not because have through long experience
iound II does not do good TO be inpatient In the
school OF Christ there is patience which comes from
latin. There is that patience which men feel when
travelling home after long absence-they do not feel
The heat and dust of the Journey the patience which
springs from the faith that are in God and sur
rounded by HIM. faith that lifts itself up and rests in
This, 81 am learning OF Him. If he leads me through
ways Of difficulty It IS thai may learn patience


In the school much is made OF iorttude We
commanded take the badge Of Christ in the form
Of a cross-He that will follow me let him take up his
rross'-and no man need 60 hunting much Tor
No can break from the animal up through
10 a spiritual manhood without a great deal Of suffer
ng-conscious internal, self-in1lcted No man can do
anything without that IL is not special TO religion
should be very grateful indeed II could take
up Cremona and express my feelings al
pnce by il, bat If want that musical skill must
obtain it by suffering sell-denis and discipline what
tver In society in industry obliges man TO hold
back the part OF himself tor the sake OF eevatn
he better part that is learning that is self-denla.



smart scholars and great many ounces in IT, and
there are muttudes OF persons in IL who have never
learned meekness never learned patience or forttudc
man may learn ia a school false science, and IN a
church false OF Christianity You be the best
Of churchmen aud obey every single rule and observ-
lnce and II there rs not IN the centre that dominant
and grow ne tendency of your whole beng TO so grow
yourself thai YOU show blessing to menf you have
DOT that Paul says, you sounding brass and q
unklng cymbal;n you good for nothing


Now how far must We learn this The Schoolmaster
has laid down the programme, 81 say unto you, Love
your enemies There that precipice ten thousand
The road But look at the Specifications In IT, "Bess
lhem that curse you" Why that Is foreign to
human nature that II does 1t people say he is a
hypocrie "Do good TO them that hate you, pray for
them that despiiefully you and persecute you J"
Nhyf That you may be the children OF your Father.


CALLED


Every Is called to be pupil OF Christ not nee
tssarily bv Joining a church There law that shall
prevent a mans attaining any amount Of knowledge
eminence any profession without going through a
university or a professional school Now any may
be a Christian without joining church-n his shop
IN his household anywhere Churches have smothered
have thought they had peace with God when they had
only sort OF superficial peace. Men have thought
that the Church is very much like railway. man
goes 10 principal office, sits down IA a car; that rs
fhe OF hls responsibility 10 is the roads business
after that 10 take him from New York 10 Boston. So
these sit down IN the church and say, Now take
me 60 heaven No man ever got education by
paying college fees sitting down and saying, "Now
teach me You have got 10 learn II you would DO
learned To be a Christian Is TO have IN you those
dispositions which belong 10 the Lord Jesus Christ