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VOLUME 29.
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117 & 119 STATIST., CffICASQ.
CHICAGO, MONDAY. DECEMBER (J, 1875.
THE CENTRAL CHURCH.
First Meeting of Prof. Swing’s
Independent Congrega- i
tion in McVicker’s ' j
Theatre.
Material and Uclljlous Reasons for
■be New Departure (ilvcn
by (lie Pastor.
The Freedom and Unity Which Have
Grown Out of Prof. Patton’s
Twenty-eight Tears.
Sermon on Christ as Our Peace by the
Rev. S. H. Adams, of Cente
nary Church.
Discourse on Interdenominational Cour
tesy by tho Hoy. Dr. Dudley,
of Milwaukee.
PROF. SWING.
ntß FICST OEMION TO THE CENTRAL CBOOCfI CON-
OREOATION.
If yesterday's domooutratioo at MoVjcker’s
Theatre can be taken a<i a criterion, Prof. Swiii j;
baa eutorod upon a work which will convince
oven bin stiff-necked opponents that tbero ia
Bomolhing m religion which soars above hccUv
riauiem and deals with the bioador aspirations
and sympathies of humanity. Notwithstanding
tho damp, disagreeable weather, which nlwaj a
plays an important part clmrcfci
attendance, every scat in tho largo theatre nun
occupied, many portions bad to content thorn*
solves with standing room, and many wore tirn
ed away. But it wan not the numbers of tho
audionco slouo which seemed to forosbador tho
grand success of tho new movement. Thorn
was something of sympathy and earnestness in
tho faces of tho congregation which had a fur
greater significance, and which, indeed, consti
tuted tho groat feature of tho occcaaion. No
choir was present, the Fourth Church retaining
its hold upou that os upon the other appurto
naucca of its edifice, Blips of hynms bad boon
printed and wore distributed among tho audi
ence, and tho hearty way in which everybody
joined in tbo singing was TCty refreshing, and
compensated for tho lack of what is generally
considered Indispensable in our modem
churches. Prof. Swing's Inaugural address
was ono of his happiest efforts, liis reference
to tho accident of tho Fourth Church,
which interrupted the services in McVicker’s
two years ago, and which had heou kindly re
moved by Prof. Patton, was loudly applauded,
as was also tho likening of hia opponents to
barbarians from whom ho and his friends hail
escaped to reach the sea of liberty. Thors wih
a groat deal of bopo about tho diecourso, which
found a ready response in tho hearts of tho
audicnco. At tbo conclusion of the aervlos—
though thoro were those who felt rogret at leav
ing their old church—there was bat ono opinion,
that Prof. Patton was a public benefactor in
driving Prof. Swing to a wider sphere of use
fulness, where humanity and lovo divino will bo
his creed.
Doforo entering upon ble dUeonree. Prof.
Swing said : I wish to mako tbia announcement.
Tho committee of gentlemen who stand, aa it
wore, beneath ibis movement aa tbo pillars of it,
met last night ami referred all the material or
financial part of tbia movemout to a Committee
of Nino. That Committee of Kino trill devise a
plan for tbo renting of chairs, mil superintend
tbo lighting and heating of tho hall, will attend
to tho music, am) all the wocldly part of this ser
vice. Xho spiritual part of tho church will be look
ed after aa rapidly aa wo can attend to that
part, and aa rapidly as tho need may appear. 1
think tho Committee of Fine will be ready to
commence toe Bale of ihe aoate perhaps a week
from to-morrow. Tho regular service in ibis
room will begin tho laat Sunday nf this month.
Xhby have given mo two Sundays of vacation in
which to get tbia matter nil ready. 1 behove
tbeso are the only announcements I need mako
to-day.
Prof. Siring then proceeded with hie addroes,
which ia RiTOtj to full : <
It is not my purpose to-day to preach a dis
course, but to atate eomo of tbo reasons which
load mo to begin a public service m this place,
and to begin it with great pleasure and groat
hope. In tbo opening up of all now enterprise!!
of either a secular or religious nature, it Is cus
tomary for some one to utter inaugural worde
that the enterprise may lie before all in its full
scope of business, or pleasure, or duty. It
seems quite necessary that now when wo are
about to enter upon a series of services. In such
now surroundings, that some words should bo
spoken by way of introduction—words of ex
planation and of congratulation. Many of you
attended the religious sorvbos bold for a time
two years ago in this house, Man; of you left
tbo room then with regrets, and to-day yon come
back with Joy.
That tbero may be some method to my re
marks to*day. I snail speak of certain arguments
in favor of such a Central Church as wo hero
found to-day, and shall classify the arguments
os material and spiritual.
Tbo material argument Is quite large. In our
ago, when all the other branches of life mudy
convenience and comfort, religion mu*t imitate
the other ways of action and being, and will uot
dare bo difficult and inconvenient in her stylo,
while the wicked woild is, In its mstbod, studi
ous of public comfort. Uis all vain to say that
our fathers in past centuries walked 5 miles to
church m summer’s heat or winter’s storm. Bo
they walked also in Journeying over tbo world.
All things were equally full of toil and vexation.
Tbo hotels whore they passed the night wore
only barns, (he beds in which they
slept wots bard as the road on which
they had walked all day, and the food on the
tabie was as full of toil and vexation as wss the
daily Journey and the miserable tavern. Mon
walked > miles to attend church because they
knew of no such thing as convenience or com
fort. Men exhausted lu that day upon roads
and bills, and against rain and storm, strength
of body end mind which should havo boon
turned along more useful paths.
When the gate was opened to lot in the new
idea of convenience ami comfort, it had to bo
opened for religion as well, for when mao lias
learned that he need not be miserable as to his
table, as to his hotel, as to his bod. and as to his
home, ho will no longer bo miserable as to his
worship. When a bid idea baa become exposed
it is routed everywhere. When Cbampollion
found the dew to Hie Egyptian stones,
he soon read everything in rapid suc
cession. Thus when man discovered that bo
need not be miserable in some one thing, ho at
once sprang to the conclusion that ho used not
make any part of life more burdensome than
fate itself should demand.
There is a tendency in the world to utilize Us
forces. Tbo modern age will surpass all former
tunes In the quantity of labor U will, in a given
time, bring to bear upon a useful task, but it
w ill nut waste time and iiowor. It will uot walk
all dav to a church and home again, uot if it can
go to churoh m a few minutes, and in comfort
as it guos.
Now, when til the places of worship that stood
near the centre of this great city wore torn down
and removed, the ueatioywa of tbuee temples
took worship away trout the placs where ail the
csrritßo-nays moot, and again asked a largo
central population to do as our tiootcb and I’uri
tao fathers had done, face the atorui and ex*
hauat the day for the kirk. And this central
population have declined tho invltition. Tho
we«ting-boiiso nuint coruc to tljem. where paths
*on where the public carn&grn meet.
A nocmul material argnraeiit tu»v i)« fontid in
th« peculiar nhape of our cilr. I’.a btiainees is
not sprout out for tnilot along som« one svroot.
It in missed into a solid u'pi&re mile, and hence,
in that square mile, tliiro are thouttands of
hu«iiu‘rt« young men who are all quite far re
moved from the great family churches, and
would ho quite near lo soma r.outral clmrcjp' or
churulies. On account of this peculiar moaning
of business, tho magnificent itotels of iho city
am located m a most unusual manner, -mstoad
of rsacltlug along 5 miles in n straii'tit line, they
am in a citclo, about a dor.on Bltooe, and all
Tvithin tliroo or lour square* of tht:i theatre.
Owing to iccent destruction of dwe;iiuK*hoUHe«.
ami tlio marvelous beauty, and comfort, and
quiet of tbeae hotels, they am tbs homes now
<>f hundreds, almost thousands, of persons who
once lived along the avcuuce, and wlio oncu at
tended (ho old churches of the former city.
Three statements will give you an* outline of
Iho material argument (hat not alone Justifies
(bis opening of a now Central Clmich. but winch
entreats us alt to enter upon this work with zeal,
aud without delay cr misgiving. To nave a
church to which ao many cau come so easily, not
only from the central portion of tbu place, but
from the three divisions of the city, is pd idea
that should long ago baro toughed your hearts
and have swept your Judgments.
Let us coma now to the moral aspects of the
. case. Hero our chief task will be to meet ob
jections, for, in iho brief statements already
made, I have absolutely given reason enough
for the existence of this now Hocielv.
Firrt—’' This need not bo called an experiment.
It Is a service to which moat of ua como hack
after a two years’absence. lu this very room no
nant; our hymns and cent up our prayers, and
examined Into tho high tmtba of life, foe
almost two ypars, and those two years
cootlnnod all I havo said about having
a church accessible to the public. So groat
a success wore those two years that the
best moo of tbo Fourth Church debated with
many of you as to some method by which this
norvico b?ro could bo c. ntiuned. They thorn*
solves went off to tbeir little church, and inac
cessible church, with misgivings as to duty, and
for months debated with you, and with them
selves, as to the duty of the future.
Thus wo return boro cboorod by two years of
experience—an experience which even a North
Hide interest could not readily conceal or cixh<>.
Tbo same gentlemen who stand ao rcnpcxiHitile
friends of this movement stood for it two year*
ago—thus showing that there is nothing of
mere impulse or novelty iu thoir conduct,
but that tboir action is based upon thnir experi
ence of two years, and the reflection of two years
more. This would seem sufficient answer to any
who may feel that boro wo are to make an exper
iment. It is not so. Hero no resume to-day a
reasonable. most wise, union of hearts, that was
interrupted by an accident.—a beautiful and ho
loved Julio accident called the Fourth Church.
And. now that Trof, I’utton lias temovod that
accident by bis twenty-eight tears, shed before
the Synod, I am free, not to embark upon an
untried sea, but to return "Home again from a
foreign shore." Wo aro not upon stratum waters
to-day. Wo know all about this channel and this
ship. You have heard Ihouo hymns Hung in
such chorus, you have aeon thceo faces all happy
hero iu other days.
You will plcaso remember, too, that those
other two yearn of worship m th e bouse ended
white your minister was m full communion with
the Trosbyteriaii Church, No trial for heresy
had over shown any signs of coming, and hence
into those mootings there entered nosousatiou
nl clement, and tlioydrew thoir llfu from no
party heal. Hence the return of ns all to this
place has not in it the least element of tobukc to
I’rof. Tattoo, nor of a vindication of me. This
service began before aay war between that
brother and myself begau, and I holievo a Cen
tral Church will go forward near where wo are
uow after Trof. Tattoo nod I shall have passed
from life and from memory. To mo and to all
with whom I have conversed this movement
seems to spring only from a puhhr* need, and
contains in it almost no clement c' the experi
mental and sensational. A city ofhalf a million
of people needs this Central Society.
Let rao now allude to another objection:
" You will havo no church social life, no prayer
meetings, no church socials, no sowing society,
no fellowship with each other."
First, lot us deny this goutio charge. Out of
this certainly must come, and wlthm a year or
two, let us hope, a regular church. Indo nulent
or Congregational, with its own hall for wor
ship, ana with its rooms for sll kinds of church
life. There are no reasons whatever against
the formation and success of a church where all
these highways moot. It can easily come, sua
will soon como.
But let us make a second nnuwer to tlio objoc
lion. It is In these words: Tbs value of a con
gregation depends upon Ibo number and tbo
righteousness of tbo people ibat attend its Sun
day rooming aorvico. When out of 1,000 or
J.UOO peoplo in a congregation some seventy
or 100 gather at a “cbnrch social." you must
not point roe to tbat scene and call it “church
life./' Our opinion a* to the value of the pieU
and intelligence) of the vast congregation is sucb
ibat, in estimating the moral worth of a church,
wo should rather look to them of a Sunday in
lueir pews, than to those little playing, (easting
SB. laughing the happy borne away. The
) who assemble Sunday morning determine
the’value of the eanctuarv. If tbev are good,
righteous citizens, then that 2,000 are a nobio
church.
And when, out of a thousand persons, twenty
ladies moot to sew for the orphans, you mutt oo'i
point us to that scene, and call it “ chprcd life."
Our thought mil still run after the thousand
cordons not (hero, with a feeling that in tbat
thousand lies the worth of tho Society. Tbo
service that blescos the most is the chief ser
vice.
And not much should be said of the fellow
ship and friendship that sprung up in tho regu
lar house of God. We know all about ibis. We
kuow that tho congregations on tho avenues
meet only for tbo wursolp ol God, and do not
stand heart to heart aud hand in band awav
from tho altars. Each oily u full of
strangers. Wo livo each door to each other aud
live unknowing and unknown, Here, where
you will all havo your regular seats, and whore
flume of ibo stifluosa of the more for
mal churches will he wanting, you will
soon reach au acquaintance with your neighbor,
and aflnal knowledge of all not to ho found by you
in chmchea which would aoom to promise more,
llouco, while at some remote dar wo may
have wbat ia called “Church life," wo must not
overrate tbo market-value of tbat “hto,” and
feel tbst the Church's glory lies in (hat direc
tion. The grand churches of tho seventeenth
century tbst transformed Christ into a friend,
and made God to be Love, bad no sewing society
■lid no church festivals; they had religious men
in the pulpit aud lo the news. Tuis is the aim
tbat should bo bofore us all—religion at tbe desk
and dow nin the cushioned seats. All else will
be inaigntfioaut if wo can reach at lad intelli
gence and religion.
Thus have 1 alluded to the objection* pro
posed to you and to mo. I pass now to advan
tages and intentions. In our Independent or
Congregational relatioon we, from preacher to
people, expect to enjoy freedom of thought, i
desire, and fully intend, to preach the religinnof
Christ, but in tho liberty of thought not accord
ed me in my former relations, Congregationalism
will allow you and mo all (ho liberty wo deeiio.
With that sect there i« a concentration upon
Christ as a suQicieut Savior, and upon tho
idea of rewards aud punishments, that
leaves Christianity pure to Us principles
aud power, aud loaves tho Christian mind frou.
The congregation that can welcome Blom, aud
Budiugtou, and Alvin Bartlett, and Ilelmor, is
liberal enough for ail Christian purposes. Wo
do nut ask for a church broad enough to permit
us to be Atheists, In Congregationalism, if at
last it should receive us. we shall Hud liberty
enough. As Orthodox Independents, or Con
gregationallsts.—in either case there lieu before
us a beautiful prospect of lolollecluat freedom.
As when XeuopUon aud bis companions, after a
long wandering in tbo mountains of Armenia,
lost, starved, homesick, and harraased by bar
barians, at lost from a mountain beheld
tbo sea, they wept for Joy, aud abouted “ the
aea! the seal" for It was to carry them homo
—so, you and I, coming out of the wilderness
where wo were lost, and starved, aud sore pressed
by barbarians, may well look out toward tbe
wide expanse of liberty, and cry out, "The
seal tho sea I it will now carry us all home."
Tbe ocean of freedom Is broad aud deep and
beautiful. It washes all oivilUed shores. All tho
balmy and fragrant breexsa uums from He depths.
The light of heaven smiles on its face. This
ocean of liberty ts the true couaolatiou and in
spiration of ml Ui>iee who write or si«ak. Ho
who speaks only bv rale—or to a hue
marked down by another, can only be a slave.
His heart can never bo tbe home of any love or
•ensittveaets. Ido not speak of tbo vista of
liberty oo my own account sloae. Not only
must the speaker be free, but the audience also
must feel that they are free mtuds. and are flit
ting ina ranol’isrv •»h<M« (be dag of liberty
wares over them. The rigid details of the mer’e
irnn-bke eruodn do not oppress the clergy only,
but Hie church membership also. For the mem
bership of the modern church has risen In tntel
ligenco and in the power of its logical faculty,
and, as deeply as lbs clergy, it feel* oppressed bf
too doj»uus 1.0 which it once sutacribod*
and from which it known not Jnst how lo escape.
Much of tbo time of the clergr, and of the
higher order ot Ujmoo, is now ep«nt in declar
ing bow (bey uo not buheve all tlioir own creed.
—aj cut in apologies over it or iu
it. —thus ebnwing with what Jnv they would hail
spiritual freedom were it only placed witbm
liior ((TAf-ji, in that theological war which wm
waged iu this city two ycera ago liberal clergy
men did not equal the laity in the quantity of
indignation aroused by such an inquisition over
words and thoughts. Clergymen often, from
their theological nvuiies. endure ur forgive,
or oven enjoy, a certain amount of
Hkiruiiabitig audeouibet. They lick sometimes
upoo such trials as nutters of ’course. Hut tho
lavmen trained to lx) useful iu religion, aud
thinking more ot Christ than they do of theo
logians, often tool very deeply the private and
fiubitc wrong dune by sucu arraignment* fur
inrcsy. Tbo churches bum with shame that
ministers should so degrade their calling, and
that, in s skeptical age. Christianity should bo
so exposed to now criticism and new contempt.
.Not alone, then, am 1 in the power to appre
ciate a church whom tho discord of a ” trial "
cannot ejiue. but you all equally rcjolcj that,
hero, freedom of opinion pours around you
Us health-giving and Joy*bnn;ing atmosphere.
We all de«ire to escape a repetition of certain
foolish processes hv hastv men.
Our age in it* Chrhitian department h attempt
ing to find brosrdcr grounds in doctrine*, upon
which a larger multitude may stand iu a sweeter
poaoo. That (boro ore a hundred sects and that
these war with u&ch other must result from
some defect iu tho mind or in the sentiments of
th& heart. Kuch discutd canuot but come
from cither ignorance or selfishness. There
must bo some one religion in which men might
meet.— for tied is one, and virtue is one, aud
vice Is one. Our sgo Is attempting to find the
ideas that separate men, and tho other ideas
that bring them together. It wishes to destroy
Iho former and crush tho latter. It is seeking a
higher unity of thought that there may bn a
deeper unity of conlimenl aud of lovu. Tbo
Calviukt and tha Atuimtan, the It&nti&t and
the Episcopalian, and oven tho Catholic under
tbo load of Ilyaciuthoaud Bollinger, are seeking
(his wider ground of faith and loro. As
rapidly as tluo noble truth is found, the idea*
that have separated heart* aud hare tom tho
church to Piece* will ho cast out and despised,
and toward the bettor central truth tho public
will turn with anew affection.
In assembling hero to-day wo come onlr in the
spirit of the Christian ajo, seeking tho higher
truths that will hind more hearts together and
bring more, of pence and goodness to sociciv.
Wo all came cot to contradict and complain, but
toaitirm all the precious tiutlia of the Ciospel,
and to love tliom thn more bocauao of our per
fect freedom. Not as ati ouetny do
we appear on the horizon, but a-*,
the fast and Arm friends of all the cburchce, of
whatever name I know tho spirit of line ao li
ci.ce. Ten years have imaged us much togeth
er in public and (rivate, and 1 feci free to nay
that! know your beaus, and, knowing them,
confess with joy that our combined desire is to
hold nut an unhappy, negative religion, but ono
full of positive devotion to Jcbu.h Christ, aud
to all the precious interests of humanity. Wo
come not ns iconoclonts. hut as lovers. We do
nut desire to be a rude force, like lightning or a
storm, but a greater iulluence. like sunshine and
dow. under which tho peiiilcat plant may grow
and reach its own peculiar blossoming. If we
"halt wish to deny certain doctrines once be
lieved. it will be that Christ may not bo injured
by inventions of men ; if wu shall ignore, or
slight, other ideas, it will bo that thov may not
bide from us that Way, Truth, and Life, In
whoso presence is nootidav. in whose absence is
night. Setting forth each day frutn Christ cat bo
radiating point of our s'-ntem, we desire to apply
I lie life to human hfo, His pardon to human sin.
His hops to Immau hearts. Believing that
Christianity underlies not only a heaven beyoud
tho grave, but all good homes and cities and em
pires here, we all wish, from Sunday to Sunday,
to seek out these adaptations with our intellect,
that wo mar obey them with our soul.
And besides the words of Christianity there
remains its spirit something above delineation
m language. Those who assemble here desire
to doai not only iu tho morals and theology of
Christ, but to live In tho midst of that eplr.t
that enveloped tho Lord In all hours.
Toward even Pilate and all the adverse throng.
Christ was full of tenderness, From Chr.rn.
com-fH tho lesson that ill will, anger, self-wor
ship, are only painful blemishes upon the soul,
and that until mao can deal In perfect kindness
with thoee who differ from him, he is yet for
down in tho depths of barbaii.nn. One of our
public men, who had lived a long and sereue
public life, confessed lately that from early man
hood ho had fek that ho could nut afford to got
angry at au opponent because auger soem?d
such & disgrace to the soul. There is a spirit of
Jesus Christ more godlike than even H.s words,
—a spirit which all may feel, hut which none can
express, just as one mav foci in his bosom the
beauty of a day io June, but can never embody
that heart-boat in language. But such a spirit
there is. It will sit down and talk with theo
logical science aaJesue talked with the woman
at tho well, or with the ruler by night.
The wider the difference of opinion,
the more eager me spirit to show Us benevo
lence. It leavet the ninety and nine in the fold
of truth, and goes forth toward the ono iufldol.
or atheist, or skeptic, who may seem to bo wan
dering iu the wilderness of entangled thought.
To this doctriue and spirit of Christ we. th.a
Central Church, would subscribe anew tbts day
—wo would renew the vowaof fumir rears. We
ask the groat circle of churches around us to ex
tend to us their good will—wo omit not oven the
Jew or the Catholic, Wo shall love to offer
them all the help of oar right hand and our
hearts’ best w*ahea and best aifoctiou.
HE IS OUR PEACE.
fISIUtON SY TUE BSV. UR. AUAMS, OF CE.TTCTACV
Tho llev. 8. H. Adams, the pastor of Cen
tenary M. E. Church, preached yesterday morn
ing as follows, taking as his text:
Tor lie U our peace.— L'nhftiinf, it.
The word peace is suggestive. First, it cu
ries us back to a time of hostility, abarpouod
by bitter antagonisms, and ripened into conflict.
Then it brings us up to the cessation of hostili
ties, a truce, a compact, an alliance. Whether
its etymology be derived from '* paoo," to ap
pease, or “pauo." to cease, it eignilica the fact
tbat parties onoa hostile havo become reconciled.
Peace is born of tho sharp conflicts of life.
Its peculiar sweetness con be tasted only by lips
embittered with the gall of sin. It is not known
to tbe unfailoo angels, for (bey have never been
aliens. It Is unknown to tbe lost spirits of woe,
for though alienated they are not reconciled.
Although m tho picture of human life the angel
of peace stands before us bathed in heavenly
light, with a countenance expressive of repose
and affection, yet Just behind her is a dark back
ground. There iu appropriateness that Ho who
is our peace should emerge from the dark con
flicts of our human experiences, scarred, yet
victorious; tbst the Bible route to Calvary
should be along tbe rugged steeps of 8mal; that
the standard of (his place should be planted ou
Golgotha among skulls aud bones.
Tho word peace suggests at once two impor
tant facts. First, war between Mau and God. It
discloses tbo history of this world's discord, tho
bitter warfare between God's uncompromising
claims, aud the oumdy of tbe carnal heart. It
gives m a bird’s-eye view this world rebelling,
mustering Us forces, hoisting its black Hag, and
plantiou its cannon. As tho Confederate troops
at Charleston opened Are upon Fort Bunder,
which was built to protect that port from u
foreign enemy, so we open Are upon that port
of Hivino law, which, rising out of the depths
of God's love, was reared course after course of
requirement for our defense sgsinsl the invasion
of evil. This war finds God wiiu the problem
before Him of preserving the union of the
divine and Uumau. Its bugle notes aru sounded,
calling upon oar wills, purposes, enmities, aud
lusts for volunteers, and then consoriptiug from
our enslaved passions aud hands.
Then this word peso* unfolds that other foot,
God conquering our enmity with the weapons of
His love—the cross, tho symbol of weakness,
becoming tue instrument of ills power,—Christ
by IBs death slaying the eomitv. sud winning us
into a voluntary suriendor to God,—Christ the
compact of peace; faith iu Him the terms; Ho
the mediator between God and man. for, haring
fought tbo God to nature, and God iu law, we
] are now reconciled to God io Ci’bo law
principle being vindiratni bv Hie we ac
• cnot Km olifr of pAidou on tlio atoning
blood. £3 g
The word peace eugceets anol® “ honxht—
the atonsmeut er a tnl; uto to mt— ttcktue*n.
War imnhes som»> dcgtv o of equal .tnccu tin
contending purlieu. 1 nort mat,. below (ha
povibiluy of war with «’.lrol. More animal J.fe
inorcs along it* presented path of necessitated
Obedience. Only a froe immortal spirit. created
in God's Image, towering up iu the heights of
Ha torn? toward (be Infinite, can war with Deity.
Qod’« method of rcccmviiinj man .Uustrate*
thin thought aiill more forcibly. Peace H nit
subjugation. Therein no propriety iu Haying
there is peace between an absolute monarchy
nud a crushed province. for imnhu* tu>
consent and lovaltjof both parties. Tneioauv
be decorum iu a family whore one one iron will
exercises lordship. and the other* slavishly obey
it. tut peace reigns tu the family only when the
individuality of each member in d.snnct, vot all
united io a sacred regard for unity. There H (he
bond of peace, but never the ivianuy. Hoe what
a lloodni light this one word peace cants anon
mary important rmoattona. Homo wonder that
(rod baa permuted cm, and especially are they
offended at those ciicniiona routes which Ho
takes co win us to obedience. To them, the ox
ercian of that nwful sovtirntgnty which should
compel rcciaa moie goA'iae. but such compul
sion. while itmighteieilytjiibjugaU)us, could not
brim* pear®.
Many treat the atoiMMieul as a satisfaction to
Justice, where, in the chaitctcr of fihylocir,
Deity demand* the pound of tlp«h, and then
those who are included i:i the covenant of grace
are ims.ptibly cmipolloi to yield br the might
ct GoA’a spirit, r.ml then irrcsidiblyrude to per
severe: and this they call peace! * with a
tool, no automaton, a handcuffed Wave! it Is
nbsnrl. finch views uttorly fail to h«s that in
finite tenderness, that marvelous patience, that
sacred regard for man’s dignity and freedom,
which God employs. I‘eacc moans man surren
dering of his own free will, covenanting with
God. all our manhood enlisting for Christ, djl a
power broken; ami the dour of return to his
former rebellion left open, for peace implies tuu
possibility of cppositencs* though it may never
bo used. Hence the word nnfo.Us to ns those
tender methods of GoTs spirit, iuritmg. be
benching, wooing, winning, hnt never compell
ing. In this peace compact wo boo God, though
a Sovereign, treating with us, reasoning, propos
ing. always recognizing two parties.
Thou how carefully God, though dealing with
the world, sates the individuality of each soul.
I treating not with the lamp of humanity, but
1 with “ whosoever will.” While this article of
agioomcnt with a rebellious race id printed with
! its conditions, promises, and benefits, always
after one precise form, between Jew and Gen
j tile, Green and Dwbamn, there being no differ
| once, the same now as in the first century, and
the sum} as will be for thu ends of time, yet to
each sou) God hands a copy with that particular
I name filled to, aud right nuder the signature of
! (ho Father, written with tbo blood oi Calvary,
I yon, In tholnlepity of your individual manhood.
! sign your own name, and when thus signed, that
document is yours exclusively, not o*eu assign-
I able to vour nearest friend. The siguituio of
I the Father renders ' our soul saivahlc : place is
i possible. Vour ftlhtamul signature rcuJcrs u
, saved,—peace is realised.
! Many hare attempted to prr iutoall the nys
tones of tbo compact undo between God and
I His, Sou Josus Christ, to understand how an 1
1 why the death of Christ was a saUifactui) to
God. or a substituted suffering for man : but this
question lies hidden behind insuruouutabla dif
ficulties. Wo accept it as a fact because the
Ulblo teaches it, and lucre wo leave it. The hu
man side of (he atonement wo can understand :
and there is no muefi to it tua: this alone is a
theme for tho ag<'3. liven the angels, rich as
aie tho leasts of heaven, leave their banqueting
had.*, aud, loaning over the battlements ol
heaven, ga/o earthward •• dcuiriug to look into "
this work of rcdempiiou—a theme so great that
tluougUout eternity It sualt he the song of the
I redfomodruuto Him that loved us nni washed
I us from our sms io Hiii own blood, and hath
| made us Kings and p.jests auto God mid His
I r.itho'*. f-i Him bo p.ory and dominion forsicr
! ami over."
Tbo deeper.! want of our human nature is not
happiness, but peace. Tlio linked idea of Goi
which is revealed through iho imu.t oiiH to hit
mini* is a power. Thoughts of the utlnito awo
us. The mvuterv that cuthrouds the Deity,
“making (Urkuoes His secret habitation," fill*
ua with suspense and fear. This awful iuilmto
holy presence follows us. W« csuuot escape it.
When wo become conscious of guilt this pres
ence becomes a tormentor, tine God bcemtugly
au enemy. Aud who is there that has nut lelt
guilt? If we consult our own consciences they
condemn aa. When wo retrospect, a hundred
spectres of post misdeeds surround us, each
with no upbraiding look, as they point their
skinny tinners nt our guilty souls, if we con
sult the voice of Nature, sire points to thu hard
and thorny way of the traiijgrcß'ior, and to th-i
rctiibauvo monument* of Divine wrath which
havo been reared over tho remains of em once
committed, and as we read the mournlulopitai-ba
of fallen men and rations, wo romomber our sins
and are troubled. If we consult tbo Bible wo
tlnd a still greater condemnation, searching
more minutely our inner lives, bolding ua lo a
hipber standard of excellence, thundering from
iU law so emu duties and fearful penalties, load
ing ua along bccstombrt of blniu bullocks, until
at last wo eland under tbn verysbadov of tlio
cross and hoar tho voice of tbo promised Spirit.
But what do we hear? r*iu!Hin] Sin! because
vou behove not on Christ. Guilt, cr*at*st guilt,
fur you havo greatest light. Our'base, unwor
thy lives, contrasted with the sublime example
of the Non of Man. ncem darker than tver be
fore. Wo look on (he bleeding victim nb"m our
sins havo pierced, anil wo mourn. We turn
away from tho sight, ami go 011 m our mad
caieor, dragging men to the prison* of sin,
lighting God with iotouttcst hatred when
no are aro aircsted by a voice, saying,
“I am Jesus whom thou parueciitest.” IDs
that voice any peculiar power to reclaim na to
God? It would seem that Jesus bv His death
only convicted the woild more deeply of sin.
widened tho chasm between ua and God. ami
that a guilty humanity, lute the demons, might
well err out. “Art tnou oumo to torment us Be
fore our time?” But the voice of the Crucified
has a magic charm to sooths our warring pas-
Hionfl, and a mighty power to conquer our re
bellion* natures.
Along (tieao human lino* of influence. somn
bow tine holy Kou of God. this agouiunc death
ou Calvarv. which as nothing obo convict* of
am, does also an nothing else bring pcuco to the
dinner. We need not go out iuto the wood to
proclaim the fact of sin; everjbodv boons it.
Wo need but look heavenward and behold
the black pall that Uauga otct the mu
verso; no need but road tho world's
history of Crimea and Buffering, or liaten to tbo
reproaches of our own consciences, to diacovor
that siu la a terrible reality. From the dare of
Eden tbo nratb of God against aii unrighteous
ness Uaa boon revealed ia & thousand ways, each
speaking with a thousand tungne*. During all
tlioso cenlurioa a Biu-ulri-'Keu humanity Uaa noon
trying to solve, by sacrifice and torture, thU one
problem : •* How shall man bo Just with God? "
hbe baa swung on books, me Jo long and weary
pilgrimages, uffoted the coblliosi eacriliuaa, tlllod
temples with the skull* of victims, and thou died
without peace. Deepening of success along this
line of doings, she baa taken another, that of
doubts, tilio baa aaul them la no God,
uo biu, no hereafter; thin souse of
guilt ia the child of sniieistitiou; let a
wiser age and a truer philosophy
escape this ihralldum: soul, bo of good com*
fort: there is uo God; thou art not asinuer;
look not to a Judgment to come. Hut this moth*
od of securing peace is so utter failure, because
humanity does not aifd cannot believe it. Onr
intuitive convictions of Uod. right, and duty
protest and cry out, “Miserable comforters are
ye all.” Hcgooel There ia a God, an hereafter,
a right, a duty; 1 have sinned and come short;
what shall 1 do to bo saved ?
peace being the profouudost went of our na
ture, another plan has been tried—dissipation.
Wo know there is a Hod, but wo will forgot Him.
Wo know we ire sumers, but we will plunge Into
the depths of worldliueas; wo will drown our
woes m the waves of passion; wo will fro*
queot plicae of amusement, take to our cups,
end forget it eil; but in our sober inter
vals ne sulfer the misery of e disinte
grated end self-despising life. At our
foists of mirth (he ghosts of murdered duties
haunt us, end will uot down at our bidding. lu
stead of finding peace wo are further md
further from it; and the pains of boll get
hold of us each dav with (inner grip. I stand,
hors to-night to till you. friends, that (hose de
vices are utter failures, that there is only one
way of peace, and that is to the foot of the cross.
Jesus is unr poa.*o. This is a fee;, a glorious
jnct, attested b» thousand* of living, competent
witnesses who have passed through these strug
gles, consulted all these expedients, and os i last
resort have touched the hem *•( the Baviot'sgar
ment, md hive been healed. Their peioo has
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been as a liver—peace with Ood through our
Lord .1. fIUJ CUribt. I wish to tell you iku oniy
tin* fact, but ho v and why it ia, sotiut «h*n > ou
co,no m Christ vou ma/ corns UuolllgeuiJr aud
with confidence. J
The first tiling dona by Christ in Hi* death t<i
to rr.vcal the amazing. infinite love oi Ood. I
uicd to think that the lovo of God wa* tlio firet
tiling wn saw lu tlia G.Klhead, and oulv as wa
searched did wo find Ilia power. Justice, and
holiness: hut I bavo become satisfied that white
lovo I* God'- central attribute, it is also Ilia
obscure oho. Why. ovod to this day. in
GhmUan lands, wo are but slowly waking up to
tha iatLorboofi of God, and receiving tbo hope,
stietigth, and lovo Uii* moat blessed truth lm
parcM. BHuro wa know rt wo are getting back
irojn compel itit.i hw, and llion through science
andti utsplimics into nature. Qod’a outside at-
ia ponor. Tbn*. say* Paul, is revealed to
tbe oe. •• Lvon Hi* eternal power and God
bead, ijo savago LobolJa and fears tbii awful
po.yor wliot-e pt£M?’ic-* bo cannot escape, and
wiioao mi,;ut ho comiot romsr, n >w with seeming
cai.nce thwarting hi* plana, and then with auger
crußlilng him. p
iarougn tlicfio gloom? cavern* of dsrkoee*
humanity has been groping r.a way. Awo I in*
mystery and cooflcicucc-imckmi bv guilt, it has
believed this groat infinite po.vorio ba an cuo
iny. Later God's ho.iocs* and justice aopoarod ;
caprice settled into order; l;io world was found
to i»o governed in tin* mt*resU «f virtue. Grad
nally loomed u;> tho rugged and awful peaks of
Kifiiti. upon whoso imuimit was a pure, holy, ond
Just Ood, wbo. amid cloud* of darkness and
u»mos of vengeance, issued ill* law But tbo
sinner has instinctively felt that even thin God
was his enemy, Ton can readily understand
bow tbo giiurv soul may approve Goers
law. and even admire His inlmlto holiness, aud
yet shun Him ; ana tho farther Ho pannes us
on th.« Imo tbo further wo will run avac from
Him, and tho more Uttorlv wo will hate Him.
It is a law of our humin natnro that if I injure
a man. iam bis enemy far m ire than if be ia
jurod mo. Tho one* to be reconciled in tho
offender, and this is the insurmountable barrier,
that ho whoso busiuoss it is to make confession
in alienated; he regards you »* his enemy,
Hbuua you, loams to hato you. While von may
bo icaiiy to forgive him upon a frank confession,
he «vdl uot come : while it i* hie business to go
all tho way to you, yol if a recoucihaljon I*
effected you mum go all tlio war to him. Vou
must rcroai not your wrath but year lovo. With
out compromising principle or excusing tbo
mu you muni. reconcile him. Christ is our
peace, reconciling in to God, removing our en
mities, and drawing us to Him became Ho uu
foiili tin infinite love of Iho Godhoad,—God
coaling all tbo wav to us, and thou getting dowu
at our feat. *• btj“--icliirnr ih to bo reconciled to
Jliai.’ IKro was the weakness of tho law, aud
hern tho poworuf tUu cro.-a, for ’* what tho J.tw
cuul J but do in mat it weak through Urn
trait of tuo ilcHh God did bv sending His Sou,”
for in this Ho ** cjuimeadod Hi* love toward us
in that while wo werj yet sinner* Chr.et died
for us,” What etrta’v monarch would havo
Rjveuhis only son to die to nave bin guilty subject:!
from merited punishment ? What Judge ou tbn
touch would lovo u numicrcr so much as to dm
m bis place Ua i the lovo of tbo
ciossl It wa* a lesson to tlio
angels unfi.l.mu mure richly tbo
giury of the Utviuo u.ttoro a* they beheld it *• in
too iacc of Jesus Curia:.’ 1 Weil might they till
the Judoau bl.y and sing to tbo shepherd's
•* Glory to God m tho kigUent,” for tins was t;ia
highest glory, luu richest nuuifoata.ion of tbo
drvino eeseuco of luio even they bad seen.
1 uuow that tUaro m« puvsows who will tali
you that tuo cross ih nut needed as a rcvcloUon
of God's amazing love : tliov nay NaUaro teaches
that siihicu'nJy. W.» admit that oivnio lovo in
seen iu .Natuio, yet tuo tehs about as much of
diviuo iudii.'urouco. As Nature proclaim] u
cause, wo go out to too limits of human thought
ami find ou abstraction, a first cause, but God
pimply as a cause imver loved anybody. Then
wo come back fu t:m cause!.—to Nature.—and
, liul eUo pay a but hula atuouou to n*
Jf vro got under her wl.vcls sac ctu-hca
ua; if a calamity tad cn us alia
doc» not oven stop lo look. True, the feeds ua
nr, btu she feeds tho lowest forms of life Just
-j puud air; bjo ponds ram mid uuuiibiue, but is
too u.\uglny aud tuduVuteni. to nrunoitnm it to
our prayuro oro ir moty. Luce such a pouer love
your Am* tuat man pmclio.d with poverty anJ
on sing hw oah cxisiouctf, aa he aa,n, “No.
God hoe fougb; mo at every inch ; lio has ilia
fttVuritos whom ile hu.pa at uiy cxyoujo." Atl:
; tuttimaiiwliocooiilvt.nl ha* ’fallan under iho
stupid hoofs of this nature pj »or and boeu
trodden to death, and porua.is tu Ins hiiternoiis
he Mil curse God, saving, “Hu is not even
juat; Ho look ray hoy.' 1 1 scarcely woudor that
so many who throw away the Bible bavo landed
< m tbo uhooilo** deed of atheism. At
every other place thim at tho loot oi
tho cross man has (juairclcd with God*
Dover donbiiiig Jim power, but bitterly quos
t ouiug ills lovo. Not that all have thus quar
reled. not that Nature gins no o.idet-co of love,
but tbat as an all-couviuciug demonstration,
hushing all rnurmimiip. burying alt ohjectums,
more tnau offsetting all vbe naiu things ol hlo,
tho crons and only the cross is our peace, recou*
cilmg aud wiuniug us to God.
Alter this rebellion has been conquered, and
our hearts won bo that we oro dranu right to
God. wo need sometnmg more in urd*r to havo
peace, aud that is coinidcucu. To make poacs
nouo of our intuitions must bo violated. Those
philosophies whim excuse mo, calling evil good
aud darkness light, or which represent Ood as
quite indifferent to our mos, can never bring
peace, for it is never heartily believed. A
message which proclaims s.mply a human
Christ, a dea.h on the crons wmch ie simply
nmivrdoai, no diviuo abhorrence of am, uo hai
rier to pardon, no needed vindication of God'e
law, mar c.y peace, peace, hut there ie no peace.
Conscience can bo pacuiod only a» we feel that
God is pacilicd, tho honor and authority of His
Uw vindicated, aud that there in a oasis wuuroby
God ca« b* just ami the jubtitler. While we
may uot solve the dihiculties, wo need to be as
suicd oi the fact tbat this offer of pardon has a
aubsiuutial basis iu all tho aitrioutts of the Di
vine uaiu e, Hlercy must uot bo at the expense
of truth ami justice Standing at tbo toot of
the cross, our rebellion conquered, but nut out
fears, we ask, '‘liautbis death a merit that
touches up to God <■” aud we uay '’Vou,” for read
ing tbo signs wo say, “Truly, this id
tbo Sou of God, God is here, every attribute
nailed to tho Crose, for even in Christ's death
ilw-ro • dwelt to Him all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily."* Thou wo ask, Has this death
a mem that roaches dowu to pan, out only tn
reapoctable manhood, but to the vilest and
lowest, to tho foulest, blackest tins you have
ever eommUtod or tuougut of ? Just bore,
strange as it may seem, the convicting power of
the Cross, revealing to us our sms and guilt as
nothing elso has ever done, contributes to our
peace 5 for we feel that this great Physician
knows fully the magnitude of our case. He lets
ua aay the hardest things against ourselves, and
then He says harder things. Ho llnda ns under
a weight of guilt, crying “I have Binned and
come short,” and, instead of removing it at
ouce. Ho makes it s greai dosl heavier. He
goes with us down into the depth of our being,
aud points out to us our sms, then Ho goes down
deeper than wo have ever gone, aud reveals to
us our secret sms: tbcu Ho uncovers our Inmost
being, aud ne stekou at tho stench which comes
to our nostrils from this cesspool of depravity.
Then He says to you, “I know tho mind of Ood,
and I know your heart. 1 can save you. 1 can
cleanse you. lam authorized lo graut too, 00
condition of faith, an immediate ana full pardon
for ell your sms. aud a litlo to glory." tiinner,
that is what Christ is saying lo you to-night.
•• Though your sins ba as scarlet they shall be aa
white as snow, though they bo red like crimson
they shall bo as wool" Are yon a groat alooer,
He is a great Savior, “able to save to the attar
most all that couo unto Ood byilitn.** I see
you coming, kneeling at the foot of the cross,—
tho tosd grows heavier, tho darkness thickens, I
hear you cry,
Depths of merer, can there ha
Mercy still rcaervud forme?
There ie i Seiah In Heaven. Angels ire witch*
ing. fcins lUud thick around you, but you ven
ture.
Perhaps He will admit my plea,
Perhaps will bear my prayer.
Out la Qe able? And a voice cornea, “All
Sower is given unto Me in Uiven sod ou earth."
lut is Uo willing? And the same voice speaks,
“ Him that couoth unto Uo I will in uo wise cast
out." You say, “I will believe,"but that voice
says, “Now is the accepted time." With a des
perate struggle you venture, “I will believe.’*
and that voice speaks again, "Thy faith hath
saved thee. Uo iu peace." What a trans
formation ! Tho burden is gone, tbo
darkness dispelled os tbo sphit brings
a tram of light from (ho heavenly
glory, ou da errand to toll you '• you aro lumof
God.' You rise and toll the story, “therefore,
being jueiitied by faith, I have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ." Such asoaluo
longer complains with (lod. If patched with
poverty, u has a peculiar fellowship with Eia