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Mr, Beecher’s Last Sermon.

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Dalivered at Plymouth Church, Sunday Evening, February 27.

RESOLUTION AND THE FIRMLY ADHERING TO PRINCIPLES —THE MOODS US SHOULD BE SUBORDINATED BETTER SELVES IF WE HERE AND HEREAFTER.

NECESSITY CERTAIN THAT

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Mr. Beecher's last sermon was delivered in ; Plymouth Church, Sunday night, February or

ae Text clause :

Luke, xvi. chap., iv. verse, the first ‘**] am resolved what to do.”

] read in your hearing this narrative, this parable of our Lord. ‘The unjust steward had heen accused, and rightfully, of betraying his trust, and wasting that committed to hin. His master called him ta an account, and he was satistied that the end had come ; and he communed with himself, and as the result of that, and looking oyer all the circunstances, he said, ‘*} am reeolyed what to do.”

What is the nature of a resolution—what is the scope of it, the potency? And what are the drawbacks? The _ self-consideration of these questions may throw light upon the path of many of us. Now our long effort of mak- ing up our mind is equivalent to forming a purpose. When a man resolves, he means, or should mean, to do something ; and

ALL RPSOLUTIONS CARRY, OR SHOULD GARRY,

not simply the end sought, but also the cap: able aad necessary moins by which the end is sought. 1am resolved to cross that river, by the bridge, by boat, or by swimming. To stand on one side and resolve to be on the vther, without any intermediate means of do- ing it, would be folly indeed. I am regelved to-morrow to go to markes. All the inter- inedi@te ang jwpled steps -by which that resy- lution could be carried gut are inoluded in the resolution itself. A resolution is a purpose in so far as simple things, uacompounded, in- complex, are concerned. A resolution may be executed immediately, without loss of time ; indeed, the greatest number of resolutions are those which, like the stroke of the hanymer or the explosion of the gun,are*almost without any apprecidble interlapge of time, ‘I am re- solved what to da,” Natural resolutions: At the ery of fire a man instantly looks out to see what to do; at the call of a man to step to the dvor and see a stranger or a friend; he resolves to do it ; : ALTHOUGH THE RESOLUTION LALENT in such a sense by repetition, ho is nat con:

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have a resolution; they are like sieves, all their thoughts run through and are wasted ; there is a great deal of dittidence about them ; there are some men whose thoughts are like the ratchet wheel, the wheel that has, notch by notch, to hold what it has got; and there are a great many whose THOUGHTS ARE LIKE THISTLE DOWNS

that are going everywhere, and don’t know that they are going anywhere, and are subject to the mutations of the wind. There is a great deal of diiference—need be—to win men to form resolutions, sometimes, of a strong nature anda sterling strong purpose; when once they have resolved never to flinch they never know in any hour a downsliding; they may be less active at one time than another, but they don’t turn back. Once having put theiy hand to the plough they dan't look back again, But then there are these that have the same policy resolution, but they are made of different stuff; it slides away ; they forget it ; they are not stiff enough to stand up against the wind, it may be, that shall come upon thei.

The geneal qualities of the resolutions which men make are of every grade; even a frail women, walking in the baisterons March winds, may find taat with all the sail she earries she cannot make headway against it, and supports herself by a fence that is stiif enough to hold her until the wind lulls, And as it 1s in the community, so it is in regard to iadividuals—there are many persons who, left to themselves, waver ; they do so sometimes from good reasons, sometimes from those not so good, sometimes because the purposes were formed in a moment of excitement, and have nothing left cf them’ when the excitement cools. “There is instability also arising from DISABILITY OF ORGANIZATION ;

that is to say, a man may be susceptible while oue class of effects is being produced, and in that mood he may form a resolution, but to- morrow some other blessed, beautiful thing may come up, and he is just ag susceptible of that, and the secondary state of mind obliter. atey the first. A man is under the influence of music, and all his purposes run under that power or intuence, but, by and by, the out- break of politics brings up patriotism, as it is called, and his moods change, and those early sensations at first are no longer gperative upon him; another powertul intluence canses di. gression. There aye many men who have guch ancillary elements brought to bear upon their wills and upon their temperaments that} they are almost persuaded to be Christians, and think they will be, but, going home in a hurry, tall in with company, and the day fol-

lowing business instincts and interests, It is like another scene that day. No that there is

this changeahleness in men. Then the de- crease of the power came from the nature of the mind, There is, however, this idea not to}

be nuglected—the distinction between the

s4iaus of making up bis mind,

Now, as you go on in life, as society itself becomes more complex——civilization is growth in complexity—as the things that you resolve |

man’s Willing and his wishing. A great many people think that a wish is # resolution. Oh, it has gone into a proverb. ‘“‘If wishes were horses, then beggars might ride.” A man

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to do or not to do are largely in their times, wishes he were rich, but he is too lazy, and and are c'ustered together by cause and effect, | he never will be; a man wishes that he knew, resolutions spreading over so long spaces and more; probably never will; he is lazy; a man so much intermediatism issomewhat ditferent | Wishes that he could have entrance into cer- from the first resolve. { tain cireles in society, but the steps requisite Resolution, then, means a purpose, the will | he never will have patience or wisdom to take. itself ; and it includes in it, algo, all indispen+ | You might just as well sable intermediate steps ; and some resolutions CARRY A CANDLE AROUND THE FIELD execute themselves immediately 3 some with} and think it is agriculture, because it is light ee delay ; — with long delay ; some, shining on crops. Thousands of people think through many subordinate resolutions, that they wish to be Christians; they doa't. That earry out the primary one. And man may | is the interpretation given much of the in- resolve at a critical moment that which will) jc poction of Jesus. Men came to him and nenee said: ‘* Lord, we will fallow Thee whither. THE WHOLE CHARACTER OF HIS BIFE } goever Thou goest.” ‘‘No, you wont’'t; you yea, he may determine in any ane single, fina) don't know that Tam destined to suffering, moment that which will take the whole ef his’ poverty, ersecution, death; you think that 1 life to carry into effect. This is the case of, am going to be a royal personage and shower ten thousand men. When my father was’ honors and gold.” ‘* Ah, says one, * T will young, a lad (he was brought up by, substan- | follow Chee, but suffer me first,” Ah, there tially, an uncle), he had in him all that was/is that “if” amd ‘‘ but” in life. Ten thou- pecessary to make him what. he was in_ his sand people say, “‘ ! would | to be a Christian professivnal life. But he didn’t use it; he was if, -and that settles it “I ‘want _to be a careless; he was heedless; he was torgetful of ; Christian, but "—yes, that settles it again. things external; and sa Uncle Lot fenton one And so Christ was surrounded by swarms of morning, going out, found that being out late | persons following Him around, wishing and with the horses the night before visiting some | wishing, with various degrees of excitalilit young company, the bridle was placed over! in them, and He put them all off—He woul the water-trough and the saddle was thrown | have nothing to do with them. ‘* Let him down behind the stable door, and the horses | take up hig crass and follow me, whosvever turned in without a halter, and he said, “Oh, | would be my disciple,” There is something} well, Lyman w'll never make a farmer; he is | ta do, something to prove and to wish. There not fitted for it.” Ang so, talking in the i8 a great distinction between wishing, then, orchard with him one day, he says: ‘‘Lyman, | and willing, for when a man wills the purpose how would you like to go to college?” No, carries with it the instrument to effect itself. answer. They went on working all day. Next) You wish to be a Christian —<o you will to be day, about the same hour, as they were work- | one: Your wishing is tantalization if will be ing together in the orchard, Lyman says: ‘‘I accomplishment. . — would like to go, sir.” That settled it. In! Now, Christian life

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lessly men heed that. To-night how many are there of you that say thus looking over the sphere of life—life to some: “I am re- svived what to do.” Bearing ia mind what a

resolution means and what it includes, how many nen Can say to-night, ‘Yes, 1 am re- solved what to do.” There are very few of

you that would say “Iam resolved not to be a Christian.” This is a very haza: dous thing, which very few men cave to resolve. Men may say,on the other hand, “1 hupe some time to be a Christian; I feel sometimes as i I would lixe to be one; 1 wish I was one;” JUST AS A LAZY MAN WISHES

he had the products of indust:y. But how many men are there here to-might that can say, ‘‘lam resolved what todv.” “t am resolved what to do.”

Are you then resolved, at once, to become a Christian? Can I] be a Curistian at once ? in one sense, no; in another sense, yes. No body ever learned a trade ata blow, but he can begin this day; no man ever became a scholar by a resulution, but he wever can be- come one Without a resolution ; it is a com- p'ex one and a coastautiy repeating one, an- cillary resolutions uphoiding the main one. Are you resolved to be a Christian to this ex- tent—I will bezsin to-night? ‘Lam re olved as far as I have light aud as far as I know my way. I am determined, God knows I am determined, to square my life heieaftey on Caristian principies. I aim resolved ta be a Cavistian man.” Now, this may include Iinay bea Roman Catholic and resulve it qr a Protescant and stay out of that Church, and stay out of any other Chureh. The resolution doesn’t mean 1 wil! be a Chiis- tian like to this scheme or that scheme, ac. cording to this Church or that Chureh; it simply means in its sump'est form, its primary condition, * I will reguiate my life, both in- side and out, according to the principies laid down for me by the Lord Jesus Christ.” 1s wut that a very simple thing? But what does it carry with it? It carries, in the first place, this; ‘*‘i will therefore begin by exeluding everything that I knew wili hinder this reso- lution ; from a consciously wicked way, I will begin

AS A PART OF THE FULFILMENT of this resolution, I will stop.” That is the meaning of the repentance John began and Christ took up. Kepent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, that is to say, I will get over every kncwn wrong that is inconsistent with this purpose that I have formed; I am ging to live as a Christian man,as a Christian woman ; and if there be that which I know to be fundamentally wrong I shall carry out my resolution by repenting or turning away from that. And then, in the next place, a resolu- tion to be a Christion applies iunmediately: It is not that I will be a Christian next year, or by-and-by, er long time—deati, but it is going ov, beginning at once to live, as far as I know how, righteous, Do you mean, then, to take the steps that are necessary? Are ou ready to begin your attempt to live a Christian life by saying in sincerity :—*‘Ciod, show me the way ; give me thy help?’ Are you willing? Not to say your prayers; there are a great many prayers said; a great many too few prayers that are felt and not true. Is there sincerity in you? I would to God that you have spiritual re-filling and the sustaining power of the whole spirit, that you have the certainty that He was working in me to will and to do of His good pleasure, Are you ready to begin your Christian life then by opening the Word af God and reading, not a chapter, not a verse or two every day, but to make it the line of your counsel ? When any great combination scheme is being formed im New York—any syndicate—there is always the lawyer, and they will never take a single step until they consalt him,and he is about all the while ; he is the man of their connsel; it is a complicated thing, and a great dea! depends upoy it, and THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO GO WRON®O,

Are you willing to take the New Testament as the line of your counsel? See what it says about lusts, abuut appetites; what it says abuut crime and envy, and jealousy, and all iil will and evil-speaking, aud all selfishness in its grasping moods? Are you willing to look through the New Testament to see what the. law of the Lord is? Not by discussion. God wil! take care of his own defence and doesn't you for any help; nor has He any ocea- sion to thank anybody. Are you willing to take the Bible just as a ship-master takes the chart ? When he leaves thé last shore light and takes his direction; he never says, ‘‘Read me a direction or two of the sailing directions, and then read me the draughtings ins'de again and then again.” They have no relation at all to his course, to his actual sailing; but he is not going to resd so many parts of his chart

that beginning was a purpose that IS THE ONLY REASONABLE ONE, SHAPED DIFFERENTLY HIS WHOLE LIFE ; it never gave out; it branched in every direc- tion; he made what he was; that was owing to the parting; by not, he would have been a. : miserable farmer; he made a tolerably good . relations to yourself, to your fellow-men and} minister and a tolerably good father. to your God for. which you were created. So then, a man may form a resolution with- | True Christianity means living in those rela- out noise, without parade, but that with infi- | tions for which we were created—harmoniza- ite sequence in its development. It may / tion of ourselves, harmonization of our re- include in itself a longer process; it may in-! lation to the invisible future. And I say that

| whether you regard it as a duty or as a means , ‘of the greatest satisfaction. That is to say, | we are made te be Christians, and being a! Christian is simply putting yourself in those

and of his sailing directions. Why no ; he lays out his voyage from the beginning and every day he takes observations, and then he checks down on the chart just where he is) At noon to-morrow he takes another observation ; not because there is any need of reading his chart, in reading any book on navigation ; not be- cause he is studying astronomy for the sake of anything that is inastronomy. He has got a detinite purpose in life ; after which he sells his astronomy, and after which he sells his

clude in itself the whole scope of a man’s lite, | and thrice ten thousand resolutions will be formed successively to carry out the great primary resolution which a man makes. Thus, if a man is to be a lawyer he is not going to be a blacksmith, nor a sailor, nor a soldier, sv that there is the resolution of exclusion; it turns him away from those things inconsistent with the first element. If he is to be a lawyer | there must be the question of education, and a

professional education, and all the conditions | which are pre-requisite to the presenting him- self to the court and his license to plead and the beginnings of practice. All of these are’ wrapped up in the first determination, ‘I will ; be a lawyer;” but that determination don’t! make him one; it starts him on a long train of events that are necessary to make him a lawyer. And so in regard to morality, a young man may

STAND ON THE THRESHOLD OF LIFE ;

he may resolve that he will see the world, and | the man that means to see everything in the

‘lies in that self control, in that virtue, in th

is reasonable; I say more than that, that it: books, or those which lay his course. Are has in it the inherent, the greatest amount of | you willing to begin a Christian course and happiness. For although, for temporary rea-| voyage by going to the Word of God to ascer- sons, a man may defer to his passions, taking | tain the average and the whole life, he loses rather

than he is the loser now, but suffers then. A} both what you are to reject and what you are man may th nk, because he rans through a! to adopt? That is sensible, that is right re-

EXACTLY WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YCU,

| dissipated period and then reforms, that the | solving, according to a practical basis and re-

dissipation is all over. No, no, no; the causes} solution. Or, onthe other hand, are you, sink under and run subterraneously, as it) while you are weighing, that is, in yourself, were; and there is many & man that has) are you saying to yourself: ‘‘My other people

‘grumbled at forty-five years of a from the! of God got ou the best way. There is my misconduct of twenty years. You know that | father and mother. If there were ever any

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there are the seventeen-year locusts; they lay | Christians they were such I believe they their eggs, and those eggs lie incubating in| were real Christians?’ Now, 4 man’s mother

ground for seventeen years; then they hatch | jg infinitely more to him than the Virgin

‘and come forth. A man may by evil deeds) Mary is to any devoted Catholic. lay the eggs that will

hatch twenty years; You come into the Church because you find after that, and as a general truth I think it is’ sympathy there and kindly help there. Are demonstrable by actual observation and ex-) you willing to take advantage of ail these perience that the kindly helps, so that you may be able to keep

TRUE HAPPINESS OF A MAN your purpose and your will? Are gou willing at. to begin it now! You don’t need any more

: NOW re. You have been bronght up in which is the knowledge. ¥ g p

world will probably see a good deal under the | integrity, in that love power, 1 U world, by and by, that he won't care about | substance of religion itself. It is not learning seeing. A man who resolves, on the other | your catechism, it is not learning your verses

Christian knowledge from the very cradle; you have no bad associations; you have ne- cessarily none by the average, but what

hand, ‘*I believe in honesty; it is the best prin- ciple” (but it is better than nothing to say). That ix the best policy ; it is good policy ; all good policy is a principle ; all | ges principles | carry with them a policy. young man, he says, “Iain determined to be an honest and upright man ;” that at once spreads to| other men; he won't associate with certain | ones, he will associate with certain others : he ycon’t follow certain things; he will seek other paths; the resolution sifts life for him; out of its discipline, and another resolution |

owing, crude thigg, Now, there are q- yar mung poopie whid n'y wedkd Uver vd

Christian life was, and Christian duty, is ‘there—there is not a man here that needs to have additional instruction; he knows that he is bound to live obediently to God and in love

of faith, it is not going through ecclesiastical achievements. ‘Thou shalt “love the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as thyself.” There- fore you must lift yourse!i, and he that lifts

4 . . 18 If sh + by ps ty towards the, ™. ; ! oe »v lal’ 0 ” oe See ead be og n rh taaee but to-; with Jesus Christ. But cana man com oe oh " —— » "? . . ° a i if—t ; nderstand- * State oi emotion? Can in by simply wards his whole seif—ihe reg * understand- ~usite 1 n, Pat Be Be ts eee ing, the wer and elemeat and spi it-; 7°38 | , 2 No; y ae , . I will feel he can take the s'ps to feel. A

ual in him. sented to him, and he is urved to enter upo Christian life as the only honorable | oae,

only one that has the greatest a e ‘dea

it, the ouly one that gi rries io it t fivty wed reat ¥owurl icky htdw

Now, when a man has this pre-e

n qa man shivers an says, “Chili's and fever are

the not agreeable; Lam determicd to get me iy them.” Well, you cannot get over them by of determining it, but if you will take quinine

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