The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1868, Page 8

8 S—_—_—_—$—$—$—$—$—_—_$—$—$— rrr RELIGIOUS SERVICES YESTERDAY. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. ‘Whe Festival of St. John the Apostie—Sermon by Archbishop McCloskev. jme principal mass at the Cathedral yesterday was telebrated by the Rev. Br. McSweeney, attended by twelve young acolytes, The Most Reverend Arch- bishop occupied his throne at the right hand of the sanctuary. At the close of the Gospel in the mass he ascended the pulpit and.read from the Bible the gow pel of the day (Jonn xxi, 19-24), His Grace then proceeded to deliver one of his usual clear and pleasing discourses, mainly on the points contained im the text. He said:—We have all felt, beloved brethren, how rich indeed are the treasures of divine grace, how plentiful and overflowing are the fountains of spiritua: joy which are spread out oefore us and which: seem to spring around us dui this festive and thrice hallowed season. The’ Christian soul, iluminated with the gift of the holy Catholic faith, which is at witb God, can appreciate the beauties that have been opened out for its enjoyment during the present glo- rious holidays. What incitements are given to heavenward thoughts and aspirations? What mo- tives are pro) for high and geuerous resolves? How wuch can be found to elevate, to st ‘then, to cheer, to encourage, to console, in the wondrous and imeffabie mystery of a God coming doWn from heaven, being born here on earth as a little, suifer- ing, helpless infant—man to be ransomed from his long, weary bondage, earth reconciled once more with heaven, glory to God and peace proclaimed to men? This 18 the sublime, urst and only cause of the world’s rejoicing in this grand and glorious event which the Church through- ‘out the world has commemorated and continues to commemorate with such exaiting that the three fes- tavals which come in this octave, and which, while they share our thougiits and affections, do not seen to draw us away from the spectacle of the Bethie- hem manger, but seem rather to concentrate our feelings more around the central sun. Yesterday we coiemorated the feast of the first of the follow- ‘ers of Christ who yielded up his life for the love of his Master—the first martyr—St. Stephen. ‘To-day we are assembied to do honor to that Apostle whom Jesus Joved, and it 18 but right that in compuieting the mystery of love inthe incarnation of Jesus we should show a feature of that love in this, His chosen dis- ciple Ou this day—that disciple to whom, when ex- pining op the cross, He commutted His virgin mother, = bee He revealed the future fortunes of His hoy ehureh. ills Grace then went on to discuss the question Which, he said, must come to us, “How did Join Manage or deserve to obtain such slugular favor?” First, because of his original ad und secondly, tor his idyal and unwavering fidelity. Jotun was the only one ol the Aposties who had kept himself free from any bonds of human atfection. He also at all tines, aml especially in the hour of danger, seemed to be faithful, and Was found ever at the side of his Saviour. When.the others fled from Calvary he alone stood at the foot of the cross with the divine mother of the crucified God to receive His dyivg words. We have only to transport ourselves to the scene at Cal- ‘vary to learn how great was John’s privilege to ail je “had received. lt was when hanging on the ‘cross that Jesus, casting His eyes around Hu, be- held Ihs divine mother—she who was His greatest earthly treasure; and then, looking around again to see Who should take His place and who should be en- titled to call Mary Mother, He sees His beloved dis- ciple John, and (as St. Ambrose says), “He post- for a moment the consummation of His great work that He iight bequeath to them His dying legacy of love.” He gives Mary to John and John to ‘Mary. But this legacy was not coutined solely to John. He merely represented us. He, being the chosen ope to with Mary, ed for us the rivilege to ve her chiidren, and if we woud be true foliowers of John, true children Mary, true friends of Jesus Christ, we must imitate Jonn. We must learn to practise virtue and purity of heart above all other things. Without it we cannot be friends of God; we cannot obtain the divine grace; ‘We caunot be entitled to see Him in His kingdom— jn heaven—into which nothing that 1s defiled can enter, for, a8 Christ himself says, “Blessed are te clean of heart, for they shall see God.” The best way, then, to imitate John is to do that which he has advised over and over again when he “Little chiidren, iove one another; for charity is o! |, and in this hath the charity of God appeared—that He has given us His only Son, Jesus Christ, as a propi- tiation for our sins,” If God so loved us we should love one another. This is the lesson taught by the baby ip the manger; this is the lesson taught by the sacri- ice on Calvary and preached by the Aposties. Let no foundation of anger, of revenge, of enmity find place among us; let us live in harmony, peace, eternal Jove and charity; let us strive day after day to be brought nearer to God and to one another tu the unity of faith, in the blessedness of hope and the intinity of charity; let us live so that we may forever ge with our Saviour in the kingdom of His nye CHURCH OF ALL SOULS. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Bellows. ‘The Rev. Dr. Bellows preached yesterday morning wefore a highly fashionable and attentive congrega- tion at the Church of All Souls, corner of Fourth avenue and Twentieth street, After the usual in- troductory services the reverend gentleman took as the basis of his remarks the text, “Give an account of thy stewardship” (St. Luke, sixteenth chapter, second verse.) Proceeding to elucidate his subject, ne said:—This is the great accounting season of the year. It is the period when a demand 1s made upon ail classes for a settlement of outstanding accounts; the employer of his agent, the master of his servant, the Jandlord of his teuant, the creditor of his debtor; the period when business comnections are dissolved and others formed; when the unworthy are cast off ane the long tried and deserving promoted and ad- wmitted to copartnership. Therefore, “Give an ac- count of thy stewardship.” How stands the balance sheet? Are you a debtor or a creditor for the charge entrusted to your management’ Art thou deserving of reward, or does the account bear witness that thou hast been an unworthy servant and profitiess credi- tor? Nor ts this question propounded alone to those enguged tn the active pursuits of life and holding wrdinate positions, but to all—the high and low, the rich gand poor, the old and yonng—for those who do not have to render an account to others must account to themselves; and let him be who he may, if he expects to retain his position he must rs strict account to himself of his stewardship. or is it the male sex alone upon which the demand is made—the ‘accounts in the domestic office mast be by wives and danghters and mothers and sisters, The datly life inthe domestic circle must be carefully scrutinized, and the words and acts and even thoughts of envy and selfishness must be placed in the schedule and play their part in the general balance. The mis- takes of the past year, both and small, must be examined and critically considered , the acts of omission as well as of commission, the thoughtless negiect as well as the wilful misdeed; nor Will the silent monitor permit them to be over- jooked because so much be found toyhock the atten- tion of the extravagant, while the prudent arise ‘With justified rejoicing. Nor is itof the old and ma- ture in jadgment alone that this stringent self-ex- amination is demanded. At no season is it more necessary, and it is hoped that its actuating infu- ence be more forcible in restraining and governing our young men and young women. I doubt not that in tie secret account current of alas! too many of the young and outwardly bright of promise we should encounter a mass of items, each one of which would be enough to cause @ blush of shame to mantie their fair brows. How many our young men’s characters are to-day in the lands of their tailors, or of those still more reprenensible saloon keepers, and a host of other creaitors? The extravagance and immor- ality of the age and of this city seem to have blunted if not irretrievably to have ruined the sensibility and independent mauhood of our young men. How many shameful acts daughters, too, commit at home ana abroad! What with immodest costumes, extrava- gant uphoistery, lavish entertainments, disgusting tieatricais, loose associations and their concomitant evils, heavy will be the debit side of the account ren- dered of their stewardship, ‘Thousands aware of the prevailing extravagance content themselves with an occasional expression of condemnation, but give little heed to the thereof for which they must render an account; thoughitiess, indeed, of their own stewardship, even in regard to therr little children, many of whom will soon become men and women and @ living reproof to their teachers. fappy those whose record of ac- counts can be eI satisfactory at this season ; for he who resists temptations in smali things will do ec io great, in money matters as in others, and this ehould be the motto placed over every agent's desk, that the mode tn which we treat the trust is the measure of the stewardship, If we cannot render an account to our earthiy employers, how much less to that superior Employer who demands a record of all (hat is entrusted to us in @ matter of so much moment—the state of our immortal souls—a moral account ef our small, dally acts, Is it fancy that we are sent into this world with a con- science? Mydrethren, we have not kept up the delu- sion ef “free cy" to this hour without some reason, for our ences cower before the invisibie fro the mepection of our Maker, Alas! He knows too wei) the infirmities of humanity—our sins, the weakness of human hearts, what we bave done and What we have jeft undone. He knows them too well; the judgment belongs to Him alone. Who can meet that jadgmenty And when the tume of reckoning comes round, a8 just been compieted with the : the year. and you are hi d your duty ward God, would it not be most appropriate to say, like the prodigal son, er, ii sinned against Heaven and before Thee, no more Worthy to be called thy son.” |The 1, in epite of the weather, was large, “and hn, Which Was attentively listened to by wil * replete with masterly sentences, cenit ful lovee, not less worthy than charac ter)ste of their author. THE SECOND ADVENT CHURCH, the Futere State—Sermon by Elder Wendett. Advent church held two services yes: 18 Cooper fnstitute, at both of Hindes ond vo. Wite J svua V NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1868. F i P| u 15:—“‘As for me I will be- hold Thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likenesa,” The preacher asked if the word awaking did not imply a going to sleep, and said that when trying to prove conscious- ness in death the first future iife text upon which the commentator lighted was @ resurrection text. The commentator then went on to say that the idea was that the soul was not suifered to remain in the under world, in that dull, gloomy abode. The preacher asked whether the Saviour’ ’g soul rested in this dull, gloomy abode. ‘The Old Testament taught the truth of the uncon- Sciougness of the dead, aud put the satisfying portion of its teachings as the resurrection and regarded the intermediate condition a8 that which was spoken of in the words, ‘The dead praise not the Lord.” Saviour went into Hades, and that 1¢ was not a ds sirable place in which to remain was proved by the romise to Him that He should come out of it again, 7 1t had been a desirable place, to take Him from it would have been @ punishment, and no promise would have been needed. He was to go into the glorious abode promised of God. ‘thou wilt show me the path of life? How could the path of life be entered but by aresurrection’ ‘The Saviour himself referred to Hades in Revelations i., 18, where Hie says, “i am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Aiwen; and have the keys of hell aud of death.” With this text before them what could become of the modern heresy of universal salvation? It was said that Christ’s resurrection body was only gee and that His resurrection consisted only in His living on earth after death. Dr. Cobb said that He was mani- fested after death only for the purpose of showing that He lived, and that when He was going to heaven His body by some chemical Eye dissolved, and that it never lived in heaven. Those who say that His risen body was not His dead body deny the resurrec- tion of Christ, and say with Philetus that the resurrec- tion *‘is passed al ? ‘The Saviour said, ‘Behold, 1 am he that was dead, and am alive for evermore.” It ig sometumes said that the Saviour was raised mortal. Was he raised glorified? No; but we admit that the change awaited him. This, however, does nots prove that he was raised mortal. The Apostle Paul made an explicit distinction between morvality and glorification—corruption and glorification. it did not say in the Bible that Christ was raised in glory, but it does say that the saints shall have the same sort of body that the Saviour had. When Christ left the grave he was deathiess, but not glori- fied. “Christ being raised from the dead can die no more; death hath no dominion over him.” What ‘was meapt by His having the keys of Hades? Suppose some friend of Sam Bowles had said to him when he was unceremoniously arrest “I have the keys of your prison,” what would he have meant? Why, of course, taat he could let him out. When Jesus said, “I have got the keys” He did not mean that He could keep the saints from entering Hades. It could not mean that Hades was empty and He could lock the doors so as none should be admitted, for the generations were gathered in the gloomy prison house, It must mean that he was able to throw open the gates and let His people out. ie text said, “On this rock will I build My Chureh”—not the Second Advent Church or the Episcopal Church, but His Church. But, Jesus, Thy Church is a poor affair if, after loving Thee and one another on earth, deathcan cae hold of its members, What kind of # stability is this when death can come and mow down its saints, The Saviour who can remedy this evil must be a Saviour indeed—one who can abolish death and bring immortality to Ught, so that the Gospel may ind be good news, e read that He has abolished death, so that the Church is not brought to an end when it is laid in Hades, and that He has the keys and will open the doors for its happy exit. Hades is broken of its power andthe Church delivered from it. If the Church will have eternal life what will empty Hades of those who do not believe? Tell everybody that if they desire to get out of Hades im join the Church—that is, become united to Jesus it—for there is not @ text in the Bible which says that unbelievers will ever be delivered from tb! prison. It is asked whet is meant by “I dead, both great and small, stand before God, in answer | take the und that the term ‘dead’? means only the saints, The true reading of the Greek text is “stand before the Throne.” Will the wicked dead ever appear before God's throne + The Bible says heaven is God’s throne and earth his foot- stool, and when the saints stand before the throne they will be in heaven. The wicked do not get there, Death and hell are to be cast into the lake of brim- stone. There can be no Hades if there are no dead, and all who remain in Hades shall be cast into the fire. Mr. Wendell concluded his address with an earn- est appeal to ali to come to Jesus and receive sal- vation from Him. UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Sermon by Dr. Chapin. This church, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty- fifth street, is attended by a large and fashionable congregation, and was well filled at the morning services yesterday. Dr. Chapin preached a lengthy and excellent sermon, taking his text from the twenty-ninth chapter and eighth verse of Isaiah, which runs as follow: It shall be even as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awakeneth and his soal 1s empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awakeneth, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of ail the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.” The reverend preacher said that was the original reading of the text, put the application he would make of it t& his present discourse would show that it might refer to men in our times as well as to the Assyrian hosts of old. Taking the figure employed in the text as having relation to the everyday experiences and conditions of men, the first thought that occurred to one was concerning those who in the pleasures, business and general pursuits of the world were living like the hungry man and the thirsty man. iy od were living as if realities were dreams and as if dreams were realities. He did not mean to say human life itself was a ream. Some might consider the world and human life in that view, but for his part he believed that to be a sceptical view. If our present existence were all vain and dejusive how could we make sure it would ever lead toa higher? How could we make gure that the proofs on which we rested were not all phan ia, like the ‘baseless fabric of @ vision,” which would dissolve and vanish into thin air, Cutaway from the human soul all reality and oodness, and how could we be sure there were such things as reality and goodness? No, God was just in this world, though His justness might be made known hereafter, He who demonstrated that this life was all unreal could never find any reality any- where. There were people to-day in this city, poor men and poor women, perliaps houseless and pierced with the winter's cold, who might assert that un- ness was unreal, but who knew there weve sucl things as poverty and*suffering, and who, Jove new that life was real. Scepticism and moral despair would be the result of a he- Nef in the wonreality of life. He did not find that Jesus Christ ever spoke of the worthless- ness of the mt state in order to build up a higher state. On the contrary, He praised the lilics of the field and all nature around Him. The religion of Jesus Christ was real. Notwithstanding, on the other hand, those who were in life were dreaming, life was not adream; but many men, alas! dreamed in life. They dreamed as to the methods by which good was tobe procured. Man thought he could satisfy himself by acquisition and sensual enjoy- ment; but these temporal and sensual things of themselves did not vatiaty, and, consequently, man was always hongry. Mark the difference between man and the animals. Some anatomisis seemed to think that there was no actual difference vetween animals and men, but that man had grown through various forms of animal life, through baboon and gortiia, to man. But man was something higher and something better than this, There was no clime so large but what he wanted to conquer and then to conquer more. He had @ boundiess and @ ing desire for everything. Man became palled when he satiated bis 4 nae and sought for some- thing else. He did not know that any one would be to go on with life if he should fina on look- forward the perils which beset the Sg he had to travel and the heavy burdens he should bear. Ifhe knew this perhaps he should not be content to go forward at ali, But he was led on. ward by delusions. It seemed to him to be bright and tbe morrow might be brighter. How much of youthful ife was but an empty form! Some men’s whole lives were spent in vain efforts to make money. Ifa man should accumulate the amount of money that le thought he would be satisfied with, was he then satisfied? Oh, no; and by and by his soul was empty and palled by the pleasures and vanities of life. Then comes the argument that he did not dream of before. Death stepped in and brougit the great reality before his eyes, Man then got awake, whey ail he had hoarded in life was slipping away ffom him, His riches were passing ong way and he was passing another, He awakes, and that Was ali he had gamed in Ife. He awakes and his soul was empty. A young man spent a few years enjoying bimself, untii by and by he had the physica vigor and then, when woke up, he found what a dreaw | | he sharp shock of Would that we could feel how solemn, how awful life was! {t was great thing awoke to How the Apostle Paul gav are without a God in the world were now without aGod in th low few there were who felt that God was their gouls, who felt that the breath ving God touched them as it chaos! One great characteristic of was, awakening to Christian ples—not these facile, flexible prin- but ap awakening a the touched the awake: right and pri ciples wi some ado} to the inward conviction rau and righteousness. It did not matter how long a man lived, but how much @ man lived. True life did not consist in SRantlly, bas, in quality. It was the trouble with ople country, compared with those of Ire, that they wore ‘always “getting ready” for, @ living—never living, but to live, The’ wetting reverend gentleman having alluded season ag One eminently calculated to impress the minds of his hearers with their duties through life, and urging on them the necessity of looking on life a8 an actual reality and not a dream, ¢loged his dis- course, PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Annual Closing Sermon by Rev. H. W, Beecher. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher last evening delivered his closing sermon for the year to a very large congre- gation, taking his text from the eleventh chapter of St. Matthew and twelfth verse: ‘And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”” ‘This seemed to bim religion in times of war; campaigns are to be laid out, strength and power are to gain the victory. The kingdom of heaven 1s to be won, heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force, There 1s needed a spirit of energy to gain success, and energy in such a fight is sure to win. This was a figure of speech speaking of the efforts to gain the struggie for the attainment of eternal life, or the kingdom of heaven. Man in his bodily lie grows to physical manhood, but man while growing to physical strength does not grow to be @ mechanic. This is a voluntary effort of the mind. Every single step that mau grows in his mental development he must take by im- proving himself in study or in the pursuit of some ental development. The higher moral sentiments for. their acquisition require a higher course of trainiag. The mind as it develops itself requires more individual energy and development. God is not wanting lo this development; he lays the basis of it and the more he is appealed to the more perfect will be the development. Right aims directed by the ie. faculties of the mind will be sure to succeed, No part of man’s nature or mind is to be destroyed in seeking this higher order of development. There is no need of any new creation in @ substantive sense, though there 18 need of a@ new creation figuratively. Seeking religion, like the sacking of the soul of a city when under the divine spirit, awakens the man to alarger sphere of action, to the nobler ordinances of the spirit actuating to higher thoughts and deeds. No man ever reached to great heights of power without ing the innate germs of wer. Not altogether, for without the spirit of God no man can attain even to earthly power. It must be guided and directed by the divine power. A friend “qj k, look,” and 1 100k out and see the sun set & horizon of glory; but if 1 had not been called on to look I would never have seen it, So with man in the higher waiks of life, to the attainment of which God must call him. In important respects a religious life is open to all. Jt may be sought by violence, but the violence pre- vatleth; the Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force. It was believed that men were foreordained to eternal damna- tion. No conception, no plan, no develop- ment, no semse of religion requires such ® monstrosity as that. No blood for Moloch with teachings of Christ’s divine work. It was sup- posed by some that God calle some and leaves others uncalied, I hold God calls atl men, and calls just as sincerely those who do not come as those who do. The only difference is to be found in the human heart, and the only discrimination ts to be found in the human heart itself. There are journals tn these days that diffuse knowledge to mechanics; some ot these mechanics read and profit by these teachin; and grow in knowledge and skill. The same teach- ings und knowledge are accessible to all; but there are others who will not read or wili not learn, or if they do read they will not comprehend, and they are as crude and ignorant as before. Some get the light and the divine infu- ence ; but all -men are not equally stimulated thereby; some reject the Tecate of election working in men’s minds and dispositions— reject the teachings, Why do some men gain and some fail? ‘The faujt is not God’s nor nature’s; but that man 1a satisfied and wastes his life in lower and that ig the reason men do not succeed tn the attainment of the higher principies and higher morals of life. Man may desire to lead a Christian life, to attain a higher education and higher state of moral and intellectual Ce me but he does not desire to take on iimself the trouble | of ui this, ‘The means which | know! cage in” gained he. does not oe sire, The succeed it man in business; he wishes he was a 3 he would like to enjoy the fruits of being one; he would like Seeniey, the remunerations that follow a Christian life, but he is too indolent and too unwilling to use the instruments by which this only can be obtained. Some suppose there is a catching opporti for religion. There are times of revival which some- times press religion on men. Men say:—‘‘My time 18 not come yet; I will waita while, and by and My, 1 ‘will be gathered into the fold; Tam not going to die yet or a3 1am now.” Men have been Ih on the poor pittance of hope years and years; some wear the livery of age, and yet wait on till the time comes: to catch them nd make them Cl ans before they know it. Now is the time now by con- secration and a holy purpose to live in Christ. Many who sat in this sanctuary this night twelve months ago and listened to my counsel and to my admoni- tion have seats here no more; they are gone to their account. I beseech you who. are here to-night,01 beseech you to listen to my persuasions, to my warning, that now is the accepted tiie, now is the day of salvation. ’ The reverend preacher was listened to with the greatest attention by a very large congregation. ST. JOHN'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN, Sermon by Rev. Dr. Andrews. It 1s not generally known that the most imposing edifice belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church in America—which, in point of numbers, is the largest religious denomination in the conntry—is the St. John’s church, located on Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, E. D. It was completed last summer, at & cost of $250,000, ani is an ornament to that part of the City of Churches, The Sabbath school hall adjoining the church is admitted to be the most beautifal room of its kind in the world. It is su- perbly frescoed and ornamented; the walls are adorned with choice pictures and lluminated Scrip- ture mottoes, and a fountain is located in the centre of the room. No expense has been spared to make the pl ve attractive to the young, not only upon the Sabbath, but on some weekday evenings. Recently a Young People’s Association was organizea, whose members are exerting themselves to entertain the children of the bath school and their parents by a series of free musical and literary entertainments and a course of lectures by distinguished men, The Metropolitan church, which 1s now being erected by the Methodists in Washington, and of which General Grant and Chief Justice Chase are trastees, will cost as much as this Brooklyn edifice, but, tt is claimed, will not be so complete in all its departments as St. Jo 5 ‘The pastor of the Bedford avenue church, Rev, Dr. Andrews, is one of the abiest preachers in the con- ference of which he is 2 member. He is a clear, methodical, earnest, extemporaneous preacher and a first class biblical scholar, The musical depart- ment is in charge of Mr. Otto Fox, an accomplishéd organist, who has summoned to his aid an efficient and well disciplined choir. Mrs. Josie Johnson, the leading soprano, bas @ Voice of great richness, force and purity. Dr. Andrews preached @ (liscourse in the morning Appropriate to the occasion, taking for his text the mth verse of the second chapter of St. Luke:— “Let us go unto Bethlehem.” In tus introductory remarks he said that what the shepherds did tn per - earers could do in thought, and although it hepherds but a littie time to travel to the uch was the marvellous power of thought rs uditors) could enter into the it facts saluted their attention, and which were for We, said he, shali they whic! them the heginnin, lose something of the awe and the joy that belonged of a new tra. to their experience; we have iad dawnt upon us no angelic presence and No saiutation o: on earth and good will to men; ve have not been per- mitted to listen to angel Minstrelay, nor to under- stand, as did those shepheris, that a new epoch had come to theit own particular nation; and yet, upon the whole, broader and nobler conceptions of Christ and affections adequate thereto might be theirs, from the fact that the people of the present day knew more of Christ than they could know, the eig! n centuries of Christian life having proven the character and work of the Redeemer of the world. Going to Bethlehem they would look upon as an affair which, however trivial it might Lt peed to ordinary observers, nevertheless was fraught with higher influence for the world at large and for the whole course of human history than any event that had transpired upon the face of the earth. The speaker proceeded to elucidate the assage by dwelling, fi upon the fact that it was y no means definitely ed that the 26th of De- cember was certainly tae day upon which Ohrist was born; but if the Christian Church did not know the exact day or the season of tue year of the advent, history had established beyond controversy that the period when Christ came was one of universal , the Roman sceptre then bear com: plete sway over the nations. symbol of that great fact connected with the advent now ceélebrated—the ‘act that He who was to come had been cntitied centuries | befor6 the Prince of Peace! Dr. Andrews then pro- ceeded to show why they should goto Bethlehem rather Lhan to Jerasalem or Nazareth, by demon strating that Boaz, Ruth and David came and lo Whom the Saviour’s genealogy cor An interceting comparison was lisitute How beautifal the | THE NEW_DISPEXSATION, Swedenborgian Leciure by Rev. Albert Smith, About twenty persons, among whom were two ladies, assembled last evening at Harvard Hall, cor- ner Forty-second street and Sixth avenue, to listen toalecture by Rev. Albert Smith on “The Word,” from the Swedenborgian standpoint. The services of the evening began with the singing of the ninety- first selection of chants:—‘I will what Jehovan God will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; but let them not turn again to folly”— (85th Psalm, verse eight), The chanting of the Psalm was accompanied by one of the ladies present on the piano, after which followed the Lord’s Prayer, and then the Rev. Albert Smith read the whole first chapter of the Gospe) according to St. John, when the 228th selection was sung:— “The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath annointed me to preach iad tidings to the meek.” Mr. Smith then opened his lecture by declaring it to be his purpose to explain what was taught by the memorials of Swedenborg in regard to the Bibie, as the doctrines of the New Dispensation, known as the New Jerusalem, were not only consistent with the ae but furnished the best possible illustrations of the divine characicr of the book. He approached the subject with diitidence, for it included the civil, moral and religious state of mankind from the earliest historic ages. It is well established that all nations had some form of religious belief, the underlying main features of which were more or less in anal with the Bible. As the philologist in the study of the sgience of lan- guage reverts back through the many variations to the original source of language, thus Swedenborg’s inquiries were traced back to the source of the word of God, to the Divinity itself, 1 were, therefore, far more comprheensive than tife investigations of other theologians. And Swedenborg aloue explains rationally these religious tendencies of mankind, and the lecturer regretted that within the limit of time allotted him it was impossible to give a full review of these doctrines, It was indispensable for a cor- rect understanding of the subject, to know the history of the Bible asa whole. Swedenborg does not attribute the same degree of holiness to ali the books in the Bibie. As produced by the Imme- diate influence of God and the* Divive Spirit, he counted the law, the Prophets and the Psalms—viz., the five books, of Moses, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, (as the law and the Prophets), the Psalms, and also in the New Testament the four Gospels and the Revelations. The Swedenborgian iterpreta- tion, therefore, excludes from holiness all other parts of the Bible, though they are held in high esteem as teaching nothing contrary to the true doctrine and serve the Pope eorg) of instruction, and did serve this purpose highest and best at the time when they were written, being eminent); adapted to the then condition of the human mind. Diligent and careful study has disclosed the fact that some parts of the Bible differ radically from others, attributed even to the same author, in style and com- position and the lecturer relerred especially to the ori- ginal Hebrew of the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis, the radical difference in the ‘style aud composition of which being also noticeable in the English translation. Literally, these eleven cha] ters appear to be a history of the creation, of the fail man, of the confusion, while the true m Poe be ily ne the interior, the spiritual sense oi the words. With the twelfth chapter begins the his- tory of Abraham and of his descendants for twenty- eight generations to the Babylonian captivity. The Psalms are devotional Sones, expressive of personal feetings inspired by God, and the Prophets are a series of prophetic books, commencing with Jonah, 862 years before Christ, and ending with Mallachi, 400 years before Christ and 200 years after the Babylonian captivity. The first eleven chapters of Genesis the lecturer claimed to be merely a repro- duction of an ancient work then existing and he clted from the firat book of Joshua to support the claim, The meaning of its words was wholly spirit- ual wh.ch was but lately shown by the sceptical criti- cism of Bishop Colenso ; but especially rege to the world by the light. communicated by the through the means of Swedenborg. that its holiness 1s inter- nal and spiritual, and this supreme sense the Bible is the expression of God,’ of Divine affection, of “The Word.” Some of the truths are incompre- hensibie to the human ee, the finite SHIPPING NEWS. Almanac for Now York-—-Thls Day. PORT OF NEW YORK, DECEMBER 27, 1968. Herald Packages. Captains and Pursers of Vessels arriving at this port will please deliver all packages intended for the Hzgat.pto our regularly authorized agents who are attached to our Steam Yacht fleet, The New York Associated Press do not now collect marine reports nor attend to the delivery of packages, aswill by the following extract from the proceedings ofthe monthly meeting held March 8, 1843 :— Resolved, That on and after April 1, 1868, the Associated Press will discontinue the collection of ship news in the harbor of New York. Passed unanimously. ‘The office of the Herald steam yachts Jans and JRANNETTR leat Whitehall alip, ‘All communications from owners and consignees to the masters of inward bound ves sels will be forwarded free of charge. ARRIVALS. guRBTORTED BY THR HERALD’ STEAM YAOHTS. . Steamship United Kingdom (Br), Campbell, Glasgow, via Moville Dec 5, with mdse and 123 Suan e Henderson Broa, Experienced strong weaterly gales the entire $ Dec i9, iat 4287, Jon 53 43, pasaed ship Richmond, of Dublin, waterlogved and abansoned. Steamship Europa (Br), Craig, Glasgow Dec 11, with mdse and passengers, to Henderson Bros. Steamship Gen Grant, Quick, New Orleans, 7 days, with mise and. passengers, to Samuel Stevens, Deo 24, passed steamship Crescent City, hence for New Orleans. Steamship Alabama,’ Limeburner, Fernandina Dee 18, Breakwater, with mdse and gerry Experienced strong NE win: and heavy weather the greater part of the passaze; at Delaware Breakwater received assistance from U8 revenue cutter Miami, whore officers deserve especial thanks for their prompt and active discharge of du ‘Steamship Gen Barnes, Morton, Savannah, 60 hours, with mdse and pastengers, to'Livingston, Fox & Co. ‘Steamship Thames, Pennington, Savannan, with mdse and parsengera, to R Loyrden. Steamship Saracoma,” Ryder,, Charleston Dec 24, witn mse and passengers, to Arthur 3 Steamship Volunteer, Gallagher, Philadelphia, with mdse, to J Lorillard. Steamship Glancus, Walden, Boston, with mdse, to Win P ‘mahip Acushnet, Kel'v, New Bedford, with mdse and pasnengers, to Ferguson & Wood, Bark Vereeniging (Dutch), Schmidt, Surinain, 80 days, with muzar, &c, to Van Praag & Co, Firat part of passage had Hght winds and calms, latter part strong gales; split Raila veagel leaking; Dee 20, lat 38, lon 71, spoke schrJ M Hamilton, hence, bound 8. Brig Cosmos, Parsons, Machias, 7 days, with lumber, to master, Schr Dragon (Br), McFarland. Demarars, 28 days, with sugar and molasses, to ET Amith & Co. Has been 0 days arth of Int 3, with strong NW galea; Dec 12, during a heavy gale from W. parted port iain gah macketay ; ihr Int 22 94, ion 6 Prince Edward Island for Nasaa\ 56, schr Frank Palmer, from M 38°49, lon 71, passed brig Mary Ida, steering NNW ; 18, lon 7241, exchanged signals with brig Suwannee, passen yund has 20 Ran bed the infinite, e angels are the highest state of finitism; there are also angels or spirits with a lower degree of capacity, and then comes man. In the spiritual words of the Bible the Lord has, worked the descent of divine truth and of the kingdom of heaven, and the natural mind of man oe comprehend it when tion of divine truth. The lecturer then spoke of the past history of the world, of the Ge gees allu- sions of the Prophets, of their pointed - bolical references, a3 so cumbrously explained by the old dispensation; that the march of Alexander the Great brought pew imfuences and the Greek een bag the language of the New Testamnent—into oly *) Land. ‘The New Testament the lecturer declared to be but the fulfliment of the Old, a higher step in the order of the salvation of man; not a new truth, but tion of the same old, eternal only a new di divine truth. word of God is seen more in its interior, spiritual than ever before; contains @ pro! of a still higner dispensa- tion, a still clearer view of the interior light of divine truth, The Lord is promised to come again in full glory, and his coming Teas in the Apocalypse, and this descent o1 the light of the word of God was through Swedenborg in the doctrines known as the New Jerusalem. This was meant by the coming of the Lord in ail His power and glory, the descent of the light of the spirit world from God out of heaven to open the mind of man to see and comprehend and work man’s rtdemption by means of tne divine truth, After further elu: this point the lecturer spoke of the habit of man in searching for truth, to foltow the ronnie de- ductions of the mind. And so did Sweden! , and succeeded in disclosing the scientific elements of the study of the Bible through a higher state of spiritual illumination, and thus obtaining the key to the spi- ritual sense of the word of God, clearing up and get- tling the old probiem of the distinction between mind and matter. The two schools—that mindjonly exists, as asserted by the one; that matter only has as claimed by the other—were referred to, and that the subtle deductions of Piato and Aristoteles, par- ticularly of the latter, had given bias to ecclesiasti- gal thought through ail ages down to Swedenborg. For his work the times were prepared, by the eccle- siastical materialism of John Locke and his follow- ers; by the narrow empiricism of the French and the idealistic supersensuousness of Leibnitz, Wolif and Kant, in Gert 'y. Swedenborg admitted the ex- istence of the unknown, and gave his experiences in the spirit world, to which his spirit was admittea by the Lord while his body was yet among the living. In speaking of the relations between the spiritual and the natural Swedenborg’s experience teaches us that the intercourse between the two spberes is limited, the present corrupted state of the world not allowing its disorganizing and dangerous elements to enter the spiritual circles. ‘That the angels and spirits are men, substantialiy, attending to business and to pieasu and though they do not think and speak as we of this earth, yet they know of the existence of thig natural world as we do of the spiritual. Stil they cannot teach, for only the Omnipresent, Omnisctent power, God, can teach. Reading the Bible properly we are illuminated by the light from the spirit world ana are made to un- derstand its spiritual sense, on which depends the salvation of man. After death there would be no change and man would not know of his transfer to the spiritual sphere unless instructed. Man, there- fore, is @ microcosm, the representotive form of heaven, The spiritual principle is present every- where—in the animal, the vegetable, the mineral kingdom. Evil animals and poisovous plants derive vheir destructive qualities from the corrupted state of man. On this point the lecturer spoke at length, coming to the conclusion that the good in man is representative of heaven, the bad of Satan and hell, and that the loas of the conception of the divine trr“h is the los# of the soul, EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS. SourHampron, Dec. 27.—The steamship Alle- mannia, Captain Bardua, of the Hamburg-American Steamship iine, sailed for New York on Savurday. Lonxpon, Dec, 27.—The Hamburg-American Steam- ship Compat steamship Borussia, Captain Fran- zen, from New Orieans and Havana, arrived off Portland yesterday with shaft broket QUERBNSTOWN, Dec. 27.—The bea Be W. Chesley, Captain Phinney, from London November 9, for Boston, has put back to this port with loss of sails, Cavtion TO Youna Lapizs Wao Go ON Late TRAINS. —Laat evening a couple of young ladies re- siding at Tioga Station, on the line of the Phila- delphia, Germantown and Norristown returned thither on the train which leaves the d at Ninth and Green streets at eleven o'clock. reached the station and proceeded up the strect on their way home, Hardly had they gone a hundred yards, how when they were suddenly con- fronted by @ short, thick-set fellow, evidently o Gerinan, Without a word he seized them, choking one and holding on to the other, They an outery, but to no avail, for the scoundrel, instead of relinquishing them, grasped a muff from the one he was choking and made efforts to secure the other articles they were carrying. The young ladies would assuredly have been robbed had not the down train fortunately atop) at the station just at this junc- ture, The thief, seeing persons approaching from the cara, ran away. A search was made for him, | but he battled porsuit.—Priladetphia Telegraph, pee, Wi y y been arrested in Atlanta, Ga., aling $10,000 in gold andl green- Three men ja <4 (rom the house of Jesge Daiton, in Oglethorpe vir. Halton Would lave shown more wisdom | iad he not given the thieves the temptation to rob | iim by putiog Bis cash in the yaulls os some bank. North, Sehr Annie Whiting, Hutchinson, Demarara, 17 days, with sugar and molasses, to Edwin Rowe, ‘Schr Harry Lando!l, Taylor, Jacksonville, 8 days, with yel- low pine, toJ T Gilchrist & Son, Had heavy weather since ‘Sehr be D, Hi Richmond, Va, 4 di ith master. eatin Teen Se Schr Herschel, Chamberlain, Norfolk. Schr alg Alexandria for Providence. eee ee Schr R Al il, Vickers, Virginia. Schr DW Vaughat, Gifford, Vite Schr M G Leonard, Bogart, Virginia. Schr Maria & Elizabeth, Bogart, Virginia. Wylle, Gedrgetown, DO, for Boston. jaltimore. Itimore. ard, Barrill, Baltimore, ulsbury, Baltimore for Gloucester. French, Balt soaton, Bedford. . Baltimore for B Schr Idelia Small, Robbins, Baltimore for New fone K & Warren, Pickering, Baltimore for Pall River. chr Red Ja ce. JA Bhe} veril!, Baltimore for Providen Perrill, Baltimore for Harlem, hr J H Young, Speights, Newtown, Md, with oak timber, hia for Boston. wen, where she dis- Schr Keokuk, Small, Machias, 10 days, with lumber, to Si & Clapp. . 1g Solu Habe, Gould, Boothbay, 8 days, with fab, to Woodrut akeht Flatt, Crowell, Bangor, 8 days, with lumber, to Way- antes R Orr, Rogers, Ellsworth via Holmes’ Hole, where Sehr Glove, Holt, Franklin, 10 days, with lumber, to Hol- joke & Murray. 7 Schr Euretta, Mason, Lubec, 9 dave, with fish, to order. west, Ale ‘Oakes, Pillsbury, Rockland, 5 days, with lime, to phibt Bedabedeo, Hix, Rockland, 6 days, with lime, to W 8 weigitt Sardinian, Whitmore, Rockland, 6 days, with lime, to soSght Gen Bheridan, Ryeroft, Portland, 6 days, with lomber, Schr Neliie Chase, Hamilton, Portlana, 7 days, with lumber ‘mi ‘Schr M & Warson, Lewis, Portinnd, with lumber, for Wash- Eete Gov J i Smith, rowel, Hoston, Schr Robert B Smithy erson, Boston, Schr White Sea, Lee, Boston, iggine, Boston for Baltimore, aon for Philadelphia. : Schr Marietta Steelman, Foster, Boston for Philadelphia. Schr Wm Sogril, Winalow, Boston for Elizabethport. irgin Cross, Provincetown, 6 days, with fish, White Rock, Heney. Providence, Wm Ruder, Knowles, Providence for Virginia, PL whiton, Cobb, Provitence for Virsinin. Sehr AJ Fabens, , Providence for Schr A Hendricks, Hendricks, Providence for Baltimore. Schr Joseph Baxter, Barter, Providence for Baltimore. Rehr James Fowler, Matthews, Providence for Philadeiphia Schr A L Fitch, Allen, New London. Schr John James, Small, Fairhaven. Schr Pointer, Nichola, Fairhaven for Virginia. Sehr John Brooks, Mott, New Haven. Schr § L Thompson, Clark, New Hi Schr New Regulus, Hallook, New Haven, Schr E A Jones, Allen, New Haven for Virgina. Schr Blossom, Knox, Bridgeport for Jersey City. Wind at sunset SE, light. Schr Schr Schr Mariue Disasters. Scux E1txa, Johnson, from New Orleans for Tamp! put into Galveston 18th inst in distress, with cargo d and rudder and anchor gone. Her cargo of assorted mer. —— ‘would be disposed of at Galveston by underwriters’ Scur Coustw Satie, Hall, went near Galve: during the recent pieces and will prove a total wreck. Scour C P Hevstin, Peltz, sailed from Fort Ross Dec with 60,000 feet of and two passengers, for San Fran- hore on Bird Island, gale. She is going to the Teak and filled ly, finally cai titinge ee pastongers and crew sncecéded'in reaching Fort Host in safety. Veseal and cargo are a total loss. The was owned by Capt Kuribaum and insured for $2,500, The cargo, vained at about 81,300, was uninsured. We are indebted to pursers A Brown, Jr, of the steamship Gen Barnes, from Savannah, and A Gorham, of the steam. ship Saragossa, from Charleston, for their attentions, Bank ANNIE M PAuMER cleared at Mobile 2st inst for Hamborg with 1,531 bales cotton, valued at $164,064 24. Corton vor Livenroot—Mesrs WM Tunno & Co yes terday cleared the ‘ship Calista Haws, Captain George fhe TBisah poundn, valued at. 4901,578 61, ‘nod ‘14. plesee of ng anda, walt 5 nieces 0! square timber, mes ai $237 96,—Sa- measuring 14700 feet, valued at vannah Republican, Dec Spoken. Jonathan Chase, Ohase, from New York for Callao, Bark Nov %, Int 28 15 N, lon 22.80. ‘ ‘Bark’ Pauline, Thorndike, from New Orleans for Havre, yBus;Grace Worthington, Marshall, from Jamaica for New rk, fat ry ‘Zehir Race Horse, from New York for Havana, Dec 12, lat Schr 34 10, lon 74 15. Foreign Ports. PRL Bp ever previous, ship Edith Warren, TEU Rooe, Dee 9—Arrived, brig JW Drisko, Eaton, Mareustwa, Dee 2—Sailed, brig Hazard, McParland, Boston. American Ports, JOSTON, Dec 2, Al—Arrived, Sarab Harris (Br), purer, Grand Sark, Th jachra Tobie Brstey, Parker, and W Wegrera, Alen, Puede fackstone, Loveland, Baltimore vta of Hoston, 104d 13-100Khe rnaworth, Francisco; '28—Cleared, brign John Pierce, Mel- markets overt” Dilion, Blatchford, more, Liverpool ; achra ‘and Jaue Rmeon, Vancleat, NYork, In the Gorilla (Br, from Liverpool; 'C H Southard, ip Cami!la (Br), Peace, Liverpool; schr Mobile, Deo 18—Arrived, steamahip. Ariadne, Bi. York ; chr F M Jobneon, Sores jeiphin. Bal hip Picneer, (Br), Rack rerpoo! HOLMES’ HOLE, Dec Ma T Grant, Savannah for Boston; echra Jane Li Newton, ford: NW Mages, Ketchum, Philadel hin for do; Albion, Smith, and Allen, N¥Grk for Wed Sumpter, 11 a0 for ; Thomas Mix, Smith, do for iE Bast Jonnson, jptladelphia tor do} Eire Mactan Nut jam’ Chae F Atwood, Keokuk, Jane Arrived, brig Martha A Chase, Blizabethport for Portand, schr Sohn Johnson, MeBride, Philadelphia, for « — steamsh! ORLEANS, Dec 30- sete, 8 pyeeeriena, ‘Havan: apman Gray tiger Marseilles ; ico IW, = 4 ee, lec, orn 1 + bark ‘Thos ‘ard, Brickland, Trefeared Schr ‘Three Sisters (Br), Henderson, Rusten Telpgned to nite: ship Chrystal; bark Dorette ; 16th, ships ine, Wi a gOUTUW Eat Pasa, Deo 81—Arrived, sleamehip Bienviile, Baker, NYork; bark Joshua Loring, Loring, do. Sailed, ‘ateamah! Rapidan. PARS rf LOurRE, Deo M1, wind ENE and light— Arrived, barks Antoinette (8p), Sala; Florence Potors, LPHTA, Dee AM Cleared, brig Lilly (Br), PHILADE ‘Ont Liverpool jensina, oun for Philadel iny rom are at the Breakwater, in company with bark Jenn Philadelphia for Rremen, before reported as bering Ao eto | pom. Bleamnahip Virginia, from NYork for Alexandria, bas had her machinerrepalted dnd proves: CAPRIBLAND, Rd, Dec 4-—lirig Julia & Arey, from Port land for Philadelphia, wont into the Breakwater to-day, | Wind NW; weather very cold. are jewton. ie aoe JAVANNAH, Dec 38—Arrived, bark Edgar Cecti AH, (Bn, ie far ar, vero! ark Lamp E Des 3¢--Claared, achra B"H Hayton ‘brig Minnehaha, Eifm, Ha vaca _ MISCELLANEOUS. Al.- POOR NELL; Or, THE MYSTERIES OF NEW YORK LIFB, OUT ON WEDNESDAY, INTHE FIRESIDE COMPANION. ‘of Deeds for every State. unsellor at Law, 261 Broadway. F. I, KING, BSOLUTE DIVORCES LEGALL! Aue fio charge anal sats Aa rue sane le ae HOUSE, Ai TaN Advice fret, A. A.—OFFICIAL DRAWINGS . Missouri and eee, Lotteries. ‘MISSOURI—EXTRA OLASS NO. DECEMBER 26, 1868. 5, 76, 68, 8. &, 31, 6, 41, ‘34, 26, 18800 B1—CLA88 NO. DECEMDER 26, 18, Ni, 66, 71, 10, 5, m4, oo) 2. BENTUCKY—EXTEA CLASS NO, DROEMH' 1868, Ee HN 2, a. SESLONE “CLA80 AO, 4, ea 3 Tater ioe tess ase hore and sles Soya! 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