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6 THE CHURCHES YESTERDAY PLYMOUTH CHUACKS Beecher upon Bargains, Dress and Fraud. Last evening Plymouth church was, as usual, mowded to overflowing. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached an interesting sermon, the object veing to point out the follies and frauds of which society was often unconsciously guilty, He strongly animadverted on the fact that the relations between tne employer and employed were tn too many in- stances devoid of Christian feeling and the aim of both was consequently directed to make as much out of each other as within their power lay. The Tesult was that the whole moral character of the employé was considerably damaged. Society was to @ great extent governed by pride and selfishness. As society was made up of different classes, so men in their relative positions were more or less in- formed—one better than the other, It was, there- fore, the acme of folly and selfishness for some to imagine that because they were more gifted than others the ignorant should in every in- tance follow in their tread. Man often used the fa- ‘vors which God gave him to despotize over his fel- low. He condemned the system of prosletyzing and contended that virtue did not result from a change of belief, but from the growth of spirituality. In com- mercial intercourse men were piaced in very tempt- ing relations towards each other, Lhe seeking of bargains for the mere object of obtaming them was pernicious, for @ bargain meant an equiv- alent, perhaps one man getting the better of another by about five degrees. With some it was a pride todo so, and it accordingly formed part of the excitement. A man purchased, say @& violin for twenty dollars, and on going home with his prize boasted that it was worth five hundred dol- lars; that be cortainly would not-take two hundred and fifty for it. The inference was that he cheated the selier of the whole amount, minus twenty dol- lars. It was the game oi lite and was unfortunately pursued with vigor in alidirections. A great deal of damage Was also sone ty men professing honesty. re) aeliom can we say we are wholly well! How often does the the jail of the soul instead of dwelling place? What a fatal mistake it is to t our health! It ts vain to thi that intellectual and body, aa Sereica oul Pong ied and r oom. is occasioned by bad health. There nothing of bir any one wee ie should More ashamed of being Ml, How much trouble ill health. Health; what @ word it is, what @ thing it #8; the perfect harmony of the organs, vigorous feelings, beautiful looks. What then this in’ the soul? Has not our spiritual organs, functions and sawat pe. ted as the body has as many organs as the material co oi et has eyes, heart, ae ‘as we Judge of the state of body, so we ju of the ‘state of the soul, Remorse correspo! to mation, moral Ditndness to inflam loss of sight, &c. How olten, did the human we tnd it be mrage! , or weak to ex- haustion, Worldliness is @ disease of heart ; sel @ horrid ‘tumor; grief i@ @ dropay, and hate, and jealously are m1 humors of the blood, When a man i Crag Aa sre yen id tea eatribsal on calmly? Is my intellect clear spiritual ? Cant dist between right and wre? How is my ap} aieetoe wisdom? Am I growing in grace? How moral circulation? Are my hands so cold that they open slowly at the call of charity? How are my feet, that they run slowly on errands of mercy? “How do you do?” is an appall tion, for it asks an account of @ mav’s whol duct, “Iow are youy? should sound like God’s own voice caliing us te account, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Discourse by Rev. Dr. McSweeny. At the principal mass at the Cathedral yesterday the Rev. Father McGean officiated as celebrant and was assisted by the usual number of acolytes. Arch- bishop McCloskey occupied bis throne at the gospel side of the sanctuary, attended by his chaplain, the Rev. Father McNierny. At the proper part of the while vain and unjust. re were very few had that essential justice in their nature that they could say ‘they did not Want anything that was not their own, aud few had the native grace to say that they did not wish to appear any better than they were. For instance, how many dressed better than they could atford! Even amongst weil and perhaps religiously inclined people the desire to dress well was a pro- minent feeling. The wife perhaps strongly urged upon her husband “that no man of spirit would alow his partner for life too to church im such a dress a3 she wore. Indeed, if she had married as she might she would have been dressed better.” Continual dropping wears a stone, and so the husband is at lemyth obliged to procure the envied dress, though far beyond his means. Yei the reasure upon his slim resources must be counter- anced in some way, even at the risk of being dis- hoest. The inordinate love ot took out the enamel of every virtue, a8 did ostentatious vanity make thieves. The reverend gentleman concluded by earnesily urging that @ more Christian feeling among society Was necessary than at present ap- peared to prevail. FIFTH AVENUE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Sermon by Dr. Chapin. Yesterday morning the services at the Universal- %st church, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, were participated in by a large and fashiona- bie audience. Rev. Dr. Chapin preached from tne sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew and tenth verse—‘Thy will be done in earth as itis in Hea- ven.” That sentence (the preacher said) might be breathed among the most humbie and familiar inci- dents of our lives—that prayer which Jesus uttered in the Garden of Gethsemene—“Not my will, but thine be done.” There was no danger of ever ex- hhausting the meaning of that prayer. One reason why he called their attention to these words was because in that devotion they would find that ‘thought, feeling and action were intimately blended. ‘The intellect was the observing power. It wasa capacious instrument, which, by reduction or analy- is, approximated reality. In the walk of actual life 1t was impossible to. divide the devotional from the actual power or the moral from the intellectual. in the real machinery of every day life all these ‘things worked togetuer. It was impossible for the human intellect ever to act without some impulse Or passion. Certainly there was a marked line of distinction between the thinking man and the de- Vout man. A devout man might be a thinking man, but mere thinking was not devotion... ‘True devotion involved thought. ‘the clearer the thought the more real and profitable would be tae er “Thy will be done on earth as it ism heaven.” That was @ confession of faith. Here was the intellectual recognition of a living will, of a supreme Fealiy in the universe. Uf course, that petition was spoken with hardly an impression on the mind of its meaning. ‘To appreciate it, there- Tore, in any true degree we shi exercise thougnt. When man felt his own Weakness 1t was natural for him to breathe forth in prayer. What was this in- stinct of prayer? He it was difficult to conceive an independent first cause, and some went 80 Jar as to say, *We can’t conceive of such a thing as an independent first cause: When we got into that mystery we were in difficulties everywhere.” As such @ cause must exist somehow it was more Teasouable to conceive its existence in mind than as mutter, We d.scovered that the work of the uni- verse as 3 Whole Was something that could not hap- pen by mere chance. When we on a — by an Angelo we were sure that great thought had moved over the canvas; and so with the universe, we found that thought spoke to our thought. Having come to the conclusion that intelligence presided tn the universe, ‘We should see next tuat in: nce had @ purpose tu it. Purpose implied will. There could not bea purpose without a will. The recognition of that will ‘was the recognition of the intellect. When we Braves we were not praying to space or to nature. hat was the use of praying to nature? What was the use of praying to some essence that by its own Bature could not help ust How necessary was thought, therefore, in the process of our prayers. The moment We arrive at a clear conception that there was a will in Heaven moving in contact with our will that moment there was something to touch us and inspire and help us—that moment there was something that made prayer a blessing and gave to the prayer, as it were, the key to the kingdom of Heaven. We looked on Heaven as a place where Gou’s will was done by conscious beings. Piety was @ pliant of such celestial growth that the more light we shed upon it the better it grew. It was an intel- Jectual thing. He observed, in the next places that the petition was also an expression of submission. There Was a submissive, chiid-like feeling of acqui- escence init. But they should discriminate between doing God’s will and submitting to God's will. We should discriminate between that and panthetsm ; We should distinguish this submission to the Divine ‘Will from fatailsm. Fatalism would teach us that We submitted to the Divine will because we must submit to it. If we had to submit because we must, why, then, there was no religious feeling there. Some- times men braced themselves up with this fatalisi, and, like Prometheus of old, dared the living God. ‘The true distinction of the childlike feelings was not “I must,” but “I ought” to do thw. There might often be cases where our intellectual minds got con- fused put it was only such God as was represented so Jesus Christ that we could really worship aud adore. God was infinite mercy, and when we prayed “Thy will be done,” we prayed that it was the will of infinite goodness that might be done. Ohi that ‘was the consolation for all poor a# well as rich, and that was a prayer that was sure to be answered. Ail prayers might be condeased and symbolized in that ue expression, ‘Not my will, but thine be done.”* 1S IT WELL WITY THEE? Sermon by Rev. Dr. Bellows, ‘The Rey. Dr. Bellows preached @ remarkably beau- tiful sermon last evening in the large hall of the Cooper Institute from the text:—‘ds it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?” (I, Kings, 4th chapter and 26th verse.) With these words Gehazi greeted the Shunammite woman in the name of Elisha, his mas- ter. The prophet had enjoyed the hospitality of the Sbunammite woman and had sent his servant to her saying, “Behold thou hast been careful for us with ali this care; what isto be done for thee? Wonidst thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?’ The woman answered:—‘+1 dwell amovg my people.” Poor as she was she wanted nothing of the king, nothing of the captain of the host, The prophet was anxious to show her his gratitude. But Gehazi, the servant, discovered the desire of her heart; her husband was old and she had no child, Elisha promised her what she should em. brace a son and departed, The promise was ful- Alled, but, alas? the child sickened and died. The agonized mother pres the body of her son on the ropnets bed and went to Mount Carmel to seek the an of God. Blisha saw her afar off and sent his fervant to her with the three questions:— * ia it well with thee?—is i¢ well with thy husband )— i well the mea that last, which he knew was firat tn het thought, first in his own. “The iiother's faith in the man of God was rewarded; sou Was restored to life. The above are our daily salutations—the familiar ques. tions with which we meet our neighbors. or Own weil being is #0 nd @ without answering for all, Nor is tt° only bodily well-being to which these q fer, What parent can wwer “it is well with me,” when o cuiid is sick with a rebellions temper, the terrible malady of lying lps or in denger of Auceumbing to the ‘temptations of the devil? i it well with the father or mother of aneh a chiid? Is jt well with the chiid? Alas sould sickness Te overtake auch children {i that a well perhaps ‘a lives to restore them to ile. Then, eas greeting, “ow are ous? Consider the nee Of the salutation in he pn bvidaal applicati If we take it as regards boduy Leaith ite one to be AneWored tuougattuiy, ceremony the Rey. Dr. McSweeny ascended the pulpit, and after reading the usual notices re- Cited the gospel of the day (John fi., 1-11) and proceeded to deliver a brief discourse on the text and onthe holy name of Jesus. The discourse received all due attention from the congregation, and doubt- less produced a aeep imp! jon on those present who had the good fortune to hear the reverend ora- tor. The choir, composed of the ‘ular quartet, assisted by a well trained volunteer chorus of some thirty voices, sang the “Filth Mass,” composed by Gustav Schmitz, organist of the cathedral. This is a concerted mass, with quartet solos at the Jncar- natus and Tu Solis, and is a peculiarly smooth, yet powerful arrangement, At the Offertory the quar- tet sang Jesu dei Vivi, a very touching arrangement from Verdi, with good eifect. TRE CHURCH MILITANT AND TRIUMPHANT. Sermon at St. Peter’s Church, Jersey City, by Rev. Dr. Carl Janssen. After the first gospelof the solemn mass in St. Peter's chureh, Jersey City, yesterday, a sermon was delivered by the newly appointed assistant priest, Rev. Dr. Carl Janssen, of Germany, and lately a member of the Jesuit order in Canada, The preacher took for his text Acts, chapter four, verse eight— “This is the stone which was rejected by the build- ers, for there is no other name by which we can be saved.” It might seem strange that in the nineteenth century the name of Christ and his venerable spouse, the Church, should be attacked; but when they saw the tide of infidelity sweeping over the world it be- hoved Christians to gird themselves for the confict and stand against the enemies of the Church. At the present day the venerable Pontiff, Pius the Ninth, was the object of attack from every quarter where the poisonous seed of infidelity had been scattered. Italy has been almost entirely submerged by the tide. A band of revolutionists had leagued together for the overthrow of spiritual ag well as temporal Mpeg They have trampled on every commandment of the deca- logue. “I am the Lord thy God; thou shall, not have strange gods before me,” and yet these inen have been wasting: a false god, which they call liberty, but which is in reality oppression. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain,” but where in history do we find so many false oaths, violated treaties, national and individual obiigations repudiated? holy the Sabbatl is a commandment least of all respected, for they have plundered churches and monastet banished bishops, expelled religious and defiled the sanct of . “Honor thy father and thy mother” comes next, but they have dishonored thel re egg dean Church, and rebelled st the venerable tui, who is the spiritual father of ail the faithful, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ says the Lord; but look at the di rs drip- ping with blood in the hands of men whose method of warfare is assassination. Thousands have gone down to premature graves by the fury of this horde of nig) fe wor not gee ne nel yet perfidy, treason, and catumny are rife. “It is hardly nec ‘s wo mention the tenth commandment, for there is no res) nowadays for the rights of perty. ese, ro} ernes of Italy, that ig that raises its head against the Holy Father. Lord hath predicted a time when charity shall grow cold because iniquity shall abound; when false prophets shall arise who shall deceive, if possible, even the elect, But shall we lament to-day with the Church at Olivet, that we may weep to-morrow over her downfall on Calvary ? Oh, po. We are children of Calvary, but we are also children of Tabor. If I were ‘to mention the names of all the heresies which have risen m_ revolt against the Catholic Church—the Pelagians, Nestorians. Arians, &¢.—you would find that they have become words strange to many of you, They have all nearly passed away from the earth; but the Catholic Church remains vindicated and glorified. And I cannot avoid mentioning in tunis connection the heroism shown by bleeding, suffering Ireland—a heroism unsurpassed in the annals of persecutions. There are no hearts in the civilized world whose chords have not been touched at the recital of the deeds of the butcher king who held the knife a ing over her, yet she never lost the faith. Her children might be calied aliens and outlaws in their own country; nay, they might die the death of the traitor or be murdered in cold biood, but they would never become apostates. The Charch, after eighteen centuries of persecution, has not been vanguished yet. She is that virginal fortress which hever suffered an enemy to enter within its walis, Against her there isa combination of so-called re- ligious, political and social enemies which have little else m common between them. There is a kind of modern Judaism which worships ouly the Messiah of money; a kind of paganiam which wor- ships the passions of men aud trampies under foot | the doctrine of humility inculcated by the Christian religion. But take courage, beloved Christians: there never was a time when the bishops of the Church stood more firmly as one man in support of our Holy Father, and never have the fat:hful fock shown more affection. ‘(nm this rock will | build my church, and the gates of hei shall not prevail agaist her.” Spread all the infidelity you | may over the world by means ofa false press, but | nomeprevatenit will hag ol ae atevery step—you will be vanguished in the end. You may wound the Church, but her wounds will be her glory, The name of Him who was sleeping during the storm and who awoke and commanded the tempest to be still will | fortify her agarmst all attacks, ‘The sermon through- out was the most eriective piece of oratory which it has been the privilege of the congregation of st. Peter's church to her for a long time. THE COMINS AMERICAN, Sermon by Rev. Day K. Lee, D. D. ‘The Rev. Day K. Lee, D. D., pastor of the Bieecker street Universalist church, deiivered a sermon on | this sabject last evening. Taking his text from Canticles, third chapter, seventh verse, which “Who is this that cometh out of the wilderne sald:— | The Coming American—who shail he be, what shat! | be hia life? There is a double meaning in the word | | American; it is brimmed with meaning as a double star with light. What is America? What shall be the man who aball best embody her forces and ex- press her spirit? America! It is the great continent thrown up in the western world, with all fertile xones and merktians Man requires to act in, with all supplies of nature he needs to draw from in making the best garden, raising the best States, having the best schools and churches, and achiev. ing the best Nberties. Look at the map and see again what America is in al! arrangements and re- sources, how ail history points to it, how it inherits the best legacies of nations, and you will say it is built for man in his ripest life, The Hebrews saw a Providence in the situation of their country and in ite fruits and treasures, Can we not see a signal Providence in everything pertaining to our country? Consider our present territory, more than 3,000,000 | square miles, and the fifteenth part of tt in coal | flelds, our vast parks of gold and silver, our moun. tains of iron and marble; our garden large enough for empires; oar rivers and iniand seas. Think what we have done already and what we may do in the future, and the idea of America is that of a magnificent new world. A country #0 formed | and appointed, so predicted by all mations as the | last seat of empire—why, 4 friends, it 18 holy land, and to the Coming American we may say as the Lord said to Moses, ‘Put off thy shoes thy feet, for the place where thou standest is holy ground.” | Now let us ask who the coming American is, What | shall be his life, his inheritance and work? Firat— His life, It will be hale and robust as possible for mortal td be, for he will inherit the best blood and spirit and improve them. ‘The great American ca- tavrh will not trouble him; the ay American neu- raigta wili not torment him. If has a large head it will not be taken for a sign that he will die tn in- fancy. He will nov be dyspeptic or apopiectic, n gro our Ai r earnest, many- sided man. Jabor; let him be @ mechanic, or artist, or scientist or mer chant, Let big, De® BcnOIAT. BOGS OF CEROR, minister, statesman or ruler, and he will shine in any one; he will putanew manhood into all he does; labor and art will be ennobled; science will ide him like @ zodiac of stars; he will elevate man. e will an ug new lessons, new epics, dramas and edito1 ; new laws and institutions. He will carry his country in his heart and make it brighter for his ruling. An illustration was drawn from Hawthorne's “Great Stene Face,” to conclude with, and an earnest appea! was made to endeavor to bring the Coming American to this generation. INFANTS IN HEAVEN, How the Infants in Heaven Grow and Live— Swedenborgian Lecture by Rev. C. Giles. New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) church, on Thir- ty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue, was well filled by an intelligent congregation last evening to listen to @ sermon or lecture from Rev. C. Giles on “Infants in Heaven.” ‘the services were as prescribed by the liturgy of the Church and for the lesson were read the first four- teen verses of chapter 18 of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The reverend gentleman then said that one-third of the human race die in childhood, and of these a large majority in the ten- der days of infancy, while yet their understanding was limited or entirely undeveloped, It would be a sad fate if they were to be doomed forever to the @arkness of infancy in the spiritual world. It is too terrible to think of and irreconcilable with the great goodness and wisdom of the Lord. The doctrine of the Church of the New Jerusalem was declared by the reverend lecturer to be, that when infants die they enter the spiritual world in a rudimentary state with their infantine mind; they are not yet angels. but rudi- ments of the angelic beings. All human bein; upon death, enter the spiritual world with their spiritual bodies in the same state as they leave here—youth as youth, manhood as manhooa, old age as old age. The common tdea prevailing outside of the New Jerusalem Church is a wrong one, for, if it bereduced to its last analysis the spirit is nothing and nowhere is the proper place for it to Fo. But as uy death our spiritual body, freed m the material body, does not lose its identity, it results that it must follow the same laws of growth as in the material world, retaining the sense to con- ceive and to comprehend, infanes, on being trans- ferred to the spiritual world, have, as here, every- to learn. They must be instructed, and to in- struct them there must be teachers. which are the any Teaching is accomplished by sym- bols, by outward objects, by words and signs, and here there must an outward worla in the other Epes If the spiritual world were an empty void there would be no scenery; it would be impos- sible to advance in instruction, and hence there is an absolute necessity for a real world. Those not acquaintea with the doctrines of the New Church say that this is absurd. They speak of happiness and the joys of the other world; but when they are told that there are men, women and children there in their spiritual bodies who converse, take each other by the hand, instruct each other, have the mse of ht, he earing and touch, that some wiser than others, then they say all this is absurd; but when they come 5 squarely and plainly to reason abont a - ture existence, they must believe it or else be- lieve that the words of the scripture have no mean- ing—are a sound signifying nothing. The Sige spirits live there, not as shadows or vapors, but as spiritual beings, d_ if this is admitted then the conclusion follows that Seay ee there as infants, youths, men and women. The speaker then entered Minutely ito the life of infants in heaven; that they are much more perfect in their sptritual body. The material is obtuse and receives its impreasionsy slowly from] the natural world, and must be taught to walk, to speak, to learn words without knowing their set to see what surrounds them without fully comprehending its nature. In the other world they are from all the impediments of the material body, and have not its deadweight to hinder them; their progress is — their senses are more acute; they see, feel and perceive more delicately and rapidiy, and needing yet “instruction the Lord has provided it in the most perfect form. They are received with angelic care and love, and grow up under the gentle ministry of angels, free from sick- ness, from disappointment, sul to no with every want provided » With every- thing around them that can minister to their instruction, delight and improvement, as for each specialty in the character of the spiritual in- fants in heaven angels are selected for th uliar fitness to instruct. The lecturer then de! the manner of instruction, the scenery of heayen—more beautiful than the highest imagination of a “seg could suggest—and apoke of Swedenborg’s s#ee- ing the children in the ps world, elegantly clothed, draped with gariands of radiant flowers, everything glowing with heavenly delight and innocence. Thus they grow up to be nem, grow in stature an = advancing to still ater C= tion, The lecturer then explained the relations of the spiritual to the material body, that a the latter may die, because the spirit passes from it, and hence ceases to grow, the spirit, assuming the spiritual body, continues its growth in the spiritual world. Some believe the child lost to them when dead, but it ts not lost; it lives in the spirirual world, and is a bond between the present and heaven. This is why children are given by the Lord and why they are taken away by Him—a blessing to constitute the bond by which of this earth are ied to heaven. The Scriptures say:—*A little child shall lead them,’’ and thus we are led to heaven by our children, and hence tt becomes verified what 1s suld:—-The Lord doeth all things well.’” THE GREAT TRUMPET, “Messenger” Snow at the University. The usual select assemblage gathered yesterday afternoon at the University to listen to the teachings of Prophet Messenger Standard-bearing 8. 8. Snow. ‘The venerable preacher announced as his text the thirteenth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of Isatah:— And St shall come to pags in that day that the creat trampet shall pe blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Asayria, and the outcasta in the land of Feypt, and shai worship the Lord 1a the boly mouut at Jeru- jena. ‘The preacher asked what day was intended by the prophet when he said in that day. It was under- stood by the Jews to refer to the day of Messiah; and they were right, as it meant the great day of Christ and the day of the gathering of His people. The genius of Christianity was not cramped by na- tionalities, and God was no respecter of persons; His people who were to be gathered were all those who loved God in siticerity. To state that the prophecy of the text was for the Jews was foolish, Who were Jews? St. Paul, nimseif one of the strictest of Hebrews, had sant that he was a Jew who was not one outwardly, out he who was one inwardly, Was not thix enough to settle the question about these promises being for the Jews? The fact was all the prophecies to Israel were to be fulfilled to the lovers of Christ. Judaisers who contended otherwise showed the apirit of anti- Christ. Israel's foes were also to be considered as typical, fn the old dispensation God brought his people out of Egypt, and he was w do the same thing tor his people, yet in these latter days after the same manner, There was a@ apiritnal Egypt and @ splritnal Assyria. The figure used to donot tee mroin oppressor of the latter days waa Babylon, Waa there any spirit of Babylon still existing? Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, had written a book to prove that Rome of anti-Clirtst and that the Babylon of tne Apocalypse was the erty of Babylon. Oli, what wis dom, Bishop Hopkins | The doctrine that the Pope was not anti-Christ was damnavic, even thoagh tt came from @ Protestant bishop. Such teaching fal- filled the prophecy that the second beast should Wor | WAS not the beast of the Revelations, that the | Was ship the first beast who deadly wounds had been heated. The great trumpet, the text suid, should be sounded, and many scriptures spoke of the gather iz Which should resuit from the blast. he gathering was to be in Zion, which must mean in the standard bearing’ Church. Feople prayod, “Thy kingdom come,” hut did they understand what they were ? Did they Know that it could not come ‘umul the ‘ast frampet was sounded’ They were taugit differently by the deceivers, the sheep in wolves clothing, who Preached from Protestant pulpits. These meu salt hat the prodigal son was a man in a state of nature, ie was a lie, Wore they not in @ state are that 5 aN and @ man of nature could not be agon of God? W the swine the prodigal son fed if iney vere NOP their hearers, aud the preachers would fain fill their bellies with the husks with which tli were feeding their flocks? The trumpet which was to be blown would not give forth an audible sound; the words were not to he taken literally, but must be considered as figures to convey an idea, Two sliver trumpets were made for the service of the temple aud the priests hiew upon them. Dut they were only intended to be typos representing: twtier Abul ID @ furp bent like an S or a ranbow. the proclamation of tho word.of Gol, The bowmg | sister.) How about the late war which NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1869. of the trumpet of in many 8 of the holy book. Crna wave blown the even to make ail ready; Dat none to the battle; for ‘wrath is upon ail the multitude thereof, This, folks said, might teach Second Adventism, wie, believe in the econd Advent Charch, in M'llerism Oh, no; that ts an exvioded huinbug. But these ho <r mening G08 ta have Sires the trumyet, The Messenger mn read veral subsedt of trumpets: and mnauiged tha run og come aul tram mentary upon them. “And 1 beheld and heard an el flying through the midst of with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to the I of the earth, by reason of the three others are yet to be sounded. The sounding of the fifth ended with the taking of Constantinople, Saciter these trupapeta was sounded for a. pace of ‘was Sol Sor yeare anda trick of days; therefore the sixth 1844, Then some third woe. The clergy tried to prove text quoted proved the conversion of the world, but this could not be so, as its soun was said to be awoe. The cl Tread only part of the passage an: then stop. The sixth trumpet was @ thing of the it, else what meant the condition of the sick man Turkey , who could stand only when an? Bgiang’? the so-called Christian nations, France an a? And the Eastern question, what did his hearers think of that. or what would they think of it in a few Months hence ? (Sensation—no opinion ex, by eitber preacher or hearers.) The seventh trum which was now being sounded, was the last; was the interpretation of St. Paul’s saying, * We shall not all die, bat we shall be ch: in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump.” Was it not now sounding? Was there not a woe resting on the world now? Were not men’s hearts now failing them for fear of what they thought existed ahead of was as lear tote propietas taattwo and two take was as clear to the prophet as four that the riod. ort the sixth trumpet had b and uniess the sevenih had began to sound since 1844, then God had made no manifestation of his wrath to men since that date, Had he made no such manifestation? (A heavy sigh from an ancient had deso- lated our before united country? Was there no judgment in the war which was so swiltly coming in Europe? Oh, no; God had nothing to do with these things, it was all the work of wicked men. Judge ye how itis. (No ju ent expressed.) The Mes- Senger was as certain that the last trampet was now sounding as that Jesus Christ was his Saviour. eed one satisfied.) All would hear this sound, it ranters said that angeis would blow the horn and the people wou'd hear an audible sound, but this was not 80, as the other six had been blown without making a@noise, (Nervous Snowites looked more easy.) At the end of the sounding would come the judgment of the lastday. It was not far off; the end would come six thousand years from the date of the birth of the first man, Adam. Five thousand years had passed and the last thousand of the existence of this world was fast hurrying away. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. Address by the Rev. Dr. Carter, Immediately after the conclusion of the evening service at Grace chapel, Fourteenth street, last night, the Rev. Dr. Carter, of the Church of the Holy Saviour, delivered an address on the history of Sun- day Schools, The Rev. William F. Morgan presided. There were three other clergymen present as mem- bers of the Sunday School Convention, of which this was the first session. Dr. Carter said that he regretted that some pastor more capable of addressing the Convention had not been selected to deliver the opening address, but he would endeavor to trace the history of Sunday schools as clearly and concisely as he .could. The records show that before the Christian era children were a the doctrines of the Jewish faitn by the priesthood. A striking example of that fact was shown in the disputation wees tempie recorded in the New Testament. A strict adherence to classical idioms makes it ap- pear that Christ went to the temple dispute with the elders on points of doctrine; but it was very clear he went there, as other youths did, to be instructed in the law. The earliest records of the Christian Church informs us that in the catacombs the children of beilevers were instructed in the traths of Christianity that they might in turn cate- chise others when they grew up. Such a ays- tem here would be of the greatest benefit. Luther, in_ 1627, when yet the glorious work of the Reformation was in an_ incipient stage, establishea Sunday school teaching, and his success in this respect was attributable in a [sie measure to the rapid growth of religious re- form in Europe. The first Sunday school in America was ——— in t porno Mass., ears we from y sprung the grand organization now jew England. Robert Race in 1783 commenced to labor in Glou- cester, England, and in 1786 had established Sunday schools in ail farts of the kingdom, in which 260,000 children were ins' in the Gospel. The census of 1861 showed that there were in Great Britain in that Fie 3,600,000 Sunday school children. The first Sunday school in New York was founded by an old colored apple woman, named tie Ferguson. There are now in this city 121,000 children ce be | Sunday school. Tne reverend gentleman conclude his interesting history by calling on the congregation to work Coe ge save the children of the poor from destraction establishing more schoo!s and providing for more teachers. The Rev. Dr. Montgomery, of the Church of the Incarnation, then addressed the convention on the importance of Sunday schools, and the proceedings “bees brought to a conclusion by the singing of a ymn. THE MORNING STAR SUNDAY SCHOOL. This school, which has been holding its sessions in the lecture room of Pike’a Opera House, met with an episode in its history by finding the doors bolted against them and their books and furniture withheld from their use. It appears that the trustees or Managers of the school recently obtained a three years’ lease of the premises mentioned, which stands recorded in the rs office; but since the transfer of the Opera House to Mr. James Fisk, Jr., he, for some reason best known to himself, refuses to bier or perform the agreement in this case of his essor. The upshot of the affair seneresy was idewalk meeting of the school trustees the adoption of resolutions condemnatory of Mr. Fisk and the expression of u determination to secure their legal rights. POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY, if Meeting of Positivists at Metropolitnn Hall, In Sixth Avenue. About fifty persons, made up principally of long and lank and white-bearded gentiemeg of patri- archical physiognomies, with a thin scattering of stern-visaged women of the strong-minded school, met at three P. M. yesterday at Metropoiltan Hall, in Sixth avenue, to discuss and hear discussed the sub- ject of “Positive Philosophy.” A particularly tall and thin man, with parti- cularly thin gray hair and whiskers and mustaches of like antique hue, opened the proceedings with announcing, @ la the melancholy Jaques, the time of day—in other words, siated that the hour announced for the ar to begin had arrived. After giving utterance to this important preliminary fact he launched into an extravagant exordium upon woman, and marked vehemence declared that she was inherently entitled to the same rights and privil asmen. While all were wouder- Rg nd wi es Siete Seen aanae do with pos! pi iy, he made apparent its ap- piication by nominatirig a lady seated on his va ad their ptesiding officer. This motion was gailantl; seconded, and after the vote had been taken accord- ing the lady in q this position he, with chival- ric gallantry suggestive of the olden times of knight- erranty in the medieval ages, took the lady by the hand and inducted her to the chatr, or rather @ some- what lengthy wooden Lench mounted on a platform of diminutive size. ‘The lady president, who In her mammoth Ley proportions gave token of being as able-bodied as she is strong-minded, sat down for a moment with ber right band on her brow, in apparent deep abstraction of thought. Suddenly rising to her fect she essayed an introductory —not the usual stereotype speech of thanks for the high honor con- ferred ou her, but @ speech at once more original and striking. “With an unusual spirit of self-abnega- tion she dec that she could do nothing of her- self, but being a medium should say what the spirit controlling her might direct. The spirit, which evidently in the body since has paul very little atiention to the grammatical construction of the English language, im- pelied her into making quite extended remarks upon an unconscionabie mediey of topics. After descauting on spiritualism and ite mysterious reve- jations and prophesying, from the rapid spread of bellef in its reality and teachings, the speedy coming of the time when it would be given to ail to see these things Reva she branched off to other topics, and finaily proceeded vo ask the question, “What is positive philosophy”? Her answer lacked posi- tivism most positively. All she underwok to say In Tesponse Was that all clases of people were having their thoughts turned in that direction, that many barning with the thoughts m ther were fired wita the zeal of proselytiam, and that to the long night of hypothetical darkness overshadowing the world and the thoughts of inen was aucceeding a day of golden stinshine, when trath in all the glorious beauty of pomtive revelation would be fully and perteotly de- veloped—an era of fact submerging all the previous pte of ficttion— theoretical revelations. ‘The gentieman who moved the lady tothe chair and also helped her there, as stated above, upon the conclusion of the president's address took a stand by a window, withdrew @ voluminons manuscript from ao inner coat pocket and proceeded to rend it, Posttive philosophy he announced a# analogous to the exact sciences, and with this announcement he proceeded to give the component gases of water, and asked if anybody could dispute the resuita given, AS science had revened these gases so science, he argued, Was unfolding the mysteries of irmamortatity. Vositive philosopliv bad uahered in a new beaven and a new earth. The stubdie of seep. Helem was being barned, He referred toa late articia in tue Hewat detailing a yielt to bag leading + piri sitive puilosophy, as opposed to | cH eee d : if E ft } if BEaEs a EF i z 3 5s: zigs 5E 3F fy @ wife asked aes a ‘The system of public education in this city pos- sesses @ peculiarity which has proven to be, beyond all cavil, @ source of inestimable value to a large-and worthy portion of the residents of the metropolis. ‘The peculiarity referred to 18 the evening school system, and the benefits and actual blessings which have been derived from it cannot now be adequately determined. The system of public education in Vogue in this city possesses, indeed, many peculiarl- ties which place it far in advance of the system practised in any other city, either in this or the Old World, To claim that it 1s perfect would be to claim that ita managers are more than human; but It 1s de- cidediy safe to assert that it 19 as nearly perfect asis possible for such a system to be, That there isa large amount of money expended yearly in this city in con- nection with the public schools no one will for a mo- ment attempt to deny; but that it is safely, economi- cally and advantageously invested no intelligent or right-minded person who gives the subject a care- fal consideration can possibly doubt. The present Governor of this State in an address to the pupils of one of the prin¢ipal schools of this city very justly re- marked that every dollar invested in the cause of popular education is worth more than one hundred dollars invested in any other way. This remark is eminently truthful, and that the investment made in this city must be considered as being ebout to bring forth good fruit may be adjudged from the fact that the most unscrupuloug of the Metropolitan politi- cians, aided by their tools, the illiterate and imbecile officeholders, are at the present time using every means In their power to oust those who have stood between the efficiency of the schools in the interest of the public and the grasp- ing of the politicians, who manipulate the men and money of the city and county government, The public schools are rearing intelligent, thinking men— men who can and will determine for themselves the policy whicn should rule in local, State and national affairs, and who will not submit to be led or driven by individuals steeped in chicanery and fraud, and seeking personal and party power above ali consid- erations or conditions of the public benefit. But, while the ordinary day schools are rearing boys and ig to become thinking, acting men and women, the evening schools are merely training those who can already think for themselves, and whose con- stant and careful attendance at the schools in the evenings shows that eee. fully appreciate the advan- tages which are offered to fit them for a proper: ition in society, In 1833 the old Public School ry first established evening sessions of the schools for the benefit of apprentices and others, The teachers in the day schools, were obliged to teach in the evening schools without additional pay, and, aa there were no established rules for disci- pline and no responsible heads to the schools, the re- Sult of the experiment was anything but satistactory and after two or three winters it was quietly aban- doned. Some fifteen years later, when the Board of Education was ood working order, the evening schools were in opened, and since that time they have been regularly continued with the most bene- ficial results, From time to time modifications in the conduct of these evening schools have been adopted by the Board of Education until now they are models in their way, and attempts have been made in various cities to imitate the system 80 successfully carried out in New York. There are at present in this city twenty-four evening schools—thirteen for males and eleven for females— besides three schools for colored people and a high school for young men, located as follows: MALE SCHOOLS. Wards, Location of School Houses. 4—No. 1, 32 Vandewater street. 5—No. 44, corner North Moore and Varick streets, 7—No. 31, Monroe street, near Montgomery. 9—No. 16, Weat Thirteenth street, near Seventh av. 10—No, 42, Allen street, near Hester. 11—No. 22, Stanton street, corner Sheriff. 12—No, 87, Eighty-seventh 81 near fhird avenue, 12—No, 39, ee and Twenty-fifta street, lem. 1%—No. 13, Houston street, near Essex. 18—No, 28, Twentieth street, near Second avenue. 19—No, 27, Forty-second street, near Third avenue. 20—No. 32, West Thirty-fifth street, near Nioth av. 22—No, 11, Forty-seventh street, near Eight avenue. FEMALE SCHOOLS, Wards, Location af. Houses. 6—No. 24, Elm street, near Leonard. 8—No. 38, Clark street, near Broome, 11—No. 15, Fifth street, near avenue C. 13—No. 84, Broome street, near Sheriif. 14—No. 21, Marion street, near Prince. 16—No, 11, Seventeenth street, near Eighth avenue, 17—No, 19, Fourteenth street, near First avenue. 19—No. 18, Fifty-first street, near Lexington avenue. 20—No. 83, Twenty-elghth street, near ith avenue, 21—No. 14, Twenty-seventh near Second ay. 22—No. 28, ih street, near hth avenue. The colored schools are at, No. 2 in Laurens street, near Broome; No. 4, in Seventeentn street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and at 155 Stanton street, near Suffolk. The high school is in school- house No. 85, on West Thirteenth street, near Sixih avenue. The average attendance of pupils at these schools in the two weeks ending December 31, 1868, which may justiy be taken as @ specimen of the average during the entire session, was as follows:— Wards, me Females, Wards. Males, Femates, 4 - —— 258 408 —_ 240 — 330 229 273 —_ 390 ed 205 _ 295 - lio 408, _ a 208 14 228 230 = 253 Totals........ + seseeeereees 4,619 2,863 Average attendance at colored schools......... 143 Making the grand total of av attendance 7,625 The actual attendance 1s about two and one-half nod cent more than the ave and on this reckon- pad whole number taught would be i. In ilition to this the average attendance at the even- ing high school is about 800, which will make tne gd pana Prom ad fall; bob oe! me in m4 ie necessary Instruction num upils there are employed 171 teachers in the male 1 1s schoo! and 112 in the female schools, besides thirteen in the High School. These figures show pi clearly that ‘the system is by no means a failure, on the con- trary, a wise and judicious method of extending the advantages of education to those whose ages cations are such as to prevent their ing the day schools. Reading, spelling, definitions and penmanship are taught in all the classes, Geography ts taught by meansof outline maps and oral explanations. Arithmetic is taught in mentai exercises in calculation and analyst with practical applications of the principles and rules, The sche continue in operation during eighteen weeks, commencing on the first M in October, and in that comparatively short time the advance- ment made by the pupils 18, in the main, really mar- vellons. This may be accounted for in part by the fact that those who attend the go of their to advance own free will and with a determination ber in actendance’& ho AVE passed a endance are persons who have twenty-one years of age. It must be said, however, that the colored people do not evince much anxiet, to become “intethgent contrabands,”’ and that though @ special agent has undertaken to taprenon = (od Rag a st Rud ad nding ie achools, the; reports which come {rom t from the of the colored man’s yearning for the education, Many of the leading families of the city have made arrangements ert ae their servants who are so disposed the schools, and by this means a better ore faithful, be- canee more intelligent, class of attendants is ob- ained, In different portions of the city where certain Faces predominate the schoois have been #0 ar- ranged as to meet and administer to the more im- mediate wants of the residents of the hvorhood, This subject ts clearly treated of jection irom the tendent Jones:— af In the Tent Seventeenth wards, where a |i German Porlation ia tous Nd we a large of that clase In the achou wards, who are the care of teacuers cay ot ing teem in the Ianguage. ee for = purpow fA i. are They have And their duit io make themselves fara M1 fu yantry. are men, and { eseme soe ee oasant te Meat: taak thee MAL weenie mare ieee Ceotion then & the you oe die sf the vi aac ivdtow than who when entert contd veareniy speak no iunglish words We were = vee eure 5 tat ae language o aunong w their lives i= by wor et ‘Choreesing the opluton that only ‘in er =, ee any — fore for, on the ; re ie scarcriy aby mate schoo! in ‘nny section of tre ay 1a which there is, nou found at least Ore class, The are gratuitousl en ot teachers being carefully sewmeted a examination as to thelr fitness for their ear rye and it is pleasant to ‘cord appreciation of the kinvneas, and ithecathy ens. In one of the schools there ir are under the care of Leman, an Recompiiahed lin guint, who forthe past fifteen years bas thaght foreigners in our evening schools, A Vigit 10 (he evening schools, when in full opera. | in & class com 5 when, of the room, a stout, strong-lock- ing young man stood up. He and some others dressed in their working clothes and had evidently not swehed face or hands, oe: the evidences of smoke and sweat were plainly visible. resaing Mr. Boesé, he said:— “Boss, we don’t come to schoo! this way always, but we were at work in the var! pretty late and had no time to oe home to our supper. ax we didn’t wish. to be late at school; and,.as we didn't expect any visitors, we made up our minds to come as we were. The prectpes knows us, and we knew he would excuse us for coming 80.” No one could fail to appreciate the honest, manly sentiment of such a speech and the noble self-sacri- fice which the action of these ‘‘son3 of toll” had shown; and in reply to the speaker Mr. Boesé simply said:—‘‘You area man, and any «ne who pursues: education in such a spirit as vou show must suc- ceed and will receive the hearty commendation of the Board of Education and of every honest man in \he community.” In relation to the evening high school it is only necessary to remark that it is intended for more ad- vanced pupils, and has proved to be a decided acqui- sition tothe syatem. Previous to adinission pupils are requ to pass a good examination in reading, spelling, el pmantery geography and gram- mar, and aritumetic through common and decimat fractions and their applications (o denominate num- They must also present suttsiactory evidence of good moral character, The course of study em- braces the following branches:—Unglish mmar and compos.tion, reading and deciamation, pen- manship, bookkeeping snd arithmetic; algebra, geome! and trigonometry; natural philosophy, chemistry and astronomy; American history and po- litical science, the latter to ineinde a ‘knowledge of the constitution of the United States, the State con- stitution, with the ‘outlines of miunicipal and inter- national law; architectural and mechynical drawing, ractical mechanics, navigation, and the French, jpanish or German language, ‘The pupils are not obliged to go through the entire course, but may be admitted to receive instruction in any pan of the course or in aay single branch of study. With all the advantages possessed and put tu active operation by the systein oj public education in this city, and with the immense in‘uence which the schoois must uitimately wieid for good of evil, it must bea crying shame to allow the schools and the system to become prostituted to subserve the wishes of rascally and Insatiate politicians. The system of popular education is a jewel in the dirt heap of municipa! administration, and should be Preserved in its brilliancy and not permitted to be ground out and thus become a portion of the mire with which it is sarrounded, WESTERN MEXICO. Review of Northwestern Mexico—What Ene. terprises Huve Been Inaugurated—Condi- tion of the Country—What Must Be the Result—Opinion of a Mexican Journal—A Mabommedan and Mormonic View of the Situation. MAZATLAN, Dec. 20, 1868. Let us review the history of Northwestern Mexico: for the expiring year, 1868, and see what have been the triumphs of her civilization. We will glance at the magnificent enterprises inaugarated for her greatness and glory—enterprises worthy of such an earthly paradise, speaking as nature’s interpreter. We refer especially to this portion of the Mexican re-. ‘public, as it is the theatre in which we are specially interested. Observing, then, this line of aemarca- tion, we must confess to a deplorable want of practi- cal public spirit, instead of that magnificence at which we have hinted. In no part of the rich territory comprising these States have we heard of railroads, telegraphs, canals or public works being inaugurated, Nothing has been done to attract foreign capita! and foreign brain, two elements without which it is doubtful If ever Mexico can elevate herself to prominence among the leading nations. Mining and agricultural interests are in a most sickly condition. These two branches of in- dustry could be made enormously remunerative if laws were enacted and labor made honorable. Commerce languishes on account of the oppressive duties, and taxation, through what is known as the inland custom houses, is another oppression most disastrous to the welfare of the country. The mait department is on @ par with other public institn- tions, and the press is constantly complaining of ita IneMciency and bad management. Yet the postage is high enough to look for better things. You cannot despatch even an envelope without paying @ quarter of a dollar for the favor. Frequently we have to pay from sixty to ninety cents for letters of ordinary weight, which in the United States would be no more than from three to six cents. Then the carriage is infernally slow. It takes, on an average, from sixteen to twenty days for a letter to reach the city of Mexico by land’ ‘The mail from here to Durango is carried on a man’s back, and has been for time immem_rial, and the probabilities are that this mode of transportation will be continued for the next generation. Such @ laxity in all depart- ments of enterprise and goveramental has I It would be much more p! resent to American reader a different iy ae ee md this of the M mes it actually seemed to us here if the long threatened annexation was to be ‘ato. ality. Two or three attemps at declaring these States free and independent From the generat v- es . the wo yay title of the Republic of orthwest, seem: & step towards incorpor- ss Fo vr with the 4 ye viduals are very to imagine that - ments can be changed about as easily ne a Fa! of househoid furniture. Past events. ane however, have dissipated such ideas, not the imner Better that sooner or later manifest destiny will fulfil its mission of ration. Mexicans themselves say that this will be inevitable unless the general gov- ernment is awake to resist the Aimerican policy of pea ag and the Vera Cruz Courier, in a remark- avly able article on this subject, admits that the Mexican republic, as inert and decaying matter, will fualiy exhaust itself on th» principle of attri- tion in contact and contest with its powerful rival of the North. Believing this the Courter calls for a vi- pone ape of the tt Politic, b-4 be m=) aggressive 7, a8 nly means viating an igno- i 2 r a ca andy nestion we have come to the conclusion that there are only three roads open to Mexico:— Firs'—Continue as she is, the breeder and nourisher of revolutions and civil wars, with all the atrocious horrors attending such a state of society gia Sealy end her existence in the annihilation and division her territory among powerful and voracious rivals, Second—Make nap bam ped laws cover- dustry, economy and unity of Mi in now without a religion gad her people ate tipe for Se iv e natu le al ted, their female deuce tau enda Cen wre aan eee ba & plurality of wi ut we will the chival hit. ric sons of Spain have ever to resi, rn rin, ‘ophet: and th Country fet depopuiating ive irresisuble that it Is the sacred a man woman to increase and multip!, tne cathe ont no creatures in the 80 fond can women. Bat, notto tril bold the miverse, proposition Ld this 18 @ #o-called excluslvony ie from the least to the greatest ly one of them yon cee of ent a Catholic Pee, if, joe ‘cept some rare cases ami very of what we mi call the backwoods ‘eq hes clergy ail qrest ower the w that power ts » ‘The practice —— Ay habit than a sentient, Wo fee an seen, strong even in her rel moods, has @ great deal to de here, as elsow with woman's ig to charch. We ny thal Mexico is ripe for any doctrine that will unity, equality, brotherhood, faith, hope, charity, tov that will inculeate industry, ) Bobrl honesty, virtue, patience end ‘peace are the prime and first wants of the Mexican people; these, put into practice, would lift her Ton of to on ‘i nd renown. He who believes in them and brain and magnetic power to sow them in the hearts of the magses has as rich @ harvest open to him as ever fell to the Jot of man. The Mexican nd of heart, and it only requires a bold, wenerous spirit to lead them to a new and phant Jeraaatom., Who will be their Moses, Faul, thei Moiammed, ther Brigham ? ood,