The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1869, Page 8

Fm are oi it Tat ‘ the Leer 8 RELIGIOUS SERVICES YESTERDAY. wer, THE CAURCH ANB THE BIBLE. Lecture by Archbishop McCloskey at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Last evening tke Most Rev. Dr. McCloskey de- livered a discourse Mm St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the penefit of the podr visited by the inembera 6f the Society of St, Vinoent de Paul. ‘That the charitable ‘object was most thoroughly appreo*atea the over flowing congregation that assem™ieq tn the sacred edifice last evening Most primistakably testified. Though eight o'clock was “ihe hour announced for the discourse, fully 2D novuy pefore that time every aisle—not to epeak ¢/f the seats which were secured earlier—Was impasgabie, St. Patrick's was indeed crowded ¥0 its uténpst capacity, and the resnit must have bern regarde‘g as gratifying in the extreine, as the Proceeds age; to pe devoted to one of the most charitable objer‘s in existence. Shortly before eight o'clock the grand organ pealed forth ite ‘solemn strains and the #Lgadate’ was magnificently rendered by a full che g, A procession issued from the vestry, and the ? gorpies having arranged them- selves beside the al’ gy The Archbisbop gacended the pulpit and said:— Your presence ht puthis evening, beleved brethren, In Buch goodly NUD erg, is a most gratifying and consol- ing evidence of he generous sympathy which you feel for the poor @ g& needy ones of the Mock, whose suf ferings and} #rvations, at all times great, are ren- dered great Asstill by the rigor and inclemency of a Winter sea by, Yet]am not here to make at this gaoment a! fy/ special appeal to you on titeir behalf, for happi) g/such appeal 18 not needed.» You have already eff jcipaved and Kindly responded to it pe- fore ent this holy placé, and I may therefore be Permitted paps be the steiy that is allotted to me smi Ye to you on another subject—a subject which, ¥¢ bot possessing any particular cialms on your &tf ention by reason of its novelty or attractive- pou, é still leas by reason of the manner hich it will be weated, will sufficiently, twist, commend itself by its own intrinsic Interest And importance. A& the subject of which iL pyro} ‘to speak is the Church and te Bible; or, in: other words, the relations of the Church to the Bible and the relations of the Bible to the Church; aud if order that my remarks may not take too wide or extended a sphere, in speaking of the Church you will understand me to meaa the Christian Church, Qad in speaking of the Bible you will understand me @s restrictlug myself to the books of the New Testa- ment, You are all aware how much misapprehen- sion exists and how many and repeated misrepre- sentations are made as to the real belief and prac- fice of the Catholic Charch with reference to the holy scriptures, It is presumed and asserted by many that there is an poigonism and Opponency betweem them; that their claims are incompatible, and so that we are here to exalt Vhe attributes and character of the Church we are idered.as by so’ much nding to deprecate id to undervi ae and that ast ¢ trea te ized and ized an - made agin p Dburok. i de t this questio. ler 19 80 fore you tn its true shail not treat it so favs controversially a8 hjstorically, shall en- vor to place before you this evening facts as they are ded by authenticated hisjory—facts as they and confirmed b; lg and incon: witaveses. vy! the first fach which I snlde-t at the Church is oldey tan 1 tian Church in point of time jew ‘I ent, anc ted Wil essen ‘eidiby mthe tiny fechnees in the organism in int Of its doctrine, tn the fulness of 1 and authority before there Was a ques- inspired 8 Which aré contained in ne Testament. The founder of ‘was doubtless Jesus Christ. e author ghd duisher of our faith. He was a it game vo live ag man sony ons t6 men, He ut, wri bus by word of ver Wi sel * He sever gave inggroctions or: naninsngs ig others to commission to his poten yee “Go the goapél to every creature, gd tecth all na- fon tiem ion tue day of Pentecost they wade haste ay 0) ¢; wo ramengo the fulfltent oi f the on which he entrusted to them. ry). to. preach Jerusalem, and We aad jens = of jousands received es ef, ir es, and e Church. e aposties went forth from place to place, 80 that if was true to say ‘that in a very brief space of time the sound of their Voice had gone forth throughout the earth, and it as true to say that the Church was founded, the thurch had its ministry, its sacraments, it: ane nd that hundreds and ‘thousands recel vay ‘Were baptised “were ‘and nour- ents, lived and died in commu- ih God and were numbered as members of Church triumphaut in heaven before the books the New Testament were penned. The Church was erefore anterior tothe New Testament and was independently of it. The Archbishop Oat vapceotion to enumerate the ‘Writings of the Aposties, showing that none of wem had been written before Ciiristianity had been widely ad, and that they were not penned to instruct entirely ignorant of the Uhristian religion. peopie received the mae were taught and gelieved simply on the faith of those = Were sent to them. The Aposties took pains to have their writi kept together, nor wr did\they hold any counclis to make a certain ory. \ by Ay not come together to draw any ‘eum Ea Christian faith. He cited several works posties which Were omitted from e New Testament and asked how was that ba| decided, who established the canon hich }\ras now received by Christians through- t \ World, who pronounced such works to insg) red, and such —_ to be inspired? The juncli sof Carthage deci 4 it, aud the pontitts of e Ohureyh confirmed the Council. by the au- thority of| that Church, and what was the autuority i the Ne\w Testament? If that Church has erred may ‘have mad¢ a mistake with regard to those writings. If the authority of the Church is owerthrown the credibility of the only wit- the opily one who can tesufy to the existence i the inspi.ation, is destroyed, e authenticity of jose Looks is & liistorical fact—the inspiration of ge is @ supernatural fact, and no one gould estab- ih tuat fact by the books themselves, He next re- oer toman etupire, showing that amid the raste and rr which surrounded it the Church of eon sroed sae ryed iimeeeake those — in- jers and repaid their Injuries by converting them to the saith. NY one doubved as to the titnner in which those barbarous nations were conyerted; that was pimply py preaching and téaching; tuat tue riptures Werf too few to be Spread among them; pom they werd too ignorant to read. The Church as the liv) voice of the Holy Ghost; the Scrip- tores were tie written words; they went baud and hand; the one couid not contradict the her; tiie Olte Could not gut of harmony with the r, bet it Was the Holy ‘Seep h 2) Spoke fur ie hv! ‘oh, The Archbtsl op ibsequently re- red to collection of the Scriptures by the ks and thir trangiations into Various languages those @tugents Who were preparing for the urch, oe to the labors of St: Columbanus, ho estavliehed go many monasteries in ireland, hither stuslemla rep’ perfect “hemselyes fry lore. : ‘The first that issued from the press was the This yey times, before the Ke- it went through 200 editions betore of ther ever appeared in the world, i ayy io tue different oi ro} and as many as a the ‘binie in these various nalation of Luther made ite ese it hundred editions four- that did not receive the were editions that appeared cei Beau ana tere the p of the elon ion epiand nd ‘the ay tant trans. Bible if any form, of this denying the I iy Of the German the most dlatingulahed f- the he tration oid Postament @ myth. lied the place of Eng’ the authority of led into ques: ; and even at day pron J “gl 4 rod ip et was rogress in therto ‘boasted and jand. In ouf own country sometht be said, When the Puritans they ha@ the Bibie. it was to them the books, and thy would hard- Jy have believed if that their chilaxen not many Yet it waa NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. purus Rat hae eats htatse chotr, None jn & highty table manner, evi Con, Directors Denounced. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached last evening toa very crowded congregation, taking for his text the fifteenth verse of the eighteenth chapter of the Acts—“But if it be a question of words and names and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.” From this the rever- ened - gentleman took occasion to speak of the duties of clergymen and of brvenPbipenratnag or the sacred dutiea they were call periorm. There was nothing, he in the ordination. God’ , ordination is the great ordination. ‘They canne’, fe appropriated by mam or church till i adde*, {5 4¢ Gou’s inspiration. There is a feeling Age" ast class clergymen, He participated yim chat He would not dismember himself from ‘sne great body of his fellow citizens. A con is a teacher of moral things. Gdt any one can teach that is able. Ted (aousand 1s ing @ trumpet for a will not make him @ preacher ordinatily, Moral preachers are fellow members, elders of the church, and nothing more. There is'no reason why such men should be de- prived of their privileges in the community, There often ia speculative judgment passed upon clergy- men, Moral temper is often wiser than practical experience. The man who can bring moral inspira- tion to the affairs of the world, that man will im- prove society better than the man who is guided merely by practical experience. All professions in life stand high wm relation to moral law. He had, anybody had, a right, without ordination, to take part In every public affair in ’ life, even as teachers of their fellow man, This has been Christ's quarrel from the frst, when it was said, why comest thou to torment us before our time? That is saidevery day. They say, why dost thou introde and be with us? They say go to your church and let the grog shops alone; attend to your dogmas and let the caucuses alone, particularly the political caucus. Itis'‘the men that foliow Christ that stir up the world, For himself, therefore, he held the right of clergymen to act for themselves in all mat- ters of society. He was, however, opposed to class clergymen. His sphere was as broad ag the daylight. A popular impression was that every man uuderstood his own business best, and none can advise him better than one of his own craft. There was au immense quantity of dogmas that willin some time hence be considered trash. ‘That is certainly the truth in’ regard to many clegy- men’s teachings, Experiencé proves that men are often forgetful of the influences around them by ab- sorption in their business, Nothing is more untrue than that a man knows his own business best if taken in he general sense, The baker may know etter than he did how to” make the loaf, but he was the best re of its ona and so everything comes back to the loaf test. It was not for him to say how a judge should discharge ils profession, but it~vas for hin to criticise his acts between what was just and unjust. The judge brings his acts to his tribunal when there is a question of rightand wrong. Right- eousness 18 policy, and when corruption presents itself he has the right to condemn the act and the judge, When tive stink comes op to his nostrils he as a fight as @ man—not as a priest, because he did pot believe in priests—but a8 a man he had’ a right to say to the judge, woe upon thy head. Every man had q right to denounce the unjust judge, He would come back to this question again and again. He would denounce corruption wherever it appeared. The odious and rgera name of judge ensurined, in this as in other nations and other times, will become & new name—s newly invented term of infamy. His Rady was to hunt up men and denounce men, He does not, when he wants to preach a sermon, consult musty books; when he wants to preach he studies his congregation; when he studiés depravity he studies his congregation. There are a thousand questions he does not meddle with, Society is the ee fact, and society is made up of ten thousand ttle things that it was so necessary to study. In the words of the apostle they rae his epistle; they were his study, He did not understand railways, but he unders' railway directors, and he was after them, and he could tell them that they were Unjust men. He would tell them that they violated rectitude, violat honesty, violated humanity, vio- lated interests and violated God’s law, I say to them, you are not honest men, and God knows that you are not honest and honorable men. They say it is not my province, that jt does not belong» to my parochial affairs, tel them it does concern me pa my parish, and that parish is the whole United states, “ It not necessary for a cock to be in bed with you fn the morning {o learn the time to crow and announce the time to get He was better adapted to be a teacher of mofais in every grade of life than if his moral sensibilities were deadened ana stupefied by a persona or pecuniary interest in these things. He rae it bé silent and see humanity shaken to tis itre—see this nation destroyed and God's word imperilled and be silent. That waa not the course of Isaiah, of Jeremiah, of Paul and Peter. The cier- gyman—not the mere minister—he was not a priest or minister, but @ clergyman, ‘and he had a right to study’all the affairs of hie and make them the subject of his criticism before his fellow men. The minister's business was to follow out the motives of men, sounding alarms tn their ears, showing them the way they should go, direct- ing them by the inspiration of God's Word, They are the outsiders, and are the best judge. Ail — are jawful to him who is resolvea on doing ood, It was the province of the ciel jan to re uke iniquity, to make men theirenemies, Christ did not come on the earth to make peace— he brought the eword. The clergyman made enemies of men that they might become lovers—to wound them that they might become healed and restored to more perfect strength, No business was more sacred, more transcendant than this. This was the daty and profession of the clergy- man—teaching God's divine word, and bringing men is repentance and through Christ to eternal salva- jon. The reverend preacher was listened to with great attention, FIFTH AVENUE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Sermon by Dr. Chapin. During the morning services yesterday Rev. Dr. Chapin preached an eloquent and instructive ser: mon to a fashionable and attentive congregation in his church, corner Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, taking as his text the following words, from the ninth chapter and twenty-fourth verse of the Gospél of St. Mark:—“‘Straightway the father of the child-ctied out and said, with tears, ‘Lora, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.’ ? These were very affecting ‘Wwofds, uttered under very affecting circumstances, Christ had just come down from the mountain where Peter, John and James had just witnessed the trans- figuration of the Saviour, He saw a great crowd, aud a man Came from the midst of the crowd and said to Hint, “I beseech Thee for my son. He is my only child, and, lo, a spirit setzeth bim, and [ be- sought Thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.” CUrlgtsaid to him, “If thou canst believe, oll things are possible to him that believes," Straightway the father of the child said, “Lord, I believe; help Thou wine unbelief.” And the child Was cured, . Such was the scene which Jesus Christ encountered as be descended from the mount of transfiguration, What a contrast there was between the ecstatic glory of that transaction and that condi- tion at the foot of the hill, Thus it was with the truo Christian soul; thus it was with Christianity itself. pees ever from visiou to action—from divine re- re ‘ations to human work. Their attention at the mnt time Was especially called to the text, He ished them {o notice what might be called “the yisible reality” of that utterance, He wished them to notice the inimitable reality of that utterance. It Was an expression #9 natural aud so congenial that it never could have been fabricated out of ® mere biblical phrase. it must have come fro the pe of such copditions ag those te in. the passage before them in she eaeting, Rpaarces, It came m thé heart of a distressed father, who for yeara open his only child . falling into the fire and int ihe water from the nature of his complaint, and who id find no cure i his poor boy: For Years that aMicted father had witnessed tue forment if son, At length he sought relief from those to Whom had been given a strange power in healing, but they could pot help him; and the scepticism of the jbes mocked thetr attempt. But now thé mountain came the Great Healer— came ter himself. ir man said fitme ‘aut how canst do anything have com. passion on Qs and heal us.’ the nafurainess of the da yas, ih i rod with a jou! x that at as. he into. thet saw there the cal looked into that assurance of help and it, “Lord, 1 believe; help Thou if ever true words had been re- corded in history those words were true, He said, also, they were natural words—ihat is, they were words that they ore or anybody in similar condition might say @lso, There migiit be those who, in the ordinary course of affairs, took little or no thought as to what they ought or ought not to be- lieve in regard to their future. To them itfe was a series of events presenting Ho moral or spiritual sig- nifcance. But man coyld got live in thi world and be touched by ite experiences and enjoy life as « mere imal, There were great §=man: who Would Tange themselves under inct heads ot belief or unbelief. In either case it not any cae these claim, ‘Lard, I believe; to make that aMrmation? the class to which he had alladed wauld lise this phrase, “Lord, 1 believe.’ He sald because he knew there was a ase of a feased oF nominal Christianity in world, there ‘was such « Sa an ag popular rel seemed to seat very little grounds and on ay : foundation. os en seemed that were hag) rere very littie concerned with reli who would way, “Lord, I believe.” Ware ot those who would say, “Lord, I believe,” “uly because they had never attempted to e resiity of that which Mey af ? They sai they beneved because they did not pelieve, Let him methey phat was ® beliet Which enured from poet kot seare You and ‘out ip? and a or uaa a Se nis a i? predecessors held them a It be said that this nineteenth century hy.,1° o Bome people seereh to aed But there were old truths that “wore believed because they were at traths whic”, the fathers left behind rusted ID chem, which helped them in which led’ them in thelr various di and wnich comforted them in their aitic- On the other hand, it did not furnish a Ee oe i ee season for the acceptance of @ truth it had been held a while, There was also what might be called a “conventional” belief. Men were ready , “Lord, we believe,” because it was the pre- belief of the community about them—be- because it was believed by the mass people around them. They also believed because it was a ‘fashionable’ belief, They might be assured that, by the there were a great many the depth of whose belief was to be graded by the depth of popular fashion, or what was called “the good opinion,” or ‘“g society,” and who went to churches it was more fashionable, while they did not belleve in them. Some did not go so far as this; they merely aftirmed; they,merely repeated by rote what was believed by other people. Among these dif- ferent grades there were diferent classes. ‘There were some who occupied positions more or less tive or negative, First, the unbeliever, whose theory was a sharp, clever, speculative sceptl- cism, men whose chief business seemed to be in de- tecting aws—microscoplc men, They took up the Bible, not a8 a great whole, but bft by bit, to find all the littie errors and flaws in it, They see in one Place that Christ healed one blind man and jn an- other that Christ healea two blind men, and they want to say it is all one because there were these discrepancies in it. These were microscopic men. What they wanted pre- sent Was not to tear everything down, like these Men, but to build up. He likened such men as he had been speaking of to what Carlyle sald of Vol- taire—a man who has a torch for burning, but no hammer for building.” The preacher then went on to speak on other Kindred branches of his subject, and closed with an eloquent appeal to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, a8 the foundation and ultunate triumph of all Christian religion. CHRISTIAN WORK IN SPAIN, Meeting of Friends of the American Tract Society in St. George’sChurch, There was a large attendance last eyening at St. George’s church, corner of Sixteenth street and Rutherford place, of friends of the American Tract Society, to consider the work of circulating tts Chris- tian literature in Spain. After preliminary prayer and singing Rey. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, rector of the church, made an in- troductory address. They were all aware of the object for which they had met. His predecessor as ector of this church was among the original founders of the Amert- can Tract Society, A great work had since then been accomplished by this Christian crganiza- tion. Its printed publications have been scattered over nearly every section of the habitable globe, One feature of this society was the absence of sec- tarianism in its management. The hand of affection- ate fraternization was extended to all Christtans. Their great object was to spread broadcast the teachings of the Bible, They were to review to- night the efforts in progress to spread in Spain the publications of the American Society. This was a ost important fleld, and @ great and good work was being there accomplished. They were to listen to the statements of those perfectly conver- sant with this fleld of operations. Rev. J. C. Fletcher gave a series of interesting ac- counts of his personal experiences and observations among the Protestant Christians of Spain. This was one of the most wonderiully endowed countries in Europe—a country four times as large as the State of New York. It is surrounded by three seas, and thus early ve came a great commercial country. He described its climate and products, showing the pleas- ing salubriousness of the former and the astonish- ing ples of its soll. Next he spoke briefly of ite people and the characteristics derived from its early conquerors; then of its literature and famous men. Coming down to the present time, he said that there are now within ita boundaries a population of 16,000,000, of which but 3,000,000 can read and write. Most of this population are to all intents and pur- poses living in heathenish darkness. The prevailing religion was Roman Catholic. It had been too much the practice to look upon the Spanish people as Jdie, dissolute and treacherous, There Were this class of Spaniards, as there are of Ameri- cans, but most of them were upright and industrious, No people were more susceptible to religious teach- gs. From this he diver to the subject of per- secutions suffered by Protestants in Spain, inter- spersing his remarks upon this topic with several athetic narratives, inciuding an account of the death in a dismal dungeon of Manuel Metamoros. In the course of his remarks regarding the present condition of political affairs in Spain he denounced as unirue the stories so freely circulated in the papers of this country speaking dis- Rereengiy of the moral character of the Queen. ‘hese stories, he said, originated ta France, The men now holding the reins of government, he be- lieved, would do right, In conclusion, he showed the state of preparation in which the country now was for receiving their religious tracts and col- orteurs, and urged the assistance of all good Christians in their behalf. Now was the time to strike the blow there; now the time to rescue the people from the tyrauny of Roman Catholicism. Rey. Mr. Blackburn, for several years missionary in Brazil, made the next address, Though this coun- try was somewhat remote from Spain, the people were those speaking the Spanish or Portuguese lan- guage, and he had been invited to speak of the pres- ent condition of religious affairs in that country. Brazil hada population embrac- ing half the population of South America, Dissemination of religious tracts and books had converted thousands there to Christianity, He had known some of these to go one hundred and fifty mules to attend Protestant worship, What they wanted there were more missionaries. In all that country there were but nine Christian Disslonaries, who preached in the Portuguese language—about one missionary to 4 million inhabitants. Less than ten yea! o the first missionary sailed from this country, They had in this time organized four churches, with an aggregate of two hundred com- municants. Everything was ready for the forma tion of other churches. Key, Dr. Adams followed In a few remarks. Spain was moving, and it was moving in the right direc- tion. It never moved backward. Dr. Tyng and himself never expected to see in their day the ex- tnction of American slavery and the establishment of civil and religious liberty in Spain, The two works had been accomplished. They were not man’s works, but the work of God. There was everything to encourage Christians in the present condition of affairs in Spain. He reviewed the progress of Protestantism a8 Opposed to the progress of Catholicism, and alluded to French infidelity. jn France imfidel got its foothold from its association with the sentiment of itberty and equal rights, Reverting to Spain he said that Spain gave America to the world, and he Urged that we owed Lm | to Spain, In illdstration of this point he referred to @ painting he saw in italy rej pong J the old legend of a daughter nursing in prison her father. We must nurse 5 The doors were open, the tides were waiting ant hearts were open to receive the truths of Chrig- ity. bg oA Dr. Gange was the closing speaker, He dwelt particularly upon the importance in trying to evangelize Spain of bringing religious influences to ar upon the chidren, Thé American Tract foctety had primers anitable for thi; class. Spain was weary of despotiam—a despotis: of State and Church, Roman Cathdlicism, he in- sisted, was working itself out there, The yoke of riesthood had galled their necks; God" t prove fence had thrown this jand open to Americans. heir ag open! were received there without op- osition. He urged upon those prevent to contribute we of their means to help forward the good ork. , Receiving contributions, prayer and benediction Clowed the exercises, MEMORIAL CHURCH, “Behold the Man*=—Sermon by Bishop Oden« heimer, of New Jersey. ° There was a large audience last night at the Me Moral Ppiscopal church, corner of verley place and West Bleventh street, to hear the Right Rev, William H. Odenhetmer, D.D., Bishop of New Jersey. ‘The right reverend prelate preached from the words of St. John, nineteenth chapter and @fth verse, ‘Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purpie robe, and Pilot saith afto them, Behold the Man.’ if we would traly behold this man, it Was said, we must be perfectly honest in our survey, and we must be honest in confessing the real impression conveyed by our survey, whether the Impression contradict or confirm our previous to theological and educational training. in order behold the man, Christ Jesus, it is one to have & right estimate of ‘the four iu which contain the only authentio aud Memorials of him. eae are not four biographies of Jesus, None of them to give a full record of the ayin nd do and of the Master. On the cont .. per; On the contrary, 8b, yohn express Fy gD — Se hoes at would ir v fide pea te eet ode in to presen’ J of jis character, in order to excite in oe no matiwcr how diverse in ecclesiastical or int training’, faith in Him as the incarnate God, the Saviour of the world. The er his bearerd £0 behold the man as Br ia four syengence narratives. All agree in the mal Tacip of Li bith, wiracios, resurrection ald we Soa history. Shae uel, which, 8. Mark pre dued with “The God.” St. the King of Zion, Luke presents Christ nhs sacerdots functions as mi atonement for sin by the sacrifice of himself, once for all. In St. John Jesus is bi tht to view chiefly ‘a8 the logos—the eternal word of God—who in the Deginntng was with God ana was God. He reveals rfectly the nature of our Heavenly Father, The Bp aker then went on to show that every mention of Christ as a man in the four gospels was accom- panied by something in the immediate context which ed His divinity, and in order to un- derstand one declaration it should be interpreted in the light of the other, The Bishop was listened to with marked attention by a numerous and appreciative congregation. THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Bellows: The text of the Rev. Dr. Bellows’ yesterday morn- ing’s diScourge was taken from the seventy-seventh Psalm, third verse:—“I remembered God, and was troubled,” The reverend gentleman remarked, in the opening of his discourse, that he did not believe the Psalmist meant that he was troubled with the remembrance of God, but that his mind was over- whelmed with the divine goodness and mercy, Our sing never 100k so hideous as in the Nght of God's infinite mercy. When angels hid their faces before their Master how must the repentant sinner, who feels the light of God’s love penetrate his heart, be dazzled with the brightness? God 1s merciful as ‘well as just, and, therefore, if we bow ourselves in obedience to His will we may remember Him with- out fear, God Is a sure refuge for all the frail family ofmankind. He did not hold up the cloudless image of his own perfection tothe gaze of mankind with- out providing @ means for our rescue from the hideous bonds of sin. The spirit that should have possession of those who would approach the divine resence Was not one of despair. God is not an Ee: ptlan taskmaster to force us to bear burdens too wont for ourpsirengin, but a father and friend, who ib ever near to hear the supplications of his children. We should approach Him as ‘@ child approaches its father, trastingly, believingly and without fear. No accuser does as much service as love; its gentlest sigh is louder than the thunder, Love is law and sin is the fracture of law. A mis- take in arithmetic might as well be forgiven by the mujtipheation table as sin by rectitude and truth. But as God’s justice is superior to all law and lis mercy tempers justice, those who trust in Him can remember Him Without being troubled. The reve- rend gentleman said that during the late war be often stood in the ante-room of our martyred but not forgotten nor dishonored President when poor people whose relatives were in trouble called to Sppeal to that kindly and benevolent ruler on their alf, and there he was impressed with the great mercy of God; for if in human affairs it 18 a Dieasing that the chief ruler of a nation can be approached by the humblest citizen, how great the boon given to tankind to appeal personally to God for that mercy which justice cannot sanction. God is the friend of the neeeranie and loves best those who sutfer most, Are they not blessed most? In the oyster {a the pear]; the diamond in the waste of sand; and these poor, suffering, unfriended people have the light of God shining on them wherever they are thrown on the ocean of life. Sickness and trouble make God re- membered, for Soe pao ig an unmitigated evil it carries a jewel in its hideous head. : The reverend gentieman concluded his eloquent discourse by a fervent appeal to the congregation to prepare for the troubles that would be theirs sooner or later, 80 that they could in the dark hour of their sorrows remember God. THE SECOND COMING OF THE LOAD. What the Swedenborgians Understand by the Second Advent of the Lord—Lecture by Rev. Mr. Giles. An unusually large congregation assembled last evening at the Swedenborgian or New Jerusalem church, on Thirty-fifth street, near Lexington ave- nue. The Sermon of the evening was delivered by the Rev. C. Giles, the “Second Coming of the Lord’ being the subject, and the thirtieth verse of the twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew the text—‘‘And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” This, the rever- end gentleman said, was generally under- stood to mean the personal appearance of Christ again upon earth, ana the 1 ation pea this advent of the Lord vividiy, surrounded yy hosts of angels and amid great pomp, returning to judge, to condemn, to save and to consume. But the doctrine of the new dispensation teaches a dif- ferent interpretation of the second advent of the Lord—that by the Son of Man the divine truth 1s meant; the lettcrs, the a through which it is made known, are the clotds, and its power and glory are seen in the wonderful changes to be wrought by ttin the world. There is great freritokase the use of the term “Son of Man.” In the Old as well as New Testament various names are used at atifer- ent times to designate the same being, Almighty God. Hes called Jah, Jehovah, God, Lord, Holy, Holy One of Israel, Creator, &c. ’ There is a distinct meaning-attached to each term, and though referrin, to the same person it interprets a diferent! attribute of the person. Thus the words son of God and Son of Man, uA spoken of the same individual, denote his dierent relations with the infinite and the finite, his relation to God in the one and the man in the other. Numerous peseegae were cited aa the Scriptures to prove hat the words ‘Son of Man’ embody the truth, that as He is coming to judge, it 1s the truth thus coming; for even this world the law jus and condemns, and not the judge, who is inerely the Spokesman of the law, And in further proof the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth verses of the nmne- teenth chapter of Revelations were read and ex- plained that the Son of Man 1s the divine truth which is to come to redeem and to save. The man- ner of His ‘‘coming in the clouds of heaven,’? the speaker said, meant the revelation of the truth Ped e- — of the letters and symbols of language, rived from the material world to make it known to us. What the clouds which rise from Pe earth are to the sun, often hiding his light, in- ercepting and modifying it, the language is to the divine truth coming from’ material man; it often conceals It, being inadequate to express it. Again many passages [rom Scripture were cited to show the correctness of this interpretation, which com- ports with the Bible and stands the test of the scl ence of correspondence, the best test of any theory. Thé common doctrine assumes the Lord's second coming in fall power, Le 9 and in ing dis- play, But wi ea Power? ve nore ally with poret ig signe pa) — sate “ngs The of Niagara are made ty, of grins power but there is more power Thigh kee 0 lent Take in its bed ip the bosom fs the mountain, Volcanoes and earthquakes — shal ee soud earth exhibitions of power, bi io keeping the unive: {ts harmontous stem; greater power in ‘ation tian in tre named ti Fay? aged alee idea in @ arm o 1c Kaan Bese ear at tas jowerful Influence than the armies of ander, Jesar and Napoleon. But the atest of all forces, of all power, is that of the Bible, which gave the nineteentt century the characteristics distin. fehing it from the frat. e coming of the Lord therefore, the coming of the Divine truth through the cloud, the spoken Word, with all the power of Pesvenly trath, and there can be no ter Eta aD he presence of igen nd all Alied witl ve Of God and of man, with divine truth as the rue rinctple in Chi hus makin, ch, society and State, his a new world, with @ hew heaven to #bine over ba ii. THE MILLENNIUM. Sermon by the Rev. L. 8. Weed. At the evening service yesterday at the Allen street Methodist Episcopal church the pastor, Rev, L. 3. Weed, preached a sermou oo “The Millennium,” The reverend gentleman read aa his text the frst three verses of the twentieth chapter of the book of Reve- lations. The whole of the Apocalypse, the preacher said, Was jptended to exhibit the safety of the Church of Christ and the Onal triumph of the Gospel of the Son of God, Like Jacob's vision of the ladde® and the angels, with the Lord standing at the head in all His glory, so St, John’s vision pointed to the coming glory of the Lord, If the beasts mentioned were full Of eyes they were turned towards ; if the seals of Fe cocks were to be opened tt was by bad been from before the foundation of the rons if there were trumpets n ‘wrath to be out the their out was ftixen by the providenual spirit of bas BS from the nt to the end of the book it was found that every find was com pone oh Ls the Lord of Hosts; i. Lit pros wi ined stood marvellons we bea millennia, Which the cause of Christ hy me, should enjoy 4, Charch, but here was much dif. co, = Kome Poy believed that at the commencement of it Jesus Christ would be son near and that very soon; that when he came Wicked would be |, the saints would andergo 8 resurrection and Christ in his own person Would literally live upon the carth and reiga living saints, where could wicked people who were to battle for ? The millennium was an age of in- telligence more universal, when Bible should be known universally. It would not be ushered in in any marked way, but by the use of human means, or would be so intermingled with former times that it would be impossible to say just where one ended and the other began. The preacher concluded with a very telling appli- cation of the subject, calling upon his hearers to help on by their actions the coming of the glorious day when the cross of Christ should be victorious over ail its foes, “THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION.” found by Satan to do Sermon by the Rev, D. K. Lee. ‘The Rev. D. K. Lee held forth at the Bleecker street Universalist church yesterday morning, on the words of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth verses of the fifth chapter of the Gospel according to St. John—"Marvel no- at this; for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the res- urrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.” The orthodox min- isters place a literal interpretation apon this textand hold that those who have done good shall be brought forth to a resurrection of life in heaven, and those who have done evil to aresurrection of damnation; but this interpretation is not correct. It only provides for two classes—thoge who have done good and those who have done evil—leaving the two other great classes, those who have done both good and evil, and infants, whojhave done néither, without any resurrection atall. According to this doctrine salvation is a thing of merit and not of grace, as thej Scripture teaches us to believe. According to the literal interpretation all who have done one evil act will rise to the resur- rection of damnation. Moses did evil, David did evil and Paul did evil, and there is no salvation for them, ‘Therefore we see that the words of the Apostle must not be interpreted literally. What, then,is the meaning of the resurrection of damnation? Is damnation endless woe? The preacher thought not; for in the original the word condemnation was often used a8 synonymous with damnation. Nothing is said in the Bible of the doration of damnation; in no place do we read that it is endless, The true in- terpretation of the text teaches us that those who have done shall rise to a life of joy, and those who have done evil to condemnation. ‘the Univer- salists believe in an immediate and continuous res- urrection of the dead in the order in which they died. ‘Those who left the world at peace with G fh wake to eternal happiness, and those wlio die = nitent, ® be condemned and converted, not jamned. This doctrine sustained by what Peter sald about preaching to the dead. It is con- med by the current voice of Scripture. ‘here is no such thing as utter damnation. Creation itself shall be delivered from evil. The discords and sing of the world shall pass away forever. The whole of moral creation wiil be brought to tinal per- fection. It will be the crowning i of the universe when all souls have been brough' perfection and none are left to mourn in sin. Can we think of a more comforting doctrine to preach to mourners than that the dead shall live? As in Adam all di even so in Christ shall all live. Since by man cam death, so by man came the resurrection. PRINCE PONIATOWSKI’S MASS. St. Peter's church, Barclay street, of which Rev. Wiiliam Owen is pastor, was the scene of some fine musical services at divine worship yesterday. The grand mass composed by Prince Poniatowsk!, aud very recently performed in Paris with such great jen was admirably rendered by the choir of St. eter’s church. The mass abounds in striking parts, the finest of which are the soprano solo in the kyrie, ‘Christe Eleison;” the “Et incarnatus Est,” soprano solo, which was very finely sung by Mrs, Easton, and the ‘Agnus Dei,’’ basso solo. The solo ple were sustained by Mrs, Easton, Miss lenne, jessrs. Fritsch and Starn, assisted by the chorus of the church, the whole under the direction of Mr, W. F, Pechér, the organist, THE HEBREW CHTISTIANS. Under the auspices of the Hebrew Christian Broth- erhood about fifteen Hebrew Christians met last evening at room No. 24 Cooper Institute, and held religious services, After a very fervent prayer had been pronounced by one of the audience, during which he prayed that God might open the eyes of “the misguided Israelites” to the true light of Chris- tianity, a Mr. Lederer delivered a sermon, taking his text from the be eg chapter of v aeloninte gf where tae character of true prophets is spoken of. He then argued at some length to prove that the Hebrews were in error in believing that the Messiah had not yet come, and contended that it was only necessary for a Hebrew to carefully bagi ry this chapter of Deu- teronomy and then study the character of the Sa- viour to be convinced of the fact that Jesus Christ was the long looked for Messiah. At the close of the sermon one of the gentlemen present delivered @ short er Cd an analogy between the characters of Corist and Moses prove more con- peg pore Christ was the Messiah, and that he was the Great Prophet spoken of when Moses said. “God shall send a prophet like me.” THE HOME FOR THE BLIND, There is in this city @ very large number of persons who are affected with either total or partial biind- ness, Who are thereby precluded from obtaining a livelihood by any other means than at the hand of charity. Many of them eke out a beggarly existence by peddling shoe strings and other trifes in the market places, or with placards on their breasts pitifully invoke the attention of passera by with their monotone, “Please help the blind.’? Ali the Btate Ba beng for the blind roject Srelicants who are dpWards of thirty years » and for these there is no provision, They shrink from en- tering the county poor house; and this class of adult blind ig very large, hence a great déal of suffer. ing prevails among them, living in Most nolsome cellars and garreté and feed- ing upon almost any refuse food. They do not heed & church spectaliy devoted to them for wor- ship, but they require physical ass! ce, and with view of rendering them some aid Rev. Eastburn feattinn established in April last the Church of the ol ht, Lote | for 3, wardens Sylvester R. Comstool re of the Citizens’ A) oan and Mr, George W, T. Lord and @ number nent wy 10 Oe a had an 4 blind of New York an: tlemen as vestrymen. 7 py Hg its wor! November vi au vi" Dr. Benjamin leased a bos WY Becond avenue and Fifty-seventh street, for three years, at 3,500 per year, ag 8 Home for the Blind, aud it has Site upwards of twenty five ae] Religious bellef 1a no test of adm: and it is intended to introduce some cheg of labor at which the poe hy work, Dr, Benjamin is B peer re. sponsible for the expenses incurred and appeals now to the charitable for aid in his undertaking. Mr. Lord, 199 Second avenue, and Dr, Benjamin, 43 West Thirty-seventh street, will receive contributions, WELANCHOLY RESULT OF A HOMICIDE, A Father and Mother Die of Grief for a Murs [From the Columbus (Miss.) Index.} ® We obtain the imperfect particulars of a that is terrible as involving the li under pecuilar circumatances, informant states Se Sesenea erae etpeg® of ane ss & for Murdock, 0 started from the tron works in Alabama three pettens company with a young man named Dem 7 Herptow and his household eects npaey was 8 teamster, living at fler an absence of feturned sloue and who was mov’ to Montevallo. the iron works. = or which 1 was impelled by motives leave myself scarcely time to write steamer of the 2d of January. During the days of trace) granted by the provisional government multitudes! of families escaped from that city to take refuge in Puerto Real and other neighboring ports and vil- ages. They fled from their houses, carrying nothing with them but the clothes they had on, and, unable to procure elther clothes or provisions im) the different villages, maultitudes of these unfortunate people slept before the doors of the houses, im the porticoes of * the churches, or even in the open fields, With great’ difficulty I bad procured a place in one of the trains. Each time we stopped the cars were literally as< saulted by thousands of these refugees returning Cadiz, When we arrived at length an extrag) 4 spectacle presented itself. The bay was entirely covered by a squadron of little boats bringing bac! i the families who had escaped, and the streets were crowded, especially with women and children. Nothing could be more melancholy than the aspect of the city, The houses are literally cribices with | balls. In the great square of San Juan de Diog the) fine trees have disappeared, and the shops, with their broken windows and doors thrown down, are cont: pletely deserted, In the Casa de Ayuntamiento, where the Queen lodged during her- visit to Cadiz, the doors, balconies, windows, cornices, &c., are all in ruins, In the interlor vestibule 1s an enormot cannon, and in front of the church there still remaing} an imposing barricade. In walking through the} Gifferent streets and seeing the ravages caused by this insurrection one can only feel thankful that) this beautiful city has not been entirely destroyed,; Cadiz is still full of troops, and a few days after) my arrival they were reviewed in front of the Casino by General Caballero de Rodas. There is no doubt that the resultof this iasurrection 18 a great biow to the republican. party. Meanwhile, we arg here in as great indecision ad ever, ‘the Duke of Montpensier, finding that own claims will net be successfal, now proposes hi son to fill the vacant throne. He is a boy of about | nine years old—a handsome child, rather delicate) in health, and, it is said, with litle intelligence, in which he differs from his cousin, the Prince o| Asturias, who ts remarkably clever and precociot for his age, which is eleven, Strange to say, th proposal has been favorably redeived by many of the! republican party, though his brother is a Bourbous} his father an Orleanist, and a regency would more than ever necessary. . The French papers are full of articles turning thi revolution into ridicule. ‘The honeymoon,” say! one, ‘1s ended, and the fighting has begun. And lusia in arms; Cadiz in insurrection; the laborers Madrid working at the point of the bayonet; t Basque provinces preparing for civil war; the pil dle classes fluctuating between @ constitution monarchy and a republi¢s the army indifferent an faithful the meantime to Prim and Serrano, some more popular chief presenta bit ” curiosity, you by the) It ie ce in that Bertang one Fx as et ered, make no use ol '. Hiacea to their fiends, turn out their enemies, row money from the Jews, declare. that Spain quires a king, proclaim the sovereignty of ‘i and yet take good care not to convoke thei ‘ General Cialdini has arrived from Florence ¢ pita, despatched by Victor Emanuel Reset ceae Spas spain me of Spain. a this Hégotiation can acco . ‘ihe petha Prine who may be three or four and enti is slight 11 figure, remarkably plain, in no way fs married to a ric atid lady, the Countess Cisterna, and, according to report, very unhapp! his married lite, Cialdiniis lodged in’ the Hotel di Paria, Puerta del Sol. His tirat visit i Prim, with whom he r acquainted ae A letter is published from Espartero to the ‘mo! ‘chical liberals” of Saragossa, in answer to the! manulestation in his favor. Its substance may resumed in its concluding words:—‘Let the will be fulfilled. Jt is time that it should be hour has arrived in which the natiop may sovereign pleasure. Let as await ifs decision wit out iapauence but always ready to combat enemies of liberty. 7 “igs Iconclude by giving’ youa résumé of a discussion which a friend of miné was present, between several fog men of importance belonging <0 the Uniot iberal, but who, discontented with the provisional’ government, have not accepted any place under th@, present administration, They are of opinion that the government will make a coup détat for the elecg: tion of one of the candidates forthe crown. Som believe that Montpenster is the oficial candidate) he having given $300,000 in aid of tbe revolu' Others suppose that they will decide on the Prince } Prim, they all affirm, is jother; in pi her gon-in-law,! | Asturias and a regency. excellent terms with the Queen of which they cite the fact that the Marquis of Campo Sagradg, arrived a days ago from asturias, where he resides, a mission from Queen Christina to Prim, with whom he had a long conferen the nature of which has not transpired, but it is be presumed that the Queen Mother would oy election of her grandson, They allow thi Eoneny vad ge ag (thanks 4 br) Pho energy displaye yy the government), but ey a persuaded that they must ‘succumb 4 the troops, was the case in Cadiz. They are aware of the foi and energy of the Carlist party in Navarre and provinces, but think they will not venture upon civil war, or that in all cases they would be wors They observe that, notwithstanding the mela condition in which the treasury was left by Gonzal Bravo, the actual government has got money, ani would have more Were their measures more ene getic. They add that the Spanish funds, the tl per cent exterror, have risen abroad; in are 86f, and here at b4f. 76c. In short, they augur for monarchy, the monarch unknown.) - The sdions of the aristocracy are as yet het Solty sealed, always excepting that of the Coun’ } of Montijo. On Sunday she gave a brilliant cert in the Alhambra gallery of her palace, cro’ by notabilities of every party, all apparently on most amicable terms. It may Interest you to know that Revedtiy newspapers are at present published in . these only fifteen are wort! spacing and of th | fifteen there are three republican, the D the Jgualdad (Equality) and the People, Of the'red mainder some favor the Duke of Mont] One two the royalty of Espartero, and the rest ual the expediency of choosing bon Carlos or the Princ of Asturias, or of recalling Donna Isabella, fe wi A CONDEMNED MURDERER RECONCILED TO Hi Fate.—Davis, the murderer of Skinner, [at Cleve: land, received the intelligence that the Sup Gourt refused a new trial without a tremor or eve! @ change of countenance. He seems to thin! there will be no use in attempting to get a comm tation of his sentence. His wife, who hereto. fore been denied admission to him, has been mitted (0 see Ler husband once or twice a we &_MISCELLANEOUS, sith “ R Some OBTAINED 1 petTerout States. No. publi sarge Wild . , a, Mpa comes Obtained. Advice free. 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