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RELIGIOUS. Divine Worship in New York, Brooklyn and Other Cities Yesterday. Open Air Preaching, the Praying Bana Re- vivalists and Chureh Dedication. SWEDENBORGIANISM VERSUS METHODISM @wxplanatory Address by a Recant-: ing Methodist Clergyman at Poughkeepsie. The beautiful, bright weather of yesterday, al- though somewhat warmer than comfort would re- quire, had the effect of drawing layze congregations from their homes to the various churches, and the services were as a whole of a highiy interesting character, apart from their direct’religious bearings. There was some anxiety displayed in certain circles to know what church, if any, President Grant would attend, he being in the city, but the inquisitive ones were doomed to disappointment, as the General did not visit any of the places of worship during the day or evening. Appended will be found reports of the more interesting services and discourses of the Sabbath. RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN THIS CITY. ELEVENTH STREET UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Rev. Charles B. Smythe on Protestant= ism and Popery. The Rey. Charles B. Smythe delivered a sermon, comparing Protestantism and Popery, in the E:ev- enth street United Presbyterian church yesterday forenoon. His text was from Galatians, sixth chap- ter, fourteenth and fifteenth verses. He said that men in power have always been prone to bigotry. Such as have not been were among the exceptions in the vanguard of civilization. Piety, in its literal and proper sense as signifying devotion, 1s not in itseif a protest against bigotry. When enlightened it isthe enemy of bigotry. The unenlightened pietist prac- tices cruelty toward his fellow creatures, and thus makes himself a murderer. On the other hand, when the enlightened pietist lifts the yoke of tyranous forms and obligations, he does it in fulfll- ment of the !aw of God, ‘Thou shalt love thy nelgh- bor as thyself.” In this way piety has sometimes become the cause of horrid crimes ana impiety has signalized noble deeds. Common sense asks for either the purity of the Evangelical Church or the impurity of a renunciation of all religion. Thus we rejoice at the struggles against aristocratic power in Italy, in the “ever faithful isle” of Cuba, or in that dear old isle, the “first flower of the earth’? or “gem of the sea.” The spirit of priestly tyranny commencea early in the Christian era to operate in the Church. Popery was best expressed in the creed of Pope Pius IV., not issued until thirty-five years after the protest was signed in Geruiany. ‘Gne preacher, aiter giving a description of the doc- latholic Church, proceeded to trines 01 the Roman comment upon their application as stiown in history. He spoke In severe terms of the edicts of numerous councils assembling in Europe in the fifteenth, six- teenth and seventeenth centuries. Their edicts were the causes of many barbarisms and cruel persecu- tions by the priesthood. ‘The speaker instanced the first religious liberty in America under Lord Baiti- more, and the generous action of the Catholics in Spain and liberation of the slaves by the Cuban Catholics, as examples of the characteristic liberalism of lay Catholics, The coming Ecumenical Council, to assemble in Rome next December, it had been thought might make some mmportant changes in the teachings of the Church, He did not think they would cuange the spirit of the canons proclaimed by Pope Pius 1V., although they might add to them the doc- trine of modern days of the immaculate Sete dane ot the Virgin Mary. They wouid not be as foolish as in days goue by, but wquid certainly issue canons sustaining thoze alr assed. He regretted that the other churches were not going to send from their midst representatives to that council, although he did not believe any would be allowed to enter with- out professing {faith in the Church of Kome. He ‘Wished the national meetings of evangelical Chris- tians could have appointed committees fora grand meeting to protest again against the tyranny of the Romish Church. He conciuded by agiorification of the doctrines of Evangelical Protestantism, as in ac- cordance with the teachings of the Bible. In the course of these arguments the preacher paid a high tribute to the power of the press and urged that Protestants should be more earnest in employing newspapers to circulate religious truth. He believed the Insh Church bill to be degrading to the Protest- ants of Ireland, and that the Queen could not@with- out breaking her oath aitix her signature to such an enactment. God will stand by the Protestant Church, no matter though the heavens fali and all the powers of earth assail tt. FREE PREACHING IN COOPER INSTITUTE, The Battle of the Great Day of God Almighty. There was free preaching in Cooper Institute, room No, 18, both at half-past ten ana three o'clock yesterday, the subject being ‘The Battle of the Great Day of God Almighty.” The attendance was very limited, The preacher, Mr. R. Smith, took his text from Revelations xvi., 13, 14nd 16:—“And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.” The subject was iilustrated by @ large painting, representing the scene on the last day. The dragon, the serpent and the devil mentioned in the Revelations were, he observed, synonimous, He also aliuded to the Tevelation stating that when a thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prisof. he contended that there would be no actual battle on the last day, arguing that the resurrected wicked ‘Would be cast into the bottomless lake of fire with- out any engagement. There would be two great armies present, one surrounding the throne of God, ‘and the other calling on the rocks to fail upon them in order to hide them trom the face of the Almighty, It was a foolish theory of some who considered that there would any hostilities, It was set forth in the Revelations that towards the closing scene the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make War against him that sat on the horse and against his army. But it Was.also stated that the beast was taken and with him false. prophet that wrought mirracies before him, and both were cast into the Jake of fire burning with brimstone, and the remnant ‘were slain with the sword of him t sat upon the horse. That did not mean that the sword was to be actually used, but merely showed how the resur- Tected wicked should be disposed of. There was no such thing as a batue intended and the language re- ferring w it was only figurative. The re. Velation stated that kings took counsel against the Lord, but their conduct was laughed at and treated with derision, showing that there would be no engagement, none being necessary. There would be a vast assembly of the family of Adam divided into two great armies, one of which was represented as surrounding God in ail His glory, and the other about to enter the Dottomiess pit. He desired to show that there would not be any battle on the last day, and contended that the wording of the Kevelations would not fead to the imicrence that any encounter be- tween the two armies would take place. He had given nothing but the facts bearing upon the matter. After explaining the various pas- sages relating to the final judgment, the rewards of the saints and the punistment of the wicked, the preacher concluded by adverting to the importance of the present ume o1 gree which should be taken advantage of in order to be in the Lord's army, All Sprorcanty of receiving grace should be eagerly em- raced, OPEN AIR PREACHING AT FIVE POINTS, A Methodist Appeal from the Rev. George Lansing Taylor. "5 ‘The Ladies’ Five Points Misssion at Five Points is Slive institution, and engages actively in any and every means which can be used to advance the cause of religion and education améng the denizens ot that noted locality. The Five Points Mission at No, 61 Park Street is thronged with the children fem the vicinity at both the week day and sunday schools, The ex- ercises in the Mission yesterday afternoon consisted of @ liberal amount of excelent singing by th ttle ones and an interesting address to the school made by the Rey, Matthew Bale Smith. The services lasted from two to four P. M., when there was an open air meeting held fn front of the Mission butldfng, upon the ground called Paradise square, The preacher stood directly before the steps of the Mission. fe addressed a sin. gular congregation. About three-qu rs of them w iy at mostly neatly dressed and attendants At tle Mission school. ‘ihe steps in the rear of the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 186).—TRIPLE preacher and the walk on each side were covered ductory services some of their best Sun school’ hymns, Of the rest of the gation the characters to be studied would baie of ere the notice Dickens, Sere (s number of them) with their babies i arma, aying 1¢6) ‘attention; reckless, coarse-look Hien stood looking stolidiy st the preacher; aud there era argarNar Gs ge Cae heen worl y wi ‘stood wv ds ao rr, the best a8 @ one-armed soldier, who paid attention to the exercises. The windows in the houses near by were filled with the curious faces of occu- er ‘The service was opened by the reading of the last chapter 1n Revelations, with ranning comments thereon by the Rev. Mr. Taylor, followed by singing of the children and a prayer by the Rev. J. N. Schaffer, superintendent of the Mission. The Rev. George Tanking Taig preached the sermon, taking for his text seventeenth verse of the twenty- second (last) chapter in Revelations:—‘‘And the spirit and ihe bride say come, and iet him that hear- eth say come, and let him that is athiret come, and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.” The speaker compared a wed- ding on earth, which he said should be the pleasant- est thing in the world, to that to which sinners were invited to come. ‘The Church, which was the good people of the earth, was the bride, aud Jesus Christ Was the bridegroom. The language of the vext was @ card of mvyitation to the weddipg. The antl which was Christ, uhe bridegroom, Said come, an the bride said come. It wouid be a poor invitaiion ifthe osdegroom did not join with the bride in giv- ing it. ‘The invitation, Ho! every one that thirsteth come and be ye saved j¢The bride is the Church, an any member is here authorized to invite sinners to come, He may be a Methodist, and Episcopalian, a Baptist or # Roman Catholic. If he truly loves and accepts the Lord Jesus Christ he can in- vile sinners to come to this marriage. “Let him that 1s athirst come,” The city was going to erect drinking fountais for the people, so that men, wo- meu and chudren who were thirsty could driak and be sausiied. ‘This was what Jesus had done. Men's souls get thirsty for salvation; they dnd no comtort in sin, but cry alter someching to refresh them. ‘The answer 1s, “Let him that is athirst come.’’ ‘There was just one thing more taught in the text of great interest, which was expressed in the conclud- ing Wworus, “Whosoever will, let him take the water of lite ireely.” Here the sermon closed abruptly, for the rain came down in plenteous quanuties. The audience lastly dispersed. DEDICATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS. Anew Roman Catholic church—the Churen of the Holy Innocents, Thirty-seventh street, near Broad- way, Father Larkin, pastor—was yesterday dedi- cated Lo the service of God after the beautiful and impressive inanner of the Catholic ritual. The at- tendance was very large, the housetops in the imme- diate vicinity of the church being occupied by men and women in considerable numbers, while the street itseif was entirely blocked up by a faithtul and attentive congregation. One week ago the church was duly dedicated, but the regular blessing of the corner stone was reserved lor yesterday. ‘hue weather up to talf-past four o’clock was emmentiy favorable to this outdoor ceremony of religion, but all of a suduen a black vapory cloud fang it self across the sky, and as Father quinn had just commenced one of his characteristically eloquent discourses the floodgates of neaven opened and put an unmediate end to the revereud speaker's address and to the balance of the ceremonies avtend- lug the dedication, At half-past three o’clock Arch- bishop McCloskey, robed in the fuil conventional attire of his distinguished ecclesiasucal rank, made his appearance on the floor of the church, waich, by tue Way, has a front aud side watis aiready over ten feet high, accompanied by the following members of the local clergy:—'ne Kev, Francis McNiery, master of ceremonies; Vicar General Storrs, Fauuers von- nelly, Larkin, Quinn, Clowry, Morrogu, Martin and Curran. The ceremonies were at ouce inaugurated by the Archoishop in the chanting of the eighty-third psaim, “How veautiful are Phy tavernacies, UiLord.”? The Archbishop then ascended to a platiorm eieva- ted ubout ten or twelve feet, canopied with United States fags, and otherwise ornamented, where le biessed the piace immediately over the reguiar cor- ner stone Of the churca, and weut througu the cere- mony of making the sign of the cross with a ma- 8on’s trowel upon a stone in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, accompanied by a prayer, ia which the attendant clergymen jomed, The Litany of the paints was then recited, and afterwards tue 126th Psalm of David, “Unless the Lord build tue house tuey labor In vain that build it,” was chanted with very fine eftect. Tne “AMiserere mea Deus” wes next rendered, and then a procession, consisting of about 100 youmg girls dressed in white tarietan, With blue sashes und presentation veils, and carrying a beautfui biue and gold banner, on which was inscribed the words, “the Chuaren of the Sodality of the Children of Mary,” led oif before the acolytes and priests 10a march round the church and the singing of a hymn. On returning to the De rage the Archbishop and attending clergy uuited in a concluding prayer, tue entire assemblage, with reverentiy uncovered heads, joining im the deyouonal exercise. ‘ine Kev. William Quinn,’ of St. Peter’s church, then came forward, aud taking for ms text the opening o1 the 126th Psaim, ‘Unless the Lord build the house,” &c., proceed to preach what, no doubt, would have been a very effective sermon, but the rain in five minutes afterwards descended and scatvered the congregauion in every direction. Father Quinn, however, succeeded in saying that nothing could be more marvelious than the success which has ever attended the enterprise in church building among Catholic communities, In spite of poverty: in spite of every human disadvantage, they ave gone aiong here and abroad erecting to the glory of the living God temples such as Solomon never dreamed of, ‘The rain put a premature end to the ceremonies, The Archbishop and ciet kK of a collation beiore igaving, al the residence of the indeiaugapbie and weil beloved pastor, Father Larkin. THE PRAYING BAND REVIVALISTS IN COUNCIL. The Praying Band, an association composed of sixteen gentiemen connected with the Methodist churches tn this city and Brooklyn, conducted the re- ligious services at the Church of the Pilgrims, in West Forty-eighth street, near Ninth avenue, yester- day and last evening. These good brothers have been organized for carrying on a religious warfare, and have been engaged in the conflict for over ten years. Mr. W. B. Waiters i their leader. The pas- tor of the church, Rev. T. T. Kendricks, w present at the services, The day services were well attended, and the members of the band nearly allof them participated in the exhortations and prayers. In the evening an audience of about two hundred gathered, After singing tne old familiar hymn—‘When I can read my title clear'’—the ser- vices were opened by prayer, deiivered by Mr. Wai- ters. He asked for God’s biessing in iervid language, to which the brothers in the band responded with the audience in vocjferous shouts of amen! The band then arose aud sang with much enthusiasm a songs the stanzas of which concluded with these ines :— Our conflicts will soon be ‘fod you and 7 assend as last,” Triumphant o'er the grave. One of the brothers then arose and said he believed in every man ba J out his OWn salvation. He tnought God wouid bless the band any way, and tuerefore he believed in praying for others. ne had reat taith in prayer. Another brother then ve- lementiy delivered @ self-condemnatory address to the Deity, in which he said his greatest desire was to have the wanderer come in, (Cries of Amen. God grant it.) The imvitation to every deathless spirit Was come, come, come. Nothing was in the way butsin, Remove that and heaven is in the future, and the prospect is ciear of paradise. If I had my lite to live over again and had nine hundred and sixty-nine years, as Methu- ct God would never hearin; me. glory eternal im heaven, The speaker was followed by singing another hymn, during which @ collection Was taken up to deiray expenses. Another of the band then prayed wit wild gesticulauon and loud noise that the good work might goon, The prayer was followed by a hy ma. A mild speaker, member of the band, made a long address with the words —* Ail things in Uhrist are ready now” as a basis of inspiration. He told several interesting and somewhat warveilous stories. About a dozen desired prayers when tie invitation was given. The meeting closed at alate hour with the benediction, SWEDENBORGIANISM. A’ Methodist Clergyman Renounces His Church and Joins the Swedenborgians—A Public Letter and a Public Explanation, POUGHKEEPSIE, June 20, 1869, Early Jast week Rev. E. R. Keyes, of the New York Methodist Conference, sent the following to a friend in this city for publication :— YonKens, Jun Dean Sin—It was my purpose on my recent visit to ‘house to communicate to you fully what I shall be able to ut partially in this brief nove, Hut the painful attic: ti just, verallen your son #9 absorbed ali our thoughts and synipathies that Tfeit it would not be right to obtrude my own private interest# upon your attention, Sutter me now, however, to convey “to you, and hrough you to the pubilt, & statement of "my pur- ‘my ecclesiastical relations. pore, 10, effect change. th ‘or many years past, especially years, my views have been unde some’ of the fundamental que the inst five or #ix f theolony. 1 found myself compelled to diverge more and more from the aystem of faith given in the doctrinal standards of Methou- a past in any spirit of | bitierness | and tty. Bialt ati! cherish, At am permitied to do #0, the trieide of Pi ed years, and shaliever A grateful renee of their Ringoes ut npsitabd fami. aul my convictions of Feawoy Gaile vo couse tea"%a tay ‘purpose to go fori SHEET. . caine from the ecclesiastical and doctrinal fellowship of the Metho- dist Epi Church. To find new associations that will be altogether congenial may be Impoealile but it Ig nope the old. With sincerest esteem ions eg Seay to Cenanee a eon or oneself and earnest wishes for your prosperity, Sery truly yours, Pree KEYES. ‘rhis letter caused great commotion in the various Methodist churches and the excitement among the lay'members and ministers was much increased when it was announced on Friday last that Mr. Keyes nad been baptized in the Swedenborgian faith. Stall later religious circles generally along the Hudson were moved by the statement that the reverend gentleman would address the public at the Swedenborgian church in this city this morning, at the usual hour for service. Before the time arrived the edifice was densely packed with human beings from all denominations. Some of the most enthu- siastic Methodists were present. After the usual preitminary service Mr. Keyes stepped forward amid profound silence and commenced his remarks. He esteemed it @ great privilege to meet so many Poughkeepsie friends and proposed to state some of the reasons which governed him in dissolving nis connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he had been @ member for the last twenty years, and for patting himself in sympathy with the New Church and espousing Views entirely different and antago- nistica.l He remarked that he owed it to his many warm friends to give such a statement, and he was glad 80 many Were present to hear such statement. He experienced, however, no little dificulty in ap- proaching a subject so vast. He would gladly make no personal allusions to himself, as he was not in the habit of bringing himself before an audience, yet it seemed from surroundings necessary that he should deal in some matters per- sonal. He aitirmed that he did not go forth from old associations in any spirit of bitterness, holding any unkind feeling in any degree towards those with whom and with whose doctrines he had been affilated in the past. He had no complaint to make of his treatment in uhe Methodist Church during a period of nineteen or twenty years, but shall ever cherish the associations and friendship formed in that community. The step he had taken was pain fu! to him because it aflicts so many whose friénd- ship he valued above all consideration, He dissolved his relationship with the Methodist Church Dot because he did not appreciate the Kindness of all but from a deep, clear deliberation, that he was not in unison and could no longer sympathize with its doctrines, A fricnd had said to him, “Pursue the Fabian policy; it is a (rue one; wait six months—six weeks.” ‘That friend did not know that he had been following the Fabian policy for many years past, He Was sure he had made no mistake. His step was the result of clear, conscientious convictions. Were he mistaken and still ho'ding those con- victions, he must needs foliow them. He avowed that his motive was not mercenary. He had nothing to gain from parting with a wealthy influential community and casting his lot with a eople feeble ip numbers, feeble in resources, and ardly popular as yet with the masses. Referrin to the differences of doctrinal views between the ol: and the New Cnurch, he said that an avowal of the views of the New Church, which he held, would sub- ject him to trial and expulsion from any Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Chur He could not, therefore, remain a member of the Methodist Annual Conierence and entertaig those views. Kvery man is responsible to God to be true to his convicuons of religious truths, and no man can with- hold rightly such convictions. He claimed that even now there are in the Methodist Church clergymen holding the views of the New Church seeking to Keep the new wine in the old bottles, thereby retaining their connectionsgwith the Old Church. He could not do it, but he would not judge his brother. He would be charitable. He stated that he should preach trom no text this morn- ing, because he did not feel that he had any specia! reason for domg so. What he should’ say would be discursive in its character, and he would therefore dispense withgthe formality of a sermon. He to tell what he believed to be the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ. He would indi- cate those views from experience and not by assailing whe Methodist Cuurch., He referred tirst to the doc- trine of a trinity of persons im the Godhead. He said it was irreconcilable with the doctrine of the umty of God. Henry Ward Beecher had said that he believes in three distinct Beings, Father, Son and Holy Ghost; yet in the same sermon he believed in but one God, these three in one. Tnat doctrine of the Trinity had formed a serious objection to the speaker remaining longer in the Methodisc Church, Neitner did he believe m the doctrine of atone- ment. ‘The old theology represents God as being governed by principles contrar, to his nature and contrary to some ethical princi- ples. The old theology also tells us that right bein; violated it must have an atonement. The reveren gentleman styled right as a bank conception as pre- sented by the old theology, and means nothing until you show why itis mght. Strange as it may seem to some there is not a word of the doctrine of atone- ment im the theology of Jesus Christ. Justice in God was the next doctrine. That conception always seemed @ drawback—to God as having reference only to his T- sonal dignity, God teaches us different; yet the old theology telis you God avenges His own dig- nity, but He will not tet us do the same. Men rep- Tesent God as finding it necessary to avenge His law without primal reference, which brings Him down to low human expedients instead of exalting Him. Mr. Keys also renounced the doctrine of justification by faith. He said the old theology teaches every in- fant needs to be justified. He had asserted in the presence of the noted Dr. Sanford many years a while pj hing from a Methodist pulpit, that infants, “though born in the world of a dis- ordered pature, were not hu 2 of anything; therefore they needed not to Justified or pardoned. This doctrine of justification by faith ‘Was his first objection to the Methodist doctrine; was the one which calied him to commence the bat- tle which has culminated in his present position in the Cnurch of the New Jerusaiem. As for the doctrine of tne resurrection of the material body, Mr. Keyes said he had satisfied himself that, with all the elabo- rate reasoning, it was good for nothing. He had become impressed with the utter impossibility of God putting together again the material parts of this body, because whatever God does He does) im accordance with the prin- ciples of order. God does not work mechanically, because He has not material hands. In the doctrine of the resurrection of the human i divine order is violated. Who supposes that a thousand years after death the dismembered parts of the body shall again come together and the whole be resurrected complete and perfect as before death? If God creates for us another body he must create for us another soul. The doctrine is not found in the Scriptures. It ts generally sunposed that it is there, but in the fifteenth chapter of Paul to the Corinthians there is a natural body and a spiritual voay. ‘The spiritual body exists now as it will after death, and when the material body dies the spiritual body still lives and ascends on high. The doctrine of the material body being resurrected the speaker styled as a glaring absurdity. In conclusion Rev. Mr. Keyes said that the Method- ist and ali other Chure in spite of imperfections, do yet embrace so much truth, do yet receive so much of love and light from God, that they are doing a glorious work; but could they be rid of the errors that are antagonistical to reason they would silence the cavil of rationalism, wouid bring science and Legg cone veal and conscience in perfect harmony, and the New Church would bring out man in all nis glory to the full understanding of Divine injunctions. Mr. Keyes, during his very eloquent remarks, seemed to be greatly impressed with the important position he had assumed. Hundreds of is admirers in the Methodist churches listened to him with the greatest of attention. After the pronouncing of the benediction many loitered in the church, some arguing vehementiy upon the new doctrines, while those who respect Mr. Keyes ior the honorable manner in which he nas dissolved his connection with the Methodist Church hastened to hun end extended their hands in friendship. The remarks of the reverend gentieman have created a profound sensation in religious circles. THE NEW JERUSALEM” CHURCH. Closing Ceremonies of the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Swedenborgians—Two Sermons and Administration of the Holy Supper. The New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) church, on Thirty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue, was quite fuil yesterday morning, afternoon and evening, the congregation and the delegates from the interior at- tending to unite in the religious services with which the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Church, In ses- sion for the last four days. was brought to a formal conclusion. In the forenoon the service began at eleven o'clock. It was the usual Sabbath morning service as prescribed by the Swedenborgian liturgy. The sermon was preached by Rev, W. B. Hayden, He took for his text the fifth and sixth verses o/ the first chapter of Joshua:—‘Tnere shall not any man be able to stand before thee all tne days of thy life, As I was with Moses so I will be with thee. I Will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Be strong and ‘of a good courage; for unto this. people shalt thou divide for an inheritance, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.” The tendency of the sermon was to impress the congregation with the doctrine that ail Scriptural terms have an external and in- ternal sense; that in the latter the places named in Scripture were to be taken to refer to ourselves and our-nner life, and that the promised land, Canaan, in vhis internal sense, meant the highest point of re- ligions fatth within ourselves; that to reach this promised land they must fight to subdue the evils and sing within themselves. To do this zeal 1s necessary, and the Bible inculcates zeal and makes Bee eer believers to be zemious; but there between religious zeal and anger. It was the .obiigation of all, in oraer to reach the promised land of religious te to beearnest, vigorous and nv ut With the idea and in- tention to do only, and never in anger with desire to do injury. ‘The holy suj was administered in the after- noon, the ing at halt. three o'clock. Rev. Dr, Thomas Worces of Massachasetts, the venerable president of the Convent se- tle head of the ‘Church, oMmetatet st the altar, assisted by the Rev, Mr. Reed, of the same State, and Rev. Jabez Fo: congregation chanted tae chapter twenty-five of isaiah—“And in mountain silail Jehovan of unto all least ae, were then read minister, after which he removed the covers from the two silver trays on the altar whicn contained the bread (crackers), and all kneeling, repeated the Lord’s prayer. the congregation peing again seated, the presiding minister rose and sai ‘Jesus took te bread and blessed and brake and gave it to the disciples and sa\d—‘lake, eat; this is my body.’" ‘The assisting clergymen then each took a tray and passed it around in tie congregation, of whom every member took a plece of the “bread.” Rev. Dr. Wor~ cester then filled four silver goblets with wine and sald: ‘And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink ye of it, for this is my plood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the the remission of sins,’ and the two ministers again presented she cup to each of the communicants, golg from pew to pew. After this the thirty-third, thirty-ith and fiftieth verses of the sixth chapter 0! St. John were channted:—“The bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world,” &c., and verse sev- enteen of chapter {wenty-two of the Apocalypse:— “And the spirit add the bride say come,:? &c. The usual benediction closed the service, Ateigut o’clock P.M. the regular evening service began. Rev. A. 0. Brickmann, of Baltimore, a Ger- man missiunary of the Church of the New Jerusa- lem, preached the sermon in English, the purity and Replat of his delivery being generally noticed. His text was from the Apocalypse, ul, 1 “aim that overcometh will | make a pillar in the temple or my God, and he shat! go no more out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name df the city of my God, which is new Jerusaiem, which cometh dgw out of heaven from my God and | will write upon him my new,name.”? The reverend gentleman spoke of the character of the new Jerusalem as being a new dispensation of grace descending and “which cometh down out of heaven’ vo the hearts and minds of all men, bring- ing about a new era of rationality, treeduim aad new jite, Lempora! as well as spiritual. in the course of the Jeccure Key. Mr. Brickimanu spoke of the internal meaning of new Jerusalem, as derived from etymo- logical derivations, Jeru, in Hebrew, being ‘‘site,’? and Salem, “p ” thus indicating the ‘new site of the peace of God.’? RELIGIGUS SERVICES IN . of Pennsylvania. The Xth and ointh verson 7 BROOKL PLYMOUTN CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher=“Let Love be Without Dissimulation.”” The Kev. Henry Ward Beecher preached to a very large congregation yesterday, taxing for his text the twelfth chapter and ninth verse of Paul's Epistle to the Romaus:—“Let love be without dissimula- tion. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good,” The reverend gentleman said that these words were some of the noblest ever uttered by the apostle, who knew how much needed his counsel and exhortation in this respect was. They were, in fact, more applicable to the higher circles of society than to the lower. The love of the poor for one another had, as a general thing, move un- selfishness in it than that of the better and wealthier classes, Paul well knew when he indited the epistie from which the text- was taken that love dissimulated. And it always does when the lips Speak more of love than the, heart feels, Love then speaks interestedly and for some object or pur- pose. Love dissimutates when it departs from the strict lines of truth. Perhaps nowhere more than in the domestic circle is the exhorta- tion of the apostle needed. Love speaks and looks love when the heart is seeking @ selfish end, Words of endearment and affection are often words of deceit, of frauds, of selfishuess. It is the hand of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob. It is because that love and the tones of affection are so beautiful that they are 80 much counterfeited, The wife, anxious to stay and soften the anger of the husband, emulates a love she does not eel at the time. she would subdue his obstinacy, throwing around and about him the aroma of sweet caresses, She has a purpose to serve—to change her husband’s will—and she tius has an object to gain, and her tokens and expressions of love are dissimulation. When woman desires lo uniock the garden of pleas- ure, Lo revel in scenes Of enjoyment, the shrewdish tongue can speak. words of love, and tne most vix- enisa eye can look love. This is dissimulauon, a barterlug and a counterfeiting of the highest quality of man’s uaiure, If man or woman desires to bar- ter anyyping, to traffic in some of the qualitées of the mum, he would charge them not to barter the noblest quality of all, but let their love be without Gissiuiwiation, without guile. Let the heart feel what the ilps utter. God maks His sun to shine upon all His creatures alike. Tue serpent warius self m the same rays in which is basking the inno- cent lamb. Be ye thereiore perfect according to the Divine perfection, 1t was not necessary to be truth- ful to go mio society and tell every man what you think of tum. That would not be kindness. It is but proper to give tne honest man and the geod and noble man words of compliment and praise. Praise is yght, rightly given. It is that noning more than the expression of your compia- cency, Wit noble or seif-sacrificing actions, that re- flecis credit upon tuwan nature. So long as praise is measured by truth and justice it is not worng, but may be made to serve a good Lge om By com- placency 18 meant mcidental praise. When, by a nice term, figure or phrase, some unexpected, elegaut sentence, you praise 4 person, you call that a com- plment. Comp.iment is, therefore, right as @ praise to confirm ove in some good and noble action. © But dissimulating admiration and affection is wrong. Fiattery is distinct from praise. One is right and becomes the utterer, the other is a sort of indiscriminate praise for @ sinister purpose, alike degraaing and onensive to the praiser and the party praised. Fiattery is the meanest vice that man can fall into. Let your love, therefore, be without dissimulation. A coquette of either sex 18 despicable. There are loathsome arasites am@ng men as there are parasites hh the animal and vegetable world. Insecis feed on msects, and vegetables teed on vegetables. There isno term of reproach more loathsome than the name of toady. The despicable business of the toady 1s to live by flattery, by contemptipie sub- Missiveness to superiors, by dissimulation and by fraud, prevendtig a friendship he does not feel for some rick patron on whose guilibility he exists. The man who toadies to another sacrifices every ele- ment of independence and manhood. Love, properly compounded, 1s the most active and potent agency of society ; but love, simulated, 1s the most monstrous perversion of mind. btis the bribery, the saie and barter of the best part of our nature. In every grade of life it is more or less practised. The incurable fever of candidacy is the great nursery of flattery. it then becomes contemptible and loathsome. Words clothed with the spirit of love, an ap- egrance of attachment and regard is put on for the purpose of hunting up a vote. Then the candidate before eiection day is ‘ull of romises. The most imed laborer, tne dirtiest collier, 18 the dear friend of the candidate; every workinginan is @ brother and every woman a sister if she only had a vote. This is hypocrisy of the worst kind. ‘There are fishers of men who cut and iacerate their own hearts as baits to catch @ your. Every man should be jeafous of his affections, Let his love be honest; let his love be pure and un- dissembling. In the words of the text, “Let love be without dissimulation, Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.” CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER. Sermon by Rev. E. C. Bolles, of Portland. Rey. E. €, Bolles, late of Portland, recently instalied the pastor of the Universalist Church of the Redeemer, Greene avenue, preached his first sermon yesterday morning. The pulpit was taste- fully adorned with flowers, and avove it, in foral letters, was the word “welcome.” Mr. Bolles is a young man, of a pleasing presence and fluent speech. He speaks without notes, whether from memory or extemporomeously cannot be said, His fauits are on the side of too great facility If he speaks in the latter way, and too great diffuseness if his sermons are prepared in the study. He has a somewhat taking way, but when he has finished his dis. course you have a@ sense that it has not amounted to very much after all, beyond the pleasure derved from fair eiocution and @ not unpleasant voice. Bolies took for his tex t yesterday the words, “The cbureh which is His body,” parts of the twenty-second and twenty-third verses of the first chapter of Ephesians, Tuere hever Was a man who lived and thougat who did not Jeaye behind him an abiding body in the world. No man ever became the teacher or exatupiar of a living faith Who did not jeave benind him a body to al coming time. When tue body of Christ was spoken of it was to be regarded as that which per- etuated the name and Wie reigon of Christ after je Was goue. ‘There was io be seen in it every- thing that was born of Cliristianity; every ting that testified to the soundness of is joys, the truth of its hopes, and the greatness of tts truths. There was to be seen iu th that widely dif. fused public sentiment which was indireetiy, by the influence of the Gospel, cleansing the worid of so much evil, A body tmplies organization, and the organization Was in accordance with the needs of the central spirit of life. The Charen, or Christ’ body, meant not simply those who separated themselvas from the world, but those who had after- wards joined themselves for a special work, The body of Christ was pre eminently determined by the conceptions had of the apirit of Christ. There were many forms of faith in testantisin; this was not its Weakness but its peculiar glory. It Was out of the ideas of Clirist and his teachings that the necessary forms were to spring. It was an absurd thing to do to believe one faith and try to work through the in- strumentalities of another. Calvinism could jnever take up the ways of Methodism. The preacher be- Heved that the particular denomination he repre- sented had elements of life that others did not pos- seas, and which would become the joys of the com- mon age. The Church, which was the body of Christ, ‘was an Ub eg rawn fa ed by the common Jove and faith of its members. There was some- thina In the union of men’s beliefs that tended to make them friends, In such an organization ita members were brought together with the desire of spiritual improvement. I[t should be the aim of every such organization not only to possess the faith that they professed. but to make it Roown ‘and felt, not simply as lighthouses, but as workers with a de- finite purpose, RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN WASBINGTON, WASHINGTON, June 20, 1869, Notwithstanding the extremely hot weather—and to-day has been a regular scorcher here—the fash- ionable churches were well filled morning and even- ing. Among the Catholic worshippers the most in- teresting event of the day was a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Charles J. White on the Papacy, at St. Mathew’s Roman Catholic church. The sermon was a reply to the attack made upon the Pope a few weeks ago at a Methodist church in this city by Rev. Dr. Newman. Dr. White opened his discourse by the announcement that to-morrow would be the twenty- third anniversary of the accession of Pius the Ninth to the Papacy, and remarked that nothing was more appropriate at such a Mme than an exp! tion of the true character of the Sovereign Pontiff and the true doctrines of the Vatholic Church, Especially Was it appropriate now, when the Holy Father was so pronuipeusig before the Christian world in connec- 100 With the approaching Ecumenical Council. Dr. White then proceeded to prove the claims of the Po to spiritual supremacy as the successor of St, Peter. He treated the subject under three principal heads. First, the necessity for a head; secondiy, the appointment of Peter to be that head; and thirdly, the succession of the Popes from St, Peteras visible head of the Church on earth, transmitting from age to age the true creed and doc- trines of the Aposties. Christianity, he said, must have a head like everything else, and he pointed out the absurdity of the Protestant claims of the right of private judgment in matters of religion, In point of fact the Protestant claims of independent opinion made such Protestant the inventor of a faita for himself, for he recognized the right of no one to dictate for him. From that absurd claim sprang ail the sects and contradictory religions now existing. Some believed Christ only man; some thought Christ both God and man; some believed in baptisin; others rejected it as a piece of folly. How could aif these sects be in the right? Surely if those who believed Christ only man were rigut, then the others who believed him God must be wrong; for two exactly contrary things could not exist, The errors and absurdities into which the sects were constantly falling only demonstrate strongly the necessity lor some authority competent to teach the true doctrines of Christ? It was more reasonable to suppose that that authority resided in a Charca which Was nearly nineteen hundred years old than in a Church born in the fourteenth or six- teenth century. To whom did Protestants owe the Bible but to the Catholic Church. Was it not that Church that preserved it from age to age? And if the autuority of that Charch was deemed sutlicient to prove the authentici the Bible, surely its authority ought to be cone equally good for its interpretation and elucidation. In truth, the Church was older than the Bible itself, for it was established after the resurrection of our Saviour, when He commissioned His aposdes to go and teach all nations. Not one-hundr-dth or one- thousandth part of what Christ said and did on earth could be found in the Btbie, and all the books in the world would be inadequate to contain them. The Aposties were expected to teach all nations, and what they might write could only be a smail part of what they would teacu in the very nature of things. Op the second branch of the sermon, the supremacy of Peter, the reverend doctor dwelt at considerable length. He proved Peter's headship, both by the unwritten and the written word of God. The New Testament teemed with evidences of the appointment of Peter to be head of the Church. The very tirst time Christ met Peter He gave him a promise of great power when He told him he should be called ** Aphas,” or Rock, @ promise afterwards fulfilled when he said to Peter, “Thou art Peter, and upon tas Rock | will build my church,’ &c. Dr, White explained that our Saviour in telling Peter he was the rock upon which the Church was to be bull@used the Syro-Chaldine language, in which the same word expressed both Feter and rock, From this he argued that the head- ship of Peter was indisputably established. He also ailuded to our Saviour telling Peter he should be the shepherd of His flock when He commissioned him to “feed lambs, feed my sheep.” He gave other ilustrations from the Bible. Peter was always named tirst among the Apostles. He was given the keys of Heaven; he was empowered to dind and loose upon earth. In conclusion Dr. White came to his last pomt—the succession of the Popes wo St. Peter. Dr. White read from the early fathers of the Church, and also trum eminent Protestant writers, to prove that long before the fourth century the Bishops of Kome were acknow- Jedged as the successors of Peter and the spiritual head of the Church, In a brief sketch like this 1t is impossibie to do justice to Dr. White’s able and eloquent sermon. i have only given ithe merest skeleien. Dr. White closed by promising to give another discourse at no very distant day on the same subject. , At the aristocratic Metropolitan Methodist church the Rev. Dr. Newman preached to a very large audience, from the text “B.essed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” The Doctor entered into a somewhat lengthy explanation of the physi- cal heart, after which he explained what was meant by purity of heart. Purity of heart, he said, was purity of life. As the physical heart was supposed to be the seat of life, so purity and hoimess were vital parts of the Christian fe. He closed by as- serting that the reward of purity of life was seeing God aud being with him forever. Bishop Magill, of Richmond, administered the rite of Contirmauion to-day to several children at St. Mary’s chureb in Alexandria. RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN CONNECTICUT. Bridgeport. BRIDGEPORT, June 20, 1869. At St. John’s Episcopal church the rector, Rev. E. W. Marcy, preached in the morning a very able discourse from Psalms ciii., 1—‘Bless the Lord, O my soul, and ail that is within me bless His holy name.” Taking as his theme the personality of the relation between us and God, showing primarily our Telation as creatures of His creation to Him the Cre- ator; that He, as now created, was most mysterious, and our creation by Him was next in mystery and most glorious to consider; that from the highest angel in neaven to the lowest formation of the animal or vagetable Kingdom ail were made for his plea- sure. We personally are loved by Him as though the only objects of His creation in the ways of lite. Although we are together marching on, we are yet personally responsivie to God. Quotations from be ge were Cited to show the personal re- lation, and the subject in all its bearings was handled Jn an able aud masterly manner. A large congrega- tion attended at the Methodist Episcopal church. ‘The Rev. Mr. Carroll. pastor, preacled in the morn- ing @ fine sermon from Acts Xvi., 9—“And a vision Spyssted to him in the night.” The grand question of Paul’s life was, “Lord, what will Thou have me to do” and when made known he performed it, The word from God to each Christian is, “Work. Come over into Macedonia and help us.” The Church is a conservator of good government as well as re morals, and the citizens of the republic should de- mand that she be kept free, At the Universalist church, in the morning, the Rey. Asher Moore, of Claremont, N. H., preached to a large congregation. The Rev. Dr. Cott, of Southport, oMiciated ail day at Trinity church and the North Congregational church, The anniversary exercises of the Sunday School, in the afternoon, were of a very successful and interesting character, Meetings were heid on the docks by members of the Young Men’s Chris: Association. The day was pleasant, and the,piaces of worship were generally largely attended. New Haven, NEW HAVEN, June 20, 1869. The fervid character of the weather this morning prevented many from attending charcit services, and the congregations were nof as large as usual, At the First Methodist church, in the morning, Rev. Wubur Fiske Watkins, the pastor, preached a prac- tical discourse from Philippians iv., 6. His subject was “Care and Its Cure.’ The divine word, he said, did not teach us to have no care for the future, but not to have an anxious, wearing care, for that injured the body, mind and spirit, and unfitted us for the duties of life. The cure for care was trust in God and constant prayer. In the aiternoon he preachéd from the seventh verse of the same chapter, his subjecc being “The Peace which Passeth all Understanding.” [a the morning, at Trinity church, Key. Dr. Harwood de- livered a discourse, giving his views on the subject of sacrament, At the Third Congregational chureb, im the morning, Rev. Mr. Karr, of Keene, N. H., de- livered a discourse upon the lite of Jacob, In the evening the United Congregational ser. vice was held at +t Centre Caureh, and Rev. Mr. Waiker preached to a large con- grevation. His subject was “The Individuality of our Relations with God.’ He our relations with God were concerned each person stood alone with his Maker. ‘he infinite issues be- tween each person and his God were to be con | cluded alone between them, and alone must each ) one stand up at the end aud give the one final ane | that so far as swer, Rev. J. H. Seeley, of Amherst, preacied at / the morning and afternoon se ot the Chapel street church, delivering two excellent sermons, At the South Reformed churct Rev, J. Lee, of New York, preached at dota the merniag and atter- hoon service, and at the Universalist cuureh Rey. S. H, Emerson, of New York, preached at both ser- vices. One of the Methodist churches here has voted almost unanimously in favor of lay delegation, and two more vote wo-morrow. RELIGIOUS SERVICES ELSEWHERE, Yonkers. Yonkers, June 20, 1969, While religious exercises at the various places of Worship in this village to-day were generally parti- ¢cipatea in vy large congregations{the dedication of the Warburton Avenue Baptist charch aftracted, in addition to its own numerous adherents, a con- course of visitors from the city and surrounding neighborhood, as never, perhaps, have assembled under one roof in this place at any previous time, The structure is of brown stone, impos. ing in rene” its interior especially evince. jog arel tural beauty .of @ rare order, Possessing a capacity to seat comfortably 1,000 per. sons it may be classed ewong the largest churches 3 in the State. Its vost has been nearly $200,000, which sum, with the exception of about $10,000 used in turnishing the edifice, has been generously do- nated by two influential members of the congreee tion. After the dedicatory services, in which Rev. C.D. Bridgman, D. D., of Albany, and Rev. Dr. Bright, of New York, assisted, the pastor. Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, deluvered a profound and interesting discourse, takiwg for his text @ iu, 9:—“The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts.’ In commencing his ser- mon the reverend gentleman stated that the giory of a thing ts the fulfilment of its mission. By so much a8 it fails of the full exhibition of its implanted en- ores, by so much is the crown of its glory tar- nished and dimmed. Glory is not some arbitrary investiture, some outward coronation, but the free, full development of natural powers, the attainment of the Divine purpose in creation. A mote flying in the sunbeam, a flower by the wayside, has its ory, if the mission of its being is reached, he glory of manhood consists not in ex- tent of possessions, in breadth of cultare, but in the noble expansion of a soul mto what God de: @ soul to be. It is not the cut of man’s coat, the fineness and costliness of its material, the elegance of his habitation, the number of his attendants, that comfirm his right to the title of gentieman or nobleman. Nobility 1s of the soul and not of the garment. He continued—The giory of a land is not in its extent of territory or its boundless re- sources, but the virtue and patriotism of its citizens. The fullilment of its mus sion is the glory of a house of prayer, That glory may dweil in and shine forth from plain, humble walls. It may be wanting in the mae costly structure, The temple reared by ZerubbaBel Was not as costly as that bulit by Solomon, yet the glory of the latter house was greater than that of the former, because it remained until He came of whom JéeWish temple and Jewish ritual were but a silent, continuous prophecy, The courts of Zerub- babel’s temple were hallowed by the personal presence of the Son of man, and one pres- sure of foot conveyed more glory than all the gold and and cedar, and purple that could be found on altar, and cherubim and veil. And this 1s still the gloyy of a house ot praise, that it echoes to the footsteps of the Son of God. ‘The mission of the Churca of Christ 1s the proclama- tion and defence of spiritual truth. While expa- tiating on the importance of leaving “every truth written on the broad page by the finger of God to its legitimate impression,” the reverend speaker re- marked, ‘‘my philosophy may be sufficient for the elimination of every troublesome factor, for the harmonizing of apparently conflicting statements; but God is greater than the soul, and truth a vast sea, on which philosophy Roats as the bubble of a moment. ‘fhe teaching of experience,” he sald ‘is not only the best but the only ove that carries any authority with it. For a man to say that he believes in the Nicene creed, or in the Thirty-nine Articies, and regulates his teaching accordingly, without that living experience of nead and heart, that earnest whole souled search for trath, which results in the personal vital appropriation of a creed, is as mean @ piece of thieving as lor one man to steal another’s coat and then to go to church in it. Revelation 18 not teaching; beginning at the point where the Liv- ing Spiirt touches the heart, quickening the under- standing, rectifying the conscience, we are to preach from personal Knowledge the power and grace of the Son of God.” Regarding denomina- tional organizations the speaker said:—‘*Tney are but the formal experiences of the distinct personal convictions of large bodies of men, and as long as they embody thought and conscience they are not to be decried as -dishonorable to God and a blot upon Christian charity. It is better to live on the rocky ocean coast. where the waves beat high on the shore and the wild storms rock the habitation, than on the banks of a stagnant pool whose surface is never stirred by a ripple.” The reverend gentleman said he would not have his hearers teach and defead the Baptist faith as of more tmportance than Scripture, but as pew its equivaient and its fair interpretation. He said, “the impression is a very general one that our war is a Watery war—a fight about tne size of the baptis- mal font and the posture of the candidate in the ad- ministration —_ ol the ordinance. That is but the shell, by no means the heart of cur The Baptust eg controversy. theory of religi is simply the prineiple of Calvin and Luther carried out to its iogical results. “The just shail live by faith’? was the rallying cry of the Reformation. Toit weshout “Amen.” Alluding to the mission of the Church of Christ, he said that two things were essential to true worsiup—the absence of voice repetition of Pbarisaic pretension and spirituality of devotion. Simplicity promotes spir- ituality, and spirituality is uneasy and opp! under @ needless multiplication or extension of form. A most important part of public worship is singing. It belongs to the congregation aad cannot be delegated to one man or to a dozen, either by general consent or formal vote. After dwelling at some length on devotional singing the reverend gentleman drew a graphic picture of the material and labor employed im erecting the structure in which they were then worshipping, and compared the rough quarry from which the stone was obtained to the world’s life, in which the servants of God gather material for His spiritual temple. In con- cluding the speaker said:—‘t will be tne glory of this house if God deign to dwell here, if He cast over these walls the folds of His mantle, and enter here to own His truth, to kindle the fire of untversal love, to inspire joy in worship and to reveal His power in the saving of men.” Poughkeepsie. POUGHKEEPSIE, June 20, 1869. At St. Patrick’s church this morning the choir, assisted by artists from New York city, performed in a tasteful and effective manuer Farmer's Mass in B. flat. The Qui Tollis Peccata and Cum Spiritu Sanctu in the Gloria were especially noticeable for effective rendering. The services were condueted by Rev. Father Briady, who took for his text the Gospel of the day—“Uniless your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and ‘isees ye shall not share tm the kingdom of Heaven.” He pictured the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisee ot the time of Christ, and then proceeded to compare it with that of modern Chris- uuans. e said if the Pharisees were living nowa- days they would be looked" a) as saints, because in appearance they were upiformly so devout and pious, although in their hearts they were envious, Malicious and hypocritical. As in their times go in ours—the pretence and semblance of piety were easily palmed off as the genuine article. There were now, as in the ancient times, multitudes of men who made boastful and high-sounding pro- fessions of piety, who were only comparable to whited sepulchres, which were full of all unciean- ness. The reverend igpeaker urged upon his hearers the necessity of having pure hearts of conforming their lives to the spotiess life of Christ. They were earnestiy exhorted to lay aside malice, envy and ha- tred. It was not enough that they shouid say long prayers and frequent the sacraments; they must steadfastly shun the evil and cling to the good. In the Associate Reformed chufch, Rev. Dr. John Forsyth delivered the morning discourse from the Gospel by St, John, sixth chapter, sixty-sixth verse, “From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.’ e theme was “Apostacy from Christ.” The causes of apostacy were enumerated as folllows:—First, dislike of Christian truth; second, the love of wealth; third, love of ease; fourth, the fear of man. The manner in which these various causes operated to draw the heart of the believer away from Carmt was set forth with clearness, and the congregation was earnestly warned against the msidious approaches of tempta- tiou from each of the directions indicated. In St. George's Episcopal church tne evening dis- course was preached by the Kev. Octavius Appie- gate, from Genesis xvi, 19—“He tngered.” The al- lusion ts to the hesitation of the patriarch Lot when directed by the spirit of God to arise and get him out of Sodom. ‘Ihe reverend speaker said that good men often signally fail in that which they excel. Lot had, at the command of God, previously re- nounced with readiness his old home aud associa- tions and gone into a strange country. But now, when directea to leave the wicked city of Sodom and warned by messengers from heaven to flee for his safety, he lingered. This reiuctance was @ most melancholy instance of human weak- ness al piritdal degeneracy. Lot did not seek first the Kingdom of God; he had respect rather to his temporal prosperity; for he had chosen this land as being one of great ferttiity. The sad effects to Lots family of bis lingering at Sodom were detatied and dwelt upon, and appro- priate lessons were «i nm therefrom for the of those who in these jater times delay and nes in setting about doing God's will, A ready obedience to the jaw of Christ and an entire consecration to Hlis service were urged by weignty considerations. At half-past three o'clock this afternoon Rey. Jonn Hi. Raymond, LL.D., Presidént of Vassar College, delivered the annual Baccalaureate discourse before the stadents of the institution. The day was showery, and the attendance at the various churches was comparatively small, In the afternoon a terrific thunder storm raged. The voices ot the ministers oMiciating at the height of it were drowned in the roar of tae elements, and the Om. nipotent One Himself discoursed of His power and majesty to tremoling regations. PUISUIT OF KNOWLEOGE IN AN IOWA SAWMILL UNDER DIFFICULTIES. (From the Fioyd County (lowa) Gazette.) Last Monday « German called at Goodhue, Andrews & Co.'s saw tatll, to gaze in wonder at the various i complicated machinery. Among o! vet things that he saw Was a small circular saw, « faster than auything he ever saw before. Its +1) motion fascinated bim; he reached out his riy... sn dex fuger toward its ill-defined periphery ' ie circumference of a saw in swift motion looks to be at the buse of the teeth and not at their points). when to his surprise the end of his finger disappeared in an instant and rolled away to the other side of the saw. ‘Fhe man tied up the stump in his handker- chief, Whegeupon Mr. Andrews ni and inquired What was the matter, misplaced confidence replied:—‘Misther Andrews, 1 never comes to see your mills pefore. I seed tue " ting going around #0 fast, 1 takes mein him, ike us, and—metn Gots!" first mishap, the German touched the left fore- r, and that flew off, drews in ost brea exclaimed, ‘“Mishter Andrews, I never. fee him again And wrap ni handkerentef, he started Torn A lady, who was about giving a party to & conven. vention of clergymen, sent for a caterer to aasi-t in the preparations. H@asked if she intended to vive a dancing party. She replied that it was to be muuly composed of clergymen. “In thae case, Maver said he, “1 would advise you (0 provide bowmiuuily, Them pious people eat dreadiully.””