The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1869, Page 3

ife ttanscrints of hntan rmon Was listened to with gre tion by as large & copgregation as the church RELIGIOUS. ELEVENTH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHUNCH, Post Enstallation Sermo: Reopening of Metropolitan Churches i Yesterday, Alarge congregation assembled at the forenoon exercises yesterday at the Eleventh street Presbyter- tan church, to listen to the post installation of Rev. Charles B. Smyth, {ts newly chosen pestor. it was @ plain, straightforward discourse, and in the exciting features of bis famous sermons against the “Black Crook’ schoo! of drama that first made bim’memorable as # preacher, He took for his text the first tweive verses of tne ‘twenty-second chapter of Matthew the parable This parable, be stated, was Intended to show the unwiiingness of the Jews to accept Christ and His teachings, Ifthe Jews failed to accept His teachings, it was not from want of warn: ings. Christ, by parables and ovherwise, constantly fave them these warnings, In this parable they rovision set forth—their servants sent the gueste who would not come, then the slaying by the king of these invited guests stay- ing away, then other guests betng invited, who did come, and among them one wno did not have on a garment; and lastly hov:when theking spoke im for coming iu such & “Spiritual Darkness as [ustrated in the Cha- racter and Writings of Lord Byron.” wholly wantin; FEAST OF THE SEVEN SORROWS. of the wedding feast. Christian Unity Considered in a Washington Pulpit. Uneasy Spirits in a Powwow at Cooper st person, chiding became speechless. Mauy instractive lessons. A large number of the ‘metropolitan churches which have been Closed during the season of religi- ous Tasbion were reopened yesterday, and there are mow but few places of worship closed. By next Sabbath it is probable that all the pastors will have returned to their focks. ‘ever, in some of the churches yesterday that although the pastors were present the congregations were not very large, and it is therefore probabie that the “focks” have not yet made up thetr minds to leave ‘the fresh felds and pastures new to which they hied or the summer months. Collections were to have been taken up in most of the churches yesterday for the relief of the Avondale sufferers, Dut In most instances they have been post- poned for another week. Below wiil be found reports of the more interest- ing services of the day in various churches, TRIN.TY BAPTIST CHURCH. “Spiritual Darkness as Illustrated in Character and Writings of Lord Byron?— Stanford J. It wus evident that tne ueste first invited were intended to represent the God’s peculiar chosen people were the Jews. of the earth, The law and the prophets were The provisions furnished at this ecial Jewish feast were Jesus Christ and Him ‘Wo things were clear, They were invited, ftratly, to the feast, and secondly, they made light of the invi- tation, The unwillingness the Jews showed here was the common unwillingness to accept sal- hand of God, Many not only It was noticeable, how- Cultivating the native unwillingness of their nation they become sceptics. Men do not become sceptics at once. Scepticism is of ould beware how they fall Perhaps they were not making light of the Gospel and casting ridicule upon it, but if they did not accept the Gospel invitations Preparing the way for confirmed he parable of the text represented the Invited guests as going to their various pursuits, and how those inviting them were put todeath. This truth a8 regarded the Jews, death the disciples of Christ. ‘There Was a Charch claiming iteelf to be Christian that used to do the same thing and put to death the emissaries of Jesus Chriat. They would do the same to-day, but they dare not. The representatives of this Church were, on the 22d of December, to mect in council at Rome, It remained to be seen what this Council would do. Their power was melting away. se of God was carrying itself out. Nations rejected Christ and His teachings had been cut off from the earth, thetr productive cities de- stroyed and their magnificent temples crumbled Ithad been and would be the same with indtviduals rejecting Christ. They would be cut off from the face of the earth and consigned to everlast- Reverting to the text, he next called attention to the Kind of persons invited to the Marriage feast. They were the lame, the halt, the As the feast was made free 0 everybody, so was the Gospel free to all. He Would not have it inferred fro’ persons were to be received welcomes all, without exception, but He would bave all put on the wedding garment. The robe which Was to be worn ar the marriage of the Son of Gou Was the rohe of righteousness, Clothed in this beau- tiful and spotless robe there would be no danger of his pon-acceptance at the marriage feast. But there was one without the wedding garment, and when K he had come there in this condition he Was speechless, He had nothing tosay. He had no He could not say him, or that it was too small or too are There was to bea great wedding of Christ to His The invitation was extended to all to be esent at this wedaing—at this marriage supper of @ Lord. It behooved them all to get themselves in Teadiness, to put on the proper wedding garment. In conclusion, he dwelt upon the duties of the min- isters of Jesus Christ as His messengers to invite feast, It was the ministers! pel plainly and fearlessly. Nothing shonid swerve them from the path of duty. It was not their duty to be a pleasant visiting com- anion and to indulge in pleasant social chat. For imeelf he considered he had a higher missior than Ploasant talking and bringi candies to the expect to read the them and pray with them, aud into thia snare of they were onl: Sermon by Last evening the Rev. Dr. Holme preached a ser- ‘mon on the above subject at the Trinity Baptist ‘church, corner of Fifty-second street and Third The reverend gentleman took his text from the Proverbs iv., 19—‘‘The way of the wicked ig as darkness.”” The term wicked as used in the Scriptures was not strictly synonymous with the term as used in common speech, When one spoke of wicked those addicied to vice were gen- the word was also sense, including {ug destruction. oor and the blind, erally referred to, in & much broader all those who did not exercise faithin the way of waivation through Christ. Now the way of the Wicked was not only a way of darkness, but of dark- ness that grew in intensity as it advanced, and darkness were eymbols of most frequent use in the Bible to set forth the condition of the righteous and the wicked, and language eould present no more rospect of the pathway of the Just than as the shining light that shineth more and Nor could it present a loomy prospect of the pathway of she wicked, than that it Was as darkness, and those that walk in it Know not at what they stumble. ‘thought suggested py the text, and to which etten- ‘tion was now especially directed. of the extinguishment of the sun, moon and stars in the natural world but imperfectly represented the terrible experience of the exunguishment of all spiritual light from the aoul. The deeper and darker experiences of men were seldom brought to the ligut, They were seldom placed on record. There ‘were phases of human experiences that men did not re bosom to themueives, and much less did they care to expose them to the gaze of othera, But Once tn @ while it 80 happened that some frensied, inconsiderate spirit unconsciously made a record of its experience, 8o deep as to be quite incomprenen- sible to the great mass of readers; indeed, he might almost say Incapable of being fully understood by -any who had not passed through like trouble expe- riences, or as they might be ulocked or interpreted by superhuman aids, ‘This Was found in the writin; poem entitled “Darkness.” That enigma to his critica. Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey others who bad especially noticed it confeased their inability to understand It, Scott characterized it as a poem in which a succession of terrible images ‘Was placed before us, fitting, and mixing and engaging themselves as in tne dream of a feverish Jeifrey took & like view of {t, ness” was a dark and gloomy sketch of the supposed consequences of the final extinction of the gun and the heavenly bodies, executed undoubtedly with great fear and fearful force, but with something of German exaggeration aud a fantastic solution of The preacher, however, believed it to be rather a Matter of deep religious experience, and that Scott and Jeffrey, in regarding the poem merely as a joetic effusion, overlooked the true character al import of the lines, That which to the merely poetic critic Was enigmatical and obscene would fro -Feligious standpoint appear at least intelligible, though not less terrible and oppreasive to contem- In short, the effusion of Byron might be faken to be @ practica: but fearful tliustratjon of the truth of the text, “The way of the wicked is as ‘The poem commenced with the significant line, “I had @ dream, which was not all a dream.” There -Was a.terribie reality in it. It was a setting forth of “the deep, dark realities of his inner ther unlike some and thy Siiows bright and glorious anore into the More dark an fas that the effort | Pnosts to the wedan duty to preach the He hoped he should be sustained tn As to his sermons, he intended to stick to the truths taught by the Bible, and prociatm them fear Jeasly and urge thelr acceptance upon those about h At the same time he would not oe, or have them forget, in their zeal for their special the fundamental with other oh he preached his frst sermon tn thi been mary changes in this time, ver giving a sketch of his ministerial labors in this town he alluded to his acceptance of the pastorate of this He delieved that here was the nucleus of ped they would be one in seatiment, sympathy, uprightness and godiiness. CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. The Seymon on the Mount—Discourse by Rev. Jha pin. ‘The congregation at this church yesterday morn- Ing, although highly fashionable, was not so nume- Tous as on former occasions, for the reason, doubt- less, that many of its members have not yet returned from the fashionable resorts. The preacher took for hjs text Matthew v., 45, which runs “That we may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, for He maketh His sun to arise upon the good and the bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.” The reverend gentleman commenced by observing that he need not tell his hearers that the words he bad just that portion of 5 Eek) they hold in SB rodas of Lord Byron, ina A am AF ip le, Biagn oem had beén an welt @ powerful Church, aying that “Dark- the Sermon on the Mount in which our Saviour set forth the spirit and falnl- contalns the sublime princi- Goap e were natarally led into a contemplation of the Divine Nature by reading these words. The law might be to-day as of old—“An for au eye and but the true Christian feeling Ww: to them that -hate you; lespise and curse yo be the children of your Father, who 1s Now, if we consider this declaration of Christ ag @ mere atatement we observe it was little more than had already been said by eny wise In tact we found that iS heathen did say assages of the Pagims | ment of the law whic! ep calieth unto deép; a Wi have gone over me,’ avid’s experience Was, so far as pregent darkness gloom was concerned, very near to that of Byron’s; but, white the cry of the latter was that of David knew in What direction to look for eight. The opening of the poem was:— [bad a dream, which was not all a droam, ‘The bright aun' was extinguis! he ‘Did wander dartin, Rasless and puthles in the moonless atr; \d came and brought no day, ry And men forgot thejr passione in their dread a@ view of God, 5 mind of the heathen was sustained by Jesus Chris Himself, He showed that man’s first thought con- cerning God was the truest If some wise heathen had power of the universe was a certain magnetic good- ness Christ did not contre into the worid the offspring and, perhaps, conceit of their own minds, would be ay against all that had gone be: likely have their originality or infidelity, but it was diferent with Christ, When Christ came into the the original truth of His system by ® comparison with truth. In the us Jesus Christ — preferred Were chilied unto apoltish praye ¢ world Was void, the powerful was a lum; , treei maniess, lifeless, nos of hard ova; nd ocean afl stood still thought concerning God, Thi ‘The populace and fearlessly said that the Seasoniees, berbless, ‘adict it Men bringing tO array themselves ore them. They would world He showed And the clouds perished Of aid from them—she was the Univer: The firat thought suggested by those lines in illus. tration of the text was that spiritual darkness fore- boiled the death of all activity. Hope was the sprin; of all action, and could contend singie nande round of His exhortation. He comfirmed the human ideas of God, and did not strive to show—as in the case of modern philosophers—that man can Dave no idea of God atall. In the next m to observe that not only did '8 tdeas of God, but He made them conform to the real, itving, poient idea On the what reality and power and re in that God who was re- So that when we spoke of to sine and who sent rain place he wished the! hope remained, Christ confirm man‘ wwelling tide of evil. overwhelm him, aud by the force of ite blows stun bim, but he quickly recovered strength for another coniict. But when the light of hope was extin- guished he sat down onl effect of ueter spiritual darkness, fearfulness of spiritual darkness when it once fairly sottied upon the soul that to illamine it, even for & single moment, men gladly sacrificed all for which they had tried and labored in this world. Would ask their attention other hand, need he say blessedncss there wet yealed in Obrist Jesus, One who made the sun on the just and the unjust, this truth had fa! significance when we ndecd, such was Tegarded that spirit as the than when we beneficence of a superior being. The statement in the text contained not only tae beautitul illustra. tion of the divine beneficence in nature, put bore out the appucation of the truth of the divine good. In the Qrst place, then, he remarked, the truth contained ia the text gives us the true inter- pretation of nature. They would observe there the The significant point was that these’ visible and material natures were as the agents of a living and per. 601 there were no very great conclusions to which the human mind ni But since Christ had these words, and in had become.an obje ) In iilustration of tnia, to nd they did live by watchires: an he palaces of crowned kings—the hi abitations of things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, gathered around their blazing Homes To jook onse more into each other's face. ‘There could not be a More fearful setting forth of the comparative value of things tein Spititual—the pomforts of the body as compared With the comforta of the soul, palace, what a@ city, to one ray of spiritual ul was enveloped in ucter darkness t Again, spiritual darkness necessitated the death of all the kindiier affections of the soul, this there sould be a0 more striking nor fearful {llus- ron in bis description statement of personalty. oral aid things What was a house, light when the modern times especially, ct of much more regard and in- rown day men qnestioned a8 to the reat problem of existence, and he need not tell resent thought that the human Diad must be heldin suspense by this test of ail problems—that we must examine and draw our Own conclusions. It was thought by some that men would limit themselves in these inquiries to such @ and by not even the question of a God will are, It was a great question now whether iritual reality at all, or whether elf 19 an immense piece of an Was afforded by By hem that many at Q! the effects of this darkness;. ich for s moment was ‘no more, welt AgAiD; a meal was bought ‘With blood, and each aat sullenly apart imeelt 10 gloom; no love was was but one thoyght—and that This was not natural death. The thought of it the power to extinguish true love, soul was enveloped in epiritual darkness; @ heavenly radience righteousness bad been shut b ritaal darkness, then came over it w of teat death unaer which all love must ‘hrougpout the whole red the reader in the face that the greater the ifort he more devitsh man Until by the last fickertng light of the two men take their Iast look degree that by there were any the universe by mysterious and inconceivable forces, Some OF snother thts question should be answered. We ‘Wished to Know whether there is a living. conscious, Personal will—whether man tn bia littie, narrow the only being who whied—who created; , the human mind, and especially the would not rest in jard to thease questions, bh! would continue to en them forth Unt clearly ang! properly answered, then went on at Inngth to ing Gp his discourse by to whom we should all KW ip Moek submission, ST, PETERS ROMAN_GATHOUIC CHURCH, Sermon by the Rov, Father McEvoy, of White which came from the terribie fact argue in this strain, wind- assertion that there was overruling Providence TO) to Job, “Have the thee? or hast thou n of Dante's ‘iinterno” Tusioys of be but the wor Byron seemed to he death been opened u joors of the shadow OF a terrible pictus At the principal mass in St. Petes church yester- pay thero waa present quite 8 large SQpgregakon NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. assembled to y their customary homage to the Rev. Father McEvoy, of White Pisins. The mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father P. Farrell, assistant Driest at St, Pe! and at the proper time the Rey. Father McEvey ascended the pulpit and read the "gospel of the day (Mat, ix. 1-8), The reverend orator them called attention to the fact that the Church celebrated yester. day the feast of the Seven Dolores of the Bieased Virgin Mary. He spoke of the sorrow and enverings which the Blessed Virgin was compelied to feel during the lifetime of her adorabie He tured her standing at the foot of the cross w! every throb of pain that Christ, LS a tI = Rearels to took upon tet av their mother, the guardian | Their prayers she listens to with all & moth ad confided the care of His beloved | Hon ould be at the same time ab advo- and thi Evangelical Ch Rev, Charles B, nesigneii bi IT lee. rmon ed to her for assieten 's affec- | “one body of Christ.” that thelr wants were manifold and ber Intercession irresistib! and 4nd occunying a seat near to God, than It was for divine service after the urnal summer vacation. | church of the coi as a bumble woman at the wedding in Galilee? At the conclusion of the sermon the reverend | Th congregation of this church belongs to the Pro- | church of the people. of the charch at White Plains. parish, ir iit, Rereaeaaan teen they pin My yen L 44 Won Of that denomination tm the city, In view of the | manity. Tn this parable were wubdile shor the worship of God, He told them how he, the A the Induence of the ardor of the ove of mie Of the Anglican Chareh, arish, pre Gil that he posses: to help the work. hich ts agal lly English mevitation, 1 ts teriaticn ie sold them that he knew the people of St, Peter's ty ie way to vuit the Egilse i above all other nations | had many calls upon them for churches tn Ireland Suring - J wg 5 Worship, which 4 ng fy from a sound bel and England, and for objects of all kinds dese en! their cuanity? and that they bad always respond of een few calla on them churches in this diocese. He depicted, eloquently I A A A the condition of the church in his parish and the “y; Tn ppers absolute need there was for asastance snd } Smong the Preaon, the two ations vibe concluded by assuring them the continued prayers Gaccesaive TE consh onc he of the struggling congregation in whose behalf he | Gitary evemics, it must remar' appealed to them, and by invoking on them the kind 5 Care of the Blessed virgin and the blessings and | Mobotony of the usual Protestant church musle is in, Pawns aud tymas aud the eer: find each other wolves. m of this new time. I and owning only but they make light The ‘musical poruion of the services under the | ale0 the congregation, is composed of a quartet of | of Christ, The tae ore Sano \dergols course of remodel. | 0! © Organ 18 now undergo! ab 4 ling and enlargement aher ts very many years of | OVidence that instrument ts wader the rn ly good effect. At the offertory Prof, Fritach, | States, especially transiated i tenor, sae Gordigian's 0 Clel pieta, aime, | Ax Verren, the rector, from the dental solos throug! ber ken fi dered by Mesaames Brickel and Schultz and Misses | text being taken from Fritsch and Staud. 1 according wo that Thou art that Kranth, of Philadelphia, God," &c. The reverend sseaker entered late the | the same uusectarian The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy | history of the occurrence du ch and the mf d to abandon Christ as big teaching seemed to | Cucet and ts and Sixth avenues, was reopened to the congrega- | Prget,to abandon sayings.” ie , that he bad hunger and thirst, yet Alter sinee the closing the tntertor of the church has been | theuaitres thin ee eee nana 208 Seite Ts | veee of tne now “ol repaired, redecorated and thoroughly renovated. | Living God. After a Begiey discourse upon this | services had felt consti view, Rev. Mr. Verren drew the lesson from this for | Which they were The bullding now présents a remarkably pleasing our’ present Many have left the true way of | closed as —a4 Appearance. The walls have Deen colored in a very | Onrist, nave abandoned the doctrines of Histeach- | Whose thresbold wi this that a!l sorts of into the Ohurch. He the furniture surrounding it nave been remodelled ud the ceilig has been fregcoed if a very appro- priate manner. The pulpit, the reading desk and tne altar were yesterday very tastefally decorated | jie1 As aome of eneth; the Mesh profiteth nothing; various devices. Three services were held to celebrate the reopen- there was no robe for a al e, or filthy, the Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, was the in Lutheran churches had been read by the ‘The first public concert and reunton of this young Rey. F. J. Krotel, the pastor of the chureh, ¥ the’ Key.” Dr. ersuae ‘announced as the | 8chool, which is only one year old, was given yes. & thing as this in the King’s beart, to beautify the | ang large number of ladies and gentlemen, house of the Lord, which is in verusaiem.”’ That day a week ‘for | Which gave its supreme glory to the house of God, The chair was taken by Rev. Dr. R. P. Perry, the written upon it, The beauty of the house of the mab. doctrines, vine authority of the word of God i Sil toatiers of iife and of "aootrine. Tuose great | dwelt upon the power and innuence of kindiiness to doctrines, old as Christianity and enduri! ae | the training of the young; the importance of @ eternity, were what beautified the pouse of the Lord, | proper training to the joung, as viewed from both a and to these the honse in which ey met Topceck Pp&triotic and @ Ohristian point of view, and to the cated. Though relatively little there was, however, something besides this, which in 1ta due piace was uot without importance. The preacher then referred to the temple at Jerusalem, and spoke of its external beauties, and went on to say that devoutness was necessary to worship, and that on this account it was that Christians desired to make the house of God such as would best by its appear- ance maintain devotion. If the temple was what it should be it must have @ tendency to promote devoutness. The preacher had no sympathy with those who satd it was superstition to exalt one place over another for ws np, on the ground that was omnipresent. The house itself might move the heart to devotion; its majestic grandeur, or even its simple adornings, might have this effect, as that which was best In man was manly, and that best in Woman womanly—so that witch was best for a church waa to bs churchlike. Within a clurch Gevotion was aroused by seeing the livin; tempies, with their heads bowed “in silen! prayer. the long sweeps of the organ Mishes the reak with the outside world and touches the human heart, the lowly confession of sins, the comfort 01 the absolution, the singing of praise, the confes- sions of David, the word preached, the prayer and diction ail led the heart to devotion. e first in beautifying a church was to find the means expressing the true worship of God, which would lead to the use of true art, auch art ag bas for ite aim to find the thought of God and discover God's secret of true beauty. True art would Bhow 1! ‘here had the elder children, The chairman, In referring to keep their chiidren in the school, and solve the to the temperance question, not that he placed tem- he waa never certata of the continuance of the | S@Viour and follows: of alcoholic liquors, believing, as he not oply was morally an evil, but that i Grinker. in looking around the city and seeing the of grog shops that were open he felt how litle Was done by the temperance movement to counteract the effects, but he feit Tesparngemeny in thinking that the chileren wefé with the movement. They were polis chil paturally until they were won by the other si He had lived more ity aS eu, ery ae of those present, and money sor novorlety. b were found in Deas it gave her to do had been put ap abe pu tv roved that Divine band revealing that art in every touch. Such | tive position, luring that time a | D! ns previous t 1 { art would have an adaptation to time Plece. | worker, and he jad used is inf re th P 1 ae eallng wes beac ve | The Christian in this matter ‘would move with care | 0D te aide of temperance fr that Bret le audience. Fiod. He felt that he had to be thangfuy to that cause for his good health, and pis being saved ‘om joany snares to which he might have been led. ir. Greeley conciuded hj address by urging al) to become workerg in Une temperance cause, The Rev, J. W. Vincent next addressed the pape especially addresaing the children, giving a namber of very appropriate anecdotes illus’ ve of begin ning right in iife; to be always strong and stand up for the ngbt, and to trust like a little childin the Heavenly Fatner. In the intervais of the speeches several Sunday achool melodies were very creditably La 2 anda ¢ollection taken up. ‘ihe proceed. ngs were brought to aclose by the singing of ‘Coronation’ and the pronouncing of the benediction. ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN, Yemerday morning St. Paul's Episcopal church, at the corner of Clinton and Carroll streets, Brook- lyn, of which Rev. T. Stafford 1s pastor, was formaily opened for divine service, on which occasion twenty- three persons were confirmed by Bishop Litticjohn, An appropriate address was delivered by the Bishop, THE BULL'S FERRY METHODIST CHUACH, The alleged misunderstanding betwoen the Rev. Dr. C. Goss, pastor of the Methodist church at Bull's Ferry, on tue Hudson, and some of the members of his congregation, concerning the appointment of a Sunday scbool superintendent, appears to havegbeen considerably exaggerated, having farnished the sub- Ject {or a sensational report to which little impor- tance may be attached. Indeed, the statement whicn appeared of the affair was scarcely warranted by tne fi ts, there having been no serious Gisegreement tween the partios. The card published by the trystees in the Jerséy journals concerning the mat- ter has divest the occurrence of the sensational bearifig ascribed to it, having given a sat contradic- tion to the report circulated. The services in the church yesterday were conducted wita the usual decorum and barmony, and the matter tow bids fair to terminate satisfactorily. CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHUCH, WASHINGTON, 0. C. Gpening of a People’s Free Church—Necossity and Growth of Unity Among the Sects of Christianity. WASHINGTON, 'D, C,, Sept. 19, 1869, ‘This morning at eleven o'clock a large audience Gathered in the new hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, which is one of the Anest’audience rooms in the city, to attend the opening exercises of the Central Congregational church, a new organization here, ander the pastoral care of Rev. C, B. Boyn- ton, late Chaplain of the House of Representatives, It is to be @ people's church, with freo seats—the first enterprise of the kind in the capital. ‘The germMon On the occasion was by thé pastor and from the text, Matthew ix, 11—'‘Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.” The Saviour in the text intended to ahow the disciples that the age of Jewish Jaw was passing away, and that when an era dies its dead body of instituttons must be buried like any other Corpse, and the new born must shape inatitutions Of ite own which shi amboay ite own Dawes lite, 1th Us & political era has closed, and the two tral thoughts of this new time “ational unity” between two extremes—the solemn and sablime and the simple and clear. The Jowest myst be reached fn their humblest religious wants, but yothing must be done unworthy of God, Jt must never got ye ag worship was directed nor from whom came, pertinences with CHURCH OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. The Feast of the Seven Dolors. ‘The services yesterday {n this church, which ia situated between the Sixth and Seventh avenues, in Twenty-third street, consisted, as usual, of a high mass and agermon, The Hey. Father La Font was the celebrant and one of the assistant pastor's de- Uvered the sermon. Although not so widely known a8 are many other Catholic churches Mm this city for the grandeur of the musical part of thetr Sabbath ceremonies, it may be said that St. Vincent de Pauys has one of the finest choira of any church in the city, which ts, by the way a, voluntary choir. A new or- gan has iately been erected in the church, and of course adds immensely to the musical attractions ofthe choir, The services are conducted in the French language. The Catholic Ohnrch yesterday celebrated the “Feast of the Seven Dolors,” in other words the feast commemorative of the suiferings o! the Virgin Mother, and the reverend Father who preached the sermon took the subject as the basis of his instruc- tion, After alluding to the many names of love and aevotion which the Church makes use of to Charac- terize the Virgin Mother he compared the love of a mother for her child on earth to that of the Virgin in heaven for ali those who a be to her earnestly for hor invocation io their behalf. The love of a mother wi thing that conid not be described, Everybody who had not tne misfortune to jose his mother before nature had endowed him with gum. cient intelligence to appreciate her true worth knew what it was, but words would fall to give an ade- quate idea of itsextent. The child in his sorrows and joys alike always runs to bis mother first, for he knows that she will not comuntaverate with, but pears his sufferings, and enter into nis joys with a gladsome heart. And & mother, when her obild is In danger, always forgets nerself to save hin, Thousands of incidents are on record showing how mothers have precipitated themselves into the fee of Lo ange ure uneee innged their tthe ones, and again, how others plunged into the sea to save their children from tmpeading death, themselves knowing that they would be lost, but yel hoping that their littie ones ro be saved oy their efforta. But what was the love of an ordinary mother ander extraordinary circumstances to the love the Virgin bore her Divine Son, and what suf. ferings could be compared to those underwent for the sake of humanity from the time the Saviour came into the world antll ahe had been taken from the earth to reign forever queen of heaven. Her trial had not begun solely when the “Passion” of our Lora a, but they commenced from the very day When the angel announced to her, ‘‘Ihou shait bring forth @ son and thou shalt call his name Jesus.” Bhe knew of the prophecies which foretoid the coming of & redeemer, and knew what her child wonid nave to gutter. e Might into Egypt she suffered all the anxieties and terrors which @ mother’s heart could feel for her little one; and what must have been her utter Woe while the in of the Savfour Was undergoing those terrible fageliations which tore the sacred flesh into shreds, pee came the death on the cross. Anybody who had knelt the deathbed of a dying son could alone u: ani the utter agony of rebaenae Yet tne mother ot the Saviour stood at the foot of the cross, not to see her a expire without ® groan, to leave the ing; and guch as @rose in the to he professes (d it vision and made her questions, more Lord Jesus Christ, it as the divine audience interfered. < “Yes,” “fraw the platform. tered nature through the and wound up house, her busi ‘The preacher forcibly eject nim, ia In St. Jon: ‘gently as @ passing breath.” but to wit, “politic ity”? hi resal labor. aying sucerings while nalled to the tree, oon hs Atuind ipativuions. “Wil theve ‘sume ‘ccatral tarcen | Soash soaps jeers of the multity ow bag a ree of anity and equality work any similar change in | In Ten: wo, ing in her ears. ered thi the religious World? Will there be a Churob ine wan powigay tae eater, | ilar, alee, We vier age gor yon a8 nnn aS LTA ae SR Oe eS ORAL CNOA LEN EU RSET OO TELA a OR IA Vg a Re ee ae ball be the fting lesder and, teacher of this rm wal vi a divine Lerd, and to listen aiso to & discourse by the pa am P fe’ minds of thoughtful men eal the aronion WASHINGTON. United States Mediation Between Spain and Cuba. ac: fete, embracing a the ype pa of the C. A nd W wide enot - bo a 0. gi the cross ‘an le jug! Th view of these, and the divisions of the Protest- fe thousands, must not the Protestant churchea be fome manner united to meet this formidapie array! Those who desire union seek it in two direc- tons. One party aims at an alliance of sects, would reaembie the old confederac; fail for the same reason this did. “more perfect unton’ ch Minister Sickles’ Note to the e ofher sbck a Spanish Regency. ke chs union as the lat- Sher aid Was a! powerfui before the Throne | ter the Saviour prayed—a visible unity, which the world might see and believe, P te and to those wh; culprits Pi 7 the world trom bere and ome divisions hinder dren, He exnorted. thefh Te are Poaceae fs EGUSE OU ST. ESPRIT. po hy ‘te fe i. vie unity Reopeuing of the French Protestant Episcopal | The Gospel, in doctrine and spirit, and that her sympathy advocacy were hever denied to those who earnestly Church—Sermeon by the Rev. A. Verren. Knows ho distinction of race or nations; Extreme Measures to be Adopted by the Cubans. Butler Preparing for ax Oaslaught Upon Con gressional Extravaganee, BP im dresses the 01 ‘ Sought. He instanced the miracie By one b} The Church of the Holy Gbost—Eglise du St. | ana its forme areal Mo ae a ave hundred ehangt ie ar eee a = reining ct | Beprit—on West Twenty-second street, between Christians should now be gathered from all nations influence less, now that ate is the queen o! is | Fifth and Sixth avenues, was reopened yesterday | Ove Church form would be Otted to them all. Neces- sarily this form would be like the primitive churches, @ self-governed b with the pint of Christ aud With our me . | barmo 8 y an th our in- orator Made an appeal to the congregation ip Nebail | teetamt Episcopal denomination, with Rev. A. Ver- | Sittiogs It would not bo sectarian, var capabie le ren for ite rector, and te the ouly French congrega- | of indeduite extension, and sulted to universal hu- MORE GOVERNMENT PLUNDERING. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 1869. Positton of the United States Towards Spain Unchanged=Minlster Sickles’ Note to the Spanish Regency—Cubans De- termined to Render Their Isinad a Desert Sooner Than Submit to Spanish Rule. The tone of the British and Spanish press on the Ouban question, as conveyed by cable, is not re- garded {n official circles here with any London papers seem to misunderstand the question entirely and the position which our government occupies towards Spain. That position hasin no Material point changed from what ft was when the Spanish Regency formally accepted the United States as a mediator for the settlement of the Cuban Ald 10 freeing froin debt the edifice erected there to | fact that the Provestant Rpiscopai Church is branch | , here are some important indications that the their authority, ward the other hy ie, that sound prac- charac: | Cnorch of Christ. Creeds ® curt. | and inthe of the peadulum &t. Beprit | extreme men will probabi y language, barriers are crumbling down and sheep pe to an’ the reading of Ube leasone, the es from diferent (olds on mosting are surpriaed not to ighty instrument ay tare Suatins tecosunts uacbete th a Obria vation, & e Bpiri b— ivy yay coring ‘all sectarian distinctions Christian name, they have shown on t ecale the — that with the asus good taste of Frenchmen, the on gs yy 4 ‘Sevtee peace of the Almighty. not to be found here, The choir, though emall,asis | ohurch of the future, degree attraction in the that a | Deetings, Le era Lage sf Hagge ‘associauiol good voices, masterly execution on the | Wide spread and powerful Recher ware, Been y ane Of tne preludes tothe panies and hymas te | & closter of afilisted Gemocracion, hands of | meetings Sabbath schools and other re! ily 0) journals oj its own, ‘The note suid to have been written recently by Minister Sickles, and about which press is reported to be so tndignant, was nothing more than a gentie reminder that as the good offices of our government had been accepted by the bellig- erents it would like to proceed to business. It con- tained no threat, but intimated that circumstances might arise which would force the United States to act independently, and that protracted delay on the part of Spain was dangerous, ‘These circumstances have already been‘alluded to in my despatches as the destruction of everything ‘on the island of Cuba within reach of the insurgents, #0 as to make it untenable for the Spaniards. Do secret that if the pending pegotlations fall, this the Oubans have marked themselves, The crops cable | 2 Organist of rare abulity. vices, ite free reading rooms and at present, The ‘absences of the asual-orgauiem, | , The allendanice was Dut small and the service con. | aod in ‘each great ‘entre bead however, was not materially felt, as the choir sang | ducted tareagbout seceding te ime tual end ¥en } A Jy Te yo an easy mass by_F. X. Schmidt, in E fat, wit! of the Prot ut Episcopal Chui whe Up) CS people may gat Y; rch tb Preneh by the Rev, | that this Christian association wul prove the ‘tnoriaed edition of } © Lane | 2 Se old sectarian eg ter ae - | the General Convention for the use of the cor ® reunts lesten! strong enor dental soins chvorah temace were’ artusicatiy ren. | SOD. ‘The sermon wan preached vy the rector, his | \therailant, rationalism ‘ahd Rome. Surel he sixth chapter of the gos- | which God has shown this effort indicates the proper St, Joho, the sixty-seventh and fol | direction of Christian effort, No aa force, except in church forms, with its ministry and jowing verges: tien sald Jeaus unto the were, movement can become pe EVANACLIOAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE WOLY TRIW-TY. | Wil Yeuieo go away? ‘Theo simon Feter answered | for ae J pny sone of ve Foormmnass. If there sure r 4u linportant centre, @ church organiza- Reopening Services Yesterday=Sermon by Dr, | Words of eternal *, wy ty Re ee say FF pha ~n wah "78 fanning wih character, ne’ which these p= gg Ld werent to the free seta of balls tike Trinity, located in Twenty-first street, between Furth | Words were spoken; that some of the disciples pro- tat po ay ES tn of the spirit of our ume, tion yesterday. The edifice has been closed since | faith of Christ tn them remained though they knew | the ove reuuited host of our Lord raliying in the one July last, and during the time which has elapsed | that Clirist was man, sadiect to all the demands of | Bane to the one banner of Christ. why the mem- arch now beginning it# puoitc ined to leave the body with ly connectel the discourse pect that the spirit an chaste and elegant manner, the pews have t IV to the apysa | Weapons of sectarian war will be laid aside, and where ail’ been newiy “uphiowstered, ‘the "puipie and | Az And Lave precipiaved etecives ine ane aura | Mi vtihin sha tect thovsecret ausssirom os wun ve Of the text were true to-day, ‘It is the spirit that | love aud the comfortings of that peace which the it and they are = fis’) decane or tires eke bad tavarten froth the | it will be @ church whose fleece of faith with @ costly collection of Sowers, arranged true path of Christ, he mentioned the advocates ofrit- | Wet With the baptsm of the Spirit, liam, the Jeauitésm of the Catholic Church of Rome, | bands the Gospel wu be the Dil 140 the fanatical Puritan, who would wish to } Vation of men. We invite ail ‘ ing, and at each of these the church Shed well a in see priests and bishops a la tanterne—suepended mi doent hall, and so far as in us lies we conse, In the morning the Rev. 0. W. Bchaeffer, D. D., | trom the lamp post. But the trae evangelical doc- | crate 11 to Christian unity and Christian freedom au President of the General Council, preached @ very | tring of Christ was conserved in that church, | to the elevation of humanity in Chriat’? is the policy which informed by Sefior Lemus, will never be gathered exoept favorable action should {2 the mean time be taken by Spaln on the Sickles’ proposition or some other looking to the independence of Cuba. the reasons he asaigns {s that the Cuban planters firmly belleve that as soon as the crops are gathered they will be seized and confiscated by the Spaniards ‘and the proceeds devoted to the support of the Spanish army and navy. The planters argue that as they are likely to loge their crops in any ‘ovent they wouki rather destroy them than bave them contribute to the support of their enemies, This action becoming general on the island would, of course, produce & condition of affairs which would demand the interference not only of the United Statea, but of other civilized commercial nations. ‘There are still strong hopes entertained by our government that Spain will eventually accept some proposition which will secure the independence of Cuba and put an end to the war, tm oficial circles that Napoleon bas advised Prim to @ell Ouba for whatever he can get, bring home troops and deyote the money ana troops to subduing the Oarlists end other factions in ode, We hope ‘the free seats of this CHARLESTON, §. C, CHARLE@TON, Sept. 19, 1969. reacher. After the opening services customary Reunion and Monthly Concert. One of the largest churches in the clty was crowded with people to-day to listen to a sermon by Rev. Dr, Hicks, on the subject of political and aociai text for bis discourse Ezra vil., 27—‘“Bieased be | terday in the newly decorated Apollo Hall, The | charity, im counection with the Avondale disaster, the "Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such | hall was crowded with the children of the school | A hav‘some contribution was made for the suderers. appropriate sermon, and in the evening the Rev. | ancording to the teaching of which they were tea panencn dead Joseph A. Sela, D. D., of Philadetphia, occupied the | Worsiirning God and His everiastabe some, SERMON I BEKALE OF THE AVONDALE SUFFERERS At the afternoon service the Rey. Professor C.. P. MP snag yges Krauth, D. D., of the University of Pennsylvania and THE MORNING STAR SUNDAY SCHOIL. th is known here said the preacher, was the fact that it was the house | superintendent of the school, and the concert was Manifestations at Cooper Institute=The Mect- of God, that He was in it, and that His name was of Lord ts ‘t i eS aan tare eg dg Ramil os Ray dingo edly nosinviy ‘The Idea of any serious dimcuity arising between Spain and the United states on account of any con. templated action of our government relative to Cuba ts not thought of in Offictal circies here, It is Rot supposed that Spain, wita all her traditional pride and obstinacy, wonld be so reckless asto go to ‘War With the United States in ber present condition, especially with the moral certainty of not only losing Cuba without getting any money for it, but of getting badly whipped into the bargain. Lively Times in Cougress tn Prospect=Ex- pected Tilt Betweon Butler and Schenck. Ben Butler, it is understood, ts preparing a epeech #0 be delivered early in the coming session, the extravagances of committees of Congress. Be will, it is said, confine himself especially to Means Committee, of which bts competitor for the leaderahip of the House, General Schenck, is chair man, Schenck and some other members of the com- mittee, having heard of Butler's intention, are pre- paring to answer him. It is said they possess some facts, gathered in the course of their investigations im the East, sbout Butler's connection witb certain Manviactaning institutions, which will not be very creditable to him. Butler is a good fighter, so is Schenck, and a lively time may be expected. The Public Debt statement. ‘The indications are that the public debt statement, to be tasued on the 1st of October, will show very little, if any, reduction, the payments for the present month having been very heavy. More Treasury Plunderers. Dunbar, the horse doctor, about whose case so much fuss was made in Congress last spring, on €ccount Of an appropriation of $25,000 to pay him army veterinary surgeons and farriers in his system of curing horses’ feet, is again ® subject for the serious consideration of govern. ment ofictals, The disbursing quartermaster here recently made op Dunbar’s account, it seems, and tendered him the balance} due, $20,833, with the that he would @ign @ receipt in demands against the government. Dunbar refused contending that he was entitied to another month's {imme, ad also $2,000 for the services of his son, w young jad in bis teens, Dunbar’s experiment in ougng horses’ feet for the government it is aid will cost the Treasury not lesa than $80,000, and yet it is bot certain whether hts system will ever be practiced by Its veterinary surgeons. His system may be good, Or it may Dot, but it seems inexcusable extrava- ance to be paying out such large sums if our army Veterinary surgeons and farriera intend to alight te after recelving instrnctions at euch heavy coat. Payment of Pensio An appeal was recently taken by certain pension atiorney# in Pennsyivania from instructions of the Commissioners of Pensions with regard to the mode of paying pensions, and aiso the lawful fees to pension attorneys or agents, which is now by chock on the Unived States Treasurer. The attor- ney* oF agents want both their fees and # Stoners’ money to be paid in currency. The Secre- tary Of the Interior, in reply, says that a check on the Treasury ls believed by the Pensioners to be as good as currency, amd that the Gepartment is in Possonsion Of proof that pensions paid to pension ere are) 6a) 6ooften «sadly reduced of middiewen ; ‘© use every measure itn prevent What has grown to be # notorious ahyse. Reporte are frequent that attorneys have fallen Under the ban. The Secretary agrees witn the Com- missioner of Pensions that the requeat of the ap) ci tants should not be silowed. If any agent shall decline to receive ana transmit such checks drawn to the order of (be pensioner himself, the Commis- Moner of Pensions will be instructed to regard all powers of attorney given by pensioners to such ageots as acoulled and shall seek communicauon with he peas.oner bimeeit. Onshier of the Union Square Bank, of New John Jay Knox, Depaty Comptroner of the Cur- Lord would be without ite grandest adorning but | To-day,” after which Dr. Perry read a portion of the AD audience of about 200 assembled at Cooper for the glorious truth .thet God in it revealed him- | third chapter of Proverbs. Instivute last evening, attracted by the following self to its supremest beauty wad to be found | ne Rev, 8. H. Willman was the first speaker. He | notice in the city papers:— '¥ DrMoneTRateD.—Clair R. De Evers leo- Institute Sunday evening. A committee wii) will knock the spiritual ring theory to atoms. Ove cents, necessity of solving that most dificult problem of At eight o'clock Mr. Charles Partridge escorted Sunday school policy—the keeping in the school of } the iecvuress to the platform and stated that Misa De this latt r point of Mr. Wiilman's speech, said that | Bvere would deliver @ discourse on Spiritualism, the Aforning Star School was very anxious about the | after which she would give sume manfesitations. solution of the problem. They ho; to be abie to | Several gentlemen in the audience inquired problem in that way. Mf that committee promised last Sunday was not to be selected from th Mr. Horace Greeley directed his remarks entirely ianifestation, and tt wee Perance alone among tue virtues, but as only one bey yn & committee should be appot of the virtues, and as calculated to do t good (0 | prieny po at 0 ae poverty agree) the world. Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, to say that Fe 4 the Apoatis van being spurt or moral integrity of any one of his puplis unul he had | “ums; bo ‘Most of ber remarks were of a per- not only ire the wood and. hated The evil, but had joy neg mae She ae ak severe on the frr experimentally overcome the evil. Mr. Greeley Une ar 4 owe" and se aes Shove papers, with then enla: tO some extent upon the miseries | #0me oO! | of +4 me Sinks ee were brought upon society by the habi- | S>using her and spiriiuaits ke about twenty minutes, the peregrinating tne Ways and Journals, were tual use monism their comments: wala Re, “Ud, thas tne taxing of ican! | to"much, As am iliustrstion of thee’ talshooss she would state that the Pridune had it was productive of great physical harm to the her as being thirty-two years old, when she twenty-two. Her father had as mi uch money as most she was not lect or any other phy geet the mouthpiece of a sp! A committee of nineteen 1ad Was then appotnted by the audience, which insisted that the committee should yg for instructing guage of @ littie French girl in te who talks through her to each rubject. The mant- festations consist of a description to the addressed of some deceased relative, but ail been entirely mistaken in each case, and the two who said that her descriptions were correct admit ted to the audience that the, ifestations before, one of them with this dium. About & dozen in all were given desc: of deceased friends, three of whom, including the ‘two just mentioned, said that they had jost relations answering in appearance to what the mediutn bad described them to be. During the mapifestauons the medium at times became very savage when the mewvers of the eS answered pbegativeiy to hen the reports were being made to the audience, by embers of the committee, at referred to them on one occasion as “upstarts, ” another as “Kuow nothings," and oneyeutieman she Eg an to the wan Who tauuted our Saviour on e Croes, At the termination of the manifestations a gant ie Mad Made a conciuding report on belall of wwe committee, Which so incensed the medium thas se attacked htt with Pa bitterness, wotli had been seek fl intervals throughout the even, Which resembled in outbreaks of disapprovation tie Proceedings of a ward political mecting. Fiaally ut 1 to Vote, amid great tations Were a humbug, to which the audience rose, en nwiare, with crves of yf “bumbag,” and eimilar exoiane tions, during Which the weaiam disappeared trom one of the commitice noise, whether tae man SHOQTING AFFRAY IN THE NINTH WARD, At twenty minutes of seven yesterday evening a disturbance arose m the restaurant No. 414 W street between tbe proprietor, Mack Collis, bis Sarab, and @ man named James Gui McAillster, When Collins’ wife drew & four-Darretiea fevolver aud fred at Gilchrist, the ball Just berow the brist, alee Jonp Meshy part of the left ts koee.” OMicer Garrett, of the rested the woman aud conveyed a, 4 the station z t i 3 = 8 ance, insulting lis Wife, when be the piece, and, —" used the Weapon tn self-defence, % 2 “} i a parish, La, there 62 g H 5 i i é gotten in thas ‘i's ond be picked” |