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NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. IN EXCELSIS. Yhe Worship of God in the Churches Yesterday. Serinons and Lectures by Beecher, Chapin, Hewitt, Chamberlain, Rogers, Millard, Aikmen, Corey and Other Divines. Laying of a Corner Stone wt Newark, N. J. The ‘services in the metropolitan churches yester#ay were not marked by any pecu- Mar or unusual features, either m the gen- eral ‘character of the discourses or thelr ap- Piteation. The attendance at the morning devo- tions was notably large, but the evening services were not 80 well attended, doubtless in consequence ofthe disagreeable weather. In all the Catholic churches it was announced that the subscription for the new your to the New Cathedral Fund amounted to about $80,000—a very gratifying ex- Tbit, Below will be .ound reports of a large vari- ety of discourses, which are at once unique and ‘@pplicable to the times. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, ‘Self Control—Sermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. ‘This church was yesterday, a3 usual, crowded to the doors. The Rev. Mr. Beecher took for his text Romans viil., 23—‘*And we know that all things work for good to them that love God.” The eighth chap- ter of Romans was the great centre of spiritual and Ghristian doctrine; it was the evolution of the thought of the divine nature and the great fountain of moral idea, After some general observations on that sub- ject. the reverend gentieman proceeded to diiate at some length on the self-control- Img power of mankind. He showed that it Was possible for man to resist nis passions and struggle successfully against all temptations, how- ever sirong or insidyus. tle instanced the case of @ prize fighter m traiming for a pugilistic encounter, as an example of the great power of human en- durance, Such men were not generally possessed of much moral culture or refined quaiities, yet when preparing for their battles they congaered their desires, abandoned for the time their depraved associations, aud wite an tron will restrainea their otherwise violent passions, Yet while men should strive to vanquish the temptations that surrounded them there should nevertheless be no want of force on their part, for by men’s own energy were they made strong. Men having intense convictions in regard to the great aifairs in life were likely to suc- ceed. AdvVerting to the influences of public senti- ment, the reverend gentleman explained that they not unirequently acted as a drawback on Christian ife, Public sentimert was silent, yet powerful. Like natural law, working day and ight, it was far more powerful than a more nolsy ap- paratus. Meu became better or worse unconsiously, and so it was always unsafe for a man, no mauer how good he was, v0 keep bad company. Notwith- standing ali the dangerous iniluences which some thought surrounded pubiic senument there were men who found a way to elude public sentiment by the eddies which characterized it. Now, it was held by men, bothin the high and the low spheres of of life, that public sentient marred their reiigious progress, Professional men and others would con- nd that no manu could foliow thelr business, what- ever it inight be, and succeed and at the same time Jead a Christian life. The lawyer, the merchant, whe mechanic, the shipbuiider, the master mason, im fact, men of every grade, substan tially asserted that, to be sure, it was a very fine thing to be good, bat no man fol- lowing their pursuits successfully could be a Chris- tian in the proper sense of the term. That was no- thing short of being a declaration of infidelity, In the hext place, there were blinding temptations cullar to individuals, and which they were under ihe impression were irresistible. But there were considerations against ali the arguments brought to bear upon that supject. ‘tne will was the grand controling power. it was possible for a man to’ overcome all temptations, counteract the influences of public sentiment in regard to himself and rise inwa re Christian life. By the power of man’s own will all the insidious snares by which he was surrounded, every temptation in life, whether political, sensual, or pecuniary, the worid, the flesh and the devil, could be defeated. ‘The reverend geu- tleman demonstrated that wough the Christian tite ‘was marked by dificuities, yet the determined en- ergy of man would enadie him to pursue ib succes: fuiiy, no matter what position in liie he might occupy. CKURCH OF THE OVINE PATERNITY. Existence of an Overruling Providence—Sci- ence Not Opposed to Religious Truth, At the Universalist church, corner of Forty-fiftn street and Fith avenue, the Rev. Dr. Chapm preached at wie evening service to @ large afd lJashionable congregation. His text was taken from Proverbs, xtx., 21:—There are many devices in a man’s heart, nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.” He said that, viewed from @ merely human point of view, man’s course in this Ife was one of irregularity and uncertaimty. The true conception of this im its inference alone threw light on the past and opened up the future even beyond the gates of eternity, and connected bota past and future satisfactorily with the present. ‘The true interpretation jo which he referred was that there was an overrdling Providence directing and governing according to the dictates of illimitable wisdom. An analysis of man’s own heart and expe- rience tilustrated and established this wuth. ‘wo influences acted on every man’s life. One was the result of his owa voiitiou, his desires, lis thoughts, his deeds. These were, to a large extent, in his own control, ut how iittle did man’s mere wishes and action determine his lot aud future | What.is the controlling power? Some called it by the inexorable, incomprehensible and unconsoiabie name of fate; others had it that it was chance; and some the result of blind material force tn its indetl- nite action, With an expression of pity for tne fatalist, and an allusion to the beauty, order and harmony of the universe which confounded the credulous believer in chance, he pomted ont that the unseen controlling power must be either mate- rial force or divine inteliigence. Some men of science believed that the mysteries of knowleage, as they gradually unfolded themselves to man’s com- prehension, were imimicai to religious truth, and showed it to be baseless, if not an tm- L yoths That he was prepared to deny, io department of Knowledge had produced a set of Principles and theories which could be set up with any confidence against the truths of revelation. ‘The principles of astronomy were better known than those of any other science, and the inferences from them led to predictions which had an admura- bie iuifiiment. Yet the developments of that very science and the wonders and glortes of the heaveus Which it seta forth really only declare the glory of God, as was said by the psalmist thousands of vears ago. Ip the social world Jt was the same, the re dee of all the ages always showing that the Cuurch of the Lord shall stand. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. The Foor and Rich Socially avd Nationaliy Considered—Sermon by Rey. ©. M. Butler, of Philadelphia. At this clegant place of worship, Madison avenue end Forty-second street, the Rey. Dr. v.M. Butler, of Philadelphia, preached last evening to a large congregation in behalf of the charitable institution ‘known as the “Shepherd’s Fold.’’ The reverend gentleman took his text from the book of Proverbs, xix., 4:—"But the poor ts separated from his neigh- bor.” This..vas spoken by Solomon in a manner of ceprehension, it being the separation of the classes that be condemned. The poor iv society cut off from its aid are compelled to use entreaty, and the «ich answer the appeals abroptly. This kind of separation arises from sheer selfishness and heartlesspess of human nature. The theory is “let fach man take care of himseif.’’ Some seem $0 suppose that if a man 19 poor It Is his own fault, and that those so situated are the representatives of elt. Others, looking a little nigher, argue that it ao equality intended and ordained, This ts heart- less philosophy. Yet another class, a thoughtless and merry class, wholly ignorant of the poor in the worid, seldom meeting them, but when in contact with them turn a deaf ear to their appeals, declar+ a that ‘at is too bad there are so many in poverty, but they cannot heip it.’ Although at Umes in- terested in their behalf apd give liberally of their wealth, the thought 18 quickly banlxbed from thelr minds, as i¢ disturbs their usual placid com- posure. ‘Tie laws of brotherhood are the Jaws of God. The soul demands that the rich pi cre should not be separated, but should ve neighbors. Christs’ redemption and the example of His life teaches a holy unton. Without the poor how hard would be the heart of the rien; and if the poor had not the rich how dreary would be their lot. Mutual Inbor ana consolation advances our tem- oral structure, Were It not so society would revert barbarism. Th communities the game fraternat eticcts should exist. Where there are no offices of kindness, no respect extended to the poor, there is social yottenness, It is a sacred right withbeid, a burning wrong, ond paves tho way to aa explosion terrible in its nature, God's temple of justice ts in this manner made a palace of anarchy, There 1s also & gocial keparetion Of the righ aud poor which arises and education. utter of from, want of wealth, taste #eparation is @ national weak-/ en/cendered and flowing from tig expression causes the oppressed to war @zainst what they rat is @ great wrong. Hence coyaes the dreams of socialists and the dreams of tha disorganizers of Church and State. ‘The sympathy, aid and intercourse that should exist between the Neh and poor must be objects of legisla- tion, prspesiog she way by the education in public and Sunday Schools of children, who can be taught ‘w build up the social fabric, not to stand and pull it down, Patriotism and true religion call for the ‘sympatny of ali rich toward the poor. An eloquent appeal for the children now in charge of the Shepherd’s Fold, concluded the sermon, when a collection was taken up on behalf of the charitabie work and @ handsome sum realized. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. Goi’s Merey and Plenteous Redemption— Sermon by the Rev. Dr, J. Ralston Smith, Secretary of the American Bible Society. ‘The large chapel of the University, Washington square, Where the congregation of the Church of the Strangers worship, was weil filled yesterday morn- ing to listen to the Rev. Dr. J. Ralaton Smith, Secre- tary of the American Bible Society. After the usual preliminary services the reverend sentieman s¢- lected as his text, Psalm cxxx,., i— For with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous re- demption.” ‘The thoughtful observer of nature, said the doctor, is impressed with the immensity of God’s works. A seed no larger than a grain of sand enlarges intoa fom of great beauty. That which seems diminutive in one view, becomes often times, in the processes of nature, very great, as it reflects the boundiess character of God’s resources. Loo« where you will there 1s found more than royal muniticence from God, whether in the earth beneath us, in the moun- tains, oceans and valleys about us, or in the atta heavens above, where consteliation after constell: tion move with harmony in infinite space. If such be nature, what then must be redemption? 1618 the pillar of all that is divine. Here are depths never fathorhed, heights never ascended, breadth never yet measured. Tho text suggests, first, “that ite plan of plenteous redemption is seen in the provisions which God has made to secure tt.’ We dare not look into the designs of Goda as we would analyze the measures of men; yet there will be found for all His works a philosophical reason, an adequate reason to meet any and every case. The free expenditure of nature’s wealth, in the warmtn of the dull grounds, the gentle showers and baimy atmosphere, is required to cause the result of the bursting blade from the tiny seeds, and the thought is not less impressive than that of the redemption of sinners. God, of tniinite power, could not exercise the pro- rogative of forgiveness, as He could not do anything against His own nature. How could the same glo- rious being be the inflextble sovereign and the for- giving Father? Human reason does not attenrpt to solve the question. The method of salvation can only be ascribed to the mind of God. It was a prin- ciple of substitution. The majesty of Jehovah must be vindicated, As we laid plunged in the depths of the darkest grief the Son of God was sent, disclosing the way to heaven. By Christ’s dcath there was leit to us the greatest legacy, that of life, and infinite love was bestowed in its greatest fullness, Second— “The universal adaptation of the Gospel to man.’ The conditions of God’s plun of redemption are such and such only as man can fulfil. Had wealth, learning, or civilization been essential only, mllions would have been plunged into death eternal, The love of Jesus appeals to all alike. Where there is a needy one, there is a fit subject for grace. The mghtiest intellects again and again nave bowed to the words of the Gospel. fhe secret of the universal adoption of redemption is that God has given us a Savior human as well as divine. Third— “Phe capacity and results of the great redemption.’ In matters earthly the free offerings of gifta might be exhausted by eager appetites. Notso with God's love. No friendiy voice ever cried sincerely for His merey and was not heard. Redemption for the human soul is the highest and most compre- hensive of God’s works. This wondrous sacrifice is to have no meagre result. One thing will enrapture God's children in the great day—that is, the vast- ness of the multitude that will be found around His throne, wearing the brighvest of crowns and clad 1n the purest robes of the Lamb. Dr. Smith concluded by an eloquent appeal to his hearers, that as they beneld the sufticiency of Christ as @ Redeemer, they should go to Him to receive mercy; for much as they might now anticipate the rewards of His redemption, it is but trifling in com- pan with the fail fruition of @ lasting inheritance in heaven. SPAING STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHUACH. The Family Life=The Wife and Her Duties— Sermon by the Rev. Dr. William Aikman. Atthe morning services in this church the Rev. Dr. Aikman preached on “The Wife and Her Du- ties,” in a discourse full of the eloquence of good sense, and no less artistic than theological. The church was crowded and the congregation yielded @ breathless and edifying attention to the preacher throughout. He took his texts from St, Paul to the Ephesians, v., 22, and Paul Titus, iL, 4—5, “Wives submit yourselves jour own husbands as unto the Lord,” &c. He sald these words were recelvod by many with a smile of incredulity, and were even rejected abso- lutely by others. The promises of obedience made by the bride at the nuptial altar were frequently nowadays regarded as @ mere formality—an Old World custom neither to be regarded nor rever- enced. ‘This principle he held to be not oniy faise aud wicked, but the cause of the evils and wretched- ness which so often follow marriage. In saying this he was not supported alone by the Bibic. “rhe best of the world’s philosophy—all that was enlightenea and holy m it—and the iinest principles of human nature were entirely wita him, This principle Dr. Aikman elucidated with much force and fervor. Without reverence on the part of the wie there could be no love. In the heyday of youthiul love the sentiment of every matden was that uniess she could ‘look up” tothe man of her choice she could not love him. ‘That was true; so true that the beloved object was often investea with impossible qualities that he might be Uke the ideal of the woman who loved him. This principle of reverence was so strongly implantea m woman that a woman assunmig qtie Pee of master was not at all a lovely spectacie for female eyes to look upon. Indeed, when the order of nature was reversed all affection was gone. This obedience was not subjection on the part of the woman In a slavish sense; It was only the reciproca- tion of affection. ‘The wile bad left all jor her hus- band, and the husband should be supreme. When- ever a woman’s heart turned towards avy one else all purity was gone, eve sacred principles duly attended to were a fount of happiness; but certain duties foliowed from them. A wife should have no secrets from her hus- band. They should be one. Her husband’s detects she shouid conceal even from her dearest friends, aud from this wise rule she should never depart, except when her case became desperate. Many women, however, imagine when they have secured ahuskand they have done the work of their life. So they neglect themselves, Their rule, however, should be to essay constantly to solve the problem of married life, which is how to increase and strengthen love. That they could do by being after marriage ail that they were before—neat in person, careful in word and act, diligent in the care of their household, ac- tive about their house, whieh latter should be bright and cheerful and fresh-amelling as a parterre of spring flowers. ‘The house should not only be made pleasant, but the wife, besides keeping up her personal attractions, should, by daily reading of good books and by informing herself from the daily papers of the progress of events in the world around her—she should be able to interchange ideas with her husband and thus banish the ennui whicn is so often connected with the idea of home, aud which leads the discontented husband go often into the paths of ruin when he has once act his heart on external dissipation. If attention to these points went hand in hand with the cultivation of the charm of her lady modesty, and that instead of dropping the bitter words of contention like hot shot on the bead of the partner of her joys and sorrows, she used all the vyplay which tact and love would sug- gest—a gentle tap on the shoulder, isinuating her arm into hig, soft, kind,yhoneyed words—home would then infaliibly be both for husband and wile the very portal of heaven. CHURCH OF THE RECONCILIATION. “The Living Wonder”—Sermon by Rev. N. 1. Briggs. ‘The Protestant Episcopal Free Church of the Re- conciliation, on East Thirty-tirst street, between Second and Third avenues, was well flied Inst even- ing with a numerous congregation. The regular even- ing service, as prescribed .by the Book of Common Prayer, and the lessons appointed for the day were read, when the Rey. N. L. Briggs, the pastor of the congregation, ascendea the pulpit and delivered a very impressive and well prepared sermon on “The Living Wonder.’ He took for his text the 129tb verse of the 119th Psaim—‘Thy tesil- monies are wonderfw; therefore doth my soul keep them.’? We hear, said the reverend speaker, much concerning the wonders in the arts, the sciepces and the material progresa of the present age; that In the present century we have achieved eculiar glory in the wonderful and unparalleled story of our race, All the departments ot industry have witnessed great inethods of reform. The con- servatiem of tho East heard the West knocking at tts gate, bidding it to shake off the dust of ages; in our own land the North has fiven up its treasures hidden for ages, and the South also caught the spirit of the age, and the rapidity of ita progress is mar- vellous, and all the world looks on in astonishment at its quickening strides. We all feel the truth of this, and itis our peculiar honor and dignity to be members of the human family in the nineteenth century. Bat he was not there to recite the achievements of the century; he has come to speak of @ wonder, of ® living wonder, born before the sinews of tuis century and of many cen- turies before it were even fashioned, when yet tho modest handicraft was acceptable to map, and acionce had done but iittle to lighten the yoxe of nis Ipbor, And yot, it was@ Wondrous work, though cradied in the darkness of the world, with no light around it but its own, amid none of the amenities of civilhzation, This work, with the Almighty for its patron, stands before this and ail Christian ages a8 wuly wondrous. It has not straggied for pre-emi- nence nor used the devices of man for its increase, yet it stands before the world as the masterpiece of Creation. neverd equalled and which never can be. This work is the wonderful Word of G the parent of all civilizauon and to which all ages kneel in reverence. Growing up in its own natal vitailty, the Word, unheeding the petecution of the bigoted, 1t demands the tribute of all. Brood- ing the spirit of God’s grace, it never dies in import- ance, but itis His promise of everlasting life. His will bid the word live as the utterances of His own heart, writing the name or God and of Jesus upon the banners of the age and holding up to the world the picture of its future to ‘This word of God has accomplished resuits which shame the wisdom of the wise. it must be plucked from the hands of the people; 1t must not abide in the house or the chamber; it is the living power of God and supersti- tion, bigotry and intolerance tremble when their victim reads the word. It always awakened the Het of darkness, and history 1s full of attempts to check its “ght and its glorious course. The Word of God will never rest until all lies are ex- poms and every people shall be as full of the know- ledge of the law as the sea is covered with water, and the falsehoods of the day shail have perishe as those of old have perished. While decay was written on falsehood eternal life was written on truth and on the Word of God. It is the fulcrum holding up the moral world, and may well be the living wonder. Though error may flourish and draw the coherts of passion around it the Word is never failing and will be triumphant. The speaker drew apt illustrations from the Mahgmmedan mosque at Damascus, and from Luther's refusal of the aid of the sword, and closed with urging the necessity of preaching the Word from the testimony of Jesus as its crowning attraction. ST. ANDREW'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Sermon by Rev. Father Taylor, a Convert. ‘The services at St. Andrew’s Church, Duane street, were conducted yesterday with tie usual solemni- ties, S&\ Andrew’s Church is one of the oldest parishes in New York, and ‘the venerable pastor, Rev. Father Curran, has been many years in charge ofit. At High Mass Rev. Father Taylor officiated, nd he also preached. The lady who presided at the organ was Mra. Burns. The mass sung, aided by a volunteer choir, was Haydn’s No. 1. Rev. Father Taylor, a convert from the English Established Church, in commencing his discourse took for his text Colossians, 1, 9-14—‘Giving thanks to God the Father, who had made us worthy to be partakers of the tot of the saints in light; who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and bath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of bis love.” He said that this being the last Sun- day before Advent was more than any other Sunday in the year that Qhristians were invited to give thanks to God, who made us partakers of the gospel and sharers in the inheritance He provided for us. ‘The lesson inculcated was a simple one, and should lead us to return thanks for many gifts re- ceived from Almighty, but for none other more vhan the giftoffatth. The reverend father said he wished to be brief and practical in his remarks, The best way to be a faithful Christian was to act up to what the ips professed, and make Christian doctrine the guide of life At that last dreadful scene, when entering the gates of death, imagine what saints must regard as the fate of the dying sinner. God is not like man, and does not require thanks for favors bestowed. The reatest gift God can bestow upon man 16 that of faith in the Catholic Church. Now Catholics can be numbered by millions, and, whether by perversity, malin or ignorantly, they stray away from the fola of our blessed Redeemer, not two of them can believe in the same doctrine, By God’s grace some have been brought back again under the influence of the Giver of all goad. Some believe that doing justice to your nelgnbor and abstaining from violating the laws of the land constitute all the duties of man on eartn; others rely upon faith in God and the laws of what are con- sidered eternal justice. but let us suppose a man successful in business, acquiring large amounts of money, cast upon his dying bed. He has no Catholic faith. What must be the feel- ings of such a man? He_ believes in nothing of the future except what is dim and un- certain. His wife and children surround him, but there is only dismay. He has no hope in the futare, and in a moment passes from the world. Suppose one is brought to the bedside of a dying Uatholic. Faith and hope illuminate the couch of the dying. ‘The Chrisuan passes away happily, reconciled and easy, for peace has been made by him with God, through the instrumentality of His spouse, the holy Roman Catholic Church. He knows he has nope, for he has faith in God, who will take care of his ventless little ones, without having the morsel of food given to sustain life to be the price of making his offspring abandon the precious faith of their fathers—the faith of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. I say, continued Father Taylor, one who follows practically the life of a Catholic, he may rely that God will vake care of his widow nd little .children when he is called from tis world to a better one, At some length the reverend father described the ealfying scenes of the deathbed of a true Christian, and lamented that In some cases Protestants who yearned to enter the bosom of the Church were deterred from doing so by observing conduct-on the part of some Catholic, which he condemned. The sermon was able, argumontative and elo- quent. It was listened to with the greatest atten- uon. MU RAY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Corry. The little, highly decorated Baptist church on Mur- rad Hill, Lexington avenue, was not well filled last evening. There was, however, a well-dressed, intel- ligent and appreciative audience present, who evi- dently enjoyed tne earnest, heartfelt talk of Dr. Corry, who preached @ very excellent sermon founded on the nineteenth verse of the seventy- seventh Psalm—“Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.’ After @ brief introduction on the divinity of the revelation of the truth of God as found in the Bible, it being an autograph of God,* as it were, he dwelt on tie latter clause of the verse, articularly “thy foot- steps are not known.” Omnipotence, who could comprehend that characteristic of the Divine Being. His omniscence was equally incomprehensible, 80 also was the triune character and aspect of the Deity, and yet His footsteps were in all these. Pass- ing from the attributes he dwelt particularly on the varied dispensations of Providence, histor- cally and socially. In the latter aspect of the deal- ings of God with man, where we had to rest very frequently entirely on faith in God, for if we were to trust him it was not because we could ever see the reason of this dispensation towards us, but we often were cailed upon to trust God when it seemed as though His dispensations towards us were all against us. Our Father in heaven saw the end from the beginning; He saw that which was good for us, and it frequently happened that it came to this that either He must tear the idol from us and put itin the grave, or He must put us in the grave. Then His dispensations in this regard were fre- quently disciplmary. He tad crowned us with mer- cies and Ta: kindnesses, luxurious homes, wealth and all that It could bring—loving hearts in our familly circle, troops of friends—all was @ sunshine of daily life, yet we never acknowledged the giver. With the steeples of towering churches overshadow- ing our homes, with the song of Zion even in our hearing—with a preached Gospel, so eloquent, so persuasive, it might Win us to listen to it for its external attractiveness, if not for anything else— we lived the lives of heathens; we never acknowl- edged God, either in the family or abroad. God had tried everything to bring us to himsell. He now took from us that upon which we had centred our life’s affections and He had thus brought us to Him- self. When we got to our heavenly home we should see that He had not only done well but that He bad loved us well also. REV. M. GAUSE’S CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Martyn Seudder, of San Francisco, A sermon was preachea by this gentleman in the Rev. Dr. Gause’s church, in Twenty-third street, yesterday forenoon. He took his text from St. Paul's epistie to the Ephesians. He described Paulas a man of great intelicctuality, who “had his eye always on God,” and who loved him with his whole heart. In the passage from which he read of the Scriptures, wherein the apostle intimates that there is one thing that he lacks, to be as he desired to be, in perfect communion with God, the speaker sald that that one thing was personal per‘ection in its entirety. There were two kinds of personal perfec- tion—the inward and the outward. The first was the perfection of the soul itself, and that was what Paul said he had not. Yet if any man but Jesus, the God man, was perfect, it was Paul. His love for God, his |e aigstye his joy and intelligence, his self-sacri- ices, all call for our special admiration, Yet he said ho was not periect, The speaker had once heard a minister say he was perfoct, and ne never wanted to hear that minister speak again. Christian pertec- tion consisted, frst, in perfect, not infinite know. ledge, for infinite knowledge was God's alone; that Js, Just as much Knowledge as we have capacity for, for the smail as weil as the great; secondly, the har- mony of all our faculties and powers, and, thirdly, purity, Harmony shonid exist in the soul; instea of worrying we should be at peace. Our visionsshould be undisturbed, No two powers should be pulling in different ways, like uatrained oxon under the same yoke. Purity, asa part of Christi perfec- fection, should be purity of motive and righteous. ‘ness of our lives. All wrinkles should be smoothed, all excresgences wiped oif, all unevenness levelled. ‘Then, as the last quality of perfection, was fellow- ship. The speaker then went on to describe what Paul meant by forgetting the past. He said there Was no sadder sight than that of a person in mature maphood mourning over his past life, over ume wasted away, sinned away. feeb could not be recalled, nor could it be forgotien, in the general sense of the term; but it could be crowded out of the mind by other thoughts. What Paul really mpant wag to forget the past ip the way of avy de sire to live the like over again, a detestation of the sins comimitied and a determination not to hanker for them, as the Israelite hankered for the flesh er of Herp Sin committed was like a skeleton. It ilitied before your eyes with its bones rattling, and sin before us enticed us on by gentle voice and attractive looks, St. Paul meant, in fact, to forget the past by killing the future of transgres- gion. The past should be buried outof sight. A Christian should sorrow for it and could have a funeral over it if he iiked; but he should not go back to the graveyard and have the funeral over ain after the thing was once done, The gate should be shut down squarely on the past. ‘The ipeaker then closed by saying that Christians, hike St. Paul, could gain chat which the apostle craved for by doing as he did—‘“reaching first” for it and battling with the, storms of life until they would have reached thelr eternal bome, $1. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Inauguration of the New Altar—High Mass and Sermon by the Rev. Augustine S. Hewitt. A vast congregation filled the splendid Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen’s, in Twenty-eighth street, yesterday moraing, every seat being occupied by the congregation, the aisies and the spaces around the doors being completely filled. It was expected that the magrificent marble altar, lately erected at an enormous cost (and which was fully described in tie HERALD exclusively), would be solemnly consecrated and dedicated to the service of God; but although that was the original intention of the reverend gentieman under whose auspices the altar was erected, it was subsequently agreed to defer the formal dedication until the return of Archbishop McCloskey from the Ecumenical Coun- cil. While, therejore, the services yesterday were of unusual interest, the mere sight.seers were some- what disappointed. The spiendid music ana the pomp and scate of the service of High Mass were, jowever, ampl? compensation to the devout congre- gation. The mass was Mozgrt’s Twelfth, and was cele- brated by the Right Rev. William Starr, Vicar Gene- ral of the diocese. Tue deacon was the Rev. H. Mc- Dowell, nephew of Dr. Cummings, the founder of the parish, and the sub-deacon, the Rev. Father Henry, of the Paulist Fathers. Rev. Dr, McGlynn, the pastor, and the courteous Father GrifM™ n and other cl ‘men assisted in the service. In the singing of the High Mass the usual double quartet of the church were assisted by thirty pieces of instruimental music and a chorus of fifty voices, The solos were sung by Madame De Lussan (soprano), Madame Anschutz (alto), Brookhouse Bow- ler (tenor) and Signor Coletti (basso). The music of this grand mass was well sung throughout, and the choruses were harmonious and very eilect- tvely rendered. The solos were also finely sung. ‘The thick tucense curling up from the censers arouna the marble altar and spreading through the vaulted chureh its pleasant odor; the sort, mellow autuma light falling on the up-turned faces of the rapt con- gregation engaged in silent prayer; the solemn chant of the offictating priest, replied to by the low music of votce and harp, and in turn answered by the full swell of the chorus, rendered the occasion one of great solemnity, Commencing at half-past ten o'clock with the usual blessing of the altar, around which white dressed acolytes fitted in the discharge of their sacred duties, the services did not conclude until after twelve o'clock, The sermon was preached by the Rev. Fatner Hewitt, of the Paulist Fathers, who took for his text the eleventh chapter of* Heprews, Commencing with the proposition that the aitar is the corner stone not only of all religion, but of all institutions and human society, the reverend gentleman spoke at great length and with much force on the duties of the congregation and their obligations to the Church. Healso dweit on the present state of society, and his remarks were understood to have a political significance. Owing to the crowded state of the church 1t was impossible to get near enough to the pulpit to obtain a report of the sermon. Jt was announced Irom the altar that the subscrip- ton to the New Cathedral Building Fund amounted during the year to $82,000, somewhat less than the subscription of the preceding year, but arrangements are being made for another general suvscription at the close of the present year. ST, LUKE'S EPISCOPAL cHUACH Rev. Mr. Hillard on Miracles. St. Luke’s (Episcopal) church, on Hudson street, near Grove, is one of the old landmarks of New York. It is very centrally located, and 18 attended by a rather limited but very pious and re- spectable congregation. The pastor is the Rev. Dr. Tuttle. The interior of the edifice, thoagh some- what sombre and of the old style, is yet relieved by handsomely stained windows, and the altar, encircled by railings, by anembroidered cross, and below or underneath tion. leaning towards the High Church form. school for girls and a hospital. terday, all attired in sacerdotal roves, the chief objects of ali the services of the Church, so because we know we are waiking every day in danger. There was before us pai, disappointment and death, and again sin, corrup- tion and death We need, then, that the hand that holds us should be powerful. us that we want. His drst Cana, and and power; of Himself. miracle in* it was at the marriage He showed ‘The reverend gentlemen gave at some pee earthly events as beacons for their guidance. of Independence, Others looked to the 7th of March is before expressing an opinion. ‘The Same way Jesus of Nazareth 1s to be judged by His divine acts. We know Him by His wonderful acts and His won- derful wisdom and love. He was a living, breath- ing and acting person, and not a figment of the in- agination. He comes out to the human understand- ing as an ordinary business transactiop. He 1s the same wonderful Being who spoke on Mount Olivet and who came into the world full of grace and truth, Look at the story of Christ when im the waves with His disciples. Many words He uttered besides those transmitted to us, When Jonas was on board the Lempest-tossed ship the heathens appealed to their several gods—the Jews to Moses—but the disciples appealed to Christ in their danger, and they were saved, Let us accept the loving teacnings of this man, Jesus. Let us accept the stories told in the Gospel and inwardly digest them, and we may be certain that if we walk in the right path ine Lord will nold us up. ZION CHURCH. “Henry VIII. and His Divorces.” At Zion church, corner Madison avenue and Thirty-eighth street, Rev. N. H. Chamberlain deliv- ered the second of his sertes of lectures on ‘‘Henry VUI. and his Divorces,” last evening before anumerous congregation, The speaker took the ground that the character of bluff King Hal, inde- fensivie as it was in many regards, possesses no weight in the charge made by Catholics that such character gave birth to Protestantism. The true history of the English Reformation has never been written. Those who have given us a picture of it Were too near the scones of which they wrote to giveaciear conception of them. He was willing to admit that} Henry VIII. was a defective ruler and Christian, but he was only an instrument in the hands of God for the establishment of the pure religion and the reformation of the English Uhurch, The kingship and marriage of Henry play an im- portant part in the Reformation; for im the twelve ius that elapsed between his marriage and the wing of the Pope’s hull of excommunication tue chiet work of the Reformation ‘was being done, the strong leaven was at work in England and was soon bound to burst forth with tremendous vitality and make @ wreck of Popery. The true question at the time was whether the Pope or Henry should ri Ei It was true the latter had no legal rigut to divorce himself from Katharine, but Pope Clem- ent had as littie right to dictate to the independent. sovereign of England. Between Clement and Henry there was this difference—the for- mer was a strong spiritual power, the later a fearless and potent temporal monarch. Henry, in the tweive years preceding his excommu- nication, prepared himsell for the straggie with Rome by turoing the statute law of the kingdom against the religious institutions, monastic orders, root and branch, and thereby atrack a mighty blow at the Pope, cutting. of nis right arm in England, But he did not hesitace at taking the property of his subjects. te deciared himseif the supreme head of the Chareh, and iaid down death as the penalty of questioning that su- premacy. Thus it will be seen that King Henry was both cruel and unchristian; but Protestant’ do not claim as the founder of their religion wus strong, resolute and sanguinary prince; for the truth i8 Henry died ‘a Koman Catholic. As was said before, Henry was buat an instrument in God’s hands. Bat it Henry slew | men for conscience sake, has not Rome done the | same? while both were wrong and vengeful and | their acts in many Ways can find no just apologist. ey pee & glowing tribute to the virtues of Katharine of Aragon, Henry's first wile, who bore to the scaffold all the dignity and gracoof a queen, ani in her dying moments still expreased att the table appears the same—the emblem of saiva- ‘The service Is choral, and altogether, judging by the services performed yesterday, they have a There are attached to the church a Refuge for Old Ladies, a Four clergymen and sixteen young men joined im the services yes- The sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Hillard. He took his text from the second chapter of John, which gives an account of our Saviour changing water into wine at the marriage in Cana. He said that to bring in view the lessous of Jesus was one of ‘The hand we feel is most comfortable, and the more disease Christ is the hand that protects us, and, being a worker of miracles and showing His supernatural power, we have to depend upon His support and protection, The Gospel of the Day shows that He can do all for He touched the eyes of the blind and they were opened; He healed the leper; He walked upon the sea, and burst the bonds of Snes ny His wisdom He manifested a glory wortly length the views of the Church on the marriage feast in Cana. There were some who looked to ‘he atheist couid go no further than the Declaration speech of Daniel Webster as their mani- festo, It would be well just to see by bis words and actions what a man He tore up the | | of trath. AH the liberalism of the preseut day was defence ing her from believed, re- f eatab- it would be moral haraihood to attem of the crime he committed in divor him; but all his offences, the speaker ceived condonation for his one great lishing on the soul of England the blessings of the Reformation, CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION. Sermon by William £. Morgan, D. D. A numerous congregation assembled at the Church of the Incarnation, Madison avenue, corner Thirty- fifth street, last evening, to listen to the Rev. Wil- liam F. Morgan, D. D., who preached the first an- nual sermon before the Sunday Schoo! Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church in thecity and county of New York. The reverend gentleman chose for his text Mark x., 13:—*And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.” And also a part of John x., 10:—Iam come tnatg they might have life, and that they might Lave it more abundantly.” Aiter afew introductory remarks relating to the power and influence of the Sunday school, Dr. Mor- gan paid a high tribute to the children. He did not wonder that Christ biessed littie children. In that sweet labor He must have felt a gleam of sunshine fail upon Him, which entered His very soul and cheered 1t. How quick He was to chide the discl- pies who rebuked those bringing littie ones to Him, and with what emotion, and tenderness, and love He exclaimed, “Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not.’ Consider the obligations due to childhood, due from the parent, due from us ail. No truth 1s more perfectly indicated than this: that there is a continual transmission of evil in this world from generation to generation. sinful inherit- ors beget sin. We spread it over all lands, coun- tries, Kingdoms. Parents are sinners. Children are born and conceived in sin, and no thought is more awful than this reproduction of sin from sinful natures. He knew the power fof little chil- dren to rebuke us ina thousand ways for haying lost their purity. We have all journeyed here from the days of childhood, but have we brought the purity and tnnecence of those days. Parents should repress the beginning of evil in their children, they should be prompted to an early and an earnest in- telligence to the immortal part of the chilhood. He Unen spoke of baptism as the beginning of @ true, Christian life, the training came afterwards. ln this consecration of individuals to a divine life, the Church preferred to receive them as lambs, for she would then have an influence in their training, but 1t welcomed as welly the young, the middle aged and the old. He spoke of the Lord’s muppee as bein, & higher enjoyment of spiritual grace. There must be in every soul a begin- ning of life, before an abounding. That beginning we recognize as baptism, The life that begins in that act of consecration may be lost, it is true, like seed cast upon stony ground, It 18 a fearful thing to grow in years and not grow im corresponding grace, The doctor then reviewed the manner in which the children of to-day are brought up. He sharply rebuked the parent who neglected to instil by practice, as well as by preaching, in the minds of their offspring a love for the truth; parents wio have brought their children to Christ in holy bap- tism, sit at their tables with them, giving loose reins to temper, and often uttering words which are caught and which germinate into sinrulness. The sermon was conciuded by an allusion to What the Sunday school should be; how conducted and by whom fliled, and an eloquent exhortation to bts to care for Une tender plants given into weir eoping. TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Somerville. Mr. Somerville, of Greenpoint, offictated in this church and preached from Psalm xiv., 1—“The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.” He said that some unbelievers thought that because there were no special manifestations of Divine power in this day—that because political, civil and social outrages did not meet with imme- diate Divine retribution, there was no God. The testimony of the Bible went to prove that an all-wise and all-powerful Deity existed, to whom in due time all men must give account, and it was a remarkable fact that the leading atheists of modern times had but a very limited acquaintance with the facts and aoctrines therein contained. Robert Owen, in his debate with A. Campbell, was compelled to admit that he had given the Bible but a cursory reading, and that David Hume had never read the New Tes- tament entirely through. And that while Paine might star as a pollucian of the first magnitude, Hume asa philosopher and metaphysician, and Owen as a benevolent socialist, yet these men in reference to theology and revelation had not manifested the same mental power. And their conclusions might be considered partial and therefore — in- omplete and erroneous. The speaker then is surmounted | took a survey of the ground of theistical belief and adduced ultimate causation as @ reason for be- in God. ‘hat there must be centrifugal point, aerived their being. He who dened this volved himself in absurdity, position by nothing something came.’? Nevin} able, exists now will always exist. then alluded to the ideal argument, and said that every phase of mind had a practical application to the requirements of man, and that only this phase of min‘, namely, divine idealism, was superadditional. ‘That while ths might not be sufficient in itself to ground belief, it could not justly be disregarded. The design argument was ‘most conclusive—the adaptability of man to earth and earth to maa. ‘The successive coincidences of phenomena were a powerlul argument against chance. IL, succession of phenomena there was thing as chance, then there would that conformity to ao observe now. of the Jews, not Would have been some Jews who would have called lu question the miraculous things recordeu in their national history. And he who would set aside reagon, revelation and science would invoive him- self im greater absurdities than it was conceivable toinvent on the side of belief, and would juatiy ation of the Psaimist, “The foo) merit the apy hata said in his heart there 1s no God,” COOPER INSTITUTE LECTURE ROOM. Conflicts at Rome=The Ecumenical Council and the Destiny of Roman Catholicism— Lecture by Dr. Rogers at Cooper Institute. Dr. J. W. Rogers, of Memphis, Tenn., lectured last evening at the Cooper Institute on “Past Conflicts of Rome, Giving Promise to the Ecumenical Coun- cil.” he lecturer said he should not undertake to define what the Ecumenical Council might do, but he felt safe in asserting that nothing would be done contrary to the syllabus of the Pope. Some people pre- tended to believe that the Pope was controlled by the Jesuits, and that he would not govern the Council, but it was as clear as the noonday sun that the Pope’s syllabus was vindicated in all the history of the Catholic Church. It was not to be supposed that the Pope had called together a sort of American de- bating society to discuss the terms of the syllabus; those had been already fixed. According to tue canons of the Catholic Church the Pope still had ail the authority conferred by St, Peter, and pre- sided over the bishops, 80 that the Council could not go beyond the limits of the syllabus, as hag been demonstrated in ail previous councils, where the most obsequious reverence had been manifested towards the rescript of the Pope. Here in New York was a class of people who proclaimed themsejves as liberal Catholics. In the carly days of martyrdom and self-sacrifice it had been decided by the Pope that no decree of a council could bind the conscience without his sanction; and how could these so-called Catholics of New York presume to decide upon principles of faith? In explaining the intent of the Moly Father at Rome, as indicated in his syllabus, the lecturer said that he should confine himself to the subjects of progress and modern civilization. He-had heard Protestants say that the Pope was opposed to pro- gress, to railroads, the telegraphs and all the great achievements of the age, and especially to religious liberalism. Liberal Christianity, in the ordinar: acceptance of the term, was a delusion, an those who professed it were diverced from true Christianity. The speaker ttien attacked the theories of Professsr Fitch, of Harvard, and after re- ferring to the various methods employed at the present day for the dissemination of so-cajied trutns Said that the enly genuine teachers of truth were those who obeyed thé mandates of the Pope and taught his commands to the people. While all other philosophies had proved vain and foolish the Catho- Nic Church alone was subsiantial and true, and in all the history of the world no element of truth had ever been set forth or ever would be discovered that was not already embodied in the Cathoue Churcil. An archbishop of Paris had once announced doc tines contrary to the decrees of the Pope, and what was the result? The Pope excommunicated him; and, notwithstanding that he was nalled at the time by all the infidel world, he died in obscuriiy and his name had almost passed into oblivion, Yet, had the Atlantic cable been in existence then the New York papers would probably have called on fii to come over and be Pope in New York as a champion of progress, The ecturer then devoted considerable time to ridiculing New Eng- land, and said that the Greeks, Germans and New England men all went round and'round in the same circle of false piilosophy, while the Churclt of Rome continued to proudly advance its irresistible dictum but the philosophy of the Greeks in new words; and all the truths which these isms contained and all (ie progress of the age were due whoily to the Catuoilc Church, Mucl had Ween said of modern civilization dividing the Church and State; but no State could ever succeed without being infase with tue spirit of trati, Some tm America prayed that the Church Might never have any control of State alfairs in ment for the man who had consigned ner to a Katharine was the noblest of ali Meury’s wives, an ‘un tf ft ever accomplished anything. The Catholic Church was the champion of liberty, and the supremacy of the Pope and the infalubility of his decrees involved the very existence of liberty. He could show that the Catholic Church never had persecuted, but that it had always been the me- diator between offenders and the State; that the Spanish Inquisitton was not the work of the Church, but of the State, and that all the triumphs of civilization, all poetry and painting and statuary were creatures of the Catholtc Oburch, He believed that @ Catholic conscience would goon control America; that in less than fifty years this would be the grandest Catholic country in the world; that the Capitol, transferred from Washington to amore central locality in the West, would be the oe of the Catholic world’s Primate, and that while Germany and England and New England were casting up their fireworks to perish in darkness, the Catholic Church would be grandly advancing In glory and immortailty. CATHOLIC CHAPEL CORNER STONE LAY\NG. Yesterday afternoon, in presence of an immense concourse of people, numbering between 6,000 and 6,000 persons, the corner stone of the new cathedral chapel of Our Lady and St. Patrick, now in course of erection on @ magnificent site on South Broad street, Newark, N. J., was placed in position with the impressive ceremonies peculiar to the Catholic Church. A procession of clergy, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Seminaries from Seton Halt College formed at the resi- dence, on South Broad street, of Mr, Towle and proc A very effective sermon was preached b; . McCarty, Vice President of Seion Hall college, after the stone had been laid by Vicar General M. A, Corrigan. The other clergymen present were Rey. Fatiiers G. H. eth M. Killeen, J. F. Dalton, C. A. Reilly and r. PJ. Garve: ‘ys “The new chapel is merely the beginning of the contemplated work. ft is intended as soon as suill- cient funds are raised to erect a grand cathedral, Which will be the Notre Dame of New Jersey. The lot, purchased some time ago at a cost of $60,000, has a frontage on Legrange street of 204 feot, with @ depth on South Broad of 460 feet, THE NEW HEBREW HOSPITAL, Special Committee Meeting Yesterday—Re- port of the Donations Received—The Plans AdoptedLocation of the Hospital and De« scription of the Buildings. A special meeting of the committee appointed to raise funds to build the new Hebrew Hospital, intended to be an exlarged branch of tie Mount Sinai Hospital, was held yesterday afternoon in the lecture room of the Temple Emanuel, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-third street. Mr. Benjamin Nathan presided. Mr. Julius J, Lyons, the secretary of the committee, read the minutes of the last meeting, which were adopted with aslight correction. Several of the gentlemen of the committee reported ad- ditional donations im money received by them from numerous persons of various sums, elther in cash or by subscriptions, since the last meeting, amount- ing in all to $13,700, increasing the fund for the hospital now available to upwards of $50,00¢ Among the donors may be named:—A. T. Stewart, $5,000; . King, $5,000; Benjamin Nathan, $2,500; i, & W. Seligmann, $1,500; Peter Cooper, $1,000; Jacob Stiner, $1,500; Hoyt, Spragues & Co., $1,000; Fisk & Hatch, $1,000; Philip Speyer, $1,000; W. Butler Duncan, $1,000; Lawrence M. Uolien, $1,000; Isaac Bernheimer, $1,000; Joseph Stiner, $1,000; H. B. Claflin, $500; D. C. Hays, $500; Miss Hendricks, $500, and many others with like or leas amounts. Quite an extended conversation arose on the ques- tion whether it would be expedient to apply to their co-religionists in their corporate capacity as congre- gations or to rely upon the exertions and the influ- ence of the committee with the individual mem- some from which ail other points m- and his logical might be stated thus:—“From notning But this was incon- ceivable, and while we were not justified m disbe- anything merely because it was inconceiv- e belief in such @ negation would require a greater effort of mind than any of the miraculous events recorded in the Old or New Testaments. Natural evolution, innate force and the apparent in- destructibility of matter were then noticed, the speaker remarking that 1t did not follow that that which now exists has always existed, or that what The preacher in the such @ be given end which we The Old Testament was the history nd the incidents of Divine tnterposi- tion therein recorded must have been true or there bers. Much diversity of eames prevailed upon this point, and it resulted finally in a general agreement to urge the special'sub-committee, of which Mr. Max Stadler Is chairman, to make all arrangements ap- propriate in their opinion for the coliecgon of funds, and to increase their number if found requisite. It ‘was furtner resolved that members who have ob- tained subscriptions be requested to collect the amounts and pay them over to the treasurer as soon as possible. One of the commit- tee reported that the services the Mount Sinal Hospital has rendered may be gathered from the fact that within the last four years fifty-two patients had been received who were injured on the Hudson River Railroad, and whose treatment at the hospitat ran through forty-"hree and @ naif months in the ag- gregate. One of these patients has been in the hos- pital already three months, and may probably re- matin there two months longer to be perfectly cured. For all this service the hospital has neither recerved nor charged a single cent, its services being ren- dered gratuitously. On motion of Mr. Emanuel B. Hart it was resolved that ail the members of the commitiee be requested in writing by the sectetary to be present at the next meeting, with a notice that thelr non-attendance ab the next meeting subsequent to that will be constd- ered eyuivalent toa resignation of membership by the absentees, and others will be chosea in their stead. The meeting then adjourned. The plans for the proposed new hospital hava already been adopted. They were prepared by Mesars. Grifith Thomas & Sons, arciltects, The building, or rather buildiags, will be located on tha eass side of Lexington avenue, from Sixty- seventh to Sixty-eighth street, the ground having been donated by the city for that purpose. The hospital buildings proper will consist of two wings, one in each corner, each fronting about forty feet on the avenue, with a depth of 135 feet on Sixty- seventh and Sixty-eighth streets. The centre buil ing will be tifiy feet square, containing the ofices, apothecary, library, sick rooms for pay pattents, lying-in hospital, and under the imposing dome- shaped Mansard roof a clinic or dissenting room, fifty feet square and thirty feet hetght of ceiling. ‘This centre building 1s connected with the two wings on either side by a covered colonnade on the first story, of Dorchester freestone columns, with arches. The’ frout walls will be of Philadelphia pressed brick, the basement walis, the copings and casings of Dorchester freestone, and the roofs of the French Mansard style, In the rear and opening on both the side streets will be gates for carriages, amb, lances and hearses, while the interior cour ara will be adorned with flowers, shrubbery and. joun. tains, and against the centre of the rear gAciosure will be placed the engine house. ret To -*.a@ Cost of tha buiiding 13 estimated at $9690. The ex- cavation for the abn foundyagn ‘tas already begun. It 1s to be @ “rng charity, destined for the gratuitous admis:.n and treatment of all with- out distinction % réligion, nationallty, race, color or sex. TLS present ofMlcers of the nospical are:— Presidené, Benjamin Nathaa; Vice President, Ema- nuel B. Hart; Treasurer, Lewis May; Honorar! Secretary, Samuel A. Lewis; Secretary, Jzuus J.. Lyons; Board of Directors, John M. Lawrence, 5810 mon Somuerici, H. Aronson, Lewis Fatmann anu J, Abercassis. PERSONAL MOVEM Governor Fenton and daughter are in Rome. Governor Paliner, of llinois, abjures prot tariils. m:: OMe protective “Wild Bill” has been elected Sheriff of Ellis ¢ ts is county, Chicago refuses to California pioneers. General Pitman, a Mexican hero, is in the Washe ington Insane Asylum. a Edmonta Lewis, the colored Boston sculpw going to Rome. Sadat Delia Collins has started in Ohio a pape! to female suifrage. ia oa A young lady was seized on a street at Terra Haute, Ind., iast Saturday evening by a man, who attempted to cut off ber hair, He was prevented by her mother, who was walking a little in advance. The communion service which was stole the Congregational charen in Bristol, Vonh., about @ week ago, has been recovered. It was plated ware, and the thief indignantly informed the pastor of the church where he might fud It, M. Ferdinand de Lesseps will be married to Mile. Louisa Helena Autard de Bragard at Suez on No- vember 25, M. de Leaseps ls related to the Em- press Eugenie, and his marriage contract will be signed by the Emperor and Empress of the French. Prince Hassan, the second son of the Viceroy of Egypt, has just matriculated at Oxford as an undere graduate of Christ church, His Royal Highness is, of course, an orthodox Massuiman, and therefore will be exempt from “keeping chapels” and hearing himself prayed forevery Sunday among the Jews, Turks and infidels. While Rey. M. Ferry, a local Methodist preacher, Pay $584 for entertaining the Was addressing a congregation at Columbia, Brae zono county, Texas, on the evening of the sth inst, Sx armed desperad entered the chu: nd fired on and killed him instantly. Rey. Mr. lardwell, the minister in charge, Who was sitting in tue pulpit, was knocked down by one of the rufiiaus; but, ag he 18 a very powerful man, he rallied and took the weapon away from bts assatlant, The assassing then ran out of the house, A letter was received at the Treasury Department a ow days since from @ party in lidiana, saying thas nothing has ever been done with the £100,000 bequeathed to the United States by James Smithson except to lay the money at interest. He proposes a plan for $10,000 of the money, stating that he will take a twenty-five years policy of Ife tasurance for $10,000, which Will cost, paid up, $5,000, the divi« dend to stand, whieh will double the’ interest and iner the policy to perhaps $30,000, wo be placed in the hands of the government, i Att a Hon. BE. B. Washburne, the Paris, gave his first re American Minister at eption on the ¢ ng od inst, at lis new residence in the avenue « peratrice. There é no ladies present burne being still tndisposed, t gueais on the occasion ¥ nsey, Mr, Hale, late Madrid; Captam Wordex Phalen, Clement Barclay, Gen United States Consul at Paris, J mane this country; but ho beiieved that the new civul- zation of Angie mugt beve Church aud State sion, which is Inhabited exciusively by the Minister and his family, is spacious and piensantly situated, being midway between tlie Arc de Triomphe and te entrance to the Bow de Botlugue, The oilice of the Jegation 13 in another part of te city,