The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1870, Page 3

RELIGIOUS. The Champagne and the Cider Churches of the City and Vicinity. Seeking the “Thorny Way” on Silken Cushions. . The Toilers of the Sea at Their Devotions. Bersonnel of the Preachers and Habits of Their Hearers---Music and Mirth as Aids to the Gospel. Discourses by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rey. Drs. Hepworth, Chapin and McSweeny, and the Rev. Mesers. Pullman, Foote, Tyng, Boyle and Others. 4s may be jodged from the reports given below the services in the churches throughout the city ‘were yesterday more than usually interesting. The Gne, wintry weather gave ample opportunity to the vorwgries of fashion to display their finest winter Plumage, and in most cases the fire of devotional oratory warmed the hearts of the devotees, The dis- courses were highly instructive and will be found worthy of perusal. GRACE CHUACH. Large and Fashiovable Attendunce—Promi- nent Worshippers—State of Relixion fin Utah—Sermon by the Kev. E. B. Foote, of Utah, The cold, clear, sunlit Sabbath morning of yester- day brought to Grace church an unusually large number of its regniar congregation and many Strangers. This Increase-was also largely owing to the fact that St. Mark’s church 1s at present without a@ clergyman as well as to the fine weather. But ten pews were at the disposal of Mr. Brown, the Chester- Meld of sextons, und, as over 500 people requested seats, his office, at least for this morning, was not a sinecure—indeed, bis duties hardly ceased when the sermoa commenced, Floating daintily up aisles resplendent with soft varied light from medi:o- val windows came many of Gotham’s fair repre- sentatives of afluence and beauty, alter descending from elegant iiverled carriages, the rou of which, mingling with the solemn vibrations of the organ, almost seemed a sort of subdued but ruder accom. Paniment. This stream of fashion and,refinement Settled softly and gracefally into luxuriantly cushioned pews, and lstened with devotional de- corum to the edifying service. A furtive giance from lovely orbs would piacidly scan a bonnet with S critical eye, or analyze the featufes and form of some Adonis in delicately colored kids and the collar of the period, Maturer minds were intent on spiritual welfare or worldly caicula- tions, which would intrude im this hour of enforced quiet, even though the eloquent divine ‘Was not of that class who have a one story intelied amd a spelling book vocabulary. Among this large but select congregation were many faces familiar to the beau mond, whose names wero household ‘words in the fashionabie world. The following are ' @fow of those who yesterday morning worshipped at tue Christian Taberoacie:—Colonel Abraham Van Buren, U1. and Mrs. Cyrus Ramsey, Mr. Henry Turn- bull, Charies #1. Kerner, mr. Jacob’ Vanderpool, Mr. Eugene Bogart, the banker; Mr. J. Hooker Ham- mersly, lawyer; Mr. Eaward R. Bell, Mr. William J, Rogers, of Shippen Point; Mr. aud Mrs. J. Folke- stone, Mr. D. Luydan, Mr. Joun Fiten, United States Commissioner in Bankruptcy; Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith, ex-American Com- maussioner at Parts; Mrs. glispenard Stewart, Supervisor Orison Blunt and iamity, Mr- and Mrs. Samuel Mactier, General Irwin McDowell, General Ti. G. Wright, Mr. George W. McCuilum, Mr. Join L. Aspinwall and family; Mrs. Wiliam Kent, relict of Judge Kent, autor of “Keiut’s Commeniaries;” Mr. end Mrs. George D. H. Gillespie; Miss bend, daugh- ter of the late William &. Bend; Misses Townseud, daugiters of the late Isaac Townsend; brs. E. Chickering, Mr. Jaines K, Pew, Miss Roose- veit, Mr. Robert Golet; Miss annie Garner, daugh- fer of the jate Thomas Garner; Mrs- frederick Suydam; Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Wetmore, Mr. Jon D. Wolfe ele daugdter, Mr. and Mrs, Carles R. Green, dir, Tuomas Vehon, Dr. Joun Metcalfe, Mir. and Mrs. Wiliam Butler Duncan, Mr. Levi P. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. C Sanford, M Mr. John H. Livingston, Tracy R. Edson, Colonel Kipp, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ozden, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deulson, Mr. and Mrs, Artaur Creagit, K. P. Dutton, Mr. and Nra, Wiuam Barnwail; dir. Mathew Wilks, of Lafayeve piace; Mr. and Mrs. Jobn Ferguson; Mr. Gould Hoyt, son-in-law of the late General Scott; Mr. and Mrs, W. A, Hadden, and others of equal prominence, The music, a3 usual, was grand and impresatve, under the skiliul execution of tue able organist, Mr. 5. P. Warren, and that quartet of gsweet singers, Mrs. Bodstein, soprano; Mrs. Rachau, alto; Mr. Wiebusch, basso, and Mr. Simpson, tenor. Tae pro- rainine consisted of the ivilgwing selecuion:— ‘enite, Moseathal; Gloria, Mozeutaal; Ze Deum, Warren; Jubciaie, Haydn; fsaim 07, Sponr; Hymn 105, Hepourn, ne sermon, by the Kev. £. B. Foote. of Sult Lake City, Utah, was from the text, “Be not weary of well doing.” The reverend genileman gave a dark picture of the state of the Christian religion in Utall, and stated that he had come to New York Jor the purpose of odiaining @ subscription oF tea thousand dollars towards the erection of an Hpiscopai churvi in that region, where, he had strong hopes of bringing back to the paths of religion aud monogamy tue deluded peo- Ple around them. He reco! uded that the mise monary force should be iocreased, 80 28 to piant centres of Chrisiianity along ail the outiying points of the extreme West. He suid (hut no cuaritab.e or re- ligious mstitutions existed among the Gentiles of Sait Lake City, and to tose of the Mormons only such a8 rotessed the Morimon crecd were admiued. He oped tie Christian women of tie congregation would oid hi in furthering this commendable work Of establishing charches, schools, hospitais and almshouses, as such iustivutious would raise their eisters in Ulan to the proper rank of womanhood, as Shere they had fallen ito tat of the slave. ‘the services Were performed by the Key. Dr. Por- ter and Kev. W. 1. Hybert. The benediction has been given, again the pews rustle with silkea sounds, subdued voices Murmur among the crow, and outward float along the ulsies, in beauty aud style, the Most faslicuable congreyatuion of tus £Xeat metropolis. PLYMOUTH CHURCY. Bashion in Neutral Vint—The Ladics Have Read the Herald—-Churacter of the Congre~ gation—%r. Beccher’s Sermon ov tho “iiid- den Gospel”? and the Various Characters Me Put Upon tae Stage. The bright wintry sun slone yesterday morning pver @ more sombrely arrayed congregation than gsual at Piymouth church, Sol had taken the yota- fies of fashion by surprise, and had come out in all bis glory so unexpectedly that there had not been time to “do up” tne gay plumages that the last week’s storms had, no doubt, slightly damaged. Perhaps there was another and better reason for the “neutral tintedness’’ of the dress of the ladies of Plymouth church—they all read the Heratp, and last Monday’s description of ‘fashions, feathers and farvelows at the churches’? may have stir- red within them the remembrance that they bave souls as well as bodies. The church was, as usual, crowded, and that, too, by an audience that wai pretty equally divided between men and women. ‘If Mr. Beecher's congregation were in England it would be considered essentially middie class— Plebiau, not patrician. Scea from the carpetea platform, the vast congregation 1m the area, the borsedhoe shaped gailery aud in the attic above, the eye rests upon upturned faces that have not that re- ose which stamps. the cast of “vere de vere.’ ‘With every manly face there life seems to be an @arncst thing, and every woman sits in her en- shrined pew as though church gomg were an cojoy- iment as well as a duty. ‘There were the same familiar faces in the same familiar places yesterday morning, fringed round by @crowd of strangers. All of the latter, as far as possible, were provided with comfortable seats by Bhe ushers; but when all are seated there are undreas who have to stand for two hours, hat 4p hand, to join the service of song and to Bisten tothe sermon. Conspicuous by nis absence aa Mr. Berman, the counsel for Prince Erie and com) . My, Bnerman. generally occupies a a os sitting jn the mulery immediately opposite . NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET the orchestra. He is a devout worshipper, sings heartiiy, and seemiogly with heart also. so well 1 he read tn the “Plymouth Collection” that he wil stag the hvinn through without the assistance of the book. Looking at Mr. Sherinan in Plymouth churea one might wonder how the “Erie lawyer”? finds a piace Jarge enough to dwell in so devout and 80 re- gious a soul. There are other professional men there besides lawyers, wen, indeed, of every proies- sion, notably newspaper men, scatvered about, scep- tical enough, as a class, about everything, and the noblest seapeio of them all is one who 1s @ star in the literary firmament, and whom the ladies say 13 & “beauuful star,” who is never absent from a pew bear the pastor, and who should be, and perhaps is, 4 believer in ail that he hears. ‘The service was opened yesterday morning by the singing of the beautiful recitative ‘ine Lora 18 my Shepherd,” by Miss Thursby, and the chorus vy the eigty-voiced orchestra, unaer the able direction of Mr. Henry Camp, Mr. Zembel presiding at the organ, é short iavocatory prayer, the singing of a hymo. ie reading of the second chapter of St. Paul’s Epts- tle to the Romans, a longer prayer, whica the burdens and the aspirations of human life are trans- mitted by the pastor to the Throne of Grace; the reading of Sunday church notices, the singing of another hymn, and then that for which nine-teuths of the people have come—for how many of that vast shrong have come to worship?—the text and the sermon, Mr, Beacher’s subject was ‘The Hidden Gospel,” the fourth chapter, the third and fourth verses of the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians:—"sut if our gospel be hid, It 18 hid to them that are jost. In Whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of tuem which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Curist, Who 1s the image of God, should shive unto them.” An analysis of the faculty of perceptién, with a delineation of the rationate of mental blindness formed the outset of this discourse. ‘This Kind of instruction 18 characteristic of Mr. Beecher: it can only be a few of nis congregation who can follow this introductory line of thought in is discourses; but then these spoken words are printed in the Plymouth Puipit, and read there they may Ond an abiding place in the heartand the head. The audience Know that this. 1s only the overture, that the solos, the plaintive air and ‘tne songs of angels” will be sure to come from that souorous voice, and that there will be some very goud acting too by the live man on the stage, They were not disappointea; the sermon was rather above the average. “I hold the understanding has no power of form, no just conce of the feel g Beecher’s “life thoughts,” him well pricked up theif ears and opened their eyes, for, to illustrate that startling tratn, be may say and do anything thatis reasonable. He had to illustrate the truth that men are mentally bimd about that to which they have not bent their minds. He imaged ina mimicry—of which the pastor of Plymouth church is so great a master—one of the “shoddy aristocracy,” setting up a piccure gallery at home. and how the picture buyer went to the icture dealer, and how the former was a good nage of the frames, but knew nothing of Rembrandt or Kubens; ne was biind to form, to color, to tone, to sunsets and sunrises, The audience siigutly tit- tered, and nen he put another character on the stage—the Wall street broker, who was asked by Mr. Beecher as to the pest way of ives! ten thousand dollars and how he recommended *Michi- gan.’ “New York Central’ and ‘Kock Island,” but when told it was to be inveated tn charity and good works, said that he had never neard of those bein: quoted on the strect. Here the audience laughed right out. Another man goes to nis lawser; he has a daughter whom he has educated and provided with every accompushment, and fitved her for tuat nondescript thing called “suciety,” and Just as slie 13 vo ‘come oul’ mm ail the glory of these acquired graces, sie gets reilgiog, and the father tels the sawyer that sue does nothing else but look alter “rag and boptall children.” (Laughter.) Lawyer says, “I don’t Know wit to do for you; youd better go to the minister; religion and religious teel- ing, we lawyers don’t know much avout; we don’t have much of it in the courts.” (@ burstof loud jaughter.) Men ges so ansorbed in tia one pursuit of their life that they walk aiong the stieets and domi Know any man they meet. ‘lake a ride of seven oreight miles and dou’t know whether the grass erows or not, have @ deaf ear to the songs of tho the birds, and when the sick daughter, who has not been outside the bouse for months, asks her father ubout tne grass, the birds and the woods, he scarcely knows where he has been, and nas to tell his dear little one, who is pining for the woods and the teias, that he did not Know hic had been there. (Now the audience 18 almost moved to tears, and there is a quiet hush), . ‘The plaviorm of Plymouth church {a adorned with beautiful Mowers every Sunday morning; in the large bouquet that stoe@ on tne floral stand were four large lites in full bloom, Mr. Beecuer, standing by tue side of it, used ic used It as an illus- tration, He said that ifthat were put in the go.d roou in Wall street, When in gold excitemenis wen made arrant lunatics of themselves, they wouta not, could not see those flowers, they would bioum and fade 1 vaiu for these men. At five minutes past twelve o’clock, Mr. Beecher introduced Curist into his sermon—he had preaching three-quarters of an hour without having mentioned tbat holy name; bat in delineating Paul’s love and passion forthe Saviour, he made amends for the omission by @ powerful and earucst practical appeal Y his Congregation Which brought the scriuon wa close, those who JANE STREET METHODIST EFISCOPAL CHURCH Morality in Church and Civil Government— The Duties and Obligations of Church and Stnte Each to the Othor—Vice in High PlacesA Blast for “Our Rulers.?? In the absence of a reguiar pastor the morning services at the Jane street Methodist Episcopal church yesterday were conducted by the presiding elder, Mr. W. H. Ferris, before a moderate sized and deeply attentive congregation. Alter the usual in- troductory services the preacher announced as his text @ part of the sixth verse of the ffty-third Psalm—“Oh that the saivation of Israel were come out of Zion 1"? He then proceeded to say that the time this text was written was a ume of Ingdellty, defection and captivity, and though the Psalmist sighed and pried for deliverance le saw hope in only one di- rection. The salvation of the nation could only come out of Zion, Zlon was the perfection of beauty, anda out of her God must shine. Zion was before the civil government. God’s altar was first, then the sceptre, The secular and the ecclesiastical may aid each other, and ought; but in no case is the one to be displaced by the other, They should har- monize, but may not blend, The Church 13 prosti- tuted and corrupted when she both teaches religion aud makes laws. In Israel the priest never was Kung; the king never waSpriest. There are mterests becullar to each, and they may not encroach upou each otuer’s prerogatives. ‘Ihe Church may not Wake treaties or international laws or regulaie i- posts, coutmerce, finance, declare war or make peace or determine the form of government. So, on the other hand, government may not write our creed or reguiate the rites and ceremomes of the Church or tue form of Church governmeut, nor regu- late or aiter the morai law, nor interiere with the trecdom of conscience, Man is respous:pie to God alone for his conscience, and oy- ernment has no right ever to prevent error or even infidelity by law unless tue false Lucory go to serve In @ vicrous light. On the other hand re- ligton will not inverfere with the legitimate preroga- lives of government. God's Jaw cannot abrogute the principles of Blackstone for this reasou. Vib governinent has Its origin and existence from G it isa divine institution, Religion is the jounda- uon, clvii government 14 @ superstructure bulit upon it, and it is @g axiom that God and just laws are neyer at variance. As in science one branch over- Japs anotier, 80 the empires of religion and politics overiap. Keiigion 18 based upou moraliry, anu moral quostious do aud wil mingle with the politics of tue day, and will continue more and more to do 8O @3 Lue World progresses. No man can eliminate these moral questions: they are upheaving the dynasties of tue Old World and testng the siabuity of the new. Government does not usurp the rights of the Ouret when great moral questions are clad in Cwsar's roves, nor does tue Church drop from her creed or control @ single moral question because that ques uloa way be an element in the political siriies of whe day. ‘‘emperance, human freedom, pclygamy belong no less to the'Church because they troable the political waters. The creed of the Church can- mot be made uarrower because the basis of civil government becomes broader. Civil goverument did not make tie law of morals, nor can 1¢ alter it; and should the government at any time attempt to pervert that law it is the business of the Church to resist and rebuke the wrong. If unscrupalous par usans cry “Cbucch and State,” as they will, “leave tue slip of State to us, while you attend to sacra- ents ald prayers,”.so much the more will we show them that the principles and the men who turn the world upside down have come hither also. But if the Church herself tranagresses the moral jaw, then i is the right aud duty of the civil government to interfere. the government will not ailow poly- gamy in an individual it nay no mght to allow ‘tin @ Church; and yet iu @ nook beyond the Rocky Mountains taere 1s # large community openly pracusing this offence of polygamy and detying tne government to check it, while tue government winks at 1t and has done so for years. God has ordained and the interests of humanity demand that Christian principles should go this world, as may be readily inferred from the extent of sabbath dese- crauon, Caple eFoeea in bigh places, corruptions of legisiators an Uy tg and frgud of every kina. Neither 1s it desirable or necessary to institute a new politicat orgavizatton—a Church party. But let politicians understand taat Christians put principies and right high above party or men, that there is and can be no compromise between the antagonistic forces of right and wrong, that we are religiousiy political and vote as we pray and preach, aud the victory 18 gained. scheming politicians would then leave us; they have a holy norror of religion ina ballot box, for it works terrible havoc with the views of political intriguers, And the time must aud wilt come when Christians will awake and sunder the withes with which the political De- iiab has bound them. Tne body politic has no con- servatistn init, Of itself alone any political tavric will disintegrate, rot, aud Laie proves the asser- tion. Law cannot regulate morals; even good laws are of Bo force unl the popular mind 1s edu- cated up to tue level of such laws. ‘The Romish Church 18 ® political unit. Protestantism is a polit sal Babel; Dence poliucians court Kome and pass ‘rptestantiam by. Rome never forgets the Onurch. but ner pola ampizies are always ip the direction tion without the ‘is is one » of Fa knew" of the largest patronage and the most liberal endow- ments. Protestantisin half forgets her prayers, Church, conscience, Bible, and even her God, in the wild and senseless scramble for party ascendancy—often vociferous in the mad snout for men whose vileness and dishonesty are infamous. it is even now notorious that our own city govern- ment ts corrupt and vicious to the lowest degree— the struggle to secure it being merely a fight for Spoils, plunder and patronage. It was a fact that witin the past year the etty government had given away hetl a million doliars to the various religious and of thissum four hundred thousand dol- Jats had been given to the Churen of Rome as repre- sented in tuis city, It was neither more nor less than subsidizing the people of that Cuurch as & Means of securing their political strength us a lever Jor the retention, by tat civi! government, o1 ofice and power, Jn conciusion the preacher argued that there was. more need of religion and Coristianly morality turoughout the land ; the Church must assert itseif in high places, where it Would be heard, and its syp- orters must make themselves teit aud respected. They must exert their influence w.th, in and througn the government, and Jead the rulers of the people in every grade w moral and religious uprightness 1n iiteut, action aud principles, And having secured this much, they must hoid them to the faithful ais- charge of their duties, And it was necessary, fur- ther, that in the frst instance Christians sould strive to elevate a better ciass of men to the high Piaces. Tgey must vote for religions, moral candi- dateg, and thus elevate the standard aud qualifica- tions for office, During the history of our country, extending over aimost a century, it could not be sald that one really Chriscian man—one true disciple of Christ—had ever filled the office of President, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, The Usuel Large ond Brilliant Attondance= Sermon on Regeneration by Rev. Georgs H. Hepworth. ; Atthe Church of the Messiah, corner 0 Thirty- fourth street and Park avenue, there was yesterday morning the usual large, fashionabie and highly in- telligent congregation. Tne keenly cutting frosty air making cosy dining rooms, with their cosily burning fires, extra comfortable, and lingering over the morning coffee and morning papers an approxi- tion to the Lengthened sweetness Long drawa out. of Milton, did not prompt the usual large attendance. ‘Talk a8 people wiil, religion, or rather tts external Manifestations, 1s to a great degree a habit. Persons accustomed to going to chureh are not likely to stay atbhome. They must mix tn their life element reil- gious observances, as sugar is mixed tu coffee to make it palatable. A regular churchgoer feels til at ease If Sunday comes and he does not hear his preacher at bis church and hear his church music by his chow and meet his accustomed church asso- clates. There is a good deal of slander upon lady churchgoers 12 asserting that they goto show their new bonnets and fine dresses to othor ladies and to see what other ladies wear. They go mainly from habit, Of course the eloquence of the minister has @ strongly alluring tnfluence with many, and so the degree of cultivaiton shown in the choir music, aad so a chance to see and be seen and OSsip. abit, ministerial fascination, the sweet divinity of music, fashion, wor.dliness, these ingly and combined served at all events to densely fii the ch of the Messian at the services yesterday Cold though the air was, there was spark: ling brightness tu the clear crystal sunshine and so mingilag avith the wintry costuines, the rich furs, the heavy veivets aud piushes, Were the brightest and gayest of colors. Along the Tows of sofuly cushioned pews shown tn richest and varied display a very kaleidoscopic hue. ‘the laawies were Cressea In the most perfected style of church woliet, [tis a slogular fact, however, that whnie tie female portion of the congregation are beaming With smiles, or What 13 very near it, tie men look peculiarly stern and severe, The delicious music Of an anthem jubilate, played Most deliclously by Mr. Edward Howe, Jr., the or- ganist, opened the services. Succeeding this was sung by the chdiv that beautiful hymn of Mozart, glowing with impassioned music, ‘‘Nearer, My God, to Thee,” which was followed by the response, full of the highestjoy, “Ulory to Thee, O Lord.” The effect of such music, sung as here by a choir sec- ond to none in the city, is indescribable. Soul apd thoughts mounted upwards with each rising strain, Reading Scrptures, @ prayer and a congregational hymn, and then came the sermon by the Kev. George H. Hepworth, the pastor. He took as bis text Jonn iu, 6:—Born of the spirit.” ‘The subject was re- generation, & subject upon which thousands of ser- mons had been written and preached. His sermon was not in the stereotype track, He was bold, daring, original. Not alto- gether logical, he yet, %, & succession of unanswerable arguments enforced the most direct logical sequences. He showed what tnis birth is and what are its [ruits—a strong, good, earnest man. hood; a bigh and holy life, His picture of the hur- ried life of #0 many, the exbaustton of brain and muscle and nervous force to accumulate wealth was grandly cloquent. He toid his millionnaire hateners that they could not carry their bond accounts to heaven. ‘The religion of the consciousness of going might and having God as its base and hope, he urged as the only religion worth havi Upon the subject of deathbed repentance he was particularly eloquent, ‘This repentance was only ® ralt to get over the turbid river counecting mortal and immor- talexistence. Such repentances amotinted to but litte. His dissection of the subject o1 election was complete. In conclusion he portrayed the joy of a re- geuerated ite, The vast congregation listened to the C.ose with the most earnest and undivided attention. Speaking from notes, he gives his language a wider range and higher flizgbt of beauty than he could if his sermons were written, he importance of the theme and occasion rouses every mower and nerve of lis mmd. No abbreviated reports of nis sermon can do him justice, can do justice to the rich exuberance of bis faucy. His eloquence is fervid, enlighteued, vigorous, permeating and imperial, His looks, tones and gestures give a power to his sermons that no printed words cap adequately give, Its views Itke silver suine, Or aw the cluster hue Ot pearls that grace some Sultan's diadem. Few of our pulpit orators.nave a more pleasingly prepossessing physique. He is yet @ young man, with oiack hair and black side whiskers, but his carelul cuicure in the Boston schoois is shown 10 every word, tone and action. His popularity has rapidiy mereased in the short time be has been the pastor of tals churcu, CRURCH OF THE DIVINE PATCANITY. An Array of Beauty, Rank and Fashion Rev. Dr. Chapin as a Preacher aud some- hing About His Congregation. clear, exhilarating and supsiiny character of yesterday was all suiicient to bring out in large numbers the worshippers at the shrine of the Chu of the Divine Patermity, in uth avenue, and the de- votees of fashion and fine feathers never appeared in such luxurious and costly apparel in the experience of the reporter, For some ume previous to the commencement of the éxercises the flutter of silks up the aisies of the church was ali that could be heard, while the air was loaded with perfumes of the most gratetal character, emitted trom “the balm of a thousand flowers,” and extracts from other equally fascinating and expensive exotica, The church was well filied by the time the Rey. Dr, Chapin took his seat behind the reading desk, and the scene presented, when taken in ata glance, was eulivening as well as highly fashionable. Th ‘ich aud vari-colored toilets of the ladies, dotted here aud there throughout the spacious edilice, presented u striking and pleasing contrast to the sombre full dress rigs of the gentiemen, which had nothing to reueve many of them save gay aud dashing neck- ties and well fitting kid gloves, The hands on the clock mdicate the hour of eleven, and Dr. Chaping punctuaily therewith rises to open the servic Ali eyes are turned on him, and the low whis perings Which had previously been going on among the occupants of tie pews suddenly ceases. He 18 @ gentiemamy appearing mau, of low stature and about fity-five, is ruggedly built, wilha ljarge bead and invellecuaal Jace. He moves lumberingly to the reading desk, owing to kind of chronic rheumatism Co which he is supject. ‘fhere is no other Chapin in New York, or perhaps in the United States, like him aga preacher. He 1s pecuilatly himself, His style is at once original and poweriul. He 1s an orator of rare and eflective powers—a philosopher, whose theories are advanced in & manner to suil hisown congregation only, or ail mankind, if they choose to adopt hens & BUbth reasoner, he starts at the root of his sibjecu an never leaves Off until he bas left it with almost nothing else to be said, He is iull of vitality when he speaks and his words, flowing brough a@ clear, powerful voice, with the utmost yet most reguiar volubility, clearly indicate @n orator of no mean powers. Such, in brief, 1g Rev. Dr. Chapin, And now a word about the con- ategation. Ax has alresdy been stated, it is com- posed of some of our wealthiest and most influen- Ual citizens. It 18 @ ‘kind Of an imdependent congregation, too, for it discards all formaiiues, prays situag on soft cushions and believes in doing things in the simpiest and quietest manner poseibie. In addition to the names of some of thuse who compose the church organization and congregation lost Sunday, the foliowing may be added:—Among the leading members of the church organization are George W. Platt, A. A. Peterson, O. Hutchinson, J. Urmk, Jacob Weeks, James Cusuing, Jr., Charles Butts, Wiliam M. Banks, ‘Thomas A. Black, James A. Kelly, cc. The leading members of who congregation are men such as George G. Lake, senry Steers, "George oifman, Edward = Elisworth, Adolpne Kusch, Coils Kk. p. Huntington, Jason G. Clarke, &. ‘I. Woodward, E. Suiles, Churies L. Stickney, Benjamin ¥. Romaine, Wiliam Montro: jathaniel and James l’, Huggins, Generat Wilcox, J. A. Kibdsdell, &c. Among the ladies of the congregation the most Prominent of the congregation are:—Mrs. George Hoffman, celebrated for her benevolence; Mrs. J. A. damieson, Mrs. K. A. Wall, Mra. D. D. ‘I, Marahal!, Mrs. R. B, Connolly, wite of the Comptroller, Mrs. Adolphe Rusch, Mra. Cushing, Mrs. J. F. Flint, and Se Tulsed, Ove Huntington, Orane, Mellin, Good- bne. Wilcox, ie, Howard, Hhines, Pelletero. fully, Harbeck, Ferris, Morrow, Kent, Kellock, Black, Woodward, Lake, Stickney, Babbitt, sites, Sher- man and Fithian, Rev. Doctor Chapin took the text of his discourse from the fourth chapter aud thurty-ninth verse of the Gospel of St. Mark:—And He arose and re- buked the wind and said unto the sea, Peace, be still, And the wind ceased, and there Was a great calm.” The preacher said tt was not necessary for him to state the circumstances con- nected with hig text. Even uf these circumstances Were not fresi in the minds of the bearers by te reading of the chapter they would be able to call to recollection Carist cossed in @ storm on the Bea of ting and His gaymmg to the sea, “Peace, be sul. That incident, so simply aud graphically detailed, afforded imany lessous. ‘The passage Was one of these inexususuble passages, on Which we never could dweittoo much. first, then, the words of the lext contained one lesson of the method aud the eflect of the revelation made to us 1 Christianity. Christ Himself was Christianity, and He at was who Was that revelation, For instance, here Was @ 018- tinct expression of the humanity of Jesus Christ— “He arose and rebuked the winds.” He had been asleep in the stern of the vessel, slumbering peace- Jthouwh the turmoily of the storm was Tagivg around bin, and He was aroused only by His disciples crying out to Hum:— “Master; carest Thou not that We perisn?” He bad availed of the opportunity, the time and the place, and slept there 43 sounaly as wny tired Haborer with @ hard worked body or brain might have slept. Now the great aiMouity, he had often said, with regard to the Christian religion, was, Unat it was unreal. It Wass urrounded with strange, tecnnical forms; with Words of vague meuuing, with tnysterious associa. tions and references, and, cousequentiy, shrewd men of the world put Christianity under toot as somewhat intangible or absiract. ‘he piulosopher, regarding it simply as a new form of mysterious su- persution, would have org te do with Ul, and he ‘was inclined to think that in the minds of many of those wno talked about Jesus Christ at all He was apprevended only 10 & mystic or vatn way. There- fore he sald thal everything which brought Christ before us i the uctual condition of His personality Must be most important to us, ST, GEORGE'S CHURCH. Piety and Prolixity—From Politics to the Pul- pit—A Dull Charch and u Dull Sermon—The Rev. Morris Tynyg on the ‘Teachings of Joshua. St. George’s Protestant Episcopal church, situated’ in Rutherford place and Sixteenth street, directly fronting on Stuyvesant square, and familtarly known as Dr. Tyng’s church. presents a grand and imposing appear- ance from the outside, provided the view ve taken from a point directly in front of the main en- trance. The two spires running far up almost to the clouds and acting as time beacons for many squares around, scem a fitting index of buman respect and worship and love of the Deity ; and if the same feel- ings were kept up irom diierent points of view, a kind of awe akin to supernatural fear would make the whole piace round about seem as if imbued with the spirit of worship. But as the observer siands on either side of the edifice and sees the unwainly, dis- proportionate roof stauding out In too bold relief, with nothing to destroy the studied, straightlined appearance of its contour, his feeimgs meet with a sudden crash aud down they tumbie. Now let him enter the church and take @ seat, say at the farther end of the gallery over the pulpit, ana serutinize carefully everything he sees. A spirié of gloom seems to pervade the whole church. ‘There is not one ray of cheerfulness. Even the sunbeasn, strug- giing through the staimed glass rose window over the choly falls upon the tesselated pavement as if its ver) lite aud warmth hed beeu taken from it in its paasage through the colored glass. ‘This gloom 1s but @ trick of the paiuter’s art; perliaps intentional, perhaps not, ‘The hard walls of the church are painted throughout with Mosalc desigus after medi- val patterns, with an idea of heaviness pervading the whole, which is increased by the dull red color which prevails and 13 not at all enlivened by the Lumerous gold devices scattered throught the work. ‘The massive rafters have likewise this dreary appear- ance, while above them the bive roof, though studded with golden stars, seems to partake of the same monotonous spirit and makes the soul feel heavy, seeking relief in the organ, with its many thousand fad all exposed to view, aud all richly inlaid with jue and red and gold, gonveying some idea of the barbaric splendor, and wanung but the touch ¢1 a master-hand to drive aivay the cloud, for ita music 1s slow, ana sad and solemn—low church with a vengeance, ‘The choir, all males, and of these buit boys; periaps here wil be joy, for surely 1. 18 not sad to worship. and one cannot be mistaken; there w the familiar Hace of one who for years hus played aad stil plays a merry tune for a Kowery gallery, aud who to-day leaves the baton—whicl 80 often tumed the tardy music to the aprigutly heel—for the hymn book of st. George's. Perhaps there wii be a merry hymn; but no, all is sad and doletu!, The peopie come slowly up the aisle, paving jefe their worldly smiles on the rug where they wiped their feet, and humbly they take Ubeir seats, optn their rec bound, gold clusped prayer books aud muve their Lips. They pray, for they are mouraful, A detachment of youug men from an institution m whe neighbsriodd, more French than Jashionable, now break upun the view and take their seats to tue left of the pulpit, scarce dariug to lift their eyes, Bo cioscly are they watched by their guarataa, And anon, a bevy of young giris irom a boarding school, more fashionable than French, enter the galler seat shemseives at the preacher's left, aud quickly bury their sad faces in their dainty gloved hands and muttera short prayer. ‘the clock in the choir pointa haif-past ten, the beiis in the’ spire nave ceased their mourofel toings, when the preacher, clad in a White surpiice, slowly takes his stand to te left of the aitar and opens the service with @ short prayer. ‘The prayers of we day, ac- cording to the & pal service. are next read; chapters from the bible follow; hymns and psalms are sung. and at length the gcongregauion, which yesterday was very slim, place vheimselves ia comfortable positions, while the preacher, who has changed his white surpitce for a black silk go ascends the pulpit anu proceeds to deliver the mon of the day. The preacher on this occasion ts Morris a a son of the Kev. Stephen H. iyng, D. D., who has tarown aside the mantic of politics and assumed the garb of theology, It has betore suid that everything apous the churcen be- ned gloom and melancholy. Tne Rey. Morris Tyog must be included, A Beecher or a Chapin would have cast out the dismal irom the church and intused a spirit of joy into the worship, tor tneir words would have aroused te sleepy ears of the listeners and wade hight come ont of the darkness prevalent, Bus the congres St. George’s yesterday did nob have a or ® Gbapin, aud so Listened mevhauiealiy to what it did hear, They weve not to blaine. Mr. ‘Tyng, Who undoubtedly po: Ses talenis of a bigo order and lias w (oO ert & magical uuluence over lis them chained aowa vy living words. 3 OM Lie even teaur of its way, and whether ia prayer, exordium, Miusteation or wppeal, Knows no Variation, 1s Lone is mourniul aud bese adapted to utter & funeral ol ; words though carefully cuosea ant gpirit; they come out so slowly th has evaporated before they reach the car; 18 Weak, unimpressive aud monotouus; Wis re fog, though clear aad disunct, is devold of all ial tion and emphasts; Won Wo vuese is added & Woe Want of gesiiculation, ope cau Len form a very good idea of tiv cuaracter of the svrtaon. No wouder thut the people Were listiess, that sume gaze cuntly upon ihe Walls, Uying wo follow the labyrin- une Windings of the wall pamung; nat some leaucd their heads upon weir hands and wearily Closed their eyes; What others read tueir books Jor Want of something else to do, or that the giris from the faguionaole boarding their pretty fingers fellows beneath, tion, bub Liese by Upon them hike a prone in geometry; and these were the young men from tue French boarang school. They were taking notes of the duil mon, Which must ce sludied for the morcow's recilation. Aud the sermiou. li was a discourse on @ part of the first chapter of the book of Joshua—"'This book of tie iaw shall not depart out of the mouth, but thou shale meditaie therein day and mgat, tiat thou mayst observe to do accord. ing to all that 1s written therein; jor thea toou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou suait have good success.” ‘The serinon was etbi- cal throughout; but, lacking as it did the spirit of earmestness, it fell rater coidly on tae congregation, luposcd THE MARINERS TEMPLE, “The Love of God?=Sermon by the Kev. J. L. Hodge, D. D. Service was held yesterday morning in the above place of worship, corner of Henry and Oliver streets, where @ sermon Was deliverod by Dr. Hodge, on the above subject. The reverend gentleman selected his text from Romans, eighth chapter, thirty-eighto and thirty-ninih verses—"For 1 am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principali- ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come; nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea- Uure shall be abie to separate us from the move of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lora.” ‘fne preacher 8 it was dtfilcuit for mortais like theroseives to adequately comprehend tho magal- tude and proportions of the love which Goa bore to them, ‘to bexthe recipient of the love towing fron God was 4 biessing which no other blessing resting on man could compare with. If God loved taem His spirit would dwell in their hearts and work the good work of mercy and par- don. The love of God wouid descend into teir hearts and eradicate all evil forevodings, al: tempta- tions to ain and would fually so strengthen tiem In their faith that they would experience that joy aud happiness which is truly indescribable and which alone flowed from the fountain of life, If they never sought the throne of mercy, never songlt to throw off their carnal habits and desires, they would never 1éel the benelicia! infuences and power of the love of the Most High. Every one was She recipiens af biy love, whe ebony Wo approach God with an hamble and contrite heart; for who- ever approached Him tn that frame of mind would never be disregarded and would mever be cast away. It wes pleasing for Christiana to know that His love existed from all eternity and would remain to all eternity, and they as heirs of Christ, as ctu dren of cue Most High, would remain in porsession Of that love forevermore. The charch was well attended yesterday, and, Judyiog from the number of sallors aud others who are incidentally connected with the seafaring com munity, the churcn is doing a good work, aud serves to supply a want which is greally needed ™ the Present day, $7. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Appenraoce of the Interior—Solemuity of the ServicesTho Narrow Path to Heaven Sermon by Dr. McNweeny—The Music. Whatever tnfuence the delightful weather of yes- terday may have had on the religious feelings of the Pilthiul generally, the Cathedral was crowded to the doors, Butit was not oy any means to the auspl- cious state of the elements tbat the immense attend- ance Was aliributavle. Rain or sunstine--whether threateuing clouds hang heavily overhead or the brightness of the clear blue sky 1s not shadowed by @ single speck—the congregation is all the same, at least In Dumbers, devotion, unosientatious piety, earnestuess and respectability. The Cathedral can hardly be said to be a fashionable church, Not that the fickle goddess has not some votaries, even there; uot that the wilets of the ladies are not elegant, tasteful and costly, and that! the purses of the male members of the con- gregation are not long and often opened for charitabie purposes, but there 1s an air of grandeur and solemnity, an atmosphere of sanctity pervading the place that at once dispels the idea of worldly display, however attractive or appropriate; and while St. Patrick's Cathedral may not have among its regular attendants the fawning, timid slaves to Tashion, there are yet those whose wealth aud stand. ing in society partly compel them to follow modestly hersinguiar studies. Glancing oyer the muititude Ibis easy to observe that (be prificipai and only object of the assembling of its individnal constitus ents is to pray and be instructed in the teach- ings of the Cuurch. ‘the scene presented 18 significant as it 18 mpressive even by the actual variety which it diselosea, Rich and poor are there, mingling together with harmo- mous sentiments, with the same hopes and aspira- Uons. There 18 Do exclusiveness, and the prayers of the faithful congregation, composed as it is of those residing in the surrounding vicinity, ihe wealthy and the penniless, ascend as If spoken by One voice, The aspect of the interior yesterday Was highiy imposing at last 1nass, and Was renuere ov 4 iituie brilliant by the reflection ef the sun's bright beams through the gorgeously stained win- dows. At hall-pasy ten o'clock muss Was con meaced, the Kev, Mr. McGean oMeiating as cele: brant, atiended by acolytes and assistants, who. were arrayed in appropriate costume. — Bewiyg Septuagesema Sunday, tie church bewan her prepuration for the approaching fast of Lent, evident by the purple color of the vestments worn, while the usual Dallelujans and hyuins of joy were omitted, At the termination of tue first gospel ive Kev. Dr. P. F, Mebweeny ascended te puipit and preached an eloquent and effective ser- mon, characterized as 1b Was by simplicity and arwu- menialiveness. He dwelt particulariy on the tact Unat the road to heaven was by an exceedingly nar Tow path, and that while tae journey was beset W It would wot IL Was J001isi LO Jd not intret tor= GiMcuivtes, whey musi nevertucless be overcome. was Wrong to suppose Una the Lord punish siuners fer tueir oflences, 3 uy thal beg all mercy He Ww ture. The road, to be sure, Was Very dill must be followed Wf the Lappy goal Was to L ai. Some went many miles and ty jou the multitude on the Wic toh. in conclusion te reve esuy Pppeaied to tue congregi precepis laid down in the Guspel. Always a feature at the Cathedral, the musica! arrangements yesterday, uader tue aole airection of Protessor Gustav Schinitz, was in every respect worthy the high reputation the cuoir has 50 desery- ediy attained. ‘ue admiravle, appropriate and ciassical eclections 60 efflcieatly Mnterpret principal artists are ever welcoine to tie lon, harmonizing a8 they do the august aud buauul- ful ceremonies. ‘To be sure, the cheir is not over- burdened wiih stngers, but the advanced state of cnitivation and thorouyh training of those actually engaged effect the most truiltul results, noting being left undone to render the music in fitung styie, ‘The mass played yesierday was by Pauserou, tu F inajor, for four voices, It is almost neediess to Biate Lhat the Composition was done every justice to, boto in respect to power and as Well as to the ren- dition of the several solos. the Kyrte opened splen- aidiy, followed by a bass solo entrusted to Mr. A. Solist, Wao fuiled not to display the varied qualities of bis excellent voice, Tie chorus was especuiily fine, after the secon the entire jorce of the Xholr was brought into requisition for the Credo which was gang in K flat. ‘The seicimnity oF the composition was beautifully exhibited im the Incarnatus @ Tergelio in A fat ler soprano, tenor and bass, Madame Chome has lost noue of the tine qualiues of her vocal powers, singing now as ever With that genuine appreciation of tie music aad a depih of teeling that always mark the true artist. She was ably assisted by Mer. Henry Schinitz, tue tenor, and subscquentiy by Mrs. Werner, the cou- tralto, At the offeriory w& choice selection from alt, DUC at arrived then turned back path to destruc. ud gentleraan eara- yn to FoLow Luke Wise “Moses m Egypt’ was piayed with exqu'site effect, Which also migat be sald Ol the O waluturus Buy DY 4 Mr. Solst. The 4gnus Det, w delightiul aad dwapr sive piece, again brought our Madame Chome, Ul chorus accompaniment being higdly creaiable. grand and appropriate Polonaise, brilliantly » formed by Mr. Schutz. brougut the services wa close, Which terminated sloruy after twelve o’cloca, SEVENTH STREET METHOD'ST EPISCOPAL CHURH. Tho Late Flock of the Kev. Mr. Cook—Ap- pearance and Style of and Sermon by t Rev. Mr. Bockman. The Methodist Episcopal chureh on East Seventh street was well filled yesterday morning to listen to ® discourse by the Key. Bockman, ‘Lhis is the chu formerly presided over by Rev. Mr. Cook, Who disappeared s0 mysteriously and unexpectediy awlew Weeks since in company with one of the air lambs of his fold. Some of the members of tie church are still exceedingly sensitive on this sub- ject, and refuse any taformation on this or any other matter pertaining to the chureh, fn reply to some inquiries made by the repre sentative of the HeRALD in relation to the churen Mr. Palmer, the treasurer, stated that there bad been suuicient notoriety ulready in the papers re- ng tbat church, and they aid not wish any roing puplisned, The attendance yesterday, though large, was what in aa up town churekt would be’ calle fashionable audiencs people were g weil dressed, and dently a Mi. spectable position in soc i atrend ‘ more for the spiritual beneut to be derived than io exniiii then toilets Or to observe Lie Forlets of their sibors. Among the prominent meinbers of tue on were Mr. Chiaraberlat Sherman, Mr. King, Mr Sudium, Mr, Hirau: Merrt Mr. Deo, Mr. Wilitem Johnson n, WO Wao Las bee eof this churet, 14 com- parauyely @ young man, till and tnely proportion with sandy har and whisk young and handsome wii dauger of M13 fol worthy with a e is no ne Dis eulugly U footsteps ot Bp 3 nota for lis brie Mr, Bockinan preacaes aud excopt Wien occasionally surred up With his subject is undemonstrauve and ed Lo be pros: Lie yse for Ns text yester- day (he pussage of Scriptures found im tie ioarta verse of the third chapter of fevelation: Thou hast a few wow en ia is Which have Nov defiled their wud Uiey suall Walk witli ‘Lhe reverend genie! the aucient city ot § was renowned for its great wealth and for its exceeding profligacy anid debaucher, Was destroyed by an eartaquake duriag the reiga + q us Cursar, and alirivated the destrucuoa of he cliy to the Wealth apd profigacy of ats innap- itants, He also spoke or the Chora existing ab that 4 decline and fall, From this he of the Charches of the present influence of money; of backslidera and of the t+ ity Of @ very rich ian being a consistent tan; that they ‘Mursook God and becaie Ge moraiized.”’ There were some, he stated, in We Seventh street church Who had not defiled Weir gar. ments; yet in all ous glurches there we so.ue woo wer Ksliders, period and of SIXTH UN\V-RSALIST CHURCH. Happiness Not the Supreme Prize of Lite— Sermon by Rey. Jaume» M. Pullman, The Sixth Universalist sdctety’s church, on Thir- ty tHth street, Just east of Sixih avenue, Is one Of the pecniiar religious edidces in the city, It is a long arrow ball, pressed in between two adjoining buildings; bas no lofty ceiliag, no windows, and re- ceives Its dim light through painted skylights in the Matroof, Its three rows of pews are of plain wal- nut, the floor 1s richly carpeted, the pulpit 1s a sim- Ble reading desk, to the rear of which are verses from the Bidle in gilt letcers on walnut tablets, The style of the oratory of Rev. Janes M. Pullman, the settied minister of the congregation, is also of a peculiar kind, He does not stand beuind the desk, remaining there during the delivery of his discourse, a8 is usual with other min- isters, bul, according to the fastion of political stump Apeakers, be walks about the chancel, speak. ing now from this, now from the other side of the desk, and sometimes tn front of It. He has also dis- carded another custom common with pulpit orators. He speaks without noves and in an off-handed man- nex, Wis delivery Js verfect, the words fall from ale Ips with clearness, his wales, is soft and pleasing and bis gesticulation graceful, He took for his text the story of Job’s despair, as h@ did penance in sackcloth and ashes. After some in- troductory remarks (he reverend speaker said that it was @ faise idea that the highest prize of Ife could be attained without work. It Was an old rui¢ tat alt success was gamed by hard work, continued in the face of all obstacies Aud db appointments, So it was vot possible to gala heavenly prizes without some disappointment and hard work. The reme prize of tite was not hap- pines, but blesseduess—the capacity to peruse the power of God, to ascertain the secret Ways of Provi- dence, Many tarn away from the work, growp Weary, if their efforts do not immediately secure tho prize Wished for, and (ieir distempered heart li ike @ piano Out of tune, God's word ta patrence. Tho impatient are like the facier whose heart 18 Sorrow- ful at a death in the jamily; the sun slunes brightly to all the world, out to him it looks gloomy all around, for his eye ts glazed by sorrow. One should cultivate faith tu the day of proaperity, for 1§ cannot be done im the day of adversiy. fhe reverend gentieman spoke of @ young man who was “Hall fellow well met,” ahd was led tnto tewp- tation by his comrades, wi at last, cespairing of reform, he took a pistol and hastened before his God. This feeling that one’s life was wasted 1s the power of God's salvation. tie then spoke of the C vinistic doctrine, “the Lord gave, the Lord taketh away, praised be His holy pawe;” of tne doctrine of rewards and punisimens, and claimed that these theorles, reward for the good, punishwont for the i, Would not fit, neither reaching the depth of the He himself came before the congregation without such theory, Sbakspeare bad nv dednite theory of life; but speaking the truth of life, ois tragedies have lasted for centuries. Novela where the good are rewarded, the wretches punished; the works used in the Sunday schools, where everybody js described as virtuous amd godly, are so many lies. The world does not move in such grooves. after Jurther urgi that we were here to prepare for someting beyond this life reaching way up to the infinite and eternal, and illustrating the upiversai brotverhood or mankind, he referred to the werght of the inheritance of the accumulated traditions of an orthodox ancestry, God did uot distrivate re- ligious belief as Le did eyes and noses, by & set pat- tern, but each one must Work 1t out Limself out of hisown mind and heart. some would amend the story of Job, as ollers woud have Hamlet marry Ophelta instead of dying. lie concluded by exbort- ing his hearers that they should get rid of the mis- take that God owed them huppiness; tuey must strike for it by hard, ncessaut work, THE EAST ANE FLOATING CHAPEL, Church, Congregation Sermon. The beautifu: and commodious Gothic foating structure Known as the Church of Our Saviour, now moored at the bulkhead toot of Pike street, East river, Was yesterday well Hiled during both the fore- noon and aiternoon services by througs of ladies and genticmen, &¢ well as has sullors, for wuose espe- cial benefit the chapel was coustruc'e: Of the latter class there were not jess (ian Untrty-fve or forty present, aud it was truly a beautifai sight to se hardy seamen, who are accusiomed to hearing little eise but oaths and profanity, fervently responding with the rest of the congregation during the opening service, or reverently kneeling during prayer, It's dijlicuit even Ww makine what good this church is doug. iow sinking the contrast between this spiricua! refuge ior sators aad the Geus of vice and corruption Which abound in tis jumediate neighvorhood, avd WAicu are ever ready and so ul im ruiuing both the mind and body of tis class 01 The the he ike street, ana supervision uf tue Key: Tus gentieuan devotes his whoie life ana to the good work velore lum. He is, how- very ably s suded ty hs wile, Who presides at the organ and bas Charge of the excedeut choir Of Sadvath seuoo: culloren Which sue bas organized and tramed. Lhe caapel Mseif is sustained by volun- tary contriuttons, watch, do not come in 8U fast as might be The sermon la th ho took eleventh ver orta wer bud, and as the garden things (iat are sown in it lo spring causeth tur forta, bo the Lord God wil cause rgiteousness and praise to spring fort before all tue uation? reacher said 10 had asl preached 1 (ue 0: seamen, since tal iv “outdoor daty Gospel Lo cougregavious of men oitca larger than 1s usually found 1a many Wed appoiied ciurckes. Mr. Kemingion preacbed avery good, pracuc MOn, And Ohe Well adapted to tue Congregation de fore Wuom he Was speaking. : THe NOATH AER GETHEL sive, Brief History of the Churfi—Nevessity of Prayer for the Pustovs-sermona by the I 0. G,. Hedstrom. This Noattog church, which 18 moored at Per 0, Novth river, was yesterday mourning visited bye large number of foreign seamen who had come to- getter to hear the Guspel preachea in thelr native tongue. This piace of Lip was eslablished some twenty years ago under we a es of the Metho- dist Mission, having for its object che spiritual wei- fare of the sailors cox to tills pore. The preseat stip, Which was formerly known as the Carrier Dove, bas only been in use a few years, The nm Clghwen years since he having tukeu ie piace of the origimal vessel when it became too ot aud disabled, Vor some years tie services were conducted m the Eaglish language, but it | attending were irc ing Jound Laat most of the eatiors WY Northern Kurope ®and Koew nothing Of Our language, 1b Was dispensed with and the Swedish subsutu t esiabiisived le hay ual & helghburheod. Fort Jeet upon the y Where the Suudays were pasted in riotiog any drinking. an entire reform bas taken pi and = now =the _—_pallory Wittin ils fasiue ajiend divine worship with 98 mur guiarhy as any other cuss Of the community. At one time these hardy seawen woud aviend im red shiris and with Unkempl jocks, dirty and frousy and frequentiy Intoxicated; bul this is all done away wiih wow, and they are as orierly and weil bebaved as any tl Tie chucch 18 now al » most or Whum core from and the ete tended by inapy the Brooklyn ciurcnes, tuese rough wen IS SLT | so rou, dar act Fins, Norwe) euler the: spect & woman, P churell 16 COMPO! The regu- ol Swedel 18, anc to: donations ary, Waich is y te Kev. © Hi che second ti G. Hea. Thessola- reat, brethrea, pray ssity of Loe people were Weak una Wors, Chat they might on Us there aud was its on by hts and as strom, W hans, Me Cliapte for us)? &c. He praying for thet mortal and ne conunne to pr in re nse lo emotions they uee cuidhood, The speaker's saad jorceabie, ant Lis remacks lag place la overy neart. in Was subg, on Which ley departed as quiedy aw scemed to Hine ihe serm they ali joiuec they lad arrived. CHURCH nd itien Oe Solemn Dedicatory Se MusicThe Leume the Rey. Dre Boyles ‘vue sp¥cious and handsome Church of the Holy Innocents, recently erecte atthe corner of Broad- way and Tutriy- ith street, was dedicated yes+ al Cou imSermon by terday with all the impressiveness and pomp pre scribed by the Koran liturgy for such an occasion. The Very Rev. m, V.G., perlormed the ser- view, attended by! the respected pastor, the Rey. Mr. kin, and @ Jarge ouuaber of priests and acolytes. churet W tiled lo overflowing by an audience made up alike of te rich and poor, the horny hana of the sons oftoil being quite as numerous as the tight fitting, deitcate lavender kids of the more fuyored children of Adam. A large number of fashionable ladies were present, bat there was an f that class of modern piety wiich consists of eqnal parts of morocco, gilt edge, easy lounges, expressive glauces and a general veulila- uon of genlility and the arts of the modiste. The music was Of & very IMgu order of excelienc she choir and orchestra being under the abie direc tion of Mr. Chrisdan Berge. Mercandante’s First mass Was given by Grafulla’g band of the Seventa regiment, and proved arich and inspiring treat w the auditory. I the credo the trio At unam by Messrs, = Colgon, Werneks, was much admired, a also the Benedictus, rendered magnificently Madame Saivotte, as Lumots apd was by soprano; Madaine Cuet 0, aud Mr. Werneke, as basso. AU the Efferwory, Madame Saivowte gave the Salve Mayia in a surly sparkling siyie and with MICH #WeEtNeEss unt Etec Tu the eventny Nindo Vespers performed. Prepar- @tory to the “inven song.” Mr. O. Berge and Dr. Willam Berge an and piano, gave ‘The Poet and the Peasant,” and at the close, the “Crown of Diamonds,” in such a masterly auger as to com- pletely captivate the conzregauon, The sermon Was preached by the Rey. Dr. Boyte from St. Mathew Xvilt., 20--“For where there are two or three gathered tuer in my naine there am Iin the midst of them.” He sald t Catholics were fortunate in having an authoritetivs terpretation of thase words—aot the mere pious application of them to those who meet for prayer which was 60 common. Tne Fatoer of the Chnreh and the most expounders beld that theso words were chiefly addre-sed to the Cuurch ieoelf, that CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE