The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1870, Page 3

| | | RELIGIOUS. | Tho Fashions, Follies and ¥riyoli- ties of Sabbath Worshippers. Tho Principles, Polemits and Pecu- liarities of Their Preachers. Themes from the Bible, Byron, Society Politics and Crime. The Gorgeous Temples of Wealthy Sin- ners and the Simple Shrines of Lowly Saints, * Blseourses ‘by Chapin, Potter, Beecher, Cuyler, " Brothimyham, Southgate, Hall, Hep- worth and Other Bistin- guished Divinex, ‘Thousaiits of worshippers thronged the streets “yeateraay morning om their way to the various places’ of, woratiip, many of them, beyond doubt, being afured from their homes by thetempting May weatlier which has thus early msinuated itself into the meteorological records of the winter of 1870. ‘The day Waa indeed @ beautiful one, tne eir genial and in- vigorating and te sunshine warm and revivifying to BuGN a degrees that winter attire'was to a greet de- gree'@iscarded, The churches were thronged'to an Uunnsual extent ana presented 4 scene of cheerful and at the same time devout contemplation. The clergy, Moreover, seemed to be influenced by the Weather and the: cousequent brilliant and Sattering Qttendance on their teachings, and ag a rule dis- played @ greater ‘amount of vigor and variety in ‘their discourses tian usual. The severe rain- storm, however, which succeeued the ser- vices and ‘continued late into the night had ® very porceptible effect upon the wor- shippers, and the congregationg were very much diminished, thia being particutarly no- - Uceable at some of the churches where subjects out Of the usual dine of discourses had been announced. Below will be found a volumtnous selection from she inore AMpertant services of the day and eveniug. A2W YORK CITY CHURCHES, GRACE CRURCH. The Art ef ffashionabie Worship~Liberalizy to Charita)sle Objects Evjotued—Discourses by Rev. Dita, Potter and 'Thwing. Grace churc h was crowded yesterday to its utmest capacity. The magnificent morning was especially (avorable to.the attendance of beauty and jasiion, @nd before tbe church bells nad ceased ringing every pew was filles’ and nearly every standing place oc- cupied. Late arnvals gained adimission only after go litte deirsy in the vestibule awaiting the result of she reconn pissance by the sexton among pew holders fr ‘just one more seat; and after . the organ: commenced tne heavy crim- gon curtains § were dr.wn acros# the doors. 1s require a brave mau to unceremoniously push aside thor curtains and lead @ party inte church. Few dardd to invoke the mysteries with. Some turned aay. and sauntered down Broadway, and the more devout patiently awaited the pleasure of the courtly Brown. Inside the church was a flood of tinted light, apiendid music, a gorgeous spectacle of plowes and laces ana digmonds, and a rich per- fame that seemed composed of all the odors. of Araby. ‘The easence of arietocracy was present. 1t pervaded ihe very atmosphere and seemed to impart decorum to tie very motes that hovered ia we sunbealns near the great stained windows, The moving of the congregation from attitudes of prayer sounded ike toe rush and ruse of a sum- mer sea on the pebbiy beach.’ The Episcopal ser- vices Were participated in by the magnificent con- gregation With rare precision and articulation, the ants Of the Choir are new and unique, and from tue mineucement Of the exercises to tue anuoUncemCIL ef the text every one seemed to vie Wit the viher iu efforts to reader the moraing’s Worship dto- dingué. Kev. Dr. Potter preached from a portion of I. Co- rinthians, x}, 2 ‘or ye suller if & man taik of you.” The things of earth, the preacher said, are but parily ours, and are iniended for bestowal upon all, ‘The injunctions o! the Gospel vo give liberally of our possessions applied to ail that we may bave of whatever nature, and in the exercise o1 charity we should devote all 1 our power to the benefit of humanity and te glory of God. There bad been @ noble benefivence ail along she Chureb’s pathway, and it was never greater than al the present day; but even the venevolence or the present ume was far behind what it should be, The splendid Obsequies to Mr. Peapouy seemed to be 4 keen sarcasm upon the rich, aud i- dicated the rarity of such liberality no less than a recognitiou of service to mankind. How few-there were of the capitausts, the bakers and merchants ¥| who would do as that Cuiisuan man bad done! And yet bis bequests had provably cost hint no tess a struggle tian might agilate the breast of other men. He was no stranger wo the love of gain, Ali the habits of his Jule were devoted to tie acquisi- tion of money; and only nis strong wil enabled him to do as he had done, George Peabody had made a nobier conquest (ian any ever gained on land or sca when he decided to give away ail tis hard-earned riches, and it 1s only when we study hig character that we can recognize now much he had to contend with. ‘ue wajority of wealthy Christians oelonged to & class wno are sareless Of charitable objects, who do not realize that they are but trustees of the weaitk in their possession, and 10 whose housenoid the precepts of uke pulpie were seifom repeated. ‘nis duconsiderate indifference (Oo objects worthy of agaislance was tbe cause of a vast amount of inefective and inadequate charity, It was tne duty pf every man not ouly to give liberally of mis wealth to the cause of the Gospel and the assistance of 8u) Dg iellow creatures, but every man should ook carefully about him and examine where shat ‘wich he has to give may be most efficacious. At the conclusion of the sermon fey, Dr. Thwing, Becretary of the Board of Domestic Missions, elo- wently appealed to the Congregation in a similar Aine of argument, souciting aid jor the Protestant Aypiscopal missiows in ube United States. 8 BROADWAY TABERNACLE. The Palpit,with a Text froma Union League Hlection CircularRey. Joseph P. Thompson eu State Appropriatiops tor Sectarian Pur= posceThat Half Million for the Schools and Aaylums. “By request” Rey. Joseph #. Thompson repeated last evening at the Broadway Tabernacle, of which he is pastor, a discourse delivered by him one week previously oa the subject of the appropriation by the Common Council during the year 1869 of $500,000 to sectarian purposes. An immense audience had been expetted, and would doubdess have been present but for the in- clement storm of fast evenitig; but, spite of this drawback, the church was comfortably filled, Amoug the many representatives from the Tem- pieot Mammon to this tabernacle of devotion were she following, who worshipped in the full con- eclousness of being in the latest fashion, a cir- cumstance very gratifying to the finer religious feelings, a8 in the body's purity and adornment 1e wind receives % certain secret sympathy:--Mr. and Mrs. Frank Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Caled B, Knevels, Mr. Jesse Hoyt, Dr. Layfatte Ranney, Mr. pnd Mra. James H. Wadsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Wilham H. Smith, Mr. and Mts. Tho- nias Whitmore, Mrs. Marsbali 0. Roberts, Mr. gud Mra. Cbaries Aberuetpy, Mr. and Mrs. John Grey, Mr. and Mrs. William §. Darling, Mr. © © Werte, Mr. and Mra ©. N, Bliss, Mr, sud Mre. B A. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Lambert, James Talcott, Mrs. L. M. Bates, Mr. and Mre. & W. Dunham, Mr. Joseph be ed Miss Kip- ley, Mr. and Mrs. B.C. Ripley, Mr, 8. W. Divdle and piece, Mr. and Mrs. Natnaniel risher, tue Misses Fisher, Mr. and Mra. L. U. Moore, Mrs. Mcintyre, the Misses Mcintyre, Mr. A. K. Yhompsop, My. aud'Mry, Wdward Curtis, Mr. George H. Clark, the Nisses Clark, Mr. and Mra, Wiliam Taytor, Mr. and Mrs, ieonurd tazeltine, Jr, Mr. aud Mrs. Weston, tho Misses Weston; My. Hamilton Gordon, the Misses don, and many other teading lights inthe [ash- sonable and religious world, fhe music was ood as amu! Under the fair Angers Of the organist, fe. Christopher, who accompanied the choir, com- posed of Miss Cuariette V. Hutcnings, alto; Mrs. eorge Brown, soprano; Mr, Brown, tenor, and ht: eorge Alltked, basso. Sexton Boyd at thecon- ciuaion of the services bowed the congregation out, ae NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Who retired ful) of fact, Agures and ideas on piety, polities and @onations.tu sectarianism. tn opening stated that the question cal or an ecclesiastical oni schools of 1aith or forms’of patience, of candor and of charity. He should adhere to the lé point of the separation of the Nh As Vital to the welfare of boty, and would expose the royustice of subsidizing rel! gious sects PY, taxing the people at | t separation of Chureh and State is wise and neces- sary for both parties. Jt 19 highly desiravie that the men + who adwinister the laws suould be religtous 11 tone and apirit, but te “State an its organic penity is not adapted to choose @ retigion or to direct in religious affairs, Religion m@ @ mater of the tndtvidual con- science, and caunot ve regulated oy law or the ma jority, Hence 1 always maintained that we had no Tight to enforce the reading of tue Bivie ad an exer- cise OP am act of devotion in the common schools. ‘The Bivie is the text-book of all Christians. But to the Jew the Now Testazent is a book of tables, and we had no more rigut 1 tusist upon teaching his chid the New Testament than he has to insist upon teaching ours the Talmud. Two versions of the’ Bible, the Douay and King James’, are in competi- tion between an Catholics and Protestants. Who should determine which shall be read? Tne majority? But that is a rule that supverts ttseif, Tne State? Imagime our legislators adjudi- cating’ upon the reigtive value of Bible ver- sions, and meting out to us our religious faith, We cannot sui ‘ne State te meddle in such amatter, Nearly twenty years ago, in Eng- laud, when te fag eee nal were clamoring for religious schools, the lecturer peiogcalied upon by Mr. Cobden, to ly before a committee of Parila- ment concerning our coulmon school system, took Sone re favor of secular school, as the only Lit State. He had ‘to see the of the English mdepend come over to that ind. His position on this it, he is not taken to mect any nt Cont bus reais upon ® principle that has been tested byexperience; thatthe State sbail not ve invoked under any pretense for the support of religion;-end, above ai), suall not pay to build up a sect. This great principle is necessary both for the peace of the State aud the purity of religion, But of lave yeare an uttempt bss been made, es- peciaily in this clty, to secureythe aid of the State dt- fectly to the support of ® particular Church—a fact notably jiuatrated in the granting to the Roman Cattolica by lease or gift of property on Fourth and Filth avenues now worth aver $3,000,000, the attempt is made use the State to teach the religion of @ sect. Readiwg tne Biole as wn exercise does not make ihe school reil- gious. There public ititution in this city where the Bible hes constantiy-in view all the day jong, and Where everybody who:newks the bevelits of tne inatt- tuuon must deciare his allegiance to the Bible; yet [ am not aware that the- Custom House has a special atmosphere of sanctity and morality through keep- ing the Bible lo swearby, And coes the wae ef the Bible keep brivery out of our courts? Religion is pot thus taught, If any children are too poerly clad to ge to school, let them be ciothed aud fed -by the common unsectartan charies of the public; or, if the State provides for them, this must be through aa upsectarian board, Why should such children be sent. w @ Roman Cathoiic school or any other sectarian schoo! at the coat of the public? If there is not room for ali tm su@ present schools let more achoo! houses be built. But with room for thousands more in the common schools, four kuudrea thous- and dollars had‘een given the past year to Roman Catholic institutions tn this city mainiy for schoo) purposes. Now what is taught im these church schooj3s which js not taught as well, {{ not better, m the common schools? Ie it arithmetic, geography, grammar, history, welling or mu- sict No. Tae one thing tht in. these schools, and the thing for which they are set up is the religious doctrine of & particular Uhurch. ‘This the Tablet ana the Catholic World openly con- tena for. in his ‘This the Kev. Mr, Preston avowed address at Cooper fnstitate. They want. the schoo) tund divided so that they Cau use It under the direc- tion of tueir priestvood im teaching tuetr own reli gion. An .ecclestastical corporation -has largely wained control of our city government, and te aim- ing to control the State eovernment for iis own ends asa church. We must resolutely oppose tats en- croachment upon we sacred principie embodied by our fathers in the organic life of the nation, and in- Bist that both religion and Lhe State shall be free and independent, ana wo taveriusm to @ny sect at the cyst of the people. CHURCH GF THE DIVINE PATERNITY, The Mow of Religion and the Rage of Fash- ton—A Rich and Rare Congregation—Sermon by Kev. Dr. Chapin. Old Sol again got up im good humor yesterday morning. He ki the brows of the tolling and working portion humanity a8 they hurried to their early devotional exercises In the hamble and unostentatious portions of the metropolis, as if to greet them with she salutation, “ How sweet tis 10. worship God in the morning of itfe.” While he was thus ed down town, he was likewise very offictous on Fifth avenue, in the pelgnbomongg gf eke Church of the Divine Paternity. Here, around the lattices of many a fair lady and brave gentieman, he shimmered and iIqughed and gilntea hither and hither, trying to poke bis nose m through tne heavy biinds and arouse the sleepers after the cares afd wiles of a week of city life into a sense Of their religious duty, by warn- ing them that it was fast approaching fashionable chureh time, and unless they aroused and dressed hastily they would never be able to reach Dr. Cha- pin’s churco by eleven o'clock, the hour at which the exercises there usually com- mence. By @ great deal of persistent effort, he at last arouses them, and having made hasty, though very careful tollets, and partaken of still more basty breakfasts, they emerge from their palatial residences, and bie, accompanied by old Soi, down the avenue to the temple of their favor- ive preacher, where many of them are astonished to see that mumbersare there before them—that the alsies are Iringed with gay and sparkling tollets, and the pews pretty largely occupied by similar material. But the Sin pauses at the door and does not accompany them into the church, Why? Because the location of the church ts such that it would be extremely inconvenient for bim to deviate from the path he has marked out tor himself, and so he is convent with perching bim- self on the roof, dancing around there, clapping his hands, and singing in a gleerui voice, ‘I hope the people im there are a8 happy as 1... Had ne been permitted to enter the sacred edifice he would have shed a halo of giory throughout. He could have shot swiftly from oue pew to the other in his own peculiar and frolicsome way, toying and coquetting atmiong some of the most magnificent headgear that éver adorned the peautiful apexes of the fair. He, too, conid bave kissed many a pa'lid cheek and woke tuto life and sparkling joveiinesa’ many a jangmd @ad languishing beile as she leaned back with un air of enniut in her pew. But let us see Who we have inside, in addition to those whose uames have aiready appeared in the HeBaLD:—Mrs. George Kellogg, Mra. Davison, nve Miss Chapin, a daughter of Dr. Chapin; Mrs. Neea ham, me Miss Montrose; Mrs. Sturgis, nce Miss Euesworth; Mra. Honeyville, nie Misd Marshail; Mrs. Matthewson, me Miss Kent; Mrs. Kendall, nee Miss Mellon; the Misses Banks, Mellon, Osborne, Skenck, Smitu, Cort, Woolley, Peters, Punt, Dudley, Montrvee, Kellogg, John and others. among the young aud fascinating gentlemen were observed care, or resting on bosoms whose lords it isto be hoped, for this day at least, sit lightly on their thrones. Asto the men, It is agreeable to them to Go to church because the women go, and then it looka well and is @ help to social stapaing and business matters, having often @ good effect in the more solemn and serious week day matters of credita and discounts. More than it full share of the church attendants yesterday turned their faces and steps toward that capacious and beautitul church edifice, tue Ohurcu of the Mes- sian, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth atreet. Pews, aisies, steps and even all the standing room were tiled, "The i oocasion Oo: tis crowd yesterday was the geveral taterest atvaching to the subject anneunced for the morning dis- course, ‘Heaven and Hell,’ und a special interest to hear what Kev. George H. Hepworth, the pastor of the church, would have to say on this theme. Of course the congregation embraced tue men of large wealth and men eminent in the professions, the regu- Jar attendants @t this churcu, a8 weil as ladies prom}- ent in the world of fasnion, ‘The preiminary services were in accordance with the usual formala of Sunday lorenocon worship here, As the congregadon were coming in Mr. Edward Howe, Jr., the organist, prepared their minds for Ws coming services by ® series Of voiuntarics on the (a. —muaio of semi-sprighily character—diffusag ry thelr exceliemt melodies joy and gladness threagh every heart, Next came Te Deum, by Mozart, eung by the choir; Mrs. Ficher, soprano; Misa L. E. Rasbly, contralto; Mr. Whiting, tenor, and Mr. Sbatiucl basso, 1¢ Was sung magniticentiy, the Vivices in solos and concert Hiling tue capacious lempie with thelr grand meiody. In the further order ‘of music came that beautiful composition of Schuner4, “Know My Soul, Thy Full Saivation,” and then :sfeer tee hymn of Jackson—‘Giory Be to Tate, O Following thia was a congregationai tiyann, And now came the sermon. #uéh @ sermon | No lew ines of printed abstract oan give any idea of ite logical wer and the polished elo- quence of ite diction, He fas preached no sermom during his pastorate of thi church revealing more mowing energy Of astyi¢ and more striking originality of *tuough, His text was Romans viil., 6—“For to be cernally minded 13 death, put to be spiritually ménded is ite du: He began with the extreme views entertained upon the su. tof Heaven and Heil, When he was a boy he aged, he remembered, to think that the heaven, am taugnt ‘by some—a heaven of perpetual singing—would not suit bim, a8 having Wo muck of & wm was not-heaven, Neither way-beaven on the planet Saturn nor m the grew ceutre of the unt- verse. ‘Phe good mau was always in heaven. Heaven was ail about him—in bis jie and acts. They could bring heaven down to them now. ‘The man was no Chriatian who was not always in heaven. When they died they shuitied off the body @ud the soul was only still ia heaven; but it was a heaven @ littie nearer God—a heaven where tie stars are brighter and the fowers endowed with a more delicious fragrance. Qn the subject of the Judgment Day he spoke at considerable length. He denounced this theory im terms of eloquence. God wade no bargains. Getting to heaven was no part of apy contract— nO mater of sale and purch: their own judges, Passing from thts subject and a glowing description of tne perpetual heaven awalt- lug the good and true and novie of this life, be pro- ceeded to give nis views.of hell. If he was grandly eloquent in bis discourse of heaven he was incom. parably 80 upon this latver topic of his theme. He annihilated the hell of fre and brimsvone. He plantea bei) in 2 wan’s own bosom. Heaveu was tho Tesult of obedience to God; heli was the result of disobedience, They could have either, We Lave Said that he was vuusually eloquent yesterday. Once, when referring 1o Hugene Arai as & sample of the hell @ man can make for himseli, he became so warmed up with bis theme that—a very unusual thing for bim to do—ns puiptt could hardiy hold him. He steppea out one side, and tne picture he drew of this umn of strong passions, who in one Moment made @ perpetual heli sor himself by mur- der, was almost july vivid. ‘The effect of his sermons hes greatly tn their strong antithetical cha- racter—in their alternations from the most impas- sioned and lengthy sentences. Succeediug the ser- mon the choir chanted the Lord’s Prayer, and then the con; tion sang the hymn beginaing “Nearer, mg God, to ‘Thee’? At the iow, poll music of the organ dhe congregation dispersed. ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. Religious Pomp and Splendid Coremonlal— ‘Wealth, Fashien and Melodious Accompa- niyent--Sermon by the Rev. De. Mctilyun, This magnificent edifice was yesterday crowded to its utmost capactty—iu other words, over five thousand persons worshipped at last mass, waice was marked with the wsuai solemnity. It wase glorious dey, and the splendid appearance of the In- terlor was displayed to. ite fullest advantage. Among the many objects of devout attention ts the grand painting of the crucifixion, executed by Italian artista, at the cost of many thousand dol- Jars. It is forty-four fee. by.twenty-eight, and is suspended behiud the reredos. From above streams the work and imparting to it an aliaost supernatural beauty. surediy the product of genuine art, costly, also, appropriate for such @ spacious edifice, The sur- roundings are iM unison, massive, precious and characterized by much splendor. The cost of the painting and altars 1s said to have exceeded $50,000, They are a glorious tribute to the sincerity of tae congregation, who have spared nothing to render bt. Stepnen’s one of the most beautiful reagious temples in Lhe metropolis, the assemblage yesterday was, as on all previous occasions, Varied In the extreaic. Wealth and pov- erty knelt wide by side, Dame fashion bemg modestly represented. Indeed, there was but little of the bouncing display, quiet respectability being rather the prevailing feature. Among the congregation were large numbers of merchants, brokers, physi- clans and tradesmen. Among those occupying pews in the centre alsie, near the railings, were Dr. Marcy, Senator Murphy, Bryau Lawrence, Dr. Hewiti, ‘Thomas Giover, Dr, Hmiett, Seiors Ribon, Rivera and others. The celebrant was the Rev. Dr. Mc- Sweeney, who, attended by the acolytes, commenced the last mass at lait-past ten o'clock. At the termi nation of the first Gospel the Rey. Dr. McGlynn axcended the pulpit and preacued a lengthened aud tractive sermon, taking lis text from the second pistie of St. Paul w the Corintitans, xi. 6—“fFor } mnyself I will glory in nothing but my intirmities,” The reverend gentleman wenton to say that Christ's redemption was $0 abundant @ reparation of the primevai fault that it had lifted man toa higher sphere even than that over which he had falien; so that St. Angustine was beld enough to say, “Ub, happy fault that has deserved so great and so Won- derful a redemption.” Yet, in strange opposition to tne longings of the Jewish people for teuiporal pros- perity was che result of the baviour’s coming, and even of the enjoyment and well veing which Would have ‘been tie consequence of Adams fidelity. Carist had not oe to reverse the temporal penalties of the sin when He came to atone for it, but rather gave ol the very penalties themsetves to he exile, labor, thorns, griels and the thousand ilis that Nesh 1s heir to, He did not reverse the sentence, “By the sweat of thy brow thou shalt earn thy bread,” or the other, that from the earth shoud spring forth thorns, but rather in His own peraon and by His own exatople dig He bless the iron hand of labor and by the sweat of fis brow consecrate the earth that had been cursed and of the very thorns He bound upon His brow that was His joyous diadem, He did not reverse the sentence of death, but rather made oi the instrument not only of death but of the and Messre. Willlam M. Banks, Calawel!, Thomas, Davis, Pith Komaine, Watson, Cort, Siuclair and others. Rey. Dr. Chapin took the text of his discourse from the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, twentieub, twenty-first and twenty-second verses— “And behold a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind Him and touched the hem of His garment; for she said within herself, ‘If | maywbot touch His garment Isnall be whole,” Sc. On the above words of St. Matthew the reverend doctor preached an able and eioquent sermon, which, however, was almost strictly of a ‘theological character. He drew @ parallel between the healing of the daughter of the ruler who had petitioned Christ for the same and that of the poor woman who jad touched the hem of His gar- ment, and said that, though both mnracles were performed under different circumstances, yet (hey pointed tothe same reeuit, namely—that true Chrisiianuy was a belief in Christ, and that no outward forms -or ceretuonies were wecessary Ww achieve salvation. Le also alluded to the fallacies Of the-various sects of Christians and their quarrel: ling over dogmas, rituais and forms of worship, whieb, iter oe were Of No account whatever, but merely tue scadoidings and surroundings by whica they sought to ciumb to the pure and unosteutatious essence of true religien, Both belore and wfter the services, the religious infucnce Which the HERALD 18 exercising sung the people was ireely akd lavorably canvassed gniong sume Of the leading members of the churco. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. fleaven and Hell os Expounded by Rev. George H. Hepworth—A Large Congrega- Aion and an Eloquent Discourse. Yesterday's bright and beautiful sunshine was henignly propitious to Sabbath worshippers. The pure, crisp air waa electric with life. There was stimulation In ite invigorating and bracing vitality, All accustomed to go to chaych Went, and many mot so regularly accustomed, whom an overclouded sky ordamp pavement easily entices to stay at home, yesterday pucon their finest array and repaired to Lhe sacred edifice for their Sabbath worship. It waa an admiravie day for tue Jadies to show new bonnets to advantage, new styles of dresses, new combinations, m fact, of all the britant hues of tle rainbow @s shown in the gaudy plumage of tropleal birds, in variously colored silks aud satina and velvets, in the brightest of buight greatest ignominy a blessed siga of His religion, the most priceless jewel tn the treasury of His Church and theg noblest armament even of imperiai crowns—the sign of the cross. Hence, tu opposition to the world’s tendencies, its comfort, pieasure and she joys of home He sald, “Blessed are they that mourn; blessed are the poor.” In spirit and by His example He bad shown us that tt was easier to be poor in spirit when we were poor in d It was fee fd aublime religious enthusiasm be wrote ‘How lovely ‘ony aboutit, Such | ceuding and descending to and from the abodes of scathing | and the senses and imagination had noting where- ase. Men were | pageant or rubrical pomp; long and earnest extem- down the light, fully exhibiting the great merit of The effect is rendered additionally impos- ing by the.marbvle altar uuderveath, spotiess and ap- parently simple tp its construction, yet most as- | was lull of questions, aud many of them Lull vi sug. held, at which Rev. Mr. I gacock oMectated. Chii- areu’s church was b o’clook in the atter- oon, and at @ quarter p’ gst three another teachers’ meeting. At tour o’ClO gk @ ebiidren’s prayer meet- fing convened, and G‘ seman service—a majority of the residents in the D eighborhood being Germans— Was had at the same,tme, Bibie class prayer meet- ing followed at six @elock aud the regular evening nervice at halépa ge seven in the evenivg. ‘Lhe ser’ ion 10 the fore" om was delivered by Kev. Mr. Leas COCK, Who took for hia text St. Luke vit, 9—" When Jeaus heard thee things he marvelled ot Dim, and turned bim @ pour, and said unto the people that followed hwy 4 way unto you I have not found so greak full), “no, nov in ‘Israel.’ The reverend speaker 4 gtatied tie biblical account, a8 given in Us Chap’ Ar of the Gospel according to St. Luke, of the ceaturion senuing to Jesus, asking him to heal, tus servant, and of the conduct of the contuéon and his frends towards Christ; how tuey Oui’ sled themaslves in nis presence and evinced Bre 4b faith in nis divine authority. This was a les~ 80.4 0 mankind, who should be bumble belore God # ad have faith in bis power, At this Mission churci ‘Mere are prayer meetings, Bible classes, sewing socivty, sewing school for girls, mothers’ mectings and lectures every evening tu the week, the proceed: inga being aiternately conducted ta tue German and BKuyg)ish languages. FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Simple Ceremonial and Extemporary Prayer— Shoddy im His Sunday Mood of Mind—snobs and Fiirte=Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Hall. tia diMeult © imagine that the inspired Psalmist’s Prescience conjured up to him in gifted vision any of the churches in “the avenue’? when tn a burat of are thy tabernacies, oh, Jacob, and tay tents, oh, Iprawl!? Loveliness there is, no doubt~and of the mugaest form of excellence—in tne vonception of re- ‘gious worahtp aud also in the realization of the idea in prayer, though In very varying degrees ac. cording to the pecullar forms of thought and theo- logy prevalent among the priests and elders who preside. Bat the world has invaded the sanctuary and carried the citadel by storm. Heaven is no longer looked up to as of old; and Jacob with a stone for hia pillow: and with visions of ange's as- the blessed is vas entirely unlike the modern idea of worship a any two things can possibly be. The eloquence ef the Rev. Dr. John Hall was evi- dently the magnetic influence which crowded the Presbyterian chyrch at the corner of Nineveenth street and Filth avenue yesterday morniug. The service was of & simple and devout character, devoid of external symbol and ceremonial. The great Creator was the direct object addressed and praised, with to occupy them in the shape of religious porary prayer, alternated with simple, pathetic hymns and anthems, which latier the chow, with a | beside God’s house. neediess partianty, gave lor the special beuesit of those adjacent to it. ‘The characteriatio features of the congregation Were not very marked. ‘hey were those usually worn on Sundays by shoddy-rich, proud and self- satisfied. The very opposite of the prayer of the canting Pharisee of oid, viz., 1 don’t fast twice In the week, nor do 1 give large alms, would seem to & casual observer to pretty accurately represent the common snowaiing senument of trong. Devout people, of — course, Were tere, mouraing aver the uugodiiness of men und the petversity of (he world, and happy With an interiér consciousness that by grace they Were made righteous and had washed their gar- ments with tne biood of the Lamb. ‘The undevout aud Worldiy well, however, always arrogate to them- selves more attention upon church festivals thaa the humbly wise and godly, Hence tt was that some unpertinent displays of snobbery come ‘in for a large share of notice. Young gentlemen well known on the avenue, with neckties red and ultramarine enough to saualy the artistic tatsces of even ‘ostiers and jockeys, smouthed their Napoleonic mustaches with the ivory aud gold heads of their bamboo ounes, glancmmg about vacantly in the Duudreary Jaamon and evidently performed the difficult task of praying li the haw haw style, Some of the ladies had evidently been at great pains ‘*to get themselves up’ for church, and had drawn from the latest and most favorably Known Parisian cosmetiques their vest churms. Hence tuey were looked at, and the apecial notice taken of that portion of their veauty which was lereizn showed that it was particularly admired. ‘The sermon was deilvered from the eighth ehap- ter of the Gospel of Dt. John, forty-sixtu verse— “Which of you convinceth wie of siut And if | say the truth why do ye not believe mer” Dr. Mall first drew ® portrait of Socrates. Ay a teacher and philosopher he regarded him as the greatest who Preceded Jesus Curis, tis method of instruction Was peculiar and cuaracteristic. He addressed bim- self to ail sorts O4 persona—to men, women aud children—ang he imstructed them cultefly by ques- Uona and crovs-queations, sometimes inquirtug of themn what was justice, What mercy and truth, and pareve during the progress of his interrogations clear aud definite ideas on these terms and on the Drst principles upon which they were based. This Was also the method of the Saviour. The Gospet gestive thought were leit unanswered, in order Liat men might ponder upon them aud draw irom tiep Spiritual sussepance, His text that moment was # query of immense import. Why did not the Jews and Gentiles ac- cept the truth which was offered themy The Jews did it not because it disappointed thelr ambiuon and mocked ineir hopes of being a people first in worldly wealth und greatness. Theu they did not aci because their priests were filled with spi Malice against the Kedeemer, With the «i abd men generally other causes were a¢ work which lead em wo reject the truth, Sometumes the preachers of Christianity were sliterate and vulgar, aud badly recommended Christan philosophy (o their bearers, At other stmes men nut religiously educated, but Whose secolar education was every- thing tiat could be desired, were deluded with the fallacious 1oea that Ourisulanity lacked the refine- ment appertainiog to the arts, literature and -{ science, But the vast body did not receive the tran because of igoorance. Jeople well instructed other- wise tovally misunderstood religion, because it formed no portion of their school or collegiate course. He called their attention to ine remarkabie and painful fact that now, When a movement was bemg made to close up the sacred volume lu the public schools, it Waa never opened in private schools, at which children attended at great cost to their parents; and here it was that moral contagion, witch spread quickest in the dark, had spread so widely around, Some men looked upon religion as full of restraint, a kind of moral police reguiation, apd shunned it upon thas account. He was nov wong to deny that to the indojent and woridly Muinded religion was not sul) of restrainis, But they should change their minds and puton @ Chrisuan spirit, and then they would find what peace ana sweetness there was to tue righteous, Besides 1no- Trance and mdifference anutwer, and perhaps more powerful, euemy vo religion and retigious trath was a love of sin. People wio did not love sin for its own sake loved it because of certain connections, habits and fascinations, und vainly flattered themseives that the time would come when they would abandon it—oue of the oldest andmost backneyed devices of the devil to delude wen, To such the p 1 ad dvessed a perorauion fuil of force and feciing, implor- ig therm to retara to God and live, aud concinded 40 able sermon with tue Ustial Denison. WEST FORTY-FOUNTH STREET UNIT:D PRESBYTE. AN caacd, The Holiness ef the Bible-The Charch of Rome and the Public Schools—Sermou by Rev. G. Camphell. This plain and wopretending church 1s situated on it had referenge only to the Old, for the ment was not then written, are holy is evident from their author—God—the holy one of Israet-the cent men. there | equat name and far New Testa- | ‘That the Scriptures tre’ also from their pen- God did not employ the wicked, put the righteous to write bis word. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit—Moses, Davida, Peter and Paui—ali the a menses were holy, “The words ord,” says David, “are pure words; tnelr tone dency and ‘end. are to make men holy. ‘They may be known by young people. Timothy knew them from a child, and wo may all young people. Now, to know them we must possess them, read them carefully and prayerfully and practice them, The knowledge of the Scriptures ia of the reatest Lunportance. It isthe sword of the Spirit. it shows us our need of @ Saviour, It cals & Saviour to ws—Christ—abie and willing to save. It tells us the Way of saivation through faith in Crist. From this we learn the importenes ‘of @ knowldge of the Scriptures, the duty of parents to iustruct their cuilareu in @ Knowledge of the Scriptures, the value of the Sabbath school, with its one great book, the Bible. Itshows the vileness of those who would take the Bible out of our common schovls and thus rob the young of its invaluable lessons, With such they had no sympathy, whesher they minister at & Romish altar or preach from 4 Protestant palpit, or deliver their puilippics in the Senave louse, ‘The Bible ia the only oasis of true morality, It is our only infallible guide in this dark workt, Its teacty ings alone can prepare us for heaven, Let us, then, cling tot, Let us contend for it In our common schools, Let us have the young leavened with its ganct ne truth. Let us tasertbe upou our banner “We will never give up tle Bibie.” COLLEGIATE REFOAM:O QUTCH CHURCH. The Persounel of the Church shippera=the Pastor, Hin Prea His Discourse on Faith, on the corner of Fifth avenue and Tweutys-nintt street stands the principal church edifice of the Ke- formed Protestant Dutch denomination in this city. It was built about twelve or fourteen years ago and cost $260,000. Itisa fine granite building, with & tower pointing heavenward second in beight only to old Trinity itself. On the pinnacle a golden rooster swings himself around with every passing breeze and indicates the changes in our changeabie weather, He does not, however, mdicate the instability or waveringness of the doctrines breached within, which are of the purest kind and delivered with commendable earnest- ness and eloquence. A fine clock that. has stood many a storm still truly indicates the hours of passing day, and doubtless oft reminds the wor- shipper and the careless one of the coming of the angel to announce that “time shall be no more." A few trees shade the sidewalk, and in summer ‘me the sparrows make merry therein, and for their accommodation in winter two or three neat litte houses hang agalust the church walla; so that the birds of the air Dave nesta” and shelter themselves ‘The churca ts lange and roomy aud the audience room 18 accessible from the avenue and the street, It is capabie of accommodating about 2,000 persons, but the ordinary congregations do not number much wore than one thousand. The “church was built by the New York Coilegiate Board, and is under 31s contro}, 80 that its pulpit 18 noc al- ways supplied by the same sufnister. At present the Rev. Dr. Thomas S$, Chambers instructs the eople from Sabbath wo Sabbath. The venerable Dr. 1 Watt, Dr. Duryea, of Brooklyn, and others of have ministered to tht Along its meinbership are bankers, mai n- ohureh, chants, editors, lawyers and professional met cluded among them are such bames as De Pe 4 of Thirty-sixth street; Ogden, of Twenty-eiguin street; Beekman, of Twenty-eighth street; De Wit, Stuyvesant, Bourne, G. G. and J, R. Stusith, Duryee, Vermilyea, Bower, Buroap, Hosford, Van Wyck and their fanuiies, and many others of standing tn society, The Rey. Dr. Chambers preached yesterday torn- ing from the text, Heorews xi., i—*Now faith is the substance ol things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Basing bis remarks upon this verse tis discourse was an eloquent argument against the insidious mfideity = of the present day, that places reason above faitu and vorows overboard a8 unworthy of credence whatever cannot be reconciled with reason. This epistice, he said, Was written to Hebrew Christiana who had been educated in rites and ceremontals that appealed most strongly to the senses, and the Apostie designed oyiit to relieve their minds from @hy undue expectations that they might have of im- posing ceremonies Connected with tue new religiou, ‘The text ja @ popular expression of what faith actu- ally t#, aud vot @ scholastic aeflnition of it. ‘Tae active principle of Christianity in ali ages, he in- sisted, 1% the assurance of that whic is promised— the convicuon of that whicd is notseen. We may acquire knowledge by intuition or by reason, Asan Allustrauon of the former we may say that a whole is greater than U3 paris, aud if @ maa denies tins tere us an end of tue argument; for if he cannot per- ceive it by the mere stavement of the proportion no argutpent Will convince him. But reason says toghim Vhat he must study aud exaniine only chat waich he sees—the tasterial. Faith, on the other hand, bids him ook from the seen to the unseen, from ive ma- tersal to the spiritual, ‘The faith of the Scriptures is always intelligent, always reasouavie, ft takes Tacts—material twow—and froin the deduces ver- tain other facts, that are vot of the eartn earthy, and on these it buida a atracture of religtou. Deu: or deatroy @ persouai God and there is an end of ail religion. There 1s no evideuce in history thas man- kiud has ever worabipped that which they believed bo be inferior to themselves; but reason wouid have us turn away feom the rahonal aud inteliigent to that which is gross and incapabie of reason. Aud if we admit the existence of @ personal God we must also admit the possibility at least of # reveiation by Him to His creatures, There are some truths which no amount of reasoning soever could bring us to—such as, for instance, the velef in tue ‘Triuity, the divinny of Clrist aod kindred doctrines. These We accept by faito, But fasth 18 not disputed except in reiigio matiers, We exercise it datly in commercial in tere and Do one finds fault with it or raises an op- jection to itsexerclse. We correspond with men whom we have pever seen, and upon each others mere asqurances lumense cargoes of the the earth are exchanged. God has ui 8 LO Us and given Us c vept them tits 18 fatth—tue faich of the Gos- pel and the faith of commerve, One and the same, lo- teiligent and reasonable. ‘The foregoing is but a brief outline of the drift of the aiscourse, waich was deilvered in @ steady, clear voice, and with tie most periect articulauon, ‘The Doctor's reading, bowever, partakes more of 8 priestly intonation than ts usuaily to be heard in Kefsormmed churctes. Next Thursday being the last inursday in february, he announced tuat there would be @ union religious service in Madison square Presbyterian churca, at witch prayer would be offered for collewes and addresses be given vy Dra. Paxton, Adaus aud Jobn dial. CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY REDEEMER, Whut is a Sermen and How Shall It be Listened tof=Sermon by Kev. Father Holaus—The Forty Hours Devotion, This large church, op Third street, beiween ave- nues Aand B, erected by the numerous German Catuolics of the Seventeenta ward, ts tu charge of te Fathers Congregationis Sanctissiméi Redemp- toris, usually Kuowo by the abbreviated name of the Kedemptorist Fathers, Tue attendance is usually very large, especiaily during high mass, and 80 it was also yesterday forenoon, Rev. Father Holaus preachea the sermon in the Ceftban Tin- guage, on the characier of the sermon and how good Catholics and Christians should listen to it. West Forty-fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, in a neighborhood where sound religious d. the characteristic instinct of the Catholic heart to feél that every charitable thought which was enter- tamed, even 4 cup of cold water given for Christ’s dear sake, had its eternal reward. The reverend genticman concluded by obyerving that deeds of renunciation and self-sacrifice on tne part of Catholics should not seem strange to any professed Christian, aud that he was @ shrewd ob- server who first made the remark, although playful and somewhat exaggerated, that “comiort’ was not @ Catholic word. ‘The reverend gentleman called attention to the exhibition’ of the juventie choir of St. Bernard’s church, to be given ‘at Cooper Insti- tute, o& Friday next, for the veuetit of the destiiute Cuban families of thin city, Under the direction of the talentea organist, Mr. George W. Morgan, the music at St. Stephen's yes- terday was admirably rendered and contributed nuta little to the grandeur of the services. Henry Farmer's beautiiul mass was performed, aud it inay be added shat fall justice was done to thatinspiring compos! tion. Schmitz’s Veni Creator, a melodious quartet, was likewise included, Signor Colletti leading of ‘with the Hine bass sulo, Al tue ofertory Signor Boy sang tue Cujus Animam, The manner in which the Agus Det waa given also merits commendation, of whicn Madame de Lussan weil deserves ashare. The Darp accompaniment by Mr. Toulmin was beautiful, as 1c Was appropriate. As the congregation left the church Mr, Morgan played Bach’s fugue in D in tis usual masterly styie. The services terminated about hall- past twelve o'clock. } CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY. The Lower of Faith—Missionary Unbors— Sermon by Rev. B. B, Leacock. The Church, or, rather, Missionary Chapel, of the Epipbany ia located at No. 140 Stanton street, in tue midst of & numerous tenement. house population, believed to be in need of eiforts for their moral eleva- tion, ‘The services at this church are according to the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and are conducted under the direction of the fev. Mr. B. | B, Leacock. Judging from the programme of ser- | vices and meetings held in the course of a week, this church may do great good in a religious point of view to theentire neighborhood. Yesteraay morn- ribbons, in neatly fitting gloves of every imaginable shade of color, and, last and not least, in the scintl- Jating splendor of diamonas Gashing on dainty Angers oF pendeys from mont symméwieally sbaned teaching can oaly be beneficial. The pastor, Rev. Mr. G. Campbell, thougi# not so eloquent as some or our prominent city diyines, appears to be a well “read theologian and 1s certainly a stout defender of the faith of the Covenanters. Yesterday sorenoon— the chureh being well Biled with a goodly number of stern Presbyterians—Rev. Mr. Campbell took for bis text IL Timothy if., 16—"And that from a chila thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which 18 in Christ Jesus.” The Church of Kome pro- Tesses to be the oniy true Church on earth, and declares that wittin her pale alone salvation is tobe found. Sucn being her modest pretensions, one would naturally suppose that the Bible would be very dear to her; that she would prize lt above every other book. and that she would use hier wealth, influence aud zeal in Laving copies of 1t maluplied and put at least into ihe hands of ner adierents, Fro) her‘pretension this would be no extravagant expectation to form regarding her. But is it sot Alas! 10. Ia it not @ fact that whe elevates tradition above the Bible; that she tw an enemy of the Bible; that she opposes its circulation; that she withholds it from her people? fer adverents are not allowed to possess or read ine Bible unless they receive a Mcense from the priest, and if they do they break her law and are exposed to her discipline. and wiy does she withhold the Bible? Because she says it 18 #0 profound, so absiruse, chat the common. peo- ple could not understand 1, and they would wrest it to their own destruction. Butis not this a lve: on the wisdom and goodness of God, contrary to reason und the desigu of the Bible and at war with ite precepts and examples’ What! a revelation, and to the masses of manktad, aud yet novaing revealed! What! so profyaua, abstruse, biysterious, and yet can ve comprehended by a child! We admit that there are mysteries in the ivie that angels cannot solve, depths which man cannot fathom; but this ww nob its general characier. Int there le much that is plain, simple and easy. All that is requisite to tbe salvation of the soul ts there. Pau! thought 80, and in tue text tells us that sonag children may know che tloly scriptures, “and that from ® chiid,’’ says he to'fimothy, “thou hast known tne Holy Scriptures.” The Scriptures then are holy; they may be wn by young people, and the knows ing et eight o'clock there was a teachers’ prayer Meeting. Sunday school opened at nine, conducted by @ number of lay geutiemen irom various pars of Me auy. At hallpast ep moraing pervice was ledge of them is of the greatest importance. Toe word Scriptures weans writings, and it in He wok tor his text the parable of the sower, {rom the eighth chapter of the Gospel according to st. Luke—"A sower went out to sow bis seed, and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, and it was trougen down, aud the fowls of the air devoured it; and some fell upon a rock, and as soon as it was sprang up it withered away, because ft lacked moisture; aud some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and Cloked 1t; and other fe on good ground, aud sprang up and bare fruit a hundred lold. And when he said these thingy he cred, He uh hath ears to hear let lim near,’ The sermon, said the reverend father, was to received with @ well prepared ‘heart, brougnt to a condition to listen to the Word of Wod, that it may bring Jorth fruit and that it fail not wthong thorns, nor by the wayside, nur on rogks, ‘There should also be protouud attention practwed. Magdalene gat at the Jeet of the Lord andcared not for the work! around her, but only for the words of her Master, To practice thls attenuion and to in- Grease it the peopie shouid follow the advice of St. Augustine, Who said wat a sermon was like « letter Jroin home, for I 18 ® apes ive from on high, our heavenly home. Jt is hot the person of the preacher to whom they should do homage, for he is merely dike the letter carrier; uobody cared for him, put for \he contents of the etter né brought. Bus it was #iso necessary to retain the truths of the sermon, that they may bear iruit, otherwise it would be like the wan gazing Into & wirror aud Witose image passes away when he turus aside. They should not iliow the exampie of Si. Peter, who heard the Lord speak Yet dewied dim three umes; had ne retained the words ol the Lord ne would not have denied bim, Carelessness, imaitentivencss at church was w aint they suould repent of 11 ave form a resolution never to be guilty. 1 all peopie would aduere to these rules tuey Woud ali be beter nen morality, and sueir moral improvement Would teil upoa their worldly prosperity. Betore tue serion the reverend father made the anvoun ement that on Sunday next, at five Bcigek 1 the morning, there will vegin the “forty hours? aevotion,” euding on the Tuesday following, at seven o'clock in the evening. ‘the ceremonies wiil be of the most solemn Kind, as they usualy are on Such occasions at unis popular churen. ‘The services Dogin, as stated, on Sunday morning at five o'clock. WILL he Aisa Keposiiionis, oF EXposition ligh Mass, at waich the Sanctissimum will ve removed from the tabernacie and exposed to the view of the fauntal during the day unwl seven in the eveuing. Aé Uus early Ligh mass there will bewo sermon. At ten A. M. on Sunday ana wt nine A, M. on Tuesday there will be Gigi mues and sermons, and on Sun- applied tothe bible by way of eminence. Now it Anoudes the New lestament, but when Paw wrote day and Monday at seven P. M. tuere will be vespers: closing ceremonies take place, at.which a solemn Ta Deune wil be chanted aaa & procession had, in which some miitary companies wil take Daring ail tree caya, while the “lHoliest of the Holy’ ts exposed to public View, a guard of soldiers, volunteers, will be stationed in tie chancel as » “guard of honor.” ‘Toia featival will be maugurated oD Saturday evening oy the ringing of tue chimes on the tower of the church. All the imeinvers of this congregation and a large number of Catholics throughout the city are already waking prepara Hoa Co Jorn iy this reugious feast ALL SOULS? CHURCH, Its Distinguished Attendants, Fine Masie and Weaith, Fasbion and Beauty. All Souls’ church, at the corner of Nineteenth street and Fourth ayenue—a temple of worship which the Rey. Heury W. Bellows has filled with bis polished eloquence for many years—is the leading Unitarian cuurch of America, Dr. sellows is @ preacher of such rare capacity and erudition that hundreds whe believe in liberai Carisuanity, a few wno hold to the divinity of Christ, and even some who are rank Trinitartans, atvend his services, every Sauday, The congregation numbers over 3,000. It 19 composed of gentiemen of intellect, distinction, wealth and fashion, Literary men form an important element; and particularly the col- lege graduates of New Khgiand, All Souls’ cburen 1s probably visited by as many slrangers as any other in the city. This 1 because Dr. Bellows has feise as a fervid orator and repute as an elegant writer, ius services a@ President of the United States Sanilary Commission, which were almost boundiess and liberal; his well known devotion to the benef that Christ was more than a good man, a ten- dency bardiy followed by the majority of Unitarians, and the maniy ana outspoken stand which he re- cently took at the May anniversary of bis Church, in which he deciared hts repugnauce to casting away the landmarks of religion and eatapliahing unlimited license even vo inidelity among free thinkers—these ail bave given him an admiration which can be sound in a congregation aggregating hundreds who do not participate in the dogma of Unitaranism. Yesterday moruing the gathering was large, be- cause of the soltness of the breezes and tie tempt ing invitation of ihe weatter to richly clad jea- triaus. Most every seat was occupied at the in uing Of the service. fhe sexton, who is an edition of Brown himself, without Brown’s* volubility, bound in patent leather and emboseea in a shirt front and shapeless broadcioath, from which there seemed to radiate a pleasant courcesy, handed the members of the church to their pews, and also the visitors, ‘without a list of last year'a income returns pripted upon bis memor The ladies were draj in pretty coatum and some even wore me and recherche toilets, among them bat of the charming Mrs, Joho Hoey, Ermine, all leinds of valuable skins, astrakbans, silka Mm colors, satins, velvets, laces, jeweis of quantity and quality, bewitching hats, Nair on the iutest models, switches, mbbons und jaunty ornaments were deposited in the differ- ent ald y eleven o’ciock. The genticmen were dressed neatly as a rule. It is hardly their privlege to dress otherwise. If any one doubts the weaith and inteliect of the society, jet him peruse their names:—here Vile Mam Cullen Bryant, who in youth gave us “Thana- topsis,"’ but who now ip his gilvery years has brought out tae unpressive tmagery of Ho- mer in English verse. Tue nature-lover is a constant attendant. there 1s Peter Coover. From poetry to philanthropy— ‘His sunpie-hearted character is visible upon bis face, Kor years he has been an admirer of Dr, Beliows. Moséa H. Grinnell, another metropolitan veteran, the Collector of the Port, # Werchani known for nis activity im assisting Accte explorations aud opening his generous purse to ais worthy object#, is also there. Josepn H. Choate, of the New England Soctegy and Unton jae, it another worsnipper. Tue perry 4 hand of some hired poltroou prevented the attendance of Dorman Raton, who now lies upon a bed ot sickuess. Dr. Augustu@ K. Gardner, author and physician, with hie beautiial aaughters, is related to Dr, Beilows, and also attends, Mr, T, Chrysue, Mr. 8. F. Wheeiwright Mr. Wiliam FP. M iitau M. Pritchard, Me, Isaac Sherman, ; Arnold, Mr. J.D. Judson, Mr. W. A. Mure dock, Mr. G. C. Ward, Mr. M. Chandlef and Mr. W. Griswold worship at 41 Souls. ‘To tiese names areadded the four singers of the quartet choir, which is unsurpassed in the city:— Miss Emma Ham- lin, soprano; Miss Kia Mayer, contralto; air. J. E. Perring, tenor; and Mr. William P. Grier, basso. Beg professional arusts of the highest qrder, ladies and gentlemen executed pieces of uncommon didicuity im pertect coucert, without harshness, a8 6=Hamiin, prettily dressed, sung in 2 Clear, sweet intonation, wad Misa Mayer gave @ convrallo solo from “God is Our Hope aud, Surengih,”” which was @ triumph of vocal skill, MM. J. &. Perring, the tenor, who has been attached to the choir five years, sang clearly and forcibiy, and W. P. Grier was remarkabie for nis deep expression. An organ voluntary from Bap- Use Was executed with great micety of rendering by (he accomplished amateur organist, Dr. Stein, ‘rhen followed the anthem vy Von Weber; the first hymn “st. Olof,” Greatorex; second bymn from the Madison Avenue Coilection. In tne eve- ning ore was an organ voluntary from Bapusit an authem; “Heavenly UL y° ‘ey A. Baumbach, and two bymos. In vocal and organ music Ali Souls is @pre-emnent church. ‘The preacher was ihe Rey. 0. A. Allen. His text was, “And when he was demunded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered thei and said, The kingdom of Goud cometh uot with observation.” After narrating sowe valuable facts from ecctesiastical history, anverior to the coming of Chriat, be went ou to elaborate the idea contaimed in the text, touching upon Methodism, Quakerism. Abolllonism and Pharisaical people,’ He directed telung bioWs at scoffers and those Who demand that @ Christan should be a reciuse or surrounded by ceremony, and closed by tneulcating the iessou of hig dusecourse—iaitn. ST, ANDREW'S OMAN CATHDUS CHURCH, The Approach of Lent—Discourse by Rev. Kather McCreary. The ola Church of St Andrew's, 02 Dune street, and the venerable pastor, Father Curran, are now” part of New york history. The guod priest advises: ailwhoenter the church to “say thetr prayers,” whether oid or young, Jew or Genule, The nergy approach of Lent was symbolized by purple araipery bs altar and camdiestck: and as Wass sung; and the music, very weil perforuied, Was Muzirt No. 1. After the first gospel, Rey, Father McCreary preached. He read the eptstie aud Gospel of the day—UCormnthians xi. and xi, and proceeded to say:—As the gospel contained one of the few parables wich our Divine Lord deigned Ww explain, 1t would be too much to expect en his part to war its loree and beauty by anything more thau alluding Lo the text—that part of the episile of WICH treats of the suerings Le in tie word ol his Diving bod sufferings be bore in secutya Sowa Wiuici is (he rewara of Hag Who fights aud overcomes. The Apostie says as it wchoovert Christ to suiter, aid go enter into His giory, so it it through auiterings His Iyllowers must vecoine par- takers of that glory whic eo purchased for them. It seems rather & thankless (ak LO Speax of suffer. ings or of the want of Curistad patiepoe and re- m@gnatton to the will of God undey gll'the various Vicissitudes of iife oF trials which tf His allewise providence he may apportion to us. There 1s not ove man in. a thousand who would voluntarily under. take sufferings, or who, if Providence fias placed » Cross upon his shoulders, would not induitely prefer to tansier it fome other uuwtiyng Simon. ‘The revereud father referred to the prevailing and de- Piorable tendency of the tlaes to doubt and inp- delity, As to the questioa why God makes ihe con- ditions of His service 40 hard, or why He ge lights in the sufferings of His own creatates ta iv. fog the right of the Creator to impose such laws as He Lrg guswer that it ail arises from the condition in Which man bas been placed vy vue fail of our i EeAgh hia Father McCreary continued at length to explain Christian duties and obligations, aud he thanked God we were within the fold of Christ, trom which hone of ué would ever depart, aud if any departed they would ve the scdif and scorn of hefetic, heathen and infidel. The tous aud tribulations of this world were of little consequence, and God pro- tected His own, and imantully aud courageously the Catholic Church would coutinus the vattie against infidelity mul the true, the holy, the ud Lhe Catholte Church was acknowledged where as the Church of Christ. $1. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. The Strength of Christ—Sermon by the Kev. 3. C. Fleinchhacker, St. George's cuapel, situated oa East Fourteenth street, near First @venue, belongs to the parish of St. George’s church, under the rectursuip of Rev. Dr. Tyng, and ts, therefore, a part of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Uuiied States. The con- gregation of the chapel is exclusively German, ang has been in existence some ffteen of sixteen years, It bad to pass through many vicissitudes and strifes, butis now again in @ flourishing Comdvion, the, pastor being Rey. J. C, Fleisioacker, Who deliverea the sermon yesterday forenoon. It was in the nature of a couiouation of bia sermon of tue pre- ceding Sunday, oa the theme thas there was no crown without stile, His text was the first clause Of IT. Corinthians «1., 9—"And he sald unto me, My grace is sulticiout for thep; for mny atrength ie Mepe Deriect 10 weakness.” The reverend gentieman opened with a stor’ recapitulation of tne principal heads of his [ast sermon, and Wen said that the grace and sweny lh Were the promised gilieid 10 the suite of the Christian, It was necessary for the Christian Co preserve is faite to obtain salvation, to follow closely in the path of Cartst. In tuis we snouid Dot rely on Our OWa Weakuess, hor oy eer own supposed sireagth, but in that promised 5 the grace and strength of Carist, The words the text may seew to many contradictory and paradox! . cal; but they are so only superiicially; ine day ex. With sermons and the reposition of the Sancisst mum inte the tabernacle. On Tresiar nine the CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGR