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4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARUH 929, ‘tealism as the Church tn Scotland at that period. So tt isin Germany: it is well Known that for depth of thought and intensity of application German theo- Jogians are unrivalled, and still how dimiy the fires of evangelism burn in that land. The words of a preacher in! aptized with the Holy Ghost; his lips should be touched with a live coai from off the altar of Goa, and then the Gospel would be preachea ip power and assurance and in the Holy Ghost, Bishop Ames conciuded bis sermon by an earnest, eloquent appeal to the deacons who were seeking ordination, and to the Church to esteem them very Highly in love for their work's sake. CHURCH OF THE PURITANS. The Religious Intolerance Requisite for the Exclusion ef tho Bible frem eur Public SchooleSermon by Rey. Dr. Cheever. Services were held yesterday morning in tho above place of worship, when a sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Cheever, who selected for his text the words, “If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?’’—Psalms, chap. 11, verse 3, The preacher said that the question of the Bible in the public schools was au important one, and he regretted that the ministers of God were so behindband in coming out In defence of God’s Word, It had been discussed in the press, in the lecture Toom and in many other places; but it was only of late that ihe ministry had begun to hear the sounds of the approaching conflict and to emerge from their inactivity. It was almost an impossibility to him and was A DISGRACE TO THE NATION that a question such as this should be bronght for- Ward as the question of the exclusion of; God's Word from the public schools—deliberately /reject- ing and casting away God’s Word. The schools Were just the place to imbue the mindsof the young with the principles and precepts of Teligion., No Dation who ever recognized God’s truth in aucient times was willing to discard it, and it had never been cast aside. God’s Word belo} to the nation as well as to the government, for the rays of light emitted trom the word of truth shone upon ail, and M bad shaped their national policy to some ex- tent, ‘the call to remove the Bible from our schools was being disseminatea even by ministers of the Gospel, on the ground that State education had nothing to do with it, The first thing for them to consider was the foundation of right and authority (tn the State to educate such in the mature of the government and nature of God for the purpose of moral good and the responsibility to God of educa- Ung for iim, and second, the universality of the freedom of the Bible aud God’s truth. One of the objections against the Bible was that the STATE KNEW NO THEOLOGY and cannot teach any. Wasthatso? Did they not in the oaths administered to persons about to testify in relation to the truth; did they not in their days of Uanksgiving and humiliation recognize God—recog- mize theology by resolutions and decrees, command- ing or advising the nation or State to engage in ae- Vouonal thanksgiving or humiliation to God ag cir- cumstances prescribed? The State or nation pos- Besses nO theology. Lu the/Word of God it is declared that the powers that be are of God. Their national government, their Stave governments recognize God, their treaties, their declarations, and, in fact, almost everything contained a recognition of the power of God and his government, Were they, then, about to lay their hand on tis Word and declare in word and in deed that it was not + PROPER TO BB TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS ? By pursuing that path they would be declaring themselves as judges of God’s Word—in other words, as its enemies. The State must have some theology when it recognized the Divine interference in mat- rs appertaining to this world, and it was their bounden duty to preserve this theology, this reliance upon Goud, this recognition of God, for the good of the country and for the religious aud moral training Of their posterity. WASHINGTON SQUARE M. E. CHURCH. “Denth”—Sermon by the Rev. A. H. Wyatt. At the Washington square church—a beautiful marble front Gothic structure in Fourth street, bee tween Sixth avenue and Macdougal sireet—the'con- sregation was, owing to the extreme inclemency of the weather, very small; althougn those wno were courageous enough to brave the storm were amply Tepaid, as the pastor, the Rev. A, H. Wyatt, preached most excellent sermon upon the subject of DEATH, He took his text from the twenty-second verse of the third chapter of First Corintbians—“Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours.’? God has given, said the preacher, a catalogue of the things that belong to Christ’s Church, and, strange as it may appear, among tliem we find death, There is scarcely any thing about which man 1s so careless as death, although each ana every one of us Knows that there is nothing half so certain. Death comes in as many different shapes and forms a3 tne clouds in heaven. If 1t came at a regular and g@ppointed time In lifo, perhaps we should not care 80 Much about M; but this it does not do, IT ORERPS IN UPON US ere we are aware of it, and often cuts us down even in the very bloom of life. Every day, ever} our, every moment of the hour witnesses the deat! of a human being, and every night closes down upon one thousand four huodred and forty new made graves. Ofcourse it is as impossiole as it is unne- cessary for a man who devotes himself wholly to business, or for a woman whose every hour is occu- pied by househoid dues, to be always thinking of Geath. Think what itis to die, When death stretches out his pale hand and beckons us we must obey, and in obeying the summons we have to leave our family, our iriends, our parents, our brothers and sisters, and all our worldly goods and crawl into the grave like a naked worm. THE GRAVE 18 TOO NARROW to admit of our carrying any of the worldly things With us. And then, too, we must all feel the pangs of death in that fearfal hour when the silken cords that link us 60 this world shall be broken asunder and we shall go down into that dark and narrow grave where —— All are equal; aide by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm aud stl. How, then, should we live that we may be pre- pared to meet death, no matter when it comes? The answer to this question 1s, bs ready. Only prepare— be ready—and we rob death ef all its venom—all its sting. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN COURCH. Small Attendance Yesterdny—The Solemn Calm of Worship in Wet Weather—Sermon by Rev. Mr. Paxton. The attendance yesterday morning at the First Presbyterian church, corner Fifth avenue and Elev- enth street, was considerably below the average ex- tent for this popuiar temple of worship, Hardly a dozen !adies put in an appearance, and those who did were not arrayed in fine or fashionable apparel. Of course whoever could afford tt came in a car- riage. Those who could not had a hard time of 1t steering umbrellas in the teeth of the flerce wet ‘wind tnat swept the streets and roared tustily around corners and up alleyways. The interior of the church wore a silent, sombre look. The daylight en- tering through the stained glass windows fel! dull and deadening over the pews and over the faces in the congregation. ‘There was no instrumental music to break tue spell of solemn calm that pervaded tho lace. ® The Rey. Mr. Paxton conducted the services with all the simple fervor characteristic of the Presbyte- rian faith. Mr. Charles Day, as sexton, looked after pious Christan strangers anxious to get comfortably Seated. The church was about one-third flied, and it 1s safe to say none but good and devoted members Of the faith composed the attendance on a day like yesterday. STYLE OF THE PREACHER. The Rev. Mr. Paxton preached the sermon upon the text, ‘‘Lo, all tings worketh God, oltentimes with man to bring back his goul from the pit to be enlightened with the light of the living,”—Job XXXul., 29, 30, The reverend preacher has a very cleat avd effective style of elocution and preaches extemporancously. He grows impassioned occa- Bona and makes his discourse highly impressive, en by the simple method he employs in the de- livery. He js one of the few preachers who can arouse and sustain the interest of his hearers from beginning to end of his sermon. THR TRIALS OF LIFE ‘was substantially the subject of the discourse, ona ‘was well and cloqueatly treated. He said tmat God ‘works With men in a variety of ways through good and evil fortune, and that when He ceases to work ‘With men or men negiect to work with God they are in danger of disastér. The manupon whom gome uncommon stroke of adverse fortune hag fallen thinks that Providence uses him uukindly, and that his fate is hard to bear; but if he will only examine mis own nature, his iife, bis shortcomings and the course he 1s pursuing, he will discover that the adversity which has befallen lim has a deeper significance than ne is willing to credit, God works with him. He has sent the bitter dose to remiod him of Himself, to chasten pride, check the con- suming fires of lust, envy or avarice and save him from greater perils and from worse temptations. Many there are who go alon, through ite aud \eave a record for goodness an humanity, who, had certain latent elements of their nature been developed by circumstances, would have left the world a different history. Men, to work ‘with God, must mark the occurrences which cach tn his Iitetime exporiences in the prostravion or dis- appointment of nopes, the wreck of fortune or the loss of friends. None are beyond the reach of un- Yoreseen casualty. The mother loses her darling babe, the husband the fond partner of his bosom, the ambitious man the prize of eminence he has Btruggied a lifetime to secure. ‘Yo each of taese God bas deigned to administer one of his divine.| lessons—a Jesson Of puridcation—a lesson which each can best appiy to his own moral hature. To him that never receives one, and who goes through i!fe confident in bis own strength, Much mercy indeed is withheld. Me might pe \kened to What proud, selfreliaat and giutering that, from height se hurled an avalanche of all lenly on their devoted heads, So it te with the sinner. He is ing on bis course al when all at once No physical law Derfect impunity, nor 1s & moral law o' out the penalty being at some time exacted, Then it behooves the Christian, man and woman, to take fat Sorhe in tie’ right spite thes: picid © preak EGLISE DU SAINT ESPRIT. the Uncertainty of Life, by the Rev. Antoine Verren. ‘The French Episcopal church of the Holy Spirit, Twenty-second street, bewween Fifth and Sixth ave- nues, Merits @ visit from all who understand the language tn which the exercises are conducted. ‘The ritual ts simple, the singing excellent, and the Pastor a classical French scholar, whose pronuncta- tion leaves nothing to be desired. Yesterday morning, after the services, the Rev. Antoine Verren chose for his text Ephesians v., 16— “Redeeming the time because the days are ¢vil.’? ‘We do not like to think aboat time, its uncertainty and brevity; of eternity, which is at our door, and its duration; of the foolish and decetving joys of this World; of the glorious pleasures of heaven. Such thoughts are none the less indispensable, ana the duty of a minister is in of “evil days’ to encourage his REDEEM THE TIME. The definition of time 1s not casy to all. It ts for this reason that we employ it go ill, like an infant destroys or injures some precious works of art, be- cause it does not know its value. Do not coniound it with eternity. Time began with the creation of the world, When that shall pe no more time will be engued in eternity. Why ts it that men do not think more of the fleeting hours which 6 towards this awful goal? One should Lee «Time files the instant I was Speaking. 1s already far from me; how shall J redeem it?” The answer is, by sac- rifice and efforts. We should, like the mechanic who has wasted his time and spent his money, rise with the sun, aud by hard labor tll it sets endeavor to make up Yor lost time. What have we done since our birth? At the age of fifteen at least five years have not been employed In God's service, at twenty our uselessness in his service becomes frightfully apparent, and at forty, when soon, perhaps, it 13 too late, what @ retrospection, what nullity! ‘The speaker then gave a vivid picture of the aimless lives we lead, aad of the horrid spectre which will one Gay or another start up belore all of us of a lic ii spent, of WHAT WBE MIGHT HAVE BEEN, and this, too, on our deathved perhaps, when it will be toolate. To the Ephesians, to whom Paul ad- dressed his epistie, the days were mdced evil and full of persecution and troubles. On the one hand they had to combat the successors of Moses in the Pontifical chair; on the other philosophers, priests of paganism, went so far as to Offer them to the pub- lic by exposing them to the tury of wild beasts and men in the arena. Their submission, their resiena- tion, were called hypocrisy, and pubiic opinion con- demned them, We have nosuch excuse, Keligion is free, Persecutions are atan end, but WHAT ARE OUR LIVES? Are not the enemies of Jesus in our homes, our streets, at every corner, and do they not try to make us forget time, whica flies, and eternity, which com- eth apace’ Tear away the mask which hides our daily iives and what do we see? A hideous spectacie and corruption. No delay is allowable. Death stares us in the face at every turn. None can count on the morrow. Here in this great city we have been Spared the scourge of a plague for several years. What may Mis summer bring forth? We have all with horror witnessed the scenes which have passed before our eyes when the angel of death struck right and left, and the stro! man of the morn was a putrid corpse ere night fell. Did that angel spare the young? Was his work less among the oid than for- meriy? Was it not a death uncertain, yet certain; unkuown, yet known; visible, yet invisible; every in- stant near us to make us better Christfins¢ THB CHOLKRA, THE PLAGUE are not at our doors now; but death 1s none the less among us. Ob, should it seize us unawares! Were the fatal day for any of us not to-morrow, nor within @ month, but in ten years, you are astonished at this liberality; it would not be too fur away for us to neglect redeeming the time, and to this task itis our own duty to apply ourselves. CENZBAL BAPTIST CHURCH. The Rev. Mr. Hanna’s connection with the Central Baptist church, Williamsburg, having ceased his desk was occupied yesterday by tne Rev. Samuel T. Hilman, who preached a thin sermon to a thin con- gregation. The sermon ‘was attentively listened to by the few persons present, all of whom had been “sprinkled” before they entered the sacred edifice by Jupiter Pluvius, the arch-enemy of those who be- lieve in immersion. Mr. Hilman’s text was chapter xxlv. verse 25 of the Gospel according to St. Luke:—“Then ne said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to be- eve all that the prophets have spoken.” In "expounding the text, Mr. Hilman said that there are pictures that have entranced and enthralled us and left memories and taught lessons that we can never forget ; but the greatest picture ever held up to human view was that of Christ nalled to a cross with a maiefactor by nis side. The contemplation of that picture has chastened and refined the hearw of thousands and led ther to eternal happiness. But there were few who noticed the full significance of that great picture. Even the apostles failed to recognize, a8 the dying thief did, the signiticance of the cross. Mr. Hilman dwelt at length upon tie crucifixion of Christ and the circumstances attend- ing it, and closed after having impressed upon the minds of his hearers that there are many thieves now living who will never receive &n invitation trom Christ to sup with Him 1n Paradise. CHURCH OF THE FREE LOVERS, The Substance of Christianity—Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Frothingham. There was a slim attendance at Lyric Hall yester- day morning, the day being suficientiy inauspicious to damp the ardor of the most earnest church-goer. After some preliminary exercises, including tho singing of psalms and prayer, the Rev, Mr. Froth- ingham preached a sermon on “The Substance of Christianity,” taxing as his text the words, ‘Not every one that says Lord, Lord shall be saved, but they that do the will of my Father, who is in hea- ven.” By the substance of Christianity he meant vhe general principles and root of religion. He would not speak of the theme ina controversial or aogmatical spirit, but he would refer to itas the great central point of life, as a religion powerful for human use. It was a QUICK LIVING THESE much discussed. On the one side there were those who said that the welfare of mankind depended on the belief in Christianity, and on the other side there was a class of persons, very sincere und ear- nest, who sald that Christianity was done—that the experiment had been tried and failed, and that it was no longer a force, no longer possessed of re- generating power; that its dogmas belonged to the past, that its sacraments had no longer a hold upon the faith of the Christian. In discussing the subject it was necessary to know what was meant by Chrisianity. Certainly no one believed that the safety of the Oriental world Gepended upon the Greek Church, It by Christianity they meant the religion of Jesus Christ, the essential religion of the New Testament there was a secret moral force, a religious power and sentiment which went far towards the worid’s redemption, and we only question that arose was as to wnat constituted the substance, what was the genius of thut secret working power that makes religion what it ougut tobe. MR. BEECHER SAID AGAIN AND AGAIN, with earnestness and enthusiasm, thar the snb- stance of Christianity was the faith of tne individual soul in Christ as God, the living communion tn cach individual soul wich God; and Mr. Beecher was right, taking the popular view or Christianity, meaning the Christianity of the Catholic Church of Rome, the Episcopalian Church of England and the others. That was the key to Chris tianity, and it was a proper and profound view. He frankly admitted the power of that conception, But it was a little singular that there was no men- tion of it in the Gospel. It was asserted that the supstance of Christianity was the individual experi- ence, the experience of the individual soul kuit to grace; put it was also shown by many passages in the Testament that trae religion consisted in the PERSONAL COMMUNION of one man with his kind. The reverend gentleman then proceeded to narrate the parable of the good Samaritan who had so charitably attended to the man who had been robbed and beaten on his way to Jerusalem, and Christ on being asked by some per- 800 What they should do to be saved desired them to follow the example of the Samaritan who had merely performed a benevolent act towards a Iellow being. The religion therefore was of a purely huwan character, Again, on THE DAY OF JUDGMENT the sheep would be assombled on one side and the goats on the other. To the latter the Lord would say “Depart from me; I was hungry and ye gave me not toeat.” They would reply that He had never asked them, and the Lord would then turnto the right hand and welcome the sheep, saying that when He was thirsty they gave Him to drink. They, too, would say they had not seen Him,. but the Lora would say that as often as they gave to those little ones they gave to Him. The preacher dweit upon the parabie of the good Samaritan as showing that humane actions were necessary to salvation, The question turned upon kindred between man and man. It was the simple ground of humanity, a sin- cere love for all mankind, He expiained what the popular idea of God was, and claimed that His very rection consisted in His humility, ana that He entified Himself with common creatures. A pure, paternal feeling for mankind was we substance Qnd quintessence of religion. There were, of course, @ great many other ie that pth religion in the general acceptation of the term, but brotherly love was the root and the aise of trae religion. ‘There were many romantic conveyed in the Scripturea which they might decline to accept, but the Kindred feeling between man gud man was the sul of religion, and everything else must be worked out, THE LAW OF SYMPATHY Was the law of salvation. might arise as to theology and various dogmas. The social ques. tion, however, was the vital one of the age, and that ‘Which most affectod society. When directed in ‘way religion became & work of powor. After some further observations, folowing (up the game line of argument, the reverend geatieman concluded by showing that true religion waa in y with tne rogress of the age, aud tended to develop the est qualities of THE SPIRITUALISTS AT WORSHIP. The Thoology of the Scriptural Judgment Day Dissected by Mrs. Emma Hardinge— Her Benuty end Eloquence, It was doubtless the magnetic eloquence of Mrs. Emma Hardinge whith produced so goodly an at+ tendance of Spirivualists at the Everett Booms yee terday morning. The hall was moro than three- quarters full, and it waa easy to perceive that none but orthodox believers were present, Ordinarily, on Sabbath days, there gathers here @ number of people who come either from motives of curiosity, ag they would go to listen to vhe lunatic ravings of George Francis, or, with a less charitable purpose, to mock and ridicale. There were few or none of these latter here on yesterday. The audience was or composed of old and elderly persons of both . YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS being conspicuous py their absence. The choir consisted of two voices—a pleasant contralto and a deep basso—with an excellent piano accompani- ment. On a platform raised at one end of the hall sat Mrs. tmma, @ lady whose maiden beauty, not to speak of her intellectual attractions, must have won her A 10ST OF ADMIRERS, She wore her dark brown hair in waves on her forehead, and her cheeks had fs is presumed) a nat- ural, rosy blush. She was attired in .a plain black silk dress, a white shawl thrown slighuy back on her shoulders and revealing a snowy lace collar en- circling her neck and fastened with an emerald brooch, From her waist # gold chain depended tn several folds, and from a finger of ner right hand A DIAMOND RING gleamed brightly. Arter the choir had sung one or two bymnas Mrs. Hardinge rose, and casting oif her shawl roached the platform and delivered a rayer. This finished she commenced her discourse. ter Audject, sne said, would be a consideration of the theological Day of Judgment as determined by science, ‘Truth, she said, was primeval, and tne germs of religious truth bad existed throughout all the ages. 'I'hey were found in the ancient forms of worship delivered to the Jews amid the thunders of Sinai, and tn the sweet, gentie utterances of Jesus. baw vr’ of final judgment? What 1s the trath about EVERYTHING WAS DOOMED toajudgment. First came life, then growth, then decay, then ueath, and, finally, judgment. This was Uhe destiny of all mundane and supermundane crea- tions. ‘The flower of the garden, the oak of the forest, nan, all have their periods of birth, progres- sion and dissolution, This was the irrevocable and inmutable judgment to which all mortality was subject. ‘this beautiful earth itself—yea, and even the mighty worlds that roll to distant space, all have the same uitimate doom, all will one day cease to be. Deavh will come toeverything, and even NATIONS AND DYNASTIES come under this unchanging law. Mrs. Hardinge theologians describe. ‘They, she said, make the mis- does not believe in the day of judgment such as the take of interpreting Scripture nos according to its spirit, but by its letter, She believed that death Was judgment, and after death a better or worse life awaited us, according as we regulated our con- ae the knowledge which spiritualism vouch. sated. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. A Storm Without and a Calm Within Ply- mouth Church—Mr. Beecher on the Dealings of God With Man—A Sermon Without Bean- ergan Thunder. A storm of wind and rain acted as q4 damper on the devotions of Plymouth church congregation. Pews in various parts of the church were quite de- serted, and although the congregation was large, yet it was small as compared with the crowds that throng this church on fine Sabvath mornings. Ivwould in some circies be considered high trea- son, and it would certainly not at any time be true, to say that 7 HENRY WARD BEECHER WAS DULL; but it ts true to say that, like the lilies and the flora that adorned the minister’s platform, he is siscep- table to meteorological influences. He basks and grows eloquent tn the sunshine of the earthly lumin- ‘ary not less than in the sunshine of popular ap- plause. The subject yesterday morning wastin&piring, and was tenderly touched; but there were no boanerges- Ppassion-torn-to-tatiers sentences. He contented himself with telling the story of the dealings of God with men in a@ ‘still, smail voice,” and, as usnal, It reached the hearts of those who heard him; and, af- ter all, this is the ALPHA AND THE OMEGA OF PREACHING. Mr. Beecher’s discourse was founded on the twenty-eighth vgrse of the elgith chapter of the Episue of Paul to the Romans—‘*And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God; to them who are the called according to His purpose.’? It was-noticeable that this passage started witn a firm declaration, ‘We know.” There was no doubt or hesitancy about. This language differea trom the speculations and philosophy of modern times, and Paul rose into either a sublime propnecy and insight or into a SUBLIME IMPUDENCE. After a little philosophizing on this line of thought Mr. Beecher endeavored to establish the fact, from familiar illustrations, that it was not dificult for men to suffer and to endure when they had a purpose to gain by the endurance of that suffering. <All that they required was nope to sustain them, to com. fort them, and they would go through much surter- ing. There was much in this aspect of suffering that was perplexing; for all things did not appear to work togetherfor good for anybody, and cer- tainly not for the good folks. Neither did good men seem to be blest spiritually. Yet it was all but a seeming; fora man, renewed In i!fe, in character and 12 his popes and aspirations, wuat had ne to fear? What had the world to gtve him in comparison with the love of God ? Now, & man thus renewed, believed in Providence; it would be very strange if he didn’t believe tn it. Believing that they obeyed his orders, yielded to the leading of that Providence, all that a true soldier required was to thoroughly understand his orders. He is told to stand at the [ringe of that wood until EVERY MAN 18 CUT OFF, and he doesit. It was a very ine pleasure to have your own way, and “‘! cannot help rememvering that [have had my pleasure tu it; but it was a greater pes to give up that way and y untoGod, To dovuis & man miust believe in God, and He must be real to him; ke must have trastea God with a trust that has been brought home to niin, and seen God’s hand moving in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. ‘Thus knowing that God is, and that He is @ rewardor of those who dilgently seek Him, he comes to have a welief that lives on faith, and he prays with a belioving prayer. it was very hard lor a man to SAY HIS PRAYERS TO A PISMIRE, but when & man trusts God with a full purpose of heart, has the inner consciousness of the greatness and goodness of God, the man trusts not only for temporal mercies but for hi things,.and he thus grows’ in spiritual things; and he comes to ce- clare believingly with Pa’ hese light afflictions which are but for a momeut will work out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’ The clement of the future is also in ihe prospect of such a believer; 1t was always present to Pau! and it was always present to every good man. Mr. Beecher said he was pecuharly suceptible to seasickness, and when he was anticipating bts voyage to Europe, he used to meditate on the prospective seasickness and the ten days’ suffering, but then there was the exquisite enjoyment beyond of a three months visit to Europe, of seeing that which he had read and heard so much about, and he braved it ail, and when the horrible nausea came, he thought of Europe when he could, and lived and endured on that hope. When he returned he came tn a stutmpy, logged boat, a tourceen days’ voyage, ‘The buat was heavily laden with contraband gooas, which she was to discharge at Halifax, and then these goods were to 7o on to Bermuda, and thus get into the States. He was sitting by tne side of the smoke- stack at midnight. When the boat got into stilt water and the cargo began to be discharged he thought he saw & man’s ficure come up by the sido of the steamer, und presenuy it made its way to where he was sitting, The man came up to him and said, “Are you Mr, Beecher?’ and when he said he was, the man handed him a telegram aud san, “Ivo o telegram from your. wife.’ Then (said Mr. Beecher) I re- alized I was on my own eontinent and near home.”. Mr. Beecher concluded by a practical adaptation of this tlinstration to our earthly life, and of our passing away on to the heavenly shores, in which there was much that was very tender and touching. At the close of the sermon the choir ana congre- tion sang the popular melody + “HOMEWARD BOUND’! with considerable fecling and heartiness, afer 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tok, be benediction was Fronouneed its the Ingregation was speedily build. tog, ‘homeward bound,” through @ beavy, poiting storm of rain. OLD ST. ANN*S CHURCH, ‘The New Pastor, Rev. Henry Woebbe—Sor- mon on “Confirmation.” Old St, Ann’s Protestant Eplacopal church, at the corner of Washington and Prospect streets, Brook- lyn, was atone time one of the most prominent in the city, but since ths rector, Rev. Dr. Schenck, ceased to have charge of it there has been a number of changes among the pastors and the churoh has not appeared to be as prosperous as formerly. Within several weeks past, however, @ new pastor has taken charge— * REY. HENRY WEBBB, anabie and energetic young minister, under whom the church is rapidly returning to the position which tt formerly held. The choir has been iia- proved and during the Lenten season has been re- inforced by the well known soprano Madame Anna Bishop, who kindly volunteered her services uatit Easter. THB CHOIR now 1s as follows:—Sopranos, Madame Anna Bishop and Miss Julia Burge; contraltos, Miss Foreman and Miss Carrie Harding; basso, Mr. Remmetts (of the Arion Society); tenors, Messrs. Loebner and Altgelt. ‘The organist 1s Mr. John P, Morgan and his assist- ant Mr. Otw P. Boise, In addition to the choir there is @ fine chorus of 150 voices. The bass in the motette choir is very strong, lad by Messrs, Jochum, . D. Snow and others, and depends rather i numbers than on distinguished soloist, except wi fgsisted in the evening service by Mr. Rem- mnetts, With @ live, enthusiastic pastor and a first class choir and chorus, the attendance 1s rapidly increas. ing, yesterday, considering the inciemency of the weattier and the recent desertion of ‘the church, there was quite a large congregation present. The musical services yesterday opened with the authem—‘Thus saith the Lord,” (eel siersy by John P. Morgan, and rendered by the motette choir in a most brilliant manner. The grand choir rendered the beautiful Episcopal service most effectively, all the music being conducted by the talented organist Mr. Ots P. Boise. Rey. Mr. Webbe stated to the congregation that the Biship having given notice that the rite of con- firmation would be administered in thts church on the 16th of May next, he (the pastor) would be glad to receive the names of further candidaates, ‘The pastor then preached a brief extemporancous sermon on the subject of CONFIRMATION, taking his text from the t chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, sixth verse—‘Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but sucn as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” Thereverend gentieman, in opening, said thac when be came to Brooklyn he had not recov- ered from a severe lilness with which he was afflicted last summer, and a day like yesperday brought it all back upon him. it was with the utmost diMicuity that he addressed the congregation. He must, tuerefore, be brief, and look forward to a future opportunity when he should bave a more favorable one to address them on a subject that was so dear to his heart. ‘There never could be for pastor and people any moment more solemo or more awakening, than that would be when the Bishop of the diocese received the candidates for confirmation into the commurion of the Church. The meaning of the word “confirination” was sim- ple and easy to understand; it impiied future and strength, and here denoted the public admission into the fold of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Tuo reverend gentleman showed that the origin of and authority for the rite was proven from the Bibie, and passed therefrom to the beneiits to be derived from it, expressing the belief thas a right reception of confirmation mast bring down the blessings of God upon the recipient. Jt must vend to lncrease Christian knowledge aud shape the life of those Whose miuds were expanded, whose faculties were opening and whose young hearts were capable of receiviug any impression and of being moulded 1a any form, Mr, Wevbe offered afew words to parents of the congregation on the importance of tae RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF THEIR CHILDREN, and to young men, Who, he said, would never have a better opportunity to confess their obligations to their God and acknowledge thelr sensibility to His favors than they would have at the approaching confirmation. in conclusion Mr. Webbe spoke of the apathy of some in the matter of religion, and in- quired why, if they thought religion was a folly, they did not throw it up altogether; but, if on the other fiand, they thought that there was something truthful to it, why didn't they rise and live for that religion. tle implored them to be either one thing or the other, At the concluston of the sermon Madame Anna Bishop executed the solo, “Holy, Holy, livly Lord God Almiguty,” (Handel)—with exquisite effect, the distinguished lady actuated by her desire to sce Mr. Webbe’s enthusiastic efforts crowned with per- manent success. CARLTON AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Closing Services in the Old Edifice—The New Church—Sermon by Rev. A. S. Francis. Yesterday the congregation worshipping in the Carlton Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, in Carl- ton avenue, near Myrtle, heid their closing services in that edifice, as their new building will be ready for occupancy next Sunday. : THE NEW CHURCH, which has been in course of erection for some months past, 18 very pleasantly situated, at the corner of Clermont and Willoughby avenues, and for a bullding to be occupied by as plain a denomination as the Methodists have always been considered, is of rather a pretentious stylu. It 13, however, neat and comfortable, and will seat about 1,200 persons. It cost, independent ef tne land, $75,000. Its dimenstons are 65 feet front by 125 feet deep, with a gallery all round. A chapel is also in course of erection, fronting on Willoughby avenue. ‘This will cost about $9,000, It will be 47 by 88 fect. THE OLD CHURCH, which was erected in 1852, has b een sold to the Ger- man Lutherans for the sum of $14,000. ‘This denomi- nation will take possession of the edifice on the ist of April, when it will be thorough ly renovated. REV, A. 8. FRANCIS, who was the first pastor called by the society of the Cariton Avenue church, preached an exceilent ser- mon yesterday morning, referring to the many happy scenes of the past which clustered about the old building. He was introducea by the present pastor, Rev. John Parker, who remarked that no person could feel the interest in the building they Were about leaving that the old pastor’ did. Kev. Mr. Francis said tnat Mr. Parker had re- ferred to him as the old pastor, which made hin think he might be qetting old, but he thanked God that he felt just as young now as hedid twenty-three years ago, when they called the present location Crow Hill He tyen wok his text from the eighuty-foarth Psaim, fifth, sixth and seventh verses. ‘The reverend gentleman, a vhe com- mencement of his discourse, alluded to the words of psalmist, and remarked that the whole Psalms seemed desirous of setiing forth the presence of God wn all His works. Speaking of the past, he said he would not cnange his thirty-eight years of expe- rience as a kind, ienerant preacher. FOR ALL THE WEALTH IN THE LAND. He loved the chureh and the spirit of liberality Which wag usually evimeed by the people. He alluded to the history of Joseph, whom his brethren sold into Ngyp 3 showing the allwise purpose of God, and of the Israelites making the weil in passing through the valley of Boca, showing that’ their work, like the work of the Christian, was left for the benefit of those who came after them. Their new church, which they had raised as A MONUMENT 'TO GOD, would, like the wells made in the valley of Boca, remain for the good of others. God had blessed them and given them the means to erect this fine ediiice they were about to occupy. In ciosing his discourse he spoke of the old members of the caureh, some of whom had been called to their heavenly home. Tie first sermon preached for the society of this church was on the 6th of June, 1547, on which Occasion there were seventy-five Sabbath school children and irom twenty to twenty-five adults pre- sent. Thesociety was @ branch from York street and they started with thirty-four full members. The iirst communton was on the 7th of August, aud then they had a glorious revival. On Tuesday evening, September 28, 1847, the meeting was unusually inver- esting, for there were twelve persons at the altar, and six were converted, and among these was his owa loved danghter. The second year after the church was dedicated it became ao seli-supporung church, and now, for the third time, they found it too limtted for their purpose. He rejoiced with them in their noble spirit, hoped they would be able to look back over a weil spent life, and when at last God should call them they would be found ready, CHURCHES IN JERSEY CITY. GRACE CHURCH, Bishop Odouheimer’s Pastoral on the Mide night Mission. ‘The sudden change in the weather yesterday had the effect of thinuing the congregations at all the Jersey City churches, Grace church (Episcopal), which is generally well attended and num- bers among its members many of the most respectable families of the city, had a sparse congregration, The music in this church is always good. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Rice, preached a sermon from the First Eplatie of Jonn, first and second verses. Ohrist 1s our advocate and we obiain grace from the Father through Hitm alone. Of ourselves we can expect nothing. When we approach tne table to partake of tne Lord's Supper we know ana feel that we are un- worthy and we are alraid 49 advance, But hap- pily we are also afratd to turn back, because Christ calls us to Him with many vender and pressing i- Vitations. Man is Wo UNWOBTHY TO HOLD COMMUNION WITH GOD, But i is not @ question between man and Father, but between Christ and the Father. continued to unravel the subject, ‘out with these pointe, and concluded by & exhortation to his hearers to call on God as their only hope, and trust to Him alone. ‘Tho fol- lowing pastoral from the Bishop of Now Jersey was THE CLERGY AND Laity OF THE DIOCESE OF NEW RRBRY :— BRoruERS IN CunisT—The incarnate Son of God, the | npodergt yoo led the flock, |, by word and act, came to seek and to save that which was lost, It is the pri- vilege and duty of the Church, which 1s bis mystical body, to ‘his divine message and work of charity. Now, fa no department of Christian benevolence #0 imperative and yet so difficult as that which seeks to eave ‘Jesus’ grace fooams nce, and, ert auestoess'o Home aid to thereby to ves aweetness: sodat its: ad (horeby to ail thet Kigre for Christ 60 worthy Of pnd our prayers and our pneaeaing alma as men and women who for very love of Jesus, and call- rit of Holiness for strength, are willing to go down to the precincts of pollution and pluck out of the jaws those silly women whom Satan has taken cap- the lusts of the flesh, ‘The Midnight Mission, nthe neighbor city of New, Fork, with the approbation of the Hishop, and under refined Christian been successfully engaged in beyond the T call upon a] ! ye men to help with your good will and with your money ton ‘whove official re} be By ‘ever living 12 mo pean, aig, no mores a, Lard ava ring Aol hea rk of ie ml eae : ny it eet God, takest the hin ‘the sins of Tories, Dah “Tor tay’ aloes caiy, are Midoight' Miaaion, "to" prolong ‘Thine worst sfler ing, which are any, are forgive” ately, your coslonaielys YONWILLIAM HENRY ODENHEIMER. Bua.tnet0n, N. J., Lent, A. D. 1370. THE METHODIST CHURCHES. Progress of the Conference—Ordination of Deacons. In 8t, Paul’s church, where the Newark Methodist Conference 1s being held, there was a comparatively large attendance in the morning, Five deacons were ordained by Bishop Ames end a sermon was ‘preached by the offictating bishop. The pastor of this church, whose term has just expired, is Rev. L. R. Dunn, an energetic minister, who bas been thirty-seven years on the mission, and ts yet in the possession of good health and vigor. The congre- gation has good reason to regret his removal. THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN in attendance at the conference is the Rev. Dr. Boehm, who was ordained in Maryland sixty-five years ago, and is now ninety-live years old, He has a@ wonderfully fresh appearanve, and, a8 Tar as human foresight can discern, wml live some years before’ his strength gives way. The love feast at St. Paul's commenced at nine o’clock 1n the morning, and was presided over by C. 8. Van Cleve. ‘Tne Conference wil close on Tuesday afternoon. AT TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, in York street, a sermon was delivered ta the morn- ing by the Rey. Jobn Atkinson, and in the afternoon four elders. were ordained, Key. Dr. Foster oficia- ting. A sermon Was preached in the evening by the Rey. A. H. Brown, IN THE OTHER CHURCHES sermons were peony both in the forenoon and the afternoon by the clergymen designated at the Con- ference on Saturday. ‘the Hoboken church ioses the Rey. M. 8. Hilison, a preacher of the first order in the ranks of the Methodists. So popular was he in Hoboken that be was tendered a surprise last week by a company comprising many outside tus own congregation. The erection of the splendid new edifice, now nearly completea, near the Stevens mansion, is aue in a great measure to his indefatigavle exertions, Rev. Mr. Lowrie also takes his departure from the Emory church, in ber- gen. Hels yeta young man, but he has acnieved wonders during his ministry 12 Bergen. Not only ia there a flourishing litslg congregation at the chapel in Latayette, but the Emory congregation 1s Increas- ing so rapidly that a mevtiog was held two weeks ago for the parpose of selecting a site for a new chureb. ‘The appointment of new pastors will be made be- fore the close of the conference. WASHINGION CHURCHES. METROPOLITAN M. E. CHURCH, WASHINGTON, March 27, 1870. The severe storm thinned the congregation in the morning at the Metropolitan church. A faithiul few were present and among them the Vice Presi- dent, who can never be ranked @mong fair wea- ther Christians. Dr. Newman spoke from Mark ., 2i—“The Sabbath was made for man."’ Christ was at once the great inconociast and restorer of his age. He destroyed traditions that em- barrassed the law and brought order out of confu- sion and light from darkness, This was emphati- cally illustrated in the restoration of the Sabbath. The origin of the Sabbath was then considered, and its advance by Jewish and Christian history. Jt was shown. to be Coeval with the beginning of the race and as obligatory and a3 beneficial now as then, Passing trom the history of the Curistian Sabbath, its incaicalable benefits to man, in ail his relations, it was maintained by arguments drawn from the constituuon of man and physiological, moral and divine law, THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MANS What night is to day the Sabbath 1s to the week. Night ts insuflicient to repair wasted nature, It is the testimony of the greatest physiologists, abund- antly proved and of experiment, that the Sap- bath 13 @ necessity for pnysical weal. ‘Trial proved that more could be accomplished in the long run, in either intellectual or physical labor, by a proper observance of the Sabbath, tuan by devoting the whole time to secular labor, Speaking of the necessity of periods of rest to brain workers, the preacher criticised our Amert- can ideas of laoor. Our ambition is to work with intensity and absorption, rather than to the best advautages. Humplirey Davy, Hugh Miller, Count Cavour and others were mentioned as victims of these errors, Cavour went to a premature grave. Had he lived ten years longer Italy would have been free, To-cay 1t 13 A PREY TO NAPOLEON AND TH POPE. The Sabbath isa necessity for social and moral improvement. Degeneracy foliows 1ts profanation, Prison statistics showed that out of twelve hundred prisoners eleven hundred were Sabbath breakers, and history shows also that men are intelligent in the same ratio that they keep the Lord’s day. The Sabbath tends to the unification of the race. Among our institutions none is to be more highly Fath than the opservance of this day. he Sab- ath at home should never be gloomy, It should be as cheerful as heaven itself. Cntidren are repelled from religion because their parents do not know how to apply this law. Lord Bolingbroke was an infidel. What made him one? In his youth his randparent compelied tim to read on the Lord’s Day Dr. Martin’s “Nineteen Sermons on the Nine- teenth Psalm.” That was enough to make an in- fidel of any child. The voice of joy and of must and of prayer und of thanksgiving, of conversati and cheerful religious reading, should characterize home on the Savbath. CENIRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCD, WASHINGTON, March 27, 1870. At the Central Congregational church the pastor preached to-day, taking the text from Romans, chap- ver five, verse ten:—“‘For when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of [is Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.’ The introductory position of the sermon was intended to sbow the folly of study- ing the Bible fa fragments and baild- ing whole systems of doctrine upon isolated passages without regard to the connection, the par- ticular object of the writer or the general tenor of Scripture, This was vanously illustrated, suowing the erroneous systems which had thus been formed. ‘The speaker then proceeded to state that great evil had resulted from Protestant views of the work of Christ, particularly by separating His death from tne power of His re- surrection to life. The orthodox cbarches had pro- bably confined their teachings too much to tne law, its penality, the sinner’s guut, the wrath of God, and the sacrificial death of Christ, limiting the view to the death on the cross, and not bringing out clearly the related fact that when reconciled to God by His death we tnenceforth live by the power of ils life. From the too exclusive preaching of law, penalty, wrath and atonement a natural reaction 13 going on towards the other extreme, where law, government and death are lost sight of, aud the life of Clirist and the love of God are the only themes. Tho closing passage of the sermon was as foilows:. Keconciled by His death and saved by His life, let us not separate the two great iacts which God has joined together. We are pardoned and delivered from death through the death of Jesus. Then, as the power of the animal life restores the diseased and wasted body to health and veanty again, transforming it gradually, day by day, into the similitude of manhood, so the sprit- val life of Christ imparted to the pardoned sinuer, wasted and ruined as he Is by sin, its divine healing, THE LOST IMAGE OF GOD, and shapes him into the similitude of Christ. ‘Thus ig the man saved, recovered, perfected by the lite of Jesus. The Saviour says we are grafted invo Him. “Lam the vine, ye are the branches,” 1t presents a beautiful thought. Wo may graft a hundred varie ties of apples Into a single tree and each grait would produce Its own individual fruit, with ail the peculiarities of size, color and flavor, ty ait draw their life from @common source. So we all rafted into Christ, derive our common life from Him, and yet that life so nourishes us that‘ail our In- dividual characteristics are preserved, and enobled by the purer life of the Lord, differing in torm, tea- ture and gifts, yet all living on the life of Curist, and loving, cherishing, comforting each other as Kindred springing from a common stock—colavorers er a ‘with each other and the ere, and joint heirs with Him of the glory Cyn It would be a beau- tirul sight if ten thousand of our choicest flowers were growing On single root, mingling harmont- ously their varying splendors of coior, leaning on each other for mutuar support. shedding each over all its own peculiar sweetness, and distillim from leaf to leaf refreshing dews an reflecting on each other heavenly higut and sunbeams—ail kindred, though each witn a differ- ent beauty; all living on @ common itfe, But it woula be much more beautiful and much more like heaven to see the pobler growth of immortal betn{ all springing from the vine” the life of Christ each unfolding its own individual beauty, loving and cherishing each other, shedding on each other the, holy baptisms of the spirit, reflecting ach om all the inner joy of the soul and the outward emile of Gon causing earth to brighten with tue atmosphere aven. Wasuinaton, D. C., March 27, 1870, ‘The services at the Unitarian church were to-day conducted by Rey. H. W. Bellows, D. D., of New York city. The preacher took as his text the four- teenth verse of the twenty-fifth Psalm—‘The se- cret of the Lord is with them that tear Him.” He said the great duty in teaching the Scriptures was to make them plain; thatin the various religious denominations all were striving for the same end tnough there existed @ distinction in detail. The Roman Church performed their religion in the of the mass. The Calvanists ran into extreme views, and liberty of conscience Fikes was carried to an excess far worse than tho tyranny which the Church at vartous times had exercised. The Quaker waited for the moving of tne spirit. The Reformed, the Trinitarians, the Unitarians, and a variety of other churches strove to MAKE THE WORD PLAIN. Had not God claimed this service He would not require fis ohildren to study His ways. Had not God claimed this service He would have made His word plain and relieved mankind of the necessity of searching after truth, The secret of the Lord must be equal to all, for ail find religious peace in all it requires. The reverend doctor’s sermon was rather abstract, but put forth many important suggestions showing Christian’s duty and the field open to the Chureh embracing all. Owing to the storm the churen was about half filled. Several members of Congress were present, FRIENDS’ MEETING HOUSE. WASHINGTON, D. O., March 27, 1870. Samuel M. Janney officiated at the Friends’ meet- ing house on Second street. The attendance was small, as there are not many persons belonging to the Society of Friends in this city. Mr. Janney’s«xe- marks were based upon the words, “If ye, being evil, knowing how to give geod gifts unto your chil. dren, how much more will your Heavenly Father give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.” ‘The influence of the Holy Spirit upon the soul, he said, was the cardinal principle of true religion. It mattered little as to the form or outward practices; God required the heart, the affections, and he would accept nothing else. It shouid be the aim of all to seek the influence ofthe spirit. The Lord would not refuse to give the Spirit to them that ask Him. He deprecated all outward forms and show and all conformity to the world. Christians, he said, should seek to waik with God, as did En of old, and then they would not follow the fashions nor be con- formed to the world, ‘The services, which consisted on Janney’s discourse and a prayer, were very rier, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. The Stcrm Calming the Public Mind=Tho Lectare of Dr, Lambert Adjourned. It was announced that Dr. T. S. Lambert, a lay- man, would present the “Right View of the Public School Question, Intended to Harmonize the Views of All Persons,” last evening, at the large hall of the Cooper Institute. But few persons, not even & hundred, had ventured out in the storm, their in- terest for this most interesting topic giving way probably to the fearful biasis of wmd and rain, Dr. Lambert thought it best, therefore, to postpone his lecture to some future day. Nevertheless, at the appointed hour—etght o'clock P, M.—he appeared on the platform and stated that he had believed the Janitor would have declined to open the doors, on account of the severity of the weather. He con- gratulated himself, however, on the fact that wo ladies had braved the storm to come to tha hall, which spoke well for their interest in the cause-and toeir own personal intrepidity. It was therefore not inappropriate to address them as ladies and genticimen. The Voctor regretted that he could not on ths evening give fils views in full, as he .desirea to present them to a large concourse of people, that they might be circulated, thought and spoken about. The question of edu- cating the young 18 @ matter of importance to all, and should be discussed calmly and dispas- sionately. ‘here was no use of getting together like dogs, first growling, then barking, and at last fignting. He referred, a8 an example, to the friendly relations between the North and South m years gone by, and yet, all at once, both sections marshailed armies of which not one man in ten would, of his own will, have fired a ball. Ho then spoke in high terms of tne ublic schools of this cily. Committees from Boston and from Europe had been here to inquire into the system, and they acknowledged 1t as superior to their own. The schools here are visited by Catholics, by Protestants, Jews and others, and a large majority of the peo- ple intend to have no quarrel about their man- agement, In regard to the text books, Dr. Lampert fadimitteugjthat the§Catholics as well ag the Jews have reason to compiaint,,but only the Protestants suffer from these misrepresentations in the text books, because the children of a different faith wonder that the author of the book did not know any better. Such things engender prejudice, wich should be avoided, But with proper amend- ments the public sovool sysiem was the best in the world, ana ii any one doubts it let him visit the Schools, see the progres’ and assiduity of the teach- ers and pupils, aud he would be satisfled. These remarks were nov part of his discourse, sald the Doctor, which he Would deliver some evening of next week, whereupon the assembly dispersed. RULES FOR COMPUTATION OF TIME IN MAKING PAYMENT TO GOVEQNMENT EMPLOYES. GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 33, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, | ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, Maren 24, 1870. ‘The following circular from the oilice of the Sec- ond Comptroller, ‘Ireasury Department, containing rules for the computation of time in making pay- menis to employés of the government, is, by direc- tion of the Secretary of War, published for the infor- mation of all concerned. The rules therein laid down to govern payments for service will hereafter apply to payments tor commutation of quarters and fuel:— TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ? SECOND COMPTROLLER OFFICE, WASHINGTON, March ‘or the computation of tine in maki of the government having been so construed as in many cases to operate unjustly against the government the following have been adopted and wi.l be observed, when ap- plicable, in all payments made hereafter :— 1, Tae law providing compensstion having ignored unequal durations of months by allotting the same pay to each, and the pay tables having, for convenience, subdivided cach month's pay tato thircy equal parts, thus’ paying, in twelve months of thirty days each, the full salary provided by law for the entire year, the months should be assumed, in comput ing pay, as they are by law, to be of equal length, any otner duration than ibirty days being ignored. 2. To conform with the foregoing, to secure greater accu racy in computation and to save the trouble and delay of four distinct caleulations of monthly pay, in hereafter com- pating the time of service of goverament oflicers and em- ployes, thirty days will be assumed aa the length of each aud every Monta in the year. 8. For all monti’s service performed by persons employed by the government at a stipulated monthly rate of compensa- tion (or yeariy salary, if paid in regular monthly or bi- monthly instalments) payments will be made at such stipu- luted monthly rate, without regard to the number of days the months paid for may contain. 4, In cases when the ser mmences ate day of the moat a0 embraces part thereof, thirty days will be assumed Ure duration of such month, w! thereot be twenty-eight, twenty: days and pay will be coinpuied accordingly. 5, When the service terminates atan Intermediate day of the month, and hence embraces but a fractional part thervof, the whole’ number of days during which service was ren dimeueh fractional part of a month will be allowed im making payments. 6. For convenience in caleulating service embracing two of months, or parts of months, but one fraction will be ‘Thus, from the 2st of September to the 2th of No- vember, inclusive, will be calcuated—trom lst of Septem- ber to LUth of Ocidber, Inclusive, as one month; from October 21 to November 20, inciusive, another. month; and from 21st to 25th November, inclusive, five days—making two months and five vaya, 7. When two fractions of months occur In any account for service, both together belug less than a waole month, as from the Sist of August to the 10th of September, the calculation of time will be ‘rom August 21 to 80, inclusive (ignoring the 81st), ten days, and from the Ist to the 10th September, tncla- sive, ten duys—-making the time to be paid for twenty daya. & ‘Service commencing jn February will be calculate though that month coutaihed tbirty daya; thas, from F ary Zi to end of month, fuclusive, ten days wil be allo thongh the actual ume be but eiybt or nine aya; prov de that when service commenceston the Inst day of February payment wifd be made for only one day in that month, $. The foregoing ruler do not epply to commutation of rn- tions, nor to laborers employed at a per diem allowance. Lo computing them she wciual number of days are to be ascer tained and jowed, 10, Laborers employed by the month and actually perform. their tirst day's labor on the dist day of any monty will be payments thirty or thirty-oue fn, ay. Tendering ttle or no eeryice on the day of en- listment oF discharge, pas ment vor bot by the Ko unjust. The day of enitsiment, therefore, will hereafver be Aljowad) aud the day of discharge $a fered for rervice atated performed from one piven date to anoluer, out named will be exclud ef the day clearly shown by the form of the accouat that the 6 dered was “iuciusive” of both. J. M. BRODHEAD, Comptroller. AL SHERMAN. eral. By command of Ga B.D. Lownseyd. Adiatant