The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1870, Page 3

er tee RELIGIO ann. Palm Sunday Solemnities, Pulpit Pronunciamentos and Prepara- tions for Passion Week. Undying Faith and Paims of Evergreen. Christianity and Its Relations to Reform Radically Considered. The Code of Blackstone and the Oreed of Christ. SROTARIAN SCHOOLS AND STATE RELIGION. Words in Season on Gold and Silver, Adultery, Character and Discipline, Murder, Swill Milk, Tenement Pens, Piety and Principle. A glorious morning ushered in the anniversary of Chrevs entry into Jerusalem, and the thousands who, at the customary hour for divine worship, wended their way to the churches of the metropolis enjoyed air as cicar and balmy as ever refreshed beggar or pilgrim ‘in the Holy Land. Being Palm Sunday the services in the Catholic churches were moore than ordinartiy imposing and ruil of tuverest. To these temples of worship the rich and poor of te Roman faith Poured with quickening zeal many of the la:ter beaying to their hands or wearing in their henddyesg spriga of (hp Ajrbbolle Daim. In the Pro- ‘estant churches the services were as usual, but, ag will be observed by the reader of the foliowimg vory full and clabvorate reports, the sernios War ox. eeeding)y able, mueresting and pr hiable. a erate EDULIERY AND iis PEMSAMEN A Serman by the Nev. Charles B. Smyth Power of thy PressBlasts at FreeeLoves fem—The Right to slay a Seaucer. Asermon apropos to a leadtng event in the sovtal ‘World was given yesterday morning vy tie Rey. Charles B. Swyth at the moccst hte Presbyterian ehurch, Bseventh strect, between Seconda and ‘Vhird aveuues. The reverend geatieman cuose for his text the following tenth verse of the twentieth ebapler of Leviticus:—"And we man that com- xotwerh adultery with anotuer man’s wife, even he wnat commitreth adultery with his neighbour's wite, theaduitercr aud the adalteress shall surely be put to death.” ‘THY WERALD A TEXT BOOK. ‘The reverend gentleman” opened his remarks by saying that ibisa greac fault with modern pulpit- Ucians that they iwduge “in vague generalities,” and fail either to a'm the shafts of their eloquence at the particular sins or wnien thelr ligarers ure gUity or to point ous minutely the rules, by observ- ing which, with the assistance of Divine spirit, they might avoid sin aud. practice holiness, as well as to show the arguments drawn from right reason, which sustain the doctrines and precepts of revelation. It cannot but seem true to every unpre- judiced observer of passing events that ‘the religious impressions which are made upon the young lack the stamp of a true Christianity, and the reason why, when grown to maturity, 20. many neglect the faitn is because they cannot reconcile in their minds tacts as they exist with the lessoug they Nave learned.!— my hearers, there is in the region of modern theology, aa in money making, too much wild speculation, and on the part of persons only a f i -occup: irectortal positions au assumption HAAN, Rag aye PR, aS 8 baton ( ‘this fault, as by evil, have been hatched ionumerabie heresies, persecutions, immo- ralities, contradictions, absurdities and varities of acept The Christianity, not of the achoo!s, not ot modern speculating theologians, not of BIGOTED SECTARIANS, but the Christianity of Christ himee!f—this is what is needed in the pulpit, in the pew, in the courts of the church, in her conventions, conferences, synods ud courictis, to put life into a dead world, and to make the church, not a by-word and a laughin, seks but an object universally admired an THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY rings through every avenue of the soul with the true ring of a precious coin that 18 not counterfeit, and elicits at once the unauimous acclaim of ail {pe Jaculties that such a command ts right—rght in the very nature of things—absolutcly, eternally, ua- ebangeably right. ULPIT Ligne E Let it not be sald that, tn calliig public attention fo this bevy 2) we are Car rd the boundaries of propriety of decency. The: @ licence for the poet; @ license for the stage; @ license for the bar; ‘@ license for the witness box; a livense for the writer 01 Hotion; @ license Lor the press, the multitudinous msues Of which spread far and wide its printed matter, and place it ‘neath every in- tell t eye im the land; and why should there not be a license for the pulpit to reiterate the commands of God, who is purer than the heavens, and who is moze tt than moriais are to judge what it ta proper to teach or aecent to repeat? wity should He not Dave license to promulgate His own law to the creatures of His hand? Brethren, it is time for true modesty to take the place ol that FALSE MODESTY, “ which by her prudery, with crucl whip in hand, has driven virtue like an exile weepiag from our Jand and peopled it largely with Fourterites and free lovers, itis time for the pulps to waken up on this question. It must do so if our country is to he kept irom © fate like that of Sodom and Gomorran. Tne medical tacuity are arousing them- scives and crying to the clergy to come and help them. Let tue latter not hear their cry in vain, nor refuse to hearken to ihe call of God: “Cry aloud end spare not; show my people their wansgressions,” FREE LOVERS. ‘The principles of the Vourierites,-Owenites and other socialists and {ree lovers, though diferent in some of their minor particulars, are the same tn the main. ‘They all deny that a wife should be limited to one mali for a husband; that is, to deny that there ghould be any puvisiment for the crime pro- hibited in the seventh commandment. We have been informed that years ago the propagators of Koc-alism were not Wituout the aid of a dary jour- Bal 1n this city, PRESS TEACHINGS. Tt 18 ag much to be deplored that the issues of a daily press, or that Ae of its editorial siail or corps of writers shonid be jmbued with socialism or free Joveism, as that tne pulpit should be so; for who does not know that tne influence exerted for zood or for evil by a daily newspaper is gigantic aud much forther-reaching than that of any pulpit? Oh, that every publication otlice, and every editor, and every writer in the land were the dissemi r of virwuo womixed, ond of truth wnadniterated! What a mighty power, then, would goodness wield! “nike peo le ike priest” is au adage with which we are may | familiar, and it may be that we shall yet have the ty . LIKE PAPER, LIKE READER. Who can teli what effect familiarity with acligne of men of loose morals, or the reading of the effusions from their pens: in years gone by, may Bave proauved upon the minds and suscepubilties of @ Man then youtnful whose soul 18 now im eter- ity, ana for the alleged kiling of whom another human being 18 on wial? Such men are apt to favor the abolition of No ser punishmeut, Im- punity for crime accords well with freedom to com- “mitcrime. The doctrines of free-lovisi have ob- tained an astonishing lodgment among the opinions of existing suciety alarming ina high degree, and resulting with the certainty of tue ordinary couree of nature in GIVING BIRTH TO ADULTERY. ‘The extensive prevalence of thts crime ts plainly traceable to the free doctrine of marriage by affinity, aud therefore the disregara of the sacred obifgations of marriage by jaw. ‘Ihe Western “Paradise of free-lovers” (as Indiana has weli been atyled by a dist ed advocate), 1s the nataral piace of resort for peopie who noid thuse doc- trines—to get rid of. Jc is opposed to common sense, This is evident from the fact thateven the pations of antiguity, which were loose as to many points of morality, were unjted in inflicting punisi- meut upon all who were guilty of this crime. . HISTORICAL LESSONS, Abimelech threatened death to any of the men of Gerar who would thus inswit the wife of Isaac. Ju- dab eeehoee. ‘Tamar to be burnt on the suppose! evidence of her having committed tins crime. ‘The tian law maimed for life both of the offenders. ‘The Locnians put out both of the man’s eyes, The the woman denuded among ber kindred, shaved her head, and caused her husband to beat ber through the ciy. The Gortynoans erowned the man with wooi to shame him. The Camani obliged the woman to ride upon an ass, naked and at, and forever after called her ia scorn “a riderupon an ass. Even we Ro- gnane, though very Jax and though permitting tha Dusbavd to divorce his wife at pleasure, yet rortitied a a a a nes Senshi eee iy Sahiy Rea es po EP ast sat eee Poidectig W eabhn water” And the verw pained ath death uitery Thia leads me to remar! by J with impunity is opposed to of KILLING NO MURDER, ‘The doctrine that @ man should be allowed to vi0- late the seventh commandment with 1m) as absurd, It ® opposed to the instincts nature. The offence is one that the heart of the injured one with a poisoned arrow that sets nis nerves on fire-and con- sumes all his joys and his hopes. it wounds bis brata and sends his reason reeling. At meets & spontaneous, ungovernable, instantaneous resist. ance, which geeks ino iife of the offender, "mad oF notmad.'? Now, from the fact that God himself de- Spon asa a3 the punishment for aduitery, it fol. DRATH 18 THE NATURAL AND PROPER PUNISHMENT for thatcrime, And if it 18 80, how comes it to that nations under the sway of modern civilization, professedly Christian, nave not aMxed that penalty to the offence? ‘fhe reason which Blackstone as- signs for tus DEFICIENCY IN THE LAWS of England may be suficient to account for the same J all Christian lauds, He says that it was “left to the feedie coercion of the spiritual court, according to the rules ef the canon law—a law which has treated even aduitery iteelf with a great degree of tenderness and lenity, owing, pernaps, to the con- strained celtuacy Of its first compilers. ‘The temporal courts, therefore, take no cognizance of the crime of adultery, otherwise than ag @ private injury.” LAWS ON ADULTERY, By a law enacted during the Commonwealth this crime was made capttal, but the same authority says that “at the Restoration it wus not thought proper to renew.a@ law. of such unfashionable rigor.” The Court of Charles I, it 18 well, known to every reader of history, Diost profligate; and such a law, consequently, Would be by no ineans agreeabie tolaw-makers, who were at the same time law-breakers, since n0 man who 18 coin dentis desires to be his own execu- Uoner. Brethren, 1 is time now that our law-makers should open their cyes to the fact that the fie P ia the Se nal he a eh y seventh commandment. The Pte ae i many men have in recent years fallen back upon ther natural rights, and avenged their mjured honor and ruined popes aud blighted bliss with ther own hand, and acquitted by honest juries ap. Pointed to try them on the charge of murder, and that their verdicts have been approved by the people, shonid make them understand that mere PECUNIARY DAMAGES ARE NO COMPENSATION to auy man for the desolation which an artful Sedicer hae made in his nitherto.happy home. GHER LAW, i We have our statuielaw and our common law, but there is a higher law that rises above them ail; and that higher lqw 18 the Jaw of God—a law pro- Thulgated amidst tbe thunders and lightnings and other awe-msphring indications of the presence with it of our God, who is a consaming fire to all work- rs of iniquity—a law, the utterance of which meets with @ true and an exdct echo every manly heart, and says, “The adulterer and the aduiteress shall sureiy be put to death.” CLERC OF THE MESSIAH, Gold and Silver Viewed from a Uuitarian Stundpoint—Sermon» by the Rev. George H. , Hepworth. Paim Sunday, with ail che outside attractions of a siouary trips to Westchester county, Hoboken and eisewhere contiguous to the city “where the wood- bipe twineth’? with the pleasing positiveness it dots ROL within our OWD Weagve Metropolitan limite, dvew, noiwitistanding, as elsewhere, a large con- yregation yesterday moruing at the spacious and beanuful Church > of ithe Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street. It is not uniizely, howgver, that the theme—“Gold and Silver"’—announced for the morning discourse by Rev. George H. Hepworth, the pastor, may have had something to do with the overflowing congrezation; for the spacious ple of worship was filled to its utmost capacity, woich means here that a good many had {6 Fempin standing, but which aot of pattent bodliy peaagce was patiently borne, as bring- ing With It rich ensation. “As for the sermon, there was the rmg of the genuine metal In it—an Unintermitting series of golden cua expressed in golden pense gushing forth of precious streams of pure silver—an effort in eloguence and the invainabie of ive teachings rarely sur- passed by this gifted pulpit orator. It was listened to with @ hush of sifiivess in keeping with the HUSH OF THS SACRED DAY, We have mentioned the church as being crowdea, It is unnecessary to Say that much of the weaith and Jashion of the city Was here represented—tie richost of church toliets, the latest style of bonnet and the Inteat cut of coacand whisker, The preliminary ex- ercises were of the usual character—reading the Scriptures, prayer and singing by the choir ard congregation. ing one of the musical inter- Judes was introduced BEATING THR TRIANGLE, alving to tho music somewnat the vivacity of the anvil chorus. - Anncunem? as hia text St. James v,, 3—“Yor gold and miver are eankered,” he introduced his sermon by epee the various cl; of ie ‘who are to be seen at any hour of ett lasses any day in almost @ny of the streets of our great city—the millionnaire meronant, the princely banker, the humble arusao, the rich and poor alike. These crowds betokened every possible phase of human hopes and disap- Vee tomy pe He stood an hour in this way. Every. ody Was rushing after money. ‘This was the goal which every map, woman, boy and girl was striving for. He asked himself if the pursuit of wealt! was the great mission of man. It was not, and yet when & Inan strove to get a comfortable home for his family, and even affluence, he was doing toa certain extent God’s work, a3 was he when he preacned to them what he belleved to be the will of God, isd aie a dull, monotonous life of a mau }ving in the cquntry, how ait Waans HIB CLOTHES TO THRRADBARE condition, how his thoughts w threadbare and his life ia one rut—a dead level. This man read bis néwspaper and little else besides, He contrasted ‘With this life in the city, how there was everything here to rouse one’s energies and awbition to be great; how men here ¢ressed well and were polite and politic to accomplish their purpose, From this be spoke of the t modern engines of prozress-— the telegraph and the railroad. These were Goul’s hand, He next showed the marks of civiizauon, the architecture, the literature, the pictures on the wall, Jn this connection he spoke ot ‘THK CITY LAMPS AND PAVEMENTS, but the former, particuiarly in this city, were de- signed to show darkness, and paveraents were put down to be caken up again. After pursuing this train of thonght be remarked no matter what a man’s business might be he shonid ao that business ike a king, b2 i that of merciant, stock broker, mechanic or clerk. Next showing the difference of respect shown towards the rich and the poor, which he did with peenliarly e'oquent effect, he OVERHAULED OUR COURTS OF JUSTICE, and how easy it is for the criminal having money and influence to escape the penalty of his crime. In Unts connection be drew a graphic counter picture of the arrest, trial, conviction and Hanging of Jack Reynolds. His conclusion was that hangme for those having money and politica) influence 1s played out, but not so for the poor, All this, he arged, vis the result of tue prevalent absorbilg pursuit of money. Men sacrifice thelr manhood aud women ineir Womanhood to the all-engrossing greed of gain. Auother effect of this simple, exclusive attention to Hur business was the necessity of Keeping up the ex- cilement out of one’s business. No play at te thea- tre, for instance, Was good for anything unicss tne heroie ran away with the wropg man, ENSATIONAL PLats Wore sought after. It was so In illerature. Most of the vooks sold Dow are tras. ‘The poetry and beauty and rhyinm and blessedaess of twenty years ago Dad departed. Families were changiug into estaulisaments after the Parisian styie. A poor man, payiug honestly bis sinal rent, was without respect. Business men were getting to love ther business too much and their famiites too little, ‘Tnis made gamblers and drunkards, Dweiling with tnrijling effect upon this branch of his topic he urged, with au lnpress ve power of almost unrivalled ora- tory, that they snould marry their business to their Teligion and make each subservient to the other. THE UPRIGHT BUSINESS MAN was & true mimisicr. Priestly robes were on his shoulders. His was the ministry of deeds, and not words. As @ minister himseif, he could sound the alarm; but whas was he with the bugle mn his hand to the Knight in the front of the battle and carved with wounds? He trged, in conclusion, that they should each attend seduloasly to nis business, but attend to it honestly, They should not strive to ac- cumulate gold and silver for gold and silver's sake; for such gold and silver was cankered, but for the good if would do. Thus living, thus dying, and taking to heaven ledgers tn which n0 errors could be found, aad @ biessed Immortatty was theirs, SF. STSPHEVS ROMAY CATHOLIC CHURGH, Distributing the Palms—Beautiful Musie aud Church Pictures. The biessing and distribution of paims at this church took place atthe seven o’clock A. M. low mass, No procession, however, gave effect to the ceremonies either at this or the ten o'clock service. The music was, as usual, very fine. The mass se- lected waa Weber's, iu G. Colleti’s fine bass voice is now supplied by M. Weinlech, and the change is very perceptible to the critical ear. M. Boy 3s the present teaor, Madame de Lussau still eads as soprano, Her Znearnatus Est and Da Nobis on yesterday were vory fine; but at vespers in the afternoon she was super) in the Tantum Ergo trom the Oratorio of “Joseph.” Madame Anschutz’s Agnus Det in the Morning was truly five, and s0 was Morgan’s voluitary fugue ol Kinke'. The white marble aliar of St. Stephen's shows with fue effect against the purple background formed by the curtain covering Brumidi’s Crucitixion, All the altar pictures in this church are Of course covered during the present penitential season. Bramidi is now finishing bis last pictures in this church. ‘They are a St. Cecilia at King David ou each side Of the portal of phe middle aime. “Tray wil propanty be complote by Kaster Sunday. 9 that day we may , bright aud magnidcent day, enticing to excur-” course, Utmost extent to accom- Seapiaaat nani Heats Ms a aisles being crowded and er ery pew alle ’ MINETEENTS = STREET CHURCH. expect the aut 14 orchestral service usual op the , ana step! ve crowded tos utmost eaters to secon: PRESBYTERIAN A Large and Fashionable Congregation— Good Music {and Sweet Perfimos=Sere by Rev. Dr. Hall. On Sabbath morning, be the day bright or gloomy, the First Presbyterian church, situated at the cor- her of Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue, js filed with @ congregation which, in number and respect> ability, 1a uot surpassed by any on the avenue; but. on such days as yesterday, when the balmy sunlit breezes arew out of doora the old a9 well as the young, the curiosity secker as well as the worship. per, and the lover of sweet music und genuine, Whole-souled eloquence, as well as the sevrcher for spiritual comfort, this church is always filed to overflowing, FASHION CAME IRRE IN FORCE yesterday, ‘The latest styles tm ladies’ hairdresses, and in gioves, fans, boots, spring dresses, and fuss and feathers generally, were on exhibition in the pews, and did much credit to the artists whose haudiwork they were, while they afforded to the fair members of the congregation @ splendid fieid for mutual admiration. ‘The gray-halred members of the congregation (their umber is large) appeared totally absorbed in their devotions. Tne sweet peals of the organ, the pleas- lng ring of the ola chureb hymns and the scholarly and ¢ffBalcal bearing of fr. Mail, as he stood on the Yostrum confronting his diversified audience, ap- peared to have enchained two of thelr senses; but Close observation disclosed the fact that even those pillars of the church were not wholly dead to the in- fluences wielded by tasteful and costly decoratio: sweet perfumes and a gorgeous array Of beauty an vanity. THE SERMON. ‘The pastor of the church, Rey. Dr, John Rall, de- livered Qn elogacnt and instructive sermon, taking his text from Corinthians 1, 32—‘For as in Adam: ail die, even so in Christ sali all be made alive,” ‘The reverend gentleman; in a lengthy and learnea discourse, interspersed with strains of sparkling eloquénce pecullar to the Celtic orator, gave @ graphic history of man’s relation with the. Creator irom the beginning to the re demption, which culmmated in the resut- rection of Christ from the tomb, showing the moi learued from the fall and the privileges and obligations devolving on human- ity consequent on the redemption. He said the resurrection of Christ was tie act that brought to- gether the past and tue future, that united the Old with tne New Testament,and was the fuldiment of the promises and propnesies contained tn the former. The disobedience of our first futher, Adam, brought death and musery on his children and lefta stain and a pang bebind that will follow hig descendants to the end of time. ‘The death of Christ, the second Adain, opened the gates of heaven to our fallen race, but did not restore man to a state ol original inno- ecnse, Jopving. him to remember that he must waik cautiously 14 the read to ¢igrnity and Work oul nis saivation in fear and trembung. The er ATION INDUC ad YH FALL. The evil spirit, spurred on spleey and digay- pointed pride, entered into ink rsont aa Wil deadly art laid the snaro that nas brougit woe aid misery on the world, He persuaded our frail fainer to handle the forbidden fruit. It appeared fair to ine eye, bab Lis taste brought a catalogue of borrors fa its am, wit which we are unfortuaaiecly too well acquainted. Curiosity and ambition were the causes of tie fall. “Tne fruit was fair to the eye. * © Ye shail be as gods, knowing good and evil.” The eyes of our iirst parents were quickly opened, pat not im a@ spirit of sorrow or repentance, Adam charged the crime on Eve, who in her turn laid it lo the serpent. ‘This 18 the exact counterpart ni temptation aud crime in ourows day. But whata diferéiit igsson We iéara hom THE SECOND ADAM, He was tempted ana withstood the whisperings of the cunning foe. His lifeand #18 doath teach us lessons that we should engrave on our hearts. He died and rose again. His resurrection was glorious as }iis Ife was sublime, Each mam expects acath, and gs surely as death will come a resurrection will foliow, bringmg glory or disgrace as our lives on earth may merit. TRE FIRST ADAM Was our father in the flegh; the second our Father tu the spirit. Tae first the head of our race; the second the Head of the new dispensation. The fail of the first Adam brought misery and galling woes in ite train; it is the key that discioses the of the dreary words heart sickness, slow decay, devauchery, lost breath, ca- metery mounds, faneral . processions, family suifes, gnawings of conscience, restlessness and suicide. The resurrection of the second Adam has opened heaven anéw and permitted man to frame his own destiny and to follow a responsible gad « dependent course aocording to nis sense of right and wrong. ‘the society of gape Movers is like divided by a flowfhg river. On me one side are those who nave fought the good fight, received their reward, who repose in reaims where the sky is bright, society nobie and sorrow unknown. The church on earth iy the other dravch of Christ's society, and belore its members can reach the home of the blessed a deep and turvid river must be assed, temptations must be overcome aud gilded ‘uits dashed away from the lips, while the eye is kept ste.dily on the desired goal, else a fali shall come more fatal than that of our first father, as this second rejection of the cup of life wii bring ever- jasung meery. ORIENTAL GALL. “Cheepening of Human Life’’—Remarkable Sermon by the Boy Preacher,§ the Kev. Charies ‘T. LeomDenouncing Tenement Pens, Swil) Milk, Adulterated Food, us Mure derers of Men—Youth and Elequeuce Yoo gether, Yesterday morning, at Oriental Mall, in West Twenty-seventh street, near Third avenue, the Rev. Charies T. Lee, the boy preacher, discoursed upon the “‘Cheapening of Haman Life’ in a very eloquent, logical and effective manner. The hall was quite full, and though the society has begun in a humbie way the evidences were that a bright future is at hand, Mr. Lee has an exceedingly juvenile appear- ance, and ts not apparently above twenty; bub yes- terday morning he exhibited powers of oratory, reasoning and grasp of miad, combined wiih ana- lytical acuteness, enough to place him agiong THE FIRST FIVD DIVINES in the city. He has none of the patont precocity of youth, but all the digmity and good judgment of superadded years, His voice is rich aud powerful; his deitvery marked by the inflections of emotion and punciuated with ths higher notes of invective. He resembles Chapin without imitating him, and tn gesture, inclinatton of the body and anvil utterances reminds the hearer of that eminent divine, Of sandy complexion, reduced stature, but syminactri- cal frame, his pi ce 1% tine, and, like Chapio, he wears eyeglasses. He 18 3 beurdiess youth; yer bis speech 1g easy, Unconsiralned, temperate and sin- cere, You hear no soptiomorical vombast and listen to no pueriie afiectations, He is terse and pithy upou facts, and loud, earnest and deciamatory when he haria down his mdig- nant pertods against the follies of the race, He drifts from denunciations of siu mto the purer waters of pathos with graceful modula- tons of the voice, and toucties the heart with truth and the understanding with reason, He hus a vast treasury of illustration, a wealth of aupero imagery, not appiied with too much exuberance but as Ra- phael would leave immortal glances of inspiration upon the features of a Madonna. You remewver his words and ideas as you do a beautitul face; uney are Wreatied like 1lowers about the transparent wa- ters of @ glassy stream, and we see mirrored 10 Nis mind the elevated and exalted thoughts that suarpen the tongue to magnetic utterance and soften it with the purity of rippling diction, He has @ clear in- sight ito the human heart, understands its fictions and condemms its Itttleness, He 1s BOLD AND DEFIANT With sin, but toward virtue and goodness his att- tude becomes Kind and genwle. He turns trom ras- cality to uprightness, from hypocrisy to humility, irom the giare of fashion and trivolity to the pearis of gentiencas and the radiance of heaven. He writes a3 8 man of Mty and speaks as full ot fire. ‘Shriil upon thrill respond to his daring eioqueuce, and he Clothes the emotions in living, sparking ral- ment, Hts fame is assured, for no ear, charuied by the music and fascination of his voice, can neglect to listen and to learn. Yesterday morning he con- sidered “Thou soait not ki.’ In previous dis- courses he said he had considered the social ils of Uhe hour. He had found that they all sprang from a@ false idea or lic; from national disorders; from @ low, corrupt aud pernicions literature; from the sin and cwmes of Miemperance; which led to death, destruction and degradation, aud from generat immorality, Now the caeapening of human ite was the crowning evil, Ja the crowded streets of this Western metropoils, tn hells of intamy, iow brothels and resoris of evil doers, ufe bad ittie value, Tne halis of justice resounded with appeals lor murderers’ Jives, and the prisons gave evidence of the flow of fratricidal biova, In the upper strata of society murder was noc un- known. The assassin was a human shark, Sled With greed aod gain, Who preyed upon the poor anu heipless; he owned a tenemeidt REEKING WIBIL FOULNESS and stinking witt corruption; he was a cheapener of puman Iie—and so 1 Wenton., All ‘The learer might turn away in disgust; but life was the gilt of God—the tiwago of ow Maker, suman fe was the key to the gate of evervity. Goa’s desiga was iat we who lived liere stould exist i the hereafter. ‘fo Lect toe D was laugh- wg at His commands aud defying His indnie glory. He had given us world, the sun, and undying spheres of hght, maguiiicence aud gravdeur, and with tbese creations lad come Plato, and Bacon, and Shasspe re. To preserve these mila. to make ule _NEW -YORK- HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL Ul, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. cone ean to Understand and appreciate it were our DORLLING ‘was a orime—a falee resort of wounded honor, now fast ebbing away. He referrea to the Montpensier- Bourbon nd unul whole peoples cease. Then would be the mul Wholesale murder raged among the tenement pens, and Mr, A., living on the avenue, the PRINCE OF CASH, known on Harlem lane, fashionable day and night winter and summer, was living on the woes of others—upon these who had to subsist in tenements rank with filth and pregnant with aisease; to breathe an air deadened with potsonous gases anid carbonie vapors, Over 4,000 of these charnei houses were im the oe: In them lived, but rather died, 100,000 squis, ur-fiftps do not outlive tyirty-fve. Here we the crimes of Mr. A., and was he not @musderer? (Sensation.) God praise Peabody and PeterCooper! They were humanitarians, ADULTERATED FOOD AND SWILL MILK were killing the pour, innocent babes, mothers and tolling This was murder, slaughter, feariul crime. And the carnival of blood—it was movin; on. Arrest. these vices, atop thelr inroads, pluc! them up at the roots and dissipate their seeds. They sbould arise to their duty. He closea his ex- traordinary sermon with a telling spree. and thus ‘Saamaee one of the most yemarkable discourses of aay. ST. A\N°S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Imposing Ceremonies—Bleasing aud Distribute ing the Palme. Yesterday being Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, it was celebrated by the usual ceremo- nies of blessing and distribution of paims or ever- greens, processions and solemn nigh masses in all our Roman Catholic churches. AC Sf. Ann's, Chan- cellor Preston’s chfirch, the services and ceremonies were beautiful and impressive. They began precisely at half-past ten tu the morning. Thirty young girle dressed in white, and wearing white lace veila and crowns of white roses, entered rst, two and two, from the vestry door, Each couple bowed before the altar upon entering, and proceeded down the side aisle with slow and mea- sured step to the music of an appropriate voluntary on the organ, rendered in Dachauer's best atyle. They passed through the church door into thé vesti- bule, and, re-entering the church by the central aisle, approached the ajtar rail, waking THE USUAL GENUFLEXION ond filing off on each side, filled the seats that had been prepared for them immediately in front of the altar rail. As soon aa they were seated the c'ergy and acolytes entered in solemn procession, robed in the purpie and gola vestments of the Lenten season. All the pictures, statues and ornaments on the altars were also draped with purple and ornamented with ever- greens resembling palms. First in the procession came the THE GOLDEN CENSE! and an acoiyt® with the silver vessel of holy water; next two tall, slender acolytes with lighted candies; then the smalter attendants, followed by the Rey. Father De Chard, S. J., a8 sub-deacon, bearing the processional cross draped with purple and orna- mented with palin leaves, the Rev. Father Poole aa deacon and Rev, Father Preston, who was ine olil- clant and celebrant of tne day. They passed at once within the aitar rail and the ceremony of a 1B PALS began. The geryjoe, though loud, is exceedinuly in- structive, a symbolic of Uurist’s triumphant entry into Jerussiem, when the multitude sirewed pabn branches and spread their garments in his way, crying “Hosanna to wie son Of David; blessed is ie that cometh inthe name of the Lord.’? Immediately alter the blessing, sprinkling with holy water and periuming with incense, the palms were distributed by the clergy, first to the avolytes within the aiter rau, then to the youug girls without the rails, each kneeling revercatly received the branch. ‘The procession was formed while appropriate an- tphons were wung, the thurifer taking the lead, with the smoking censer, a8 before, Wille tne pro- cession was making the circuit of the clurch the palms were diptribated by ushers to tue cougrega- lion, who remained in their seats. A SOLEMN NIGH MASS was celebrated as soon as the procession was over, Rev. Father Preston being the celebrant. No sermon ‘Was preached, us the long reading of the passion of our Lord a6 recorded by Si. Maithew, in chapters XXvi aud XXvil, is the gospel appointea by the yobric for the day. This was read in English with fluency aud clearness by the Rev. Father Pooie. The music selected by Dachauer for the occa- sion was Dietsch’s twelfth mass, The Quando Corpus of Rossiui’s Stabat Mater was beauu- tuhy suog at tie offertory by Mile. de B.aux, soprano; Mme. Gomien, contralto; Signore Frrani and Remt, tenor and basso. Father Pres:on, in alew remarks, exhorted his congregation to avail themeeives of the privilege and duty of approaching the sacraments during Lent and the approavaing Easter season. The service did not close until alter one o'clock P, M. thurifer with we EBSYEZER PRE BYIERIAN CNUKCE. Services gt tho Mali cf the Mistericu} Seciety. Yesterday morning there were assomibied av the Dall of the New York Hisiorieal Society about two hundred persons, members of the Presbyterian con- gregation of Ebenezer, who have clung to the society from the time of caving the edifice owned by them io Rivington street, aud their subsequent church mn Sixth street, through their CLINTON HALL MEETIO and these they bave held for the last two yearsin une place where they were to-day assembied. The Rev. Goorge 8. Chambers officiated, and the ser- vices hegan by the congregation simging the hywn beginuing, 2, Lord Goa, the Holy Ghost, Iu this accepted hour, Ax on the day of Pentecost, Descend in all thy power: Afterwards the reverend gentiewan read the #ec- ond chapter of Paaito the Ephesians, following it by prayer, and the congregation einging the fourth stanza of the 107¢h byniu:— The King of Heaven His table spread. The texc was from Paul's Ep:stio to the Ephesians iL, 19—‘Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers aud foreigners, but fellow citizens of the saiuts and of the household of God,’ In no oiher part of the word of God are found such contrasts as io the fist and last verses of tis chapter, The mnate depravity of man is here eet forth; the transitions by which despair is changed to hope, griel vo joy, and a spirit of holiness eniers the tempest tost sea ol the pas- sions. The Bible pictuses the innermost and utier depravity of man, and startles us by 113 REVELATIONS OF HIS INFAMY. The chapter trou w. i} Nn tains the spiritual b ner and member of ¢ past experience as an alien fyomp Vie house of Gad, and asa pient of bis Father's bounty. Believers are £ citizens of the faints. Lue saints ave those who have been SELECTED BY GOD FOR THRIR Pik? Y, and constituie & congregation over whoin Olsist reigus. Tue congregation of Clristians 1s nob con- Hued to the wails of the church, but coustitates @ groat society, exteuding everywhere through. out wwe world, and bounded by no geographi- cal Wnes or national buundaries Their ber no man can count, aud they const that Kingdom of God over which Jesus Onrist ret ‘they should be proud of yer kingdom and their king; that they Delong lo tas glorioug $y) any, this sacr te. But the Christians ave the family of God, and He thus stands over Ui the paterhal ag well as in the klogly attitud muy tes are closer Lhan Hational tes, More sacred ones. The authority of the fatier Is more gacrea than that of the king. ‘The one may excite awe and fear and reverence, but tho oiber wins obedience by the power of Jove and an adoration tat is as SWwoet to offer as to receive, - “The giorious company of the Apoaties” and ‘ihe noble army oJ martyrs” beloug to this Kingdom, presided over by the Jehovah oi nosts, who 13 the father of the Christian brothernood and tie family of the Churen, (BURCH OF THE PUSITANS. “Growth of Character by Discipline’? —Dise course by Kev. Dx. Cheever. At Apollo Mall, Broadway and Tweuty-eighin street, yesterday morning, belore a Jargejand attentive congregation, Kew Dr. Cheever preached an eloquent sermon on “The Growth of Character by Discipiine,’? The epeaker showed the gradual progression froma lower toa higher stage which the character of a man makes when trained aud corrected by alsci- pline. To this end tt is necessary to weed ont aud extirpate those habits which are calculated to im- pair the moral and phyalcal being of tie man. We are a'l sensible, in the kuowledge of our own hearts, that vicious hapits are naturally prog) ive, and (hat, coisequentiy, the sooner we begin their exu ination une better we shall macceed. Every day we postpone the commencement of this daty the more unikely they wil be to yreid. Growing with our growth and strengtncamg with our streogt they wii nitnantery dety our atest eiloris. Like cveryibing progressive they ay firmness ip proportton to tetr ago, ‘The te Y oak, jusy bursting the surface of the carth and diselosing its foliage Lo the sun, W easily demolished; Lut ia the progress of time it nequives strong, rises avove the trees of the lotest aad bids deflance to we stor So it is with the corruption of human uatnre, Pa alyzing the moral powers of the soul, it diminishes 1 8 sensibility to Virtuc and reconclics It to its slavery and ig chains, The tendency of an carly and thorough education is iulaidoly to stivengtuen the lutelicct. HOW INTELLECT AND CUARACTRR ARE PROMOTED. Observation, analogy and experieuce ail show that the montal and moral faculties, ke the organs of sougation, acquire strength in proportion to their exercine, tion, abstraction ana comparison, are obviously more acute than those which have been unused rf wiose b peers ‘The productions of accomplished and untutored Indl are no more dissimilar in point Of exceilence tuan are their mentaienergy. Why did Aristotie, Plato and Seneca acquire pre. eminence in abstract and metaphysical discus sion? Because they had been trained in eary life to efforts of this description. Why did Demos. thenes and Tully posseaa the power to move, to rouse andto captivate muititudes, courts aud sen- ates? Hecause under accomplished teachers they had studied the arts of rhetoric and elooution; had, while their tacuities were yet pliaut, not only re- sorted to the portico, the grove and the forum, but traveled in foreign countries, and by intense thougut and d‘scritanating observation improved thelr fac~ ues for this pury ith orhorxr OF TALENT. The development of talent and mental greatness, in almost every instance, has been owing CO circum stances, reauiting m the production and classifica- tion of thought, and this, strictly speaking, 14 education, be the process by which they are acquired What it may. Nature furnisies the elements of character and greatness, but exercise and discipline impart to them consistency and form. Be the native vigor of @ savage what it may, he can no more grapple with the energies of edu- cated mind than he can stay the tem- t or direct the lightning. ‘The intense! houghéful in every period have acquired power ina, Tor good or evil, has controlied the world. Such is taeenerey produced rd intellectual effort that every ‘thing ultimately submits to itegoverument. The ex- citements of foliy and the deliriums of passion all Jileld in time to the dominion of tiougui. By the force of mental aiseiplipe Bpace has been anuililated, disease vanquiabed, civil liberty defined, tue charter of salvation explained, an nature herself put under contributions to man. To the yoind illumined by science and the light of heaven everything in nature is @ source of com. fort, and the Christian in tracing the pages of Inspi- Tation discovers in the brightest characters tho goodness of his Creator. Reconclied to God through the merits of the croas he receives the aid of His alinighty grace, which epables him not only to pass ih triumph the waves of thia troublesome world, but to secure for bimself beyond the grave an tuherit- auce undefiled and that fadeth not away, eternal in the heavens. YWELESIA DE SANTIAGO. Sermen by the Rev. J. de Palua. ‘The project of evangeliziug the Latin races is an eminently interesting and important one, easpecially #0 at the present moment when, in every Latin coun- try, events are occurring which seem to point out that at no distant period the day will come when ther peopies shail throw olf the yoke which has vound them for ages, and stand again before the World free to choose and free to adopt a oreed, the venets of which shail for ever EMANCIUATE THEM FROM PRIESTORAYT, TION AND IDOLATRY. Of evangelical efforts in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy we ail know enough to be sure that the cause 1s progreselng, not tosay making giant strides, Perhaps few ore aware that on this side of the At- lautic a gallant band of the faithful have been bat- Uing, in Bpite of poverty And rebuls, to esiablish Latin evangehzation among the countless hordes of foreigners now peopiing every city and hamlet of this vast Contineut, Among these evangelists may & gited pe Spanish Provestant Episcopal churct of Xew York: SUPERSTI- Four years ago @ Spanish Protestant church Was organized mm New York by the Revs, Dra. Hawks and De Mora, under nanie of the Ygiesia de Santiago, In spite of every diMculty imagivable services bave been helt every Sunday at the Eglise du St. sprit, in West ‘Lwenty-second street, near Fifth aveaus, aud at the present moment the congregation ja a very good one. A Sabbath school, weil attended, 13 attached to the church, and altnougu the present miuister, the Rey, J. de Palma, a high-toned Christian gentle- man, has no saiary, and his fock might be more ideral in the matter of donations, still good seed has been sown and the fruits of indefatigable exertions aud privations are about to be reaped. The exercises yesterday were peculiarly interest. tng, and enbauced by the voluntary choir, whose sliging 18 admirable, After the usual service the pastor addressed his Mock on @ proposition made jim by the Rev. Ss. H. Tyng, Jr., with regard to Spanish missionaries, advovatiog the importance of young Cubans or Spaniards being educatea as God's emissaries, Such abnegation in the cause of Christ, he added, would do more for the evaugelizing the Latin races than auything else. The 1everend gen- tleman then mounted the pulpit and gave an address sulted to the day, choosing his text from Matthew xxi, 5—Tell ye the daughter of Zion, behold thy king comett uilto the meek.’ WHY THAT NOISE WHICH FILLS THE STREETS JERUSALEM, : languished and eubdued under the yoke of the stran- ger? Why that rumor of a festival spreading itself through tts avenues, from the Mount of Olives to the temple? What nas caused the city of David and Soromon to raise itself up from the dus: of its de- radgtion apd the ashes of its worrows? Why those branches, those rich garments spread in the way, the cholr of virgins and young men and those “mullitudes who, with clasped hands, sing “Hosanna or to the son of David; blessed tw He who cometh in the of the ‘Lordi? A revolution, @ Bi ae Thad revolution, had taken place. Not en’ earthly, b.cody, re oven ut a - throw of principaltics an bgt asd planced, everiasitng one, which will Jast as long as the earth revoives. God—pitying, perhaps, Dis sons and daughtere—las called on an uikaown man rom among thea, full of fatth and trusting in Jehovah, to awaken them from their lethargy, to put on the armor of mghteougness and chase away the Roman Ragie and ey Hie ciey from the con- tamination of idolator Who was tila conqueror? What is this man? asked the proud. Whence comes he aud what Is tie todo? ‘The auswer was, Jesus the Proviet of Naza- rethin Galiee, After @ magnificent description of the triumphal entry of our Saviour into serusalem Vbe speaker went on to say that THE KOHOWS ARE YEE RINGING IN OUR EARS of those hosunnas. All ages since have repeated them and they come to us not only as a warning but an encouragement, We should, especially on a day like Palm Sunday, remember and repeat their cries of Joy, for when Jesus took possession of his throne charity entered the world. His proclamation was of ‘the kingdom of holiness and purity. He came with Justice to govern society. Love, justice, truth and purity—sucu are the @oniversaries celebrated on this Joyous occasion. M. de Paluia then referred to the joyous festivities AMON: oUF colored Citizens On the passing of the Nfteenth amendment as ap evidence of the progress of Chrisi’s kingdom. — When he heard those cries of Joy he thought he heard the echoes of the entry into serusalem, of the tribute paid to justice ana a free and enlightened jegisiation, aud « hymn of thank- fulness to God. In conclusion he insisted on the importance of all wishing to be free and jdependent, only recognizing Christ as their only chict, aud as the persoutication of truth, justice and charity. TWERIV MRD STRERT PRESBYTERIAN Cu EROM, Sectasion “chooks and State Keligion--Sermon by “ev. U. . Northrop, The fine weatver yesterday forenoon had the effect of filling all of our churches to repletion, but it 18 doubtful if any of them contained a larger, more fashionable or more intelligent and apprecia. lve audience tian did that beautiful brown stone structure ia Twenty-third street, mear Seveuth ave- nue, known ag the West Twenty-third street Presby- tevian church. The pastor, the Rey. I. PD. Noriirop, preached a very able sormyn upon the io scnoot. GUESTiO and took his text from James iL, 12, He sald we were repeatedly assured that the Gospel strikes down wiloppression aud tyranny, and gives the lirgest liverty to those who embrace it. To be sure, 1b im: poses obiigations, it makes heavy demands, it fixes uimits peyond which we cannot go; but so far from aoing detriment to our facuities, or umpeding thelv ivee exercise, or obstruchag us in any right action, it aims to guarantee to us tue widest lwerty, and advance ail that periams to human welfare. Itteaches that, while we are servants of Gou, we are in bondage to none, ‘The law of Goapel liberty teaches that every one shall be allowed to judge for limselt, tat he ta amenable not to the conscience of auy otter, but to God only, Ibis weil Known that tho Kouau Cathone Cuuret is exerting every effort to set up sectarian schools and really epthrove itsell as TAB STATE CHORCH of this country. Let it be remembered that we touch upon Us maatver, Not to make it tue pretext of an attack upon the Papacy, but more in selt-defeuco against & power which las attacked ua, ‘Phe truth is that witle things remain as they are we ore as surely supporting # State Church, as Eng: land js to-day, Only nera is Protestant and ours Is not. Last year $412,00) were paid over from the puviic treasiry in this city to the Roman Catholic Church, As alarining as this may appear it 1s nothing, when compared with other grants made to the same Ge- nomination. for example:—in 1866 our muvicipal Teprese| i yave to the Catholic Archbishop for & nominal consideration Of one dollar a year, HALE A BLOCK OB GROUND ON MADISON AVENUB, Now Worth $200,000. In 1852 we gave the same sect a block of ground which is pow worth @ imiton and ahalf of dolara, Many other suci donations might be cited, but sulticient to Bay tat since 1862 we have given to toman Catholic Church three mu. lions and half dollars. Now tae avowed mteation of tho Papacy 1s, and bag been, to use this money to fet up sectarian schovis. ‘Shey say 1, and that means Church and State, and Church and State meng the vioiation oF our constitution and lawa—tt ee retlgious jitelerance of the wost infamous kind, Now, in regard to the Bible in the public schools, they com Orit, We do not like to part with it, for we koow it can do no one auy harm; bucif wis contrary io tne wishes of any sect or number of men We have po right to force itupon them. Bat, on the oter band, we claim the equal liberty. We will not make our schools sectanan and compel you to support Liem; neither shall you make your echoois seotarian and compel us to siistain them. Al! shall Minds inured to the process of combina. } be troated alike, If you wish your cuudyen educated in the principles of sect do i¢ at your own ex» ee: Dut do not net up schoola for ching ‘atholiciem or apy other sw, aud thea your bills to us, THIRD UMVERSALIST CHURCH. The Church, the Congregation and the Custos mary ServicesLord Duudreary at His Prayers—Simple, Solemn Musie~The Preach- er’e Photograph=Sermou on Church Meme herahip, i THB CHURCH. The Third Universaist church ia sitnated In Bleecker street, Near the corner of Downing. As a structure it belongs to no peculiar style of arcnitecture, A handsome brown stone Tonio portico surmounts the entrances, and gives an ecclestastical alr to the edifice, Incettorly, the ornamentation belongs al- most enurely to domestic architecture, It is, DOw- ever, neatly simple and exquisitely (resi, so that Ln its naked simplicity there isan atmosphere of go- lemnlty aud peace. Upon tae dais, at either end and at either side of the reading desk, bouquets of fresh spring flowers shed their tragrance, and no. doubs reminded many a wandering worshipper of the beauty and innocence of nature ant the bounty dud beneticcnve of nature's God, THB CONGREGATION was numerous, though the church was nos quite ful), and much mutual kindness and brotherly love evi- dently exists among the members, » It is increasing, too, as the new faces show. This ts owlng to the apos- tolie zeal of the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Switzer, wbo 1s unceasing Jp his etYorts to evangelize successfully thas Portion of the vineyard committed to his care, 16 has been previousiy stated that there were Do mil- lionnaires frequenting the church. Fortunately for ts temporai prosperity sach is not the it numbers several who have been smiled upon by the fickle goditess in the race of ilfe, who have made their pile within the district, “and who now make Vheir soul” by their liberality to the church and tg God's poor. Apiance at the assembling congregation told of gi rat col ation tollettes varefully made. Toe atest Tashions were there in the ireshest silks and in sheepy velvets. Ampie chignons, platted and piled up with indefi- nite care, designated quite a number of the ladies as early rixers, A wealth of bracelets indicated a con- tented vovrgeoisie, The blonde and the ‘bend,'? known as ‘Crecian,” generally weut together, aud looked stagy despite the solemn associations of the Sabbath crimes. Of style among the jadies there ‘was no lack. LORD DUNDREARY AT PRAYER. ‘The men as & rule were gravely clad. Lord Duns dreary, however, had @ few neat representatives. Scalawag whiskers, square-toed French kid boots, gold-beaded bamboo canes, @ nine Gotlar Knox hj klus dyed after the raiabow, sik neckties of @ Cal fornian-golden hue; swaggering, badly-adjusted lumbs; the hom and the guffaw (tn.@ tone mot loud enough to interfere materially with the music)-— such were tie noticeable features of “milords,’? who, if they came to pray, dia 1b after a fasvion ot thely own. ‘THE MUSIC, though eminently shnple and confined to the ordi Bary church bymns, Was rich and ful ol sweetness, At ho distant day it 18 intended to make tue choir and music of this church & marked tcature of the service. THE SERVICE was remarkable for its uaadorned ploty, was Pals Jay ther of the Kedeener mto Jerusalem whicu 14 commend rated by so inuch ceremonial and pageant m the Roman Catholic Churca. There were bo itames, ne ‘Though i¢ was no word of that entry symbols, none of those liturgical formuhe whien give aimost every Lord's day sou speeral interest among Wie Kplscopal body. Luaie there were eloquent extemporary prayer, {ull of the poetry and imagery of nature—vie whiteness of ihe wy, the Jragrance of the rose, the fecundity of to earth, the giory of the heavens and the like—tien hygns, sung Sweeily by Lue choir, and, as & Winding up, the appearance at the desk of THE PREACHER, the Rev. Mr. Switzer. He 1s a tall, fair young man, above the ud height, Wears smoot, jong bait, in flowing locks, uss a smooth face, the general ex- pression Gf which ts sweetness and goatleneas. He has bright eyes, @ large forehead, aud a head ap- parently weli stored with brains. fis voice is good. and well modniated, his accent somewhat foreign. His sermozs are remarkable for commoi sense. They ate well reasoned throughout. His illustrae Hons are bold, but sometimes Waut the pertinency which would give tnem force. He 15 tiueat, ready and weil read, and in Une will provably make pini- velf distinguisied as a pulpit orator. . THE SERMON Was upon that tom of St. Paui:—''Bear ye one an- other’s burdens, aud so you shall fulnt the law of Christ.” He set out by applyimg the text to the prineipie of church membership. Mucn of lis time had been devoted latterly to the effort 19 add to the Dumbers of lie consregation, He kad used up ali the influences at his command to etfect that object. A variety ol dificalties were, however, put forward by non-members by way of plea for their non-adhesion. He held-that the obhgation of betug a member oi the Church was invoived in the command to love God with one’s whole beart and his neigubor ay biugelt CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. Church memberapip is not & Witeg beiween the Rou} and God. ‘There were duties owed to God with which none but the individual had to do, and there Were ceriain sweet privileges which would belong to wman if he were aione upon cartb. Religion is, however, a (ung not only between God and man, bat also between man and man, Man was bis brother's keeper. Looked at in tue light of ever. jasting principle thts widened out into an extremely broad subject—a subject only fully understood and expressed by Christ dleeding upon the Cross, Men felt Unts responsibility in regard to each other and had struggied with st since dam and ve were banished from the garden of smgle-mindea peace. ‘The radi. calism of the individual was, however, at war with the conservatism of soolety, Neither mysticiam, nor benevolence fully complied with tis duty of me law. The common senge Of anxtad could give no solution of the aificulty which arose on tis head. A higger revelation Was necessary, Common sense was Of course an excellent thing and wnst play a partin the Ife of every distinguished imdivdna’; but THE MERE COMMON SENSE MAN knew nothing of the pure joys which came upon the wings of love to the soul, nor of the lngler Know- 1. Hence it was that to wortdiy- minded men of years, expericnce and the soundest conten sense the bible was FULL OF PARDOXRA In matters of the soul, in regard to man’s relations with God ana his neigubor, commcn seus? Was but @ snail, crawimg slowly upon tho earii; but thas action whic love inspired and heavenly Kuowledge dictated was bold and noble as tie engie’s Hight, The law and love of Curist, therefore, were alone neces- sary to bring harmony out of contusion and to teach al) true Christians the necessity of church Membership and the responsibiity of meav-to man. ‘The learned gentiemen then showed how each per- son bad a burden of lis owa to bear, whether au aching body, frritable tevaper, an wicasy mind or a besetting Bin In thelr power to Jigiten Lieir bothers’ SP. FRANCIS NAVIES CHER Imposing Cetebration of Palin Sunday. The services at this church yesterday were of a very inipres: character, owing to the solemnity of the occasion—the advent of the Passion, At high mass Mozart's No, 1 was selected by the organist, Dr, Berg, aud was sang ib an upexceptionaple man- ner by the choir, Misses Teresa and Mary Werneko and Messrs. Tamaro and Bacell: were the solo quar- tet, aud tie chorus Was mainly made up of mem- bers of the Herge Onoral Union. The Passion was suny py three of the? Jesuit Pathers— one taking Wwe part of the Evangener, one of the Redeemer, ana ove represenuung tbe rapble, The effect is higily dramatic, and in Catholic countries, where this sublime work is given wit ait che reve- ity 1 demauds, It 18 pernaps ope of most suvlime musical works that ed. re Was nv seriou, as ve services were of an unusually lengthy character. ‘The blessing of tue palm took piace at the eariy mass, aud the ehureh was extensively decorated with the Givicms of the entry into Jerusaiem, TS AT WORsHIP, SHE OP RITUAL Fashionable Gathering and Spiritual Enthae ta—The Sentinent of the spirit te, ever Say Die.” Yesterday @ briliiant crowd Of spiritualistic fash. fonables assembled in the Everett Rooms, corner of Proadway and Thirty-Lourth street. The clear, pright sunshine aud tie balmy air gave the ladies an ad- mirable opportunity to display their taste and the new Spring styles of dress at the same time; ana Beyer Was opportunity used to better advantage A popular theory exists that the betrevers in apir- itnalism are only those who, having deserted the busy, active haunts of the world. seck some vent for A MORBID RELIGIONS BWTHUSIASM, the expression of whiol ts forbidden by he older establishet forms of belief. Like most poputay views, tis ta cutirely erroneous. Every class of our citizens is represented at these assemblages. The oaly djierence discernible between the congre- gation of Spirituatsta and te congregation of any of our fasinonable up-town churches is the sur roundings. Where the Spiritualists meet there are nostatnes glaes windows nor luxurtously cushioned But tne fasmonavle girl of the period ie panied by the fashionabie “horrid crea~ * period, and they listen Lo the revetattonn of the spirit with the same blasd indifference with which are accustomed to hear any of our a3 preaching ou aug Of the popular or os of the day. E PORTLY MERCHANT PRINCE n woouen bench with ths sanie com. din the costly DEW, and apprreniy porure he we