The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1870, Page 3

RELIGIOUS. Sermons, Services and Sabbath sound- ings in the Depths (f $i Credulity and Crime Dissolved, Dissected avd Discussed. aw Specimens of Spasmodic Sanctity Spanked in the Pulpit, Footraces in the Time of the Apostles Consid- ered from a Religious Point of View. Farewell to the Pharisces—Full Churches and Feeling Congregations—The Bound- Tess Possibilities of Man’s Future— Every Heart Its Own Shadow— Swinging Into Church from the Whirl of Business— Palpit De- nunclation of Woman’s Rights. Bad weather and religion are antagonistic, but sunshine and sanctily go well together. The soul of man droops under the influence of dropping rain, and the church bells toll in vain for weather-bound Christians. Fortunately for the eloquent divines of the metropolis, and more fortunate, per- haps, for the sinful citizens. who delight in listening to words of spiritual comfort which, like precious ointment, drop from ‘he Sunday puipits, yes- terday Was One of those bright, cheerful and baimy spring days which beneficent Heaven sends to favored Manhattanites to remind them of the greater joys to be experienced hereafter. The consequence ‘was that the churches were filled to overNowing by feeling congregations, who manifested their zeal for the cause of Christ by earnest devotional exer- cises, The sermons which were delivered were eloquent and instructive, and the reports o. of them, to be found be ow, will be pers Satisfaction, and, no doubi, with profit by a'l our readers. CHURCH OF THE Mesa, A Large and Brilliant Atiendan Service=-Hloquent Discourse and Orime, Based Upon the Late © Trial. The beautitul, bright sunshine of y viting to Sabbath worship in the great ou of the woods with the grand iphony of nature, the songs of birds and sweet murmur of falling waters as the musical accompaniment, w couraging to attendance at our city chur Not withstanding the general hevira to. our cily suburbs Of the tens of thousands seeking a day's escape from the heat and dust and nolsome vapo of the great city, the beautiful Chureh of the Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, was yesterday Morning filled. to its utmost capaciiy by the usual intelligent, fashtonable and refived congregation Worshipping there. Introductory to the stated rou- tine of worship was. A BAPTISMAL SERVICE, ‘This was a brief but beautiful service, and conduet- ed witha simplicity imposing and impressive, though lacking the pomp and circumstance characterizing this ceremonial in some churches. Four persons Were baptized—two adulis and two infanta, There Wasa prayer, a laying of the moistened fingers of the clergyman on the forehoads, and then invoking Heaven’s kind waten{ulness over themand guidance Jo the future, and the ceremonial ended. | After a voluniary on the organ from Mozari’s Seventh Mass, the grandly aweiling Ze Dew upon the organ and the singing by the Whole choir of vais mastery piece OF sacred > Was the sig lor the opeuing of the regular services. Alter cis “f Will Arise ana Go to My Father,” with soprano solo by Mrs, Ficker, was exquisitely sug. And tuen came tie sevmon; its Bubject wal o—Baptismal Insanity Varlaud te! THE M'PARLAND TRIAL, It Is hardly necessary to say that the large congre- gation Listened to it with the most earnesily riveted atteniion. He spoke wiih his charac stic boldness and eloquence. He selected as lis text Gencals iv., 5— “And Cain Was Very Wroth, and his couutenance fell.” He began by saying that if Cain had been tried by the modern theories of crime he woud un- doubtedly have escaped all punishment on the ground of “insanity towards Apel.” Whenever he thought of the success of lis brother, aud mts favor in the Lord’s sight, he was so excited by re ferce passions, envy aud uatred, thet lie must be regarded as a man in a freuzy, and therefore unaccountable to human or divine law for the murder, Tne verdict of the Lord wouid have been reversed by the cours of to- day, and Cain would be regarded simply as an ex- citable man, who, when he saw his brother Abel, felt @ certain Unaccountabie and pitiab‘e unpulse to grasp his club and Kill him. He waa NOP GUILTY—ONLY INSANE. The community has of late been roused by a very markabie case that has been tried before our couits, The verdict only hair meets the approval of public. Jers, Whose deitvate touch feels tie slight vering in the peopie’s puls have shown this ia their tnanimous demand for ne Jegisiation whitch shail apply to the exigencies to whien the hist ten years of our criminal history have given rise. It is a case that has been discussed not only in America, but over ali Europe, and is there regarded, sadly Cnough, a8 an Index of our modern Alnerivan society. In th's case not asingle ind vidual! has been tried—neither the prisoner nor the victim, nor the women who docs not yet know whose wife se is, Lhe whole case has been ideal. ized, and PRINCIVLES, NOT PEI He did not think h HAVE BEEN DECIDED vory for wrong in saying that the real hy of the public does not go Wil any ole Of tie Other parues concerned. A fact, a verrivic fact connected with modera society has been adjudicated, We have settled the general question titat nhas 2 right, wader any con Vie circumsis meddie in the dom relations of man and wile, The marriage relation ts a@ more solemn and bind theories of loose thinkers ad hha “it any man haus down the flag sho Spot,” has been changed to read, “ir im between a man und his wile, whatever, he merits te bullet.” THE PLEA OF INSANITY is, however, a very thin and gauzy a‘rai one is iusane Who Cominiis & great crime, criminal in the last twenty yeurs has committed a muider except unc y stimulus of # tre- mendous passion Wile made the pulse feverish, and whicl Mushed the face and made the specci inco- herent. The trouble 13 that there 13 no punishment adequate to the case. ‘The extenuating circum- stances make it impossible for the jury to render a verdict of guilty, knowing that the consequent punishment will be greater than ule crime deserves. jew legisiation 1s demanded, and it must be doue acvonce, We are in so narrow @ stvait that the plea of insanity has exc.ted the ridicwe of the people aud taken away a.) fear from the criminal. The truth is capital punishment is detested by the whole com- Taunily as something abhorrent to its sense of justice and right; and since there is scarcely any judicial position between hanging and acquittal—for the im- prisonment of criminals who have any influence among the lower clas+es 13 a political impossibility— Justice hangs fire and rogues go ree. ‘OUR THEORIES OF MARRIAGE are criminally loose. He charged tne Church with some part of the responsibitity. He did not mean that pari or the Church which has broken away from. ‘the belief of the fathers and runs riot tn all sorts of theorles Which undermine the religious sense of the people, butrather that conservative element which ‘ougit to eel shocked at such an accusation. The marriage service, Which a@ century ago may have been a very solemn ceremony, is to-day a mere form, ‘with, alas, something of falsehood init. A man or woman cannot solemnly swear at the altar to do cer- tain things which everybody knows tiey do not pur- pose to do, without opening the door to many a cheat in after years. Iu tlc Episcopal service the woman takes oath to obey the man. The minister, ‘we groom and the bride all regard 1t as a mere form. She cannot obey him unless he is her superior, aad then the natural laws of iheir house will compel obedience. A strong woman cannot obey 2 drunken husband, neither will nor can apure wife obey a bad man, her meritai oath to the coutrary notwith- standing. Agam, the man says, “With all my worldly goods thee endow.” Does he propose to do ity Is it not A HOLLOW FORM, utterly meaningle:s’ In how many cases does the ve us believe. ot HLM ou the ny inan steps apy purpuse vi S Hara groom intend, mstead of giving the brid his Worldly goods, to appropriate allot which she may happen to stand possessed ? Now this1sa bad begin- Ding. It is all wrong. | ‘The marriage service should be simple and dire Tt ought to direct both parties to do those things which good men and women al- ‘ways feel bonnd to do, and nothing More. The whole thought of the community is lax upon this question, We are getting to have establishments instead of homes, We marry our daugbters ambitiously, and they reap only sorrow, triat and misery. A fine house, plenty af jewelry, a grand equipage, are prices paid for many @ broken heart. Geter marry poor Bnd marry for lowe than maxyy for money and posi- $y writhont love. Divorees are so common that the ole contident is: startied and shocked. In closing he urged that if this trial shall rouse the people to a greater sense of their danger in this matter it will have done vast food, The sermon was unusnally jengthy, and the above brief abstract gives but & famt ilea of its scope of thought and argument, and the brililant eloquence of its utterances, Chaunting the Lord’s Prayer, a com: hymn and benediction closed the exercises. TRINITY CHURCH. A Foll Chorch and @ Feeling Congregation— New Fashions and Old Faces—Eloquent Sere mon by Rev. Dr. Vinton. Old Trinity never seemed in greater glory than yesterday, The bright sun and the warm breeze tempted even the most indolent from their rich and luxurtant homes to agata vistt this, the most beautl ful of our many elegant temples of worship. New York’s proudest and wealthiest citizens have long been identified with Trinity church. They grew up within the shadow of its spire, and, although the changes and caprices of fashion years ago compelled them to go to new homes at a remote distance, still thelr attachment to 1t seems so great that neither time nor inconvenience in reaching it can wean them from continuing the associations connected with it, Many of the same people, therefore, that gave it their aid and infuence m tmes long gohe by were present yesterday. Carriages brought old and votiering forms that were wont to trip Lghtly within its hallowed" precincts, and younger men and women, reared in homes whose elegance their fathers once never dreamed of, alighted from the same flue establishments aud sup- ported the cottering forms along the aisles. Thus Were the links that connected the Trmity of the past with the Tiinity of the present preservede WITHIN THE CHURCH ail was spring-like imdeed. ‘The sun shone through the gorgeously stamed windows and reflected a myriad of beautiful colors upon the great columns and marblea oors within. Beautiful women, hand in hand with fashion, lied the spactous pews, their elegant and varied attires adding ‘aadidonal bril- lianecy to the scene, They were some of society’s brightest and best, While their male attendants were nearly all known as members of the highest business and social circles. It would be useless for us to enumerate those Who worship at Trinity, The names of the oldest and wealthiest {miles of our city have but to be recailed to teli who they are, THE MUSIC discoursed was yesterday of the highest order. A 1ui] choral choir rendered the selection of the morn. ing ina menuer highly complimentary to its mem- bers, aS well as creditaple to Professor Morgan, the accomplished organist and choirmaster of the church, The Protes-or presided at the large organ, and his assistant, Mr. Messiter, at that situated in the chance: The extemporaneous offertory was performed by the former in a masterly manner, and the full, rich tones of the grand old organ filled the large edifice with the most begutifal melody, The anthems and hymn commene!ng with the word— Lord, how del ‘tis to,se A whole assembly worship Thee! received full justice from Mr, Messiter and the choir, wler which the Rey. Dr. Vinton ascended the pui pit and delivered aa eloquent discourse, His text was taken from the third chapter of Ezekiel, the eleventh verse, and read as Toliows:—“Speak unto Ulem, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; wae. ULer they will hear, or whether they will forbear”? TRE SERMON was aable attempt to elucidate what was meant by the “divine argument.” Tle said that in matters pertaining to (ae soul there ave two unanswerable arguments. The one is the argument of personal consciousness; the other is the argament in the text, “Tus saith te Lord God,” Netner of these reasons can be effectually assall ‘to’ the man whose con- 88 reveais Lo tim ® uratlh—no counter state- Ai avail, because consclousness is the strong. est Kind of eviden, ‘The certainty that ‘Tus saith the Lord” puts an end to the controversies on divine things; for this-is the divine argumont. If God says so there is no room ieft for dispute; for theology is pu y asubject of revelation. ‘he preacher's oilice, as the propuet of the Most Ligh, 1s not so much to argue and reason with the congregation as to de- clare the whole counsel of God. He 8 not to be elo- quent only: nls preacaing is to be dogmatic, and his strong argdment ts, “hus saith the Lord God.” In this respect the pulpit differs from the bar and the foram. The advocate pleads the cause of his client, the lawyer plies the artillery of logic as well as pronounces the enactments of the Jaw, but the preacher is rather like the wit- hes3 on the stand belore them than either the advo- cate or the judge. it may be questionga whether the word from the pulpit is really the word of God. In the printed reports of the sermons of the day are found enough to disgust one with the variety of hu- Tuan speculations, aud i them one looks in vain for “Thus said the Lord.” ‘The freedom ana the purity of the pulpit must be maintained. To determine the authenticity of the voice and doctrine of the pulpit one must judge whether or not the pulpit echoes the teucnings of the Prayer Book. Tie reverend gentleman made an eloquent argument to prove the truth of the doctrines contsined in the Prayer Book, and finished by au injunction to his hearers to obey the precepts enunciated from the pulpit. “The preacher's duty 1s example,” he concluded. “Listen vo the command of God to him:—‘Go get thee unto the children of thy people, and speak uuto them, and teil them. Thus saith the Lord God, whether they will hear or whether they wyll forbear.’ ? At the conclusion of tie sermon communion was administered to a number present, ater which the congregation took their leave, SCOTCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Interesting Discourse by Rev. Dr. Alexander McLeod, Delegate from Scotland to the Presbyterian General Assembly. The Scotch Presbyterlan church in Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue, is a tasty and handsome building, and, although, judging from the congrega- tion yesterday, the worshippers at its shrine are not very large in numbers, still they are staid and re- spectable, not to say fashionable. The feature of yesterday morning's services was the sermon which ‘was preached by the Rev. Dr. A. McLeod, a delegate from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to the General Asseinbly. Immediately preceding the sermon the ninetieth hymn was sung, commencing as [0llows:=— ‘There isa fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Emanuel’s veins, Rev. Dr. McLeod then advanced to the reading desk and proceeded io deliver his sermon. He took his text from Samuel—‘Thy gentleness hath made Mme great.” He said that these words might be found in the biography of the Royal David, the songster and shepherd of Israel, In the day when the Lord delivered him from ail his enemies he spake ithe words of that song to the Lord, and told a brief though real siory—"Thy gentieness hath made me great.” And now this’ werld looked back to the pastared lauds of Bethiehem—to the fight between the lamb and the lion—to the holy struggles of the past—to its deliverance now. David was well acquainted with God. he knew Him as few human beings had ever Known Him, He knew Him asa just Jadge and a God of righteousness. ,In that very psaim he de- clared he saw the mantfestations of God wich made man tremble. ‘en went up the smoke out of His nostrils and fire out of His mouth,” he sald. He thundered, He sent out ligntning, The foundations of the world were disturbed at his rebuke, David Knew and saw all that. But when avid came to consider his own life he did not attrivute his greatness co himself, but to the gentic- ness of the Lord, which made him what he was, Abraham sald, “The Lord is my shield.” Moses uttered similar words when he taught the Israelites that God was the rock of thetr salvation. Was there a liuman story equal to the sublime one as to the lives and characters of those noble martyrs of the mediwyal Church, who took up ther dwelling places in the wildernesses and woods? What paticnce they displayed—what hoping against hope—what heroic fortitude, what unconqger- abie perseverance! and, greater than all, what lowliness of heart these martyrs exiibited! Con- sider Luther, Knox and Wesiey, and compare them with the thousauds whose names had never been named on earth for greatness, and then let them put the question to themselves, “What made them great?” There was not one of that congregation, < and even of the multitude, who would not come for- ward with an immediate answor, and one and all would exclaim, “Worthy is the Lamb! Thy gentie- ness makes us what we are.” The preacher then went on in an eloquent and forcible manner to de- “kcribe the joy and happiness of the just who bowed beiore the heavenly throne, and closed with a beauti- fu! peroration on the blessings of Christianity. THE CATHOLIO APOSTOLIC CHURGH, The Gifts of the Holy Spirit—Homily by the Rev. Mr. Roberts. There was a@ limited attendance at the morning services of this church, a small brick temple In West Sixteenth street, between Sixth and Seventn ave- nues. The devotions were, nevertheless, carried on ‘with much reverence and evident appreciation on the part of the congregation. It may be mentioned that the body to which this congregation beiongs acknow- ledges only the title which appertatus to the one universal Church of Christ. Its faith is universal Christendom. Its worship is conducted by a ritual or fixed form of service specially prepared for tue purpose, which, it is said, is drawn in a great mea- sure from olden liturgies, Among the principal services is that of THE RUCHARIST, and astoits ministry and authority this body be- lieves In the permanence of the endowment of the Church with the gifts of the Holy Ghost. The con- gregation deny that they are a sect of any particular denomination whatever or a self-constituted body, but one constituted by the Lord himseif, Theyre- gard themselves ag one with all the baptized and seeking the favor of God only. As was remarked during the homily, they seek not to pull down or des- troy other Churches, It was a candid admission considering the size of the congregation and the meek aspect of Its numbers. At half-past ten o'clock the services commenced. The procession, con- the celebrant, four clergynicn aya a mem ber deacons and acolytes moved up the centre of the church and approached the altar. strains of the little organ filled the it church and the ceremontes proceeded with ity. The Rev. Mr, Much pomp and a r officiated as celebrant and was assisted by Messrs. Latham, Rintoul and Wightman. At the termina- re ene gospel the Rev. Mr, Roberts, of Oltawa, which was an earnest, devout ‘and tie extort, an vout and energetic e1 setting forth tne views of the Catholic Apostolic amen, i, 1, He~ouvery good gic every and perfect 17, every au mut {s from above, and cometh down from the Father Lights, with whom is no variablencss neither shadow of rg ed his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of iirst froits of his creatnres,” The cher alluded to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The workings of Christ and the Church could not be done by human wisdom or strength, but only by the INSPIRATION AND HELP of the Holy Sp!rit, whose gifts were divers and man- ifold, comprehending the fulness of Christ and showing the diversity of his office and endowme nts, Men had exercised their and brought them into manifestation and development, and the only object vhey had to attain was the building of the Church under Christ, the great builder for God. In order to effectually use those gifts men must listen with meekness to the word of God and humbie them- selves in submission to the Lord. The reverend gen- Ueman was listened to with much attention, The services were concluded shortly after twelve o'clock, CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, Bear Yo One Another’s Bardens—Sermon by the Rev. R. S. McArthur. Yesterday a large and fashionable audience as- sembled in the above named church, in Twenty- third street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, to hear the Rey, R. S, McArthur preach his maiden ser- mon, which he did in a very satisfactory manner. The new pastor is a young man, about twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, of medium height, dark hair and eyes, light compiexion and smooth face, and has avolce of rare beauty and flextbility, Yes- terday, as stated above, he preached his first sermon, having but last Thursday graduated from the Ro- chester Theological Seminary. He took his text from Galatians vi., 2, and from it preached a most ex- cellent sermon, during some portions of which there were but few dry eyes in the audience, In referring to the text—“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfll the law of Christ”—Mr. McArthur gaid some passages of Scripture seem to be direct contradictions of certain other passages. LIFE 18 CALLED DEATH, loss gain, and poverty riches, To the superficial observer these seeming contradictions are real. To the close student of Seripture and observer of life they are real harmonles. In this respect tife in all its phas@s around us corroborates the statement of revelation. We everywhere see contradictions and paradoxes. Life 1s constantly seb over against death, sorrow is opposed to joy, and although d opposite are sirougly iuked together in every reid tion in which men ere called to act thew part in the mysterious drama of life. The great thought underlying the injunction of the text is that ali nen have burdens to bear, and to this thought the speaker would first direct the atvention of N's nearers. EVERY HEART HAS ITS OWN SORROW. Every heart has a history known only to the tndf- vidual and to Him to whoni the secrets of all hearts are known, As in every home there is a closet with its skeleton, 80 in every soul there is a secret cham- 2 are barled faded hopes and ded d life may reader no testimony to The eye may sparkle and the lip smile, but the grief is stil there, securely hidden from the observer, but sadly Known to Lis possessor, We remember the story of tne spend boy who stole a deadly weapon an‘ concealed it in his bosom, An accidental collision drove the weapon into his heart. Discovery and confession would have been certain death; so, with true Spartan heroism, he teiked and smlied while his lfe-blood was siowly oozing from his heart. With more than stiletto sharpness do these hidden ‘iefs stab the sensitive heart until the color tades rom the cheek, joy from the life, and death at last claims its victim. Words spoken by us at random may become the arrow that thus pierces, and actions thoughtlessly performea the grief that thus blights, Alter aliuding in very appropriate terms to the Way in which atlshould assist in bearing each other's burdens the speaker referred to his recent connec- tion. with this church, and said that in entering upon the relations with them yesterday marked that day as one of the most important in all his life. I may be permitted, he said, to speak more personally than would otherwise be fitting, not unadvisediy and thoughilessiy, but as I trust in the fear of God aud tue love of Carist do I come to you to-day. Without the experience which comes trom age aud ‘the discipline of trial, I shali have to ask you to bear with me my burdens, and a8 God enabies me I hope vo help you bear yours, ,. hen let us Share our mutual woes, Our mutual burdens bear, ch other ow ig tear. CSURCH OF THE STRANGERS, The Glorious Powcrs of Infinite Godhead= Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Deems. Yesterday a large and highly fashionable audience assembied in the above named church to hear a dis- course by the Rev. Dr. Deems, The Doctor took his text from I, Peter i, 17- 21, beginning:—‘“If ye call onthe Father, who, without respect of persons, judges according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear,” &c. Attention was called to the contrast between this and the earlier verses of the chapter, where ihe Christian’s inheritance 13 spoken of as incorruptible and the Christian as kept tn a garrison by the power of God until he can enter therein. These Scriptural paradoxes are not infrequent, as when the apostie declares that WHEN RE I3 WEAK then he is strong, that one must become a fool to be wise, &c. Bunyan has the whole philosophy of the case when he represents Christian is quite safe in his fight with Apolyou, but quite unsafe when sleeping in the sequestered bower. Better be tight ing the devil than losing the roll out of one’s bosom. Then this fear imcuicated by the apostle was de- scribed, It was no doubt of God, no fear that he would change, or prove false, or feeble, or forgetful. It was no terror inspired by some false view of his character and attributes, That 1s the sinner’s or the heathen’s fear, the fear that comes of hate or super- stitiop; but the aposile was addressing those who loved the unscen Saviour. God is always pure, and good, and gentie as tne light; but the sun seen through dense smoke or colored glass seems lurid, murky, Wratliful, So God seen through our sins or prejudt but seen through Jesus He 1s all purity and a sweet, reviving, cheering power. Tne Christian fear is rather a reverence. The Heavenly Father seems to him so worshipful, so grand, 80 augustly good, 80 unspeakably tender, uniting in himself all the gentleness of mother, all the strength of father, ali the kith and kin of human. ity, all the GLORIOUS POWERS OF INFINITE GODHEAD, all creatorship, all rulerstip, ail inspiration, all up- holding, that the thoughts of good swell his soul as the moon draws up the sea; the idea of God makes all his iife a worship of Him whose air he breathes, whose light he sees, whose planet he treads aad whose Spirit inspires this human life. Over against this loftiest lovingness whom he calls God the Christian sets the idea of sin, That scares him. That is the eclipse of God. That is the obscuration of hope. That is the Delilah that shears the locks of power from the Samson of manhood. Poverty is to be shunned, but if It come it isto beborne. Caluinny, persecution, desertion, sickness, death, all can be borne. Jesus bore them all, and was the sweetest, grandest, noblest thing the universe has ever seen, and to this day tne soitest, satinest cradle in the purest hearis of women and children still rock “the holy child Jesus,” and to this day the Josephs of Artmatiea have no sepulchre too rich and sacred for the dead Christ. But sin is what he could not bear. God cannot and man should not tolerate it. The Christian fears lest he may come to be able to bear it. We grow ‘‘used”’ to trouble, but it 18 a terrible thing to grow used to sin. It is a quick, repellant sense of sin that Peter calls ‘fear.” That fear of-sin turns the Christian back upon himself and makes him regard his own frailty. And the more he trusts God the less he trusts himself, HE REMEMBERS THE MIGHTY men who have fallen—the Davids, the Solomons, the Judases, the Peters. He may even be a King or an apostie and yet may yield. ite remembers that le is yet in the Nesh, Above all the Christian’s fear {s that indeséribable tenderness of an absorbing leve which makes the lover feel that something may come up between his soul and the soul of the one he love: It ts the clinging love of the sick child that cries after its mother as she leaves the chamber for an instant. So David cried, “Porsake me not, 0 Lord; 0 my God, be not far from me.? Whatever else remains all seems gone if the Lord depart. This fear was then shown to be devoid of all w ness and superstition, but rather the most re able and improving state of the mind; that those who had it Were the strongest and bravest men in the world. An illustration was drawn from Noah. THE REASONS FOR THIS FEAR were assigned. First, our position. We are sojourn: ers, not inhabitanis, Men donot behave at an inn as they do at home. Strangers i the city, merchants who come ior trade, are not as easy and quiet us in their own towns. The dangers to which they are exposed were described at length under these as- pevig; They may be gorrupied; they may Sail to NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, attend to their business; they may lose their love of home and never return, whjch is worst of all, The sermon was concluded by an allusion to the anprapeemenens of this warning from Peter, He Tag ised much. All might forsake Jesus, yet would not he. Then, after Juias had betrayed the Lord, Peter stood within hearing of Jesus, the bound Jesus, the t prisoner, and with horrid oaths had sworn he never knew his Friend, It was bad enough m Judas to make the vile betrayal; but what should Peter say of hiinself, who, after Jesus was betrayed, caine within earshot of him and stabbed Dam to the heart over and over? Jesus forgave him, but could he ever forgive himself? It is this apostie who warns us, knowing the terrible re- morse of a fall, that we “pass the time of our so- journing here in fear.” JOHN STREET M. E. CHURCH. An Exbortation to Practical Religion by Rev. L. & Weed. ‘ An earnest and devout congregation assembled in the Methodist Episcopal Church in John. street on yesterday forenoon. There is no aim at display or religious pomp in or around the edifice, and the nature of the service was quite in keeping with the surroundings, being a simple and impressive Sab- bath morning appeal to the Almighty, Rev. L. S. Weed preached an eloquent ser- mon on practical Christianity, taking his text from David’s Psalms:—‘He filleth the hungry with good, things, and the rich he sends empty away.” He attacked the popular fallacy that bodily attendance in church on Sunday wasuMcients comphance with tie Divine precept, He said that no outward show of devotion is accept- able to Heaven unless accompanied by an inward longing for the realms of peace, and condemned in strong language the idea that appeared to be rapidly gaining ground, namely—that the house of 18 a species of SENTIMENTAL DIVINE PARLOR, where fricads assembied on Sundays to see and to be reen and admired, hiding hypocrisy under the mask of seer Which, for the time, they regard as @ respectable accompaniment, throwing @ ray of theatrical life into ihe dull hours. People swing into ghurch direct from the whirl of business, without prayer, meditation or religious reading, and have, therefore, no appetite for the Word of God, no place left empfy to receive the whisperings of His grace, and tnty are sent empty away. “Tis only the hungry that God fills, There must be a craving and a longing appetite, showing a healthful state of the soul for the reception of the Word, A (Sg thought and a ne sentiment are ennobling, but reposing within the soul they lose their power, and it is only wien controlled by WELL-DIRECTED ACTION that they can do any real good or wield y real power. In conclusion, the reverend ateman urged his hearers to acts of Christian benevolence and practical religion. THE NORTHWEST REFORMED CHURCH. Abraham Lincoln an Agent of God=Sermon by the Rev. H. D. Gause. A numerous, gaudily tinted, butterfly, but seem- ingly devout congregation of the above church met yesterday in the hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Twenty-third street, to worship. ‘The Rey. H. D. Gause, the pastor, commenced the service with a fervent, eloquent and touching prayer, which had a visible effect of riveting the attention of the most unheeding and callous-miuded parties who frequently assemble at chu more out of curiosity and having “nothing better to do” than with the Intention of partaking of the religious food provided. ‘The revel u gentleman's prayer chiefly consisted of supplicattons for biessings on thelr own congregation and sunday school children, and aft nat jor any agers Who were present at the service, apparently excluding from thelz prayers any persons outside the paic of wad not prok g the dogmas of the Northwest Ke- forméa Charen. The following verses were then sung by the con- gregation en niasse, with only u little regard to -ma- sical harmouy, aad showed considerable want of training on the part of the psalins' but still very leudabie, as both young and oid joined in them with all their stentorian pow God is our sun—He makes our day; God Is our ableld—Ho guards our way Krom th’ asmwults of hell and sin} From foes without and foes within; ‘To spend one day with thee on earl! Excceds a thousand days of mirth. The pastor then preached from the following text:—ll. Kings, X., 16—"*Come with Me and see iny veal for the Lord.” He said a great deal of difter- ence exists a8 to people’s opinions of what zeal for the Lord is, Some parties imagine that it is distinguished by persecuting and trying to convert to their own views all persons not coinciding with them tn religious matters; others, that they are ear on earth for God, and laying down the law of interpretation as to God’s wishes and maintaining Mat their views of such matters are ‘the only right ones and the only ones by which men can live and dig; sometimes even gotng agalust the very laws and dotbrines writien by inspired writers, and wanting, either py persuastoa or force, to make persons concur in their falsely flavored inter- pretations of divine law. The preacher maintained that every man has @ perfect right to interpret tue Scriptures according to his own ideas; that each one 48 quite competent to form his own opinion of what 1s laid aawn tn the Bible; and, as “PHE BIBLE CANNOT BE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD BY ANY ONE,” it therefore becomes our duty to read it carefully and act up to our ideas of Lis meaning. In the pien- itude and love of power, Kings, qttcens aud emper- ors have been scourges to humanity, as power, par- uculatly when accompanied by religious zeal, is in- capable of sympathizang with those whom’ it op- presses, and only inflicis greater tortures at cach fresh cry of anguish from its victim. There have been instauces where men possessed of power have used 1% beneiicially, an iustauce of which was “ABRAUAM LINCOLN AS AGENT FOR GOD,” accomplished that great work for which his memory will be ever dear and honored. The preacher then related a story of a meek-faced, mild boy he had in his employment at one time, whom he caught shoving straws mto his horse’s eyes, also placing his cat_on a hot griddle, showing the love of power in small matiers, not with tlie in- tenuon of making pussy into a chowder, MNELEENTH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHER The Sons of Abraham—tiive tne Mana of Fellowship to Our Lrother Jews—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Join Halt. The Nineteenth street Prespyterian church, corner of Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue, was, as asual, attended yesterday forenoon by @ large and fashiona- Je congregation. Indeed, tie fashionabies of late appear to have been seized with au unwonted fit of piety. The time when the votaries of the fickle goddess usually desert Gotham for fresh fields and pastures new is rapidly drawing near, and it may be that they wish to. lay in a sufficient stock of spiritual consolation to last them over the time when their Sundays shall be spent, not worshippmg in the temples of the Lord, but REVELLING ON THE BEACH AT LONG BRANCH, or imbibing of the heaith-giving springs of Saratoga. There are, however, other things especially pe taining to this church which never fall to bring together within its sacred precincts a mighty throng of worshippers. The sermons of its pastor, the Rey. Dr. Hall, bearing a3 they ever do the stamp of genu- ine sincerity, piety and eloquence, are the means of attracting Many Who do not properly belong to the congregation of the First Presbyterian church. Other attractions might be mentioned, such as fine music, beautifully upholstered pews whose soit cushions Invite repose, gentlemanly vergers who always supply one With a seat, and @ general air of elegance and refinement which pervades the entire arrangements of this beautiully appointed church. au tese ofe myndane things, and we leave them with a passihg notice. ‘The Kev. John Hall preached THE SERMON, taking his text from Romans xiv., 11—I say then have they stumbled that they should fall. God for- bid, but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles for to provoke them to jeaionsy.’’ The reverend gentleman dilated at considerable length on that portion of the Gospel narrative giving the history of the times when the Jews ceased to be the chosen lecale! God. He said that a stubborn spirit of self-admiration had possessed that people from time timemorial, and that a singular fatuity, which it is beyoud tae power of human mind to fathom, controlied the misguided sons of Abraham. Tue impress of the divine hand was visible as weil upon the person as upon the mind of the Jew. God. for His own wise ends, had marked them out as a di; tinct race, and it would appear that the cry whicn they made, that the blood of Christ might be upon them abd on their children, was heard in the court of heaven and granted with woeful precision. Still it must be remembered that the Israelite ts a brother man to whom we must extend the hand of fellowship im the race of life. The spiritor the Gos+ pel is In unison with the spirit of the age in this, that it accords to man ihe right to follow the prompt. ings of his conscience. The Jew may be the victim of fanaticism; he may be urged to follow in the foot- steps of his fathers by a bliud prejudice which he is unable to control, but surely in the light of the nine. teeath centary the man should be branded as a bal darian who will meet his prejudices with a derisive scot. Kindness apd Christian charity are the ki to the human heart; aad while we supplicate Heaven to-day let us ask our Divi ster LO Cast a veam from his divine countenance on the OBDURATE HEARL OF THE JEW. Let us supplicate Him to break down: the iol of Mammon which they kneel before aad to implant in thelr souls the tree of free gospel liberty. Iv js @ reproach to Christianity ana a blight on fair fate of the Christian ininistry that the descenc its Of God's own peopic, wo to-day largely repre- sent the wealth and power of the age, should be allowed to siumber in meaningless dreams of the pagan past while so much time and Jabor are ex- Peuded 12 endeavers te win Catuolics aud otber rit- rom the galling Hose of conscience in which thoy "ere 80 deplorably held. “Wanderers from the Fold’—Sermon by the Rev. C. C. Foote. In West Twenty-eighth street, four doors from Broadway, is an unpretentious looking edifice which is used by @ sect of Christians who style themselves the Church of Christ, and whose erced is the teach- ings of Holy Writ, Eutoring the visitor dads nim- seifin a spacious hall of unusual height, cool even in the dog days, and lighted by stained glass win- dows in the roof, Ample accommodation exists for the congregation, the seats are well cushioned aud the acoustic qualities of the hall are excellent, The services yesterday morning were, as usual, simple in the extreme, and from that reason all the more impressive. At their conclusion the pastor, the Rey, C. C. Foote, twok his text from Isaiah lill., 6—All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to liis own way, and the Lord hath laid on Lim the tniquity of us all’? The reverend gentieman adverted first to the whole of the chap- ter from which the textls taken, being a preplecy of Christ's sufferings. The verse quoted giv@s the reason why our Saviour had to bear our sins on the cross. WE HAD WANDERED FROM GOD. ‘The charge agaist us in the text was not that men were not good to each other and moral, but that they had forgotten God and did not treat Him as children should a parent, This forgetfulness was the foundation of our falling into other sins. ‘the speaker would give his hearers a few inilestones, so that they could perceive how far they had waudered away. We do not take tine to think about God as we do an absent or de- parted friend. We go to the graves of our dear ones nthe cemetery, weep over them, think of thei, pray for them; but do we ina like manner think of our dead Christ? We do not study how to please Him as we do an earthly friead. One of the beaut of social life is that people try)to please each other and make thelr friends happy. God, our greatest friend, is too often, nearly always, forgotten. Do we #, to God in prayer as we ought, or do we forget Him? Is not prayerfulness but little heeded among ua, and an appeal for help to the highest of all powers too often forgotten ¢ Children to their earthly parents to ask vice, elp, — encouragement, favors; = but are we not all children of God, and shouid we not look to our Heavenly her? We always value and read letters from absent friends, Have we not an absent friend in the Lord, and have we not the best of mementoes of Him—Holy Writ? Do we 1 a8 We con the epistles of those who have gone before or Who ure away? It is uot our aim to try to honor God by keeping his commandments. This shows us that we have drifted further to sea than we would have supposed, We obey our parents’ commands, the laws of our country and municipal ordinances; but God’s commandments are for many of us never in turning from God we chose our own wi The great question is when the last sad hi comes, Will we be satisfied with what we ourselves have achieved unassisted ¢ If we cannot answer It satistactortly let us accept offered grace. In conclusion the pastor said that it was to bring back His sheep to His fold that oar Saviour suffered the pangs of Catv many evidences of U Tie. bor means which God ordained for our sat Heaven our home at last, The glorious old hywu— Rock ot nges, clett for me, Let me hide 4, was then sung, when the weekly commuuton was administered to the whole congregation. ‘This rite 1s cousidered a most solemn one by Lie sect in ques- tion, and in its celebration it 18 specialiy charged that neither the blood of the martyrs Steplen, nor Peter can save us. TI rious ticial death was Christ's nity. A visit to this church will repay the curious, the outand The seeptic. lis congregation numls 400, and is composed of some of our most able and infuential citizens, CHURCH OF THE PHARISEDS, a o 8p Farewell Sermon by the Rev. C. B. Smyth— Applause in the Church—Scenes and Incie dents Among the Paritanical Brethren—The Church Crowded Beyond the Doors—Gro- tesque Views Upon Gin and Mili. By the united votes of the plebs and presbyters of this church the Rey, Mr. Smyth was a week ago di- vorced from his congregation. No greater act of bigotry, intolerance and fanaticism has oceurred in this city outside Bedlam for years past. People have fondly hoped that thumbserews, jackboots and scavengers’ daughters and all the kindred vulgar instruments of torture for conscience’ sake were cently laid away inthe public museums to instr us quietly in the bumbling lesson that a few« turies back our common forefathers were, if judged by ecclesiastical history, nothing less than barbarians. It nnot be pre that ft was religion that lit the flres in Smith“eld and at Geneva. It was savagery, pure and unmiti- gated. Yet the same principle which burned Serve- tus because his philosophy on the Holy Trinity did not agree in all particulars with that of Mr. Join Calvin, has deprived, in New York—hitherto re- garded as the centre of freedom of thought and religious liberty—the Rev. C. B. Smyth of his pulpit and his living. Nothing more absurd than the per- secution to which the Rev. Mr. Smyth has been snb- jected has yet occurred in the church annals of New York. His “sin” was that he “broke bread” to two hiterary brothers, and, to use the vul- gar jargon of the Sua newspaper, had “four fin- gers of gin and uu'k” himseli upon a Sabbath on which he was worked very hard, r this he was tried. He was acquitied; yet he was censured, In other words, In the parlance of a certain Irish magistrate, he was told, “You are not guilty; out dout do! it any mor Then Uh fury of a few fanatics, hot and helpiesa as molien lead, went in for “unfrocking” lim, aud this was done on the Napoleonic idea of a ple! ttum. Mr. Smyih’s friends did not come up to dt when the blac balls were being used against him; so the majority said “Yes,” aud the pastor was 4 from his people. Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Smyth pronounced his FAREWELL ONe Long before the hour of service the V grexational chapel was full. Every seat pied, people began to fill up the pi these being choke: wey jammed distended their wu might catch the words of no ventiiation in the ¢ heard while the liste the sans of tie la gentiemen, ih the sermon was wept from every pore 3 Vid with i ambrics of “Behold.” says the Mall Spark Kiod widely and put urious foliage a an acori vers rise from playlul iitte mountain rivulet, Which, uniting, form a majestic y: flowing on in stately pride to tie ocean, 80 the pr sent excitement rose from a si tively insignificant beginr sary for him to go over thy things—the trial, the arti have all been fully and Metropolitan press. So fa cerned, nothing, he tho the purposes of trut gain. Ali the: ater proceedings urately reported i the as the reports were ¢ ght, could to him, nothing more than the free discuss public matter, and were justified by freedom of speech and the customs of a free country. Besides us, A POINT OF HONOR restrained him. They all knew the fact. they would learn from advertise in papers, The large assemblage prese the interest taken in this matter. ‘he crowded andience was not alone respectable, but intellectual. He could not but notice that TH FAIR SEX ‘was so largely represented, and that they had such a cheering sprinkling of the fair sex, Paul was at Troas when he spoke the words of the text. He was avout going to Jerasaiem to attend a church congr and meanwhile was evangelizing all the more vigorousiy. i ing? Paul. Paul, the Soul who is first mentioned ja Scripture as having heid the clothes of those who stoned Stephen the Evangelist. Like those wiih whom he thus associated he was blindly zealous, stubborn and mad. He thougit he was right, and Was even on the road to Damascus to put gyves on the feet of the Christiana when he was struck by light from Heaven, thrown upon the ground, by bled, eniig ed and filled with the Spirit, and Uy saw ‘the jolly of his fary. ‘The subject of his sernton at Troas was not given, but the contest pointed ti out. Jtwas on the neces: sity of repentan jaith in Christ Jesus. These traths he boldly proclaimed to the Jews. They might harry fim, lie in Wait for him, yet it back thing from them, His re ual or emotiona hended in the p: Viz, repentance and faith the preacher here lucidly deacr ance and faith meant; repentan grace, spontancousty given by G by special resolves to walk in the ness, Faith he described as such an entire BELIEF IN THE COMMON SENSE meaning of the word as & passe! 4a one of the mali boats puis in the ship, OMleers and-«¢ he trusta himself to the stormy Atiantic billows, being fuily conscious that every dificalty w: viden for, and that theretore he might be perfectly ateuse. Chiiist was the ark of safety amid all the not merely in- nge of it was bove laid down— Ibed what repent- ualists to the fold. The reverend gentleman paid a markel compliinent to the enterprise aad abliity of the Jewish people, and expressed a hope that an or- penises effort would soon be made to redeem them storms of life, and those who trusted in Him had no cause to fear, He next gave a learned exposition of the character of Paul's epistics, ‘They contained the counsels of elernity: deep, deep truths, the plans and purposes of the Ail Holy Oue, fa Romans tite fallen condition of nan was deserived with & Master hand, and the witole (heoty of redemption was sketelied io & mane her whieh bore the impress of divine isplration i every line. In Colossians the abstruse doctrine of the resurrection and the mediator al office of Christ bur of duis teacher to lpose te JoRe Of Christ upon those made. gel psa FREE UNDER THE GOSPEL. To the Ephestans he presented the same traths and duues a5 in Romans, but there was a greater peerkle, like that of @ diamond, in it philosophy 80 rampant in our ctty at moment Was fuirly treated of by Paul in his writlags wo the Plilipans aud Colossians. The Word was now drowned in crade and unchaste speculativ th as tices who. unheeded tis warning. ane vored with prophecy: so on through the epistie wo the Hebrews, ‘ius and sy ON style of ht ana ‘8 le of preaching was bol frank, He discoursed wie Felix, Rae was en wo lust, on temperance, righteousness and the judgment And, en passant, he would say that tem- to come. perance meant proper control over oneself in the use of things lawful, With Festus Paul was so te and poinied that the governor said to hun:—*fhoa art deside thyself, Much learning doth make thee mad.” Other apostolic men were treated likewise, sometimes as wicked, sometimes as mad. Knox Was treated like @ partridge upon the mountains of Scotland. Wesley and Whitfeld were ens of their pulpits and had to preach in the public bigh- ways. Spurgeon Was at first called “the puipit buf. foon.” Congregations were frequently behind the age. They were like old rustic farmers—Rip Van Winkles—who drove their wagons In the old “ruts,’? though they might, by a small change, drive wo, same route easier, pleasanter, safer and as short by’ getting onc of the rut. Here A MURMUR OF SUPPRESSED AND SUBDUED APPLAUSE went through the church, and some of the elders looked as if (hey couid bufn those who jomed in the onstratio fhe preacher then briefly and gracefully alluded to hia severance from the congregation, ascribed it 10 ignorance and il treatment, and freely expressed the opinion that those who joined that movement conscientiously would live to regret it OUTSIDE THE CHURCH quite a crowd assembled and discussed the situation very vigorously, Many ladies and gentlemen e@x- pressed undisguised regret. Several old idiots, with wigs cufin angular shapes, and with eyes looking southeast and northwest and baving other strong marks of the handiwork of bad scrofala upon them, condemned drinking “gin aud milk’ as immoral, “Hlow can we tell our children to live sober if they see us drinking gin und milk ?? cried one wiseacre. “It's an immoral act,” said another. «Mr, Smyth js a literary, bt a bad man, without any respect for the Lord's Day,” chimed tn a third, a weazene throated, hall-paralyzed, wretched looking old Purt- tan, ‘Twill destroy tis church, and better nothing: had been said about it.” said Eider Micaw- ver. At this point an oid buiter, with & large plaster upon @ prominence on his jugular vein, rushed mto the crowd, and addressing one of the saints shouted out, “You are chewing tobacco to-day, and I never knew a drunkard who didn’t smoke aud chew. D’ve been, I reckon, A GOOD DBAL OP A CRUISER round this globe, und L knows something.” “*Yes,? added im an old graypate, paie with rage, “they turned Godfrey out of the church because he got drunk upon one giass of whiskey, while some of the ' took ten and uwenty in the day; but were able ’ ‘The discussion Was brought to uncement of one bie aafal~ text if Smyth had not “hy not “be unrightoons at all, On the Key. M bule the resp Uade him an alfectionate adi © CHURCH OF THE MOLY SEPULCHRE. Sermon by Bishop Potter on the Way of Sale vations The free Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on East Seventy-fourth street, between Third and Fourth avenues, was pretty well Med yesterday morning, It having been pre announced that the pul- pit would be i nt Rev. Bisiop Potter, of this dice wud ihatafter the moraing service the apostolic vite of confirmation would be adminis- tered to those di is of unitiug with the ehurehy. ‘The morning service was conducted by the Rev. J. Tattic Smith, rector of the churcn, ater which the) Rigut Rey. Bishop Potter ascended the pulpit and) selected hs text frora the eighteenth chapter of St. Matthew first, second and third verses:. the same time came the disctples unto Jesus, saying, | Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus calied a little child unto Him and set him im the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you except ye be converted and berome as little children ye shail not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.’? The reverend Bishop then went on to say that the Words of the text potted out the only way by whieh we could gain admission to the kingdom of heaven, Man must become a foot that he may be wise; he youst be converted tn his mind, must hamble himselt and beeome 2-chth tized shall he say Life 18 short aud eternity is near. We should draw near to God for repentance aud prayer, our minds shoakt ree from peice and selfwill, and we should pecome as it tie ehikiren. At the close of the sermon it was announced that those desirous of receiving the apostelic rite of cone fiymation Would advance. to the altar for that pure pose during the shaging of the closing hyma. Ten persous, aloe of Whoin were ladies, were tien con- med by Bishop Potter and admitted to fall cous taunton wit the Church. CUURCH OF THE AFFINITIES. The Sin Aguinst the Holy Ghost-What It Is and Whac It Amounts To-Sermon by the Rev. 0. EB, Frothingbam. ‘There was the usual large audience of the fashion- able and beautiiul at Lyric Hall yesterday morning, to listen to the sermon of the Rev. 0, B, Frothing- ham on the “Sin Against the Holy Ghost.” During the prayer at the opening of the services there was @ large number of late ones collected in the hall and anteroom, who whiled away the time in reading the sermon entivied ‘Pilate and Jesus,”? preached on the 10th instant and pubitshed from a stenographte re- port. The fine quartet of this church were in full number once more, though the most noticeable, ag heretofore, were Mr. Howes and Miss Gibbs, the lat- ter of whom gave the soprano solo, “Oh, God, in- cline thy ear,” wiih @ Charming freshness and rare f was Matthew xil., 31, 32—“Wherefore I yyou all taanaer of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto amen; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unio men. And whosoever speaketh a Word against tue Son of Maa, if shall be forgiven lim, but whosoever speakettt against the Holy Ghost, it shalt not be forgiven him her in this world, neither p preacher said there is but one si sin which can never be pauilated or torgtven, No vague or Lideiipite mexning attaches to these words. Tho lbnever be forgiven “neither in this world Though the punishment is as without the possibility of escape, the snot so inly described. We hear very lute in our day writ TH UNPARDONABLE SIN. Our stern foreaters used to speak of it very fre- Dub all this Is clhaaged, Our very estimate ed. We sind in all this wide wortd ich can never noting which God has not implanted here for Ais own good purpose. Men love tuod—it ts indispensa- ble, Men love money, mug an incen- ve to exertion, 18 one of tie ehyiues Of civilization ul one of the grea ‘These passions of wi bouuds, are good, The passion for aAequlsiion 18 an ingirament in the hands of God. But this passion transcends its proper Iimits, and then it becomes a lust and a si Those things which are in themselves wrong are not the only sins, and tho: tunings which are morally right may by excess be perverted and become sin. What is /anaticisim bat excessive devotion to a sin gie one, or a single set of moral principles. Fanatics are Usually good men; indeed, (ey are generally the im of good men; Yel this fauaticisia sometimes to such heights that for the sake of one nar- vuth the fanatic would pervert and turn the ni of the Whole moral stream. Such men seem to strugg!¢ without ing to tuvert the pyramid of wuin and stand it upon ts apex. Few men, jas f ‘e for viriue for virtue’s sake; their vir- ines, like their vices, emanate from selfishness; they calculate for, and dream only of, their own bappir ness. All vice ls not deprayity; there are, here aud there, in these depths PEARLS OF VIRTUE. Neitner is there only unsuilied purty in virtue, The rejormer {8 always on the brink of being a criini- nal. Shere are those who, infected with tltis deorav- ity and sin, deight in wounding and maligning; in ascribing ise aud impure motives to others; wha catoh at some fragmentary exprevston to load wt with & weight of odium and cast it among the peo- ple, awakening In the unthinking mind a feeling of haired and scorn toward those who are innocent. This sin against the tidividual becomes at such a Tuoment & sin against the many, and such sins are deadiy; they are of the “sin agalil-t tae Holy Ghost.’ When one meets a man who denivs the doctrine of the Trinity, who dishelieves the Holy Glost or refuses to aceept the diviuity of Christ, one is apt to turn away irom such ta hatred and scorn, crsing “bhis- phemous, infamous,” wicked. Ah, friends, satire never touched a stugle heart, scorn ne! melted a soul, and contempt never co! a sity When you gee the evil man do not tell hin that evil is TUK ROOT OF HIS NATURE, butrather that there is a fountain of good welling up through his soul, that will ove w, his whole lie, AIL men ) disbelieve whats you believe are not necessa bad. Remember Wat great and good man, Theodore Parker, bis life was the greatest oox and giory of Boston; te cared for her poor aud unfortunate he aged the last bitter griet and rv dying criminals, ail bitterness, z forces of progress, as kept within Jasi kind f the friendless. Bat orthodoxy denies such men their virtues, If one says he speads jis money to ameliorate the condition of the sutering, anoticr auswers, “Well, he has pteaty of 1%.) If he gocs avout doing good constanuy, “Well. be hag He that’ believeth and is bap-!