The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1870, Page 4

Yonging to the different sodalittes attached to the ck, bearins banuers on which were inscribed ap- propriate mottoes and lighted candles and boug Of flowers, formed a procession o:.tside the church and marched along the aisies up to the altar, where they deposited their mowers and candies and saug the hymn, ah yy Lord, my God, 5 pes 1 lors'you asl ought? ‘The sei were conducted by Father McAleer, assisted by Faihers Barry and Loughran, The latter clergyman is Irish priest, On & mission to this country to collect funds to assist in liquidating the depts on St. Vatrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, Ireland, which has been but lately erected, Father McAleer appea ed strougly and with good effect to the con- gregation to contnbute, according to their means, to the cause Which Father Loughran represented. St. Columba’s will be open day and night unl ‘Tuesday, for the purpose of worship and the adora- tion of the Host, which will be exposed for that object. There will be @ high mass on this and to- morrow morning, CHURCH OF THZ STRANGER. No Nestrality in Religion=Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Deems. Notwithstanding the great heat which prevatled yesterday a large and highly fashionable audience ‘was present at the morning service at the Church of the Stranger, in University place, to hear a dis- course by the Rey. Dr. Deems upon the subject of neutrality in religion. The Doctor selected nis text from Matthew xil., 80—“He that is not with us is against us.” The preacher vigorously attacked the delusion of the thought that @ man may be neutral in religion, Some men seem te think that thay havea RESERVED RIGHT TO BE SINNERS a8 long as they please and take up the question of duty when they choose; that so long as they did not imsult and blaspheme God and were not wanting in politeness to the devil neither party had any right to complain, But the fact is that it is wholly impractu- cable to postpone the decision of the question, It is one of those cases tm which not to decide for is to lecide against. Concurrence with Christ was shown in four ways— one is hearty concurrence of the intellect in Christ’ opintons, of the great fuudamentals of spiritual life, and these Dr. Deems held to be the soul, sin, duty aud God. He showed at large what Cartst thought oa all these points, what lis undeniable opinion ‘Was, that which ali men differing in their incerpre- tations of other things agreed was Curist’s opinion im these, and be urged ils hi EXAMINE THEM 2nd discover whether they ‘Then there was to be concordance in sentiment, The Affections ure enunently coucerued in region, A Teilgion which does not include the heart 1s worti- Jess. Jesus Was an earnest lover and a hearty hater, He was no sickly sentimentalist, He hatea all meanness, Injustice, Inhumanity and sin, He loved ali virtues in all shop aud ke lo all souls, even the souls of sinners sneaks, aad love one must have to be with Christ hi ‘Then our lives are .o be shape uke His li Was a life of devotion to God and humanity, Men Who iniend to be with Christ must have this unselfish consecration. Above ail, 1 was shown that personal spiritual COMMUNION WITH JESUS ‘Was necessary, aud UL.s Was sown to be not a mysti- cal pretence, buta reality, having its counterpart in commou human inercommuntistn, and differs only as Christ surpasses in Bumanity ali over men, Those who are aguinst Christ were described as ‘those who received im thelr hearts and thought in their lives, in thelr maxims, in their policy, princi ples contrary to iho: ns taught. It was shown how careful all ought to be to have their opinions founded ou what Jesus held to be the Tundamenial truihe. Again, resistance to that spi- ritual discipline Which Jesus, as King, prescribes the World is rebellion, and resistance to ifis spirit and vejection of His work as Mediator is systematic re- jection aud ‘htas Christ thought. OPPOSITION TO JESUS. There is no third party in earth or eternity. The controversy beiween Christ and evil covers the whole ground of thought aud sentiment and acuion; so that all men do is for Christ or against Him; every speech uttered, every dvi- lar spent, goes for or a:amst Jesus. And Christ asserts tha! this partisan hip or opposition ts active. “<Gather.ng’ Was explained to meau not assembling as we sometiines speak of @ congregation gathering, Dut as sitcks are gathered to be bound in a bundie or grain tobe garnered ina barn, and ‘scattering’ does not mean simply separating and goinz abroad ‘Dut as meaning what One does wno throws seeds in the grouud. Every man is gathering souis or scat- tering souls. GOOD, EASY, CARELESS MEN. Who “mean no harin’ they say, go through the World spoiling the spiritual things which Christ is working over and beautilying and striving to save. An ap,cai was made to the Congregation. How can You be neutral on such @ question’ It is the cause of truth agains, ail errors, the transcendant beauti- fulness of Jesus against the hidcousness of smful- ness. Look at what Christ has been doing for the Fy Sve what a leader he is! There is noting so 2, SO GOOD, 80 GRAND AS JESUS. Why would any man not-be openly on his side, gath- ering the gvod things of tie universe? You are not urged to decide, you are urged to change your de- cision, you are against Christ pow, and not of a third ae party. Wheel your forces to the side of the ht. CHURCH OF TEE D PATER SITY. Christian Righteousness—Serwon by Rev. Dr. Chupin. The fineness of the weath¢r yesterday wonld seem to have had an effect upon the spiritual aspirations of the congregation which usually assembles to Msten to the eloquence of Dr. Chapla, The audience ‘Was smail; but, we may say, without any exaggera- lion, select, for it was composed chiefly of ladies and gentlemen of an age decidedly ‘experienced.” The beauty of the day had doubtiess an attraction for the youth and beauty of Fifth avenue, and many of those who were accustomed to meetin the Church of the Divine Paternity were probably asking what gre the wild waves saying at Long Branch, or listening to the musical preacning of nature e'sewhere. The reverend pastor, with ad- mirable taste, appeared to appreciate the fact, and in his prayer at the opening of the services referred to the glories of the external world as affording not the least fitting tempie for the worship of the Su- preme. Amida fluttering of fans, which, notwith- standing the dim, religious light which pervaded the interior of the church, gave it quite a cheerful and animated appearance, the preacher announced his text:— “For l say unto you that unless your righteous- ness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.” THE CHARACTER OF EVERY GREAT TRUTH he proceeded to say, 18 comprehensive and con- structive. It embodies the truth of, what preceded it and operatesin harmony with it. No one truth contradicts another, but rather supplements its ae- Qiclencies and iliustrates its power. Truth is not merely destructive; it developes the welfare of hu- manity and builds up the edifice of the divine king- dom. We cun, therefore, see the force of Christ's words, ‘I am not come to destroy, but ¢o fulfill.” He came, indeed, to destroy error, but to build up on its ruin the structure of everlasting truth and righteous. ness. Obristianity Was not an entirely new religion, a8 Many suppose, but @ continuation, an enlarge. ment of the truth, which preceded it. Were it other- wise we should have to believe that no truth had been revealed before it, and that the world had lived in @ state of complete spiritual darkness, THE OFFICE OF CHRISTIANITY, however, was, in the words of its Divine Teacher, to “fultil,” and toembrace more fully all truth that had gone before it. The New Testament did not, therefore, cancel or make obsolete the old—it sup- lied @ want, and added the last glorious chapters b the volume which we cali the Bible, By one class Jesus is regarded as a destructive radical; by others a8 an easy liberal—and what we call ‘liberal Ohris- Vanity” 18 often looked upon as a mere dead shell, a godless faith, a thing of words, or, at best. of empty and pliaut sentiment, This is a mistake of the for- malist, who isin love witp rules, and whose soul, slavish in its nature, has not learned to appreciate the free and generons spirit of Christ’s teachings. The sanction onthe Christian rests inthe love of God, and this 18 intelligible to the humpiest intel- lect, inasmuch as it means merely the love of good- ness. We come now Ww the consideration of two points: first, THE PROPER KIND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, and, second, the source or sanction of it, We must have @ righieousness which exceeds that of the Bcribes and Pharisees, We have still Scribes and Pharisees to whom the New Testament as aptly ap- plies as to thos: of oli. The New Testament is a practical work, and is intended for the Pere of every age. We have still Peters who deny and Judases who betray. In politica, in private life, in every depariment of society, we have illustrations of the evils which the authors of Christianity con- demned. The scribes are the sticklers for the laws, the men of “knowledge,” who go about crammed ‘with texts Inquiring a/ter the opinions of others and in search of @ controversy in which to exhibit their logic and zeal. The righteousness of the Pharisees we have still im all its phases. There is the righteousness of policy ‘Which We commenced when we say that honesty 1s the best policy; the righteousness which is respectable, and the righteousness which is with- out heart, but which is rigidly scrupulous in the observance of rules and ceremonies. Christianity, however, requires . *A SPIRITUAL RIGHTEOUSNESS, & righteousness of faith and of the heart, which does 00d, because it Is food: @ Spiritual deitverance, which purifes the ¢ joughte and elevates the mo- tives of mankind. ‘The sanction and source of right {a then @ love of goodness for its own sake; a love which 18 above the degrading influence of fear. ‘The characteristics of true Christianity are humility 8 to ourselves and charity towards others. Our own [struggles will cultivate this habit of mind. ‘Thus shall we rise above the mere formalism of re- Ugion, and atiain to a riguteousness superior i ite NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, irit and e: ‘teousnoss of the scribes mer ects ¢o the righ 8T, AYNS FREE CHUROA. Papal Infallibility—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Seymour. The Rev. Dr. Seymour delivered @ lecture on the above subject last evening at St. Ann's church, West Eighteenth street, to a moderate, but attentive audience, The preacher remarked that the Church of Rome had opce possessed @ power which none could withstand, but now her prestige was diminishing. ‘When Christ was born it was confessedly by the head of jthe nations; it ruled Palestine and Britain, Arabia and the banks of the Rhine. Durtng the first vhree centuries, while persecution assailed Chris- tanity, sne was shielded from danger incidental to her position, HER POWERS WERE SHAKEN atlast,and she had never ceased to repel the at- tacks of supremacy which are now and for scores of years past have been assailing Rome, Levi, Gregory 1., Lyons, Vonstance, Gregory VII, and others constantly maintained and promulgated the idea Of supremacy, She claimed to be the see of all sees, and placed herself in competition with all other governing bodies. Rome in endeavoring Vo substantiate the dogma shows that SHE 18 WEAK, and jt will demonstrate her weakness in the future, Rome has been ip the eddy for many a century, and it is now drawing in towards the abyss. The doc. trine of Papal supremacy has been held for more than a hundred years. It is an unfinished theor, an incompiete system, a beginning that has no ent it has premises, but has no conclusion; it lacks something and that 1s tnfallibility, Whether the dogina be declared now matters very little, It wasa mere question of time, 1t was @ part and parcel of supremacy, and that by the law of thought must assent to infallibility aud allow that the Pope ts the successor of Clirist, and thus invest the Pope with all ministerial, judicial and administrative func- tions; so that when he acts and speaks the Church acts and speaks. The Pope claims that without infaillb ity Is to make CHRIST'S WORDS OF NO EFFECT when He says that the gates of heli shall not prevail against His Churcn. Infailloluty was not a caprice of the papacy; it Was a iogica!l conclusion, and fol- lows necessarily from the premises involved in the Roman supremacy which has ever been its pet theory. They would see that it was some‘hing to be looked for, and they need not be suprised at its promulgations. The crisis of the Church will then be at Land. When this dogma shall be tormu- lated and declared to be de side, 1b will be the DOCTRINE OF PRACTICAL ERROR which has been assalling the Patriarch at Rome. No one could foretell the crisis and suffering the Church Wil In futuge endure. Sie will receive such @ blurt as willruin her for ages. The whole system was false aud her fate will be the result of logical errors. Tt will justify the great Church at Constantinople aud tie Angiicaa Church ln remaining aloof from her. In 1504 the dogma of tae Immaculate Concep- tion Was promulgated ex caihedra, and this error would also be sent afloat. The Pope could not be infallible against ‘sin and could pever be proof against error, for ail the saints and patriarchs ously fell and continued to transgress. There Abraham, Solomon, Peter, John and many who, ab ail, should have been infallible, but were not. The Pope claims to be descended trom Peter. Be it so. Grea! as Peter's merits were, lus jaith wavered, and he was saved from ship- ik and many other deadly dangers, through his own indiscretion, by a special prayer and by the uaterpositiva of Christ. NEW ENGLAND OONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Where Jefferson Got His Ideas About Gove ernment—The Aucestral Pride of the Patrie archs Appealed tomSermon by the Rev. Charles Bliss. The elegantly appointed morning class room of Rutgers’ College, situated in the centre of the col- lege buildings, on Fifth avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets, is on Sundays used aga house of worship by the New England Congrega- tional church. A more inviting place to assemble for devotional purposes on a scorching Sabbath can scarcely be imagined. On either side of the en- trance are two magnificent fountains, the spray from whose myriad jets, sparkling in the bright sunlight, descends like a shower of dia- monas on the luxuriant foliage of the trees that overshadow the porch. Passing from beneath the fierce rays of yesterday’s tropical sun within the Shady portals of the sacred edifice, the eye was re- lieved by the beautiful evergreens that in wreaths encircled the pillars of the church. THE FLORAL AND OTHER DECORATIONS that adorn the interior of the room during the Col- lege commencement of 1870, which took place last week, have not yet been removed. Their presence imparted an air of refinement and luxury to the place ey in contrast with the suuple and S vere forms of worship practiced by the desccud- ants of the pilgrims of Piymouth Rock. Yesterday the services opened by the Rey, Charles Bliss, of Wakefield, Mass., Who commenced by reading achapter of the bibie to @ sparse but selec", and ap- parently earnest congregation. The reverend gentie- man next oifered @ prayer in which be supplcated the Lord to turn the inhabitants of this city from their evil ways and to hasten the glorious time when Chrisuans of all denominations shall merge their SECTARIAN D:FFERENCES and unite in one grand Congregational Church that suall embrace all races and be tree from the demor- alizing control of a great central power, and assert the right of man to determine for himseif in re- ligious matters. The 1224 hymn was then sung by the choir, at the conclusion of wiich the Kev. Mr. Bliss read @ very lengthy discourse on “The Rise and Progress of Congregationalisin,.”? He recapitalated, with great erudition and much devotion to the minute of detail, the history or the movemeni from its first inception, in the year 1634, during the reign of K HENRY VIII. of England, to the landing of the’ Puritan pilgrims, eighty-lour years afterwards, at Plymouth Rock, It wes from the germs of congregationalism that the reseut political system of the United Siates sprung. For what is congregationaism? What 1s 1ts guiding principle? It 1s the right of men to determine for themselves how they shail be governed in religious matters. If the truth of God is free, 80 should the Church of God be free. CONGREGATIONALISM WAS PENETRATING AND PERME- ATING the whole Christian world, and by its sacred influ- ence was inducing more liveral views among all de- nominations of Christians. fhe reverend gentleman, afler remarking to his congregation that i¢ was a well known fact that Thomas Jefferson obtained all his ideas of government from a Congregational minister, concluded by saying that the present was a year which demanded aggressive religious work, and appealed to the ancestral pride of the Puritans of New England to support them in the struggle against Rowe. SERVICES AT LYRIC HALL. Last Sunday but One ot the Season—A Ser- mon on Music—The Charm of Cataolicism— Rev. 0. B. Frothingham. It haying been rumored that the season at Lyric Hall was drawing to a close there was a very large gathering yesterday to listen to the eloquent utter- ances of Rev. Mr. Frothingham, and this can be con- sidered as no light compliment to that famous dl- vine when one considers the oppressive heat, which rendered both locomotion and crowded rooms ex- tremely unpleasant. The admirable quartet, con- sisting of Mrs. Gardiner, Miss Gibbs, Mr. Haws and Mr. Clapp, appeared fresh and musical as ever, ex- hibitin g Do faugue after their severe and protracted Jabors at the Beethoven Festival. The singers were probabiy inspired in some degree by the sermon, Which was on the subject of music, and evidently called Jorth by THE REIGNING SENSATION, The selections inciuded ‘Praise the Lord O my soul,” Morgan; ‘Rest im the Lord,” Spohr; ‘‘Beati- tudes,” E, Howe, “Want,” Greatorex and Hy- ruus, 46, 66 and 297. Rey. Mr. Frothingham sald—Beethoven gave voice in music to the modern feeling; he was the prince of music, Me is in error who thinks that this sub- lime composer’s works are not teeming fuil of . thought. There is a grand potted in those symphonies and sonatas. ‘rue there are few who lUsten fo them and recognize their full purport; few who can rightly interpret them, One summer's day it was my fortane to stray into the Cathedral! at Freyburg, where was contained one of the oldest and most famous organs of the world. The organist Look itis seat and 1 listened to THB OPENING PEAL. Then all at once I thought I was in the country. 1 saw the bloom of countless flowers, listened to the hum of bees, the chirping of insects, the distant low- ing of cattle, and ali the myriad voices that speak to one Wandering alune in the rustic world. Then suddenly came the muttering of distant thun- der. The tempest rose in all iis power and grandeur, then died away, and the tranquillity of peace resumed its sway. Such are tie effects which they produce upon those whose souls are filied with harmony and in whom the spirit of song finds sanctuary. The mother sits by the cradle of her baby; she cannot talk to it, for its intelligence is not ye developed; she cannot read to it; but she can sing those little nursery songs, pour out the wealth of her love and render it expressible. In the ‘Marseil- laise’? all that the philosopher ever taught, ALL THAT THE PORT EVER SANG, all that the tragedian ever felt, was poured forth. Itcontained the wails of suffering, the groans of poverty, the entire miseries which dwelt in the hearts of France. Confucius said—anticipating him who wrote “Let me but write a nation’s songs and [ care not who makes their laws’’—‘‘You will find the character of a people, whether pure or impure, whether bloodthirsty or kina, treacherous or faithful, ig mirrored in the songs they sing.” The mass of the Koman Catholic Church is the expression of all the intense feeling caliea up by the suffering and crucifixion of Christ, It is the yoice and music of the Middle Age. When you listen to ita strains aud lot monies. 128th streets, fronting on Alexander avenue, The church property consists of twelve city lots, and arehitect pressed brick and dressed with Ohio and Belleville stone, As soon as the building is completed the first story, which is seventeen feet high, will be used as @ church until the generosity of the Westchesier Catholics enables the worthy pastor, Father Hugies, to erect a church on another portion of the property, and the remaining stories will be used a3 a school. your mind take its own free course you hear all the | Walls Of suffering, all the CRIES OF REMORSE, and all the agonizing prayers for forgiveness to which the tenth century gave voice, Had Beetho- ven been gifted with words instead of sounds, he would have given the worid as sublime traged\cs as those of Dante, and had Mendelssohn becn express his thoughts iu words instead of m: would have rivalied all poets, save Shakepeare alone, whom none rival. Music 1s human; all can- not understand tt, put all love and admire it. How few can really understand the sonatas aud majesiic sympontes of Beethoven. Yet I have seen two thousand people hang upon their noes in rapture. Music dwells ip the soul of religion. SILBNOE THE OKGAN at St. Stephen's cuurch or at the church of St, Fran- cis Xavier and Romanism would lose half its charm for the Protestant worshippers there, When we have anew Church which will be born of a purer feeling than that Of the past—an American Church— then will we find the great part which inusic will perform. + the conclusion of the services Kev, Mr. Froth- ingham announced that the services at Lyrio Hall would close for thetseason on Sunday next. The church will reopen for worship in’ September. UNVERSALIST SERVICES IN PLYPMTON BUILDING, The Efficacy of Prayer—Sermon by the Rev. Charles F. Lee. At Plympton Building yesterday the Universalist services were conducted by the Rey. Charles F. Lee. The attendance was rather small, but this may be accounted for by the great heat of the weather, which rendered it nearly unbearable to be cooped up in a small room, for tho place set apart for service is limited tn its dimensions. After the usual hymns had been sung Mr. Lee be- gan his sermon from the text:—-‘‘Pray without ccas- ing”’—I. Thessalonians, v., 17. “The effectual, fer- vent prayer of @ righteous man availeth much'’— (James, v., 16). This he exemplified as follows—Prayer 13 the sweetest and highest expression of human acknow- ledgment of the GOODNESS AND GLORY OF GOD. It 18 the truest of all worship, because it 1s the most natural, It is mot confined to mere verbal utter- ance, It is seen in stil! more beautiful form in the holy silence of secret meditation. As the bounties of the Creator are infinite, so our modes of return- ing to him are almost numberless. Prayer is a form of worship in which all may join; not men alone, but all animate and inanimate nature, There are t.mes when the biackest and most hardened heart must ive expression to prayer, not in words, perhaps, ut in secret soul adoration. Mr. Lee, as proof of the effect of prayer on a sinful soul, related an 1n- stance of a burglar, who had effected an entrance into a house for the purpose of robbing it, giving u his evil intentions, A ltitle child was going to bed, when his mother reminded him of his pee. He knelt by his mother’s side, and, in his infantile words, prayed to the Creator to preserve him from all sin and danger. The burglar who was ip a closet close by, heard the prayer, and was so affected that he rushed out and said to the mother that he came to rob the house, but had become a changed man, and asked her to give him up to the police. She, seeing the sincerity of the man’s man- her, gave lim some Chrisiian advice and told him “GO AND SIN NO MORE.’ He related other inciJents show ng the great em- cacy of prayer, and told now, figuratively speaking, the beasts of the fleld ana trees of the forest prayed to God by mute adoration and by fulfiitug the object for which they were created. The most effectual means of being reconciled to God is by prayer, not merely uttering words without feeling that you are addressing the Almighty Being by whose goodness and mercy you enjoy life, It is necessary to true happiness to be at peace with God, and the only means of obtaining this blessing is by continual prayer. PRAYER IS A SPIRITUALIZING PROCESS; it purges away the dross, it cleanses the well springs of the heart and is the “open sesame”’ to all the glit- tering treasures of heaven and of God. The only means by which a mortal can become nearly an angel in human guise 1s by induiging heartily in prayer and by cons-crating all his thoughts and aspirations to his Heavenly Fatner. A NEW GOTHIC CHURCH. Laying the Corner Stone of a St. Jerome’s Church, North New York. The corner stone of the new Catholic church of St. Jerome was laid yesterday with imposing cere- ‘The site of the edifice is between 137th and cost $38,000, The building at present in process of erection has @ front of 70 feet on Alexander avenue, with a depth of 115 feet, It 18 intended to be a three story building, in apeculiar mixed style of architecture, which the calls Lombardo-Gothic, fronted with Ultimately it will all be devoted to educational pur- poses, and, with the church ana pastor’s house, will occupy the whole block, From. two o’clock yesterday crowds began to arrive from the boats and the cars of the Second and Third Avenue Ratlroads at the scene of ceremonies, Which gaily decked out with flags and streamers, and presented a very brilliant appearance, as the scorching sun poured down its beams, Several temperance socie- Ues, including the St. Jerome Society, the St. Gabriel Society, the Immacuiate Conception Totai Abstinence Benevolent Society, St. Boniface’s So- ciety, St. Augustine’s Society, St. Aloysius’ Society, Father Matthew Total Abstinence Benevolent 5o- ciety No.1, of Westchester, and Father Matthew Total Abstinence Benevolent Society!No. 1, of Mor- risania, were present, and their bands, together with the splendid band of the Westcnester Protectory, coniribuced tn a great measure to the eclat of the proceedings by their really fine and inspiriting music. Very Rev, Father Starrs, Vicar Generai, assisted by Rey. Mr. McSweeny and Rev. Mr. Hughes. pas- tors of the church, officiated, and about five o'clock | proceeded to bless the corner stone with the usual ceremonials of the Catholic Church, Among the other clergymen present were Father Wood, Father Carrol, of Melrose; Father Slavin, of Yonkers; Father Breen, of the Church of the Annunctation; Father Finegan, Vice President of St. John’s Coilege, Fordham, and several others. Aiter the corner stone had been laid Rev. Dr. Monogh delivered a brief ad- dress from the first verse of the 129th Psalm—‘Un- less the Lord shall butld the house in vain do they labor who build it.” He alluded to the particular interest which Almighty God had always shown in the erection o1 temples in His honor, as exemplified especially in His minute directions in regard to Solo- mon’s ‘Yemple, and then went on to say that the building of which the corner stone had been laid that day was intended for the twofold purpose of a school and a church, according to the universal cus- tom of the Catholic Church of combining religious and secular instruction. He concluded his address, which he explained was necessarily brief on account of the intense heat, by exhorting all to co-operate with their zealous pastor in raising a worthy temple to the'Lord on the beautiful site selected for it. More than 3,000 persons participated in the inte- resting ceremonies. THE JEWISH CHARITY INSTITUTIONS, a LadieY Meeting at the Temple Adath Jesh- urun—Address of Rev. Dr. Einhorn. The ladies of the Jewish Congregation Adath Jesh- urun met yesterday afternoon at the temple on Thirty-ninth street, near Seventh avenue, in re- sponse to a call issued by the trustees of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society. The object of the meeting was to perfect an organization in connec- vion with the ladies of all the Jewish congre- gauons in the city to aid the trustees in their efforts to obtain funds for building the new hospital, maintain the orphan asylum and to en- large the usefulness of both. Mr. 8. Sommerich, the president of the congregation, called the meet- ing to order, thanking tne ladies for having so nu- merously answered the call, there being nearly two hundred present. Mrs. Levy Goldenberg was elected to preside and Mr. Max Morgenthan to act as secre- tary. Rey. Dr. Einhorn was introduced and said that he appeared before the assembled ladies like a pickpocket intending @ raid upon their purses. The sun’s heated rays burnt down upon the earth, and they should remember those who have no sheiter to escape the heat—the orphans who need so much the protecting care of charity. Their fore- fathers, even among the bloodiest persecutions, never forgot the injunctions of charity and benevo- lence. if the heart could be compared to a stone the Jewish heart was a precious stone, and the most vaiuable of all was the heart of a Jewish woman. At the late laying of the corner stone of the new Mount Sinai Hospital Judaism was so miserably re- presented that one was inclined to believe that Judaism itself was 80 sick as to be in need of hospital treatment, Let those present show by their activity that the ancient spirit of the Jewish people isstillin them. These remarks were received with applause. Mrs, D. August and Mrs. 8. Bernhard were then chosen first and second vice presidents and Mrs. S. H. Lenmann as treasurer. Mr. Sommerich informed the meeting that a grand “fair”? in aid of their object will be held in this city in November next, and that it would be proper to have an executive committee to make all -necessary arrangements, collect funds, receive contributions of ods, &¢. Some suggestions were made by . Stiner and other ledies, and the appointment of a committee of thirty was carried. To this committee were added, as members ex io, Mra. Rev. Dr. Finhorn and Mrs, 8. Sternberger. After some further unimportant business anda practical address from Mr. Golden- berg trom the qualr, advising Lmmediat, practical “a view to sensation. His eloquence is of the grave work by alt the ladies present, Mesars. P. W. Frank, M. Ellinger en ae delivered speeches to same effect, and then the meeling adjourued. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Mr. Beecher on What to do with Money~A Sermou Without the Mention of Obriat, Mluse trated by Exumples of Posthumous Fame. Sunny skies have a perceptible eifect upon Mr. Beecher’s regular congregation, The ¢lite are away, for the most part, gone to their cottage by the sea, and left their pews to be occupied by the strangers who have been attracted to Plymouth church by divers reasons, but mainly by the reputation of its pastor, Yesterday morning there was not quite the aver+ age congregation, even including the strangers, and the warm rays of the sun seemed to enervate both preacher and hearers. There was nothing of a sen- sational character, and the only noteworthy event was the fact that a sermon was preached in a Chris- tian church, 7 WITHOUT THE NAME OF CHRIST or His divine mission on earth being mentioned either actually or by implication, Mr. Beecher is sometimes assailed by his enemies as being unortho- dox, as not being an exponent of vital Christianity, Speaking generally, this is an unfounded charge; few popular teachers are 80 broad and catholic. minded and yet so attached to the old ways as Mr. Beecher; but now and then he gives his narrow- minded denouncera an opportunity to strengthen their hyper and ill-natured criticism. Yesterday morning was one of these ocvasious. Instead of taxing a-text he might have taken @ motto or a line of poetry, and @ line trom Shakspeare would have been beiter and more consistent than the half line he selecied from one of 8t. Paul's Epistles. ‘His text was taken from the Episile to the He- brews, the eleventh chapter and the last clause of the fourth verse—“‘And by it he, being dead, yet speaketi.!? THE GOOD THAT MEN DO WILL LIVE. The sermon was on the good that men do living after them, and was founded, of course, upon tue faith showa by Abel in offering unto God a more excellent sacfitice than Cain, and that this mani- festation of faitn by Able spoxe wW-day, thougn he were dead. ‘There Was not in the sermon, either by implication of speech, one Word about ‘the more acceptable sacrifice,"’ and of the number of ilus- trations given of the immortal effect of a good man’s Ife there was not the feeblest hint that Christ had lived or died. Having said this much ag to that which was conspicuous to thoughtful and devout minds by its absence, let us vow give a short outline of the sermon. Posthumous fame, or a desire to live in that which they nave done while living, was the desire of all men above the savage state, The love of praise was evideut in the higner order of animals, and where it lett off = with them it began — with men, and a natural desire arose not to die with the death of the body, but to live inthe memory of those who were living then or would follow after. ‘The power that man had to prolong those good in- fluences and how he could successfully doit were then commented on ana tlustrated at considerable length. Waho was it built the mill that elattered day and night under the willows in a spot so loveiy that YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS go there to whisper the story of their love on moon- light nights, and where the artist goes aown to sketch his pretty bits of lovely scenery? That mill had enriched the man who had built it, and he had had his quid pro quo; but after his death the skill the energy, the thought that had raised the mill lived to bless and comiort those who came after him for jong generations. Men had died und left miliions of dollars belind tem; but Mot one of those who had simply left wealth had done so much goot as Howe had by the invention of oe sewing machine, or as Watt, or Stevenson, or Arkwright, in the Uld Country, by their varied discoveries and inventions, FULTON LIVES TO-DAY in every ferryboat that goes across the river, in every steamboat that proudly rides the ocean. The man who builds a road through the wilderness ought to have his name inscribed by the side of that road; for, like the man who built a bridge across a stream, he does @ good that could not die with him, and for which every man ought to bless him who crosses the road or the bridge, Who were the rich men who were living in the time of Queen Elizabeth? They sunned themselves down the streets; everybody knew about them while they lived; but who knows or cares for them now they are dead? Who were the rich men 150 years ago? What has beoome of those rich men? Why, they make just as good dust as @ poor man did. There were living now in New York men who had enormous riches; but by and by who wili think of them, care for them? No; they will be cared for no more than the thirsty man cares for the cloud that brought him the glass of water he drinks s0,eujoyingly. But these rich men could immortalize themseives. They might say as they looked on their hands, “These hands cannot sculpture out of @ stone a Jace that almost breathes and speaks, but the money I have can send some poor young man with a genius for scuipture to an education that shall make, hin as immortal as Flaxman, and through bis reputation I can live through all time.” ‘There was no capital so repro- ductive as that which was invested in TALENTED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. Every man who gave the country a » vod school- mistress, a good busine:s Man, a good painter and a good sculptor or a good workmaa was doing that which would live for all time. There were youn, men hearing him that morning who had never hear truths of this kind put in a sermon before. Some of those young men Would become rich; they were on the high road to that which mentally brings them riches; let them remember that those riches would do them precious little good, for them to be rich themselves; but if with those riches they did good and they built for themselves an immortal fame how good it would be to reflect on in a declining tife; and if to this were added a life that in itself had been qgooduess how it would @t them for an inheritance Unat fadeth not away. THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS, Truth the Rule of Human Ethics—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Storrs. People who are familiar with Brooklyn churches remember the gloomy structure at the corner of Remsen and Henry streets, where the sombre oak ornamentation was only lighted by the glow and splendor of the preacher’s eloqnence. The Pilgrims have changed all this, and Dr, Storrs’ church isnow one of the brightest and most cheerful in the city. For some months the congregation have met in the Academy of Music, while the work of enlarging and renewing has been going on, and Sunday a week ago the first service was hela in the old quarters. The church has been enlarged and finely decorated in colors, anda lecture and Sunday school rooms have been added, Dr. Storrs is @ popular preacher In the best sense of the term, and during ail the time that he preached at the Academy had very large congregations. It would seem by his experience there, where he had far more hearers than even in his own church, that an ampte, free church is the kind of institution to attract the masses; given, of course, a preacher of the right kind. Dr. Storra is a man of rare cultiva- tion, and aims to interest his hearers by sermons carefully considered and logically arranged rather than by masses of words grotesquely grouped with and stately kind, and thougan it is often impassioned, it never loses its dignity. ‘The text yesterday morning was Ephesians, tv., 15— “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which 1s the Head, even Christ.” The preacher said:—Man’s ethics re- quire truth. Society could not preserve its coherence without it. Nothing could be more chaotic than @ society where law of truth was not recognized, So it comes to pass that deviation from truth is dishonored and punished. This law is only reaffirmed and made more distinct by the Christian rule; but at the same time is added the element of love; the natural law 18 not enough, without being combined with love to God and man. When in colors we combine blue and red, we have purple, quite another tint; so if we combine natural law with love we change its quality. If we receive a favor from one we personally love the feeling of obligation becomes gra- ttude. If we endure pain, loving him who inflicts it, that which would otherwise be stoiclsm becomes sweet subsulssion. Setf-reproach becomes peni- tence if the wrong act is committed against one Whom we love. Conviction of truth becomes faith if the truth be received through the affeciions—a faith ampler and more vital than any simple belief, Our desires when expressed to a being we love become prayers, and our outlook to the future world is Changed from vague expectation to joyful hope by the same transforming power of love. THE POWER OF LOVE. Speaking the truth is the rule of human ethics; Speaking it in love is the higher Christian law. Love has the power to exalt human rules into Christian virtues. And itis this all-powerful principle of love that God came to reveal tn the person of His Son, We see God’s greatness in the outward»world; but it is only in Christ that we can realize and feel His per- sonal love for us. In no other way could the Divine will have so drawn the heart of the world as by revealing itself through the tender eyes of Christ. Jt makes no difference what else we fees or imagine or hope, if this personal love is not im us then the great work of our salvation is not completed, and we need to pray for assistance from the Holy Spirit. It is the office of Christianity to nourish and educate this principle of love. The office and fellowship of the Churen ts to nourish in men personal love to Christ. That 18 the truest Church where this prin- ciple 1s most strengthened. The question which tests our doctrine 18 this:—Dows it ree sult in @ tender personal love to Christ? No matter iow ancient our Church or how splendid, how full of literature or art or song, itis a mere in- stitution of human ambition or pride unless this spirit of tender love combines with every other ele- ment. So will this church structure become dear to us only as We leara within it this great lesson. Love ig the clement of which heaven is made. If Qur lives nere are guided and conwolled by joyful and happy by the welcome he receives when love it will seom no sudden leap from the imperfeotion of this life to the perfection of the other, but 8 gentle transition in which imitations and ctlons drop away, Teaving us in ae err tue new iife wherela Wo have entered. Death 18 not conversion, it 1s development; it is not re sudden and mighty education. Finally, what 1s the real difference between those who seem alive in this world? One bas human kindness, the other the love that endureth all things; one has be- lef, the other faith; one has desire, the other prayer; one self-reproach, the other penitence; one looks vaguely to the future, the other knows that he will go finally to live with @ loving Father. neration, it 16 & ELM PLACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Tompernnce as an Essential to Success Man’s Duty to His Maker=Sermon by Rev. Henry Powers. The congregation of the Elm place Congregational chureh listened to an excellent sermon yesterday by their pastor, Rey. Henry Powers, After the singing of several bymns and the reading of a portion of the Scriptures the reverend gentleman took for his text tne following:—‘And every man who striveth for the mastery 1s temperate in all things’—First Corinthians, ix., 25, The allusion in these words was to the foot races, one of the Isthmian games, at Corinth. In order to enter the contest with a prospect of success Srey must be temperate. In the foot race only one couid win the prize aud be crowned with Jaurela. Therefore a comparison had been maie be- tween the law which governed this race and the result of the Ohristian race, ‘Tue assertion was that TEMPERANCE WAS R8SRNTIAL TO SUCORSS. The hope of the Christian was to win the the heart of every Christtan with a desire to prove suc- cessful in the end, No man could be temperate in all these things who was in the habit of nate intoxicating drinks. And in temperance di not mean total abstinence. {t meant self-control, with power of sacrifice for an object, the sacrifice of feng ease; the power of refraining from taking thi ngs, the power of faying aside many things which might be abandoned by the Christian in the race for heaven. They must be temperate in all things that pertain to the race. As an illustration of the law of temperance, he mentioned the fact that he was present at THE GAME OF BASE BALL between the Red Stockings and another club, and watched with interest the power of endurance exhi- bited by the combatants in that game. It showed It was the result of teinperance. It was because aii the conditions of the laws of temperance had been com- plied with that there was such a manifestation of skill displayed on that occasion. The highest result might be achieved by an observance of this law. Liven the soul might be delivered irom the bondage of sin and death by it. The man who engages in business obeys the law that ne may be successful, for bis famuy is depending upon him and he is made he returns to 118 home. Paul was great tn his intel- lect and was @ Pharisee among the Pharisees. He was ail things to all men. He became as a Jew that he might gain the Jews. If he had been an ambitious man he might have held positions, but he chose to be an humble fol- lower of Curist and preach the Gospel. He even gave up his right to the support from the Church and earned his living himself, that he might be a charge to uont. His was seli-surrender that he Migiit obtain salvation, ‘There were three stages in the Christian itfe. First, the law; second, the duty and third the loye. First we" were enemies, next we Were servants and then we were friends. God came to us a8 OUR FRIEND, and we learned to love him. Just as in the case of the child. First there was the law of the household, which he was compelled to obey—the father taking God's place, and the child, although looking at him as an enemy, learning at last to love him, This law 1p the infancy was the same as the law in the injan- cy of the race of man. Speaking of the sacrifice and love for others the reverend gentleman made the fol- lowing quotation:— He 1s dead whose hand is not opened wide, ‘To help the need of a human brother; His, douvtleas, the iife of his life-iong ride Who gives his fortunate place to another. A thousand miliion lives are his, Who carries the worid in bis sympathies. ‘To deny ia to die, In speaking of the labor performed where an ade- quate amount of good was not obtained, he said he Knew a young lady who placed herself betore a mirror every day and occupied four hours in the ar- rangement of her back hair, A story, he satd, was told of a man who entered the tent of Alexander, and who, from long and continued labor, had gained the facility of throwing a pea through the eye of a needle, After performing the feat im the presence of Alexander he asked for a recompense, when Alexander presented him with @ basket of peas, considering that ample pay for the amount of good which he could accomplish by nis skill in this respect. He looked upon it as a waste of time. Physical exercise was good in @ certain degree for the health of the body and the power of execution. We saw in our city recentiy Specimens of the red men Of the West, and it was thought that these men were supecior in strength to the white men; but such was not the case. There was more strength in the men of Brooklyn, on the average, than in the red men of the West; and it was aiwaysso in civilized countries. Strength was more developed by the obedience to the 1aws of tem- erance. They should do all the good they could, live strictly to the laws of God, and in the end they would gain the crown. Thechoir of this church is gaining many compli- ments from those who frequently have the pleasure of listening to weir fine sluging. JERSEY CITY CHURCHES. A Methodist Interpretation of Righteousness— Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Larew—A Medico- Religious Exposition. At the Hedding Methodist Episcopal church, in Jersey City, a sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Larew, of St. Paul’s, who took for his text, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” The preacher, who 1s a most fluent speaker, devoted half an hour to the explanation of this text. The discourse was very practical, inas- much as he pointed out to his hearers how far they fell short of the work expected of them, His object was evidently to stimulate them. to energy in the good work. That many of his hearers were def- cient in zeal and activity may be gleaned from the sermon, which was delivered in a very forcible and earnest manner, We have been working hard, said he, to bring our- selves up to THE BIBLE STANDARD, and yet we are conscious of great deficiencies. We are in a state of doubt which brings a paralysis of all our moral and spiritual movements, The divine nature is the essence of all religion, for we are made through Christ partakers of the divine nature. There are @& ter mai Christians §=who have an idea that Christianity is nothing more than a cultivation. They cannot see the necessity of join- ing the Church, and they ask you what benefit it will bring to them. The answer is simple. It is to impart to them a new life, that they may perform works of righteousness, Now righteousness consists not in works; it 1s A SPIRIT, A LIFE, ‘The text says—“Blessed are they that hunger after righteousness for they shall be filled.” You cannot its man with works. Righteousness is not some- thing put on, which we evoke by magic. It is & working, efficient power—a power to forgive and entertain kindly feelings towards our — neighbors, Some men would like to have fighteousness and yet remain in a worldly condition, It is this effort to reconcile two opposites which leaves so many of us empty when we think we ought to be filled. When our physical system is filled with effete matter, when the liver or the stomach does not discharge its func- tions, the blood becomes clogged and we lose appe- tite, not because we do not want food, but because the system is already overloaded. Tonics will not suffice, the system must first be cleared out, then new matter must be taken in, and once in it will take care of itself. Soin the spiritual system, when it has not been emptied of the effete matter of worldiiness, the new matter of righteousness cannot find place there. Before the righteousness and wis- dom of God can enter there all this OLD MATTER MUST BE PURGED OUT. Jesus would never have been ina pian if there was room for Him in the inn. Our hearts are already full and there igs no room for Him there, He cannot enter there. “He came unto His own and His own received Him not.’’ It 1s not necessary that a man be poor in deeds and mortgages, but that he hunger and tnirst after righteousness. Why is it that so many among us have pot this power and spirit within us? You may say what you will, buil gay you have not hungered after righteousness. You do not turn to your ungodly neighbor and induce him to join the Church. A MODEST, MILD AND GENTLE HINT. When a preacher Jacks the power of righteous- ness how poverty-stricken he is, how spiritualiy dyspeptic! And what a blessed thing for a preacher to have the spirit and power of preaching! I re- member the time when I gotinto the pulpit, and I feit dry and cold and couid only preach by a great intellectual effort. But, thank God, there was a foun- tain put into me ‘which spriny eth up into life eter- nal, Wicked men are every day committing crimes because they are filled with the spirit and power of evil; and they tell you they cannot resist this power to do evil. That proves the spirit and the power of an opposite kind. WASHINGTON CHURCHES, METZIROTT BALL UNIVERSALISTS, somethil Eloquent and Interesting Sermon by Rev. C. W. Biddle, of Lynn, Mass. WASHINGTON, June 19, 1870. Owing to the sultriness of the day the crowa at the churcies was somewhat diminished, and the preach- ing seemed to dag in inverest, for the clergy do Rot miud and heart, Men sometimes thought eek the world when they had only sold them- selves, most of it, no mutter if he has not a title deed @ foot of land, good sense oft that men fixing of v, i; geon the faintest ray of light. the light of heaven, comes diseased, and if entirely bereft of it life no longer exists, {ike empty benches any more than another class of actors more profane. ‘The Universalist church, at Metzerott Hall, had @ fair attendance, and the sermon wus preached by Rev. 0. W. Biddle, of Lynn, Mass, who dtscoursed from the text, Mark VIII, 36:—'* Whaét shall it profit, aman if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul!" not supposed they must renounce wealth and comfort to be Christians. On the other hand, the speaker proceeded to show thas we were placed here to master material forces and to gain the world for use, Cid the preacner, in the next place, u righs even for the world, ay ‘The soul must be carried superior to the world, aul ward and material, If a men sells himself for the the worid he gets cheated. The speal to say that no man could traly gain the world with- began by saying it was the world. Many The speaker wrong to gain ‘That idea wasa fruit of monkish piety. beauty and comfort; but, is not TO PAY TOO HIGH A PRICE ‘There ig 8 danger in every op- hood consists in a mastery of the out- Ker proceeded out saving the soul; because to gain the world, in the highest and best sense, was to make the outward and materfal tributary to the ey had He has gained the world who enjoys ~~ Before we can gulo the world ine WE MUST CONQUER OURSELVES, We must not retreat froin the world to be rel! We must remain and str establish ourselves gaining the outward good at the expense of the in- ward life, their souls. sent condition, The who are lost, says Paul, lost to virtue, truth and peace, aud lose the llie and freshness of their better by reference to notable instances, how te with Baspienon, aud in virtue, The danger is in We mvet mea every day who have lost To be lost in the gospel was a rr sompet hid to those and in this sense men are ‘The speaker showed, on, lux ury, temperance, avarice, would ruin the powers he soul, It was not in the shock of great orimes lose their souls, but by prot the mind on_ worldly object y gradually drifting away from the right am rue. ‘It is not the stroke of the hammer, but the lays. silent rust, that hurts the tron. The word ‘dei tion” in business expresses it exactly, ,When @ mini soul goes down on his hand ng. order of motives thi some examples of the world, aud, in de@fance of temptation and gaia, had stood up jor right and God, it 18 & fearful jpeaker dwelt upon the higher inspired noble deeds, and gave ose who had been greater than Tuen the ST. JOHNS PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. RANA ON eee Sermon by Edward Kinney. WASHINGTON, June 19, 1870. The Rev. Jonn Vaughn Lewis, the rector of St, Jolun’s Protestant Episcopal church, the aristocratic church par excellence of the capital, resigned his pulpit to-day into the charge of his assistant, Rev. Edward Kinney, who discoursed to the congregation from St, Gentiles and the glory of tny people, Israel.’ Luke, il, 32:—“A light to lighten the Place a humah being in «a dark dun- and he would soon die; locate a plant in @ dark cavern and it would grow towards All organic bodies require Humanity deprived of it be- Man has a mind to be enlightened @ Soul to be saved, Faith once dead, he is worse than the dumb beast, and it were better that he had not been born. The Jews had their moral code from God through Moses. The Gentlies or heathen pos- sessed none. Their philosophers were looked upon as very gods; their teachings were furnished as FOOD FOR THE SOUL, The Jews in their wickedness had not the fear of God in their hearts. Corruption, arising from igno- Trance on the one hand, will put disobedience in the other; but there came a new dispensation in the coronation of the Son of God. He taught as no other man taught, Let us view this effulgent I! of the Gentiles, tnis Saviour, this Redeemer. der, yet searching, the lover of erring man, through those beautiful beatitudes delivered on the Mount a slan- dard of law i held forth to the four corners of the globe. He teaches us to pray, and furnishes a form of prayer—to be true to ourselves and fellow-men. What has been the effect of the teachings of our Lord Jesus? Marvellous indeed. He promised His disciples to be with them to THE END OF THE WORLD. Our Great Teacher and High Priest has gone to heaven to prepare @ way before us. We ltve in peril- ous times, Idols are being set up in the absence of the Mediator, Where the Israelites erected one idol, to-day there are many. Havin a sure hope in the example of Christ, let us push on steadily to victory; and, having run our course, we shall be numbered with those who shall eternally dwell in the regions of the blest. In the congregation were Chief Justice Chase and daughter, General Ramsey, Admirals Smith and Shubrick, General Capron, of the Agricultural Bu- reau; Paymaster General Brice, Lieutenant Reed, of the Marine Corps, and General E. L. Townsend. FRESH AIR AND FRESH BEER. Fan and Frolic on the Briny Deep~Suanday on the Water and on Land. Let pious reverends thunder as much as they will from their pulplts in favor of a strict and rigorous observance of the Sabbath; let Legislatures enact the most stringent laws to the same purpose, the people—the great mass of them—which rank be- tween the pauper and the millionaire, will have their rest and recrea(lon on this day, on which alone they are freed from the daily toll and exactions of the week. It is to them the day of all the rest, which is marked “red’’ in their almanacs, and which they devote to fun, frolic, pleasures and amuse- ment for the rest of the body and the recreation of the mind. And if that Sunday be such aone as was vouchsafed us yesterday, bright and clear, and the burning rays of the sun raising the quicksilver in the thermometer to above the nineties, there is no religious impulse so strong, no restrictive law so powerful as to keep these people cooped up within the Darrow walls of their dwellings and con- fined to the heated atmosphere of unclean streets. Out they will go, with their wives and children, to enjoy the fresh breezes of nature in the open field: in the woods along the shores of our rivers ant islands and on the rippling waters of the bay. Hence, yesterday was no exception to this general rule and ail the boats and barges announced to start in the morning for various places on excursions for the day were crowded with our people. ‘THE FISHING BANKS seem to maintain theirypopularity among these Sun- day excursionists this year as they did in the past. A number of boats steamed out in the morning from various piers on both sides of the city, each freighted and fairiy crammed with mnumerable people seek- ing to get away from the heat, dust and burdened atmosphere of New York. Music and fishing, an oc- casional dance and @ song, composed the pro- gramme for the amusement of all, and it was fally enjoyed. A number took their way through the Narrows and, rounaing Staten Island, they kept ey, along the inlets and ports of the Jersey shore ant RARITAN BAY, visiting Elizabethport, Union, Rossville, Perth Am- boy and Keyport in turn, and reaching this city, refreshed and exhilirated before the fall of the even- ing’s shadows. The NEW YORK MAENNERCHOR, @ society lately formed in the Nineteenth ward, by the union of the Social Maennerchor, Mendelssohn uartet Club, Apollo and a portion of the Concordia aennerchor, left in two barges and a steamer the foot of Fifty-first and East river, at eight A. M., and touching and taking in numerous accessions to their ranks at the foot of Sighth street and East river, and Fortieth street and North river, they steamed up the Hudson and halted at Spring Hill Grove, where a regular picnic was inaugarated. Well executed songs, under the direc- tion of Professor Seibert; concert music, by the orchestra; waltzes and quadrilles were enjoyed at all, and the retreshments for the “inner man” wel not neglected. DUDLEY’S GROVE ‘was the ‘objective pomt” of another similar excur- sion, at whieh the members and thetr families of the following societies participated;—Aurora, Aglaya, Harmony, Ladies’ Union, Maciunists’ Union, Phoenix Singing Been: and the Fritz Reuter Society, tne latter composed of admirers of Fritz Reuter, author of aseries of humorous works In prose and rhyme, in the North or “Platt” German dialect, At SHADY SIDE, on the Hudson, the Humboldt Liedertafel, Singing Society Jocus and the Jerome Club domesticated themselves for the day, enjoying rural sports, after @ pleasant tour of the bay and the Hudson. SANDY HOOK, Red Bank, Highland, were equally patronized by nu- merous excursionists. The several places of public resort on Staten Island were the temporary homes of many, who during all the day filled the ferry boats almost to inconvenience. Hoboken was the aun of thousands of pilgrims in search of amuse- ment; 80 were Coney Island, Astorla and College Point, on Long Island, and JONES’ WOOD and all the other numerous parks in this city were thronged with people determined to enjoy the day away from the dreary neighborhood of hot bricks. and mortar. CENTRAL PARK, this invaluable gem of our city, was not forgotten, however, among the many other attractious, and the visitors to this people’s garden could be numbered by tens of thousands, Many were the regrets ex- pressed that the ‘new régime" of the Park adminis- tration did not yet free ttself from old prejudices and institute Sunday afternoon concerts in the Park. Thus three-fourths of our people spent their Sun- day yesterday. The new elections for the North German Reichstag will take place on tne 12th of Sepiember and those for tue Prussian Cuamber of Veputics will follow shortly after, as the government intends to convoke the Parliament a the commencement of the month Of Ootahete