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RELIGIOUS, {The Pride, Pomp and Circumstance of : Modern Christian Worship. Bohoes of Praise and Prayer from the Fashion- able World at the Watering Places, False and Genuine Wealth Spiritu- ally Considered and Modern i Miracles Denounced. A Wrathful Prophet Writhing Under the Journalistic Lash. ‘ The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.” e ’ »toSeeret and Noiseless Forces of Nature— . Beecher in His Glory—The Dead Ac« _ tor—Sanetiffeation, Redemption, Righteousness and Wisdom— Where Can Happiness be Found ?—The Doctrine of = Infallibility. 4 the delicious coolness of the weather yesterday aw fine congregations to all the churches of the y, and many of them presented the charming Uuguet-lke appearance they were wont to ear ere Fashion flew away to the water- 38 Places, In the plainer temples of re- gion many aged and invalid ones were ~ Tesent, who had been unable to attend during the intense heated term of previous Sundays, ‘The re- Ports from the seaside and interior watering places give us the pleasant assurance that the fashionable, amid their follies and festivitives, have not forgotten to engage once each week tn pious meditation and elegant devotion, Below are reports from the ; shurches of the capital, the metropolis, suburban Cities, the seaside and the springs. . CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Apeatolic Experiences—A Son Preaching His Father’s Funeral Sermon—Discourse by the \ Rev. Dr. Deems. Yesterday there was, as usual, a large congregation assembled at the Church of the Strangers, in Univer- aity place, and without doubt every one went away after the service more than ever impressed with the Wbility, eloquence and earnestness of the pastor, Dr, Deems, as a preacher of Christ. ‘The text was Paul’s famous saying to Timothy, “I ave fougat a good fignt, I have finished my course, have kept the faith.” (I. Timothy, iv. 6.) Attention . Wag called to the fapt that the characteristic of ac- urity is wef forth in all this, A Christian Ufe is a iufe of FIGHTING, RUNNING, CLINGING, Christianity 1s intended to make men holy rather than happy; but happiness comes of holiness, not oliness of happiness, We mast live good if we would vewell, The present is becoming the past. The ssentis the outlook of the future, Paui sald, “I ve fought; Iam ready, the Lord shall give me rn ® crown.’ This is the apostie’s conjuga- on of the verb ‘to be a Christian’ srough all its tenses, The circumstances under which Paul wrote this were commented on with great power and cloquenc>, It was an honest state- meut Of @ great man on the eve of martyrdom. ‘The Christian life is a warfare. It comes to be so Decause a Christian 1s one who makes common cause with Christ, and he is represented as the “captain of our salvation,” as being the leadership of all «108 Who oppose all wrong. This antagonism has > e!ways been going forward. It is not the mere jar of an inert body falling on another inert body. It is the rush of excited spiritual forces against one an- other. ‘The co lsion of the baitle fleid 1s terribie, its carnage-covered plains are horrible, but who can xdequately conceive of the results where @ great ®,iritual battle has been fought? Compare the pain «i a gash by a knife or a gunshot wound with being deceived by lover, or friend or child. WHAT ARE MANGLED BODIES ripped and distressed spirits? The battle flelds Christians, in sick chambers, in shops, ou dock: the blaze of ee. a life were wibed; invalids ehtin: vwn pain, boys ghting down temptations, girls fighting «Wo seducers, men fighting down bad pubiic opmion, sometimes victors, sometimes con- vered, Alltifeis a fight. The difference betwe iristians and others is that the former fignt ‘a od fight” on good grounds, for good principies, for vod creeds, while others fight, a bad fight, and are u'ned, whether they conquer or are conquered, Paul 5 that he had done his best, for the best cause. He 1 met all kinds of enemies, but he had gone into the Wwe prepared. He knew the whole armory which he de: cribes in sixth chapter of Ephesians, in which it Was noticed that there was no de ence for the back, wad he had supplied himself and had gone through vi campaign aud stood now on the eage of vic- TY, \ te put his Christian experience also under the ficure of @ race, “fnished my course.” He had Jaid aside all weights. Paul's stripping himself for the race was described with pictorial vividaess. He had kept steadily forward. There was so many titngs to draw him aside, But he had run patiently. Ail the glory lay at the end of the course. He was fens tere, The heated racer drew a long wreath, HE WAS ADOUT TO REACH THE Goat. The third representation of the activity of Chris tan life was in clinging to principies, He had “kept the faith.” In the battle he had clung to tho shield of faith. In the race he had adhered to the rules of the course. In everything he had held 10 his principles. Now, as he stands on that critical yresent, which precedes the eternity, and his friends eee nm about to pass into the dark, which they can: } aot penetrate, he cries back to them, ‘Ready |” “Timothy, do not grieve that [lay down my earihly - ministry, Lam ready, Nothing mofé is to be done. t All completed.” A voice from beyond says, “Paul, } come up higher.” ‘Ready!’ shouts the prisoner, Gungeoncd at the foot of the Capitoline hill, “Regdy !) When the summons had come to Cesar in the ‘Senate, the gieaming dagger of the conspira- tors forced oui a spirit that was not ready to go; but tho Emperor's executioner let out a ready soul when he b@ieaded Paul. THE SATISFACTION AND COMFORT of readiness in every department were dweit upon. Now the glorious anticipation. ‘That 1s the bril- Mant outlook into the future, The battle over, the victory wou, the race compicted, the garland gaine:, ¢ crown; there were power and glory in tae future for the worn apostie, And not a crown that had sone begging for a wearer; a crown voted by a Cortes or snatched by a coun Metat. it was @ well von crown, a righteous crown, which should never Ve disputed, but grow in glory as the wearer grew 7 power. the Revers have announced the death of Rey, Me . Deems, the father of Dr. Deems, who vag Duried in Baltimore last ‘Cuesday. The doctor ade no allusion to hts personal bereavement, but | ~o@ hearers must nave fell how much it nad inspired | discourse, Indeed, all who heard this grand i] ‘course must have perceived that the son was | aching his father’s funcral sermon, « $T, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. | | © Doctrine of Infallibility—True Religion | | Secmon by Vicar General Starrs, This edifice, like all siyter churches, was not so / trowded as on former occasions, though every pew as comfortably full, The preliminary exercises were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Sweeny, assisted by } “welvo acolytes with scarlet gowns. Previous to the sermon the Rev. Dr. Starrs, the preacher of the day, referred to the promulgation of the doctrine of in- fallioility in the following terms, He said:—As soon us the Infalltbility of the Pope {s proclaimed oMcially ® grand Te Deum will take place in tuis cathedral. It will be announced on Sunday next, the 17th, but we do not desire to take any notice until we hear it omecially from Rome. Then the Te Deum wiil take ry In honor of the definitton of the jnfallivility of i re inven dogma that we have ; N FROM OUR CHILDHCOD. We have been all taught to learn our catechism and to learn that the Pope, speaking from the chair of St. Peter, 18 lufalilbie, ‘This is ths meaning of ii. failibility, Itis £0 simple we have always believed * ut it has not been defined, Christ prayed for St. e that his faith should nos fail; prayed first for ud then charged him to strengthen the a ‘this 18 what we mean by infalitbility. ‘rhe sia- of faith has been granted by Christ to the office » Peier in order that he should coniirm his aren in the faith. It does not mean that ’ on ER OR HIS SUCCESSORS CANNOT ERR, her matters they are human. When the Pope sea catieda, Wen Le le uiallible in matierg ‘ of faith only, pea ‘a3 the head of the Church. You see how stan 1d * FL ag tae Tead so mucl ub ie merely that tho Pope is infallible when teaching from fhe chair of St Petes ta aes faith only, and this 1s what we have alw: . Dr. Starrs then delivered the sermon, selecting his text from Mattew v., 20-24 He said that they had all heard of the Pharisees, Who kept the law of God With the greatest zeal and were sanctimonious to a acruple, and yet they were told that they could not enter the kingdom of heaven. Their religious un- dertakings were unavailing in the sight of God, be. cause they were dictated by pride, They prayed much, 9. Ensliansd one many prayers, and yet their jenounce' tai WHY DID HE DENOUNCE THEM? It was because they performed these things for their own glory and advantage, There was a great deal of the Pharisaical spirit permeating the world now. True piety must be defined by certain charac. teristics which were puzzling to vhe Pharisees. Piety must be characterizea by an absolute obe- dience vo to the law; second, its nature must be the honor and glory of God; Unird, it must be interior— that is, it must come from the heart, Christians must be prepared to saci ifice self-interest and self. love, Many devoied themselves alone to their own aggrandizement at the risk of all, Christ's Lajunc- tions were only to keep his commands, and with- Out ‘his ail would crumbie into dust. There must be an obedience to God—a love to God proceeding from the heart, irrespective of its effect upon the Sonmly prosperity of the person seeking the gate of eaven, AMERICAN FREE CHURCH, The Writings of St. Paul—Faith im the Al- mighty—Death of J. W. TAugard—Sermon by Rev. Charles B. Smyth. An able and instructive discourse was yesterday delivered at Masontc Hall py the Rev. Mr. Smyth, The literal, generous and intelugent views enter- tained by this gentleman have recently won for him @ host of friends, whtle his manly and independent movement has created quite @ favorable impression in his regard, ‘The hall was fairly attended yester- day, including a number of the congregation for- merly under the pastoral charge of Mr. Smyth, Though simple and unostentatious in their way, the devotions were characterized by much earnestness and sincerity, Atier the usual exercises the reve- reud gentleman preached a lengthened sermon, taking his text from the Epistle of St. Paul, xiii, 12—"The night ts far spent, but day is at hand,” &. He sald that no mind had appeared in the Chureh of the Lord Jesus Christ which could be said to be superior to that of the Apostle Paul, Viewed sim- ply a8 & man, apart from the fact of his being di- vinely inspired, he was acknowledged by all men to have been possessed of superior fatellect, His writings displayed much learning, skill and logte. He dweit much in his writings upon controversial subjects; his epistles were full of argument. It could not be said but he was exceedingly ZEALOUS AS A THEOLOGIAN, anxlous as he was lo have the doctrines which he taught clearly understood and fully believed by all to whom he addressed them, It was for that reason that he knew the correct views of truth had much todo with the correct walk in the performance of the practical duties of Christianity. But he was not found like a great many otbers resting his subject after he had discussed its merits argumentatively, for he pushed it forward into the PRACTICAL CONCERNS OF LIFR, and showed the worid that the doctrines of Chris- tuanity were only useful as they subserved its prac- tice. And wherever discipline was enjoined it was in reference to the practice rather than the theorles of Christianity, ‘Theretore in the epistie read, which. was [uli of argument during the earlier part of 1t, he endeavored to establish the grand doctrine substan. tially—salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, He = upon all to whom he wrote the performance of the various duties of life in all its retationship. He exhorted to render to all men their dacs, tribute to whom tribute was due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom. honor, He told them to’ owe no man anything, buc to love their neighbors, and that in so doing they carried out the great principle of Christian life. Now, the night aluded by the Apostie was a term employed tu de- note ignorance, error, aMict.on and death; and day was a term employed that signified just the ee. site meaning to those words enumerated. Ho thought that the night of which the Apostle spoke Was tue saine referred to i Isaiah, where it was said that gross DARKNESS COVERED THR PROPLE. What wus the darkness? Error, ignorance and Wickeaness, The night referred to the idolatry which prevailed at the time o/ the Saviour’s coming, but when He came the light began to dawn. The night of superstition and heathentsm was far spent and the sun of wretcheiness arose, ‘The gorious day had come. The superstitions which had prevailed excluded all light of trath from the minds of those who had followed tt. ‘The reverend gentleman then proceeded to give @ lucid expiana- Uon of the text which he had read, conveying to the congregation a clear and intelligent meaning of the Woids set forth, After alluding to the trals and aiiiictions of life he adverted to the sorrows and tribulations surrounding death aud the bereave- meats which accompany it. Attliction was truly the nignt of the soul. “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,’ were the words of the Apostie, That a beautiful expression, It was the armor wherewith to bid defiance to the world. Christ loved His Church and gave Himself to1t, What the Apostle condemned was excess, In a word, innocent Pleasure or amusement was not forbidden, rioting Was condemued; moderation in the use of liquors Was not condemned drunkeuness was a crine, Moderation was the great rule which pervaded all the principles of oes The reverend preacher cailed the attention of the congregation to ‘to the sad demise of @ prominent member of the THEATRICAL PROFESSION, whose funeral took piace yesterday, as illustrative of the subject of his sermon. He said that no matter What may have been his fanlis or the faults attached to the profession with which he was connected, yet acourding to those with whom he was personally ac- quain‘ed he was in society a man of honor, a n of integrity, @ man of generous and humane feelings, whose heart and purse were always open for the re- ler of those in distress, and very likely 1t was In consequence of his kindly impulses that he was reduced to extremity, That aMiction, together with DOMESTIC 'TROUBL appeared to have been the cause of ‘his sudden and unexpected decease, brought about by his own hand, And now that man was mourned over. His remains were being laid in the cold and silent tomb. ‘They could not hetp thinking over the words con- tained in the Gospel of the day 1n connection with the subject, He yielded to the sorrows of the world and the sorrows of the world worketh death. In his dire affliction he could have trusted in the Lord and put on the armor of Christ, His troubles would have been ilght; he could have borne his sorrows with fortitude, He held on to the world; but there is little in the worid to hold by. The sorrow of the world worketh death; it bringeth wickedness; 1t bringeth disease aud oftentimes suicide. Men yield to their sorrow and give themselves away when they cease to be responsibie for their acts, Without his home, which he himseif had made, his partner, who sliould have been his comfort, repels him from her embrace Ang from that home, updraiag him and DRIVES HIM FO} N OUTCAST. and a wanderer upon the face of the earth. There Was no one near fo soothe his drooping spirit or chee} his fading heart, and he went hig way. But thei was a remedy for all the ills of life, domestic or pub- lic, as all found in the regognition that the night of darkness was dimmed for ever and the day was at hand, ushering in righteousness and truth. The rev- erend gentleman concluded by exhorting the con- gregation to place a firm and hopeful reliance in the Almighty and follow the precepts laid down in the gospel of charity to ail mankind, GREENE STREET METHODIST RPISCOPAL CHURCH, and Where Can Happl- Mr. Who are Happy, ness be Found ¢=Sermon by Rev, Harden, The congregation in this very unfashionable church was exceedingly sparse yesterday and com- ported well with the primitive and simple style of the music and the discourse. The people have had so much preaching about “holiness” and “perfec. tion” from Rev. John Inskip and J. P. Corbitt and others that they evidently fear to get an organ in the chureh orto custion the pew seats or, indeed, to adopt any of the “modern {mprovements,” lest It mar their chances forlivaven. The Rev. A. K. Sand- ford is the pastor—an earnest, eloquent preacher— who seeks by precept and example to reform the vicious neighborhood in which he lives, His pulpit Was occupied yesterday morning by the Rev. Mr. Harden, of Monticello, N. Y., Who preached on HAPPINESS, and based his remarks upon Psalms xxxit., 1— “Blessed is he whose trangresslon is forgiven and whose sin is covered.” He showed that dissatis- faction existed everywhere and that the univeral verdict of mankind is that happiness cannot pe found m youth, manhood or old age; tn business, wealth, pleasure. In every stage of life and under all circumstances men are ever seeking and ever longing for that ignis futur happiness, When itscems within their grasp it Msappears. As tie poet Young truthiully remarked, ‘Aibmen think all jen happy but themselves.’ Is there, then, he asked, any happiness anywhere for our race.’ He thanked God that there 1s, and the text telis who are the happy, and where’ aud how happiness may be obtained, “Blessed is he whose transgression 1s forgiven” aud WHOSE SIN 18 COVERED. There were never buttwo perfect men on this earth. One was Adam, a3 he came from the Crea- tor’s hi , and the other was Christ. But alas for him and for us the former fell from bis high estate, and sin entered into the world, and death and all ite attendant eviis followed. That man 1s not happy Who bas never siuned, because such ® MAD doce DOF Ta exist, Nelther is he happy who eins overmuch, nor hides i who and covers up his transgres- sions, The ostrich hides its head in the sands or in tho grass to escape the pur- Di suer, and sinning men are very like thls foolish bird, They think ~ covering up thetr sins with greater and darker crimes that the omniscient eye of God can peuetrate them, and that because tliey tiem: selves do not see the danger there is tuerefore none. The happy man 18 he and only he whose sins are fully and freely iorgiven by God—Whose sins are us fur removed from the presence of God ay the east 1s from the west, and whose transgressions are cast behind Jehovah’s back, There is, Unerciure, We Cou- demnation to them WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, for His blood has cleansed ail their situa, There 13 only one way Which meu may be saved, namely, by repentence toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. These are the two doorposts of thatstraight Ree Which leads into the narrow way of eternal fe. The dark, deep river that separates us from God 1s bridged over by the cross, and we have access freely unto Him through the Spirit, When the ‘accuser of the brethren’? appeared to Martin Luther (as he tells us) and showed him @ long roll of crimes and stus and asked 1{ they were his the Reformer auswered inthe atfirmative, Then said Apoliyon, why may I not claim you now? Because, answered the old hero, the bioda of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, hath cleansed me from all sin, Here 1s our hope, heve let us rest, THR PREACHER CLOSED with an appeal to the impenitent to forsake sin and turn to Christ. The Sunday scliool children who sat in the galleries then sang a hymn about their “Beau. tful Home” with great spirit, which made the con- trast between the professional singers and them- wclves very striking, In the afternoon the Sacra- ment of the Lord’s Puppet Was administered, and in the evening the Rev. John E. Cookman, of Bedsord street M. E. Church, preached an able sermon, The pastor announced that the national camp mecting Would open at Oakin, near Havre de Grace, Md., on Tuesday, and that he should be absent there nex4Sunday, but the Rev. J. ©. Washburne, of Har- lem, and the Rev, Dr, Aikman, of Spring atreet Pres- byterlan church, will supply his place, After the collection and singing the audience was dismissed, NORTHWEST REFORMED CHURCH. The Seaside and the Rainbow—Living Things—Closing of the rch Season Sermon by Rev. H. D. Ganse. The members of the Northwest Reformed church worshipped yesterday in the classic building on the corner of Twenty-third street and Fourch ave- nue, known as Association Hall, A small congrega- tion, composed mainly of members of the gentler sex, attended. It ts complained that the young men of the surround ing districts prove false to the In- stinets that reared this splendid architectural pile for their benefit, ag they rarely attend at the Sabbath celebrations heli in the building. Perhaps the mo- notony of the services and the ‘deep, rambing tones of the preacher have driven them thither, However, the Rev, Mr. Ganse thought proper to announce yesterday that the Sunday services would be dis- continued ttl the cool breezes of October shall breathe on the nerves of the young Christians of the ward. At the announcement many matronly mem. bers of the audience seemed much pained, aud some re unable to suppress the tears that rushed to their eyes at the thought of being DEPRIVED OF THE BREAD OF LIFE during this trying weather, ‘The reverend gentleman preached a lucid sermon, taking his text from Psalms cty., 3l—'The Lord shall rejoice in His works.” With a wild and picturesque flow of language the preacher dwelt on the beauties of nature aud art, wnd gave his impressions of striking scenery which he beheld daring his extended travels. He spent many minutes in eudeavoring to persuade his hear- ers that the ocean wave and the shore surf are beau- uful, He felt that many of his hearers looked for- ward with pleasant anticipations, as he did, to happy hours to be passed during the torrid season by the surging sea. Having pald a passing tribute to the music of Beethoven aud given an enwancing glance at what he termed “YONDER RAINBOW," the reverend gentieman descended to the insect World, He laid especia! emphasis on the tact that the insect world of the moon resembles, in ali re- Spects, the countless living animalcule found in the North German mines. He bellevea that every man owed a duty to cach living thing, and should recog- nize In the meanest creature the hami of the Al- Mighty, He believed that the Society for the Pre- vention of Crueity to Animals was an ally of the Su- area Being, and was founded by a heaven-inspired mind, He expressed his regret that he was unable to en- ter Lnto the history of the changes in the animal ¢1 ation. He would not tax the patience of his audience by introducing science after he had already done something to soothe the qualms of conscience—it @ny one present was troubled with dark decds—by displaying the magnificent cast of this mundane world. He would not assert that THE TOAD O& THE RRL possessed a keen and responsible sou', nor that they should not suffer for wrongs which they can do—for evil they can perpetrate; but he insisied and trnasted that the members of the congregation would remem- ber during the holidays that cach living thing should direct the soul (o tig Creator, and by keeping this in the mind's eye the Christian would find the wide worid his house of worship and te very grass of the feid his pastor and insirusior. MADISON SQUARE PRESBYJERIAY CHURCU. Chris?s Joy—Sermon by the Blakely, of Edinburg. Now that the extreme hot weather has set in In earnest nearly ail the churches of the metropults are almost entirely deserted upon the Sabbath and many of them are closed up for the season, the members and those who usually attend them deeming them- selves quite good enough to dispense with the church for at least three or four months out of the year. Not so, however, with the Madison syuare Presbyterian church, which, although It ts considered quite as aristocratic a church as there is anywhere in the city and numbers among {is me.ubers scores of millionaires, always has ts pows weil filled even during the hottest weathor. This was Particniarly the case yesterday forenoon, and, notwithstanding the day was rather warm, the large number of persons assembled withia the beaut:ful and elaborately frescoed walls of this superb struc- ture found no cause to complata of the heat, so well ventilated is the butidiag, and doubiless many, if not ail of them, were far more comfortable there than they would have been at home in thelr own gorgeous parlors. There are, however, several causes which operate to draw large congregations to this church, In tne first place it is well and beau- tifully situated in one of the most fashionable and aristocratic localities of the metropolis, with Madl- son square, coptaining its wealth of verdant foliage and thotisaids of carolling birds, 1mmediately front. ing it. In the second place it {is as cool and well ventilated as any building tn the country: has an eloquent and earnest pas- tor, and last, but by no means least, has a@ superb choir, Without these things, the last in particular, this church would have no larger con- = durlug the warm weather than many others. Upon invitation of the pastor, Rey. Dr. Adams, Dr. Blakely, of Edinburg, preached yesterday fore- noon. He selected nis text from John xv., ll, “Theso things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” To read and ponder these words, he thought, would startle many persons. He referred to the words which spoke of Chris's Joy; for it is, said he, the common impression of most men and women that He was a total stranger to 1083, that He was in- stead of aman pee man of iniinite sorrow. Was itnot a common sight to see Him weeping and full of sorrow over the manifold sins of maukind or over the dead body of,@ Lazarus? He certainly was @ man of sorrows and griefa, yet He had something, and, In fact, a great deal of joy within Him, But what was tho cause, the mature of this Joy of Christ? From whence was it derived? A very simple and truthful answer might be given to this question, said Dr. Blakely, by referring you to the forty-ffth Psalm, for we find there His uncompromising hatred of evil and wickedness, and His overpowering love of purity and goodness. The glory of Christ—the conformity to His Father's wiil in every hour of His life was one great cause of this joy. The conscious possession of God's love, the exercise of affection, and the Ug antictpa- ton of the future enjoyment which awaited Him in heaven with those He had loved and labored with while ee earth were the chief causes of this love which He speaks of whon He says, “These thi have I spoken unto you that M: joy might rematn in you.” Jesus tells us also that He abode in the Father and the Father in Him, and what greater cause could there be for joy than this? Often, however, a8 a representative of sinners Christ bad a very different feeling. God often and repeat- edly declared that “this is my Son, in whom 1 am weil pleased and then, again, we hear Christ exclaiming, “My God, my God, why hast Thou for- saken me?” But another source of Christ’s joy was the con- sciousness of having falthfully discharged the duty which God had given him to do, It is utterly impos- sible for any one to be paper when they are con- scious of having neglected their duty—when their conscience upbraids them for not having performed their duties as they should have done; and 1tisa great biessing that it iv. so in this world of toll—that we should jeel joyful at having performed our duty weil. To have done his duty Well, although success may not have attended him, is @ great source of gratification to any good man. And so it was with Christ, As day by day rolled on he must have feit something of this great satisfaction, for it was never @ partial duty that he performed, but his whole duty to both God and man, it was near tie close of his iife especially that he expressed the fulness of this joy. A few hours before his death, knowing full weil that his time was near at hand, declared that he had finished the work God had given him to do, Dr. Blakely continued upon this portion of his Giscourge at Considerable lopgth and with great elo- Rev. Dr. Oe a ee NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. quence and force of logic, He urged his hearers to emulate the life of Christ and thus obtain that un- speakable joy of wich Christ was possessed. At the conclusion of bis remarks the choir sang 10 & most excellent manner the hymna ending wiih tie follow- ing verse:— Surround the path wo Ko; Though p intul and dletrensiog, el a reat al And onward ati: we're pressiog To reach that laud of love. CHURCH OF ST. AMBROSE. The Anniversary Sermon by the Rev. Frede- rick Sill. This church, altuated at the corner of Prince and Thompson streets, was well attended yesterday. It is a plain, substantial building, without ornamenta- ton or display, but 13, pevertheless, neat and com- fortable, The Rey, Frederick Sill preached his eleventh anniversary sermon, having been that number of years rector of this church, His indefat- gable and persevering efforts have largely contri- buted to the present prosperous condition of the edifice, The usual preliminary services having ter- minated, the reverend gentleman took his text from St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, xvi, 7— “T trust to tarry a while with you if the Lord permit; for @ great door and effectual is open unto me.” He alluded to his connection with the church, and, Raving minutely detatied its history, referred at some length to the rapid progress now being made in the canse of religion. He paid a high tribute of respect to the NUMEROUS BENEFACTORS of the church, and in enumerating the many costly and appropriat rma tendered in support of the baliding advert in feeling lernms to the memory of the departed, who, during Ife, fatied not to make @ Iberal dispensation of the worldly goods with wich they had been blessed. Commending the generous spirit which prompted those who adopted the Proper means to sustain all temples of religion, he showed that such noble acts were not only rewarded in the world to come, but oftentimes on earth in the ordinary transactions of lie. Raving at some length dilated upon the necessity of maintaining the echureb and the fruitful resuits attending tt, tie Mr, Sill congratulated aud thanked the congr tion for the WARM AND ENERGRTIC SUPVORT which had hitierto been given, [He then enumer- ated some of the expenditures for the past year. Ir- respective of the divine worship and its support there had been paid out $3,453 59, including $1,500 for reduction of tue churci property debt, He said that there had been ninety-flve persona christened, twenty-three confirmed, sixty-three added to the communion, ninety-8ix ‘marriages and one hundred and twenty-four interments. He read over the list of the departed, and at the announcement of some of the names, which were ever associated with kindness and liberality, the reverend gentieman was visibiy affected. He concluded his discourse by reminding the congregation of the words of the Apostle in re- ference to charity and good works, and besought ei a a zz 323 23 5 & 2 Pears _ SSE SSP Serr RByMs (ee Se teeE ee Tee eee a Te 2S ka eee them to give alms according to thelr means. The serinon, which was characterized by many appro- Driate passages from the Scriptures, was |i ed to withalevout attention. An earnest ayer Ww $ then said, and a few psalms having been harmoniously rendered the proceedings closed with a benediction. ALLEN STREET METAOD!ST cauRcH, EPISCOPAL A Sermon on Scripture Justification by Rev. John ©. Noble. Not overcrowded, but containing an audience of fair average Lumbers and intellectual appearance, the Allen Street Methodist Eptscopal chureh wel- comed the Rev, John ©. Noble to its pulpit yesterday morning. Miss Haight presided at the organ, and the services commenced with an anthem, ‘Heavenly day awaits our way.” Then was given a hyn Let the elders praise the Lord, Him let all the people paise, When they meet with one accord In His courts ow holy dayn, The text was from Paul to the Romans, v., 2, and the theme was the fustifioation of faita By whom also we have access by fatt into this grace wherein we stand, and rejotce in hope of the glory of God, ‘The Rey. Mr, Noble said :—The attitude of man to God 18 that of an erring child toward an tofinitely Kind and forgiving father, THE JUST WRATH OF GOD may be awakened by man’s impiety, but God can pardon all bis wickedness, when he comes before flim bearing a broken and conirite heart. Not by any effort of mun alone, however, can he be saved, nor by his power of will can he be saved, He can only kneel humbly betore the throne of grace, and be lifted up by the right hand of He who rules in the heavens. Neither can God save man unjustly, for hat would be tneousisteucy foreign to the very nature of God, In whom there may be antl- thesis but 10 contradictions, The spectacle of God forgiving the unrepentant guilty 14 inypossible. It is ouly Luman justee, and chat of a Kind found among New York judyes, which wdinits of a pardon being granted to the murderer, while he yet holds Wk KNIFE IN HIS HAND, reeking with w-being’s blood, Y: Who wast thele h God pure in mind and thought and power of forgiveness are indeed in- finite. [do wot feel with those, good persons though they are sometion “Tean forgive, but E catinot forge hat, my hearers, is not the right spirit quite, It ts impossible, I know, to imagine that God shall ever forget anything from the earliest dawn of time all down through eternity, bat some- how it seems to me that he will in some manner for- get as he forgives our sins. [remember years ago, when 1 was @ very ite child and had committed some very wrong deed, thac I grew uneasy and very sorrowtul aud went to my mother’s fect, where, Kneeitng, lasked her to forgive me. She gazed at me sadly for a few moments, and then as a bright smile came over her fi ung love of & mother sie Clasper und with smiles and tears granted my prayer, granuug me, I know, A PULL AND PREE FORGIVENESS, and forgeifuiness of the wrong 1 bad done, Abt motner { vour hair was long since silvered o'er with age, reflecting the glory that now rests upon it in the heavenly land, Where you have been gathered to the bands of those who sing anthems of joy and peace in the presence of God. Such peace ‘as was given to my troubled young soul by that mother in the morning of my life dol now draw from the promise of God that He ‘will not remember my sins against me.” Between man, fleree in opposition to vod, eager to follow in the path of wickedness, and Hod, whose mercy is boundless and endureth for- ever, there was a bridge erected that we might pass the gulf of sin and be saved. We were given a me- diauon who shou'd intercede for us before the divine Judge. That mediator was our Lord Jesus Onrist, Only & God and man in one could stand be- tween God and men, THE HIGHEST ARCHANGEL of the heavenly hosts couid not perform this task. Tt was necessary that it should be the work of one who partook of divinity, and yet should have the human heart and spirit and have been born of a woman. And all:through that wonderful God-life on earth Jesus bore so sweetly as only a Goa could have done the burden of his humanity, No bitter- ness that he drank not of, po Ut that he refused to suffer. Ihave often Sots it that Jesus took upon himself the agonies and misfortunes of ,man that He might the better plead for him before hts Father, while yet He feit the sting and weariness of His Journey in His human self, and while His humanity, ALL SCARRED AND BLOODY as it was, should itself be a mute but powerful pleader at the throne of God. Jesus died for us ail. Our sins have been blotced out by the stain of His priceless blood. Where the record was is only now the heart blood stain that obliterates and conceals, Approach reverentially and behold the syiobol of the conquering power of love. Gird your faith about you, and through the mediation of Christ be saved in the bosom of God. FORTY-SECOXD STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. jous and Secular Life—Sermon by Pro- fessor W. H. Green. Atthe Forty-second street Presbyterian church yesterday morning Professor W. H. Green, of Princeton, delivered a very interesting sermon on “Religious and Secular Life.” The church was well attended and the congregation geomed to bo greatly interested in Professor Green's eluctdation of the text, which was taken from Isaiah 1x., 3—“They joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest,”’ He sald that the chief antagonist to godiinessin this and every age is worldiiness—the love of this pre- sent world and the things that are in it, He said thatan inspired apostie testifies that “If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him,’ IF WE AIM TO BE CHRISTIANS this fatal propensity must be conquered, It is a great mistake, however, to suppose that this is to be effected by secluding ourselves from the world, in the hope of thus banishing it at once from our occupations and thoughts. This divorce {% 98 impossible as it 1s unnatural and unhealthy, In thwarting the ordi- dance of God it defeats its own professed end. The true correction of worldiiness is to be foand not in poing out of the world, but in putting the world in ts proper piace and estimating it at its real worta; not tn violently eradicating those desires which God has Implanted within us, but in reguiaung tem and holding them tn due subordination. THE KBY OP THE WHOL’ MYSTERY 1s furnisned by those words of Jesus, “Scek yo first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all ‘Suea¢ Uhings shall be added unto you,” 1019 Mie Lue Rel version of the true order whioh causes the per version. There 19 nO inherent or unnece sity an- tagonism between natural and spiritual Wings. So far from this the former are ordained types em- blema of the later, The same God is the author of them both, and he established this relation of cor. Tespondence between them that we might gain a clearer conception of things uaseen from our ac quaintance with palpable and visible objects, and that we might be perpetually admonished of our duties and our privileges by all that ls arovod us and with which we are daily conversant, Tue processes of nature are mirrors In Which we see reflected the methods of divine grace, The experiences of our Physical existence are THE SHADOW OF THAT INNER LIFE, which is ted with bread from heaven, exatiarated by the sunshine of the divine tove and favor, and which reveals and develops itself by the activities appro- priate to its sphere, And thus the world of sense and sensibie things, instead of proving the most stubborn and dangerous foe to a spiritual life, may be made helpful and auxiitary to it. You must not euter upon your secular engage- ments as upon a territory foreign to your duty as & Christian and with which your religion has nothing todo, Religion 1s not to be ‘hrust in at intervals to interrupt for brief spaces the current of your ordt- nary life, which resumes again its wonted flow as soou aS this foreign influence Is withdrawn, It is not to be inserted as patches in a garment wrought of an entirely different material, It must ttseif cou- stitute the whole texture of your life, which, Lke THE COAT OF JESUS, should be without seam, woven from the top through- out. The politician in the heat of the most exciting campaign; the editor in his most earnest desire to gain the popular ear or to move the pubditc mind; tue lawyer in his zeal in bebalf o’ @ client; the man of business amidst the pressure of the most eager competition; the pleasure seeker away from bis home and his churel and surrounded by the fashion. abie and the gay, must neither do an act or say a word or indulge m @ wisn which implies a moment's forgeUulness that the eye of THB HOLY AND SIN-HATING JEGOVAT ia upon him, and that for all these things God will bring him into judgment, The duty enjoined is nob to blend religion and secularity as Water and oil are mixed, things which are dissimilar and incapable of fusion, though they may be mecianicaily blended to- gether. 1015 not to larize aud degrade religion by mingling with it what is foreign to tts pure ani holy naiure, but it is Lo give it complete contro! over eyery faculty and energy of our nature and every activity of ourdaily lie. Itis to make God supreme io everything and our duty to him paramount every- where and at ail tines, 30 that in our hours of bu‘i- ness and our hours of leis m our private mo- ments and our more public occupations, at home and abroad, We shall be always serving him. Aud thus, Whetuer we lve we shall live unto the Lord, ana Whether we die we shall die unto the Lord} Whether living or dying we shall be the Lord’s. TRIMIY CHURCH Trae Freedom— Sermon by the Rev. Dr. inten, The Rev. Dr. Vinton preache:! the sermon at the morning services in Trinity Church yesterday, He took for his text the sixth verse of the eighth chap- ter of St. John, In Which our Saviour .18,described as inviting all sinners to throw o‘f their yokes and come to him, when he promises them they “Shall be free, indeed.” The reverend orator opened by stating that sin was incompatible with true freedom; for a man in sin could not bold his judgment in suspense, as he pursued but one train of thought. For in- stance, there was the ambitious man. He hated with a hearty hate all rivalsof his advancement. egrandizement was his god, and any one vetween him and that he wished to de- Was sucha manfree? Then there was the stroy, rich man—that class whose sole aim in life is the hoarding up of gold and silver. He tolled for noth- ing else, He dreamed of nothing else. Every object in life he made subjective Lo this one tdea of his—the accumulation of riches. He never gave a thought to the other world; never stopped im counting his moneybags to think that he bad @n immortal soul which might be made, ETERNALLY HAPPY OR ETERNALLY MISERABLE, and that there was a world after this which ought to give us thought once ina while, Was such aman free? Again, a mother lives but vo see her daughter outshine all rivals. She brings her up to be vain of vain things, to think of nought but her personal attractions and the best way she can make a sensa- tion in the world of fashion. The girl grows up dead to religion, in a pondage that years make stronger, aud which 13 felt all the more bitterly when the hand of time withers the features and looks $0 painpered im youth. ‘Then come fe: ings of jealousy of her Younger netzhbor: attractions she cannot outrival, and there 13 bitier- 3 partake in @ measure of His divine nature; we lifted up to Him, and from betug POOR AND NREDY SINNERS are made rich with His superabundaut graces, An- othor attribute of Carist ts wisdom, He ts the foun- taln source of all trae Knowlodge, He is the very mirror, the perfection of wisdom, When we feel Ives siroogty Inelined to ways that are wayward, ritual understandiigs sem as it were with thick clou is, and we know not whither we are drifting, look up to Christ and He comes to our succor with Mig enlightening wig dom and Jesus to the right, There 13 much tm this to gi asolation to our hearts; He will cone trol every luftuence and ¢ tle pac before We are aware o ton; He wil sanciily Us ¢ aud the Wild and extravagant IKSUKS OF THR DAY, that threaten, bat cannot swamp all true Christianl- ty. Itta folly to think We can have peace in our souls here on earth, or enjoy in the next werld the company of our biesded Loid, unless 2 At SANG titted by and through Him, and our souls made pere fectly pure and white, But ivi (n the redemption of Christ that We behold the complete fulness of Hut character, He brought us from the gate of perdt tion and opened to us (he mansions of eiernal O1134 We have but to follow i [ts footsteps and observa His teachings, trusty in Him and ta uo other being bat Hin, and looking to Mim as our tast hope and tefage, The preacher conciuded by an eloquen extortation to ils hearers to lead good and Christ like lives, (AURCH OF THE COMING WOE. The Prophet Snow ia a Belligereat Attitude Ho Falls Foul of His CriticsThe Herald “As Clever and Witty as the Devil,” bus the Times Can Do No Harm to Anybody The lessenger” in a Mess. In a small class-room of the University, Washing- ton square, exactly thirty-four persous, of various ages, sexes and sizes, assembled yesterduy after- noov, at three o'clock, to listen rapturously to the lugubrious croakings of the Prophet Suow, who had himself announced as the herald of Christ and spe- cla city messenger of New York from the powers above, te every ae of our ol pugty and virtue, CAST Our sancti isave us from error THE PROPHED'S AUDIENCE king set, and nothing short of an ace tual count of heads could make on in thia wonderfat elty, there could t four such characters unrestricted by strait Jack- ets, The Prophet's right ant left bowers were a pair of grim and sickiy-looxing gentlemen, who evie dently lead unhappy hives, because several gigantio misfortunes prophesied long ago for them and thetrs have hitherto futied to come to pass. These two cheerful citizens sat one oneach side of a fat and unspiritual-lookiog old lady, in persplratton and speciacies, who playe@@the harmonium and sang tenor, While ler lean supporters uttered an accom. paniment in very close aiid clever kartation of @ pair of cracked clarionets, The remain wore a sad ec Was made up of & few ldroti harmiess men and girls, and old maids and children, who tried during the sermon to keep one eye each on the preacher and one looking out of window, #0 a8 to secure the xpeetod mitiean wn, The vred on Upioe aut Was nevertheless y reason of the fortunate but conclusive fact of his being tie only son in the u nO evidence upon tis ace Of a recent & asyium., His hair did not stand on end hor was his countenance rror siricken; thereiore he was vd by tie Jeauest and most edlooking of the Prophet's two henchmel who wanted to satisfy himself of the reporter's identity. Having been told tat the latter waa really a “chiel” who meant to “take notes” aud “prent” them A SCOWL FROM THE NETHER WORLD settled at once on Is jagged brow, and forthwith he Pronounced the HERALD an infamous paper, utler which utterance be hurried away to Witsper some Jegeud into the ear first of his chtefand prophet, aud then of every body else in the room. in less than @ minute the entire litle audien-e aud their preachers were all scowling unmere.tully au tie reporter, and one venerable but decitediy ugly maiden was heard Ww breathe @ prayer ior TUE SCRIBES MISERAGLE SOUL. But a terrible look of dire resoive on thy of the Propuet soon informed the congregation thas he had made up lis mind as to the manner in wach he should mete out even mercuess fustics to somebody, where. cal sigh of reief wis unammously given, and pe. ot mond was restored to ‘tie ‘godly thirty-four. At & quarter past three “the — “services"? commenced, First the preacher dropped Into poetry and read all the ness in her heart that makes her iife miserable. Is ims ove after another with tha such a woman freeY Some people imagine that a} halt modest, hall wiumphant alr of & man who man Without occupation was a free mai rut wished us to believe they were ali his OWN cOMposi- A MIND VACANT 1S A MIND DISTKESSED. tion, and Were now intwodived to the New rork It was every mun’s duty to labor; the privilege | pupiic for tue Mist time. ‘iien fhe barmoutun and duty of every one, ‘fhe Adler is theretore a | syucaked, and the melting ieuale who presided slave, subject tow bondage he of his own will uncon- sclously clings to, An der 1s the devouring pre of the devil—in fact, his instrument to do evil wit Every sin finds @ plice inthe vacuum of the idler'’s mind, and it was Uns that it would be seen that tn- doleuce was a greater slavery than labor, It was for th very reason that men of business who were wealthy coutinued tn the harness to the last, so aa to keep ther minds busy and avoid evil. ‘And yet there were those who would say the wealthy man with no occupation was free. It was Hot nec*siry to slow that a man who 18 not a good man im we sight of God 18 @ slave by taking up Isolated case: for proofs, The drunkard and the Ubertine were only types of evil made conspicuous. Waere, then, couid be found a pattern of morailty so pure that real freedom would be found with tt? HE 18 NOT FREK WHO CLENCHES HIS TEETH, whose face turns pale with rage, and wio disre- gards the admonition to forgive instead of revenging ‘an injury done him; nor he who gives way to temp. tation, Who cliugs to an object that he knows wiil prove his rain, and who }iunges into crime even when he blushes to commit it, A man to be really free must be pure. He must overcome temptation, do good and avoid evil, and such a man God gives grace to, because a citizen of the New Jerusalem above, Which 1% a free city. Some people thought that he was the priest who could go about and do as he liked, unheeded by anybody, without any guide but his own inordinate desires: in fact, that the sin- ner was the free and the Christian, because he submitted to certain usages, certasa divine laws, the slave, Was ths true ? WHEN A FIRE BREAKS OUT in a house and envelops it 89 that escape is impos- sible for the inmates, in whose heart in the alarm at the approach of death? In that of the sinner, un- repared to meet his God’ or of the good man, who Hows that he will by death but step from one World {nto another? When a ship is going to pieces in mid ocean, and the Christian Koeeis calmly in prayer to meet his end, what does the sinuery He raves, he begs, he implores for hfe; for he knows his soul is heavily laden and will sink to the depths in the sea of eternity, Which of the two 1s the free man? Certainly the good Christian, The reverend genuieman then spoke of the ineifable sweetness of the death of the good man as contrasted with that of the sluner, and closed with an earnest exhorta- tion to the congregation to 60 act as to merit the happliwess of @ death not made @ terror by the memory of gus uurepented of, SERVICES AT COOPER iNS@TiUiT. The Attributes of Christ—Sanctifiention, Redemption, Rightconsness and Wisdom Sermon by Rev. James Hopes. The Rev. James Hopes, of Philadeiphia, preached yesterday before a small but respectabie congresga- tion of Baptists at room 18 of the Cooper Institute. This place of worship is used on the secular days of the week a3 & schoolroom, as Various scholastic symbols scattered around the walls suMciently taal cated. Behind where the preacher stood was an elevated horizontal black board covered over with geomeirical fAgnres and unblotted sums ia QUADRATIC EQUATIONS, - and on either side were hang & map of the world, engravings of Doric and Corinthian colamns, and pictorial ornithological specimens of different kinds, There was no music except that of a concert of hu- man volces chanting in unison devout hymns of praise, The preacher i# a young man of modest and unpretending appearance, and very earnest ta his manner of exhorting sinners. pre is nothing ornate or finished about his style of speaking; his elocution I§ monotonous and occasionally his tdcas undergo a threefold repetition, He is not perhaps the less effective, however, for those ornamental ualities of a pulpit orator which he seems to lack. His diction 1s very plain aud sometimes eloquent, and his manner of illustrating his subject clear and con vincing. ‘The preacher took his text trom the second chapter of the first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, “For L determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him cractfed.”’ e preacher began by a to the revelations of St. John ag made known to him on the isie of Patmos, where Christ is spoken of as the Lamb; and after a some- what long EXPOSITION OF THE MYSTERIOUS language of the apostle, proceeded to aay that wo should not know Curist afior the fesh; we are to look upon Christ as St, John saw Him in his wondertul vision, a8 @ Lamb; nor are we even to know our brethren after the flesh, ut as God mare them. Christ did everything at the command of His Father in perfect submission to His divine will. We must see Christ glorified and exalted, risen from the towb, and His great work of man’s redemption accom- Piished, It is Unis view of our Blessed Lord that gives comfort to the ween, sinner—not the om- nipotence of God nor even His humiliation on the cross that will comfort us, but Christ glorified and exaited in heaven, One offthe attributes of Jesus, aa shown us by the writer wos raliteousness, and the sinner by connection with Him” obtains thereby this great gift for liinself, As when a rich mau marries @ woman much poorer than himself shares with her wll Le possemwes, 49 WO by association with Christ thereat, accompanied by the cracked clarioucts, oaned forth a hymn beginning thus:— O. what a blessed bh: After wail 1 Wor streiching, was diligent! 1 round: a tha! Oceupled much vali as ib Was neces sary to linger With it under severa. noses Delonging to those of ihe audience (Lie majority) Who Were su very bind that THEY WOULD NOT SEE IT, ‘The contributions averaged five cents each, and of course amounted to & sum Uhat—if any rent at al was patd for the room—tmust have leti the Prophet Under no necessity to pay an Lucome tax for Una week. ‘The collection haying come to an end at last, and the preacher having cast a lingectug look of plate and made note ot is cult ad read from a scrap cut from t of Satur. I the had maintained on the Kingdom Couing was t es, but for the gyy 1 it d.stinetly tind fect hat want auyuuag of the kind, anc A BLASTED orter Wo put suct into his mouth in spite ot him, stvod convicted as a mean, low, dirty, miserable lar, who would bo damoed everlastingly for having the dread darin to put a fuise note mito the Wrumpat of the Herai ol Christ. That Pines newspaper was made up by the scum of the earth, who wanted to hide the tratn, for truth 14 ‘always distasie(ul to & paper w tail is compo-ed of Hare, thieves and ———. (Here the propiet was mdecent.) There is Another paper published m Unis eity—(uere we eye of Indigo and the finger of scotia Were levelled at the HERALD repovier)—to which be would cail attention, it was written for by ROUUBS AND LIARS, inspired by the devil, ail working for no other end tian to postpone Coming, solely in order to defeat the prea prophecies ‘and -lessen his paltry proiits. Chis dirty, ignoiant, shabby, flithy, Infernal rag was no other than the New York HeRaup. The Times could not do much harm to anybody or anything, Ail it could boast was a dis- position to be mischievous. Bul that production of ell, the HERALD, Was ABLE AND WITPY AS THE DEVIL Kimself, and was therefore to be more care- fully guarded against than its stupit con- temporaries, — because came to us with 8 fascinations a3 the Evil One never fats to assume When our weakness {4 to be tempted, Last Sunday a flippant rufian from the Heat office came vo their litte meeting (here the propheu cal dexter digit and optic were again aimed polnt biank at our reporter, who once more became an object of geveral regard and ble curiosity,) and next morning there ap ERALD @ res port of that meeting, which he pro: dan inia- mous coucoction of damnable iles from beginulug to end. Iu fact the press had been down on him ever and always; bnt it consoled him to kuow that he ts BLACKGUARDED FOR CURIST’S SAKB. The HBRALD Ws afraid of Christ's coming. It would not sult that dirty paper; but Christ will come in spite of it, and then he (the Prophet) will have the satisfaction of seeing that paper and all connected With it 80 low tn the jntre that he can kick and tram- pie on them to his heart's content, How dare nat journal set itself up against him? Who could meation the New York HERALD and the Herald of Christin tho same breath? He would now leave the HERALD nd ail other such vile sheets to the vengeance of God, and would read for them some of Paul's ep! ues. Ti e did at full length and then delivered o volume of tncoherent twadale to prove that Ciirls: was near, at the very door, He (the prophe:) Was sent specially to let men know what was going to happen, and he undertook the task vn hp i for Whoever dreaded the second comtng he did not; no, he was ready, and therefore called boldly oa Christ to come on as soon as he likes, THE PROPHEY REPEATS HIMSELF. The sermon wound up with another gssanit on tho HekaLp and a hymn, ‘neo the bymn was over tue preacher announced that le had some books to sell, ut as the audience had been already induce (0 believe tl the end of the world was at hand they couctuded Wat Feeding hooks now 18 only @ waste Of Ue, 80 NONE Of the DOOks Were HOUght, it “Anctont Miracles Born of Henven and Modern Spiritualiom Born of Gebenva’— Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Swoop. There was but slim attendauce at St. Paul's last eventag on the occasion of a seriuon by the Rey. Dr. Swoop on the subject of miractes, Tho choir was, however, in full force, Mr. Cornell presided at tne organ, as usual, and the following were performed among the selections:—Seventh selection Psalms (new Trinity collection), “Cantata Domino,” Nicene creed, and “Ascription” (Cornell), and hymgs 130, and 12, Tho Rey. Dr. Swoop gaid:—In tests of mires cles the doctrine should test the miracle as weil asthe miracte should test the doctrine, They are like sealg | which attest documents, and which aro only rene + Gered Valuable by We document, Let ‘av sce Lf theag