The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1870, Page 4

4 sition by destroying his sxconecs aaa £ o ritual or higher faculties, Our div by ‘example to exalt our natures by the morintt- cation of the fesh- In this way we «an best com pass tu the ub ugation of our passions aad promote urity ana higher reason in the. exercise of the faculties. Christ in himself developed ail. that was pure and exalted in man, St, Poul tells us “Ye are complete in Christ.” He then 1s alone the true mode! for our Limitation, The completeness of man is made up in the combination of the elements of which lie ts composed when borne and exercised in true relatiousiip to the proper spirit of Christ. Each member and faculty has its proper sphere to fill in the Christian life, and when these have for their guitance the Holy Spirit then is man alone complete, eloping his Lord taught VIRTUE, TRUTH AND REASON is the proper conilitton of man, and to Goi must y Lin the man be matured. When he is not c econ, of Christianity then he is out of fan flourishes best in the Churo! of Chi his imtellect quickens; his mental powers brought ito life; new thoughts and eloquence Pa“ of his mind and are devel ure under the inspiration of the |ty ne ‘the light of Christ. Evil imaginations ce. wayward wanuerings in forbidden paths, and the conscience of the soul obtains the mist ry over the lower faculties, which latter give placs wo the higher tions of the perfect man, Man cannot be completeness in himself of lis own wil. It ts only through th grace of God that h: candoso. ‘the Teligion of sell-detined completeness {3 a long suc- cession of UNACCOMPLISHED EVFORTS at doing gcod. The divine assistance must be ob- ta'ned throuch prayer and supptication, and not through the mere human will, ‘ih» capactty for holiness n aloac be ob- tained through the assistance of God. There are many men who labor under the fatal, erroneous idea that it bei tues them to become goo Christians, ‘They think tiat they have to lay aside reason and dignity and become as it were secoud children, The chment of man to Christ elevates ux to the high- est standard for which we were created, and can never, certainly, destroy the human energy. After the bene ‘iction the congregation dispersed, PLYMOUIH COURCH. “The Lucloment Weather? Closed Plymouth Church Last Evening—A War Sermon by Mr. Beocher—His Views on ite Present Enropenn Conflict. Though nearly all the regular attendants of Ply- mouth church spend their Sabbaths either at the sea side or in the country, the churet was weil filled yesterday, for the most part w.th strangers. Mr. Beecher aunonucet that “the iucieimeney of the weattier has dectdea r nat there Wil be no secontt Service In this hous? to-Jay. ‘This state. to- ment may reconcile you to cniure, ta this heat, a rather longer sermon than usual."’. The sermon was about the usual tengih; but, dos tie the vibration of the fans aul the sun at ni on m the shade, was listeed to with wrapt fon, for tt was A WAR SERMON. The text sclected was from (ho fo the Gene pictle of James, the and second verses—“Proit whence com: wars and Oghttogs among you! come they not lence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not; ye Kill an? desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.’? ‘This w. regarded as a Chris- tian animes nj hat made lttn ferocious, had led him into plunder and wars wud fghtings, and yet the cnt of it was that man yas not satisfed; he still remained tn qn unrest. The amplification of this idea to the individual man brougtt Mr. Beecher toa view of the action of men whea congregated into nations, As we went back in tine less and less frequent should we seo that the cause of war was the representative of any principle. The necessity of force in (his world was in the ratio of the strength of men’s lower nature, tiat part of his constitution which ts antinal. Government is a necessity, an m- evitable necessity, and as it is inevitable that men should be governed it is better that they should be governed by force rather than they should not be governed at all. For government is of God, for the structure of the globe is such that man cannot without govern. ment. Lut what kind of go na’ will depend upon the suso-ptibiliiies men are actusted wth, If men are in mal and bestial, ant suse>p!.sle only of intiuences prompted by force, then force mu. used. ‘Ther & goo. deal satd iaiely a not nein tod in the family 1 the scheo', there had aiso been much se talk about the freetom of the individual aud every man being a law unto him: NEW YORK WAS BAD now with (he show of a govern: it be without cven the form of a sovermnenty The law of fe was @ bottomless necessity. Whether that time would ever come when this force could be Bs aside, #8 some poctic meu, as some sentimen- al men, as some philanthropists thik, was slmply ® question of fact and not of speculation. Ut has not cone yet and will not be herve by som» generations, For some hundred years yet we siculd not be able tolay aside force A portraiture of various classes of mon was next given by Mr. Beecher. More particu was the class to whom law was not a ne! obeyed the laws not because the iaw the tendencies of Whose nature was to be honest and peaceful, and who were so not because the moral jaw said they should not steal and shoud not commit murder. There were large classes in all nations that were governed by moral suasion. This ‘Was so tn France, In Prussia, in Russia, in Ituly and even tn Turkey. Government was, however, founded not on what particular classes were, bat on what the whoe population was. As soon as a whole nation averaged a moral susceptibility then could be laid aside the sword and moral force could be sub- stituted. Twenty years ago there was a belief prevalent that we were about to ent that ‘chapter of CGH vat, Dat what wonld that war would jeave the realm of clirtstendom and retire to savaze nations. There were many thtags that justified iis expectation—the growth of in velligene’ the syread of the doctrine of human rigits, wiich gave w a larger section of men the power to govern; the progress of popular indusiy, giving to men something to do, and Which ‘Would naturally induce them to keep at home, rather than to missin vast Ji for war- fare at the beck and will of a populir de pot, all nelped the growth of this popular sentiment. it was, lectured bout, preached about, and talked abou wntir & congress Of nations was proposed for the i and set- Uement o: diferenc tous at 2a would disarm. tt towards this disu had learned peac from reilsio er ce rathi n inthe name of religion there had been the bit ol wars that had ever stair and allot them were the But Eng. land wis peace se it kept her loom: AS actaver ior the nation she wisiicd for peace tn the world tomer—for tue cotton was better than Detter and soid t that nicther beca For the last t been as studious for ons for war, England dollars an‘ potived into tie laps and noble lives that she might r ot despots tre make more secure THE THRONES OF DESPOTS. In her war with Russia she sttil fougnt for dynas- tic an r popularreasons. Th was no more coura on this earth than the Engush, and don’t anybody suppose tit the old lion was tamed into a lam». Let anybody who thought so just ce and arouse the lion and they would find very live of the lamb. There might be a lamb round the cornes, but the untamed jioa was tic as would be found to the cost of tne arouser, (Loud jaughier.) ‘The English were a wonderful pe pie—a peopic of whom we ought to speak well, because they were part of ourselves, bone of our pone. e came {rom them; we are of one race, ani bear to-day the same great race marks. In 1850 Mr. Beecher said he went abroad. and on the same boat was Dr, Chapin, of New York. He Was going to a peace convention, and we had macn talk about it, and they dreained i prophesied that there was to be no more war. Welt, since then there veen five terrifle wars; wars that tn their malig- nity and extent had never Leen equailed in the ‘World, ether before or since. In 1856 there was the war wiih Russia, whenthe whole world was kept in suspense—a war that was dynastic cntireiy. In 18598 ‘war for the liberation of Italy, one of tlic few wars of principle. Then came the American civil war, @ ‘War that had had no equal in the world’s iistory, either in the number of men engaged, the character of the results or in the embodiment of the stupen- dous importance of the principies involved, en there was the German-ltalian war of 1866 und the battle of Sadowa. Now in 1870 we have the French and Prussian war, Ouly two of these wars were for the BA of liberty; the rest or them were for the balance of power. Yet this retrospect should not discourage us in the anticipation of the overpowering progress of Christi- anity. These were but the expiring iorces of war, ‘to be the preiude to a dominant and crowning force of Oaristian.: peiuciples. So long as society was asit dividea THE CREAM AT THE TOP and skim-mitik at the bottom, so long would society be subject to convulsions. Until the masses were relievea from a sense of injustice and degradation and the basilar element in the nations reformed this form of government by force is inevitable. ‘There ‘were two classes of men who scemed to him greatly to promote wur. The first class was the peace men who insisted upon peace at any price, urged peace as an avsolute and tnfaiiible nostrum; ho war under any circums'ances waa their cry. That was to give the trinmyph to tyranuy and to Btrengthen despotism. Let Great Britain and France say that they would never goto war except for defence and bow tyranny would & aph all over the world. The other class waa the men Who saw nations ground in the dust under tie hoei of tho tetekoned mortii¢ation ment, but v that and death was much agiier. Snck men wore like the titetle down and the butterfy which Goxt's enginery for the growth of the worl! swept away in wee showers and the rain that fell upon tie earl TAR PRESENT WAR was the worst Kind of war. It was not a war for principle; nota war for the liberation of any class, or for the liberation of anything in the shape of principle, but purely a dynastic war. Though the people of both vations are said to be enthusiastic About tt, yet it was in no sense a peoples’ war, So far a3 we were in possession any information there did not seem to be ahown anything that would show that one nation was more to blame than another, It looked as though both France and Prus- a had long anticipated when the day of conflict would come, aud when they would be called upon to decide which was the strongest in war. Ali that was known seemed to show that Prussia was arro- gant and that France was impertinent, and between arrogance and impertinence war had come. Before another Sunday's sun arose how many thousands would have faiien, and how many thousands will be mutilated in tils conflict, It was not long since many of those who heard him, and many in this land. were culled upon to know of the death of thetr sons in a similar confict. but in their death, with their last gasping breath, came the thought that they leit beiiind them a frecr people, & more united peop'e, and they could well afford to die, for they shook off a slavery aud a despotism that could never be repented again, But what coulit THY GASPING PRENCHMAN, THY GASPING GERMAN find to console him tn bls death, He was killed that it might be known to the world which king was strongest, No moral"principle crowned that man’s dying day; no halo of glory was around the brow of thes» dyimg men, Naturally there was a strong sympatiy lor Prussta who was at the head of a dem- ocratlc and LUberal-minded peopl., but there was ttle to arouse sympathy im this dreadful war; and i] Lest 1 couid Only be descrivea as a gigantic cru- elty. ‘The sermon was closed with a rebuke to those who wontd ooly see in the rise of *breadstufts,” and thus be more selfish, and an appeal to tae American na- tion to siand in tis greatness as pacile observers of this awful coniict, ELM PLACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. The European War—Sermon by Rev. Heury Powers. ‘The congrezation was not very large at the Elm place Congregational chureh yesterday morning, owing to the fact that the majority are away tn the country. The pastor, Lev. Menry Yowors, preached @ very interestiog sermon on the onctiLation of seif-love and beneficence, aud tu the course of his late allusion to the war » aud Prussia, die selected for his St, Matthew xix., 19—"Thou shalt ove thy neighbor as thy : At first thought there seemed to be a great galf fixed between sei/-love and love to fellow man. SELF LOVE was, Of course, Inevitable, aud no one need to be horted to 13 exercise; but beneficence, on the other Land, was constantly Incuicaied asa duty, for the reason, apparently, thai tie tecling which prompted i(—tiat of neighbor —was not, as is said, a sponiancous development of the heart. If we love ourselves, men say, how could we rob oux- selves of tine, ease, money, reputation or any earthly good thing for the purpose of con- ferring it upon others? If we were be- neficent how could we be otherwise than false, to the extent that we were so, to that law of our very natures which urges us to a primary regard for our ownadvaniage. ‘This was apparently irrecou- cilable antayonisin between seifloye and duty. The problem in moral s:tence had not, in lus judgment, beea solyed bevore the time of Christ. It was true that beneiicence was inculcate) belore Lis time, but it was a principal of religion and right, Was it not always in the form of SELI-REMUNERATION (or sacrifice in the common aud degraded meaning of the word), on the ground that soucthung In itself food muse be parted with as tne price of wliness and heaven? Was it ever clearly uaderstood that ‘virtue was its own reward Christ prescribed the utmoss ieasures of toil and sacrifice for humanity aud his precepts were full of the most liberai philanthropy. His disciples were inedto call nothing their own what others me further Observations upon the subject he sald:—Ta\ing the broadest view tet us look at the relations of bations and Kingdoms of the world to each her, From tuue imuuemorial it has beea as faras you are aware 4 dictaie of uueniightened national seif love to RESORE TO WAL on the most trivial pretexts. Quick resentment for injuries; prompt reveage for Wrongs; & bold, ag: Bressive poitcy, On the ground that mght makes Tight, and ths weak have no rights thatthe strong are bound to respect, These and sneh ike consider: ations have suaped the purposes nations, But if of the past uas taught us any lesson it own Ue sOlly 0: and principaliy in the detence of the rights of man. Peace at any sacrifice 13 the polley which time ins stamped with an enduring success, It has beet in spite of wars, successful, that nations have achiever f greatuess. And this lesson of history by all th called Christiti naitons 1s gradually becoming ap- reciated and acted upon more and more. e ave humerous instances of late years in which controversies tliat a half a century ago could have been setued oaly by TUE TRET OF BATTLE have been adjusied by peaceliti negotiation. What should they say of this jast illustration. the war between France and Prusiia’ He con- curred with an article which he read m one of the evening papers, Wilch compared it to a tight between two parvies in the stree!; we veing laterested, ought to have the police calied to intveriere and put a stop to it. In the case of France and Prussia our interest ‘Was more closely @ilicd; fur tue destinies of elghty miuiions of peopie, the lives of mauy of Whom would be sacriiiced, were concerned, vecanse Napoeon and Bismarck were ambitious men. The Coristian nations -hould, like the police in the street ight, tn- terfere. There would yet be a GRAND CONGRESS OF NATIONS called together when such wen as Napoleon and Bismar say they must fight, and the inquiry would then be made, “Tell us what 1s your quar why do you wish to fight’ He hoped taat cen the time when the swoid would be ING SERVICE—PAPAL IXPALLIBILITY, evening Mr. Lowers preached on Papal iluy, taxing for his text ihe words of Christ recorded in Luke Xxit, é2—‘#ut L have 4 jiat thy faith fall noi, and wacn ted strengthen thy brethren.’ Aficr dese bg the pomp and ceremony with Wh.ch th deci \tation of the hew dogiua ts to be cele. ed in xt Sunday, the preacher spoke of Leance of this transaction, not cb, but to the whole | and then proceeled to di arse Upon the Consequences vhat might be expected to follow, predicting (hat in no very distant day the sword would be drawn in this land to establish abso- lutisa: ia the Church, a8 it had been to deiend and lo propagate absolutism tn the State. ‘The U of the new dogina were then examined and ils meaning explatned in accordance with the utterances of the Syliabus of 1866, the Civilta Cat- tolica and the Catholic World for July, the preacher malniwining that tie grand object’ of thts whole movement on the part of the uitramontantsts bs to give to the whole lKoimlsh Church, by means of its maguificent ceniralization, an aggressive power hike that which hay made rhe Company of Jesus so in- vincible ta the days that are past, aud thus to crush out one by one, or all together, ‘the damnable here- si¢) of the nineteenth century.” Mr. Powers also paid some attention to the argu. ments which arc usualiy adduced from Scripture, from reason and from expediency in support of the supposed neceasity of having somewhere an infailt- ble human criterion in matters of rel!gion, and as- serted that what Was needed was authority instead of infailib.tity—the individual conscience instead of the Pope of Rome, or any other Pope, and Christian, Anteliigent, free co-operation oe disciples of Christ, instead of the biind dead level of Romish Di the profou alone to te tan world as and constrained uniformity of faith and life. Ju conclusion the congregatton were exhorted to appreciate st the gravity of this declaration on the partof the Romish Church—to discard in their faith and practice every remnant of merely Popish conformity—and to be true in all the rela- tions of life to the advanced ideas of the tines tn which Wwe liye, thus valuing rightly the liberty wherewith Clirist makes his people free, and so in- scribing on their banners, not “iafatlibilty,’’ but “the right of private judgment’’—itberty under God moe for themselves what {3 crue and wha is ae. CHURCH OF THE 100: The Unity of the Human Race—Sermon by Rev. Mr. Mayo, of Cincinnati. A small audience assembled yesterday morning in the Unitarian church, on Pierrepont street, to lis- ten to one of the ligats of the ‘vroad’’ dispensation. Mr. Mayo, who 1s one of the prominent Western liberals, spoke eloquently upon the unity of the human race in sutiering, taking for his text the twenty-sixth verse of the twolfth chapter of First Corinuans:—“And whether one memper suffer, all the members suffer with it.” We do not need an apostle to tell us this, The narrowest observation shows that humanity is bound together in suffering. if one man, and he the least, suffers in any way, imine- diately others begin to suffer in tura, One den of disease and uncleanness IN A GREAT CITY scatiers seeds of pestilence through a thousand homes. In alt great public calamities ail classes suffer together. It seems hard that A FEW AMBITIOUS RULERS should have the power to-day to plunge two great despot, Wut who, in their selfishness, paid n their cry sor liberty. War was vail, butiujusiice was ‘vorse. The surgeon's knile wat an ugly (ostru- nations tn'0 war. The politicians wo bring abons the catastrophe can provide defence for Wwemselves, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY I8, tt weil wilt he the quiet, inoffensive feat the blow the worst. It is 50 when bad legisiators mako bad laws, or when men embark In business that involves helpless people in ruin; when priests deal out fear- ful theologies, against which they are protected by their culture or by their interpretations or thetr superior strength, but which work fearful suffering among the igno “¥ ‘and the masses who absorb the doctrine tanght them without question. No indt- Yidual can suffer alone, This 15 a great stumbling block to many. If the guilty could aufer alone we think t¢ would not be so hard; but that the innocent Bhould suffer too seems unjust, Let us look, anc we shall u com in fering 1 people who tls nionship Is not curs3, reason we share the sufferings of ali is, that we share the nature of all. Ina deep sense humanity is one, ‘The soul that burns in my bosom 18 but @ jet of the flame that burns in ‘all races. We are ‘widely different in of talent and culture, butevery creature that wears tho human form has the same destiny ahead; te question is only one of time. We in our MISERADLE THEOLOGICAL VANITY doom whole ¢ as ies to perdition, but the heretics of one age are tlio saints of the next, and what the theologians cali hell 13 only a reform school for heaven, If all died in Adam, so in Christ shall all be made alive. Adam repregented the weak side of our ture; it represented the Tiumortat side, ‘This habllity to suner with all suf fering is one slide of one of the great privileges of humanity. Would you be wi to be cut off Irom all personal sympathy with huinan nature for the sake of not bearing your part of the world’s suder- ing? Do you not think that all you inherit in this relationship is enough to reconcile you to its suffer- You are one Of the highest order of created intelligences; che {ate of the whole is yours, The race of man is headed towards eternal felicity, und ia vow marching like 4 VAsT BODY OF RAW RECRUITS; but, a8 out of all the pxcoety ot humanity a splen- did army is made, disciplined by one master, 11 spired by One soul, so dvea God pri to ove. come all the private awkwardness of the individual and make of us an army that march har- montously under His leadership. toolish of us to resist ils traming. Can you not afford to suffer when you raise your soulto the contemplation of your fall destiny? But there is another considerat on in this mateor. All mea are, tia certain sense, I complicity in sin; We all, in one way aud ancther, rolong ihe reign of baroarism, W.o of us does alt he canto cheek evil around him’? When we are oung we are apt to go out to the battle =oagiinst sim with enthustasm, bat when we Sud that the cure javol\es long educational processes, incluring two or thre: geue- Tavious, We are apt to tail below, and the best of us inake concessions to errer. Many a moiier bewalls her prodigate son who might have save | lia with little more care and paticnce, Oh, there isa g' deal of tis negative. AMIABLE WRONG DOING. The common lability to suiicr pecomes a bond connecting xi good men in a wariuie against sin. lf only the wieked suffered we might bo tempted to leave them to themselves; . thank God, that cannot be donc. committed ta sei.-defenee to array our: instevil, bis impossivie for the virtue of a city to be sa.c if we ignore auy Class and leave them to ignorauce and crime, en one Ward in a ciiy Ullea WU corruption with put every home in dange: sons will be stravk down Wit the molariac broarh Issuing thereirom, and the iairest of our Will becoine a prey to passions rotsod the betver ct unite the tute stanily wo k to bring np {he low and the weak. 1 am glad this is 80. Weve it not I fear {should be a prey to my owa rampant selfishness. The minis’er of Carist can do but litte for the people of Lis charge ti he suvers with them. He must know their cares, Every house he passes may cast a sha low upon Dim irom the Knowledge he lias of its hidden sorrow, but he wouldn’t cast oi this respon- sibil'y, for it 18 this very experience tlac educites him to bo a true minister. So every class of society is Unally being forcet out of inertaess and driven to sve the nocessity, and flually the beauty of sacrif- clal work, Christ was made iit to bo the Saviour of men hy suffering with them, and we can never attain to the best good for ourseives or for overs except through this divine discipline, FOURTH SIREET UNIVERSALISE CHURCH. Homan Changes and the War in Europe— Sermon by the Rev. A. J. Canfield. The Rev. A. J. Canfleld, who lias been for the past five or six ycars the popular pastor of the only Universalist church in Breoklyn, E. D., gave notice yesterday morning that his tenure of that position Would terminate the first of noxt month, His ser- mon, though nota “farewell” one, was tinged by the anticipation of such an interruption. The text was from tue nineteenth verse or the ffty- fifth Psalm:—“Because taey have io changes, there- fore they fear not God.” Mr. Canfe!d commenced by a reference to the generai law of change and agttation, as essential to social health. Migrations and colonization’ make the material of all human history, From the very commencement of traditional society tn the far East there haa heen an endless series of movements and changes, noima- dic invasions of tribes and races, to restore systems of civilization which, through long periods of peace and luxury, had become careless and eneryated. Ancient Rome was but another vame for political restlessness. The Phosnictan cities grew rich by the establishment of colonies, Among modern nations Engiand was cited as am exampie which had finally merged, after many conquests, reformations and changes of dynasty, into a state of law, libe:ty and intellect to baone of the foremost ana mightiest Powers of the world. Other European Powers Nave passed and are passing to eminence along the same iighway of change and agitation, The frontiers of France and Prussia are bristling to-day with a HARVEST OF BAYONETS, while the rumble of cannon is heard in the streets of Baden and Luxemburg. The clouds of carnage nang black and threatening over Eastern Germany, containing the lightning that is soon to ve launched upon the fertile provinces of the Rhine, and darkening with thetr terrible shadows the proulest domes of Christendom; and att for Do earthly reason save that which forees the pent-up steam to Make some kind of movement. Honor and virtue get purified when a rough wind biows oif the human chat, Wo have sven tue same thing in this country. The world, indeed, is fuil of iustrations to show that under every pretence of conguest or gain there runs the inevitable ia. which Keeps the ocean pure. From these points the speaker proceeded to say that his main object was not pollti- cal or social, but persoual. The principle of the text is: That, as matviduals, we need to be shaken out of places and plans, agitated and tossed avout from time to time, in order to become com- pleicly developed and disctpiinesl. : NOTHING STANDS SLL In Husiness and trade this istrue. Tran: are processes. ‘Titles must be continually for, wud even real estate whote scheme of existence seems subject to so many forms «and combinatic where change follows change in such rapid succession, that one can never fee! certain of that for which we labor, Some there are who think they find in these weil known facts a suffictent excuse for bewailing the sad conditions of calling the world ‘a vale of tears and fleeting suow for man’s filusion —gtyen,’* it is an unhealthy and morbid complaint, There is nothing to sentimentalize over or lament in this — ever-shifting transformation of human affairs. Instead of belng an enemy's work 1513 doubtless tne wise and loving discipline of the Divine Father. Its advantages are evident. Give a man all that he asks for and he invariably ruins himself. So under God’s providence we often require to be THWARTED AND OHROKED. Too many favors breed ingrautude. It is only when the reservoir is dry that we appreviate the worth of water, Thankfulness to men for their friendly servicos 18 by no means common, but ap- preciation of Divine favors is still more rare. They Who nave no changes come to care little for either man or God. Henee the necessity for changes and = surprises = in iife, They also iad to new discoveries in ourselves, and by lifting us out of the ruts of habit and custom render past expe- rience more available, Another advantage is that thereby we become nore susceptible to the gentle and reining influences of tenderuess and charity. In the application of this subject Mr. Cantield feelingly alluded to the coming interruption of hts relations a3 pastor of the soctety, Confessing lis personal aesire Tor a change, stuce they who have no changes are in perti of making no improvement. He also gaye a searching popes of the reasons why such a change might be beneficial to the church. {i was quite pos- sible to overdo the duty of parochial advice. ‘Three hhuudved diferent minds could hardly think alike, No common mau Could always feed them all. JERSEY CHURCHES. Tad HOBOKEN METI} ? CaUROa. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Tunison, Owing probably to the opprossive state of the weather yesterday the congregation at the chapel of the new Methodist Episcopal churen was rather sparse, but the prayers recited by those present were vory warm ones, At half-past ten o'clock the choir, under the guidance of Mr. Mabey, opened the services by chanting the usual psalm, aiter which a discourse was delivered by the reverend pastor of the churct. He took hia text from the tluirteenth ¢hapter of St. Paul’s Second Bpistle to the Corinthtans:— “Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live tn peace; and the Goa of love and peace shall be with you.’?. The motives which Inspired the Evangelist to address the Corin- thians in such a manner were to be found in his deep affection for the Church consequent upon lis revereace for Lt founder, aad Ly the fact that it Tas 1870. then assatied by shrewd and jud: were also EXPOSED TO MORAL CONTAMINATION, divided in their opinions, inclined to errors and ad- dicted to sing, The preacher chose that text for his sermon because the prinolples to be found therein are of universal application and because the mate- rial surroundings of the Church tn our time render us similar to those Corinthians, The preacher de- fined the frst word of the toxt, “Farewell,” as sig- 4 you prosper,” and made & to the mode ns! prospering in tue Church, Pi rity does not necessarily include fomporal welfare, Cert they are not incom- patible, for the Church in the days of Constantine waa both eee and temporally progressive. But the Romish Church, before the Reformation, though temporarily prosperous, was Uke a lifeless corpse; slic Was DEAD AND DAMNED. So there may be temporal without spiritual wel- rs and vice Nevertheless we must wish for oth, Pi —TRIPLE ng people. ‘They and if there must be war between France and russia the speaker hoped thit France might be humbled because Prussia is a great Pro- testant nation, It behooves every one to exult in the p: of the Church, How can any except he love that which Is es- dear to being, and, therefore, how can we love the Lord Jesus if we love not His Churcht ‘There are mavy persons in Hoboken who would wirh to see the churches pulled down, because the; Jove not the Church, and never bear 1n mind that they trace back the causes of every ood thing they popes they will flud them centered in the altar of "3 Church, No wonder that David cried out, “Lord, 1 have loved the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glury dwelicti.’” God be thus spirttually among us whai is there that we cannot battic against? Nevertheless, God will not be with us if we take not the means of entertalning im. CHURCH PERFECTION {a one of the things requis.t» for tuts. When each member of the congregation 13 in his proper sphere and employs his taleats and faculties fur the greater glory of Jesus, such perf-clion becomes visible, and leads to spiriiual efficiency. nother condition necessary and eszential to the very existence of the Church is that whieh is vigorously commended by the apostle— CHURCH CHPERFULNESS. Let every one cast away lus long lace and utter shouts of joy before his fellows. Otherwise it will be thonght by outsiders that we have a sorry time oftt, And while we cast aside our sighs and tribu- lation, ict us net forget to become an image of the eternal God by being one. Unanimicy 1s the chief characteristic of the trae Church, apd he (the speaker) thanked bis God that from the day on which he had been converted by the power of the Holy Ghost he was always ready to sacrifice his own ifeas to the opinions of tie majority in the Churei. The benetic ech practical unan- unity is visible in the political wor for when ix contending candidate bas beea defeated by the nomination of hts rival of the seme party he freely casts lis Induenee into the seale of his opponent, If we cndeayor to promote periecrton and ualty in the Charen, ur own individual gappiuess will follow and we w.li have Ho reason here or hereatter to re- gret Our glorious labors for aivation of mop The reverend speaker concluded by offering a ‘er- vent prayer for tne wel are of the congregation sad the members throughout the Christan world, WASHINGTON CHURCHES, EB SPREE? BAPTISH CLUR.O, Faith iu God—Sermon by Rev. 3. P. Hill. WASHINGTON, July 17, 1870. The services at the E street Baptist church to-day were conducted by Rey. S. P. Hill, of this city, there being a vacancy tn the pulpit. The preacher took for his text the words, “I will never leave or forsake thee.” He proceeded to show that true peace of mind fa Iife consisted 1n implicit fatth in God ana the study of His will; that sin in the worid was occasioned by doubting the wisdom or the trath ef Gols lawa and men relying upon themselves, No person can prosper without faitn in religion, The moral strength which tt gives 13 plainly illustrated in the simplest acis of life, and in greater emergencies tt is provoritonately useful. in trouble tt buoys the Cnristian mind, and in the hour of death soothes the thoughts of «tisso.ution with hopes of cternal happiness hereaiter, He therefore urged ali believers and those who wish to be sivel never to leave or forsake God. Owing to the intense heat the congregation was very smal! FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHUROE, J. E. Trath, WasHINGTON, July 17, 1870. At the @irst Congrogational church Rev, J. Rauktn, the pastor, delivered a discourse from the words, “Tam the truth, the way and the life.” The speaker dwelt especiaily upon the first words of the sentence, “I am the trath.”’ He referred to the various kinds of truth Known among men. There Was scientific truth, historical truth, philosophic truth, The truth to which ae wished cspecialiy to call the atieztion of his hearers was Divine truth, There was no system of truth worthy the attention of the human soul that did not inciude Jesus Christ. When he wished to test any sys- tem of religions faith so as to ascertain whether it was true or not he Invariably inquired how much there was of Christ init. Litignored the Saviour, he did not pay much attention tv it, There was something lacking, and {t wa THY VITAL PRINCIPLE, TRUTH. That is, Christ was a8 nece: sary to the human gout as a healthy atmosphere 1s to the human lungs. it is the source of life. He knew there were certain forms of religion that undertook to reject Christ, They talked loudly of moral truth, of philosophy, of scieu- tide truth, and ignored the great source and centro of truth. It was like a man lighting a candle in the full blaze of the noonday sun, and ignoring the brilliant rays of the latter, devoting all his admira- lion to the former. Christ was tlic central truth, around which all subordinate truvhs revolved. In the estimatfon of the preacher there was no truth in any form of religious faith that did not embrace Christ. “I am the truth,” says the Savi very essence, the root of all truth. In the speaker impressed upon his hearers the j importance of accepung the trach aud of abiding to the Saviour. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. Sermon by Rev, Rankin on Divine Baceatnaureate Discourse by Dr. Cummings— The Inefficiency ot the Church and the Wendeucy to Sinful Fashions of the Day— The War in Europe and Its Lessons to Christ’s Soldiers. MrppLeTown, Conn., July 37, 1870, The commencement exercises of the Wesleyan University will coutlaue througiout the week. Al- ready the hotels and private restdenens are filled by distinguished alumni and friends of the graduates, who are altracted hither by the prosperous condl- tion of this celebrated institution of learning, and to congratulate its trustees upon the brtiliant prospecis of the future. The University was organ- ized in 1330. The trustecs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having purchased as a foundation the build- ings occupied by a military academy, a proposition was made to call from England Dr. Adam Ciark, the renowned biblical commentor, to preside over the institution, but was abandoned by the selection oy of Dr. Fisk, who became its first Prest- dent, and was a man of rare intellect- ualitty. At his death he was superseded by Dr. Stephen Olin, whose fame as a profound thinker ond pulpit orator Is world-wide, The pres- ent President, Dr. Cummings was elected in 1867, and, althougit not pos-essed of brilliant qualities as @ speaker, makes up in solidity and good sense what he may lack in oratorical brilliancy. It was siguiil- cant to hear from the lips of a man who is in active sympathy with the great movements of the present age, and who is enthusiastically devoted to the educaiion of young men, such words as were uttered in his discourse this morning respecting the inefiiciency of the Church and the tendency to the SINYUL FASHIONS OF THE DAY. During the administration of Dr. Cummings the endowments have been largely increased and new a ie have been erected, such as a etapa, afine Ubrary building, the gift of Isaac Rich, and a memorial chapel, which was builtin memory of the students who feil in the contest for the life of the nation, The completion of the chapel drags for want of funds, which it is hoped will soon be forth- coming, as it is very desirable and necessary that vhis euifice showld be finished without delay. A few months since the princely sum of $70,000 as a beginning was donated by Mr. Urange Judd, of New York, to hia Alma Mater for the ereciton of a hall of science, an accouut of the laying of the corner stone of which appeared in the HERALD a few weeks aince. Mr, Judd nas made Middictown its tempo. rary abode for the summer, and 1s recreating by in- fusing {nto the worknien his own indomitavle cnergy and go-aheadativeness; so that the building, which is the flnest structure in this city, 1s rapidly approaching completion. The Alumni Record, to which Dr. Cum- mings gracefully alluded in his sermon, wus com- piled by Mr. Judd at his own expense, and is a monument of indefatigable industry. Aiter years of patient labor, performed in the hours allotted for hysical recreation by sleep, a formidable volume as been prepared, giving the leading events in the ersonal ahd public history of each graduate. There have been about 1,000 graduates, 400 of whom devoted themselves to the ministry, aud the majority of tho others to ieaching. Juiging trom the records, ‘Toe Alumni of the Wesleyan University have not been Union savers in the political senge of the term, although tn the critical liour of the Waste history @ very large percentage of her sous did novle service SHEET. in the Held, I Mud United States Senator Cole, of California, among the Alumni. BACCALAUREATE DISCOURSR BY PRESIDENT CUM- MINGS, The Baccalaureate discourse was preached in the Methodist church this morning by Presideat Cum- mings, who algo conducted the preliminary devo- tional exercises, He ook for his text part of the sixteenth verse of the eleventh chapter of Mebrews:-—“‘Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called thelr God,” The reverend gentleman argued that the God of the Bivle was not i cold, Impassive which many supposed, but was a Delbg of vaniable and changing emotions, aud that the essential qualities of man’s nature characterized Him tn whose image he was created, This thought was ainplified at length and then the speaker pro- ceeded to consider the character that must be main- tained tn order to secure the Divine approbation, The Church constituted the | representat' vos of God, of his principles, of the relijom that he to ‘establish, and, indeed, of his own character, The two great objects which the Church ever had in view wero tne promotion of the ty, happiness and safety of the individual miem- YS, e othcr the exercise, individually aud collectively, of the powers that are given for the promgs of God's glory and the extension of His ingdom ; throug! the art! in am. vemen: comes prone to seck things that are of minor im- portance, to cultivate material and :esthetic quali- tes, and to pride herself on her success in those rather than on the sacrifices that sue makes— the efforts that are put forth and the gifts that are made to rescue A WORLD LYING IN WICKEDNESS, and bring the heathen to Christ. When this takes place the Churoit loses God's favor and her own tn. dependence, and the pate is no longer left un- trammelied, Wicked sat before it, and was unrebuked, the Church depended on him for mai sustain themselves, with a mort- gaged church and cos lness that they have taken from God's treasury which belonged to the heathen, thus gett n | to rival places of worldly pleasure in mere tinsel and ornament. Thus, then, did the Chureh become, as to a great extent it was to-day, shorn of her strength. There was much that such a Church could do. It might deciare its regard for the law of God in the abstract, but shrink from responsibility, declaring that it had nothing to do with poiltics, Suffering politica to become merel: athelstical and Cet out mere platitudes wit reference to man’s life and the sins of ages gon and not dealing sternly with committe in this age as great as in any former time, It can build tts costly cathedrals, ornament and cause them to be Rewepone ‘tm all their appointinents, Lverything may be in accordance with taste and nothing to disturb @ Kind of icy propriety that af- fects no man’s feelings, @ radiance that may illu. mine the sky just as the northern lights illummate it, with no intensity of heat to come down and sway man’s nature and awaken him to opposition, For that pulpit that is never spoken against is faise, and a cowardly man fills it. THE GREAT QUESTION is, does Goa approve--does he look down on the Church and say to the world, “Behold my repre- sentatives: see how meek and lowly they how like Christ, their great example, they ar 3; see Low earestly they seek after the poor, as [ sought alter them; see how forgetful they are of seif, and how devoted to the great cause that I have placed tu their charge, Look, ye scofting world, at my lummble Chureh, and gee them arrayed for the work to whioh they are appointed?’ The Chureit of the present day Was too much like an army that keot wiihin its own territory, with its holiday dress and its glittering arms that were never soiled. ‘the arty of Emmanuel tn this age wants daring, THE ARMIES OF EUROPE are now amassed, and think oa when the young mien of Frange hear the words of the Emperor, ‘‘Ad- vance through fame and smoke and canion’s roar on those strong fortresses,”’ that that army will be craven? No! the young men, with po | eyes, stall stand forth to obey. The plains around those fortresses shall soon be strewn with the slain, and tho pride of youth shall le there victims to a fa'se sentiment of honor. But india and Atrica stretch out their hands and cry aloud for the Word of Life; ery for the young and the strong to come to their rescue, and men do not hear it. Was that the spirit of the army of Christ? Were those the character- istics of the meu of whom God shall not be ashamed? ‘rhe orator made a fervent and eloquent appeal to the young men to volunteer for the army of Christ, who would never sufler a drafted man to enter the ranks, A great many people looked upon tne Church 24 @ Kind of celestial insurance cae, rather than a3 a spheie to develop the talents which God had en- trusied to its members. When he (the speaker) saw young men going jorth tnto the world, seeking ease and striving after mere culture and position, as though they had no part in the events of thts life, he looke i upon them wita intense disgust, as unworthy to live aud have @ place in thts world, that only needed striving men, and not mere drones to con- sume the gifts and the accumulation of carnest laborers. In conclusion President Cumings addressed THE GRADUATING CLASS, who occupied deals in the body of the church. In words of earnestness he counsciied them to act on the great stage of Ife upon which they were e:ter- ing In such @ manner as not to be ashamed of them- Selves, or to cause the institution from which they graduated to be ashamed of them. Arecord had been prepared by one of the noblest of her sons, Mr. Orange Judd, wherein was recorded a brief history of euch graduate of the University, Let not, said he, some stern scribe write opposite your names in the future pages of this record words of history that shall catise the hearts of others to fill with shame. ‘The services were closed by the Congregation sing. ing *Am 1a soldier cf the cross.’’ In the eventn; Rev, Dr. Tiffany, of Newark, preached an cloquen! sermon before the Missionary Lyceum. SERVICES AT SARATOGA. Sermon by Dr. John Woodbr'dge, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church—The Mercies of God—The Sclf-Denial and Reasonable Sac. rifices Required of Men—The Spiritual Leaven Needed by the World—The Vanity of Formal Piety. Saratoga, N. Y., July, 17, 1870, The charchgoers in this village were very numer- ous this morning. Besides the regular communi- cants and attendants the summer visitors in their luxury of apparel sought the house of the Lord, and many of them made the invocation for protection and blessing in the most fashionable manner. Naturally, the strangers sought the church of one of the prominent resident clergymen, and, conse- quently, the pastor of the Presbyterian sanctuary was greeted With many new faces. This reverend gentieman has been feeding hts fock in Saratoga with spiritual food for neatly twenty yeara, aud that with such earnestness that the Church bas highly prospered. Dr. Woodbridge always interests, bocause he always instructs. Sympachizing with tbe world of man, and striving only to purify and ennoble men by precept and example and without arrogance, he entitles limself to their confidence and respect. His church, capable of seating about welve hundred persons, is beautifally situated on the cast side of Broadway, between Lake avenue and Grove street. Dr. Woodbridge selected his text as as follows: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye presentyour bodies a living sacritice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable ol L ‘The reverend gentleman then, in substance, sald: — ‘The voice of the apostles is the voice of God. This epistie sent to the Roman Christians 13 God’s mes- sage for the world. Its trutha are unlimited in their comprehensiveness, and its precepts bind every con- science. ihe text sppeale with pecuilar emphasis to every Christian. It is time to hear wien the apostle BEGINS TO BESEECH. The mercies of Goa connect us all with the exhort- ation of the text, The benefits of the Gospel are unfolded with great aMuence of thought and lan- guage in the previous chapters of the epistic. The love of God to a pelea i perishing world, Christ ly, dymg for the ung the falt setvation free to all who will have it, are merc.es which sanction the. entreaty that men would listen to and obey God. All who nave recei mercy (and the grace has appeared to all men) are summoned to present the offering of themselves to God. ‘This ts the sacrifice offered under the Gospel. Every Christian is called to a service anda sell- denial which are in some respects like the sacritices ‘on the altars of the old religion, These have, intlecd, an expiating design which was perfected in Carist, so that stnce His death there remaineth no more But under the Old sacrifice for sin in that sense. Testaineut the offerings were seen in the fircs that consumed the victims, and in the consecration and death of these victims the abiding elements of true religion under all dispensations were brought to view. Tue SPIRIT OF SELF-DENIAT which carries tue cross and consents to hang upon it is the spirit of Gospel obedience. ‘These are the In- variable terms of discipleship, and not the conditions of some higher fellowship tor @ favored few, retired trom the worid. The ouly gate is straight, and the only way 13 narrow which leads to life. All men ought to be iterested to know what is the sacrifice thus required, aud which is described in the text, Error vere 1s fatal, ‘The body must be offered. | ‘'he religion of Christ is not a dream, or @ viston of the Amagination, but is suited for this visible world, Holy meditation can not make a true Christian character. We are not to go out of the world, but in it must devote ourselves to God. We mnust not bring down heavenly things to the low level of the earth, but lift the earthly to those things which are above, This busy world, with its material interests, needs the spiritual leaven, Our hands must labor for Christ. Our feet carry us on his errands of love. Such a consecration is in its nature holy. CLEAN HANDS MUST BEAR the vessels of the Lord. The lamb must be without blemish. “Create in me aciean heart, 0 God!" A ragged child in a mission house was asked, what is holiness ? and replied, “It is to be clean inside.” With such sacrifices God is well pleased. In the divine mind tbe joy is eternal and immutabie, but ty all that (ulaess sacrifices made on earth have inn ever found @ place. From everlasting His delights were with the sons of meu. Holy sacrifice sin @ world dofiled by sin are precious beyond price. Such @ sicrifice ts reasonable. That {t should be mate ‘accords with right reason, There 1s no other end in Jie which can be justifed at the bar of the human reason. Otherwise wan only digs his own grave, Tramp, trav tramp, in the treadmill, And death comes. ‘This is no reasoaable service. Reagon claims a iugher alm in betng, asserts ite divine ipa and offers itself & sacrifice to God. The trath speaks as to wise men, The Seriptures Say, “Come, let us reason together. If the Lord be God serve Rim.’ ‘To obey (his command is called & sees, not merely because it is aduiy, but ay the ACT OF HOMAGE fo which the children of men are ealiel before God. This 1s how the morning and tie evening and the Sabbath worship, No choral harmonies, no pomp- ous ritual can be a substitute for the living sacrifice. Valu are mere words of devotion or acts of formab piety. First of all must bo the living and daily re- pee ed consecration, acceptable even to God—the ighest praise men can rene: —————_—_— MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL: The few theatres which remain open and brave the wrath of the clerk of the weather, who seems to uave all his firea lighted at once, have a hard strug. gle of 1*, and empty benches are more the rule than the exception. Alluring announcements of various and unheard of plans of “raising the wind” ana ¥ dispelling the heat are not able to induce the public to venture near the glare of the footlights. In this unequal fight Wallack’s, under the able management of Theo dore Moss, is making fthe best show, The engage- ment of the clever representative of comic Father, land, Joe Emmet, nas proved a happy one, and de- spite the weather last week's houses were far above the average of summer auiiences in numbers, The play of “Fritz,” weak as it may be in dramatic merit, is probably the only kind of piece suited for the purpose of displaying the peculiarities of such acomedian as Emmet. The stage Dutchman must monopolize all the interest or he sinks toa mere nonenity, or, what 1s worse, an intrusion, This was plainly shown in “Men aud Acres.” Madame Lanner’s Viennoise ballet troupe has been well received at the Grand Opera House. The foir manageress 13 an admirable danseuse, and a few of the principals assisting her are far superior to ti pirouetters of the “Tweive Temptations.” Ti» nm ballet in general is of a very high order of talent. Miss Lina Edwin, with an admirable company, is fighting it out on her.own particular line at Hooley’s. in the City of Churches. The troupe comprises some of the best ariists from the metropolitan stage. ‘This week's programmes consist of “Time Tries All,” “Black-Byed Susan," ‘The Spitfire,” “Sonnambula” and “Poor Pillicod'ty.”” may be supposed from the calibre of the company, each perforinance ls ad- mirable, ‘Those oid favorites of Manhattan, the Buckleys, have received a hearty greeting at the San Francisco Minstrel Hail, The biil for this week closes with @ travestie on “Lucrecia Borgia.” Tne French wrestlers and the Martinetti troupe commence to-night thelr last week at Wood's Mu- z seum. Little Neil is still the ateraction there. Kelly & Leon’s Ministreis play this week at the Park theatre, Brooklyn. A variety troupe, with an endless répertoire, uw starring at the Bowery. Burlesques, singing, dancing and Ethiopian com- edy still rule the boards at the Comique. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Tne company at this house s one of the best in its line ever brought out on the metropolitan boards, Of all the summery resorcs situated within the city, where one can pass a [ow hours of real, onalioyés enjoyment, the best, beyond coubt, is Terrace Gar- den, Since Bernet took 1t in hand the garden has undergone many radical changes, and stauds now without a rival, Mollenhauer’s fine orchestra and tne Pauline Canissa opera troupe are the main attraciions.- Thevdore Thomas contemplates an extended tour with bis magnificent array of instrumentalists through the provinces in the fall, ‘Tho queen of the convert room, Madame Anna Bishop, with a well selecied company, starts on the 25th 1st on a Canadian tour. Madame Corinne D'Estaing will be one of the features of the lecture room next fall. On dit Fechter will change the name of Selwyn’s, Boston, to the Pantheon—probably a delicate coin- pliment to the gods. Nibio’s opens on August 15 Sarely refitted, re- motelled and in apple pie order, The opening piece is ye: a matter of wncertainty, a8 Boucicauls and ripin California writer have both disap- potn' OF the agement, Lott, and the “Black Crook” will be tl le Opehlig features in September. Jefferson's “Rip Van Winkle’ is expected to have an immense run at Boota’s, but tour months are & ditue too much. Daly 13 preparing for a vigorous campaign at the Fifth avenue, No other changes from our last are announced at this theatre, Mrs. Oates and Fox are the features at the Olympic. brignolt is winning untold Jaure’s in bis tour through Canada and New England. ‘The local press everywhere speak in the highest terms of his won- derfui vocal powers and the artistic Minish which he communicates to everything he sings. OLD WORLD ITEMS. One chief point of M. Prévost-Paradol’s mission to the United States is the regulation of postal matters between this country and France. The Bessemer plan for obviating sea sickness by means of an oscillating chamber, supported on bear ings similar to those of a compass, will shortly be ut to @ practical test. A chamber ol this descrip- ‘ion ts now in course of construction, and will bo fitted, when completed, to a steamer of about 300 tona, in the British marine. The circulation of bad twenty franc pieces, 80 well imitated as to deceive the most practised eye, ts an- nounced as taking place in many places in France. These coins, one of which was recently brought to the branch of the Nantes Bank, are in platina and aluminium. They have exactly the welght, appear- ance and ring of real pieces, and no person could suspect them. They can scarcely be detected except by wearing out. Oue was lately submitted to chemical analysis, and exports declared that long study and wonderful skiil were required to brin, thenito suchahigh state of perfection, The real value is about 2f, 600. A French-Chinese dictionary would seem to most & persons & work above any one iman’s strength and patience. An spostolie missionary, Mgr. Pi Nas jose completed that tremendons piece of labor. the lirst copy of which he bas presented to the Em- peror of France. Without speaking of tho fatel- lectnat labor, which wag suileient to make the Most Courageoty hesitate, tie author had to over- come almost jasarmountable physteal obstacles, ‘The 80,000 characters, more or less complicated, of which the Chinese languave consists, had to be cast in moulds, all of whieh he made Limself, besides composing tite whole text of the work And all that was done In a smali cell at the College of the Foreign Missions ft Vekin. Oriental papers 6: —“The geographical know- ledge which we pos: tn regard to Central Asia ta about to be inercased by te Jabors of two scientifio expeditions, which have uudertaken the task of ex- ploring, in the upper course of the Zarlayschane, some regions hitherto completely unknown. Th se bodies were to start the second week in April, and the duration of the voyage was fixed at two months, The first, commanded by Major General Abramoff, had planned, on leaving Samareand, to strike to the east and ascend the river; wiile the other, under the orders of Colonel Dennet, was to start from Oura-Tubs and rejoin the fitst, passing by the Bas- mandin deflle, Topographers are attached to both, with the mission of making as complete plans ag possible. A mining engineer, M. Mysche:kod, forms bart of General Abramoff’s corps, and Is eutrusted with tue geological researches.’? THE FINE ARTS. Daniel Mactise’s Drawings and Cartoons at Sale. {From the Cork Examiner, June 29.) A number of Maclise’s drawings and cartoons, with a few pictures which remained in the great artist's possession, were sold by auction on Satur. day. The Waterloo cartoon, admitted to be the fineat work of the Kind of which modern art can boast, ‘was secured for the Royal Academy at 300 guineas, Several minor works of remarkable merit were sold at rather low prices; but personal relics, such as studio furniture, easels, palettes, costumes aud armor, were eagerly bid for, anil the camphor wood box containing the palettes and brushes used by Ma- clise in painting the frescoes in tie Houses of Pariia. ment were purchased by Mr. Herbert, his eminent compeer. ‘he pictures {etched only moderate prices, The artist's last work, “Desmond and Or- mond,” now hanging on the wails of the Academy, was sold for 600 guineas. “The Last Sleep of Dun- can,” which was exhibited in the Academy last oar, Went for 101 Fac and a large and unfin- hed work, “Macbeth and the Witches,” was sold for 66 guineas, ‘Christmas in the Baron's tall’ ‘was Lought at 200 guineas, HOTRIBLE KEROSENE CASUALTY. Yesterday morning Margaret Rogers, @ woman employed as housekeeper at 995 Third ave- nue, died in great agony from the effects of burns. un Friday evening, in great baste to kindle a fire in the stove, Margaret poured some kerosine oil on the wood to factlitate the burning, when the oll in the can ignited and an explosion instantly ensued. Tho can was blown to fragments aud the clothes of the verdant girl set on fire, She screamed tor help, but before it arrived Margaret was most frightfully burned nearly all over har body. Death ensued, as stated above. Coroner Flynn was aotilled to held aa ~ Inquest over the remalus ¥ ;