The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1870, Page 3

RELIGIOUS. * Boctrinal Diversions and Dogmatic Disputes on Bebatable Points—Discussions and Declamations by Diplomatic Doctors of Divinity, ' Practical Piety as Preached by Pres- byterian Preachers and Poli- ticians Prayed for. “BUYING A PENNYWORTH OF PARADISE.” The Immorality of the Age, the Horrors of War and the Destruction of the World as Christian Pulpit Themes. Progressive Spiritualists Spoiling for a Fight with Expounders of the Bible. Sermons and Services in the Metropolis, at the Caplial, at the Watering Places ” and in’ the Suburbs—Correet, \ es and Elaborate Reports “ee ceedings in the Churches. ” ‘Thougd the worshippers in purple and fine linen Bave, tor the most part, left the city for the seaside and the country, the churches were yesterday well fillea with attentive congregations, The clergymen could not avoid a militant tone im their ais- courses, and the thought of tho congre- gations was directed to the great truths ©f Chrisifanity by illusions and illustrations that had the ring of war in their bold aud earnest tone. From the fashionable piacés of simmer resort the clergy, in unison with the gentle surroundings of Nn ture and the azure hue of the sea, i ci RE caectpentgreemencine a at its dutfes and 118 >'~asures; and from life at tts best &nd in its moat enjoyable condition, as seen at the Boaside, fo Got to tell the story of the Cross, with ‘fall the glorious moral lessons deducible from a well spent life, animated by Christian motive and re- wigious principie, UNIVERSALIST CLURCH, PLIMPTON BUILDING, 4 Tho Christian View of War—“And Ye Shall Henr of Wars and Rumors of Warw?’=Ser- mon by Kev. Charles F. Lee. Yesterday, at Plimpton Building, the Rev. Charles ¥. Lee preached to a considerable congregation on “The Christian View of War.” He took for his text, “And ye shall bear of wars and rumors of wars,” and spoke as fellows:— Just as THE BATTLE SMOKE Of the greatest ctvil war of modern times is rolling Sway andthe serried legions of the great republic have returned to thetr welcoming:homes; just as the frowning guns of Sadowa have grown cold’and the ‘tattered ensigns of battie-scarred armies are turled ‘end laid away; just as the world is sinking into a dond dream of peace and the nations clasp hands tn fraternity again, froim over the distant sea come the ‘ead tidings ot new enmity and war, and we hear, as at-were, floating on each Atlantic breeze, the,call of ‘ene bugle and the roll of the drum, the wordef stern command, and the heavy tramp, tramp of A MILLION OF ARMED MEN, Again are our bopes of international union. and ‘aympathy al dispelled; again must mother earth be ‘torn by disaension and wet with fratricidal blood; again must the brave lay down their tives and the aky of evening be red.with burning harvests and homes. The batt!e ground 1s one of historic inter- est. Here, many atime in the days of old, has the Tate of kingdoms.and empires been decided. Here, ‘twenty centuries ago, the legions of Roman Oxsar met the barbaric hoste of Germany and drove them b&ck with cruelslaughter. Here, in centuries later, ‘was the fleld of strife.in the time of the great Char- magne. Here, dn the-old age of feudalism, the war- e barons of France and Germt full often met wo shiver and cross 400 years the the sword. ago = tho Burgundy led en his to battie with the might of Austria and the hard usiria ant Swiss of the Cantons, Here, in more recent umes. marched and countermarched the troops of the fourtecnth Louis to oppose the warlike genius of a ‘Mari! jh ana Primce Eugene, and here, in the Memory of thousands yet living, shone the golden agies of the invincible Napoleon on his victorious ‘way toJena and Austerlitz. Tru'y, then, this 1s an Mustoric grouud, one.which has continually trembled with z. tramp of ee vattulions and the roar savage vers upon rivers of blood have been poured ont here that the pride and ambi- oon of E panied might be satisfied with bene ae uble.or power or renown. Sunny and favore: God, yet.t is a land of death. THE BATTLE FIELD OF TWENTY CENTURIES, Mts soll is watered with.toars of blood and ai and whitened with the.bones of millions on muiions of men, and all this since the advent of the blessed Fist, all this since the dawn of the reign of love, ‘all this since the angelgsang on that wutry evening of December, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth yr good will toward men.’? ‘truly the Saviour’s words in our text are as pro- partical ow as they were in the days of his apos- es, “Ye shall 1 HEAB OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS.” How we startle as we remember them.- We Greamt of peace: we had pictured the earth as it prospered under the reign of kindly love; we had sung of its peaceful homes, its ripening harvests and ius myriads of happy people. @ Chrisuan Btandpoing, whatjs war? It is @ relic of the dead und terribie past; a relic of those days when mer, more savage than the brates arouna ‘them, delighted in scenes of horror and Wlood, War Three thousand years ago meaut RAPINE, FIRE AND SLAUGHTER. That is what it means to-day, Its terrors have een mitigated, I allow, to a large extent, but it ,»practicaily means the same tlung uow. War can be Aisguiscd and made to appear grand and ennobling, But us is before the rick uniform becomes tattered and torn, aud the sword wet and discolored. with human blood. To see a regiment of soldiers, ‘wiih their muskeis shonidered and bayonets glisten- dng and swords shining, aud to hear the drums roll- ing stirs the enthusiasm of all, and if it were con- Aued tow holiday parade all would ve well, But where 1s that resiment to-morrow, where are those hopeful warriors who but yesterday were in our midst? Squadron after squadron had charged the enemy and had gone down, and a score of yd Weary refugees is ail that 14 leit of that grand army, whose march to death had furuished us all with a pleasurabie excitement, [t is necessary to distin- guish between the pomp and the horror of war. War ‘Dxed to be, and is, the pastime of savages, and it should not be the practice of elviitzed, Christian men. See the homes destroyed, THE ALTARS DESECRATED, the wives widowed, the fathers ava mothers made childiess, and the childreh orphaned, Look on this sa picture and ask yourselves if a nation’s false honor or additional glory is worth the sacrifice of so Much blood, There can be but one answer, No, a ‘8 nation’s true glory is Ju the cuilivation of thé arte of peace, and svon be the time when wars will cease ‘and ali the kingdoms Of the earth will live in peace and unity with one another. At the conclusion of the sermon Mr. Lee prayed to God that the contending armies now about to pre- cipitate themselves on each other might be toucued with God's grace, aud return to their homes without Coummitting the ravages aliendaut on a long war. 2 Rad appt Bh ATTORNEY STREET M. E. CRUR War LessoneNapoleon Denounced—Ropub- Mcanism Above Monarchy—Viscourse by the Rev. J. P. swift, an oe the usual services in this church yesterday ‘d been concluded the pastor, Rev. J. P. Switt, an- nounced that the subjeot matter of his seriion would be the present European crisis, in whi ich miglit be traced clearly the hand of tne Almiguty, He took gis text from Matthew xxiv, 5, 6 and 7~'We shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, for nation lall rise agatust nation and kingdom a om.” He said Christ, when on pan, Win Most pio,ound student of human nature, Although His missiog jhere below was one of peace, yet He “Well knew that “he heart of man was so formea and #0 filled with violes* Passions that in his short Career through life he woul. >? always ta trouble, Sad constantiy ambroiied in augric4 Webb bls nelgn- NEW YORK HERAT, MONDAY, JULY 05, 1870.—RIPCH SHEET. bor, The insatiable ambition ee, and bloodshed; for instan: impending outbreak able to THR VAULTING AMBITION OF ONE MAN. We all known the unset as, shrewd acy Me the Emperor Ni in’ bw desire to the attention of internal troubles, hesitates not to seene of bi Of life, the desolation and whick would make throne totter ant pisvee at Bure of nappy homes, poi Te i. oo princes, by this impending struggle, the engines of destruc- tion and all the skilled ta for destroying the image that God createa will be brought into full Play. It 1s fearful to think of the bloody fields, the ghastly foorpees, the ravenous vultures at their ban- quet and ‘THB GROANS OF THE DEAD AND THE DYING. All these are sure to follow in the train of this un- galled Sorend senseless war. All we can do is to that God may defend the right. The time must will come when every man shall be as free and as noble as bis brother, when none shal! bend the be under the subjection of kings and THE GLORIOUS AND BREE IDEAS of American independence shall waft themselves alt over the world, and it will be the proud boast of our government, ‘Tn thls’ way only can good couse ost is way only can come out this great evil—war, bythe f & DETHRONEMENT OF THE KINGS AND PRINCES en, in it aud by the demolition of that powor which enables one man to couvulse the world and effect private ends. Verily then shall the mighty be destroyed forever and the si made weak, and ae Up & power just, generous and i‘. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. Faith and Fighting Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Deems, here rad bet F emselt sonmroaneen tt Auchan alee of the Birangers yesterday morning, buy those Who were so fortunate as to be pecsen' ealeeme rps for thelr temerity in braving the sé6tching heat of the sun, for the able, eloquent, and popular pastor, Dr. Déeems, preached a splendid sermon from the text “Fight the good fight of faith ; lay hold on eternal life.” Ist Timothy VL, 12. Ho said two traits characterized Paul, te military and the religious. The military allusions abound in ali his writing, of which examples weré quoted. He was aiso the great expounder of the doctrine of faith. In some piaces of his writings 1t would Bééii au that Ft had | nothing to do but believe, in others nothing to do but ets, Tho ate Whited i this twxt, “The fight of faith. he Boctor then showed the biblical connection between these two, and how their “consistence,” as he called it him such a master mau.” Faith } 1 egullar to man. Other animals, so far begat fy Bote nage fs MAN'S SIXTH SENSE, the sense of hi soul, whereby he apprehends what cannot be heard or seea or suielt or tasted or touched. i#an’s position from his creation has been a test and development of his faith, All life is a war- fare: Every warfare ts fora prize, even defensive wars. Sometimes the prize is imaginary, sometimes worth the confilet. No tight is “good” which has hot a good object aud is not conducted on good princl- ples. There is notiing to sustain a man if he gocs to war ona mere pretext; there is much to depress him if he crowds thousands down the stecp of slaughter for selfish cuds. Life is a warfare. Every man has a fight with evil. Our passions and appe- tites are beautiful and good instruments oj picas- ure, but eudurance in sin perverted them, It 18 not against our appetites and passions we are to fight; it 18 against thelr being averted to bad uses. Some men seem to think they would be saints if they could pluck their passions from their inteliectual constitu- tions, instead of which they would be monsters, For tinal triumph there must be persevering faitn ingome great truth. Of these he should mention tour The first was the superiority of the value of great principles over temporary appearances, ‘The differ. ence between w {vol aud a piillosopher, between a Man and @ strong, between a little man and a great, lies Facies in tis, that the former govern themselves by appearances and the latter by princl- ples. Now PHENOMENA ARE FLUENT PRINCIPLES FIXED. It 1s g0 in the physical, the business, the spiritual World, This was illustrated at some length. The ‘men of business who succeed are those Who have the wagacily te perceive and the strength to believe in fixed principica, which will remain Wren the present @ppearance of the money market will have changed. ‘all etreet every work. 16 is the old story of the beginner in art who Krew that he must select some point in tne laudscape from which to #0 & grazing cow wilich moved to the terrible confusion of his draw- ing. ig must not be er on quick- sands, This Kuropean war aeons to make a tragic and powerful illustration of this p1 tion. Another great truth to believe, for victory, is the final triumph of truth over error. If tuis be not held the fight cannot be maintained. None of us can pretend to show how this is to be dene. God will doit. He will make every knee to bow. But if me do not believe this, if a man do net feel that ‘every sacrifice he makes for the truth helps forward the final destruction of-error, that every beautiful thing thought, spoken, did, helps to dual extinction of ugliness aud deformity, that every happiness he creates helps tothe final extinction of misery, and every deed to the death of evil, he could not keep up the fight. If, however long delayed, the man has confidence in the final triumph of iis cause he can endure the most distressful camp: But tell him that it 1s fixed in God's DOMESDAY BOOK, that the fight shall be endles; as etermity and who coulc&khold out? Our venerable iriend, Mr. Bryant, did more for the world than giving us his admirable translation of Homer when he wrote that stanza which can never be worn out by quotation— ‘Trath erushed to earth shall rise agains ‘The eternal years of God are her's; But error, wounded, writhes in pain, ‘And dies amid 1te'worshippers. A third great trath wise government is just and is just; G ig good; just as good in annexing nalty to Wrong us reward to right. His confi R"paramount and eternal. He 1s a personal God, present at His government, not entrusting it to agents. Faith in the stability of that government is necessary. Noman can succeed who lives under a government which he feels may at any moment col- lapse. Nothing comes to much that does not con- template for its existence and operations thousanas of years, { should not have the heart, the Doctor said, to p peal single sermon it I did not feel that a words would be vibrating in human ears long ter THE BELL OF RTERNITY had tolled the knell of the things which are visible ‘and temporary. bh in the everlastingness of God’s wise rule nerves for the best of fighting, ‘The last great object of faith he should mention is Jesus. He is the captain of our salvation, The sol- dier must believe in his captain. Your faith is ate tempted to be shaken vy piecemeal criticism of the New Testament, This statement is questionea, that miracle assailed. Well, suppose that, with the rea- sons of criticism, they could cut out of the Evange- lists each particular statement so that at last we could hardly have left the three words in the open- ing of tae second chapter of Matthew, “Jesus was born Whatthen! Here is a fact; more peopie by believing is that God governs wisely. A good und atrong. God TH TRADITIONARY JESUS as the divine Saviour of their souls, have been able to conquer life and death than by believing any- thing else. Faith tn just such @ Jesus.as the Bible ives us Nas done more good than everything else. Take the criticism and take the fact; and what is your duty and your interest? Plainly to believe in Jesus, Tho serinou was closed by showing that the object of this tight was to “grasp eternal Ilie.”” He who fights a bad fight, a falthless fSgnt, grasps death. The hideousness of ciasping a flend—the veiled pro- het of of Khorassan—the dying soldier, let out from a builet hole, grasping, as ‘he angel—life—eternal life. ANTIOON BAPTIST CHURCH, with Ife le dies an “Martial Orders”—The War tn Europe—Sere mon by the Rev. John Love, Jr. The assemblage at the Antioch Baptist charch, Bleecker strect, yesterday morning was not so nume- Tous ag usual, the high temperature ot the past week having doubtless caused many of the congregation to betako themselves to the country. The discourse by the pastor, the Rev. John Love, Jr., was an elo- quent and telling one. Taking for his subject “Mar. tial Orders,” he gald:—Tho present ts A ORITICAL AND MOMENTOUS PERIOD in the world’s history. The events which are trans- piring are working out’ thé destinies of nations, as well as of individuais. Unexpectadly, and seem. dngly Without just cause, two great covernments are IN BATTLE ARRAY. ‘The cloud of war, at first no larger than @ man’s hand, has spread until its pall 18 thrown over hun- dreds and thousands, and to-day many a blanched cheek and tearful eye betoken sad forebodings tor the future. THR BATTLE ORY 18 SOUNDING, the marshalled forces of ambitious rivals, with quiv- ering muskets, await the order for advance—thirat- ing for each other's blood. The eyes of the worla instincilvely TURN TOWARDS THE RHINE, watching thg tssues of the conflict with an interest which is not local por peat a by State bounds, but universal, .The struggle is not oF a time only, pe will pipaues a taut Wave ‘Whose in- fluence Ww: ternal, jut there Is Dewng waged ‘A SILENT CONTEST, ever sharp, yet wd ObACTTEU OY ARPECEIALEA—m | contest, not at the point of thé sword, with dashing capnon and with the varied appliances of war, not to gratify national pride or to satisfy a spirit of re- vengo. [tis a contest of trath agathst error, of the Kingdom of light against that of darkness. And this contest has existed from the earltest ages. “The forces of Satan are arrayed against us, avd the trumpet-cail to battle ts sounding. Christ, our great Oaptal 4 though unseen, guides us, fits blood: ined banner ts our ensign, and from the pages of lusplrattoa comes our martial order, “PUT ON THE WHOL ARMOR OF GOD ~ that ye may be able to stand tthe wiles of the devil.”—Ephestans vi, Ul. ‘The progress of truth has not been that of steady advance, but fitful aud spasmodic, Her glory 13 the roward of many a scar and wound received in the armor of confict. The Speaker here drew an analogy between the parts of the armor as referred to tn the scriptural contest aad the armor of the Christian character—the shield of Figs the helmet of salvation, &c, He next Spoke of the necessity of girding on the panoply in order to effect the completeness of the Christian character, The parts of the armor referred to ta Serlptur. correspond with the elements of the Chris- tian character. There 1s (00 much negative Chris tlanity, TOO MUCH FORMALISM IN PIETY, We are sausfed with the rudiments of tho Chris- tian life, and act as does a child, which, knowing hardly anything, tituks 1¢ knows all. Keligion 1s Many-sided, pinpied to the various phases of life, lore awakens enguone of mrekiads, and love upre ut giving us the trac prepa ration for the duties of socutar ile ne THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER has not Ats legitimate growth unless modelled after that of Christ. The wsthetic faculty prevatls in mam Lo ngage de plan ieee to preg of a painting leads us to admire a sym- meirical character, i ‘The Christian armor gives nerve, sinew and strength. The tasues. of the future are with you. ‘The present is the pivot on whioh the future turus. Follow your great ir the thickest of fhe ight. On overy parapet let the cross be raised, an never yteld up the armor until you exchange it fora crown and join im the pruises of the biest, CHURCd OF THE ROLY TRINITY. S35 The Immorality. of the Age=Sermon by. the Rev. U. ‘I. Tracey. Only a aprinkling of un audience was gathered in the Church of the Holy Trinity yesterday to listen to @ very fine sermon delivered by the Rev. U. T. ‘Tracey, in the absence of the rector, Rev. Stephen Tyng, Jr. At the same time the pastor left for his summer va- cation the singers took flight, leaving only the excel- Jent senor, Mr. Weeks, who Was forced to unusual efforts in g.ving the wpusi¢ {n the form of solod. Ths | author of so many exquisite melodies and excellent organist, Mr, Henry Eyre Brown, shared in the la. vors of fp, Weeks to produce t programme which féaily lett utue to wish for, ‘The tauslé Included & Chant, Venité, Benedictus and hymns 176 and 210, Greatorex, , The text was from Corinthians, vi., 6, and the Rey. Mr. Tracey sald:—We hear to-day a great deal concerning the degeneracy of public morals, Who can tell, they say, what may be the {ate of the vice-tainted republic? A sensational and vawufy terature, vitiating ali tastes and ruintog all minds, is scattered broadcast over the land, and is read by our childrea in every street car aud saloon of the city, ON THE STAGE are performed anoiualous ‘plays, which are fall of coarse and shocking allusions aud actions, and the oid feeling of modesty and delicacy which onco prevailed is banished from among us, Men and women leave the theatres where these plays out- raging decency are periormed, ana in the sacred ¢jxte cles of home talk about aud criticise these things, which should only cause them to blush, MARRIAGE 13 NO LONGER SACRED and that tte is now only @ loose and adjustable one, to be accepted or shaken off at pleasure, Fatuers and mothers make ligut of it in conversation before their children, anu those just entering iife assume the marriage obligation with a careless smile, Business men are no longer honorable, no longer truthful but as I have lately been told by a Merchant of celebrity, the word of many of the most widely | known and respected in thei’ ranks, when referring to business transactions in which they have an id.+ terest, is totaly unreliabie, Wall street brings to light @ train of ROBBERY AND ORIMA that ts astonishing. flow many mén would blush o tell their fumilles of the exact manuer in which the large bank credit they feel so proud of accrued! These men are daily sech in places whore a mer- chant of forty years ago would Lave lost commer. etal standing and social respectability, Many of these men dispense u large share of their gains in no handed chariiy. But there are lower depths to ‘ail street life; depths the frequenters of which never undertake to buy forgiveness for their crines by charitable gifts. And tus dishonesty is so pervading, 80 widespread, that the air is filed with a none of us are wholly untainted by it, If we have not realized the actual irults of Ws dishonesty, we have longed for them, and are con- sequently equally guilty. What does it piollt a man u be gain the whole world and lose his owa tn- tegrity? And [ask you, is the cost of virtue to-be an excuse for the want of it? Much of this WEALTH GOT BY CRIME AND FRAUD then finds iis way into the Churoh, and this, it is supposed, by the rich members who give, will gud over dishoner and tura aside inquiry; yet icannot see that thls use of the money acquits those who thus obtain it, and, for one, may speak out fully, all be removed Hil cot transgression thereof” shall Be” mat; and = tt wall tall = and ise again.’ So aiso in Revelations vi., 14, we read:— “Every mountain and island were moved out of their Lege Aud in Revelations xvi., 20:—Every island jed away and the mountains were not found.” Mountains aud islands are here used as figures of kingdoms and nations, Thy are all to be speedily rooted out, that CHRIST AND HIS RANSOMED ONRa, Of all ages and allclimes, may tuherit the land and dwell therein forever. ‘The third point tn the text ig the great fuct that Jehovah utters his voice, Now, that God wio speaks ts a spirit, whom no man has seen or can see. Says Josus:—Ye have neither heart His volce at any time nor seen His shape,” How then docs He speak to us or to the world? How did He speak in former times? By instra- ments or agents. Says the Apostle, In Hebrews iL, 2:—"God, who, at sundry tlmes and In divers man- hers, spake in time past unto the fathers by His servants, the propheis, has in these last days spe unto usvy His Son.” But since Christ ascended on high does he still speak? Look at Heb- rews, xil., 25—‘Seo that ye refuse not Him ‘that Speakelh from heaven,” God was stlil speaking to mien aiter the ascension of Christ. And this was by His Word and Spirit through the ministry of tho Apostles, And thus also through the try of men whom He has catied and sent to preach ‘the Word of ‘Truth, He has continued to s] from that day to this. ‘Tho spiritual dwelling place of God Ls Zion, and Zion is the Church, And in Joel il, 16, iu bs written, and the y not ‘THE LORD WILL ROAR OUT OF ZION, and utter yolce from Jerusalem,” ‘rhus it Js evi- dent that utters His voice from ie, Church which He has chosen to bear the standard of truth for ment. And there ia made manifest “phe sign of the Son of Man.” ‘The remaining % to notice ig the joel 4 A a. propheey ighly figura. bad hills) aro figures ry pam of the world, » is, therefore, to be under- @ civil aud ecclesiastical sys- tems ahd powers of the earih, Peter says:—-the elements shall melt with fervent heat;” ana in these words he rejterates the language of prophecy. As, for examplé, we read in Amos ix., 6—“And the Lord God 1s He that toucheta the land, and it shall melt.” The word rendered land in this passage is rendered earth in the text. In neither place does It signify the material earth melting by material fire; Ope tap oareel of human soctety melting by the fre oO note - as Jedgmens, Clergy D, is Word and execi in His Provjden ty gyents which are 80 soon Bota | 8 for tf ‘ar, famine abd pestilence, together with all thé ona earth 5 ff ee great iw of a iS whic he edrth shal VOI ila Je uy aud thus wit be eehered uf Se ek jas ee ngdone of glory and of God. Lord, in toy hast Boe ree r Feu iTg ‘THE SERVICE—A DISGRACEFUL Row. Before the service commenced aud previous to the delivery of the sermon, Bishop Suow directed the attention of one of his flock toa young mai ny in the ongr ff helleved te Soin POM it thd au Re itt haine of Perry, who, it 1s understood, has made uso of the revutation of the HERALD in connection Wild Vhis chureh, wag finuil y. put out of the bulidtug by a meet 'eRnjop une Tuls forcible ejectinént excited a large com- motion in this small congregation, which was not lessened when the Bishop, with much emphasis and strong denunciation, Improved tue occasion by Imtimating to any other reporter who might be pre- sent that a similar fate gwaited them, and a much warmer place in regions that are not, gone) meh tioned to ears poili¢ if they toliowed th tié fodtsteps | of the wicked Aba ate whose ejectment they had | Juat witnessed. Morai etect of this warning | was lost upon three other representatives of tho | city press Who were present, and {ere conduct hob | being deemed satisfactory, tuey also were driven out irom the ¢uyrel : eae a As thé qvoVvé Feport of the Bishop's ‘sermon indl- cates, the actual reporter of the HeRaLp suilered no = hity at the lands of the bishop or any of lua OCKs AMERICAN FREE PRESBYERISN (CHURCH. The Parable of the Predigal Son—Sermon by the Rev. Charles B. Sinyth. ‘The Rev, Charles B, Smyth preached a sermon on the Prodigal Son yesterday morning at the Ameri- can Free Presbyterian church, Masonic Hail, to an audience of about five and twenty. He chose as his text a portion of the eignteenti ana twentieth verses of the tifteenth chapter of Luke—“I will arise and go to my father; and he arose and came to his father.” The very persons who should have been foremost in avowlng Christ, pee. suid, werg really the ones who mururred tive most against Hun. It is to be remarked that if Christ used wine He was called a wine bibber; if He went to a feast att r and if He went ry the friend of sinners and pubiicans and was dertied because ie sat with them. All the parables in this chapter go to estab- ‘lush the fact that He was the irteud of sinners, Why did Curigt put Himself in ® position to meet the woman of Samaria at tic well? Because He had a work to do, tho saving of oer soul and the souls of the whole city, Whenever the couventionalisms of society Atand in our way Wo must wampie them under foot. He then Mlustrated the condition of a sinner in the steps taken by the Prodigal Son. Ought we not, he said, to be satisied if we can cross the threshold of our Father's house. We may con- sider ourselves happy if we can even get within His house, Some one has appropriately said, ‘The road to hell 1s paved with good tntentions.’, The true penitent docs not fall to put im practice the good resolutions he bas formed. He concluded as fol- lows:—The minister does not perform his duty in now the ume hay come, I must say that our re- gious societies, our Ohristian associations, some- Umes collect their great wealta by meaus not wholly without the stigma of fraud, and that I cannot delieve that this wealth, in Sowing into the Church, becomes purified by its course or by its destinalon, Af the Church remains composed of THESE MERCHANTS AND THESE CHRISTIANS, God will, ere long, select a new people to bear His cross and perform His works, and men who shail honor His uame by all their deeds as well as by their werds, CHURCH OF MOUNT Zion. Sermon by Bishop Snow on Impending Eveuts—T World to Bo Destreyed Im- mediately—A Bogus Herald Reporter Kicked Ont of the Church—A Riotous Scene, A somewhat remarkable discourse was delivered yesterday at three P. M. in the Church of Mount Yon, University buiiding, Washington square, by Bishop Snow. His text was Fealms xlvL, 6—“The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; He utter- ed His voice, the earth melted.” In this passage, al- though the past tense is employed, proceeded the Bishop, we.are not to understand that at the time it was written it had been already fuliilied; for, in the writings of tue prophets, the past tense is often used for the future, and events of the last days are apoken of as if they were events of the past. Every one who reads the prophecies with attention must be aware of this. Moreover, it Is evident, from the very nature cf the subject of this text, and indced of the whole of this psalm, that it is a prophecy of tne great day of the judgment of the uations. There are four diatinct points presented in the text—First, the raging of the heathen; second, the moving of tha kingdoms; third, God utters bis volec; fourth the earth melts. These are all descriptive of the scenes of the Judgment Day, that is, the time In which God willin righteousness cut off ail the wicked from the earth, that his children may inberit it according to Dis unfaiing promise. As it regards the firat point, the raging of the heathen, we learn from other Scriptures that this is at the time when the dominion of the wor!d pasacs from earthly rulers into the hands of Jesus, the rightful King, According to Revelations x1. 15, this is at the sounding of TBE SEVENTH OR LAST TRUMPET. When the seventh ange! sounds there are great’ voices in heaven declaring that the kingdoms of the world have become the Lord's. And the eKlers, who or themselves before God, give thanks that he as taken his great FES to reign, that {s, has caused the gupreme dominion of the world to ‘pass into His own hauds and those of His Son. ey ali say, “And the nations were angry, and Thy wrat is come,” &c, Thus we see that the seventh trampet ushers in the general judgment, in which the wrath of God is visited upon the nations, and that as the mighty day dawns the nations are angry. Tals agrees with the declaration of the text, that the heathen raged. For the Hebrew word rendered peathen signifies nations, and ia often thus trans Now, a8 we are fully prepared to prove, the seventh angel to sound in A. D. 1844, There- fore we must understand that already the heathen Lave raged—the nations have shown their impotent anger, hen was it? Itwas in the autumn o} rd when the midnight cry was sounding and the Bride- groom was coming to the marriage, or, in other words, Ohrist was coming to the throne, At that time {he heathen of corrupt Obristendom were ex- ingly e2raged. And they ore still angty against the ened ahd ine kingdom of Christ, though their power for ev! hag Passed away to that extent that they cabnot do us ‘ug injury that they woulda, Tho next point is ae LUY F THE MOVING OP THB KINGDOMS, lease from God having expired by Yojteton ‘ atime cee of the fines De i br ag , i "y e inher. are to be removed oul 8 ih se ty i res will of the kingdom may possess th tance. In Haggalll., 21-22, God declai “shake the heavess and the earth, will overthrow the throne of ae hoy and destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and the horses oe per shall come down every ona Ny. the 1 ol dite other. conte work of 2 aemolition gu struction co oy Kingdoms has begun. and in (reas cee eamrto commenoe In Bu- DO— a m5" lestructive than th nations Kav6 Known iho Kingdoms wil bs moved from foundations and pass away to be nO more, Thos it is declared in Isalah Exuiv., 20, ‘kas shay reel to wud tro lke a drunkard sitting in his study all the,week, bring ag out pol- ished essays w delight his hearers. ut he per- iorms it who goes among the sick, poor and needy; among the sinners and unconverted ones, seexing vo save them from eternal damnation. CALVARY BAPiLST CHURCH. The Betrayal of ChristEloquent Sermon by the Rev. R. 8. McArthar, Owing to the intense heat yesterday the congrega- tion at the Calvary Baptist church, in Twenty-third street, Was not so large as usual. Mr. McArthur, the popular young pastor, preached @ very able ser- mon from the text, “What sball I do, then, with Jesus, who ts called Christ?” Matthew xxvit., 22. Ho gald.the Jews, in the time of Christ, were a sub- Jected people, and, as such, the power of life and death was taken from them. The consent of Pilate, therefore, was necessary to the death of our Lord, According to the law of the Jews Christ would have been stoned to death, but even though Pilate bad granted them this privilege, they would prefer to have Christ condemned by the Roman power, in order that the Roman method of death should be his, and also in order that tho power of the Roman government might be used against thé spread of the gospel. Pilate could not escape the responsibility of deciding for or against Christ. Never had a mae a grander opportunity of dolig grandiy; never did & man fail 80 fatally. Never before might justice have appeared go just; never villany 80 vile, His was @ great part to act. 19 MIGHT HAVE BEEN SUSLIME; it was base, He sat on the throne of power whert.ne who had all power was weak before him; he was judging Him wno was the Judge of the quick and the dead. One scarcely dares to think of the awful ossibilities and destinies of une and eternity which Bong on the decisions of Pilate. We may hot pte- sume to go too far into these inysteries, But thié we do know: Pilate ought to have dong right. Wedo not judge him by the Christian standard; we do not blame him ior not accepting Christ as the Messiah. But we judge and conaemn him by his own law, cause he wickedly violated lis own sense of right is betrayal of Christ to his enemies, At fyst Pilate was disposed to do right and saye Chi He knew little and cared less about thé annoying Geto of those aunoying Jews. oniy desire Reems to have been to pense the people and retain hi my Uhrist innocent; he will set him free. put Jewisl hatred will not be baftied so easily. “If thou fet this man go thou art not Owsar’s friend.” The ques- tion with Pilate ts Dow no longer one of right. It is cree ower, self on the one side; justice, truth, | hrist ob the othe ; and on the R ny Aurai if MBITION Piate suerte the Holy Shee Pilate is obliged to take hts place on the judgment seat, the warning of his wife haunts nim, his super- stitious fear alarms him; but there is no escape; he must decide, And his position then Is the position of each of us to-day, Christ stands before us this morning, and we must answer this question, “What shall 1 do, then, with Jesus, who is called Onrist?”” ‘The character of him to whom the question refers demands thet we shall answer it. Christ was the annointed one from the foundation of the world. Though now veiled in flesh he is the brigntness of the Father's glory. He ts the desire of all and of him even the heathen sages scious prophecy and to him ag jne they rendered their homagé. ‘The no bY Pilate taught a irisé “that just'men.” Mr. McArthur enlarged at considerable fength and with great vividness of Illus- tration on the idea tbat our eternal destiny as indi- viduals and our fate ag nations depend on our answer to the question of the text. Pilate answered the question by giving up Ohrist to death, Judas by Pe ae fort irty pice of ig Soa And in thas enying Christ the, © weeds of tuolr own destruction. sated HIS BITTER REMORSE linse.f, and Pilate, after act. His julet the mob, ofice, He le wife of the Brent truth when she called went ant and hai h the ps of contemptible “triguner,” wag age ay Pa aa hi win wiose favor he 4 , and in pL P owed banishment Le énded bis lile by Dis own hand, > ~~ sen2 yay. Tho Jews answered it by crying, “Orucify Him !"" “away with Him)” “Ils blood be on us and our children; and in rid destraction of thetr beautiful city; tu the frantic cries of helpiess children and un- happy mothers, trodden under tho war-horse of the Roman, they reaped their feward, . , We ate compel by ndcdisfiy to anawer this Ont in tho of every man there comes atime when he mnst decide betwi himself and this “Jesus, who 1s called Christe God help us all at these turning points in life to do right, to exalt Christ at whatever cost, In the busy marta of trade, in the quiet of our lonély hours and tn the & amusements of life, the question will come, eath himself, nting with skeleton finger, will say, “What has thou done with Jesus, who is called ‘Gacist Ha We may not sereenne ot Puale ond the ; but, by refusing heart! » We do really reject him, as far as fee ta our wer, Sgain enact that seen the judgment hail of Pilate 2d on the croas of Calvary. The reverend 3; er earnestly exhorted his rers to acoopt Christ as thelr personal Saviour, and closed by saying that Jusus, standing in CALM AND MAJESTIC SILENCE before Pilate, demands an answer. Jesus on the cross of Calvary anya Wha wilt thou do with met’ His pierced hands, His bleeding teet, His lacerated back and bowed with @ thousand trumpet tongues cry out, “What will thou do with Jesus, who is called Christi” And Christ from Hits throne in the heavens repeals at tis moment the same question, Can you, dare you, deny Him the homage of your heart and’ the devotion of your life? Pilate and Christ must again mect; for we must all appear be- fore the judgment seat of Christ. Where, O Pilate, art now thy dignity and power? Christ, whom once thou didst condemn, 18 now thy?judge, and thy brief day of power is now eh: Into an eternity of Woe, O! that with the voice of the Archangel, whose trump shall wake the dead, I could urge this guestion and its proper answer Qpou you this morn- PROGRESS:V. SPIRITUALISH. Rank Blaephemy—Christianity and the Bible Held Up to Ridicule—Addrese of the Rev, Mores Hull, The hot weather had doubtless the effect of con- siderably diminishing the attendance at Apollo Hall, corner of Broadway and Twenty-clghth street, yes ‘erday forenoon; nevertheless the hall was pretty Well Milled by a number of respectable looking per- sons of both sexes, from the ages of thirty to seventy, Who assembied there to hear the Rev. Moses Hull ex- Pound the theory and doctrines of progressive sptrit- ualism, and compare the evidences for the truth of spiritualism generally with the evidences on whieh ordinary Christianity 19 founded, On énterfng. our reporter foudd a mild old gentle- man seated in the doorway, with several ten cent Treasury stamps iuterlacing the fingers of his left hand, after the manner of an accomplished street carconductor. As the reporter attempted to pass in the man of stamps dexterously berred the way by lifting one foot and placing it against the oppo- site door post, and, in that position, courteously in- formed the Intruder the cost of ADMISSION WAS ONLY TEN CENTS, having reggived which he dropped his foot again, smiled tike @ jolly old saint who had done his duty manfully and bowed the visitor in, After the singlag of a hiyniti by two pretty young Jadtes and a tall, handsome, fall bearded gentleman of middle age, the Rey. Moses Hull (@ stout, gentie- mau, with thick black ait ai dark, hea¥, mustache) approached the rostrum, and coimences his discoursé, It surprised um to find ultga Chris- tans So€ager to reject spiritualistic truths, unless supported by outward evidences appealing to the reason and the senses, while they were ready to swallow pi a * a ANY IMPROBABLE STORY. io Matter how preposterous or how lamentably un- curroborated by reliable testimony, ff related 1n sups port of Christianity. The reality and alvinity of Christ is made entirely dependent on his miracles, He (the preacher) gaw more miracles performed by sptriivaiiam than were ever attributed to Christ. As for the miracles Te-orded tn the binle, he should like to see them tested by the lightand APPLIANCES OF THM NINETEENTH CENTURY, with the New YorRK HERALD’s corps of reporters standing by to interview the miracle workers. In these days we have a hebit of asking too many ques- public. If the hambug miracles of the Bible were avtempted to-day in New York the Argus-eyed re- porters of the HEAALD and the other enterprising daly papers of America would pick the sham to pie’es in Seles The original compilers and early preservers of the Bible were mem of bad character, Sontogens Ueyee png who openly proclaimed that there Was no hara in lying so long a8 it served the Church, and some of Whom try to make us believe that they spent part of tions to cliow impositions to be practised on the | tobea with a clear, fr ‘ts ber eases i es i 5 i Let them upon themselves of Unrist ‘and be faithful, endui that work will not be performed live after 1ue worker 18 gone. When we get on the other side thought we should pe permitted to Were & good many 1 wo al heaven. We should laugh at World. laugh at our burdens here, We should seeyhow litte these Were when we ‘iooked at them heaven. We astionid see them as of his (Mr. Beecher's) once when West, He was riding along a and he saw a man fn the front of him drvt caw thats mougn a brave an, es or a we y Startled, but he went on, and wher phe wharo bie mee suoula pe he fou: ump Of @ tree, with a branch sticki looked like a rife. A higher sense ofr Toilet than this would be the retrospect of their troubles as they surveyed tiem in the jight of heaven, 5a & it i i FI E 1d aH fi i i 5 FIRST BAPIIST CHURCH, At the morning service yesterday in the First Bap- tist churoh there was a ‘alr congregation, consider- ing the heat of the weather and the attractions of the watering places. Mr. Gallagher, the pastor, who has some of the characteristics, or rather eccentrict- ties, of Mr. Beecher, delivered a sermon which was remarkable for the mulutude of topics it embraced. He selected for his text the motto of St. Paul:— “IT press toward the mark of tho prize of the high calling.” After @ few pre- Uminary remark, the reverend gentleman ald that Christianity was often mistaken for happi- nea, and that people too frequently assumed that because @ man ooserved the commandments, kept within the law and was a good Christian, that lus life must necessarily be a happy one. There could be no greater mistaxe mado than that. Christianity did not assume happiness to the Christian; but the hope that animates the good man Is a good subeti- tute for earthly ollss—the hope, the assurance, that when his WET ) here is euded be will attain to Qn immortal inherlignge. TO bE HAPPY HERE one must, like St. Paul, firmly resolve to forget the past, to sever the comnection between our pride, passion, triumphs and reverses, that are but memo- ies, and steadfast! the Oghg of fatth of the Tiom@ediate eat on g forward hopefuily to the future. To be successful in an: fepal 4 man must fix his mind upon that particul . ‘There ia only one way of far teete taee that is the right way. It 18 89 iM ieligion. The mind must not be crowded with the events of the dead Jear and bright for the eset. Pa&ulhad to-forget the Ast, and knowing his antecedents we imagine bow Meult oat was. He fad to forget that he was a Jew, to {bet that hd had been a persecutor of the helpless and Innocent, LES: Here ihe Drone Branched off into the by of philosophy, dnd dweit at much length and with Suecdote dnd lilustration on the evils of the pride of race. The pride of race was the cause of the pres- ent war in Europe; it thdamed the German peoples and roused the French to the bignesy pitch of en- thusidsm. It was an ¢vii which Wneny mournin, into countless homes aud spread desolation far anc wide. He once pridea hiuseif on béig an Irish- man and thanked God that Le was not au American; €nd, indeed, because of certain things, he was still glad that be was not ah American; but he had out- grown that pride and crashed it under foot It was @ Vain, foolish and senseless pride. DISRAKLI IN “LOTHAIR'? showed how utteriy absurd was the Christian preja- dice agatnst the Jews, when, in his matchiess epi- grammatic manner, ho says that the Christian hatred | Of the Hebrew race is unaccountable in the face of the fact that one-half of the world that calls itself Onristian worships a Jew; while the other half wor- ships a Jeweas. Paul must have felt remorse om ac- count of persecution of Christ for when the hght of truth broke in upon his tind he failed not to see how unjust and cruel had been his conduct in the ast. But he had to forget, he had to cast loose from the past with all ite 2 9nd ‘all ita shame and press tor forward steadily toward the mlark of the prize of hig lag. padllotbeare TU We Gataghor next aught ot St. Pours thorn tn 4 we md he the flesh and plucked it out a ‘an: ee toow st, but kept pee in the yp n ion. He confeased that he whet tue “thorn” was—nobody knew—but he had opinion. He believed that tho thorn whtoh so an- noyed Paul was some special weakness which his their time in preaching to human monsters wi one eye each in the centre of the breast and like impos- sibie confirmation in othey respecte. In my ays everybody w. s steeped ki norance, and the = clates and compantons of Christ were atl marksinén, men Who signed their namesiby making @iark, and who, Shen ise: could be easily deceived. The mira- cles of spiritualism were of no such doubtful re- cord, They did not die out with human ignorance and disappear before human enlightenment. They are performed this very day and can stand the test of intelligent investigation. A lady said to the preacher recently that she feared he was ‘A VERY BAD MAN, because he did not respect the divine origin of mar- riage, Did she know what the divine origin of mi riage was according to the Bible? He could telt I it Was rape and fornication and all sorts of impurity, Spiritualism bas higher nottons of those things, and in the Progressive Spiritualistic Church there were no such pastors a8 Horace Cook and others of that stamp, Mr. Hull was listened to very attentively, and nis Temarks now and then called forth some pretty loud laughter. Indeed, he once or twice came near re- ceiving @ round of applause; but, 1 being divi service, the manifestations were suppressed. He pleads his cause eloquently, and no one would think of questioning 1’ s sincerjty. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. for the on” Ohristtan Patience. ‘The approach of the last Sunday when the far- Scasou—Sermon his annual holiday excursion, and hia voice be heard temple, {a p'@'uly visible in the make up of the con- gregation. The ‘‘piliars of the temple,” with their more seen. They have gone to fresh flelds and pas- tne Eurepean reputation of the preacher. of last Sunday of closing the church In the evening. Though the pastor is of opinion, publicly expressed, that one sermon is quite euough for the human mind properly to digest ip one day, yet his deacons are not guite so advanced in thelr ideas, They re- tain the prejudices of their forefathers that it ts not | possible to have too much gospel, and that exhorta- tion is always in geagon, With this prejudice, to clase Piymouth church on Sapday night is with then) @ dishonoring of God, ‘The subject of Mr. Beecher's sermon yesterday morying Wag the patience of the Chrtapian, or a faith- ful coutinuance of well-doing. ‘The text selected was fron He 86:—"For feed of nl .Patience wid @ consequence of enterprise = oat deavor and the DQssession f the sou) under l- cullles. Jf ne ia Goya Porte Bae tt in wth of our highe just in lence pos- Ha our souls. It wad tis kind of duptex. oducatio that Went on in the family, It was not the develo mhent of thé !awef itatare in our children we were so anxious about, vut i9 higher. | It was this impa- tience of results that pzven Us from seeing THE TRUR VALUES ofthe higher work we were © pt a forest, he lays down the gro. 4, and he ae ie seed and soon sees what is done; -Ut!t was tot 80 inthe higher developments of aman." fe. On ‘he intellectual and on the esthetic side of his "4ture more time was required than tn the physical; in sug Moral nature atill more time. The See pe) el slowly and more deeply marked that changéd a paver man tito @ magnanimous man, a selfan jan into a ett gl map, # bigoted-minded man meron in gress. definition, b rowth in’ gr ® correct definition, bu: sometimes was abused. Men thought and they tt their ministers told them they were ri that though they knew themselves to be eens spherd . A man clears there was @ good deal of evil in them must, however, be reformation in the lower a8 well as in the higher. (3 dg too must be immediate, The law of God was explicit as to this. “Let bim that stole steal no more,’’ him that lied lie no more.” But there wi quau- ties of the soul that in their mente Binns slow. ihe mae A i ein ppme way as he wi 1s han mh hy. er hand ¢ child, and in a little time she may k eep her ue from abusing tbe child, but it will take longer to ‘control her temper. So ih the narra wotld & mau plauts lettuces, and if he has & shower of and genial weather iu @ day or two he may see the; sprouting up, But he plants an acorn. If he lives, in twenty Years he looke aud thé oak is not mach higher than his head; in fifty years it is ‘a littie Wat a eon is Nt for timber; but in a hundred years r ie Mr. Beecher then gave an amusts agacription of the trammg of w chikd—the ‘ecte Sitiowns 1 mas | bring up a boy win nd Cuaracteristica in him; pal whys anole tt was to the mouacs who nad 4 boy + was all fire, life, energy, effort, purpdse; how bho Worrted and grew anxiods, and salu, “Nobody ad a boy 80 muca tronhia ag har bay was.” Bot be Plymouta Church Attractions Fading Away— Mr. Beecher’s Last Appearance but Que famed pulpit orator of Plymouth church will take no more for six weeks in this popular preaching tendrils in the shape of wife and children, are no | tures new. After next Sunday they will be joined by their pastor, and then Plymouth church will lose the attractiveness that yesterday drew so many strangers, most of whom were from far off lands, attracted by | ‘Though the sun was nearly as “inclement” as Inst | Sunday Mr. Beecher did not repeat the experiment | ¥iT FOR SHIPS AND THB FOUNDATIONS OF Try: be ine BARTH. 35 ju waa not able to resist, some vice which Grazged him down ant degraded him tn his own eyes if not in the eyea of the world. There are many men who have such phorns; in fact, there are few ‘who have them not, ang these must ever pray with \ Paulfor divine assistance in their efforts to resist ‘the evil which it brings upon them. Whatever may be sald by learned commeatators the thorn of the Apostle was evidently not @ physical detect, bata makes as he had d ze “4B BAPTISTS AND DICKENS. ‘The reverend entioman noxt addres3ed himself to the consideration of the and intolerant spirit showa In the resolutions of the Boston tists on the character of Charles Dickens. They pro- claimed that “our God was a Gol of ven- eunce,” which was an infamous pervere fon and utterly untrae. If, mstead of being @ God of love, He was a God of vengeance, merciless and implacable, there would have been no Christ on the cross und no hope for tne world, Another tallacy of the oxtremista that received the attention of the reverend gentleman was that mun was a poor, Miserable worm. He was nething of the kind. Man had 10 his brain @ power which ralged him anon’ al created beings and made him | am the image of God, Itisa sien of weakness in a man to bo signing fe the times that are parsed away forever. 2, Swift says that “no mao woo ts not @ fool will wish oung again,” and he is right. Let the pass ‘Hannood is better than boyhood, The joys of childhood are as ficeting flashes of ight that some- times steal athwart the sky, but the pl e8 of ripe manhood are like the light of tue sun, which d- tensifies as It ascends. THE CHRISTIAN MAN Jooks forward ;and backward; ever hoping and never discouraged, he looks the world straight in the Jace and presses onward. The best men are those who, having sinned and repented, run the race set before them conscious of the dangers by which they are surrounde|, It takes a man to make & man, For this cause tue great man is not the faujtiess mau, but the man who ts able to overcome his faults. Christian holiness is to know good and evil, Children are sometimes prevented rom leneatag she Qvils of this Life, and when the; ww up fallinto them unwarily. 1t would be bet iy to let children observe sin in all ts hideous de- formity, and when they went into the worid the; would earefluly avoid it. Forgot and forgive, cul Joose from the past, be good and true in the present, and earnestly stirve to press forward towarda the mart of the high calling of the Christian, was the burden of the eloquent peroratloi with wich the. reverend gealieman concluded his discourse," * CHURCH OF THE Sayjour. wo go. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Mayo, of Ciucinnatl= Christ as 2 Religious Leader. In the Unitarian church, on Pierrepont street, yes- terday, Mr, Mayo preached @ thought{ul and elo quent sermon, taking for his text the sixth verse of the fourteenth chapter of John—“I am the truth.’ ‘There has always been @ classof religious teachers who disparage the claims of Jesus Chriat to religious leadership on grounds like this:—Is not the truth as good when spoken by One man ag by another? Are not all the maxims of Jesus founded upon | principles laid down im early times?’ Why always Jook up to this one overpowering namé? May not better things still appear? Many writers thipk it id time to have done with Jesus Christ. It almose: seems ag If Jesus contemplated this when He uttered: these words:—‘L ain the truth.” He did not say, “J game to teach a doctrine of the resurrection,’* bat ‘2 gm the resurrection.” He did not say, ‘T came to tésck the truth,” bus ‘J am the truth.” He always Insists tit gply those who = = LIVE HIS LIFE | are one with him. am the vine and ye are tha | branches.” All these dectarations show that. Jesus was connected with the'trath tn Sane nen, way—so connected wilh it that Joho he was tho word, tue very creatiy, wer, In this lies rath, This quahty which of une Done Dave it, for matt i things which Jesus pos- ie. iheré are a fow ‘Who lea fie superiority; He ts the us ruth 1s a of being the embod if ring marores emboaimen' 4 p diving nal PALE tan hat ts people in eyery walk of en, bec tet 1c ciples they promulgate. In the State there Ard bY wage two. abucs ae: vr gue peuane tacorists and oratofs, the other tne reat thoulders of the State, w: om she, peowe, folioy, Ine Btinctively. Washiugtor ree incatial ice; Lincoln was pesctical freedom. Look at our homes; how dreary they are compared with the Christian ideal. Sometiines we ses a home made beayiful by the power of a true and ndbje woman, Itis Ba sahara sua if Lote, iz she ts y, rtue, Some men are in- carnpated Teraesd Boat te Inéarnated War, \Yele Mngton gnd Grant are rated by sone as secund vlass, but the one moved on Napoleoa, te otler Moved om the confederacy, and both were no more. Shokoy oy Was poetry, Plate was philosophy. ‘There are ai w real preachera, aud if they preached lu (her ciossis FA oy ech pre nf: ey said Monday ing. orld is shaken by those who a they would ligve fnen be. Everything must b: initsd to this test:—Are you Wut aud love? test mot many can s!and an Instant, ‘There gre fica | who may somewlat help the race, but who ar: no: :o be trusted for its gulues, A few men represent coi» | tam PRASRS OP MORAL TRUTIT; but Christ grand ag fae Above these that he oy q ak aviour. Te isthe trath, if Ww fe = ne | the hie of Qurist we shall gil the dime disou ‘roots lo is all thud’ G40 whdersi: