The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1870, Page 6

RELIGIOUS. Midsummer Piety as Displayed in the Churches, War, Peace, the Pope and the Devil as Subjects of Pulpit Discussion. The Irrepressible Dogma of Infallibilty Explained and Denounced. Beecher’s Farewell to the Plymouth Fioe Churehes of the and Other Sermons and Serv q es in Uh Hetxopolis, at, Long Bray Pluces—Dediea Hor es of Wor The eity enn comparatively deserted, espec any pretensions to the e congregations, AN the city had tin sow g the pure tes of the land- New . and tt cuuon, Whi nd viewing Ut ve beap y turned from uve tO nature's God, v n of th churehes where ser- mons were given am the city mainly eu @eavore:! to render thelr discourses interesting by introducing the live themes of the day, suca as the Pope’s | lity quesuon and the lmpend- Ing European war, drawing deductions or prognos: ticating as their especial creeds ied them. Advent- ists fancied “the beginning of the end’? had come, and the more rampant the was drawing to aspeedy close, The country charches were well lied, and the | pastors, unlike their city brethre fying during > warm months th swith iheir | choicest and most deiget rmous, DY (HS STRAVG. y than HecelvingSermon by ihe De. Deems. 1 somewha University aay, arch place, was we shionable and mtelligent antienc iin his | usual cloquent style ‘And to. remes ber ihe words of our is, how he said, 1 » better to give than to recetve,"’—Acts, XX. led atteution to the teader relation ¢ en Pant and this Ephesian church, ting circumstances unde this valedic tory address was pronounced. constit the last saying they heard from the ips of be- loved Ap: and hus its authority groyuly in- creased by being declared by him to be one of the utterances of our Saviour. omehow Paul knew it to D, a ib itis 00! lst, and Jesus mast have uttered [ANY A PRECIOUS WC which they have not recorded. ‘This is in accord With the whole temper and spirit of Christ's gosy Men oiten r In the Bible as revealed | truths or ar’ which are sifmply clear | statements kee in the iis: trauons mich any nan w of al.” The man who largest number o: peopl Jesus simply indicate and wuich every ob is so of materiat ti. ing, and so of lov that receives ry aud chara: be x rofmman, Many illus- r is the gainer t gives gains more. Hirst, that it ts ¢ 1, second, Wat ius @ on Deheve the former, tye, But ps x : ply absurc happy Fs at it must be So appeurs 14 Father has u the fact that LTD MiLY: ‘an by any possi+ From the t physical stre bounding riches rve us trom t non 18 Most © Lo te world t d Ge taken olf at once than all find somethiog so universal as When we the necessity cf receiving we versal a law to be beneiicent, hen, Whatever a mau recelves is a relief to his necessities or an Increase of L ces, I the man really ne ds for hil s on him it Is blessed to have f If he do not actually need 1 he will dud it an incr power to do good to & ‘We shail see that thu: gion of producing (he Another of dependen tude Is the acknowleigmer who makes it than the Fy lu more one who ¢ lifts the A NOB! It its the si an unnumbled ci child wio had | oF, L towards an unartt a benefa peror may tinper coward gel ange ue And then the re favor human bonds and mk menus or 0 them, appears great re give, and Matis a greater | receive. Again, It 1s an improv ) onr n being a constant discipline to einsine Jove is one ef the w us of our ornnal eou- stitution and show Siroyed, Sellisiness is me ORBAM 0 soured and spolied. ‘The tendency of seif-love is to run into scifishne Chvistaa fav Ne ¢ - omentuin which balances rel vad Keeps the soul to Its orbit avonnd the od, and faith works by love and A nvnt's character Is tested by What he receives; it it improved vy what Aves. hen, it is novler pleasu, nd more Jaating. ‘There ts zbut we use the gift, and by r; but to have given is to Nave mace a conquest of seiflsuness, and v0: 2e8 an iin ol tt mortal fact 1 the ti wu “thing of beauty witch 1 for bim ever. PRICK'S CATIDDRAL. Si. The Vicar General’s Views on bility. A Te Deum was sung at Patrick’s Ca yesterday morning in honor of the the dogma of infallibility. Fatt General, preached a short disconrs of infaltibility, He would not, ! Papal Infalli- meaning to omy account of the writings of the F Charen npon this subject. But there is a ta sion in. regard to the meanings of UL especially among those who are noi Cv There are | many who are under the impr t infailipllity means that the Pope cannot err in any matter. ‘This | is not so, The dogma of infailibility NOT A NEW DOGMA. It ts as old as the Church itself, The Ecumentcal Counce defined that dogma. Infallivility does Pope cannot sin or cannot make ye eriors of judgment m affairs of | brid = OF J science. But it means he Pope, speaking atieara, cannot err. As speaking oNeiaily on matters of, faith he cannot n ert, Aufalivility is ot personal, ib Is official Tbe | the law in his own hand? | dertul >rotestanis that ihe relen of | and the | to denote str, restut from the use of # sword are FF - to the persons upon whom they are infleted; like the rod in th providence of God, $ which observation may | o things: | | of mankind, a period of universal Great aniled Olure Church, which ha an | must suppose so uni- | js between Church and & the published new. during recent yes elsewhere is sutt uuion will cease ere long in ail civilize Itis what | admitota partiel ‘Thenee followed a sermon | mother of Pope ts infallible as being the Successor of St Peter. Now, Christ presen. for St Peter that his faith might not fail, and He said, “Thou arc Peter, and upon this rock willl oud my @hureb. Feed my sheep, feed my lambs.” Now, here is Infaillbility conferred on St, Peter, Plus the Ninth 1 the sce cessor of St. Peter, and like alt prececing Popes, Cooter tae the same oficial position with same tributes, Infallivility is now a dogma of the Chureh, and Catholics mast believe tat when the Pope speaks oficiatly he ts mnfailible, THE MUSIO of yesterday’s mass was by Gustavus Schmitz, the cathedral organist, and was ttnely rendered, the singing of Mme. Chomi bemg parucniarly worthy of mention. Father MeGean officiated at the solemn masa, After it Was over a Deon Was sung by the choir, the Vicar Gencral occupying the altar. AMERICAN FRAE CHURCH, ‘The Franco-Prussian War Viewed in Prophe- tie LightThe Sitanttow Disenysed from « Keligious Point—Sermou by the Kev. Charles B. Smyth. An Interesting sermon was preached last evening by the Rev. ©. B. Sinyth, at tie American Free Church, Masoute Hall, There was a large assemblage, and the remarks of Ue reverend gentleman were listened to with devout attention, After the prelin- inary services, Mr. Sinyth took Lis text from Matthew, ,4—“Teame not to seud peace on earth, bur a sword.” He said:—Bullets are blessings. He was a bene! ' to the human race who invented gun- powder; and revolvers make peace between nations, and between individuals sometimes more edfectually than any other means, When civil enact- iocots are inadequate to secure the rights of an indi- vidual or to punish for the wrongs he has sustained a pistol, well directed, purpose ; and who shall say that under such circumstances one docs wrong to fall back upon his natural rights and take And when international law {s deficient or inoperative, or when insult is ) or wnjury revetved, or misunderstanding ere. ated oy wrong attempted among nations, an app to the sword, and thereby to the Great Arbiter of nations settles the dispute. thing. progress Of The bullet is a won- private individnais it the libertine, and stills when all other like manner tt Jes dynasties; Cetermines the Minits rd empires; cheeks the ambition of les the hanghtiness of despots; frees ples long down-trodden and’ pant- and paves the way for the arts of venents of civilization and the gospel. Hen: NG OF B s xdmess mentioned in the sublime pas- U1, 1—$—"Who 18 this that cometh with dyed garments from Bozrah / tis priows in bis apparel, travelling in the of h ength? 1 that speak Among stops the of the tongue means are sethic MING righteousness, save. Where!ore thon red in r and thy garmer like him tha reade:d in the wimelaty have troddes the wine press alone, and of ti as none with me; for Ewht tri and trample’them tn my fv > sprinkled upon my jal ple there " ear of my re- and 4 looked, and tere was nor that there was none to up- e own arm brought salva: fury it up people in mine Ds 3 ther them drauk my fury,and 1 will wn strength to the cari the lovis kinduesses of the Lord, and the pralses of the i according to all that the Lora hath bestowed on » and the great goodness | toward the house of Israeli, which He hath bestows on them according to His mercies, and according io the multitude of his loving Kindnesses * * "* so be was their Savioar.” Hence the assertion of Christ in the text “I came not tos nd peace on carth, but a sword. The word “sword”? im this Verso if employed metapnoricaliy. and hoodshed, ‘fhe Words waich iS PLEA BY NO ME AN hand ‘ol & parent, tt, in “tie tigh panful, 1s usefal to bring we ¢ resulis; and therefore Christ 2 es not 10 k about it @s part of the — beneticen economy of His Kingdom for the subjugation of the world to “Aim- self, We sre not to understand by ths that Christ approves of persecution, bub that He en- dovses the doctrine t 1 goverument 13 an or. nee of God; that it has its appropriate place m 1e Christ'anization of mankind as well as the Gos- and that mm the exercise thereof conflicts will a » painful and sanguinary We rrived at a period’ in tie Ss history when we may look for much strife carnage among the nations of the Old orld, 1 am not of those who do or aid at any {me entertain the opinions conrern- ing prophecy of such men as ether Cummings of Loudoa, or Mi or Suow of America; yet 1 believe that we are in one of the most eventful eras stich os 18 pointed ont in Scripture drawing mg not to the Nual jadg- 1 of Sublunary things, but to a iaguillity, when ail men will rience to all mere iuman poten- civil, and supuitied thera- ic, or s fall of conflict, nana destracti renonneed all belongs in- period. tantine the and State he pnt the former in | yO} nis y to u condition foretn to its original constitution: when King Pepin gave to the oman See certa tates in Italy I \ted a great confiet between the prin and those of a fetiered ued ever since, with more age at dierent times under various which wil know no end until on other of the opposing forces shall be com- subdued. Atl ary to s¢ iess fury, to PHEUS EYE that the doctrine of union ate 13 doomed, Attention to of events as they have transpired ‘8 in Italy, Austria, Lreland and ent to convince us that such & ed lands. Ti Pstablisued Chureh of England in Ireland is gone; that of Scotland will follow; then thut of * | Eugland itsell. eantime the temporal power The preseat war Tie Pope must come down, hich hus been go- is thereto, The great strife ing on in what may be called the religio-civil world during Uie last three hundred and filty years has really been one between the suprem: Ds on the one hand, and the se mt auihority of man over the con- | ou the other. The former must all triuimple id shall a announced is too enim one diseours tora, we der the necesstiy of Jaying a large part ol it over untilnext Sabbath morning. W. shall then prove to you that we are bow arrived at (hat age of the world in whieh the sixth aud th in proe oitts Y and Prassia ers of Europe, and probabiy Asia and Africa Will be myoived in REVOLUTIONY T STRUGOL All hop may look anticipat ‘ate siragy the “bloodiest pic m the apoleonic dynasty and the rested in the strug- je of the Atlantic de on this congratulate ourselves that we are thousand miles away from the the- tors, and not 6 Stars and Stripes’? in the sea of blood that will ¢ y some more remarks im the fot st speaker closed = with =a ration 3 hearer o remember that Chiis' gns 8 me above all nations, and that every Individual and every nation that will not stibmit to iis anthority peacefuily shall be humbled or desiroyed by the sword of Mis power. “Be wise he ear now. or © ye kings; be instructed, ye judges ort serve tae Lord with tear and ro) with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He be angry, and ye perish (rom the way when His wraith 13 kindled Vite. Bessed are all they that put their trist am o. ise n Him. ‘The nation and kingdom that will uioi serve Thee shall perish,” SAINT AVS CALHOLIC CHURCH. Celebration of the Anniversary of the Birth of Saint Anmo—Remarks on the Dogma of Infatlibility. At Saint Ann's Church a very large and devout | eougregation embled yesterday, it being | the birthday of the patron salut of the choreh. Mass was celebrated by the oMictating | priests, and during Ks progress the music was beautitully rendered by the well known choir, which includes the names of such celebrities as Mile, de Braure, soprano; Mile. 0, Gornien, contralto; and Signor Ervant, tenor. Mr, Louis Dachaucr, pre- sided at the organ, and Signor Rando! sang for the offertory Procu's Bcce Pausin Te Deum, by Coceea. vom Ecclesiastes, “They left beljind them,” &¢. The preacher spoke of the Manifold virtues which Sf. Ann possessed, as the her who should become the mother of Christ. He held wp for the rmitation of all who were mothers and wives her example, and hoped that as they had thus chosen THFIR PATRON SAINT they would thus jollow in her lootsteps and’ prove faithful and consistent mothers und wives, ‘he ser- mon Was a long one, enlogistic of the saint, and con- veying many lessons in morality to the heaters. Afterwards the Rev. Father Preston sai On this the occasion of (he declaration by the Council of the docizine of infallipilty—a doctriue which hag ever For tiie day | | Chureh | | | had ouce NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1870, been tanght by the Charch, and which has now as- sumed {8 true position as an article of faith; 1 would say that trath is always tfallible and abs. jute, and that else It could not emanate from Cot, When our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ said to Peter, “butld your church upon a rock,” and said “1 wil ever feed your lambs,’ we ail know that Christ, who was ever a faithful shepherd to us, gave into the hands of Peter, whom he loved, the sane ineffable grace and infailibvle spirit whic he wssessed, Through his successors St. Peter has ran mitted that spirit to us and to his chosen repre- sentative, and through us our Lord speaks to you, His Church, which is the only holy one, 1s the FOUNDATION OF ALL LAW and all science as it extsts as the soundatton for the superstructare of society, and we, recognizing It to- day upon the anniversary of our patron sainc, mnst remember as His flock to kneel at His bequest with all reverence and prayer, ‘Tis is perliaps the last anoiversary of our saint's day we shail ever celebrate here 1 this church, and no more ftdng occasion could exist on Which to make an offering towards the erection of a new ediiic 'e feel that Christ is with us to-day as we gather around this aliar, aud, belleving that under the guardiansilp of Samt Peter He will never forget us.as humble mem- bers of Bits flock, but wit! guard and protect His true congregation, we will devoutly pray, A ve Dew was then sung and the congregation dispersed, CHURCH OF PHE MESSilt, Hell with John Knox Preferable to Henven with the Pope-Sermoa by Dr. Collyer. Though most of the fashionable world has been transplanted to the summer resorts which are scat- tered over the country, yet a goodly number of wor- shippers assembled yesterday morning at the pretty Church of the Messian, on Murray Hil, The preacher, Rev, Mr. Collyer, is a man of fine presence, with an open, sturdy countenance that assuredly tells not of fasts and vigils, He 19 a native of Scot- land, and treated bis audience to a sermon of the old covenant, no surrender type. He took his text from the seventh chapter of Matthew, six- teenth verse:--'Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thisues "> The uewspapers of this and other coun- iies, he sald, contwn every year. elaborate reports of the state of the crops anil the expectations of the harvest. Correspoadents are seat off to the great gram-producmg districts to give the dwellers in cities the resul. of their persoual observation, Rx. changes are copied, and, in fact, everything is done Vo give the people an exact nouon of the quantity of LIPE-SUSPAINING PRODUCTS stored up for the coming year. Occasionally a false statement appears, gs, tor instance, In the Chicago papers, wich yearly represent a total failure of ail crops. ‘But this misstatement does not bind sensible mich who know the object jor which such 1aise aeser- tions are made. In Hike manner the deaih statistics of each country are compiled with the greatest care, and it js ascertained how ‘many die out of a thou: sand in every city and town. The average period of life is also Computed, and tabdies record how Jon coriain classes of men live, from the Sheviield kutie- erincer Whods decrepit at thirty-five to tie yeornan of Westmoreland who is bale and hearty at Seventy. The state of education and the number who nave mastered its elementary branches ts also found ont. Iu fact the whole physical and social condiion of the uation is periecuy known. It would be uselul and justructive also to study the MORAL CONDITION This is done to a certain extent by of a people. studying the prison records; but, aiter all, {his giv but a very faint idea of the religious feeling of the Paere are many strange forms of religior tance, that ofthe Thugs mn Jadia, who + lieve they perform @ sacred duty tn slaying au un- traveler, and the religious faith of the canni- a the wids of Aivica, Many great criminals ia Sight of God hold high positions in soc. other Ineans minst therefore be taken to asc state of religion in the various countries on wie face of the earth. itis generally found that education, ty, health and region go haud ta hand, A$ @ conse juence, that religion whose mi ders are best educated and best supplied with THE GOODS OF EARTIL must be the best reiimo) “Ye shall know thom by i 7? neing over Christendom we ind divides iseif into Romanism, of ek Church is an adjunct, aid Pro- testantism, while ritualism stands between ihe two, like the blank teal between the Ola and New Testa- ments, ‘Three hundred years ago some great and good men, terrifed by the growing corruption of the Charen of Kome, sececcd from its ranks and established ANEW AND PURE CHURCH. While the oid religion wanied subjection to Itself and taught its members that they need not tiink at allon religious matiers, that they need not know much—in fact, the less they knew the betier—the new religion preached the great doctrine of personal responsivility, with the Bidole as the guide of ibe. Witness the results of the tworeligtons. Those who retained the old religion, with its inummeries, its rites and forms, are stilt DEGRADED AND Those who embra: the ORANT. new religion comprise the richest, greatest nations on the globe. ‘his is evident to any unprejudiced observer, and this Alt must proclaim “Protesianiusm as the best religion. _ Protestantism asain divided with the conservative, represented by the Episcopal, and radical, represented by We Presbyterian Chi In the Parttans of New England we fad persom- fled material prosperity, Cultivated tatelligeace, honesty and morality, and every honest man must Knowledge the excelicnce of their jorm of r ols bevel, But, in sober wut, he sala, if Cathol could prove by documentary evidence that Protest ants were doomed to perdition, yet he would rater go TO HELL WITH KNOX great lights of Conzregationaliam than nih Heavens with Pio Nowo and tho Protestantism 1s undery ording to tle ivevitable law of pre e afraid they were going too t were going to the devil; but when he looked at the great men who were leading the movement, such as Parker, Martineau and Co- lenzo, he believed ii Glvinely impossible to be lost in such company, and the othe CAVARSIE PRESBYLERIAY CHURCH. A Neligious View of the War in Gurope—Ser- mon by the Rev. David Mitebel! at Canarei Prosbyterina Church. At the Canarsie Presbyierian church, No. Ww Greene street, yesterday, the Kev. David Mitchell preached a war sermon, taking for his text Matthew, X., 344—“1 came not to send peace, but a sword.” ‘The meaamg of the words in the text, he said, was most strikingly rendered within the bosom of the Church herseif; for her history was a history of passion, strife, persecution and murder. There had been two great parties in the from ihe very beginning—the smaller one forcible as to principles and the larger one strong numerically. Elijah and the priests of Baal represented them. One was ever protesting against wrong, while the other usurping and employing brute force, and at the same time laylag claims to infalibillty, The Church had never been without her protesting side, At first Prote resembied a mere siivery vliread of waters r through a dry and parched land; but that stream had now become a mighty river, a swollen volume which, rushing througir THE DEAD SEA OF TRADITION, raised from iis lowest depths the slime and mud of error And swept them betore it into the bottom of te ce the grand Reformation that mighty river stantism had neyer lost its depth, width, or vor jeaye the figure, Protestantism had suc ed; but the end had not yet come, and so there was no peace buta sword. Since we end of last year pa- tience had been exhausied by the jong ana dreary Ecumenical Council convened by the present Pope, whose crowning act was the declaration of iafallt- bilit That dogma partook of the nature of the usurpations that made Protestantism a necessity throughout the history of the Church, Those wio proclaimed such @ doetrine were the worthy su S- sors of the men who held that the earth did not move around the sun, that the blood did not vircu- Jate and who discovered—probably from some mere casting vote—that the Virgin Mary was divine, or that Christ was presenti the bread and wine that been cousecrated by prieaily lauds, ut to the enlightened Protestant mind of the pre- sent age such things were, of course, avsurd. And even to those who stil clung to Rome, but who were more or less under the Intiuence of Protestant- ism, such as many Roman Catholics in England, Scotiand and America, the course pursued at Rome Was repulsive in the extreme, But was not Protest- autism sill AT WAR WITH ERROR’ Was not every commonwealth at the present moment @ batilefleld on which the sword of Protest ants, Was Warring with the mighty gung of Ro- manisiay What was Fenjanism but Romun- ism attacking peaceable and novle _insiltu- | tions? What was the meaning of Rome's temporal power but the force of the French armies to prevent Italy rising to its true nationality and treedom? Why did not Spain prociaun herself an honest and free republic, and rise at once to the enters and nobility of the United States? It was hecause she was kept dowu by the power of Rome. What was the significance of that dreadfui riot oc- curring in the streets ot New York the other day? Jt was siinply thatthe misguided children of Rome, actuated by the very spirit that had in the mmeteenth century declat the dogma of intalltollity, would interfere with peacetul and truchdoving eiti- zens in tie celebration of an annual holiday, and would strike the colors of liberty trom the masts of the American ship of independence. And what, he would ask, was the meaning of the prosent war movement in Europe? Was it a mere dynastic bat- Ue? Wasit one Mar rushing to the jast plank for his own preservation from destruction? ‘No, but it was the old battle between PROTESTANT AND ROMISH PRINCIPLES. Did not France represent the spirit of that council of Pins IX. that had declared the Papal dogma? ‘True, the Emperor of France cared not one stvaw for the wrangles or decisions of priests im regard to infalibility, absolution, penance and all the rest of it, That, however, was not the question. The war of France upon Prussia was the war of the spint of Rome against freedom and ctyilization. The Huiperor of the French would be true to his natural born tn- stincts, France was intolerant of the spirit of Lberty—that spirit which would give freedom of | RAVING THE thought to the people, a free press, sound instruc. tion, @ pulpit untrammelied by the tyranny of Rome; tat spirit whieh would give a nuited Germany to Europe—a power that would be a true potse on whieh France on the one side and Russia on the other might balance themselves. I the present war should go on until it inveived Britain, Spain, Austria and Naly—and it might be continued even il American neutrality could no longer be up. held with unsuliied hearts and nands—what Would it be bub the old batile of rigit against wrong, of trath against error? When Britain, Russta, America, and 1 might be free Italy—and every man on God’s earth haying the least spark of the dre of Uberty in his heart would naturaily gather around the forces of King William—then we sould have Protestantism rising to its most giganuc propor- tons, iuimnaied by that spirit that will not lsien to the intolerance of Rome, whether she be represented by an infalitble Pope or by a proud and defiant. Em- {a then we should have the enlightened civilized hristian minds of the world rise uo and say, “You muy try to silence us, but we will do battle to the last drop of blood for the trath of God. Here we stand, and here, if need be, we are ready to oe but slaves we shall not be. Priestly tyrauny we wil not brook. Papal infallibility we proclaim an insutt 5| to God aud to human Instincts”? After describing the appearance of the country where the drst battle is hkely to take place, Mr. Mitchell said:—The world awalts the clash of arms with earnest expectation. It may be now as | ad. are ‘ou that a conflict has commenced that will putin the shade ali the great wars of ancicut and modern times. ‘THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE RID NB are being replenimned with troops. ‘the French @ are advancing to the shores of this Hudson in Europe. The old crumbling battlements which stand on the steep banks of the Rhine as monuments of ancient feudal times will assume the freshness of a sccond youth as they are made ready and furnished for defence. We every moment to hear of the erasn of war, Both Powers boast of thelr skilled generals. With equal ide the Wmperors Jook upon their soldiers as the empodisent of courage and bravery. ‘they have both learned from victory and defeat the art and seience of war. ‘They are led by brave Emperors and generals who are more to therr armies than the figureheads to shipa, who are indeed the very life of their followers. They are both armed to the -t-eth with the most deadly Weapons of wariure, and having each @ historic past to mepire them. When the crash comes tt will pro- bably foria a record of bloodshed and ram such as has yet never found apiace on ihe page of history, WE SHUDDER TO THINK OF Ir. But eventually it must come, and where it will end who can tell? ‘here may be the Bannockburn, the Waterloo, or the Gettysburg of thig war, no ouc’ can predict. Ifthe onset of these armed forces end in complete ruin for both nations it will lead to a peace that sball last uffil these passions shall rise again inio thar demoniac spirit which is the god of war Ii thetr onset be followed by victory for one side oF the other, it Wi'l involve the nations of thc earth, and the picture that arises before our imagination of havoc, bloodshed and death, is frightful in the ex- treme. But God, the King of Kings, reigneth. As trom the Gettysburgs and Waterloos of past ages we can point to emancipation from certain evils, so tt may be ihat from this unexpected and starthog war we Inay owe ula! trae liberty aud religious freedom for Which the world ts pauting. TIS TABL ACLE. Temptations and Hew They Should be Kee sisted—Sermon by the Kev. Dr. Brown. Rev. Dr. Brown, of Hamilton Coilege, preached the sermon in the Tabernacle, corner of ‘Thirty-lourth strect and Broadway, yesterday the morning servi He took iis text Jrom the fourth chapter of Epistle to the Hebrews. He said that When the devil took the Saviour up on the top of a high mountam and showed him all the possessions wich would be His did Me bow down and adore him the jate of the whole world, as it were, de- pendended upon the result. The evil spirit, whose reign over the earth had been so disastrous, knew Tuli well that if the Saviour accomplished His mis- sion his reign would cease, and he determimed, if possible, to putanend to it. Batthe Saviour was not She of the redeemed, but the Redeemer, and His answer defeated the Gevil in bis purpose against the salvation of mankind, It ts true that the Son of God could as casily TURN STONES INTO LEAD as He could water into wine, and it certainly would have been no wrong it He had tt in liis power to so appease His hunger; but His answer to Satan wasjas if He nad told hum to stand aside, (hat the hour when He should mantiest His ower had not yet come, and that He was willing to siarve and suiter patientiy for the sake of menkind, unul He who bad sent Hin would tell Him His task was well done. It was a temptauion that, judging things from a purely hu- man standpoint, was irresistible. When, trom the piunacie of (he temple, tae Devil bade Him to throw fimseif from the height, it was as though he had dared Christ to claimed to be— show that He was what He at it was truly written that angels would bear iilin up lest he ‘shoud dash Ms. fool agalust a stone. it was the tempiation im another form with which he was assailed when He huag upon the cross aud was sneered at and told to come down from the gibbet if he was reaily King of Israel and son of the living God. The reverend gentieman then at considerable length went on to suOW What the temptations of the saviour taught us. Temptations, he said, were unavoidable, but a giving way to them under any circumstances was never excusable. The stronger they seemed to be the more sternly they sliouid be resisted, Thew strength did not consist so auch ta themseives as in An's Weakness to fight them to the biter end. It was in man’s heart that the weak potuts were, and just in proportion as ‘THY WILL TO RESIST lost in force the teimpiation gained a greater hold on the one tempted, 1 soon @ total succomb- ing to its power followed. I the apple were {air velore bemg terapted to partake of 4, we admired its beauty and gradually U ptation grew upon us—not because it of itself became + » but simply because we gave it more welcome, mo: space in our hearts to work its ways. ‘The cating bow! is placed befo: man and he refus to take from it while all avout himdo, Jie quieuy refuses, ad becomes less und jess determined as the requests are mude ti pre carnestiy, and finally he consents to take a littie and that littic jays the foundation for many more littics, until he becomes as Willing a Slave as bis neigubors. It is not suill- cient to argue as it were With a temptation and against it, but one should turn o face from it and avoid everything that lea to it. It couid not but be remarked how the devil always assumed pleasant shapes and way! VEMPLING MEN TO RUIN, He always puts on the garb of an angel of light and aliures nen away from whatis might by the seeming beauty of lis attractions, and It was on thataccount that be should be met at every siep with a determination to conquer and & wil that would be Irresistible. The Saviour had gives us aa ex- aunpic of how temptations shouid be met; and though they might be never so trying, never so exhausting of our strength, they couid always be overcome in the end. The reverend gentiemen closed his sermon in an eloquent ¢ Xhortation.to the congregation Lo so act, $0 resist all Influences to ao evil, (hatthey would one day find their eternal reward tn the world to come, CORVGR SION" FST. ROSE OF OF THE YEW Ly cua ‘The ceremony of laying the corner stone of this new Roman Catholle churel was celebrated with the usual observances at five o'clock y day afternoon, An iinmense audience were assembled on the spot long before the hour appointed for mie ceremony, and the adjacent house tops and win- dows commanding a v. of the site of the new church were crowded with cager spectators, Punctually at five the procession ascended the orm erected upon the fonndation of the now . Four, A. B. societies, in full regelia, and two boys’ societtes, in begutifai uniforms, with ban- ners fying, and accompanied by a fine brass band, dd the procession of young girls who heralded clerical — processio ese young girls dressed in white, aud veiled. Their of white satin, with the emblazoned seu Virgin, was of great co-t and ‘The Clerteal procession, in ceremonial rob opsisted of the following priests:—The Rev. Dr. Starrs, V. 5.3 Re Burt- sell, of the Churct of the Epiphany; the ‘athers Flaouery, of St. Teresa; McCarthy and Larkins, of the Holy Innocen of St. Gabriel's; O'Reil! and McEvoy, of St. ‘ondor, of Staten Island ; Slinger, 0. 5. D., of Vincent Ferrers; Bouayen: ture Frey (Capuchin), (rom Stanton street; M. J. and M, C. O'Farrell, of St. Peter's; McKenna, 0! St. Rose of Lima, and many others, After THE LAYING OF THE STONE the Beatus Dui and the “Litany of the Saimis” were chanted by the reverend ciergy. The scrinon was preached by the Re’ Father M. J. O'Farrell, from the Apocaiypse of Si. John, 2 were bann image of the bl exquisiiely beautiful. with “Behold, the hand of the Lord me,” &c. The theme of was aon the — ntailibtiity rity of the Church as proven” by Scripture | and history, and the necessity for true reiigion being the guide of a nation so Tree in its government as ours, The new chuveh of ST. ROSK OF LIMA is to be immediately beiow the present building on Cannon street, between Broome and Delancey. It is to be butit in the modern Gothic style, With sand. stone facade and pinnacles. [f ts much needed, as the old churgh ts entively too small ior the congrega- tion and wants of the parish. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTS CHURCH. The Last Appearance of Mr. Beecher for the Season.—A Obaracteristic Discourse on How to Overcome Temptation.—His Early Uxpe- rence in Wine Drinking.—The Camic Side of Love and the Absent-minded Dencon. Mr. Beecher made his last appearance, and deliv- ered bjs lust ubvexpuces, for the scagon, yesterday. He was m excellent voice, and mentally and physt cally may be suid to have been in adiutrable condition. ‘The house was crowded, and the audience, many of whom were strangers, were fortunate in listening to one of Mr. Beecher’s characteristic discourses, inter- spersed with a few word-pictures, set in glowing imagery, and more than a few well told stories of the preacher's early life, so bestrewed with good jokes that the laughter was meritably loud and frequent, ‘The best way of overcoming temptation was the subject of the discourse, So skilfully treated was this world old theme that it seemed quite in order that the COMIC SIDE OF LOVE, the stinginess of a deacon, bad wine at the Com- munion, a sly hit at the thieving propensities of railroad directors, should be the woof and web of the Mlustrations of the sermon, The text selected was the sixteenth verse of the sixth chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hphe- slans—‘Above all, taking the shield of faith, where- with ye shall be able to quench all the flery darts of the wicked.’ ‘The introductory part of the discourse was made up ofa sketch of the figurative language of the text, “the shield of faiih,’? the reasons for the use of these metaphors, and an endeavor to account for the uniformity with which the Apostle always seemed to prefer illustrations that were in- dicative of action rather than plastic or lay figures, “The fiery darts of the wicked” were the tempta- tions that set men’s souls on fire, and it was this kiad of temptations that the Apostie said we were more closely lo be upon our guard against, The ordinary safeguard preseribed ¢gainst tempta- tions was faith: but then very few peopie seemed to Know wWwoat ia was, or if they did know they had very confused ideas ~ about it. When they tolu you you must have more yaith that, generally, really meant you must LED THE TEMPT\MONS TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. There was no better definition, of faith than that which Was givcn th the eleventh chapter of the He- brews—‘Trve laith i the substance of things hoped for, the ev.dence of tings not seen.” these things’ [t was nothing palpable. In the whole e of science was there anything that would enable as to see Wal honor was, for example; ahd yet all men kuew what honor was. As we get higher and higher in a life that ratsed us from savagedora to civilization, these higher faculties were more prized by us, ani we posed to a iife tha, was divine. We graduated through the basiar faculiles to the perceplive and the reiiective fuculties, ‘This was the yeneric defiuition of faith, There was also the faith of fea aroused to a bellet in the 1nvisthle from the sense of fear, There was another phase of faith—that worked by love. ‘Yhe graud resources of men against the temptations of their passtous isto live in a higher moralscatiment, To live in a higher range Is to be nearly proot avainst the assaults o: temptation, Men who live iow bave THR DEVIL LIVING HIGH over them almost alwa: He does not live over them only, but he is very active shooting barbs agalast th Alea 0 ous nto the batile of life and they let their ticc!ations go out praying. Now the Jess a man Knew sbout wicked things, the Jess he had his curiosity gratified, the better ww would be for him, Was it the glorious flowers, the rich, ripe, juicy landscape of grapes that hung over (he vinel\ands—no, if was the carrion, the dead sheep, not the living lamb—that the vulture Was hovering above tor and about to wing its Way to dart down w So men hover a it these: death-breeding, fever-infesting vemptauons untal Al perception of a life that is set on things No man could afford to thing dishonesily; no man could aford to think of murder; no man could look upon a woman, Jesus said, aad’lust after her without comiiteng adultery ‘fo resist these tempiations, When they came with all their glitiermg force, the whole armor of Gow must be put on; but to be an effectual resistance it must be the result of a well disciplined life. By dally watchiuluess must we get our iife into an attl- tude by which temptation shall pass harmlessly by. There were ceriain constitutional tendencies to tempiation that sould be considered, aud espe- cially should they be considered by paredts in train- fag their cliidren, He recollected weil the effect upon him of beg prokibited when young from drinking wine, With an active imagination he had thought that if UE DRANK A GLASS OF WINE he should sec visions end dream dreams. He ree membered the first time he tasied wine; his jaiher poured some wine into a Madeira gloss ana tiie giass was handed round among eight of them. Wien it came to fis turn aad he drank a litte of it he thought is mouth was on fire, for his young mouth had not got tanned then. He had never tasted anything like tt before and he was not satisfied, So George Woodruff, another boy, and himself, Zot some of this wine and went into a field and tried to armk it, Well, he lad bis imagination about wine dispelled by this experiment, and tasied it, Now tie active imagination in that case Was likely to lead, wiess cared Jor ana considered, into wreparabie evil. — But in his case he had no op- portunity given him for tasting wine, except com- munion Wine, and that im tose days Was not likely lo give you a tasie lor i; for he remeiubered thinks ing that it must have been the wormwood and ihe gall that they wave thein to «irink, and not the new wine of the kKiuzdom, There was the same danger m our treatment of the seatiment of love; there was nothing so beautiful ta this world as the mantfesta- Hons of Hus sentient, and yet we all laugn at it when tt manifests itself, It could not be too roman- lic, too absorbiug, too devoted, too nobie, too sentl- mental, and yet, when it peeps out and optrudes | ives, | itself before our own eye, how we sinile to ou ‘The only time when we don’t simile 1s when we have got this feeling 0: love ourselves, and then there is no siptliag. (Laughter.) [tis serious enough then. Now, it required care in pareats to so coniryi young people that they siouid not, when they opportunity, broak Uhrough an unwise if ‘So men, too, should leara to know where tempta- tion assailed them the most. To some forms of sin they were imprecuable, For exampie he (Mr. Beecher) woul never be under any temptation to steal, not having b-en a railroad director, (Laugh- ter,) if Deacon A, were in absence of mind to bring him some money to give away in charily—or he might put te avother way—if Deacon A. were to bring him some money for charity, and by absen of mind leave his pocketbook behind him (the rection of Uiis caused aroar of laughter) he (Mr. Beecher) would have no gisposition to steal the pocketbook. Against all temptation and its power over men there was the one great resistiess force of living under a boundiess starry hemisphere of hopes and Joy aud peace in Him who had been tempted like as we were. JAMES? Sie @.) CATHEDRAL, Services Yesterday—Midsummer MusicSer- mon by the Nev. Father O? Brica—“Make to Yourselves Friends of the Mammon of ini- quity.”” The services here yesterday, at half-past ten o'clock, although strictly in accordance with the rubric, embracing a high mass and sermon, were of ajess imposing character han on many Sundays. ‘There was likewise a v from the usual attendance, the appearan congregation pout of numbers being far more of some Protestant place of worship (not al sensa- tional = attractions) ordinarily presented in ¢ ‘The absence from in suggestive te cily, however, of very many of Wie regular at- | ub- tendants at Unis service, comprising the more s stantial—iu point of worldly goods—mem) congregation, accounts in great part for the sporadic appearance of the worshippers, the circumstance the early masses being ail largely attended account- ing for the absence at this lave Service of those less favored members whose means only peraut daily excursions tu search of health and recreation. it must be cou heticaliy co} sidered, the late mo of the year 18 Jess attractive th ss However pu the religious seutiment or elevated the devotion feeling, cn and women are alike acted upon by tn. fluences suchas beloug to thé higher powers of Catholic Worstip, which operate on the seuses, and ndependent vi the assistance gained from sucn in ivecting (he thougats leavenward, find a more worldly sense of pleasure in them, which operates as ®& power a io pious — pracites First of ihese is niu which, at this period of the year, is wiwaya indifferent. Hence, missing the grander effects and imspiriug display which in more favored times they enjoy, very many devout Caiiolics ac readily prepared to flad the heat an excuse for abseniing Uhemselves trom the atiending an earlier service, when in reality they a d by the inferior music companylng the |. bration of the Euchari sacrifice, Which offends their taste, and by substl- tating that which is distressing for that which was pleasurable, robs them not only of a coveted enjoy- ment, but gives pain instead. Jt must be coutessed there ts reason in this, and of the music at St. James yesteraay it caunot con- scientiously be said that 1 tended lo disprove ty assumption. To say the least, it was cistra and set one thinking in spite of oneself, how wonder. fnily different must be those celestial harmonies ¥ are told of as ever engaged in singing praiscsio Him, | and which grand chovas it is inteuded to swell. OF cour it ay be answered to ti that He looks ot to the execution, but to the spirit of the song; but surciy some. thing is due poor human nature which, cinuot be expected to enver into sympathetic union with the angelic cholr when the oaty link between the soul and It 1s thus imperie With cooler Weatlier, now- ever, an improvement in this respect may b> looked for which at the present me would be very dimeult to make. By le ep gunvices were very simple, consisting of & Nigh mass, with the Rev. Father Riley as ceiebrani. Gout ary to the usual castom the sermon was not preached unui near the end of the mass. Previous to the sermon eearstatine lassi LESSON Was taught in the reading of the uames of those ae- coaved members Of the parish who had died during What were | when men were j¢ for forty years he nad never | 'y considerable failing off of the | of the week, a practice in all Catholle churches, me ayers of the congregation belag at the same time Invoked for (he xepose of their souls. The list ves~ terday was unusually long, and as the priest read this death in @ loud, clear yoiwe in the otherwise silent’ church, every wor- ‘shipper revereutly knelt, and, with bent head, uttered a secret petition for mercy for those who would never more answer on this earth When their names were called, ‘The scene was ong aWakening the deepest emotions, Atter a number ob names had boen read, and others still followed seem ingly in endiess rotation, a perceptible shudder, that Was heard as well as fell, as of fear or horror, passed through the entire congregation, and when the \bt Was ended some moments elapsed before any rose vom their knees, so absorbed had they become by thoughts moving to prayerful action, . THE SERMON, 8 rt but full of instructive suggestion, was preached te the Rev. Father O'Bi young priest wo has ot Recency entered upon the duties of his sacred falling, having been o don Trinity Sunday ast at Saratoga. ‘This was his first pulpit eifort. Taking for his text the gospel of the day, being & Portion of the sixteenth chapter of st. Luke, De- ginning with the first and ending with the pint’, verse, In Which 1s related the parable of the unjust steward, he proceeded to point, in clear and su G language, the lesson it inculeated, After relerring to the constant practice of our Lord to speak In parables as though He believed that abstract truths, colored. with the trials o: life and natural existence, were the | best means of teaching the untettered Jews, the | preacuer drew tue attention of his hearers to the ecept, Morac ‘TO YOURSELVES FRIENDS OF THE MAMMON OF! UNIQUITY," It was, he sald, impossible for us to avoid inter~ course wiih the worldly aud wicked, but if we {ole low His teaching such association will be to our ade Vautage. For how could we practise the divine vir~ tue of charity if we separated ourselves wholly from those Whose state calls for ils exercise, Again, how often do men bewall their condition aud condeam the associations that feiter their reli gious aspirations, Women, too, bemoan thet Appa lower state, because of the tes of alfec- on they bear un irreligious husband or one steeped in debauchery. Let them not ery out against Provi- dence for this. Joseph's chastity was ouly tried im resence of Polphar's wile, Moses always had the | Invincib.e witi him when he stoed before Pharoah, | and the sainted Kroniea, by years of patient sutfer- ing and endurance, saw at last the conversion of her beloved son. We too, he concluded, may merit the same blessings if we accommodate ourselves to our duties with the saine submission, and em- ploy the graces giver as to that end, NEW JESSEY CHURCHES, | Dedication of a Church at Paterson--Sermon, | by Rev. Father Byrne. It fs characteristic of Catholics in every quarter of the globe to labor religiously in raising up and | embellishing temples to the Mving God, and to snow | forth to present and future ages the imperishaple | monuments of thei zeal. Such an edifice—the most | magnificent, perhaps, in New Jersey—was dedicated | at Paterson yesterday by the Right Rev. Dr. Wood, ot Phfladelph: Five years ago the out | Church of Si, John the Bapttst was promising to become too small for the congregation, | which was multiplying dally. ‘The reverend pastor, Father MeNolty, thereupon conceived tie brilliant idea of erecting, at the corner of Main and Grand , Streets, a church which would prove inferior to none in the dtoc The estimated cost was $200,000, | more than half of which has already been subscribed | by the parishioncrs. Where yet 1s much to be done— | @ stone tower 225 feet high ts to be bubt, farther | painting and long labors will be performed, but the | PRESENT ASPECT OF THE STRUOTORE uMcienily attests its worth, It is rectangular, 175 feet long by eight ight feet m breadth, and sixty- The | wails, which are of brown stone, ascend | erect to a height of forty-seven feet, whence | an arched roof springs. ‘The style is the English Gothic 0° the sixteenth century, and was successfully proposed by the architect, Mr. Keely. j ‘The ceiling of the roof ts adorned with patatings in. ; oll, asare also the side and sanctuary walis,’ Tho | windows are of richly stained glass, with stong | sashes, and were presented by various sovicties and | individuals, whose respective names appear in | golden letters at the lower verge of each. An ade~ quate descripttou of the interior would require mucly space; suilice it to say that on entering, yesterday, everything was combined which could please the | human eye. ‘At haii-past ten 0 clock upwards of two thousan persons were in the buiiding, while a vas’ throng 0! cluzens lined the sidewalks of Mam and Grau streets to witness the pageantry along the line of | march, A procession oi Some twenty pricsts, pre- ceded by acolytes and youths in surplice and aoe Was formed at the pastor's house and move towards the church. ‘These were tollowed by tia | Dshop, in embroidered cope, mitre and crozer, | after whom marched a numerous traja, including, | the . | MEMBERS OF The procession whence the bish4p, | two feet from the tip of the roof to the floor, THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. alted at the Main street entrances! with his attendants, walked, around the four walis during the gecitation of th | usuai prayers. The cultre throng th waiked tn order | Uvougn the middie passage of the church, having’ entered by the western door. ‘The litany of tne Saints was sing, the bishop intontng the versicles, and ali the iathers chanting the responses. At Uh , “Peccatores” tie celebrants arrived at the foot of | the altar aud all fell prostrate before tha Blessed Sacrament wll the = iitany was / ended, His Lordship was then led to “tha | bishop’s chair,” ou the epistie side of the sanctuary, where he assisted at the holy sacrifice. ‘Ihe cross+ | Dearer, thuriler, acolytes and other attendants soom, ) issned from the vestry, followed by the Rev. Father , Senez, who celebrated solemn mass, the Rev. Father | Hennessy, of Jersey City, and Father Garvey, of | Hackensack, ofieiating as deacon and sub-deacom respectively. ‘Tac organ and choir seat forth he | Straims of the “Kyrie, and the altar, beaatifully | adorned and iinmined, became dim amid : CLOUDS OF INCENSE. st was an Imposing sight to behold, the paintings bn either side, surrounded with lamps, contribuung to te solemmty of the scence in ihe sanctuary, during mass. The day itself was auspicious, and tha sunbeams bad a struggle to obtain admission througiy: the heavy colors of the windows. The congrega- on Was hot oppressed by the heat, the rays. being: | neutralized by tie thick Solid stone of the walls. After the gospel the Rev. Father Byrne, of Cam- den, preached au eloquent sermon, taking uls text from the fifth chapter of the second book of Para- | Hpomenon. Like we Hebrews of old, who had as- sembled to crown with the choicest gifts of earth: the hailowed precincts in which the ark of the cove-, naut was to he placed, they too came to consecrata a@ temple to the Lord—to witness the augasi cere- mony of religion and to periorm a visivie act of homage Within its watis. No wonder that tiey had labored so long to ratse that churef, for tney were inerely tolling for Jesus, who loves to dweil in the, taberhacies of men and thence to bestow the aband- ance of his riches on the people. It was not, there- fore, to be wor at that the ministers o1 the | Cattiolle Chureh have never failed in any age to combine the gv itius and veauty of Ezypt aud Rome in order to impress: VEE IMAGE OF THE DIVINITY on the labors of their hands. It might safely be argued that ii the iinmuiable and eternal God did not coniinue to animate the children ‘of the Church they never could —sueceed in vivifying tmanunaie nature and showing ) forth perpetuQiiy that sermons might really ve. | found in s:ones. What a contrast the scene before. thein made with that of a few years previously. | Then chitecture itself seemed dead; there were | no gorgeous cathedrals, no zeal to erect hem; but as soon as roy S$ OF CATHOLICITY landed on our shores then and then alone did the stones leap to hving form; tien there arose churches wherever a Catholle was to be found, and the de~ serted plains 0: the country gave way to the tower- ing aud cross.crowned spir | The speaker re.ated an inckdent of the wondrous influence which tue present Cathedral at Philadel- plia exerted cn at stant lady, and concluded by | drawing a beastiui parallel between the material | temples of Catholics and the »spiritual one, in which ail are untied, aud the still grander one in the saa biime sphere of eternity which awaits us. i At the close of tie sermon the Impressive ceres monies of the mass succeeded, and at the “dle mtssa est” the Bishop addressed a few words of congratu4 lation to the assemblage, and concluded by bidding them to fear not, though there be clouds now on the horizon. Ifa storm should visit the Church % will go by, as others have done. He then blessed the: congregation, aud mass Was over. The chotr, under Mr. Davis, rendered ample justice. to selections from Miliard, Farmer and Mercadante. The immense ihrong then moved siowly from tha | chureh, and wey frequently made the proud boast | that the new Chiirch of St. John the Baptist will be | the delight of inany @ sojourner when other towers: and churches tironghout the diocese shall have | crumbled tuto ruins. WASHINGTON CHURCHES, Sermon by Rev. Dr. Boynton on the War in ‘arope. WASHINGTON, July 31, 1870. There was very HitUe In the religious line here tov day worthy of record. The bulk of the parsons Seen to have gone oii to recreate, and thelr congregations, per consequence, are condemned to live without religions nutriment wnifi the cool forenoons return once more. Rey. Dr. Boynton is among the imde- fatigable clergjmen who remain here attending to their duties, «ad le preached to-day in the Assembly Presbyterian church from the text “Neither shail they Jearn war any more.” As those lost in pathless forests and wandering on through many dangers sce the sunlight once more sleeping brighterjaud loveiler than ever on the fields and habitations of mea, so we, lost in this Wilderness world, its wail of suffering in our ears and war's conflict around us, stumbling on,over grayes and