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RELIGIOUS. Services and Sermons in the Metro- polis, at the Sea Side and the Resorts of the Fashionable. Clerical Criticisms on the Franco-Prussian War. The Rev. C. B. Smyth on the Roman Beast. Hamlet with Hamlet Left Out—Beecher’s Chureh Without Beecher. ‘The churches were quite well filled yesterday, and the worshippers included many of the devotees of Jashion who have run into town from the seaside to Witness the race to-day between the world- Jamous yachts america, Dauntless aud Cam- bria for the Queen's Cup. Considering the fact Vat the most famous preachers are resting alter ‘the arduous jabors of a protracted season of divine teaching, in some quiet corner of the country, or Tanning themselves with thelr taurels under the hot sun on the sands of the ocean, the following re- ports are alike creditable to the doctors and the ebarches, AMERICAN FRE CHURCH. “The Benst of the Revelations”—Sermon by the Kev. Charles 5. Smyth, An interesting sermon was preached yesterday, by the Rev. ©, B. Smyth, at tae American Free Church, Masonic Hall, There was a large assem- Dlage, and the remarks of the reverend gentleman were listened to with devout attention. after the preliminary services Mr. Siwyth took his text from Revelations, xiv., 9and 10:—“If any man worship the beast and his mage, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out Without mixture into the cup of his tndtgnation.” He suid:—Ever since the dawn oi Christianity there have been two great antagonistic principles in ope- Tation in the world—the one that of civil and reli- gions Uberty; the other that of despotism and intole- rance, Christ was the embodtment of the former; a perverted human nature of the other. The latter has been at work in the Chureh since the day when the people of a certain village of the Samaritans, having refused to recetye Christ, the apostles James and John, addressing him, inquired, “Shall ¢ call cown fire from heaven and consume them*’ but Christ rebuked them, saying, know not what mar In tae book of Revelation of spirit ye are’ of." Und these two prin- ciples me aphorically represented by two women— the one clotued with the sun, the moon under her feet, and wn of twelve slars upon her head; the Other a person of ill-repute, seated upon a SCARLET COLORED BEAST, and upon many waters, These became manifest at a od future to that in which the writer of te Revelation lived. The political power through which the woman on the scarlet colored beast exe! her mfuence ts Roman, tor so tt 1s expressly declared when of tus woman the apostie says, Xvii., 1s, “The woman which thou sawest is that great chy which Yrelgneth over the Kings of the earth;” and we know from history that whea he wrote Rome was the dominant. city of the worid. And seeing that the elty of Rome ruled the world at that time the events which are mimutely de- seribed in Revelation are properly understood to take place, for the most part, within the geograph- teal limit of what was then the Roman empire, or atl Europe (except Ireland), together with part of Asia and Africa. Some persons entertain the opinion ‘Uhat Unis beast is the CHURCH OF ROME, Dut that I concelve to be a mistake, because the Church haa an existence before this’ domination, and had a separ: existence also from the beast With the seven heads, from which this sprang. I¢ involves the Church of Rome in so far and so long only as that Church ts combined with the temporal, power of the Roman dominion; and the principle of union between Church and State herein represented, of which this beast with two horns 1s a Symbol, May More or leas atfect Other churches as Weil as the Church of Rome, although the Jatter is amore immediately concerned. Now this anomaly, this monstrosity, this hybrid which is the result of the aduiterous connection between Church and Suave, may ve considered to have had 4ts incipiency when ‘STANTINE THE GREAT ablishment of Christianity as a thing compulsory throughout the Roman empire, although 4t did not reach 1ts height and full development ex- cept slowly by several stages. And as eacli of the preceding forms of Roman domination had its limit and passed away, so tuls is not to last forever: its days are numbered, and the time 1s approaching ‘when it too will cease. And the limit set to each of fis stages, I rake tt, is twelve hundred and sixty days wentioned in fevelations xI., 3; iL, 6, which Is the same period as the forty-two months, chapter ., 2; Aull, 6; and the “thc, times and half time,’ 14, which interpreted prophetically, , me 1,260 years, and each year and not Julian, and theretore con- fisting Of 360, and not of 365 days, the period is reully equal to 1,242 years. speaker then proceeded by tracing the differ- decreed the e: being propliet eni vials through the history of the nations of Europe ull the French revolution, which took piace near the close of the last century, which he satd completed the pouring out of the fourth and made Way lor the ‘This tell upon the seat of the Beast, which he explained to mean the dominions Which more immediately relate to the Roman Seo, and was exhausted in A. D. 1848, when the Koman revolution took place andthe Pope iost several of Dis cstases and great changes were wrought im oiler of the Papal countries of Europe. CEURCH OF THe SIRANG RS. A Noble Act of Commodore Vanderbilt—Keep- ing tn the Love of God--Sermon by the Kev. Dr. Deems. For two years the Church of the Strangers has been worshipping m the large chapel of the Univer- sity, Dr. Deems succeeding bis friend Dr. Hawks in the occupancy of that chapel, The Church of the Strangers is undenominational and unsectarlan; a ristian chu requiring only faith in good living for membership. Some time since the board of trustees, thinking t chapel not exactly adequate to the wants of the congregation, decided to purchase the Mercer street Presbyterian churen for the sum of $50,000, July 31 was the day for the purehase, when Commodore Vandervlit came for- Ward and placed in the hands of Dr, Deems a certi- fied certificate of deposit for that amount, made payabie to ‘ue Voctor, with the understanding on the part of Mr. Vanderbiit that it shouid be applied to the purchase 01 the property. 1tis proper to aad lial this was A SPONTANEOUS OFFER on the part of the Commodore, without the sligh hint or solicitation on the part of either Dr. or any member of his chure This is, Indeed, a most Hobie act on the part of Mr. Vanderbilt, wud long atier the bronze statue over the Hudson River Railroad depot may have deen melted down to make other monuments, Ni tory W ptuate the fact that Cornelius Vande Dui gavea church toa congregation representing je ct but the large and catholic region of Jesus arist. At ine service yesterday there was large congre- gauon, Many of whom were strangers, Dr. Deems preached froin the Lwenty-tirst verse of the € of Jude, He said tbat preachers ouzht to preg abe heart. Paul has said, “With the heart man velieves unto righteousness.” It was a ppllosophical slatement. Every man knows that more of Ms errors spring from lis heart than from his head. Mew strive 80 much to keep their heads right foward God instead of their hearts, You never can comprehend God with your head; you may appre- end Him with your heart. The love of God im the text does not mean our Jove for God, but His for ns. We are not tere ex- borted to keep ourselves In tue power of God or in the wisdom of God, but m His love. There is no m- proyement to the moral character from the power hor trom the wisdom of God; but there is from His love. To be kept in His power is to feet one’s self THE GIGANTIC HANDS hich may close and crush us. To be kept in tis wisdom is fo be afloat on a shoreless and fathomiess #ea, over Which tempests unaccountably burst. Whep we keep ourselves in iis love we feel that Almightiness 18 harmiess, and we are no ionger be- wilidered by Ube iMeasureless wisdom of the Intiniie, Love guides omnipotence and renders solutions to the puzzies which ommiscience seems to present to us, We Keep ourselves in God's love for us dy ac- tivity, by prayer, by hope. The Apostle says:— ““Butding up yourselves on your most holy fatth.” Here is active Christian life, If your sense of the love of God has grown feeble perliaps tt ts because ‘ou have been so engaged about other things that Your Structure of character hag been lying idie, and en you come back you see the work unfinished, You blame God. You say, ‘He does not love me.’ Yes he does. But he does not love your idieness and never does for you what you can do for yourself, “PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST.” All tender communion between lgyerp ‘Goepep the nrist and | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. AUGUST § 1870, rit. In fe note Oe of inf. nite love. *] for the mercy of our Lord jus Oscint wate etareal ire.” The hope of the future. This includes past and present future, It involves the exnibition of God in the Father, in the Christ, in the Holy Ghost. It vests all there is of us in all there is of God. ‘We ought to keep ourselves in the love of God be- cause it ts In us a love for God, and love is the essence of all true religion, There are too marks of a false religion. One is a mere outward rourd of ceremony, a mere music box with the pegs set to the vibrators and wound up to be run by a are like the Ortental prayer revolver or like the Ocetdental ritualism. Another 1s fear, terror, a feeling that every human step 18 an error and God has @ sleep- less eye and a sleepless vengeance, This is fetish- ism—as much a real devil worship, whether it shape the midnight revelries of @ cultivated man in the heart of Christendom or make the teeth of a savage negro chatter in the horrid solitudes of an African forest. God’s relation to us is a relation of love and we must have the same feelings towards Him or else all 1s unnatural and hateful, ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Conformity to the Will of God—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Haight. The attendance at this church yesterday was not very large owing to the fact that most of the mem- bers of the congregation have gone to the country. The services were conducted by the Rev. Dr, Haight, who, after an appropriate psalm bad been harmoni- ously rendered, preasved an instructive sermon, taking his text from Job Ix., 4—‘Who hath nard- ened himself against God and hath prospered.” ‘The reverend gentleman alluded to those who hard- ened themselves against the Almighty and to the inevitable result which followed theix faithiessness, They walked in a way of their owp mstead of fol- lowing the path pointed out by the almighty and stood presumptuously in the ways of God and forgot His commandments, Such persons under- valued His institutions and especially His Church, failing m LOVE, ATTACHMENT AND DUTY towards it. They forgot they were stewaras, and must one day give an account of their stewardship. ‘They forgot their baptismal vows by which they were bound to the service of God, stifling the voice of conscience, Those who thus acted came within the meaning of the text alluded to, and the question Mught be asked if they ever succeeded in anything they undertaok. He then alluded to the sins of our first parents, and the sad consequences of their offence. He also adverted to the fate of the King of Egypt, who had repeatedly disobeyed the mandates of God and who at length suffered such EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT for his crime. And as it was in tne days of the prophets so it was in the days of the Son of Map. He came to His own and His own received Him not. In their rage they exclaimed, “His blood be upon us and upon our children,” and that blood was upon them. But those who hardened themselves against God were not only defeated, but shamed. Man’s happi- ness here and hereafter was the great object devised by the Almighty, but if man proved disobedient and unfaithful he cut the rope that alone could rescue hun from everlasting death, The reverend gentie- man tlnally referred to ‘THE LISTLESS INDIFFERENCE 80 often exhibited in churches and to the great apa- thy displayed in matters of religion. He concluded an eloquent discourse by exhorting the congrega- tion to bear in mind the words of the text, assuring all that the most strict conformity to the will of God Was necessary for salvation. MURRAY BILL PRESBYTER'AN CHURCH. The Ransomed of the Lord—low the Re- deemed Shall Go to Zion with Songs—Ser- mon by Rev. James K. Smith, of Cane ada. Although a very warm Sabbath morning, a faithful few weuded their way to the Murray Hill Presbyterian church, on Fortieth street, near Lexington avenue, to hear the Rev. Mr. James K. Smith, of Canada, who 1s ofticl- ating in this pulpit during the absence of the regular pastor. The stranger preacher selected for his text Isaiah xxxv., 10—‘And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and = gladness, and sorrow and sigh- ing shall fee away.” ‘The reverend gentleman depicted in eloquent language the joy of one who, afteralong absence from the land of his youth, returns to it, The event is one of the most delightful in life. There 1s something tn- describably happy in the feeling of treading, after many years, the paths of early days, communing with the beauty of friendly hills and valleys. ‘The intense sympathy of all surroundings at such a time excites im the wanderer new pleasures and glad- bess, Application of this introduction was made to the text, in first acverting to the return of the Jews from Pabylonian captivity, and thetr expectancy of once more enjoying, as of old, the communion of angels, worship at the altar and its sacrifices; but the rapt seer pictures a deliverance fror all earthly bondage, and in thts sense will the ransomed of the Lord return. Those that return to Zion with songs were once in abject misery, SLAVES OF SATAN and under the curse of God. These were the chil- dren of disobedience. To be ransomed is to set foot on a foundation of liberty, to shake oif sin and be restored to the Lord. Nothing else and nothing less than the precious blood of Christ could effect this. The saved have the arm of the Almighty encircling thom for their defence in the great preparation for a final home in the city of the living God. It 1s re- quired in this work to become the Lora’s ransomed, to daily absolve one’s self from the world, to turn back on the land of his captivity and nativity. it is regretted that so many FORGET THEIR VOWS and consecration to things spiritual. They should remember their separation is from the world and ungodliness, and that as children of Christ they are consecrated truths. Kach of such should press on day by day to renewed efforts. When a man finds the burden of sin taken away he 1s apt to think all is accomplisbed, that he 1s fally justified; but the fight is only commenced, an’ those who have re- cently come to God must bear in mind that their jourtiey ty stralght before them, and it 1s all impera- lve to press onward and upward. The ransomed will come to Zion with songs. The language of the textis explicit; it 1s not the words of conjecture, but a declaration simple and absoiute. Reconciliation af the hands of Ciirist is certain, No one can be lost that flees to Him In the ark of safety, You must rely upon fils aid, and everlasting life will be found. ‘The redeemed can look upward and for- ward with inexpressible satisfaction, Eternity to them presents a VISTA OF BLISS, and though our sins of omission may be many there 19 justification in the blood of Christ. Man cannot tell who are the ransomed of the Lord. it will not be known until that great day of trial, of judgment and of separation—a final, unalierabie separation, How biessed to be among the number. There is full, free offer to all. The spirit says, “Come unto Christ,” and it says, “Whoso cometh shail not perish; God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son, and whosoever believeth in Him shail in no Wise perish, but have life everlasting.” TWENTY-EiGHia TREET CHURCH. CEBISiIAN The Character ef Jesus—Discourse by C. C. Foote. The services at this church yesterday were con- ducted by the pastor, Mr. C. C. Foote. The congre- gation was moderate, but somewhat listless tn its attention to what was going on. The text in the morning was taken from the eighth verse, first chapter of the first epistle of Peter:—*‘Whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.’ The speaker dwelt at length on the loving tratts in the character of Jesus, specially referring to the fact that 1t was His character, rather than His per- son, which was the centrifugal point of admira- tion. Renan had aamitted that to take away the memory of the incomparaple Man irom the world would be like tearing up the foun- dations of ate Notwithstanding that eighteen centuries had elapsed he was still the ob- ject of admiration and homage of the greater portion ofthe world. He bad achieved amoral conquest over the human heart which was Imperishabie, and while empires rose and fell Christianity lived and progressed. In illustration of this vhe speaker quoted the words of the first Napoicon, which he uttered when confined at St. Helena. In a conver- sation with General Bertrand Bonaparte was re- ported to have said:—‘Alexander, Caisar, Charle- magne and Ihave founded empires. Buton what nave we rested the creations of our genius? On force. No one but Jesus has founded an empire on Jove, and at this moment MILLIONS OF MEN WOULD DIE FOR HIM it was not a single battle nor a day which won the victory over the world for the Christian religion. No; it was along war—a fight of three centuries— begun by the Apostles and continued by the Chris- tian ene which followed, In that war all the kings and Powers of the earth were on oue side, and on the other I see no army, but the operation of a mysterious iorce, and a few men scattered here ana there through all parts of the world, who had no rallying = but their faith in the mysteries of the Cross. Idie before my time, and my body will be put into the ground to become the food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon. What an abyss between my decp wretch- edness and Christ's eternal om, pro- kino, claimed, loved, adorea and spreading through the world!” The life of the Saviour was like a moral photograph cast into the world’s history for the purpose of regenerating mankind, and “te | some of His acts were divine, in proof of His Mes- nba, is Waa eat eS? OTe sublime. He was not exclusive, and did not tread in: kingly courts or ecclesiastical assemblies. Nor ie unapproachable, as are eprops monarchs, but mingled in the whirl and din of ilfe, and not- withstanding that he was tried treason and piasphemy and executed as a criminal the great parpow his life had been accomplished, and we co now say, at the close of the nineteenth cen- tury, whom, having not we love with joy ul- Bpeakable and full ot or JOBN STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Christ as a Healer—Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Weed. Despite the warm weather yesterday there was, 28 usual, a large congregation assembled at the John street Methodist Episcopal church to hear a dis- course by the Rev. Mr. Weed, the regular pastor of the church. The text was selected from St. Mark ii, 1—And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was nolsed that he was in the house.” Although the sermon was preached from this verse the preacher read about half of the chap- ter #0 as to give a thorough idea of the meaning of the text. It was often claimed, said Mr, Weed, that Christ had but few followers, that most of the people believed in and followed John the Baptist more than they did the Saviour. It is well known that alter Chrisv’s crucifixion there were less than one hundred and twenty persons who remained steadiast, and these used to MEET IN AN UPPER CHAMBER. While he lived Uhrist was very popular where- ever he went asan orator; but whether tt was be- cause of His eloquence, His extreme flexibility of yoice, or whether it was because of the peculiar and dunportant doctrines which He enunciated it was dificult to say. There was, however, another cause oi His popularity. He was known in many places as @ great healer of diseases, for had He not performed many wonderful miracles of this kind? In Caper- naum the populace, as a rule, had great faith in Christ's power to heal. Upon one occasion, when He was preaching to @ vast throng—so vast, indeed, that “there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door’—there came four men bearing one sick of the palsy, whom they, so anxious were they to get him into His presence, lowered trough the roof of the building in woich Christ was preaching. This was pure faith on the part of this sick man and the friends who bore him, and Jesus, seeing their faith, forgave ail the sins and transgressions of him who was sick, But there were certain scribes Who thought that the manner in which CHRIST HEALED THE SICK— “Son, thy sins be forgiven”—was blasphemy. Not only did they object to the words used by Christ, but they also objected to the manner in which the sick man was brought Into its presence while He Was preaching tothe multitude. ‘Chis, they claimed, was disorder and that was a thing they would not brook tn religious worship. They thought, as many do to this day, that there were or should be certain prescribed rales by Which one’s sing couid be for- given and his soul washed and made pure in the blood of ihe Lamb. Years ago, when THE METHODIST CHURCH first became known, very many objected to it and found fauit with itfor the same reason ana upon ‘the same grounds that the scribes complained o1 the healing of the man sick of the palsy—t. é., that there was too much disorder avout it, No doubt the sing- ing and the shouts of the personsas they became converted and the groans of the sinners who were seeking forgiveness all commingled, as they oiten are, seemed to the casual observer to be the height of contusion, but to to God It was music Itself. TISHABS-AB. Tke Jewish Memorial of the Destruction of Jerusalem. The ninth day of the month of Ab fell on Satur- day, the 6th day of Augast. On this day the Jews the world over commemorate with appropriate cere- monies the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and his Roman Jegions, which lamentable event was tie cause of the dispersion of the Jewish nation over all parts of the earth. But this year ‘Tishabo-Ao, or the ainth day of the month of Ab, being a Saturday, or Shabbes, the ‘difference between “reform’? and! orthodox” pre- vented all the Jews from commemerating the occur. rence on the same day and in the same wanuer, THE REFORMERS were but too happy that the atmiversary of the cowntall 01 Jerusalemitic reign came ona Saiur- day, the Hebrew Sabbath, aud in thelr synagogues day before yesterday eloquent ana tmpressive ser- mons were preuctied from the pulpits. ‘This was especially the cause at the TEMPLE ADATH JESHURUN, on Thirty-ninib street, near Seventh avenue, where, in the ubsence of Rey. Dr. David Eimhorn, the rabbi, Mr, Moritz Elinger, a member of the vesiry, delivered a very characteristic oration, claming ‘that te forcibie dispersion of the Jewish people was. & Wise means adopted by Providence to disseminate among the benighted nations of the earth the truths of Judaism, which are contained in the idea of the unity of God, the unity of the human race, ana the confraternity of peoples. THE ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES, on the contrary, commemorated the day yesterday as a day of fasting, prayer and the expression of pias Uopes that soon the Jewish people may again 2 congregated around ihe sacred spot where David aud Soloimen worshipped the God of Israel. The synagogues or “Scnulen’’ were draved in mourning, the lamentations of Jeremiah were chanted and the 187th {’salm of David. Sorrow and hope combined were expressed—sorrow at being away Irom “Zion,” and hope that the day may not far distant when they or their cluidren might again meet where Solomon’s Temple ouce siood, the pride of the chosen people. And these verses were received with especial devotion:—“How shall we sing the Lord's song in a@strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning, If 1 do nov remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if 1 prefer not Jernsalem above my chief joy.” The fast and season of prayer ended with sunset yesterday. BROOKLYN CHURCHES, PLYMOUTH CzURCH. The Effect of Mr. Beecher’s Absence—A Slim House Yesterday—Sermon by Rev. A. ial- lard, The absence of Mr. Beecher had a decidedly per- ceptidje effect in diminishing the attendance at Ply- mouth church yesterday morning, as the edifice was not more than haif filled, aud but little interest was apparently manifested by those who, despite the warm weather, flocked there to hear Rev. A. Ballard, of Detroit, the oficiating pastor. In addition to this falling off in the congregation, not more than one- half the choir (if, indeed, as many even as that) pot in an appearance; ia fact, all the lady members were absent, having probably sougit the seaside or the mountains to pass there the few wechs which will elapse before Mr. Beecher returns. The church yesterday looked comparatively deserted, and presénted a strange contrast to its animaied appearance wheu Mr. her is present, inpty pews were noticeable on jeople ai Were present sab Ust- elves and endeavoring to keep Wiuich were quite brief, SWEEL. The sermon was uot y long one. Rev. Mr. Ballard seiected his text fromm U Timothy i, 8 and 9—“Kemember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my Wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer 3; but the word of God 1s not bound,” ton of Carist and the encouragement of his people, Mr. Ballard res |, Was the subject brought to our not in these words. The ume od Wi very dark one for nes to have everything and iis ad were looked upon SHORT A n way ie! wkers, ‘They @ branded as foment- ers Of Civil dise as well os of religious dispute, 1t3 most needed champlon was a prisoner at Rome awaiting the executiol ‘8 sword, and from his duugeon Paul dictated tly last ietter to Timothy aud from him to tue Cunrch of all future tne, Tuwothy was to remember, and we must remem- ber, that Christiauity once saw a darker time aud lived through it—tubat darker time was when the author and founder of our holy religion Him- seif feil a victim to the rage and hatred of his foes. Aniichrist supp: is had done enough when it bad killed and buried J0sus; but one thing more was needed, and that was to KEEP HIM DEAD AND BURIED. With the first of these things—keeping Him dead— His [snurderers did not trouvie tucmseives. ‘They thought that 1 @ man once aed he was always dead; but the one thing they wanted to be gure of wus ifis continual burial, since Jesus had foretold Ite would arise again on tne third day. it was ouly over the sepuichre that a watch was set, and herein rested the utter fauure of the murderers’ plans. They made the great misiake of imagining that the Omnipotent One was hedged by His own laws. They left the supernatural out of account altogether, which was the same as leaving God out of account. The wis- dom of God was too much for their cuuning., The thought robed in these words, therefore, Mr, Ballard held, was that the work of God went on in this world without interruption. There were long periods of apparent stagnation, when seemingly nothing was doing, but tae work still continueu. Mr, Ballard atso preached at ihe evening service. “GRAND 8: ET Muthepist covReH. The Heavenly Family—Sermon by the Rev. T. T. Kendrick. The intense heat of yesterday did not prevent the assemblage of a large congreyation in the old Grand street church, Williamsburg. The edifice is the drat Wesleyan meeting house ever erected in that section Of the gity of Bruoklyn, and in the year of its qpen- ! ing (1833) it wap looked upon with pride by the mem~ bers of the denomination: at the present day, however, it is passed by without notice, and occu- pies a very humble position beside the cathedral-like edifices erected in late years by the wealthy and am- bitious Episcopal Methodists, During the past ten years the society worshipping in the old church became, through various causes, very limited; but within a few montns it has taken LEASE A NEW or and has added largely to its roll of members, This fact 1s attributed principally to the score of its pre- sent — Bh 124 T. T. Kendrick, who occupied the I. Me reached from the third chapter of Raheny, aa ing Berieniany c -¥ oe ‘whole Iamily in’ heaven.” He behevs every true Christian was the heir of God, and that bw mheritance was @ residence in God's kingdom and a place in the heavenly family, at the head of which sits the great Jehovah. Next to Him is Christ— the light and the glory of the family. Surrounding them are angelic hosts, composed of those who were once of the human family, as well as those who were not. Itshould be our highest ambition to seek a lace in the heavenly after leaving our own, uch an agsociation would be indescrib: and eter- nal, That , HE INFANT CHILDREN OF MEN occupy conspicuous places in the family of heaven there can be no doubt. They were speciaily invited there by Christ while on earth, his invitation being “Suffer Httle children to come unto me.” This cer- tainty of eternal bliss for children shoula teach their its to control their grief at whew depar- ture from the human family and direct their eyes toward heaven instead of toward the tomb. lt should also incite them to works of love and charity, so that they themselves may join their offspring the heavenly home. That home can be reached by all true believers in Christ, no matter what their nationality or to what denomination they belong; for iw God's kingdom sect is unknown, SERVICES IN NEW JERSEY. JERSEY CLLY CHURCHES, Sermon at the Tabernacle by the Rev. A. H. Clapp—What is True Liberty t—The Franco- Prussian War. At the Jersey City Tabernacle yesterday there was aslim attendance, which can only be accounted for by the absence of many members of the congre- gation being in the country. The sermon was preached by the Rev. A. H. Clapp, who took his text from John iil, 2—‘Verily I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the ser- vant of sin.” These words were addressed by the Saviour to a people who had already begun to believe in Him, And yet how hard it was to make them understand that there is a moral and an iatellectual as well as a physical slavery. Is it not true that at least with the young their course of folly and of sin is regarded by them as acareer of free- dom? They do not realize that a life of sin Is a life of bondage. They have false ideas as to the nature oi true liberty and accoraingly they CONFOUND LIBERTY WITH LICENSE. A man may live seventy years in undisturbed security of person and property, and yet durmg those years he may be the very slave of ‘ignorance, superstition, begotry and sensuality. Un the other hand we find man persecuted, ignored, neglected and despised by the world, while in the intelectual and moral sense he is unfettered, The great mistake or our times is the interpretation of liberty even by our civil authorities. They alm at nothing more than physical freedom. THE WAR IN EUROPE, 1s it not melancholy to see those contending na- tionson the other Continent fighting for this lower order of freedom? We see two great nations fight- ing dor physical liberty which comprehends nothing more elevated than the mere animalidea. That was not the liberty, which our fathers sought on these shores. With them the freedom of the mind and the intellect was paramount. In other words they aimed at a moral enfranchisement, the disenthralment of the soul. Go out on the street and see the MEN WHO CALL THEMSELVES FREE, the drunkards, the debauched, the sensual. They cali themseives free, but are they free in any sense? How many diseases prostrate them? They cannot even turn at times whither ther desires lead them, Take the case of Pilate. He saw the 100k of con- scious tnuosence in the Saviour, Yet he would not incur tne displeasure of the multitude mor yet entail the responsibility of an unjust sentence, so he sent Christ back to another tribunal. Why not proclaim the Lord guiltiess and dismiss Him? Because he Was himseif the siave of sin. He knew well that no other tribunal had the power to pronounce sentence i death. He CROUCHES 10 THE MULTITUDE, whone rage he iears may be turned against himself, and like many others m a similar case he bas not the manhood, the moral courage to be just, to break the chains of sin which are fastened around him, See him wash his hands in attestation of his innocence while conscience smites him for his meanness and Jalsehood. There are MANY PILATES IN THE WORLD. We find such meanness and falsehood almost every day. Manis made tothe Divine image, en- dowed with the subline faculty of reason, with ca- pacities for progressive knowledge in goodness and Dappiness, One who shall never die, but shall be imimortal when the stars have fallen from the firmament. God has set before man ‘@ great jesson, but he heeas it not. He follows the diciates of impulse. Having no will of his own he must of necessity be tossed Lither and thither as he comes within the attracuon of others. He is broken in intellect and corrupt in his affections. Is that man free? He will teli you if you go to him and ask him to reform that he will not give up his liberty. But yesterday the allurement was A SPIDER’S WEB. Custom in sin brings on other allurements, and he goes on adding strand to strand till he 18 cabled now. It1s not of necessity, young men, that you remain ingin. ‘The Creator has given you a con- science to warn and guide you. There 18 a power to restore you. He who at his ascension into heaven declared that all power was given to Him in heaven and on earth can deliver you, and He always comes to the aid of those who supplicate Him. Fly to the Great Deliverer trom the bondage of sin to a life of freedom. Overthrow that MASSIVE STRUCTURE OF SIN which you have been rearing all your lives, and do not, Uke him of old, crusa yourselves under 1t along with your captors. Emerge from this life of siavery, and thus aud thus only wiil you be truly and really in the enjoyment of liberty. BAPTIST CLURCH, EL‘ZABETH, Description of the Edifice—Sermon on the Spirit of God. Broad street Baptist church is situated on a com- manding elevation and in the centre of refinement and wealth. ‘The style of architecture 1s the Gothic, ts history is an interesting as well as a suggestive one, showing what may be accomplished in the cause of religion when undertaken in the proper spirit. The edifice, which is only three years built, its members being a branch or offshoot of the parent stock, and now numbering one of the largest con- gregations in Elizabeth, has incurred a floating debt of $30,000. By the untiring zeal and indomitable energy of the worthy pastor, the Rev. Dr. Henry Miller, D. D., the entire indebtedness is now liqul- dated and the church in a flourishing condition, ‘The services in this church differjin some respects from the ordinary. ‘The psalms are regularly chanted and read responsively, That beautiful, an- cient byma, THE GLORIA IN BXCELSIS, formed part of tue morning service, and was charm- ingly rendered by Mme. Bouligny, assisted by Miss Finch and Mr. Ellard, of New York, and Mr, Pooler, ol Elizabeth. The organist, 8. J. Anderson, formerly of Grace church, New York, gave hts usual master touches on the fine organ, bleuding finely the volume aud brilliancy of its tone in his performance, The reverend pastor took for his text Romans vill., 14— “As many as are lea by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God.” The representation which the sacred Scriptures furnish of the condition and character of man ts not calculated to Matter pride or gratify our self-love, It ts @ faitiful, but it is also a most humi- liating representation, We have a high authority for the affirmation that that which is born of the flesh is flesh that is, those now born after ordinary geiteration are carnal and corrupt. They are full of sin, Allenated from the lle of God, they are enmity against God; they are not subject to His law. From birth they go astray, involving themselves in guilt and increasing in corruption, in this condition the human family is represented as dead, LOST TO ALL THAT 18 GOOD and pure and true, because of that death morally, And x0, would remain until they became subjects of the second death and passed into eternal perdition but for the compassionate and wise arrangement of God for human recovery and restoration to morality, to truth and to holiness. What God has done to secure His character and to maintain His govern- ngentin this transaction by which He would give lie to the dead and heaven to the penitent sinner we know full well, for He ‘set forth His Son to be @ propitiation for our sins, and not for gur sins only, but for the sins of the whole world,” that He might be just and yet the justifier of him thaybelieveth. The tret impression of the Holy Spirit is to produce proper views of the nal condition and character of the stnner—of the man by nature, 1t ts to make him know himself tn his guilt and need of pardou—of deliverance. What is that character? What {8 the condition of the aluner sought by the Holy Spirit? He is “AN ALIBN FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL and a stranger to the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” The Holy Spirit imparts correct discernment in his impres- sion upon the soul, regarding its pollution under the law and its lost condition by natural depravity. ‘The Spirit impreases and leads the sinner to a proper conception of guiltand defilement. He convinces of sin, and when this conviction is secured we have the preparatory step established in the first impres- ston of the work of the Spirit in leading the sinner to become a “son of God.” The second step under the Spirit’s leading is now to show the condemned man all that relates to his THE THIRD STEP IN THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT would, as we concetve, in the experience of the re- deemed, be to dispose and determine the thoughtf man to embrace the religion of such @ Saviour, to rely on its divine provisions. and on these alone, jed the spirit of faith. Fatth to go where sight fails; faith to ask through the Spirtt, ‘which helpeth arery such person 18 infirmities; the healing hand, the soothing balm, the undaunted, confident spirit of the great Heart Healer, “the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. ‘The interest awakened by the words of the text, in exhorting his co! jon to @: es and conduct for the better fultiment of their soul’s welfare, was listened to with that absorbing interest which manifested itself in the countenances of his auditory, owing gratifying results in the clogreane astor’s labor ol love for the redemption of the sol is Committed to his pastoral care, RELIZIOUS SERVICES iN PATERSON. Small Congregations, Little Interest, but Fer- vent Sermons. Practical plety in Paterson stands at elghty in the shade, and as the mercury went ten higher yesterday the attendance at the various churches was correspondingly dimin- ished, Those who did go to ohurch were the old stand-bys. The rural places of retreat were much more generally visited, In the Church of, the Holy Communion, in Market street, the pastor, Rev. ‘Mr, Hewes, preached from St. John iv,, 24—‘God 18 ® spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” The preacher affirmed that looking upon religion in this view there was no living person who had not violated each and every one of God’s laws. Persons might say to themselves that they Dad never violated bis or that law; but while tn the letter of the same per- haps they had not, in the spirit they had. Aman may persuade himself that he never violated the Second Cammandment, but who is there that has not bis idols of worship. Jtis as much a disobedl- ence, If it be in spirit, as it would be literally. God is aspirit; our worship of Him should be in the spirit, and in the obedience of his commandments We should be as pat ticular in obeying the spirit im- piled as the real letter expressed. The sermon was very short, owing to the conclusion of the services by the Holy Communion, In the Willis street be church the pastor, Rev. J. Knapp (formerly of New York city), preached from @ portion of I Peter i, 24—“Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” The proper title of the sermon would be “Substitution.” ‘The pastor said that we do not live for ourselves, but for something else. Plants and nowers grow not for themseves, but for the pleasure and comiort of hu- manity, ‘The foliage of the tree 1s more for its effect upon the soll around the root of the tree than it ts for the special Benefit of the tree itself alone. Show- ers of rain were not for themselves; there is no special gratification to she raindrops to come flop- ping down upon the 3 the shower 1s for the nefit of somethi else entirely, And so man lives not for nimseif, but for acause higher and nobler—a cause and object to which he is only a byt and parcel, the sole purpose of which life is for. ‘The morning services were concluded by the Lord’s Sup- per, as they were in all the churches, ‘The pastor of the St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church announced the closing of the church for the next two Sundays, during which interval the con- arogetion. were invited to worship with the Church of the Holy Communion. in the synagogue the services were appropriate to the existing Feast of Ab. The pulpit of the First Baptist church was filled by a stranger, the pastor being absent on his summer vacation. The other churches were rega- larly presided over, the sermons being not of an ex- traordinary character, and in the majority being devotional or denominational, in consequen ee of its being regular communion Sabbath. SERVICES AT LONG BRANCH. & All the Churches Well Attended—A’ Forcible and Brilliant Discourse at the Methodist Church by Rov. Dr. True, of the Wesleyan University. Long BRancH, August 7, 1870. The summer seaside sojourners at Long Branch do. notsuffer from lack Of spiricual pabulum on the Sabbath. From all the hotels and trom private cot- tages, as rang out upon the still morn- ing air the church-going bells, omnibuses, hacks and private carriages were filled with people going to various temples of worship. At the Methodist church Rev. Dr. C. K. True, of the Wesleyan University, preached. At the seaside chapel the officiating clergyman was Rev. Dr. Armi- tage, of New York, who preached a sermon charac- terized by bis usual eloquence on the text, “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly.” An excellant dls- course was preached at the Episcopalian church by Rev. Dr. Cook, of St. Bartholomew’s church, New York. While all the churches were well filled, there was by far the largest attendance, however, at the Centenary Methodist church, in the expectation doubtless that the President would be here, but an expectation which was not realized. After the pre- Uminary exercises of prayer, singing and reading the Scriptures, such preliminary exercises being conducted by Rev. J. B. Grow, pastor of the church, and Rev. E. H. Stokes, Rev. Dr. True entered upon the delivery of THE SERMON prepared for the occasion. His text was Matthew XXvVill., 9—*Ali hall!” Brief, he said on entering upon lis discourse, were these words, but they embraced) @ great and almost illimitable power of meaning. It embodied the great truth of the resurrection. Nature went through various changes. The leaves in autumn fall from the trees and through the winter months the forests are bare of vernal adornment and look lifeless, but spring comes and again they are clothed with all the glorious beauty and pride of restorea anima- tion. It was so with the human to-day. It becomes Inanimate and returns to dust, but again it would rise clothed with spiritual and imperishable beauty. It was true this was & mere comparison. There was no truth positive init. The same lack of proof, It was alieged, showed itself in the sciences. Chem- istry, for instance, showed that the human body, after death, reverted to the original gases, of which there were now sixty-four ciassifications. Science claimed that it was ridiculous that all these gases should be returned in any distinct human body, lo opposition to this theory an eminent chemist had lately asserted and proven that there existed in the human body a gas, which he cails odyle, not to be found in other organic remains. This might be but THE STEPPING STOND to other discoveries more Gelicate and subtle, tnat Would go to show that viewed in a scientific point, the doctrine of the resurrection is not expound bo the Veachings of science. He reverted to the old super- stitions regarding the resurrection, alluded to the eld processes of embalmiug the dead, and his own study of”- an Egyptian mummy. Next he called attention to the utterances ef Job, and how he taught that for the glorious future vouch- sated the good and just in the other world it was worth while to endure ali the pains and penalties of the life here below. People acted on this principle IN WALL STREET; they suffered ali the pangs of doubt, and plunged Into the boiling and tumultuous sea of speculation for the benefits they expected to receive in the future. Leaving the men of our great moneyed mart to fight out their battles in their own way, and citing the opinions of Dr. Bush on the subject, he called attention to the teachings of Jesus Christ, and particularly his answer to the Saducees, the disbe- lievers in the resurrection. After quoting the special utterances of Christ in all His sermons and teach- ings, His last words on the Cross and His triumphal “all hail’’ of the text as he rose to ascend to the right hand of God on high, he reviewed the teachings of the aposties and St. Paul on the subject, His next point was that though the body perishes THE SOUL NEVER DIES, and he enforced this point with great cogency of argument and eloquent and torcible illustra- tion. After this he spoke at length on the idea of the bouy that was to be raised. The Bible taught that there were to be new heaven anda new earth. It is true that tho Bible did not teach them how to be new bodies, but it was conclusive that the new body given us would be endowed with other powers than we S88 now. We have now five senses and but limited powers of locomotion, In this future new world there would be more senses given us—sen+es to ap- Ppreciate the higher state of existence in which we are placed. We could move with the rapidity of thought, We would have A 8PIRITUALIZED BODY, @ body endowed with gloriously ilimitable pow- ers. We can see through ali space. We can see God as he is and know Him ashe is, What a glori- ous idea was this! Such a spiritual body, that boay jiven w the true believers in the Lord esus Christ was worth strivi for, was worth getting religion for, was worth being a Chris- tian for. And that future world, how infinitely be- pen the feeble grasp of our present life! This eaven of heavens was freely offered to all through the blessed redemption of Jesus Christ. He en- forced with great fervor, 11 conclusion, the accept- ance of this ofer, Singing, prayer and benediction terminated the exercises. SERVICES AT NEWBURG. Christ’s =Prayer Power of Christians. for His DiscipleeThe Sin—The Duty of Professed i NEWsURG, August 7, 1870. At Trinity Methodist church the pastor, Rev, W. P. Abbott, took for the theme of his morning dis- course the “Prayer of Christ for His Diecipies,” aa recorded in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel remedy. ‘The disvosition of the heart m to rely on} by 8% John. If there were any portion of me wid of God of deeper triterest to tn Christian than another, it seemed to thi Preacher that it was this prayer of Christ, as ms corded by the “Disctple whom Jesus loved.” Of What thrilling interest were the circumstances) Clustering aroundit! They combined to rem every word of 1s ‘more precious than rubies.” Hi had just closed. His. sermon to the. Disa ciples with these remarkable worde;—‘Ini the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of cheer, for I have overcome the world,” and then turning his eyes towards hi : ven he fervently breathes out this prayer, which come down the centuries to. us, ull aglow with love of “Him who spake as never man spake.” Ther lesson taught by this close relation between i CHRISI'S SERMON AND HIS PRAYER ‘ was that in this day ena ‘age of the world all preaching should accompanied by earns est = prayer. One reason why 80 iit-) te — success followed the __preacl 4 the present day was that it lacked, ees, 4 fire, the energy and the power of er. The prayer of this chapter also of the nature of family devotions. ‘The apostles were Christ's family, Hav-+ ing instructed them in the Word of Goa he now, prays with them and for them. The duty and the dlessed results of family prayer were here enfo: upon the attention of the congregation, This prayer, too, was & . PARTING PRAYER. The disciples had been Christ's intimate associates,, and He was now aboutto separate from them, Na- doubt the heart of Christ was sorrowful as he thought of leaving these loved ones as sheep among Wolves. Having loved His own, which were in the world, He loved them even unto the en and He now commends them to His father = im. this most affectionate, tender prayer. ‘This prayer was offered up just before Christ's be-' trayal by Judas. He knew that the hour had ‘come when He must drink the bitter cup of getting Ca that mysterious scene of the crucifixion. tel praying: for grace and sti port: im in the approaching agony He proceeds to clples—not only for those asso~ ciated with him as the Apostles, but also for them who should believe in Him froagh their word—all who should, i that or succeeding Le believe in the Son of God, and repose their hopes ol salvation in time and in eternity on Him. in< cluded Christians of the present day, and they were interested in this prayer. He prays that they should be ‘kept from the evil.” Ever since the gates of Eden closed behind the fallen Adam our world has been full of sin. Maon,. the creature of a moment, has mocked the cternal God and raised THE PUNY ARM OF REBELLION against him. Sin bas left its marks im the world. In the time of Noah it drowned: the world. In the time of Lot it called down a flery flood upon the “cities of the plain.” It murdered the Son of God. It is thecause of all the wrong and the suffering that curse earth, to-day, that mantle her in darkness and make her seem like one vast scene of desolation. Sin is every Where—in the mansion of the rich and In the hovel of the “sons of poverty; in the ballroom and tn the: drunkard’s home, and where the Christian worships. God. The work of sin is to dig the grave of all thas. is pure and noble in men, and to make their futul ae barra he a home tre buy eart that 1s unchan; ry . heart 1s deceitful aboye ful sana desperate! wicked.” Were God sitiply to let our world alo} leave 3p prylited by the influences of His Holy trfte-the = . 8) ATR ULIsH PASSIONS THAT DWELL IN THE HEART ofman would trample under foot goodness an@ purity, and would make of this world an uttes moral waste. in spite of our boasted civilizatior and enlightenment, which Many ciaim to be ind Pendent of Christ and His Gospel, our own favorer land = would, deserted of the agencies that Jesus has set in operation, become worse: than France, with all the horrors of its revolution- perhaps worse than the “cities of the plain.” Ti picture might be a dark oné, but the experience an observation of men would show that it had not bee: overdrawn. Now, Christ prayed not that God would; take His nga out of the world, but that He should them from the evil in the world. When @ man 1s converted God does not ordinarily take him to Heaven at once, he Jeaves him here in the world, in order that ni graces may be developed, strengthened, tested b; the influences which surround bim; in order that may do his share towards the evangelizafion of world, When Jesus made this prayer and asked, that his disciples should be taken out of the worl with him, the prayer was. the dee} I for his penpla and the wisest foresight in their beh: He saw that they would need the discipline of th world to fit them for those ‘mansions not made wi hauds, eternal im the heavens.” The influence sanctified afiiction and trouble was always Relat tabs Were who were exercised ‘thereby. ‘NOT TAKEN FROM THE WORLD’? rl in order that they might be co-workers with Chris' in bringing the world to himself. Very few sou comparatively were converted under the direct] personal ministry of Christ, while he was here on} earth, If when he died he had taken those few home with him, where would have been Lhe uncounted) Multitude of those who believed in Christ thr their preaching and that of their successors? gave them the command, “Go ye into all th world and preach the Gospel to’ every Sroarnre.| ‘This command was binding not only upon the origi-/ nal twelve, and thelr successors in the “ministry of reconciliation,” but upon every one Drofessing uh Christian name. They were to preach Ohrist their holy life; to bear witness for Him on ail pro} occasions; to labor earnestly for the spread of > kingdom. SERVICES AT POUGHKEEPSIE. “The Angel Within Us”—Sermon by the Revd E. R. Keyes. POUGHKEEPSIE, August 7, 1870, A number of the churches in this city are close and their pastors are seeking recreation at the shore or the springs. The hot weather of to-day h: had much to do with the slim attendance at divin service, though the congregations have been respect ably large. At the Swedenborgian church, in Can.- non street, Rev. E. R. Keyes preached upon “Th Angel Within Us.” This church has not a very congregation, but it is steadily growing. In i battle for @ position among the churches of th city it has met with many obstacles, but thu: far it hasjsurmounted them all, having been aide greatly by Mr. Keyes when he renounced Metho ism and came over to the Swedenborgians. Rell- gious readers of the HERALD will recollect the won. der and surprise caused by his open and manly de. claration of - HIS CHANGE OF THOUGHT. He took his text this morning from Matthew vii 19—“Master, I will follow Thee wheresoever Thot goest.”” He also read a portion of the second vers of the second chapter of Romans, as explanatory o| the text. ‘The words uttered in the text were spoke by one who had recently formed ihe acquaintan: of Jesus. When that assertion was made it was the. internal man that spoke, and not the exter Within the latter is a natural mind, and still furthe in isa rational mind. Within the rational ts th spiritual man, judging always according to spiritu: conceptions. Yet each one is mind, and it ts! within the power of man ta use them all at once, MAN 18 A SERIES OF ORGANIC FORMS. In infancy the inmost form of the mind butagerm. It cannot be opened to evil influence: tiga rudimentary angel, therefor® those who di in infancy do uot become angels at once, Durin, the early stages of human life the angel and devi are in conflict within us and if the devil gains th mastery the internal mind becomes fix by the action of the external. The in ternal spiritual man 1s an angel in heaven, and he 1s in the society of angels an after the separation from the body he ini the company of angels. The tnernal mind flourish under divine light, but it also grows through our: appropriation to it of goodness and truth, Rigag. thoughts, pure desires, LOFTY RESOLUTIONS } must be reduced to practice, else they will s00! vanish like @ rambow upon a summer’s clou The crowning distinction of the internal man Jove. It is self-forgetting, ilke the Lord’s love.) It isa erpeiaal delight, and then man loves for the: luxury of love; loves his neighbor in a sense desk ing his weliare; lavors for his neighbor’s good at his own cost. Men will say this is visionary, it 1s unreal; but it 1s Divine Jaw; it 1s she regal divine muntficen of love, making all feel how hateful is malice an revenge. During the latter part of his sermon Rev. Mr. Keyes, in referring to the religious experienceg: of the World, took occasion to intimate that man them were sham. He was listened to with marked. Attention throughout his entire sermon. At the FIRST REFORMED CHUROH This morning a large congregation was in attend~. ance. ‘The music nere was grand, the organ belv; resided over by Prof. E. 0. Flagler, the fret hym 4 el, Ms Awake my soul eis gee pr The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Gieson, who has just returned from vacation, He has been salmon fishing 1 the Canada waters, He took his text from the 125 Psalm, third verse, “The Lord 1s good,” &c, Dur: the reverend gentleman’s remarks he spoke of hi short separation from the congregation, and of th blessings that had attended all during that time, which God is to be praised. His sermon general, Wasa very effective Bne, and was attentively liste: — THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE ON THE EUROPEAN WAR, At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee the Evangelical Alliance of the United States, hel at the Bible House, New York, feelings of regret f We in Europe were expressed, t “inl *probabl yeimerfere’ with the attendan of foveign dele atthe proposed Internatio: ‘his has to be postponed consequen! from ‘Sepeember 22 until Bach time as peace 1i Europe will enable delegates from every country foparding two war but a Ghnstaalike regar e Wi iran clay cies coats as in this en! ned century. ing these ideas ie signed by William E. Dodge, 8. Prime and Philip Scho