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Beecher, and used as another tllustration of the meaning of repentance. ‘The question of emotion in repentance was then @iscussed at length, with a wealth of apposite ilus- tration, Mr. Beecher thought that al! emotion that ‘was over and above the intuencing power to cause a man to cease to do evil and learn to do weil was eratl giry? OF POWER. Th aking gen’ ¥, the loss emotion the better, The pence ‘of the Will was then slightly commented on, The sense of personal responsibility was a noble motive to lead to repentance, and was in many men andmiciently infue:tial, The lowest motive was that of fear. God, however, used all these motives, and has thus instructed his ambassadors to say not only that He was a God of love, but tat our God was & consuming fire, CLASSON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN OLURCH. The Blood of the Lamb—Sermon by Rev. Dr. MeCosh. Dr. Duryea’s pulpit was occupied yesterday by Dr- McCosh, a venerable theologian, whose fame as & profound thinker caused him to be called, some two or three yoars since, from Scotland to fill the presl- dency of Princeton College. His sermon yesterday, founded upon the words in Revelations, “And lo, in the midst of the elders, stood @ Lamb, as it had been slain,” was of the solid, orthodox kind, full of clear reasoning and cloquent illustration, He said:—In this book of Revelations the veil is drawn aside for @ little and we get a glimpse of the evolutions of God's purposes, and it is Wonderful that in all these pictures a lamb that is slain 1s constantly shown, and honor and power are ascribed to Him that sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb. The blesseu ones that are described shall hunger no more and thirst no more, because the lamb that 13 m their midst shall Jead them by living waters, The question naturally presses, why we are 80 often presented with this image of alamb anda jamb that is slain, This is set before us as the method of the atonement. I take up the admis. sion made by all that sin has been committed, and ask how is sin to be forgiven? Sin is the violation of & justiaw, und how is the law to be satisiled? iy REPENTANCE AND REFORMATION may be the answer of some. Now, until there ts re. conciliation with God there can be no sauisiaclory retormauion, But, granting for the sake of argu- Ment that the heart could of itself repent, there 1s nothing in that repentance that can atone ier it sm. ‘The repentance of Judas, though 16 been gemuine, could not bring to life Curist that he betrayed. How, then, is this sin which you con- fess to be forgiven? Yeu trust, you say, to the mercy ol God. But justice is as much the avtribute of God a8 mercy, and When We go Lo His word We read that He cannot look upor iniquity and by no means will clear the guiity. There isno piace to rest till the Lamb that has been slat is presented. In the first worship of iallen man there is the bieeding sacrifice. Under — the w all things were purified by blood. The same views aye unfolded of Goa in Eden, or Sinal, and on Calvary. with the view of the Lamb belere im uo siuner need despair, and the saint on earth with the saint in heaven may join am ascribing praise to Him that sitteth on the throne and the Lamb jorever. But if God will forgive man how 1s mam to be reconciled to God? A troubled consciencé always leads the offender to AVOID THE PARTY OFFENDED. The appeasing of tke conscience must be prelimi- nary to the flowing out of tue soul in love to God. An evil conscience must, too, be a cause of trrita- tion. There can be no peace in the soul when that soul is not at peace with God. But when the con- science ceases to accuse the heart will be at rest, just as the waves are at peace when the wind) calm, The Lamp, the image of gentleness, is set “in the midst of the tiurone’ to show that God 18 __ reconciled. To gain the heart there must bo uw lovely object presented, ‘There is @ moral loveliness that wins the heart, aud in Christ there is the union of all the qualities that call jor love. Man bas in every age been carnalizing God, but in Christ. we see the brightness of the Father’s uuage. without being stripped of a single ray. In Chrisi we lave not only afatuer’s heart, but @ brother's leart. ‘The tenderaess and sensibility of Christ’s huinan nature make usrun to Him as to — who cau feel for us under all circumstances, THE FORSAKEN LIFT UP THEIR HEADS and are comforted by communion with Him. This vision 18 set before us to remind us that Jesus is the grand source of joy to the saints in heaven, We have seen that the view of the Lamb first gains the heart of the sinner, and so it is a view of the same object that keeps the feart, Lookimg unto Jesus 13 habitual with the steadfast Christian; and that light Which cheered him in darkness is to Mlumine his path forcver. It is delightial to the believer to tink that the friend who iirst reconciled him to Goa will the first to meet nim im heayen. Deati bas no power when this thought Telgus in the heart. ‘The question is oiten asked Where heaven is, We may notanswer it geographi. cally, but we know that it 1s where Jesus Is, We necd to be propared for heaven, und Christ is pre- Paring a place torus, ana preparing us for the place. We Wish olten that We migit have sat ke Mary at the feet of Jesus, but these wishes may yet be granted, tor He that was dead 13 alive, and is as gentle ana as loving, aud when ou the Hari He comforted the mourner. ST. PATRICH’S CATHEDRAL. Father Carney on Trae Costrition—We Should Prepare Ourselves for Christmas Day. High mess was celebrated at this graud and vene- fable ple with all the impressive rites and. cere- monies pertaining to the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and reemed to imbue the large congregation with the solemnity of the occasion, for on leaving the charch their faces shone with a peculiar gloss of sanctity. The music was very fine, and the solos were rendered with artistic finish and precirion. The rays of the sun shining through the windows reflected thelr brilliant colors upon the assembled congregation and surrounded the heads of the sev- eral saints with a golden halo that vied in exuber- ance with the light of the huge waxen tapers around the altar. At eleven o'clock Father Carney mountea the pulpit, and mentioned, among other announce- ments, that grand Ponulfical mass will be ceie- brated at half-past eleven o'clock on Christmas Day, at the conclusion of which the Right Reverend the Archbishop of New York wiil give We PAPAL BENEDICTION to the asgentbled flock. He then read the frst chap- ter of Luke’s Gospel, and expounded the text ina brief discourse, which was rather commonplace and abounded with frequent repetitions. The reverend genticmun s2id;—st. Jonn preceded eur Lord, in order that the doctrine which the latcer brought from Reaven might be more eMocacious and impress upon the minds of the people the necessity of receiving the divine teachings of Christ with undefiled hearts. Following the example of St. John it behooves us to prepare ourselves by true contrition for the CELEBRATION OP OUL LORD'S NATIVITY in order that we may be among those to whom the @ngel promised peace on earth and joy in heaven. We say that We are sorry for our sins—for there is not one among us who has not offended God—but We can never be sure of our sorrow ana repentance. ‘We are told by the Fathers of the Gouncil of Trent that contrition consists in a thorough detestation of sin. If thixbe so how 4s it that although we are sorry for our past offences we fall again inte the same sins or into others of still greater enormity? Because we do not think of the future, and lack a fixed determination to sin uo more. Our sorrow emanates from some human motive; we feel, perhaps, ashamed that people should think we have been so weak 4s te commit a certain offence. Atrue, internal sorrow of the heart and mind is required to obtein Divine forgiveness. YAE OREATEST SINNERS IN THE WORLD hate sin, bat they do not hate the causes that led them toit. ‘The man whe has, for instance, fallen into the cin of Intoxication, should avoid the com- panions who are constantly tempting him. The Teverend gentleman concluded by exhorting the congregation to prepare themselves, by true contri- on, tor the coming festival of our Saviour. DR. VAN DYKES CHURCH. ‘The Depth of Enith—The Trappings of Lust— Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Van Dyke. There was 2 large congregation at the Rev. Dr. Van Dyke's church, at the corner of Clinton and Remsen streets, yesterday morning. The reverend gentleman took for nis text the following:—"“And the Lord said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”—Genesis vil, 1. ‘rhe history of Noab, a8 read from the Scriptures, bad an unmeasurable depth, and the circum- stances surrounding his life were not like the plictnres hung upon the walis, but they were like living pictures, ne reverend gentleman thon proceeded to speak of the diferent traits ol Noah's character, of his smecere faith in the Lord and of is caretal construction of the ark to save his household when the heavens opened and deluged the earth, It was a very easy tung to be Fighteous before men; 1b was & very easy thing to Pray and put on 2 long face, and to assume So exact ap Asseimblance Of pt OFTEN DEC zs Dut this was not ac He kuew the real-depth of our sinc We should not enter Hos house because tt was a custom to do 30, or sor the purpose of assuming a piety which we did not feel, bes lor tho true love of Him to Whom we looked for onr reward in the future, We ungbt be assured that 20 superficial Judgment would stand In the end. Every one wouid have to stand tn tus own characte to anser for himself, and of atl this God has given us Warning. It was @ great mistake lo tink that tie age belere the food was AN AGE OF IGNORANCE. The people were refined even to a yreaver degree than they aye BOW, wud mmvAY things io pcieue? aud NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. art were bronght to a \ eed degree of perfection. ‘The love of guln was fully as great as now, and the people then jald up treasures of gold and sliver; but then, a8 row, the hearts of men were upon the world. Lust coneelved and brought forth sin, and wealth and power brought social corruption, and that prevatied. Lustassumed the MOST BEAUTIFUL FORMS, was arrayed in the most costly and entroing habill- ments, put en the sweetest smiles and sang the most beantifnl songs, and sin like a con- tagion was spread far and near. The simple piety of Noah was like a shining light, aad for tails he Was compelled to bear the scoffs and ridicute of those Who had no faith in the Word of God. fe had to bear the reproach of these people when God commanded bim to build the ark, and it caused the old man, Whom they !ooked upon as an entric genius, to get his Bonus And bis sons’ wives ‘m sympathy with him in his work, As it required tol TO BUILD THIS ARK, 80 did it requtre toll to bulid a church, If we looked this thing square in the tace did we find the work of true picty differing with that in the time of Noah ¢ We conld not be mere spectators to the building of the ark and expect Wiien it was completed to walk in, The victory by which Non overcome the world wae by true faith, He believed that the food would JUST AS GOD SAID; and so in the present day we cannot expect to be saved without true faith in ui In. closing the reverend gentleman sald that God tnvited them and their house into the ark, and he hoped that He would, in His intinite mercy, give such an expres- Si.n to every family im tue congregation. ST. CHARLES BORRONZO, A Lesson on Scandal—Sermon by Rev. Fal- ton McGovern. The usual numerous and most respectable congregation assembied yesterday within the sacred walls of the clegant Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Siduey place, corner of Livingston street, Brooklyn, at the principal service. The choir acquited itself with that regard for artistic taste and skill which has won for ita high reputation in the “City of Churches,” where there are so many excellent choirs, The Rev, Father 0’. lerne celebrated tie noly sacrifice of the mass, After the gospel tho pulpit was brought to the front of the chancel aad the Rev, Father McGovern ascended the platform and read the gospel of the fourth Sunday of Ad@- vent—Luke iil., 1 to 6—**A voice of one crying tn the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight His paths; every valley shali be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought iow, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways plain; and all flesh shali see the salvation of God.” The reverend gentieman did not contine himself to the text, but gave a brief and potnied lesson against THE SIN OF SCANDAL. We are not only responsible for our own transgres- sions of the divine law, but we are alse held respon- sible 1u the eyes of God for the sins which we may occasion in our neighbors. Such, then, being the case, what man dare say to himself that his soul ts clear, that he has nothing to answer fer in the sins which he has caused his neighbor to commit? No matter what position in life we may occupy we can- not be oblivious to the fact that our example of con- duct must and does influence our feiiow man either jor good or for evil. Who, tnen, can say that ne has not been the occasion of tie sin of others at some ume, When if a guard, @ Christian guard of peeress had been set about nis actions he would not ave so scandalized his neighbor? A sin which 13 kept within our own breasts—a sin ef wrought— cannot be productive of scandal to another. But when We give utterance thereto then we commit a doubie sin ef scandal—being responsible for the sin of our neighbor which the recital of our personal offence may engenaer in his mind, Every EXAMPLE LEADS TO IMITATION, We cannot, therefore, be too careful in guard- Ing against the sin of the tongue. Bx- ample in = morality or immorality is con+ tagious, whether you intend it to be so or not. The person smitten with a contagious disease may sit down in your company without having the most remote Intention of imparting. that disease to you. Yet the intention will bot avail; he must shun you or you him if the coutagion 1s to be avowed, So tis with regard to swearing, backbiting, detraction, immodest conversation, We must avoid contact with these germs of disease, wich are fatal to the life of the soul, We must avoid entailing upon our selves the additional sin of scandai by repeating that which ts susceptible of giving scandal to our neigh- bor. Our pious indignation agaist sin is WEAKENED BY FAMILIARITY witn the cause or origin of these transgressions against the jaw of our Divine Lord and Master. We become hardened by constant repetiuon of the of- fence, until the hideousness of the iniquity is lost as it were, in the faminarity which it has acquire With our poor, weak senses, ‘thus we can never relax our Watch over at Word and action, not only Urat we may be free froia the blemish which sin casts upon our OWn souls, but also that we may not be chargeabie with the sius of ovr neighbors, whom We are liabie to scandalize. TO PARENTS 1s this subject more particularly pertinent, that they, as Christians, may carn the happy reward of a well spent mission on Earth in the eajeyment of happi- hess, which 1s eternal m heavea. Tne children whom God has coulided to their care are as wax, ever ready to take limpressions. From the cradle onward wey waich theexpressions and the actions of their pavenis, whoin they naturally emulate and essay to follow inexample. As they esteem aud re+ spect their natural guardians, s80 Lhey lwitate them, Early impressions are most lasting. How great, then, is. THS MORAL RESPONSIBILITY resting upon the father and mother for the culture, trainiug and example set their offspring! If, in aiter life, their children prove recreant to the prin- cipies of morality, great aust be the consciousness of culpability in tne minds of the father or motiier who have by scandal occastoned the sins of their children. Urging his hearers to keep constant guard over their woids aud actions in the presence of their neigh. bor, that they may aveid this dread singof scandal, Father Mcgivern closed his remarks, Iuwas announced that the frst mass would be celebrated at this church at five o’clock on Christ- mias morning, next Sunday; that oue of the Jesuit Fatucrs would preach at the last mess on that day, and a collection would be taken up for the venelit of the orplan=. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, JAMAICA. Pagan and Caristizn Decalogues—Worldly Progress and Christinniiy—God and the World—Sermoo by Lewis L. Lampman. Yesterday the Rev. Lewis L. Lampman, the newly installed pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Jamaica, occupied the pulpit. He made a most interesting prayer, hoping that the clash of arms would cease to resound throughout the lands, that corruption would cease, and that our legislatures woul become pure and regard the rights of the people in a Christian view. He preached from Mat- thew v., 17—“Think not that I am come to destroy.” Pagans as well as Christians have had their deca- logues. The former have made such progress in intelligence ang morality that they have passed beyond their commandments and demanded more perfect codes, Christians are still guided by the precepts that were given at Sinal to a great com- pany of slaves just liberated three thousand years ago. Some maintain that these laws were merely preparatory, aud should be REGARDED AS DEAD ISSUES. These reproach the rest of the Christian world with clinging to dead issues, and with @ greater illiberal- ity than the pagan. They urge us, as the followers of Solon aud Pythagoras have, banished the laws they once observed aud have furnished more perfect codes, in tiitation of them, to do the same. A com- parison of heathen decalogues with our Command. ments reveals @ vast difercuce im wisdoiu and mo- lity, and even in tueir intent, which makes against ua abolish Christian laws as they do pagan, because as they say, “they were meant for earlier times.” In the pagan code a man without a friend 1s infamous, and iurther, suicide was as law. Some of the wise men deny a supreme being. sages of the poren and of the academy announ ) MAXIMS 80 Contradictory that one to prove by the hook that its au val did not belie fat he re- cognized aud did not recognize one positive virtue; that LIBERTY IS THE FIRST OF ALL GOOD THINGS; that despotism is ihe werst of governmenicx. VV @ custuia or law stands in the way of 1 pro- gress and cripples iustitutions or St ine sooner, H no matter whethey ashiagton. Because ous Y sysiems that is no rei: a Why we should follow in their footeieps, unies: anie reasons prevail with us as with them. I Jopt without question the Customs ol our an- cestors a3 regards material things our goverament ocratic and tyran x ress are the prince} at aiaw of God is unsuited to the nt 18 to prove either that it is nov @law of the giver or that 16 was not designed for Uke present, aud therelore ought not te be observed, UNDER THR CRY OF PROGKE foolish things ore advanced and Utoy by ady ted. Unoer the ery of liberality license is mooted. The world 19 advancing, and, as a rale, this generation 14 wiser than the past. The © mands of the Decalowue are as imperative three thousand years ago. They cannot be super: i excepr by express command of God; for it 13 not simply a pars of the Jewish ritual, for it goes | peper aud exteads wider than ceremonial lew las gone or could go. They haye been engraven not ly on the siones of Sinai, but aiso in tne heart of Pythogoras and Zoroaster addressed them- to the Greeks and ihe Medes; Jehovah to all mea. Idolatry has changed its form, but it is titting only that unintelligent men should say that. has ’ passed away. ‘Tne worship of God in spirit and in truth, though it may not be as far from us as it was from the children in the desert, is yet to be attained. A BROAD CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPY, though it may be encountered oftener to-day than three thousand sears ago, has not become so general that the hungry are fed, the naked clothed and the peor have the Gospel preached to them. That to which the Decalogue 1s pointing is the millennium— the reign of perfect harmouy and periect leve, The references of our Saviour te the Decalogue are not few. He speaks of ther, not as laws apolished, but, on the contrary, enjoins them by His cemmend- ation and enferces the whole law by its summation Of leve to God and to our fellow man. He speaks plalaly of it atthe commencement of His ministry. “Think not that I wm come to destroy the law er the prophets; Lam not come to destroy, but to sulfll.’? And then adas,in words of warning, “Whosoever, therefore, shail break one of these least command- Inent# and shall teach mea so he shall be called the jeast in the Kingduim ef heaven.” SQUABBLE AMONG THE FAITHFUL. A Long Island Pastor and His Flock at Log- xerheads-Will He Be Turned Out? Rockville Centre is becoming prove: bial for re- ligious brawls and social differences, It is only @ few months since @ serious confict was waged be- tween elergy and laity, and how it has again broken out with renewed vigor, On Friday last it was given out that there would be preaching im the old Methodist church at Rockville Centre in the evening by Rev. Charles Kelsey, the clergyman of the parish. Mr. Kelsey has long’ been endeavoring to erect two new churches—one at Rockville Centre and the other at Pearsall’s, Much fault was found with the old church by the minister, while the old inhabitants Who had contributed to build tt, and whose ances- tors are interred upon either side of it, contended that none other than the old edifice would be al- lowed in the village, Out of this hestility has come @ disturbance of which the end 18 not yet. Mr. Kelsey proceeded to the church and built a fire and prepared everything for the evening cere- mony. Whena consideratie party had collected within, Constable Langdon appeared in behalf of the community and extinguished the Hgnts and tires, Me demanded (o know by what authority Mr. Kelsey entered the church, and in the name of the com- munity commanded him to leave instanter. The noise of angry voices within had by this time con- vened a crowd of 300 people, all seemingly in. flerce hostility to Mr. Kelsey, Some cried, ‘Ride him on a rail, the old wolf in sheep's clothing!’ “Tar and feather the old usurper!”’ and many coarse epithets, accompanied by gross profanity. By the aid of a few friends the reverend gentieman escaped to his dweiling and was soon followed by the angry tumult. Fierce yelis, curses and hisses fell thick and fast, and some shouted, “Pull down the house!” while others cried, “Bring him eut, the rail isready and the tar and feathers are here! But by the timely interference ef some intluential parties violence was prevented. LATER. A crowd of several hundred had yesterday col- Jected about the church and the parsonage, and it is whispered as a possibitity that the reverend gen- tieman will be taken from lis house and violently treated. Such intense excitement has ucver before been known in the locality. JERSEY CITY CHURCHES. GRACE CHURCH (2PISCOPAL). Sermon by the Itev. Mr. Rice on the Judg- ment Atter Death—The Christian’s Reply to the Athelst. In Grace church, Jersey City, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Rice, preached to an unusually large congregation, taking his text from St. Paul—“It is appointed to all men once to die, and after that the judgment.” In regard to the future life three classes of opinions have obtained. The atheist, in the first place, rejects the Scriptures and the doctrine of future rewards and punishments, He says there is no God, and consequently there can be no puntsh- ment. One thing THY ATHEIST CANNOT DENY, and that {8 that man lives here. Let us inquire of the atheist whether the same cause which made us live here cannot make us _ live hereafter. We pass through various stages of life, from the cradie to the grave, without losing our individuality. Granting all that the atheist may say, this one fact remains, that IT REQUIRED A GREAT POWER to create us and maintain us in tis life; and cannot the same power preserve us here- after? If we credit the athelst’s opinion, the power to which we owe our origin has either the indisposition or the inability to give us life hereafter. In other words, the power which creates cannot destroy. Science teaches us that there is not a substance in nature which can be an- nihilated, Yet the atheist argues that man will be annihilated when this lite ceases, It is appointed for men once to die, but NOT TO BE ANNIHILATED. Even atheism offers us no refuge from the judgment tocome. We can see no reason to doubt that after death our sins shall surely tind us out, and that in the next life, as in this, the way of the transgressor is hard. Can you show me any reason why that which 4s confessedly administered here will not be adminis- tered hereafter? It may be hard to have THE SINS OF THIS LIFE brought up against us hereafter; but if in this world, imperfect as 1s our state there, we have laws and justice, 1s it rational to assume that we shail have no justice hereafter? The text settles the question when the judgment will take place— namely, atter death, Even though there should not be another word in the Scriptures in suppert of this docirine the text I have quoted SETTLES IT FOREVER. When you are on the bed of death and you ask that the Scriptures be read for you you will hear the words, “IL is appomted for men once to die, and after that—mark you the words—after that the judg- ment,” Various constructions have been put on this text, but I cannot see the shadow of a proef that we shall not certainly have the judgment after death. I cannot express either doubt or surprise at this declaration ef a judgment to come, inasmuch as tt ts ONLY AN ANALOGY to that system of government which we possess here below. The summer gives place to tho winter. come short of theglory of God, ‘The Armenian or the Bible dednition of sia makes ita transgression, and under thls ail are condemned, whether guilty of estrangements of the affections, imgratitude of Heart, spirituar idolatry or failure to meet the re- quirements of the Gospel. A material question to be asked Is, how Can one escape the consequences of its transgression’ How is it possible to hope for forgiveness? God's law being eternal can be neither changed nor abrogaied. ‘Transgression against physica! law results in pain and the degrada- ton of the body; 80 transgression of the moral law brings degradation of miud and weakness of the moral nature, thus meapacitating it to meet the claims of Gow’s bigher law. These Penalties, with the reproefs of conscience and re. Morse, must follow the sinner, though he may hide under the wings of Gabriel or behind the shieid of Michael. There are but three conditions of escape. ‘There must be substitution and suffering, a new creation and a new life. Neither human beings nor Ahgels Could become substitutes, as they are created beings. There is but one such substisute in all the reais of God's universe—the man Christ devus. Forgiveness of sins can be granted throngh the merits of Jesus Christ, but forgiveness Mmpiles honest, frank confession of transgression. Then comes the new creauion, 80 that the passions Of man’s nature are held in check, the vices of his heart extirpated, so that he feels himself a new man In Christ Jesus, so, too, that his life becomes an atmos- phere of prayer. ‘The retention of this forgiveness depends on the holiness of the subsequent life, a life of devotion to God and charity to mankind. My people, we could not offer a better prayer to-day han “forgive us-our sins.’? FOURTH STREET PRESBYTERI Dr. Sunderland on the Evil of Excessive De- votion to PleasureAmusement and Relax. ation a Necessity of Maws Nature. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 1870. The Rey. Dr. Sunderland preached this morning on the subject of amusements to a large congrega- tion in the Four-and-a-Half street Presbytertan church, He took a rational rather than a Puritant- cal view of the subject. His text was found in Pro- verbs, xxi, i7:—“e that loveth pleasure shall be & poor man.’ This word pleasure, he said, signifies the joy of festivity; but it may be taken in the sense of human gratification, which springs from worldly enjoyment or amuse- ment. It is intunated that the man who loves pleasure to the extent of giving himself up to it, to the exclusion of other and more importan: things, shall, in consequence of this, BE A POOR MAN; that is to say, ne shall come to be a sorry, shifuless creature, without money, character, frends, em- ployment or influence, Notwithstanding the abuse of pleasure, the sad results of which are pictured in the Divine Word, it ts plain, on the other hand, that human nature, under the stress that Hes upon it, requires both relaxation and re- creation, and that all amusements which minister to these innocently and lawfully are themselves legiti- mate and proper, while all others are pernicious and are to be reprehended and avoided. The great question is, how and where and when to draw the line between what 1s innocent and suitable and What 18 Wrong and harmful? It is not a question as to What a young man or what an old man may de in this matter; what it is proper for the young man or woman todo it is proper for the old man or woman todo. It is not a question of what the worldling or what the Christian may do, lt ts ro mote wrong for the Christian to Indulge tn innocent amusement than for the worldling to do the same, and no more right for the worldling to indulge in amusements that are not innocent than for the Christian to do the same, the only difference being that the Christian professes what the world. lung oucht to profess. It 1s not a queation between CHURCH. astor and people, for what ts lawiul tor the people is lawful for the pastor. ‘The question is, where 1s the DISTINCTION BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, between lawiul and unlawful? If a thing be right, lawful and proper in itself we all have the same right to it ‘There has been an error on the part of the Christian ministry in dealing with this subject. They have inveighed against certain specific popular amuse- ments, as though they were causes instead of veing simply consequences, as they are, of the condition or attitude of society, So far as amusements have a harmful tendency they are the result and not the source of irreligiou. “They may have @ reciprocal action and reaction to augment the = trreli- gion of the community, but they are mot the cause-or it. Our social evils in amusement, as im everything else, are to be reformed not so ‘much by combating their ultimate forms and ripened harvest, as by refining and purifying the heart of childhood, and so raising up @ society that by its own purity and discernment will regujate the character of its amusements, Dr. Sunderland thea considered some of the laws.of human conduct de- rived from the Word of God which lie at the basis of all true Christian character, and remayked that the law of all Christian conduct which requires supreme love to God ts the same in respect to amuse- ments as to all other Christian affairs, They must in their nature, in their proportion and time, en- subordinate to the great work of the Ch W these bounds imnocent; When they transcend these they are un- lawful and injurious, Whatever in popular amuse- nent is IN ITSELF IMMODEST, IMMORAL AND SINFUL; wha'ever is excessive or intemperate, or injurious to body or soul, must be wrong. Whatever inter- feres with the necessary secular business of lite; Whatever interferes with weli established customs and babits of worship, or with the steady growta and advancing ripeness of oar plety, both towards God and man, 1s iarmful, and it 18a double wrong to engage mit, Induige in no amusement which interferes with your paramount duty to God, to your church, to your family and to society. There is an excessive devotion to pleasure everywhere, and it 18 aM excess as tends to make men Kile, to withdraw them from rational industries and pur- suits aud make them discontented wita their spnere. ‘The speaker deplored the tendency to frivolity among the young, saying that young people nowadays don’t know haif a much as they ought. Undertake to talk with them on history or scicnce, and they do not know anything about it. They are as ignor- amt as horse blocks. The tendency of frivolous amusements 18 to make them ignorant, to give them precarious and objectionable habits, to waste Oniy a few short months intervene between the period when nature is in its bloom and the dreary season of inhospitable winter. This transition ought to be just as incomprehensible to the atheist as our passage from this life to a future state, EZRVICES IN WASHINGTON. METROPOLITAN = ™ ETHOBIST CHURCH, A Suggestive Discourse by Dr. Newman on Penalties of Transgression and Man's Hope of Forgiveness. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 1870. Notwithstanding the cold and gloomy weather a large congregation assembled in the Metropolitan Methodist church this morning to hear the Rey, Dr. Newman, Among those present were Presiaent and Mrs. Grant, Vice President Colfax, Governor Jewell, Senators Wiluams and Harian, General Farnsworth and other prominent peovie, The amnesty question, which has been the principal topic of discussion in both houses of Congress during the pust week, probably suggested the subject which Dr. Newman discoursed upon this morning. He took his text from Luke xi., 14—“Forgive us our sins.” He began by stating that all divine truths come to us in pairs. When- ever @ great doctrine is presented it indicates an antitheetical one. Thus the unity of God and the trinity of the Godhead form a tueological antithesis, THE HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST 18 proclaimed whenever His divine nature is an- nounced, The doctrine of the text 18 that of torgive- ness, Its consideration leads to @ consideration of some of the fundamental principles of Christianity. It suggests the nature and condition of evangelical forgiveness, the existence of a moral covenant and man’s capacities to meet the divine law. The exist- ence Of a moral covenant no one can deny. Those who are aigposed io Geny revelation do not fail to eulogize ail the workings of natural law, as seen in the birds and flow ud trees and Sau and Moor. | 78, On allot which is written law. They go further and acknowl not only miin’s pnysical nature, bus that tual Nature 18 sub- Ject to Jaw. ‘They agre uv his reasen aud judg- meut, bis volittons, seusutions and c1otisuess ure all sabject tot ernment of iaw. Were it vi ly oO ansinaly—if the iueral and spiritual natures aiso in subjection—caa it be possible Aimighty should legtsiate for bird and and flow jor the body aud } mind, avd not for man’s nigher Moral navarc. What- je y be one’s theories, expericnce aad observa- @ of action leads to course leads to good | tion teach that a certain cou evil results, and tat anol res Gop A MORAL D AND PROMULGATED LAW. It was given from Mount Sinal; it was rea serted by desus Christ. In otlier words, tie New T is & commentary ou the i © eriug =the ma point—man’s | city to meet requisitions of jlaw—Dr. Newman showed t there necessary to man volition, 5 @, and that every sane ust admit | that man possesses these ait that he hos Wwili power by whicn to telligcnce to judge of th Wie hin & subject of Nownces sin to be a tras jun of the law, and noi, sthe Calvinists aiirm, a want of conformity to the were this the true nature of sin nO mao cuuld hope to be saved, for all mica have sinned and moral go’ pent. thelr time, abuse thelr strength and squander their money. How are We to counteract these influences t By personal example, by making home and clurch the places where our purest joys are found. There must be more vigorous, intelligent, parental authority and better discipline in tae school4, We must, if possible, put Something beiter in thé place of these amusements, We may use what is useful and salutary and true and beautiful. Satan and the world have monopolized many things which we have aright toreclaim, We h: the liberty of all God's heritage ; 4 liberty thatis grand, noble, beautful end true. We have the liverty of all that ts retining and exalting in this world, in time, in art, in history, in the present and in the future A SUNDAY CAUSERIS. Lecture by Miss Kate Fields Charles Dickens at the Filth Avenue Taexatre, Miss Kate Field last night delivered a tecture at the Fifth Avenue theatre on Charles Dickens. There was a brilliant and fasmionable audience, and these Sunday entertainments wiil doubtless soon become & recognized feature of New York life, Miss Kate Field 1s certainly eminently weil qualified to lead the van in this bold on- slaught upon Sabbatarian prejudices, She is an immense improvement upon the accepted ideal of the lady lecturer. In place of being dogmatic, coarse and disagreeable—an intellectual virago—she chats pieasantly along in a vein that constantly re- minds the hearer that he Is listening to a beautiful, accomplished and charming lady. Indeed, the en- vertainment resembles more the sparkling gossip of a drawing room téte-d-téle than the hard logic and instructive duiness of the iecture hall, Of course Miss Field 18 an enthusiastic admirer of the great novelist. She introduced her opinions by the fol- ‘owing spirited defence of Sunday lecturin, ‘The better the day, the better the deed,” declares the ola » Lbelteve this firmiy, if the deed be honest, and itseemns to me eminently dting that the man who did so much to make every day beautiful with good cheer should be the subject of Sabpath discourse, especially of discyurse from a stage for one of the — best. — papel im the neommereiat T eller” awwells upon sunday mectings in theatres. “1 do not deubt,’ writes Dickens, “that tiey wil work lower and Jower down im the social scale if those who preside over them will be very Careiui not to set themselves in antagonism to the inborn desire of the mass oj mankind to reate then ad Pursuing the argument, Dic! or advisable to address such an audienc as fellow sinners? Is ib not enough to be felow creatures, born yesterday, suffering suIviNg Lo-ay, dyimg to-morrow? By our on liwnanity, My broilers and sisters, by our for pleasure and pain, by eur and our common tear, by our hsowweuiing beer than me.” So, j texi—a text coun Bidie—lor does tt not neigh iwyseliy—1 address you, my brothers and sisters, “by oO PGC and our commen tea Ana if, H ing to the story of one Whose virtue was charit you reeall ir—the dearest of all seasons to Keynote to his most touching r of ‘tiny Tin, son of Uae Y 4 Lickeus, the ¥ + spirit of the great man to-night, aud that wy jay sermon has not been given Ww yun. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Arrival of the Whaling Fleet at Honolulu. Heavy Rains and Diminished Crops—Non-Ar- rival of the Bark Japan—Perils of the Whalo Fishery—Swindling Seamen—The Markets. HONOLULU, Noy. 29, 1870, Our Islands have had a thorough drenching, and have donned a mantic of green quite charming to the eye. For months past the hills have worn a brown, parched look chat boded no good to either agriculturists or graziers. Sugar cane felds in some localities Were parched until the creps gath- ered in were barely remunerative, while hundreds of cattle were dying, or just saved by killing for their hides, Marked changes of climate have taken place within the past fifteen years. Rains then were quite Irequent and evenly distributed throughout the year; now we have loag seasons of drought relieved by the heaviest rains, which occasion loss of crops and inundation of valleys and lowlands near the sea coast, This change 1s doubtless caused by the destruction of forests, and the liveliest appre- hensions are feit by the most intelligent of our planters as to the future of these Islands, News has reached here of loss of crops of rice and taro (the latter the staff of life to Hawaitans) on the otner islands, Whole valleys have been swept clear of acres of rice and tro patches, In some locall- ties sugdr cane growing on side hills has been washed out of the soil and carried by the torrents to the sea, while in many places the rain and wind have caused the crop to fall to the ground, where it is damaged by sprouting. From Kanai pews comes of a house carried to sea and life lost, To show the amount of water that has falien I will give the state- ment of a person who has a rain gauge, to the effect tnat in five days eighteen inches of water fell, and again that in one night nine inches fell, On this island much damage has been done to fish ponds stocked with fish ready for market, taro patches ready for the oven and fields of cane. In some instances soil has been washed from bill sides down to the lowlands, where it has been deposi in ponds and patches to the depth of four feet. ‘The loss of the taro crop will be the most severely felt, as it was quite scarce and held at rates which ex- cluded It from the bili of tare of the poorer classes, Kanal also experienced a severe thunder storm; but no serious damage is reported from the effects of electricity. The whaljng fleet expected to rendezvous at these islands this fall is safely at ancher within our har- bor, with the exception of the bark Japan, for which vessel some anxiety 1s felt, as she was last seen in a very perilous position, The ships generally report very heavy gales during the latter part of the season, lt isa subject of congratulation that some of the vessels which remained im the Arctic after the mid- dle of October got oat at all, Ships were encased in ice, water freezing where It fell, One shipmaster informed me that from the catheads to the bowsprit end of his ship was a solid cake of ice, rendering it diMeult to work the ship. Another had so much ice in his rigging that it was with great difficulty that the yards were braced, while Ice formed about the rudder so solidly that it required work of hours’ duration to clear it in order to steer the vessel. One ship during a gale crossed @ shoal covered with six fathoms of water, Where @ sea boarded her which left pebbics the size of a man’s thumb in the scup- pers. Tnis may sound like a tongh story, but there are a number of respectabie witnesses to vouch for the fact, Take it altogether it has been a very severe season, and much suffering and hardship have been experienced, Shipmasters say that the Whales make thelr appearance tater every year, and that in order to take a fare ships have to remain until the navigation is very hazardous, The bulk of the oi! taken the past season was caught after the isi of October, The average of the feet of forty-six Vessels i$ 1,195 barrels of ol, 15,217 pounds of bone, and 1,419 pounds of ivory. ‘The ships of Charles: Brewer & Co.’s jine—lolant and Ceylon—have se- cured @ full carge of oil and bone, notwithstanding the fact that seventeen Whalers are bound home. ‘Vhe freight for ot) has been reduced to eight cents a gallon, ‘The bark Ethan Allen has also toaded oil jor New Bedford. ‘the Law a caught ou will go to Europe by the vessels of Hackfeld & Co.'s Bremen. line, A large quantity of walrus ivory will go for- ward to Europe, the catch of the feet of whalers who took walrus for oil and ivory antl the Whaling season commence’. A lov of walrus hides Will also be sent forward ior @ market. The rates fixed by the United States Consul at which seamen are compelicd to settle for their sea- son’s catch have caused great dissatisfaction, His Majesty’s government interfered 10) prevent the swindling of Hawaiian seamen, but found that a clause bad been inseried in the Hawailan shipping arucles by which the seamen were bound to accept consular rates, Hereatter this clause will be omitted and Hawaiian seamen will be protected in thetr rights, While United States consuls will, deubtless, be permitted to swindie American seamen to any tent, Arctic oil, oted In American papers at seventy cents, curren 1s paid off at thirty-three cents, gold, a gallon, in spite of the fact that a cargo of 1,600 barreis has been sold, as reported, at thiryy- nine cents a gallon, Whalebove paid of at fity- three cents @ pound, while queted at seventy-f cents, gold, per pound, in New York, and sales of trade bone—an inferior article—have been made at sixty cents a pound. The whole busimedss 1s sim- ply an outrage upon the rights of American seamen. If consuls cannot be sent are willing to protect seamen, the Treasury Department should #x the rates at which seamen should be settled with in foreign ports. Mauy a seaman has come from the American Consulate this fall oat- raged and full of indignation, The question, where is Consul Adamson? has been asked hundreds of times, When told that he had been recalled, th remark ia answcr 1s invariably, “Oh, he was too honest to sult New Bedford folks.” Consul Perkins has, however, heard complaints of bad usage and proimpuy acted in bebal€ of seamen, Hawaiian seamen are holding back, refusiugy to shy for shorier “lays” and larger advances, determined to make up in some way jor the consular rates. Many of them are contracting to go lo work on lantations, While others are enlisting in the army. tis very doubuul if crews will be obtained by some ofthe ships. ew Bedford oil magnates will fud out to their cost that it will pay best to be at least halfway honest wit Jack. Another way in Which seamen are wronged has become notorious. Mon shipping in New Bedford, called voyagers to distinguish them from those who ship ere for the “season,” are kept on ‘board long enough to work out the home advance and slop bill and then are 80 abused that they he to get clear of the sbip, in many cases forfeiting what may be due them. Vaptains refuse to give the discharge unieas the men will agree to pay the three months’ “extra ‘wages,’ amounting to sixty doilars, demanded by the Consul, to secure which the men pat themselves into the hands of the “sharks,” who ship them on board other vessels, obtaining advance enough to satisfy the claim for “extra wages.” By law, forty dolurs of the “extra wages” shouid be returned to the seaman When he ships for a “home" port; but few of them, however, ever see the kum, Where It goes is the puzzie, Sailors hav cliance to prose- cate masters for abuse, a8 they lave no money wherewith to fee a lawyer to go lato our Admiralty Court; 5v his wrongs go uuredressed, A Case where jan had been beaten by an oflicer in our bor, and who had retaliated by stabbing the ofilcer, came up before the police magistiate. tits Honor imposed a light penalty upon the seaman, and togk occasion to speak quite plainly of what he termed ages commited 60 commonly On board of American ships. Shipcarpenters and sailwakers have been quite fortanate through th ynmer. The heavy gales in the North Pacifle have compeiled sips to seek thls port for repairs, ‘The American Ourk Stering was fitted with Spars and sails to the extent of $5,000, ‘The American silp Jolin Bryant was almost entirely remasted and rigged, the repairs lovung Up $12,000, It is doubtful tf tere 1s a pore in the Pacttic where repairs can be better made or ut cheaper rates tian 8 port. orth German bark Fidelitas putin here en- trely dismasted aud has been soid for underwriters’ account. The cate of sale was doubtless owing to misrepresentations as to cost of repairs. Kepre- ulre an ©. a. The pure ud Wiil ark at a Sentaitons Were made that it would re penditure of $22,000 to iit ler lor chasers of the hull will fir it up ior $11,000, then be in possession of an almost new cost Of $14,000, ‘The schooner Ania has returned from Micronesia, bringing several iatssionaries Who require rest rom their labors. The cruise of Wie Jamestown nas been productive of much good. A war ¥ H soit among taese islands at least on missionaries have accomplished a wonderful work g tne istanders, Many of the laborers m tis jon Heid are Bawatians. esilent Grants proclamation appointing the 4S a day of thanksgiving and prayer was re- e. the Ainerican Mintster published the and serviees were held in the Foro oh, (he Sermon being delivered by the oully. ‘Tie church was weil filled with eCully has won a ef our commu. re mation Rev. resuients ad snipmasters, M and deserves tie respect and est nily. Tne United & in onr harbor at p sloop-of-war St. Mary’s is lying sent, It 18 very graulving to Americans to have & vessel of war in port, more particularly at this season of the year, when Araert- © uipping and merchandise, valu at hundreds of thousands, are atioat in the harbor. Persons in the United States baying iriends or re- 5 Jatives in the whaling feet should not forget to write to them. No one can tell the moral infiuence which @ kindly letter exerts upon a person away (rom home and friends, Standing near the Pest Oflice the otner day, | heard a fine, manly specimen of an American seaman inquiring for letters, and heard the auswer that there were none for itm, ‘furntog away With a look of disappointment, and the remark that ho guessed his folks had forgotten him, he started up town to enjoy himself in a way too common among seamen. His Majesty is slowly recovering from his recent rT jndusposition. He depended upon the sktll of native doctors until his case was quite deperate, When a foreign plysician was sipmoned, ds Wuere a northwest passage To aid those troue bled about this vexed question, I will give an item obtained from Captain Homan, of the whaler Con. Howland, to the eect that a whale was cut in by hig crew the past summer in the Aretio Ucean, Jrom Which was taken an iron or harpoon marked "A, G.,”? Which 1s taken a8 evidence Wat the lrou Was once on board the whaler Ansel Gibbs, Whaling on tue Green. land coast the past tel years. By a late American paper I see that a seaman has Teported hituself to the naval authorities at Norfotk, Vas, a8 a survivor of the United States sloop-ol-war Levant, which vessel left this port some ten or twelve years since, and was never heard of afterwards, in this connection 1 would give & statement which 1 heard recentiv:—That a copper life buoy had been picked up OX Analola Kaual (the most northerly of this group), which bore evidence of having come from an American yessel-of-war. The buey was cked up within six months after the Levant left » and my iMormant belleved at the time that 16 me irom that Vessel, If so, she must have foun- dered to the eastward of this group, where there are no tunablted islands. Business is extremely dull—an unusual fact, con- sidering the season of the year. Sugars come In slowly, dark grades going to New Zealand, while line qualives go to San Prancwweco and Oregon, The export of sugars Will show a decrease for Unla Money has beeu plenty, and whalers’ drafis {ave been Cased Iur from two to three per cent discount, NEW YORK CITY. ‘The following record WL show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as licated by the thermometer at Huadnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building, corer of Aun street 196% 1870, 1569. 1870. . 38 4 SP. Mises - 63 BB . a6 or + 41° 36 oh 12M - 40 Average temperature yesterday s Average temperature for corresponding date Jast year, The report of the Meteorological Department at Central Park for the week ending Devemper 17 shows that the total rainfall has been 1.17 inch, and that the mean temperature has becn 34.6 degrees, varying from 23.7 to OLS. ‘The distance travelled by the wind has been 1,912 miles, A fire broke out early yesterday morning m the Paint shop No. 2,015 Third avenue, tocally desiroy- ing the shop, and the flames having spread to Terance McGuire's livery stable, in the same bulld- jug, Wo horses and two carriages Were consumed, Loss about $3,000; ‘usured for $400, Cause of fre unknown. The Society of Friends in America have deter- mined to join their English coreligionists in alievi- ating the terrible misery and destitution which the war has brought upon the Freneh people, Pecumary subscriptions are being received by Mr. William Wood, M ward Tatum, of No, 7 College place, Mr. Henry Dickinson, of 83 Beekman street, aud Benjamin Tatham, of 52 Deekman strevi. William Ti. Harrington, twenty-six years of age and @ native of this city, died at 414 West Thirty- fourth strect, On Friday evening deceased was ariving a team of horses attached to a truck loaded With stone across the ratl track corner of Thirty- eighth strect and Tenth avenue, when the vyeliclo slewed by the wheel catching tm the track and threw the driver over the dashboara to the pave- ment. Before the hor: could be stop; one of the wheels passed over Harringtoa’s body, fatally crushing him, Coroner Rollins held an inquest on the body. Edward J. Irving, of No, 36 East Thirty-seventh street, on Saturday night, while temporarily insane, met Isabelia Finley and Mary Wells, at the corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-tifth street, and accom- panied them to 107 West Twenty-fourth street. Wheu he left the letter place he discovered he had deen robbed of $500 In money and a diamond pin vained at $150, He caused the arrest of the girl Finley by oMcer Whelan, of the Tw minth pre- cinct, who arraigned her before Justice Shandiey, at Jefferson Market, yesterday morning. She denied the charge, but was Committed in default of $1,000 ball, Francis Goodall, residing at 394 West Twenty- fourth street, yesterday morning appeared before Justice Shandiey, at Jetferson Market, and come Pplamed that while standing at the entrance to the family circle of the Grand Opera House, in West ‘Twenty-fourth strect, Join Clark, a musical instru- ment maker, residing in Amity street, drow a re- volver from his pocket, pointed it at hum and threat- ened to send him “over the valley.” Goodall, not caring to take the journey, called upon onicer Buck, of the Sixteenth preciuct, and had Clark conveyed to the station house, ‘The latter states Goodall hit him, when he drew iis revolver in self-defence, but had no idea of usingjt. He was committed in default of $1,000 bail to answer at the General Sessions. MUSICAL REVIEW. J.N, Pattison & Co, pubjish the following: ating Polka.’ Henry Maylath, An exceed. Ingly pretty work, light, graceiul and unique, and with a characteristic glissando running tarough it a8 @ sort of descriptive feature. The themes and the working up of them show a rare delicacy of treatment and fine conception of idea, “Che sta l’Amore” (The Return). Valse de bra- youre. Maylatt. This is undoubtedly the best work we have yet seen from this composer's fertile pen and is admirably suited for artists of the Niisson and Kellogg calibre. It would be useless for any one to attemp? tt in pabile unless a first class artist; but we confidently place it In value and brilliancy far above any of Arditi'’s vocul walizes, and the so- prano who will succeed in giving it tts dae rendition may never be in want of an enthusiastic encore. Arthur Mathison has written very pretty Italian words to it. The English version will also be found in keeping with the spirit of the music. “The Joys of Love,” by Albites, is a vocal waltz of a jess ainbitious standard and au excellent stuay for advanced puplis. The subjects are simple and ractive and catch the ear readily, and the ar- rangement of them is in accord, Itis tne work of a musician Who understands how to bring out the strong points of & young soprano voice without straining after effect. G. Schirmer pubiishes the following: “Dear Home of My Father.” song. Gumbert, One of those lovely German ballads which have @ distinctive beauty of their own aud a melody of tr- resistible expression. “Pale et Blonde’ Is a portion of the mad scene from “Hamlet,” transposed from the original key. We do not think it valuable to a singer when taken out of the overa. “La Ballerina” is a brilliant, taking mazarka, cleverly arranged for four hands, by Samuel Jack- son. “Hear My Cry,” anthem, arranged from an offer- tory of Dr. Hauptman by Robert Bonner, Wiiham A. Poud & Co. publish the following:— “Brilliants from the Modern Opera.”? These are bouqaets of melodies from “L’Africaine,” ‘La Belle Helene,” “Faust,” “Périchole,” Poet and Peasanv? rande Duchesse,” arranged for tour hands by Albert W. Be and very cleverly arranged, too. He avoids the fault of crowding Into oue work of this kind too many subjects from an opera, and exhibits remarkable tasie in selecting afew that blend well together and forma coherent work. All these ar- rangements will be found very serviceable to pupils. Tom Baker's arrangement of a waltz. mazurka, poika aud galop, from the opera of th Igands,”' 1, “They are in a light, popular vein and brilliant without being diMicul Ye Merry Sprites. published by Moll nha ubiushes & ballad, vy Artaur ve ju a Villag t , which admirably saits the oet-musiclan, Matulsou, ¢: Ing, beautiful mel beautiful words o Koot & Cady, Chicago, have brought out a mnsi- cal tilustratioa of Bret Harte’s well Known poem, “The Heathen Chince.’? The music is by Charles Turner, it might be better for such a clever poem. Haring, of the Bowery, has added Beethoven's “Gertrnde Waltz” to his extensive “Music tor the Mullion? STABBING AFFIVAY IN NEWARK, In Green street, Newark, about three o'clock yess terday morning a stabbing affray of quite a serious character toek place, A man named John Schoileld, of No, 146 Warren street, was passing along in cow- pany with a friead uamed Jabez Lindsley, when they jostied against a party proceeding in an opposite di- recon. This led to some tall talking, whi h was followed by blows. In the course of the mei 10+ field was stabbed in three places, in the bead, breast and arm. One of the wounds, thatin ine ivit side of the head, ts two inches long, He was removed to & drug store on Broad street, and attended ly % sur- geon. His injuries, though serlcus, are not con. sidered fatal. No arrests have becn made, nor is it known who Schoileld’s assailant is. All parties had been splicing the main brace frequeutly.