The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1871, Page 8

] ' ' areca 8 RELIGIOUS, Zesterday’s Verbal Labors in the Master’s Vineyard. PRAYING FOR THE POPE. The Snares of the Devil and the Footsteps of Jesus, THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN. A Free Handling of Commercial Harptes, Proerastinating Sinners, Carnal and Efeminate Livers, Smooth Tongued Infidels and Wilful Liars, The Joys of the Heaven Above—Varions Pictures by Various Hands. fhe Sabbath jnst closed has been a dreary, miser- able day, witha chronic drizzie in the darkened air and with the sad music of the raindrops as they fell from the dripping roof tops ringing in measured and ceaseless monotony upon the ear. “Verily,” a bad dey to be out in, moist and mndoy under foot and damp and disagreeable at the level of the chin and nose. Even the steaming car horses and the disconsolate bootblacks, though schooled by bad fortune in the deepest aud most bitter ad- versity, sullenly protested against it. If it had any hidden meaning in it it must have been specially sent by the rrince of Darkness to disgust us with churchgoing. Indeed most Of our reporters coufess that they were tempted to grow suddenly sick, and to cure themselves by imbibing a pleasant novel over a pipe, in a com- fortable chair, before a cheery fire. But they were true to their duty to God and to the HeRap, and below we present as the result of their devoted labors the choicest morsels of yesterday's spiritual manna—the very cream of the logic and persuasive eloguence and holy wit that sounded forth from the pulpits of New York and Its ancillary suburbs, To tell the truth, the churches yesterday showed Plainly the discouraging influences of the weather. With afew marked exceptions they were dismally empty. But the select few who gathered together to praise their Maker and magnify His name seemed animated with the very fire of heavenly earnest- ness, and the Name of heartfelt prety glowed into a white heat of celestial ecstacy. aps, were called to repeutance, for they kept well out of earshot; but the armor of the -godiy was bur- | nished toa more perfect brightness, thelr convic- thons were confirmed, their fatti butit up, and they felt hat “it good” for them to have been in the Bouse of their God. PRAYANG FOR THEIR FATIR Tmpressive Scen * in the Catholic Churches Yesterday. In all the Catholic churcbes yesterday throughout the Jand one veice vibrated in the one form of prayer, to the one God and with the one re- quest. If there 1s anytaing in which the Roman Church superiatively exeeis all Others it is in its unl The order went forth that in every church ou the broad Continent the children under the free banner should implore the Triune Deity for protection to their Holy Father in bondage. It is the symbol of the cross before the sword, of the Pontit of old umes standing bare- breasted bevor ta, who called himself te “scourge of G: When the ceremony of the ma ehoir and 07 hushed awhile, ing the peo with heads cowed befure the altar, a pileat arose im evergtermpie ant sar, “We wil pray for our Holy Father in Ss Was over, with THE HOUR OF RIS TRIBULATION. A perfect silence followed, which was broken by a@ clear voice reciting aioud the Lord's Prayer. The stately Latm was laid aside, and the congregations took up tie response in deep, fervent English. Again a panse, which the Same noise breaks with the first part of are. Fespouse now swells, a litle above a wh sper at Hirst, but ascending gradualiy like a rising wind, til with souod. Ave and faler are mes. & Gloria follows, aud the people part with hearis turobbing tu syuipathy for the suBering visible head of the Church they believe in aud Whose God they adore, CHURCH OF THE MLSsiad. Reformation, Repentance and Eternal Pun- ishment—sermon by the Rey. Mr. Hep- worth. The rainstorm of yesterday morning seemed to vave put litle effect in dampening the ardor of the popu pastor or the attendants at the Church of the Messiah. There v ourse, evidences of diminution in the size of congregation, but there Were no evidences of a lack of the earnestness and devotion on the part of those who, despite the siorm, appeared in their accustomed places. After the usual introductory exercises the pastor, Rev, Mr, Hepworth, proceeded to deliver THE SERMON. His text was taken from Hebrews, xli., 10—"C tened for our profit, that we might be partakers of iis holiness.” He sald:—1 appro: ‘is morning Bsubject that has roused the anxtoua thought of Christians i every age. I confess that I come to its consideration with a feeling akin toawe. Whatis to be our punishment for our misdecds, inflicted by a Being not any more our Judge thon our Father, and, on tie ctl laud, not anys than our Judge, is a problem tna our solicitude, NOT ONE OF U aud not one of us can e turally Kinds IS WITHOUT SIN, pe the pumisiment which has been attacted to sin. ‘The problem 1s, however, somewhat illuminated by the text. Tt intorms us of te motives Whick acted Oa the Eternal when he decreed punishment. We are chastened, burt, whipped, hot because it gives any pleasure to God, not because be neetnl and wroth wi a, bat in The spirit ii which & kind father punishes aud Diawes his child, tears Jalling at every blew of the rod. Punishment is remedial then. When God thunders at you and scourges you because of the wrong yon have committed it is because he loves you #0 ibuch that be weuld even be stern with you In order to save you. PUNISHMENT 18 OF TWO KINDS; Mt 1s physical 1s spirt Physteal ponizh- ment seems to be almost without remedy, If you break your arm Jn consequence of fuily, i never’ re- covers its origi: si. If dissipation auc ‘y your bodily funce Hons, your recupe e power is ‘The reformed aiunkard carnes fem, his shatiered nerves, wi He has lost what ne can ne quite Inexorabic. elastic and recu| riuMity Can Dey self in myeetLOUS Ways, 4 may becou A true deathbed, ext to nothing, s disordered sy The ver Spirit Though iost um v followed b such a vige ain enougn ius im 80 In od and will € " that He will move beaven ant ¢ yet He will not tolerate will ey Mis standard of demanded mor though He will take into considers your advantages atid your teimptet hot abate (oe law we negect. And why sh ; Simply a scene of infivite disorder Pline were compiete and rigid. THK RELIGIOUS CONSCLOUSNESS OF MANKIND nphoids the juatice of the divine decree whieh feare fully punishes persistent sin. Now, though agree with many of my brethren on this sab, believe the Christian world ts right In the tion of this subject which the most advanced thou gives. which we had years ago, No one, at least no one ence in the Church, believes in would be unless His disci- tortures which seem d to give to ow fathers. ‘The brimscoue of berning fire Bb peen done away. y have no pluce in the theology of the day. We ail of vs, learned better tamu to condemn | iven and those Who have never heard toe 6 Snrist, wo t place Whieh Is $0 lerrivie to Uvak of ‘Lhe’ larger culture of the ag ite wider sympatly and iis greater enligitenwent, Wrow # bow Heht on the Biole, and we are only two Few sinngrs, per- | The | h vre our Father | We have outgrown many o! the crude ideas | e > NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1871.-W1TH SUPPLEMENT. nr ra Bape. wy W 8 bétter interpretation. But the a3 a. JUST KCONOMY OF aon, there ts @ place here hereafter where the incor. vat are confined is beyond a doubt. The bad isn the community are pot left to roain at large, oe order demands that such persous a& per- tly prey on the rigats of citizens siall have plaveof their own. ‘There are helis butit of brick | and granite ail over the land, and tn them are men Who will net obey the law, Now even these places are not quite hopeless. for Christiau men and wemen go there and iry to redeem the lost; aud Christ aud God ave there, not in wrath but in sadness, ready to hear the prayers of the pnsoners and caien the frat sign or longing after a bolter life, Now, when we all die, ail the men and wowen of thts generation, SHALL WE ALL GO TO THE SAME PLACE and mingie togetier as we never have done here? The bad and the good wil there gravitate to tcl respective places just as they do here, and the Bible tells me that though I make iny bed in bell, yet God will be with me even there—a sad and sorrowing presence, more reanty to give help than I can be to ask Mt, Thos view of the matter accords with Serip- ture and common sense. Ihave no doubt that God and Chrisi and the saints yy all use their ulmost endeavors to redeem the los@In the next world; bat it cam wever—no, never—be accomplished without Vhe longing and the hard work on the sinner. How awful, then, are the pengities of gnitt! It a our business to stand by the right, for the straight and narrow path 1s the only road to heaven, CHUZCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, Penance as a Weapon of Defence Agaiuat the Snares of the Devil—Sermon by the Rev. Father M, J. Brophy. As most people are aware, yesterday was one of the most disagreeable days of the season, aud the geverality of the church-golng population, unless silmalated by more than ordinary piety, preferred tostay athome, However, the Church of the Holy Cross, in West Forty-secoud street, was well filed, though not, as usual, crowded. This place of wor- | ship, wesided over by the Rev. Patrick Mevarthy, has been completed within the past year, and, as regards light and acoustic pro- pertie:, it 1s certainly a success, Yesterday high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father W. P. Flonnelly, music by @ volunteer cholr under the | @irection of the organist, Prof. Gomien. as it was the first Sunday in Lent the sermon, by the Rev, Martin J, Brophy, was peculiariy appropriate to this season, taking for nis text Matthew iv,, 1-11. | Ie said the whole life of man, from the cradle to the | grave, ts a continual warlare and strife, not against Nesh and blood, but against the rulers of darkoess and the spirits of wickedness, as we are told tn the | Epistle to the Ephesians, My brethren, there ts no time during the year when We have to be more on our guurd agains! the seductions oF the evil spirit than during this me of Lent, when that MALIGNANT BNEMY OF THR UUMAN RACB especially seeks to turn men away from the con- sideration of their salvation, We have a lively image of this contest in that of the giant Golath, who, a3 We read im the Book of Samuel, “going forth from the cainp of tue Philistines, “provoked with the | reatest pride ail the Israelites to single combat. hold bere a type of our adversary, the devil, who at this holy ume, specially ordaimed for us by the Supreme Ruler, that we might purify our sonls by prayer and penance, goes forth to fight, as it were, with Christ and with all Christans. During these forty days, then, we must be watchiul of the snares which wi be placed in our path by this untiring enemy to prevent us reaching the goal we seck. When we consider ite pride, he anger, the strength ; and the power of this our euemy, we might have | | just reason to fear were there not on tue | ocher side great and inany inducements which in- spire us with courage to Aght, like David of oid, agalust the adversary. God animates as by His pre- sence. He sees ali our straggies, and, as we are fighting under His bancer, wen danger 18 nigh His aid witli not be distant, The angeis were witnesses of our Saviour’s centest with the devil, and a ter- | wards came and miuistered unto Him. We have a3 spectators of our spiritual combat not only the angels, but the whole Chrisuan world and ihe Lord ol the World Himself. Now, my brethren, THR GREAT WEAPONS OF DE! ENCE wiuch the Chureh places in our hanas are fasting and prayer. To be convinced of the necessity of tisiig this forin of peaauce we neei only con- r the humber aud eaormity of our ofiences aginst | God, the violence o! our passions and the many dan- | nd temptations to Wich we are exposed. Our | sins Have mMenited the majesty ot the Alwyhty, and | present moutent cry aloud to Heaven aeance. What penance have we doues onement and satisfacioa have we made for | our transgressions? If we compare our lives with the lives of tose holy men who loosed upen one mortal sin as sufficcent to inake a sinner weep and do peuance for a whole ifetime; if We measure OUR LITTLE PRNANCES a ! Church, Watch im the first axes commanded a pen- ance of five, seven, ten or Miteen yeurs’ tasting on bread. Waser perbaps for one mortal #1 | we shai find ourselves very deficient. In the Old | Testament we have the memorabie fasts of the people of Nineveh, King Actab and King David. and the weekly, monthly and yearly fasts precribed by the Jewish law, proving thé uulity apd necessity of fasting, Lec us not, then, imagine or fatter our+ -| selves with the idea that we are frecd irom this obli- gation under the new dispensation, as the free- | thinkers or our @ay pretend; out rather let us suder a little of that punishment which our sius “You are to fast,” says St. Basil, “because and you are to fast that you may as! a CARNAL AND EFFEMINATE LIFE has now become so comunon in tis country that Many Catholics are bat too ready to imitate the lives and example of the unpriacipled and irre- gious men by Whom they are surrounded. Nay, some of them are neither airaid nor ashamed to | Speak aga.nst this precept aud to cry down the days | of abstinence, as if they had no God but taetr own miserable bodies. They tell us that what goes into the mouth does pot defile the soul, It 1s true the very fact of eating does not deflie the soul. But if what goes into the mouth be a@ transgression against the precept of God the disobedience thereby incurred wiu defile the soul of the offender, TAKE COURAGE, then, my brethren during the holy time of Lent. Let u asttng, that great shield Which God places in 48 45 @ provection against our evil passions, figitung, like David, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, and God, Whose soldiers you are, will .pro- tect you in the trial; for itis written ‘The Lord your God will fight for you as be hath promised.” yo hot sin.’? | ing cler- and aves in betalf of the gyman rep Fope, as desired whole congregation responding. BAPTIST « HURCH, Watting for tist—How We Should Renew Our Spiritnal, Sctrength=Sermon by Rev. Dr. Armitage. Notwithstanding the great inclemency of the weather the usual large and fashionable cougre- gation assembled for divine service yesterday at the Baptist church In Forty-sixth strect and Firtn | avenu The Rey. Dr. Armitage, after the usual exercises, | preached a most eloquent sermon on the means by | which we are enabled to renew our spiritual strength ana the manner in which we should put i forth when acyuired, as It 18 of the essence of that | Strength that it should not lie dormant within us, but rather that it should be exercised towards the attaining of THE GREAT END | for which it was given tous, The reverend gentie- man took for iim text the last four verses of the for- Ueth chapter of the prophet Isaiah, in which he first adveris to the great contrast between tne in- sod and His finite creatures, and concludes ing that “they that wait upon the Lora shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings a4 eagles: they shel run and not be weary, and they shail walk and not faint.’ The 'preac marking the t Creator and His creatures 13 the doctr whole Bible, as wel) as of the prophets, where in Lily Writ, ue said, We are lod of Go we cannot rexeh up to iim, even im imagin aud of man t € unable to DONCEIVE T ine of the our own great Weakness 18 xo forcibly ‘dwelt on, “Even the youchs sual! faint ary, and tae trerly tal yhich we are aa rejuve 01 God. Y streugth, | nate aud strengtien | We must wait’ upon Ch | und We shall ‘mount as eagl hall ran } and not he and Hal walk and not be faint? Let t, Wook to the | rom Which (hia new strengiit comes. This ter witen fatim: re absolutely weak im the spir | reatest among us UT COMPARATIVELY STRONG or whieh auimates the most active and Zealous workers tn the vine of te Lerd be | not renewe ur physical rength without no ial Vigor | or each and ewed; our | | old strengen , and it 18 ! to God tim wit, As the 2arth peess en the storms | ot winter ye passed away, so must our spiritaal raime vewed Lu order that we may | appear ever tiful in the eses of our Creator. Whence, Uren, be asked, comes this Strength? It | comes from pastor of the churca when he 1s the power of Ged Jt ts vat theory to hiniseif 1 (nat Co minister, would b suppose that t siule cou green coal of leaves witbout the nourts ppose Wiinout aid var @ | strength from wick LO | art f the | ‘The shactow that {alls throws a gloom not only over | Let Vis Ife, but farther into the future than we can sec. | with those prescribed of old by the canons of the | Grace the Archbishop, the | me Lo God, s froin | plunged. There y | he continue nN which this contrast be | and mag is put so prommently before us; im which ely concerns all of us: ior | t ‘The best | Sun, or that the wasted bod: It recover ite Dealth aod vigor: without ent, Itt true we are weak, he contiaued, but at the same time Wo | are oie OUR STRENGTH 18 IN THE LORD. | eleney win Godt Haw, heaskeds aah we gor is i i 5 i Goat We’ aro told’ by the luspired | Writer that we must “wait | @t length the meaaing of this the prophets, “walling” npon the Lord, — Firaty, , he said, We must go to the proper place to mect | | Chriet. It is for God to fix is meedag | | place, and Be has done #0. It is pos | sible to seek God and not to find Him, and hence the apathy of many who come to church and depart with (heir at worevewed, God, he continued, will oaly receive weak man aud in j the Weakest place, here, he asked, is man's Weakest plice! tad where strong God and weak man meet, This is the spot where strength Was given to the re- pentant thief and the glorious tldings irembled froin | ‘This day thou shalt | fu the words of the | the lips of the Man of Calvar, be with Me in Paradise,”” , | great old Pngish classic, “is the anofuted and ap- Pointed RENDEZYOUS OF HEAVEN AND FARTH,”? ‘The preacher then addressed an eloquent appeal , to the more youthfal portion of his congregation to throw themselves at the foot of the cross of Christ. If you pray to-day, he said, pray through Chri the proper spirit to the foot of that alvary., Our duty is well expressed by the word “waiting.”” Let u8 go hiably as suppli- cants for the greatest favors. Let us place Oursvives before Him tn the attitude of expectaiion, Let ns go with a lively faith, as did the woman of Canaan when she cried aloud, “Have mercy on me, O Son of David? In triumphant faith “she ex- ted the answer and ‘waited. It came at last In the words, *O woman, great ts thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt,” and the blush of health Was made waole, When God gives us this renewed | slength, he continued, how are we to usetu? la , Communion we should put it ferin, Strengih seeks girengiu. It seeks FELLOWSHIP WITH A NOBLE FXISTENCE. We exhibit, he continued, our strength by active service, Weare to ran before the chariot of the Lord. Many shall run to and fro, and the know- | ledge shall be increased—tne knewledge of God's Choy ampnee We sbouid be vigorous, We ex- hibié our strength in everyday life, The everyday | Christian is the best Christian, Our progress may | be slow, but let us go on. BEDICATISN AT ST. MARY'S. Grand Roman Ceremonial—Sermen by the Rev. Father Prestoa—Address by Arch- Dishop McCloskey. The Roman Catholic church of St. Mary's, after the extensive alterations which it has undergone, | Was, according to the Catholic custom, rededicated yesterday. This church 1s notable as being one of the FIRST FOOTHOLDS OF CATHOLICITY | in New York. The alterations have completely | Metamorphosed the interior, which has been made | fifty feet longer, or @ total length of one hundred and dity feet, while it has been widened to seventy five feet. It is now a structure worthy in every respect of its consecration. It 1s lighted by a dome near the nigh altar, the roof of which Is of stained glass. The roof and walls of the church are orna- mented with frescoes and scaghola work. The sanctuary includes three altars, the high and two for side chapels. These are alcoves avpported by pilasters of battation marble. The high altar- which forms tne centrepiece, is magnificently wrought of black marble and gold, The IMPRESSIVE DEDICATION SERVICE of the Catholic Charch nas been so often repeated of late that no extended notice of yesterday's cere- mania is necessary, It was ali that the presence of high clerical functionaries, gollen vestments, cut ing incease, gorgeous ritual, deep devotion ai to and carrying bis golden crozier, was present, at- tendel by two deacons of honor, Fathers Wayrick aud Daubresse. Thealtar, | BLAZING WITH WAX LIGHTS, the thirty-four acolytes in scarlet soutanes and white Surplices, the assisting priests msurplice, alb and cincture, the deep tones of the organ and the volces of the choir, made up such a compliment of go- lemnity as coald scarcely sail to reach the minds of all _preseat. After the dedlicatory procession had defied. singing their Gregorian cvant, nigh mass Was given, with Father MeNterney as celebrant, Father Donnelly as deacon and Father Meade as sub-deacon. Father Brennan acted as master ot sremontes, Besides these there were present Father McCartay. Holy Cross; Father Curran, St. Andrew's; Father Healy, St. Petei’s, | New Jersey; Father Larkin, Holy Innocents, and Dr. | Barteall, Epiphany. The mass was one of Mr. Wile Mam Boyrer, the organist’s own composition, and was well suag *. ube volunteer choir, undey the di- rection of Mr. John Byrnes, The sermou-was de- ~ bvered by the Rev. Father Preston, who chose his text Irom the twenty-first chapter of St. Mathew, irom the foriy-second to the forty-fourth verse— “The scone which the bulldera rejected,” &c. ‘The reverend gentleman Faid:—We stand on sacred soil, dear hearers, in the history of religion of the coun- tries of the New World. I oniy ecno, therefore, the sentiments of every Catholic heart in cating this a day of joy. We can look back to the tines when our CHURCHES WERE PEW IN NUMBER, and bumbie the altars on which they sacrificed to the Great God. The oldest church tn New York 1s still standing: the second is today the | Arehteptscopal; this ts the uhird, and long may its | Joondatons endure. In 1826 the first church to st. ; Mary was dedicated iu Cherry sircet, It pleased God that it was burned—we know not whether by accident or an incendary—put this edifice, now so beautifully improved, was bailt as it were on its ruins. Ithasa grand record behind it of pastors firm im faith and zealous im Christianity; mz: them have gone betore God after filling more ex positions in His Church; others remain forming His mission, To your be ad call your attention, who has achieved the work we celebrate in solemn services to-day, and considering this, will cause us to give thanks for ail He has al- Jowed us to do in dls giory and for the faith whicn | He taught,on earth. Bishops and priests will join with you in the prayer that God may grant your pas tora long Ife to reap the harvest he hus so labo- riousiy sown. When we look back to the period when oar reli- | gion was scarcely known here or ONLY KNOWN TO BE VILIFIED, | we are filled with praise to the Lord that time has brought abundance to His vineyard, and we will say 1n thankfulness that the glory 1s’ not to us, O! Lord. Itis no selésh motive, no sectarianism, no contentiousuess to see only our ideas dominate | which induces this feeling of trlumph. Itis because the BURDEN OF THE GOPEL Is ON US and it is our duty to bring it before all mankind, | that they may reach the beautude of Heaven, and because neither an Individual nor a nation cap be happy withoat it. Let us meditate upon this polut. | Tue growth of what 1s cated liberalism | and free thought prociaim the absolute necessity of the Catholic Church to wwe salvation of man. The Catholle js the only Chureh | which in principle and fact recognizes the Salvation of Jesus Christ. Others gnage by human intellect, Now, man ts born in sin, The Paradise of our first | parents was closed agalust us by sin original. | Death has entered and sin and pain have foliowed, In our fallen condition we caunot eara the beati- | Made unless God interferes with the dispensation of the lignt of His truth. In xpite of all denials it is | palpable that ths 1s not our normai state. As ihe | Apostle says, “Man groaneth and travareth in | bondage,” awaiting the redemption. Paradise had | been everiastingty shut against us were it not that MERCY OPENED THE GATES. | Tne Eternal Son of the Eternai father was the | living victim immolated for ua on the cross, He | came back to us alter having torn apart the veil In | the majesiy of His sacerdotal of: He collected dls aposties and sent them forth to baptize all men | in the name of the Father, the Son and the Hol: Ghost, to found a church upon a@ rock, and will which he promise to be even to the consummation Of the Worl}, and of which one of TNE ESSENTIALS WAS UNITY, | _, ‘The ealvation of Christ 1s bound up in the Catholic ; Church. If the rock wavers Christ falls; if one Jot | or Uttie tapses Christ lapses too, and with fim our hopes of redemption. [f there 1s not one ci in which We cin trast the great sacrifice was wast upon the world, By the hihts of history and fauh ours 1s the only Church whtch pretends to the infal- le, which is the only amity. The course of modern r tends to ailirming that if a man's moral good, | No, thei others d NO MATTER ANOUT MIS FAITH, ‘¢ 1s no truth outside of the Chure! h iv.dual mterpretation: but tue of infalliblity ts wanting in sno boly among them, no matter which can retain its primeval faith. Every space of thine brings new readings aad new taterpretations. So when we look around we see noibiag but a malaied and broken | CORISTIANITY OF FRAGMENTS and inconsistencies. They present bit a travesty of the Gospel, and do not even reacn tne | spimtt of the old law. They have no sacra- | m or 4f sacraments, only signs, not Ito the olden dispensation. Where Is the sac- of bulis or guats; the goiden mercy seat reposes the Where the pilar of ere, even, the or with its certain re- se ?—where ts the real presence? They know Chriat Is to them only a tistorical Christ, | Who died niueteea hundret years ago: who went up to heaven, and with Whom they lave had no com- ication since. It cannot be that the revelations ruth have passed away and the pilgrims of the world have lost the guide to the paths of | eternal life. No; tts in the bosom of the Charen | watch 1s built on the corner stone of tinmutable It survived the malice and anger of Judaism, anism, of ihe kings and princes of tne world, | and now It ts assa how conservative | Tn. is spirit presents av. | venevotence. It pletures God as a being of fixed | laws, without any interest in bom Taira. We men who atempt to put 4 assail His. morality und cndeayor Ww out God by the operation of the Intellect alone. This is a day ot acavity of | | mina; vat is ita day of lignt and obedience to God Not alone for our souls need we be concernea, but fur OUR BE Tow can the mstite for it. He then explained | returned ‘o her daughter's cheek that hour, and she | \ 2 Pe pidianthrophy, a numan | | | own love Ch ul this Will not only be an easy taek, but it Wil also he a ehwerfalone. With out so much 2s one pang nm turn our bac } upon the world aud ali tts fe resta on the ever floating and changing sands of human opinion? Let us THANK GOD FOR FAITH, and, grand as this house of Bis war be, we shall, in hearing His Church, gain the temple which 16 bin | without hands, of which the Lamb is tbe altar an ae My iy the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of ail. ADDRESS BY ARCHBISHOP MICLOBKRY. At the closing of the service the venerabie Aroh- bishop mate the folowing remarks:—Before givit you the episcopal benediction { cannot deny mysell the privilege of saying a fow words of my sincere and hoartielt congratniation on the result of the labor of your zealous pas'or and your generous co- operation with him. This chureh 18 the mother of 80 many other churches that it 18 time she should renew her youth and en'arge her bonudaries, that i | she may be worthy of the plety and faith of those At the fovt of Christ's cross, the who worship at her altars. THIS SPOT 18 HALLOWED, especially to some of us here present. It was In the pulpit of St, Mary’s and before hor congrezation the voice you now hear was first raised In what may now be catied old Bt. Mary’s, Little dia [ then think that IL shouid on thin same spot address you as your own Archbishop; bat let us in all our congratula- tions remember Him who tn taktog haan form Eee the world condescended to be the soa of ae CHURCH OF THE DI E PATERNITY. God as a Shephe: and Man as a Creature of Wantse—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. E. A Chapin. All of the protecting promis>s of the Divine Pater- nity could not induce many to come to this church yesterday morniug—the pelting, pitiless rain was a too strongly opposing influence. But Rev. Dr. Chapin preaches with like eloquence on all oecasions, wheter to a beggarly array of empty pews or otherwise, He does not seem to require the inspira- tion of a foll house, He took the text for THE SERMON Psalm xxii, 1:—“The Lord is my shepherd; 1 shall not want,’’ A true enjoyment of the reading of the Psalms required, he insisted, a right kina of inner spiritual development. Here were expres Flons that came home to the heart under ail circum- stances of life. It wae for this reason that these Psalms would lve forever. The Psalm from which the text was taken was one of the finest in the whole collection. There was nothing like tt in the whole range of sacred literature, After eatending on this preliminary topic of his discourse he pro- ceeded to speak ot what he designated STOCK WORDS OF RELIGION. There were many who were conspicuous for life services, bul Whose hearts took no part in their ree ligious exercises, Such ones never really felt aud could not utter ne Lord is iy shepherd; 1 shall not want.” The first great point in tue text was a deviaration of God. It was a suggestive text. It showed that David in the time of his trouble went back to hls early experiences as a shepherd bey. It Was so iu tae everyday World. Tho vista of our young years are often tnrown into bright coutrast with the dark and wloomy present, David did not indalge in vain regrets, Retrospective vision is good for noth unless there is drawn from it some “facentive for a better life m the future. David transformed his conceptions to God. We ail do tits more or less, Essentially GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, but practically he 1s to aa What w Let aman be died with dark, gloomy passions and he Wil see a man through a dark, gloomy vet. A Wicked man canaot say “God is my shepherd.’? ‘There does not exist the right feeling to bring the wicked man into such communion with God. We canuot conceive the meaning of God. An inf nite presence Is before us. There is greatness, majesiy, iIncomprehensibility, and yet to the good He is a shepherd, u ever watchful over us. This ts the chudlike LANGUAGE OF TAB SOUL. Amid the turmotl of life, out of its cares and troubles, this twenty-third Psalm leads us. It takes i ns into the greea pastures and by the Clear streams. ‘There is an intensify aud beauty in this expression. He Gweit at considerabie length on Us su®ject and Vien went en to show how religton brings us near God and at the same time gives the most compre- hensive Idea of Gor pe try to find God throurh tae med_um of speculatiun, but such do not flud him, The conception of THe Pore AR THEOLOGY OF THE DAY is that the wrath of Goa to man could only be ap- peased by the sacrvice of Christ ou the cross. ‘Tus was not Christianity. The gift of Christ was the gui of Gol's love, and this love is the basts of true reiizion. Carrying ont this theory at further and interesting length, he showed that the truta of the twenty-th:rd Psalm was one to be received by every body. It was not for kings and sovereigns—tie great and rich and power/ul of the Earth—buc to the oor and iowly and humble. In closing he spoke of he practical conclusions deducibie from the text. In thia World no man conli say “I skati not want.” Chicanery and treachery may rob one of one’s wealth, All the safeguards are not @ guaranty agaistloss. Manis a creature of wants. “Tuere agrandeurm some wauts—& meanness in o A depraved hunger and thirst pervades the betier insuncts. There ure men who THRIVE ON NEED AND RUIN} they fatten on starvation. These are the men who make enormous monopolies. ‘They take the blood from the community; they snuck the marrow of hu- manliy; they gloat over the sufferings of others if it only enriches their coffers, (There ws a slight de- monstration of applause here) Laving given a vivid pleture of these modern monopolists he showed the wants of ambition as iiustrated In the Franco-Prusstan war, and then described in a strain of masterly eloquence the wiserable condition of that man who bas no internal resources—who 13 always wanting, always grasping, who dies still Wanting, and 1a contrast with ts the blessed con- dition of that man Waose heart and conscrence were right, and who, a3 he stepped forth ito the Jand of msetery could exclaim, ‘he Lord ts my ehepherd; Ishall not want. Singing, prayer and benediction terminated the exercises, CHRISTIAN FREE CHURCH, 1s. Rev. ©. ©. Foote on Be+ring the Cross. Owing, doutless, to the inclement weather vester- aay the congregation at the Christian Free church, in Twenty-elghth street, near Broaaway, was not nearly so large as coula be expected. The pastor, Rev. C. C. Foote, preached a very eloquent and ime pressive sermon on the subject of “Bearing the Cross." He said that there are very many persons who would like to be Christians, would like to lead a good, plous, Christian Ife, but they cennot per- suade themselves to take up their cross and fol- Jow in TBE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS. They know and they feel keenly thetr great need of salvation; they know, too, that there 1s but one way to secure that precious boon; but yet they can- not, or at least they think they cannot, give up their many worldly enjoyments, friends and pleasures, and, as they term it, settle down to a Christian life. While they reason tails way they still mean some time to break loose from the hilarious, thought- less life they are leading and, having repeuted of their sins and asked God tn sincerity to forgive them, joia the church and ever afterwards lead pious, exemplary Hves, They will tell you they have to sow their wild oats; that it makes one an old man before his time to fetter him with the sure roundimgs that are necessirily Luposed upon one when he joins the chureh, and tnat, as there ts time enough, they will wait until they have grown oid, and, as some of thei say, cannot find anything else to do, be‘ore they will commence preparing tor that day when all shall stand before Jehovah to be judged according to the deeds done here below. There is another class, who are always too busy with their work to attend to this all-important sab- ject. ‘They are bent on making a fortune, or if they have one already must add to it, and continue to add to ft all the time, as though they coud take thei paltry goid with them to the other world. And what @ pitiable sight this is! Such AN ARLAY OF PROCRASTINATORS. each and every one of whom acknowledges his need of salvation, but who is nevertheless beut upon nis personal enjoyment and gratification rather than upon the securing of his soul's eternal Bap ness! Why will they not look upon life as a reality, and not question w.th themselves as to what man- ner of living or enjoyment wiil suit them best now, but what will be best tor them ten thousand ages hence’ They, and we, too, know that we owe everything we have and are to God, and that we mus? ere long give au account of our stewaraship. There is vo man so brave, IF bravery we inay call It, that he will absolutely sell his soul, even at nny price—no, not for every ounce cf goid the sun of heaven ever shown npon. fe will not barter away all his hopes for the future under any consideration whatever; but yet there are millions upon miilions Who will ran the risk of being cat down in their sing, in which case they know lull weil that they will efernally damned, A certatn English Queen, who bad jivea anyiunng but an exemplary life, when brought down by sickness to her deathbed declared that she would give A MILLION POUNDS: for one moment's repose of conscience. But there are a few things that even gold cannot purchase, and repose of cousclence and the eternal saivation Ol One's Soul are two of these, God wi!l not accept us under any consideration unless we take tip our cross amd follow Him, In my hands no price I bring, Simply to Thy cross 1 cling, must be onr inotto if we ever expect to be raver Jesus Auld that if any man come aiter Him he mui take up his cross and follow In His footsieps, show- ing cleariy (hat it is @ lifelong struggle to save our rouls, We are to-day in @ rained and destitute con- dition, and none but Gud, who knoweth all things, fini Witt hom all chings ave possible, can heip us. We must deny ourselves, give up and ABANDON MANY THINGS 1 od, and must begin at once sand bot out whatever or If we but ver our past | ¢ ay SsUll remain withii us. et with ail our -| Meets Him asa prince, who sta: fotaus iheinfua suops in Dosoming’s cnecnn, He wv from Personal ¢: oe Dew dimoult tt hin ‘one to gct up before an audience aud or her intention of renouncing tue World and becom- ‘a foliower of the Lamb, tthe conclusion of his discourse the reverend ntleman requested the congregation to sing the yun of which the following is the first stanza:— Jems, I my cross bave tak “All to louve and follow thes; 1am poor, despiaod, forsaken— Thou hehcevorth my all al All T've or hoped or known, Yet how rich fe my condition. God and heaven are sili my own! —and annonneed that during the singing any who Wished to unite themseives with the chirch could come to the altar and give in their names. Several persons availed themselves of the opportunity thus ecard Qud were most cordially received into the fold, e CORGT CHURCH. Onur Obligations Mutually to Assist Each Other--Lalee Heips—Seopiiciam and Char- ity=Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Ewer. But a small congregation gathered together in Christ church yesterday moroing, owing to the severe siorm, For the frst time im the history of churches in this city @ quartet eholr was introduced to ald the boy choir in the chancel. The edect was very fine, and, considering it was the first tlme the altempt was made, the success was very gratifying. | The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Hwer, Who took for his text Ezekiel, xxx., 8—“All her bolpers shal! be destroyed.”? ‘This prophecy, he said, 18 in allusion to Egypt. The Lord was to BRING A JUDGMENT Upon Pharoah for his treachery to Israel, After dee sorlbing how the priay of Egypt should come down aud her sons should fail headiong, the doctor re- marked that the climax of disaster was touched 1n the declaration that even all her helpers should be destroyed, He then described the sad state of a man without a friend tn the wort, The tear was not givenus for our own sufferings only nor the smile for our own delighi, The preacher here gave illustration of VARIOUS KINDS OF HELP, and how the law of the general obligation to assist Was obvious to our eyes wherever we turned. It Was written tn the tnoqual distribution of property and of suffering. It was writen upon the tenderness of man, upon the benevolence and ou the giatitude of man. fle then referred to silent helps and un- ; conscious helps, aud then passed to the topic of the help wiich God had directly extended to fallen man for his salvation, We have all been very faithless, | he said: but God has not stripped ox, as he did Phavoah, of all our helps, é maltiplies them around us, 80 that it 1s impossible for the eye to KBEP A JOURNAL of its own, for the ear to hold what 14 given to tt, for the hand to make record of all it reveives, for the mind even to concetve of them, — Whit e law of the obligation of our mutual assistance 1s written all around us, to the credit of mankind be It said, men, on the whole, are not unmindful of the nintings or | disobedient to the law. rhere is muci of evil in the world; bat there is much of good too, even in the uatural man, There is much of govd intention, and there 18 mach of good action. tt does us all good to Jook at times upon THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. Human nature, even as born of Adam, has its lights as weil as Its shades, Some towrets of Eden we still do inherit, ch the trail of the serpent is over them all, It requires not total depravity in each for all to need a Saviour or be lost; for partial depravity in each may become without the Saviour vot.! in each, as indeed the Bible warns us, when it says that “The wicked shall eventually tecome as the devil and his angels”? but nitherto the shattered aris Of oUF Nature reflect a brokea image of beauty. he doctor then described the Lwo extremes in life— the one a Christian matron, golag about on her mis- | ston of charity, CARIST AT HER SIDR, Obristin her heart, and the other a poor object, reared in the abodes of degradation and vice. Even tb the case of the latter tie human heart was still the human heart, and in the tenement hoase | the wicked creature would do deeds of kindness to a neighbor with sympathetic heart and watch at the bedside of some stranger. Gur neighlor is everywhere, and on every byway of lie the good Samartian 1s treading. The doctor then passed to his main potnt, which Was illustrative o° the false helps which are ren- dered. He spoke of the reformation as vy no means an unmixed good to the world. There were princi- ples, announced at the time, the error of wuich BOTH LOGIC AND TIME Were displaying. He instanced propositions once generally believed in Germany and Ne which nave logically ended in utter and widespread scepticism. To tlustration ef tae extent of (his seepticisin he read an item from a daily paper, by i Which it appeared the state of morals in Berlin was ; Suca, according to a German statistician, that out of 630,000 Protestant inhaitauts of that city only 11,900 are church-goers, and ont of 23,700 inverments only 3,700 were accompanied by u pastor—20,000 human beings duried with the burial of a dog. ‘He | spoke of the widespread SCHPTICISM IN AMERICA from similar causes, particularly among the mascu- line portion of tne community. Now, many of thuse men have Christian Wives, and taose wives are very properly aud very naturally anxious avout the fi- ture welfare of their husbands, and, remarked the preacher, you Wili bear with me when I say that under these circumstances ubere is a great aeal of false help gotag on around us, which, aithouga well meant, does more harm than good. After speaking of the difference between the en- dowment of the feminine mind and that of the mas- culine, the preacher showed how very often the wrong things were said by wile to husband, and the right things at the wrong time. Scepticism in each mind is a mosaic, and in no two minds ts that mosaic the same. Scepticism 1s a chronic and high- ly complex disease, NO TYRO MUST ATTACK IT; no single prescription will cure it. [ts treatment requires the utwost patience. A pastor {a often asked to recommend a book for some sceptic to read, We should need to have a book written for each case. You might as well take down a single jar of drags and for his enre give It to @ poor saf- ferer WhO has consumption, complicated with dys- pepsia, typhoid fever and’ paraivsis, No! Call 'n Some skiitui phystctan of the intellect and spint and betake thyseif to prayers Woman, thy strongest lever Is prayer. PRAYER MOVES GOD; God moves the wo: “Ye have not becanse ye ask not: ye ask and ve not, becanse ye ask ainiss.”’ The preacher then referred to the stibject of false helps rendered to the joor, and, after 1.lustrating this tn various practical ways, he’ closed by calling the attention of his flock to the tact that whue help- ing others they should not forget their own needs, Let us not forget, he concluded, there 1s One aboye who ts never Weary in helping us. In all doubts, in all tribulations, in prosperity and adversity, let us steal to His side Who hath prouised to be our heiper and defender. — CHUR(H OF THE TRANSFIGURATION. “The Little Church ‘Areas tke Corner 9— Sermon by Father Beuson—('he Personality ‘The regniar eervice at this charch being finished, the Rey. Father Benson, of Oxford, England, ascend- ed the pulpit, aod taking his text from the gospel of the day, Matthew, tv, 1—“Then was Jesus ied up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil,”’—sald we should never lose sight of the PERSONALITY OF SATAN, That temptation, my beloved bretaren, contains within itself all the tenets of our ancient faith, The majesty of eternal love seems tf stream the greatest fulness of its love upon us when the enemy comes near. Our Lord Jesus Christ was led up by the spirit of God, and the first thing that comes to our mind Is the personality of Satan. ‘chit 13 a trath we must keep always in our mind. We must not think of isu as an absiract or an ideal being; we must be- eve him as among us, dealing with us ashe did with our Lord. Many persons think of him a3 an IMAGINARY FORM OF SIN, and believe itis only as a general idealization of all the shapes of evil that he fas belog, but it fs onl, @ personal realization that we can have ception o! Satan, One reason why we many temptations ts because we | log With an abstract Prince of } thousand temptations because we hold sin to be an abstraction. Itis necause we upon Satan as an ideal being that we tell under the ban of his baneful power, Let us then consider the rela- tions in which we stand to Satan, He 1s @ creature, he is not an eternal being (God only 18 eiernal); but his wings spread ont and around us, shutting out the divine hignt. He is a creature like ourselves, Dut not in the sight of God as we are, Sutun meets our biessed Lord IN THE WILDERNESS, is in his own do- nilnions—a territory of large domain extending all pver ihe world. Do you want the things of the World? Take them atthe hands of Satan; but be sure you will bave to pay the penalty for them. Although he is the prince of the worid, sill he holds his dominion not altogether wnshaken. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, 18 come among us to take away the dommion of this world for tae Sovereign, our Lord. But we must believe Wille We are in this world we are in the KINGDOM OF SATAN, and it is only by forcing our minds to constantly dwell on this persouality of Satan that we can ho, fo compat, in some measure, his constant attacks upon us. When we come into this world we come under lia control. By baptism we shake off his in- @ true per- fall into 80 we are deal- We fall into @ 6 ta fluence, but we meet lim again ag revolted subjects w given Uiemselves up toone migutler than him. Me meets us as a lord, a prince meeting people belonging to him, having entire and constant control over tis.” But we should: say to him did below i belong to thee ve longer; I : $ Fs i 3 gE Bat the arch tempter ts W Unnually, as in the days ot nay expect. ft ne comes to sur our Passions and blind 0 view of God. We must realize, then, that Satan the essence of temptation, ut our divine sends us aid to battle aga! the efforts of the e' oue. He let him come to his only begotten Son, matter how closely we may live within the grace God, Satan will come to attack us. It is thro u he LUSTS OF THE FLESH, the gratification of our sensual appetites, that | plots to deatroy us, He took our Lord to the summi: Of the mountain and tried to stir up his desire ior love of wealth. He took Hin to the pinnacle of thy temple, So he tewpts us. His voice ts 80 consi ant! dinning in our ears that we Kuow not where we ar At His baptism the Son of God received the ineita)! unctton of the power of God. It is alone in thi power of the Divine Spirit that we can pene rt strength to overcome the temptations of Sata winch strike into the roots our corru, nature, If that shall continue in you which ys have head from the bewimning—if ye hav held the apis of the dogmatic falth which the great Goa has given us in revelation— these neavenly gifts which were entrusted to thd People of the Jews as a splendid artillery for this nc cone re may have them continually within you, Let us to-day try to keep prominently before oun uilnds the great TEMPTATION OF THE SAVIOUR; let us at this holy season of Lent turn our whol hearts to God, who is all love; let us cling to God ‘The more He sees you devoted and devermined thi stronger will Ile cling to you. to God, an when the tyranny of tbe evil ouo fs over, If y have beon true, the promised reward is yours, Aft prayer the Kev. D.. Haughton, assisted by pi hophew, administered the communion to some twt hundred of his congregation, THE NINETEENTH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHU CH, Man’s Excuses at the Ber of Heavea—Sere mon by the Rev. Dr. Mull. ‘The sermon of the Rev. Dr. Hall yesterday morns ing was even unusually eloquent. He showed aisa the many flimsy excuses with which wilfal sinnerg try to atife and satisfy that EVER INWARD PROMPTER—CONSCIENCE. After the usual prayers and paalms the dvctot took his text from Jeremiah—-What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee}? These were a portion of the words of tae prophet, uttered just before the humiliation and capture of Jerusalem and the send- ing into captivity of her people. Jceremian had pre« dicted that on account of the intolerable and over. weening pride of the pe. ple of Judah and Jerusalens both those piaces and people would be humiliated and BROUGHT DOWN TO THE DUST. Symboilcally the prophet said that the people of Judah and Jerusatem were bound unto the Lord aq a girdle is bound unto a man, who, finding it to be Worthless and rotten, Wrows tt {rom aim. 89 did the Lord throw the people of those places away from nim, The question of the text—"What wilt ‘thou say f'’—Is asked to show the natural tendency of men to make excases, to try and flud a loophole of escape where there is none, Men always are anx- jous to lay blame on others rather thay take it on tueuselves, to whom it properiy velonga, How many instances do we not see in bit ye ttfe of mien Who are unsuccessful In their pursaits all eager to say, “Well, i no fault of mine that f cannot get on; it is my friends’, who woul'l not assist me; nobody gave me a helping hand; the WHOLE WORLD 13 AGAINST ME! Another will attribate his misfortunes to his bad luck; Others, that they Were uever meant to be @ success. ‘They never look into theuseives, nor tr to flod the cause of ther disappointment wit themselves, Oh, no, of cx they have done ai they could! This ts only the worldly pase of tna question; but let us now take the other side, which, appiles to theland beyoud the Valley of Devtite Suppose us to be Just DOW at THE BAR OF HEAVEN; tho books of jast.ce are open, the evidence agains! us ts overwhelining. What thea sail we sayy As the crimimal courts on earth are, so will that final trbuuail be, beiore Which We must ail piead—« Wit have you got to say why sentence sou! t not be now pronounced upon your’ These are the worls that ring on the rear of the culprit on earth, and rest assured that such will be the purport of the question put to every creature wuo Will stand beture the judge ment seat of heaven. In that terrible moment, oe~ fore that throne, Whose power, peraaps, you have scoied at and ridiculed, what will you bave to say, my iriends? Some will plead ignorance, no doubt, ut IGNORANOR IS NOT ALWAYS AN EXCUSE. ‘There are also many phases of it. There 1s wilful and there 1s inexcusable ignorance. As Saint Paul says, “For they did mot Wish to retain God, 80 He gave them over.” Almost every das, I suppose, some of your clerks pay away money taat they should ” a06 have paid. You ask, naturaily, Why has this occurred? =The clerk pleads ignorance, but you say it 1s mexcusabie, as be sould aave known betters he has bad opportunities enough. Them his viea is of no avai. This ts precisciy the view that will be taken of our record Im heaven. How cau we atiempt to plead ignorance, having the record of rists life before u: having all the Scriptures to guide us and the patl of life cleariy deune. for us—on, Lew paltry and flimsy will that plea be! The rather shouid we say, “Good Lord, be merciful to 1e, a sumer.’ Remerte bering all the Kindness of God during @ long lie- tine, the memory of which wit come up to ns ag that moment with tenfold weight, we dare not we knew not of God. “He that Kuoweth his waster’. will and doeth it not shalt be beaten with man¥ stripes.” Such will be and is our case. Oiners, om being asked whit they have got to say, will answer, I wus 80 busy that I HAD NO TIMR, thinking, no doubt, that as it is taken and given so often 1a this world as an excuse that 16 Will dled pass current in the next. To such will be answered, “Seek first the kingdom of God.’? Some will say, “Well, Lam no worse than maay o:hers.” But how do they Know that they are not worse, and even if there are more as bad as they that will not save them. Each man must carry his own burden, Some will say, a § could not help sinping; I was born in it; Thad bad examples set me; but here conscien steps In and says, “I warned you of your evil waysy you could have avoided them if you wished.” oo by an absolute and physical impossibiity there wi noth ng for persons to do pul to sin, then indeed they might s and up before God and say 80; Dut w@ all sin because we like it, aud think that by supe- rior sagacity and mgenutty we wilt get out of tata future day. ‘Tis very thought shows ut we are well aware when we dre doing wrong; consequentiy we shall have to take the penalty. Some may think, im the blasphemy of tieir minds, and console theme selves by saying, ‘Well! God has made and He is BOUND TO CARRY ME THROUGH. God tn His wisdom saw that this question would be raised by mankind, and everywhere through the Bible He has scattered iis answers to the argue ment—that He created nian with a will and a con- science, which would guide his actions m good or one ‘ GREATER THAN THOU." We must meet him openly aud properly, until we There 1s no doubt | have removed ourselves from bin at Ue holy altar evil. Asa father ts compelled to renounce pis som who goes tu ruin Wilfully and wishes to be reclaimed, so God will throw off men who deny Bim and walk ES 4 His ways—the paths of virtue, honesty and ruth, FIFTH AVENUE COLLEG@:ATE REFORMED CHURCH. Ansimilation to Christ and Growth in Grace— Sermon by Rev. Dr. Ormiston. Yesterday was not a very pleasant day to venture out, even to church, and those who attended the sanctuaries did so presumably to worsup God, There was a relatively large congregation in the Ree formed church, In Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, to whom Rev. Dr. Ormiston expounded the Word of Ged, After the cholr and congregation had sung the opening hymn the doctor read a portion of the catechism, and explained and commented upon a@ few passages of it Then, atter a short in- vocation, he read tne third chapter of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, giving @ running comment thereon, and after prayer he dis- coursed upon the ideas contained in the eighteenth verse of that chapter, which reads:—“But we all, with open face, beholding, as in a giass, the glory of the Lord, are changed mto the same image from glory to glory, even a’ by the spirit of the Lord.» ‘The obvious design of the apostle in this epistie is to point out the difference between the letter of the Jaw which killeth and the spirit which giveth Jife. The ministry of the New Testament is one of purity? of life—growing, earnest and bold, tirm and free, We have here a devont contemplation of the light and its reflection—first getting, then giving, and ending in the uluimateiy perfect assimilation to Christ. The vetled face, the faded glory, tne Mmited privilege of the o!d dispensation, are contrasted with the open face, the increasing glory and the on- lnnited privileges and perfection of the new. Under the old dispensation one only was permittea to enter the divine presence, and he, Moses, with a Velied face; bub Chiist vent that veil ano tore it asunder, and now “WE ALL, WITH OPEN FACE,’? may enter in and behold the majesty and tho glory of the Father, If we are in bondage Christ comes. fo usas & deliverer—in captiviiy our Redeemer. If outcasts and wanderers, He isa reconctler; If de- praved, disordered, unhappy, He is tie healer, the resiorer, ‘The greatest part of the work of bunt redemption 18 within us, and the object Sto mate us new Men 1b Christ Jesus. The doctrines and alse CONTINUED ON WINTDH PAGR \