The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1871, Page 4

4 RELIGIOUS. The Concentrated Eloquence of a Score of Pulpits. LENTEN LESSONS. THE RACE FOR EVERLASTING LIFE, The Masked Malefactors of the Period, the Beanty of Christ and the Mansions of the Redeemed in Heaven. IETY UNDER DIFFICULTIES. But for the cheering fact that the piety of New Yorkers is not simply skin deep, but rests upon the sure basis of heartfelt convaction, the almost un- broken saccession of wet and disagreeable Sabbaths NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1871—TRIPLE SHEEn, ners—only more pure from contact with blackened souls. To the pure all things are pares bo the just all things are just, Whited sepnichres may ve full of dead men’s bones; but earnest souls are full of nodie life. What wail not-all men try before they try this remedy—Uleanse thyseif?’’ They will cover themselves up with costly robes, As the wanton, unjust Judges, intriguing politicians, insincere and lying priests, they will was! THES OUTSIDE OF THE PLATTER and have the inside full of uncleanness, like tho Pharisees, who never aie until washed, vut ate habitually the fruits of hypocrisy with their dainty hands, Can we hide our guilt? Yes; but we cannot lull it by putting on eur smiling faces. WHAT 18 SOCIAL SUCCESS? Wealth, place, power; to live in a charnel hout and have tt mtstaken for a palace; to be filthy, an be mistaken for pure. It is like mistaking fever for health. The reverend doctor referred to the giving of charit by rich men who had gained the means questionably, When such @ thing happened newspapers and versemakers burst forth into song about good a which had followed hives of selfishness; and le referred unmtstakably lo the forthcoming novel of Charles Reade in speak- ing of introducing harlots in romance and reforming them by afew werds of sympathy, &e, The charac- ters of modern fiction were shallow. It had been Said, “Blessed is the nation that has no history;’: and he would ada, blessed 1s the life which has no heroics; blessed 1s the man who is not SAVED BY SPASMS OF PIETY. Let mountebanks wear sandels; but blessed are the people Who are not clean only one day in the week.’ Blessed are they who get little praise; for e corrupts; and blessea are they who walk «ly, unquesuiouingly along the paths of duty. | CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. we have had during the past couple of months! Sermon by Rev. Chauncy Giles—The Mane Would have long ago consigned to desuetude all our Tellgivus habits, and made public prayers and praise forgotten occupations. Going to church has become as perilous and more than quite as costly a duty as it was in the days of our grim old Par! y had to pass ta the meet- tlet of ing house throng Indian rifes, We are rewarded for atter ch by catching our death of cold and the spoiling of our best clothes, Monday morning 1s, indeed, now, like the morning after a great ball, and there are long faces and | querulous wails of anguish in the bondoirs of the city When the heads of families have gone down town and the ladies are free to gather together and gaze with tearful eyes upon the rain wronght by the previous day’s visit to the temple. Piety 1s get- Ting to be as expensive a luxury as worldly dissipation, and a change in Sabbath weather ts im- peratively called for, unless the interests of the Church are to be serfonsiy injured. Many worship- 0 be feared, look upon attendance at a place of worship merely as a sort of imsurance pre- mium to be paid for admission to the kingdom of heaven, and this class of persons will soon decide that the present price of securit, too high. Ana that these ‘ine weather” Christians are sadiy numerous. Yesterday was certainly Sunday for a long time. and a low, heavy ym: ple indeed a Lenten pea: the most disagreeable Heavy rain, rude winds The churches were, therefore, with a few exceptions, but very sparsely The filled. pulpits were, however, occupied as as will be seen from the reports below, of the Lord thundered out sound doctrine and sparkled. with holy wit, and grew per- Suasive with melting appeals of pious rhetoric in their accustomed iustructive and interesting man- ner. CHURCH OF ALL SOULS. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Bellows—Wash and Be Clean—The Masked Malefactors of the Period—Charnel Heuses and Palaces~ Life Without Hereics. Despite the fitfal foods which descended yester- @ay morning the services in the sacred edifice at the corner of Twentieth street and Fourth avenue were | Bttended by a goodly assemblage of worshippers. | The mellow-voiced bells of the various churches | pealing oat through the falling rain uttered invita- tons never unweicometo tnose who let no DISMAL MOOD OF NATURE keep them from the house of God. Peter Cooper was present, and the number of men with snow- white heads in the assemblage was noticeable and Opusual, At ten minutes before eleven Dr. entered, and then The organ breat! Then swelle The pe An ble and beautsfal prayer, epened his discourse, taking for his text I. Kings, v., 1s—“And his ser- the Journey to the tem. | Heveim ihe Lord as a re Being Prepared by God sor His Chil- dreo—Tue Human Sedy an lon Where Man Lodges for a Night. The pastor, Rev. Chauncy Glies, yesterday morn- ing fled the pulpit of the Swedendorgian church in ‘Thirty-fifth street, near Park avenue, Owing to the threatening attitude ot the weather the house of Worstip Was not as crowded as usual, but those Whose jortune it was to be present were fully re- warded for their courage in defying old Boreas, The pastor took for his text John xiv., 1, 2 and 3:—“Let sions | not your heart be troubled; ye who believe in God | betieve also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if 1t were not sol should have told you. 1 go to prepare a piace for you; and if 1 go and pre- pare # place for youl will come again and receive you with myself, that where lam there ye may be also.” ‘The minister said, in opening his discourse:—You have all come here more or less quieved with trou- bies. Some ef you may have been thinking of the thine, not far distant for any of us, wheh you will close your eyes upon this world and open them upon the spiritual world, and it nas cast SOME SHADOW OF DOUBT AND FEAR over your intnd. You may wave asked, “Where | Shailigo! What will be my condition—my place in that world? With whom shail I @weli? Who Will go with us through the valley of death? Shall we find a real home aud a real werla beyond this?’ Let your heart not be troubled. Let us try to be- | and intinately wise Fathe: ring for us His children, ¢ many mansions. WHAT IS THE LORD'S HOUSE? In its largest sense tie universe—comprising all worlds, bot material amd spiritual—is His bouse, tor He dwells in it. Taere ts nothing, however small, that He did not create, and in Which, in some sense, He does not dwell. ‘rhis world is one of His man: sions. tis one place He bas bated for His chil- aren, This worid ts one of His nurseries, and so 18 every World 12 the matured antverse, Here HE PLANTS HIS CHILDREN; here He cradles them in their iufancy, weaves for them with infinite skill the mechanism of the mate- Tial bedy, Wraps them in the soit swaddling clothes of nesh and blood, and feeds them at THE BREAST OF THE ALL-BOUNTIFUL EARTH With an endiess variety of the sweetest juices and the most delicious and nourishing food. ‘fnls worid is a piace He has prepared for us, and so are the very material houses we dwell in. OUR HOUSES OF WOOD AND BRICK AND STONE were provided for us by the Lord in a most eminent and wue sense. It is common or men who furnishes the means tosay they bulltit. Who furnishes the material, the stone, clay, wood and irom’ Is it not tue Lord? Who gives man the power and wisdom | to bring these materials iogetuer’ Man oi himself ho more builds a house than the hammer aud trowel which he. uses, If we looked beyond appearances aud saw the Lord’s agency i all we have i this World we should lave more confidence in Him that He will provide a piace for us in the spiritual world. die does not intend we shall dweil in this house al- ways. Itis pot the best mansion He has provided for us, The germ of the Mmture plant is bot aiways to remain m the hard shell; that is its cradle, the first made house the Lord prepares for 1t—a place ior prowetion, in which Ut may be nurtured and grow up intoaseed. So this world and the human body is only the husk—the cradle— THE INN WHERE MAN LODGES FOR A NIGHT, always providing and In my Fathei’s house a sim- | Preparatory tO passing on to the ether mansion the | Lord has prepared tor us. The spiritual world is | also the Lord's house, m which He dwelis and more | especially manilests His presence, ‘Thal, too, 18 Vants came near and spake to him and said, ‘My | created torman. Our Heavenly Father, who loves father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldst thou not have done it? How much Father, then, When he saith to thee wash and ve clean?” He said that the original law of God was A CURE FOK MORAL LEPROSY, for the sinner was to wash himself in the baptism of | His Word and be clean. We might say unto you, your lives are spotted by crime, your hearts are blotted by Justs, you are’ prone Lo gratify your appetite at the expense of conscience, — souls are corrupted; this would be moral 1 leprosy. You may usk how many persons are there Uhat will answer to this gross description—ds thy | Servant a dog that be suouid do these things?” But let us not deceive ourselves because leprosy 1s tasked and sofcened in THE SOCIETY IN WHICH WE LIVE. The same vices are there that exist where we would ever go—in the 2 DARK WALKS OF LIFE. What makes a licht-minded woman in low life a harlot leads a lizut-minded woman in high life into the same moral degradation, but ameliorated by the ample cloak of social gloss. The same kind of a character carries a stiletto under a cloak, not Shrinking from muraer, 43 that which under the dommo of an anonymous paragraph in | a newspaper stabs the reputation of an honest man. That whic two centuries ago was done by smug- gilng is now better effected by false oaths, by bribed officials and corrupt juries. What is the difference bevween the - MAN OF ILL-GOT RICHES, whom society cannot disgrace, and the man who, ina boider way, openly breaks the law, 18 taken, red-hauded apd committed to jai: and the gallows? Good society wiways lias some uuprincipied lepers in 118 midst, Who cannot be exciuded er ignored, ‘Though no nivral cry is raised as they approach, “Uncleaa! unclean!” yet are they as vile witn leprosy us those who were tainted in the streets of tne cities of Syria. Successiul wrongs are no more to be censvred than tunsuccessful ones, although it is policy to make examples of them when found out. Men who make exhibitiqus of horror at the discovery of a great | thier misty, in their he , covet his il-acquired riches. tue reverend doctor then proceeded to prove that nine-wenths of the SUCOKSS OF SCANDALOUS WEALTH, of corrupt polities, of the social evil, &c., was due to ourselves. What succeeded was fit to succed in pur time, Unsertipulousness could not obtain power in a scruplous communtiy. ‘This city is no better in a political point of view than its government. We His children, has prepared for the spirit a spiritual house more substanual and better adapted to our Wants that any earthly habitation can To say that His expression, my Fatier’s bouse has many 1, present, hiving, divine | alarm and crowded around the ‘counot! hall tilt the doors were thrown open, and @ voice from within proclaimed that “MARY IS THE MOTHER OF GOD.’! Then thero arose shouts of jov from the untyersal throng, and the streets from the pavemen: to the housetops re-echoed to the cry, ‘Holy Mary, mother of cos. oer for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.” It has been sald that ag sanctit) was the crowning of her maternity, ther be It sald that her maternity was the crowning of her sanctity,for had she not by far transcended the other saints tn purity and sanctity she could not have become the mother of our Redeemer, The ex- ression “blessed among women’? 1s Og to her yy Elizabeth, and Mary herself declares that ‘“‘hence- forth all generations shall call her blessed.” The angels spread their wings over her in ecstactes of delight, for she was the fairest daughter of God the eathet, the most peautiful mother of the Son and the CHOICEST SPOUSE OF THE HOLY GHOST. She was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as & cypresa tree on Mount Sinon. How strange it is that those outside the Church, who adhere so strictly to the Scriptures, can become so enraged at the words “Blessed Virgin,” and contemptuonsly call her “the virgin.” In thelr religious tustructions Sho is never the topic, except for abuse, Not so, thank God, with the children of the true Quureh, for Whom the words “Blessed Virgin” have a pecaliar charm. The women of Jerusalem coveted the honor of being the Mother of God. so that celtbacy seemed to them a disgrace. Heretics deny the efficacy of Mary’s prayers, although the Seriptures declare that the prayer of the just availeth much. Abraham's prayer moved the Lord to pity; Joshua’s turned the tide of battle against the Amonites. Was she not as Just as Abraham or Josnuat We are accused of superstition, because wé acknowledge that she Was exaited above all creatures. Kut “her memory 1s unto everlasting generations,’’ and we should choose her for our model. She is the mother of patience and resignation—witness her anguish at the foot of the cross, when her Son Was nalled with hammers, Whose din made the angels themselves bow their heads in grief. Let our meekness and modesty in- duce others to have recourse to her powerful protec. tion. If we do this, she will never abandon us. Her ways are beautifal ways; “She 1s the tree of life, and as # vine doth she yleid a sweet odor. They that eat her shall yet hunger, aud they that drink her shall yet thirst. They that explain her shall have life everlasting.”’ FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTZRIAN CHURCH. Tho Dangers ef the Rich and the Temptas eus of the Poor—Lecture on Agur’s Prayer by the Rev. Dr. John Hall. The inclement weather of yesterday did not pre- vent a large congregation from assembling to take partin the morning services at the above place of worship. After the usual praise and prayer the Rey. Dr. Hall announced that ke proposed that morning to lecture on the first nine verses of the thirtieth chap- ter of Proverbs, wherein Agur makes confession of his iaith and prays. The reverend doctor, 1n allua- ing to Agur’s profound sense of his own feebdleness and the limits of his knowledge, said that at drst sight one might suppose this to be AN OVER-MODEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but It had been said of an eminent Grecian philoso- pher that the noblest thing he ever sald was:— “There is but one thing I know, and that 1s that I Know nothing.”” The ligher the range to which a man is enabled to ascend the broader and the wider does the region appear to him which he 1s incapable of traversing. Referring to Agur’s prayer he said:—The World hides its real and transient nature and passes itself olf for something abiding and substantial, and many were deceived and beguiled by its appear- ance, This was seen everywhere, most of all in the great cities, where 80 many things are seen, of which the truth about them 1s that they are false; so they had splendid famuiles, spienaid houses and splendid churches that leoked to be very wealtiy, but really were very poor; so they had an inflated currency, s0 they had false compliments, false Speeches, false courtesies, false civilities, and s0 their children had hardly learned to talk before they have acquired “COMPANY MANNERS,” and are drilled in some degree to lessons of duplici- ty. It was all gilded exterior and tinsel. Some- times men spoke of “the dangerous classes." It was as proper for them to speak of the endangered classes, In the course of his remarks under this branch of the subject he spoke of the dangers of the rich, and 1n a forcible manner contrasted these With the dangers and temptations incidental to the poor, There were some portions of this Continent where there was 50 mach water that they were con- verted into A DISMAL SWAMP. There were other portions where there was such a lack of water that when the summer weather came the land was converted into a waste of unproductive dust. Whata good thing it would be if the super- fluity of water could be conducted from those dis- mal swamps and spread over those dusty prairies, and thus leave both fruitful and save both from the pecullar drawbacks to their usefulness, and he thought what a happy thing it would be if THE TWO CLASSES could be brought together mm such a way that the fulness of the one should be a cieck upon the poy- erty of the other. He beifeyed that was What a good thing it would oe 1f Influences these were brought continually before thelr minds and if their superfiulty could so flow over to the poor that they should not only be saved trom neea ut also from temptation. Freely they bad received, freely they should give. imausions, 18 te be understood spiritually does not detract from its literal truthfulness. As the spir- itual world 1s as real to every spiritual sense as the material world is to material sense, the spiritnal beings who dwell there live in heuses that are ag distuict from others in form and size, and as real to every sense a5 our homes are tous. *‘] go to pre- pare a place fer you.” Tne Lora came into this world by assuming humanity for the express pur- pose of Saving His children from THE MISERABLE AND FILTHY ALODES OF BELL, and He glorified that humanity, and made it one wita His Divinity called the Father, and then appa- rently went away that he might prepare a piace for us. This is what he is doing now. The minister proceeded to speak of the character of the homes God Js preparing for his children, and declared that they would correspond in po | and completeness to the progress made by the soul in this hfe, in its spiritual development in the spiritual world, as in his me good ‘ SEEK AND FIND THE GOOD, and the evil the evil. Every one on entering the epiritual worid rises or fails to his own level. the Lord can lead man to Jearn spiritual truth and to obey it, He 1s preparing for hima piace in the spir- itual heaven. Let Him do the work, for “Except the Lerd build the house thev labor in vain that bulid it” CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. Discourse on the Blessed Virgin, by the Rev. James Hagarty. Despite the threatening aspect of the weather yes- terday Sixteenth street church was thronged as usual by @ fashionable and devout congregation. Before the Credo Father Ronan introduced tne preacher of the occasion, Rev. James Hagarty, of Cork, Ireland. The latter clérgyman has been mak- ing an extensive tour through our country, to pro- cure funds for the erection ofa new church in the city of Cork. He is highly educated and possesses a musical voice, in which the accent of his native province 1s scarcely perceptible, Having read the gospel of the day, he took his text therefrom—Luke, x1, 27, 28—‘And it came to pass as De (Jesus) spoke these things, that anno! rid ourseives of responsibilty by lifting up | a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up our garments when we walk through the filth, The regiment which wakes A RICH PROFLIGATE ITS COLONEL 18 of his principies. The city or State that elects dis- honest men tolerates dishonesty. The minis' that upholds ungodly priest is itself ungodly. The bar that pts and emuwates an unscrupulous member aud fawns to corrupt judges can not escape the charges of corruption and unscrupulousness. The woman of high life who welcomes fattery puts herself uearer the one of more suspicious character, Whom tue world calls @ wanton. Of all, it may Bafely be said, \ney are at heart no better than thelr idols, Yo them one thing is to be said— WASH AND BE CLEAN. Go, cleanse your earts, keep clean in secret. not o8- tentatiousiy, aud the leprosy wiil never attack you. if you ere diseased in soul don’t goto a quack to cure you. ‘Tue reverend doctor here compared the soul to tue human form divine, and spoke physiolo- pically in regard to the orguhs which secrete the lood. We niust have the imermost soul pure or our acts will be impure. We must go from te cork of public sentiment here were two Ways of 0 One was tual chang: , the other was an actual ch: of stale. Many a man is safe in Boston who {8 not sale iu New York; many a man is safe in New York wiio ts notin San Fraucisco; many aman 4s safe in the Country who is not in the city, and many @ man is sate at home with his wife and’ chil- Gren who !s not abroad. If we were in carnest in Wanting to become clean we Suould leave society which we cannof safely encounter rather than find ourselves growing more unscru- pulous every dsy. How many men have I geen year after year degenerating under the seduction, the scepticism the opportunities cret folly in this great city! Jt 4s not children eed to be kept at home. So aken back to thelr native ai ve fields and home: Vite stains wasied away in the p sureams BEFOXE IT IS TOO LATE. npare to opporuinity i deciding our radical cure. The real and Ulereby to renovate Une clear purpose of boly living, one can Bui What fate? e Life. ctand avictung gilmpse of the charac ail exteruat appilances and safeguards npted man. Leta man become cleaa in mo- nd ne can toucd may live among THIRVES, KOPBERS, HARLOTS AND MURDERERS @nd be what Jesus was amoung pubdlicans and siQ- her voice, said to him: Biessed 1s the womb that bore Thee and the paps that gave Thee suck. But He said: Yea, rather blessed are they who hear try | the word of God and keep it.” Honor forever be tothe memory of this fearless woman, Crafty and designing men are laying snares for Jesus; they accuse Him of casting out devils threugh Beelzebub, but she exalts Him and BLESSES THE WOMB THAT BORE HIM. Jesus had already given suMleient proof of His divinity. “If I had not performed such wonders before them, a3 no man ever performed, they might not believe.” We see in the Gospel how He well re- fated their fallacious argument, His words paralyzed the crowd; nor did He gainsay the encomium pe- “Yea, rather parage His blessed mother, and that she is not ENTITLED T0 BB CALLED BLESSED. It is trae thatthe poverty of the English idiom does not permit of an adequate comprehension of Christ's meaning; but even in the English lan- guage the words of Jesus are a confirmation of what the woman sald, Butin tie worst construction the words have the same signification as if Christ were to say, “It 18 indeed wu blessed thing to be my mother, but more blessed to keep the word of God,”’ Now, it ts certain that Mary was more BLESSED IN PERSONAL BANCTITY than in being the mother of God. She truly kept his sacred word. How much more blessed, there- f huust she be than the rest of mortals. ‘*Let us,’’ uerable Bede, ‘dift up our voices to the Lord, Ww that Church of which the woman was ul type, and -exclaim—biessed is the womb tt bore thee and tm paps that gave thee suck.” Moses once wished to approach the Lord in a burning bush, but God said io hin, “Put thy shoes from off thy feet, for the piace where (hou standest is holy ground.’’ And as the presence of the Most High imparted a sanctity to the surrounding soil, go did the presence of Jesus in the Virgin's womb beatiry her in @ special man- ner. No wonder that she is styled chand not be defied. He | the old Caurch. BSAUTIVUL AS THE MOON, of | for as the moon outshines the other planets, so far does Mary outshine the rest ef mortals, Devotion to tie mother of God has at all umes characterized It was at one thine asserted that Mary was not the mether of God, but in obedience to tlie Pope all the lights of the Church convened at Ephesus to decide the question, The populace took CHURCH OF THE MESSIAa. Success the Reward of a Virtuo ife—Ser- mon by the Rev. Mr. Hepworth. Even the pitiless rain storm that yesterday kept most places of worship in a dismal state ef empti- ness did not have a very disastrous effect upon the congregation of this fashionable church, quite a large audience testifying by their presence to the attractions of the eloquence of the Rev. Mr. Hep- worth. His text was taken from the Book of Josbua, 1, 8—“This book of the law shail not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that 1s written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and ther thou shalt have gooa success.”” My text is a long one. he said, but it con- taiasa whole sermon. The theory of success 1s to be evolved from it, and the whole experience of the world proves that the conditions it 1mposes are at once reasonable and practical. If you would SIT HERE SILENT, as they do in Quaker meeting, and ponder these words the Holy Spirit, that speaks through silence, would preach to you a better sermon than I can give you. But what Ihave to say is burning in my heart, and I must utter it. It is so short a timo since Iwas @ young man myself, and my life nas been so checkered by the temptations and expert- ences through which you are passing, that I feel Justified in talking to you plainly upon the impor- tant topics which will be treated in this course of lectures. A ge aged man cannot talk effectively to @ man of quick, impulsive temperament. If a man has never been in the arena in which souls wrestle with all their might with besetung sins, and Dractically knows nothing ef those peculiar sins which fasten to most yeung men, he will talk te little purpose. Where you are now, there I have been, Are you poor? So have I been poor. poor as the te at of you. Are you tried, are you ha- rassed by deubtsjon the gravest subjects? So have I been tried and harassed, and I want to talk to you to-night as the seaman who has fought the hurri- cane would talk to the novice who is just shipping before the mast. It 18 said that the bed of the ocean is scattered with PIECES OF WRECK. ‘The peaceful waters fow over them all, as though they were not the souvenirs of many o sad story be many a heartache, and the haughty but loomed vessel cuts the waves, and all unconscious that she will never reach the end of ter voyage, but sink im the next stot and add another page to that sad recerd which shall be opened and read at the judgment day. So at the bottom of this rest- less, heaving ocean which we call the world he broken the wrecks of lives that once were buoyant and hopeful, while along the surface float other lives unconscious that in a few years they shall be added to the long list of the disablea and ruined. On the other hand, on the various headlands which reach far out at sea‘are stanch lighthouses that throw their benignant light far out into the shadow and gloom, and by them the SHIPS ON A LRE SHORE are guided in their course. Sothe grand and holy lives of the lowest, the good and the true shed ther light on the struggles, the hopes and the fears of those who are just rying their strengtb and just lay- ing their course lu liie and give encouragement and cheer to the young men of a whole generation. I see before mé severa! hundred young men. You all 100k forward toauccess. You aii hope to end your days surrounded by the respect of the community and the love of fricnds, 20d there 1s no good reason why You should not accoraplish your desire. I you wil rigidly accord with the condiuons you need not be disappointed. Those conditions can pe learned from any gray haired man who has an honest life behind him or from any bad man who will tell you ‘te exact truth about himself, There is a STERN, UNYIELDING MORAL LAW, { obedience to which insures the making the most ont of yourself and out of your life, and disobedience to which will just as certainly entail misery and bring outoa@sad end. You know well enough, as you look into your hearts at this time, whether you have the elements, the seeds of strength or weakness in you. If you have begun aright, then keep on with holy perseverance to the end; and if you have begun wrong, go home, tuink the matter over very care- fully, pray for gg 4 and begin at once to walk in the other path. Youcanif you will, It depends not on circumstances—tnese ate only hobgoblins to frighten the timid—but ou your own will, Don’t entertain ‘THE FALSE IDEs which is so prevalent that the mere acquisition of money i¢ success. The rich alone know how little of what 1s really valuable money can purchase, many. Goid will buy a groat many thu ban was you want most of all cannot De wougus op Sol l. Become bigger than your business. Take real, solid pleasure in-your work, Study the inftlueace of your trade or profession over society; put your own dignity of character into the work you do, and th time will come when the world will meed you. Ke Wililpg to be slow; haste and temptation were bora of the same mother, The man who ts in a harry Will not stop to consider right or w1 If you are determined to do your life work in ten years you will certainly make @ botcn of it. “Make haste slowly” 13 a maxtm that has solid trath in it; and, finally, rely on religious principle, Justice an honesty will rise in the end. Self-respect, the regultof religious conviction, 18 your best armo: The man of God is more than the equal of the mai of the world, Bo patient, be true, be pure, be just, and you have nothing to fear. ST. LAWRENCE’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Confession aud Repentance—Sermon by Rev. Father Duman on the Opening of a Mission. The dark, stormy weather of yesterday morning was in marked contrast to the clear, bracing atmo- sphere of last Sabbath, and notwithstanding the rain fell in torrents the good parishioners of St. Law- rence’s church, at Yorkville, assembled in full force and filled that edifice to repletion, Mass was celevrated by the Rev. Father Théband, being assisted in the same by a volunteer choir under the direction of Mr. Bernard O'Donnell, the organist. The sermon was given bv the Rey. Father Daman, a celebrated Jesuit Father and missionary {rom St. Louis, who ‘s now on @ mission to this church, which extends to two weeks. The reverend Father then took for his text the first chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, How conclusive, how interesting it is for us to reflect that we nave to deal with a just God, a God se good, a God so merciful, 80 loving; a God who desires our salvation! And, asst. Peter says, he is a most merciful king that cannot bear to hear that any of his subjects should be lost; and God 1s the most merciful King, who de- sires that we, his subjects, should be saved, Here we have a representation. A father, a good, kind and loving father has ason upon whem he dotes; this gon has broken the heart of his father by his wild, reckless ways; his INATIENTION TO THE DUTIES of his Church; by his companionship with the dissi- pated and the debauched. Yet the father loves him, watches him and endeavors to. disconnect him from his bad habits “and associations, admonishes him, shows him bad from evil, ‘and induces him at last to retrace his steps towards God. So is tt with our Saviour Jesus Christ. When @ son of the Cnurch falls into bad ways He is grieved, and yet you will often say:—‘Ohb, I have stayed so jong away, I am afraid; I Know I have done wrong} am bier 3 yet and have plenty of time to repent.” uh, my children do not be deceived in this manner; prepare yourself now, while you have time; attend this mission which the Lord has sent 708 and you Will escape His vengeance and He will take you to His heart, Some of you, my dear chiidren, may re- Member the day you left the old country tor America; how your fathers blessed you and your mother bedewed you with her tears, saying, a3 she tore herself away from you, “Farewell, my child, NEVER FORGET YOUR GOD. Never forget your religion,’’ and you answered, “I never will,” aid you came to this country and ‘you prospered, and you have forgot your religion and have forgot your God, But your fatherand mother have not forgotten you, praying for you to the just God, and God has lieard their prayers. Should the tears ef your father and mother be shed in vain? God has given you a mission, my dear friends, that you may thereby save your soul, There are others, also, who fee! an interest in this foneremat an. Fathers and mothers have lost littie children, and they have been pleading to God that He might give some extraordinary grace to this church so that He mex bring you to them in heaven. Do you think, ‘ators and mothers, that your little children have forgotten you? No, my friends, they are continually praying for you before the throne of God that He might grant to you some EXTRAORDINARY GRACE whereby you should make repentance. “What profits @ man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul.” You will say to yourself, 1 can enjoy myself; Imean to stop this badness some time. And you pretend by this that youcan decide how long you Are going to live. How many thousands—how many mullous—are in hell now for being indttfereat to Goa? Death came befere them, and they were hurled before the jadgment seat of Christ, and He has met them with a trown, saying, “Begone to everlasting dGaunation.” Come then, my dearly be- loved chiidren of St, Lawrence’s congfegation, pre- pare thyselves to mect God. God does not wish you Vo be lost, and He loves you and He has granted this mission. Let me say to the drunkard, Are you a happy man’ No; far from ‘it. Your neighbors despise you, your wife abhors you, YOU ARB NOT HAPPY, Everywhere you are despised for your bad pas- sions. Noone can depend upon you. You are un- happy. Your passion for drink ruins your heulih, destroys your manhood, and fills your heart with remorse. Tell me, drunkard, What were your feel- ings upon arising after a night's aebauch. To see your wife, whom you have vowed to cherish and protect, with tears in her eyes, giving you reproach- ful glances. Have you ever thought of the poor girl That you have taken away from @ kind father’s house to lead a life of misery? You have! Have yougever jumped up from the table while eating breakfast and laid your hand on the Hol, Bible and swore, so help you God, that you woul drink no more? Youhave! But, alas! you were again tempted and you raised THE BAD CUP again and you broke your promise with God. Then you say you are beyond redemption, and that you cannot be saved. The mission, then, my dear friends, is the remedy. Come to the mission, try it and you will say, ‘Since I have attended the mission I have no desire to pose of intoxicating drinks.” On, my children, if you enter with me in this mis sion you will have eternal happiness, eternal joy, eternal salvation, and be happy in the company of Christ. My dear fnends,,heed not tne temptings of the devil. Do good works and you will be happy. Yes, my friends, the virtuous man is a happy man. At the age of thirty-three st. Augustin became con- verted and became happy. He forsook the re and pleasures of the outside world and partook of the joys of God Almighty. St. Augustin says, in speak- ng of God, “Too late have I Known ‘Thee; too late have I loved Thee.” St, Augustin regrets one thing of his life—that he spent so much of his lite in WICKEDNESS AND MISERY. In the desert (says Scripture) God took up Israel in bis arms; God tought their batiles, God gave them miraculous food and brought them unto the promised land. Prawe your God and He will take you to His arms; He will fight your battles and give rl food. For yon, thé good members of St. awrence’s church, He desires that you should be saved, God wants you; God cannot bear the idea to beseparated from you. God 1s about to lavish upon you the grace of the holy mission. ‘WHAT I3 A MISSION? It is one of those extraordinary sent by in order to bring sinners to the seuse of their danger and enlighten them in such a manner that even the hardest of hearts cannot resist its benedts. Come, then, good Christians, come not only your- selves, but induce others to come and reap the benefits of this mission while you have time, and God will pour His blessings forever upon you. The mission wich commenced in ims church yes- terday will last for two weeks. Controversial ser- mons will be delivered during two evenings of this week—one on Mouday evening, the subject being “Confession as an Institation of Christ,” aad one on Thursday evening, subject, «That the Catholic Church is the Only ‘frue Church.” Masses will com- mence every day at tive A. M., ending at half-past eight; Vespers at three; sermons every evening, at half-past seven o'clock. CHURTH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Chapin—The Prodigal Son—The Turning Point—Moral Self-Con- sciousness. “We have had a number of very disagreeable Sun- days lately,” said Dr. Chapinto the HERALD re- porter, as his high toned, well clad congregation left the church on Fifth avenue after morning service yesterday. It was certainly A DISAGREEABLE SUNDAY. Wind-biown rain, with its mud below and dismal sky of Orifting clouds above made an out of door Promenade especially untnviting. “We have a fair congregation netwithstanding,” continued the reverend gentleman. The long line of carriages which was drawn up _ before the church suMciently explained this, apart altogether from the attraction of the eloquent Dreacher. After the usual services had been gone through, With some sweet singing by the choir quartet, Dr. Chapin announced his text and pro- ceeded with his sermon:—‘And when he came to himseif he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger.”—Luke xv., 17. The lessons deducibie from this parable of the prodigal son are practically inexhaustible. In my present remarks I shall address myself principally to the first sentence Of the verse, “And when he came to himself.” It describes THE TURNING POINT in the history of thatsoul. His previous experiences had all been tn one scale, and that @ descending one. We see the descent from all the luxury of riotous living to feeding swine, a depth of degradation to understand which we must bear in mind the disgust in which swine were held by those to whom our Lord spoxe. It wasa TERRIGLE PICTURE OF DISSIPATION, Aman starting out into the world with all tho is a glamor about it which deceives a great | Mush and expectations of youth. with maanz and friends on every side, finds himself at last deserted by the cold, heartless parasites of his prosperity, glad to herd with animals. In this point of the sud- den fight of butterfy triends we can recall the case Of the brilliant Sheridan, whose deathbed was Watched by batlims; whose princely patrons held aloof until his spirit had passed away, and then, ames we b> ‘8 irony, came to bear his pall. Some- A MAN IN THE GUTTER, or dragged bloody and braised to the station house, and you may say, {knew this man. A short time go be Was one of the best and steadiest In town. © notice the oondiuon of his exterior, but we fail to study the state of his soul, then, was the prodigal im reality worse in the {or- lorn position We see him than when spending lus Substance aud wasting his manhood tn an Assyrian Yoluptuousness? Was he not then in @ more hope less, @ meaner and a baser siate? ‘The change to be observed 18 not that trom the flashy surroundings of his riot of pleasure to the grim aphaanns musery of his self-earned poverty; put it is lus relative near- —_ to the perception of right and Wrong, toa steady PRACTICAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. Ido not believe thata man needs go through such Lesis to reach a reformation. There are iu ali of us tendencies to sin, bearing their Iruit of actual sins even in those who seem most blameless, Such was the thought of Jesus when He said there were pup- licans and harlots who would enter heaven before certain high priests, The a 6OR Was O plc- ture of self; he was sel{-willed and self-gratifying, Out of this self spring the crimes and sins Which BLAST AND BLACKEN THE WORLD, and yet it is only by a thorough knowledge of self that We can hope to approach a perieot :ife, If a man reaily knew himself would he gratily his taste for strong liquors? In the baser selfishness the pas- Sious and auimal desires are allowed full scope, and Uuis would give some color t© Darwin’s theory, tor many men show certatnly a near DESCENT FROM CERTAIN ANIMALS, & descent in real earnest. ‘There are men and Women Around us whom we are told to look on as lost. it is not because their outward appearance Warrauts the opinion that we must say so; they are Oniy lost so long as they are bewildered in the Meshes and mazes of their reckless passions, When the iirst pang of sell-consciousness Comes, when the prodigal, hungering for the food which the servants Ate, comes to himself we see the explanation of the parable. It was sinning in the blindness of 4 BASE SELFISHNESS which drew from Christ upon the cross the cry: “Father, forgive them, they know not what ‘they dav Ignorance is the cankor at the roet, for Evil is wrought by want of thot much asby want of heart. sae To find this consciousness we must not rely alone on conscience, for it is not a sure guide. Some of the mhost stupendous crimes have been committed in the glare of a mighty conscience. Yetif there were but one man in the world the profound idea would find utterauce in the asseveration of the difference be- tweentruth and wrong. Man is 4 MIXED BRING. He ts not all good norail bad. Driven on by th insatiable cravings of his passions, he comes at Last to hunger for the husks which feed the swine. Then he comes to himself and so to God, his Father, not as a finite being, but with a LONGING POR IMMORTALITY within him, and God gives to his erring child bread @nd living water for the soul. ‘Those who come to morai consciousness show that they have galued the knowledge of a deeper self. Like St. Paul, they Will speak of looking, not at what is seen, but at what is nolseen. Men have been educated to 100k for facts instead of holy words. They receive cer- tam parts of the word with an agreeable confor- mity, but do uotbelieve. There 13 nothi wrong In searching after facts, for the more we knew of our- selves tie more we know of God, But bis claim to knowledge must be firmly based and maintained outside of seeming. Men have rights to be men and to live as men, They must not build to tear down. They shouid not found a republic to-day that will GO UP LIKE A SKYROCKET to morrow. 1 saw tn an illustrated paper the other day a picture representing the dawn of peace. 1t shows where some have Won and some are slain, but the end of the slaughter has come, and an antel with outspread wings bears the glad tidings to all, bringing joy to hearts all scarred with sorrow and to the earth all searred with graves, So must we hepe for joy ta the end, and let us always remember that, no mnatter how outer appearances may be, & man is nearest to the ngs of right when, ia the language of the parabie, he has come to himself. Let us ask ourselves, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. The Beauty and Desirableness of Christ—Ser- mon by Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr. The disagreeapleness of the morning and the threatened storm did not deter the admirers of Rey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., and of tne Gospel which he preaches so earnestly and effectually from flocking to the Church of the Holy Trinitry. The sermon was based on Isaiah, tnirty-third chapter and part of the seventeenth verse—“Thine eyes shall see the King In his beauty.” What a promise, and how per- sonal! The prophet whispers it into the ears of every believer. True, the King shali come in clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they aiso who pierced him, and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of, him; but he will appear personally to the halting, the backsilding, thefeayful disciple. Job, looking forward to the latter day wheh He shall stand on the earth, deciared that his eyes should behold Him‘and not another. But this gracious pro- mise is WITHSTOOD BY GREAT FACTS. How can the finite Know or compreliend the in- finite? Who by searching can find out God? Christ 1s among the things unseen. There isa meral dificulty in our comprehending the holiness of God. The natural man kneweth not the things ef the Spirit of God, because they are spiritually discernea. Just as in an eclipse, the earth, crossing the face of the sun, hides his splendor and beauty from us, so does the pollution of the soul hide from our view the beauty of the King. But the illuminating office of the Holy Spirit 1s given that our minds may be en- lightened, so thal we can see the King, eternal, 1m- mortal, invisible. His words are spirtt, and they are life, and here the soul can find a present Saviour, and look upon Him in ali His majesty as He walks among men and fn all His beauty as He sits upon the throne of His giory, The pure in heart shall seo God, and the greater the difficulties in the way of seeiug Him become the greater will be His manifes- tation. But all sights of the King ARE NOT SIGHTS OF BEAUTY, Recall to mind the story of ksther forbidden to enter into the presence of the King, Our Jewish friends are now celebrating the feast of Purim, in remembrance that the king uncovered his face to hear the prayer of @ subject, When Jesus was on earth men had very diferent signtsof Him. The Pharisees did not see Him as did Mary; Judas did not see His beauty as John the beleved disciple did; and of the two thieves on the cross one saw in Him only the condemned criminal, but the other saw the King in His beauty. How this sentiment confutes the idea which prevails in so many Christian minds that if they had lived when Jesus was on earth tuey would have acted very differently from the way those who did live then acted and the way so many who now live do. “But, Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed; blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed.” Not all who have Miental vision can see this beauty. St. Paul says that, while the heathen foc four thousand _ had looked upon and acknowledged the perfection of this universe they did not recognize the Creator nor worship Him as God. Not every one who studies fea Bible can perceive this beauty. Theological crit 18 NOT CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. Aman may commit the Bivle to memory and yet not Know Curist. But those who possess spiritual lnsignt do not always see the King in His beauty. Balaam could net see him. And St, Paul tes ef apostates who had tasted of the good word of lie and the powers of the world te come and yet had fallen away. Peter also speaks of such persons, and Judas, Demas, Hymeneus and others are given as examples, They pos: a certain spiritual insight, but they did not see the King in his beauty. The Emperor Jullan did many valiant things for the Church, but ne lived to be its greatest persecutor. Those Who shall behold the King’s wrath at last cannot see His beauty, though all tue world must acknowledge that ‘just and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints.” Multituies will then call upon tne rocks and the mountains to fall upon them because they cannot sce the beauty of the King. There will be weeping and wailing before the judgment seat of Christ, but not amoug those who see Hie face and bear His image in their foreheads. But there 1s a way whereby we may see the King in His beauty- humility. Bring the damned be- fore the clear sunlight and how its pean mant fested. Itisin Christ's own light that Re appears beauuful. GOD MUST SHINE INTO OUR HBARTS to give the lignt of the knowledge of His glory in the Jace of Jesus Christ. There is more beauty in Him ‘than all the angels of God could tell, were Zhey trying to do it, from the first carol of creation tothe sound- ing of the last trumpet. Whocau count it up? He 4s beautiful In His nature as God and man, beautiful As the seut of the Father, beautiful in His ofilces as doing, enduring, dying, rising, ascending aad sitting on His glorious high throne. “He is beautiful in His juaiifivations to ad as the Mediator. If the ather could trust His honor to Him we may trust our salvation. He is beautiful in His merits and helps. He quickens the dead and enlightens the dark soul, Answers the doubting soul, establishes the faint, raises the tallen; in duty He aids, in boudage he uniooses, in burden bearing He takes the heaviest end, None but Christ can reacn or satisfy the wants of the human soul. Every blessing of Josus glorides the beauty of His person. BY WHAT, THEN, 18 HIS BEAUTY HIDDEN? Why don't ail men recognize Him as the fatrest mong ten thousand, and altogether lovely? Why are the millions of the earti sti! in arms against Him? He was here among men, yet they saw not His beauty, He appeared io them lke @ root out of a dry ground, without form or comeliness. And Men cannot see Him now, because they have not humility. The sepuichre napkin is still over His face and legalism cannot see Him, and very often the sermons in the pulpit are toned down to suit those who cannot see beauty in Christ. And the ritualtsm im the chancel and the multitudinous Pagan ceremonials hinder men from secing the King in His beauty. Hostility in send ne does the ame thing, but when the Holy Gi shines down thro perversions and hindrances every fo lower ct oh had some of them. In again in the day of their return after 3 had dered away from God; in the day of suffering, ae too many of their friends in tho day of death. closed With an carnest application ef the an appeal to the unconverted to seek the once, FIFTH AVENUE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, The Christinn’s Race for Everlasting Lifes Sermon by Dr. Ormiston. ‘This edifice, usually so crowded with worshippers, was only half filled yesterday morning, a circum- stance due, of course, to the inclemency of the weather, Though the majority of the congregation appear to be more devout and sincere than most of the attendants of our fashionable churches the a» tendance of yesterday demonstrates that there are some people who cannot be CONSTRAINED TO BRAVE THE WEATHER atthe risk of spoiling a silk dress or a new hatin order to worship their Creator and listen to the truth as explained by one of the most learned and able preachers this city can produce, Dr. Ormiston selected his text from St Pauls Epistle to tne Philippians, fu., 18-14, the sermon being & continuation of the discourse delivered last Sabbath, He said that Paul was as humble as he was holy, As he scaled one height after another, ascended one mountain after another and saw peak above peak, and then the clearer light looming ta the distance, UPWARD AND ONWARD WAS HIS WATCHW ARD. They should consider the expectation and em. deavor of the apostle—his expectation as presented of the things in view and the future. It was thud explained:—‘‘fhat J may win Christ and be found in Him; that 1 may know Him and the power of His resurrection; that 1 may apprehend that for which I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus; that I may attain what was in the mind and heart of my lving Redeemer, who dofMflng the gioriesof the sanctuary above and donning the robes of this eartm came down to the depths of my awful degradation and laid hold of me.” He was determined to test to the utmost, so far as the human mind can, THE FULNESS OF OMMIST. He strived to attain to the measure of a perfect man, to be conformed to the first Adam, but to be impeccable to the fall no more—to ve as the afier His resurrection. To the mark—that is wh he aimed at; for the prize—that is what he wor et. A crown of enendurable gold, not of mot leaves, He did not believe im procrastination | iting grace or giory, a3 in anything else, bi they should press on for THAT WHICH WAS IN THE GOAL. Pau! had a telescopic vision of wide sweep, and he regarded nia sucerings as Christiike, and look forward to the ume when the promise of rew should be fultilled. “One thing I do,’ says he; “! press on, forgetting those things that are belund and reaching to the things that are before.” The apostie presented himself to them as an ex- ample. He speaks of his experience to encourage ous, “IT have not et Oe tained.” That 13 an encouragement. He speaks of his expectation to stimulate us, As though h® would say, “If you are weak or feeble be followers | Of me, let me direct your eye ani help you to dise cover Him.” 1t1s well to notice his intense carnest- ness, his joyous freedom and hearty hopefuiness. We notice HIS CONCENTRATIVENESS OF PURPOSE. There are in these expressions great decision and fixed determination, With resistless might he cone centrates it on one object. The double minded man 1s unstable m his ways, therefore unsuccessful. God didn’t make them with two ‘aces, and if they desired to be successful they must have @ fixed dé termination and ene mind. There is no place oF occupation that a man occuples that he cannot find tume to attend to his future. A man should make the store, the counting house and everything his means of worldiy advancement, but if his occu pation mihtates against his spiritual health he should quit it and seek another, All must be subor- dinate to this oue thing. They also noticed Pauls erence. Lukewarmness 1s always oifensive and ts DISGUSTING TO AN EARNEST SOUL. There are no saunterers and loungers in the sere vice of Ged, for He will have none of them. Paul possessed manly freedom: he was unaccountably untrammeiled 1n his course and sped onward. This brought to their remembrance that there was @ Class of people who constantly looked back upon the past. The past was irrevocable and it was in vain to sit down and think what might have been. 16 Was time for those Christians who cultivated & rue fal and self-accusing spirit and a desponding, aig consolate mien to remember that it was not profil apie to God and to tiemselyes or to men, They should bestir themselves and WORK OUT THEIR VICTORY. Paul was free from complacency. as all Christt are, When they saw a man who esteemed him: @ giant, they might pe sure that there was not mach progress in him. It was only taose who were ener geuc and earnest that can expect to succeed. Paul Was always pressing on to something further. ¥ do not Know whether there was in 11s mina’s eye the figure of Lot’s wife, who looked back when the shower of wrath fell and its action encrusted het amonument. Chrisuans should be Christiike and should be fit to be sons and heirs of God and jotnt heirs with Christ. That was the glory of ev Christian, and “progress” should be the Watchwol Paul said he was. GoInd To PRESS ON, Can you press on justhow? That Is the point, Paul feit that though failure was between, success was in advance. If you are going on to Christ Jesug you are going on to light, glory and power. But if hot—what then? What are BREN rs onto? Dark. ness, dreariness, desolation and death. You will not want to press on very hurriedly for that? Can you be in earnest about that? 1s destruction 80 de Sirable and THE GRINNING SKELETON SO LOVING? There 1s something tn this pressing on. Be first. Ifnot, I would arrest you and ask you to stop now. Without inquiring or looking up, Will you.go on? Ruin will come swift enough without your running to meet it, Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children—narrow is the right and safe w: but 1t Is wide eet for us to walkin. Straight the gate near our Father's house, and there ts room enough in His heart for all His loving children. is waiting toembrace us, Let us follow on ress on to Meet our Father, our Redeemer, the rd of Hoste. LYRIC HALL SERVICES. “Not every one that saith unte me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heavens but whosoever doeth the will of Him that is in it?—Sermon by Rev. O. B. Frothing- ham. Lyric Hall was well filled yesterday, considering the rain storm prevailing during the morning. The Tousic, as usual, consisted of choice selections, charmingly rendered. Miss Gibbs, the soprano, having recovered from her serious {liness, was present once more, while Mr. Hawes was still missed and his place was filled by another. Tne music in- cluded the following selections:—‘‘Rejoice in the Lord,” Baumbach, 60; “Nearer to Thee,” Gould Hyqans, 555 Jenxon and 113 Greatorex, 657 Christ- mas and 18 Greatorex, and Beethoven (Cole) 112. In his opening’ prayer the Rev. Mr. Frothingham saia:—We worship no God who ts away in A REALM ABOVE THE STARS or hidden in the recesses of space, but the living God of truth, of feeling and love, who has placed us here, 1n infinite kindneas and goodness, to play our } iittle part on earth. He began the sermon with this text:—-“Not every one that saith Lord, Lord, shal enter into the king. dom of heaven, but whosoever doeth the will of Him that fs in it;” and he said:—Observe the con- trast of these two clauses. Jesus contrasts the re jligious people with the so-called moral people. Itis not those whoswing their censers IN THR FACR OF GOD who shall enter heaven, but those who do juatice, love mercy, and, in & word, honest, good and noble Men or women. 1 held thav the best religion is the one that. gives us the bess men and women im the sphere of everyday lite. That religion which gives us this, will win universal acquiescence and Will be clear to all the peoples of the carth. I care not what it be, whether Romanism, atheism or materialism; so long as it does this, 1% will _recetve the devotion of the bes ion of mankind. this subject, but to carry it one step further than I did then, and I hope that you will do ' me the justice, as [ am a teacher of relivion and one who wisies to teach honestly and truly, to believe that J speak sincerely and conscientiously, and that T speak as { shall, not tt love religion less but that I love religion more. Religion should perform all the good work ip life, and it is because I think 16 may do this that I speak, But religion often pre vents the accomplishment of that which should be its great aim, Whatdo the religions of Romanism or Buddhism jeach? Simply faith. It is faith whien leads one to a life of privation, suffering and danger, preaching to the savages in the wilderness; it is faith whicn leads the other to pass a Ilie of SOLITUDE IN THE DESERT, Religion as itts taught tells enly of a wratnfat God. It telle us to withdraw our :ninds from Barth, to think no more of the turmotis of life, to pray for safety and protection from the Heavenly wrain to come, Itvays to the poor man, [know you suffer. | Forget your aufferings; forget your tol!s; think only of the Saviour and Jove Jesus. It telis the rich man, Vie by years of patient toll, of study and fore. ong, has amassed wealth for the after benefit of Muaukind, to lay not up for Minself treasures on Ear bat treasures in Heaven, where neither moth Nor rast can corrupt and where thieves may not break through and steal. It says to the reat reformer,—Why do you work 60 hard for your fellow men? Willnot God in his Providence loo¥ | afterthemal! And while you are deveting all