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monghts and afl your strength to those wno are Boor and wroteuod YOU ARB LOSING YOUR OWN SOUL. fo agp ae for your own salvation, jus fifty thousand trained menin America are teaching these doctrines percicious to th race, From the circumstances of thelr edu tion and calling they exert a prodigious finence on hundreds of thousands of the people. ese fifty thousand teach faith as the sole requisite for salvation, and they disregara every interest of life, They know nothing ef life. They tell the ear- Best man to labor no longes, the thinker to think Ro more, and they make men discontented with tae labor of life, On all great works they threw @ ebilling influence, aud that Influence 1s felt around the Earth. They thus become, as they are charged With being, the enemies of sctence, of progress und morality. In the hundreds of churches in New York Where services are heid to-day how many preachers ‘will speak of other things than faith? How many will speak of those things on earth which concern men and make them better? 1 do not disparage the etudy of theology; I have spent too many of the years of my life in its study to turn from it now with indifference, THEOLOGY 18 A SUBLIME STUDY. There are {n each generation a lew men eminently Alited for this study. Let them pursue it. Botany aud theology are beautiful sciences, bul they do nos Fequire to be studied by the whole race, BROOKLYN CBURCHES. The Growth of Evil and How to Check It. BEECHER ON PERFECTION. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Tho Divine Standard of Perfection—Love the Only Justice. “A rainy day and a house full of strangers,”’ said @ Plymouth usher yesterday, as he partially made arrangements for the morning tide. And a heuse full it was, each one of the crowded congregation forgetting in the flowers, music and eloquence Within, the sloppy dreariness outside, There was a look in Mr. Beecher's face as he came in that augured well for tne coming sermon; and every Movement—even to the tucking of his unfortunate hat In its obscure position behind the bookstand— spoke of a subdued power that by and by meant to let itself out. Mr. Zundel and Miss Thursley, who were seriously missed in the musloal service last Sunday, were in thelr places, and the organ volun- tary and anthem, “Oh Uome, Let Us Worship,” were executed with spirit. Previous to the sermon Mr. Beecher asked for a collection for the Park Congregational church, gaying that Plymouth church had pledged $2,500 im its ald over two years ogo, and he was ashamed from the top of his head to the SOLES OF HIS FEET that the pledge had not been sooner redeemed, When Plymouth church has not promised, money flows from it like water, but once let it pass its word and it seems to think that sufficient. The help that we proposed to give to this chureh ought to nave overflowed the measure that they neld out, instead of their being obliged to milk, milk, milk to fet it. The ushers and pewholders were patted on ie back and scolded little, judiciously, and re- Minded that they must, in the one case, be patient, and, in the other, get settle im their seats early, so that order could be had at the opening of the service. The ushers were reminded that if any boors present- ed themselves, they were tne very oues whe needed Wo go tochureh, and the text, “Lm patience possess ye your souls,”’ was recommended to these LONG SUFFERING INDIVIDUALS as suitable for insoription upon their hearts, Not- Witstanding the reproach of wealth that is cast upon Piymonth church, Mr, Beecher thought that more a and humbie people were accommodated there an in any churen in the United States. Though some seats are very high, full one-third are very low, and no man can gay that be was turned away be- cause nis clothes were shabby. These preliminaries over, the text was announced as Matthew v., 48— “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which Is in heaven 1s perfect.” This is not a rigorous, im- perious command to sudden perfection, because all perroues. ig the effect of gradual growth. It is of Christ Himself that He was made perfect through sutiering. What was true of the viour ‘was true of the aposties, and in every age since high spiritual life has been evolved through slow processes, The text means that we are to be perfect as or according as God is perfect; that we are not to fall on the wrong model, not to try to be perfect in the way. Weare to model our life by the divine nature. SUPREME BENEFICENCE 1s the ideal of divine perfection and must be of indi- vidual Christian periectien. In the text and con- text we have from Christ sufticient indications of that ire and of the point in that mature that we are to imitate. Divine leve {s not given on account of desert, but from ite own necessity of giving. is the point that I wish to dwellon. Go towards oounty trom the pressure of his vast be- mevolence that needs expression, A faculty is 1n its highest form when it 1s forceful, and gives with. out solicitation. Thus some natures develop music; it they were put on an island in the middle of the ocean they would think choruses apa syimphontes. Others are self-moved to poetry. Many men write poetry as they would RAISE CORN for the market; but there are some whose lives are stai2ed with poetic color, who see visions and dream dreams. Whatis genius? It is a faculty de- veloped above the ordinary, that works unsolictted, God 1s a being whose attributes are so fall of sensi- Dility that they do not need the solicitation of cir- cumstances. We in our lower sphere know some- thing of spontaneity, and by carrying the idea up and eaiurging it fufimitely we obtain sume conception Of God’s necessity to pour out goodness. In the Apocalypse God’s life 1s spoken of as flowing like @ river, The btble compares God to a sun. The gun 13 never solicited. ]t pours out an incessar stream of heat; it must radiate from itsel!. ®un shines as warmly and as brightly upon the STINGY OLD MISER @8 upon the philanturopist. We cannot get awa! fronr the fact tnav itis in this power of giving, repens. leas of desert, that we are to be like Ged. We are neither to be ascetics nor are we to spend all our strength in keeping ourselves bright and buildin ourseives up. We are not to have the Phariseeism o} beauty and mistake estheticism lor the Spirit of tne Gospel. 1 would ag soon try to raise a narvest by the moonbeams as to build a character by esthetics alone. Beauty is one finger in the strong hand. How does this idea of divine beneficence agree with the popular ideas of justice? There is a kind of Ice that will never be found outside of this world. tice generally divides men into the good and the |, the dese! 1g and the undeserving. There ts Ro possibility of such justice. We don’t Know whata good man deserves or whata bad man deserves. Wo can’t tell what hereditary strains have come dewn to him that we call bad; how education has warped lus bias; what influences have struck the colors that bona him through. We have not the first elements MAKE US PIT TO JUDGE. What is justice but an administrauon of kindness @uited to man’s necessities? Justiee may often give pain. Iremember when I used to come in from end Sports all smouched, with hair that had played wit e winas Of heaven. I needed my sister’s discipline to make me fit for society, The rubbing and the combing didn't feel good, but it was all to find veanty hope they found it) and a necessary and kind. When I had saree with my brothers or sisters these mysterious tinglings were for my goods they were grievous, outworked the peaceable lis of righteousness. The mother, with her bosom of love, says:—‘‘My child, you shall not go wrong. I love you, but you shall not sit with me or Come to the table with me fillyou have usked the forgiveness of that poor servant. I am right to- Wards you, but you must get right before you can have the benefit of my love.” Isa’t that justice? But there is another way. ‘the judge Bays:—“ What, drank another time? Send nim up for three months. We must Preserve the purity of the community.” In- difference to suifertng ts infernal. He who commits @ man to prison, saying, “He ought wo have it; lam tad,?? ae SHOWS AN INFERNAL SPIRIT, ana, though the man may deserve the punishment, tere is no justice in the juage’s heart. No man has a right w put lus hand on a man except in love, At thus point we are tw be perfect as God is Lies Justice is the blind iimpulse of me animal in man; in God it 1s iove shap- ing and meulding into the image of itself. Forgiveness is the instinctive action of true benevo- lence. Ic 1s God’s nature to forgive. Everybody? Yes, everybody. All etand on an equal footing. But mo man 1s benefited by forgiveness who does not take it. A man comes to his cs Ne land after Weary wanderings, He knows not whether his friends live, for all trace of them is lost. He is tired ‘With searching, ana, discouraged, ne sits down on the very coor of his (ather’s house, and, leaning his head on his hand, sheds homesick tears. Inside an old man and woman sit side by side, She looks in ‘the fire and sees ships, and on every one is HER SAILOR BOY. The father leoks at the mother, and each knows What the other 1s thinking about. Both would give all toe world to put their arms round the boy’s neok; and be site outside crying. What good does it do for God to forgive men if they don’t know 1t and don’t want to, The sun don’t guide a blind man. It iy ready to guide him as soon as he opens his eyes. People DEAY 40 God vo forgive them. They might as well pray Jor rainin an equinoctial sterm. The whole heavens are saturated witn forgiveness, but it will do you aM os) unless you take it. You like this forgiveness of God, but forget that there 1s an- other side. You, too, must forgive. Men are all willing to forgive when they are patted and their ae eae . There is nothing in’ forgiveness bat in another; ins a question t your res a of your resemblance to Goa. It be that the spirivor love may inspire you to disoly but It must be Isve, not conscience, not selfishness, and you are not in a state to decide , until your heart is full of love, Thousands lors in devia dens that he arpund this subjeph NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. MARCH 13, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘think thoy are spotless lambs when they are wolves’ cubs, They tear and rend, and call it justice. 1s it Not time tat we tried Jove in the administration of society? Wherever it has becn tried it has suc- cgeded, and everything else has failed. THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage—‘'The Chiefest Among Ten Thousand and the One Altogether Lovely.” After reading portions of the Scriptures selected from the third chapter of Peter and fifty-third chapter of Isalah, the Rev. Mr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, preached an interesting ser- mon yesterday morving from the words “de is altogether lovely.” In commencing he spoke of the efforts of the old artists to show us Christ on the canvas in his afferent OFFIORS OF LOVE, showirg His great renown even though He had not Where to lay His head when on earth. Now, all Spake of Christ, His voice could be heard through the forests, and the rock, the rivules and whe spring flowers speke of Him, saying He was lovely. It ‘was seldom we fouad men who were THE SAME AT ALL TIMES. Wo magn fina them vei Plcasant and genial at home, devout at the church, but waen we met them at their business we were surprised to dise cover how much sharpness there was about them. We could seldom find & man who was the same under ail circumstances. When we go te a phoio- grapher’s the phoiourapher. invariabiy places us In Positions in which We 100k best and take the best Pictures, Semetimes it would be a tull-iaced view, sometimes @ three-quarter view and somelimes a side view. But with Curist, no matter what view we had of Him, He was always the same and the one ALTOGETHER LOVELY. In a village preparations were progressing for a wedding. There were garlands, there was music, and for three or feur days the invited guests ha been gathering to be present on the happy occasion. As the merry laughter rang out a plain mau ap- ee among them, but there was no chill the jlarity. The young people enjoyed theinselves the same, merely remarking, “Hero comes Jesus.’ Jesus Baw the wine was giving oul, and going to the door waved his hand over some water, and ‘turned it to wine, in order that the guests might have plenty. The reverend gentleman referred to lines in which poets had spoken of tnis act, put it was, in his opinion, more beautifully expressed in this, “The unconscious water saw its God and It Christ had been like @ great many people He would have come into the house in the most solemn manner and began with a detati of His troubles and trials. But Christ was different. He would not do anything to cast a shadow over the lives oi Unis happy couple. Go through THE FESTIVE HALLS OF BARTH and find so gooda banqueter. How foolish were those who falied to invite Jesus to thelr banquet, for Tle threw light and happiness all about Him, Mr. Talmage spoke of the loveliness of Jesus among liule children. They knew who loved them, and When He appeared they all Nocked about him, The disciples tried to drive them away; but Jesus, whose heart was as tender as a child’s, said, “Let them come unto me,” So when their little bark 1s launched for the other world we suould not grieve, for they go tothe Saviour’s arms. God grant that whatever qnistakes we may have made in hfe our little ones may ail be saved. The reverend gentleman closed by giving a description of the scenes at the cross when Jesus was put to death. Did He, who had healed the sick and restored the blind to sight, de- serve such a death? ‘hey struck Him in the face and jeered Him; but he calle te God to forgive them, for they Knew not what they did. Hut His deati was beautiful, and if we lived right our death Would be beautiful. 8T. JOHN'S ROMAN CATAOLIC CHURCH. The Relapsing Sinner—Man’s Contempt and Perfidy-God’s Mercy and Judgment—Sor- mon by the Rev. Michael Hiciie. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather yesterday morning there was a large attendance at high mass at St. Jonn’s Roman Catholic church, South Brooklyn. After the first gospel the Rev. Michael Hickie ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon from the gospel of the day, Luke xL, 26— “Ano the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.” Indeed it is, said the preacher, for to re- lapse into sin 1s to return to it again, after having renounced It by sincere repentance. This is so, be- cause by such an act there is offered to God a special contempt, 4 SPECIAL ACT OF PERFIDY, and an ingratitude which renders the unfortunate aggressor most hateful in His divine sight. Noth- ing involves a more pointed comtempt of anything than the deliberate and voluntary preferment of its opposite, and the more deliberate and voluntary is the choice the more signal the contempt. If this be true there is no good mixed up with the evil. It May be sald that sin 1s committed to acquire REPUTATION, HONORS, RICHES or the like, but what are these in comparison with the sovereign good? Stil!, net even for such as these is sin committed for the most part, but to gratify some vain curlosity—some lurking, latent hatred or spint ef revenge—or to satisfy the fresh cravings of that foul appetite which destroys tne ea of body and seul. The wretch who offends is Ged violates a promise freely and most solemniy given, and thus offers an especial indignity to tne merciful Master, whose pa.don be had so humoply seught, forcing from Him THAY WILHERING SENTENCE, “How vile thou art made by repeating thy ways, which thou bast forsworn.” Stull, marked thougit be the contempt and base the perfidy which this sin of relapse contains, yet both combined do not offend God so much, or render the unhappy sou! so loath- some or worthiess In His sight, as does the ingrati- tude which is found In the act. That ingratitude cau best be understood when we reflect upon we number and excellence of the benefits received trom Him and the i] returns made to Him. A mer- eiful God does not ask the sinner what use he has made of the blessings He has already given him, when again, in answer to the sinner’s supplication for pardon, MERCY IS AGAIN DEALT OUT TO HIM, but rather looks to the penitent heart and tne earnest resolve for future amendment. The deep scars made by sin in the soul the Saviour nealed; eace, ioy, and tranquillity, of which the soul had een robbed, He restored; # new life he infused into it, and once more gave it the light and claim to @ternai happiness. ‘The arm of Divine justice, which was UPRAISED FOR THE SINNER’S DESTRUCTION, and which he, poor, heipless creature, had no means of arresting, instead of falling upon him with a crush of terrible vengeance was extended toward him, not alone io forgiveness, but even in love and friendship. But im return for this accumulation of favors the relapsing sinner endeavors, as lar as {0 him lies, to betray again to His enemies his seve- reign Lora and benetactor, crucifying him anew and piercing His heart witm a thorn more paintul tuan one of those that in His sacred passion CAUSED THE BLOOD TO TRICKLE from His sacred temples. Thus is sinso faras it affects Ged. Viewed as it ravages the soul itself, the consequences are most lamentable. Upon the sinner’s reconciliation with God in the tribunal of penance his Creator consents to come and dwell with him. He brings with Him the richest and choicest ornaments aod thus makes the sinner’s geul an object of complacency to the most Holy Trinity and of delight to the angelic spits. The beauties of which sin had robbed it agam shone forth with lustre, so as to make more than verified the expression of the Holy Scriptures that it was “a fountain sealed up, & garden enclosed.” The devil being banished from the soul, goetn about SEEKING ANOTHER RESTING PLACE, but not being able to find one returns to the house whence he had been driven. ‘The house, however, 1s now so well guarded, the walls of its “enciosed garden’ are se@ high and strong, that he fears to seek an entrance by himself, Yet so beautiful and lonely ts this abode, for ‘at is empty, swept and gar- nished,” that his fiendish malice 1s Induenced to de- stroy its comeitness. Whereupon “he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering they dwell there, and the iast state of tuat man becomes worse than the first.’ Assuredly it 1s 80, and hence the imperative . necessity of fulfilling THAT DIVINE INJUNCTION from our divine Lord, ‘Watch ye and pray lest ye enter temptation.” In the holy season of Lent those who, like the person mentioned in the Gospel, are “dumb,” should at once approach the tribunal of penance that they may be healed; and those who are in this state of grace should remember con- stantly the words of our divine Lord in relation to the relapsing sinner. CLASSON AVENUE PRESBYT:RIAN CHURCH, Sermon by Rev. Dr. Duryer—A Doctrinal Disconrse, with, a Digression upon Judical Oaths. The views of Dr. Duryea upon the total abstinence question, as set forth by him in bis discourse of Sunday last, created constderable taik in religious and other circles during the week and directed attention to that learned divine himself, who was censured by some and supported by others. It was supposc® by many that the pastor would yesterday make some allusion or reply to the adverse criticisms to which he had been subjected, and the result was that at tho morning service the church was densely crowded, many of these present being strangers, Dr. Duryea, however, did net make the slightest allusion to the matter, aad preached a strictly doctrinal discourse. Ho selected Jesus from Gultiee to Jordan, ‘wito John, Yo Se base jal jerdan unto Jol tized of him.” ry oe Dr. Duryea satd we had studiea the ministry of John the Baptist, his relation to the history of the past covenant and and the opening up of the HISTORY OF THE COVENANT in its new form. We had not considered that sym- bollcal act hy which he made hus minlatry prominent ‘step afew paces into the current. ‘It should deseends to such suuplicity. And identified with himself all those who were will- Ing to receive tts instruction. We would remember that he was sent to revive the law; the law was not to pass away. The Gospel was not to originate, THE GOSPEL, BROAN in the Garden of Eden and became complete in the person, and work of Jesus QObrist. It was set forth in words in the preaching of His disciples and pre- served in words in the wriling of evangelists! letters of the aposties. The law was simply the Gospel in germ; the Gospel was rimply the law In develop- Ment. John the Baptist stood in bis ministry midway between the swelling of rinina- tion and its putting forth above soil, Joun tecnny to mind all that was in the law, that which in the precept appealed to the con- science, that Which in the promise appealed to faith. He called upon the people who had lost the true view of the ancient religion, aud departed from the correct practice of the aucient religion, to turn their minds, focome back to the comprehension of the trath and come back to the practice of the precept. He himself was peculiar m his person, in his man- pe of tife and in bis mode of teaching. ‘This made m A STRIKING OBJRCT, and mado his ministry attractive, athered the people around him and it seemed that they were im- pressed at ence by the trath, fe needed not to re- announce the precept but to recall the precept to their memory. He neectod not to set forth anew the promises, but simply to recall them to thetr minds, ‘hey came ss by general inspiration. Now, of what Signification was this bapusm? There had been nothing like it exacted before. There had been purt- fleations practised in the Jewish ceremo- nial—purification —_ practised = by one _ sect of the Jews then in existence, Let us try to look upen this symbol with strange eyes. Sup- pose that one who came out of some heathen land, where religion, except the religion of nature, Was not knewn, should see a man standing by the edge of the water and another by him, They both One bows and litting water in his baud pours it over the other, and then the two come forth from the stream, ‘The heathen man would be melined to think 1t either some act of sorcery or SOME ACT OF SUPERSTITION. If he were a very intelligent heathet nd above faith in sorcery, he might be utterly at a loss to comprehend any possible explanation of tue Singa- lar act, Let us look upon it with all our intelli- gence. Whatis there in the lifting of water in the hand and placing it on the head? Is there virtue thereby transmitted from the actor to the recipient? Is not water water still? There is a very deep mine of thought underlying this. We may have thought it somewhat beneath the dignity of religion coming frem God that Those of you who have been abroad may haye seen a woman sitting in a carriage, She leoks like any other woman. The horses are different from those you have scen before. Everybody is bewing. She is, they say, a queen, She is simply a visible sign of Nationality, a tangible object for pauriotism. So the nation gathers around her, for she is nothing more than asa figure head of asnip, and yet they wor- ship her as the representative of the nation. Step jute a court room, A MAN IS CALLED TO TESTIFY, but they are unwilling to accept his testimony. They then bring forth a beok. He puts it to his lips, Jays it down and testilies, Does tie act of kissing the book mspire him with the spirit of train? An- other approaches, and his testimony 1s about to be accepted, when, behold! he lifts his hand but does not Kiss the book. Could he not testify just as truth- fully with his hand by his side? No; there is a power tn the symbol and a power in the bodily act. This had long been taught by symbel to these people. They therefore entered into the spirit of the work of baptism. While they were en- aged Jesus came down. The question occurs, why should He thus present himself to John the Baptist? What were their rlations? I have not yet tho- roughly satisfied my mind as to the view that John entertained of our Lord. Ido not believe that our Lord had at any moment lost consciousness of His dl- vinity, for all tose who believe in His divinity main- tain that He was, and continued to be, a divine per- son, Ile took an impersonal human soul. John said, “I did not ;know him.” 1do not think there Was any possible reason why John should deceive. He did not know Jesus. We can easily see that they were apart in ordinary life and JESUS WAS NEVER RECOGNIZED by anybody in Jerusalem but His parents, If they ever came together in Jerusalem it Was not in such relations that John should identify the person. How does it happen, then, that when He approached John John endeavored to prevent iim from entering upon that office? ‘There was something singularly attractive and impressive in the personal appear- ance of Jesus, and Jolin feit that One had come whom it was not possible to baptize. Jesus spoke unto hun and he submitced. Dr. Newman on the Marriage Relation—A Sharp Cut at the “Flippant Women” in the Suffrage Line—Gentle Warnings to the Youthful Spec- tators of the Naked Drama—Dr. Capen on the Resurrected Jesus and the Supper ‘With the Disciples at Emmaus. THE CHURCH OF THE UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY. WASHINGTON, March 12, 1871. Rev. E. H. Capen, of Providence, R. I., preached this morning before the Universalist Society at their place of worship i Masonic Temple. He selected for his text Luke xxiv., 32—‘“And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while he opened to us the Scriptures?’ It is difficult, he said, to give in precise terms THE WORD “HEART” as expressed in the Bible, It is a compreliensive ‘word in its deepest and sternest significance. It 13 & word that needs no translation, for every man and every woman is able to trans- late its meaning. Who were they that lstened with upheaving bosoms to the words uf our Saviour? They were men earnestly seeking salvation—men to whom tnis pursuit was paramount. You will readily perceive, therefore, what their feeling must have been. No matter what the reilgious vein of different nations might be they are all working for Him—the same God. It witnesses and confirms the truth, It 1s necessary to receive THE SANCTION OF THE HEART in order to get at the truth. The trath is intendea tobe the blessing of man. All grace, all benefits verge from 1t, and any act or teaching or deed that does not touch a sympathetic chord might be set down as untrue. This must be taken as the ground of snose fatal errors in religion. We all know that many of the systems, particularly those proposed by certain dogmatic teachers, sum- mon to their aid the most unreasonable arguments in support of their peculiar notions of theology. They dig for new ideas as patiently as the gold seeker digs for gold in barren ledges. The true idea of salvation is remote {rom their hearts, and the more they endeavor to inventasystem the more they become involved in meaningless phrases, But it 18 not so with the sincere heart seeking for truth asthe pearl above price. You all remember the comments made in the public journals upon the effects of THE TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. It destroyed property in countless sums. It made the rich man poor and humbled those whose circum- stances befere this dire calamity were even in the meshes of poverty. Thank God, earthquakes are not universal, but yet they are warnings to men to lift thelr hearts above the sordid wealth of this world and think of the glory of the celestial world. Others may entertain diferent views of the upheav- ings of the earth, but we may rest assured that nothing is true, ne doctrine, no philosophy, without the sanction of truth. Bul the text says that the heart of those who journeyed to Emmaus burned within them when they met the Saviour, Man de- sires sympathy as well as truth, He was not made to * DWELL BY HIMBELP, He ts, in every sense of the werd, a dependent crea- ture, and ag such seeks the Congental society of those he loves. Especially is this true of the marriage in- stinct, and equally so of man’s relations to society. But the heart of man is not allied only to his fellow creatures. The ruling passion of his sout is that he is remembered by his Lord. He whose all-seeing eye fs ever upon us, does not permit His creatures to go about in darkness, but opens the doors of heart togive us light. How He has labored to satisfy thé cravings of the world, and we should look upon Him and follow Him in His perilous travels, going about With Him in te fuldiment of Hts precepts of charity - Then it is that we shall see those things we hate never seen before, and feel aspirations that give pe AFR TO Ug exiraNCe: Recognizitig tfé huiian 66 a¥ Comihion brother- hood, no matter how dark the creeds subscribed to, life in Jesus 1s the life of the world, and his heart is the fount of all consoling love. It is by the heart we are aroused from despondency. The Christian Not only jlesires to see God, but to benold hereafter those dear friends who have gone before them. In all human probability there was NEVER WEARER FRIENDSHIP than existed between the twe disciples when they left Jerusalem sorrowful in heart over the thougut that all the words spoken by Him whom they had hoped was the Redeemer of Israel—how they wished ne might fulfil all he sald concernin: his resurrection. Ne matter what condition we are in, we feel our dependence Upon Jesus, and so it was with these ardent discl- ples. Had they not been deprived of the presence of their Lord, they would not have Rs their relation to Him. They had, undoubtedly, pictured to their minds the glory of an earth! Tuler who was to reign over the chosen people 0: Israet forever, but of the spiritual relation they had notas yet been fully convinced. eir Lord and Master had een crucitied in their presence, Of hig visible return among them they had faith, but had turned away trom the scene of His trials death with heavy hearts. They left him whom they loved so tenderly in the tomb, and still they loved Him none the less. As they continued on their journey, & stranger overtakes them, and together they sharo eagh other's sorrow. in Siig personal appearange they do not reeognize Him as thelr leader and thelr hope, bat there ta, nevertheless, something in His tone of voice, in His manner of unfolding the mys- very of prophecy, that awakens feelli never re experienced. That day’s Journey had been completed, and the stranger sat with them at table in the village of Emmaus. It was In the breaking of bread that their eyes were opened. He had reveaied himself only to vanish from thelr sight, Ringling anew tn their hearts that immortal love which He came on earth to inspire. We are all pilgrims journeying toward another world. AT NIGHTFALL, when our course {3 run, jet it be with us as it was the «disciples, whose hearts burned within them, that Jesus be with us, and all will be well. THE, METROPOLITAN METHODIST CHURCH. Dr. Newman on the Marriage Relatiors=Ite Rights aud Obligations, Wasuinaron, March 12, 1871. The Rev. Dr. Newman 1s universally known both as pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist church and Chaplain of the Senate, His reputation among pub- lic men of different evangebcal denominations and Political parties 1s of the highest. This was con- firmed the other day, after the organization of the Forty-second Congress, by his unanimous reappoint- ment, without objection, as Chaplain of the Senate, As usual, he eccupied this morning bis celebrated Metropolitan pulpit. He chose as the theme of his discourse AN IMPORTANT SOCIAL 8UBJECY. Me took for his text the passage to which some strong- minded and hard fisted females have objected— “Wives, submit yourseives unte your own husbands as unto tue Lord. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it.” ‘The family, he said, ts the oldest mstivution known to man; older than the apostles, older than Moses, older than Noah. It is coeval with Adam, Instituted by the Almighty, recognized by mankind, it comes down to us gray with uge. It has existed in all countries, under all forms of govern. ment, through all phases of civilization, and 1s the bond of society, the remembrancer of our long lost Eden, As the creator is greater than the creature, as the fountain is more than the stream, as the see.t c so the family is more than the Sta) . THE DIVISION OF MANKIND by the Almighty 1s not into individuals, but into families, and such is its importance that 1t 18 worthy of God and His imspired apestie to define the rela- tions which exist between husband and wite. That these domestic relations are ol divine origm was the first point in the discourse. Marriage is not an ex- pedient, not a human device. It 1s not the creation of civil law, but 1s a divine institution. Keveiation makes it known and nature corroborates revelation. If we ask ourselves THE DESIGN OF MARRIAGE we also discover tie wisdom of the Creator and the divinity of the institution, That design is three- fold—First, companionship: second, multiplicatio: third, preveation—the prevention of evil to the Church and Stat THE OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIAGE show the same wisdom, They are three-fold— Voluntary, monogamous, indissoluble. There must be volition, inteation and solemn choice in marriage. ‘The relation is for life, There are but two events that can dissolve tt—tliat of death and that ot adule tery. God bas thrown the munimenis of his law around this venerable Institution. If this is a fact that it is indisseluble, that it is found in nature, what shall we say to . THOSE FLIPPANT WOMEN who, by far, had better be at home with the needle taking care: of their children, jooking out tor the happiness of their husbands. What shall we say of these flippant women geing through the country and proposing to dissolve the solemn relation of marriage on the ground of taste er compatibility? A woman should be the last to be the advocate ef such @ monstrous theory. Bad enough fora man, with his deeper depraved nature. Greater the shame for awoman. Apply thts principle to the other depart- ments of iife, to parent and child, to government and subject, and what weuld become of suctety? 1t would be driven asunder. When a party stand at the bridal altar the ritual of the Church anticipates the mutations of ume and the transitions in human iife. They take each other FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, for vicher er poorer, These parties who to-day so imvade this old institution, gray with age and bear- Ing the signet of God's approbation, go against the Church as well as the Bible and revelation, Let their miserable theory prevatl and alas for the family, also for the State and for the Church! Bet- ter by far that these creatures throw off the disguise and declare at once jor that ABOMINABLE DOCTRINE OF PREE LOVE. God’s wisdom 1 displayed in the rights of mar- riage. These are three-fold—First, authority; se- condly, protection; thirdly, happiness, Authority is invested in the man. He is to rule— the head of the household. Protection is accorded to the woman. What the ivy ts to the oak and the oak to the ivy the wile is to the husband and the husband 1s to thawife, There are mutual rights growing out of the great law of reciprocity; for mar- Tiage 1s the uuion 0! equals, the union of equivalents, @ whole body for a whele body, a whole soul for a whole soul, @ whole life for a whole life, What the man demands of the woman the woman has a rignt to demand of the man. The husband 1s to love bis rile, the wife to submit to her husband. Appa- rently THE ADVANTAGE IS ON THE SIDE OF THE MAN, Apparently there is a Larshness in the difference of these two obligations, but I suppose, said Di. Newman, that the precept, ‘Wives, submit your- selves unto your husbands,” dees not imply a slav- ish servitude, a servile obedience to a lordly maa, a cringing before @ dictator, but rather a genie acqui- esceace, a respectiul deierence, a dignified regard paid to him who bears the image of God. “Submit Yeurselves unto your husbands as unte the Lord.” Here is ine limitation. The husband is Goa’s repre- sentative. Therefore the submission is to be unto one who is ike God, What one Would hesitate to render deference to one who 1s modelied after the Creator? It 1s not a question Of interiority or superiority, but rasher a question of authority, Authority 1s to be placed somewhere, It has pieased the Almighty to deposit it in man, But this does not unply inferiority. government We are ail equals bejore the law.. Our rulers are the depositaries of authority, but they are not necessarily our superiors. What emery they have 18 orilela!. ‘the speaker then conside the duty of the husband to the wife. ‘Husbands, love your wives.” It 18 MORE DIFFICULT TO LOVE than to submit. A gailey slave may submit to the will of the ruler anda child to a parent, a wife to her husband; but @ husband is to love his wife nolens volens. Love implies, first, @ delight in the person, and second, @ disposition to render that person happy. He must love his wife to the exclu- sion of a third party. The harder task 18 on the man. The sympathy of men and angels belongs to him rather than to the woman. Dr, Newman then showed how these duties could be jerformed With amiapility, with contentment, with devotion, Nowhere on this world should a man display the betier traits ef his character than at home. This reverses the order of society. Men save their best traits for the outside world, and some men save ail their spleen and their bitter discontent, and all their muserable disap- pointment to pour out upon the head of the devoted woman at their fireside. If you have but one good wait of character save it to be displayed at home, An old writer has said that we should always have TWO BEARS IN THE FAMILY. “Bear ye one another’s burdens and ferbear one an- other in love.” Keep those two bears in the house- hold and the family, indeed, will be a paradise. The next thing is cententment, The amenities of life require certain attentions. The civilities of so- ciety may cail us away irom home, but what dis- gusts him is that men will exchange refined demes- uc enjoyments for the miserable pleasures in which they participate in this world. Certainly THE DRAMA has its place. Itis not for me to fix it to-day, bat the exhibitions which attract the male portion of our community away from the felicities of the famuy are unworthy of manvood, unworthy of Christian manhood certaimy. There are young men ol my congregatien—I am sorry to say that I have not ex- erted a more powerful influence over then—wko have been tempted to pass into some places of amuse- ment where WOMAN BY HER NUDITY has disgraced hersel!. Perhaps it 1s not strange that man should go to see these poor creatures in their eeneauae pei bat ue ‘yore of my soul is how any American lady reared in a Christiap fauuly, under oor inteiigént. Lascatioha, GUE £0 %0 spend a night to ba! Luese women upon the stage ya therr terrible condition, Dr. Newman concluded lus sermon by presenting the great motives for a faithful discharge of these duties. The first, the my ve of childhood. The family 1s the school of chiidnood. fhen comes the relation of childhood tothe church, A third motive is the State, He ape peaied to them ina fervent exhortation to discharge these duties in all these respects. ‘A STABBING AFFRAY, A Man Cue in Six Places. About one o’clovk yesterday morning an altercas tion took place between Lawrence Murray, of No. 420 Fast Eleventh street, and Charles Byrne, who resides at No. 403 East Fourteenth street, in front of Murray’s house, which resulted in the former being seriously injured by a knife in the hands of Byrne. The two men have long been bit- ter enemies, and have, upon several occasions, engaged each other in a genuine knockdown, which usually wound up by both parties being “scooped” in by the police and iocked up. This time, how: ever, Byrno, it seems, determined to so fix his an- tagonist that he would not again be able to fight—at least for some time to come. “Having met by chance they soon quarreiied and then fought, Byrne drew from his clothes a huge Knife, with which he staboed Murray six times—four times about the bedy and twice on the head. Byrme was arrested by oficer Jonn Byne and taken to the Seventeenth precinct station house. The injured man was conveyed to Bellevue Hespital. me A VALUABLE Wir8.—ihe suspected Waterbury ‘bank robber has been bailed out of Montpeiter, Vt., jail, bis wife having deposited the amount of his {ouas ata Montpelier banks THE TAYLOR WILL CASE. Surrogate Hutchings Admits the Will to Probate—Important Decision. Below will be found @ synopsis of Surrogate Hutchings’ decision tn tho Taylor will case. The voluminous evidence taken at the trial is carefully, ably and exhaustively reviewed, and & perusal of the main points of the decision will give a thorough | understanding ef this most famous will controversy: In the Mater of the Provate of @ Paper Pro- pounded as the Last Wil and Testament of James hi, Taylor, deceased.—The Surregate—The paper which 18 propounded for probate us the last will and testa- ment of James B. Taylor, deceased, bears date the 30th day of June, 1870, and his death occcurred on the 22d day of August following. fe left sur- viving a widow, and a grandchild, his eniy descendant, a young lady of about nineteen years of age, Who ts the contestant in this case. It appears that Mr. and Mrs, Taylor had been married about forty years, and had lived in the most happy mart- tal relations, Jt also appears from the testimony of friends that he placed the utmest confidence in his wife's judgment even as to busimess transactions, and, a8 he stated to a friend, she had helped to make his undoubtedly large fortune, His grand- daughter Kate 13 the only issue of an only daughter, Georgianna, who married, when quite young, & Mr. Vassar. This granddaughter was early bereft of her parents, and she was brought up by Mr. and Mrs, Taylor as their child and was always known by the name of Kate Taylor, In the year 1866 she went with her mother to Europe, whero she per- fected her education at a school in Paris, Belore their return to this country, which was in the latter part of 1863, Mr. Taylor, who had hitherto lived at hotels, purchased a tine mansion in Madison avenue 1m this city, and furnished it toa iarge extent with selections ‘made by Mrs. Taylor and the grand- child while in Burope. ~ Soon after — taelr return, and in the ‘month of March, 1869, they removed te their new residence, Undoubtealy the primary motive Mr. Taylor had ta thus changing his manner of life was for the beneft and happiness of his granddaughter, who would soon be ready to enter suctety. There was nothing which he seemed unwilling to grant her, and, according to her own statement, she had unlimited credit at stores, and he never even chided her forany apparent extrava- gance, She was to him his idol and hope, joving her almost to adoration, and which he continued to do, even to the time of bis death, in spite of the UNEXPECTED AND CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE which she made. On the 13th of July, 1569, sho secretly left the house, and her whereabouts wero unknown until Mr. ‘Taylor recetved intelligence that she had arrived in New Bedford, where sne had gone with a Mr. Heury H. Mowland, of this vity, and, in the presence of his mother (who had pre- viously gone thither) and some trends, was mar- ried to him on the Lith day of July, 1869, She re- turned to this elty on the Lith, with nec husband, On the evening Of the 19th she called at ber grand- father’s house, {The circumstances attending the meeting ef Mrs. Howland with her grandiatuer, fully published in the HekaLD during the trial of the case, are still fresh in the memory of our readers and need not be repeated here. With regard to the disagreements betweem the Rowiands and the Taylors the Surrogate says:— It 18 unnecessary to review the character of of the disagreements. They were admitted in evidence under the allegation of the contestant that she intended to show undue Influence by Mra. Taylor on her busvand’s mind to lead him to make the paper In question, Since the counsel for te contestant finally announ upon the trial, his abandonment of all other gr 8 of oppesition than alleged forgery, 1 attach less importance to them, e<cept go iar as the result of the difterences abroad, belug the separation of others of the party from Mrs, Taylor, may have incensed her husband against the Howlands, They alterwards, how- ever, met together’ im Paris, on’ their return home, and came by the same steamer, arriving here the 22d of August, 1870. According to the testimeny of Mrs. Howlana, Sr., they heard at the wharf, upon their arrival, that Mr. Taylor was til at bis house; that she and Mrs. Taylor went up in a carriage to 13 Madison avenue, while the son and his wife went to the How- land residence, in Thirty-second street. When the former arrived in Madison avenue Mrs. Donnelly, the housekeeper, stated the physiclau would be in goon ,and he haa requested that no one should see Mr. Taylor until he, the doctor, came, a% it was the crisis of his disease, According to the testimony of Mrs. Howland, Sr., she first went into the roem of Mr. Taylor and was receguized by him, when le inquired Kindly about herself, Kate and her husband “Harry,”’ but was sl- lent concerning bis wile, and her name was not mentioned between them; and, further, that she performed ministrations te soothe and relieve him, and afterward urged Mrs. Taylor to enter the room, which, as it appears from the witness’ testimony, she did reluctantly; and she further says that Mrs. Taylor expressed her sorrow to her husband that he was so ill, but she 1s uncertain whether she embraced nim or not; and that, afterward, Kate came in the room, and that bis manner towards her was exccedingiy vender and aifectionate, and that he asked, “Where 4s Harry? 1 have not seen him yet,” and that Harry Was standing by the window, very much affected, and Kate spoke to him and said, “Here is Harry, father,” and Harry walked up to the bed and Mr. ‘aylor took his hand and said, ‘Harry, I am glad to see you; I didn’t see you before,” and that then he seeméd to close his eyes and doze off; and these remarks to Harry, according to Mrs. Howland’s testl- Under our form of | mony, were the jast words of Mr. Taylor. The test- mony, however, of the family physician, Dr. Quack- enboss, is very materially at variance with that of Mrs, Howland; for he testitied that Mrs. Taylor was the first person of the party who went Into the room of the decedent, aud that he took her up; that he was then partially conscious, but he recognized Mrs, Taylor certaiuly; Luat he spoke to his wile, but that her face was Close to his; that he heard dis- tinctly what she said to him, but he answered her indistinctly, He moreover states that when Mrs, Howland arrived in the room nothing occurred be- tween them; that neither he spoke to her nor she to him; that he neither spoke to mis granddaughter nor her husband; that he was not conscious, and was dying; Uhat the last distinct words that Mr, ‘Laylor spoke were to his wife, and that was about half-past taree in the afternoon; thas at two o'clock, or ten minutes before or past LWo in the afternoon, on arriving at the heuse and finding Mrs, Taylor and Mrs. Howiwnd, the elder and younger, in the parlor, wh they were awaiting uls return, he went up alone and told Mr. Taylor that the steamer had ar- rived with the family; that he was certain of the precise me because his attention was drawn to two o’clock as the time when Mr. ‘Taylor had a fearful hemorrhage, and when the doctor was asked in his examination what Mr. Taylor said on being teld of the arrival of the steamer he testified that Mr. Taylor expressed his desire to see his wife, and said, “Are they all well?’ to which witness answered, “Yes, they are all well; the stcamer has arrived,” and Mr. 'faylor then replied, “1 want to see the ‘Queen,’ ” which, to me, he was in the habit for years of calling his wife, and according to the doctor's testimony it was after the imcerview be- tween Mrs, Taylor and her husband that either of the others entered the sick chamber. This is substantially a correct epitome, as de- veloped by the testimony, of the relations ol the parties connected with the matter in controversy, down to the time of Mr. Taylor's decease; and the testumony of the great affection evinced towards the contestant by her grandfather is presented by her counsel, to show the improbability of, or to raise a presumption against, the genuineness of tne instru- ment offered as his will, which gives only $5,000 an- nually to the contestant during her life, and vests in the widow the bulk of his large estate absolutely; but this will be fully considered in the discussion of what I regard as the principal and, I may say, the only reai question before me—namely, the genuine- ness of the paper propounded for probate. THE OBJECTIONS. The objections filed by contestant to the instru- ment in question are to the iollowing eifect.— a That the instrument is not the last will of de- cedent. 2, That it was not subscribed or signed by him at the end thereof, or at ail. 8, That it was not signed by nim in the presence of each or either of the attesting witnesses. 4. That the subscription was not acknowledged to each or either of the attesting witnesses. 6 That he did not at the time declare the paper to be nis last wiil and testament. 6. That the witnesses did not sign their names at the request of thé decedent. 7. That the decedent was not at the time of sound mind or memory, or in any respect capabie of mak- ing a will. 8. That the instrument was obtained and the exe- cul thereof procured by deception. Surrogate then proceeds to review and com- ment upon the testimony of the principal witnesses for the proponents, the attesting witnesses to the will, to its discoyery by Mr. James M. Sweeny, special administrator of the estate, in a volume of Benton’s ‘‘rhirty Years in the United States Senate,” and of others, whose evidence was allin favor of the genuineness and authenticity of the will pre- sented for probate. Further on he says:— Considerable testimony was offered to show the affectionate relations existing between the decedent aud his granddaughter, the contestant; not only at or about the date of the paper propounded, but al- ways, even up to the ume of his death, These rela- tions of aifection have not been questioned by pro- ponents, and, being conceded on both sides, they are therefore important to be _ considered simply in respect of the improbability claimed, by the contestant, that ede cedent would or could make & will with a provision for her benefit, limited to $5,000 per aaunum during her life; and founding upon that the inference of undue influence and even of fraud or forgery. In no other aspect of tne case does it seem necessary to discuss the bearing of testimony showing the decedent’s devotion to his grand- daughter, But [defer further comment upon that branch of the case until] have presented the other testimony on the part of :he contestant, claimed by her counsel to support that view of her sjaterests in this controversy. THE CONTESTANT’S CASE. Counsel for contestants placed their strongest re- Nance upon the charge that the instrument in ques tion was not genuine, and was, in fact, a forgery, and as All other queations before me are subordinate to that Ideem it in order now to consider tho evidence upon the genuineness of the paper. In so doing I shall have occasion to comment not only upon the testimony of tho witnesses acquainted ‘with the decedent’s signature, but, first, of others Sworn as experts. not so acquainted with his band- - ‘Writing, a3 well those for as against the genuine ness. ‘The testimony of the subscribing witnesses, being unqualtiledly positive ag to having seon the aecer dent execute the paper in question, ‘and no evidenee Whatever having been adduced or offered on the trial by the contestant to timpeach the credit of elther of them, as of cS od general reputaiton among their acquaintances for truth and veracity and worthiness of belief under oath, and @ prima facie caso for admission of the IMairumen; to probate having been made out by propo- nents defore they first rested in their testimony, of course the burden of proof of non-genulnenesa belonged to the contestant. ‘Therefore, in order to Prevent admission to probate—the evidenee on the part of contestant (nove of whose witnesses testify to any visit at Mr, Taylor's oMce ou the day of the date ot the paper), must be found suiticlentiy prepon- deratiog over the evidence for the propeventa as, Virtually, to convict, not el.her alone, but beth of the subscribing witnesses, frat, of the crime oi being ac- tors in the commission of @ forgery, and, after tans fal and corrupt perjary. Does the evidence warrant that conclusion iu rd tO those witnesses? The Surrogate upon this the contestant’s theory of the case reviewed the testimony of tue witnesses, ‘The first in order was that of the experts as to handwritiag. ‘This the technieal portion of the evi- dence, for and against, he quoted from and cem- mented en at considerable length, With great clear- hess and impartiality, supporung his views thereon With estabilsiied and well authenticated ruil of the courts tu similar case He first reviewed the salient poinia in the testimony of the thirteen wit nesses, Who swore with more or less positivenesd that the signature to the will was not that of Mr, Taylor, and tien important polow in the testimony of a sinillar number (thirteen) of witnesses, who swore that the signature was genuine, 1h cloaln this portion of his review of the testimony as to havawriung the Surrogate sald that he noticed particulariy that the opinions of the thirteeu Witnesses agalust the geuu- lneness of the signature of the decedent was founded more ot less on @ previous examination of What purported to be photographs of the signature te the will and of other assumed signatures s@ pho- tograpbed tn different sizes, That, arte two of the witnesses to the non-genuineness of tue signature, and who were well acquainted with Mr. Taylors handwriung, had cuanged their opinion as to the character oi the signature tothe will, From this point the Surrogate proceeded to summarize and comment ony of the subscribing witnesses to yin so far aa that testimony was sustained, centradicted or weakened by other evi- dence. He quoted at considerable length on this point, ciostag with (he opinien that, upon all the evidence actverted to, If not overcome, I should be compelled to regard the admissability of the instra- ment tn question to probate as fully establusned.”” He then proceeded to note the claim of inconsist- ency advanced igainst the will, founded upon the well known affectionate atts and declarations of the deceased towards or in respect of Dis grand- Gangiter, and upon which “1 am asked to decide that the oven is hot genuine, and that the 6ub- scribing witnesses have comantted wiiful and cor- rupt perjury, besides belag accessory to the crime of fergery.”” It is obvious that evidence of that character must be overwhelming in order to impeach tie genuine- ness of an instrument, supported by such positive testimeny as [have before me, A somewhwi wider | Tange of inquiry was allowed to tie contestant in her proofs, in these respects, than now appears to have been necessary; but, ‘at tho time, I did not feel justified in confining counsel to such narrew or rigorous limitations as mignt exciude testl mouy bearing on the possibilty of the execution of @ will in 1867, like the un executed paper prepared by Mr. Marsh, and found in the desk of the decedent (and by him identified 4s the very paper that came trom bis office with the date of July 12, 1867, inserted, ready for execution); and which might this prove an excented, aud not merely conteniplated, testamentary purpose, more favorable in its terms to the contestant than the justrument now in question; but the evidence pre- senis no ground for believing that a will, like the paper drawn by Mr. Marsh in 1567, was ever executed, and hot having been done, it 18 to be regarded as only expressing @ purpose and dls- position he then entertained, but afterward hela in Buspensc, and, 1 must hold to have been, final abandoned; and it 13, therefore, now to be consid- ered like any other deciarations of the decedent! made three Years before the Gate of the propounde lnstrumeut, and lndicatiag more liberal views of the disposition of his Property toward his grand- daugbter, though as of litte controling weight in the scalo of evidenee compared with acts aad de- clarations three years later, after the event of his granddanghter’s marriage, and under the other clr- cumstances proved in this case. Notwithstanding a very considerable degree of lautude was allowed to the contestant lo ber proofs of the decedent’s declarations of intention to make @ diferent disposition of bis property in case of his death, but, it appears, never executed by will, em. bracing declarations aa long ago as 1867, and offered 4n connection with the paper so drawn by Mr. Marsh as tending to show that one like it had been consummated, 1 yet limited gd med me nrg in their offers of declarations of the decedent ax to his making er having made a will (in rebuttal of the allegation of forgery of the propounded paper) to declarations made by the dece- dent after the date of the paper now in question, that he had made a will, with any state- ments by him of any of its provisions corre- sponding With, so as to identify, the paper as the one referred to; not to be taken, however, as direct proof, but only as corroborative testimony of the cum. Taking the evidence, altogether, on the part of the contestant to show declarations of decedent that he had In fact execated @ will like that prepared by Mr. Marsh, it 18 80 silght and unsatisfactory that it seems hardly necessary te comment upon it in detail, That he did not wholly abandon the thought of it until after the child’s marriage may be true, as Mr. Van Vechten teatities that very shortly atter the marriage the decedent inquired his opinion whether that invelved (he necessity of a change in his will, the inquiry having reference to whether any property would vest in the husband ander it , and lie was told by him not; and one other witness, Mi. Cooper, testes to some con- versation with Mr. Taylor soon after the marriage, in Which he expressed nts Intention not to alter his Will, although he had, at'a prior iuterview with him, just after the marriage, said he should alter It 8o that the young man (the husband) would not ges any of his money; but Mr. Cooper aiso said that at netther of tho several inerviews with Mr. Taylor in which he referred to a will did he say distinctly that he had executed one. I deem 1t clear that, i speaking, betore the marriage, of any Will, as made to any of the witnesses who have tes- tifiea on that poiut (doubtless with the impression Irom what he said that one had been actually signed), the decedent referred only to the unexe- cuted paper prepared by Mr. Marsh and found in the drawer of the office desk, aud which Mr. Marsh shows was the very paper left with Mr. Taylor to pe executed, especialiy as none ef the wiinesses for the contestant speak of any declarations of tne kind made after a week or very short period sub~ sequent to the marriage; and if I needed any other support of my conclusion on that subject. itis that Mr. Marsh, who acted as nis private coun- sel in the preparation of the paper, and whose name Was mserled a8 an executor by the express direc. tons of the decedent, testifies that his relations as counsel, and his friendly and intimate relations with him, continued down to the period ot nis death; that he went to decedent's oMmce on Wednesday to see him on some important law business aud found that he was quite unwell and advised him to go home, and declined going on with the business be-, fore him, and that he died on the Monday after, and he saw bim every day until nedied. Now, a8 Mr. Marsh is silent as to any reference by Mr. Taylor on those occasions to the existence of the will he prepared, as an executed paper, lam left to infer that Mr. Taylor also said nothing to him about It, which was certainly remarkable under tne circumstances, if the instrument had been executed and were stlil in force; but ne:, perhaps, singular if another Will, not drawn by Mr.’ Marsh, Nad been im fact signed, omitting all the charities mentioned in the unéxecuted paper, consisting of those named by Mr. Marsh, under the authority of Mr. Taylor to in- sert any le deemed worthy of bequest, in case both Mrs. ‘Taylor and Kate died without issue. On the other hand, the case furnishes the follow- ing testimony of declarations of the decedent made after the Cok of the pro) wipe peacoat (June 80, 1870), and corroboratiyg of the tof the a ence and axecullon at Wack a pert ih ify Rae. Ment 4 class ot evidence not ouly admissibie, but of great importance upon the question of genutnent of the lactum, when such declarations are proven by iutimate and coniidential fiteads who ure clear and positive in their statements and conversations, and especiaily when it appears that they were made under such circumstances ag Lo show that the decla« tations were earnest and sincere, and could hardly have been must nderptaod. The Surrogate then briefly recapitulatea the con- versation the deceased had with severai of the wit- nesses that had been examined, with regard to the will he had made, providing an annuity for Kate’? and bequeathing the whoie of his preperty to his wife, Mrs. Taylor, the proponent in the case. From this point he reviewed the testimony for the contestants, commenting upon every favorable point and giving comparative weight to each in contrast with the rebutting testimony of the preponents. In closing up 4 most exlausuve and ably written opin- jon be say: THE WILL ADMITTED TO PROBATE. ‘The result of careiul examination of the testt- mony, and consideration of the arguments of tae respective counsel, 1s a8 follows:—I tind, 1, That the paper propounded for probate 1s the last will and testament of the decedent, 2. That it was sigued by him on the 30th day ef June, 1870, and witnessed, and, in all respects, exe- cated, Leyiey to the requirements of the statute, 3. That the decedent was, at that time, of sound ean disposing mind, memory and understanding; 4. That the decedent so executed the same as his Tree act; and that no fraud, deceit, undue infuence, coercion or circumvention Was practised upon him by any person or persons whomsoever Ia respect of the provisions, making or execution ef said will. It 1s, therefore, my decree that the said lustru- ment be admitted to probate as a will of real and personal estate. THE HOGAN WILL CASE. To THe EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— ‘The editorial under this heading in Saturday morte ing’s paper states that the will of 1865 “was drawn up by the lawyer of this daughter’s (meaning Mra. et’s) husband.” Although that will was drafted eget we never were Drv peuguer’s counsel, nor saw hun or Mrs. Peugnet in reference to that will until after Mrs. Hogan's death. Mrs. Hogan was acting with the advice and sympathy of Mr. Floyd, a client of ours and an old and valued friend of her deceased husband. It was ti hn Mr, Floyd that we were employed to draw the will, STHWAKT & LANS,