The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1871, Page 4

Taeseee, 4 RELIGIOUS. Sermons and Services Yesterday in ihe | Metropolis and Elsewhere. | The Festival of St. and Its Lessons. Joseph Some Plain and Prac‘feal Points in Praying and in Preaching, The Pulpit and the Stes ¢ Shonld Aid | the Other in the Instructing and Elevating of Mankind. | Some Slrong Sentences for Price: People to Ponder Over. Iv 4s almost needless to oserve (hat the beautiful spring weather of yesterday had a most inspiritivg effect; that it tended to make people generally bright and happy, aided in fling the churches, gaye inspiration to the preachers aud an even tempera- ment to their congregations, In almost all the elurehes the sermons were more than ordinarily Atuing, a3 may be seen from the following reporis, NEW EVGLAYD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Perpetuity of Christianity—Sermon by Rev. Merrill Richardson. Such a brightly beautiful day as yesterday, and so pleasantly in coutrast with the late days of sombre gioom and storms, coull not fail, of course, to at- tract, as it doubtless did elsewhere, a large congre- gation at the services yesterday morning at the New England chu adison avenue and Forty- seventh street. ‘This church {s alwa)s well filed, bac rarely so compact as yesterday, Afer the nsnal mere- ductory exere s€s of prayer, riptares and stinging, Rev. Mernll Richardson, the pastor, among other notices, announced that his church would be closed in the evening and that he should preach by invitation a sermon at the hall ef the Young Men’s Christian Assotiation. The subject of the morning’s sermon was “Perpetuity of Chris- Uanity,” and the text Acts v, 88, 39—“For if this counsel or this work be of meu It will come to nought: but i it be of God, ye cannot overthrow 1.7 He began by saying that Christianity was DORN IN THE DARK AGES, ind had always been the subject of persecntion. ‘Time nor age had never overthrown it, This was his dest point, upou which he enlarged avlengrh, Nis next point was that the civil authorittes aad en one of the strongest assallanis of Christianity. civil authorities did the utmost they could in In his opin- I puting them to nthor!- rh the early days to combat Christianity. ion the day of persecuting men a death lor opmion’s sake Was gone by. Civil a ties are not gomg to kill men on mint of their rehgion. Engiand spoken out ou this subject, and so has Austr aud Prossia and Maly apd other nations. Retigh be put down by persecution, There wi ecunions to more or iess € Alert, a8 in China, fc instance; but the times of the fagget and the and the Inqui- sthion and the crucifixion are p Having ela! at tength k up his second which Was that there will be no further at- n religion by the Distorieal student, In co! menetng ‘hos theme be @ very mteresting sume! ot the results of the Hobhical studies and the most iustriows scholars of tM and present cannot seed. this pomet oe was | cucible of | 1omitted to the se- | ie criticisws, 10 Was found that in the | sof fin and rei H The broader and ! | raced the | ciques of | | fintidelity | broadcast: over France and t Was enlarge ( | kpon With best eoydent te » and, showing the | JUbhity Of MIs Chuti> bo Uns wt VENUE. investigation An old Gieery sson Movday in ord, and 20 muct puturuay magi, found that ioere eo wing the so Ou ML it wa when the job was fink i were recommendations of cause and eect w be | my God uses [ils iaw lu Work given ends, God | tarsi is aa his forces to compass His end. In this | nec ow RE LOOK Up the subject of j M BACHE) which le urged Were oniy tle veueficent expres. | s power. Having next tn order caced | of Of Otter V jous aod Shown Inception and prosper, he | HIS Contrast Was the wose stir- | riny wquent part vf the discourse—these reli- | gions with the t Jor any DOUK Lo Live. religion, the relien of G dred Veurs was a long tins forengit twenty centuries THE BIBLE | had Hved. It had been irunslaied Into every tong: From tue cold of the Arcuie to the heat of the iru pies its truths have to the soul, From asic lung light and hile Jnie, POM land to land, | they are repeater. ‘The suu never sets upon will, enter In? ‘Those who rightly lear of Christ | CHK GLEAMING P. * Et. mast rightly love amd reveyence Him. Oh, the On the decs of the whale My it bin of the i abuse of the ame ol Christ that as merchant Vess:|, in Wie kOapsack of the soldter, as | been, that is! Friends of Christianity, well as in cot age and paiaer, the words of Christ are found. ‘They wre light to (ve blind and Joy to the discousolate. ‘bey bles’ the homes of Christendom at birth and at death. 1 give dignity and beauty te the humblest — ti othe dying they Hluminate the dark ley 4 rob death of abs rung. The are manna trom Heaven and springs oi living water for the soul that hungers and thirsts. They uring God hear as a Father and reveal His presence in the lily and the fwling sparrow, sn autiaote sorrow, | strength to weakuess and Joy to the despairing, it | has been proved as no system ever proved. The | religion of Christ had outlived aii the assanits made upon it. The assaults of governments, the assault OCIS, The assallits of Latidel scholars, (he assantls of seleuce and scepticism, And if Would go on tii umphing and trivmphant—so on u reat work vu! Ged and Christianity was accu PIVTH AVENUE PRESBYSERIAY CHURCH, | Davide’ Trensg ession aud Lia Fergiveness— | Sermen by Key. Dr. Samucl Roath. i ‘The Fifth avevue Presbyterian Charch was crowd- | ed a8 usual yesterday, but rather wore so than at ' other times, owing to the bean pring sky which | that Wis nas | May be a Oi NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. MARCH 20, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. mercy. Al) Iarael had known his guilt, now all Isract shall Know bia peniience., And in tie stn- cerity 0! 248 strloken heart he asks God to crevice th hima new heart and to renew within bum a right spait; 0 zescore unto him the yoy of hia salvanion and uphold hun with his tree spirit that he might foach transgressors the Ways of Uae Lord, He cunie buek again to God and waiked closely with him unto the day of his death, There are among us those Who jook upon & sense of sin Gud a sorrow for it us & WANT OF DEVELOPMENT IN MEN as the batter trout not yet ripcned. They p) pailosophy of moral gut against God's righteous- hess, but hey dowt shrink irom God's displeasure because Wey do not acknowledge Hig existence in the true sense, This philosophy 1s rife amons ns, deceiving souls and seektag to extinguish tamth: out there ts a sense of sin buried in the soul of humanity Which peither philosephy nor wfideiity cau ever des stroy. There isa witiul sepatauon of nature frou trath and @ consciousness of it winch cannot pe Shaken off, aud Uns phiosophy comes to confuse all these Who build upon it, ‘eraagression 8 the pre- vailing teudeney iu inan, and we ail know it, but not every one of us can say, “I acknowleage my trans gresston.” ‘The persoual signiticauce and bearing of thus awiul fact lay ve seen in David's eXpression, “any transgression, ¢ Doctor here related an incident of the tinpression made opon & Bible class Of convicis in One of ONT prisons years agi Which be was the teac ad this peal waa the lesson, as he presented the personal Aspect of sin gud salvauon te them, Railom, the Dinghamiton murdover was one or that class. There 2 sole things whieh we possess and inberit in Which, Whether They be present or assent, nol materiully aiect us. But here is someting Witch ruts juio onr péersonalitly—into our very being. OUK SINS ARE OUR OWN; they belong to us, su Ue and in eternity, Who can take ‘ventory of TMS possessigD and not be dy With David we mast ve ready to say. n uudersiand bis errorsy Cleanse tnou um oom seerel faulis.”” TO remember Our transgres. sions jueludes not any of those of whieh eur cor are airaid, DML also tigee unrecoguized 1 heart and imind; our pride and Vanity, broken resolutions, negi¢eted vows, abuse of Goa's thians, x#!., 28, and then satd:—In enumerating tho various giits appointed and established tor the per petuity and extension of the kingdem of Christ, and for tue perfecting of Its individual members, the Apostle mentions, among others, GOVERNMENT. A government is simply the method and rules by which the affairs of a household, a business con- | cern, a nation ora chureh are conducted, the end | and am being the welfare of the parties concerned. T shail limit the word to-day to the Christan Chure, | and still turth«r mostly to that branch of it called | the Presbytertan, And at the ontset I deem tt best | to present in as few words a3 possible a sketch of | the lustory of Presbyteriantsm. Lot it be distiacuy | understeod beforehand that I have no desire or ine | tention to caat reflections or abuse upon any other denomination. Presbyterians believe that THE REPRESENTATION SYSTEM | of Charch government has its germ in the Old 'Testa- | Mout, from the fact that the peopte of Israet had | wise and able men set over them, who were styled Elders, In cases of aleged erroneous Judgment ap- | peals could be carried up to the great S ynagegue at | Jerusalem. The early Chrisians, being bative Jews, | naturally adopted ihe system or representation in | the formation of thea ewarches, the idea of eide: and the Yartous oficers ruauing through all tel | Bistory, ‘the government of this country ts precisely sumi- lav; Various oficers are chosen’ to represent the | people and execute our laws. And it 1s said that | Thomas Jefferson took his idea of government from | Uus system of CHURCH PoLIry. uch @ thing 18 certainly possible, and has heen 48 a historical fact. “Reference was made to | the early disciples who were scattered aoroad hav- ing on One occasion submitted an Important ques- ton toa synod of apostes and elders at Jerusalem, whose decision they considered binding; thus indi- ihereies and love, wid despising Of fis Word and of | catmg the organized unity of the Cuurch, Passing His incarnate son, This and much more is the in- | fromthe New Testament to the unuispired history terpretation sit. But amid all, as ta David's | of Christianity, it is found that this system prevailed case, soluething Stands Out prominently. Bach one | fer more than ove hundred years aller the apostolic of us here to-duy th our transgression holds within | age, and was broken down finally by the clergy of own doom—that which inust coude.an | jarge towns claiming special prominence aud au- the | account comes to be made up, | thority. Atthe ume @f the Reformation in the and there is uo r asonable Excuse to oller, of us but has his nami Not one and our best inte dow snail mau, the sinner, bs diferent attitudes tha’ bear toward God end toward his tuih, the wilft! negicet of duty and )dndness aud hariuess of heart, the careless ease in which they sti and trifle With svch Imperiant in- Lerests as Lite Soul and lis future Were fercibiy e- and Mm application Of the lesson an earnest veal Was made tO the impenient lo acknowledge ir Wransgression. It 18 right and proper to do So, We require such acknowledgment here ng men when oifence has beev commute aer who truly loves 015 ocendti just with God? The and up in the problem, | j sixteenth century an | among the leaders im this great movement im fa- | vor of Presbyterian or representative orm of gov- { ernment, Wiuch was adopted by the reforued churches on tite Continent of Europe and m Scot | land, ‘The most thriliing part of our histery lies in the past three centuries—ihe struggles With ail mauuer of foes, hot civil and ecclesiastical, re- } quiring volumes ty record them and eloquent tongues to portray them, | Tue reverend speaker then referred to the perse- cntion and oi the Puritans and the shifting fortunes of yterianiam = throughout Great Britain, and then gave an ouiline of the present con- dition Of the Presbytertan Church mm the Untied | States. Frou the general summary of tue Presby- terian Charch, North, we find that there are upward opinion prevailed to lus bosom mnt wl has first ac of 4,500 churches and more than 4,200 ministers, Jedged his sin and expressed his penience. | ‘Tne whole number of communicants is 446,000, and Even so the Elernal Fatler is wrathfil ayainst | the Sabbath school members, 480,000. ‘The whole the sin, but vender toward the simmer a amount of money coniributed during the past year receive him, But the sin Kept ¢ Was $5,000,000, ‘This amount will undoubtedly be loved until if is acknowledged and uns sed during tie present year by the gum of out, “Father, i have sinned; i be meretfal UNO | $6,000,000 as a memorial offering to commemorate me, & sine: od duust require this of us or He THE UNION OF THE TWO BRANCHES, can never save us. We must tum t ‘is the | the Old and the New Schoo! He jaid particular promised g’ of Gospel and sec in Christ | stress upon the statement that God alone is Lord of the world unto Himself, and se com: reconciling pending iS iuve-to,Us as Lo give L118 Only begotten Son, that tirongh Him we migut have cterna deniption, ‘This is the jal thing to he con- sidered by us when we are seeking and longing fer ine way of peace. At the close of the se1 np in support of the miss ‘tion Was taken ST. LUKE'S MEPHODIST EP ScOPAL CHURCH. The Ways of Interpreting Scripture—Sermon by the Rev. O. 5. Harrower. The services at St. Luke's Methodist Epis. copal church, in West Yorty-(irst street, yeste day, were, os usual, at ied by @ large crowd well dressed aud dey worshippers, After the singing of (Wo hy mus tn p} of the holy name ot Jesus, in which ihe congregation jolnea with fine effect, the Rev. ©. S. Harrower aseended the pulpit. He took for us text Acts WW., 12—“Neither is there = saivatton om — any ote is none other nam under aug lien whereby we must he :—There are !wo ways of interpretin: of which f will remind one every word as Lie chosen word of seeds to find the history ord, and then ve God, expressing | the conscience, and that no relig.ons constitution | should be aided by the civil power mariner than may be necessary for protection and securily, and also upon the statement that the Holy Scriptures are the only rales of faith and conduc These, ne said, and other principles, are like the ribs ef a ship, without which the remainder of the structure could | not be built. The first jndicatory of the | Church is the Session or bench of te elders— men supposed to be wise and imauential, osen by the people to administer thetr adairs. The next higher body is the Presbytery, composed of ministers and one cider from the eliureh within a given district. The sbytery of New York com- prises ali the ministers and canrenes on Manhattan Island, The next higher body 18 the Synod, m np of the ministers and representative elders within | & wider territos The highest body of all 1s the General Assembly, composed of delegates froma the various Presbyteries througout the country, WhO-¢ special Work it 18 to enact measures for the good of | THE CHURCH AT LARGE. This is the last ‘Hen compared with others, more especially Con- | gregational, which leaves each separate church to | condact its own concerns, and recognizes no an- thority from others except snc as 18 advisory i its | character, Thuis latter system can recommend: the | lormer can enact aud decree. In conclusion the reverend gentleman aMrmed that the form of government Was, after all, only the house bnilt up around the individual Christians, ant that life and character are more essential than rnal structures, and however n | prefer our own imethods of procedui recognize as a brother a living Obris © fina hits, irrespective of the ecclesiastical body he wears, ihe nationality to which ho belougs or uke man destiny aceo he wears, the na uy 10d Men have reached Rapp age engage ri : o thought of m: | CHURCH OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE. the devil; only by sadopnon}] .. z bg m Y AEOPUON | Discourse on St. Jossph by Rev. Pater and couiescoudmg «grace a nid of God. | aikte: Another method is to regard the words of any Par | yectery ay being the feast of St Joseph, the so- teular writer or speaker reliable only so jar as they harmonize with ile other s of Soriptur This ts the method of interpre! ripture by Scrip ture, and cu i carving, If need be. speciat words and ) rons to Ai spirit of unr tantly. AS Christ interpret 29 I dee ne with the high ev jou. SO this second method interprets Me not oniy, but Veter and Paul, im prda noe Wilh Christ and Christ's spirit, THE MORAL NATURE OP MAN. Christ teaches only the supremacy of love to Him the Saviour, and 1 of trast aud patieuc This way of =ariti¢ logical surface—titer: meaning of 5 spirit, and to natare invi ably with th spoken or wrttt have seemed to the deeper Ch reserve the great is is the only Way to deal reason. of the Bible, by whomsoever nu. ‘There are tis true, who ulnk tie name son THE DOORS OF HEAVEN WERK OPENED: only a name, and itaunst simply be confessed pended upon. Is it not Jatel to startle such ppose when we read of men Who had done woudertul work out devils, and s and Le wnsw ord, Lord, open wate us, never hoew y “Nor those who sey Lord, Lord, but those who do my Father's let us never be guilty of u. Did} say apusey ve worse than abuse—tho making of the best wor that Ups can net offensive, 8 Symbolical of Ine famy, that it Was a virtne rather than a vice to hale mera, So, then, we may st} that if Christ is truly known He be loved; but af He he mot so known—if # be identified with imiquity, misgovernimen v NCIPLED DEGRADATION ot the peop! tine deprivation of Liberty, the crush- ing oT hope, the support of loud-mouthed viee and wrong dving—thea let not the good be re- nivel (love il, nor te righteous — to defend it Agaiu, the usme of Christ 1s th name of God ihe revelation of His will. In the Gospel we liave God's salvation torman, in the pame of Christ we have the symbeiof His holiness and wutu. Now, when there 8 @ soul which loves God, loves God's wil, there ie a soul which, comiug into contact with Christ, will love Him supremely. It | may be a Jew, that in proportion as he loves and honors God hates what he thinks ts the mock Mes- stat; it may be w bely theist of Judea, who regards Ohrist as a usurper of the throne of the Indulie; & helic, who dreads Christ, but LOVES MARY AND THE SAINTS? itmay be ® Gatvinist, who has been thrown off irom Christianity by horriole decrees; it may be a cynic, that thinks the Gospel a myth, a legend, a spread ity mantle o'er our city, ond warmea the hearts and cheered the Sof Christian wor- shippers, The pastor of . gohn Hall, being condned to bis hous by an attack pneu- mona, bis pulpit Was occur ied yesterday by Rev. Dr, Booth, who preached on Wwe theme of Day transgressions, us acknowledgment thereot, repent ance and forgiveness, a contained in hls remarks bie ponttential Psalm LI. ne numedtate text of discourse Was the third verse, “1 acknowledge transgressions, and my sin is ever belore me David's case, he sad, it was high time he made such an acknowledgment. His trunsgressions had come A SCANDAL IN ISH He had Aishowored and murdered oye valiant soldiers, Uriah; Lad taken us w nelf and forsaken and rebe the midst ef this spiritual torpor iia os buke w bim from Ged through Natoan, ine prop! Nathan related a parable about a poor man in a ¢ possessing one ewe lamo, which he bad and ¢berished as of bis calidrea, aud yan who had flocks and he ubundauce when he wan‘ed te entertain tils Inends, 1 of pees of his own fluck, he took tae poor man ewe lamb and slew it. David's sense of justice re turned to bim powerfelly for the moment, and in nis anger he exciaun he man Who hain done thing shail surely die.” Te could not appre pend the broad bint which bad been given, ay words of the propbet—-"Thou art tae mau’’—fel like @ sword upon his soul The death of his cn begotten Of Bathsheba and the de honse, was the measure of veny would have taken on him Jor (is sin. LHe Jus lace and wept, saying, 1 HAVE SINNED ! 1 HAVE SINNED { And from *h's time forti until tue death of his chia Ne reBiawed in sorrow aud anguish, and im that spurttuat state in which he wrote this dtty-first Poa, confesslbg Lis sin, aud iv ie penibence of lis boeart crying unw the Lord for forgiveness aud 3 most ty tut (God. But in 1, iruction Of his h God | eu on | trom Bast and W fiction; bub whoever tt be who honors the truth of God, desires to know and keep it, loves viriu purity and love, sacrifices home and fmends for his though it be even to throw away bis which hy and by, seemg and knowing, charmed by him—nay, new in tie soul he loves our Curlst—not an impostor, net a myth, bui the Christ of the Spirit and ute Life, the Christ of our souls, Christ of God, ne loves. Le TURE KEYED TO 8 is silent with all oti but when une piteh is sounded itresponds. ‘fle filings ave still with te dust (il the current passes; the Waters are qutet till the mivon rises; the ais emuve vil the sun and dew bu the diamond is dark Ul the entter 2 heatuen was in his solitude thi the issionary brougnt hioi inte the church: the Karen woluat Was a slave Uil Judson showed ler a God of love temper. ‘J was warned agalust @ man be 16 Was a trouble maker and an uavelte E o know tum, te Was only Jol Said Dr. Nott: eusts; but {found » will come up North and South, to.sit down with Abraliam., those who hated Hua for Hts tmpos- ture and idolatry aud blasphemy and kingly amb. jon, but knowtng not what they did, will come and cust their CTOWNS ft his feet. TWENTY-THERD STR: TERAN ¢Hined, will be istic uded the Me n five-tipped WEST nf PRES jan Syciem of Chare se by the Rev, The Lest yce ment=Dis ou Nosthrops. dhe pleasantness of the day iaduced an anusoally large number to atteng church servic yesterday, and, a3 @ consequence. ie Twenty-inird street Presbyterian church was crowded with a fachionahie but devout congregation. The pastor, Rev. H. Dp. Northrops, delivered the discourse in the morning, vaking as his subject the Presbyterian system of cuurch government. lie read from First Qorin- Govern tstian | cis und laws of | { Christ was e kmd | du Mis name casting: { th; if in him is the spirit and prigcip.e | a Be. ; emnity of the ceremonies and the decoration of the | sanetuary at this church were carried to an unusual degree of magnificence. St. Joseph's altar was taste- | fully illumined and ornamented with flowers emble- | matic of tus virtues. Gilded banners floated on etter side of the high altar, on which were in- seribea the words, “#7otector in terris; intercessor ie Coli” At the appointed hour the acolytes, robed In purple soutanes and rich satin surplices, | tiled from the vestry, and were followed by the | fautist Fathers, who always assist at last raass in | the si ry. Soleiam high mass was celebrated | by Pe Spencer, at the close of which the fe Dewan was chanted in thanksgiving for the decla- ration that St. Joseph is patreu of the universs Conreh, ‘The sermon was preached by Father Lake, the ospel of the day furnishing an ample text—Matthew | be 1-21. You have been long expecting tuis festival, | he observed, on Which We honor St. Joseph as pa- ‘| tron of the universal Church, What does this title | signify? Not thas he is claimed by a particular country, a8 St. Patrick is by Ireland, as Bonaventure ' by Germany, or Augustine by England; not by partionlar commaunity, like Ignattas and Dominick; not that he is the patron of youth alone, tut that his | patronage exiends throughout the entire ‘The | Chured has dectired that no one except the Biessed Virgin HAS SO GREAT POWLE WITTE GOD, An It is In reality true that, except her, he alone | 14, above all creatures, more holy than the bishops | aud martyrs who nave gone before ux. On this ace j count it 1s meet that we should consider his char- eter, which bas placed him aveve the other saints, Entering Into the spirit of the Church we find that | Whatever claim :s made for St. Joseph finds tounda- ' tion in the Scriptures. And we may rest assured that whatever im ihe Cl h makes for him is } Supstantiated by tee ti God Himself, Aud let me s#y ai once, he observed, that at first | Sight there is nothing in particniar waich challenges our admiration in St. Joseph. He wrought no | miractes, converted none of ms countrymen. Bul | what does this prove? ‘That he was iess than the | Apostles, who converted their niutitudes and he- cate heroic martyrs? No, [: proves that nis mis. sion was a secret ome, and } HF FOUND HONOR WITH GoD, } Some men flash on the world ike a su | Their giort Ne ab Sa. their sufferings and the splendor of | thelr virtues lamp them us masterpieces of God's workmanship. Not so, however, with oll the seints, ‘There are some Whose sanctity and heroic virtues are concealed as nuggets ana precious stones are | hidden by Me smooth current of a peaceful river, How mauy Protestants have rewd the life of St. | Joseph and never thought nim Nolier than the rest studied of men’ How many Catholies, even, hay | ins earthly career nid failed to perceive U j is exalted above the saints of I ! that seven hundred years und elap votion to him commenced, And it fs only to-day that the Church has, with her loving hands, piaced on | his head that crown whictt ' SHALL NEVE? BE TAKSN AWAY | so longas the Church shall exist. There are some | pleturcs with which we are pleased at firsi, bus afterwards their excellence scems to vanish fron ‘ oor view. There are others, on the contrary, whos | beauties seem to grow with each su 1V6 glance. | So st is im the supernatural world. While there be | some saints who have labored prilliantiv and well , for the crown which they now enjoy, in the | case of Joseph the Charch has found his sancitty } more beautiful thau was at first supposed. His tirst work was to conceal miraculous eorception of the Bleszed Virgin Mary; “for he was iminded to | pot her away privately.’ At the angel's command | he was obedient. He hesitated not to take Mary to Wite, and thus he silelded Ler from unjust susp elon, BR WAS THE CLOISTER built around the innocence of Mary, He alone, 100, | shared the secrets which she Knew. Other saints | have carried the narae of Jesus to the remotest { corners of the earth. St. Joseph did the rever: Hits uission was not toreveal Ctirist, but to conceal Him, and ius glory in heaven isin proportion to what | his obscurity was ou earto. He look part im all the | secret labors of our Lord's life; he worstupped our | Lord before the sheptierds; be was there when the | kings came to adore the Redeemer, and by saying | Jesus from the hands of Herod he became the saviour of lua own Saviour. Helearried the child inte Egypt where he ied « life harder than that of any ether exile, He is prompt, too, in bringing back Jesus at | the pidding of the angel, Obedience was oue of his crowning Virtues. OF ST, JOSEPU'S DEATH we know comparatively litte; bat tradition tells us that he died about the time of our Lord's bap- usm. So long as Joseph lived the Son of Man could not say that “ie had not where to lay Hid head,” for Joseph always found ® howe for Hiw. vurt of appeal and its decisions | are final, This system of church government he | It, would seem even that Jozeph of old was the type of Chilsvs foster-iather, and Pharoah’s words m: well apply to the spouse of the Blessea Virgin:—**Al the peopie tn the land shall obey thee, aud only in my Kingly throne shall | be thy superior.” We can not quesifon God's right to make some saints supe- nor to others. We know to what a degree He has exalted Joseph, Let us not be slow, then, m fying to Hin for protection, He 1s the patron of a happy death, tor He aione died Inthe arms of Josus and Mary. To the rich and the poor, to the aged and the Youarg, to those living in celibacy aud widowhood, To all We may use the words of the Soripture, GO TO JOSKPH, Let us pray to tim for the Chureh of the mines teenth century, since we are the first to honor him with anew title, Let us pray to hue for the Holy Father in Rome, for the bishops of the Church and for the cloistered nun. Let us finally offer up for the entire Chureh that beautiful prayer, “Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I give you my heart and soul; Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony; Jesus. Mary, Joseph, let imy soul depart in peace in your holy company.” CHURCH OF THE MLSs, Legitimate and Megiiimate Amusem Advice to Ministers aud Others Whe Decry TheatricaleDiscourse ot, the Rev, Mr. Hepworth. The pastor of this elegant (nureh of the Mes siah has acquired such a popularity ou account of his eradite and eloquent yet terse and practical style of speaking that Bis congregation 1s at all umes large and his hearers from among the best families of the metropolis, The beautiful weather of yesterday and last evening may have helped to induce mem- bers to attend at this church who might not other- wise have gone, and those who attended the eventing service must lave gone away feeling better and happier from the words of wisdom, of homely plil- losophy, great good nature and common sense with which they had been regaled, Mr. Hepworth’s text was taken from Proverbs Xvil, 22—"A merry heart doeth good like a medl- cine.” He said the necessity of merriment as an important element in Iife ts recognized by all reh- gions. The Hebrew people, though on the whole & serious and sober, if not a sombre people, nad their seasons devoted to feasting and amusement. Their religion seems to have been enjoyabte, and their en- joyments seem to have been religious, When they went from all parts of the country to Jernsalem, as they did several times a year, they devoted w part of te time to the religious ceremonies of the Temple and a part to those amusements which atways attend great gatherings; and after the return of the Prodt- gal Son, as described by Christ, we flud tte whole company given over to AN OLD-FASHIONED MERRYMAKING. Lwish to-night to look ab the general subject of popular amusements. So far as i can I will lay aside all iny ecclesiastical notions on the subject and Jook the problem squarely in the face. ‘The great trouble with most of us ministers is that we form our jndgment concerning theatres {rom hearsay only, We seidom go to any piace of public amuse- ment and have lingermg about us a feeling thata good, round, hearty laugh is not exactly compatible with our mission. My impression is that the clergy of New York would talk more effectively on this subject if they knew more about tt practicaily, The ministry may hope to create a pubic opinion which shall eliminate from the amusements of toe peopic most of their objectionabie featares, and (iere ts no denying that objectionable features exist, but we shall never be able to bolt tue doors of the theatre or the gon. cert hall, and 4 thauk God that we have no such powey. My principle CONTROL, BUY NOY ABOLISH. The tendency to enjoyment 1s a very Hmportant part of a man’s mature. ft cannot aud ought not to be suppre young, aad keeps the cobwebs of ling of i Laugh as jong a3 you can andenjoy as much as you can. It is a religious duty. See the pratuing child. Hear him seream with glee, Watch him as he plays with hus bail, his top, er climbs on your back tO pinch your choeks er pull your hair. Ought he to be checked and made solemn and sad od forbid. Weil, a fl grown man ts only alarge child, and needs to laugh as well asecry. The old philosoplier put the gist of the whole master inte axingie sen- ence When be said, ‘Tne man who iS not a fool nal of the ‘time is a fool all of the ume.” Now, -this love of merrimens ts not to bo suppressed. ‘The gravest have seasons whea they deiigni to be gay, and the gayest nat when they are grave. It pleases me aud get all, itisasad thing to note me strategies grown people use in order nol to be deprived of their en- joyment. I have seen ther, a motuer and several middie-aged famuy relations ail yo to the circus ef @ Satuiday aliernoon simply to protect one litte boy of six or eight years of age. Not that cared for trivial things themselves. but then 1c the cidld was properly cure ei. turday mormmng, at home, the ‘se could do this very @astly, but at the circus it required the ofices of the entire family. Way not say that youenjoy it aud done with i? If it is wrong, lever go again; 11 it is right, WHENEVER YOU PLEA times cere ‘They are not exactly i uhappy people, but they get as little enjoyment out of lke as possible, What We need is more national holdays, With less intoxication attending them, ‘The English, the Germaus, the Hebrews, the Spanish, have their seasons i which bustuess ‘coases for a while; but the American works ali the week aud thea gram- bles because he cannot open his shop on Sunday And gow foriorn and old «od worn le gets to vo! when he saouldt be in the very prime of itfet 18 Vf WRONG TO GO VO TUE THEATRE 1 answer, under ordinary curcuimstan Theatres are built for the vurpose of making m0) ‘They mnust cater to the tastes of their audiences, If only a low class of peopie frequent Uieta you will find sensational plays, iow allustonx aud @ great | ee Many objectionable: — -« If, on the other hand, a correct and high-toned public opinion takes hold of the matter the character of theatres will be found fo be as sensitive as mercury ts to h and cold. I appeal to the religions sense of the mu- nity. You say — upon it as a matter of cer- tainty that your boys wil go to these places of amusement. Now, then, will you make tne: What they ougut to be, or will you simpiy STAND ON THE OUTSIDE AND SCOL. There is the whole question in snutshell. If I had voys J would infinitely rather have innocent games of cards and billiards, yes, and dancing too, in my own fiouse, Where I could’ Le the compamon and guide of my children, than to turn a cot shoulder to all these things, and compel them to find their recreation ont of my sight and beyond my influence. | think the solid religioux people are waking up to tbis fact. Our religion must reeog- nize the legitimacy of a laugh. Let us be serious and sover, for life isa solemn thing, bat let us not forget that even ip heaven there is rejoicing. We may be very happy and not be trreligions, and we may be very solemn and yet not @ bit religions, Mapptiness and true religion go hand in hand, pices ST. PETER'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. God Almighty—Stedge-Hammer Serato: Father Nugent, of Cork. Yesterday betng the feast of St. Joseph, solemn high mass was celebrated at St. Peter's church, Barclay street, the celebrant heing te Rev. M. J. O'Farrell, assisted by Father Allen and Father M. ©, O'Farrell, An eloquent sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Nagent, of Liverpool, Engtand, who 13 on, a visit to this country. He took his text from the oMce of the day—‘Behold the faithint and proven servants whom the Lord had placed over His household Fatner Nugent aaid:—For (wo days, my beloved brethren, ‘this city, with its restless power of human life and energy, celebrated 4 great festival, The streets were thronged; every window and yoy was crowded with spectators, and tilat procession vartousiy estimated from thirty to ifty thousand strong, Which wended tis way through tha vast muititude of lookers-on was the cxpression of an exiled race's veneration and loye of the saint who blessed aod ennobled the land of their birth. It wus a religions 43 Well 48 a national festival, for as every section Piesed onwara the picture of St. Patrick was grouped either with heroes of ike Old Green Isle or the genius and energy of this young country. The | silent, but eloquent waching inserived upon those banners proclaimed that while you cherished an UNDYING LOVE POR FAITH AND VATHRRLAND, Sill you would prove by your sobitety, tudustcy, integrity and brotherly love that in every social dut y you were one with this great American people. ‘To-day you are cailea upon to celebrate anotner festival. not with gorgeous array or with cymbal and trampel, but with honor and veneration before the altar of God. From the rismg to tie setting of the sun, ja the crowded city and lowly hatlet, wherever there i$ an wltar erected to Jesus Onrist, the re on this day the name of St. Joseph is being specialiy bonored, not ly race or natiov, put by nation in every chime After contrasting the simplicity ana tnmblenéss of St. soseph with the “flashing and arufi cial Ways of mankind now-a-days," he one 8 I may be mistaken, but I believe modern ely knOWS nothing about St. Joseph. Those who read the Bible think of him oniy as a Sorpturat character, and our religtous readers in Uhls country, with their new-fangled ideas of Christianity, despise that humility and suaplictly whitch mnade the Eternal Father choose bim to watch over the Eternal Son, The spirté of this country and tie spirit of the age is ugainst God. ‘Thererefore, it cannot understand, much less fathom, His ways. ‘Tue mesos which He piooses—the weak and te lowly—are tag Very last | tarily to my eyes. ! girl who whines that man would choose to accomplish any work Where orilliancy of action was required, ENERGY AND DASH OVERRLDE PRINCIPLE nowad: id steady iberseverenee: yot, these are essential to permanent or real success. ‘The Gospel of Jesus Christ is too simple and too restricted for modern action and modern enterprise, and therefore it writes upon iis banner, usa provest against God and agaist His Gospel, that no good can come out of Nazareth, Yet we are taught from our earliest infancy-—yea, I may bave been ibe very first lesson that we learned at the altar Of i mother's knee—that the cottage of Nazareth, with the divine infant Jesus as the forture, Was the school ef heavenly wisuom; and the practice Of those sublime lessons is, | believe, the vation for modern society. Whatever, then, duties, fulfil them with) humility apd sim Be not influenced by the Unsoand prinel- ne law of God must be the standard, and the only standard, which is to regulate your acts. Do nos, therefore, engage in any unlawful occupation, a0 matter how bright or how promising may be the rewards or offers. ‘There are few men that have such opport ities of judging of the etfects of dishonesty as L nav from the position f hold, Yeu may by some chanee or piicliy. ples which Lory! regulate the acts of men, iT DISHONEST FORTUNE build yourselves up a bome and amass wealth, but you may rest assured that more quickly that you Accumulated that fortune that had its foundation upon dishonesty, will your ehildren—aye, if not mn the first, the second, or even the third generation— the time will come when your children Will yet meit it more quickly than the suow would melt ander the waria and genial sun of the spriag, Ib is hard, 1 know, tn the struggle of Mie; It ts dificuit, with tke unsound principies whiel regulate trade aud bust 88 1h this age of ours, fora man to acquire compe- by honcst means; but one cent gained m hon- esty will have God's pleasing smile upon rt, while the wages of dishonesty are burniumg your dugers wnd causing imtsery and Wretchedness, “Don’t, then, Trepeat, engage in any untawiol pursnit, Ibis J as bad to be a gambler as itis (o be ative, In your business, no matter what the usages of trade may be, give [air Weight and taeasure; don’t pass off one article for auoiuer. ‘Tell the truth. If goes the farthest, And if you are & workingman give AN HONEST DAY'S LABOR FOR A PAUL D: Be upon vour guard and do not jet quici seusiliveness lead you to become mouthpieces o. discontent, Do not let yourseives be warped Into imaginary wrongs, and thus deprive your ehiliren of bread, by men, designing men, whe are too idle to work ‘themselves and profess to be the rotectors of ussociaied Jabor, Kemember that it Is the law, the law of our condition that m the sweat of our brow we have to eat our oread, Therefore let me ask of you to enter the cottage of Nazaret aud there you will see your model and fellow | laborer, not merely Joseph, but Jesus Christ Hitn- seif. Seek to reproduce in your life the same spirit of industry, contentment and love; study the pic- ture of the Holy fanuly again and again; 1t will give you a higner idea of the sacred character aod re- Sponsibility of faintly life, ana it Wil teach you not Lo Work tur the empty and changeable opiuion of man. Ana you, my beloved brethren who have come from a chaste as well a8 a noble generation, much a8 expecterl froin you, Chastity is the frute of the suffering, and the cross tuat it has sharpened hast entered some of your bones. Yes, the cross was the companion of your childhood, und tt is the cross that has made our women, the daughters of Kru, acknowledged by the world to be pore and chaste— | acknowledged to be models of virtue and chastity. | But you young men, who possibly may Know but little of what your forefathers underwent and whom now in your ignorance you perhaps despise, a8 well a3 the land oi your birth—you should remember that THE HIGHEST PRIVIL is more than fortune; it is more than success; 1 ismore than crowned prosperiiy, and that 1s the priviloge that you are Catholics, and next to beng Catholics that you are trish Catholics. Your work ts noble glorious, You are THE SALT THAT IS TO PRESERVE SOCIETY, especially in this greai city; preserve ib [rom that Intidelity Which statks aproad. You im tue Waiks of lfe—whether you are bustling alomz the stirecis, whether you are standing at the desk li one of those great stores, or in tie Jaw cuambers—let your Words be pure, ines from obscenity; and you of The vA YOU HAV een 2 patron of purity, of simpicity and huntiy. Do not be Fried away: do aot be foolish; de noe be blinded with vanity, by excess of dress aud outward show. An overdressed gir! wanis po one to tell her character; it is already writien SHE RAS HER and every one in the city can te has at least w Weak head and a very une ‘fry and cultivate the holy virtue of purty. Be modest im your dress; be modest m Your odlward manner and carriage in the streets, Ob, the divine infuence—the omnipotent influence, twas going to say—of a good Christian Woman can preact more foreibly than the voice of the most elognent preacser. Your pasior has alluded to me as the protector of the destitnte and tie Lawless. Wathute the last few days while U fave been in your elly, and seeing the crows those newspaper oi those faces without seemg unmista of the bleod that Hows tm their vela Jook’upon some of those poor creatu six and up to fifteen years of age—withont feeling & Sadness @t my licarl, snd tears caine invoitin- 1 thought in crossing the ocean T had come to a land where Irishmen Were free where they had cast aside the shackles oF lajust and misrule which had chained them se when I looked at those children in () x victims of ignorwuce, the vietims of vice and ty Vietiins of drunkenness, ob, What sud aud bitte thoughts came to my mand ! ware You 1 could net ieok into ble evidences {could not ENOMGH enongh hewe drawers of Water? Ajas, you have! jut emis Whe send their children tu tne str up afew coppers by sthing newspapers aud the like ave casting them into a degradation more vile @nd lowly than that slavery Which once cursed this: comitry, Lusk you, then, a8 Cathoites, task you as Irishmen, to set your feces and raise your voice against any children being DRIVEN INTO THY STREETS TO GAIN A PEW PENN! Believe me it wii net be long before the boy or the at your eibow Lo = papers—it will Not be many years—I see it datly— my Own experience telis ite—before Urat girl Will be degraded into a prostitute and titat boy into oh ar theologians. When ute Supre | what not, all repeat the Aposties’ creed. | | i | } rowdy ora felon, He conclided by urging apou the different sociclies—religions, temperance and Hibernian—to mbine und = prevent Catholic parents from sending their chiidren on vie streets fo eara a few cents in the way descriped. LAWRENCE)S ROMAN CATHOLIC (BIRCH, Hear the Church!-—Which Is The Living Ged? History o form—Sermou by Order of Jes: ‘The not over large Cathole cluireh on Bighty- fourth street Was crammed yesterday evening with an earnest audience to hear iis second sermon to the members of other religicus denominations, A great number of Proiestants were present and pant Marked attention to the learned Jesnit's remarks. He sald:— ie Church of Moderna Re- Wather Dameu, of the MY “SEPARATED BRETHREN (it is with a pang of regret that 1 so address you) in my last sermon I vindicated the supreme author- ity of the Church which Jesus instituted while yet upon this earth, His words were, “Hear the Chureh.* The question 1 take up to-night ts, what church did Jesus mean? what church tm which we must believe ag in the Saviour himsell? There are now, besides the Catholic Chureb, three hundred and fifty-two Protestant denominations, and every year adds to them. Which of ail these is the Church established oy Him when Te was on this earth, for we wust remember that He established ono Oburch after He left, It is 1808 years since Our Lord ascended into heaven, and, therefore, every church established stuce is not His. NO CHURCT. BUL ONE Which has existed this lengty of time is His, The Catholic alone is thé one which fulfils this condition of continuity, All history proves it, whether Jewish, Pagan or = Protestan Ail the nationa of the earth acknowledge it. if one of my separated brethren goes to a Protesiant minister and asks which caurch is tne first, me will answer, “The Ohristian Cuarea.” Push nin to & aefinite point and he cannot deny that ours ts the primal one. Did not the aposties im their creed say, “I belleve in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Cathoiic Church ‘They did not gay the holy English, the holy Presby- terian, holy Methodist or THR HOLY JUMPERS’ CHOROM, Bot all Protestants, Lutheran or gy Ask @ Methodist do you believe 1m the Catholic Church? Ho will say, Ne o with others, Almighty, then, by say- ing one thing and believing another, Ask iim further: why do you not believe in the Catholte Church? Because she became cor- rapt and erred, so that it was necessary to reform her, Then, I say, If she has fall 1am a Methodisi; and He cheats the n tate el ‘ ms {9 AN IMPOSTOR and Christtanity a cheat. ‘Then would I say to Jesus, Strike me dead apon the altar, consi to ashes, that f, a priest, Iuay Mot preach w cheat, an imposture and a brethien, Jesus has said upon 4 rock and the gates of jreli would nov prevail gainst it, and that He would remain with it vugn iii time, even to the consummation of the 1. Uf He has remamed with her all da A nok failen into error, for He could not re lola With an erring Clavel. TH lie las wot kept His word He sust bo an Unpestor and not God. Nox she is the same now When she leit the t her (vamer eighicen hundred years ago. You demur to iutallibiliy, and sty that it is a new doctrine, i ts only it decision npon a polnt iong upheid by the soundest Court of the Untied ‘or, that jie, On, that He built the Churea Slates, from which there is no appeal, dectdes a cou | SULUOMat polnt it is NOT A NEW LAW. The frst “reformer? came im the person of Martin Luther as late #3} and hence the church he founded 1s that of a ™ ‘The learned Father then gave the history of ali the principal modern reformers wid fustitucors of religion which followed, and concladed a sermon ol remarkable power vy declarivg thas though he ee gr nn enn — eave SeX, remember thal Sis Joseph fas always | . | Tian scheme Was an iuspiration, a boys ana gris about | ~irom five, | of wood antl | to pick | you those | separated | is Of | aes gaaisranet BROOKLYN CHURCHES. tification and Sale vation, Sanctity, Sa Mr, Beecher Puffing Paul—Old Things in New Ciothes—Dr. Duryea Does Not Treat His Hearers to the Wine Question~ Chars acteristic Discourses by Beecher, Dr. Porter, {Dr. Duryea, Father McSherry and Dr. Hiscox PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Vora Versas Liie=Mer. Beecher Cracks a Few Nuts—St. Paul a Gentleman The nsual large congregation Listened at Plymouth church yesterday to @ rather unusual sermon, Mr. Beeever being inspired to more than ordinary Zeal against everything that fetters tae free conscience. Having fearlessly given his testimony in the old times against tue slavery of the body, he 18 now most emphatically donouncing the slavery of the soul, and in yesterday morning’s sermon brought to bear his powers of reasontug, ilustrauion and wit ry effectively Ubon the tottering structure ef “ore | dinances.” It being babies’ day and a pleasant Sua- dlay, SLX infants were christened, after which a most touching prayer was offered for the litle ones be fore Whom Ite so many Weary steps; who must en- dure suffering that no love can avert; who’ will sin and repent and sin again, and who ¢an ony be rough the loving help of God, A eoilection for the sewing society of the church, wing school for poor women and children was recommended to tie notice of the congregation, and thon Mr. Beecher took up Jus Bible as if glad te get rid of prevnrinaries and get at his subject. The count found in Acts Xxi. of Paul's submutting to purttication ti the temple, at the request of the “brethren,” and for the sake of influence with the Jews. wax made the bas of the sermon, Mr. | Beecher saying by Way of comment as he rewd the passage, Hut St. Paul was evidently SHED GENTLEMAN, as it is ri uuied the ‘people before commencing ences with the Gentiles. “This Sune of the most extraor- dinary in the New ament, Tn the frst place at 1s struge lar caul should fall wuder susptcton. shows that when a nian aay nation Wits to a sentiment ite is Table to be cousid. OLD THINGS IN NEW ©! They like to hear the Apostles preach What they Themselves always believed, Bub jist in proportion: asa preacher goes trout Ieat to blossom, or fromm blossom to cuister, jie is Hable to be charged wiitt niomng the imi When they at Jerusalem heard that did not “care for suerufee they said, “Toere is no telling where this Paulwitend.” ‘Lhe question should be this, Do ihe new docirmes tend to Jaosen moral obligations; do they ind to encourage the onder tan’ or the higher iaany Secondiy, tits scene reveals the fact | that some thirty years alter He death of Christ the | Coristians ef Jerasaiera were tn OL COMMUNION WITH THA JEWS inthe Temple, We have the most explicit, proof of T tats. Where, then, is the proof of the claim that Corist es “i oul a new policy’ Here was the Mother Church offering up “sacrifices in tue oid temple and making the Ciel Apostle go througa with Jewish emont We have | heen told ip thousands of books that “Christ gave auexact pattern of # clhuren, If Me did, wonld they have forgotten it se quick? Tho fact 18 that you can’t find in tie teachings of Christ anytneng pout the external forms of a church. The Chris- vine aflatus, by Which, with emendons jotkence, men were to be carried up toa divine life. From the time of Christ to our day THEOLOGY HAS B passing through ine same pluosophy. Lit the sight of the Apostles men’s pre- Indices and tgnorances were Tealitics. Suppose a tioctor Should go into # house Where @ Man Mas & wen on the left hand, and takme him by the right hand should sirtke the wen, saying to te yuan, *b respect You, but this deformity of yours [ detest’? A great Wuahy reformers sitike men’s faults, saying, m [ bound tu respect tnese "No: but’ you are w respect (he paipiating heart beneath. those under Wie law 1 was asunder not This liberality a genuine ting sssary to promote charity a man morta, aud When be does not conforma he S GROW! hanges uy other shoulét still act fa tue spirit of a higher love. VHS SPIREY PERSE, then the form, Hi the spirit be mght, the sorm may Woll be ieft Ww take cave of itself, Nowhere ts per- | liberty more insisted npou than by the Apostle He declares thai aian uity in Christ Jesux > man. For move than twenty years he Rad tune this grand individual liverty. Yet, we that Taith tn Christ was a fulfment low, he again offered sacritices, and he ¥O) beheving Uist cir cumeision Is nett! HAD rises b inune with | baplizes ory | Supper or wot. ub HARITY'S SAKE, Hacision 18 notloag and wnsir- bit anew creature. When a re he can see God and com- no difference whether he Whether he partases of the iord’s The things are helps. The man Jhrist is Vhe master, ANYLL these things are to | be used by him or dispensed yQtb, according to his ne i know how insincere is seems. y own H impression is that Christ weke on earth to-day tuat most of the churches would fim admis- sion. If John or Peter were te kAocK at the gates | of many chnrehes the i WOULD NOP BE CONSIDERED F he | Why? Because iney would gloriously assert the } Tighiof the immer jie. J may use er got vse, Um not bonnd to nse. ‘The surgeon ts not obliged te | take the same knife to-day that he did yesterday, ‘Tue Knife is the servant. Ail the ontside forms of reiigion, all frame work, the whole economy of dee- trines you #re to Use, not to rule over a man. ; Lshouidn’t hesitate ta a Catholic church ia TAKE HOLY WATER and make the sign of the cross. lve just at mucit right to the eross as they have. Which will give me the most power over @ man—that tendermess wiuch makes me respect his forms of religion, or the roaghness which trampies under foot that which i holy to him? Love is universal Love and fain set me free from forms. 1 KEEP SUNDAY becatise it 1s sweet tome. Tam not bound as I ane Dy the laws of the land, I may worstup God ta the ficid or in the forest if | choose. If to you the tn- fluences of Nature are means of grace, you needn't give account to priest or pastor. ‘The soul fs its own legislator. Tt may go to Heaven through the didac- ue and cold fortus of the Presbyterian Church, or through tne proper ceremonies of the Episcopal, or through the hoary old Catholic Church; only let tt go, go. go! And for all these heresies (they are shocking heresies) I plead the authority of the Ohurch at Jerusalem, the authority of an act two thousaud years old, and the age of a thing, FROM WINE TO CREEDS. is generally a test of 18 excelience. When- good orthodox youths are asked to co-operate with good but sadly tangnt Unitarian youths, they say they cannot work with those who *4eny the Lord.” Pail conformed externally to the things that to him were: nothing, Why? “He made himself all dungs to ali men if ! any means he might win some,” Tt IS 4 NARROW ORTHODOXY fiat can’t work with anything but itself. They who are God's can include everything Nigh or low, and they do not by so domg endorse the bad. When at ihe terrible disaster at New Hamburg men were ‘iragging dead bodies from the water did any man say, “Eean't work with you because you are a re- publican or democrat?” YEV IN BROOKLYN in my time, the Sneges. schools of the Unitarian churches tiave been prohibited from walking wit lie Sunday schools of the orthodex courches, Thi Was one sad eve and one giad eye over that soene, | Ghuist was sad ana TARE DEVIL WAS GLAD. {contd sit and worship ina Unitarian charch, or a Universalist church, or with my Baptist bretoren, 1 wouldn't hesitare to he immersed MH, on the other sidc, J coubt get something worth the trouble; but the Charehes save the chat and tet the wheat ge where tt bey. T can understand how, for a timitea tube ami a specific purpose, a handfui ought to come out from a wicked and yurrupt Caureh wad show yoncenformity; bur 0 corre With overs on the ground of av enceé of belief 1s a5 absurd as to refuse to gel water Out of the same river; for x [ike reason you might sit at the Lord's table with a pirate on one side and a snurderer on the other and not endorse piracy or murder. The distinction is not to be in # man’s hat oc coat, but in the spirtt. You are to be more nobly. generous, more disinterested, more loving, Zot more Strati-laeed und orthodox. © There 18 a miserable Me Se ama rose, Whose blossoms are all siriv- | cited up LIKE A BACHELOR'S KISS; yet because it siauds in a@ good place it looks down upen that royal rose that blooms ont of sand nd gravel. So poor uulsecable thoray Christians, standing {nh a [igh Church pot, took down upon great lusty Methodist blossoms that stand in a Viigar toh. Lastiy, & great many men taink they ure ance with truth, aud they must ve | aly | PML TS vw! AND GUSMING. ny think that they need neither fo withhold nor opt. A mottier tous her dear fttie daughter at five years What she needs, at ten what she needs. Truth is the bud that God gives to the soul, aud it {ts io be adapted to the soul's needs. 1 ami under | more Leyte ty love and bo love's Work dun to tie invelices. TUE WAART 1S MY MASTER. * Who thinks with te earl thinks with God. T | oF preach all 1 weueve here, Why! Because | there is nothing needs so much ripemng as new thoaghts. Ouly io know the truth requires Tratitis the sain total. God does uot think. by 8 gio heads, but Dy masses of men, Many tings Mae 1 thought 1 knew ton year age I am sure now that 1 was mistaken about; and tt - suonld rusk jute the pulpit yow with. raw Se an