The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1871, Page 4

¢ RELIGIOUS. PALM SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES. WORDS OF WISDOM AND WORTH. The Work of Winning and Wasting Worldly Wealth. The Demands of the Times on Christians. The Old Teachers Not Suited to the Present Age. From an early hour’ on yesterday morning sprigs of yew were the first religious saluiation to the Sab- bath, Clear, spring weather, not, however, withoat ® shadow of uncertainty from a Saturaay of rain and Snow, made churchgoers in the morning not so nu- merous as they should have been, Asthe day wore on ® happy sunshine stimulated piously the hearts pf those returning from church, so that at evening Bervice the holy edifices were filled to repletion, The tide of admontshing eloquence rose in fervercy as the services proceeded, and many were the pur- Hoses o! better lives formed by the more hardened members of the flock. The sermons generally were of more than ordi- nary merit, and the best of them will be found in ‘We reports which follow. GRACE CHURCH. The Gospel Among the Heathen Chinee—The Heathen Ethiopian and the Henthen Fiji— y Rev. Mr. Hare, of the Foreign The beautiful Broadway church was not very full at morning service yesteraay. The carriage people were present in abundance. The fear of stormy weather, which kept away a great many from di- vine worship, was evidenced in a milder degree in the winter tints of the ladies’ dresses, although there were few furs worn. The expression of the pongregation was one of RESIGNED MILDNESS, hs, after the long service of the “Sunday next before Easter,” the Rev. Mr. Hare ascended the pulpit to Bppeal on bdehaif of the missionary work abroad. He chose for his text Isaiah xlli., 4—‘He shall not Tail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wai for his law.” The reverend gentieman then proceeded:—In a litue Stnp of land in Mesopotamia, not larger than our State of Lelaware, there dwelt a people not very sivanced in learning, skill of arms, or in the arts or sciences; yet, while others adored different gods of stone or gold, the Israelites alone adored the only one and true God. 11 may be asked how, then, with this small people, THE BOLD PROPHECY OF ISAIAH could be fultilled. It was the arm of the Lord of Wosts which was to do it, His words pointed to the Messiah, Who was to come alter a long lapse of tume. When Jesus did come He suppressed the en- thusiasm of his inspiration for Uurty years and then pieached to the Jews. He bade Mis disciples hot to go to the cities o1 the Geniiles, but to bring THE LOST SHEEP OF JUDAH lovingly back to tie iold. Yet when H1s passion wnd death had taken place, when that which was written years belore had been fulfilled, Christ's ad- monition was diterent—bolder, higuer. Before He pscended into heaven He gathered them together nd void them in the tone of a sweet command to 20 forth to all peoples, traversing oveaus, piercing jorests, SURMOUNTING NATIONAL PREJUDICES, fo preach the gospel of truth. This project was ursed in the heart of Jesus, and at the feast of the ventecost We see its first iruit, when three thousand opie of the Jews and then five thousana gathered wether to Witness to the majesty of Christ crucitied. Tom the persecation and death of St. Stephen te Church drew lusire and glory, for it sent the dect- les abroad, not merely seeking a refuge but preach- ng the gospel. At tat time the Jews were a nar- Yow-miuded peopie, such as would think it wroug to steal irom a brother Jew but RIGHT TO STEAL FROM A GENTILE. Hence we can comprehend how even the apostle { Peter was reproached that had gone in unto the un- cwreumeised and eaten with them. Bat Peter's Spirltrose above tis and since the keys ef heaven had been commitied to nts care he defended his course till the ipfunt Church said:—The Lord has opened hs Church to the Gentiles. It was necessary to have a messenger of this faith to the outside World, and from among the foes to the Gospel he chose that ENVOY TO THE HEATHEN, He must be a nan of note, a man of the peopie, fTuil of enthusiasin, full of love, full o! iogic and atriolism. Such wes St. Paul, ye specially ap- unted apostle to conduct the mfsmouary work avroad, krom that hour the necessity of foreign yolssions became an itegral part of the Church. ‘they had real heathens then; so have we. The necessity for converting them is still the same. But the question | ed, Wili not the joreign work hurt the home work’ Assuredly not, J Wii! ask, Is the Churefl to be a whiripool SUCKING EVESYTHE Qud giving no good out? Hi our tinea toa narrow Circle in the how many millions reproach us to We great God of heaven Trom outsKiey Some say wat tue history of our work amoag the pagaus is abundant in romance and paintaily athy be con- SRE IN RFSULTS. Are not those of as those who cried Mercifuily to Christ in Lis ony, “Hail, King of the Jews.” The latter seotfed at His empire over the suuls of Israel; the former jeer at His dominion over those of the pagan. Their frouicai cry, though they utter it not, is “Hall, King 0: the Genuiles!* Much had been said that was discouraging of mis- sionary Work In Clima. I believe that we neiarious trafic m opium is at the bottom of it. Toe reverend preacher went on to give the testi mony of severai naval geuticmen as to the real success of tie mussious there. Taking up the Paciiic isianas he quoted trom Darwin as to the improved moral condition of the Tahitians, ‘When & man is wrecked on one of those islands ius irst ferventiy selfish hope is (nat THE MISSIONARIES HAD BEEN THE! vefore him. The mission at Liberia was in a hope- Jul state of progress. There were two missionaries there and only one devil-priest, mst twenty Which had been there some years beiore, The re- mating devil-priest Was not much respected. He then related one of Du Ciiaillu’s storics about an African girl who, disgusted at the bloody rites of her brethren, begged him to bave the mouth of God, as (ney called the Bible, sent among them. ‘This is THE CRY OF AFRICA to you. What is we answer’ We do not believe in Joreigi missions. 1s tuat the answer of a churca of God? God forbid! CHURTH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY, Nature of the Kingdom of God—Sermon by Rev. Charles Fiehrer, The continued indisposition of Rev. Dr. Chapin, the popular and éloquent pastor of the Chureh of the Divine Paternity, corner of Fiftn avenue and Forty-filth street, and general forbidding state of the weather caused at the church a very slim at tendance yesterday morning, notwithstanding the strongly counter opposing fact of its being Palm Sunday. However, the comparatively few who ‘were present had the satisfaction of listening to a ‘very good sermon by Rev. Charles Flehrer, of the Hariem Universalist church. He took for his text the words, ‘The kingdom of God cometh not with ovservation.’’ If they would know the NATURE OF GOD'S KINGDOM they must study the nature of Goa. The more they studied His nature the tore they woula find that he ‘was a God of love and 4 God of justice. Enlarging atiength upon the attributes of the godhead he proceeded next to sow that the kingdom of God comes to us, God’s Kingdem was in the world long before Jesus Christ came. The coming of Christ only showed its power and presence more mani- fesuy than ever betore. As clectricity existed in the material world before Frankilio’s discovery of new electrical laws, or ite suoue power was turned to ase in toe telegraph, 80 exisied the kingdom of God. Tiustrating this point at further jength he next en- forced SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE, as having something to do with the coming of this kingdom of God. The flower needs sunshine and ruin; the body needs food and air, and so the soul ics revivifying needs. If we arise nearer God In higher aspiration We feel au enlargement of the soul Aud @ strengthening and reviviiying of its power as the man Ol Weak luDgs, Cllinbing W the mountain height, feels his Jungs expand and health strength. ened by the better, truer, purer air, His last point ‘was that this kingdom of {cometh without ob- servation. Under this head he described the notions inducing people to go to church and assume religious lives, As habits grow upod one alinost uncon. sciousiv, so ie ured. our soiritual vatures become | larity of the pastor. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. APRIL 3, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. strengthened and we become better, stronger, more spiritual, more religious. The BOUNTY OF HOLINESS as exemplified in lives of action, labor and useful- ness aud probity, im unselfishness, ta charity, in goodness, in living near God and following m the fyotprints of Jesus Christ was a bounty above eve- rything else in this world. Mere external religion amounted to nothing, Going to church regularly— and how many went regulariy but to see and be seen—amounted to nothing. Outward morality amounted to nothing. There must be a religion of the heart and soul, the kingdom of God in him, a kmgdom that cometh without observation, but whose benilicen fruits are everywhere seen. FiFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. nation of the “Double Spirit*—Keep Up with the Times—Sermen by Rev. Dr. Armitage. After the usual services yesterday morning Dr. Armitage, the pastor of the church, announced, as the subject of nis discourse, ‘God's Unchanged Work Wrought by Changeable Workmen.” He cem- menced by referring to the parting of Elijah and Ehsha—Il. Kings, il, 15, When the mantle of the first named propnet descended upon the latter, when about to part from each ether, Elijah bade Elisha ask him what he wouid have n.m do for him before he was taken away, and he answered, “I beseech thee that in me may be thy double spirit.” | An erroneous tmpression exists as to the meaning of his request that his “double spirit’ might remain in him. in those days the eldest son received a@ double portion, known as his birtn- right. If, for instance, there were seven sons in «@ family, the first born son would receive double the amount received by any one of the others, and the balance would be distributed among the others. This 1s what Elisha meant when he asked for the “double spirit,’ that the birthright of a prophet’s eldest son might be given to nim as his portion. These two men were totally diferent. Elijah dwelt away from men in the desert; be SHUNNED CIVILIZATION, and if he was obliged to visit the haunts of men he would oaly come to the city gate and without entering deliver his message and then return to his desert. Elijah in the Old Testament answers the description of St. John the Baptist in the New. Eh- sha was a dweller among men; an humble, mo- dest, gentle, tender man. Both were weli suited for the times in which they lived and equally well in thelr own way they did the work of their Master, When one set of men passes away God flis the va cancy according to THE DEMANDS OF THE TIMES. We see this well tilustrated in the Old Testament. Moses was a legislator and a lawgiver; ne organized and governed the cnosen people of God in a ful Way, but after his death Joshua, who was a great soldier, led forth his people agamst their enemies, aefeating them with great slaugiter. We also see this exemplified im everyday life. Take a man Whose first wule 1s dead; he marries again, and a8 he has endeavored to find a second one who resem- bles the first, his life 1s made miserable by contin: ually comparing the two: whereas if he had chosen one ofa different temperament and disposition he would be made happy by contrasting the qualities of the two and not comparing them. Ur take @ con- gregation whose pasior, after serving them ior thuriy years, 1s called away. HE “FALLS ASLBEP.’? Oh, what a beautiful manner of expressing the end of this world’s pilgrimage we find in the Oid Testament, Where in speaking of the death of one who has performed his ulloited work on earth it Says he “fell asleep |” Well, this church desires to obtain another pastor precisely similar to the first. If possibie they would like to have his twin brother; Why, no two men Were ever born who were pre- cisely alike: but they procure one who is like him, 80 tney think, as like as two peas in a pod, and they are delighted. But they soon learn that these two men are sufficiently alike to discover wherein they ditfer from each other. Do not go back with Elijah butgo forward with Elisha. “Let the dead past bury its dead.”"_ The old preachers were well suited to the tines in whici they lived, but I am free to con- fess that 1 would not like to sit to-day and listen to them preach. Give up this hankering after the past and move forward with the living present, The Ro- man Catholic Church ana the Anglican Ohurch claim “apostolic succession.” 1t may be 80, bul to me it seems AN ABSURDITY to hear edncated, well tastructed, high-minded men claim thet by the imposition of pees: hands, by oue whose head ts crowned by @ bishop's mitre they can transmit all the virtues of the aposties. They try to establish an analogy between the Pope and St. Peter and | think they succeed to this extent:— First, as regards infallibility, St. Peter was always getting into some «ind of trouble while the Pope avoids mistakes. As regards humility, the Pope sits on a throne, while St. Pever sat in a fishing smack; as regards celibacy the Pope is unmarried While St. Peter had @ wile. When the worknien are changed the new must possess the same spirit as the old, but in a large measure. They must, in fine, POSSESS A DOU BLE PORTION. If you had a boy to educate would you send him for instruction to a person who had veen at the heaa of the public schools thirty years agoy No, indeed, you would do nothing of the sort; and I be- lueve it Would be very hard for such a person to ob- tain a like positien at the present time, Last Sun- day was the last one of the first century of eur Church, aud to-day we commence our new century. Let us not rest content with what has been done already. Do uot remain intent only on following the lootsteps of your fathers apd living in the same hum-druim way, but leave Hiya belind and press on with Elisha Atthe conclusion of the services the communi- cants of the church remamed to partake of the Lord’s super. COURCH OF THE MzSSIAM. Money Maki: Moncey Spending—Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Hepworth. As usual the handsome edifice at the cormer of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street was crowded last evening with the fashionabie devotees of Mur- ray Hull and others from various parts of the city, who were attracted thither by the ability and popu- After the usual preliminary services the Rev. Mr. Hepwortn proceeded to deliver the sermon which he ‘had promised on “Money Making and Money Spending.” His text was taken from the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 7, verse 12—“‘For wisdom is a defence and money is a defence; but the excellency of know- Jedge 18 that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.” He said in the catalogue of goods to be desired wisdom is put first by the Preacher and money sec- ond. in the catalogue of goods which modern gso- ciety makes the order 1s reversed, money standing ut the head and wisdom coming straggling after at @ respectful distance, When the yacht America dis- tanced her competitors in Engush waters the anxious question was asked, ‘Which boat is firstt” aud the answer was telegraphed, ie America;’’ then to the question, “Wuich ts second?” the an- swer came, ‘There is no second,” the other boais being so far beliind that they were hardly recognized avail, So, 1 sometimes think, if you ask American youth ‘What is the best tuing ¢’’ the answer comes straight from the heart, “s#oney;” and if you ask “What 18 tie second best thingy’ the indifferent re- ply 1s, ‘There is no second,” Sill, 1 think the Preacher was right—that MONEY IS A GOOD THING; when rightly won and rightly used, there Is no room for doubt; that it Can ve s0 won aud 80 used that it becomes a positive injury to the individual aud to society 18, unfortunately, true. It may bea biessing or a curse, You can earn it in such way ‘hat When you 100k back every day shall be a bene- diction, a pleasant spot for memory to rest on, or you can get it in such fashion that every recoliecuon shall be sharp and painful as a hornet’s sting. What you need to learn 13 how to get the most and the best out of life. If you diverge but a little from the right line now that little will by and by increase, and twenty years hence you will be very far away from the right path. Begin right and then keep right. First, 1 want you to feel that your business, your work, is providential. No business or work is insignificant into which an honest man puis his soul. Your business career is the fleld in which you are to get your education and apply tle principles of your reiigion. Jtis @ better education than you can get from any college, because in college young a study theories only, while you are studying facts. LIFR 18 A ROUGH SCHOOL and its discipline is sometimes severe. The ferule ef misfortune sometimes comes down hard, as though the schoolmaster enjoyed giving the blow; but its lessons are ail important ones, and they are gene- Tally taugut ln such Way that they are not easily for- gotten. The monk of old used to get as far away trom the world as possible, thinking to become more religious among the vast silences of nature; but it 1s Your novler prerogative to get a deeper faith out of tue din and turmoil of your busy life, Start with certain principles in your heart and let them be- come a nerve centre in yor? and you will achieve @ manhood whieh will sometime become tran: ured into the iife immortal. An old saze once said that you can never tell whether a man’s life has been successful until he comes to die, A death un- accompanied oy ts 18 NOL only the proof of a life weil spent, but a prediction and prot of a better lie to comme. Lonce heard of a miser at whose fu- neral men shrugged their shoulders, and the only interest exiubitea wag ag to the amount he left, He had money, but Ler? ME <sdet wa” HIS GOLD WAS 80 HOT that It drew all the momtare out of his body, and he became snriveiled and shranken, and all the beauty out of his soul, and he became crabbed and soured, Such money getting 1s an unmitigated curse, I kKuew anotier who nsed his gains a8 a means of gratifying his appeutes, and he died at forty an old ian. Again, I say his money getting was a curse, 1 Knew sill auother Whose Leart Was so Warn) that he feit tor every poor man In the world, wax when he died the iaborers whom he loved carried fis body on thelr shoulders through @ peiting rau and wept real, hear(elt tears at lis burial. Such a death is Wo ve envied, and lo occupy a Warm piace In the hearts Of such men 18 a@ privi ege enjoyed by few. Ox in your miads this fact. Iu tue second place. proved to bea fact by the life of every good man and by the despair of every bad one—tnat integrity, unswerving infegrity—is the only quality of charac- ter whieh insures the wor!d’s respect. Yeu are working not for next year only, but for the next twenty years, and nothing will carry you tarough that length of time so successtully as HIGH-TONED, MANLY HONOR. The trickster may get aaead of you fora while, but true endurance comes out of honesty. If you ‘sell sugar, put no sand in It; if you sell ks, sell them on honor. In the third place, let your life be one of culture as wellas one ef work. You have duties to perform to the public, This city needs nothug quite so much as honest and able men in its public offices. You are a citizen as well as a gold seeker, and you are bound by the strongest moral obligations to perform all the political duties of citi- zenship and to exercise your utmost influence in the direction of ee ae legisiation. if bad men rule us te-day it is fault of the business men of the community, who sit idie whtie bad men fil! their pockets from the public treasury. RECOGNIZE YOUR POLITICAL DUTIES, study the character of the government of which you are a part, and when the right time comes use your influence to right all these wrongs. And, last, gen- tlemen, I need not tell you that your religion is to be put into your business. It is a sham religion which teaches you wa on Bi and do as you lease all the rest the week. You are to carry upon ge ape betray Co or to try and sell by. The text is the Neat thing Foun end with, ‘Wisdom first and money second.’ CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE. The ceremony of blessing the palm in the Catholic Church had its origin in a desire to commemorate the entry of our Lord Jesus into Jerusalem amid the acclamations of the Jewish people. In the effort to do honor to the founder of Christianity the Catholic Church invokes the ald of her grandest and most impressive ceremonies. All the charms of art and music are laid under contribution to render the homage of creatures worthy of acceptance by an omnipotent God, Palm Sunday is also chosen by Cafholics as a day on which to pubitcly exhibit their faith in Christianity by wearing on their persons a sprig of palm or fir. It is only, however, in oid countries, whore the Catholic religion has flourished long, that the SOUL-SWAYING POMP of the Roman ritual is practised in all its magnifi- cence. Perhaps the only church in New York where &n attempt is made to follew, at an humble dis- tance, the ritual of European Catholicism 1s that of the Paulist Fathers, themselves converts to the Roman faith. This year every preparation had been made for the ceremony, and the appearance of the interior of the church was pleasing and impressive. The white marble altar, which faces the principal entrance, was tastefully draped with purpie cloth, aad between the LIGHTED TAPERS were placed large branches of yellow palm. A mel- low light, falling trom pornaly stained windows, threw a softness over the scene, which was rather injured than aided by several jets of gas. At ten o'clock the bell which rung to prayer ceased tol!ing, and at the same moment the boy choristers filed out from the vestry, and, having made their genufiex- fons to to the Host, took the place appointed to them in front of the altar. These boys were habited in purple soustanes, with white surplice and small purpie cape, and presented much the appearance of @ bench of juvenile bishops. These were followed by the deacons, clad in black soustanes and white surplice, Five officiating priests, wearing PURPLE AND GOL! vestments came out last, and, placing themselves at the foot ef the altar, sang the anthem commencing, “In espersione aque benedict.” Then ascending the altar, the officiating priest—Rev. Father Hill— read a prayer suitable to the occasion. As soon as he had ceased the bey Choristers intoned the mag- nificent Gregorian anthem irom the Dominica in Paimis of the Graduale Romanum, beginning, Hosanna Filio David. As the solemn notes rolie from the organ and the voices of the choir mingled with the deep tones of the instrament the spirit of the listener was moved, and a gentle infiuence Seemed to call him away to the coniemplations of ee and a higher world. ‘here 1s some- in THE SOLEMN GRANDEUR of the Gregorian music which the sternest Puritan must feel, and unless a man be mall-clad with strong prejudice he cannot be exposed for an hour to this influence ef Church music without feeling the mem. ories of innocent pleasures and gulleless days return. The anthem ended, the priest reads a short prayer before the beneaiction, When he has done the choir sing in slow and selemn time the beginning of the anthem—Benedtctus qui venit in nomine Domine ; slowly the voices swell upon the ear, and sink until they are almost inaudible; here the voices OF the boys, in sharp, clear falsetto, take up the dy- inganthem. Sudden!y their clear, high notes are drowned Dy the organ and the choir thundering outa HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS. Amid this food of music we suddenly become conscious of the presence of incense, and while cen- sers are swinging their perfumes hedvenward our spirits are waited intoa holy dreamland. he figures moving about in the smoke of the incense seem to lose their material essence and become transformed into purely spiritual ministers, Something of awe and reverence seizes upon our souls and we listen to tne WORKS OF BENEDICTION as to the questionless decrees of fate. Before this enchantment of the spirit Goubts clears away, as fogs before the Sun, we cease to reason and are ready to c! out, “We believe, O Lord; help our unbelief.” Wi! many genufecations and solemn motions of hands and With sprinkling of byssop, the palm whicn has been laid on the altar is blessed, and the priest-cele- braat, turning towards the deacon and sub-deacon, breaks off branches of palm, which he hands to each. The assistants then mount the altar steps, two by twe, and, kneeling, receive branches of palm, which they kiss and retire. The tableau presented by tne altar, with its lights and decorations, and the brtl- liant vesiments of the priests, interspersed with the waving green and yeliow of the palm leaves, was beautiful and elective. A little more of the gloom of the old Gotluc churches would have rendered the scene enchanting. How we miss the massive col- umns ané the cold, gray shadows of a Notre Dame, with its flood of dim-colored shadow—light straggling through stained windows. ‘rhis age of light despises shadow beauties because the materializea spirit of man no longer compre- bends them. During the distribution of the palm to the congre- gation youthiul voices chant the anthem, fuert Hebrworum portantes ramos olivarum obviaverunt Domino, clamantes el dicentes—Hosanna in Ex- celsis. Again the choir drowned their thin, youth- Tul voices in a deep-toned, swelling, thunderous response of Hosanna in £xcelsts, and, amid the strains of that wonderful anthem, the celebrant turns to the people and says, Procedamus in Pace, To which the ftuil cnoir responds, In Nomine Chrise, armen. The benediction proper is now at an end, aud the triumphant PROCESSION OF THE PALM begins. A priest bearing a branch of the blessed palu on a Aasiidus cruz, With @ sub-deacon on either side carrying lighted tapers, marches at the head, followed by the deacons and assistants; atter these Walk tie priests, ali bearing large branches of palm and singing the anthem, Crm appro. quinaret Dominus. The procession moved slowly down the aisie of the church and out into the grounds, leaving the altar deserted. As the dis- tance increased the chant came fainter and fainter on the ear, until we could only catch at intervals the refrain. Then Sees the chant grew more and more distinct; now rising to a loud chant, then sinking and coming on the ear like the sighing of an olian harp touched by a gentle zephyr, and at last rolied in hke @ wave of harmony in the magnificent Glorta mm Excelsis, On the return of the procession to the church the full choir chanted the Gioria, laus et honor tbr sit Res Christe Redemptor, which brought the cere- mony of blessing the palm to a close, CHRISTIAN FREE CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. C. C. Foote—Missionary Work—tThe Aim and Obligations Thereof. Yesterday morning the cause of the heathen and unconverted was advocated in the Christian Free Church, West Twenty-eighth street, by Rev. ©. C. Foote. Notwithstanding the uncertainty of the weather the missionary zeal of his congregation would seem to have suffered no abatement, if it might be judged from the numbers of the audience which assembled to hear him discourse on the wants ‘and woes of those to whom the light of the gospel is yeta stranger. Among the well-filied pews might ve deseried many INDICATIONS OF THE FASHIONS Which are to signalize the coming beauty of the season, and to make the fair creatures whom they adorn a greater joy and 4 more charming source of expense thanever. The reverend gentleman took as his text the words of the Saviour to his aposties— “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” The spirit of Christianity, said the preacher, is AGGRESSIVE, Not that it in apy way countenances what is com- monly known as proselytism, which ts only another name ior dishonest atid unprincipled attempts to alter men’s convictions. It seeks, however, to dif- fuse the blessings of trath @nd morality to all the ‘world, and to extend tw every one, irrespective of nationality or race—for itis truly BO respecter of persons—the a + GLORIOUS NOPR OF SALVATION in the life to come. The spirit oi the anctent Hebrew Church was different. Its aim was exciusive, and made no generous provision like Christianity for those outside the pule of the * chosen peopie.”” we cannot venture to explain why the channels of divine truth should have been so contined to the seed of Abraham; but in the appearance of Christ aud in the promulgation of the system of which Le was the author, the gates of HBAVEN'’S CONSTITUTION, fo to speak, were opened, the dreams of the pro- phets optained a giorious realization, aud the Gen ule, 80 long an Ovlcast, Was admitted to the blessed membershio of the saints, But tue split of Clute tianity is not merely aggressive, for the true mis- sionary does not r for the extension of Christ's k! jom through any ambition of conquest or any of the vainglorious aspirations of the mere con- queror. It is also GENEROUS AND ALL-EMBRACING in the comprehensiveness of its benevolence. In this consisia one of the most prominent duferences between Christianity and the mauy senemes of phi- losophy which tad preceaed it, and which owed their origin to merely human wisdom. The teachings of Socrates and Plato shed a hght over the heathen darkness of Greece, and in the lofty purity of their P anticipated many of the doctrines of Christ, ut they were, like the religion of the Hebrews, wanting in generosity of aim, and therefore were not destined to tast, Only in Christianity do we seo all the requisites of a system INTENDED TO BE IMMORTAL, It broke the barriers of @ narrow sectarianism, and issued its Invitations of mercy and salvation to the Inhabitants of every zone. It established the equality of men in the sight of God by the universality of its beneticence. Let us, then, endeavor to act up to the spirit it so nobly inculcates, and while we labor for the extension of the giorious message of the gos- 1 to pehere a sort wes ourselves let iP not rget the duties which it imposes upon us at home in our dealings with our brethren.as citizens and members of the same family of Christ, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. ‘The Lord Hath Need of It—Discourse by Rev. Thomas D. Anderson. The First Baptist church, now situated on Thirty- ninth street and Park avenue, was, as Its name in- dicates, the first of that denomination established in this city. It is now 109 years old, having been or- ganized June 19, 1762, in Cart and Horse street (now William). From there it was moved to Gold street, and thence to Broome. When leaving Broome street for its present site the former property was sold to St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Society, in order that the ground should not be used for secular purposes, The Church was rst under the care of elder Gano, who was suc- ceeded by elders Foster, Colyer, Parkinson, Cone, Nott (who was drowned after two years’ pastorate), and Anderson, at present in charge of the spiritual welfare of the congregation. ‘The building now occupied by the Church is by no means large enough for its congregation, but adjoin- ing ita new and magnificent building is in course of erection and nearly completed, which will be opened for divine worship in October. 1t will bea very handsome building when finished, and will have ® spire 200 leet high. The morning service yesterday was very largely attended and by a very fashionable assemblage, who Ustened to the Rev. Dr. Anderson’s discourse with much attention. He took for his text, ‘And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him, and straightway he will send him hither’ (Mark xi., 3), and spoke as fol- lows:—In studying the Bible we are constantly being surprised at the amount of trath contained in some of its simplest incidents; we are startlea by a doc- trine of most significant import leaping out of the record of the most ordinary event. It goes to im- press on us that, viewed by the light of the kingdom of God, every occurrence in our brief life is LINKED TO AN ETERNAL DESTINY. How, then, can we allow ourselves to act without the guidance of divine wisdom? Two truths arise out of this apparently trifling incident that are worthy of our most careful consideration, tne tirst of which is that the Lord achieves his triumphs through the APPROPRIATION OF INSTRUMENTALITIES in our possession. In the ight of this remark Chrisv’s earthly poverty was as essential to the pian of salvation as his incarnation, deatn and’ resurrection. In setting up his kingdom he was to ‘Work on the elements around. The salvation or the world, which he had planned, was to be a sort of spiritual recovery from the deadly sickness of sin, and it was to be dene througn vhe instrumentality of the sinners, Mr. Anderson spoke with much earnestness of the necesaity of helping the Lord in His work ot salva- uon, and explained that part of the Scripture from Which he took his text in a lucid, clear and thorough manner, giving weight to his words by the tone of conviction and secling with which he expounded the doctrines of Holy Writ. in exempli- fication of WHAT WAS MEANT BY ASSISTING GOD in His work of salvation he instanced the case of Christ sending One of His disciples for the colt on whose back He was to make His entry ito Jerusalem, as was prophesied dar be- fore the event wook place. He said that in order that the Scripture might be tulfilied Jesus had to send for the colt, which belonged to one of His creatures. He had none of His own, and therefore ‘Was obliged to appropriate what was not His. and When the colt was brought to Jesus, then was ful- filled all that part of Scripture which pertained to the coming of Christ. Then when He came towara Jerusalem the peodle strewed flowers and branches of wees. and proclaimed Him the Son of God. Ang all this having been foreteld, if it did not take place the prophecies relative to that event would not have been verified. Thus Jesus always employed the pos- sessions and the will of others as THE BASIS OF HIS MINISTRY, very often greatly glorifying them. ‘Thus at the marriage feast He changed water into wine, aud to feed the starving multitude He made the small sap- 1 of loaves and tishes suffice for a Jarge number of iis follewers. The second truth to be deducted from the theory developed in the opening of mr. Anderson’s dis- course was, as he stated, that tue Lord’s requisition is the ground of our cheerful relinquishment of all our worldly goods. ‘Thus all that the apostie said to the owner of the colt was, “The Lord hath need of it.” That was all that Was necessary. And this thought robs of its harsh- ness the command to give to the Lord. What more pleasing duty than to give to the Lord? and if any- thing could reconcile @ person to the loss of bis riches it is THE SWERT WORDS “the Lord hath need of it.” Could there be a soul Wao would refuse to give when he heard the whisper of these words? Yesterday 1 stood entrauced when 1 thought how it would be if the colt had been refused to Jesus, It would have prevented the fulfilment of the Scripture; for the colt was as much necessary as was the Lord; therefore without beth the words of Holy Writ would remain unfulfilled. There- fore, when the Lord whispers into our soul, let us not hold back, but give to Him. In the work of sal- vation He needs our posseasion, He works with none other. The withholding of the colt would nave been the prevention of the ita Kingly tri- umph, and if we witnboid what the Lerd wants from. us it wiil prevent us from enjoying the triumph of being one of the chosen in that heavenly kingdom which is the reward of good Christians, ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH. The Crucifixion of the Saviour of Mankiad— Impressive Sermon by Rev. Dr. Cooke. Rev. Dr. S, Cooke preached a short but eloquent | and impressive sermon yesterday morning to a con- gregation much smaller than ls usually seen in old St. Bartholomew’s. The doctor chose for his text St. Join xix., 20—“He said it is finished,” &c. After @graphic description of the scene on Calvary on that eventful Friday morning, 1840 years ago- the very same spot where Abraham had come to, offer up his son Isaac—the Doctor spoke of the blindness of these people, who were doing , this deed—to them it was no more than & common execution of any common criminal; the words of the prophets to them had no meaning. If they had known what they were doing not one there could have been persuaded to do it, There are men to-day, like Pilate, Judas and the false witnesses who put their Saviour to death. God uses them even in their wickedness to accomplish His own ends, causing them to fulfil in minute par- ucalars the prophecies, and guiding their blindness and wickedness to work out His own ends, The event that sweiis high in history above ail other events is the death of the Saviour of men. His record is everywhere. He lives in that past which was before the world was. He peevaden everyining. § You cannot write istory without writing of Him. Gibbon tried it in vain. He could not write his story without a of Jesus of Nazareth. Otner blood had been she but it could not take away sin. If death 1s the con- sequence of sin, and He had no sin, whence then the cause of His deathy Our sins! ‘The Man of Sorrows bore our sins, and died forthem that we might live. What is our plea before the bar of God? Only the cross of Christ; that is our only Plea; let us crowd closer to that and keep our gaze xed on that as our only salvation. Only, now that ‘we have crucified Him, let us sin no inore. Let us join that little loving band yonder on Calvary, who, eipless to save Hin, viewed bis agony from afar; let us, like them, devote ourselves and pledge our lives to Him and to His service. TAN PROFOSRD HEMOval OF HiT CHURCH. At the close of the sermon the pastor spoke the subject of the pro- posed change of site of St. Bartholomew's chnrch. He reviewed the past history of the church, which for more than thirty years has stood in the front rank of Protestant Episcopal churches in this city, both as to the size and wealth ol its congregation and as to 118 labors of love and charity, its schools and its zeal and success in spreading the Gospel among the poor. He said that the burden of responsibility which rested upon the pastor and the vesiry in deciding upon this change washeavy. It had only been done after along and prayertul delibyration. But the vast changes of the population of the city required a new site or the partsh would die out. The Doctor appealed to his people to sustain the vestry with thelr prayers and their means, a8 they were able, in large measure or in small, in this new movement, which was substan- Ually the work entrusted to thetr hands for the benes fit of the risi generation, apd for which, when they were laid in thetr graves, countiess thousands would rise upand bless them. The proposed new site for St. Bartholomew's 1s the southwest corner of avenue aud Forty-fourtn street, aad tt is | + Israei’s Messiah. hopea that the new church will be completed Within twelve months. ST. GEORGE'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURG! The Relations of Mau to the Gospel of the Son of God—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Tyng- The morning service yesterday in St. George’s church was but sparsely attended, The Rev. Dr. ‘Tyng closed a series of discourses begun last Octo- ber on the “Relations of Man to the Gospel of the Son of God,” basing his remarks upon Rebrews i, 3—“How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken the Lord and was confirmed unto us He asked his look back over what had been said, that they might see tat the one great fact revealed is salvation for guilty men—personal salva- tion for every man—everiasting salvation for the soul which may perish in sin, but which can never Perish In the sense of annihilation; a restoration to holiness and deliverance frem the bondage of guilt and the power of death, and placing of us upon thrones of victory; a blotting out of all transgres- sion and restoration of the pardoned sinner to the by by them that heard Him?’ hearers to favor and fellowsbip of God; the OPENING OF HEAVEN TO MAN, keeping him in perfect peace until he shall wake up and find himself in the presence of the Lord, to go no more out forever. This salvation is enhanced in dignity by the exalted messet who proclaims it; by the extent of the mercy which it brings to men, and by the character of those by whom it ts minis- tered. It was, therefore, fitting this morning to ask the practical question, ‘What shall each one do in ‘ard to this great salvation?” Apply it to himself asthe very thing the soul desires and longs for, and which nothing can pluck irom its grasp or embrace, and in the stronghold of reverent faith en- shrine it; or shall we turn away our hearts from tt ‘and tear ft from our breasts? We should esteem It a Verrible guilt to do so. Let us look at it differently, calmly and with open eyes, The description of the text is purely pesenive, nemeck, It 18 the highest stand @ man can take against it merely to pass it by, to lay it,aside temporarily, intending, it may be, to take itup ata future time, but im the present crisis aot caring to ong ae = though Abbas ten hae arranged purpose nally rejecting It. di 4m the radiuuce of its authority, STANDING IN THR PORTAL OF HEAVEN, if the heart does not immediately embrace it there 1s nothing between this neglect and final rejection. ‘There is the dividing line, and the man who does nothing rejects; he crosses the line. Let then, this Morning stand at the point of rescission an survey the Iine that stretches out beyond us. First there is entire indifference, a coid, heartless manner of treating all who assume to present this question. Men are interested in every question which the Passing hour may bring, ut not in this question, which is of the greatest inter- est, ‘he doom of the soul is treated witn @ mobility of feeling which is impossible to un- derstand. Secondly, there 18 an absolute aversion, areal conscious dislike of truths prepared, of pre- cepts enforced im the gospel. There may be a re- spect for the proprieties of life, a silence yoward the feelings of some who are tenderly loved, but there 1s a real aversion inthe heart still. And, like Milton’s character, the disguise will some time be struck off and the real shape, which we did not dream to exist will appear, A DEEP, SECRET ENMITY IN THE HEART. It will sometimes appear in ridicule of the Lord Jesus’ commands, reviling the man who utters them and setting the whole authority of God at defiance, and exhibiting a bold hatred of revelation, There are frequent illustrations of the prevalence of this spirit among us. We are seldom without sume ac- tive opposition to Jesus in the Church. The question stands here as a personal one—one of neglect—and 1t asks, What do you mean to do with this Jesus and oe salvation? There is truth in the old Saxon pro- rerb, THE NEARER THE CHURCH THE FURTHER FROM GOD. ‘There may be penne) geodness in the man in all his relations of life, no failure discerned in lus reve- Fence for outward forms of religion; but he may sttll be as far trom the spirit of religion as the heaven from which it comes. It is our personal salvation , Which is presented, and the acceptance of it settles a@lifor men. The Saviour says ‘Be ye reconciled to God.” “Ye will not come unto, Me that ye might have life.’’ Why can you not? Tne response is cold, stately—negiect. It 1s not inquired of, not thought about. To the neglectful eye there is no beauty in it to be sought aiter. Its exhibtion of Divine grace is contemned, and the least infusorial insect is often studied with @ patience and skill which men utterly faii to bring to bear on this question. The heart neglects 1%, lorious provisions are not loved, its joys and hopes are despised, and the heart entwines itself around ie very = Op- Posites oi these, The Doctor, in enforcing tne acceptance of this salyation and the prompt settlement of the question in the text, brought forward very clearly tne idea expressed in the word escape a8 manifesting dan- ger, and yet suggestive of encountermg bitter un- Willingness of men and provocation of dunger toward the thing presented. The responsibility Wich rests upon them in its rejection and upon him if he fatied to warn them and to present the truth to them was brought out, and he appealed to them as intelligent beings among whoin the Saviour had kept him these twenty-six years teaching and Preaching these truths to examine their hearts and decide tis great question at once and forever. ST. LUKE'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Day of Symbols—The Waving of Palms— Minds, Not Ballot Boxes—Sermon by Rev. C. 8. Harrower. The memvers of this church attended the services in large numbers yesterday. As it was Commanion Sunday as well as Palm Sunday, nearly all the con- gregation received the sacrament with looks of earnest piety and deep devotion. The presiding pastor, Rev. C. S. Harrower, delivered an eloquent discourse on the day and its associations. He took his text from Mark li., 8-12, He said:— My beloved brethren, this is the day of symbols, the waving of palms and the breaking of bread, the shout of “Hosanna! and the cry of “Crucify Hun!” Christ 1s King to-day—martyr too, He comes in the name of the Lord. HE DIES AMID THIEVES. He is Messiah and malefactor; the redeemer of His people and the rival ef Cwsar. The multitude spread their garments in his way and wave their branches before Him. They clothe Him in scariet, and give Him a reed and mock at Him. Sunday and Friday week we celebrate His entry into the city aud the Temple; we celebrate, also, His death upon the cross for our redemption. There 1s a fitness in the coincidence, for the cry of ‘All hail, son of David!” and the rade crown of thorns go not poorly together as we read history backwards, The people spoke truly out of their hearts, He was King David's greater son come to rule over His Kingdom—a larger oue, by far. And elders and priests knew not that they were lifting Him to the best throne that earth could offer; and being thas Itfted up, He would begin to draw aii men unto Himself, He shall arise, and the palm branches and the shouts of the people to-day will but feebly express the power and glory to which the Messiah shall yet come. Somewhat in this light must that ‘day of ey have appeared to the risen John the Baptist, ‘nowing what should come to pass. It was the be- ginning of His conquest. No longer dia HE CONCEAL HIS MESSLAHSHIP; no longer would He spend Himself in journeys and miracies. Ratier will He to-day prociaim His mis- Sion openly and accept the welcome of the city. ‘Lhen, having sealed His covenant with mankind by Mis own blood, He will ascend on hy and walt till kings bestow thetr crowns upon ah JUDGES SIT AT HIS FRET, and the nations come beneagh His sceptre. Such was the first Falm Sunday. The baptism in ihe Jordan nad marked the transition from the nee ciuzen to the Great Teacher. Now, the entry of the city marks the transition from teacher aud healer to From this day the world knows Hiim as Messiah. He 13 this or He 18 nothing. I pass now fiom the first Palm Sunday, Christ declaring Himself and a iickle multitude greeting Him, to the last Paim Sunday to this day. We have iearned something. Once we thought He was coming back very soon to take the throne. Once we thought tne church of the Messiah would always possess miraculous powers by which to maintain its clayms and achieve its purposes, In both these things we have learned better. Christ has not proposed and it has not been God's pleasure to OUT SHORT THR RACE’S PROGRESS by @ speedy judgment, # sudden millennium. Rather nas He left us to work the questions of each age as they have arisen, and thereby come 80 much nearer to the millennium, as ng jedge of Christianity and the elaims of Christ has | gone on according to the wisdom Of its advocates, subject to all the infirmity of human nature, aud tumes seriously impeded by the unwisdom and per- versity Of ite representatives. #0 for eighteen hun- dred anniversaries of this great day the authority of Christ has been growing only by these meaus. ‘The eoqaene, of hearts, not armies; the Winning, not the dethronemeut of kings; MINDS, NOT BALLOT BOXES; these are His purposes and desires. Suffer me to suzgest to you a few reflections for this anniver- sary. We ieel to-day that we wish te greet, meet welcome Him as He comes. it is weil. ‘There is every reason why we should pour out our hearis in honor of Him, Where should we and the world have been? Waere and what but for His coming y No One can doubt thatthe new life biood of Christ has been the one force to prevent our running over again the career of Kastern civilization or dropping into the night which as buried Egypu and ASSY TIA. ‘Therefore vo Chrigt as the new Teacher we may give all the praise; put Christ, as the personal Jesus, sav- ing His peuple from heir sing; tw Christ, the visible, express finage of che Father, bringing God nigh to us and us nigh to God; laying lus own hand on us to heal and mould and save. To Him let us give endless Nanar. Hut how atall We greet Him Buy lor day? Go ouvand bear branches and cast your thents before’ Him? Go rather with the beaut Iystic of an earlier time. Cast your foibies down berore Him. Cast your besetting sins beiore Him tial He may ride over them. It 1s a fitting use of all these to-day, while you salute Him who comes to set you free, that you lét Him tread upon your chains, your weights.and burdens. ‘They shail nob make a rough highway for Him, but they shall make ee cleaver and thy heart lighter. The best robe that snoulder ever bere was not too good for that dumb beast to tread who bears our Lord, Bat naught of wealthy robe is half such honor to thy king as is the laying of thy idols down, the tearing of thy sius away, the laytog down of all that can offend His kind, pure eye. Lay by thy follies; quit Uby foibles; let the sins that pierce Him and humble thee be put away in this great hour, and in one ever sacred act, cast in the dust before Him all that can offend. Then bid Him welcome in thine heart. In that silent temple let Him stand and look around on al things. On, brother, if He see intruder there; if He find His house profaned, and bid the mtruder go; if aught was not cast out iet no sin remain. When His pure light shines through thy soul send every pride ana stubborn seifishness away, and bid your Lord make every vessel clean, the altar pure, that sacrifice of praise and love and joy may thence ascend as tn- cense out from censors of the angels and saints that crowd near His throne. all be @ true ho- sanna and a welcome; 80 let t Him—so let Him own again our hearts. But we must crown Him in our lives. He has conquered in the battle we have to fight. He has overcome the world. When the strife is hot remember there is one who hag conquered. If He did I can. By His help I will. It 1s @ beautiful custom which a) in every hand a. Sprig of green to-day, Wear that if you will, but Wear too a better badge, the love man. Wear that to-day and wear it always. So shall the golden age come in. THE XAVIER ALUMNI SODALITY. Services at St. Francis Xavier's College. Yesterday morning, ere many of the fashionable attendants of midday services had been roused from. their slumbers, the spacious hall of St. Francis. Xavier’s College, in Fifteenth street, was the scene of an impressive religious pageant, In spite of the drizzling snow and ran there arrived at the hall, by hslf-past seven o'clock, nearly five hundred men—many of them from Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Jersey. On the stage of the college hall @ beautiful altar was erected for the occasion yesterday, and it flared with tapers and flowers. At the appointed nour the director, Rev. P. F. X. Dealy, S. J., entered the hall, and, ascending the altar, requested all the assemblage to pray for one of the members who is at the point of death, Then followed the recitation of part of the morning office in the Latm vongue, the occupants of the right and left aisles alternately reading the verses. it was a touching spectacle to witness the devotion with waich the congregation kneit and arose while they offered their prayers to God. Mass was celebrated by Father Dealy. After the ablution the gentlemen present advanced in order to the altar, where they received Holy Communion. Comment on this edify- ing Scene Would be superfluous, At the ciose six- teen gentlemen who had been on probation were RECEIVED INTO THE SODALITY. Each postulant held a candle in his hand while he Promised to be faithful to the Lord. They were then presented with meaals of the immaculate concep- tion, The entire assemblage arose ana sang the Magnificat aud the Veni Creator. Rossi’s Zantum ergo was then chanted by the choir, which contains many excellent singers. "The blessed sacrament waa placed on the altar, and a benediction brought the Teligious services to a close, BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. A Sermon to Children by the Rev. E. C. Sweetser. The services in the church at the corner of Down- ing and Bleecker streets yesterday morning were chiefly remarkable from the fact that a large num- ber or children took part in the singing, and that the sermon, by the Rev. E. ©. Sweetser, was ad- dressed specially to them. Over ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YOUNG FOLKS were arranged in the gallery in support of the choir, They sang, ‘Hark, the Air is Full of Voices; after which the reverend gentleman in eloquent words prayed for his flock. In announcing contributions to be received for Alice Cary’s memorial window, he took occasion to say that he did not favor the move- ment, yet not because he did not think ‘the sweet singer a gooa and nobie Woman, but that it conveyed the false impression that she had not been a Univer- Salist tu the last; whereas she lived and died in that faith. He preached from the text found in St, Luke i, 49: ‘And he said unto them, how is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?”” Tnese words were spoken by Jesus when but twelve years old, and were the first that He had uttered in regard to his mission. It had been the habit of all the Jews to go to Jerusalem once a year to the feast of the Passover. So the father and mother of Jesus ased to go and take Him witn them to the temple, which was a great and beautiful bnilding, like our churches nowadays, but larger and grander. It was always. open night and day. Jesus was anxious to learn the truth, They did not have pander achools in those days. He Was so anxious to fit Himself for this work, AS A MAN AND A SAVIOUR of men, that when in Jerusalem He ouce went to the Temple alone, and His parents searched for Him, and when He was found He said ‘“Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” What father? What father’s business must He be about? Not His earthly father. Itcould only mean His Hea- venly Fathers business. Don’t you know that [ must be about my Heavenly Father's works? This was the question that He asked, So ou, litte children, should be about your leavenly Father's works, just as Jesua was. But how can children do work for God? Learn about God. Know about Him and His love for you. You are given the Bible for this, and 1t 1s for this that He revealed himself unto us. When you do these things you are working for God, just as Jesus worked for God. When you do anything that He wants you co do you work for Him, Can you not do as much as that for your Heavenly Father, who has done so much for you? DO Goop. All good things are about God’s busines as you know, Went about some ¢ your parents in all things, for this 13 Pleasing to the Lord; and when you disobey them you are working inst God and displeasing Him. To do good for evil 1s (o be about your Heavenly Father's business. Children can be thoughtful and generous and work for God. There was once @ man who owned a farm, and on a hillside was a pure, cool spring. He bethoaght him to bring the water of this spring to the roadside by pipes; and he did so, Trayellers ever after were wont to stop and re- fresh tfemselves and their beasts by the means which he had provided. He had worked for God. Many men would have let people get their own wa- ter, But Jesus has promised a reward unto those who refuse net even acup of cold water. When eople are thoughtful aud generous to their neigh- bors they are about God’s business; and you, chil- dren, can do so a8 well. You can open MORAL AND SPIRITUAL FOUNTAINS, by the dusty wayside of life; even children can do thus. If you want to work for God make some one happy. Outside of home, in the street, in the School, see What you can do for God. Don’t be cruel to anything God has made. ‘Be thoughtful of dumb animals as well as of human beings. Children can be temperate. They can keep from the use of tobacco and from swearing. There is nothing manly in chewing or smoking tobacco or in speaking oaths. God does not mean hoys or men to make smokestacks of themselves. It ts God’s will that our bodies be offered “pure and acceptable.” A man asked a Ohinaman why he didn’t drink rum. His reply was, “Rum not proper. Rum make CHINER NO. 1 FOOL !' Rum makes fools of men. So try very hard to be temperate in all things. No work pays so well as working for God. If you work tor Him you will never lose your reward. He always keeps His romises and pays with happiness an eaven, What good do riches for a man if he is not nappy ? What good are fine clothes with an uneasy con- science? But work for God and He will give you true happiness. Begin right away. 8ST. PHILIP'S (COLORED) PROTESTANT EPIS- COPAL CHURCH. Only Fools Mock at Sin—Sermos by the Rev. Mr. De Costa. Yesterday a small but very respectable colored congregation attended the morning services at the above place of worship in Mulberry street. The in- terior of the church presents a neat and comfortable, but plain appearance, At the far end of the middie aisle stands the altar, im front of which are two reading desks, covered with black velvet trimmed With gold fringe and tassels, and bearing in front a golden cross. Key. John Paterson, the pastor, a tall, intelligent looking black, who wore gold spectacies, was yes- terday assisted in conducting the morning services by a white clergyman, Rev. Mr. De Costa, of the Board of Missions, Both of the reverend gentlemen were clothed in white surplices, with black band. The exercises were lengthy but Impressive, and followed the Book of Commen Prayer literally. The worshippers were very devout and attentive, and the singing, a9 well as the responses, well renaered. ‘The pastor read the Gospel for the day from First Puilippians in # clear and sonvrous tone, Rey. Mr De Costa preached a briet sékmon from the Proverbs Xiv., 9 “FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN.” He commenced by alluding to the great solemnity | of the week they were entering upon and to we :