The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1871, Page 4

Soe ~ RELIGIOUS, SERMONS AND SERVICES YESTERDAY. Admonition end Advies to Old and Young— the Questions of Marriage, Tem- prance and Immortality. ‘the eptritual sign of the kingtom of God, The unity of Christ with the Spirit was evide xt, THE PROMISED COMFORTER was no other than the Holy Ghost. This Comforter ver since has abode mine Church ead the world, ‘here 18 ho need to cali down the Holy Ghost. li 1s present in the Ohurch—in every worshipping a3- surance of the Church, Ii wilt never ve recaliel untal the Son comes seated apon the clouds of heaven, It converts and redeems sous. It is the divine health that raises dead souls and bids them live. Then the Saviour comes to us in all the spirit. What is regeneration but the following of Christ in the soci? What is holy living but comiormity to the example of Carist? The last stage uf SANOTIPICATION CUANGES TO GLORIYTC ATION, Whats is, then, tho promise? “Wo Kuow not what we shail be.” The agency of Christ Is now the Holy Ghost to enter and possess all the powers of tho soul, This is, then, the unity of the Divinity. How strong, then, t3 your epivaton—rour hope. Mow strong should be your efforta, and what a power in the pulpit, to fall back on the gevercigaty of Him Common Sense, Urthodoxy and Eloquence Aiding Fach Cther. Tho Surost and Safest Road to| the Realms of Glory. Alight, brights, lovely atmosphere, sach as contd not | fall to make the heart glad, the blood ungie through | the Veins ani give a ouppy lustre to the eye, was hat which greeied the residents of the metropolis esterday moving. Tuo healthy atmosplere | pided the preachers in inducing large crowds fm Radition to these who may be regarded as regu- attendant: to assist at divine service yeoterday. sermons generally showed somewhat of a same- ‘Mess, cousequent, perhaps, on a reaction from the religious strain of the Leftea and Easter times, Many of we sermous, however, were of more than } orémary Merit, and those for which space can be | found avaiiavle will be found below. FiFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. An Angelic Discourse—Sermon by the Rev. | Dr. Armitage. At this church yesterday morning, after the usual services of the Baptist Church nad been proceeded who oun quicken wnom He wit, the living and the dead. Whatsoever be the blindness, the pride, tho obstinacy, He oan overcome it by TUR STILL, SMALL VOICR that addresses every conscience and every heart. We never had @ good thought or sense oi error or sin but He was the cause, (ive glory that the Holy Ghost represents the absent Spirit of Corist. Let us be thankful that He silently began the work and tuat He wili finesh is, and that He bas power, Be ainbdittous to bring othora under tue same saving influence, We can do this atone by lifting up Ohrist, Basten to give giory to the gsoended Savtour, who, having led captivity capuve, giveth gifts to men, 2 | Give thanks to the Spint for the work that He has wrought, as when tho scales fell from tne eyes of Paul. Unite with oil the Church of God in daily ascriptions of pratse to Jesus the Saviour, who is deserving of lacreasing praise. CHURCH OF ST. PAUL TOE APOSTLE. eee ‘Mind the Things That Are Above.”—Ssrmon by Father Hill. Yesterday being “Low Sunday,” a solemn high mass was celeprated at the Churoh of St. Paul the Apostic, in West Fiity-nintn street, The masa was sung by Father Searle, assisted by Fatuers Spencer and Dwyer, who acted as deacon and sub-deacon, respectively. The day being so very pleasant a large number were preseat, some, doubtless, at- tracted by the fact thas one of the young ciorgymea lately ordained was expected to preach his first ser- mon. | with, tho pastor, Rev. Dr. Armitage, proceeded to deliver the discourse of the day. He took his text irom Psalms xxaly., 7—“The Angel of Jehovah en- camps around them that fear Him, and delivers them,” He said:—These words bring to our thoughts a race of invisible beings occupying a Space betweea the human and divine regions, ‘he whole air aud heaven is filled with these innumera- ble invisible bodies, watcbing over the desunies of man ani carrying out the mandates of their Lord and Master who is in heaven, It is very dificult tor the human mind to understand what an angel 1s Waturaily sceptical, we want to see before believing, Bnd as we cannot see these aerlal beings except they are reveaie to us much doubt is engendered fm the minds of the unthinking or unlearned Christian. Lut let us take this worldly sphere of ours and examine if we see everything we believe in; take electricity; we do not see it aud yet we im- | plicitly believe in its preseuce; take the growth of | plants, we dv not see tuem grow, yet how forcibly | Bre we remiuaed of the fact in’ the lovely spring. | ‘When tp worlaly matters such instances occur, 18 1t | Dot natural wat m the almighty wisdom of God exietences and intelligences should svring tuto lue | Which we Caunot .uily comprehend: ‘This is no rea | BON, Lough, wit We should doubt the existeuce of | such; for, as in human aifairs we base our belief on science, 80 in Diviue matiers we base our belief on faith, Take a drop of water aud pus it under the flcroscope, and what MYRIADS OF ANIMALOULE | Are Tevealed to the sight, beretofore Invisible, and if the microsco,e could be made @ thousand Umes More poweriul then Would theré be seen thousands of other insects which we know to exist. ‘Lhe Bibie poth begins and euds witn angels, Ley are the wims- Te Of God, both iu executing his commands ior | and forevii. Iwas an angel that communi. the destruction of Sodom aud Gomorrah, and #8 Was an ange inat prevented Abraham trom otier- og up his son as @ sacriice. When Curist came down on Earth the heaveuty host of angels were , Always present with Him; when down | IN THE DARK DEPTHS OF THE GRAVB | &n angel came and rolled the stone away irom the mouth of the sepulchre, As Christ Was on earth, 80 | re We, for lie tas made us partakers of His King- dom, and the couutie 8 ministers of grace wno dis | Uhrougi heavenly space are to-day watching over us al. bach living being ont arth i. given & guar- dian ange), who Keeps waich over Lim and is ever present admonishing him in the-+nierest OF Ms soul Bod obeying the iMscPit iis of God, who is in heaven. i the-t7ird would to-day touch with His Hoger the-eves of aii here preseat, and make things ~¥isible to them hitherto mvistoie, then I do believe We Would see @ countiess multitude of We heavenly lnnabilants standing | ON MY RIQUT HAND AND ON MY LEFT. Then would we lear tue ter of thetr wings as they Doated round tre church, and see them lookmg fiown with eyes of iove of us and beckoning us upward {o that heavenly sphere beyoud the skies. é handles: son in this Church to-day, if rigut- bous, is just as mucu esteemed and loved by those above as tie weaithicst and most powerful. Iu this short and ehecquered career Of ours we are too apt to look on position, Wealth and renown in preference to immortality. ‘Wo think a great deai of a Shakspeare, a Milton or | an irving; but the sasall child in Lae gutter 1s passed by with contempt and se Yet we stould remem- ber tuuteven he is possessed of a soul like them: that be has his goardiap augel, who, unmindful of his iow estate, ts always waichiog tenderly over his pluarge, dud that if ke grows up im the patiis of grace and truth ae will be & (housandfold more accept | able in ihe eyes of God thau the greatest map that pyer lived, provided he walked ip the ways of the un- goaly. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. Tho Unity of Jeeus Cirist and the Holy Ghom—The Still Small Voice’— sermon by the Rev. =. H. fyna, Jr. The Church of the Holy Trinity was completely filled by devout worshippers yesterday morning, and the rendering of tue solemn services of the Church of England was characterized by deep e@arnestuess on the partof both minister and peo Pie. The chow rendered we Ze Deum Laudamus and the Juviiate veo with fine effect, and the con- gregation at the appropriate moment sang a hymp to the revered, time-honored tune of Greeneville, The Rey. Dr. Tyng delivered a short sermon on the text found in the Gospel according to St. John, | Xiv., 28—l go away and come sgain un'o you.” Tho Divine Master bad vut just foretold His depar- ture from the world. which the toll and rejectioa and calumny of years had so closely cemented was soon to be broken. central oflices were to be exercised by another com- forter than Himself, Its early struggles, in which Christ liad been the centre, the great life and spirit, prepare us to appreciate the greatness of the Block which the intelligence produced. Their be- lief was a blind attachment to Christ, so convince. ingly are the feelings related to faith. It was, there: fore, not to be expected that to His gotng away they should cheerfully acquiesce. But He provided @esurances, and of these the text 18 one. “I go fway aud come again unto you.’ Jealous affection Buppianted any other idea than that He was the pom: rier, and so to impars cheer to the disciples He reveuled a upton of Himself with that comforter. This ts the spirit of truth that is iu you and will not Jeave you. THE AGENCY OF THE HOLY GHOST 1s consecrated to mivister through the Gospel His glory to the soul. Christ was one with that triune Godhead which this book represents on every page. But cils oneness does not eliminate the tudivida. Blity of of.ce and of spirit, Its relations to the world fnd the Church are clearly defined, aud this truth iy the antidote of much false doctrine. | Multitudes have no seitied faith on this subject. Yet deity as distinguished irom divinity js constantiy taught in the Scriptures, The comforter, tne best comforter, 18 the Holy Ghost, “which the Father seuds in My name,” w be the guide to ail tenth. The coming of the Holy Ghost was the result ‘of the life and jabors of Jesus Obrist the Lord. It was dificult for the Church to transfer all associa- tion from tue first to the second dispensation. But the. fife of Chist isa giass in which the Father's umage is refiecie. There WE BEAOLD 1H GLORY oF cop. Before there was a veil over the heart, but the soul awakened to perceive by the spirit Christ. ‘This is interchangeably ascribed to Christ and to the Spirit. “1 will come unto jou.’ He came forward declaring the love of sie rit, Svch was ibe unsel ess of Gou. Verily hou art God, thoagh thou nidest thyself. Tne Holy st within Us is Lue dosent Clirist. e reverend genticman discussed the first mean- {ng of the Word “Grace.” Tie union of the Godhead ‘Was Hot simply in the Livine nature aud spirit; out ose grace of the Divine nature and spirit, Its | pel Means the opening of promises, the reconcil- of tne favor of the Word to the Vee petal 3 It ‘Was contrasted to the old law of Moses—one lifted up which the other cast down. St. Paul tels us to ww in grace and so in knowledge ol Jesus Christ. e knowledge o1 Christ conveyed by institudons of orship is taat Which suows the grace of Ulisist, itis with i THE LoRD's SUPPER. There ts nothing magnetic in holy hands, nor in ly bread aid Wine. Tiey possess no super- (ura, superscitious qualities, Uniess the paruol- hecome persuaded py the Spirit, these cere bec me rous deceli#. He spoke of the acuious cofveplion in Lie womb of phe Virgin by (he oversiadowing of the Holy host, and o baptism of Jota in Jordan, when th rit . The AevulA cast ous were pub inca The sacred circle of discipies | 1s | | After the Deacon, Father Spencer, had intoned | his gospel, Father Hill ascended the steps of the | altar and read the gospel of the day, according to | St John, xx. from the 19th to $ist verse in- | clusive, wherein he desoribed the appearance of | our Lord in the midst of His disciples when they | were assemblea together alter His resurrection. | Father Hill then took for his text the first three verses of the third chapter of Paul's Epistie to the Colossians. | ‘The reverend orator then said:—Those who are 20 fortunate as to be baptized in the Catholic Church | become children of God; they go down to death | with Jesus Christin the purifying, cleansing waters | Of holy baptism and rise again with Christ to life, | God has not only given usjHimself, but He has given | us the sacrament ot bapusm, whereby we are | Washed free from the stains of mortal ain, He has aiso given us the sacrament of penance, by means of which those who have been so unfortunate as to fall into @ state of mortal sin are again RESTORED TO GRACH, and their sing blotted out from the book of the re- cording angel. He has also given us communion and the sacritice of the ass. When God came upon ' earth He took upon Himself our nature, and when we rise with Cliriss we take upon us iis divine na- ture; this vile body of ours puts off corruption and assuines the glorious incorruption of God’s pasture. One means there is of pleasing God which is urgentiy recommended by the Church, and that is devotion to the Virgin Mary, Hts mother, who 1 also the mother of the Church, Sho it is to whom the Churoh addresses these words, “Aegina cet “evare auleluia,” and she has been inspired to write the following about h Ut perejus genitrwem Virginem Mariam petuecapiamus guadia vite.” There 1s no de- vouon practised which is more acceptable than SAYING THE ROSARY; truly has it been cailed “an epitome of the Gospel,” for it contains all the mysteries of the passion of our Lord and the joyful and sorrowful mysteries of te Ife of the Biessed Virgin, upon which we should meditate devoutly. Surely youcan fund time to say at least one decade every day. You can, 1 am sure, spare fifteen minutes every day. What! you cannot do this, and yet you are assured of the benefits to be derived {roni so doing? YOU REMIND ME OF KING AGRIPPA,- who, when asked by St. Paul if he dia hot belteve in the prophets, rephedye*Pirow almost persuadest me Lo be @ Ciirtstiain.’? Oh, woe to tose propliets, nOtseat by God, who preach Christ, but not His mocner; who thus presume to separate what God as joined together. Some of you who lear me are, perhaps, of that class that, to the great regret of a pidus mother or sister or wile, have again allowed this holy season of Easter to pass without approaching the sacraments. ‘ou are trusting to the eillcacy of & death. bed repentance. What right have you do £0, or What guarantee have you that this great grace will be given to you, when you have unt- jormiy refused to accept the ordinary graces which have been bestowed upon you from time to time? “Charity hopeth all things, but, verily, thou tarriest jong, and even would throw of the yoke of Christ.’ O, my friend, m all sincerity and affection I be- seech of thee to repent and trust no longer to such a delusive hope; let Dot that business, or whatever one of develo) tand one the salvation by Jesus Onnst, ‘The former tries to work out goodness and virtue aud purity independentiy; the latter takes hold of God's sirength and by tt works out these results. ‘fhe one doubts and denies the rain of our lenies that this world is @ Babel; but the other belleves and admits the rain and declares teat the whole building. titly jolted together anv compacted by that which every = Un wg! shalt grow up | io all things into Him whion ia the Head, even Christ. One believes that the race is whole and needs no physician: the other that from the crown of the head to the sole of the feet there is no souna- ess ID it, Sut wounds and eruses and putrefying gores; but that ihe Great Physician will restore the race and bring it ap to the PULNRSS AND STRENGTH OF A PERFECT MANIOOD. Can we not readily see how, with our sing anid Weaknesses, such a theory of salvationas the first must be utterly helpiess and useless to us, But in the otner case Jesus, who is vory God of very God, comes to us and helps and bears in his own body on the treo all our sins, thus making salvation pos aibie unto every one of us. These are the words of 13 life which the ministry is called upon te pro- claim. Christ as the reconciling saviour comes to Taise us u/— God in Ohrist perpetually incarnave and made manifest tn our mortal flesh; Cirist came to Uli Our hearts with His love, to infuse His life into oa life, our business, our legisiation—every- hing; Christ, the same yesterday, to-day ad for- And every soul in this nce this morn- iB May be just as near and dear to Jesus a8 was that beloved disciple who leaned on His bosom, or those whom He declared should sit on thrones Judging the twelve trives of Israel, ‘The oMice of the mioistry—go stand in the temple \d proclaim all the words of this life, What const'- utes @ living ministry? First, the minister must be @living man and have received mto his heart this Teconcliing love of Jesus and be partaker of Christ's fe and death; he must have the mind that was in Christ, And any man who has not theso truths in the heart cannot preach them, and must Scatter the Church of God. He may be a fluent speaker, an eloquent orator, & learned man; but be may, nevertheless. be doing nothing to gather men to Jesus, The living minister wiil do nothing for stage effect, which ig the very essence of cant, He will have Christ reigning in him, and will come be- fore the people witu this power. Mr, Cookman here related a lable to Llustrate the axiom that TRUTU, WITHOUT UNCTION, KILLS, Second, the living mintster mnst have confidence in the divinity of his office and ca'ing, “Believe in At or fail’ ts @ motto that holds true of every protes- sion. Waut of confidence will vitiate all activities, ‘Third, a distinctness of purpose and simplicity of design in accomplishing the work of God, There 15 @ feeling among some men that the pulpit 13 an ap- pendage of good soctety; that the minister isin the puipit because he has made a contract and wants to keep it. The preaching Inspired by such a feel- ing is rum to the function and damnation to the lunctionary. Better raze every one of our churches to the ground than have them stand before us thns as hindrances at the very gate of hoaveo. The luviag minister wili have independence in preaching without that boyish folly which says bold things because he dares to say them. The living minister ‘will feel that he is a workman sent from heaven to do the work of God una to lead men to Him. There is a tendency in ths day to tum the pulpit into a lecture stand and to preach science instead of religion, philosophy rather than moral duty, That which runs from @ man’s brain downward is very apt to run thin and finally to run out, The true minister will take tne seeking soul to the empty tomb and tell him that JESUS HAS RISEN and become the first fruits of them that slept. Dying men don’t care about science and philosophy. They want Christ to save them; they want to have all the words oi this life poured into their ears, That is the only living ministry which brings the truih directly to the hearts of men. Pourth, the living minister must have a profound conviction of the dignity and destiny of the soul’s existence. Differ. ent views on this point were detailed, and the result of the preaching of the Se word by al ving ministry in producing a living holy church was set forth with great power and beauty, and, after a fer- vent prayer and singing the Doxology, the audience Was dismissed. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAD. The Question of Marriage-A Sermon for Yousg Men by the Rev. George H. Hep. worth. Tho Rev. Mr. Hepworth delivered the sixth of his sermons to young men last evening at his handsome church, The special subject was “Marriage,” and it is almost needless to say that the church was crowded and the sermon eagerly listened to. Mr. Hepworth’s text for te sixth lecture in his course to young people was taken from Hebrews xil., 4—“Marriage is honorable in all,” He said marriage is one of the institutions of God. It is the iecoming into the heart of both man and woman of & new and higher experience. It 13 the revelation of new duties and responsibilities, aud they are daties which enlarge the compass of our powers and increase oar faith in God and in all things beautiful and true. A man is @ better citizen when he becomes a good husband and father, Sttil, there are circumstances under which 1tis an act of moral heroism to live unmarried. The world has a standing joke for old bachelors, and its sharpest satire 13 flung at those whom it is pleased to call “the per- to | manently upmarried.”” Now, while it is the duty of every mau and woman to build a home for them- selves, there are instances of both sexes crushing down the instincts of their natures because some old i1ather or mother needs theirservices. I have great respect and admiration, he said, for such heroic men and women. On the other hand I think itis that occupies your time and attention at pre- sent, prevent you from turning now to God. Re- meniber the words of the sacred writer, “MIND THE THINGS THAT ARB ABO’ not the things that are upon the earth.” Beware lest you fall into the sin of presumption ta thus continuing to set God’s Word at naught and pre- suming that you will have the time aiforded you when on your death bed to repent. ‘This stu of pre- sumption ts one of the deadly sins against the Holy Ghost, aud those who commit it run great risk of | go!ng where they will be eternally burned. Repent now, that you have the tue, and do not allow an- | other Easter to pass and find you silll ta tne state of | mortal sin. The things of this world are of but little value compared with those of the next, In conclu- sion, let me Say @ Word to those Who have approached the sacrements wortnily, received absolution for their sins and devouuly and reverently partaken | of communion, Go on, my dear brethren; per- | severe unto the end; and, as each successive Laster arrives, you Wiil again experience the same sense of peace and happiness which you have enjoyed this time, The sacraments frequently approached con- fer grace and strength upou those who approach | them ina proper state of mind and with due prepa- ration. Above all things remember the words of St. Pagl, “Mind the things that are above, not th things that are upon the earth; for qonate dead an your Ife is hid with Christ,’ member these ‘words of the sacred writer and persevere. Perse- | verance is a virtue which we do not always merit, but we may sometimes obtain it by having recourse to God and earnestiy asking this grace at His hands, | @RINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Reconciling Word of Life—The Living Ministry, and the Product, a Living Church Sermon by Rev. John E. Cookman, The largest congregation ever gathered into this church during the past six years assembled there | yesterday at the installation of Rev. John E, Cook- man, the newly appointed pastor. The sermon of living ministry should be, what should be its teach- ings and what the inevitable results will be. Tho | text was taken from Acts v., 20—‘‘Go, stand and | speak in the temple to the people all the words of this lie.” It was not, he said, without feelings of solemn responsibility that he stood before the congregation this morning in this service, which binds them to- gether as pastor and people. The church had called him, and as a loyal son in the Gospel he had come to be their servant for Jesus’ sake. He did not come in his own strength to speak unto them his | OWn words, bat, like the aposties of old, be haa | heard the gentle, loving voice of Jesus, his | SAVIOUR, BROTHER, FRIEND, PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING, saying unto him, in the words of the text, “Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the | words of this life,” He would therefore call their at tention first to the re of the Gospel asa means of salvation, It is far more tmportant, he said, to @ preacher to know what to preach than to know how to preach. The subject of his preaching, as declared in this text, is, “All the words of this iife,"’ | Phe value of aby message of salvation will be found In its vitalizing energ, making men live more nobly, faiinfuily, holily, and we can always thus jade of @ ministry whether it be of God or of men, othing does execution or service in the long travel but that which makes men think and act. But in | order to apprehend this preaching we must first Apprehena Christ a8 the Alpha and Omega of the world. We can have no spiral life ourselves save ae itis given ts irom God through Christ our | atoning head. God who Is in Christ reconciling the | world wito Himself ach committed unto the minis try the word of reconciliation, Christ must be the great mediator between God and men, the bridge | Which unies toe two sides of the chasm which has divided God and maa, and througa whom we receive into our souls that power which enables us to love | and serve aud honor our God. And just here is the / ViTAL POINT OF THR CHRISTIAN SYSTEM, It establishes & union between the life of God and tie ile of man, Hence we Apostie John declares that “to dim (Christ) was iife, wad the Life was the | ligot of men, And as many us received Hun to them gave He power to become tue sons of God.” Here then rsis tho one power of the Church and of meu. ‘That trough Hin may be poured into our hearts the fuil tide of the life of God that we may become like Him, And any plan of theology, any preaching which misses this 18 tatully deieotive, hey never reach the disordered spot; they never satisfy the cravings of the soui. ‘There are two thauries oi salvation in the Wworld— it @ great mistake of Judgment when reiigious mmsti- tutions encourage celibacy as the NEAREST ROAD TO HEAVEN AND GOD. Convents and monasteries would do better to make good wives and husbands of their mmates, and Introduce a deeper religious element into the Church, than to teach men and women that home 1s not the holiest place in the world, till, there are 80 many unhappy unions—marriages of body and fortune rather than of soul and sympatny—that some plain talk on this matter may be of service to young men. ‘there are s0 many divorces nowadays that we are led to the irresistible conclusion that there is something wrong.in the way we look at marriage. No afiliction ts greater than the union of & man and woman who Are not sulted to each other, and no blessing is greater than the union of a mao and woman who jog along side by side through tue whole of LIFR'S UNEVEN JOURNEY, bearing each otlier's burdens and increasing each other's joys. A true man craves the sympatuy of a good woman and his happiness cannot be complete ‘Without it; a good woman needs the protection and watchful love of @ true man, and beneath its in- fluence will develop into a rarer and nobler being. First—Keep the romance of your youth as long as you can; but in so important @ step as marriage use your common sense. I believe in romance; it 1s as Much a part of youth as ambition is a part of manhood, Still, common senso 18 @ very im- vortant element in your views of the future. Meve romance 18 apt to ullimate in misery, When @ man is 80 desperately in love that he begins to write poetry and to quote those lines of Moore be- ginning, Ab, ever thus from chi!dhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay, and meditates suicide unless everything goes on as he expecta it to, nay be pretty sure that his love is a kind of counterfeit. Every boy has a time woen | the morning was an eloquent exposition of what @ n he thinks his own experieice the most pecullar that ever happened—a time when he regaras him- seif as the most abused and uufortunate person in the world. But these “EXCEPTIONAL CASES" HAPPEN EVERY DAY, and are & part of the necessary experience of the period. Now, though I delightin the avandon of 8 @romance, in which the hero forgets every- thing in the universe except the person of his nero- ine, | cannot heip feeling that, when a man and wo- man make up their minds to live together all the rest of thelr lives, it 14 80 serious a step to take that it should be looked upon cCarefuliy, deliverately, prayerfully, and from the standpoint of common sense. I know that this may secin to be here- cal to some of you, but the unhappy unions that are to be seen everywhere prove that it is far better to be careful now than to repent at your lie- sure. Secondly, in the name of Heaven | you to marry for love and for nothing clae. Let nelther the acquisition of money nor piace once enter your thoughts, How can I help reprimanding society? it not too ofien happen that mothers are on the lookout for “A GOOD MaTon,’? and though loving their children and wishing them to love their husbands, do yet use their influence to sacrifice the holiest feclings of the heart te am- bition’ And are not oar — wo often brought up to feel that their first quiy. to marry a rich man, and their second dut, love him if they can’ The giris of the period flirt their hearts away, and when they become wives find themselves unfitted for wifely duties and sacrifices. Tue first object in life is not to be a belle, with @ long train of admirers, but @ true and noble woman. After that the rest comes naturally, and happi- ness 18 sure to follow, ‘Zhe hollowneas of society in this matter 1s something appalling. A man nowa- Gays offers his hand and his fortune, instead of his heart, ana both man ana woman are destroyed by the bargain. I heard a girl say, the other day, ‘1 love him; but he 1s poor, and I can’t atford to marry him’? Such @ sentence contains the rankest heresy. Years ago a girl was willing to accept a man and his poverty; now, it must be a man and his money, Thep, the couple began in humble jodgings and worked their way up together; now, the girl must be suppiied after marriage with all her father has been abie to give her, and as much more as posslbies ‘The consequences are too sad to look upon, A GARKET WITH THE MAN YOU LOVB is better than @ palace without affection. The cur- rent literature of the day keeps this false feeling alive, in many of the novels which we devour the heroes and heroines are unsuited to each other, and the falsest ofall so-called puilosophies, that of aM@ni- Ues— the invention of the evil one—is brought in to repair the damage. Lastly, when you build a home for yourself live in it, and work to make it the asy- lum of your troubles and the holtest spot on the earth. How frequently after marriage the husband seeks reiresiment at the club house and the wife becomes A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY! Before marriage the two were turtle doves, and after they are two beara, It is curious, but tt some- Uines happens that home 1g @ place to be cross in, aud wo vent all your bad temper in, while society eniays all YOU sWeelws) Guuled and all your cs a San! genorous ¢: ons, In the true home the wife continues all her life to fascinate her husband, and and to make him feel, a3 in the days of his court ship, that she is @ goddess, and the husband Keeps his courtesies and his kind words and deeds tor ms wife and chiliren, it 18 proper that you should look forward to marriage as tno greatest blessing ai lfe, but marriage is @ curse ul the man and the woman love each other more at the end of ten Years than when they stood at the altar, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Plymouth Pastor's Piquact Philcssphy—Man- hood and Money—The Resurrzciion— “Lying Newspapers,” | PLYMOUTH CHURCH, As Argument Agatust Fretting—Universal Yankee—Mankood Worth Mere than Money. The opening lines of Herbert's neautifal hymn— Sweet day, ‘The bridal of must have Ungered tenderly in the memories of many churoh-goers yesterday, for surely never was Sabbath morning purer, calmer or brighter. Of course on such a day Plymouth church was more than crowded, and of course Mr. Beecher was elo quent and every tudividual of the vast congregation full of eager interest, The text was Mattnew vi., 33—‘‘Seek first the king- dom of heaven and its rignteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you'’—was the text of all others to bring ou¢ Mr, Beecher’s peculiar powers of apt and wiity iilustration and his CHARACTERISTIC COMMON SENSE methoas of dealiag with the problems of human + He began by asking what things are meant by tho Scripture, “all things shall be added unto you.” They may be summed up as all secular neceasary wants. It is declared that the way to gain a comfortable Iiveliboou in this world is not to seek the lowest wants with the best feelings and best time, but to seek the kingdom of God and all other good will follow. In (his remarkable passaze of the Saviour’s teaching there 13 a clear enuncla- tion of the dootrine of a divine personal provi- dence—ot God's personal care of all His creatures, The doctriue 1s not that men must wait in PATIRNT INDULENOR, ‘The economy of this world is such that tho small- est, least powerful things are careu for and sup- plicd, each in its sphere. The worm has in its nature the means of taking care of irself im tts worm life. The bird cares for itself by the appropriate use of its organism; even the vegetable feeds and de- velops according to its own nature. Now in this ar- rangement of the universe shall the lowest and the least be amply provided for and the highest. and best be forgotten: But how is the bird provided for? By geting oR early im the morning and-hunting idustriously. How 1s the lily cared for? It pushes out its roots and con- sumes the food within its reach aud then pushes further; In @ biind way it has enterprise, The Master ‘says, “Are ye not better than they?” 1s there not given to you equal opportunity, if you put forth your power’ By as much as your organ- ism 1s higher, so much are your chances muluplied, Therelore Ghcke ito DON'T FRET. The words in the text ‘no sbought” mean no fret ting thought, no useless, disturbed thought; no hot thought that burns where it touches, We are not to brood over our troubies or over the troubles that we fear. The text is, then, firsily, @ deviaration of the doctrine of Providence, Secoudly, it iorbids absorption in the lower uses of Ie. ‘e are com: manded not to seek frst our bodily comforts, Secular prosperity ought not to be first theugnt of. Weare not forbidden to seek the perishable, but we are forbidden to seek tt first. To be sure, in mere matter of time we must care for the body, but im the matter of importance the manhood must be attended to first, Tne text does not teach AN INDISCRIMINATE PROVIDENCE that takes care of the dillgent and the lazy slike, The sun shines on all, but what 1t does depends on what it shines on. The declaration 13 @ twoiold one, of @ superintenaing Providence, but coupled on our art with an attention to law. Seek ye first the ingdom of God, and then ail these things shall ve adued, Put all your noblest powers into good use and Providence will work with you. They that work for the kingdom 0: God will be SURE TO SUCCEED, not only in the thing itself, but will draw all lower oe after, By tne highest we find the gutew: the lowest, The sum of the teaching, then, this:—Let every man make his spiritual interests aramount. ‘There is a Preyidence that takes care of judividuai Men, No one can object to believing this, We all have our hours of conscious weakness, when we are bailled, and fee) that it wonid be transcend. ently biessed to have a God to take the blossoms of our purposes and make them bear fruit, But men say that this isnot reasonable—that all things work hy laws, They say God governs the wordly laws, and ren that obey them reap tue truit, and if tuey disobey them they reaj the other frutt. Now, we do not say that this Providence is one that supersedes law, but we say thatit is by Jawand through law. There is @ sustaluing power that blesses obedience. How fovlishly men reason on these subjects! They say that great natural laws vern the glove, Is not man @ part of tuis globe? not MAN THE FRUIT and all the rest husks? Are we walking powerless among ali these natural agencies? Some mea use navural laws, 80 that they DIE IN THE POOR MOUSE; others so that they die tn a home with home angels and heaven angels avout them, Because I can’t make one hair White or black, does it make no dif- Terence to my child whatidofor him? Man is so strong that he can make natural laws his servants, and do you come in and tell me that Goa is helpless? Does he look over the world and say, “I can only wind up this world and set it going, 1 see that father down there olessing his family. I wish I coulda viess my family.” I say that if God averages as well as an ordinary man or woman then He does meddie with natural laws. WOOL WAS MADE TO GROW on @ sheep’s back, but is @ natural law violated when it is drawn out from the housewlie’s spindle. God’s providence works by the natural jaw nearest you. God will not only work for you by the saws outside of you, but by the Jaws witnin you. He snccors you through your own powers. God pest helps those wko have learned to help themselves. ‘Thirdly, the whole experience of the worid goes to prove that the man who aims at THE HIGHEST MANHOOD will secure the most of ull the things that lle below. ‘There are times when men are thrown out of their normal conditiens, times of war and persecution, when men niust suffer for the truth; but even then the man that gives himself to @ cause ani lives tn poverty is happier than the man who has become rich through the selfish use of his lower nature, The power ot being happy 18 not measured by the things that you havé, but by the number of chords im the nature that VIBRATE WITH JOY. Tr the man that lives for noble ends airy fingers touch strings, of whose exisieace gross men never Know. ‘Take the lives of the most SUCOBSSYUL MEN IN POLITICS, men who have risen even to be Vice Presidents (and ‘that ofice usually finishes @ man), and write out all the jealousies, the heartburnings, the envy and the wory, all the plotting and counterplot- ting, and reading the record who would wish to y the price of thelr success’ All this life-long they are going to be nappy. 1 be lieve that Garrison, accommodated with ens that novody else had a use for, felt more exhiliration and joy in the days of his persecution, to say noth- ing Of his serene old age, than these 60-called suc- cessfulmen, itis very simple, If you play on the Upper chords you have sweet music, hut you get dull music from the lower chords. There is more Joy often in the prison than In the palace; more joy ‘on the cross than in the barbarous soidier that cru- cified, There 1s more joy in giving seif than in grow- ing rich by giving nothing. HAS CIVILIZATION DEPENDED UPON BRUTA FORCE, or has it foliowed the good, the truc and the beautl- fulf What class in the community prospera? Single men may succeed ir spite of moral law, but in classes which succeets? ‘Thoso who lie and for- swear themselves er the true and the honest, Take the Calvinists of New England; they believed their doctrine and built themselves upon the rock of principle. Men may say what ae! ar} of them, but these are the facts of their prosperity. The blood of the Yankee has been the salvation of the Guntinent. The Kealia alen | brain of the Yankce has developed the resources o! the Continent, You may DAMN THE YANKEB a8 Much as you please, but it was his consctentious heart that sinote the devil of slavery, and it is his organizing industry that sinks the Continent with rauroads and builds school nouses all along the line, If & man puts his potat principle highest be may suffer for it, but in the ens HE WILL GAIN. The worla is slowly apprehending the principles that the Gaililean pei it 80 strangely enunciated to His iittle band of disciples 2,000 years ago, That He should have delivered these principles proves that He was the fatner of trath in the form of hu- manity. How fitly from His lips fell the teachings that are yet to bring the world to Its millenium glory. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. “Lyiog Newspapers”=—Sunday Evening Dis course by Rev. T. D. Talmage. To an audience that filled every available standing and sitting space in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Mr. Talmage delivered last night the first of @ series of six discourses, ‘The subject announced for last night was “Lying Newspapers; but ir Mr. Talmage is no better acquainted with the remainder of his subjecta than he is with the one he discoursed on last night tho public will certainly bo Geirauded cyen of the “sensalign”’ they seamed ta NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. APRIL 17, 187.—TRIPLE SHEET, be so certain of obtatning. The text selected for | last by Father Corrigan, the tate pastor, im the name the illustration of the sensational discourse was trom the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke, and the forty-eighth verse:—“Unto whomsoever much 1s given, of him shall be much required.” The text was disposed of in a few sentences about the responstbility of personal influence, in which a number of truisms of the most familiar and trans- parent character were shouted out with the POMPOSITY OF AN ORACLE and the offensive twang of the Rey. Mr. Stiggins. For the remainder of the discourse avy text, from Genesis to the Revelations, would have suited the sermon, for the preacher fatted to connect after the few words of introduction, and ran on at express speed on the newspaper tril bigest" oT wapaper "gat ir. Talmage. ‘is the reat educator of the ceutury. Jt is pulpit, plat- orm, press, allin one, ‘There is no organization that can be compared to it,” Elis object that even- ing was to bitng beiore their notice those periodicals whioh were fittest to turnish their homes and their fresides, A short reference to the history of newspapers brought him to the statement that the greaiest influence obtained by the newspaper was in the United States. In 1775 there were only thirty-lour newspapers 11 these States; now they might be counted by thou. sunds, Books were not reaa in this country, but te Eo ga The loro pa imi re no} . Verage reading of the people in the States was not oe bas ONE BOOK IN A YHAR, The preacher preacnec only to a few hundreds, but the press flasned iti word to thousands—many thousands, The Biole told hiin that the nations were to be born iu a day; he believed that was to be done by the telegraph ana the press, The click of the the teexraph and the rolling of the ress would send forth ‘Hallelujah! Halielujat | jesus is come.” There are living m this country thousands of men laboring and blanching tueir cheeks and overworked brain for @ sinail stipend, and Who are giving up THE PROOF SUEBRT OF THRIR LIFE. These mon did @ great work, and he would always bear his testimony to ther worth, though tue jour- nals hud treated him rather roughiy sometimes, He wished to -peak of the bad newspapers, and there were enough bad newspapers published in this country to POISON A WHOLE NATION, New York, not satisfied with its own filth, had sent over to other oittes for more literary pollution. ‘There was @ newspaper of & most iniamous char- ucter published that had a circulation of 10,000 im New York and 7,000 in Laer ae He would not give ils name, a8 some of his congregation would go and get it. In referring to the mercenary cuaracter of some newspapers he said that there were men in that house that night who Were penniless because of faise information being ee of battles during the last war by newspapers. f attacks upon porsonal character Could not find their way into tne pews or editorial columns they could find their way into THE “PERSONAL” COLUMN. The bad newspaper stopped for no political falae- hood, There were lalsehoous uttered by newspapers 80 large im number that the father of lies would dis. own his own progeny. It would advertise & bad as readily as it would advertise the ‘Pilgrim's ress.’’ Jf this bad newspaper had the defautt- ing of some prominent prefessor of religion wo narrate they would put that fact in capital letters aud would try to make Christtanity responsible for the counterfeit, which was as just, as sensible as to. make a banker responsible for the counterfeiting of his institution, There were not in this country more than five or six succesatul religious newspapers, The sermon was closed somewhat abrupuy by & few words of application to young men and young women to take clean Dewspapers, and the aunouuce- ment that Dives was in hell. CHURCH OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO. The Resurrection=A Self-Denying Pastor= False Teaching in Papera—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Freel. There was no high mass at the Church of St. Charies Borromeo yesterday, in consequence of the ilness of the clergyman who had intended to celes braveit, A low mass was therefore said, and at its couciusion the Rev. Dr. Freel, the pastor of the church, made his appearance ia the pulpit and pro- Ceeded to deliver 8 discourse on the ‘Resurrection of our Blessed Lord.’* After quoting that portion of the Scriptures In tho twenty-second chapter of St. John which mentions the unbelief of St. Thomas, he said that the resurrec- tion of our Divine Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ‘was the most glorious proof of His divinity. It was atthe same time a triumphant evidence that He was & true manand true God. It was the great support and pillar of our faith in Him as our Saviour and our God. His resurrection also was an incen- tive to our hope and love, “Christ 1s risen from the dead,” sald the angels; ‘He is risen; He 13 not here.” THE EPITAPH OF CHRIST, therefore, might well be written in the language, “He is risen; He 1s nos here.’ There were the remains of great men, stateamoa, conquerors aud warriors; monuments had been raised to their memory and epitaphs inscribed on those monu vents, “Here lie the remains of such a one” giving the name); but over the tomb of Christ suchan epitaph cannot be written. No one could say, ‘Here lie the remains of Christ, the great Re- tormer, who called limself the Son of Go.” No, The epitaph of Christ was, ‘Ile is risen; He Is not here.” When we enter into the monuments of the dead in the old country we see there THE REMAINS OF DEPARTED GREATNPSS, In the Catacombs of Rome the bones of the great have become ashes, preserved in shrines or min- gled with kindred dust, or no longer alstinguish- able from the common clay of earti. The tombs of great men in Rome are empty. The monuments of the great men of the past are themselves dust, and the very marble raised to perpetuate thetr memories is mingled with the dust which was once the base of those monuments, So all human great- hess disappears; bat THE SEPULCHRE OF CHRIST ia glorious, The grave is the place where all hu- man greatness is humbled. In tne tomb the glory of all, whether they were beautiful or deformed, 13 dissolved into inanimate dust; but the tomb of Christ is the greatest source of His glory. From His tomb the omnipotence of His greatness shines with splen- dor; He rises triumphant irom the grave; the body that was crucified is again living; the soul of Christ comes back to and enters into His body. It was the sepuichre that brought back the blood that was scattered in Jerusalem and bathed THS FOOT OF THE CROSS. All that blood was brig back again by the omnipotence of God, and it enters once more imto the body of Obrist. The cheek that was pale in death is flushed with the glow of life and health. The cold body that was wrapped in linen has brokev asunder the bonds of death. Christ rises up from the place they laid Atm fall of Iie, health, and immortality. He rises todle no more. As the Apostie St. Paul says, Christ now dies no more in reallty, Though he dies in figare in the uss, and though the mass is a constant showing forth of His Geath, it 1s not His real death, but tt is a renewal of tho offering of Christ in a wonderful and mysterious manner. Christ considered HIS RESURRECTION THR GREATEST PART OF HIS LIPS, and truth of His divinity. The reverend gentleman having alluded to the circumstances connected with the death and resurrection of our Lord, observed that the only conclusion to be arrived at was that He had risen from the dead; for it was sald, ‘He is risen; He ts not here,” Christ frequently told His aposties, and told the gs that Ho would rise from the dead. le foretold His death, but said after three days He would rise again; that He would lay down His life and take it up again. There is no doubt of the resurrection of Christ. We all know that He is risen irom the dead; but there are others who do not believe that, who de not believe tha; He is the Son of God. Therefore, we must remember this GREAT TRUTH OF THE RESURRECTION, and meet the onjections of those who dispute the divinity of Christ and the resurrcetion, If Christ is truty risen from the dead there Is, therefore, another life after this, He had the power of God in risiu; from the grave. There is heaven and there fs hell. Rememper the rape description He gives of the flames of hell, in which the rich man is bereing, and crying out for @ drop of water. When we think ol heaven we cannot refuse to think But the world denies tnis. Men deny these truths—deny that there is hell—deny the truth of Christ's feachiog, If the truth of Christ’s teaching ia dented then He Himself 1s denied, and if men gay that what Christ taught is not true, why, then, they say that Christ tsa ilar. Beware of false y teaching. 8 false teaching appears in papers every day. It will leaq to destruction. THE BLIND LEADING THR BLIND will fall, We will continue to preach the truth. Those that velleve will be saved; those who do not wiil be = con- demned. Let us, therefore, brethren, hold fast to the teaching of our holy faith more and more. Let us be encouraged to practice all the commandments of God. In this way only can we have peace. Our Redeemer himself desired that His aposties should have peace of mind and peace of heart, Three times He said to His disc ples, “Peace be to you,” and this He said, showing them Bis wounds. The wounds of Christ are THE FOUNTAINS OF OUR PEACE. If we always act accordingly to tho principlos and truth of Christ we will have peace. ne reverend gentieman concluded his interesting ais. course by a brilliant peroration on the glorics of eternal life and the rewards God bas in store for those who subaut to His boly will with resignation, JERSEY CITY CHURCHES. ST. PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH. Opening Day of the Jesuit Fathers—Sermon by Father M-Qaade, S. Je In accordance with the announcement published im last Monday's Heranp, the Jesuit Fathers made their first appearance in New Jersey yester- day, before the congregation of St. Peter's church In Jorsey City, the formal tansier of which was mado (a sem on ‘Thursday and by the authorliy of Bisnop Bayley. Father Beaudevin 1s the new pastor, and he will be assisted by Fathers McQuade and Renaud. Solemn mass ‘was celebrated at haif-past ten o'clock yesterday by Father Kenaud, At the concinston of the first gospel Father Corrt- gan appeared tn the sanctuary and announced te the congregation that his carreer as pastor of Ss Peter’s had ended, and he congratulated them:that he was succeeded by @ religious order which he believed could achieve more for the salvation of souls and the promotion of the Catholic Cn fluence word not be confined to ‘termed reer would penetraie the entire Siate, He then Intre- ate a ee Giger poe ae McQuade, who ascen 1© pulpit and rei jospel or which embodied SPER ep THR COMMISSION OF CHRIST to the pastors of fits church to forgive sins, “As tae Father sent me solsend you. And wien He had said these things He breathed on them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall for- give they are forgiven thom, and whose stag You shall retain they are retained.” The (preachen then delivered an earnest exhortation to those whe had made their peace with God to persevere in @ state of grace. Many of you, he sald, at tals Easter time have made x yore peace with God, and it 4g of the grea‘est importance that we should MAINTAIN OUR PRACE WITH GOD. And fo order to do this we should oiten reflect em those truths which will remove us farther from tae a in forelbie ianguaye. in tye. Holy. Sortpruros cible language in the Holy Soi “What doth tt pro’ ta man if he Whole World and loge his own soul.” Ii you refle eternity of the torments which await the wreng- doer and the ENDLESS DAYS OF HEAVEN in store for the good, you cannot fail to persevere the way of righteousness. If the great traths religion make a deep impression on your minda, then you may be sure that you will preserve your Peace with God, and that vou will be happy here and obtain eternal happiness hereafter, The choir, under the direction of Professor Noweti- dorf, sang Winter's mass in U, In this connection it may ve remarked that the late pastor, Fatnor Cer- rigan, paid special atiention to the musical per of the church service, and on all great festivals engaged some of the leading artists of New York and New Jersey. In this respoct St. Peter's had ne gupezior in the State, and it is the intention of te Ebel Fathers that this reputation shall be main- ed, SERVICES I WASHINGTON. Archbishop Spalding, of Baltimore, at 8 Aloysius’ Church—Eloquent Sermon on the Power of Faith—charity as Defined by 8t. Paul—A Fervent Discourse by Rev. Dr. Newman. METROPOLITAN METHODIST CHURCH, Discourse by Dr. Newmnn on Oharity— Charity aud Love Kindred Virtuee—The jupernaca: Gifts of the Early Christians and Why Now Withheld. WASHINGTON, April 16, 1871. ‘The Rev. Dr. Newman preached this morning apes the subject of charity, taking his text from First Corinthians, xill., 8:—‘Charity never failoth, Bas whether there be prophecies, they snall fall; whether there be tengues, they shall cease; whether there be knowleage, it shall vanish away.” There were, 8e said, dissensions among the Christians at Cortath touching tho relative importance of miraculous gifts.’ ‘They appeared to Paul to decide the question. He gives no direct answer, but tells them that whatever gifts they may possess they avail nothing tf the great principle of affection to God and good will to maa is absent. This was the occasion of the thirteent chapter of Corinthians, which lor moral snbluatey and beauty of expression has been the admiration of the church in all ages. The significant word of thls chapter 1s charity, WHAT 13 OmaRrty? Up to 1649 the agape of the Greek was rendered love, but during the Long Parliament the offetal printer substituted the word charity. In Tyndale Bible, the first English translavion of the Scriptures, we find “love” instead of charity, The term charity is used by us, in a limited sense, as the equivaten of alnis giving; as used by Paul It evidently means Dive affection of the soul for God and love to man, To two points attention ls asked—the tempera character of the SUPERNATURAL GIFTS TO THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, and to the substitute tor them which Paul offers us. ‘There were nine supernatural gifts—tho word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the power knowledge, the power of taitn, the power of healit the power of working miracles, the discernment spirits, prophecy, the power of speaking in many tongues, ald, ly, the power of tnterp! language. ‘These gifts were temporary. miracle derives its cuaracter from its tsola- tion; repetition destro;s the miraculous nature. Miracles are crutches ou which Tman’s impotent faith moves; they are the scaffold- ing on which the Builder stands to rear the struc ture. They have done their work and passed away, and we rejoice to-day in @ higher proof of the truth of Christianity than they can give us. Now Paul means that these gifig were to be withheld. Prophecy was tu be withdrawa, the git of tongues to cease. It 1s impossibe that Paul aoe the time would come wuen language woul not be required by human beings, So long a3 intellect 1s capable of thought, so long lang will be a necessity. veriaps Paul had a deeper mean ing. As before sin came there wis a time when there was but oue language over the face of the Earth, so there may come a time when there shail fain be a ad of speech. Do not the sigus of the times prognosticate that day? By one hundred mu- Hons of human beings the English language is spe ken, and eminent statisticians vssert that in the year 6000 A. D. the English language wiil be spoken by one billion, But Paul likewise moant to signify that the inspired volume should be closed and that there should be no more revelation. Second, to consider the substitute for these super- Datural gifts, “Charity, which never failesn.’® Christ tiked to epitomise, He condensed the Tem Commaud ments into, *Thou shalt love the Lord tay God with atl thy heart, anu thy Set ee as thysell,’ Paul gives us the epitome of Uhrist’s words in one term—‘Charity.” Tne sum of she Sermon on the Mount is charity. 1tis charity that gives whatever Of Lappiuess there ts in this World. 1% 1s THE SOURCE OF HOUSEHOLD JOY; the deathiess bond of union between husband aré wife, “Churity suifers long and is kind. It envieth not, It believeth and hopeth all things.” Lev tt permeate society, retne and beauufy your lives aad this world 13 transiormed to a paradise and the angels come down todweil with men, [tis for the want of it that contentions arise and Rearrtrarnings. and strife and crimes abound. ‘The Gi prided themselves on tuelr knowledge. But Paut strikes at the pride of human fnteliect when he de cClares tuat charity surpasses ail knowledge. Some think the suin of huwan duty is to feed the poor. “pleased are ye Who feod the poor; but there Me something higher—it is this clarity.”” How are you to obtain it? On your knees beiore God. Let us make @ vow to-day that we will be living, daily em- bodiments of this divine charity at home, in social ros in business, in Ligh oficial positions and every- where. SERVICES IV ST. ALOYSIUS’ CHURCH. Sermon by the Most Reverend Archbishop Spaldt: eon the Power of Faith and the Principles of the Church Ove: e World. Wasuinoron, April 16, 1871. The Most Reverend Archbishop Spalding, of Baits moro, preached co a large congregation this mora- ing at St. Aloysius’ church, taking for bis text «Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory which overcometh the wortd, our faith’’—words taken from the First Epistle of Joha, fifth. chapier, fourth verse. He said it was only by and througn faith that the Christian could learn to overcome the world and resist the impulses of the world. Mankind, for the most part, are siaves to thoir own appetites, They foster ané flatter them, and encoarage the three great conce- piscences, of which the same aposile (John) 80 em- Phatically and graphically tells us are the cause of the sins of the worid, viz.:~The concupiaceuce of the flesh, the conoupiscence of the eyes and thepride of life, These include all that may be mentioned as the cause of the MANIFOLD EVILS IN HUMAN SOCIRTY, By tho concuptscence of the eyes is meant that spirit of covetousness which makes ono desire te possess everything we sec; that spirit of avarice which makes tnen vo act unjustiy with thelr fellow mien in the acquisition of (nis Worla’s goods; that pride of the heart which leads us to exalt ourselves and look down upon others. the cou. cupiscence of the flesh is hi it those flesily desires which make men — Biaves to thelr passions, and by the pride of life the ain- bition wuich jeads men to deviate from the truth to ain for the tine the applause of the world, St, fon says by faita we are to overcome the world, and levrn to form a correct eaiiniaie of men and things. Hi one ascends to a very wreat heighs and looks down upon tue things oO! this world every- Wg looks Bmall in lis Wa eyes, the people become but more specks, and tie howstes tok more like baby houses) than dveilings of the worldly grout, and so Our esiumate of Unis Le should be mude by tuvé of the ne to Come, What are the Joys Of Cah tobe Courparcd wita those of hroayen, of What toe iricudsniy of (aan to the blas of the [riendsiip Of God fur at etersusy ¢ FAITH MAKES US 568 THINGY WN GOD'S TIGHT, and thereby we are lod to pinco a rope, # jaa Psu yo al that 14° abouy | wl