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~~ apparel. _< Sermons and Services Yesterday in the Metropolis and Elsewhere. Redemption and Regeneration—The Straizht Gate and the Kingdom of God—The Agencies of Pr.vidence. A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC TEMPLE. Discourses by Rev. Dr. Armitage, Rev. _. Father Hecker, Bishops Potter and Southgate, (. H. Hepworth, 0. B. Frothingham, Chauncey Giles and Others, beautiful spring weather of yesterday seemed ng effect on the regular and even mdants at divine worship 1n this and Joining cities. The churches, with rare excep. tions, were crowded to repletion, and the sermons delivered in them were, a8 a general thing, more than ordinarily good, The more strikingly peculiar or peculiarly striking of the many delivered will be found in the carefully condensed reports given helow. CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. The Swedenborgian Idea of Public Worship— Mau’s Olerings to the Lord—Jehovah Spenking to this Ohildren—Sermon by Rev. Chauncey Giles. Impressive, indeed, were the services yesterday ft the Church of the New Jerusalem, in Thirty-fi{th Street, near Lexington avenue, over which Rev. Chauncey Giles, the devout disciple of Emanuel Swedenborg, exercises spiritual charge. The edifice ‘was weil filled by on attentive and inteileciual audi- euce, composed parttally of strangers from other | States, who always find a cheeriul welcome at tis | oe fs on the bul. Mr. Gules took for his text rds:— ° «-€ unto the Lord, 0 ye kindreds of the people, “give unto the Lord of glory and strengch. Give unto the Lord we glory of His pame; bring an offerig and come ito Lis courts. Oh, worstip the Lord i. the beauty of holiness; | fear belore Him all the earth. “Things which we do repeatedly,” ne said, “soon | crystallize into habit and tend to become mechani- wal. Custom destroys THR FRESHNESS AND ZEST OF FEELING. This is true of the most important and sacred duties and relations of Tn all vital questions itts necessary for us to review the grounds of our | action, This is especially true with ail things with | Tegard to our spiritual nature. The world is ever before us, Our natural interests press upon us on ull sides and clamor for attention. ‘They act Upon our spiritual naiures as the attraction of gravitation acts upon our natural bouies. They araw our aifections down to carth and tend to 1x y natural things. The ips uter the | ought is lar awa, ‘the essential principle of worsiip is lov Love 18 te | — of al) the g and uses Which meu derive um it. ‘Ths purpuse of worship isto keep our af | | fections tor the Lord alive and vigorous, and ow knowledge of Him bright ana clear. ‘the wors' of Ube Lord should ve to the germs of spiritual i Mons in the heart what TLE WARM AND FEAGRANT BREATH OF SPRING — | is to seeds in the ground and ihe buds upon the | ec: trees, We can all do sumetii to make our nu ence usefal and efticie: We can doit by prepa tion before we meet. You allmake soe natural Preparation before coming here; you change your | As you lay aside tbe garineuts which | have become soled and worn by the uat rat duties | Of the week, so you should puto the menta. gar- Men's—ihe worldly thoughis aud atfectionsin witch you have more or | lived. AN OFFERI If you love the Lord you wii bring tae best offer- ing you can. If you come hereto pay your resvects aud to honor a deur friend you would bring such an otfermg a5 you tiougnt would be most pleasing to kim. If you could no nothing else you would bring love and good will and express it iu the best form you could. Suppose this gay had been set apart to dv honor to some coumon Iriews and benefacior, and, as an expression of his interest, every one wus expecied to bring a flower Or a bouquet ef flowers, would you go wo tne vase @nd select the oid, faded and withered blossoms ? WOULD YOU PICK THE GRASS AND WREDS that spring up by the dusty roadside’ No; you Wold sclect the most beautiful and fragrant. Ongh* we not to bring the same precious oferings When we come into tne couris of the Lord to give Him tue gory of His name? Let us bring aifecuons 80 pure anu fragraut that the house will be flied ‘With its periume and every worshipper will be de lighted with it, Bring tue offering of kinduess and good will to othe: LET CHARITY SHINE im your face. Come in @ state to worship the Lord in the beauty of holluess. All beauty has its origin in love. 161s tie form vflove. The face 1s beauilul when it has the jorm of heavenly avection. The body 1s beautiful when love to the Lord has moulded it into iis own likeness, The injunction of these ‘words of the Lord, then, is, ‘Let your worship take on those forms oi beauty which are the natural ult. matum and eXpression Of a genuine love for the Lora.’ The pastor proceeded to impress upon his hearers tie vevessity fur coming early to pubic wor- slup, aud whtie IN THR LORD'S HOLY PLACE give Him ali their thoughts; exercise a devout Manner, born of a proper sense of the Being wor- shipped; Whea praying do sv in # proper attitude; Jet the heart pray by adopting the sentiments of the | prayer and oiering them as ts own. If in our yer there Is some yieldiug of our seifish and worldly natures, sume turning to the Lord, BOME OPENING AND UPRBACHING OF OUR HANDS to clasp the divine strength which is let down to us, we can really say ‘vur Fa with some real knowiled,e of its meaning, we stall succeed in pré senting our offering of filial love, and it will be a =. ir. Giles proceeded to speak of ihe necessity for ‘the heart joiuing in the responsive services and feel- ing that when the Word of God 1. read tne Jehovah is speaking to bis children. Lie also referred to wie Influence of music in lifung the soul from Lungs earthly to things heaveniy, to lilt the burden of sin from ihe soul, to well its obduracy, to assauge iis Sorrows au‘ to give Voice to its dumb aifecuons, aud couciuded nis iunpressive address by urging is con- gregatiou to give wuto the Lord the glory and strength. Let us bring an oering aud come into His courts, Let us do our best to worship Him in the beauty of hotness, keeping ali the earth of our naiure prostrate in reverence “nd fear beiore Him. CHERCH OF THE MESSIAN. The Kingdom of God and How to Get In— Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Hepworth. At this handsome edifice last evening there was fs usual a large and interested congregation, com- posed almost wholly of young men. The able pastor of the church, Rev. Mr. Hepworth, has been giving ® course ofsermons to young men on various sub- jects, and the sermon of last eveuing was the last of the course. Mr. Hepworth’s text was taken from St. John XViiL, 36—“My kingdom is not of this world.” He #aid these words of Chri-t must have startied every one who heard them. He had spoken many times of the kingdom Le proposed to establish, The proud and cold-hearted Pharisees expected to find in him @ powerful and possibly a successful rival. Hence their hatred and their determination to destroy him @tany cost. The reins of power were in their hands and they would brook no interference. The common people, on the other hand, had been looking forward to @ deliverer for geueratious. They would rally round his standard in numbers that would insure victory the moment it was set up. Their legions ander such a leader would sweep the hateful Ro- | mans from the sacred soil and REFORM ALL CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS ABUSES. ‘This is what they Jooked forward to and what they had prayed for ever siuce the last great prophet died. When, therefore, this humbly born Nazarene, ‘who had pn more than one occasion prophesied that | lost, and no tidings were ever received by those who the tame was nos far distant when all men should prociaim him Lerd, said, “Gutity; my Kingdom is not of this world,” the Pharisees must have turned f@way with a sneer of derision,’ shrugging their shoulders and saying very wisely, “I told you it ‘Would al! end in thus way,” while the poor peopie Re eT ee Re ee ee | Armitage, preached a very eloquent sermon yester- | residences for the season, | saul - Christ to establish ft was a direct, @ Supernatural, a special act of benevolence on the Partol the Almighty; that the plan of salvation Which the Book reveals 1s a miraculous act on the ga of God for your redemptioa. Who would ever ve dreamed ‘that from such @ beginning these Magnificent resuits could have come? Then the Kiugdom was composed of twelve men and their Master. He Itved in public bat three years at most, and then He died the death of acriminal. The puifed up Pharisees hated Him, the wise Saducees laughed at Him, the subtie Athenians treated Him with con~ tempt, the common people distrusted and misun- derstood Him. His cross was watched by Roman | Spears, and His sepulcure was guarded by the | jealousy of His bitterest foes. And yet that ‘lowly | emg carpeuter’s son is to-day moving with His | legions over over the face of the earth, and nations | tremble at the tread of H's armies. His propuecy is coming true, for victory perches on the banners of His truth, and THE TIME IS NOT FAN DISTANT when every nation and all peoples shall confess Him Lord. “Our moral code 1s constricted op princi- p wich He announced, our philanthropies are orn ont of the charity which He taught, and our | very tears are checked by the hope which Lie incul- cated. Aud how surely we all learn at last that | only by becoming @ loyal citizen of the common- wealin of Christ can’ we insure true happiness for ourselves! We have ail learued that shere are two distinct Kingdoms which claim our support; the one is presided over by the geuius of this world or of self, aud it promises in return for our toll the grallfl- cation of our appetites and our wishes—money, in- fuence, position, fame; the otber is presided over by Christ, Who tells us that we are to live not for tnts worid alone, but tor the eternal life, and that our true masters and governors are justioe, charity and virtue, and the longer we live the more sure we are that the latter has tue prior and the stronger clatm to our support. Suppose you have money, is it all you want—nay, 19 it what you want? Unless it is pore earned 1 will burn a wound into your ear. MONEY WON ON FALSE PRINCIPLES always makes a coward ofa man. Even this rare | boon can be enjoyed only on condition that you he- | jong to the Kingdom which Cnrist has established. | 1 have seen men happy in poverty, and 1 have seen | others writhe in the midst of their wealth, You will Some day learn that the mere possession of moacy, irrespective of the way im which It is got, is no source Of hope or happiness, Look athim who les on bis couch starmg death in the face. Can he buy @ single second with all his fortune? ‘fhe erim mes- sencer cares ho more for money than ne does for dross. What will give you hope, or faith or peace 1a that hour? Ah! how we whoare well and strong overestiinave gold. HOw poor a thing it is to the aged man, tottering to his long home, if he has enly gold, Now, mind, 1 do not tell you that poverty 1s virtue and wealih guilt, Far fromit, But 1 do say that this overweening craving for money 1s very wrong, 4 hear the voice of Curist saying, “My Kingdom 1s not of this world,” and my neart tel: me that there is something and it Is the best thing, which 10 man’s gold can buy, and that sooner or 13 fact, Is 1t not 80 also with social | s10n of INFLUENCE IN POLITICAL CIRCLES, or with the possession of tame in any direction? These things do not make you a man belore God. I do not object to your working tor them, but I do im- plore you, firatot all, give yourself to Ch and then, When all these things shail nave proved then selves worthless, your citizenship in that kingdom Which 1s not of this world will enable you to face the last dire extremity without a sigh of regret. Jt is sata of @ poor but religious man in the Middie Ages that he sat before the door of a monastery for wecks coniempiating the picture of the Saviour Which was hung there. By slow degrees he felt the divinity of that wondrous Being creeping through his Veins, and when he at length rose from his con- | tempiation he went forth inspired to do a successful work, and with such tinmphant resuits that his | name Is remembered with gratitude to this day. So | you can look at the Lord, yoang men, until you grow | to be ike Him, until His divine spirit eniers your | souls and you shall go forth into the midst of vour duues consecraiea and baptized. By becoming a citizen of Christ’s repubile here you shai be enanied | to take your place near the turone of the Great Klag | in the hereafter. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. later we learn th position, A Comfort Those Wiio Staud on the Threshold tage. At the Fifth avenue Baptist church the pastor, Dr. | day morning, taking for his text the twelfth and tuirteenth verses of the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Aposiles, Wherein 1s mentioned the wonderful tuings performed by the apostles, and the fact that although the people maguified them they durst not join them. Dr. Armitage commenced by saying that this would probably be the last Sunday that many of them would worship there, as, in accordance with New York customs, they would soon change their Some had been there a year and had become members of the church, while others who have been atiending there for a long time have not joimed the church, but are still in the “porch of the temple.’ To this class I purpose ad- dressing my sermon this morning, confining my re- marks to the privileges existing 1n connection with a union with the Churen 6f God. You are like those described im the eleventh verse. “A great fear has come upon you.” You remember only how Judas was shipwrecked and how Ananias and Saphira sunx. You FORGET ENTIRELY HOW MANY WERE SAVED. In business, in your every day life, you are not deterred because others have met with misfortune | and fatied to succeed. You fatter yourself that with care and circumspection you will attain to eminence; but 1m matters of religion—matters of so much importance—you are afraid to make an at tempt to succeed, because others have failed, 1 musi confess that have a great deal of respect for those who stand upon the threshold of the Church and hesitate about entering trom a sense of their OWu unworthiness; they are impressed with the importance of the step which they cuntemplate taking, and, knowing how weak andernng wey | are, refrain from Joining. One of these persons | will tell you:—“Why, | know my own strengin: I bave measured the extent of my uetermination, and I am certain if 4 should join tae Churen I would not be abie two live always as a Christian should; I sbould be tempted and I would fall.” Tnis timidity may, however, be carried too far, and then 1 be. comes sinful. If you were a mariner you would no. be prevented irom crossing the broad Atiantic Though a thousand wrecks wught cover it; no, ine | deed; you would weigh your anchor, spread your and set forth on your perilous jourmey uadis~ muayed by THE TERRIBLE FATE THAT MET THE OTHERS, trosting to your nautical skill and the strength of your vessel. Remewbver what Joshua san, “Otaers May do as they will, bat land my house will serve the Lord and re-enter the temple, as the Sun in tts glory enters the window in the morning, after being hidden im the dark night? Do you not know that if you joia the Church of God and enieavo: to lead uristian life new sirength will be given you? as Wie Man Who was supposed to have no great r develops 1010 & sti on, inte man when the hour of trial arriv ristlan becomes strong and resolute in the of temptation. He does not fight aione—They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strengta.”” And vgain we are void, “Call upon me in the day of troubie, I shal! aeliver thee: thou snalt glorify me, and no oue pluck thee from my honds.”” ‘The idea that toose who die are gone from us isa harshoeue. How much pleasanter to believe that their spirits are hero watching over us and attending us turough life, The Scandinavians | believed that when a warrior feli upon the fleid of | battie his spirit remained and took part with bis | brethren in the combat until the end. 50 OUR FRIENDS, THOUGH DEAD, are with us. When the Man of Sorrows was appre- hended one of his disciples drew his sword to defend | Him; but our Lord bade him desist, saying, “i ut | up thy sword; thinkest thou | couid not pray to My Fawer, and He would send Ne twelve legions of aigels.” Think of that—not @ battalion, nor an army, but tweive legious of angels. If even one had come down at that time and taken Jesus Christ under his goiden- Upped wing, no power on earth could have injured Him. it 1s @ mistaken idea that so many entertain that it is almost impossible to enter Heaven. God's angels stand at the gate and throngs o1 happy, bright roved piigrims, “who have washed their gar- Meuis in the biood of the Lamb,” are thronginy through the gates, passing over the golden pave Streets of tne New Jerusalem, pressiag toward the white throne, Those gates are never closed; all day long they are open, and in that place they never have any night. Two English soldiers were talking toge- ther in the morning at Watertoo. The first one ex- pressed the hope that they might win the battle; “vut,’? said he, I should like to see more troops. The otier one replied, “Oh, we shall have troops enough, but I should like to nave a glimpse of Wel- | gion.” ON GOD'S BIDE there are more fighting than on the other side, and, besides, God hag said to St. John, “He’that is in you is greater than he that isin the world.” You remember Ananias and Saphira, and you forget the Unree thousand converted in one day aud tne five thousand converted in a week. There are some in the Church that it would be better if they were out; whlle many are cut o! the Church who would ve much better if they were in it. About twenty-five years ago @ vessel salied from this port destined for Liverpool. On board of her were Powers and Uook- mad, @ great actor anda great preacher, She was had friends on board. Two Png ago another vessel | sailed for the same port. Like the ill-fated President | she was never heard of afterwards. IF YOU WISHED TO GO TO LIVERPOOL to-morrow the remembrance of what betel] the pas- sengers On those vessels would not prevent your going, and on arriving there, and while visiting her docks and gazing upon che Wilderness of masts you woald see there, no thought of the fearfat tate of ‘Went to their homes soured and disappointed, Bat, Jooking through the mists of eighteen centuries, wo Bee What he meant and how truly prophetic His Words were. The Kingdom of God is not sustained by taxes and it needs no treasury of gold to keep it M MOtion. its OMcers Wear nO purple, neitver ere its clizens oppressed. 1 want you wo feel, Zoung, men, that ia vis Kingdom | of God Rave ® portion; that te sending of your uniertanate predecessors would occur to you. Way, then, wil you be 80 backward in joining the Church; because a few have failed ail have not failed. Dr. Armitage closed his discourse by fervently and eloquently appealing to those present whose mothers, sisters and wives already belonged to the congregation, to come forward and become mem- bers of the Church; to remain no longer in toe porch of the Charch—Szermon by Rev. Dr. Armie | p, | ¢al hour, met God on tue Tread ac miduight in the lest time might not be given them and they pe stricken down, “Whosoever believeth shali not perish, Redemption and Regeneration—The Influence of Holy Lives—Sermon by the Right [ev. Bishop Potter—Administering ©: jrmation. ‘The services at Christ church yesterday morning were begun atan unusually early hour, Atter the moraing prayer the Right Rev. Bishop Potter preached the sermon, taking his text from I. John, til, “We know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” These are the words showing us the love of God. We are privileged by Him to re- ceive back the Holy Ghost. We are assured that we shall indeed be like Him and shall see Him as He is, It was the sight that Peter beheld at the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he exclaimed in a kind of rhapsody, ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here.” And Weare to be, like Him, transfigured. The world around us is wonderful. Every leaf and flower and wind 18 wiraculous. Of ourselves we can truly say that “we are fearfully and wonderfully made.” But of all the ever-present wonders of earth the greatest is the redemption and regeneration which 4s our glorious inheritance—made in the image of the Father to be exalted to the Divine sonship. There 13 @ peculiarity of expression in the text— “WE SHALL BR LIKE HIM; for we shall see Him as He is, If we see Himas He is we must have much mm common with him; we must have intellectual qualities of & similar kind; | Our spirits must be prepared. We are familiar with this law of our nature; but the inference is not exactly the truth, Weare not to see Him because We are like Him; but we shall be like Him because We shall see Hin as He is, ‘The vision will draw us still closer to Him, and we must be so before we can Rave any hope of the assured favor ot God, A work of grace must be begotten im the heart. Our great hope and trast is that the souls of tne fatthiul who depart are removed beyond the precincts of flesh into the glory of God; so that each feebie spirit rises up emancipated by death, receiving the newness = of iife and heart, weath 18 the beginning of new and divine _ itie. ‘The body is given over fora time to corruption, but the soul irom the very instant of its delivery 13 freo and alive, and, poor, Weary and heart-smothered, it may, ladeed, perceive the joy and felicity of God. Such is the blessedness of our hope. When we r ceive the principle of grace, however weak we may be, our weakness and imperiection will fall off. As death draws near the flesh of the world loses 118 power, The soul may already at death have the linage of God, yet coming to Him after death it may be drawn to a greater likeness to Hira, Have We never found ourselves in the presence of a sweet, elevated soul, and felt our hearts burn with love for it? Have we not in that living presence resolved to be more like the ligat that so powerfully noves? When tne biessed Lord was on earth we Know how differently different characters were affected by Him. Some followed Him with ever- Wihule oihers were moved to hai A DIVINE TOUCHSTONE, drawing out latent characters. But while He was @ Saviour of iife to some, tle was @ Saviour of death to others, Ot this life we may say something of the same kind. Isis so with the intluence ol every holy It has, through the goodness of God, an absolute converting power. In the beauty of holiness it shows cleariy Wasat holiness is; it Kindies human hearts and draws them to itself, So St. Augustine, while tiguting conscience anu Fassion, catching glimpses ol truth and seeking todraw near to ib, had his spirit surred in him by giancing at a miracie which had happened to St. Anthony, He who in old age and in alter ages converted thousands was himself converted by the eXaupie of one Christian soul. How often can we draw such examples from the lives of devoted Christians’ It isnot @ wondrous history, Every year, and I should have said every ar brings us the record of some holy life. We be- 0 IMAGES OF SANCTITY AND DEVOTION which touch our bearts and make us better, Thero is something in the Holy Book to draw one away irom tue tuings of the earth, That something is the image of our adorabie Lord. “And I,’ says He, “if 1 be lifted up will draw all men unto me.” He so indluences the world that all men may triumph over death and hell. Tiere is a charm in that scene— pubiicans aad sinners drawing near to Him; men from ail sides, from all rites and from ail the paths | Of sia to THE UAPTIVITY OF HIS TRUTH. Anil a8 Many as went into that captivity gave He to become sous of God. Delivered from the burden of flesh they snail see Him, and His faithful ones siall be changed trom g'ory to glory, and shail be ready to say, In the ecstatic words, ‘Lord, itis good for us Lo be here.” Such things seem too high for our poor spirit; yet for this very en i the Lord bore the persecution oF unbelief, tat we mignt be saved rom death. God Leip us to give heed to the less Every oue that hate this hope im him puriileth bv self, even 2g ie 1s pare. At the close of the sermon THE RITE OF CONFIRMATION was administered by the reverend bisnop, and thir- ty-five ca a admitted to the communion, The al ‘as decorated with beautiful white lies and the shrine was landed with red piossoms aad green leaves. Ne all of the candidates Were ladies und were dresseil on, im in flowing White robes, Wtuch mm tne dm light of i the chancel made the scene very beautitnl and am- pres-ive. The ceremony was conclude by the ren- dering of Rigiuni’s briliant anthem, “The Loid is Great,” by the full choir. The responses of the tiirly singers stationed in the chaucei were ine finest as Well as the most aillicult parts of the per- forwance, LYRIC HALL SERVICES. The Ageucies of Providence—Serman by 2 O. B. Frothingham. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham preached yesterday at the Lyric Hall te a- numerous and fashionapie congregation, The revereid gentiemau said:— I am to speak to you this moruing on the agency of Providence. Providence 13 fore- sight, and implies forethought and fore-feel- ing. It.is God’s careiuiness for His crea- tures, and implies @ living and an active God, not a dull and useless taol, but an ever present, imminent God, one that lives and works through the world, There are those who say that God nas no agents on Earth, and their ideas of God are that he occupies himself with every dctail, accepting no help, but doing ail things at first hand, and they be- hold his only ageuts in the alr, the sea, and in all things in nature, ey would aliow no mediator, no mtercessor between man and tie quick, llving, eflicient God; vey do not perceive that TOO MUCH GoD is as dangerous as too litule. Between atheism and pantheism there is not much difference in effect— too much God suifocates man, too little dries him up. In ail ages God and man have been spoken of as separate and disunct—alike ihe Greek and Ro- man poets, the prophets and the New Testament, though bowhere can any authority be found for the disuncuion. Paganism and Chnistunity auke treat Was GOu ant iman are disimict, aid that God works His divive will through hidden ugencies, Which we cail Providence Assuming tiis to be true, lev us examine how works through Providence. ‘'ne Hebrew writers, especi- ally the poeticai,. were 1 the babvit of saying that God appeared Visibly tu the cuiels of His chose people. Thus Jacob, going on a mission at a criti- form of in angel and wrescied with Him, and would not jet Him go untii He told His name, and then, in commemoration of this meeting With wod, he named the piace “Face to Face.’? Then we have Moses on the mount seeing and speaking With God, THE LAWS OF NATURE are but the resuit of those grand principles by wolen the intiuite peroria this Work through the world of spirit and of matter, by Which ail sill be glorified the end. Nature is sometimes called Gua, be- catine, hough invisible aud lipalpabie, it controls the worid. ‘The iaws of nature are spoken ot as if they were creatures endowed with feeiing and tore- thought; but conscious creatures they ave not. No angel stands in the ceutre of the sun and swings the constetia:tons rouad; no legions of aagels Work we system; by @ breath creauon is moved onward. The laws of nature—this 1s only & name for the «1 rors juto which ine world has falicn, or, indeed, name for God’s unilies, if we picase, This wor! heeds no push to make it go. THE WILL OF THE ALMIGHTY moves it in iron grooves. ‘tie laws of natare can- not tell us how God works, They can oniy point out His habits, not Hix wil, They may describe the relations between bodies, but cannot resolve the force that drives (hem. We have heard of the laws of progress, ol development, &c., bui these are only man's way of accounting for things that are. If the laws of nature are periect why 1s not the world re- juvenated? Why do they not take hold and lift us Trom the slongh ’ Because they cannot. Men must first find them outand set them gotug. Thus we come to the prime agency of Providence, MAN HIMSELF. Man supplements the naturailaw by this power of thinking that power ts tound in him alone, So it comes that If God wishes to do anything in the world He tiust do it through man and woman; they are the only agents througn whom the divine wiil can be accomplished, GOd has bestowed gifts on Inan, but man has also bestowed gifts upon Limseif. The greatest machines are human tin ventions, Providence had nothing to do with them except through the genius and canning of man, ‘There is no usqul instrament of war or peace which hag not been produced by man’s toil, thought and agony. God speaks to us through the Peas They are men, and we can- not go behind this fact. Print history, the Bible itself, came to us through human agencies. If the human mind had not thought, watched, waited, none of these would have existed, As far as men Jeel, God feels, pity. No more downs good will ov pity is at work than streams down from the eve ing skies, Cold-hearted men have cold-hearted gods, Just es soon as men, do justice Wo that which, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. MAY 1, 1 3 ! ¢phis tt was thav made the Psalmist © is within them do they grow to the justice that is Heaven. Men are impatient at THE SLOWNESS OF GOD. He ts as slow as we are; His chariot goes just as fast as we drive. if good causes go 30 slow it is because we give them no thonght and make no effort Pp In the days of slavery men asked, “Is there no God?” that this iniquity was not put out of the world; but when we drew our swords aud levelled our rifles slavery died, aud Providence was just as swift as our bullets, Pal- myra once stood the queen of the desert. The great forces were at work—philosophers, priests and oets were there. Where is Palmyra now? Gone— jt site almost lorgotten. So with Babylon. Yet Providence was there once, because men were there; and as Jesus tells us, ‘God eaused the sun to shine on the good and bad alike.” Wherever mea § Goa marches with them and works through their fingers and their minds. The desert may bloom again, but 1t will be through the presence of civilizing man. Many of the evils of life are due to ourselves. Men raise up their eyes waiting for revelation or stand still listening for voices to teach them the divine will, They know not what the kingdom of God is within; but the supine and the indolent choose to wait, when, it they would stand on their feet and scretch out their hands, the work would be done. ST. ELIZABETH’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. eo of a New Church Laying the Corner St at Fort Washington— Picturesque Sur- roundings—Imposing Ceremonies—Sermen by Rev. J. T. Hecker—Iuvocation by Arch- bishop McCloskey. The progress of Catholicity on this Continent can- not be better calculated than by the growth of its churches. A week ago the Church of St. Rose of Lima was dedicated; yesterday was laid the corner stone of another in the upper end of Manhattan Island. The locality is at that part of the Kings- bridge road where 187th street is marked on the maps lying at the oMfce of the Department of Pub- lic Works, This would, however, be a poor indica- tion at present, for 187TH STREET 18 YET A MYTH, and likely to be so lor some years tocome. On the Kingsbridge road, about a winding half mile from the bank of the Hudson, and under the shelter, as it were, of Washington \eights, the fiiture Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary will stand. The large plot of ground is the joint dona- tion of Mr. Joseph Fisher and Mr. James Gordon Bennett. The residents of the lovely neighborhood are mostly of the well-to-do class, and hence tt is not surprising to note the names of many prominent men among the chief subscribers to the church fund. One princely gift may be menvioned illustrative of the rest, that of Mr. Charies U'Conor for $10,000, The work of laying the foundation was COMMENCED TWO MONTHS AGO. The church will be 122 feet long and 52 feet wide, The material used will be Callaburg brick, with Ohio stone trimmings. A parsonage 1s also in course of construction on the same plot. The whole will cost about $90,000, and the dedication is expected to take place the first Sunday in October. Rev. Henry A. Braun 13 the indefatigable pastor, whose best recommendation will be found in the work he has done, ‘Ihe day was all in auspiciousnes that the most devout Catholic could wish—a clear blue sky, Warm sunshine and a genue breeze laden with the delicate perfumes of the APPLE, PEAR AND PEACH BLOSSOMS that clad the plentiful fruit trees in their frosted silver garb. The scene at four o'clock, the moment of commencing the ceremonial, was perfect in tts picturesque grace. There were not less than two thousand persons present, and these grouped all over the ground, concealing its irregularities, gave to the gathering an al fresco air, in keeping with the majestic natural sur- roundings. The bright dresses of the lacies, the earnest faces of the men, about sixty girls In white carrying virgin lilies, the robed riests and acolytes, the venerable Archbishop in ‘ull poNtficals and the purple robes of another Arch- bishop present formed the centre ot A VERY REMARKALIE PICTURE of “active” religion, The groves beyond the road in front, the long opeu vista to the left, tne steep chilis clad in forest green to their summit behind and the slantiny a setting the leaves on fire with hits golden rays formed the unique setting of this scene. On a temporary platform at the back of the church the ofiictating ciergy were seated, when Father Hecker, of the Paulist Fatvers, came forward, and, reverentially Kissing tie Arcnbisuop’s hand, ad- dressed the mulutide. His text was from the Psalms, Ixxitl., 4—**0, Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.” He proceedea:— If there be any spot Where nature could suiiice for man’s religious wants here it 1s to be found, by the banks 01 the Luason, 871—TRIPLE SHEET. ! IN PRESENCE OF THR BEAUTEOUS SCENERY seen everywhere Irom its heights. But, however | conducive this may be to man’s pnysical enjoyment, When man lives with nature aione tis but natural os The distant bilis, tue cry: turds cannot sausfy F bi 8, the songs 0! can only be satisfied In the m | and the truth and grace revealed | t In these only cub mau tnd | peace, joy and perlect happiness. You m 0; the house ¢ jod and take part in its religious wor- stip. Tne! he soul fads PEACE AND HAPPTN 3. , “Holy is Thy house.” Yet there are men who Wish to be con- sidered wise in uur generation Who say that Christ was not wise in his Christianity, They see no necessity for the expet e mWachiwery of His church. Let every man, ey say, ve his own church. Therefore, 1t would seem, y man can find Christ for himseif. But, my orethren, the Church 1s a divine insutution, ‘If ‘you wished to build a bridge over the Hudson, from Wastungton Heights to the Jersey shore, you would hold meet- lngs, Select men, optain a charcer, elect a president, raise capital, employ labor and tien YOUR BRIDGE COULD BE MADE. rength, and this accounts for the fact | cut Ceerprise tas succeeded without combination, tis the same with commeree, with government, It was the same with our foretathers | on tis soil; they have Jeit us tree. No great idea is operative until it becomes the subject of unity and co-operation. Christianity 18 the greatest of all ideas, aiming at the greatest of all imlerests—that of man’s tmmortal soul, How was it brought to bear? Ly unity and co-operation. Tue Saviour knew all things, the condilions of human life and action; 80 He incorporated fis religion, and gave it lorm. 1618 absurd to Uilnk, 48 one’ apologist says. chat the Church is a voluntary grouping of individuais., Its mission 1s to teach the peopie; not to be taught by them. It does not derive tts power from them, but from God. ‘whe reverse is as absurd as trying to rest a pyramid upon its apex. Ii religion, if Uhris- tianity, 18 10. be left to every man’s destres, tt is a4 sensible as that every man should be his own rail- road, lis owa army, tits own United States or HIS OWN POST OFFICE. No, my brethren, Without the Church there is no Ohrisuunity. When Christ came on the world it was @ colossal pagan power. Left to itself how could it have tridimpaed over this pagzanisiay How couid it have withstood the fierce baroarism from the north of Europe? How in the sixteenth century could it have rolled back the great army of Tarks who threatened to ieed their horses on tts altars’ Could individual exertions have done ww? If you say “yes,” 1 say you are dreaming; you gave lost your senses and your Christianity, Let me ask you what is water! A higuid. Wuat is st A vapor. What is elec- tricity? A subtle Yet, place a wheel in | a@ stream aud water becomes a power; putifesteamin abolievand yo agent ‘capable of making anything; connect the elvctricity with @ wire, lay it boneatu tie ocuan and you have a most Wonueriul Means of co:suuica- ion, ‘These are ie-sons of comuination, the Church ts a divine institution, which is evinced in the fact that lor nineteen centuries it bas existed, gathering to itsell MILLIONS OF ALL RACES. In ail tands minxling opposing human elements in its bosom. For nivetecn centuries have the sacred army of martyrs moved on, and their blood 13 warm on the soil of China to-day as it was in Rome in the first century. ‘here, too, is the roil of saints and the satotly missionaries. For nineteen centuries it goes on increasing a5 the world rolls, while Mobam- medantsm, buddhism, Protestantism and ali the other isms must fade away. But, say tie enemies, It 18 certamly the grandest institution ever wit- nessed on the earth, but it ly ali the RESULT OF HUMAN SAQACITY. Notwithstanding, however, tais human sa gacity belief of theirs, these men will sit apd vheorize in their meeting houses and profit in woridly goods by the blood of these martyrs, the sanctity of the saiats and the saintly missionaries they scoif at, although they would scatier before a real persecuwon. Do Catholics, I ask, monopolize ail the genius of the world? Our modesty prevents us from claiming so much. Macauley, Channing and Baucroit fay 60, but T do not believe either one of these. Popery is grand, but 1t must fall, 1s their old song. Yet the Church marches on more united and more poweriul than in auy age. But in this land of iree~ dom of education they say it must fall, Lot us take New York Island. In the beginning of the century there were about three hundred Catholics ee, now there are four hundred and flity thousand. This ts the rate at which WH ARE DYING OUT. ‘The first Catholic church was dedicated one hun- dred years agu; now there are forty or fifty churches, ‘vhis makes the climax; for now we have churones from St. Peter's by the Battery to St. Elizabeth's by Spuyten Duyvil creek. Our work in futare will only be to fill up the chinks. From heaven our fore- fathers of old St. Peter’s down town will look down on you and encourage you in this noble work, which will reap you forall you ve Seen pd in this world and hfe everlasting in tue next. is the work of the holy Chuch, in which your united cr lish 60 much. ca the conclumon. of this address the cere- o & = < ean the HERALD of rher stone were D GQ number of the Catnalic World, 0 nesses of of city oe oh number of ‘hen the tone was ace wishOr M'C08! sonar We the joy, beloved Wi ee ere S satd:— ‘ong prayers ‘ers Of men, but of the Invokea nim” to blessing has desvended. With you, as the stones will mul ply on ations until, to the delignt of all, the church 13 finished and on its altar the holy and ever-adorable eee ae Cog Ke you gathered around, , yor wort TC) 10) ve but to give yor from the bottom of my heart’ ee feist THE BPISCOPAL BENEDICTION. May He bless you in your work, in all your under- takings, in your families, in your homes, in life. May He be with you at the hour of death’ and re- ceive you into His arms where this world 1s to you no more. | (Here followed the Latin benediction). During the iast words of the Bishop the large audl- ence fell upon their Knees and remained bowed until the last words of the venerable man haa died away. The oMictating clergy were Archbishop Mcvlos- key, Dr. Martinez, Archbishop of Havana; Father Stacrs, Father MeNierney, Father Farrelly, Father Brennan, Father Breen and Father Kessler. Among the promiuent citizens present were Charles U'Con- nor, Dr. Marshall, the English convert; Judge Con- nolly, Dr. Bedford, E. K. Willard, Hosea B. Perkins, Thomas 8. brennan, Major Young and James Maloney; the St. Patrick's Total Abstinence Be- nevolent Society, Kingsbridge; temperance societies from Manhattanville, sorrisania, and German societies from Carmanhsville, ZION ie 1 bless you, no doubt and she having His blessings multiply ‘fh ese foun EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Enter Ye In at the Straight Gate=Who Is to be Damned Sermon by Bishop Southgate. In this church, situated in Madison avenue and Thirty-eighth street, the congregation assembled for divine worship yesterday was far from filling the spacious edifice. In fact, twice the number Present could be very well accommodated with- out any inconvenience. The choir of this church are deserving of special mention for the exquisite harmony of voices and the artistic manner im which they performea tue More diMcult portions of the service, The Ze Deum was rendered in beautiful style, tne heavenly notes of the grand organ and the melodious voices of the singers swelled through tho aisles with soul-Inspir- ing reverberations, Bishop Southgate officiated during the service, after which he preached a short but impressive dis- course, making up for the brevity of his remarks by Well chosen sayings and good common senge, which must have done more to animate the religious spark in the minds of his hearers than a lengthy theological discourse of an hour’s duration. He took his text from the thirteenth chapter of St. Luke, twenty- fourth verse—“Strive to enter in at the straight gate, for many, I say unto you, wil lseck to enter in and shall not be able.” Tho gate mentioned in the text is the gate of Heaven, where we all hope and expect to be admitted after we have departed from this earthly spnere. But there are many even in this congregation who may arrive at that gate and be refused admission. If human beings coule only realize THAT DREAD MOMENT when it will be their tarn to knock at the gate, and it will be opened by the Lord, who will say unto them, et ye hence; I know ye not,” they would certainly be more careful of not breakiug God's laws and would try to live so that when they Kuock at tue door it would be opeifed unto them. “Yet we all know that we have to go through an ordeal we cannot plead ignorance of. On, no; the Gospel has been preactied to us aud we are pointed out we way to obtain adimission through tae straight gate. Be ours the crime if we negiect the mandates of Goud and consign ourselves to EVERLASTING DAMNATION, Let us for a moment imagine a long passage lead- ing to that gate. On comes the throng of persons secking adinis-ion, Behold, here 1s the man whoon earta pefsuaded himself ne lived a good Christian lie, He knocks, and 1s told, “Know not wiio you are or irom whence you came,’’ He answered, “peut, Lord, I have eaten and drunk in fhy pre- sence.” Tne gatekeeper replies, “Depart hence, you are a worker of iniquity. 1t 13 not suflicient that You should have said ‘Lord, Lord,’ while on earth to optain auimission here. Then suall le be cast back into that crowd where there suatl be weepmg aua guashing of teech. It is not enough for people to come to churea reguiarly and make a pretence of religion, and then to say to themselves, “Well, | am laving a godiy lie. Of course, 1 MIGHI BE BETTER; but then there are lots of others worse than me." ‘This will never do, for ye shati then be all damned togetier, ‘To entitle us to walk up boldly to that gate and knock for adinission aud be let in we inust lead & gouly and righteous Life, never neglect- Ing an Opportunity of doing good, always cnurita- bie, Klud and toving the Lord, What iust be tne Teelings ot the outside thong when they see tne choseu ov Gving into that palace of bliss and Appiuess, Culrance to Which 1s dubarred to The angei of God wil stand with is haked sword guarding the entrance so that none can slip im unawares. [tis only rigut that God should +o guara the entrance to His heavenly kingdom. He gives us €iernat bliss and immeasurable happiness if we Walk in His Way While on carth, but fe distincuy telis us that if We Walk uot in His path He will have noue of us; sv lt would be manhestly uniair to the me ighteous and sober lives and reap the reward of thelr libors by gaining that prize with Whici all tue ricues of the earth cannot compare if the uugoihy or Wicked should attain to me same glorious and happy future. Wnho will be the chosen guests’ Let us ask ourselves ine question, are we to be let in o¢ are We to be thrown out to wander tut ages O1 eleruity with that 88 FIRS IN OUR BODIES, With carkiug care and ceaseless 1emorse consuming our very vitais, ever aad anon turning up our eyes t that celesital palace of eternal happiness where the anges live forever in joy and from which we jorever debvarred ourseives admission? Oh, ihe picuure is awrul—the tuought 1s awiul, and let us, In Gud’s name, seriou-iy turn our eves to cleaven, and by our Lives and Works in future try and make ourselves acceptable in the sight of God our Re- deemer. BROOKLYN CZURCHES. The Church cof the Future—The faving Grac2 of Hope—Hiumility and Fortitude—Falso and Unscriptural Opinions. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Tue Glory of the Ages to Come—The Power ot Hope—Sermon by the Rev. Heary Ward Beecu All lovers of sunshine must have been strongly tempted yesterday morning to stay outside of the churches; but if any of the Plymouth flock were in- clined vo indulge in vagrant desires for blue skies and fresh air they smothered the feeling, for they were ali tn their places, with the usual number of strangers crowding them and putting their Chris- tian courtesy to the strongest test. Alter asking for contitbatious for the sallors and a Western college, Mr. Beecher read the names of ONE HUNDRED AND TWO APPLICANTS. for aduiission to the church on profession of their faith and fiiteen by letter. The sermon (from Ephe- sians il., 7—*'That in the ages to come He might show the excceding riches of His grace in His klnd- ness to us through Cuarist Jesus’) was one of Mr. Beecher’s masterpieces, liiting everybody from the hard, cold, exacting reality to the light and beauty and warmth of the ideal, What a pity that everybody could not stay there | There 18 something very impressive, he began, in that LONG LOOK AMRAD, that is significant of the worthies of old. They lived sensitively m the present, and they trusted in the future as a blessed reality, It 1s this forelooking and the sustenance it gives, the rest it affords under troubie, that ivads the Apostie to say, “We are saved by hope.’’ The Aposties seemed to think of thls life a3 4 mere hint, A BOND FOR A DEED, the seminal period. They accepted the intimations. of tie present as tokena of something tran- scendentiy better, ‘fhe givry ot God's work cannot be seen on earth was their spirit, Now twilight, in the ages to come periect aisclosure, perfect knowledge; bow the rudiment, then tne whole form. e need just such & Lege oe ‘Tre actual condition of the race seems utterly inexplicable. ‘rhe lowness of tho average man tills the mind with pain. Development secmas to go on with extreme slowness, abd What is gained on one side seems to be lost on the other. Nations learn very litte, and that little eae easily. It death rabved out being it would not be 80 strange, but to suppose that age after age men are dying of and pouring into the other World tasks one’s faith, wrings one's hope or fear. We mast believe that somehow in the ages to come, when there are A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW RARTH, that righteousness will dwell im them. By what road We shal arrive at it we cannes tell, There is to be a fature that ehali cast light and glory on the na- Uons. Secondly, the condition of the Church Itself 13 unsatisfactory. The Chureh of the future, of which We heur 60 much, the less it resembles the Church of the past the better we shall like l, The Church 1s full of the SICK, THOUGH THEY AMR CONVALESCENT, ‘We suogid not look in a hospital for beauty. There are oxveptions, but as a whole the AVRRAGE OF PIETY 1a low, and the Church leaves the inward reality for externalities, We must look to the fuiure, where = shall dwell with Hig people, and love shall be 1 pubdite sentiment of the Church, and the wisdom be that Walch coues from 1ovg, the knows God is very unsatisfactory. The depends upon development in We cannot understand anything that is not in some degree Us, Why cannot the lower animais understand us? Because they have not development enough; and 1316 not so between us and supreme intelligences? Parw of God we understand, but growth ts THB ONLY INTERPRETATION that will roveal Him to us; and that growth will nos be here. Now, our God 1s like a brilliant star—too for bg oe In the ages to come we shall He Is; vow we see Him as we Admit that God is per fect justice, but who under- stands pertect Wisdom and justice? What are these but words? Who could tell the colors of autumn on seeing only tne first glow of spring? Imagine an Esquimaux trying to get an idea of the vegetation of the tropics, of the glory of tropical skies, pitting by an tceverg. The ages to come will reveal @ personal expe- rience in us of which we have now but the fainvess traces, You never can tell HOW THE BLOSSOMS OF A NBW TREE WILL LOOK. For years it has been in your garden, but you have no idea of the unknown biossoms, At last 1t blooms, and can you teil what the fruit will be? Now, there is nothing in the unripe state of the human mind by which you can judge of tne RIPE STATE, Who would have suspected in tne days of barbarism the powers of the human mind? Our conditions fre such that we cannot judge of the future. Who Can tell the changes we shall meet when we shall have dropped the body with all its hindering pas- blous¥ Some men’s bodies are like a boat with too large an engine; others have too much boat for the engine. Some boats are too long aud some too short; some have too much sail, others not enough. We have got to take this problem of lite in thestruc- ture God has given us, and bear right up toward manhood. In the ages to come we shall be neither helped nor hindered by these bodies, Some believe in the resurrection of the bodies, but not L 1 HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF IT. Goodby, flesh and biood, 1 don’t Know what I shall have in its place. but I believe it will be magnificent. ‘Then we shall be surrounded by influeaces of which we knownetnow. What would it be to live for @ single year among those who Liv! UP EVERY FEELING, where overy eye shail shine like a star? Now we are Oppresssd even by the well meading. What will that stute be where everyvody helps? A hopetul and joyiul imagtnation of the ages to come, though inaccurate, as it wil be, 18, then, desirable, We shall not conceive rightly of @ future state, but there 15 no danger of exaggerations. tiow much better to live by faith than by signt. That which @ man sees. in this world is not to be compared to that which we imagine, We are to have an eye that looks beyond. It 1s sad to see how average men live m ‘Uus world. How iittle they bave; how they YEAKN FOR HAPPINESS and find it not, The moat piteous thing In the world is to see how men jive. But a Curistian man knows he js only @ pilgrim and stranger going home. He patnts pictures, carves statues as he goes along, lilling the GREAT, EMPTY HEAVENS with beauty. He is lifved by fuitn above the dull, sodden reality, and with faith looks to the happy future, Men don’t like to think of growilug oid. ‘They don’t jike to feel the keel of the buat grate and to tind the Water growing shallow. Tne Christian man takes the Knocks and iisfortunes of Ife, feel- ing that he owns the ages to come. THE NATURAL MAN is losing everything; the spirituai man 1s gaining alt the me. What is the perisiing of this outward bouy? If the outward body perish the luward body grows rich aud sirong. I love to think that the lnystery of the sileace Of death 18 not really o mys- tery. OUR FRIENDS ARE SEPARATED FROM US merely because they are iifted so far above our faculties that we canno® see them. The companions that have leit us ave Dear us; they love us, but we cannot commune with them because they are lifted out of our conditions. Ticirs i tae ut.re—ours the waiting. So we look away from the siorm, the evil, the temptations and trials, to that blessed laud in which 18 perfect thought, perfect feeling, perfect associauon, periect knowledge; wiere, Knowing a& we are Anowh, We Siail be forever viessed, BEDFORD AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH. Personal Salvation—Sermon by Rev. Chapmav. The St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Bed- ford avenue, Brovklyn, EB, D., waicn is one of the finest specimens of church architecture in the olty and the most beautiful and costiy edifice of this de- nomination in the country, was filled to overilowing yesterday moraing, it being understood that Rev. J. A. M, Chapman, who has just been appuinted to the pastorate of St. Jona’s, would occupy the pulpit, Mr. Cuapman has just conciuded his prescrived term of ministeriai service as Grace churca, Boston; and having occupied the front rauk in the New England Methodist pulpit for the last ten years his reputatiea for piety and elo- quence preceded iis advent in Brookiyn. Judging from his maugu.al discourse upon the preceding Sabpath Mr. Chapwun has no sympathy with sSeusauionalism, but, to use his own words, he comes to his new congregation with the old Gospel of Calvary. He has the happy faculty, however, of presenting the oid themes of the evangelical pulpit in elegant attire; for his d:scourses are MODELS OF KUELOKICAL BEAUTY. It would seem from the increased attendance at St. Joun’s that the wish expressed by a lady puuster wili soon be realized, Upon hearing taat the Initials of her new shepherd were “J, A. M.* she “Hood-isily’ repiied, “I hope he will jam the church.” It is understood that Miss Butman, the soprano ot St. Ann’s church, has been engaged and will take her seat in the choir next Sabidth. So that with the warbling oj the fair songstress from the “Heights” of the mundane Zion across the river and the Cice- roniaa periods of the latest ministerial importation from the Hud of the Universe, the attendants at the “Bedford avenue cathedral,” a; it is facctiously termed by many, may lay tne fitiering auction te their sou's, us they sit 1n their iuxurious pews {rom davbath tv Sabvaih, that they wre yoy to heaven ‘un Howery beds of euse.’” Tus SERMON, After the usual tntiouuctory services Mr. Chap- man selected ior & Wwxt part of the twellth verse of the yecond chapter of ’uilippiang—"* work out your Own salvation With fear aud trembling.” In ous exordium he said that nothing more ciearly indie cuted We uaural LilndHEsS OF perversity ot the human miud chau its apparently unnecessary mis- Appreiension of the reat nature oO: Christianity; or notiulug could be more explicit aad imieiligent than the deciarations of tae Bivie upon tht pout, ‘Lhe two exweibes auoay the many FALSE AND UNSCXLYTURAT OPINIONS that have prevaued upon this subject were, first, that view Which abprebended sa Valion @8 abso lutely jucicil aud representative us the fruit of Christ's sacridcial Work and mediatorial regu, itve- specuve 0: the Rew birth and Oi personal character; we Opimion that salvauon is wholly seli-uepend a developmen’ from within by disct- pie, Cuiture and grow tb, ivrespect Ve of the atuae- Ment aud iMtercession of Carist and without the aid ol any superuatiial or regencrauve agency, The Bidie, as be unuersioud its teachings, suowed that each of the above theories coutamed HALF TKULM AND HALF ERROR; that the recovery oi mau from is falien condition had been procured by tue sacrifice for sin and ihe ugency of a divine power out of and above man, and that all presumptuous trust that Chrast will be made unto meu righteousuess and sanctification where the subjective process of regeneration has nut takea place will prove a disastrous and fatal delusion; that Salvation 1s Doth subjective and objective—some- thmg doue for us and something doue ius, reiaiing to the divine government and also to individual character apd expe- nence, Tne Bible was clear upon this matter, teaching that saivaiwn Was purchased by Unrist ‘and made possib.e by tke power of the Holy Ghost, and 13 to be received by faith alone, while it also taught that human experience and character. are periected by co-operation with the divine agency and the use of the means; that salvation 13 not eniy deliverance from the curse of the law, but from the control of e' not only & judicial acquittal at the bar of God, @ renewal in the image of God; not only a gift Uk Nas been treasured up in Christ, and 19 Lo be ours by perpetual impai tation, but a blessing that in a great measure 1s to be attained by PRKSONAL EFFORT AND GROWTH, To the further elucidation of tne theme the Speaker said that it was a@ personal salvation, inas- much as it consisted in @ personal spiritual life, It ‘Was the reign Of prac at Ce bee | in the Moly Ghost, It did not consist in creeds, rites and ceremonies, but m principles, afectiona.and vitality Within, As this Was a regenerating and & transform- ing ilfe, 1t had a particular work to ao,vhat would ive it an individual and a distinctive history in each jeart. Christianity aid not come to erase and de stroy a! personal peculiarities and tdioaync! ie, but Lo mold, harmonize and purily individual waits of character, Tita new lie was not the product of education, culture or Improvement but a new. birth through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and re- generation by the ageucy of the Holy Ghost, and upon the b: of an atonement by a divine Saviour. The man that enters the Kmgdomraf glory in Heaven must frst enter sne kingdom of grace on earth, ‘Tks Was @ personal salvation, because it must be Wrought out, by persoyal effurt. Peligion was not made up of pious looks, prayers, speeches and emo- lions, awakened aud kept alive by @ kind of senti. mental recurrence to the cross amd the itercessiona. and sympathy of Christ, bat of @ heart oxperience of the love of en God and & life of consecration ‘the service of God. ere THE RELIGION QF EMOTION was not connected with the subdiiag of the pas. sions and the vices of our nature, it was a refuge of lies and & foundatton of sand. Hoe (the speaker) often thought there was too much scatiolding around the soul, Which did not advance, but rather hindered the builuing of tue tempie of character. Mr. Chapman then dilated im eloguent terms upen fact that the grandest successes in et ve ' partment of iife-—that the men who have iifte world up toward God were those that ta early ue obstacles vo Over- 0 inen” as had the fewest heips and the in come. Some if they ‘veloped, t-maad