The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1871, Page 8

8 RELIGIOUS, Seriaons and Services Yesterday in This City and Elsewhere. The Establishment of the Communiona— What We Must Do to Be Saved— Reeord of an Eventful Life, The Lesson of the Patnam Murder. Discourses by Revs. G. WH. Wepworth, J. Love, C. C. Foote, Dr. Wescott, " Father Dwyer aud Others, The pr, Shi sunshine of yesterday morning, seem- tani more y beautiful, atter the three ial siset abun cht { rain, had @ most cheering effect upon eve The regular chureb-goers Were out im fall fore eonciuded that there y © Reavy weather, and had bi. main indoors, w tions and help swell the crowds divine worship. Tue more worthy sermons delivered yesterday will be + tollowing reports:— ded, therefore, to re- to forego their inten- ig attendance at ‘ef the several compelled CHUREN oF T ree of the Comm n by the Vev. G. Mf. Hepworth, Atthe mornmg service yesterday fn this pretty vemprle on Murray HY, there was the usnally large | iat Assembla’, aud al, the¥ wéFe a sermon from tse popular pastor, the . Hepworth, Bis text was taken from nis do in remembrance of me,” ralong time T have wanted to talk to ne Communion tal At stated Inter. ou see on the platform in front of me # table spread for what 8 called the Lord's Supper. I give an invitation to all Who love ord Jesus, to all who wish to be His disciples, to remain and engage in the service with ns, bul when the benediction has been pronounced the large majority of thee .tion, thinking that the invitation 3s not intended for them, depart to r hind to remem- their home ber by mica service the S: Tam told * one reason din the genes ort of the service; pany of you leave the buildivg with wand Wii hesilatng steps, bac that upleiey i the power oF gertaim ) TRADITIONS AND SUPENSTEN ONS ) artake lest you st We upWortuily, Aud so merit the Wrata O1 God, motives 12 et, amd 1 am glad both with Woich you 4 ado ‘These he re- | Maclace rt and fer tt Leis you have to stay. L only wish that not a person | Would shir irom his seat; tat every father axa | moiher and buy and girl Would teel Ita privileges au delight vo spend a holy halt hour avout this iaie ta | aweet and heipiul communion with that Wondrous Being Who has died that We all mighy 4 ¢ ule more (?) abundantly. 1 have, iierefore, Gevermimed to speak in deal of ay views %f this sab. ject, hoping to convine you that i is at once your @uly aud your Uuspeakadle — privi- deze to make use of this Leautiul Christan ercinance for the improvement’ of your souls, I have chosen the words of my text becaase they nie to US La the shape of &@ command, How ven- der juey are. They seem to Come mght out of Jesus? heart. They are freigited with His love for us. How much can be coupressed into a lew words sometimes | HOW much pathos, how much atiec- tion! The text carrics us vack a few months to Shatcurivus Cpisode im His lie, When He rode into derasaicm ip a sirange kind ol triumphal proces- @ion. He sat upon the foal of an ass, was followed by Lis Wl-clad discipies una welcomed by a mouey group, who neither gaderstood Hun nor His mis- sin. They cried HOSANNA TO A REAL KING, fut they did not know tl, That triumphal proces- sion bas Cided in apparent diserace. ‘the disciples are dishearteved, the mob fas lost its Mitte conf. de the siadows bave Veen growing deeper and deeper fur montis, and vow te storm fs ready to art, ani the holy Victim 1s making preparations w Jeave the work through the agony of the cross, de las impressed upon His ciscipies What they shall wach alter Hie 18 gone, aud has oid them of We Quagers (ual will besct them. It 1s ny encouraging pro-pect Wat les betore them. If there 1s anything: bi can do to help them you may be sure He wil bus vehat can cheer them and make wem st to the end? What ts there tuat will Him and His greaicr sutteriugs to mind; ater Wiumphs, tou? —Apparenuy ig They stall mees w otuer of th: Holy aod so ihe Lord's tustitated, and eve! the disciples laround the Loi and been en- vedas the ppt has come upon them and suid LO Uber hearis “veace be unto you.” Weil, We are bot Very unlike the disciples. re pot sent out into the midst of ravening *, perhaps, though our passions are sometimes fierce as wid beasts; We are not called upon tu face rdom aud Jee. our flesh grow hot ip the milast “wing laggot. Stull, dO we not all feel our sin Duce In a W! Sprrit iat has come to them Do we not ojten, very often need a visit from the Holy Spirity. Would Iv not heip us greatly if we sit glove with God aud Christ and hear their voices and remember What they have done forus: 1knew our auswer; nO boon would be greater than tis. Vell, we have it; here atthe table the promise 1s fuiniied. The motives which urge us are yery Weighty. First, we are stirred by gratitude. Of ad Motives this Is among the holiest. He whose breast ig ceepiy stirred with gratitude toward fath mother hasa shield with wuich to resist the dart Ol she tempter, He who feels the full effect of the gratiiude (ue to Christ is aiready more than half Curisv’s, and feels within himself the pukings of consecration. Can you fail to do so litile for Him who hes done so much for you? He has dicd out of jove lor you, aud can you Lot sit sull for halfan hour and Yecail tuis fact? Secondly, It 1s your du y. Every inan who firmly believes in Christianity should enrol himself wuder its banner. 1s IT NOT GOWARDLY to keep your convictions to yourseif’ If you know that Uie teachings of the Church are good tor your cbudren (aud you have more than once told me that vu do Leleve tis), then are they good aiso for you. tis a Saieguard to Make public proession of your desire to lead a holy life. Nay, 1t i8 4 great wrong to your own soni aid to the community not to do tt You are not good enough? Piuable soplism. Not goou enough, indeed! Pray, aid not Curist come ag 4 puysican? and if so, only the healtuy can boast that they do not need Him. Not good enough! Why, it is just because you are not wood that you should come Are you Dot as good as Peter, Who denied bis Lord; as good as Judas, who betrayed Him’ The worse you are the more need there is Uiat you suould come, aod at once. I beiteve that if you Opeuly consecrate yourself you will doable your power Yoursclt “at once. ‘The Cuurch is the world’s word of encouragement. You must enrol yourseif u the Lanner of one of te two at that of C tof the world, ‘The iyitat Generous aud the help is sure, CHRISTUN FREE CHURCH, TUE Hope aud Eacouregement for the Ministry— Sermou by Rev. Charles ©. Foote. At the Christian Free Church in West Twenty- street a sermon was preached by the pastor, . Foote, yesterday moraing, lls text being m St. Paul's Epistle ty the Ephesians, In his le St. Paul tells the Ephesians 1, 15-20. that he ceases uot to pray for them, asking God to git them with divine truth, wisdom to enlightened hearia wo tie also refers to Gaviour aud of ills eitting at the right abuadaut revelations of the widersiand it and appreciate it. The Apos- tbe reserrection of our ascending to heaven ana hand of Goi the Fatt The reverend gevtieman divided Nis sermon mto turee paris—ihe first considering the hope of tis calling, the next the richness of His inheritance in the saints, and the doal one explaining and point. ing ous the power With which God cares for this Joheritance. He proceeded to suy that this prayer that ihe Apostie offered up for the Bphesians gives great en- oourivemenut (o all mintsters and Church of Ya to ‘, and many Who lad no doubt | be a steady spell of | “ound in the | raised Jesus Christ from the dead and placed Him at this r ght hana in the heavenly piaces. the “hope of iis caling?’ It is the hope watcn those Who ore Cheisitaus and serve God eavertain of Teaching heaven 3 ended, ‘here to be eternally hap) of the Sight of God and in the ‘Wat 18 What is meaut hy the “Lope Of His caiit aud it was for tals that St, Paal prayed. Heaven ts the inheritance which He offers to those who take ep His cross a: @ follow Him, A mother lifting up her Duby in her arms looks upon it as ler inherit ance. Look atthe LOVING CARE AND ATTENTION she bestows upon the helpless litte one, Whena soul is born into the Chureh of God there ts great re- jovcing in beavea, tor the Muimortal soul is a very pipauy of His saints, great thing. say to you, one and ail, my heart goes out to a fellow Chrisuab, no matter whether he be a fair Circassion or a Dative of Afric’s sunny shore; be he white or biack it is ailthe same. in heaves, at the last day, we wil find all the children of God a: semobled (ogether; there will be no distinction ma .e on account of color; the white man or the biack man each wil! have a share in the riches of the ory of ts inheritanee, If he but be @ Christian and a member of the Chureh of God. In regarding the power with which He cares for this inheritance, What could or does exhibit His power more strikingly than His raising Christ from the dead? You all Know how poweriess is a dead man—an tnanimate piece o: clay; the body rests wherever we may place it; 1f cannot help its); the air, as it passes over ii, tosses around and disar- : aoe ihe hair; an earthquaxe may rock te earth, Du THE SHAKING OF TIE BIER is not heeded by its occupant, I can think of no- thing nore helpless and powerless; the tnscct, no matter how tiny, that Mit$ througe the atris greater; che auhuaicule in the water, so extremely smail tn | ther proportions tuat tt lakes a mioroscope to watcn and discern thelr movements, surpass the.dead man | lyzng there—nerveless, powerless, unable to make | an exertion, We sce a'steamer with its large cargo oi merchandise and its Numerous passengers pro- pelled across the ocean by the mighty power of e look ut the tong line of heavily Treiguted wn by the locomotive across the Continent, | over raviies aud up steep mountala sides. We gaze | in astonishment at THE MONSTER PALLS OF NIAGARA, where the waters dash down into the depths and sparkle 1m the sunlight, dispayiug the Jierent colors of the rainbow; we jisten with rear to the Jond roar of the cannon or the mortar on tne batile- fed. Ail of these tangs 1 have mentioned are stu- { pendous, wouderful and awe-inspiring, and yet tiiy ehcink into insignificance when coimpared with taat salubition ol God’s great power— the raislag of Christ rs ™ the tomb, ie was dead and is alive; the fro. “sdescend from on high and roll back the stone Pe Ms ‘© Auouth of the sepulenre; the pulse, tue Ae re th Snes, resume their functions; Christ Hee s sort 2rOm the grave and is once move altve. come or -W “ub whic He cares for His inheritauce poe tongty exn.eled in Jesus Christ's wonderul 8 strongly vq resctrection and His great triumph SCC SOD aor OF death and hell, over He ere of the services a new member eee ee eae a eburen, alter which the mem: S§ recelyed into "at the Lord’s 8a, a bers of the church partoon 3 i ad NOCH BAPTIST CHURCH. The Patuam Murder—Fareral Oration Last ssons of the Tridedv—ikow Ciiuso talles im the Cit¥vne Cerraption of ike Conris— Tag Remedy Recommerded. ss A loge congregation gathered at the Antioch ssyplist chureb, in Bleecker street, last evening, 1a consequence of the announcement that the Rev. John Love would deliver @ fanerat oration over the remains of the late Mr. Avery D. Putnam, who was murjered by Foster, as already set forth in these folumns. Great interest was Manifested in the {yseourse by those present, and it there inall, {he ghastiiness of death, so still did every'Limg seem in the church, “rhe text was selecied from Numbers xxxv., 16— “and if be smite hin with an instrament ci iron so thathe ate he ts a murderer. The murdererstall surely be put to death.” Commencing with an ail.sion to the Moasic law, he proceeded to etate that life wag fall of mysteries and strange and inexplicanle inci- dents, which all the ingenuity of man could not re- move. Every step in life was made amid dangers, and sometimes even those who professed to fear nothing were awed when they came face tu face with the realliy; and when that hardihood should be brought ito play they felt back utterly discom- fitted. It is but A WEEK AGO THAT A TRAGEDY OCCURRED in this cliy, which for wantonness and cruelty has seldom been equalled even in those semi-barvbarous days when protection to life was not guaranteed to us as It now is pretended to be in the hignways that thread our eities, The whole communtiy had been aroused to a pitch of indignation which words we.e inadequate to express. Relerring to 1E NIGHT OF THE ASSASSINATION, he said Mr, Putpam was one of those courteous, kind-hearted citizens who delighted in rendering a service whenever Sporty, offered, and on the evening in quesiion he was quiedy accompanying his ledy frends on their journey through the city when he was kilied, because he simply wished Foster to discontinue an insulting man- ner be had adopted towards the younger of the two ladies he had in bis charge. Waat could be more disgusting than for a druuken rowdy, ensed by intoxicating sigaors ana reesing with uneartluy odor (trom rum), to enter a car on the public street, insuit the passengers, and then commence @ murderous attack on a genueman Wo was endeavoring to shield them from bis insults? The druukard seized the “iron mstrumeut,” and, in & wioMent Of maduess, CRUSHED IN THE SKCLU of his victim in the most cowardly and bloodthirsty manner—an act more befitting an untutored Ladian than @ person Who has lived umettered in a tree country and among civilized people. He next pic- tured the insensibie but manly form as it lay stretched out on the cold’ stones—the oozing of the mau’s life blood, and the subse. quent suflerings and departure of the unfortunate victim to that land where marauders dare not prowl, On the other hand, he imagined the intense agony of mind of his wife as she waited hour alter hour for that well known footstep which told oi his approach to the house; put the manly tread was not heard, por did the sound of nis voice greet her 1n Joyiul accents as on previous occasions. Mianignt caine aad the gray hours of dawn approache: til he remained avsent. The breakfast table saw not his bright siniies. But Jater on in the day her mind, Which had been dashed about almost in despair at the uncertainty of ner hasbana’s fate, received the feartul shock—the Climax Was capped; her worst fears were fulfilled; HER HUSBAND HAD DEEN MURDERED; yes, even then, practically and literally murdered. hy a stroke of the assassin’s hands she had been de- prived of a guide—a protector of ail her best and dearest interests; the house was leit without a head, aud her son, Who was just emerging froin youth's happy days into the practices and reaiity of jife, lett without @ father, Life was full of contrast. ‘Two weeks ago Mr. Putnam was alive and weil, each day attending tu the business of life with ardor and cheer/ulness—a man whese industry was as constant as the return of day and night. The bloom of heaitn was on his cheeks, and hope—bright hope—animated his mind. To-day his form lies covered with a MOUND OF EARTH IN SWAN POINT CEMETERY, amonument of blighted hopes ana crusned pros- pects, Atthe thought of this our hearts bieed and we could not find words jent in deptn of sym- pathy to express our feelt ‘To him (the preacher) it was like a dream; but, alas, it was too real. Wonld that the memories of the past fortnight could be blotted ont. If disease had come and paisied the energies, causing tie ile blood to — stagnat the Christan hears mignt | utter the words, “Thy will be done.” But to be stricken down by the assassin’s hand was not only insul to the mind, but caused afester In the heart speedy justice—might visit the assas- ould “not now retarn to the wile her 5 and, Before the Nathan murder has passed ont of Inemory we are again shocked by one scarcely less puluful or less irritating to tue com- muuity. CRIME HAD BECOME TERRIBLY AND FREQUENT. There is no security of life, and there could be none until the courts were freed from poittical and fluancial considerations, A man might commit un- heard of crimes, ret greenhacks would soon restore to him fresh opporcuntties for preying on the public, It was necessary that the government should in: ist upon the enforcement of the laws. There was @ | painful laxity in the adminiatration of THY LAW IN NEW YORK, it _hetng frequently the boast of crimtnais that no offence could send them to the State Prison. What he wished to recommend was that there shoud | be unity and co-operation among all good | citizens in the maimtenance of order, who would form @ powerful phalanx to the law, and which must resuit in benetiting ail, Germany had but one thought in the late Straggle; America had but one sentiment in the North during the rebellion, and citizens must have but one heart and oue head to protect themselves and Ubelr families. Lawlessness must be suppressed. | Jn conclusion he urged the urgent necessity of pro- | viding for death before the feli destroyer should | touch us with his icy band, | or She PETERS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. | Sermon by Rey. Michael O*Parrell—Where am £ Going ?-What Shall I Do to be Saved ?=Salvation to be lad for Wishine. pray for thelr flocks. Let us notice what lis prayer ORE ALL THR NEW ThATAMBST WAS WRITTEN Ne aked God to biess this peoply with # spirit of Wisdom and reve\a in @ knowledge or Lim; that ea of thelr uaderstanding might be en- lightened; buat they might be given a kuowledge of the ey Ue Lope of Ibis calling Aud Of (he riches of the glory Of His inheritanta in the saints and @ proper appre. Cation aad understanding of the excenting great- | Dose of Mia pewer which Ue t when Me | Wrougly Bright sunshine from a blue sky, seattered ib ; Snowy clonds and @ fresh, healtuful preeze, were | Gov'’s tribute yesterday to the day He has calied holy. The rainsiorm of the two previous days had | filed men's minds with depression, but when they | Sawin the glorious sunlight what the showers had | doue for the opening buds upon the trees, they were JOYOUS, THANKFUL AND THOUGHTFUL, It is not wonderful, therefore, that old St. Peter's in Harciay street was filled at high mass to over. Mowing with w devout congregation, The “Messe What 1s ier their so,ourn in this world As m the enjoyment seemed almost, @3 thoygh the murdered man was | | Solennelle” of Rossini was sung by the choir under the direction of Provesaor U. F. Pecher, This ts the | Orst time that this grand work has oven given ca tre tn tiscuy, The performance was realy a great success. It took the majority of tne congregation by surprise, and reilecied great credit on Mr. Pecher and his able chotr, Tne | Sermon was preached by Father O'Farrell, from the Gospel of the day, waich, being the fourt» Sunday alter Easter, is taken (rom St. Jolin, 16:—1he inter- Togation, my brethren, which our Saviour addressed to the apostles is one we should ponder over and apply ourselves—"I am going to tae Father, and none of you ask me wiiere am I going?’ An, we are all going to the Father, drifting towards the un- | tathomabie abyss of evernity., Que lives are saillag: down the streanr which ends m judgment, and we Go hot ask ourselves Whether it Will be a good or a bad one; we do not cousider WHEKE WILL OUR JOURNBY END. Salvation ts the end to strive for. Wat 1s salva. tion? it means the eteroal eujoy ment of God in tne Kiugitom He has prepared for us, Viewing this we see the force of the qaesiion—Ww hat aba | [uo te be savou? Itis one all Shouid ask, and to waich every man of sense should look ior un answer, ow, God Created us ouly to be save, sor all eternity He lived in unapproached majesty, and when it pleased | Mam to create man He created this world of His own free wil for the sitvation of mon, No maiter what Jreethinkers aud infidels nay aver, tiis word 18 not @ culLection of cance aoms, It 1s no: the blind product of bind forces act.ng on eacu otucr, God tock the stime of the earth aud fashioned it with bis Speers; inv it He breained the very breath of life, un A SPARK FROM HIS DIVINITY, Man is not tue result of developing physical laws. very atom which we see is a prool of how God Wises mian to be saved. The begutini world, the bright stars, the stivery moon, ali wituess it. 1t we 0 from the natural work! to Lae superpatural, from God ihe Creaior t6 Got the Redeemer, We siall see how iaucu more He has aoue Jor man, Le created the wovid vor him by a word; Hie scat down tis own and only Son, Look ito the garden oO. Gethsemane and Lear Uke asoaized prayer:—“Father, If it be possibie, let tuis bitter chalice pass away from me.” No, it was not possi- bie; man skould be saved with ihe last drop of that Saviour’s bivod, Look upon Christ on ihe cross With tis outstretched arms, See him as an open book where the story of salva is TOLD IN EVERY WOUND. God has done ail this for you; but He has dove more, which is to be jOund fn the untailug fountains of grace weiling up in theposem gf ibe Churei, rch In Lue possession of the sacrament of ihe vody and blood of Clirist. We see, then, not only God ihe Redeemer, but God the sanctufler of tne worid. Tus world suali ony last wntht the number 01 tie elect 1p Heavea is fied up, and then it will cease ig CXist. ‘Vhe questiou put to the aposties—What shall [0 to | b@ saved? was that of earnest men, who WOULD TAKE ANY MEANS to focomplign a Jf 13 our guy a itis not very dimcuit to ach.eve. Our diaposal; Saivauion ig at our duor. Not to go up to heaven to be s; ‘The meaug are at We aye aaved; We have only to Wish it, 1 must uot be desired condionatiy. We nist say—1 wish it; oot l would wishii, It ies in the w selute determimat.on of mas iree wil, It 1s the only ching we cai gaia Uy'wilkag. | A‘inda way desire fOrtuue, tend: Hors By ill. 4, buy be CauNOL be surg to gain If Sen say, how caa wé 2 TURMOIL OF LIFE achieve salvation ? 1tts easily done fn the solitude Of The cloister; with Us itis impossivle, My bretiren, you must doit in {he world, Your Station 1s amid | The sin und tafinuil of thé World, You are on tie i battieweld of life and you must not desert your post. Whea God gave man the mei to save bimself He dtd not iock Him with impors.bilittes. No; He made it easy. Recall to your minds the boat on the Lake of Genesareth, in Which the apostics, amid the Perens ©; Use Slorm, aWakeng\ die LOfd aid asked } Mim to Sve tneui, and at His word the waves were | suii. ‘Lhe litue boat is lke the Cauren, with Christ | within it, When the waves of deceti, of iove of pride, Of Magnity oO: spirit, of Coucupisceace run figus we must cali upon the Lord to save us and He wail, kemewber, when Peter was waking on the waters, until he lost confidence and faith, he trod as on sold ground. Losing taith ne sank, and cried out “Save me, Lord, or 1 perish!’ We must walk on the waters too, If we for a moment lose taith and suik, we | have but to ery out to the Lord to sustain us and we shail be saved. Salvation is a natural desire. No man has ¢ver seriously said “| WISH 10 BE DAMNED.” We are here in the bat.le of lite, Let no man be fuintheacted or weary. We may Bee the brave sol- dier fali vy our side; we may mark men droppiug one by one into the avyss of perdition, We must go on. it 1s Jesus in the hlte vessel with us wuom we forgot to waken; 1t 18 Jesus on the watera wa forge: toask. Nearer and noarer we glide to the guli of eternity let Him be our stay abd our hope. And when @ man asks nimself, Where am I going? let lis auswer ve, ‘By the grace of God and help of the saviour Lam goiig towards heaven.” ay 2 aso, PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH, “Forty Yeurs a Pastor’?—Record of an Eventfal Lifte—Sermon by Kev. Dr. Wes- cott. The little church on West Fifty-first street, called the Plymouth Baptist church, was filled to its utmost capacity yesterday morning by the members of the congregation, Who came to listen to au inter- esting deiail of the live of their pastor, Dr. Wescott. Kish AND PROGRESS OF DR, WESCOTY’s caUKCH. The Baptists in the upper part of cue city having no suitable place of worship, Plymouth church was organized October 1, 1868, with only twenty mem- bers, Dr, Wescott, who was well knowu as one of the most taiented ministers of tne Church, was called to the pastorate in the following April, Under bis wise management the new church was rapidly fotmed, and it soun became necessary to have a new building, Money was suoscribed, the present site Was oblamed and ground was broken on the 27th of July, 18¢9, The putlding is of brick, with brown stone triminings, and the design, both iuside and out, 18 neat and beautiiul, The church has now been established about two years, and dur- ing thac time it has enjoyed an unimterrupted course of prosperity. AN INTERESTING CAREER. Dr. Wescott yesterday gave an account of his labors in the cause of Crist, These labors extend over a period of forty years, His text was from Deuveronomy u., 7—"For the Lord thy God hath biessed thee in all the works of thy hand: He know- eth thy walking through this great wiiderness— these forty years the Lord thy God bath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.” All these forty years, said the speaker, God had been with him, and he stood to-uay a monument of His mercy and one of His most unworthy servants. Beiore Ue aa continued the reverend doc- ter, he was the pastor of @ litle church in Vermont, when the Lord sent and led nun to seek a wider field of influence at Wilting, in te Same State, on the oth of May, 1831, JUST FORTY YEARS Go, Previous to his being calied to Wiuting there had been held there @ three days’ meeting, at which there Was @ mighty outpouring of the spirit, and many influential iaen were converted. He remained there but two years, durlag Wlich tiwe the member- Silp Increased from sixteen to 160, and cignty-oue persons were baptized, in 1883 he preached his first sermon tn Stillwater, Saratoga county, N. Y. The chureh to which he was culied had vut fifty members, and there was jitde or no enthusiasm among them in religious matters, A series of revivals were started, and several promt- nent members being invited to attend to preach the people came from miles around. Their oid ardor was stirced Up, and fity persons were bapuzed the first year, The churci soon became highiy prosperous, an] in a short ume another butiding for purposes of worship was erected, Sotu churches were prosperous and unanimous; there never was @ diviaing vote, aud HO business Church meetings were held, The speaker characte business church meetings a8 an invention of the devil. He remained at Suiiwater for eighteen yeirs, and when he Jett there were two stone buildings aud (he meme bership had increased to four hundred and tity. While there he had baptzed over six hundred per+ sons, He received eightcen calls in eighteen years, atl of which he declined, as he loved tue people he was With, é& UB COMES TO NEW YORK. In January, 1561, br. Wescott came to this city and became the pastor of the Laignt street Bapust church. He remained here five years, and during lus pastorate the church enjoyed unexainpied pros+ perity. ere he hapuzed 244 persons, representin, every rank of life, and thoug twenty Thad passed he met them freqaeniy. While JAlgnt street his health began to fall, avd it being neces- | Sary he should leave tie city, Le accepted a call to Gloversville, N.Y. Here te commenced a series of meetings, Which continued for tlirteen weeks, and @ successful beyond all lis expectauons, ons united with the diferent churches, | and the result was anew meeting iouse, He re- mained at Gloversvilie for four years, and during that time 249 Reteoee were baptized, The next pas- vorate of Dr, Wescott was at Newburg, where he re- Mained two years, And succeeded in building a Lew church, which was iilled every Sunday, AGAIN IN NEW YORK, Tis next cail was to Bloomingda! he jound the congregation worsi mall wooden house on hth avenue, it he had come to a very poor Church; but in this he was mistaken, There was an abundance of wealth, and Atonly needed the intiuence of God to draw it out. During the first year anew church wes erected in Foriy-second street, and $25,000 of the cost was railed among the people themselves, | After leaving the Forty-4econd siteet cimreh Dr. Wescott spent about two years at the bible Rooms | and in 1860 ace I bie tr erly co { the end of his discourse, which wos listened with great attention, he gave a brief summary of ” ipiitie "BE regi OF HIS LABORS, ears of his pastorate, he stated, he had baptized 1,54 persons, or an ‘average of thirty-eight persons per year, and had preached 7,072 sermons. Six houses of worship had been built by churches whtte he was with them, and their increase in meinvership had amounted to 1,u8 The number of persons married by lim was 1,084, Dur ing his forty years’ labors he bad igst but one Sune in 1861, plus in Here led & Cail from the congregation of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, bur to reseen hin | MAY 8, 1871.—TRIPLE day, and that by sickness, Te had held 149 pro- trac’e! meetings, and esumated the number of con- | Versions made ab 7,400, ST. PAUL'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Rest of Heaven—Sermon by the Rev. Fataer Dwyer. The large church of the Paulist Fathers, in Fifty- ninth street, near Ninta avenue, was flied yesterday morning with fashionable as well as more substan- tial worshippers, The Rev. Father Serrell, one of the recently ordaluea priests, was the celebrant, and the Rev, Father Dwyer, anotner newly ordained clergyman, read the Gospel of the day from St. John, xvi, 5-15, in which the Saviour declares it necessary that He should go away that the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, might come and remain with the Church forevermore. The reverend gentieman then preached from the text—Hebrews, 1v.. 9:— “There rewatneth, therefore, @ rest to the people of God.” These words, he said, are full of consolation to every one of us. They ft our minds above this earth and fx them on the bappy land where no sickness, s0r+ row or death can ever enter, They take us with the beloved disciple to the New Jerusalem, to the gold-paved streets and the pure river of water of life and the tree of life, whose perennial fruit shall be the food of the peopie of God continually. We can almost SEE ITS PEARLY GATES and hear the anthems of music which the cherabim aud seraphim and the blood-washed choir raise, 98 befure the throne they sing, “oly, holy, holy Lord God of Sapbaoth,” None of us have seen heaven, nor have we any adequate tdea of what it is. St. Jolin saw something of its glory, and de- scribes it in ail the fulness of material grandeur, because our finite minds are not able to grasp the true idea. St. Paul describes it asa rest, Ucaven wul be a place of rest anda day of rest. Is tuere anytuing more comiorung to our minds than rest? he t to ule poor, the sorrowiug, the sick and toe Weary—rest from toil and troubie and care, It en- conrages those Who Would grow weary and faint in ther souls; it lifts up the poor strengtheus the sick, ‘The body, racked with pao, and the brain with Jever, loug for rest—a rest »uich no human. hand can bring, The sou) longs ior the day wued 1b suall lave tue body of death and HATER INTO UNENDING RECOSE, In heaven we shall sce Almighty God, the blessed Saviour and the Virgin Mary aad St. Joseph and ait the holy aposiies aus proplets and saints and Miatyrs, We shail have a beatific vision and see ail things face to face, clear as the noon.iay sun, ‘Yhese all our wants shah be supplied and all our hopes realized, ana We shall enjoy eteraal repose in jeaven, All men seek alter r pose and rest and heaven, Every soul has @ yearnmg for something wugher and better and more enuuring than It can acss nere, The chiid igves and admires its toys aati so"eehulug Newer and iresher as provided; but fun it 13 Dot happy, vis ever longing for oven ing beyond, ‘Lite ttle giris cusse the butter. ahd . bd Delus, but are none the happier Stew all OVO. eauyat Gigi, And when tiey have . “= Wawit, PLEASURE, MEN CHASK WEALTM, co + im the end | with al! the cagerness of their souls, duns .— = are not bappy. ‘These tolngs do not bring Dapp: ness. The oul was created ior God aud cannot ind enjoyment or peace la any lower object, Tae taings of earth are pertsnavle and can vever bring happl- ness to the Boul, St. Eras on “My soul 13 4 unrest unul .t finds Thee, O Gud.” But did the things of earth bring happiness it would not ve lasting, for they, with Us, are iadimg and passing away. Seath comes lu and tears away from the mocher’s afiectlou her darnng child and rates the friends who found sweet frienusbip in much other’s company. i biker sand strive a wat as fondly to them; but the ct Still Stares us in the fice, a tSHERE 18. NO. LASTING HAPPINESS HERE, everything 13 subject to change. Since, then, hap- piness cannyt be found here, there must be @ place where resi and peace can pe obiained by the soul. That place ts heaven. Martyrs, confessors, ViTgins, riesia, laymen and iniants have their place m heaven, Lut the rest spoken of in the text is not for all. Ita for the people of God. Who are they? ‘Yoey are bapuuzed persons, members of the Catholic Church. 10 bapusm we are called to renounce the devil and ati his Woiks, the valu pomp and show of this world, and the sauctified water is poure 1 upoa our heads ana we go out 1n.o te world Unristians, But, als} how many christiang only in nal e | 7jhey axe ashamed o: Teizlon And Are Worse cock the Jews of old, who Fefused. to believe in Jesus, The true way ior us is to WALK IN TE Fihreor LAW OP aha in the way God hath set before ua. por how an) we see Who neglect those laws of God Abd trutl and cleave to thelr own ways! Tus, however, can- not be done in aday, when we have been in sin all our hives, It is as Gitcult for us to prepare for heaven if we leave it to the dying hour as it would be for a dry goods clerk, suddenly transferred to a professor's chair, to lecture on a-tronomy or any of the sciences, ur only course, and best, 13 to live good members of the Catholic Church. She is op- tothe maxims aud ways of the world, “An eye for an eye and a tooth jor @ tooth,” “eat, drink and be merry;’ “make the most of lif,” say tue world. Butthe Church and reugion bil us to live for the higher and better, ana “Ip OUR EXEMY BUNGER, PRED HIM;’’ “df he thirst, give tim drink.”? 1t is not every one that saitn “Lord, Lord, whe sitall enter ito the king- doin of heaven,” but he who doctu the wall of the Father who is in heaven. tis easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for rich men, who trust in their wealth, to get to heaven. But through God there are many who look forward to rest in heaven, To them heaven 1s nut a meaningless word, but an eternal reality, It imduces the youta togive his keart to God that he may inberit the promises of God, and to the aged it gives fresh Vigor and life as they behold the dawn of that happy lund. Here we grow tired of our most costly things, Jn heaven we shall never tire. There the heart will be transtixed with joy. Why, then, do we ive up to tials and crosses and become down- ficarved? Because we forget the object for which Phe heart may turd to | SHEET. Tresence asthe lower class, In a refines audience peopte wail tosee what the brain cin do; bac if there come among the rave ant ignorant a man of Weak stature, speaking slowly, lie can scarcely expect to make much impression, Paul was a Jew. aud the Jews were thoagut of about as the abolitionists Were tion ht of among us. Here he was throwo in among these rough fellows not only a pititut Jew, bul a prisoner at tiat—a Jew that even Jews didn’t want, Was there ever such a pastor settied | over such a charge? Ac every point in the voyage | We find Paul morally head and shoulders above all | the rest, { H® WAS NO SAINT | that wraps himsel: up in affected sanctity. He was | no dainty man either. fe had the confidence of the ceniurion Juilus before he was as far as Sidon. It was not long vefo e—running over to Cyprus, and thence to Crete—there was a council wiether they siould hey 8 there, How natural it was for Paul to go to the head and advise them to stay. But they decided to go to a better port, and tuen it was that SPY yeeros betsy fee ot pens by 8¢; sn en away. ‘T! stoor up. That was the time, poultinctia IF A MAN FAS ANY PLUCK then ts the time to show it, when everybody has Jost Juith and ail tg dark. Then Paul stood up and sald, “Brethren, ye should have listened unto me.” He was human and he could not heip saying, “I TOLD YoU so,” But it was only a moment that he rebuked them. “Be Of good cheer, for there shail be no loss of any Among you save the stip, for there stood by me the angel ot God, whose Tam and whom I serve.” You Large that already he had risen to the com- mand of the whole gery, wud tad their weltaré at heurt, How came he to be the leading man in that sup? Tt was the QUALITY OF THE MAN, In the first piace-ne did not act as ff ne were any Derter than those around hin, He was a Jew, edu- cated, a gentleman; but ne had all fellowsilp, all courtesy. I suppose that in Une fair days ue Walked around the ship aud spoke to every single man on the ship, inguiring after the weuJarée of each. Paul entered into the tiie in each. ‘Luere 18 MORK IN A MAN than there ever was in a book. He that 1s so occa- pled Wich books, with (celings, With aifalis, that he does not feel tae preseuce of a man, he hunseif 1s defictent in crue manhood ‘These men saw that Paut was calm and cool in the hour of danger—that he had a head on his shoui- ders. Courage is @ great moral power. He was cheerful, There was that hopelulness in him, that simplicity, that blaze of joy, that attached everybody to him. From this brief delineation we may derive some use ul suggestion, Tiere have been & great Many sauing with this Churen—many tor whom nuniberiess prayers have veen uttered. God has iven US a great many to-day. To-day men will taste re consecratcd wine wlo a year ago spent the day DRUNKEN REVELRY, Christian men then should take into affectionate syuvathy all those proent into contact with Laem, Uf we are like Christ, oritke Paul, we canzot be near men without interest, How seldom do we find those wo have trained themselves to look a Wen in the lignt of the eternal world. Listen to the cou versations of men. ‘they sav of otters, “Who are they? What business do they follow? How much are they worth?” We must have a heart that takes men in because they are humau—the children ot God, 1s not it 80 in churches? 4 do not think that you, brethren, are more guilty than olners, and perhaps not so wuch so; but hum. AM pature 1s strong: even here, Iv 1s what God sees in men that should draw asto them. liow many see througn the opaque of our earthy condition? ‘Our lie 1s & voyage. How great would ve the gift of God to us if we should Nave tae message, “God hath given to thee ., THESE Poa ae WITH fHEE,) f ‘wemployer, wider whom God nas Ought nok eve, 2" “a ' placed many meth, $e, mm 2yMe Seuse, a pastor, and, la every scuse, & brocuer? 13 1 RECHT fora man to have fifty clerks, a hundred, three hundred, and not imgwire with sympathy colceri- do you have a lively solicitude tor those uuder you? IN ALL MY PASTORATE there have never been @ hundred members gathered in of Whom there was so much promise. I have high hopes of them, When. 11 closing my labors in Indianapolis, I looked over ny peopto I could see only about twenty persoas not members of te church, Whatajoylui day iff could say that of this large congregation! We only need sweet and joyral hope, aifeciionate labor and sympathy. If ‘Wwe would bring from the deail those around you, you must put your heart on their hearts, your hauls in their hands, your soul into thetr souls. WE GO A-MAYING according to the old Engiusn custom, and what biessed clusters God puts into our hands! Could anything be more encouraging than this auswer to our prayers and labors ? In closing his sermon Mr. Beecher extended an invitation to all to the holy commun‘on, saying, f invite all ogee’ to aR us la the ‘or ays pad Who rei wig? the Need the forvivenees of sins AN are willing to addépt the Lord Jesus Pec cabie Saviour, J mak ea No ECCERSIASTicaL DISTINCTIONS. I base my, {nyitation on moral grounds, Whoever trusts 1p the Lord Jesus Christ him | invite to par- take Uf these emblems of sacrificial Love. LEE AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH, ‘The Joy of Marvest—An Anniversary Sermon by Rev. Dr. Carroll. ‘The discourse in the Lee Avenue Reformed church yesterday morning was apprvupriate to the occasion, it being the secoud anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Carroll. The text was part of the third verse of the niuth chapicr of {satan—“ihey joy before thee according to the Joy in harvest,” Under the old dispensation such manifestations were presented as ceremonial, but that joyous spirit passed away when austere phariseeism appeared for a time; yet, when the time of Israel’s deliverance Was accomplished, anu the Incarnate came, and the heavens rang with angelic harmony, with good will to men, then religion shone forth again in primeval loveliness and was gloriously trausfgured, God in- tended religion to be an angel of peace and joy and good will, smiling and singing im the chambers of we were created and the promises of the Saviour, In the sacred mass the priest says:— LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS, and the people answer, “We lit them up to the Lord,” The reverend genticwan then uttered a beautiful apostrophe to heaven, aud closed by saying the ciuzens of heaven know no nignt. Let our lives, then, be a forctaste of heaven, and let earth be to us the vestibule of heaven, and let us lay aside every weight and the sins which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jceus, to whom let us lift our hearts in the prayer of the Holy Church, which to-day 1s offered up in all the worid. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. — Piymouth’s Popular Pope Pitying Poor Paul— Pastoral Anniversary in the Eastern Dis- trici—The Mormons’ Murmurs. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. One Hundred New Members Received—En- couraging Prospects —Serm by Heory Ward Seccner. ‘The first Sunday in May 1s a sort of sacred festival day with the Plymouth peuple. On the ist of May, 1858, about two hundred were received into the church under circumstances peculiarly interesting, it being the harvest day of a period rare in the his- tory of churches for rich and hopeful experiences. Ever since that time there has been a feeling in the congregation that if anybody was Lo join the church the 1st of May was the time to do it, and yea- terday one hundred and twenty were added to the membership, of whom one hundred and two entered tie church on profession of their faith, The altar was most beautiful; Mowers in great profusion greeted the eyes of the members elect as they came to the altar to reccive the rite of baptism and listen to the reading of the covenant (creeds are out of fashion at Plymouth church); clusters of fleld violets edged the semi-circular platform; Jilies and pale tea roses clustered at the base of the olive read- ing stand, and on the little table where the hymn book lies and the notices are pued up a dainty vase was filied with blossoms of EMBLEMATICAL WHITE. Acrowded congregation was in attendance, the ushers having their nands full in letting in and keep- ing out, and seating and unseating the handreds that exceeded the fair capacity of the church, Mr, Beecher preached from Acts xxvil, 24—“Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cwsar: and, lo, God has given thee all them that sail with thee’? This was the message conveyed to the Apostle Paul in a vision, All through Paul's life ne, more than any other of the disciples, seems to be in communion with the other world Now, on @ perilous voyage God appears to him and comforts him with these memorabie words, Who were they, then, the saving of whom would bring to hin such cousolation y As sirauge a company of fs! ipfellows as ever satled together upon the sea. How little chance must. there have seemed that he would become interested In them, or have any In- fluence over them, Who were th Besides the ship's crew there was a band of Rowman soidiers on board. The centurion was one Juhus. Whenever @ Rowan centurion comes to the surface in, the New Testament you find A WAR OF VIRTUB AND FIDELIPY. But the soldiers were picked up from all tie subject and abject countries under the Koman control, ‘These were the traders and passengers always going from port to port, Litile field here for sympathy. ‘There was VERY LITTLE IN PAUL'S APPRARANCE to attract this brutal set of men, for It is most likely that Pant himself was personaily Insignificant. There 43 no Class Liat appreciate 60 Much & graud physical the soul, and it was time that religion were justi- fied from the foul infidel suspicion that she is the mother of all grietand an enemy of all cheer, for “her ways were ways of pleasantness and all her paths were paths of peace.” ‘he jey of the Lord is tue Christian’s strength, and cheerfulness was the in VERY ELEME NY OF GODLINESS. Religion was not the stern heroism of a soul clothed in sackcloth and marching :o martyrdom; it was rather the perfect harmony of all the soul’s facu lties, moving together in the music of joy and love, in which the whole inan marched heaven- ward. Piety is not a poisonous mushrvom, growing best in the night, but the fragrant rose of Sharon, needing God’s sunshine. Tie old: Puritans tried hard to make religion a torment, aad tn their dread of Joy were at lasi forced to seek atmusement by making BONFIRES OF WITCHES, The old Jews did this thing a great deal better with their Joyous holidays, wnen with harp and viol they went to Zion, and the American Church sorely needed a baptls u of gladness, Which would make it manifest to the world that the service of God was not @ sour bondage, but that the ways of pleasantness were pathways to glory. One element of the joy of harvest aruse trom the consideration that there had been a ploughing season, which was over. Ploughing was God's way of giving a har- yest to His Church and gettmg praise to Himself, The infant Church was ploughed with the pioughshare of death, and so through subsequent pertods of her history Goi ploughed Churches with discouragement and depression; for without te deep, long furrow there was no joy of harvest. Secondly, the joy of the harvest was because the harrowing, Which was esscnual to it, was over. God's method of dealing witn men through the ages wus always with iodividual believers. ‘I'ne harrow- ing period of Job's iife was when he sat down in lis ashes; ihe harvest, his returned prosperity. Many troubled hearts had been harrowed by GOD'S PROVIPENTIAL dealings with them. Some had come from houses made sad by bereavement. Their stream i the aesert had been bittered, yet God had bot logotten to ve gracious, for there lay a sweetening branch by that desert spring, and tie comforting and loving Redeemer was ready to bind up se wounded heart, Thirdly, there was @ joy of the harvest because of the sowing time beng over, which was equally essential to it, When and by whom had the seed been sown? Ho answered, at the family altar; in the Sabbath schoo!, by che faltnful teacher; in the church, by the hand of tue pastor, Same, perhays, feli auiong thorns, some on siony ground, and some by the wayside, but much of it nad fadlen on woot ground, Mothers had oiten sown the seed of divine troth with tears aud prayers in the hearts of tic boys, who may yet be wandering while they are sleeping in the grave; still he (ihe speaker) believed the sous of praying mothers would yet be saved, and urged such to give to their mother’s licart haryest in glory—the joy occasioned when sini Tepents = Christ sowed himself into the ground, and Ile Would have a harvest. “We shall see his seed,” and that harvest would be the milleniuin when every kindred and tribe would bring forth the royal dia n and crown Him Lord of all, Paul had a lav. for he seed that be sowed brought mankind truth and formed the ages, And so tie Church tn all coming tine will reap If tt faint pou. THE JOY OF TUB HARVEST was also of the dews and the rams of heaven that nad descended, There was a» harvest Without (iis. No matter what the ploughing, however deep the turrow—no matter how searching the hatrow- ing or how broadcast the sowing, without God's showers, without the refreshing from His presence, Without te outpouring of tke Spuit, without the opening of the windows of heaven, there vould be no germination or growti. © “Not by might nor by power, but by My spirit,” saith the Lord, The con- cluding thought evolved from the text was the reaping of the harvest, Death is a reaper, ant he never reaps his corn green. Death ts not desti tion nor evea decay, but, on the contrary, It was the freang from the Heids of mortal Ullage itpe Tuits in their season for a glorious immortality. By way of practical application the congregation wore Temunded that the sxeieton Hand of the reaper might reap their fleid during the your. Jn the course of the sermon appropriate allusions were made to the relation which subsisted between the pastor and bis people. aud statistics were read mg tho Wellare of these ment You that have schools | snowing the contin congregation: pert t ret uous growth of the CHORCH SERVICES IN WASHINGTO Secret Faults and Christian Virtues. How the Complacency of Christian Self-Right. eousness Works—St. Stephen, the Martyr. METROPOLITAN METAODIST CHURCH. Dr. Newman on Secret Fauits—How Chris- ta tlans Deceive Themsclives. WASHINGTON, May 7, 1871. Atthe Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Dr, Newman. He announced his text in Psalms xix., 12—“Who can understand his errora? Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.” Qur purpose this morning 1s to consider some of OUR SECRET FAULTS andtheirremedy. Solf-knowleJge is the highest at- tainment of the human mind. To know the stars, rocks, flowers, beasts, 1s certainly admirable. Theso branches reveal to us in acertain degree the charac- ter of the Creator; but 1% 1s a defect 1a our modern system of education that it leads a man. away from himself. No man can yield himseif in subjection to whatever is pure and holy, right and beneficent, who has not a knowledge and a mas+ tery of himself. Whoever contempiates the relations of matter to"mind, the effect of body and mind, must see the importance of unde: uding physiology. An appreciation O1 the intiueuce of inteliect on the body Jeads to an appreciation of ths value of a Kuowleage of mental philosophy. Waat is true of tits 1s true also of moral philosophy, It 14 a fact that cannot be denied that mea deceive themselves, especially in re- ligtous matters. They doit by con ounding the assent of the understanding with the determination of the will, ‘This assent sometnnes brings linmense satis- faction to the mind, and men take it as a subsiliute for the resolution to do what tiey ought. Every precept of the divine law, every principle in the sermon on the Mount, every peution im the Lord’s Prayer, must receive your assent. Lut there is a vast ditference between tits assent of the understanding and the resolu:ion of the will to emvody the precept and carry out the principle of love in accordance Se the law, the sermon and the prayer. You 60 far ; ACORPT CHRISTIANITY as to be willing to support anu deiend it, but neither your money nor your defence can Le a substitute for Ne embodiment of its principles in your every day lite, Again, mei decerve themselves by opm ona eae those , 0d actions which come from natural oisposl- tions wi. 4 (hose which flow froin priuclp.e, Doubt- leas pe son 8 Bre Horn with certaim aispositions which: are excellent, ‘/Relr physical and mental endow- ments are such ust Ley are strangers to peralince aul passion, ‘Ta. *¥ are LO more to receive credit for these gifts than «* beautiful woman is for her beauty, @ genins 1% 8 taleat, or a giant for hia'strenzta, rhe y¥20> Ja such ere ercs Bists in retaining these bo thar and io a ir- ing othera whica they .“°Une possess, | So men deceive themselves by cousi . bar} na rag of vice ave only ovcasional, provoke y, fa poses tempta- tion, while acts o: virtue are ai Witte keep desig. nation, of permanent habits, wt! apes the vice is. imgrained and awaits only a temp. #ttun to cause it to overieap ail justice. Ail meu hay a hee virtuous: Moiwenis, Wneu the proul ave coade Nasu ik the seifish generous, the avaricious beheve.eat. In Byron {here are a pure aspiratioas as ever wei'e embodied in song. You can ali iecali_ men who have been no- torlously bad in Iife, yet ‘who at Umes spoke and acted the Oartstian. "But the Gospel demands that Virtue shail be the rale, not the exception, At the last day God wili judge Us mut by occasional acts, but by the gum total of the deeds done in and by the body. wae hoe SELF-DECEPT'ON “s 13 perpetrated by men, extenuating their own pecu- Nar sins, and congratulatiug the.nseives on not com- mitting offences to which they were not tempted. Temptation always assails the weak part of a man. There are persons who are never tempted t steal, to violate tue bridal vow, to betray f or coun. try, Who are generous to a fault, Who ai Just ta! panes her sae pees aud they are ant io, ride themselves 01 cir wna EGY fre at tO Hac tn denoune o4 eecuneies, and ars tere hae | ag taeitand adultery and treachery; vac while taey pride themselves on their strong points they leave the weak ones unguarded, PROTESTANT —_ EPISCOPAL, CHERCH. “ ST. JOINS ep vig enarnpaanne aveinels Dr. Vanghan Lewis ou the Works and (hae rector of St. Stephen, the Martyr. WASHINGTON, May 7, 1871, The services at St. Jonn’s Protestant Eytscopat’ church this morning were well attended and were conducted by the rector, Rev. J. Vaughan Lowi, as sisted by Rev. Mr. Kenney. Daring the stay of the English members of the Joint High Commission in Washington they have been constant attendants at the services of this church, which are regarded as _ BORDERING ON TH RITVALISTIO ORDER, /°> The sermon was delivered by the rector from the text, “And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on Him, saw Ils face as it had been the face of an angel,” Acts vi, 15. It was no wonder that 8T, STEVITEN GOT 80 VAIN in the glory of His haying done so much for hi» people. Ue cold not have been unconsctous of the services rendered. te was elected at the suggestion of the twelve apostles to relieve them of o particular class of their labors, and so well did be fufill thc se duties that the very doctrines of the old Jew- ish law appezred strange to his people, woile his fidelity brought new lite unto lim to remain stead- fast. He was the ouly deacon that had magnified his office, St. Philip was more than an ordinary man, The other five deacons were no less in earn- est, but Stephen brought into tis work an unfalter- ing trast and fattn, and was endowed in a remarka- ble degree with divine power and grace. St. Pnili was evidently an enthusiast, selected as & monarc! unable to be overcome. It is WULL FOR SOCIETY and the Church that such Url hd are rare. If there were more the coliness of the Christian of to-day would make of their labor a martyruom. St. Stephen ‘was well fitted in that early stage of the Ohurch to open the way by nis flery zeal. All ne expected or hoped for was the minisiry among his own people, It was love for them that spurred him on to his great work and gave him strength to bear the indifference of Christians and the taunts and sneers of his enenules, NEW J2R8s¥ CAXURCHES, ST. JOHN'S FREE CHURCH, JERSEY CITY. Laying the Corner Sione of a New Eiifi e. For some time past Rev. Mr. Rullson, the pastor of the American Free church, Jersey City, has felt the necessity of a church suitable to the comfort of hig growing congregation. To attain this object he has been laboring very zealously, and he has been 80 far successful that yesicrday he was able to lay the corner stone of an edifice that will reflect credit on himself, his parishioners and on the whole Free church community. The building will be of stone, on the Gothic pian, and wiil be 102 ject long, 54 eet wide and 50 fect in height, At half-past threo o'clock Kev. Mr. Rulison, arraye: in surplice and soutane, accompanied by Key. Mr. Rice, of Grace chureh, Jersey City; Rey. Mr. Bettin, Rev. Mr, ausbury and a lumber of assistants, moved in order towards the new church, recimg at the same 2d Psalin, at the conclusion of which Rev. Mr. Bettin satd;—It is meet and ipronetd and agreeable to the precepts and examples of Hol Writ, that in ail our doings we should bereec! Almighty God, from whom cometh every good and pert ct gilt, to direct us with His most gracious favor ani to further us with His continual help, Especiatly, therefore, when we are now assembled to comuence a house which is to be set apart to His honor and service, and in whicn His holy name is to be worshipped and Hts word and sacraments to be proclaimed and cele brated by the ministey whom te hath commis- sioned, let us humbly aid devoutly supplicaté His assistance, protection and blesslas.’? Tuen the Key, Mr. Ruwison Ind the corner stone, repeating at tie same J lay the corner stout of an edifice, to be he od by the name of St. John Free church, and to be DEVOTED 10 VICK OF ALMIGHTY Con, agreeably to the princtples of the Protestant piss copal Chureli in the Uultod Stated of Aineriea in ite coctrines, minisiry, Hunrcy, rites and usages.’” rmon was preacied ve Rev. Mr. stansbury, Newars, The preacier, aa brief put forciwle ad- dress, congratulaied the members of the Free church, of Whom a lavge portion were present, for heir noble efforts in the Work™ they had so auspl- clously began, aud expressed his conviction that the work would be @ fiiancial success. It is expected that the building Will Cost $50,690, of whieh amount $25,000 save already boca subs ribed. wie the corner stone were placed coptes of the daily and weekly soctlar and rellous papers; also a copy of the Holy Scriptures, names of bishop, reetor and clergy of tie dice we The services W ocluded by the chow singing the Gloria in Neeelsis, La which the whole assembly joined. 0, & ST. PAUL'S EPLiCOrin cn The Virines and Necessity of Com Sermon by tho itev. I. W. Howemy Stell) On the outskirts of the towa of Mobokeu, 1a close proximity to the Stovens’ estate, is to be seen the beautiiul litve blue stone church of Si. Pauls, Iti