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4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 2%, 1871.—TKLPLE SHKET RELIGIOUS. Thunders of the Church Flashes of the Lightning of Divine Truth. and Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption. Weavenly Affections and Spiritual Dutirs Ex laived and Enforeed. The Progress of Piety in Brooklyn. Sunday Services and Sermens in the Metropolis and Elsewhere De- seribed and Reported, Catholicism gives to the present season of bud- ding Sowers and glorious sunshine the beautiful name of the month of May. Yesterday in the the fn us gains strength and the evi! loses it. Every good effort does succeed, and the success 18 ex in the degree of the wisdom and sirengsa of the effort. There are no drawn battles in tho Christian warfare. We mav never succeed accord ing to our expectations, because they have been too great. One vate will not contest; we nay have mistaken the ourposis for the entrenched and solid masses of the enemy, and become dls- heartened when we find that the confitct much greaier than we oxported; but every blow tells, and we may Win our gréatest Victories When We seem io be defeated, All hel rejoiced when our Lord was crucified; ev seemed to have triamphed, and to have #wept away the only barrier which opposed its universal dominion; but THIS AWFUL CRISIS IN TUR WORK OF HUMAN RE- DEMPTION was the finishing of the work, and not tts abandon. ment, The apparent tiumpl of man’s cnemies was: their real defeat; so it 1s with all our conflicts with evil, One reason why we do not make any greater progress tn driving out our enemies ts that we do not occupy the ground frou which we have expelled them Ly corresponiing good udections. Lf good al- Tections do not increase as we remove the evil we gan nothing. Love to the Lord and the neighbor must inher t, must enter tuto the possession of and take the place if our minds of TILE LOVE OF SELF AND THE WORLD, Do the Food corresponding to the evil we have re- sisted. ‘If you are tempted Lo treat another person unkindly do not be congent with refraining from the evil: do him a favor. If you have resisted the temptation to any evil which you flad yourself dis- posed to commit, do the opposite yo Suppose you find that you are more inchned served by others than to serve them in the family and in the daily coutacts of life, reverse the process and seek every occasion Lo say a kind word aud do a pleasant deed and BRING DOWN A IIRAVENLY AFFECTION imto the ticld of daily life. Some families are places of torment because each one of its members is try- lug to exact service irom allthe others. Ifeach one Wottld try to serve all they would change the scene from nell to Hate. By faithfa y purscing this course you will subdue your evil affections, you will drive out your enemics and establish heavenly atfec- tious in their place, Little by titde you will GAIN POSSESSION OF A IZAVENLY CaNAAN; churches of that faith the services were char- acterized by more than ordinary fervor of devo- tion, as beiiited the occasion; but, as if borrowing inspiration irom the manifested zeal of the ministers of the old faith, the pastors of the reformed churches were exceedingly earnest, and their congregations becomingly devout. at ali tue places of Worship in tuis city and Brooklyn the at- tendance was large; and the day beg magnificent volaries of fashion assembled in large numbers. The ous deliverel were, many of them, fuil of inswuction, and all cari » According to our usual custom, we give below a collection of tho ‘pest of Luose deilvered, THE SWEDE | i | | WBORGIAN CBURCH. The Removal of RB ily and Valsitics—The Ciristinn’s Battle for the Mastery Over Sin—The Work of Man's Redemption— Discourse by Rev. Chauncey Gils. Rey, Channeey Giles yesterday morning, at the Swedenborgiau church, in East Thirty-fifth street, preached an able sermon on *Tle Removal of Eviis aud Falsities.”” He Wook for his text Exodus xxiii, 27-80:—“T will send my fear before thee, and will destroy al: the people to Whom thou shalt come; and Iwill make ail thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And 1 willsend hornets before thee, which | shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the | Hittive from before thee, J will not drive them out fiom beiore thee tp one year; lest the iaud become desolate, und the veast of tne flela multiply against | thee. By Ltve and five 1 will drive them out from Delore (uce, until thou be increased, aud Inherit we and.” : A. requires but little knowledge of ourselves, the pastor said, to discover that WE ARK NOT IN THE TRUE ORDER | ‘our lives ure notin barmony with the principles of aivine truth, There ts a condict in our own natures between our knowledge ant our desires, We soon | discover tat we have fa'se principles to correct, evils 10 combat, and habiis of ti and act to break up and rem principles desires pre-occupy our nu we have us the Weury and painiul work of removing night, atfection them. ‘he planet glides wioug tn its orbit without 4 struggle or a thet ows according to its own order, blossoms Into bedttty, and ripens mto fruit without any effort or any mi The animal | As born in the order of its nacure. Its knowledge is A PERVECT GIFT TRE LORD. The bee does not have to learn how to build its cell and gether honey; the lily does not tet and spin Jor th ty which adoras it; the sparrow does not | BOW wn! into burns—our Heaventy Father | feeds thew withont any ageucy of ther own. But Man must wot only learn, he wust do Uiat which | 4s mueh bi —unlcarn, Born without knowledge, uch that {3 false. The natural mind, tn 1 our evils and falsities reside, is fast de- . aud we are deluded into the danger of ng theui retwin possession aud entrench them- relyes more und more strougly. How many give seives up to the iCALIONS O! ELPISH AND WORLDLY DNSTRES e present, with a reserved promise that when thoy Lave got all the sweetness out of natural de- Mghts y will cast them off as a wornout garment and cult:vawe their spiritual natures? Alas! they Dud that f principles have entrenched them- selves, But the Lord has promised to help us—to fight our batties for us—on one condition, and that 18 obedience to His voice. He needs our co-opera- tion; if ide did pot He would Lever call upon us; - woud urive out every enemy and place us, as ie did ADAM AND BVE, IN A PARADISE, iri and development of a little by litte, as the tree grows, the kingdom of God wil be established within you, and ina few ye all your conficts will be ended, your warfare will be accomplished; you can enter into your rest and enjoy your neavenly inher cance forever. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER’S CHURCH. What is Dope?=Sermon by the it Caasu, S. J. The services at the Church of St Francis Xavier yesterday forenoon were, ag usual, grand and im- pressive. Tho musical part of tue ceremonies was al) that could be expected of the exceedingly excel- leat choir, led by Prosessor Berge, tue accomplished organist, The splendid weather bad the effect of bringing out the female portion of the fushtonable congregation of the church in all their wealth and splendor of summer style; for, be 1t known, though summer has not come yet according to the calendar, the ladies who keep up to the mark in the matter of the ve Father NEWEST KIND OF NONNETS and outfits of satins and silks have summarily decreed that the spring is at an end and that sum- mer attires are already en régte, Ia fact, this church divides the fashtonable honors of the Catholic com- munity with St, Stephen's, and would be certain to outdo the latter but for the fact of its accommoda- tons beingrather Mmited. Everybody who thinks himself or herself fashionable goes to elther one church or the other, and if the congregations of both happen to be largely made up of people who believe That religious fervor can go hand in hand with all Unat the rules and regulations of the most stringent fashion exact that sact need not deter the poor and necdy, who have to go to service bright and early in the morning tn their rougu and ready clothes, from being goou Christlaus, At least so the fashtonables think, The sermon yesterday was delivered by the Rev. ‘ather Cassa, who took for lis subjoct that very valuable virtue—hope, He explained how there Was a natural and supernatural hope. The former gave renewea strength to the farmer as he cast nis sec] into tae ground, and suggested Lo the merchant promises. Of successfal speculations, while {t sus- tained its falling courage in the hour of his misfor- tune. Hope beams forth suies to the youth whe is just begianing lus carcer, wud conveys velore his eyes A LANDSOAPR OF BEAUTY and attraction that lures him on to noble deeds and to the attainment of a great name, Though at limes there might be ists and elouds on the nori- zon, the espirations of the really determined never Tail to break turongh thei all Supernatural hope partook not of tings that ave of this earth, earthy, which have po soll. basis. When God created man he created bim for but one purpose and one end— eternity, Wf @ man centred his hopes on the de- caylig Objects of this life, and gave way to bls in- clinations for the things of the world, to did not fuifll the end for which he was created, He tram- pee ihe dust under his feet, and yet called it his ist end, the object of his adovation, and paid homage to things which were destined to be cor- rupted and destroyed, A man who placed all nis hope opon the things 0° this life was like one who, Julling into a swiftrunoing river, would agam and again grasp for THR PLANK OF 8AFETY, and, dnally Missing lis Lold of tt, would sink, never more to fise. Though he might at first cling to it desperately, Wave atter wave would dash ayaiust lim, untd ne would fipally have to succumb, Tie man Who was wedded to the things of this life was like Such a man, No watter what schemes he might devise, what pians organize, they would tn the long run Vanish into nothingness, Ile who placed all his hopes in the corruptibie things of the world aud was disappointed oiten ended his career in suicide. That was one of the results of misplaced hope. The prope: way for mau to do was never to forget that his life ls but AN AVENUE TO ETERNITY; that our days here weluw are certain to be num- bered, and that after (that eternity begins. Man’s ambition should not be cireumscrived by ume or limited by nature, The enjoymeut to God was our place .i the old. This new creation iin a moment by a mere y spoken she mind of mau 1s TURATRE OF THE CRRATION. created, and that is @ gradual pro- | ‘IWo processes go on togetter—the removal | of (ho © principles which are hostile to a heaveniy | live and the esiabitshment of those which constitute | i | Caunol ve atie word of Gud. Tit A new mind romen it. ‘fie false and evil canpot ve swept away aud the good and trae introduced into their place. The lupossibi}.ity of doing this has its ground tn the Mature of tue human mind, and is worthy of our caretul consicerat The mud, like the bedy, is organic. Jts parts are all related, and so inumately | connected t not be touched without af- fecting ail, Our winds, ike our boates, are a uty, though cor dof an tndetaie number of facul- id be a8 fatal to an evil man’s ex- REMOVE ALL WIS BVIL AFFECTIONS and false principles at once as it Would to our nataral Iife to lake out Of the material body the bratus and senses. Our regeneration ts typilied by the Jews Kuintug possession of the Holy Land, The original Whabilonts are the hereditary aud acquired evil and | false principles; ¢ JEWS REPRESENT THE MEAVENLY AFFECTIONS | A PITUAL TROIS Which are to introduced in their place. The Mivister spoke of the uecessity for a gradual ¢: lon of the laise principlés, and contiuued:--T rd did pot dispel aud obilterate every falsity from | your ei ¢ vy a fasn of THR LIGHTNING OF THIS DIVINE TRUTH. Jf He ii ie would have destvoyed all your duteliigence. Your Jjand, which 1s your miad, would ve let desolate; you id have no means of thinking or kuowin, uu would be a uere imisaut im knowledge, and if the capacity of jearning remained you would be of learning faisity as belore. Speaking of Ue hecessity for correcting errors Mr. Giles declared that we must bot walt for attucks—we roust prepare for them, call in all the allies we can; the Lord had promised to be an enemy to our ene- mites; we bave all HUAVEN AND OMNIPOTENCE ON OUR SIDE af we will accept their services. The only weapons ut take eflect upon tuem are divine truths. ‘hese ‘e the Weapons used by the Lord himseli when Hie ‘was lempled by the devil, It is the expericnce of Chilsuans in all ages that in their greatest stress passages of Scripture have come to their rescue and proved a very preset help in time of need. We are ot as well armed in (his respect ag we ought to be; weal) have our besetiing sins. In one they are strong appeutes; im another, untruthfulness; in aenotuer, 4 disposition to appropriate what docs not belong to hin, Others are irascivie, and TAKE FIRE LIKE A GOOD MATCH at the sight of iriction; some are naturally deceltial, others rough and blunt, and seem to take delight in inflicuog pain. These are the weak points in de- fence, and our enemies aiways find them out. We ought to learn those passages of the Word which bear directly upon that point and turn our minds to tbe Lord as an ever-present help in every mo of trouble. Jn this way you will arm yourselves, with weapons Which your enemies cannot resist, and make THE LORD AND HIS ANGELS YOUR ALLIES, The jand which is the theatre of this conflict Js in ourown minds, Evil spirits can only attack us there, aud the Lord can only help ua by what there as in ourminds to operate upon. If we have an abundance of divine truths, they the Lord can use them ; these truths conjoin us to Him, and by their means [le can give us powel. They are His angels who fil the enemy with dread, aud Lake eifect upon them like the sng of the hornet, Evil spirits are present to us and excite every false and evti princt- i@ in UB; they get access to ts by What is false, the Lord by What 18 Ur Thus HEAVEN AND HELI. MEET IN OUR MINDS and strive for We stery. By drawing near to , the Lord and calling upon iim when tempted woe | Jace ovrseives uguer the shadow of His wings. © make Lim our refuge, and vo plague can come | in the same dange nigh our dwe ling. Every time we resist an evil we weaken its power over us; we loosen ite hod | upon us. It may be Ww may be imper- | copuible; but resistar some effect. Every Mine We BUYDIESs A false UU orao evi dese Jast cnd, and ths life was but an exile. Super- Latural hope, thereiore, waa the expectation we had of attaining to the happiness of heaven through the merits of Jesus Christ. It was the food of the Christian pilgrim, and Wough clouds might hover vetween Us aud heaven in lifetime; though our faith shoull be tested by God in the taking away ol a darling clild, @ tender mother or sister or a lov.ng wife or husband, tt ever would be the same—so dazzling as lo break through every mist uutl He who Always gave us the grace and means to attain our Salvation was ciearly revealed to us in all His divine radiaace, ‘the reverend speaker tuen closed by ex- horting the congregation so to act tn this world that their hope of eterual salvation might be realized in the world to come in all its eternal beatitade, CHURCH OF ST. STEPHEN. The Persovality of the Holy Ghost—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Glynn. Jn the Chureh of St. Stephen, East fwenty-eighth street, high mass was yesterday celebrated with the usual pomp and solemnity. The appearance of the church Was very beautiful, the grand aisle being crowded with well-dressed ladies, whose elegant , costumes were in keeping with tne light and pieas- ant aspect of the church. Flowers of all hues adorned the ladies’ bonnets, and in the soft, aub- dued light that fell from the colored windows looked as lovely as on their native trecs, Flowers were everywhere on the altars, Especially was the shrine ofthe Virgin Mother decorated with those appro- priate EMBLEMS OF PURITY and love. Iuterspersed among lighted tapers amall Douqnets of the most exquisite flowers were placea. Virgiu liles, carnations, violets and red and white roses sent up their perfumed incense in lowly homage to the Immaculate Mother. In Catholic countries this is the month of Mary, and over the World altars are decked by pious hands in aimost every housebold in loving worship of her statnless purity. However mere human reason may conde mn the cultus of the Virgin, uo one with @ sentiment for the beautiful can retase homage to the exquisite beauty and purity of the idea of THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. If, indeed, the thought be human, then it ts the nobiest and most tenderly poetic thought that ever ewanated from the brain of man, The music was excellently rendered by the choir, which 18 too well known to need extended nouce. The Veni creator, from Munier's Mass, ‘wus very grand, and given with good effect by the soprano, tenor and basso, with organ accompanl- ment. At the offertory Miss Millie Jacobs, the con- ye sung the solo, O Salutaris Hostis, trom the music by Grotsu, and Mile, Krause, the soprano, sung the Jncarnatus solo in the Credo with great sweetness. Dona Novis Panem was execated vy the soprano and ten nd as their voices died away the choir took up the strams and burat into a magnificent chorus, Which was very eifective. The sermon was preaciied by the respected pas- tor, the Rev. Father McGlynn, Who took his text from St. Joun, xv., 15, and satd:— Next Sunday will ve the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Ghost, and | think it fitting to invite you to meditate up the divinity and personality of ve Hoiy Quost. The Oid World knew not the Holy Ghost nor the Trinity, aud when the prophets foretold THE COMING OF EMMANUEL they only foreshadowed w hat we cleariy understand, Phey were not aware Of the force of the word Emmanuel, except that vaguely it meant the deli ever, The holy men who first uttered this sacred fT edid not understand the full significance, tue clear, comprehensive know ledge being reserved for fhe Chiistian wo.Jd ip the woudertal manifestation of God's love for men. Chrisc tells us tn the Gospel that He will send the Holy Spirit vo tnstract and teach the world to know Lim and God the Father. This may astonish as we might have thought the chosen peo; io” Kaow Qod the Father, who so often revealed Himseif to their probes; and yet the Lord tells us that the world as not known the Father, The world had not known Ohrist, and tt was not until after He had as- cended that He sent ‘the Holy Ghost to teach man- Kind aud restored the unity between the worid and ne Creator that had been broken, Christians aro ron) the mtaston of the Holy Ghost and the work of Goi. They repeat gitbly enough the words of mtual; but I fear they do not suMciently recognize the divinity of tne Holy Ghost, because He has not pre- sented Himself in the same palpable shape as God the Father—the Creator—nor i ibe human tori of God the Son. It cannot be well for OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE that we should forget what Onrist has made such an important portion of our spiritual Ilfe, It 1s the teaching of Christ amd of the Ouristian Church tuat there are threo tater} but ene only God. The idea of the ther might mats indicate priority; but according to the Christian saith here can be no priority. The docirine of the Trinity is a mystery that cannot be solved by any mere hu- man reasoning, and Is, tad incomprehensible to any but the Divine intellect.. But is it not more rea- sonable to give our consent to propositions that come to us With the weight of authority than to re- fuse to believe anythiNg but what we have seen or known by the evidence of our own senses? Faith is the receiving of propositions above our comprehen sion or or which we have no means of Judging our- selves from some higher authority, and it would be unreasonable to refuse our consent tw an authority that we know from tne nature of things must be 10- fallible. Ir we beileve that 4 GOD HAS SPOKEN then we cannot refuse obedience, Faith requires and presupposes the existence of intelligence, and the more faith that exists in u man the more tntelll- jent he is, not, perbaps, in the sense of being learned, but im We perception of the eternal aud vital truth, What was God doing from all eternity? Tle always was, and the creation 1s only the expresziou of one of the ideas which have existed in His brain through all time, God's knowledge is God. lie knows Himself, with the power of self-knowleige hat man cannot underst, becanso our know- Jedge 1s @ borrowed and accidental light, and this knowledge of God is the son, the Word, tie eternal wisdom of God the Patner, a GOD LOVES IUISeLP as He loves all that is good and beautiful, and this perfect self-tove 1s God the Holy Ghost, ani Christ tells us that this Holy Spirit of God ts to come and feach ihe Church to all time. Let us, then, invoke this Holy Spirit, and return tbanks for the work of regeneration. Everything ts done in the name of the Holy Trinity, aud we must carefully avold neg- lecting the persdnaltty of the Holy Ghost, and J urge. upon you ansing the week vo Invode the Moly Spirit that you may be the recipients of the sevenfold Graces on the Day of Pentecost, FOURTH AVENUE PRESSYTERIAY COURCH. The Unorelenting War of the Elesh Agninst the spirit the Victory of the Latier by Ged’s GracemSermon by Rev. Howerd Crosby, D. LO. Agoodiy congregation gathered yester¢ay morn- nginthe Fourth avenne Presbyterian church. A beautttul custom prevails here, as also in some ower Presbyterian churches, of opening the ser- vices by singing the Doxvlogy, after which a short prayer foliowed apd then a hymn was sung. The Ten Commandments and the f th chapter of Gala- tians were next read, and (hen a longer prayer was offered up. Another hymn sung and then came tho sermon, based upou Galatians v., 18:—Butif ye be led of the spirit ye are not under the law.” Every man, be sald, was aware of two separate forces struggliag for the mastery. within bim. The uncultured Indian declares, almost in the language of Paul, that the bad man in him urges him to go and kill lis neighbor aod take his money, but the good manin wm tells him it is wrong and he stops, The apostle advises that we put off the old man with his deeds, aud pat on ihe new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness. It we had not this free choice wo should not pe moral creatures; we should have had no more freedom than the trees of the forest, which grow because they cannot do anytinugelse. Uwe probe every heart we suall sce in cach A KINGDOM WARRING AGAINST ITSELF. Let us now consider the cause of this conilict ana its cure. Every system of religion before Christianity fatled, because they did not recognize as their drst postu- Jate that manisasiuner, The faith of mankind has always more or less acknowledged this, though their philosophy might deny it, because thete faith is Ube outgrowth of religious lmpressions, Hence, the religion of the woria has always been better than tts philosophy. And a Hindoo to-day has a better idea of his relation to God than a Boston philosopher. The entrance of sin has com- pelled us to choose between good and evi, Instead of between two goods, as might have been the case witkont it, Sin having taken possession of our race shifts the scene, and brings evil fully before ua with a fatal example, The kuowledge of goot and evil we imberit from Adam, and any debate of our choice between the two 13 full of danger. Vor the flesh lasteta against the apirit and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the ouv to tue other, Here the choice of evil is called the Mesh, [t 1s When this earthly life absorbs all oar attention, The renewed nature is described as the spirit; and tn the contest be- tween Wiese two Mian 18 thwarted on all sides. He Wants to do good but evil will not let lim, and he wants to do evil put good will not let him. These are contrary the one to the other. The spirit of God un us as One Of the contending parties involves the story of Gou's grace, Lad there been no soch manifestation of divine love evil would have had its own way. Jiat the man would then be at peace. There discordant elements enough im evil to keep men at war With them-elves. clety without God ts a state of atomic repulsion. ‘Ihe choice of evil ts of itself embarking in war vecauge the family of evil 19 not itke the family of good. It kcads to an unholy strue, While there is a struggie between God’s spirit and the flesh in man tuere is hope that the spirit will conquer, But while God's spirit enters every heart it L$ not re- generate every one. It warns and takes hold of the conscience While sin has possession of the heart, ‘The man is sought after by God, who wants to make him His child, nnd the testimony of the conscleuce is good becanse itis of God. Iv has to be after the manner of warning, his thoughts the neanwhile accusing Or else excusing one another, God is thus acting With the sinner as he was with Moses on the mount or With Israel in the wilderness, Love, ia order to save, must strike cruel blows, and the MAN POISONED MUST BE RUDELY SHAKEN and roiled and bruised to save his life. The soul in $lu must be thus influenced by God’s spirit in the couselence, or tt will sleep its deadly sleep, it may not iike to be disturbed at present, but it will afterwaids jook back and thank God for the rude shock which preceded its de- liverance. In a debate between a choice of va- Nous goods the character of the struggle ts lost; but When, in a struggle between good ani 1, the soul G Ved over to evil, its fruit most be gathered in heil, ‘here 1s a desperate wrestling Of the affections and pacioes With one another whev conscience bas ecu put Ww death. My spirit, saith God, shail pot always strive with man. It 18 a mistake to suppose that the man who las sided conscience 13 at peave. He wiay have LO remorse uf Gonscience for sin, but he Las A DEEPER UNREST AND FIERCER WAR, and is constantly harassed by clashings of evil witnia him, though Without # cousctence to lead him outintorest, And tiere is no escape for him but in the pursuit of one object, to which all his powers andenergies are bent. Happily for society euch characters are rare. Now, what is the cure for this state of the soul ? The text says that If we are led by tue Spirit we aro notuuder the law, It ts the calling down of the Spirit vo command the consctenve—the marrying of the conacieuce and duty to submit to the law of God, from whose love it has ever been in revolt. The condition of the awavened «oul was de- scribed, and now in this condition it is po longer under the law. Before there was nothing Letween it and Jaw, and the nan was bruised and beaten ax he Went along, but now he is guided clear of the law. The child may be brwsed and weary climMing over hills and ditches an’ streams, but if his father car: ries him he will not be. ven so, If we are born of the Spirit, GOD OUR FATHER CARRIRS US. The Spirit guides and takes care of tbe Jaw, and conscience, Which ia the |aw’s agent, has no more bricks and stoves and goads to use against us. ‘The fort that 18 conquered has no more need to be bom- barded. Being justified by faith we bave peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘There 13 10 more fear of conselence, and there is a periect frec- dom from law, God does not guide his cild by law, but by love, But bas love 0 law? Ob, yes, it has, But th the first case Jaw means the hand of the po- liceman on your shoulder—in this it is the magnet- ism of Jove. God no Jonger works on us, and con- sequently against us, but he works iu us and hence with us. Jtis the constant surprise of every heart at peace with God, and whose conscience is not sleeping or dead, but active as ever, tat it is not struggling and warring as before, The kingdom within is no longer divided against itself. This glo- Tlous peace of the soul 1s THE RESULT OF YIELDING TO GoD. The commander who would surrender a city which he finds he cannot hola must, however, first silence the claraorous clique within, It 15 @ cheat- ing logic and a deadly delusion which would pur- Chase peace by brivery. The peace purcli by Minahem with a few sheckels of gold was but tem- porary, and jed to greaer contests; but the forty years of peace secured by Gideon was the resolt of courage and of strife, This peace of the soul will never come of iteelf. I must be the result of fight ing. We must give our hearts to God. Be bold and those passions Which War aguinst the soul will slink | sloner, by the Spirit ye are not under the law, and Spirit will not always strive with man. ST. JAMES’ ROMAN CATAOLIC CHURCH. Tie Saviour’s Love and Mercy—Sermon by the Rev. Father Byrue, of Clogher, In- land. At St. James’ Roman Catholic church yesterday mornmg bigh mass was celebrated by the Key, Father Martin, and after tho first gospel the Rev. Father Byrne, of the diocese of Clogher, Ircland, preached from the gospel of the day, beginuing at the close of the fiiteenth chapter of Matthew. The life of our blessed Lord was one continued exercise of love and mercy to men. Not alone the just were the recipients of His favors, but even to sinners were extended most merciful invitations to penitence and promises of heavenly reward. As TRE GOOD SHEPLERD leaves the flock to go in scarch of the missing sheep, #0 does the Saviour follow the sinner, seeking to re- store him once more to the toid. There aronumbers of instances in the Gospels in which Jesus teaches us how much He desires the conversion of sinners, and how eagerly and cheeriully He receives back the lost one and offers [is love to the penitent heart, Has He not Himself said that there is more joy in heaven over the conversion of one sinner than the heavenly hosts feel from all the virtues ol ninety- nine just? In the parable of THE PRODIGAL SON, that touching story in which the sinner is likened to the spendthrift and sinful son, and in which the Redeemer takes the place of tue loving and forgiy- ing father, the conversion of the son is hailed with rejoicings, and the father goes out to meet him on his retcrn, extending to him pardon for all his errors and receiving him again as his lost child restored. Thus does Jegus receive back the i who, having wandered away from Him in the paths of sin and iniquity, comes again, penitent and contrite for his evil doings, to tne feet of his Redeemer, tn all the consciousuess of the wrong he las done, aud moved to sorrow as he experiences THE LOVE AND MEROY of Him whom he had stuned against, There is not a sinner on eartia who, when his heart is moved to abandon his career of crime, shall nor feel, if he bas ouly courage to advance, that Jesus, Itke tho father in the parable, comes to meet him and extead to him His infinite mercy, and even to rejoice that thts lost soul 13 now restored. But beautitul as aro tho parables in the Gospel whitch convey to us this love of Jesus for converted sinners, if we wantto go more deeply into an understanding of that love we must come to the passion of our sacred Lord and then we shall find the proof of tueniinite agony of affection which the Saviour bears for men. Cold aud hard ioust that heart be that enters in spirit the Garden of Getusemane aud sees the Son of God sweating ROTS_OF BLOO! D D to wipe out the sins of the world and yet be un- moved and cling to sin! There is an infipite love here, and tt is the love of the Creator for the crea- ture, Itis Jesus weeping for our fins, praying to Ills Father ior forgiveuess for those evil deeds which we to-day are committing, and which, in the enormity of the malice they contam, needed th sacred blood itself to wipe out the stains, There is not @ step of tie Passion that does not appeal to men for love and sorrow and sympathy—whether it be Gethsemane, the scourging at the pillar, the crowning with thorns, the carrying of the heavy cross along the road to Calvary or THE LAST DREAD SCENE itself, which made heaven and earth tremble. It was the same love and mercy which manifested the infinitude of Jesus in the miracles He performed in His pubitc life, which raised the dead to life, healed the sick, gave sight to the blind and pardoned Mag- daien, that led Tim to the piliar to be scourge: that suffered the thorns te pierce His sacred head, that made Him submit to be spit upon, mocked and treated with ignominy. To describe the death of Jesus on tne cross would be impossible; to tell how every part of His sacred body was racked and torn with pain, how every sense was tortured with agony, how His persecutors added even other tormenta than those of the cross, wou!d feebly give an idea of the death of the Saviour. But we can turn to the cross and behold . THE DYING SON OF GoD and hear His last words. ‘they were words so inf- nitely loving und merciful thut the greatest sinner must feel hope and courage as he reflects upon them, ‘hey were words that Jesus only could have uttered. One is a prayer for those who are putting Him to death; the other is the pardon of a repentant sinner. The preacher then continued to speak of the cause of all the sufferings of Cnrist, wiich was sin. In eloquent terins he besougst of his hearers to receive the graces which Jesus gave abundantly to eacn in order to secure salvation, which was the only object of itfe, that for wnica we were created. Especially he warned those who might be in sin not to put of conversion, for the longer the sinner delayed in ac- cepting the invitations of the Saviour to repentance the more the diMculty would be ed and the greater the chance of velng found unprepared for Shat judgment which was as certain w come as eat. CHRISTIAN FREE CHURCH. Wisdom, Rightcousness; Snuctification and Recemption—Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Poot. A large number of strangers were present yester- (lay morning at the above place of worship. The peautiful summer weather, no doubt, contributed to a large extent in attracting abroad a considerable portion of the church-going community. At the usual hour the Rev. Mr. Foot came to the reading desk and opened the services. The organ having become disarranged at the second hymn, the singiag was contiued without its assist- ance, The preacher recited a long prayer in verse, at the conclusion of which another hymn was sung by the congregation and Mr. Foot delivered his discourse, Taking his text from J, Corinthians iy 80—“But of Him are ye tn Christ Jesus, who of God 1s made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption," said Christ 1s A COMPLETE SAVIOUR, and nothing less than Christ couid save us from tho abyss into which we were plunged, Our disasters are 80 multitudinous that @ God alone can protect us from annihilation from the evils of our own pas- sions. In our relation to Jesus Christ we speak of Him tn a thousand diferent manners. We cali Him Lord, Life, Love, Saviour, Redeemer, 80 on, ‘the reverend gentlemen then went on to explain the state of the people in Athens and Corinth when this epistie was written. He said Greece, with ail her literature, could not save men from death; velther could the Chaldeans, nor the Egyptians, God did not rescue the world by wisdom (whicn means ‘carumg) We preach @ Christ crucified, Wisdom may be taken objectively and subjectively iu showing us ot uty tothe Reueemer, He then explained Low taken suljectively It may lead souls back to Hicaven, A matjuer ovt npon the ocean, ho said, Lussed by tempestuous storms, his ship lashed by the fury of the warring cieincuts, has no path to guide him, no wake left by his vessei to mark the road be came, so that he a retrace his steps. DARKNESS AND DESVAIR surround him on all sides; but he has a compass and he has & Chart, abd the careful Chartmaker hag pointed out the conrse the ship must take. So tt is with a young man starting out upon the troubled sea of (tie, Lvery now and then be runs upon tho quicksands and against the rocks; but a tender mother and & wise father warn hun of the danger ‘and entreal hiw lo change bia course, 80 that he will wt the end of his voyage arrive safe ju the promised haven. This is what Christ has dove for us, Cast into the midst oi @ thousand dangera, we have a thousand means given us of avoiding them, Shall light ever come to the urnt Shall day ever dawn on the grave Jesus has come and brouglit us light—a light that will bring us to the throne, ‘Take into cousiveration the worth of God—the vaiue We set upon our own sons. ‘This may be lite to some, perhaps, in life, but at death im that awful hour When we are about passing away into the vast unknown, When it is too late, When our course is ran, What would we not then give to be able to go back and recall the time we have spent—live x again the lives we are now leaving belind us? py THIS DREADFUL MOMENT, when we realize, perhaps for the first time, the great mistake that we have made what, would we not give Jor the opportunity again to walk in the pathway of the Lord and march with the hosts who travel beneath the banner of Christ? He is our righteousness, He itis who brings us to righteous- ness. In some States of the Unton fa man should have the misfortune to get commlited to State Prison he 3s deprived of ali the rights of citizenship, He 1s no jonger @ yoice iu the government, He is like a mau Without a home, without a country, But Christ in bis great Jove for us recetves us again and again afier other trausgressions, When we puink of the angels what must we say of the GUODNRS8 OF ALMIGHTY GOD in giving us the right and privilege to come into their society? Think of the rewara that fs in store for us when we have crossed the dark valley Patience and perseverance in the right direction during the passage, and we siall most assuredly arrive at (he destined ‘haven purchased for us by the bivod of Christ. If we only understood this, with what jey would we not sing our hew song! The reverend genUeman then explained that ail words used In the Bib.e expressing sanctification, holi- ness and their derivatives come from the ame Greek roots and have & similar signification, ‘anctification he called a gurgling stream that came rippling along through life, smoothing the surface back into their holes. Addressing himself pointedly Jo the impenitent the Doctor remarked, in closing:— There are two alternatives before you; Wil yoa have the Spirit to dwell tn your hearts or will you drive him away from you’ The present residence of the Spirit in your conscience ts a mark of God's kind dealing toward you, and that love speaks to you to- day and asks, ‘Will you submit to tue Spirity Will } you now reject Lis offer?’ Remember, ti ye arg led of the Jagged, uneven stones It met upon Its way, He showed at some length how much people are i+ finenced by @ thougit, a word, an idea, How often, an impure expression or idea will tara the channel of one’s life from Godtiness to wicked- ness, The preacher denounced m einphatio tera } all Hteratare that did not tend to make the life of | the Christian still more perfect, and sata no bne | should read any tltiug ig Was afrald to have noticed in his possession. He then took up the last point— redemptton—which he explained most thoroi and coucluaed by ex! his audience to di the earth and walk with God. The mighty power of the Almighty can change our life, the spirit that dwelis inus, He that raised up Christ's poor, from tue tomb can quicken our bodies into eternal life, LYRIC HALL SERVICES. Rule and Foster—Sermou by Rev 0. B. Frothinghaw. It would be acurious study for an artist to sit some Sunday im Lyric Hall and scan the faces of men and women there gathered. The pecullar, thoughttul and philosophical appearance of the audi- ence, visible even fn the pose of heads; the appa- rent determination to take nothing for granted, but examine all things, and the gene- ral intellectual cast of the many upturned heads impresses one in a very different manuer from the congregations of the more fashionable and orthodox churches of the city. Yesterday all these thinking ones had furatshed to them plenty of food for thought, THE MUSIO ‘was, as usual, very fine, though Mrs. Gardner fs the only one remaining of the old quartet, and the place of Miss Gibbs and Messrs, Haw and Clapp has been supplied by Dr. and Mrs, Hill and Mr. George W. Herbert. The selection given was Farmer, 57; Rudolphson, 298; Germany, ©. S., 84 and 695; America, C. S., 220, and Mendelssohn, page 36. “Tne Son of Man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save thom,’’ was the text, aud Mr. Frothingham said:—It is not necessary to dwell on the circumstances that suggest my thome thts morn- ing—-the execution of One man and tle trial for life of another, Kor THE BLOOM OF RULLOFF -| the public thirsted, and to stay the execution of Foster no effort is spared and no political intuence Ishall not dwell on the lives of these neither on the vicissitu‘les and fearfal fate of Le dne Who has peen Killed, who had so much of intellectual aculeness and 60 Iltue of moral strength, nor on the life of him who now stands pleading tor that poor boon. I do not think that Rullon’s puuish- ment is too severe, Bor thal Foster will suffer too harshly in the punishment vy death, The popular feeling on these things, Where it exists, is morbid and sentumental. EXECUTION 18 NOT SUFFICIRNT asa punishment. 1don t wish to go into the sub- ject of capital punishment. I feel that the ume will come when men w ll consider the nanging of a man by tbe neck as unnecessary aud atrocious a crime as the disembowelling of a man for a political offence. In 1810 Sir Samuel Lomilly tucroduced tn the & bill to abolish capital neglected. English Parllamont punishment for shoplifiing when the amount stolen was five’ shillings or more, and in cases where a private house was entered or goods stolen from on anibuoard to the amount of twenty shillings. ‘The bill passed the House of Commons, but was defeated in the Honse of Lords, In 1816 Sir Samuel Romilly again introduced the bill, and, for the last time, in 1816, when it was again passed by the Commons and again defeated by the Lords, In 1813 he asked that disembowelling should no more be practised IN CASR§ OF TREASON but that death snould suilice, When, in 1816, he Was told that crime was on the tncrease and ‘tho puntshment by death was necess: ¥. he answered that the severity of the penalty rendered conyicuon diMiculé and bred crime. cintush, on whose shoulders the mantle of Romilly fell, moved several biils, and obtatned a concession of capital punish- ment in 1822, Hero in the Uulted States, where capital panisnmeni Is in some States abolished, we find crime lessened. WERE IT PUT TO A VOTE throughout the Union the people who stand most in fear of capital punishment would vote to perpetuate the system. The ignorant, vicious and brutat would retain it, while the thoughtful, the student and the good min word use every exertion to avolish I. ‘There is a certain claas, aud a great class it 13, Wuo will ever in our time exclaim, if we IMPRISON A MAN FOR LIFE, “Wo will find him let loose again in ten years, Politicians will release him, or those who always pily the miserabie, Put him not in a prison,” they say, ‘but put him in the ground, Dead men notonly tell no tales, but they commit no cri:nes, and they cost taxpayers nothing for support.” They tell us. that capital punishment 13 not severe, that ine pata is not so great as that of a long illnesss, and, they add, if the victim is a Catholic, the priest will staud by his side and SAVE HIS SOUL FROM HELL; if a Protestant, he will intercede for him at the Throne of Grace, and if an atheist, he will pass quickly from an ill life to the nothingness of the grave. It is a sad coniession for a Christian to make, after two thousand years of Christianity, that there ts no better use for @ man than ty put him under the ground; to say, “I do not know what to do with & human litte.’ Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and passed through a Samaritan village, and John said, “Call down the fire from heaven, because thoy reject the Master; and Jesus said, “I came not to destroy; I came to save.” Yet for hundreds of ears the Church of Rome has burned men because ‘hey do not believe in the Saviour, Yhe tratn—and itis palniul ior me, @ minister, (0 admut it—is that SECULAR LEGISLATION has been straggling ror along time to counteract the evils and the horrors born of eclesiastical law- making. To thecommon ‘sense of the bumau race, and not to Christianity, do we owe thanks Jor mercy tomen. I must speak the truth, though it fs bitter, and by and by the truih will bring peace. 1 ask now 1s it well for us to counteract, in our puny way, the will of God? Is tt well for us to put a inan down in the earth Whom God has catied from the earth to the sunshiue ? THE BROOKLYN CHURCHES. A Bhapsody on the Name of Christ by the Pope of Plymouth Church—Tho Miss:on of the Redemptorist Fathers. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Tho Name* Above All Names—Christ Our Ideal—Heaven a Place of Freedom and Joy—Sermon by the Rev. H. W. Beecher. A great congregation in Plymouth church ls- tened yesterday to a rhapsody upon the name of Christ; Christ, the hero, the poet, the artist, the symbol of all power, all venderness; Christ, tne fountain from which all human genius and beauty and greatness are but shallow streams. The text was Philipplans {1., 9, 10—*Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given bim a name that is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow; things In heaven and things in earth and things under the earth.”” This, said Mr. Beecher, ts a prophecy, not formal and oMetal, but the outburst of expression following one of those royal insights so common to the~ apostle. He saw the tme when there should be one name more blessed than any in the universe when, at the name of Jesus, all Joy and ecstacy should burst forth spontancously. In Its lowest use ® name is a sign affixed to a thing for separation, After a while the name signifies not only a thing, but gives a notion of the quality. It hes an interior sense, We ate not conscious how full of nerves our names are— how much hope, love and joy is connected with them, A name may pe so pronounced that almost every nerve in a man’s soul MAY BE THRILLED BY IT, Tn the progress of time names come to stand not only for character, but they rise 1rom the specific and take in generic forms. There are men whose names are mingled with the whoie complexity of luman affairs, Ciesat means not only a man, but it marks to-day @ quality, So with Alexander aud Bunaparte, and sv it will be IN THE VUTURE WITH BISMARCK. Art and beauty are also Cha Agha by names, The Naines of Raphael and Titan don’t stop with their tdividuallty, or their nation’s, or thetr epoca, but they are significant of beauty and genius. On the other hana Judas 1s the receptacte of all treachery, Arnold of whatever is base. So names come to signify moral qualities, From this we get some tdea of the meaning of the text. It is a large idea. The day shall come when Cnrist’s name shail Stand in the universe as the suggestion of all that 1s SWEET AND GRAND AND RICH for the aggregate of all development during the Wholo period of time, Jt is to be a name above every other name. Already the best things that have taken place for bundreds of years have fathered around that name. Bad as has been the handling of religion, such Js the power of Christ that the things best worth living for and dyig for are associated with His sweet name. In spite of His churches, in spite of His ministers, ts name bas steadily gained power, so that those who TUROLOGIUALLY DISOWN IT gamit it moraily, Already it 13 associating with Itself the largest things morally ol sptritaally, Finally, His name will stand in conn. ion with all splendtd intellectual forces, The truth, thes beauty of moral sentiments—moral sentiments in heroic form~ wilt be connected with Him, When we be-, hoid at last the juli personality of Jesus Christ He Will be-associated with pap jbl that (s transvend- ent ia eniieness, in segs | in bye in love, in intellect. He is the great typles man that represents the race, am Hw naine will shake down all lovely associations upon our heads; all that i# incoucetvable in perfection here, to all possibilities, will be traced back to Lili aa the fountain., He will be the SUPREMEST ARTIST, the royal lover. QO wife oom + panes heart, O LOVER WBA! in Tim will you fad ali developments of tondernass, Do not think that because, religion has seemed to you so ncerb, sy fall of “thou shal’ mot," that these diss clplinary limitations wall be transferred to the other life. How et: “wd heaven used to seein, to me! ‘Though bugit of alabaster @ prison would be a prison, Now, | gather alt eo? most lovely on caith to make my heaved. All the beauty Wat —_—————— $$ ‘es to me in visible forms or in dreams and dim ome TOWiNgS, all that is noble in hu charao- a) ter, L tax.” mavonial to build my heaven, All oO bumanity ie © SOMETHING erp ndiedoe 4 . tthe presence of Christ—of the and when we stan’. orfected possibilities of the exponent of all the bx. motions? Christ will be soul—what will be our @u and yearnin; He the fulfilling of all dim hopes ”o, Joon ee At ‘orth epont ;* have seen litte binds | nauseous + CAUGHT IN THE THICKET struggling helpiessiy, while their mates wer's sitigin, in the clear blue; 80 sweet-hearted men struggle with doubts and theologicat questions while their hearts long for the divine perfection in Jesus. Come out of bondage, out of your didactical state; come into the raptures of love. What is the name of Cnrist now to you? To many {t ts mercly a word for adate. To others itis a superstition; it is thas which narrows them, With others itis a name of controversy. Again His ‘heart is pierced and His raiment divided. All the wondrous beauty of the life of Christ is only s0 much metal with which to fore weapons, I Know nothing that seema mines Offensive to me t..an these warlike associations thi are connected with that sweetest of all books, the New Testament. Happy are those children who tn the household are taught the love side of the Bible, Unnappy are those children who’are showo no brooding mother heart in God, Blessed are they who have OUTGROWN THE RAD TEA CHING in relation to God, the teaching that makes Him & belity of vengeance to be placated: By and by the name of superstition will cease, the name of contro- versy will cease, and we shall rise into the atmos- phere of that name that shall be full of inspiration to every facuty, Let the days pass, What have we here in exchange for what we stall have? WHY ARE WE SO IN LOVE with tho little plane that wo shall not desire the erfect beauty? Speed, then, days and seasons, and jet the sun of righieousness arise with healing io ita wings, and let the me come when We shail know even as we are known. CATHOLIC MISSIONS IV BROOKLYN. Success of the Redemptorist Fathers at the Cathedral~Progress of Picty In Brooke lyo. The spring of 1371 has certainly proved most proe life in the dispensation of spiritual benefits dear vo the heart of the Catholic community of the City of Churches, The graces dispensed and the instruc tion given by learued and exemplary men have been unusually great even for that city, where plety ia justly supposed to be largely encouraged through the agency of the permanont ministry at all periods, and where so many superior edifices have been raised to the houor and worship of God ani in tes- timony of the zea! of the faithful. Siace the montm of February there have been no less than four Catho- le missions in Brooklyn, three of which were con- ducted by the Fathers of the most noble and SELF-SACRIFICING ORDER OF TUE REDEMPTORISTS. The first mission was hela at the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Sidney place; the second at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Debevoise street. The Dominican Fathers are holding @ mission at the present writing at St. Paul’s church, Court street, and a glorious mission under the auspices of the Redemptorists is about drawing to a termination at St. James’ (the cathedral), in Jay street, Yester- day being the last Sunday of the work of strength- ening the wavering and bringing back the strayed shevp to the fold, the services were of more than ordinary interest, and the throng more persistent in its eiforts to ootaim ingress to the interior of that building than ever. The mission opened at the catuedral on Sunday, April 30, under the direction of Rev. Father Wissel, of the Boston House of Re- demptorists. He has deen assisted tn lis labors by Rey, Fathers Gross, Keris, Cook, O'Connor and En- right. THR ROUTINE has been first mass at five o’clock cach morning, and at nine o'clock. In the evening there were ine struction and benediction, The people were ta- structed tu detail in matters of Ubristian daty, and taught how to fulfil the requirements of religion and to more Sensibly and tntelligeitly observe their trae relationship toward their fellow men. several con- verts to Catholicity have been made by these in-. structions, Tne first eleven days of the mission were devoted exclusively to the instruction and the ad- ministration of the saciaments of Penance and the Holy Kuciarist to femaies, no less than three thou. sand women avatling themselves of tie opportuaity to reap the benefits of the RICH SPIRITUAL HARVEST prepared for their indulgence. On Sunday, the 14th Instant, the sterner sex received the attention of the uissioners, and lendiug a ready acquiescence to the inspirations of faith awakened by the argumenta- tive eloquence of the zealous followers and teachers: of the way of the cross, they have givon most grati- f proof of the efleacy of the Divine word. The indisierent have hearkened and have become penitent, and the lukewarm have grown zealous in their faith. Up to yesterday two thousand men, young and old, approached the TRIBUNAL OF CONFESSION and there parivok of the Consecrated Host at the time-honored rails of the altar o: the cathedral. Betore the close of the mission for men, which wilh be ca} Tuesday evening next, the number of com. municants will be fully ive hundred more, making the aggregate of adults who shali have performed this mission fiity-flve hundred. Yesterday afternoom Rey. Father Gross delivered a sermon or lesson to the sodality of tae Immaculate Conception oi the Biessed Virgin Mary attached to the c edral, upon thelr duty and the object and signification of the Sacrament 0, Confirmation, for which latter six or seven hundred are preparing. ‘ihere was @& procession of the girls, under the super- vision of the Sisters of Mercy, from the schoviroom, near the church, to the latter edifice, which was witnessed by hundreds of ad< miring people who assembled upon the streets im tne vicinity, ‘The girls were attired in A whi with wreaths of green and white, and blue an pink sashes. A medal of the sodality, peadant from @ blue ribbon about the neck, and white flowing vells, distinguished & separate division of the pro- ceseion. The church doors were closed as soon as the last file of the giris had crossed the threshold, and Father Wissel, who stood upou the doorsteps, gave his blessing to the disappointed crowd of adult appilcants for admission, and informed them there Was no room for them within Just then, In the evening Father Wissel preached, and a solemm dedication to the Blessed Virgin took place. BEDFORD AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH, Sermon by Rev. Dr. Porter—Sabbath Schook Festival. The First Keformed ciurch, Bedford avenue, while not equalling its neignbor, the St. John's Metnodist church, in its architectural proportions, is one of the most canacious, elegant and best ven- tilated edifices in Brooklyn. The congregation have been worshipping in their new church one year, since which time a commodious and beautiful struc- ture has been crectod adjoining 1, which is devoted to Sabbath school purposes and soctal and religious gatherings. The church and Sabbath school rooms were tasicfully festooned yesterday with evergreens, cholce flowers and banners, Dr. Porter delivered an able discourse in the morning, taking for hia text the latter clause of ithe secoad verse of the sixty-third Psaim—“So as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.” He said that longing to see God in the sanctuary was by no means an uncommon act of desire. There were times when each of them looked forward through the week for the regathering of those who wor- shipped within the gates of Zion, and who, by the help of their friendship, prayers and sympathy, would assist them in fighting weil the battle of lire. After describing the circumstances under which David gave utterance to the language of the tcxt the speaker proceeded to mention reasons why the sanctuary was a blessing to its visitors, ‘The Church was a refuge from oppressive cares, fears, tempta- ttonsand aiiictions. Work, If it were honest in mo- tive and noble in purpose, was a blessing; but men could not bear up under the Most honest toil unless the soul could Jor a while forget tts cncumberiug worldly cares and project its thoughts beyoud THE MATERIAL AND THE PRRISHABLE. When the soul soared heavenward in the sanctu- ary an cducational and eievating power Was real- ized, which could not be found anywhere else in the world, It was reckoned by men who had studied physiology m its profoundest reaches that the medicinal effect upon the mind rece:ved m tne act of worship was as positive and direct as any curative eect that might pe named. i cured tho spirit of its weariness, took away something of its disgust with life and generated proper sell-respoct; for when a man commnuned with Nis Maker he dropped for & moment the mortal tenement, and on ths wings of faith was lifted up to where he could hear angelic melodies and beheld the glorified and the beautival. Those who habitually negiected the sanctuapy became gross, carn ant beastly. Thoy became, 80 far as their per- sonal lives were concerned, hewers of wood and drawers.of water; they ,worked for that which satistied not, aud, in the mad idoiutry of the perish- abie, they, Lost tae bloony te swecsuess and the joy of this present existence. Not only were men ressed down With honest labor, bus there wero fears awakened every day in commerce with te world respecting the integrity and trustworthiness of out fellow beings, We pul our humanity, 05 1% were, In duress, lest In an unguarded moment tho exposure of our feelings might lurnish advantage to the wary dnd the deceitful The education we re- ceived in the world of society and of business waa one that required to be amended at least once & week. We needed to be brought ince to face with our OWN sina aud Imperfections, and to bo led to & piace Where We cowld understand the government of sod with relation to evil im the present world, David hitaseli bes an to ho restive when he saw THE PROSEERUY OF THE WICKED; bat when ho went inte the sanctuary he understood thely end, So we come oftentimes fito the churct + Covered AU Over With Lite slme of qusiruat aud WLS nn