The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1871, Page 13

———-—_____—_—-_-—. GIOUS INTELLIGENCE. | May 28—Whit-Sunday, or Pentecost. Behedule of To-Day's Religious Labor—Herald Beligious Correspondence—The Great Spe- cialiy of Christianity—Recreation for the Poor on Suaday—The Sunday Libra- ries—Lhe Morals of Our School Chil- dren—The Social Evil Again— Sweienborg aad Spiritual. ism- A Squabble Among the Petticoats. Religious Movements Personal and General. Services To-Day. At the Amorican Free Church anniversary to-day ‘Wey. Charles B. Smyth will conduct the services morning and evening at the New York University. A memorial sermon of the late Dr. N. W. Seat Nwil be delivered this morning by Rev. Dr. Deems at the Church of the Strangers. _ Rev. Dr. Abol Stevens will preach in the Central ‘Methodist Ep scopal church, Seventh avenue, this Morning and Rev. Dr. Joseph Holdich in the even- Rey, Dr. Krotel preaches morning and evening in ‘the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy ‘Trinity, Wea Twenty-first street. Rev. Thomas Street will preach this morning and sevening in the North Presbyterian cuurch, West ‘Thirty-first street, on Scripture characters. Free Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, ‘West Forty-flith street, near Broadway. Tals even- ing at the Scripture service at half-past seven the Rev. Dr. Stewart, of St. Clement's church, Phila- -deiphia, will preach. Rev, Dr. Thompson will deliver an address this “evening in the Broadway Tabernacle church on “Moral Lessons and Illustrations of Bible Truths from the Fate of Paris.” Rey. J, Hyatt Smith will deliver his “Snowball Sermon” tnis afternoon before the Sunday school children’s meeting at Open Communion Baptist sohureh, Seventeenth street. Rey. Charles Lee will preach in Plimpton Bullding (Fifth Universalist church), to-day, on ‘The Father- hood of God.” Rev. J. M. Pakman will give the third of a course ef lectures to young men at the Church of Our Saviour (Sixth Universalist), Thirty-tfth street, this evening. Subject, ‘The Two Starting Points—Choosing a Busi- Ress and Choosing a Wife.’’ Rev. Isaac Weseott will preach in Plymouth Bap- tist church, Fifty-first street, this morning, on ‘‘Goa’s Great Love,” aud im the evening on “Jacob’s Night Vision at Bethel.” Rev. Merrill Richardson, pastor of the New Eng- Jand Congregational church, will preach this morn- ing and evening. Rev. John E. Cookman, pastor of Trinity Metho- ~ ist Episcopal ehurch, in West Thirty-fourth street, ‘will preach morning and evening. , Rev. Dr, Cheever will preach in the Lexington avenue church, corner of Forty-sixth street, this ‘evening, and Rev. Dr. Sanderson in the morning. Rev. E. C, Sweetser will preach morning and even- {ng in the Bleecker street Universalist church, corner of Downing. His subject in the evening will be “Christian Watchfulness.”” Rev. C. C. Foote will preach morning and evening { the Christian church, West Twenty-cighth street. “New io Christ” will be the subject of his morning discourse, and in the evening he will lecture on ‘acts,” At Christ Church, Rev. Dr. Ewer, rector, services ‘will be held this morning at seven and half-past ten o'clock, and in the evening at hail-past seven. “The Evils of the Day and Their Remedy’ will bo the wsubjectof the evening discourse. Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preacii morning and veveving in the Fifty-third street Baptist church. “God With Us and God Agalust Ua’ will be the subject of Rev. George Hepworth’s discourse this morning in the Church of the Messiah. Services also in the evening. Rev. Dr. J. H. Rylance will preach this morning in ‘St, Mark’s charch, Second avenue, «4 im the evesing he will deliver his second lecture on “Christianity im the Human Heart.’ Kev. Dr. Oagood will preach in St. James’ charch, East Seventy-second sireet, this morning. Rev, C. 8. Harrower will preach in St Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, West Forty-first street, ‘this morning and evening, “The Garden of Eden: Where it Was, What it Was, and How to Regain it,” will be the supject of Rev. Chauncey Giles’ lecture this evening in the New Je- rusaiem (Swedenborgian) church, Bast Thirty-fftn street. Morning service at eleven o'clock. ‘The opening services of St Paul’s Protestant Epis- copal church, Jersey City Heigtits, will be beld this morning at palf past ten o'clock. Rey. William ‘Wardlaw, the rector, will preach. Mr. A. A. Wheelock will speak before the Society ~of Progressive Spiritualists, in Trenor’s Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, this morning and evening. The Great Speciality of Christianity. To THs EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— The only great disiinguishing feature of Chris- tdanity from other systems of religion that were taught by Moses, Vonfucius, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato apd other great minds of antiquity, 1 the idea that God will hold man accountable for his belief, and thas kis eternal destiny in the next Worla depends on what he believes in this world, ‘This is the corner stone of popular Christienity, either Catholic or Protestant. Remove this idea and the whole superstructure falls, and, like a base- less fabric of a vision, leaves not a wreck behind. Faitn or betief—whicn are onc and the same thing— is simpiy the want of a positive knowledge, or, according to Webster, belief is ‘‘to think or sup+ eee ih is belief, We cannot have faith or lief about anything we know to be true. If this system of Christianity is true, then man's eternal destiny depends upon his believing in some thoologicat “dogmas, that he has no possibility of ascertaining whether they be true or no&. Faith depends in a great measure upon the piace where a person is born and tne so- ciety from which tie receives his education. It de- pends upon circumstances over which man has no control. Jt wou.d be as unjust to hold man account- able for his behef as to hoid him accountable for the color of his eyes or the length of his nose, for he hag No more control over one than the other. No idea that was ever promuigated among mankind has been attended by such direful consequences as this. .A review of the career of this doctrine as it 1a traced With blood and fire through the last eighteen hun- red years is cuough to make the lover of his race Weep tears of blood. A few items only will be given. During the period of the first 200 years after the ate of Christianity many diverent sects arose and kept steadily quarreiling about the divinity of Jesus, about the consistency and truth of His miraculous conception, His death and resurrection —some con- jtending that He always. existed, others that He was @ man, born of woman, and hada beginning. This ‘strife contiuned into the third century until more than 300,000 men had been slaughtered, In the year (A8T theré arose among the Christian sects a dispute ‘about the propriety of setting images of the differ- ‘ent divines in the churches, ‘This occasioned a Christian war, in which 50,000 combatants lost their tives, In the eleventh century aseries of crusades took place, 1 order to take and hold possession of the so-calied Holy Land, in which it ts estimated 40,000,000 lives were sacrificed. Near the end of the ‘twelfth century Peter Waldo founded a new sect. The consequences were turmoil, persecution, torture and bloodshed, continued for $00 years, and many thousand lives were lost. In the fifteenth century 800 were burned In Geneva in three months, Daring this period 100,000 suifered execution in Germany alone, and 30,000 in England, omitting Scotiand, France and Spain. Tnese are but a part of the acts that have boen caused, either directly or indirectly, by the doctrine that God wil hold man accountable for his belief. Men never persecute cach other avout their moral duties. Men persecate each other only for their faith. The suffering anda despair that this doctrine has caured the human race, leading thousands and probably millions to insanity or sul- cide, Cannot be estimated. We woald say to those theologians who are labor. ing to promulgate this doctrine among mankind that these are the levitimave truits of their labo’ ‘The history of Christianity for the last eiwateen hun: dred years Will fully substantiate this statemout, Tt needs no prophet’s ken to see that the “signs of the times” strongly indicate another ¢ between the different sects of Cr close Of the nineteenth century. Tne Mercantile Library and the Reform Party—Intellcctual Recreation for the Poor on Sunday. Jo tum Eprror oF THE Heratp:— We regrot the failure of the “reform? party of the Merceatiie Library Association. Our aympaihics ‘wore with the reformer:: ana, wate we regret the unfortunate collision of the conzending factions, we are glad, nevertheless, that the subject of Sunday libraries has been agitated, and hope and predict that from it good may come, tn this hope we ven- ture to submit 2 proposition, We would premise it by endorsing, in its most comprehensive sense, the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, and it ts with a view that (his commandment may be more generally respected and observed that we suggest the immediate establishment, on anew and inde- pendent basis, of a Sunday library, We are aware the proposition will clash with the conservative sentunents of wmany good Christians; but, while we condemn that sensation Christian:ty which would make religion were “moral amuse- ment,” we equally condemn the Phariseeism which ignores and locks up every proposition not strictly in unison with its own ideas, The age is magnani- mons in its spirit and design. Public sentiment 1s rising to Jottier and ioftier conceptions of ways and means lor the vrogress and elevation of the race, and, a8 if thus rises, Sweeps aWay uarrow prejudices aud @malgamutes with if broad principles and de- signs every legitumate auxiliary, direct or indirect, great or smal, that may assist to work out by varied application and device the highest development of the temporal and spiri i welfare of men. We believe # Sunday library, properly organized and conducted, would prove a suving institution in this Sreat city. To illustrate this let us refer to the thous sands of men and women to the metropolis who are virtually without homes, Competied to a hfe of toil during the week, they come at its close weary and worn to their uesvlate and miserable lodgings. The peaceful Sab- bain—emblem of eternal resi—dawns upon them, Dut from indifference or prejudice they care not or ‘wiil not go to church. Ia the desire, however, and need of recreation they must go somewhere, Fond of reading, were @ library accessible, many who spend the day in lager beer saloons or other unpro- Mtable places would turn their steps thitherward wita prodt to themselves, Let us therefore have a Sunday lbrary, founded upon itveral principles, embracing in its collection the standard works of secular and religious litera- ture, carefully arranged and sifted of the chair ‘Which disgrace our public hbraries. Let there be Papers and magazines of the highest ifuence and tone, and the ltbrary embellished with the beat specumens of art, especiully represen. tations iilustrative of the Scriptures, together with every other adjunct which may in- form the understanding anda refine the taste. Ju connection with the library we also propose a music hall for sacred music or concerts, and where religious addresses by the representatives of the va- rious sects coulu be delivered at such an hour as would not interfere with church services. We also suggest that a refreshment room upon strictly tem- perate principlea be connected witn it, which would dispense refreshments at a low price, ing those who have no comtorts at home to enjoy a comfort abie meal in the building. In short, we would have this library @ home or Sunday resort. Strangers and residents of rural districts who would be happy to embrace tne religious privileges of our city would gladly avail themxeives of such a place of rest and refreshment during the interval between church services, but chiesly would 1t meet tne wants of the homeless sojourner of the city. One of the popular divines of the age asserts that ‘the most effective preaching Is not confined to the pulpit. Many and varied in design must be the Mmeuns used for the salvation of souls. Thousands who coutd not be persuaded or induced to cross the threshold of a church might, through the means of such a resort, be inseusibly lead to the first steps of a higher life. The seeds informally sown by the wayside might spring up in mauy @ heart and bear truit a hundred{oid. The churches are doing their work and the Hexatp 18 heiping them = by distripating broadcast over tne land the products of the most enlightened thought. The Young Men's Onristian§ Association is doing its work. The Young Ladies’ Christian Association Is as busy as bees, There are homes for the aged, homes: for the young, homes for the indigent—all of which meet their respective wants. Now let there be a Sunday Home tor the masses, limited by no phari- saic restrictions, but where saints and sinners may refresh their bodies, souls and spirits from the foun- tains of knowledge, secular and divine. Open such libraries in the spirit of the Master, who declared “the Sabbath was made for mau;” the motive will consecrate the act, and gather tu the fold from the highways and hedges of life many who are aliens irom the commonwealth of Israel. We again deciare that a Sunday Mbrary or a Nbrary on this plan open on Sunday wonld, we believe, promote the common weal and do tts part towards hastening the happy day when “the glory oe the Lord snall Cover the earch ag tue waters cover ne sea. “Was Swedenborg a Spi To Tus Epiror oF THE HERALD: The above is an inquiry made by a ‘Reader’ in last Sunday’s Heraty. Realizing most fully, with the editor of the H&RALD, that a new era is dawning Upon the world—an era of light and freedom from sectarian shackles, when Christians are to be united by the warm bonds of charity and not separate by coid, fend faith or doctrines, | believe most re- ligiously that this new era 1a from the Lord, anu that the wonderful manifestations we behold on every hand are the result of the descending light and beat (truth and love) of the New Jerusalem, and that Swedenborg was the chosen instrument of the Lord for revealing to the world the grand central spiritual traths of this new era—tnat “God isone in essence andjin person;’’ that the Lord Jesus Christ alist ©? was God manifested in the flesh; that the second Scriptures are Divine, having a living, rational, spiritual sense, running from the beginuing to the end, whicn hasat this day been revealed to man’s rational percepuon, demon- strating thelr sacred character; that all natural things correspond to spiritual, as effects correspond to their causes. Swedenborg was a genuine spiritualist, but not & modern spiritualist. His spiritualism com- pares with modern spiritualism as the light of the sun compares with the flickering lignts invented by mas. With Swedenborg a personal God is the cen- tre, and special revelations from Him, or the Sacred Scriptures, are the ladder let down from Heaven to earth, on which the angels ascend and descend to man, Modern spiritualists, as a general rule, ignore & personal God and all special revelations from God. In the writings of Swedenborg we are taught that love to the Lord and neighbor conatitute heaven, and love of self and the world constitute bell; therefore, man ims born into selfish nataral ee must be born again before he can enter fexven—in other words, by shunning evils as gins against God, and living a life ac- cording to His commandments, the old ruling , selfish loves must be subdued and heavenly affec- ‘ions take their place. Spiritualism teaches pro- jon instead of spiritual regeneration, and a Majority of its advocates deny the necessity for re- eneration and claim that it is impossible for men & live from higher motives than selfisnness. With Swedenborg the Lord Jesus Christ is the chief corner stone of the New Jerusalem and a special providence is clearly and beautitally taught, Whereas spiritualists, with but few exceptions, fieny the divinity of the Lord and all special provi- Gences. Swedenborg claims that the Lord revealed Himese}f to him, and through him revealed to the wor'd the truths of ®& new dispensation or of His second coming, and the spiritual sense of the sacred Scriptures, and also that He opened his spiritual vision that he might behold the spiritual world and converse with the inhabitants dwelling therein face to face, as man _ conversed with man here, and that he enjoyed this privilege for over twenty-seven years, and that he was spectally guided and protected by angels (without which protection he shows clearly it Would have been impossible) that he might see and converse with the inhabitants of heaven, hell and the world of spirits for the sake of describing to men on earth the state of man after death. He de- ascribes three great classes of inhabitants with whom he came in contact in that world. In one class love to the Lord and neighbor governed their actions; in another class selfish loves rulea; the third was in- termediate between the above, and was composea of those recently from this earth, in whom the Tuling love was not fully developed. Swedenbor assures us that he witnessed the last Pho eg the spiritual world in 1757, and he describes it. Swedenvorg never sought open intercourse with the spiritual world, and repeatedly warned his readers against seeking open intercourse; and taught and filustrated so fully the dangers of conversing with spirits, and the Ittle dependence to be placed on revelations from spirits, that few who have read his writings have any de- sire to seek such intercourse. He assures us that he was not permitted to receive anything pertaining to the doctrines of the New Church or the spiritual sense of the Sacred Scriptures from any angel or spirit, but from the Lord alone, When spirits wrote through His hand, as they were some- times permitted to do, He was required to destroy tue writings. How different all this from spirit- ualism! One of the great dangers, according to Sweden- borg, from open intercourse with Spirits arises from’ the fact that every man’s associate spirits with whom he comes in contact in open intercourse are like himself, and are in @ faith and life which 1s in harmony with his lifé—neither better nor worse, Sach spirits will Lng tf try to persuade him that what he at present believes is the truth and what he really loves {is good, and that all he needs is to progress; anit such ideas, if harbored, are a bar to nan’s regencration or heavenward progress, No one wno has net read Swedenborg’s writings can form any conception of the reat difierence between the genuine spiritualism contained in his wriun; and that of modern spiritualism, which generally aractically worsaips Nature instead of Navure’s God. Tf your “Reader” would understand tne signs of the times or obtain any reliable Knowledge of the spirl- tual world let him read Swedenborg’s writings; and there 1s no reason Why all men—laymen and cle) men—should not read them, as increasing thousan are doing. God’s truth, like the light of the natural sun, is [ree to all, The idea of @ new revelation from the Lord sounds strangely to the man steeped in naturalism, and to the bigot, although the Lord promised a second ae in the clouds of heaven, not of earth, Was therd ever a greater need of a revelation of genuine spiritual trath than at this day, When the simple precepts of the Gospels have been made of non-effect by the doctrines and tra- diuions of men, unuil mulutudes are expecting to Jump over the consequences of an evil life by a sim- NEW YORK HU#RALD, SUNDAY, MAY ple act of fatth or belief, instead of reaping what they have cown. Has the Lord forgotten His ebtl- dren? Lo! He comes.to the Christian world ia an unexpected hour and manner, as he came at the end of the Jewish dispensation. Does He ind faith on earth? Let those who are watch tag for the worming Judge. d. BE Are the Public Authorities Bonnd to Look After the Morals of Our School Children ¢ To THe Epitor or THe HeraLp:— Ibis a fact, although we may endeavor to blind ourselves to it, tuat houses Of prosiitution are neces- sary evils. AS far back a8 we have any record or history of man we find “there were hariots tn those days.” ‘Thongh they were condeumed and ostracised by the Jewish law, yet (he fear of punishment, be 1t ever 30 severe, did not or could not deter them from thetr evil and licentious Ways; and ali the acts and laws passed by Churcl? or State stnce relating thereto have fallen Wo the ground and become, as it were, null and voila, Now, no city is more pestered with these lepers of society than New York. They are here and we cannot get away from them; they are at liberty to seb up thelr ehrine of death and ruin where’er they list, and — there seems to be no power to prevent them. Now, Mr. Editor, if there 1s any place where they should be prevented from locating it 1s tn the neighoornood of any of our public schools. The purpose of tuis article is to call the attention of the Schoot Commissioners, the Common Councll, Legisiative Assembly, or whoever has any authority in the matter, and the parents of the children who 0 to Public Schoo! No, 10, on Wooster strect, be- ween Houston and Bleecker streets, to the fact that their children ave compelled datly to run a gauntlet of vice to receive the education that 1s to make them valuable citizens and virtuous men and women tn the future, Almost any one of those cnil- dren can stand in front of the school house and with a stone hit six houses of prostitution, and one of them & low saloon, where villains of the worst stamp are seen lounging at the door laughing at the coarse jests of the nymphs du pave or insultingly staring at the ladies who unfor- tunately have to pass that way. The boys of the school may come out comparatively scatileless, but it 1s the young girls who are most in danger. How many mothers know the danger their daughters are in who cannot afford to send them to anocher school! What can they dot Other schools are too far away; the time ts needed at home; so there is no remedy—they must be tempted by the gay dress and abandon of these angels of the devil. Ii they resist the allurements ana become virtnous and upright women, well and good, but {ff one falls, oh! Woe to that poor victim! Who among ail her friends and companions would take her by the hand and say, “Come, sin no moret’? I say, who would do it? There’s no reply. Tel! me who among those friends would notturn their back upon heror spurn her with her foot, ana waik on with the alr of one most foully injared? Do they ever think of the edu- cation that woman received while attending the public achool’ No; but iu their judgment she ts eternally damned. What is the remedy? “It is either to remove the school to another street or compel the landlords to eject the disreputable tenauts. Lf the former is done, what assurance is there that the school house will not be surrounded by such places again? None; so the only escape left ts tor the proper authorities to take the matter in hand and pass a law that no house of i-fame shall be allowed in the same block in which the schoolhouse stands, under asevere penalty, to fall upon the occupants of the house and the owner thereof, the property to be sold, if necessary, to secure the fine, &c.—all tines to go the benefit of the school, Although but one scnool is mentioned herein, this forms the rulo and uot the exception, especially inthe lower part of the city. ‘This matter should not be allowed to slumber, and hope the whole presa of New York will agitate tt until this monstrous evil be removed from the paths of the youth of our city. M,C. May 22, 1871, Decadence of Mauscoline Masners Toward Womn To THE Epiror or THE HekALy:— In a recent article In the HERALD, signed Frances Rose Mackiniey, that lady says the coarse- ness with which men treat women nowadays in public indicates a decadence in manuers and feel- ings from that high position of deference to the female which was the former reputation of this country. Does tt not strike you, Mr. Editor, and every other senstble man that it is the women who are degenerating from that modesty and refinement of feeling which characterized the woman of our country in our grandmother's Ume Woman may travel all over Alnerica without an escort if her passport be modesty and purity, Men not less chivalrous when they meet Woman to cail forth that feeling, She must first command respect, and can the men respect the majority of the women they meei now- adays? Can they respect the woman who so tar for- ets herself ag to make a perfect deformity of what sod made perfect? Can such women expect respect from a refined, high-toned man? Now, they are the class of women that complain of meeting insults from beasts aud brutes, as they term ihem “in some articies f£ have read in your m stages, iu cars and at hotel it 1s their deformity that men stare at, and if they did not return the stare they would not Know it, There are very few men, no Imatier how rough or uncultivated, who will not re+ spect a modest and weil-pred woman, and such women have no cause to complam. When a woman leaves her home, her children, and demands her Tights at the ballot box and to sit in the Presivential chair, I think the time has come when men must cease to respect her, A true, pure woman ts man’s equal, and will be respected as such nowadays, as in the days of old, and man, I believe, to be the first aud noblest work of Gou. M. LOWRY. The Social Evil Again-‘‘Belphegor” Replies gorously to “Herald seader.” To the Epirok oF THR HERALD:— “HERALD Reader," In your issue of last Sunday, attempts to reply tomy communication of May 6, aud says I “cannot show nine cases out of every hun- dred where females are driven to a life of shame through necessity.” Will she go and ask one hun- dred abandoned women who have children to sup- port what caused them toenter upon the life that they now lead? If she or any one elise will go among the poor creatures and ascertain, she and they will find that 1 am rgnt in my stutement—that they were driven to lead a life of prostitution or elise see their little ones starve to death, they (the mothers) well knowing that men would give five, ten and even twenty dollars for a few hours of their society, when they would only give flve cents tm charity to keep their littie ones from starvation. But some one may say 1 must be mistaken. I an- swer, I am not. I give facts, which are stubborn things, I know @ gentleman who is wealthy, but who will not give one cent in charity, even when he knows the oD ject 1s worthy; and yet I kaow that he goes frequently to certain houses and spends a few hours ‘with young ladies, and invariably gives the fair one whose society he enjoys twenty-five dollars at every visit. Again she says, “Better death than dishonor.” Wouid 1% be better for that mother to end her Itfe aud leave her little ones to suffer or lead a life of shame for a short time to feed them until she can better her condition’ And again she says, “There is plenty of employment to be obtained in this city to keep every femaie from the crime of prostitution or snicide.? [say there ts not. There are 30,000 workingwomen in tins city who receive wages of from two doliars to tweive dollars a week, and many of these have to pay from five to eight dollars a week rent for a furnished room where they can lay their weary heads ana their litle ones at night, and L ask, in the name of humanity, when 4 woman earns eight dollars @ week operating a sewing ma- chine from morning till night, and pays five dollars a week for rent of room—how, I ask, 18 she going to procure food for herself aud children on the balance of the etght dollars? if twenty years at housekeep- ing can tell how a woman can teed and clothe three or four on three doliars @ week and lead a virtuous life, 1 should, as well as thousands of others, like to have her inform us, and, if it can be decently done, thousands will bless her for the information. Again she asks ‘if I can find one of these Magdalenes who would be willing to take a situation in any capacity wiicre Jabor is required: &c. T answer yes. 1 can find seventy-five out of every hundred who are ready and willing to do anything houest, even honsework, winereny they can earn & living; but I ask her, Who will give these poor Women that have little ones to care for a situation at housework? Will “HERALD Reader’? give one of thom who has @ young child a situation in her family’ She speaks of lanndresses, cham- bermaias and nurses, and asks where cant “find ‘one of the iandsome Magdalenes Who will take the position?” J answer that I can find hundreds of ‘women in this city who are now “selling their souls to whoever will buy’ who would willingly accept of any of the sttdaitons and do the work assigned to them to the best of their ability for the sake of a home where they could have good, Wholesome food and suitable clothine—many of them now having only one meal a day and only the clothes that they have on their back, and would even be glad to have even an etgit-ceut calico dress for a change. Sho also says—"Thore cannot be one word spoken In detence or in justification of such @ life, It is out of chotce and nothing etse.”? oT ask, Does ® womaa of education and refinement usually enter upon o life of prostitution from choice * 1 think not, as 1 know @ great many women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five who have children to support who privately enter into @ secret alliance, solely out of necessity, to keep their little ones from crying tor bread, mae if they could earn enough otherwise to provide for their little famules, would gladly lead virtuous lives, many of these poor Women being members of some Obristian Churen and pass as highly respe do not write aa one who upholds prostitatior do ask and say that those who are guilty of this very sin should not cry the loudest against it, but that they should show a Iittic more charity, true charity, toward the poor, sufering creatures. Again, in reference to she lady who was offered twenty dollars a week y play sa ee ueaetaine m, si “Would it no’ 01 maa ee hadi aes, 1 L way * * than to earn tt on the street 1’ and sa, she seea very Little duference between “8, 187L-QUADRUPLE SHEET. the concert saloon and some theatres.” I ask, | araws him Into one commen life-giving atmonpters, ta a ie she know what these underground “concert ba po A WG apse) yj from saloons” are? I will tell her. ‘hey are ove kind of ~ ba fs excin houses of ili-fame, aud every female In them ts eX- | Pruatton ona harika be'the tenchae It pected to dispen juvors to any or every f se male who y enver the place and take a | tem, whi faucy to her, and if she refuses to sub- | and'know! mit her person to him, she 1s dismissed and her | completely » ach leaching uust suilice rit one of the gi it calamities, the many authorities quoted by Dellinger ‘hureh and Churches,” published tu idl, are the two great American scholars, the Inve Pr 10, Kenrick, and h's snecessor, Spalding, Huber's “Janus, published in Berlin tn sé hat the tule, at least, of the recent work t¥ not A CATHOLIC. place filed by others, she a gest that whenever those creatures are found on the | streets ab nighe siey be s to the isiand for three | years instead of three mouitis.’? Would that be right | and just, to sea! these ¢ ers ou the nd, where | they Wonld receive no benetity Who would take | care of their iittle ones’ Could they have them at | o ays, “i Would sug- the workhou Would the island’ jodate | original. the thousands who would thus be sent there ! - = Again T say taat « tune, which could The Presevt Generation of [sraclites. by subseription aad partly appropriauon, for the | To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: parpose of assixting those who have familtes to pro- In your edition of last Saturday week you have vide for, would prevent (housauds from entering or jaging¢ 2 iirst Ktep toward leading o lite of shame, | the sermou delivered by Dr. Gutheim on “Sacri- here are thousands of doilars given to missionary, | fices,") which, to every lover of rel be tract and other soeieties in this City every year Which oA elabeet any 2) do but very littie wood, Oue-hall of these thon. | SUOWS that the present generation of Israelites do sands, if given to thistund and rightly distribuied | Not hold themselves bound to follow precepts occasionally, a8 heeded by the poor creatures, Would | carried out in old 1 ‘| » libel do ten times the amount of good that it now doe Olden times and which the liberal mind of Moses couid not abolish after having taken Tor misstonaries and their tracts are gene- rally laughed at the moment the missionaries’ { deep root tn She heart of nations for so many years. Hundreds of years before Christ @ leathen came to backs are turned, and 1 could cite cases where visits from missionaries have rather done harm than | Rabbi Hillel and asked him to teach hin our whole oo, Tnave tus wrilien plainly that all may ut law while he stood on one foot. Ravbt Hillel derstand, rather dealing in tacts that I have wit- | answered him, “Love thy neighbor as thyself—all neased, than take as truth what some one, Mr. So- | other things are by laws.” In conformity with Us we abolish everything tnat ts untit for the century in and-So, said about this and that. In conclusion, I will say that the only true way to | Which we live, the same as the sacrifice of slavery prevent and persuade Women from leading a iife of | bas been abolished in the United States, shame ts to provide a fund t sist them-—not to | Your correspondent, C. H. H., administers Jead a hfe of idieuess and ease—but when they are | & severe reproof to Dr, Gutheim — for bis liberal expressions on the subject. He says tne Jews do not believe that Crist has wiped away with His own blood all the sacrifices and sins of the world. For this reason we cannot abolisn the same, striving to earn an honest living for themselves and those who are dear to them, lend them a helping hand, All that 1s required to start the good work ts true men and women, and money. “Ah! that’s the rub—mouey!” ©, thou potential elowent of good—of abject slavery! ‘Necessary evil!’ When, oh, when will “the fates” more equally distribute thy “winning suities?”” When make thee only a ser- vant of highest, broadest, noblest ones, instead of Master of all scilish emotions’ angels, hasten the day of the world’s release from bondage to thy ma- terialistic behests, O Money 1 BELPHEGOR. 1 would ask the learned gentleman if sacrifices have What namo been avolished among the Christians. does he give to the thousands of by the Inquisition? Are they ritices? Were the thousands ana thousands slaughtered by religious prejudice in the seven and thirty years’ wars among the sects of Christians— were they anything else but sacrifices? Even the last war between Protestant Germany and Catholic France, were they spying else Dut outrageous sacrifices in the eyes of God und men—asking Christ's assistance to destroy each other? We have abolished swcrifices; but our Christian frends have made improvements. ‘They sacrifice those of whom God sald, “In my likeness have 1 oreated man.” If itis true, us Mr. C. H. H. said, that we have no city of our own, we are liberal; we consider part of the whole earth ours, as well as heaven above, and, eee tw our religion, every honest man is ad- Have our Christian friends followed the example of Him who satd, ‘Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." N. GROSSMAYEK, A Squabble Among the fctticoats. To vHe Koiror oF THE HERALD: The Explorations in Pniestiue. To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— In your article of this moruing upon "Explora- tions in Palestine," founded on Dr. Crosby's lecture of Sunday last, you arrive at the conclusion, as re- gards the inscription on the Moabitish stone, that it 1s entirely coniirmatory of biblical account. Allow me to point out to you that itis, on the contrary, totally at variance with the same, except in the atatement that Moab had been oppressed for forty years by Omriand hisson Ahan, Kings of Israel, The inscription deciares that subsequent to'that period King Mesha had liberated ins country, de- stroying the cities of Israel, killing the inhabitants, and carrying away the vessels of Jehovah, And out Of gratitude to Kemosn for ‘this deliverance | _ 1 the columns of yesterday's (May 21) paper I ob- the stone was raised. ‘The Bible, on the | Served a communication under the head of “Views contrary, saya King Mesha having | of a Sensible Woman.” May I ask if rebelled, the Pings of Israel, Judah and Eaom joimed ae wm, Uf abe) cliarac: terlzes herself thus? or ts it a compliment your gal- lantry suggests ? She 1s evidently a novice as a newspaper contributor, and relies upon your favor rather than justice for the acceptance of her article. A3 she expresses an earnest desire for tuformation regurding the morality of strong-mindea women, [, as one of that class, am pleayed to enlighten her. She singies one woman from hundreds, asking if she be a type of all. Ia true American fashion { will reply vy asking if it would bo just to take any one man as an example for the whole sex? I think not, and, 43 a woman. denounce such narrow judgment. Mang good, noble men would object to being judged by or held accountaole for the vices of their brother meu. We live in an age of progression, and look to the future, not pust, forexamples. “That as civi- Iaation advances all that 1s good or modest Must take a back seat. On the contrary, we pur- pose bringing it all Lo the front, making that purity tell in public life which 1s so prized at home and which should be required everywhere. She ‘desires to Know if any good can come to our fallen sisters and pour, overworked women by the advocacy of Women's rights."* 1 answer, conscicntlousty, Yes, much good.’ Wheo women are sell-relant, sel sustalning, self-protecting, there will be no uusertu- nates, and insults and murder, such as recently shocked aud disgraced our city, will be unknown. And when working women bave the ballot, which wii open new avenues to labor with reapectable re- Tiuneration, We shail not pave suifermg, starving cougtiess thousands. It is for Working wolnen we ask the ballot You, in comtortabie, luxurious homes, With kind husbands, do nol aeced this power, ‘ftw they who suifer for it; and it is for them and also our “self advaucement’’ we are woraing, I think NHobrise Without doing good by example, if not personal jufuen She “hopes it will never be.’ There will be Lo compulsory iaw, hone exists now; the matier is optional, God has bestowed the in- alienable right of suffrage upon every citizen. We are citizens—iaw-abiding, tax-paying; we are ac- knowledged as such Wheu the assessor calls. She is evidently not a working Woman nor has she given the power oi tne ballot a consideration, She uncon- sciously proves the adage ale quotes—*Woman's worst enciny 18 herself’—*‘when I see a man drunk before condemning him I want to see his home, see if the wife has done her duty.” Does she seek out the sorrow or investigate the cause of a eister’s fail? A wife’s failure in auty does not excuse a iiusoand’s sin. “She is evidently not a sufferer through intem- perance else she might understand that ‘moral weakoess,’ not domestic afliction, causes men or women ‘o drink.” Women generally de- vole theic ilfe to charity and good deeds if disuppointed or deceived. Not so with men; they seek consolation In the cup that desiroys and receive pity aud exteauation irom a “sensible woman.’ She assumes all women to have homes, which be- trays a want of statistical knowledge. The pure and good need not fear contaminavion, Our Saviour's example Wad @ beautiful Hiustrauion of that prin- cipie. She assumes the position of law dispenser, “which utterly unsexes her and makes her ridicu- lous.” We have no aspirations to become men, pre- ferring to be good, strong women, capable wives, nobie, competent mothers and general enforcers of their armies, and. upon the advice and prediction of success of the prophet Elisha, fought King Mesia, whom they utterly routed. Upon what authority Dr. Crosby makes the statement that three or tour Years after the Moabite victories recorded on the Stone King Mesha was reconquered by Ouri, a usur- per of the tnroue of Israel, | am at a loss to com. pretend. I have dtligently searched the Bible, and can in it only discover one Omri, who certainly was a usurper (I Kings xvi., 16) but is not this the very Omrt mentioned in the iscripuon, the father of Ahab, and grandfather of that King of Is- rael (Jehoran) who, according to If Kings iib, fought against the rebellious King Mesha? Of an- other King Omri, also a usurper, I ind nowhere mention made, nor can 1 make out whence Dr. Crosby derives the three or four years ag having elapsed between the defeat and the victory of the Israelites, It would, vurse, be highly satisfucto- ry if the two records wi tound really and without eyuivocation to agree; but if not, what harm is there to pure Christianity? What prevents us from preserving our faith im our own version and pronouncing the other tncorrect? But what is far more apt to do injury to and weaken faith 1s the well meant attempt, 80 often indulged in by a kind of spectal pleading W ‘Jorce mto religions proofs what Is contrary io plain, unsophisticated reasoning, as well as to evidence. Far be it from me to maintain that Dr. Crosby's explanation 1s 01 (his natare. All [ wish ta io be lightened on the subj and, Wf mistaken, cort lamy views. New Youx, May 23, 1871. Swedenborg and Spirituatin To THE EpiroR oF THE HERALo:— Tn last Sunday’s tssue of the Heranp L[ noticed a communication from one who sins himself “Reader,” wishing to Know the difference between Swedenborgtanism and Spiritualism. Keing of the Swedenborgtan faith myself 1 ask of you room in yeur valuable paper for the following very brief ex- planation:—The Sacred Scriptures or Word of God torbid seeking intercourse with spirits, and Emanvel Swedenborg waches that such uitercourse is dan- erous, because it mterferes with man's freedom. Swedenborg teaches and Swedenborgians believe in the sole and supreme divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Sacred Seriptures are divine — that is, His Word, S$piritualists deny the divinity of the Lord and His Word, and rely wholly on the teachings (rom spirtis. ‘There may be exceptions, butif there are they are probably very few, and they must be of those who are unwilling Lo give up their confidence in the Scriptures as divine, and are hot wholly given up to the influence of spirits. If “Reader” fecia interested enough for rurther information I would refer him to either of two valuable but inexpensive works—one on ““Spiritual- ism,” by the Rev. Wm. #. Hayden, and the other on “Death and Life,” by Mrs. Ware, both of whom are Swedenborgians. The books can be obtained at any Swedeuborgian publisiung house. s Sock-Dollingers. ‘fo THE EpITOR OF THe HERALD: — “ ” . morailiy, charity, tefaperance, virtue, modesty and Aa the so-called “Evangelical” newavaper editors advan ent. E. ENNIN have suddenly been “converted’’ to an inordinate re —_ admiration of Dr. Dillinger, whose writings inde-| A Werd to the Stone Throwers at Mrs. Weodbuli. ‘To THE EDITOR OF TAR HERALD:— “Hypocrisy is the tribute pald by vice to virtue.’ What an epitome of the morals of tne so-called con- servators of the social organization! O Purttanical hypocrites! Phartsatcal Christians! Religionist worldlings ! . What @ precious sham this 1s you have batit up inthe name of God and morality! How unlike it is to any brotherhood or society hinted at in tne teachings of Him you pretend to serve! Where can you find any law of God that forbids the man who divorces his wife or the wife who divorces her husband from giving them shelter and support if it so chance tuat they are not able to care honestly for themselves? Where in that law you profess to abide by do you find any sanction tor your demand that the injured wife should huat the man who has made ner sorrow, but is still the father of her children, from her home and pursue him with the bloodthirstiness of the sleuth Round ? The tlendish be oo of your teachings nas no warrant in the Christian law of love, and has too long cursed oar civilization by allowing men to hunt erring wives—who, after all, in nine cas of ten, are more sinned against than stoning. fence of the Church they entirely ignore, I would invite their attention to a few extracts from his celebrated work, “Church and Churches,” which would do much to enlighten thelr readers, tf they were put berore them. The man who wrote that book, how much soever he may kick against the traces of authority in the Church, can never belong to any of the sects which he regards with so much mantiest contempt, and he shows very conclusively that neither the Lutheran, Anglican nor the Greek Charch ts anyUung more than a mere national or State church. The attempt of the petty poventate of Bavaria to establish now a similar State religion ts also Well rebuked in this book. Thus, speaking of the efforts of Fichte and Rothe to form a charch which would be a union of the Catholic and Pro- testant—to be called tue Church of St. Joha—he derisively says, page 320:— As to the budding forth of a church in the State, it must be a future church of @ pecu tution—In tact, nothing less than a universal Btate { But when an attempt in made to impart a corporeal form to this shadow of x future church, then are the ideologiats found to evaporate fn gmapty phrases, or they picture forth « modern milienninm, and ernit a cluster of hopes aud ® swarm of wi bright, britifant, fagacious and volattie as butterfies, and in whose | every chance of gaining what you are pleased to in the simple Curistian will place as little faith as any | call a virtuous livelihood, and force them tnto the ry Osher human Delig in his sober senses, Here is a sock-Déliinger for men who appeal to the “analytical treatment of history’ tn opposition to the authority of the Church of God ip. 81): ‘The Christian soclal elements and principles are thote by which marriage, the f eniidhood, and the foun civii order are fortified anu consecrated. The soci of neighborly love, industry, chastity and teraperan very ways Which, in your seli-righteous assumption, you call the ways of sin, I¢istime that @ woman should teach you mercy and magnantinity and decency. It ‘Is time that a woman should teach you that such @ price ts too great to pay for the conserving of the rotien thing you are fain to call ‘virtuous society.” Condemued be such # society into which the spirit that Jesus of have become Christian Virtues, ahd with them is bou Nazareth showed is not pérmitted to enter. Con- es relation of the civil power fone snbject ey al dewined be a society that does not endorse one of uuilt upon one sanctitied basi must be maintained | the noblest deeds & Woman has done in all history at ali cost by every State which desires to continue in exiat- ence. Every Staie must be prepared with a negation, if fhere is reqiired from It—auis how frequently doke, by an Sppeal to the ‘freelom of solence™—to yield up such things to the assaults of “the ectentific,” and of thelr dertructive couched under the name of » ‘materialist orof a “critical, anaiytical treatment of ly & soul great and magnanimous, fashioned in God-like way, ana free from the fanati- cism of a false religion, could perform. “UO genera. ton of vipers! Thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together asa hen aathereth ber chickens under Ler wings and ye theory of nature,’ history.”” Here {3 soothing syrup for sickly sentimental ” “Give not tuat which 19 Nol, sectarian preachers und ‘evangelical’ editors, p. bho P+ diene nolther cast yo pearis be 232:— fore swine, ‘lest they turn’ again and rend you.’ Ye serpents, ye vipers, how can nnaion of hell? you escape the a: Woe unto you Serives and Pharisees, by rites! for ye shat ap the kingdom of Heaven against men; neither go in yourselves, neither suifer ye (hem that are entering to go im. Verily I say unto you, the pubdiicans and the harlots go into the Kingdom before you |" Here, you couservatives, who drag a woman before you to answer for & most Christian charity at your tribunals, is your record written tu the Book Whose teachings yoit have been for nearly nine nding to folow. Tike the swine which reate the whoie theory of “revivais.”” ‘The man who is Juetiled by mere faith and the imputation of the righteous ess of Curist ie conscious of the fact with iafallivie cer- taluty, He hak an “experience” of his conversioa or of be- Ing taken into a state of grace, and can moment of his pasange from death to life. have, therefore, arranged their “conversions” {a a very busi- nese-like manuer. Several preachers and laymen enter into &@ partnership and in to operate upon an asudi- | Centuries pre’ oe 8D pnd to seudiiee ee clari By jong con. | the dogs you are, and verily, bat the Lord, “Har and exciting aj by stormy ates 10 e efore you" Widnal Brmbe wie ively, rading witsr lots shatl enter tue King dou Oo! ee ro, by 4, by cats, with dreadful descriptions ‘of the worments of ‘heir; by entreaties, supplications and passionate apostrophes, mea and women’ are so worked upon that they become eventually prosirated, ‘The mental and bodily exhaustion to which women especially are reduced by such means pro- tate, In which they feel everything they are Attacks of bodily iliness and involuntary exclamations pass for pledges of grace, and certain the old man.” The state of complete Methodist Charch, Dedication, To-day St. Jon's Metnoalst Episcopal churgh, wn West Fifty-third street, will be dedicated,by Bishoo Janes, who will preach in the morning, , Dr. Fowler, of Chicago, will. preach m the afterndon, and Dr. Eady, of Baltimore, tn the evening, The church is o “ Byte ia , deen so far worked upon a one of the handsomest, and, withal, the cheapest bialter “is. decided-—he has” yielded hime tool” the } puiit in thecity. The ground and bullling are valued race; and immediately afver that he must, accord. | at $100,008, The mason and wood work lave n ‘ag to the prescribed rue, feel himself completely and won- | done hy mormberg of the churen, sud in the very cerfully refreshed and relieved, and he is forthwith eviidgec as @ convert and as a “inember of tne church.” Bealles vue jown “revivals,” there are also camp meetings, which nary mn set on fi alae ethodiats. Many of those “cos- aint pe aunt ORLA AT cg t best as Well as the very cheapest manver possible. The exterior front 1s fiuistied i Belleville brown stows and Ollo freestone in the Norman-Doric style of architecture, and the interior ts Mnisied tm be native Woods, such a8 birdseye maple, Diack Wal- nut aod chestnut, and the elect ts excecdiagly pleasing. Galleries run all round tie churen, unsap- ported by pillars, thus allowing a iwil view o the preacner from every part of the house. The choir and organ are placed in te rear of the pulpit. Phe verte Methodist preachers are wi ture, and real biblical Knowledge ts not to be thowr, among them. They are amply provided for it they b good number of texts at command. Many of 1 been mechantes, who happened to show some speech ; they were then, ‘ter a short tratntn, horse then further promoted to be prea’ sors. : MO. oe. the mind, ae Colton ‘acknowier, on audience room 13 lighted by two reilectors Irom the siaved by the machinery of ‘revivals’ false “suscience is | celling, Great care has been taken th seonilag ine created and ncouragedy and the whole intelle: <dalandimoral | {aost “pericct ventilation, and tke gcousite Proper- bag nang “1 cole barista hal tles of the house are admirable. The Ciass rooms ariors are large and alry,and the nished with all the neces for social entertanients, tale years. ncn Here is a tribute to our boasted goiitical public schoois:— sna infin, tdodrpornes Won wih oul "hy"bopkes tod and reception ohurch mt Ms vary app! wich Lave of 13 | features among Cliristian congregations. Tae urch {8 the outgrowth of a mission @ A few years agoin an old fram ut by tie Baptists, and th from a handful to 130, The Saobatie so Hombers over two handred children. The church building and furnishing Cost $40,000. ei A. 1), Vail is the pastor, The ehuren wilt mauntained asa free chireh ongtng to it will be allowed to select thelr OWD F Which Will alWays be preserved for them. Meeting of the So vy of Friends, ‘The select annual meeting of ministers and elders of the Society of Friends was held yesterday morne | | ing in the Rutherfurd place meeting 13 attended by the wou eting hor men, aud there was a3 large an attendance former aa of the latter. Ministers aud eiders from various meetings throughout the counuy were present, meluding George Trueman, Wiliam Dorsey and Winam Wharton, from Philadelphia; James Haynes, from unio; Sarah Hunt, from Morristown, N. J.. and others from Baltimore. George Macey 1s clerk of the convention, tne pur- pose of which was to ingutre after the state of afairs among the Friends. Six queries w pet and answered as to whether they tad given encourage- ment to such of the brethren as need it, and admou- ished those who did wrong. This morning @ public meeting for social worship Will be heid, RELIGIOUS NOTZS—PERSOVAL AND GEYERAL. vy. James McDougall, Jr., has been called to the ‘byterian church at Babylon, Long Island, About one hundred ciergymen and many laymen have united in the addresa of sympathy sent to the Rev, Mr. Cheney, Tho North chureh tn Portsmouth, N. H., are to celebrate their two hundredth anniversary July 19 and 20, and Invite back all former members of the church or parish, The Church of the Disofples, Unttarian, Poston, Rev. James Freeman Clarke pastor, 13 conducted om the {ree-seat principle, but its financial condition reported excellent, The receipts last year were Dr. EB. De Pressensé, the eminent Protestans clergyman of Paris, who raised his volce to protest against the persecution of the Catholic priests. by the Commune, bas been im danger of arieat and imprisonment. The first Sabbath evening of this month all the Evangelical Protestant congregations of Buifalo— save the Episcopal olrse—assembled in the Central church to hear the clatins of the Americam and Foreign Christian Union presented. At least 1,600 were present. Franklin College, at New Athens, Ohlo, which has been in a state of suspended animation, ia doing what Mra, Dombey could not do—muking an effort. Professor Andrew F. Ross, tormerly connected witt the institution, las been inaugurated president aud where ise revival of interest in the mstituuon among riends. The Church in Clinton, N, Y., have been greatiy blessed under the faithful labors of their estecmed pastor, Rev, B. Hudson, Thirty-tive nave bean added to ite membership since the beginning of the Year, a part of the fruit of that blessed revival with which the Church was visited in the winter and ourly spring. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. The Unity ef the Decalogue Designed te Secure the Unity of the Human Raco—Pen- tecostal Flowers and Beauty—Sermon by Dr. H. Vidaver. The annual feast of Pentecost was celebrated tm all the synagogues of this city yesterday and Friday with great ¢clat, The orthodox ovserve the two days of the feast, the reformers but one. The floral display in the Temple and in the Thirty-fourth street synagogue was grand and the congregations in cach looked as blooming and happy as the flowers of the Meld before them. Tne congregations also were larger than usnal- and on Friday confirma- tions were held tn all the synagogues. On Friday Dr. Vidaver confirmed ao class of seventeen young persons, whom he addressed upon the new obliga tions and religious duties which they had assumed. He also addressed the large congregation. A yout. and @ iniss, members of the class, then offered prayer, and the devotional simplicity of the young lady moved many of the congregation to tears. It was a beautiful and affecting scone. Yesteraay the feast being continued by the ortno- dox instead of the regular portion of the law, thas which relates to the ordinance of the Pentecostal feast was read, and Dr. Vidaver subsequently ai coursed to his peuple upon tas CHARACTERISTIC UNITY OF THE DECALOGUE and its purpose to unite the human fauuy ia one brotherhood. His text was taken from Isaiah Ii., 16—"And I have put my words in thy moutn and covered thee with my commandments to plant tae heavens.and to estaniish the earth.” We are now, the Doctor sald, celebrating Israci’s most importaut festival, tor it commemorates the greatest event in Jewish history and the most glorious epoch in the annals of mankind. It commemorates, so to speak, the spiritual birth of the universe. To-day about 3,500 years ago the invisible Creator of the heavens and earth called again into chaos and said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And this light snone over the biessed hill of Sinai on the 10th day of the fftn month, and cleared away the moral mists which until then had veiled the glory of the Invisible God from the eyes and the minds of men. The deca- logue revealed from Sinal’s shining mount was like vhe brilitant orb of day risiug in the Bast, but sead- Ing the golden rays into the must distant parts of the earth. For the first time the finite was mitted and enabled to granp eae. lufluite; for tue firas time the Holy Oue, with His laws and government and purposes, Was brought within the comprenen- ston of His creatures, God spake aud mau beard and understood. And there, on Horeb’s biessed ud-crowned hill, man was taught that while ke ‘duat to dust,” he 18 also A CHILD OF HEAVEN, the gon of a Heavenly Father whose laws aro love, and they command obedience, resisiance to evil, vy which 1s secured true felicity to the individual aad to society. There, from Sinal’s smoking summit mas ‘Was first taught that he couid and should rise irom the low plane of his existence and climb the lotty hill of holiness and incline his ear to hear the words of tho Holy One speaking to him and within. him. There, too, he was first taughé that he is the link which binds earth to heaven; the keystone of the universal arch, and that in obedience to God's laws man acquires that grandest of all tities—a manly mai Israel was mercifully chosen by the Most High aa His sacred shrine, in which to deposit His gicrious law, and His messengers to carry the light and blessing of that law into the dark abodes and iearta of all God's children, and thus to falfil their destiny, which, according to the words of the prophet Isuiak. in our text, if to plant the heavens and to lay the foundations of the earth. The Doctor then discoursed separately upon the fen Commandmen:s, and Pointed ont how the first table was designed. to Plant the heavens IN THR HEARTS OF MEN, to raise the human soul up to the lughest pinnacle of spiritual glory, and to secure hiua heavenly itzhe, heavenly food and heave: faith, Until then the blind and cruel tyrant Fate heil despotic sway among men, and the basest passions of our nature were concreted and worshipped 45 gods. And it 1 absurd to expect mankind to rise ligher than, its own conception of God. What nation of ant.quity ever rose to the glorious ~~ convepsiou of the true Goa a3 the noliest, — su. limest and most perfect One in whom all exceliences oi wisdom and Knowledge and love nd power are combined in an tniluite degree? There is not one of them which had the remotes’ lea of God as He Is revealed to us int WCMORUC. Egypt, with all ts learning and art and wealth and power, worsnipped the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. And even Hellas, the gr Phioses pher, knew nothing of the soul, saving coucepuiom of the invisible Holy One. But the DARKNESS OF IDOLATRY WAS. DIS?’ by the light of faith revealed on Sinat Adonai—the Holy One—rang out loud anc: ciear from the mounsain’s side, Lam alone thy God, the sole sovereign of all realms and ail beings, Away, thea, with blind fate. Break your idois and cast them to the moles and to the bats; destvoy your altars of error, vice aud crime. Banish imjas and slavery from your midst, for | am the.God which brougit you ous of Egypt, from the bouse of bondage, and [love justice and Aberty, Fall apo thy knees an’ Know that there ts a God who hears thea, @ Providence which guards thee, a weaven above destined for thee, ala an ange of the Covenant to guide tuee safey Luere. Lf you break or take one of those tables away you weave mankind im the dust. They are thsepersbie, and as long as Uhey remain they biess and elevate humanity, The drst plants the heayeus or brings God near to the hearts of men. The second estab- lishes the Carte by showing mea tueir dary to eaca ether, Remove or destroy this and you upset so- ciety and turn EVBRY MAN'S HAND AGAINST IS BROIL deluge our earth with blood andidestroy “4 image from beneath the heaveus This tole tells us to respect lite and all that appertans to it. It imeuicates chastity, domesuce purity and virtue, and he thanked (ic ‘of chastity of the women of Is than that of any other atic we ay in vance of all others. Dalida, Keu Israel had—namely, tho ty uniiy of God—aad tis was (he basis of ail their greatness. and purty and power, Without 3 fet wa the spirit of jastice and love of God the human heart wiil not be moved, but will rouiain Cold as Bm tee~ berg. Touching upon tho atheistic sentimends ¢ ‘ prosent, Dr. Vidaver mosisted thal, however erudite 4nd polished he may be, AN ATHEIST CANNOT BB A MORAL MAN. This virtue must come from Pod. Ae cued ta case of Rav red ton editorial “4a the lending journal anicy4—the ed in substance that thry most tacellg the grandest intellect of tly world, 18 DUL a Wreeks without God, The Doctor thanked God for tay made Isracd the repository of His words, and upon bis wearers the Guty of spreadmy tio Knows loda® of God more Widely among men, aod civ ed with, an earns prayer for the vive Livustug va deci @ t P% sermon.