The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1871, Page 8

RELIGIOU Flashes of Gospel Truth, Flashes of Summer Lightning and the Descent of Heavy Rain, Five Thousand of the Faithful | in a Thunder Storm. A Powerful Sermon by Mr. Beecher on the Pleasantness and Profitableness of Pain. Peace and the Joint High Commission— Prevarication and White Ly- ing Rebuked. Sunday Services and Sermons in the Metropolis, Brooklyn and Washington—Pon and Pencil Sketche; of the Proceedings. Religious ardor and the discipline of the habit Of church-going obtained the victory yesterday. ‘Though the clouds were shaded witn sombre and black-tinted shadows, that threatened thunderjstorms and heavy rain, the churches were well filled with congregations of worshippers and auditors who observed all the outside observances of Sab- bath-keening with a well-bred respect, The ladies Were attired in all the gauze and glory of the latest styles in dry goods, and wore their well seiectea Giothing with a meekness of expression that would deceive the unwary into the belief that all their thought was upon things celestial and was far away from things so terrestrial as trailing skirts. The Preachers who preached long sermons in the morn- img landed their congregations in a storm that jeopardized a continuance of tne gloss and newness of the feminine attire of their female hearers, and we are afraid did not improve their tempers. The discourses of the day were distioguishea by great practicalness of statement and also by those characteristics which the orthodox would designate as “truly evangelical.” The life and teachings of our Lord were the burden of nearly all the pulpit utterances, and the “story of the cross’ seemed to have its old attractiveness for those who are fascinated by dwelling on its memories. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. ‘What Men Lack for Salvation—God’s Good- ness and Love—Man’s Forget{ulness—Advice to the Prodigals—Sermon by the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr. Holy, Trinity church, corner of Madison avenue ‘nd Forty-second street, was yesterday morning orowded with a HIGHLY PASHIONABLE CONGREGATION. ‘Though the skies might have given reason to church goers for coubt about a continuance of sun- ebine, and ominously were curtalned with heavy clouds, yet the ladies appeared in summer garments, as if to impress upon the stern clerk of the weather that, no matter what might be the humor upon him, they at least were bound to respect the glorious month of June and bedeck themseives tn ligut and graceful gear accordingly. Piobably one reason for tne very large attendance at this church yestetday was the statement in the papers for some ays past as to the dimiculty in which the Rev. Mr. ‘Tyng, Jr., had got himself on account of heterodox doctrine recently preached by him; and that he was Ww read during the service the letter it was said he had received from Bishop Potter on that subject. But those who came to church prepared to enjoy THIS RELIGIOUS SENSATION were very bitverly disappointed; for the reverend gentleman never once alluded to anything personal to himself, read no letter from Bishop Potter, and, im fact, simply preacned a very edifying discourse, Which was rather more calculated to serve the souls of the black sheep of his audience than to fan the @pirit of the world into a lively religious excitement BEGOTTEN POR IRRELIGIOUS SCANDAL. Probably the preacher was himself aware of the anxiety that was rife among the congregation in Fefecence to his supposed “new departure;”’ but if he were aware of it he did not in the least manifest apy symptoms of uneasiness, but prayed very de- vouuly for all the world. Besides, he was very busy yesterday, as there Was an “opening” at Yorkville of the branch chapel of the church, in which he Bimsel{ preached’in the afternoon, and his father, the Rev, Dr. Tyng, in the evening. After the usual exercises tbe Rev, Mr. Tyng preached, takyng his text from Mark x., 21—“One thing thou lackest."’ What is this one thing laeking which 1s reatiy the one thing needful in the soul's search for spiritual partnersuip in eternal life? First of all, 1t1s not a defect in the Gospel title to fe, That isecmplete. It stands with THE GREAT SEAL OF GOD'S LOVE. Its transmiited tous through te only begotten love. It ts deeded to us, again, who are ransomed from bondage to sin and made freedmen through the blood of Christ. As for the Lord, His work 18 erfect. No aw can you find in the tastrument to Which his unchangeable fidelity ts pledged. Beyond all price, it 13 a gilt to those who are rescued from capuvity, that ihey may have an inhcritance in it. So Jesus brings the property to us and redeems us, that We may receive it, You may contemplate the true of Ii! #4 the abiding evidence of God's longing W hold the race in everlasting allegiance, There in God's purpose it stood, aud stands forever. Man, for uisovedience, Was driven from it, Listentug to THE TEMPTE! TURY he lost interest 19 the Divine pian, Ana it was as Ipuch a part of bis own alicnation from God, as of Goa’s just hutrea of win that he Med irom whe shacow of its comforung shade. Yet God's love still longed to open the gates of life. ut while the purpose which decreed the covenant cannot be al- tered, surely the condition exacted of man cannot be changed. A spotiess obedience 1s THE CONDITION OF THE COVENANT. Siocerity is Lot enough. HLarnestness of desire will notsudce, Nay, the soul which would enter life Must be b.amvless in tae Fight of that God before whom THE VERY MAVENS ARE UNCLEAN, and who chargeth His angels with foily. on Not lack all things for the tnhemtance of eternal fe” Your desire to live sinks into despair. The requirement of the coveuant, obedience, cannot be | cauceiled, and yet youcun never retain it. But do not forget the unchaugeableness of God's love. He does not desire your death. Yet he cannot deny th if. How then shail this awful chasm be bridged? Divine grace interposes with effectual provision. Justice accepts and Mercy provides a Substiute who will contiuue 1M all things written in ‘the Book of the Law to do them and merit for you eternal You have studied the great seal of Divine love. Now, see THE FIRST LINE OF ENTAIL = bologna iis ieerians is trausmitted. There is | jothing lacking here. God has give! ete Ife, aud this ife is in on. if Wetserit ol Why do His son. If the merit of | Jesus 18 not infinite; if we character of | Jesus Was Not spotless; if tne obedi- euce of Jesus is not irreproacuiabie then | there 1s no hope for man, Mau can never have & Tight to the tree OF lie, save as it $s ministered to | duin by that Divine Saviour, who ts heir o: all things, | who has ascended on high, having ted capuvyity captive to give such gifts 10 men; Ne who from the poverty of Nazareth vo tue griefof Getisermane was ever about the Father's business, bringing back to God ESTRANGED CHILDREN, bringing back to men a loving, longing God. What 48 the Whole imoisiry Of the Gracious Spirit but a gradual and growing revelation of the things which are freely given you of God and @ tender tncliaation Of your hearts to the acceptance of blessings so free. Is it not true that Jesus loves you and longs to ep- dow you With His ubsearciabie riches ? Belotd how every promise is a deed.of the inheritance. “Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy Jaden.” Ail | things are yours if ye are Christ's, But you must | pel beside the remains of Sara TAKE THEM WITH AN EMITY HAND: all the after graces you receive bring something to Christ—love, a grate.ul heart, repentance, a bived- ing heart, obedience, a working will; but faith 1s known by ite empituess; aod faith ts the haud by Which you apprekend the righteousness of Chriet. Surely al! things are ready. Notuing ts lacking in the title which, originating tm Divine love, is eniaed through Jesus w ail those who beiong to hun. What, then, ts this one thing lacking? WHERE 18 THE DEFECT? Why are not all to-day rejoicing in the assurance of this reserved inhertiance’ The deficiency is not in God's plan of grace, but in your own rebellious hearts. ‘There is in the Father's house bread enough | @nd to spare, but the prodigal will not return, Tius NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1871.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. the trouble. And Iam commissioned this morn- to encourage you to trust in that which 18 80 true—to enjoy that which ts this moment yours. ‘The reverend preacher then went on to speak of faith, and to point out how great are the results to the soul from trasi in God—contrasting the apathy of the sinner with the longing desire of Christ for the fulbiment of his promises to wan. CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. Laying the Coraor Stone of the New Roman Catholic Churoh by Archbishop MeClosiey— Five Thousand of the Faliuful inthe Rain— Horses Killed by German Music, Many anxious Catholic eyes im Teutonic heads, in the neighborhood of West Thirty-first street, near Eighth avenue, were turned te the cloudy sky yes- terday afternoon, pen alr ceremonies and rain are declared enemies, and as the darx clouds sen’ down their aqucous torrents many thought that the ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new German charch would be postponed. This, how- ever, Was not the case; for the various German so- cletios began arriving, and the Archbishop himself, accompanied by the Vicar General, drove up in a carriage. The new church will be directed by Father Bo- naventura, of THE ORDER OF CAPUCINS, and will be ministered by fathers of the same Order. ‘fhe church, itis estimated, will cost $180,000, it Will be 160 feet long by 65 feey wide. Architectu- rally it will be the Gothic of the thirteenth century. and is expected to be finished by Christmas Day next. The site of the church is on Thirtieth street, be- tween Seventh and Eighth avenues. It isin the very midst of a populous neighborhood and SURROUNDED BY TALL TENEMENT HOUSES, inhabited chiefly by Germans, of whose apiritual wants it will take care, The large, open space which has been dug out for the foundations looks, in its present condition, as if an earthquake had suddenly swailowed up a section of the teuement houses uround it, for they seem to be looking down over the vacant lot as if they and their teeming in- habitants were wondermg where their red brick brothers had gone. Yesterday's ceremony was o full answer to the uestion. The rain came down pitileasiy and unremittingly, and the inbabitants of the tenement houses gave it ig? At length the strains of a band were heard and a rush was made for the windows, and next for the nousetops, where, as on the gal- leries of a s1X story amphitheatre, they WATCMED THE CEREMONIES under their umbrellas. The German socteties, with banas and banners at their head, came pouring in. ‘There were present of these St. Francis d'Assis’, St. Micheel’s, St, Colomva's, The Holy Innocents’, the Assumption, St. Alphonsus’, Oar Lady of Sor- Towa, St. Joseph’s, and, of course, St. John the Bap- tist, A squad of police from the Twentieth precin under Sergeant McOullagh Kept the ground, Al four o'clock 4 PROCESSION WAS FORMED from the priest’s house and proceeded to lay the corner stone. Among the clergy present were Arch- bishop McCloskey, in his goldén robes, with mitre and crozier; Very Rey. Dr. Starrs, Vicar General; Fathers Wyrick and Fifer, Father Bonaventura aud others of the Capucins, Fathers Krebs, Kessler, Pa- cificus and Laurentins, and Father Creus, of Jersey City. An awning had been crected over a temporary platform, but it was Whoily imsuficient to keep out the wet, and umbreHas were therefore used, their unsightly domes much marring tne beauty ef the ceremony, watch was performed as rapidly a3 possible. There were about jour thousand persons present and perhaps a thousand lookers on Irom the brick houses aforesaid, After the corner stone had been laid a short address in German on the religtous and social joy of the event, whicn even THE WEATHER COULD NOT DAMP, was given by Father Creus, aud the Archbisho| having given the solemn benediction, the assem! sed, ‘an accident occurred In connection with the event forvunately unattended with loss of Duman iife, As car No. 48 of the Eighth avenue line was going up town, Thirty-first street, the ani- mals ‘crawling it were frightene by the terrible music of a German band at the head of one of the societies—St. Michael's, It is sald. ‘they broke from the car and ran wildiy down the avenue, the outrageous music still tingling in thelr ears, un- til one of them knocked hi3 bead against a tele- graph pole and knocked THE HARMONY (\) AND THE LIFE OUT OF HDX at the same time. ‘The other made down the ave- nue in the centre, and finding it as dificult as his companion to get the horrid strains out of his head Went full tilt against a dowatown bound car and carromed against an uptown roiling ditto, getting rid of the Teutonic melody at the expense of exist. ence. Nobody was hurt. FIFTH AVENUE COLLEGIATE REFORMED CHURCH. Blesseduess of the Dead Who Dic to the Lord—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Ormiston. This church, on Fifth savenue and Twenty-ninth street, was well flied with worshippers yesterday morning, to whom the Rev. Dr. Ormiston ex- pounded) the thirteenth verse of the fourteenth chapter of Revelation—‘‘And I heard a voice saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and ,their works do follow them.”’ There are two topics suggested by this text and expressed in it—namely, the dead in the Lord, and the blessedness of such dead. Ina former sermon the Doctor pointed out tne diiference between being in the Lord and in the Charch. The general bellef is that a Christian is one who has faith in Christ, not only in His person, but in His mission, His character and His work. The dead in the Lord have been sanctified by His spirit, and are now without fault before God; they wear white robes; their lives are conformed to His life; they ovey His commands, and follow the Lamb whither- soever He gocth. To be in the Lord is in the end and aim of our lives to be like Him; so that while we are in the world we stall not be of the world, bat above it—in the Lord in death as weil as in life, in time and place and man- ner of our departure. So that like Jesus we shall be able to say with our latest breath, ‘Father, into ‘Thy hands 1 COMMEND MY SPIRIT. Trustingly I confide it to Him who created it.” To be in the Lord is, furthermore, to be able to say, “Though I walk through tne valicy of the shadow of death I wiil tear no evil." Why? ‘Because Thy rod and Thy staff comfort me.’ In our ardent Gesire to depart as Jesus did and to be with Him it is not every believer who can conscientiously use this language and thins desire death. It is nota healthy | thing to be always longing for death; it ts far vetter to be busy walle we live here on thecartn, There is Something abnormal and wrong in this longing, and we shuuld find something here to occupy our head and heart and hands for God and for hu. manity. But there are tines when we can haral restrain our longing dertres 10 go and be wit Christ, which is far better, Such occasional long- ings are perfectly consistent with bewig in the Lord— in the Lord in dying as well as Hving. A light from the throne will wlumine the dying bed; and thongh the «eath-glazed eyes may no more | perceive the hand of affection which ministers to It, nor the deafened eats hear the sweet sounds of prayer that ascend tu God from the beaside, and the outward and visibie thingeklisappear from view, the sou) of tue dyimg Chrisuan will see a light from above ant CATCH GLIMPSES OF THE GLORY which lies beyond. Blessed are tue dead who die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit,as if there were a doubt in the mind of the believer. Just as Jesus Himself Was wont to say, ‘Verily, verity,” and as Jehovan amMrmed his truth to his ancts people. As I live, saith the Lord; even 60 saith the Spirit, Write, Biessed are the dead; yea, to make it doubly certain. In the strictest seuse, they only live who die in the Lord. No more shail any gates of the valiey of the shadow of death swing on their hinges to receive them. They have now @ grander and @ purer life—they live unto Gud. Where, then, 18 that cold, comfortiess Idea of annihilation to lound? Is it in the human heart and consciou ness? No, Js itin naman experience’ No. Is revealed in nature? No. Inthe Word of God? It {3 contuloed only in cepraved and perverse mi ‘This 18 not the Gospel of our,t Jesus Christ whic has brought life and tmtmertality SOUL SLEEP IS CONTRARY TO PI OPHY, to experience and tu the Word of Go tice Abra. | ham, who lived to a good old age and was gath to his fathers and Was buried Jugthe cave or Mi ih his wile. ag nae an acol) were buried in the same p declares that God is the God of Abr and of Jacop, and yet He is not the’ but of the lviog. And think aiso ot Abraha bosom man, and the story of Lazarus and Which parable the Doctor reiated and com- Diessedness—henceforth — vlessed, biessed, And this implies great elevation of thouknt and feeling. What a contrast ts presented | mented upon to Wlustrate a fature life and the soul's Immortality. | ‘The whole testimony of the Seript 13 against extinciton of being or mental somno.enc Diflerent interpretations of the term “hencetor! Were given; bit that which the Doctor believed to he the true one is that immediately,” as it wer from the moment that a believer des in the Lord ne | is blessed. He may have been gibbeted or burned | at the stake or stoned, as hundreds of saints, mar. | {yrs and conlessors have becn, but the moment of | His departure must be the moment of his supreme | | immediately between them and those who ile down with the dark and dismal feeling of annihilaion passing upon them! Now i a higher atmosphere and a purer light, their CAPACITIES ARE ENLARGED, THEIR SENSES CULTI- VATED, thelr powers Increase?, and ‘from their loftter em! hence they can command a wider and a finer Brospect. ‘Their faith can be firm and without a abt: thelr hopes radiant; their judgment clear; ermen, but a chosen few, a their imagination soaring away on tireless wing, and every emotion of their nature and every imagination of the heart expanded to their utmost capacity. not that blessed? Now, we find persons who matmed, or blind, or deaf—some sense ts missing; but suppose that ta Heaven we should have on sense which would combine or embody ali our senses, or be additional thereto, by which we could hold converse with the material universe, what cups Of biiss we should quaff! THEY SHALL REST—REST IN HEAVEN where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. fo the weary wanderer it is home, to the dusty pilgrim a shrine, to tne laborer repose and to the scarred warrior triumph, crown, rest—to every heart rest. O ye unsatisfied ones, come to the Saviour, and He will give you rest. There remaineth a rest for the people of God. The conilict may be flerce; but the victory ts sure; and then comes rest, that satisfaction which cannot be moved—that rst which the world cannot give, & transition from darkness and sorrow into light and life and joy. ‘There are no tears in heaven; they are ail wiped away there, and everything 13 perivct. Imperfection aitaches to every one of us here; but there we shall see eye to eye and know even as also we are known. But the dead in the Lora are blessed because their works follow them. All that we do for God and Christ and humanity will be remem- bered, and every believing prayer, every act of self- Sacrifice, every heroic deed of charity and love written down in letters of light in God's blessed book will be recompensed there. What amazing revelations will be made around the throne! Many of God's coer penne will be astonished when Usey shall be credited with or blamed for not feed- the naked, visiting the sick tellow creatures la need. each one of God's of poverty and of ind we may not think it ales crime, They may forget it. worthy of remembrance, but THE RECORDING ANGEL'S PEN 13 KEPT BUSY Making the record for the Saviour. There is encou- ragement for us to work here for heaven, and to plant on earth the seeds of truth and love, which shail spring up and bloom in eternity. “Blessed aro the dead who die in the Lord.” Blessed not only because they thus die; blessed not only because they rest trom their labors and their works tollow them, but because their memory remains with us and in- cites us ty imitate their holy example. The memory of the just shall be blessed. This thought was beau- tnully expanded and illustrated, and the lessons of the text applied earnestly to the hearts and con- sciences of the large congregation present, Devotion ef the Frimitive Christi to the Enchariat—Sermon by the Rev. Father M. C. O’Farreil, Jr. In spite of the great heat yesterday the Church of St. Peter was crowded in the morning at High Masse The sermon, which was preacked by Father u'Far- Tell, was listened to with marked attention by the congregation. The reverend gentleman raid:—Be- loved brethren, already had the Apostles enjoyed the great pleasure of witnessing the ascension of their Divine Master into the heavenly Jerusalem; already had they experienced the promised descent of the Holy Ghost, strengthening them and enabling them to set at naught the enmity of hell. Then they went forth into the world preaching salvation through Christ, and administering the sacraments instituted by Him to thousands who from time im- memorial had dwelt in the horrors of dargness and tn THE SHADOW OF DEATH. Though the Apostles were natives of Galilee they did not confine their teaching to their own people, but went forth and preached to all nations indiscriminately, astonishing the world by their Wondrous knowledge. They are no longer poor fish- kingly priesthood, am- bassidors of tne Alost High, receiving thelr creden- tais from the hands of Christ. They are ao longer cowards, no longer men of passive minds; they are men oi Hxed and terrible determination, for they voidly unfurl amid the destruetive storm of Judaism the flag of Christianity, and invite all, in the most pressing language, regardiess of the sword or of persecatton, to rally round it. They preach Christ God to kings and emperors, to the Jews— to whom He was a stumbling block—and to the Gentiles, to whom He was a scandal. in the history of the eariy Churcn we read of the devotion of the Christians to the Eucharist. The Neophytes, tull of enhusinsma, revived the Holy Communion as the memeato of a bioody sacrifice. and God took up His residence iu their hearts, What ts meant by the breaking of bread! Is It that feast called agape, of which the primitive Christians partook together in token of the union, friendship and harmony that exisied among them? No, it was not. It is that these infant Christians were become PARTIC:PATORS OF THS GLORIES OF GOD, that they received the Hols Communion in perpetu- ation of ihe memory of a bioody sacrifice—the part- ing giftofa loving Saviour, who through ages of eternity bever knew spesk or staln, and before whom, seraphim and cherubim are not w.thout fault. This, then, 1s What is meant by the breaking of the bread, is evidenced from the words of gt. Lake—‘And it came to pass, when Jesus was with His disciples, Ue biest bread, broke and gave to them, and thelr eyes were opened, and they knew Him in the breaking of the bread;” clearly showing that the breaking of the bread was understood in the eucharistic sacrifice. St. Gregory offers a most excolient remark on this passage. ‘I'he disciples, he says, were in darkacss whe Christ was expounding tne sense of the Scriptures to them, but knew Him quickly when they came to execute the mandates of hospitality: they were enlightened, not by hearing, but by fulfilmg tne divine precepts. According to the saying of the Apostles of nations:—“‘Not the hearers, but the doers, shall be justified.” ‘The Eucharist ts truly bread of life, and as the natural bread sustains the body so the supernatural bread of the Eucharist preserves the soul. In the first ages of the Church to be a Christian was almost the same as to bea saint. Wesce young maidens and youtos sacrificing everything and conquering their passions in the service of Christ, and even mounting on the scaffold rather than WORSHIP FALSE GODS. Where did they get this strength? In that holy bread whereof whoever eats dies not. Glance through the history oi the Aposties, that concise but admirabie history of the birth and infancy of God's Church, There you wili discover the affecting sim. plicity with which it describes the behavior and em- ployment of the principal Christians, There you wiil behold prayers that, from thelr continuance, may be styled Peres austere fasts, insatiable thirst for the Holy, £ucharists, a constant attention to the will of Heaven, a charity so refined and celes- Ual that, notwithstanding differences of ages and of conditions, of character and of climate, they all see actuated by one spirit and DIRECTED BY ONE MIND. When persecutions prevalled through the land they had the Holy Eucharist concealed in their homes in order that they might have constant communication with their God. Travet with me in spirit across the Atlantic to freland, the island of the martyr and the oppressed. Illustrious for every virtue that can adorn a Christian nation. Clinging through tong ages of suffering and sorrow to the faith with & tenacity which neither the gibbet, the rock nor per- secutions could relax. Read the history of that novie, but down-trodden people, story 18 written ia letters of biood. From its pages you will learn how during the direst persecutions they re- paired to the lonely mountains, the trackless woods and uninhabited places and there on altars formed by nature, with THE BROAD EXTENDING FIRMAMENT FOR A ROOF, poe 4 o‘Tered up the holy sacrifice of the mass and par- took of the blessed Eucharist. During the penal laws they preserved, unsulited by the foul stain of heresy, the faith brought to Ireland by her glorious apostle. In those dark and evil days their devotion to the Eucharist was most intense. Let us walk in the path they have marked out for us—those thorny ahs which they watered and sanctified with their piood—and show that we are indeed the descena- ants of the noble martyrs who kept alive the lamp of faith inthe caverns and hicing places of the earth during centuries of the direst persecution. Whose 8ST. JAMES’ ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. and Services Yesterday Morning— Discourse by Father Macauley. ‘This popalar house of worship was well filled yes terday at the last mass, the weather evidently hav- ing iittle effect on the devout children of Catholl- cism in the parish of St. James. The Rev. Father McKenna celebrated the mass and the Rev. Father Macauley, of St, Tereza’s, preached the sermon. THE ALTAR IN CATHOLIC CHURCHES has $0 many advantages over the pulpit that itis astonishing preachers do not more generally use it in preference to the innovation. From the steps of the altar the congregation have the benefit of the full view of the pastor, The gestures that he uses to illustrate his language have their fcil meaning, and the whole person, in the case of an artistic or j impassioned speaker, ELOQUENTLY APPEAL i tothe mind and aympathies of the congregation. | The pulpit, a8 a support or to shut m defects from view, May have some undoubted advantages, but not in the case of a young and vigorous preacher hike Father Macauley, whose language is so charged with conviction that it drives direct to the hearts of the people. His gesture is easy and gracefal, eutting exactly the pictures painted by his expressions, pever anticipating the metaphor or behind the point, Where every |neament of the person is impregnated With the sulject the congregation ought not to be deprived of the benefit of the full sight of the priest. Father Macauley took bis text from the gospel of the day according to St. John, and preach AN ELOQUENT SERMON on prayer. The 1 at this chanen 1s making Taptl strides towards progress, and it is understood to be the intention of Father Farelly, the pastor, to bring his choir up to the highest standard of per- fection, Miss Leddiker's piace as soprano is not one very eosily filled, move particularly as she seemed stich # favorite Inthe church, Ihe present organist, however, 18 A VAST IMPROVEMENT on the last one, and it is to be hoped he will be able to retuin his chair. The pieces stung yesterday consisted of a “Kyrie” and ‘Gloria’ by Cervuttl; Lenetta’s “Agnus ” and “Credo,” by Mercandante. The most notable performance of the mass was the “O Salu' ” by the tenor and contralto, which was very finely rendered, and would almost have reached perfection but for the syncopating of the head notes by the tenor, which in some passages completely destroyed the effect, Mme. Cabette, the contralto, has a voice full of pathos and melody, which she manages wita admir- able tact. The basso yesterday was an improvised one, and only mediocre. The new soprano, Mme, Sirrebeek Pheffel, 1s only in ber secoad Sunday, and will no doubt realize the great things expected of her tp course of time. The tenor, Mr. Langenbeck, is well Known at tnis church, THE AMERICAN FREE CHURCH. iversary Services of Church—Sermon by the Rev. (. B. Smyth on the Confidence of Paul—A Retrospect ef the Year, and Ce ndation of the Press of New York. ‘The anniversary services of the inauguration of the American Free Church were conducted by Rev. Charles B. Smyth, yesterday, in the new chapel of the New York University, 36 Waverley place. They consisted in the morning of a sermon appropriate to the occasion, reported below, and the dispensation of the Lora’s Supper to the members. The text | selected was:—“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”"—Puil., tv., 13. Twelve months ago to-day, according to the day of the week, my beloved hearers, the American Free Church was inaugurated. The circum- stances which led to the inauguration are known to all men, Inasmuch as they were publisned in every newspaper of note in the city, and, I may say, in tho whole world. Yet the present occasion must not be allowed to pass without our adverting to them, and that we nope to do before the close of this discourse, in a way that will be edifying to you. In the mean- time let us consider, in the first place, the perform- ance contemplated in the text. Secondly, the posst- bility thereof. I. Tne performance contemplated, It is plain from the context taat the perform- ance referred to is that of univeral personal obedience. “I can do ali things;” that is, all that duty toward God and my neighbor demands, The principle of all obedience ts very simple: it is love; but it branches out into a great variety of particu- lars, not only into all the precepts of the first and the second tables of the decalogue, as viewed en the surface thereof, but into all those as modified and varied by the mfnite multitude of tho circum- stances which spring from the relationships and transactions of life. Christ in His Sermon on the Mount and His Aposties in their writings A have exhibited a great many applications of this principle, Yet even they neces sarily left unnoticed a thousand possibilities in the condition of man; but by bequeathing to us the general motive of all true obedience and teach- ing us to govern ourselves accordingly, they have supplied us witn all needful direction for every ate in life, and therefore Paul, when he had men- tioned some of the exhibitions of this great prin- cipie, concluded by saying, “If there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this, Thou shalt love thy neignbor as thyself.’""—Romans xill., 10. The duties which flow from this copious source of human conduct are as innumerable as the little ingredients that compose a migity river, ever rising and rolling on, as we SAIL ALONG THE STREAM OF TIME, They are as a mantle which encircles our whole frame; they float in the atmosphere we breathe; fy in every fraction of time, and are our companions through the whole course of our experience; they nestle in the food we eat and swim in the fluid which we drink, that whcther we eat or drink or whatsoever we do we may do all to the glory of God, In short, there is in human life not a conceivable situation in which God haf not a law and a duty for us. In your store, in your workshop, in the field, in your office, at the bar, on the bench, in the pulpit and in the Senate and halls of legislation, and in all the executive departments of government, His law comes in witn supreme authority and commands respect and obedience on the principle of lovin: God with all our heart and soul and mind an strength, and our neighbors as ourselves; and 80 in all the Wiaespread diversity of human affairs thero 43 not a case in which there 1s no room for the ques- tion, “Lord, what will thou have me to dot” (Gal. v.. 1-24; Ul. Pet. 1, 6-8; Rom, xi; 1. Cor. xilt. You are now prepared, we trust, to consider the second head which we have aunounced. The pos- sibility of universal obedience is here plainly de- ciat “T can do all things.” This doctrine is sup- ported by the lact that Adam was perfectly rignt- eous until he ate the forbidden fruit, and that Christ set us a perfect example, and that we are expected to be periect, and assured that “without holiness no man shall sec the Lord.’’ It is supported likewise by our own observation. Hence, 1t Is obvi- ous that the reason why some persons do not atiend church is not because they cannot walk thither; and why others do not conduct family worship is mot because they are without families; and why others do not read the Bible in private ts not because they Nave it not, or cannot obtain it; and why others do not pray 18 not because they have not tongues with which to ask, or because there is no throne of e to approach; and why others do not believe is not because the Gospel has not sufficient to commend itself; and why others are not pardoned ts not be- cause God is unwilling to forgive—but because they will not, Bat wherein lies this ability to do all things? It lesin Christ. ‘The flesh,” says Paul, “Qusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other, 80 that you cannot do the things that ye would.’ “Without me,” says Christ, ‘ye can do nothing. “I can do all things through Christ, which stre: eneth me.’’ We pow remark in th: first place t be at the principle contained In the text 1s far 1rom being acted upon as it should be. Paul does notpay, “I do all ARInEe'e nay, Duc only “i can do ait tings” Now, possibility and actuality are diferent matters. It may be quite possible 0 do that whioh we never do in fact. And go it isin regard to the universal personal obedience or siniess fection referred to in the text. However possible, it is never actual; and, therefore, in all the walks of life we find not perfection, but imperfection on all hands. If we come in sight of those who place ali their dependence upon THEIR PERSONAL MORALITY, what deficiency do we find even among them? It 1g a dimcult matter to hold up to their view their own hearts in such @ light as might enabie them to see through the flimsy network of their own unsub- stantial performances—the hidden deformity and the dustiness and filth of the unswept and un- washed recesses of their hearts. But a ray from “the Son of Righteoushess,” carried thither by the Spirit of the allseeing and _heart-search- ing God, or reflected ym his Word, can pierce the veil that conceals them, and then, oh, what vices are made apparent! And if we turn to those who admire and love the Christian system, and piace all their hope for mercy and sal- yation upon ‘the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,’ what do we perceive? Ii there be not de- fictency among them whence {ts that general forget- fulness of God and Christ in the business of the week? Whence the talebearing and censoriousness, the poisonous breath of which mingles disease with the moral life-fuid and carries death to the vitals of spirituality? Whence the puertlity and intellectual dwarfishness and the want of frankness und truth- Tulness which we perceive among all classes, in- stead of the loity bearing of noble, Christian minds? Whence the too frequent dissoctation of private from social duty, or of both from public duty? And whence is it that when a minister lectures such people upon the practical duties of Christianity and Insists upon uDiversal obedience to the laws of Christ he ts regarded as stepping aside from the ath of propriety and in the pulpit acting upon an hi timate license? But we must not expatiate too wideiy upon the faults of our hearers, lest those of the speakers might be overicoked by themselves, We must bring the matter home to ourselves, and inquire, uf there be not deficiency in the pulpit, as well a8 in the pew, whence, then, 13 it that the whole counsct of God 18 rarely declared? Whence the doctrines and commandments of men, instead of the Levng and precepts of Christ? Whence the bigotry and sectarianism preached, instead of the genuine liberality and world-wide ‘benevolence of the Savicur? Whence the seeking for the praise and flactery and rewards from men, inatead of the approbation and honor that come from God? Whence the neglect of private warnings, counseis and ex. hortations? Whence the want of zeal and warmth, affectionate tenderness ana DIRECTNESS IN PULPIT MINISTRATIONS ? And whence the neglect of the poor for the rich, and the withdrawing of churches to worship in from localities where the destitute or the middling classes reside and transplanting them among the abodes of the wealihy? And now, my hearers, what of your- selves in particular? Is it necessary to prove by ar- gument your deficiency? Shall { appeal fora veruict to the deliberate judgment ef the parents by whom you have been nourished and brought ap? to the companions with whom you have sport. ea? to the wife of your bosom? to the children of your love? to the persons who support yoo im your profession or trade? or to the members of the ‘congregation with whom you worship? Is all this necessary to convince you that you have not done ali Wuings Which your duty requires? Does not your own conscience confess “GUILTY, GUILTY," and attest the trutofut declaration of the Apostie John that ‘a1 wesay we haye no sim We decetve our- selves’ Oh! wore it not for the blood and right- eousness of Christ, whose atoning sacrifice we com. norate this day, What would become of us all? if It were hot for the long suifering and tenc merey of God in Chrst we shoud all be with- out hope, so far short do we come of obeying Him in “all things.’ And our sinfalness is era vated by tho fact that we might have done better, because we “can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth us." This text not only teaches us the possibility of performing ordinary duty watver uit for our encourage- ment in all proper and lawfal underiakings, lays down & principle, which ought to be taken by us as the great power of accomplishment ail througn life, “Give me,” gaia Archimedes, “a point outside the worse, and I will move 1t trom its base,” What ver THE PROUD HEATHEN MATHEMATICIAN would have used we do not know; but here, in 01 text, is pointed out to usa mighty lever, by whic! We may effect any achievement that 1s reasonable, ‘The grand secret of success tn life 1s Christian Con ciple; it builds up the constitution of the individual, establish ir own upon & pe rows foundation, and stimulates its energies, makes discoveries in science and harnesses the previously untamed elements of nature, and when all is done plously ascribes the glory to the proper source, saying, “What hath God Wrought?’ Had Napoleon used this mighty lever he would not have lost an empire, and had the Kaiser William not employed it he would not have gained one; had Pref r Morse despised it a statue would not yesterday have been erected in commemoration of his great invention, and had we NOt in semefdegree resorted to it we should not be here today ceebrating the anniversary of the inauguration of the American Free Church. Christian principle 18 life and power to every(ning good, as it would have been the salvation of Sodom and Gomorrah had it been found therein. Mr. Smyth here referred at length to the scandal that had caused his separation from the Church. Tne press of New York, my dear friends, no! withstand- Ing that, like al! other things which are human, has some faults (and who is there that is without them?) 14 @ noble imstitution, and is generally man: and reported for by chivalrous gentiomen, worthy of confidence and respect, and we should bé careful not to attribute to the whole flock the vices of one or two black sheep who have crept over the wall into the foid. We should all remember with gratitude the sympathy which our cause received through the trials and upon its result from THE RECORTORIAL AND EDITORIAL STAFF of every newspaper in this city and its vicinity, and we should not forget that even within the limits of the very establishment from which tne report alluded to emanated there were some men of honor who took a proper view of the case and deplored the evil which has been done, It is all past now; the sturm hss spent its fury, the enemy has doue his Worst, but the tree still stands—‘‘Rejoice not over me, O mine enemy! for though fall yet shall [ rise again!’’ And we may thank God, that instead of having been crushed down or driven from the fleld, or “gotten out of New York," with a curse upon our head, we are here at the expiration of twelve months, not discouraged by the campaigns through which we have passed, but rendered wiser, we trust. by the isoipline an! the hardships. We have proved the principle in the text and found it to stand the test, Casting ourselves by faith upon the grace o1 Christ We associated ourselves together ag & Church on @ Presbyterian basis, and yet with liberality suff. cient” to us to love aud worship with all love our Lord Jesus Christ, no matter to what sect they might belong. Since our manguration eleven persons have been added 4 to the communicants’ roll, We have not lost any b; death, but one candidate for membership was sud- denly prevented by it. Some have removed from the city to other piacea to reside, and we have had to underzo the consequence of not having till now a perm ent place to meet in. Since our entrance into the occupancy of this neat and well situated chapel, and our recommencing to advertise tho ser- permit who vices, the number of atten tants at public worst} has increase, and a favorable gale has set in whic seems to promise prosperity. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, YORKVILLE. Dercription of the New Church—Opening Services-Sermon by W. R. Carroll o “Preach the Word.”? The opening services of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Yorkville, were celebrated yesterday. The new church is situated in Eighty-fifth street, west of Third avenue, and though bullt of simple materiais the design is elegant and graceful, and presents a fine appearance. The structure is entirely of wood, and of Gothic design. Tho interior is fitted up with pews of oak, ornamented with black walnut. The walls are painted a pinin stone color, and little or no attempt has been made at decoration, with the .ex- ception of the chancel. At the back of the chancel and rear tne altar there is a handsome stained glass window, representing a cross and A CROWN OF GLORY, Over the window, in old Roman text, there is the inscription, “Jesus Christ, Him crucified,” while on either side there are the inscriptions, “God is Light” and “God is Love.” The bulluing is elghty-tlve feet by forty-five, and will seat 500 people. The church is at prevent in debt to the extent of $14,000, but every effort 18 being made to pay it off, and it is ex- pected that in a short time the title will be clear, Rev. Dr. Dwyer assisted at the services, after which the sermon was preached by Rev, W. R. Car- Toll, the pastor, He took his text from II, Timothy, ty,, 2—"Preach the Word.’” The second eptstie to Timothy, from which the text was taken, said the speaker, was supposed to have been the last written by THE GREAT APOSTLE, He had at that time grown old tn his Divine Mfas- ter’s service. Long, faithfully and successfully he specialty of which ts its thoughtfal, intelligent = | refined sea of faces, that Sabbath by Sabbath look’ ‘with an intense interest into the face of their pastor, was last night instructed and greatly edified by & sermon from Dr. Hepworth on th¢q old but ever new and never wearying theme—Christ, and the lessons of His life. Mr. Hepworth’s text was taken from Jobn x., 9—‘‘] fm the door.” He said these are strange words for any one to utter toa listening world, rhe person who assumed so much must give us strong prool of his right to use such language. It would bean offence in any mere man, though he were greatest among the great, to tell us that only through him and his words can we get into a better civilization and a truer form of religion. Are not we also men, and can we not find our way for ourselves? Such lan- guage not so much magnifies bim as it beheats us. But, on the other hand, if the preacher is commis sioned of God and has omnipotence resident in his will, then we simply say, @ kingly order of speech is becoming in a king. Socrates would make the World laugh at him if he should gay, “I am the oor.” PLATO, WITH ALL HIS WONDERFUL INSIGHT, would be thought immodest and conceited to the last degree if he should say, “I am the door.” Bu when Jesus oures the sick, gives hearing to the deaf, sight to the blind and life to the dead, and then turns to the generations of men and says, “I am the door,” we all bow in His majestic presence and say reverently, “Even so, Master,” and through ‘Thee we enter Heaven. Whata place in the affec- | tons of the world this lowly Nazarene has. Other kings and potentates olimb to the throne, and thea awe men into obedience vy thelr display and their. bayonets. This King is dressed in homespun, has no long train of liverted servants, and yet He will role when thrones have crumbled into dust and regal robes are covered with mould, What would ‘we not give for a glimpse at His face? In our trav. els we climb to the top of Sinai, and our hearts are stilled to worship; but when we stand by the sepuichre where the Lord lay we ieel as though we were in the presence of God. What has He done that ail tna honor should be paid to Him? Well triends, 1 might beiter ask, What has He not done ‘The sacred and i, Sage impulse of this nine. teeath centary comes from Him, Religion was on local, climatic, territorial. Men were not brothe: and acknowledged no international duties or obliga. tuons. The Persian worshipped his fire and damned the rest of the world. The ky , the Brahmin, worshipped repose aud pitied or biamed all who were doomed to toil. Jesus, like a fire under a vea- sel containing different metais, fused all thesq@ various reiixions and made out of them all religion, better and more elevating pervaded with that element charity. That new religion has been misinter- preted caring the last eighteen centuries, Man, good deeds have been done in its name, but whi can fail to see that the work of making all men brothers under one common Father is going on bravely. Jesus of Nazareth is the door through’ ‘Which we go to these mightyimprovementa, But I Am not so much interested to-night in settling the juestion, What has Christ done for the work that fle should be called the door? as I am in fin ous what He has done or can do for you perso! that He should call humself the door through which you getto God. 1t has always been a favorite doctring of the Church that Christ bears our sins for us; that He takes the load from THE OVERBURDENED SHOULDERS OF THE SINNER and carries it himse!f, Weil, this is a dostrine very dear tu me. I believe in it with all my heart, I am thankful for it. A while ago @ young man came t me in sore trouble, He toid me bis whole story, an 1 think the telling relieved him; but 1% helped nim more to feei that I would bea friend to him and stand by him until he got well through with it, We took counsel Llogether; we worked together. If he had been leit to himself I fear he would have gon under; but the factihat he could tell me all, could: trust me, could depend apon me, gave him amaze ing confidencé and strength. 1 think I bore his troubles for him. Iknow I suffered with bim, an my sympathy took a great load off him. Well, human friendship can do so much, what cannot divine love do? ‘The guilty, sin-stricken soul, hows ever far down it may have got in selfish~ ness or crime, can go to Christ and ba sure of His aid, of His love, of Ais help. In this Teal sense Christ will bear his load for him, will be, as it were, his substitute in suffering and sin. Or, again, how many are there in this room to-mght who have had all their faith taken out of their heart in one way or another? You were taught lo bee lieve, but your lives have been hard; you have 200 succeeded, but have been met with constant disap- intments. You are ie si —. be houge Satter ‘as loat his way at night ‘ou fumbie roun hold of landmarks, and you find none, What would You not give to have the faith of zone youtn? Well, there is only one way in which to get somet beiter than you have ever had before. Jesus o| Nazareth shines through the darkness of your life lixe a great Drummond light, Cail be Him, follow Him, ovey Him, If you are conquered by a bad habit, if you are under the thraidom of drink, if Ka von sitting in a dark room, he 13 the door by which can gct tothe light. If you are tempted in ee way, tried in any way, perplexed in al way, stil th had contended for the truth as it is in Jesus, With ahumble and pious confidence, reviewing his past ministerial labors from the hour in which Jesus had delivered him from the Pharasaism which held his heart in bondage and poured into his soul the light of life and peace and joy from the upper sanctuary and set him free, he could say, “I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith.” During hts eventful ministry he had laid up in his heart many valuable lessons and gathered much Christian experience. He had proved the weakness of his own heart and had tested the efficacy of the Gospel wuich he preached, He had reason to know of the deceitfulness and helplessness of human nature, and now, when about to leave the scene of bis labors and ENTER INTO THE JOY OF HIS LORD, he gives in this epistie to Timothy, who was to suc- ceed himin the government and ministry of the Church, many very important directions. Pro- Minent among these stand the words of the text, “Preach the Word.” We can be at no loss to understand what St. Paul meant by the “Word” which ue 80 earnestly exhorted Timotny to preach. He meant by it such a large, comprenensive expia- nation of the whole Scriptures as would make the believer intelligent as to doctrine and active and holy in the practice of Christianity. In all cemmu- nications between man and man a word is the ex- pression of the invisible idea in the mind; and this Insignificant titie, “The Word,” is given to Jesus in His mediatorial oitice because He is the manifestas tion and expression to men of the invisible and oth- erwise incomprehensible God. To preach the Word, then, 1m @ comprehensive sense 1s to open and de- clare TO LOST AND SINFUL MEN those great transactions of tue ereriasting. covenant between the l’ersons of the Trinity entere into and to be carried ou’ for the glory of God and the good of man, ere time began—a covenant in which the Father gave to His Son his mystical body, and in which the Son engaged to come down from heaven to earth, and to suffer and die as man’s surety and substitute. Many suppose that Christ came down from heaven to earth to interpose be- tween an angry God and His sinful creatures, and to ward off from them His wrath. Bat this wasa mistake; i¢ would dim the glory of the Gospel. Christ came down from heaven not so much to ward off the wrath of an angry God as that the LOVE OF JEHOVAH, the infinitely holy One, might flow freely forth in strict accordance with his justice to guilty and re- bellious men. From the manger to the cross and beyond it Christ was and 1s the at doer of ali things for sinners. In every breath He breathed, in every word He spoke, in every step He took, ta every sorrow and pain He endured, even up to the shameful and cruel death upon the tree, He was doin , ee and surfering and atoning for His people. His very heart was init. ‘‘o such an ex- tent was this so that before coming into the worid He said, “Lo, I come; in the volume of the book it ts written’ of Me, I delight to do Thy will, O My God.” And so completely and meritoriously has He accemplished the great work of salvation that once and again the opening heavens gave testimon, Soeleuy an wherewith the Father beheld it; and so perfectly nas He compieted HIS MIGHTY UNDERTAKING that amid darkness from above, temptation and re- Proach from below, He could ft up His face to God and say, “Itis Bnished—so finished that nothin; now remains for a smner to do but in penitence an faith to receive the great salvation. Christ has en- teres into heaven, now to appear in the presence of God for us, a8 our great intercessor. He 1s seated in the place of power, honor and glory, as the head over all things to the Churen, to hear, recetve and answer the prayers of His peo- ple. And every cry of distress, every petition for grace, guidance, mercy, or any other blessing which, winged by faith, goes ap from His poor, sin- ful, struggling people bere below is as sweet music im the ears of our ascended Lord. It matters not Whence it comes—iJrom cathedral, church, village meeting-house or log cabin—provided it be the cry of a broken and contrite heart, it ts heard, heeded and answered in His own good ume. At the conclusion of the sermon @ brief address Was made py the Rey. Dr, Dwyer In reference to the new church. He said that although the congrega- Uon was small at present, if they would all work together it would soon increase. He advised them to be ever mindful of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to let all they should do be done for His sake, The services were then closed with the singing of the 1080 hyn, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, Sermon by Dr. Hepworth on Christ as the Door to the Human Race—Com- of Our Lord with Pinto and tem, The balmy, pleasant evening that followed the midday showers yosterday had the effect of bringing out the usual crowd of worshippers to the Church of the Messian, This congregation, the remedy is the same. e are all sitting in darko and Jesus Christ the Saviour is the door between and the perfect day. THE TWENTY-FOURTH; STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sermen by Rev. J. W. Silleck on the Pres ci Blood of Christ—The Character of Chris:’s Suffering. After the reading of the third Psalm and the sings ing by the congregation of the 417th hymn, the Rev. J. W. Silleck, pastor of the Twenty-fourth street Methodist Episcopal church, delivered an eloquent sermon yesterday morning, taking for his text, “And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and im Aim is no sin.”’—First epistie of St, John, ill., 5. Christ is@ never-failing theme upon which the ministers continue to expatiate. Christ Himself says in regard to His “belng manifested to take away our sins,” ‘I, if Lifted up will draw all men unto me.” How much benefit we can derive fron studying His character and reading of His doings’ trom his earliest days even unto His death upon the, cross! Everything 1s pure and beautiful about His life. No flaw or blemish can be found. If there were any we should surely know of the fact, because the infidel, the rationalist, the atheist, the philoso- pher, the scientific man, have brought all the powers of their mind, all the learning they possessed, to bear when engaged in scrutinizing His character,) and He came forth tree from any blemish under microscopical examinations. We naturally” would look upon the artist, the sculp-) tor, the author or lawyer, as a vaim braggart who would sit down and say that he was. satlsfled with his work and could die content for the Treason that no one who came alter him could excel him. Yet Christ sald, “Father, I have glorified’ ‘Thee on earth and finished the work Thou gaves§ me to ao.” Did Christ, like any ordinary mortat ‘ would do in His place, write many books, leaving: them behind Him as MONUMENTS OF HIS SKILL and ability? No, indeed, because he knew welt’ thal His words were engraved upon the hearts of: Bis hearers and would be transmitted and handed down from generation to generation, If any flaws or blemishes were to be found would not the Jews have discovered them? would not Judas, who betrayed his Lord and Saviour, hava discovered them? and yet we find that when the dagger of remorse pierced his soul, before he rushed to commit that fearful deed of suicide, he exclaimed, “1 have betrayed innocent blood.” Aud that haral hard-hearted, cracl man, Pilate, was 80 wel satisfied that Jesus Christ was guiltless that he tool water and washed his hands, saying, “lam free the blood of this man, see ye to it;’’ and his wife, becoming greatly troubled, aent him word, ‘See yor have nothing to do with that just man.’?, In the olden time a lamb was chosen to be sacrificed to Gol—a lamb perfectly nealthy and free from blemish, not a lame one or blind one, but one with. out flaw—and Christ has been calied “the Lamb without spot.” You have probably seen in tho: course of your travels some lake where the water looked very black, owing to the contrast besween it and the snow-capped hiils surrounding the lake, So our lives, when compared to the spotless life of Christ, look very black indeed. When Jesus Unrist was accused of WANT OF RRSPRCT FOR TRE ROMAN authorities the judges were coinpelled to pronounce Him entirely innocent. On that dreadful night— and truly it was a dreadful one—when the angel of the Lord went through Egypt and smote with the aword the first born of all the families, he only spared those Israclites upon whose doorsteps Sprmkted the blood of the lamb. At the Jast drea day, When we shail all arise, may we be foun sprinkled with the precious blood of the Lamb, an thus be saved from destruction. As all men fell by the first Adam, 80 we Will all rise by the last Aaam, bemg partakers in the glorious mystery of the Atonement. Oh! how I love tuis pein | Consoiing one it 1s—we shail be saved by the blo of the Lamb; “sinners saved by grace.” Whei Wesley (and ft would be hard to. fin @ man Who ied @ more perfect life, was dying, he excinimed, ‘1am a sinner saved by grace,” The Apostle Peter has told us, "You know that you are’ not redeemed with corruptible things such as sitver, and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as a@lamb without spot or biemish.” Tne last words of Christ when hanging upon the cross, with the nails piercing fis extremities, a lance thrust into His side, and the dreadful shadow of the :rown of thorns above Him, wy Him to be @ wonderful mab, partaking of the divine navure, During the CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE.