The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1871, Page 8

Services and Sermons Yesterday in Metropolis and Elsewhere. Chureh (ousolidation, Chis. Chart Cres dulity, Constaney and Caghalieiiy. Carefully Considered: Bidliesl Bhilote for the Bulle and Beits, Dedteation of a\New Catholic A Colored : of His Racé, — Tho remaxgaviy fixie Weather of rate had an madovdtediy enllvening emect on thé egular tnd oceasional charch-gocrs, The church nerally ‘were remarkably well attended, "eee of the fashionable folks have already left the chy, The preachers seemed to feel the good effects of thy beau- tifal weather, as the scrmons generally were\char- acterized by more than ordinary warmth, livei{neas and brillisney. The following are fair specineny of of yestorday's discourses, and will be found Worthy of perusal, TRINITY . CHURCH. Tho Rev. J, MR. Love, an Extre em Colored Brothor, Occapii pred Desk, Prenches tho Sermon and Serves at the Cemmmalen—Tae Need of tho arch - South—Heathen Conditien of tho Colered Race. Trinity church yesterday morning presented as fine an example of the triamph of the ‘new depar- ture’ which was tuaugurated with guns at Sum- ter as has yet been afforded here. Trinity, es has long been understood, at least rivals Grace = chureh m the aristocratic qder of its clergy, deacons and membership, and & belief haa obiatned in relation to It that, while perfectly Willing that all should be saved, {t was (hought pr Per thai the various social grades should find salv: tion tn separate consistont spheres. That the belief Was uot, or is not Dow, well founded, was demon. strated yesterday in a way that was quite pro- nounced, During the carlier services at the altar the eyes of the vast congregation discovered among the chervb-lise boys who sang and the gravely dignifie! priests an@ deacons an unmistakable colored broiher—aot a smgle shade off color—wear- ing the priestly robes and taking partin the service. At first there were those who wondered, these who yere deeply concerned, tt who feared 2gome Z mg Would be done, and near the door those who a nt . es, Man on the ondition oes NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ral dootrines. ‘They disseminate amo F 100 of peu ei Te and, too offen, antt-serly ligious faita ts a xonapnons GoxpouxD of the absnrd and extravagsnt superstitions of Agee long past, with bere ang tiere a of Gospel lig! ‘Their religtous aer distigu yy the 10st viv- lent demonstrations 0! EBXCITRD ANIMAL SENSIBILITY, are Moore in keeping with the bacchanals of Odin or the irantio orgies of Baal (ban with the wo of she troe and living God, and their practices are but the natural reewlt of these several influences com- bined. In this state of affairs it 1s ie easy to per ogee that crime, which is the pat concoalitant ignwrance, receives a careful nourishment, The 8 Vows OF Maraixpwy ‘a mors! ‘ name! y m, aud sociad ey of evel gort Drpdo na! ig ful a jcature at i) apa the the periect rence, if nos seli-setisfac- ton, with hich all these aro aeoepg g done. Truiy th is stranger than flotion, made. yall- sone renuous Saar he claimot, must bé ‘ne battle 13 one’ef giants, They must wresde, not inst the Hes awd blood, but againat rinelb aud powers; against the rulers of the darkness of this world; against spiritual wiokedness, and to con- tend with snecess req\itres all their energies backed ne the assistance frot Irtends both at home and abroad. Hitherto thefy work bad been hard but not Aiscoar They had gothered from the masses around them A SMALL CON@REGATION, some of whom are aiready confirmed menvers peuve communicants of tue church, And, be- they succeaded in ‘establishing a Son- under proper _flirection, school which, Wwes to become & médlum of useful ness. Hut, said be, we need those things Which are essential to the decent and comfortable worshlp of Alnighty God and to {te imparting of eful kKuowledge. The object te present visit Is First, we ask help in order to i) able to erect a church building tu which God may 4 woceniepon in the veauty of holiness. \ We have, as yet, no temple at all for God's most holy service, We have, till lately, worshipped In ad Enconeegrates butlding kindly placed at our spose by @ public omar; but, said he, sinco by departure from the ut ‘TU GOVRRNMENT AS DEMANDED EVEN THAT. We Do neans of our own wherewith to do ¢his great Work, and yet we have to face the fact toat we $ buld a templé where oy one 8h apa & welcomée—a place whe! he may yi t fis heayenly Father and heax the, glad tidings of salvation, a house the door of whica shall not be shot Aay nor nigkt to offices of prayer gad thanksgiving. Secondly, he octared, they: re- ited help to enable them to effect fl BOCIAL ELEVATION MORAL AN ‘despised and degraded. This mly be dove by wmpriuting tn if O8y teem, together with reli trnth, the imen' of # sound and usefi lucation. To do this hit § Tequired to provide for tre support of a paris! Senool, and, in all, he fet that of Pobes have $5,900, & sum which ho thought cor pe easil rajsed’ among those go plentifully supplied wit cans as are the people here. A they but give the subject he ne fenens at demanded and remember i use they shonid make of the means te rd bas pleced To dhelt hands, he could \not fear that what his people asked for wonla readily given. Occupy, sat ho, is the eoverelgn fafe to be 14i¢ in this vast fleld o irresponsinie, andate. None lavoy, for none are man Is born into the world 0 Whoue work foot born wae hid, When he had concluded his discourse, Which was listened to with marked attention and ‘owing easare, the plates were passed through vie audi. ce, and it 1s understood that additional subscrip- {fons will be sent to Dr. Ogilvie. Race the exercises were Sten there was a 6om- mfinton service, at which Mr. Love officiated, gna hen all was over he was congratulated by ma&ay rominent gentlemen rpm the pipotive manner YD Which he bad placed thé need of the South before a Trans audiguee, FORTY-THIRD STREET MXTHODIST ERIsCO- PAL CHURCH. er enjoyed the sight, and thought there was folng to be fun, The prejizamary service was concluded with dae Polemniiy and effect, and the more excitable among the congregation were becoming somewhat ner. ; vo mt, Whe J. ALARM AND EXPROTANT FUN cance as the dark yet sprightly end really OF the pian aecended the ladder snd ne in the secred deal ‘Le congrega:ion ‘ ewe] . ‘S wonder, & real or What that bleck man’s 0 | to go up there;"’ and, to ber somewhat be- Ml deughter, Susan Angelina Jane, in 4 whis- ‘What on ea:th is ne up there for, wit a white apd all :” n Angelina Jane had ap eye to artistic | like the rest of the congregation, was joylag tue sight. [ad the sounding board ser irom the roar aud overangs the desk ‘ded and otherwise decorated f01 agion the coioy's, lights end sade: ve been more arth hy placed to pro- . The oilre branch reaching out he design, the pelo produced by Tto warm, by its gleam, the colors Sy d the white dove of pro § rown gut until efectivel Mt peemed Midway between the olive and the very dark- skiaued speaker's head was an cffect to @bsord an ort eve aod fill the mind wita dreamy | elignt. Hak the flue specimen of an educated | {rica remained as ne stood z#t the foca! point of spec rs there would have gazed and still have heed lighly pleased. But our colureé frend was Lot there to exhibit bimsel’; He Was inerc to advance bis cause, and be did 60, Be is Kuown as £0 stationed at North to find aid to bis atong the colored race, work he chose as bis ‘upr till I come,” and I, . 4, “Por all things come of Thee ¢ OWN have we given unto Thee.’? his text he satd, ta excellent efloct, 8s follow: ages of Go's Holy Wora the kK are tepresented by various fore ta ufare, labors the gare But, what q gure chogen, ee a is juggested by each, one great prjuciplo underlies the Who.e, one in vortaut lesson 16 Intended to ve In- guicatcd, which is that lat active, diligent, ear- hest ant incessant, 1s necessary to the accomplish- ent of all high purposes, and that as applied to | The Christian ine, egen mqn's salvation bewg in rtin his own hand and having to be wrought pus uimeel!, properiy using the means Which God hag ovided for tim, thai active, diligent, earnest, cessantiabor is not the less necessary for the mplishmect of this hignest of all urposos. THE PAMTICTLAR PIGUR: der which the Klagdom of God j” represented Ip e parable vefore us {3 a Dost striking, exact and prehensive Uluztration of o ‘on in respect ) andorthe duties naturally growing out of t position. IL dyes Lot only couvey Uie simple pression ‘bat the reward of totl is commensurate ah the labor expended, but it makes It tmpgta- ve On wil to jabor, py sctiing forth the fact that mere cre other interests besiies our owa tndl- jdual interests Involved iu the great w Of life, lutroducing another whose clalras Qre higher Sil than our own, and by bringing Lorbre the vision the mind the great day of reckoning, whch, with id, 1 party ve exactarss, the Great Sudge of all 24 what is His, aud wili mete out to évery | one ue reward of § ations of God en, ‘ated Lo be those of } LANDLORD AND TENANTS, that the ovugations arisivg out of these rela- are M9 less binding fn our spiritual tian in our ipofsl concerns, But how few reatize this sliug mM! Men are veneraly disposed v rd God ih e nore Mok light of a ether, whose cuty aad leastre }t Js to satisty the desired of Hts children, nd to potir Into thelr bosoms the rien bieseings of ic} Or, perlapr, & © Deity gra t cause heaven apd earih, In whése chara love and ne; vience are the nicest ptomine features, hose compassion an) tender m ere over ali iis workS and wi r of good, put pot the puni ye do rot upon im oi Elis { ” character Jook ~ Governor of the Werid, whose ~w se pdtal OR i based upon the fourdation of eferna: int mil justice; whose male? face of the el Siavors, in it the respe mS are cloariy thy jemon- 3 ¢ Jas must be ap of the uoty v7 imped and Wau: pen and eagels, They lose sigut of Hm aitogcin ibe use houcr Mt 1 LAYFCL Possesson | Ja Eis own right of the maniold blessings of life, see not in Luemgelves the mere holdcre to for @ short time of the precidis endo nt plvan'ages everywhere scat eret ple use, abuse ps mage of mecount to Him fi v Continuo, ss audience ants to God, Who is landiord of all by, He impreseed upon thom stroagiy the what 1 given thora in ald o: God's work, claiming that as they should do 80, #0 Would tuey de judzed, CECU vagse With Wiom ihe talons rere «(ty am ns leading ‘a onabeat. ¥, NAGURALLY AND ort wet bis visit to the North. Ho claimed asked for the poopie of his race the jar South could not be devied on the groun. a, Tt there woe doply ag to shat he Would ask them as 4 duty \o . ALAR THY ney are 9 reckoning. for The Sinners Approack to God—Tixe New Way Vogsus the Old—Sermon by Rov. F. A. Biados, D. D. of Dewolt. This church wad crowded efterday morning with ® congregation to whom tie Rev, Dr. Blaies, Pre- siding Bier of the Detroit District, Michigan Gon- ferenes, now Inthe city as a member of the Pook Committee, preached a sermon of great power and pathos on the contrast between the sinner's ap proach toGod under the new dlapéhgation and under the Old. Lis text was Hebrews x., 19-22:—‘Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enier into the hoilest by the’ blood of Jesus py a new and living way which He hath consecrated for us through the rail, that ts to say, His flesh; aud having @ high priest over the hous of God; let us draw nebr with a true heart, in fall assurance of faith, having our hearts sprmkled from an evil consctence and our bodies waabed with puro water.” To us, standing in the light of the glorious noon of the Gospel, cakd bo, how dark and dim sppear the prerlous pages of God's mantfestation to man! Compared with fhe resent he was surprised to see the Cuurch some- es QTO'F restive iu respect to religions worsip and the labor devolving npon them in carrying for- ward the Work of God In the world, The criticisms of tho world are very severe, he admitted, with regard to the exactions cf the Church. ‘Tne prayer yoceungs, class mectings, conferences, Suuday School Institutions, &c., demand so much attention that we are thought to be hampored apd bound by 40 much exactiol. But compare fe De pee wit the past, He is, indeed, delightful, ig relieved of much of the Ineopventence of farms and rites and ceremonies which existed undey tne iaw. There 13 vo more of that system of sacrifices of expia- tion—meat and drlk and heave and peace offer- ings, sin and trespass an* wave off—rings, which wore brought to the priest—theye is none of tus ceremony {n the Aurapace. OF THE E£0UL TO cop. The themo of the text suggests an order of wor- ship ander the new dispeasation relieved ot all thoge forms sud ceremonies, id which, by its Leanty and simplicity of wors! at once lifts the soul jnto communion with God. Tne plan sig- gested by the text Is the holy ef hottes, the immedi. ate prevencg, of Detty itecif, Here ouly could the high priest alone enter onco & year, and not without the shedding of blood for lis own aud the people's sin. But under the Christian dispensation all the | ‘ople may enter into ie sacred place, now uo org with sacrifices and sin offerings, nor by the medium of a priest, but indlvidualiy, ecch one hold- jug audience with God. He never, he sald, realized the force of this s0 much as when, in Chicago oil he ogcasion, he entered a Catholic church and saw tnay er the confpssional to pour out her sorrews and her sias fi the ear of her priest. He felt like ete Pa to God" that a new and a lying way had be an for mankind by which aud it is the priylieggof the soul to como into the neosence of its Makef. ‘This 1s God's order; this is art to heart and face to face, yithout an imteryening sacrifice or Priest. Some peopie mak6 exbuse for saying @Way from the bouse of God by saying itis only a prayer meeting, Only & prayer meetin ! Thero 1@ no gnch scene since Christ bowed Hie head on Calvary and cried “Ut 18 FINISHED 1? to compare with @ Cpe ge ot ef men and women come together to pour ont their complaiats lato the ear of thetr Heaventy Father. It (3 a great my tery Dnt it was revealed by the blessed Master when Ué declared tat fhe time would come when we should orshig Alui in spirit anc in truth. So far as the place, ft la nob Cutside the camp, wit our hands on be head of the scapegoat, nor with beaten oil for the gitar; bat we come into the holiest of ail where we this Morning bring our offerings of praise auc worshtp in aplitand in truth, and where God re- veais Himsell to us, We have next io consider the manner cf approach- xt says, “Wii boldness we may y of hobes.”” There are many gat- ural canses sufficient 1 produce trembling, aud rca. gous Why © man should retire and hide himself and Sy and try to shrink from the presence of a God.too pure to behvid sin with ellowance. God's greatness, majesty aod purity of obLracter ere such ae to over- awe afid £4 the soul witu trembling, We find {t ao in nature, The ignorant will feel abashed in the presence of cultarcd and refined society, and the sub'ect must needs trembje in the preseace of the syvereign. Then, again, % wan’s consciousness of uis owl siniuimess, and We refection that God sees the inmost depths of Lis heurt, inust inspire bin th a feeling of trembling and a desire to hy away, wet Aion OBEYED HIS NATURAL INSTINCT nm hiding from the preyence of & Creator before ‘whom he could not stand ercet and pure, end we some inthe last days who wii cali on the 4 the mountains to cover them from the presence of an offence God. Whatever will servé { o remove (his natural fear from our hearts will be found to ve got of natare, but of grace, have sought to cultivate nature to boiduess, but every. whore thers is Uns feeling of awe, to remove which We must have sometinag above ourseives—some- thing supervatu but we must aiwa nara ta Want of re t aud too great familiartt, yroaching the ile ( wlades) bed thougirt tat there Wasa tinge of blasphemy to piayers which he lad jeard whoreta God's name was freely and famutarly u Wuen we come (0 examnine the question of ussuratice we ehall acc how Abraham and Moses and David, &c., disungnished by (ae processes of wnely iniaas the qualiues which taey —— énd io Uigir approwches lo God taey relied opon meaus ouceice of them 'S privilege. & a ALR } 0 decide for themselves, Bren tn tho éntire dis- | tof Florida, fe guid, ani perhaps of the entire h, thousands end ten® of \nousauds of ail ages to be found who Pare lithe or NO KNOWLEDG Ae LORD'S PRAYER, 10 knew still !eo8 OFF ,% poi ey? Cr and they were asked tO tepeal the nts, WO spl, a3 the Epnéelen di i t Pali Wig Ris Ms OF CUM LAAMKY ( dad gs by woieh conidence Was inspired, Aud 4iis icads ua to tn. quire the Meals Wivey 9 sinner Wliuse steps take igld on hel! cen Conse sto the pregoace of God and be able with WoL) » approach him. It ta by the Viood of Jesus, ca'l ouf (OXt a Dew and living wey. This is car secur, this is tue slaner security, In rey band oe price | being, Buaply vo to. crove T clog, ils ai muy pe aud ail ty pies, oF she Sarivur died for u } | Asinnef @ared vy grace! “Oh, to grace how greg | Sdsuler,’ 4s the thousus tuat intervenes itectrin all WHAT LANGUAGE HE USES 70 EXPRESS HIMSELF so that he ht get an assurance of his being heard, He now one fact—that lycs above for us to rig priest went tnto the hollest of all, Weari: of the twelve tribes of Israel on nis h Betas ihe Creag oar marcty « he stands, oauaeere ee Recatved on Calvary . even 80 “Nor jet the ransomed sinner die," ' And oh, how the world has shouted and sung, ‘The Father hears nim pray, ac. He ever lives to make intprcession for those who will come to dod by Bian, lere the poor, penniless artisan gee to the bank {ith a note whieh he wants discount The ier knows he hag no credit; but, turning over the note, he #ee3 that the credit of the endorser is unlimited. Even 50 We presenting our Notes endorsed with the pame of Jesus, heaven is opened unto and wo ore mado reicome tO whatever 18 Let then draw near in the fall assurance of faith, ha our pare from an evil ange geny ca ies Washed with pure water, and us hold the profession of Our falth without tavering. CHURCH GF THE NATIVITY. In What Way Can I Best Livo a Oliristian ?— Sermon by Father Everett. The Ohutch of the Nativity, on Second avenue, near Second street, was well dilled yesterday at tho morning service. The cholr selected Weber's mas3 in G, supplemented by Haydn's “Stabat Mater,” solo bass, Mr. Henry Greiner presided at the organ. Miss Orloffsang soprano, Mrs, Levy alto, Mr. Debn- horf tenor, and Mr. Aaden bags, ‘rhe “Bendicate” ‘was very finely rendered, and the general singing Was much above the avorage. After the second part of the mas3 was finished Father Everett read a portion of tho gospel of the Gay atid proceeded topreach upon the duties of the Catholic aug the Christian In tho work of scoking salvation im the world and in the clolster, He pointed out how those who are unable to ombraco a life which brings them into closer aud more con- \staat BELATIONG TOWARDS GOD cope tn their allotted sphere secure the bighost bri of Heaven. Persons entering ito the rell- gious orders take vows of poverty, chastity and obedl- ence. These vows are absolate, and they are taken that they may achieve a higher degreeof perfection in belivess than is possible outsido i the world. ‘They Are only for those who have withdrawn from the ordary pursuits of life, These religious orders were en eee @ long time ago, and, of course, suited the Character of tho homes more then than vhey do at present. Peoplo who have families are not expectedto forsake them, and if they did they would be guilty of sin, Once people have entered upon THY DUES OF PARENTS they are obliged to ophola them. 1t is ontirely rea. sonable, strictly just and obliga‘ory on the i] of parents to labor earnestly for their family's wellare. Those who withdraw into religious so- cleties do so that they niay serve God with more fervor and fitielity. Lot the question be asked, in what way can I best live asa Christian? The fore. Most requirement is self-control and self-denial, that we do no violence or wrong, Wish our neighbor well, and be disposed to see good to every one rather than harin. What will God give us in retura? ¢ chooks us in our headlong course and forbids us living ad the heathen does. Our recompense will be God's Dressing. in this lile, of God's bicssiog. as the moment of our death, and the patzimony of heaven for all eternity. Those ardent souls who seek by A MORE GENEROUS SERVICE to render homage to God are the primates of reli- lous communities. But these are but few, ana but w are called to that state. There are many in hese religious socicties woo have ho vocation for the duties they undertako, ard who enter them out an overflowing and generous sentimont of picty. e Pope has recently given orders that the term of the novitiate m religious com muuitics shall in futurd be atrictiy carried out, This will have tho effect of deterring those who do not really feel a vocation for religious Iife from experimenting in @ cloister ex- stance, ‘fhose who retire from the worid can hope DO more than ior ibe possession of heaven, and we may\horpe to gain the kame, We havo no objection Irwve wet thoro at ail to tue the lowest seats gnd gliow, these noble souls to take the highest, When we tiink that for us AME INCARNATB, gop fey and foy us in the tine past, and in the future te are and wall be ag much tho objcct of His care as If thero Was buthing else in tho universe, each lowly being an esjiecial object of God's love, and at the time of death He awaits to take the puriied sinner to His kingdom, Everything onearth at the hour of our death will drop away and become as Aotuips when We come face to face with God and His justice; but if we have been good Christians in our lives then will God's blessing be with us when wa most need it. alee us for the yest of ourdays do our daty to the it of our ability, so that if we are called suddenly from earth we may be prepared to meet our Heavenly Father with a clear account of our lives wiile here in this world. ELEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, The Unity of All Penitent Belicvers as the Bady or Church of Christ—Sermoa by Rev, Mr. Haske!’ In the al ce of the pastor, Dr. Robinson, who is now in Paris, the pulpit of this churen was again occupicd yesterdey by Rev. Professor T. N. Haskell, of Hlinois, who preacbed upon the evident union of ail sincere believers inthe Divine Saviour of men, snowing also the uses and abuses of denomina uuonalism in the visible church. The reverenc speaker toox for his text the words of the Lord’s Prayer, found in John xvi, 11, 21:;— “Boly Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Tnou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are, Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall bellove on me through their word; that they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in me and I in Thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that Thou hast seyy me,"? preacher introduced his subject by saying tue twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pontificate of the Pope at Rome had given occasion for many pold assertions in the cathedrals of thie and other coun- tiles upon that predicted and prayed for unity of the Church which was to furnish evidence to the world of the essential divinity of Onrist and of Christi auity. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, of your own city, the cher is represented by tue secular press as ing said, “As an illustration uf this unity, wit- ness the celebration of THE TONTIFF’S JUBILEE, In the confederacy of independent ohurches nothing of this sind can be shown, because the spirit of Oirist dwelieth not in them, and their Christianity is but a hollow snow,"s ‘tinselied sham—a delusion that controls ihe tmperfect thought of mitvions and has its live-breash in an evil animus to the Churen of God and te truc teachings of Jesus." Now, cn the evening of the same day fn which the istinguishea prelate uttered these words J nd. dressed you upon “The Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood,” and showed the essential divinity of God our Saviour and the common sympathy and homage toward fim of all who are redeemed, and I regard it truly providen- tai that in continuing that train of thonugat this gqorning 1 shall virtaglly auswer such ASSERTIONS OF THY PAPAL CLEROY without turning aside from iy intenaed course. 1 have no HEA Mod Wih taem nor railings agaliay the ecclesiasical organization of taeir chowo, f will not stop & miument ty accuse the Romen Cath hie Chereh of having mavy orders of clergy not always fartonious, nor mgny decrees and an mas nol always unhorm, and usages like celibacy of the clerg?, &¢., not ulwaya equaily en- forced in all LANCET a erlods of the Church, Bather Hyactntae and the’ German professors may or may rot be sincere hellevers united to Christ; the a may or may not have been 0! y Catholics In all coun. tries, and it may bo trne that there isa reat upity of gid evangelical believers for watch Jesag Fayed, And it may be found, perhaps, In Protestant “uristen:'om at large more than tn the Roman, the Greck of even the Angltcan Caurch alone, Tuerd rust be some nnifying principle in that “Unristianiy that controls the imperfect thougut of millions,’? even though it be. a “tinsailed show.) It sha be my object Lo sliow what that 1s, and that It ts cssea- tally the thing for which our Sayiour asked mw ay CF, , Pe ‘#t.—All admit Jesus prayed for A REAL, VISiBLW UNITY Ly which should have moral = among His peop! powey over woridi While Lue prayer be class with (hove words which show the divine pleasure in ove direction while human passion may be in aa. other, yet if must bo sega 1 a3 propheile and evily to be fultitied, Tle pleads for a greater unity of spirte tuan ig yet realized; and it is tera to ac count for this deficiency except we look upon It aa we dou We samission Of &ii jato the vet moral piper gee O¥erraled for good in the furtherance ) vel. np” I~ Theptrue idea of Christian unity Is totally 6 an all-absorbing, despotte ecclos/asticlama. overelgn pow or veated’ in one civil prince or the Papal See does Hol reprgseat 1b As Well ad & confede- Taga of slaved, With taeir electoral disticts, conn sound. Tatra—But this unity admits of a useful diversity. There is diversity in unity, in nature, in muasie, fn the words of God, In the Holy Trinity. All the followers of Christ may be unlike, while they have many things in common and are similar. hag may bo all one in Him, as He prayed, and yet be it distinct local churches, and each member have HIS OWN PERSONAL PECULIARITIES, ecclesiastical preferences and duties. nei cas Sa aa, Saute re mn and ov! ae oven though they be all conforming to one model—the humanity of their Divine Master. There are no two of them constituted alike. A dif ference of constitution causes difference of taste and often of sentiment. John Saiyan pon Jonn Wesley would naturally delight in tWo different classes ee tru rae teach accordingly, and neither n essentially wane. No two Christians are aituated exactly alike, and 7 may have as mauy different impressions of a local duty or doctrine as of @ land. gcape Or @ statue. Their standpoints always eirect somewhat their religious impressions. Their light and acquired knowledge are also e—and Who does not know the importance of having any object of ligat where it may be seen to the best advantage? The diversity of experi observation, atten- Non and education tends to’ diversify opinions aiso, No finite mind has ever yet attained to perfeot views on all topics, St, Paul says, “Brethren, I connt not myself to have apprehended all, but reaching forth unto the things which are before I press forward to the mark and for the prize of the high calling of od in Christ Jesus, and f£ count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of God in Ohrist. Nevertheless, whereto we have attained let us walk by the same rule, let as mind the same thing, for we being many are one Dody in Christ." Pb ibaa are, however, essential truths on wi ALL CHRISTIANS DO “AND MUST AGREB. Tne evil nature of sin, the divine nataro of Nim who pardons it and leads to repentance for it, a the ccaseless punishment of ceaseless and unsanci fled sinners are axioms in all regenerated ininds, ‘The Christian conscience accepts them alike and converges at the cross, ‘Siuih—The truths which unite them are greater than those on which they disagree, and all Chris- tians should magnify the points of argument and disparage the points of difference, co-operating a8 far aS possible in the unity of the Spirit and the bonds of peace. The period of usefulooss for secta- rianism in the Church seems nearly pent. Eyan- gelical aillances, ei Men's Christian Associa- tions, Union prayer meetings and the common im- prayer of all God's people are conspiring to fulfil the rer Of Ohrist, that they all may be one tn Him, ad the world shall see and know that ho fs, indeod, divine, i The Professor concluded by saying we can thus see that the true Church of God inclades all pentient pellevers of whatever name; that their divisions into separate organizations or sects have secured greater investigation of the Gospel aud extended its infu. ence among different ciasses of people and in all parts of the world; that the USES OF SECTABIANISM have been providential, and the abuses profane and soltish, and that the day of light aud love has comé when all classes of Onristtans, Protestant and Papal, should, in one common sympathy, alore God, our Saviour, and celebrate alone His praise. So Ce there be a real, visible unity of heart of Jabor and hope, tll all te world shail own that Jesus is Lord, to the glory or God ihe Father, TWENTY-THESD STREET PRESBYTERIAN cnvRcH. Tho Way of tho Transgrossor—Tho Testi. mony of the Bible=steckbrokers and Cor- Hera—Velvet-Conted Iniquity—Wemon ara East Horsos—Wiaite Gloves nud Sataz—Poot Louis—Sermon by Rev. &. D. Northrop. The congregation of the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church attended in full force yesterday and Hstencd with deop interest to an eloquent ser- mon by their pastor, the Rev. 4. D, Northrop. The reverend gentleman took his text from the Book of Proverbs, xiil., 15—‘The way of the trang. gressor is hard.” How great, said the speaker, 13 THE TKSTIMONY OF GOD on this pofnt, aid & man who. reada the Scripture with the intention to learn, whew he lays it down, if he is ap honost man, must come to the conclusion, What a poor chance the wicked have! AU intelli- gent persons who read the bible must be of the same opinion, and it 1s for this reason that the Bible is hated and scoffed at by those who are disposed to evi. Who ever heard of a man taking a Bible with him when about to commit a burglary ? or of a pics- pocket taking a Bible and leaving a purset Who ever know of a stockbroker GOING TO WALL STREET WITH A BIBLE in his pocket. Each word of Scripture is a solid shot at evil doers, and for this reason they scorn and hate it, The Bible is a book of horrors, and though it contains some of the grandost passages ever written, behind its grandeur stalks the dread tidmg of misery, disease and damnation. Open its pages and what do you find? No statement that man may break all laws, human and divine, aua yet live. No; but it tells that in fg an abommation, and that the sinner must boar all the consequences of his crimes, A men who atends in a fire must get burned, and a Man who will recklessly jump fron. a steep prectpice will leave his biceding body on the rocks below. Equally certain is the resuit of sin, and all nature must be reversed before this law can be changed. Christ and the Aposties have taught us that “the wages of sin is death,” and (henan who continues in an evil course DAMNS HIS OWN BOUL. Here, remarked the speaker, let us look for some evidence that sin and suilering go together. Cau the name of Catn, and the pvor blasted wretch will start up and run to hide his brother's gory corpse. Call the mame of sudas, and look tor him where he belongs, surrounded by poverty and misery. Call the rich men who sin against the beggars, and you tnd them IN THE DEEPEST PITS OF HESL. We often see upon the ice stakes erected over air holes to Warn us cf the danger. Such stakes are found upon every pave of hisiory, but their waraings are not heeded, Alexander was great in his day, and gained the Soper of the world, He sinugh- tered thousands Of bis enemies, and wantonly mure dered his own People to prevent them being taken prisoners. But ms greainess was empty; and what awaits himy True, be might continue for threo score years aad ten, but retribution overtook him and he paid the penalty. To come down to more modern times, what shall wo say of THE NEPHEW OF HIS UNCLE? The French people needed just such a man to rule eee He aon Oa in their incre and superstition; he kept an army in against Pine protests of the whoic Protestant world; he rode over tho necks of the peo ple, and on a incre pretext provoked a bl war, and he forgot God. What has become of him? Poor Louis! his own acts have harled nim irom his high position, and we can shed a tear for his misery. Nattons tell the same story, People say these things aro not retributive or tho consequences of evil doings, but that they come in the natural course of eveats, Look around and judge for yoursoives, France has ior years rebelied agatnst God, and what has happened? She has passed throngh a terribie ordeal, and her soi! has been ploughed deep by tue furrows of war. Look next w our own War, which can only be atulvutedto OUR NATIONAL SINS, and surely we all found that the way of the trans- gressor was hard. But why should we conilne our- Sslvea for exampies to kings or nations when each tndividual san examplo in minself? Wo all know there are certatn natural Jaws which we snould ail conform to, vat many think they can be violated with impunity, We should all work, bat we showd not overwork. This applics particularly to minis. ters, many of whom, while they advocate the moral law, utterly negtect the physicai law. In this way the man re sick and he is sent abroad. Jt is sald he wanted rest, but realiy he wanted to obey the physical laws which he had transgressea, All the vices of youth are simply draits on old age, and we need only look about to see how true the saying 14, “When the Jaw 1s broken the penalty must be paid.) The evidence is not yet exuausted, DRE STOCK EROKER 15 not necessarily 2 dishovest or deeigaing man. He ts entitled to Lis commissjons, tho same as the gro- cer or provision Gealer, Submitting to the exigen- jes pt his business, he can now! et the Siock Board i ‘By and pray fervently at home ail night, but he Seldom does TT men may be honest, aud we shodid net sWeep tind away in a WDolgdale cou- denmahon. But 5 THR CLIQUES AXD CORNERS in which they engage ts neither moro nor less then gambling, and te inan who “bulls” or “beara”? the muarkot for the Purpose of robying his fellows 1s no better than the mar who robs bis wife and cuildred. tory his fortune at cards. The Stock Board, con- tinued the speaker, is a den of horrors. ‘The shrieks and howls of fhe ambitious winners, with the groaua Of the Losers, Make a scene most Mideous. If tho Mmates of a nadhouso would ratve such & olamor they Would be confined in separate ceils and fe 1 oa bread and water; but here wo haye reasons able, [cerry J men, who kill thomselvos for all time and eternity by thelr miserable love of Bap. If, by accident, one qi (pest naters Raa ed th xew Jerugaigra he would ask the way to Wall street, and i ba Was DO such piace la the sacred city he woul 00 TO HELL REJOICING, ‘This was the resuit of the ilfe o: a gambler, and the speaker trusted bo ono would be in dowot con- corning his opinion of the transactions of last week, Concerning the way of the transgressor there ta a practical disbelief. Look at the bioated, blear-eyed awelltica on two legs that wo see every day about the sirect corners. They prosner and live well; “ihey work not and neltver do (ney spiny yet Solo- Mav2 ia sil Dis alyry Was Qos airived Like ous of wi estioned respecting tho Holy Ghoet, “Wo | his prayer and pradae, He has ® high priest in the towns and précinets, or co-operative charohes, | these.” They have money, ana aro r ted as lite aay not so arech as heard whether there be any pecsaa of an jer brother, one who vm been with thelr elective oficers and evangelical agencies | Ue bul you cannot Ce m Without n Commandments.’? How could it be expected with the ge eo our infrrott Ob, | for the spread of the Gospel of God. The idea of the | fi that whicn means and dampation, that they should know? Left hitnerto to What reason tits 1s for Bel 1 The Doctor hero | destred unity 15 precisely that of the Saviour 8 vast A MISKRABLE SNSAK THIK?, FRAME 4 IGION FOR THEMSELVES, gaveoan tration of a wens an introduction | army of Cliristian soldiers, of whatever sect, who | driven Poverty, may enter a house and steal. and to work out undeg its tutiuences a destiny in | at a royal court aud ints hig own brotuer in just | love him; and it may be composed of ten thousand | How quickly the law deals with him; but when a keeping with its character, What else could be ex- | the postion to dg it, Ghent of tne way D: regiments, with each their special Dames and uni- | man steals a ratiroad worth mullions, what then? peeted than that they ‘should “bew out for them- | which wi come to God ta in the fact that it is thro forms, but all @ grand uutt undor one leader, the | He drives out ir his carriage with selves cisterns—broken cisterns, Which can hold no | tho weil-beioved son of God. He had often tried to canes of eo Salvation, and he who is ont of aym- A VELVET OGAT AND WHITE GLOVES, the water.” ‘Tais, said be, they have jaithiuily done, — this See and wondered Low it was done, | pathy with Him is out of tho Chureh and un- | and he fs respected. Though such a crime may themselves unscriptural | and how Jesus pleads and Eogeneeen to all appearances, yet tho tree its trait, Such 4 man becomes loss to all respect or decency, and wili even make a farce of religion, But how wiil it be on the iast day, when alt must be accounted for, when the velvet coat wilt no longer cover sin, when the Lord with ius angels wul set his foot upon the earth and judge ail according to their di “i ny Will then be di inted, and they will jadbes discover that the way of thé trans- eS fa hi ‘Will die the death ane wake Li thomsolves a Wreck upon the shores of te Yeung Men—Clesing Sermen ef the Seneon by the Rev. G. AL Hepwertt. At this church last evening the pastor, Rev. G. HL. Hopworth, delivered his last sermon previous to entering upon his summer vacation, He began by saying:—My friends, I have talked a gront deal dur- ing the winter on tne subject suggested by my text, and I intended to speak to you upon another theme tonight. But I have had several interesting and somo rather painful experiences during the week. Ihave held converse witd some of you, and you Nave confidentially told me your troubles, 1 have felt for you, sympatnlzed with you and tried to be & friond and a brother to you, and have been con- strained to spend this the last evening [ shail have Wich you until the autumn in giving you advice, the Uke of which I heartily wish some one had given me when I was at your time of life. Whon J return from my vacation I intend to devote one, evening of each work to my young men. I don’t care whether you hire pewa in my church or not if Ican do you good. You belong to me and I belong yo you. We will meet onco a week and talk matters Over, andI have no doubt that you will help me as manch a3 ads I HOPE TO HRLP you. Yon will find my text to-nignt m Romans Vib, lh “For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, thatdo 1’ Tho complaint of the Apostle ts ono, whicti we weve made ® thousand times. We have alljbeen injthe perplexing and disheartening position of St. Paul. Not a man here but has solemniy promised himseit he would live honorably and not loosely, virtuously and not viciously, Haman nature—at least, your human nature—is not of such coarse material that yon delight or take any pleasure whatever in what is really base and meat. I will pot beifeve it. You have once in a while been in such a holy Mood that you have caught @ pass- jug glimnss of the ncaventy face, and you have said to yourself, “Now 1 WILL BREAK AWAY FROM THESE ORAINS; Iwill be & freeman—master of myself, ani i will be God's nav and not the devil’s maa.) But when vot got back tuto the world again—into the burry and NELY OF life you have forgotten all ess tiritigs and ‘he world has Wiped them out as etfeciually a3 you Wipe the marks of & slate witha sponge. You have gone through with this experience more than once—perbaps many times—anl have come at last to give up the attempt to be holy end crue in utter fegpalr, Which finds yentin the apostic’s words, AVhat Lwoud that Y do not; but what 1 hate that do 1.” Now, then, L want you to think seriousl: Ppon this sutyect, and I want you to thnx aright, 90. You have, to begin with, I freely confess tb, yreat miapy obstacles. Not only ts the world fisel: ‘all of alluroments, but your own soulis full or eakuoss to resist them. I suppose tho porfectly aural man 1s in perfoct ornipelse. No faculty ot tendency 1s over developed or under developed. But-you are MADE UP OF THK STRENGTH AND WEAENESS of a Jong lle of ances The ips of oH Jathers as well as the virtues of your mothors havé dil reap. eared in you. You are not well balances. You k ahs laws i egin life ata Kinl OF MiRAGMHLiAgs. of Ansmission Of tendencies upward and downwari are too 11tté appreciated, and they are not ofteu enougi exviaincd irom the pulpit. SU, you are endowed Dy God and His Christ with a will power sudiciently forcidle to give you # right direction and to keep you In that night direction uf you devermind that it shall be so, The only question that Ohristian- iy nska is, Will yon, or will you not? You cught to git atu} iong enough Wo decide upon your lite policy. When you have once settled the question, What gin Lhere tor? and that other quesiton, Am I resoiyed to achieve the object for which Twas born’ you have got over tae hardest parc of the road, and your wheels aro not so likeiy to stick in te mir You Know just a4 well os I do tiat only three courses are possible. First, To continue in uiter ipaliference to these grave questions, and FLOAT ALONG WITH THF TIDE, to eud your career wherever the tide shail cast you ashore, or secondly, to become absoiutely pad, scouting ever thing that is honest and beautiiul aad food; Os, Jasily, to wake uy your mind to work bard for the kingdom of God end to do ali you can every day to save yoursolf. I abhor that spiritual philosopay which says, “On, God Is good, and Ke will see to ittnatl am not lost.” That js all uonsease. God ts Dot too good to Save you tn spite of yourself. If you are determined io be damnat, why damned you willbe. The spirttual law ty just kke we physical law. Pour melted lead (hrough a smatl sieve aud you will have smal! shot; pour it through & large sieve and you will have large shot. This is inevitable; it ts eternaliy trae. So if you are spiviuinally carcless you will not have a nobie life; butif you obey the law aud work hard your ite shali be noble and worthy. IT WON'T DO TO RUN ANY RISK in this matter. You piay take your ehances in Rock Island stock and possib:y Win;"bul In the spiritual world there are no chances, Jt is in morals as It ts in a first class store; what you pay for yoy have, and nothing elise. Now, you have ceriala habits which stand In your way, and what stall you do? Only one thing, ay, doar iriends; give up those havics, and right off, or they will swallow you tp. You may be sure taat my Words are true. What woula you think of a man Who should paddle his canoe Close to the falison Niagara river? Would you think bina sensivie it he should say I am having a good time, and I [ec to take the chances of going over? No. Your blood would curele iu your veins; you would wonder THAT ANY MAN COULD TE SO RASIY, go crazy; and you would cry oct, “Come ashore; {t's certain death to stay there.” Well, that 13 what £ say to you. Perhaps you drink; pexhaps you gam- ble, God pity be if you are bound to eithe these haits, But what is the remedy? There 19 but one in the whole world—come ashore and stay ashore. Use your ulmost cndeavor; pray God to give you strength torcach the siore tu saiety. Obrist jas promised to help you. If you are # lost or @ wandering sheep Be i3 looking tor you; cry out and Be wiil bear y yoice and come to you and save BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Plymouth’s Pastor on tho Power of Praise—The Rev. Dr. Chapman on the Yoke of Chris tianity—The Rev. Wm. France, of fcot- laad, on Redemption from Sin. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Love of Praise to Regulated not frad éntcd=Children Should be S:imulnted te do Well by PratseThe Uselessness of At- tempting to Go#s Werk Over. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday from John xit., 43—"For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” This, sald he, was spoken of the rule:s of Jeruzaiem. Their moral consciousness accepted the truth, but they preferred the favor of their fellow men. The love of praise 15 & constituent eloment of the mind, and one that carries with it as much miscbief ard ag much benoit as any faculty, In animals and in the savage tribes we find this fecling. It 1s not from education; itis organic, and, I may add, tneradicable.. Socioty, withont It, would be Ilke carriages withont springs; everything would jolt, A mau may be just an truthfal, but if ne nas no love of pratso he will perpetually jar. But by porversion the love of praise may injure a man’s individuality, God pro- poses that each man ahal) represent a distinct idea. But some mep are almost MORAL HARLEQUINS. Thoy are not anythMg themiBdives, but are what the last pressure made thom. They are forever danclag attention on some one’s will for she purpgso Of obtaining Sympathy and favor, There are rlany that wait upon life externally and iaternetiy so soft and plastic tuat you can scarcely say that they have Individuality, This love of praise becomes to many a moral sense, %, them what the greatest number thinks ts rig! hat ts thought is to as what is mspired, Conscience 1s lost in approbvativeness, Taoir rule of right ts THE THOUGHT OF OTHER MEN, Mnititudes of men are swinging torches over haman freedom, who in my time Rave used the torches to light fires agatnat human right. These are cowards, aod love the prawe of men more than tig pralse of God. IT 18 RIGHT TO PRAISE men.if you sny the trath, There Is a mtxingof praise flatrery. It ts not flattery to say to Apoilo, “You are beautiful,” Often men are strengthened = by praise, = Many~ @ chil's history has tarned on the point of praise for good (and noble actions. it helps men to praise them for things of whica ney are prawoworthy. ‘To tell a person thet he ts hoble when you know that be ls mead to Wel a. Droud BAD that ho ls hanible— this is bad to tho one praleed and, &@ good deal worse to the one that prawes, In rell- gion many persons conform becanse their coud standing depends on their regularity, They go a@ custom requires and call tt devotion. ‘That there i¢ a great deal of the so-called religious life that comes from love of conformity aud ay is Ds In art or literature the love of praise, ase redoult: Rant element, 18 Imporious, and Laon't beueva * or paints, of the eflecr Iewwil ha or speaks, or pa! effect tt wi atte tin eer succeed, and the weakiiney weer ili literature are those who never cau forget them. Selves. It 18 impossible to root out this quality, it should pot be rooted out, If cure depends upon cradicaiion you can never cnre it, In q attempts to eradicate coep comes faculties ea ation moe he by a: u eu attempt to stop passions by damming They have not yet learned that when GOD BUILDS HUMAN Tag Oe He builds so that men can’t unbuild, cam. ie tay ateengt ageibat my horse's sirength and ty my ftvens me to scorn; but let me get ti a T Iaugh hia to scorn, 80 love ‘be eradicated, but ren oan make 1 e pts for tninge, You never can down culty, or watch down a faculty, or down & beeg bat you can regulate. WE WANT TO KEEP ALL WE HA’ ate it. The love of praise o1 and regu Ele’ to wotlk with idealty. What men do is nevor equal to yes they wanttodo, My sermons are good when Soe ‘ the av Your ideaity should R424 you far above. Love of ‘ise thus allied with the moral nature will lead to, eternal and tufinits excellence, A vaigar love praise Dees aia wman down; a right love of De PARENTS OUGRT TO DEAL MORW WISKLY with thelr children in the matter of praise than thoy, do. Some govern by praino without any seruple to the truth. It is scandalous for parents to bring up. children in this way. Others go the other extrome,” and refuse to praise the child at all, If the child _ extremely delighted witn its brilliant new shoes off, the shoes come, and the coarsest are put in ther: The Jove of beauty is natnral, and it shoul . No man is convinced wanes: that food is not good. It requires an infloite a ot Wage to siudy children and find out the best. thizigs for tnem; butif it ts too much trouble tq: properly educate your children 1t should have beery* ‘00 MUCK TROUBLE > to become parents. Young men are lurpd into bad habits by love of praise or fear of blamcg. Nob ever learned to smoke because he loved gspbaccd,, Men smoké, and beosnse boys can’t be mon a1 other way We seo clears going round the stree! Wiih boys attached to them. There 1s not sadder thau the destruction of hecutombs of you! men waloss it ts the induference of all of us to thé: destruction. They go down, teiodeatine of them, every your, the best and tne brightest, and we goon aa If there were no BREAKING HEARTS. What are mea that their praise should drive us over the precipice of destruction? Look to ‘Goa abd at every sip remember that the praise of < If it be not loud, ts strong and deep 4nd lasting, ant belleye that the drawing of His heori tq more ta you than the drawing 9: earibly heart. PRSSDYTERIAN CHURCH, TOUPSINS AVETUE, Gengrsl Tom Thumd’s Estate-How It “Lowke—Serdidu wy tier of fhe Scotch Delegation on the Way of Salvatior—Tud Gospel Paro and Uadcaiicd. ‘tompkins avenue Presbyteriat church Is situated one block north of Fulton avenue, and 16s imme diately contiguous to the estate which Generat Stratton purchased with a porlion of tho large earnings he acquired py exhtbiiiag himecif to all civilized lands a3 “General Tom Tiumb.” The Scotch, with their characteristic far-sighteanoas have TAKEN TINE BY THE FORELOCK, and have erected @ neat, capacious red brick charoh, with emblazoned giass windows, oak paws, Garpeted floors, an organ and, fa snort, all the modern juxurt-s that ave doomed nbesful to help ta attaining wate ‘hag perte:t rest nanght cat molest Vhere yolden harps are ringing. This church was bullf about eighteen mouths Seo whoh the popalation of the neighborhood was moi Sparse than it is now. The church is at present with out a gettled pastor, A few months ago the clergy: mag who thet spiritual charge {cll sick, an this, no doubt, was Oue of fig circumstances that Gansed the congregation yerterday morning to be somewhat limiled, although the occasion was ong in which the edifice inight with sppropriatencs: have been crowded. ‘to service onducted an tho sermon preashed by the Rev. Wm. France, o} Paisley, Bootland, one Of the dclegates from the United’ Presbyterian Ohurch to the late Gonerat Assembly of the United Statics, To the Scotch eyo, and indeed tothe Engtsh also, Mr. teance’s pi Ak siexl appeorance mas. have been very Oe and strongly provocative ci home studies, Fro the crown of tye head to the sole of the fuot HE WAS A DRITIST OLERICAL. He wore the regulation sult of black, with the Engs lish irock coat And the inevitaple white tie, attach to an upright white Collar, Every hate of his hea : was silver gray, apie! 16 vas parted and dressed wit! a scrupulosty and @ particilarness thact impresses the behotder wish the copviction that the rs all n thereof practised the nportolte command, “Let things be done decently sud in order. The ment eterisitcs of Mr. Brance were in unison happy accord with bid physicu’. ff nature had stamped upon lin e Briish stamp hig aermon and the mode with Whigh lie treatedk his subject was consisteat with his tnaug lor birth and the stern orthodoxy of @ Scotch Yresbyterian of the Qld School, Sir, Frange’g t was Redemption from Sinz’ and the tex! selected was the prophecy of Hosea Xtv., 2:—"i'ak with you words, and turn to the Lord; say unto Hinr, take Away all niquityaud receive us gractously; 8Q Will we render the caives of our lips.” Tne sermon, was, a3 all Scotch sermons are in the old cei eluhey extemporancous or memoriier. There Ww: potthe tirning over pege aitcr page of manuscript so pecuilar In American with tauttless intonation, WELL-TIVED EMPHASIS, and witha gusbing earnestness, The sudject was treated from th Uloroughly evangelical standpoint, wien a wealth of Scriptural quovations that lett a9 assertion Of truth or invitatioy to the sinner uasup- ported by sacred authority. There was the orthodox division of tho subjoct into three branches, and then @ subdivision froma each of tho branches. The divi. sion was the natural one witch the text suppltea “turaing to the Lord,” of “takmy away iniquity" aud of “receiving us graciously.” The wily of salva. tion thus described was the old-fasnioned way, scriptarally spoken, without the slightest accom. paniment of the American sensationalism, of anecs ote telling, loca! hits or palpit tatraicry. It was, im #hort, the Gospel pure and undefiled, and as this Somewhat of @ povelty in these days, raust bay cee ieee aud acceptable to those who rt Palpita was delivel wit careful ana 8ST. JOHNS METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURC Tue Yoke of Christinnity—Ser: Mr. Ohnpminn. The Rev. J, A. M. Chapman preached yosterday morning {y St. John's Mothodist Episcopal cnurc Bedford a¥enne, taking for his toxt the thirtictiy verse of the elevonth chapter of Matthew—"For my yoke ts easy and my burden js light.’ His drst proposition in discussing tho subject was,’ that in @ religion adapted to the condition of fallen: humanity a yoke was necessary and a bargen wna voidabie, There was 4 general misapprehension ty regard to the relation and character of Christlanity, It is in harmony with nature betn In ite Pr by Rov, tion and iis claims. In accepting ger! it i3 not a choice between burdens and trials, diMculties, tos and sacrifices, ow (tho one hand, and an ontire exemption front them on the othor, bat between (ios of sin and Uhose of religion. Nor should religion be complained’ of more than nature or Providence for imposing burdens and daties, for they impose burdens and duties equally with religion. Religion — is represented a3 a contest, It is a warfare, We are to fight the good fight of falth and tay bold of eternal lite. Byt 18 not ite tn every aspect & war fare? Are not OUR VERY BODIRS A THEATRE OF CONFLICT between health and sickness, life and death? Ing Slogie word, ls not covery Gepartment of thougat ang feeling aad action a batule ficia where antegonits forces are in % Constant life and death strugglor Res: ligion is represepted 23 8 work, We ara Wy enter, the vineyard of the Masier an wi the comipandments of God, But, Ugiqus world the only one In ¢ compelled to us eburerey Sigadvautege to m6 World wat there ts tif Keligion 1s represtntet as a far, 2nd gars to rgm: tho race i order to obtain the prize of blernal itfe, Bat, then, is not every prize that is worte wi m in Chis world at tha @nd of a rnoocourse ne honors, the riches, UC pleasures of this world, liq thoy not ag ue eg gt therace? Then from the very. nature of th iscipline and excrelae are thi conditions of the cleyation of both mind an matior, In thd farther clucldutton of this thought tha reacher Made some observations upon tue impo enee of “making a effo.'t."” | know it t# sail, con. Unued the speaker, there are gonlused In (he world that Gasy out to astonish and to Gclight the rac Sq there may be; aud yet, if we were acquainte faith the hluden condittons of montal power an efficléiédy, wo snould Gnd that the lights that shine With stendiest ray and tie greatest e/fulrence, tha give the world the most ight aud heat, aro kindle aud kept borning by the most PHRSIGTENT TOM. AND WORK, Who are cho men tat are the leaders in tnveny tons and ta discoveries in science, in religion, ia CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE