The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1871, Page 10

RELIGIOUS. | Yesterday’s Discourses in the Metropolis and Elsewhere. Criminal Classes Controlling | the Cities. Ministerial Medicine for Munielpal * Management. A Pious Parson Preseribing for | Politicians. fe Thinks New York as Bad | as Boston. A UNIVERSALIST ON WALTER SCOTT Other Orations, Orihodex and | Otherwise. ‘The peculiarly oppressive weather which prevailed | above named tnree times auring the Week, ana was able to preach (ron observation—from men and not books Lie recaied one striking exanple 0: a .oung man of great promise, Who bad left his country home to seek life and fortune in the city, and one moruing, be ore he was thirty years of age, he wae found his bed deaa—the result of his previews night's debauen, One of the grandest sights be had ever wilnessed was a young married cuuple, when the wine was passed around and oftered wo the bridegroom, he replied With @ poiite but firm ‘No, thaak you and wueu his bride, lookme fondly in iace, asked, *Wou't you take a litte?” he ® ain esponded tende ly, “No, thank you.’ There was TRCB MORAL BE :OISM im Uhat refasal. That man cou'd never fill a drank- ards grave. Oh, that my people Would consider! excialined the preacher, If this voung man's ex- Supe had deen followed wore exteusively tie Vice Of 1atemperance Would ve stayed, He recommended the creation of a pubuc gentment azainst this vice. ie beteved iv temperance go-teties, tracts aad temperance Works; Lat until & proper pudlic Beall- ment 18 created whlch shall enable mea to say “No” and stick to it ali tiese agencies will fail. The idea of © puvile seniiment Was illustrated oy the ail Of ine Penberton Mills et Lawrence, Mass, & lew years azo, when the people gathered from every quurter Lo render assistaace io the ene hua~ dred operatives who were buried Im the ruins. Aud agai, wheo @ sbipioad of emigeanis picked of a wreck im mid ocean ani iaaded on Boston wWoarves in a vuugry, naked, penni- les: condition, Were so abundantly sapplied with everythiug necessary to their comfort tac Mayor Leiguton, wt Whose request the geverous response Was given, Was ouliged lo lusert a paragraph in the papers asking Ure people to cease their glits, Tu the Bus Manner public seBLMMt Was aroused here three Weeks ago when the Westicld disaster harried one hupdred souls luto eberully, and every eacure Wore ab expression OF sorrow, and ali sought to do something 0 relieve the sufferers, No matier what laws may be passed, wal Ue people will 1 they can’t be enforced in a iree country. Jn hke manner he would heal THE SOCiAL EVIL: though that was a subject too delicate to treat here, hotwithsianding It is eating ub te moval Lue of ihe city. ‘Lhere are 30,000 uuiortua.cte women m New York who carn @ iiving by iver own disuouor. llouses of reiormation and Magdalen asytuins are good, but thes don’t reach the root oft e evil, 1vis like cuuimg Ou the fruit of the tree Fhch every yesteraay was certainy enouga to make many | Year ico aera tae, ne ergy ‘aroused plously inclined people languid and lazy andacted, | gt ube ‘fail of Sumter in J851, aad 23 Ghaountodly, counter to the atractions m the tburches. Trae, the majority of the leading pulpit orators have not yet returned to duty, but nevertne- less there are left others who can show a good record of earnest work, In many of the churches yesterday the attendance waa very fair, bat the majority were poorly atiended tndee4, and the prin- cipad discourses of the day, here and elsewhere, | May be found below und will repay the careful perarai they will uodoubtealy obtain, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. New York’s Gr-at Danger and Wow to Avert It—Sermon hy the wev. W. H. Cudwarth, In the absence of Dr. Hapworth yesterday the pul pit of the Church of une Messiah was occupied by tha | Rev. Mr, Cudworth. of Boston, who undertook to presenhe certatn medicines for the diseases social and pol. tical of thia metropolis, The announcement Qf bis firet hymn, Safely through another wee’ jod has brought us on our way, Ae. Was prefaced by a few remarks touching the great railroad slanghter near Boston oa Satarday night, which occurred, the preacher said, within 1wo mites | of tis own home. It had mspired in his heart thank- { fulness to God for Ills preserving care, and hence he } Dad eelectes this hymn as a fitting expression of his thoughts and feeungs, The morning Serip- sure lesson was taken from First Corin- | ‘ions, xi, In which St Paul argues the | BROTHERHOOD OF ALL CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS, whether Jew or Greek, barbarian, Scytman, vond or free, and illustrates Ins point by the different mem. bers o: the body, stl! being one body, and each per- forming lz own appropriate part in the economy of tue Gospel and of the Church. God hath set some in the Church, first, aposties; second, prophets; third, teachers: after that, miracles; then gifts of Healing, helps, governments, d.versities of tongucs, &c., ana tuis arrangement ot the Lord is designed to prevent any schismin the body of Corist, and Mat the members suould have the same care one for Guother; because, ‘whether one member suifer, all | the members sutfer with it; Or one member be hone | ored, all the members rejoloe with it’ (verse 26). | This text was made the basis of Mr. Cudworth’s | suggestions for ihe salvation of New York. St. Paul | herein declares a principle of universal a@pphcation, ‘Yhe ceatral ite of this country surrounds us, ana every part is infueuced by its quantity, directpess and quaiity, and no | Shinking man who loves his country can but be | pained with the uusoundness o: cus central life, | Wwheere 80 many things which g> to make np our American fe find their force a power, and raise us up to the mountain tup or depress us to the Valleys. Acarefal philosophical observer has said that onr large AMERICAN CITIES ARB RULED BY THE CRIMINAL CLASS This Janguage, the preacher thought, was more | forcible tuan truthful; but the philosopher, in pour- | ing out his hortatory, was led further than tne truth. But, eingling ot New York, it was probably true, or, if not wholly trne, there are certain bases upon Which the tra b might rest To a ceriain extent This great city, W.th its shining Mie, 118 attentions to te poor and Ube sick and the blind, tee aged and the young; its great fuanciai ana ani moral progress. ts yet, in a goverucd by the criminal classes, How muy chia | jocai government be di-iributeiy How aay this | evil be remedied? We have not yet come to unde Stand or realize What our conniry la We ate t Jet jully ripe as anauon, and in ite process of Velopment and ripening we suau have many un- | Whoiesome and bitter experiences to pass trough. | But, God working with man, and man periecily submissive to ine Divine wii, we snail, by and by, | Bee a Stale Of Ih.ugs here as bear to heaven as any- thing can be seen Ov earth, Our Saviour’s prayer— | “Thy Kingdom come and Thy whl be done on earth asitis ip heaven ’—wili be heard and answere |. and | in God's own goon tiwe It Wil Come. The elore this | estate of things which extsts in ail our jarge cies is | suggestive and avmonriory rather than prophetic of | Whut 1s to be. Hut Uo one me aber suifer all te | members suger with it. The princiwle con’ 8 What novitug ts stronger than its weekest and NO MAN iS STRONUBE PHAN HIS WEAKEST PART. | ‘This idea was tilustrated by Kemortit ip tle St, Jobu regstta, Wat avadel his strength and ex. | perience so long as he nad that one weak spot? the | preacier asked. Hauce he had been uunpered | With, vat Jet us uoth that as proved. if a | felon is on a tinger ora Lovti aches we cannot rest | day ur ni bunt the sifected part is healed, be- | cause al! the mombers suffer wiih tre Injured or @iseasea ae, Bu! whea the disease ts removed all | ue wewbers rejoice. SOI 1s In counections with | everyiuing. Let five ot ihe 6,00) pipes In yonder orgau be out of order and suck a state OF contusion | commercial | in degree, | ANG ACK OF burmoly Will ensue that yon would de. Tuan the cessation OF 1c, but let the manue | Jacturer spend a iew miuutes over if aud repair the | injurea or broken parts and It gives torch i sweet, | harmonious ni, and ail the members re: | Joice witcit, St also with a waich. Refer: | And s Tipg to the We 1 disa or further Hlustration, | Mi. Cudwortn said that l outward appearances Wal boat Was periect; but away down under the floor months agy Livre commenced Wie crack Where bilge ater tracture had been | Bilowed to larg: Niauon of circum | Blanves—the Avsenee Oo! the cu the increase oO] Wwe Seam essure aud the jack of water—nad concurred m produciug (hata er wh.eh thrilled | the and and filed New York aud us Viewnity with sorrow anu Wourth.g, WS ONE FLAW Hl i that other A iuuitiess boa The | necessity tor a voir parcin arre ng a evil was jh ‘ ‘evalence 6. Cholera in §1. Lovis en Lue was foncnt 1 cunque a its starting by the MUlionvaires as Wel as the mechanics. Andif it shoud vreak oath ein our avenues A Boor orin the Five Points, or any other fitny locainy Pitti avenue aud ‘Merray Hi would not be exempt, and the resi 4 thowe piuces would take every proper precauio. to urre-t ihe ep.dewte, aud whea it snuuid have Leen congnered all tne Members would rejoive tozether, ‘Tits principle is Appl.cadle to pussies, co cow to me 0 inind and morals, and 4, ws every that Bs Of GedVer-al appl in if one comes into church Gor avo stir ad jvrmal be will 1 Stinen Olbers With i we starch. Aud ab ciple applies, also, 1¢ He (Cudworto) had studied Boston ior wwen'y years, , aud had read in the papers a great many Cuings re: specting New York, auu be Had come to believe | Vat | prin- ew York's Wiunieipal amas, NEW YORK 18 AS WICKED AS BOSTON though tt4s not geueraily considered so cere. Hitver ran through tie Congreaation at tis suger Yon.) As ne lad seen au whied York” its three great enemies are iutemperance, i) cutious- hess and politeai corraywon. Waen irom uuy of our quiet abd Clirisuau country Howes. a young man comes to this cry ani Munes fis way, for instance, to Cenirai Ark Garden, wheid ihe best iwusic On sis Continent ts Jurnisved to him, and the wales cues woug und asks What he wil have—a giase of lager beer, hi ‘wine or fometiing else Which he orders aud drinks ou ask, What i the arm? 1 Bay 100, hoe is the harm? It i not them But When he goes the next might ond the wext, aod D Jog, perchance, & femaie com pauion along With tam, yer virtuous, bot lackium | Moral slavuity, the aypetie sor st drink ts ere aed aud encouraged, and young and women Grift into jutemperaace and sxensualem, aod ually Gieappear in (ne shadow vi darkuess. Le Was Dot wing @ fancy or very pecul.ar skeiol, ut vne of every day occurrence. He bad vasited the resort | Wi alter Light, | and ‘byways of thi | has outstripped that of the man of war. | name. | are just tue pages ty be Tread that sia ts excusal | #8 Well as great. | the s0OD as pudlic semimment Is aronsed gyaiust tins or any ovwer evil it will go down, Bu nun- reds of peovle are in that condition described ny Miss Phelps’ “Medged In,” aud unable to extricate themselves because public senumeat is bot yet fa- vora ne to their reiormation to viriue and goodness, The flual evi of POLITICAL CORRUPTION isto be extirpated by means and ina way which May Reem strange to republican ears and coming froin a thorough repudiican heart. He would have @ property aud an ivtellectual qualification for vo- ters—say $50 or $600 worth of property, not made over 10 him just before eicction, but waieh ne conid always hold and treat as his own, aud he Shouid be able at least to read and write, And then one properly qualified voter sboula be compeied ) York OR LEAVE THR CITY. The community have a right to say that a man shall not have a house uiless he can take care of tt, and they have also tie night to say he snail- Dot have the ballot unless he makes use of it Two hundred milous of dollars are now in use by the Criuinal classes 10 this city, WhO have ruled and sail iatend to rule, No man would allow such @ state of Wings to exist in his owa home, aud he shouid not ailow it in this city, None oi us are perfectly free. Our property and our dives even must be given for the pudiie xood, and the pubue we } demands that te goou shall re here. There are one wuiltion souls in tis city, nob more than one Dundred thuasand of whom are cer. tamly or potoriousiy bad, They inhabit the alieys city, and are ready at cal to. work out What ver misctief tneir nature suggests, The nine-tentus who love tue city, and have some regard sor its MORAL AND COMMERCIAL WELFARE, shonld be compelled to vote, and ne hoped the aay Would soon come wheo every man, and every Woman too, Would be obliged or permitted tu vote, And be hoped, also, that the nine huudred tien Saud good people in the city Would grapple with these evils, Anu cease not unit they shall make tnis city the beacon of intelligence and greatness for all our land, Manfully bear the totis of the present hour, Abd wicld over tue fucure our reegaqueres’ power, TRE FIFTH UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. » the Christian Man of Letters— by the ev. Charles F. Lee. On the niorning of yesterday a goodiy congrema. tlon assembled to Chickering Hall, East Fourteenth street, to hsten to a discourse from Rev. Charles F, Lee on “Walter Scecct, the Christian Man of Let- | ters."? ‘he hall was well filed by a very respectable | audience, and alter prayer and singing the youth- fi divine annonneed as is text Proverbs x., 17— “The memory of the just is biessed,’? Upon thig, with the life of Scott as his illustration, he delivered @ discourse which is briefy reported as foliows:—The 15th of Augast 1s memorable to | the etvilized world, aud e-peciaily to the Eugiich speaking races, as the virthday of two of the most remarkable men of tue past one hundred years. We may say that both were conqverors—one by the | force of arms and the other by that of iniellect. The career of the first was meteone 1m 118. begin- ning: that of the second was longer in msing into notice, bat whea once promment shone with ever increasing Justre until Irefex, of course, to Napoleon Bonapar‘e and Sir Waiter Scott. Two years ago the centennial of the ; first was celebrated, and a few days since that of the second. But now, in ali trae estimauon, THE FAME OF THE MAN OF LETTERS ‘The ware rior yet lives in memory, but his name has lost the false glory which once gildeiit. To-day posterity | caimly accords to him all praise that is due, but | does not hide from sight what errors and misdeeds were his, nor the feariul price which bongut his But ow aifferent the writer stands tie vest of real greatiess, HIS FAME INCREASED instead of diminishing. and the celebrations of the late ceniegulal Oaly convince wwe amore huw cruly great a man was Walter Scott. I wisi to speak of vie MAN OF LETTERS at thia time, because I feel that the value and deauty Of his Ine, both a8 an anihor and as aman, deserve | at least s passing mention fron the Chistian pale pit. We take ancient aad sacred characters to enforce a truth in religion, and Tcaonot see why moaern characters mov not be of similiar service. Its well to depart, t (uins, from the ordinary seripta-al themes of the ouipit and see how those of more recent ¢ im are in serikiag couformity with them, and show the jnfluence of Christ upon modern ndaction, riety ier us consider the tite aracter of him Whoze centeanial birthday Was recenily cerebrated, I wilt net occupy your ume wita HIS BIOGRAPHY oy further thon is necessary to point the moral I fave in view—the beaaulal harmony of genius witn virtue, Here followed a brief sketch of the life of Scott, In which was shown that he see.ced to have inherited from his father and motuer his beauty of cuaracier apd wealth of ind. Fotlowing in a more critical nofe of lis iL@ the speaker suid —Let me ask you 19 consider cw the clef caus Of Suv Wailer upon our aduit t, look at the autuor. What a leit us! ‘here are few writers 60 generally read, and with so mu real profit, He was not a philosopner hor amas of science, yet I believe he nas done more geveral good than If he ad beea cither. Science and metaphystes inust be addressed to the jew, while the works of Scott win the generat i. terest ot the many. NOSE CAN READ THEM Withont instractiou, and they may be safely read by | | an. His works are as pure 10 thongat as the paper are printed. ‘They may be pe.uied y the old mariner, Tu py the iarmer, No aequartanes with Walter S-ott. ining the Works on whien tiey by ihe young as Wei as an look in exay nb or madden, forming ruture, Can auord Lo ove hel kabisiaction, (hen iv One | Of the author ts the fact Wuat nis was A VIRTUOUB PEN. No one can kay that it ever had corrupting infu. ingniy ences, On the contrary, 18 influence was bencticial, Jt may ought by some that parity of (ue 8 Of but small account it a writer is omy a geuus, Shereis uy greaver faudey thon this A writer may gam tne arienuon OF wore, perhaps, by a depraved style, but how shamefully le Woes so, 4h town bat aus Wears apon its brow has not bee 1 Won wy tra LBT NO ONE THINK tu genius, This makes tt only the more inexcusable. If a man can sing in sweet numbers or pour forth burning eloquence, Gord wakes So Much more dewaud upon hin. | He 1s Gou's high priest, as Lt were, aud must Keep his sacred cubes unspolicd, Of suena nature was tie genius of Seott. Wit , Wordsworth ana Coteridge, he showea Unat it was possivie to be yood CONSIDER FURTHER ms of Soott upon our attention. As mere terary prodfickoas Ms Wores stand mn the jroat rank. He was ove of Lhe most orlgimal of autiors, Ae founded & Sehool Of poLtry aNd @ sctiool Of icon Wiieh, Hough mackve Bow, perhaps, Will always jive ta bis great models. Not oue of THE PROPLE OF HIS BRAIN CAN EVER DIR, The knightly ivanhoe, te movie Rebecca, fait Jeunuie Deans, if they never @xi#.ed im act, ime press us no jess vividly. There vari baye Immorailved them and calied them out irom the Wwist Of fancy into belngs Almost as real as Ourselves, This shows that, uke phakespeare, scott was a true sono; geaina, The world caw that she bad im hun Ove Of Uiose Tare gills which omly came once in a century. it may be tought that fiction, Scott has 1 being eblefly a writer of anyon Ue Christian pub. hic, Because some novels are fool h—are dauger- ous—Is bot saying that ail novels are. Pichon, especially historical romance, may ve mstrucuve, as wus sir Walter's Those to whom the mare data of closed) by dexth, | and itrinste merit, bac | by pandering to the most contemptible of passions, | Distory mignt be ¥ earisome are attracted by the art 0: the novelist to that very knowledge they might not otherwise acquire, Tney are introduced to the past, aud are able to make 40 esti:nate of its actors and events, Thus | i BALADIN, RICHARD, LOUIS XI, ! and the rank sud dle of deparied times are brought down to tue level of the present, and we are ac- umuted with thelr fauite and redeeming virtues, yhat 18 more, he seia us exampies of courage, Chrisuan duty and virtue in his works for our imi- tation, and if productive of nothing more than ine nocent amusement to walle away ibe weary hours of the sick, to quicken the languld pulse and brighten the dutl eye; fcion 13 commended to us in | Ro sinall terms of praise. | NOW ‘TO THR MAN, « i and what a man we Mud him, There ta notaing to | exeuse In htm. because he did tisduty. His was the largest and most sympatieric of nearts, He was Joved by the poor as well as by the ried, and espe- cially by the former. But think especially of toe close of his career, Through the fauits of others he ‘Was inade respousibie for tie sum of £117.00), He might bave taken adva tage of bankrupt laws, pay what be coala and then ould up a new forsune; put be would not do so He resolved to spend the rest of iia life In endeavoring to wipe out the last pound of indebtedness, bravely he tried to do 80, out other trials ensued, His wile ‘Was takea away; he was subject to most agonizing pains, Yet be murmured not, Malf of the enormous stn was raised, and then he did uo more, Ais Vitality Was exhausted; he sought buv did not dnd heaith in foreign landa, aud then CAMB HOE TO DIR. | There, one brignt auiamnal afternoon, those nobie eves were closed aud that great beart ceased lia mo- | tion, Thus died Sir Wal.er Scott, @ maryr to a sence of duty, We may rear menioric of bronze and stone, orators may repeat and poets sing hi prai es; but these continued tr:bates are poor compared to a memorial which 1s foand in every hear which loves virtue conjomed with gemus—a m morial whico never can be lost, Tend | Ww th the concinding tines of Cuacies Swain’s “Vision of Dryburg Abbey,” where Soott les puried:— ‘The vision and the voice ure o'er, ‘Ther Invuenc+ waned away Like musio o'er a sunmer | ‘At the golden close of day. ‘The vi-ion and the voice are eer, ‘But when will be forgot The buried gealus of a name~ ‘The !mperlahable Scott? CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTIE. The Church Not a Medical Doctor—Sopersti- tious Conficence Not Te Be Eniertained— Sermon by Rev. Al:'red Young. Owing probably to the extreme heat there was but a alim attendance at St. Paul's Roman Catholic | church, in West Fifty-nnth street, yeeterday morn- ing. After the first Gospel Father Young ascended the altar steps and read the Gospel of the day, ac. cording to St Luke xvil, 11-16, in which the Apostle relates how Jesus Cnrist miracutously cured ten lepers. The reverend genweman took for his text the fourteenth verse—"Go show yourselves to the priesta, And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.” My dear brethren, when our Saviour performed this miracie He did 1s for two reasons—one to show | Hs divine authority and the other to inculcate tne obedience we owe to tue priests or representatives of Him on earth, The doctors of the vhurch have | agreed Uhat this leprosy was typical of the leprosy of sin and the seading of them to the priests was . done to show that they alone possess the power on | earth to cleanse them of it, tor fle nas said, “What- soever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in , heaven, aud whatsoever you shall loose on earth | Shall be loosed in heaven.” In regard to this matter I propose addressing you thie moraing. Trae religioa must be of divine | | origin; if it ta not, it must be false. The Jewish re- | ligion, which existed when our Lord cane upon, earth, was o! divine omgin, The Mosaic law by | which they were governed was received trom Him, | a8 aay one familar with the ustory of THIS WONDERYUL NAtION must know. When He came on earth Re did soto | improve, extend and maxe sull more divine this re- ligion, When He spoke de «id 80 a3 God, and what | he tanght was of divine origin, The Catholic religion 13 tae only ove having the boldaess to clatm that she is of divine origin, Moses and the prophets in the Old Testament and the | apostles in the new did not say of what they wrote ana taaggit that “such was their opinion’? or that “that Was what taey thougnt.”’ No, indeed; they | always stated that tuev received it from God. If heaven was but ths world on a higher scale, why | then, perhaps, it would be all very well for you vo | | trust to sc.ence and your own skill and knowledge to reach it, But it is nothing of the sort; itis something be- i yond the power of the imagination oi man to realize | whatitis, “ye hath not seei, nor hath the ear | heard, nor hath it enteréd inco tne heart of man to | | coneeive the glory that God hath preparol ! for tnose that love Him.” Ac the presoat time especially it benooves all Catholics to | * LISTEN 10 THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH | and be vare of temptation. You listen too much to preachings of the word, the flesn ana th il pab- | lished every aay in Wwe godless newspapers, and | Wh.ch you 30 eagerly read. (s | You are asked to assert your independence, to | Join bands of men formed into secret soeletiea plot- Ung the overthrow of the State; to ourraa for union 5 | and hberty of the peoples; to give up the sign of the cross for the secret geip and the cabaiistic pass | Word; to act as a spy and denounce your suspected | neighbor, ‘Truat more to the science and advance- ment of the age aud you may sul remain a good | | Cathohe or good Provesiant, or g00d Mohamme san, | 80 they wili Celi you, if you will .om their secret socloues, and Lous berd with atheists and infidel: Beware, and stand firm; “seek tirst the kingdom Of God and tits justice, and all these tings shall be added unto sou.” If a inanis sick the priest is Invited (Oo call upon bum as a friend and listen to his story o: pis pains and act bus, even tiourh the haud of death be already laid upon hum, he 13 re- questeJ not to be too biuut in speaking of the things ; Of another world. | Come. L beseech yon ail, to the foot of the cross, | and there you will fn peace; come to the clergy- mea, your pastors, who are Christ's representatives on earts, and ihey will cousoe you, The Church | can heal your ailments, both spiritual and boduy, | but sou must not have i BUPERSTILIO"S CONFIDENCE, } and, while neglecting ali human remertes and still, try to wring from her a cure winie at tne same time you bave been disobeying some of ner commands, | You most have a firm, abiding faith, lest you be like the city of Nazareth, where Jeaus Corlt was brournt up, and where, we are tuld, there was xo Jittie inith | that our Saviour refused to manitest His power there. | | When misfortune comes upon you and injustice is | hard to bear, when the rignt t« bafd to discover, When sickness an’ tribulation fall upon you, go to | Your pastoc and contide your troub'e to him; "go to coniession, aud, Kuceling in the shadow of nla ap- | Mfted consecrated aand, vou wtil find peace and calmness; a sweet peace will come to you and fll | your hearts—a peace such as the world cannot give. FRANCIS XAVIER. CHURCH OF § Sermon by Kev. Father Merrick on tho VWlessed Virctn. The festival of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ, was ceievrated with due sojemntty at this | charch yesteraay. Mass was read by Rev. Father | Busam. At the accustomed time Father Merrick ascended the pulpit and chose for his theme the | | gospel of the day, Lake xi., 43-51—And nis mother {| Said to him, ‘Son, why hast thon done so to us? | j wold, thy jacher and I have sought tiee sorrow: | ing,’"’ &c. The words of this gospel, said the | preacher, coutain a suMcient revelation of the | meaning of the feast watch we ceiebrate—that of | | the most holy aud perfect Heart of Mary; for, in the condition of the Virgin Mary when she 80 ex- | traordinartiy Jost her gon in Jerusilem, she cts- Diays with simplicity the whole character of her lve, The confidence with which she retarned to | Seek him, the fee.ing that ne cannot have thus | abandoned her, shows | THR PERFECT UNION } and good understanding that existed between | | them, But when she heard that her eon was yet | misaingand that he might have gone astray, with ‘What affectionate grici she was overwhel .ed, And when he returned saiely how well she refrained ) exper | taiien ine Hia arms in heaven, How can the Cnoren tail to | @ honor her whom Christ Himself has so much bon- oredy ‘Thevelore it 18 that in every land and i every age, wherever there is an altar erected, and sacrifice off red tothe Most High, tnere, too, 18 an tar consecrated to Mary. The symbol. and the ex- ression of trae Catholic piety 13 found In the words briny nd Mary, Soit has been ordataed by God; so have her praises been sung by the prophet of oid nuder the lMuspiraiion of the Spirit of God, cease to be, From all eternity I was prepared, and before the anysses existed T am”—tnatis, in the mind of “he Creator. Sho was present to His view, disuinct from tke rest of creation, 1¢18 mpossivie to conceive HOW GRRAT SHE IS In the eyes of the Ommpotent. 1s it any wonder, then, thatas our Sav:our granted to her whatever she asked, so, also, God the Fa her and tne Eternal Spirit suoult grant her petitious? Jesus was the Mediator between God and the human race, and Mary 18 the mediatrix between Jesus and sinnipg man, Jesus sits at the right hand of God the Father; Mary sus at the right hand o: God the Son. Jesus 18 the author of all graces; Mary is the source through which He communicates tiem irom Hts sacred heart to the members of His mystical vody, She was the mother of vesus; and where ts the cuild who woult not g.veto bis mother everything that could make her happy? But, a'though vow su premely happy, she ts not unmindfut of those on earth Who gre aillicted or depressed. She herself ‘Was pierced with sorrow, wnd she continues to love those who sudfer—even those who are undeserving of it, Hence sho ts styled THS HELP OF ONRISTIANS and the refuge of sinners. These, in all ages, have turned to her with contideace, knowing that she ts 80 priviieged and so powerful that she can obtain anylaing she desires, Her heart is the ceatre of all her sentiments and affections; tf purified the vood of Jesus, wich wes to be shed for men; in that heart is ceatred every qnality which made her {llnstrious and revered. ‘tnerefere we re,oice In the appointiuvent O aiestival in her honor, This has been doue iu our age, because the teadency of our times 1s toward a worship of the intellect, to tne excluston of the iéelings of the heart, A man may be a villain of the decpest dye; bis affections and seutiments may be dcpraved; M he be a genius he 1s iaohzed. So we core to ADMIRE POLITICIANS for their aduteness, utteriy disregarding their moral worth, Tne hero of the modera tale is a smart young man ora smart young woman. Men speak of the aitections of the heart; but what do they meany That waten is depcaved, mean and un- moral; that whico is more animal and beastly than ‘pecullar to a rauonal bog. From this horizon of depravity and degeneracy the Church tenderly in- vites us to lift our minds aud hearts. She calis upon us to be generous, szif-sacrificing, self-devoied and ot sel-loviug, but loving our nelghvors for the love ot Jesus, Let us. in obedience to this call, turn to the heart of the Great Man, God, and to the lov- ing heart of Marv, and so purify our hearts in these fe Umes that we may love and revere His holy jaws nere below, and persevere to the end in His service, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. The Name of Jesus—Sermon by Kev. Stephen iH. Tyng, Je. At this church yesterday morning the popular young pastor toox as his text: Philippians 1i, 9, 10:— “God hath given him a pame which Is above every name—tie name of Jesus’—and preached as fol- tows:— That word—Jesus—is the monogram of tne Gospel. It tells the whole story of sin and grace. It de- scribes the whole clicumierence of death and life, condeumnation and salvation. One syliabie declares man’s grovelling ruin and the other prociaims his Glorious restoration, Each extreme, poth of bitter ness and biessedness, it divinely contempiates, While Jesus stands In the midst and layeth his hand ‘Upon them boch. He assumed the cross—a curse our sing had caused, He attained the crown—a crown made ours through him—recorded unto us not of debt, but of boundless grace. And every | thne in prayer or praise we pronounce that name of names, and come to God by Him who was crucified for our sing and ig now enthroned on the right hand of the Majesty on high, we at once coufess our des- perate guilt and rejotce in our perfected reiease, But then, tvo, how it embodies the spirit of the Goapel, as well as the gran’ facts! It points out a Way made open to the Noliest of all, It tells how SAFETY, TRUTH AND LOVE may enter where it was death to appear. It ex- hori WW voldness, to inumate fellowship, to hear communion with whom it thus gractously Teveals—Jesus—the God who dwelieth between the Cherubim—the man who was numbered among the siain of earth, The spirit of the Gospel 18 one of joyful hbercy, The eoul, made a par- taker of its precious privileges, loses tue dread of the servant in the ireedom of the Son. It learns to look up without one fear or doubt to a God from wom it had before hid i tself in guilt. ‘ihe thwartings of coming wrath it disrogaras. The mewory of past follies it Rods in mind but to humbie ivelf, Fear is cast oat. Yet the law 15 as Strict Ln ats vendociation of sin and its exactions of deatn as when the word was spoken, How, then, May Mao saely (rust ani not be soully namble? da it not worse than ioly for @ soul thus to presume upun mysteries God hath feaced abuair Nay—nay, Jesus! This isthe word which | | Intending to sacrifice naif . there was not “Prom the beginning and before ine world was I | Pals Gime, bus created, and unto the world to come I shall pot | NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1871.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Place among the thirty-five persons who oc cupied the benches, ne put down a quarter on- the Plate when it came before him on the plan of the lawyer in Hudibras, “A NEST BGG TO MAKE CLIENTS LAY." The old maids put down a cent each. One of them attempted to get change for a ten cent stamp, enough oa the plate. The prophet was miluer in language yester since he only denounced the reporters as LIARS, SCOUNDRELS AND SCAMPS. ‘They had misrepresented him, he sald. he declared that aiter the buroing of the world the Wicked would pass their probation on the globwar ash heap. lt was @ libel. ‘ihe reporters, among otver wicked people, would cease utterly to exist, | and the righteous would have the world tor a para- aise, The look of triumphant scorn which was Ubereupon cast on the HERALD reporter by the Vir- gins and deputies was lovely to contempiate. ‘LOK | ‘at this map,” ue cried, “with all {ts beasts upon it; one of them represents Rome and here 1s another With the tiara on its head, whieb 1s also Rome aud Popery, You can take your choica between these beasts, but beware of the horn, tor the Ancieut of Days, that sits upon the white throne, HAS HIS BYE U’ON You.” The writings of the prophet Daniel now suffered. and he played La Crosse with his argnment be- tween the holy Hon-tamer and the Revelations, The immortality of tne soul was ravented by Plato, and he for one could not subscribe to the heatien Greek, nor would he snivel as Cato did, “ft must be 80, Plato; thou reasonest well.” (This was given, with artistic imitation of a splenaid tow comedy or- der.) This quotation—not trom Cato, but Addison— gave him supreme delight, aud to the evident nhor- ror of the wrinkled virgins, he gave a sort trium- nal “breakdown” before his esthasi2sm snbsided, | e next assailed Protestantism in a manner that | wouid bave shaken “the pious aad immortal meimo- ry” outof its grave. Nonody before him had under. stood the Bible, and from ois habit of PUITING THAT AND THAT TOGETHER he was able to arrive at great, logical and neces- sary conclusions, With a blasphemlag mupertis | nence he next proceeded to settle all tho questions | of jadgment and the miltiennia n, showing clearly that audacious imposture 18 the brother of sheer lunacy. It were impossible to follow bis topsy- turvy drivel to its conclusion, which appeared co we sticking the righteous (a sintle at the aged vir- gins) LIKE PINS ON A PINCUSHION, around the world, andthen putting the whole into | Abraham’s bosom, Un achieving this pleasing feat he prophnesicd a course of trighiful tortures for the rich after death (@ waruing 100k was bere cast at the business manager, whom the Prophet possibly suspects of = making a fortune out of the collections), but for the poor who supported the work of Zion (more ea- couragemeat for the virgins) the burden would be smooth anid tue wav was light, He now announded, in conclusion, two verses of ahymwn. The organ commenced groaning wheeztiy, Btills = tie condemuation of au offenued God, This is the spring of ail comiort, the secret o/ all balvation, the source Of all succor, And siice by Hin every cause of wrath has been gractousiy re- move, the beilever does well to be bold. * * * * * * * How, tien, shall we gain & new appreciation of these great privileges? WHAT CAN WE TELL OUR HEARTS to cnide tnein for tneir colaness and srouse them to new ivve? What o! Word 18 haif so fuli of sacred wuta, or half so eflective In arousing siuinl souls irom 4.0th a8 that name whieh day by day we pleaay Not to Jenovah come we now with dread and lear ant awe. Not to the imecommunicaple name Which Hendish lips never dared to utter, make we our argument, Not a God who hiueth Uimnselt in oiackness and derkness and ten. pest do we mvoke 28s our Lord and our God, But we have come unto the city ol the living God, the heavenly Jerasaiem, to the geveral assembly and charch of tne first born, which are written in heaveu and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant. Jehovah ana Jesus, reverence and love; these are the external Mmanifesiations of the one Goa, and grace Ue opposite poles of His redeeming pian. ‘nus ts the topic I desire to consider witn you this Morning. sSearcely none could be more practical and important. The name of names od hath given Him a name wiicn is above ny nam First of all, there is a history of this name which we must review. God hatn given it. It was the Gesignation of one who was to staud, the groal Joei in the midst of a lost world, Made hike ms breihren in the flesh, He was to make tavm like to tne Father in spirit. This was His great mis slon, Jong prophecied, He Was at last iu the iuil- ess ol Uine openy reviled while the God of glory. He came with His own and Wis Own received rim not. Tey found no piace for Him at the in, They reected Him from tis birth, ‘Toere was no room within their understanding or their hearts for one fo human tn His bumibation, but so divine in Mis every Word and Work; and because THE FIRST STR 5 and the great grapple Was to be with man’s condem- Dation aud guilt be.ore he could be restored to God, He was caliel above every name—Jesus —a Saviour, We shali greatly errif We assign an origin more recent (han God's first gracious words to man to Cuts mediatortai title. Il was no tate exp, sudden aller thoaght, uo complimeniing suppie- ment to a scheme which had finally fatied in Goa’s thus caliing tne Son, ihe name is the symbol or great facts which have beea wily accomplished, The estrangement of the world by sia from God 18 a trauh of conscions nce Nui leas than divine revelation, ihe Worid knows Him not, it loves fim not, it fears Jitu not. Kvery plan and purpose of tis mind aud soul runs coutrary to His will. kvery aetton of its blasphemousry refuses 10 acknowledge eivner the jusuce of His law or ‘the autnortty of Eis order, ibis a stale of enmity against a God of love an infinite Beins, who, by every voice of nature and Providence, tells of a benevolence and genuticness the soul is unwullog to accept, CHURCH OF THE BLATAVE BLASPHEMER. Anether Prophetic Snow storm on the Day of Judgment. Yesterday afternoon the same slim crowd of from asking curlons questions, and pondered over | | the words of Jesus in her heart, thus manifesting | the depth and serionsneas of her soul and the un | bounded Irteadahip which characterized their union, | | It is to this unton, which iriendship 1s sure to beget, | that Mary owes ail } greatness and her glory. Hence it is that our Holy Mother, the Chureh, atter | having decreed the celevration of ® festival in honor of the sacred heart of Jesus, appointed aiso a day of devotion in honor of the sweet | heart of Mary. Hence also as the Church nually reveres the incarnation, We birth and the resurrection of our Savivar, #0, 100, ene devoutly commemorates tue annanciation, birth and axsamption of bis venerated moter, is con duet tie Church carries out to perteotion the inten- tion of our Lord imself, and merely repeats what he nas sanctioned, For was He not born in the | arms of Mary / Did'she not feed tim wity her own | milk, aud did He not wax strong in her holy com- | Pauy? an- MB WAS UNITED TO HER | through Iife, and the more they recame untied the greawe grew their mutual friendslup. ihe Scrip. tures frequently aliade to this anion. The angel | commanded Joxepa to take Mary ani the entid to | Egypt. When our Lord goes forth on His puxrimage | oF Waree years He i accompanied by Mary; He Works Hie iret miracie at Vans at her request; she stood by Him at oa foul of the cross; she receives | Him into her arma when He 18 riven from the dead, and wuen sie es numbered her , lays on earn = He receives er | gether at @ nom nal price of exhivition. | PIVE HUNDRED WKINKLES ON & SAPCRON line as human caricatures attended at the University as on previoas Sundays. Sinful 8. Snow, the Prophet of Bulingsgate, was present, looking as lanky and howling as profusely as ever, The pubite is unap- and the virgins chanted as follows, like go many files on the edge of a tin plate:— Zign stands by bills surrounded 5 lon kept by power divine; All her foes shail be contoanded, ‘Though the world shoutd al: combi Happy “lou, What a favored lot is thive! To which the following might be added:— Zion rans with milk and honey; Un tis top in seaile Baow. il its wants are friends and money, Whieh are coming rather slow. nhappy Zio. How it fs yourself you know. The millionaire virgin could resist tt no longer, and put the entire ten cent stamp on tbe plate, Net proceeds, twenty-nine ceats, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYHOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH, Communion with the Saints—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Wescott. The Rev. Isaxc Wescott addressed last night a somewhat sparse congregation in the little Baptist charch in Fifty-first strect on the subject “Whether faints in heaven have some knowledge of their friends on earth.” The reverend gentieman took his text from Paul's Epiatie tothe Hebrews, xii., “Seeing that we are encompassed avout with so great A CLOUD OF WITNES: let us lay aside every weight aud the sin tnat doth 80 easily beset us, anc run with patience in the race set before us,’ We all know that death occasions long and grave refiections on the question of future life ana the influence exerted by tlie departed. Who has ever turned from the grave of a loved friend | Without asking ourselves, “Snali we ever mect the | lost one again?’ and inquiring if there be another | World, where the spirits of DEPARTED FRIENDS M¥ET and recognize each otner, and, when we have set- tied that there is such a place, another question arises, Does the departed friend sec us and think about us and witness our struggles? And just in proportion as our hearts anawer In the affirmative do we press 0a to the discharge of our anues ‘That the spirits of the departed are cognizant of all our actions I beifeve Is proved by my text. Here We find the apostle speaks of the departed, not as examples for us to follow, but as witnesses of all our acts in j THE RACE OF LIFR. I will now ask you to consider a moment my | theme, “Whether saints in heaven have some know- ledge of their friends on earta.”” What influence can they have if they know nothing about us? When the Greeks intended to train their young men for war they establisned the Olymplan games, ia order to prepare the youth for the tolis of war, and made them compete for the prizes before the assembled people. And with the spectators of tho ampiuitheatre in his mind tha apostie uses inis Ngure of the loved oues surrounding and jooking down on | the contestants, If tie apostie chose aptly the figure how can we have avy other idea thai that the blest are looking im at THE OHRISTIAN RACE and enconraging us to contians to theend? Ifa man were weary and inclined to give up the fact of our friends peing present and looking at us would encourage us to continue. Augels bave Knowledge of ns, and we are told there is joy in heaven over repentant sinners; but if the angels had no «nowledge of ua how could they Tejolee over our sonversioa? And then suall we thlok that the satnte woutd ba iguorant of wat the Sngeis know? We find in the Revelations Join re- lates ip his vision that those he saw “were (hose who had come out of trivulation.”” I know that I would not be justified in BASING A CREED ON A VISION, but we may use this testimony in support of other evidence, as Jehovah does not give fulze vision to His servants, The resurrection of Christ proves the intercourse between heaven andearth, Is it possthle thit Moges and Elijah could revistc the earth, and yet ve no knowledge of what was transpiring here? Some may ask, can the spirus of the saimts infuence ust 1 do not believe that WE CAN SPRAK WITH SPIRITS, but the faith of the Church in ail ages has been that Saints Can communicate With the hearts of their friends, but those on earth cannot communicate | with them, I wish tosay I Baye no faith ia Spiritus alism, and that it 1s a tissue of falsehood. If spirits could speak they would oceupy themselves with Worthy savjects. “1 believe the saints can induence Us as angels can. How they do sow BAYOND OUR COMPRELENSION. Is it beyond belief that other spirits can mauenco ag Well ad. the angels, When Christ tells us that we Blall be equal to the angels! The question 18, con Spit act On spirit Without coming Mn contact wita the eye or the ear? We know that Satan ias the power of influencing tly ns of men, aud how | can he saateh an idea irom your mind ‘vuless he car ACT ON OUR SPIRIT? I believe we ali fevi the mfnence of a departed friend holding us back from wrong dotugs and urging us forward to well dotny. rhe warning | comes up Irom tue remembrrnoe of the depar f it may be that they are sometimes near us, but | cunuot decide. We caumot see Wem, DUE hem draw and we {ollow them, All of US Have Irlonds whom we believe to be in heaven nat ver for WE HAY . Fn And 1% there not a c that, thouga we cannot see tiem, they wal us and draw Us in the pace of virtue? Let the thought that your frends are near encour: age You In ihe pach of righteousuess. HM you wander and the wish to return comes, let ihe thought Unat ihe loved Ones are near us eucourage us to repent. ance. ‘Tuey ae hear us atthe moment of dean. f do not meda to say that they Cake che place ot J hut some dear friend may aiso be there 10 W NDS IN HEAVEN. soration im the th sugnt over | 5 vine preciative, Never before in this history of oddines | has such a collection of grotesques gathered to- In addi- tion to the “Prophew” are -1x of the queerest spect- mens of aged virginal femininity that ever sported GROUND between tne edge of the wig and the point of the chin, And the men? There were eight deputy prophets im tront, three of them quite young, The weird appearance of the latter, m which were vist- | ble sloping forencads, long straight hair, sunken | eyes, high cheek bones, enormous mouths, gaunt figures and long bony fingers, betokened what should be inmates of a Innaticnayium, The five eiderly depuiles might readily be supposed to have the departing soul to the realms of eternal bliss. ST. ANS ON THE HEIGHTS, Return of Dr. Schenck—Succens of aelical Alliance. The Rev. Dr. Schenck, who has been absent sev- eral Weeks atiending the sessions of the Evangellcat Alliance, preached in St, Ann's yesterday to a large congregation, The reverend Doctor, who has lost nothing in physique during bis absence, announced himself as naving gained in spiritual and mental Vigor and breadth; end his parishoners, notwith- standing the Intense heat, listened with grent appa rent Interest to their pastor's words of grecung. jo Evi done halt @ century's service In the goblin artists? models, or as supernume- raries in the witches? scene in “Macbeth.” Tie balance were of the {reo love per- suasion, The business manager of the estab- , lishment looked quite respeciable yesterday, and scanned the crack-brained andieace narrowly for fresh dupes. A hopeless look settled upon tits face The ausic was conducted by the brilliant organtst Loretz, Jr., and was very one, though many of the choty were atlll absent from town, Dr. Schenck announced these words as bis text:— Salute every nb in Christ Jesus.” He said:— Here in the grand atmospnere of theearly Church wtands the great Apostie of the Corinthians in the noble tuininary of the Holy Ghost, You can scarcely into i os the plate Was avout to be passed round, Taking { read ten consecutive verses iu euy one Of Paul's | backward eighteen hundced years, | deathbed nor the grave stifle thetr intaeace. re we epleties without feeling tnat' you are in the presenod of one who demands your reverence, not only as 4 Chniattan, but asa gentleman, Buta man cannot be A TRUE GENTLEMAN without being at heart @ true Christian. So we ha' St. Paul all through ‘these letters sending his gt and graceful salutations to all in the churenes, to the women as well as the men, to the humble worker a8 Well as tothe higher in rank. Let me cry and cateb the spirit of Paul while I bring to all courteoud and cordial salutation. I cafinot forget that hia absence has brought me into relations with Chris- tans of other lands, of naturea separated by various differences, all bronght together on the common Christian basis, I retura to you on this first occasion of our meeting, and I bring to vou my giad salutations—salutations glowing with the faith thar Lieel, salutations that are the exponents of my beart, It would naturally be expected that 1 shonid say something of the tnel- dents that have marked my absence from home. Speeding my way across the Atlantic L have been sustained by the band of Aim who holds the watera in His hand. I tiave recrossed piacid seas, and hava been restored to domestic love, I have heard of one dropping out of life here and there, and sorrows have been wiispered to me from one and another, T have also heard of joys; and 1 am glad that there has been so Iitile of death and trouble in our circles LOOKING AT MY DEPARIORB in a professional pont of view, L aay tt 13 impossthie for a minister of the Gospel to go to 4 different olvt~ lization, to visit churches so different 1m many things trom our own, without having ali withto hing awakened to feed upon that which 13 brought to him of freshness and newness, 1 was constantly Made to breathe an atmosphere of change; to be brought in contact with doctrines, some of them more advanced than I find at home, some wicte and almost insane departures from orthodoxy, but I hope that what If have seen and heard and felt may make my ministry to you more liberal, broader ana deeper, and that I may grow to edtfigation on account of this experience, You algo know that | Wert abroad Uuder @ special mission to counsel with otner evan~ gelical clergy as to tho tyranny of civil power over rotestants in certain provinces In Russa. All tha delegates from Europe, as well as the Amert- can deiegates, proceeded together to meet the Prime Minster of Russia, Evtryimng was ace complished that was designed. Tne whole suv. ject has been iani veiore the Emperor of Russia, and wo were assured.that everything compatible with the exigeactes of States should be done, Men who bad travelled hundreds and thon- sands Ot niles to look Into each other's eyes parted with feelings better imagined than described. Old. men, who felt that this was THEIR LAST parted from their comrases, feel that their next a Would be on the other side of the river of eat, One could scareely fall to ovserve tn passing through od the Very rapid strides taken towards What all m Europe think chat we possess—civil and religious liberty tn its perfection. I could not bur feel as f read in the American press of political corrapiion wichecked by Church or State that they had better bear the tlis they have: tan fly to those they know not of, ana which we de yet liave fouad no means of ninderlag. [trast that the mad rash that is at present unsettling every hereditary Power In Europe may make ua feel tuat we are living in an age when men should graprie with increasing tenacity with that which w@ know to be false: that we mnst cling to the A FEW ANCHORAGES THAT WE KNOW Will hold. I come after my avsence to you, and offer my pastoral salutation to ever¥ saint 10 Christ Jesus, I come feeling that we rhould look well to our own souls, knowing that there 15 no salvation except in Christ Josni. Therefore all comes back to the question of personal religion. What we owe to God and to each other is tie decrert question of ali, Mf there {s one important lesson in all these commotiont it is that the stnpie word of the Gospel must be our chart, | Tf we would guarantee tho future to our children we must hold fast to those things that we Know to ba simple Gospel truth, So shall we niake sure of the ship of life and of our progress to the desired haven. Let us give to ourselves all the speed, all tne breadriy possitie, but let us gee that we ere aiways in the atmosphere of a simple, pure Gospel, urY, THE METHODIST EPISCOP. FLUSHING, The Ewporstbility of Stifting Cheistinnity—Te is Mlustrated in qhe Lite of Christ, Whe Was Unable to Wide from the Peeple=The Influence of Christians—Sermon by the Rev. Br. Janen. © CHURCH OF FLUSHIN Tn the absence of the seeking heaith in a remission of lavor, the pulpit of the modest Methodist Episcopsl church of this Place was Milled to-day by the Rev. Dr. Janes, an old venerable brother, who lias retired from active Ininistration. The congregation is composed largely of resklents of New York who spend the sammer months iif this beautiful aud anctent if not ciasstcal Village. Fashion, woaith and beauty were tally represenied to-day, The text will be foundin St. Mark, Vil, 24 = And from thence He arese and went into the bordersof Tyre and Sidon, aud entered into a honse, we would have Ro Wan Know it: but could not va uid. Jesus at this time—alter His suecessrul teaching of the people—wished to hide Himsaif away front poputarity. He shrunk from notoriety, was weary in body and spirit, and sought retirement and rest. He entered into 2 nouse and would bave no mam Know of It But whatever were We motives of this intended retirement it was mot practicable. His Jame had preceded Him, and He ound a woman at the door of the cottage pleading that a deyil be cast 1. L, Angost 1871, oat from her davgnter, We gaiter trom this text a two-fold sitton—that as Christ as not been cone in the past, so He be in the future, Mo waa NOT MIDDEN Fro THE Wo in Mis ‘ife. He was he ded by ihe uing of thas joy-bringiog star of B hem. lle was aiterwards Known fo the wise men of the Temple as a cinid of remarkable wisuom. His name stands ii sacred and profane history as that of THE WISEST, GREATEST AND BRST CRUATURN that ever trod car ‘the Jows sought to hide Ata Innocence, and to neutraiize iis jafuence by hang- ing Him on a cross and by shutting His body in the sepulchre, They sought to blow out Mis life and to cover His manifold virtues. Bot never were shrewd and designing men more mistaken, The cros¢ exiubited Hts love; the sepuichre is power. it was tinpossivio In His life that Mis shonld be an obscure name. What meant that star which attracted the wise men? Witat meaat the temple when He drove thence the gamblers? There wasa royaity about snowed Him to be pe the Son of God. tad Hun that His Voice A GOPIIKE SOUND OF AUTIORITY. The populace followed Him with stionts of loyalty, resolving to make Him their king. How pure and #itople is His history, and yet how sublime! No teacher contd prociatm His doctrines in any age or In any countey and be obscure. He antagonized all serabiance of error. Nor Was He hitden whea He came to die, Jn Iie He had been clothed in A QUIET POWER AND GLORY. His footsteps were stlent and soft like those of an angel; yet He was famous, and at the last hour there Was not wanting an exibition of power aad tenor (hat gave nolortely to Lis dealt, It was us if @ God were dying, Noither could the sepuicare hide Him: ior He rose up and roiled Mie stoue away. Even so the glory and infiacuce of Christ WILL NOT BE CONCEALED IN THR FUCURE. His power canno: be overthrown aud His cause con never be anuinitated, ‘To du this f would be neces- sary to stop the stin in ite course and cause it to rol The unbression of the Mstorie facts in Mis ive can ne be crased fu the hearts of men, They ave cugravea on their consciences as If with A SOLDIER'S SPEAR DIPETD TN THE SiCnMD ULOOD, Woere are the men who can cause Christ to be forgotien t Voltaire, Hume and Roussean are inonl- dering 11 dishonored dust. Thelr preticuions of ts downfall only preceded the further growth of His infucnce. ‘The cuamber in which Hume oace uttered his skopticisins Was used at tee ment of the niacteeath century by & Bibie sor find the press which printed the works of Ve Was used at Genova about the time whiten suid would Witness the obliteration of the bible In making Mantfold copies of that Hooke So tattle wero their promises of the failure of Clristanity, A The reverend preacner, in pursuing his subject, said that Chrisflanity 1a ie possessor could not be fidden. The humble Caristian had A PURER FAME AND A INGHER DRATINY than statesmen, philosophers or Kies Ne uther the are many mounds m cites of the doad which ara saered to friends Who Visit them, and often hear av thetr side a volce Which speaks 10 soa! aud heart, It is A VOICE THAY 18, HOF A VOICE, et it creeps in and niters Wo! fo tne tngonty and of hope ond encouragement to the rigbtev Karth may be piled over the dust of good men, aud yet enelr examples wil not be hids den, The Christian, who 1s glorified in Heaven and Will outahine the angels, yet beckons as on, "TO the Jaiuful unto death will 1 give @ crown,’ SING SING CAMP MEETING, The Closing ServicesA Love Feast and the Experiences Related=An_ Interesting Cone version—The Financial avd Spiciiual Sauce cens of the Meeting. hs SING SING, August 25, 1971, ‘The camp meeting of 187i came toa close aiitue after midnight to-day, The closing servico was tha holding of ® love feast, one of those institutions peculiar to the people called Methoatsts, Hali-pase ten o’ciock at night was the hour appointed for the commengement, and shortly after this hour the seated space within the grove, near the preachers’ stand, Was crowded by an earnest and nappy-facod throng. Large numbers of visitors stood around, Sringing (he circle between the promenade and th CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE, ‘monition —— ee