The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1871, Page 4

RELIGIOUS. Yesterday’s Sermcns Here and Elsewhere. Orthodox Orations on Popular Subjects. The Parsons’ Lessons liticians. to the Tammany’s Turmoils and Troubles. The Value and Need of a Saviour. INFIDELITY OF THH AGE. Diseourses b) the Rey. Drs. Armitage and Thompson, Rey. Messrs. Dunham Pullman, Rey. Fathers Me ry and WWeeker. One by one the churches which have been closed or undergorag re, 5 curing the past few weeks are being reopened and crowds again flock to the places vhich they were wont to worsnip Y terday the © Nes generally were weil filled, and although iu many (ue sermons Were good in them. selves, yet there Was nothing remarkaoly striking im any of them, ‘Those, however, which were more wority of co:nment will be found condensed Ww the folilowiag reports, CHURCH OF CUR SAVIOUR. Pastor Vullmans Peevtiar Prophecies itis Bolts of Voueeance Uuried at Tammany Piacing & Bove te Your Buttouuole and Ste. Your + let sensation Amoug tue Sainte. The Church of Our Saviour—a pretty litue taber- ‘1 Universalist Society wor in West thurty- ti th ch uh ng God—ls situate gacle 1 wv ship the av etreet, near Bee soine Weeks during (he absSace of the pastor, J. M. Putian. . Yesterday it Was reopened, and ale thougn the congregation was not so iange as usual the pastor avajlett himself Of te ecoasicn to hurl the thnaders of his voles at the pares who aie Coarged { with the perpetration of FRAUDs UPON THE CITY. The reverend geutiemcn chose for his text for the sewi-political disquisiton on frauds, Proverbs, XL, I:—“Ly the Diewsiag of the upry exalted, and at 13 overiuurowa by wicked.” in opening nig address the pastor etated that ho ought to have caosen ruer cert, bat aller meet ing with this he ceased vo try, mo plated to speak he vespoustulitty of tue citizen.” He sata (iat he wanted to consider what 16 ts that bears heavily upou tie ueart of above all ler considertious— his God, his country and himnseif. paterna! geverument of man aystem of yoveriuneat, and ¢ the paraiicl be- tween thei, showing that in the carly Mtsiory of the world tue paierual or autcoratic sysiem or re- ligion was believed most suited lo human comfort, ant tiest spuitial mind: s the World advaziced in intelligence the democrauc sys- fem of reitsion and goverament which were culeue {aied 10 make Man More responsible to bis were alojt seil-gove pinent © daty of man to ie spoke of the nd tho democratic auto inert esuat funk, ’ es ponsibliliys a3 to iis SeulsSHDess, a3 Wil is to <ielluw mien, Tho trae § Wud 4y DocoMies unselfishness, for it s for mM) ‘bruiler Weilus lor me, HM it 13 more lessed io under 4 Pepudi B .0rm Of govern- fuent that uncer au autucratic Oue, It foliow> as as the b the in salu vad is clemer so is the respoustonity of wi. oF MM COMes FO Lin vets Hine buildings, but recuse 1g Uke Liasses hilisei he is your @uemy, Tb re fiusiraied Luke SUNject of man's ity by Teaerriug Loa plague a wae sw via rs ul, DUL You cuu’l exp ofa OiOuw and remove it; Jour TU WASH DIRTY VABIES," he is gutity of dereliction 1a ms aatics, make avy distinction in persons. creeps up to the windows of tae rich as well as reveling i the haunts of the synatid. No ciuzen oan Negiec: dis dusies under our system of Boveri ment. Suppose was {UB GRAND OFPESA Be HOUSH WAS THE GENIE OF ABOMNABLE FILTH, collected from the slaughter houses, to scatter tue seeds 0: disease Luougiout we Cy Low tong would your seu-e of Pre: silulity rest quiet under inese chcuimstances? Would that state of things be as baa ag Lue existence tuere of a moral pestilence Liat has appeared (urtag the few years Mast? it bas penetiated near every hous nearly Cvery Sabvarh acho he m. of every } ats niu ence, arid Wing it 10 Canut sei! la your faces. You are respousivle for its ci corrapuon, and you encourage it. ‘ihe tminisier next passed tw the © ‘alton of the Tammany frauds. Io Wis city, see bow you bave shirked your respoasibility, ou Lave allowed your Garrow seli-interest (0 caiTy Your thougiuts wway frou the puvlic mterest. You dave AUANDONED THE BALLOT BOX and become cowards. Your creed is that every Ban opp. reunity ¥ teal to advance bis Le es ull these evils, It begen on te 12th of July, and it edoy lo w mounialD. ‘Iwo things have v pas your com v, THE ACY OF WITHHOLD COUNTS oul not have been the actof an honest man; | second, siicnce under Charges can uot be te act of | lcnest mea, iia: 18 enough. (Sensation., The | fact that you are under a government of a central. | wed lori 18 ROL dangerous. ‘The result 1s what you | uave fo look at; We canuot have periection uader | wll government, We see that the cuaracter of the | voter 18 beiig degraded yeas by year, anu, owlug to | your negiect to participate tiey arc we’ ma: and their rwers @r devasing tacw. These c are NOU Secret Obes; they are opeuly made and uot emied, and, therefore. How if we submit vo inom WE WECOMK HOPELESSLY DEBAUCHED, at there 13 au atiempted just.fication for these trands-—the great Work done on the pu tno butlding of gr@nite seawalis and ot ments to beautily the city This is the justidcation, 1c is always the justideauon for iraud. ~Loaia Nuvo. ivon lor tiventy Yeas eXecuted just such work as Lis eg ey for roobery, Suey say the money haa peen spelt W veauiily the city, fo please the eye and give Leaith to the Wias-es. If they bad crected the parks in thickly populated districts this would ve more plaasibie; but they have been located in tusnly setled neighborhoods, Tius justificauon i that of the thiei Who, professing to beaulily your person, With One hand places A ROSH IN YOUR BUTTONHOLR, wolle with the ocner he sivals your property, suppressed laughter.) ihe chief dange, of tis Your Jy Lhat YOu Will let these things blow over or ACCEPT SOMK DEGKADING COMPKOMISY. I tell you f you do Bot act promptly us cload i gure to burst and send down upon us BLOODSHED DEY An TATION. Co out of this church Bud wake puvitc opinion, you may be satisved in your aijud because tis man is a democrat he must be u the’, or becuse that mau 18 & republican he is Cishourst. This is wrong. (tas got true tht EVERY DEMOORAT (8 A HOP vi but tt may be true that every worse thie: DUE PULLIC Ac | dem yerat. Smiles.) Ifa mati 4 fou 8° he ougit to co the Leg tw anieud We charter, but should b as Well as honest. The p retul adwinistration o: Ui polao laws Minority representation, aud ip couciusion declared tnat this ts TUL LAST TIMB TO ADIUST OUR WRONGS; chat unless x¢ Was dune at onee every avenue In the eny would tbe weeves that were ior advocated @ wenue on the 120n July, Thea those ¥ woo prt wend look back wee . ce, HVAT. foo end conte acalamity ted vefalien tne city. “From him to Whom much la given muci bd hong Se celivery of the discourse peculiar smatles fitted across Lue Laces Of the majority of the away, aad has been closea for | y ud selected tt as} applicabie to the suojees upum Which he contem- | ery honest mun | Bell-mncerest | wittal is Lie miterest of every | over | eis a God don't | The pesiieuce YOTILY } build on w recs s | with tae love iets | audience, while an Insignificant few soowled disap- vingly upon the reference to political affut Which argely composed the sormon. FIFTH AVENUE BAPT.ST CHURCH, The Fo.giveaess of Slos=Sermon by Dr. Armitares, Notwithstanding the pleasant weather ycsterday the attendance at this church was small. Deum’? was admirably rendered by the choir; Flock like @ Shepherd,” from Handel's *Messiah,’”” with effect. The sermon was preached by the Kev. Mr. Ari ttage, who took for lis text tie words found in Ver Who can forgive sing but H He gatd Christ had admitted tho | truth of this statement to the Pharisees, but at ! same time proceeded to show that God had iodged the remission of sins with Himself as tne Son of Man, and he gave them the proof of his abill'y to forgive sins by Licaling the palsied man before Him, tuereby estabilshing by matter of fact the doctrine of mediatorship between God and man. Yet io these days that doctrine ts rejected as & role | of the terrible and the barvarous, so that men ask you if it is not unworthy to think God aa UN WILLING TO FORGIVE upon vue same principles on which men forgive one another. ‘This ts wrong, a3 Gou 13 infinitely greater than man, and could not forgive a8 men do men, Lf Tle were to do thus He would put Himself on au equal with man, or rather put Man on an equal with Hum self. Ju the healing of this pasted man aud forgiving | lum {13 sius Christassumed the position of medla- | tor between God and man, This 18 proved by tuo fact tiat {He were not a meataior He was a faiso teacher, and usrepresented God, This we know uid Bot be, as He abided in the Father ard tho | ther in Hu. As a teacher He was wise and un- | ug, and done the will of His heavenly Father in | teaciing us to pray alier ine manner “Forgive us | ' be forgiven by Him and through a mediat Now, dearly beloved brethren, ies us fully understan Wid 1s MeauE by forgiveness. Forgiveness tupied | the entive remission uf the punispment due to ihe vltenve Or THz OFFENDER | whether it be between God and man or man and inan, Forgiveuess oun be given a many ways. Kor auce, i Loltend & mun he inay forgive me with- | wuy sorrow oF restiiuiion on my pari. The Teassa Of this is Mat we are perfect equais, and ve cause We are equal Le mey restore me to uty turer ous oo just as if Thad never odenied tim, Tis OLKAVCUGsS stands OM Lae daw Of Equality. A criue AgMUSL SoC:eLY CUNDOL DO iorgiven vy sociely, for If society Were Wo forgive 8a@ Would bring herseli vo An eqttuity Wik Ule matefactor, Soe may 250 We maraerer (raat prison, she cannot resiore | the iujury he las doue, nor id bie sdiue man he Was delore | | } Ste canuot restore quietude to his agitaied con | science, peace lv Mis Woabied gout or solace to hes | } aching heart, 1 is another dufereuce an tore | | giv ject One nay forgive When | JUDGE COULD NOs, ‘Lue highest order of iorgiveness i8 where one who | is suticriig unjustly—as in Lhe Case of Stephen tuo | | maryr—who pardons and prays tor hs tormenturs tey iiucder bil, aad have no sorrow for | ruvityt OUd a bysiaudee Cannot pardon Luese | bigue aS (he iuattye Wuased can, sibaply | beewuse Le ts actly as judge Of the gurlt of the war | devers and feels ladigaaat at seelug munocence thamipiet under foot, dhe conseyuences upou lew selves and INJURED i the dimeuity of “oogtve lag aud t possinuky of restormnmyg tom to witat ¢ beiore. Now, then, cun Goi | | forgive ai oUender Who is IN no sense on AN cQuality | ( Wit Hhaselir in order to mainiala His tacxora- are endies: pathy with Humseif aud ‘i some sense to | | moral equiaty in ctaractor Marvugh Gils 50a, Christ | therefore rendered 1b possible for God to Lorgive stus | Upun the pinciples of justice as well a3 OF mercy. | | Heace it is strauze teat such condesceasious sioud | excite Tescalmént in we heart of ian as if God uwitling to forgive ai all simpiy because Ho | lo @ syu B.UAL GROUNDS OF EQUITY | them way men puzzie themselves ery Of Divine for mysiety Of Piviue forgiveness on these priaciples we | Dave litie to do; tne fact is that 1m everytiing, | great aud smail, nat relates Lo the mysvery o: Ute, | we wail th MATERIAL, INTELLECTUAL Or ctherwise, a thousand Unugs are left ansolved, | Qua te tings which are the Most simpiec are a3 | | mysterious us the profoundest purposes aud plans of God Im human forgiveness, So that instead of r Jeviing Livine forgiveness ecause We cannot cum. preiend ig ifs mysterivusness siould be evidenca | ee id showid ODly Make Us love, Wonder and admire, x 8%, PilL’s REFORMED OHUREH, | Reopeatag wi of Chest se After ncarly and ped nthe Vall and Blessed Gospel rmon by Lev. Dr. Thompson ibree months’ vacation the pastor | ple of Unis church, in Fortieth street, near ssembled yesterday for worship and | matuai gre The mombers had prepared an abundant loral welcome for their pastor, High up j on the chance! Wall over the communion tabie, In | fowers of varied hues, was wrought the words | “Welcome nome, A, R T."—1he tnitiais cf Dr. | | Thompson's name. And suspended from this was a On the communion table there stood a Horal heart. | lily white cross, wreathed with red flowers, and on | either side lirge and beautifat bonquets, The read- | ing desk and the railing und lamps on cach side | were tastefully garianded with crosses and wreaths | | aud bouquets, aud the preacuer seemed to be stand. | ing in the midst of A GARDEN OF ROTES while he read the Sacred Word aud expounded unto the people the seciptures, The chancet wa'l bore the Inscription Ln eve. greens on either side of the pulpit, “Now ts Christ risen” an “O grave, where is thy victory” The side w "* sonounced that } Jesus Christ is “the tree tight #tieh lighteth every | man that cometli into the Wor." and prociaimed “Glory to God in the Highest, aed op earth peace, | good will to men.” ‘ihe prefatery service cun- | sisted of @ ritual condensed from the Protestant | Episcopal Charch, The sermon of Dr. Thompson ‘was based on Romans xv., 20--"I am sure that when | Feome unto you 1 sbatl eeme in the fainess of tno blessing of the Gospei of Christ.” Paul makes in this epistie a posifive point in his mtatstry not | to band on another man's foundation. He had | not planted the Church on the seven hills, | and itis not known even now who did, for whea | Pever preached bis frst aud great sérmon on the | lay of Pentevost there were devout strangers from Rome present at Jerusalem, Whoever founded tnat Church, Paul eloquently, courteously and clearly chanyes his tone coward them, and speaks advisingly to them rather than as lnstructtog or controiliag them. He desired, ere he finished his tiie work, to stand before them and declare the Itfe work of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in all its fulness and blessing. He had a presentiment that he should preach Chriai’s Gospel at Rome, and he tried 60 to arrange the time that he might visit that city when- svever he took his journey {nto Italy. He did not | want to ‘nish his life here unfil he had preached to | the ple of ome also; but he aid not want to nother man's foundation. He wouli go ALWAYS AS CHRIS'S PREACHER; | but he would go in the fulness of the bies-tng of the Gospel of Christ. Here we are shown what Paut’s habit, was. He Was not at ali abused by the power und greatness of Rome, the capital and mistress of tue Word; but with the heroism which snstained him before the assembled muitirude on Mar's iii, and which competled him to adventure himseli into the theatre at Epuesus, ho wa: Nero anu his court also, We shall never fully un- | derstand this Wondcriul man, who, next after Chnat, ts [0 Most remarkavle man Chat our race has ever produced, We must examine his uncom: | Men heart and life and see what was the control- | ag motive of all bis actions, He had an abiding | | CoMsciousness that he was sent by God and was ever uncer Divine control. but ober men bejore him and since tis time have asserted the same tuog, and yet the world fus treated them Ba fanatics, We never can understand auy man who fas left his mark ou the world uiless we come to see and to Jecl as (hey ail that | they were messengers of heaven, But lar decper | than Uns Consciousness Of divine power was tue | controling spring of Paui'’s ite, It was that Curist | haa bad inercy on hin; that Cirtat whom beiore he aid not know—whom he once weuted; that Christ Who in marvellous love and in the wost Won. deriat aud glorious manner had stepped out befure him and arrested him on his way to Damascus in- stead of allowing him to 1ol.ow tbe vent oi his owa persecuting passions anid go to ruin. CHRIST HAD OVERAWED TIM with His giorious ‘ove aad from, that moment Saut o! Tarsus vecame anotuer man, He was overcome Jurist, Who Had called him wie he | was yet a Dlaspheimer aud @ pervecttor and itjarions | | and placed jinn im the ministry, It 13 @ grand, an ! inioNicuting thing w know that we go th Chriss strength on @ divine ‘mission; tat the King | of Kings has had meiey on you wud with His crimson funds has washed you while as snow and with His fove redeemed you. From ts own personal experience the preacher conta understand womething of tie Aposte’s feeling aud reatize tho greatness of the salvation of Christ, He needed no- thing more now. It was not merely that Christ had calied itn aol sent him forth to preach the Gospe: bur back of all Chis, that Carist had had mercy on him. And there is notuing more them the in all | | 3 { “Te: Miss°s Palmer and Beebe sang, ‘‘He Shall Feed His ; | way. our trespasses,” thus sbo0Wing Uthat they peeued to | his | God creaved, | edeeruat longuag lor more G | selves of the che NEW YORK HEKALD, MONDAY. SHEPTEMBER I, 1871.—IR. Christian than the Fountain ean cai tae beeh A man can’t tell wha: he | not Kuo @ are sometimes alarmed at the utier- | ances of “Free Thinkers;” but there is really no need to be afraid, for ihe woth can never sufer, They have nothing to p.esent but none which we can eastly and readily mect wi A positive, 1 | Know tne themes whereot I speak. bt Bene ‘argne that there 1s no such thing as this Gospel | which We preach bor tas couschousness of sins for- given whereot we aftirm. But of wh avail w it when our parched lips have tasted the cool water wards lowly abode, where dwelt s humbio virgin, Tamed Man ive? , THE SPOUSE OF A POOR MECHANIO, and announces to her that she if to become the Mother of God, Mary believes and, adoringly, cou- sents, and that deciaration and acyttescence becaine for tue world the announcement of salvation. The Holy Spirit, in fact, imme: of the virgin a buman body. similar to our own, and at the Word of God, the second ‘Trinity, onited Himself to t body and that soul, 4nd our souls bave been fed and strengihenei oa the aad tbat sacred combination ts Jesus Corist, the bread of fife: woen our weary feet, treading through , Saviour of men, aud the mystery of that memabi the angled Jungle with @ living Christ vefore us — alliance is what is known as the comes at lust to MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION, REST UPON THE ROOK? | But when it is said tunt the Kternal Word unt Paul knew there was a gospel of Ohrist, that it | tiselt to the body and the soul formed by the spirit was full an |, and in his soul there was room | of God—in the y of Mary—he held that it was for noting more, What elge could he ask? and in not to ve understood that a union like that formed the fulness of this biessed gospel he was minded to between two Iriends, but which makes of two come and preach to the Church at Rome. friends a single @ single soul; nota union Dr. Thompson then drew a@ contrast between Paul's spirt and preaching Peter's, And ad- vised his people that they must not expect every preacher to minister the same traths in the sume Noone wan has more than & (ragment of human naiure, aud each one ditiers trom a@uotner @n. in their discrepancies We have the living proof of the trath of what tuey Que stands here and another there, 8T. PAUL WAS & CATHOLIC in the best sense of tat term, and he (the preacher) thought the word toe good to be resigned or yivea over to the Roman Cuurca. He proclakned Christ for men, and «very man, because of his manhood, is eutitied to this fulness of «biesail oO Christ, Peter coun not fad room for any man unless he entered Heaven through the Jewish 4 Chureu and the Lord had the greatest trouvle to convince him that that wien He ual cieausel was no longer common or uucican, But this inter cosmopolitaa aul saw in every man a brotuer an heir of saivauon, It ts pot always pleasant to know more tian ovber men, and the first anuouace- ment of a new trath 19 invariably pronounced heterodoxy, an] few men could uaderstand Paul as of the gospel | heart, sim.lar to that which God establishes with the just a0ul—a union of whieh our. Savour, in ees the name of His Father, by the Holy Spint, thus lesiguates—“if a man love Ne he will keep words, and My Father wi:l love tim and We wil come into him and make our abode with him.” This Uunivn of affeotion divers essenunily from the union Waich operated at the woment of the imcarnation between the Word of God sad the bowy and soul Sormea by the Holy Spirit. ‘THE UNION OF TWO FRIENDS does not prevent the one from being distinct from the other, Each preserves the control of bis actions and bis proper personality, The one i Dot at ail respousible ior the acts oi (he other, And this, said he, 18 true of the uatun of the just soul witb God, Although God unites Himself with the soul of tne faiibiul that man existe as a distinct person from God; each equaily preserves his own personulity. | The action of tue just soul cannot be called tie ace he declared rigucaud loit to Jew and Greak, bar barian and Scytinan, bond and free, that because they Were meu tier were eatiiied to THE SALVATION OF OURIST. The Doctor thea related & litte personal ex: rence of his owa duriug is vacation ia preach De> | i to the “heathen Chinee” ta California and tw pro. | WniScUOUS asseinDIages In the Sierras, by the light of fires ten feet higa, the same full and bleased Gospel as he had now prociaimed. And with afew words of ihankiui greeiing ior the Klud remembrance of Peopiec he Closed the services. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, Sermon by tho Rev. Faiber McNicrney— Denib and Ureparatioy tor it—The Wolly of Not Bring at Cexce with de At St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday High Mass was sald oy the Rev, Father McNamee and the ser- mon preached by the kev. Father McNierney, wuo took nis text from Luke vil, 11-16, Death, ever sure to come to all of us, 1s one of the consequences of Adam’s fall. have got to pay for the sin of the first man whom Our whole lives should be # prepara- tion for THAT AWFUL MOMENT when the soul leaves the body, ‘Then the world eins and eternity begins, But now lite do wo tunk Of clus during Ife, or reileet upon the difters ence between tie future of misery aud that of bisst Is would seen, /udging from men’s acts, that chey were unaware that God ts just ana punishes as weil | as rewards, A life of sin oroi viriue must meet with digerent consequences; yet, lovk around aud , BEROLD THE INIQUITY that reigns on every side, Wirh experience of how suddenly death steals on us at mes, we go om Ditudily and pausing to ask ourselves what saall be the Judg- meat of Cod upon us. Wate to health and strengin { the city 13) bie goveruineut HE Seu 49 FON tO acc asa medi | peopic forget that there 1s @ God; when sickness th of the | Ator beiween God and man, therevy lidng hin Up | seizes us we are in hopes of recove! but It too Oiten happens that even with death staring us ia the face we do not make onr peace with God. What Should ve THE ONE GRAND OBJECT of our lives 1s the least thought of The world can a ali that Was struggled Jor, prized and worshipped | ginks into insiguiicance When the samimons goes } coreb that brings the siuner Oelore tne judgment seat. As death approachys and the world is aig rom us quickly there thoughts to ill our mind, and im this dist and painful stele Lhere 48 ulways danger. live spent in GRASIFYIND EVERY PASSION Cun It ts the penalty we | recklessly in @ career ot sin, never | J os litue when the time comes to leave tt, aad | many terribly serious | Alera | the few hours be.vre acath are not suiletent to; prepare to meet God, aud t Wh.ch is ever sure to be experienced, mcreuses ite dinicelty and causes more dauger bo bie sou! Heice, death-bed repeutance ts UC a poor thing to depend apon, and it as didicatt (0 Understand Low 80 many sluners, rememoering that Luere Is an clerual hpreatter, wile trust ihe saieiy ol ti wuts ty bats Chances. ‘It ts asad sight ty yee Le death Of a sine ner; (0 see the despair Laat séliles uved tim, TUB HorELgss APPEAL the seti-n | to God for mé Au 6 da darin lo do pehauce. Sul on the otier Aand there 1s sometiing heaveniy in the civsing of # lie spent in rvice of God and in the preparauion for the neat world, ‘The cal se:enity and HORE AND JOY with which death is awatted tel: plamly tne heart at peace witlt inere are ne tears ubout is World or Cue eat; death means sitiply the passing a to a Would Which there t# eterual rest aud happi- iy leading virtuous lives We prepuce for by jeadiug stutui i yes WE DEFY GOD. The eis more peace of miud, more real pleasure and greater couteuunent tu a virtavus Mie than 1 a life of 8.n, tnd deain wiways has less terror for those at peace Wild God than for those Wuose mids are euslaved uy the world and its vanities, The preacher then extoried all who were im sia to avail (icine nce they Had of becoming recod: ctied with God belure tt was too late, and Gus pre- pare sor dean, wick was certain to come sume line, and perhaps suddenly. th death; CHRIST CHURCH, FIFTH AVENUE. The Mystery of the I laterestiag Docirinal Discourse fhe Augel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary—How Christ was Borns and How God is Man and Mau Js God—A Sermon by Rev. S. F. Duntam, | Christ church, Filth avenue and Thirty-tifth street, a costiy evlitice, and one of tie most tasto- fuiy finished church structures in the city, was well filled yesterday morning, the inajor portion of tne generally wealthy members of the congregation ; Daving returned from thelr accustomed summer re. sorts, The musty, which has long been noteworthy + In this church, was yesierday especially good, parit- cularly the singing oi the boys, whose accurate time and harmonious intonation were the subject of re- mark as ihe audience leit the church, THE SERMON was delivered by Rev. 8, F, Dunham, who, with the Incarnation as his theme, selecied as ms text Jonn 1, 14—*'And the Word was made Fiesn.” Having aeclared his subject by reading the text, he, in @ rely meiodious voice, entered upon his Subject with the saying that for 4,000 years God had given man up to tis misery, without allowing bim to rejoice in. a Redeemer except through hope. God had thus ABANDONED MAN, In order to make him fully comprehend the vaiue of @Saviour and the need of aSaviour. For if man had been redeemed immediately atter the fall he would not have comprehended his favored condition, he could not have believed nim- self capable of s0 great basences, and therefore would not have appreciated the gifts of Go, It was, then, worthy of Divine wisdon to defer the meffaple benefit witch He wished to confer upon | the carth, In this connection he felt that we should never forget to express the gratitude we owo to God in permitting us to be born after the birtn of | our Saviour, rather than during the 4,000 years | | have done for tt, which preceded His gtorous doubt we could have been SAVED BY FAITH in the promises which were gractonsiy vouchsafed in & Redeemer, but how much superior is our pres- cut condition, Then we would tot have had the example of a God to encourage, the doctrine of the Holy Gospel to direct us; then we would not have had the biessed sacraments to sustain us, which forty while they raise the soul inio the patus of everiast ng life, We would not fave had the Cuuren with her sacrea teachings, How thaukiul, (nen, saouta we be titat God could haye caused us to ve KORN DEFORE OUR SAVIOU advent, W out Ry and permitted us to see tne Light, by a compassion | Whotly gratuitous, im the better times of His gos pel. He said that the fulness of time appointed in ino eternal designs of the Father vemg accompilsacd, God sent trom the foot of His throue THR ARCH ANGRL GADKIEL, | to her In whom would be accomplished that mystery | by wiuch the haman race Would be saved, It Letore the tutfilment of the designs ot God, it had been announced vo man tat God was about ty take upon dimseif humanly, im we boxom of a wouina, Where would the imagination have sought ud Mother Of Got? Would it not, Without douvt, have chosen some princely family, tie occupant of an Hustrions throue, surrounded by @ brillant court and dweiling in all the maguificence of a ace, But how different are God's Ways irom man's ways! ‘The ange! nbowledge OL His, | us and the in- | frou a world ia Whtea ibere was no real rest | F any | aad reiatives—yea, more than life itself? | Datiou feels Rumored 1a baving wa | to the human anteitigeuce | | Dumericat tion of God, But in the auatierable mystery of the incarnation the Creator unites Himself so intimately With the creature that irom the Creator ard, the creature there results one sole person. Tue Word of Giod absorbs the personality of the numan nature, 80 that ine DIVINE AND THH HUMAN NATURB exist a3 a single person, ft is a umon Jike that which unites the body and soul. Thi: alltante of the body and the soul does net constitute two erdons. The body aud the sou are so untied that ia Logether form but one single person, In the same Way, In tue Licarnation, the divine nature aad the human natuce are so clusely uutted thal from Mem result Dub one sole person, Of such @ nature that the actions of the one are characterisiic wiih the other, and are imputed to it, of such a nature as Uhat Gud must say that “GOD WAS BORN,” that God snifered, that tod died. It ts true, said ho, that tne dive nature capnot be born, siuce it 1 eternal; that it canaot suiler, since it 13 timporsible; that it cannot «ie, sluce It is immortal. But tt 18 no less correct to say Uiat the divine nature is born in the human native; that it ussociates Mseif with that person; tiat tho ae Person has suifered im the human nature; THE DIVINE PERSON DIED in the human uaiure with whica it was associated. ‘This anton, suid he, 18 so close that one can au Should say Liat “God is man” and ‘man 1s God. And from tus we can realize to what an elevation God fas raised our soul In the mystery of the m- caraation. Bul, although Chis udion be so Intimuie, we must not conciude that i goes to alter or cone found the divine nature aod the human nature. After adding authority and illuse tration to fhe deviarahoa, showin; how desus Christ 13 “known to ve perfect God, cons sideriu the divine nature and the luman nature of our Lora nave each them respective understanding aud Will, and setiimg forth the reverence which Ourisi ia WIS HOLY INCARNATION | Commands, or should comuiand, he concluded with un eloquent refereuce to the love we owe the Incar- hate Word, At waat period of the world’s history, sald he, speaking of Jesus Carist, was Mis advent? It was ata ume wien the world was aarkeved by crime and error-—whes mea prostraied themselves betore dedicd passions and every concetvabie vice; ata Que when everyintug Was God excep? Goi Hvesed, “the Word was made Kesh? What beart of stoue does not melt at Lhe coniemplauon of this | inestimavie gilt, givea Ly $0 great a Beneiactor? CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE, Sermon by Fathor ecker on Holy Faith—The InGielity of Oar Time, The waguiticent church of St. Paulin Fifty-ninth street was thrunged, as usual, yesterday by a brilliaus and tatent congregauon. The ceremonies were iin pressive, aud tie chou performed its part with great sausiacuon. Ligh muss was celebrated by kev. Father Dwyer, aud, at the appropriace time, the | Very Rev, J. T. Hecker asceaded tho pulpit, aud de livered ® very able @iscourse on faith, Being of @ logical cast of mind, Father Hecker generally seeks to stamp — convictions of the tratis which he propounds on we minds of his hearers, aud atterwards embel- | lishes his stern doctrino in a truly pootle manaer, It 19 to the Cold rationalist us well as to the tuo fer ; Veut traditionalist that the discourse of yesterday shail prove most fnteresting. His text the preacher took trom I, Cortuthians, xvi, 18—**Watch ye, STAND FASE IN THE FAITH, do manfully, and be strengihened,” What ts it, he sald, that makes faich tu Le of pricetess value? Why shonld we esteem if more tian placed and lands We may estimate the wortit of things mm (wo Ways—viz,, by the value of their inherent qualities, aad by chat Which mea are wiilibg to suffer in order to posses3 them, Let us consider tie value of faith from each Of these staudpolats, There are many things which men prize nighiy. AG ceriain seasons men cross the seas and endure satigue in every form simply to admire nature, to survey streams and mountains aad perfumed flowers, and revel in tne songs of birds. And why do men prize | these beautiful scenes? There must be, there ts, something valuable in them; for bas not te prophet exclaimed:—"Tae heaveas and the earth are full of Thy neves?” The sam3 can be said in regard to the Works of men. Why do you love poetry, aiusic, palnuuyg, soulptarer Why have THE VERSES OF HOMER and Shakspearea eeu the delight of ages? A whole Y, & Raphael ora vante, We are detigutod to ti é strains of ethoven end M We are siruck with euouion when We iook upon majestic ruins. why? Becunse they, more than other thing: embody tue divinity, tre beauty au the attributes Of God, But, more than anything which cau be ound in nature, tata elevates Ue soul of man, brings ft hearer lo Goud, ubd Inspires hin With a far greater Kuowledge than he can Sad in nature, How match wore, Uicrefure, should Dot fuitn be esicemed than those temporal delizhia? We know How many mea are devote Lo science, WhO seem Lo Live dione ior tuat Kuuwiedge. The astrouu | mer, gazing on the puneis, discovers great lawa fut Mods wat they guvera the universe; he then 1ovks Ou ull His Labor as naugnt, because oy Wufuide hew truths he ts lifted nearer to God. And the reason 13 obvious, Ali truth ts in burmony. The teuui mi uature ts trom the same source as the truth in Our sOuls and ba tue Seripcures. A 1 imagine tuat Were 1s uw Coniradicuon velwoon tiese itis Le cause tuey pursue a SCISNCB PALSSLY $0 CALLED. This capacily to perceive beauty in nature, art and laws, beluigs to our reasun, and 13 a tle which Cannyt be esiecined too highly, Why tien Should We .Ovk 00 iaith a8 sOTMeLhIng More precious than all Chiags? ecause tue itgiit of tatu Is given to entance and to Mluininate ail other tings. Tue light i nature Goes not satisiy mun; he wants to come fearer to titinite tuta, and have those aspira- tions more fully sausied, Christianity has no ower to bring the humag suvul nearer to God, ‘bls iore intimale relations between ts 45 done by the haht of Give faith, Hence it 1s that it You vathe anything on earth, you Must value fain stil more, I you love navure, art, science, that is Woy you showd be a Christian, and ail the betler because Curistanity brings as Nearer to the object of reseercu Vaan all cur reason, ‘The ght of fauu—woa AN ORNAMENT AND CROWN dé brings us to God as children, bot as creatures; ik suowe iim, uot as the Great Cause, hor as Providence, but as Hit to Whout We may ory Out, With tho inmost asiection ol our nearts, Abba, Father. M anytuing 1s truly valuaule it 1s So because Mt brings us nearer to God; but Juith brings us nearer to Him thaa anyening elses Here 18 the essence of Chrisiaatty, 1t will make US participators In tils divine aature; rer our souls wii torrent® of deligut wand mina tuom in His giory and beatitude, 48 not everything else as nothing When compared to it? Faith velug thus vaituvie by its quatities let os see Waat men Carist, 10 besiow tua gift, n+ spired the propneta, aud did not fear to become 1Uan, 80 greal Wao the gill Lo Hts creatures, he sul+ fered tue death of the cross to accompiisu tho BLEVATION OF MAN to the divine order by ie gut of faith. That for Wiican the God-Man aid 50 much must be of inestim- The aposiies before chey obimmed tb abie value. were Umid; but wren hey had received it they suf fered and gioried (uercia, because it was ior Jesus, who had given Liew so precious a gilt, Ana When, me faith Was pubilohed 14 pagan Kome hovois, wealth, joys Were renounced joe at. dn France, Germaay aud Ireland jaultindes abandoned every: ‘Unig for It; Dations have been Wiped away for it. Jn moderh. Wines Christians have relused knows lodge wuen poisoned with heresy. And you who have left dear oid Irelaud, why are you tere to-day ? Because you loved your fain avove every endear- fa ile, Had you chusen to abandon you coud ve prosperous to-day. Look ihe throug Of convers Wao Have cast aside Wealll, and power, and fame for that hoy tain alverWards made them herails Of trath to Do we apprecaio (his git ae they did? ii 40, when ns the Words of the Aposile have a trne abd living meoniwmg, 91 ever Ww SHOULD WAICH itisnow. The nations to which the Church gave arta, and which have become great auder ler ban if ‘hag jonger be lovked upou as deicuders ‘The very countnes im Wuich we strong are governed by — intideis* Watch, aud stand sast in the saith. do we be- hold in the iterature of our Lime? Calumnes, lies, Gabriet directed his steps to- | tuisvepresentativas. What in the press—the most vowertal eagine of modern timesy Eumity to our = in What manner the fatty teaches us that } 1PLE SHEET. Teligion; and If we attempt to claim those rights which we should claim, we should be told that we were stirring up strifes, vc. ‘The very atmosphere Wwe breaine is poisoneu witn ATHRISM AND INFIDELITY, Do you appreciate jaith? Keep it in view and make it the standard of vour juigiments, pulitical as Well as reiizious, Ask ‘Yourselves the question, Do we live tn the great ‘truths, paradise, eternity, hell, and yet sacrifice our faiths Can men say What they please abot not lift our votces ue our religion; and shall we } tru be eon b: "Tt ©, can Hever be o| ex PI ‘cept by inst them? Holy faith, calumay, It | should th beour aim to resist such calam- nies, and that, too, 0 political as well atairs, We cannot saver by so dot is esteemed who 18 [aise to his own convic'100s. Let us act inaniully, a8 our foreiatners did. If we do, we shall be strengti to vanquish all our igh they be ten thousand, Father Hecker conciuded by offering a prayer to the “mother most faithful’ to obtain for ail men the gilt oF faith, SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. W. S. Minels=Che C of Ged in the World, After the usnal exercises at the Sixteenth street Baptist church yesterday morning, Rey. W. & Mikels, the pastor, preacned a very interesting ser- mon, taking for his text, ‘‘Ye are chtidren of God throngh faith in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians lit., 26.) All mankind are children of God by creation, but they become Christians by special grace. St. John saya, “To them who receive this spectal grace is given power,” &c. This blessing ts received by faith im Jesus Christ as in context. The text pre sents @ new revelation in reference to Christians BROUGHT TO GOD BY FAITH in Jesus, “Ye are children of God through faith in Christ Jesus,” Behold what manner of love God | had for us when lie gave Hie Son 10 save us, And We are told that we are [lis children.. What manner | of love that we should be called children of God. “Not by might, not by power, but by My spirit,” salih the Lord. Redempilon and regeneration are both essential for snivation. Ono is not sufilcient without the other. We must be regenerated. ‘Be- cause ve are sons God has sent His spirit.’ WE ARE NO MORE SERVANTS, but children; we are sons of God, Tie world re- viles and despises Christians, but they are the chile dren of God. The others have wealth and plenty; but, alas! how sad would it be if this was all that was tobe given to them. We find people of tho world proudly claiming kindred with, or tracing their descent vack 10, some noble or jearned oF cele. | brated person, The Jews boast of taelr vetug 8018 of | Abraham; David asked if 1 was not gveat to be the son-in-law of a king? But how proudly can tho Christian point up towards God and say, “Thou art my father. Whom God loveib He caaste .eth.” Yet also He says, ‘i spare them AS THE MAN SPARES THE GHILD he loves.’” When you dud yourself oppressed by sore row and almost ready to sespatr, hen your way ts in darkness, with no ight to guide qour steps, bope 1 God and stay yourself! on your God, When you | can © the Woras, “Now you see shrougn @ glass | darkly,” when tt seems as if the light would never come, there wil be a rent ip the dark, overhang: | Ing clouds, the bright, cheerlay sunshine will pour through, and you will then percerve that through al! your journey you have been led slong by t.o | hand of o loving Father toa highcr plane. In His Wisdom He sends trials for our goo4, to fit us for the Teen o1 the inheritance prepared for us, beyoud reach of ‘moth ana rust and thieves.” If wo ARG CHILDREN OF GOD, ‘We not only ought to love Him, but we do love Him, For tots very love 1g an evidence of our new birth or regeneration, In addition to loving God we ongit ulso to tear Him; not with a servile fear, snol. aS a@ Servant has for bis master; but with o Mlial | fear, such as the fear of a son for a kind Dt. A | fear of offending tim because we love Him shoatd actuate us uud keep us froin doing ougit to dis. please Him. Have we faith In Christ Jesus, and aro We by faith made children of God? ‘fo the latter part of the question the text furnishes 0s 2a aaswer. “Ye ave curldren of God througa FAITH IN CARis't JB203."" ‘The reverend gentteman closed nis discourse with & lervent appeal to hts hearers to preserve thas faith 1 Christ and to persevere until the end, until they shouli see Him face to iace, unt hear fal) trom His lips the weicoie words, “Come my ciilaren, < Methods of confession nrust man’s Characteristics. ‘The cout be format; i should tude and love’ that iy. ‘They snould boastiully, tor if @ man it proves that he was empty bet be ‘made ancha y. The shonid have its roots in the speaking of Cirlst. prejudiced by unseasonapie tak of Christ A mam Who speacs of Ubrist to men must pave his , BEART FOLL OF TRUB BYMPATHY, We must calculate men, our brains, our sense, 1 persuns with the Church should Dave au opportunity of con- feasing \'hrist. Kvery one who aow ae ever confessed will 93. surely receive the iG» Hon as Peter received tt, and let us everywhere cone fess humbly and very lo » “the lives that we DOW lave we live by taith ip the 5om of Gou,"” ST. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Sormon by Rev. Father Moran—Ralsing of the Dead to Liles ioral Deuth—shocsing Incident 0} Dipravity. St, Stephen's Roman Catnolic Church, situated om Carroll street, near Hicks, South Brooklyn, is one of the most unpretending of the tweuty-s1x houses Of worship of that denomination withia the diocese of Brooklyn, and was purchased to meet the constantly increasing waut of additional ac- commodation for the Oatholics in that section oirhe city, about four years ago, The Congregation tn wttendance at each of tno four Masses and vespers held on Sundays at St. Stephen's is very large, 50 much so indeed as to forcibly impress | the ovserver with the fact of the almost absolute necessity of exertion belug nade oy them to erecta LARGER AND MORE SUBSTANTIAL structure, the pressat building belug aectdedly inw adequate to the requirements of the parish. It ts, lodeed, somewhai remarkavie that so much apathy shonid exist upon this suiject among a fuck thas, Judging from the regulat attendance at all the sere vices held there, ts really 4MALOUS IN THE CAUSE OF RELIGION and alive t a proper sense of duty im ail else that pertains thereto, At the principal mass Yesterday the worthy and ever-atientive pase tor, Rev. Father Moran, preacued, aud Kev. Father Doran offered the sucriiice of the mass, The text selected by the revereud gentlemam was taken from st. Luke vil, 11 to 19 inciusives wherein ts cited the uitracie performed by Christ tm ‘the city of Nain, tp which He raised to Iie tno only son of a wiiow aud tuid Dim to walk, The lessom Uaught was a sublime one, demoustrating as it dvca the depta of the mercy and compassion of our Dix vine Lord for the sorrow-stricken aad bereaved mother, Wao mourned the ios of the Child taut wad dear to Ler heart, because not Only of the ciose ues of nature wick bound them, but also fur is maay Wduly aud noble virtues, Tae raising of the deas 0b_cct to a newly created being, as it were, was them the greatest buod possible Lo assuage tae anguish of the moarning parent, Yet the grief entailed by the juss of Kindred or Hitends will be erased by time fa this world, Which Deals ALL WOKS IN A MERE WORLDLY SENSE. But what fas the lapse of ume to do wito (ue mitts gauon of the patos Of those who dia the mori Geash—wao are cut down in mortal sin? No perio of triat, however great, cau exteuuale the Disery, gid sudering of SHB LOST LIFB OF THE SOUL. ‘The patriot wuo loves fis Country wil proadly suf. fer vuy Cocmeis 10 the cause of Uberty Which can im why Way teud to giorliy tae causefor Witica Dis asple rations are enlisied. “Oh! teu, feliow Caristiat continued tie speaker, how is 16 possible that w caa endure 50 Much ior the things vf Luis ile, feet | tog aud coiraptibie as We Kuow them to be, ana | aadinerent to tit which 18 eterual aad invol' enter here; this 18 the imberitance | have prepared for you.” BROOKLYN CHURCHES, Beeouer’s Frother on Confession of Christ—Ex- emplification of Chri tian Unity at tha Vabernacle—Father Moran on Moral Death. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Confessing Christ—Sermon by Rev. James i Brecher, Piymouth charch was well filed yesterday morn- ing, thongh the pastor still lingers away from his in the choir, and at bis mght the sweet voiced soprano, Mrs. Hoyt, but Mr. Zundel's place was filled by Mr. Harry Duncan, a promising young mus.clan, Who presided at (ho o1gaa With skill and erlect, Mr. Beecher preached upon the duty of men who accept Cliist in their hearts and receive strength and gutdance [rom Lim, to coniess Him before men, He said;—fhe most of our Saviour’s teaching was tn short, sharp, terse, sweeping sentences. Hts teachings were the seed of truth, and out of every one of sus sentences there were whole harvests to grow. He taught by SHARP, DIREOT, ACOURATR EXPRESSIONS of truth, each following atter the other and each supplementing the other, so that if you want know the words of our Lord you must know tie whole of bis words, There can be more conira- diction and misunderstanding made out of the words of the Son Of Mau than out of the words ofany man, We turn to a sample teaching, “ Whosoever will confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father who is in heaven. And who» soever shall deay me before men hyn will I deny before my Father who isin heaven.” Can you m- agiue two more stertling and distinct statements bearing on eternal destiny? Bow shall I confess Chiiat before men? Yhere isn'ta word about this. How do men deny Christ? Not a word in reply, THIS 13 INSCRUTABLE tous, Uniess we let our Lord also be tho interpre- ver our speculavons won't amount to much. Be who spoke musi also interpret. The New Testa- meut 18 nota viography. 1 believe it to be vaiu work trying to Make a harmony ol the Gospels. They miatiew and Luke do nov exacu.y agree in the tune Of two iucidents, and xo commentators put thet heads together wid ty to Ket up a chronvlogt- cal sequence. | Now, «lus 18 all wonseuse Imany Luin ble opinion. The incidens in the Tesiameut ure oniy to illustrate the teachiug of our Lor. You Wl tnd the study of the New Lestament greatiy increased 1 lateresi if You set yourself to watcug the leactiugs vf Christ and the ilustrations, We have one of these iLustrauions tis noraing. Christ bays, “Wnhosvever shail couless me boiore men hun will { confess beiore amy Faiher who isin haven,” and tinmeutately folowing 18 His convorsation with platform and his people. Mr. Cainp was in nis seat | Vv everlasiing happiess or misery never euding. | matters noc FO the Chrisuan in woat uanuer ‘Where death contes to bin so lung us he 13 preps us tie penaicy Of sin ts death, whion il must payy Yo the reprovaie wb 18 a thing to ve feared au dreaded, tor When be gOcs down bo the gr ve ag buch be remains A REPROATE FOR ALL BIERNITY. The life of tue soul is, then, purawount to all else. it is & great und true principle of theology tial when tu a state of morial sin We Cannot wo mucg as appeal eflivaciousty to God except vy the dispea< sation of His aivine mercy and grace, wiihoug whica to cail upou ddim is to be guiily of a mockerse God ta tity mercy and love for man is aaily rating frou morai death thousands aud ratiiions of creas tures, and we shoaid never cease tc return Ht Thauks and tue devollon of wed-spent lives, As wi lustunce of the a a Bu iG STATE OP SOciKE at present, Mather Moran related a circumstance ubparali i i ducive lo decency wud respect. “He had been foul aud bis creduiity Wad been played upon by @ scound drel, Who was uuworlay of exisicuce and wi Jusily earved tie abhorrence aud coutempt of ail men, About ® Week ago he pertormed tie sacra meut Of imatritguny for # ian who bad been twr previously auuoudced frowu ihe altar ia that lure! uuder the Dawe Of McLain, os avout to conrad | marriage With & youl Wonin also a resiueat of {nat parish. conlémpt for ug INFERNAL SCOUNDREL who had so set at deflance uli thai Was Virtuous and holy, upou sinve leaning that We fsilow hal di ceived iia; Wat bis real Mame was Roones, a: Una he bad uwife and tire children residing ig Sackett sirect. The victum of the ruiian was very respectably connected, aud was under the suppusi« ton Lhat the ieiluw was @ single and honorable mane dius man bs MORALLY DEAD, AND SUNK } deep into the pli, irom waich te exercise of diving merey alone cal extricate from everual perdi'ioa. ‘There is a Warning coutamned in toils incideat Which 13 Worthy the attevtion and most serious cousidera- Uon of parents aud guardicns, upon Whom & sact trust i repoved—that Is, they caauot ve Loo caret in watehiug their children wad aking theimselvet acquainted Whh the character of thelr assoctutes. Young , TOO, 8 eed “ What avus then (be pastors horror and WOMEN, HOULD 6% MORE CAUTIOUS, and «ive less ly to the soft words and allures ments of tue tempter, who tM ever ready to prey upon the weak and tnnovent. in cunctustou, my dear brethren, said the clergyman, | aduronish | her to give car to the Hings Of the Church, which the pliar and ground 01 truth, Hearken to voice, Which willever guide you tm the path of vir- tue, trach and morality in ail thiags. Approach the sacranents, Which ure Cie ireastires dispensed for the reiresimeat of tae weary, dud which Wt! enable you tw discharge every Cliristiau duty, seb a good example to your neighvor, aud tn the end—towarda Which we are hustening—lead you to the reward ia store tor all Woo love God and Keep 18 commana. Wweuls, Witch ts ine blessing 1 wisa you ali. BEDFORD AVENUE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. o River of Ged’s Vieasure—Sermon by Mev. As H. Partridac. During the summer months Chrisi’s church, om Dedford avenue, has been painted and renovated, and yesterday it was reopened, the rector, Rev. Ae H, Variridge, conaveting the services and preache ing the sermon, At the concinsion of the reading of the liturgy Mr. vartridge congratulated ths cone gtegation upon their eiforts in cleausing and beans ying their temple of worship, sud counselled them not to allow anything impure to remutu within thee a J ever, Which does bul stand by whe side of the lesson by accident, but by anspireiien. We are commanded Ww conle=s With tiie Mouth. Why? 1 say, dirst, THROUGM COMMON HONESTY. No true mun will receive a favor without acknow- lodging it. ‘ibere Is no more apparent duty than tat ob soknew ong ibg what we have received. Your whole jtie 13 What itis because of Chiist, aud you are derehiet uf ia Withhuid your confession of His gts. Now, t tinnk ti.at We, a8 Cnnstians, are especialy At tauil iu respect to coufessing Chriat by word mou. tiese Whom we love We (atk avout irecly, and couless our love if we are true in those relations, insomuch ag our eartaly loves bevome ® part of our inner iife, 80 much more do we talk of our loves. We recognize what principle im society. But even amoug Carisuans f woudl i aay relnvion Is spoken of jess than (hat Which inciudes all tue biood re+ hearts, but in the strength of the good Spirit to give themselves up to God and His service, He urged them to iook at the flelds that were ripe unto the harvest and to see if the Great Master had now calied some of them to work in His vineyard. ‘Those of his hearers who had not already engaged 1m the work of Subbaih schvol teaching were ex« hoived to dally make sacrifices for the salvation off the children, so that they might become good citle zens, ornaments of the Church, aud finally reach the other side of the dark civer. Alter the singing of ahyni ihe rector proceeded to doliver @ short, earnest, practioul sermon trom the cighth verso of the thirty-sixta psalm—“Thour jationsiips of fe; jor did not Christ say, ** lio who doeti the will OL my Father who Js in leaven, the same 18 my mother and sister and vrotner.’” L am pained beyond Measure thal Luis should DE 80, aud J lor one Bean to try tu GEE RUD OF THIS RESTRAINT, and to confess Christ oul of the pulpit as well asin Ne We see @ Whole roont full sittiug ad though they wore under a tremendous Wet blanket, Way is 16 so Hura to speak of Carist? Wedo avt mean uny de- spiie lo briet. We do love Him ;.ut there is someting Wrong, Witwb must irreligious mon say? hac must mquiring men Bay’ LVoubiless the toundation r0* b Of a true confession Is 1D a weil sormed life, FF aueing tne ite of Christ. But this lie loses a ol kK power unieds Lie Hie is shown to be Christ, ‘The life 14 wot complete Withont tue con asin of the woutn. 1 can conceive of no more Hurt+ Jul dema: of, Christ than to do Lie works aud ieluse the couiession, and they who do the must natin to- day are tio mou Who from the grace of Gud live true, noble tives aud yet Abstain irom giving tie glory to Ged, irom coufessiug Curis They are trag ud hones everywhere, excepting to God ant Christ. At be @ poor ut the last day to pay :—"0 Lord! L veut an (hag (hat poor Joilow in tue Charen,’ B HONESTY, 1 MONO) Integrity; virtue, but ihey are gifs of God, and if torough tho grace of God & man lives through lemp.siton and keeps his high standing, he shoud coufess that “the lie he lives he lives thioush tie Son of God.” “How contess Curt? yousay, ne snalt make them to druk of tbo river of thy, pleasure." Jp his Opening remarks he said that such a decla~ ration as the text Jed one to think of the giorious Giver of all good, and whe first Josson which the « earth, tho seas aud the rivers taught us wus the thoughtfulness aud the MINUTE AND TENDER CONSIDERATION He tas manifested toward us inthe adaptation of ali His Werks to our necessities, Long before God planted a garden tn Eden tor the Orst human pair to dwell in He was preparing the whole earth for ns fatare inhabitants; aud every foot of the eartirs surface and every new digcovery of its exuausticss riches should teach us how long and cenerously our Fatner hath veen providing for our need befure wo camo Into possession Of our earthly nouse, ie touched our nearts When an earthly friend brougns Us Home Meinen oO irom a loreigu land. There hud been great thoughts O Kimdnes4 toward us in tna Jnduite mind lor everlasting, and the Great Being who npheld words by the power of His word pever fatied io think of itis creatures as & Wise wnd lndul~ geut loving father thought of nis cuit iron, THB ESS@NCE OF ALL RELIGION hink and act aud feel ward God just ae sy Coward Us Geumaded, Exerouing de Was to Mis Kind