The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1871.—TKIPLE SHEKe RELIGIOUS. The Sermons Yesterday in the Metropo- lis and Elsewhere. CIVIL CORRUPTION CENSURED. | The Moral Reformation of New York City to Come from the Young Men, NEW YORK WORSE THAN PARIS, Spiritual Orations from the Vari- ous Christian Pulpits. THE SPIRITUALISTS IN COUNCIL. Dizcourses by the Rev. Drs. Thompson and Ogilvie, Rev. Messrs. Hepworth, Giles and Hall, and Rev. Fathers Cazeau and McCready. CITY CORROPT! The Canses and the Remediex--Discourse by Rev. Dr. Thompson iv the Broadway Taber- macle. The Broadway Tabernacle was thronged last night with @ multitude drawn together to hear the Rey. Dr. Thompson talk to young men on the t causes of soctal corruption and ‘the cure therefor, ; He took raiher a lengthy text, but one so truly descriptive of city affairs as to need very little ' further comment or illustration—Isaiah lx.—Your } Iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your stus have hid His face from you that He wil not hear, For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips nave your tongue hath muttered perverse- for * spoken lie ness; none calleth ein for ‘truth. There is juagment in their goings; they have made them crooked paths, * * * For our transgressions are muitiplivd before thee and our sins testify against us: for our transar them} in transgres and departing away from our Goa, speaking op- pression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from * * the heart w of {alsehooa—and Isaiah i, 40%, mclusive, and 23, which describes the rottenness of Jerusalem, wh se head is sick and tfe‘whole heart {aimt, ana fr the head unto the soles of the sec! hot at ail taken by surprise by present hour, for in 1869, at Use elc Sait in his pulpit that the repubi ved resell 9 strong In War wa mined by Wealh and luxury, events of the of the war, he Wiich had liable to be Sampson na evil for the sake of for ou ot e to a si ‘ans- court of en the mate inst We, tue pec We have busied ourselves about oar own iniere ave ielt the government to ne- come What d bas given us the baliot, bat have sacrificed virtue in public men to the victory of of ignorance tarianisim, iree press, that HPY POWER OF MOD CIVILz. but we have allowed it to run into lice find to become the advertiser and promote He has given @ heavy indictment against us—the these sad resuits. The causes people—for his state of corruption are found in society tiself and mn the Church of Christ, of Ten or corruption is not coniined to any set but from ‘your this tendency to ? nations display ? Mon of magnificent lestabushmenis by the was denounced, Apd so it comes to t @ wan needs only “a lite more audacity in bis rascauty to be paraded yuntry and to have his as an evidence 10 pidity with whien for in the pubile priuts of the portrait hung in country siore young men of the ease and junes can be made here. Gambimg, horse racing, adultery and kindred evils are abowinable in men of moderate means; but when wealt nen do these things they are jolly good teliow Doe- tor closed With some excellent aivice to youug men egrity, Niving Within the: ip regard to honesty, wlegrity, income, and iustrated these points from per observalion aud experien §T. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHURCH, Rev. Father Cazeau—Faiih and Science. sermon by € yesterday there Was nota very large congregation at: (be high mass services at St. Francis Xavier's, sbowing that ali the fashionables have not aban. aourd the suw ¥ resorts yet, or if Wey Rave, that justice or any plead- no ious are With us and we know { ing and lying agalust the Lord | mi the crown of | k | THERE 18 NO SOUNDNESS IN IT, Dut wounds and bruises and putrefying sores,” tc. itis never pleasant, the Doctor said, to stir up a corrupt pool; but, Surrounded as we are with such prodigious evil, it 1s time to bring out the disin- feetants, and we must endure the tempo Ting up of the pool for the sake of us permanent cleansing, What a mass of corr do we t clinging to public offices and public ment tsalan Was right in deciaring that the who'e head is si and the whole heart taint, and there is nosoundness | in our city government. And ue (Thompson) was | c- | gentleman selected as would vet be shorn of his strengti on the lap of | Delilah, Lut men thought there Was no such nd that such lang wa ; Words Were not then prophe now facts, aud woe unto us i etting the righteous judgment o © Lord, W ourselves over to corruption and «i i if st months ago Part ve nations ihe earch, much more so is New York to-day a tacie a& Which We Chrisuan world looks with dl gust terror. Worse than toe devastation of w is the de ation of New York to-day. ¢ TO THR CORE PREVATES iu this Chr vith its fre free schoc a und tere for mar condition of ting as UMS Exisis her trid of this | p > | did not think he could beiter give evidence of nis | | Uianks than by recogut | party. He gave us im whieh to teach | our children none: . trata and uprignt- ness; but we lave allowed tiem to.become the tools He has given us iree religious worship, | but we have allowed our churcles to be shut up or used for mercenary purpr nd the been ne rhe Churen Gospel to t prosperity and seil-advancement have occupied our thoughts and our time. What man here can say that he has used his money as God would have him use it? There 1s And unis | ¢ to | nad | and impi any city or party, but Is breaking out ly in New York ana Wasbingto oT mm the Payniaster’s oflice alike. 1 young men wouid | grow up Virtuous and Honest they mus: beg right. | If they would preserve their p health un must take core of i. How much greater care then, 18 require? to preserve moral soundness? The redemption ¢ city must proceed mainly from young men heir fit now is for their homes | and for success 1 siness in t Chief | among wie causes of oficial corruption 18 te prevailing tendency toward luxury in social | ie ~The voctor po d pt Touns ol luxury—not coi alone to the rich—in which men i aved that corruption 18 always In t ston, Pe $ sought as a mean: ita, aad wealin as the | means of Te hat power.” ‘The story of delal- | fi Jeu in public trusts-ai swe much as in take your they take muhons aud thousands when- | Aud tie story ts ail | from his charge, delivered an impressive discourse post | from the text Luke, xii, 47 and 48—“And that ser- the ave a chance, the sam ther they steal from 4 omive or (ue city treasury ure and luxury are | obtained by m ud beyond these lies the super- Auity of ple avervthing procured above our incowe is luxury, The historic « JON OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC was cited by tie Doctor as an iliustration of ad to which we ave lastening, and by the sam One Of the best histor ‘says that “money and | pin shall much be nothing,but money had become the watchword or the | LAN Peo t to ule lowest.” And everytuing What (hey Could obtain was designed to impress their guests with the money value of the articles. One of their rulers spent $400,000 on one banquet. And who has notr tia New York ey is a | to Him and to our fellow men, power, but We make it the standing, We magnify the accident of wealth without inquiring how it has been obtained. And tus bas been aggravated of late by the ease and suddenness will ich fortunes | have becn made, and young men are ied to disdain ail handicrafts and Lo Seek foriunes through pubis omices. The readiness with which soctety condones this geilivg of money Was declared to bé absolutely destructive of sociai morality, The notoriety given fo men without cter simply because of their | wealth Was deprecaied, The glowing pictures of their immense wealth, their magnificent houses and Stables and carriages, and te other adjancis | Pri Ks they nave not been able as yet to shake of their | thing generally accepted about it is that we shall country-acquired laziness and go to church sike everyday city folks, ‘The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Father Ca- zeau, the subject being “Faith aud Science,” To the man, he said, Who depended simply upon rational light for the guidance of bis sou there was in life a great deal that was dark and incomprenensible. He lived and had his being tn the mids! of AN ATMOSPHERE THICK WITH DOUBTS and misatvings, and nothing seemed clear fo his eves. It was not so with the man whose soul super natural hght shone full upon, and who felt and acted accoraing to the way the light directed. Such 4 man’s aspirations were not bounded by the limits prescribed by rules and laws made here below; nor Was his vision confined, for his soul's consolation, to the contemplation of things evanescent—of objects that were destined to perish and decay, and leave naught behind them but the disagreeable odor of their own corruption, ‘The reverend father then went on at some length to show the difference between the natural and the supernatural order of things, and thea spoke of FAITH AND SCIENCE. It was all nonsense, he said, to suppose, as some people would.want us to suppose, that faith and science could not walk hand in hand, They were not antagonistic, They were, on the coutrary, like two brilliant lights, — with only this diference between them, that ong 15 far more brilliant than the other, and, in fact, aids iniending a greater brilhancy to the other. ‘The more vrililantof these two lights was faith, Without it we were taught we could do nothing to please God. It was indispensable to our salva. tion. When we believed im the sensanons expe- rienced from the enemies of our various senses we only gave in our aduvesion to What experience taught us Was a fact; but this was not faith, When we put our belief tn the word of a man, that was human falth; Dut it was divine faith to believe in those things which concern our eternal welfare, which were revealed to us and lala down for our bellef by Almighty God, Thus, when the councils of the Church declared a certain dogma to be an article of faith, good Catholics were bound to believe in it; for the councils act througn atvine authority, and cannot err. it was all folly to point to this, that or the otherman who may raise his voice against Uus or that dogma of the Church and exciaim, “He 13 @ good Catholic.” The Catholic religion was A POSITIVE RELIGION. It never makes any compromise with wrong and is ever the same, and he Who was not with it was against 1. Whether the man who rebelled against the Chureh’s authority was a Luther or an Arius his fate Was invariably the same. He would have to give tn his adhesion or crumble to the dust under the weigat of her authority or die an outcast from. her communion. In these days of sin and corrup- tion there were many men who talked sippantiy at all times and at all places about the ‘divisions’ in the Church made by men who, the enemies of the Church claim, have at heart her greater welfare. ‘These Givisions were Do divisions in point of fact. ‘There always had been, ever since the time of the Aposties, men who, under the guise of this or that object of good, had created A TEMPORARY WARFARE m the Church; but had the Church not always been triumphant in the long run, and Uhat, too, without ever ceding one jot of her doctrines or giving way a single step before her enem: At was a strategy of the Evil One to deceive the unwary by the tnsiduous: cries of unsguided men who ciaimed to be good Catholic. False prophets there were many nowa- days. and 1t behooved every good Catholic to be on. lus guard against their evil mduences., The faith of tne good Catholic was founded on a rock, and NO HUMAN INVENTION, no human ingenuity, sophistry er force could shake i from Us foundation so long as the citadel—the sual beltever tn that faith—lortiied himself enemy and left no weak pomt in the e tne cheiny might fad a temporary The good Catholic Knew that his fain the saving one, and that knowledge of liself was jent to make Lima host im hunseif, mpreg- ) all assanits, come trom What quarter they The reverend speaker then ciosed py ear | | iv exh | ne orting his hearers to remata steadtast in | the taita of th thers, to band it down tu ticir chidren unsullied and unstatued. | FIFTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Return of and sermon by Rev. Join M=-Ged’s Demand Upen iis Ministers— Congratulations and Declaration of Chris- B Duty The Presbyterian chnreh, Fifth avenue and Nine- | tecnth street, was tilled even to the passage ways worniug by a congregation evidently 1 a Gevotional way, to welcome the return day ious, of Rev. John Hall, the pastor of the church, who, | during the summer solstice, has been seeking | neaith avroad. After prayer and singivg, which nd an | im tas church 13, with the ald of a precento organ, congregational, te his text the First Epistle of | Paul to the Corinthians, 1, 17 or Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Cnrist should ie of none effect.” fore entermg fully or directly upon the subject | rested by the passage the reverend gentlem: | took occasion to say that he was v thankful to | unadorned our laren of future 4 of our country. 01 in blooa | God for the benefit he had derived from the rest he of body politic. The parties who are} had taken—the jongest and most beneficial ie posed! ay nie | dayne: Huot | nad ever had since encering upon ihe sacred duties alning (0a minster of Christ’s Church—and he ing the peculiar duties at- taching to the minister of Christ, as declared by Paul in the text he nad read, it would be seen by the language of the text that Paul placed the preaching of the Gospel the first nd highest of his duties as a minister of Christ, and that all other duties were secondary to that, ‘even that of baptizing and the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. But, in addition, it should be ob. served that while Paul placed the preach- mg of the — Gospel highest among } ministerial duties, he aiso added how the Gospel should be preached, “not with wisdom of words, lest the cross Of Clirist shonid become ot none effect ‘To tins declaration of Paul he gave a marked cot sequence, and during a somewhat elaborate dis- vourse gave to it more of emphasis than to any rot the pots involved in the verse he had | chosen, He noted the temptation, to clergymen | Who have a talent for word painung, to endeavor to niore fully impress Gospel truths upon their hearers | by leaving the wonderfally beautitu! simplicity of the language used by Christ for the con- veyance of His doctrine and employing more ite and Sensational forms of speech. Such a he discouraged, and, in concluding his ser- red Is preference for Carist’s simplicity, ed HS imitation, not only by the clergy, but aiso by those who hold'subordinate positions as t rhers im the church ana Its Sunday schools, and by parents who strive to rear their children im the course mon, dec: | Knowledge and fear of God, On the concinsion of | bis discourse, of which, of course, the above is | suuply @ glimpse, the congregation joined in the concliding hytun, and with a benediction retired. THE CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, istian Daty— lier Revelation nud Greater Responsibility. At the New Jerusalem charch, in 1 Thirty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue, yesterday, the at- tendance was quite large, and the pastor, Rev. Chauncey Giles, who has been absentseveral weeks which knew his Lord’s will and prepared not himself, nelther did according to his will, shall be | beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, | bat did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be en with few, For unto whom much ts given, of required, and to whom men have | committed much, of him will they ask the more.” In uese words the minister declared the Lord teaches THE NATURE AND MEASURE OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY Our ability is the sole ieasure of sockal | yeasure of our duty. God does not ask any one to | do more than he can, Men often take burdens | upou them and go staggering aiong through life, or fail, crushed by them, which the Lord never put upon them and which He even offers to bear for tem. While He asks no more than we are able to give, He asks no less, He does not abate one jot of Those Who know this well and do it not be beaten With many strives: those who sin yy Wil be beat With jew stripes. This iple 18 @ most comforting doctrine to those who are trying to do their duty, and a terrible one to hose Who siirkit. New Churchmen believe and Ive] that God has given to usa FULLPR AND CLEARER REVELATION of Mis divine truth? We claim to see spiritual Wutii in its OWN light, as we see the sun by Itsown light; that We have a more satisfactory revelation of ine divine nature and governmen of our own natures ud yelations to Uie Lord, of our lite in this world ud of our translation to the spiritual world THROUGH THR GATE OF DEATH, and of the nature of that world as our eternal home. The man of the New Church knows the | Lord's will a8 it has never been Known before, and | m will be required of us, The minister then | proceeded'to deflne the work that will ve requi of Swedenborgians, Who know the way and fa: act, aud took the ground that those who were in | ignorance of spiritual penne poseeeeed by New ople were less responsibie, but they wil be beaten by the stripes of doubt and fear, with the | loss of that peace and assurance and those spiritual | attainments which can only be gained by those who our due. | ignc Notwithstanding theexceeding!y pleasant weather | j\ sw (oer true relations to tue Lord, who know Wiiat they must do to be saved, even the spiritual world is a k about it, but tuey have no eal Substantive existence; tiey u form auy idea ol it; tue only To most ere plank. They conception of is Wil deny tat we vistia exist in A STATE OF HAPPINESS OR MISERY; but in what (orm of happiness or misery they do not admit we can have any Knowiled, The motives to a spiritual life, therefore, are limited to the very iow one of fear or the very faint one of a vague hope. ‘Yo the New Churchman, on the contrary, the spirit- ual world 1s its real and substantial world, and he not onty beiteves or thinks, but he knows as certainly as he knows anything that he 18 to live in it a3 a human being, in the human form, He will exercise human affections, have human wants and human joys; he Knows that he is not going into the t Teaims of empty space, but into a REAL WORLD POPULOUS WITH HUMAN BEINGS, & world in which there are cities, compared with which New York and London are ‘mere hamlets, & world where the kingdoms of nature, though tuey are spiritual, conwain a vastly greater variety of ob- jects, in more beautiful forms, in clearer light; a ‘World in which the lanascapes are MORE LOVELY THAN A POBT'S DREA! and the dwellings grander and more beautiful than the artist’s ideal, and ail human relations will be lovely, pure, peaceful and blessed according to the character formed while in the mateyal pody. There is a constant incentive to lead a heavenly Ile, realities a upon him, the eternal future springs from the living present. We are to-day a the mate- rials of our homes and putting them into the forms they will assume, making our friends and gathering them into the circle of our life, or we are creating enemies to vex and torment us forever. How this knowledge that our Heaveniy Father has given us should stimulate us to live a heavenly life here ! After eloquently dwelling upon the insight that is given the Swedeaborgian by their belief, which so carefully directs each one in his duty to his God, himse}f and his fellows, the pastor concluded:— THERE NEVER HAS BEEN A CHURCH ON EARTH that ought to think so little of the different shades of truth—that ought to be so forbearing, patient, gentle, kind and yet sincere and true to each other—that ougnt to be so firmly knit together in the bonds of heavenly unity. There are no people on the earth whose trusts and responsibilities are 50 great as ours, We must be something more than faithful Jaborers in our natural avocations, A heathen or infidel can do that, We must be more than ronest in our dargains and true in our indus- trial relations and honorabie tn our social inter- course, The man of the world can do that and be proud of it, We must put a higher liie into our dally work and conduct ourselves so that man can- not help teeling that WE REGARD OURSELVES AS SPIRITUAL BEINGS, and that though working in the dust and turmoil of material conditions, we regard ourselves as citi- zens of another country and destined to another and an eternal home. Much has beepegiven to us and much will be required of us. Let us meet our re- sponsibilities lke men, sharing with each other comforts and strengub, and passing them on to others until the kingdom of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord, ST, VINCENT DE PAUL (2. C.) CHURCH, Sorrows of the Vi Rev, Yesterday, as usual, there assembled a large and fashionable congregation at St. Vincent de Paul’s (Roman Catholic) church, in Twenty-third street, west of Sixth avenue. This is the church of the French mon by the . ELITE OF THE CITY, and is attended almost exclusively by them. The church has lately been frescoed, and one viewing it from the outstde would never imagine its interior was half as magnificent as 1 really is, Its twelve massive pillars have been marbled and now have a most imposing appearance. On the ceiling over the altar there is a large frescoed picture, about twelve by thirteen ieet, admirabiy executed. THE CHOTR, ; under the dircetion of Professor Paul, discoursed the most eloquent muste from Mozart's and Lambil- lotte’s masses. The Rev. Pere Leneuf celebrated mass, and preached a sermon in Frenen, which was upon the sorrows of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. The reverend gentieman in the course of is sermon said that grief was from the hand of God; God made us grieve in. order to purify us. ef opens the cyes of the blind soul to its detects and deformiti When tae wicked soul is affected by griel it redects on its past career of crime a 8; Sees Ils enormities and repnts, Grief iclion are in many instauees the forerun- and a ners of REPENTANCE. They present to the wicked sow the follies and sins in whien it took delight as enormities which it would take a li/elong penance to expiate. Grief purities us and makes us thoughtfal. It shows us that life is not for pleasure alone, aud we should accept it as a blessing trom God rather than 4 curse. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Sermon by the Rev. Father McCready—The Dolors of Mary—The Passion—Perpetual Sorrew. From the large congregation that attended high mass at St. Stephen's church yesterday 1t was evi- dent tharyummer pieasure seeking is over, and wat the fashionable uptown people are again in their old Places, ready to tussle with the realities of life ior another mine montis, Asis usual in this cuurch, he array of BEAUTY AND FASHION was of the highest order, and the scene, with all the surroundings, one that could scarcely be surpassed by any other combinations, The gorgeous marble altars, magnificent paintings and numerous lignts; the stained glass windows and the statuary, and the grand, impressive music, all harmonized to im- part to the worship here a mysterious solemaity that strikes awe into believer and unbeilever alike, ‘The mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Keeler, of Mobile, Ala., who has just arrived from Rome and 18 now on his way to his adopted mission. After the first Gospel the Rev. Dr. McGiynn, in toaking the customary announcements, stated that the parish now had as us guest Bishop Becker, of Wilmington, Del, who would remain in the city for some short time, his mission here being to collect funds for the a‘ministration of his diocese, It was a lamentable tact, said the Doctor, that reli- gion was in such a neglected state in BISHOP BECKER'S DIOCESE. The State of Delaware was one of the original States of the Union, and yet its bishop was obliged toleave his see to ask strangers for help in butiding up the Church there, But it was a noble work in which Bishop Becker was engaged. The whoie of the State of Delaware was incluled ta the Bishop's diocese, and with it a part of Maryland, this latte thongh'colonized by Catholics two hundred years ago, being now in a most deplorabie condition.” Dr. McGiyna then announced that the collections at all the masses next Sunday would «of Bishop Becker's diocese, and that tae Bishop would make brief explanatory addresses at each mass and ch the sermon at the Ligh Mass. e Key, Fath McCready then ascended pulpit and preached from the Gospel the of the day, the nineteenth chapter of St. John, se- Jecting the text, “Now, there stood by tie cross Ths Mothe The Church has made a beautiul circle of festivals in honor of Mary, some of which are of Joy and others of sorrow. ‘One time w joice In the celebration of the Immaculate Con tion; another time we raise onr hearts to heay in glorying over the Assumption, and so on with others, Bul itis meet that whLe We should rejoice WE SHOULD ALSO SORROW, and this day's festival, commemorating the seven doijors of Mary, is 4 fitting time to reflect upon the sorrows of the Virgin's life. It must be bora im mind, in speaking of the that the closest union existed between her and the God-man, and it 18 because of this union we pay her so much homage and regard her with sv much veneraiion. No two hearts could be in so ciose unison as Mary's and her divine Soa’s, and from thts unison arose the mother’s great sorrows, ‘ihe sorrows of the mother were the passion of Jesus and Hig passion was her sorrows, The titles tue Church bestows on the saints tn heaven are NOT EMPTY TITLES; but they are not to be compared to those given to Mary. She is queen of virgins and queen of mar- tyrs, Her sufferings were greater (han those of all the other martyrs, Her compassion knew no jim From the moment the chit was vorn at Bethiet to the resurrection of the Godman her jife was one pene sorrow, bever ceasing, never assuaged, for she knew What Was to come, und tne passion of her divine Son was ever beforegver mind’s vision. She could not from her humble village home look toward the great city beyond without seeing the three crosses, with Jesus dying on one of them. Every step of the passion was ever preseat to her. She knew how true was THE PROPHECY OF HOLY SIMEON. Even in the occupation which Joseph pursued there were ever before her eyes objects vo remind her of the sufferings of her Son—the nails, the hatamer, unhewn wood. Jt might have been some consola: ye tion to her under this load ot grief to hear the praises of Jesus; but’she knew that those very yer sons now lauding Him would soou turn upon Him and SERK FOR 11s DEATH; that He would be betrayed by one of them, and that they would crucily Him. She tad, thereiore, to be vesigned and to bear the full sorrow io the end. Passing over the many steps in Lie passion Of Jesus, each oF Which led to THE FINAL ACT ON CALVARY, we come to the cruciixion itself, and here we be- hold tbe greatest sorrow a mother can know. Mothers never refuse to’share the shame and degra- dation whien their children bring upon them; even at Lie cross they would cling to their sons.’ What terrible sudering to & mother's heart tt must be to see} Ler son crucified! But to Mary the death of Jesus on the croas must have been a greater sorrow tian other mothers could experienge, for no other mother could feel for her son as Mary did for the God-man; she loved ‘Jesus as her Sun and wor- shipped Him ag ber God. Yet she knew that her divine Son must be crucified, and, LIKB ABRAHAM OF OLD, she was prepared to raise her own hand to crucify, As ia tue old law, When (he Victim Was Once offered prerogatives of Mary, | it ceased to be the property of the person who of- fered it, so Jesus, being now the victim for the worla, He no longer belonged to His mother, ‘Tie last words of Jesus to His mother, commending her to John and telling her to behold her Son, made all of us children of Mary. Tuey seem to be cold Words toa mother at the foot of the cross; but Mary was to suffer, The preacher continued to in- culcate patience under ee in this life, saying that “Whom God loveth He cbastiseth,’’ and tat instead of flying in the face of God, because we are afflicted in any way, We snould ask divine aid to bear tne trials of life. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. The Town and the Couutry—Business and Pleasure—A Welcome Home Sermon by Rev. George H. Hepworth, ‘The great reopening, so to speak, of the fall and winter season began yesterday morning at the Church of -the Messiah, corner of Park avenue and ‘Thirty-fourth street, This spacious and beautiful temple presented yesterday a bright and beautful “gpectacle—bright in the healthy cherry faces of its wonted worshippers returned from their summer sojournings, and beautitul in the oneness of heart and sympathy between pastor and people in their reunion again after the summer separation, It was a meeting of joyous welcome all around, Mr. Edward Howe, Jr., the accomplished organist, played a welcoming peal on the organ as the con- gregation entered the church. Mr. Berry, the chief usher, aud all the corps of polite ushers under him met everybody coming with welcoming smiles. Tne choir, still composed of the same quartet of fine singers—Mrs. Ficker, soprano; Miss Barron, contralto; Mr. Whiting, tenor, aud Mr J. R Thomas, basso—sung songs of pleasant welcome. When the popular pastor, Rev. George H. Hep- worth, ascended the puipit a joyous welcome gleamed brightly from his countenance, and the same shone with reflected light upon the coun- tenances of the congregation. He preached a WELCOME HOME SERMON. He took for his text Genesis 14, 10—‘And God saw that it was good.” This is a mysterious world, after all. The more we see of 1t the more we feel grateful to Goa for that inextricable mystery called life, It ts an enjoyment to be—to simply live. When he heard people talking about this being a vaie of tears his heart sadaened for them. Only to such as make the world sorrowful 18 it sorrowtul. All such Know not God and faith and love, This world isa TEMPLE TO WORSHIP IN worthy of the immortal soul. No wonder, When it cume first from itts almighty hand He stood afar off and looked on and saa, ‘itis good.” After their year of work came thelr period of refreshment, ‘They haa tired of routine. ‘Chey wanted a change. it was an unspeakable refreshment to get out of iman’s world into God's world—to get out of toiling and tugging over the problems of life into a pure atmosphere; to get away from tax bills and tax- gatherers; to look on green fields; to watch the rising tide; to hold high communion with the wind and the stars; to get_ away from the din and dust of the cily Gud breacne a different air. He WENT INTO THE COUNTRY, as they nearly all did. He wanted rest. To keep one’s health was a partof the true religion. They who have lost 1t what will they not give for it? They who haye tt how careless they are ol it, It is easier for a healthy man to be honest than a discased man, Disease and demoraization are almost synonymous terms. A man in a good, sound, healthy siate can easily keep the Ten Com- mandinenis. It is necessary for one to be healthy to have @ right idea of God—to have a proper con- ception of the true spiritualism of llc, An un- heaithy man could hardiy say good morning to an angel. A man would not enjoy hinself in the New Jerusaiem suffering from a twinge of the rheumatism. Atver dgveliing at eloquent’ length on this portion of his distourse he drew a graphic pic- ture of the theories of God and human nature spun ‘out oy THF. ASCETIC PHILOSOPHERS of the olden times, who lived unhealthy, morbid Sin caves. From this he went on to show how the ministers of to-day should lve to living force amoug hving people. be strong in bouy to be healthy in mind. to be a part of the protession to have a con: shrug, to have nollow eyes and stoop shoul he could only become a Mintsiers should it seems DRAG THEM OUT into God's world, make them climb) God's moun- tains, make them pull the oar and do hard muscular work he Would inake different men of them, A com ‘ortabie reeling stea!s over a man When he looks over nature and realizes tuat He who made the world did it right), n can feave his business and look upon Go¢ without its doing hun good. He remembered tn a northeast stor waich- tng the risme tide and the ¥ tossed from the sea, and the thought came to ni that the sea could come “up to God's tnger mark and no .tlugher, He knew he was Conanutng this through, with further iltas- trations, he made a transition fo the stars a probability of their beg tmhabite how insiguiticant wasa man im hims With the Vastuess of THs PEOPLED UNIVERSE, A picture of Iimself and his own thoughts he drew 45, On a night of aarkness and storm, he was in his Yacit of the ocean-bound shore of New iampshire, He felt then the msigniicance of bis own life. But the suinmer Wus over, and they had returned to their homes and business again. There was much Work for them to-day—work for them as a peopl work for him as a pastor. se.tarlan, if the World did not Know where they sland no matter, it 1s better to be a Christian than a Unitarian, to follow Jesus rather than a dogma. ‘They welcomed ajl, The SERMON ON THR MOUNT Was their favorite, Let them heed its precepts, He eniargeu at iengii, in conclusion, on the relation between the mumister and his congregation. He wished to cuitivate more intimate relvtions with taem; to set aside an evening or a day each week that any memoer of the congregation might come and see lum alone. They had entered on a new ecclesiastical year, and he hoped that during the coming winter months they would all work with oue will for Jesus the Christ and for God the Father. «a With soft and low ana sweetly musical voices the choir chanted the Lord’s Prayer, and then singing by the congregation, prayer and ‘benediction closed the exercises, ANN’S CHURCH. Opeving of the Musical Season—Rossini's Messe Soleonciie. (The quartet chotr of this church, having had a long vacation and a good rest, resumed their labors yesterday. The quartet consists of Mrs. De Braux, soprano, Miss Gomien, contralto, Signor Errant, tenor, aud Signor Remi, bass. Mr. Louis Daqhauer presides, as before, at the organ. For a commence- ment of the long seasou before them, the choir se- lected a most ambitious work,the “Messesolennelle” of Rossini, which was frst performea here at the Academy of Music on April 29, 1869 The Messe 18 a trying work, even with a large, Well-dritied chorus, and to a quartet it pre- sents immense difiicuities, Every one will remem- ber the lasco made when it was first presented to the American public, owing to those dreadful peo- ple, the Italian Opera company, to whose hands it | Was entrusted, and the very imporiant fact that the orchestration was not Rossini’s, but the nandiwork of au obscure German fiddier in the Bowery. The Messe was Originally written with an organ and plano accompaniment, and it was given in ts manner yesterday, Miss Mare Krebs bemg te gives a very favorable imtroduction Tue “Agitato” in the bass, which, by sto be distinctly marked by the in- the large, ‘The contrapuntal to the work, tne way, requ struments, contrasts beautifully with pure, rich harmony of the voices. character is simple enough in appearance, but be- neath it is a rich mine of expression, Singers possessing a keen appreciation of the grandeuy of the composer's ideas can do this opening justice, The “Christe? 18 @ reai oid- fashioued canow which the quartet sang charm- jngiy. and Which an ordinary chorus wouid butcuer unmerciully, The “Kyrie? 1s then repeated ina luijor Key, Corresponding with the opening minor theme, The “Giorla’ opens strangely and, to our way of toinking, weakly. It is a ‘rather commonplace Lung in Unison, and there is a@ (eeling Of reites when the dide enter into the domarn of har- mony, ding aodantino, “Ev in terra Pax,” 18 bass solo, With a very effective (from 113 peculiarity) accompaniment, built upon alternate tonic and subdominant chords, which pass trom key to key avruptiy, but with singular effectiveness. ‘The trio for contralto, tenor and bass, “Grauas Agimus,’’ 18 Rossintan’ in every sense of the word, aud a more delightiul meody never emanated from the fertile pen of the composer, Tie tenor solo, Domine Deus," Is of the same rovusio character as the “Cujus Animam,” (rom the “Stabat Maver,’ and like it 1s better suited for the opera than the churen. ‘There 18 vot a particle of rellgious sentiment in. ite None but The Qué toils, duet for soprano and COntTAILO, 18a | real gem ghd’ interesting in every measure. Next comes it rather labored bass S010, Quoniamn tu solUus sanctus, Wulch 48 ratuer unnecessarily spun out. The great douvie fuzue at the end the Goria can oniy be made effective with @ large chorus. The sopropa part 1s written very low and is at times drowned by the other voices. The Credo opens In & massive, broad, dignified style for the volces alone. The Crucuizus, soprano solo, 18 another of those exquisite Rossinian melodies of rare grace and beauty, bus rather inappropriate for the subject— ihe tremulous mysiery of the Redemption. AS & purely musical work, however, 1v1s worthy of the ‘Swan of Pesaro.’ Immediately before it came the t Mncarnatus,” @ strong, elfective ilustrauon of the Incarnation, and one that Calis for all the ex ression and artistic spirit of the singers, The ‘Et sunexil” opens tamely and without producing the effect desired in ilinstrating such & Liem, Their work should not be | The fugue at the end of the “Credo” 1s not so ambitious as its predecessor, but it 18 more in consonance ith the old italian School, the best school for Church music. The sanctus (without accompaniment) 18 a delt- cious melody, and the parts giide into each other with @ grace inexpressibiy charming. To the con- tralto is committed the two grandest solos of the mass—Agnus Dei and 0 Salutaris. The former is intensely dramatic in character. The singers ac- quitted themselves very creditably yesterday, and to Miss Marie Krebs all praise 1s due for the rendi- tion of the piano part. Mr, Dachauer proved him self an accomplished organist and a reliable con- ductor, The mass will be repeated on Sunday next. In addition to the “Messe Solenelle’ there was a Tare treat in the performance of Chopin's Marche Funebre vy Miss Krebs and air. Dachauer, Rev. Father Preston preached at the Gospel and handled our public schools in a severe mauner. He objected strongly to the utter want ot moral educa- tion at those schools and the dangers to which chil- dren are exposed tn attend them, without hav- ing a guide to direct them in the paths of virtue and religion. Rev. Father Poole ofttciate | as celebrant. In the afternoon, at half-past four o’clock, Merca- dante’s Grand Vespers and Dachauer’s Zantum ergo were cane. The Mig t=] are rather too florid for the Church, but the Zantym ergo, apart from a cer. tain eccentricity of treatment, is a remarkabie and effective work. THE §PiRI TUALISTS. The Story of Naaman and Elisha—Locture by Mr. Forster. The Society of Progressive Spiritualists held their usual Sabbath services yesterday at Apollo Hall. ‘There was an attendance of over a couple of hundred persons, and, as the “worshippers” spread them- selves judiciously over the vast area of the hall, there seemed tobe quite a respectably numerous audience. It was noticeable that scarcely any young People were present; Spiritualists seem all to be- long to the ranks of the middle aged or the distinctly senile classes, and the mean age of the assemblage must have been at least forty-five. Scarcely half a duzen children were visible; but, perhaps, Spiritual- ists are not as a body prolific, The audience were all well dressed and some of them, indeed, seemed quite devotecs of fashion. At half-past ten the services began with atiymn by a quartet of two ladies and two gentlemen. The gentiemen had that pecullarly sepulchral quality of voice thatis so effective atlively camp meetings, while the ladies poured forth shrill metallic tones that nate listeners, After the hymn Mr. Forster, the lecturer of the day, delivered his address. He took for his subject the story of the healing by Elisha of the noble Syrian, Naaman. After going over the main facts and stating that Elisha was evidently a very powerfui healing medium, he came to the in- diguant rejection by Nauman of the means of cure suggested, “Are not Abana and Pharpar,” &c. ‘Then came the incident of the sin of Gebazi and his unishinent. Elisha was more fortunate, said the lecturer, than the mediums of the present day. He stood in no need of pecuniary assistance, and there- fore declined the liberal overtures of his noble patient, But Gehazt ran alter him and begged, in the name of the prophet, for the money oilered. Luckily, Elisha was @ clairvoyant as well asa healing me- dium, and therefore knew of the offence of nis servant, tnd awarded ita just thougn severe pen- aity. Tiis simple story, whether it were a narration of actual fact or a fable, contained a lesson singu- larly appropriate to the present day. it was aston- ishing that men and women who were eager and anxious to know and embrace the truth should pre- fer the muddy waters of the Abana and Pharpay of Superstition and fanaticisin Lo the healing river of Spirituatism—the Jordan of the day, What was ‘the cause of this sad blindness? Spiritualism had done more for rousing men to an adequate concep- | tion of what human life really and what it ought j tobe than any other system of doctrines that had ever beep propounded during the entire fight of past age: All over this country especiatly 1: had done a wondrons benefit to thousanis—yes, hundreds of thousands ani! millions of pobie, truth-secking, fear less and tenderiy affectionate men and women, it dethroned the reign of a dogmatism that ap- led only to the inteilect, and ‘nud set up in its ce areligion of the beart—a religion tha: ap- D pla and highest needs of the individual soal, In ho } Many homes had it repeopled the empty chamber with the presence of the loved and lost! in how many hearts had it taken away a vain ana bitte sorrow and bereavement, and substiiuted jor i a consciousness of the happiness of the beloved dead | And yet, he was sorry to say, many even among those who had thus receivet a sure couviction of the truths of Sprittualism, and who had been thus inontiely benefited by them, were strange,s to the Spiritualist lyceum and hall They stil hetd their pews in the temples of orthodoxy: they still sent their children to Sunday schools where false conceptions of life and false facts w. things taught; they hesitated to boldly avow reai views, te was very sorry to naye to tak plain truth, bat ue could not telp {tet There wi least twenty-five thousand Spiritualists iu the city of New York, and yet brother Farnswo cuity in filling even t hall The weakness was doubtless mainly 0 reason of unis cause Spiritaal- ism had been denounced by ‘the press and the pulpit so unjus'ly and perseveringly. fut Spirit. | ualists themselves are also greatly vob They Ine dulged in discussions which Were unseemly and tn- judicious. Many men had ir minds, and one man favored this medium aud anorier t nd SO envy and jealousy sprang up, and there were dis- putes and scandals which should never be per- Initted Lo appear. Good Soiritualists should rejoice raiher tan be Weakened i Uicir faith by the fact that there were so many varieties of spiritual manifestations, and that mediwns «ditered | greatly in their powers. That proved tae tr con cingly than avything eise and sho t Spiritualism was adapted to every need and want of this inany-sided human nife, And if any broth or sister had reason to beheve’ that been deceived by a medium he proclaim to the world, “I have ti should rather quietly go to th and say, “Brother,” oF sister, as tl “Lam sure that you ar hould not hastily en cheater He case might be, under a hallucination as to your power."" The pe Ker concluded by enforcing upon the audience their great responsibiity as a Spiritualist society of thts great city, where streams of men and Women anxious and willing to know the irath were constantly passing and repassing. Another discord from the quartette closed the proceedings. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Yesterday's Spiritual Consolation in the City of Churches—Effective Sermons by tlie Rev, Mesars. Gallaher, Beech:r, Mer dith and Pere Laneut. PLYMOUTH CHIRCH, The Disp: ation of Love=The New to Be De ped from the Old—sermon by Kev. James Beecher. The Rev. James seecher preached yesterday in Plymouth church toalarge congregation from the words, “Henceforth I call you not si nts, but | friends.” At the time that these words were uttered our Lord was just closing one era of the divine economy. He nad allowed hinseif to b | called Master and Lord, but wishing to give to His atsciples « more perfect com- prehension of Himself He foreteiis new dispensation of more intimate communion. The servant works for the m: 3 you shall wo with the Master. That was a glorious reveiation | made by our Lord of the fatherhood of God. It was a wonderful revelation when Christ showed us God the Father loving, sympathetic, kind. It was @ revelation so beautiful that ivis the weakness of the Christian Church that it has setued down upon ‘that as if it was all that Christ came to reveal, 1018 not all, for after it ts shown the heautiful relationship that the Christian has with Christ. ‘There is some- thing better than the instinctive love of father and child, when in later years the Jove is purged of fear | and there is the PURE AFFECTION OF COMPANIONSHIP. Our Lord's revelation concerning God 1s com pletely mexhaustible, The revelation of God through Jesus Christ keeps pace with our own souls, and, when we think we are at the end of the revelation, it 18 because we are at the end of our own souls, 1 have spoken this revelation as Introducing a new dispensation of companionship. It isa dispensation of love, butitin no way does away With the oid dispensation of dat The new comes always by Sulfiment of the old, and hot by contempt of i. This new revelation must include What has been before, und no new dispensation is rtely the old. | true unless 1 ine.udes comp The law is Not destroyed; itis fulfilled’ by love. 1 fancy a man comes to you and says, have a new revelation.” Compare it wiih the obi, and if it 18 but on the ruins of the ol it is false. God never tears down; He develops the new from tie old. You get the blossom by the growt of the bad, not by destroving of it. You get te fruit by the growth of the blossom. When we went to school we learned A and B. Then we joined the letters, and s0 on to a knowledge of liera- ture. We went on from the first lessons, wut we destroyed nothing; the letter 15 lost fn the word, pul the’ letter is there. The honest error of the past and the presont is dis- carding the old, forgetting that tie new is the de- velopment of the oid. The revelation of God in the tneoiogy of a hundred years ago was stern; it was pervaded with duty, and love was litie taught, The pastors were different; there was less of compaulon- ship, but there was MORE OF TRUST and confidence. But was that a false revelation of God that the old Puritans worsbippe No. Unti & man bas learned to call Grit threatened to fairly pierce the ears of the unfortu- | ovfending medium | i | peneve. | Tnot a member of the Church?” peailed to the dearest lopes and purest aspirations ; the main ; th had dim. | | by what tes 1 Master and Lord he will not learn to call hiut Friend, Our fathers burt the foundation i they lived too much in the cellar; but we shall not improve upon their doings by getting too high and neglecting the joundations, The way to love ia through conscientious service. “If any man love me let him keep my commandments.” “If any man bd do my will Be. sha pow of the doctrine.” ‘There is nO way ‘ue Caristian life except through obedience. A true discipleship should ve STEADY, PRACTICAL, SINCERE; never hot, never cold. Nowhere is companionship with Christ revealed a3 an independent privi ‘While there 18 seen in the present day a desire a more loving Gospel, is there not too litte of the responsibility of discipleship’ There is a rot liberality, great large-heartedness, but there is little of work with our own hands in the vineyard of God. We shall never get warm by paying others to do our work. We should apply our wealth with ourown hands and water it with our tears. Our Lord, when He was on earth, migut have healed by a word, yet !e laid His hands on the l2prous man and on the lame man. He touched diseases, and so taught us not to do good at arm’s length, ‘Phe centre of the sphere of service 1s one’s self, but the boundary is limived only by the power of the soul. ‘The effect of duty ts to enlarge the heart, and af one properly does one’s duty in the household the heart will overflow into the community, The foum- dation of religion 18 duty, and duty ts glorified by love. ‘The reward is the companionsiup and sym pathy of God. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. H. M. Gallaher on the Means of Ovinining Salvation. The First Baptist church, in Nassau street, near Fulton, contained its usual numocr of devout wor- shippers and assiduous followers of the latest fail fashions at the morning service yesterday, all of whom, it is perhaps safe to say, were much pleased and edified by the discourse of the deservedly popu- lar pastor, the Rev. H. M. Gallaher. ‘Tnis eminent divine selected for his text Pnilippians il. 12, which reads as follows:—‘‘Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out yous own salvation with fear and trembling.” The saving of one’s self, sald Mr. Gallaher, ts de- pendent almost wholly upon his own exertions aad endeavor. Christ came to show us \hat we might be saved, and not to tell us that we are a sim begotten people, utterly unable to better our com- dition, and that, therefore, we must be forever damned. To save ourselves requires constant and unremitting toil and labor. Prayer alone will not do if, nor yet simple conversion; nor being bap- tized; nor, in fact, auy ove of these, or many other ‘things, as Some persons foolishly and unfortunately We must work, struggle and persevere, It is not, as many suppose, 80 easy & thing to be & good man or to be an upright Christian, There are constantly things coming up before us the doing of which are oh! so pleasant, and which would adord us A VAST DEAL OF PLEASURE for the time being; but yet the very doing of them is the committing of an overt stn, and therefore 16 requires constant toil and endeavor to avoid them, On the otlier hand, we are called upon to do many things which are just and proper we suould do, but we naturally shrink from tae performance of them; nevertheless we must do them, and this again causes labor and straggle, None of us shall steal into heaven by sticking our leads, ostrich like, to some creed or another ana saying, “That 1s ali suflicient, [ain sure to be saved how, for am No; thou shag work tor it, else thou shalt not acquire it. Salva tion is not Merely Work, but it is constant work. Never think the victory won Nor Jay thy armor down; Th hous Work shail ue’er be done Till you have gaiue4 the crown, Whon one is converte?, continued the pastor, the work has but just begun. Conversion alope wilt nol and never did save any one. It never yet made # wise man of a fool in a moment, nor yet ina It has never and uever will make a saint of pitual siunerin @ moment or @ month. The on is plaia—the hie has been too much given over to sii and folly to be changed so wondertaily in the Lwinkling of ap eye, as it were. Besides cone version, Oue needs to Work and STRUGGLE CONSTANTLY TO SAVE HIMSELF. Tn this work there can be no substitutes, In fa there are few, very few things, in uhis fe that wil admit of one’s,having @ subsutute, and certaiuly the work OF 39 wf one’s self will not, Mr. Gallaner next spoke of the meaning of the words “fear and nding’? in connection with the text. What was meant by this, he said, was tat we should never become too contident within ourselves. We know not at what momeat we may make a fatal step, although We may be striving to the utmost of our ability to waik uprightly, To iiustrate this point, he. 8: he had a few days since gone, -tn company with a frend, to see Mrs, Conway’s new and elegant theatre, which at the present ume is receiving tts fuishing touches. Toge:her they ascended the long ladder which led up to the Immense scaffoding upon the painzers were standing while periorming work of tustelully decorating by arusttc touches brush the ceiling of the building, and once up there how efully he watked about! A loose plank, & misstep, or even 18 OWN dizziness, might result tu his being dashed to pleces, and tuerefore walked with fear and trembling, And Unts i what is meant by Luc text where it says, “work Out your own saivation Will fear and trembling.” ST. JOUWS UATHODIST CHU UM. ‘The {Power of EXample—Sermon by Rev. Dre Chapm lst Episcopal church on Bedford ave- The Meth | hue was well filled yesterday morning, and the pas he or she bad | tor, Rev. Mr. Chapman, preached a short, practical sermon from Matthew v., 14—"Ye are the light of the world.” He said that in speaking from those words jast Sabbath he dwelt upon the fact that example was the source of the Christian's most powerful Influence upon the world, and in analyz- ing that power he called attention to three or four elements of it—viz., that it was the most successful method of Miustrating truth and im- parting instruction; that it was a demonstra- tion of the practicability of a religious Ife as well as of the truthfulness of Curistlantty, and the most successful method of removing objec- tions to it. He proposed now to name some other elements of power tu Christian example, First, it attracted attention. The first matter of importance in attempting to enlist the sympathy, interest or co- operation of men in any enterprise was to arrest their attention and bring it to their notice. Men of the world thoroughly understood tus, for the chile dren of this world ave wiser in their generation than the cliuidren of light, THE RENEFITS OF ADVERTISING. What was the desiga of placards that were to be seen in the lighways and the handbuls that were put into our doors but to attract atveption? And in reading the daily press if we perused the poetry or the columns headed by the announcement of a fearful tragedy or some otner startling occur- rence it not unfrequently ended with the advertisement of an article of merchandise, Thus thousands of devices were resorted to to catch the attention of the people. And the practice was founded upon the profoundest principle, as well ag upon the most successiul method, If one has anv thing of real merit, and what Une world needs, the more constantly he keeps it. before the attention of menu the more successful he 18 jikely to be, The masses were more Lu pressed by facis lian theorles— by What they hear aud meet with in dally life than din books. The incarnation, Ite, th and urreciion of Christ were pre- sented to the World im theory; but, ot infinite imporiance, this "matter trely foreign to the ‘masses, and even jew to whose minds the subject came often regarded it as a mystical abstraction. The fact that God gave His Son to die, His Word to instruct and His Spirit to sanctify the world was one abous Which mulnitudes thought httle and cared less. sequently, to awaken the irreligious multitudes actention must be called to religion. Bibles eligious literature ougiit to be cireulaied, iivie to attend the crurch should be given, and ought to be talked. to upon the subject Of re- but suck Is the Imfuence of worldliness that ihe impression made by these agencies is soon Wort of, ‘ihe way that the subject of religion could be yeacefally, inotlensively aid unobtrusively kept be- jore the minds of the careless was by Christians displaying it in their temper and conduct. Personal piety Was the most sinking, novel and aomue thing It Was 4 standing) moral Ung im this world. miracle more unanswerable argument for the divinity of religion before the world than would be the daily resarrection of the sheeted dead. A Chris. tian stood before the World as Christ's representa- tive, shinimg tu the very ikeness of God. He wou ve tne observed of all ooservers, A pastor once said a company of young Christians, “Study the Bible.” “Ye: observe | an old sdint who was standing by, “because the world wil study you’? Again, Christian example was the most successial ethou of reproving wrong-doing, There might not be an allusion to the conduct of the sinner, and yet the life a Chrisiian was always & powerlul and hot untrequenuy an influeatial reproof. There might be somethiag tn the position, education or age of a Wrong-doer which would rob @ uirect. reproof of ail its power; and yet one thus sheltered was open to the imoifensive and ob- trusive tofluence of a holy tive. Inthe domestic cir- cle, associating with (hose Whose lives were imper- fect, the consistent Christian, although not able to openhiy rebuke wrongdoers, might reprove and preach all day tong by holy liv Let a man ex- hibit a reverent spirit, be eoonomical of probauon’s recious hours, show Unsuiled integrity in business Transactions, live with reference to eternity, and be scrupulously obedient to the requirements of the Bible, and he will be a living power in any commu- nity. such a life as that could’ not ve a cypher, for Gol waa 1 it, Where the tongues of men and of angels would prove imedeclive oly Hving Would sometimes be