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4 RELIGIOUS. Yesterday’s Sermons in the Pulplts of New York and Elsewhere. Prayer, Picty, Music and Fashion. 4 Side Thrust at Certain Officials | Who Have Rowed to the Will and Clamor of Mfobs. Regeneration, Purification and Sanctification. The Valne of Woman's Work and Woman's Power in the Service of God. THE AWFUL ENORMITY OF SIN. Archbishop McCloskey on the Mcans Necessary for Salvation. CHRIST THE FRIEND OF SINIVERS. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on “Working with God.” THE ChURCH THE Discourses by Archbishop McCloskcy, Rev. Henry Ward Beochor, Rev, Dra, Rylance, Richard- fon, Osborn and Roche; Rev. Fathers Preston, Mooney and McQuade, and the Rev. Mossrs. Hepworth, Lee, Deems and White. SHEPHERD OF SOULS, 8T. STEEPED. N'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, | Sermon by the Rev, Father Mooney—“Many Are Called, Bur Few Are Chosen”~Tho Stingins and the Audience. Yesterday morning’s sunshine was so favorable to churchgoers that it was not surprising to find at St. Steplien’s a congregation that Miicd every pew. | 1. would be impossible to exaggerate the brilliancy | of the scene at this church at the high mass, or to describe the eiject upon the worshipper caused by the many combining iuiuences availed of to pro- mote devotlonal fecling. And yet no audience can assemble that displays more PASHION, STYLE OR WEALTH than ts here tobvescen, Wile the ceremonies of te worship are conducted on ascale of magutii- cence, thy dresses of the jadies are in harmony with Wie spleader that prevails, and beaury, adorned and unadorned, Kneeis th humble supplication for aid against the vanities of the world, though to the contempiniive lookey on mundane fancies and irivolities seemingly are not forgoiten, | But weaknesses may be exhibited ihe graud folemm music of the masg binds the ‘tention of the Listener to the facred mysteries which are being commemorated and raises up the soul to divine aspirations and purer Ideas, At the Migh mass yesterlay Weber's | Taass iu G was played, the o to “Oberon’? being the Introduction, aud renaered most spirit- | edly by Mr. Denforth, the organist of the chure The “kyne,” which, as 1s well known, is coustdcred | Weber's cura was rendered ina style that | left noviing (o be desired, £8 LC excellen whaiever and a uc lady sang te | being est “Cam Si ivitu” in the “Gioria’ with au ex- prevsion oid pi of tone that turilled the audt- | ence, and im te solo in the Credo, the “Et Incar- | fre. ch 7 Mertory plece was sung by Muss Ben. taste i feviing, In the J Was enng at the Sanctas, the | soprano und contralto acquitted themselves with | rare abil Alt the vespers in Uie afternoon Miss | Howson sung the “Salve Kegina’ wiih great effect, | her exquisiie yorce poring fortn the beaut bymn | ma food of melody. Signor Bianchi sang Perragt’s | ) with great effect. Mr. Danforth deserves great praise for the eficteney of this choir, High mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father | Finnegan, 8. J., and, alter the frat Gospel, the Rev. Dr. McGlynn appealed to the congregation te give liberally in betia\f of the diocesan seminary, in ald ; of which collections were iaken at aii the masses in | every church in the ctty yesterday, athery Mooney then ascended the pulpit | and preached trom the ae of the me lommernd XXil., 1-14 Ail the parables of our divine Lord admit of a menifo'd tuterpretation. His words on every occasion, whether im the extent of their ap- plication or the depth of their meaning, are such as w exercise pious intelligence and elicit the re- | livious sentiment of all thinking men. sut because they are ihe utterances of God they partake in some measure of the Divine nature, remaining un- | } fatuomed ond unfathomabie. We shall not euter mto an extended Interpreta- tion of the Gospel, but examine the concluding words alone:—Many are cailed, but few are | chosen.” We shali conte ourselves (9 two pots, to show why it is that SALVATION TS SO RARP, and to determine the reasons entiling us to be num- red among the happy few. Man, giited with | faculties Huite indeed, yet capabie of infnite satis- faction, ever seeks aiter happmess, Had he re- Dained taitiius in the beginning his desires would | never {atl to be realized. Sin, however, obscured Tis imteliect ait perverted his heart renderiug what wes before bul lu accordance with the original de- Figa Of his creaGou unpossible to his faiem nature, God, never ths 4, in its goodness and mercy pro- | vided {ue Means by which inan mught again secure the lapyiness he ogee rejected. he Lacarnation, te inetriuiion of relixiou—tn a werd, the whole | economy of ie providence,,which can be read in the entire listory of the human race, are com- | ponent parts of ihe scheme of God's mercy in favor | of the noblest work of His hands, it may be asked, | How comes ii, then, that the Creator's designs, with Tespectto man, areso often frustrated? That of | CALLED KOT FEW ARE CHOSEN f? Sel aids Us in answering the diMcu'ty. It expressiy sayk:—"Nethiug detled can enter the kivgdom of heaven.” But that wan alone is free | Jrom defleme it wo has (hrough ile preserved lis vapitamai lauocence, or, aller Laving lost It, has re gained it througn pena Few there are, huwever, who belong to either The dangers of a sinful World and the teroptations of acorrapt mature are too much for the great body of Chvistans, There is an cepecial aniageniem between the world and we epirit of true repentance, as well as of iumecence evident, indeed, tu every age, but, Atego never more €o tan in Our day.and generation. Our times | have peculiarly a revolutionary character, which seeks nol only to overturn the soctalgand political order OF Maukind, bul also to intrude itself into the relations Which exist between the Creator and the creature. ‘ihe resalt is that religion with the man is RESOLVING ITSBLP INTO SENTIMENT; politics are divorced, or abont to be divorced, from re igion, abd suciety is endeavoring to ignore the existence Of aGod, This may be deewed the error of the ead, but ile age has imoreover the errors of ine heart, It 48 weil at times to pause and see where we stand on our road to eternity. During life it 1s pru- | boty at times to call to mind the saying of St, Paul, at MANY TAKE PART IN THE RACE, GAINS THB PIIZ What have we done hitherto to gain the prize? This is A momentous yuesiion Which the nuture of | the work we are engaged tn 18 too serious to permit | to remain upanswered. The soemn declaration of truth itsell forvids is, 1tis staruing, It is true; | Dut not discouraging. It is not because God has | faid So thal few will be saved; but because God hes foreseen that but a small number would follow out tu deter and ip spirit Lis divine commands; there: Tore has He said that the number of the elect shail not be gieat. To ve among them we have but to | avail ourselves of the means which He has provided Jor us im We spiritual Midistrations of His holy Church. Olien have we felt the knocking of divine grace, calling Upon us to so avail OUrselves, yet as often, verhaps, lave we ruuely shut it out. Ofien lave we SMOTHERED THY REPROACHIUL CRY of our di-turbed consciences; often e we turned Away from the lignt of the hiaeousness of our dally ves, lest verchance ie one or Une Obber mucus | BUT ONLY ONR | ; for its expression, so must NEW YU Molest ns too mach in our enjoyment of the ficcting pleasure of the moment. ‘The preacher concluded by exhorting his hearers to rise at length and go and seek their heaveniy Father, who 18 awaiting Ws and ws keeping tor us the spotiess robe of sancti! grace. If we have ever cast it from us let us n to the footstool of Tis werey with hearis tall of love and of sotrow, there to gather new strength to walk ever afer: wards beiore Him, with fear and trembling, Dub sitd wilh biessed Lope ond sincere gladness, NEW EYQLAND CONGREGATIONAL Ferm and Substance of Religions Worship— CHURCH. Moguificent Temptes for the Wealiiy in Cities—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Merrill fon. ‘There was the usual large and fashionable attend- ance at the services yesterday morning at the New Pngland Congregational church, corner of Forty- seventh street and Madison avenue, After tho customary preliminary exercises the pastor, Rev. Yr. Merrill Richardson, preached a forcible and eloquent discourse on the subject of the FORM AND SUSSTANOR OF RELIGIOUS WORSMIP, taking for his text Jonn iv., 23—“The hour cometh and now 1s when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirtt aad in truth,” When Christ came the worship of God had lost its spirituality. Men were scrupulous in regarding the letter to the neglect of the spirit of true worship. new dispenation commenced, God’s law was to be written on the heart. Times, places, rites, temple, synagogue and altar wero to give piace to tho spirit and truth of Christianity, Christ re- versed the maxims and the practice of the whole Jewish service. The soul of religion was to be re- leased from its cerements of death and rise to spirtt- ual life, No longer could the spirit be sacrificed to | the letter of religion, nor its substance to 11s symbol, Christ did not discard forms; He only condezned their abuse. They were not the ESSENCR OF RELIGION: only helps thereto, Christ did not etrip religion bare ef all its garments. After dwelling at length on this point he proceeded to show that Christ would not have spiritaal life smothered with exter- nals, The spirit should be supreme. Christlanity should be for all ages and conditions, It must be free to alter its forms to sult a growing people. Methods of actions must change as men progress. Abel could in his day offer sacrifice on a pile of stones as acceptable to God as any which David offered tn the Tabernacle or which we can offer in our churches. God ordained forms of religion be- cause some form was essential Forms changed vo Bult the necessities of the people. Government Is ordained by Got. That ts the most divine govern- Ment which best serves the weitare of the people. Christ shows tue diviaity of His teaching ua that lie did not bind ali men in all ages and degrees of Meht by the same methods. [i these days means, taste, cul- ture and good sense must be-used. An educated peo- ple Would not obey the true idea of worship If their temples did not correspond to their means and cul. ture. A rough cabin may be God's sanctuary on the frontier, but not when the people are able to have every comtort and elegance at hone, The very contrast would then be degrading. God’s houso, in its fitness and furuiture, suould Lave a refining in- fuence, What ts called RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE has ever aimed to inspire the hearis o° the wor- shippers, deepening and ennobling tic emouons aud bringing the soul in communton with ‘od. As ; God ornaments His ¢. temple of natu.: with j ever-varying beauties, arching it with sp.oi- dors and making it vocal with song, aul its air faden wiih tue perfame of flowers, patuting the evening and morning sky with te radiance of glory, so He will not refuse as waste that sanctuary Wuereln men worship Lim in the beauly of holiness, A beautifal sancimary ts a tribute of wealth or of taste in making an acceptanle offering to God. You can say with David you would not offer to the Lord that whieh costs you nothing. As music must use voice and harp and organ ior its utterance, and as tic thought must borrow the imagery of nature Public devotion have ihis Mtting symbo', We but obey a untversal law of God when we eimody our sentiment of religion in forms adapled to a cultivated taste. Having exiansted tila branch of discourse he next took up the substance of true wors which, he tnsisted, 14 not only the weigh- pr, but the essence of the whole, Whe God's house of worsutp Jails as a Means of awaken- ing (he emotion of worship and sanctifying the sont, on the cositiest tie chorus of instramen' and voices, the gor a robes of the priest and t solemn assetnbites are naught in His signt. A con- Irie heart Js of greater price. cease and all pretence and show, Having coptously Uiustrated this point he went on to show that the RIGHT KIND OF CHURCH ts God's clearest light on every question of duty to 4and mar. Christ's spirit and temper must be a Hts disciples. It 19 not enough for a Charen vo point to Its catechism or creed and say, “Ynere is our truth.” = It be seen as a Heht on a hill, seen of all men on every quesdon of duty, ST. MARKS MPISCOPAL CHURCH. Christ the Friend of Sinners—Che Duiy ef ibe Charct asa Shepherd of SoulsmGiscourse by Rev. Dr. Ryinace, The atteadance at St, Mark's Episcoval chureh, ia Stuyvesant street, yesterday, was quite large, and | an eloquent discourse on the friend of sinners was delivered by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Rylance, who took for bis text Luke xv., 2—"*Tbis man receiveth sin- ners.” ‘This, he said, was the language of reproach, of resentment, of au almost unmitigated scorn. There 1s an eynphasis of anger and embittered contempt in the passage.—‘‘The Pharasecs and Seribes mur- mured, ing, this man recetveth sinners and eateth with them.” Yet these men were the pro- feasors and teachers of A RELIGION OF MERCY, believers in a God of intinite piety aud love. Rigtily orthodox in sentiments of a conventional piety, they had, nevertheless, lost the Inward grace and tender- ness without which all religious service 1s empty and vain. “Havinga form of godliness but deny- ing the power.’? A miserable state of contradiction and antagonism between faith and feeling, between dogina and daty, between the body and the soul of religion, repeating truths which to them have lost all virtue, holding TRADITIONS THAT ARE BARERN AND DBAD, baiiding the tombs of the prophets, paying tithes ard mechanically panctual to appointed fasts, but forgetful of the welghtier mattors of the law, judg- ment, mercy, faith—such was the spirit that mur- miured against CHAIST'S COMPASSION FOR SINNERS; such is the spirit Of Phariseeism—Jewish or Chris- tian, For there is such a thingas “Onristtan Puarl- seelsm,” {oward which there is an ever-present danger—I had almost said a tendency in profes- sional Christianity—to degenerate. * * * Though these words come from tue emb! of enemies, they express THE MGHEST AND DIVINEST TRUTH: they are the briefest bat fullest epitome of the Gospel given by evangelists and aposties, they gather up into (hemselves and express the pith and power ofa hundred other texts fatlest of comfort and strength. ‘God so loved the world that Ie wave His only vegoiten Son that whosvever believ- eth In Him might not perish but have everlasting le.” “She Son of Man has come to seek aud io save thal which wag lost.’ ‘J come not to call the righteous, bal sinners to repentance.” ‘It is a faitatui saying and Wworiby of all acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the World to save suners,”’ All the wealth of THE GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES the very essence and fullness of the Goapel, are somnpressed JO these brief words, “Luis man re- ceiveth einmers.” And $9, being words of a deeper import than the bladed Pharisee or Serine could erovive, Ciirist (oes noLreject Uiem as @ reproach, ut accep tripuce to His Work of mercy among men. ‘nis taunt of anenemy becomes the theme of the «is. course (bat follows—the great truth which He opeus ered lpd and Uustrates in the parables of the Jost sleep, the | lost piece of mon«¥ and the iost son, ‘The Grst parable is (hat of @ lost sheep, the moral idea underiyiug tuis mage cme type of character aymbol ? What is What spo- We represented by wis CHRIST DIN NOT USE IMAGERY for its own sake; in every such case we may be sure thas the imagery is the mere dress or drapery of some moral (hought—some deep human traui, This preseuls those Wwio wander from the guardiaustiny government of God. chiefly under the infuence tron, The sheep 1s au easy and yatural symbol of @ sort of silly innocence or weakuess of character, which goes wrong through ignorance or is led astray by deception rather than by rebellions atections or a peverse will. How large @ Class Of those wo neglect thei duly to God anu live OUTSIDE THE FOLD oF does this imave of @ lost sheep embrace? In the exercise of a discriminating charity, we sre com peiled in our judgueut of men to say Of taauy, v err, not Knowing better, ratuer than wilfully si against the lignt and the truth and the spirit of God, We are reminded of such @ class in one o1 the TENDEREST PRIITIONS OF OUR LITANY, when wepray that God would bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived; sud beyond ali doubt the jadgment of the last great day will be graded to these diverse condittons and re- Sponsidilities of man. not exoccting much wheve Ms CHURCH Al nia | Semblance must | and applies Them as an unconscions | KK HERALD MUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 187 | God has given tittle, nor “reapt ; town," where He has not ut accepting or condemning the man | according to what he bath, and not according to | what he hath not, |The pastor dwelt brie_y upon the stambling- blocks that are piaced to trip up the Christian, and beautifully depicted TUE LOVE OF THE GREAT SHRPIERD, | Jena Christ, tn searching out the lost sheep and gilding them back to tue fold, ‘The pastor uext constdered the paravie of the lost piece of money, and believed ft teaches usa very pathetic and quickening trutn, vi%.:—that as things more OF .¢93 precions may get astray and be lost for want of care, 80 may souls that are feeble aud pas. sive be lost through the indiffercnee and neglect of those who ought to have them in their fatthful Keemng. This will appiy more especially to chii- ‘dren and to chd-like natures, Our duty vo those , leeble and neglected H CMLUGEN OF OUR COMMON FaTAHPR 1s revealed in this second parable, This woman miay bo taken as a type of the Church, and as sho was anxtous and diligent to secure her trifling | treasure, go sould the Church, full of a divine | 8¥mpatay, and mspired by the love of lier dear Lord, go forth and seek diligently in the byways and hiduen places of the world for lost souia, MADISON AY! PRESBYTERIAN (RUSCH. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Coukling=The Core tninty of the Eternal Punishment of tho Wicked—The Awiul Enormity of Sin. At thls fashionable place of worship the Rev. Mr. ; Conkling preached, yesterday morning, an able and powerful discourse on the certain and eternal | oa | in heart to give tie world a perfect type of human- ' ity as well as to enable Him to enter fully into sym- Te took for his text lastes—“It shail not be well There 13 a popular modern the- condemnation of the wicked. | the passage froin fcc! with the wicked.’”? | race is towards eternal happiness. This svems to be ; the general sentiment among the poets, philoso- \ phera and thinkers of the jay, 1t chiefy arises on aecount of the low esiimate men place upon the | guilt of sin. the Book of God. 1 !s ruinous to the soul that be- iteves fl, and it has Gone more harm than any other false doctrine ever protaulgated, In Christian coun- tries, Indeed, quiet intiference to our neod of a Sa- i spiritual death, How can that man desire to bo isasinner? With human beings just so foulish as this, however, our lana is fliled to-day—fooilsh crea- | tures who believe that all will come right at last, | and who do not realize thi they are on the ROAD TO PKRDITION. But, tn the words of our text, “10 snall not be well with the wicked.’ Let us consider, then, the dan- ger and folly of cherishing low views of sin. Sin 13 any transgression against or want of confornity to the laws of God; and sinners are the wicked j Siuded to in the text—men who have broken off | from their allegiance to God, who have forte.ted all claims to fils favor, who have brought upon them- selves tho greatest ovil that an undying soul can | ever know. who have bowed their immortal spirits to the only degradation they can ever suffer, who | have taken to their bosoms the serpent whose pol- soned wounds no mortal remedy can vure, who have fetterad thelr limbs with linked steel and given the Keys to the devil, Who have built around their souls dunyeon walis of debasement and misery and who are lost to hope and heaven. To gain a truthful conception of the awful character of sin let us re- member, first, that ail the evils of this Ife are its feults, Sin ts mot fully punished here; this is not the arena of finai recompense elther of the evil or ie geod, Here, indeed, it sometimes happens that ) the BIGGEST RASCALS AND THIEVES | are brilliantly successful. Stull, even in this life, sin is a baleful and destroying thing. There nas never been a tear shed bat 1t3 source has been sin ; ail the ; Pain and pining and misery that human lives have ; ever endured ure the fruits of sim. The record of human suffering, plague and earthquake ana famine | and war 1s one loug sorrowful history of tne con- {| Sequences of sin, The same is true as to the moral | fects tn this lite of sin. Looking back at our past | history we sec that our greatest and most poignant ; Cmotions of shame and remorse are the products of ‘sin, And how much worse have these ocen than | the natural and physical consequences of our traus- giessions | In this life even then itis NOP WELL WiTH TLE WICKED, Secondly, the awtulness of the guilt of sin is shown tn the greatness of the sacrifice made by Got to deliver Irom it the fallen race of man. In the light of that wrath how impossible it is that it should | be weli with the wicked in this World or the next. Let us take our stand at ‘the cross of Jesas, | the omy Son of God, and remember that the one reason of his sufiering was that He, the Lord of Glory, out of the greathess of His love, etecied to make reparation for the sins of man. Where, then, is une hope that He will spare tho unrepentant . sinner? ‘The blood-stained Cross gives 1 Feast | that God will play last and loose with s 1s most solemn words La man Wishes to persist in hold- ing Ught views of siu let him not visit Calvary! must | Tucn, thirdly, the | 4O¥ OF THE ANGELS over @ repentant sinner ts another proof of the } enormity of sin. ; guardians of the upward-bound spirit, and we are told that the season of their greatest gladness is | when the caild of earth turns found and takes the | path to heaven, At such seasons there are new pe sung til beaven and the seraphs praise God , In loftier strains. Let us then look upon these | things as established traths of God Almighty: let us | soltie it ouce tor all that it will not and cannot be | well with the wicked in Hfe or in death, or at the | great judgment day, or lo eteraity, For tow can it be well with | A LORT SOUL | who has chosen io eternal dwe'llng the awral | horror of the blackness of darkness forever? The | paces recapituiated tue many privileges of 5 | is hearers in having been plousily nurtured, and often told of the need of salvation, and said that ror } such as they, if they rejected Christ, in an especial | sense, there was no salvation, It 18 trne that we | Cannot see into the future world, but we have the | sure testimony of the solema word of God that the } periect vlss of the ilguteous is everlasting, aud that TUE FEARFUL DOOM GF THE WICKED J j is everiasting aiso. Surely no minister of God could | conceal tiat truth from his hearers, or could be so | cowardly as to conceal that truth from immortal souls wiom it concerned so deeply. The preacher closed by an eloquent appeal to his congregation to avatl themselves ol the privileges of grave while it was yet time. ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL, What Is Nerevsary fer Salvation—Sermon by Arcubishop McCloskey in Aid of Mt. Joseph's Seminary, at Troy. Axsermon was preached at the Cathedral yestor- day by Archbishop McCloskey in aid of St, Josepi's Seminary, Troy, an institution established in that city for the purpose of preparing young men for the priesthood. faithful, Aud the discourse of the Archbishop, de- livered ip a very clear and impressive manner, was | listened to with devout attention, Solemn hign | Mass wos commenced at halpast ten o'clock, | the Very Rey. Father Storrs, Vicar General, | Officiating as celebrant, the Rey, Father McNamee us deacon, and the Rey, Father Kean as sub-dea- con, Tue Rey. Futher Kearney was master of cere- monies, At the termination ef the first Gospel the | Archbisbop ascended the pulpit and took his text from the Gospel of the day, acvording to Matthew, | XXL, 1—14, setiing forth that the King sent his ser- | Vants to call them that were invited to the mar- rage, but they would not come, and that many are calied but few are chosen. Archbishop McCloskey proceeded to state that in the words of the Gospel | the Lord Nkened the Kingdom of Heaven to a great | sovereign who prepared A WEDDING FRAST for his son, and thereto invited friends to partict- | pate. They who were first called dia not go to the | feast, and then, through the voice of his servants, he repeated the invitation to others in stronger and more pressing terms; and, but they on various pretexts, one because of his tarm and another because of his mer- chandise, set but little value upop fhe favor of their royal master Who had extended the invitation. | Then again he sent jor other servants and wt then to go torth into the highway and call all Whom they should meet. wag one found without wedding garment, and | Was ordereu to be cast ont in darkness, wuere ther was Weeping and gnashing of teein, i THE APPLICATION OF THIS PARABLE | Was easiiy understood. It was aiready familiar. ‘Lue great King spoken of represented, undoubtedly, | God, the Eternal Fatiier, and the wedung He bad | prepared was that wiich was to take place between | is chosen and only Us Mtined aud must beloved | Son andthe Church waich that Son was to found | upon earth. The banquet that was spread repre- sents the spi the heaveuly goods and blessings whica are prepared for alt seated at tho table. Tuose uve represcut the various peopie of tbe family of God—first, those wader the dispen- sation Of the patriarchs, the Jewisa people, and tuen those who were called by the minisiers of Christ. The manger in whtch they were received and the manner in wnieh they were beaten was a declaras | tion of what would be the cuaract ond trails of thete ministry and at the same time a jorewartuing the trials, persecuions and insults that = they would have to ens , duce, Many were called, bul few were chosen, | ‘the Archvishop dwelt at some length upon the trial4, suferings aud martyrdom which the minis« tevsof the Chorch had endured through all ages in order to fulfil their mission. if salvation was necessary the priesthood was vecessary also, and in proportion as they valued the gifia God had given +) in the same vrovorlion Uiey OUugut to Vaid Lage of | Ory, said he, that the destiny of the whole human ; No mistake, however, could be more | i fatal, and tt has nothing whatever to rest upon in | | viour is the most alarmingly frultfut source of , ‘yg | saved from sin who does not adequately feel that ne | whose hands they were conclusion of the eloquent sermon tl the high mass Was proceeded with, Torzeam’s fine composition in E fiat was per- remainder of foriued with all the harmony and vrectsion so char- | that througn sharp acteristic of the excettent choir of the Cathedral. | sh: ‘The rendition ot the several parts was highly credit Qbie tothe individual artists, while the choruses sed. At the | of the ways of purification and the Nene of His love. “How great is tne purity of God, that even the souls of those who have beea His blood must be plunged into a lake of living fire ald. be Bator the wedding garment? 01 re for the wi hen God prepar. ing gal DESIRETH TO RSPOUNE OUR HHARTS Ww were given with requisite power aud proper unison. | to Als own love and aesireth us to dwell with Him, At the oifertory the *Benedicta” by Mercadante, Was sung by the tenor and basso, and after the cleva- tion the “u Salataris,” by Mercier, was beautitally rendacred by Mme, Chome, soprano, and Mrs, Un- ger, contralto. Unis choir attained is very laudable, both om the part of the artists and oior, Projessor Gustavus clumitz, who presided at the organ, ATCORVEY STREET M\THODIST EPISCOPAL ChURCH, The Loneliness of Chrisi’s Lifs nod e by Rev. J. J. Wilte, Late of Mr. White preached in the morning on Christ, the Model man, and the logeliness of His life and sumer. ings. TAR STANDARDS OF LIFR which men get before tuer were contrasted with the Saviour’s, which rose high above all. St. Paul he followed Christ—so far and no further. It was necessary, ne said, for Christ to be perfect and pure pathy with mankind, Vice never raises its victims, but carries them down deeper and deeper into degradation. But just in proportion as @ man is pure in heart and free from vice himself tn sucn proportion can he sympathize with the vicious and degraded of his fellow men, The drunkard cannot and does not sympathize with his neighbor trying to lift himsel{ up irom tais slough of despond. ‘This Work ts left to the 1man who ta pure and unspotted from this vice and whose soul's energies are thrown heaven. Hence Jesus Christ conla sympathize more (ully with siuful men, because He Himself was sinless, and because He understood the nature {and destiny of mankind, And in this re | gard Christ was alone, But Ho was ‘alone aiso “in the sorrows of life—the common lut of humanity—the dark messengers which eater every home and every heart, perhaps, for wise and good purposes, Christ was alone in a bereavement, At the grave of Lazarus | fears rolled down iis cheeks, not merely because | ¢ angels are tie helps ana | There was a large attendance of the ; Along those who sat down to favle | 3 | Lor. winch alt. mast tame nesd. | time; God will judge & Kils friend Lazuros was dead, but because He looked beyond aud saw the UTTER DESTITUTION OF THE RACE. It 18 @ great blessing that we are kept in! ; Ignorance of the future; for were we to | Know beforehand all tue griefs and sorrows | Which overtake us iu Iie, we should seek to | end our days almost as s00n as we begin to live. | But in the tomb the Saviour was dione also, unul at | break of day the angels came and rolied the stone | away and fe rose triumphant from the dead, lead. ing capliviy captive and enabling Christa throughout the world, tn every age and nation, to in the Jui assurance ol faith, “UV Death, Is thy sting? Q Grave, where is thy vic- tory?’ Let us, therefore, take up our cross and come boldly to the throne of grace that we mas find mercy and grace to help in ume of need, The “Amens” aad “Glorys’? were quite frequent during the delivery of the sermon, In the evenmg Mr. White preached on *Wonderiul Faith.’ CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. The Value of Woman’s Work avd Womno’a Power in the Service of Jesus—sermon by the Rév. Charles F. Deems, At the Church of the Strangers yesterday the Rev. | Charles F, Deems, taking for his text Philuppians iy., 8, “I entreat thee, true yorefellow, help those women who lavored with me in | tne Gospel,” delivered the following — ser- | mon:—He said, “Made of a woman.” This 1s Paul’s brief and sublime description of the incarnation of the Divine. In regard to every- thing—politics, plilosophy, art, science, social life, men, women, children, the household, the Church and the State—the day when Mary in Bethlehem ueld her first born im her arms is the dividing ilne of all human history, JESUS HAS DONE THIS. Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of the external changes of society is that they have | been mainly wrought through a change effected by the life of Jesus in the position and work —may I not say in the very character !—of woman. We cannot, Without an effort; conceive the stato of affairs in regard to women, their training, their position, their mfluence before Jesus came. The treatment of the Mother Mary by Jesns has secured @ vast, and, I fear, generally uuacknowi- edged boon to woman, He might have made her a goudess. He might have carried her up with Him in the Ascension, and so left for her name a glory it can never have; but loving the womanly glory which now belongs to it He left her | ply this inheritance of beautiful honor at | she should be remembered as His mother, ‘Mary } the mother of Jesus.” In the records which ‘ have been preserved of the career of tue foremost man of the early Christians, the Apostle Paul, | it comes out most. conspicuously that the | example and teaching of Jesus seem to have in- spired confidence ti the apostles to employ the aid of women in planting the societies that were to bear the name of Jesus and propagate His prinotples, Paul is not popular with “those womeu” of our day who are juboring to destroy the family as it rests on the foundation of Christianity; but even they owe more to the teacning of Paul than they take timo to consider or nave the grace to acknowledge, That Mian 1s Dot to be spoken of in a flippant way, a3 a SOURED OLD BACHELOR or an embittered widower, Who had such an array of friends among women as Paul manifestly en- joyed. I cannot iorpear saying that in church ser- } vice modera ministers find what Paul discovered, that their most active helpers are not always ‘dadies” of weaith and leisure, but of those women who make their daily bread by their needles. On the tradeswoman Lydia is set the crown of being the beginning of the reign of Jesus in Europe. That men are to take the HEAVIER BURDENS OF CURISTIANITY, that they are to be the preachers, the heraids of the ! principles and claims of Jesus would seem to be yery apparent, not only from the constitution of their sex, but also from the teaching of the Holy Scripture and the practice of Jesus and his aposties, But her social position gives woman great advantages for religious work. It always did, No matter what man to do he never could do without woman. Christanity, by its | quick readjustment of the social Ife gives her great receptive and plastic powers full play. | Iknow, too, shat there are women willing to labor } for Jesus if they only knew how or where, Dear ; brethren, I have said these things because I felt that your attention should be called to woman’s work and woman’s power. “I entreat thee also. trae W, help those womeu who labor With Me tospel;’’? and may all the blessings of the Gospel of our Lora and Saviour Jesus Christ come upon you and upon yours, now and forever! Amen, Si. AVN'S ROWAN CATHOMIG coUReH, ! The Christians Wedding Garment Rey ration—Parification and Sanctidication-=. mon by Kev. Father Proston. Large, bright-facea and fashionable was the con- gregation which assembled in the handsome church of St. Ann, on Twelfth street. The performance of Rossini’ “Messe Solenclie’ on the previous Sun+ | 1o atiain their success, amthey took a sort of of | day yesterday. The music was chosen from various composers, and made a species of POT POURRI MASS MUSIC. The “Kyrie? was by Zlmmers, the “Qiorlw’? by Dietsch, the “Credo” irom Augustin Savard’s , the “Agnus Dei," a very sweet piece, er. During the ofertory Gammieri’s “Ave Maria’ was given, The sermon of the day Was preached by the Rev. Father Preston, pastor of Si. Ann's, and was tn the fall, impassioned elo- quence which that gentieman brings to all exclu- } sively religious discourses, fle chose for his text the gospel of the day, Mat'. XxtL, 1-14, in which is related the parabie of YH MARRIAGE OF THR KING'S SOS, | The Christian minst weigh this with all the powers | gf his mind and ask himself if ho 18 in the con. dition of that miseraple man, ‘Tne Lord sends fortn his invitation to all, but no man can enter tuto his joy af he be not worthy to sit ab Whe table. It is the gory of judgment : TOL) IN WORDS OF WARNING We of His holy Churen nist hot solace Ourseives with the thought that thatis guMectent, Ou the day when the sen- tence ot jndamert is uttered it will be too late to re- trace the stens of Cur passtons, Prepare, then, 10 ¥ tan according to ‘his are members of His holy L | dceerts. Not because W. Chure shall we thereby by saved. we shall be held toasirict account. Oftrsst, our Lord, nanging on Calvary, opened pis heaytan poured out blood and water. The & OUTOUSRING WATERS OF RAGRN ERATION new-created usin baptism ; but the acorament of penance dues hot new-creute; 1 leaves bacuind It the juark of Wie stains of sin, Lt lightens the wad, but it leaves us the cross to carry. Through this ac ment 18 the only way in Witch we, in our eoxdid ea, shall be wortay to wear that wedding gar. ment. Behold, then, thal If your sins are Mot Joosed on earth (hey Wil Het be ivosed in heaveu, ‘There is NO LOVE OF YOUR Nerannon, no charity to the poor, BO ministering to Ils temple stall save him wio neglects tie law and sacraments of the Church, [cts @ dreadial thougitt that God should have created fu abyss of fice to chasten our Fevelliqus ielitugnovs WIG Wrausgresayd 10 Tac acknowledged tho purity and grandcur of Christ's , life when he advised his Churches to follow bim a3 | right and left to raise souls up toward God and | day had cost the cnofr quartet considerable effort | | | iv., 26—“Be ye angry and sin not.'’ shail we falter and fail? O, many are called and few are chosen; so let us cast asicle our sins, erucity our affections and follow Him, that we may be wor- thy to sit at that marringe feast. Yea, to thia must The state of perfection to which We turn, tothe great promise which 18 moro than a the revelations, when He shall raise His lett band and with his right fold us close 40 bis oso lorever. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAa. Mr. 'Iepwerth on Geod Temper—A Sermon on tho Advantages of Keeping Cool and Not Letting the Little Auavy Passions Rise. Mr. Hepworth’s text wa3 taken from Ephesians, He began by saying:—I am very giad that God has not interdicted as wholly wrong ail ebullitions of anger, because there are undoubtedly times in every man's expe: ‘rience when it 1s quite impossible to le cool and patient, There are circumstances which naturally rouse one to such @ pitch that both language and acts are the reault, and inevitably so, of very strong feeling and very strong indignation. Indeed, there were times m the life of Christ when He took mat- ters into His own hands and used language which made the crowd stand back witn o kind of awe, az though an avenging God were present, and made the culprit’s shake and tremble as though they were be‘ore the bar of judgment, What indignation Prompted His acts and deeds when He saw the Temple of the Most High used as a place of trafic! j Though He had no legal rignt to drive tue bulls and bears of Jerusalem from their oifices, yet He did | have what we acknowledge to be the “SACRED RIGHT OF REVOLUTION.” and tho crowd as we'l aa the culprits yielded as tne ! holy man vindicated the outraged laws of God, ‘here are, then, two kinda of anger. The one is caused by principle outraged, by the presence of error 1n the place of truth, and by the sight of des- potism on the throne of liberty, It is not self- seeking and has no element whatever of revenge in it, It takes possession of one just in proportion as the love or righteousness in the soul rebels against and denounces the wrongs of the world. When the lips speak for God, no matter how indignantly, the heart Is not Ukely to be sinful, When we wage war against evil and not against persons we can be ever so Angry and yet commit no sin. The other kind of anger, that kiud which we are warned against, but in which we generally indulge, is wholly seltish, who has harined us in s0ine way, anit has a strong dash of revenge tn it, When some one strikes us we strike back, and in heat, and when some oue in- sults us We ans’ver back, our opject beiig simply (0 It cuuses us to do an injury to one | Make hum feel a little worse than he has made us | feel. ‘Inis Kind of ebullition accomplishes no good, and Indicates a lack of gell-control It is fumetimes very senseless, too. I saw a driver once jet nls horse get h's leg over the trace, and wien the poor beast Was too Iruorant to put fils leg back ' tasight of God’s emtnence in all things, BROOLLYN CHURCHES. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on “Working with God.” Sermons Yesterday by the Rev. Messrs. Beecher, Osborn, Roche, Pentecost end Dorlon Froel. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Working With God—Conflicts Necessary— Patiexce and Filelity—Sermom by Kev. Bonry Ward Beech Mr. Beecher preached to his usual immense con- gregation yesterday m&rning from the text, “ror we are laborers together with Gol; ye are God's husbandry; ye are God's building,” Itis doubtful, sald the speaker, tf any such com- prehensive idea of God's work was in tue apostie’s mind as is now in ours. Truth is expanstivo; it ts always the same; but, hke @ tree, has always o wider outgrowth and a deeper root. Iaul’s earlier letters suow plainly that he ex- pected Christ’s appearing tn his own day, bat later he dwells less upon the earthly consummation, and talks of heavenly joys. Paul had evidently risem above the fanaticism and narrowness of bis own sect, He had learned that God’s work is vast, thas men are ali working, events are transpiring, but that there is an interior force ail the time belaud the exterior, Wars, peace, everything he knew was working together for good. Tho great racketing world was pot only working for what tb thought of itself but for God's will and intenuon. In he letters of this magnificeat man we find ti deep He ts seou to bethe beginning and tho end of ail uuings. The Kingdom of God on earth is something greater and grauder than any ono has yet seen, and it consists of the life forces of those into whom God comes and works by iis spirit, The kingdom of God consists of no sect, and it can never reach its bounds till all nations and races are included in it, in tue totality of their Itfe forces, God’s church 18 ultimately to be mankind, Tie Church at present 18 only the way through which all pass 10 the final church, and all preseat forms are subsidiary and transicnt. These are Bul SCHOOL HOUSES aud the perfect education takes the man out of the school house and puts nim imto life, At any tl the Church 0 God on earth Is the sum of sanctified Manhood at that ime, It 1s the Spirit of Ctrist that makes a man Christ’s, and wherever a man ts work- ing tor the things (hat Cprist loves, he may say that he ia “working together with God.” Ths Kingdom of God 13 by U3 nature slow in its growth. We | see and do m our tims many things both wise and | goou, buc We are only workers God ts che great again tue driver iost nis temper and beat him with | a walp. real rate, and wanted to sce bia harnessed to tne car while the horse drove. 1 think the quadraped would have made a3 good # driver as the biped. Again, how oiten, when we are DRIVING A NATL and happen through eur own c&reles?ness to hit our own lingers, do we strike @ few furious blows, | which knock the nail ail to picces and dent the board, These things show how fvulish & maa can ‘ve and how small a thing can tempt him to say and do foolish things. ‘This loss of temper, I should prefer to call It a 1983 of one’s seli-respcect, must be wrong, since it pro- duces such ater effects, After a tremendous ex- citement, in Which, under some silng, we have sail the bitterest and meanest things we could get hold of, or done some rash act whose sole onject was to inilict pain—I say after’ we excitement hus passed and we grow cool again how utterly and heartily ashamed of ourselves we are! We look around for some dark corner in which to hide, It seems as though the world’s finger were pointed ut us in scorn, while tne world’s lips cai! us fool. This mat- ter of self-control, wiih some exceptions, marks tne | difference between barbarism and civilizadon and between classes of society. The farther down you get, as a generat rule, the less you see ol it, The Savage is 4 man whose temper runs away with him, L thought at the time that the man was the | while the Ohristian 1s the man who rans away with , hia temper. The dangerous classes, as tuey are called, are composed Oi men who stand on the Mo- saiolaw of a tooth for a tooth, and their rule 1s to strike back as hard and as quickly as they can, The Christian, on the ovher hand, when suddenly ex- cited, holds himself in check, and conquers a: last with enurely diferent weapons, ‘This self-control 13 pernaps the hardest task whica God has ever set us, ‘fo some it 1s comparatively easy, for there are some men who seem W have ho sensibility, no nerves. They are cold, wet and clammy all tie time, They are not 1a the least excitable. ‘To others it ts as nearly Impossibie as apyillag Cab Well ve, lor iuey seem to be MADE OF GUNCOTTON, or rather of nitro-giycerine, for at the slightest une usual jar they explode, and woe to ali, wile or chal. dren, Who happen to be near, Now, fhe ideal man { K Well i hand, He is devecoped ‘all round the circle, ,and uot in spots, as most of us are. fhisis the man whom God gives to man as hisexamples, This is the Chvist man. The object of revelation fs to teach man to ¢ducate himself ta weaver, While we out spin the threads, Micnuet Angelo patnted exquisite pictures in the Sistine chapel, but the tempie was built before he could paint tue pictures, and he was indebted to every Iau who he!ped in the rudest way. Michael Angelo Was the product of thousauds of tolling men, All men, be they artists cr geniuses, are oniy workers, and God 1s the great Arciitect, and tells no one bis plans, ‘The proudest and the wisest are only God's hired men, ‘fois way of conflict seems a very rude way; but as in human iife so 16 was at the bezinuneg iu the phy- sical worid; and long ages ago, that the imagine tion cannot reach, there was attrition and rode forees in conflici, Hasn't God progressed every great gocd by tears aud blood Ths has becn the cement of wil God's work. Mem learn =by =the = eam=—sof”s their ~—s mistakes, They all around the gate and buck ther heads against every possibile obsiacle, and then bit goiden mean and go tn, and they cat that a discovery. When men, therefore, are diviaed and in conflict, We must not think that God bad left the world. God nses sinuers, for there ts ne- bodyelse. If God shouid lif! cy otis banner to-day and call for tne sanctified there wouldn't be one? What is the history of all the Churohes from the Roman Church to the Congregauol Church? Wiat are the Churches but a raft to take men over the deluge? What are Churches that they should call on men to folluw them? Churches are worth just 80 Much as {sin them. Uf you pat Cwsar’s Image ou copper it won't make tt gold. In the Roman Church there were uncounted saints, but na Church is injatlible, The Cuurches are ouly God's workmien, and they MUST NOT TAKE ON AIRS. Go's presence in our work ought to encourage all wumbie workers, There comes over to our shores @ poor worker, Aman gives Dimi work at stone ca'ting. ‘The worker puts ali hls skill and taste into the work, aad only Knows that he is earning hia daly bread. But by and by he gues along the street, and there, over the door of the art gallery 1s the work that he did and the tears drop from his eyes, and he says, “Lam glaa £ did it well’? Brethren, we are doing what seems | like little work, bat God will show you the work by van Who is Well poised—who has himself, su» all directions, and not to exaggerate his self-love to | such a degree that he expicdes with foolish auger whenever his pleasures or his so-called rights are infringed upon. A man necds to have temper to get on in this world, but it 1s very bad when his temper has him. How much of our business interest Cepends upon keeping cool, upon retning tn our impuises, upon keeping silent when we are actually potling and achig to tear things to pleces. And how mach of the happiaess of home depends on your ability to bear, and very patiently, too, min tings which seem to you to be very unreasonable, but Which wil tura out to be not quite so bau if you | will ONLY KREP COOL. More of your happiuess in domestic life, and very much more of your success In business than you tiunk, depends on your keeping your temper and ever doing anything rash or impulsive or revenge- ful. Jesus Christ 1s your schoolmaster in this mat- ter. Ifyou cau clothe yourself with His spirit, if ‘ou can be charitable as he was and gentle and lov- ng and trustful, you would find that tite would be- come at once more beautiful and your bappiuess increased tenfold. FIFTH UNVERSALIST CHURCH. og nnd Crucifying Right— Crownien Wi Eloqnent Viscourse by the Kev. Charles F. Tree A goouly number of devout worshippers assem. bled at the Fifth Universalise church, Chickering Hall, yesterday morning, for the purpose of wor- slipping God and hearing the yeung and eloquent | Rey. Charies F, Lee discourse on the protide sub- Ject of “Crowning Wrong and Crucifying Right.” In opening the service the congregation sang the hyron of which the following 1s the first stanza: — So God is here! “Let as adore _ And humbly bow besore His Let all wishin us feei His power; Let all within us seek His grace, ‘The text selected was St. John, xix., 17, 18—"And he, bearing His cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which fs called tn the Hebrew Golgotha, Where they crucified Him, and two others | with Him, on eituer side one, and Jesus midst.’ in ihe TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION OP JNSUS, said the reverend gentleman, strkingly tivstrated human depravity so fearfully and human heroism so gloriously that we cannot forget it though we would, The nineteenth century is, thank i, far ja advance of what the first was, alinougi tnere is evep now much to remind us of those dark and dreadful days wien men were persecuted for their opinions’ sake. When Jesus was carried forth to death the popuiar verdict gave to the cruciffors the crown and to Him the crosa; pally day we see Wai veruict reversed most gior’ ousiy. In comparing our day with those of the first cen. tury Mr. Lee said tat there were great secret lau ences WORKING AGAINST JESUS to cause fis deain. Plinte, himself, whaiever of @ personal nature against Him; buco he bowed to the wil and clamor of the wob, just as Our city Officials have uone upou more than oneoccasion. Pilate feared to dispiease the populace, lest a revolution sould be Inaugurated, Jor which he Would be held responsible to the RKo- man Emperor, nt therefore pure seliisiness prompted Aim to deliver over to the rabbie the Son of God, tn our day We see lundveds Very like tits same Pilate, They do nothing wrong within them. Reives, And yel they look on Witi all ie compla- cence magivable and see others roy aul plunder, ‘They reply When questioned that they are not to Llane for the action of Luose With Whom they are oficialiy connecied, Here is Piate again. 181i Rot guile as wrong to passively conntenance wrong as to openly ald and assist i? Quite so, Linink, and even more So. Pilate ts imitated (oo m the present day by per sons fearmg lo do right. We have sev Ume aad Again ied in high posiiions CRINGING CO A HOWLING MOR instead of defending tue right agamst all comers. It ts, thdeed, @ sad thing to see here ia free Atmorioa BUCH Sights a these, aud T tremble for our free tn. striations if itis much jonger continued. ‘Twice in our own city We have witnessed the spectacia of & niob ruling as it were our ofictals. But then wrong did not triumph long, nor ever willit, For a time the clouds may seem dark, just as they did to the diss ciples of Jesas when their Master was crucified, but ere long they Will Ureak away @ad rane wril Col quer, had potmng | of unspeakable imporsance, So Christ ri and by, Pat your beartinto your work. What is more disgusting than to see tionsands of mulverry worms mincing, munching? By and by they leave off cating and go to spinning their cocoons. Tuey don’t know what ts to come of It, bat at last 1 is spon into thread and woven tanto beauufal fab Tics, and a quveuly form 1s roved init. That is whas the worm did. When at last you see the results of your work you will be glad that you aid it well—tuas: you Were jakaful. What if you dont GET INTO THR NEWSPAPERS; so much the better. Work weil in the place where you are. ‘The way to get up higher 13 to make yours Belf 8o valuabte that 1118 bad policy to let you stay in a low piace. When Phidiag was carving the Diana for the Necropolis he was asked why he took suci pains with the back of the head, since it was to be placed high up and against a wall, “The gots will see it,” was his enswer. Don't be afraid to do your best in low et The jittle girl who carries her father's dm- Ips build the cathedral. If God puts you m& low place be great in patience. Staud where God Wanta you to stand, and by aud by you will see your bart in the great work. Most people are obliged to do work that ts not congeniai, and they need big moral considerations to help and inspire them. Whoever does good work works with God, All things are yours, and you are Christ's and Cnrist 18 God’. RAPELYUA STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. A. (. Osbora on the Government of the Tengue, or Christian Conversatio In the little and Henry streeis yesterday the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Osborn, @ brother of General Osborn, United States Senator from Florida, assumed the thread of his discourse by announcing asthe subject of contemplation “fhe Government of the Tongue, or Christian Conversavion,” found ing his remarks onthe words of sacred writ con- (aimed im Me third chapter of James, second to twelfth verse. The third subject that occurs in the en- gugements entered inio in our own church covenant ig expressed in these words:—"“We promise in the trata and sincerity of our hearts, as the Lord shalt enable us, * * * to abatain from foolish talking ani jestipg.’’ In the iifth chapter of Ephesians Paul classifies foolish taiking and jesting with things for- bidden among men everywhere, and which are not even to be named among te dise!pies of Christ, and says that none such have ‘any inherttance in the kingdom of Christ and of God? We can readily uadersiand that the Christian should not tadulge tir fooilsn talking. Life with him ts too sertous, His work Is loo earnest, ‘Tne reaitties of Ie and of death anu of the soul and of eternity are too meo- mentous for ima to play the fool or ihe clowa, But what is meaut by “Jesting/’? Is the Christian never to indulge i the pleasantries of lie? Never to allow iis couyersauod 10 sparki@ with the flashes of wit and genus? Must he ever plod along upon the doll, even plane; of un- varying monovony’ We do not thas interpret i, A Iiterai translation of the original Greek givee as the meaning of the word-—-‘levity, or frivoloug and indecent: discourse,” —-and bomedblsllas fl we covenant (o abstain iron all unbecouing levity or frivolity, ‘This, tuev, Lrings before us the entire kubec. of the governmeat of the tongue or Chris> tian conversation. ts tt forth as @ maticr ys a] ‘for every idle word that men shall speak they shal give an account thereof im the day ef judgment.’* Tue Holy Writ is teeining wilt injunctions on thts subject; tie JAW as laid down by Moses is Imperative regarding ti; the Psalms as sing by David are Calf of exhortations vespecting 1; Solomon 18 ever warning bis readers; Pau), in his writings demands asirict observance Of it, and Christ in alt his diving teachings enforces it, What are sowe of tue stus of the tongue, Siu ls committed day by violating the mmand that we shall not jie, In daily conversa- won, in words of Weicome and adieu, In the simple even, falsehood Is olten pre- dominant, corrupting Christan morals aud jaisilying, Trath ja one of the most enno- bling trat's, iaisity the most ‘Them the “sin of profanity presents itselt, all.’ Fhe were statement of the trata is all that need ever be offered; our statements are weakened by superfluous Collaterals. dale bearing Js anovher sta to be steadiastly opposed, Let ws bear In mind the injunction, “ilo shall not go ap and down as & vearer,” and We ure told that, “When no tat et 14, St » Anower sin in the cate- or sonality 8 loo mean, no tne KiMiAtion for tie sianderous ‘tongue. ‘The sin of impurity is one that we » Women should never speak among th subjects regarding Whicn they would be uowuting to have mention made in society. Men should never empioy Linguage Wich would be cousidered an was sion, Let purity of thought, of iv nucrs be ever a pre-emluent Con- sideration, In clostug, the distinguished divine summed up ine improper use of the tongue Ad DFO~ dachve of tue Lolo wine Ovilss— Kitt Ub a ne urch on the corner of Rapetvea’ ‘