The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1871, Page 4

: ; 4 RELIGIOUS, What Was Done at the Churches and What Was Said by the Preachers. MR. BEECHER ON SELF-CONCEIT. The New Ritualistic Movement—Services. at Christ Church and the Church of the Moly Light. Potter on Auricular Confession. Bishop The First Sunday of Advent at the Catholic Churches. Laying the Corner Stone of a Cath- olic Church in Brooklyn. Discourses by Bishop Potter, Dr. Ewer, Revs, Henry Powers, Hepworth, An- drew Longacre, Frothingham, Fathers McCready, McKer- ney and Dwyer. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAN. Mr. Hepwerth on Hereditary Transmissiou— He Believes in ‘a Fall of Semc Kind and at Some Time.” ‘Mr. Hepworth’s text was taken from Matthew XXL, 31-32: —“Wherefore be ye witnesses among yourselves tnat ye are the children of them which Killed the propnets. Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers.” hese words, sald Mr. Hepworth, are partly deflant and partly sad. The Master did ot fear anything which the Hebrew hypocrites could do. He knew the stuf they were made of, and was perfectly aware that the bad blood which they exhibited was a moial talnt transmitted to them irom their ancestors, The Hebrews had never treated their prophets with any considcrauon. They were a stift-necked and rough-handed people. When excited their rage knew no bounds, and in- Stead of resorting to the milder measures of the law to redress their grievances, they took the law into their own hands, and sent the poor victim of their prejadices to heaven by erecting a cross onthe highway and naliing him thereto. But how could Be help being sad that He shou'd Himself sufer | suob a fate from people whom He sought to bless? ‘No wonder that He shrunk wittin Himseif when Ne saw the mob stoopmy to pick up the very stones | With which (hey had kllled the prophets in order to pelt Him to death. Howey cr, it is not with the particular incidents of ‘Mae Blory that I care to deal this morning, but with | ‘the principle that is saggestcd. That principle is suggested by our own Honely proverb, “Like father, ike son."” The iransmissiot of certain qualities or odencies of character is @ fact which haga very ‘Set bearing on + CR MORAL OBLIGATIONS, Bis suMctently evident to every observing mina that the man o! to-day is not the man who camo from the hands of God. 1 shonid be = sorry to Delleve that tuis selfish, war-loving, cruci, tempted and passionate creatire was just what God made him or what the Almighty intended him to be, There has been a fall sometune, of some kind, ‘This is acknowledged in the natural theology of | every people; in the revealed theology of Cnrisuans, From the East t> the West every nation has ac- counted for the present condition of man by some story of great temptation and of actual dis. | obedience. if you should with its gable ends. broken pillars lying in beaped-up confusion on te ground, nalf covered | up with trailing weeds and moss, you Would not | hesitate to say, This building bas sulfered damage | at some tine; if was Not ike lus when it came | trom the hands of 1s ouilder. Isay the same of | man. He is not in a normal ccnittion. Le has had } @ tumble, and vow our basiness is to recover as far as possible. Angeis will have angelic children, and devils will | have children with devilisy impulses. On this fact | the whuie of Darwin's theory 1s based. Qualities, | be they goud or bad, can be inherited from fataer | or moiber. ‘This is ue of man’s body. Have you | not seen children who were periectly healthy up to | &certain point, but when at that parccular point | Degan to {all away with some fei] disease? 1 have seen WHOLE VAMILIES SWEPT OFF 4 in this manner. The tatuer or mother had the secds Of the trouble in them, aud thelr children pald the malty. Low true it ty tbat cultivated and refined areuts are apt lo have children who have naturally Tefined tastes. So delicately tut truly do the laws of nature impress ie qualives of the father upon the boy, and of the mother upon the girl Some- umes @ pecuiiar supersuiuion or hallucination will Tun through several generations, until, at last, i seems to waste away. Well, what is true of body and tind is stil more forcibly true of soul. Moral qualities reappear. ‘Ihe wav of the world is apt W nave worldly children, a moral gcusitiveness or stoldity is preity sure to transmit itself The girl of @ drunken mother sips rum as the girl of good pareniage ‘rinks milk. The debauched fatuer pays the penalty of Let re In the shrivelied and pany body of nis boy. To ve born of crime is to lusare & career of crime, Five Points faihers and mothers Deget Five Points cluidrea. Aristotle tells of a man who, being remonstrated with for beating Als fatuer, replied, “Aly father beat bis ‘ather, aud his fatoer beat lis. It rans in the family.” Now, was there ever a stronger argument for good living! The awful question comes up, Can we insure to our cluldren and to our children’s children good And healthy bodies and sound minds and sensitive moral atures? Most asuredly we cau. Pray, what was in wih THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Preached for if not to teach us cxactly that? What did God send Christ 1ato the worid for if not to re- deem us from justsuch fatal sing as those I have NEW YOR aoe holiness, but not attatn tt." ear This rstand it, follows tne Bible the better he wilt und and ‘bat the hoher @® man i the better derstand it; we beileve, Jurther, that a man wm: the world there muat be OF GOD'S WILL— PI CONVICTIUN What be should be in his heart and life, ‘The more the Christian tries to serve God the more he sees 1s required of bim. man has a judgment of What God wants him to be, and he sees what God uires of him. The more light he obtains tho Plaluer he will see his duty, and his ideas of duty ‘Will be larger to work on than they are to-day; tor We know that there is an infinity of holiness above beyond us REACHING ALL THE WAY UP TO G00, We find the rule of holiness when we look at the Word of God, It teaches the rule of cmt prac: luce, To us the law of God, which ts the rule of holiness, clearly defines what God wants us to do, ‘his law, Which points man to his duty, is meant to ve obeyed; aad as he sees that God wants m».e and more he rises into a higher life, Practical holiness is that condition of the soul that enables us to tive up to the light given as by God, 80 that we are kept UNBLAMABLE BEFORE GOD IN LOVE hore is only one way of being holy, thatis by having faith in Jesus Christ. You can ask Him to forgive your sins and allow you to live up to what God wants of you. But iaith is also necessary. No man can do the will of God oy trying unie-s he have faith also, and that grace wnioh 1s ours in Jesus Christ. | 1¢18 not in toll in prayer that man yets ho- ness; but in coming to Jesus Corist and tosing himself there he can rise in His love. Why should ‘ou Not trust the Saviour to keep you from evil 10 e lesser as well as the greater? ‘lo trast Jesus every day, and when the new light dawns take tt Ee ask for grace to live up to itis practical ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, Firat Sanday of Advent—Preparntion for the Great Festival of the Nativity—Sermon by the Rev. Father MeNerney. Storm or sunshine, there never appears to be any diminuition in the attendance at the Cathedral; and Yesterday being tne first Sunday of Adavent—the Period of four weeks preceding Christmas appointed by the Church to be observed tn honor of the ap- proach of the anniversary of Christ’s nativity—the edifice was crowded to the doors. The last mass was commenced at half-past ten o'clock, the Rev. Father Kearney oMiciating as celebrant, At the conciusion of the first gospel, the Rev. Father McNerney ascended the pulpit, and before preach- ing the sermon reminded the congregation that the collections taken up at all the masses would be ap- propriated towards the completion of THE NEW CATHEDRAL, The Most Reverend Arohbishop McCioskey, he sald, had the finishing of the Grand Temple very moch at heart; and as it would bea monument to the memory of his tilustrious predecessor, who would ever be gratefully remembered by the faith- ful, 1t was tne duty and desire of Catholics to assist | in its speedy erection. The reverend gentleman took his text from tho Epistle to the Romans, xiil., 11-12—“«And that, knowing the time that now It 1s high time to awake out of sleep, for now ts our sal- i vation nearer than we belteved.!’ The reverend | gentleman explained that, in order to awake man- | Kind from the lethargy of habit and of routine, and, perchance, to withdraw them from the influence of criminal passion, the holy rfhother, the Church, | Knowing thoroughly the wants of men, had set | apart certula days when she exhorted them more par- ucularly to approach more ciosety by {erveat prayer THE THRONE OF DIVINE GRACE, | and seek greater strengin and purer consolatton in more sertons and more profound contemplation of God's holy works. During those days she prepared men for @ more devout celebration of the myste- Nex of religton; hence the ho!y season of A:lvont, which was now ushered in, was employed by her to prepare in men the ways of God. For this cer. tain disposiitons were required. The first shonid be one of projound gratitude to God for tne grace unv¢iled to men in the mystery of the Incarnation, In order to excite more effectually this disposition there should be consiacred the wretched condition to witch the human race was reduced at the time of fe coming of Cnrist and the depth of the misery from which mankind was rescued, With the excep- Non of one privileged peopte all the nations of the earth were immersed in THE GROSSEST IDOLATRY, The one onty true God was unknown whi'e vice was authorized and the worship of false goils retgued supreme, The original sentence proncanced against our first parents stitl held mankind under the ban, and the gates of heaven remained closed against them. It was from all this that Christ came to freo them by taking upon Him- selt our nature, and offermg Himself an expiatory vicum to His heavenly fatner. He restored man to the rignts of his fnherttance and showed him the path to heaven. Another disposition should be an ardent desire that our blessed Lord should enter our hearts. This advent or coming of Curtst into our hearts took place in each one, when Christ en- tered therein by his grace and by the communication of His uoly spirit, Whatever advantage Christians might expect to derive by the advent uf Christ de- pended npon His coming inio the heart and soul of man and his entrance tto this world would avail nothing if He took not possession of our sonls by Hs divine grace. It should be the desire of ail Christians to procure this divine coming of Christ into our sonls, otherwise the grear mystery of tue Incarnation would individually avail us nothing. ‘The turd disposition men should entertatn dunug the holy season of Advent, should be one af SORROW AND COMrUNCTION to awaken in our hearis the most heartfelt contri. tien. Tue Church called atiention not only to tne first divine entrance of Christ as the redeemer of the worid, but also to the time when He would appear as its just jndge, when he would re- ward every mau according to his works, The reverend gentleman concluded by urging on the congregation the necessity of prayer and mortisica- tion, They should at least by their good will and the earnestness of their disposition supply other deficleucies, They snould be calin in their thoughts, tn their words and in their actions, and they should endeavor to overcome every vicious habit by avoi ing every sin which heretofore had been the obs' ry cle in the way of thetr salvation. By doing this Christ would cuter into shel hearts at the ciose of the holy season in TUE SACRAMENT OP H13 LOVE. Haydn, “Credo” by Chemw, and tne ‘Sant “Agnus Der’ by A. Van Bell, At the offertory tle “Giorta Patri,” a beautiful terzetto, was sung by Mme. Cuomé (soprano), Mr. Groschel (tenor) aud Mr. Urchs (baritoue), Professor Gustavus Schmitz, as ustial, presiding at the organ, The services termt- pated about noon. NEW ENGLAND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Sermon by the Rev. Heary Vowers—Diffevent Conceptions of God—Each Nation Sees ip spoken of? What ate all these churches build ing for except to enforces and empha- size Christian obligations? = Is__Teligion —sei- fish? True reugion Would gaye you first of all, Thal 1s its primary vbject. But its secoud- ary object must pot be lost sightot In saving you It Saves ali who come from your loins. If you will be ure aud true, noble and chivairous, Snsung tinful; if you will curb your passions and with mMinGd effort yield to Lie laws of God, you will save yourselves (rom misery Licre aud hereatler, and by the same act you will do a great deal toward say- ing your clildren. if it is truc that a poiuter or @ setter dog will surely transmit its own wonderful cullarity Lo MS Offspriig, HOW MiUCh wore true 18 it that ine moral qualilies of those who ‘are to be born are to-lay latent 1a thc bodies and hearts of our men and women. Consecrate young and you gcatter sed which will produce a pleutiful harvest. Lovseucss Legeis looseuess, and the prayers and the faith and the love which make YOUR LIFE BEAUTIFUL will throw a slanting ray far down into the future ADU biess (hose whom you Wl) never see, CENTRAL METHOD! Dise. by Rev. Andrew Longacre—Practi- cal Holiness Within the Reach af Al. Rev. Andrew Longacre yesterday morning, at the Central Methodist Eptscopai church, tn Seventh avenue, near Fourtecnth stree!, deiivered an im~- Pressive discourse to @ very large congregation on the subject of practical holiness. Ie took for his text L Peter, L, 15—*'Aa [le Which Lato called me ts holy, 80 be ye holy In ali manner of conversation,” ‘The minister said he ad taken thts very simple pre- cept of the Word of God in the hope of removing some of the dodbts tuat custruct tbe minds of the Chrisuan. A DREAD OF THE WORD MOLiNBSS he had found tu many good peopic; a sotto! awe in the word that Induced them to have doubts sod troubles and feare that it was unattainable. This ‘Was ab error; man could attain holiness according to his light As we have listened to the words “Holy, holy, Lord God Alinighty,” we may have felt that were was something deep in the word holy— romething beyond the grasp of sinful man and only applicable the Lord. Holiness is goodness, mercy, truth and jistice, John the Papust was called hoty, eo it appears Ubat tne word is epplicable to man also. care taaght “Without bolness NO MAN SRADL SKB GOD"? In tho text it i# appiled to man, aud when 50 Bp- piled it is practica’'y the conformity of a man’s life vo the principles abd words of Got. Every litte precept castea new light upon 1% To the Christian 1b aeems sounetitnes unattatnable. He will say, “I ought to be holy | cannet How can we ever expe yhave hol: cu it @xpands before us es We reach for tt STILL PCRTER OFF Y » With ens doudt people Wii sit dows aud say, “We EPISCOPAL CHURCH. God Their Striking Tralt—The Atiribuics avd Tufinitude ted. The New England Congregational church, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street, was well filled yesterday morning by a large and fash- jopable congregation. Rev. Henry Powers, of Eim place Congregational church, Brooklyn, occupied the pulpit, He bad exchanged for the morning with the pastor, After singing, prayer and the ordinary prefatory exercises he commenced his sermon, choosing for his text Matthew vil., 11-—-“If ye then being evil kuow how {to givo good gifts upto your children, how much more shall your | Father which ts in Heaven give good things to them | that ask Han “In conversation one day,” says an Oriental scholar, ‘‘with the Jungo Kistes, head pun- Git of the College of Fort William, on the subject of God, he told me one of their parables: In a certain country there existed a village of biind men, who had heard of an amazing animal called THE ELEPHANT, but they had no way by which they could form any vlea of his shape. One day an elephant happened to pass through the place; this was the opportunity long desired, and they ali crowded around him, one laying hold of hig trank, another seized his ears, another his tall and another one of bis legs. After thus trying to gratify their curiosity whey re- turned to we village, and sitting down cach vegan to give his idea of what they thought ‘ne wonderful animal most resembled. The man who had felt of lis trunk said the elephant was lke the dody of the plantain tree, and tho one who had felt his ear thought he was like the fan, with ‘which the Hindoos cicanse the rice. The other two thought, respectively, he was most like a snake and pillar. An old blind man, of considerable repa. tanion for sound judgment, was called apon to recon- cite these conficting versions, He “you are probably ail correct; that which was taken for the plantain tree resembling @ fan was his ear, ‘and so for ali the reet.' Respecting God we are aiso blind men, gr around 6nd grasping, but a part, consequently forming no just conception of the Whole, itis oply cy comparison we cau do this, To one man God is @ terror, w another an infinite erpiexity, to another the supreme love; to one He is @ power, eget ogg to another a limitea od struggiing principle, To one He is @ grim Zasterh despot, to anothers father forgiving and kind. His face peams with love to this one, to ihat it is Diack Wit vindictive vengeance. Ana so men form aigerent CONCEPTIONS OF GOD, The Prenchman who could not mass, but left lis card pon Hgitt across the world that revealed We real lustory of the French notion of soul as vividly as you could see were you (o Watch and study in the Chureh of the Madeleine at Paris for months, When the Scoteuman for the first Ume in his Ife Wout away ance. Said the pastor, with one of mmporiance. We ail velieve in growing light that comes down trou tae Word of God. we beileve that the closer a man will un- DY the grace of God, be enabied to live up to the ligat as it comes. To every enlightened conscieuce lia some e fine organ played & prominent part, «: came ay, “On, was very bonnie, an awl spending tne Savvat touched deep, stern Bostiish chal that, ax some one has sali, ‘delignts to praise the Lord ov singing tnfinitively ot of land oojected to a bear figat not so mucin because tt gave pain to the bear as because it rave ; Pleasure to the spectators, he hit oi by an apotticum that prevalent Angio-saxon | whicn gives to all THINGS USRK AND HERBAPTRR aceriain sumbre and gad reality anrelleved by a gieam of brightness and joy. In short the glass through which men see God is darxenet in a measure by their own breath. Some of the shadows whieh we cast upon it ts of our own irce wilt; but the shidow, which i cust by j blood and circumstance and clunate and education for all men, save perhaps one in a thonsand, deter- mines for them whether thelr supreme God shall reveal himself tn the thunder of Sinai, amid toe sorrows of the Mount of. Olives, or with the glories of a New Jerusatem suining roun) The Etitop’s god has Ethtop’ Biack cheek aud woolly bats, And the Grecian xod a Grectan face As keen-eyed, cold and (alr. He next proceeded to show that ifwe examined Bible we will flad the same variety in tis repre- gentations of the supreme Jehovah, with varied descriptions of His varying nttribuces, He rebutted the idea, however, that there ts any anger, jealousy | OF wrath in God, but tnsistod tyat the sacred writers ascribed such attributes accordmg to apprenensions of ignorant and wicked men, to whom he never can appear otherwise.” Speaking ol tne DOCTRINE OF INNATE DEPRAVITY he tnsisted that God {s not snot « monster who damns little chttdren that have not sinned und then asks us to thauk Hitm for doing it: that He is not a God who made the heathen and the miltions oa mu. tons wao never heard of the Saviour, tor sin here and eternal misery hereaiter. Such views of God are only the black Visions Of A seasontess fear or a heartiess logic Whose product is @ Molock, a Jug: wernaut ora Satan. Such ts not ova GoD revealed in the blessed Gospel. Our God is one who, while hatiog sin and consuming ib by his punishments, pities and loves the sinner, who willis not that any should perish, but that all should come unto Him and live; who entreats us to come unto Him and love Him as He loves us, and us for everinore. He next snowed that the punish- ment of sin 19 sinfulness, which carries its own con- neque and closed with describing the eternity RO — God liveth ever, ‘Therefore son! despair thon never; Let carth and heaven, outworn with ago, ink to the chaus whence they came; Let ancry foes azuinat us rage; Let be Tthrust ‘orth {ts iercest @ames, Fear not death, was Satan's thrusta, God defends who !n Him trusta, Sou, remember in thy pains, God over all forever reigns. ST. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Eleqaent Discourse by the Rev. Father McCready—Vivid Portraiture of the Day of Sudgment—T' Contrast Between Christ the Saviour and Christ the Judge—A Ter- rible Scene—Invitution to Rest in God. At St. Stephen's charca yesterday morning, ow- Ing, doubtless, in no small degree to the clemency of the weather, the congregation was very large. The winter fashions were amply displayed by the lady worshippers, who, a3 usual, were the majority of the audience. Miss Emma Howson was tn excel- lent voice, and sang a “Vout Creator” after the Gospel with ali the sweetness and fidelity of tone for which she Is justly noted, Mr. Danforth, the organist, also displayed his usual ability, High mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Lovejoy. After the first Gospel the Rev. Father McCready ascended the pulpit, and preached an eloquené discourse from Luke, xxl, 26, 33—“And there shall be signs in the sun, (he moon and the the mighty artist who created tne heavens and the earth by His omnipotent word of that day which Joo calls a day of calamity and misery, the great ond very biter day when God shall come to jadge and to destroy His own work. On to-day, THB FIRST EUNDAY OF ADVENT, the Church inaugurates ner ecclesiastical year. On Tast Sunday she terminate! the year that has just gone by with an invitation to meditate on the awiul portents and prodegies which are to precede and to usher in the day of eternal doom. To-day she again presents us with the same subject for reflection. There is something unusual, but by DO means anac- countable, in this seeming persistency of the Church in placing before us on two consecutive Sundays the same identical snbject for reficction, But to this, a8 in ali things else where man’s salvation ts con- cerned, the couduct of the Churcu elicits our adm ration. Im the present instance ber actidn ts very Wise and very natural. She closes the old and com- inences the new year with # meditation on the last juagment, to reaiined us that this great accounung aay shal! be THE LAST OF TIME AND TIE BEGINNING OF RTER- NITY: to teach us that all our deeds must begin and end in view of that day when the most secret thougats of our lives shall be revealed before the world—that K HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBE When Lord Macauiay said that tae Poritans glvominess of inind | who will never leave us nor forsake a4, out be with | stars,” &c, Such is the picture drawn by the hand of | from kirk to hear an Episcopal service, ti which a will avail you, and He will forgerthem. Seek to be numbered amouy those to whom ab tho last day He shall say, “Come, ye blessed of my Father." THE CHURCH GF THe GOLY LIGHT. |The New Rituulistic CongregationSermon | by br. Ewer om the Advent Sunday. t ‘The unpretentious, p'atn-iooking little Church of the Holy Ligat, on Seventh avenue, is just now the object Of considerable interest Lo Liose whore in- terested ia the great ritualistic controversy that ts going on in the Episcopal Church. The recent trouole at Christ church, arising trom the etforts of its pastor to tntroduce the confessional and all the imposing forms oi the early Church, resulted to his. resignation, with a portion of his congregation who have endorsed his views. ‘Tne little edt. | fice ts entirely destituve of the ornaments and | Surroundings requtsite to ritualistic ceremonies. | Its only ornament is a larze cross composed of gas jets. The walls are bare and unpaiated. The wood- en seals are cushionless acd the floor ts covered with the plainest ingrain, Yesterday the services in this church were rendered by Dr. Ewer before a small congregation, composed chiefly of ritualists, The Doctor is a Mne-looking man, avout thirty-five years | oid. dle bas @ long, silky beard and mustache, | bright, expressive eyes, an excellent figure and pleasant voice. Previous to the sermon an appeal was made for teachers and assistance in teaching and taklag care of the numerous poorchildren under their supervisioa, und there Was a request also to those who wished tv becoure members of the new | chu ren 10 join as quickly a3 possible, tor the Bishop had given its canonical consent to their organiza. tion, A meeting was appointed ior Monday, Decem- ber 1), to elect War.ieus and vestrymea, ‘The sermon was pon the text ound in Matthew xvi, 11—“For the Son of Man 1s come to save cnat which was lo3t,’” These very appropriate worcs tor Advent Suuday went to show that by nature we are in a just state, aud wale all are willing to adit 1t, but few reatize it. To realize tt is THE FIRST STEP TOWARD SALVATION, No man so low cut admires the possessor of religion and 1s prompted oy his inward sense to seek salva- | ton, Inat yearaioug and seli-condemnatiou give us a Sense Of unrest that remains unul we ,ive our- selves up to Christ, No man ts at peace who is uot | right with God. Let us ask whut it ts to j be lost Peta Popular theology teaches | that after death there is @ sharp boundary iiue | drawn between saints and sinners, eacu satnt re- ceiving an equal share of reward and the smuers the same of tisery, never to be moreased or diminished, Nothing in nature or the Bible war- rants such a belief. *Taere is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon and another glory ot the Stars, each differing trom the othersin glory.’ So with the punishments ana rewards in the next worid, which are awarded in proportton to the wickedness or goodness of the soul. Endless tile ts endless change. Movement is the order of exist- ence. Nothing reste here; nothing can rest iu the world of spirits. THR SOUL NRVER RESTS, it must either goupward or downward. In this world it can, and often does, osciiiate between evil and goou; but the career of the soul, once fixed vy death, 18 forever downward or upward, Tne capacity of the soul for misery or happiness Is con- stautly increasing. The lost soul will descena ex- pansively through its sad cureer, wideniug and | deepening its capacity, forever liicreasing its voluwe | of misery. You stand at the beginuing of au iniinite , | ascending or descending career. unvose now wich | you will pursue, ‘This Iie 13 @ serious matter, | Trifle not with your farure. As a messenger of God I must not say to you, peace! and preach moral | harapgues, when there is no peace. I must be trae to you. { have come here that I may be tree to be uroe to you. Tne wrath of the lamb is not ike that of the lion, whose nature it ts Lo be ero- cious, Beware of the wrath of one to whose nature auger is foreign, The Son Oi wan came vo save that which Is lost, not that destined to be lost. You stand on the edge of & precipice and Christ is near to save you if you will take His hand. Baptisin ts | the gateway standing between the terminauon of | the descencing’ and the commencement of the | ascending road. Pass through nat gateway and come to Carist--tie is the acknowledged centre aua towering light of the Charon. “Seek and ye shail flud, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Our literal sight recognizes the visible—turough faith we ng tite invisible, “Thy faivh shall make thee whole.” CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE. The General Judgment—Sermon by. Kev. Father Owyer. At the gorgeous cdifice of the Paulist Fathers, on Fifty-ninth street, solemn high mass was celebrated yesterday by Mev. Father Young, Father Bodfish oMeciating as deacon, Father Searic sub-deacon and Mr. Brady master of ceremonies, A number of Strangers are always to be found here at the high mass to hear the eloqueut discourses for which the Paulists are so distinguished. ‘he sermon yester- day was preacued by Fainer Dwyer, who took his text Irom the Gospel of the day, Luke xx1., 27— “And then they suall see the Son of Man coming in acloud, with great power and majesty.” Weare now, he said, celebrating the commence- ment of the solemn season of Advent. No flowers adorn the sanctuary, the chant. aay when, before the assembled ubiverse, shall be bestowed praise or censure, reward or punishmert, according as our works shall have becn performed in unison with the dictates of conscience and in con sonance with (uo measure of God's holy law, or ac- cording as they shall have been performed in oppo- sition to those tesis. She has set apart and dedl- cater to Works of pen: er and hamiliation the four weeks preceding Chrisimas, in order that her children may prepare for the anniversary of our Lord's first advent tn a manncr pleasing to Him and Profitabic to ourselves. On tits first Sunday of Ad- vent, however, sie carries us in imagination be- ond His first to Lts second coming. This she does In the Bope that, Ly reflecting Ou the coming of our Lord as THE TERRIBLE AND JUST JUDGR, she may arouse her children to receive with faith, contrition and Jove that same God whose advent she will 1n afew weeks commem: -c as the weak, helpless Bane of Bethichem, Separated as these two advents are by centuries, they are, withal, mbi- mately connected. By the terrors of this last we are awakcued to @ sense of the dues and ovliga- tions entatied on us by [lis first coming. “It is ap- inted unte mau once to dic, aud after that the Jeagment,” says the Apostle, But, besides this par- tcniar judgment to be passed on each individual at the moment of thc separation of soal and body, it is an article of Catnolic faith, of which we make pro- fession in Aposties’ Creed, that all mankind shall be jadged in the Valiey of Jehosaphat. Thus the Apos- Ue says to the Corinthinas:—We mast all appear besore the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body according as he ath done, whether 1t be good or evil.” As tis isascene In Which We must ail take part “let us judge ourselves now that we may not be judged," Lis needless to pass in review the dire precursors of this manifestation of our Lord in is advent in might and power. ‘‘fuere shall be sigas,"* says our Lord, “in the sun, the moon, the stara and on te carth distress of natious by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the Sea ant of the Waves, men withering away through fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whoie world; for me worsof Heaven slall be moved, and they shall | see the Son of man coming in the ciouds with great power and majesty.” but high above all this clair aud confusion and disms | Tum MIGHTY VOICE OF TUR ARCHANGEL'S TAUMPET shall go forth, and in tones touder and more deep than (he roar Of the cataract or the starting peal of the thunder storm fle shall proctaim, ‘Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment.” And ia & moment— in the twinkiing of the eve—the same omnipotent power, at Whose daw the heavens wud the carth came Into existence, shall again reanimate wwe bodies that have for ages lam monidering ja the dust. At the same moment the gorgeous niausolea on land, the deep caverns of the ocean and tne umerked tombs of the victims of many @ dewily strife shali give up their long forgouen tenants, The good and the bad shall be there before the Judgment sear But the angeis have to separate them. #resentiy the heavens open and the Son of Mau appears; but how different this from His first coming. Then He appearel as the tender infant, Wrapped in swadidling clothes, lying on a littie hay in the ruce manger. Now He comes as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, in whose nt those who once rejoiced in the name ot mighty aud powerful are as nothing. Then He had for at- Venvants Mary and Joseph, while THE OX AND THK ASS SITARED HIS ROOF. Now myriads of angels watt upon Him, the hosts of heavendo Him honor snd counties thousands of His redeemed and sanctified are cangnt up in the ing of the “Gloria’’ has ceased, the ministers are robed in purple, Let, us lay aside what 1s worldly, and Jook With seriousness to that day when Christ sbali come to jauge the world, and when every man must accept the reward of his actions, whether good or evil. The terrivie signs that shall portend the coming of that dreadful day are no exaggeration; they are the words of Jesus Christ, and His word shail not pass away. We know not the time, neither do the angels of heaven, but it SHALL COME SUDDENLY, 4, 187L.—-TRIPLE SHEET. mother on with a chita who journeys to | worth having. This man fed from foreign fand oe Gnaneteete battle deld, are | escape pestilence. in his later years he carriea compared tO — Weapons to protect Minself against Imaginary [ve wie on parting with Christ upon the | How does Christiantty—the more popular Christta tnueed great, those of ti but they are as notht ig day of wrath, 0 Who huve hved so long, do Ou nob feel glad that this day. hus not vere, ie? » You pot foci 43 if you would give up sin some tne holy for your time? Tam sure do, a, sacrifice goes ut a whi ap act of contrition omiog of Christ aud | sins und determine to go to confession within ® gatory week. BY conduct such as this you may hope for mercy and for & place among uné saints at (ue right hand of Jesus un the jadginent day, CHRIST CHURCH. The Pastoral eo! the House of Bishops Rend— Ne Kow or Disturbancte—auri-alar Confes- sion, the Worship of the Suiats and the | Virgin Mary Conaemned. ‘The fashionable edifice at the corner of Fifth avenoe and Tairty-Afth street, known a3 Onrist church, which has become celebrated or noto- rious lately for its connection with Dr, Ewer’s troubles and subsequent vacation was yesterday comfortably filed by a congreation who anxiously e|warted any alvision whion might be made by the Ri ht Rev. Bishop Potter, who oittciated in the ser- vices, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Pratt, of Staten Island. Rut, much to the disappointment of many Present, the courtly old gentleman who fills the Episcopate of New York, and who is, by 1/1 his tastes naturally averse to any row among his flock which may be fomented by eisher lay or cleric, simply contented himself with reviling the pastoral letter of the House of Bishops, which lately met at Ralti- Tore, to his congregation. ‘This letter was wry voluminous, and itis only- certain parts of it that may be interesting to the Episcopal readers of the HERALD, The letter, as read by the Bishop was in substance as follows:—We counsel you to bear In mind tit while on the one hand we must not suffer ourselves to deny any real good by reason of mere popular outertes against ritual forms, 80, On the other hand, we are never to allow profes- sions of seif-denying iabor and service to blind us to the actuai dangers of any movement tn the Church, What ts Known as **Ritualism!’? ts inainig A QUESTION OF ‘TASTE, TEMPERAMENT and constitution until it becomes tne expression of doctrine, The doctrine which ecnieny astolo nine yet to express Liself hy ritual in questionable and dangerous ways ts connected with the toly Eucharist, That doctrine 's emphatically » bovelty in theology. What ts known as eucharistical adoraiion is undoubtedly mculcated and encour. ayed by that ritual of posture lately introduced among us, which finds no warrant in our “oflice for tbe adininistration of the holy commusion."” AURICULAR CONFESSION. In speaking o1 the dangers connected with pres- ent movements in the Caurch there are other pots on Which your bishops must not be silent. ‘Lhe first relates to private confesston, Whenever a human Soul 1s possessed of searching and sincere repent- ance, and a longing after @ dceper spiritual lite there come also with these things a keener sense of the excecding siniulness of sin and a desire for an authoruative assurance of lorgiveness. And then, On the other hand, FRIVOLOUS AND WORLDLY PERSONS, simply because they desire to rid themseives of any sense of present responsibility or futnre retribution, seek for the same assurance, Advantage 13 taken by some teachers in the Charch of tnese cwo entirely different spir.tnal states to insist upon private con- fession to & priest us ether the absolute duty of all Christians or as essential to any high attainments in religious life, Meantime, the fact that pard n ts granted to any child of God on his repentance, ac- companied by prayer and rellance on the promises in Christ, as well a3 im the use of the means of grace, is utterly passed by. WORSHIP OF THE SAINTS. Another point of danger is a tendency towards salat worstilp, and especially its culinination in THE WORSHIP OF TUE BLESSED VIRGIN. ‘The annals of our race under the covenant dispen- gations, as well as beyond their limits, show that there 18 uothiog to which our fallen natare 1s more inclined than the worship of the creature rather than the Creator. And this propensity to evil has always found {ts most attractive develop meat IN A SENSUOUS DISPOSITION TO deliy and adore the tenderness and love of woman- hool. The error of which we speak has arisen chiefly from (nts, THK TEACHING OF THE CHURCT in this matter fs plain and clear. She permtts and offers to her chudren the opeaing of thei gricfs tn private to some minister of God’s Word, But she does not make this the first resort; she does not pro- vide for its frequent recurrence or uniforin practice; she does not impose by ecclesiastical ordinance; she dues not hold or declare it necessary for the for- giveness of sins, or the attainment of high degrees Of spiritual advancement; nor does she connect with tt blessings Which can be secured only by Its observ. ance, She simply ofers and commends this privi- lege to those of her children who cannot quiet their own consciences by sell-examination IMMEDIATE CONFESSION TO GOD, with fafth in Christ, repentance and restitution. Wheretore to make this seeking of comfort and counsel not exceptional but customary, not free but entorced (if not by actual law at least by-mora! obli- gation and spiritual necessities), 13 to rob Christ's Provision of its inercy and to change tt nto aa en- gine of oppression and 9 source of corruption. HISTORY DEMONSTRATES THIS. ‘The experience of families, and even of nations, shows that the worst pracucal evils are inseparavie from this great abuse. ‘To perveré the godly conn- sel and} advice which may qulet a disturbed con- science into the arbitrary direction which supplants the conscience ts to do away with that sense of motal responsibility under which every man “shall give account of himself to God.’? There 1s uo sin more continnonsly and decisively marked by the signal displeasure of God than that of {dolatry in its manifold varieties. Hence, although we do not anticipate a keucral prevalence of ten- dencies to Mariotatry, which some have done much to encourage, we nevertheless feel that their siignt- est Indication demands our immediate and decided reprova' ‘The dare suggestion that THE INTERCESSION OF TUE VIRGIN MARY, or any other saint, 1s ia any way to be sought in our approaches to the throne of grace, is an indignity to the one oniy Mediator and Intercessor which we, His apostolic witnesses. cannot too strongly nor dis: like @ thiefintne night, Men shall be at their ordinary occupations, youths shall be at play, the wicked man mill be wallowing in crime, the sick shall be dying and the dead shall be moving to the grave amid the tears of relatives and friends. As It was in the days of Noah, when sinful mortais were unexpectedly overwhelmed, so shall it be at the consummation of the world. Then the mountains spall be cleft as with an axe, there shall be paralyzing penis of thunder and flashes of lightoing, the seas shall deluge the people; and those who escape the fury of the cle- ments shall “wither away through fear and expecia- tion of what Shalit come upon the whole world.” The hills shall melt as wax, and fire shail cousume the world at the coming of the Lord, And when the last mortal shall nave perisied, then the Archangel Will Come with the trumpet wise notes shail pierce to the depths of the sea, to heaven and to hell, and every soul sliall hear the mandate, “Arise, ye dead, and come to judgmeat’ Then the graves shail cast up their dead, the ocean will vount forth its Victims, and hell shall loose its prisoners. The bones shall assume flesh. WE SHALL ALL RISE, Dot we shail not all be changed.” Those that appear black aud deformed on that day shall be tae dawned, ana those that shine like the sun will be the bleszel of God. On the one side snail appear the murderer, the calumualator, we perjurer, the one who diasphemed and woul! not goto mass, the young lady that wastea her body tn idleness and the round dance, the young man Who, (Da reckless and siniul iife, found de- struction aud an early grave. Drunken children shall appear by the side of dranken parents, and among ail the i0fdel who denied this doctrine, and the atucist who seoifed atit, That day snail reveal to you wuat foliy there was tn those extravagances Of dress and Luose fashionavle nudites and decenful pieasures, ‘Pe peoples shall be huried by the power o! God as by a hurricane into the valley of judg- ment, and not one soul shall escape the scraunizing eyc of Its Creator, Then shall appear in the heavens the luminous cross of the Saviour. The very nails stall cry out against sinners, and “all the trives of the BARTH SHALL. MOURN,” because “it will bemore easy for sinners to endure the torments of hell than to see the fuce of he Lord,” lt suallbe “tue day of the Lord,” as it 18 jusuy called. For man has his day; his will is irce, ‘ani he freely pursues his course here below until death sweeps him into eternity, No wonuer, then, that God snowld have one day on which to manifest His ways to all men, 80 that the religion of the cross may be vindicated, and that those who hited their voices against the Pope and she Church may be overwhelmed with confusion, Wo will be abie Clouds to meet Him, singing ‘Hosannah to the Son Of David; viessed 1s He who cometh in the name of the Lord.” He was once the loving Saviour; fle is here the stern Judge. It is not now the soltar, star directing the Magi that tells where 13 to o¢ foun (he long-wished-for of nations, but the resplendent cross borne by angels, proclaiming that the crucined is Calg 4 to avenge Himseil. And the sight of that while it Slis with joy and happiness we souls of the elect, strikes terror into the hearts of the reprobate. lere the speaker gave an eloquent description of the tent pager drawing @ contrast between the ag of the saved and the damned ana eaxcit- ing & SHUDDRRING PRELING by bis portrayal of the unavauing remorse and eternal wretchedness of the doomed. He then con- tinued to exhort his hearers to constant vigtiance aud preparation. In the epistie of to-day God calls on you through His apostie, sweetly inviting you, i vefore using His gospel threats, to arise and shake om that fatal Jetnargy which compels Lis disples- ure. ‘And (hat knowing the time, that itis now tbe hour to afise from sieep; for tow our salvation is nearer than when we believed; the nigiit ts passed, the day is at hand; .ct Us, therciore, case off me works of darkness and put ou tae armor of ugh.” With the psaimiat, t woud fay:—"Today WM you heartits voice harden to your hearta’’ And God wl speak + wo | your heart. He wii whisper to you ‘Arise, shake Of your #i0' come to me, } Will recelve you with open arms, butt! you refuse i will come upon you on the jast day @aG tn my wrath fT will desirey you." {| Return to the Lord, (he, couless your siug While it vo bea that manifestation? We know how hard 1t is for a criminal to hear his crimes read before men. Me would sometimes dream of terminating his existence through spame. How greater Shall be the coniusion which must press upon the wicked at the last day! hen the mask must Jail from tne face of the hypocrite and crimes of @ life- tume be exposed to universal view. See that magis- trate who in degenerate times got his goods through that young mau, wo waa reputed to hans; that young man, beort root standing, virtaous and sincere; he was An impostor. “I will show thy nakedness to the na- tions and thy shame to the kingdoms,’ saith the Lord. ‘Then shall they laugh at you, and you shall call npon mountains to fali on you, But your re- quest shall be made in vain, Your angulslt shall be intensified by the words which Jesus shail speak to the glorious beings on the right:—*Oome, ye blesged of my Father, receive the kingdom which was prepared for you.” On the other hand ihe wicked man shall be placed, with Satan, and ma; yuinly address his mer in such terms:——"* there now some mistake avout my coniemnation? f am @ Catholic; 1 beat upon my soul the marks of thy precious blood; | am signed with the sign of the cross; 1 have frequently gone to muss, and have knelt more than once at te conlessional; 18 there ot salvation for me?’ Bat Christ wul answer: tuctly forbid in His holy and all-sufMicient name, LYRi¢ HALL. Whe Have Kean Te Be Thark‘ul and Who Have Not—The Grent Problem of Life and flow to Solve li—Sermon by Kev. O. B. Frothingham, ‘The same familiar frcesto be seen every Sunday morning at Lyric Hall were there yesterday morn- ing; the same prefatory exercises were gone through with, and then Rey. Mr. Frothingham preached the same sort of sermon he usually does— a@grandly prosaic form of ingied intelligible ana unintelligible utterances—but which was listened to with the same earnestness his sermons always are. He based his discourse on the text, “In everything give thanks.” This was his Thanks giving sermon. When peopie mect on Thanks giving itis not all thanksgiving. Every heart has its memories. AS the cup 1s drunk to the memory of depar:ed friends 1%i8 filled with tears, There isa TIPAVY CROSS FOR ALT. Is there a thanksgiving in Persia, where thou- sands are perishing from famine? Is there thanks. giving in rance, with a government unstable ana 80 much of humiliation connected with the recent past? Is thero thanksgiving in England, where her Queen sits in anxiety by thé bedside of her first born? Is there thanksgiving In the South, where everything is so unsettled, where the work of recon- atruction is not yet complete’ Ministers say, “Wave faith.” And 80 we must, We must believe in the LOVABLENRSS OF GOD. An old theologian says that God lives in an eternal now. If there is a God He ts here and now. If the account books of the world were to be balanced this instant they would come out square, Tne woria is full of giory that Is infotie, The gieam of tke san on 46 crystal ts magnificent. We only know the alphabet, We can only throw our lines in shallow water. There Is a general conviction that 1n this World we do not get our deserts, What means desert? It means merit, It carries with it some performance. In making this claum we throw down the chalienge to God, Suppose this grim power asks which has given most. lie, I gave you conscience; I gaye you inspiratte to \irt you up. Have you improved’ the lifer nw you acted up to conscience? have you been lifte ‘3 “aad high and beautiful spheres of thonght? ere : A GENERAL DELUSION that happiness is unuquatiy aistributed, Tem- perament decides it et. Is tne gladsome Spirit. reservel for thos: who have’ wealth ana Opportunity? We know that the Irish laborer enjoys health and is Nappy with bis children. While te Buglisn nobleman hangs hus howd in sorrow io his grand ancestral home, Solo- mon said one true thing at least, that in- creases In wisdom increases in sorrow, jappiness depends upon the cares one has, Many are far happier in tuis city to-day than ‘THB DUKR ALEXIS, notwithstanding ali the ovations of which be ts the recipicnt. One thing is Lalanced agatnst auother, ‘The dice of God ate loaded, Happier than the rich man when he drawa his large dividends aud sits down to tus board, loaded with the choicest viands, “You were indeed a Catholic, and often drank of my blood; but you fell as often again, and returned like & dog w the yom” Not every one that calls upon the Lord shall be saved, Then stati the damned be subjected W the Narrowing sorrow of parting forever with Him who was once their Crea- ‘or, weir Redeomer aud their all, ‘ae paugs of a twelve monwhs. Life ts a boon. hoon, Ail cling to it, People do not wish to Gio. The poor, the wrerchod, everybody clings to life. Suicide is very rare. do it under great strain of passion. A few a German philosopher lived whose burning idea was rk I gave you, says God, | It is felt to be w tT 9 do commit sutcide Ture wie a Yearsago | painful to think how mucn tho grave strains out of city to city to ity—mako: tintmortaltyy ‘They make St deed. ‘They make heaven about a quarter ee and the latter they make a ones of perpetual tor. Ment, {p this connection he pitched into the por- beller of tne Catholic Church, and then gave what he chose to designate a a rignt solution of life.’ Iv was sare that thrtf. and Tabor tenon esty did not bring success, drew an cioquent Feeetniyg td C8 ered teal ul r of a young and rave New Englander, been successfui pecnoiarily, bug ns man Tae, nes THE DIVINE PAYMASTER pad nog yee goles his accounts with hints " eRepuragemenis existing, work and prosntys and en TOOK a | of many that they hove no Shance of development, | The trouble was that most did not take the right course for right development. If men wouid one hour srriving for ness where they one hundrea hours striving for gold they would reach a mach higherdevetopinent. Le did’ not be- heve in the theory of the sufferings in this world being made up in the next world, This theory anounted io a man saving, “Now, O God | Ihave done this and suffered this, and [now olaim he: as ny reward.” After showing this was not God'g way of dealing with man, he brought his sermon to @ close; then singing, taking up acoliection ang | the benediction concluded tne exercises. CHURCH OF ST. J>HY THE EVANGELIST. Mission by the Jesult Futhers—The Prodigal Son—Sermon by the Rev. Father Damen, ef Chicago. The Church of St. John the Evangelist, in Fifticth | Street, near Madison avenue, under the pastoral | charge of Rev. Jchn MeMahony, was filled yester- day in every part by an immense throug of faithful worshippers attracted by the devotional exercises of a miss'on which has been conducted during the last fortaight by Jesuit Fathers trom Chicago, and wil end om next Wednesday even ing. The reputation onthe reverend gentlemen, wna have labored so earnestly in this parish among our Catholic brethren as preachers and confessors, has brought many hundreds to the tribunal of pen- ance and to tne solemn ceremonials held every day, and, no doubt the effects of this religious revival will continue to be manifest im the daily conduct Of all the congregation. Yesterday the exterior eve dences of piety and recollection visible among all Classes In attendance at the solemn services of the Jate mass contd not fatt to impress even the most carelers observer. Heverend Father Koopmans oticiated as coiebrant of the mass, ané after the reading of the gospel of the day, St. Luke Lv. 11, which contained tne parable of the Promigal Som. the Reverend Father Damen ascenucd the altar aud preache! toa deeply attentive audicnce from the text contained thercin:—“Father, I have sinnee against heaven and betore thee. IT am not now worthy to be called thy sou." Man was created, notior the gratification of passion nor for the en- jorment of earthly possessions, but for a future state | Of endless bliss in the society of angels and the | presence of God. Jt had been appointed in the Di- vine wisdom that eternal felicity should ve obtained only, however, by & proba- uon on earth = during «which he — should be sabiect to ilix and troubles and temptations, and, coming forth victorious from ® continual warfare with we devil and the propensities of evil, should receive the reward Witch surpasses alt that the im- agiation can coneeive. Unfortuaatery, the crea, ture, in a moral biinduess, often forgets the end of nis creation and giving Imset: ap to the shamefat Insts of the hesh wande:s from the path of rectitude and purity and earas not the biessing but tie male diction of God. Repentance always ‘secures azam the favor of Heaven and a return of the graces | Necessary to salvation. God exercises readiy } the divine attripute of mercy, anit 18 always pre- are’ to restore to the repentant sinner who ambly prostrates himself beore Him and cries alond for forgiveness tae strength necessary to continue the ight with the passions and (he spirits of evil that surround him. He who returns to his heavenly Father with the spirtt of the Prodr gal Son may always be sure of welcome and restoration to favor, even beyond expecta. tion and desert. ‘The lesson which the gospel of the day leaches shou'd ta | as seed into their hearts, and spring up kindly, a3 from a generous soil, Into the fruits of repentance and good works, le as- sured that tt is yourduty to hasten w your os Father, seek His forgiveness, anil. casting you humbly and contritely belore Him, confess your sins, You will be welcomed amid the joy and ac. Clamations of angels, aud for you the place assigned to Roe. irom the begianing 1a the mausions of bliss | will be made ready. | | Tne musical services were under the direction of | Mr. Davis, organist, and were rendered with cut- tured care and. discrimination. Mrs, Davis, 80- | prano, sang several solos with effect, and was ably | sustamed by Mrs. Mardon, alto; Sigaor Fossat, | basso, and Mr. Boy, tenor. Rev. Father Damen announced after masa that he will deliver tectares on Tuosday and Wednesday eveutnss iu St. John’s church, on Catholic doctrine, | Part of the pecuniary procecits of which would be devoted to the rebuilding of his church, watch was | destroyed in the great Chicago fire. BROOKLYA C3URCHES. | Sermons by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Rev. J, H, Brodt and Dr. Bancroft. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Seli-Koewledgce—false Wamility Not Necess sary in Self-Mecasurement—Love the Trae Test. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday to his usual large | congregation from Komans xi, 3—“For [ say, | through the grace given unto me, to every man that | is among you, not to think of himself more nighly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, accord j Ing as God math dealt to every man the measure of | fateh." ‘These words imply that men should have some ' opiion of their own characters, and that the cle ments that determine manhood are moral. It ws | impossibia not to have some opinion of one’s seife | Itusas impossibie not to kuow of the internal as of | the external structure, ‘To assame an ignorance of these tulngs Is the best way to be sure of faisifica- tion, Truth is not so be set astde for the sake ofa Pretentions humility. There is a day of self. | knowledge, or else how shall one know whether he be growing or shrinking? How shall (here be genuine spiritual cuiture unless one Knows what needs to be done? We are to think soberly, reason- | ably, mcomformtty with things as they are, Until men lay astde false measurements fhe; cannot know best how to follow out the processes of moral cat- ture, The measnrements of feeling are to be ‘avoided. Many men have uo concepttoa of character except the empirical one of con- formity to their own circle. This is utterly , the Jack of measnring. He who simply lives to glide down the stream of social amenities knows , Hothing of himself, To measure ourselves by our | executive powers gives a false conception. Men over-estimate themselves by thelr power to prouuce | effects, This leaves the larger part of the human mntnd unsurveyed, Skil 18 @ mateer which 2 wan may sometimes be proud of. There is praise due to | skill, to the power of organization and success Itis not wrong for a man to know that he is a good law- ‘yer, Amanisa fact and bis deeds and his cnpacitiea are facts, and @ man should have a sover esumate of what he ts, absolutely and relatively, to tits fei- ‘jiowmen, Ifa man thinks taster than I 4s 1¢ necesayry to humility for him to. pr | he don’t know it? Must Homer say that ne can’t ! ging? L would clear away that false impression thas | ®man shoul not know exacuy wiat he ts. If w | man says, “Lam stx feet bigh,” we dou't snille, bas | if he sa, 1 can do better tan that over man,” We | think ne is coneetted. Let every man think of nim. | sei as he ought to think, You cannot faisny | truth. TRUTH EVERYWHERE. Trath ts to he the foundation op watch we are to | build our estimate of ourselves, ‘There are very few | Men who havo the nerve, the knowledge, the cou- aolentiousness to take a thread of selfisuness and W it out to the end, No man can ‘orm an estt- ate of himself who Is hot bolt enough bo look hts fanits straigot fo whe fave. We are apt to over-eate inate certain good qualities and leave out the co-or- qualities that we ought to cultivate, Aman Is strong and he forgets that te OUGHT TO BE GRYTLE. To speaks the truth, but forgets that he shontd speak the trath in love, We leave ont of view « worss qualities, As ncn send apples to market, | emt on top, #0 we stiow our enaraners, Au woman rubs the vest ap M there’ & speck that is iiraed inside, and you find It when you've got the apple and cutis What we want {8 trotn. f have secm my grounds took muteriy nresiccted: f, inven in tmpreaiton of culture, Mon seldom | Treasure themselves by the whole, ‘rhe aposile | save, ‘Plunk soberly, according as God has given Ww every man the measure of fatth.’ Ant thar is the estimate. A man 1s great according as he ta tL where he toaches God. 1 13 not the biosgom or the leaves, but the irnit. Aman should measure is many @ 00" -In this city to- | his helpfulness, his sweetness, lis power of giving day. te we oeniy mahew it, thore 18 | happiness. We viten think ourselves great i we inexpresaipie Joy in the sunshine, Me saw not long | can use our fellow men. That's doiwontac; that's Since In @ Nospital one who had been barely rescua® | malign. i Oho irom the jaws of deat ore graritai is otk In that man's heart in oh tay than It neown in | 1s demonias, no matter what he calis nimeelf. tone ig snecessful as the fox or the eagie, is he an He who knows what love, patiouce, long-suitering, Kindness ts, has a gangs oi himself, Aman may be strong here and weak towards the ovber fe, Uk is ail ® man does here No man shall take Unet vuis Was @ most miscrable world, and Ufe Dot | WA lum louse or book, or vitcner or fab