The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1872, Page 6

RELIGIOUS. The Death of the Qld Year as Viewed from the Pulpits. TWE LESSONS OF EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-ONE Archbishop McCloskey Gives the Pontifical Blessing. CHRISTIAN MANHOOD EXPLAINED Bev. Mr, Frothingham on Munteipe! Thieves aud Woman’s Rights. THE CORNELL MEMORIAL CHUACH. Permons by Archbishop McCloskey, Rev. Drs. Armitage and Merril) Richardson, Rev. Messrs. 0. B. Frothingham, George Hepworth and Lightbourn. PATRICH’S CATHEDRAL, Death of tho Old Yoar—EKloquent Review of Past Events by the Most Rev. Archbishop Mot'loskey~Tho Pontifical Blessing. @rowded to ite utmost limits; the Cathedral pre- sented a very imposing appearance, and the cere- wonies were, as usual, grand and impressive. The altar—the new and appropriate surroundings of whicn had a magnificent effect—was brilliantly \ughted and the general aspeci of the scene in the wicinity of the sanctuary was at once solemn and Peautiful, At half-past ten mass was commenced, he Rev. Father Kearney officiating as celenrant. The Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey, attended by ‘he Rev. Fatner Starrs, Vicar General, and the Rev. Pather McNierney oconpied the throne to the left of ‘she altar, At the termination of the first gospel the Afrehbishop ascended the pulpit and preached THR SERMON, taking his text {rom the Gospel according to St. Luke, ML, B41—"And his father and mother were ‘wondering at these things which were spoken con- eerning him. And Simon bdiessed them, and said anto Mary his mother, Behold this chila is set for the fall and for the resurrection of wany in Ierael, eno for a sign which shall be contradicted, And thy Own soul a sword shail pierce that out of many beasts thoughts may be revealed,” &c. The most reyerend preacher commenced by eaying that another Christmas had come and gone—another celebration of that bright and beauteous festival ‘m which the children of the Church throughout ‘no world commemorate with loving and grateful mearts the birth of their Saviour and God, They were a!) permitted once more to weleome the joyful eccasion, and to listen once more to the glad tidings ‘which He had brought. ANOTHER YEAR beskies.had come and gone. 1t had now reached the evening of its close. In afew bo ura more it ‘would be numbered with the irrevocable past, But should It be allowed to eacape and go by forever without a that we might recollect ourselves without thinking seriously of the past and looking Sorward to the future? And they coutd not do 0 at any moment better than then—there in the Noly ‘emple, in the presence of God’s holy altar—there and then. Ailuding to the events of ihe past year, she most reverend Archbienop went on to say that they must be particularly struck by one great gea- era) fact, What perhaps in the memory of all who beard him there never had come a year imore signal- wea STRIKING AND STARTLING EVENTS ge the one just now brought to ite close, Never, perhaps, bus any year been marked by such lament- Bole disasters of almost every Kind—disasters vy Gre and sword, by pestiienve and famine, by tem- pest and dood. Violent convulsions, both political and social, bad marked the year. And as they stood and looked back, striving upou what most to fix their thoughts, tney felt, as it were, bewildered, so gumeroua were the incidents that recurred to the memory, and wany were the striking puints upon ‘which (hey would iook. but this was not the time nor the place to dwell upon those matters. They were there assembicd children of Christ. They were ‘there members of His own great Catholic family— members of Lis own niysiical body; aud as such Joving children they must first think of home. Their tirst thoughts were of our common Father, of Me divine and invisible Head of the Church. of tis ving and visible representative of that Cnurch. ‘They most call to mind all THE GRACES AND BLESSINGS Mhat our Saviour had brought, aud shonid at the same time uaite their hearts with His holy ame, with the hnmiliation of His infancy, and With the sufferings of His lute and death. And that Ue, those sufferings, that history that tnarked His holy career, but tuifilled the solemn words of the prophecy tat Simeon uctered in the temple when e told the infanv’’s motver that her heart a sword wonid pierce, The visible head of the Church was only @ projongation of His own life on earth. Let them now turn their thoughts to that Holy Father. The New Year opened upon THE APOSTLE OF THR CHURCH, 4 saw Dim still a prisoner in his own palace of ihe Vatican. ‘Tae days of luman darkness seemed © surround bin. The work of iniquity had gone on with ceaseless and greedy activity. indignity Bad been added to his tayury, insult had been heaped upon insult, wrong hud been heaped upon wrong. sT. RC I ce gregation of the duties incident to the beginaing of o new year, ‘The ceremonies were resumes, and a pontifical F ed by tho Rev. Father McNamee and the Hev. Father Kean as deacona of honor, ascended the altar, and, amid the most breathes slicuce, pronounced n pectal privilege, frou the. Holy Father heing ® special priv: om aranted Co every ‘on the occasion of the close ‘of the year. ‘Ihe choral arrangements were excellent. The mass sung was No, 6 by Professor Gustavus Schmitz, who, as usual, presided at the organ, Al- uongh a short composition, 16 is both grand and melodious and confined to choruses and solo quar- tots, It was rendered with precision and harmony. AL the offertory “0 Esca Viatorum” was given, ihe varitone solo part being sung by Mr, Urchs with There was @ fine chorus of thirty voices ince. The ceremonies did not terminate Ul! one o'clock. NEW ENGLAND CONG ATIONAL CHURCH, What ts Transient and What Is Permanent, as Taught by the Lessons ef the Dying Year—ser by Rev. Dr. Merrill Richard- son. ‘fnat good old fashion that takes the New Eng- Jander—however flercely he fights the battle of life ano however far away from his native heata and bearth—back to the old fireside and oid scenes again at this holiday season of the year caused quite a diminution in the number of attendants at the services yesterday morning at the New England Congregational churcb, cor- ner of Madison avenue and Forty-seventa sireet, Jt is possivie that the disagreeable weather increased the list of absentees, One thing 4s certain—that neither the weather nor a slim con- gregation detracted from the customary bold and eloquent vigor of Rev, Dr. Merrill Rachardson, the pautor, and, what is moro, he preached as he al- Ways does, 4 serion up W the occasion, or, in other Words, ® sermon whose train of observation and reflections was suggested by the passing away of the old year and ushering in of the newone, Bis subject Was WHAT 18 TRANSIENT AND WHAT 18 PERMANENT, and its foundation the text, Jeremiah 1, beatae Jet us join ourselves to the Lord in a pet covenant that shall not be forgotten,’ way of introduction be clea the meditations of Volley, the French philosopher, a8 be gaged on the ruins of once poweriul joms, sitting on the broken Iragments Of cities unce rich and great and tall of bustling Ife, Volney had mo faith in the future and looked upon Iiie aa @ mockery, as the caprice Ol chance. He next showed how Jeremiah, medi- tating upon the destraction of Babylon, was equally impressed with the vanity ol al earthly greatn but with a hope and trust in tne ftuture and a knowledge tuat though empires and kingdoms and hations might be swept away and cittes cramvie to dust, that there Was Dermanent life to the soul— @ life coexistent with the ever-living Creator, He Next inferred that anything that 18 natural 1s tran- sient. Bavylon, Ninevei, Palmyra, ‘I'neves had Weir Wall streets and ‘Gold Rooms,” their costly architecture and fags gee halis and theatres and temples, as New York and London and Paris have to-day. Then, as now, stocks rose and eil, fortunes were made and 10st, and there were tue same extravagances, reverses, [follies a: #1D3, ‘Twice ten centuries ago these cities perisned, and the antiquary has to dig beneath tue mouid ol ages to find @ relic of their existence, Yblivion “fas swalowed all their natarat works. Should our clues ana marte of commerce escape the conquests of war there must follow ‘TIMES EFFACING CHANGES, On this Continent are forests of ages growing upon the ruins of unknown cities—cities where teeun: muliuons once lived and wrought, as boasifui ol thelr deeus, as full of hope, as confident of the future as the people of New York city to-day. While the rocky strata of the earth holds the impress of ancient reptiles und fish, not a trace cau be Jound of man or his art where once were concentrated the Wealth and fashion and power oi untold miluons of men. ‘Time's offacing Gnger has touched them, Aud they are gone. He next showed that there is nothing perpetual injJamuy orrace. Roya! aud nvebie Jamilies have carved out great estates and sought to make them endurable; those names and titles are now extinct, Race, family, nationality, governments, methods of ife, forms of religion, the wisest piilosophers, are all but transient phases of this wondrous ever-pi , ever-renewing life of mankind, Elaborating in elogaent terms and with copious and apt illustrations ims branch of ls discourse he dressed himself to what is permanent. ‘Though Man dies, though his noticed works perish, thouga his name is forgotten, though his body mingle with the elements, If he joins Limself to the Lord in love and duty, that union shall be perpetuated, A.tar tires go out, but not the worship they kindle in the souls of men. Tua form changes, the spirit lives. ‘The spirit of Grecian culture and Romano law sur- vives portico and temple and all their material gran- deur. Galiican fisuermen joined to Christ outlive Jewish sanhedrims and the thrones of the Casars, In conolusion he showed that THE YBAK 1871 brought home the woth of the text, This year Would be kuown as the year of great calamities— fainine in Persia and India, foods in China, a whole fleet crushed in the ice flow of the Polar Sea, de- structive storms 1@ various parts of the world, ex- piosions of mines and steamboat boilers, railroad disasters, fires sweeping over whole counties im our Western States and layiug in rus the wealth of @ great city, All this impressea the lesson tnot those who would have permanent treasures must Jay them up with God, FIFTHS AV (NUE BAPTIST CHURCH, The Old Year Reviewed—Sermon by Dr. Armitage. ‘The Rev, Dr. Armitage delivered a lengthy and eloquent discourse to a large congregation at the Fifth avenue Baptist church, iu Forty-sixth street, yesterday morning. The learned divine took for his text the passage from Acts x1, 6—‘A whole year.’’ Ite opened his sermon by drawing a parallel be- tween the duration of years past and present, show- ing that, thongh with the ancients a year wasa very lengthy period, with us it was a very brief one, measured only by its results; and the fruits of the one which terminated yesterday brought forcibly to mind the words of the Psalmist, “We bring our years to an end as a tale that Is told.” THE DYING YEAR had been preguant and fruitful, and startling events He had seen not ouly his verty restrained, but had veen with his heart biecding over them the impte- ‘es and sacrileges of some of his onldren. He had geen the religious women, who, like Anna mea- toned Ww the Gospel, devoted their days and nights to prayer, ail loving aud serving God, driven from Sher cloisters, despotied of then mghts of posses: gion aud sorced to seek shelier where they might, He had seen the princes of the Church, who had Surrounded him, secondingithe imsults of mercenary aud weak men. Aye, even around the windows ot his Own palace he had heard the shonts go forth from the Satanic rebels, Even the otner day they had received the intelligence that a usurper had set Bimself up Jace to lace against the Vicar of Christ. This was A PICTURE WHICH MADE THE HEART SAD. But there was a bright side as well ns a dark side to the picture, Amid ail this, filling nis heart with sorrow, that beart was full of hope, fuil of holy fesignauon. Le rejolwed as did St. aul, finding Binwelf Worthy to suiler 1a the cause of Christ. He Fejoiced because he knew that after those humila- ‘ons triumph and glory must come, that deatn pre. eedes the resurrection, For a quarter of a century he bad sat in the chair of St. Peter amid storms and volutions and dangers, still steering the bark pong Hage securely through the waves with Jesus ‘With him; and although the storm raged and danger Vireatened and the desciples throughout the world ered, “Lord save us or we perish,” and even thoogh the Master sicepeth, He at tne proper mo- ment of His own ehoiwe would rise to calm the troubied waters, The Archbishop ten alluded to the fact that, potwitdstanding the surrounding diMecule ties, conversions had taken place which filled with Wonder not only Frotesiaut, but the vabelicving world. CONVERSIONS TO CATHOLICITY had always Leen uowerous, but wiinio a for months past over twenty thousand pagans from Syria, jee trodden by the feet of Jesus, presented them- @e ves for lostraction without previous solicitation from apy missionaries and were baptized in he Saith of Christ. After advertiag to the bright side succeeded each other with such wondrous rapidity as to make the pages of the press read almost like fiction. The preacher alluded to the German-Franco War and its termination, arguing that as it had al- ready brought ancw government to France so it Will also bring a new cuitore that will, raise her to a higher posttion among nations than tlie sword ever acquired for her. Dr. Armitage next noticed the astoundiog disclosures of the year with regard to manicipal rule in this city, contending that they would bring forth yp FRUIT 8001 by proving the weakness and stupidity of our slumbers. Hoe remarked npon the Treaty of Wash- ington and the seeming imminence of a coumict with Britain at the commencement of the year, which had not only been happily avoided, but had rendered the pond existing between the two countries more firm than ever, and proved how Touch the system of arbitration was preferabie to that of wariare, Moreover, the calamities of both nations had tended to show their amicaule relations. Subscriptions in London for the reitef of the Unt- cago sufferers poured in; prayers for the recovery of the heir to the British throne went up from Alverican hearta. The eloquent divine then pro- ceeded to notice the movements of the re- ligious beliefs througnout the year, in Ger- many from the war, from ‘the Kou te eal Connell, and tue discussions in England relative to the severance of Ohureh and State; the attempt to éstablish vote by ballot In the motber country: also the agitation there concerning tne advisability of adopting a repubiican form of gov- ernment and tue general outcry for SROULAK RDUCATION, He thought that this country ought to be more democratic; Spoke of the agitation jor the abolition of siavery In Brazil; mentioned Cuban affairs, and expressed Lis opinion that would be a great blessing to the Mexican people uf their country was allied to the United States, Dr. Armitage concluded his elaborate discourse by exhorting his hearers to of the picture, Which he did with great eloqucnce, ahe reverend preacher dilated upon THE RECENT STRUGGLES IN FRANCR. Beautiful, Catholic, chivalrous France | now bad it fared with her—the countzy of a Choriemagne, Clovis and St. Louis ~ ce, with all her grand and glorious traditions—s'rance, tat had stood te van of Christian civilization for so many Hundreds of years—Frabce, that was considered ibe gres the most enligtiene|, as weil as the most powerful, nation of Buroper Her glory was dimmed and she aod her chidreu were prostrated aud humbled into the very dust, An Emperor more powerful iad triamphed. {is army had entered ver soll, spreading desolation and ruin on every side, hud rectuced her peopic to poverty and want and wresied froin her her jairest prov. Inees, But BER FIRST ENEMIES were the chilrep in ficr oWa bosom, who rose up 40 rebellion agaiusi the Lely Patuer, Tue inadel rose up aod spread desolation throughout the land, | They nad all beard of the revoluiion, bul who, on reading of those days, gould ha’ reamed that such scenes of bloods: of bo 4 impreties and of sacrileges could have cyer heen enacted within the borders of civilization? The great city Oo} Pars jay allio ruins, ils Archbishop, Leva he Wow w faiuiful pastor to Ws flock, Was obliged to surrender bis lie into the hands of unbelieving miscreants. ‘Phe Jesuit Fathers, whe Vowlnicean Fawers avd Nuns, as well as uiany houoravie and worthy men, hud'seen sacriiced. But WAD FRAN ALL WER HUMILIATION TURNED 1) wpe Not yet, Mad Paris beevne * ro nt? The matue of Voltaire stul rose a) and s:o00 erected In the midst of that city. He then enugwed the falsity Of the go called Utopian schome, int aided that begin the new year with a@ firm resolve to amend their faults and walk uprightly end honestly, and supplicated Divine assistance to epabie them to carry Ont to the Jull extent their geod resoluuons, SEVENTELNTH STREET METHODIST EPISCO- PAL CHDROM, Preach the Word—Tho Daty of the Christian Minister=Wuo Shonld Be Called as Tench. ers of the Word=Disconrse by Rev. Myr. Lightvourn, of Delaware. Sue pulpit of the above charch was yesteray filled by Rev, J U. Lightbourn, of Dover, Del., who took for his text @ part of the second verse of the fourth chapter of Second Timothy: Preach the Word.” solemm charge, he sald, was de- livered vo Timothy by Pani the Apostie, whose race at the tne was almost run when his head was covered with the frosts that never melt, When he Indited Us epistie he was UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH, and Nero had signed his death warrant. While stt- ting in hus prison walls in chains he takes up his pen apd addresses Timothy as a dying father ad- dressed pis gon, He declares inat the religion that had beet nis solace in his triais was the religion’ that sustained him in this twying eal. Paul's words show that he still vad cont. donee in tue trots he had taught, Hid the doc. trine he had taugitt been false he would have con- any vawion tat taerve ‘God nover prosper, ‘She Avehbishop vouviuded a very forcible J fessed lis error, The minister referred to the death beus of Voltaire, Tout Paine, Hobys amd giver jad> dels who recanted, and he felt that Pant’s epistie— his dying deciaration— was an evidence of nb strengthen Timothy 1p faita. HP ethe truth, ‘The minister proceeded to con- sider the duties of a preacher to lis flock, declared that God called the preacher into the vineyard, that His Holy Spirit animated them to go and preacn the e) of Jesus Christ. The authority of the Charen is simply to set apart to the Work those called f God, ihe preaching of Christ and His Apostles the rompted by tae Holy Spirit, 4 . het te Gospel 1a ics re renin i aye L ivered in the ho ol ty but if lt has iv ue Hospel ie ia tg pay eee Ha ‘Yhat which distingnishes preaching from other di courses ig the unetion in it Ignorance in the pul- pitiscriminal, The pulpit demands the greatest wlads of the world—erudition, power of lang! aciear mind and @ spirit of patient search, The disciples were not qualified for the work until the Holy Ghost fell upon them. Had you seen Peter when his brother Andrew preseated him to the Las io would bave sai there was nothing in im. Y, THE VBRY SMELL OF FISH WAS UPON HIM. Yet the Holy Ghost sell upon him ana he preached the Gospel of Christ, So itis with us. We can never make preachers without the aid of the Holy Spirit. I tear the Methouist Charch 1s wrong in this par- ticular, We want the apostolic ministrations, We want ‘THR PUNGENT WORDS OF THR HOLY GHOST to animate our mimaters, Let us have the Holy Ghost and ignorance rather than elegance without the Holy Ghost. We should remember that the al we our lence u; we shail be better Christians, Biessed Holy Ghost, do thy work this morning; bring the sinner to re- ntance, and let us remember this 19 God's house, et a praying congregation hold up the hands of the pastor and crowd tue gates Of God's house. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAB, Sermon by Mr. Hepworth on “Christian Manhood: The Growth of Religion Nation- ally and Individually.” Mr. Hepworth took hig text last evening from Mathew v., 48:—"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.” He said these are, perhaps, the strangest words which man has ever heard, coming, as they do, in the shape of a command, and therefore implying the possibility of obedience. They must have been received by the Hebrews as an over-statement, while the whole world since has read them with a kind of awe. History has developed under ditferent reil- gions, or attempts at religion, three kinds of man- hood. The first is the mannood of superstition, the second the manhood of the religion of science, and the third the manhood of Ohrisuanity, It 1s my wish, sald the reverend gentieman, to speak of these three deveiopments, tha, by a fair comparison of one with another we may the more troly appreciate the beauty and glory of that Bipiical revelation, which, 1 believe, has come from God’s own lips, Firat, then, let me ask what is the base clement of HOOD IN THOSE TIMES before Christ preached? Nothing is more interest ing than to watch te growth of the religious life in ancient times. The frst thing we note when we look at the infancy of the race is its religious fer- vor, If one believes that this element 1s the ont- growth of national development, how very queer the world must have seemed toa man who had no intellectnat means of deiermining anything. Re Was walking in a fairy’s garden, and everything was mystical and strange to him. He saw, or thought he saw, the sun move majestically through the sky, ana what wouder if he atiribated to it a le ity and agentie and kindly disposition because it ‘was warm ani Iife-giving? What wonder that he Jelt timid and heipiess when night came on with its thick shadows, and learned to regard it as a demon who stole upon one unawares? Even in these days THE SAMS OLD MYSTICIOM and though our reason forbids it, we, who are never afraid in weday time, and who boidiy de- Bounce @ beliel in ghosts and goblins, fcel aiter nightiall that 1¢ 1s Just possible that we may be wrong; that after ail there muy be such things, and tuat perhaps one of them 1s chasing us for peering at us through the shadow. Now, out of this atate of things, what kind of manhood can come? There were heroes 1n the old faith, but they had Hoth of the sweetness or trast or beauty of our day. It was cold, harsh, angular. No wonder that two phtioso- phers should arise, one of whom taught that bu: life was @ farce aud that the best way Was to lang our way through it, while the otier taught that human life was 9 tragedy, and that not was lett for man except to bewail his fate. Taken sito. gether, I unink there 1s something about the spect- mens of manhood which the olden time presenis Wat excites our sympathy and our pity, Next we come w the manhood of scepticism. in these latter days we bave been made acquainted with wnat 18 called the religion of science. Itravher snecrs or quietly Jaughs at the incredullty which accepts the Bible as final au- thority aud Christ as the Saviour, and looks upoa the devotees of the Charch with much the same kind of pity with which a Wise man-a very wise man—looks ato child who is telling his dream as though he beileved it, Now, I don’t belleve that this antagonism 1s to last long. I feel sure that Christianity 18 HE BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIVER, and that science will prove to ve tiie several abut- ments upon which tt rests. Darwin’s whole theory sticks just at this point. Hecan account for every- thing except mau’s morai nature, and then he haits and is rained. Natural theology and religion present uo basis of sure faith. It is acluster of starry doubts and guesses, It appeals to the scholar, but chills the multitude. I come now to a consia- eration of CHRISTIAN MANHOOD. To show you what it is I need only point to the great, warm-hearted heroes who have died and lived in its aefenve. Look at the apostles. How genial, how warm, how zeatous, how brave they all were! They faced the world, and they faced death. They cared for nothing except the tru2, the beauti- ful and the good, No question Which the soul asks is unanswered. God, a Person, @ Father, above all, in all human history, and an ever present influence in your life; Christ, the Revealer of the Law, tue Interpreter of the Will; immortality, the vegin- ning of the true life of the soul; you, yourself, a son of God, tor whom Christ died,” whose prayers are all heard, whom the angels are commissioned to help through all the struggles and troables of life! What picture can be more inspiring? It rouses in the heart all that 13 highest and best. This is the true manhood, CORNELL MEMORIAL CHURCH, Dedication Services Yesterday—Cost Description of the Edifive. Yesterday the City Church Extension and Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church dedicated a house of worsnip, in Seventy-sixtn street, near Second avenue, of which the Rev. F. Brown is pastor, About three years ago a mission Sunday school was started in Second avenue, near the site of the present edifice, where it continued until (he place became too strait for them, and they movea into & more commodions hail, improvised from a Carpenter’s shop, in Seventy-second street, near Second avenue, where they again prospered go greatly that a new church editice was decided on, aad lots were purchased and a chapel reared, which was yesterday dedicated, The school started with fitty chiidren, It has now 600 and @ very falr adult membership. The building is in the Gothic style of architecture and the materiai used 18 brick, with Ohio freestone front, ornamented with Connecticut sandstone, it nas a Mansard root finished with a peak in front, and on the west side @ bell turret, The editice ts 50x100 feet, with an ai- tar recess of 12 fect on the west side, by which the reacher occupies the centre of (he room. The buiud- Ing is two stories anda basementin height; the Ie contaiming the heawng apparatus, playrooms an A READING ROOM FOR BOYS, The frst story 13 divided into five large rooms—a sewing room Jor girls, teachers’ class room, a large parlor and readiagrooms The main schooiroom or hall Js on the second story; It ts ou feet square, with au infant class gallery at the north end 82 by 40 feet, suut of from the main hail by & irame curtain 26 by 14 feet, At the south end of this fioor 18 @ Bible class room, 16 by 26 leat, separaied from the maim hail by sliding doora, Over these jatter rooms there {8 a& Na? visitors’ gallery, ex- tending across the whole of the batiding. The ven- Mlation and lighting arrangements are excelient, ‘The windows are of stained glass, of varied pat- terns and emblems, while the jurniture and appar- atus are excellent and unique. Beiore the building is finally completed @ marbdie tablet is to be erected to the memory of tue late W. W. Cornell In the miain hall, after whom the church 1s to 0¢ known as THE CORNELL MEMORIAL CNURCH, Yesterday the Rey. Thomas Guard preached an admirable sermon on Isaiah's vision a8 described in the Orst seven verses of the sixth chapter of that brophet’s writing, and under the inspiration of the discourse the congregation subscribed $3,109 toward removing @ deot of $6,000 which remains due. In the aiternoon Dr, ose, of St. Paul's church, preached from Bxodus xXxy., 22, explaining the bpd contents of the ark aud the mercy seat and the sy sbolical articles contained there, and ap- plying them to modern church bulldings and a Vices, About $1,000 more were raised at tis ser- vice, In the evening the Rev... B Merwin, Pre- seine eae bs the ee +3 Clepiet New York haat Conference, preached, and $50) wo! e taken in subscriptions, a ne THE BULLDING COST $27,000, on which $21,000 nave been paid out, aud there are bids yet to be paid amounting to $4,309, 80 that the Suvscriptions and collections of yesterday wii! not guite re.ease it from its debt. The Rev. Dra, Marks, Curry, True, 3, D. Brown and Rey. Messrs, Hollis, Power aud other ministers were present at the aif. ferent Services, aud the olligers of the Missionary Boclety were also prese’ with the snecese of thew evidently well pleased rprise. LYRIC HALL. Locking Backward as Leeked At by Rev. 0. B. Frothingham—Our Municipal Thieves aod the Weman’s Rights Question. Meteorological ouservations 40 not interfere with the church-attending entnusiaam of the congrega- tion accustomed to receiving their ministerial puluM on Sundays a t Logg Hall. The room was filed yesterday morning, notwitnstaacing the ‘untowardness of the weather. Kev. VU. B. i bam, who does the most of the preaching here, Preachea the geermon, or rather, more properly speaking, gave utterance to an essay-like produc- tion—tor he took no teat—on the subject of “LOOKING BACEWARD.? He began with sa) ing that worse than sorrow 1s error, and that if we have erred we had better look the error straight in the face, and avoid ifs repeti- tion im future, It was idle waste of time to over errors, It did no-good, _ If there was anyt! an American hated to do it was aap oe Such looking back 1s regarded as stu) fac tion, This was @ wrong idea. If there was one who should worship the pase it is he As wave presses OD wave, 800 Man 18 isolated, He is part and el of the past, present and fatare. The past ig the stepping stone to the present, He illus- trated this thought most oeautitully by the growth Ol the coral wreath, the increasing refinement of musical appreciation, the progressive delicacy and power of the stsam engine, ana the present perfec- tuon of the telegraph. We do not have to contend now agalust the CRUSHING CUSTOMS of the world. In the past, for one hundreth part of the freedom we enjoy, people gladly laid their heads upon the block. Aijter cularging on this idea at eloquent length he alluded to the preseat muddie in Our municipal affairs, & good work was being @ccomplished in REFORMING THE CITY GOVERNMENT and in turming out from office the ruMlans who 60 jong. and rathiessly robbed the city treasury; but new. England her an- noted, From tis subject be branched of to wo- méu’s rights In the past women bave done what 16 now claimed as their ht and province. They have led armies, they have oecn foremost in Shiiesomags they have been Jeaders of society, they Lave priests and doctors, and altogether more masculine than femi- nine, world keeps going round and round, and according to some people each revolution is the samme ag the previous one. There ts nO advauce- ment, no sliding backward. The philosopher's aream Of & better society is now being carried out, ‘The scheme of a few nomansva tone who were com- pelled t6 meet and confer in dark and lonely places, and who were considered at the time ill-con- ditioned, disaffectea men, has ripened into our gov- ernment The privilege of the few 1s now the privi- lege of the many. The theory is a dream until used a8 a tool for improving mankind, After elucidating this idea further he drew # comparison between what he called th r men radival and the rich men conservative. Great cities have perished and empires nave crumbied, leaving no mark behind. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Bey, Homry, Warp Beecher, 9a. the Vasey of Sorrow—Rev. Father Callahan Considers the Necessi.y of Religious Edu- cation for Children. PLYM 0TH CHURCH. Paia a Necessity of Devclopment—The Vic- tery of Sorrow—Nermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mr, Beecher preached yesterday morning from Hebrews, xil., 11—‘‘Now no ailiiction for the present seemeth joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, after- Wards it worketh the peaceable fruits of rightoous- ness to them who are exercised thereby.” THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING and ite experience is not modern. The speculations in the book of Job, the musings and repinings of Solomon are as distinct as the echoes which are heard in Byron. The question of evil has been con- sidered by all philosophers, To ask why ev came into the world is to ask why the worla was created. If men were to be made and wen developed into higher life their evi is only the pain of growth. Theories in Tegard to evil have come down from the beginning. The Oriental doctrine 16 that evil is produced from bad spirtis. It was also regarded as @ judgment of God—that suffering Was sent as a punishment for sin. It was understood tuat where men suffered ‘they had been sinful. But Job showed that in nis greatest misery he was not sinful, and in ali his trouble he appealed to God. These theories have an element of truth, bot they are not ail true. Laws which relate to the organic conditions of our body bring suffering when violated. We suffer in our social relations when we set aside social laws, Many inherit a broken constitution, and it 1s not their fault that they were so born, Our most acate fre put upon us by others. it isin the ower of others to hurt us, Suvering also springs from our social Lab:liues, THS KEENEST PAIN comes from our sympaiheuc relations to others, Love biesses, but it brings with Lt possibilities of in- finite suffering. We weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice. ‘The dissipated Man docs not sufferso much as those who love him. Suffering belongs to the unfulding process, and marks the transition from lower to higher, MEN HAVE T0 GROW and toevery development the passage 18 painful. Men go through conflicts and reacn bigher conde tions of enjoyment through suttering. Pain hasa restraining and purilying function, but it has also a jJoy-bearing power. ‘Ihe sublimest sufferings are borne in the highest branches of our nawure. GOD EDUCATRS and inspires by pain. It 18 seldom continnons, Suifering is not # garment which men_ put on aud wear. It 1s an occasional experience—it bears only a small proportion wo the enjoyment of life. Tne joys are many and positive; suflering has a vic- torious element in it, When the Jower nature of a man struggies with the higher there is pain, but the shouts of victory come at the close of the con- fict, Tne highest forms of suffering rey with them wings of joy. Suifering in all grow- ing natures vecomes means of harmony. ‘The tuning of a piano causes a hideous noise, but melouy 18 produced at last. We all grow rank by nature. We iced discipline add restraint, Aman needs more breaking than a wild horse, more har- ness and more hard work. Men that ao not sufler hardly Know themselves, SUFFERING 18 A SCHOOLMAS' and & man wiv has suffered a great deal cannot be ignorant of himself. It brings him to his balance aud right proportion, No affliction seems joyiui in the present, It ts just as grievous as it seems, but nevertheless—that word seems like a golden door— “atterwards it yieldeth the peaceful iruit of right- eousness tg them who are exorcised thereby,” BEAR YOUR SUFFERING till you become master of it, as it was once master of you. ‘Then will come the divine kies, aud sorrow wil blossom into divine peace. study suster through the hues of hope—make it a spectre of wer. Rule in it and over it. ‘God chasveneth in ove, and 13 full of tufinite comtort.” He knows What suffering 1s and wiat it can do, Live by love and faith and you saall live in joy and victory, ry ST. MARY'S S£AR OF THE SEA, The Necessity for a Religious Kducation for Children—Sermon by the Rev. Felix O?Cal- Jahan. At the principal service held at St. Mary’s Star Of the Sea, Court street, near Nelson, South Brook- lyn, yesterday, Rev, Felix O’Oaliahan, curate, preached, taking for his text the words foundin the Gospel according to St. Luke, 1i,, 40—"‘And tne child grew and waxed strong, and was full of wis- dom, and the grace of God was in Him,"” The reverena geatleman then proceeded to speak Mm substance as follows:—In order to preserve the purity o: our baptismal Innocence It Is requisite that we should be filed with the grace of Gud, which alone can enabie us to eombat the macnina+ tions of the Evil One, which are ever at work to effect our overthrow and accomplisii our destruc. tion. To obtain this divine light of sancity, to break throngh the barriers of darkness, we must be in- stracied in the traths and mysteries which Almighty God has established for our guidance and protection, The responsibility of imparting this es- sential to salvation lies with those to whom God has entrusted children, The care is one which can- not be overestiinated, it 18 One for which every natural guardian of innocence shail one day be called to @ strict accountability by Goa Himself, Then, how great is the undertaking of paventa in the taining of their lite ones—in imparting to them that true knowledge whieh ts THE WISDOM OF GODLINESS, THAT ILLUMINATES THE PATH that leads to the mansion of eterna) bilss! From the earliest dawn of reason parents are bound in duty to instruct their oifspring in tne truths of their nly reilgion, and ‘hen, by precept and example, to en- courage tnem to lead a good and Onristian tie, It 18 mot suflicient* for the parent to tell the ehild) what he should do to be a true follower of Jesus Christ, byt he must also show by his own manner and expression that he prav tises the teachings that he imparts, The chiid will naturally imitate the pareot in what he dues. If the lather blasphemes and negleets to seta pious example, al‘hough he preach, the child will disre- gard the advice, whue he wil: follow the example set lim. Whatis required of parents iy that they pring wp their litue opea in viriue, eharity and nue mility apd in the Holy Catholie Churek. ‘Tne diseie piine aad correciion of the jaw of God must be eniorced. Excess o1 love for the child often icads to its over indulgence in sin and loses for the loved One the heriage of ciermal miory. On bie other ing- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1872. , excessive rigor must he avoided in exercis- correction, A jum, which is taught by the fal exercise jon, can alone govern and the parent in this matter, At the present SO MANY IRRELIGIOUS MEN ABOUT US, Who yet claim to De Cashation shough they are far from possessing 4 knowledge of their religion, the Recessity for indelibly stamping upon the peome Mind of the youug the way of salvation as taught by the Holy Romaw Catholic Churott is imperatively great. We have only to look at the present ungodly Condition of society to witness the tidal wave of in- fidelity and materiaiiam wich is sweeping over Wwe earth to become fa ie ressod with the eXi- @eucy of the appeal for ous EDUUATION 9} i GENERATION, he sad and terrible hpi bas secug! au vet of mmorality and reign Bat pre ever else men, listening lo the voce of the ungodly and heretica!, baye torgoten their faith? Want of Tellgions education is the primary cause of the bloodshed, rapine and murder which have diszraced #0 many nations Within the past few y and which has caused millions of lives to be on the specious fallacy of so-calied liberty. Liberty on their banner and pollution in their hearts, un- and egy nerd have been the leaders wi ve nristeudom by Wampling the th the Cross within tne past lew yeara. lien, leas than red the head of the Church — of and ee eeton € avery country, RELIGION, WHICH 13 1! (as'tt is om from the chaliis of Satan), was a curd uj ‘the baser passions of men, whom it taught, as tt still teaches us, that we are bora for @ holier parpose than the mere enjoyment of the perish ible things of this world. In the terribie sca of blood which devastated Paris during the revolu- tions wuo were those that were found about the red flag of violence aad murder but men who bias- phemed God, and scoffed at all that teaches us that we are created for a higher life in the future—in eternity? . ‘Ino same spirit actuates the revilers of our holy religion to-day, who would Jead your chile dren from their virtue and piety. Such men fear naugat save the gallows or the scaffold, The a of earth is eu the end with such Jadene nono}, uuhappy spuits; but with us who are born that we may live yood lives in the prac- Ray enjoy the happuices of everlasting salvation nN verlast ry Promises "by ‘Boas Who «ted that we may be so essed, it behooves us 1 fulfil fis commandments. CRITICAL AGE IN WHICH WE LIVE On Calls Lo Our senses the vast responsibility resting upou usin the education of our children. See to ur) then, while time is your own, while they are pliable, while the soil is moist, that the vine is trained,that it grow m the reiuigence of the sun- shine of God’s glory—in His holy Charch—and that after a well-spent life, when cailed to your reward, you will have the ineffable joy of meeting your chil- dren in eternity. THE MUNTGR’S POINT BIBLE WAR. Mere Trouble Impending-Open Hostilities Betwoen the Board of Comumissiouvers aud the Bourd of Trustees. On Saturday, op the part of the Trustees, hostili- ties were again threatened. At present the ques- tion whether the school wil! again be opened re- mains unsettled. The Trustees have positively re- fused to open the school butiding unless the reading Of the Bibie 1s discontinued, and served a notice to met on tue Commune, pupernygdent tne Principal, aif, Siebéti, Say that tne sha Palmer Tragvees will back down. If they do not it is pro- babie that they will carry the day, for by article 6, section 1, under tile 9, of the charter, which reads as follows:—"It shall. be the duty of the Trustees, &c., 10 have the safe keepimg vf all the premises and other property ased jor or belonging to the ‘Ward schools in their respective wards,” it igs im. possible to see how the control of the building can be taken away irom them, ‘The Trustees have been reading up, and find that the Commissioners huve exceeded them authority, a8 Will be seen by the following document gerved on tne Commissioners:— Lone IBLAND Crry, Dec, 29, 1871. To THE BOARD OF EDUCATION :— GBNTLEME“N—You will please take notice that the Board of Schcol Trustees of the First ward ot this city deem it tuie- gal {or the Board of Education to furnish supplies for this school, and that they will hold you responsible for any school funds paid out for such, excevt in such case as alread, Stated in the charter of tn elty, section & article 6, page bd. By order of the Board of le Schoo) Trustees First wat JOSEPH FLESEL, Secretary, The notice was read by the Secretary of the Board, Mr. Palmer, and voied to ve returned to the ‘Trus- tees, The ‘Trustees claim that in other respects the Commissioners aie not acting according to law. The section referred to provides that in the event only of neglect on the part of the ‘Trustees snail the Commissioners take sharge of the schools to manage them aud jurnish needful supplies, and then only after the Trustees have been wotifled and oppor- tunity been given them of being heard, ‘Whe Prustesa claim thas the Board of Commissions ers are not legally constituted, as in section 1 articie 4of chapter % title 9 of the charter 1t provides that “4 any Commissioner shall reruae or neglect to at- vend any tbreeeuccessive meetings of the Board” the oificeshail be declared vacant. One of the Com- missioners has not attended since the Bible war, and the resignation of Mr. White leaves less than the legal number, Agatn, it provia s that uf any commissioner removes from his ward his oftice shall be deemed vacant. Commissioner Wallack has removed from the ward and {rom the city, and now resides in New York. One great reason wy the trouole is kept up 1s on account of the support from abroad; both parties to the controversy are Deing fooded with resolutions and letiers calling on them to uphoid the stand taken. Commissioner Petry is the recipient of a beauti(ul engraved set of Chap pte iramed in an elegant manner, in which he 1s complimeated for the stand taken 1n the Bible cause, ‘The resolution came from a New York society. LiGat FROM A¥oT0ER WORLD. The Advent of n New High Pricstess in the New Order of Dispensation—Lecture by Mrs. Cora L. ‘Tappan at Lyric Hall Last Evening. On Saturday evening a number of circulars were alsirtbuted through the city announcing the im- portant fact that Mra, Cora L. V. Tappan, the welle known Spiritualistic lecturer, nad arrived In New York and had been induced by the representations and solicitations of ler many admirers to deliver a course of Sunday evening lectures at Trenor’s Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street. Accordingly, last evening there assembled at the halt quite a large number of the upper crust of the Spiritualisiic profession. On vhe tirst four rows of benches were Beated men and women of uncertain age, with large, cavernous eyes and cabaliistic features. The lovers oi the mysterious and the un- Known were out im great farce. In the back part of the hall the audience was somewhat mixed—men around town drawn thither through curiosity; a few giggling young giris who were dying for a good Jaugh, and a number of philosophers seekiog aiter truth on the last might of the old year. About eight o'clock, alter a prelude on the organ, Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan appeared. She was followed by Mr. Afidrew Jackson Davis and Mrs, Andrew Jackson Davis. Mr. Davis has the true spiritualistio expression; bis forehead 1s high and narrow, shaped something ike @ pear; his hair js long, dry ana thin, and his eyes have that jar-oif reaching louk that those acquire who are allowed to ito the maysteries of another world. On his arm ne car. ried a striped woollen shawl, which be tenderly wrapped around the lovely form of Mrs. Tappan and conducted ner to a seat on the stage. * At this stage of the proceedings a little whisper- ing conversation wok place between Mr. and Andrew Jackson Davis. ‘They both nodded and both smued, Then Mr, Davis, raising his giant form from his sedentary position, marched to the front. He said:—Brothers and Sisters—mary says that f should make the first 10troductory speech on this occasion §=and sale will follow me, aud as i always give in 0 Mary J give in on ims occasion. (And Mary siniled a kaoow- ing pl Friends of progress, | am_ here, and 1 am glad I am here, because Iam happy to in- troduce to you the lady who has beon endorsed for many years by the brightest velogs of @ superior world. And why should we who live and move tn this inferior world iook upon her as the high priest- ess of the new order of dispensation? Mr. Davis continued for some time 10 this strain. At last be said—When we have such angelic inteliectuality be- fore us why should I continue further? ‘Lherefore, friends of progress, { subside. A still small voice from one ot the giggling young ladies, ‘*Taank God.” Then Mary Davis came forward, She passed a glowing eulogy on the purity and the tratuiuiness and the beauty of mind and person of Mra. Cora L, V. Tappan, She recited how she was seized at an early and tender age by the mysterious influence wuich has made her a dis) iT of great truths to au ignorant world and the solace of many a hungry hear Mra, Davis then subsided herself, and Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan rose from her seat with a Ee ful, syiph-like movement, as befitting the endorsed Of # superior world, and approached the rostrum. Ms. Tap) is @ tall, well-proportioned woman, with a fine, saapely hand and arm, which she waves in an artisuic manner; her hair is of a light golden hue, and was arranged last night in pufly and curls; ner eyes are sarge, of a gray color, but coer sunken; her complexion has the Bos nm hue of sallowness; ner mouth is large, full whether gs v. and very expressive, but, hard study or intense thought, her cheeks. sunken and hollow. She vowed gracefully tothe audience and sald:—1 come am you, friends, to preach the new order of dispensal wo reach the doctrine of humanity, xindlmess and love, Culonel Higginson once remarked, at @ meet- ing of the Radi Club of Loston, that ne was always astonished that there was so much good nature in the world; aud the time will come, of progress, when the Jaws and creeds and theologi- cai doctrines that now govern the superstructure of geciety will be laid aside, and there will be no more paupers, no more thieves; the great millentun Wil be at hand; the confluence of the Perinelton aud Aphileon will take place, aud there shall ve convulutions among the spheres, and Jove shalt jovern the Word. weine gigging young ladies could stand it no longer, aud Jel. the hall. Some of the inen around town soon fullowed, and ihe UBRALD spirit soon followed then, THE KING AND THE POPE. The Holy Father Treated Like a Prisoner. Insults from the King’s Soldiers—Discusmon # the Buget— Victor Emmanuel Much Pleased with Rome—Festiva’ of the Immaculate Conception. Roms, Vec. 8, 1971. In whe existing state of hemtation on the part of Piug IX..as yo the “go oF not to go’ trom Rome, little irritating occurrences which would otherwise portant even: when narrated aud commented upop 1m the manner used by the Osservatore Komano ib the following account of ‘WHAT TOOK PLACE AT THE VATICAN Mar HO = “About one P; M. om Monday, while the Holy ‘Yather was amusing nimseif as usual in the Vatieam library, the Swiss Guards who had accompanied him and remained in the exterior corridor went ont on: @ little balcony overlooking the Belve- dere court and arsenal. The Italian soldier on guard there no sooner saw the nalberdiers than ne loaded his rifle, and, haviag itr.» mated to them several times wiih-a loud yolee ~ to withdraw from the window, he levelled bis gua menacingly at them. The guards, astounded a8 80 unexpected @ threat, drew back, Monsignor de Mérode, who was near at hand just then, no gooner. heard what was going on than he looked ont at the: same place in order to verily the disgraceful dead. But directly he showed himself on the balcony a. shout from the sentry in very-bad Fronch enjouieg him to retire, and as the distinguished -prelate; hardly able to believe his ears, remained immova- ble for a moment to assure himself oi that imostins iquitous intimation, the Itallay guard, repeating bis cry, did not hesitate to level his rifle again at him, Was this an insolent arbitration of that sentry orap: order given to him? We do notknow. We know, however, for certain that on the 27th of last month: similar threats and intimations to withdraw imme- diately were made from the same sensry station at several persons of the Pontifical household who happened to look out from windows of their residences towards the same spon After. ‘such facts 1s it still allowable to doubt the very bad faith of the government, which, while it proclaims its intention of respecting our city as the peaceful seat of the Pontiflcate, surrounds the Pontifical welling of the Vatican with the same rigorous measures which jailers exercise towards vulgar prigonerg? Is it allowable to trust the words o8 over jnont oigans, wiied, Witn thé most cynic my pudence, dare to deny facts po itively certified, and whose truth is testified vy persons of unviemshed impartiality, conscience and honor, all of which qualities are utlerly unknown to the journals al< luded tot”? A PALPABLE INSULT, ‘ It seems very probable: that the advoca‘es of the Pope’s departure, whose tactics and argaments } explained in wy last letter, will rejoice at oppor- tunities like this for publishing to the world that, the Supreme Pontid, confined witnin the narrow limits of his residence, is not eyeu Icitin peace there, but is suujected to the Most degrading insults on the part of the oppressors who hold bim in durance, Things acquire magpitude at @ dis tauce, and the Pope’s partisans in France and Bel- 1um Will no douot-be more urgent than ever for Hits Holiness to take refuge among them aiter this fresh instance of the contumely to which they sup- pose he has been subjected in Rome, Such, however, is evidently nut tne policy of the {talian government; for we have had express de- clarations,: both in royal speech in the Pare liamentary adaresses in reply, of its desire to keep the seat of the Pontiiicate in Kome and to inaintayn @ respectful and friendly attitude towards the head Of the faithful. We mre Moreover, an expianasion of and kind of apology for the occurrence so eom- plained of by the clericals in a journal known to Tepresent the opinions of government, ¢ THR STATEMENT VBRIVIED, The Opinione of yesterday morning pubiishes a note on the subject which we may cousidér as Otlicial, fully contirining the staril! fact that the Italian sentry really did point bis rife at Monsignor de Mérode and the two Swiss guards wen they looked out from the baicony of te long corridor of the Vatican, catied the Corndor of inscriptions, by Which access is gained wo the library and the sculpture gallery. Tne Optnione States that the affair was Not sO serious as repre- sented, and that it resulted trom an arbitrary con- sign, Not written but verbal, given to the seutry, in consequence of which the oilcer on gourd punished with the maximum degree of the pent tentiary ward aud tue inspecting captain to twenty days’ strict arrest, THE BUDGET OF 1871. The Chamber of Deputies continued yesterday the discussion of the detimitive buuget of 1571, ap- proving the outlay in the departments of the amy, navy, agricultare and commerce. That oi public works would have passed uiso ii the more scrupu- lous Deputies had not stumbied over te item of 5,000,000 for the trausfer of we capiial. As tne works connected with thus have been much eritl cised, especialy tue Parilament Halli at Mome Citorlo, cousiderabie oppusiiiod Was raised to the clause, VICTOR EMMANUEL himself, on receiving the Depulies who presented Dim the address of the House un ‘Tuexday morning, said that he was sorry to hear that tuey were not yet conveniently Jocated, aiding, is all the jault of these geutiemen,”’ pointing to the Ministers standing by. On taking leave of the Prosindaco at che station the King declared himself much pleased with Kome as a residence, and said that his absence would be @ short one, us he in- tended to retura to the capital to pass the greater part of the wialer, His Majesty went by special train along the Maremma line direct irom Rome to Sau Rossore. In future the King will not be vb! to leave the netghvorhood of Kome in order to joy his favorite pastime of meta. 3 as the Duke of Graziolt’s fine estace of Castel Porziano, with the mcdiwval casteilated residence, has been pur ed dor Victor Emmanuel. The price original manded was 6,000,0v0 franvs, bus it has been reduced to 4,800,000 irancs, with ® year’s produce off the land to be given to the Duke. Tne property ts situated to the southwest of Rome, on tue leit bank Of the Tiber, in the direction of Usiia, and 11s covers and forests, preserved and juli of game, extend down to the sea, adjuiumyg Prince Chege’s esiate of Castel Fusano, THE FRSTIVAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. ‘rhis being the festival of the lmmacuiate Con- ception of the Moly Virgin ihe Pope will officiate in private form in the Vatican. The Osservaiore Ko- mano of last night hasaleader on the subject, dwelling especially on the opposition of Sa:an to this singuiar privilege granted to Mary by the Om nipotent, and his subsequent rage against Pius 1X lor LAE ig pad the dogma to the world. I quote a portion of it:— “Such war excited by Satan agaist the Giver of such @ privilege to Maria could not but renew itself against (he glorious proutulgator of it, ‘ihe great @nd immortal Pontit tus LX, made known the hn of Mary to the world, and ticrefore ad loexpect the most determined war irom the Giscomfited serpent, All that was weged against Christ has notiaued to be renewed against his wortny Vicar. The pride, ambition and avarice of men, the envy, disdain and ioe, of the rabbie, were ail exctted by Satan agaiuat this great Ponti, who, as the Nazarene was reduced to the grave, 1s Dow in @ similar mauner restricted to aa imprisonment wituin his palace.” A comparison thea toilows between the rere ecue sh ger Lord ana the ap- proaching triumph ot Pius 1 MUNICIPAL MATTERS IN NaWARs. To-morrow night Newark’s new Boara of Common Council will meet and organize. The poiitical com- Plexion of the Board will be twenty-one republicans: to nine democrats, The repudlicaus are:—James Reeve Sayre, L, H. Armstrong, Theo, Macknet, James L. Gurney, James M. Darand, J. D. Harrison, James C. Ladow, Charies Kreitler, Caleb G. Crane, William H, Baldwin, &. R. Pennington, Waiter L. Starr, Ira Budd, John Rfehard, Samuel Castles, Daniel W. Baker, Juiras Steffens, James E. Bathgate, Fredorick Traudt, William Stansiey, Henry R. Baker; ¢ Oscar Barnet, E. Schecknam, Ti. Reynolds, A. ©. Westervelt, Bonnyciosser, James Malone, f President D. W. ny Foe OL the city oillcers, Au eifort bas been made to effect changes in the oitices of Chiel of Po. lice, Chet Boginast of the Fire Department and City Clerk, tt doubtfal if it will gsacceed. The aunouncement made the other night by the chairman of the Police Committee that a sergeant was capable of assumin, tne direction of the police force has prompte @ growing opinion that 2 change inthe chief omcer would not hurt. In view of the sad deati of little Willie Jube and the Ballantine malt house fire asim. pis idea prevails with regard to the Chief Enyineer’s ace. the democrats veto M. McDowell, E. John Radel, F. ‘rhomas O'Connor. r. Carbut has entirely lost distinction ag ‘the best fireman in the United States”? be PROBABLE MURDER, About half-past eigut o'clock an unknown Ger- man, avout thirty-five years of age, dressed in gray coat and pants, with dark hair and goatec, fve feet - ten iuches high, was brought to the Thirteenth pre- cinct station house in 4 state of intoxication, Ser- geaut Dilke, who was on duty, ascertatued the man Was injured aud he seat ivr the police surgeon, Who, upon eXanination, found the skull was frac tured and one of the arnis broken, He was sept ta Bellevue Hospital in ao anoulance, be passed over as iusignificant trifles become tm : t