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4 RELIGIOUS. Sunday Services and Pulpit Preach- ings in the Churches of the City and Neighborhood, MR. BEECHER ON THE USE OF MONEY, Father Macnamey on the Infal- libility of the Church. A Sermon on Prayer by Mr. Hepworth. Disoourses by Father Macnamey, Dr. Chap- man, Revs. J. Davies, J. S. Willis, N. Bjerring, J. M. Pullman, Hepworth and Beecher. 8T. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. The Infallibility of tho Church and ¢ ceastty of Faith—Sermon by the Father Macnamey. St, Patrick’s Cathedral was as usual filled bya great multitude. The high mass was celebrated at ten o’olock, Father’ Kearney officiating, The Most Reverend Archbishop McCloskey and Father Starrs ‘were present, the former giving his blessing to the People ‘at the close, Nee Rev. THE MUSIC. The choit -rendered the mass in C minor by Torenve. The important paris were ‘Kyrie,” chorus; “Gloria,” chorus; “Laudamus,” a soprano solo sung by Madame Chomé; ‘Domine Deus,” Quo sung by Messrs. Groschel and Urchs; “Credo,” chorus; “Et in Spirtum,” Terzetto, Some criticism might be bestowed upon the execution in detail, but on the whole thé effect was grand and sublime, THE SERMON. The Rev, Father Macnamey preached from the Gospel of the day—Jesus speaking to the Centurion— “amen, I say unto you that 1 have not discovered #0 great faith m Israel.” ‘his portion of the Gospel seemed specially intended to teacn the necessity and the advantages of a firm and lively faith in the omnipotence and mercy of God. The Centurion be- sought mercy mm behalf of his servant, who was a leper. He said to Jesus, “It is not necessary for Thee tocome with me. Only say the word, and Tuon canst restore him to health and strength.’ And Christ showed to those around Him this miracie of faith. “I have not discovered such faith even in Israel.” He found in the Gentiles greater daith thau in His own people, and He said that they should sit witn the patriarchs in une kingdom of heaven, while the children of Israel were cast out into external darkness, As fatth alone obtains the pore se God, so is it alone sufficient to save our be THE VIRTUE OF BELIEF. That divine naturd whereby we believe God cures he Piadness and iguorance of the understanaing y destroying our naturaily corrupt inclinations and forming in their stead tne seed of holiness 18 our hope. And so, that we may learn to enjoy the true faith, let us consider the condition of those Outside its pale. Doubt takes away all motive for servitude, It icta us have no guide—nothing upon Which to rest, How horrible are the results of sub- atituting reason for faita! This is corphatically ao age of reason. 1t has reimained for us to find in Our day men sitting in judgment on the Almighty God bimeelt, Reason is their God; and i there be anything in religion which they cannot understand, if those sublime truths which God reveaied be noi fectly iuteiligibie to them, it must be rejected. ow extremely ridiculous is such pride. All the things which surround us ia the Invisible creation we donot lesa and yet wil we question the trath of THE FRUIT OF UNDELIED. Oan we be surprised to behold Christendom aplit into. so many factions? Without that iaith which Christ came on earth to establish, for which He ve the last drops of fis bivod, tere is no good in ~ Christianity. He came to us to teach by example ye to live and how, by belief, we could be saved, And to perpetuate this He established His warm, true aud holy jaith. If the Son of God was not a deceiver He must now be a sound, living authority, to which men must always revert ip all ages with- out fear of error to Gua out what is the truth of Christianity. TUB CHURCH INFALLIDLE. Wherever His Church is it 1s tic infallible custo- dian and guardian o1 that trath, It cannot fall, When the Church falls into error then the Son of God bas fatied in His promises, Thus it ts that our ministers’ cannot err, ihey cannot upon one. Sunday express certain convictions, 1d on the next contradict them, with the excusé that hey have received new yes Waheu our mioistera 1 into error then the gates of hell have prevailed. the Son of God conie down on earth and suf- fered such ignominy and agony to establish a religion in (od it 1s not necessary to believe in Him? Did He intend to deceive us when He said, “He that Delieveth not shall be deceived?” That sentence o condemnation remains in full force aud never can tall to be carried into execution, THE BLESSINGS OF THE FAITH, To-day we returm thanks with full hearts for the bi we have received from that faith, When the last summons comes we will destroy the terrors of judgment and receive that reward w! fed Obrist, the Son of God, hag promised to aii thoaé who be- Neve in Lim, love Him and serve fim, SEVENTEENTH STREET METHODIST EPISCO- Which is Above All O:hor Names— What Ohrist Symbolizes—Discourse by Kev. J. 8. Willis. The celebrity that Rev. J. 8. Willis has recently obtained on account of bis sermon on James Fisk, Jr., attracted to his church in Seventeenth street yesterday @ very large congregauon. The pastor selected for his text Pnilippians 1i., 9—“Whereforo God also hath given Hin & name which ts above all other names.” In opening his discourse he stated that 1t was not necessary to illustrate by example the power that isina name. We see itin whe case Of Washington, whose name is revered by every American; it is a tallgman that causes enthusiasin in every heart. So ts it With the name of Napoleon. He dwelt upon Napoleon’s power; the enthusiasm that his name created; the power of Alexander's, Cwsar's and Graut's names in war; A. T. Stewart's 40 commercial circics, and yet declarea there was ‘ NO NAME LIKE THAT OF JESUS ONRISI. This name—Jesus Curist—rises avove every other Bame. These beroes he hai named might be great, but there was a greater name, even the Lord of lords. Jesus Christ owns all the gold of Ophir, all the riches of the earth and sea, and is mightier man any earthiy ruler. Dis oame he proposed to (alk about this morning. The name was a symbol of Jesus, fn it we lave the best, the grandest, THE CLEAREST REVELATION the world has ever had. We have the revelation of God in the Old Testament, but it is not such as we Dave in Christ. We have the revelations of God in paiure, The human mind seeks the revelations of God im the old rocks, in the siars that bespangie tne firmaiwent, in the fowers, everywhere, even In the breath of we air, in nature t GOP 13 WRITING HIS LESSONS, Dut the revelations of Christ are more distinct. Ohrist is the ideal of God's justice, He was invesied with the divinity of the Godhead Himself. Never uil Jesus came did man get an idea of the justice of God, Never until Christ came sounding The line of God's tenderness in the sed of fils luve did man fully appreciate tue justice of Jehovah. His coming reveals to us THE MERCY OY GOD. How beautifully voes it illustrate that with Goa justice might be vindicated and God's mercy shown @ilite beauty! God just as well as merciful, and Christ is a symbol of His mercy. All aye within je of God's salvation, and He can bring you up and rescue you from the sins that press you down, With tie natural eye it would be hara to gee Christ, but with the oe eye you can see noth- ing but Jesus Christ, -t adhe] depends upon ad- justing the vision. If you would sce Christ your eyes must be anointed wiih THS HEAVENLY RYE SALvE, ang then you can seo nothing else. Oh, may God help you all to see Him, ‘There is something in the revelation of Jesus Christ that is so tender that we to look upon it. Christ 1s also & symbol of an- lagonism, The pastor dwelt upon the antugonism iat Christ met with from the Jewish Pharisecs who persecuted im, He came to His own and [lis Owa received liim not. ,They said “we Wil) lot bave ae W reign over us,"? Even in this generation, whi JESUS CHRIST'S BANNERS are Boating on every Weeze, tie antagonism goes on, Tne Pharisees expected Him to come as a con- juéeror—restore Jerusai. im work His career in lood; but when He came as a weak and simple teacher their anlagonism exhibied itself, He taught thein to love God and look to the glory of a name that is above every oiler name. ‘They said, “Puss kind Of @ relivion 14 all a delusion.” This antago. NEW YOKK HEKALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1872.—-TR nism still goes On; Che Gentiles have joined tho Jews in it, ‘THIS ANTAGONISM HATRS ONRIGT and the Cnristian. metimes shrink dered to stand’ > for Christ, 1 urge you 10 are ordel up honer this ni Take it as your guide, sairiat is al3o a symool of triumph—the triumph of trath over error. Christ triumphed over the grave, and His rious teachings have taken deep root. Never untit the revelation of Mount Calvary was the Gos) that makes the bad man good fou may. there go up {rom our ria a prayer of our aaversaries!’ .Let us in the last hour grasp His name. Behold! Jesus Christ symbolizes ail that is lovely and beautiful, Oh, who wall follow Him who a, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I wil give you rest?’" CHURCH OF THE MESSIAD. The Likenesses and the Wiferences Be- tweeu Orthodox and Liberal Theology— Sermon by Rev. Edward Evorett Hale, of Boston, : A congregation quite as large as that accustomed to worship at the Charch of the Messiah was gathered there yesterday morning. Politeness quite a3 marked characterized the ushers. A flood of Melody quite as rich and clear and silvery came pealing irom the organ, and rising in quite as sweet ascora with it tke sweetly attuned Voices uf the cholr, Everything, im fact, was quite as usual, The sermen, too, was quilc as good as the congregations here have been accustonied to listen to. Occupying the pulpit was Rey. Edward Ev- erett Dall, of Boston. He discoursed upon “Ortho- dox and Liberal Theology Vontrasted,”’ and, t¢ is un- Necessary to say, discoursed as most of the eocleal- astical lights from this grand central poms of the universe do—wisely and well, His text was Phi .| Uppians, il1,, 18, 1446—“Forgetting those things which are behind and reacaing forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the nigh calling of God in Christ Jesus,” He opened his discourse with referring to @ course of lectures recently delivered in Boston. These lec- tures, delivered by some of the most eminent cler- gymen, showed an astonish aM@inity of views Upon quosttons of Bible doctrine. @ read an | epitome of these views, and claimed that they were substantially the views of their Churoh. A striking feature was ANTAGONISM TO CALVINISM. ‘Witn this he eloquently assaulted the five points of Calvinism, and proceeded to show the contrast be- tween 3, the orthodox system, and tho Mberal system, or their system. The ono system reste on the supposition bre the creation of the world was @ failure, that things did not turn out as they ought to, and that 1¢ was necessary to resort to @ miracle to make matters right; and the other 19 @ system which gives God a loving oversight on all things and all men from the Creation down to,the present. He advocated simple theological doctrine. The doctrine of LIBERAL OBRISTIANITY presents God thoir father and as a vindictive Judge. In the liberal ology God 18 represented as inviting all to tne feast, and not rejecting the rabble. Tho universal tenderness of God sows itself in all the Gospels, Bishop Huntington says that Carist’s dis- cipies did not know chat He was God until alter Hils death and rection, wien #t was revealed to them. From this oe launched off into explanation of the. UNITARIAN ONUROH VIEWS. Tney had passed through the cross fires under wuictl other denominations are sitil suffering. | Whe past fifty years had wrought a wondrous not the. change in human thought, and in noth- ing more than thcology, They, a8 the ex- | ponents of liberal theology, stood alone; | but this was no discouragement. looked forward, looked upwat ‘They looke: } Upon the past only for the leasons it teaches, Faith | and hope were the first fruits of liberal theology. The inevitable tendoncy of this liberal theology 18 ; to look forward to the promised land, It was tueir duty to work for whis juture, The lignt and iile which proclaims GOD AS THE LOVING FATHER and not the enemy of men abound in our literature, Their ele They shine forth in books, im every care- ful essay, addresses, in evory field of* thought Poetry, art, _civillzation, RB centre in the gospel of Go's infinite love. In thin crisis of history there was uoble service for ail, God makes us all priests aud Kings. They eoutd not count largely in humbers, but it had never been said that the race was.to the swift or the battle to the strong, but it nad been gafd that victory would follow patient endeavor in the right. They were brothers all, sisters all. Let each do nobly his work, forgetting not the things that are behind, but press forward toward the work for prize o1 the higt call- ing of God in Christ Jesus. ORTHODOX GREEK GHURCH, The Immortality of the Soul from the Stand- int of Science and Vhilosopuy, Reason and ieligion—Sermon by Rev. N. Bjerring. As many as could be comfortably acconimodated assembled in the Greek chapel, in Second avenue, yesterday morning, to whom the Rev, Mr. Bjerring expounded the philosophic idea of the soul’s im. mortality. He knocked away some of the props upon which materialists sustain their annihilation theories. Previous to the delivery of the sermon several children were received into tne church, to whom the holy communion in both kinds was ad- ministered, Father Bjerring then spoke substan- ttauly as follows. He said:—in science, as well as im practical life, the Christian spirit ts obliged to- day again to combat A HEATHENISM REJUVENATED in new forms. Particularly is this the case where the question ts raised of natural philosophy, Theortes are raised iat not only deny the personal immor- tality of the soul, but also assert the declaration that mon are derived trom the ape, Yet such men spostate from Christ'antty. Men who walk the ways Of the lost son in the Gospel may turn away from the sua of truth and give themselves to the blinding lustre of seli-reliant, Godless reason. We believe in the divine revelation of Christianity; we have faith tn the personal fmmortality of the soul, However much we may rejoice in all that intellect and mind achieve on their courses, it Is yet our Inmost conyic- tion that the eagle fight of true wisdom is not stopped or hindered by subjection to Christianity. Is it, perhaps, to dishonor the mina to forbid {i to confound itself with the mate. rial? Is it to dishonor the soul to acknowledge ita immortality? Certaiuly not, Wii te ape theory make man more noble, more moral? Wil this teacning ve more beatilic tian that Which Christian. ity aunounces? No! @ Wousand times no! TIGERS IN NUMAN FoRM, as the scenes of terror in Paris have shown us—these are the frults of materialism, Win the grace oi God, beloved, I am resolved to adress you lo-day on the tumortaiity of the soal, May He who died for us all on the croas bless my words, said the reverend father. If the soul dies Wich the body, he remarked, then it is useless to talk lo men of reiigion and morals. In the rapid Might of life the moments of pleasure are precious if our existence 13 limited only to this earthiy life. Epicurean life is tadecd a very Jogical consequence oi that doctrine that de- nies the immortality of the soul, Experience teaches us that CORPORAL SUBSTANCES ARB NOT ANNIHILATRD, but that they change from one state of being into another, When the plant dies it continues in the Torm of wood; when this rots or burns, thea che parts scatter ‘themselves tato new combiuations, Corporal suvstances, then, go he @ circle of transformations, but are not annihilated. Which of the two beings is the most noble—a particle without will, without \hougt, withous feeling, of an in- telligent, free being, capable of expanding its ideas into the infinite, and of loving and acknowledging above all ‘things its Creator? ‘The answer cau admit of no doupt. Toe assertion, then, that tue soul 1s not immortal attempts to tari the order of the world upside down, because It as- sumnes that God preserves that which is Inactive and Inanimate and annihilates that which is intelligent and full of ufe. Man has an ionate desire after Immortality, and this desire cannot ve satisfied With @ life which ends here. But if the soul dies with the body then @ desire has veen given to us Lae Tatification and satisfaction of whicn ts utterly mpossivie. Such an idea is conirary to the good. ne id wisdom of God. It ts replied that in this fe we aspire after many things that cannot be Sttained, and that noting follows from this against the goouness and wisdom of God. ‘To tnis sophistry we may auswer that every one, the virtuous or the vicious, he Who Walks the ora and narrow way or he who treads the broad road, have equal desires efter happigess. Jn the other life we find tueir TuMlment, inasmuch as they are good. If, thon, our wishes in this life are not satished we cannot rigntiy complain against God, furasmuch as 18 WORLD 18 NOT OUR HOMR, 7 nor this Wie our goal. We are pilgrims and stran- gers here, traveling to @ better country, and in order (0 arrive there We must coeerfuily and pa- life, = how- Ueutly bear tue toils and trials of th! ever, the soul aies with the body, th 18 @ continual delusion, our exisience a shanks be to God, 11 18 impossivle to deprive the soul Of the ides of ite immortaity. And, said the priest, sarcastically, this ineflable re given us only 0 be @ Heaulisu) deception, in order that m Wink @t last into eternal nothingness! ; suc! thoughts lead only to a denial of the Providence o1 God and are the origin of atheism. The greater part | of mankind are tittle occupied with such ideas as | form tue joy of @ life devoted to contempiation. Tpey are lov Much engrossed with the business aud the Cares of life to give time to the mysteries of re- Hgion and pillosopby. A smali portion only of the intellectual powers of any man ts therelore em- ployed. And of what a’ 1g this oaptial of tate! gence and woral power if tue soul’s existeace en ere? THE DESTINY OF MANKIND ON EARTH cannot solve the mystery of lise if our ine ends with the death of the body, The human race has achieved great Unity nd will achieve yet greater; Dot of what avail are they iF this fe unites not iiselt with the future? Look at history, ivilization pro- gresses (rom ceature fo Gemlure, Out Wual Olol ured paradox. But of terros are revealed to as in this history! Wolive now in the nineteenth century, the most learned @ud culuvated of any age of tne world, and yet brother goes vo war with brotaer and human biood flows like water throngh the land; and within the Circle of these commotions individuals aud nations appear as nothing; but if we regard tne life of man- Kind on earth as @ — to another life, then, and then oniy, we und the cause and the meantog of these things. To whi ul all our. sufferings snd sorrows here if all of man ts m: ana dies? Maverialists tell us that the purpose is the perfect- ing of society; but this is a most unsatisfactory e@nswer. That would bea development without an end. Society is happy oniy as the individuals who compose it are happy. If we assume that the soul is mortal then @ deep sorrow must fasten iiseif upen our hearts, To what end were all the powers @nd passions and aspirations and ho) given to an, if beyond the tomb there is nothing but an eternal sleep—the sleep of annihilation? Were this true the events of this le would be but a suc. cession of unexplainable phenomena, @ chaotic cosmos, A WORLD WITHOUT BEAUTY or order. Butif, with Christianity, we accept the immortality of the soul, then the phenomena ex- pain themselves, and the chaos assumes form and uty and order, The infiniteness of our aspira- tions, the expansion of our intellectual powers, the catastrophes which come upon our world, and which are bound up with our eternal destinies, ex- plain themselves, and the universe appears as wonderful whole—a temple upon whose golden 8 is reflected the light of man’s future destiny in tha: immortal city illuminated by the light of God and set forty before our spiritual vision lu exalted lines by the Seer of Patmos, This, dear friends, de the teaching of philosophy of reason and Te- lgion tn regara to the immortality of the soul. This has ever’ been the faith of mankind, and this 1s the teachings of tradition from the carkest days—irom the cradle of the world, May this dootrine be the comiort of our souls, Mr. Hepworth at Steinway Hall and His Large Congrezation—A Sermon on Prayer. Steinway Hall was crowded yesterday morning, as on the previous Sunday; but a skilful packing on the part of the newly organized body of ushers—a very polite corps of young men—gave nearly every one of the large audience @ seat, The service was as simple as before, and the singing was the same “thousand-voloed psalm’? that so captivated and charmed by its naturaluess and freshness on the first day of the services in thia hall, Mr. Hepworth made two announcements of siguificance, inasmuch as they related to the further develop- ment of the plans wiich have cost Mr. Hepworth the pastorate of the Church f the Messtah, This evening (Monday) a meeting {s to ve held in the largo hall of the Young Men’s Onristiau Association, corner of Twenty-third street ana Fourtn avenue, “The ob- Ject of this meeting,” said Mr, Hepworth, “is to organize a society in connection with our present effort for the formatton of a new Church of Ohrist. ‘To that conference we invite all, representatives of every denomlaation, 80 that we may be guidea by their experience and wisdom. We are desirous 0 e@stablisning AN UNSEOTARIAN CHUROT in accordance with the princtplea iaia down tn the Programme which is published, and whion 1s already attached to the hymns which you hold in your hands.” The next noiice was the announce- Ment of the establishment of a Sunday school, to ve held in Stetuway Hall, and the nucleus of which was formed at a conference of workers held yester- day alternoon in the ante-room, Mr, Hepwerth stated in connection with this:— should like the strects olf Fourteenth street to be canvassed for children that don't go to any Suaday school, I don't wish any Sunday school to be robbed of ono child, 1 beileve we can get a large school without doing that.” The introductory part of the morning service was conducted ‘by the Rev. Dr. Paimer. Mr. Hepworth took for his text the words of St, yed his countenance was }, found ib Deiprul to pray. The scene from the midst 0: which He prayed 1s one about which the human heart liogers with a tearful kind of gratitade, The critical moment in the life of the Master had arrived. He knew that He must ere iong leave bis cause to the care of a few weak inen. Tnat they might the better understand Him and His mission the miracle of the trans#gurauon occurred. After that they certainly had no doubt that He was more than a min. Ang they felt, whet He commanded them, that it was a king who spoke. CHRIsTS NEARNESS TO THE FATHER, Christ kept himself in constant communtion with the Father. Was He perplexed, or doubtful, Or had He tke consciousness of Seaktiees to bear ae me Wate est ie th et iM much the ap In Which @ tinid oy fear tn i? parents arms. And tu is Tevaslion BY anton § valuab’e as any revelation of word that was ever uticred. Our right io toll God all our troubles is proved by ie irresistible longing to do so. And the eticacy of such communion is suficiently tlus- in the scene trom which the text is taken, In whi the overshadowing Clouds of Gethsemane were alwost too dark for the Son of Man even, THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER, 1think we should get on very il without this blessed privilege of prayer. I you are ounscious that you are working slone then you are weak iudeed. If, on the other hand, you ‘eel sure that God Himsvlf is working with you and for you, then nothing is Loo heavy Lo bear. This feeling of a pos- sibility @f constant communion has come to us through Cnrist, When life scems pecularty tard to io apparently more than a day's work must be crowded Into a day; when we become entangled in the meshes of temptation and almost despair of ever gevung (rec, then the clouds above our heads open, and we ear the voice of God saying, cheerily, | “Til help you.”” A HEAP OF GUESSES. Nov, the philosophy oi prayer is to my mind sim- ply u heap vi guesses, No vne can ever teil how it is ‘that the wuispered or the spoken word that Mies beaveuware from the contrive heart can come back with so much joy and forgiveness and heipfuiness. Nor is it a mystery which It 18 necessary to explore belore you enjoy (be privileges of the service, Pong before men khew anything about the processes of digestion they Were Couscious thal in some way the salisfaction of the appeiile gave strength and heaith, The time may come when we sliail know of tne divine mechanism of prayer, but for the preseut we must simply enjoy the privilege and ve gid. Thattvisa migaty force every man’s expe- rence teaches, Not @ man here but bas iclt at sine Ume in his life that God’s haud was on lis days, and God's prescuce close to Lis soul, Think of the Maariyrs, What they endured, Prayer waa the founiaia of thew strengin. Through thls cou- munion they almost forgot that they nad bodies, and in the midst of the Names, When their fesh was being crisped by tne heat, cried ont In loud thanks- Giving. 40 Lake their bodies off (heir souls Was no More painsui ian for you to Lake Four overcoat off, go ecstalic was the condition of mind they reached by meaus of prayer. Did you ever think HOW NATURAL if 18 TO PRAY? Perhaps in ordiuary circumstances we are hardly Conscious Of ary pariicular seuse of dependence; out when anytiing unusual haypens, thea now quickiy we are mado to feel our notlingness! Sick- Less seizes Upou Us Wien We are upparcutiy m ine midst of health, aud we are stretched on the bed of pala. What a conirast to our former selves! Where is our selt-rellance? Where ‘1s our conceit of power? How very Humble we get all at ouce when the doc- tor exaimics us, shakes his head wisely and just & little gravely, aud intimates that there 1s a possible danger lurking about! Our prive oozes out, aud we begin to think that, afterall, we are not of so much account as we thought. How irresistibly the heart gves out at such times to Guu! How deeply we Jeol that we literally live and move ana have our being in Hun and not in ourseives! It is weil tor us if, at such times, we Jearn the lesson, and begin to hold daily converse with holy beings, PUL YOUR SHOULDER TO THE WOREL, Now, you must remember that prayer and work go together. Neither is OF much account without tue other, Prayer from the miist of idleness 18 of little worth; prayer that 1s made lervent and earnest by right hard work, which shows that you are wiil- ing to do your share, that 13 aiways effective. If Jour team is mired you had better not sit by the Yoadside and say, ‘0, Lord, get my team out of the Mire.” Ii that is all you purpose to do you wil robably see your load aad horses sink out of sight Betore the Lora will Mft @ dngerto help you, Put your shoulder houestly to tue wheel, lift with ail your might and maia, chirrup cheerily to the horses, and then say, “Now, Lord, lam doing ali J can; heip me,’’ and belore you know it you will be going on your Way rejoicing. Tdon’t itke long prayers, because they are apt to savor of human rhetoric, MERE TALK TO THE ALMIGHTY is nothing; but words burning like melted lava with the heat of your passion —these are what He delights twolisten to, The habit of praying is the greatest Possible help at all times aud the greatest posaivie eguar While We pray our countenances be- me aitered, and @ bright light from tue Throne slreams on our pati. GREENE STREEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. nd a Wondertul Prayer Koll. At this church the services, morning and even- Ing, were conducted vy the Rev. J. 8. Inskip, the famous Methodist evangelist. Tne church was well filled in the morning, Mr, Juskip preached from the ‘ext, “If ye have faith as @ grain of mustard seed,” &c. He spoke for more theo an hour on the nature and power of faith, illustrating the doctrine with many {noidents from nis ministerial experience. In the tra Revival Services afternoon the reveread gentleman addressed the Sunday school, aetailing many iteresting facts conuected with his recent visit to Callfornia, The church iu the eveulng was crowded with @ deeply interested audience, No regular sermon Was preached, but the exercises consisted of Singing @nd numerous prayers, tnterspersed with exaottations from various clergymen and JAayuiem, Many gerous Yad) writen Vite ootee requesting the prayers of the Ohurch for sons and daughters, sistera an’ brothers and other relatives, These were read by eres », Rev. A. K. Sanford, Inskip’s famous prayer roll. consists of papers of the kind above descrived, handed in by persons of the country, who have united in never to cease to pray for the oe in the roll. It measures 350 feet in length, and contains petitions for the conversion of more than three thousand people, At the close of the service Mrs, Inskip, the wife of the evan- gelist, sang several revival songs, the whole ence joiniag in the chorus, Tue effect of this sing. ing was Vg gerd and doubtless was the means of mood, . Inskip and wife will probably lavor with the Greene street church all the week, poeeeacing ‘with Tuesday night, Prayer meetings in the morning at half-past seven o'clock and after- hoons at three o’clock were announced, and the lnteresting meeting came to a close with the bene- diction from Mr. Inskip. Several clergymen aided in the services. Among them was Rev. Elbert Us- born, a veteran minister, and his son, who departs this week to take an important post io Florida. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. Self-Consclousness—Serm: Pullm: The morning services yesterday at the Church of our Saviour, in Thirty-fifth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, were well attended. The pas tor, Rev. J. M. Pullman, preached the sermon. The subject of the discourse was “Self-Consciousness;” the text on which it was based, Genesis 1., 27—*In the image ef God created tle him.” Man has been doseribed as a being capable of meditating on by Rev. J. M. the past and foretelling to some ex- tent the future. It has been believed by the men most gifted in foresight that man was intended for a far nobier sphere than he here enjoys, It 13 not diMcult to prophesy man’s degeneracy; to say that the race is degraded, that the times are poor, that the last glimmer of the GOLDEN AGE is nearly over. But man has been kept down by his religious beliefs. He has also been npratsed by them. Every succeeding age gives an example of aferror outgrown. The shell stil clings, how- ever, and as time was fatal to the error it will be 80 tothe shell, Tho doctrine of total depravity seemed one of these mistakes; for if God made man at last an angel why broaden the chasm now existing between Him and man? But another class were more tn the dark than any. ‘They belleved tnat by certain and mystical formulas the soul coulu alone be saved, ihese dogmatical principles block up the way of all our nuble aspira- tions; for ila man go out of the beaten track he sufters what he calis down upon himself—martyr- dom, Alter enlarging on this point he wenton to show that man’s BAD OTY over the lower animals 1s consciousness. If the horseman’s obedient ser- vaat knew how incomparably ho exceeds man In muscle would he still obey nlm? Man does not yet fully understand the greatness of God’s best giit— consciousness. This is the reason he is kept dowa. He does not know what is in him, The SHOWS, SILFTINGS AND SHADOWS of the external world keep him from contemplating himself. “Know thyself! Luis was so wise that men believed it came trom heavea. To this oracle he would add, “Feel thyself”? Whatever a man May have accomplished he thinks wife, This is because he feels in him the innate power to do things unheard of, things undreamed of even io the wildest dream of the philosopher. A man that coud walk b.indiola on the edge of a sword, his eyes unbandaged and he feeilng and seeing himself the “observed of all observers” would stagger, Consciousness has power tu save many & man fur down the downwara Path, If he would but listen to her he would see his degradation, He would aspire. to become wortiy of himself aud of the noble blood towing in his veins, which has power to overcome all the evils of the spiritual world. Are all the advances in Science and art, all the noble and labor-saving in- ventions making @ better race of men and woiuen? If they do not they make them worse, He would have that OLD THEOLOGY which teaches the moral nature of man as necessarily dark and bad torn in shreds an‘l thrown to the wines, and have in its stead tue one that gives no; to all sinuers—the one that believes man a coin with bis Maker's impression on him, and, however fallen, bound to be saved. If a man or two were left out of the universal salvation tt would not be a great thing but for the_priaciple iniringed—the divine law not in effect. It 1s not enough when we merely abstain from evil; we mast be Mad The evil should be overcome in one or two decisive batties aud then go on to improvements, Lecture by Rev. Morgan Dix at Trinity Chapel East Evening, on Wedded Life “Diverce is Naked Heathouism in a Modern Dress.” At Trinity chapel, in Twenty-fifth street, last even- ing, assembled an unusually large congregation. Every seat was filled and the aisles well packed with people standing. It had been announced that the Rey. Morgan Dix would lectwre on ‘‘Home, Mar- riage anu Divorce,” aud this evidently attracted the crowd, He sald, in the langnage of the races of the North, those great and powerful nations, in whose veins is flowing the veltic, Gotnic and saxon blood, there is a word which seems to belong to them as if by special rigit. hat word—our own especial treasure—is HOME, @ word for which the Lutin and the Greek, and the tongues of Southern Europe nave no equivalent, We all know these things and feel them, for that dear word “home’’ belongs to us also, God keep us ever true to it. But there ts a religious side to this question, Of these TWO ESTATES OF LIFE which are now under consideration, that of the wedded is the first and more general, and it is this which gives to mankind the joys, the oomforts, the Tights and security of “home,” Domestic life is that which men and women in general were iu- tended tolead, But to form any Just idea of its sancilty, its value, its excclience, we must consider it not as the reguit of a mere civil contract—not asa condition only which Legislatures make and law courts enforce—not as a mere temporary expedient to bo replaced hereafter by some better tnvention for social objects, but as having the strongest claim that can possibly be made on our reverent mainte nance aud protection, Domestic ie is TUB RESULT OF MARRIAGE. ‘The home belongs, in its true sense, only to the wedded, and therefore it is a Divine tistitution, be- cause it begins wit and rests upon that law of marriage wnich, as a natural coniract, was cstab- lished by almighty God at the first creation of hu- maa beings, ‘There can be no real home without marriage—nothing bit feeble shadows of homes, or shocking parodies or unhaliowed runtations of home, or the velicsand remains of what once Ww. home, but was hastened to extinction and Is ready ‘There is no home without may to nish away. riage, Marriage 1g at once @ natural contract, a civil contract and a religious contract, A NATURAS, CONTRACT, was instituted by Almighty God in day He created them male and femaie gave tiem to cach other, and blessed them with His Word and _ fatherly benediction. First in order atier the oid Creation ‘comes that gracious scene from which we leara in their order the cicments and constituent parts of that sacred union to which alone the Almighty gives His assent, It isa union between ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN only, to tne exclusion of all other whatsoever on eliher side, It is a free and voluntary contract inthe true love of heart and spirit; she chosen by bim Jrom all the matdens of tie earth, and he accepted her in her right of independent choice and decision. It is an indissoluble union never to be dissolved by thought within or act Without or any luman power, but terminable only by great death. It ts a contract which gives \o each the rightto the other—a right which it 1s ine justice and crime to deny or evade. It is a con- yact which brings duties and responsibilities of the gravest description. God's first command to Bis creatures, “Create and multiply,” gives con- tradiction to the error of the Orient and modern Maincheons. The renewal of that ancient law, with the added SANCTIONS OF THE GOSPEL, condemned in advance the evil suggestions of the hicentious; and all healthy minds, ail honest hearts, all decent, clean-living people must be on the side of God and the Church, He must be utterly per- verted in mind and heart who can sneer at the order o1 that domestic life which God and thi Chureh together bless, nor comprehend thenatu Of the sober, reasonable happiness of honorable wediock, Dor 100K without desire on the peaceful amenities of a Christian home, DIvoRcE Ja the t danger which threatens the destruction of the very Idea of home. It is the sequel to reck- lessness in martiage. What is carelessly under- taken Witaout any siMclent notoriety and agaigst alt rules of sound wisdom and discretion, will very goon need to be undone; and here corrupt legisia- ‘on comes in to the assistance of more corrupt man, Divorce Was never contemplated by the Almighty, Jt has been frowned on by the Church and regarded asabuormal, She can hardly take too high or too rigid @ view Of this subject. She must not be de ceived by haman laws; they do but reflect human passion and human desire facinating their mduig- ence, To make divorce easy is to undertuine Chria- Uan Civilizalion. It is not Christianity; it is defaace o! Ohrisu's piainest words; it is NAKED SIZATHENISM IN A MODERN DRESS. The ‘keat enemy of home is the docirine of eclectic ailinity. Thinking Of the grim and ghastl; ruin which would foilow on this return of man to condition worse than of many brutes, who, taught by vheir imperiect nature pare. are faithial to their Mates, It 1s @ comfort to fect and know that such itcentious speculations canvot prevail over the weady vreacuag Of Wa ykesent pule and noble law it the and IPLE SHEET. sinner erases aes FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The Promises of Ohrist—Sermon by Rev. Mr. Davis. The pulpit at the First Baptist church, in Nassau street, Brooklyn, yesterday morning, was filled by the Rev. Mr. Davis, who preached an excelient ser- mon upon the promises of Christ and vheir fulfll- ment. He took for his text the following:—“ Verily, verily, 1 say unto you, be that believetn on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father”—Jonn xiv., 12, This verse, the reverend Gentleman said, involved an important promise. The most important principle was the con- dition upon which it was made and the certainty ef its being fulfilled. The thing which promised was good, made which were bel promise of Christ, Im this verse chey had tho promise of a thing—tne promise of the power of doing to their fellow men and benefit the human race; to become iastramental in the conver - sion of souls, The condition mise Was made was a ment of some depend upon some 80 and the condition ex; ciple, pressed here was ove of that kind, “Whosever believeth in me’ was the condition, and there be mothing more rea sonable‘or just than to ve in the of God, for He was the embodiment of all moral excellence. It was to him who belleveth that the power to do His work was to be given, and the fuitilment de- pended, of course, upon the certainty of a. fall and complete sacrince of the vanities and love of this » It was in the power of every | one to make proi but it was not in the wer of everyone to fulfll them. It was in the power of Gbd to fulft tne promise” made in the text and the honor and glory of Uurist was pledged to doit, ‘Ike works which I do shall ye do also,” said Onrist. The works of Christ were orks. He performed many miracics— grave. Now He had gone to His Father, and these things which He did had now to be done by those who believed in ‘The eyes of those ain who. were bind in were to be opened to the glory of God and those who were sick ‘at heart were to be healed by His grace, There were many miracies perce by Curist which could never be por- formed by man. They were always acts of benevo- lence, but they were not lasting. Lazarus was raised trom the grave, but he had to go down to It again. ‘the lame man who was healed would be likely to become lame again, But when the heart Brookiyn, of which Rev. Eugene Cassidy 1s pastor, were of the usual character yesterday. Rev. Feltz O'Callahan preached at the eleven o'clock masa, tating for his text Matthew, vill., 1-13, Tae rev- erend gentleman dwelt upon the language of tne Gospel which he nad read, and upon the action of our Saviour in cleansing the leper, healing tae and raising the dead to life, in fulfilment ils divine mission of mercy on cart Tne object of His miracles in bealag the infirmities of the body was that He might set am example to us that He who could cure the aliments: of the flesh could also make whole the affiicted sowt ‘This was the great end in view with Him, Wnas does it matter to poor, weak man, whether his ttfe be long or short, provided he be prepared to pag that debt of mortality from whitch there ws no es- cape? He who exhibited so much meroy for the faflictions of the body has also the remedies requi- site for the spiritual maladies of sin. AMlictions ef the bouy are of short duration when compared with, those of the soul. ‘The ailments to which the feak 1g heir can at best last only a few months or years But the disease which affects the goul ina state of sin may continue forever, and deprive that which was created, that i¢ might reign for eternity in the realms of happiness of its life, How much more urgent, then, ia the necessity of apply- ing the remedies prescribed for the strength of the soul over that Which exists for the removal of the cause of temporal discases of the body? What dis- ease can compare to the evil of mortal sin? Mam invariably endeavors to avoid evils of this one such 98 destitution of means, epidemics and ot! material misforvunes. Why does ne not take to avoid the lasting evil which deprives the soul life Scores, of that which prevents it irom enjoymge the sight of God? MORTAL SIN IS THE GREATEST BVIL that aMicts ua or exists, This is apparent when pauso for a moment to consider what mortal aia it the brightest beines mself, when one Gao ayainas the .AUAeNy, Sua. thes gla ‘ rl ys 6 glory he Lord of Hosts, the Creator of heaven earth, Lucier and his companions arose in their awful pride, and the punishment was awift and terrible, as befitted the God of mercy and majesty. No sooner was mortal sin created by Lucifer than he and the other fallen angels were huried with ligntutog rapidity into the bottomless pit of end- less fire from the Kingdom of God, against which they had offended, BORN ON THIS EARTH, we behold the effects of this destroyer of the nap Usmal purity of vie soul, Our first parents heark « was freed from the bondage of sin, and the man believed in tne power and grace of God, he became @ new being, and looked upon the world in a ditfer. ent light and with different eyes, A man who was @ Christian was @ better husband, a betier father and a better cituzen, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Sermons by Revs. Beecher, O’Callahan and J. Davies. PLYNOUIO CHURCH. The Trae Use of Money—What a Home Is For=Greator Simplicity of Living Recom- mended—Sermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday morning from Luke xtv., 12 to 14, 1nciusive:—"‘When thou makeat @ dinner or @ supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren, neither thy Kinsmen, nor thy rich neigh. bors; iest they also bid thee again, and a recom- pense be made thee. But when thou makest a Jeast, call the poor, tho maimed, the lame, the biind. And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recom- pense thee; lor thou shalt be recompensed at tne re- surrection of the just.”’ fhose who have prejudices, said Mr. Beecher, against large parties for social pleasure find no countenance in the Old or New Testament. By no nation have festivals been so prevalent as among the Jews, and nowhere aid Christ rebuke them in this, This injunction of Christ is not to be taken literally, tor, ifit were, all ening to the seditious hissings of the serpent, while In the enjoyment of the beauties of the gar- den of Rarailise, were tempted into the-commis- sion of mortal sin, and eat of tne forbidden fruit. Hencetorth they oud their pesterity were branded to go forth and “earn their bread by the sweat of taeir brow.” Death and ali the eviis that follow in Mts train were entailed won Nor could the sacrifice of a thousand million worlds satisiy God in atonement for their sin gottt our Divine Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was offered up in expiation of the crime on the wood of Calvary’s cross for our redemption, As acum _ Eve ie ins rm. bythe onions er we inherit the punishment due to sin from gen to gcusratioh, fiimen aesh 1s corrupted Turtet on in the world’s history we find that mankind be- oomlog batelul to His Creation, thro Bu pours down from Heaven a watery element te deluge the earth, Wars, scourges and plagues are enlatied througii sin, and wiil continue until the last man departs (rom this earth. If we look around us at tho prescat period do we not seo mankind RAISING THB STANDARD OF REBELLION AGAINST Gop? And do we not find bold men who stand deflantly as did Lucifer, and under the pretext of science re- Ject the teachings of God? ‘This 1s the spirit of pride which prompted the chief of the fallen angels. pay in their robeliious folly, 1 shall -be Independent; I shall throw off all tram- Mnels Of right and of religion, with its peo. and defy the teachings of Heaven.” Such 13 the effect of Irretigion, which is founded upon ignorance and deflance of conscience. But, again, mankind will be raised by true intelligence, by insptration from on lugh. Behola the wara, crim plaxne und other misfortunes which beset the earth leditate at this time upon their frst cause— TREASON AGAINST GOD: ‘ Then let us consider for @ moment how unwise 1s to offend God, What advautages do we secure by violating His divine Jaw? Nothing but the ae and remorse of conscience. The remedy is found religion alone. He who healed the leper, the sick, Taised the dead to life again is ever ready to allevi- ate us In our spiritual necessities. Do penance and the kingdom of heaven shall be ours, Ex! social intercourse would be cutup. It is right to in- vite our friends, Christ kes always at gn Inward Principle. If our hospltainy is inere duld pro quo, then % becomes a com- merce. Hospitality should’ be a benelicence, 60 far as the characteristic spirit 1s concerned. We must not limit our hospitality to those in our own circle—we are not to use our hospitality in the service of selfishness. There isthen a solemn warn- ing against selfishness under the form of benevo- tence, Men offer service, and perform service, and do many things that are kind, but they calculate on the (ruits. 1 do not say that these things are wrong in ail respects, bat 1 do say that we must not put them down as virtues, Give things their right names. Don’t call iterchange of selfishness, kindness, I propose to speak of tue household in regard to this subject, The household is founded on love, and though far from perfect, yet nowhere else 4s there so much real fruit of goodness and kind. ness. When the househoid is purely for sensuous puposes—when the master goes irom business feel- lng that wife and children and servants must all GET OUT OF THE WaY and let him be comfortavle, the household is per- verted, fear there are many who- rere heir homes a8 @ royal restaurant, They work all cay, but there 1s the thought of the dinner and of tie bed, Hoiue ts to them what the pen is to the pig—a lace where they can swill ana grunt and sleep, ‘here ig @ despotism of parents, There is a feeling among men that they cau let out all their pas- sions at home, There are men who are patient in the street because it is for their interest, and who Save all their ugliness for wiie and opildren. ‘The coming of the father 18 otten the end ofallliberty at home, ‘Your father ig at home now and you must be still’ 13 often the common warning. “Tne house is mine, and if cannot do what I have a mind to do at home, where can If Nowhere.” The worst thing @ mun can do is to do what he has a mind to do, unless he wishes to do right. .He who stands in the house merely for bis own conve- hience {8 not following after God. No man has @ right to ail the sweetness generated iu his own house. A family is like & garden. [ have seen many gardens fuli of treasures with a ten foot brick Wall around them. No child, no weary Workman could get a peep. The man stays within, way Ke “There shall be one place where 1 can be secluded.” Yet he would not be defrauded one bit if a lattice allowed the poor sewing womau to look turough. Many a sweet housenold might qive beiter thoughis to’ all around if they were not shut up like wailed gardens, I believe in tue right and the duty to MAKE THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. If a man lives plainly for the sake of giving to the community I praise him; but if @ man saves money tur greediness, lives frugal and wears au old coat and drives a poor horse, I don’t praise him. It Is a | mian’s duty to spend money in beauty. The progress of civiization is'from coarseness toward beauty. A house should be a glowing centre of beauty, Cirls- than benevolence permits @ man to have bis house- hold a specimen Of taste and wealth. but all lux- ury and alt beauty and all bounty must bring | you into sympathy with your fe.low men, and not separate you. No man has'a rigit to separate himself from bis fellow men. God will not permit men to go far up without paying something to help other men up. No man has a right to stan like a tower without any cachedral under It. Ii you find that your indulgence in wealth 1s making you tender-hearied and generous don’t be afraid. If You are growing colder, be airaid; for your weaith Will be your mausoleum, and you will be buried in it long Defore you are dead. Hospitalliy must be modiffea by the times and customs ia which you live, But no man must have his housenold built entirely for himself, We do fail here. We rarely use our houses for the good of our neighbors. No man has # right to keep a beautiful picture and only 100k at it himself. I know @ man who nas a rare collection of books, and & man can get into the Penitentiary @ great deal easier than he can get access to bons RSED BE THAT SELFISHNESS that comes through the medium of peauty. Our entertainments are not according to the law of | love. When you have given a great party, woat nave you done, but sacrificed unto Vanity? | Did you love these people? You went through the | alphaben sad sacrificed to pride and interest and yanity. You do better when you make a family gathering; but you have not touched benevolence yet, Benevolence ts to give and noi receive, Have we ever done by your household all you could ao? ‘e Wear Ourselves out in taking care of burdensome conveniences, We burden ourselves with our wardrobes. It is so much trouble to entertain thet we cannot do it olten, If we did not make society so complex and #0 expensive ‘we could meet oltener and get more pure happiness. The Pharizeeisin of the broom and the duster 1s as burdensome as the Phariseeism of the phylec- tery. If we would have more true hospitality we must have more simplicity. This does not contra- dict what I said about spending on the household, 1 honor the woman who comes to me when I call in the dress suited to her work. J don’t like to sit BURIED IN PLUSH in.the parlor waiting three-quarters of an hour for @ toilet, What is good enough for you ts good enough for your friends, Society needs to be 80 democratic and so Christian that all not Ht for @ cer- tain place should go down and all fit spouts go OP: You are not better because you are rch. We hee each other, We are all brethren travelling together. ST. MARY'S STAR OF THE SEA Mortal Sin—Ite Creation and Progress—Re- b n Against God Under the Name of Sclence—Sermon by Rev. Mr. O'Callahan, ‘Tue services at St. Mary’s Roman Catholio church (Star ot the Gras, Court street, near Nelgan. Haute hearers to attend to Shepp spiniiant duties and 000 fives That may ve happy forever in heaven, he Closed his discourse, abies ie 4 ae - ST. JOUNS MeTHODisNT CHURCH. A Witnessing Church—Sermon by Rev. Drv Chapman. Yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Chapmam preached in St.John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Bedford avenue, from Isalah x., 43:—“Ye are my witnesses.”” God demands belief, sata he, only upon sufiictent evidence, and He always furnishes evidence in harmony with tne truth ho wishes te establish or to be accepted. Of His own existence Ye furnishea the work of His bands; of the Divinity of the Bivie He gave us prophecy and miracles; of tho Divinity of Bis Son, He gave us His life and teachings, His deeds, resurrection and power in the generations of hamam history; and of the truthfulness of the Gospel Be gave us testimony based upon expericnce, Uhris- Uanity was pre-eminently @ system of exporience and practice, and its Author furnished the legita- mate test by which to try it:—“Ir any man will do His will, ne shall know of the doctrine” If men were to object to the Gospel because they «id not believe in the possinility of miracies, or who could not, alter patient study, compre- hend it, he (tne speaker) would reply, “This is not the test by which tne gospel is to be tried. It is nos 80 much a theory asa life; it cannot be understood by the head, but by experience. The grand question was, ‘Docs It save from sin?” The life, testimony and death of an humble, faithful, happy, consisvens disciple of Christ furnistied the strongest and Most successiul proof of the truthfulness an@ power of Christlanity tnat could be adduced, And wnat was the kind of testimony whioh God called upon his people to give While the investigations of human learning tm | respect to the techmical evidences of the Christian aystem were not to be undervalued, yet they were ot the Most important proofs, It might be proved that the history of the Garden of Kden was @ fiction, that the race did not spring from Adam, that the cosmogony of Moses was utterly false and miracles were absolutely impossible; and yet, while the reasoning might not be satisfac- torily reiuced, the citadel of tho Christian's faith would not be touched while he knew by experionce that the Gospel saved him from sin, afforded strength for duty, comfort in sorrow and ga clear consciousuess of heaven’s favor. Tuere no Claim that the Gospel more distinctly made thas this—that 1t bad a power to thoroughly revolution- iza and renew man’s moral nature, and make him @ new creature in Curist Jesus. God called upon the Church ¢> testify vy conscious experience that retle gion had power to transform and sanctify the human soul. The world douvted the feasibility of religous life of that high type amid the practi duties and aimfcuities of every .day experience, saying that it did well enough for a pious Suodap Meditation, but believing It to be an Impossibility 10 reduce such fine-spun theories of honeaty, purity and heaventy-mindeiness to practice in the 8! in the marke!, in politics and amid the rivalries, competitions and corruptions of the world, Onris- ais must demonstrate to merchants, lawyers and housekeepers tire possiblity of enjoying the New Testament standard of piety whue fatth- fully discharging thelr respective — auties Christianity claimed to be a system which woule give perfect satistaction to the wants and longings Of the human soul. sleo were every where res! discontented and unhappy, and they were secking happiness in every possible avenue—some in the accumulation of worldly goods and others 10 the ursuit of honor anu fame—so that society was Fags in @ state of feverisu excitement from moraiag ught the truth that bappi- pug was het to be found where men sought it, and it would seem that the rand purpose which God raised for on was w prove thatthe riches and hi oF ‘ints world oot not satisfy the human souk ‘The Gospel claimed not only to be @ panacea fer human woe, but to provide absolute and happiness for the human soul. Religion claimed be able to rob death of its terrors and the grave its victory, aud also to pour into the heart ts possessor so much of heaven that me shall not only mot fear death during but shail feel death to be simply but @ wi through the shadowy valley. to the hills Jight and blessedness beyond, r should such tes- ‘umony be regarded in the light of boasting, since such an ‘experience as he had mentioned was there. sult of the unmerited grace of God, This potnt was amplified and enforced by appropriate illustrat If a man with a sepulchral cough and an emact and haggard body was vending some nostrum fe fes3ing to cure consumption it would ve natural to say, “Physician, heal thyseli.” 80 if the Gog. ne expec! 0 pel saved from sin wort its professed believers oh DTACt Gemonstration of its trath, ‘Ihe men who did bul. ness in Wall street and made gold their god thought and-planned and labored by day and night to get rich, Was the life of the professed Obristinn such a clear testimony to tho earnestness with which the eat object of life ought to be pursucdt Do Md e inquired, prefer the Bible to the romance, t Dlace of prayer to the lecture room or place of 8% cial gathering for pleasurable amusoment? Lnere te @ fearful responsibility devolving upon the witnesses of Chriak and the word 494 a fight to iudee of fe.