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4 RELIGIOUS. A Great Crush at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. SERMON BY MISS SMILEY. The Farewell of the Rev, £. W. Hitchcock, of the Fourteenth Street Presby- terian Church. OR PORTER ON VITAL CHRISTIANITY. Dr. Dix on Married Life and Free Love Heresies. Sermons by Drs, Williams, McGlynn, Dix, Porter and Cuyler; Father McNerney, Messrs. Hepworth, Lothrop and Beecher, and Miss Smiley. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, The Parable of the Sower—Necessity and Im- portance of Hearing the Word of God—Ser- mon by the Kev. Father McNerney. ‘There was, as usual, @ very large attendance at the Cathedral yesterday. The last mass was com- menced at half-past ten o'clock, the Rev, Father Kearney officiating as celebrant. At the termina- tion of the first Gospel the Rev. Father McNerney ascended the pulpit and preached a sermon, taking This text from St. Luke, vill, 416, relating to the Paravie of asower. The reverend gentleman ex- plained that under the simihtude of a sower, who goes forth to sow his seed, our blessed Lord re- minded mankind that He came down from Heaven to spread His Word among men as the seed, THE GERM OF SALVATION. He took upon Himself their nature, subjected Himeelf to their infirmities and spoke to them in their own tongue, that by them He might be under- Btood. He came not as an imperious master, not Qs the avenger of His Word which had often been been rejected and despised, but as the faithtul mas- ter of the household who himself woula fain cuiti- vate with greater care a hitherto barren soil. Thus did the loving Saviour visit the cities and towns and hamlets of Judea and Galliee. He went forth even unto the country Oi the Samaritans and the Gentiles, teaching the multitudes that gathered together and hastened to meet Him, While the husbandman was Careiul to sow the seed only on the sou that had been prepared to receive it, our blessed Lord | scattered in every direction the seeds of the divine Word. ie Was nol a respecter o1 per- sons, The barren soil, the naked rock, the thcrny ground, received their share as Well as the bettcr Placed and more fruitiul soil. His teachings were laced within the reach of all—of the learned and he unlearned, Of the rich and the poor, of the good and the wickea, for He preferred that the seed Should be scaitered in vain than that any one Should plead that li he had not done what was right it was because he had not been taught the uecessity of doing so, The reverend gentleman then pro- ceeded to dilate at some length upon the manner in ‘which the Word of God haa been spread, through all ages. THE CARES OF THE WORLD were the thorns that choked the Divine Word bringing forth fruit in the soil. It was at first the solicitude of life, or man’s anxiety to secure a posi- tion in the world or to acquire What may, make his lliepbysicaliy and socially agrecable. Too often did man loose sight of his last end in seeking hap- ‘piness on earth. Too often was man absorbed in Abe service of his fellow man and of the worid at the expense ol what he owed to his Maker. Iv was in vain to endeavor to serve two masters. Christ ‘Himself so deciared it. The heart, therefore, that Was inteut On amassing weaith had no taste, no ine clination for anything else, and the cares with ‘which the desire of acguiring and the efort to pre- serve it filled the soul, sumed every good impres- sion, eVey holy aspiration, every inspiration of grace. The thorns were the pleasures of the world, pleasures of the senses, pleasures of society, which enveloped the soul as 1n @ network, striking 1t out irom * THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE fnd throwing it into an atmosphere in which Bpiritual life could have no existence. The good soil which brought forth fruit im abuadance was the gure of those souls wherein reigacd supreme faith, ope ani charity, who soucht God avove all things, heard His word with love aud revereutly kept it. ‘They were the consolation of the Church in her trials. The soit rains of Heaven moisten their bearts, Its light shed over them its vivilying in- Muence. Its 6un warms them, ‘They were the fleld vf the Lord filled with blessings where sprung up fruit to life eternal. Tne sced which the Divine ‘Word sowed upon the face of ihe earth. The mass sung was by Mint in E flat. Professor Schmitz presided at the organ. At the offertory a Deautilul terzetto, “O Jesu Me,’ was sung by the soprano, tenor and bass. The services concluded shortly after twelve o’clock. THE NEW CHURCH. Services at Steinway Hall—-Mr. Hepworth’s Sermon on “The Perfect Day.” There was a large attendance of the admuners of Mr. Hepwortn at Stelnway Hall yesterday morning; but the inclemency of the weather bad no douot its effect in Keepiig many away who otherwise woud have been preseit, Mr. Hepworth charmed hia au- dience by a sermon on ‘The Periect Day.” Mr. Hepworth’s text was taken from Proverbs tv., 18—*'The shining light, tnat shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” He said:—It 13 a great com- fort to feel that this world always has been, is now, and always will be, under the overruling Providence of God, It is His world, and not ours. We also are Bpartof the great plan, and ali we do and say, whether we will or no, is part of the great plan, and contributes its mite towards the accom- plishmeut of the end, Nothing is mure evident than that the worid bas been educated to its present position by God-sent men. Schoolmasters have been raised up, Who have set us our task and helped | us to solve our enigmas Some man says, Why did | Way have we had | one mediator between God and men, the man Christ @ succession of revelations, each new one a litte | God reveal himsell by gegrees? more full than the last? Why did He not show Himself all at once? The answer is plain, you not teach your Simply because his bapv mind cannot understaud you, You must begin at the very beginning, and you mustteach him his letters as though that were the only task ever to be learned. When he has mastered this work then you will take another step, will ljead him aud 80 the work will go on and on by siow degrees, the lesson being Otied always to his capa- city. Well, God has pursued juse that plan in re- vealing himself to the soul of man. He endowed man With a religious craving, and then He the appetite which He had Himself cre: has beea avery dull and sluggisi scholar, thousand years have roiledaway since tie word o1 the Nazarene were spoken and His miracies per- Jormed, and how litle progiess we have made to- Wards the ideal. More than fitty generations have come and gone since that Wondrous time and yet men are slaves, anu yet Wars are waged, and yet crimes, like epidemics, aimost ran over the lace of the earth. {Wonder at nothing somuco as at the patience of the Almighty, His forvearauce is THE ONE GREAT MIRACLE, We are able to obey Mis commands, fully able, but Six our witfui and perverse souls prefer to have their | own way. ‘The Olid Testament telis us of a time when God, in the quaint figurative language of the ume, repented of having maue man, and deter. mined tw destroy his work and begin te experi. ment anew. ‘The ark contained the seed corn of tae bew crop of humanity, This ig not bal! as sirange as the fact that the same thing does not occur now. Not only seventy times seven has ihe Lord forgiven our iniquity, but the times of bis ior. giveness are absolutely countiess, It ts very 1oter- esting to watch the gradual progress of the race 1a religious things. Jo tne first piace wan Was a pagan. he had the worship element tn him, and jor tack of something beter ne made his prayers to We sun, w a crocodile, or to @ stick, or @ mass of stones. Those were pretty dark hours ja tne religious bistory of man, and yet they Were not Wholly without promise. Bevler to worship the Mie or a swarm of mosquitves than to chill one’s sell by a denial of the Divine presence. Better ve a devout worshipper of Josh, and to do your duty ac- cording to the light that is in you, than to live in @ Cbrisuan land aod to worsbip only personal ambl- Gon, it ts lar bewwer and nobler to be a devout /uypuan, and bow down before a svuied crocodile, it the mind revognize a mysterious something Wbich rules and governs, iban to be a New York miser, Who kneels velore bis bank-book, and sees nouNug Wor thous in the world or beyond it except money. Bands Of years Whe World wa sw, and God taught it by the great Trom Ume to Lime, udtered Words of wisdo the next stage in our progress was made in tue Bevrac hiswry, For generations tue world ve- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, Neved in @ goiden age to come; but the prophets of Hebrew times spoke of it with authority as at hand. The difference between THE BEBREW PROPHETS and the sages of the pagan world seems to me to be the diflerence between ® man who 13 interested in the work of an army and who follows 1t, doing brave ana heroic work from wme to time, and the regularly commissioned signal corps, by whose labors the whole force moves. Confucius was a volunteer; Moses Was an officer in the ar army. When Buddha sata, “The day is at "the world hoped it was, but kept about its work. When David said the same words the world stopped work and stooa on tiptoe to ‘the first rays of the morning sun; and when Christ was born the full sun poured his light upon the earth, and the light shone more and more with the perfect day. ! friends, to what can I liken the coming of the Nazarene? Have you ever seen in the early autumn morning in the country an impenetrable mist hanging over all the face of the landacape? And have you had @ feeling while you were looking that very soon the #un would burst through it and burn the joy away? And have you seen that sheet of mist, all of a sudden, as though by magic, loosen 18 hold upon the earth, and lift ivecif mito the air ana Guappepet Well, that is precisely what hap- ned when the star of the east shone over Bethie- em. The Great Master had come. He set us the Jessons which we have been trying to learn ever since. One of those lessons ts tn theology, and though the Lord’s Prayer and the ig + of the Pro- digal tells us of the nature of God, the other is in words and consists of the Sermon on the Mi Oh ! let us gather at the fect of that like little children, let us learn the lessons, not by rote, but by heart. TRINITY CHAPEL. The Discipline of Domestic Life—Discourse by Rev. Morgan Dix. The above-mentioned edifice, in West Twenty- fifth street, was thronged to tts utmost capacity by We'members of the church to near the rector of ‘Trinity churen expound his views oa the relations, duties and proper aspirations of all whose calling has fixed them in the sphere of domestic life. The reverend gentleman Is evidently no advocate of the divorce system, still less of free loveism, both of Which institutions received an implied empnatic condemnation in the course of his address, ‘rhe Doctor commenced his lecture (for it is one of a series of lectures which the Docior 1s engaged tn delivering) by showing the necessity of domestic and social life to the pursuit of HUMAN HAPPINESS. No man has a right to pursue happiness for the sake of itself alone, but rather for a far higher pur- pose. There 1s a loftier theory of life, according to which it 1s duty to work for that calling which God has destined for man. We are here under discipline; we are here to perform a duty to ourselves, to God and toeach other, if we do this we cannot fail to be happy because happiness is the handmaid of duty. It is unworthy of a mortal endowed with reason to pretend that the rightfal ain of every duty which devolves on human kina ts not to glorify God, to do some 1 for mankina and to make ready for eternity. Long before the days of Christ the Almighty Power Himself, to the end that happiness might be the more easily obtained, proclaimed that it 1s not good for man to be alone. ALONE Wi CANNOT STAND against temptation; alone we are unable to perform in an aaeqaate manner those nigh duues that should engage the attention of mankind in order | that they may be saved. ‘Tuere may be some exceptions, of course; but, in order that men might the more _ etfectively fulfil those obligations, Providence decreed the union of the sexes, We snould look ut this | question soberly and calmly; we should view the domestic situation with cool judgmeut, and this can be done without breaking that love which makes humanity beautilul. ‘The time allotted tor the accomplishment of the various ends which are subordinate to our final end 1s short, and It behoves the members of the famuy to make goud use of Lt, St. Paul, tu writing co the Romans, compares the RELATION OF THE SOUL to Cnrist in its indissolubility to tne marriage of the ‘woman to the husband, It {8 true that on her side independence is gone; she can be separated from her husband only by an act of God, Nor ts the husband less free from restraint. and we must deem him a seltish brute who would seek to impose unjust burdens on his spouse and congratulate himself on having less of the difticuluies of life to encounter than she, 1t may seem strange, but it 1s mo less true, that persois very nearly alike SHOULD NEVER COME TOGETHER. This very unlikeness which should characterize the married pair teuds tu restrain each sull more, | aod aids in promoting their mutual happiness, It may be difficult to explain this, but let us rest assured that it 1s for the best. ‘The domestic life is the great school for killing seliishness. The man has no ground for glorying in superiority over the Woman, for she has imdeed promised obedience. Neither is greater than the other, aud neither is Without the other in the Lord, 1n the domestic life, | Ject in hand and unencumbered by useless ex- ‘nto another department; | 1b is true, the UNHAPPY MARRIED COUPLE find themselves graduatiy sinking {rom bad to worse every day, and ure not untrequently over- whelmed with miseries. But such instances form no objecuon to the ordinance of the Lord; for jeal- ousy, contradictions, low natures, Want of the .ear or the Lord, and many other defects 1a youth, are invariably the sources whence such afllicuon arises. Holy matrimony 18 essential to the vitality of com- munities, Without it everytning beautiful, noble and eXxalied should speedily Vauish from the earta, and society itself become confusion. Where have men and women been Jound novier or happier than those who have labored together under the disci- pline of domestte life, each sacrificiag much for the Sake of the otner? There 18 no clulda on God's re- gard for man greater than that he did his duty well towards her tv whom he had been bound in loyalty and honest, seil-sacrificing love, if theie be one thing pressing on us, a8 a Churcu, more than another it 18 the necessity of STANDING FIRMLY by the sanctity and iuviolability of the marriage tie. So long as the Church has @ name and an existence let her never fail to ut her volce against the eue- mies Of religion and society, aud upnold forever the solemnity of the saying, “What God hath jomed together Jet no man pul asunder.” Although it ts true that im the gesurrection neither party is mar. Tied to the other, stili it is hard to believe that be who has faithfully toed loyal and true to his com- panion in this life isto be separated irom her by God in the world to come, Kather let us believe that they who labor zealously togetner, sharing alike the joys and misfortunes of the world, shall be crowued With mutual and joimt Lonors in Heaven. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. Sermon by Rev. Samuacel K. Lothrop on the Mediator and the Tempter. The attendance yesterday morning at the Church of the Messian was large. The sermon was the first of a course upon the special tenets of the Unitarian denomination. Rev, Samuel K. Lothrop, of Boston, was selected to commence this Beries, The. style of Mr. Lothrop 1s clear and = pithy, coming right home to the sub- planations and grand rhetorical flourishes. He chose lor lus subject Christ, the sole mediator, and based it upon the text, I. Timothy, iL, 6, “There 1s but Jesus.” When the Apostle says there is one mediator | can he mean there ts but one mediator? No; be- Why do | cause the Jews had a mediator in Moses. The five-year-old geometry? | scriptures do mot lead Us to suppose, then, that there is but one mediator and no other, Every man of great intellectual endowments employed in the right direction is a meatator between GOD AND MEN of an inferior mind, Butin comparison to Obrist none are mediators, He 1s competent to meet all the wants of the soul, aud consequently all others are nearly superfuous, The retigion of man has always been one of two extremes, eitner polytheism or pantheisin—ail the universe, one material god, without love, mercy or any of the Divine attributes, | or no god. Gather ail the wisdom of Seneca, Plato and ail the philosophers together, and he would | Place against it the Sermon on the Mount as being more able to satisfy the cravings of the human heart. He sets forth tratus the highest and novlest ever conceived before or afier. Need and capacity go together. We cannot need What we cannot hold; therefore Christ’s coming on earth Was rather an argument of our noble powers Wasted rather than utter depravity, and was a Divine recognition of His powers, Christ came not to announce a scheme Of general saivation, as it 1s someumes calied, to @ totally 1gnoragt race, vut to teach A DIVINE RELIGION | to men able to undersiand and receive tt. The force of religion depends upon we recogni- tion 0! @ living God; but to see Uns 1 requires more than the abstract idea: oes some reality. ‘This reality 18 Jesus Christ—C n Wiiom tue highess | living virtue was manifeste: ‘he greaiest need of humanity was “the Word made fies We can conceive no atirioute in God Of which taere ts Lot some aint shadow in us. In intimate connection With humanity Christ shows us (ie Father iu toat WONDERFUL CHARACTER Of His~ strength and mercy, justice and love, all ex- juoited in fair proportions in that nature “miracu. lously mixea,’’ and whether we look at Him as God or man Christ ts he mediuin between God and man, because in ‘Him we have a vistbie token showing us (he glory of God and not seemimg 80 much a dis- unct part as the same. Ju Christ the mortal and immortal, the finite and intl nite, meet and coaiesce. In reading this Book toere is always something new—some idea never seit before sirikes the mind in strong and vivid colors, aud throwing new light on subjects before enveopea in obscurity, Christ becomes the one mediator bebween God and man, because He taugnt the highest and noblest in the world, and be- cause they were manuested in Him, making Hin we liviug Word. Il (lrist gave Lis ie, to Whom did He give it? He must either have given it to God or the devil. If to the latter, THE DEVIL 18 NOT 80 WICKED, as he suffered for a term in lfeu of the whole hu- man race for an eternity, But the idea that the Father o! ail the universe should surfer one unde- filed io suffer the keenest sufferings in order to make it sale to exercise mercy to His children seems utterly differeut to what a human fatier Would do, much less the Divine. Learn to know Christ as your iriend, as your Saviour, as your me- diator, then shail your life be grand and noble, your death tranquil and happy, Singing and benediction closed the services; after which followed the Communion service. ST. STEPHENS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Rev. Charles McCready on the Unity of the Church—A Little Grain of ‘iustard Seed—The Gates of Hell Pio Noi The Only Show tor Salvation, Yesterday morning, at half-past ten o'clock, high mass was celebrated in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic church, in East Twenty-eightn street. The mass was colebratec by the Rev. Father Jonn Love- joy, a relation of THE DISTINGUISHED ABOLITION MARTYR, Owen Lovejoy. Tne Re v. Mr. Lovejoy is a convert from the Protestant faith, and has an excellent voice, which he uses in the service of the mass with good effect, those atthe door of the church being able to hear every note quite plainly. The Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the eloquent pastor of the church, was noticeable AS A WORSHIPPER DURING SERVICE, occupying a seat in a retired portion of the edifice near the door, The Rev. Father Charles McCready, a@ young clergyman who is noted for his oratorical powers, having been connected with the Churen of St. Jonn the Evangelist, m Fiftieth street, from which parish he was transferred to tle assistant pastorate of St, Stephen’s church, preached the ser- mon of the day. ‘The text chosen was as follows:— “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed."’—Matthew, XiL, 31. ‘The reverend genueman, who cuunciated his sen- tences in @ lull and c.ear manner, though suflering from a cold, satd, by connecting the two parables first read, we have one of the clearest and most succinct descripuons of that heavenly Kingdom which Christ came on earth to establish that figura- Uve language can give. We have many grand and sublime foresnadowings of the New syna- gogue—‘the heavenly Jerusalem, the perpetual covenant of God with man,” the prophecies of the old law. But God having spoken in times past to the Juthers of the prophets, last of all, in these days He hath spoken to us by His Son, The Jewish prophets at simes spoke obscurely through the dim vista of, tne far distant future. Here we have te inspiresif the prophets, Him- seif speaking 01 His own glorious structure that was designed {rom eternity and just now about vo be inaugurated, In our admiration of the undoubtedly grave but purely human institutions which surround us, and in @ daily pursuit of the terial and the temporal rather than the spiritual and eternal, we are only too apt to lose sight of the institution which 18 not the work of man, but the masterpiece of the omnipotent hand OF THE MOBT HIGH; and as the child gradually comes to forget—nay, oiten to despise the commands of the father in pro- portion as it loses through neglect respect and veneration it has for thegarent, so we, too, may be disposed to turn a deaf dar to that guiding voice which God, under the severest penalties, has commanded us to obey-if we do not from to time renew our admiration of and increase our respect and excite our love for that Church, which He has enriched with so many glorious pre- rogatives, ail warts: to the eternal wellare of those who have the happiness of being included among its members, The Church must have unity, which consists in all the members, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, being united in the same faith and practice, The Spouse in the Canticles, figuratively representing Christ, speakin, of the Church, says:—“My Dove is one; my beauti- 1ul One ts one.” St. Paul proves the unity trom the perfect unity of the Godhead—‘One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One Gud and the Father of all.’ ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. Dr. Bellows on the True Character of the Messiah, Dr. Bellows detivered another doctrinal discourse yesterday morning on the Unicarian view of the Character of the Messiah. He began by examining the Trinitarian claims on the ground of the various tities applied to the Christ m the Scriptures. The Son of Man was a name which was assumed py many of the Hebrew prophets, and implied merely that they were, in a pecullar sort, the representa- tives of the race, and held an exceptional reiation to the Deity. It was remarkable, bearing this in mind, that Christ, in speaking of Himself, used this title ten times for every once that He used that of the Son of God. The Son of God, again, was not the proof of the divinity of Christ, nor was 1t alone applied to Him. The Hebrews spoke of many Men as gods—Moses for example~and Isaac, in one passage, was alluded to as ‘the only begotten son of Abraham,” in spite of the fact that the latter had anotner son. In ooth cases the title simply meant that in interest and affection there was a paternal relation betweea God and the spoken of, If it had been otherwise the discipie: Christ would certainty have received His announce- mept that He was indeed -coequal and identical with the Deity with some marked expression of awe and astonishment We find no record of snything: of the kind, however, anywhere in tne New Testament. So clearly was this the case that @ book of great ability, pub- Usned recently in England by a Trinitarian in reply tw Canon Liddeil’s “Bampton Lectures,” took a very singular view of the subject, After provin; satisfactorily and unmistakahly to every impartial mind that Christ Aimself never claimed that He was Himself God, and that in no part of the Scriptures was this doctrine taught, the book claimed toat Christians must see bv this fact the necessity of an infallible Catholte Church, since though the Trini ‘was an integral part of the Christian religion, yet it simply rested on the mystic authority;of the Church, and Without that authority must be abandoned. Unitarians, while they would assent to the reasoning of the book, would doubt- less come {to a very different and much more logical conclusion, and while they recognized the binding Character of the teaching of the Bible, would refuse to accept the dogmas of a non-scrip- tural Church. Yr, Bellows proceeded to say that the doctrine of the ‘Trinity was but another exam- ple Ot the natural tendency of the human mind in afl ages to accept polytheism by preierence to mon- otheism, and to erec: a barrier between God and man, in order to justify the moral shoricomings of the jatter, The (truch was that we were, indeed, made in the Image or God; that we were all his children, and, in an impertect way, coples of Him. The diference, therefore, bewween us and Christ was one of rank, and not of nature. Clirist was a perfect, sinless ma true copy of the Creator, This view Was one that was eminently nobler than that of a co bye, whom We were separated by an impasga- le gull, ——! AMITY BAPTIST CHURCH. Crying Unto the Lord Out of the Depths—Tho Christian’s Certainty of Redemption Throw Christ—Discourse by Rev. Dr. Williams, Out of the depths have I cried unto the Lord. Let larael hope in the Lord, for witn the Lord there is merey and with Hilm pleutevus redemption.—Psalms, ex3tt, This was the text chosen by Rev. Dr. W. K. Wil- Mams, pastor ot the Amity Baptist church, in West Fifty-fourth street yesteraay, in his address to his congregation. The pastor commenced by showing that God ts even ready to bestow forgiveness, ex- ercise mercy and secure the redemption of those who truly believe in Him, In the old Latin service, “out of the depths” appear as DE PROFUNDIS. These words express an abyss of anguish and despair, and im using them the Psalmist may have referred to the state of weakness and exhaustion, to adeep sense of unworthiness and sin, The words are significantly applicable to the sinner. It seems as Mf we are shut up io the pit of iniquity; yet, like Jonah, with the sigh of the prisoner we may ascend and come to God’s throne, The sense of our depravity may be expressed in the depths. Man yearns after sympathy. God says it 19 good for inan to be alone, and yet he may be alone like the Hebrew Joseph dropped by his brethren in the pit and UNABLE TO CLIMB THR RUGGED WALLS ‘without the aid of the Lord, Jonah cried and was heard, ‘fae Psalmist eried and learned toat t was hot in vain; and man will be heard also i he cries and torns his eyes heavenward to fhe God to whom belongs Jorgiveness, God 18 merciful also, Mercy, ae lis thu edge, enters the heart, but it needs be Md it A THICK EDGE OF EQUITY, and God will not extead mercy uuless man by re- penteace merits that mercy, He has the power to remit @ penaity; but when God said that sin Was tobe visied with death, He intended to keep this law of His. ‘the Lord is the bearer of our sins. He intended that the Gospel should be continued until He came again as the Saviour of the Gentile a8 Well as tue Hebrew, Look at yourselves and see how YoU COME SUORT OF HIS GLORY. In the civilization cf tne heathen the power of the Gospel 18 seen. You benold now the Christian Te garus God ever present, and holds communiun With Him, Let Israel hope in the Lord. Itis a hope that a on bh Ae. Most flerce—a nope that D jou 18 still With them, bave wich them waaantarae things THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. Our hope isin the Lord; because of the hope, we endure trial; One day in @ inan’s calendar is & thousand years of punishment, but the Gospel of Jesus is an ever present hope, and the work of evangelizauon wil come Lie spring upon the heels of reti winter. Where the spirit of the Lord is there be love in the Church, Men will remember that there 1s One who will remember when they cry outof the depths, Yes, THERE 18 PL JUS REDEMPTION IN CHRIST: that Christ lives in the year 1872, Forgetfulness in Christ cannot be; the Holy One isof one mind, and those who pet their trust in Him will not be forgot- ten. Israel may still hope; THE BANNER OF SALVATION will still Noat; when the trumpet of the archangel sounds they will see the Saviour, the Emanuel, and id Him tor a counsellor—a shepherd to lead em BY THE GREEN PASTURES OF CANAAN. Christ has been not only the rescuer, the healer, but the ransomer; and above all the faiths and philoso- phies of the present day will stand the everlasting Gospel. What felicity that there is such a sovereign on the throne, who would have us to come to nin and be ransomed trom death and heil! Let Israel thus favored, thus bound to the throne, the cross and bosom of the Lord, thank Him for the ransom 80 plenteous, FOURTEENTH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Rev. E. W. Hitchcock Notifies His Con- @regation That He is to Take Charge of: the American Chapel in Paris. At the close of the sermon yesterday morning the Rev. E. W. ditchcock, pasvor of the Fourteenth street church, said:—‘Hefore dismissing the audi- ence this morning [have a brief statement to make and an additional notice to give. It 18 already known to some of you that the American and Fore eign Christian Union have tendered tome their ap- polntment as minister in charge of the American chapel in Parts, that this appointment has been ap- proved by the local congregation in Paris, and that during the past week a telegram has been received from the chairman of their Presidential Committee requesting that as soon as possible I should come on and undertake the work with ihem, The nature and opportunities of the work to which I am thus doubly tuvited, and the manner in which the ap- poimtment came to me, unexpectedly and entirely unsought either’ directly or indirectly, together with other considerations which here | need not name, have so deeply impressed my mind with the conviction that this invitation is in the Une of _ providentially prescriped duty, that I have felt constrammed to ask the session of the church to vnite in calling & meeting ol the congregauion, that 1 may. request them to joim me in asking the Presbytery to dis- solve the pastoral relation which jor six years has existed between us. I need not assure you that this step is taken with much paturul reluctance, as it contemplates the severance of strong persoval ties and separation from a work which has become very dear to me—a reluctance that is only overcome by @ strong conviction that, in the circumstances, it is my duty to ask you to concur with my request.” ‘he session, at a special meeting held in the pas- tora study on Wednesday evening last, in response like statements made by the pastor, unanimously | adopted the following resolution :— Resolved, That it 1s with feelin; at regret that we contemplate the proposed sundering of the pleasant ties that have bound us to our beloved pastor, and that it is only in deference to his strongly expressed conviction of duty that we are led to comply with his request, and accordingly unite in calling a meeting of the oongre atioa, to be held in the lecture room on Wednes evening next, to take such action in the matter contemplated as may be deemed best. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Sermon by Heary Ward Beecher on Waiting On God—A Smaller Congregation, but a Pleasant Service. The snow storm of the previous night, that had Nocked the car tracks and spread a thick carpet of snow on the sidewalks, had its effect in reducing the number of worshippers at Plymouth church yesterday morning. ‘Lhere was a large attendance; but the crowd that fills the alsies ana overflows into the lobbies were not present, ana, there- fore, for those who did attend an opportunity was given for enjoying tne service and listening to the words of instruction of the pastor, away from the surroundings that are apt to remind an at. tendant on theatres of the first nignt’s appearance of a star performer. The service was opened by the singing of Mr. Zundell’s new anthem, “Oh, rest in the Lord,” which afforded an opportunity to Miss Steging to awaken the sympathies of the audience by her wondrous rendering of a solo, that vrought Out the marvellous capacity of her charming votce. ‘The anthem, whether accidentally or intentionally, was in unison with the service, and struck the key-note in perfect harmony with all that followed. Mr. Beecher put a little of.the anthem into the prayer that followed, and he read the thirty-seventh Psalm, part of the words of which were used tor vocalizing the harmonies that Mr, Zundell had by nis inspiration caught and reduced to the form of SOLO AND CHORUS. Mr. Beecher also preached on the subject of the anthem, nameiy—a patient waiting on God, and selected his text from the nfth chapter of the Epts- tle of James, the seventh and eighth verses—‘Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman wateth tor the Precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience Jor it. until he recelve the eamy and latter rain, Be ye also patient; ’stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.” Mr. Beecher aid not spend much time on the introduc- tion to his sermon; but, short as it was, it had the Beecher characteristics. He said that the admoni- tion given in the text was applicable to all times, Indeed, the truths of the Testament were so appil- cable to the condition of humanity that if a new Testament were written to-day it would have to contain the same truths, He then showed with that faculty that he so pre-eminently possesses of look- ing behind and into nature the relationsmip of natu- ral laws to man. How the latter would be helpless without natural laws, and low useless the former would be without man. Man stood in the relation to these laws that we horse did to man. Man guided and directed the horse whither to go and whither to turn, and that Was What Was done by: man with these laws. What were mills, shops, forges, mechanics and ali the industries but a yoking of these laws to man’s uses, which he controlled and brought into subjection’ preying except the sol was thus transiormed by man, How had all these forces worked on man? ‘The carpet that we trod upon had in WVERY WEB OF ITS FIBRE a story to tell ot waiting; the very garments we wore had an unfolded history of this waiting. 1 the ight ol this rationale, of tats waiting, he asked his con- gregation to direct their attention to the text—“e pauient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord,” That was the reward; that was the joy that was promised—“the coming of the Lord.” What was this waiting, then? it was not an dic walling; & Waiting for God to do for us what we ougnt to do lor ourselves. We were to do all that it ‘was possible for us to do, and then leave the result With God. This thought was amplified by a number of touching iiustratious, drawn from poverty ia its varied gradations, from the family with half a loat and unfilled scuttle to the poverty that felt its iretfuiness the more because of the famiharity of those who had to bear it with a previous redine- ment and abundance. it had pleased God to bless with endurance, and to give its victories more cer- tainly to those who put forth all their own resources and Who did pot listiessly repine, seeking no miu. juon, This was shown very strikingly m the Jate great Conflict in this country. Jt was not the young men from THE RURAL DISTRICTS, but those from the cities, who, with less hardy bodily frames, but with more mental resources and power of endurance, that recovered from their wounds and manifested a calmness under suffering and adapted themseives to privations that certainly they could have known nothing about in their previous history. l remember, said Mr. Beecher, a Iriend of mine who was coming to this coast, when there were nothing but sailing saips, and the ship got within twenty-four hours of the coast and they were tossed about for thirty days, He tod me he saw the Captain put on some warmer clothing, go on deck and lignt his cigar. the Captam and said, “Is ther munent peril,”” the reply. very quietly,” said my iriend, “1 have done all 1 can; everything that 1 dao I nave aone,” answered ihe Captain, That was the king of wait- ing that God honored, said Mr. Beecher, But there are some Christians who trust in God, except when the time comes for them to trust; who trust Him at all times, except when the ume of suflering comes, They are sometiing like the char- acter in Don Quixote, who had a board hel- met, and who, when it was struck by @ sword aud the helmet was cut into pieces, picked up the hel- met and had the pteces sewn together again, aud took care that the belimet never came 1 contact with the sword again, These are the PASTEBOARD CHRISTIANS of modern life, who never bring thew Christianity oto Coutact with the trials of Jue, Mr, Beecner touchingly dwelt upon the mothers anxiety jor her chidren; instancing the bitterness of the refiection that poverty brings, when it seems that if good nursing, — more skilled care could have been procured the child ‘would not have died, or the inability of the mother in the war time to be with the som who has been wounded. All these and thousands Of other cir- cumstances were pertos of the crucial trials of our faith, when we shoud trust in the Lord dnd be quite sure that He will not Jay upon us @ burden that we cannot bear, Mr. Beecher u the duty upon those who had not to experience this kind of trial to help those whose Jot was so bitter, These reminded him of the ants who, than | found atree that contained some sugary matter, 1 you watched th ‘ou could a cioud of ante going uD the tree and another cloud coming down; tiowe that were up were seeking get at the ie ness; those woich were coming down were aed WUD Ik Gurely those wha were thus comms down might hetp those who were going up. Mr. | easily imagine the splendor. The speaker detatiod Beeoher ad no need fo apply this illustrauion, the privileges of being invited to atvend euch a cere- AN AUDIBLE SMILE who were not invt' went through the n that saved him the vitation LO ONC Wo! trouble, A few traths by way of applica- on clused @ sermon whicn had less of fire and ora~ tory im it, but far more of tenderness than usual even, The service was bi t to a close by the | in the parabie, and they will not come, She then singing of the “Portuguese mao” and the pro- | went over the usual nd of exhorters and Invited nouncing of the benediction, all classes separa! to come to Jesus—the man of ' business, who had all possessions safe; ni who are troubied about but think of no more. Mary Magdaien — el them. nal wig Cs th stand shaking hands with everybody and crying, “Come in,’? Miss Smiley occupied the whole evening, with the of Mr. Powers’ ed, the time by the woman of wealth, t! many things tn this world, The thief om the croas BEDFORD AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH. What Is Vital Christianity ?—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Porter, The pastor of the Bedford Avenue Reformed church, Rev. E, 8. Porter, D. D., preached yester- day morning, taking for his text. Galatians, it, 20:— “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not 1, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I nowlivem the flesh I live by tne faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me,” exception of the few minutes speech. After she finished someboay audience about the doors improving going out. The bills announced that there would be no col- lection, but the audience were toformed that the meetings would ve kept up by voluntary contriba- Paul: was neither an ignorant fanatic nor a crazed | tions, and any one could give money who wished to. enthusiast. Educated, he understood the myste- | This invitation and the singing of a hyn closed the ries of philosophy, as well as the letter of written | Meeting. Scripture. Familiar with men and wito affairs, he y illustrates at every point of 118 public career that TRE LAFAYETTE AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN knowledge which marked the practical man. CHURCH. He gave abundant reasons for the faith that fired his soul, so that there could not be discovered | Dr. Cuyler’s Sermon Yesterday—Necessit in that faith the semblance of delusion. He stated clearly, irequently and fully the grounds of pis deep convictions that he was asinner saved by grace. The text wasastrong protest of personal experience against formalism—against everything that took the outside shape of religion put remained Void of its internal power. He spoke of his faith a8 @ life interpenetrated with the iife of Christ, drawing motives from His great heart of love, suffused and moulded by Him, and taking principles from the lps of the infallivie Teacher. He (the speaker) Would speak of vital Christianity as it was ex- pressed in doctrine and in the persons of believers. Piety was a subject which needed to be understood, and be who had any conception of his own nature as superior to the flesh wanted to know how that nature could partake of the divine. None Ought to be satistied with a dead religion, for the Book of absolute truth said thar many had a name to live, but were dead. Vital Chris- tuanity included the body of truth which was ob- Jectively presented for reception by faith; and if at be the pure truth of the Gospel, then tt imparted life as the suD gave warmth or asthe food which was eaten imparted strength. The connection between doctrine and practice was a vital connecuion, He Who believed @ lie would be under its dominion, and he (the speaker) would not deem it worth while to argue against the heresy which tanght that 10 matters not what @ man believes provided he ve sincere. On that ground we ht, justity every crime that would be reported in the papers on the morrow. If our courts of justice, corrupt as they were, acted on the conviction that sincerity justified crime, then 4 sincere thief, forger or assassin would be brought im vain before the tribunal ot jus- tice. Was not Paul sincere when he persecuted the saints? Were not men whose names were brought before the public every day as chief criminals in society, sincere in their belie? that the end justified the means? Succeed, no matter how, was their faith; and no crime was Loo revolting, or no false- hood too damning for their use, pravides they achieved the end they had in view. But none nee err concerning the truth that saved the soul, for while there were things in the Bible hard to be un- derstood, stili the truth as it was in Jesus was 80 plain and expressed in language so simple and con- cise that @ Man must Le brother to an idiot who could not see the way of savation through Jesus Christ our Lord. ‘There was abstract and philo- sophic truth which the explorer of the mysteries of mind might wish to Know, but the ‘trath as it is in Jesus, Or, in otver words, vital Christianity, 1s the truth which Christ ved, which was incarnate in of Faith in the Lord tm All Our Expectae tions. i Rev. Dr, Cuyler preached yesterday morning to a large congregation, as usual. It was expected by some that he would allude co bis case before the Presbytery to-day, but he did not make the glight- est reference to it, preferring, as he stated in a conversation with a HERALD reporter, to submit & to the Presbytery alone. Previous to the sermom the pastor baptised several infants before the pul- pit. The discourse yesterday was concerning the necessity of faith in the Lora and submission to Hin 1n all our expectations. Dr. Cuyler sald that life ‘was a series of expectations, from Infancy and child- hodd on to the last moment of earthly existence. This was typified by the seasons of the year. We haa spring’s promises in the shape of blossoms— the expectations of biessings yet to come, The gardener dropped his seed in expectation of sum- mer flowers, All that was the work of sheer faith; for every farmer and gardener’s expectations are ultimately from God. The congregation had just seen little expectations before the pulpit, as every one of those sweet children was a bud of promise, ana precious hopes were held in those mothers’ arms—hopes of childhood—hopes of a respectable, useful, honored manhood, Each of those fathers and mothers anticpatea yoo! and not evil, irom those children, They would rather see thefn lata AMONG THE SILENT CEDARS OF GREENWOOD than to have them grow up in shame. If we based our hopes of success, the pastor continued, upem fidelity and prayer we should be sustained and pros- per. Such faith waited avd worked; it entreated God, never dictatea. Itleft with nim the disposal of all things, It might say, “Lord, comfort my child, heal my daughter;” but with all its impor- vunity or desire it did not set the interest of the most beloved up against God’s plans, or even bring its own wil athwart the will of God. The wise Christian was willing to submit to His infinite love. The great trutn that Dr, Cuyler woud bring before them was that our expectation must be trom God. Whatever your labor was for, whatever you most desired, must come from God. The least you expect from ths world the better for you. if our expectation of viciory over our own be- setting sins rested in our own selves then you miglit as well say at the outset, “My soul, wait thou upon God.” The preacher did not say that God never disappointed us in our plans, in our families, in our hopes; but he meant that when we. studied God in nature*or in this Holy Book we His person and exempiiicd in His miustry. | iound our utmost expectation overtopped by glo- Not the least among the signs of progress | rious, transcendent Peality. When we obeyed Ged in these | latter days was the fact that | we found the reward sooner or later. When we the preaching and the teaching confined | trnsted God He never fatled us. Ii we had every- itself to the personality of Christ and to His works of mercy and of grace. ‘The Church of these days was coming to where the aposties came—to the leet of Him before whom Mary gat, that it may learn con- cerning the God-man, and feel the power of His truth a3 brought to bear upon the hearts of be- lievers by His abounding love. ie Dr. Porter then proceeded to define the nature of the Christianity that lived in believers, and while pronouncing the text to be an assemblage of para- aoxes, gave a clear and evangelical definition of the terms, He showed that there was an intimate rela- Uon existing between Christ and all true believers, who were in asense identified with the personal suftering of Jesus Christ our Lord on the cross, ‘hey were identified with the purpose of His cruci- fixion, which was to save pense from their sins. And though the Apostle declared that He was avad unto sin, yet He lived; and there was no Christian thing at the mere asking it would become a com- mand on our part. We would STEAL GOD'S SCEPTRE and rule the Ruler. If it spotled a child to allow & to have itsown way, it would be our ruin if we were always allowed our way in ali things. Our prayer shouid be persistent. Persistent prayer 1s the agency of the Church's faith. ‘The praying teachera In the Sunday schoois were the successful teachers. Heaven is only an expectation toa Christian. He never saw it. Dr, Cuyler said he bad not seem to-morrow’s sunrise, yet he knew it was coming. ~ this Sunday’s midoight was Monday's day- - real BENTND THE LITTLE SHADOW = which men culled death was che Christian sunrise— the glories of everiasting life. To-day an expectae tion—by and by the reality. In conclusion, Dr. Cuyler made an eloquent appeal to whe unconverted life except that which was uned beside the. blood-stained cross, What was that lite | ‘© Put thelr faltn in the Lord. that rioled in sensual enjoyment? Decorate it as you may and surround it with the | DEDICATION OF A CATHOLIC COLLAGE IN perfume of flowers, the charm of music and the en- Chantments Of art, and yet it Was @ life that was dead. {t was the form of life, while within was the corruption that worketh to the lowest hell. But where oue was crucified with Christ he felt the in- spiration of motives that came fiom the heart of Christ ; he saw that no loner he was an atom in the vast universe of God, but a sinner saved and adopted ; he was made to be a partaker of an incor- Tuptole inheritance ; he felt that he was no longer to iret his way through the low morasses of ume, but he was to run on in the Clear sunshine, making the very waters of life 10 his soul reflect the splendor of the invisible. ‘To those who had not the experi+ ence of Christian Jove, he woulil say that there were no joys like those which were derived from Christ, as the believer jeaned upon His bosom and felt the sympathy of His grace. The Christian’slife dia not terminate in the grave, but the Ive of Curist in the sou brightened to the perfect day. NEWARK, On Friday afternoon the new Benedictine Cotlege in Newark, adjoining St. Mary’s Roman Catholie church, corner of Wiillam and High streets, was dedicated with the usual ceremonies by Bishop Bayley and several other clergymen. The college building was commenced last August, and 1s quite @ handsome ornament to the vicinity. it is built of brick, with dark sandstone trimmings, ‘The cere- monies consisted of a procession by the Bishop and assistants, in fall canonicais, through the various sections of the building, and the blessing of each room. There were no lay persons present, the attendance being exclusively clerical and conducted quietly. The clergymen present assisting the Bishop wore Rev, Fathers Mendel, of st. Peter's; Bem- no, Miletus and ‘Irite, of St. Mary’s, Newark. Fathers Doane, Killeen, Fleming and Sleets, of New- ark; Mc“ahan of East Newark; Rev. Dr. Schmidt, of Greenville; Father William, President of the College, were also present. The College will open bakit with an attendance of twenty-two eta- ents. BROOKLYN An Immense Audience and Hundreds Go Away—Sermou by Miss Smiley. The people of Brooklyn are determined to save their souls at all hazards. Never was such perse- verance in this direction witnessed as on last even- ing at the Academy of Music. At half-past seven ACADEMY SERVICES, JANUARY 29, 1872, To THE EDITOR oF THE HBRALD:— the immense building was crowded in DEAR S1R—Accept my thanks for the admirable every nook and corner, and hundreds | report of the Hepwortn discourse at Steinway Hall were pressing in at all the entrances | last evening. What a noble purpose fand how thankful the Christian public ought to be for these reports of sermons, so accurate in substance, and the only means there ts to perpetuate their lasting remembrance on the hearts of the hearers by their appearance in the morning after their delivery! May you never be weary in well dotag! W. 0. H. determined, in spite of all opposition, to see for themselves that they couldn’t get in. “I's a humbug,” says a litle lady, gasping for breath; “let’s go home.” But to go home involved getting out of the crowd, and that was no small matter. After the vestibule at the main entrance had been filied and emptied some scores of times there was a rush for the plat- form door, ‘The platform, the platform !” was the signa cry. ‘Then those acvotees tried tne rear entrance. The HERALD reporter was stranded at this point by the rushing waves. The representative of the press was content to wait, taking it for granted that the space in front of the stage, sacred to musicians and reporters, would remain unmvaded. The multi tude went im and came out. The official in charge implored and stormed, but tne well dressed, pious mob were determined, and the rush contin- ued, after a disciplinary period of waiting the re- porter found the orchestra, Alas! for the delusive hope that had made him so confident, the orches- tra was crowded, the REPORTERS’ TABLE covered with hats, and a few inches by a friendly railing was all that was left, The last seat in the upper gallery was taken. The aisles were full, the boxes crowded, the platform a mixed mass of humanity. What did all the people come AULT ON SCULLY. THE A Nis Story of the Attack Upon Himself at Apollo Hall—Ilis Suspicion thac His Pow litical mn Hired Rufflans to Assas- sinate Him. Captain Scully—who attended the meeting of the Democratig General Reform Committee, at Apollo Hall, on Saturday evening, and had the misfortune to be attacked and cut badly in the face after it had adjourned and before the crowd left the butiding— makes the following statement of the affair. His residence ts In the Third Assembly district:— “Just as I was stepping to the sidewalk from the portico of Apollo Hall, after the close of the meet- ing of the Democratic General Reform Committee, 1 was bit violently on the left eye, the blow seem- ing tobe made with a brass,or steel knuckle. It stunned me, and 1 was so Startied that I could make no attempt to escape, While I was hit again and again, once on the nose and then under the’ right eye, At the same time 1 was struck by accomplices ofsthe principat assailant several times with the nak @ fists. I had no opportunity to make any resistance. ‘The occur. rence Was a3 quick a8 thought, and the gang of for? Was it because they haa nowhere else to go? ramans sed before I had fully recovered The character of the great congregation would Jus- | rosence of mind. No policeman was in the ueighe tify the suspicion that it was largely made up of | borhood ot the hall and I had to go three blocks to find one, and when 1 returned 1 could fina no clue to the perpetrators of the out : they had skedaddied very qi “| have my suspictons about the originators of the attack. I believe that they were the parties who members of churches, who sought at the Academy @ variety from their ordinary bill of fare. Madame Marian Hoi!man was not present, as announced, neither was the Rev. Henry Gallaner. Alter singing anu prayer the Rev, Henry Powers | were elected to the committee by fraud at the pri- read Jor the texto! bis Yemarks a paragraph trom | Word clected to the commute Wy chairman. 1 0e- the newspapers, to the effect that if acertaln mur- | jjeye that Shannon, W. H. Rvoney and derer, Jately hanged, had received as much atten- | Yeeney hired the gang of rumans to tion beiore he committed the crime as after, he | yi ine, The reason for such @ deed ts would not have been a murderer. He went on to say that Dr. uibrie once asked @ litle boy the quesuion— “if your father and motner forsake you who will take you up?” . They know that the district 18 contested And that their sucess in 1 vas been by fraud and cannot bear investigation. They are jealous of ny influence with the respectable men of the ward in which Hlive, and, knowing me as one of the con- “The police,” was the Instant reply. they tried to put me out of the way. tii THESE MEETINGS vontnare no. interest in politics more than tnat of Daly and other Potine heat bess Mo ¢ the people’s governm Urels whose. only Sect In getting into. power ts to sone! 1 have no interest of ome Pep leant noun rom them.” U THE NUN OF KENMARE, One of the most remarkable literary characters at present in Ireland is Sister Mary P. Clare, of the order of “Poor Clare,’’ better known as the “Nun of Kenmare.” Her ilterary productions embrace an llastrated life of O'Vonnell, a history of Ireland, life of St, Patrick and numerous essays on religious topics, The abbess of the convent is a sister of Lord O'Hagan, Chancellor of Ireland. This commu- are to show the masses that there ts a heart of love Vhat is anxious to serve them, ‘There is a story told of acertain cathedral, that the finest window in it was made by an apprenuce of the bits thrown away. So the outcasts of societ; used 10 the best advantage by God. Mr. generalized @ little upon jove, repeated @ poem to the same effect, and then the choir and cungrega- tion sung, “Come ye discousolate,” & stout gentie- man saying in the meantime, “Be thinks he’s (wo or three Beechers rolled into one." Alter the singing Mr. Powers annonnced that Miss Sarat F. Smiley would address the audience. kd ‘was @ rustic ali over the house, and then the My 3 ness of perfect attention. Miss Smiley came + hy ward and cook her place at the little reading i: ro Miss Smiley 18 @ litle woman, with @ pian, Bosc gry Mr. simple face and a very clear, Sym pe ie | nity of nuns wainiain large schools for the education now in this countsy collecting funds im aid of these schools, A lecture will be delivered in St. Jonns Hall, Gregory street, Jersey City, to-morrow even- ing, by Mr. Wilitam E, Robinson, of Brooklyn, for worthy object, The St. Putrick’s Alliance or- anization Will march in @ body, headed by their raas band, to the hall. Mayor O'Neill will preside, ‘The subject of the lecture.wiil be “The Nua ol Ken woare, and Her Wray @ loose black sack, and ap immaculal She began her address by ni that the kingdom of heaven is hike @ certain king alter rank, the and mere; but when w and the son te be