The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1872, Page 4

RELIGIOUS. Sermons and Services in the Churches of the City and Suburbs. THE = PLATFOAM OF UNITARIANISM, Sermon by Dr. Freeman Clarke at the Church of the Messiah. THE LENTEN SEASON Dr. McGlynn on Faith, Hope and Charity. FAREWELL OF THE REY. D. W. HITCHCOCK. The Deccitfulness of Riches Commented On from Plymouth Pulpit, Pedication ofa Methodist Church. 8T. STEPHEN'S ROMAN THOLIC CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev, Dr. McGlynn on the | Greatest of All the VirtuesEvening Lece ture by the wev. Fatver Met a Weber's mass in G was sung in St, Stepten’s church at the high mass yesterday morning, As ‘Uiis is the Lenten season suere was no “Gloria,” but the choir did ample jusiice to the “Credo,” the beautttul solo, “Zt Incarnatus,” being exquisitely rendered by the soprano, Miss Emma Howson After the first Gospel the soprano sang the “Vent Creator,” and at the Sanctus the “Beuedictus”? of the muss was given by the soprano, tevor and bass. The music ai the offertory was a voluntary, brilliantly performed by Mr. Daniorth, the organist, In the afternoon Donizetti's vespers were sung. High mass was celeprated by the Rev. Father Lovejoy, Afler the first Gospel, the Rev. Dr, McGlynn ascended tue puipit and preached an elo- quent and impressive discourse from the epistle of the day. ‘The three great virtues—faith, hope and charity — are necessary for salvation. but, as the Apostle says, the greatest of the three is charity. Faith is the light which God gives us to lead us to heaven. At thmes it 18 a cheering light;*at times full of mys terious darkuess, in Which doctrines seem to be en- Wrapped io obscurity, St. Puul telis us that vy 16 we see and Kuow, but adds that our knowiedye is only imperfect, especially when compared with ihe iu lignt we shall receive in heaven. “We :ee now through a glass in a dark manuer, but then face to lace. Now | know in part. but then Pshall Know even as 1 am kKoown." St. Paul speaks of iaiti as kKuowlcage and as of vision, not of inguiry, Faiti 18 a sysvem ol belief invara- ble from the beginning 0: 115 manilestatioa Lo the end o1 line; a principic ireeing us rou all rellance upon fallible god partial methods, taking in ihe Whule Of reveaied trutis, By uope 13 meunt an ex- pectation, with the desire of possessing sometbing promised. In the hie of the saviour, irom His biessed words of comiort and assurance, we find so much to inspire ns with tis great virtue that ittie need here be said of it. I would rather dwell upon tne greatest of all the virtues, tat great virtue withowt which, “even if you dis- trinuve all your goods to the poor, give your body to be burned, or Lave ali faith, even tuat you could remove inountains,” and have not charity, iL promiteti you nouling. Charity 1s the love of God for His OWt sake and the love of our nei God's sake. It is perect: when we love G much ior His benevoleace towara us as Lor those imherent quaiities of goodness and other altribuces which, however untaihomavie they may ve to us, Wwe yel Know exist in God in all their ininitade, It is periect wnen we love our neignbor, not be- cause ne is agreeavic to us, Lol because he is like compendinm of our fatth by exhibiting its divine power in converting sinners, by becoming Christ's Hight we become lights of the world, for we sued hgnt Unconsctously, ‘The ues that vind together a cbureb and ifs pastor may be very stroug. They come irom the outgrowth of tue relations they sus- tai to each other; when there 1s a union Lhere 1s a biending, aud they become one in Christ. Afier dwelllu. eloquently upon the relatiohs that exisied between the pastor and people Mr. Hitchcock re- viewed his six years’ ministration, and stated that he had addressed them more than one tnousand Umes; there bad beep seventy marriages, 307 addi- tons fo the church, thirty-six deaths and a gata of had been shadows, but much more sunshine, and now, when J tear myself away, 1 leave some one beh nd to gathec the sheaves of the harvest. and resign tue sickle of the haspandman to fulfil my duty 1n @ distant field, The minister concluded his address by urging his hearers to “stand tast in one spirit, with one mind, strong together for the taith of tne Gospel,” aad the utierance of the expressive word “Farewell,!? , After the service commencea a gentleman en- tered the gallery and divesting himseif of his over- Coat threw ttover the gatlery where he occupied a front seat, forgetting that he had purchased haif a dozen silver spoons on Saturaay he neglected to re- move them from hig pocket. iter the singing of a hymn the congregation bowed in prayer, aud as tne devout pastor uttered “Shower Thy Qlessings upon us, 0 Lord!” the tell-tale spoons Commenced sitd- ing out oi the coat pocket one afier another until ve had falien upon the pews with a silvery sound and found a resting place upon ihe carpet. There they remaimed during the service; but whether they were clatined by tne owner above or confiscated to the church was not ascertained, CHURCH OF SY. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, Our Lord and the Woman of Canaau— Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Osgood. Yesterday morning the ornate Church of St. John the Evangelist tn Eleventh street, near Seventh avenue, was filled with a fashionable congregation, assemble} fcr the purpose of tendering their heb- domadal trivute of prayer to the Almighty aud to listen to an interesting sermon by the Rey. Dr, Os- good, Thetearned divine took his text from the Gospel according to St, Matthew, Xv.,-26, 27— which formed part of the epistie of the morning— ‘lt is not meet to take the c%tidren’s bread and cast it tothe dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fail from their master’s table’? The preacher opened huis discourse by stating that we are accustomed to look upon the woman of Canaan in 4 pitying spirit,and tolerate her only tor the sake of the sacre associations that surround her; we think of her in pity, yet sbe comes belore the Queen of England, because the Queen hears these words; before Dives, who rolls in his chariot to church; this Canaan woman presented herseif to us, and in the name of Christ, who gave her Hts name, we reverence her. Usgood Lien proceeded to show that at the period of which he was speaking the tendency of the Jews was to believe in one supreme power, wuue the Phoenicians, of which the woman was one, were inclined to velteve in Nature; yet human instinct asserted seit and triumphed over 1GNORANOK AND FANATICISM, Although she askeu to rccetve @ javor that had not then been en even to tne cuosen of God she took the place Christ assigned oer, when He said that tt was not meet the children’s bread should be cast to dogs, so humbly thatour Saviour, recoznizing the greatness of her fatth, granted her appeal and ridded her daughter of the evil spirit that tormented her. At this present day we are too prone to wor- ship science and make aged of mammon, forget- ting that the automatic nature of us all 18 subservi- ent to the wiil of God. ‘Are we,” asked the preacher, “a well bred, healthy and intelligent set of peopie, all open to heavenly influence, or do we still betong to @ perverted ana deluded race Y? Society tn our gay and festive city is very much like the Canaan woman, open to the influence of evil spirits, and this poor woman calls upon us to heat her. The religion of the woman of Canaan was the worship of Balaam and Astarte (the moon). What 1s business in many of its furms with us but the worship of Baal? Our cry 1s gold, gold, give us goid! and she m ney-god becomes our idol. We worsmp him, no matier at what cost, Men lose all idea of principle or sense of right in their efforts to acquire wealth; they cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, heeding nul the cries of the widow and fatherless, the annihilation of good gov- ernments, tne rivera of blood that may fow or the myriads that may perish, so that they gaia tueir ena—wealth. Even at this present hour there are Men trying Wo stir up strife between this country and DEAR OLD ENGLAND all for the worship of Baal, the greed for gain and id, Tne reverend gentieman then referred to r13 as he had seen it two years ago and ls present condition. Then it seemed us li it were one con- Unuous gala day, and Napoleon ruled as though he nad supreme power; yet in a few short months the woman of Canaan and her demon was tuere, carry- ing about her peiroleum to effect the destruciion of the fair city. ‘there is sometning radically wrong in our svatem of living. ‘Those wo devote tne Morning to business and the acquirement of wealtn spend the night in KEVELRY AND DISSIPATION. Us¥, Ot because Le is Kin to us, but because he 1s kin 10 God, because hie 18 created alter tne timage of | God. “I give you 4 new commandment, tuat you love one anoiher as | have ioved you; that you also Jove one another.” ‘The commandment of joving one auvther lad been long belore given m the | Mosaic dispensation. THE NEW COMMANDMENT here given Consists 11 the measure of the love pre- scribed by the Suviour. Charity towards qr neign- bors compreiends every oue of our species, as is beautiuily iliustrated In the paravie ol the Good Samaritan, Guu is che common Father; we are the family. We are to ioye one another lor His sake, ‘He asks us to give tiiu a pledge of our afecuion vy Toving al! that is dear to Him, and the Saviour has joved ail of us more than His own life; “ior he that Joveth aot his brother, When he seeta, bow can he love God, Whom le seein notY’! Charity requires of us the purest mouves in our dauy life, The Apostle clearly defiues What suouid be the Chris- lan’s duty, woen he 8, “Charity is patient, is kind, envieth not, deaicth’ not perversely, is not Pulled up, NOt ambitious, seeketi NOt her OWu inter- ests, is not provoked to anger, tuinketh no evil, vedreih ail UWilags, beleveta all things, bopetb all things, endureth ail things.’ in the day prayer the saviour left he teuchés us to implore for others the same blessings We ask lor ourselves. The law of charity requires that we be forgiving, and bear no enmity, aud this because of our dependence on God.’ Even still more is required, a3 the Gospel tells us, “Do good tw them that hate you, and pray for them tnat calumimiate you, that you may be the chiluren of your Fatner who isin Heaven.” But noihiag 1s more pleasing to God tha charity toward tue poor and distressed. ‘The life of Jesus shows how He would have us ex- tend our compassion to the lowly and the suffering, dn this holy season of Leat tis should be remeiu- ‘Dered, and thus one part of asacred obligation be fuldiled. In the helpiog aud succoring of our netgh- bor we show our faith iu Christ and our hope of future reward, aud so please God by loving our neiguvor for His sake, In the evening, at half-past seven o'clock, @ lecture Was delivered by (ue Kev. Father Mccready. FOURTEENTH S:REET CHURCH. PRESBYTERIAN Farowell Discourse of Rev. E. W. Hitchcock Tho Gospel of Crist and the Necessity for Steadsastnvess in the Faith, A large congregation assem >led In the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian church, corner of Second ave- nue, yesterday, to listen to the fareweil disourse of Rev. E, W. Hivchcock, who leaves the pastorate which ne has held for six yearsto take charge of the American chapel in Paris, The pastor took for his text Philippians 1., 27:—“Oaly let your conver- sation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that Whether | come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast m one spirit, with one mind striving to- gether for the fain oof =the gospel.” When this epistle was written the Apostie was a Prisoner at Rowe, and his motive was to glorify his Heavenly Master and to do good. He had preached the Gospel ana converted many of Cwsar's house- hold; but now the cruel Nero was on the throne, and the Apostic was calculating the possibility of martyrdom, Yet to him dt had no horror, such was Ris faith in his Saviour. The Church te which he speaks was at Philippi, where the Gospel was first preached in Europe. “Only let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ.” Wiser counsel scarcely had-ever been given, and the circumstances we meet under to-day are applicable to tnis text, The next means that you shouid let your conduct as & citwen be becoming the teachings of Unrist—io work with God, and in all things contorm to tne Gospel of Christ. ‘This is the foundation of our hope. Let each one coniorm Mis life to the princi- pies and precepts of Christ’s Gospel. Of ali they are the wisest and the best. How are we to become like Christ? By possessing ourseives of the spirit aud life of Christ, by confuence in Him as teacher, saviour, friend and master. To this end, you must acquaint yourseives with Him, follow His precepts, and devote yourselves to His service. ‘The Church is indebted to this divine iiead, In order that our outside life may be becoming the gospel of ‘ie our inner souls must coniorm to the Gospel. Later, the Apostie says, “stand fast in ope spirit.’ A man must have persevering love In the faith of the Gospel, We see bow essential He 1s to the spiritual uuity. It is tne badge of true discipleship; 1t does not destroy individually, but kK the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace; it Onds the preceres end delights tn the love an service of God, Man’s whole heart must go into his undertaking; hold the trutn steadfasuly; there must ve no halting between two opiniona, no questioning whetuer to go forward or backward; the faith ol the Gospel has many malicious foes on earth, and, among item, are ignorance, Wwrevchedness, Carnality and Homan Gonceits, We need the Gospel because it ‘s vue pioneer of civilization; whe divinely appototed for the sanctification of men, Strive for tue Gos- WAL Lue @ULNOrILy aNd luspirauion Of this Even the women have acraviog alter the sensa- tional, and tals is the devil of the woman of Canaan, ‘The demon 13 everywhere, In this nineteenth cen- tury We have tne same nature and are exposed to the same perils and temptations as she was, — Phy- sicians give medicine to the vody, but not to the soul. They cannot ‘‘miatister to a mind diseased,” or “pluck from the memory @ rooted sorrow.”’ Pa- ganisin 18 now Observed in what is called SPIRITUALISM, and though there may be something apparently un- accountable in some of the so-called ‘manifesta tions,” we should beware of countenancing or en- couraging its growth, for though mystic it is evil, for it comes no: from God, who is our true religion and who reveals to the hearts of iis chosen the true light. The learned divine then discussed the evils that are increasing tn society in New York daily. Dissipation, tuat minton of Astarte, holds sway in this city. intemperance 18a subtie demon, wao is hourly wrecking souls, If even the usual habits of the best and most fashionable society were done in the name of religion, how _heathenish and fanatical they would be deemed by other nations, Dr. Os- good concluded his discourse with an earnest and eloquent appealto his audience to live pure lives and turn to the Almigh*y to succor them in the con- fMigt with the evil spirit existing tn all poor human nature, {or as it was by perfect faith that the woman of Canaan was relieved trom the demon that pos- sessed her; so by Jaitn only could we hope to attain a place in the kingdom of Heaven. ST. PATRICKS CHURCH. Father Keorney on Sensation Preachers— People who Go to Hear Their Pet Preacher Instead of the Word of God. Father Jonn Kearney preached the morning ser- vice yesterday to @ large congregation at St. Pat- rick’s Cathedral. The text taken by the reverend Father was from the Gospel of St. Matthew, seven- teentn chapter, the first verses, which are as fol- lows:—“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John bis brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them, and His face did shine as the sun and His raiment was white as the light. While He yet spake behold a bright cloud overshadowea them, and behoid @ voice out of the cloud which said, “tnis 19 my beloved Son, in whom 1 am well pleased. Hear ye Him.” Aiter explaining and commenting on the teat at some length Fatber Kearney animadverted severely upon the church-goers of the feeces day, who, 1n- stead of going to churgh to ten to the Wor God when given in @ plain fashion so that it might be understood by all persons, must forsooth have a sensation preacter to deal out ‘thunder and lightning” to them, These people proless to be Christians, but they are not deserving of the name, They tisten to the sermon waile they are in the church in @ domng sort of way, and they goto church because itis fasnionable to do so; but having once crossed the threshold of the sacred edifice on their Way home they forget the Divine lessons ex- pounded w them by the preacher. They cannot be gratitied unless they have @ cnosen preacher, for- getting that it is not the gesture, the manner of delivery, the polished senteuces, nor any personal atiribuie of the clergyman who should be studied, but the words of Divine truth which drop from his lips, rhese people set a Mag! bad example, and it Is indicative of the age jive in that the members of the Courch of Utrist should worship the tinsel oratory ol @ sensational preacher. This has become a growing evil, and it is un unsate and perilous path for a Catholic to tread in, The Word of God should be listened to however expounded and by whomsoever deliverea to the people. CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. Sermon of Father Callaghan'on the Trans- ‘ation of Christ. The Church of St. John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic) is an unpretending litte structure, situa- ted In Fiftieth street, between Fourth and Madison avenues, The parish to which it belongs is, how- ever, one of the largest and wealthiest in the city. Its pastor is Father McMahon, who, although by no means @ preacher possessed of great oratorical powers, is yet ® mau of exalted talent and recog. nized ability as @ writer. Within a year the congre- gation of the parish has increased tn numbers to such ap extent that two curates, instead of one, have been aliowed as assistants to Father McMahou. ‘They are Fathers McCave and Cal- lagban, both young men of promise in their pro- fession. At half-past ten o’clock mass, yesterday, Father Callaghan preached an elogueat sermon to a fuil congregation, taking his text from Matthew xvit, 1-9 This speaks of the visit of our Saviour to tne Mount, accompanied by Pever, James and John, who fell upon the ground and ooverea their faces © (oem in @ vision and sald, when God jnembership of ius, During tis ministration there | “This ts beloved Son, whom I am well pleasod—nest ye tim.’ ad vatuer Vallaghaa told his hearers this vision bad appeared 10 the disciples nov Only to make thew wore Um 1a the fatto of Jesus Carist, but to encour uge them to bear they suflerings With true Cbris- lan tortiiude, “hey were allowed a giumpse Ol the presence of our Lord so that they shouid not waver in tie path Of duty Liatd out ior Lhem, anu as an us surance tout by followiug the same tucy should eventually obtain their reward in neaven. Tots Was Lue object of te Church to-day, Un iast Suu- day Jesus’ wanderings i Lue desert were Columem- orateu (Oo show how he had to suier for the sis of man. ‘today was caleuraiod His ‘Transfiguration on the Mount, which enavies us ObLalu & iaint notion Only Of tke joys which God bas prepared (06 tas Who iollow him, “the soul, ande- ued and uncontaminated by stain of sia, bore somewhat the resemblance of its Maker, aud if a sinner could only see it1n that stave le woud be ready to fall down to worship it as did St. Joln wo the angel Whom he tuought was God. Betore baptism tue soul has oul @ taint ikeuess to our Lord, but after baptism the resemblance was more iden- tical, Tue outlines and shadows of the picture are not lully developed even alter it has spent # virLuous lue of twenty years in the service vf God, aad Wb is not until it wings its way to the realms above that 1b altatns its luli splendor and ukeaess to the Almighty. The sermon was concluded with an exhortation to ali present to observe the Lentea season 1D & proper mauner—that 1s to devote tuemselves more assiduously to prayer, mordicauion, penauce and alunsgiving than usdal, 11 was Lneir duty also, as children of the Church, earnestly tv contem- plate the great mystery of man’s redemption, and to meditate on te humiliations his desire, been summoned trom co: circles in this city, WMose eleventh hour may 1arnish a lesson to all who survive, Happily, as we may believe, they were prepared for tt. But what if it had been otn- erwise: What would the eleventh bour have veen to (nem in the way of preparation for death or the everuity beyond? ‘The close of the sermon was eloquently exhorta- tive to its nearers to allow nothing to swerve them in the present trom thew duties toward heaven, “fnere cau come,” said the reverend gentleman, “no time When the minister can bring more poten- tual reasons to move you to truth than now. The weapons of God are unchangeavile, If they do not prevail upoa you now I know of no time when you can be overcome by them, The matier of tne bu- man hearts like certain palpable substances. If the forces brought to bear upon them are not able to dissolve or break them they will compress and harden them. CHAPEL OF ST. LUKE?S HOSPITAL, Charitable Appeal of Bishop Vail, of Kansas. The Right Rey. Dr. Vatl, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Kansas, gave @ charity sermon yesterday afternoon in the chapel of St, Luke's dospital, corner of Fifty-fourtn street and Fifth avenue, The chapel, which is negtly decorated and holds some five hundrea persons, was well filed by people who secmed to take great interest in the object sought by the reverend lecturer, He saia:—I have been la- boring many years in Kansas in the cause of and suiferings, the on und = deat Of tho Soa of God. Every effort 13 being now made by the pastor and congregation uf this cuurch Lo replace the great organ, Wich, it will be renem- bered, was burned with the old chured 1ast suunmer, It is anticipated that a lew weeks longer will see this wish carried out, and an organ erected, the like of which will not be in this country, The experi euce of a well KuOW2 mauulactarer, ROW on his way from Europe, wilt be given 1a ald of iss Construction. HEPWORTI)S ORATORY. A Sermon on Moral Elindness—Subscrip- tions for ihe Erection of a Rew Church. ‘The congregation that listened to Rev. Mr. Hep- worth’s sermon at Steinway Hall yesterday morn. ing was made up of those who have placed them- selves under bis guidance since his secession trom Unttarianism, and not of the class of strangers in the city and sensation-mongers, who are usuaily the components of the audiences of preachers at tem- porary piaces of worslip. Before the sermon was commenced many of those present signified their intention to continue under the ministration of Mr. Hepworth by subseriving large sums lor tue erec. uon of an edifice on Fifth avenue, to bs the future theatre of his labors, ‘There was in all $100,000 protiered, Mr. Hepworth’s text was trom Mark x., 61:—“And Jesus answered and sald unto him, ‘What wilt thou that I sould do unto thee?’ The blind man said unto Him, ‘Lora, that I wight receive my signt,’” He said the incident is one of great interest. Most people consider blinaness a great afiicuon, [t must be hard to be sightless when one nas u thou- sand tricnds to watch one’s wishes and to do one’s bidding. ‘To be shut out trom a view of this veauti- ful world, never to sce a sunset or a cloud, a star or a flower; to grope one’s way through a world made exquisitely beautliui in every part must be an affiic- ton requiring ail one’s patience and heroism, But to be, like Bartimeus, a beggar, dependent upon the dole of strangers—to sit by the roadside all day long watching with cunulng ears for the approact- ing jootsiep, Loping to gei the means of 4 misera- bie, scanty Subsistence, this 18 almust woo much to bear, But Jesus passed that way, and with a word opened the beggars eyes, and tue looked into the face of his Saviour, Good iriends, 16 seems to me that we are all in the condiuon of Bariumeus—we are born blind, ‘Yhe selfish element dominates, Not one 1s waole, Who among you, who has not after some sort received a revelation Irom the Holy Syirit, can put hus band on his heart and say, My eyes are open; L can see God? Who among you 18 without sin-a sin that blinds tue eyes as though @ cataract grew over the pupil? Who among you that would dare to staud belore the var of God and demand exact jusuce’ Justice is the only thing most of us are ‘afraid of, We can pass the ordeal of Cnrist’s criui- cism only When he 100ks at us through the medium ol loving Kinuness and tender mercy. If we had nothing better than our own merits with which to purchase paradise we should have to stay on the outside of the gate forever. But some day Jesus comes our way, and hearing our cry, demands that we be led before Him. He pities our forlorn condition. It is not our fault, perhaps, that we are blind, Some sinning ancestor must an- Swer for it all. And it 18 not Gou’s fault, eltner. he did not make us so, He gave to our parents the power of sight; but by tneir misdeeds we are born ‘Wita orbs that have no power tu yok upon the beau- Ues of the day or nigot, Unless Bome Christ comes aiong we shail stay blind forever. But He aves come; He sees us; He pities us; He 13 willing to help us. He touches our eyes in answer to our many prayers and cries; und lo! with a thrill of delight we look out upon a worid wholly new to us, e thought we lived pefoi but now we know that while we were pitnd we were as good as dead. We live only whep we have sight, All this is hardly @ metaphor.” When we come into this lie we nave ho sight. We have nothing to do but to ve Sausded wila our bitndness, or to watch for the coming of the Lord patientiy and with faith, and to cry out to Him when we hear His footsteps. ‘This is wha. I call conversion or regeneration. The man who is born inio a sight of the other world, wita all 118 glories, by meuns ol the intervention o1 tue Holy Spirit, passes as it were from death unto life, It is an experience through Which every man must pass, ‘The Corist 18 always goimg by. You can always hear His foovfall, He 1s still going avout tbror out the World uoing good, as in the olden ume He trod tue dusty highway from Jerusalem to Jericho, or lingered by the pieasans shores of we sea of Galilee. He 18 just as ready to pity now as then, and just as willing to restore sigitt to tne blind and health to the maimed. But now, as then, the miracle 13 performed only to those wao know that they are blind, who long for sigtt, and who cry ous to the Lord whenever his footsteps are heard. What a blessed thing to be received into the company of those who have received weir sight! Why remain satisfied to grope in tne small domain whereim the sightiess must always live, when Christ stands ready with the magic of His love to open the darkened orb and pour into it the light of the evernat day ? Sometiunes a man is converted suddenly and sometimes he goes tnrough the process very‘ grad- ually. St. Paul was changed 10 naif an hour, But what ap awful lalf hour it Was! God spoke to him and he saw the mistakes of a lifetime. He became @ Christian, a true Christian, In heart at once, Most of you wuo hear me can recall sume experience not perhaps striking and dramatic as that which changed the Aposue, but an experience of sickness or bereavement in which everything seemed to change 11s aspect, You longed for higher things, !or communion with the Saviour, You saw as never vefore the worthless- ness of this world’s goods and ambitions; you felt your own siniuiness; well, that was @ provi- dential experience. If you learned the lesson, if you entered into new relatious with things you have been happier ever since, The assurance of God’s presence bere and of salvation hereafter came upon you and blessed you. Come, you who are aged, who are tottering along the down bill of life; not many days and you will tread the misty reaim of the greai hereafter, Come, you who are in middle lile, a nigner inte awaits yo the tnspiration of God shall throw around your hard work a halo, Come all; the Lord is passing. You can hear His footiall, Let us cry out with one voice, “O Lora, thou son of David, have mercy on us.’ 8T. THOMAS? PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHUBCH. The Perils of Procrastination—Scrmon the Rev. Dr. Moi ‘This charch was attended yesterday morning by its usual large congregation. While without the sun was vainly striving to dispel the darksome clouds, within demure demoiselles and meek mesdames were radiating beauty throughout tne somewhat gloomy church. The services were con- ducted by the Rev. Dr. Morgan, who was assistea by the Rev. Jonn B. Morgan. The former of the reverend gentiemen ascended the preached from St, Matthew xx., 9: w they came which were bired about the eleventh hour they received every man a penny.’’ ‘The aim and drift of the discourse was to show that this parable oi. the laborers referred to the radual ingathering of nations, and in no wise feta forth encouragement to delay in the work of repentance, The ular impression that the eleventh hour, with its hurried exercises aud broken exciamations of regret, would atone [or altie- time of deliberate sin, was heid up as utterly foreign to the whole text and spirit of the Gospel, and, from various points of view, Was made the subject of earnest remonstrance and warning. The preacher claimed that the system ol the Church, whicn was in entire conformity with the doctrine of tae Bible, demanded the whole of life for the service of Christ and preparation for the world to come. From the font of baptism she would lead her cnil- dren to their rest and their inheritance, aud so fit and prepare them for the change that, when it came, it might be @ peace. ful transition and not @ terrible confict. Dr. Morgan set forth toward the close of his sermon the aimcuities and hindrances which may be expected to crowd the eleventh hour, and make a loug post- boned repentance most diMfcait to accomplish. Walle upon this part of bis subject the reverend gentieman said:— It may be the hour, should by |The eleventh hour! God please, of advanced age, of decrepitude, when Ife 18 but labor @ua sorrow—whea the exhaustion and Gecay Of nature admit of nothing but a totter. ing advance toward toe long homt—when the wine dows are darkened and the grasshopper ts a bur- den, The eleventh hour! It may strike in the midst Of &@ vasy, active career. It may come to a man in ls full strength. it may overtake kim when plans are ripening, When guios are coming in, when success ls beauing Upen Lim and crowAlDE Christian education, and have at last succeeded in establishing what was long needed, an educational institution for the benefit of the growing female Population. It is called the ‘Protestant Episcopal Diocesan School for Giris,”’ or “bethaay College” and 1s located in popeke, ths capital of the State, The education given is of the highest order and com- prises both the useful and ornamental branches, The present ediice 13 very small, having been originally merely @ parsonaye aud not aole to ac- commodate more than fifteen to twenty you ladies. We have commenced a new building thal shai) be equal to our needs, and itis to heip in completion that lask your charity. I have coliected and paid $38,000 and have $1,000 remaining towards finishing its interor. here 18 needed $20,000 more, and that Lam very anxious to raise, The great im- ortance ot this insutution is shown from the tol- lowing 1acts:—While we nave an exceilent and very thorough system of public schools in Kansas, and while there are several denominational collegiate institutions, a State University and a State Agricuitural College, yet in all these boys and girls, young men and young women are admitted togettier, ‘This is ior giris only, and meets the Wants of those parents who wish to educate their daughters io a Christian school and under parental oversight, without @ distracting association with boys and young men in tneir susceptible youth, and when their altention should not be diverted trom their studies, For this large class of persons the Roman Catholics have made extensive and costly rovision, having invested not far irom half @ mil- ion dollars in this direction within aud on the 1m- mediate border of Kansas, four of their schools in the vicinity of Topeka being said to be of the value of $100,000 each. The present popasion of Kansas is nearly or quite five hundred thousand, and the increase, tt is computed, 18 at the rate of one hundred thousand per annum. ‘the settlers are of the same Class as geacrally comprise all the Western missionary juris- diction of our Church, ‘Lhe only difference between our Siate and these Western missionary jurisuic- tions 1s that the population of it is nearly i not quite as large as that of ali these other jurisdictions combined. We therefore think tuat a more just and liberal attention should be paid to the claims of tls important and central State, The reverend prelate made anotuer final appeal tothe charity of his Metropoli.an audience, the organ peaied forth a symphony and a handsome cotlection was taken up for the College of the Sisters of Bethany. LYRIC HALL, Moral Lnspiration—Power of Qeligion De- clining—Sermon by Rev. 0. L. Frothing; ham. Lyric Hall, between Forty-second and Forty- third streets, Sixth avenue, was yesterday morning crowded to its utmost capacity, notwithstanding the unpleasantness of the weather. After the pre- liminary singing and prayer were concluded the pastor, O, B, Frothingham, commenced his sermon; but, as quite common with him, announcing no text. The reverend gentleman said, who does not regret the decline of the heroic virtues?— for since then the grander moral qualities have been on the decline. Calculation is taking the Place of charity. What we now call common sense 4s selfishness looking out for our individual welfare, ‘This is due to the prevalence of rational ideas. Tne more reasonable people become the more virtuous they become, Truth, simplicity and honor will vome forward and take their proper places. There are few men and women who are rational, and who can noid an idea in their minds until it becomes an acting principle in them, never to be cast aside, never to be forgotten. How many are there who can classify their thoughts? There are very few whose iaculties are so weil trained as to be able to trace the effects of present events in the far future. ‘The reason 1s the PRODIGIOUS POWER OF PASSION in our own enlightened society. We see clear- headed, strong-minded men carried off by it daily, In @ conflict between passion and reason in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred passion 1s the victor, Since this 13 so, instead of bewatling the almost uselessness of reason, were it not better to conquer passion by passion? As Passion rules the day, the former ages had an im- Inense auvantage over us in the belief of Curist. ‘To the rude and uneducated this was a tower of strength. Let you understand it as they under- stood it several hundred years back and it will work as poweriully now. It was to them a picture, an image, but so perfect that it lived in their sight, looked in their eyes and spoke to them. He who has lived on earth with a body like theirs and sinned not; who bad the same temptations and swerved not; who never had where to lay His head and complained not, was thew Deity. This was He whom they worshipped, and not as a being whose sufferings were over, but whose heart bled tor every unrepentant sinner; who was still Taising the lowly; not stooping, for He never stooped, but coming navurally and taking their hand, and at last dyiog rather than give them up. What a lesson of entire self-denial | to think that this Being was yet living and ruling the world; to think that this Being was a judge— a@ judge who would not only judge ail their actious, but their thoughts, their very wishes. ‘Tis 1) was kept continually beiure their eyes—by we sculptor in stone, tne painter on canvas, the mu- sician In music. Passionate, unreazoning as we people were, why Were not all men carried away ? ‘They Would have been had not the world been just as stupid as it was, requiring @ revolver to put an idea into a head. Now that DIVINE IMAGE 1s gone, has entirely jaded from the minds of men. Protesianusm begun aud rationalism completed it. Provestaniism vegan it, because it took away the image, the music, and has replaced them by an image on the eye, It opened the New ‘Lestament, told them to read, and one by one the element were taken apart. But what effect does this image on the eye dave on the inhabitants of New York ? Does 1+ keep them from induiging their besulal pas- sions, from perjury, from fraud? Although the symbols have veen destroyed has the reality? No; it lives as effectively as ever. But peopie have been so long accustomed to look for their God in the skies that it is almost impossibie for them to love a simple, natural person like Christ. None are more godiess than those professing the greatest love for God; none are more Christless than thuse who seem to love Him most. The DOCTRINE OF RVOLUTION is that society grows like @ tree; that as many things heip it on so retard bul caunnot stop its growth. Men think that Providence ts outside themselves and will make society grow without their help. They think if He wishes peace they shall nave peace. The result of this is there is n0 moral enthusiasm, If He judges it 18 imperti- mence in them to judge. They are called upon to prostrate themselves, ull their hair, &c., but not to help themselves, 1s it for God or man to settie the Alabama ciaims?—whether we shall be ruled With justice or injastice? The world 48 ours—the career of the future is ours, But these have not been given to us unconditionally, for we will be held responsible for all our deeds; and every deed and every thougit will be weighea in the unerring SCALES OF PROVIDENCE. Who are they that keep back improvement? The knave and tie fool. See the man whose life is devoted to some noble end. He 18 regarded not merely a8 an individual benefactor, but as a helper of all mankind. Of course, in the cause there is room for fanaticism. Well, if we are under this action of evolution we need not work. ‘The brakeman is as necessary as the engineer, and the engineer as necessary as the brakeman. Iu thia, however, there are no stopping. laces, Christiamty ever moves iorward. y stead of the * Goiden Rule,’ live for others—in- stead of “ Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Understand yonr own relations, aud you will be a link of the golden chain ot Goud’s crea- tures, and do the part you alone cau do. Singing by (the congregation and benediction closed the services. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, The Love of M and the Thercot—True Use of Riekes. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday morning from Matthew xill, 22—“Tne deceittuiness of riches,” In the Old Testament wealth was recognized as a blessing. It was God’s sanction upon those who obeyed him, The New Testament condemns only the andue love of riches, There 1@ not an evil in the world that has not been set 00 foot by the love of wealth. Biches. poweves med, bave @ Danger Wichin the inst week men have | dangerous side. They deceive men. God hasem- Ployed riches for the development of society. The World has been bicssed by tem, On tno whole, commerce has been an evangelizing element in the World, Communities that ate poor never thrive. Riches are not necessary for the indlvidual, out they are for the masses, The desire for ricaes is more universal in thisland than in any other. The equality of meu is acting in this land and tends to stir men up. We Lave aiso a stimulation derived trom the climate and the soil. Over this land nave been spread the young, daring, ambitious and enterprising of all lands. There is & universal movement in our society for accumu- lating weaith. All the ways which promise speedy Wealth are absolutely choked by those who are de- sirous Of money-making, All appreciate money, because they know how mighty an instrument it is in the hands of men. We are not to inveigh against riches, when we see how much the world, the Church and society owe to wealth; but we are to polat out the dangers attending an undue love of hem. No man ts hurt who fixes hia eye on wealth in order to accomplish good; but thet insidi- ous transition irom a for riches a8 a power to @ desire {0} Men do not com: their own state at one time to that of another; they hi J meter With which to decide whether the heat of their pursuit ts healthful or not. Sec ond, in @ transition irom ® moderate desire to & feverish one there is much to be dreaded. It first eee intemperance, — @ disease, =e finaily 2 are very few musera, & large humber of men who have in them the elements of lation of money. Those who collect books and pictures oiten want them simply because they are rare and eise has them. Dia you ever see a farmer wno did not want all the land that bounded his? There 13 @ tendency in every individual to gratily his personal tastes beyond a mere normal condition. Wealth is deceitful aigo in taking the piace of legitt- Mate enjoyments of life. I love to see & young man go into business, ambitious of success and distinc- Uon, alive to all the beauty of lic. Iregret to see one Who cuts himself aloof from everything but mere money-getting. OLD CURMUDGEONS will tell young men, “Let everything alone until you make money.’”’? And if you do so, when the money 1s made you are as dry and shranken as the leather pouch that holds your ducats. The approach of avarice is insiduous, It steals over meu &3 SiCK~ a comes—gradual at first, but ending at last in jeato. Very few peovie like to watch the progress of avarice in themselves, Youth 18 generous, Most young men starting out with good iutentions are generally better than they are forty years after. ‘there must be industry and close application to business. Money never comes by accident. ‘Tne very process of making it may be a means of educa- ton tf it only rigatly condacted; but how easy 16 is for @ man to grow out of proper economy into elegant stinginess! Nobody likes to be called stingy. Ii a man earns twenty thousand a year aad gives away six cents even he ‘ton’t Like to be called stuungy; but charity seldom grows in proporuon to wealth. A greal many grow up Without suspecting that they are becoming mean and hard in money matters. i may give away one-tenth of what learn when my income is one thousand @ year; but ti I should give away one-tenth when my income becomes one mll- lion it would be considered @ wonderiul benevo- lence. ‘Lhe deceitiuiness of riches 1s shown 10 the disproportion of benevolence between the tme when @ man commences @ business career and ‘when he has become what Lhe world calls rich. Another danger 1s in self-vonceit. If @ man goes through a crisis and comes out all right he feels like @priuce, because he 18 the only man who has not failed in his business. When @ man becomes sel{- conceited he has gone into universal BANKRUPTCY OF MANHOOD, When Wall street becomes the klugdom of heaven, and mn crown themseives in sell-gratulation, has not wealth become deceltful, corrupting to them? ‘The poorest man 1n tne world is the one Who touches his tellow men in the fewest poiats, Meu shouid be like great trees—streiching their roots north, south, east ana west. Suppose a tree should lose ali the Toois on the north side, and say, ‘1am now more of a tree than ever,” what sort of @ tree wouid it be- come when it withdrew all its roots from tne soil avout it? This deceitiuiness 1s found also in the perversion of men’s minds as to what riches can do for them. When they think this world is good enough for them, and they don’t want another, how are they fooled! Suppose @ man 1s worth @ hundred millions and 1s shut up in itis bedroom with the gout, how much is he worth? lf @ man 1s worth Mfty millions and mts beside the cradle where nis only darling lies dead, what is he worth? There are some toings that money.can’t do tor you. It can’t buy peuce, love, hope, consolation or fidelity. When the soul stands between two worlds, bankrupt towards one and @ stranger to the other, you will find that money 1s sometimes @ helpless thing, Take heed of the deceitfulness of hope in riches. Every man is sure a he begins that he is to be @ rich man, It is the BEAUTY OF YOUTH that it looks for no difficulties; but men become double bankrupts in heart and ket when to se cure What they desire they sucrifive all the graces of manhood and the refinements of society; but those who are carrying day by day the thanks of tie thousands whom they benefit by their money, have aright to be jappy in theirriches, If you take a violin and snap alt the strings but the bass, Paga- bint himself would bring no music irom it, So men graaually break all the springs of their nature but the one of avarice, and then of course they can expect no melody in thetr lives, Men promise themselves that when they become rich they will give great sums to charitable pur- poses. ‘They will baild a hospital or endow schools or help all their friends, @ troable with such men is that they never getrich. They get $10,000, ‘They say that 13 good yeast, and if it is nid in three measures of meal it will produce something, In ten years thev have $50,000 or $100,000, They are not rich, however. They think that is simply agood start for a man in business; and so at flity years of age they have $10,000,000; but they are not rich. No, for God calls them, and they must leave all they have made to give account of the way in which they have used their wealth. If you have been accustomed to feel that you are not yet in danger, the peril has already commenced. A man who is accumulating money needs to humble him- self daily before God and say ‘Lord try me and see that there is no evil way in me.” If you have no moral purpose, no consecration, no conscience, woe be to you. May God in nis mercy guard and guide you, Speaking to you day by day of the ricnes of an inner manhood. SOUTH SECOND STREET METHODIST CHURCH. Sabbath School Jubilee—Sermon by Rev. W. C. Steel. ‘The exercises in the South Second street Metho- dist Episcopal church during the day yesterday nad reference to the Sabbath school work, and was akind of jubilee, In the morning Rev. W. C, Steel, of Harlem, preached a very appropriate sermon introductory to the subsequent services. His text was taken from the eleventh chapter of Ecclesiastes, and the sixth verse—“in the morning sow thy seed.” In his introductory remarks the preacher said that there was nothing which had so agitated the Chursh so generally in later years—nothing that had been of so much interest to parents, eapectally in its relation to the Church of the future, as the question of the relation of onildhooa to the Church of Jesus. Great and strong ecclesiastical bodies had been shaken from centre to circumference by the question of baptismal regeneration, as to whether a child was regenerated by the sprinkling of symbolic drops of water upon the brow, or whe- ther special grace 18 conveyed by this formal rite, Aluch 98 was thought of tue rite of baptism, if the neglectful parent tailed to provide it tor his child there coula be no guilt on the part of the child, for gullt always involved the power of choice. The great Scripture doctrine that the Lord Jesus took upon him haman nature, thus dignifying and deify- ing it, formed the golden ladder up Whose shining rounds children were climbing from every nation and tribe under Heaven. This point was cloquently elaborated, aad then the ‘aker proceeded to say that children should be dedicated to God in bap- for tnat rite had taken the place of circum- cision under the old dispensation. After children became accountable the responsibility was trans- ferred from Christ Jesus to parents, which was fear- Tul to contemplat Then it was that the divi command came, “Sow im the morning thy seed. Parents should listen to the sermon trom the wheat flela—to care for the littie ones in the morning of life, to take the bud with the morning dew apon it and lift 1t up to God before it was withered and its leaves beaee to lal. The seed to be sown was the ‘word of God, and one of the great proofs of its div- intty Was to be found in the fact that in the Bible were jessons so simple that any child could under- stand them; the picunres were painted with such a skilful pencil that they could be seen at a glance. It ‘was proper that the great elemental traths of Scrip- ture should be tangnt in early childnood; for if the truths of theology were not taught then tney would be jelly-fish Christians, and any popular heresy that might come sweeping past a8 a wind from the pit of darkness would sweep them away. In these days of sensational Sabbath school entertainments, the Cardinal traths of the Bivle ought to be kept promineutly before the minds of obudren, fort was by the truth they were to ve sanchified, ‘The principal sowers of the seed must be the parents at home, who were to teach religion, not only by precept, but by the silent power of char- acter. ,Young people were shrewd observers, ‘They could tell by a glance of the eye whether firmgess nau degenerated into anger, aud whether the force of parental discipline was being desiroyed by In- voking Satan’s power to eoiorce it. Firmaess and gentleness should characterize home government. Some people might consider Abraham an old foxy because of his strict family discipline im wishing to enforce the principle of obedience, Which leads some of his successors to prohibit their boys {rom being in the streets late at night; out his wisdom was ona | the prosperity that attended nim when coatene a with the evil that vefei Ell. The minister —_ 3S Sabnath school teacher were also command ioe feed the lambs and lead them to the Good Shep} , Jesus the closer could be and the nearer one got to Jes! ould. be get to Him with the children. |The ey var. sown prayerfully, and the conversion of The wo ward Augustine "in answer to the prayers mother, was cited as a notable insiance Wo engour- the falta of the duterems Rowers Be had tioned to in their labor in this bettie § field. There were in tne world over seven milla: of Sunday school scholars avd about one haw and seveaty (housaud Sunday school teachers, sow. Jog the moraing seed, which will have the wiole @ay’s sunbeams to germinate, Within the last tem oars 250,000 children bad been converted to God. ‘ne seed must be sowa judiciousiy, perseveriugly and believingly; und the teacher should follow tue example of Christ, who pointed itis finger to the lily anu directed his eye to the sparrow. In conclu sion, the benetits of early conversion were enume- Faied, and the faith of childiood commended to the more matured in years, who, by contact with alse frienas, had the faith principle weakened. A cuild on its Knees could see farther iuto heaven than & philosopher on tiptoe, in the afternoon and eyening addresses were de- livered by distinguished Sabbath school men, which were tnterspersed with singing by the members of Sens. Which 18 oue of the largest in tunis du UNITARIANISM. Sermon by Dr. Freeman Clarke at the Church of the Messiah. A DEFINITION OF UNITARIANISM Man is Saved by Keeping a Con- science Void of Offence. At the Church of the Messiah yesterday morning Dr. Freeman Clarke, the prominent divine of the Unitarian sect, preached a sermon that may be de- signated with great truthfulness as the Unitarian platform, Asit was preached for a specific pur- pose—namely, of putting before the religious world a clear and concise statement of the bellef of this sect, by an authority whose praise and whose Bteadfastness to the principles of this sect ts echoed in ali the Unitarian churches—we have given ita more than usual prominence. Dr. Clarke selected his text from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of St, Matthew, and the seventeenth verse—“I am not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil.” 11s often asked “What do Unitarians believe ?"— and I propose to answer the question this morning. Ishall awell on the positive side of their bellef, not the negative. People sometimes say, “You tell us What you do not believe, but we wish to know what you do believe.’ The question is a fair one. A system of mere negative 1s not a religion, aud can- not take the place of the most imperfect religion. Criticism 1s not religion. We must remember, however, that a system is not necessarily negative because it looks so and ls callea so, Christianity at first looked very nega- tive to the Jews. It put an end to the solemn rites and awful forms of Jewish worship—to the dally sacrifices, tne priesthood, public prayers, public worship in ail its forms. The Psaims of David, which had been chantea in alternate strains for. 1,000 years, were to be heard no more, The Sab- bath was to end, having been kept sacred from the time of Moses, Christianity knew no temple, no altar, no priesthood, no sacrifices, no great feasta, 1c was to destroy sacred seasons, sacred places, 8 acred persi sacred things. Was not that & system of negations? 1t must have seemed so, Yet Jesus says, “I am Dot come to destroy, but to fulfil” Much might seem to fail away, but tne suo- sauce of the religion, its essential truin, would re- maia and be taken up into something higher, tie filled in something better. And soit was. WHat JESUS SAID we can also say. Unitarianism has not come to de» stroy, but tofuifll ; not to make us love God less, but more ; not to give us less faith in Christ, bus. more; not to make sin appear less odious, but moreso; not to take away our reverence for the Bible, but to add to it; not to make us believe less in prayer, put to believe in 1 more fully; not to make life less earnest, grand, hope- iul and divine, but more so—much more 80. Let us see now this 13, or may be, first—Unitarianism 18 not come to destroy the belief in God, but to fulfil it—not to make it less, but to make it more, By teach! the simple unity of God as one divine Person, and reviving the myste- Tious doctrine of the ‘irmity, it brings the Detty nearer to the human mind and heart. Unitarian- ism teaches that God isa Father, needing no pro- pitiation, no ‘atonement, no sacrifice, in order wo be e able to forgive His penitent child. It teaches that He is not only above the world as its Creator a uier, but algo in the world, in all nature, in the air ano sunshine, in the flowers and stars, m history aud providence, in the reason and con- science Of man. It does not speak of an angry but of one who Chastises noe for His pleasure, but for our own profit, It does not speak of a partial God, selecting some of His children to be saved and leav- Ing the rest to be lost, but of one whose love, lke His devotion, embraces the evii and the good, and whose divine decree 1s, that not any should perish wholly and forever. it teaches that He 13 nota being who interferes sometimes by special provi- dences to reward or punish, but one ail of whose ways are for good and who never leaves Himseir Witnout a witness in human hearts and lives. So 16 fulfils the doctrine that God 1s above the world as a Sovereign, by honoring sim also in ali things as their support, im our hives as their guardian, in our thoughts as their inspira tion, in our hearts a3 a perpetual iriend. Second—Unitarianism fultiils the orthodox idea of inner by showing tuat ne has in nim also the capacity for all goodness and holiness. it does not deny the siniulness of sia. It teaches that stn is not only tue road to heli, but that itis @ neil itself; that selfishness 18 hell; that faisehood 1s hell; thag 80 long as we live away from goudness and God we must teed on husks and have no iaward peace. But besides sin it sees in man something higner and better. It declares that he 1s tne child of Goa, ‘with the spark of a divine life in his soul; that con- science in him is the solemn voice of tue spirit; thas reason is the light of God ia his understanding; that EVERY THROB OF LOVE is the evidence of the divine presence in bis is free— or evil. soul. Jt teaches that he free to choose right or wrong, good Orthodoxy has seen only naif the truth concerning mao. Ithasseen the dark side of his ile, which allies him to earth, sense and evil. It has failed to gee the other, 1t has thought it wrong to try to see the other. It supposes God is most honored whem man is most humiliated. Its piety has consisted in putting its hand on its mouth and its mouth in the dust, and crying, ‘‘Unclean, unclean” But do we honor a great artist by depreciating bis work? Suppose the lovely heads of Kapnacl and the proph- ets and sibyls of Michael Angelo could think and speak, would they honor tier creators by declari themselves witvout beauty or wauting in value Wouid it glorify Michael Angelo to say, “Thou art a great artist, but ail thy works are mean and con- Ttemptible?”? We are the workmunship of Goa, and His highest and best works, the crown of His whole creation. Ii we are utter failures can God bea t artist? What we have made of ourselves is {Ow enough, poor enough; but what God has made within us and itends to make us is something more glorious sun, more tender and holy than the sweetness of summer noon, with all its Charm of early birds, and herb, Loy and 3 del og fragrant and glittering in their diamond dew: Tis truth Upitarianism had added to the truth of orthodoxy. It nas not yet fully seen or stated it; but when the whole ot this side of human nature is made known theg half-truth of orthodoxy will be changed into the Whole truth of Christianity. Then the reai evil ot sin Will be seen to be, taat it de- grades and darkeas this wonderful creation of G the majesuc soul of man, Then 1t will appear thal the future punishment of sin 13 not tne great evil to be dreaded, but sin itself, because 1b separates us trom God, and so puts death into the soul instead of life, darkens that inward light by which the ure in heart see Him, and turns into @ den of Rhieves that human heart God_ made to be His noblest temple, His house of prayer. But even in this lowest; Unitarianism sees some- thing good in man, and declares that even when he chooses the Way and oy ito outer darkness, away from the light ai fruth, he has ey teaching me ee aw i and an desire So It fuifils the doctrine of human Soe ae een iawn Heepest: deprauaton 6 and show: at inate child ot God, See im nim the seeds ami On ea umuarranisen lulfig the orthodox Por of Christ asa divine being, with the le pe face and perfect humanity. has ag hyd calis Christ man os aoa Le oo ae a the mauhoud. But Unitanianism teaches that tae divinity of Christ was that of 4 0 t a humav thy ay all respects like His brethren—our brother, tness shows we greatness of our nature. its ot someting exceptional and miraculous, but, that what Christ was we shail £29, ecome e: that He Is in i. i roa who , beauty and po 3 15 reo nay gthe glory THou gavest M@ 1 have given Tau? He is the most entirely human of all human beings. He is the truest mam the world has ever He 1s a8 OUR MODEL OF HUMAN NATURE, that we may all grow luto His likeness and fulness and come to the stature of @ perfect maa in Christ Jesus, All the supernatural influence ide received was given thet He might become more truly natural. He was divine in order to be human, He was made in the image of Gol that He might be in all respects like His brethren— the type and example of pure haniantty. In cating Christ God, orthodoxy has attempted to ‘ive Him tbe highest possivic houor, Bui some« lines We sAY MOre by not saying so Much. The lan~ guage of enthusiastic school girts, abounding im eaperine yen which deciares a thing | “pertecuy splendid’’—mewning that it 18 rather pretty—has Not as Much force as & lower bul more eXact state. ment, Against excursive siatements there 18 @ TO, @CHOD LD OUF MIN WAICR CAtTive Ud boo for Me OtUS