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RELIGIOUS. eae yuh im amitiog the God intend to um for dications of anger? Yes, ‘wanted (0 ‘mm at tne head of his children into the Land of Promis®, but was refused, ‘This was @ liitie hard, you hed y. His character wasso pure, so immaculate, these blem- coy 7 been overlooked; but not #0; he DESIRE OF HIS HEART. But do you think he did not go to heaven? His Was only an ecciesiasuical punishment, Canaan was the type, heaven the antetype, He lost the one to secure the other. The reverend gentleman then eloquently described the last scene in the great life of Moses, that of going to on Mount Pisgah, ing to the word of the Lord. When he swung his mantle around fim and said farewell to his children and without @ murmur turned to die, iL was the sublimest of all his great characters istics, The world has pever seen another spectacle like it, It was a fittimg termination to a grand and Prince of Peace if All the Churches. pr, Rylance on the Entry of Qhrist Into Jerusalem: P Sunday —Glad Hosangas to te # glorious Jife. Viewing it to-day, in the nineteenth r PR century, there cannot but one conciuston, \< er of Moses, let us all imitate it so far bons of Palm 9 lay and the Unde so that like him we may shine. Study his meek Power af Faith, by Dr, Friel. ness, remembering that the God of Moses is our God od _ CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, teary Ward Bescher on | gay tue visa Bomont of Relaion—Sormon f the Imagination. by Rev. Dr. John H. Morrison, of Newton, Muss. ae Following up the series of sermons by leading bne Catholic fon to the Col- Unitarian clergymen of the country on the special os tenets of ther faith, at the Church of the Messiah, ored Race Described by Dr, Vaughan, corner of Park avenue and Tnirty-fourth street, ‘Was a sermon delivered yesterday morning by Rev. Dr. John H. Morrison, of Newton, Mass. There Was a large congregation present and the discourse ‘was listened to with deop interest. Advanced in years, and with gray hair and beard of patriarchal ‘pr. Andrews on Christian appearance, the fire of youthful energy was not Self-Sacrifice. wanting. His sabject was “Jruth the Vital Ele- —a ment of Religion,” and his text Phillipians ly., 8—“Whatsoever things are true whatsoever BT. MARKS PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL | things are lovely. His introductory point was the (RUB CH, necessity of'high-toned manliness. to high develop- i N aaena maaana mane ad ment, He showed this in the Ke gl the mppinems Tho Entry of Christ into JerusalempThe Ee- fs ju of babe ane i pony 7 coal. | tablishmeat of the Spiritual Kingdom—Dp) GENEROSITY AND NOBILITY OF ‘AMERICAN YOUTH to come and-enrol themselves under the Apostolic banner which Ohrist entrusted to His Aposties. No life couid be more nobly spent, none would deserve @ brighter crown, than thas which they might consecrate to the saivation of the poor colored people, He asked of the generous men and women who are iree from tes to come for- ward and give themselves to the work; and he begged of ail to contribute Liberally toward the edu- cauon of missionaries and toward providing all those things which are necessary for carryiug on the mission successfully. Many come from Muro) and give themselves, but Americans are doub! bound to give every help they can and to make even great sacrifices for the sake Of the millions who are their fellow subjects and an integral part of their fonutation.. Any m haying alms to send might eave them with the Rey, Dr. McGiynn or with any of the persons whose names are mentioned in fo Sage which has been distributed upon the eub- ject. Quite @ handsome collection was taken during the mass in aid of Dr. Vauxhan's mission. All the col- kections at the masses yesterday were donated to the same object, GRACE CHAPEL, Sermon by the Nev. Mr. Kremer on Humility, ADrief but timely and eloquent address was de- livered at this church yesterday at tne close of the Morning prayers by the Rey. Mr. Kremer. Without selecting any text In particalar he preached from the Epistle for the day, beginning, “Let tnis mind be in you, which was also'tn Jesus Christ,” and pro- ceeded to show that humility was one of the great est of the Christian virtues, and one which tt specially behoved us to cultivate in the Lenten season, In the world lt was, no doubt, true that humility was not favorable to success, Suc. cessiul men were generally those who pushed theinsely: forward aud asserted thelr right per, The world made for gave way to them, AS an ex- ample in point, he all tothe well re siguation of Hooker, as preacher at a large = an cuareh, the ‘author of the ‘Ecclesigstical lity,” and one of the best mm in most profouna theological thinkers of his day, ‘or of an alto- ther tuferior man who challengeg his position. looker closed his letter to the bishop upon this sub- ject by saying that his rival w: 6 Was sure, & a food men, That was the spirit ‘of the true chr and the practice of this Christian grace of humility wos, it might be understood, & isadvantage in the world. the humble would exalted by their Hea’ a that course by Rev, Dr. Rylauce. mu SENTIMENT. Rev. Dr, Rylance, the pastor of the abdve church, it de the Tea fring ma. or was yesterday assisted in the morning service by a Loge Rear tel hey accepted the jv. Mr. Tuttle, chaplain in the United States Army. spel of rist, but was notning only as they Mr. Rylance seiected St. Luke's description of fearcned a poate bl orp tages} bps eo all 6! hrist’s entry into Jerusalem as the subject of nis | duties of religion. rb e inant love and sweetness of iscourse, After referring to tae prophecies of the | experience, ming of Christ the pastor briefly described the fiat ‘Poca through Ae haope fe oe try of the Lora into the Holy City. Thys was tho to a er spheres of if ey wanted the kind @ay ta which Vbrist, who had Jefi behind nim Gall- jh bnlarged and liberauzed f religious truths W! fier Marek There which have no ge mt an atone The great truths or i are to fis) itu med by the lights of affection jee, had come to Jerusalem, He jd the Jewish | ybbath with Simon, tie leper, where Mary brought THE PRECIOUS OINTMENT pnd anointed the head of her Lord, and Judas bee gyi is pm pg ho peatbingeane ee leo obided her. Alas, how rapidiy Judas was husten- | non more envied than the young man \ g towards tne hour when he should say, “How | WhO comes into the i of in Possession he wants, but has no religion’ in his heart—nothing to raise himself aboye himself. In their religious faith men found all that elevated and exalted human nature; all that a inspiration to life and guuch wili you give me iu return for the head of the rd?” Jesus at this ime was not going to Jerusa- lem iguorant of what was to foliow,. Ou the following jay he set forth to enjer the Holy City. Let us joln duty; all that embodied realization of the highest ideals of the poet, the farthest conceptions of the ‘the company of those who are philosopher. it required not t alent or learning to 1h. ¢ GuIMEING/SHR ALOPRS OF MOUNT OLIVET appreciate the Saknn shay will lift one up, the their way to commence the {oly Week. The | truths that will quicken the finer emotions, the Aime of the feast of tne Passover was bear, and the | truths that make a cheerful home, of tho most People who caine out to meet Him with palms im | cheerless walls, the truths that fill the Bhew bands welcomed Him as the Messiah that | soul with monies. Let them Prophets hat foretoid. The miracle of ratsing Laza- ‘Tus had exctted them, and as Me met them they t their garments upon the ass and escorted Him ito te city, As they neared Jerusaiem the goodly compuny we.e mict by Otuers comiaz uD WIM PALMS IN THEIR HANDS, djvipe recall the most salady who have passed away, of the sweet huminty of their lives, such was the life of the woman at the foot of Jesus, such was the life of Paul, and such has been the lives of thousands, men and women, who sought alter truth as the | highest duty on earth; men aud women who dare «Which they strewed in his way and sung their ho- | to doeverything for the truvh; men and women aunas, Whar strange and sad thougits must | who have been unknown in this world and gone ave passed through His wind as He remembered | away to their graves “unwept, unhonored and un- that this same multitade who now rent the air | sung,” but who nave @ record on high, Above all with festa acclamatious would so0un cry ont tor | the rest was tne Ilie of Him who lived in the bosom the release of Barabbas and for Christ's crucifixion! | of his Father—the great living exemplar of the The minister dwelt upon ail ihe events following | Vitality of truth. the “eg! of =e aie lato etaeeeh ee referred Jo the fact of His entry as showing that the Lora ‘: OTE 7 ql ut not care for the adulation of tae people. Heald SPAN.SH PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ot greet those who came out io meet Him : AS AN EARTHLY RULER. ‘Ho Was no party leader, no political zea'ot, coming $o Gre the public heart. My heart burus within me When I remember the baseless tnsults which intide.s have heaped upon His holy name—that He was an ambitious man comlug to establish an earthly king: ‘dom, and that His crucinxion was THE PENALVY OF HIS FAILURE. ‘There {8 not. a shadow of evidence for the insina- Auion that the Lord tutended to set up an earthy | kingdow. He pauses to weep over the guilt of the | Metropolis, Strange means these to gain the poll- teal love of the multitude. In ali these exciting sceues we can detect no confederation with the | dominant powers; bat His whole course shows un- Beldshness and a meek and lowly desire to bow to ihe wilt of the Father. Jesus nad, indeed, come to | Word of God. The hymns, t%, are sung in tie De another type trom those we haa seen belore Him. e ianguage. it was reaily interest: to see His reigo was one of rightcousness, v ty-enghy jons—men, women, young bo! sahd if TO REACH TO THY WHOLE RACB, girls—cntér tie churn, singing « processional hyma, Qn to redeem maokind from their sins and iniqui- | to proclaim before the numerous congregation Ges, His whole lite siows that He came into tue | their evangelical falth. The music and singing were ‘world to save Sinners and carry out the divine wil! | admirably rendered by Ailss R. Morensi, accom. oO! His Father, who gave Hii a crown of thorns as panied by Miss Eurle, Siguors J. F, Martinez and Qn tmberitance, . Boy. pnger the gol direction of the eanepihed rofetkor, Siunor ramionte. After the chant- ng of ine hymn ‘*Benedice Anima Mea,” the Right Rev. Bishop Potter proceeded to administer con- firmation tn his usual ruorical form. There was a noticeable share of attention paid to the ceremony by all present, The lady portion of the catechu- mens were dressed 10 white, Many of them were Sermon by Bisuop Peiter—UConfirmation ot Twentyecjght Cubans and their Reception into the Protestant Church, Tue Right Rev. H. Potter, Episcopal Bisnop of New York, confirmed yesterday, at the church in -second street, between Fifth and Sixth ave- hues, twenty-eight catechumens belonging to the congregation of the Spanish Protestant Episcopal Church of Santiago. This church Js the first Spanish Proiestant congregation organized in America so far as is yet know. The prayer book, translated into Spanish, ts read im its services as well as the SiVENTH STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL caUnog. The Life and Character of Moses—Sermon by the Rev. C. Backman. eg TOE: | Oe AOS MA The services yesterday morning at the Seventh - very’ 3 interesting’ appesrates, | ter sishop Btrect Methodist Eptscopal church were extremely Lead as gone taroush the service Li at ; st confirmin, is Cuban circle he undertoo! Wel attended, inouy sratigets being Bottoed in the.) (oe tecontary duly of plousy wadressine (her ae large congregation, The Saboath school children were seated on either side the spacious gailery, their presence adding not @ Uttle to the pleasant and iinpressive sceve, The pastor, Rev, C. Back: Man, occupied the pulpit, and delivered a very in- lercsiing and instructive discourse on the life of Mor based upon the tenth verse of the last chapter ot Deuteronomy—“And there arose not a propiet since 1n Israel like unto Moses, whom tne Lord knew face toface.” Ever since he began to read the Old Testamont Scriptures the pastor had been | siook hands with those Whom he had confirmed, bf the opinion that Moses was the most remarkable | ha were formally inoduced to him by Rector ‘alma, Muu that ever lived, excepting the man Christ | she Jesus, and that opinion in later years nad been in- teusitied, The life of unis woaderful man presented three great epochs of forty years each. First was that spent in the Egyptian Court, where he grew to mental manhood and where be was cultivated, aud here se grows upon our esteem as a maa of in- tegrity aud shrewdness, a MAN OF COLOSSAL CHARACTER In resisting all the corrupting influences surround. tng bim, ana in matotatning hissimplicity. He most nobly fulfilled hia mission. ‘The second forty years of his life’ were strange, indeed. Surrendering all the charms of the Egyptiau Court, he went out @ Wanderer, living @ nomadic life, and during this & riod of isolation and seciusion, was preparing iuself, though he Knew it not, for the hardships 0: Us last epoch, that of leading the ciliidren of Israel wo Promised Land. The prominent traits tn U @ characier o: tuis great man were, frst, nis strong Jaith in God's deciarations, seen both in respect to ts commandmeucs and promises, The story of his | Jie Llustrates tuis, dud sows tue Wonderful element | ‘of power he possessed 1n 1s implied reliance in the adinintstration of God's laws, Secondly—Tue next pr ominent feature in Moses’ character was his cheer- | ‘Ul spirit of obedience. His faith in God was the | basis of his cheer/ui obedience. He could afford to do what God commanded him to do, ‘Third—Sioses’ | Profound devotion to his work and to his people ; | nd lourth, his wonslerlul benevolence. These were ; eat features tu nis character. Save Christ Jesus, a¢ | ower's avove ali other men in his spirit of unseltish- hess. He never discussed matters for personal ends, pnd would to God, Mr, Hackman conunued, that OUR PUSLIC MEN ‘bf the day woul’ tus copy Moses, Tu) meekness Was ail astounding. en ne age LO positions of ose fe common sense and judgment they ever j but Moses never lost nis balance; the ‘wheels ! ere alWays barweniously in motion, When hie | said be was vory glad for wiat he had done for is | dear children, find advised them to profit as well as possivie by tae graces which it pleased God to be- stow on them that ar He toid them henceforward to cling :o the true falth, and not to be tossed about | bv every wina of doctrine; that now they should resolve to give up sin of every Kind. Mf anything was troubling their consciences stili they should confess to the Lord and strive to become perfect aiter the manner of Christ. They had betore them His life in the services of to-day; a life of suffering and purity aod humility.as he entered the city of derusaiem. He Mnaliy gave all his blessing, and The service was conciuded by tue singing of the bya “ihe Rock of Ages.’ ST. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Sermon vy the Rev. Herbert Vaughan, D. Do Mission to the Color:d Race=Lhe Catholic: Church ju the New Fileld=The Charity of Evangelism. je A vast congregation attended the high mass at St. Stephen’s church yesterday morning, Not only were the pews filied, but the aisles contained num- bers of worstippers unable to obtain seats, The large picture over the centre altar, the marble statues of the Virgin and St. Joseph, the crosses and principal ornaments in the sanctuary, were ail | covered with violet, In token of TH PENITENTIAL SEASON. The boys attending the priests were ciad in par. Die cassocks, and the vestments worn vy the priests were of the same color. The music of the mass was, a usual in this church, of the highest order, some fine seiections being performed by Mr. Danforth, the organist, and the singers were unexceptionably good: The Gospel of the Mass, narrating in full the passion of Christ, was not chanted by the celebrant, Rev. Par ther Lyach, but simply read, and at its conclusion the Rev, Father McCready, owing to the iliness of the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, introduced to the congregation the preacher, Rev, Dr. Herbert Vaughan, who has received from the Holy Father the mission of con Verting to the true fold THE COLORED RACE IN THIS COUNTRY. Dr. Vaughan is the Superior of St. Joseph's Apos- | folic Society, and arrived in this country last December with a number of Cathouc missionaries for the colored people, The HERALD at the time His wonder- Elevate some note ana they at once ple derided him and wurmured he bever | gave a detailed account of the interesting ceremony jawered back, but bore it Ineekly. Moses appears | Of ther departure from their college at Mili Hill, fore us, hot Only as a great military chieftalu and | London, and Archbishop Manning’s sermon on the jeader, DUL as @ great lawgiver, wud in (his he see: | reater th in any other character. Kee hun on | tassic Sinal obtaining the decaiogue fromthe hands | { God. AS & propliet, save the Lord Jesus Christ, oaes Was the mosteminent. His prophesies were f the most comprehensive nature, ana he was 1O4t eminent because he was most conversant witi, jue Word 0: God. As @ nistorian, there were none equal. His books are monuments of zeal and conned Compare them with a Rg 8 gt | er days and note the great contra! onfucius | which the Son of God brought om heave! rote many [oan social maxims and prudential | when He came into tls lower world. He practiced elations, but little to elevate tne human mind, and and (aught it from the summit of it from the cradie o-day the mass of Chinese are not regenerated. | Mount Olivet vetore He Seconded into Heaven, A conunnation of vis charity, Which prompts us to | Gevote ourselves or our substance td teac ing and Saving the most needy, isto be seenin the work Which ihe reverend prédoner invited his hearers to take @ part in. That work ig an association com foretu and vomen eho but also of Sisters, of nen, who e teuation to reclaim ©” SENG togetuer im the des THE MASSES WHO ARE PRRIEHING occasion, They have come to this country bound by vows to devote themselves entirely to the colored race. Tue reverend preacher took #8 bis text the words, ‘aS THE PATHER SENT ME T ALSO BEND You."? He proceeded to show that there 18 something especially diving ip the charity which seeks out dis- lant races and lands in order to ngelize them. Suis has been the charity which has animated the Catholic Church from the beginnings It isa charity be likewise classed, and immed has not one excellence, ex- epting the pary, Of its eloquence and diction, not orroweil from Moses and the prophets, Mohammed jestroyed idolatry; but he aiso destroyed Christian , Oan he compared with Moses? No, Mo- med rat cunning aud deceitiul, aud, taouga a general, and to preaen ihe Gospel to the foreign rac oi am oper assent CE Mar ne eon. | Seite akbar a tte Oe and mar! he con- Janity. om 8 ie Ti p| rast, One Was Of mat—tie other of God, Ait foundé H ‘cb Mam iehaa tate of 8,600 founded. Te t sotasion he more bn te ‘ caied have been sent bY the Sovereign Pont to the colored people-of the Unived States, And as tne Rociety has received Fig mission, i ray Well look lous Caihoiics o| the charjtable and Zeal this con. fy A iat iW! by every means in vhelr power, It is ears the character of Moses seo: cal, It was hot absojutely pertestiou, ‘There are two tnings that mar the picture, bi is the paroxysm of anger ho- iced when he dashed the tabies of stone in | have passed. ould be abunaausiy rewarded for welt” gell-deu! y “ and velf-sacrifige, ‘ — PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. No Sermon Yesterday—The Election of Yew Trustees on Easter Mouday—The Collections yy © Orphans. ¢ Si, Patrick's Cathedral yesterday there was no sermon preached,owing perhaps to the lengthof ume consumed in reading the Passion, Tne church was unusually crowded, it being almost impossible to get Standing room in the aisles, The Passion was not sung as usual, but was read by Rev. Father Starrs, who, after reading it, made an eloquent exhortation for the orphans, for whom a collection will be taken up next Sunday. He said:— The two days In the year which should be the happiest to all good Onristians—Cnristmas and Easter Sunday—are set aside by the church as days on which to substantially sympathize with poor orphans, whom God has been pleased to deprive of almost all tne benefits and blessings most of us possess. No loving mother or admiring father have they to care for them; theirs is not the sunny road we travel, but one obscured by the vlack cloud— death—which has forever shut out the sunlignt of father and mother. Nor 1s thetr future much brighter than thelr present; if full they should in future endeavors they have no prospect of & protecting hand being outstretcted to help them, none save that of cold charity, which from intaucy they have held. But the Church, the harvorer, pro- tector and consoler of ali who are afflicted, has not forgotten to make provision for these little parent- less ones, Her appeal to her chiluren whom God has blessed with worldly stores lag ever been an eloquent and effective one; but in a special manner is this true of this metropolis, with 1ts deserved and Well known ttle of “Uity of Charities.” It 19 to be hoped that tne Catholics of New York will emulate une lessons of the past, and do this year as they have done each succeeding year—make the present year its predecessor’s peer in munifilcent cnarity, The mass on Easter Sunday is to ve @ pontifical high mass, The Most Rey. Archbishop will give the pontifical benediction at the termination of the mass, A meeting Will be held in the vestry on Eas- ter Monday for the purpose of electing trustees in the stead Of those whose term expires on tliat day, ‘the meeting will be from eleven until three o'clock, and all the pewholders are requested to vote on the day named, NEW ENGLAND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Manner of the Death of Christ—-The Different Stages of Christianity=Sermon by Rev, im B. Wright, of Bo: The New England Congregational church, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street, was, as usual, well filled yesterday morning, Rev. Wil- liam B. Wright, the pastor of the Berkley street church, Boston, occupied the pulpit, fm the absence of Rev. Dr. Merrill Richardson, now on his vaca tion, The reverend gentieman’s subject was, the Worship of Christ Idolatry His text was Phi. lppians 11, 8,9, 10, 11—“And being found in fashion as a man, He humbied Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, Where- fore God hath also highly exaitea Him and given Himaname which is above every vame. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” He commenced with the enunciation of the idea that Christ is the centre and circumference of Christianity. Men are distinguished to-day not only for their conviction on religious matters, but for their inteilgct on any subject. One man wisies to obey Christ. Another dare not call Him God, Sul another thinks that God and Christ are one, They cannot tell why. They can simply say it is their conviction, and in tne presence of others differing with them, but who can assign @& reason for their faith, they are perplexed and troubled. The most con vincing afgument of the sun’s brightness 18 lis shining; thereiore, tne speaker said, he would merely present a few facts to tne congregation and allow them to decide for themselves wheiner or nut Christ was part of THE GODHEAD, and as such to be worshipped or not. More than eighteen centuries ago, he continued, a carpenter began vo teach in Palestine. After the lapse of three years, however, the attention of the prigsts of the time betng directed to Him, He was arrested on @ charge Of blasphemy, but, this not being a capital Offence, it was afterwards changed to heresy, aud He suffered execution, and that by the most inight- fai means, the cross, During tue éxecution He Was exceedingly meek, but declaring contimually, ‘1 am aking.” ‘To cirry out this (as they thought, good joke) the svidiers put on Lim purple and crowned Hin with a CROWN OF THORNS and knelt deridingly before Him, It seems to be In human nature to mock the unfortuaute, So the Southerners named tiew negroes Cousar, Pompey and such llustrious Dames, enjoying the grotesque absurdity of them, fhe crucifxion occurred in & remote town of a remote proviuce of the Koman empire, and 80 Was Unknown by almost all the Ro- tian noviiity, Curist was dead, aud all who lovea Him were but @ few women, Three hundred years The capital has veen changed from Rome to Coastantinopie, We are at Nice, in whose Midst is @ mobile ediice, where aie assembled ihe men HIGHEST IN INTELLECT, Constantine, the Emperor of the kKuown World, sits there, too. He is to hear trom the peers oi Pilate | the Words of the Man who Was execuied at Galilee, His words are henceforward to be @ law. Five centuries more have passed and the Roman empire has crumbled away. Chariemange i# now the con- quering hero, The Pope offers him italy, vat he knows it cannot ve his, He has failed to win we hearts of tne Italians, Anotier two centuries have passed and there is the Crusade, They tiwve gone to wrest Wwe SCEPTRE OF CHRIST from the Saracens, Again and again have the Christians charged; again and again lave they veen beaten back ike the foam from Givraitar, It is night, and some men are toiliug in 4 catnedral, To-morrow shows the result of their labor. A monk rusues out of the city, in whlch ine Crusaders had veen besieged, with a spear in tis hand, After bim pour the soiniers In a resisticss tide, and the Saracens are beaten back. Thousands are slain. At eve no vestige of themremains. The soldiers fought because they beileved that the spear was the one which was Fo sagt in our Saviour, Before knights had been scourged and would wr Oght. Now every common soidicr was a host. Centuries more havé passed, and we are in Paris, Every one 18 on tiptoe of expectation. The King rts With his mounted conruers down @ road, and soon sees & cloud Of dust approaching, He oo dismounts wit all bis woop wad Gxcuunges 8 ROYAL PURPLE FOR SACKCLOTH, his retainers doing the same, He is given by the leader of the cavalcade, which has now arrived, @ box. He takes from it @ chaste casket, and more he dare not. His hands, though Kingly, are not ft. The Pope has sent a cardinal who shail unyell the Whole. He takes from it a withered crown of thorns. aiter returning from Mount Sin e1 a8 Creme | vy cause in wis eyidenoy “nt er, Be d is absence the chudren ot become rd aud the golden call was @ Society for gathering into itself ana Sppizing the pony Which must be widely entertaing! among he Catholics of America to the millions of Atricans Who have been cast won sogiely, and Who The price . that crown has saved Greece from bank- ruptey an’ has begten back the Turk for one hundred fad Hity years, He (the minister) sald he had stood in the church where Christ had been brought vefore Pilate ‘Toe days were Wor eaev aad ous came in side by side, the it unconscious of th greatness, the low! forget their poverty. Here all was equality, onlareing this part of his discourse-he urged that 1! all the miracies of Jesus were blotted out and the man left omy as the agreed of Christiapity he was stili most adorabie. @ illustrated this by saying:—Show me a man with Tee Some ‘ON @ spire, and tt is not wonderiul; but show me one without the wings thus ele vated and it would indeed be miracuious. What ever has been touched by Christ has been sanctified, The cross, until Christ dea on it, was an emblem of infamy. Now it isthe PINNACLE OF CHURCHES the ornament of woman. The widow and her mite are still remembered and always will be. Mal 0 empress has been co! ed to oblivion. Al u do net kneel before Him yet, but He When, on the’ cross, He said He was king, the world shouted ye would have no king but Owsar, Ciwsar is dead; bis rule is over. Christ lives and rules, Christ has declared that whoever lives for Him will ve a part of Him in heaven. With this thought who cannot sufler disgrace and infamy, death and ignominy? Eigttee! hundred years ago ail the men of lear: mock Jesus. A lew women only worstiped Him, and were deemed the maddest of the mad. Now whole continents coniess His glory and kneel belore Hts throne, Christ iy yet on earth. He wili always ve here. it is only the BABIOALNE, RAD Who will not accept Him, Gibbon carried his aver- Bion 8o far as to never use the common A. D. in his history of the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire.” Now, as Cnrist ts cere through the world, Shall it be ours Lo say, “1 love Thee?’ Even so be it, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. A Sermon by Mr. Hepworth on the Ideal Howe of the Soul— Preparation for the Strugales of Life Obtained in Homes. There was the ugual large attendance at Steinway Hall yesterday, the temporary tabernacle of Mr, Hepworth’s church and congregation, Mr. Hepworth’s text was taken from Kings 1. 18, 7—"‘Come home with: me and refresh thyseli.”’ He began by saying that there is no place where refreshment is so surely found as at home, but is more or less restrained everywhere else, no matter how warm his welcome may be; but when at home and surrounded by those who love nim he throws all care aside and is refreshed and recreated. There is nothing in the world like the easy chair in which you have been accustomed to sit for years, no fre that burns with quite such a genial heat as that kindled on your own hearthstone, What a loxury 1¢ 1s, after having been in company for hours, and been compelled to talk your best and behave your best, to slam the front door in the world’s face and to tumble round the floor with the babies, It is the great boon of life, and one Which the rich man no more enjoys than the pour man. Easy chairs are the same thing the world over, no matter what they cost; for the one that belongs to you ts the best, ‘and though babies are as common as sugar plums five are the sweetest and the most cunning. lave you ever thought that we hav heen at work on iaeal house {fo at least six thousand years, how man, More I must leave tue geologist 10 decide, but t our certain Knowledge at least 6,000, and have not attained to 1: et Christendom 1s the only place in which the ideal has been approximate: evan, Christ is the corner stone of the only house that f worth living iu, There have been built a great many houses in all climes, but the houses are con- tined to Christianity, bn wu ease from fhe Alf mountalis, éastetly, td a, you find matdens sold into wifedom, ana they are very for- tuaate if they are not simply a fraccional part of the househoid aud not the sole possessor of their lord’s affections. In Eastern Europe the woman is part of the Harem, and even in Palestine the posittoi of the mother was DE no means equtvaient to tls of the fatier. I think one of the best specimens of a true home Is to be sound in New England. Noitung shows the enduring power of home iife more than an old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner. The old folks at the head of the table, the married children ranged along the sides and the Iitile ones at the loot—if there ts room for them. What a joyous Meeting! The gray-haired father asks tne blessing, the things that have happened in ail these months are discussed, and an unspeakabie joy pervades the household. Perhaps the old folks Were a little too rigid with the catechism and made religton a olt 100 formal, but THOSR, STALWART BOYS in middle life will carry to their graves the serious religous imppemiong Of their younger days, and, aA wWiil not bring their own ciildren up 4s weW as they were brought up themselves, In these days we are too civilized—is that the word ?—to have such a Thanksgiving dinner. We dov’t care to see our old fathers and mothers, with their un- gloved hands and awkward gestures and bad grammar, sitting at our city tabies, The tender louches of the olden time are left out of the modern picture. itis A ieee a responsibility to Lave 8 family of children, To have power—a power al- most sUpreme—over @ soul. is }f not a niarvellous thing? Do you Koon you can’t point out the nar- row way to the child’ unléss you walk in tt your. sell? Vink @ child measores tbe spiritual ower of its parents more accurately Han grown people can. It does this by no Teasoniug process, but by an intuition, It absorbs influences just as a sponge takes up water, and inorder to teach rour child to be good you must illustrate goodness in your own Itfe. Now, then, when that boy goes forth into tue hard, soud realities he ought to go properly armed aud equipped. He has a rigit to demand this mucn at Your bands. Youre criminal belpre God unless he is armed with all tue weapons that are needed to Insure the victory. A thousand temptations, some in one disguise aud some in another, will at tack him, Money, place, power will all offer him everything if only he will yield up his honor, tis your business to lay such strong foundations of reilgious principle in his Character that when tae time of s.ruggle and trial comes, and come it surely will, be will ,have at hand the full power of resistance. He is to become a part of the political machinery of the country, and it wil largely depend on bis early education Whether he takes part with corruption or with purity, He ig to become a part of the religions {n+ stitutions Of the laud, aud DiS faith, or want of it, will not only influence his own Il!e, but become a | power over his caildren through many generations, Ilow can | help pleading with you, then, for a care- ful religious training. t your children be armed, and let them have on the full panoply of wartare, and then they can fight the guod tight, and saving their Own souls, lead others Into the right way also. You have no business to hurry down town, to hurry through the day, (0 come back to your home ail tired out and used up. While it 1s your duty to make money, if you can doit honestly, it is much more your duty to educate your boys and giris, Less money and more religion should be your mouo BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Sermon by Mr. Beecher on the Use of the Imagination ai Aid. to Spiritual Life= Moses and bis Reliance on the Invisible= The New York Scavengers nnd their Im- agination—Greenwood Cemetery Made of India Rubber, The joyous, sunny, bright, clear, but cold weather yesterday morning, a desire to be worshippers in Plymouth church, and the reputation of Mr, Beecher filled every part of the house with a mass of atten- tive hearers at the morning service. In harmony With the festival of the day (Palm Sunday) the choir sang an appropriate anthem, Mrs. Hoyt giving the soprano solo, “How beauti(ul are the feet of those | Josus—would have moved the world as Christ had who bring glad tidings.” There wae a baptism of three children before the prayer preceding the ser- mon that gave Miss Nettie Sterling an opportunity to jJavor the congregation with a short solo, the cholr following in @shorter chorus. Both tne solo and the chorus was accompanied by the shrill trevie of one of the infantile candidates for baptism. Mr, | Veocher preached @ sermon on the use of the im. | a@gination as an aid to spiritual life. He selected | his text from the eleveni chapter of St. Paul's Epistie to the Hebrews, the last clause of the twenty-seyenth verse—'For he endured as seeing Him, who is invisibie.”? A tribute was paid at the outset to the grandeur of the character of the Old Testament sainis and to their consequent influence on the civilization of the races. Poremost among these stood Moses, who, by the Joltiness of his soul, stands out before ail the ages @ venerable historicul cause, Those who were living to-day were veneficiaries of this man; the | able breadth and Ie great teachings of our Commonwealth we have received from him. A sketch of the life of Moses, from the commencement of his public career at Jorty years to his death at one hundred and twenty, was drawn very graphically 10 an outline of words, by the preacher, after which a successful endeavor was made to show that it was a matter of historic verity that the foremost men in ail times of the world ap- peared to have lived their inner life by a depent- ence upon things invisible, This .facuity of the imagination assumed many forme; it had a con- structive facnity and a weaving tendency. How many men had imagined themselves orators; they have imagined (he audience; and they have IMAGINED THE SPRECH to, which fs generally the hardest part to imagine, (Smiles,) Others have imagined themselves busi- ness men, and if the schemes they contrived in their brain and the money they realized in imagina- tion had but found its way Into their pocket how rich they would have been, All men liave imagin- | | How had Socrates moved men and turned them asthat. We had an atmosphere ia which was this process of Christian life. The tree must have air | and light, @ favorabie soil, and it must have -NBwW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. cl Gen by princes in their jewels and beggars in their 80 have you wings, ff you only knew ft, | the speaker enumerated the different classes of Tne second oni 9 wae = need gdncation and relfgtoud care. The preacher pod y pr ape ts th tr Jewe hyn enc rf wares. youwiteaet a | ony who i a ea maggy, rougl ea: ru A and surly. » Zhey been practical men all their lives, what had the practicalness done for them? I don’t advise you to take it Up as a trade, or @ profession; it 1s not meat and drink; but it 18 @ cor- ou along the weary hin that wil enable see day by day everything orig ‘Now tals Imagin‘ion in toa large extent The truths that we obtain by the act of ratiocination are like the figures cut by the sculptor out of the sold marble, Faith makes nobie natures stand out populous in the heaveniy land by awaken. ing the affections of the heart. 1s this a power that 1s given to man to be crushed? 11 was this power vy which Moses was sustamed, He knew weil bow to d tacts.” A iew short tlustralions of this thought of h's subject led up to the follow- ing personal reminiscence:—‘Tne last vistt I made | te Washington.” said Mr, Beecher, ,‘wa3 in the lufetime of E, M. Stanton, the noblest of all the men who stood by us in the critical period of the watory of our covniry; the truest and THE WISEST OF MBN, with a wilt of thunder swelling within him; one of those beautiful natures, with @ woman's heart, a child’s tenderness and @ nature of marvelious energy. I was speaking to him on this visit of the war and of ae affairs, and {it was at a critical tume tn the history of that struggle, when there were 80 many recreants from our side willing to give all i We had endured all things, and were wiiling, I belteve, to believe all things; our conversation on | that subject bad ended; he went to his bookcase; he | took down two books; one was @ book of poems, another on generai literatdre—one of Arthur Helps books—and he read several pages to me, frat from one and then from the other. Taere he was, at this great, cloudy hour, when the destinies of the Union | Seemed to be in his hands, obtaining his recreation and his rest by books wnich Were the product of the imagination. “He did not view his work with indie ference, but went to these pages, these poems to un- bend, and hold converse wiih the imvisible, Faron our bodies by plunging into a bath. We haa learned tbe art of living in the invisible; of llving in the conacious presence of God. not opentug up thrs faculty of the soul we lock up the most glorious chamber in tne Lord's mansion—tho human nea id lock it up most ignominiously. It is in the Christian Lite as it was in the life of Moses—every man has in his tmagtnation a concep. tion of God. ‘This power of the imagination enlarges the range of our being; it gives @ new power to man’s thoughts, and re exercise it we oped up ew possibilities, and our imagination—in the real ‘sense, and not tn the cant sense—is sanctified. The trouble of men is that they see only the details of the drudgery of their weary lie. {Jt must be barren life that a has made only pins. They say that it takes twenty med lo Make a pin; suppose one man for forty years had done nothing but put heads on pins; another ey years sharpening pins. There are men whose busi- er it 1s to sewers—to dush the gewers and clean zum ornunrs ob Fai K. Is it any wonder that they neglect their work? There aré men who are night scavengers; men whose daily life is dull, dreary, disheartening, and poy degrading. you wonder that they go to heir drinking Be that hey go home only 10 a their maws and tumbie on fo their dirty straw? Go up Broadway and you will walk over the heads of thousands of men at work in asamp cellars. Look up and there are men spending their lives In dirty, dusty dirty attics, Thanks be unto God, that there 1s not one of these men who cannot, by the use of his imagination, take himself far, faraway from the filthiness, the meannesses of his dally toil, and can walk, while totling, on the golden pavements of heaven. I have known men who have sung hymns at their work Which has given to their toil an angello radience. These men had an undivided interest in the sunlight, They may look at the treasure there 13-in the banks, and not be able to draw a check; they may be unable to speculaté in Ene and otner valuable stocks; but they have a joy that no earth feanyae ot oe oeaomnons can give. soos down 8 m: 1 rubber to me, I ne nto the frave Bat Trebound in una sk 5 thd heaven above, 1 never look at the regimental march, the most touching of all marches, the long array of chiidren’s funerals and of children’s graves, without seeing the mothers, the Torhe the nurses | Who have nursed them, the iove that was around them, the prettinesses that infantile tenderness en- raves So indelibly upon the human heart.” Mr, jeecher here touched a chord that was too much of pathett unison both for himself and his congre: tion. He finished the Senteace wich a faltering voice, and the congregation to a large extent found a sud- den use for their cambric handkerchiefs. ‘he sermon was brought to a close by an eloquent but pathetic description of recognition of frieuds In heaven, and of our being Kuown there as we are known here. WORSHIP AT THE ACADEMY, A Tremendous Rosh—Dr. Chapin’s Sermon on Christian Life, There was a tremendous rush to the Academy of Music last evening. Dr. E. H. Chapin, of New York, ‘Was the attraction, and hunareds of people who ar- rived at the Academy before a quarter past seven o'clock were compelled to retrace thelr steps, as “standing room!’ could not be obtained at that hour, A larger congregation was probably never wit- nessed within the walls of the Academy, Even the aisles and orchestra were filled, while the lobbies were also densely crowded, The crush last evening presented a strange diffyrence to the comparatively meagre houses of the several preceding Sunday evenings, The services were opened by singing by the chotr, and areading of a portion of the Scriptures and prayer by Rev. Henry Powers, who conducted the services, Dr. Chapin then came forward aud announced his text from Ephesians 111., 17, 18, 19:— That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded tn love, May be avie to comprehend with all saints what ig the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Clrist, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be tilted with all tue full- ness of God. The text formed part ofa prayer. The first thing he asked them to consider was the example or moael set before them of a Christian prayer. it might be said that in one form or another most men prayed. The aspiration or desire of @ man was in some respects a prayer. Genuine Vhristian devofion was distinguished by its scope and quality and the passage to which the text belonged contained strik- ing lilustrations of bot those characteristics, Was it not the case that mapy petitions wete selfish prayers?—almost or quite Itmited to personal considg¢rations? He said notuing against desire {or personal benefit as we object of prayer, but it shouid not be the only one No man would dare to limit the flow of hia praver to nis own personal considerations, Were not men apt to ask for temporal good also? If prayer was anything more than the exercise of SPIRITUAL GYMNASTICS, something chiefly for bringing biessings down, then he did not see why we mignt not ask Him who con- trols all things for temporal good, provided we asked in fillal submission to His will, Sven through @ petition for temporal, spiritual things came. Prayer was foremost, chiefest, the agent of spiritual biessings. The prayer whicn formed this text was remarkaly distinguished from such petitions as were limiied to selfish purposes and to temporal things, Therefore it was in a most expressive sense a Christian prayer. Dr. Cuapin then proceeded to call attention to the object of this prayer, which was the process of Christian life. In the passage we had the same figure | as in the Psalmist—the tree—and without any straining of fact we might call it the tree of spir- itual sife. We had here a statement of the seminal ‘iple in the processes of the Christian life—the it showed what kind of a Christ. we must-be- in, =We_ could not extract the ideal Christ and separate Him from the nistorival. The preacher was quite sure that no Chris: of conscious ness—no shadowy myth, no mere skeleton of a moved if, The world moved; where was the force that had moved 18f Sometimes mem in @ critical mova COMPARED CHRIST AND SOCRATES the philosopher, and the comparison was sometimes Made with @ balance sligntly in favor of Socrates. from the error of their ways? Who had died with “socrates” on his lips? Llundreds of tncusands bad been moved by Christ, There were many nominal Christians, continued Dr. Chapin—Christians by custom—by holding @ vague respect for Christ. Profession of faith might be @ very iittie thing. Confession, however, implie not only an utterance of words, but conse crated testimony, He conld conceive a wavering, & backsitding Christiaa, hut he could not conceive of an exciusive Christian—a Darrow-souled Christian —A mean Christian, There conid Le no such thing aso the belp and influence from above. Man could not help himself entirely in the work of Uhristian lle, With the seed in us, the sun, the alr, the sunshine, the boundiess heavens, the tilimit- engtb, the unsurpassable love of Christ to which We aspired and to which we were | atin a, tis, tle speaker sail, was the way the pr of the Caristian life worked to its consum- Mation, to what might be termed {ruition, to be Ulled with the fullness of God, This was THE CHRISTIAN LIFE for which the Apostie prayed. There was a great deal of good as well as bad in this world. here were more saints than we thought. We were bound to them on earth and bound to them in the other world, In hits conelasion Dr, Chapin inqn: od what praver was more truly Christian than tuat Christ might dweil in our nearte by faith 81. JOHN'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Juristinn Self-Sncrifice=Se by Rev. Dr. Andrewn. i Yesterday morning Rev. BE. @ Andrews, ih P., the former pastor of St. John’s Methodist, Gplscopal Inga, or should have had. ‘Have you never put on wings?’ asked Mr. Beecher, “I have, What have Why, (have gone + ey geen in those fights! a) he top of Mount Kianc and come down Aig I nf before (he mMonstheer with his ‘AO Gin had churot, iford bag preached, fin ayle dis- or Course based upon tho forty-segon% Vorae of the twenty-seventh ohaptor of Mathow:—"lio saved pes otuers; himself He +h gavel! Jn hia oxordium | wWhostood arouad or near the cross of Cal-- ‘ary, aNd spoke of the satisfaction experienced by the chief rulers in naving Christ in their clutches, ‘who said that by some sort of alliance with unseen powers he did wonders, and saved others, “and now, if He be the Son of God, let Him save himself." The taunt was as false ag it was cruel. Christ hung there not thelr victim, but a volun- tary sufferer; for weeks before He himself amirmed, “No man taxeth my itfe trom me. I have power to lay it down and I have power to taxe it again. The Son of Mancame not to be ministered unto but to minisier, and co give. is life @ ransom for many.’ But if the taunt of the text was false in the letter yet it had a deep spiritual truth In tt. Saivation must be by suffering. Life always comes by death, Without the cross no crown 18 reached, There Was @ double necessity laid upon whosoever undertook the worid’s re- demption, First a divine necessity; something in the divine government which required an expiation' for sla, That God might be just and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus; ad 80, whosoever Would stand between the justice of God and the condemned sinner must consent to bare his bosom to the sword and by his bicod effect a rey demption for sin, But there was a numan’ neces. sity also, for man needed a convincing deciaration of the divine character, his seiflsuness belag such that 1 colored ail his thoughts of Goad and hta sense of sin 30 Keen that it awakened apprehensions chiefly touching divine righteousness, man would be won to God aud to divine heart of love Must stand disclosed befor him, It was, theielore, @ part of Christ's Hisaton upon earth to deciare God unto men, and, by the warm tenderness which He threw around the race, ag well as by the agopy and shame of Calvary, He would make mankind know that God is love. Christ, by His sufferings, led an endiess train of deemed ones to the skies; but wheu. they iy there their song would be, “\orthy ts He siain to receive nonor and glory.” ing, Was but the representa'ive Man, exbibiting, for all time, the fact that whosvever wiil help and save his fellow man must eapect to do it by self. sacritice, and sometimes even by death ttself, Apposite passi of Scripture were quoted ilustrative of this principle, after which Dr. Ane drews proceeded to say that the law o/ vicarious- ness runs through all God’s universe. Nature ill trated this trutn. It was the broken, disin dissolving rock that yielded the soil Whence faithful parva Sprang: | are the soc ae poneeny i, lose its beauty and became that yielded the bountiful corns Tt wast ns vine thi was pruned and bleeding that gave the most er- ous clusters; it was the vegetable world, en and consumed, that sustained ae life, and 15 was the Jower Classes Of auimais yielded lile to the higher classes of animal existences, \° ginduel history Was. a declaration of the same~ ‘uth, Every one who was bora with paintylness and nurtured with care and vigilance love and solicitude was a proof good resnited from sacrifice and suffering. An enlarged Civilization was the result of the sacrifices of pioneer lite, aud the existence of @ nation where the principles of liberty were, con- served and enlarged’ was the result of the sacrifice of thousands who stood the shock of battle to pre- serve their native land, This part of the subject was further illustrated by reference to ancient mythology, Which spoke Of a gulf open in Rome which some orator sald would never close until the most valuable ‘eng Oey Rome should be thrown into it A young man clad himself in armur, mounted is Charger and rushed into the chasm, which closed forever and saved Rome. 1p one of the cities f France, during a pestilence, a Young phyxician ‘ae Bink on. the altar, of a commen apie 1d do arrangements to t a vi the” Teeeus. Alter puttt te paper pont which he wrote his operatio: into & vase of vinegar he retired and died, Then the preacher’ we to roll louis history gnd instanced eran sacrifice or Moses, who 1 e v and luxury of ype, Cae age fowls" Shot the self-abnegation of the great apostle Paul, of Jud son, Who gave his life to save Burmah, and ofa young mao who .presented himself to Bishop Hedaing some years ago for pranewen to the missionar; work, who, aller the Bishop depicted the sufferin, incident to such a life, responded, like Paul, “None ot these things maye’ me, neither count. I my life dear unto me,” ‘ae distinction between morali and Christianity was this, that the former sal “Do no man no Wrong; tell the exact truth, st not, murder not, stab no reputation; while Chrisuanity rose to the sublime height uf saying, “Not only be just, but learn how to love, In the laiter rh the “enthusiasm of humanity,” something like that which led the Lord Jesus Cniiat from heaven. Tne test of Christian character waa not to be found in observance of the Sabbath and attendance upon church so much as the measure of divine power which led toa lite of self-sacrifice. This spirit could be evinced jn the humblest spheres, and tn bearing litle purdens and in yielding little preferences to promote the happiness of others. Im conclusion Dr. Andrews eloquently showed that leading such a life of self-sacrifice conduced to the development 01 the nobiest type of Christian mau- hood. In making sacrifices Tor others one might Jose ease, money, reputation and time for mental relaxation, but these were only the “incidentals? of aman and did not enter the substance of bis CHURCH OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO, ROMAN CATHOLIC, Palm Sunday and Its Lessons—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Friel. There was a very large congregation at the Church of St Charles Borromeo, sidney place, Brooklyn, at the principal services yesterday fore- noon. Rev. Dr. Friel preached the sermon, After reading the gospel for the day the reverend speaker alluded to the raising of Lazarus irom the death alter he had been four days dead, when decompo- sition was consuming his carcass, It was this miracle that convinced the Jews and caused them to proclaim their bellef in the Saviour. They beheld the greatness of His power and they bowed their stubborn will, before it. Oh! 1f men will but pause 10 contemplate the beauty, majesty, goodness and glory of God, they cannot fail to love, praise and adore Him at all times. ‘The contemplation of Hiim must be sure pledge of our love, for cannot d\ell upon His life and passion without giving our heart and soui to Him, When riding {nto Jerusalem, 1n meekness and without show or worldly display, He said unto the people, “Behold, your King cometh!’ and the muititude received Him with great joy, and breaking branches from tne trees on the wayside and taking off their gar- Ments, threw them in His path, crying out, ‘Ho sanua! hosanna!’ The lesson which tne Ohureh teaches her children to-day is that the palms which you hvid in your hands and which you will take home With you shall remumd yoo that your FAITH SHALL BE EVER GREEN and that your iove for Jesus shall never wither or decay. The cutting down of the branches symbol izes the cutting of of your evil practices—ol sin. As the garments were not thrown on either side of our divine Lord nor upon Him, but were strewn im His path, 60 must we divest ourselves of bad habits, throw them of and lay them in meekuess and penance at His feet in the confes- sionai and by worthiiy receiving the Holy Eucharist during the present week, [t nas been the greatest ditlicuity for some men to understand that there is & future, a jile to live ior; that there is @ higher re- ward to be attained by man than the mere perisha- bie things of earth. Intelligent men are frequently heard to say that they have no evideace of THE EXISTENCE OF A FUTURE STATE; Mat no one who has departed tus Ile was ever Known to come back to tei us of I. Why, such ersons Must ve Wilfaiy bind to whe Holy Serip- ures, Which is full o! incidents of testimony ilus- trative of the existence 0! @ Juture state, There ts the testimony of Christ wio took upon Himself @ mortal body—who became inan tai He might tel us Of the tfutus that are essential for enjormens eternal happiuess which He hus in store for those who keep His commandwents. Then tere {9 the evidence of Abraham; of Jacob's vision of the jadder upon Which augei# descended and ascended betweea heaven and earth; of angels who have spoken to the Prophets, tu Moses, &c. And in order that the trutus of juture ie may be preserved UNTIL THR CONSUaMATION OF TIME, He estaviished His holy Cuurch. Aud yet it 1s truly astonishing when we ponder upon the perverseness Of those people who, five days alter one Christ into Jerusalem With hosannas to the Son of David, were a very ones to cry out “Away yoo | Him | 'Cracify Him | Cracify Him! Those who had strewn the paths were now Soremont ta scourge Him; those whe had thrown garments cig Him were they who heaped inaignity upon His Sacred person, stripping Him, auc then, having Scotfe d aod Whipped iim, wey nailed Him to the cross om jount Calvary. Jats typifies also the mystery of uman changeableness; Of man’s perversity and malice; of man’s readinoss either to turn to trath or error; of the suscepUbuily o! the ignorant masses to be carried away by the teaching of demagogues and to be swayed by every Dew docirme and falee od, This lability to be carried away by vhe last speaker is not found in the Cathouce Chureh, No priest, bisiop or pontuT can lead any of the children of the nurch away, jor the yolce of God who Is tts head, Tne enildrea of the Oburch do not require eloquence to sirengthen their faith aud knowiedge, as it 13 based upon Gor Himself, and their good Works alone can bring them [0 the ehjoyment s0r which they are cre- Cm . The Doctor then urged bs hearers to cast away all gin and occasion of sin Guring this Holy Week, and not to imitate the Jewg during the ensuing five days, Dut to ponder upon His passion; to resolve never again to wound Hilyl, and to approach the sacra. ments of confession and communion, In conela- sion Vather Frig) made an eloquent appeal in benalt of that nobie band of womep, tig Sisters of Mercy, of the House Of the Good shepherd. He spoke ot the cross wien, MAG pleased Our Lord to send the Institution (Ube fever), but way assured thut the pro- cessigh Wes moving On, and that prosperiw and HOUSE Taenns for vaitying ou! Utelr noble Mmuagion af luving service the ~ rr re