The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1872, Page 4

bye 4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1872.-TRIPLE RELIGIOUS. Sunny Skies and Sunday Services: Crowded Congregations at the Churches. ———_+—_—_-- HENRY WARD BEECHER ON CALVINISM. The Cambridge Confession Denounced by the Plymouth Pastor. + MR. HEPWORTH ON PHARISAISM, Frothingham’s Description of Morse and Mazzini as the Inventor and the Idealist. DR. WEDGE ON THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, Memorial Services in Madison Street Church for Captain Richardson, the Sea- man's Friend, woot MR. VAN METERS RETURN FROM ROME Dr. Vaughan’s Sermon on the Catholic Mission to the Colored People. vee Music and Fashion at St. Ste- phen’s Church. OHUROH OF THE DISCIPLES, Hepworth—Our Practice of Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Phariszical Nature—The Self-Dental, Mr. Hepworth’s text was from Matthew xxiil., 28—“Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” These (said Mr. Hepworth) are perfectly straightforward words. Christ never went round; he always went by the nearest road. He was talk- ing directly to the Pharisees, but indirectly he ad- dressed all men, single glance and exposed them, spect persons in this matter. He hated counterfeit coin, Whatever the image and superseription on it. The times had come to be so bad, so corrupt and so Ssuperfictal that people began to feel, and they had the authority of the priests for it, that an outward conformation to the requirements of the law was all that was absolutely ne: ry. They were very careful to dedicate to the uses of the Temple the He did not re- fixed proportion of their crops and their cattle. | Bat in order to add A GREATER SANCTITY to their reputation for holiness the priests deco- | iy rated their garments with choice bits of the Old Tes enl, and having awed the populace into a belief in their consecration to their hoped to ch of the New Jerusalem by flirting their s before his wondering cyes and thus gain en In our Custom House the officer an inven- tory of all which the traveller has the tn ry is not final, If 1 ‘ed robes does his He saw through all shams ata | they | at the Apostle Who stands at the gate | trunks, but | Lazarus’ do: the grief of hig — sisters Martha and y, their upbratding of Jésus for His tardiness in’ secking the sick bed of their brother and the visit to the grave, It has been asked, said he, why should Jesus weep when He knew He could restore His friend? Tt ts my faith wud belief, a creed Chold by, that Jesus was Deus Homo, the God man. When the union of divinity with humanity took place in Him is nowhere more beautifully ilustrated than in His weeping at the grave of Lazarus, It ta impossible to convey in words any clearer conception of the blending of His twonatures. Tam thankfal that lL was taught to belleve by my dear mother that Jesus, the low-born Son of Mary, was the Divine God Himself, {have a dear brother, whom I have not seen before for years, iu this house now, who rejoices with me in thet ; tellef, Why, thea, should the God weep? 1 an- | swer, firstly, bccause He had taken upon Hisnaelt the einotion’ and sympathies of humanity, While ihe alr was burdened with the groans of the sor- rowing sisters and friends about the grave, while their grief made itself rd in solos andevea in tearfal upbraiding of Him whom they knew to be the Saviour himsel!, imagine him stand- noved and unsympathetic amid the group, ‘ant imagine it. He wore no mailed coat of at was proof against the shafts of grie human heart welled forth tts sorrow through the fruitful river of his tears even while ilis godlike soul was preparing to recall Tis friend from the gray. But he wept also as the God in view of the relation which this grave and this in- tended resurrection bore to that great resurrection yet to come, Jesus lad heretofore raised no one from the He raised a little girl from the bed upon which she laydead, He'ra of the widow from tl pier, but He raised Laz from the grave itse! Ja it uny wonder that He wept ut thought, not of the one grave that was to be opened, and the one man that was to arise, but of the generations whose graves were to be opened and who were to arisc for judgment on the great finalday? 1 thank God that T believe Jesus to have been God and man, If he were God alone, as my Savior He is far beyond my reach; but as man re ny Savior, I am far beyond His reach, xcher Closed with a stirring peroration, the jon sang the 447th hymn, the benediction sd und the congregation was dismissed, | congrey | was o1fe! ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. The Parable of the Good Shepherd—A crmon by Father McNamee. The regular se es were solemnized in St. Patrick’s Cathedrai yesterday morning at the usual hour, and were marked by the excellence of the music and the plain good sense of the homily de- lvered by Father McNamee, During the early por- tion of the service Father Kearney officiated as celebrant, Father McNamee took his stand in the pulpit and preached, with the parable of the GOOD SHEPHERD foratext. It was an appropriate subject, as tt oc- curved in the Gospel for the day. The reverend father commenced by pointing out those sub- jecta especially worthy of attention = in- relation to this paradle—first, with what view and justice could our biessed Lord call Himself the Good Shepherd; second, how great and how excessive was Uls love for His flock; third, how precious in His estimation must be each indl- vidual member of that flock, when, to save them, | He offered His life for their redemption! As the | Gospel says, 1e Good Shepherd gives His life for | His flock, so that they may be saved. His great | love was then demonstrated by Father McNamee, who proceeded to quote several paragraphs from | Scripture illustrating his point. The beantiful dis- position, which can only be compared to love, em- that lit up in | sparkling effulgence the many striking acts of His { brief eer on earth, How affectionately He treated his bitterest enemies, and how He even | called His betrayer, Judas, by the endearing term | of friend! for when in the act of receiving | the kiss of betrayal he said, “Friend, whereunto | art thou come Secondly, according to the writ- | ings of St. Thomas, when he performed the hu- | millating and lowly act of washing the feet of his apostles, he commenced with Judas, singling out his enemy for the first honors It will be re- | membered t t Supper he turned round memorable words, “That tdo quickly,” intimating how read: sto suifer for the redemption of his flock, great love which he exhil the souls of men collectively, but for each indivt- dualoue, St. Paul says, “llivein the faith of tte SON OF GOD, who loves me (not us) and delivered Himself up forme.” ‘Then again, in the parable of the Good epherd, we flod ia’ the wr of the Apostle ark the deseription of his she eitthe foek of ninety-nine in the toseek and find the one lost sheep, Ws that in his loving mind the vaine of All the others collective Phird- $i tls estimation was each mem- | bellished with a heavenly radia ut duty he opens every bundle and sces for himself | jer of His Mock. ‘This polnt the reverend fat what is contained therein. The investigation isa | clearly demonstrated in a distinct and compr great deal sharper in heaven than it is in New York, | Meusive manner, He said, at the very begin- When you get up there with your iuggage your own iuventory of your good qualities and your own opin- fon of your right to enter will not be taken, Fou May sometimes cheat or bribe t but there you will find things. you pret people you have, but possess will “sett I der the Pharise wi incensed at this sharp cut exposure of their pretensious. ‘The rule of Jesus was 1 ily understood. Not reputation, but cha is the i that God looks at. He goes to heaven, whether lic be priestor beggar, who has obeyed the law in lis heart as well a8 With his hands; and he goes into torment, whether rich or poor, high or low, who has played’ the pr of the hypocrite. I think of this always View the times in which we live. The New York society is that it gives m appearance than to reali The whe to artificialism. We live men and women at their selves. We care a great will say of us than for is own estimate eal more for wh: at we kno’ people to be. We are afraid of that bugbear which is | » drop of the precious blood, one called the world, and moral independence ts the | bi ", even one interior act of the will Jast thing we think of or dure to possess, | of tlie Son of God would hi een more than suiti- } 00 the conde If we are accounted rich we will spend our last | cient to encompass the dollar on the rent of the brown front, | Heuce He could have in view no other eud than to and we dread being thought even When we | show how grand and sublime is the soul of man, are poor, ause it will cut us of from certain | In conclusion the preacher said that we only bi social privi Aud 80 we J year a holiow, unsatisfactory iwtil at last the crash, ‘the dnanciai crisis, comes, aud then | we | BURST LIKE A BUGLE and hurry into oblivion, Ti thing holds | g00d With young men. N at the yl may be, one must have r pearl-colored gloves, and prowena This 1 a prime necessity. If oue do counted a nobody; and, rather t fers to be dishonest. has been frittered away, Presents irresistinle temp comes nobody Now, the Chr teal and uncow whole matter i #0 independent th. world, but will tu opinion of God, Tt heavily in t lance of God's Teputation is ike liv sort ont to be that, he pre- | So, when his sh Jer income He of feathers, al! get there, before the judgment seat, al of our pet theorics will be turned upside down! | When Jesus s hany that are fir i} be last,"? He seeme think you and a sed up t will find yourselves very inc publican who ty but who has be hws found Its wa isees, Who d seat in t gleam of ight will be called up to THE HIGHER SEATS, while yon who have known be and acted worse into th . Dear friends, it ts soul, warm, genial and trutifal, that God wants. It is heart giowing with sympathy, alive to every good and great thing, 1 Ses Him. No matter for clique, or set, or world omes thing, do something, and yeu need have . The good Christ, with whoin there was vo preton sion, who feared nothing except to do wrei is your leade to it that you so cultivate th er affections that you win such trust, that you 1 of such faith aiid love, that when Goa you and exposes your real stren you which shall enable hin ‘and faithful servant.” SECOND AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Dr. H. D. Moore on the £ manity of ver since Dr. E. W. Hitcheur charge of the American chapel in Paris his forme chureh on Second avenue and Fourteenth street ha been without a regular pastor. Yesterday morning the Rev. Henry D. Moore, of Cincinnati, suppited the pulpit and delivered a very impressive sermon to avery attentive though somewhat meagre co: vinity and Hae gregation. He took his text from Jolin xi, 53, $4, 86, which treats of Jesus weeping at the tomb of Lazarus before raising hin from the dead. ‘There are only two occasions Mentioned in all the Gospeis, said the Preacher, when Jesus shed tears, Onee when he Viewed the city of Jerusalem and wept over the fate that was to befall It—a city in which He knew He was tobe seized, tried. soourged, crowned wi crown of driven outside its walls to a ¢ condemned, thorns, and 1 death, and the other over the grave of fis friend, when He knew that within Mimself was the power tore that friend to life. : apostles who ! which Je: “beloved the “beloved discip| others should chronicte it t the only sions upon wystchnn. and John I is iting that they of wil Christ's weeping, — The “ hurriedly that we take | of them- | ourselves | mocked, | ning He made the soul something separated and distinet from all the other created obj 8. In pro- 1 merel was done; e quoted, ort 1 one fiat or command of the Et {to create the soul something more than the Mere Command Was necessary, as Lostanced in th | following quotation:—"Having’ formed man from | the slime of t rth He breathed into his face the breath of life, and then he became a living soul.” | Further, speaking of the redemption, he said, if, in | the order of the a of life, the intrins rit of a thing may | een paid fOr it, HOw Hinust be tie soul of maa, to redeem which his only otien Son took upon himself and lived, died, &¢, sentiiot am angel or an archangel, nor oue of the biesseu spirits Who inhabit th CELESTIAL EMPIRE, but His Son, omnipotent, co-equal, co-eternal with Himeel!—iim He sends to r i¢ from the enemy and restore to the true fold the long-lost member | to give some partic 00s Of oar love to. God, by the strict obse learn from him to feel how important salvation of that soul which each o: sesses, aud therefore to which we were cr 1, and to love God and serve ium tu ins of everlasting life, of us pos- f remember the end for | from any ex STREET METHODIST EPISCO- PAL CHURCH. by Dr. Miley—What He Knows What the People Say About Origin of the d Proven at the Methodist Eptscopal church seuth street, between Bighth sermo. The music, both vocal and instru- ital, Was very fine, and the choir de: credit for the artistic manner in which they con- Gueted the vocal part of the music. After the usual singing of psalms the reverend doctor came forward to preach, and he chose for his text the words found in the IL Corinthians, The evident lof his sermon was to prove the divine origin of the ministry, and also to prove certain persons were called, upon to perform the functions of the ministry, and that in these persons | there was adivinely ingrafted vocation over the | preaching of th In opening his sermon he stated that, as in the person of Christ | culled each of the Individual twelve to preach the Gospel with present day catl men in spirit to preach the Word to men, In viewing the ministry as an ambassador: !p, one Cannot fail to see thatit has been such rom uc immemorial Did not God call all the 4 of old—did He not or- Hiy begotten son to act as a media- eu God und oan? ther sent Him, and He 8 the Son Father, inherited His dividity by the power of which ile sent tie apostles to ¢ ie the good work He had begun, ‘The be divine origin of the ministry i$ Not as religiously observed at pre as it Was of yore. Why did not the aposties that | Ilis human lips, 60 also does He at the | ted were not only | erding, and how | desert in | which | Some } unite in one that all of you are the most aMable, amiable, good natured creatures imaginable; but such is not th caso, We know that some of you are cross, tr’ table and ungenerous, and it cannot be said thut we ouly know this by calculation, but alse by expe- rience, We are also aware that as we have our Opinion of you, so also you have yours of us. We know that whea one of us preaches and the ser- vices are over, one of you whispers to anothe: “What do you think of So and So’s preaching the auswer we refrain from giving; you know what it is yourselves. But leave this aside and let me re- turn to the ministry. Our omission, aga limited and mited Jumited for the reason that we are ach butone thing, the truth, unitinited son that we are at liberty to preach to e of mankind, I consider preaching 01 andest occupations that aman can be ¢ cupied in, and if our Bishop was curtailed of the privilege of preaching [would not change piaces with him, At present there are many conferen sitting, at many of which the right of allowing lay- men to preach ‘is being warmly advocated; but 1 do not approve of it, for stand on the ground that only those who are directly predestined can preach, and te think that we are all predestined to pi is, to say the least of it, foolish, ST, FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHURCH. Sermon hy the Rev. Dr. Vaughan—The Catholic Mission to the Colored Race in America—Its Aims and the Manner of Xavier's church, West Sixteenth Street, yesterday morning, the ser on at the high mass was preached by the Kev, Herbert Vaughan, D. D., superior of the order whose mission it is to convert the colored race in this country to Catho- licity. He began his sermon by showing that the love of God for the human soul is like His love for Himself— infinite, though in another order. It was this love of Christ. He dwelt upon the superiority of the spiritual over the corporeal works of merey. The last words gf our Lord, His last commission to His apostles, were a reference to that love for souls which had brought Him into the world:—"Go and teach all nations.” He then went on to draw out how God has used ; THE COLOSSUS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE for the spread of religion in the beginning, and of how there is every probability that in the latter ages of the world He will use the vast empire and sway of the English-speaking races for the same purpose, St. Joseph's Apostolic Society of the Sa- cred Heart, of which the early suggestion had come } from Rome, has been founded by the charity of the English-speaking peoples in America and England, ‘The first mission assigned to it was to the colored people of North America. ‘The missioners prepared further themselves by vow té become “PAE PATHERS AND SERVANTS OF PEOPLE.” ‘They made their first settlement at Baltimore last December, The reverend preacher then described his visit to the Southern States, which almost every- where presented a picture of ruin and misfortune. He said that the colored people were in nuinber work by pledging THE COLORED about equal to the population of lreland; the State returns show that more than half, or nearly three millions, of them age iterates.” He divided {hem into four cate- gorics:—Virst, there were those who were lapsing {uto fetishism, He had ascertained from personal inautty, into facts that Voodooism, with its snake worshlp, its horrible incantations and practices too shameful to mention, had a strong hold upon a large and increasing number of colored people in four or tive States, and that these rites were practised sometimes even upon the whites, n there were hundreds of thousands without any creed or re- ligion; they were us sheep without shepherds, He had seen them TREATED AS SO MANY DOGS, Thirdly, hundreds of thousands belong to different forms Of religion external to the Catholic nd hostile to it. [t too co untly happens that the poor colored people are taken hold of only by their emotions, and that horrible excesses are committed under the cloak of religion in it happeus that religion is made u pre cipled adventurers u the simple and ignor 7 avoided wholesale condemation, and respe sland efforts of very muny of those with whem he could not agree in doctrine, and said of them What St. Austin had said in his the of others, CURRUN XTRA VIAM, (they ran well, but they are oif the right track), He went on to ask for an explanation of the fact ths four miilions of dollars are annually sw | acribed by denominations in’ England outsid Catholic communion the same denotain their tenets abroad; and | only account for it satisfactori to him. self believing that the duty to spread | the truth and the love of souls had been | proclaimed so lowdly aud emphatically as well as so tenderly by our Lord t howev maimed and imperteet might be the Chris ity of those who held not tie whole orbit of revealed | trath, there was none that had not recognized this fundamental doctrine of our Lord, to preach the Gospel to every creature, He said that they held a true principle and that CATHOLICS OUGHT TO BE STIMULATED to carry it out, siuce they had a divine mission and the forinal promise of Clirist to be with and to. aid It His missioners to the end of time. Dr. Vaughan said he had sometimes heard the intelligence and ity of the colored people called in question, He would reply that as to the former he had colored people, when the Ineans of education had not been wanting. And their ious capacity ‘vic acts of vir In speaking of thei » the Catholic religion, emotional; but soare the Calabrians, tue which might be quot 89 to revi ttn Go and see wud altars and OLD HOW DIFFERENT 13 THETR MANNER lder character of the north- 1 say that it was eto Worship God as intellect do, who thei worsiip before their BE: © pe he colde 1 | and heart only, than as the & ct of homage th -piooded 10ers ing’, gestures, voices, minds aad hearts, The Catholic religion being livine, Was formed to suit every race of mankind and every clime. She would not e to borrow ernal colored ¥ erself, y the manner whereby to Then he unhappy. ec p them to embrace the Catholic sligtion, Which cails on men to submit to author- went onto say ity—an Authority which Is of divine origin—and he | augured better things of the poor, sim? AND IGNORANT, BUT DOCILE, than of those who, ining themselves to be highly elevated above others, are full of intellectual | pride, and refuse submission even to God The fourth category Was made up of colored men—inany of whom were — exee! lent Catho! and f whom a nucleus was to be found ‘in every large population, The and | venues, Dr. Miley presided, and preached | ve much | prayers, by giving of their substan in of the ministry than the fact that | | The rom this | “Benedictus” and “Agnus Dei were Weber's in G. 1 Christ at His departure f Nis disciples, “As my Father hath sent | The ba so f send you;* thus proving beyond | and the {the ministry is of divine origin. £ iy reverend preacher then detailed the plan which he had laid down as the oue most likely to be success- nil, and fin appealed to his audicnce to help by by giving Men or women who presented THE PROPER QUATAPICATIONS would be received for the work, The reverend doctor looked forward hop: the work tobe lished by the de missionary Z¢ ‘ahopes for the conversion of the unevangelized countries of the world. This zeal has but to be turned into the right direction, and when it is itself converted to the pure truth it will, by God's grace, convert the world. themselves. ST, STEPHEN'S (ROMAN CATHOLIC) CHURCH. v. Dr. MeGlynn=The * Flock—Muste Sermon by the Rev. Good Shepherd and and Fashion. At St. Stephen's chureh yesterday large congregation attended the high mass. The music was particulariy excellent, organist and | singers having got up quite an enthusiasm. Mr. Danforth played a voluntary at the opening which deserves praise for the exceution it called forth. The “Kyrie? and “Gloria were Haydn's i “Credo” was ty Danforth, The “Sanetns,’ 0, Signor Coletti, sang with much spirit, nor, Mr. Bernhardt, was equally fine. At Madame Bowler sanga “Vent Creator" y sweetly, and also acquitted herself well in all other parts of the mass. In the afternoon lanchi's vespers were sung. Alter the ¢ among the customary announce- the f MeGiynn stated that on Pur day evening, April 20, the Very Rev, Father Burke the goxps v tl y ut by the suicide of J would lecture in St. Stephen's in aid of the mission It was for tite iple reason that they did not con- | to the colored whieh the Rey. Dr. Vaughan sider it their duty, and, consequently, waited for | jas charge of. ‘The object this lec! isto get the vacaney to De filled ty Hit who hud created the | tie great Dominican. preacher to tndo the strong omice. Although this bellef is not as general now | prejudices the Irish people are poKed t as it has been, stil it remains tie ‘nd men, | against the colored race, The Rev, Dr. | in my opinion, are appointed by Divine Hrovidence | preached. trout spel of the day, and in his | to preach the truth to men, own fervid s ihe story of the prodigal son, | Men are born witha vocation for the ministry, | which is familiar to everybody. But the preagher } and to thes b the promulgation of religion | conveyed the simple parabie in such simple but } be fairly d A man of siiall ability who has | cloquent words, and explained it under 80 | been born with @ vocation for the ministry will | many attractive heads, that. It seemed to ave twice as much weight with the people to whom | have a new meaning, and, In the consoling | he sp as the nian of greater genius, but without | leasons it teach to have got greater force. the ambassadorship, would have, It isa well-known | ‘The eloqnent divine, in the various Huhta in Which | fart that Moses once said that he wished ail the peo- | he presented the character of the good S rel, | ple were prophets. [know he said it, but ido not | presented the Savior most lovingly betore Ma | and cannot see how it would be of hearers, and thus showed the wondrous love the have every one a minister God-man bore Jon of us with for if we w i} 1 do not | ters who would the minis pretend to say that they ¢ preached to | or that preaching would be unnecessary ; no! | for know it would be a necessary work, and from | what T kuow yoo think it is a necessit, His blood. the Church, , He spoke of faith and of eat trust reposed in Peter lilee, He entrusted him the reverend preacher ly ever more eloquent or more fall of Uo con with the k was acar eeaker regouuted Wore Tully Lhe circumstances of | Leupposy you supyode that the wiuister thinks | luayressiveucss Kuag ly was yesterday, which was manifested in the incarnation and death | met most highly cultivated, refined and intelligent | he admitted | | heed not meition the name of opie—she would tind the | tion of the colored | morning a | cluded @ most beautiful discourse with a few simple varks, asking of his audience to draw more wly to God, CHUROH OF THE MESSIAH. God's Attributes—The Worship of His Image Idolatry—Sermon by Rev. Dr. F. H. Hedge, of Boston, The Church of the Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, was yesterday well filled. ‘The smillng aspect of the weather ented the ladies forth ju all their gay attire, The church was lite- rally dazaling with thelr bright eyes, The sermon was by Rey. Dr. F, H, Hedge, of Boston, and was one of the series being given here on the tenets of the Unitarian belief. His subject was “The Idolatry of the Ancients and the Moderns,” and was based upon part of Psaims cl, 21—Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.” The idea of God, he began, is the beginning and end of all crea- tion, When we read in the Bible that He made’ man in His own image, we read the reflex that man made everything like himself. Everything we see is but a sensation on the nerves, Let an accident happen to the brain—the central- ization of nerves—and we are living in a new world, The world of other men is incompatible with ours, It ia, then, clear that if we were ditfer- ently constituted objects would appear different. For example, he explained, the coldness of ice is merely a difference between its temperature and ours. Were ours low enough it would seem warm. After eloquently illustrating this at leagth he pro- ceeded to show that the material world takes its form from the nerves, the immaterial from the intellect. As this expands man is forced seek his God in the invisible, He must consider Him in his own image, fordt is the noblest type he knows. Ofcourse He is superhuman. We suppose His powers are ininitely extended. <A god to our own inage is a kind of idol, and tu worshipping it we may BECOME IDOLATORS. A god to answer religious purposes must be a per- son, Itis useless to talk of a god without person- ity. Pure intelligence is not a god one would care to worship, to be the god of our devotion, But what is meant By erson? It means moral gove' nor and creator. In this sense God must be a pi sou. He must be conscious and have intellect. But now comes the diMculty of separating personality and the human form. The form becomes an idol, [f it helps our conception it displaces the Godhead and places man instead, Whatis the personality of a man? It is his mind, his soul; and though this dwells in his body it is entirely distinct. The images in the Psalms, of His habitation and court, tend to make the imagination conjyre up form as one of His attribute: But it must be recollected that these are mere figures, The early Christians were led by them to Construct images and pictures to assist thetr conceptions of God, And as an inevit- able consequence, when this is done, the image takes the place of God. What wonder that Christ is n for God—the representative for the Be One who worshipped God is taken for God. gop Ig 190 YAST. They need a Go they cai Comprehend and more confidently approach, This feeling is much ex- tended, but it is idolatry. ‘The olden idol was sculp- tured—the modern one is meu St. John referred more to this than the one of stone, It is natural that Christians should worship the founder of their religion as God. How inadequate all conceptions of God must be! He condes ded to make himself known to the crudest minds—not known, but felt. He fills thelr hearts with belief in Him. The operations of the intellect cannot fathom Him— it can but clear religion of all error, We call God Nather, and have the highest authority for so doing. What can be more endearing and encouraging than that? The love of God must be considered pater- nal. He feels our —_ necessities—admnis- ters to them. But the tery) ‘Our Father’? is a figure of 5 is carried too when we will spare his children all p with enjoyments. ‘The at ed call him Father, and yet misery abounds. Would an earthly father do this? When we look for explanation to God He is veiled in mystery, He is a father, but not an carthly one. We also call Him Judge. All religions inculeate the belief that He judges men by their ac- tions, giving good for good, evil for evil.” But here again we must recollect that Judge, and Moral Goy- ernor, &¢, res of speech. For, see the dif bi + judgments aud man’s. God deed, before the perpetrator’s birth; man after the act, Every moral act that | man does isaseed, Human impatience is often | disappointed at the slown of God’s judgments, Why are a band of conspirators so long ALLOWED TO RIFLE THE TREASURY ? But God says, “My waysare not your ways. Imake my suo shine on the good and iad alike; my clouds: witer the lands of the just aud unjust; my lightning | sinites the sinner or sinned against the same’? The lings, concluded the speaker, are illustrations: bat is true and what is false in means of capa- naking a God in Hisown image. Lis God must be but infinitey human, have His form without personality, be a father Without the dotage of an eartily one. When science and art have confessed their Unmpotence the heart, with in- vineible faith, Will stall rejoice in Him in whom we live and have our being. eech and may be carried too far. It in him a parent who nh and saturate them LYRIC HALL, Whe Inventor and the Idealist and the Character of Morse and Mazz Con- trasted=Scermon by Rev. O. B. Froth- ingham. To its utmost capacity was Lyric Hall, on Sixth avenne, near Forty-second street, crowded yester- day morhing. Rev. 0. B. Frothingham preached. His subject was “The Inventor and the ldealist.” He announced no text, but the sermon, or spoken essay, or Whatever one chooses to call it, was in the renowned speaker's best vein and listened to with the closest attention. One, he began, in our own modern city of New York and the other in the old city of Pisa have recently passed away. Both took holt of the largest human thoughts. He could not pretend, in a single sermon, to speak | of each in detail He simply wished to touch upon the salient points of the characters, There was a marked difference between them, One internal, the other was, external; one wa one dei S$ an inventor, the other an idealist ; it in mechanics, the other in ethies. He irst. His name had been on the lips of nearly every one for the past week. He stood in THE MIGHEST NICHE AS AN INVENTOR, Asan artist he deserves high rank. Though his paintings ave not immortai it is to be remembered that few But yet he was not an artist, The | soul of the artist was notin him. This is shown tn his leaving it after sixteen years. In middle life the dormant passion that had long slept tu him burst’ into life. He had faith | in developing electricity a% a means of mes- sage. For thishe wrought. He felt the inspiration of assured success, He was little or nothing in hing else, He was little or nothing in poli- 3, littie or nothing in religion, He belonged to the Presbyterian Chareh. In this matter he ailowed vs to think for him, In the matter of the tele- graph he thought for himself. His brow was on fire with this, He bent all his energies to accomplish HIS GREAT PURPOSE. He conld face poverty, laugh down ridicule, He had faith in an idea,” He was indomitable, Such men are very rare. he other man was a pure idealist. He carved no senipture, painted no — paintings, had nothin, to do with those elements that go to make up the ma- | terials of things. He was a serene thinker, He | lived on a@ plane above other rofoundly inter- ested in government, he was no politician, He was no demagogue, for he thought too much of men to use them for his purpose. He could think of no word that would better press what Joseph Mazzini was than the old Hebrew word—the Prophet. He was a SUPERIOR IDRALIST. Me was a patriot with conceptions brilliant, lis soul owas a pure white flame. — | was a dreamer—a visionary, if you chos all him. The perfect unity of Italy, a republic, | the downfall of the Pope and a free election of a | grand assembly of men sweet and pure and full of wisdom and charity—an a mbly 80 noble that it would seem almost inspired from above—this was his dream. His dream was of a perfect repub- | lic and a perfect religion. He belonged to that grand | school of religionists whose religion is above all | creeds. He was not a Romanist or a Protestant. a pure theist. He was opposed to all sand to any kind of priesthood, \ He had a unique purpose. His attention fixed upon his star, An eloquent writer de- pes him os a calm, serene thinker, A man who + unmoved by ordinary temptations—a woman in tenderness, but for his idea as implacable as a statue, [le was not always careful as to the means | he used to accomplish his ends, He was asso- ciated with assussins and conspirators, He was a member of many secret socicties, Mis name was associated with socialists, whose principles he abborred. He used ali these to accomplish his great single pnrpose. A revision of his career shows many inconsistencies, but for all this it must | be said that he was A PURE MAN, He always stood with bended head before the awfnl tribunal of his great thought, He took no money not his own. He wronged no one. He was a pure idealist, Having separately delineated the striking points in the character of the two subjects of his discourse, In conclusion he presented a vivid con- st een the two, For the Inventor there were all honors—the gold crosses and diamond decorations of monarchs of the Old World; de- grecs from colleges, a statue in the Park, Wealth was his, Atthe bailgiven to the Duke Alexts in Brooklyn he was literally covered with HONORARY DECORATIONS. No honors were too high for him. Te was a wel- come guest anywhere. Great was Morse the in- ventor. Mazzini was poor, hunted, a price on his head, object of neglect, scorn, hatred. LAnd yet werd wad ma ula go Whi ue ehure! single aim, a solitary REET ETT Nai ese RR Ee eee Re SHEET. did not see his star. His plans fell through; his ended in vanity. Later he became a eacher of labor mend, using his utmost efforts to pape his spiri¢ in them. He saw Italy united, but under okie he distrusted and a Pope he des- pised. And yet his opponeuts, if they aaw he was im- practicable, confessed 1 his purity, his integrity, his nobleness, ' He never lived for himself, never asked place or Dower, It is said that no one could be ribed to betray him. Such were these men in their lives, Ww owas it at their deaths? In @ luxurious mansion in New York the inventor breathes his last, and his own instrument sends broadcast the sad intelligence, bowing heads with grief everywhere, He is burted with honors. In an obscure house in Pisa died Mazzini. When his death became known the whole city was convulsed. Thousands came from the country, Flowers and tears were hia tributes. Twenty thousand gathered to look on his dead face. A triumphal procession was the tuking his re- maing to Genoa, the place of his nativity, All Italy was moved with sympathy for the dead patriot. It is a very foolish question to ask which of these two men did the most good. They were both instru- ments iu the hands of God. MEMORIAL SERVICES. Tho Late Captain Richardson—The Sea- man’s Friend=Sketeh of His Life and Services at the Madison Street Church. Last evening the Mariners’ chureh, at the corner of Madison and Catharine streets, was filled by a large and appreciative audicace assembled to pay a last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Cap- tuin Edward Richardson. This gentleman's demise occurred upon the 6th inst, and his obsequies were performed in the Washington avenue church, Brooklyn, Captain Richardson was probably better known to the seafaring men who visit this city than the town clock, Ais many good deeds and meritorious actions will livé tong in the minds of those who have been behoven to him for favors, great and small, and thousands afloat and ashore will drop a silent tear to the memory of one whom all loved and respected. Forty years ago Captain Richard- son inaugurated the temperance principle upon the line of packet ships plying between the United States and Europe. He was the founder of the New York Marine ‘Temperance Society— of which he continued to be an ac- tive member until the hour of his death—of the Seamen's Home and the Water Street Mission. He was Vice President of the New York Seaman’s Port Society and the originator and prime mover in an establishment in Brooklyn devoted to the clothing and fordlpg of unhappy outcasts. The whole record of his life is a fair and beautiful one; sel-abnegation was his most prominent charanie: istic, and in his last moments be, oquld “lay the Nattering unction to his sou hat hé had wronged no man, but benefited many, The services at the Mariners’ church last night were opened with prayer, after which a hymn was sung. Then the Chair- man, Mr, George W. Lane, the President of the society, in a few well chosen words spoke of the severe loss the society had sustained through the death of Captain Ri Is tolled his many virtues and besought his hearers to “go and do likewise.” ‘the Rev. J. D. Murphy and Rey. B. F. Miller next addressed the meeting, and, at the conclusion of their remarks, Captain Eliot, an old time favorite of our sailors and a confrere of the late Captain Richardson, bespoke the attention of the assembled sr tain Elliot won the hearts of his hearers by the free and casy style of his address. He spoke as a captain whose pulpit is the quarter deck, but whose heart is filled with love for those under his command, In graphic terms he told his attentive listeners the story of his late comrade’s life—told how many good deeds he had done, how many souls he had rescued ruin, He asserted that Captain Richardson had spent every night away from bis home in order to attend the meetings of the various institutes of which he was the chief organizer—the captain. He had enrolled no less than fifty thou- sahd sailors under the banner of tempetance during his meritorious mission, and had saved from misery and ruin a countless multitude of his fel- low men. One of the greatest evils that the seaman has to contend against is the utter dearth of wholesome literature with which to beguile away the idle hours upon the This need Captain Richardson sought to He provided small an. best of his ability to supply. th libraries for the forecasties of vessels whose crews expressed a wish for reading matter, and, in short, spent the hard-earned savings of a useful life in ministering to the spiritual and bodily welfare of his fellow men, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. A Spring Day Crowd—An Overflowing House—Mr. Beecher on the Fatherhood of God—He Denounces the Cambridge Confession, and Says He Would Rather Be an Atheist than Believe It. A sunny spring day; one of those days that seem born of the ge, South, and in which, as Longfel- low says, the great annual miracle of the blossoming of Aaron's rod is repeated ia uiyriads and = myriads of branches, had its effect jn drawing to Plymouth church rather more titan the ordinary spring crowd. When the opening aithem was singing by the choir, there was a surging crowd in the lobbies, and at the entrances to the aisles, who were told by the ushers to “Fall back, the house is full.” The crowd yielded a slight obedience to the necessary admoni- tion, but maintained its standing position to the end of the service, Mr. Beecher preached on the fatherhood of God, and selected for his text the ninth and tenth verses of the sixth chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew—“After this manner pray ye:—Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, ‘Thy will be done on earth, as It is in Heaven.’? The introduction to the sermon was, of course, outline sketch of the philosophy of being, in which was shown the need of adaptation to and the harmony with the moral qualities of God and man. To the sentient faculty in man there must be a correspondingly moral principle in God. These moral qualities, we are told by a cramped theology, said Mr, Beecher, are unlike to man’s; and there can be no sympathy between the understanding of the Creator and our- selves; and th is a kind of anthro-morphism, in which we are placed in su utterly different rela- tionships that tiere is no sequence between our sympathies and Himself. [f this is so, then there is to us no God, [ know that God will intinitely vend any model, festation of je}, but, notwithstandin, the Creator are the same in us. A LITTLE GIRE once asked her father what was the ocean, and the futher replied, “Suppose that little brook were widened, widened and widened, and went beyond those mountains, until you could not see it.’ “Would that be the occa asked the little girl. “No; @ thousand times bigger than that.” “What is a storm in the ocean?’ says the little girl, The father takes a pail of water, and he swings the pail from side to side, and as the water rushes from side to side he says, “That is like a storm in the ocean, my ¢ .? Ah, of God is in His ioral qualities like those resen- tations of the ocean; fer is not every drop of water in that paillike unto the drops that make up the great ocean; and did not the Father, when he dis- turbed the laws of gravitation by the oscillation of that water in the pail, faithfully represent the law, in detail, by which the mighty ocean is swept by ightiest storm? In this way, and in this fee- an yy spirituality im magnanimi indispensa- God, as in ourselves. Moral ideas ble to our union with Him, God is in sympthy with | derogatory to | Su- | and Him as the is fals represents ns, and the idea Mis nature that preme in the universe, with all His crea- tures around Him, supremely content with Himself; He self-centred, receiving their adorat and supremely ind at to the creatures w offer it. There is no such God. If there is one thing more than anothe taught by their parents, it is t moral qualitie: that reverenc manifestations, ‘and not to p' dency of our theologies is to t supremely for His own glory. which this is true, but not in this sense. my hand what is known THE CAMBRID and is the platform of faith of the New England Congregational churches. It was the faith of our fathers; it was the confession of faith which was accepted in Boston ten years ago. Mr. Beecher read several clauses of ihis confession. The first ended with the ence, “By the decree of God and for the manifestation of His glory some men and some angels are predestinated to everlasting ruin and some are foreordained to ever! asting death.” at is rather rough, is it mot?” asked M Beecher. The second had this concluding —sentence:—"These —_ angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are fixed toan unchangeable destiny; their num- ber is certain and defined, and cannot be increased or diminished.’ ‘That is what you may call rather a tight fit, said Mr. Beecher, (Laugh next article read was that relating tot of Co din this regard being In aceordan unsearchable counsel of God, in which He saves whom He will, and passes by those whom he passes by, and ordains them to dishonor for their sins or to His praise and glory, Now, what is there in this bat what, if it were 1 of an absolute mon- archy, and that of the worst type, would not arouse the supremest indignation. If 1 we: to be left to choose between absolute infidelity and atheism, and the acceptance of a God, who has reordained and predestinated an innumerable oat of His creatures to torments, to pains, and to eternal death for His praise and His glory, why rather than accept such an infernal Delty, bP would bo al abiwiat, aud f would glory Vercla, Sug: * they must admire is ‘dne to moral eal. Yet the ten- ach Us that God acts There is a sense in 1 hold in CONFESSION, you may smile, but the fatherhood | that children have been | applause.) Mr. Beecher quoted a clause om ssarnon that he sald ane cast Bad. sare CF ‘ered from mout wi 5 Binney had said fade’ thoes wire those sitting be- fore, Ka who in the eternal ages would suffer THE TORMENTS OF THR DAMNED than had been suffered by those who were already ng, and this torture would go on from that eriod; the wail increasing and increasing, the horrors intensifying and intensifying. There Was set before the Boone such a Daraiyela of despatr by that preacher that it was positively sickening. Is it to a Being like this we are to say “Our Father?™ wis if there waa one soul that was predestined to such @ hopeless inheritance of woe I would “our Fiend,” and not “Our. Father," this the God who sent His Son into the world, by whom men are to be saved, Is this the God who t# represented in the parable of the prodigal as not waiting for this son to come to Him, but who foes forth to meet him, and who falls upon his neck and kisses him? God is not a butcher; He is my Saviour; He ts not adevourer, but an eternal shepherd, To teach obver- wise would be to turn this world into a vast pent- tentiary, Let us see how this theory is a8 we ave it in human fife, Take the blushing, beauteons maiden, to whom life is one resplendent Joy, scattei by the beanty of her nature, Joy whereter she goes, receiving the homage that is her due from all; by and by she becomes the sharer of happiness with another. She lives for him; by and bye there comes a little child; the child falls sick; she watches it night and day; she looks in the mirror, takes no note of the roses that are leaving her cheeks; no note of the ne of care that is marrtt her beauty forever; no note of the joys that are around her for oth all her care, all the full streng tension of her being is one the care for the little one; and the child gets a turn for the better; She never leaves the cradle that she s0 gently rocks until that child is out of alldanger, Then the joy of her worlé comes back again; life 4 one grand anthem to her again; all is joy, all is gladness; her cup runneth over, and her love knee to as ail around her is radiant. than that mother? Is He who created that heart T6898 se the heart that bens over. that cradle ¢ f that mother cou! out of the magazine of her love, bring out such vellous ioral heroism, how much more shall reveal to ua wonders upon wonders, who ts the Author of all, and in whomwe live, we move and have our being. A practical application of these truths, and an earnest call to surrender their will to the God who has thus endowed us and loved us, closed a discourse of more thanaverage Beecherian merit, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHUROH. Christian Obedtence—Sermon by Rev. de G. Butler, D. D. , Yesterday Rey. Dr. Butler, the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, corner of South Fourth and Sixth streets, preached upon the duty of obedience, taking his text from the story of the lepers, wit were directed by Christ to go and show themselves to the priest—“And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy”—Luke xvil.. 14 The reverend gentleman, inopening his discou said that it was undeniable that the letter and the spirit of the Gospel inculedted the duty of Instant obedience to every command. Not only was no de- lay for any preparation uncountenanced, but by d{rect injunction and explicit inference from every incident narrated by the Evangelists, unequivical obedience to receive and trust in Christ for salva- tion now was clearly required. And yet the error was universally cherished and difficult to be eradt- cated from the minds of most men, that before actual repentance and conversion a period of effort for the attainment ofsome indescribable and imaginary fitness was necessary before coming to Jesus. This mistake was made by Christian people and ministers as much as by the unconverted, and it operated disastrously in their efforts for the salvation of others, leading them to forget the fact that every single, clear proclamation of the Gospel was sufticicnt, through the light of the Holy Ghost, to convert every unrenewed soul into whose heart and conscience it entered. Unbelief lifted up am obstacle at the straight gate, held down the anxior struggling soul for months in the slough of despot and Kept back the renewed believer from that open act of avowal and self-consecration which, by the blessing of the Spirit, would bring to the heart the comfort, hope and peace which he desired. The num- ber of Christians whose faith was enfeebled, whose iritual energies had been rendered inefficent whose growth in grace had been retarded whose comfort of soul had been diminished, human comprehension, It was asserted in the text concerning the lepers who came to Christ to be healed of their malady, that as they went they were cleansed. Jesus had directed them to go and show themselves to bedinnoe: witha eo ney Cie with unquestioning gbedience. ‘The condition of ire stk hose Who felt the disease and de- tilement of sin and desired to be.delivered from ita power and pollution, who, recognizing Christ as one willing and able to heal aud cleanse, and implicity obeying the command to come at once to them, are pardoned and ¢leansed. One word of God was justas good as a thousand to save and give peacé to the troubled soul. rhe. lepers did not plead trivial exeuses for procrasti- nating, nor did they stop to ponder over the proba- bilities of success or failure in obtaining a cure, nor did they want to try some other remedy. hey all their bodily faculties, and the extreme simplicity of the command of Jesus did ot stagger them, but they implicitly obeyed the order; and their instant pbedience was rewarded, for they obtained heali if the very act of obeying the command pf Christ. The Speaker proceeded to deduce from the nai rative the spiritual lessons which it so clearly and utifully suggested. Those who were spirituaUy, used were to go to the invisible but living Jesus with earnest, trustful entreaty. That was the sint- ple command of the Gospel, obedience to which Secured the blessing of spiritual healti, or God's Word would be falsified; bat that would not be so, for He is faithful that promised. The sinner wi not to delay coming to Christ until he was enough or until some preliminary indication of a! change was seen; Jor all goodness was the fruit of the Holy Spirit and would not be wrought ina man untilheé obeyed by going to the great High Priest and migiity Saviour, who said, ‘“Sfim that cometh unto me f will in nowise cast out.’ Dr Butler made some judicious observations upon the mistake committed by tho: who | postponed hearkening to the call of the Gospel be- _ cause of no feeling, and said that only in the act of obeying would the emotional nature be roused, He gave practical instruction to Christid ir religions emotions for some caw sluguish in their private devotions and in at- ance upon the worship of the sanctuary, and encouraged them by the consideration that in the ‘formance of duty they would grow in grace and their joy and peace Would gbound. ‘Thus would re- ligious enthusiasm be cultivated and the doing of duty would become increasingly delight ful. | _.NEW JERSEY CHURCHES. > - 8T, PETER'S CHURCH, JERSEY CITY. Sol nm Mass by Father Monnot, Superior General of the Missions in Syria and the Holy Land=Sermon by Father Mo- Kiniry, 8. J. In St. Peter's church, Jersey City, solemn mass was celebrated at half-past ten o'clock by the Very Rey. Father Monnot, Superior General of the Mis- sionsin the Syrian and Palestine districts, This good priest being unable to speak the English lan- guage, and having come to Jersey City for the purpose of appealing to the generosity of the faithful in aid of the missions confided to his charge, an eloquent appeal was made tn his be- haif by Father McKiniry, 8. J., who recently arrived from England. He opened his discourse by reciting the first verse of the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah, “liow doth the city sit solitary that wae full of people? How is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow—the princes of provinces made tributa ‘The preacher gave a brief but interest- ing history of the missions in question. Among the zealous missionaries who entered upon their labors in the Holy Land twenty-five years ago were to be found men descended from some of the FIRST FAMILIES IN EUROPE, | men renowned in sete! and Mtters. They re- solved to teach the poor, ignorant people the’ very first elements of learning. The little girls who | were trained up by them became little apostles to | y the traths of Christianity to every part of | their country. There are at the present day 200 nana, | Who have charge of not less than 10,000 children. | Ove of the greatest blessings that flow from this } miasion is that WOMAN IS AT LAST RESTORED to her true place in society. She is no longer a slave. These people are very poor, and the aries must not only support them, but supply with books and all the means by which knowledge may be spread among them. The ordinas ses of the 1 yout Will hay economy practised by the missionaries when J stute that the cost of main- taining a single nun is only $25a year. Up to the breaking out of the WAR RErW 1 the French people contributed so largely to this mission that no appeal to any other quarter was necded, Since the war, however, the people of ‘rane y burden of taxation rest- can no Jonger assist the ‘ast with their accustomed mares, therefore, cry out holic people all over the world ye them to pursue their hely . The persecutions of these poor people have | continued with scarcely any intermission since the | establishivent of the Christian religion among | them, and this fact strengthens their | claims for assistance. Only ten years ago the Mus | sulman, finding that Europe was disposed to favor the Catholics, issned an odict that the law, as far as it related to the Christians, raight be violated with impnnity and thelr property destroyed, 'Thia edict was put in force with unretenting persistence, Tha Savage persecntors ravaged the possessiona of these poor people, put many to death, and compelled thousands to fy from their habitations to the Whore guar peruied Crom bauer wind wast France have such a he | ing upon them that th | Christian colony In th | munticonce, ‘fhe m ba