The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1872, Page 4

RELIGIOUS. A Sunny Sabbath---The Story of Soul Sal- vation Retold in the City and Suburban Churches. Father Gavazzi on Evangelization in Rome. Life as a Conflict, by Henry Ward Beecher. Lakewarm Catholics Warned by Father Beaudevin. Father Kane Relates an Oft Told Tale. Dr. Chapin Celebrates His Twen- ty-fourih Anniversary. coats Be Confirmation Services at the Charch om | of Si. Alphonsus, OGURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. Tonets of Univoersalism—Twenty= fourth Anniversary Sermon by ev, Dr. E. H. Chapin. The Church of the Divine Paternity, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-tifth street, over which the eloquent pulpit orator, Rov, Dr. E. H. Chapin, pre- sides as pastor, was yesterday morning filed to | overflowing. ‘Two features of special interest gave unusual character and Driliianey to the occasion, it was Known that Dr. Chapin would preach a ser- mon commemorative of the closing of his twenty- | fourth year as pastor of church, and the occa- sion, it was believed, Would elicit a discourse ex. ceeding, if possibile, the cogent power end brilliant rhetoric che ing his crdinary pulpit utter- ances, Another clreuiastance tending to swell the congregation to its unwonted extent was the fuct that yesterday closed the engagement of the young and gisted sop s Emma A, Abbott, whose piagniticent splendid singing have voices and been such features of attractive Interest at this church for the past year transcendent beauty of her volce was never clearer, never more richly sanorou: more bird-like in the purity and brit han in “J Saviour of My Sou expression most sony in its wide range ler volco ri gave almost the saila in a fow course of muste: ott upon a eparatory to appearing | upon the ope & soul devoted to her bigh art, and $ of apptica- tion unusuel in one of her yearn, & brillant fate ssurediy awatis her luctant as is the con- gregation to part w © f008 away with the Kindest wishes of ell faz with ber en gies and her ¢ @ highest 1 nor Dr, —"One God and ih all and v ¥ that the great ast vivid and startli inbow and the splendor most mecuifceut thi but lit of the finest of contalus tio dec The Goa. clear Goa ption, he wor fs one God, may be based on in the idea o Unity ts the sublimity s oue worship, one { anmpiifying this polnt at ler he enforced tue idea that God, ited and controls all the systems ings, js an infinite intelligence far beyond human conception, is the greatest that can enter the bumau mind, His next point was that the text teaches the RUTH OF CHRISTIANITY. vatinibote this to mind, and not Id that goodness wa It was a atmusive ¢ » Sunshine, tlils the rain 88 universal, drop, Impregnates the No mun can confront the gigantic splendors of the unive’ without feciing within him tie couviction that the is a God. An t subject of speculation was tie of Cod. The revelations which nity gives in this regard are iull and com. the g " ‘ nity is the reve- 1155 the fate ive here, a its moral evieic away Chrlsu and We ( Chri wo farther, yt God a ‘atuer. The gor hatt r of the outea 8. Itdeciares Him suere is uO imtation. Is He not as much the Father of alt, as in all through ail and above all? 1 J en of the Jniiaite Father, those bo: more favored of our thon, He showed that with the idea of justice, a the Jr ands s weil as the va civil not con plifled this by avic Jaw and utterly hostile to vi ve TORTURE, Make punishment nal and ei) our ilfe Is a mighty riddle. Make it transient, a punishment of love and discty line, and there is the consistency ofa great and clear reve idea, he spoke wit) rarely the practical aMictions foie of the text, More eloquent grasplov, grinding scifishness, uttered in tie pulpit, or more force of the grand duties of life, ile exp) cing out this ipassioned fervor, of ing these teachings nuinclations of this Ne ained portrayal in. con- clusion, why he had spoken partlevlarly of the | doctrine linplied in the twenty-fourth anniversary of his connectfon with this church. They called their church the Church of the Divine Vaternity. Their creed was embraced in (his name. Tracing the history of his connection wits ihe Church, he was lad yet to see many faces of the worshippers here twenty. four years Ago, He wis glad to know that broader charity was showing itself. Many in this city to- know whether they had met in tis so-called Uni- text. This was the vorsalist churel to danee or What not. They met | in their way and were willing to let to. worshi) ovuers do the same. Their religion was the brother. hood of God, the Son was Father of all, who is In land thongh all and above all. 6 church, if anything, was more crowded last evening. The programme of music was more ©: tended and veried, The gem of the evening was the singing by Mini “tof the recitation and aria, o Thoe,”? specially composed for nist of the church, Mr. Albert J. “Noarer, my her by ‘the org: divlden, 8T, PATRION'S OATHEDRAL Regulations for the “Month of Mary"— Sorrow a Blessing from God—Sermon by Rev. Father Kanc=The Lives of All Men “An Of Told Tale.” At the Cathedral ye Sterday high mass was cele- prated by Rev. Father Starr, The ceremonies were 48 GOTgeous 84 UsuAi and the Music up tothe old standard, The sermon was preached by Father Kane, who, before reading the gospel, stated that Father Burke would detiver a lecture Me Charch the True Emancipator,” church on Tuesday evening next, the of which are to be given in aid » Diuat trace the origin of things eomewhere. It | 1 | avenue, to listen to an add | Pavick’s Mutaal Allis ly strug: | | | | their heeds NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. mission to the ocelored people of the United States which Dr, Vaughan has organized, Father Kane recommends a who have amy preju- dice against the colored people to attead and have them removed, as he is confident Father Burke will remove them if they are movable, The regulations for the celebration of tho “MONTH OF MARY! in the Cathedral are as follows:—Thero will be bene- etion of the blessed sacrament eveyy evening @uring tho week, at seven @’clock, Saturdays ex- cepled, and the service 6n Sunday wilt be cele- brated during the vespers, After reading the Gos- jov the day, Father Kane preached on sorrow, he regarded a5 a blessing and not aga curse, liv opened his sormon by reicring to a passage he had just read in the Gospel, in which the sorrow of the Apostles at the departure of Christ was spoke of Tueso were Indeed, sald Father Kane, sad times for the Apestles, who were now to be de- prived ef the company of Him who for three years Leen their companion, lustructor and consolor, Y were how to lose Him; but their sorrow was wt the forerunner of untold happiness, They were to receive the light of the Holy Ghost, which ‘was to strengthen their faith, and eneble them to “fght the good fight of the Lord’ with stronter souls aud more convincing tongues. That sorrow ig the inevitable lot of al mortals during their stay “in (his valley of tears” is too true to need any further proof at’ my hands. All history conclusively proves that all of us rust suder our measure here on earth, We are told in the Scriptures that God tries those whom He loves, fund Job is the symbol of the life of the just. Who of all carth’s creatures did God love more than the virginal, spoticus mother of His only be- gotten Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ; aud who of allot us can claim to have felt the same exquisite anguish which pierced her most tender end pure soulat seeing her Sou, her Saviour, her Redeemer aud her alt crucified before her eyes, And yet with all this angatst and sufiering she is the mo‘el and perfection of resignation and the wiliof heaven. She should be tue model of every true Christian, but many of us too often forget her sufferings, and think Christ a hard god when he gives us tronbics, Which. when we i i find who come Loto the ling and teave, it with @ groan of expe © to escape tite lot of those who were man we to see that tt is a pilgrituage of sorrow on which he is started, bi bo may pain for himsel/, through the grac Christ, a lappy immortality. The virtue of protestatious ma sine of prosperity, but in the practi the same during tue dark, trying hours of ad- everything for the best” is or ald be the belief of ail good Christians, and so Whea fe deprives us of a dear oue by death or causes 4 reverse in our temporal prosverity we should regard tt a8 coring from Him’ and accept it in the spirit in whieh it Was sent. Tho theology of our “Church teaches us ihat there is a temporary punishment. due us for our sins after the guilt has been reimitted in the sacrament of confession. Now we are algo tauyht that this punishment ls oftentimes adinlals- tered to us while inthe flesh, and theresore we should thank God for allowing us to suiter for them while on cart and not in that bourme whiche we know noiuing of, Another truth that our ‘, the Church, teaches us is that we can ask to be su from impending eatamity; but when wa do this we should take Christ for our mode him exciaiim, “thy wlll, O Lord, not mine, §T, ALPHONSUS’ REDEMP SIONIST CEURCH, Address to the Inish Socletles by Patier Tom Burke and Blessing of a Banucre The to 400 Persons by Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, S. CO. Yoaterday the neighborhood of Union sqnare made anusvally ively by the eirains of music from © and belf a 1 3 to xbout six thonsavd men 0 father Mathew Temperance socie- ties and other civic bodies who were forming ia | no around the aquare, preparatory down to the Church of St. Alpkonsns, in Sou 4 from the gifted Do- ican orator, Father Tom Burke, who had prom. 1 to be p t during the services. The St. aueo numbered about four ‘ did appearance, band, im green unt 8 nutubered sironeiy, and to marching ther 8ooi Hdsoiue wel Weyrtel, 6 Aifice uutil reen bauner of the rom iis frame and b he great Dominican t rvid a S taken ork in undying to rland. A a, which we dare pst attonth mnly lose y wreaths wpon ureh, and about ed Oo hundred aud fiLy me eg in thofr buttontoles, su These were the candi With each ne who acted a phy te wasthe godfather Tritual sponsor in the hep Lynch, of Charleston, 8.0, arrayed in pontifical robes, stood tn the sanctuary reading from a book, while on each side of the venerahls prelate stood a Redemptorist Patier tu cass As Bishop Lynch rabbed the oft on t forghead of exch candi: boy"on the cheek, a Re pi ool rubbed off the stain of the the ad. About four handred and fit of allages and ofboth sexes we the Most Rev. Bishop, and the ceremonies were ivst Liapressive. THE FREE CHURCH OF ITALY, cimway HallaTho ization in Kom comfortably fl avazzl was annor “Pree Church of 1 at chroughe nt tie ul, and the andien filed with Ttatian which greeted him so we tion Hall on Saturday night a wee over the old » Associa ago. The oddity of his manner and the difficulty of understand- ing fs English donbtless persuaded many who fully appreciated the marnetic power of his elocnence to forego hearing lim yesterday: It was only er he hiimeelf be @ enthused with | his own ardor, and had forsaken the pulpit and | | taken the whole width of the stags in which to | | acti | guage. have rarely been | Some had gone to their Father | potty ay did not | manmuvre while he talked, that the cong ion had learned to overlook the French vivacity of his nand listen to the Italian fervor of his lan- Dr. Hepworth, Dr. Thompson, Gavazzi's colaborer in the work of Itallan evangelization, andanumber of prominent Christian gentlemen and ladics were seated on the platform, Dr. Hepworth introduced Father Gavazzi by re- calling some incidents of his visit here twenty years ago, and the reverend father co: neod his dis- course without further prelude, lie took no text wl ver, opened his batteries at once upon | the theme of “Evangelical Religion In Rome.” It lias been the privilege, he said, of America and Engiand to convert many heathens—Chinese, In- | dian end savage heathen. They were quite Sneny | persuaded, hecanse they were lynorant. You can. Hot persuade the Roman Catholics to cdmit evan- jon into Rome 80 ensily, for they ere smart. a low, if Tt has not been evan- { or governments, bu yon ont evanselized; xico, here on your own Continent, i# undergoing evangelization; Wut rmany and ing. jaud were the ago. ning You selves Popish countries ¢ few years In America here you would go like a light- train and evangelize Italy all ut once. muet not expect ions like you. You must take things ag come. Protestants in America have everything to gain and nothing to tose, everything to lose and almost not Protestant loses position uader overnmont, loses friends, and even relatives desovt him. Chil: dren are driven from thetr parents’ homes if they embrace Protestantisin as against Catholicism. We are only moving slowly. We are only making a be- inning like a Daby learning to walk; but we are doing well. In 1948 there was not onoevangel! Church member in Italy, In 1852 and 1858 the Free Ohurch was founded. In 1869 it numbered four congregations, four hundved commanicants and one thousand constant hearers. Thero 18 tts pro- reas in eleven years, In 1859 I left my exile in england to jen the armies of Garibaldl. island of Sfcily the idea of a united Evangelical Chareh of italy toak root, In 1800 Garibaldi planted it In Italy. Now, in 1470, we have—counting the Waldensian, Baptist and Christian Churches—one to £0 rtogoin, A | handred congregations, ten thousand commant- ‘The Catho- | your own caleuiation, t St. Stephen's | roy Proceeds | kee things rosy my of the | Italy free, and [taly is free. ca sand constant hearers, Make sour own onlotiation. We will have three hundred ations in 1880, People say I see things 80 Well, at my age it ia a consolation if T can During oxile [ hoped to see hoped to see Rome Rite of Confirmation Adinintotecod | ds, which were discourslog sweet | AEA | . | Christ's Reauttfal F ‘| in the pulpit of Rev. Mr. u Seated aid not | they | In Rome they fave | In the | the freo capital of Italy, and Rome Is the free capl- tal of italy. I hoped to be able to preach my evan- retical doctrines in Rome. Ido proach my evangel- ical doctrines in Rome. Did I see things rosy then? The tavios aro reversed, We live in strange times, my friends, hea our Charch first budded the Romish clergy Inughed. We gained some converts, and then they eppesed us, We proepeneas and they excited the people against us. continued to improve, and they ventured to discuss with ay Dae the discussion was forbidden » the Pope, @ sects do not favor our Chuich because we are not denomina- tional, The sectarian divisions of the Protestant Chareh have heen healed in italy. Where in other countries the Church has divided into little gioups, bioken up Into violent sects, ia Italy our Church hus become unsted out of @ division, We have formed one united Church out of many divided ones. ‘The Directing Committee at Milan hay 8 treasurer and seeretary a Scotch minister residing at Flor- ence, and as president an American, The Cominittee of Unification met in Milan in 1870, and succeeded in compromising all diTerences and forming ® rest united chureh—nay, a national ehurch—the Free, United Chuych of Maly. Free, | to preach in spite of the government, if need be, and free from Romanism. Denominationalism can- not be brougié into ltaly, if we preach Calvanism the Luthenans are disgusted; if we preach Method- ism the Presbyterians are horridied. We leave isos to take care of themselves. We, Italians, of the Hvangelleal Church go back beyond all isma, We stop pot af the Lateran Councils; we stop not a the Nicene Cox 1; we stop not at Luther's {ero mation. We go back to the Apostle Paul. We stop there. Here, Bay, jospel that one of God's own preached to our Housn ancestors 1800 years 0 and it will do for us, Italy “has jn ome to her glory, The crowning of the edilice is complete. We have had for many yerrs a mock Italy, made false to her colors by the ignominy of France. To give us the headless trank of Italy Isa mockery, Dut we have Rowe now, and no power on carth’ can wrest her | fromus, We have churches inside the walls of that city. We have Suaday sehoola which are crowded, precincts. The reverend for the graud dor poct America wou! | chureli, and ‘etosed on the people of quently during his d through the audion and once ort hearty applar & collection was taken up. CHOROH OF THE HOLY TRINTTY, 2 Oy t a which he had res make for his ourse at sons tie moved to At the close fucience was the Christian Ministry—Sermon by tho Rov. Dr. Nicholson, of Newark. ‘The Church of the Holy Trinity was well filled last. ening by the usual elegant and pious audtence. o Rey. Dr. Niebolson, lately the réctor of + | Church, Boston, and now of Trin- \ preached @ sermon from the Epistle of aul to the Colossians, 1, 28. ‘Whom we preach, warulng every Tien, and teaching every man in all wisdom: that we may present every man perfect In Ohrist Jesuss whereunto [also labor, striving according to His working, which worketh tu me mightily,? his sub, | Ject being “Preaching the Counnissioned Work of " He began with a long, elaborate and eridite introduction, ONRISTIAN RIGTTEOUSNESS, Was bellving In Christ, born not of blood nor of the wil! of the flesh, but of God, who, in the solid 4 stances of His identical word, 1s oar substitute— our present salvation, in whom we have won the bel lost. So Paul preached coomplished if, tt pro ation with man and ia Chilst is our rightoons fore Cod. Ni ch pow | pn | ation. Witit | aud only poset hi here to-lay, W nor angel wor and hamillty. al | ancient world. | false to that message of hope from God. ‘can we Know, believe aud preseh Him, Bless are the poopie whe know and enjoy this message. | To Keep such a message clear In the mind lof the peopl is to mako war Many erro:s of the huisan heart w Christian cous towimess do God! ¢€ tis the tr ogress of the ¢ erent a ine prog urse of ONRISTIAN of the joy of this fon comes | alitho glory of hely y These, then, are tt spectal wants of you 1s; Chat they are look simply to Ch round of peace ta Christ is bie tae trait of the Spirit. Nor must we | be unobservant of those } } ue manuer, | BIGVETEENT AIREET METHODIST EPIC. PAL CHUROZ, uve of the Corn of Wheat--The Death of Jesuse Discourse 3. W. Mekay. McKay, one of the delegates from the Irish Conference to thiscity, yesterday preached ord, taking for his | text the words from John xi, 24—"Verily, verily I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the grovad aad die it abideth aione, but it it | bringeth forth ray | The minister det eilor to ti he Phar | to Jerusatem | bad | he movements of the Lord uixton, and portrayed the terror 0 believed tast Chiist had come on. | THR UPON | With palms strewn upon His route, ond heard the ; hosannas sung by the y exclaimed, | “The people will brite 1,” and they ity | argued th better that one niay should die rother then (hat the peopid shonid be Jed away by | His teachings, But Je iitant at the | homage paid to Him. F ise they knew i: their visitatio s preparing a is going tot) ay Of olf, and Me takes occa Hien mn to x! pl son of the deepest Inter aiesson that ny Us We Must follow in His stens, He de- claved “He that ly 2 ‘tose It, and he that hatech his shall gato This lesson ty Mlustiated by this beautiful figay | God refers to th of the repro- duction of grain sor the sustenance of human fife. | Sone years ago lread of the opening of an Epyption | mumuy, ia t Wrapper of wiich were found three | kernels of w ‘hey may beve come from Jo- | Seph’s granary, They were pla in the ground, | and when Ce died vast flelds of wheat came up ag | the product. “The grain is put e way from the sight | Of the farmer, but ont of that death comes life; the product of that death fs developed ia all the beanty of verdore and then ripens for the harvest, ‘There is a mystery in all th ‘The farmer cannot tell by What process titis is accomplished, but he trusts to | the system establivhed by Aly 0 sends seed thn | and harvest. The philosopher Hol explain the | Process, yet he Is below the fariaer if he doubts that | Uus is an oidinance of God, YUE DEATH OF CHTIST is here porereres au the ralvetion of the world. | Christ died thes man might live, The prophets | foretold this death, Curist’s body, however, did | not sce corruption, His death was’ nevertheless a | reat one, though tt was not natural. Itwas violent, | bat it was not forced, It was voluntarily that Ho | laid it down Himself, Tt was a death without which MANKIND COULD NOT BE SAVED. ction between the death and its result ts Ib affected 1 In the next place His death | Was a manifestation of love. The death of Jesus is mbodiment of the love of God. There 13 no- | where else such an embodiment and mantfestation | Of Dis love as in the death of His Son for sinful man. | The co} | atonement for sin, } tween God and man. vation, Lt opened the clcse man aid gaye the gift of the Holy | Ghost. Ati through the Seriptures Ife and deata presented in the near salvation—life growing out of death, Itis all compreiended in these two things DEAD UNTO SIN AND ALIVE UNTO GOD. Tie #inuer thinks he lives, has an incentive to live, boasts of his wisdom and dreams of hopes un- Tealized, He Is viive without God. When the sinner realizes his unworthiness he finds he is a8 dead to | the Lord. ‘Then his sclf-contidence gives way to his | Selfdistrnst, and ta the blast of @ sin-convineing spirit he falis at the feet of God's throne, Out of this death the grace of the Cospel causes Ile to spring. God sent His Son to bring us to Christ, aad here We have the participation in the benefits of Christ's deati, It represents death completed and Ife in its fainess. Ag moekiexs, gentleness and long sufferlog come anger, qalic © and self-concelt | decay; a8 love abounds het¥eon man and man the | spirit becomes fuli of righteousness, The soul filled | with Divine love will show what it is to be dead | unto sin but alive unto God. If we would gain wo must be PREPARED TO SUPPER 1.038, If we would be active partictoants in Qhrisv’s tk | because we are free from Stute interfexeuce: free | We have sold 20,000 Bibles within its | entleman then pleaded heartily | murmars would run | of his witty allusions, | Preaching the Commissioned Work of | forgiveness of silos, “Be not afrald—only believe. on we heve Him filumipating with Wis own | the faith in twhlen we abide, | 0 does net ieve loses the very thing to onderstand | tion, but it must be iu the | ho Church and | die it | They | teaple to prepare to ulve dts thsel. | conciliation be- | death also furnishes the Viens, course of | d way between God | umphs we must bear His Cross, That Is the lesson Christ taught wien He declared that le who loves lus Irve shail lose it and he who lates his Hf shail goinit, Prom thia very death there is springing up about us this life we see in the harvest of souis that | is being garnered to the Lord. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. Reason and Religion Both Necessary for | True Christianity=Sermon by Rov. ©. | C. Carpenter, of Boston. ‘The deilghtful weather of the past few days, suc- | ceeded by the balmy air and bright sunshine of yesterday, have regularly initiated the spring | fashions. This was especially noticeable at the | Church of the Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, where gay bonnets and Ught | dresses seemed to lighten up the whole place. Rev. C. C, Carpenter, of Boston Highlands, occupied the pulpit, His subject was “Reason Necessary to | Religion,” and was based upon Il, Timo- thy, %, 7% Love and reason are the | gifts of God, as the Apostie says. | So our consciousness declares, But love and a sound mind, interpreted by moderns, may mean religion and reason, the two hemispheres that | Make the perfect sphere, What @ freshness and fascination have the higher objects of the mind! ‘They ave ever new, something 1s always presenting | itself, thero is a continual state of advancement. When STRAYING FROM THE PATH OF DUTY it ts religion that recolis us; in disappointment re- ligion whispers of eternal joy. Religion is, then, | not a dream; itisa pure reality of the soul. Rea- son seeks truth for its object, as plants seek the light. We long to know, not because tn this practi- en! world knowledge is power, but hocause there ts fA hoppiness in itself, God placed in usan intellect to | aweep the skies, explore the land and dive beneath Old Gcean, The firstimpression the external world makes upon us is God’s inteligen In every star His wisdom shines, 18 scattered broadcast ell over the world, After dwelling at eloquent length on | this part of his he reveread speuker went on to declare that we are exhorted to Proes all things, that reason is better than silver, Hore, -| en, are two instincts—reiigion aud reason, The mutually dependent. That is the highest life | where fatth and reason look in each other's eyes | With something like a lover's gaze. The bird in his | fight ninst start from carth and must start in bis Night by a jump; so religion must start from reason, ‘The bid, wien weary, returns to earth for res! religion returns to reason, like this we must sink back to CHAOS AND DESPAIR. Without reason, reiigion is an infant crying in the dark, Ieus must uadertie and give character to our divino instinets. This has been recognized by all religions, But what was sound orthodoxy to the ancients has grown obsolete. The religions track needs repairing, or everything will go joiting along in danger of toppling headlong down somo gorge of infldellty. Wo do not take ior new build- | ings wood that as aiready been worn out, nor are j we to take a worn orthodoxy, We are to | embrace the _ religion that appeals to our reason to-day, Reason needs a bound- less eld to expatiate on. When Keplor, two or enturtes ago Announced his laws, he was led to put away his papers tn despair of being believed. Galileo had demonstrated that the motion of the sun Wis apparent; he was compelled | torecant this on his bended knees becanse tho | Papal authority differed, To day the school boy Knows Kepler’s laws are true; all the world knows the truth of Galileo's demonsiration. Has religion | suifered from this triumph ef reason over Papal | authority ? No, it gave her an ampler fleld. Know- ledge gives a new glory to ali religions; it gives a Without some support voice to nature to declare its God. Rea- son has rendered an ciminent service by ELIMINATING SUPERSTITION AND TERROR, maktngthe Deity “a thing of beauiy and a joy for- ever Ignorance mukes the lightning and storm the manii-stations of anevil spirit. Superstition seeks by bloody means to appeas awtul being. ‘The intellectual conceptions out of which religion | eprings are all wanting, here ls yet A elond over | the heads of some pioiessors because of un ancient idle fancy, Knowledge changes his; dethrones the frighiful Image, and places in his st ‘oving God, Hope succeeds de e danger to religion, which tify; itisa VROTHY SENTIMENTATISM. Refore modern thought was born every dogmatic assurance of a bigh guthority was believed now reason has outgrown this old church, glone can satisfy, It is mournful to conten; the deeaying Cathollo saints, ‘They were the heen est of men, the Isaders of elvitization, They are now sentimentailsts, Weakness and inanity will always result When REASON IS FRPARATED FROM 7 On the other id reason needs re ratiocination does not satisfy us. W the cou. | clusions, but the heart isunsatiaied, Reason wit out religion Is a desert where th» choicest lowers never grow, The sight of the rose is reason; ile reason alone can | etch drop oi water scoms.a wave, when the wind life fs & warfare. Beecher, that stn was made or created by God purposely, -but that the suffering which works out info sin, and are the constituent cioments of pain and suffering, were constructed by God, We cannot look at this world and not sce that it was # place for discipline, This is what Nature herself would have sald could we but have read her lan- gaage. Every Shenge, all the climacteries of life, are ‘as a new birth to us—placos in our history where we may start afresh, But it ts said that pain and suffering is not in accordance wiih love, and thet there was a kind of meanness tn the ordina- tion by which Christ suffered in our stead. Why, ts not the svorld fall of suffertug in the stead of others ? Do not mothers suffer for thelr children ¢ Htaey ¥ not to suffer, why, we had better turn the cradle bottom side up. But then men get «issatis- fled with the place tn which God has put em, and they suffer 2 good deal on that account. ‘they ea, od meant me to be an eagle, and iam on'y a sparrow, only a jay bird! Whatever God meant you to be, he meant you te do the duty that lies neares’ to yon, and to do tt cheeriully and as ta Hissigut, What joy will await those in heaven who have gained great victories In great moral coumets, Gods angels come and sit in stadew, When you think they have had adefeat they have had a vic- tory. ‘There is MR. BUMBLEREY,"? you say, “look how he caine out of Black Friday; he Taat sold his stock in time; he dida’t get lato the ‘corner,’ and he always comes out all right; he ssems to be the most prosperous when other mon are in the greatest adversity.” Yes, [have known a good many beetle buga of that Kind, and you may always tell what the disposition of such bugs is. You See another man; he has failed—yes, bankrupt in fortune, not in name; alt his life a psalm; the flowers springing up under his feet where’er he nes} he don't make much money—never did; but he children—how they love to tinger around him! How happy he makes everybody who knows hin! Tow ail incn love and praise hin! And when it is all over and he lays his wearied body down, what an innumerable ‘cloud of witnesses—what a vista of loving hearts, gone on before— | stand ready to velve him = into the | heavenly land! Ah, this {8 no vagrant conttict; it is the same iow that works all the way through. The law that gave you strength for the storm is strong enough to b you through, If you look on the sea In. its wildest storms, when roars and rages as though nothin i live near it, It is diMcuit to conceive that itis the same laws that regniates its peaceful flow, and allows {ts un- rumied surface to glide so gently wlong on the calm. cst ofexim days. Yet so it is, My. Beecher con- cluded a very excellent sermon, of which the above is but a collection of fragmentery specimens, by aa iste and practical appeal to bis vast congrega- lon, LEE AVENUE BAPTIST CRUROM. Abiding in Chrisi—Scrmon by Rev. J. 3 Myatt Smith. The morning service at tue Lee Avenue Baptist chureh ts chiefly expository. After the usual intro. ductory exercises, the pastor reads a chapter and comments upon it at length. Yesterday the selec- tion was the eighth chapter of Romans, which far- nished tho reverend gentleman with matter sufl- cleat for doctrinal and practical suggestions, When he came to the text, “The Spirit itself benesth witness with our spirli, that we are the children of Life he would say, “Gabrial, T am very much obliged to you, but if you had no better erand than that you ought to have stayed in heaven,” ‘The holy Ghost assured the believer of his adoption into the divine family. One might as well go to the family record to see if he was born os to go to the church record to learn whether he was con, verted or not. Chuveh-clerk ehristlanity, would never bring people to heaven, After thes b of another hymn Rev. Mr. Smith preached a short sermon froin Jolin I. il, 28--“And now, littio children, abide in him,’ When Joln wrote the episilo he was in the evening of his iif, and he always addressed his fellow disciples as little childrep. There ta a legend that when the Apostle John waa very old he was carried into the midst of the congregation upona kind of litter and his only utterance was “Little children, love one another,” and when asked by a desciple why that was the continual burden of his speech, replied “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” The preacher made some re- marks upon the phrase “little children’? Some people, when they studied a litt: collected a few. ts, felt mature and grown old knowleda Rut amen was never prepared to re- ceive trath, esp “ge | Divine trnth, until he felt he was alittio child, The otter de 2 i who had ‘finished | fragrance {8 religion, ‘The reasoners of | the ‘jast century ruined. "They ruined in teaching reason and speculation for reason and relgion, They removed su ition, but they should ha doue more; they shonid bh tle seeds for needy souls. We must cone the speaker | Said, that reason an i to euch | other, and if we dev exclusion of the | other we have but Religion | sees in reason a pn | sees not the silly thing she es whigh bow and 1 jay of their nuptials is most 1 The pectant } bride and groom ar Religion shell not | , Hor reuson be | x0n. uvistianity be a 8 be compelled to obey cea pd with the pettines consummation! Only thus will benlicent aud saving power, BROOKLYN CHURCHES, A AES, PLYMOUTH CHUROH, A Large Accession to the Members’ Roll Opeving of Another “ Scthel %—Mr. Beecher on Lifs aa a Conflict—More About Pain and Saffering—Mr. Bumble- ' beo and Black Friday, AS yesterday was the last Sunday in April, and consequently the Sunday preceding the first Sun- Gay in May, the usual custom of reeding over the Montliy Itst of names of candidates for church meibership was observed by Mr. Beecher. The | Ust, which 1s always longer in April than on any other month, comprised 125 names, and Included Dr, | Edward Beecher and a number of other members of the great Beecher family, All these candidates will | be taken Into the Plymouth fold next Sund: | ing. May Sunday has been for many years a Memorable day at Plymouth enurch, and the forth: | coming one is not likely to he behind in spiritaa! | | glory, though the lateness of the season may some- what interfere with the usual floral display, Yes- terday was made ared-l-tter day in the history of the church by the opexing of another evangelical battery on Satan ond all his work A large yacatéd Presbyterian church, situated in Jay | Streat, was purchased some time ago by | the friends of nouth,”’ and was yesterday | opened as a “Navy Mission House,” designed for carrying on a Christian work in the neighborhood ofthe Navy Yard, that has been so long success. fully conducted fn Hicks street at the Plymonth Bethel. In the afternoon Dy. Schenck, of St. Ann’s, on the Heights, and the Rev. W. Taylor, of Broad- way chapel, New York, delivered the opening nd- dress, and in the evening Mr. Beecher preached to large congregations, ‘The text of the discourse yesterday morning was selected from the Epistle to the Ephesians, vi., 10-13, Mr. Beecher set out by commenting on tho study of human nature, its houndiessness, its fruitfulness of suggestiveness, lis many-sided phases, and how it resembled the floral world—full of an endiess in- all beboiders; but how much that interest Was deepened and widened when looked upon by the botanist. Amid all these changes, diversities and varieties, however, there was in our survey of human life, ever present to us, and which we could | not get away from, the fact that Wfe was a conilict, If we watched the career of THE SINGER, THE POFT. | the painter, the musician, the orator, the blest, and as it might appear to us, the best of mankind, we shouid ind that conflict was the Alpha and the Omega of thelr Iie, It 18 the law ofour King. We goou find out that we wre hemmed in by Jaws that control and regulate what we say and do. For ex- ample 1t don't take many times for a child to aa- certain that if it puts a finger into the fire that its finger wilt get burnt. Children also soon learn that itis Ubetngtl ot down stairs voluntarily than itis to go down all of a heap, (Langhte: ) Tn | Aghting this tight, and dealing with this coufiet, of | ie, all omen do not start equal One mal rejolees In a fine physical con. stitution; he eats, he drinks, aud he sleeps; and he gets the good of each. tho tired day is fol | lowed by the night's refreshing sleep, and he gous | | fortheeach day filled with physical vigor. Another inan ia physically frail; he haa inherited, perhaps, from ancestors, two or three" generations before him, lungs that feebly do their work, # stomach | that only produces thin blood, and tvs his bratn- | power He epee eal inactive, and he is not con- Kequently very fruitfulin tine, noble, large or at- tractive, ideas, Now it cannot be said with justice that the responsibiilty of these two men are equal, But if theso men are so constitnted, it 18 also true that to work out their mission in life there must bea confict; the strong, hale man inay presume on his strength to override other men, to bo austere, to be selfish, to be thoughiless and wnsympathizing as to others; and there is hia weakness, which will always need fighting against. The man with the bled constitution will be always making that. <ouse for his shoricomings. But Paui didn’t THE THORN IN THR FLESH, whatever it was, an excuse for his shortcomings, ©, glorious | {> | teat qnesti | exhibited. th mind = was hern 5 prectons preserves a3s ara to be ob. tained ia boarding She was continually | quoting, end he (Mt h) thought he might | Yr appearance by putting quotation | marks on ctther side of her monin, man was in a hopeless ¢o: sata he, anc a this brights tained all trai lik: { Ps part and w. | to th adition of his being | ving in kuowle | 1 | hitisido aud ask the tree, in aii its s § are you comple 1 ama perfect tre root end branch”? vi be tho n Tom geow. T forget the when I was a twig. end p rward to the tins when I shall be a glorious and majestte tree.” salnt should live inthe bright sunshine w all over. The speaker illustrated hood further by picturing the return ofa great man, a poneralora “D. D." to the old homesten who, atter looking into the face of his mother, “ceases tobe a man, but becomes a little boy agalm All the sweet impulses of his clild nature come up again when his mother calls him John or James and not General or Doctor soand so, When tho believer Jay In the arms of God as a child did in the arms ofa | fond mother, pu its littleness and helplessness, a Ohristian was never so yroatas at such a time, Mr. Smith proceeded to ciucidate ta his unique stylo the other thought of the text—that “little children” should u Christ, and alluded to thg circumstances of the transfiauration, The first step to be taken to abide in Christ waa to pass in through the door that vave us an abode in that | divine house, Repentance for sin, in the blood of the Lord jesus Christ and regeneration by | the power of the Holy Ghost is wat Was mean by entering the divine house, and there is no other door of entrance than this grace of God In Christ. ‘Th house had many rooms In it, but he did not think the doors should be kept locked. He diluted ows figure in rogard to the ark with | , Whieh symbolized the different pha stian expert and ten spoke of the r sults of abliing in Jesus. By dwelling in Him the human spirit was bronght into contact with tho | ine spirit, and the lwwuaa Was brought into con. | formity to the divine will, Christ was forbearing, entic, forgiving, moreifui and kind; and those who dwelt hy faith in Him, partook of itis nature. In conelosion, the preacher put some. searching prac- his hearers 98 to whethor thoy t of Jesus in their dally lived, | } pay e aph Those who said, “f can forgive, but T never forget,” did not eviace the mind of Christ. | The man who went out on tho highway | and battered his fellow and carried away | his yaluables was 9 seint compared to the | man who, with stealthy tread and with ay dagger dipped in. pots stabbed under the fifth rib of the vitals of some man’s character and fair fame. Hell was too good for the hi Who assassinated the reputation of another. He closed with comforting words about the final per- Severance of the saluls, sayug that they who abide in God itin security, 8T, PETER'S ROMAN GATHOLIO ORURGH, Sermon on the Obligation of Restitue tion by Rev. Father Pollard=—Text from the “Herahi.” Rev. Father Pollurd, curate of the parian of St. Peter's, Brooklyn, preached an adinirable sermon at the principal service held yesterday tu the church corner of Hicks and Warren streets, before a full | congregation. The reverend gentleman took for his text the Gospel according to St. John, xvi., 5, 16 | inclusive:—‘“iiow shall we escape of those whom | the Holy Ghost will conviet of sin’ The speaker dwelt upon the obiigation which the violation | of justice imposes upon man to his fellow mea | and urged thet that obligation was restitution, The injured man must be restored to tie possession | Of that of which he has been unjustly deprived. It is obligatory upon us to make goud to our neighbor that of which we may Lave uolawfully deprived him. This !s absolutely nece y cre onr sing can be forgiven, Christ 1 to Peter, hatsoever you Shall bind of earth shail be bound ja heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose op earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Bud this absolution of the Church can- not free aman from THE OBLIGATION OF MAKING RESTITUTION. Nothing can evsolve him of this duty, whteh is essential to the salvation of his Immortal soul. No, not all the prayers that were written by all the sainta, nor almsgiving, nor rigoroas fasting, nor good works can make satisfaction to Heaven for the obligation of restitation, Why? Because Almighty God could not give to His Church a quality which would contradict His own essential nature, Every man who, by word or act, shail injure his fellow man, every thief or robber, every one Who shall lie about the intrinato value of a thing to bo sold, must make restitution, Every servant who may glvo away at the door or carry | We have therefore tg fuake wo QU minis tual our Ox (9 hor irleuds avy porliyn of tho pro ; Members of the Catholic Church, | wee tha T don't believe, antd mr. | porty of her master without his consent must make restitution in order to gain the absota- tion of the Chureh. Hvory person who may use un- Just weights and measures, every one who tukes advantage of the wants or necessitics-of his fellow man in a business transaction must make restitu- tion. Professional men who undertake to do a oer- tain thing for ano**r and fail must mako restita- tion, Overseers 6. ves8e8 Who permit their Wi their time and neglect Rhett work are aise bound to comply with this ite for salvation. ‘Those who receive but little wages, and wno abro- gate to themselves the right to.adjust the matter, who, in fact, KNOCK DOWN—TAK® MONRY ON THI SLY, have no excuse for their sin, You make a conti with your employer to work for a stimutated aronnt, you were tn possession of your sensca at the time, you are fp your right senses at the present moment, you have to make restitutton, ‘tho ticion, the man who undertakes to serve the put for certain wages, and {3 not satisfied, or contented therewith, bnt takes more unlawfully from the troasury, is bound to mike rest'tution, Ifthe oMotal allows another to take from the treasury what tw not justly due him, ho is guilty of injustice and bound to restore it. This law i4 not applicable him aloue as an individual, but also as a tember Rooper ate, a judicial or any other form of bedy politic, AFTER THE LEGISLATORS AT ALBANY, T don’t mean to imply for a moment that all those who are called upon to ill political oMice aro dis- honest mon, God forbid that I should do so. Yet the venality displayed in the political arena, if re- on speak sys is really appalling, In one of the leading New York papers—the HERALD—I saw I¢ stated last week that “inembers ef the Legislatu: at Albany were as much a matter of commerce or merchandise as a barrel of four.” Oh! how shock- ing is this spectacle, when we consider the nature of that solemn oath which these officials have taken before God to subserve the interests of the State? And yet becanse they get money they violate ‘it. Such perjured men, wi prove st once false to their God and thelr country, are bound to make restitution, Not ouly musk goods or money usiawlully received be restored, Dut the interest accruing Ou the money must also be restored for the time during which the principal has been wrongfully withheld, If the person de- franded be dead then minst the helrs bo found, and if thatis not possibie the poor are the proper ones to receive the valne. Speaking of money patd as bribes to legislators, he coutended that the recipt- ents were in conscience bound to restore the il gotten lucre to the lobbyist from whom they had received such money, and if that person could not be found then the poor ave the next claimants, If this charitable suggestion be carried into effect among the Kings county legislators, it has boet humorously suggested by a layman that the poor ot Brooklyn will have early cause to rejoice, Au. gustin bas said, fourteen hundred years ago, “It there {8 not restitution there cannot be absolution. The sacred Scriptures are filled with passages urging this essential of Justice, and even reason pomts out the necessily of failing this require. ment for the well being of sootety. Al the disturbances witnessed between ‘capit ae labor at this period grows out of Injustice. Let the poor man get the upperhand and ho will he exorbitant in bis demand, unless ke be guided by the spirit of Justice inculeated in the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church. Let the rich man be the strongest and he wiil exércise tyranny and oppressioa, The Church alone can settle lt, The Workinan must remember that God Goa,” c aid that if Gabriel ‘ame from 4 hasy said “aan shall earn his bread by the sweat a ols ty ie ba a ue h it | of his brown,” and special _ blessings Heaven’. to asaare him) thas” hnmble | are promised the poor, If one mam name was written in the Book of | ts rich and another is poor it 1s no reason that the latter should seek to destroy the former in order to attain his position. Cod’ has institated this dla tinction and we must net rebel avoinst His will Father Pollard then concluded his discourse by re- minding his hearers that it was a terrible thiug to put off the time of making resiltntion, and arging them to pyay to God to use justice to thelr fellow inen in oll things. VICES IN NEW JURSEY. Se ee §T, PETER'S CAUNOH, JERSEY OITY, #ermon by Fathor Keaudevin=Krroneous Principles Combuicd=-Good Works as Weill az Good Professions Nevessary= Warning to Lukewarm Cotholics, In St. Peter's chureh, Jersey City, Father Bean- devin, &. J., preached a sermon from the Gospel of the day, which contained the promise of the Saviour to His Aposties that He would send the Holy Spirit upon them. The Spirit of Truth spoken of in the Gospel was sent down upon the apostles on the Day of Pentecost that they might preach the truth to allgenerations. Christ set up a chain of proof in the midst of the worll for the enlightenment of all nations, There are to-day FALSE AND PERNICIOUS PRINCIPLES, which are antagonistle to the peace of society itself in regard to the teachings of the Church of Curlat, § | Men will tell us it is no matter what a man may be. eve, provided It is satisfactory to his own cone Science, Those who speak se are not Catholics, and thero 15 very little hope t they will ever become Unfortunately, ever, there are Catiolics who, while they do f 0 80 far, hold very croncous opinions revard- © doctrines of the Chucc Gar blessed Lord 3 U3 that we must lavor to obtain the crown of h rg, and that He RES BATTLE 1 I tt be enough t that our Lord vant who buried Wk MUST if we wish to enjoy God i to be calle jemned t conduct of the s talent’ Why does He veimind as that there sin come a last day, when we sliall be judged, t by the namo witch we bear, but by tae good deeds that we lave done ia the service of our Diviae Master? Why will He expel so many on that day from His right hand? because they do not act con. sistently with their promises when they received the holy waters of baptism, Our Saviour tells us that on that day God wili send His angels, who all separate the good from the wicked, and the vicked shall go into everlasting fire, while the good shall go into eternal life. There is ANOTHER PRINCIPLE NOW AFLOAT in society. Many men say that they cunnot under- stand why God will punish with eternai tormonts a mortal sia. For the past eighteen hundred years the Church has taught by her pontitfs this doctrine wiich those people do not seem to understand. They have a dimeuity in realizing it. Why, the very meaning of the word “mortal” is “deadiy." Ons snch sin ts suMcient to debar us from eternal saivation. The Apostls Paul do 3 that we fy Onaist over agiin Whenever we commit a ‘tulsin. The very angels fell from their high ostate by the commission of only ouc sin, and that sin one of thonght—the sin of pri Aduin feil for the conunission of one sin—lisobediences and for that one sin the whole human race inhertts punishinc And if these were fo severely treated by Divine Providence how can Xpect to be made exceptions? Justice requires an offence against an Infiuite being should be finite punishment, and as the pun- can be inilnite it must necessarily be punishment of the greatest inteasity, ret you see how few believe this coctriue practically. how they will talk of the sins they have com- wutted and how very few those sing are. “IL havo traduced my neighbor's character ory five or six thues,” one will tell you. They will even speak Ierhitiy of the very crimes which, according to hu- nian laws, are deemed capital offences. ANOTHER ERRONEOUS PRINCIPLE Hoating among socicty Is, that we siiall be saved by tho sacraments, ‘This acises (vom a false notion of the nature of the’sacraments. There are some who indignant because the priest divinely ay will not give them absolution promptly whenever they choose to ask for it, ond the’ threaten never to come again to the coafesston Let them remember that God Almighty says that there 13 a day of Justice as well asa day of mercy, and further, “You shall seek Me and you shull not find Me, and you shall die in your sins because did not Know the day of your deliverance.’ will the sinner be able on his death bed to pre; himself for confession; to recall to hia mind all the sins he has committed, aud to excite himself to per- fect contrition for his sins? Absolution given im ich a case is null and void, and though given om Toh tt will NEVER BE RATIFIED IN HEAVEN, Those who live on under such a delusion recetve ® bind enconragement to persevere, and, as the Gospel tells us, they are groplog in darkness, ‘They wiil try to persuade you that they are right but the Gospel tells you that they are wrong. Weer then recited the case of the blind man in udea, Who prayed to Christ to restore his sight, and his prayer was granted. So should we pray that the mists may be cleared from our eyes, that ‘we mnay see the light and escape from the ways of darkness, We shouid ask for the light of the rt Spirlt which Jesus sent down upon His apostle that when the last day shall come we may pasa from this vale of darkness to the region of eternal “Tie music was taken from Rossi's masa in D Professor A. Neuendorf and his quartet choir still constitute agreat attraction in St. Peter's, The “Jot Incarnatas” was rendered by tie basso, Slgn Vievling, of the Nilsson troupe, and wasa fia elfort. Father Tom Burke will deliver his first lecture in Jersey City In tits church, for the benest of St, Patriok’s chureh on the Heights, of which Father Lienneasey Is pastor. The clognent Dominican wilh deliver lectures afterwards for tho beneit of the Sisters of Charity at St, Peter's, the Sisters of the Poor at St. Mary’s, and for St. Bridget’s church, the pastor of which Is Father Corrigan, STUDY THE HERALD SERMONS, To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD. Every Monday morning the New York HERALD teoms with reports of good sermons preached low in different churches from varions pointe of the compass, from most of which some good stirring thoughts may be gathered or nseful lessons drawn, Let these be kept ond read ola J through the week, thought o! meditated on, put In practice every week in year, and this pleasant exerciso will be of more value to such readers than dye times the price Of bie DOyers : ea RO ee EL TOLD LT