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RELIGIOUS. The Summer Solstice and a Significant Scampering of Saints and Sinners. pe Sie eae a ay FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. | 0. B. Frothingham Discourses on the Eight-Hour Movement and the Utopia Thereof. abel ete cad He COLLECTIONS FOR IIS MOLINESS THE POPE. gs 3 oa The Rev. Chauncey Giles De- scribes the Spiritual House Not Made with Hands. Seni te ts RELIGION AND WORK, + Twenty-ffth Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Congre- gation B’Nai Israel. PATTER WOREADY ON THE WORK CF LITE. + The Sins of the Age Set Forth by Archbishop Wetloskey at St, Patrick’s Cathedral. BEECHER ON | | { LYBIG HALL, View of the Elght-Hour Movement— Caused Not by Real Wants, but Lnagi- mary Longings—The Whole Thing a Utopla—Sermon by Rev. 0. B. Froth- ingham. Notwithstanding the summer solstice, the attend- anoe at Lyric Hall, on Sixth avenue, between Forty- firet and Forty-second streets, was exceedingly large. Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, the regular pastor, eccupied the pulpit, The reverend gentleman chose for his subject, “The Complaint of Labor,” but before proceeding to his main discourse, offered a few introductory remarks, He said he did not choose this theme for a sermon from any de- mire for-a discussion of the sort; but from a sense of professional duty. Not that he could add anything to what is now going on both at home and abroad; but that he belonged to that class whose mission was to guide and purify the human race. That class is the clergy—a class composed of men with educations the best the country affords— ® class to whom ali questions of social ethica ®hould be familiar. Their manual of duty is the New Testament, the Sermon on the Mount, “Wel- come,” the reverend speaker began— “WELOOME DISCONTENT ‘to me,” he said ; “you are a hopeful thing among men. Every aspiration for something new is not to be frowned upon or put down, but to be encouraged and helped. The only question 1s as to the noble- ness of the complaint.” The speaker said he care- flly watched the other day the procession of working men that he might see in their faces their purpose. The procession was small, but that meant nothing. He watched the file and saw well- @ressed men—men who did not look ill-used or trodden on. He saw men langhing and chatting, but no men with determined, blood-thirsty looks. Even the banner of the Internationals was borne ‘m the hands of very innocent men. I! a procession ef capitalists were to go down Broadway t would look far more haggard and careworn. One Danner said, “Peaceably if we can; forcibly if we must.” Do the lawyer, the man of letters, the Journalist and the physician limit themselves to RIGHT HOURS The rule is, work until the work is done, whether it take two or twenty hours. There are many brain workers whose brain sweat stands out on their foreheads, Sometimes they work fourteen heurs. The true worker estimates his work not by the time it takes, but by the success he achieves. Apply the eight-hour rule to New York and civiliza- ‘tion would go back. Did the men wish to cultivate themselves * Who would not assist them? The man who pots brain in his muscie is worth more in the market. He has something that might be called aspiration, Ifthe meu want two more hours to vultivate themselves, they are not only the generators of themselves, but of society, Do the ‘ich linprove their leisure thm: wil THE LABOR Recause in the name of {mprovement it 1s asked, Will it be spent in improvement? The assumption of this istoo much. Is the complaint .onest ’ Is the discontent honorable? It has sprung from a speculation of the universe; not from a deep-rooted conviction that they have not as much as they de- eerve. ‘They have the same beliefs, the same codes a» the Internationais of Europe. The Internationals take one thing for granted in every manifesto—that bor, brain and hand, there is y believe that government IN THE MANDS OF THE POOR; that all property should be taken from the owners and given to the poor; that there is a coniiet be- tween those who toll aud those who do not—not a strange doctrine in Hurope; onthe one hand those who have; on the other hand those who strive to et; landed proprietors, who never earned a foot of heir broad acres, Whose ancestors never did; on the other hand men no Own not ayard, There &re men who are rolling in vast estates, yet give no thought to the poor; men who suck the last drop of Vlood from the working c Who of us, in Europe, would not take up some theory of COMMUNISM ? Bat here there is no class. ealth belongs to him | who will labor for it. [tis everybody's. All labor—- tome with the pickaxe and spade, some with the eh, some with the brush. To be sure, there are a Ww Who do nothing ; but they are the most miserable patures in existens All cli vork, and the capitalists the most severely. man’s brain is @ laboratory, a chemist's sliop. Though he never fs a hainmer, never handles a trowel, never | deives the earth, yet his brain does them all, The intiuence of his Vrain is selt in every hut in the land. And is not the laborer a capitalist? Are not | iis tools his saving ¢ Are they not capital ? There | t@ no laboring class, no weulthy class. How will you define BORER ? S borer receives. | Then the ist, the lawyer, | the physi aborers. The man receives with one hand and gives with the other. If wages are be lurve there must be a large fund; if they are | fo be nothing we are at the beginning of things. | With as the wotto must be “Not coniic {, but unity.” | Buppose TAN WRALTHY | were to get together and try to live without the | labor of the poor. ‘There ts n 7 doce not Know it could not be know they live by the work of iaborers get together and ta #ion they hurt no one bey are suicidal, In Euro; eisa DESPOTISM OF CAPITAL; here it is an ummeaning term. Yet no deny that there is some dospotiam: it is th ance of society; and, unless pollt « comes to the reset bloodshed w prone of de and manifestoes are on he part of the workmen. ‘There is no tyranny on the side of any one except those who are Com. plaining of it; yet capitalists buy up a certain -srucle and ruin families, Is it less hideous when men say, . The wealthy | poor. So when | themselves into a has themselves, “YOU MUST DROP YOUR TOOLS;” jose the labor on which you and your family de- peud’ Tyranny! what capitalist has done anything | ke thaty Bni behind all this i# the feeling that the property of ove man 1s an insalt to another— that oue uin’s having property is theft from the | community. There are probably no people in Amer- | ica who believe that. ‘There Is_no-man On earth who believes that property is theft, Must we, then, own notuing’ Must we divide to-day, divide to- morrow? What becomes of our arrangements; What becomes of our family? In six months the world Would be in the hands of usurers. It is, then, | Hot the owning of property that is odious, but the | power it gives; that sunpiy because @ man is rich | he becomes richer, But suppose the poor matt | | comes to the rich man and says NEED MONEY and he gives it to him without intere The man’s money would soon be dissi- pated. If this were the case much better spend it | in luxury for himself and friends, Much better | “pend it in travel. He gives up these, sends his woney abroad and makes it useful, A rich man | aid the “Rich! yes I have enough to buy | ae suit of His mobey was | FEEDING THE STRINGS OF LABON. And were the working man to get money without Deving to earn it be would lone ail his selerespect— | become & mere Gependent. The speaker related the atory Of & nan Who came tO hyn | to build @ honse, } from ine, O Lord, for I am a sinful man.’ twice for an ontft for business; twice he came with shame, saying She tempter, drink, came and he had fallon. The third time there was no shame, He bad found |t easier to get by asking what he wanted than to labor. Bo the poor would get demoralized, There is @ are ion that the State is a divine affair and the King or President a divine personage, so that the laws of nature can be overturned. Can o State do any more than the peowne who compose itt Can the water rise higher In the fountain than in the spring? Nor is the supposed duty of the gov- ernment lesa absurd to make every individua! con- tribute to a fund, to set the interést on bonds and to make the tabor of all equal. Such is the wisdom of those who are dissatisfied. Such discontent is not noble, It is not a design to elevate our- selves. The secret lies deeper. It ts false cxpecta- tion; Danger that cannot be fed; it 1s to do the least possible work and get the best possible pay; to waste as much time as possible; not to improve men’s minds or help thetr families. 8T, PATRIOK'S OATHEDRAL, Arraignment of the Sins of the Age=— The Holy See: Its Past Glories, Present Condition and Future Triumphs— Eloquent Sermon by the Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey. ‘The beautiful weather and the announcement that Archbishop McCloskey was to preach attracted Jarge numbers yesterday to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which was filled to overflowing with a devout and attentive congregation. The music was of unusual excellence, the organist, Mr. Schmitz, and the quartet and chorus exerting themselves to the utmost to make it worthy of the occasion, which was the annual sermon and collection for the Pope. The solos by Mme. Chomé, Mrs. Unjer, Mr. H. Schmitz and Mr. A, Urchs were beautifully rendered, and the choruses were in every way equal to them. The selections consisted of Mass No. 5, by G. Sehmitz; “Veni Creator,” by Rauch, and the usual chants ana psalms of the day, High mass was celebrated by Very Rev. Father Starrs and the sermon preached by the Archbishop, from the gospel of the day, the fifth chapter of St. Luke, froin the first to the eleventh verse, detailing the narrative of the miracle of the wonderful haul of fishes which were taken by the disciples, at the command of Jesus, who spoke from Simon Peter's boat. The Archbishop said :—The gospel of the day Jeads us Daturally into a train of thought which is in happy unison with the subject which it wiil be my duty to call your attention to to-day. You are aware that the overings this day will be directed, in common with the contributions of all the faituful in the city and arch-diocese, to tie relief of our holy father, the Pope, whose triais and captivity, in the inscrutable providence of God, are still permitted, ‘These offerings are not latended merely to minister to his many temporal wants, bnt are io be a token of filial love and aifection to the august nead of our most boly Church, and of attachment to dis person, and through him to the most Holy See, which ts tne See of Peter. By a singular coincidence the gospel day speaks of Peter, bis bark, and his zeal vice of his Master. ‘The beautifu! narra- tive loveshadows the intimate relations which were to subsist between the son of tle living God and his chosen apostle, Peter, and even a ivken of the foundation of the holy oiice Peter was to establish, which was to guide the destiny and the hopes of the Church in all ages. There were two boats on tne lake, but the gospel tells us it was into the one of Peter that Jesus en- ered, the one from which He preached to the people and performed bis Wonderful miracle, Whai must have been the feelings of surprise, de- ligiit, mingled wonder and awe which sat upon the faces of those gathered around, as they waiche the stupendous proceeding! They saw that He that caine among them was a man, but a man clothed with more mortal authority and power than any who had preceded Him. Notwithstanding ali they saw, they did not comprehend ail that the scene took in. They did not understand that the | little bark of Peter was a type of the Church, and the little lake of the great ocean of life; that oa that ocean would be launched a stateller anda nobler craft, with Peter at the helm, directing, |; guiding and controlling, and that the multitude of shes taken into the boat were symbolic of the hosts of men who would be gath- ered into the Church. To the disciples, however, our Lord more particularly revealed Himself; He gave them instructions to preach, to baptize and to administer the sacraments, but on Peter He en- joined more particular duties. To him were com mitted trusts and charges that none of the others received. His name was changed from Simon to Peter, which signitics a rock. “For thou art Peter, and on this rock wilil build My Church, and tne gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” ‘the other Apostics perceived and acknowledged tho supe- riority of the chosen Apostle, and comprehended | that he was clothed with a more sacred office and | invested with a higher prerogative than the: the day of Pentecost came und the Holy ¢ |, Peter commenced his work. When it de. fie preached as Jesus, the great invisible Head of the Church, and as the resuit of his preaching multitudes: wel gathered into the fold of Ohrist. From Jerusalem the Gospel spread to Ephesus and from Ephesus to Kome, and thence to the isles of the sea; and so the Church was organized on the plan of its divine Founder, and a system given it which was to remain with it all ages. Peter, as the man, might die; Peter, as the representative of the Church and the vicar of Christ, never dies; and in that city which has been made eternal by the holy oillce he leit, a ee list of unbroken successors have maintained his spiendor and his fame. For three centuries succeeding the first establishment of the Pontificate tie Popes sealed their faith with their biood, and counted no giory greater tian to jay their bodies in the Vatican beside tle bones of the glorious Peter. The work spread in persecution, until all Christendom looked to the Apostolic See at Kome for direction and guidance; to it all disputes were submitied, both of doctrine and practice, and the hearts of the faithful were as much bound up with the Popes in the Catacombs, as they were with the cexsors Seated in the more than triumph- ant ror Peter. The test of a Catholic’s devo- tion came to be measured by his devotion to the | Holy See, and none deserved tae honored name | of Catholic Who were not in constant communica- tion with the Vicar of Christ on earth, ‘The whole history of the Church is the history of Peter aud | his successors, and is inseparably connected with them. It is true heresies aud schistns did arise in the early history of the Church, but tt was not until 4 the sixteenth century, and our later and 80 called | enlightened ages, that ay attempt was made to overthrow the anthority of the Holy See, and the principle on which the Church wes Tounded, In the days of the so-called Reformation, Luther rebelled aginst the authority of the Pope, but held to the Bible and the divinity of Christ. But progress went on, and his followers and successors said, Away with the Pope, we want tue Bible; and then, Away with the Bible, let us have religion without nd then, Away with religion, away with the di- y of Christ, let us have scicuce, let ns have let us have money—and these are the idols | that the men of the nineteenth century bow down | 0. | Kat, although this deluge of hnmen reason, sin and ipiety continues to surge and break over the surface of the globe, there is one ship which rides rely on the waters, lash ie rock on chit is founded’ and up by | Divine assistance, braving ali the dangers and the billows that threaten it. ‘that bark Is the Catholic Church and that those within her, can look out upon the dark waters with a {éeling of thankfulness and security, Oh, let faith be deeper and d r in your hearts, and your de- ion will be the greater to Peter’s sucessor, the persecuted but glorious Pontiff at Rome, Le is the Holy Father, and you are his children, whom he daily prays for aud loves, Let your offerings to-day be worthy of him and of yourselves, He has more | b once presented his thanks to this chureh dio- nerous support, and give him an op- do so again, ‘To-morrow he enters upon the twenty-seventh year of his pontificate, one of the most glorious in the annals of the Holy See. And let your prayers and contributions sustain him | in the dark hour of his afiiction. §T, ANDREW'S CHURCH. | Collections for the Pope=—Sermon by Very Rev. Dr. McCaffrey, President of Moant ft. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Ma. Yesterday high mass was celebrated in this neat little down town chureh by Rev. John ©, Henry, | the assistant pastor, and although the heat was oppressive a large and respectable congregation Hiled the sacred edifice. At the usual place ju the service the Rev, Dr, Mc- uitvey ascended the pulpit and preached from the ‘ospel of the day. Great wisdom was manifested hy the Archbishop of New York in selecting this day for the faithful to omer their contributions to | the Holy Father, On this day the Gospel tells us | how our Lord selected the boat of Peter from which to instruct His followers; that Peter who recognized the divinity of our Redeemer in the words, “Depart “Thou shalt be a fisher of men,” saith the Lord, and truly St. Peter and lis successors did and have become fishers of ten, for they captured the whole pagan world in their net and made it Christian. To-day | our jilnstrious Archbishop asks your alms for Peter in the person of his successor, Plus XI. That venerable Pontiff who rejects with scorn the pension or bribe offered by the robber King—who prefers to live @ pensioner on the alms of the Catholic world rather than surrender the righis committed to him by his predecessor, Persecution is not anew ting to the successor of the fisher. man, Away back through centuries of time we see the attacks of heresy and infldelity. But vain were their eftorta, ‘The enemies of the Charch have | assed away, and still Peter is contirming his | brethren, feeding the lambs of Christ and fuititing the commands of his divine Master. Peter stili survives in bE pee, of Pius IX, Amid the rui of kingdoms and empires and the general changes | of time, why is it that millions listen to the voice | of the suecessors of the Galilean fisherman? It is because the words of Christ our Lord come down to us clear and unmistakable—Upon this rock I | all the infinite revolutions of human action. the world.” Peter is the rock upon which the Church was built, and time has proved that the ona of wicked men surge dash aguinst it vain, Napoleon sought to advance his own interests at the expense of the Fao Ponti, and God punished him most signally for his reckiess pre- sumption. Even in our own @ King, who calls himself a Catholic, and who is well and appro- priately named the robber King, the spoliator of convents and colleges, the desecrator of churches and ali things sacred, renews the persecutions of old and holds the Father of the thiul in prison and denies him rights that the poorest citizen of America rejoices in the enjoyment of, ‘This impious King is aided and abetted by lying newspapers and foolish men, The Papal government has been rep- resented as an outrage on civilization. It is false. No other people could boast of less taxation. a more just representation, better facilities of education and improvement, than the citizens of the Papal States white under the control of the Pontitls. What have they now?’ They are on the point of rebellion ‘on account ‘of the exactions of ‘he unscrupwous adventurers who now rale them. The Holy Father has rejected the pension which Victor Kinmanuel, the prince of robbers, has offered him. He is willing to suffer his imprisonment and endure privations until the Lord shall calm the storm t now beats st the bark of Peter. The Church has triumphed over her enemies in the past, and shall do so in the future, The reverend gentleman then exhorted the con- iregation, to respond liberally to the request of the Archbishop and bestow their alms on the good and Diessed Pio Nono. He had kept the faith, fought thie battle well. He had cherished the lambs com- mitted to his care, he had confirmed nis brethren, and imparted to them something of the herole en- durance visible in himself, and which was the fruit of the prayer of Him who saith, “I have Vibes for thee, Peter.” While holding the faith of Peter let us exemplify it by other deeds and good works which shall secure for us 4 crown of immortality. CONGREGATION BINAI ISRAEL. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration of Ite Founding—Addresses by Re S. M. Isaace and Isaac C. Noot. Yesterday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization B’nai Isracl Congregation of Israel- ites, and the members celebrated tho event ina sort of holiday fashion. It was a mixture of the grave and the gay, the solemn and the ludicrous, Piety and pleasure, prayers and ple-crusts, songs and cigars joined hands to make the occasion one tobe remembered. The programme as arranged by the committce called for a prelude by the choir, “Behold, how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” Then fol- lowed a prayer by the minister of the congregation, Rey. I. ©. Noot, whose father, twenty-five years ago, held the same reiation to the congregation and dedicated their first synagogue, Mr, M. 5. Cohen then read a brief history of the congregation, from which it appeared that their first meeting was held at 258 William street in the year 1828, and that for many years they worshipped im a private room there. Being almost wholly natives of Holland, they had some troubie in finding suitable chazans, but they ultimately succeeded. They were the: THE THIRD JEWISH CONGREGATION in the city. After many years of fluctuating exist- ence, in 1847 the congregation was regularly organ- ized, and M. L, Gozelin was elected its first Presi- dent, and $98 was collected toward the building fund of a house of worship. At the second meet- ing $125 was raised, In May following this meeting the other officers of the congregation were elected, and they removed from William street to Pearl, near Chatham street, and thence, a few years later, they removed to 51 Chrystie, where they re- mained until August, 1860, when they purchased thelr present edifice, corner of Forsyth and Stan- ton streets, from a Presbyterian congregution, for $11,000, and rededicated it as @ synagogue. The congregation has had but eleven Presidents in those twenty-five years, and Mr. Cohen ts filling his third year as such officer, Their property has in- creased fourfold since 1860, and the congregation is now in a better condition, financially and numeri- cally, than it has ever been. After another anthem had been sung by the choir Mr. Fellman, the oldest member of the congregation, opened tie ark and took out one of the sacred scrolls. He was followed ae half dozen other old members, carrying scrolls also, At the reading desk the bearers ranged them- selves around, while thé choir chanted an anthem of praise to God for giving them the law, &c. The Tainister also prayed for the municipal, State and federal governments, officers, magistrates, & which the chotr and congregation respond scroils were then returned, a psalm was sung, and Rev. S. M. Isaacs, of the Forty-tourth street syna- ssed the audier He was glad, f seVeral reasons, to be with them, He remembs that twenty-five years ago this congregation was inaugurated, and le saw around lim many old faces and well-tried friends of the congregation, and to them he would address a few words of en- couragement. God has said that He would dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel. WHAT A SPLENDID IDEA! What has Israel done, he asked, to merit this honor? Nothing at all, We have our plcasures, said he, but not without ailoy. We are not all the best men. Wemay be well and comfortable, but many others of our coreligionists are not. LOOK at what Israel lias suffered, and yet the Lord is in Hts holy temple, and we may ask, Why does He allow these things? Look at the Roumanian persecu- tions of the Jews, and see what the Lord is doing. The great Powers of Europe haver isen up to say, “Destroy them not, for a blessing is in them.” Surely the Lord still dwells in the midst of the sons of Isracl. Mr. lsaacs then expressed the pride and pleasure he had in meeting with so many of his a country people, though it be many years since he leit the Netherland But he rey ted that so many Israclites are to-day ashamed of their country and their religion. He urged them to be faithful and true, The choir again sang an anthem, “There is none like unto Thee, O Lord,” &c., with a hallelujah chorus, after which the Rev. Mr. Noot delivered the closing addyess. He was glad that he stood in his father’s place, but he recalied to mind the great changes that have taken pl since this congregation was organized twenty-five yeurs ago, God alone, the source of all the to his name. ofall those changes the congregation had made no change in the ritual of theirservice, They might depiore, but th et that their relizion has s nged, but the name of Jew is yet nobie, an st twenty-five years have shown that he is still alive and is opposed’ to bigotry and fanat DARK NIGHT OF OPPRESSION placed by the day of liberty, and he rejoiced to be permitted to cleave to his reiigion and his conn- try and its laws, and to the blessed compact made upon Sinai with their fathers. He closed with a Jervent prayer for the continued prosperity of the congregation and God's blessing upon it. ‘The choir then wound up with the “Jigdal,” after ition Was extended to the congrega- pe basement below and isued a scene which the old Puritan Fathers wild with Cigars were lighted and smoked by Lhe men before they had tine to get down stairs, and were carried avout in the mouth by others up stairs; boys threw their hats about and kicked and cuffed cach other; men and women jostied their way into the basement room, and, utterly regardless of the simplest etiquette or gallantry, rushed pell- mell for the tables and helped thei 8 as best they could to the w and cakes, and fruits, and Howers that were spread on the tables, ‘ihe com- mitteemen tried to give the women and children the first chance, intending that when 'y had been served the men should take their places and a few short responses to toasts should be made by Judge Joachimsen, Rev, Mr. [senes, Mr. Cohen and othe But nobody could get control of the crowd, whi in a few moments had been transformed ‘from & quict, worshipping congregation into a Babel of con- fused hats, bonnets and voices, No better evidence ¢ gion of the ly enjoy thems would have s rt and a religion of the head, « CLOAK AND CAP PRESENTED, Two incidents of interest took place up stairs. Before the service proper began Mrs. Morris J, Leon present Rev. Mr. Noot with a clerical robe, and a genth ngregation gave him a& rabbinical silk ¢ After the service Mr. Cohen, on behali of the Board of Trustees, gave Rev. Isaacs a beantiful ebony cane, richly mounted and carved in gold, and’ appropriately inseribed, to help him on the downward road of life. Mr, Isaacs, in accepting it, spoke very feel- ingly of his years and services in the cause of Judaism here, and said that in a few months more, it he lived, he should celebrate his seventieth birth- day anniversary, and he invited the congregation ine and see him then, and though he would not promise them gold-headed canes he would give them plenty w drink. (Applause.) THE SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. The Spiritual House Not Made With Hands—Our Heavenly Dwellings—Dis- course by Rev. Chauncey Giles. Rev. Chauncey Giles yesterday morning, at the Swedenborgian church, in Thirty-fifth street, de- livered an able discourse from the text Isalah Lxy., 21—“Build ye houses and dwell in them.” In opening his address he said that we are ail living two lives, which run paraliel to each other through Wwe dwell in two worlds—we are spiritnal as well as natura! beings—are twice born; eat, breathe, walk, grow, labor, rest, build‘and plant, and are gathered into families and societies, both as natural and as spiritual beings. The natural life is the corraspond- ent and expression of the spiritual, and the basis on which it rests and the instrument with which it is built up. Such being the relation between THE OUTWARD AND THE INWARD LIFE, wil) build My Church. J am with you to the end of building houses, planting gardens, becomes } own soul, wuld be needed of the difference between a reli- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1872—WITH Sup beantifully expressive of the ‘analogous spiritual work of the house not made with hands eternal in the heavens, which we are all build- ing. The house is to the family what the body is to the soul—a larger body in which souls dwell, as the various human faculties dwell in the body. After eloquently picturing the beauties that pervade @ house in which a family is gathered to- gether in love and peaco the minister declared that it more beautifully expresses the life of man than any other material thing of his own workman- ship. The building of a house represents the BUILDING UP OF A HUMAN SOUL, and unless the family work in union each one will be crossing the path of the other, In the erecting of our earthly tabernacle we must dig deep, select a locality, and lay it upon a solid foundation ; so is it in building the spiritual house. ‘There is no secu- rity in the mere suriace of appearances; nostrength in the everlasting sands of human opinion. There is only one sure foundation wre which to build, and that is the Word of God. Without this fonnda- tion aman has no security against the storms of Peng and temptations that sooner or later will reak upon every one. Without it their houses must tall The acknowledgement of the Lord in the heart as well as in words and doctrine is re- quired in butiding ITUAL HOUSE. THE S8PTR! ‘Then all our actions will be based upon rinciples as substantial and unchangeable as the Lord him- self, Mr. Giles proceeded discuss the character of the material required in the erection ofa spiritual house, The Lord provided the best material in Word, We can obtain them without money and withont price; and the man who should build his house of mud and straw and de- cayed wood, when he could, with less trouble and expense, have marble, would not be guilty of so t a folly as.he who builds his spiritual house of Ghee @ppearances of truth and the . OURRENT FALSITIES OF THE BVIL MEN. Passing on the minister described the mode of erecting the spiritual house. There must be a head, a master workman, and harmony must pre- vail among the various parts. Speaking of do- mestie life as bearing a part in the grand work, it was defined as the school of paticnce. Its duties, ditlculties and its a are constahtly recurrin; and unless tie heart is put into the work one bi comes & mere mechanical drudge. EVERY DAY 18 A LESSON and a practical excrcise in patience. It is a good lesson, and we need to learn and practise it, We Must surrender self, and, asin the marriage rela- tion, mako mutnal concessions, give up much, round off many sharp corners, make rough places smooth, crooked waysstraight. Some of these are inthe very grain of the constitution; some of them have been conilrmed and hardened into habit. We are, by our lives here, actually selecting the lo- calities and building the houses we shall dwell in through eternity. We are deciding in what prov- ince of the spiritual world we shall dwell; whether in hell, where we shall be surrounded with all that is fithy, repulsive and evil, or in heaven, where every form of innocence, purity, lovelmess and beauty will delight us. We are also determining in wnat heaven and in What society our house will be located, and what will be its situation, its surroundings and its aspect. in every particular, We are selecting the exact spot where we shall BUILD AND DWELT. FOREVER. We are also collecting the materials of which it will be constructed, determining its architecture, its size, its plans, its arrangements and structure, 1p the spiritual world everything that 1s external to the spirits and angels corresponds to their spiritual states or character, and expresses them in the minutest, fullest and most perfect manner, 80 that there will not be @ single thing from foundation to pinnacle of our house that will not represent some- thing in us, Whatever of goodr or trath, of evil or falsity, there is in us to be represented will find some place and expression in the structure, and nothing else will, In this world aman who bas money can build a house that will represent THE IDEAS OF BEAUTY and harmony of others—of the architect or builder. But there it will not be so, Every one must be his own architect and live in a dwelling that will be the external representative of internal principles. What you will be in the spiritual world depends upon what yon are becoming here—upon the trnths ou are learning and doing here. Is not this sub- ject worthy of your serious consideration? “Build ye houses and dwell in them.” But select the pur Ms HEALTH-GIVING CLIMATE OF HEAVEN for their location; lay their foundation upon the Rook of Ages; make the Lord himself the chief cor- ner stone; select the gold and silver and precious stones of genuine truths from the Word for your material, and by a heavenly life here see that they are all wrought into beautiful forms and harmonious proportions within you. Then you may leave this world in perfect conildence that they will be per- fectly represented in your home in heaven. 8T, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Father McCready— The Work of Life and How It Ought To Be Donc—Man’s Soul and the Motive Which Should Guide It—A Happy Eter- nity the Reward for Fidelity to God. Yesterday was the day appointed by Archbishop McCloskey for the collections in the churches of the archdiocese in aid of the Holy Father, and was therefore of especial interest to both clergy and laity. The experience of former years in regard to this annual collection has made the day one of pleasant anticipation, for the Catholic population of this city give with unbounded generosity when the call for help comes from the head of the Church, especially from the good old man who now wears the tiara. The congregations of St. Stephen’s church were unusually large at the masses yester- day morning, and at the high mass the Rev. Father McCready, in announcing the collection, made an eloquent appeal for the Holy Father. The Rev. Dr. McGlynn also at the several earlier masses referred to the Holy Fatner’s present needs and claims, The Rey. Father Lynch celebrated mass. After the first gospel the Rev. Father McCready preached from Luke v., 5:—“Master, we have labored ail the night and have taken nothing.” If there be one idea more than another especially put forward throughout the sacred Scriptures, it is the idea of work. Even the Divinity is represented to us as ever active in its works of creating, conserving and sanctifying. Our divine Lord tells us “the Father worketh even until now, and I work; and again, “I must work the works of Him that sent me whilst it is day; for soon the night cometh, when no man can work.” The angels who stand before the Throne are continually employed in the glorious work of praising Him “who sitteth on the Throne, and tne Lamb,’ Even in inanimate nature, the globe we inhabit and the countless worlds of stars and planets are perpetually in motion, per- forming their part in creation, obedient to the command of Him who ordered their times and seasons. We read in Genesis that the Lord God took man and put him into the Paradise of delignt to dress it and to Keep it. After his fall the earth was cursed, and Adam was told that he and his posterity should work, should earn their bread ia the sweat of their face, The laborers in the vineyard, who represent the people of God, under the old and in the new dispensation, worked in the vineyard; some through the heat of the day, others in the evening. So incumbent, indeed, on man is this necessity of working that the idler, he who does no honest labor, who is not employed in doing something for his neighbor or for the well- being of society, 18 a drone, who has no place in the company of his fellow men, It is true that if man were merely pagers for the goods of this world, for present gain and temporal happiness, he could find in these sufficient impetus for his industry. But man has a higher and a nobler destiny. if the Creator bad intended that man should be satis- fled with the goods of this world He would have en- dowed him with faculties merely suM@cient for their enjoyment and have left him to grovel on the earth. He has, however, given him an immortal soul, with supernatural cravings: that can never be satisiied in this world, while to man alone of all created be- ings He has given that upturned look to teach him that he must expect his reward in the upper world rather than seek it here. Therefore, immortal man, With that immortal soul of his, stamped with the impress of the Deity,and therefore belonging to his Creator and Sovereign Master, should raise himself above the vanities of this world, which are unworthy of bis pursuit, and look to Zion, whence his aid must con “Serve the Lord in fear and He shall be your reward exceeding great.” When our Lord, iu another portion of the Gospel, said to the laborers in the market place, “Why stand you here ail the day idle '’ He implied by this: seeming reproof that it is wrong fora man to be idle. ion may, as they do, toil from day to day, from week to Week and from yeer to year, but in most cases they work for the enemy—not for the Master, They have labored all the night of their natural lives, and have gained nothing for life eter- nal. They may reap a temporal reward in the hour in which they earn it, which, like all temporal things, vanish but when evening comes and the lord of the vineyard commands his steward to give to each his wages they receive not the penny which is the passport to eternal life. ‘They have worked and wasted themselves in the pursuit of temporal happiness, accepting what crumbs of pleasure the prince of this world bestows on them, never casting a tiiought on the world to come. God's laborers deny themseives here of even many legitimate enjoyments, looking for tu- ture reward when the shadows of death close around them, and they are adjudged worthy of eternal reward. Each of ns, then, has a certain work to perform— &@ work which we inust do or merit the reproaches of our Master, as in the case of St. Paul, called by God to preach the Gospel, and “Woe to me,” he says of himself, “if 1 do not evangelize." So may we, too, say:—Woe to me if I do not work for God in that avocation in which it has been His will to place me ; woe to me if [do hot sanctify my work by referring it to His glory; if I do not, in a Word, whether I eat or drink or whatever else I do, do all forthe honor and ory of God, ie special work of the Christian, the work to which all others must be subordinate, is the salvation of his becoming @ Saher of man this ia the itead of in, it brings forth the rich, mellow vintage of good and meritorious works, which the Master expects to gather and for which He will amply repay us, If we are not, therefore, thus employed working for God, working for the salvation of those en- trusted to our care, we are idle all the day. No matter how hard we may have toiled, if it be not thus in the service of our Lord and Master our labor is vain. Not merely do we labor in vain, but our very existence in this world is @ mistake. We | frustrate the object of our creation; we have labored | all the night and have taken nothing. Men, no doubt, labor very hard in this world and accom- lish much; but how often 1s not all this done for he mere applause of the world and without the motive which God requires before He seals that | work with His approbation? There are deeds on record and deeds done every day which must. have called forth for their Reoptarlisbinees the best energies of men, yet they are Bullled in God's aight by the marks they bear of the empty object which gave rise to them. God demands of the soula reckoning for all its work. He demands of it that its aspirations and motives should ever point to one end—the object for which he created it—its own salvation. Without this motive being ever resent, ever the guide for all the Inbor of life, the journey’ here below toward the world beyoud has been fruitiess indeed, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH OHURCH. The Pew-Owners Beginning Their Sum- mer Vacation—Sermon by Mr. Beecher on “Religion a Work and Not an Emotion”—Who it is that Makes Pen- mies Squeal—The Chromatic Passages of Domestic Life—The Evil of Multi- plying Children, ‘The hot spell of the last few days has turned the | thoughts and fancies of the city residents towards country lanes and the sound of the deep-swelling sea, The result of this tendency of thonght emptied a good many pews of jtheir regular occupants at Plymouth church yesterday. The strangers were, therefore, accommodated with | ease, and the house was not overcrowded. Mr. Beecher’s subject was, ‘Religious Life a Work and Not an Emotion.” ‘The text was selected from the Gospel of St. John, v., 16—‘“fhe woman saith unto Him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.” The introduction was @ graphic word picture of the woman of Samaria and Jesus at Jacob's well. The desire of the Samaritan woman to obtain this water of which she supposed Jesus spoke, without the labor that was necessary In the drawing of the water from the well, was the saine spirit that actuated men to-day. Men seek religious benefit without labor, withont culture and without education. This was not attempted in physical life; men did not seck the benefits of an industrial occupation without first laboring for them, This was equally trae in the intellectual sphere of life. It was no exception to this state- ment that there were men of genius who seemed to enter into an intellectual inheritance by a kind of intuition, We were not wrong in supposing that genius was ever ready, and was more facile in its workings, but it was after all only amore highly conditioned brain. If we reason about the develop- ment of intellect we find on the lower stage of mental power mental trapressions produced simply ; in the middle stage there is a development, but it is in a lower measure; there is a higher stage that has a far higher measure; it is a development that js self-stimulating; and that develops itself out- wardly. Most men have a state of faculty that is highly organized in one direction. It was quite true that a man who was thus organized could work more easily than others, but it was not true that there was no need for him to work, There was not @ man who lives who TEACHES UPON MIRACLES. All men were under laws. The cage got over the round more easily than the ant, but the eagle did it by wing-beating: but the ant got over the ground, The re in one was greater, but it was the same law that was at work. ‘The man who was ever so much ofa genius was never free from the responsibility of study and the application of means to ends. It was only when men came to the moral sentiment that they began to work upon an entirely different scheme. Now, religion was simply right-mindedness towards God and towards man. That was a religion which was to act accord- ing to the law of the power of the mind from the highest to the lowest of the faculties. We had not two minds—one to think about the world with, end another to think about God with. There was an essential unity in the use of the mind, “But, then, you are ready toasx,” sald Mr. Beecher, “is there no place for the holy Spirit ? no place for the inflnence of a divine aMatus, that stimulates and convinces men. I should have no hope in any of my labors for the enfranchisement of men if | did not betieve that there was a divine element, an atmosphere of heaven, that Farah every heart; it is the faith in this Divine Spirit that gives me courage in all my efforts. Notwithstanding, this Divine Spirit is not so powerful as to relieve man from the develop- mont of all his powers and the profiting by ail his experiences. This Spirit WAKES US UP TO WORK out our own salvation with fear and trembilng. Men geem to think that if they wish to bo converted, there is a whole field before them, and that there is notlung further for them to do than to forth and enjoy it; and they come to think that once con- verted they are always converted, I say that it is not an accomplished salvation. All that a man has got when he is converted is that he has got a new start. When the angel came and struck off Peter's chains the angel tojd him to ‘go out,” and he went out; but he had to find his own way about, and to get his living after that. Was not Paul’s a sudden conversion ? It was as far as the will was concerned, But when he awoke from his swoon he had to be told about all that had happened, and by slow de- grees he came to be the great apostle that he was. What was wanted was not to wait until some great crisis came, but to begin to be Christians, If you saw a man who was a noto- rious spendthrit, and when you heard him say, “When Iget tobe a snug, careful, thrifty man i will do so,” you would think he was a fool You would tell him to begin to be a caretul and a thritty m When a man is a public thief, and desires to discontinue his dishonesty—if in these days a public thief is considered a dishonest man—(lunghter)— you would tell him to begin to be honest, would ou not? If aman wants to be converted let him egin to do right—that is what conversion amounts to anywhere. Should not the man pray? Certainly, but he must do something — cise besides praying. Piety is not under a different law to general intelligence; it in the same law. Then there is so much dependent upon temperament in estimating the mfuences towards goodness, A man with a long, thin, bloodiess body would have no pity for the mistakes and failures of the man Hr the short, junky oody and columnar 1 an immense basil Ege Bat the short, man might say to the lean, bloodless, elougatet piece of humanity, “Well, if I do get drunk now and then and do enjoy my meals, I never was mean enough to PINCH A PENNY it squeal, as that man does, (Langh- have you never noticed how different men are in their prayers to what they are out of them? You hear one man; he never prays with the same voice that he talks with. He seems to | have gota kind of official voice for that purpose. It is generally a very low, self-debasing voice, Look at him and listen to him at the business or at th ofnice; look how he paces about; now he order: What Vigor, What earnestness, What a tone there is in that voice when things are not going all right. He is quite another man. Then glance at the man who has been conducting family prayer and asking for a meek and = quiet spirit. When it is over his wife has to ask him for something. She knows it is quite right she should have it; he knows it is quite wrong, and it is quite right that she should not | common. ships and connicts. They fmpart moral catered to those who dwell upon their slopes or benesva” thelr shadows, and they exert a certain religions influence upon the hwaan mind. ‘The imagery of the Bible abounds in references to mountains, and the history Ofredemption is to a great extent connected with certain mountains of the earths —_ was something in man’s nature which led to sek Posts of observation— to like to overlook cities and estimate their magni. tude and mark the variea landscape, The text was metaphorical, John having been Lifted up in spirit toa great mountain; ana what was given to him in apocalyptic vision mignt be im part given to all God’s people, Tne first, mountain within their reach was the Sabbaths Which was as old as the mountains, its founda! having been latd when the morning stars sang gether and all the hosts of God shouted for Joy, aol through the ages this mountain has been risin; higher and higher, and along its slopes and unde its shadows the destinies of the race had bee gathering. Whatever men might say or think con- cerning the literalistic Sabbath of the Jewish law, it nevertheless was true that in duration and pei manence the Sabbath was as old as the race and enaneiag aA God; for though its foundations wer laid in time, there remains an eternal Sabnath fo the people of God. The Sabbath {s a mountain st I the throngs of the city as well as 4 Phe soult de of the ie solitude of country. No one could enjo; owever ne toil might be, ven whosves was content wit the homdrum ‘iife wi led by th horse that ids upon a circle, ever moving, bu' yet never advancing, was a miserable Delng. ‘Buc! persons often pre illicit pleasures and drowne care by sensual det ripe But on the other han it was a well attested of socio! that th who climbed up the high mountain ‘the Lord’ day felt the bracing atmosphere and the spicy odo: that came as from the throne, refres the soul so that when they came down from the high mor taln that was set between the weeks felt did Deborah, who said, “O my soul, thou hast put on strength.” A great man: wecne thought Sabbath was an invention of ministers, ance of theology, or a sentimental conceit that had gained prevalence; but the fact was that He whe meade man made the Sabbath for him, that from the hot noontide of daily life he might betake himset to its refreshing shadows. ‘Luose who ascende this mount might, like the Apostles, see Jesnd transtigured before them, might hold unto? with God and prove the fulness, the sweetness. and divineness of life, He (the preacher) believed hi would be benefiting the community greatly if ha couid induce people to rise at six o’clock on Sunday morning, plunge them into refreshing baths, teaci them to eat their breakfast and say their prayers with joy, and then go out, parents and children, and behold the beauties of nature and listen to the singing of the birds, But when people are dis- posed to come out of a SWEAT BATH, their eyes hardiy rubbed open, and hurry to church, scarcely conseiouss whether they are going 10 a festival or to @& mountain excursion, then, indeed, it was a hardship for any minister to lift them up 80 ‘that they might feel the air that camo lise of God, ‘The speaker invited his hearers to ascend snother mountain, composed of the great facts of the Gospel. This part of his. theme was ably discussed, and the inestimable tue of the Bible in its adaptability to humanity 8 pointed out in eloquent woras. Then the preacher named another mountain of blessing—the high mount of the Divine promises, which were ex- ceedingly great and precious, and as immutable as God himself, and ought to be taken by Christians as any legal pledge was received. In conclusion, he said that he had been talking to some in an un- known tongue—that portion of his audience ‘who spent their lives in eating, d ing and picasure- going. They had no “faculty” to understand the spiritual signiticance of the truths which he had evoived, and he exhorted them to withdraw them- Ives from grovelling puraults and partake of the rich fruits that grew along the sides of the moun- tain of God’s holiness, THE PULPIT IN ULSTER COUNTY. FIRST REFORMED CHUROH, KINGSTON, N. Y. “Temptation”=Sermon by the Rev. D. N. Vandevere, Kraston, N. Y., June 16, 1872. ‘The several churches of this city were well at- tended this morning. At the First Reformed church the Rev. D. N. Vandevere gave an able dis- course on “Temptation” before a large and fash- ionable audience, taking iis text from Matthew iv., 1—“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil.” Temp- tation, said, the reverend gentleman, is no sign of desertion ; forit was the Holy Spirit who conducted Messiah into the desert. Temptation may be a pledge of love. No one gets to heaven without going trom the para THROUGH THE WILDERNESS; like Christ, led into temptation, like Him also de- livered from the evil. Temptation is no evidence of sin. Preludes to sin do not constitute sin unless they grow Into open transgression.. It is one thing to fall into temptation; another thing to lie supinely there, Temptation is no proof of an evil nature. Adam did not evolve evil from within; he was tempted from without, Christ went through the pollution of the world like the beam of light which reveals it but suffers no taint from the con- tact. The temptation of Christ proves his humanity. Only that which is less than infinite is susceptible to temptation. So Satan struck at the human side of Christ; not one blow was levelled at the divine. ‘The Jordan is on tite divine side; the wilderness on the human, ‘THERE IS A RIVER IN HEAVEN, but no wilderness, ‘The temptation qualified Christ to sympathize. Experience proves the existence of temptation aad the need of higher than human help. If man could stand alone then Adam would have stood, mpathy comes from community of experience, Christ suffered, and therefore can sym- pathize, THE HURRICANE may rush as flercely over the pool as aver the ocean, bnt, by its greater Volume, the sea is more agitated. Christ was man, and the magnitude of His manhood made Him more exposed to suffering, and the compass of His sufterings qualified Him to sym- pathia in all and with all—more an condolence. His sympathy is succor, to The temptation roves 8 divinity. isa saintliness which, though exalted, is not above the risk of fracture. Aman may be tempted by $1,000; does not yield because his probity overtops the proffer, Ratse it to his full moral measurement, and his manhood trem- bles; raise it above it, and the man falls. The stature of Jesus towers above THE DEVIL'S LOFTIEST OFFER; so far up the shadow might travel, but_the top ot the pinnacle was still flashing above. He could be dislocated with pain, but not detled with foppaley. e temptation proves the existence of the Devil; probably a spirit rather than an incarnate tlend, A DEVIL OF FLESH AND BLOOD, by revealing himself, would defeat himself, Ordi- nary virtue could resist him. it shows the poverty of the Devil’s resources that no new or extraordi- nary temptation was levelled against Christ; also the condescension of Messiah that He did not en- counter the uncommon and leave unexplored the We meet the same trials. The first looked innocent. “You are hungry; make bread.’’ Christ refused, He declined to work @ miracle for the gratification of the Devil; declined because it would have shown distrust of His father's falthfal- ness. One medium of temptation ts the body appe- ‘ite. Man must live. Zhe daily struggle of thou- sands fs to live EVE ATE THR APPLE and ruined the world, There is indolence. Woe is uato the man who gives his hands nothing to do. ‘Then temptation is Samson was asicep When shorn of his Ni rength and powers. ‘There is passion, Like vap a tremendons power, but unless under constant coutrol blows everything to atoms. In a flash of anger Cain killed his brother, Second temptation—Jerusalem—the Temple. “It you are the Son of God, jump and prove it.” It in addressed to the Spirit. ‘ihere Is A LIMIT TO THE DEVIL'S INFLUENCE, have it. Then occurs one of those fine chromatic passages that disturb the harmony of domestic life so much, (Laughter.) ‘The meckness that he had prayed for is ail gone; though God had sent an angel in the shape of his wife to test the sincerity of his prayer. Then have you never seen a Christian father nnder the severe triai of having children multiped on his hands, when circumstances plainly showed that he did not want them’ How plainly he showed that he wanted somebody else to do the work for him, A clear, practical application of these traths closed a discourse that abounded in illustrations of striking adaptability. BEDFORD AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH. by | Spiritual Mountain Peaks—Sermon Rev. Dr. Porter. Yesterday morning the Rey. E. S. Porter, D. D., pastor of the Reformed church on Bedford avenue, delivered a practical and beautifully worded dis- course from Revelations xxi., 10—"-And He carrted me away in the spirit to @ great and high moun- tain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jeru- salem, descending out of heaven from God.” The Doctor commenced by observing that the chief mountains were reared in those formative periods when the earth was being prepared for the advent of man. They filled a most important place, | not only in the natural, but also in the social, moral, political and religious economy of the globe. They are the great | natural storehouses out of which wealth draws ite civilization, They are the great nur series of nations wherein men are trained for bard~ He will coax men to the pinnacle—would push them over if he dared, But he cannot destroy without our permission; he pauses, parleys, but | will not harl any man over—you cast yourself off, your own destroyer. Men incur unlawiui visks, Uunking that they only come up to the standxed of faith. Tamper with health, character and destiny; trust to their knowledge, resolutions, even p:ayers, jor protection against the sin they challege. Only | a hair's breadth between faith and presamption. Satan resorts to his final strategem—proposes to Him, who had been announced ay the king of the world, universal sovereignty, [ie knew t he lied, because he did not own a foot of the carth. ‘The thought of paying 1 worst elicited the mandate fone.’ Prophecy was ful- filled, the seed of the woman brat the serpents head; the last temptation was an invention of the un- derstanding. Literally, the same offer has never since been made to man; yet all the rewards of con- | Stitute the world, and are material of the third temptation, SATAN STRIVES TO MASTER THE WILL} do nothing without your consent; can u give riches unless you are willing to accept a gratuity from the Devil; an unholy com- promise is worse than a righteous defeat; excusing 4 little evil that good may come; using duplicity to gain position on the plea that we can better serve God; giving homage to Satan to win the world ean for Christ, Solitude has| its perils, Then THE TRAITOR, BORGLAR AND SUICIDR meditate. When alone Eve beguiled; alone when Lot's wife was destroyed, The best men seem most: accessible, Satan weighs—does not remember men. Thesingular may be stronger than the plural; the general greater than his legion, To juer Cesar is to enter Rome. Teraptations assailed Job, David, Peter and Obrist. The weapon of defence is the sword of the Spirit. With that no man cam fall; Without it no oue can succeed,