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6 RELIGIOUS. Christianity Expounded by Prominent City and Suburban Preachers. The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost. Dedication of a German Catholic Church in Thirty-first Street. BEECHER AND THE GILMORE JUBILEE. A Young Congregationalist Preacher's First Sermon as a Unita- Father McNamee at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Bishop Foster on the Incidents in the Life and Career of Paul and Timothy. A Boston Divine on Unita- rianism. Memorial Sermon to the Late William A. | Whitbeck at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Yorkville. WEST THIRTIETH STREET ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Dedication of a New Church to St. John the Baptist. To mention the names of the different societies that yesterday assisted at the dedication of the new | German Catholic church, West Thirticth street, would of itself occupy a column, Such assemblages are not of rare occurrence, ‘so the reporter shall en. deavor to give some information more interesting to the readers of the HkRALD, The whole church was designed by Napoleon Le Brun, architect, of this city, and is of the purest style of French Gothic | of the thirteenth‘century. The dimensions of the | church are 162 feet long by 62 feet wide; height of | nave is 62 feet; alsles, 30 fect. The clere story is | supported upon clustered columns of elegant pro- portions, over the arches of which is placed a blank triforium beneath the clere story’s windows, which windows are of large proportions, “filling nearly the whole space between the nave arches, and are glazed with rich stained glass. The three altars are formed of American and German marble, The high altar is anique in design, and, although the badalchin and gradine are not yet constructed, the effect pro- fnced is very fine. Behind the sanctuary is placed the post choir for the use of the community in charge of the church. The batiding is as yetin an unfinished condition, the front part and vestivules being still unfinished. But suftictent has been con- structed of the front and of its noble tower, which is as wide as that of Trimity church, to give an idea and what the popular architect When completed the church AS one en- of what it will be, intended it shontd be. will cost nigh thirty thousand dollars, tered the church and beneld the Archbishop McCloskey, of New York 9 ft | Rochester; Persico, Bishop of Savannah—all in purple; again, the Capuchins wearing their brown cloth Gassock’s, and the secular priests, among whom were some of the leading pricsts of New York, in surplice, and young ladies in white, bear- Ing Wreaths, one could not refrain from being im- pressed with the solemnity of the occasion, Services commenced py the intonation of the litany of the suints by the bishops and priests, at the conclusion of which Bishop McCloskey made tne turn of the church, sprinkling holy water ashe | went. Mass was then celebrated by Bishop Persico, | assistant priest Father Wayneh, Father Victor deacon and Father Stump sub-deacon, The music sung at mass was {roi Mozart’s Twelfth, “Veni Creator,” by Millard, and was very well sung. After the gospel a sermon was delivered by one of the Capuchin fathers, Who took for his text—“This is the house of God and the gate of heaven.” He pre- viously commended the faith of the Teutons who had contributed to the building of the church, and exhorted them to p yer ass being concluded Dr. Mccioskey ase: altar and said:—sel- dom or ever have I sO positively reminded of the sublime scene (which ts described In Seripture) witnessed in Jerusalem at the dedication o. the second Temple to the glory of the God of larael by the Jews upon their return from Babylonian captiv- ity. The processions of priests and Levi the sound of cymbals and music cuused old men and women to Weep with joy and young ones leaped about under the same influence. Yet what was the solemnity of that oecasion compared with the pres- ent. Nodivine holocaust was there ollered, no di- vine presence was tuere to be found; butit is not so in the Christian temples. ‘The Church cannot be consecrated, said he, So long as it owes ten cents to any mai It cannot be cailed the house of God so long asa man can say that house owes me any- | thing. After paying a tribute to the generosity of | the Germans of the neighborhood and to th chin Fathers and impressing upon the congrega- tion the necessity of co-operating with thetr pastors in the future as in the past, he brought the cere. monies to actose by giving his episcopal benedic- tion. 8T, LUKE'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Paul a Greater afferer Than Christ Himseif—Christian Faith tn God—The Lesson from Paul to Timothy—Sermon by Rev. Bishop R. 8, Foster. St. Luke’s Methodist Epascopai church, Forty- first street, near Sixth avenue, was yesterday at- tended by a very small congregation. One would naturally suppose that the announcement that Bishop Foster would preaci would be suflictent to draw together a large congregation; but, notwith- standing the announcement made, the church was, | as before stated, poorly attended. This must be at- tributed to the absence of mest of the congrega- tion, who,have gone to the country to seck cooler and purer air than Gotham affords, and not to any jukewarmness on the part of the congregation. Bishop Foster preached THE SERMON, which was founded on the words ef Paul to Timothy, which are found in the first chapter, twelfth verse, of the Second Epistle of Pan! to Timothy— “for I know in whom ! believe,” &e. The object of the sermon was to exhort the congregation to try and obtain the faith of Paul. The sermon opened | thus, “In these words you have an example of tie faith aud intrepidity of ‘the eposties and martyrs,” and continued in subst as jollows:—Paul was | i prison at Rome, and at the time of his writmg | this letter was an old man. Ina dark and gloomy ceil an old man, gray with years, sat bending over parchment, Let ua peep over bis shoulder, and see what he i8 writing. A glance reveals the fact that he is writing to his son hy, not his natural son, but to his son in the Gospel, Although | Timothy was not the natural son of Paul, he was | loved by him with @ tender affection, such as a | father rarely has for his son. He loved lim because he taught him; he joved him becange he was his colaborer, and he loved Lim because he was to cc tinue the work which he at that time was pre- vented from performing. | ‘The letter which he was writing was one of remin- | iscences, and still at the same Lime of sound doc. | trines. As he sat in his lowly prison cell scenes of the past clung fondly to his recoliection and claimed utterance in words. He thought of when he was dardent man, when he persecuted with ting severity the young Church of Christ; ught of when he Was on the road to Damas- cus, and of how Christ appeared to him and con- 4 him; the scenes of his thirty years’ persecu- tion recurred vividly to his memory, which made @ trickle of pride run through his blood to think of how he hat been deemed worthy to suier for his Master. iad suifered persecntion for thirty | for God, | pen, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. deceive the peo) shown the truth he entered w his mission—the extermination of paganism—with all the zeal he had betore manifested ta pemeasecing the Church, Although Paul was a \d conscientious man, he would never have left such a glorious‘ record for the perusal of the future generations had he not had some power not contained within himself to carry him through his troubles. Now, we all have a certain power which does not naturaily belong to us. We walk throngh life as a child on the brink ofa precipice with its hand in that of its father. In this way it will venture on the very angular brink of the precipice, having full coniidence in the stren and ability of the father. Just so we travel through life, venturing on the verge of de- struction by swerving, but still having confidence in the ability of our Father to save us. We are also like the ivy, which twineth around the mighty oak. Alone the ivy would be broken and severed by the lightest gale; but clinging to the oak it withstands the storms and tempests of years. In conclusion, ny friends, I wouid ask of you to try and not only retain, but increase your faith, your Christian faith, which can alone bind you to the oak of salvation. 8T. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, The Inner and the Outer Life—Sermon by Rev. Father McNamee, Notwithstanding the excruciatingly warm weather St. Patrick's Cathedral was filled yesterday at the high mass services with a goodly gathering of devout worshippers. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Father McNamee, who took tor his text that portion of the Gospel of the day where the Saviour instructs his hearers that an intention to do evil calls as greatly for judgment as the actual commission of a bad deed, The sermon, besides being an eloquent one, had the merit of being a short one—a coincidence of merits that the swelter- ing congregation no doubt fully appre- ciated, The reverend Father in open ing remarked that there was a vast difference between human laws and divine laws. Human legislation was received from God for men’s well being, but it only touched men’s exterior acts. God alone could judge man for his interior acts—his thoughts and intentions, God sees the secret of our hearts and penetrates to the utmost recesses of our souls. When Christ came among the Jews ther 38 among them who prided themselves upoi rvance of the laws, but whose hearts wi not pleasing to God, They were the Scribes and Pharisees—a set of men distin- gushed for their learning and outward show of piety, but who were in reality God's bitterest cne- mies, They spent their time, in distorting the Holy ‘Writings. They prayed in public and visited the sick, but not out of love but that they might be seen by men and from men receive praise. Their whole religion consisting in pleasing their fellow men. In the Gospel Christ tells us that if our jus- tice abounds not more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees we cannot enter the kingdom of God; for their brillianey was simply an eimpty show, want- jug in taat which alone makes our acts pleasing to God, purity of intention, a desire to those things which God requires, and solely with the view of pleasing Him. The Saviour called their attention to the law which declared it a sin to commit mur- der, and then told them that he who harbored an intent to do wrong was as guilty as he who did wrong. He laid it down as law divine that men showd not only refrain from taking the lite of thelr fellow men, but that they should not harbor feelings of anger or revenge toward them. It was, however, clear from the different degrees of punishment men were threatened with by the divine law for com- mitting sin that there were also diferent degrees To! of offence, First and most, in the matter of harboring feelings of anger, was that anger mani- fested against God Himself, and out of which arises the sin of blasphemy. Examples of this sin was Herod’s conduct in slaughtering the innocents, and | that of Julian, the apostate, who died blaspheming the name of his Maker, The reverend Father then went on to describe what species 0: anger was sin- ful against God and to describe how bad intentions called for God's judgment equally as well as bad acts comiitted, and closed by exhorting his hearers so to act as to avoid that judgment when y should be called upon to give an account to God Himself for every word spoken, every act done and every thought conceived during lifetime, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. The Uniterian Belicf—Its Relations to Other Faiths—Its Practicability—Its Duty—Sermon by Rev. Rush R. Ship- pen, of Boston. The pulpit of the Church of the Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, was yes- terday morning occupied by Rev. Rush R. Ship- of Boston. The reverend gentleman based his sermon upon the words of Paul:—“We believe, and therefore speak.” It is positive faith, he be- gan, that gives power to utterance, No Church or sect can flourish on mere negations, It is said by some that THE UNITERIAN BELIEF embraces a little of almost every faith, but not enough of any one, It does. Its first and great principle is “seek the greatest truth.” It draws honey from every flower. Why were those walls erected? Why are we here? Why was this pulpit raised? To seek and to send forth that greatest faith, But recollect that sometimes superstition is taken for faith, Thus the boy has faith in ghosts, and shuns tl stery; but a larger faith comes in and drives away the idle superstition, He knows that he is encircled by God’s protecting arm But there are different kinds of faith, There is the faith of the passenger on shipboard who shuts his eyer and sleeps during the storm, and the nobler faith of the captain, who watches all night. The one is, cem A SLEEPY FAITH, he other that does its best and od. The one is shadow; the other substance. Let us be done with sleepy faith, Let us not confine ourselves by formulas. Have we no room for improvement? Would a map of this city drawn @ hundred years ago give any idea of its Present state? No. It has spread its boundaries to the north and to the south; it has crossed a ri on the east and on the west. The map must grow with the city; and, therefore, we will not sterreo- type our faith. Look at Chicago—half of her in ashes. Have her maps changed’ No. So with the formulas of some beliefs; naught but the formulas remain, And but for them perhaps the faith might have been fanned into life. They have smothered the fame, and now all are ashes. The speaker next alluded to the city of Meadville as perlaps one of the most beautiful cities of the L Not by the straight lines of a inap are its beauties seen and enjoved. hills and view it with the landscape mingling. Look ne from one point; study it on every side, Thus it is with religion; look not at formulas: look not from the single hill of Unitarianism, its charms from every side, It seemed to him, the speaker said, that A CREED IS A SHADOW ofa man’s thinking. He said that his little son was one day tryiug to stand on the shadow of his own head, It Seems as if some men were trying to do the same. Do your best; God will take care of your shadow, The Unitarians stand for faith—for faith in Je! They want the vital working faith; not the fuith of ‘the man who glorifies Christ as God and in the transactions of life denies Him at every step. We want to clear this faith from the accumulations of theology, We think the in- scription of the Gospel received another during the Middle Ages. AS the pure spring Water gathers sediment as it courses down the mountain side and needs fitering, we will clear our religion of the im- purities of human opinion, There are in the TEACHINGS OF CHRIST four conspicuous point He teaches the Father- hood of God, the brotherhood of man, work in this world, aud something in the next, On yonder heights of Brooklyn there isa man who teaches that God is ashadowy eMuence. Did not David 1 Hishand’ did not Jesus pray to Him as a ity’ There is a story in the religious papers of agirl who prayed to God and received no answer, ler pastor advised her to pray to Jesus, and he prayer was granted. That minister had forgotten the prayer of Christ, “Our Father Whlonisers in eis trusting all to Gos leaves the rest to We want a larger faith in man, NOT AN ANGEL, His passions though they occasion- aliy ruin him, rightly used are his friend With an education he must obtain their mast or they will master hin. Fire—the humbiest slave—when ou rues, rules with an iron sway. Long will Chicago, long Will America remember THE FIRE FIEND, The passion of love—the holiest bale flame— may become gross licentiousness. It is its abuse that has created the great social evil, The desire for gain may degenerate into miserliness. After cn- larging on this part of his discourse, the speaker spoke of a conversation in David Copperteld, “re- member me at my best said a young man to a parting friend, “There is a best and worst in human nature. Look at the tablets in our churciyards, Each inmate left some friend who remembered him at his best And so when we go to the other world we will be taken at our best. Old theologists taught that this world is a temporary prison, Not so, There are no bad days unless We make them bad; all are good if We work nobly. ‘They taught that nine-tenths of the human race Would be lost. Although he, the speaker, be- Heved that ret: bution was as unvarying as gravity, he thouglit that as Mr. Peggotty had everything un- changed, the candle lit, ail prepared to welcome his erring Emily, 80 the LOVE OF GOD, Mike the candle, will ever welcome the returning penitent—wiil ever say heaven.” nor a demon. nil Was @ greater susterer than his Divine | back.’ Such is the belief of the Unitarians. They 3 he Was thrice stoned; ouce tie popu- | need no stereotyped creed—they need vo proclaim Jaco of Philippi thought ‘him dead and | their religion with all their strength, threw him over the wall of the city, but he was Still alive, and, nothing daunted, he immediately Sel out to do the same work for Which he had been Stoued. Paul Was one of the most zealous of the Apostles. This trait he developed long before he became ihe promulgator of the truth. It was with religious zeal, an rance, that he Christ. He honest conviction, but blind igno- lirst persecuted the young Church of Was & good Jew, and believed that ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL OHUROH, IN YORE. | VILLE. Memorial Sermon to the Late William A. Whitbeck. At the services yesterday morning at St. Paul's Priel Was Ou UADORLON and that Le Way trying 1 | Episcopal church, Iu ,Biabty-iiith treet, between ome back, mny child, come | Go to the | Drink in | it | le. When he was converted and | Third and Lexingtou avenues, there was an unusu- | ally large attendance. The occasion, moreover, Was one of unusual interest, the rector, Rev. W. R. Car- roll, preaching a memorial sermon to the late Wil- Mam A. Whitbeck, a vestryman of the church. and prominently identified with its interests at the time of his death, The sermon was brief, but a feeling and eloquent tribute to the memory of its subject. It was founded upon the text St. Luke xx., 36—‘“Neither can they die any more.” It was the prerogative of God to bring GOOD OUT OF EVIL. The feature of man’s future was expressed in the text. The world was a graveyard; death was a great river flowing on to eternity. What was death? It was the curative of life. What was life? Who can say they have discovered this mys- terious force? Sclence stands abashed before the mystery of life as before the mystery of death. What ‘sunshine the words of the text spread over the future! It reveals a perpetual Sabbath. Hereafter it would be impossible for man to die, Diseases no more will be known Every imperfection that mars mortality shall b wiped away. To the Christian there was no such thing asdeath. Why cannot he die? Because he is united to Jesus Christ by the Holy Ghost, because Jesus Christ 1s dwelling tn his heart, becanse he is the child of God, It was a great privilege to live. Their LITTLE CHURGH IN MOURNING to-day called to their memory Mr. William A. Whitbeck so recently one of their most prominent members. His career was ended, As a man he was manly and yet te as a woman, As a public man he fair to attain the highest eminence, His car a public man—which was a great thing to these days of political corruption—was one of un- tarnished honor and integrity. In all his relations as a public man, in society, in his family relations, he was the same upright, just man, He was cut off in the pride and prime of his manhood, The sun shining bright this morning on his NEW MADE GRAVE carried a lesson with it that should reach every heart. He hoped they would all emulate the ex- ample of the man whose memory they delighted to honor, a8 well as cherish his memory in loving re- membrance. THE CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, Rev. William Adamson on “Faith Over= eoming the World”’—A New Unitarian Light. At the Boston anniversaries, held two or three weeks ago, Rev. William Adamson, a young Con- gregational preacher of this city, united himself with the Unitarian Society, and yesterday delivered his first sermon in the new faith at Dr. Bellows’ church, in Fourth avenue. He chose as his text the fourth verse of the fifth chapter of the First Epistle of John :—“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.’? No subject, said the preach- er, is more frequently recommended and insisted upon in all the Bible than that of faith, which ts here said to conquer the world. The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews ascribes almost ail the re- markable events in Jewish history to faith working in the hearts of a few men and leading them to great exploits. In speaking of the power of Christian faith let us observe the influence which this fecling always e2 In history the men of faith always carry the victory against the men of doubt. By this faith is meant that confidence which a man has that what he believes is true, and that what he does is right, and which acts upon hin an inspiration, impelling him to carry them out, to coutend for them, to give them if possible a local habitation and name. This faith drove Abraham forth from the house of his fathers to build up a great nation in the land which God showed him. It was this faith that inspired Martin Luther when he nailed his theses to the door of the church in Wit- tenberg. Such a faith, though in a some- what different sphere, Columbus must have had when he set out in seat of the New World. In these instances we see how important a part this feeling has played in the his- tory of mankind, Many of our greatest inventors have lived upon it for years. Christian faith is a natural endowment, a8 universal to humanity as electricity is to matter. Most persons have faith in honesty, and it keeps them honest in spite of them- selves. But it is clear that men do not act up to the light that they have. The opium eater, in his sober moment, knows the terrible retribution he is bringing upon himself, and may form the strong- | est resolutions hever again to partake of the drug; but where are all these resolutions when the hour comes for a reindulgence? They are like a straw. in the rush of the mountain torrent. The reverend — gentleman then touched upon the effacement of old superstitions of | past ages by the wiser developments of rational thought. Even Satan, who has held an important | point in all religions, is now refined away to tie | personified evil lusts of humanity, and his dark | abode, Which shows so terribly in’ Dante, is now nothing more than the uneasy conscience of the untorgiven soul, It is true that when a person. comes into possession of anew truth and feels in his soul the freedom which tiat truth gives it acts upon him as a new lite, He cannot rest without | communicating it to others, Mr, Adamson closed his sermon with an illustration of the theory in the story of a traveller, long a captive in a foreign land, who bought and set free the caged birds he found on his return ome. I have been captive once, said he, and am now free, and know the joy of liberty, ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn—Peter’s Faith—God’s Mysterious Ways in Re- gard to His Church—Faith and Reason, At St. Stephen’s church yesterday morning the high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Me- Gurck. The audience, a8 usual, was large, and the singing excellent. After the first Gospel the Rev. Dr. McGlynn preached, the subject being St. Peter and the faith committed to us. Jesus had come into Cwesarea Philippt and was speaking to his disciples, as it were, testing the faith that was in them. He had been already engaged in His mission, and it was wondered who it was that had done the extraordi- nary things He had done, The great ones of the country were fearing lest again the old prophecies were to be fulfilled or whether He of whom they had heard so much was the Messiah indeed, Herod feared that St. Jonn the Baptist, beheaded for his miracles, had again appeared; others thought it might be Blias or Jeremias, or some of the other prophets. And Jestis, therefore, | asked His discipies the question, “Whom do men | say that the Son of Man isy’’ When the disciple had told Him the opinions that were circulated about Him, He then asked them whom they be- lieved Hin to be; and Simon Peter answered “Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus then replied, “blessed art thou, Simon Peter, because flesh and blood hath not revealed this to thee, but My Father, who is in heaven.” Jesus, hearing this expression of Peter's faith, then | founded the Church of God and made Peter the cornerstone on which it was to rest forever, “And Tsay unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ Here, then, was Christ, laborlug on His mission for the ion of men; at the very outset rewarding one of Hiis disciples im most emphatic words for the faith he had expressed and signi(ying beyontt a dotbt the sort of kingdont. Tie was avout toestabiish. The great things of earth had no part in this beginning, nor was there aught to tell that the God Man’s power was now beins exercised to appoint the chief of that Church He had come to establish. The history of the religions of the pre- vious times had leit no doubt about the persecu- tions which the Messiah's followers were to undergo; the dread there was of the presence of Jesus, which to ns should teach the more plainly the divinity of His nature, was the anmis evidence of the pewer the Saviour displave works He had accomplished. With the Divine power at His command, with the Father Hi He gave us in the words addre: foundation of a Church, the only true Charch, to establish which on a@ basis of infinite strength was the mission of Christ. And not con- tent merely with this manifestation of His power, seemingly wanting much of importance, the same infinite power went farther still and prom- ised that forever no opposition, no persecution, not even all the powers of hell combined could ever destroy the Church, This was the promise which | we all saw fulfilled even to our own day, and fron which in every trial and amiction the Chureh bi had to encounter her children had derived that confidence and ever-abiding hope that the troubles would that peace Would trinmph and od would still be the only em- i's infinitude, We bebold in rch from the beginning down how God had watched over it, | purified it when it needed purification, and | made ever shine more —_ resplendentiy the more cruelly it had been To | count the marvellous marks of own | guidance in the concerns of His Church would be to trace the success! victories it had won, to dis- play the singleness of its universal existence, to portray the lives of the suecessors of Peter as ‘the successive link betwe hist and ourselves, For all ages past that link had been unbroken and would remain unbroken until the end of time; the faith of the children of the Church had been one continuous prayer of belief and supplication, and that prayer was to-day as loud, as true and as eMecacious as it had ever bee Unbelievers had scoifed; «science had stepped in to obliterate, if it could, the eee of God; fools had worried them- selves in defying the Infinite, but the prayer of the |* faitiial was sul) heard, and reason and faith were still found not necessarily to be in collision. For men to think that they could scrutinize the ways of God, of Him who is infinite, of Him who gave them the intellects they possessed, were as idie as for them to command the sea to be still. At best, what was the intellect of aman? How limited its grasp—how feeble jts judgment! Was blem on earth of the history of the Ch to the present the human mind infinite that it might comprehend ‘tue ways of an Intinite Belpg? Let it do its ulumost and labor at its very greatest and how much could it perform? and how imperfect and weak, really, was that which it had done? And yet these reason- ers, because they could not understand, at once condemn; because pea were not themselves infl- nite they denied that there was an Infinite Being. ‘The preacher then entered into a Paper discus- sion of the reconciliation between faith and reason, and showed how easy it was to believe in Christian- ity and yet be endowed with sound reason, and how diMicult it was to deny Christianity and be reasonable. Todeny to God the power to give to men’s souls the grace of faith was to deny Him an attribute without which He could not be God, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH OHUROH. A Sermon on Psalm Singing and Music Generally—Mr. Beecher’s Visit to the Gilmore Jubilee—His Description of the Effect of the Playing of the Grenadier Guards’ Band—Music an International Pacificator. The summer exodus continues to leave its per- ceptible mark upon Plymouth church congregation, There were more empty chairs and half-occupied pews yesterday morning than there has been before this season, and so it will continue to be until au- tumn comes and brings the wanderers back again, Mr. Beecher spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- day at the World’s Jubilee, at Boston, Those who knew that were not therefore very much surprised at the selection of the following text, and the de- livery of a sermon about music:—Ephesians v., 19—“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” Mr. Beecher commenced his sermon by a refer- ence, in a few short sentences, to the growing de- velopment of musical culture in this country, and then referred to the first efforts to introduce music in New England, where they were ever on the alert, to watch the devil; to the scandal that was aroused when the bass viol and the flute were added to the choir, When the organ was part of the music of the Church, then a Church must have so far back- slidden that it was agreed on all hands that that Church might as well go over to Popery at once, We had lived to see @ higher and growing intelli- gence with respect to music, and a liberty given to religion to employ any instrumentalities that could accomplish a divine purpose. Religion is not a poor stricken prisoner to be locked up in church, obliged to sing there only hymns. Religion is God’s own child, and walks nobly on the earth, and has a right to everything that will make men better, The religion of our Churches, for the most part, was, however, SIMPLY DOLEFUL. The native music of America has been hitherto with- out much taste; it was not very elevating, it must be confessed, but it was very hopeful and was quite good enongh for seed, We are greatly indebted to the Methodists and to those who are sometimes called “wild revivalists” for much of the music that has been usetul in developing the popularity of a 1 education among us. With no desire to et the Masons and the Hastings, who had ren- dered great service in this direction, our greatest obligations were to the foreign immigrants, more particularly th: rmans, they had brought to us much rationalism and more lager beer, but they had brought us more music than either, and for this the other patiently endured. and it was to the Ang! ancestors, that wi ment of music as well as other good things. ligious music that which expresses or inci some measure our higher feelings. Organ music was the noblest music that could be listened to, Like all things that were meant for time, and perhaps for eternity, it had taken ages to perfect, and it was not even yet perfect. The Church was fortunate in having’ peculiarly for itseli the noblest instru- ment, for the organ was the noblest instrument that had ever been created. Mr. Beecher here strongly denounced what he described as MUSICAL GYMNASTICS} namely, making the s¢ ice of song a pivot for the adini:ation of those who lreard, and for the vanity of those who sun It a desecration of the sanctuary and the Sabbath, The highest music was When the music and the hymn were wedded to- gether, Mr, Beecher then proceeded at length to s)eak of the intages of musical education to reiigion, “1 think,’ he said, “it we trace our no- tions of religion well to the source, we shall find they spring mainly from the hymn, I think if we consider What our notions of heaven are, you wiil find that it is Doctor Watts, rather than’ the reve- two could be very We had become their pupils, xon race, Who Were our ndebted for the develop- Re- re lator, John, who has given us our ideas. Charles Wesley and Doctor Watts tell us more about heaven than the Bible di just as John Milton has given us more theology of a certain — sort han anybody elise has done. Thus the hymn book moulds our faith far more than the catechism, The hymns give the highest form of truth—the truth that is in the heart, rather than the truth that is in the head. Children are much nearer poets than meta- physicians, How many men will quarrel over a dogina, but will rejoice together over a hymn. You Will disagree about the atonement of Christ, but you fill sing “Coronation” together in sweet ac- cord. Aman who has never led in prayer in his own family will oifer far more etfectual prayer by the singing of hymns than by offering a prayer of words caught from the memory of his father’s or copied from some chureh prayer. The tion of music will do much for us in another Do we want to ow what we shall do to keep our American Sabbath? Well, 1 don’t want to keep our American Sabbath; want to keep a Lord's Day. Well, I say, il you want tokeep it, make ita singing Sunday. 'Ifever you sive the Sabbath it will be by making it ‘the most attractive, nay, the most joyous day of the our Methodist brethren are wise in this they carry into their service the witchery rand THE FASCINATION OF SONG. They get the life first, and then bring to bear the instrumentalities that would redeem this life. Then I think that music is doing much to promote an international peas You will readil; understand where | obtain this suggestion from, If you had stood with me last week iu that four or five acre building in Boston, with its orchestia of 20,000 voices, you would have had this idea. If you. could have tched the scene when the English Grenadier Guards’ Band marched aiong the floor, and then came to the front of the orches- tra and yed their national airs and ours to- gether, and heard the enthusiasm, the cheering, the yelling forth of sentiment found a voice had done playing, you would never forget it, as I never shall. There were thrice three thou- sand men there who, had it been consistent with tie characteristics of our countrymen, would have gone forth to embrace this band, 1 know one man who would have led them on. it was my pleasure to stand with the Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, who had charge of the band while in this country, and Tsaid to him, “it you have any induence, sir, with the Queen, or with that part of your govern: ment having control of this band, | would suggest that you cable over to get permission of this band to play in each one of our cities, They will take back with them a better estimate of the good feeling of our people for your country than they will be abie to do otherwise, ‘Th Was a sinilar feeling manifested the next day when the German band played. Each band each day was the best. There Was no check to the enthusiasm ch day it was More and more manifest, until it Was evident that New England herself had forgotten to be decorous, have seen What these countries can do with guns and artillery; and we now see how much better they can do with their trombones, their trumpets and their cornets.’| Mr. Beecher closed by the expression of his former conviction that, unintentionally, this Jubilee would be of great ser- vice in preventing aceibity of feeling and by the eniorcement of some practical truths, ROSS STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, The Fulness of Lite—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Gibson, of Montrea) The pulpit of the Ross street Presbyterian church | is to be filled by able divines during the pastor's absence in Europe. Yesterday morning Rev. J. M. Gibson, D. D., of Montreal, preached an able doctrinal sermon from the thirty-first verse of the twentieth chapter of John—“That ye might belleve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that» believing, ye might have life through Mis name.” In his introductory remarks he said that no one could fail to remark the greatness of the agencies employed in the work of redemption as set forth in the Scriptures, The first few verses of the opening chapter of John, “In the beginning was the Word,” &¢., and he Word was made flesh and dwelt amoug us were a sample of the means employed in the great work of saving man, which must be no subordinate end. The great result to be attained through such & magnificent set of means, by the mighty agency of the Eternal Father, Son and Spirit, must be correspondingly glorious, We were accus- tomed to speak of the end in view as our Salvation, but that was only a negative part, for that word simply conveyed the idea of deliverance from evil, whereas God proposed by this glorious redeeming work of His not only to deliver His creatures from evil, but to bestow upon them the highest good, which was Wrought out for all who believed in Jesus by the power of the Holy Ghost. The Doctor then quoted apposite passages of jpture, which showed the fulness of jife that there was in Jesus, the final qu tion being a partof the beg | chapter in Revelations, where the inspired seer beheld a pure Water of life, of which every child of man was invited to freely partake. The text had init not only the ultimate object of life, but the proximate object of faith, and to the former of which he would exclu- sively direct attention. The Kine might be asked, “Haye we not lie re not, We have something , but in’ th Ceapat the life offered 1e must ic dved very different, for God would not mock us offering something which we had aiceady. Yet it must nave some connection with hee ite sense else Cre word would te misleading. A great many pet fn ‘carefut to sever the connection of the word ife from the old idea so as to give it an entire! new meaning, talking of “spiritual life” or the “Life of u He (the Speaker) could not find a single passage in h the expression “spiritual life” was used. He did find the words “eternal life” and go on, but, ves did not limit the extent of the word “life.” ‘The life otfered in the Gospel was life in the fullest sense of the term, without any restriction or limitation, Christ came that we might have life and have it more abun- dantly. The Doctor went on to pay that the gospel idea of this matter implied that there was tuo much death in the life of unregenerated human nature to make it worthy of mame of life. There were elements of decay and destruction at work within us all the while, which dragged us down, and which would enpely end in death eternal unless another and a better life be given as. The new life offered in the Gospel includes all that is 1 in ordinary life, purified from evil and per. fected. This point was ably elaborated. Ail that we are asked to give up for Christ 1s to give y tings that are evil, There is no straightening, it is all enlarging. Perfect healthof body, soundness of mind, purity of heart—the healthy use of all our legitimate natural desires; perfect beauty for the eye, the most exquisite music for the ear, unlimited truth for the mind, unchanging love for the heart, saclay. friendship, brotherhood; ail this and much more is included in the promise of life. AJl the dis- orders that sin has introduced into our nature shall be forever removed, but the original facuities and desires shall remain, and they will be gratified in their perfection. The idea of life included far more than what he had enumerated, The noblest part of man’s nature was lost by the fall—that part by which God is Known, loved, worshipped and en- joyed. This is as much lost to the sinuer as sight to the blind or intellect to the idiot, 1t is not somuch of a revival as a regeneration—a being born again, ‘The life offered in the Gospel included the restora- tion of this lost part, as weil as the pertection of all that remained of the ruin of the tall, granting to the believer fellowship with the Father and Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. ye hath not seen nor ear heard the things which God has prepared for those who love Hiin; but they were revealed to the be- NeverinJesus. These things were so wonderful that they had to be experienced to ve known. It was in this new realm that the beauties of holiness were seen to be much more gioridus than the beauties of nature; that the believer found the blessedness of the man that waiketh in the way of the Lord, and there that he found the sweetest and most perfect liberty and joy unspeakable and full of glory. All this blessedness was secured through the mediation of the Son and given by the Holy Ghost to those who believed, This life was not bestowed all at once in its fulness, There was first the life-germ and afterwards the full corn in the ear, As the apelioal life is gradually developed the disorders disappear from our moral nature; then this dis- eased body will be taken down and replaced by one free from the seeds of disease and every taint of pollution, and it will be furnished with a home and surrounded with circumstances fitted for the de- velopment and enjoyment of a perfect life—which was heaven. This able discourse was concluded by the preacher urging his hearers to accept of the fae of God, which was eternal life through Jesus Christ. 8T, ANN’S ON THE HEIGHTS, Bearing Each Other's Burdens—Dr. Schenck’s Sermon Yesterday Morning= Some Sensible Suggestions. The warm weather has had the effect of decreas- ing the attendance at St. Ann’s. Many of the members of the congregation have left the city for the summer months, so that yesterday morning the congregation was not as large by a third, perhaps, as that which crowded the beautiful editice up to within a month past. One of the great features at St. Ann’s isthe music. The choir, which is a large one, is composed entirely of volunteers, The soloists are Miss Debbie Lee and Miss Ely, sopraniy Mrs. Christianson and Miss Drill, contralti; Mr. Chaun- cey Ives, tenor, and Messrs. William Mills, C. A. Loretz and Gustavus Bresee, bassi, in addition to whom there isa chorus of fifty voices. Professor John ‘M. Loretz, Jr., is the organist. During Professor Loretz’s temporary absence during the summer his position as organist will be filled by Mrs. A. E, Muse. The special music yesterday morning included the “Te Deum” in A flat by Ives, aud the “Jubilate” by E. Howe, Jr. DR. SCHENCK’S SERMON was upon the subject of burden-bearing—bearing cach other's burdens in this world, and thereby obeying the law of Christ. He said that after all the heaviest burdens we had to bear were those of other people. Bearing onr own burdens was a mat- ter of simple endurance, but bearing the burdens of other people more than endurance—it was the excitement of emotion besides, It was the bearing of the weight and the feeling of sympathy. There- fore it was that we had this injunction that we bear one another’s burdens. When Christ at Gethsemane manifested the agony of His soul He then bore other’s burdens to such an extent that they became His own, and He lifted the weight of the world’s sin and bore it upon His own shoul- ders—bore it away, farther away than the East is from the West, ‘aring one another's burdens, therefore, was fullilliug the law of Christ— the highest law of Christ. In the fif- teenth chapter of Romans, ot the first verse, St. Paul again touched upon this, and said that we who were strong should bear the infirmities of the weak. Here was a clue to the philosophy of the subject of burden bearing, and it was explanatory of the language of the text. In a perfect condi- tion of tlle moral world every one might be sup- posed to bear his own burden. We could scarcely concelve, however, of a perfect moral adjustment in which one would not be at all dependenteupon another, We had here MEN OF MIGHTY STRENGTH men who were equal to herculean feats. We had great leaders of hosts, born kings of men. e had Cresars, Then we turned to the men of little minds and less emotion—men without magnetism and vital force—men who had the ordinary gifts of reason that lifted them above the brutes, but men who had no emphasis or vitality, no transitive power, Dr. Schenck .said that the omnipotence of God had no finer iNustration than in the great disparity of His human creation, Apply the microscope to one cube of matter and n to another, and no two present the same snperficies, Scrutinize the leaves of the forest, and no two were alike in configura- tion, Look at the faces of men, and there were no two that precisely reflected each other. But the grandest illustration of God's omnipotence, the preacher thought, was that there were scarcely two men on earth who had the saine natural endow- ments, so that it was that here in this world there was achain, and we were the links in this chain, every one being dependent upon the other, Unfor- tunately the strong had little toleration for the weak; they had no compassion for the inabilities of the weak. Dr. Schenck asked, ‘What are burdens ?” Not THE PACK OF SIN which was pinioned to the shoulders of men. No! that load had to be borne by men, and no man was asked to help. We were not asked to bear any- body else’s sins, We were asked to bear two classes of burdens—personal infirmity, which might be called suifering, and moral trouble, which might | be called sympathy, The great charities of the world were bearing the — bur- dens of the people, but we were called upon in our general relationship to men and women as we met them, to bear their burdens, The question, ‘Who is iny neighbor?’ was not to be answered by saying, “The man who lives n door.” We had a responsible relationship to every- body whom we met in this world. If you are strong and he ts weak, and his weakness is manifest, you are called upon to help bear the burden of the in- firmity. There were so many little weaknesses, or nesses, if you choose, that wé encounter in our ly life—so many things we meet in men that we despise and scorn. That should not be. In many iystances they were constitutional. There were a thousand things t would make aman a mean man ; but don’t despise him for it. His home might be anything but A BREEDING PLACE OF NOBILITIES, and the consequence was that the man was made what he was, Try and make something better out of him by bearing his burdens. If he be mean give him an example of nobility and teach him a lesson, How constantly do we who are strong refuse to bear the burdens of the weak in the matter of children and servants ? The preacher said he often wondered why it was that children were as sweet and forgiving and loving as they were when there were so many tyrannies exercised over them by thoughtless parents. How little did we put up with people’s ignorance in this world? We were Teady to give a hasty word to the one who was not equal to us in intelligence, Ifa man had a prejn- dice we would say that this was the result of his ignorance, forgetting that prejudice had found a lodging place in the truest heart. A REBUKE. There was no class of people in the world, he said, Who were so much attacked as memn the church, nut only by non-members, but m of the church, who thought they were better than the others were. How many there were who, when they, had seen a@ member of the communion doing wrong, did not go to him, and in kindliness and sympathy ad- vise him to do differently? On the contrary, how many there were Who had not come with a little morsel of sweet gossip under their tongues, saying “Mr, So-and-so had been doing such and such’ Dr. Schenck said that it was not their business to injure those who had fallen, but to bear each other's burdens, thus fulfilling the Jaw of Christ. He did not believe that we should give up our lives entirely to it. He did not believe that the Bible expected us to be common carriers or to GO ABOUT LIKE AN ASS with panniers, in which err. could put their loads and weigh Fis down; but it was our @uty to help the weak. Those who had @ surplus should give to those who had poverty, There were ‘thou- sands who only wante’ you to talk and be kind to them: {t was Morg prec.ous than all your gold, In | mind are perpetually changing. conclusion Dr. Schenck exhorted his hearers to be>- gin observing this law of Christ at once, ’ NEW JERSEY CHURCHES. OHUROH OF THE SACRED HEART, Laying the Corner. stone—Address by Right Rev, Bishop Bayley. Yesterday the Right Rey. Bishop Bayley, of News ark, laid the corner stone of the Church of the Sacred Heart, about to be erected by the congregation of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Mount Holly,, N.J. A number of the clergymen of the diocese were present at the ceremonies, viz :—Rev, Thaddeus: Hogan, pastor of Mount Holly; Very Rev. P, Byrne, of Camden, N, J.; Rev. F. Fitzsimmons, Trenton; Rev. J. J. McGahan, Fast Newark; Rev. E. a, O'Brien; Rev. Elph. Godin; Rev. F. Leonard, Bor. dentown, and Rev, P. F. Connolly, At half-past three o'clock P. M. a procession was formed by the Temperance, Benevolent and Sacred Heart Soci. eties, which moved in order to the spot on which the ‘sacred edifice will be raised. ‘The site is o1 an eminence, overlooking the — beautifu seenery of the surrounding country. After the chanting of the Psalm “0, Quam delecta taber- nacula tua,” and other appropriate canticles, the Right Reverend Bishop proceeded to biess the ground first, and then the corner stone, a large Square block of dark gray limestone, ‘The Bishop then addressed all present in a clear, audible tone of voice. His remarks had reference chiefly to the spread of Catholic teaching and Catholic influence, and to the indefatigable labors of the devoted ministers of the Catholic Church, Scenes like the present were consoling and encouraging not only to the Catholic people of Monnt Holly, but even to himself. He hoped that what was now commenced would terminate most successfully, and that the grand result would be well merited bie: frour God upon themselves, their families, their homes and their pastor, The Right Reverend Bishop con-* cluded his remarks by requesting the people of Mount Holly to co-operate generously with Rey. Father Hogan in the good work he had undertaken, THE PULPIT IN ULSTER COUNTY. FIRST REFORMED CHURCH, AT KINGSTON, The Resurrection of the Body More Mare vellous Than That of the Soul—Discourse by Rev. D. N. Vandevere. Krnaston, N. Y., June 23, 1872, The beautiful weather this morning, after the severe heat of the past few days, exerted a favora- ble influence on this church-going community, and tended to crowd the churches with fashionably- dressed congregations, The ladies took advantage ofthe sunshine to appear in thelr most elegant. toilets, which pleasantly relieved the sombre re- ligious hues of the interiors. The First Reformed@ church, situated on the corner of Wall and Main streets, where the Rev. D, N. Vandevere officiates, was unusually well filled, owing somewhat, no doubt, to the announcement that a new and super- excellent choir had been engaged, and would sing for the first time this morning. Professor J, Al. Van Kuren, organist; Miss Lillie Curtis, soprano; Miss Sarah Houghtaling, contralto; Dr. Nelson In- gram, tenor; Mr. A. Hendricks, baritone, comprise the new choir. During divine service the choir gave, with excellent effect, “The Lord is My Shep- herd.” The unison was pertect; THE LOW, MELLOW TONES of the organ floated out, mingled with the voices of the singers, and filling the church with sweet sounds, The organ execution throughout was marked with excellent taste and Judgment, never drowning the voices of the singers, but sinking and swelling with their voices, so/tening and mellowing their notes, The character of the music was sub- dued and sweet rather than good or bet fe but its influence was eminently religious and emotional. This new choir will go far to make Mr. Vandevere’s church a favorite with all church-goers who love goed music and hail the aid which sacred harmony rings, elevating the soul to the contemplation of the greatness of the Creator. It would be dificult. to over-estimate the effect of music as A STIMULANT TO DEVOIION, and clergymen cannot do better than bring thei? congregations within reach of its softening and refining intuence, The popular pastor delivered one of his eharac- teristic sermons, taking his text trom John v., 28, ° 29—“Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that Rave done evil unto the resurrection of damna- tho! The reverend gentleman commenced his dis- course by saying that Jesus Christ often enunciated truths which His auditors could not understand, but that MADE THEM MARVEL. He declared that through the popncientied of His gospel souls dead in sin would be resurrected to life, and they were amazed and looked incredulous. But He assures them that they need not be aston- ished at that, for the time was coming when he would call and the dead bodies in their graves would be raised and revived, THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY ; is a greater marvel than that of the soul, because it is more improbable. The soul is an emanation from God, We are conscious that we live; we are also conscious that we did not create ourselves. Our earthly parent is the father of our flesh, but God is the creator of our spirit; so that the soul has a natural relationship to God; is exempt from THE LAW OF DEATH; : a constant witness to our superiority over the brute and attinity to the divine. This dignity saved it from annihilation the moment it transgressed; and 80 we may naturally expect the resurrection of the: soul, It proclaims it itself, and all men believe it; Whereas everything goes against the reconstruction of the body. There seems to be no necessity of it, inasmuch as the soul survives independent of the body. There is no desire for it, which could be in- terpreted as a presumption in its favor. All THE DISHONORS OF THE GRAVE contradict any hope that the body will rise again. Pliny pronounced it impossible.” Celsus stigma- tized it as abominable; no one ever dreamed of the: body being resurrec: So that the reanimatio ofthe soulis not the greatest marvel, but that of the body; not the impossible but ever the incon- ceivable. There is also greater power involved in, the reconstruction of the body. There 1s vast out- lay of omnipotence LY 4 MARSHALLING THE FORCES OF NATURE,” *, Nevertheless, back of all apparent complteation: there is the stern reign of law; there is great ex- penditure of power in refashioning the soul, and: yet here there is simplicity, so that no soul jostles amid a million others, But in the resurrection of the leaks it is different. There seems to be nothing but arbitrariness, confusion, complication. The» body dissolves, crumbles to dust, passes into the: vapors of the air; yet Almighty power guards every atom, ETERNAL VIGILANCE WATCHES every particle, so that in t! psurrection each one returns and restores the identity of the person to» whom it primarily belonged. The identity will be: preserved, for otherwise death would be annihila~ tion; not, perhaps, an identity of all the materials that ever composed the body, for both body and We alter but d not go back, What we have been is a memory, but! can never be a reality again. But the body that Sinks into the grave shall be raised, otherwise it. would not be a resurrection, but A NEW CREATION, And if there be anything august in the power of God, it is that it shall protect every particle of dust that made up the earth’s countless populations; keeping them all distinct and separate; and whem the summous shall break ail shall rejoin their own: proper persons as though they had never been dis-r solved. That is a marvel thit overtops everything but the faith ot man. And another consideration’ that makes the resurrection of the body the great~ est of marvels is that its character wilt depend om no arbitrary enactment, but on a law of moral life, It seems almost equivalent to, GOD LAYING ASIDE HIS DIVINITY and endowing man with sovereignty by endowing! him with power to determine the character of his, resurrection. God has not given such extensive and discretionary power to anything else in they universe. He controls matter, S aating angels 5, man alone is free, the architect of his own fortune. DEATH STRIKES THE SOAFFOLDING and there the edifice stands aes opto eternity, ur deeds are posthumous—cannot be pid in their comns, A word of purity 18 the pebble dropped in the lake; the concentric circles washing the shores of this world and DASHING ON THE COAST OF ETERNITY, A deed of pollution is the stir sent out into the moral atmosphere, that travels on and on, never ceasing to bea sound. SIN IS INDESTRUCTIRLE, otherwise it would be wiped out in a few generae tions and the millennium dawn. And if the world were the limit it were not so terrible. But good and evil are amaranthine seeds and spring up and wave on the fields of eternity; deeds of good come pe the resurrection as ripples of music, deeds of evil as CRASHES OF DISCORD, And though no sentence fall from the lips of Christ, self-acquitted or self-condemned, ou Will press from judgment to glory or perdition, The resurrection of the body, then, includes that of the soul, The body cannot live without the soul, and both constitute personality. We set apart @ certain location for the burial of our dead, Itis sacred ground, because our love: ones are sleeping there. Christianity says that the raveyard is sacred from higher associations, For here shall be the scene of the Mediator's grandest fiamphy when the dead shall come forth and hail im as THE CONQUERER OF DEATH and the grave! The fruitis better than the blog« som. The body becomes decrepit. It is only the falling of the leaves just before the fruit of immor- tality appears, Old in time, with wrinkles and in- firmities, but young in eternity; radiant with the ¢ flush of perpetual juvenescence, MARVEL OF MARVE! that this corruptivie should put 1 Ls! this mortal put on iimmortality! seein