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’ ; b ~~ S NEW YORK | HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1872.--WITH SUPPLEMENT: _—_—. cptnining Goa \v- pat to strength is weakness. | pgased over, unless the enterprise becomes too grange py yen to iad achat not hi pA vm pach tind yn grab He can | conspicuous and formidable to he ignored, Kut haa been ever ince, When he | swim on his tre! or sink, be he cannot, | Protestants or Koman @re not allowed to entered the cearta there tare in his room cigars, | like Christ, walk waters, In short, we can be | build churches there uutil they have first red B | toracco and bitters. When he returned from the | thorough men and good ones; or we can be super- | their Spoprecasions and a3 proselytisin is red altar, where he had ficial men and bad ones, Then let the weak say! { with civil and political disabilities, there is not at ° re > z CAST HIS UPON CHRIST, Se serene The Father says not to faint. When preeeny very much danger to the imperial throne “Tarts he had no inclination to these articles again. | we are humble, when we are weak, then are we | irom thissource, . iSappeared from my ” said the | strong, — Pulpit Ministrations and Sunday Preacher, “and I have never touched them since. = 8T. PETER'S. Ceeacieyes Seer er Tencect | — __CHUROR GY BE nr cee tae Bans Be — . Dr. Ceremonials in the City and look back redation without ask- | Am Important Sermon for Catholics— Suburban Churches, ane ce ieem Wh NEWMAN'S CAMPAIGN SERMON. Practical Life and lis Lessons Enforced by Dr. Duryea at Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church. eae” aE The Experience of a Con- verted Lawyer. Father Quinn’s Appeal to the Charitable for the Westchester Protectory. & MODEST UNITARIAN PREACHER. ‘The Obligation of Oatholics to Hear Mass on Sundays Explained at the | Church of St. Alphonsus. a EE my great God to elevate the sinta I lived for nearly fftecn i. Ihave peace through the blessed blood of Him who aitteth w the throne to make Intercession for all sinners.” EIGHTEENTH STREET METHODIST CHUROH. Dr. Newman, Chaplain of the Senate, on the Asperitics of the Political Cam- paigu—The Evil That Is Born in Men— Social Affinities Advocated—Round Dances and the Drama Denounced. Dr. J. P. Newman, chaplain of the United States Senate, preached at the Methodist church on West Eighteenth street yesterday to a congrega- tion unusually large and fashionable for the sum- mer season In town. The reverend gentleman took for his text the proverb of Solomon:—‘He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.” Dr. Newman opened hia discourse by a strong de- nunciation of THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER PHESS of the country for ita bitter asperities in the pend- ing Presidential campaign, and especially for the partisan attacks upon the great and good men who now administer the government. He expatiated upon the great power of the press, the immense re- forms which It is able t0 accomplish and has accom- plished, but demanded that it should be conducted to higher aims and motives, and that it has not yet ceme even within sight of the accomplishment of its great mission. The reverend gentleman, then branching off upon A THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION of his subject, sald :—The words, “Train up a child in the way he should go,” need to be read with anem- . phasis on the word “he.” Study his temperament. soul of such as live as FATHER KANE GN PRIDE AND HUMILITY. 87. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, Pride vs. Humility—Sermon by the Rev. Father Kane. ‘The high mass services at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Were well attended yesterday, although the large Bumber of sparsely occupied pews showed quite Plainly that the fashionable portion of the congre- gation had not yet got in from the country, despite ‘the refreshing breezes metropolitan stay-at-homes are now in the full enjoyment of. The Rev. Father MeNamee was the celebrant of the mass. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Kane, who took for his text the Gospel of the day, according to Bt. Luke, which treats of THE PRIDE OF THE PHARISER fm the temple and the humility of the publican. Af- ter referring in a general way to the contvast be- tween the conduct of the Pharisee and that of the publican, the Reverend Father called the attention of his hearers to the sinfulness of pride. The Pharisee fm the temple, instead of praying devoutly to Al- mighty God, he said, contented himself with sound- ing his own praises, He was so puffed up with the Mea of his own superlative excellence that he spoke as thongh God had nothing whatever to do with en- @owing him with whatever good qualities of heart er mind he might have been possessed of. He was to himself nothing but himself, and God’s goodness ‘in giving him every good that he bad was with him é secondary consideration, He left the templo Birmiy convinced in iis own mind that he had made A FINE IMPRESSION UPOS THE ALMIGHTY, butthe Scriptures tell us that hé went away un- Justified in the sight of God. His heart was full of trust in his own strength, full of pride, and the Lord, seeing it all, was angry with him. He left She temple pleased with himself, but God was not Pleased witn him. On the other hand there was the poor publican, He belonged to a clasa that in the days of the Saviour was considered a very Ficked class, He was of thowe who collected the tithes, aud who were suspected by the people as being very fond of liclping themselves considcrably eut of the funds collected, which they made good by putting extra burtheas on the people. He en- tered the t le and retired to a dark corner, nid gee him, and so great was his he did not dare to raise his eyes toward heaven. With tears in his eyes and head bowed down, ail the while mindful of his sins, he asked God to forgive him, . A POOR SINNER, He spoke not of bis own inerits nor of the good deeds that he had done, and there never was @ buman being who, at some time or another durin, his lifetime, had not done some goo:l, even though be wasa publican. The humility of the man soft- ened the heart of God, and he yee justified in his sight. The Reverend Fatner then proceeded to spply the lesson of the Gospel to his hearers. “Which of these two," he asked, “did they resem- Die y” Jn the hearts of most men nowadays there Mngers and is hidden that same vice of pride that Seepelleg Ane Pharisee to despise the poor publican. ide, we all kuew, was an ipordinate appetite for our own exaltation. We wish to be something in the world. We wish to be better tian onr neigh- dors. It may be that with us pride takes its strong- est hold in the matter of our dress. We may de- Light to have A FINER CUT COAT ‘than anybody else—to have horses that are swifter than our neighbors. Indeed, it may be that we take pride in having a finer head of hair than most other people we know, or in having larger dia- monds than our poorer associates In life. Pride always showed itselfin every Walk of life, no imat- ter how high or low. Here the Reverend Father, in enumerating the various phases of “the vice of prido,” advanced a rather new idca—namely, that one of the phases of the “vice” was the ambition macifested by the echoolboy to excel in his studies and so T ANEAD? of his classmates—au idea which, no doubt, startled many an ambitions father and mother, who, very properly, encourage their little ones to “get ahead” atschool. Another phase of pride was exh he said, by the way a ian bousted of his or of their wealth or renown. — Pride was Beart of him who was jealous of his neighbor's good fortune in the world, and as weil in the heart of the men who, having prospered in life, passed his fiends in the street without even a nod of recog: nition, The vice was shown by him who strove to in fame for the sake of being talked about by the World and winning TUR AYPLAUSE OF MTN, It even crept into the sacred precincts of the ghurch, and was often exhibited in the giving of ae ostentatiously, or in an apparently revereutial ow before the altar, with the view of attract- ‘aze of the lookers-on, It creptat times into 1 of the preacher who prided himself on Ris eloquence, and likewise into the hearts of his hearers when they liste Way tine periods were Of the words of God, ned than to the meaning: The Keverend Father then glosed jn wu earnest exhortation to his hearers to Bo act As not to fall Into habits dictated by pride. Huwnility in everything He said anid did wus the great characteristic of Ue Saviour, and pride was eontrary to ail the teachings and practices of the hu the gills whieh rome men enjoyed above Others, Of strengtn or health, of bright Intellige and brilliant talents, were dot of their own e tion, and they who were thus exceptionally gifted ld therefore not he proud of the fact, for all Possessions in life, of whatever kind, were or ratier lent by the Lord, and He would an account of their prope GREENE STREET MPTHODIST pBPracopaL ; CHURCH, Wrestling With the Bible—The Experi- ence of a Converted Infidel Lawyer, A lawyer named Stone, who is known to the Greene street Methodist church worshippers as the “converted infidel jawyer,"yesterday moruing ocen pied the pulpit of this church. There was a very | @mull aticndance of worshippers, but those who were preseut were enlightened upon the experience of MK. STONE AS AN INFLDEL and a scofer at religion and as a Christian who had cast his burdens upon his Saviour and found the peace that sustains the believer in the hour of trlal and severe tribulations, The preacher vividly described his doubtings and longings for light while perusing the Bible, wnt the wrestlings with con- geience that characterized the period of fifteen hewitt Which he was an in@del. He dated is conversion from the revival that oceurved in hat chureh im 1858, under the direction of Rev. Mr. At that time, he said, be had a law office on the corner of Broome at aid Broadway, and mased to go over 70 THR $f. NICHOLAS MOTEL YOR RITTERR, and to en Sdinoent building to entoy the excite. ment ofa quiet game. One day he found lying Dis desk @ circular announcing the week of seers in the Greene street church, and he resolved to at- tend. Me went, and was so impressed with a thought dropped by the pavior that he went again | ‘ean. in and again. eyes were opened to the si § cOiimitted, ana ne vere tat ne wees tus Sasa oie etek Dut Gold told him ‘altar, when he kneeled and prayed, how wi 1d; and Geil and how he com aS, utd a vit more avidity to the | Yr asage at the last | It is, of course, understood that he should be trained up to be virtuous, But you must train nim np with especial reference to his disposition and nis temperament. You sometimes meet people in whose company it 1s BTERNAL DEATH to remain—-sometimes Pap meet others whore pres- ence is as soothing and cheering a3 a summer's morn, i imeet men whose company is a delight to me, even on first acquaintance, and ageii I meet others at whose presence all that is pugnacions in me comes to the suriace, and I fecl that I am in the presence of a man who would do me an injury. The man has never done me harm; but there 1% that in him inconsonant with my own temperament. He jars upon me and I cannot associate with him. THR MUCH ABUSED DOCTRINE of social affinities Ig as yet in Its infancy, It is des- tined to be one of the greatest agencies to bring about the millennium; and when we find men and women associating together in conformity with THIS DOCTRINE OF SOCIAY. AFFINITY, virtue will be the rule in every instance. Men are not made alike, God did not Intend them to be alike. The reverend gentleman then briefy ar lyzed character of Mare Antony, Jul Cesar, David Hume and Voitaire, to show how dil- ferently constituted men could bé, and continued :— WHAT WOULD SEND YOU TO HELL may send ine to Heaven. Men spend their lives fighting against some passion that tireatens to get the mastery, Other men spend their lives shaping and developing some lavent virtue in their own temperaments which needs cultivating to bring it forth into harmony and beauty. Some men are naturally given to cheating and swindling. OTHERS ARB NATURAL LIARS, They spend thelr existence in the low, grovelling Way that suits their base and sordid tastes. These calculated to gave them from their peculiar beset- ting passion. Upon the subject of S¥LP-DENIAL Ido not mean the asceticism of the monk, nor, In- deed, the starvation of the miser. I mean only that Christian self-denial which leads the true that samme + ve A GLASS OF WINB 1s dangerous in itself, or that there fs really any evil lurking within its raby depths, I know there is not, for our Saviour turned the water iato biush- ing wine at Cana on one occasion. But if 1 drink @ giaes of Uiat wine L set au example for some other man, who might drink adozen. ‘Chere is where the evil lurks, THE THEATRE AND THR DRAMA are not evilin themselves, 1 know they are not, | for the drama was once an adjunct of the Church, but they have been per ted and put to base 4 They have been prostituted, and there are some good men and wor ous and moval—patterns of virt may he—upon the American stage, still Tread in “Durand’s History of the Englisn Stage” such a8 make me blusit for the lack of Cliristian among the greater portion of actors and actresses, I would set a bad exampie, therefore, were I to at- tend a play or witness a drama, becnase the uses ofthe theatre haye been perverted. To those who | say, “You ought to go to the theatre and reform it,’ Tsay, “Let those who have polluted it return it to the Church, from whence | depart from it,” Then there is another evil, DANCING. T know dancing is not thorougliy sinful in itself, because it also Was at one time an adjunct of the Church. occasion by music and dancing. Bat it has been | perverted by those monstrous and most wicked | things, THE ROUND DANCES. Tam giad to see the Catholic Church, through tts Archbishop, has denounced them, The Doctor went on in this orthodox manner, drawing a harrowing picture of the terrible evils attending round dances aad the evils to wich they were inductive, until THE FLUTTER OF LADIES’ PANS in the congregation was suggest Ithough | kno u, Who are oe almost of mutiny, and wound = finaliy wif a prayer, The congregation then quietly dispersed. ALL SOULS CHUROH. A Sensitive Pastor Refuses to Give His Name—A Discussion of Democracy ant Aristocracy—Both Are Weak and Both Are Strong. The congregations at All Souls church, corner of | Fourth avenue and Twenticth street, was yester- day morning anything but encouraging for the first | Sabbath after @ vacation. Charles E rinnell oc cupted the pulpit, cuity that the name of the genti man Was obtained, | either his name or that of the place trom which he | haited.: He DID NOT WANT SUIS SERMON REVORTED | because he did not like the mons of others were worked np. the ser. ‘rhe usher, how. | patronymic of this august personage. ‘The speaker chose his text from the words of Job:—“Let the Weak say ‘Tam strong,’ and from Uf Corinthians :— “When T am weak then Tam sirong.? pry man, he began, has certain inherent pow Our diso- | bedience may prevent their growth, out they are stilithere, We a weak aiso when we are besct | by temptations irom within, But does not the Christian giory in hisown weakness It is neceasary for us to naderstand the strength of mau to and to himaelf Let na contine ourseives to t | Strong and the weak character, The worst | nal has in hint some good, so that we try to hard scuten . This faith is what makes us de- e ation, On the other hi ar oxtravagant praises of a good a | good HE 18 HUMAN, Human nature is both strong and weak—weaker and stronger than we have yel Known. Atter ex- patlatiog course the § | Tacy ar | and to ‘ commenced comparing demor- y. Pach cling to their strengrn ow ne Look at the democrats, | Do they rely on the wisdom of thelr lead No. Their strength Hee in their r y, in their charity for every cit ad nation. These | are the virtues. What are the we, democracy? What ia the opposite of mite Of charity ¥ ans, but i mpathy, he Let ati develop and maintain em beware oO} emporal | PLEASURES AT TOE SN. ind What of arteton edge—knowledge 1 and development at | in the wisdom of their jeaders. Happy as are we | With democracy, are other nations with avistoc | Lo are other countries by t thetr learned sons. But, like dem bas a2 struggle with its weakness, It { cunning takes the place of wisdont; who expe: ency takes the place of policy. Butte tare ie classes to individuals, ‘ons feel when they th cl | broth INAL EXPENSE, ker strength is kn WY etroug many their ink ‘ulties of their knowled « T religion! Yes, there in all nearts.” Yet other side, There ts disloyalty Selfishness and deceit between sliortcomings in religion, induiger al pleasures, Tow weak we are! We are | strong in our atrength—we are weak in our Weak. ; bess. There is in the mind of eal deimucrat aud S tocrat power to make n party, Ce, astity, are not of the masses, but of the poopie, fe ery Delone slothfuiness, impationce, un Let imei, Then, not PLAY THB PART OF BEASTA, Let them remember their own divinity, Thoy are Aulexe of the cart Every one Wat stytos nimaaly is the parent, must be trained inthe way they should go best | w | hey stole it, and | Jesus speaks of the joy expressed on one | Sermon on t hath—The Obligation Catholics are Unier to Hear Mass on jandays—-When They Are Excused and Under What Circamstances—Their Obligation to Attend Vespers Not Bind- ing Under Grie Sin. At the Church of St. Alphonsus, South Fifth ave- nue, the Rey. Father Superior preached an eloquent sermon explanatory of the obligation Roman Catholics are under to attend mass upon the Sab- bath and to refrain from manuallabor. After some Preliminary remarks he first directed the attention of his hearers to the fact that the law of the Church relative to the observance of the Sabbath does not bind under a grievous inconvenience, If, for ex- ample, a man, with a large family depending on him for support, were working on the necessary re- pairs of@ railroad, and if by refusing to work on Sunday under such circumstances he should get discharged, the obligation would not bind that man to abstain from work, because it would seriously incommode himself and his family, and this was not the intention of God in giving this law regarding the Sabbath. It was never the inteution of God to cause man’s unhappiness. However, tuo | much latitude must not be taken, They were not ahowed to work unless in case of necessity, Then it would be asked what should be done on Sunday ¢ They must do something positive; they must not alone read praver books at home, but they must worship God in the way ones out by Him, and that was by sacrifice—by devoutly attending at the holy sacritice of the mass. Hence it was that the Church ordains that Catholics must go to mass on sunday under pain of mortal sin, The reverend gentleman here gave several reasons which ex- cused persons from the OBLIGATION OF HEARING MASS. Among others was this:—That @ man was not bound to go to mass every Sunday, if, for instance, he was obliged to walk a distance of three miles, because it would be a grievous inconventence. In all cases of doubt as to whether the cause for stay- ing from mass was Cesrnpey or not, the hetter way would be to consult one’s confessor, and be guided by his discretion in the matier, Ifa person were about to take a month’s Vacation, and spend the time in some locality where there was no church, he should have no hesitation or scruple in doing so through fear of losing mass; for, in Tosing mass under such a circumstance, he does not violate the law. The losing of mass in this case would.be accidental, as the person in question did not go on vacation for the purpose of avoiding the church, but for the sake of his health, and that was right and proper. It is foe a deliberate violation of the law men will be punished; not, however, in cages where there are just causes to be excused from its observance. Cases of sickness in a family excused persons from hearing mass; also, in some instances, persons were to be excused who were detained by visitors they could not get rid of till they were late for maas. So of mauy other cases enumerated by the reverend preacher. ABOUT VESPERS, The Church does not bind, under the pain of mor- tal sin, to attend vespers in the evening, though it strongly recommends all who can do 80 to go, espe- clally when vespers are accompanied by a sermon. He who does not love to hear the Word of God will hardly observe His law, and he who violates the law of God will only injure himself by risking His anger, Ki this law of Sunday,’ concluded the reverend gentleman; “keep it consclentiously, and, by keeping {t thus, you shall enjoy rest in your soul—the rest of a good consctence, the pledge of everlasting rest; for a quiet conscience is the pledge of that eternal rest tocome, This rest is part of the perpetual happiness in the adoration of God." THE GREEK CHUROH. Father Bjering’s Return from Rusasia— Honors to the Eloquent Greek Pricst— Maguificent Presents—Political and Re- Mgfous Movements in the Land of the “Czar. Since the latter part of april the Greek chureh in Second avenue has been closed owing tO the ab- sence in Europe of Rev. Nicholas Bjering, the popu- lar priest thereof. Last weck he arrived at home, His arrival haviug been announced in the Huranp was suMcient notice to call tegether yesterday at the eeven A. M. service @ large Congregation, among whom Was noticed the amiable Baron de Offenberg, the new Russian Ambassador to the | United States, who during his short reasi- dence in this couniry has won the con- fidence and esteem of those who have formed his acquaintance; Consnl General Bodisco, who has just been decorated with the order of Viadimir; Vice Consul Schultze, who has also been recently decorated, and the Greek Consul Botaasi, whose charming wite formed the centre of attrac- tion in the bouquet of ladies who were present, ‘The little chapel was uncomfortably crowded, and | had the Patriarch or the members of the synod of the Greek Church been present they would be much more likely to hurry up the buflding of the proposed church than they now are to do ft. It is probable, however, that next spring ground may be broken for a new edifice, which will then be pushed forward to completion, j Father Biering performed the services, but did | not preach. He was attired in a new suit of clerl- { eal vestments of the richest pattern and material, | and which Were presented to him during his it to St. Petersburg by Madam Aksakof, the sane lady who some titue ago presented him with chalice coverings, which were used for the first time at the reception of the Grand Duke and were noticed at the time in the Hetatn, The new vestments worn ) ather Bering yesterday consist of a Veautiful heavy blue silk siikarion, ornamented gold lace fringe around the skirt and s on the back. pair of epi- rich aecom| of wrists, mankea, the y it, A richly deved purple ve epltrachilion (atele) and an epigonation suspended from the neck hang each before and behind, and are kept in | place by # girdle of equal richness and heauty, And embroi- {twas with the greatest aim. | Upon asking himhe peremptorily remsed to give | purple robe, richly embroidered nnd wrought in | pure gold “with mystte emblems of | Of the Spirit, with which ke is supposed to fight the bottles of the Lord, Over his breast hung a Deautifal gold cross and massive chain, p to Father Bjering by the Imperial Cabinet C upon the recommendation of the Holy s cross has both 2 political and an eccies: ever, Was more unscrupulous, and readily gave the | that nificance, and is never bestowed but upon the rec ommendativa of the Synod, It elevates Fathe: Bering to the rank of Avrchpriest and gives him certain civil rights in the empire to which asa citizen of the United States he was bot { entitled, Over the likeness of the Saviour 1 the inscription in Russian eters, which declures esis of Nazareth 14 our ot and the Resurrection and tio the on is reverse side is the imper Crown, ‘The value of this de not lesa than $500 in length on this part of his dia- | salary and w akuesses of | everywhere carding aym: | hem uot purchase their own | of his adopted country | But to turn from | inward { Kremlin, aud the brother of the Em t disinterested: | | viatt. | sdovess by and gold. The metropolitan of Moscow, who | dpent about thirty years of m yilfe in Alaska aud Kamtchatka, ‘also presented Father Hering With a magniticent gold and porcetain pic the Madouoy cid child, alse. of great valne, Bering, who accompanied her husband to gart, was made the recipient of a silver tea ser- Vice by the Quesn of Wurtemburg, Who stood apon- 4 | aor (or Me ering’ s WW, Who Was born there. sation with Father y, the He rat t thing Ube to welte his ast deapatol Rewniescal ii pare, rshuig setilos ta his peace, He was sent nvm hew American polit the Imperiat altogether, # likely to retur Daring his it he could now Went nave that he is not rather Bering a to Ameri estioned in polities and to the Fish-Catucas as gn American citizen and an n institutions he always syoke y highest praise vninent. In Petersburg the presiden inmost fashiouable nc he couid or wouid be ¢ During his stay in Mos: astudy of the old churches and « that elty and vicinity, and derived Mstoric information therefrom. ‘The preparations for the great Internatic | hibition In Moscow were ona very extensive scale, | ‘The exhibition grounds surround the famous old ander was in the city superiuteading the prepara- tions for the opening at the time of Father Kyering's | | Raliroads are being bulit to and trom all tmpor- tant points tn the empire, and the beat built rail. road in the world is said to be that between rsvurg and Moscow, which wad constructed ao American conty Ore Tho mission of the Evangelieal Alliance to Russia @ your or more ago, though not as successful as it | twight have beenat the time, promises to become a | y by, There isa large party in the emptre jn favor of the utmost toleration; but, for “ittcal reasone, proselytism ts for the present for- idden, Missionaries there and make con- vertg if they can, and Ii She | deny the plain assertions of the Scriptures. ; the p purple and gold, to cover | 44 over ali these Father Bicriig wore a magnificent | the sword | y | man, thy sin is st. | Godlike, { God, so they might become one with Ch Quinn—An Appeal to the Charitabte. The usuai large congregation were present Yesterday morning at the half-past ten service, in 8t. Peter's, in Barclay street. The Rey, Dr. Quinn, while making the announce: ments, took the occasion to call the attention of the congregation and the charitably dieposed to the distressed condition of the children attached to the female department of the Protectory in Westchester, which was recently destroyed by fire. The children lost thelr entire wardrobes, with the exception ot the few things laying near them in the dormitories, and the Reverend Father begged the congregation to send such articles of dress as were suitable for these children to the care of the SISTERS OF CHARITY, No. 16 Barclay strect, who would take measures to forward them to the Sisters in Westchester, Alter reading the Gospel of the day, the tenth Sunday after Pentecost, which is found in the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke, being the. parable of the Pharisee and publican, the rev- erend father sald that our blessed Lord, in giving this cieveciiption of Pharisee and publican, pre- sented to his nearers and to us, indeed to all men, types of two distinct characters. Only intipite wistiom could portray in such clear and expressive terms the character of the one and the other. One is the proud man, the other is the humble man. One relles entirely upon himself, fall of his own tmportance; the other ts thoughtless of himself and cognizant only of his imperfections and of uis sins, These two charac- ters aD aco Imight say, the two classes into he whole world is divided—the one class seeking and desiring the praise of man, attributing to their own exertions whatever gifts they may possess, unwilling to recognize their imperfections and their sins, thoughtless of the bounty and provl- dence of God, and living to gratify their own passions, whether they be the desire of wealth, the desire of fame, or the gratification of their evil propensities in the applause of the world; the other class, no doubt fewer in number, less observed by the world, recognizing their total dependence upon God, will- ing to give praise to God for what they may pos- sess, And working out with fear and ‘trepidation their eternal salvation, PRIDE. is & vice which easily finds its way to the human heart; it was the sin of theangels, It is, pertitas, the root and principal source of the sins of the whole world. In reviewing mortal sins, the Church places this first, and certainly not without an evident pur- pose and meaning, It fills the.world with ambitious schemes; it tramples under foot the rights of the weak, it fills men’s minds with hatred and with jealousy, and renders them unsatisfied until the end of their haughty ambition is attained. Nor is it alone among this class, where certainly we are not surprised to find it, that pride is met. Thore are very few who do not like the praises of man; there are very few who are not inclined to self-compla- cency aiid . SELE-LOVR, There are very few who do not entertain a ver high opinion of themselves, and who do not wish that others should have the same. Even the virtuous must be cautious to guard themselves against this vice, for oftentimes good works are deprived of their reward by virtue of pride, This is illustrated by the Gospel. The man that Christ presents ts not some victorious monarch, not some one who has risen to the highest PINNACLE of fame. The man tliat he presents {fg a relig- fous man, a Pharisee. He makes him declare his good works 8s we know they did; that he fasts, mortifies bis flesh and gives one-tenth of all his substance either for and yet Christ condemns him aud places before him a publican whose occupation, whose profession was by nature less or more sinful, WW! is it that the one was full of pride and that the other was deeply penetrated with trae humility. The reverend gen- Henman, after dilating at greater length upon the texi, exhorted the congregation to study the para- Was condemned in the Pharisee and practice what Was praised in the publican, REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF HARLEM, Oneness of Chrigt and God—Sermon by Kev. Dr. G. H. Mandeville, ‘One of the oldest churches in Harlem is the Re- formed Dutch church, between 121st and 122 streets, near Third avenue. Itis an old-fashioned wooden edifice, and in the early days stood upon the old Boston stage road. Great, monster, aborigi- nal forest trees almost hide it from sight. Although mid-summer there was a large aliendance at the services yesterday. Rey. Giles H. Mandeville preached the sermon. He took for his text St. John, xii, 20:—“I and My Father are one.” These words, he began, were uttered by Jesus Christ to His disciples when he was preparing them for Tis departure from their midst. He me say that He was like the Father, not in bod in mind, heart and spirit, Every pu! Jesus felt for the souls of men had its counterpart in the yearnings of the Father. The Son no more earnestly besought men to be reconciled to God than God Himself. In other words, there was en- tire unity between the Son and the Father in the MATTER OF REDEMPTION, ‘They possessed a oncness ofnature. All the perfec- tions of the Father were possessed by the Son. The divinity of the Son could be no ore denied than the divinity of the Father, To deny this ve ‘a tions of God, and the sane perfections | exist in Jesus, God is omniscient, omnipresent, immutable, from everlasting to everlasting. Chiist | is ali this. In ali the Son was the brightness of the | Father's glory. Jdesua Christ was one with the | Father, one in nature, in essence and in glory. There ‘here were no differences in opinion, no con- trarities of will. Were not the Son in perfect accord | wiih the Father in all respects our contidence would be shaken, our hopes destroyed, ‘The Pather locks with as much joy upon the return of the prodigal as the Son. Enlarging on this point he j dwelt upon the teachings of the Bible, citing numerous passages enforcing, as he claimed, this oneness betWeen the Son and the her. In this connection he showed that there was no passage | inthe Hiblo showing that God took pleasure im | the Joss of the wicked, —{n this regard he urged the | same oneness showed itse] . A further argument was, that when our race had lost its opportunity of | salvation through the | APOSTACY OF RE God sent his son to becom , sonla, Ny the ransom of lost He sanctified and sent into this world. He | gave Him to all the heiplessness of infaney, to | | the storm of reproach, to the trials of common life, ; to the agonies of the crows, He gave His son, His coegual through the cternities of the past, asa sacri- } flee. Christ cume not to play the tyrant, but to save j men from sin and everlasting death, From His birth in Rethlehem to His death on the cross the , Wil of Christ was the will of the Father, From this he proceeded to itinstrate the teaching of the text from examples in the Ife of Christ. He inatanced, first, Christ ut the house of simon the Pharisee. | Around ht proud, supercilious men. ‘They they were not like rowd there came & WOMAN OF SI with scot Tie doe! nD! io Ne tells her, “Wo- rgiven.” Jesus showed this fo onitentone that He might reftec 11 Joana, when a woraan 1 ihe hen ct Hts gar- | thanked Through tis other men. | They looked ny | He does not s | reproach and Not thus Jesus, t utter diveness to this the heart of the % borne down by diaease ment, Did He rope her for trying to | steal a biessing + said, “Thy faith | hath made thee w Go in p ° | Was reflected the hear ations he ured nevelent heart of God, oid, and Ne Some of these the style verg- prose poe- the cruet- these scenes, he claimed, enabled them e ther as retlected throngh the Son. This view gave encouragement to all to come to the ‘ather for SALVATION THROUGH JESUS. Personal | consideration, Salvation wasn Salvation was serving the man God was not cold and mechanical, “Do this and die.’ The Father was just as nxious jor their salvation as tic Son, fusion, he urged that os Christ was one with Him in thought, desire and pur ntly urged Upon ail to strive to become thus with Christ, and thus fit tlemsetves 10 joi great throng of the redeemed in the world 10 © BROOKLYN CHURCHES. paEws CLASSON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, “Practical Life’—Sermon by the Rev. Joseph T. Daryea, D. 9. Yesterday morning this elegant church was crowded with a very jutelligent congregation. Many strangers were provided with pleasant seats, and just before the services commenced it was worth while to look about the spacious room, Beautiful faces could be counted by hundreds, and the expressions they wore were in perfect harmony with the occasion, the use of the temple or the relicf of the distressed, | | bie of the Gospel, so that they may avold that which | aivation was paramount to any other | yh hoarteds was | ta tyrant who said to man, “Do this and five,” | Tn con- | laints cr The manner in which the pews | HAL Gr OVA) AOLCSMMMEULA AO muaties | are ATTeDGEN im the Rody Of the edifice serves to | Was also perfect oneness in thought and actlon. | | to Tin | dies out of the human heart it will | Lord's Supper was observed. | left leg broken, was endeavorin: give @ grand effect with » full house, and with the spacious galicries on three sides gives it the appearance of o large the- atre, Before the pastor entered the pulpit two stands fllled with beautiful towers were placed by the side of the Bible, giving a very pleas- ing effect. Dr. Duryea evidently believes in good old-fashioned congregational singing, and has his heart in the matter of the united voices in keeping good time, as his hymn book quietly does much the same work as the baton of an orchestra leader. The subject of the morning was “PRACTICAL LIFR,” the preacher taking his text from the fourteenth chapter of Proverbs, portion of the twenty-first verse—“He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth,”’ Disapprobation, lke approbation, is virtually judgment, and with {t the moral character and actions of our feliow-men are passed upon, We canuot approve or Seayurove without feeling. ‘To rightiuliy form a judgment one must be Wise and honest; and if this is not the case, bat is deceitful im expressi in estimate of character, he is not more honest ti corrupt jadge. In order.that the human fami iy may be related or drawn to each other, there is planted within us ali the love of esteem. It really is part of the image of God, and from it comes sympa- thy and admiration for Him, As with the desire of estecm man has in him the fear of disapprobation, The power to cause the feeling of shame should be carefully used, An infant is eg ote of an infant's path, and a pa @ giant's might. if we have the power to Infict terrible pain by disap- proval we should be chary how the power is exer- cised, 80 that it may be justly done, Disapproba- tion applies only to PURELY PERSONAL MATTERS, It has nothing to do withthe animal kingdom. If acat killed your canary, and you punished It, you did wrong. The cat was better than its owner, as it was made with an appetite and was right in eating what it could get. Character and free action are the two things open to approval or Sieapuroval in persons. We should only approve of the elements of right, and disap- rove of the elements of meanness when mani- feasted. What is natural with aman should not be the subject of this criticism. He may pone a feeble intellect-and not the grasp of mind his nvigh- bor has, but that ia not his fault, and he is not re- sponsible; and for even sin itself he is not to blame, for it is our and his misfortune that we are born sinful; but while God puts that in us, it is more than made up in a thousand ways. Pain should never be inflicted by us. One cannot say that men and woinen like to see others suffer, yet oftentimes that ig the appearance it assumes, It is hard to analyze this, but there is ig MUON LIKE MALICE in it. A man falls on the ice and is badly hurt, but yet we laugh at the exhibition, We laugh at drunken men, and while there can be nothing in life more the subject of itt we laugh—yes, are amused—at an image of God with paralyzed brain aud destroyed will. The reason may be that we Jaugh because man loses his dignity and is absurd at such times; bat, whatever may be the explana- tion, It is oiten done, Dr. Duryea then referred to the gauntlet of troubles chilitren have to endure, and forcibly reminded his hearers of the unneces- sary pain the little ones are often inflicted with by the thoughtless, He then said that it is the pre- rogative of no man on earth to punish; no man had such a right; society had no such right. Laws are made for protection, and he who breaks them suifers or should suffer to the extent of his crime as example to others who would do likewise. Governments take no account of sin; the biggest sinners on earth are passed by, but crime is taken in hand and the wrongdoer punished, There is but one ruler—God—and all that we should do {ts to defend ourselves from encroachinent by others. We should not punish those who «do not interfere with us. He that inflicts punishment upon another that is not encroaching upon his rights or disturb- ing the peace of society just to observe the pain the victim suffers 18 A DEVIL. We should help and love and try to improve others rather than punish them, There are some people In this world who are continually holding up to scorn and shocking the finely-pulsating feeling of their hearts. They are everywhere sowing the sceds--of unhappiness. When true nae te not be long before the storm follows, Enthusiasm should always be encouraged and not repressed. We shou'd add fuel to the flame, not put out the fire. Dr. Duryea then made a practical application of the sermon, and eloquently and forcibly reminded those who were forever holding up to scorn and contempt the seekers after Christ that they were standing just where the devil stood and weré doin the devil's work. He appealed to their « cyni- cat gense of justice to let all such alon they couid not help them, and with other like remarks the preacher concluded an able and very interest- ing sermon, that throughout was eagerly listened to by the large congregation. Before singing the last hymn four persons were admitted to the Chureh, Ta the afternoon the sacrament of the 8T. ANN'S ON THE HEIGHTS. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Packer. There was not a large congregation at St. Ann's church on the Heights yesterday morning, from the fact that a large number of the members are at present out of town. The pulpit was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Packer, the Rev Mr. Schenck being absent on his vacation. After singing and the reading of the morning les- sons the Rev. Mr. Packer discoursed irom the fol- lowing tex! And Jabez called on the God of Israci, saying, Ob that Thou wouldst bless me indeed and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be | with me, and that Thou wouldst keep me from evil, | that 1t may not grieve me. that which he requested,” And God granted him (I. Chronicles, iv., 10.) ; Thiswas one of the few prayers in the Scriptures wliich was earnest and importunate. Very little was known of the history of the family of Jabez. It would appear that at the time of his birth his mother was a widow, and that his birth reminded her of her widowhood, She was in aMiction, and while in this state of fecling gave him this sorrow- ful name. She drank from the cup of sorrow. It is said that Jabez had two brothers, but of the elicumstances of their life very little is given. They played the quit the scene. The circumstance which led Jabez to make this prayer was the feeling of the neces- sity for the aid of the Divine Being. They conid only give him a place in the group of which the Bible speaks—that group whose voiccs are plead- ing before the Throne of Grace. It is sald that Jabez called upon the God of Israel. He went with a feeling of love, thongh led by necessity, and he called upon Him, meaning just What he said. There a fervor in the Oriental temperament, expressed by the feeling rather than intellect. In the beginning of the prayer of Jabez there scemed to be a doubt, and every one who had prayed conid appreciate this doubt, “He first asks God to biess hin, and then. his soul rises to t necessity of having God's helping hand. Many persons pray to God for the ‘succees of unreasonable plans, and if all their prayers were answered tt would cause a great deal of trouble and misery. Many asked God to favor plans which Y Would not reveal to man. Jabez asked more jaily that God would enlarge his coast, that God would nerve his arm and strengiten his heart. His desi ¢ was to lave God's hand with him. This = was the religion of common sense. Jabez had planned a cam- paign, and its key note was God's help. So, like Jabez, let us be all that God iniended we shonid be. We should turn to Goi as he did, and ask His blessing, Then by God’ we can face these inevitable evils of life, have heen three ways of meeting the evils of the world, One was to suppress our feelings of sufter- ing. Another was to cowardly run away and re- treat from them, and the third way was to go to God jor lie He pledges His Almighty Word that troubles shall not overcome those Pho look to Him, Jabex showed himself a Christhin philosopher, and Gou's hand was with him. God | Wouid show ns how success and failure depended upon something more than chance, In that final day we shail see how the weak was strong In ihe | end, and how Jabez the sorrowful was full of the Lord, ANOTHER NEW CHURCH IN JERSEY, ‘The Central Presbyterian church at Summit, N. J, was dedicated on Friday, with suitable services, in presence of a large congregation, including repre- sentatives of at! denominations, Rey. Dr. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, New York, preached the dedication sermon, taking: for his text Da- vid's Prayer (Psalm 1xx.) ‘The reverend gentleman spoke eloquently of the progress of Christianity and the certatuty of the universal acceptance in time of its tenets, The other clergymen who took | —Rev. Stephen H. Tyg, and Rey, Messrs. Bruen, Jr., and Bruen, Sr.; Shedden and William H. Littell, The church will seat four hundred persons, is of Wood, and in architectural features is a real orna- ment to the Summit. ACOIDENT ON CONEY ISLAND ROAD. An unknown man was taken to the City Hospital, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, suffering from in- juries received, which are, doubtiess, of a fatal character, While on the Coney Isiand dummy line of cars, The patient, whose skull is fractured and to change his seat from the rear to front while the car was pass- ing & row of trees, which are outrageousipcloxe to the side of the track, pear Conner’s lane, when he | struck his head against a tree, and, falling insensi- | ble on the ground, broke his leg. There were no In¢ans of obtaining the name of the unhappy man, ALLEGED ROBBERY IN BROOKLYN. Edward Gibson, a driver, tas been arrested on a wuirant, issned by Justice Delmar, on the charge of having stolen a team of horses aud a set of har- hess, the property of Paniel F. Wilson, of Fourth street, near Fiithavenue, Justige Dewar will bear (Dy Case Ol Ute 20 DIDee: ~ ie aie art of honorable men and then | Am Excursion on the American Rhine= Clam Chowder, Conversation and Flitre tation—A Stroll Under the Trees at a a Cherries, Love Make ing mt Choruses b; Me Homeweord Bound, chica Be sca “How mich does it cost for the enttre trip Yt asked @ Henanp reporter of the courteous and smiling Captain John Sherman, of the steamboat Sleepy Hollow, as that large and mxurionsly fare nished boat lay at her mooring near Fulton ferryy Brooklyn, yesterday moruing, her engines panting low ready for her usual Sunday trip up the Hudson’ River. “The fare is only a dollar, and we will take you to Yonkers, Iona Island, West Point, Cold Spring or | Newburg for that sum, and give you a first-clagg excursion to hoot,” said the captain. The steamer began to fill up with pleasure seeke ers while steam was getting up. number of ladies and children came on board at Joy at the prospect of the day’s.sport before them, Two or three hundred persons came on board at Fulton ferry and then the boat steamed around the Battory and her paddles dipped into the waters of the North River, The morning was exceedingly beauti- ful, the sun ing the spires of the churches in the silent streets of Brooklyn and the large feet of shipping that lined the shores of the North River, and the Jersey shores were as quiet as the grave itself. hulks with their towering spars on a Sunday morn- ing, when ail life has left these messengers of com- merce and trade, There is @ large Indiaman, hail- ing from Calcutta, but there is but one human being to be seen, and that is a big frouzy-looking fellow in a red shirt, and whose shock head is dis. cernable, surmounted by a greasy blue cap, and whose bare legs hang Imp over the skie of the eeaeet as he gazes moodily into the waters below in, The Sleepy Hollow made her second landing at the foot o! Keene pe! street, North River, on her Way up, at half-past eight o'clock, and at this place another big crowd of light-hearted excursionists came on board, Theve was a third and last land! made at Thirty-fourth street, North River, an when the gang-plank was lifted from the dock the steamboat slowly moved out into the stream, her decks and saloons filled with people, Aud now let us look at the Kind of people who on this occasion compose and make up the component: parts of this up-the-Hudison excursion, It is quite different in character from the crowd which may be seen going to Coney Island, the Fish- ing Banks or Rockaway Beach on each recurring Sunday morning. —Fleasant anticipation may be gathered trom the fact that there is an almost total absence of the rowdy and pickpocket elements which disfigure the Coney Island or Fishing Banks excursions. These people on the Sleepy Hollow are of @ different class, These are all substantial, decent- looking persons, and are principally composed of family groups, who segregate themselves !nto par- ties of three and four and five or six during the day. ‘One group is particularly noticeable, There is an old gentleman, of clerical aspect, with his wife and two*young fresh country girls, his daughters, no doubt, as they bear some resemblance to the old gentleman. It is evident that he is not a city par- son, but is a stranger in New York, and has taken this opportunity of ascertaining the manner in which well-to-do New Yorkers spend their sabbath when in quest of recreation. It is a strange thin; to see a clergyman on a Sunday excursion; but then, “perhaps, he belongs to some e) lingiy broad Church, and does not believe that salvation comes by flagellation or punishment of the body. The sight of the facés of the two Reaiett girls who carry large and inviting baskets is in itselfa compensation for a week's hard work. The steamer keeps her head toward the middle of the stream, and thus we get a splendid view of the river bank, witht all its haudsome villas and stately mansions, a8 the Sleepy Hollow pulls by Wash- ington Heights. Here and there, in em- bowered spo’ overhung by the trees on the’ slope of the bank, tiny pleasure boats are’ fastened, some of which have their canvas spread preparatory to a sail on the river. Now and then glimpses of light drapery are gotten of fairy figures that flit to and ‘ro on superb lawns, and spiral columns of bine smoke curl up from chimneys concealed by the foliage of thickly planted green trees, ' Here by Spuyten ur bad Creck, the northern boundary of Navhattan island, the scenery of the Hudson becomes exquisite indeed. noble as the centuries that have passed over its bosom, widens out, and, 9s far as the eye can reach, its shining bosom is covered and flecked here and ig with the snowy canvass of innumeiable light craft. Meanwhile, as the voyage northward progresses the passengers on board begin to become more sociable, and several new acquaintances are made ainong the young ladies 1d gentiemen who hover in each other's vicinity, Nothing is needed buta bund of music to comment. n endshipa, But it is Sunday, and the Puritan regulations of the boat forbid the melodcous boon; yet every one seems to enioy his cakes and ale notwithstanding this pre- vention, If there Is no instrumental music there is no lack of vocal music on board the Sleepy Hollow. Cus- tom confirms this usage, and the young people are amusing themselves on the stern of the boat in singing some well known balard, and, as | the town of Yonkers, the words sung dozen of voices ring over the wide river, having & burthen as follows ;— In a house, in a square, In astreet, ma lau Turn to the fert, on th Pa The river, love, bonded knee: If ever Tes y May sheeps’ h Lever cae Ww on apple trees, wer fury If ever IT cease to lov <a nd Suns Reeves rolled And who would not love such Like an angel dropped fram aboy May [be stung to death with files, Hever I cet-e to love! May T have to live on peon's miik, Hever I cease to love! A rv Teease to love, Irever T cease (¢ May littte dogs way their | Iever I ceace to lc Theze lines ave not very orthodox, and may be sitly cuough to listen to, yet the singers enjoy themselves, and who s! ‘oimplain if the singers are themselves pleased? There fs av old lady, however, who socms, by her spectactes and the large folio she has ting on her lap, to have some resemblance to tha spe k as the “stroug-minded wo 77 She is ne t coe A at the sinzing, and confides her fears to the HERALD reporter brietiy :— “T don't know why people should come ona Sane day excursion to sing love songs so silly ax that. It would be very much better for them if they were at home or present at a camp meeting. The that they set is not a good one, but I sup will do 28 they choose,” and she shook >} very indignantly as the group of singers who, not at all daunted by her sour looks, burst ont into an- ee refrain, equally meaningless and ojection- able: in front, eH chai For, life without pleasure And T shouldn't live But how we sarvive In th t em Tm ‘tetighted to tell in my song. Speken—With @ tootle timn-tam aecompaniinent opes the piano from the fair hands of a lady, we # ter the opern’s i a, After the ope We wom of the With the ladies we tootle-tain-tinn, x at the opera, hunters as well, sin the country— vhy shoul And neither sp For, money well Yes, roriey was made to After the onera, &c. Some few of the passengers leave the boat Yonkers for the purpose of enj zt w joys of that old Duteh town, and t! provided with a cold innch ora hott their baskets make visits to the nev order dinner, and then to tuke a strolt ant see suburban elephant, i The second stopping place is at ite rear of Veekskill Ba: Mis island has an area of tthves handr acres, and was sold for a plenic ground some two years since for $200,000 by its former ows , @ ply sician, who was extensively engaged in crape cal ture. There is a hotel and an observatory ne 2 : C re, | and the lower end of the island is © ved bya great Nuniber of cherry trees, bearing cart loads fs me and Ss fruit, Alout two undred of th excursionists — lea | boat here and oll under the entrane J mle eit the yew of the nobie, n beneath their feet laving the hese of its eternal masie, pains: » hotel is kept by a Mr. Fields, and here dine of a good substantial Kind are served up at rate rates, ‘The uo por part of the isiand ts charmingingly picturesque, and the excursionis(s Were all over it frolicking to their heart's content. The Sleepy Hollow imeautine proceeds on ber Way and makes landings nt West Point and Cold Spring. These places are Visited, and finally New | CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE, and her deck hands busy in getting the Sleepy Hole * Fulton ferry, vainly endeavoring to control their , saxaen Quite a large ~ Nothing can be more impressive than these large’ -