The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1872, Page 8

RELIGIOUS, Cloudy Skies and a Diminished Attend- ance at the Clurches Yesterday. ANOTHER VACATION SUNDAY. A Sermon on, the Authenticity of the Bible by Dr. Chapin, ; DR. STORRS ON THE CHARITY OF CHRIST, | Professor Martin Deseribes the Fruit of Sin nd the Eternal Gonseqnenees Thereof, / A SERMON ON THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, Tho Farowoll Discourse of the Rey. Ale i fred Harris at the Hoboken Baptist Church, 8T, PATRIOK’S CATAEDRAL. Sermon by Very Rev. Dr. Starrs—A Great x . Lesson of Charity. ‘The congregation assembied at St. Patrick's Qathedral yesterday was considered larger than Might have been reasonably expected under the Qdverse circumstances of the day, The heavy f&tmosphere and dense, gloomy clouds of the morn: ing truthfully indicated the impending rain storm which subsequently drenched the streets and alleys ofthe city. The faint sunbeams, however, which fow and then glimmered through the etierial velvet piles gave fresh assurance to punctual de- ‘Votees, and Induced them “to hope against hope,” and make the best of the hallowed Sabbath, In the intensity of their pious desixes, therefore, a great Many neglected to bring their tmbrelias, overcoats or waterproofcloaks along, which at the close of the services were pronounced to be of extreme neces- pity, and the absence of which caused almost uni- | versal grumbling and no small share of regret. “atthe usnal hour tho, “Adjutoriam Nogtrum in Nomine Domini" was entoned by the celebrant, | Rev. Father Kearney, and responded to by the | pholr, after which the beautiful “Kyrie” rang solemnly through the sombre vauited aisles, The ‘mass being what Is termed by the Church @ ‘Missa Cantata," no déacon or sub-deacon oftiviated, but Yon acolytes Were in attendance, + After the singing of the epistle and gospel, the ‘ ‘VERY REV. DR. STARTS : ascended the pulpit. He first announced the in- -tention of the pastors of the church to hand over the collections of next Sunday to the aid of the orphans of the Catholic Protectory lately destroyed | are good or bad, the !nw ho! | honored and children must love them. by fire, and then introduced his text, as read from the gospel of the day, the Eleventh after Pentecost, .taken from the seventh chapter of St. Mark, com- menctng with the thirty-first and ending with the thirty-seventh verse. e subject of his discourse, however, was entirely based on the last text of the per hae vis ‘Ile hath done all things well; He as made the deaf to hear and the dum» to speak.” When Jesus went out from the coasts of Tyre and tip by the shores of Sidon, the friends of a deat and dumb man requested our Lord to cure him; who putting spittle to his ear, looking up to heaven, and eeosnig He uttered the words “ephphatha,”’ (be thou cured) and his hearing was restored, and tho strings of his palate were loosened, and he im- d@emptorist order, in ments-on tables of Aistinct payes, because | this obligation has been mediately spoke. This was a figurativ tion of what was daily o ng im the wor' withstanding the fayoral penextauition heid fo to atl professing to be Cliristians, there were ver many DEAF TO THE VOICE OF GOD, a consequently dumb when required to give itterance to the inspirations of the Ho When the voice of G Howed to idie wind, sin qui the | o o © services yester human heart and taints t now | ped the attendance at bg z 8 iS ees yestor. | eAN a Sot! speak to God W His | ay was good, and those who were present volce ? But do you not si were gratifed, if a feellng of gratification AN EXAMPLE OF Js here portrayed tu the s: nity ry of the text? The friends of the deat and din} man brought him to | Curisttan in such a case, by hearing Mr. Smyth i ia | condemn those of his usual hearers who remained . He knew not himself to who: but his friends pointed out t Saviour and led ‘him*to Him. It is thus t should often lead to God those whom you know to guswer to His inspirations. How oiten have you hot heard the name of God blasphemed! Did you Induce the culprit tom How ‘re- rep: quently have you heard mischievous w by THE TONGTR OF Have yon led such pe Anjuries they were hea; ANDER! ns to a knowledge of the ng Upon their neighbor's character, and the great amount of sin and shaine | @ they were bringing on themselves But there is | at Which was: In vogue in the tine of the Apos- mother fuct in connection with tis which it wii | tes. We see now realized in actual life well to bear in mind. that is that youmust the corrupt character which Paul pre- rat see yourselves cure | dicted for modern Christians. Were the practice the wor “PHYSICIAN, ITEAL THYSELP,"! Our Lord limself said, nosee te ipsum, “Know th pelf;" and st. Paul, in exhorting the faitiful, de- clares the great secret of doing good to be in first | “attending to oneself"—atter Scripture has We finally see the humility of Ohrist, in charging the multitude to tell what He ad done for the deaf and dumb man to no one. | Testament, because the New had not yet been writ- ut the more He charged them the more they pro- | claimed His power and goodness. He did not | covet praise nor fame. He sought no recompense, ‘but only wished that all should remain secret. Yet, strange to say, the more secrecy He desired should be observed the more praise, and fame, and glory were heaped upon Him. He went about doing in seeret (pertransivit benefactendo), for He id all through that great spirit of charity, which | was always centred {n His divine heart, and which Ge never refuses to communicate to those who ap- | oly to Him fora remedy in their hours of need. | Be, therefore, not deaf to His voice, and He will put words of wisdom on your lips. Attend to your own wants and feelings and He will succor you. Lead others to Him to be cured, not for praise or recom- nse, but for charity's sake, and He wil! finally | reward you in Heaven. CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. | The Bible an All-Convincing Proof of Christlanity—Misbelicf in Its Applica- tion—Duty of Christians—Sermon by Dr. Chapin, The Charch of the Holy Covenant, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, was yesterday Morning moderately well filled, After the usual exercises of prayer and the reading of the Scrip- | tures were concluded, the choir sung the 204th bymo. Its rendition was magnificent, High Qbove tie reat rose the volce of the soprano, now trembling with melting tenderness in supplication, gow growing clear and ful! aluphant in cond- dence, Succeeding this came THE ON. In the absence of the regular pastor, Rev. Dr. HH. | B, Chapin, of Rochester, occupied the pulpit. His Bubject was his text, which was Luke xvi, 81: “And he said unto lim, ‘if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, | though one rose from tie dead.’ In the parable of the rich man, Lazarus, he began, is taught that tn the future state there is either joy or mise Here we may be rolling in wealth, there pennile here a beggar, there a prmce. But what are earth- ly riches or poverty? ‘They are but for an hour, Let s prepare for eternity, ff men are not convinced by ordinary Means, they will not be by miracnious nes. What demands the impenitent heart? , that of could behold =m Saviour’s Ace! that Tcould hold converse with the dead! Thea 1 could be a Christian, Compare the yoice of the dead with the revelations of the Scriptures, Were I to attempt doscriving the attributes of God, we have them in the Instead of neod- jog more, our finite minds cannot’ grasp all we ave, Cen we imagine existenve which had no origin? Could such a messenger tell us aught more of the felicity in heaven, of the joy when tie ps rewed 18 Py ge ¥ Could he vettor deserihe the bituation of the sinner, “standing on the brink of pordition Or If he were ’ ™ TIRED OF GOD and aho:.id tell us of heaven, it te questic whether ho could tell ng) us more than we nh know, It has no #in; it Las perper enjoyment, Human knowledge could | gras: po more; human tongue coul: tell ne more, On the other hand could @ lost soul better tell ua the condition of tho damned? Te @peak from expericace, Yut still he would Le RUMAN AND FALLIBLE. would, ‘The Dibic ta (roa God, A perwon Coming from the | privetcruf und everything elae (iat stands | the once popular preacher Rppears Hkely to again | attain his prominence ero the divines. | now the pastor of a congregation that meets for | worship in the Now York University building, and Ghost, | 18 Known es the Waverley Place American Presby- | sthe | terian Chu | on ’ | be deaf to His voice and dumb when’ supposed to | the Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy, fil., 15:— rds uttered | The reverend gentioman said:—We live in a re- | markable age, not only because of modern dis- courses and inventions, but of the type of Chris- | habits of parents and families more like those + | of the time of Timothy the case would be different. | Paul congratulated him upon having known the iibt, as the Holy | Holy Scriptures from childhood, because they were There {6 another moral: | | make ns Wise unto 80 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AU for good- Goa to our our jus- He to our: here and to our of to to our ve and to our fears of love of Jesus, and should. Tove in turn? A messe! Shite aang ments of the flesh. ir avoused, but they would pass away like a summer cloud, wil be cain Raa true that a few profess to" : ) for want of evidence; but the masses ls ac. sptod. é oat impedi-_ transie! be ut; Only and Bible, and in God’s own good time Bible is rn than the i aT ‘es, the see them sinking with w frave, how careless we legarthy; preach unto Let none be lost, aud words, that they may r OHUROH OF ST ALPHONSUS. . . Sermon on the F; wdanemt. In this church the Ret r Superior of the Re-\ of instructions on the’ gotimandments oft hed : upon the fourth—“T! honor thy father and thy mother.’ God the ten command- Ue Minde between the seven. The.three first iminediately to God; the other seven refer’ ly to domestic and civil soctety, God expressly wishes to observe (henigtrictly to secure | iife, When our Lord was asked which was the first and greatest. commandment Me said it was, “Thou shalt love the word thy God, and thy néfghbor as thyself for the love of God;” and He coficinded that these two commandments embri the whole Inw. The feyerend gentleman dwelt a thne on the great law of charity, and, refe: to the fourth com- ith tt, he said that by it respect. “Thou shalt That is, to say, » ‘The word honor first and the other honor thy father and thy Tespect, love and obey implies, then, respect, 10 OVRDIENCE AND'DEVOTEDNESS. Tt alao implies the gree@test reverence towards arents. By thig commanément, therefore, we are ‘0 honor our parents and ee ito hold the place of parents, @. ¢., guardi ‘e are also bound by this commandinent to for and respect those ih civil authority, It should be borne in mind that | eleated by God in the Holy Scripture and laid yn. also. by the Fathers ofthe Church, It Is inaceoydance with reasoa that children respect their papeuts. Witness all that parents do for their childrep; : A MOTHER'S ANXIETY about them from the mojient of their birth; a father’s love, They were the first on earth to love us were the main st rt of life. Do unto i it fathers and mothers as they have done to you. they have shown love for yon; do you show love for them in like manner. biesses the children who love their parents; and He tells them that He will love them in TIME AND RYBRNITY. On the other hand, God pronounces a terrible curse against the cnild who disoveys his parents or re- fuses to respect them. Even Pagans im old times meuicated this duty of love to parents. The Holy Fathers, St. Cyprian and St. Cyril, declared that every act of disobedience shawn the parents is con- sidered by God as manijested towards Himself, and every act of respect exhibited towards parents He considers as paid to Himself, and He rewards and punishes accordingly, No Matter whether parents that they must be x: The very reverend gentieman then said ‘he wonld consider this commandment next Sunday in itd relation to the civil and ccclesiastical authority, WAVERLEY PLACE AMERICAN PRESBYTE- RIAN OHURCH. The Heraid’s Fulfilment of Biblical Preaictlon=Sermon of Rev. Cha:les B. Smyth, ‘The pall of bigotry which some titae ago fell upon and obscured the Rev. Charles B. Smyth from the | notice of the public seems now to be lifting, and | He is | Although the weather was lower- can be aroused in the breast of a} away from fear of the threatened rain, The text yth’s sermon was based was from ich Mr, Sin; “And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise,” &c. tlanity that prevails, which is very diferent from able to make him wise unto salvation. Now by the Holy Scriptures Paul must have ment the Old | ten. Ifthe Old Testament was precious to Paul and Timothy it ought to be equally so to Christiang now. It does not differ materially from the New Testament, which is, in fact, only @ Divine com- mentary on it. Christ's Sermon on the Mount did not set aside any of the doctrines of Moses or the Prophets, but explained and enforced them. And even the discoveries of Science, the inventions of art, the explorations of travellers and the treaties of nations opening up avenues of trade and commerce are but fulfilments of the predictions of ancient prophets respecting the wonderful triumphs of the kingdom of Christ. Re- ferring to Livingstone and the HERALD search ex- edition of Stanley, Mr. Smyth asked, What is the work of the great tourist of Africa, whom fame has now made immortal; of the expedition which b; herculean energy and perseverance has searches him out and saved him from starvation and death ; of the enterprise and chivalric generosity of a dis- tinguished journalist of this city, by whom was sent forth that expedition, whose result will be the opening of a people darkened by ignorance, super- stition and oppression to the influences of the Go: pel? What but the fulfilment of ancient prediction, “Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God Paul called the Ola Testament “holy,” because it was produced by divine inspiration, and becanae the Jews held it in such veneration and with such care to preserve it intact. If modern Christians earn- estly believed that “the wisdom that cometh from | above is superior to all other’ they would not so neglect the Scriptures os they do. They would read them and tell their truths to their children, an they now do their daily journals, No intelligent | man would go without his newspaper any sooner than he would without his breakfast of supper. The man does not live, he only vegetates, who does not Keep himself informed of current events, But he should learn the other wisdom. The Scriptures | “are able to make thee wise unto salvation.” “They are they which festify of me,” says Christ. In them we find the eternal lite which He brought, From them men learn that they must be pardoned through the blood of Christ shed upon the cross, regenerated and sanctified by the Holy Ghost and from first to last saved by grace. This is the chief saivation alluded to in the text. But they also salvation, Free love, socialism and the other social evils which puzzie the governments of States how to regulate press find no countenance from the Bible; our legislators would examine the tolerant as the punitive laws of Moses touc jects they would find in thelr princ | Uons @ Wisdom sufleient to elevate society to & degree far above the nighest to which all the wis- | dom of the world has at any time xatsed it in | inodern times. Again, they make us Wise unto | | Poutical salvation. The etruggle which is at pres. ent going on between political antagonists is only the incipiency of a tightier one than this land has ever experienced, It does not appear upon the Surface; it 1s not borne upon the crest of the wave | that stimulates and nerves the combatants | in this fight. Principles of which even they them- selves fre scarcely conscious, are dee} ate within them, iinpelling tiem to an irveprensibie conflict,” the like of which has never yet been wit- neased, They are deep down out of sight—two ad- verso undercurrents beneath the moving masses of" society; or (to change the figure) slumbering, hid- den, combustible principles of an iminense yoieano, ready to burst forth and upheave society with won. - derful commotion, And these not confined to America, ‘They ‘sinmber bencath the decaying | turones of Europe. They awoke some years ago to revolutionize itély, Spain, France, and some parts of what is now calleé Germ! They will yet revo- | Intlonize the werld. The common people have im- | which make each one for him- ‘T anna {ndependent thinking And the universal recognition of #4 Than. yet make all men shake off kingcraft, Une fact wi | ints Fruit Here and Hercafter—Ser- ye ‘your truth. | Joseph Strauss, secretar: | special and grievous crimes, ‘the } Taz.of pgaeaiation, of that liberty which was mon by Professor Martin, of Ratgers ‘There is but one Congregational church in Har- Jom. ‘This ism 125th street, near Third avenue, It ida small, cosey-looking edifice, its only mark of adornment a sort of medimyai turret, giving it a Pleasant air of antiquity. Rev. S. H. Virgin, an ac- complished scholar and of no mean rank as & pulpit orator, ig the stated pastor; but ne is taking his vacation at present, The congregation com- prises someof the frst people in Harlem, though, Of course, at this #eason of the year, the attend- ance ig slim. Occupying the pulpit yesterday morn- ing was Professor Martin of Rytgers College, ‘who took as the basis of his discourse two texts— ‘the first Revelation 1., 7—“Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall sce Him and they also which pierced Him;” and the second John xix., 31—“And again another Scripture saieh, They shall Jook on Him’ whom they pierced.’ In the early ages people were taught to begin to look forward tothe coming of the Saviour. This coming was predicted in the Old Scriptures, The prediction ‘Was made clear even to specifying the piercing of | the Saviour’s, On thé cross, Those who cruci- | fell Hintknew not wha they did. emer tucthor | introdret . he proveeded to. speak of the | t the redemption througi Christ, In the first pl upon is ‘Temptations come “often In a Ray alluring form. Thus men yield and fall. Blorwabal comes the memory of the sin. We then wonder at the in- fatuation leading to indulgences in sin. We won- der at the idea that comfort and happiness could | have been looked for in thus doing what our con- | seience told us was Wro! Isolation and degrada. | tion follow. We hear of great crimes being com- | mitted so secretly that the author camnot be aus. ath . be J by themselves; we by ourselves. Cbriat ts example, our 01 ter. Let us real- ne wae ‘an unspeakable bi Ing we possess in to every mind, re ere or 08 se Bi Pat] ge every soul in our country, ree by burdensome superstitions multitudes have gone down to their graves unblest by its | che if annunciations of truth and duty, Abroad wi tions are bereft in a great measure of its Privijeges, ana who can wonder that where it iaa fy to gather and hear the inenres read lind, indis- tyr roles, crime abounds and a crimifating infidelity rejects the most traths of revelation with the priestcraft and im- post itabhors? The Bible cannot expiain all the eal ot God, for He is unsearehable; but it can and does teach us how to walk safely, wisely and right sly. Eyen the Biblo my be misused and perverted by those who have hearts or who Beek’ evil ends; it is added to by some, misinter- = many, portions of it overlooked by others, A regular and carefui study of it will teach us how to of ourselves, receive blessings and endure adversities. NEW JERSEY CHURCHES. z a en |. THE FIRST’ BAPTIST OHUROH, HOBOKEN. A Farewell Sermon by Mr. Alfred Marrls—An Affectionate and Selemn Leave-Taking. ‘The Rey. Alfred Harris, Pastor of the First Baptiyt church, Hoboken, who, some few months sineg figured conspicuously in the police reports of the metropolis, yesterday preached his farewell sermon, and took & final leave of his congregation. Altiough there were many strangers present, the choren was hardly more than well filled, owing probably to the heavy rain clouds which hung over the olty all the morning, and finally descended in a deluge. After the customary,hymns and a lengthy prayer, the reverend gentleman, who bears a strong resemblance to Andy Jounson, preached fromthe following appropriate text from the Acts | Of the Aposiles, Xx., 13 to 26:—“'¥e know from the | first day that Icame into Asia after what manner T covered, But surely M ORDER WILL OUT, ‘ He who supposed his crime hidden Mids it sua- denly proclaimed, as if by viewless spirits in the | air. Upon some the effects of the commission of a at crime are such that at length they are driven confession, Tho awiuiness of guilt overwhelms a crimaina.l He finds no rest with the terrible secrer locked up in his own heart: Enlarging eloquently on this:| ich of his discourse, he viewed the com- mission of sin in its religious aspect. We, tempters — and betrayers, perhaps, of others--how can we look forward to happiness in the future world, knowing | that sin must receive the weight of its condemna- tion, and that justice—absolute justice—will be | rendered at last? We are appealed to by hanging -on_ the cross, but without We crucify Christ ourselves; we go on ly in sin; we despise and contemn God, | Itterrible to transgress human laws, how much | more terrible to transgress God's laws! Each man must answer for INDIVIDUAL. GUILT. They must all be brought to judgment, and bofore a Judge stern and implacable. To stand before God a guilty sinner and an eternity before us of punishment for our crimes, what more | terrible position can be imaginedy No possible hu- | man langnage could describe the situation, A con- cluding point of the sermon was sin viewed in what the reverend speaker di nated as its evangelical aspect. Beneath the shadow of the cross an an- chored soul finds hope. Awfui forms may gather around, the alr may be filled with awful voices, but there is safety here. Herein is shown HEAVEN'S GRANDEST RESOURCES ot mercy. Cod could bestow no greater gift than the gift of His Son, To live no Christ as our Me- diator in the ereat day of account would be a terri- a Mr Now was the time to draw near to | ris CONGREGATION ALSAOE-LORRAINE, A number of natives of Alsace and Lorraine met together last evening at Mehl's Assombly Rooms, in Seventh avenne and Twenty-sixth street, to form @ congregation of orthodox Israelites under the above title. Mr. Joseph Strauss presided, and Mr. Henri Cahn was secretary for the occasion. This was and at their previous meeting subsorip- tions amounting to $800 were announced, Last night $100 additional, or $1,200 | altogether, were reported toward the completion of the organization, Atter a free discussion of mat- tors the nucletis of a congregation was formed, and Mr. A. Weltenschlag was elected president, Mr. anda committee, consist- ing of Messrs. Henri Catn, S, Weidenschlag, “B. Samucls and tite President and Secretary, was ap- potuted to draft a constitution and bylaws for the new vegation, and to report tho same. to the soctety at its next meeting four weeks hence.” They are commissioned also to secure, if they can, ‘the services of an orthodox rabbi, and to bring him along to the next meeting. It is understood that they have their eye on one already in the city. Short and pertinent remarks jere made by .the oMcers elect, them- pledging maintain to selves to the best of their ability orthodox Judaism, and declaring at the start that they have no faith in and no desire for reform in the religion of their fathers. The meet- ing adjourned confident of its success and dete! mined to carry out their purpose to the lette: heir next meeting will probably find them in po: jon of a hall of worship and of a rabbi. LONG ISLAND CHURCHES. pnd Se Far Rockaway Episcopal Church—St. Paul and the Serpent—Errors of the Greek Natione—The Bible at Home and Abroad—Sermon by Rev. E. A. Nichols. The threatening aspect of the weather yesterday morning cast a gloom over the visitors at Far Rockaway and spoiled the happy plans arranged for a good day's sojourn. The early trains on the Long Island Railroad took down about one hun- dred visitors. The time from New York wasan hour and ten minutes, The hotels are all well filled, the St. James having over three hundred guests, The majority of the visitors are Catholics, and most of the residents are of the same denomt- nation, There are but two churches in the village— the Catholic and Episcopalian. Protestants, whether Episcopalian or not, who prefer church- going to bathing and boating, have to attend there. The congregations are quite fashionable, and, with the regular attendants, fill the little church to overflowing. Among the regular attendants are the families of Messrs, Lord and Nelson, of the New York Stock Exchange. A son of Mr. Nelson presides at the organ, here are two ministers connected with the church—Messra, Pearson and Nichols. The congregation yesterday morning filled the church, and despite the storm which prevailed before the service, the silks disturbed the quietude of the carpeted aisles, as the animated wearers swept briskly up to their seats, ‘The sermon was preached by Rev. E A. Nicho's, who took his text from the Acts of the Apostles XXviil., 3, 4, “And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venom- ous beast hang on his hand, they sald among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet ven- nance suffercth not to live, And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.’* The reverend speaker began his discourse by say- ing that this singular incident in the life of St. Paul was in various ways full of tustruction, It was not strange that these simple-minded and un- tutored barbarians should reason and conclude as they did; yet each of their conclusions was wrong. They saw & man with dificulty rescued from a fearful shipwreck, and scarcely had he escaped from the boiling and raging deep when death in another form assaults him, A yeaomous serpent fastens on his hand, and his now seemingly inevit- able death they attribute to the speclal vengeance of the Deity. “No doubt this man fs a murderer,” This idea ofa Nemesis, or divine vengeance, which, as a sure, inevitable fate, pursued, tortured and at length destroyed great and notorious offenders, was an idea prevalent at that day among the Greek nations and netghboring peo; It is an idea which lics at the basis of the principal trage- dies of Sophocles, Euripides and other great poets then everywhere famous, [t was natural, then, that the sudden and seemingly fatal calamity over- taking the apostle at the very moment of his es- cape from shipwreck should lead them to conciude that he was a murderer or some very holy person thus singled out by the Deity for punish- ment. In this, however, they were altogether in error, Thus, too, friends of Job, when the patriarch was 30 grievor amMicted,erred tn like manner, adding to the weight of his aMiictions by saying that he must have been guilty of soree When St. Paul shook oif the viper unharmed the parbarians rushed to an error at the ie we ext ie, Saying he Was @ God, God has [is own methods of dealing with men, “His ways are not as our ways, nor His paths as our paths.” He can, and olten does, make plain those of His dealings which at first seemed altogether mysterious and perplexing. Many, like Job, suffer heavily, but not on account of any special guilt in them above all other men, Many are signally blessed who are not only no better, bat far worse than those who suffer, We must not go with a multitude to do evil. We must endeavor always to exercise a wise judg- ment—to conclude and act with discretion, not With blind credulity. isa virtue; credufity a Aefect, if not a vice. When we stand before Goi it Will be no excuse for the least sin to say we were encouraged in it by others or by the example of hua Who stood hich in the Community, They must ea | wait of the Jews, and how I have kept back noth- the second meeting of the Alsatians, | havetbeen with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mina, and with many tears and 4emptations which befel me by the lying in Ing that was proftable unto you, but have shewed | you, and have tanght you publicly, and from | honge to house, testifying both to Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith to- ward our Lora Jesus Christ. And now behold, I go | vound in the sptrit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the | Holy, Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and aMictions ablde me. But none of these things move me, nejther count I my Ife dear unto myself, so that T ot NG pe my course with joy | and the ministry which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testl'y ‘the Gospel of the grace of God. And now behold, I Know that ye all, among whom havé gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my no more.” Th¢ sermon was substantially as follows:—In this fareweti discourse the apostle reviews the bso and takes a survey of the future. He refers to is first day at Ephesus and his last, and between the two they had seen him under ail ciroamatances: and they perceived that there was a grand purpose running through all his career and all his acts to serve the Lord. This, he teaches us, is the true business of life. Tt is what we can alldo, A child can serve the Lord and @ saint can do no more, Saint Paul tells us he served the Lord with humility, tears ani temptations, His humility would not let him lord it over others, nor say, “T am holler than thou.” Paul speaks of serving the Lord with tears. Can we do 50? Oh, yes! with tears of joy ana tears of sorrow: tears for ourselves and tears for others. When aconyert is made there are tears of joy la heaven, in the Church and in tho heart of tho con; vert, But when we fail In duty there are toars of sorrow, Peter fallod and wept bitterly, Every one saw him fall, but none saw his tears save God, Jesus wept for Jerusalem; wept for th wo | would not come to him to be suved, And how many | &@ one weeps for a child, a husband or a wife | who will not come to Jesus! The trials and temptations spoken of by Paul aretwo trials for the soul—the one is God's; the other the devil's, But whichever trials the soul ts | ray through makes no difference. From either it will come forth puriied as gold from the flery fur- nace. Iremember tho first day Lcame to Hoboken, | thitteen years ago, and the kindness with which | you received me, and which has continued un- broken to the present day. Is there one here who, | recalling the events of the last few years of his there 18 nothing in ‘those years | hk to change.” I do not. think there is one among you who would say so. We all make mistakes that we would gladly rec- It makes me sad to see how much | thare is in those years that [ should like | to alter. But it is impoasibie; there is no going back for us, no halting; it is on and on and on, The past cannot be altered, but it can be forgotten and forgiven. Our errors can be forgotten, and our good deeds alone recalled to memory. In look- ing over those thirteen years I can truly say that Ihave preached the salvation of souls, and salva- tion is the proper business of mankind. In another century you and Tand all the men and women of the world will be in eternity—saved or lost forever, In that illimitable roll of centuries what matter will it be whether, in the brief maments that we passed on earth, we were happy or the reverse? To be saved forever is the only thing that should concern us in this life, On this last day of my tninistry among you I have no new Gospel to give you. give you my belief to-day as I gave it to you thirteen years ago—man is alost sinner and Christ is the Saviour of the lost. We know and preach this because God has said it, and God’s word must fail before the believer can erish. ‘a After a fow friendly words of advice and counsel, addressed to his flock, Mr. Harris took formal leave of them as follows:—“And now, my brethren and sisters, I must say farewell. Here we part for a season, but we part in hope that we shall meet again on the shining shores of the better land. Brethren, pray for me that in the new 4ield to which Lam about to go my labors m be blessed. Farewell! May the Lord with you, bless you and prosper you! Once more I commend you to God and the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among those who are sanctified of the Lord. Once more, my brethren, and for the lust time, farewell! ‘At the conclusion of the service many of the con- gregation pressed forward to bid farewell to their pastor, andall seemed much affected. This week ir. Harris enters upon a new field of usefulness in Westchester, Pa. 8ST, PETER'3 CHURCH, JERSEY CITY. Sermon by Father McQuadc—An Imita- tion of Christ Necessary to Salvation. In St. Peter's church, Jersey City, a sermon was preached at half-past ten o'clock mass by Father McQuade, A. J., from the gospel of the day, setting forth the miracle performed by Christ on the deaf and dumb man, From this miracle we learn the efficacy of the prayers of others addressed to the throne of God. When the poor man mentioned in tne Gospel was brought to Christ, He listened to the supplications of those who had compassion on the sufferer, Every one of us should be able to say, as did the people men- tioned tn the Gospel, “He hath done all things well.” We are all obliged to imitate our Saviour, for this imitation is NECESSARY TO SALVATION, There is no hope of salvation to any one who does not bear a resemblance to the Saviour. Christ himself expressly tells us, “I am the Way, the Trauth and the Life. No man can come to the Father but through Me.” The Church calla upon all her children — to kK in tho footsteps of their Lord and Master, She sets the iysteries of His life constantly beiore them, Why was it that our Lord was born so obscurely and that he sutfered so much for us? This was not ary for our salvation. It was to teach us we must be meek and humble of heart, His life was a pertec GAGEMENT FROM EVERYTHING EARTHLY. He calls upon all his chidren to detach them. selves from the things of this world, Saint Paul tells us that Christ became poor in order that wo might be made rich, Should we, who are dust and ashes, seek to be honored to enjoy the comforts of life, and pursue seasual enjoyments when wo see our Saviour humiliated, persecuted, despised and reproached ? Christ ts our only hope, for there is NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN by which we can be saved, He tells us that those Who suffer with Him shall ae be glorified with Him. The imitation of the life of Christ Is as neces- sary to salvation as the observance of His com- mandinents. We should therefore study in all our actions to keep before us the life of Christ, that we may obtain the prize of eternal happiness which He hus promised to all who follow Him in this life. EFFECTS OF ‘BIGAMY, Bungling Attempt to Commit Suictde by Hanging=Taken Into Custody and Plays the Insane Trick BINGHAMTON, N. Y., August 3, 1872, ‘The town of Vestal, in Broome county, has been thrown into intense excitement by a somewhat un- usnal sensation. About two weeks ago aman named Luther Quinley induced a young girl named | Osborn, the daughter of Henry Osborn, of Vestal, | tomarry him. The girl was working away from | home, and her marriage was not known to her parents, They heard of it a day or so afterward and were content to lot matters alone, until they | found out that Quinley had another wife. | ‘Then Mr. Osborne prevailed upon his daughter to leave Quiniey, and she was sent to her grand- father’s, A day or two since Quinley foliowed her there and claimed her as bis wife, and begged her GUST 5, 1872.--WITH SUPPLEMENT. | o'clock in the morning, when ho found that he ™man was much easier, and the physician in charge father's consent. ley went out, but | cee cate te Seb a by, telling her she would never see ‘He went through the barn, and thence to the wooas. Shortly thereafter person waiking along the road near the oods saw .something in a hickory tree we a short distance from the roa4, and going toward it saw it was Quinley, with a rope around his neck, the other end of which he was tying around a limb preparatory. to jumping of, He was secured and ht to this city and given into the hands of the Sheriff, who placed him in confinement, as he de- clared he was detormined.to kill himself, ‘The next day alter he was incarcerated he was found hang- ing with @ handkerchief tied about his neck, and fastened to a staple in the wall of his cell. He was nearly dead, and was resuscitated with great diMenity, The Sheriff and others seem to think that Quinley makes these attempts at hanging with the expectation that they will be dis- covered, in order that he may create an impression that he 1s ingane, in order that the fact may be used {n his favor in the prosecution that is likely to be bronght against him for bigamy. He is to be ex- amined by physicians, and if he ts insane he will be sent tothe Asylum, THE WESTCHESTER MYSTERY. Additional Particulars of the Affair—Who Shot Francis Froberg t-What the Wounded Man’s Morrisania Friends Have to Say—Are There Assassina in the Salt Meadows of North New Yorkt—A Noiseless Shot and a Highly Improbable Story—Condition of the In- jured Man Yesterday. The mysterious shooting of Francia Froberg, which, according to his statement, occurred in Westchester county, on Saturday morning, as set forth in the Herann of yesterday, has thus far re- sisted aX efforts directed towards a satisfactory so- lution, There are sufficient improbable features embraced in the story told by the injured man, to almost warrant the bellef that either the shock has impaired his mental facnities, or else he has con- cocted his strangely inconsistent version of the oc- cult circumstance. In order, if possibie, to have some additional lhrht thrown on the affair a Hrranp representative called yesterday at the dwelling of Charles Hass,® in Morrisania, Westchester county, as it will be re- membered he was the party who accompanied Fro- berg to the Park Hospital, The young man was abseat from home, but his father, Berker Hass, stated that he had known, Froberg for many years, they having at one time worked to- gether in the same shop; that about seven | o'clock on Saturday morning Froberg came to his house, looking very badly and having a quantity of dried blood about his neck and on his clothing; that on being asked what was the matter with him Froberg replied that he had been shot and would probably die. Having washed the blood away and wrapped a linen cloth around his neck, Hass learned from the wonnded man tiat he came out to Westchester county for the purpose of paying him a friendly visit on the previous day, but had proceeded to a place known as the salt meadows, near Crist's Paik, which is located in Novth New York, and perhaps a quarter of a mile from Harlem Bridge. Here Froberg stated that he sat down .to read a book, and, fall- ing asleep, did not awaken unti! twelve or one had been shot, although he heard no report of a istol, After remvining in the house about half an hour he was assured by Hass that the wound did not appear to be dangerons, and, hav- ing = adviaed = him to go . home, Hass told his son Charles to accompany him thither, Having reached Harlem bridge by way of the Ford- ham avenue horse cars, Froberg and his companion took a Third avenue car down town. Arriving at Delancey street, however, the injured man (who had at first expressed a desire to be taken home) refused to leave the car, and insisted on continuing the journey down to the Park Hospital, where he Was subsequently admitted as @ patient. Charles Froberg, a son of the injnred man, stated toalteraty reporter that his father left their home, at 47 Delaneey street, at about eleven o'clock on Friday morning, saying he was going | out to see his friend, Hass, in Westchester county. Aithough in the habit of carrying a wateh, he lett it at home on this occasion, ‘and could not have | taken with him more than three or four doliars pocket money. He also owned a pista. but the weapon was found in the house af- ter he had left. Young, Froberg said that his father is a sober, industrious man, and there were neither business nor domestic troubles to warrant the idea that he had attempted self- destruction. It is dimicult to imagine why Froberg, who started from home to visit his friend in Morrisania, should, after crossing Harlem bridge, strike off in an op- posite direction, and there sit down alone to read a book and twelve hours. And another tend. ing to disprove the assertion that the bullet was directed by a strange hand js found in the apparent fact that no attempt at robbery was made by the alleged assailant. Nor does Froberg state how or where the time was spent intervening between one and two o'clock and seven, the hour at which he presentedjhimself at the house of Mr. Hass, which is some two miles distant from the place in which, he says, the shot was fired. In the state- ment given by ‘Mrs. Froberg on Saturday it will be Ce that more pe paris no an @ pistol HH the possession of her husband, while, as wi be seen above, the son say’ hia father had such a weapon in the house, although he never car- ried It. Taken altogether the case is a most unac- countable one, the true nature of which 1s per- haps known only to Froberg himself. Yesterday it was understood that the wounded sleep for circumstance of the Park Hospital entertained strong hopes of his recovery. Up to the latest accounts, however, all etforts to discover the location of the ball had proved futile. A POOR MARKSMAN, Joseph Connor, residing at 23 Lamartine place, yesterday morning appeared before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, and preferred a complaint of felonious assault against Jerry Johnson, of 356 Ninth avenne, Connor states that about half-past three o'clock yesterday morning he was sented at the corner of Twenty-seventh street and Sixth ave- nue, tn conversation with James and Patrick McCree, of 306 Tenth avenue, when the prisoner passed with an mtoxicated woman. He had scarcely passed the corner when he drew & revolver from his pocket, and, point- ing it at Connor, fired, ie «ball §=whiz- zing past his head, flattening out against the brick wall behind him. He cocked his pistol the second time and snapped it, but the weapon, through some unaccountable means, refused to be discharged, After making the second attempt on Connor's life he started on a run toward Seventh avenuo, but was pursued by the trio and finally captured by OMcer Curtis, of the Twenty-ninth pre- cinct. He stated in his own defence that while passing the corner some one of the party insulted is companion, which was resented by firing his re- volver at them. Justice Cox did not deem this sufficient justification to warrant Johnson in at- tempting to take Connor's life, and committed him in default of $2,000 to appear for trial. MORE BIVER MYSTERIES, At half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon the body of an unknown man was found floating in the river at the foot of pier 18 North River, in a Bude condition, Deceased was about forty years of age, five feet ten inches high, and had been in the water about ten days, The body was removed to the ‘Twenty-seventh precinc: station house and from there sent to the Morgue, where the Coroner will hold an inquest to-day. OMcer Boyle, of the Third Bebe at half-past ix o'clock last night, found the body of an unknown man floating in the water at the foot of Vesey street and had It conveyed to the station house, where an inquest will be held by the Coroner to-day. Deceased was about thirty years of age, five feet ten inches high, stout build, ght com- lexion, brown hair and smooth face. je was ressed in @ white shirt, black necktie, white overalls, galter shoes, gray flannel butcher's frock, and had no stockings on, SUNDAY MORNING AT JEFFERSON MARKET. As usual, the watch returns at the Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court yesterday morning were in ac- cordance with those usnally presented on Sunday morning. The hard, dirty, uninviting benches Placed in the body of the court room, a8 well as the alsies, wero filled with an interested and gaping crowd. Some of them had appeared ag complain. ants, others as witnesses, but the majority, having nothing else to do, had put in (ged to seethe | unforttinate prisoners who had been arrested the night previous disposed of. The eight precincts comprising the Second district, sent sixty-four prisoners, who were areedity disposed of by Justice Cox. The majority were charged with intoxication and disorderly conduct, produced by Imbibing too much election whiskey, and those who proved thein- selves to be laboring people and not constant invol- untary visitors at the Court were discharged with & reprimand, while ne lattor were sent to recuperate on Blackwell's Island, Of the aumber arralgin Fi were for intoxication, 16 for disorderly condneb, drunk and cieoreeny, A for assuault and battery, 3 for pte as 2 for Unk toy 4 2 for felonious as. A DAY AT HIGH BRIDGE. _—_—+ Sanday Exoursions on the Enst and Harlem Rig- ers—Blackwell’s Island on the Sabbath—Hell Gate and “Sandy Gibson's Bock” —Boating at High Bridge—Clam Chowder, Walte- ing and Rural Happiness in a Heavy Rain Storm—) ‘Roturning Home Without Moonlight. The East River, although it does not possess tee stately grandenr of the Hudson, and although the magnificence of the Palisades cannot be compen. sated for by treacherous rocks and slimy flats, sach as may be met with between Hunter's Point the entrance of the East River into Long Isang Sound, stiil has charms for thousands of excur. sionists on every succeeding Sunday during the months of June, July and August. Four or five roomy.and handsome steamboats are employed in making hourly trips on Sundaya during the summer, from the Peck sitp, Eighth an@ Eleventh street landings, the destination of these boats being at Harlem, Morrisania and Astoria. From the Harlem Bridge there are two smaller steamboats which make connections with the Har- lem boats, and the passengers on the latter are taken to High Bridge by way of the Harlem River. ‘The great mass of the people who participate im East River Sunday excursions are notably of Ger man birth or parentage. There ia a conspicuoms reason for this, For fifteen years past the Excise laws of New York city .have ductuated very many times on the all-pervading question of Sunday beer. Under some of the municipal governments beer was permitted to be drank by the thiraty Teuton, while under other administra tions the Germans have been forced te abstain from thelr beloved tager or seek it in the more favorable district of Westchester county. Towns and villages have grown out of scattered lager beer satoons along the head water of the East and on the borders of the shallow Har- lem Rivers, and to these places the countrymen ef Bismarck flock on every seventh day of the week, Twenty-five cents per head will take each mam, woman and child as far as High Bridge, and-for a family of five persons, Hana, Gretchen and the flaxen-haired kinder, five dollars will be sufficient to give the entire family a good, healthy dim- ner, plenty of lager, and pay their fares both ways up and down the. Mast River. It may | safely be calculated that New Yorkers spend, on aa average, as much as $50,000 on each recurring San- day in Westenester county in this harmless and certainly healthy recreation. The German's idea of a “garden becomes ex- panded when he visits Westchester county, or while dining on the fragrant and spicy clam chowder at High Bridge. A German “garden” in the crowded city is generally indicated by the presence of three wooden. tables, one dozen of thick- bottomed lager beer glasses, a lovely flower pet, with a dismal shrub stuck in its damp clay; twenty pounds of Swiss cheese, @ cheaply-framed pictare of Carl Schurz or Franz Sigel, a big wooden cla® © under the counter, and a frescoed fence with @ shooting gallery, and a cadaverous barkeeper, whé, manifests a gioomy cheerfulness in murdering the English language. ‘This ts all changed when the thrifty Teuton goes to Westchester county. There he finds large gar- dens with real trees, five or six musicians, whe, play Strauss’ waltzes continually, hot soup ab twe: cents a plate and reheated roast beef for i) ents a dish, with acres of sliced potatoes, made sour by a plentiful distribution of bolied vines gar. There he may shout till he is exhausted at fat pasteboard representations of King Gambrim holding penny clay pipes in their capacious agua and then he may read the “ Wochenblatt” or dis- cuss the bad ingredients of his loved lager, while the fair-haired frau dispenses sustenance from thé Maternal fount to her youngest ofispring. On the npper deck of one of these East River | boats bound yxfor Harlem Rridge a Heranp re- porter sat yesterday morning. The boat was crowdec to ‘its utmost capacity. There were alt sorts of people on board, but the German element hail the preponderanc?. The saloons were filled, and the forward deck held a great iam. Boys of tender age, but having brassy countenancsa, peddied cakes, pretzels and gift boxes of candy, which they sold at five cents a box to unsuspecting mothers with small families. In each of these boxes there ts concesied under the tid candy drops enough to be valued at one cent perhay Then there is supposed to be a gitt concealed sub rosa, like Tom Murphy's cottage at pd Branch. It is either jewelry or @ copy astreet ballad. The jewelry is not valuable, and whatever may be contained in the package thet must be at least to the vender a clear proft three cents out of the five cents which he receives for the box from the purchaser. Sitting near the HenaLp reporter was a gentle- man of solid frame, a sonorous voice and a face that clearly expressed in its every Ine the determination that he would not allow tent man to use him as a. pen wipety This gentleman announced that his name wi Peabody. He had a handsome little lad of about six years of age with him. The brassy boy came along with his gift candy and his hardened, audacious pretzels, and a dialogne ensned:— Brassy Boy—Here’s yer patent reviving mixed candics and f-i-v-e cents a box and yer Prosidentiat jujube paste only five cents an ounce. Want any? Mr. PeAnopy—Let’s see this ‘ere mysterious candy that so mach moncy and diamonds is givem away In. I s’pose they're like them papers o tobacco that you get thousand dollar bills an@ diamond breastpins in. Til buy one if it breaks me, though the cash is at very low tide to-day.” Here the Brassy Boy handed Mr. Peabody a bo: and the latter gave him five cents, The name: of the great capitalist broke the box and poured out half of the full of his open hand of candy dropa manufactured in Wooster street. At the bottom of the box the “gift’—a thin, transparent, flimsy bit of metal—was concealed. Like stook in a wild cat savings bank, it was bet ar, and the handsome little lad refu to slick it in hia cap and would not have it at ang price. Mr. Peabody thereupon moralized ina se vere manner upon the hollowness and deceit of the world in general and the artful dodges of bogus candy box manufacturers In particular. We were at this time passing Blackwell's Island, and the large stone buildings that encase so been 4 foollan_ men and women were seen for a mot and then vanished, Crowds of men in white cotton suits who had been commitied for tem and thirty days were swarming in the river's bank, and the eager cyes an criminals of both sexes gleamed from between the iron lattices of the gloomy Penitentiary fortress, Ward's Island, with its masses of eee and needy emigrants, was Vag i and a few o! moments the paddies the steamer were dashing foam and spray on either side in the channel, as we swept swiftly by Randall's Island, the princely domain of Pope Jones of thumb-tying celebrity. And the strains of the different German bands are wafted over the river 88 we pass by the scores of gardens sacred to Jones and Bellevue and Sulzer. ere are large numbers of people inspecting the onter shell of the Hell Gate excavations, and tourists from the far off Four teenth ward are doing Astoria without guide book or conrier, Now comes the swash at the confuence of the Harlem and fast Rivers, and in another moment the crowds of peoplo push and scramble for pre- cedence at the gang plank as the steamboat rounds to at the dock on the Westchester side. ‘The majority of the passengers are transfer at an extra charge of ten conts, to the Harlem river boat—a pay priting little beast of a boat which is crowded to its greatest limit. The first bridge opens wide its iron te to let the noisy little monster pass into the shallow Harlem River and the boat houses of the Nautiins, Gramercy, Nassau, Sappho, Dauntless and Athletic boating clubs are in sight, their floats crowded with the members, some in citizens’ cos- tumes of every-day wear, and others getting inand out of shelis, barges, gigs and wherries half naked or wearing armless Jersies on thotr well-tanned skins. This Harlem River, which is immeasurably the best course for rowing in the vicinity of Manhattan Island, 18 to-day made pin turesque by numbers of small boats and fat tomed dingies and hideous fishing scows. Two yoars ago there was but one boat house on this river, and now there are a hundred boats belonging to the future Harlem navy. Jt will not be long until the scene on Sunday on this ee may be filly os animated as of the 4 ig oho Thames | weet mney and Mortiake, Ten minutes ie have passed the boathouses we arrive’ at dite Bridge, with its grand and lofty arches, and ¢ teal igsette nie oan monutnent of solid mas i x one of the a hg Aa Ny ie grandcst within Ofty milos ‘The excursionists scatter overywhere, ome to take a tramp under the big, overreaching branches of the trees on the Kingsbridge road, others to Bologna sausages at the swindling siloona near bridge, and others to and dine quictly at the Fort Wasaington Hotel, across the hign Bridge, which was enco kept by Thorp, the re nowned, and where there is good aecommodatl excellent cooking and Fs olitest of walter girla— Kate—who looks fs if she were the hos of some old comely Inu, 86 solicitons ta she tu every one shall have hot tea aud clean napkins, ‘nls part of the Harlem River is an exquisite bit gf poonery and Rome beautiful villas are Veuttered jong inks, hidden tn leafy trees and havi Rene rocky bowiders for a back groum ne beauty of She piace will be heignten sault and 1 for Abandonment; 42 were malea and # to return to iim, She refused to go without Ler il fo aa of this aumbor 8) were dlucharged and e , CONTINUED 0" NINTH PAGE,’ Ka te