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3 RELIGIOUS. Banday Services Under Sunny Skies in the City and Suburbs, PREACHERS AND THEIR ALTERNATES ASouthern Divine on the Rela- tion of Man to Christ. Dr. Holden and the Claims of the Gospel. —_—-_— FATHER KEARNEY AND ETERNAL SALVATION Mr. Hegeman, of New Brunswick, Discourses on the Parable of the Talents, Laying the Corner Stone of a New Epis- copal Church in Hoboken. Father Beaudevin’s Exposition of Divine Charity. OHUROH OF THE STRANGERS, Price of Free Scats—Relation of Man to Christ—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Dixon. ‘The Church of the Strangers, in Mercer street, near Eighth, was yesterday morning completely filled. On entering this house of God one of the first ob- jects that caught the eye was one of the numerous eards with which the entrance is adorned. All of these cards, while declaring the seats to be free, distinctly state that visitors are EXPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE LARGELY. After the usual preliminary exercises were con- @lnded the sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Dixon, @f Augusta, Ga. He chose his text from Matthew mit, 46 to the end of the chapter. No greater mis- take can be made, he began, than to suppose Jesus Gestitute of filial affection. His whole life is one gorgeous picture of it. His answer in the text, “Who is my mother? and who are my brethren ¢ * * © Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and motier,” will appear harsh only to those who are out of the secret ef philanthropy. In explaining this text the mmar and lexicon - but a short way. The ion itself must be felt to be appreciated. Does t the Peat, best enjoy the painting? Does not the poet best ater the poem? This reply shows the spirituality of Christ's mind. Not a sound rang in His ear but He turned it into a warning or hope fear. He turned the universe into a voice, into aghts. All the forces of creation are the pulsa- tions of God's love, Mere ee for its own sake is to be deprecated. Let it be the burnings of your love. Let us have none of this When love, heav. ny re ape Kk: ise ber n love, enly love speaks, noise becomes ic. Christ spiritualized because he was irituality. Christ's answer shows whole philan- iropy. He fully understood that wonderfut word, man. There are in it mysteries which God alone ean fathom. I often think, the speaker went on, that man is the first of God's creatures. Angels fell and were not redeemed; man fell and Christ redeemed him with His life. For man he bushed the tempests; for man he huried back demons. I am told in tones sweeter than angel tones that man ie not far from God's central throne. The philanthropy of Christ was bounded by no oceans or mountains, And we never can call every one brother until we Bave Christ’s spirit. Connection with Christ is not governed by social position. The wise in vain may seek for him. Behold, His brothers and sisters are the unlettered and poor. But, thank God, the rich are not excluded. Connection with Christ is not inconsistent with material love. What is the bond with Christ? Obedience to the Divine will. There is BUT ONE INFALLIBLE ‘will, and Christ shows this through ali his teach- ings. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. That one will is omnipotent in creation. It is the expla- pation of the universe. Man has free agency. What else can mean ‘whosoever shall do my bid- bing?” And this will extends through all ages and toa tN agieees It cannot be transgressed by a devil in hell. tus, then, fall in with it. The answer of Christ in the text also shows the high privileges fm being His friend. There is not an association which is too tender for Christ to apply to His people. He calls them brother, sister, mother— MOTHER, ® word around which a whole world throbs and ‘weeps! What a base heart is his who can hear it Bnmoved! And what Jesus is to us we are to Him. NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. fresh themserves the shadows of its en- trees. The guide told them the lake was aS they marched till finally it dis- ywered by heat and ished. Christ was our may be o1 ch, there will be great dimiculties to ur mar ere culties surmount, there will be battles to be fought, but He will lead us to victory and finally to the lake of still waters and to life and joy everlasting. 8T, PATRIOK’S CATHEDRAL Sermon by the Rev. Father Kearney— The Question of Eternal Salvation Solved—How Worldlings Treat the Dimi- culty—The Rule, the Way and the Me: Steadily and strongly poured the oppressive heat of the sun upon the pensive brows of religious devotees yesterday as they wended their respective routes to their temples of worship. The congrega- tion at the Cathedral, however, was nothing lessened on this account, All, as usual, crowded in punctually about half-past ten o'clock, and the Whole number of seats in the spacious aisles were soon fairly thronged. The interior of the massive temple presented the same sombre air of majestic impressiveness which generally characterizes it, and which makes one feel and say, “TRULY THIS 18 THE HOUSE OF GOD.” ‘The response to the Asperges Mei entoned by the celebrant, Rev, Father McNamee, was, of course, the solemn introductory to the service. ‘the mass was, as is usually sald after Pentecost Sunday, ac- cording to the dictates of ecclesiastical discipline, a “Missa bantata.” Twelve acholytes attended in the sanctuary, which was neatly decorated with floral offerings, although the day itself was no ex- traordinary festival. The organ peals rang out with solemnity and effect, the thrilling tones of the beautiful “Kyrie” and the soft, soothing strains of the “Gloria” were devoutly rendered. After the singing of the Gospel REV. FATHER KEARNEY made his appearance in the sanctuary and knelt on the lower step of the platform while the hymn, “Veni Creator Spiritus,’ was being chanted, at the conclusion of which he ascended the pulpit, made the requisite announcements of the Sunday and then read the Gorpe! of the day, from which he chose his text, St. Luke, x., 25—‘And behold a cer- tain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, ‘Master, what must {do to possess eternal life 1 And Jesus said to him, ‘Hast thou not read THE LAW AND THE RULE? Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and thy whole soul and with all thy strength, This do and thou shalt live.’ The question put to our Divine Saviour by the lawyer was one fraught with the greatest import- ance. It embraced all that could be of spectal interest to him on so favorable an occasion, when he could hear from the most reliable lips a Joving response to his query and to the desires of his soul. He had been struggling for the good things of this life, but there was a secret power which he felt stimalating his soul to seek the truth, by which a glorious immortality could be obtained, and so, being, as it were, in a state of positive doubt, he asked our Lord, simply, “HOW CAN I OBTAIN ETERNAL LIFE ?”? and Jesus referred him to the one great command- ment and exhorted him to a wise and strict ob- servance of it. In order to be saved there are rules to be necessarily observed, The object which God had In view when He created us was, that we might know, serve and love Hiin here and be happy with Him hereafter. We learn to know God by His works; we learn to serve Him as our Creator and Master, and to love Him as our Redeemer and best protector. TWO METHODS OF SERVING GOD apperendy, characterize the actions of mankind. One is the fraudulent, culpable method of the worldly minded man, whose recklessness and neglect in fulfilling the end of his creation 1s noth- ing less than a@ sure mark of his intention to rob Almighty God of a soul which rightfully belongs to Him. The class of persons who adopt this method of saving their souls endeavor in vain to serve God and mamimon, for no one can serve two masters. There must, therefore, be a desire to seek the truth and know it, and, knowing it, to rejoice im the observance of such rules as are consistent with it, There must be ONE OBJECT AND ONE ATM, which is to merit eternal life by serving God faith- fully. Unless a man aspires to the successful at- tainment of this object he can neverreach it. Take AN EXAMPLE FROM EVERYDAY LIFE in places of business, for instance, where a little- ambition is necessary to attain position and ip- fluence. Some aspire to the first place, and by steady perseverance and careful discharge of duty obtain it, while others, more indifferent and less hopeful, continue plodding along wearily and despondently in the background. We must, there- fore, speak to God as the lawyer, and ask him to point ont to us the way and the means to work out our soul’s salvation. But besides cherishing this desire of knowing and serving God, and putting the prescribed precepts for doing so into practice, we must also have GREAT CONFIDENCE IX GOD, We must not be struck down in sadness and despair because the hand of time or the adversities of life bring sorrow to our souls, We must always look up to Him who gave His life for the salvation of the world and appeal to Him for succor, He who sald “Venite ad me omnes qui Ulborasti et onerati estis, et ego reficiam vos” (“Come to me all you who labor and are heavily burdened and I will refresh you"). We must, m er, cease to live, ‘as it were, independent of God; we must have DIFFIDENCE IN OURSELVES and place all our trust and hopes in Him, Man is very littie; God alone is great. Man has nothing ‘We can approach Jesus and call Him brother. The relation is yet closer. There are those who are con- nected by mere material means, but whose souls | are as fur asunder as pole from pole. Our earthly | ypiness may turn to gall. How many are there im this city, once the pride and joy of their parents’ Bearts, now by their wickedness hurrying them to the grave ? SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP {Introduces us into the great family of God. Hus- bands and wives, if you have but one soul you will mever part. Ifail the good are Christ's brothers their home must be in heaven. Can you conceive ‘the vision of all the good together ? Such a con- @ourse would make a heaven of hell. * OENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, The Apostle Thom: a Sceptic and Whet Should Be the Influence of His Example—Sermon by Rev. Howard Kingsbury, of Newark, Ohio. Acosey little church is the Central Presbyterian ehurch in Fifty-sixth street, near Broadway. It is Kept open during the summer months, though, of course, with the attendance a good deal diminished from what it is the rest of the year. In the absence of the stated pastor the pulpit was occupied yester- @ay morning by the Rev. Howard Kingsbury, of Newark, Ohio. He preached from the text John =xX., 2%-20—"But Thomas, one of the twelve, waa | Bot with him,” &c. In the quiet church at Copen- Bagen, he began, are statues of the twelve aposties, Thomas is represented with a ruler in his hand—a symbol of doubt. Though little ts said | of Thomas in the New Testament, he always stands | forth a distinct individaal—stands forth A DOUBTING APOSTLE. It was characteristic of Thomas to doubt with all the vehemence of his nature, but an equaily strong characteristic was to believe with like vehemence when his doubts were removed, After reviewing the various recitals regarding this apostie in the Scriptures he proceeded to speak of the doubts pervading the minds of the other apostles. Some Were disappointed because Christ did not come Clothed with the sceptre of power and assert His divine sovercignty, When Christ's mission was | falfilie’ this disappointment was removed, and all | @oubts removed of His divine nature. Thoma: plain, prosaic mind demanded proofs of Christ’s | erucifiction and Teappearance, These proofs were | farnished him by Christ. ‘The doubts then vanished, “My Lord and my God, he exclaimed, and HEARTY, UNQUESTIONING FAITH followed. Could it be accidental that these charac- teristics of Thomas are thus piainiy bro view ? There was a lesson intended here—: ofthe greatest significance. It was a lesson for all doubting Thomases in the future, @ lesson evolving firmest faith from the strongest scepticism. The doubt of Thomas was of the strongest kind, He Would not believe the testimony of his associate | @posties. He must see and know for himself. It ‘Was for this reason that Christ said, ‘‘More blessed fehe who believeth without seeing.” The fact is | that most of our faith has to be based on the testi- | Mony of others and our conclusions formed on such testimony. All knowledge must come through the senses, Or by reason or testimony. The proofs are @iflerent, but must be consistent. The same truth, be enforced, held good in the matter of RELIGIOUS FAITH. There was no more reason to believe in the exist- ence of the First Napoleon than of Jesus Christ. Yet many insist on seeing and touching their Christ, and thus die Christiess. To believe in Christ one Hd ut himself in contact with those believing nas Nothing can overcome doubt but faith. Life beconic? 4 meaningless puzzie—a mighty blank, with the principies Of faith losing away over the minds of men. If we believe in Him, if we open to one He will reveal himseif as ‘ly to us he did to Thomas. It is told of a fepimgat arching over the RT WASTES OF ABYSSINIA which belongs to himself, and consequently nothing tobe proud of. How, therefore, can he pretend to be independent of God, his Creator and supreme pro- tector? This fatal pride and overbearing confidence prevent a great many from coming to a knowledge of the truth and of futiiling their end, whereby eternal salvation is secured. The necessary con- ditions, therefore, for winning everlasting felicity are, first, an ardent desire to possess it; secondly, perseverance in the fulfilment of the law, great confidence in God and total diMidence in ourselves, By endeavoring to practise serving God in this manner we may hope finally to receive from Him | the glorious crown of eternal life. GRACE CHURCH. The Claims of the Gospel Supported by the Suggestions of Reason—Scr- mon by the Rev. Dr. Holden. Grace church has now assumed its usual summer Sabbath air of emptiness and somnolence. Not more than a third of the seats are filled, and such wor- shippers as there are seek refuge in waking reveries and even sometimes in downright slumber from the languors of the heat, and the monotonous and apparently unending liturgy of the Episcopal church. Even the muste seems less stirring than during the more solemn fall or earnest winter. To compensate, how for the appalling length of the prayers and psalms, the sermon is made some- what stinter than usual, Yesterday a very pithy discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Holden, Who showed that so far from there being any neces- sary antagonism between the claims of the Gospel and the teachings of reason, reason and experi- ence, if rightly used, have the most powerful and solemn counsels in favor of Christian{ty. Looking back at the history of the past, the one great lesson we readeverywhere was that mankind, by them- selves, were powerless to attain even to their own idea) of purity and morality, and that a Saviour was absolutely necessary to lift the human race toa higher plane of life and thought. Reason taught ‘us that, just as it showed us also the folly we should be guilty of ll, knowing the certainty of death and the probable certainty of a life beyond the grave, even without the proofs of revelation, we should fail to make RE runnin for the future. Reason, indeed, of itself, prescribed the limits within which it was to be exercised and within which it was a veluable teacher, and told us at the same time that there were other subjects and mysteries in regard to which we ought to depend alone on faith and the words of revealed truth. The so-called antagonisin, | therefore, between the intellect and the Gospel did not exist. Dr. Holden closed by an earnest appeal to his hearers to listen to the voice of God's loving spirit while the opportunity was still within their their peace with their Maker. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS, | The Talent for Religion—Rev. Mr. Hege- man’s Sermon Yesterday Morning. Rev, Mr. Hegeman, of New Brunswick, N. J., occupied Dr, Storrs’ pulpit yesterday morning, The pastor of the church, Dr, Storrs, is absent in the country, and will not return probably before che middie of September, The congregation in attendance at the morning an excellent on Mr. Hiegeman is an earnest and eloquent preacher, and, coming to this church comparatively stranger, created a decidedly favorable impression on the part of his hearers, He preached extemporaneously, His discourse was based on the text, “Take, therefore, the talent from him,” There was, then, Mr, Hegeman said, 4 talent in man, and it might be taken from him. The parable Was the é@xegesis of divine truth; the office or function of the parable was fulfilled when it reached its highest spiritual economy and signif. DESK! they ed with thirst. They saw a lak be gehen ayer eter surrounded by pain trees, t the guide to take them fo this lake tse they it Of its cooling waters and re- cance. A parable might have @gingle meaning and only go so far as to illustrate the relations and duty of everyday life, but the parable reached ite climactic significance only when it attained to its own peculiar or particular religious fact, notion or idea which was set forth. The grain of mustard seed only attained to the FULL SHAPE AND FIGURE of its growth when it bloomed as the tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God. Mr. Hegeman said that the text to which he had invited atten- tion seemed tobe the spiritual significance of that Most terrible of parables; it was the acme of its spiritual idea, “Take, therefore, the talent from him,’ It might give a man one talent, ten, fifty, a hundred talents; tt might withdraw many. The brightest talent was the talent for religion and the capacity for enjoying that religion, and the great- est gift that God gave to a human creature was God Himself, It was, then, this talent for religion which might be five or ten fold, or it might be, by being saporeneed, neglected or hidden, entirely extermi- nated from the moral and spiritual life of man. He was very much jenbressed with the solemnity of this subject and desired to make A SOLEMN IMPRESSION upon his congregation. The text, he continued, had two sharp thoughts: in the first place the highest talént a man had was the talent of religion; secondly, the talent for religion or that religious capacity, by disuse, by abandonment or overgrowth of other things within man, might be entirely ex- terminated before his deat! By «8 talent he meant a capacity for bei or doing something. Man had the gift of God, and as such the very finest that God had ever made. The slightest extrinsic manifestation on the part of @ man was the ripple of a shadow ofa deeper in- trinsic fact or idea. Within man there was, com- bining all these talents, a special talent, a special endowment, which we called the talent of rellgion, as (listinct from the rest as the cry of the lost soul in the depth of night was from anything else on earth, As such THE TALENT OF RELIGION was the very bs a and finest in all natare, be- cause if we ana! ‘fee 1t we should find its element made up of the highest quatities of our being. The Jove of God was an element of this talent of religion ; it came into us as the ocean, Mlling every part of ane being. It was the spring of all our moral action. Then we had the talent of faith, but by faith he did not mean merely the faith of a moment, that experienced at the last hour of Ife only. The world and some of the pulpits were to-day MAKING THE MISTAKE that the great doctrine of religious faith, which was the exercise of a holy life hour atter hour, day after day and yeur after year, was the matter of ‘a mo- ment. The preacher gave an illustration, A distinguished Southern divine was called upon by General Lee during the war to visit seven men who were condemned to be shot. He went to the men and found their faces sodden and vivid with looks ofterror, as men always are under such circumstances, ‘Talk of @ man meeting death quietly ! There always was that look of terror, When he talked to them of their last moments he found that they were per- fectly calm, and they expressed their trust in Jesus Christ. The next day he went for the last time, and as he passed the guard house he saw three of them filing off to the place of execution. The other four had been pardoned. The four who were pardoned on that same evening engaged in DRUNKEN ORGIES! Faith, continued Mr. Hegeman, was somethin; acted out in life—something that we would stan¢ by through all the dangers, trials and vicissitudes of earthly life. He did not mean to say that God would not save men in an instant, but he did mean to say that if the faith of those three men who were shot corresponded with that of their four compan- ions it showed that that faith was THE ECSTACY OF A MOMENT, In conclusion Mr. Hegeman urged all to make the most of this talent of religion, Now was the time, And as for those who neglected, how would they feel at the gate of God with their talent gone? The services were brought to a close by singing and the benediction, NEW JERSEY CHURCHES. 8T, PETER'S CHURCH, JERSEY OITY. Sermon by the Very Rev. Father Beau- devin, 8S. J., on “The Noblest of All Christian Virtues.” The sermon inSt. Peter's church, Jersey City, at half-past ten o'clock, was preached by the Very Rev. Father Beaudevin, 8. J., from the Gospel of the day, in which the following passages occur:— “Master, what shall I do to obtain eternal life?’) And Jesus answered and said:—“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and thy whole soul, and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This do and thou shalt live.” Experi- ence has taught us that wo CANNOT FIND PERFECT HAPPINESS in this world save in the love of God. Yet we have prostituted the affections of the heart by bestowing them on trail and transient things. Divine charity is the NOBLEST OF ALL CHRISTIAN VIRTURS. There are many mysteries in heaven which we must believe on the authority of the word of God. Penance reminds us that we are fallen and subject to the tyranny of our passions. Our very virtues and the practise of those virtues remind us of our imperfections. Divine charity is that virtue by which we worship our God with our whole heart and our whole soul. The Christian in whose heart the flames of divine charity burn can say with St. Paul, “It is not I that llve, but Christ in me.” Divine charity 18 the virtue of eternity, vived THR WRECK OF WORLDS, and therefore it constitutes the very substance of Christian piety. The man whose heart is not in- famed with Christian charity, no matter what he ney be in other respects, is dead in the sight of God. Give me a man who has mastered all hums knowledge, who has explored the wondrous fields of science, and if he yields toa single temptation, if he consents to the commission of one mortal sin, he is nothing in the sight of God. that without this charity he isa sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, He adds that if he had faith to move mountains, if he should deliver his body to be burned and have not charity, it profiteth him nothing. It is impossible not to feel the deepest re- spect for the great mind which conceived reach, and not to delay a single moment in making | Service yesterday was small, and the sermon was | . THE PLAN OF THE GREAT UNIVERSE which surrounds us; the mighty wonders which present themselves to our eyes by day and by night. Why did God ae all things into exist- ence, and create for us all that is_ necessary for us in this life ? hearts the flames of divine charity. That was the end for which He created man. He gave us our mission, and if we do perform this work E CAN in the kingdom of His glo gives us ali our facultie: iis Was the object our wonders of His life and died on Mount Calvary. ‘This is the reason why He remains with usin His sacraments and will remain till the end of time, for “having loved His own wio were in the world He loved them unto the end.’ Why is it that the sacra- ments of the Church are administered to us? It is in order to infuse into our hearts the principle of divine grace which we had lost by sin, It 1s, in short, to reinstate us in the love of God, quired to love God in the same manner as we love our neighbor, DIVINE CHARITY IS NOT A SENTIMENT. God is a Divine essence. It is impossible for us ever to feel for His divinity the same as we do for His poor creatures around us. All that is beautiful is nothing compared to the beauty of the divine essence. God is the source of all beauty, all generosity, all wisdom, all love, all riection, He cannot deceive us. He wishes our happiness, an therefore, we should love Him and keep His com. mandments, The Gospel tells us that THE CHARITY OF GOD consists im the keeping of the law, Our Lord tells the man in the Gospel “If you wish to obtain eter- nal life, keep the commandments.’’ It is not neces- sary that aman should spend all his time, make extraordinary exertions, or impose extraordinary penance upon himself, He can keep the command- ments by doing the will of God according to the best of his ability. A man keeps the command. ments who is determined at all times and under all circumstances to RESIST EVERY TEMPTATION, It is true to say that such a man loves God with his whole heart and his whole soul; in a word, that he has divine charity in his heart. “If a man avoids the commission of fourtal sin and keeps on in the commission of numerous Venial sida, never step within the bounds he p vibes for hin self. He will tail into the commission of mortal 5 very soon. despises in little things will fall by little and little. A NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN HOBOKEN, Laying of the Corner Stone of the Church Odenheimer—Im pressive Ceremontes a Large Attendance. Last fall, immediately on her return from Kurope, Mrs. Stevens, widow of the late Edwin A, Stevens, of Hoboken, stated to some of the leading Episco- palians of that city that she was prepared to build and present them with @ cliurch as soon as they thought there would be another one needed. There being already two churches of that denomination in the city it did not appear probable at the time that an additional one would be necessary for some time to come. However, a mission school was established at the corner of Grand and Newark streets, which was attended by Mrs, Stevens and her four children every Sunday, with unfailing regularity, The attendance at this school increased so rapidly that it was thought best to build & new church, A site was purchased on the corner of Sixth and Willow streets, the foundations laid out, and yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, the corner ad stone was formally laid, The mombers of the church and Sunday school assembled at the house where worship is now carried on, and there forty-six con- verts were received into the church and baptized, and thirty-three members of the church were con- firmed. All present then set out ina body for the ite of the new church, preceded by the Right Rev- erend Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey; Rey. H. F. Hartmann, pastor of St. Paul’s church, Hoboken, who also has charge of the Mission church, and is to be pastor of the new edifice; Rev. Mr. Chetwood, of Hartford, Conn., editor of the Churchman; Rev. R. J. Nevin Rev. "Mr. Homes, of Trinity ehuren, Hoboken; Rev. Mr, Rice, of Jerse; City, N- Jy and Rey, Mr. Brown, of the Church of St. Mary the Vir- ar New York, Rev. L. Mohn, of the German mtheran church of Hoboken, was also present as a visitor, On arriving at the ground the Bishop and clergy ascended the coverea platform, followed by as many of the ladies and children as it would accommodate. Immediately the services began, the mana intoning the prayers and the accompanying clergymen the Tesponses, ac- cording to the formula provided by the Episcopal Church. A well closed box of tin was then produced, and the Bishop deposited it in the hollow of the corner stone provided for it, saying: “I here deposit, in the corner stone of this Church of the Holy Innocents, a copy of the Holy Bible, the Book of Common Prayer and the Episcopal Church Almanac and Register for the year 1872; also a copy of the Deed of Trust, and copies of all the newspapers ers in this sty The Bishop then struck the corner stone three times, repeating as he did so the following words :—‘“I lay the corner stone of an editice to be here erected by the name of the Church of the Holy Innocents, to be devoted to the service of Almighty God, accord- ing to the doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America.”” At this moment Miss Carrie Stevens stepped for- ward and laid a beautiful basket of flowers on the stone. At this unexpected innovation on the regu- lar ceremonies all looked surprised, but Bishop Odenheimer siniled approvingly at the child as she shrunk timidly back. THE BISHOP then stepped forward and delivered a brief address to the assembled multitude, which now numbered many hundreds. He said that the occasion of the commencement of such an edifice must he of in- terest to all present, whetier they were of his own faith or not. Were they laying the corner stone of any other edifice he might expect only some special Class or set of persons to take an interest in the proceedings; but when the corner stone Jaid is that of the house of God all persons should be interested, for it is only what is learned in the House of God that will be of any real yalue to us, The Rey. R. G. Nevin, late missionary at Rome, It has sur- | St. Pant declares | It was that He might enkindle in our ( ENJOY HIM It is for thisthat He | Saviour hadin view when He performed all the | We are not re- | man will | The Holy Ghost tells us that he that | of the Holy Innocents—Address by Bishop | next addressed the multitude. He spoke of the circumstances under which the first idea of this Charch was conceived, “it was,” he said, “about two years ago, when I was across the ocean, 4,000 miles from this ‘ that Mrs. Stevens, standing beside the bier m told me that she rd was not @ vel place to preaen pl py There must life before there can be culture. eee the man with a withered arm who was ay Jesus was met by some of the philosophers of the Altai school, they would bay to Lanes} “Miracles are abnormal ‘uistucbances; all you want is culture. Why don’t you sripg 8 pele of damb bells?’ The poor fellow would look down at his empty sleeve and probably say, ‘I would be very pee 0 swing dumb bells, but this withered arm 1s lead.” Another trouble about the culture theory was that a great many people in the world are Poor, 80 poor that they could not buy a fifteen-cent photograph. They could not pay four dollars a icket to hear Nilsson or a dollar a ticket to hear some lyceum orator. In vain might those apos- tles of culture go to a poor widow at her washtub and say, “Madame, all you want is culture,” But, if she became a subject of the great change which Christianity effected in the heart, she could gather her children around her, and, opening the blessed Bible, would read, “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in doa, believe also In me.” She did not own a piano, and the walls of her room had to be sFivned to supply food for her children; but she could sing— © God! my help in ages past; Ny'htops tor pears come The distinguished orator proceeded to show that this theory of @ new creation was essential to the | construction of a sound mental philosophy. While this portion of the discourse was learned and meta- physical, yet it was somewhat inappropriate for a camp meeting sermon. The mystery of the new birth, like @ great many things in nature, was inexplicable, but mone the less real. He answered the objection which many propounded against the suddenness of the new creation by showing that the revolutions in the natural world and great historical events were sudden. There was no vandalism inthe city of the soul of man when Christ came in and rebuilt and glorified it. In conclusion he said that the Gospel brought mankind into harmony with the believers of ail ages, and that church union could not be promoted by paper resolutions, but by the beating of renewed hearts closely against each other. He closed by a thrilling appeal to those who were dead in sin to consent to become new creatures in Christ Jesus. In the afternoon Rey. J. Lansing Taylor preached an able discourse, based upon the story of the choice of Hobad—“Come thou with us and we will do thee good.” The camp meeting will be continued through this week and will close on ‘Thursday or Friday. THE GOSPEL IN THE GROVES. Sing Sing Camp Experiences—Celebrities Present and not There—How City Peo- ple Live in the Country—Bunking on the Floor and Singing a Lullaby to Slecp—Fatal Accident on the Hudson River Railroad. Sina Sine, August 11, 1872, To-day has been a field day with the camp folks. should build a *ohe called the Church of nf tion pf the { e d in m chureh for ch to the Sunda dren.” An address was a, Hartmann, pastor of St. Pau. the singing of hymns and benediuua. Bishop ended the ceremonies. THR CHURCH is intended to be built of trap rock, in the ex- treme Gothic style, is to be cruciform in shape and of capacity to hold about 1,500 persons. It is ex- pected that the edifice will be completely finished next spring. The total cost of ground and build- will be about one hundred and forty thousand dollars, all of which is borne by Mrs, Stevens. Attached to the church and included in the above estimate of its cost there will be a Kin- dergarten (or child’s nursery) and a large hospital, to be open to all creeds and nationalities, RURAL RELIGION. Methodism Under Green Leaves—Christians in Camp—Picnic Piety—The Camp Meetings at Merrick, Sing Sing and Denville. MERRICK CAMP MEETING. Ten Thousand Long Island Methodists in the Woods—Sermons by Rev. Dr. Eddy and J. L. Taylor. The annual camp meeting which ia held under the auspices of the Methodists of Brooklyn and the upper portion of Long Island commenced at Mer- rick last Buesday, Owing to the numerons gatler- ings of this sort the attenaance during the week has not beet Very large, and yet a number of the Brooklyn churches are represented. Yesterday, however, there was a large accession to the wor shippers in the woods, Special trains were run from Bushwick and Patchogue by the Southside Railroad, under the charge of Conductor Chiches- ter, and hundreds of vehicles brought an immense throng to the grove. There were between eight and ten thousand people present throughout the day The méetizg seems to be in charge of ex-Presiding Elder Pease, and the best of order prevailed. In- deed, there could not be found a more quiet and devout assemblage within the walls of any of our city churches than that which participated in the services at Merrick, which consisted of preaching, prayer meetings and religious gatherings for the youth and children. The audience were favored yesterday with the presence and ministrations of one of the most dis. tinguished pulpit orators in the denomination, Rev. Dr. Eddy, formerly pastor of the Metropolitan church at Washington, and recently elected Mis- sionary Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was said by many that his sermon was the most eloquent discourse ever heard at Merrick, He took for his text the tenth verse of the second chapter of Ephesi :—“For we are his workman- ship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” In his opening remarks he said that the divine ordination of our life is a life of sublime activity. It was not to be a mystic or a dreamy life, nor one of monastic retirement. There | Was to be manifested forth in the life the power of God to make it sublime—a walk with God. But the | | apostle presented a difficulty in the context in stating that we were dead. How can dead men walk? Around the soul was built a sepuichre of | trespasses, and we were buried beneath our trans. gressions. But it did not follow that man was tnca- | pable of choice and action, St, Paul’s philosophy of man was threefold—body, soul and spirit. Bodily functions might be perfect, the brain active, the wsthetic taste highly cuitivated, and still the spiritual part of man’s nature be dead. The doctor proceeded to give a clear defl- nition of the resurrection which was wrought in the soul by the power of the Holy Ghost upon the spiritual nature of the penitent believer, by which he was delivered from the power of sin, discerned the law of divine obligation, received strength to keep it and grace to love it. Sin is not a painted thing, and the atonement is not a tinged mirage. Itis only by the sacrifice of Christ that we can have a new life, of which the Holy Ghost was the efficient agent. The “blood” and the “spirit’ were the two words by which trucness and sound. | ness of faith could be tested, The speaker then considered some facts which grew out of the cardinal statement of the text. The first great fact was the knowledge of Christ by experience. Mil- lions of persons, in all lands, with coo! enough brains for the transaction of ordinary business, and | with a fair knowedge of men and things, have testified that ata certain time their character was revointionized and they were translated into a | new life. The doctrine of anew creation forever separated Christianity from all naturalistic ond materialistic systems, The tendency of certain schools was to teach that mind was a kind of elec. trie influence running down through the brain and looking out of the eyes, and that spiritual phe- nomena were not to be relied upon, Christianity stood up against such teachings, and, so far as he knew, was the only system that said, “I will take that broken, battered, ruined, debauched man and | make him glorious in God,"’ How easy to blow Christianity to the moon if it did not do that thing! Cliristianity was pledged to this -position—a tural book, a supernatural Saviour, | ernatural regeneration. Christianity , said, | am not a cniture, a grov a development, but I am = a_ creation An accompiished Engtish reviewer maintained that Roman Catholicism stocs alone as the true philos- | pi of missionary life. Romanism grafted its Christian observances on the old stalks of the old religions ; it found paganism and ofade all its days and observances saints’ days, and ti took Druidism | and grafted its priesthood upon Chrisiienity, But Protestantism did not understand how a new Christianity could be grafted on an old stalk—a dead one at that, What little I know about farming, said Dr. Eddy, does not give me any process for doing that thing. This theory of a new creation forever separated real Ciristianity§ from the | tena ye and the defective. The sacerdotal theory thrust a third man between the soul and God, bat the teaching of Christianity was that pent- i tent believer can come directly § t te merey seat and the place of power. The Preacher proceeded in a telling argument and with apposite tlastrations to assail and de- molish the “development” theory of the New Bng- Jand school. ast Sabbath he stood before four thousand New England people, and told that vast | mulfitude that where those ‘disciples of culture | planted one college his chureh founded a dozen, He was tired of hearing one of the smallest of the denominations piping up its puny treble whistle and saying, “We are the aposties and high priests of culture.’ They affirmed that all men needed | was culture—music, oratory, sculpture and paint- ing—to develop the spiritual nature, There were two dimculties about that. The first was that in- epiration adirmed that men are dead, A grave. | part in the services. | this morning, toward the close of the lovefeast, a | hold him down, Large numbers came up last evening by boat and “om the city, while many others came down Ponehkeepsie and other towns Hence our camp- > Cots two; some those adjuncts, and noi . erlets. Sleep of course was whoiy 1 tion, and very little rest could be had, Ana .. this privilege each one paid fifty cents, and a great compliment it was to get such accommodations for such money. It is really surprising how much city folks can put up with in the country without murmuring or complaining. Fine city ladies bunked on the floors here, and were glad to do it, The bell warns everybody to retire at ten P. M., but in the family tents the singing was kept up till near midnight, and about four o'clock this morning it was renewed again, so that you can imagine what the chances were for rest or sleep. The board partakes of the roughness and simplicity of the lodging, and THE NUNGRY MULTITUDES who have come on the ground take it and pay dear enough for it, and are thankful. Fruits and veget- ables that ought to be plentiful appear to be very scarce here. I don’t see many ministers of prominence on the ground, and the preaching thus far has been by men whose standing and ability, with two or three exceptions, are of a second rate order. Bishop Harris is here and conducted the sacramental services at the stand this forenoon and preached at four o’clock. Rev. Dr. L. W. King, of New York, was here on Friday and preached a sermon of great power, and people are talking about it even yet. Pastor Hedstron, of the Swedish Bethel in New York, preached a very able sermon also on Thursday morning, which is greatly talked about. Last night as Rev, Mr. Brush was preaching a rain storm came on, and the people scampered away to their tents and left the young preacher to retire alone. Rey. Dr. Reed, one of the missionary secretarics, preached a very fine sermon on Thursday after- noon. This morning, at nine o'clock, a love feast was held at the stand. About three thousand | people were present, and Rev. Dr, Ferris took charge of the meeting. PRESIDING ELDER BROWN had been indisposed on Friday night and yesterday, but to-day he was able to be present and take some Perhaps as many as three or four hundred persons testified of their faith in Jesus Christ within cne and three-quarter hours, Some of them, however, felt called upon to preach long sermons, but they were gently reminded, in the language of one brother, that “fresh bread” needed, not experiences of forty years ago, Sonie of those experiences, in the tents and at the stand, were very rich and religious, while others were religiously ridiculous. For instance, a good brother from Brooklyn told how for seventeen years he had been a professing Christian and a Sabbath school superintendent, but he vas a danc- ing Christian, and thought it was all right. He went, however, to Sea Cliff camp meeting on the 4th of July, and then THE LORD KNOCKED HIM DOWN flat, cut his head open and knocked one tooth out of his mouth, and when he returned to conscious- ness he discovered that the Lord had sanctified him, And now he had no more desire for the ball- room or the dance. A good sister in great anxicty of mind, and with much dificulty and opposition from her husband, found her way into Bedford strect church a great many years ago, and in half an hour she was converted, teil She hurried home to her husband, whom she found not angry, as pected, but cheerful and pleasant. The the sky looked as large as dinner plates to her and everything seemed to be praising God. Another ‘sister who glovied in the nickname of “Crazy Lena,” or Lynn, told how she had seven children, two of whom are crazy, one blind and four are in the grave, but she could trust in the name of the Lord. More than a score of persons on the ground this morning testified of their affection for old Bedford street church, where they had been born of God. Some of them could tell to a minute the time of their birth, on which a witty brother remarked that he wus not looking at the clock at the time he came into the kingdom. VERY GREAT LATITUDE IS ALLOWED AT CAMP MEETINGS, and religious eccentricities are seen at such gath- erings that are never seen elsewhere. lence scene ensued that would bewllder a politician of the old school to describe. The brethren and sisters had been praying very earnestly for “the power,” and it came 80 wonderfully imdeed upon one man that two of his neighbors had to while he kicked and struck out both hands wildly, at the same time crying out, “Glory, glory to God! hallelujah,” &c. After several minutes of violent struggling, his strength seemed to have been exhausted, and he lay back like one dead or in sleep. The “power” came also on a pr, and disposed her to exhibit herself in several aby yelps, to the amusement, if not annoyance, of those who sat near her. THE POWER CAME aiso upon a large number of men and women under the singing of a chorus of the words :— 1'm £0 glad that Jesus loves me, _ Jesus toy Jesus loves me? T'm so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves even me. This was repeated seven or eight times, until | many in the vast congregation jumped on the seats, raised and clapped their hands and shouted asiond as they could in different parts of the camp, until it seemed to a — stranger that they were all mad. A scene of wild confusion ensued, which was only closed by Dr, Brown calling the people to order tor the administration of the Lord’s Supper. whal Gardner” is on the ground, and yesterday gave the old but interesting story of his conversion and _re- ligious experience to the people. “Sammy” Hal- stead and iis band are there too, and this afternoon they held a prarer meetingat the preacher's stand, at which alarge number sought the Saviour and ; several professed to have jound Him, | ‘The best and purest type of religion that I sce | manifested on tie camp ground is by the Scandi- | avians, Who appear to be very earnest snd to | njoy religion very much, I notice that while the | ing and talking the foreigners take more to praying, and their meetings are gatherings of great spiritual power. Their women, too, are quite as ready as the men to engage in any devotional exercise, and wee a are very rich of God's mercies, Such is THE HALO THAT SURROUNDS CAMP MEFTINGS that people go to them to be converted or to be sanctified who would hardly think of secking those blessings in their own homes. An Episcopalian brother 1s on the ground who has come 1,00 miles to seek the blessings of sanctification at this meet- ing. A Breen ete brother is here also who has come 1,000 miles to get @ pure heart. Is he a God afar off and not near at hand? The children’s meet- ings were conducted last week by Mr, Gregory; he cars, Those ne cams boat from New York ours on the water, so that encampment much before that pretends ran thirt anes in ‘ couple of hours. Those “4 ‘ reported who came up last night A FATAL ACCIDENT sow by which one man lost his Ife ana a ork was feared, mortally injured. I could not learn names nor any other particulars, Nor did ‘one at the depot or boat landing at this ow anything about it, The grand Anate with take place next Friday, when the piigritis will walk around Zion and count her towers and mark well her bul- steamer warks, that they may be able to tellit to their chil- dren and their children’s children, An event I shall write you again. a of tans CAMP TABOR. , A Large Meeting—An Amusing Incidente Services and Divines. : Camp Tabor, August 10, 1872, ‘The camp meeting at Mount Tabor, Denville, N. J, begins its sitting on the 13th and will continue in session for ten days. This meetingis the attraction for people of all sorts, classes and descriptions through the whole country side, Religious people come to get glory; irreligious people come for the same purpose, if glory be to them attainable, and if not, for such pleasures as may be found among a miscellaneous host of 15,000 people. Young male persons and women come, as the cant hasit, to “spark,” and young ladies and gentlemen to he amused at the eccentricities of everybody but themselves. These people come in carriages, in wagons, in stages, on foot, on horse- back, on the cars, and in every conceiva- ble method by which they may arrive at their destination. Not only do the cars bring them from all parts of the northern portions of the State, but all manner of crazy vehicies, with old rackabones of horses, carry passengers until a late hour in the day between the camp and neighbor- ing grounds, At the present writing, however, the grounds are in a state of repair, with mounds of dirt all over them, unfinished cottages, upon which the carpen- ters are still busy, with crowds of laborers at work everywhere, grading streets, wheeling sand and stones. Seeing one of these men, who was evi- dently an Emeralder, upset his wheelbarrow, £ thought it would not be a bad idea to ask him if he did not think the mishap a dispensation of Provi- dence upon him for working on the grount- «** church at opposition to his own. The fol conversation then took place between us:— RePorTeER—Well, my man, 80 you've ups& wheelbarrow? | EMuRALDER—Yes (grufMly), »’rER—Do you upset it often? “onking W P, sharply) —No, he subject, this is a your cna. EMERALDER—v.. all right. REPORTER (satisfied) —Good day, - you may upset no more wheelbarrows, EMERALDER—I ho, e 80, too. Good day, slr, at Lope gy: os ee Reporter walks a few steps, when Pat calis afver'’~ him, “Hey! your honor, Reporter goes back and asks what is wanted. EMERALDER—You’re a lawyer, beent you? orter does not Know what 18 coming, and thinks e'll say yes at a venture.) RerorTer—Yes, EMERALDER—Well, did you iver hear of lawyers (pronounced like liar) gettin’ to hiven? Come, now, spake the truth and shame the divi ‘ RePoRTER—Well, I don't know as Tever did. Did you ever hear of an Irishman’s getting there ? EMERALDER—YcsS, I heard of one once, . REPORTER (briskly) —How was that? EMERALDER—Why, there was a fellow once WO lived in Ireland, He was as noble, kind-hearted @ man as ever you saw, and when he died every! had a good word to say for him, the praist absol him aud he went straight to hiven, and —— ReEvonTER—How do you know he did ? EMERALDER (angrily)—Ain't I tellin’ yees? I know by what happencd-aiter he got there. When the people that lives in liven found that an Irishman was there it raised a fine rumpus, and they deter- mined to put him out. Jim Rooanan, for that was his name, wouldn't go, he said, unless he was put. out through due course of law. So they went to work and searched all over hiven_ to find a lawyer, | but there wasn’t none there, and Jim is there yet. RerorTer—Oh! (Turns on his heel and walks away, a sadder and a wiser man.) After this little episode I shunned the workmen, but by a pleasant interview with one of the man- ers of the ground, one of the prominent divin of this section, Iwas able to obtain considerable information. The ground upon which the camp meeting will hold their session is of about one hundred and thirty acres in extent; 100 of these were purchased this year, costing about ten thousand dollars. There are from forty to sixty regular cottages on the ground, and next year there will be erected probably as many more. The supply of water ig good and plentiful, the water being carried in a to all parts of the ground. The camp is also lighted by gas. A police force and prison keev in 7@ those in need of coercion; a grocery store and vision booths supply the necessities of life to t in need of them. The regular trains of the Delaw Lackawanna and Western Railroad will carry sengers to the camp grounds, besides which t will be probably several other trains for the & purpose. Every arrangement has been made to have services as pleasant and the meeting as succe 2s possible. The services will consist of t Meetings for the usual church worship each and they will be followed by prayer meetings, hours for the services will be haif-past ten A, half-past two P. M., half-past seven P. M. A these mectings will be under the control of m ters appointed by Newark Annual Conferem the Methodist Episcopal Church, one of whom lead each service. Besides these, Lag 4 will be many minor prayer meetings held in-t either on special invitation from the owner o tent or as accident may seem to call for it. There will be present at this meeting’ many nent men in the Methodist Church, amoug wh may mention Bishop Andrews, Dr. C.D. Foss Dashiel, Dr. Eddy and Rey, Father Boehm, oldest Methodist minister in the world. This meeting will be largely attended. Fron to fifteen thousand people will be on the grour one time. Ocean Grove is the largest in the § if not in the country, where there are twent: sand persons. ‘This is the second in size, ond? & about third or fourth in the Eastern Atl ates, SUNDAY AT ROCKAWAY) Religion in the Cuirches—Life in the Hote’: the Beach and onithe Wave—Who the Pror nent Guests As‘e—Sermon in Trinity Church on the Unjust Steward and the Mammon of Wealth. The sultry heat of the city yesterday moi Was not felt by the sojourners at this old wate place; but as the morning trains on the Long I: Railroad unloaded their human freight at the ¢ it was evident that the heat had been felt ev daybreak, The depot is in Lockwood's wood: posite the St. James Hotel, and only a few min Walk from the beach. From the verandah o hotel the ocean, the seaside, Jamaica Bay Canarsie are visible. The scene at ten o’vlocs simply grand, the sailing craft, with their s white sheets, bedecking the ocean and ba far as the eye could reach, white fa the distance could be seen the High! green a3 a mountain side in budding June. A people alighted from the trains they could bet exclaiming, “That breeze is glorious !" and and women doifed their hats to cool their per ing brows. On tie south of the St. James i Catholic church, Father Brunneman, pastor, of the order of Jesuits and a hard worker 1) cause of religion. Stopping in the village a least one hundred priests, each willing to say 1 but none desiring to preach. There are ser every Sunday morning, at five, six, seven, nine and half-past ten o'clock, and in evening at half-past seven. During week mass is said twice every a ing. The belief that people at the seaside are: less, yes, heathenish, is disproved in this Insts glish enn people take more kindly to sing- | from the fact that at every one of the masse; he clhuizch was crowded, and many were céuter kneel on the steps outside. | arrived by the morning trains chose to hear 1, rather than idle their time seeing the sighta, the north of the hotel, a quarter of a mile dist is Trintty Episcopal chwvch, Rev, Mr. Pier rector. It 19 @ neat Gotilc edifice, hardiy h Many of those enough for its summer accommodations, but at large for the other seasons of the year) The gregation Isa wealthy one, and yet every thify al CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE aT (Ré- “Lex ~ ' 4 ° <8