The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1872, Page 11

RELIGIOUS. Christian Congregations in the City and Coun- try--What Was Said and What Was Done, oe Pulpit Polemics and Pastoral Piety. The Rev. J. F. Elder on the Doc- trine of Imputed Righteousness. Father John McCarthy Urges the Obli- gation of Attending Mass and Reproves Its Neglect. ANEW RITUALISTIC CHURCH. The Personality of God and His Good to Man Commented on by Dr. Foss at the St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church. SEASIDE SERVICES AND SERMONS A Crowded Attendance at the Episcopal Church at Rockaway. Screener ctertasieees Babylon and Its Presbyterian Church. Services at Newburg, on the Hudson by the Rev. T. Sproule. 8T, PAUL'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Whe Personal God and His Relations to His Creatures—Discourse by Rev. O. D. Foss. H The usual morning services were held yesterday in the chapel of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Rev. O. D. Foss, the pastor, officiating. There was a very meagre attendance, and the discourse took More the form of a dissertation upon the peysonal God and His good to man than an elaborately pre- pared sermon. The minister took for the subject of hts remarks the words of Paul, found in Philippians fy., 19—'My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches and glory, by ChristJcsus.”” The pastor expressed his astonishment that in this enlightened age nen Of scientific attainments and great munds could be found to ignore the presence of A PERSONAL GOD and explain the mechanism of creation by scien- tific theories that are in utter antagonism to the Bible. He referred to the writings of one sctentist Who argues that every mechanical action on the @arth’s surface is produced by the sun. To such atheism, said Mr. Foss, do some speculators of the present day go. One says, “I feel no need of a God; the sup supplies warmth and Life to vegeta- tion; it produces the means for man’s subsist. ence.” If this be true the world ought to fall down. and worship the sun, instead of God, the Creator of that sun. If the sun be God If 18 NOT THE GOD 1 WANT, the God my soul yearns after. There is a personal God who painted the lilies, created me, formed m; brain, and He it is who supplics our every need, ‘This grand truth of our religion—the existence of @ personal God—is clearly shown in the next. is the foundation of all religion. Stiil there are those who claim that man’s brain is produced by the sustenance be eats; that Dante's “Inferno” fs the creation of THE MUTTON CHOP UB ATE FOR BREAKPAST. Away with such atheisin. The very first word of the Old Testament proclaims tle existence of a personal God. It say: ‘iu the beginuing God created the world,” &c, Mark ye, God did it; not sunshine. If there be not a personal God then THE BIBLE 18 4 STUPENDOUS FRAUD, The relations of this personal God to man are ai- ready shown. Paul addresses In as ‘ny God.’ He believes He 1s persona!, not electricity or sun- shine; a person he can commune with, not a God who, Mitiieapon His throne, nitters and sends out His decrees, but does not let His subjects ap- proach Him. . OUR GOD IS A GREAT KINO, who is on terms of personal friendslip and commu- nion with eack one of His subjects. In the Bilie we are told that He is the God of Isaac and Jacob. jostle ‘tries to lft us up so that we will cry out as he ‘and as David does in the Forty-third Psalm, Md, my God.” The assertion in the text ly God shall supply all our wants.” All needs, dear brethren, shall uever Ye gift of grace. |The discuss the nature of mar many of our needs are ima; . Many 1 that if they nad wealth tney could do vast good ‘with ft; but God knows what is best for us and He te us everything we need. No good thing will le withhold from those who love Him, This (eps! efaphatic. Paul says, “I bave learned whatever state I am therewith to be coutented.” That ts werth a hundred million dollars to any man._We shouid feel that God will give us all that 18 7000 for us, according to His riches, You CAN'T OVERDRAW ON THE, BANK OF HEAVEN. ‘s smilie makes millions of ftelds ripe with £ harvests, This carth is only the footstool of ie Great King; if you could enter His presence you would see much ords of the minister greater beauty. The last wor text, “By Christ Jesus,” defines the duty of the Lord, Jeses brings al! the supplies we need. in the text we are shown that JESUS CHRIST, THB PURVEYOR, is not the majestic King; He Is the source of sup- ly. God rear ts us by giving us Christ Jesus, and verything jt this personal God feels is good for Bs will be showered upon us with a bountiful hand MADISON AVENUE BAPTIST OHUROH. Sermon by the Rev. J. F. Ekder=mA Dis- ‘course on Justification by Faith and gm Attack on the Doctrine of Imputed ighteousne: Madison Avenue Baptist Church was filled to overfowing yesterday morning by 4 congregation which nad assembled from ali parts to listen to a discourse from the Rev. ugh Stowell Brown, of Liverpool, who had been announced to preach and who, next to Spurgeon, {a congidered to be the most, distinguished pulpit orator in England, Mr. Brown was to have arrived by steamer on Saturday, but t6 the great regret of the pastor and congregation at the Madison Avenne Church he did not put in an appearance, and In his absence an excellent sermon ‘was preached by the Rev. Mr. Elder, the regular Pastor, from the fifth chapter of Romans and first verse“ refore, being’ justified by faith we have peace unto God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." He said :—How little of peace has this world ever known. Onr ears are constantly saluted by the sound of Woarlike arms and the Atrife, Lake the arctic sky ‘on & winter's night, it sometimes seems as if the whole heavens were lurid with the flames of war. ‘This warfare is not confined to kingdoms, it penc- trates to neighborhoods and even families, and we hear of strife and Wiekering where all should be harmony and Jove, But turning from all these hu- man conflicts we come to one compared with which they all sink into insignificance—the war of the soul with God, There is not @ mau or a woman ‘who grows np to years of maturity that does not manifest enmity to God, and it fs from this fount of adepraved nature that, all other conficts grow. It isa lifelong struggle if the grace of God does not terminate it, and the great question is—how can it ve terminated with saicty to ourselves and honor to God? We must come into that f ate of conuinwal Spoken of inthe text. If is @ mighty privi- ‘@ transcendent state into which we are intro. d by the death of Christ-aud His sacrifice om the cross. Now, there are many will say there Is no justice In this sete es gerd] Wine gente T nocent man sutfer for the sins of the In such at dnstauce there is no punishment for é & guilty ono is very man Consett rsonal holiness his Own exertions. 8 we Would ask— jou? Cam yon attain to the Which God demands’ Can punished, he honk! solve mselt and Of wal ihe, al those This | jou, for an innocent man who suffers the | AL, EE ea { you hope to the _ immacuiate purity, suitor tne loft sacrifices, ite crore page of Scripture teema with? Can any one say he has fuliited all those obt and think himseif saved? No, the law Is too exacting, the attain- ment too dificult for ordinary men; it is only by the sacrifice and righteousness of Christ that jife and salvation come. The) laws of God are not unnecessary obligations and can- not be easily reiaxcd. Im earth and hell and heaven they must be obeyed, and it contributes to the anguish of many of asoulin torment to think that he spent a life time in order to achieve an im- ossibility, and found himself lost at last through is own instrumentality. How, then, with Jaw holding your conscience can you mect Go auswer as to your personal holiness, The objection to the injustice of tle sacrifice of Christ is only superficial; we cannot Judge of Christ's work by any earthly parable. Jesns was the per- sonification of humanity, and as such endured the Penalty to humanity, He was man, not as indi- Vidal, bat as the race: God and man together in His sinless person. By His sacrifice He endured all the pains and penalties due to sin, and there waa po thme in His career upon earth that He could have laid down without wishing the eternal de- struction of mankind and His own destruction also, 80 intimate was the relationship-of Jesus with those He came to save. We do not wish to deny the doetrine of Sspuied righteousness with- Out reason; we merely desire proof, which cannot, however, We think, be given, It is an unreasona- bie doctrine, a horse jockey doctrine. God stand. ing on one side and man on the other, Man throws over his sins and receives tn return Christ's righteousness. By jaith only are we saved, aud not through any merit of our own; and though @ certain inherent holiness accompanies salvation it 1s the result of thit salvation, aud not the cause. ‘There is no word in the Seriptures which so faith- fully represents the victory of faith as that little verse, “One in Christ.” Asa wife is to her hus- baud so Christ is to His people—the pratection of their honor, the shield of their reputation and the guide of their lives, He is indissoiubly linked with the destinies of the race, and His death and right- eaushess are the only passwords to eternal glory, We tind, indeed, something this doctrine of imputed righteousness; but, as Jonathan Edwards bas said, “That which isreal is that which is legal,” So the inherent righteousness of the saved sinner is only his because Christ has died that ho | might live, the Saviour having become a geet of his sufferings and his merits. Again, t is said that this doctrine tends to licentiousness, and that it affords a license to sin; but how can we who are dead unto sin live again to it? and ts not the spectacie of Christ suffering on the cross for our iniquities the strongest restraint that could be Possibly supplied against transgressiony By Him alone. are we saved, and the doctrine of self-right- cousness is the doctrine of self-destruction and sell-deieat, It is only through Christ we are en- 4 to triumph, “for, bemg justified by taith, we have peace with God’ through our Lord Jesus Shrist.” UNITED PRESBYTERIAN OHUROH. How and When to Obey Ged—Preach- ing Not Intellectual Gymnastics and Penances Not Fiety—Sermon by Rev. Samuel J. Stewart. ‘The West Twenty-filth street United Preshytorian church seems to have, considermg the weather, | more than its share of religious worshippers, At the services yesterday morning there were very few vacant pe They have had no Summer va- cation at this church, and Rey. SamuelJ. Stewart is the regular pastor. He is quite a young man, but delivered a good sermon nevertheless, Over the pulpit is written in evergreens, ‘“Wel- come,” which is quite appropriate, sceing al are invited to attend thts place | of worship. on the afternoon of the first Sabbath of each month Rev. Mr. Stewart will preach to the young people. After the customary prayer—which was of great length, or seemed to be to those standing in the vestibule—and hymn came the sermon, the text being Jonah fil, 1,2—“And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bia | thee.” God commanded Jonah a second time be- fore he obeyed. God generally gives but ONE CHANCE POR SINWERS, Do what the Almighty bids you at the first com- mand, for you may look vainly for another chance, We should obey God directly and promptiy, with no questions or doubts. Sometimes we intend to obey Hiim eventually, but not when He first commands us, We think that when we become wealthier, more famed or heighten our reputation, that then we will obey God; but do not wait, you who are Christians, The civeumstances may Lever be the same again; you may never again have it in your power to heed the order of the Most High. We may have tt i our power to save or help to SAVE SOME SOUT. No other time will do but the present. Our hearts are sinful, and the more we stun and try to put off @ duty the harder itis to perform. Temptations may ond do surround us at every turn, and the only safe method ts to obey God impilicitiy. The day will come when there will be no cuance to obey, aud it ts one of the DEVIL'S TEMPTATIONS to think that we will do the good which we origt- nally iutended by and by. God commanded Jonah, but he ran away without fulfilling His mandate. He almost lost his life in doing 9, | but God was merciful and gave Jonah another chance. God's command to Jona was that he should proceed to Nineveh and preach to the sin- neis, erying that in forty days the city should be destroyed, He was a minister, and was bidden to reach What God told bi. There are two things In preaching—the law and the gospel, God toid* him to tell the people of their danger. When we set out to preach the word of God we must preach allofit. ‘This system of covering ap the Gospel and making it so profeund that no one cun understand it | is hot_preaciing as d desires His ministers to do, Preaching is talking. It is standing before God's creatures and telling them of thetr Saviour and their sing, ‘The duty of every Christian minis- | ter is to preach all unpleasant as well as pieasaat | truths, The INTELLECTUAL, GYMNASTICS of some speakers ts not the preaching of Goa. is declaring damnation to those who do not trust God and fove Jesus Christ. Neither excitement nor sensational preaching converts the soul. What if it be dry, it is the truth, and God commands us to always speak the truth. We cannot convert men alouc. He helps us. God's people must perform their oe and be sanctified, He has resolved that we obey Him or be cast out forever. Nineveh was an exeeeding great city of three days’ journey, and its clrenmference ween miles. Jona wenf into the city crying out what the Lord had bade him, “yet forty days and Nineveh shail he destroyed,? ‘This was whispered around the city, and at last eae to the ears of the King, who, w iin his nobiles, heeded this warning. He ordered that ali, from the King down, shouid cover themselves in SACKCLOTH AND ASILES and fast, sending up prayers for the forgiveness of their sins, The King and his people were heatiens, but they listened to the Aimighty’s voice, In time of trouble it was customary for the inhabitants of the city to fast and pray to God for deliverance. A anan’s fasting does not really amount to anything, but consists of something elise. We can worship God as well and feel as sincere and much more happy and in a healthy frame of mind and body. ‘This system of abstaining from food and reducing the body will not make a man more spiritual or more repentant, Having a disease is not picty. We might suffer and fast for days; but if repentance is Bot 10 our hearts God would know it, and ail our sacrifices would do no good. When we feel peni- tent we naturally dectine food, just as when a dear Mend dies, ‘True fasting is laying down the soul before God, Notice the prayer of these people of Tt Nineveh, it was no FORMAL, PRAYER, but a heartfelt and trne one. They were “crying migiitily from the very depths of their sonia in therr agony.” We go along listicssiy and indiffer- | ently, not knowing at what hour the Son of Man cometh, There was another thing about this fasting—they turned from their evil ways. A man may be sorry because a sin brings him into trouble, bunt if it cost him no pain he would sin alw Yhe suffering of the dumb creatures dur- | ing period of fasting served to remind them of | their sins, The decree of God ever remains the | game, but His external works sometimes differ, | He threatens us with severe punishment uniess we repent. Repentance and faith go hand in hand. The people of Nineveh repented at the first verse in the sermon of Jonah, and they were heathens, knowing nothing about Jesus Christ, How shall it be with us who know ail about Him? 8T. IGNATIUS’ CHURCH: on by Rev. Dr. Meade, of Philadcl- phia, on the Inflexible Nature of Low. The worshippers tp this edifice under the admin- istration of Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, were they to visit it now, would scarcely recognize the interior, 80 changed hagit been by the alterations which the present directors considered necessary for the pe- cullar form of service that now obtains therein, which service is of the Nighest possible form of ritual that could be adopted in the Episcapal Church. To rituelists “perhaps no more at- tractive place ean be found in the city, every attention being pakl to theae parig of the service which speak directly to the senses, The rector being in Europe, the duties are | performed by the Rev. Dr. Meade, of Philadeiptta, whose sermon yesterday morning was taken from the text “To redeem them that were under the law," Galatians fy., 6, words setting forth the design and result of the incarnation and sacrifice of Christ, and implying the fact of a captivity anda release from its bondage. Man hy nature is repre- sented as confined in a dungeon, the law being a fetter or chain binding the condemned sinner unto destruction. Jesus Christ is set forth as coming to redeem and doijtver, ‘hore f# a divine power oF principie hemming in every sin- ful soul and insuring that sinful soul's destruction. Of the immaculate holiness of that law the Apostle testifies in several passages, The very word “law,” indeed, means something fixed and inviolable; and God's law is the most unchange- able of all His works, On the integrity and steaa- fastness of it rests the safety of the nniverse. Let Dut one of Mis natural laws—such as that of gravi- tation—by which all matier attracts and is at- tracted, be held im abeyance, and all nature Would rush to rnin, “God, in the begin- ning, declared that law. universal and un- changeable, Yonder mountains stand firm on their foundations and the streams ran on in thelr courses while it holds good, and there is no power of inan by which even the smaljest atom can be re- Heved from its influence. The drop of dew Which fell trom a flower in Eden and disappeared before the mowing sun, however it may have been changed aud rechanged by the various degrees of cold and heat, will, upon assuining the form of Water, be gathered together in its primary globu- lar form by reason of the force of this law. Soin the moral world the law is immutable, else its very foundations would be subverted, One simple thought, word or deed permitted to go unpunished in the case of one would give to all others a divine livense; and so we have the Apostle representing our condition (as if to impress us with the fali weight of {ts moaning) as “ander the law’? of Almighty Jehovah—of Him who holds usin the hollow of His hand, and who has sworn by Rimself that not ono jot or tittle of Tis law shall fail and that every breach of it shall be fully avenged, bg gre therefore, 18 more than deiiver- ance, for it implies all that is conveyed by this word avenged. esus Christ 1s consequently represented not as comin m arbitrary power and authority to bring liberty to the cap- lives—that would be the abrogation and not the vindication of law—but_as releasing them by satis- fying every demand, fulMling every condition and enduring every penaity; so that, afver all, it is rather the Justice than tie merey of God which une bars the door and sets us free. The elaimsof God's Jaw are thusin no way setaside, Omnipotent power 18 not called into rock the dungeon walls to ruin; but love insplres the sacrifice which redeems and ransoms) and brings us back. “He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquity, and by his stripes we were healed redeemed not with cor- ruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. And if ye will not accept such deliverance from the condempation of the law ye must remain under itto aileternity. Hu- mon and natural laws, if neglected or disobeyed, brings its own punishment; mueh more will the spiritual laws of Him, who rules with loving jus- tice, be the savor of life unto them that accept the remedy, or of death unto death to those who being under the law dosive not to be redeemed from its curse, MURRAY HILL PRESBYTERIAN OHUROH. The Earnest Work Required to Find Salvation—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Henry B. Chapin. This beautiful house of worship on Forticth street, near Lexington avenue, was quite well filed last evening by an earnest and at- tentive congregation. The pulpit was eccu- pied by the Rev. Dr. Henry B, Chapin, who continued his discourse of the morning, the text being Matthew xi., 12, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by fores.” In the morning service the preacher ex- plained fully the meaning of the text and eloquently dwelt upon the Savionur’s great work of saving a fallen, sinful world and the fact that sinners are not able to appreciate the extent oftheir responsibility to Him, and the fears of humanity in this respect, and last evening Dr. Chapin concluded his sermon by taking the last por- tion of the text—“The vivient take it by force,” say- ing that he wished to dwell a while on the kind of effort that was needed for salvation. The effort was not wholly diferent from that required in the acquisition of temporal wealth, To obtain this Kind of prosperity ene must be diligent and prudent, energetic aud cantious, and jast the same DILIGENCR AND ENERGY in obeying and carrying out God’s behests are re- quired to atta Heaven. All are dependent on God, and if they will comply with fis word race will surely be meted ont to them. in life many of the more industrious, the more patient, fail to secure temporal wellare, end- ding thely days as poor as when thay were ushered into existence; but spiritual welfare can be ob- tained for the asking. Nothing will be refused the seeker after salvation. God’s promises are “yea’? and “amen.” There is more encouragement im seeking meager than temporal good, We live m a land where the Bible is scattered far and wide, and which shows us the way to eternal life; bué there is a MAJESTY AND DEPTH about it that requires earnest stady, and few there are that give it that amount of thought as is paid to secular learning. This is wrong, and if a sinner wishes to be saved jet him study the works of Goad diligently and he would soon learn his salvation and what the Saviour would have him to do to find eternal life. Earnest effort should be made in seeking the Jeet of God. .There is power in earnest importunities, Never stop to reason as many do, but appear at the throme of grace with earnestness and God will respond to your ery for mercy, The reverend gen- ueman then referred to the faith a secker after salvation 1s required to have, and how hard, under such circumstances, it 18 to cherish it; but thongh the combat was a terrible one the Saviour must be FULLY AND WHOLLY TRUSTED ; all reliance must be placed in Him; no help must be songht in one’s self ; good deeds alone are noth- ing, but Jesus to the Christian must be all in all. ‘The temptations of Satan are many, and when the seeker after salvation is not allured from it by the pleasures of the world heid up to him by the adversary, he then oiten whispers in his ear that he is too great a simner to be saved, How fallacious! Sin rules many around us, and earnest effort is needed to over- come it. Even with a Christian it is hard to resist all temptations, The preacher closed with an e10- braid appeal to his hearers, asking them to use all diligence in attaining spiritual welfare; to begin to day in seeking Christianity in earnest, and not go down to perdition a self destroyer, ST, PAUL'S CHURCH, BROOKLYN. eens Sel Sermon by the Rev. Father John MeCarthy—Necessity of Being in Time for Mass—Where the Obligation of Hearing Mass is Violated—Evil of Leaving Church Before Mass is Over— The Sacred Namc—Dishonoring That Name Condemncd—New Socicty—Its Ob. ject—An Exhortation. The pastor of St. Paul's church, Rev. Father Maguire, being ill, the Rev. Father McCarthy de- livered an excellent discourse to a very large con- gregation at high mass. In the front tier of seats sat about forty orphans, neatly robed in blue and white dressea, white in rear of them sat some half a dozen Sisters of Charity. The choir is a very em- clent one, and deserves great credit for the admi- rable manner tn which the choral services are ren- dered, After the commumon the Rev. John McCarthy made the usual announcements relative to deaths in the parish, society meetings, &c., | and then called the attention of the vast congre- gation to the fact that it had recently been noticed, as a thing of frequent occurrence, persons being LATE FOR MASS, Last mass waa frequently half through when per- sons were to be seen walking into the church right through the aisle. Such persons ought to feel most thoroughly ashamed of themselves to be interrupt- ing the services in such & manner. Al! could be present in time if they earnestly desired to be present. Those who could bem for the middie of mass could as well be in for the beginning if they had a mindto, Any one with a desire to be present, if they be here at all, could be in church ata ter whieh hit h Inass commences On Sundays, Persons coming late not alone commit a mortal sin, but they cause OONSIDERARTE ANNOYANCE, ‘The congregation are interrupted in their prayers, and their devouons are interfered with, wh en, by a little exertion ou the part of those coming late, all this extra inconvenience could be easily avoided. It would seem that some persons cannot be unctial, There are some persons who are late habitually—the same parties ali the time. It should be remembered that all those who are late tor the first gospel are LATE FOR MASS. After the first gospel persons lose the benefit of the holy sacrifice when they are not in before. Uniess they are in before the Book is removed they are guilty of a violation of the third commandment. Besides, good Christians who approach the altar ate not at all edided by the conduct of such per- sons, and, as every one is aware, We are bound to edily one another as much a8 possible, Some, again, not being satisfied with being lute for mar: Will leave the church BEVORR MASS 13 FINISHED. + This, also was wrong, and the reverend gentieman hoped it would not occur io future; for it net alone interrnpted others, but often cansed seandal—a thing that should be avoided on ail occasions. All know that, Wf anything, the time devoted to mars vas too stort; but those persons, it would seen think it too long to spend thre Squapters of hour in the week worshipping God. Wos It foo much to consecrate tits. short thne to yet, short as the tine is, people refuse t ‘is respect with the LAW OF ot he forgo is obligato wart from this obligation, ail shoud att holy sacrifice through love of Jesus Cl Who was offered @ sacrifice for the saivation of kind, Here the reverend preacher dwell at jength comply in HE CHURCH. that the hearing of mass ner pain of mortal ein, On t Fe and, ay at th before eleven o'clock, the hour at | ? Ant | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 4 popeheny, in the presence of i; } | im this world, all im the on the shamefu! habit among men calling them- seives Christians of blaspheming the name of Jesus. ies is avoided; but is continually practised in the presence of GOD AND WIS ANGELS, ‘Thus it would seem that men respect the creatare more than they do the Creator. Tie second precept ppren us commands us to-honor the name of God. ‘he tirst p “pt tells us to believe in God—in no false God, but in the only true aud living God, It is not cnough to believe in God, but we must respect THE NAME OF GOD, This, unfortunately, is an age of blasphemy to a reat extent. When men pass along the streets of ‘ho city they hear the youth, scarce able to lisp, uttering oaths that would shock the stoutest in other tines. Old men too, on the brink of the rave, soon to Srprcens the presence of their ‘aker, may be heard taking His name in vain, as if ee Were never to render an account to Him of their impious language. This practice of cursing and blaspheming was the most horrid one that could well he imagined. The most wonderful part OF it is that it does no earthly good whatever to the Dissuhemer. It is not only a degrading, but it is an 'y USELRSS VICE, Besides, people should not forget that the course ot God never leaves the house of the blasphemer. People coutd not expect to be blessed by God when they desecrate His name. Saul, on his way to per- secute the Christiana, became, by the grace of , the noblest advocate of the name of Jesus, By God’s grace all could imitate the glorious Apostle, and none should fail in imploring of Heaven that race so necessary to salvation. The name of jesua is 80 venerated that the sacred Scriptures & by Mention of. that Name every knee must end in HEAVEN, RARTH AND HELL! So sacred is this holy Name that it strikes terror into the evil spirits.” How is man saved? By vir- tue of the holy name of Jesus, The eloquent and reverend gentleman said he mentioned these things now that his hearers, being convinced of the a of blasphemy, would induce their children to join THE NEW SOCIETY, This society has for its object the honoring of the name of Jesus, and it is to be called “The Society of the Sacred Name of Jesus.” ‘Train up the youth in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it. As the plant inclines in the beginning so will itafterwards grow up. The funda- mental prinetple of this new society i devotion to the-Sacred Name, an object all good Catholics should be most eager to accomplish. By means of tis society not alone wili blasphemy be, toagreat extent, put a sto] » but obscene dis- courses and other vile prac 8 Will also cease, Hence, all siould enroll themselves at once in the soclety. All should check this terrible habit of blasphoming—d, ¢., all who ave addicted to it. In the early ages of the Chureh persons bent the knee even when writing the name of Jesus on paper, and now, at the present time, we should honor Jesus stillmore, ‘The reverend gentl to join the society in St. Paul's ‘Thursday, at eight o'clock, when Ve Drennan will deliver an addyess, SERVICES AT BABYLON, L. 1. nae 3 |, ON NeXt y Key, Father The Oldest Church Organization on Long Island—The Results of Right and Wrong Doing—Sermon by Rev. James MeDou- gall, Jr. Banyton, L. 1., August 25, 1872, It is not generally known that the Presbyterian Soclety of this village, which is now thronged with visitors from New York and Brooklyn, was formed acentury ago, end is probably the oldest religious organization of that denomination on Long Island, They have recently evected a spacious and neat. edifice, furnished it with a good organ, and two years since ealied the Rey, James McDougall, Irs from Brooklyn, to supply its pulpit. He is a young man of culture aud more than ordinary pulpit ability. He preached an able discourse this morning from Galatians vi, 7 and 8—“Be not decetved; God is not mo¢ked; for whatsoever a man soweth that Shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sow- eth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life ever- lasting.” In his opening remarks the preacher said that the expression, “Be not deceived,” Is a note of warning, calling attention to the impor- tance of what is about to be said. We have next Ged's law for human conduct; that there is an in- variable and indissoluble connection between actions and thelr results—a connection of cause and effect. As every seed contains in itself by God's ordination the determining principle of its own tmerease and harvest, so is it with the. lives and actions of men. Whatever you do you Shall hear from it again. It will come up, and it will make no mistake. Corn does not come up wheat, This law is of universal application. In the natural world the springing of seeds does not depend at all upon the intention of the sewer, or whether he be in earnesi or in sport, or reckless or calculating. or if he go away and forget what he hagsown. The seeds come up just the same. So with human conduct, Alike your most deliverate and most hasty actions, your best and worst. You may repent bitterly the next moment; bo matter, you must reap. You are appalled by an unexpected and calamitous result; but by scrutinizing it carefully you may recognize the harvest of a long-forgotten sowing. That hor- rid, rank and noxious weed, polluting and poison- ing all its neighborhood, was a most innocent look- ing seed. Bodo the consequences of our actions oftimes exceed our wildest hopes or direst fore- bodings. If good then yood perhaps a hundred fold to your delighted and blessed surprise; but if evil, then evit to your consternation and despair. Secondly, this law of God for human conduct is also inevitable; wherefore the Apostic says, “God is not. mocked."’ All sorts of men are here warned that God is not to be trifed with; that He cannot he ctr. cumvented or outwitted in respect to this or any of His appointments. The Eastern magi were too smart for Herod, They mocked hin and disre- garded his command, and yet kept out of his reach, And this word of Scripture suggests that men attempt this very thing with God. Many pass their lives in the hope that they can successiully mock Him; that by shrewdness or craft, or artilice, they shall not indeed sow as they a If God says, “Tie way the transgressor is hard,” men reply in their he #, “It is hard only for the weak, the simple; the wise, the sharp, the strong—these may transgress and yet their way not be hard.” The speaker here, at some leugti, illustrated the methods by which evil men endeavor to delude themselves into the belief that God can be success- fully mocked in violating the laws of health, of na- ture aud of society. In al! those cases it is the men themselves who are mocacd—who deceive and be- fool themselves. Judge, too, with what teciings the Lord on High must contemplate those who per- sist in sinning against Him, trusting to their adroit- ness or perhaps their impudence to get clear at last. We get -# view of this in thoge wondrous words, spoken but once in the Bible— “He that sitteth in the Heavens = shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision,’ If men would but set this down as a fact that God cannot be mocked, that they must reap as they sow, then might we expect to witness a different line of conduct. What is wanting in most men's lives is the clement of responsibility, the clear and assured A po bebe of meeting, face to face, ever. action, and of answering to God and to man for ail its long train of consequences. If this were present we should see men sover and careful, walking in the fear of God and in preparation for their final account. In speaking of sowthg to the flesh and reaping corruption or sowing to the spirit and reaping Ife everlasting, he said that, amid all pos- sible forms and under al) disguises, there wore really but two kinds of life, but two species of actions. All life and conduct either has or has not in it the element of endurance. Men reap from their sowing either life or death, There is but the one principle which can preserve human achievement irom corruption, here expreased by the word “spirit,” the principle of vital plety. Everything which springeth from the natural wan is natural aud earthly, and therefore corraptibic. It has not in it the seed of life everlasting. In this paseage the Spirit gives usa figure of two won- drous felds into which all seeds of men's lives are sown. Every man soweth either into the fest or into the spirit. Ol! wondrous Held the flesh, satu- rated with the unfailing principle of death and corruption, in which all seeds sown come up, in- deed, fair and strong and rank, but come up to wither at last, to become pestilent and noisome | Oh, wondrous field the spirit, imbued with life, where the smallest, tenderest seeds spring up with immortal vigor! The speaker then sketched w panoramic view of the abodes, the pursuits and the activities, Of men, and remarked that the recording angel, touchin and = test. img all things with his infallible wand, wrote upon each ove either the word ‘“ife’ or “death.” Plainly, you must take your choice be- tween these two—to sow to tie fesh or to the spirit. You, whose te and roots of life are all eld of the fesh, see just What and ouly what you can make of life; see to what it must ajl come, corruption. This iz not au Pete n| appointments it is the Jaw stamped upon all nature from the beginning; that every plant shall bring forth seed after its kind, Settle tin your minds that sin musi, bear evil fruit, that the way of the transgressor must be hard, l1 not at ‘rst Men eutely afterwards, Understand not only that the harvest must be reaped but that you your- self must be the reaper. And in the cholce of this figure of weh and ‘vost We have afearful sug. gestion ol the imerease,the multipliestion of evil consequences to him whose life ia evil. it is) harvest, thirty, sixty, or # hun. dred fold. Lastly, he Considered the assur. aee there is here tor those who in patience and hope are sowing to the Spirit; you shall of the Spirit reap life everiasting. Your Ie is united with Christ's life. His spirit imbues all your actions, making them imperishable, The spcaker When HMustrated how tho luture blessedness of the saints would bea true reaping of the harvest which lad been sown in this ufc. Is it mot becaave the 26, 1872.—TRIPLE- SHEET, i ‘ is Le Kindness, of love, OF gentionens, of rene: , Of. MrRe » Of re) others’ Joy, with others a nope shall largely make our blessedness there, that we are bidden to plant and cultivate them here, Thus sowing to. the Spirit we shall directly and literally reap life ever- lasting. “Ye who sow in tears shall reap in joy.” In crear pos work you are connnitting Tmperish- able is to the garden of the Spirit, ana your narvest is coming on apace, PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES AT NEW- BURG, ON THE HUDSON. . An Inieresting Sermon by the Rev. T. Sproule on Salvation and the Saviour’s Love. Yesterday morning the venerable Rev. T. Sproule, Pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Newburg, on the Hudson, choge for, his text the sixty-third chapter and first verse of Isaiah, which is as fol- lows:—“Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments, from Bozah? this that is glorious in His apparel, travelling in the greatuess of His strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” The speaker m his opening remarks farther quoted the sayings of Moses and hia people whem sorely aMicted and tempted ,to rebel against the Almighty, and showed the hopeless state of man- kind without the hope of salvation, and possessing the elements of strength to obtain tt, Salvation implies peril, and it would be absurd to ignore that those who need it standin peril. Rich and poor, great and small—all require the divine protection if they hope to come within the heaventy portals wien earth and all that is carihy must be discarded. Christ came to st that which was lost, and by His benignant influence helped to convert the heart of erring mankind, be it never so adaman- tine. There ts not A SOUL, IN THIS CONGREGATION who can honestly say that his heart does not re- quire to be changed, and we need all to be vescued from that abyss of sin and degradation into which our naturally evil dispositions have phinged us; and we know that Christ, whom He justifies, glorl- fles, My brethren, the unhatiowed past of our lives arrays itself in solemn dignity before our eyes, and we feel that if we desire salvation, we must look, to quote the words of om text, to Hh nighty to save.’? Christ can save rom ourselves, and He alone can do it, and He can make the scarlet mantle of sin white as the | driven wool. He is willing to save sinners, aud those who put their trust in Hin will always find consolation and help in their hour of need Parents | Would have their childven virtuous, but withont the divine help theiy wishes would be vain, and it is necessary for them to realize their own and thelr children’s weakness, AN AGONIZING CHOICE, We are allecalied upon to decide between onr love of God and cur duty and the wickedness of this world, Lremember onee reading of a Scottish clergyman who was attempting to rescue his wife aud babe from a watery grave alter the vessel In wiich they were had been driven on a lee shore. The bold id and used almost superhuman efferts* o who were near and dear to him or hich beckoned. him,-as it were, to make renewed efforts. But human strength is finite, and the overtexed man was_ rapid losing is strength, when the idea curred to him that if he abandoned infant to the deep he might save its He did so and saved bis helpmate’s life. Can any human tongue depict the agony undergone tn that awitul moment ? Can pen describe the father’s pe petual remorse? No. The deed was done, Asai Yitice had to be made, and the infant was offered up. The choice for you, my brethren, is an extreme one, There ts no meeting the question halt! way— you must either be with your Divine Master or against him. Christ will save all who come ta him im the true. spirit of repentance. Wis resources are — boundless, His pity without, limit, and He can save to the uttermost. Men would do Wisely if they wonld pray often for the government of our country and those of other lids, so that the affairs of this World may be carried on in the spirit of our Saviour's light, so that truth, humor and fidelity may reign paramount, The history of the world and the Church proves that salvation has come acd ide to those who sought it. You remember, doubtless, the question of the trav- eller to the Bedouin of the desert, who was sitting hefore is tent, to ask if any other travellers had passed that way lately, The Bedouin stated that travellers had passed undoubtedly, as he had seen the recent impress of their footstepa in the desert. So you, in like fashion, must feel sure of What you are about, when you transfer your worldly minded heart to God. Our Savigur difes the widow's tears, comforts the smitten sister, and gave consolation to the Wecbing fiends at Bethany, quickens the dead and is Lord of Lords and King of Kings, for He came to this world of ours his life. WITH HEAVEN'S © Te identified Himself with tho: for He saw the end from the heginnt the cup to the bitter Ice: During the wars of Scotland a story 1s related of a detachment of soldiers, who were attracted by hearing an infant's cries issuing fom a small cot- tage. Entering it they found the father lying in & pool of bieod, shot through the heart, and the mother likewise a corpse. Hanging to her ' i was the child, trying in vain to draw intik, Now, had not God directed these men engaged in the lurid crowd of warriors, that child, who was stbsequentiy adopted by the regiment, would bave perished. We must cling to Christ as that poor babe cinng to its mother, and our Heavenly Father, when life shail have left itis earthly tenement, wilt receive ua among his own. me to save, aud drank pea: Se eee Scenes Early in tho Morning—Pickpockets Van- quished—Catching a Shark—The Churches— Dr. Pierson on the Old and New Worlds— Agrippa and His Refusal to Accept Christ and the New Testament. Sr. James Horn, Far Rockaway, August 25, 1872. f As @arly as five o'clock yesterday morning hun- dreds of people were amphibious enough to ven- ture into the surf, and their teeth v made to chatter andibly for their daring, the water being | ley cold. Nevertheless they withstood the freezing clement nobly, and noses of scarlet hue were mavte almost as blue as indigo in consequence, In anti- cipation of something serious three doctors were strolling lefsurely about, but brandy and coarse towels upset their hopes of exchanging phials of Medicine for greenbacks, TAKING A SHARK. Three fishing boats took a westerly course, and had taken considerable menhaden, when the occupants heard a cry, “A shark! a shark!” from the foremost boat, Al lines were out, and the middle boat hooked him, while the other boats ran up on etther side of him. He con- tinued to run, carrying the boat with him, and haa reached the entrance to Jamaica Bay when the boat grounded, The oiler boats came up, and one of the party shot him six times. When taken on the bow of the boat he measured nearly cight fect. | Four of the pistol bails had taken ete ‘This was A good piece Of sport for the fishermen, THR SUNDAY VISiTONS Rockaway would be a miserg Mr. Norford, of the Long Island Railroad, gives splendid Sunday accommodation to the thonsands of oppressed city people. Mr. Douglass, o! the Southside road, feels the inadequacy of his road deeply. Insufficient cars and engines have made the roiling stock almost dangerous to human life, place but for ning hourly without examination, and when | accidents happen an investigat proves + it to have been caused by the worn-out condition of. the rvlling stock, The President is to blame Jor this, his desire being to pay a divi- dend at ail hazards, He will not run Sunday trains, | despite the general demand for them, The num- ber of visilors over tha Long Isiand Railroad yes- | terday, by actual count at the ticket office, was 6,742, Not the slightest accident happened and the running time was excellent, tempted to work: the cars, but were brought to arief by Detective Heidelberg. He arrested James Dubois, of Carmingstreect, New York, for picking the pocket of Richard Hennesev, of 237 Bast Fifty seventh atrect. The pochetvuok, containing $99, was found on his person aud he was locked up. IN THE CHURCHES, The peo chareh, especiatty the ladtes, who are present in large numbers in splendid attire, In the FE opel church yesterday the cougre; jon Way pucked a most to suffocation, Dr. Pierson preached front Acts of the Aposties, Nxvi., 2 unto Paul, Almost thou per Christian.” The reverend yentle cent textual criticism insists pon changing the time-honored signiicance of se Words from that Of an honest, earnest utterance tnto that of an insin- cere and cven contemptuous declara ou of @ sensual Working, proud of his wealth and dignities, The sheer of a fool wil often drive man from his. prin. ciples, which ought, wader every pressure, to who | Cara sent out in the morning are kept run- | The thieves at- | pie are very precise about attending | ‘shen Agrippa said | i hold him as with hooks of real loyalty and love Whole horizoa of sneers ing evaporations, _. declaration ia solved into a sneer, but the le did not so re- py toit. We are. int in this chapter of \ he Acts of the Apostles to a strange meeting of the | Old and New Worlds, (On the one side we see ti | stately and proud oman Empire; reas of t) | World, with her a ra, its pe , and bet tic by which it had subdued the worka » We see Festus, the Roman Goyerner, in his super. _ cilious pride of ofice; we see Agri in the arro- Bance of hisinherlied digmities, and we sca Bernice with the gloss of wealth and power upon her fou) enormities. On tie other side we see +t ver: = man, friendless, moneylesa, despised and a che med © prisoner, #tus scenia fo have looked on this poor . enthusiast with mingled resyect and amused and * somewhat scorniul condescension, But the bright + ministers oi God, whose glories, if visibly revealed _ for & moment, Would lave blasted the musisters of the empire, not to say their tinsel, ne powers ot | the world to come Were made known to Pes tus in the person of the Apostle, though Festus recognized them not. Other governors ; Were occupied with their ordinary duties ot earth, and the unseen government of th one true God met them not, as here in visible encounter, Festus and = Agripp: were here to meet the Supreme Sovereign. T must receive Him in the person of this strange representative. They are singled out for this spe- chal paatoge and bigh trial. in their hearts the world’s show and glitter and the bright truth ot Christ shall mieet and struggle, and hy that strng- le shall be measured and determined, Paul's words of heavenly wisdom were to him madness only to be scoitid at; but Agrippa, how might affect contempt, had in tis mor ness the power to struggle against c the painfal stinging of religions feei Jewlsh descent, nis knowledge of J | prepared him fot the “Apostie’s ngs) The great grandson of the first Herod, whose sword had drunk — the of the | inno etilehem; the nephew oi} ‘od Who had si; Japtist son of Herod, the king who 1 James, th brother of John, and Peter also, He was expert tn all the customs and questions whieh were among the Jews, and from hin wv > hidden none of those thin: whereof Paul spoke. Me contd welgh the Ayozt arguments drawn from the Old Testament, for le belleved tn the Prophets. fe was fanidilar dt least | with the outline of the mighty scheme of God's gov- | ernment. ‘ihe expectation of the coming Messiah Was not strane to him, so that what madness to the Roman Pesias was, er ought to have been, the wisdom of God to the dewish Agrippa.’ Agrippa Was but seventeen at his facuer’s dcath, and tie foul whore of indulged pas- ston “had not yeb corrupted the springs of tis moral nature. Young as he was, and early clad in the purple of kingly vale, iife bad looked in upon him in some of ik sterner and more appil- ling characters. The briiiant lie of the great founder of his lime, Hered the was darkened aud embittered through ali its cow by unre- lieved suspicion and misery, and had ended in ex- r linary ignominy and agony, Paul spake to 18 Hever man before had spoken, Mis Inmer mutn responded to the Anostie’s words as to words he had never heard bere, Impulses were awak- ened whieh threatened to overmaster lis levity und scorn; but he resisted the warning. Like sinall vessels on tie sea, Which at night appear for a moment in the. meonlight and ave them lost in the darkness, Agrippa stinds brigity before as for amoment and then vanishes into gloom, He lived for many years afterwards, bat only to suite shame, and, it it fs to be feared, ouly to sin ¢ until death, Let us seek mor ne} na habit- ually the aid and guidance of tie blessed Spirt of | God. The more deeply reflective and spiritually | sensitive we are the more shail we feel our need of thhy aid and guidance, ‘The very answers to our prayers are dangerous to us. The voice of Godin the Serlpt 8, the volee of our own conselence, the ogdinan of our holy religion, atl are full of dan- | | ger to us beeanse of the deceitiulncss of our own hi ts We all wu continually to | pray for the aid and guidance of ° that | Holy Spirit who alone can enable i te perceive and know such things as we ought to do, and ean secure for us grace pa f to fuith the sume, so that im principle, in vim aud in cadeavor, if not in actual attainment, we may be not alimost, bur altogether, Christians. FATURDAY NIGHT'S FESTIVITIES, There were hops af nearly all the hotels on Sav wrday night, ‘The Grant Opera House troupe gave rath | agement it fall | which followed, however, Wa large hall was filled, and the Ninth Regiment Band j lent much spirit. to the scene by its | splendid mastic, Promivent among the mul- titnde were Frank Swift, wife and daughter; Join Methugh and fa ir, Artur, Mr. Commer | and lady, Miss Swe r 4 ie y, th igney, Miss Josie ‘Taggart, clag and lady, hae ‘thd ‘Neil, ao Wagner, Jal a lady, Mr. C. E. Brown and tady, J. M, Sickle lady, Miss Kate t =m pey Charis lady, Miss Callahan, Miss Kinsey, Miss Cornell, | Nugh King, J.P. Butier, M chbery, Dr. Duly, | George Lalor, P. Swi orge Cahtl and lads, | Mr. Young and lady, of New Yi Join Cassin ond y b, York; | lady, of Albany; Miss Matfleld, Jama NEW YORK CITY. + c concert at the St, James, bul three f suecess, a grand enec hop The | Eumia Ostrander, a litte girl, five years of age, whose parents live af 39 Broome street, on Pri- | day last, while playing with matehes during the absence of her mother, set fre to her clothes and was so severciy burned that death ensued on saturday. Coroner Schirmer held an inquest over the remaina, Thomas Rockwell, forty-two yeurs of ave, a team? ster by occnpation, on Friday list applied for ad- mission to Bellevne Hosp itel, saying at the same time that he had been kicked in the stomach by « horse, A post-mortem examination showed tha death resulted from rupture of the intestines. Cor. } oner Schirmer held an Inquest. ' Corner Schirmer way yesterday called to the Morgue to hold yn inquest on th ody of Atzustia Bowen, a youth of only nineteen years. He wah drowned on Friday morning whiie bathing in the ck at the foot of Sixth acized with one were severa! wit im avenue B, near F ter entering the Ww: wa in the case, De ghth street, one of the Jads on board the fell over- eciately. He was in the act of unhooking one of tite fore stay_ hoard on Saturday Morning, and sunk r a, At bs by one of the block » All possible me recover the body, but no trae thougit, must have been acciden. tinued, as he taken to iid be dis. covered, The unfortunate young inan was ninetven years of age, and & native of New Jersey. LEGAL NOTICES. é ALEXANDE ‘DERSON AND | rerict, wiministracor ot Wil- th Tn Court of Equity th Caroling, on 2 4 Wilhians, . h ail od, v8, Sal avd (he represe Balthazar & Renndequin and the repre Alexander 4 reli, Isis. jt of Balih Wanted as th ay sorviy <M of Revivoe, fled 12%, chee Perse war intof- Heit tee i No, 23 Broad st | SCharleston, 8 CU will receive attenti | pas as 8. ¥. TUPPI Cuaneston, 8. 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