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4 RELIGIOUS. (Glad Tidings of Great Joy Proctaimed in the Pulpits of the City and Suburbs. —_+——_— ‘CHRISTIANITY AND CROWDED CHURCHES. ee os Dr. Farley on tho Value of Christian Ordinances. Mr. Hepworth’s Return to Steinway Fiall. Frothingham Discourses on the Serpent, the Tempter and the Deliverer. Beecher and the Chimera of Hu- man Perfection. ‘Tho Festival of the Holy Rosary Oommem- orated at the Catholic Churches. ALL SOULS CHUROH, God’s Ways Not Our Ways—"ilsfortune, and How It Should Be Acoopted—Ser= mon by Dr. Bellows. ‘The attendance at Dr. Bellows’ church yesterday ‘was vory large, and the music, as usual, fine. The sermon was preached by Dr. Bellows, who chose for his text the words found in the fourteenth chap- ter, ninth verse, of St. John—‘“ie that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Why say ye, then, Bhow us the Father?” ‘These words inthe Gospel of St. Jobn, beloved brethren, clearly show us that through Christ glone can we reach the Father, If we wish to know tho Father we must approach Him through ‘the Son, whom He has sent to instruct and bring us to Him, Consequently, those who do not seek and know Ohrist cannot and do not know God, for the Father and Son are one and inseparable. Natural religion teacles that a God, @ Supreme Being, lives and watches over the des- tinies of man and of the world. This belief was held in the olden times; the ancients believed in Jove and approached him as father of men, the earth, of things and their attributes, and in so doing acknowledged him as the intinite creator and it il E F i 3 i # 2553 integrity to he will save iumapott or no honesty. noblest deeds of men have been actuated not courage, for courage may come of reckiess bravado, but by self-devotion, by aself-sacrificing devotion to others, See the example of the sentinel at Pompet who stood immovably at his post while the ashes of Vesuvius calcined his bones within his tron armor. See the Athenian woman whe was pat tothe rack to expose a secret on which the ives of her friends hung, aud bit of her tongue to Keep that seeret safe, See the pilot on Lake Erie who stood at his post till the boat went ¢own, and the engineer who was ground against the hot iron of his locomotive in disaster, ou may say these are idealistic, abstract notions of honor and Of #elf- devotion; that they would not answer in Wall street or Rronayar but L tell you they wilt answer here, in every situation in life, as they #0 well answer in the eternal courts of Heaven, OHUROH OP THE MESSIA. Dr. Farley, of Brooktyn, on Communion, The attondance at the Church of the Measiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, was at yesterday morning's services, aa uaual, large and fashionable. Rey. F. A. Parley, D. D., of Brooklyn, occupied the pulpit. It being Commu- nion Sunday the subject of hia sermon was “Com- munion,” as based upon John vi., 63:—“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the Mesh proftetn nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit end they are life.’ I propose, he began, tu take the text from its immediate connection, and to use it as expressing an important truth bearing on tho occasion. The words state a general principic upon which the VALUE OF TN LORD'S SUPPER and of all the religious ordinances may be tested. We often hear tkat the Lord's Supper does not de- serve the prominence it holds; for if it did it would exert @ more obvious and positive influence than It now does. There is an intrinsic difficulty in thus splitting up the religious character and attatn- menis of individual disciples and attributing to one or another special cause this or that trait or quality, One thing seems abundantly clear, at all events: that, exposed as we are continually to such a variety of teinptations, we can hardly have too many safeguards. From within and with- out, openly aad im disguise, the tempter assails us, The sout well needa a goodiy armor. No doubt the juestion should be considered by ali, in what does the value of the Lora’s Supper consist? Not in ita outward pomp and ceremony. No; it is the easen- tial that lies beneath, and, could we but seo It, which demands the soul’schief attention and de- serves its profound regard. THE FORM, AS CHRIST ESTABLISIIED IT, 1s, nevertheless, most beautiful and fit. Unt- versality Was as necessary as perpetuity, Well and wisely did He see that by aaking His disctples, everywhere and to the end of time, simply to ‘do je = 53 this”—this one, in itself, little, very littl |} act—but ever and always to do it in remembrance of Himself, He should lay the foundations of a far more enduring, far more expressive, far more universal than any other, Ages have passed; empires have risen, nourished and fallen; generation on generation of | men have lived and’ died; the Church of Christ | then iepresented by a small band of simp | minded, timid disciples, now rules continents, a | the van in the march of human growth and civill- zation, and to this hour that little act, that simple providence. Jove was merely a figure of our Goa, who at that time had been almost forgotten, but whose fame had lived in indistinct leg Miri to inatruct the world as to t 1, whom the Wicked and siniul world had forge This Goa that was to be revealed had ways that were not their ways, but sit) e all for the best. He was # God that we were all to look up to and adore and admire as “Our her.” We are His children, and although | He does not grant us all we ask for, yet He has our good in view, and withholds what Wwe ask tor be cause it would not benetit usin a spiritual way, For instance, if we were anxious to become rich, and He knew that the acquisition of such riches would endanger our salvation, He would not grant our desires, for the reason that He has spread be- fore Hit the book of the fu'ure and sees that we Bhould be ruin I answered, Ww ot think Gor more thay we do our natural fathers when they re- fuse to gratify ous ittic Whims ana fancies, t y cake: re usal oO: Our parents to grant our confidence in them and ve them all the m especially when we see our brotiers who iiave bo Wish ungratified, and who in @ sptrity nse, and oitimes ta a Worldly sense, are worse ives. Pov- erty is a purifier, as wee © every d. men who have money plenty can all their desires, Jegitimate or otherwise as tie poor man must inake a virtu petites and desir When G death or of he has done so No! for if we ex- amine onrselves we suall plainly see that his chastisement is just and that we have bronght 1t on ourseives by some neglect of duty or fagrant al reg rd for His precepts, which should be the sample by which to model our lives. When our | ig chastised us we might for the time feel hat we were injured, but when we looked the af- fair over we could not help seeing that they were justified and that we were in the wrong and that he punishment was indicted for our good and ac- cept it as such. ment; it is intended for our good, and as Christians and followers of Christ we should accept it asa benefit, not as a curse—as @ kindness rather than @ crucity. ssity and curb his ap- isits us with sickness, that POURTE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Dr. Chepin on Love as the Essence and Substance of the Divine Law. Dr. EB. H. Chapin preached at his church, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, yesterday morning to a large and fashionable congregation. He chose as his text the thirty-fith verse of the sixth chapter of Luke :—“But love ye your enemies and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shal! be great and ye shall be the children of the Highest, for he is kind unto the un- thankful and to the evil.” Human nature, said the reverend gentieman, is the meeting point of two dierent tendencies of life. One is the lower, baser motive that looks not beyond the earth; the other ts the spiritual natore, which looks higher and hopes better. Man is a class of being not mineral, Bot Vegetable and not even all animal, There are | evidences throughout his existence of his superior natural position in the sight of the Creator. The standard au dition of the Highest life are found im the fact { man is Made th the image of his Maker, and that he i# but little below the angels, The statement here, “Ye shall be children of the Highest,” bears a pecnilar significance. All men are, in & ceriain sense, the children of the High- €st; not the creatures merely, like the lower ani- mais, but the children, Even jn their meanest condition—whether they know God or not, prodigais and ovtesste—men for whom nobody cares abd who care not for themselves—ail are made in the image of Goc, and all are the recipients in some Way of the unbounded love which God be- his children, In his expression regard- vve for all men Christ has penetrated the e moral code, It 18 easy enough to u Whom you expect to receive—it wy enough (0 be kind to those who are kind to tat Christ bas enid, e your enemies. Pleas them that curse you; do good to them that hate you.” It is one beautiful circumstances of Christ's m earth that he did bot pul himself to the old | Jewiah system then p not oppose the id no ho- ause is He i ther without a .’ for He «. the root of " rs, of His mission. lic purpose is and some evil, wil glorified himselt 4nd done no harm. M among our OW; friends who are just that Phariseet Men who y a \egat honor- auly meet all, money engagements, men who ve no canse fdr scandal, Who juifli all the moral we required of them, aod, Without rising to a gen erous thought oF a are prove to believe themeeives very i +r Christians, Is it not tre- quentiy the case, too, that such men, having ac- = the art of geung and of hoardiag. and bet a of the Very Mighest commercial value—o many ike requirements, mea who having, toteed, an arithmetical reputation ; is it Bot to true that euch arithmetical reputations | covers Multitude of sine? There are such men— Meek FOU) BOd Contracted hearts—who ait down no offence that the law can aod Gattering watiage | do hold Of, keoping Fespectability abactalched, wee that they do good lecanse the: harm. mon as Wf God, who place hore with talents and opporiuuitien expected to be simply hariless' They do their duty y thelr axes—cutting down as much paying out little as they can, Wing taxes i# not the life that j is Mot the morality of the overfiows the valleys about It. essence and substunce of the highest lite ts unending, Gndaunted, wochiied by wtveraity. enough to love wii mankind wiea elr own smooth calf. | : fe? was sent | hough our desires are not | urd or unjust no | So itis also with God's chastise- | ceremonial tn which we take part to-day, has kept, and is destined stil) to k f in the minds of | increasing millions, thetr bl ed Saviour, their as- cended and glorified Lord. EVERYTHING WHICH 13 ESSENTIAL must be beneath the forms. We may take the ad and the cup sitting, kneeling or standing, in our accustomed seats or at the altar; but we | must observe the spiritual meaning or significance of the act of Communion, the ordinance as Christ ordained it, and the feelings, emotions or purposes with which it is accompanied. In both cases “it is the spirit that quickenth.’’ But what is the spirit- ; val meaning or significance of this act of Com- munion in the Lord's Supper? Surely no | true believer can doubt of this. It | is the — showin; forth, celebrating, keep- ing freshly and vividly before us the Lord’s death, suffered by Him for our salvation. It | is the commemoration of our Lord's great self sacrifice for our sakes—a life of self-denial, holl- ness, labor and love, crowned by the agony and the cross. But there is no mystic charm or efficacy in these mere materia! elements or symbols of bread and wine to quicken my soul. “It is the spirit that quickeneth.’’ Let none despise or depreciate this blessed institution as though it were an empt ceremonial. It hasbeen the comfort and strength of many a subdyed and hearty penitent. TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET METHODIST CHUROH, Sermon by Bishop Harris—The Necessity for Regularity In Church Attendance. The Rey. Bishop Harris preached yesterday morn- | ing in the Methodist church in Twenty-seventh | street, situated between Second and Third ave- | nues. The gist of nis sermon was as follows :—He regretted the mistake which many ministers of the Gospel make in endeavoring to make themselves “popular” and gather “A CROWDED CONGREGATION,” rather than endeavoring to wean from the lowest depths of the people those who had gone astray from the fold. A ministry of mere talent and eio- quence is of but little use and is utterly futile un- less it possesses stamina and perseverance. A church in any community, rich or poor, ts a power. It has an influence over all, whether right-minded or evil-disposed. There is a belief existing in the minds of many heads of families that if they send their children to Sabbath school they are attending to their parental dutics properly; but home instruction and clever introduction into the QUAINT MYSTERIES of religion are also necessary. It is also incumbent upon members of the Church to attend divine wor- ship regularly, and not only as occasion suits con. venience. Perhaps the exhortation missed by non- attendance is the very one which would strike | nearest home to the heart of the sceptical or doubt- | ing man. Thomas a Didymus lost much of his prestige by his unbelief, and vacillation in re- | ligion was most strongly to be condemned. The | reverend preacher would rather have few in a congregation—persons who would appear at CHRIST'S ALTAR on Sunday, whether the weather was sunsbiny and fair or stormy and dull—who were true to their | faith as the needle to the pole—than a regiment of irreguiar devotees. In conclusion, the Bishop re- ferred in most eloquent language to the mission of Christ upon earth, and earnestly exhorted his listeners to support by their giffs the Church of | which Christ was the originator and through which we might alone hope to acquire everiasting saiva- tion. | 8T. ROSE OF LIMA. | Sermon by The Reverend Father Rogers | om The Unity of Catholicity in Faith | and Government—By What Marks the | True Church Is Determined=Holiness; Universality and Apostolicity Its Chief | Characteristics. | The neat and imposing church of St. Rose of , Lima, in Cannon street, was densely crowded | yesterday, at the half-past ten o'clock mass, The occasion Was Onein which the parishioners were exceedingly interested and it must be sald they gave evident manifestation of their earnestness by the large numbers in which they congregated, ‘The mass of the Sunday was celebrated by Rev, Father Daly, attended by ten acolytes. The organist and choir performed their part with un- objectionable skill. The great feature of the day, however, was the sermon preached by the REV, FATHER ROGERS, | Of Brighton, Mass, who showed very great ora- torical power throughout his whole discourse and gave strong evidence of more than ordinary abil- ity. The reverend preacher, after reading the ap- pointed gospel of the Sunday, chose his text from St. Matthew xvi., 17 Thou art Peter and upon ‘this rock T will build my Church, and behold I am with you ali days even unto the consummation of the world,” THE TRUE CHURCH, sald the reverend gentleman, ts one, is holy, 1s catholic and is apostolic, and tf any Church be without those characteristics it cannot be the true one. The Roman Catholic Church bears those dis- Unguishing features most prominently. Its unity | to faith and government is an incontrovertibie fact which has not failed to elicit the highest admira- tion and warmest enlogies even trom its moat bitter assailants, The mysterious band which keeps all its members united under the sacred shadow of the seli-same religious worsiip in ail parts of the globe is one of the grandest characteristics of its exist- ence, Everywhere a Catholic feels at home—e where the holy sacrifice is offered he kneels b the altar of his faith with the same devotion, erence, confidence and love. THE UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH in its government is no less admirable, It ts, as tt were, one sacred kingdom, where submission to | authority is never wanting—where a! look up to oue by v) and see in him the (rue representative of Jesus Christ. fhrough him the Church speaks, Through him tt defines, appoints and anathema- tizes,” while all Catholics bow in meek submission to its decisions, What union could be more obvious than this. This surely | a9 indissolubie unity, and the secret of that | strength, which has always peacefully ablded wich no Yet still retains her youth, her freshness and her She cannot err because the spirit of truth is with her and will abide witu her for ever, Father his discourse by a beautiful ay to the Chureh, its Apostles and its founder. The reverend geatieman will lecture in Se Cecper Institute on Friday eveuing next, the 11th instant, when he will, no doubt, meet .with a moat fatic: reception, 8T. STEPHEN'S OHUROH. Morart's “Twelfth Masa’ was sung by the choir of this church yesterday morning at tho high mass. ‘The masa is a long one and, being sung by the ordl- nary choir, taxed the singers to the utmost. Mr, Danforth, the organist, displayed consummato ability in endeavoring to make up for the absence Of an orchestra, without which this famous mass cannot be heard in all its ndeur, Miss Howson, the wee. and Miss Munter, the contralto, in the eolo8 that fell to each, pone up to their aver 4 and that 7 ern much. In the afternoon Nint's “Voapers” wero sung, Prazi's “Salve Regina” and Senehn “Tantum Ergo” belug features espectally ty The high mass waa soloneatea hy the Rov, Father McCready, After the frst Gospel a sermon was reached from the Goapel of the day by the Rev, ther Dursche, of Baltimore. This clergyman also preached in the afternoon at the laying of the corner stone, by the Rev. Dr. MoGlynn, of a new Gorman rch ut Melrose, Morrisanie, where the Key. Father Stumpo, recently of St. Stephen's, is pastor, HEPWORTH AT STEINWAY HALL. A Large and Fashionable Congregation— The Pastor Welcomed Home—A New Style of Roligion—Tho Duttos of Chris- tlans Irrespective of Sect--The EKerly Church and the Modern World—A Pro- found Prayer and an Unorthodox Sermon. The Summer solatice having passed the Rev. George Hepworth again appeared to minister to the wants of his parishionora yesterday at Stelnway Hall, The congregation of which Mr. Hepworth is the shepherd have rented Steinway Hall until the Jat of January, when they will take possession of ‘heir new edifice, which Is now being bullt for them at Forty-fifth street and Madison avenue. About two thousand persons were present, of all sects and denominations, with » large preponderanco of the fair sex, The services were opened by a fer- vent prayer from Mr. Hepworth, followed by a hymn which was sung by all present. Then Mr, Hepworth spoke as follows, taking for his text the loth chapter aud Ith verso of St, Matthew, as follows :— Behold! [sent you forth a sheep im the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. But beware of men, for thoy will deliver you up to the councils, and they wil! scourge you in theif synagogues. He said :—Jesus always talketh In metaphors and His Sgures aiways were chosen with singular apt- ness and were always Dacula efveotive, and in none more so than in the one chosen for this text. Under this metaphor lies a great truth—the meta- phor ot the wolfand the lamb, He came not to Yield, but to conquer; to subjugate Principalities and Powers. He came to put His own spirit into everything we were todo and say, In this meta- phor of the wolf and lamb you would think that the poor, simple lamb would lose. The world is great, and coarse in fibre; a gane in body and wolfsh in spirit; on the part of the world thero is avarice and baseness; {t comes to your door with the buts of its muskets and the points of its bayonets and at- tempts to batter itdown., The Gospel truth comes and knocks gently at your door, and leaves its teachings and its benedictions behind In a spirit of prayer and meekness. It is David against Goliath again—David with his sling and Goliath with his beam. And yet these five pebbles will bear more power than the weaver’s beam of tho giant. Armies haye come and gone, monuments have risen and have decayed, and thrones and Empires have spoken their words and passed away, The simple truth which was lit in Jerusalem has irradiated the world, making man_ better and purer and more ennobled. In the early Christian Church self-sacrifice was predominant. Worldly comfort, wives and children and kindred, everything that the Christian possessed had to give way to the service of Jesus, On one side the vast Roman world, with its teeming populaces, burning with hatred of the Christian, What spectacles those pap iy In the circus the Nem:van lions, hun- gry for four days, and Cwsar under the canopy with the immense concourse of pi pen 10 looking down on the sands, their bosoms filled with hatred of the Nazarene. The lion comes out, his eyes dimmed with hunger, and the captive fear. lessly Wnts | his fate. Ah! it was a brave thing tobe a Christian in those old days; to defy Cesar and his Empire, his altars and his false gods for the sake of the carpenter's son of Jerusalem, whom the persecuted Christian believed to be the omnipotent God, It costs nothing now to be a Christian ; there {s a sort of gentle optimism preva- lent. You have some one to say prayers for you; you pay your pew tax regularly and you shake hands with your minister and invite him to dinner once a month, then your duty is done. Now we Christians are not founded on that stone. We want work, earnest and energetic work, with consecrated hands and spirits. The true Chureh of Christ to-day does not consist of good music, of a fashionable congregation with nice gilded prayerbooks, of a popular preacher and acostly and beautiful edifice in which to worship. I think God looks down with anger upon such a Church, It js a dreadful mistake, Wherever there is @ body of men and women who worship the Lord Jesus with humble spirit and fervent prayer, whether in barn or stable, my brethren, there is the true working church. The eloquent preacher concluded by ad- vocating missionary effort. Mr. Hepworth stated that on next Sunday they would probably commence the work of their new Sunday school in tae vicinity of their new church, with competent teachers and a good superin- tendent. The congregation was then dismissed with the singing of a hymn and the benediction, LYRIC HALL Evil an Instrument of God=—The Ser- pent, the Tempter and the Delivercr= Sermon by O. B. Frothingham, Lyric Hall, on Sixth avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets, was yesterday morning filled bya large and an attentive congregation. After the usual prefatory exercises of prayer, read- Ing the Scriptures and singing—the latter of which was particularly fine—were concluded Rey, 0. B. Frothingham, the oMciating pastor, commenced his sermon, his subject being:—“The Soul of Good in Things Evil.” When God had made the world, he began, He said, “It is good.” Here isaconfession that the soul of goodness was the soul of the world. Men did not think of satan un- til they felt something satanic, The world, as they understood it, was good. Evil was but an instru- mentin the hands of God. It was for discipline. Nothing was so decidedly bad but the Hebrews thought it was from his administrating. He hard- ens Pharaoh's heart that Moses may lead the Is- raelites out of Egypt. This was the simple faith of the people; but as soon as the scene of existence became widened the problem became more compli- cated, For about three thousand years men have believed that there was some conflict between Rooa. and evil, but the good must finally conquer. fiat) Hf far as vila qe nue ot of the men of Chris- endom have reached, But there has been grow: @ feeling thas babii. SIN I3 A NONENTITY, but the shadow of goodness on the gronnd, This bellef came from a Pog def that refused a di- vided omnipotence; from picty that saw evil work out good from the uprising of the human con- science. It came ina thousand ways and from a thousand sources. Shakspeare says, through one of his characters, “We may gather honey from the weed, and make a moral of the devil himself,” “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” This faith is in the best of human hearts. The soul of GOODNESS 18 IN EVIL, The symbol of evil and of wisdom is the serpent, It is the symbol of life and of death, and its promises in the Garden of Eden are fulfiied. Eden was lost, but Jerusalem was found. The tempter was the deliverer. Theodore Parker says that the progress of humanity is marked by crimes. He meant not the crimes of the lower classes; he meant the crimes of a Cromwell, of a Hampden, of a Washington, One of the crying sins {8 the human sacrifice. it has cos hundreds of thousands of human lives, It vanished the Moors from Spain and the Huguenots from France. They took the priest, virgin and the most godly man. It was a privilege. With prayer and music and incantation they sacrificed their brothers, Was there not in this a spirit of good? And look at the persecution—no longer the torch and the burning pyre, but siander and THE COLD SHOULDER, Tt is an evil that will Inst a thousand years yet, and will curse mankind as long as it lasts, When — Phill Il, drove. the Moors from Spain he did not hate them. After further iilustrating this part of hia discourse, the Speaker proceeded to ask if there were an ‘eater evil than woman's disenfranchised condit ion, It is, he declared, @ national and a socialevil. It arrests the development of thousands of earnest souls, The son feels that the mother is not all she Could be; the husband feels tuat his wife is not allshe feels that it has not the.care- thoughtful daughters, RELIGION IN BROOKLYN. Brother Beecher’s Ungeometrical Beliof that in Faith the Half is Equal to the Whole—Tal- mage’s Advice to Doctors—Fathor Kicly's Story of the Rosary. PLYMOUTH OHUROH, Loving Kindness and Moroy—Christ Ac- cepting Half-Faiths, Half-Cries and Hal&Prayers—The Ohimora of Human Porfection Again—Relief the Precedent Condition of Miracles—Sermon by Henry Ward Beechor. Mr. Beecher preached his second morning ser- mon sinco his return yesterday, and from the text of St. Mark, ix,, 24:—“Lord, I believe; help thou my unbdelief.’ He commenced by saying that Mark in his Gospel gave more striking pictures than any other evangelist. It was by the use of single and strong words that his scenes started forth in their minutest details, He was evidently an eye witness of the facts which he records, Tho scene in question was minute not merely in regard to outwardness, but the passage has the samo sharp discrimination of details in respect to the inward state of man. The disciples had been over- mastered in the chaos of demoniac possession. ‘The victim was @ mere child, who had from birth been subjected to this.evil, ‘The father seemed to have been & man of strong ton, When tho Saviour comes he appeais to Him, identifying him- sell with the boy, for he says:—‘it thou canst do anything, us, being moved of compassion towards.us.”” FAITH THE PRROEDENT OF THR .MIRAOLB. It was not truc that the Sayiour was accustomed to work miracies for the purpose of ‘erp ity: faith ; His motives wore those of benevolence and human- ity; and indeed faith was demanded asa condition precedent to the success of the miracles, He did not intend to teach men by the spirit of wonder, but He demanded that there should be belief, “All things are possible to iim that believes.” In throes of pain the father bursts out, just in the Sgouy of suspense, “Lord, I believe; help thou my unbellef,’” ‘There was no conbt that he did belleve tn acertain way; he knew that the curing of the child depended upon a certain state ot mind. He said, “I believe,’ but he would have said so whether it wore true or not. ‘There was at the moment that invincible earnestness of purpose to press the Master onward in the miracle that what- ever Was necessary he proposed to have or to ful- fill. At this time he hoped that his belief was not insincere, He wanted to believe; he half believed, while in doubt whether he really did believe; and 80, prompted by this impulse, he added the clause, “Help thoa my unbeliel.”” The lesson of this epl- sode in the life of Christ was that although there was a high standard for man to atm at, yet He did not reiuso help and encour- agement nor cast him off because he was not per- fect and had not reached that standard, THE IDRAL OF CHARACTER AND MANHOOD, There was nothing throughout the New Testa- ment more grand or imagination-satisfying than that limning of character towards which we are to strive with all onr might; there is no lowering at all of the standard in the New Testament, although there isa lenience shown towards those who fail to attain it. It is the ideal of manhood and charac- ter; but God's sympathy and pity for sinners was great if they strove to obey His commands; and although they did not succeed and mea, though imperfect, needed not to hesitate to go to Him ior help. They showd not be deterred from praying and secking Divine assistance. if your physiclan had warned you to beware of luxuries, and the temptations of the table were too strong, would you not go to him again ior fresh help and advice? Jesus so administers His love as to succor those who ask Him for help, to cheer those wno grieve for past sin and to coméort those Who are now only hali way right. THE LENIENCY O1 GoD. Mr. Beecher closed with an exhortation to those diferent classes who needed the Master's help for their unbellef—those who believed they were once Dhristians, but had fallen back Into the old way, discouraged. with but a half formed purpose, and who looked wistfully at the right path and wished that they were once more truly consisieat Chris- tlans. God would accept their half-faith, their half- wish if they would only go to Him. ACCEPTANCE OF HALF-BELISES AND TALV-PRAYERS, There was another class who were under great trial; whose lot was darkened, it might be, by suf- fering or excessive sorrow, the effect of which had been to throw them into an unsettled state of doubt and despair. Jesus was ready to help them, and the more so because they were in this sad and unfortunate condition of mind. There was no such thing as perfection; men must go through life and the portals of death partly imperfect, If they walked In the right spirtc they would receive encouragement Indeed. God listened to half-cries, heard half-faiths, succored hali-beliefs, and took men, who were even but as agrain of mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, for His mercy’s sake and for their own. The kingdom of God began at the minimum, and grew into all streagth, all grandeur and all glory for the life that was to come. TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE, The Efficacy of Prayer—A Remarkable Challenge from Across the Water—The Pastor’s Sarcasm—The Queecrest Hos- pital on Record—Prayer a Dead Fail- ure in the World’s Opinion and God a Cast Iron Monarch—Advice to Doctors, There was the usual rush to the Tabernacle yes- terday morning. The pastor was in rather a sar- castic humor in the opening portion of his dis- course, and several times provoked his audience to laughter by his hits at some of the follies of the times, His sermon was founded upon the story of the healing of King Hezekiah, in the Second Book could be. The State ful forethougat of ita of Kings. Mr, Talmage said:—Luxurious living is not healthy. The second generation of kings, queens, lords and princes is apt to be brainless and invalid. Royal blood is generally scrofulous, The Lord told King Hezekiah he must die, but he didn’t wart to die. He turned his face to the wall so that his prayer would not be interrupted, and cried to God for his life. God heard his prayer and answered {t, saying, ‘Behold, I will heal thee.” But there was ®& human tnstrumentality to be em- poret Prayer and God, accompanied by this juman instrumentality, cured the King. In this age of discovery, when MEN KNOW SO MUCH IT KILLS THEM, and write so wisely it almost kills us, it has been found that prayer is adead failure, There is no use of praying for rain in the time of drought; the “weather probabilities” in the morning paper will deetde the question, rain or no rain, and the whole | nation in prayer would not bring down a single drop, If sickness comes to your household it will depend entirely upon ventilation, good diet and the doctor's Skill as to whether your child wili get well or not. eercring to Tyndal’s text Mr. Talmage said:— Well, it {s the inost condescending thing in human philosophy I ever heard of. The Lera Alinighty has an opportunity of winning the confidence of such men a8 Professor Tyndall and Francis Galton. But that experiment will never be made, for the reason, first, that you could not get aman to lie down in the prayerless ward of that hospital—not even the philosophers who made the pro. they were rich it would b THE LAST bLACH ON Balti’ they would watit to be sick In. You could not get an Englishman there, for King James’ tri jation has been too — ong Britons and the bell of St. Paul's has rung London to prayer too often, You couldn't get an American to lie there, for he has a suspicion that the ry that went up from ti Plymouth Rock an dependence Hall, and Bunker Hill and Gettysvurg, have had something, to do with the history of this eople. You could not get a Scotchman to le there; for he comes from the land of John Knox, and, methinks, the old Covenanters who died for their faith would get up from Gray Friars’ church- ard and hiss at him tf he tried tt. Then, also, it is Impossible to stop th wei and Church from pray- ing for the distressed. I wiil ACCENT THAT CHALLENGE coming across the wa on the condition that these men who make this proposal themscives when they are sick go down in the prayer- less war while we give our to the next ward. They have not proposed or made any arrangements to pay the ex- penses of this experiment, bat will pay them on condition that they don't have the order- ing of their own provisions. * * * Does God hear and answer our prayers or not? Hezekiah was sick unto death; he prayed and God added ff teen hg to his lifetime, Prayer is the mightiest of al That God answers prayer offered in the right spirit, seconded by our own effort, the first and — last lesson of this text, and it is the lesson which this age neeas to learn. If all communication be- tween heaven and earth is cut off let us know it, and if all the Christian prayers are gon up to- wards God, but never reaching Him, then I say let us silence the lips of the world and the nations smother their groans and die quietly. But God does answer prayer, and the text shows it, Was ita mere happen-so that Elijah prayed for rain just as the rain was going to come down anyhow? LIONS HAD THR LOCKJAW ? Prayer, under certain circumstances, is natural to man as the respiration of the lun a company of men—I don't care how bad they are— together in some imminent peril, and they cry out, “God have mercy on me.” does answer prayer! put on the witness stand Abraham, Isaac, Jaco! Jeremiah, John, Paul, Peter and King Hezekiah, That ‘God answers prayer I bring the 10,000,000 facts of Christendom to es. * * * Thave to present you some checks his morning—blank CHECKS ON THE BANK OF HRAVEY, written with blood and signed by the hand wounded on Mice Liye at Here is if iank oe vm, God can give you, and youcan with any- thing rou Want to. Wi ic test the i? tam glad the world has been challenged. chink it will evoke ten thousaud experiences that would oot remedies, Just as Put attention | But to prove that God | YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1872--TRIPLE SHEET. fs rkened death from your gre ones have kissed you iby, and you strength to pray, “Lord Jeaus, receive my spirit.” 8T. JAMES’ (RB 0.) CATHEDRAL Sermon by the Reverend Father Kicly— The Institution of tho Kosary. Yesterday the Catholic Church celebrated in her lturgioat service the Festival of the Holy Kosary, & devotion which has been held in great esteem by the faithful of ail nations, The commemoration did not alter the ordinary character of the day’s oMce, simply affecting its tone and sentiment in @ special reference to the idea selected for this honor, At the church the sermon was preached by the Kev. Father Kiely, who found lls theme in the day's particular memory, Beginning with the institution of the festival, he recited the historical traditions which explain its foundation—viz., the special services rendered the Christian Cal at the Battie of Lepanto, in 1671, because of the recital of the rosary, when “Help of Christians’ was added’ to the Litany. of Loretto, and tho great success achieved by the Christian army at the siege of Belgrade through the same agenoy, after which Clement XI. set apart the first punday to October in each year as the Festival of the Holy Rosary. The reverend preacher then sketched the origin of this devotion to the time of Dominic Gazmand tn the twelith century, a hardy mountaineer of Castile, afterwards the famous St, Dominic, to whom, in @ special revelation, it was communicated ag particular ofice which in its practice L wl faithiul would stem the tide of immorality and irreligion that was then overwhelming Southern Eyprove.. The eloquent preacher at this stage of his discourse drew & graphic picture of the mission of St, Dominic oe these wayward children of the Catholic Charch, offering to them in the beads a symbol of ® new devotion that would purify and enlighten them in the paths of faith and virtue. ‘this ciosed the. frst part of his discourse, which was. histortoal. The rest was moral, including a description of the particular character of the devotion of the rosary. The speaker drew attention to the three classes of mysteries com- momorated in its recital—viz., the Joytul, sorro ful and glortous Thysterien polnied out how com: pletely they reflected man’s life—joyful in his early days of innocence, sorrowful in his manhood’s Tepentance and glorious in the prospect of eternal happiness, He likened it Ilkewise to @ gar- land of flowers, of which the leaves rep- resented the joyful mysteries, the thorns the sorrowful mysteries and wl blossoms the glorious mysteries. Thus is the rosary now in use Spprauiasely Palatal fens After urging upon iis hearers the great religious benefits to be derived by a special devotion to Mary, the preacher, full of the earnestness induced by his previous con- templation, addressed the congregation, already strongly moved by the power of his eloquence, in conciusion with an earnestness of language and manner which showed him to be deeply af- jected by his own theme, as follows:—‘Tne institution of the rosary is Mary’a legacy to the Church, as was the sacrament of the altar Christ's legacy. The whole Catholic world unite in the practice of this devotion and from millions of private altars, in hosts of family circles, the solemn meditations upon the great mysteries of man’s redemption and humble recitation, with simple devotion of Aves and Paters of the beads, rise in incense daily to the Mother of Jesus, Children of Mary, redeemed by her Son, practise dally this devotion, The links in the golden chain of the beautiful rosary connect yeu of the earth earthly with the high throne of lim who liveth and reigneth forever and ever, ‘This church is now undergoing a process of reno- vation, which has uniortunately been delayed in its progress by an untoward circumstance which lately interrupted the work of Larges All of the | pews have been removed from the church to be rebullt, hence the congregation suffer much incon- venience in attending service. ‘This, however, has hot affected the number of such attendance, THE GREAT NEOK METHODIST CHURCH. Gift of a Church and Parsonage to the Methodists by a New York Merchant— Interesting Dedicatory Exercises by Bishop Simpson. Yesterday was a day of jubilee among the Metyo- dists of Long Island, and especially to the residents of Great Neck and the surrounding vilfages. It appears that Mr. Joseph 8. Spinney recently erected upon a commanding site a beautiful village church, furnished it with a bell and an organ, and built and furnished adjoining the church a commodious par- sonage at a cost of twenty thousand dollars, Mr. ‘Spinney algo donated the sum of ten thousand dollars to the church, the interest of which is to be devoted to the payment of the minister's salary. The edi- fice has just been finished, and the services of Bishop Simpson, the great gun of the denomina- tion, were secured to dedicate it. A special train was run from Hunter’§. Point to accommodate those who wished to be present on the interesting occasion. The Methodist community of the ad- joining villages of Whitestone and Flushing was largely represerted, and the number of carriages aud other vehicles which met our gaze at the close of the services forcibly reminded tie spectator of a camp meeting, with @ larger representation of the aristocratic element than is generally seen at such gatherings. ‘The dedicatory exercises were opened with a voluntary, which was well executed by two ladies: and gentlemen ; the ritual address was read by Rev. W.S. Studley, pastor of the Pacific street church in Brooklyn; the opening hymn by Rey. R. P. Chris- topher and the Scripture lessons by Rev. Dr, True and Rev. Mr. Bowditch. After the singing of another hymn, Bishop Simpson proceeded to preach, from Isaiah 1x., 13—“‘I will make the place of my feet glorious.” ‘after an introduction, the Bishop proceeded to say that God made the place of His feet glorious In the honor which He phe upon houses of worship, and in discussing his point he dwelt upon the magnificence of the Jewish tabernacle and the taste which was display- ed in these later days in the construction of houses of worship. They were the glory of the land, and no man in Reet a spot for a residence kept out of his estimate its distance from a place of worship. It was a remarkable fact that while sanctuaries seemed to be expensive and required great offer- ings from those that built them, yet their expen- siveness never impoverishes those who engage in their erection. The lands that built houses of wor- ship were the regions that controlied the treasures of the earta, and whenever they needed wealth God uncovered the mines and furnished them with it in abundance, The glory of the houses of God also consisted in this, that they became the foundation ofcivil order, the place of sanction for the rights oi the commu- nity in the protection of life and property. This oint was ably elaborated, and the speaker showed revelation, yet if his property or life were jeoparded he rested in the oath of a witness who appealed to Almighty God, If men did not believe in the future and that God would call them to an account for their conduct in this world what was the value of an oath? The forms of justice and law were ali based on those great ideas. God made the place of His feet glorious in that His house be- came the centre of intellectual light. He admitted that there was knowledge outside of the Church, but also maintained that the highest knowledge had its birth in the house of God in that the great themes of the creation, the fatherhood of God and other | kindred sublime ideas were the theme of fae dis- cussion. The idea of holiness was especially asso- ciated with the house of God. Then the Bishop dwelt with fervor upon the God Was glorjous, bécausé 1 a Bay fhe Na? a the glorious Gospel of tie blessed God, which offered life and salvation to ali men, no matter how guilty, and dwelt with touching eloquence upon the truth that places of worship were rendered glorious by the revelation of God's special presence in them. The glory of these latter days exceeded the glory of the time of Christ’s personal presence in the Temple, because of the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit, which revealed things unseen and fur- ee @ baptism of power which purified the ear RELIGIOUS CEREMONY IN WESTOHESTER, A New Catholic Institute at Melrose=The Corner Stone Laid by Rev. Dr, McGlynn, ot New York. At Melrose, Westchester county, yesterday after- noon nearly five thousand persons assembled in and around the German Catholic Church of the Im- maculate Conception to witness the ceremonies at- tendant upon laying the corner stone of a young men’s literary institute in connection with that chureh, The structure, which 1s already in pro- cess of erection, is elghty-five feet in length by fity-four feet in width, and will be three stories high over a lofty basement. It is being con- structed of brick, ornamented with brown stone Pry and will cost when fluished not less than $e0, This amount is being ratsed by jad td subscriptions, about one-half of the sum having been already contributed. The institute will con- tain @ Mnasium, music room, lecture hall, library and, besides embracing a day and ev ing class for boys, will also afford a high ach for young men who may be desirous of acquiring a thorow classical education, It Will be Known as St. Mary's Literary Institute, and will be under the immediate supervision of Rev. Joseph Stumpe, the popular pastor of the Chureh of the Immaculate Conception. The ceremony of laying the corner stone was performed by Rev. Dr. Glynn, of St. Stephen's church, New York, assisted by Rev. Fathers Daush, of Baltimore; Jorger, of Milwaukee; Van Den _ Baviere, of the Manhattan Academy, and several other clergymen from the surrounding Reighborhood, A humber of benevolent and other Catholic socie- ties were Bon, with music and banners, while @ small fleid-piece earns in sonorous tones, to the adjacent districts that the sanction of the Church had been bestowed on the new temple of tet ing the ceremonies were highly pprropriave ad. dresses were delive! by Rey. Dr. MoGiyno and Others of tue clergy | i in, hat however infidels might scout at the idea of | fou ee ‘A CONGREGATION IN TEARS. Archbishop Bayley’s Last Sun- day in Newark. He Addresses an Immense Ass mblage at 8t. Pate rick's Cathedral—A Joyous, Sad and In- teresting Review of His Twenty Years’ Episcopacy. It had been given out unauthorizedty that Archbishop Bayley would preach @ farewell ser- mon to his late Mock at St. Patrick's Gathe- drat in Newark yesterday morning, and the result was that an immense gathering ef Catholics from all parts of the city crowded the spacious edifice almost to su‘focation at the half-past ten o'clook service. When the Primate appeared in the sanctuary, robed in the rich vestments of his aacerdotal office, all eyes were riveted on him, Mass was celebrated by Kev. Father Fleming, Rev. Fathers Doane, Steels and Dagnault being present also. Following the first Gospel the Archbishop ascended the pulpit and delivered @ brief sermon from the text Luke il, 27-28—And it came to pasa, as he spoke these thing, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice and said untohim, Blessed 1s the womb that bore thee and the paps which thou hast supked. But he said, Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the. word of Goa and keep it.” Yesterday was one of the great fostival days ia the Uatholtc Church—the Festival of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary—aad tue aiorded the preacher a theme of deep inteveat to those present, After pointing out the duty the faithiul owed the mother of the God-Man, and of praying to her as a mediator, the Archbishop turned to another subject—his own departure. He said tt had been notsed about that he was to de- liver a favewell address, but this was A GREAT MISTAKE, Tt was bad enough to go away withoat talk about it and necessarily speaking of one'’sself. He was going away, he said, against his willand would luke nothing better than the news that all had been a mistake, and that some one else had been ap- potted Archbishop, Ina few days he would enter upon the twentieth year of his episcopacy, and = the omuay churches and religious institutions that had been founded are emblems of the blessings God had showered on the diocese. Most of those, continued the Archbisiop, who where present when I came amongst you have passed away, The bishop who instlled me—he whom we loved to cali “Archbisnop John,” has assed into eternity. Dr. Cummings, who sung i mass, is Low among VHE CHOIRS OF HEAVEN, and dear lamented Father Moran, who made the address of welcome, is aiso sleeping the sleep of the just. Of all tie clergymen who were present only two or three are alive. It is the same with the crowd of witnesses, and it will be the same in time with you also who are assembied here to-day. To think of this change is sad, but, dear children, there is some consolation that it little matters where one dod on earth if we but gain the blessings of eternal res\ A REMINISCENOR OF THE ESCURIAL. Tremember reading of an artist who visited the art gailery in the Palace of the Escurial in Spajn. He saw many masterpieces, and in passing throug observed an aged monk always kneeilug betors one old patnting. Finaily the artist asked the monk wiy he paid such devotion to thia particular painting. The monk replied hat he bad seen many enter the pala and pasa away. Many of his brothers bad vanished, he said, in the mist of years, but the old painting re- mained, and he thought that humanity was a mere siadow and the picture a reality. Thus it is with us, the Archbishop said. This building will not change but we and all humanity must pass away. Bringing his remarks to a close, he admonished his hearers to practise meditation and prayer, and sald the beat legacy he could leave them was the caution of the Gospel to “Watch and pray.” He ended with the single word, ‘Farewell! AN AFFEOTING SCENE, Throughout the distinguished preacher's re. marks, delivered tn a tone and voice that denoted - the deep emotion of the speaker himself, he was listened to with breathless attention, now and tien disturbed by an audible sobbing oa the part of ladies in ‘the congregation, One ol the clergymen was so aifected that he had to leave the sanctuary, When the last sad word, “farewell,” passed the Archbishop's lips the entire congregation seemed deeply moved, Great, heart: men, strong and stalwart, were equally inoved with the tenderest of women. The service closed by the primate giving the Denediction, RECEPTION ON RANDALL'S ISLAND, Hibs Nira A Thousand Catholic Children Receiving a Visit from the St. Vineent de Paul Society—Hymns, Prayers and Cate- chism—How the Little Ones Acquitted Themselves, Yesterday was a fete day for the Catholic children of the institution on Randall's Island, which ia under the control of the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections, This institution must not be con- founded with the House of Refuge, which is also situated on Randall's Island, but in which the Catholic children are never allowed a holiday and never are permitted to see a Catholic priest, although three-fourths of the inmates are Catholics. Not so in the other institution, where liberty of con- science is enjoyed and clergymen of all denomina- tions are admitted. The lion’s share of the work of evangelization, however, falls on Rev. J. Renaud, S. J., whose congregation of boys and girls numbers over a thousand. Every Sunday Father Renaud is assisted by devoted young Catholic gentlemen and ladies, who cross the river from New York to in- struct the LITTLE ORPHAN WAIFS in the religion of their fathers, and teach them te walk in the Ways of truth and justice, to the end that they may become good members of society here and members of a better society hereafter. At hall-past two yesterday afternoon the same assem- blage of ladies gud gentlemen were at their posts, as usual, in the sclool house—for it is the school that is used as a church—and the boys, neatly attired, fled into the building. The girls wore white veiis and sat on the left. Then there appeared around the temporary altar the Commissioners Nicholson aud Lyne and the presidents of the various sections of the St. Vincent De Paul Society of New York. The ex- rcises commenced with the chanting of the hyma, “Come, Holy Ghost,” and the audience seeme deeply moved when the little oues came to the Blauza, O, come, thou Father of the poor, ‘Thou bounteous source of al! our store, Come; fire our hearts with love, After this Master John Murphy, @ youth of dott. cate frame, who was elected President of ty Boys’ Sodality, rose from his seat, dressed hand- somely and wearing a scarlet sash, and in a clear, pathetic voice read the following address ;— To me Presipent_axp Vick Presipents of tua St Vincunt Dr Paut Soctty : NTLEMEN—It is with feelings of deep gratitude and FesBect Wat we weleome you this day toour midst. | For é first Ume, We have an opportunity of thanking you iia behalf of ourselves and of tose Who. have preceded. us here, for all you do for the Catholic children of Rawlall’s Island. We'trust that your kindness will ever be re- membered by us all, Whilst to the Cominissioners of Charities we owe our bodily welfare, we turn to you for spiritual aid. They provide for our bodies, and you for our souls. "They look to our’ temporal lives, and you to our et happines, Itia from your ranks that we receive zealous Sunday school teachers, who, to second the efforts of our devoted chaplain, sacri: fice the only day's repose they have in the week, and this warm or cold, fair of storthy weather. It ts to your reasurer We apply for books and fof whatever is needed in a well-organized Sunday school. The expenses of our religious instruction amount to several hundreds of doi- lars a great part of which Is pald by thank you and all who contribute to the good work. May He who considers as done to himself whatever we do to the least of those that believe in Him give to all our bane- factors an hundredfold of their generosity. We also avail ourselves of this opportunity to thanthe Commissioners for securing to all under their charge LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE and equal rights, ‘We feolthe more grate‘ul to thom for their fairness, when we call to mind the sad intoleranc known to prevail in a neighboring institution, in. spite of all justice and in open violation of the spirit'or the Laws inthis land ot Hverty.. While we deeply sympathize wit and pray for our oppressed co-religionists in the Hor Refuge, nevertheless the wrongs inflicted on them there ake us value our happy lot the more. Gentlemen, we honored by your presence. We bid you a hearty wel- come, and we pray that the God of heaven, the Fathor of the futheriess and the poor and the siokaiay grant you a long life to continue your good works and give you tn eternity the reward of your great charity, Mr. Dolan, on rising to reply, sald that the beautiful spectable witnessed that day was enough to repay amply the efforts of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The members of that society did not wish to have their labors trumpeted Cry aa the newspapers; they worked merely for the salvation of souls. The little children should pray often for their zealous chaplain to Whom they owed ail theie religious welfare, Commissioner Lynch then addressed the children and expressed the belief that the Catholics would not be necessitated to fight even beg tin! A for the religious rights of the Catholic youths ta the neighboring House of Refuge. he spirit of the powers that govern the country waa liberal, and the acquirement of their rights was inevitable. Then came the distribution of two hundred prizes. The children who had made most. progress during the month of September, the lucky recipients, were of all ages, and accepted tho presents in a manner which showed that Christian liteness formed no small part of their education. ‘he thousand little tongues also joined ing recitin: the Lord's Prayer, Hail, Mary; Creed, &oq &c., an’ answered numerous questions of the Satechism without a blunder. The visitors then bid the young Catholics adieu, and expressed themselves we! leased with the vialt t@ tue idand, you. For this we