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4 ELIGIOU A Way of Adoration and Homage to the Galilean Hing. Christianity in Earnest in Pul- pit and Pew. The Female Tragic Methodist Exhorter at Forty-Third Street Methodist Church. BISHOP JANES ON CHRISTIAN HOPE, D. B. Frothingham Talks About ‘ “Brotherhood and Business. BEECHER ON MORAL HONESTY. br. Hepworth Preaches on the Salyation by ‘Christ and an Innate Depravity. Dr. McGlynn and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin. Address by Dr. Twing on the Christian Mis- sions to the American Frontier. LYBIO HALL ne Great Problem of Reconciling Brotherhood and Business—Every One for Himself—Sermon by Rev. 0. B. Frothingham. A large and select congregation yesterday morn- Ing filled Lyric Hall, 723 Sixth avenue. Rev. 0. B. Frothingham chose for bis text Romans xil., 11:— dNot slothful in business; fervent in spirit, serving e Lord."’ He began, this is Paul's statement of e intimate relation existing between religion and jusiness. Paul was a man of business and a minis- wr ofGod. He inade canvas for tents in the day- | time and in the evening preached. He did his | Preaching well. The great problem is how to Feconclle brotherhood and business. A legend is | related of one of the old saints, who, holding a high place and being considered worthy of trust, the | King put into his hands a large sum Df money with which to erect a fine | palace for tne abode of the King. The Saint took | the money and gave it to the poor. The King, not | Beetng his palace rise, had the Saint arrested and | Bhut up in prison. Heaven concluaed to take the ; King out of the world. He was | TAKEN TO PARADISE, ‘They knew if they did thin they were secure in their own power. The induence Jesus was gaining over the peopte they knew full well was disastrous to their ambitious: ane to their desires to be complete masters Srthetr iow men. At one time they succeeded in having Hit stoned by the people, et He escaped the fury Of the mob and continued teachings the same as belore, Previous to His advent they had had everything their own way, and they were bent upon accomplishing His ce- struction, They did not admit the right of the Romans to govern the ra, and when they asked Jesus the question they did, “Whether it was right to pay tribute to the king?” they hoped he would answer “No,” and thus arouse Against him the hatred of the Herodians. But our Lord saw t! their wicked desi ana He gave that answer, which will remain to all time as agreat lesson of duty—“Render to Cesar the things that are C.esar’s and TO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S; in other words, give to the world what belongs to the world and God what belongs to God. The feeling that animated the Pharisees in their perse- cution of Jesus wasenvy. ii did not at firat prob- ably have His death aa its Gobel it grew on day after day in ite intensity until its full consum- ination ended in the death of the Saviour on the cross on Mount Calvary. As the Pharisees were in those days 80 were many of us in the pacers Age. We find day after day that murders and all sorts of horrible crimes are committed, and we trace al- most every one to @ feellng oi envy or hatred that some person entertains for another, Because one man outrivals another in some aifair of life ho 18 stricken down by a fetiow being who is overcome with envy or hatred, This feeling of envy could be found even in the cradle, and it behooved parents to curb it in its incipiency, when children are yet children; for it often happened that a child once promising in childhood, in whose heart the feeling of envy was allowed to grow and gather strength, turned out to be in manhood a disgrace to his fel- low men. Envy was to be found in every heart to a greater or less degree, It had shown itself in the Garden of Eden, when the devil, envious oi the happiness of Adam and Kive, assumed the shape of @ serpent and tempted them to their own ruin. It was envy that caused Cain to kill his brother Abel and Judas to grieve at Magdalenc’sa extravagance in pouring prectous oil on the Saviour's fect. Tt was a fee! ing, that all good Christians should de- lore and do all they could to crush out of the eart., To accomplish this we should GO TO OUR LORD to learn how to be charitable. 1¢ was charity to rejoice when others rejoiced, and not rejoice when others mourned, as the envious heart rejoices when others weep, and it was charitable, too, to mourn when others mourned, The Lord had given us a lesson of thia charity when Ke mourned with the mother who had lost her son and when He re- joiced with her when the son was raised to life. The reverend Father closed by sarpeniin exhorting his hearers so to live in charity with all their neighbors that, when summoned before the judg- ment seat of Christ, they would not be condemned because they had envied and hated their fellow men, instead of having loved them, PATHER BURKE AT ST, MICHAEL'S, Lecture on the Subject of “No Salvation Out of the Catholic Church”—The Flesh and Blood of Christ-The Unity of the Trath. The Church of St. Michael, at the corner of Ninth avenue and Thirty-second street, was the scene of an immense assembling of people last evening. Father Tom Burke lectured upon the subject of “No Salvation Out of the Catholic Church.” His manner lacked something of its usual fervor and manly energy. The audience was not fired to any great degree of enthusiasm, although they listened with marked attention and evident veneration. He asked what tne problem which he pErtaaibed, Meant. It meant simply this—that the truth should be known; not a travesty of the truth, not a prejudiced view; but as it was in God reveaied by Him in Jesus Christ. He held that the real truth was taught only by the Catholic Church. There alone was religious belief possessed of logical unity. The church tolerated and permitted no division among her members. If any man should be ignorant of the conditions of salvation he should be cast out of the mind and thought of God. He contrasted the Qnd there a beautiful palace was shown to him | littering with gems. He asked to whom this | orgeoua edifice belonged, and was told that it was | he palace which the Saint had built for him. The | King then repented the wrong done his servant | And sent down an angel to liberate the Saint. St. | Martin, a great soldier, was going along and | met a beggar. Having nothing to give him, | he cut his cloak in two and gave him half, He | afterward discovered the ming beggar to | be the Son of God. If St. Martin had | lived in New York he would have been ve. If @ man takes @ contract to | build @ house he takes it on the lowest terms. He | is to be paid such a price for sach an article. If throngh misfortune he finds that the contract will | entail loss upon him, heis obliged to fulfil it. The RIUID BUSINESS MBTHOD 18 80 much pay for so much work. If a laborer fails to work the loss js on himself and his plac sup- plied. On rigorous business principles there is no reason why one should be mercitul to lis neighbor, le may carry on an offensive business—a bone- ilmg establishment, for example. He claim: hogy right todo whatever proves remunerati' uere is a TRADITION IN NEW YORK ofa map who in building his house ran his wall half au inch on to his neighbor's territory. His Neighbor, discerning it, demanded that it sould ve | taken down, The other man protested, offering almost any sum of money, but his neighbor was ob- | durate. He took down his wall, and in rebuilding | it placed it just one half-inch within his own boun- } dary. He meditated an equa! kinduess, and when bis neighbor built his house he did as he shrewdly Bupposed—built it so that the half-inch which was | liowed by the firet builder on his own ground was encroached upon by the other. After the second builder had completed bis wall the other demanded that it be taken down, and it was taken down, Here are two extreme principles—brotherhood, which means kindness, and the other business, which means | EVERY ONE FOR HIMSELF. Brotherhood has everything to do with charity; | business has nothing to do with it. Charity asks mo questions, dreads science and allows the fecl- ‘ings full contro}. It has collected the poor and | given them shelter, no matter what expense it in- vurs. Business says that charity is a matter in | which society must have avoice. Emotion must | ‘be subordinate,to reason. Shut up the hospitals; ut everything under the jaw of strict economy: jet not the law of industry ve interfered with. Un- less a maa work he shall not eat is a severe law, ‘but the law of God; a cruel usage, but one that was instituted by the Father of the Lord himself. Set the two principies toswork in business. We are human creatures and one has no right to tyrannize bDveranother. Everything like | MONOPOLY Bhould be protested against. Let each own what he can possess. The Wages must be gove y the value of labor in the market. Business men Bay we have nothing to do with fraternity. Bvery man must get all } an, and keep what he gets. When people are dependent upon us 2s menials for their very sustenance we should endeavor to make their position as agreeable a one as possivie. All that we can do for them we are bound to do, and all that we give them should be given without a condescending or supercilious look. Obliterate , all sense of caste when you take into considera- | tion that they belong to the same general brother- hood. The business men say we have nothing to do with them, They do their work and we pay their ‘Wages. A servant hes no business to have a head- ache or be indisposed in any way. The business man says WE WANTED A MINISTER, and Offered such a salary. If le ran into debt it is 18 Own fault, and the congregation are not respon- ibie, We paid him every dollar that he earned. ‘und a3 soon a3 he stopped preaching his salary stopped. No matter liow long and faith ully be has served his church, when he becomes unable to oon with his ministerial labors a substitute is found, and he is cast ont. Societies have given clergymen salaries for lite. The question arises, | cannot the principies of business and that of vrotherhood work together? Ina DEMOCKATIC SOCIETY | there ts something pathetic, because they never do anything but menial work. The question of do- | mestic service is a very important one. This demo- cratic sentiment can only be governed by kindness. Show them that you are their superior, not in every Matter, but in some of the higher branches. Which ‘1s Of the greater importance, brotherhood or busi- mess’ Brotherhood, of course. If there is vg man who ought to bear brotnerhood in mind it is the | merchant, the trader. New York is a superb city, London is magnificent, but Paris is A MIRACLE OF SPLENDOR, Do they seem 1ike Jerusalem? Men should jive in | the knowledge that they are members of the great family of humanity, and that the good of that a depends upop the exertions of each mem- | r. 8T. PATRIOK’S CATHEDRAL. Envy vs. Charity—Sermon by the Rev. Father Kearney. The services at St. Patrick's Cathedrai yesterday Qt high mass were of the usually impressive char- | acter, although for some reason or other the musi- cal part of the ceremonies was not up to the usual | Standard. The singers sang as though they were | suffering from severe colds, The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Father er ane who took his text from the gospel of the , Bocording to St. Matthew:—And Jesus sald | fo them (the Pharisees), Whose image and inserip- | tion {s this? They say to him, Cwesar’s, Then he sald to them, Render, therefore, to Cmsar the | things that are Cwsar’s and to God the things that | fre God's.” The Pharisees, the reverend gentle- | man remarked, were ENViOUS OF THE SAVIOUR. (hey were anxious to excite the people against | Him and did everything that their evil ingenuity cowd devise to cmbapl Him with the populace, | bend the knee to the brazen imag rituals of the Catholic and the Protestant Churches in a very striking manner, and dwelt long and emphatically on the ceremony of the flesh and blood of Christ at the Lord’s Supper, without eating and drinking which he held tha’ there could be no salvation. He referred to Crom- well and Luther and others of that period as men whom he had said could not be saved, and yet the burden of his peroration was that the Catholic Church did not damn any one, but was lenient unto all, merely ignoring the re- eu Dasuny claims of those who accepted not her creed. | FORTY-THIRD STREET METHODIST CHUROH. Mrs. Van Cott on Active Christianity— Laying Aside Every Weight and Run- ning the Race. Mrs. Margaret Van Cott, the famous female ex- horter, preached at the Voriy-third street Metho- dist Episcopal church, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, yesterday morning. The church was crowded in every part. The doorways, notwith- standing the cold that came in with wintry chilli- ness, were filled, and the doors pressed open, The Stairways outside were filled with those who waited in hopes of hearing and seeing, though both were impossible, and the galleries and gallery lob- bies were jammed. The crowd was of that solid kind that usually composes the rich audiences of the Methodist denomination, and the high seats immediately surrounding the pulpit were filled by the active elders of the church, sometimes called by the irreverent THE “AMEN MEN."’ Mrs. Van Cott was dressed in black, with a high black bonnet on the back of her head, tied with wide black ribbons round her throat. She isa | woman of about forty, fair and fat, with a round Mil face, a fine flexible voice, a vehement delivery and a dramatic power of expression which Ristori can hardly excel. with one or two very VIVID, STARTLING DESCRIFTIONS, and one or two very meiting and touching ones. She harrowed up or melted the congregation in turn, until it would evince by cries its horror or its sorrow or its joy, and frequentiy in reply to her fervid exhortations, cries of “Yes, yes!’ “Glory !"’ “Blessed be the Lord!’ would resound through the building. At one point a slight thread of nervous | laughter would ran through the audience, and at | another the young girls would weep convulsively | and strong men would feel the tear drops In their eye. Mrs, Van Cott chose for HER TEXT the first verse of the twelith chapter of Hebrews— | “Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a crowd of witnesses, let us lay aside every Weight and the sin which doth soeasily beset | us, and let us run with patience the race that is set betore us.” e She began by expounding the general meaning | IM the afternoon Rossi's vespers were sung. Ni&w YORK HERALD, MON the King?” But Dai 6 the of the evil adviser. (said te Goa) Pyrvete the weight that was upon Let us all lay aside the weight of sin. LET US STRIP YOR THE RACE. (horus of “Amens!”) Let us put on the armor of righteousness, Let us put on the siietd of faith and see that it is bu The lady preacher then words the last love feast which her husband, & reacher in the Reformed Di had par. ‘aken with her at the time of his death, and closed with the recital of a byma, STBINWAY HALL. Spread of Christianity—Innate Deprav- ity—Christ the Salvation—Unitarianism Repudiated—Sermon by Rev. George H. Hepworth. Steinway Hall, in Fourteenth strect, between Irving place and Fourth avenue, was at yesterday morning’s services completely filed. ‘The exercises were opened by the congregation singing the hymn beginning, “Come we who love the Lord.” Though without the assistance of a choir, its rendition was very fine. George H. Hepworth occupied the pulpit, and announced as the subject of his discourse, “The Old, Old Story,” as based upon part of Romans v., 10, “Reconciled to God by the death of His 3on.”’ To a.caaual observer, he began, this is A VERY CURIOUS TRXT. It implies two things—the existence of an aliena- tlon from God of the human soul and a readjust- Ment of the original harmony. Itis as if we are walking in darkness and a voice directs us to the sunlight, It is the old, old story—the truth that Christ taught, How marvellous have been its in- fluences! Turn back your eyes tothe time when Christ lived; then follow down, generation after generation, the tide of time, and see what a tidal wave Christ's teachings have wrought. They have shaken men’s destinies, and higher and higher have lifted their hopes. That old story was heard on the bloody arena where martyrs faced death, “1 will tell the truth, though I am killed.” It has lifted up the agonized body of the prisoner into caimness and serenity. That old story is heard in the hut and in the palace. I have heard in the country a single note from a distance, and as [ listened another instrument joined, and there was harmony. Then another and another joined until there was a whole orchestra. So from the hills of Galilee there came in olden times a single voice. It said, “land my Father are one.’’ He spoke ‘A WORD TO EVERY PUBLICAN AND SINNER} and every apni and sinner to whom He forgave most loved Him most. And they stand as monu- ments to show His power to save a lost soul. Mat- thew, St. Paul, and in a few centuries the whole human world takes up the song, and still it vibrates louder and louder, and we are living on its harmo- ny and power and well know how much it has been to us. { propose, he went on, to speak of a few facts which the text intimates. I will not appeal to more than universal experience. I appeal to your hearts. There has been somewhere and after some fashion a break in the origmal harmony, and after some fashion it has been re- united, and to-day is possible to youand me. It is reasonable to suppose that man’s primal nature was pure, He communed with angels, and spoke almost face to face with the Almighty Himself. To- day when 1 look at the population of New York I stand aghast; nay, when I look at my own lite, nothing is more palpable than that something has come between me and God. Here I grovel and struggle, mayhap upward. My ambition misleads me, and my avarice blinds me, We are living in A MORAL RL. We are like a boy who in youth was brought up by pious parents, but who fell lower and lower, until it became second nature to enjoy criminal pleasures; and the guilty man, all the world over, akes excuses for bimself. If religion were natu- ral would four-fitths of New York’s population be to-day in their homes or iu worse places—places where men think no more of God than the heathen under the vertical sun of Africa’ They all have a twist in their faces that plainly tells its story. It is so in New York city, and to a certain extent it is 80 in our lives. What man is not conscious of sin? What man feeis fit for heaven? What woman, urer than man, would not ask a little while or preparation, and if an exact justice were done where would you be? We try, but not half enough, even while the great act stares us in the face that before thirty years we shall all be under the sod. 1t is not to make us gloomy, but to make us know our lives, It seems to me that we are in our moral condition very much lke a man going over a rough road in a wagon. At the outset a friend offers to guide him; but he rejects his offer and before long is up to his heels in the mire, and there he must stay unless some one helps him out. Suppose his friend from a height sees his predica- ment and comes to hs assistance; he comes not with scorn, but with kind and encouraging words, We both will start and get the team OUT OF TIE MUD. In five minutes the wheels come slowly out. The man said, “You need not show me the way, I know it myself.” Then the friend takes his load, What is your relation to a being who does that? It is everlasting gratitude. Let there be no fear be- tween you and Christ—whoever you are, however guilty you are. Christ came to guve the lost sheep of Israel. Lastly comes the question, What reconciles us to God in this way? 1 could not do it for you, and you could not do it for me; but some one dees it for us, The Emperor of Russia was once traveilmg through his dominions incognito, He asked a favor of a captam of dragoons. ‘The request was complied with, but sulkily. ‘Captain, you do not know who | am,” said the Emperor. “Perhaps you are a captain, like myself,” the other replied. “Higher,” answered the Emperor. “A colonel?” “Higher.” “A general?” “Higher.” ‘A min- ister?” He began to get more deferential. “Hgher.”’ “A minister plenipotentiary?” And his voice trembled. “Higher.” “You are the Emperor,” and he was upon his knees, begging forgiveness. And when ( seek my salvation I want some one who knows; I want no Socrates or Plato to guess forme. When you say it is a man made PLENIPOTENTIARY TO GOD it is not enough. It must be God Himself who speaks. If believe, then, willingly can I suffer, endure and enjoy. And, young men and maidens, you know it not now, but twenty years hence you 2 She interspersed her sermon | Will know that without something to cling to you are weary indeed. And you, strong men, you have found in many @ hard struggle that he who leans on God’s love will never be deceived. Men need faith, And when old age comes creeping on we can fearlessly face the uncertainties of the future. Who is to give us faith? There is one Being—the great Christ. He stands at the other end of this strange life. ST, STEPHEN'S OHUROH, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn—The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin. At this church yesterday Haydn's mass in C, No. 2, was sung by the cholr, under the leadership of the organist, Mr. Danforth. In the “Gloria” the leading feature was Colletti’s solo the “Qui Tollis,” which was well rendered. In the “Credo” Miss Howson sang the “Et Incarnatus’” very sweetly. The offertory piece was a scription from Rossini. The of the text and then launched into the fervid ex- | high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father hortation that has made her a power even among | Flynn, | the fervid Methodists. Young man, have you lal aside every weight for the race? Have you laid | After the first gospel, at the usual time, a sermon laid aside that little sin of intemperance *? Young | Was preached by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn. Before lady, you have laid your hand upon the Me tet td | touching upon the gospel of the day Dr. McGlynn of salvation, but have you not, regretting your heart the vanities and sins of the world, ventured to look back ? If so, remember Lot's wile. Sisters, have you not regretted too much SOME LITTLE FAVORITE SIN ? Have you put it entirely away?’ Some of the members of this church may say, “Oh, I always attended class meeting when it was not too chilly or too sunny or too wet or too dry; I have helped | pay the pastor's salary; I have been in my pew regularly on fine Sabbath days, and if I have omit- ted some of the little requirements of the law God | will forgive me.” I tell you He will say, I never knew you. God does not WINK AT LITTLE SINS. These littie sins of omission have ruined more than sins of commission. Hfs power is great to save, and He never deserts His people. The God that , meet its God. keepeth Israel never slumbers or forgets. (“Amen, , to disturb the sick person; at other times, “to | blessed be God!) The preacher then recounted, in vivid terms, the story of the three Hebrews in the fery furnace. The dies glowed with a heat seven times greater than ever before. Would not soue of the members of this church | and of other churches of the present Mer when they jound themselves bound and ip the hands of the enemy, on the way to this dreadful fate, with the heat of the fires | singeing them even far away from the furnace— | We all know, he said, that there was ii would ye not have said “WELL, I GUESS I'LL GIVE UP! | I don’t know that it makes much duference—T'll er ye not? (Chorus of elders—‘God forbid! Hallelu- jah:") Could ye then retain your faith in Christ? See the faithful three are thrust, thus bound and ge into the raging Name, whiic their captors, half barned by the great heat, flee away, scarce | daring to ook upon the work they have done, Ah, | they say, We are now rid of these straitiaced, these | obdurate people. But the King at a distance looks on. He gazes with amazement. He can see far into the clear, dazzling flame. ‘Did I not bid ye cast the three into the flery furnace, and I discover the sorms of four."’ (Cries of “Glory!” “Blessed be God!” “Hallelujah !’) The God of Christ is all pow- erful to gave. He had divested fire of its heat and saved them who trusted in Him unharmed even in the midst of fire. Van Cott then related THE SOMEWHAT THREADBARE STORY of Daniel and the lions, investing that familiar nar- rative with new interest through her startling imagery and homely deductions:—When the Pro- phet threw open his window towards Jerusaicm ‘and in a loud voice prayed to his God against the decrees of the ays do you not suppose the evil genius whispered to him, as it might have whis- pered to you, “Now, Daniel, have a little common sense. Your God can hear you just as well if you pray in the secret depths of Well ag If you pray aloud and. own heart as y the qgoree of iy | wealth by many men holding high position Ha! woula = sons | announced that a mission will be opened for St. Stephen’s parish on November 3, and in doing so he alluded to the necessity at this opportune season of those who have been neglectful of attending to their religious duties to take advantage of the occa- sion in availing themselves of the sacraments, said that it only too often happened that priests in attending persons in their last moments were constrained, at the request of the relatives of the | poor dying sinner, not to exert that amount of in- fluence which it behooved the priest to exercise in remembrance of the fact that a soul was about to Sometimes the priest was asked not hurry up’ the performance of the sacred duties of which he was the minister; and the relatives have unfortunately only too often shown greater anxiety for the bodily comfort of the sick person than for his spiritual comfort. The reverend doctor then urged upon the congregation not to jeave until the last moment the preparation for an eternal future. motten in 80- clety, and we all know, too, from our ewn observation, that there were many _per- leawling unchristian lives, and it was hard to see these poor souls on the verge of God's judgment without having a jast chance of a@reconciliation with the Judge. He therefore be- sought them to avail themselves of this mission of the Jesuit Fathers to make their peace with God, for no man knew either the day or the hour when he should be called to render an account for every thought, word and deed of his life. Dr. McGlynn then read the gospei of the day, St. Luke, chapter 2, being the subject of his discourse, “The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin.” In this month of October, he said, the Church set apart special days to honor the Blessed Virgin, and in consid- ering the gpapel of this Sunday he preferred to dwell upon Mary as the mother of the Saviour. He then proceeded to explain the doctrine of the Church in regard to the Incarnation. It was incon- ceivable to him how persons professing to be Chria- tians should deny that the Blessed Virgin was the Mother of God, Christianity meaut nothing if it did not mean that Christ was the son of God. Men would acknowledge that Christ wag, the Son of God, and was born of @ worlin upon earth, and would say further stu that in this rested a hope of salvation ! But with what strange perverseness did they argue. They would admit that Mary was the Mother of Guise” tua Gust wae God. ud ave ther would He | Mo ‘te the ot epheruy ab dinimed Mother of tect and z 5 3 E 8 : i Hi ia sees wi urch rose to town of Ephesus, around the bi bishops were assembled to consider one man had originated, thousands await the decision of the Fathers, and ing on whioh these holy men proclaimed of the Church the town was illuminated. All over the whole Christian world the announcement of the Council was received with joy and exuitation. Ihave, said the preacher, noticed that a oritic of a great morning r never loses @ chance of sail Ne this dearest doctrine of the Catholtc Church, and will persist in using most Mimsy and ridiculous arguments to endeavor to influence the minds of unthinking persons in judging of a mystery. The Incarnation isa mystery. And yet there are per- sons who will pretend as well to fathom the mys- tery as to defy all logical r and instead of sound argument put forward assertions, ‘This matter, said the preacher, I allude to, because lam aware of the jt influence of a great morn- ing eamnel, and I regret that thisjournal should be used for disseminating not only a doctrine 0] d to the Catholic Church, but one that would lestroy ; 58 & 4 3 8 | Christianity itself, Mary is the Mother of Christ Christ is God; therefore, the blessed Virgin is the Mother of God. The reverend preacher then gave an explanation how theologians understood the mystery of the In- carnation, or rather gave am ill mm by which it mies be understood how Mary was the Mother of God, In the same way as @ mother cannot be the mother of one of us without being the mother of us, with our pene rt well ag our bodies, 80 Mary’ could not be the Mother of Christ without His divine personality. Christ had two natures, bat in Him there was onlyone person, and that was the divine, ‘There is a difference between a suppositum and & persona, re there must be erieongt and just as it is im] ible to se) te Christ’s divinity from Him in filial relation to His mother, 80 would it be impossible to separate the rationability from the existence of one of us. The learned doctor then went into a profound exposition of the Catholis doctrine on this point of the maternity of the Mother of God, introducing metaphysical arguments from the fathers of the jena which have stood the test of century after . Je SEVENTH STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUROE. Christian Hope—Its Aim and Influence Over Human Hearts—Religious and Worldly Hope—How Both Are Often Perverted.Sermon by Right Rev. Bishop Janes. A sermon on Christian hope was preached yester, day to an attentive congregation, in the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church, near Third ave- nue, by the Right Rev. Bishop Janes. The elo- quent divine chose his text from I. John lii.,1-3— “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knoweth Him not.” The fact that we are designated sons of God by the impressive words ofthe text spoken to you 1s sufficient to instil into our hearts a hope which snould never falter or culminate in despair, Every man has a religious and a worldly hope, and tt was of the latter the right reverend preacher wished principally to speak. Religious hope is a divine virtue by which we hope for eternal life ana the means to obtainit. Itis se important a virtue as to be not unfrequently reckoned indispensable to our salvation, and our only reason for hoping is because God has given us an assurance that we can- not be disappointed in Him, especially when He de- clares us to be His sons—joint heirs of Jesus Christ. The husbandman sows his seed in the beautiful Spring of the year because he hopes to reap a plen- tiful harvest. The merchant braves the perils of the stormy seas because he hopes from his traMc to gain profit a hundred fold. The professional man struggles through years of hard mental toil and be- wildering disappointments because he hopes one day to be successful and to make his mark in the world; but the good Christian practises virtue and stores it up in his heart in order to merit admit- tance into the blissful mansions of heaven. It is thus that THE REFRESHING INFLUENCES OF HOPE are sometimes experienced in both a religious and worldly manner. it brightens the gloom of life, and, like a burning star, cheers us with its bril- hancy in the childhood of our days as well as in the decline of life; ior every cherished hope calls forth pectation and refreshes us with 1ts sweet influ- It is manifested in the actions of all, both the good and the wicked. Why are deeds of blood a ba ? Is it not because the criminal jopes to indulge in some false pleasure—the delu- sory result of his crime? If two men about to fight a duel were certain that both would be killed it 13 pa eg both would never enter into the contest; jut the hope of being victorious causes each to dare and chance the peril of the fight. If two armies ip the field were certain of being destroyed they would not battle against each other. The preacher thereiore appreciated the perfection to which the manufacture of arms was coming, because when they come to be s0 destructive as to guarantee total extinction at both sides there will be no hope of victory left, and wars will be heard of no more. But hope which induces crime and stimulates the human mind is only perverted hope. It cannot be called religious hope, and cai t, therefore, be called a virtue—that virtue which is meant by the text when the Holy Spirit eth to us, “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us” as to call us the sons of men. ‘There was an hour wheu there was NO HOPE IN YHIS WORLD, Oh, how dense the gloom ! how sad the despair of that hour, when sin first destroyed all hope! But God said :—The seed of the woman snail crush the head of the serpent; and well He fulfilled that romise when He sent upon earth His Son, Jesus Christ, as our Mediator. Jesus, the soul ofall reli- gious hope ! Jesus, hanging upon His blood-stained cross, the source ofall Christian hope ! But is it because Christ died for you that you hope? or is it because ha] hope to repent by and by that you hope’? Oh,no! The only reason we hope is be- cause we are now THE SONS OF Gop. This is the reason we hope. adoption into our hearts, Our religion is, there- fore, a positive one—our salvation a present con- sideration. We do not hope for a sensual heaven, but for a spiritual one. e shall be like Jesus as He is in Heaven—not as He has been on earth, not as He was in the manger of His nativity, though even there the contemplation of His goodness is beautiful. What aspiring young man does not Wish to imitate Him disputing among the doctors in the Temple? What woman does not wish for His blessing as He blessed the holy women of Israel? Who does not wish His pardon as He pardoned Magdalene? Who would not like to be with Him at the glorious moment of His transfg- uration on the mount, during His agony in the garden, or ascending with Him the rugged heights of Calvary? Oh! that the wings of time would cease their fluttering until we meditate still longer on these truths! We can’t see Christ in the past, but a more glo- rious privilege is ours. We can hope tosee him in the future with a redeemed world around him. We partake of His nature, but not in all respects, In heaven we shall be possessors of all His attrib- utes, for we shalt all be sharers in the fruition ot His glory. Idon’t know what makes God happy but if, at the judgment hour, [see Him on my side I know I shall be happy like Him, and this is what truly forms THE BASIS OF ALL OUR HOPES for “every man that hath this hope in Him is puri- fied.’ This gives us a transforming and recupera- tive power which assimilates us to God, It is, moreover, @ source of grace which we must ex ences. implore by true conversion to God, by loving Him and_ walkin; with Him. An how can a man wal with God and not become more divine every day? Why then are not all devout? Because religious hope is absent and worldly h deceives you. If you were positive ‘ou should all die to-night you would repent and be converted. But you hope to live for another day. Thisis a ‘ MEANNESS WITH GOD caused by the total depravity of your minds. On the verge of death you cry for mercy; in the vigor | of life you defer your conversion. When Marshal Ney was being led to execution he trembled, be- cause, he said, “In war he hoped, but now stared him in the face.” So 1t is with you who de- | fer your repentance, yet cherish this hope in your hearts ‘‘that you are the sons of God.” Seek the truth and finding it, love it, that you may, when ing fastly down the declivity of life, reasonably | fone to possess God for eternity. The eloquent reacher here concluded a discourse which was in Toei positively impressive and appreciable. | THE RUSSO-GREEK CHAPEL. | The Rest of the Soul—Sufficiency of Grace in Times of Trials=Ser- mon by Fa x Bjerring. The little Russo-Greek chapel in Second avenue ‘was well filled yesterday, anda new feature was evident in the services—namely, a choir of male voices, which was introduced about three weeks ago. Rev, Father Bjerring preached from Il. Corinthians, xil., 1-12. His theme was the everlasting support of the soul, as illustrated in the Divine assurance to Paul of sustaining grace for his thorn in the flesh. Amid the tempest-toss- ings of life we need solid and safe anchorage, and this is found only in the hope of the Gospel— Christ. Everything has its foundation, but God is the foundation—the builder and maker of all things, and nowhere in this world is be tom lasting and firm outside of God. This the Father illustrated by natural and scientific facts, and also by that sure word of prophecy which declares that @ day is coming when the heavens shall welt and the carth apd the works thay are He put the spirit of | death | DAY, OCTOBER 21, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. tH Bg H ! | 2! : z c i 2 i" ae Fal ieee 2 358 alone that issuMolent for us, as it was for spocti, In Jesus 4 shall find or that is vable when else and Honesty and Moral Harnestness—The Men Who Fellow a Midday Christ, a Twilight Christ and a Midnight Christ—What « True Toleration Is. Mr. Beecher preached to a congregation even larger than usual yesterday morning. He selected @ double text, as follows :—Matthew x., 36, 37—“And @ man’s foes, shall they be those of his own house- hold.” “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth sonand daughter more tnan me ts not worthy of me.” John xiv., 6:—‘Jesus saith unto him, lam the way and the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” Mr. Beecher set out as though he were about to preach a sermon on the divinity of Christ. His opening sentences had a reference to the manhood of Jesus, in which he stated that if all allusion to that manhood was eliminated from the Gospel there would be taken from them the pith and the more effective lessons of the life of the Saviour. ‘I'here is no way that I can see,’’ said Mr. Beecher, “of escape from the conviction that Christ was either insane or di- vine.” Believing thoroughly in His divinity, he showed the availability of the human side of Christ’s character to the Christian believer, and that He was truly our example because He was our Father. Passing from this to the more immediate consideration of his text, he said that if no man could go to Christ without giving up all social and physical love, then His divinity was demoniac. The text could not mean that. What it did mean was _ that t we were to love all that which is true, just and right; that We were to give up everything for the love of that, All trath ends in God. The laboratory, the strat all things we have on earth testify of . Thus it was that this truth was covered. The subject of a reece would, therefore, not be the divinity of jod, bu “MORAL HONESTY AND MORAL EARNESTNESS.”’ ‘There were three manifestations of Christ common to men—the midday Christ, the twilight Christ and the midnight Christ. The Christ of midday was the Christ that men accepted, who was to them ‘Christ over all, blessed for evermore.” The twilight Christ was the Christ that only came to the under- standing of men who believed in His truth, His purity, His benevolence, in His work, but who did not allow these qualities to identify themselves with their personality and failed to practically apply them to their belief. The midnight Christ. Christ to these men is a darkness, and they believe they know not what. They acknowledge the neces- sity of duty, to give one’s whole being to right doing, right acting, right feeling. Now, all truths of a higher kind needed to hav a force applied to them. There was a truth in patriotism, but there was no practical value in it unless yousaw a patriot. Love, to have a power in it, must become aloving quality, or it is nothgig under the con- ditions under which we live, at any rate. If this love is to have any influence we must give to it our own personal force. ‘That is what is meant by believing. <A groping, as less, indifferent apprehension of Christ, was @ midnight Christ. The ministrations aud the teachings of Christ were always in the direction of a full play of manhood. All suflering was to be borne under the genial influence of love. Pela were to have a life that was so centred in Christ that they would really believe that it was more blessed to live a life ol privation than a well- fed torpid life. We were to live and labor as the sun shines. In March we see the sun rise and set, and we see morning after morning that the frosty, cold earth has apparently been benefited little thereby; but still the sun goes on rising and setting; by-and-by it sends its rays deeper and deeper into the earth, and the earth thus warmed | helps the flower to push its head through the earth, | and the flower, so gay and so bright, looks out on tu | the sun and seems to say that IT MADE THE SUN. 1t was thus with the use that men made of the light and warmth of truth. Men think that they made the truth that brings them all their merctes. ‘This truth, however, did not teach intolerance. We should be deferential to the convictions of others. You may be going to the same city as others, but | you may go a diferent way. When the Jews went up to their annual feast, at Jerusalem, they could go four different ways. It was not for the man who went by the Mediterranean to find fault with the man who went by the Sea of Galilee. The thing was that they a red before Zion, and before the Mount of God. Toleration, however, implied nerve, sensibility, choice, belief; it is not meant to be iu- difference—that is stupidity. The trae man needed no Church to take the responsibility of his faith for him. He was responsible only to God, jose who made such a proposal might as well propose to present him with the daylight. No man was responsible to any sectarian body. Toleration enabled men to look ppen every man’s conscience as if it was his own. If you believe in truth; if you believe that that truth is true and that it makes part of your being, then you have a right to let men look into it. You ought to be ashamed to lock up this truth; you ought to show it them witn as great a freedom as if it were God’s throne, There are men who feel something within them of the throbs of infinity; | they feel and know that they are the sons of God. Yheir fidelity to conviction forges upon them the | necessity of having largeness of room to set forth | their freedom. It is thus and by this agency that | the heresies of one age become the orthodox belief of the next. Every man seems as though he were | born with - | A. LION UNDER HIM | and an angel over him, and the angel has rather a hard time. When men are thus moved by their fidelity to truth they are under a divine influence. It is those who don’t care who are the most miser- | able of men and the most to be pitied. These men | cannot be respected, for there is a degradation in it. They profess to be pathetic to public | opinion. They stand they know not where, and | | | | have neither beginning nor end for their life pur- ose. These are the men who would not stamp on he Bible, but would violate every command that 1s in it; men who profess to believe in sven ae y but who believe in nothing. Let no man inciude in this category the honest doubters. But it must not | be forgotten that the great facts to these were | that they lived and that this life was theirs, “I | want to love everybody,” said Mr, Beecher, ‘but I find this the hardest work I have to do. I think, if you could take me at the right beat, I could die tor | Somebody; but these men who belteve ip pothing and nobody—I could not die for one of them. would rather be a fanatic in belief than @ fanatic in doubt. I belleve in a historic Christ, but I believe | in more than this. I believe in God, in His care of the universe, in His love for man and in His capa- bility to save and justify mankind."” SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPISOOPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Wild on Basiness and Religion—Similitude Betwee! Beecher and A. T. Stewart. The Rev. Dr. Wild preached a forcible sermon yesterday morning, selecting his text from Ro- mane, Xii., 11—‘‘Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.” Christianity, said the speaker, seeks to legislate for man in all the busi- ness and intercourse of life, and not even forego- ing her claims in death, When properly under- _Stood the Gospel does not confict with the truest interests of society. The spirit and design of the game are compatible with man’s highest good, his _ safety and his peace for time and eternity. In our social, educational, commercial, political and moral relations and duties she asks practical recognition. The success of the Gospel through Paul's labors among the Romans in the high places and palaces of the Empire gave him a fine chance to address them by letter. They were at this time a great people—a mixed, a learned and busy na- tion, Their success, their wealth and power ex- posed them to peculiar temptations. Hence in this epistie he seeks to instruct them by pointing out the natural sinfulness of man and the competence of the Gospel; the oneness of their origin, though @ mixed people, for ont of one blood God had made all nations of men. Because of this they had com- mon duties and relations and a common salvation. He presents ta their notice a high-toned morality, specially enumerating several specific personal | two luties, THR AMERICAN NATION eppeara to me to be muck like the Roman Empire, to her glory. and unholy use are w which in hemselv es dome good men an ne care teneae ee fae ae sat nay Wa a eg that by fa man's rou cae meet t,t pa sible to 60 narrow & com) such limited exercises, or h & gam may be done the: f Tram inclined ¢9 think Yast, messarsa am incl the business done and the amount ‘of intereat Ki stake, even Wall street would compare fav with Church men and Chr trans ons, are things occurring in the Ohurch which we might spot and name dy y & nee an yet name truthfully. It is ot all fair and square dealing in this sacred pavilion. But, if wrong ts done, we will not forsake her, for she has a mission—a noble work; the Church is im the Cay place, and withal she is de muoh So Wall street is performing her new enterprises are presented and ted, and floated on to success by these capiealiers Who, but for such a centre and but for such men, cot never mature and bless the land. By mining, 4 navigation, by railway enterprises these Wi street men have done agood us, Work in their day and generation. BEECHER AND STEWART are equally great in my mind. They have cach made a speciality of one part of Christian BG Beecher has taught the people morality by pi ing in Plymouth Church, and by him thousands have been blessed. But A. T. Stewart has been pret also, and by him thousands have been p-ol The congregation of the latter has far excelled the first. ‘he diligent spirit of business that has char- acterized Mr. Stewart's deal been & prac- tical sermon in the noblest,sense. We see thro him what diligence, perseverance and hol May attain in the United States, DREW AND TALMAGE are both ingenious in their respective spheres; they are both wide awake; they are both trying te educate the masses. Drew seems to me to be dili- gent in business, and Dr. Talmage seems to be fer- vent in spirit. ‘the one founds a college by bank- ing and stock dealing, the other by preac! and lecturing. As no one man can’ do everything, Christianity simply enforces the doctrine it we all do something, and that thing should be the thing we can do the best. The man who lives hon- estly, walks uprightly and works righteousness tm whatever department of human toil he be et is doing God’s service. We are all workers to- gether with God, my hearers, and see to it that your daily walk be for Him, whether in Wali atreet or elsewhere. May the words of my text be yours, ence moral in business, fervent in spiri:, serving he Lord,” TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE. Christ’s Miracle of Turning Water Inte Wine and the Lessons To Be Learned Therefrom. Mr. Talmage’s sermon yesterday merning was based on Christ's miracle of turning water inte wine at the wedding feast, After speaking gener- ally of the character of weddings and their indu- ences upon the feelings of those who attended them, the preacher said:—We are to-day at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus and His mother have been invited. It ts evident that there are more people there than were expected. Some people have come who were not invited or more invitations have been sent out than it was ex- pected would be accepted. Of course there 13 not enough of a supply of wine. You know there is nothing more embar- rassing to a housekeeper than a scanty supply. Jesus sees the embarrassment and He comes up immediately to relieve it. He sees standing six water pots. He orders the servant to fill them with water, then waves His hand over the water and immediately itis wine, a real wine—no log- wood, no strychnine in it, but first rate wine. When God makes wine He makes the very best wine, and 130 gallons of it standing around in these water pots—wine so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and says:—“Why this is really better than anything we have had—thou hast kept the good wine until now.” Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person Who should make the most beautiful essay about this miracle. Long manuscripts were presented for the prize, but an humbte poet won it by just this one line descriptive of the miracle :— The unconscious water said, It's God,” and blushed. We learn from this miracle, im the first place, that God has a SYMPATHY WITH HOUSEKEEPERS, Does there ever come a scant supply in your household? Have you to make very close caicu- lation? Is it hard work for you to carry on things decently and respectably? If so, don’t sit down and cry; don’t fret; but go to Him; pray inthe parlor, in the hall, in the nursery, in the kitchen. If you have a microscop put under it one drop of water and see the insects floating about, and when you see that God makes them and cares for them and feeds them, come to the conclusion that He wil! take care of you and feed you. Trust in God and do the best you can, Amid all the worriments of housekeeping goto him. He will help you con- trol your temper and supervise your domestics and manage your home economies. We learn also that Christ does hep Nears J in abundance, I think a small supply of e would have been enough, but Jesus gave them 130 allons, and the very best wine. It ts ust like Him—doing everything on the largest and Most generous scale. Does Christ go forth and make leaves ?—He makes them by the whole forest- ful—broad like the palm thickets in the tropics, or as Oregon forests. Does he go forth to create water ’—He pours it out by the riverful, a lakeful, an oceanful—pouring it until the earth has enot to drink and enough with which to wash. Does he provide redemption ’—He does not provide a little salvation for this one, a little for that and a little for the other, but enough for all,each man an ocean for himself; promises for the lowly, the blind, the halt, the outcast and the abandoned— pardon for all, comfort for all, mercy for all, heaven for all. Not simply a cupful of gospel sup- ply, ee 130 gallons. The tears of godly repentance are a! GATHERED UP INTO GOD'S BOTTLE, and some day standing before the Throne we will lift our cup and ask that it be filled with the wine of heaven, and Jesus from that bottle of tears will begin to pour and we wili cry, “stop, Jesus! we don’t want to drink our own tears,” and Jesus will say, ‘“‘Know ye not that the tears of earth are the wine of heaven? Sorrow may eudure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning.”’ jeremiah further says that Jesus does not shadow the joys of others with His own griefs. He might have sat down in that wedding and said, “I have 80 much trouble, so much poverty, so much per- secution; the cross is coming; I shall not rejol and the gloom of my sorrows shall be cast over the group.” But He said to Himself, “Here ate ersons starting out in married life. Let it bem joyrat occasion. I will hide my own grief; I will kindle their joy.’ There are many not so Wise as that. I know a household where there are mi little children, where for two years the piano has been kept shut because there has been trouble im the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying, “We will have no Christmas tree this My day because there has been trouble in the house. Hush that laughing up stairs! How can there be any joy when there has been so much trouble?? = 80 they make everything consistently doletus an SEND THEIR CHIDREN TO HELL with the gloom they throw around them. Don’t you know those children will have trouble enough of their own aiter a while? Be glad they can’t ap- reciate all yours, That son may after @ while ave his heart broken, Stand between him and all harm. You may not fight his battle much longer. Fight it while you may. f also learn ftom the miracle that Christ is not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was not ne- cessary that they should have the wine, We don’t read that any of the other provisions fell short. When Christ made the wine it was a positive lux- ury. Idon't believe he wants us to eat Graham bread and sleep on a hard mattress unless we like them best. | think, if the circumstances will allow, we have aright tothe iuxuries of dress, diet and residence, Thereis no more religion in an old coat than in a new one. We can serve God drawn by golden-plated harness as certainly as when we afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under tl frescoed ceiling as well as under the thatched root and when you can get wine made out of water drink 48 much of it as you can. What ia the diifer- ence between @ Ylunegs mud hovel ead a Brooklya ca.