The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1872, Page 4

‘ acne reer AURVICES AND SERMONS Preaching and of Pious Prayer and Praise. DISCOURSES ON DIVERS SUBJECTS. es Frothingham Descanteth on “The Trade in Politics.” lea gen FATHER THOMAS BURKE Sear St “The Duties of Patriotie Men at the Ballot Box.” ae OPENING OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH. ssh Sea Mrs. Alderdice, at Temple Hall, Advorateth Christ as a Candidate as Opposed to that Tricky Politician Satan. ne A Reverend Gentleman Teacheth His Flock “How to Vote During the Coming Election.” pte LL SS HEPWORTH AT STEINWAY HALL. Beecher On the Text, “To Will and to Do of His Own Good Pleasure.” TALMAGE ON “CAST-IRON THEOLOGY.” 8T. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCE. Religious jervice—Sermon Bishop Potter. This new and handsome edifice was yesterday opened for religious serviges, and a large congre- gation attended. The oficiating clergymen were Right Rey. Bishop Potter, Rev. S. D. Cook, D. D., rector, and Rev. H, L, Waite. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Waite and the lessons by the Rev, Dr. Cook. At the usual hour Bishop Potter ascended the - pulpit and preached a discourse appropriate to the occasion from Hebrews X., 23-25. The two lead- ing features in the Bishop’s sermon were his elo- quent appeal to the audience to hold fast to their faith without wavering, and an exposition of the Jallacies of those materialists and scientists who pretend to discover nothing of the supreme power in creation. Speaking. on the former point he dweit at considerable length on the sorrows and troubles of this life, which always brought re- Nection, and trom this reflection arose a better un- derstanding of our dependance upon God and a better appreciation of the benefits He conferred upon us. Regarding the second point he said it was wonderiul how poor pigmy intellects could (Epes to tell us that what all Christians had believed tor 1,800 years was but a fable. These men, with a feigned, lofty superiority, would destroy the old faith, and yet they hau never been able to disturb the teachings oi the New Testament, or to disprove a single miracle stated, therein. He ‘then explained the difference between scientific discovery and revelation, saying there was no opposition between the two, each having a differ- ent province, and that men with simple faith and earhestness might study alike the theories which reason could control and questions of theology which were founded on God’s own word. The singing by the choir during the service was very fine, the organ being presided over by General ©. C. Dodge, of the firm of Pheips, ime, & Co. The singers were:—Soprani, Mme. Salvoiti and Miss Sallie Rebin; contralti, Miss Buckley and Miss Conchin; tenori, Mr. Romayno and Mr. McDonald; varitones, Mr. Remertz and Mr. Weinlich. LYRIC HALL. A Discourse that Began on the Battle of Life Generally and Wound Up with a Haerangue on Politics Particularly— Sermon by the Rev. O, B. Frothingham. Jupiter Pluvius dispensing his rain from the storm-laden clouds and the epihippic dispensing with horses from the over-laden city cars com- bined to render the attendance yesterday morning comparatively sparse at Lyric Hall, opposite Reservoir square, on Sixth avenue, and this pithough Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, the pepular and eloquent pastor, was announced to fill the pulpit. fo the few who were there, however, there was the full recompense of reward. A select piece of music sung by the excellent choir—one of the best choirs in the city—was almost sufficient compensation itself; but of course most of the people went to hear the sermon. This, as usual, was in his customary style—sententious, scathing ‘and full of incisive force and vigor. He began upon the subject of the “ Battle of Life,” but branched off into politics, and certainly—though it hardly shows Itself in our necessarily brief report—no more ter- rible political speech has been delivered during the present campaign. The phrase, “THE BATTLE OF LIFE," had (he began) been made familiar to them through the writings of Charles Dickens, The fact that life (was a battle was as oldascreation. Existence was a battle, or is a battle, of every man or every class of men. Every mau has his peculiar struggle. Each fights against something. The refermer fights against sloth, wickedness; the nero fights his battles; the First by sant his. It is a fight that cannot be suspended in asingle Instance. Itisa fight that either carries one FORWARD OR BACKWARD. This is the universal rule of existence. Let the farmer relax his vigilance and the tares choke his ‘wheat. Let the reiormer slacken his energies and he is Jost. Let the saint sleep on his post and he is lost, There is only one Np 4 we sleep we anust sleep with our armor on. It is annoying, but it ig necessary. No one admires a coward; pol- troon was ever made a god. The Greeks built tem- ples to Hercules, In all times men honor the sol- dier, not because he wears a uniform or marches under a flag, but because he fights st some- thing. Christ was a fighter; He wrestled in Geth- semane, Thomas Cariyle, the moment he reached the earnest period of his manhood, felt 1t his duty to expose the SHAMS OF THE WORLD, vhe passion for luxury, the rage for display. He fought against meanness, The one thing he re- vered was work; the one thing he despised was idieness, There were, he said, only three ways of living—by MA gio: f robbery or by mary. ork in any form was venerable—work of brain or muscle, With logic, fact, wisdom, prophecy he fought the sham that happiness is the end of man. To him the end of man was duty. He fought against the sham that success is the it of merit. juccess was gained by trickery, by ignoble means, iccess to him was no test of merit. He admired lt that was manly in man, all that was womanly fu woman. From Carlyle he proceeded to speak of Ahe gr reforms being effected by THE FREE PRESS, ‘and, having ehouteene iscoursed apon this topic, enlarged with like eloquence upon the wing fone isting among thi ne Lhe up the corruption ext among the monarc! vern- ene. of the Old World and compared it’to the rruption under our government. Corruption inder det ited, must be greater than hinder a ‘iberal ent. The former corrn| sion was less He showed conclusively that we have ment. The pie were the government, Precything ‘was upset every four ears, Our government Was a business arrange- ent entirely, and it must be conducted on busi- a idea 8. It was asked why there was so CORRUPTION IN OUR GOVERNMENT, It was a serious question, Where is the trouble ? is it because American human nature is worse than English or German or French or Italian hu- Man nature? It is not this, We are a mighty race. It was a mighty race that made Greece the most powerful repnbiic of the world. The truth in shat business men here have no time to devote to political affairs. One of the oldest basiness men of the Ore said to him that he would give ti to politics if he had it. The best men are hela’so, ab- sorbingly at work that they cannot give time to e cl tics. But, after ail, th f Bion lies im tie iemimcnne tuchity oy otc ee a every side are orca rodiglour” taclitiies to is the sad: truth, that mea ip America make millions without work, "ail th that ia wanted is ing AUDAOITY wrr, AND 7 and a combination with some ring or clique. There ere in New York re oe who make their thousands , Who are not worthy to be the scullions of the noble, but tmpovei workers, men without conscie: with- out heart, Itis the example of such that causes the ruin of thousands of young men. Tn old New in working the Sterile lands character was W: it—a character noble, self- roug! reliant, independent. Drawing this contrast far- ther he took up - THR TRADE IN POLITIOS 8 one of the chief causes of modern corruption. ‘The politician was the mechanic of the government, ‘He was the manager, e politician thinks only of himself, or at least, however well he starts, it re- solves {tself into this, He isa trader. His business is to plot and plan and pull certain strings, so that he may get certain parties into office, and he gets money to make the machinery as complex as possible, ‘He does this to cover ap tracks. The result is that others, not knowing tlie tricks of the trade, are hoodwinked by this, or else keep aloof and are apathetic. The ple are virtuous, but they feel that they can do nothing. The corrup- tion consequently taints everything. What was the remedy? It was evident that no change in ad- ministration would act as the remedy. They must come down to THE SIMPLE STRUGGLE OF PRINOIPLE against that without principle, bie man and woman wanted moral courage. le preaches putting the best men in power. was easy to bn it was not #0 easily done. He pointed out the almMcuity of finding the best men. If the despot rectly just, God would approve of the despot, It was idle to talk of Providence. We are Providence. It was idle to taik of God holding dear the American people. What dees God care for the American on ? Tt was idle to talk about Seortny.. Destiny is ony walking in the grooves of 8T. MARY'S CHURCH. “The Saints of God”—nermon by the Rev. Father Burke. St, Mary's church, corner Ridge and Grand streets, was crowded to its utmost capacity yester- day, at the high mass services, by the members of the parish who were fortunate enough beforehand to have secured admission tickets, which were sold at $1 apiece. Of course the entrance fee was not charged (or the privilege of hearing mass, but for the privilege of hearing the sermon preached by Father Burke, The reverend father took for his subject, “The Saints of God, and What the Catholic Church Teaches Concerning Them."’ The discourse was a masterly one, the reverend gentleman seem- ing to be in one of his most eloquent moods. He dilated at great length about what the Church taught concerning the saints; how it taught Catholics to believe that their intercession for man on earth was powerful with God, and how they served as examples for men to follow during their pilgrimage through lite, He then ridiculed the Protestant’s disbelief in THE POWER OF THK SAINTS to intercede for us, and asked how it was that Protestants believed that one of their living fellow beings upon earth could pray for them, but that when his spirit had been translated to heaven his power to pray to God for any one on earth ceased altogether, It was charged that Catholics committed idolatry when they pare to the saints, He con- ceded that they could be considered guilty of that crime if they believed that the saints of themselves could grant their prayers, and, thus belleving, they prayed to them and paid them reverence. But Catholics, he said, only prayed to the saints to join their prayers to theirs it was charged Catholics did In addressing their supplications to the saints and what they really did was so plain that he did not think any Catholic needed to be Instructed greatly on the subject. Father Burke next pointed out what an encourag- ing thing it was for Christians to have the examples ot the saints before them in their’ TOILSOME TRAVELLING THROUGH LIFE. They had all once been of the same flesh and blood as ourselves, ‘They had had to endounter the saine obstacles in life—aye, more than any one of us had ever met with; they had to undergo the same temptations that we have and had been just a8 Hable to fall as we are now, if they had not fol- lowed the straight path and’ by Gou’s. help gone bravely on to the end without finching betore the enemy of their salvation., When a man fell into mortal sin in a moment of thoughtiessness or per- versity he felt the heinousness of his crime, and his first afterthought was how to regain God's favor. And yet in the ranks of the saints were to be found men who had fallen just as men nowa- days fall into sin, and yet who had renewed,them- selves and finally died ia the grace of God, after batthng for the right and doing good upon alt sides for many years. So the Christian in every depart- ment of ‘life had an example of human weak- ness and human strength, as fortified by God's all-saving grace, always before him. Dida man deny his religion, his God before other men, and then, realizing the blackness of his crime, despair of ever again Litt, iriend of God, out stepped from the highest ranks of the saints St. Peter himself, the great aposile, the first Pope, and who would say, “I, too, once denied my Saviour, but when He looked upon me my heart was filled with grief, and I wept bitter tears of repentance, and I was again received by Him as one of His followers, You nave sinned as I have sinned; now repent and be reconciled to God as 1 repented and was recon- ciled to Him.” And it because a degraded woman is abhorred by all the worid,and at whose Aperoneh, the modest maidens hide thelr faces, and for whom there is nothing but loathing and disgust,’ should she say, “Weill, there is nothing eft for me to do but to go on my way on THE HIGH ROAD OF SIN, regardless of the future; the world despises me, and Lam abhorred oy gil, and my soul is lost; so Dll sweep on to the bitter end and work da; night to throw my coils about others and drag down to rdition with me every soul I can clutch?” She should not. Even jor her there was an example amoug the saints. Mary Magdalene walked the streets of Jerusalem a degraded wo- man, and as she passed the Pharisees gathered up their ea lest they would be polluted by her uch. She was spurned by every- body until she cast herself at the feet of the Savior and when she found that He turned not from her her heart was softened, her soul was filled with anguish for her sins and she was happy in hearing Jesus pronounce the words of pardon. From that time forth her life was changed, and she became a great saint. She, too, would say to the despairing, degraded woman, “You have sinned as Ihave sinned; now imitate my example by repenting ana coming to God, who wishes not that you be damned, but that you live and be saved.” ‘The reverend preacher then drew a beautiful pic- ture of the life of the just man and of the love for God that filled his soul, Poa'e him proof against all temptations and of the Intimate connection there was between the saints in heaven and Chris- tans on earth—between the Church triumphant and the Church militant; and he illustrated it in the most touching manner by arguing to show that though the wife and the husband, the brother and the sister, the mother and the child might be sepa- rated from one another on earth by death, the love that bound them together was not severed in heaven; that in the Spe of God's glory the souls of those who love Barely here on earth, hallowed by God's presence in heaven, would re- cognize each other, and that the love that bound them together on earth, rendered all the stronger by the deliverance of the spirit from worldly shackles, would endure forever. After speaking in an eloquent strain of Ireland’s devotion to the faith, the reverend gentleman closed by earnestly exhorting his congregation to so act in this lire that they, too, when their time came, would be numbered among the saints of God. ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. Death and How It Should be Regardcd— Sermon by Dr. Bellows. The disagreeable weather of yesterday morning had quite an effect on the attendance at this church. The music was, as usual, rain or shine, very good, and the prayer by Dr. Bellows, pre- vious to the sermon, most touching and beautiful. ‘The sermon was preached from a text found in the second chapter of Paul to Timothy, and it clearly showed that this life is not life, but lethargy. Its gist will be found in the following. In the nineteenth century, this era of the steam horse, the electric telegraph aud other material progress, we are inclined to look but lightly at death and life, Most of us who are engaged in commercial pursuits seem to ba ih 4 performin; I life's end. our duties in such stations we ‘True, " Labor is life’s end ; an end but never ending, and still there is that around us which is continu- y and incessantly reminding us that we were ade for higher and nobler purposes than the mere sordid pursuit of this world’s goods. For who can contemplate the human tongue and the myriad muscles which it requires to produce the infinite sounds we utter without having his thoughts raised to the invisible and eternal? ‘The human hand, the eye, the ear, and, in Tact, the Whole, bod i in more exp! an spoken language of the Almight, creating hand of Gor. y And notwithstanding all these convincing proofs, we do nov give the hereafter the consideration due to it; not only as Christians but as men we should occupy our minds with that which concerns our eternity. If we but awake to the reality that we shall be rewarded accord- to our deeds, and that as we do ae we shall be rewarded, and as we do evil we shail be punished, we cannot fail to turn and de- ‘vote at least a small portion of our time to the eb- for which we were created. Death in itself aching thas should terrify the upright man, for he well knows thut it is but the inning of a better and happier existence; but to the man who has di his life been unaccustomed to refect on his here rit must certainly be terrible, for he in that supreme moment realizes that he is on the brink or eternity for weal or woe to his immortal soul, Christ by His coming has divested death or tag fe! the pester St Soe, ag oped He hi in remov o opened tots the toutitelns of life and shown us the road which leadeth vo His heavenly mansion. Beiore in asking of God the graces | they stood in need of. The difference between what | NEW YORK HERALD, MON His coming the souls of the departed were doomed darkness until Christ the Sayiour in oat opine bat ‘been observ. mitted to life are sure of Rev. George H. Hepworth on the Com- mion Service. Notwithstanding the disagreeable weather of yesterday Steinway Hall contained at the morning services a very large attendance. It being Com- munion Sunday, Mr. Hepworth preached on the subject of “Communion.” His text was Matthew xxvi., 20—“Now when the even was come He sat down with the twelve.” There are some events in the contemplation of which the heart seems alinost to stand still; this is one. Christ had labored for three years; but now the end of all was almost at band. THR CLOCK OF GOD had struck the hour of doom, ‘The Pharisees knew it not; but Christ did, and He told His disciples that the hour was at hand. He told them that they could go to the city, and that a man would let them have the use of his house, so that they could to- gether cat the Passover. Christ Himseif had no house. He depended for a home on the charity of those whom He had converted, I meed not tell you that it was A SAD HOUR FOR THR DISCIPLES. They saw ia the future nothing but hatred and deal If the Master Himself iust yield to the bicody naits of the cross, what, then, must be the future of those who were mere servants of enc’ an sald ae eo the Divine will, When Lam no longer of this earth I wil give you wisdom and courage, and ye shalt pet to all the world the gospel, of repentance. want you to look back a jew centages before the time of pil sep bso Israelites - rit Peedi a pillar an ropheta, 4 dying, had declared hunt another, greater than he, gre: would come, who would save them, Jernsalem hi been conquered by the Romans. On her every cor- ner stood minion of Rome. A whole nation looked up to Jehovah to keep his promise. They looked up for one who was to break their bondage. Outside of Jerusalem religious notions were pecu- liar. One deity presided over war, another over wheat, another over the household; and so men became contused. It was A REGULAR SNARL. Sceptics arose everywhere—sceptics who deciared that it was better to worship no god, and who sneered at the rituals of the temples. And so, if you look carefully, you will see that there was a universal cry for he! Pe Now, after looking back, let us look forward. It is said that when Wicklitte was burned his ashes were thrown in the Avon, and were thence carried to the Severn, and thence finally to the broaa Atlantic. So the words of Christ were first believed by His disciples, then by Israel, and finally by the whole human world, Yes, that trath has held its own. Jerusa- lem was razed to the ground and that voice was not criwhed, The Romans conquered almost to the rising sun, and their power has vanished. The very throne that sent them forth has crumbled; but above the din of all was heard that voice, Five centuries after the time of Christ kings could not be kings without they were Christians. And when you ask me for proot of Chistianity I say, look at its mighty influences. When John the Baptist was in prison, and, grow- ing despondent, he asked if Jesus was the Christ. Christ said, Tell him { have. made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dead to rise. And when you ask me for proof of Christianity, Tsay, look ‘at what it has done and is doing. You are indebted to Christ for everything you have or anything you ever will have, Now, Christ said to his disciples, in that last hour, “Keep me in mind; do this In remembrance of me." And ever after we have kept an hour for Him. We believe that He is with us; that He is able to keep the promise deliberately given. We do not believe that any word in the Scriptures is a mis- take, Is it not a great privilege to sit together and be with Christ, who opened the doors of the New Jerusalem? And, my dear triends, 1AM NOT TALKING RHETORIC. This is a fact. Itis as true as the Bible, and the Bible 18 as true as God Himself. After further en- Jargement on this point the speaker proceeded to speak of the propriety, almost the necessity of ob- serving the communion service. It is # bold and manly declaration of our convictions, To omit it is like listening in silence to aspersions on @ mother’s. name. At the conclusion of the discourse one of the poneremnHion requested to be allowed to speak for five minutes. His ideas were only « further ventilation of those of Mr. Hepworth on a certain Part of his sermon. SEVENTEENTH STREET M. EB, OHUROH. The Political Situation—A Plea tor Grecley and the South—Rev. Mr. Soole Won’t Vote for a Roman Catholic— ‘The Best Men for Office. The Rev. W. H. Boole, pastor of Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, preached last night on the political situation. The congregation, for the season, was comparatively large. Mr. Boole apologized for reading his sermon.or speech from manuscript, rather than speaking extempore, as he is used to do. But such is the interest in the political situation that he would not trust himself to speak the feelings of his heart, lest he might not speak that which might be best. His text was John 1., 46— “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” He first gave suppositious reasons why Nazareth was @ bad placg, and why the words of his text might have passed into a proverb and a byword. But there was a good thing in that bad town, for the Master went there and lived there, and His exam. pie is a standing rebuke to those who leave the Nazareth of the downtown wards of this city to go into the more aristocratic Jerusalem of uptown. There is omly one hd to pinity, Pe Ree of this country, and that lor the men to go down to Nazareth. The Nazareth of this oy of New York is all over a plague spot of which the horse disease is but a small type, But there is still a chance to save it; but it must be by men going down into Naza- reth, instead of sitting at home, as some of us do, while we allow the had men of Nazareth to do our voting and governing for We are in no danger of a war of bullets. That is ell over and settled, He appealed to all good men to assuage the trou- bled waters of political strite into which our country is plunged. The way in which this political contest has been waged isa disgrace to our civilization. Personal abuse and vituperation of ive men have been brought into the canvass as they have never been before. The press, other- wise called moral, has let itself down to this per. sonal abuse, and the illustrated papers are filled with the basest caricatures of men and true. From the candidates for the Presidency down to the men running for the smallest ofice ft is all the same. Nothing Po apron by the Southern press before or during the war was worse than what we have done since the war. It has been the keynote of politicians since 1865 to ery, “Let us have peace.” But to have peace we mist have the spirit of peace in and among our- selves at howe. e olive branch that we hold out to the South must be green and fresh, and not that withered thing which politicians swing around at election times. You abuse @ man, said Mr. Boole, for bailing Jeff Davis, but the Judge who permitted him to be bailed, and who feareu to face the traitor, and the United States that stood at his back and failed to satisfy offended justice by his death that was most to blame. But having let him go and having liberated his co-conspirators and enfran- chised them we must now, like Shimei to David of old, cast stones and dust at them. ‘1 know,” said Mr. Boole, ‘on which side you are, and you shall not know from anything that 1 may say here to- night on which side | am.” The principles of both parties are now the same. Did any one, he asked, ever see anything like it? The South accepts the issues of the war, as well as the North, and he (Boole) thought that their an- conditional acceptance of the terms offered them was an evidence of ee ogre! such as the world has never seen. But you say they don’t mean it. Neither do those CUSTOM HOUSR THIEVES and shoddy contractors mean it when they Ge ee ‘with all their might, “Let us have peace.” ‘They are not honest in their profession. But you don't believe the South, and you must keep them in bondage .until they are whipped into allegi- ance to the government. Ah! indeed. But ‘ou cannot whip free men into love yr the government Yon must love them into that. Citing from an incident in St. Paul's life, Mr. Boole said he was glad that the same Gospel ‘was preached by both parties, though one preached it of contention and not of peace. He protested against the wholesale denunciation of men who for thirty years have stood in the forefiont of the bat- tle here in the North, by men undedged, who have net yet lived their ten years of Manhood. But these men weigh as heavy in the scales as we do, But when you weigh men yon must not weigh parties with them. ‘This election can’t be carried for truth aad righteous- ness unless good men bolt all ies and vote onl tor the best, There are two Gs in somination, It is loyal to vote for one, but not diskyal to vote for the other. Referring to the State and local elec- tion, Mr. Boole said he feared power was to be giyen again into the hands of men vho have here- ruled and robbed us, There is hardly a chance that any of the thieves who depleted our city treasury will now be brought to justice and punished. The public schools are now in the hands of dranken trustees who ought to be in primary classes learning to read; and the Bible is being put out of ‘the schools as fast as they can do it. Referring to the council of Political reform, he thought they lacked courage and were wavering. Its chairman, who is now ranning for the aye Of this city, has not done himself any credit by denying the Kader cab Ad the circular sent to the Methodist ministers of this city, Still he thought it was, on the whole, best to follow their advice as to whom to vote for. But he w every man to bolt parties and vote only for the best men; but for himself he would not vote for 277 Roman Catholic, since it is the av pur- pose of that Church amd its adherents to place the ee a DAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1872—TRIPLE SHERT. urch above the State. He would not vote for a acai were ditions, : , c} } LA SINE Opening of = Mission by the Jesuit!| M40 Fathers—Father Glackmyer Ammounces the Order of Exercises. At this churoh yesterday a mission was opened by the Jesuit Fathers, which is to be continued for several weeks, At all the early masses the priests ofthe church announced to the congregations the object of the mission. At half-past ten o'clock A. M. @ grand high mass was celebrated, Rev. Dr. Mo- Glynn being celebrant; Rev. Father McCreedy, deacon; Rev. Father Flynn, sub-deacon, and Rev. Father Lynch, master of ceremonies. After the first gospe! Rev, Father Glackmyer, the distin- guished Jesuit missionary, occupied the pulpit, and explained the order of exercises for each day, Mass will be said every hour each morning di the mission, from four o'clock A, M, until ten o’clock A. M., a sermon being preached after the last mass. At haif-past seven o'clock in the evening the will be recited and benediction i after wi another sermon will be preached, Confessions be heard daily from four o'clock in the morning until midnight. Father er took his text from St. Paul’s epistie to the Romans, xiii., 11—‘‘And that know- ing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from Coa ‘The preacher be; by showin, how really little we loved God, yethow muel we lost by not spy Mem The inet peace which the love of God oght with it was a fore- taste of the eternal bliss that awaited the soul that loved God. He then proceeded to speak of the Pep oy ad i ot peers bed eg peta Cer aoe of the evil-dosr, ai empty pleasures, after all, which sin afforded, and contrasted these with the extraordinal God gave to mon. and His qrest ‘mercy aven to those inko by tool sinsshowed it they hatea Him most, No one could conceive how great must be this love of God which waited so tenderly for the sinner—this great mercy, which ever continued to seek sorrow from the erring sou! and an amendment of life. Tocre was not one ir this large parish to whom God was not giving a great grace in His invitation to them to attend the mission then being opened, and which, perchance, ‘be the last opportunity afforded to many of them whereby they might become reoonetled to their Heavenly Father. The preacher then exhorted them in & most forciple and sloquent anner to respond to this invitation which God had given them ugh the voice of their pastor. The music of the high mass was, a8 wt ren- dered well. The organist, Mr. Danforth, displayed his usual ability, and Miss Howson, Miss Munier and Signor Colletti ue with customary efiect. ‘The mass sung was Weber's in G, the vespers in the aiternoon being Corini’s. SECOND STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Aston on “How to Vote at the Coming Election”—The Duties ot Christian and Patriotic Men atthe Ballot Box—What We Have to Fear. ty The Second street Methodist Episcopal church was quite crowded last evening to hear a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Henry Aston on the subject, “Flow to Vote at the Coming Election.” Mr, Aston took his text from John xviii,, 40—“Not this man, but Barabbas, Now Barabbas was arobber and a mur- derer.” Aiso from Isaiah 58, 1—‘‘Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a* trumpet and show my people their transgressions,” Mr. Aston said:— This suggests che doctrine of man’s free choice that good and evil are set before men for the ex- ercise of their free will, It holds up before us the synonym. or representative of all that is grand and Godlike, and on the other the representative of all that is evil in wick- edness, It wlso suggests that men may be so infatuated by their leaders that the: repress all that is good and choose all that is evil. ‘The cry aloud and spare not suggest the authority of God servants—the watchman upon the wall to sound the alarm, ‘The subject is, ‘‘How shall we vote in the coming election?’ Do not think that partisan questions—the defence of the one or the defeat of the other—is the duty of the hour. ‘The pulpit has higher and holier functions. I look upon it not as the sanctum of partisan agitation nor the forum from which PARTY HARANQUES are tobe given. When politicians drag into their radius the moral law and ignore and trample it under their feet—when they prostitute the powers of their office, subvert the law, lower its standard and trail its banner in the dust, put a premium on law breakers, elevating and. defending murderous outrages, then do they come in direct collision with the real iunctions of the pulpit, and must expect its thundering de- nanciations and terrible anathemas. [1 the pulpit is put for the defence of Christianity and of the na- tion which fosters it, why not let the politician feel its power? Does the law exempt them? Will God excuse them at the judgment pass them byy The dignity of our national laws and sacredness of oath of office should rise in their grandeur above party varniers and selfish interests, Hence MEASURES, NOT MEN, principles, not partisan questions, 1s the burden of the hour. Mr. Aston then went on to review in detail the working of the city government, and eloquently portrayed the tearful corruption which we lay under. He then sald that we were gradu- ally getting into a union of Church and State, a great curse for any pation, and how the power of the Catholic element was to be feared in its cor- ruptibility and in the amount of Fer ekercs it received at the hands of the State. What care these men what becomes of the nation? It is ours. to cry the alarm. Does it not force itself that to vote for such men would be repeating the sin of those who said not this man, but Barabbas; for Barabbas was a robber and murderer? Do you ask @ way to escape—a remedy? There must be a waking up to a sense of our danger, our peril. HE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY is kindled against such evil-doers. We are nearin, the rapids. Awake to our danger and escape. answer, secondly, the remedy is in a vigilant dis- charge of duty at the ballot box. Guard its purity, challenge your neighbors, vote yourselves. It is alarming that the most intelligent and Joyal ne- ‘lect. this duty. I answer, thirdly, those who ave held off throw themeelyes into the strife. The corruption, you will say, of politicians has be- come a byword. Then go and change all that. Find a remedy in organizing yourselves into a patriotic force, breaking away from party lines, demanding the most intelligent men for office, and watch them in the discharge of taeir duty. say THE TASK IS HERCULEAN; that the name of the opposition is ‘legion; that there is no hope, Will you let this tide of corrup- tion roll on and on ‘because our numbers are smull? On this principle all the grand movements of the world would not have come to anything. ‘Think of Christ Himself and what He has to con- tend with. The remedy for this is to vote for those you have a right to know will be most patriotic, without regard to color, religion or politics. But T can’t see how a@ Roman Catholic can come up to this. Tobe @ true American is to swear fealty to this country. How can Roman Catholics do this who hold another power to be supreme over all? Mr. Aston then beseeched the young men of his charge to pursue a patriotic course. JANE STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ‘0 NEL ERIN Rev. Fletcher Hamblen on Our Political Grievances and Their Remedy. The above-named edifice was the scene of a rather fashionable congregation last evening, who assembled to hear their pastor speak on the politi- cal evils of the day. \ He took his text from Acts ix.—“‘And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt Thon have me dco? And the Lord said, Go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.” It occurred to the speaker that upon the inhabitants of our nation the light of day was breaking. Mo- rality, intelligence and Christianity induce us to ery out when we behold the deceitfuiness of men in official position, “Lord, what wilt Thou have us to do?” And it seems as if the same answer is given as that given to Saul. It belongs to me, he observed, to discuss the issues of the hour, without wishing to offend any man. In the first place it seems that the people of the State are VIRTUALLY DISFRANCHISE! The suffrages of the people are made a farce of by men of each political party. Fraud and corruption are just as prevalent in one party as in auother. Nominations are & matter of favor rather than of merit. Last week | was speaking to a Ppeanen republi- can, who said to me, “Sir, I have left the polit- ical fleld. Iwas in a convention recently when a lawyer walked in and proffered $10,000 for @ nomination. got the nomination, and his money was divided among the delegates.” In the next place, taxes are becoming a burden to the people and I see no remedy but in the moral and Christian sentiment of our people. A member of the last lature said to me, “Sit, ifyou were to see the actions of the men of opposite parties in Albany you never would imagine them to be of Opposite political principles. i! there were three wea there of each party they would conspire for COMMON PURPOSE OF ais The increase of our city taxes is something un- ralleled. In 1860 the cost és. head for supporting ‘The orlwe of intemperance’ ts fearfully increasing, ime nt rance Women are be: drunkards; youths becom- run! you' ing thieves, and maids sell themseives to beaux and perish meer, ‘withont the erento of those even who red their ruin. sellers of rum are slowly murdering our people. A beneficial excise law has been repealed thi rum influ. Arrests on the Sabbath have increase: ence. 500 since ie pursued fo, fire, ‘on nos. Parise in position ‘Of the last murder, Had Justice boca done to Seaunel be Would not Lave will committed his crime. oe SOE See aa of ea ina Pe ie the togu tion. "Outholles ghould be energeti ; honest " elected; honest Eetlous iandes Unedl thin x be effected. Remonstrate with FRANCIS KERNAN Roman Catholic, believing in the in- against him by all eternal infamy. If you do your merica will nave occasion tothank TEMPLE HALL. Discourse by Mrs. Alderdice, the Eng- Msh Eivangelist—The Curiosities of Preaching—*The Great Election ”— Christ amd Satam the Candidates— Claims of the Former to the Suffrages of Her Hearers, Mrs, Alderdice, an English lady, delivered a dis- course at Temple Hall, 229 Bowery, yesterday after- noon, She is @ plain, middle-aged laay, and, with her husband, belongs to an’ organization in Eng- land known as Evangelists, whose peculiar mission it is to go about and preach Christ and Him cruct- fied in those localities Where otherwise preaching of the gospel isseldom heard, A Methodist her- self, she adopts the atyie of the great founder of that sect when preaching to the miners of Corn- wall and the colliers of Newcastle, and makes ap- peals solely to the emotional nature of her hearers. At the Lour announced for the meeting the hall was occupied by a Father Mathew Temperance organization, which continued its session a half hour longer, compelling those who had come to hear the lady preacher to cool themselves for that length of time in the doorway, and causing many to go away. The members of the society finally assed oul, declining the invitation of Mrs. Iderdice to remain, and that lady mounted the rostrum with an audience of fourteen and @ re- porter. The exercises opened with the hymn commenc- Plunged in a gulf of dark despair, led by the preacher in a not unple voice. A fervent and at times eloquent prayer followed, and after the reading of a Psalm and another hymna she announced as her text, trom Isaiah xlil., ie ‘Behold My servant, whom 'C uphold; Mine élect, in whom soul delighteth ; ave put My spirit upon hi he shail Dring forth judgment to the Gentiles.” “Meaning thereby the nations,” the speaker added. The subject of her discourse, as published, was the “Great Election.” She opened by a reference to the present political canvass and the importance attached to it and excitement growing out of it, and said:—“We are engaged in another and far greater election, in which the candidate we call upon you to support is nominated by the ever liv- ing God, Itis not my intention to speak of the question which is tobe decided at the polls early in this week, but of the at election in which ‘the saints and angels of the skies are the committee- men. She then proceeded to show that there are two candidates for the great Presidency. The one nominated of God—Christ the mighty one—selected from among the Se and lowly, with whom we associated on earth. Though possessed of all power and all wisdom, He selected not his place among the aristocracy of earth, mor even among the priesthood. He sat at the feet no Gamaliel, though able at tweive rears to confound doctors of the Temple learned in the law. She proceeded, to a considera- ble extent, to urge the claims of this candidate. In Heaven, she said, He had been chosen unani- mously. With no dissenting voice, the Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry His name. In that land of liberty and light and universal suf- frage He is unanimously chosen. In hell, among the damned, it was necessary to vote for the other candidate. The denizens of that dreary abode would doubtless vote for Christ if they could, but the choice is not given them, and they must needs support Satan, the arch destroyer, The great battle-ground was earth. Man had risen in rebel- lion, but God had sent down @ flag of truce offer- ing peace upon certain conditions. And that peace shall come and Christ. shall rule, for He has said, “Ask of me and I shall yive thee the heathen for thine imheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” The speaker then portrayed the obligation which man is under to his maker, and exclaimed, in « burst of enthusi- asm, Who will serve the King of Glory’ Who will acknowledge the world, the fiesh and the devil rather than Emmanuel, whom God has made Presi- dent? “My servant, against whom the powers of hell shall not prevail,”’ Jesus, who shall reign - Where ‘er’ the sun doth its successive journeys run. She prayed that God would.send down his can- vassers, Who should R into all the world and preach the og Fy © exhorted to effort and patient faith, We must canvass for Jesus, she said, and the prize is sure. ing of the bribery and corruption so rife in political elections, she likened them to the tactics of Satan in the “Great canvass,” and warned against them. She closed by prop! the complete victory of our candidate, even in this great metropolis, and a call upon God to add his blessing. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. Bb ary rrenaniins ' PLYMOUTH OHURCH. “|The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on the Text, To Will and to Do His Own Good Pleasare.” There appeared to be just as many people seck- ing admission within Plymouth church vesterday as usual, notwithstanding the unpropitious weather and the fact that no cars were run. It was noticeable, however, the pews were not all filled by the regular pew-holders, as many who re- sided at a distance were compelied from want. of conveyance to forego the pleasure of listening to the morning sermon of their much loved pastor. “TO WILL AND TO DO HIS GOOD PLEASURE!”’ ‘The reverend gentieman selected for his text the followin; “For it is God which worketh in you both to will aud to do his good pleasure”’—Philippians i., 13. He spoke of the internal spiritual and ex- ternal providence. The Lord conveyed to His dis- ciples His assurance of an external providence. Their lives was a matter of Divine oversight, but the Lord did not explain to them how, for He never philosophized with them. Providence was to take care of them, and they were told not to give them- selves any anxiety as to what they should eat or drink: Providence had provided for the little birds and the flowers of the field, and everything in the divine spirit of God’s universe would be taken care of, but He did not teach them how. Kurtuer than that, He told them AS REFORMERS they would be persecuted and executed, but they should not trouble themselves, as He would take care of them. Later He gave them further assur- ance of God's works. He assured them that in the invisible world of the soul there was a providence which would take care of the tangible and visibie. Consider what lives we were living. Was there anything so active as the burning soul? Consider how many trains of thought were set going day day from the time we arose in morning until we laid down at night. ‘The thoughts which passed through the mind of one single person was beyond contemplation. Add to this the imagination whic! it produced and reasonings which are stored in the minds of every man an it Wonld make a prodigous volame. What a great loom we carried in us! We expressed surprise to see the silk come out with the birds and wings and flowers, but it was not to be compared to that human loom that went without the shuttles, Every one was rushing on, cach human mind occa- pied and all silent as the dews of ae When a man built a house men spoke of it beanti- ful, and praised the architect. We all said to our- selves that we would build one of these days, for it was ONE OF OUR DAY DREAMS. They looked at the outside of the house, but the inside was invisible; the improvements could not be seen trom the outside. When the artist puts his pencil to the canvas it was impossible to tell how, out of the many colors which he sifted, he produced the picture. His imagination was con- stantly at work, but the image {n his own mind was a thousand times more beautiful than that which he produced. And it was so with the air castles which we were constantly eer F they were s thousand times more beautiful than they could be in this world. He held that the mother who brought MY a family of children, and moulded their natures into good, virtuous men and women, did more the builder, the architect or artist, and her work was more important than the campaigns of a Cwsar or Napoleon. Every little change upon the earth had the effect of changing the universe. Each Summier changed the trees, though the change was scarce! observed. How much more was the soul t Men did not know how they stood in this matter. They knew how much they hacin the bank, and could tell HOW MUCH THRY WERE WORTH. Sometimes they told you they were worth twice as much as as they ye but could they tell any- thing of their moral ; was its growth one of richness or Lace he putting M4 of this internal building was in the If the exer ted 80) wae in te, they knew how diffoult it was. So it was in the inward soul. ‘When he went to his country im the Summer be observed that bie three eet wonder where come from. They God. become the baby, and and victuals were to PiXtter communion was partaken of the congrega- er communion W: e tion was dismissed with the benediction. ‘TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE. God’s In ite Love for His People—e Pastoral Sympathy with “Cast-Iron Theology”—A Thrilling Picture of the Crucifixion. ‘The stormy weather and the total suspension of city railroad travel yesterday had the effect ef somewhat decreasing the attendance of the morna- ing services at the Tabernacle. The building, how- ever, was more than two-thirds filled by a very at- tentive and interested congregation. Mr. Tal- } muge’s discourse to his people was founded on the parable of the Prodigal Son:—‘When he was yet @ great way off, his father saw him and had com- Passion on him and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him."’ Oh, don’t you recognize that father, said the preacher, Who wasit? Itis God! Ihave no sympathy with that CAST-IRON THKOLOGY which represents God as hard, severe and vindictive. God is a father, kind, loving, lenient, gentle, long suffering, patient, and He fies toour rescue, In the first place, I notice in this text the Father's eyesight ; in the second place, the Father's haste, and, in the third place, the Father's Kiss, ‘The text describes our condition; we are a great way of. That young man was not further off from his father’s house; sin is not farther off from holt- 83; ie HELL IS NOT FARTHER off from Heaven than we have been by our sina away of from God. Ave, so far off that we could not hear His voice, thot vehemently He haa called us year after year. Idon’t know What bad habits you may have formed; I don’t know what false notions you may have entertained; but you are ready to acknowledge, if your heart has not been changed by the grace of God, that you are a great way off, so far olf that you can’t get back of yourselves, You would like ‘to come back; aye, this Moment you would start if it were not for ¢! sit and that habit and this disadvantage. Bot I am to tell you of the Father's cyesight. He has seen all your fratities, all your struggles, all your disadvantages. He has been longing for your coming. He has not been looking at you with acritic’s eye but with a father’s eye, and. it ever a parent pitied a child God piles you; and this brings me tathe second idea of the text— the Father's haste. Bible, for the most part, speaks of God as wal . “Inthe fonrth watoh of the night,” it says, “Jesns came unto them walking on the sea.’ “He walketh upon the wings of the wind.” Our first parent heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of tl But when a sinner starts for God, the F: to meet him. Oh, ifs man ever 4 it {9 when he tries:to Wecome a + The world says to him, “Back with you. ‘Don’t be hampered with religion. Time enough yet. Wait until you get sick.” Satan says, “Back with you, You are'so bad that God will hage nothing to do with you. Take thine ease; eat, drink and be merry.’’ Ten thousand voices say, ‘Back wil you. ‘God is a hard master. The Churchis A COLLECTION OF HYPOCRITES. Back into your sins.” When the sea comes in at full-tide you might easier with your broom sweep back the surges than you could back the ocean of your unforgiven tra ssions, What are we to do? Are we to fight the battle alosa aud trudge on with no rock to shelter us, no word of erncour- agement tocheer us? Glory be to God we have im the text the announcement, “When he was @ great way off his father ran.” When the sinner starts for God, God starts for the sinner. God does not come out with a slow, hesitating pace. The infinite spaces slip beneath His feet and He takes worlds at bound. You start for God and God starts for you, and this morning and this place are * the time and the place where you meet, Oh, that in the flash of this Gospel lamp thou it not only gee the way of escape, but that now see thy peril, standing as thou dost one more step may plunge thee down into darkness forever! Oh, thac to-day you would eG alarms and the invitations of this glorious ! Tremark upon the father’s kiss. ‘He fell on His neck,” my text says, “and he kissed him.” It ia not every father that would have done that way. ‘The son, all. baggard and and tilthy, stood before his father. ‘The father charged none of his wanderings; he just kissed him; his wretchedness was @ recommendation to father’s love. How shall I describe the love of God—the ardor with which he receives the wan- derer back in! God so loved the world. He loved you. m’t you believe it? Why, this morn- ing if ‘you would start up from the wilderness of sin He would throw both arms around you, He stands before you to-day, and would coax you t happiness and heaven. CHUROH OF ST, CHARLES BORROMEO, Sermon by Father Taylor, of Dover, Del.— ‘The Methods of Sanctification. The Brooklyn Heights may with much truth be called a congerie of churches. There almostevery Christian denomination has a place of meeting for worship, and thither, as the Sabbath morning bells are pealing, thousands of people, moved by the beauty of the sentiment which their notes weekly reawaken, tend, and for a while make the usually — quiet ‘streets the scene of fashion toned down by @ demure devotion. Every congregation but one partakes of the characteristics of the neighborhood. ‘There seems formed about the door of each temple, with the solitary exception above noted, a halo of fashion and grandeur that chokes off every poverty-stricken thing that may attempt to pass its portais, The single variation from this rule is found in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo. Here is found that happy mingling of the different grades among the people that are established by the possession or lack of money. However, even here money as- serts itself, and heer hd — — ne yd very poor people worshipping than in al- most any other Catholic eiuech in Brook- lyn, Yesterday the bad weather did not prevent a res AM tl ag on the morning services at St. les church, as, indeed, the repu- tation of its choir, apart from the call of religious duty, usually draws a good congregation in the most inclement season. The performance of the choir yesterday, although the greater part of the mass Was sung by youths and girls from the Sun- day school, was excellent. ie discourse was delivered by the Rev. Father Taylor, of Dover, Dela- ware. text was from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians. The reverend Pi or said, in substance:—The festival of Saints, which was celebrated on [Friday last, iggested the ‘need of contempla' the lives of the saints, in order that it may be discovered how ne Na now be imitated. It is not needed lp austere tices of the holy persona should be copied. All persons are not capable of these ices, God has not endowed us with the practi ywers needed, and therefore it should be our mo- ive to do that which we know is ¢ and indi- cated by our abilities to be the will of Goa in our case. ce oan jus that we can become sancti- fied. The ic Church, and she alone, benig- nantly provides methods to reach that sanctifica- tion, that are true, and can be We know the efficacy of an the sacrament of communion. eer te are sure that that absolution will rfected in heaven. It is to thoughts such as hese that the bt ie of the lives will lead Pe and then will follow the practice by you of hese methods of attaining holiness, The reverend gentleman referred to the dearth of men Who ap- proach the altar to receive the sacrament of pen- ance as compared with the number of women who do 80, and satd:—Should this be so’ The voice of the world says “men are made does not Cli Lege ‘i Lf 10 "beaven’” all to “lay up tregsure in then follow me instruction of Christ. Let us those opportunities. of salvation ‘that have been given us. We need not imitate the saints. Let us work with whatever has come to us, as di Christ when he healed the blind man with the com- mon clay and ttle, and the result will be to ace that th all understanding, Having ended his sermon Father Taylor appealed to the tion for aid to enable to build a church for parishioners in Dover, Del. To en- of his hearers he told of a state ot such a8 iew previously believed to exist in the United States. He said that until lately there was not a place of worship for Catholics in Dover, and Has rine Ar pour a testes -atricken peo} re wi professed the Cai faith much indignation was excited among the frecdom-loving members of other sects. An humble sanctuary was get how- ever, and the bigotry of the Pro’ nts grad- a Ta So that now many of them are sab- sortbers to the hund for the rection of & church hich et Taylor’s parishioners poor ¢o pay for unaided,