The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1872, Page 4

4 —— LION'S SERVITORS. The Clergymen of the City and Country Preaching from the Pulpit to the People. oS WHAT THEY SAY. The Worn Appetite of the Public Conscience Catered To, as Usual, with a Num- ber of Sensational Sermons, “GOLD AND GAMBLING.” The Lessons of the Recent Great Fires Still Troubling the Ministerial Mind—A Practical Preacher On the Water Supply and the Proper Fire- Fighting Engines. THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRA ee The Very Reverend Archbishop On the Day of Judgment. poe GLORIFYING GOD. Beecher On the Motive of Benevolence, with Tilustrations from Boston. SALVATION FOR MURDERERS oon Chapin On the Cure for Crime and “Overcoming Evil with Good.” The WORKERS OF THE DEEP WORSHIPPING. The Enshrining of the Dust of a Martyred | Saint of the Third Century at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle. Yesterday was another delightiully sunny Sab- hath and the streets of the city were thronged by church-going people. The places of worship, as @ matter of consequence, were crowded and the Sermons were almost all of a cheerful character. Some of them seemed, too, to aim at sensational effects in their reference to politics, crimes, great fires, the water supply and the gold | gambling in Wall street; and, in a word, the caterera to the well-spiced and well-worn appetite of the public conscience had not lost their in- | stinctive knowledge of human failings, by means | of which they seek to extend their influence, or their shrewd love of notoriety, What would now become of them without the benevolent columns ofthe HeraLp is a question. But to make re- Ngion popuiar being a worthy object, it is a duty aud a pleasure to call readers (o the following reports of religious reason | And religious nonsense. | the attention of our | THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. Sermon by the Very Reverend Arch- bishop McCloskey—The Day of Judg- ment Portrayed=—The Last Sunday | in the Ecclesiastical Year—The New Cathedral, Yesterday morning the Catholic Cathedral in | Mulberry street was crowded with an immense | congregation, on the occasion of the preaching of | understanding heart, was raised up to succeed to } Standing around David, | Squared and fashioned by the Great Architect | them one into another that they may rest upon the | ing the precious materials of which the temple at aaa NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, your Neart of nearcs, must and will be secreved mm revealed at the day of jt ent. There will be time for arguing or leading, and the soul Pentance can then exist, Al- beim Ae gone nee and men go, but that r soul is bound ia hel, still suffering all the sgonics, ‘ and all the tortures of hell cannot consume it. It lives in all its agony for ever and ever. Which of the hands of the living G ‘This being the last Sabbath of the ecclesiastical to escape the wrath to come, and to repent while there ts yet time, and to rise above the tempta- present may receive eternal salvation, THE NEW CATHEDRAL. @ collection will be taken up for the buliding of the new cathedral on Fiith avenue in all the churches Day) the cathedral will be opened in the moening and afternoon to visitors, and @ band of music will THE MUSIC PRRFORMED was mass by Van Bree, in 0; ‘Ave Marta,’’ by Mer- by Dietch. Organist, Gustavus Schmitz; alto, Mrs, Unger; tenor, Mr, Riedel; bass, Mr, Urchs, As par- were the rendering of (quit tallis) soprano, solo and chorus, and “Cum Sancto Spiritu’ chorus at The celebrant of the maas was Father Carney, The Vicar General Father Starrs was also present, A Female Revivalist on Consecration to God's Service—Discourse by Mra. Alder- Mrs. Alderdice, “the great London revivalist,” as the advertisements announced her to be, Methodist Protestant church, between Delancey and Rivington streets, The church and congre- arevival, for, with the Sabbath school children and the congregation, the body of the church was not choir occupied a small portion. Probably, owing to the sparseness of the congregation, too, the ser- o'clock A. M., ‘when Mrs. Alderdice slowly and deliberately read a hymn, Her reading the prayer which followed the singing of the hymn was full of earnest, tender pathos and She asked the Lord who among her hearers adhered to the doctrines of God their Saviour in all things, ORNAMENTAL CHRISTIANS, The 103d Psalin was then read and another hymn basing it on I. Chronicles, xxix., part of verse 5— “Who then is willing to cousecrate his service this said, with which the text is connected, is one of grandeur. David is about to resign his kingly has a great desire before he departs to build a house unto the name of the Lord who called bim will receive its sentence. No opportunity for re- for the flat of God too late, The world rolis on as before; men come ALL THR TORMENTS O¥ THE DAMNED, you does not tremble at = Prospect of falling into jod ? year, the urch renews its supplication to you tions of the world, and may God grant that ali The Archbishop announced that on next Sabbath in the diocese. Next Thursday (Thanksgiving be stationed there. cedante, sang by Madame Chome; ‘0 Saluturas,’? ticularly worthy of mention in the mass of Bree the end of the Gloria, ATTORNEY STREET M. P. CHUBOH dice, of London, preached yesterday morning in Attorney street gation showed unmistakable signs of the need of half fillea and the galleries were empty save as the vices did not commence until a quarter to eleven was not of @& remarkable order, © but affection toward God and toward the souls of men. and remarked that it was our privilege to be sting, after which the lady began her discourse, day unto the Loid?’? The scene before us, she crown into the hands of his son Soiomon; but he from tending the sheep folds to be the ruler of His people Israel. His early life ts portrayed very sweetly and beautifully in his Psalms, which are full of pastoral scenes and illustrations. But David was a man of war; he shed blood in the land, and the Lord would not permit him to build the house. But Solomon, a man of peace, to whom God had givena wise and the throne of Israel and to build a house for the God of Jacob. Mrs. Alderdice then went into a sketch of the causes which led to David's choice of the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite as the site for the temple—of his intense desire that God should have a dwelling-place among men, and of the preparations that he had made before his death for its erection, SHE LOVED DAVID for the wealth of love of his heart toward God and toward mankind. He consecrated everything to God. He was a whole-hearted man, and we thank God, said she, for the examples of whole-hearted Christians in the Bible. rs. Alderdice next pictured the scene of Solomon and the princes and pouring their gilts into the treasury for the building of the temple, and then, when they had giver: their costliest offerings 01 material wealth, he asks them, in the language of the text, ‘Who 1s willing to con- secrate his service this day unto the Lord?” Do we, she asked, state the text with fulness when we way that a greater than Solomon is here? and that a temple greater than Solomon's is being built up among us—a living temple, made up of living stones taken from the quarry of nature and fash- joned without hammer or any tool of oa fim- self, Who is equal to the task of shaping and fitting chief corner-stone, elect, precious’ It is Jesus Himself, the great Master Builder, who is prepar- ing us for that temple which is not made with hands, But as the building of Solomon's temple required co-operation and Hiram’s skilled Tyrian Mechanics wrought with Solomon's men in prepar- Jerusalem was to be built, the materials of our build- ing are precious because they have cost the blood of the Son of God. HE NEEDS OUR HELP, for He employs human beings to bring salvation to humanity, and He puts upon us the dignity of being coworkers together with God and of calling sinneis the Very Reverend Archbishop McCloskey, and also that the day was the last Sabbath in the ecclesias- | tical year, next Sunday being the first Sunday in | Advent. The intense stillness, almost deathlike in | its intensity, when the Archbishop began to preach, showed the respect which is paia to every word which may fail from the prelate’s | lips by his congregation, to whom he is endeared by 80 many tles. A text having allusion to the end of all things of earth was chosen with much appro- priateness by the Archbishop, Although lengthy, | each phrase is of deep significance and bearing on | the subject matter, and is taken from the twenty- | fourth chapter of St. Matthew, from the fifteenth to | thirty-fith verses inclusive, The last verse, and to which particular aliusion was made, being “Heaven | and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” | | THE SERMON, We can ly understand, said the Archbishop, flow these words of solemn linport must have sunk deeply ito the minds of our Saviour's hearers, and how they must have appealed to the hearts of those | who loved Jesus Christ. The echoing portent of those words must have remained engraved in their memories, for they were cognizant that what was said was of vital importance to their eternal salva- tion, and conviciion must have been impressed on | every soul. The hearers felt the goodness and ercy whica prompted the promises of to an erring race. They felt that scattered His benefits on every iuture mercy our Saviour side and on every hearer who was willing to be converted and ready to plead for merey. They knew that the must die and all be judged recording to their works, for the law and revelation given them was to be tne standard, | And as it was with His disciples so will it be with | his believers In after time. The terrible uncer- tainty of the hour when Jesus shall arrive should | ever be upmost in our minds, for the fear of judg- ment should ever be beiore us. Now, my dear | brethren, (his isa certain and incontrovertible fact | | | | that our lastday is not far distant, tor each and aliof us here assembied, that last day, the judg- ment for us, will decide our fate for ail eternity. Each one will hear the sentence irrevocably p! nouncec, for happmess or for woe. Does it not | behove us as a God-fearing people, to keep that thought ever fresh in our me- mories and in our hearts? Here be- tow God suspends his judgments; yes, in the worid wuich denounced eur Saviour as a malefactor, and where He submitted toacrue! and ignominious , death for erring humanity's sake. Set up in your | own hearts a correct standard of what is holy, | what ts true, and act up to it, swerving neither to vhe right nor to the left. How many men regulate their conduct according to this world’s standard, and constantly say what the world says, forgetting | judgment and hereaiter and their accountability to the great God who made them’ My bretbren, | this is a grievous error. We should never forget, | for an instant, that in the midst of life we are in the midst of death, and we know not what moment we may be called upon to give an account of the things done in the flesh. AN AFFECTING COMPARISON. You who have sat by the bedside of a dying man | And seen how the vital spark was rapidly winging its way toward eternity, can realize the terrible anguish toa loving wife, a tender parent or be- | reaved children, You have seen the intense anx- lety of waiting till the spirit ted to God who gave it, At last the final breath is drawn, and all that | is of carth, earthlike, 1s left behind a mass of inan- imate clay, while the spirit stands in the presence of the great Jehovah. When the eyes are closed no going back is possible—no concealment. Then what matters to the poor corpse the eulogies or | displeasure of the world? for the soul is now about | to ear before the highest tribunal. Oh, the thrilling sorrow of that moment to those left be+ hind, before the bier has entered the house of | mournin; ind they may well exclaim, ‘ie Lord giveth the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” VE ME, OR BELIFVE MF NOT, practise i practise it not, the word of God will never pasa away. All the secret abominations, all | gesus wants willing workers who hate sin but | a man has consecrated his all to Christ and did not | jJecture by whom or in what circumstances it to repentance, There are thousands here in this city living without God, but who among us goes to their dvors with the message of salvation or show that we care for their souls? There is too much | selfisuness in the religion of the day, and God comes to us and asks who then will consecrate his service to this work. He wants your service. There are drones in every church—spiritual sloths, To such God say! Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.” The Church is still in its infancy, and instead of working it is playing with toys. There are thousands dyin around us for lack of the truth. Go thou to them and bring them to the house of God, It you have a patent medicine which has cured your soul go and tell the secret to others who are as sick of sin as you | have been, Mrs, Alderdice next spoke a word to parents who do not pray in their families and with their children, She then elaborated the idea. con- tained in consecration and said she might speak boldly to them on (his point, because she had given her all to God. They might all take tracts, she thought, and distribute them wherever they went. Don't let the theatres and concert saloons be active and you be idle, There are plenty of idle | ones; be you active. Then the consecration to this service must be immediate, “This day” is the language of the text. THIS DAY CONSECRATE YOURSELVES e of the Lord to build up his temple in this great city. Go work for him and speak in his name, and by and by you shall see a revival of re- ligion, not only in this city, but all over the land, to the serv the sinners. Let, therefore, the same mind bein you which was in Christ Jesus our Lord, If our lives are not imitations of Christ's life they are worth nothing. All we have, all we are, belong to Him, ‘This is the religion and the teaching of the Bible. We take our religion too much from each other, but likeness to Christ ls the true religion, Who, then, to-day will consecrate his service to God? Who’ Who’ Whor Young man, with bright prospects and powers, will you’ God wants you to labor with Him here, that you may shine witi Him inglory. There is no man who gives up houses or lands or friends for Christ’s sake who does not receive a thousand-lold back again. Many regret it, and many there are in heaven to-day who do not regret it— Let the world despise and Jeave you; They have left your saviour, too Human hearts atid looks di you, He 1s not like them, untrue. THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE. 1 Holiness Necessary to Spiritual Prosperity—The Water Supply and the Means of Fighting Fire—Boston’s Calamity—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Taylor. ‘The Broadway Tabernacle was reopened yester- | day, clad ina new suit, that had avery striking effect upon the Immense throng that crowded | within its limits, There notaseat to be had | in the house, and even the aisies were crowded with visitors seated on camp stools. The Rev, Vv William M, ‘Taylor, D. D,, preached, taking | for his text Psalms cxviii., 25:—“O Lord, I beseech Thee send now _ prosperity.’’ Dr. Taylor commenced by saying:—The psalm from inscription ; and so we are left very much to con- was first composed. Many have ascribed | it to David himself, and have believed that it was struck out of him by one or other of those signal deliverances from the hands of his ene. | mies with which Jehovah favored them. Others, seeing its peculiar appropriateness to the circum- stances of the returned exiles, when, after many dangers, and overcoming many obstacles, they dedicated the second temple, have ascribed it to Nehemiah, or some one Of thé prophets of tho restoration. But whoever its author may have and sorrowful regrets are | frain, “Oh, | minutes, nize the Lord Jeaua Chriat in the stone, which, at Gret despised by the builders, became at last THE URADSTONK OF THE CORNER. Nor can we fail to join for ourselves iu the glad re- give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever.” Again alluding to the text, Dr. Taylor said:—‘T have not chosen this text merely for the purpose of bringing before you the history and associations of the paalm of which it forma a part. RatherI have taken it because of its appropriateness to the circumstances in which we stand ourselves. ‘By the good hand of our God upon us’ we are per- mitted this morning to enter into a house of wor- ship remodelled and renovated, As regards ex- ternal comfort and all that goes to make a church cheerful and attractive, there seems little more that we can desire, yet having respect to the great end for which we exist as a Church, bearing in mind that ail things about the building in which we assemble are but as the SCAFFOLDING for the erection of another house which ia spiritual and eternal, and on which our nobiest energies must be ever concentrated, is not this the earnest utterance of each heart among us, “0 Lord, I be- seech Thee, send now prosperity.” That we may make this prayer intelligently, permit me to set before you a few thoughts on the nature and source of the prosperity of a Christian church, Dr. Taylor fully explained this question in beau- tiful and explicit language, showing that the pros- perity of a church was not simply confined to the rental of all its pews or the wealth of its congre- gation, but to be prosperous it must be a “living church ;’' adding, “we must have not merely the appearance of life, but the reality, in unison with the Lord, otherwise we can have no prosperity; and there is no spectacle on this earth #0 sad ug that of a company of, individuals caliing themselves a church, and yet destitute of that VITAL HOLINESS which Christ alone can confer. Speaking of liberality among members of a church, Dr. Taylor said:—“Yet we are very far from having already attained or being already per- fect here, for, as Dr. Bushnell has recently said, the great problem we have now on haud is the Christian giving of the money power among us, and when We have secured that it will be to us like the dawning of a new creation, It seems to me that in this matter we are all very much at fault, We give by impulse, and not in principle or by sys- em; We give not in sacrifice, but out of super- ‘uity; we wait till the cup runs over, and then we uive some of the overflow to Christ, forgetting that if we are to offer a sacrifice it must be of that which costs us something. THE WIDOW'S MITE was glorifled by Jesus, not because tt was the smatiest coin thrown into the treasury, but because small as it was it was all that she could give: and when we shall imitate her, not in the smallness of her contribution, but in the spirit of her giving, we too shall secure the approval of the Lord,” Dr. ‘Taylor in conclusion, alluding to prayer and its results, said “some one says, OUR MODERN MAN OF SCIENCE tells us that itis of no use to pray, since God works by fixed laws, and He is not going to alter then for us. ‘To which 1am sure it is true that God works by fixed laws, but then he has so fixed them that he cin answer prayer through them.» A few days ago I was at Binghamton in this State, to fulfila preaching engagement, and | took the opportunity of inspect- ing the water supply of the city. Ina small building by the side of the Susquehanna there 1s an engine which goes day and night, pumping water out of the river for the inhabitants, and which 1s 80 ar- Tanged that the demand of the town acts as a governor, the engine moving with greater or less rapidity, according as the water is taken off in greater or larger measure. Then, when a fire occurs in the town, an alarm bell rings in the engine room, and immediately the engineer gears on some extra machinery, by which the mains are charged to their tullest capacity, and such an amount of pressure is brought to bear upon them that, when the hose is attached to the hydrants, the water is sent to the top of the loftiest buildings in the place. As I looked upon the engine my irst thought was, this is the very thing we need for New York. With half a dozen such establishments as this, three on the East River and three on the North River, we could almost infallibly secure im- munity from that dreadiul catastrophe which has overtaken BOSTON. But my second thought was, here is a piece of mechanism put for the supply of the ordinary wants of the community, yet so arranged that in an extraordinary emergency the cry of the people for help can be heard and answered through the regular channel; and if man can construct a fixed engine through which he can. thus answer prayer, why should not God be able to do the same in the vast machine which we call the Universe? Thus from the very achievements of science we draw an illustration which refutes the scepti¢ism of scien- tific men, and clears the way to every one for the offering of prayer. We may be sure that He who planted in the human heart the instinct of prayer, and gave in His holy Word the promise that He would answer prayer, can do for us according as we ask. So if we wish true prosperity here let us ring the prayer bell for it and He will respond. To your knees, then, my people, to your knees, and be this your supplication :—Awake, O north wind! and come thou South; blow upon this garden that the spices thereof may flow out. Come from the four winds, U breath of the Lord, and breathe upon us that we may live! O Lord, we beseech Thee, send now prosperity! THIRTY-FOURTH STREET, OHURCH. “Gold and Gambling”—Hints and Sug- gestions for Brokers—Sermon by tho Rev. Peter Stryker, D. D. This church was well filled last night, it hav- ing been announced that the Rev, Peter Stryker, formerly pastor, but at present of Rome, Y., would preach on “Gold and Gambling.” His sermon was intended as a warning to young men who are engaged in busi- ness on Change. The reverend gentleman seemed to think that the majority of the more matured votaries of stocks and shares had not their requisite share of susceptibility to be influenced by his preaching, for he said in his sermon that they were gold on the outside and gold on the inside, and in Hl that,their hearts were so wrapped up in gold a THE ARROWS OF A PREACHER could not reach them, The gist of the sermon, which was founded on the text, “How much better is wisdom than gola,’’ Proverbs xvi., 16, will be found in the following :— No one can failto be impressed with the truth of the words who looks at the growth of this and other large cities and considers what their occu- pations are aud the dangers to which the same ex- poses them. Many of them are in commercial pursuits—brok- ers, bankers, &c., and as such they are exposed to more danger than ordinarily falls to the gener- alley of young men, for the simple reason that they have MORE TEMPTATION. They see men around them making colossal for- tunes every day, many of them in a few and they become by contact im- | bued with the same sordid avarice for gold; and as they have ample opportunity to satisfy the same, they very often do. There are many species of gambling, but of all, gambling in stocks when the operation is conducted by unscrupulous men, is the | worst and most detrimental. It not only affects those immediately concerned, but has an influence on the whole industry and commerce of the people. It embarrasses the merchant, makes the trades- man unsteady, and ROBS THE PRODUCER of his just meed of compensation. When this is | the case should not legislation be brought to bear on the actions of men whose unscrupulousness leads them to do deeds which leave in thetr train such manifold and awiul misery, No one who reads the daily journals will forget the memorable “GOLD CORNER,” as it was called, which crushed to the earth and forever some of our proudest merchants, In fact, but a few days since we had ANOTHER “CORNER,” almost as bold in its management as the moustrous | one of 1869, Ifthe men who are so wrapped up in | their gold would for atime neglect their sordid | greed for gain and turn in search of knowledge we might look for a brighter financial aud commercial | proapect in the immediate future, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. Treatment of Reformers—Saivation for Marderers—Sermon by the Rev. George | H. Hepworth, Steinway Hall yesterday morning was filled by the créme de la creme of our city, After the com- pletion of the usual preliminary exercises Rev. George H. Hepworth arose and announced as his text Colossians 3, 15—‘ Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.” Did you ever think of the mar- vellous satisfaction, he began, with which God must have looked upon the world when he had created it? The Holy Scriptures tell us that He simply looked on it, and it was good. ‘To the scien- tifle man who gathersa few facts there seems to be an inward consciousness, Sait always crystal- | izes at the same angle, and it never makes a mis- | which these words are taken ts without a title or | It seems as though there was in all matter A DESTINY 10 BE WORKED OUT, Throug’ the whole realm of the natural untyerse everything is exactly obedient to the great Founder, If you plant @ seed no sooner do you cover it with the soil than a transformation be- gins to take place. It grows with wonderful ac- tivity until a little stalk takes the place of the tiny | seed. When Fall comes instead of your having one seed you have ten. Like the growth of the seed the world is growing better every day. If you should put upon a pedestal a rough block of marble and tell a perfect Image to come out of that stome you would not expect to see itcome, The take. been, of whatever may have been the events to the crimes you have committed, which you bave witch it primarily referred, we caunot but recog: corners might begin to crumble and after a great many years @ periect statue Of a man might stand there. It would be God's hand, not yours, that wrought the change. Every ‘ticle “of matter seems to be filled with the desire and the am- bition of Him who looked upon Jerusalem and saw NOTHING BUT A WASTE. A scientific man sees this consciousness in mat- ter. The world ts being propelled from age to age and is continually throwing away that which is worthleas and taking on good, reformer like Lather comes, whose lips are kindled by a fire from Heaven and who teaches men new pencipen in religion, The world looks at him as the Phart- sees did at Christ. If he persist that he is ht they curse him, and he is bound to the horrible stake, where the cruel flames wrap hum in their Herce embrace and the worla says there is one more out of the way. In the next generation the sous of these cruel men are grown, and, being more sensi- ble than their predecessors, agree that he was right after all, This the way in which the world goes on—there is no chance for evil to have a very lon, life, There is a snag in the Mississipp! River and it remains there year after year, Once in & while a steamer runs upon it and {3 lost. | The whole force of the river is sweeping against it all the time, and finally there comes a crash and it has to yield. This is the way in which all evil is com- elled to yield to a force that acts for good. God has doomed evil to meet its own fate. He makes you do the very best you can and achieve your own eating, and that when the angel comes you will no SHUT THE DOOR IN HIS PACE. The marvel of religion is that you must work con- sciously with God and become good. In order to accomplish this God has established punishments. In every man there 18 a court, a judge and a jury. Every man approves or con- demns himself by “a self-examination, Some- times the jurymen are bribed and the judge becomes corrupted. Then the conscience loses her wer and the wretch falls, You know that it is better to be poor, with a pure consciousness, than to pecker @ throne and feel that you are unworth: of it. ‘ho ig the man that can look back upon nis past life and say itis all right? This would be peace, harmony, absolute happiness. If you have committed a little fault, like the dyspepsia you may not suffer acute pain, but the memory of it willbe annoying. When you wilfully determine to have your own way tn the world GOD 15 INEXORABLE. God's mill wil not let you go until you are ground to the last atom. A man makes up his mnind to commit a murder, He is poor; he knows one who has money; he is an infldel to heaven and an infidel to his human nature. Knife in hand, ready for any emergency, he finds his way through some cranny into the house and crawls to the bedside of his sleeping victim. It is too late to retreat now, and the man sleeps quietly. Before he gets the treasure that candle of life before him must be put out, and then, with no one near, he can grasp his ill-gotten gains, He lifts the hana in which the deadly weapon glitters, a downward stroke, a gurgling sound as the life blood ebbs away, ana he clutches the coveted gold, He can put it nowhere in God’s world, He rushes into all shades of crime to drown the haunting remembrance, but impos- sible. A TRAITOR'S DOOM is following him, and as the hound hunts the hare, which he overtakes because he has longer legs, so the murderer, although the long arm of the law could not arab, him, the sin so preyed upon him that he at last delivered himself up. This was the first relief since the commission of the deed. This atOry has been illustrated ever since tne murder of Abel by Cain. My relief is thateven this appa- rently lost creaturo can be saved through his own Tepentance and God's divine love and mercy. You cannot do wrong without suffering for it. What shall we do? Puta captain in charge of the ship who understands his business thoroughly, and let the crew obey his orders. You can then weather the isin of life aud reach the shores of heaven in salety. CHUROH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. Dr. Chapin on Overcoming Evil with Good—The Cure for the Murders in our Midst. Dr. Chapin preached yesterday at bis church, on Fitth avenue and Forty-fitth street, to a large and fashionable audience, irom the twenty-first verse of the twelfth chapter of Romans:—“Be not over- come of evil, but overcome evil with good.’ The Bible, according to the reverend doctor, is among Christian people the universal helper and adviser, However it may have come forth trom the CRUCIBLE OF CRITICISM, it is accepted as the guide of human conduct and the standard of autnority in all issues that arise in our everyday world—in the street, the home and the shop. Upon whatever point we may need enlightenment there is to be tound in this wise colection of oracles the needed standard of law, of custom or of social habit. Paul was eminently a preacher of works, He dealt in no abstract conclusions, but was essentially practical, while in his episties often, it is to be ob- served, the elements of the highest life are carried into things of most familiar issue. A practical lesson of the utmost importance and comprehen- siveness is conveyed in our t-xt, The epistle is on a special subject, but the text itself is a principle, and not a speciul ruling. It is well to beware of impracticable conclusions in discussing the propo- sition, “Be not overcome with evil.” The doctrine of non-resistance to evil was never contemplated by the Apostle in this sentence, If the Christian rinciple were truly and fully carried out there would indeed be no evil; but in view of the present state of human morality it is not intended that we should allow evil to go unchecked, or that we should receive injuries without attempting to pre- vent them. TO LET CRIME GO UNPUNISHED would cause social dissolution, and a good beyond that of the offender must be recognized. Rufilan- ism, crime, red-handed murder, are just now sorely aMlicting our city, and the punishment of the rul- fians and murderers is the overcoming evil with good in this case, Just now we need a great deal Of this good that overcometh evil. The sanctity of human life is violated at any time and place, with no seeming fear of the law orof God before the eyes of the armed evil-doers. It is good for all that this mad career of crime should be stopped; it is good for the Christian; it is good for the youug of- fender who 18 prompted to deeper ventures in crime by the unchecked career of the darker ruf- flan; it is good under the teachings of the law of Christian love, Justice is the good that overcomes this evil—justice, not so severe, not so harsh, but sure and quick. One lightning stroke of clean jus- tice is worth a deluge or siow-coming punishment. ‘The thing that ensures the end of justice is that itis sure and prompt. One of the most unhappy reflections in regard to good is that an impression is general that GOODNESS IMPLIES WEAKNESS; that a good person is merely an inoffensive per- son, & harmless individual, who, indeed, cannot have much capacity for doing evil left. But gooa- ness should be strong. The best good is not to be found in an always smiling face. 1s there no good in the bitter medicine or the surgeon's knife ? Un- der the view that goodness i8 weakness good books are published—the most tiashy prints that ever got into existence—which yet are read and | sustained because of their certain “goodishness.” | Justice that is weak cannot serve its purpose. It | must be strong; but there is no justice without mercy, and justice is not revenge. LYBRIO HALL Christianity Weakened by Petty Con. | tention Between the Sects—Impossi- biltty of Uniting Protestantism and Catholicism—Scathing Reflections on the Latter=—True Christianity—Sermon by the Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, A large and fashionable assemblage was yester- day morning gathered at Lyric Hall to hear the | Rey, 0. B. Frothingham preach on the subject of “The Dream of Unity.” Christ's prayer of inter- cession from John and a selection from Corinthians, which he read at an early stage of the exercises, | formed the basis of his discourse, His text more particulary, however, was part of John xvil., 21— “That they may all be one, as Thou, Father, art in | Me and [in Thee; that they also may be one in us."’ There is no other word in our language dearer | than that word unity. We love to think of the ONE BODY OF BELIEVERS. | \ | saddest lament of the Protestants is their lack of unity. This division, strife and envy of the ditfer- ent sects are our most bitter trial, The wealth that has been accumulating for the past eighteen cen- turies, were it not parcelled out, might, perhaps, roll off our burden of suffering and sin, Oh that men whose finest sphere is love and unity would throw down their weapons, would turn their swords and bucklers into ploughshares | Why is the Gospel of John, “That they all may be one, ag Thou, Father, art in me,” &c. But who are they ? They are a small number of people whom Christ has converted. He says, “I pray not for the world ;” and, farther on, “I pray for them who shall belteve in me through them.’ In the Ephesians it is declared that there is one faith, one naptism and one God, the Father of all, And-yet this unity is limited, This one faith, this one baptism, this one God, are only for a small company. Thus the com- prehensive unity, we ,contemplate, was then not even adream? But yetin the time of the Ephe- sians it seemed as if there was a chance for unity. The leaders of the war were dead ; Jerusalem, THE SEAT OF NARROWNESS AND BIGOTRY, had been .razed; inthe cities of Italy, Asia and Africa thoy met on equal terms, They could eat from the same bread, drink from the same cup; and Lo became united, not from love, but fro necess! i For the Church was not one hundred years oid before heresy began to creep into it. ‘After it leit Jerusalem the philosophers began to ask their SCEPTICAL. QUESTIONS, and it was to contend against this that they united, They collected traditions, which became The best boast of the Catholics is their unity; the | it not done * Why is it impossible? We read in | creeds and then which became the New Testament. This was the first Christian unity, and this was the unity of the Roman Church from that time forward, Councils, r and smaller, heal the breaches of their reli- ion. A bishop, speaking of these councils, says that he knews of none which has stepped as many evils as it has inaugurated, and that he will never take part in one again. A historian, speaking of them, says that they are governed by an emperor whose will overrules the Holy Ghost itself. Some of the discussions are on questions the most frivo- lous and trivial, One was the nature of the light that shone about the head of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, The debates are also carried on with appalling violence. ONE BISHOP KICKED AN OPPONENT 80 baci that he died shortly afier. On a church fier, ter One council, were found the bodics of one hundred and thirty-nine men, But a time came for & better unity, One of the best councils ever held was at Nice. The Emperor Constantine sat in the midst, listening to the arguments of ali; but his guards were at the door. They decided the nature of God, His relation to Christ, and their decision is the doctrine of the Catholic Church, ‘Those who had opposed the doctrine were scourged, roasted over slow fires and outlawed. Faith was fanaticism, and 1ove was akin to hate. A good label does not make a good article. Forming a sword’s hilt like a cross does not make it less dan- gerous, Why pretend that Christianity was then pure? The nearest approach to unity Was at the council at Trent, in 1548, It was when Protestant- ism threatened to disintegrate Catholicism. Both sides hoped the breach might be healed. The councell began with the flat of the Council of Nice, the divinity of Christ. It then declared that the Church was the only true interpreter of the Bible, and thus cut off Luther and his companions; 1t laid an seenes ‘on all those who disbelieved; {t even ad- THE SELLING OF INDULGENCES OF SIN. The Roman Charch had everything in its favor, but it lost ail, And Catholicism and Protestantism can never be united. But there is a unity that has always been. It is the unity between uature and religion, Nowe but the foes of morality are the foes of religion, This is no dream. We will believe that there is one God above all and for all, and that we are brothers, THE SEAMAN'S CHAPEL Sermon by Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr.— Man’s Salvation by Christ—What We Owe to Our Redeemer. At the tasteful little Seaman's chapel, situated at No. 865 West street, the Rey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., yesterday afternoon preached an eloquent and instructive sermon to quite a large congregation. Dr. Tyng took for his.text part of the fifteenth verse of the first chapter of St. Paul's First Epistie to Timothy—“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinnera,” and commenced his discourse by remarking that the Apostle was at a very advanced age when he wrote the words of his text. He felt that his lite was drawing to a close, and when he reviewed the past and recalled all the dangers, perils and persecu- tions he had passed through in safety he summed all up in that short text, which Luther said was mm itself a little Bible. So long as that text ts re- peated it will bring LIFE AND VIGOR into the hearts of those who utter it. The knowl- edge of saivation comes to us in no mechanical or mystical manner; it comes tous with the plain, unvarnished message, “Have you an ear? Then hear, Have youa mind? Then accept the truth.” Moses, when he came out of the darkness, deemed it sufficient to say to his flock, “Ye heard = a__voice."? We have always the voice of the Scriptures ringing in our ears. It is @ generally recognized fact that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, It is @ historical fact—not a mere assertion or sugges- tion—for during the last 1,800 years men have risen up and preached His Holy Gospel, and even the secuiar and profane history of tke ancients records THE ADVENT OF OUR SAVIOUR, Christ is mentioned in the first chapter of Gene- sis, for God said, “Let us make man.” He com- menced with Christ, for Christ was in the bosom of God, and He was His only begotten Son. Christ's condescension began when He offered to save (uty man, and from heaven there is a brilliant rack of light to the manger at Kethlehem. Christ came into the world—men merely come upon the surface and die early—but Christ came into the world and passed away in mystery. In the Old Testament we read that angels came down to do the will of the Most High and then returned to heaven; but Jesus Christ passed into the lower depths of the earth—He did not go down into mines as men do now, but He sutfered during His sojourn here every trial and sorrow that can await man from the cradie to the grave. He did not only pass along, but drank THE OUP OF AGONY to the very dregs; He did not drink it for Himself, for He was pure, but He drank it for us—to save siuners—and He left none for ustodrink, Man was saved the moment that Christ died; we may be wrecked—stranded on the shoals and quick- tie of the world—but we are not necessarily lost. The learned preacher then drew a parallel be- tween the case of a drowning man, who, being saved by an enemy, deliberately replunges into the torrent and {s lost, because he will not be under an obligation to his old antagonist, and that or a sinner, who, having a knowedge of Christ, deliberately refuses to be saved, and courts his own destruction, When once we awake to the fact that Christ saved us, if we return to our sin we are surely lost, A man may have a heart hard as the nether millstone, but he was saved before he knew Jesus. The indisputable fact will remain un- til the heavens and earth shall pass away, that Christ died to compass man’s salvation, and to those in aMiction and death He has said, “TI will be in them, and My staif sball sustain and comfort em,”” BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. The Fifty-Thousand-Dollar Memorial Fand To Be Raised Next Sunday— Sermon by Mr. Beecher on Glorifying God, with Hllustrations from the Bos- ton Fire. Prior to the singing of the hymn that precedes the sermon Mr. Beecher announce: that next Sun- day morning a collection and promised subscrip- tion would be taken up for the Plymouth Whurch Memorial Fund, which is proposed to be raised. The sum asked for is $50,000, and it is to be in- vested as a permanent fund for the future support of the Bethel and the Navy Missions, now es- tablished in connection with Plymouth church, Mr. Beecher’s text was, “Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” A slight refer- ence to the outward religious observances of the Jews formed the preface to the ser- mon, and this part of it was closed by a summary of the rationale of this observance, in which it was stated that to a large extent the conscience was more poweriully aifected by an observance | that appealed to the senses than by one that ap- pealed entirely to the intellect. The text was, how- ever, not designed tobind the conscience, but to | loose it, and to augment and enlarge the sphere ior its ‘reduction to practice. In glorifying God man could do no more than unfold His glory, and to glorify God is reaily doing that which pleases Him. This consists in Knowing the laws presented by Him and following after them. Thus glorifying God was to fulfll his known commands, ‘This may be illustrated by the Instructions that are given by THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT to their Ambassadors. When a Minister is sent to the Court of St. James there are several leading subjects on which he is instructed definitely; but as to the rest his own judgment must guide him, always keeping in mind that in all things he must preserve the honor and interests of the country he represents. That would lead him (the preacher) | to consider the supreme question in the considera- tion of this Subject —aamieiy, motives. Motives are always faculties. That which supplies hope in the faculty of desire is only external and objective. We say that for is the motive which inspires the miser, but it is not 80; it is gold that makes up the feeling of avarice, but it is not the gold that | prompts this, but the desire of acquisition, | The doctrine ’of the action of the faculties is so intimately connected with the whole scheme of Christian casuistry that it would be wise to say | afew words about it. Even im the slaying of @ | man the motive that Vg) di it will grealy mo | ily the guilt. In one case there may b3 great grati- | fleation and commendation, and if the slaying was committed in Boston it would probably take a | month to decide on which side the slaying was. But if the slaying was committed in New York it would probably be sixteen years or a generation | before the question would be settled judicially, | Many of the jaculties act in co-operation, or in ab- normal conditions, as motives, Almost invariably the faculties act in platoons and with a leader. | te of this action of the faculties, that if a man | could carry a piece of sensitive paper in his hat and it was possible by some photographic process that the thoughts of the brain should photograph themselves on this paper, one hour's bbe ae] ofthat brain would record a journal so diverse that it would take him two days to read it, Thus the power that man obtains in the ivity of his faculty is in com- b ination, and not tn singleness of faculty. Thus, in the profession of the preacher, the power of a ser- mon is in the diversity of faculty that is put in it. Thus, if @ preacher takes his sermon and weeds out of it ali personal feeling, takes from it all imagination, shuts out all that is in it except pure intellect and so reduces it to an ABSTRACT FACULTY that only allows the slightest train of life to enter it, he presents to those who hear it a poor, miser- able sermon that is good as an intellection, but is nothing a3 & sermon, It is the business of the preacher, and nothing else, to clothe God's trush with guch @ pergonality that all the faculties | trath So | wondrously varied and diverse is this characteris- | dowmi = auay omuessnd. opiate shall be aroused. Some men treat man, whom God spent thousands of years in making, as if au were made for nothiag else than area ort upom, There was another consideration in this view of the subject: Moral character was to be determined by puimary and not by auxiliary interests. Dutt the time of the deliberation ‘there is one pri! faculty at work, th there may be many others that are endeavoring to influence tt. For example, a man may say, “1 will give $25,000 for the endowment of a sehooi'm my mative. villuge.” Yell, caution may come in; prud : and aay, “Make it 5,000 3 Prudence may advwe 0; Pl give $25,000, for then pe ber ™ am T shall * 5000.7 Ww may be mixed, and not very pure, adhesion to the primary motive ¥ tte text, a man muy say, “1 will send $10,000 to the auttert poor in Boston; it will be a good advertisement and in less than a year I shall make $20,000 of é¢.' Weill, you say that’s a very mean man, But there’ @ man just opposite, on the other side of the way, whe says, “I'll send $10,000 to Boston; but prudence steps in and he says, “I won't send a cent.” Which is the ineanest man? Mr. Beecher gave & number of instances of heroic acts that were somewhat mixed with cariy motives, and closed these Utue trations by the relating of an incident of THE BOSTON FIRM that was not generally known, which he sald waa the brightest illustration he knew of the purity of moti ‘There were about nine hundred sewing girls in one of the Boston establishments destroyed by che fire, and as each of these girls came belore g the committee appointed to render them some assistance, the superintendent, a@ lady of considerable inteiligence, stated What she knew of each character, and intimated the best practical mode or ndering assistance, When this weary work was nearly through, and almost a week had passed on it, it o¢curred to one of the ladies of the com- mittee to ask of the Superintendent if she required any assistance, and then it came out that the Superintendent, who had given all her love, ali her thought for otiers, lad need of assistance as promptly and as deservingly as the most needy of the 900, Traiy might the Master have said to her, “I gay that she has cast more in uer poverty than those of great abundance.’ The sermon was short, practical application of these truths to the daily life of the Christian, WASHINGTON SERVICES, METROPOLITAN M, E. OHUROG, WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, L872, After an absence of two Sundays the Rey, Dr. Titany resumed his duties to-day, and was greeted by a large and attentive audience. He preached tn the morning from the first Epistle to the Thessa- lonians, first chapter aud fifth verse:—“For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also ia power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assue rance.” In opening he alluded vo the elements of truti common to all systems, He was not disposed to deny tue power of any truth, whether digcov- and vouched for their ered or reveaied. Where truth is in philosophy ov tn religion there {3 a working principle Bolt Opposition can check, no sophistry def but which lives as though pregnaat vital power, Wherever it is utter4 at sr@- mains imperishable. It may nof at once be recognized—may wait centuries for an interpre- ter, but when the appointed time arrives the man to interpret finds the truth he is to read. Obrist, Galileo, Le Verrier and Kepler were introduced aa illustrating the position, which was closed by say- ing truth comes to us as does the light from heaven, If the wave of tight leaves the throne of God there isin it power of existence to reach us, though its coming may be delayed, as ia the light from stars, for centuries, This POWER OF CONTINUED EXISTENOB is an explanation of the power of conquest, power to preserve alive, power to keep active, and this is because all truth either expresses a great principle or arranges itself in line with great principles, and Godalways works on the side ofa great principle, ‘This is metaphysicaty true, because great princi- ples are expressions of some fact of God, and It may be historically demonstrated. Delay not defeat; deferred success is often most to be de- sired, Interpreters die, but their interpretations survive them. The claim of monotheism was centuries awaiting recognition; the world moved but slowly up to the recognition of the developed by the Reformation. This 19 cause for humility, but not for distrust; it makes occasion for dependence, but not for despair, All truth has this power, but Christian truth has the added power of divine assurance. Other truth assume to control the individual by reaching bim first through the reason, while revealed religion coutrols the understanding through the morat nature. Philosophy thas makes religion a part of virtue, while Christianity makes virtue a part of religion. The one governs from without, tie other from within; and this inward influence is wrought by the Divine Spirit, not as a simple aMatus or in- spiration, as philosophers have confessed, but ag the word of God teaches, as a personal resident power “guiding into all truth.” ‘The mission of the Holy Ghost was necessary in a two-fold sense to attest outwardly the divine authority of the system revealed, that the world might be persuaded, and also to testify inwardly to each consciousness the relation of the individual to the system, The outward witness was by mira- | cle wrought before the coming of Christ, as aiso during His appearing and subsequent to His imme- diate successors, ‘God also bearing them witneas, both with signs ana wonders, and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will.’ The inward witness of the Holy Ghost was by “reproving the world of sin, of right- eousness and of judgment; by revelation of higher trust than had lain in the field of humaao discovery, and by indiviaual witness of personal reiationship. This last dogma was set forth aa one which the Methodist Church had made specially prominent, regaining testimony and rest- ing on assurance, and for this the Church, aa represented by the speaker, relied on direct state- ments on the word of God; such as “he that be- lieveth in the Son of God hath the witness tn him- self.’ “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearta by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." “I Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God." More than this was claimed for the influence of the Spirit in strength- ening and developing our powers by the direct in- fusion of spiritual grace. So that a Christian ox- perience was a positive reality, not an inferred state or an anticipated longing, but a divinely com- municated conviction, attested by consciousness and real as the life of the soul. Such experience gave great assurance. Possess ing it men cannot but sp gives entire con- fidence in the whole system of which tt is buta part, so that possessing it men accept what is in- explicable or beyond the reach of their power of reasoning. All unsolved PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY, all so-called disagreements of science, are caimly left in abeyance by a soul conscious of partici- pation in a divine plan. Personal satety gives courage for personal endeavor, and the heroism of martyrs becomes inéelligible. A future life asked in the hand of the present makes one in- iiYerent to merely earthly circumstances, and the sell-denial of God’s patient poor is comprehensible. | The hopeful effort to extend and hasten the prog- ress of what is felt to be an ultimate triumph in- terprets all missionary activity. The sermon closed with an earnest appeal to the congregation to ac- cept the truths of revelation not simply as accred- ited historic facts, but as personal experiences, re- sulting in Investing each energy with new power, | each hope with new brightness, so that each act | might be a renewed consecration, each thought au act of worship an echo of et-rnity. CHRIST CHURCH, CHARLESTON, S.C. St. NicHo1as Horet, Nov. 23, 1372. | To THE Epiror OF THE HERALD :— Permit me space in your valuable journal, which has already so warmiy advocated my mission to | this city, personally to direct the attention of the | Christian people of New York to the wants of the minister and church which I represent. I have never before in my life solicited money for any cause whatsoever, and would not do so in this in- stance but from the fact that I was appealed to in the most pathetic language by my minister, the Rev. J. Mercier Green (whom I fondly cheris), to come here and present the extremity of his church and himself to this bg) al Briefly, then, £ would say that Christ church, which was organized in 1853, continued its good work until 1863 under its present rector, At this time it became closed, and continued so until a few months siuce, when it was reopened under the most favorable auspices. It ts located in a section in Charleston, 8. C., where the humbler classes reside, and who are unable to furnish pecuniary aid of any moment, They do, however, all that they can. We want money to repair this church and its Sunday school house; also asupport for our rector, who, with his wite an family, are now in great necd. If this church ig once | successfully in operation it can be kept alive by collections at home. I again ask this community, whose Christian liberality is so proverbial, not to reject this appeal. The cause has the cordial aud unqualified endorsement of the Right Rey. Horatio | Potter, Bishop of New York, and the Rev. $, H. Tyng, D, D., rector of St. George's church. And here let me take occasion to return my heartfelt thanks to Bishop Potter and the Rev, Dr. Tyng for cour- tesies received. Dr. Tyng has been a warm aod devoted friend to this noble mission ever since he became acquainted with its history, To me indi- vidually the many kindnesses of this venerated and beloved gentleman will ever remain as green leaves in my Memory which time can never jade; and it isto the instrumentality and co-operation above alladed to that yet hope to orin, peat nation @ work to which Lam Tevouing a he best energies Of my nature, A, C. KAUPMAN, On Dohalt of the Vestry of Gprist church, Ghatlem “TOD, Se Ge