The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1873, Page 5

- AAR DAY OF DEVOTION, The Metropolitan Ministry—Living Topies—Stern and Kind Words from the Pulpits on the Re- eent Fate of a Felon. ES AND FOSTER. DR., ——« Repentance a Puissant Talisman Where- by to Gain Salvation. — oo THE CAUSE AND CURE OF CRIME. — The Bible Its Preventative, Pun- ishment Its Remedy. ae hee Beecher Denonneing Hanging as Going Bachward to Barbarism. BA. WILD ON THE GOODRICH MYSTERY, + Hepworth on God’s and Man’s Retributions. Peel SRR Talmage on the Emigration from Time to Eternity. Thoso individuals who weut to church with tresh- ened appetite for sensation yesterday, in the ex- pectation of being treated to sermons in which shere would be direct discussions of the fate of Fester, were somewhat, although not altogether, @txappointed. In a few preliminary remarks be- fore his discourse Dr. Walker, one of the reverend gentiemen who attended the condemned man in his last moments, referred to questions which had beep asked bim as to whether he would preach w@pon that subject. Respect for the feelings of the bereaved family of the deceased, he said, was alone enongh to deter him from that, and he thought the puipit was not the proper place for such allusions. ‘ae words of the Rev. Dr. Tyng upon the same wabject will be found among the reports Fiven below. Mr. Beecher, in Plymouth church, sevoted the greater part of his exhortation to an appeal on the side of humanity and against the extreme penalty of the law, taking the ground that iM there were less severe punishment crime would Become less common. The Kev. Mr. Aston, preaching on “The Cause and Cure of Crime,” ar- gaed in direct opposition to this idea. Mr. Hep- worth, on ‘“God’s and Man’s Punishments,” spoke with high praise of Gevernor Dix’s firm conduct in the late trial of character through which he had The bright Spring weather of yesterday drew ferth the multitude in immense numbers aad all of $he churches were crowded, 8T. GEORGE'S CHURCH. Whe Rev. Dr. Tyng on Foster—Repent. @mce Meams Salvation—The Revilings or World Not To Be Regarded by Christian Souls. Many, no doubt, who yesterday, attended Dr. ®yng’s church were drawn thither by the idea that the reverend gentleman would touch upon the wabject of Foster, with whose fate be has been so intimately connected during the past menth or so. This was thé reason why the large church was ttowded in. every part, and the name of the executed felon was on everybody’s tongue who ‘mas there. On ascending the pulpit Dr. Tyng gave as his text a partol the eighth chapter of the Songs sf Solomon, beginning—“I raised thee up under the apple tree; there thy mother brought thee up.” He began by speaking of the mercies which the ty vouchsafed to those whe cared to follow His ordainments, of the great love and care which was lavished upon His children, and said all had been done by God to give each one a share of ‘nat salvation which was intended fer all. He said that he had the full hope that THE UNFORTUNATE MAN who had been cut off so suddenly during the past ‘week had long before the terrible moment came realized the goodness and mercies of a lovable . He had met his deom with resignation, and eatirely in a Christian spirit. Would that all those who died were as well prepared as that reviled, uated down criminal. God had said that would bear the burdens of his children, and this r wretch had _ suffered more than she children of this world ordinarily suffer. What matter the spirit with which the world reviles at the Christian? He has a@ fortitude and a hope ter than mortals can upset. God alone was his judge, and what mattered it to him HOW THE WORLD JUDGED HIM. Jesus was the stay and the strength of all those who were denied by this world, and the Saviour, said there was more jey in heaven Bt the saving ene soul that was plucked from the burning than at the falvation of a hundred Tighteous ones had taken that poor castaway soul into His ®osom in that kingdom where the wicked cease from troubling: and the weary are at re.t. Re- pentance and hope for a better life should animate @s all at the tmome! When the reverend gentleman ended a sermon which was replete with Christian beauty the effect was and soul-felt on the congregation. ‘The tiving illustration was so apt and so well put as 40 be extremely impressive. CHUECH OF THE DISCIPLES. ' Man’ and God's Punishments—The Bearfal Fate ef Foster and Its Les- gone—Sermon by the Rev. George H. Hepworth. One of the largest congregations that have yet at- fended at the evening services of the Church of the Disciples, at Steinway Hall, was assembled at Bhe services last evening. One reason of this, aside from the personal popularity of Rev. George 1. Hepworth, the pastor, was, no doubt, the pre ious announcement that the sybject of the dis- eourse would be “‘Man’s and God’s Punishments,” and the supposition that he would take up the case of Foster. In this respect he did nat- disappoint the congregation. He took for his text ‘the tollowing words of St. Paul: ‘ho will render fo every man according to his deeds.’ These words Signified, ne began, that we were living in a world of law. They implied that we had a master, that ‘we are not to follow our own caprices, but yield to @ supreme law. If we do well, then happiness'will fellow. If clouds gather hope will remain. If we Gualste avOnhG to home our OT Cage Mad last Ad jowder, agains Soa was but the” Tia SYNONYM OF DEATH. God was willing to make acovenant with us. If we would put His law into our lives, if we would be subject to Him, then our safety is sure, and there is nothing to fear in the great hereafter. If, ‘on the ether hand, we act basely, ambitiously, then misery snd death will cover us with its pall of hereafter. God gives us THE COMPASS TO STEER BY. By following this at last we will an- chor in the harbor of safety. The trouble was, they were ali impatient. The things of eternity aud Christ hidden. Instead of going by compass and chart and tne polar star ‘we go into this inlet; we drilt, and we ramble, we play with teraptation and then complain at Jast that ‘we are brui: and wounded. Pursuing this train of prefatory thought at eloquent length he asked ‘what restraints God had rr us to keep be pond and virtuous. He dwelt upon the power ! His @erd and then pictured the power 01 conscience. ‘We are our own jurors. He who follows AN ENLIGHTENED CONSCIENC @enld not go astray. Another of God's Fob was Jove of family. The love a man bears ior his wife ts safety for him. This love and that for his children preas him forward in pursuit of the noble, of the geod. Love of character, again, he urged, wa: restesint—one of the energies of the soul to kee, one from the paths of evil. After all these ad- vantages if a man goes wrong he d it knowing the probable consequences, It was a melancholy thing to jook upon the WRECK OF A MAN, I he were the only one to suffer it wonld ve bad enough. Bat in going down he drage others down te misery. Behind the man you see the aged father, 11 is a secret that mast not be whispe! Yousee the mother, her eyes dim with thw gi Toe heart Jom, and nowing im the Juimre bub absolute teeuo see naiths the ‘araer’ Worst 0! all you who ore ae. of all you bee the A STAINKD NAMB. ‘All this fotiows, not in one instance, but in every instance when @ stalwart man 8 down to ruin. He cannotgo down alone. He drags others down with him, rus tar he said he had spoken of THE GENERAL LAW, He wished they would make @ personal applica. tion of that he bad spoken. If any are on the down- ward road stop now. ‘The master also said “Halt.” Let them listen to the next command “Right about face.™ Dare tobeomen. Within a few days they bed been made acquainted with a notable example of this law. The Lp ie had been deeply stirred. ‘They hardiy kaow whether to sympathize or not. They hardly Know whether to be pitiless or pitiful A Dav as Well born as any present—a man of fi rospects—had come, within the past week, to nominions end. What brought it about? BAD HABITS, such as he had been warning them against bo Lay ear and @ quarter. He went D tite etermined to have @ good time, determined to give to his appetites a passion the utmost gratification, He entered into all Kinds of dissipation, He hada right to use this kind of ctacle and paint therefrom 4 moral. Heed the lesson. A moral purpose they must love. Infidelity in retigion would end in tears ard death. How often he had tried on that platform to point out the dangers besetting young men, ‘Lhe devil was everywhere, This spectacle to which he had reverted had given rise to a new sensation. It showed that they hada WHOLE MAN IN OFFIOR. He would have signed a thousand times the peti- tion asking commutation if he nad theught it would have done any good, The result has shown that no bribe.or inendsmp could change him. His sentiment was:—“Let the Courts do their duty and he would do his,” Thank God-for a whole man. ‘This fact stood ont in monumental splendor and should make them proud of their State. Another thing this spectacie taught was the dificulty of ENFORCING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. ‘The oid law, life tor iife, was supplanted at Beth- lehem, It died on the cross at Calvary, [t was not religion. It was simply unadulterated barbarism. Every heart shudders as Mt thinks ofit, The last night, and the criminal knows his fate and not rei yet to meet it, Outside its the sound of the erection of the scaffold. Great God, could they not spare the man this? Murderer though he was, he was aman. He hoped that the time would speedily come when this State, like some other Sfates in the Union, would wipe from its statute books capital punishment, As he was on this subject he would say more, He would say @ few words of THE PRESENT JURY SYSTEM. A business man could not get ona jury nowa- days. Jurics come irom the slums of the city. Men should be tried by (neir peers. Was this a Spasm of justice, or had they entered on the busi- ness of justice? ‘They had, in his view, hanged the Jeast criminal one of THE CAGED MORDERERS now in the Tombs. Let them have enough of this thing. Let them have an abolition of the hang- man’s rope, which was only arelic of barbarism. Foster began with as good prospects as any Present. He began with the giass; he took to gaming; he went on to deeper depths of degrada- tien till be became a murderer. Let all young men take warning by his example. urn towards Jerusalem and towards God, SECOND STREET M. E. CHURCH. ’ The Cause and Cure of Crime—Iniquity in High Piaces—Disastrous Results of the Non-Enforcement of Law--A Brighter Day Dawning—Sermon by the Rev. Henry Aston. A large and attentive audience gathered at the Second Street Methodist Episcopal church last evening, attracted by the notice that the pastor, the Rev. Henry Aston, would preach upon the subject, “The Cause and Cure of Crime.” After the usual religious exercises the reverend gentie- man announced his text from Ecclesiastes viii. 11:—“Because sentence against an evil work Is not executed speedily, therefore, the Reart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” He said:— ‘The question asked everywhere, “Why is so much crime ¢ommitted every day in this city ofchurches, the metropolis of a Republic of Christian civiliza- tion ?”—may find an answer in the text. The de- pravity of our hearts turns merciful forbearance into connivance of sin and the hope of license to sin on with impunity, and the utter escape of pun- ishment. The non-enforcement of Jaw, whether arising from inefficiency or infidelity of courts of justice or influenced by the WEIGHT OF GREENBACKS, or the strength of stiff backs of the criminals and their supporters, will greatly accelerate and multi- ply the work of crime in all its forms. Its name is tegion, and the proof amouts to a demonstration in our city. The utter abandonment of our city gov- ernment to fraud, bribery and ignoring the sanc- tity of the oath of office for the past few years is without a parallel in Christendom. Hence crime, this many-headed monster, hae walked abroad at noonday, hissing, stinging and killing peacetul citi- zens with impunity, and is the legitimate result of this criminality of the bench of justice. He then proceeded to consider the incipient cause of crime. Back of and underlying all this, and yet nearly allied to it, namely, the neglect of early restraint, the curbing, controlling, destroy- ing the immoral tendencies of our nature. Thi belongs to parental and personal duty, and, it being neglected or weak, the civil laws should step in, at ag: hold and punish the culprit. railing this, law is a farce and crime becomes rampant. After referring to that sympathy for unfortunates and best efforts for their reformation, which is the dnty of all, he continued, never in the history of this city and State was crime so prevalent and criminals so numerous, and while the public are loudly demanding their arrest and eondign punish- ment let us pause and look into THE CAUSE AND CURE OF CRIME. And first, a grand primary cause of crime is the lack of gary moral culture and discipline. In con- sidering this the speaker showed what great re- sults often flow from smali beginnings, and so it is with crime, which is born and grows, its strength and growth depending upon the richness of the soil and tne culture it receives. From this he argued the importance of early training, snowing that this duty belongs frst to parents, which he proved by extensive quotatiqns from the Scrip- tures, and illustrated the evils which follow on a‘ disregard of it. Continuing, he said:—“Train up a child in the way he should go,” 18 a law, with few hop ont: which prove the rule, and when it is not done by the parents it should be assumed by the State in the interest of society. ‘The great question in this country at this time is, How shall this training be accomplished? I an- swe First, by the eld God-cemmanded way of parental instruction ; second, by legal enforcement of our common school system; third, by the most vigorous efforts to bring neglected children under Sabbath school teaching; fourth, citizens should be a unit in support and enforcement of the law. He here entered into an elaborate and extended argument infavor of the common school system and the introduction of Bibles into the schools, Continuing he said :— CITIZENS SHOULD WAKE UP to the importance of this early culture, for it will soon be too late; the seeds of sin and crime will beets (i the ground. Crime matures with fear- ful rapidity, owing to our depraved natures and evil temdencies and other causes. He referred to some of the more prominent criminals as ex- amples of this—possessed of culture, business capacity, fine organizations, pieasing address, not- withstanding which uncurbed passion had plunged them into murder. He showed how this apex of crime was reached gradually and by general indul- gence in sinful appetites. In exhortation to the young he urged upon them the importance of this which “fast young mren’’ are bringing upon them- selves by an indulgence of their passions. Bear in mind, “Thou, God, seest me,” and learn the lesson of restraint by THE CAREER AND DEATH OF FOSTER, his blasted life, kis ignominious end. Another fearful cause of crime is the rum traffic, The jacts and figures show this. in the statistics for 1872 we find 40,000 arrests reported in one year for intoxication and 8,000 grogsnops in {ull blast. Dr. Willard Parker, an eminent living author, said in a speech lately that thirty-three and one-third per cent of all the deaths in this great city were caused by the use of alcoholic drinks, and that 190,000 had died in this city in thirty-eight years. Dr. Marmon, in the New York Medical Journal, says for the last ten years the use of spirits has first cost the nation a direct expense of $600,090,000 cash, indirectly, $700,000,000, It has destroyed 400,000 lives, sent 100,000 to the poor houses, caused 1,000 suicides and a jos: fire and violence of $10,000,000. It has made 200,080 widows and 100,000 cripples. While it pays imto the revenue of the government $600,000, 000, educating and preaching the Another cause of crime is @ k of sympathetic effort for the fallen. He argued irom the Bible and the spirit of Christianity that it is the duty of spel is $40,000,000. to strive by every 1 | earnest labor for the fallen was a great cause of ; crime. And yet there is a limit, beyond | which we catnot and ought not to do more than shed eur tears and utter our sorrow and sympathy. While Jesus wept over Jerusalem He pronounced the coming doom. While Paul worked day and night for the unsaved he fore- told the coming wrath. Hence the non-enforce- ment of law is one great oure in this city 18 a great cause of crime, and its RETURN TO LAW AND Jusric That a man could be found guilty of murder in the first degree caused an evident surprise among us, resulting trom the previous nen-enforcement ot low. What is the design of law and rulers? I will Jet St, Paul answer. Referring to the law of God. he Says the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Again read Roman: hi third, four: id fifth versea, ence we Bee that in God's wi he has decided that rules and rulers should be ordered for the punishment of evil doers, for a warming and co' mn of the evils ef seciety. He them proceeaed to show how the law had been tram on, and ai a from recent events that the dayz.of a ; training, a8 shown in the fearful, desolating ruin | house, committed 150,000 to prisons and work- | the whole cost for | | claims against Christians to sympathize with the unfortunate and | s to lead them away from | guilt and sin, and that the absence of the requisite | Upon us, in which they that doevil shall be made to fear; in which law, order and Uesyee, shall prevail among us. He :—Our hearts’ have beep strengthened and gladdened by MANLY, OUTSPOKEN PRINCIPLES in messages of the Governor and Mayor. He quoved extensively from the letter of the Governor, setting forth his reasons for not commuting the sentence of Foster, aud continued :—He knows of what he speaks—namely, that the principle of pun- ishment for crime is the theory of ali govern- ment, whether of God er man, and congratulated the law-abiding people that there was reason to hope, with such a Governor, erime will be checked and criminals have ground to fear, After consid- ering the protection which the enforcement of law affords to society and its salutary induence on law- breakers, he closed with an earnest exhortation to the young. 8T. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, The Music—Sermon on Humility by Father Kearnty—The Effects of Pride, and the Beauties and Benefits of Hu- mitity. ‘The high mass at the Cathedral yesterday was well attended. The whole front of the church, that is, the part near the doors on Mott street, was monopolized by Italians, who scalousiy } Counted their beads daring service, and after- Warde as zealously prayed for pennies outside the doors. The music of the mass was very fine, Mer- cadante’s mass in G minor was sung, minus the “Gloria.” At the offertory ‘Fac ut portem,” from Rossia’s “Stabat Mater,” was effectively ren dered. During the elevatton Mr. Gustay Schmita, the organist, performed ai exquisite exlerapore, | and at the conclusion of the mass he played one of hie own grand marches, “Father McNamee cele. brated maser, and the sermon wax preached by Father Kearney. THE SERMON. After reading the Gospei for the «tay Lhe reverend gentleman proceeded to explain YHE LESSON OF HUMILITY it contained, ‘The gist of his remarks will be found in the following :— In this holy season of Lent, when, in accordance with the mandates of oar holy mother the Chureh, we are mortifying our sinful flesh, it is meet and just that we should also look to our spirit and carb and correct any little irreguiaritics that we may find it to be possessed of. It is true we mortify the Nese in order to bring the spirit under control, and stilt there is a sentiment that all of us, whether Tich or poor, entertain ina greater ora lesser de- gree, 1 have reference to our inher. ent pride—that sin which has descended to us from Adam and Eve. This is the commonest sin on the calendar, for the reason that it seems to be inseparable from our flesh and blood, When viewed from afar its enormities are not as apparent as when we examine and ciosely scratin- ize it. This sin of pride has been from time imme- morial the curse and Acourge of mankind, It was pride that caused Lucier to fall from his high estate to the miserable degree of devil. It was pride, in their own knowledge, that caused Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and to be turned Srom Paradise, In the history of nations pride has worked worlds of wrong. The time was when a mere word as to the strength of two poWers would cause them to war upon cach other to settle the question and satisly the empty worldly van- ity. Among nations @ better state of things is beginning to exist, but among the people the same cankerous sore still eats its way to the heart and soul, It may be said that our pride affects none but ourselves; this is a pseudodox opinion, and the insidious poison it contains is only discovered by its effects. pcepting the premises that pride only affects onrseives, what then are its effects? Our catechism asks, “What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” ‘Phe answer is obvious to the most untheological among you, an@ still you sometimes forget that every man’s duty 18 to save his immortal soul, which God has given in his charge. If pride only affects ourselves, that is the very strongest reason why we = should renounce it, and, after rejecting it, practise hu- mility that we may forever guard against its re- turn. The Bible is fall of the most admirable ex- amples of humility, and prominent among them is Jesus himself, who was sent as an example to us; John, wno declared he was but the voice of one crying in the wilderness, and last, Magdalen, who, proud in her sins, renounced them, together peed her pride, and wept tears of heartielt an- guish. Let me exhort you all to lock to whatI have said and try aud renounce the little, pride you may entertain and practise humility and penance, | toenter houses which will be sure to call upen you the grace and blessing of God—a blessing which I wish you all, CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR, A Lost Soul—Kind Words About Foster— Sermon by Rev. J. M. Pullman. The Rev. J. M. Pullman preached last night in ‘Trenor’s Lyric Hall on ‘A Lost Soul.’”’ He took bis text from the Lamentations, iJi, 31:—‘The Lord will ily, therefore the heart of the eons of men te fully set in thom to doevil.? loose, said he, the nataral “impulse of every one is to blame the police and the Jaws. Every one crics out for severer legisiation to intensity punishment, This matter of punteh- ment cannot be settied in a moment; the subject is not easy; it waxes the most lhougitiu) men the world over, What soclety can do with its criminal members involves ’0 much and runs so deep that security ayainst criminality is the greatest study that can be given to any one, ‘The grand ena of punishment in human society is either the protection of society or the REFORMATION OF TH CULPRIT, These, afterali, are one, Human socfety has no Tight of pénishment for the sake of revenge. It ip usually said that punishment is for the sake of pro- tection. Society never protects itself so well as when it reforms. How, to what degree and with what severity isa matter which experience must decide, According to the condition in which s8o- ciety finds itself it has a right to punish, If the society is barbarous tien the punishinents may be barbarous, but when society is carried up and ele- vate it has no longer a rigbt tosuch punishments, ‘The prevention of crime is the duty wt one end as well as punishinent at the other. The duty is cor- relative. No soviety has a richt to punish when it does not prevent, in attempting to prevent crime experience determines that it is net severity, but GBRPANLY AND CRLERITY, whieh prevents. Itia the Sareiny. of sufferme in comneouon with Wrong at enee which deters; an those laws whieh lie in the future are neglected; the hope of excape moliifies, If the wrong 6nd. the penalty were not @ hand’s breadth ay hen there would be prevention, That crimo js increas- jug there-can be nedoubt. What is the cause ? Emigration is one cause. We have to deal not only with our OWD criminals, but with thnove of other countries. The prevalence of crime in auch a place as New York ciiy is not to be taken as showivg the average. As @ place increases the temptations to wrong increase, The increase of property is @ great one; men see truth less re- rarded, honesty lees regarded, uoti the gradation rom right to wrong seems small; and DRINK, INSANITY is another. The use of liquor has been much abated in the regulated classes, but in the unregu- lated oues it hag Mereased, and criminality springs largely from the unreguiated classes. .But, above ali, is the almost umyersal conviction of impunity, ‘The bulk of criminals are young, in whom hope redominates over retlection, ‘here are many hings which give this impunity—first, the coward- ice Of householders, who will not proteet their premises. i men lie as white as their sheets when they hear a thief in the house, instead of protect- ing it, it gives imponity. No man is fit to keep house unless he can defend it. It is impunity founded on cowardice that makes it easy for thieves Now, while you curse the thief sare: a little for yourself, Justice is represented wi BANDAGED &YES, and so the officers of justice think it their duty to have their eyes bandaged, and when men are ar- rested there are so many ces Of escape by compromising witi the poiice or property holders, ¥, politacal influence, by pecuniary influence, think there never was a step 60 backward towards barbarism as the election of judges by the peopie. Judges kuow that political influence keeps them in their places, and they are afraid of offending voters, There is a vast pecuniary influence brought to bear on our courts, A man without friends is sent up without delay, because it tells well te do it once in @ while; but if a man has iriends money reigns. It 18 held that every man has aright to defence. ‘This is cerrect in @ general sense, but the extent to which it has been carried has almost ruined our courts. If there be such lat- itude, if genius can pervert justice, then it is the parton of crime, hat is the remedy for this ? education and re- ligion and increase of legislation in the direction of cleantiness, health, distribution of populauion and the discarding of BRUTAL PUNISHMENTS, such as hanging. Ido not say the death penalty ought never to be used; it is right in low stages of ty, when they have no means of keeping pris- oners, but in the higher grades I hold it is wrong. Tue existence of it renders conviction reluctant and uncertain. It dyes not produce the effect it once did. I think execution does not deter, but incites crime. A man who has to spend forty years of hie life ina penitentiary is a better example to society than a man who 8 hai and forgotten. It is going back towards barbarism. As long as men are exe- cuted I think jurors will stretch low to let crim- nails escape. There ought to be amore humane and Christian way of regarding criminals, not as brutes, not as having forfeited all rights. If a man had slaim a humdred men he would have his rights, not his right of reat d bg ho man can be divested oi the right that he is the child 0, God; it does not follow that we are not to punish, only NOT 48 A BEAST, butas aman. When therefore our punishments are ameliorated our convictions will multiply. The pardoning power in the community has been a not cast off forever.” He said he denied the theory that the “lost soul’ was one on which the Lord would inflict all his infinite resources of torment. A great many people could not help being in a condition of degrada- tion, but, although the attention of most churches was directed to low places of misery for unsaved souls, he would ask them to look to rh places for such souls, He would seek them In | hose ranks of society where the conditions were favorable for a higher and better life. He had heard people speak about the soul of the poor un- fortunate man that was lost last week. He did not think this was a lost soul. When a man was lost to the higher law he was found by the retributive laws of God. ‘This very penalty was ameans of res- toration. The divine spark in the human soul could never be entirely extiny hed. A soul exposed to the eternal fury of God, he maintained, this was a@ condition which no human soul was ever placed in. The phrase, ‘An endlessly lost soul,” could met be found in the Bible; but they had assurances, on the contrary, that the Saviour had mercy and leve jor all human sin. A finite man could not commit an infinite offence. The Lord had never lost an atom of his creation and he could not jose a human soul. He asked them to picture the loving sympathetic soul gazing frem heaven at another soul suffering the endless tor- ments of hell. God was just and powerfal, and these attributes worked under His infinite love. He did not believe that any soul could maintain its defiant attitude against the divine love. LYRIC HALL The Enigma of Life, “How to Love Your Neighbor”—Sermon by the Rev. O. B. Frothingh: Spring’s fresh, bright face and warm, welcoming sinile called out the charch-goers and fashionables in large numbers yesterday morning. At Lyric Hall, between Forty-tirst and Forty-second streets, the attendance was large, as it always is. Mr. Frothingham’s discourse was based upon the words o1 Christ, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- self.” Itis related of Jesus (he began) that on one occasion, being accosted by aman and asked the way toeternal love, he replied, **Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul.”’ And, acting upon this principle, you will find the eter- nal love. ‘To know how to love every man 1s some- thing very diMicult te find out. It is the mystery of mysteries, the enigma of life. There is no question in theology that compares with it. Ifwe look af | this matter we find there are THREE WAYS OF TESTING LOVE for @ human being—love of soul, love of body and } love of qualities. The love of the soul is the rescue | Of the soul frem the judgment to come. It consists in making the connection with God strong; there- fore all these churches and preachers, This love of soul is something which no one understands but | @ believer in the evangelical, This love of soul has | no social meaning at all. has hing to do with | want or crime or sin; it has nothing to de with the | phe ol pauperism or reform. there were no hereafter it would have no significance. Leave out | evangelical theology, with the scheme for the | future, and this love of soul wiil be nothing. The | love of soul being given up THE LOVE OF BODY claims attention. Whether we have a soul or not it 18 incarnated. All sensation is physical. All pain is first of all physical. Hunger, heat, coid, | viee, poverty and crime make the body suifer. Love | has regard to the body. It meansa roof for the | | unfortunate, fire for the cold and foed for the hungry. The love of man is tke love of his body, | and it consists in diminishing his misery. Pain is the ugly thing that all people hate. New Tes- tament says, ‘‘There shall be no more pain.” Love | Meaus money, soup houses, asylams amd places of | Teluge. This kind of love shows itself towards | criminals in trying to make their fate as easy as Possible. We see it im the demand that al! prisons Shall be comducted upon kind principles. This | dread of inflicting pain is at the bottom of the | CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Men would rather be imprisoned for life than suffer the agony of death by the axe or halter. They would give up everything rather than under- o the intense agony of those dreadful seconds. san we pity wretched men and women too much ? | Why not dismiss them in a trance ? Is this love of | body the leve ofman’ The love of manhood and | the love of qualities are the test of life. It is not the fiction of the soul or the sensations of the body that makes the man. It is quality, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Grand End of Punishment—Universal Conviction of Impuntty—Hangixg a Step Back Towards tice Not a Bear or Lion. Publication of Criminal Literature, Mr. Beecher’s sermon yesterday morning was ‘One called forth by the events of the past week, His text was Ecclesiastes, vil, 11—“Because sen- Detkor day 14 | tence against ay evil work Js Rol Agecuted apeeds source of widespread dissatisfaction. It is said that it gives impunity to crime. I hold that the pardons, power of the Governor is a safety valve. Jould all those who are confined in prison be held in check without hope? But it does not seem wise that the pardoning Peay’ should reside in the Ex- ecutive. It ought be in @ council, and there ought to be a certainty of punishment, milder but sure, Justice must not be represented by a bear oralion, but by an angel. hen punishment is lessened then criminality will lessen. We are ceasing to dignify crime by its introduction into literature. We are FED ON CRIME, What was there in Foster that we have been fea on him for two years past? Under pretence of giving news the batik! ab have given column after column to him. this man has been given @ conspicuousness—not desirable, te be sure—that has been denied to savans. I do not believe young eee can read the daily record of crime and not injured. The publication of criminal news in such vast quantities is morally mjurious to the community, and tends to produce that state out of which crime comes, There are one or two questions, said Mr. Beecher, which I should like to ask you. What have you dome to prevemt crime or to reform criminais? When it is known that alcoholic drinks are the cause of ninety per cent of the criminality, have you ever tried to stop the sale of it? Do you feel that you have a right to ride in the State as travellers ride in a railroad car? If that which our Master said is true, there is many and many & man who goes out of life whose chances in the.next world are better than those of the ones who are left. God said to the Pharisees, “the publi- can and the harlot sball enter the kingdom of heaven before you.” TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY, Jesus Christ the Only Cemforter—The Victims of Slander and Abuse—Is the Preacher Rebuking His Critics !—The Emigration from Time Into Eternity. Mr. Talmage preached to an immense congrega- tion, as usnal, yesterday morning. Every seat was occupied, and those whe came late were provided with accommodations in the orchestra. Mr. Post, the precentor, who had been absent for a number of Sundays, in consequence of a severe cold, re- turned yesterday, having almost fully recovered, and led the singing. Ameng the announcements made by the pastor previous to the sermon was the fact that the grand fair at the Academy, for the benefit of the rebuliding fund, would open on Tues- day night and continue day and evening until Sat- urday. Mr. Talmage preached from the text, ‘And His disciples went and told Jesus,’’ being a statement of the action of the disciples alter the beheading of John the Baptist by order of Kimg Herod. The disciples were thrown inte grief and dismay by this event, and their grief must find expression. Jesus could understand their grief, and He imme- diately soothed it. In the first place the preacher commended the behavior of these discipies to all those in the audience who were sinful and unpar- dened. There came a time in almost every man’s history when he felt irom some source that he had an erring nature, The thought might not have such heft as to tell him; it might be only like the flash in an evening cloud just aiter a very hot Sum- bial ie One man, to get rid of that impression, wou STIMULATE HIMSELF WITH ARDENT SPIRITS, another would seek secularities; but sometimes a man ceuld not get rid of this impression. The fact was that when a man found out that his eternity was poised upon a perfect bait tag | and that the next moment his foot may slip, he must do something violent to make himself forget where he stood or fly for refuge. Driven, perplexed and harassed as you have been by sin, “go and tell Jesus." “Oh,” but aman said, “i ad of curing my wound you want to make a ind of convic- tion.” Have you never known a surgeon to find a chronic disease, and then, with sharp caustic, burn ital! out, and the healta come again? So the grace of God comes to the old gore of sin. It has long been rankling there, but by that grace It is burned out threagh these fires of conviction, “the flesh ceming again as the flesh of a little child.” With the ten thousand unpardoned sins of your life “go and teli Jesus.” T commend the behavior of the disciples to all who are tempted. Ihave heard men in midlife sav they bave never had temptations. If they have not, it is because they have never tried to re- sist, and have not tried to do right. A man liop- pied and handcuffed, asiong as he lies quietly he does not test the power of sin; but when he rises up and with determination resolves to SNAP THR HANDCUFFS or break the hop;'*, then he finds the power of the iron, As long ay we go dowp the current we seem to get along smoothly ; but when we turn and head the other way toward Christ and heaven, ob, how we have w lay to the oars! It is all folly for one man to say he could not be tempted as anether is. The tem- perameat eo the style A-4 Somapeeenoe ens Sanguine or lymphasic, will have jon What are der to 7 Ah, what of man son would’ be) With. all sui NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY. MARCH 24, 1873,-TRIPLE SHEET temptations around about theve disciples did, and tell Jesus, aie anion . Tcommend the behavior of the disciples abused and ‘an those who are slandered and | bem gc When Herod put John to death the isciples knew that their own heads were not safe. And do you know that every John has a Herod? There are persons ip life Who do not wish you very well. Your misfortunes are honeycombs to them. Through their teeth they hiss at you, misinterpret your motives ana wouk! be GLAD TO KEE YOU UPSET. No man gets through life without a pummeling. Some slander comes for you horned, tusked and | hoofed to gore you, and What are youtodo’ I} te yon gnats mat all who serve Christ | must suffer persecution, It ! sign in the world for you to be able | to bay, “1 haven't an enemy in the world.” A woe is pronounced in this Bible of the one of whom everybody speaks well. If you are at peace with all the world and everybody likes you ani ap- proves your work it is because you are an idler ia the Lord’ vineyard and are not doing your duty. It was so in the times of George Whitefield and John Wesley, and what is true of the palpit is true of the pew and the street and the shop and | the store. Itis the werst sign in all the world, I teli | you, if you are any of you this moment at peace with all the world, The religion of Jesus Christ is war! Itina chatlenge to ‘the world, the flesh and the devil.” But what are you do when you are as- sanited and slandcred and abused’ Go out and HUNT UP THE SLANDERRE ? Ob, no, silly one. While you are explaining away a falsehood in one place fifty peopie will just have heard of it. 1 counsel yon to another course, While you are to omit no opportunity of setting yourselves right, I want to teli you of one who had the hardest things gaid about Him, whose sobriety Was disputed, who reeented af & babe anil spit Upon.as aman, and Who was howled at after he was dead. 1 would: lave ; fede to Him. Go and tell Jesns.”? And } remark again, 1 commend the behavior of the disciples to all those who may be bereaved er desolate by the Joss of friends. Oh, how many here! God has His own way of taking | apart afamily, We must get out of the way for | comin Bio dar We must get off the stage | that ottiers may came on. This matter of emigra- tion trom time into eternity is so vast ab enter: | (id we capnot understand it, Every hour we | eur | TUE CLANK OF THE SEPULCHRAL GATR, The sod must be broxen; the ground must be | ploughed for the resurrection harvest. Eternity | must be peopled, and this emigration from time | into eternity keeps three-fourths of the families ot | the earth in desolation, The air is rent with fare- wells, and the black-tasselled vehicles of death rumble through every street. Oh, the ‘ave is | cruel! With teeth of stone it clutches for its prey. Between the closing gates of the sepulchre our | hearts are mangled and crushed, What are we to | do? There is no earthly solace, Has God turned ug out on barren commons to die’ No, no! He has not. and love. He «understands our grief, only One that can fully sympathize. is the worst He is the SEVENTH AVENUE OHUROH. | Dr. Wild on .Coworkers with God—Was | Goodrich Murdered ? | | Dr. Wiid preached yesterday morning from First Corinthians, tii, 9-“For we are laborers together with God; ye are God’ husbandry, ye are God's building.” The sermon was eminently practical, bearing { upon the needs of Divine assistance ip every-day | events. ‘Religion,’ said the speaker, “gives to the possessor a motive and @ sentiment, not | simply local, but universal, stretching beyond time into the impenetrable realms of eternity. | Inc jing knowledge enlarges the domain of the | afie ns and adds intensity to the motive, as | by the facilities of the press one becomes familiar with the doings of the nations, So in spiritual re- | lations one becomes equally cosmopolitan in mo- | tive and sentiment. There is a difference between the two. Motive belongs to the intellect, senti- ment to the ailections: and a pure sentiment is made so by a noble motive. We, as a community, have been alternating between compassion and justice during the past week. TIvailude to THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF GOODRICR. When! read the report my first idea was that the deceased had committed suicide and my heart ached ior the man who had been so distressed and goaded that death was preferable to life. But from later accounts and incidents therein related I con- cluded he was wilfully murdered, and justice de- | mands the life of the assasin—be it man or woman. This feeling of vengeance may be oppesed to God's teachings, bat it is natural in the first knowledge we have of crime.” Dr. Wild expressed his con- | viction that the assasin was a woman, who for some domestic cause had perpetrated the deed, {From the Brockport (N. Y.) Republic.) New YORK HERALD ALMANAC.—The HERALD has @ Way of outstripping most of its contemporaries | in furnishing the public with news; and now it has | gone and issued an Almanac of about two hundred pages, containing a vast amount of useful informa- | tion, all for twenty-five cents, thus throwing all the other almanac makers into the shade, The HERALD is bound to accomplish great feats. (From the Saiem (Mass.) Observer.) The New York HERALD Almanac for 1873 is one | of the best things of the kind we have ever seen, | besides being the largest, fullest amd most com- plete. It is a cenci financial, commercial and political affairs, and has ebvionsly been prepared with great lay | bor and pains, It contains over two hun- dred pages of matter and presents « vast amount of informatien upon fim- portant public topics which may be sought for else- where in vain, The H&Ra.p is a great newspaper— great in its enterprise, its scope, ite purposes and its success. {From the Steubenville (Ohio) Herald.) We acknowledge the receipt of the NEw York | HERALD Almanac for 1873. It is @ complete compilation of facts and figures invaluable, alike in the counting house, to the merclant, tarmer, me- chanic and all who desire ® condensed com- pendium of the events of the world, and all for twenty-five cents. SSS ond MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. BrowN—MERRITT.—On Wednesday, February 26, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. Dr. Ten Eyck, W. E. BROWN to MaTILDa L, MERRITT, eldest daugh‘er of Francis J. Merritt, all of Astoria, KNOWER—GRaY.—On Saturday, March 22, at Trin- ity chapel, by the Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D.. BENJA- MIN KNOWER to Mary I.., daughter of Dr. John F. Gray Died. AFFLECK.—On Saturday morning, March 22, MARY A., wife of Daniel O. AMeck, in the 32d year of her ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 54 Lynch street, between Bedford | and Lee avenues, Brooklyn, E. D., on Tuesday alter- noon, March 25, at one o'clock. AYgERS.—At Newark, N.J., on Saturday, March 22, 1883, SARAH A., wife of William H. Ayers, aged 30 years, 1 month and 11 days. ‘uneral services from the South Baptist church, Kinney street, Newark, N. J., on Tuesday, March 25, at half-past two o'clock P. M. Philadelphia and Brooklyn papers please copy. BLaNn«E.—On Toursday, March 20, in Brooklyn, FLORENCE EMMA, Wife 6f George ©, Blanke ai daughter of the late George W. Nexsen, in the 36th year of her age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residemce, Brook- | lyn avenue, corner of Bergen street, this (Monday) afternoon, at two o'clock. Brown.—On Saturday, March 22, Joan Brown, aged 46 years. ‘rhe relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from hia late residence, 25 Greenwich street, on Tuesday, March 25, at one o’elock P. M. SuMMoNs.—George Washington Lodge, No. 285, F. and A. M.—Brethrea, you are hereby summoned to attend a cial communication at the Ledge room, corner Seventh street and Third avenue, on sday, March 26, at 11:30 A. M., for the pur of paying the last tribute of respect to our brother, John Brown. 8. W. STRICKLAND, M, W. &. WARNER, Secretary. BuckLey.—In Breoklyn, om Sunday, March 23, AXN BUCKLEY, the beloved wife of Jeremiah Buck: | ley, aged 66 years. | ¢ relatives and friends of the family and those | of her son-in-law, Thomas Connerton, are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, irom her late residence, 152 Butler street, on Tuesday, at two o'clock P. M. CARROLL.—On Sunday, March 23, at his residence, 68 Leroy street, New York, PATRICK CARROLL, ip the so8 year of La age. ingston (Ca. pers please copy. Cassipy.—On Gunday. March 23, SLDY, in her 56th year. | ‘The relatives and friends of the family, and of her sons, Cornelius, Michael and John, and of her brother, Michael Connolly, are respectfully invited | to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 51 Marion street, on Tuesday, March 25, at two o'clock P. M. CUNNINGHAM.--On Saturday, March 22, Sanan ANN# CUNNINGHAM, daughter of Bernard Cunning- ham, Irvington. The remains will be taken to Calvary Cemetery, from her late resideuce, 145 Kast Twenty-eighth street, this day (Monday), March 24, at one o'clock P.M. ‘Friends of the family are respectfuily in- vited to attend the funeral. Doonsk.—On Sunday, March 23, 1873, ELiza aa nd DoongR, daughter of James and Catherine ner. The relatives and friends, also those of her brothers-in-law, Jonn Flynn and Michael McGoey, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her parenta’ residence, 40 Kast Forty-first street, on Fuenday, at two o'clock P. M., tence to Calvary | Cometery. ite | ROSANNA Cas- | | illness, ALICE ANG! and compendious register of | t Port Richmond, S. I.,on Saturday, March 22, JEFFERSON S., son of James M. and Em- meline mn, aged 10 years, Funeral from the house at one o’clock P. M. om Monday, March 24.. Boats leave foot of Dey street at a quarter past eleven o’clock A, M. one Saturday, March 22, Samvue. L. ANFIELD, bg Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Mmneral, at one P. M., on Tuesday, the 25th instant, from his late residence, 403 West Forty-sixth street, » Philadelphia papers please copy. Dounks.—On Saturday, March 22, of consnmption, CHARLES H. ES, In the dist year of his age. Funeral on Tuesday, at two o’clock, from his late residenee, in Stamford, Conn. Relatives and friends invited, Carriages will meet the half-past eleven train, e PERRIS.—Saran, daughter of Sarah and Eagene Ferris, aed 4 years, 4 months and 7 days. Funeral will take place from her parents’ resi- dence, Elizabeth street, on Monday afternoon, Mare at two o'clock, Friends and relatives are ctfully invited to attend, ip FLeMING.—On Saturday, March 22, James FLEM- ING, aged 65 years, & native of Queens county, Ire- jand, The friends of the family and of his brother Wil- liam are respecifully invited to attend the funeral, this (Monday) alternoon, at one o'clock, from his late residence, 43 New street. Fosrer.—In Washington, D, C.,. on Thursday, February 27, 1873, of smallpox, ROBERT F. FosrER, erly of this city. RDNER.—On Saturday, March 22, Captain HEN D. GARDNER, in his 74th year, ‘ne friends of the family and ef his sons, Ste- phen E, and William L., are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, at his late residence, 301 West Forty-third street, this (Mohday) evening, at half-past. seven o’clock. The re! 3 will be taken to Tarrytown for interment. GLUCKLERS.—O0 Friday night, Mareb 21, As GiNCKLERS, aged 44 years, Friends and relatives are respectfally invited to attend the faneral, from his late residence, 237 Fast wifth street, on Monday afternoon, at one o'clock. GRAHAM.—At Stevensville, Sullivan county, Ny Y., on Monday, March 17, JOHN GRAWAM, in the 78th. bor or his age, a native of county Armagh, Ire- and. Belfast and Armagh papers please copy. GRAN?.—On Sunday, March 23, EMMA REBECCA GRANT, Only daughter of Floyd and Charlotte A. Grant, aged 6 years. The relatives and friends of the family are re-* spectiully invited to attend the funeral, trom her late residence, 98 Greenwich avenue, on Tuesday, March 25, at one o'clock. ‘Troy papers please copy. Lesren.—On Sunday afternoon, March 23, of sears er, CHARLOTTE PRINCE LESTER, the beloved let te | daughter of Dante! K. an@ Susanna Lester, aged 2 | years, 1 month and 9 day: He comes with sympathy and kindness | Funeral! will take Sixth street, Hunter’ at three o'clock, Love.—On Sunday, March 23, WinttaM D., youngest son of Samue! and Katie Love, aged 5 months and 28 days, Relatives and friends are invited to attend the pi from their residence, oint, on Monday afternoon, funerai, this day (Montay), March 24, at two o'clock P, M,, from 125 Sullivan street, Lyon.—At Rye, N. Y., om Friday, March 21, THOMAS LYON, aged 81 years. The relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, m his late residence on Monday, March 24, af eleven o’clock A.M. Carriages in waiting at Rye depot for the 9:08 A. M, train from Grand Central depot. Manepr.—On Saturday morning, March 22, at nalf- past teno’clock, at the residence of his parents, 234 East Forty-tirst street, THOMAS FRANCIS, youngest son ofJonn and Julia Maher, aged 17 years, 1 month and 24 days. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place this (Monday) afternoon, at one oclock, sharp. The remains will be interred 1m Calvary Cemetery. MARA.—Suddenly, on Saturday evening, March 22, MARY MARA, the beloved wife of Thomas Mara, native of Monastravan, county Kildare, Ireland, in the 42d year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are ree spectiully invited to attend her funeral, this (Mone Jay) afternoon, March 24, at two o'clock, from her late residence, 439 West Thirty-first street. MARSHALL.—On Sunday, March 23, at the resi- dence of her sister, Mrs, Rey. Reuven Hubbard, Yonkers, of pneumonia, SARAH H. MARSHAL, of Derby, Conn., relict of Samuel Marshall, formerly of New York. The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited to attend the funeral, at St. James’ church, Ansonia, Conn., on Wednesday, March 26, at twelve o'clock M., without further notice, New Haven papers please copy. ILLS.—At Astoria, L. L, on Sunday, March 23, 1873, EDWIN MILLS, aged 64 years, Notice of funeral hereaiter. 3 MuRPHY.—On Friday, March 21, after a lingering beloved wile of Frederick ars, 3 months and 16 days. The funeral will leave her late residence, 739, Sixth st., this (Monday) morning, at half-past nine o'clock, for St. Rosa Lima church, Cannon stree' where a solemn mass of requiem will be offere for the repose of her soul, and thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. McAULEY.—In New York, on Sunday, March 23, Joun MCAULRY, aged 52 years, e funeral will take place on Tuesday, March 25, from his late residence, 517 East 118th strees. PALMER.—At Jersey City, on Saturday, March 22, Davip W. PALMER, in the 32d year of his age. Friends of the family are respectfally invited to attend the funeral services, at the residence of nis father, James W. Palmer, 95 Washington street, Jersey badd on Tuesday afternoon, 25th inst., at four o'clock, without further invitation. The re mains will be taken to Goshen, N. Y., for inter- ment. urday, March 22, REUBEN Par- Parsons.—On Si sons, in the 67th year of his A His friends are requested, without further notics to attend the funeral services, at his late resi dence, 25 Bast Twenty-fourth street, this (Monday) afternoon, at tour e’clock. His remains will be taken to Ludlow, Mass. Eastern papers please copy. QUERIPEL.—In Philadelphia, on Sund: March 23, Mrs. MARY QUERIPEL, felict of John ripel, formerly of Philadelptia. RaNDOLPH.—At New Bruaswick, N. J., on Satur- day, March 22, Desoran, wife of Ambrose F. Rane dolph, aged 74 years and 1 day. Relatives and friends of the Mecca ony respect- fally invited te attend the funeral, the First Baptist church, New Brunswick, on ‘rnesday, March 25, at two o’clock P.M. ‘Trains leave Desbrosses street at 12 and 12:30 P, M. RANNEY.—On Saturday, March 22, after a shore tilness, Henry F, RaNNEY, in the 34th year of his e. “eruneral from his late residence, this monday) 103 East Seventy-eighth street, at ene o'clock P. M.~ ReEay.—On Saturday, March in Jersey City, , in the 62d year of her age. ‘The funeral will take piace from her late resi- dence, 277 Grove street, Jersey City, on Monday, the 2Ath inst., at one o'clock. \ddenly, on Saturday, March 22, at . C., ANK, beloved wife of D. 8. Sharot. SMULL.—On Satarday, March 22, CHARLES of the late Thomas Stull, aged 36 ye: The relatives and friends of the fi y spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from late residence, Fifth avenue, corner of Eighty-six! street, on Wednesday, 26th instant, at eleven o'clock. The remains will be conveyed to Tarry- town Cemetery for interment. A special car will be in waiting at the Hudson River Railroad depot, Forty-second street, at two o'clock, Sprers.—On Sunday, March 23, WILLIE, only son % Ml and Annie C. Sperb, aged 2 months and lays. ‘The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his parents, No. 596 Sixth avenue, on Tuesday, 25th ine stant, at one o'clock P. M. STERLING.—In this city, on saturday, March 22, ee infant son of Erasmus and Elizabeth Sterling. Funeral services from 303 East Nineteenth street, this (Monday) atternoon, at two o'clock. Rela- tives and friends are invited to attend. SULLIVAN.—On Sunday, March 23, Josern, the be- loved son of Andrew and Annie Sullivan. Notice of the funeral hereafter. Swam.—Aat the residence of James Egbert, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, on Friday, March 21, MARGARET J, SWAiM, in her 54th year. ‘rhe relatives and friends of the family are re- ctfully invited to attend the funeral, from the ‘avian church, New Dorp, this (Monday), at half-past two o'clock P. M. THomrgon.—At Albany, on Friday, March 21, Mrs. MaGGte ©., wife of Dr: John Thompson and daugh- ter of Andrew and Mary Canary, The relatives and frieuds of the W. Murphy, aged 26 family: oO those of her brothers, Revs. A. Thomas and ; aiso those of her brother. Cornelius james: A J. Desmond, and of her uncles, Edward and Thomas Canary, are reapectfully invited to attend the fu- neral, from the residence of her father, 243 East Fifty-eighth street, on Monday, March 24, at nine o’clock. Her remains will be conveyed to St. Pat- rick’s Cathedral, where & selemn high mass of re- quiem will be celebrated at ten o’ciock A. M. for the repose of her soul, thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment. VANDERBILT.—On Saturday, March 22, CATHARINE A., widow of Captain Oliver Vanderpilt, in the 70th year of her . Funeral will take place from her late residence, 187 Ross street, ihamsaburg, L. 1, on Tuesday, March 25, at one o'clock. The remains will be in- | terved in the Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, Van Dr Water.—In Hantington, on Saturdi March 22, MARIA, widow of Samuel Van De Water, aged 70 years and 10 months. ‘The fnneral services will be held in the Presby- teriam church, Hempstead. on Tuesday, at one o'clock P.M. Friends and relatives respectfully invited to attend. Wark.—On Sanday, March 23, Epwarp WaRs, in the 80th year of his age. ‘The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, from 107 Waverley place, on Tues- day, March 25, at halt- ten o'clock. His re~ mains will be conveyed to St. Andrews’ church, where a solemn high mass of requiem will be cele- breted at eleven o'clock A. M. for the repose of hig soul, thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment. Wetou.—At Westchester, N. Y., the rele dence of John B. Frost, on Saturday morning, March 22, of consumption, WiLLiaM WRLCH, in the ‘2th year of hi 5 Tha relatives ant friends are invited to attend the Wednesday, March 26, at two Ociock Peak, srom the Presverian churek, Weve chester,