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SABBATH SUNSHINE AND SERVICE, ‘mpressive Commemoration of the Passion of Our Lord Eighteen Centuries Ago. CEREMONIES IN THE CATHEDRAL “The True Faith and Where ~ It Is Found.” ‘The Rev. Dr. Thompson on the Suifer- ings of the Saviour. THE VANITY AND VALUE OF LIFE ‘Phe Sonl’s Indelible Record of Sin and the Tadgment Day That Is Within Us, How Shall We Study the Scriptures ? 0 THE CURE FOR CRIME AGAIN Despite the “biustering winds of March,” which the iN-tempered month in his bitter decline in- sists upon inflicting upon humanity, the sun shone rightly yesterday, and the streets were filled ‘With multitudes flocking churchward. The various festivals in the church calendar are linked with Feminisences of the changes of nature fm «6the”=«olapses) of the seasons and there are certain of them which are always looked Mpon, happily, as harbingers of pleasant epocs which are approaching. ‘There is no doubt that yesterday, although consecrated to the commemo- ration of the dreadful Passion of our Lord, filled the minds of many with the thought that Palm Sanday, and, afterwards, Easter, were near at Band, with their beautiful emblems of young life and freshened hope. ‘The services in the Catholic ehorches were peculiarly impressive, and attention dp especially called to the sermons which were preached on the great topic of the day. The subjects of the discourses given below will be found to be of a thoughtful and deeply interest- ing erder, and cnly the crowded state of our col- ‘wmne precludes giving them more extended space. LYRIC HALL The Vanity and Value of Life—Sermon by the Rev. 0. B. Frothingham. Notwithstanding the severe wind yesterday morning the congregation at Lyric Hall, in Forty- weeond street, waS large and fashionable. Mr. Frothingham announced as the subject of his dis- eourse “The Vanity and Value of Life.” We find ‘the sentiment of the vanity of life, he began, in ene ef the most ancient books in India. They feoked upon the world as a mirage. In the Book of Ecclesiastes we read that allis vanity. The beloved Apostie took up the refrain. He says:—“Love not the world nor the things init. Your life isa vapor, appearing for a time and @anishing away.” This tone of sadness pervades Christianity in all ehorehes, and all the great writings are full of it. Those who are no longer young can look back to the time when the BURDEN OF SERMONS was totake from the world allour desires and thoughts. We were to detach ourselves from its Pleasures, prizes and pursuits. The explanation ef this we find intwo great conceptions promi- nent in religious systems, First, the actual con- vietion of ® hereafter—the belief that beyond this life is the real sea of being. There was no change there; nothing passed away or became old with time. The idea ef hereafter in the Apocrypha was Mere tangible. It spoke of heaven’s Prd gates ‘wide open, of its fadeless bliss and delights that @ever came to anend. What man makesis byt ‘the baseless fabric of a vision, What was wealth, or beauty, or taient, or genius, or a golden crown? You snatch your sceptre through blood; but after years the hand and sceptre turn to ashes. The @ther idea was that man personally and individually was to become perfect. This concep- tien prevails in this feeling of the vanity ef all earthly things. Jesus was trying to detach Himself and His friends trom the tangible world. Be told them to sell all their possessions and give te the poor. The same stress and emphasis is not laid upon these two great conceptions as there used tobe. We believe in the hereafter, but we also believe that unless we live cordially and sin- eerely here we may not hope for the felicity yond. A very weaithy financial gentleman of this City, whe is reported to be a Spiritualist, was fre- quently visited bya minister of the Gospel, who tried te induce him to give up his great plans and Fare himself for the great future. The man re- wed. He felt that all the strain of his mind and ‘will was necessary to this world, and he was right. You do net hear of people in our times TRYING TO MAKE SAINTS of themselves. If a man shouid attempt it he weuld be looked upon as a harmless visionary, The man of science would not devote himsel! to e study of high principles if they were not of at utility. The sentiment of the vanity of all earthly things will be succeeded by an idea of the earthly things. Men used to speak of nity of this world because the other is so il, 80 vast, so endless. We do net look at ae in their natural relations. In speaking of e PURSUISS OF LIFE 88 mean, we do not connect them with the things to which they belong. In anctent times the priest- hood monopolized all the learning and all those below them toiled for a livelihood, The men atthe head of the three leading professions are the min- ister, the lawyer and the physician. The minister 1s dealing with eternal interests all the time. He ts detached irom business and all his wants are supplied. The lawyer is 1entified with the justice of the world. The physician is associated with the health of the pepulace, One loses patience when he hears men speak of the vanity of their pursuits and the worthiessness of their endeavors, It is tiresome to hear women complaining of the worth- Jessness of their Work compared to that of mens to hear them speaking of their pursuits as so idle and vain. To rear a child and to rear it w to soiten its disposition and to teach it what it will be is the nobiest work a woman could do. They teach and Year saints, poets and philosophers. They are Working at the very SPRINGS OF THE UNIVERSE. It was Mohammed who said that paradise was at the feet of mothers. Women dread the wretchedness of housekeeping and think it is the loss ef ali that is pure anc sweet. There are the carpets and cur- tains to be cared for, food and garments to be pro- vided. Itis home, the casket that contains men, women and children. [tis the place of their aficc- tion. Everything about it should be pure, attrac- tive and beautiful so that men and women will love to be there. Yet some women prefer to write for a foy'ce and read lectures from platforms to the daty of bringing up children! ROSE HILL METHODIST CHURCH. Whe Rev. John Dickinson on “How Shall We Study the Bible?” Alarge congregation gathered at the Rose Hil, Methodist chureh, in East Twenty-seventh street, vetween Second and Third avenues, yesterday Morning, to listen te the Rev. John Dickinson, ‘whe delivered a very sensible discourse on “How to ‘Study the Bible,” and which, happily, was destitate of the usnal gorgeous “gush” and pulpit pyrotech- nics 80 common to Sunday oratory. Before open- ing his discourse the reverend gentleman alluded to the objections which had been taken concerning his ntterance om temperance and the reading of fic- tion, previously delivered from his pulpit. He did not wish to be misunderstood. If anybody should Weave the congregation and go out and tipple, after ‘what he had said, it would not be because he had told the truth but because the maletactors had perverted the truth. The same was true of the Feadi ction, He had taught that the reading phon — ne pida wore 4 Be in ID e employment of a God-given faculty, He haa been remenstrated with for making this ‘observation, on the ground that its influence would mot be on the young. He adhered to the ground he had taken. ‘Otherwise he would Nave to close bis Bible, for dia not that sacred Book con- tain allegory and parables? It was never the trath which injures the soul or led any one astray; it was the perversion of that truth. The reverend gentleman tien took as the basis of Ris remarks Paul's Episties to the Komans xv, 4— “For whatsoever things were written afore time, were written for ovr learning, that through pa- pepe’ and comfort of the Scriptures Wwe might have ] 1? Be hoped that no one would misunder- Mandbin when he declyred that he placed Mu- | NEW YORK HERALD. esate Mette mena cates loses an when: constituted thelr own region: and Humanity would survive jong alter t ible would perish. ee ey sacred writings necessary for i our ereation, and likened the Bible to the scaifold- ing of a building, which was necessary to the erec- tion of the structure, but no longer useful when the symmetry of the edifice was complete, He believed that the way to study the Bible was not to learn its mere mechanical features—bow many words there were in the shortest verse, or how many words were employed in its writing. ‘This was all ious wasteiuiness, The sacred book was a col- jectien of writings written at different times and places, and ‘or different purposes, and the true student would study them to glean their spirit, and to determine their aim. Yet he advocate? a —_- knowledge of the history of the biblical wri a8 neeessary to @ proper understanding of their inter, Mow few people, even in Bibie- loving New Engiand, could descriminate between the writings of the sacred hist ng and those of the prophets, He urged his hearers to read good treatises on the Rible; to try and gather from it a comprehensive view of its united purposes and then to apply them to the vicissitudes of their daily ives. ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, Passion Sunday Commemorated in Pur- ple and Sunshine—Sermon by the Rev. Father McNamee on the Sufferings and Death of the God-Man—What He 8uf- fered—Why He Suffered—With What Results to Mankind. The morning of yesterday ushered in as cheerful and beautifula Sabbath as the softness of an early Spring could bestow. Sunshine glittered on the pathways of the righteous, and as it sparkled on the roof of every temple in our fair, extensive city, won many a reverent heart to the shrine of prayer, St.} Patrick’s Cathedral found its own devoted children—targe in number and cheerful in appear- ance—within its consecrated walls at the usual hour, The sanctuary presented a lovely and striking picture for the commemora- tion of Passion Sunday, The magnificent high altar, with its solid, massive cross of burnished gold, was hid in silken purple cloth, 80 were the side altars, statues, vases, pulpit and candelabra, Yet there was a neatness in every- thing which threw a peaceful brightness over the gloom of the decorative emblems of sorrow. The sunlight beaming throngh the stained windows rested upon every spot, until all that at first seemed indicative of mourning appeared to vanish in the depth of its cadence, The amass was a “Missa Cantata,” the music of which was rendered by the organist, a8 usual, in a faultless and pleas- ing manner. The Rey. Father Kearney acted as ooleprant, attended by the customary number of respectful and pretty-looking acolytes. THE SERMON, Alter the singing of the “Veni Creator” the Rev. Father McNamee proceeded to the pulpit to preach the sermon. After reading the Gospel—St. John vin., 46-59—which treated of Christ’s justification of His doctrine, he opened his discourse on the pas- sion of our Lord as follows:—‘The eventiul season. when our holy Charch commemorates the agonizing’ sufferings of the Son of God upon earth is now at hand. The devorative trappings of joy and glad- ness are put aside from our altars, and they are clothed instead in the purple garments of suffer- ing, ef sorrow and of sympathy. The beginning of that time which the Chureh devotes to the com- memoration of our Saviour’s passion is to-day known to all earnest Christians as Passion Sunday. ‘To-day, then, commences the season, above all others, of prayer and meditation, of patience, resignation and of returning gratitude and love in some manner for the wonderful compassion which Jesus evinced for men in ali the pain and agony He endured, The reverend preacher here, in words most elo- quently appealing to the sinuer’s heart, drew be- Jore the minds of all who listened to him a picture of Jesus enduring His passion, representing Him | weeping in agony and sweat in the Garden of Gethsemane; scourged at a pillar where he re- ceived 5,000 wounds ‘owned with an excruciat- ing crown of thorns; again bearing His heav: cross amid the taunts and mockeries of the multi- tude up the rugged heights of Calvary, and, lastly, dymmg ignominiously on its summit, where He pronounced with the last quivering ‘of His saered lips the consummation of His Father's de- signs, and proclaimed to the whole universe in the darkest moment of His grief His trinmph over sin and heli in the grand and saving victory of man’s redemption. Why did the Son of God suffer all this? Because His love for mankind was the love of a Creater for the creatare, of an Omntpotent for a helpless being, ‘The enormity of sin outraged the majesty of God to an infinite extent, and never could a sufficient atonement or propitiation be made by the offender to the offended, had not an Infinite Being assumed the fallen nature of man and offered up Bis blood and His life in satisfaction for our transgressions against the majesty of His Eternai Father. Hence it was that Jesus came upon earth, made His life a living and continual sacrifice and offered Himself up, in the vated of His love, like an innocent lamb, for the good of His people, which was to nourish them for ever and be to them a source of eternal life. The happy, inestimable results accruing to mar- kind from the passion and death of the Son of God will be discovered by a serious meditation on this unparalleled mournful tragedy. In contemplating it you will behold before your mind a victim of your ingratitude, whose spirit is radiant with the hght of every virtue, of unequalled charity, of undis- turbed peace, of the most enduring patience, of the calmest resignation, of the most supreme faith, never-varying hope and boundless love. These are the bright, shining lights which are to be seen in the iabors, the lite, the sufferings and the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, The reverend Father con- cluded, while tears flowed from the eyes of many in his congregation, by exhorting all to study and imitate the life of their Redeemer as near as possi- he and thereby merit the blessings of His king- om. CHRIST CHURCH. Christ’s Wounds—Sermon by the Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson. There was a numerous congregation at Christ church, Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, yes- terday atternoon. ‘The afternoon services in Christ church derive a peculiar interest from the fact that they are free to all who choose to come. The poor and the rich, all are equally welcome. The Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson took his text from Zecha- Tiah Xiii., 6@—“And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” The prophet stood on the mount of vision, he said, and he did not know, half the time, the precise meaning of his visions. The hand of God was upon him. Now he could see clearly, and then darkness gathered as his sight was clouded, In all cases there was one vision that closed the scene, The coming man, the Christ that was to be, was the closing object. All the prophets saw him in various characters, Some- times He was the captain of the hosts of the Lord, the splendor of heaven flashing out befere Him; sometimes He was tI KING ENTHRONED IN STATE, to whom all nations bowed, and sometimes, as here inp Zechariah, He was the man of sorrow, bound and urged, and suffering the tortures of the cross. But the aneinted Christ was always the closing Vision, As God lifted the clouds from Him, Zechariah saw this vision. It was no longer the strong Captain of God's hosts, but before him stood a suflering, bleeding, wounded Christ. “What are these wounds in thine hands?’ he asked, He saw the crucified Redeemer, and the answer came pitiful and mournful, “Wounded in the house of my friends.’ No man was surprised to be weunded in the house of his enemies. But, wounded in the house of his friqnds! What did that mean’ The men in the loyal house of Judah and David. He came to them. By direct descent He was thetr rightiu! King. He came te His own and His own received Him not. They rejected Him. That the Romans should have rejected Him, that the Gentiles should have turned from Him was hot strange; but the men who cried “Let Him be crucified” were His own kindred and His own flesh. ‘The ship had gone down in the tempest and only one was saved. He floats on a plank and the waves drift him NEARER AND NEARER TO THE SHORR. noped to be saved though the land be inhabited Vages—though they weuld speak a tongue that he would net be able to understand, should slavery and death await himin store? Such things were possibie, at the least. But if this land be his own land, if these mountains were remembered by him from the days of his childhood, and if he should find there ill-treatment and cruelty, alas! would it not have been far better if he had perished in the deep? Abroad and irom strangers they could expect such treatment, but falsehood, treachery, inside the sacred circle of home—how could we have strength of mind to bear that? HoW could a man fear the treachery and deception of the wife of his bosem’ And yet to the Lord Christ this hap- pened. it was His ewn who wronged Him, who wrang the heartstrings of the Son of God. The wounds were there still, and this eternal, wounded God was wounded, and still men asked—“What are these wounds?” ‘The same eternal answer ECROED THROUGH THE HEAVENS, “In the house of my triends.”’ The crucifixion was not the lesson of an hour. Christ was crucified from the beginning and crucified to the end. The wounds were received in His world and at the hands ef these whom He came to save in the broadest sense of the term, The men of Christian lands to whom Christ gave the sove- reignty of the world, the 400,000,000 who held the destinies of the human race in their hands could make the worid Christian from end to end. energy that was concentrated and used in twenty- four hours in the United States could conquer Africa and make it Christian trom end to end. ‘They could say that they, the Onristian people, were His own, and these wounds were given by them. After founding all their missions, It was a sad fact that one ship could go to Africa irom some Christian vor and do mere ey) thag ai) their mig sionaries could ever ando. With one hand they served God and with the other they made the Wings of commerce demons? wings. No man could wound Him AB CHRISTIAN PEOPLE COULD; and there were men in Christian lands who, by their unfaithiumess, by their shortcemings, in- feted wounds on their Christ every day. Did they notice that He still spoke of the wounds of “His iriends?” So awful and unspeakable was God’s love that ey still remained iriends, .He did not leny them, It was something that belonged to the land of God, and that they could translate into no earthly language—‘“still friends!” Oh, af it could omy come to them to cleanse th drops, to bathe the feet with tears and try to save the anguish and agony of their Lord! May God save them from wounding evermore their Lord and Redeemer, OHURCH OF THE MESSIAE, “How to Deal with Crime”—Sermon by the Rev. Henry Powers. The Chureh of the Messiah, Fourth avenue and ‘Thirty-fourth street, was crowded yesterday morn- ing with an earnest and deveut congregation, who had gathered to listen to a sermon by the pastor, the Rev. Renry Powers, on the subject “How to Deal with Crime.” The text announced was Romans xiil. 10, in part—“Love is the fulfilling of the law.” Accepting this doctrine of the apostle as announced here in respect to the nature, the purpose and the limitation of law as without doubt the true one, let us consider, said the rev- erend gentleman, whether it throws any light for us ‘upon that most diMicult and most painful question— the proper treatment of the dangerous classes, Today we find ourselves confronted with the saddening truth that somehow this precious faith of ours is failing to reach a very large clase of our fellow citizens to such an extent as to make them intelligent and virtuous and happy. Here in New York there are thousands on thousands of persons who have no fixed abiding place, who fit from attic to attic and cellar to cellar; there are thousands more who make crime, in some form or other, the business of their lives, and other tens of thousands there are who swarm in tenement houses, and are poor, hard pressed and dependent for daily bread on their small, uncertain earnings, and should misiortune come are suddenly com- pelled to beg or steal er to starve. And mean- time they behold the glittering display of wealth and luxury all about them and cannot tell why they should not have a share of its com- forts. “Among these many thousands there are 30,000 homeless children, 60,000 persons above ten years of age who cannot write their names, and in our City prisons last year there were not far irom fifty thousand inmates. Facts like these will give us but a faint idea of that mass of IGNORANCE AND CORRUPTION in our midst which is chiefly the cause of the many deeds of violence and blood that are constantly occurring, and which, whenever we think ef them, make the cheek to pale or crimson with alternate fear and shame. But what, the while, are our courts of justice doing to help us in the emergency? Possibly the best they can in the circumstances, encumbered as they are with a system which is not adapted in many respects to the age in which we live, and hampered also by the apathy of the people or provoked to spasmodic action by the capricious and blind zeal of pubiic opinion. The forms of law are too complex and too involved ; making technical distinctions oftentimes where real ones do not exist; permitting efforts at delay, throngh money or influence, to the deleat of justice, and suffering the poor and unfriended to go out of court or stay there if they preier, with no redress for their wrongs. Witnesses are incar- cerated as criminals, party politics influence ap- pointments and decisions, judges are elected by the local popular vote, and are, therefore, de- pendent on it, and, as in the case of the Tombs prison, there is a conflict of interest oftentimes be- tween the city and county autherities. Altogether the methods of procedure in our courts are better adapted to the wants of a primitive civilization ina small inland town than they are to the exigencies of a metropolitan capitab like And 80, again, with regard to trial by jury, there are the same anachronisms. The system which suited ola times is very poorly adapted to the demands of justice now. For to-day the question usually submitted to a jury is a'very complicated one, Involving many issues; there are points of law as well as of fact, and motives are to be discussed, a multitude ot considerations to be taken into account which then had no existence, and with regard to all of which it is impossible that twelve men should agree in judgment; and, besides, men are now “going to and froin the earth and knowledge is increased,” so that the restriction in respect to previous acquaintance with the circumstances of an occur- rence has become absurd, for under its workings no one can sit as a juryman except he be A FOOL OR A KNAVE. Now, these and such like anomalies must be in some way arrested or trial by jury will soon cease to be what once it was proudly termed—“the palladium ot! our liberties.” And so, again, the penalties which the law attaches to crimes need overhauling 2 many cases. Dr. Powers then argued in regard to the death penalty, treat- ing the question at great length and arriving at the conclusion that it was unnecessary, and, con- tinuing, said that, although society here on the earth may not yet have virtue enough or moral and spiritual power enough to take care of its own wicked, it is a shameful confession of weakness, pusillanimity and bankruptcy in moral and spiritual force, for the ap- Pliances of religion, education and _ philan- thropy, especially among the children of neglect, poverty, ignorance and sensuality should, be such as to render the death penalty unnecessary, Dr, Powers then glanced at the fruitiul sources of crime, saying that, in looking over the reports of prison associations, of 7,000 criminals in State prisons and penitentiaries ofthe Unijed States in the year 1868, 23 per cent could not read when they were convicted, 98 per cent had never learned @ trade, 28 per cent were of foreign birth (over 60 per cent were in New York and Boston), 22 per cent were under age and 3%5 per cent were insane and feeple minded. And ignorance, idleness, home- lessness, AE page BO licentiousness and drunken- ness were the sources of at least 90 per cent of all crime, and helplessness in some form describes the great majority of these causes, as they are negative and preventable. A description of the process by which THE AVERAGE CRIMINAL is made was then eloquently given by Dr. Powers, when the question of “What can be done by society to lessen crime and to save men from be- coming and continuing to be criminals?’ was asked, The laws we have must be eniorced, All of us should discharge our duties as citizens. Do our duty as jurymen when called upon. If a jarge percentage of crime is the result of depriva- tion then let this be remedied. Unpack our tene- Inent houses. Give us rapid transit and means to scatter this vast population into the ceuntry, anda that will lessen one-half the crime of the city. Give light to the minds of these people. Compulsory education is the word, and let, the State see that such laws, when made, are carried out. Reform our penal system, and let the penalties for crime in early youth be such as will allow of reformation. Keep criminals in the hands of the law until they can be returned to society proper men; and if such retormation ¢: not be made let them die there; and then everv man and woman, every boy and girl, will be able to walk the streets of our city with the feeling that their lives are not at the disposal of others, STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, An Earnest Plea that Church Differences May Be Healed—Ged’s Presence Must Give Futare Success. Some twenty or more years ago the Presbyterian chureh which now stands in Forty-second street, between Seventh and Elghth avenues, stood on the northwest corner of the same street and Eighth avenue. The building up of the avenue made the location inconvenient for church purposes, The trustees, therefore, bought a couple of lots where the church edifice now stands, and with seme pe- cuniary aid from Mr. James Lennox erected their present building. Mr. Lennox lent his money ($28,000) without interest, but in leu thereof he asked and obtained the title deeds to the property, which he still holds, Inasmuch as in another year, by legal limitation, the property will revert to the society now worshipping in the church, Mr. Lennox seeks a settlement, and is Willing, it is said, to donate $8,000 of the $28,000 due him by the society. Two years ago the Rev. W. W. Newell, Jr., was installed pastor of this church, but he has hardly the ability te hold his own against the many more eloquent preachers of his own and other denominations around him, Hence have his CONGREGATIONS GRADUALLY DIMINISHED, and the receipts have also in consequence measur- ably fallen off. This has led the trustees, to whom the financial concerns of the church belong, to seek a dissolution of the pastoral relation of Mr. Newell with them. The Church Session, to whom ite spiritual affairs attach, favored Mr. Newell, and hence a disagreement arose between the two sets of church Officers, And in this state of thimgs an appeal was taken to the New York Presbytery, which body has decided in favor of the Session and the pastor and against the tras- tees. The consequence is that seven of the latter, together with a number of the church members, have withdrawn, Yesterday there was a fair though not a large congregation present. Mr. Newell before his sermon referred to t church troubles briefy. He said he sought to go quietly from them, and had not only applied to the Presbytery, but had also requested the committee to report favorably on a dissolution of his relations with the chureh, But they had de- cided otherwise, and now that he had come back to them it Was net to talk, but to werk, and he hoped it would be tor the glory of God. He had Jearned lessons during these few weeks past which be hoped he would never forget, He be- Neved Gow had sent bw vagk pgp to whem, FORTY-SECOND MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1873,—TRIPLE SHEET, for, mdeed, he sought to leave them. The Presby- er had algo sent lim back, and it seemed to him GOD HAD FRUSTRATED HIS K¥FORTS for & separation. Must they not, he asked, see Go1’s hand in it, and therefore accept the inevita- ble? He therefore came back to them with joy, and he hoped the Lord would bless them and that pas- tor and people would work together for the com- mon weal and for the spread of Christ’s kingdom and glory. OHUROH OF 8T. PAUL THE APOSTLE. The True Faith and Where It Is to Be Found—Eloquent Sermon by the Rev. Father Elliot, ‘The above-named edifice was crowded yesterday during high mass, the aisles being thronged by Persons unable to obtain seats. The statues and pictures were gnveloped in purple and the left altar was gorgeously decorated, At the appropri- ate hour Father Elliot ascended the pulpit, when a death-like silence spread softly over the multitude. * The reverend gentleman, who held his hearers spell-bound for an hour, is comparatively young, butin the pulpit presents an imposing appear- ance. Standing erect, and penetrating every nook of the edifice with powerful, sonorous accents, when he flings his hands and eyes towards heaven he forcibly reminds. one of Father Burke, whom he equals in earnestness and férvor of dic- tion, and whom he may yet rival by more patient measurement of his sentences and an infusion Of still more energy into his werds, He, more- over, is endowed with the faculty of happily pass- ing du plaisant au severe—sometimes moving his listeners to laughter and other times wresting a sigh or atear. He took his text yesterday from St. John’s First Epistle, v., 4—‘For this is the victory which overcometh the world—our faith.” In order that one may receive THE GIFT OF DIVINE FAITH he must yearn for the truth, Truth itself is the Supreme Being, but truth as itis known to man consists of a body of rules and doctrines. Of these every man knows a@ certain amount—nat- ural truths. But there exists another body of truth which it behooves men to seck and know— revealed truth. Nething is more certain than that Jesus Christ came on earth and revealed certain truths to men, How can we be possessed of this revelation? The Protestant says, “On, itis ali written in this book” (the Bible), Unfortunately the Bible did not exist or the early Christians, and none of them believed it to be the exclusive means of attaining truth. Calvin, Luther, Zwingle and others sought for truth in the Bible alone, and each imagined he had found it—so much go that he vitu- perated all the others. The process of finding truth in the Bible has gone on until our own day, when the number of contending sects is incredible. ‘Truth cannot exist in all—it can be found only in one church, for truth is one and consistent. ‘The only maxim now cherished by all those dissenting sects is that it is not necessary to know the truth, ‘The new method of seeking it has failed, and there- fore we must have recourse to the old and sure method. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PRESERVES THE TRUTH asa deposit for men, in virtue of the powers con- ierred upon her by Christ when He said, All power is given to me in heaven and on earth; go, preach the Gospel to every creature. Her authority is expressed in the words of Jesus, “He that hears you, hears me.”? Her truth is expressed in the language of the great Apostle Paul—The church of God is the pillar and ground of trach.” Hence it is that for nineteen centuries she has pre- served that long, unwavering march in the way of truth, and all outside her were in the shadow of darkness. Men’s opinions in other matters may change, but touching true faith the opinions of Catholics never can change. How should Catholics act towards these who do not possess those divine truths ? Two classes of such per The first comprises those who wish Cathol! no good; the second, those who Wish them noe ‘The first incessantly sound THE HORN OF TOLERATION and fellowship, &c., as the Indian savages were wont to sound the horn outside the gates of the American settlers, in order to enter their houses and destroy them. The second class we should treat with the greatest consideration. We should lend them good books on Catholic rine and pray for them. It often depends on our feeble efforts to complete the working ot God's grace in their souls, in regard to his own con- science the Catholic should be preud—not haughty, as one chosen on account of his own merits, but as one chosen by God to membership of the true fold. He should glory in nothing so much as in being a Catholic, and should never be, ashamed to make the sign of the cross or to reject meat on a Friday. Let men and women form religious societies and offer the first fruits of their labors to the Church, for God gave them all they have. It is saddening to know that SINS AGAINST FAITH exist. Parents, when they give bad example to their children, tend to destroy their faith. Super- stitions persons who consult fortune tellers sin against it, forit is not to wretched women that God imparts a knowledge of the future. Men who speak loosely about their faith and join secret societies, such as the Freemasons’ and the Odd Fellows’, cammit grievous crimes against it. The very oath of the Masons is suficient to condemn them, The oath prescribes that prnesvee: shall re- veal the secret things of Freemasonry shall have his heart cut out; he shall then be quartered and buried on the shore of the sea.” In this the Free Masons assume the power of life and death, which God has not given to private societies and individuals. The greatest crime against holy faith 1s apostasy. Thank God it is ttle known, for our Catholic people have suffered too much to apostatize. Nevertheless many persons are tem- poral, Jed oleae OE the expectation of returning o the true way. This is simply bidding farewell to God for a time, How do such sinners know that God will not in like manner turn his back on them? The speaker concluded his brilliant discourse by eulogizing charity and exhorting all to return love to God for His infinite love towards men, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. The Scriptures Exhorting to a Fall and Free Use of Reason—Protestant Spirit Nearer the Truth than Roman—Sermon by Mr. Beecher. Mr. Beecher announced yesterday morning that the organ concerts at Plymouth church would be resumed next Saturday. Mr. Beecher’s sermon was on “The Use and Cultivation of the Human Reason.’ His text was Hebrews v., 12 to 14 in- clusive—“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righte- ousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat be- longeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised vo discern both good and evil.” This is a chiding for want of intelligence, a reproach forthe in-* dolent use er disuse of reason in the province of duty. The sacred Scriptures stand almost alone asa BOOK OF DIRECTIONS in exhorting to a full and free use of reason. From beginning to end it takes it for granted that men } are reasouable creatures and are best managed by appeals to the reasoning faculties. It addresses reason primarily. It challenges men to examine all divine commands by feason. Come, let us rea- son together, saith the Lord. It may be said that the word of God is constituted on that principle of inciting men to the use of their faculties, On the other hand, duiness, stupidity, indifference, simplicity and ignorance are made criminal. In Bo instance is there en- joined a deie gation of thinking for us, nor is there anywhere stated that God reposed in anylody the truths, from whom we are to take them unques- tioning; not from God himself are we te take things so, The word of God is a grand encourager of the use of the faculties, Itis made the duty of each individual to judge, te choose, to find out for himself, Not that the presumption that men who confine themselves to one thing are better qualified to judge ef that thing than of ethers is wrong; but it 18 the duty of every man to search, to judge, to weigh for himself. ‘The Word of God is net a tyrant; it implies no restraint. The Provestant spirit is nearer S« 4 ture than the Roman, and yet Protestant sptrit in its extreme is not right, and the Roman, if literally construed, is not without SOME ELEMENT OF TRUTH, if it were merely a philosophic tenet, and not part ofatraining system. Reason is not infallible any more than the Pope. In many instances the lo- man tendency and the free-thinking tendency, standing at opposite extremes, are alike in error. Men thousands and thousands of times are obliged todo things which they scoif at in hierarchy.. Do men do all the thinking for themselves’ It is not for me wd through the world in search of gee- | graphical facts; it is enough for me to take them as facts, It is not for me to test the truth of all the ae, facts. In short, there is no man who no} PINNING HIS FAITH { on seme man for knowledge—doing just what we | condemn in the Romans, There is no sphere in life but in which a man stands in the centre of rays Jeading out in every direction. if men de- pended on themselves alone for knowledge they would not find out half a dozen facts in a lifetime. Itis indispensable that men should think for them- | seives; but, on the other hand, men cannot always think Jor themselves; there is a constant inter- changing of knowledge. : There is more than one kind of reason. The lower or perceptible reasom is the right of facts, which takes cognizance of external things—as form, ceior, We possess this in common with the lower creations, and not always in such ® marked degree, The eawe cam see w times thousand better than we, but no animal has se high average of the senges as man. Butif any man Sup; 8 that there is cer- tainty in his pecsepdien he ia mistaken, Men say, don't you believe your own eyes? Certainly we have nothing #0 reliable as the evidence of our senses, but are they instruments so pertect that they can always be reliedony No, Men think they see with accuracy, but science shows that not one observation, nor twenty are enough to substan tiate a fact. The same is true in respect to all five senses. Every schoolboy knows that the senses have to be train They are true enough for ordinary use, but they are fallible, That is what makes 30 MANY SCRPTICS. In looking into any given thing closely they see how fallible they are themselves and how fallibie are others, To go higher, to the reflective reason, all truths are subjective—refiective reason recog- nizes the relations of things—philosophy, meta- physics. But hae it proved to be such @ sale ground jor trust? For hundreds and hundreds of years philosophers have been trying Loy that each peeeee ing generation was false. partakes of the fallibility of human nature. Reason thus far deals chiefly with the mind. The :eatest realm of natare is man himself. We come into the knowledge of truth, of fact and matter by our senses, but there is an invisible sphere in which feelings, emotions and thot well, There is no sense of the autiful in the lower animais; there are men, intelligent men, who have no sense of the beautiful; they do not reeive it, What isthe matter? It isso with the uman mind. Intellect, as looking at things and with no emotion, how bare! But let.in some emo- tion and everything is colered and beautiful. Now im this realm what degree of certainty is there ? ‘Those institutions which are against nature are More apt to be true, 1tis more natural for a man to work towards the animal than towards the spiritual witheut training and practice. All nobler qualities ef men are reached through an imperfect medium. Experience shows that truths handed down from one generation to another are no truer thar those thought out by individuals, No two persons ever agree, ever think alike, see alike, or ever will. When, therefore, bodies of men attempt to force their conclusions on men, we are not to take them. ‘There is NOTHING INFALLIBLE BUT GOD, He is hid. It is arrogance te suppose that the truths of Christianity are wrong vecause they re- fuse vo subject themselves to lower understand- ings. Higher reasen is unjudged by lower, though lower ts judged. ‘To go slowly is not unwise: it is @ slow process, We cannot reach the higher forms of truth without studying specially. You who are vain, untrained; you, all unapparelled, that em- brace eternity, the whole ecenomy of life—an: man who rushes into these things is a fool, wit! my compliments. You have got to take things as truths, got to believe, got to take things that have been laid down by generations before you. Follow them; be willing to TAKE NEW LIGHT; but until you are sure of the new hold on to the ola, Nothing is so bad as vacuity. Seest thoua man wis¢ in his own conceit: there is more hope ofa fool than of him, Prove all things, but until you have done it hold fast to the good, TOMPKINS AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sermon by Dr. Clarke on the Soul's In- delible Record of Sin—Life and Its Self-Accusation, or the Judgment Day That Is Within Us. Dr, Clarke preached yesterday morning to a congregation that was somewhat diminished in numbers from the ordinary attendance, conse- quent, it was said, on the presence of the equinoc- tial gale and the unwillingness of many of the | regular attendants to brave the storm of wind. ‘The text selected was the sixth chapter of the | prophecy of Micah and the sixth and seventh | verses—*Wherewith shall I come before the Lora and bow myself before the high God? Shali Leome | before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a | year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thou- sands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of ou? Shall I give my first born for my transgres- sions, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?’ The preacher said that his subject would be “Accountability, or Self-Accusation, or the Judg- ment Day that Was Within Us.” A brief reference to the mission of the prophet when these words were spoken led the way to the main thought of the discourse, which was that th al made its own record of conviction and-of accusation against itself, and that when any one turned his mind in- ward, and cast up, as it were, the debtor and creditor coluinns ot his life, he stood convinced of his moral and spiritual bankruptcy. There were manitest evidences of these monitions of con- nee, awakened and oped as they were by | consciousness, They were as deeply engraven in the nature of man as the water-marks, the lines, and the eagle were woven in the paper you pur- chased at the stationer’s, The sun could not lade those water-marks out; they were ingrained art of the fabric of the manulacture, that nothing but positive destruction could destroy. These monitions of the conscience might lie dormant— there was a slumbering security in which the con- science did not show itself; bul, like the fable as to Mount Etna, where it was said that at the base of the mount slept a giant who, when he awoke, turned himself over, and thus caused the periodi- cal vomiting forth from the volcano that destroyed cities, so there came times in the history of the soul when this slumber of itself was aroused and it woke up to the reality of its own possible destruc- tion and ultimate eternal misery. Outside the Word of God there was analogy for this in the latent powers of nature, as shown in electricity and in phosphorus. How many, too, were the illustra. tions of this in the gospel of human nature! Adam apd Eve had revealed unto them their nakedness before God when the soul had asserted itself in the remorse of sin; King David, when he heard the story of the ewe lamb, and the dread saying, ‘Thou art the man !”? that inspired that wondrous fifty-first psalm. It was not needful, however, to wait for the Nemesis of some great crime to awake this latent action of of the soul. Dr, Johnson, who had written so bountifully of virtue and whose life was distinguished for its morality, desired when he was dying that a clergyman shouid be sent for, ‘a plain, man,” of in odl, Lamb Lamb who could point him’ to the God. To the efficacy of that the salvation of his soul he . Thos we were all our life long Weaving for ourselves a revelation that should confront us—making for ourselves a judg- ment day, We might think that we could, as the counterfeiter thought he could bury his counterteit, plate in the depths of the ocean—think that we could bury deep ourselves, these accusers, so that they would never rise again. It was a delusion; there was always some oysterman who would, some day or another, fish up from the depths of the ocean the proofs of our deeply buried guilt. That which could effectually wash away the remem- brance of our guilt was our belief in God and our Joving trust and reverence for Him; living always joytully, faithfully and earnestly, because we were faded in the sight of Him who was our eternal Iriend, anal MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. SoMME! AMMER.—On Wednesday, March 26, 1873, at St. Paul's Luthern church, by the Rev. F. A. Geissenhainer, Louis SOMMER to CAROLINA W., Flammer, both of this ¢ N’ On Thursday, March 20, by Rev. William P. Corpit, assisted by Rev. John D. Blain, Mr. ConNELIUS WALSH to MIRIAM CORNWELL, daughter of the late Kichard Cornwell, of this city. Died. B On Saturday, March 29, 1873, CaTHa- | RIN! daughtér of Wiliam Bennett, printer, years and 9 days. ‘The iriends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, (rom her parents’ resid ast Fifty-ninth street, this (Monday) for , at eleven o'clock, BERRIAN.—On Sunday morning, March 30, Joun T., youngest son of John and Anna L. Berrian and grandson of the late Henry Miller, of New Yor! city, in the 16th year of his age. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral service, at the residence of his parents, Fordham, Westchester county, on Wednesday, April 2, at two o'clock P. M. ‘The remains will be taken to Woodlawn Cemetery for interment. Train leaves Grand Central Depot for Fordham at one o'clock ¥. M. Boyp.—On Friday evening, March 28, AGNRS eee widow of William Boyd, in the 79th year of er age. Her iriends and those of her sons, Peter and John rar, are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 28 West ‘Twenty-sixth street, on Tuesday, Aprii i, at ven e’elock A, M. BURRANK.—At Castieton Corners, Staten Island, on Friday, March 28, 1873, JOHN A, Burwanx, in the | 26th year of his age. | Relatives and triends are invited to attend the | funeral, at the house, Castleton Corners, on Mon- day, March 31, at one o'clock P. M. Carriages will be in waiting at Port Richmond landing to meet the 11:15 boat from pier 19 North River, between Cortlandt and Dey streets, CALDWELL.—On Saturday, March 20, Saran S., wife of James W. Caldwell, aged 33 years. Relatives and friends are respectiully invited to attend the faneral, on Tuesday, April 1, at ten o'clock A. M., from her late residence, 109 West Forty-seventh street. | CARROLL.—In Hoboken, March 28, after a short and severe iliness, EDWARD CARROLL, son of Officer Carron, in the 18th year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends are respectfully invited | toattend the funeral from his late residence, 180 poi i street, on Monday afternoon at three o’cloek, wsipyY.—On Sunday, March 30, 1876, Eniza CAssipy, aged 59 years, widow of Denis Cassidy, and daughter of John and Catherime Wisely, of | Granard, county Longford, Treand. | The rejatives and friends of the family are re- | spectiully invited to attend the iuneral, on Tues. | day, April, at half-past one kK P.M, from | her late residence, 118 Christopher street, New ‘ork. Longford and Albany papers please copy. COLEMAN.—Al the residence of his parents, 501 Grand street, Williamsburg, on Sunday, Mareh 30, 1873, JAMES A. COLEMAN, Of pneumonia, in 20th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereaster. Cunn.—Iu Brookiva, oD Saturday. March 29, the | leave Grand Central 1873, BENNETT CurniEg, eldest son of the late Jameq Currie, in the 3ist year ot his age, The relatives and friends of the family, also mem¢ bers of Stella Lodge, 485, F, and A. M., are respec! faily invited to attend the funeral, from St. Luke’ chureh, Clinton avenue, near Fulton avenue, 0 Wednesday, April 2, 1873, at one o’clock P. M, DwicHT.—. the family residence, in Stock« bridge, Mass., on Saturday, March 29, CHARLOTTE, wite of Colonel James F. Dwight. Epry.—At sea, on Saturday, March 8, JouaS., wife of Charles ©, Edey, and’ eldest daughter of William L. Schenck. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are invit to attend the funeral, on Monday, March 31, a half-past four o’clock P. M., from the residence ¢ her father, 323 Fiitn avenue. EpoeworTH.—In Brooklyn, on Saturday, Marclf 20, CATHARINE EDGEWORTH, aged 63 years. t ‘the relatives and fiends of the family are re~ Spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her son-in-law, Michael J. Naddy, om Tuesday morning, at nine ‘o'clock. The rei Will be taken to St. Patrick’s church, Kent avenue, corner of Willoughby street, where a solemn of requiem will be offered’ for the repose of het me ( from thence to Calvary Cemetery for inter EGa@Ls0,—On Saturday morning, March 29, 187 ANN C., wife of George W. Eegleso” : The relatives and friends are invited to attend i the funeral, from her late residence, 71 West fourth street, on Tuesday Morning, April 1, at hi past nine o'clock, from thence to St. Francis Xaq vier’s church, West Sixteenth street, near Fift! avenue, where a requiem mass Will be offered at half-past ten o'clock. FAGAN.—On Saturday, March 29, Mary C,, relicf of William Fagan and Sanger of Mary and the late Peter McLaughlin, of this city, fed 40 years. The funeral will take place to-da, enday), tha 31st, from St. Joseph's Home, West enth street, near Seventh avenue, at ten o’clock A.M. The re« mains will be taken to the Church of St. Francis Xavier, West Sixteenth street, and thence to Cak vary Cemetery. FAvRE.—At Havana, on Saturday, March 159 Orro FAVRE, aged 32. The relatives and friends, and those of his unel Frederick Schuchardt, are respectfully Mmvited attend the funeral, m St. Mark’s church, om Tuesday, April 1, at half-past nine A. M. GRAHAM.—On Friday, March 28, EQLizaBi widow of James Graham, in the 70th year of he! age. Friends of the family are invited to attend tha funeral, from her late residence, 405 West Twenty- eighth street, on Monday, March 31, at one o'clock GRANT.—O! pneumonia, after a short, but several illness, in Brooklyn, en Saturday, March 29, 1873q ANN Grant, wife of John Grant, aan 56 years. The relatives and friends of the family are spectfally invited to attend the funeral, from he! late residence, 84 Henry street, on Tuesday mo! ing, at nine o’clock precisely. From thence remains will be taken to the Church of the Asq sumption, corner of York and Jay streets, where a solemn requiem mass will be said for the repo: of her soul; thence they will be conveyed to th Gemietery of the Holy Cross, at Flatbush, for inter+ men: GRREN.—At Jacksonville, Fa.,on Sunday, March 23, 1873, JOHN P. GRREN, in the 26th year of nis ages The relatives and friends of tne family are re< pectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the Presbyterian church, Astoria, Long Island City, om ‘Tuesday, April 1, at two o'clock P. M. Boats leave Peck slip at_ twelve M. and one o'clock P. M. Tha remains will be interred at Cypress Hills, GREGORY.—At Denver, Col., on Sunday, March 23, of disease of the heart, PRANK GREGORY, eldest soul of the late James G. Gregory, of this city. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, on Tuesday morning, April 1, at half-past ten o'clock, from the residence ot hig grandfather, Daniel Morgan, 58 West Twenty-seca ond street. Havanworr.—On Saturday morning, March 29, as wife of the late P. N. Haughwout, of Staten island. ‘The funeral services will be held on Monday, thi 31st March, at ten o’clock A. M,, at the residence of her son, FE. V. Haughwout, Madison, N,J. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited. Train leaves from foot of Parclay street at 7:15 M, Carriages will be waiting at Madison on arriv: of train, HERRIMAN.—At Yonkers, on the Hudson, on Satur day. March 29, Mrs. Many ANN HERRIMAN, wife of the late John Herriman, in the 78d_ year of her age, Funeral services at the house of her son-in-law, Charles T. GriMth, at three o'clock. Carriages will be in waiting at the depot to meet the two o'clock, train from Forty-second street. Trains returning, at five and six o'clock. HoweE.1.—On Sunday, March 30, 1873, PAMELIAy daughter of Charles C. and Pamelia Howell, of As« toria, Long Island City, in the 28h year of her age. Funeral from the Church of the Redeemer, As- toria, Tuesday, April 1, at two o'clock. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited. Utica and Long Island papers please copy. KELLY.=At his residence, 21 Irving place, om Sunday, March 30, at one o'clock A. M., WALTER KELLY, aged 29 years, Funeral services at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Sixteenth street, near Sixth avenue, om Wednesday, April 2, at half-past ten A. M. KERRIGAN.—On Sunday, March 30, 1873, CHARLES KERRIGAN, aged 88 years, 2 native of Manorhamile ton, county Leitrim, Ireland. May his soni rest in peace. Amen. The relatives and friends of the family, and those of sons-in-law, Hugh Murray and Luke Cavanagh, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, frond his late residence, 122 Worth street, on T” “day, April 1, at one o’clock P. M. we Lawson.—At New Orleans, on Monday, March 24, ELZaBeTH 8. BEacH, relict of Homer P. Beach, Esq., of New Yerk, and wife of C, T, Lawson, Esq., of New Orleans, aged 43 years. LYNAnAN.—On Saturday, March 29, PATRICK eee native of Ballynaquila, county Cork, Ire« and. Funeral will take place on Monday, March 31, at twelve o'clock, from his late residence, 331 East Thirty-second street. Lyon.—At Springfield, N. J., on Saturday, Marcle 29, MonmouTH Lyon, of Rye, N. in his 82d year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend hig funeral, from St. Thomas’ church, Mai N. Y., Tuesday, April 1, at one will meet the half-past eleven train. Mack.—On Saturday, March 29, Mrs. Mary Macg, in the 63d year of her age. Relatives and {riends of deceased are respecte fully invited to attend her funeral, from her latel residence, 357 West Thirty-sixth street, on Mon~ day, March 31, at one o'clock P. M. MookE.—Of pneumonia, after a short illness, om Sunday, March 30, SamveL ©. Moors, son of the late Samuel W. Moore, M. D. Notice o! faneral hereafter. Mccormick.—On Saturday, March 29, at her lata residence, 42 Gouverneur street, in her 61st year, Eniza Fawcerr, wife of William McCormick. ‘The remains will be taken to St. Teresa's church, Monday morning, at hali-past nine o'clock, whera a@ solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated. Thet friends and relatives of the family are respectfully invited to attend. The body will be interred im Calvary Cemetery: McELVAIN.—At Madison, N. J., on Friday, March. 28, ELIZAMCELVAIN, aged 70 years. ‘The refflives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, on Monday, 3ist inst., from the resi< dence of her son-in-law, George O. Mulford, Madi- A son, N. J. Trains leave New York at nine, elevers and twelve o'clock. O'KEEFE —On Saturday, March 26, ANN, wife off David O'Keeffe, native of Cionnel, Ireland. ‘The relativesand friends of the family are rea spectinily invited to attend the funeral, at two Ps M., on Monday, from her late residence, 80 Mule berry street. PARpow.—On Sunday, March 30, Katr, wife of Robert Pardow, Jr., and daughter of the late An- drew Carrigan. Notice of tuneral hereafter. Pascor.—On Saturday, March 29, 1873, NicHoLad oe PASCOR, aged 62 years, 11 months and @ days. ‘Tne funeral will take place on Monday afternoon, at two o'clock, from 233 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ‘The friends of the family are requested to attend without farther notice. PEARSALL.—On Sunday, March 30, RICHARD PRAR- SALL, aged 56 years, 11 months and 15 days. The relatives and friends of the family are re- eectialy invited to attend the funeral services, om ‘Tuesday , at eight o'clock, irom bis late residence, 380 Third avenue. SANFoRD.—In this city, on Friday, March 28, C. SANFORD, aged 73 years. ‘emains will be taken to Fairfield, Conn, March 31, for interment, Scarr.—In Brooklyn, Sunday, March 30, after a@ long and painful illness, Mary, beloved wile of Joseph Scat, aged 65 years. The relatives and friends of the family are re~ spectfully invited to art the tuneral from her late residence, 727 Myrtie avenue, on Tuesday, April i, at 2 P. M. 30, 1973, after a dried iliness, Mrs. CHARLOTTE ELIPHAL Smit, the be« loved wite of E. Delafield Smith, of New York, andl iter of Rev. Gilbert Mergan, of South Caro« ' Friends are respectfully invited to attend tha funeral, at the residence, 14 East Fortieth street, between Madison and Fifth avenu Tuesday, April 1, at four o'clock P.M, without further notice. Srewart.—On Friday, March 28, JONATHAN Be SrkWaRT, aged 20 years and 5 months, The relatives and {friends are invited to atte $e ei th Me oa residence Ci his uncle, vest Kighteenth street, on Tuesday two o'clock P. M. " a ee Srorms.—Om Saturday, March 29, at Modena, Ny Y., WiLtJam P. STORMS, formeriy of this city, ‘The funeral will take place at the Reformed a Unionville, Westchester county, on April 2, at half-past ten A. M, aing Hepot at 8:25 A. M. UNDERHILL.—On first day, third month, 30th, of apople. at the residence of his late brother, Bailey Underhill, WILLIAM P, UNDERAILL, aged 36 years. wuanee “ reaper Inzited to attend the ineral, at Amewalk Meeting Mouse, Yorktown, third day, at twelve o'clock M. sar WaLs#.—Suddenly, on Satarday, March MICHAEL WALSH, aged 68 years, a native of tumna patish, Cyd Galway, Ireland. Friends of the family are respectiully invited ta attend the funeral, from his late residence, 346 Bast ‘Twelfth street, on Monday. March 31, at two Wrirney.—In. Brooklyn, on Sata 1873, at her residence, 331 Clinton street, Wptnay. ‘ sitions tile eral services on Monday at three o'clock. Relatives and iends are to attend without further be conveyed to Hart on dev morninw. bv ie ela 0° ela eral