The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1873, Page 4

4 CY ¢ Voices of Preaching, Prayer aud Praise in the Metropolitan Pulpits---Crowded Congregations. GREEK EASTER GLORIFICATION. A Methodist Minister Admitted Into the Catholic Fold. Criticism of the Music by tho Celebrated Choirs at Christ Church. The happy Spring weather of yesterday burst upon the senses with such @ sudden and dazzling beauty that people felt forced by the strength of their grateful emotions to break forth in unisen with the little sparrows about their doorways in hymns of praise; and as the appropriate places for such utterances are the churches, they accordingly found themselves seated therein by some unac- Countable instinct of attraction, The bright and Tascinating Easter flowers still remained in many of the sanctuaries, scarcely wilted, or else renewed In fresh glory and beauty by gentle and devout bands; and the congregations which gathered to- gether and inhaled their pure, sweet fragrance, while joining in chant and anthem, or hearing the kind words from their spiritual teachers, were much larger and more enthusiastic than they had been for many a long uay belere, Joy seemed to sit upon every face. Reports of the most striking of the many good sermons which were delivered will be found correctly given belew. THE RUSSO-GREEK OHAPEL, Whe Orthodox Easter Services—A Crowded House and Interesting Ceremonies—The Festival in Russia. According to the orthodox Greek Church, old Style, yeaterday was Easter Sunday and the Sab- bath preceding was Palm Sunday, on each of which days the faithiul, including the children of the Church, communed with the mystic emblems of the Saviour’s death. Owing to circumstances of country and clime and police regulations the sull services required in Russia could not be performed here. There, at the end of the forty days’ fast, the Church prepares herself for the more worthy cele- bration o/ Easter, during the remaining six days in Holy Week, by a series of services three timesa day, and durimg the first three days the four gospels are read. On Thursday morning, at nine o’clock, the Litany is sung, and at midnight of that day the altar cloth is taken to the centre of the church and spread on a table, around which the faithful Rather to pay their homage to the Saviour, repre- sented thereon as having been wrapped in a clean linen cloth by Joseph and laid in the tomb, On Good Friday morning a precession is formed, in which this CLOTH OF GOLD AND PURPLE, with its memorial picture, is borne in front. Ex- cept the procession, which in some parts of Russia takes place in the streets, and in others in the churches, the other features of the Pro ramme in- dicated were carried out here in the little chapel in Second avenue. Yesterday morning the altar cloth wnich had lain in the centre of the chapel room was transferred to the sacred glace. It is an elaborate piece of artistic workmanship. Areund its border in Russian characters of needlework of gold, is the simple story of the af- fectionate act of Joseph of Arimathea, The reading desks, the altar and ail the tables and vessels of the sanctuary were covered, as is the custom in this day, with rich coverings of cloth of gold and embroidered work. The candies were all ablaze, and the vestments of the priest and his assistant shone brilliantly in the glare of the sacred lights, On ordimary Sabbath days the door of the chapel which separates the holy place from the choir room and the audience 100m is opened and shut alter- nately at certain portions of the services; but yes. terday it remained open all day long and will so re- main during this week, when private services will be rendered in the chapel every day. At the opening yesterday Father Bjering and his assistant, bearing in their hands a golden crucifix, @censer, and a three-candle burner, came from the altar toward the audience, swinging the censer and repeating the joyful greetinz, “ Christ is risen,”’ to which the people responded, “Truly risen.” in Russia this song 1s sung at the close of the service also, and the clergy, leaving the altar with cru- clix, gospel and PICTURE OF THE RESURRECTION, stand before the people, who reverently approach these holy insignia of Christianity and kiss them de- voutly. The salutation “Christ is risen” and the response “ Truly risen” is fellowed by the priests giving the kiss of peace and joy and good will to all who approach, and this is the signal for a general kissing and handshaking and greeting throughout the congregation. This greeting and salutation is continued in the streets and in the homes, and Easter Week is given up almost wholly to this kind of entertainment. The advent of Easter ts heralded in by the booming of cannom and the ringing of bella, and by a general tilumination throughout all the large cities of the Russian Empire. In the bymns sung in the churches frequent reference is made to the “Uld Testament Passover’ and also to Christ, our Passever, slain for us. The gospel of the day read yesterday by Father Bjering was St. John 17, The little chapel was densely, uncomfort- ably crowded, and the necessity for a more com- medious house of worship was every moment apparent. But, though the lots have been pur- chased and there is PLENTY OF MONEY IN THE TREASURY of the orthodox church. wherewith to build an im- iz and spacious structure, the one is fenced in and the other ed up with red tape, ana the Holy Synod can’t find time tocut it and let the work go forward and give Russo-Greek Catholicism a chance to assert its power and manifest its purity in the New World. Ameng the notables present yesterday in the littie chapel were the First Secre- tary of the Russian Legation in Washington, D. C.; General Gorlotf, Mr. Botasse, the Greek Consul G eral, and their families, The services were all r¢ dered in English, and the choir periormed their part remarkably well and with a decided tmprove- ment on their previous performances. The Problem of Forgivenes:—The Modoc Ma: cre and How the Indians Should Be Treated by the Government—Sermon by the Rev. U. B. Frothingham. The glorious Spring weather yesterday morning filled Lyric Hall with alarge and fashionable con- gregation. The subject chosen by Mr, Frothing- ham was ‘“Forgiveness,’’ and was based upon that portion of the Lord’s Prayer, “Forgive us our tree- | passes as we forgive those that trespass against us.’ By these words of Jesus, he began, we con- clude that we can only be forgiven when we for- give, Jesus is expressing the feeling of true hu- manity with notiing to do with men in regard to divinity. The problem of forgiveness is the centre of religion. The assumption was, and is stil, that it is impos- sible jor God to forgive a sin, How can a periect being cover out of sight a transgression’ As long a8 a person is a sinner forgiveness 1s out of the question. Penitence is the impossible thing, not jorgiveness. Mercy says forgive; Justice says it is impossityi iherefore, the Redeemer is sent as a substitute. The Son ef Man bears the burden of | transgression. In THE AGONY OF THE CROSS He endures the pain that otherwise would be Inun’s, and justice is satistied by His agony. Some believe that in those few hours Jesus suffered all that the human family could suffer. Is it possl- ble for something ‘to be so covered up that it will be blotted out of existence? The life of God is the lise of the universe, He isinseparable from His works, Can God suspend the laws of gravitation, interrupt the course of revolution, detach an efect trom a canse, or snap the line of sequence from the thing that is to the thing that was 7 The sins that ain sing against the divine law in His body. Quan the divine Wili assert the action of its own perfect laws? ‘The future life is only more life, and it gives more time for the working Out of divine principles. Re- member, that all this time the supreme wisdom and love are unchanged, bee, then, wita what energy nature is working all the time to rebuild things up and make them better. The mere refuse Of matier here WONDERFUL ALCHEMY makes over. Let a man break off from his vices, repent and be willing to lead a simple, pure ir and the elements will try to rebuild the frame that he has abused. Nature will help this, but not the other. Let the man who Is sinuing against his Jellow-man abandon his cheats, and, alter being convinced of the change, society will receive him again asamember. Let the man who has been sinnin, ainst his soul turn his thoughts to better things. Jesus teaches the lessen of the prodigal gon, He was at first a good boy, full of mn, fond of one 4 and no lover of 3. He tires of home and goes to his father and asks for the portion of goods that will be bie share. His lather consents. He goes to —— city and leads a life of picasure, has plenty of money and revels in luxury, Wien his money is am commits are opeut Lo ivayed MA GOWUY ALATUUONI MUd dd LIGVereAd didbul POUOr Wad OECOnL iO full canon. } Lam dei friends teave him. Me finally becomes greatly re- | cals inside of the sanctnury. The rector, the tev. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1873—TRIPLE duced, He is forced to hire out, although a Jew, to wateh swine, which from his infancy he has been taught to abhor, This ts the condition to which the beautifu! youth has brought himsel/, The home of his ‘ater was still standing, and his father, undoubtedly still living. He knew that his father was kind and indulgent. The trouble was in persuading himself to go and ask for his for- iveness, He went home and his father received ‘im with open arms. What is the effect? Is the son happy? Is his frame at once restored, and is hia blood ‘at once purified? Does he have at once a relish for the old homely pursuits? Notatall, This is the poison in his blood and conscience gnawing at his heart, Every consequence and result is there. Every generous deed crushes him. He wishes they were cold and severe with him. In time he becomes & good man, noble and kind. This is the whole story of forgiveness, There are people that tear at @ nation’s heartatrings, and the nation’s shield is not over them. The nation meats justice, kindness and good wiil, 4 FEW POOR INDIANS lust the United States and mas- r officers. What should be the attitude of the people towards these creatures and What has been the attitude ? Has it been the attl- tude of the father toward the prodigal son? What has been the sentiment of the American people toward these savages? We all know that it has been neither kind nor just. We have never recog- nized him as being a human creature. A few are bold enough to resent and take up arms against us, and they would be less taan men il they did not. What do THE MODOCa know about the laws of civilized warfare? Who has taugit them the rules of war? It may be no- cessary to exterminate them. If they must be ansliee, let it be benevolently though resolutely lone, so that henceforth no tribe shall be oon tocommit an offence against a civilized society. take up arms sacre some of CHRIST CHURCH, Grand Musical Services. Independent of the preaching of the Rev. Dr. Thompson—always an attraction in itself—this church is remarkable for its music, Mr. Rufus Hatch, who ofiiciates as organat and director of the choir, has certainly spared no expense in sur- rounding himself with the best talent. The choir for the ensuing year consists of a triple quartet of distinguished singers—namely, Mrs. H, M. Smith, of Boston, and Miss Hattie M. Gibbs, soprani; Mrs. Florence Knox; Miss Sarah Barron, contralti; Mr. J. Graf, Mr. Nelson Varley, Mr. Packard and Mr. Busch, tenors; Mr. M. W. Whitney, of Boston; Mr. Beckett, Mr. G. E. Aiken and Mr. Borven, bassos, These are strengthened atill further by a chorus ef ten boys, and trom this it may be seen THE GALLERY CHOIR is capable of bone i any church music placed be- fore them, with artistic effect, The caancel chotr consists of thirty-six men and boys, under the direction of the organist, Dr. Cutler. The mornin; service commenced with the immortal ‘“Hal- lulejun”’ cherus, after which the Psalms of the day were chanted by beth choirs, The same elements were brought into requisition in the rendering of the “Te Deum” in G major by J. R. Thomas. Next followed Lloyd’s “Jubilate,” in“E flat, and Dr, Cut- ler’s Litany Hymn. The grand chorus, “Lift up your gates,” from “The Messiah,” was also sung at this service, The offertorium consisted of AN EXQUISITE COMPOSITION by Couis Dachauer, called “He that serveth,” and the “Sanctus” and “Agnus Dei,”’ of Gounod’s “Messe Solcnelle,"” were also given with marked effect. The “Gloria” of Mozart’s Twellth Mass was another feature in the morning service. In tne afternoon Messrs. Varley and Whitney sung a duet from “Abraham,” by Moltquer. This celebrated violinist is as Well known for the solidity and great- ness @f his compositions as lie was formerly tor his talents as a virtuoso. Christ church is, we believe, the only fashtonable temple on the avenue where the seats are iree to all during the afternoon service. The Rev. Dr. Thompson thus gives every one a chamce to hear excellent music, With a sermon thrown In. Many rare and valuable werks are to be produced during the present year, and certainly the high standing of the choir gives promise of interesting Sunday feasts of music. BAPTIST TABERNACLE, Consistent Christianity—Sermon by the Rev. Wayland Hoyt. The Baptist Tabernacle, Second avenue and Tenth street, was filled yesterday morning with the devout congregation usually found in this old sacred edifice. The music here is excellent and is quite a feature of the worship. Mr. Hoyt selected as his text, Genesis xix. 30, in part, “And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwellin Zoar; and he dwelt ina cave, he and his two daugiters,’” Lot was a man of faith, And the apostles speak of him as a just man, but the superstructure that he built upon his faith was of weod, hay and stubble. He could not afford protection to himself, and it caused the ruin of his friends. In the application made by Mr. Hoyt ofthe text, he first said that Lot reared his superstructure of perishable things by indulging in AN EVIL CHOICE. When he chose his abiding place, and left Abraham to sojourn in Canaan, he was selfish and unmindiul of Abraham's superiority, clutched all that he could of the bountiful lands before leaving the lands of sterility to Abraham. But the plains con- tained the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, full of depravity and all unmentionable crimes and moral daugers. > EVIL WHEN PUT NEXT TO YOU is apt to entangle you and s*duce you before being aware of it, as with Lot. The safe side is always the better side. It 1s better to run from wicked- ness than to stand up and be contaminated. Man could net expect to live a good istian without sacrilice. Another reason ef Lot's superstructure of wood, hay and stubble wage A LOSS OF MORAL POWER and quickness of moral discrimination. He seemed to have lost his companionship with God, and could not help partaking of the influences of jom and Gomorrah. And so if you identiiy yoursell with the world you will become worldly Christians. It is very easy te call evil good, and goodevil, This strain ef thought was continued by the pastor at length. He advised that we need men and women to have that kind of Christianity that they will not keep short yard sticks, that they will keep lard out of butter, water out of milk, chickory out of coffee, and abandon all the mean tricks of life, ST, STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. . | Sermon by Dr. McGlynn on the Confes- sional—A Sermon for Catholics. As the last strains of the organ and choir had been repeated by the echoof the arches overhead | Dr. McGlynn ascended the pulpit of St. Stephen’s yesterday and began his sermon. Jn ail the track- less desert of sin the only oasis 1s the confess- jonal, said the reverend gentieman. This oasis ig a garden in which blossom at all seasons, more especially in this glorious Easter tide, the choicest flowers of mercy—planted by God's own hand, This garden He walled in against the future attacks of the | when he said, ‘Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven, and whose sins yon shall retain they are retained.’ He transmitted His prerogative to his successors, who were to govern the garden, } and in proof of the validity of this delegation of | power we have His own words—‘As the Father sent Me, so also do | send you.’ From thi tisinal font we all start on our pilgrimage the deserta, On the way many are LOST IN THE SANDS some through idl ers, y bad companions a tr many more—are wnadl: to tore the journey, owing to the weight of their gow. The death of these latter is a most horrible exam- | ple of man’s obduracy. Weighed down on the | sands of sin, scorching In vertical rays of the sun, of God's displeasure, panting ier a drigk from the fount of mercy which is within sight, they sufler | ana sufer on rather than renounce their gold, and fee to the Eden which giows in splender before their eyes. These geld-worshippers realize the poetical curse of the fre-worshippers, they } Live in sight of Paradise, Beholding heaven and feeling het!’ It is erroneous to think that all who enter TUE GATE OF THIS OASIS are saved, for any in passing through its portals walk to meet their doom. Allegiance in the form | of penance, restitution and contrition is exacted } by the governors of all wio enter in. Many feign their acquiescence to the proscription who only wait the opportunity to be revellious. It were IN, falling in with and more—many, skirts the farthest margin of the desert. Let me hope that none ef you are among this unhappy lot; but if there be one among you, return to the gate, pray and beg for admission, which, if asked in the right spirit, will be granted, and when the last great caravan starts for the far-off Elysium it is my hope that you may be among tue happy pil- rims, 8T, ALBAN'S CHURCH. Confirmation Administered to Thirtecn | Persons by Bishop Horatio Potter. The elegant little ecclesiastical edifice in Forty- | Seventh street, east of Fourth avenue, known as | St. Alvan’s church, and which is famed all over the land@as the chief temple of ritualism, was yester- day afternoon crowded to excess with fashionable devotecs, among Whom the majority were fair- faced and beautsful women, to witness the admin- istration of tN iat THE RITE OF CONFIRMATION - toanumber of neophytes who were in waiting outside of the altar railiugs. The venerable and enemy | better for such as these that they had never been | born, for they will never reach the Elysium which | | God. SHEET, Dr. Morrill, was the chief celebrant in the usual service which preceded and followed tne confirma- tion, The Rev, William Russell Jones and the Rev. J. B,C. Beaubien assisted Dr, Morrill. The church was elegantly decorated with BBAUTIFUL FLORAL OFFERINGS, and in the vicinity of the altar was hung a beauti- jul blessed banner of the Virgin Mary. To make the church resemble @ Catholic tempié as much a3 Possbile. Father Morrill has hung the walls with the different stations of the cross framed neatly and surmounted with crosses. The sacrament of confirmation was administered to eleven males and two young ladies, robed in white. Bishop Potter, in an impressive manner adminis- tered the sacrament to the neophytes, and at the conclusion of the ceremony the Bishop addressed the persons who had been confirmed in a brief aud appropriate manner, and it was noticed that the reverend gentleman was very much atfected dur- ing the delivery of his address THE MUSIC, under the direction of Mr, L. Walker Gorham, was very fine, and consisted of the “Evening Song,” ‘Versicles,” “Cantate Domino,” “Benedic anima mea,’’ all by Hetmol. The offertory soprano solo was “Thou wilt not leave me, Lord, tn hell,” from the ‘Messiah’? of Handel. After the service a diocesan collection was taken up, and the congregation responded with abundant generosity, 8T, PAUL'S M E CHURCH. The Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ— Sermon by the Rev. Wiiiiam Morley Panshon. St. Paul’s Methodist Church, in Fonrti avenue and Twenty-second street, was 80 crowded yesterday morning that people stood in the aisles for a couple of hours, unable to obtain @ sitting in any part of the house. Very many also went away unable even to gain admission to the sacred edifice. The attraction was the Rev. William Morley Punshon, D. D. LL. D., of the Britisu Wesleyan Conference, who, aiter a few years residence on this continent as President of the Canada Wesleyan Conference, is about to re- turn to England, and his sermon yesterday morn- ing was probably the last that he will deliver on this side of the Atlantic for years, if not forever. Dr, Punshon is one of the most eloquent and popu- lar preachers which Methodism has produced on either side of the ocean. His sermon yesterday was on THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, and was based on Luke xxiv., 50 and 51:—‘‘And he led them out as far as to Bethany and he lifted up his bands and blessed them, and it came to pass while he blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into heaven.’ The Doctor said that the ascension of Christ is generally associated in our minds with His resurrection, Itis the com- Plement of it, and, though there isa difference of forty days between the two events, he deemed the ascension a Otting theme for this day after the minds of the congregation, had been directed to the resur- rection last Sabbath. He then, in imagination, and pictorially eloquent, led the audience along the beaten path from Jerusalem to Bethany, past the Garden of Gethsemane, where the Saviour’s flercest struggle took place, over the brook Kidron, up the slope of Clivet, from) which Christ de- livered his wonderful ‘Sermon on the Mount,” to the quiet village where dwelt the family He loved, and there he lifted up his hands and blessed them, and before the words had been uttered, the heaveniy cloud descended, and carried him up te the throne. The Doctor called atten- tion here to the publicity of this event, and remarked that this thing was not done in a corner; that Cristianity was not 4 conningly devised fable nor a thing begotten in the dark. He cited the witnesses to the Saviour's crucifixion and resur- rection, and explained why it was not necessary that a multitude should witness his ascension as they had his crucifixton. Dr. Punshon then consid- ered the act in which Jesus was engaged when He was parted from his disciples—blessing them—and pointed out how his whole mortal life was one o1 BLESSING AND OF DOING GooD toman. And his first act alter ascending to the throne was ofa like character. He sent two shin- ing ones down to the disconsolate disciples who were still gazing up imto heaven, to assure them that this game Jesus should return again in like manner aa they had seen him go into heaven. The Doctor exposed the absurdity of the Jewish lie that the disciples had come by night and stolen away the bedy of Jesus from the tomb, and dwelt patheti- cally upon the humanity of Christ and the hope of the exaltation of humaa nature which believers have in Him, He closed with a stirring ajpeal to the unconverted among his audience to become subjects of this Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The discourse elicited frequent ‘‘Amens"’ and en ejaculations of approval from the people. BEEKMAN HILL METHODIST CHURCH. Dedicatory Services Last Evening by the Rev. Bishop Janes. The Beekman Hill Mothodist Episcopal church was dedicated last evening by the Rev. Bishop Janes. This church is 8 peculiar one in its style. It is built almost entirely of corrugated tron, the or- namention inside and outside being entirely of that material. Tue auditorium is of a semi-circular form, and the floor has @ rise of about four feet. The Rey. William C. Steele is the pastor, and Messrs. 8. W. Dunscombe, A. S. Briggs, 8. P. Kit- ten, D. 8. Bedell, H. B. Clapp, George Allen and W. F. Smith are the trustees. The structure cost, ex- clusive of the site, $43,000, and the sum total was made up last night before the DEDICATORY SERVICES commenced. The Rev. William Lloyd, of Rochester, preached the dedicatory sermon. He took his text trom John xvili., 26 and 37, sini “My kingdom is net of this worid.”” He said:—Allow me to carry you back about eighteen centuries. We pass in thought away irom the city of the Caesars to the cit, ofJerusalem. There are crowds of excited an expecting people, and among them 1s @ central figure. sits not on a throne, but is as humble ny among them. Yet that Man, hum- ble as he was in appearance, had for three years | wi ed that Me was to establish a kingdom. Beloved brethren, what was this kingdem? It was not earthly and visible, as was the Jewish concep- tion of the Kingdom of Christ Jesus over man spir- itual not material, and the laws delivered by that King and Ruler were for the government of the inner man. These laws are stili handed down, and after eighteen centuries we still ACKNOWLEDGE THE KINGDOM over our hearts o/ that littie Man who stood among the excited crowds in the streets of Jerusalem. The preacher continued in this strain for some time, and a subscription was then taken up through the congregation, alter which the trustees of the church came jorward and stood beiere Bishop Janes, who read the usual dedicatory serv- vices, te which the trustees made the formal re- spor ue whole congregation then recited the Lord's Prayer and the Aposties’ Creed and sung the hymn, “Praise God from Whrom All Blessings Flow,” which concluded the services. BROOKLYN CHURCHE’. —— PLYMOUTH OHUROH. The First Crowd of ihe Spring at Plym- outh Chuarch=—Mr. Beecher Implores Heaven as to the Modoc War and Prays for the Children of the Forest=—A Sermon on the Silent and Certain Vice tory of the Christian. The Spring-like weather of yesterday filled Plym- outh church in the morning to overflowing, and, for ihe first time this year, the outer and imner doors of the lobbies were thrown open, and there was a large congregation of outer court worship- | pers, who were within car-shot of the preacher's | voice, In the prayer that immediately pre- ceded the sermon mention was made of the Modoc war, and the Father of all mankind was besonght to remember in mercy “the children of the forest, whose pent-up wrongs had driven them to bloodshed and diaboli- cal murder; and, while the savagery of humanity was thus let loose upon the peacetul settlers of far- off lands, the protecting care of @ Providence that was divine and would not err was tmplored for the innocent and the precursors of @ better anda larger civilization.” The subject of the sermon was the silent and cer- tain victory of the Christian, and the text was se- lected from I. John v., 4, 5-="For whatsover is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even eur faith, Who 1s he that overcometh the world bat he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of Gol?” ‘rhe vietories of human history, said Mr, Beecher, will die out, while the silent conficts that are taking place all around us willlive ferever. The | mortal songs will be the triumphant hymns of im- mortality. In defining the confict of the soul out of which these victories come he said that the po- sition of the soul was not that assigned to it by nature. The soul had to conquer its place there, and to make that place jor itself, Despite of tne difficulties and the circumstances that were nec. essarily inherent in the nature of man, it was quite possible so to build life that we may STAND STRONG AND GLORIOUS, despite of circumstances, The control of the dis- positions and the temper may be made so com- Jete as to depend upon mothing else for its real Rappiness, except God. That wos the teaching of the Saviour, the teaching of Christianity and the teaching of the Bible. Much can be done without ps may be built, all the industrial occupa- ndent upon man’s skill may tn acer- a aeuae be doug Withous Gods bul ta tions if manhooa, ana especially the soul, ty anything approaching a divine level God was needed, How was thia done? By this and this only—by having Christ in us the hope of glory. Thus we ob- tained this singular power, this victory by which man is enabled to overcome all that would lower his nature te the level of earthiiness, In our inner experience we cewe afterwards to know that it is because Christ loves us and we love THE ACT OF CONVERSION that the Church teaches 80 abundantly should be set forth as a moral act, the beginning of a higher spiritual life, It ts the act by which a man comes under the banner of @ spiritual leader. Or to change the figure, it is like the birth ef a man into this werd, A man is not like @ seal that you press upon tne molten wax, and the impression ail comes out at once, clear and cleanly cut, every minute point defined, and standing out in bold reiief, No man is made a Christian in that way. Aman is born in his second mankood, just as he is born into his first, All these sorrows and struggles ultt- mate imto a higher spiritual experience. There were many Christians who were #0 bright, so cheer- ful, 30 Joyous, so wise, 80 rich im biessed expe- rience, that they seem to have got their victory on this side of the eternal life; but there were a reat many mire whe appear, to have get their vic- ‘ory on the other side, for they certainly gon’t ap- ar to have got it on this. It was manifest in pret “ed that the Christian had the best evi- jence 0: THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. Of the technical evidence of this there would never be @ sufficient clearness. The evidence of the soul absorbs all this ana leaves the dynastic claim as meagre and insuifictent, when contrasted with the iuiness of that assurance that bas been yocaliged by the deciaiation, “Christ in us the hope of glory.” It is in the power of the soul to carry its own light, All life must necessarily, to be complete, have its sorrows as well as {ta ju- bilees, just a8 @ pericct picture needs lights and shades, The sermon was with some prac- tical admonitt founded on the expression of the truths outlined in the above sketch. SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST OHUROH, Dr. Wild on the Indian Policy—The Mo- doc Massacre and General Sherman’s Plan of Extermination—He Asks Mercy for the Innocent and Justice for the Guilty. The services at Dr. Wild's M. BE. Church, yester- day moruing, were of a deciaedly interesting na- ture. After a soul-stirring anthem by the cholr, under the leadership of the organist. Mr. Marston, the Rev. Dr. Wila gave for nis text, Acts xvil., 26:. “And bath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all tne face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.”” THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE, said the speaker, is evidently subject to the government and rule of God. This we may reason- ably and readily infer from the established economy and laws of nature without, the in- fluences and operations of mind within. This Providentia!l rule naturaliy encloses human ac- tivities, whether of an individual or national character, and this economy fixes the bounds of freedom. Freedom, when properly understood, does not imply or mean 4 lawless license in action, but a prudential use of our gifts and powers and a cheerful and willing recognition of the divine laws of limitation. In this heavenly government there is 4 whelesome design and purpose worthy the Creator, which aims to conserve individual and universal good. When individuals and nations shall accept it and conlorm to its purpose then we skall have universal peace and security. We have a good lustration of the laws of limitation in geology. Certain plants and flowers only grow to poriagtien in their legitimate rovince; and as it is in the vegetable kingdom, so is it in the animal, and particularly of men. There are places where black men do better taan white, but if you will let me it, it is not on this Conti- nent. It is a ving fact that a nation who refuses to serve God shall perish. Where 1s Egypt, Assyria and Greece? Where the Spaniards that ruled the earth with treacherous despetisin? They have dwindled away. Their time has veen and gene. And there was Providence in their decay. There is Ta) halal in the severity that is betug meeted out to THE INDIANS, There is something harsh in the taking away of their land and the capture of their propert, e soil they claimed as theirs they neglected to culti- vate; the trees Nd Git its border they were too indolent to fell. nation must push on in en- terprise and industry, and if the Indian won't at least keep pace with his surroundings he must be cut off. America was grafted in the Indian land. Itisatransplant. Ifthe Indian had been faithful to his chance of prosperity he might have kept the land which we possess. Civilizatien must follow paganism and ignorance. We have these facts in THE LATE MASSACRE BY CAPTAIN JACK and his followers, The death of Generai Canby is enough to raise the bee wrath of every loyal citi- zen, and it was out of the high spring ef his indig- nation that General Sherman sent the command to “CUT THEM ALL OFF."? Is {t well to slay the innocent that the guilty may be punished tch the perpetrators and put them to death, but spare the guiltiess. To slay the Whoie population would be upon the level of the Indian policy. We have dealt with them aa nations, and that is the dificulty; we must TREAT THEM AS INDIVIDUALS, Letus take them and locate tkem and surround them with civilization, make our laws their laws, and when they offend punish them as we would a white iaw-breaker. Have yeu paid as much for the Indian as you have for the black many We found the red men here and we drove them off. Look, on the other hand, how much we paid to substan- tlate our opinions of the (syabe question. Brethren, let us not lose our generosity in regard to the red men. ney will soon die out without any a from us, and it is my heartfelt prayer that public justice may be tempered with mercy towards them. TOMPKINS AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Breaking Ground for the New Edificc— Sermon by Dr. Clarke om the Neglected Use of the Bible=The Prevailing Bad Habits of Professing Christians in Re- gard to the Bible. The above church was well filled yesterday with the regular congregation, and it was announced that the promise recently made, that the new house that is to be built for this congregation would have its commencement very shortly had been kept. On Friday ground was breken for the new cdifice, and the work ts to go on with all the vigor that has lately characterized these zealous men and women. The architect is Mr. Hathorne, the builder of the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, on Fuiten street, The church ts te be of brick and Ohio stone, and will cost about $75,000, The corner stone will be laid early in the next month, and all being well the church will be ready for occupancy early in the Fall. ‘The pastor, Dr. F, G, Clarke, preached yesterday morning a sermon on THE USE OF THE BIBLE, and selected for his text the last clause of the thirtieth verse of the eighth chapter of Acts— “Understandest thou what thou readest?” He set forth the general neglect of the reading of the Scriptures, the lack of systematic study, the ab- sorbing occupancy, by Christians even, of the ma- terial things of life, its evanescent pleasures and its excitementa, to the exclusion of the reading ef the Word of God, He denounced with considerabie severity the reading of SUNDAY NEW! 3, and urged that that day show dedicated to the reading of the Bible and kindred study, A much more intelligent perusal and understanding o1 tue Scriptures was needed. Eacu epistie should be read in its entirety, and the gospels compared wit each other, and the stirring meidents of the his- tortes of the Old Testament delighted in and made subservient to growth in grace. Instead of ail this FIFTH AVENUE PROMENADES in New York, a devotion to the glitter and glare of social life and a feverish longing fora lighter litera- ture were too frequently the daily concern of pro- fessing Curistians. Me ‘related severat anecdotes illustrative of inattention and neglect of tural jag OD as evidenced even by regular we: pers in Christian sanctuaries, and earnestly ex- herted @ reformation in this regard, 8T, VINCENT DE PAUL'S ORURCE, Confirmation of Seven Hundred Neo- phytes in the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, by Bishop Loughlin. Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation yesterday aiternoon, at four o'clock, im the Church of St, Vincent de Paul, North Sixih street, near Fifth, to over six hundred boys and girls and WO adults, The Lanzariast Fathers of Canada have been holding a mission there for the last four weeks, and as @ result of their labors 7,000 persons received cemmunton, There were fourteen converts received into the Chureh, aud many more are under instructions, Im & short and touching disceurse the bishop explained to the candidates the nature of the sacrement, and said that he was glad to find in these infidel times the piety and fidelty Of the followers of the Church of Rome. When confirmation was over they leit the church i @ procession, headed by Father Farrelly, who had them in rge, and went through Fourth, North Fifth, nth, and passer Father Tman's © wring to charch through Nerth Sixt. They then went home, At an carly hour yesterday morning » fire waa discovered on the first Moor of t= three story brick burlding, 96 Third avenue. The Mie way occupied by Mary O'Conner, who #nfered & 108m .» $3,000; insured. The second and third floors were occupied aga dwelling, and the damage ¢ ein | them ts estimated at $1,000, Louis Gerbel, - cupled the basement, sutfercd a 1098 Of $390. building Was injured to the extent of #2.600; In- Bureds THE TOMBS. A 8econd Sunday at the City Prison—A Visit to the Female Department. To Tas Eprron or Taw HEeRaLp:— Again am I aeated in the Tombs Itstening to Sunday morning service which is being delivered on the first tier. Lam on the ground floor with a portly attendant for vis:d-vis, who closes one eye and 1s lulled to sleep by the preacher's uninspiring voice. “l say, that's whatIcall slumberon the half shell,” grumbles a votce at the same time that © maniac boy opens the grating of his cell, puts on & pair of slate-colered cotton gloves as caretully a8 though he were about to lead a German, then shak- ing his fists in my unoffending face, closes the grating with g slam that resounds throughout the prison. ‘Whosoever will, let him come and partake of the water of life freely” is the text announced, “These are blessed words, encouraging to those in trouble,’’ says the preacher, and straightway three stupefied, battered, dirty, immortal souls, in the shape of men, are marched to an adjojning cell by stalwart guardians of the peace, and are shut up together with air insufMicient for one paw of healthy lungs, They have been partaking freely, but not of the water of life, Their own werat enemy is within them, and with that enemy they are left until, the mor row’s Judge shall sentence -them to hard work on the Island, The preacher knows nothing of the grim drama being enacted under his feet. If he knew he might point a moral, or he might be staggered as I am, at the incongruity of text and scene, and feel how utterly inadequate is his feeble intellect to grapple with the situation, He contin- ues as though his congregation were eminently re- spectable; he speaks of Christ and tne Gospel, and @ dissenting prisoner lodged in the topmost tier startles the air and the ear with such a sneeze as I dreamed no mortal could evolve from the worst of colds, It is a sneeze begotten of malice, and the voice of the grumbler exclaimed, ‘I sup} the parson thinks he’s not to be sneezed at, but one party's @f a different turn of mind.” The preacher heeds not. He tells fellow sinners that there is a balm for every wounded heart; that however i. our sins may be Jesus says, “Come.” ‘It's easy enough to Sey (CUE. but how's @ party to get out?” growls ti a a It is well the preactier does not hear. He bids those who are on the very verge of eternal death to drink of the water of “M101 for every you and for every me.” it, my dear friends. Don’t be in- Do not trifle with your salvation." Here the attendant opens the eye that has slumbered, blows @ whistle, orders Patrick Finnigan's discharge and returns to his previous arduous duty, On goes the preacher, declaring that to whomsoever much 18 given much is re- quired, and I marvel whether Mr. Stokes is listen- ing. He begs us not to be lost forever, but to ac- t Christ, and our prospect for the future will be bright and glorious. It is just such a sermon as everybody delivers everywhere; but the preacher is in earnest and I respect him, although persuaded that he bas produced about as much impression on the prison’s head and heart as Mrs. Partington’s broom produced upon the ecean, At the close ofa jong hali hour @ man supplements the discourse with prayer, beginning so low as to excite the ire of a prisoner, who shouts, “That will do!” Laughing and talking ensues, but no one inter- Tupts the singing. There is a ring to the Metho- dist hymn that is not without eifect, and if any re Tesults from the morning's service it will be om music, How many have listened? Probably net haifa dozen. But one-third of the cells are open, open forthe sake of ventilation. I am con- inced that, even with the closest attention, it ts impossible for half the occupants of half the cells to obtain 9n accurate idea of what is said for their benefit. The performance is a farce of stu- pendous magnitude, dnd not until the erection of another prison, with a proper chapel and a chaplain born for the work, will there be one tinge of divin- ity in the worship of the Tombs. he grating of Nixon’s cell remains closed. An- other murderer, wuo has been conversing with a stranger, becomes disturbed as the ladics and gen- tlemen composing the velunteer congregation go upen their rounds of distributing tracts and re- ligieus newspapers. “Excuse me, sir,’’ he says. “Here comes that religious gang, and | really must shut my door.” Shut it is forthwith. “oi ve us @ rest!” expostulates @ younger prisoner, Yet, with all this snubbing, the tract regimen goes on. Will good people, anxieus to reform their weaker or more unfortunate brothers and sisters, never learm common sense? “We don’t care a rap about their tracts,” mutters a middle-aged man between his teeth, “and as for their preaching, taey all fire wild. They never hit anything. Now that man to-day told us to accept Ohrist and we’d get what we wanted. Woat mest o1 us want ts td get out of this cursed place, and what I want is ® chance to get honest employment; but do you suppose people are got to truat acrimiual? I migit ‘accept Christ? till all was blue, and my chances wouldn’t be any better. What does the man mean any way? Why doesn’t he explain? What does he want to put religious cenundrums for? I give it id And I give it up. It is a tearful problem this of how criminals shall be treated and how crime shall be reduced. It is fearfulenough when dealing with men; it is more than fearsul when dealing with women, Ceme with me to the female department of the ‘Tombs en asecular day and see whether it is not time that well-to-do women interested themselves protoundly in the fate of their own sex. Vain is it to draw the line between virtue and vice. Every woman worthy of being called womanly is human; every human_ being weak under seme circumstances. No one is immaculately good, nor is any ene absolutely bad. The doctrine of total depravity serves as an admirable season- ing for clergymen who desire to rival the last dra- matic sensation, but it is an inaigestible diet agree- ing with no healthy constitution. The great social misfortune of the werld is that the majority of ieee women having been hedged in from evil all heir lives, hever having been tempted and conse- quently believing themseivee incorruptible, fail to appreciate the causes which lead te the downfall ot women less shielded. They are cruelly intol- erant of vice in their own sex, while abso lutely smiliag upon it im men of society. There can be no truly successiul reiorm in the status of weman until the moral cede of one sex be pronounced the moral code of the other, until women insist upon less license among men and are as charitable as menin their treatment of ‘unfortunate sisters. If every woman realized that under certain conditions she might loathe herself as do nine-tenths of the fallen ineffable pity and tenderness would oo an unchristian vindic- tiveness that so far the teachings of the Saviour have failed to overcome. Exceptional women work nobly in several institutions, but exceptional women d@ not constitute public opiniov, which needs as much reformation as the most degraded ‘woman that ever died ju a gutter. We are standing in the pen of the Tombs, where the women who afew hours belore received sen- tence from the Court are awaiting their transier to Blackwell's Island. a or forty women, clothed for the most part in dirt and rags, seme with bloated countenances, others with blackened eyes; all but two looking unutterably miserable! Oh, the pity of it, women with Kind fathers and husbands! Ob, the horror of it, women with growing sons amd daughters! And they are here jor what?’ Drunkenness, drunkenness, nothing but drunkenness, Do you think them seber now? ‘They are orderly, seated on benches ranged around the wretchedly barren room, and are for the most part silent. None , laugh. One young girl borrows tubacco of an older | woman, lights a pipe, and, with a forced atvempt | at pleasantry, says that she has learned to doa | little of everything. She sits on the floor and puts. Her face is not bad. It is the hard tace 0} a | giri who has never had a home—whose only educa- | tion has been on the streeis. Is she to biame for | being as she is and where sho is? Is it too late to | rescue her from earthly perdition? I see but one other young girl A broad, intelligent forehcad | ana large blue ees make her pretty. She is the | only attractive person in the room, I draw her aside, and, with my heart in my mouth, ask her why itis. ‘Come where they cant’t hear,’ she says, putting a yellow novel into her pocket. It is the old story: no mother, a father struggling with | poverty, Work in a factory, seduction by a laarried | man, “And the man, do you care for lim!” ‘I did; he was kind to me at first, but lately he has been less so. I’ve been im the habit of drinking | with him, and the other night Idrank by myselr; then went into the street. {suppose t was hvisy and I was arrested. I’ve sent to him to hail me, bat he’s taken no notice of me.” “And now, do | you longer care Jor thia man‘? “No. “Are you willing to ‘gs your lie? “Yes, Vd like to go inte the country for the Sum. | mer. I'm etting to know too many people here. I’m ready to go away.” The girl | may be untruthiul. Liquor demoralizes to such an extent that lying prevails among its victims; but this girl of seventeen 18 not reaily bad. She is emotional; her mind has never been disciplined ; | she loves pleasure, as do all young, vigerous tem- | peraments; she has been born low down, where there is no innocent outiet for natural propensi- ties, and she has taken the first step to vice. If sent to the Island sle will come oat, What? A con- firmed prostitute, There ix no other outlook. “Please, do something for me,” pleads a tall, ragged woman, Weeping as though her heart were broken. Her eyes are beauttiul, and the pathos in them appeals as de those of the dying deer turning upon its mayer “It is drink, nothing but drink, With me, My husband leit me three years ago and I’ve never heard from him since. I took to drink: ing @ little, and then it grew upon me, Still I | worked and worked for my child, but the drink made me jorget and Ikepton, Indeed, | love my elild.’’ Here the poor woman breaks gown utterly. <cBut the time camo when Foor ost port her, and six months ago [ too! 4 tution where they are good te her, Since thon I've been drinking more, and here tam. Oh, iT could only stop! A Reow howdrendtul it 18. 'riis Creamers oor reegauad. WIIk the taste lor $ on Wi 7 <\ my good WOM." Taay to a sturd te Trish) woman, Ty are you her May well ak. 1 dob. Gisgrace, and ever Lueteut Pi wee uate “at LD age, I'm going to Father to take the pledge for a year. It's nothing but a tew glasses of beer, and I Bay, thougn tt may be law, it isn’t justice to send me to the Island because | took a little too much, T can’t take any without feeling it, and that’s why I’m going to take the pledge. I'm tardwork- ing, and when my husband and child were alive [ never touched a drop. It’s aince then, you see, and atl Winter's been very hard. I don’t excuse myself, but I'say the law Is too hard." “No, it’s no use to blame See: but one's self,” remarks @ kindly-looking young woman; ‘I don't; I know that Lam my own worst enemy. I came from the island day before terday, and that very came night I took some whiskey, and was arrested. I'd jie to stop drinking, The Island does uo one aay Two gray-haired women ait brooding, brooding. Both are between sixty and seventy, aud both have good eyes. One is & dressmaker, going {rom house to house; tie other ts @ scrabber. Both yielded to the tempter drink, were found in tke street and brought to justice, God help their hairs: and” Cod help’ the poor, sickly Camas neatiy clad in bi le blue eyes gaze upen vacaney, W weak brain ts almost hope- hoes stupefied! ‘Are you married?” ‘My hus- band 16 dead.” “Have you any children?” ‘No,’ * Don’t you Know that’ you will become insane if you do not stop drinking ? Your constitution can- not bear it.” The ans twiten nervously as she replies, ‘I sap) se.” “Will you go to the if we give you acard?” Be- wildered, not fully rei either her condition er the offer made to her, sad wreck of woman- hood—a wreck at thirty—nods assent, and again fixes her blank eyes on ti bianser wal. ‘tured women call this woman wicket y 4 whose history may be the saddest of ‘hose life w ig the heaviest of burdens, whose home is the station house? Given misery and squalor, and wi 4 ef good resolutions? Mortality ts mortal. An; are not of this world, It is. a mta- jake tO Col as such dreams, The sooner they are placed pon human gacant with fon. gad not cxpatad to be imposai- a ly vir wpep thins ter will it be for morality. - a jegraded man falls lower than raded man. simply the Christian wy ves hor ‘s kick and telila her 0 8 lown. There is no more roason tint ld be damned soul—oven that of a wi “I can’t help orying,” time than for eternity, murmurs a thin, care-worn woman, “it is se long since Ihave been spoken to kindly, I'm not a beast, I know I am ruini myseif body and seul. IL know my lile is wrong. ere’s not a woman on the street that would not change if she could. But the drinking kills us. I am going to try and stop it. [skal go intoservice, where I’ve been be- fore.” She seems in earnest, and there is one pres ent iat romises to provide her with the neces- sary out if tidy woman who is briskly sewing comes up and declares that she never was in such @ place before; that Keeping. Easter was too much for her she supposes, ‘hat isshe todo? She has a nice room where she lives; she can’t return for several days; her rent is due; she is ashamed to make known her situatiou, and what willhappen? Will wb y be seized? What do I think? what Will be @ failure ; that bad will become worse, people do not come to the rescue ef the drunken. ‘I haven’t been drinking; I went to the station house and gave myself up of my own free will,” says one of the raggedest women. “I did so because I had no place to fe to. Idid sewing in the tamily o' a Jew, and because I kept Good Friday the weman sald she would have no more Christians round and told me to go. Vil go te the Home, any where, it Lcan get work. For God’s sake The old, old story repeats itself again and again, until thought almest drives to despair, Where to begin, what to do first? The exceilent matron of the Tombs increases my faith in unfertunate women, ‘Thoroughly bad? Of course they are net. Keep drink away from them and they develop as good dispositions as the fine ladies up town—some of them a great deal better. [can tell yeuof many instances of women who have been rescued from depraved lives, have gone West, married, had nice children and made the best of wives and friends. One woman met me eighteen [ioe after 1 had known her here, and throwing er arms around me told me what a caanged per- son she was, Now she is a widow with plenty of money and-does a great deal of good ‘with it.” “My experience is the same,” asserts done tried philanthropist. “Of course, many will return to their old ways. lo discipline, no home influences and the habit of drinking produce @ longing for excitement that cannot be found in reformatory institutions; but the majority of women that come to us are saved. Here ts our consolation. When a woman who has conducted herself admirably for weeks goes off with her hard-earned wages and spends every penny im drink, | remember those who have grown strong enouga to resist temptation, and never faiter. in my work.” Is not this encour. aging? ‘Homes’? must be made joyous and interesting. It must be remembered that of all women these unfortunates creatures need the mest distraction. The reason why 80 many refuse to enter reformatories is not because they would not lead better lives, but be- cause they cannot endure an unnatural restraint and an amount of preaching calculated to drive the best of us to the opposite extreme, Can phi- lantnropists realize this? The first step to be taken to dispel the prevailing idea that a “home” must be a place of penance and prayer. The second step—but it is a long one, and must be delerred. REFORM. THE SWEEPSTAKES PULLING BRACE. Henry Coulter Accepts the Proposition of John Biglin and Ellis Ward—The Race to Come Off in July. PirrssurG, Pa., April 19, 1873. The following acceptance of Henry Coulter, oars- man, of the proposition of John Biglin and Ellis _ Ward, was written this evening and handed to your correspondent. This arranges all prelimina- ries for a meeting next July, on Eastern waters, of these famous oarsmen :— To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— At the time I made the proposition for a sweet stakes paring race I did not know that John Bigiin and Ellis Ward were negotiating for a match. ‘fhe publication of my communication, embodying the proposition alluded to above, was delayed ior some reason or other, and did not appear until after these parties had signed articles of agreement for a single pull race. I make this explanation for the reason that I do not wish those gentlemen to loek upon me in the light of an intruder; that I was pushing myself into an affair already arranged, and that I was interfering in a matter brought about with a view of bringing toa satisfactory conclusion a dispute regarding the merits of two parties directly interested. Howev- er, as neither has any objections to offer, and seems periectly willing that I should come in, I embrace the opportunity, and will sign the articles to that effect as soon as forwarded here. The Ist of May being fixed as the time for making the second de- pet of $200 by Biglin and Ward, I will, beiore that jate, Send on $300, the extra $100 to cover a simi- Jar sum already on deposit. Inasmuch as the mat- ter now assumes the aspect of a sweepstakes, I would suggest that there be no restrictions, but tiat all who afe inclined to enter may do so by putting into the purse $500, If entries were numerous the sum would be a handsome one to row for, and would repay the winner for his time and the expense of training; and, furthermore, the vexed question of the championslup might be settled satisiactorily and the successful contest- ant’s victory wonld be a more creditable one than if each served in a single-handed contest. HENRY COULTER. The parties Coulter alludes to in the above, it is intimated, are Brown, of Halifax; William Scharff, of Pittsburg; Ten Eyck and Butler, of Boston, and John McKeel, of the Hudson, It Ward or Biglin refuse to allow any other person to enter, Coulter is satistied to have the ar ment as it is, MUSIVAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Aconcert is to be given at the Twenty-third street Presbyterian church this evening, in which a number of meriterious artists will participate, The Opera House in New Orieans will be sold by the Sheriff on the 12th of May, Miss Anna Simon, soprany, will give a concert at Robinson Hall, in Sixteenth street, on Friday evening, assisted by some eminent musicians, in- cluding, among others, Mr, Remmerts and Dr. Damvrosch. Frinlein Clara Zlegler, the celebrated German tragédienne, has been offered an engagement of 100 performances at $1,000 each, beginning next September, in the United States, by Impresario Unbiman. Miss Ziegler, having a life engagement with the royal theatre in Munich, is trying now to get the royal permit of leave of absence to accept this engagement. Wachtel was knighted and made an honorary member of the ducal theatre in Gotha by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Covurg-Gotha, while singing in that city. peal ath ats Bet LOOK OUL FOR DOMESTIO THIEVES. Families cannot be too careful about the certim® cates of character of those they employ as ser. vants. Too often servants are taken without em- ployers troubling themselves to make the neces. sary inquiry, end too frequently @ good character is given wien not deserved, We have just seen informed of @ lady in Forty-seventh street having been robbed by ker lady's maid of $100 at one time and of sey: hundred dollars’ worth of laces at another. This servant, a French woman, pre- tended to have the best recommendatiéus’ as to char r; but it turned out that she had piandered extensively another lady employer in this city, and Moreover had served a short term in prison for @ like oifence, Complaint has been made by the Forty-seventi street lady to the police, but the detectives have failed up to this time to fad the woman, The thief is, provably, connected with @ gang of foreign thieves, This shows the danger tamilies may be in, and calls for the vigilaave ob the deQOUyes Bad polio Bulhoriiies, a EE |