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§ a) “THE DAY OF REST, A Sultsy Sonday—Diminished Attendance on the Services of the Sanctuaries of the City and Suburbs, a ee POWERS ON SUMMER VACATIONS. An Exposition by Beecher on the Merci- fulness and Materialism of the Old Testament. Father McNamee on the Foundation of the Church of Christ. Bishop. Janes and the Rich Agriculturist. Dr. Bellows on American Institutions, National Education and the Danger of Freedom. Chauncey Giles on the Spiritualism of the House of Israel. OHUROH OF THE MESSIAH, Necessity of a Vacation in the Church— Sermon by the Rev. Henry Powers, ‘The congregation assembled yesterday morning At the Church of the Messiah, Park avenue and ‘Thirty-fourth street, was a very slim one indeed. Notwithstanding, however, this discouraging Attendance, Mr. Powers announced as his text part of Matthew vi., 31—‘“And rest awhile.” No ne, he said, can be a careful reader of the New Westament without seeing that Christ was very proud of His disciples. While he bade them each to bear His cross in His efforts to save mankind from their sins, He remembered that they had a body as well as a woul; and, therefore, aiter their first mis- Bion, 80 marvellous in its results, Christ separates them from the mult: tudes that had gathered around ‘them and takes them to the lonely desert to rest fora time, that they may return with renewed strength to their life’s work. One of the essential parts of life 1s rest, and, among other things that ‘we are told of heaven, Jesus says that our cares ‘will not be rencwed, On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet tields of Eden, Where the tree of lite is blooming, There is rest for you. There are also offered to us pases where we may rest. The custom, has begun in this country, in all branches of business, ior men to take a vacation, Our forefathers in the old times could not do this, because they had never enough ahead to stop andrest. But now that men have means, it is their privilege and their duty to turn away from their grosser pursuits 1 gain and spend a season in solitude, where they can think on matters of eter- Malinterest. ‘this custom of a vacation, as I have said, is increasing in this country, and we are told in the desert that there isin it a great deal of folly and sin. Fasiioh says when*we are to start and how long Femain. And I suppose that tn to-morrow’s papers We shall read that many of the seats of the fashionable members of our churches were vacant. WHAT SHALL BECOME OF THE POOR ? It is said that the devil takes no vacation. Why, then, does the Church? If im leaving the city we Jeav2 those who need our heip we are sinning. Do you not remember the cartoon in one of our iilus- trated papers which represented a poor sewing iricrying after a minister who was bound for ratoga, “Why do you not give me a Saturday afternoon of your vacation!” but passing by these exaggerated criticisms, I want to give yousome of the reasons why the Church ought to have a vaca- tion. In the first place, it seems to fall in with what seems to be the law of nature. Day for labor and night for rest succeed each other, We must rest aiter our labor, and the greater the dignity of the creation the longer must be its period of recreation. The oak needs 100 years; the century plant produces but one flower in a century—but What a flower it is! And so the tendency in our country is to condense labor, to do the work of twelve months in two or three. The work of our churches, if it be done at all, must be done be- tween September and May; and so, unless we tall in with this law, we shall not accomplish much, and in proportion to our work we must rest, or we will dic. It is this unceasin; labor that gives so many of our best men that sud- den and terrible araysis, A minister who reaches constantly beiore a New York congrega- Bom must keep himself informed of everything new, interesting or instructive. Alter this continuous labor, therefore, A MINISTER NEEDS REST. ‘They who say the minister is lazy do not know ‘what they are talking about. The essence of rest Is, after all, activity of soul, when men can turn their tnoughts away from themeelves, because’they ‘e atease. The length of our vacation will differ cause our labors ditfer. But may we all come back together in the Fall with renewed strength, OHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS. A Sermon by Dr. Storrs on the Purpose of Christ in Coming into This World— The Redemption and Regeneration of Man. ‘The Church of the Pilgrims gave evidence yester- Gay that the heat of the weather had driven many of its usual attendants into the country. Before the sermon several children had administered wuto them the ordinance of baptism., Dr. Storrs preached on the regeneration and redemption of man. His text was selected from the sixth chap- ter of Romans, the last clause of the ‘ourth verse— “That like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” This is presented by the Apostle, writing by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as the end of Christians having come into rest, His work, suffering, death and resurrection are the end, so far as human souls know; that like ‘a8 Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in new- mess of life; and this view of the end of Christ’s purpose in coming into the world not only is here presented but everywhere in the New Testament, for as we read the New Testament with ciear and Open intelligence, ready to receive what it de- @lares, we cannot but sce that God in this work of redeniption has put forth His mighty power that He may obtain some purpose concerning man. When we think of the hidden wonders o1 the life of God, of the death of Christ—a death mysterious in its nature—His resurrection and ascension, we Mast feei that the gospel oi redemption is FULL OF WONDERS, ‘We need not undertake to resolve the miracles in the New Testament; they areinherent. We might Qs well undertake to resolve the rock into mist. It is crowded with miracies from the first verse, which shows Him as the son of Mary to the last verse—which shows Him King of Heaven. I look upon creation and see chaos rounded into cosmos, and I know there is some purpose in the act of God, and find the purpose in the creation of human look upon the wonders of redemption, which Burpass the wonders ofcreation. Itis not merely to extend the dominion of human life as it exists; it is for some end higher and more dificult to ob- in, und that end is the redemption morally of that life which is created sac Redemption fs for the moral renewal of that life in God’s like- Here is the end of redemption. If the sermon on the mount is all Christ meant to accomplish, gil these were not needed; but if theend to be obtained was to redeem man, then all were needed. I match the machinery against the result and say the means were not too vast. ‘That we may walk in newness of life, this is the ‘nd of redemption, and it is when this end is ined in men that God is satisfied and rejoices the result and the work. Angels triumph before hot because another is added to the kingdom, ‘bot use the glory of God is magnified. We may find the signs in the soul. Where the mew spiritual, divine life has commenced you find pome time or other indications of it; there is a ay testimony of the love of God, He shows him- to us first GOD OF PowER. ‘We can do nothing but by making God's laws our ‘uments. gif we undertake to work without im, the strongest will is crushed, We feel that is @ God of power, but we never get the jought of God as a God of love until we come to iow Him. The Saviour came into the world to laim it; the apostles take it Pe God is love, id yet we never enter into the living apprecia- tion of that supreme truth in Christ, tht We have im experience, and then we have an cw and Mepis | sense of it, and ‘We feel we can st Daly Fo aay 1% but to Wink is pd Weel aud Waa, we can do that divine life has begun in us, Though weare so finite, so weak and sinful, we are the continual subject of the thought of God, God seems ‘ar off, so Christ comes near. God seems too holy, so Christ shows us His love. So one after another Christ answers all objections, and shows us that God can love us individually. He loved Mary Magdalen, if He loved Peter and John, He loves ys. One by one we single out souls and say, Yes, it is too amazing to believe; but { do believe it. He whom the heavens cannot contain loves us, When that thought becomes accepted there arises a ten- derness in soul towards ti GREAT LOVER OF OUR SOUL. It is only a fool who says THERE IS NO GOD. When the Holy Ghost has revealed Him as love, as loving individually, tenderness arises, and it be- comes our desire to please Him, and we desire more and more to be like Him, ‘Then comes & new happiness—we are free of the universe—death cannot harm us. We love those who are associated with us in intellectual pur- suits, but they may become our rivals, and 80 excite 4 feeling of jealousy; but there never can be jealousy towards your brothers and sisters in Corist. And then we have a new iuterest im the Church of God, The Bible becomes a new book; it was formerly interesting, but now it becomes a book of God, to help us toa knowledge of Him. We desire to please Him in expectation of a day when we shail be with Him torever, These are the indications Of a new life, and those who feel it are obeying the injunction to walk in newness of and the end of Christ's mission is attained, beginning of anew life implies cuange in Men quarrel with the idea of regeneration ‘th soul. as if it was uot to be believed in, The work of re- generation 18 10 COMPENSATE FOR THE EVIL which man has wrought. It is a thing deeper than thought wrougnt by the Holy Spirit, and, though we do not know the moment when 1b begins, but we know there has been a point in which the spirit of God has regenerated the soul, Second— This work ts in its nature progressive, because it ts resisted by so many influences, God, by disciplin- ing man, which seems so hard at the time, breaks him away from earth into newness ol life, which begins in regeneration, goes on ‘in sanctification and ends in lieaven, CHURCH OF ALL SOULS. Dr. Bellows on Our American Instita- tions—Edueation and the Colleges a Sure Support of Our Liberties. Dr. H. W. Bellows delivered a very eloquent ser- mon yesterday, at his church on Twentieth street and Fourth avenue, to a fine Summer audience, He took for his text Isaiah, xxxiil., 6—“And wis- dom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of thy salvation’—and on this devoted his discourse to the subject of “AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS,” He said that the anniversary of American inde- pendence would be celebrated next week throughout the country with the ardent thanks which the blessings of our national life called for. Here, for the first time in the his tory of the world, a race of enlightened men, descended trom the most civilized people of Europe, had fallen hetrs toa virgin hemisphere, unvexed by old traditions, unbound by slavish re- spect of customs or old families, and had set up the new experiment of free republicanism in @ continent almost boundless and unclaimed by any previous civilized people. That handiul of people had increased and multiplied, until it now cov- ered, tiinly or thickly, a territory extending from ocean to ocean and from Pole to Equator. Within its limits was every degree of climate, from the trigid to the tropic; snow-clad mountains, such as the Rocky and Sierra Nevada ranges; mediterranean rivers, thousands of miles in length, and an in- dented coast rich in safe bays and harbors, Ir the 40,000,000 of people are not all prosperous it is not the Jault of nature, God and nature have done their best for America, OUR POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, And when, in addition to these natural advan- tages, we look upon the priceless institutions which the enlightenment of her people has be- queathed toour country—the equal institutions, where all are on an even footing, of whatever race or color, the sovereign States, tree and indepen- dent in themselves, yet integrated in one free ana supreme general government; universal suffrage, which, 80 far as men are concerned, at least, secures to every one his dearest right; no custom houses at the State lines; schools where children are educated by the State; an absolute. freedom of political conscience, so much so that the humblesi among us may aspire to the highest place without finding artificial obstacles in the Way; a religion unbound—surely no land in the world offers 80 radian 4 & prospect to the oppressed and disiranchised of other nations, will pot say that Americans have failed to improve or to realize the great advan- tages and bieweings that surround them. It would cast reproach upon our Saxon origin, upon our en- lightenment, Yo intimate that; but it is not too Much to say that we have disappointed the world of those who in the older countries have watched our experiment. They have not understood the dangers and temptations which nave beset us, THE DANGERS OF FREEDOM, It must be remembered that treedom has its own dangers. An experiment so vast as ours of self- government, one so ideal in its purposes, could not fail to attract to its support those eager alone for self gain and to meet in its new path a thousand unexpected obstacles. The influence of sudden wealti, the lack of old customs and the want ol precedents, the exercise of power by classes unaccustomed to it and other dificulties Without number have threatened its suc- cess, To our worst critic we might say:— “You are not half acquainted with our aificulties and disadvantages. We have aban- doved that respect which the educated feel for old traditions.” They beloag now to the “old school.” The oid aristocracy of culture, the men who loved the classics and were filled with lore, who re- spected art and high breeding, have been pushed from power, and the ruder classes, who despise classics, look only to themselves and the present, and who think tueir own opinions as good as any- body’s, have risen to power, CHICAGO AS AN EXAMPLE. Take a new city like Chicago, settied recently by the rougiier classes of foreign birth and the more enterprising portion of the young men of our own Eastern States, There there are no traditions, no art, no aristocracy, a0 oid customs. Public men are criticised freely, almost libeliously, by the low- est, ‘he law of libel is so loosely enforced that it is seldom or never resorted to. Public opinion is of the freest Kind. Religious tneo- ries are announced on one corner, denied on the next, amaigamated on a third, and all religion de- nounced on @ fourth, Does it not seem that a miracie alone keeps such @ community orderly and free? Yet 18 kept orderly and free by that high view of religion and that tuorough enlightenment of education with which the mass oi Americans have been imbued from America’s early struggles. RELIGION A NECESSITY. No intelligent man in Europe with whom I have conversed—and { have discussed the subject with intelligent men of England, France and ee none of them can understand how religion can be, as it is here, supported by voluntary aid alope, The truth is that it is because the American people have discovered that religion is not police and re- straint alone, but that itis a necessity of life, a hope, @ Jaith, an unwavering support. NEW YORK AND PARIS. Things that would scandalize Paris occur every day in New York, and are recognized as beyond the control of the law. <A celebrated French preacher walked with me some time ago through the streets of New York, and said:—“There is more open vice here, a more general display of indecor- ous proceedings, and greater exhibition of that which decency should hide than in Paria.” ‘Yes,’’ said I, “and there 18 more virtue, more charity, more humanity. While we do not repress vice, we stimulate virtue. We have ranker weeds, but we have ten times more wheat, and vy the influence of widely increasing education we are rooting out the tares.” The best and the worst are indeed found here in strange neighborhood to each other. No place in the world has more charity, a purer public sentiment, more children in the schoois or 4 larger population living in comfort; but we have also paupers in abundance, vicious, untouched bi the law, young growing up in ignorance and ran filth and ignorance festering in tenement houses. OUR EVILS Controlled as we have been by vicious “rings’’ and legisiated for by foreign ignorance, it would be strange if it were otherwise, The :act has doubt- less been fatal to the esteem of our foreign friends, We have not the art, so efficient in coun- tries ruled by one head, of repressing vice, of smothering disorder, of making things look decent on the outside. 1 do not mean to say that we have not an efficient police or an honest Lacey but that we have not learned the method of filming over our vicious spots. The best qualities of New York are hidden under the surface. The worst are to be seen in open day. THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. I know that there are reasonable complaints to be made of the freedom of the press among us. Even some of the announcements of subjects for Sunday discourses in the Saturday papers are scandalous, Foreigners may well feel disgusted at the free handling ‘of sacred topics, the reopening of old questions long ago settled, and the vicious resentation of subjects that should be closed From the public eye. But this very freedom of the press, abhor- Tent and disgusting as it is, educates our people! to know those things which they are pace to mend without being contaminat by them, Pub- lic virtue and chastity have an intrinsic worth, and when brought into contrast with their oppo- sites this worth is shown in clearer light, wi OMAN, In some countries of Europe an unmarried woman is hedged about by sugh conventionalitics that she must be ail her unmarried life under the eye and the protection of a relative, and if for one hour she escapes irom this surveillance and is for half an hoor in the er—that is, in the society— g of any man other than her fathe§ or her prother @ suspected woman. In recent novel, “Ron Cuilingly,” "pea Lyi eovesadas Kas. NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1873.— idea. Such a notion has been completely exploded in America, Here we belicve that a virtuous wo- man is not prone to vice. We hedge her about ouly by her honor THE COLLEGES, During the few weeks succeeding our national anniversary our colleges and schools have their commencement exercises. Here is a pleasant hint of the method oi perpetuating our institu- tions. We have an ardent faith in our common schools. 1 am wiiling to rest my hopes in the edu- cation of the mass of the American people, No- where are educational facilities so widely diffused, T have found teachers in Oregon and California us excellent as in Massachusetts. They may be tound in periection now in Colorado and New Mexico, ten years ago wildernesses. Only recently 1 received & letter trom the Governor of Arizona, a stranger to ine, asking advice as to the educational require- ments of his territory. KNOWLEDGE THE BASIS OF RELIGION. Ignorance, once cailed the mother of devotion, ts only a stepmother after all, rough and cruel in her treatment, compared to the sweet, gentle grace of the true mother—knowledge. hducation and Seience have shown that religion is not a play upon the emotions, the fears aud the hopes of the priest- led and the superstitious, The base of religion is changing from ignorance to Knowledge. Morality is the true loundation of true rehgion, and a Church whieh denies that morality is retigion, ‘uniess 1t is practised according to a certain creed, cannot stand before advancing knowledge. With the spread of knowledge and of education and me developments of science, the American Church will shake hands across creeds and sects, and become Sieowerty), full of truth and ennobled by goud works, WOMAN'S EDUCATION. The reverend gentieman then described his im- pressions, obtained through recent visits to the Hainpton Normal College, at Hampton, Va.; Antioch College, Ohio, and Vassar College. He said at the latter Institution he had been converted by the testimony of his senses to the knowledge that womanly delicacy, girlish modesty and winning attractiveness could be uccompanied by the scholastic learning and the solid scientific drili which colleges gave to young men. He would never despair of the Republic so long as these and two hundred and fifty other colleges were edu- cating American youth to a just appreciation of the great value of liberty, 81. PATRICK'S OATHEDRAL. The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul— The Foundation of e Chureh of Christ—Discourse by Rev. Father McNamee. Notwithstanding the oppressive state of the weather, quite a respectable congregation assem- bled yesterday at the Cathedral, when mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Salter, who, having just graduated at the Troy Seminary and been ordained to the ministry, is awaiting assignment by the Archbishop. The sermon was preached by Rev, Father McNamee, from Matthew xvi., 13-19— “Thou art Peter; upon this rock willI build my Church and the gates of hell shali not prevail against it.’ The minister stated that to-day the Catholic Church celebrated the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. We celebrate that feast, the return of which should excite in every Christian heart renewed attachment to the faith which they propagated, and which they finally sealed with their blood. We should occa- sionally make matters of this Kind the subject of reflection. The more we gaze upon the sublime edifice which Christ has erected the stronger be- comes our conviction, This is the work of God alone, for man could never do it, To have His duc- trine preached and His Church erected upon a solid foundation he selected ignobie fishermen, and upon tnat joundation He bulit His Chureb. ‘she earth or the giobe’s foundation only exists by the will of the Almighty. So with the holy Church. It 18 built by adamant, so that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. His Churen militant on earth had no other feundation except twelve poor — fishermen, Why did He choose these humbie means jor his mission? Because God chooses the weak to confound the strong. He selected ignorance and simplicity to confound tu- selence and pride. te selected these poor fisher- men of the Sea of Galilee and said, ‘Come and bear to all tidings of man’s saivation.” How did they periorm that mission? 1t was done by the simple perseverance of a iew poor fishermen, who surmounted diMiculties and persecutions in their noble work. They preached a doctrine that did not suit the arrogant rulers of their time, but it Was received and formed into one kingdom in the Church of Christ on earth. Of this church Christ is the foundation stone, and _ the twelve apostles are pillars in that edifice; the souls of the righteous and the blood of the martyrs form parts of it, Kings may conspire against the Holy Church; she may seem subdued at times; but it is to rise with new splendor and new vitality. As Moses sprinkled the book of the Old Law, 80 were the people sprinkled with the blood of Christ and his martyrs. Among those who gloriously shed their blood in founding the Church we celebrate two—St. Peter and St, Paul, Peter, it is true, demed his Master, but afcerwards wholly gave his soul to Christ, and suffered death tor the cause he had espoused. St. Paul bore privation and danger in going from one country to another to make the cause of God known of all men, Let us ask those saints to work for the Church, to sanctify our children, to give us grace to be partakers of that endless glory they now enjoy in heaven. ALANSON METHODIST OHUROH, The Folly of the Rich Agriculturist and Its Lessons—Sqrmon by Bishop Janes. The pulpit of the Alanson Methodist Episcopal church, in Norfolk street, was occupied yesterday morning by, Bishop Janes, who preached a brief discourse upon the parable of the rich agricultu- rist, recorded in the twelfth chapter of St. Luke. He said in it the Saviour described the conduct of | a person and then pronounced his verdict upon it. | The verdict was that he was “a fool.” Not that he was wanting in sense, for the wiole tenor of the parable showed that he had intellectual capacity. Neither was he a fool simply because he was rich. There was nothing wrong in accepting and acquiring property if it were used in a proper manner, Religion made men _ in- dustrious, frugal and enterprising, and, there- fore. it naturally tended to the acquirement of Wealth. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich, Nor did the folly of the man in the parable consist in the enlargement of his business plans, for, if our business Increased, it was right to increase facil- ities ‘or its transaction, But his folly consisted in selfishness, in laying up treasure tor himself and in not becoming rich toward God. The acquiring of wealth that we may have the pleasure of counting over our money, of numbering our bonds and mortgages and the stores we have to rent and having it said when we die, “He wasa millionnaire,” 18 consummate folly. This man’s folly was seen in the perversion of his possessions. Worldly things were given to us to promote our temporal comforts and physical well-being and to aid us in the enter- prises of life, whether private or public; but the in- dividual in the parable perverted temporal blessings ,to the excitement of his soul. His language was, “Soul, thou hast much goods laid up lor many years; take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry,’’ dust as if spacious barus, great hay mounds, large gram fields or the money which those would pro- duce could satisfy his spiritual and immortal na- ture; as if they could satisfy the claims of the heart and mental powers and make his soul happy. This Was @ great error in his calculation, The spiritual must be satisfled with the spiritual, the moral with the moral, the intellectual with tne intellectual; and for an individual possessed of reasoning power to sing to his soul such a siren song and to indulge in such anticipa- tions was @ foolishness #0 absurd that it would seem that men could not be found to imitate him; and yet there ‘were multitudes who acted {n their daily life upon the pnncipie, “Eat, drink and be merry.” The folly of this man was further seen in his not meet- ing his obligations to his soul, for it was said to him, “This night thy sonl shall be required of thee.” Many persons, failed to perceive their per- sonal responsibilities for their character and des- tiny. Some individuals depended upon the piety and prayers of their parents, upon the fidelity of their pastor or upon the sympathies and connec- tions of the Church to save them, while others tan- cied that because Jesus Christ tasted death for every man that would avail for their eternal salva- tion, The Bishop went on to say that all these cal- culations were vain; that every individual must personally answer at the judgment seat, and that here each person must for him and herself obtain pardoning mercy and sanctifying grace. It was true that Jesas Christ expiated our guilt and made it possible ior God to be just and yet justify the sinner, but the work of repentance ana faith in Jesus would only be performed by man. Bishop Janes narrated an incident Of his early ministry where a very godly man had prayed for a dissipated son, but apparently to no pul . The father suddenly died, and as soon ab the ‘ward boy arrived from a distance he cried to God for mercy because he had no hope left. He relied upon his father’s prayers to save him, and he feit that he must pray for bimselt or pee The preacher proceeded to remark that he folly of the man spoken of in the parable was further seen in his confident caicnlations on long lite, “Thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years.’ When we saw on almost every block in our business streets ware- houses for coffins, signs of undertakers’ establish. ments and mourning stores, when we knew not but the breath we were now drawing was the last one, and that the day which had dawned upon us might not be followed by another day of probation, how supremely foolish was it to say, “Thou hast laid up instore for tany years.’ In allad- ig to the death of Horace Clarke the Bishop said :— “It is only @ few Sabbaths ago that in city a millionnaire satin council with other capitalist ‘to see how they should increase their als iy great Wealth, and befere Saturday night his soul was Feamizeg of hima pad he was in ciqrnin, Wi Might we ask, in the language of this parable, “Whose shall those things be that thou hast laid up in store for thyself? When the morning paper brought to us the tidings of 80 many sudden deaths, how important it was to meet the respon- Sponsibilities of our souls and to be ready to die! THE NEW JERUSALEM OBUROH. A Sermon by Mr. Chauncey Giles at the Church in Yhirty-fifth Street on the House of Isracl and Its Relations to the Spiritual Mind. The Rey. Chauncey Giles preached yesterday morning a sermon on the house of Israel and its relauions to the spiritual mind, He selected his text from the prophecy of Ezekiel, xxvii, 24, 25 and 20—And there shall be no more a prick- ing brier unto the house of Israel, nor any griev- ing thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that lam the Lord God. Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall have" gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctitled in them in the sight of the heathen, then shali they dwell in their Jand that I have given to my servant Jacob, And they shall dwell safely therein and shall build houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that [ am the Lord their God.” The house of Israel, in its rela- tions to us, is the spiritual mind or the spiritual degree or our being; it is that degree of our na- ture which begins with the beginning of our re- generation, and which grows by spiritual nurture by feeding on the bread of heaven and by drinking the water of life. It Nes within and above the natural mind, which, since the fall, is hostile to it, and which in every possible way secks to hinder its development and to destroy its life. It is as though the blossom should turn against the tender germs of fruit born in its bosom, and instead of folding them in its delicate swaddling garment and feeding them from the fountains of its own life, should pierce and sting them, withhold its suste- nances and in every hostile way seek to destroy them. Itis dificult for us to gain a distinct and certain knowledge that we have the germs of a new and higher order of spiritual faculties within ‘us, @ class Of laculties which will introduce us into a new world of ideas and affections, waiting to be developed, If we could bast this grand truth, of which we occasionaliy catch glimpses, distinctly before us, we should put a very different estimate upon values, and it would change the whole par- pose of our life. But such is the fact, and one of the great ends of Revelation is to make known this fact to men and how to overcome the enemies of this new degree of life, how to nurture it and build it up into a complete and noble manhood. The nature and relations to each other of tnese two de- grees of our life are represented, in many ways, in the Sacred Scriptures, 1n our text this inher and nobler class of faculties is represented by the house of Israel; the lower, perverted, natural degree of our being, by Tyre and Sidon, and gener- ally by the nations roundjabout Judea, * * * The natural mind was create to be subordinate to the spiritual mind, as the material body was made to be subordinate to the soul. * * * The two degrees of the mind were united and made one man, one being; they acted together; there was no discord in the harmony of their movements, no hindrance in their activities, The natural mind was the Eden in which the spiritual mind dwelt, But by the fall these two degrees of the ‘ind becalue separated; the natural turned agains: the spiritual, closed its gates against it, and as far as possible shut of au the streams of tife which it received from it, It became dry and hard, it brought forth thorns and thisties, and the curse of barrenness fell upon it because it had severed itself from the source of its life. It regarded the spiritual mind as its enemy, the spiritual interests of the soul as hostile to its happiness and in every way hindered its growth and Iie. Now, the sptritval man.is born in the midst of e nies, He is a sheep among wolves. Every one who has attempted to lead a good Iie Knows something of the iret and worry to which he exposes himself, He knows there is in every path a thorn or Loisoned arrow a; every turn, He knows he has man: enemies to contend with, that he‘is hindered, that every step in his progress is contested; he is Opposed “and betrayed, and if he were not con- stantly protected by the Lord would be degtroyed, The Lord bas described these cnemies in many ways in His Holy Word; He has warned us against them, and lie has given us many promises that He will subdue these enemies, save us irom their power and restore us to our proper position. “Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people from among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land tnat J have given to my servant Jacob.” This return to their land and peaceful possession of it is to take place when the Lord gatiers the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and when He 1s sanctified in thei in the sight of the heathen. Here are two conditions, one of which depends upon the Lord, the other upon man, But the two proceed together and depend upon each other, The Lord will do His work as fast as man prepares the way for Him by doing his. ‘rhe Lord must be sanctified in us in the sight of the heathen. The heathen are the thoughts and affecuons of the perverted natural mind. The Lord is sanctified in us when our minds become imbued with His divine truth, when we receive it in love and make tt the rule of our lives, We do not fully appreciate the vital, constant and intimate connection there is between us and the Lord. 1tis as close as the connection of the langs with the atmosphere. If the Lord should with- hold His divine truth from us we should perish spiritually, a8 certainly as we should die naturally | Mf we should shut out the atmosphere from our lungs. The Holy Spirit is His divine truth, for the divine truth is not merely a spoken word, but the vyeriest reality, the essence of all things. When we open our hearts to this life-giving substance and let its pure and powerful —cur- rents flow through us into act, then we gin to sanctify the Lord in ourselves. ¢ must bring this sanctifying spirit of truth into the natural life, Where the heathen live and reign. We must sanctify the Lord in their sight. Every faise principle and evil affection is a heathen. Every man who lives a merely natural lie is @ heathen and worships idols. e live in the midst of heathen to-day, Weare al. heathen, so far as we live for the attainment of natural ends. When we begin to sanctify the Lord in ourselves we be- long to the house of Israel, and the Lord can gather us from the people among whom we are scattered. A vital, spiritual power begins to work in us, which pushes its rootlets into the ground of the natural mind and gathers up these dormant and captive Israelites and organizes them into the spiritual mind. These new-born af- jections go down into the memory and gather from it every truth they can find which can serve their purpose. They send their armies into all the border Jands’of th emind; and, wherever they find any truth or affection which they can appropriate to their heavenly purpose they throw the arms of their attractions about it, and woo it and win it into their heavenly ranks. So the spiritual man gains strength for larger conquests, for the subju- gation of all the heathen to its power. Let us sanctify the Lord tn ourselves, by loving obedicnce to His will, that He may work in us this great de- lverance from the fret and worry of little cares and from the continual conflicts with evil. REFORMED FPRENOH CHUROH. ‘Activity and Contemplation—Sermon by Rev. E. Borel. The services of the Reformed French Church were bey Ww. held, as usual, in Association Hall yesterday morn- ing. The congregation is as yet but a smali one, but it includes some of the most highly respectable of our French citizens. Mr. £E. Borel, the pastor, preached the sermon in French, He took his text from the First Epistle of John, i., 4. Among all the great men in the Bible, he said, there were two who represented, after the grand figure of the Saviour, two lives—the active life and the life of Meditation, It was necesssary for them to isolate themselves every now and then from the sordid necessaries of datly struggles, and devote AT LEAST A FEW MOMENTS EVERY DAY to the contemplation of the character of Jesus Christ. Mr. Borel then showed the difference between St. John and St. Paul St. John wasa man of meditation, St. Paul a practical man of action. St. John’s inner life revealed itself even before he became @ disciple of Christ, and then they could also judge him by his works, the Gospel, the Epistles and the Revelations, The results of contemplation were great indeed, but a perfect nature ought to be able to unite both character- istics, those of piety as well as those of action. We could show the magnificent results of medi- tation in the life of St. Paul as well as in the life of St. John; but while St. Paul was alsoa man of action, St. John was eseutially a man of profound thought. All the works of St. Jolin and all that they know of his personal character proved beyond peradventure that he lived a life that was THOROUGHLY DEVOTED TO THK LORD; that he lived with his eyes constantly directed to the person of the Saviour. It was such a strong Le dead of their nature not only to work and to act, but also to meditate, that every man’s heart must be thrilled in looking at the disciple of Christ who looked go deep into the Saviour’s soul and gained such @ wonderful insight into the glorious work of redemption. These thoughts must necessarily have a salu- tary effect. ey bad to guard against the evil tendencies of a life devoted exclusively to matertal deney in tide ago to neglect piety an Feligign fe age to neglect piety and religion for the sake of Le Tn this country, where the raggle T material prosperity was so intense i it becam sultan benefl- aes anu restiess, se e still more bene! SHERT. the apostle of love. In the words of St. John God meant love. He thougat of the Lord, not with the cold mind of the student, but the study of the Saviour was in his very heart and - FINALLY BECAME A HOLY LOVE. St. John’s profound thoughts, his flashes of pro- phecy penetrating far into the mist of the future, ull these made him the apostle of love, the apostle of the person of Jesus Christ, St.John was always the same—his eyes were always upon Jesus Christ, Who was it who broughtjthem nearest to the Saviour? Who revealed to them the inner life. the very heart of the Re- Geemer? It was St. John and always St. John. Did their hearts not thrill with admiration as they con- templated this noble disciple of Christ? In this age where the means of communica- tion Were continually increasing rapidly, where the material ' interests seeme: to absorb all others, it became of _ vital RBreNDS for them to make a great effort in order to be able to meditate and to pray. He did not Say, like Luther, that it was necessary to devote at least three hours to prayer, but asked them to give the Lord at least one hour of PERVENT PRAVER AND SINCERE DEVOTION, Not prayer from tie book but prayer from the heart, There was one thing which they could not and must not neglect—to devote at least a few moments every day to the contemplation of Jesus Christ, Don't believe that this time was lost. They would do their work so much better that they would be repaid even in this re- spect, What noble sentiments of joy, of serenity, of confidence in the Divine merey, did the contem- plation of Jesus Christ not awaken. Take care that prayer and devotion might not become impossible to them in this life of inatertal cares and struggles. Did they not sigh sometimes for some spirituai re- laxation, for some moments in which to occupy themselves with the interests of thetr souls? Let them look ardently for this inner and better life, and might they never forget {In the duties of the world the duties they owed to the Lord, Amen, 8I. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHUROH, The services at this church at high mass were very interesting. Rev, Father Dubresse, 8. J., was the celebrant, and Rev. Father Gleason, S. J., preached his first sermon after the gospel, He took his text from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ro- mans, viil., 18-23. The young brother of the noble Society of Jesus, which has been so prolific of pul- pit orators, was eloquent in the extreme in nig graphic illustrations of the two first grand aposties of the Christian religion, Peter and Paul, and lus exhortations to his hearers to remember that, although “the creature was made subject to vanity,” yet “the creature shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God,” were earnest and effective. Tho choir, under the direction of Dr. William Berge, the renowned organist, sang the “‘Kurie,” *Gloria” and “Credo” of Mercadante’s Mass for four voices, No. 2, and Berge’s “Sanctus” and ‘Angus Dei,’ No. 12. The solo choir in this cnurch, a double quartet, consists ot the iol- lowing :—Miss Teresa Werneke and Mrs, Berge, 80- iss Mary Werneke and Madame Schultz, ignor Tamaro and Herr Hick, tenort, and jacell! and Mr. Stanton, bassi. Volun- teers swell this vhoir often to the number of twenty-four voices. In the afternoon at half-past four o’clock vespers were sung, and the musical feature was a “Tantiem Ergo” by the pro- jific composer to whose care the Jesuits have en- trusted the music of their church, It is a reé- markable work in its mosaic pattern; at times grave and devotional as even Palestine would wish, and anon spirited, brilliant and dashing as ever Lambilotte wrote. For uniform excellence In music commend us the choir of St. Francis Xavier's church, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. CHURCH OF SIS. PETER AND PAUL Sermon by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn—Pri- macy of St. Poter—His Office in the Charch of Christ—Infallibility Not Im- peecability. The faithful of the district over which the Rev, Father Malone exercises spiritual sway assembled in large numbers yesterday morning to celebrate the twenty-eighth anniversary of the dedication of the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Among the audience were many non-Catholics, attracted, no doubt, by the announcement that the Rev. Dr. Mc- Glynn would preach on the “Ofice of St. Peter in the Church of Christ.” After the first Gospel the reverend Doctor ascended the pulpit, and taking as his text the Gospel of the festival, delivered an eloquent and apparently conclusive discourse on the title of St. Peter and his successors to pri- matial honor and authority, When, = said he, our Lord was about to leave the world, He comforted His disciples by assuring them that He would not leave them orphans, That promise He has kept and will keep. At the moment of separa- tion He gave us that miracle of love, tle adorable sacrament of the altar, and before His ascension He said, “Lo! Tam with you all days, even to the consummation ofthe world.” In these words we find justification for the recetved theological view that the Church ts, in some sense, A CONTINUATION OF THE INCARNATION. She is His bride, His immacculate spouse, His mys- tic body. Thus the heart of the Church is not a mere human heart, but the very love of the sacred heart of the SonofGod. And the mind of the Cuurcn is not the mere aggregate of the intelligence and wisdom of the fathers and theologians and sacred writers, Itis the mind of Christ, the spirit of truth vivifying and illuminating it. How biessed, then, is the condition of the chiidren of this spouse, who are nurtured and taught truth by a mother whose mind is the spirit of truth! In keeping with this doctrine is the subject of to-day. According to His promise there must be, after His ascension, in His visible household a head, @ father of the family, @ shepherd of His fock to represent His care, His love and His vigilance. His Church is a kingdom, not invisible beyond the grave, but brought down from heaven, finding its subjects among all the kingdoms in the world, This new spiritual com- monwealth should not be without a visible head, a ruier, a father, a teacher. All this is promised in unniistakabie lanzuage in the Gospel of St. Matthew. He asked His disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of Manis?” And when they told Him that men otherwise learned were merely guessing about His nature and mission, He turned to His apostles and asked them, “Who do you say that I am? Peter at once takes on himseil the right to answer forthe others. As their spokesman, as tueir leader, as their chief, he replies, “T'hou’ art Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus does not rebuke his presumption in speaking as chief of the apostles. On the contrary, he says, “Blessed art thou, Simen Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father, who isin heaven, And I say to thee, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail ugainst it.) Mark the beautiiul analogy. S’mon Peter says, “Thou art Christ,” &c,, and = Christ uses the words, “Thon art Peter,” &c. Peter is blessed in the revelation that Christ is the Son of God and blessed in the change of bis name from Simon Bar- Jona to Cephas, which, in English, means @ rock; in Greek petros, a rock, 80 that it might with pro- priety be translated, “Thou art the rock, and on you, as @ foundation, I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shail not prevatl against it, RCAUSE OF ITS FOUNDATION.” In vain shall the ancient serpent strive to subvert the Church. He may seduce the brightest inteili- ences of philosophers and theologians; but there 8 One rock against which he shall expend in vain all the powers of error and darkness, and that rock is Peter and each of his successors, Our Lord changes the simile, and instead of calling His Church an edifice He speaks of it as the king- dom of heaven on earth, and to St. Peter and through him to his successors he confides the keys of that kingdom. He constitutes St. Peter the key-bearer, the chief ruler in the Chris- tian commonwealth, with full and undivided wer to “bind and to loose’—that is, to enact jaws binding on ail the subjects of the kingdom of Christ on earth, on priests and bist and arch- bishops and dignitaries of every rank, a8 well as the jaity, Again, our Lord tell us tuat He is the good shepherd. And as a gvod shepherd, ever mindful of his flock, He did not forget us after His resurrection; for in the Gospel of st, John, xxi, 15-17, we learn that our Saviour was not content with leery St. Peter as “a rock,” an infallible authority in His Church. He also consti- His flock with a His lambs tuted the shepherd of thrice-repeated injunction to feed and His sheep in the pastures of truth and guard them from the enti and deadly ton turages of vice and error. ‘Feed my lambs ;’’ that is to say, teach and instruct the laity in the Ways of eternal life. ‘eed m: sheep; guard over your helpers in the sheepfold—the Chareb- see that they take proper care of the portions the flock entrusted to them, and them with the Bread of Life, Primatial dignity and authority could not be conferred in clearer or more expressive than our Lord uses when addressing the tes (Luke xxi, 31-2) :—“ Simon, Simon, behol tan hath desired to have you (lu the plural) that he may sift you as wheat: But I have ed for thee (Simon) that thy faitn fat not: and thou (simon), being once conv confirm thy brethren.” It is, therefore, the o: of Peter in ev id every nation to confirm his brethren, to teach what Christ has taught and nothing more and nothing less, to preserve and explain and expound “the deposit of the faitu.’? When we claim for Peter and his successors the right and duty to teach the truth as Christ taught, we do not exalt the Pers? of man; we glorify the divinity of the Son of God, who will not permit “THE FOUNDATION OF HIS CHURCH” TO. BE SAPPED } A Spo oe Paar Ly His flock to be a astray ir shephe: own vicar on eart! o error, When we claim for the Pope immunity frou’ in defi he ie mira ‘om error iy u tratn thet Christ has we do not for Dim, peTRODA} b conclnsion the preacher urged his hearers to p1 that God may soon be pleased to collect all Fr sheep into oue sheepfold. PLYMOUTH OHUECH, Mr. Beecher on the Bible—The Mat a and Worldly Characteristics of the Old Testament—Another Snub of Cal« vinism—The Angel Gabriel Reading Edwards on the Affections—How Mrs Beecher Tried to Imitate the Saintedl Dead, and His Success Therein. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday morning to @ large congregation, but dispensed with the event service in consequence of the warmth of the days ‘The sermon was about the Bibie, His text wag selected from the 119th Psalm and sixty-fourth verse—"The earth, 0 Lord, is full of Thy merciess teach me Thy statutes.” In some sense, Mra Beecher said, the Old Testament may be regarded as a book of intense naturalism, using that term in its philosophic sense. The Bible has am eye to the book of nature, its economy, its moral uses; and it goes out ta observe the relationship of manto nature, Iti significantly called a | Now no man lights a lamp for the sake of seeiug the Lamp. The value of the lamp is that it gives a true interpretion, and thus the word is described as a “lamp unto my feet.” What that light is may be judged when we see how jt deals with the government of man, tha providence of God, the relation of the seasons, the progress of nature and its sympathy with the great world of mankind, In those oid times they did not shut out God so closely as we do, Hig providence extended over all creation, His work was the interpretation of science. In the particular passage I have selected, I have done sa for the sake of the one word “mercy.” I still con« tinue to hear tne Bible spoken of and regarded by some in the light of its comparative sweetnesd and its beauty, But the number of those who thus regard the Bible is, I think, diminishing, I thing there is a great deal more FIGHTING FOR THE BIBLE than there used to be. There are a great many’ more anxious about the inspiration of the Bible than they are about acquiring the spirit of it. There are a great many more persons zealoud about the Book than there are those who habitu« ally obtain a comfortable use of the Bible. Now and then I meet with aman who makes the Bible @ companion, butasI go in and out among cultl- vated people the Bible seems to have its only use in setting men thinking and speculating; but I think ameng the poor and the lowly the Bible ia more and more used—I mean the people who have cares, Who have troubles, who have perplexities—~ to these there comes the experience of the old Psalinist, and they say, ‘‘Had it not been for the comfort 1 obtained trom the Bible I don’t know how I should - have got through.” This action of the Word of God is its mer- cilulness, The Bible has been constructed in such a Way that itis an armory of kindness, @ great Institution of meretfulness, ‘The merctful- hess of its manifest secularity lends to the manifestation of its spirituality. The structural peculiarities of the bible biographies vary greatly trom that of modern and secular biographies, Im BILE BIOGRAPHIES the man’s relation to this world is @ great fact; ite inevitable struggle is recognized, and the happy condition of nan here is exaited. In this respect the Bible 13 a book of political economy, and which juily sanctions and endorses worldiy prosperit; Naturally there springs trom this a line o1 condu recommended that saall ultimate in worldly ads vantage. Iu modern times men are to be con+ straine | to do a thing from high motives, and not for its relatious'p to this world, ‘The Bible does not ask for iis; it lays its injunctions upon the solid ground of well-doing here, Aman could uot do better than carry in his vest ocket, for daily study, the Proverbs ‘ot Solomon, ke would find in them more practical wisdom for the business of lile, ior regulating his everyday concerns, than he would find in any other creatise that comes from the mind of man, Nov when you go to the New Testament, with its higher sance tions and its commands somewhat on a higher plane, are you to leave the Proverbs bellind you, ‘They cover the life that now 18, a3 well as that waich is tocome. Now this is because organized lie is God’s grand method of education. Out of such a secular condition as this you will find that men have sprung up who kave the intensest re- ligious sympathies, Men with moral natures thag have gone deepest and risen the mghest. THE OLD JEWISH MIND has Slways been acknowledged to be to moral ideas what the Greek was to intellectual ideas. This is an indication of great merciluiness, for man could not have developed tua higher uife in any other way. The mercifulness of the Scriptures is Bhown in the use of the highest ideal of life in 4 manner that shall not oppress the great mass of mankind. There is no despotism so cruc! and so little suspected by man as the despotism of the ideal. ‘Ihe glory and the benetit of man consist In his conception and in his ability to possess am ideal. The father is content with the hut, bat the gon has the ideal of @ mansion, and he strives for it, It is the star that draws man onward, ‘The ideai, therefore, is one of those things for which We ought to be thankiul; and yet there are few things that have brought more tor- ment into the world. ‘There is, for example, Cale vanism. I admire it just the same as f admire the Sphinx in Egypt—as asystem of philosophy. AS a system of remedial mercy it is simply monstrous. Yet Calvanism has produced men of hivh zeal and of wondrous devotion, Calvanism takes the tdeol- ogists and fashions them into the Way that it looks at life. But how does it leave the mass of men? It sacrifices a million of men to make one. Look at the men it has produced—at the lie and writings . of JONATHAN EDWARDS. Take “Edwards on the Agections,”’ for instance; it is ove of the most searching vf spirituai books, it Gabriel were to come to earth and were to read “Bdwards on the Atfections,” I think he would say, Ihave not any right to hope. Then there are the lives of good meu, us given to us—men like Payne, Martyn aud Payaon. Why, I think ten years of re- pentance in the future life would scarcely be enough for me to punish me for my folly for trying to be like some of these men. I tried to be Brain- erd, but God had so fixed it that I couldn't be. I tried to be Payson, but Payson was @ scep- tic, and I was not. I tried to be Henry Martyn and be & missionary, but it was no use. I had to give ft up. We have certainly no business to sit to other men’s portraits for our own. You might as well send your neighbor to have your tograph taken, because it was not convenient for you to go yourself, You might as weil send another man to the tailor to be measured for your clothes. The ideal of the New Testament is high :— “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all t heart, witn all thy mind, with all thy soul aa With all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself”? Does any man say he does this, HE IS A LIAR, Never till he gets under the ineffable glories of the Eternal can he doit. Does aman love his neigh+ bor as himself’ Yes, he may when he is sick, and his head is on the pillow. Buta wan may be @ saint on his back and a devil when put on his feet. Men are selfish. The barn door fowl when it finds bread or grain, cackles, cackles, 80 that all the other fowls in the barn may come and share it. A dog finds a bone; it growls and Tuns as fast as it can away to enjoy it by itself, Men take after the dog and not alter the fowls, Men are beginning to see that the Bible is more than ever the book for the lowly, for the common people; that it carries in it the leaven of God's own soul. Do you think this Bible 18 going to be lost ? Yes, when Beethoven's symphonies are gone, and then music will be lost. This world will be gone when the Bible has gone away from it, and the world will have gone because there are no men init. Let us, then, take {t as @ lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, THE BEATING OF FRANK HAVERSTRAW, His Death in Twenty-fourth Street. Ata late hour on Saturday night Frank Havers straw, the German barber, of 340 East Twenty« fourth street, who was so terribly kicked and beaten by @ gang of rowdies on the evening of the 23d inst., at O’Reilly’s liquor store, corner of Sixteenth street and Firat avenue, died at his residence from the effecys of the injuries received. The as- sault on Haverstraw which resulted in his death seems to have been wholly unprovoked, he having been a quiet, peaceable and industrious man. Four men, two of whom are named Larkin, have been arrested by the Eighteenth precinct pollee and held to await the result of a Coroner's investigation, to be held in a few days before Coroner Kessler anda jr Ibis stated a8 an undoubted fact that, one of the prisoners (Larkin) was taking tea at le at the tume of the assault on deceased, and Mf such 18 the case justice eg bee pint cae be. now @: " discharged, Strong sus} 086" Wilitam Larkin, 3 person of bi the man who Killed Haverstra’ efforts are being has kept out of the way since rence. A post-portem examination ts to on the body of ‘Bavorstvaw by uty Coroner which it is believed will result in showing compression of the brain from fracture of the skull was the cause of death. A jury is also to be pannelled to view the remains, which, in this ex- tremely hot weather, requires speedy interment, ———________ ASSAULT ON A NEW YORK POLICEMAN, At about three o'clock waile Officer Michael ‘Winiben. of he vem precinct, New York, was passing the cotner of South First and Sixth streets, he noticed a man man. on the sidewalke “Wilteyaog. $e ag two rescue of the when ienetar a inflicting a ip wi rount