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6 THE DAY OF DEVOTION. Another phase igYnat nttle children are con- ; they belie’ hat they hear. it we ao es ae. as mibine. that the Bible teaches minds it seem. or not. We should receive the siomheteains SACRED ORACLES OF GOD with the most unbounded confidence. The instinct A Selection from the Religions Services | of the cniia should become the virtue of the man. of Yesterday--What Was Said by the par Preachers---The Diminished Attend- ance of Mearers--Clergy and Congregation Setting Ont for Summer Retreats. The Second Coming of Christ Prophesied by Bishop Snow. Dr. H. H. Tucker, of Georgia, on the Simplicity of Religion. The Regenerating Influence of Sorrow and Grief Illustrated by Dr. Bellows, BEECHER’S FAREWELL FOR THE SEASON, Father Kane and the Vic- tims of Anger. Peter's Denial of Wis Master Ulustrated by Dr. Sampson, A Sermon on the Fourth of July Celebra- tion by M. Borel. The Hypocrisy of Society Exposed. by Father McCarthy.” e ALL SOULS! CHUROE, ‘The Rov. Dr. Bellows on the Saving In- fluences of Sorrows and Griefs. The Rev. Henr# W. Bellows, D. D., preached yes- terday morning in his church, at the corner of Fourth avenue and Twentieth street. He took for his text the following pagssage:—‘I remembére ‘God and was troubled,”—Psalms, Ixxvil, 3. Iam Mot quite sure that the psalmist means that he was troubled by the remembrance of God, as the ‘houghitiess and careless are often troubled, yet we ‘know that there were many things in his history which well might have troubled him. If God were ‘only light none of us should dare to stand in His Presence. But happily God is love as well as light; ‘He is mercy as well as truth; He is ‘our fgther as well as our, judge and sov- -ereign, and, therefore, 1f we are only penitent Sor our sins, we need not be troubled. If only hose ‘Conscious to themselves of having served ‘God from their youth up, of having always been dingent observers of His commandments, could Yemember God and not be troubled, how small ‘would be the consolation which the thoughts of God could afford to the great family of mankind! Neither sin nor holiness are often matters of cal- culation among men. Men neither hasten to seek an alliance with God nor postpone their peace with Him with method and system. ‘The fortunate, the vlessed few for whom the divine character and the claims of love, truth and duty have a natural at- traction, who early see the vision of God and are ‘won by it and to it with an irresistible precocity, they do not enter the service of their Maker from the consideration of the re- ‘wards which it offers. but from the charm it exerts, the authority it wields over their con- science and the submission it exacts from thelr will. When hearts are thus touched and won e*~" 4n life they are not uniformly ae. er" hol, are not always spirit thay ¢ # Tule they. They stume gid fo" wien re te guard, . They com ander the temporary dominion Pi Some insliious weaknes%, ‘They have a besct- sing Sif, Ghd, as they |oOk back ‘on their lives, there are spots and “eae upon the web. They, too, remember Gog &nd are troubled. They are Hot 80 much trgvbied at the thought of his wrath and rejection because they fave = not more faithfully and successfully labored to — bene eee hesmet, but because they ines agains! & foodness the adore, and soiled @ purity which the; cannot wholly recover. This, then, is the kind Of trouble ‘Which God loves best to see'at work within us; not the despairing, Hloomy feeling that we have of- tended a red who hus a right to our service, and ‘who, like an eyptian taskmaster, is watching to we je the work we are bound to per- form, nora troubied feeling that we have offended ‘@ just and holy aud inexorable God, who is wholly dissatisfied with anything unlike Himeelf. This Kind of trouble is neitner wholesome nor saving. When love, putting on the ermine of justice, emits from his tender eyes looks of Temon- ‘trance and regard, thea we give over our stubbornness and folly. We begin to accuse our- ‘weives. Ob, love, mighty love! One reproving guance from the meiting eye pierces the sinner as he angry lightning cannot do. In numberless ‘cases the poorest and hardworking Christians are ‘the most devout and sincere. What isa soul worth waich has not suffered? The cross which We are all to bear éu this world is self-renunciation. At liits the Christian from the ground to ratse him te heaven. It marks him as the property of Christ. ‘Those who have not experienced suffering know little of the consolations which God’s favor can wring them in’cases of distress, be or trouble are the most charming lessons of God's ;maercy. Pain and suffering teach us Christ’s love Sor us on Calvary. It is not given toall to drink the same cup which He drank. Welcome then eorrow, suffering and pain, for they teach us to ‘wemember Ged. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST OHUROE. “Simplicity of Religion”—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. #4. H. Tucker, of Georgia. The Baptist church on rorty-sixth street, near Fifth avenue, was quite well filled yesterday morn- ang—considering the fact that the majority of its wembers have left the city for the Summer—with an intelligent congregation. The Rev. Dr. H. H. ‘Tucker, of Georgia, inthe absence of the pastor, Milled the pulpit, and selected as the subject of his discourse the “Simplicity of Religion.” The an- ‘Bounced text was Matthew xvili., 3—“Except ye be converted and become as liti!e children, ye ehall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ Dr. Tucker said that this text 10 many readers presented a serious difficulty. It is addressed to His disciples, and it is supposed that they had been converted. He then expiained that the word “converted” did not mean regeneration—noting ‘the difference in their theological meaning. weant, when he spoke thus to His disc:ples, that ‘they must chan; heir conduct irom that time; meant that they should be more cuiidlike and not #o proud, Jt Was an impressive scene when Jesus wok the little child and piaced him in their midst, using the words of the text. Great is the mystery of godliness when a child is held up as an exemplar to the end of time. The teachings of God are very different from the teachings of human philosophy, ‘The child Jesus took in bis arms was not a peculiar ebild, nor were Lis disciples a pecullat body of men. kyery child and every babe that rests on its mother's bosom, and EVERY RATTLER ON THE LAWN : you see isan evangelist pointing to the teachings of the Saviour ef munkind. God did not choose the great, the noble, the philosopher, but little chii- dren to carry Hie banners through the world. In what respect dees the culld-like character of a Christian consist? The idea childhood, not the real, is held up dor the example. First is the humility. of achild He bas not yet learned to be proud, abd knows not what rauk or station is, ‘ihe negative virtue of the cidid should be the positive virtaé of the Christian. The man of God Jnakes no @istimctian among men of God. The jittic child.is 100 igmotant to be proud and the <hiistian toe wise to be haughty. Children are never afraid to exhibit themscives be- Jove their parents, and they will gambol belore a- Xing as well as a peasamt, so the Oluristian must Jearn vo care as ite for the Opinions of the world, and do his duty, even as Whe child seeks his pleas- ure, *Sis difficult for a middie: man oo pee bie birsell; ‘tis hard jor the stif-necked end self- conceited young man to prectice humility; but it gust be Gone. jo put this off amtil the deathbed comes is fear, and tien it becomes cowardly. Do 4i now, and it is maniy; and instead of its being to Jet oneself Gown tt is gaing up in the scale, Obil- dren can be taught. ‘Shey Jo not rhink themselves ‘wise beyond measure unt) they are grown up; 60 must the man who becomes @ Curisuan be taught. He must sit down at the leet of the disciples and become a learner as long As he lives, Haughty a6 you may be, if you are not Roe in salvation you are worse of than many literate persons, and oblldren May be your Leachers. Jie J» ire gia Jesus | tle children are happy in the promises of their rents. So should the Christian be of the prom- 8 of God, for nothing is too great for Him to do. Childven are happy in the society of their parents, ‘They turn from a stranger and seek the band of the father or mother, especially whe in This is childish affection, and is like the Christian's love. He cares to be with God, and there is no joy ow sweet as the church or the sanctuary. And this is especially the case when adversity comes, and he turns tu Christ, as a child yearns for its mother’s bosom, to find comfort, Dr. Tucker then drew ad- ditional Comparieania with which he elugidated the Banjoct 4 is gene ae ye ra of iC ‘child at the displeasure of a parent, and the early reconciliation which it seeks, 1) we should humble ourselves before God, sue for peace and be glad if we get it on a Ayre spirit of dependence of @ child; 80. Christian should have the same crushing, pressing SENSE UF HIS OWN HELPLESSNESS. Little children obey their parents because it is a command. Our Heavenly Father never commands us to do suything that we cannot see the reason- Rot parley with icy, but oUey ail things and at a 9. times. Never mind whether rou feel uke it or not. As the child grows ify and mental); tending to maturity, so every child of God shoul ERY, ju grace. This growth should never find a jalting place, but be continuous, aa are they the standard of childlike Chris- who come up to tianity; happy are they who come to this model, for of such is the meson of Heaven. If not like this, your march will be to ruin, 8T, PATRIOK’S CATHEDRAL jermon by the Rev. Father Kane=—The Vice of Anger. ‘The high maas services at the Cathedral in Mott street yesterday were, as usual, of an imposing character. There was @ large congregation pres- ent. The mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Kearney, and the sermon was preached :by the Rev. Father Kane, The reverend gentleman took for his text the flith chapter of the Gospel accord- ing to St. Matthew, from the twentieth to the twenty-fourth verse, Ho remarked that Christianity was eminently practical in its teachings; and, as the Gospel of the day showed, God, while giving us truths for the good of our souls, also often re- minded us of our faults, that we might avoid evil and follow in the footsteps of virtue. THB PASSION OF ANGER, to which the Gospel referred, was one of the most dangerous of vices. There were many men who did not give themselves to drunkenness or to dis- honesty, and who believed that they were leading good lives, and yet allowed themselves frequently 0 become the victims of anger. They apparently never gave a thought to the fact tuat they were ah ies 8 ctievous sin when they gave way to |, © ont Rot headean * Seq allowed their temper to Mitte ee rs Were blame!one e Pharisees of en, So thought »v.. i. old, wiro obeyed the law and considered 1. TRE against heaven to cut sticks on Sunday. And you tie Say, one 1 Aisciples that in order to: b Ratan y ShOuld be more just in the sight of God han they. The Saviour, in giving tne lesson He ad given to those who were listening to Him, as related in the Gospel, tanght them that cven oe HURTFUL TO THEIR NEIGHBORS. When this vice of anger, said the reverend gentle- man, was looked at as itshould be looked at, it be- came certain that it was a most dangerous one—in fact the greatest enemy of domestic happiness. It ‘was hurtful not only to him who allowed himselfto et under its control, but it was hurtful to others— those upon wrom the ange asspent, or against whom it was directed. If allowed to grow iu childhood it becomes in years after to its possessor @ Venomous monster—a monster that olten tore asunder the most sacred domestic ties, and often made even ordinarily fearful men imbue their hands in the blood of their fellow creatures. It was told, he said, of an old philosopher, that in order to cure himself from the habit of giving way to violent fits of anger, he had a friend hold a mirror to his face every time he aliowed himself to become violently angry. He hoped that by seeing Woat a change in his face the passion made, Wile jt raged, in the end to overcome the hte % Wonla A ha well, the reverend wen- tlemati remarked, wu f men aaa Could only follow this philosophers esrray £2 auaer would certainly curb their ey — - pom that it made LEASANTEST FAST, mare a careful eyg ur?) hy p front ie 28 Pon him lest in ay tmguarded mo- i? “ught spring upon ug and do us serious or. injury, Yet the man who gave way to flis .. Violent passion was to be avoided as much as the crazyman, There was but little difference between the two—the one labored under a permanent i Sanity, the other wag insane temporarily. We blamed the drunkard for voluntarily allowing his reason to be dethroned and thus putting Imeelf on a level with the beass, yet the man who curbed not his anger was equally to be blamed. His sin Was just as great. e only had to look into the papers every day to see the terrible jruits of the vice. How often do we read that in a fit of anger & man actually kills some dear relative. How many men through it commit some crime which takes them to the gallows? And, again, how many re mpers, for the vice DIVORCES AND FAMILY BRRAKINGS UP does it cause every day? It should be borne in mind, added the reverend preacher, that Christ never gave even His persecutors an angry look. He was ever meek aud humble, a moet for us all tocopy. To Him, then, it was that we should pray for aid and succor that we might not become victims to the vice—that instead we might always be gentile. He had taugnt us to return good jor evil, to forgive those who injured us, and unless we acted as He taught us to act there would be no reward for us hereafter. The reverend gentle- man then closed by earnestly exhorting his hear- ers to curb their passions, to stand up firmly against every temptation to anger, and when the harsh word was on the hip to change it betore it could be uttered to a prayer, and thus conquer the = whenever it threatened to take hold of the soui. The musical part of the services was, as usual, magnificent. THE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL. Bishop Snew om the Second Coming of Christ, Bishop 8. 8, Snow, the preacher om prophecy, discoursed toa limited audience in the chapel of the University, Washington square, yesterday afternoon, on the second advent, taking for his text Revelations xix. 11:—“And the heavens opened and there came forth therefrom a white horse, and there was arider thereon, and the name of the rider was called Faithful and True, for he goeth forth in righteousness to judge and make war.’ This, said the reverend gentleman, was A DISTINCT VISION which John saw in the Island of Patmos, where he was banished by the Emperor Domitian, The visions of “Revelations” are emblems, figures of great events to occur in the history of the world | and the Church, and though John saw the visions literally as he deseribed them, we must not under- stand that they are to be fulfilled so literally. Thus, one vision represents a beast, with seven heads and ten horns, coming from the sea to have dominion over the earth, but It would be avsurd to suppose that God would send such a monster as that out of the sea to become our ruler. a PERVECTLY PREPOSTEROUS! But the figure represents a human government— ) the Papal Koman Empire. The ten horns repre- | sent the ten fingers (7) o1 the Roman Empire, aud the seven heads the seven forms of governinent by which the Rot ire has been ruled in the | cause of its history. But here’s a white horse, with @ rider thereon, whose name is FAITHFUL AND TRUE. This fizure teaches an impressive lesson. It rep- | resents the coming of Jesus Christ to judge the world, He goeth jorth, according to the prophets, expressly for that purpose. Isaiah says ‘He shail fidge the people, and by the breath of His mouth shall He slay the wicked.’’ But does Je: come for this purpose riding om @ white horse? Will the skies open and will He come down riding on @ white horse? Nonsense! When His disciples watched His ascension from the | Mount of Olives, two angels stood py and said to | them, “Why do ye gaze into the bi will come in like manner as ye see Him go.” | That’s just so. He will come just ‘as He went. ‘The same Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary, who died on the cross, who was laid away in Joseph’s new tomb, will return again after He ‘has finished His work above. And He will return just as He went; and when He went He didn’t ride on a | white poreet Pt Ta, lain? pee of anybody help seein, a 0 | ere’s nobody here whi don't understand thar thave 60. 4 ‘ited é It oe be understood that the Book of Revela- ions EMBLEMATICAL. Itisabook of figures, The white horse must, | theretore, be taken in a figurative sense. As the figure is not fuldiled in His coming nor after His coming, then it must be fulfilled before His coming. Mark that point! Don’t lose it! Asitis not ful- filled in His coming nor atter His coming, it must be fultiied before His comtug. Who ever disputes | that is devoid of common sense! It is not possibie for Him to come until He has judged the worid. Some people, THEOLOGICAL FOOLS, place the judgment after the resurrection, That's ail wrong. “Is tt possible?” you ask. Then Iet me | ask you 4 question :- “Alter which resurrection?” for there are two—one alter the thousand years or Millennium, spoken of in the prophets (or millen nwim means just a thousand seeien er ofter the second resurrection. Some theology is mot Scrip- tural theology, and this is an instance ofit. At the Sop Tie maa secon inake' them conduce to the tt e them conduce to the triumph of His wor: throughout the whole world, 4 tis haces that He disposes of all events and that all | 1’8 &xumple. They | public disappears; nO mortal man dies; not éVél NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 1873, death, Wate that point! Beyond that death | vied burden of the public administratton—to em- there is no resurrection. Thig truth will stand though the Catholic and Protestant churches go to destruction, The idea that those who first resurrection will stand to be judged again at the second resurrection is a8 nonsensical as that orthodox opinion that men go to heaven as soon as they die, and, after enjoying the bliss st that glorious place for a thousand corr, Gone ack to earth to be judged on Judgment Day, Is that reasonable? J fail to see it, The reverend gentieman continued at great length to expound theology in tis logical way, and the meeting closed witha hymn, accompanied by the melodeon, THE FRENOH PROTESTANT OHUROH. Freneh Service at the Hall of tho Young Men’s Christian Association— Sermon by Rev. Emile Borel on the Fourth of July and American Inde- pendence. The Rev. Emile Borel, pastor of the French Protestant Church, worshipping in one of the hails of the Young Men’s Christian Association, preached yesterday morning a patriotic discourse of much eloquence and power. Mr. Borel preached on the anniversary of American independence and took for his text two passages in Nehemiah, presenting scenes strongly contrasted with each other. The first was in chapter 1., 8—‘‘And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great afiiction and re- proach; the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down and the gates thereof are burned with fire.” The second was taken from chapter vill., 17— “And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua, the son of Nun, unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.” In discoursing from these words Mr, Borel said :—The ninety-seventh anniversary of the proclamation of American independence has just been celebrated. Nothing has been neglected, that it might have a fitting commemoration. Business has been suspended, dwellings have been decorated With flags and thousands of doliars have been ex- pence on iliuminations and fireworks. Liberty is been talked of in city and country, in the saloons ofthe rich and the cottaues of the poor; and a prolonged oe ol “Long live freedom! coming from ali hearts and from every. vette ide gone up Q 13, from earth towards Him who gives to @ spirit of bondage, but of iree thi an ASS will, Ido not come here to blame these mani- festations. I rejoice to belleve that.in the bosom of this vast people, in this America which 4s no goil for atieism,and which advances (pated Tha from ak ress to prograne and irom one degree of liberty to an- other, there have been found more than one devout Christian who, penetrated with the great thoughts which inspired a Penn and & Washington, have humbly prostrated themselves in these days of tu- Multuous rejoicing before the Author of every ex- cellent grace and every periect gift, togive Him the praise of the freedom which they enjoy. For, in- deed, there, is no power so securely planted, no institution so firmiy established, that it may not be subverted by a coup d'état, a pistol shot, the thrust of ms mer arash act, Thad almost said a pu of wind. ‘Ihe oldest monarchies, like the youngest republics, reel as a drunken man, fall a agd Mom pp times, by al thetretorts, 4 tC} ies, by a! heir efforts, papine erst wwe themseiyes from the ettects o one schock only to exrose ashe enelres, ap OsBers still more terrible, ag the waw’s of the sca « Droken and though they might obey the mandate, “Thou shalt | in. a tempest become re | 5 not it,” vet that they had to keep their passions | agitated by the le ve one make ‘under control, and not allow anger to e them | to find their level. But behind the visible hana, sometimes of princes, at others of peoples, which raises or subverts athrone, which paige or fires a city, which estabtishes or ruins gn pd try, whieh nourishes or starves commerce, which nl kes rr destroys a fortune, there is the invisible hang of our Heavenly Father, which controls at will all these rioqt gets sources of mercy and of wrath which, e i THE DECORATIONS OF A THEATRE, appear and disappear, each in its turn, in that great drama of the ages which began at the crea- tion, to end only with the oath of ine angel of the Apocalypse—that time shall be no more. But this God, who so loved us that He did not spare His own Son, but délivered Him up for us all, toes not act arbitrarily in managing the affairs of this world, arranges them as to It is..1n view of this ings are made to subserve His purpose. Wi inony son ; no worla leaps from ifs OFbItT nd sun is SxiTgulsheds no throne totters to its fall} nore @ hair is plucked from the head or a sparrow fal!s tothe ground. Ina word, He maintalns thrones or subverts them; He st rengihens, Tepubiles or shakes them; He abases peopled Gf lifts them up, according a8 they are obedient to His Word or refuse to bow to His authority. Of this the events referred to in the words of the text, the preacher said, were an indubitable proof. tn illustration he drew a vivid picture of the eariy prosperity and splendor of the Hebrew monarchy under | avid and Solomon, and of the utter | silence, desolation and gioom which brooded | over the onee almost imperial — city of Jerusalem, when Nehemiah, returning, under the authority of the King of Persia, to rebuild its broken walls, waiked pensively, at dead of an | through its deserted streets, He then proceeded :— it has long been a pated of remark that the supe- riority, not only intellectual and moral, but civil and political as well, of the peoples which have the Bible and honor it contrasts strongly with the stupor into which those nations have lalien which neglect or burnit. Look at PROFANE HISTORY. What do we sec on its pages? Neither peoples nor individuals reared in the school o1 the Bible cower before any tyranny, “It is better to obey God rather than men,” sald the aposties; and this Word of liberty, whico, for qo age on re. jected, caused the ruin of eraci, has Made itself felt in the hearts of all men of the Bible, Supported by conscience, strong in the sentiment of duty, nothing arrests them, neither the persecution nor the praise of men. Lisien to William Pepn, who, when told that he might purchase his ireedom and the favor of the King by a few ore said, *‘My conscience does not belong to myself; I cannot sell it at any price.”” See Lincoln, drawing from prayer and the Word of God the strength which sustained him im the gigantic struggle, undertaken in the nume of lib- erty. From this point the preacher went into a learned, historical review o1 ‘the important part Which the @ossession or the non-possession of the Bible had piayed in the history of nations— England, the United States, France, &c. He found in the Bible the elements of all liberty, the true vaine of every human being and his dependence on God. Let these two trutus, said he, have free course in tue hearts and consciences of men, and you will soon see @ generation arise whom no despotism can terrify, neither that of one man, nor that of a majority or minority, because it believes in the living God. Give tiese two truths course, and freedom will grow, in spite of all o) posing forces, and will spread itseli abroad. Vic- tory will remain with the truth; and it is to the Bible that it will pe due; to the Bible, which de- clares that God has made of one blood the whoie jamily of man; to the Bible, which teaches that ail men are equally dear to the Creator; to the to its induence, its spirit, and not to philosoph: Do you, then, desire to continue A FREK PEOPLE? Do you desire that the coming generation be of those which found empires and maintain repub- lics? Do you desire hearts strong, like the Vuri- tans, and ready to put down revolt if t! casiou, or to for the wellare of the State ? Tien read the Bible; spread tt broadcast over the lund; instruct your cildren in its precepts, and you will have citizens iree like their ancestors. Such is the work you have todo, Since you are convinced tha: certain institutions are better than others ior the development of the public prosperity and power, for the improvement of law and moruls, jor the progress of knowledge and reilgton, hoid to this conviction and give it effect with ali your forces, but aiways by Christian egeacies and ina Christian spirit, before God and before men, Em- ploy to this end only straighttorward and upright means, free irom all taint of conspiracy, insurre ton, falsehood and every other baseness. jie eve animated with 9 patriotism, which seeks, withou selfishness, fatiery or ba compliaace, the true | good of pe po § and of humanity entire; never | by that party spirit which yields to the dictation of the crowd; bever by that spirit of ambition which aspires only to make a void beiore itself; uever to | that spirit of animosity or excessive seii-love, which, for a word, a look, agestare, puis arms in the hands of two citizens, pernaps of two repre- sentatives of the nation, who then repre- sent only passion and prejudice. Spain, two essential more to the like effect, M. Borel con. | cluded thus:—Since 1 have received tunis | Gospel from Jesus Christ, I give it to you just as it | 1s, without change, or, as the ApdStle says, “with. out corrupting the Word of God;"’ this nobie and holy Gospel, which, in “ating the liberty of na. tions, condemns, with equal severity, the injustice | of princes and of peoples, the oppression of the | powerful and tne vengeance 0i the Weak ; | THE AVARICE OF THE RICH and the envy of the poor; this Gospel, which Teaches all to seek their rights, whatever others | may oo ee rencies which the divine viess- | ing may attend. The more the principies of the { Gospel on this matter of pudtic and political duty are ignored, misconceived, trodden tnder foot, the “more” it 18 our duty to proclatt | them from the housetop and to enforce | them by our example, More than ever us show ourselves worthy Of our Cliristian voca- tion. As regards the State let us be good citizens— good citizens in our actions, submitting to the lawiul behests of the government, such as it has been given us of God, aod obedient to the jaws, such 48 a exist, despite all that may be yet pebncn | in them; good citizens In our speech, re- spectiulin our judguients regarding the govern: ment which protects us and the society which surrounds; trne, but pros eet a beg but respect- Jul; severe if there be ovcasion, but ‘still respect- Jul, setting ourselves, with miugled steruness and courtesy, against that light, sceptical, railing spirit which assails and undermines, one after the other, all adgninistrations; good citizens even in coming of Jesus Christ all who die in Him wilt rise JIKE 10 THE ANGELS. All not saved throvgh Hing wil die the second | our prayers, giving @ place éycr in the cloget, Alter meh | not be closed thereby. | glty, Jet | and the riches, perors, queens and princes, as well a8 to the Amer- ican, French and Helvetian Republics. Do this with such strength as you may draw by prayer from the holy word of our God, and you not only conserve your own liberties, but you will give freedom te others, So long ag we possess the Bible, what have we to tear {rom war, revolution, barricades and the rage of parties? In the midst of frightful shipwreck, of falling fragmen of broken cordage, of torn satay oe shatteres masts, of creaking and gpening les, what can preserve that liberty which you have gained at so dear a cost? One thing alone can do this for you and your children—the Bible, and nothing but the and exerting’s’contalling powal over the hear and exer' ower over ear the consclence, the will ike iife, i SPRING STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Christ’s Word Making Man’s Heart a Rich Home—Sermon’ by Rev. George McCampbell. There was a large congregation at the Spring street Presbyterian church, Spring’ street, near Clark street, yesterday morning. The sermon was preached by the Rev. George’ McCampbell, He took for his subject “Christ’s Word Making Man’s Heart a Rich Nome.” There were three thoughts to which their attention would be directed, he sald. Firat, the Word of the Lord was a master—_ @ bountiful master aud a wise master—in the house and the heart, ‘The apostle was not slow in show- ing that the Word of Christ was, indeea, attended by practical blessings to the Colossian Christians, How should this Word of Christ dwell in them? It MUST NOT DWELL AS A BERVANT ‘Xie 02, Dor asa sojourner. Very often it was tl for people to change their homes; but se were but sojourning places, not homes, ‘Word, which was to keep their hearts, ought to be the master in their houses and hearte, This Master had the right either to prescribe or proscribe any. thing that abided in the chamber of the hi ‘i heart. He had a perfect right to direct everythin; thatshould dwell in the neart. put upon th Lord at once His sublime GLa of gl all hu. man hearts. ‘Then, as to His being a op Master. A great many kept their houses poorly, but ays Lord would be a rich indweller. In a great many hearta there was no mighty force. ‘Thi be- came evident in a great many hours of temptation. God would fill the entire human heart irom the attic to the basement. 1: took tour things to kee a ship safe ina storm; it must be weil uit, well rouge sure masted and well anchored, In this 8 , TRMPEST OF TEMPTATION they must add totneir faith virtue, and to virtue brotherly Kindness and charity, ‘this was all the ballast of Divine grace. If faith was in taeta they could add virtue ; 1 tuey had faith and virtue they could add brotherly kindness, and when they had all these three they could add charity. There was littie Divine influence in great many Christian hearts—hearts that had scarcely ever felt this bountiful influence of Christ’s Word. These per- sous had not the grace to help others in their atictions, It was not because the person knew nothing of affliction himself that he could not help his brother, but because he himself had felt the verty of his heart when he was in afiliction, ‘Moma rik on wera! Ohnst eae in Very richly ie would say when they has abgn- dance of it im them. rif this modern ae fee was aremarkable lack of religious instruction to tie. guns Not only in their memories ought they to e ABUNDANCE OF CHRIST'S WORD, but also in their experience, It was not when the bloom and suushine of liie were upon us that they en found the most delicate touches of Christ's ord in them, but 1t was in the hours when tley wept that the Divine grace came to help and strengthen them. Then He would dwell richly in them when their souls prospered. Pro: Christians were the exceptions, \~~ iret Merchants, prospering In” odors were plent enough, Ir they {9° cnafevery day was but i progress! im the holiness that came upon them warOligh the Word, thea they could say indeed that their souls prospered. ‘This light of divine grace came down upon them in order to make them wise. Would tl Ye then, have this personal Word be the rich furnisher of every part of their nature? “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom,” This Word had been made flesh, The bau beneld the glo~y of that personal Word in Cai- vary, He was worthy to Keep the house of their saris. lag td they trust Him, and, taking ths vine Ohrist, might they let Him dwell in tiem richly? When the rocks and the mountains were melting away tien they would come singing in the wlory of resurrection, LEXINGTON AVENUE METHODIST EPISOOPAL is « OHUROH. - Tho Origin and Destiny of Rigi Ranks Vo tht Bible and Moxe. Laws the Founiations of Prosrérity—Religious Liberty the KeystGne of Progress. In celebrating thé independence of our coun- try, sald the Rev, F. 8. De Haas, at the Lexington avenue Methodist Episcopal chureh, last night, it is eminently fit that we should say someting on the destiny of that country in the future; therefore Imay take as text, if text there need be to such a Subject, a passage irom the last part of the filteen verse of the forty-fourth Psalm, “Happy is the peo- ple whose God is the Lord.” God isthe source of ail goodness; without His Providence there can be no real blessing. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. It is not by power, but by the Spirit of God that we prosper. We can see @ providence in our prosperity, for we cannot believe the doctrines of the Epicureans, who said that God leaves ihe world to take care Of itself. He that lets not even a@ sparrow fall without His knowledge 18 not the one to negiect us. The God we worship is the standard of moral excellence, and we can never become better than the Deity we worship, but we can assimilate ourselves to Him. It wasso with the nations of old. See the Buddhists, Tueir god was one who delighted in slaughter and in blood, and human striie was incense in his nostrils. ‘The people who worshipped him became. bloodthirsty in their instincts and thought it a dishonor to die naturally, but sought death on the field of strife. See the worship of Venus in the olden time. In Crete, where the homage to this deity was the strongest, the most gacrec of her worshippers were prostitutes, who ‘were respected by all. And here is where we find the difference between the ancient and the mod- ern countries. Tie moral attributes are always the Greatest. See in our country, where the borrencst and most apparently ill gifted portion is, in reality, the most intellectual. ok at Scotland, where, in spite of all dificuities of soil and climate, the people have triumphed and made themseives eminently worthy. See in Ireland. Compare the Protestant portions of the country with those under the dominion of the Papists? Lovk at Prussia and Engiand, indeed, and I attribute their ern to the fact that they have an open ble. Nature’s advantages are greater in Spain, ‘Turkey and Italy than tn, pt ps, any other por- tious of Europe, and yet see the benighted igno- rance which pervades those countries which have | been kept down under the iron heel of supersti- tion. The richest parts of Europe are the most barren, And ou the other hand who sees ships, that can be so called, going out of Fagan ports? Do not the wealth and the power an‘ the commerce of the world lie with the Chris- tian nations? Then when we look at the prosper- ity of ours we must attribute it to this fact. Mr. De Haas went on to deal in some common schooi geography as to the landing of the first bands of adventurers andthe gradual use of the entire country, morally, intellectually and commercially, until the full light of a republic dawned upon and religtoas liberty crowned the edifice. He spoke of the glorious future of the country, and the sptendid destiny which awaited it, standing as it docs in the vanguard of nations. BROOKLYN CHURCHES, a PLYMOUTH OHUROH. | Sermon by Mr. Beccher on the Educative | Influences of HartheHere We Have No Continuing City—Consolation for the Unsaccessfal in Life=What the Bible Veaches of the Uses of Life. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday the concluding sermon of the season previous to his retirement for the Summer vacation. Plymouth churoh will The services will be con- ducted in the interval by diferent ministers, and, during the month of July, by a clergyman of the Methodist Emscopal Church, Mr. Beecher preached yesterday morning on “This Earth {fs Not Our Home,” and selected for his text the fourteenth verse of tie thirteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews—‘‘For here we have no continuing but we seek one to come.” We are not to suppose, said Mr. Beecher, that this is the era of reat cities, City building was more remarkable in antiquity than now. With us the building of acity tollows growth and progress, and while now tnis follows some law, Whatever it may be in itself, there was a time when the monarch owned the people, the weaith and he builded the city as he pleased. ‘These were woudrous In magniticence, and numbers of those cities are now standing as beautiful as when the hajwmor for the iasi time | leit the stone. To the J.ws a city had agreat significance atter their days of wandering aud dwelling In tents, But strong and glorious as Jerusalem was, it was not, after all, A REAL REPUGE, ft was a shelter trou the minor ilis of life. But for the inevitable iis of life, sach as care, remorse and bereavement, Jerasalem was no refuge as against these, and which, after ail, kept mp ® heart of care and a@ life of weariness, ie language of the text was not disappoiutment; i was courageous and hoperul It exhorted men to bnild in Jesus Christ. It says, THE FAMILY AND THR SANCTUARY to those Who are charged with the beayy but en ip effect, give yourself to religions life, which in i tuap Gime meant. when Jully carried Out, ostra- cism. It said also that this Gapetior At 1s accomplished and prepared in lower and La life, There is no e statement of the tal use of life; there is no Mp ae ewan statement in business and uses of eur We are men born into this world. the Bible anywhere of Mortal life, on the r nl and on! 80 far away ‘nom, that which is the fove him? This is Me cond ele n makes up | love. en ig! it a . rinding world; it is a good stimulating worl iis not & restful world. It ia'a world that compels men to think far ahead. Noman is so born that he can avoid feeling the presence of REAT ROUND WORK! lus. It is like a chart, that they are to sail. the country; it don’t cultivate it. Ivis like a sclen- tific treatise; it don’t contain crops—any corn—it is given to the practical farmer in o@ book, that he may go _ out the field and develop corn. There is ture. Re’ school in which God is training men litle. This was seen in the educative influences of the pursuits of life, in the fa relationship, in the pursuits of ambition and the purauit of power, So, therefore, there is no need for the pro- frales tion of & law against man taking bis own Tule, desirous of staying here as long as they can; they are bound to it by their habits, their BH suits and their ambition, to say nothing of general uncertainty of THE LIFR BEYOND. The tendencies of this world, therefore, are | rain orshine. ‘The third element toward an educative process, 80 that men have been foreed to prepare fora life that they did not ‘ow much about. They have not been ilk ye 80 tha’ foundation, Mon have been willing to i al Be SUN eA Maa gic | Bee i crt te? bi ieee Ly KA Y i avg the The flesh 4 9 e a @ heaven over oie tun Of sounds that stimalate men to joys of & purer and nobler character,-and stimulate them to a better use of this life. There was nothing sad- der than what appeared to be the general fatl- ure of bumanity. The death of one good horse makes @ greater impression than the acorn ope hundred men, They have died without leaving any blessing behind, and the world don’t miss them. If we go closer and look at our own life, how little of it is redeemed! One third of sey man’s life is taken up in pre he ig put into the shop for repairs; and then think of the time spent im the mere materialism of our life! How much of life must necessarily be wasted. If these views are true the revelation of tle life to come should be precious to us. These thougits, too, were poe to those who have failed in lie; who, Baer forty or ae are Libel god a place in life, Consol 8 that wlan le anes thei rap iq a wae pe ears ariel ie bery aa be and the last first.” In, Jet us he words that precede thé ae Na are cae to Mount Zion,” &c., and the more triumphant words, “Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment.) 8T. MARY'S STAR OP THE SEA, True Christian Charity=The Hypocrisy of Society—Scrmon by Rev. McCarthy. It was apyarent from the very full atiendance at all the services held at the Chargh of S:. Mary, Star of tue Sea, Court street, near Luqueer, South utooklyn, yesterday, that the ample congregation in attendance there take but little stock, 1f any, in the fashionable requirements of the season which necessitate the exodus of the von ton from the heat, dust and tarmodli of the city during the warm weather. The principal mass was celebrated by the pastor, Rev. Eugene Cassidy, and an excellent sermon was preached by Rev. Father Mé- Carthy, who took for his text the aciuirable Gospel accordiig to Matthew v., 20-24—«at tuat time Jesus said to His disciples, Amen. I tell you, unless your justice abound more than that rihe Scribes and Pharisees you shall uot ente kingdom of heaven, You have heard ek into the said to them of old, Thou oh ie HOE kil iad Mhosoever shall kill au be ia danger of the {ade with a say { you that whosoever 18 Baty ats bother shall be in danger of the judg- * * * Jf, therefore, you offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember thy brother hath anything againet thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go first to be reconciled with my brother, and then come and offer tny gift.” the reverend speaker introduced his discourse by dwelling upon the words of the Gospel, which require that our justice must abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees tf we would hope to be saved. The significance ol the text is very clear, and strongly applies to the SOCIETY OF OUR PERIOD, ms These Scribes and Pharisees, whose justice was so insufficient in the sight of God, were men who walked upright betore the world. To all external appearance they were people who fasted rigor- ously aud prayed earnestly, and were believed to be acceptable to God. But tlits meretricious ad- | vancement in life for which they gained credit among their neighbors was only external, The: were not noble, but were simply zealous of worldly rarer Their git was therefore not accepta- ble when offered at the altar. What God requires evinced in our actions and our charity for our dg hae at all times and under every circumstance in lite. im the Lord's Prayer, which we recite daily, do we not petition God to “forgive us our trespasses a8 we forgive those who trespass agat st us f” Isit not monifest in this petition, “OFFERING BEFORE TAR ALTAR,” that if we have anything against our neighbor, that not alone is our offering not acceptable, but the punishment of the Almighty God is invoked by the unworthy sinner upon himself, How great, then, must be the mercy exercised by God towards the backbiter, the detractor, the calumniator, that they have not been made to feel the weight 01 His offended judgment even in this lite!’ And yet how evalent is the sin of slander and the proimulga- ion of evil against one another dally witnessed in every side! When we ponder upon the lives of the carly Christians what a beautiiul example of divine love aud charity we perceive! Where has that Christian charity goné to? In our period do we not behold, alas! how many, who blatantly profess to be pious Christians and memvers of the Church of God, who are really vile hy oc. ites, “whose justice doth not abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees?” Without true justice and charity how can we live in harmony with each other ? How can we trust one another in any par- ticular, and what is to become of society unsup- ported by justice burn of Curistian love? ‘lie rev- erend genticman laid stress upon that most wide- spread irreligious custoin of EVIL, GOSSIP AND TALE BRARING. Scarcely can a group ol three persons assemble ere story-telling and grossly exaggerated and highly colored accounts of what some m yr said in confidence to another (engaged in rayal of the Ba! form the subject of conversation. Charity, which shouid command silence upon the subject of the neighbor's Jauit in tl heart of the true Christian, has no share in the considera- tion of the Pharisaical evii news vender o! the day. To those who have given too much scope to a venomous tongue in speaking of their neighbors’ fauits the speaker urged that they should cxercise reat survelllance over that uncharitable member jor the future, and that they should look back upon the tran ions of their own lives aguinst the law of |. Then would it be made clear to them that their offering would not be accepted at the altar while they were at enmity with any of their fellow men, ‘they should remember that their trespasses will be Jorgiven only as they for- gv thoze who trespass against them, Urging his earers to purus truly virtuous and Christian lives before God and their neighbors, the speaker concluded his remarks. PIRST BAPTIST ORUROE. Peter's Denial of His Master=The Analy- sis of Love—Sermon by Dr. Sampson, The pulpit of the First Baptist church was occu- pied yesterday by Dr. Sampson, President of Rut- gers Institute, New York. He chose for his text the twenty-first chapter of John, middie clause of the seventeenth verse—"Peter was gricved be- cause He satd unto him the third time, ‘Lovest thou Me?’ Undoubtedly a moment's feflection would lead us to feel that weil might he be grieved. We never grieve uniess we are severely dealt with by @ friend; it is not sorrow. It always compels us to thonght, and we ask, why does my frient thus? We remember that Peter had three times DENIED HIS MASTER; he had said if all these deny Thee I wili not. So he was asked, ‘Peter, do you, who have turee times denied Me, love Me more than all these” Then there was something in the language—Simon, son of Jonas, not Peter; as if to say, are you not the same man I kuew at first? Do you love Me at all? Obrist had told His disciples to meet fim at Galilee. True, Christ met them twice beiore He had met them at Galilee, but they should not have doubted. But Peter said, “Let us go a ere | Christ has not come, No wonder Christ sald Simon son of Jonas, The third tinge it was not ‘ove, but friena, Peter bad said twice, | iove Thee; but when the third time the tdea came back to hin he took the Lord’s word in his reply, ‘Now it may be the spirit of the disciples reigns in us, it mag.be Christ 18 coming to us to-day and 1s making the question personal an‘ is putting this question to you and J, andif it is so and we have reason to believe it is, then the question implies that we are to look Inio the idea of love to Christ and understand its nature. We wil look first at the NATURE OF LOVE to Christ and, second, the outward indications f it. ° We are abt to think Jove e simple emotion of the stad gongision yere | Father; of us is a holy and enduring love, and this must be | be | mind. It is not so. into | we will briefly notice the outward exp! no | disinterestedness in the opnject religion except in the active force of men’s na- | tions are set. That is not a besetting sin. Men are, as a | power of contr Belt- ate a on ® Hants cai na voget trough fi rhesei thyself;"” the Aj | Ny ts com There three ents. The first element is intellect ppreciation. We cannot concetve of love t appreciation—that is, love of congenalit lov second, I suppose, tude. For pose ou are on board ; a rol it the 18 baves your D our love through the Old and New Testaments is aaa through the power of that emotion. We lor im because He first loved us, ‘The thir element is doubtless the will, submission ‘4 ie b hus gained | will. Ihave never used the term ‘“ovey” ii ‘nus, being | marriage service, because it is not Scriptural. is strange such @ mistake should be made by the slators. Jt 1s not “obey,” but it is simply “de- r.”” There is no genuine love, then, unless the will mY times of necessity yields Now when we THE G D LOVE AS CHRIST LOVES about him. Religion is in itself light and stimu- | we come to the third clement. The canines shows men where | would have loved Him when He was clothe Itis like & map that describes | in purple, but when it became His will to be crucified He told His alsciples to deny them- selves, to follow Him, Now I am sat shat these three clements belong to genuine love. Now Ai ression— on which our affee- The disciples loved to see men nis pot sympathy outside of these. | wealth join the Church, and when they de| 'd Biould be used asa Sraining school—a | asked sorrowiully, How is the Church of Cora to ior a higher | be built up? Au when mothers came with their. babes the disciples turned them away, and Christ ‘was ob! to Say, “Suffer little children to cot anto me, and forbid them not, for of such is th kingdom of heaven.” Christ sald to Peter, “If ‘a8 love Me feed my lambs.” The second baer deg over our impulses. Christ, for second time, says to Peter, ‘Tend my sheep.” It @pity the translators nave not preserved it 60} it have little to do but tatty, the same always, 8 is {ul to do, that tells of love to three final remarks—is not this a ination? The ancient Greek . le Paul says, “Hx 1 Fesne Ou. e | jest Lol # never would hav thought there was ne for self-examinatio) ie e the aviine before. you ing, “‘Lovest. thou Me? isit Me you love?” and third, “Do you love me?” ¥ LOVE IS AN ACTIVE PRINCIPLE, which leads men to do. Second, here is the power to decide doubtful cases, How can fol decide whether Peter loved the Lord or not? Well, has he got one of these elé- ments? One may be gone and yet he have the rest. Are you stead/ast in your place?—then qo. love, Are you desirous to do what you cant— hen you love. But see the value of having ail, 80 that we can all, when the question comes up, answer, “Lord, Thou knowest I love 'Thee,? Lid the world and rejoiced in byroureclveat pane THE PULP‘T UP THE HUDSON. tae = the | is “tend,” not “feed,” shepherds tending shee) watch night and day ste: De useful, wa! Phare ont -6x ‘THE OONOREGATIONAL OHUROH OF POUGH. KEEPSIE, Sermon on the “Sabbath” by the Rev. James C. Beocher=Sunday Not To Bristle with Prohibitions or To Be Desecrated. by Pena: st a > OUGHRAMPEIR, N. ¥:, July 6, 1878, The neat and tastefully designed edifice of the Mill street Congregational church of this city was filled by au attentive and appreciative assembly this morning, when the pastor, Rey, James 0, Beecher, brother of Henry Ward keecher, de- livered one of his characteristically forcible and: impressive dizcourses. His text was trom Galla- tians, v., 18—‘‘For, brethren, ye have been called into liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion ta the flesh, but by love serve one another.” The reverend gentleman sald:—This is a standard text Whenever we interpret the strict law of the od: stitwent by thé apirit of the Gospel. It te the, dividing line between” a TIGERTY AND LICENSE, Thore is no release from the bond Of Iaw, except the stronger as Well'ag ‘broader law of love. When men are impelled trom within to do rightly they pistes contibgnd from without. ‘The letter of the law 18 Tulfliied because the intent of the jaw ts put into practice. Bearing this in mind we are ready to consider HOW CHRISTIANS SHOULD OBSERVE SUNDAY} not as bound by the letter of the law, nor yet as holding the law in contempt; rather honoring it ag men best honor all law, civil or divine, by in- telligently considering the intent and fulfilling the spirit, ar aan HOW JEgus Ker SABBATH DAY_ - ‘we have amplé Information. How-the apostles and early disciples kept, at first, both seventh day and first day, we have sufficiently learned, and how, very soon, by an instinct or inspiration the seventh day merged iuto the first, not by any formal edict nor at any marked date, but as plainly an accom. Plished fuct as noonday is an accomplished fact. alter twilight. ‘his we have learned from many: witnesses. By the unbroken testimony of 400 years we have learned that every Sunday observance in-- volved, first, rest from unnecessary work; sec- ond, gathering together for social worship and ~ ligious instruction; third, a sociability temper 5 purified, inspired ‘by all that the day commemo- rates. Doubtiess these three are the true princl- ples of Christian Sunday observance. . PUBLIO WORSHIP, We properly retain the name. It were well to retain the thing itself, and that we largely fail to do. In the more liturgical churches we are pain- fally deficient in opportunity—more deficient still in use of what we have, THE LITURGIOAL CHUROS to an extent, provide opportunity, Much more successiul in respect to the use of it. The thing is to have the churches imbued with the spirit of warship; the meas of its expression will not be wanting. Remember, we Prope come to God's house to worship God, not solely or prima- miy to hear sermons, It would be ninepemya lf it were not stupidity, which has learned to 7 singing, the lessons, the prayers “INTRODUCTORY EXRBCISES.”” x They are the life and inspiration, the sum and sut® stance of public worship; they are the sun and the rain and tue atmosphere; yea, they are or supply the very power of growth itself, e sermon is but tl It is true there are preachers 60 ited #0 magnetic as to lit up a whole congrega- lon after dead “introductory exercises,” Such fare few and far between. But audiences have MAGNETIO POWER, if they will, as well as preachers; more becauss there ure more to generate it. Stupid peseenien is as like the fault of the audience as of ti reacher. It should be the aim of every charch to bang more ad more into play the element of worship. I de- sire to hear More and more the voice of our con- regation im every act of worship. I hope we arn in due time to pray together as well as read and sing together, which we already do so pleas- untly; that the word I speak may be more and more the direct answer of God to the prayer of the Church; not a preacher preaching what has been wrought together at haphazard, but the pure Word of God, going direct to the very hearts whence the prayer came first. This is public wor- ship for Sunday! HOME LIFE ON SUNDAY. The day is sacred to ietgions sociability. Just what form and shape this shall take I cannot de- fine for another. You should not blindly accept definition one frum another. Anything like A BILL OF FARE FOR SUNDAY FESTIVAL had better not be attempted, Familics alffer in the elements which compose them; weekday em- ployments differ; some permitting, others forbid- ding much social intercourse between members.. Men and women differ broadly and constitutional 4s vo their mental stracture and spiritual need. You might as well make @ schedule for flowers to grow by or biris to by as to frame minute Tules for a Sunday at home. Yet for general prin- ciples, pcsitive and negative, we are at no loss. NOTHING SHOULD BE BNPORCED which makes the day a burden to old or young. Nothing should be permitted or wanted whicb antagonistic to religious impression. 1 do not say. which has not an exclusive religious element. Far from it! “Holiness upto the Lord” is written in many another language than the words them- selves, The deepe: reetast, most life-giving in- spiration of the spirits come as the winds come, THROUGH FIKLDS AND FLOWER GARDENS, to be redolent of odors, over mountain tops and under cloud shadows; fire-cleaned by light- ning and washed of rains. Just so comes the the ing of the spirit oi God through all the relations of the householi—over the heights and depths, through tle SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS of family life, until it has gathered somewhat of all these in itself and combines in Itgelf the whole of the fi life, 1 would not make rae of joy and love a burden to children—to bristie wih prohibitions or to be desecrated by penances, THR NARROW PATH is better marked and bordered by flowers than guarded by thisties, more ally if thisties en- Some on the walks, as they invariably do. 1 would but are not: ez OVERDO ATTRNDANOE AT CHURCH. Por workingmen, whom the week separates from wite and children, one public service is enough. Through these Summer months you have all out doors for evening service, Take your wives and children wherever grass grows or water rams oF trees rustle, THE STARS OF HEAVEN are better lights than the jets of a hot audl- ence room. femember, ‘horeme religion of the household as well as of the church—@ revelation through wives and children as be ae ie, Yes, it isa pon a bey ge = ve of every sort. Cleamsed, per! by these, the Tilgt comes peaoetnlly to end the day, but not its influence, It iss benediction on the whole week, It reaches out ite arms in pro- tection and bi tH meet the ere ing hands ofte bel CBee Bay, sha one bun “4 clasps hands with the next as bot on the Week days wuleh intesvene 6 beam © -—