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8 GOSPEL GLIMPSES, Religions Worship in Country and City, Church and Wood. —_——- SEASIDE SACRIFICES. Worship of the Fashionables and the Fast at Long Branch. Br. Ormiston on the Chances of Mankind in General of Secing God. Interesting Church Dedications in Harlem and at Astoria, with Addresses by Archbishop MoOloskey, Bishop Loughlin and Others. ++ DR, DURYEA’S IREAS ON SAVING SOULS, The Humanity of Christ and the Sympathy of Suffering. Bishop Snow’s Depiction of the Grand Crash of the Universe That Is to Come—His Fury Wasted Against the Press. Metropolitan churches are once more beginning £0 present in their interiors on Sundays an appear- ance iudicative of the existence of popular piety. The pews are more crowded. The sermons are preached in a more cheerful tone. The contribu- tion plates wear a more cheerful appearance. The shoir assumes its old atr of amour-propre, and the sexton his most stately and most gracious manner. ‘The camp-stools once more begin to encumber the ‘aisles and people who pay pew rents hold their heads as of yore higher than those who occupy the camp-stools, The evidences of this reaction from Summer cus- fom, however, are as yet but slight. True, yester- ay was a cool and balmy day, breezy and sun- shining like, in which the great populace poured put of doors, and tended ina strong tide church. ward; but, then, at the seaside there was also a large crowd of worshippers assembled, and also in the woods at Merrick, where were held the last services of the crowded camp meeting. When these luiterers with nature have returned, and not till then, will the metropolitan ewhurches be alive with their ordinary working fervor, for they supply what after all is a great use 8o religion—money. The cooldays of Autumn, how- ever, seem scarcely inclined to hasten their coming Any more than is their wont. The sermons and bervices sketched below will, however, be found to possess a good deal of un al interest. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Bermon by the Rev. P. 8. Evans, on the Preaching of St. Paul the Apostle The Doctrine of the Crucifixion and Incarnation—“We Preach Christ Cruci- fied.” ‘The congrogation assembled in the neat and ac- vommodating Central Baptist church, West Forty- pecond stréet, yesterday morning at half-past ten s’clock, was not large in pointo/ numbers, but com- prised some very intelligent looking members. The preacher of the hour was the Rey. P. S. Evans. He whose his text from the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, the first chapter and twenty-third and twenty-fourth verses, viz.:—“But we preach Ohrist crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolisuness, but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Obrist the power of God and the wisdom of God,” The Rey. Mr. Evans opened his discourse by say- ‘tng that there was ONE TRUTM ONLY, @pon which the whole Christian Church based its dogmas, and that was the crucifixion, That was what the great Apostle of the Gentiles loved to reach, and, except from the lips of Jesus himself, Rover did such words issue from the meuth of any tiving man. The preacher here culogised St. Paul, told the fongregation of bis nobility of character, the grandeur of his gesis and his tutellect, and the publimity of his conceptions and aims as an apos- le of Christ. St. Paul, however, did not preach umMan nature to the multitudes, nor did he dwell upon the dignity of man to any extent, although he himself was the best specimen of a man, even per: haps before bis conversion, that the world has pro- duced. But alter his conversion, when taught by the Spirit of God, he soared above all his contem- orarics, He tells us bimseli of his conversion, in he words of the text, “I had not known what sin We if the law had not said thou shait not covet.” Phis stricture upon the COVETOUSNESS OF THE HUMAN UEART brought him to a sense of sin aud of the desires of his heart, and yct he wasa noble, high minded man, of unmistakable zeal, Soctety was then almost as itis now. There were open sing and secret sins as there are now. The present is but a vague copy of the past. There were systems of philosophy and mythological and saperstitious ideas which in tune lost their light and weight before the preaching of the tent makers of Tartarus and th Galilee until they became like the empty shell of the crysalis when the buttery lias attained its | proper facilities to leave it. St. Paul did not preach salvation attainable by ‘Dne's Own executive power, but through CHRIST CRUCIFIED. He did not, however, preach Christ ag a model, pr he knew it was tmposzibie to imitate Him, but preached the law and spowed us we were bound w keep it, The goiden gates of heaven, he knew, ‘Would be thrown open to the sinless—to those who could challenge God, man, the angels and the as. to find him guiity of wrong-doing by wilful juten: Paul did not preach Christ crucified os the only hope and source of salvation. He shows us that He gied not so much for sinners agin the place of sin- Bers. His death is but the doctrine of the substi- uted sacrifice—jor the law had to be tuitilled and the justice of Gou satisficd. He preached, tn addi- ton to the vicarious suflerings of Christ, the suffer- ines of the Divinity that was within Him, The Son of God was known by two names—by Christ from ail eternity, and by Jesus ivom his birth, Christ suf fered and died in His divine as well as in His human nature. Some persous tear to believe in His @ivinity When they coine io contemplate Him HANGING IL S 1 88, ly God! my God! why ast Thou jorsaken mer’ “But tell me not,” said the preacher, “that it was the divinity united w'th the humanity of Jesus that fed the 5,000 in the desert and walked on the ruriied waters of Galilee and called forth Lazarus from the grave; teli me not these things if you ure going to separate that | givine nature from the man-God at Lis last mo- ments on the cross, Ah, yes; the saving power ‘wes in the divinity of Chr and at no time ever gince he became incarnate was it sevarated from it. Paul preached these things, not as a mere the- plogical abstraction, but (iat men might come to Christ.” The eloquent preacher concluded with a or but very impressive eulogy on the great mys- ry of the Incarnation, which is like thousands mysteries connected with our very existence, u jomabie, yet incontrovertible in its certainty, 8T, JOHN'S METHODIST OHURCH, The Rev. Dr. J. B. Wakeley on the Gospel of Christ, The Rev. J. B. Wakeley, D. D., preached yester- fay morning in St. John’s Methodist church, on West Fifty-third street upon the saving power of the Christian Gospel. The speaker said that it was singular that during the Egyptian bondage there were no prophets, Moses came near the close, “Go preach the Gospel to every people,” our text, was both a command and a propliecy. It refers at that time particularly to the Gospel’s being preached in the Roman Empire, whfch extended over the greater portion of the known globe. The Word “Gospel” bad a broader and fuller meaning. There js NO NOVELTY ABOUT THE GRAND OLD GOSPBI4 There were a great many gospels in the New Testament days, ‘There are new ones now. Mor- Monism, Millerism and Spiritualism are all within the memory oj men. Pe: ple are about ready for a Dew gospel, and I believe tat thore will be w new one within @ year, ‘here is an erroneous {dea that no matter what a man believes Bo that he is Mobcere hie is dping rigut. Sincerity does Lot sanc- fiskermen of | tion error, As a minister of the Gospel I have no right to preach saree: but Jesus Christ, This is an age of infidelity. Gospel of Jesus Curist te not a new thing, bat for it have been fought. There is no need to urge upon you the sacrednegs of this book. 1t was borg in heaven; when it was written THE HOLY GHOST TURNED AUTHOR. Its subject is eternal life and eternal death. 1tts ‘8 glorious Gospel. It is pentose It 1 not possible to add another color the rainbow without dimming all the others, It is adapted to all the World. Paul was proud of the Bible. It is called the basis of the kingdom because it prepares humanity for heaven. Its autnor said that be preached among all nations, me after Hts death saints were found in Cwsar’s household. Then came the Dark Ages; then the martyrdom of tho Aibigenses; then John Wycliffe, the Morning star of the Reformation. This grand old Gospel came wo-America, The Gospel 1s NOT A FAILURE. Look over this country alone, New churches May be seen on every hill, Voitaire said that “christianity was in its twilight,” but it was the twilignt of the dawn. The very presses from which bis infidelity went forth soon after were capi ree ae in printing the Bible, Of all the boons whic’ has ever bestowed this Bible 13 the greatest. Walter Scott, author of many Looks, said, “There Js only one book,” DEDICATION OF 81. OECILIA’S CHURCH An Imposing Ceremony=—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Spalding=—The Civilizing In- fluences of the Church—Address by the Rev. Father Flattery—Arehbishop Mc- Closkey’s Reply=Lecture by Dr. Me- Glynn. Yesterday wasa day ofjoy and jubilation for the Catholics of the northeastern portion of Manhattan Island, especially for those who belong to the new church which Father Flattery has erected at Sec- ond avenue and 105th street, The announcement that the Most Reverend@ Archbishop McCloskey would officiate induced many Catholics from other parishes to be present, At halfpast ten o'clock A. M, the procession of cross-bearer, acolytes, priests and Archbishop formed ana marched with solemn step to the main entrance of the new church, where the Archbishop prayed and intoned the ‘As- perges Me.” The procession then walked around the exterior of the cpurch, the priests chanting the solemn strains of the “Misertre” and the Archbishop sprinkling the walla with holy water. On returning to the church entrance the Archbishop repeated the Antiphon, “Asperges Me,” and offered np A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER, asking God to purify and preserve undefiled the temple which he was dedicating to His holy ser- vice. The Litany of the Saimts was recited aloud as the procession walked up the middie aisle to the sanctuary, and formed on either site of the nigh altar. During the litany the Archbishop solemnly blessed the church in the following words:—“Ut hance eccesiam et altare ad honorem tuum et nomen sancte tuae, Cecilie, purgare et vene dicere digneris” (that Thou mayest deign to purify and bless this church and altar, erected to Thy honor and to the name of Thy saint Cecilia) ; and the assistants priests responded, “Te rogamus audi nos” (we beseech Thee, hear us). The Archbishop said a few short prayers (the priests paying chanted tho psalms cxix., cXx. and CXXi.), ond spriokies the inner walls 01 the building, repeating “ASPERGES ME.’ After the blessing of the church porary frame buliding, ts neat an: Archbishop and priests retired to vest for the high mass, and re-entered the sanctuary preceded by acolytes and thuriier, TUE SOLEMN HIGH MASS, coram pontifice, was sung by the Rev, Father Mooney, St. Bridget’s, assisted by the Rev. Father Canary, St. Gabriel’s, deacon, the Rev. Father Fiood, St, Teresa's, sub-deacon, and the Rey. Father Flattery. pastor of St. Cecilia’s, master or ceremonies. In the sanctuary were seated Arch- bishop McCloskey, Father Healy, St. Bernard’s; Father Gockeln, St. Lawrence's, Staten Island; Fathers McCarthy and O'Flaherty, Church of the Holy Croaa. Tue music of the mass, Giorga’s, was rendered in @ Very creditable manner by the choir,under the direction.of the organist, Proiessor Kistnger, The solo, ‘Veni Creator Spiritus” was sung in splendid style by Miss Fitzgibbons; and the “Tantum Ergo,’’a solo by Misa Doherty, was such as to elicit the involuntary applause of a celebrated organ builder who was present. Aiter the first gospel the Rev. Dr. Spalding de- livered an able discourse on the Church as the civiiizer of the world. He proved that, although St. Paul told the Athenians 1,800 years ago that God is not shut up in a temple, that the carth ia His footstool, the universe His temple—still, mate- rial temples, euifices set apart for His worship, are absolutely necessary, not for Him, but for us, who are 80 subject to sense that our most spiritual act, or thought, presents itself as an image of something outside our minds, Moreover, tne Christian re- ligion must have a social character to adore God as the Lord of social life. Common sense tells us that 1fa number of families be without a temple to wor- ship tn, without a priest to minister to them, they speedily lose the faith. In the church THE NEW-BORN INFANT is regenerated in the waters of baptism; in that sacred edifice the youth and maiden plight their irrevocabie troth; in iteven after death the last oilices for the deceased Christian are perlormed. Thus the Church makes haman society great and grand and lovely, In the Church we proclaim the highest liberty, the liberty of the soul, to act only in obedience to God's laws and despise the coward doctrine that might is right. In the Church is taught the true doctrine of universal irateruity, which has its origin in the universal father- hood of God and motherhood of His holy spouse, the Cuurch, The house of God should be a living expression of man’s love for His Creator. The Church should be the home, as she has ever been the patron of the fine arts, Those who object that music, paintings and grand ceremontals make religion sensuous, should remember that God speaks to the senses, that He makes “the invisible manifest by the visible.” The parishioners of St. Cecilia have not as yet been able to realize their dreams of a grand temple, but by bearing in mind that sacrifice is the test of Jove, and that he who gives to the Church merely “lends to the Lord,’ they will complete the holy and noble aud divine work which the Archbishop solemnly blessed to-day. THE REY. FATHER FLATTERY ascended the altar steps at the close of Dr, Spald- ing’s discourse, aad thanked the Archbishop, in the name of the parishioners of St. Cecilia, ior bis Kindness and condescension in oill- ciating at the opening of the new church. “The Archbishop's lumiiity,” said he, “in coming to our poor and hamble—I had almost said— shanty, is not unlike that of our biessed Lord, who does not disdain to come antl dwell on our altars,” Betore giving the last blessing the Most Rey. Arch- bishop congratulated Father Fiattery on the suc- cess (hat had so far crowned his efforts in establish- ing the hew chureh, which, he hoped, would be but @ prelude to something greater and grander, congiatulated Father Mooney on being the tirst to celcbrate mass in the sacred edifice, and the parisutoners on that happy day which would, he predicted, be the foreruuner of others of blessing aud happiness, In the evening the Rev. Dr. McGlynn lectured on the divine mission of the Church, As his text he took the concluding verses of the Gospel accordin; to St. Matthew—"Go ye, therefore, teach all nations,” &c, tis analysis of the goodness and intelligence of the Church was forcible and happy. The goodness of the Church is not the aggregate of the virtues of the faithful, either ol the past or present; it is the goodness of the heart of Jesus which vVivifies his mayeticel body :— “Lo, Lat with you all days,” &c. The intelligence of the Church is not the combined inteiligence of her doctors and theologians; it 1s ‘the spirit of which, for a tem- attractive), the trath,”’ which quickens her and teaches her ali truth, The use Of Ubrist, endowed with the source of eas, can do no wrong; illumined by go 3, the rays of infinite intelligefice she can teach no error. Her mission ts to all nations and for ail ages. And the end will not be till all are gathered into one fold and obey the voice of one shepherd. The faithful should pray to God to hasten that day when the “gther sheep,” of whom the Good Shep- herd speaks, will obey His voice, CHURCH OF THE PROFITLESS PROPHET. The Grand Infernal Crash=Sermon by the Rignt Rev. Bishop Snow. The Right Rey. Bishop Snow, of Mount Zion, preached yesterday alternoon in the University at Washington square on the “End of Antichrist and that Time of Troubie Impending.” Some eighty persons attended the services. Some of them, who evidently did not belong to the reguiar con- gregution, snored through the sermon comfortably, others dozed peacefully during the Bishop's learned quotations, and others, again, went out at the most interesting passages. This was embarrass- ing, but Bishop Snow was flercer and more flery than ever, and the amount of bloodshed that he foresaw among the wicked was something terrific. He first preached @ sermon on the “filthy papers,’ and read a lengthy circular of the elders of the chureh, which was to the effect that there was but one God, and that SNOW WAS ILIS PROPHET, In 1844 Christ was crowned King of Kings, and now He ruied over all the nations of the earth with a rod of iron, and could dash them to pieces like so many pieces of crockery. The Franco-German war and other wars were predicted by Snow twenty years ago, the circular went on to say, and they (the elders) were prepared to prove it. Snow's manner was heither abrupt nor tusulting, but his great beauty was, that he left the dirty work to the “popular clergy.” It wag trae fbat Snow wag not He | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, Working for tne salvation of i that job to ola iptists, Presbyterian: Episcopal: and othe! nominations, £0 s00n they could agree upon cg -. which was supposed to be witty, canaed the Bishop to smile.) The circular then ed the Pope’s assumption of ibility to be ‘and alluded to yhemy, the ‘pagan dogma” of the soul’s | could goon destroy all sham governments an: ligions, but not Mr. Snow, who ‘WOULD LIVE songene AND FOREVER, and all the nations of earth would melt away beiore the bi wrath of righteous God. Never- ‘theless, Snow, the ory prophet, would continue his work against ull the powers of heaven and hell. He would not notice the “Satanic journal” and his other enemies any further, but leavo them to perish nm own injernal rottenness and corruption. This was the prelude, and now came the sermon, The Bishop took hia text from Daniel vii, 1, aud alluded again to the seventy we which meant seventy y and the 2300 days, which stood for 2,300 years that were to precede the coronation of the King- of Kings, Xerxes invaded Greece with five or six millions of soldiers; then rose Alexander, retaliated upon Persia; and all this Daniel saw in his vision, The Bishop then took a rambie, and wandered througn the conquest of Persia, the subjection of Palestine by the Romans, amd the consumption ef “the wicked’ by “the spirifOf the mouth.’»_ Everyboay ought to 100k for Christ's coming, from heaven to earth,and by THE BRIGHTNHSB OF THAT COMING the wicked were to be destroyed. The Bishop then came to the panes ans, whose chief god was Jupiter, and lo! Papal Rome cut the Jupiter's head (im a statue) off and put on a head of Peter, This was unpardonabie, ne Romans would not have cut of Jupiter’s head If they fad had the slightest respect for him, Anotiier verse predicted that the Henan your Bot hs “the desire tor woes This meant mat and, gure en ) Papal Rome forbade its car hata’ monkg, nuns, &c., to marry, and not only to marvy, but, what was even Worse, to cat Meat, which they ought to enjoy as a git from God. It was snid that the Papal Charch was founded on Peter, bat it was not St. Peter, but saltpewe. (Sere the Esahop smiled a second sinile, and looked as if he had said something un- usually bright.) Gung @mpported the holy faith. That god oi saitpetre mown to the ancicnts, but the Bible represented him as the god of scven heads and ten horns. represented the Roman Empire in all its divisions, witn THE DEVIL AS THE GRAND RULING HEAD. The pagab Romans knew nothing about the Ho! Mary, and Snow thought this was rather commend- able. The Antichrist had had his representative in Rome, and what position was he now in? He had becn hurled from his throne, was on his way to Hades (in a lightning eXpress train), on his way erdition., lt was Dot iA the power of France elp the chairof Rome, @ven though she sent millions of soldiers, ‘ihis was the time when Michael was to ‘stand up.'? Michael was the generalissimo of the angelic armies and Gabriel was his first Meatenant, Tho Bishop then roasted the Jews a little on the eter- nal fire, declaring them to be of about as much ac- count as so many infidels, Circumcision was not ofthe body, but ofthe neart and id. And now the Bishop came to the great crash, destruction of Jerusalem was nothing as comp to the damna- tion of this conane Qpostate, degmed Christen- dom. Then the Bishop explained the pleasant time of trouble impending by predicting war, famine, Pestilence and other calamities, o! walen they cou immortality. God d re- READ ALREADY NOW IN THE NEWSPAPERS, He then predicted, without shuddering, that the righteous would wash their feet in the blood of the wicked, and when the sinners went down the righteous would go up to Mount Zion and sing a song there. Thea would be the resurrection oi the righteous (Bishop Snow included). Upon the de- scent of God all the righteous would be clothed with immortality and the wicked remain dead for only 1,000 years (during which time they would dream of the Bishop’s sermon), then to wake and to be judged by Christ, This was the end of the sermon and several mem- bers of the congregation woke up instantly. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH OHUROE. A Sermon by a New Eedford Divine on the Humanity of Christ and the Sym- pathy of Suffcring~A Good Story About Brigham Young and Its Effect on the Congregation—W hat an Artist Thought About the Sermon. There was rather more than the average Summer vacation congregation at Plymouth church yesterday morning, mainly, however, made up of strangers and wanderers from other churches that are closed for the season. The preacher was the Rey, Mr. Quint, of New Bedford. There was the usual criticism of the sermon by the congregation as they paced slow!y down the alsics, and some were overheard to say that the sermon was very colloguial and very natural. An artist who was present said it was a pre-Raplaelite kind of haturaluess—the naturalness that in a pro- Raphaelite landscape enables you to see each biade of grass, but not the field; the branches and tie leaves of trees, but not the woods and the forest. Mr, Quint’s sermon was very much like this. It was a string of anecdotes told in an after-dipner kind of talk, but no tndication that he was preach- ing a living Gospel to dying or even to thinking men. One of the merits of the sermon was that it wag short, The text selected was one of the grand old texts of the Biole, and which made the sermon that was tacked on to it all the more disappoint- ing. It was the fifteenth and sixteeath verses of the fourth chapter of Hebrews— “For we have not @ high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our tnirmi- ittes, but wus in all points tempted hike as we are, and yet without sin, Let us therefore come boldly unio the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” ‘The former part ol the sermon was devoted to & consideration of the Jewish symbolism indicated in the text, in the course of which a reference was made to the writings of Hawihorne, which, the preacher said, were remarkable for the portrayal of the TERRIBLE SENSE OF SIN that underlies men’s nature, but a total absence of any indication of the meaus by which these sins are to be washed away, After this introduction the main thought of the sermon was ampiified, which was the character of the service that waa promised in the text to the believer. ‘We have our High Priest, who ts touched with the feeling of our infirmitics. ‘Tho nature of Christ. enabled dim to have a feeling jor our infirmities, for His nature was a dual nature—that of God and man. ‘there was an oid peng, in the war time, that “no man was. it for the human march unless he goes on foot.””” The Lord Jesus went on foot for us, By His common life, therefore, did He show His won- drous wisdom, a THIS COMMON LIFE was very much misunderstood. There was a great deal of nonsense talked about elevating labor, and a great deal of nonsense about legislatures elevat- ing labor. Laws are but the expression of that Witch has grown, and if the peopie bh grown uy to the law, then the law is good, When we tall about the elevation of labor, and, having caucuses aud resolutions to do it, we are inaking a mistake, for neither can do it. Resolutions are always a sign of weakness, for the resolving is an indication that we have not done the thing that we are resvlving to do, for if we had done it we should not want to resolve about it, vation of labor depends upon the man himself and what he docs witn it. Sympathy with common life, sympathy for man, was then the attraction. Iwas in §elt Lake City some time ago; Ibad @ great dexire to know what was the secret of Brigham Young’s power. I always | thought it was tyranny, a lear felt by the people forhim, I found it was not. Ieaw a man there whom I knew, and on whose judgment I could rely, and I said to him, “Do these people reail; | love and respect Brigham Young?” He re lied, “Yes; there is not @ man of the same faith here, but wovid lay down his life tor Brigham.” I said, “What is the reason of this? “Well,” my friend replied, “he is A GREAT-HEARTED MAN; the other day, for instance, in this street a little girl Was coming along on the road; she fell down into the dirt and dust. Brigham was coming along and he ran and picked the little girl up, tried to pacity her and dry her tears; and it wasn’t bis child either.” ‘This last sentence “fetched” the congregation; the women looked meaningly at one another, and the men smiled, some audibly, You all know & man very Well, resumed the preacher, who, if he had nota heart bigger than the world, even With bis mighty intellect, would not have achieved the success he has attained to, Sympathy iu suffering, @ present help in times of trouble, & humaneness in the help that was given by the Divine to men, were ali illustrated by other anee- dotes, and the sermon was brought to a close, DR, DURYEA’S OBUROE, How to Lead Men to Christ—No Mouth= ing and Whining Required in the Business of Saving Souls, Dr. Duryea expounded the Word of God yester. day in his magnificent church, fm Clason avo nue, to an audience which filled every avail able seat in the entire edifice, ‘The text selected was from Il. Corinthians, ill, 3 “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to | be the epistie of Christ ministered by us, writ- ten not with ink, bat with the spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stouc, but ta fleshy tablets of the heart. Last Sabbath, the Doctor said, he cantioned his congregation aga:nst selidslness in religion, They | Were not continually to Le solicitous about them. selves, Having thrown themselves apon Jesus, it their duty to look to the salvation of others. After pointing to the necessity of Christians endeavor- ing to save the souls of others, Dr, Duryea ex- plained the proper methods to be adopted jor = such = Salvation. In doing this he struck @ severe ovlow at the old Method- istical idea of preaching hell and damnation and talking of religion in @ strange and unnatural way. Whi, said he, Uf @ person were to taik of the weather, or any everyday occurrence, in the way some misguided men Uo of religion—that 1s, in the tone of voice and whining accent—they would Stratghtway be voted innatics. What ts needed is a straightior ward, manly exp, essiou o/ those traths whieh Louch & man—his present, his fatyre, aud of the world, but left | his everlasting wellbeing, Man is a free being. He must, in @ measure, save himself; he must re- spond to the workings of God; he must co-operate with Him. ‘The only way to train a man is to show him how to tram himself. We hear people talk of self-nade men, , they are all seli-made, Why, they on some have been snown while others worked out the problem alone, In order to quicken a man to- wards his own. ation it is necessary to become ourselves witnesses of the truth, and it will de- pend a it deal upon the simplicity, the manil- ness and the natural, everyday way of expression, the number of souls we save. For a man to mouth and whine over the work of God is to annihilate his usefulness; tn religion, as in other things, & man should conform to the principle he teaches, and he will then’ make it all the more true and P CHURCH DEDICATION AT ASTORIA. Dedication of the Church of St. Mary, of Mount Carmel—Scrmon by Sishep Loughiin=—The Mission of the Church. Yesterday marks an epoch in tne history of As- tora, for it will long be memoratie for the dedica- tion of the first Catholic church in the town. True, there has been a church in the place heretojore, but its holy uses, and not its appearance, entitled it to the name. It was a small, low wooden building, which barely sheltered the devoted heads of the worshippers from the inclement weather. Father Phealan, knowing the fact, aud conscious that such was not @ fit place for such & numerous and, in some respects, wealthy congregation to worship, began to advo- cate the necessity of a new building, and his efforts were crowned by the good work of yesterday, The laying of the corner stone, some time since, was noticed at length in the HERALD, and on thaf occa sion the question was asked,when the church would be finished. A prominent member said all Would be satisied ii it was finished Mm the Winter of 1873. From this it will be seen that the most sanguine hopes of the good wishers of the church have been surpassed. THE DEDICATION. At ten o’clock the processiou was formed in the vestry room, and the golemn march ground the charch was begun. The acolytes, with burning tapers, preceded Father Phealap, wito walked im- mediately In iront of Bishop Loughlin, to whose prayers he chanted the responses. ‘Ihe procession moved around the soutn wing of tbe church, across the front to the centre entrance, through which they filed up the middie aisle to the altar rail, thence to the lett aisle, down the leit aisle, across the church to the right aisle, up the righ! aisle to the altar again, where the Bishop cuanted the remainder of the service. Some delay ia the service was caused by the non-arrival of the quartet from Brooklyn that had volunteered to sing. ‘They arrived at eleven o'clock, and the ceremonies progressed. Tho usual mass was celebrated, and Bishop Loughlin preached THE SERMON, He read St. Paul’s Epistie to the Cormthtans:— “We preach Christ cruc.fied—a Aiomnune ieee to the Jews.”” Before speaking of the text the Bishop salu :—It is a pleasant thing for me to congratulate you on the completion of the new .temple. It Speaks well for your zeal in the cause of Vatholi- city. Its beauty and symmetry will, as all things beautiful do, increase devotion or your inclination towards it. Ihope it is the forerunner of many more, larger and more beautiful, which 1 hope soon rs see rise up in the midst of your pretty lite own, In speaking of the text, his reverence said:— Preaching Christ crucified was not alone the work of the Apostles, but of their successors; ior the Divine injunction was, “Go forth and preach the Word to all nations and every creature.” This delegation of power was given to the Apostles to transmit to their successors, as Gtirist had given it to them as His’ suceessors, ‘The Church was not made for any special age or any particular people; it was to be immortal and universal, and to fulfil these requirements it must. of necessity be handed down from generation to generation, or else lost to the great masses of the people who have not the education to discover its grand truths and maxims and live up to them. THE WORK OF PREACHING is not alone with the priest or minister, for with- out auditors there is no preaching. They must be there to hear and receive the lessons of Divine love and justice and tu profit by them. ‘'o pay the tithes and build churches is an essential part of the work of Christian laymen, for without them the substantial, or rather material, monuments of Christianity could not be raised. We build churches in which to “preach Christ crucifled a stumbling block to the Jews,” but to you a mani- featation of the wisdom, power and glory of God, You see and recognize in the Church the hand of God, so mercifully extended to support the grand truths of religion and to aiford the means o! trans- mitting them to the remotest posterity; for, says Christ Himself, “Go preach and {am with you, even unto the consumination of the world,” ‘The work which Christ handed to the Apostles is now being done for you. Profit by the lessons which the work contains, Cherish them in social life, preach them in public, and transmit them to your children, whom you hope to meet in heaven, as a priceless boon—s princely patrimony. SERVICES AT LONG BRANCH. Seaside Chapel—flow Moses Saw God’s Glory and How Others May See It—Re- ligion To Be Taken to Watering Places—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Ormis- ton, of New York. LONG BRANCH, August 17, 1873, Feeling the necessity of furnishing spiritual pabulum to the Summer fashionabies at this favorite watering place, the Seaside chapel was built some years ago. One spectal if not good fea- ture was that the fundamental subscriptions came out of the pockets of the visitors. Another, and, as some would estecm it, a bad feature, is, ag shown in a card in each pew to-day, that there is an indebiedness of $7,700 still remaining upon the chapel. It is @ branch of the Reformed Dutch church in the village, and the services are in ac- cordance with this branch of the Evyan- gelical Church, It is @ neat and modest church edifice, and at the services this morning the chapel was crowded with a most fashionable audience. After the usual prefatory exercises Rov. Dr. Ormiston, of the Collegiate church in New York, corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, made a stirring appeal to the cougregated worshippers with the view of stil farther lightening tie church debt, Tue contribu. tion boxes were then passed around and the Baancn poured in plenteously, Rev. Dr, rmiston then preached the sermon, his text being Exodus, xx: 18~-""Aud he said, I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory.” ‘this was the WONDROUS PRAYER, he began, of a wondrous man. Conscious of his own Weakness and of the great mission entrusted to him, Moses uttered this prayer. It was the most striking prayer that has come from the lips of mortal man, His was a great and glorious career. He was the mightiest man of God. Great life duties devolved on him. Jt was an intelligent prayer and awfully earnest, He, with his great ‘work before him, longed for the palpable presence oi God, He had already enjoyed tiis, as on Mount Sinai, and he wished to enjoy itagain. There a splendid significance in it. And from this time he never faltered more. The glory of God was his shield, The statesman, the deliverer, the hero stood firm in his laitn in God. There wasa MATERIAL MANIFESTATION. What was it? Has iv a light of surpassing re- splendency, surpassing all the splendors of the moonday sun? It was more than this. On the pinnacle of Pisgah’s point he had a glimpse of what ‘was to take place in age? to come—a glimpse of the coming Of Corist—a glimpse of tho world’s Redeemer. God, in His answer to the prayer, sald that all His goodness should pass before Him. Waat an INDESCRIBABLE PANORAMA i. before Moses! He saw the times of David and the prophets; he aaw the infant Jesusin the manger at Bethlehem, he saw Him on the cross; he saw the glory of His resurrection and & world redeemed; he saw all through the comin; centuries uy to our day and generation; he saw further on, and caught a glimpse of the millennium; he saw the glory of God as shining resplendentiy through all eternity from His throne eternal in the heavens, There Was a propriety for all in putting up per- ney the same prayer. They wanted a clearer idea BI life and its duties; they needed more light; they needed to be clothed in the robes of God's reat fatherhood ; they could not get aloug without fis presence; they could get along without any- thing else, but they could not get along without God. It & grand though The lowlest among them. was made capable of knowing God, All could nft their eyes and say, “God, my God; Father, my Father!” He who studs the firmament with His stellar glory gives peace to the humblest soul. All men are rétigtous. God never made an irreligious man. Infidels are home- made; the natural man seeks after God. Why are men 80 feverish in the pursuit of money, or fame or place? It is not love of money or honor so much. Te is their HUNGRY, YRARNING HEARTS, and they will be hungry until God comes into their hearts, Why will men be satisfied with the husks of life? Most pone comprehend what sin Js, but they have not a clear idea of sinfulness. The wicked man in danger always cries to God. The wicked man in New York to-day—he did not know who he was, but there were many wicked men there—would cry out “God” if he sound himself in danger. Analyzing this point at eloquent length, he showed that A LITTLE GOSPRT did not meet human wants, Going to church and attending to the ordinances of the churen were not all of religion. Religion was internal, not ex- ternal. The means they had to use were within the reach of hap he a God's word, earnest meditation and prayer, In the whirl of tashion- abie life they must pot forget their duties to God, Because they were away irom home they were not to thing they couid dou as they pleased, They must bring their religion with them, Prayer, sibging aud benediction closed the ex- Orglses, a BREEZES FROM THE SHA. Long Branch Visitors Again Blessed with Fine Weather and Good Bathing, Reminiscences of the Au- gust Storm. OCEAN GROVE CAMP MEETING, The Moral and Immoral Tenden- cies of Camp Life. (Ae a Teh How the Young and Old Live and Sleep. CLOSING SERVICES YESTERDAY. . Lone BRancy, August 17, 1878. After the rude interference of the elements with the legitimate privileges of the Summer, last week, we have a revival of pleasant weather aud of established seaside enjoyments, The hotels are again filing up, with indications of a prolonged season, and to-day we hear renewed complaints of @ scarcity of rooms at the favorite houses. The last Teminiscence of the storm is farnighed in the snape of a get of complimentary resolutions, adopted by the business men of New York who were compelled to make the trip backwards and forwards between the city and the Branch during the prevalence of the gale, expressing their approbation of the ef- forts of the railroad and steamboat compantes to afford accommodation to the passengers, and their appreciation of the efficiency of the line, as shown in the regularity with which the boats and cars were run despite the violence of the tempest. These resolutions were adopted unanimously at a largely attended meeting of cottage residents and hotel guests held at the Ocean Hotel yesterday, Looking out upon the sea to-day, as smooth and Placid as @ lake, witn hundreds of vessels moving slowly and lazily over its sparkling surface, one can hardly realize that it is the same ocean which only threé or four days ago dashed its angry billows 60 fariously against the beach, threatentpg de- struction to everything within their reach, On Wednesday last the foaming, roaring breakers tossed up their white crests into the air nearly half a mile from the shore, while this afternoon the Plymonth Rock, so densely packed with excursion- ists, that all her decks appeared to be covered with a heavy black fringe, steamed up within a few yards of the land, exchanging salutes with the battery and cheers with the thousands of specta- tors whd lined the bruit, & TNE OCEAN GROVE CAMP MEETING. But variety is said to form the spice of life, and the contrast between the tempest of a few days ago and the splendid sunshine and calm of to-day 1s not more marked than has been that between the scenes of the past week at Long Branch and those enacted five or six miles off at Ocean Grove. At Long Branch, during the storm, the hours not occupied in gazing on the grandeur of the ocean, were consumed in the indoor amusements of music, dancing, billiards, bowling, card playing, Treading and flirting. At Ocean’ Grove the ~ roar of the tempest could not drown the shouts of the saints rejoicing in the Lord; the beating of the rain could not dampen the ardor of the exhorting sisters, who strove to lead others to grace by the relatton of their own experiences; the chilliness of the northeast blast could Hot cool the hot iervor of the preachers, who sought to lash their congregations into euthusi- astie holiness, The Long Branch amusements were, of course, the amusements of sinners; the Ocean Grove work was the work of saints. Yet it may be well to inquire whether there are not some evils to guard against in the latter as wellas in the lormer, 18 A CAMP MEETING A DESIRABLE INSTITUTION? I am aware that in raising the question as to whether a Cel meeting hag a moral or immoral tendency, I shall startle a great number of per- sons, and probably offend not a jew, But tho HERALD Nas a duty to ge to the public which cannot be neglected, in consideration of private interests or jndividual views. Some five or six thousand persons of both sexes, and of all ages, have been gathered together in Ocean Grove for the past ten days. ‘The greater portion of them have been living during that period ‘a gypsy life, in tents. some of these canvas residences nave in them two or three beds, and ali of them are separated from each other and from the public view only by flimsy curtains, There is about them none of the sacred retiremont of home, none of that exclusivencss and security whicn modesty demands in the hours devoted to rest and sleep. reget girls just budding into womannood and males of their own age may occupy adjoining divisions in these tents, and sometimes even the same room, Fathers aud mothers retire at night and rise in the morning with grown-up cbildren in adjoining beds. Even whon the apartments are separated by @ curtain it does not aeem that ® canvas tent pitched in o pion Toad where people are at liberty to pass and repass at all hours of the night can be a desirable place for a sleeping apartment for a refined young lady, or that the habit of living in sucha manner, even for two Weeks, can be conducive to that modesty which is the most precious charm of womanhood. 10 Methodist breturen would no doubt be shocked if they should be told that to many this vagrant camp life seems to hold outa premium to immor- ality, or at least to threaten the destraction of those barriers against tmmodesty, not the least trifling or insignificant of which can be broken down without peril to the whole. Yet no unprejudiced ane could have visited Ocean Grove last week without becoming convinced that there is mischief in the system, or without discov- ering those indications of its pernicious working which may be invisibie to eyes that are always turned up towards heaven or closed in pious humility, The sisters who relate in the prayer meetings their trials and their triumphs, their struggles and their sutfering in the cause of Jesus, would probably be astonished to find weaker vessels of their own sex taking advantage of the occupation of their enthusiastic associates to listen to tales of a very different character told by less pious lips among the trees or behind the canvas of the tents. The worthy brothers whose powerful voices hurl tho thunder of their eloquence at the Throne of Grace would no doubt be filled with amazement to dis- cover that while the shepherds are rejoicing in tne fold the wolves may be making hayoe among the Stray lambs. Yet the evidences of these evils of a large camp mecting have not been lack- ing to worldly outsiders who have been at Ocean Grove during the great revival. No person can doubt the sincerity and zeal of those Christian soldiers who have been doing battle in the service of the Lord on the pleasant sea shore for the past ten days, yet it is aserious question whether this camp life in the woods, this indelicate community of sexes and 8, is NOL cal- culated insidiously to destroy modesty and virtue, and to lead to license and immorality. WHAT THE CAMP MEETING 148 ACOOMPLISHED, The Ocean Grove gathering is not claimed by its friends to have been a success, in a religious pomt of view, There have been but very few conver- sions. This is explatned by the fact that the attendance has been largely made up of churches and their regular members, and hence the raw material of sin and worldliness has not been there to be inanufactured into Christian vessels, One of the attendant ministers, in noticing this fact, ex- ag the opinion, nevertheless, that there been much need of conversion, or at least of reform, amon the church members themselves, and believes that in this direction the Ocean Grove meeting has ac- complished good. It has aroused the lukewarm, Given new incentive for iabor to the zealous and called back into the straight path many whose fooisteps had begun to seek the pleasant but for- biddea grass upon the woridly common. SBA BATHING AND SANCTITY. Iconversed on the subject of the work accom- eet by the meeting with the Rev. Dr. inski, ice President of the Ocean Grove Association, aud the leading spirit of the revival, (ae see,” said the reverend gentleman, “this tunot be suid to be altogether amd exclusively & religious gathering. The fact ts it is religion and recreation blended together, I cannot ociaim that it has been @ great success in the one featnre alone, although it is a decided success in the two combined. A great many have come here because they want the sea air, the sea bathing and the Pleasant relaxation of a holiday. Probably but for those inducements they might have been absent. Still it has done a Br at deal of good and will lay the groundwork, I hope, for more gratifying suc- cess in the future,” A JOLLY MINISTER. &As the Rev. Dr. Inskipp is a character, I must Say something about him. He is a jovial, good- humored gentleman of about sixty years of age, with @ pleasing countenance, corpulent enough for an alderman and liberal in his views. He pre- sides at the meetings in the tabernacle, and pre- sides well, leading the prayers and the hymns with vigor that is highly inspiriting, Dr. Inskipp Was one of the original twenty-six Methodist min- feters who got together and purchased the land at Ocean Grove, Bach subscribed $25 for that purpose, and $660 was all the money they had among them. It was the di to’ make Ocean Grove the piace for the national annual camp meeting; but it soon became apparent that the logality Was not sudcloatly central aud ay tho was chi and it was made a State ea the meetil draw from many omer oe in the Un! i ito) ABLE FINEY. Asan investment the enterp has, of been a grand success, although the ori vestors fave not made great fortunes out They keep all the place m order, make the im; ments and pay all expense of police, &c, crease in the Value of the lots has enabled them do ali this, and the association now owns acres of good land, and has no indebw eduess worth speaking of, No {feo sim ple 19 sold, All the lots are ma 1 lease, 80 that the control of the — Pe eeieauilt im the hands of the Association. ‘There is a reservation by which the Association can assess each lot not more than $10 in one ear for police regulations, Improvements, but there has been no necessity to maki any assessment except one of $5 De! low The lots aro now worth from $250 to $1, a ing to location. Dr. In. Wiote tot is one of the most valuable so far the investment, from a worldly point of view. Au @ religious adventure, in the hands of such A earnest and sincere Christian as Dr, Inski Dp, i cannot fail to ie profitabie, It will, no doubt, bring souls to God as liberaily as it hag brought dob lara to His servants, THE SERVICES DURING THE WEEK. Services have been held during the week— on each day and Leda betel at all hours, TI rincipal preachers have been Dr. Haalan, of Ne' lersey; Dr. Inskipp, of New Jersey; Dr. Re New York, the Secretary of the onary ciety; Rev, Mr, pobinadhs of Philadelphia: le ata Brown, of Troy, N. Y.; Rev. Mr, Crouch, of Philadeipnia; Rev. i ‘Mt. Adains, of Brooklyn; Rev. Mr. Whittier, of South Carolina, and others. On Wednesday last, sympathizing with the war. of the elements, @ doctrinal atorm sprung up in thé camp, and the Rev. Dr. Inakipp, who 1s a very sa | it ve* and emphatic talker, was somewhat severe on of the brethren who o; 1d his views on the sub+ ject of complete cation. On Friday, how. e lows! 103 the faithful, and when one dissenter ot ap ant announced conve! to Brother In: Pp 4 views, and called upon God to biess that Christian for the good he had done to ail thet bounds, and one vigorous but yain effort waist of t! uls, the enthusiasm knéw no get his arms around the am ine reverent ry 01 excited brother mad da gident as he impressed Roly, kisses on his glow- ing cheeks. THE CLOSING SERVICES, To-day was the last of the regular session of ten. days, but it is likely that the meeting will be con. tuued to-morrow and Tuesday, although the mem bers are rapidly decreasing. ‘The closing serviced were Of an interesting, enthusiastic and noisy char, acter. The preachers were Bishop Simpson; Dr, Inskipp and others. At the prayer meeting several sisters told their experience, and some excitin; exhortations were made, THE OOLOBED BRETHREN, who have @ tent set apart for their own night meetings, have been extraordinarily zealous in 1] cause, and report several conversions among thet own people. Last night the closing service! 8 We! of an e: inary character, and although foe vehement appeal of one colored brother, wha shouted leudly for the Lord to blow out the moon and stars, bt so that ali the people of the earth mig! be of one color and the ‘day of jubilee might come, was not complied with, The earnestness of prayers and the exhortatione no doubt had it proper etfect. PECUNIARY SUCCESS, The mee! has been pecuniarally a successful one for the Ocean Grove speculation. The tents have rented from $14 to $20 for the session of the meeting, and as four or five hundred of them have been in use it can readily be seen that a lai suns qmoust have been realized. Besiaes thi thriving business has been done by the butch es grocers, bakers and his who are enlisted in the service ofthe Lord. Indeed it 1s clear that Ocean Grove is 8 mint to the saints who are ita proprietors, and that religion is in this Instance remunerative, here ag Well as herea/ter. DONALDSON’S PAPER CANOE. fs Some excitement was occasioned on the beach here this afternoon. by the sudden appearance of & handsome and showy little canoe-shaped boat, painted white and gold, with sails set, Which came scudding over the waves and through the surf in @ remarkable manner. .The singular little visitor, as she danced along, seemed looking {or some particular spot on the coast. As she approached her single ogceupanu shouted to those onshore, ‘Is this Ocean it Beach?’ and on being answered in the affir- mative he headed his vessel towards the shore, and dashed fearlessly through the surf, Riding on the top of an incoming wave, he was suddenly bn by another, which broke over him, but did: no further damage than was comprised in a wet coat. As soon as the boat touched the beach she was seized by a score of willing hands and dragged: up high and dry on the sand out of reach of the waves, She proved to be the paper canoe built at ‘oy to accompany the Transatlantic balloon, and her navigator was her owner and godtather, Professor Donaldson himself. He had insde the trip from New York to Long Branch (touching at Coney Isiand, and re-. maining there one hour) in about five bours,. Until washed by the Long Branch surf he had nog shipped a hendtul of water from one end 0! journey to the other. The boat weighs fifty-three pouty and has been an object of curiosity to housanuds since her arrival, THE MERRICK CAMP MEETING.- The Closing Hxercises to Take Place This Evening. The Methodist camp meeting at Meriick, which: opened on Tuesday, the 5th inst., was to have closed, according to the original programme, on Thursday last. On Wednesday, however, came the great rain storm, which considerably diminished the attendance, although two services were held, at which much interest was manifested. On Thurs- day the storm continued with increased jury, and, it being evident that the closing services, if held on that day, must be tame and uhprofitable compared. with those of former years, it was determined, upon @ canvass of the families a to hold over until rao sty neem pebins of upon the grounds be! ng in favor of the proposition. It being impossible to hold a meeting at the reachers’ stund, one was improvised during the forenoon in the large restaurant room of the pa- Ve tts proved to be @ very interesting one. A similar meeting was held in the afternoon, ie usual prayer meetings were held in the even- "On Friday morning, the storm sttil contin! With little Apparent prospect of abatement, many of those who had on the day previous been most. enthusiastic for continuing the meeting, hastily collected their effects and started for howe, their fear of the consequences of possible colds probably proving more powerfut than their zeal in the cause for which they were ostensibly assembled. Notwithstanding this defection, however, two suc- cessful méetings were held during the day, at which _ the attendance was sinall only by com) mn, On Saturday the storm having cleared away, and the purpose of holding over having become known, the attendance vegan again to steadily increase. ‘Two services were held during the day, and the veneravie Father Reynolds preached to a large au- dience tm the evening, trom the first chapter of Colossians, twenty-cighth verse, his discourse bee} @ powerful exhortation to lumediate re- entance. “ Yesterday was the most pleasant day that nas been experienced in the grove during the entire: meeting. The air was pure and delightiully cool, and the recent rains had so effectually laid the that locomotion was no where disagreeabie. ‘he attendance steadily increased throughout the day, and in the~ afternoon and evening there were, probably, five thousand people on the grounds. The forenoon. serinon was delivered by Rev. 0. T. Mallory, from I. Timothy, li, 16—"Great ia the mystery: 01 godliness; God was. manifested in the flesh,” Its purpose was to show the various and sometimes dust everywhere ysterious methods by which God works his pur- poses, Mr. Malior; wes followed by Father Rey- nolds in one of his characteristic exhortations to immediate repentance. The children’s mecting at one P. M., was unusually interesting, the addresses being by Mrs. George Lansing Taylor, wife of the Hempstead pastor; Mr. Mallory ond others, The singing at these children’s meetings has not been the least interesting feature of this year’s gather- ing. In fact, the singing at all the ser- vices, which has been under general direction of Mr. John Luckey, of Brooklyn, has been especially excellent, The aiternoon discourse was by Matthew Hale Smith on the “Unselfishness of Keligton,’”’ the aim being te show that religion is essential as well to success in a woridly point of view as to happiness and to salvation—the three pointe constituting tue three reat aims of mankind. The evening discourse I as by the Rev. Mr. Worth, of New Bridge, Long island. Special preparations have been made for the closing exercises to-night, which are expected te be of a highly interesting character. A large num- ber of ministers are expected upon the grounds during the Gay. nd morning and afternoon ser- vices will be held, as usual. The good rosults of the meeting this year are shown in quite a number of conversions. The exercises yesterday were under the direction of the Rey. Charles B, Fletcher, Li gi Elder of the Southern District of Long jan the CHURCH D&DICANION IN JERSEY. od The basement of the new St. Michael's Catholi¢ churoh, on Ninth street, fronting Hamilton Park, Jersey City, was solemnly dedicated to the worship of God yesterday by the Very Rev. D. H. Doane, Chancellor of the diocese, There was a large co gregation in attendance, jemn high mass was celebrated and Dr, McGlynn preached the dedi- catory sermon. In the evening the members of the temperance societies and other organizations nad & procession through the neighbor id streets, Tho new edifiee is a brick structure, 166 fe width, and hi has been littie more than a wi in course of erec- von, and will be completed in another year, The oid church will be turned into & achoolhonse, where, it is hoped, the school children wil have lesa miserable accommodation than heretofore, ‘The new brick chureh is to cost the handsome sum of $160,000, according to the stateweons of the pastor, al, Conchio,