The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1873, Page 4

4 SUNDAY SERMONS, | Talmage’s Thoughts About the | Vanity of the World and the Glory of the Future. A Speculative Excursion to the Heavenly Realms. A Poor Welcome to the Pas‘or of the French Protestant Episco- pal Church. Father McCready’s Eloquent Words on Sin. Rey. Dr. Cuyler Probes the Heart for a Remedy for Insincerity. fencible Talk from Hepworth on God's Love in Christ's Death. THE NEGRO IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Dedication of Another Roman Catholic Temple in Jersey. Waruing at Long Branch That the Religious Season Is Over. Able Discourse by Dr. Oulver at Pough- keepsie on the Bible in the Publio Schools. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, Divine Love as Shown in Christ's Death for Sinners—Sermon by the Rev. George H. Hepworth. Mr. Hepworth’s new temple, which looks exter- nally like a crystallized circus, and within affords | seat room, upon one inclined plane, for an famense | audience, was not crowded yesterday morning, though in a smaller room the gathering would | have seemed large for-a raw, lowering day. | After prayers and singing, in which the whole assembly were invited to join, aided by the fine organ, the Pastor announced his text, from II | Samuel, first chapter and twenty-sixth ve.se:— “Thy love for me was wonderful.”” Disinterested love, said Mr. Hepworth, such as Makes its possessor willing to suffer for the be- loved even unto death, has being of such rare oc- vurence in this world that the few instances have been embalmed and preserved in history for the admiration of all succeeding ages. Such acts of noble devotion surprise and delight the human heart. They act upon us like an clectric spark, NEW YORK H ERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1873--TRIPLE SHEET, Another says :—‘My friend, we have long travellea the paths of exile together; we were cradied at kindred hearths, have joyed and suffered together. With you I will go before offenle@ majesty, defend zou with my best ability, and if you have truly een guiity I will supplicate for your pardon and release. I will stand by your side in the dungeon and at the bar of justice, and bear for you your j4st punishment." So the Christ pleads for the sinner and suffers with him, God forgives us for the intercession, and in answer to the pleadings of this dear Saviour, His Son, all He asks in return is that we simply love Him and give our hearts to Him, Let us ao it, my brethren, ST, STEPHEN'S ROMAN OATHOLIC CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Father McCrendy— Sin the Onty Real Evil—The Ingrati- tude of the Sinner—Sin the Cause of Every Calamity. ‘The high mass at St. Stephen's yesterday morn- ing was celebrated by the Rev. Father Power. ‘After the first Gospel the Rev. Father McCready ascended the pulpit, and preached an unusually effective discourse on sin, Basing his argument from analogy on the Gospel of the day—Luke, vil., 11, 16—he portrayed the hideousness of offences against God in language simple and vigorous, and made his sermon an unanswerable appeal to the consciences of hia hearers, without having recourse to the atage tricks of the elocutiontst. The effect on the congregation was manifest, On leaving the church many were heard congratulating their friends on their good fortune in hearing sucha sermon, The miracle recorded in to-day's Gospel, said the preacher, has, lke all the other miracles of our Divine Lord, a secondary meaning and signif- cance beyond the object of proving to an “un- believing and contradicting peopie"’"—a people who ‘aughed Him to scorn’’—that He was the master of life and death; that He was God, who, not by prayers, as the prophets, but by command, restored the soul TO THR LIFELESS TENEMENT it had just quitted. We have but three instances of our Lord raising the dead to life recorded in the Scriptures—the restoration to his mother of the widow's son, mentioned in this day's Gospel; the recall of the soul of the ruler’s daughter to its earthly prison and the resuscitaton of Lazarus. In each case the deatn is emblematic of the spiritual decease of the soul, and the restoration to life is figurative of the revivification of the soul spiritually dead by sin to the spiritual life of grace. All men naturally fear that awful ordeal through which all the children of Adam must pass; but how few dread the death of the soul by sin! Corporal death is looked upon as THE CLIMAX OF ALL THE CALAMITIES incident to maa in this world, while the terrible misfortune of spiritual death, which separates the soul from Him who is her true lile, is deemed of little account. That happy union of God and the soul can be severed only by mortal sin. It is, in truth, that hidden rock on which thousands have miserably perished on their voyage to eternity; it isthe impassable barrior which the soul erects between herself and the divine mercy over which God pours forth the vials of His justice and His wrath on the unrepentant sinner. It is utterly impossible to form any adequate idea of the enor- mous malice of sin, of the insult it offers the Deity, of the hatred God bears it or of the terrible cnas- tisements He has inflicted on sinners. We may, however, approxitnate to such an idea of it as should make us shrink from it with horror and fear itas the only evil in this world. Sin is directly opposed to the sanctity ot God, and, as an infinitely pertect being, He must hate it with an indnite watred, and display that hatred by inflicting A PROPORTIONATE PUNISHMENT, By sin man offers an offence to God beyond the powers of language to describe, The gravity of an offence is proportionate to the position of the ofender and the dignity of tne offended. Applyin; this standard to sin, we have the creature offend- ing the Creator, a despicable worm of tho earth raising itself from the dust of which it is made, to insult Him, “who inhabits light inaccessible,” insignificant man making war on the God of power and majesty. And what has the King of heaven and earth done to merit such insult from the creature made to His image and likeness? Oh! this it is that aggravates the offence. He has brought man forth from nothing. Man depends on im for the very breath he breathes, for the very arms he turns against his God. God is not merely his Master and King, but his most loving Father, “the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,” who has sent His only beloved Son to suffer and firing us with heroism and inciting us to a nobler life and higher aspirations. Damon and Pythias— the one ready and anxious to «lie rather than that his friend shouid sutfer—we all know the fascina- tion of the story, Another instance of this almost superluman affection is one of the Jamiliar lessons | {n our school books. ORESTES AND PYLADES. Being sent on a dangerous mission these two, whose long lives had been cemented by a wondrous iriendship , continued to share the toils and priva- tious of the difcuit errand, though one might have remained in the safety and comiort of home. There was only the necessity for one to undertake the journey to seek improvement and the knowl. | edge of truth in @ strauge land by a weary and | hazardous way, Together they struggled on their Pilgrimage, sharing its pains and iatigues, Fall- ing into the hands of savage Scythians they were delivered inio the power of the stern priestess, hard-uearted and hard-fsted, and ready to sacri- fice to the gods whoever they should demand. When she offered to release one of the two they | entered into a strife, they struggled together as | earnestly as friends could, not for preference in galety, but who should die that his friend might | live—ior the glory ol dying for his companion. | Providence decreed their rescue, and their bar- baric captors, adoring their virtue, built altars to them and worshipped them as gods, DAVID AND JONATHAN. My text furuishes another example of this won- deriui love of friendship, David and Jonathan; a shepherd and a prince. They were brought togetier by accident. I choose to cali it a Provi- dence. Saul, the King, and Jonathan, the heir ap- pareut, were airatd o1 the giant Goliath, who de- fled tuem, their army and their God. David, a beardiess boy, stood jorth to withstand him with @ sling and a smooth stone, conident in the power of Jehovah agaivst his enemies, The stone sped on its Way—a thud, and the mighty Philistine fell to the earth with a force which shook the plain, bringing deliverance to israel from the threatening power oi their adversaries, Jonathan, the Prince, was the first to make the advance die for the wretch who wantonly and ungratefully rebels st His sovereign and paternal authority, and by his transgressions causes Iiis sacred honor to be despised and His holy name blasphemed among the Gentiles. We speak with loathing and horror of the ingratitude ol the Jews, while we, when we offend God mortally, are guilt, ef far greater baseness and ingratitude. I we loo! around us in the material world everything is sug- gestive or THE TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF SIN. Do we ask why meu are arrayed against cach other in mortal strife; why brother stains his hands in a brother's blood; why famine and earthquakes and pestilence and disease launt the footsteps of humanity and seize upon man as thetr lawful prey; why the earth and the sea and the elements seem to rejoice in the destruction of human, life the only answer that can be given is that all is the effect of sin. Man rebelled against God, to whom he owed allegiance, while the rest o! the creation, which was intendea for man’s use and gratifica- tion, rises in war and refuses to obey Him. If we consider sin as exemplified in the punishment ip- | dicted by God on the angela for a single sin of thought; if we view it in the light of Adam’s fall and punishment; if we estimate its enormity from the price paid by Christ on the cross for our re- demption, we cannot fail to be impressed with some Idea of its hideous nature. If, like the ruler’s daughter, we have only just died a spiritual death by sin, let us arise by penance; if, like the young man mentioned in to-day’s gospel, we have beea for some time dead to God, let us hearken to His votce, “Young man, arise.”’ Or if, like Lazarus in the tomb, We are buried in sin, let us not despair, bat coniess our sins and “eatof His body and oe of His blood and we shall have everlasting ue.” LW'EGLISE EPISOOPALE DU SAINT ESPRIT. Abusing Pio Nono—Massacres for Re. ligion’s Sake to Take Place in the United States and France—The Sixty Nuns from France—Fire and Brimstone All Round—A Congregation of Twenty People. The reopening of the French Episcopal church of the “Saint Esprit,” in Twenty-third street, be- tween Fiith and Sixth avenues, after having been closed for a couple of months, had tbe effect yes- ot admiring friendship towards the obscure young ero, The two became at once endeared to each other, Then came the prophecy that | proud Saul and hs son should leave the throne to | the shepherd boy. Saul, like an ambitious man, pursuet David witn deadly animosity, chasin him to caves and lastuesses of the mountains. | but his friend Jonathan, whom by the prediction he was desiined to supplant in the kingly dignity, | remained, neve: theives, his firm ally, sheltering him {roi the wrath of Saul and comforting him in | his exile wanderings. Finaily, in the thick of bat- t (han Was slain and lay upon the field cold in As David stood by the side of ts jife- less friend, mm the strange grandeur and sublime Simplicity of affectionate sorrow, he sung the song | ol mny text, “Thy love for me was wondertul,”? THE GREATER LOVE OF REDEMPTION. I have reiearsed these sto my brethren, that | might prepare your min 0 consider the surpassing iove of Christ for us, Seated supreme in the glory o} His Father, He saw our misery and Voiuuteercd for the 1 mission of our re- | Omnipotent love, to jorego the bliss of d accept the pangs of earthly sumering. ind siepherd puts the horn to his lips aud | blows loud and r 4 blast that way be heard by | the most distant of his flock, recalling ali the wanderers irom liliside and forest shade and warn | ing them to se.k safety at his feet before the | evening shacows veil them with dangers, so Christ's call, sounded among the hills of Pales- tine; so it encompassed the extent of | Asia Minor and spread over Upper Atrica, over Europe, reaching cven the far-distant, | ocean-divided America. As the shepherd's call warns Uhe strayiug lambs that night will ex- pose them to lurking 1oes Who wait for the dark ness to destroy them, 80 the Saviour’ voice cails | @ll our race to shelter and sa‘ety in His divine | mediation. To ail successive generations, to all | distant shores, souads tie uote of recall from the | shadows of ain, the gloom o: guilt—‘Come, come to the Father's house! Come from the devs of folly! Come trom the darkness gathering’ Come from the enemy ready to overthrow you! Come to saiety im redemption!” | OH, WHAT LOVE WAS THERE! | You may imagine it. You have perhaps ai swered the call /rom the tombs of one who, once iriend of your boyliood, has fallen under evil i fuences and, forgetiul of his high estate, bas be- come acriminal. In his imprisonment your name has been mentioned, You Visit him, you yearn over } his sinjul folly and you urge bim to reformation | and repentance You return to him again and again, and encourage him to hope jor ee in renunciation of his evil courses, Long after, when | the prison doors have been opened for his release, he comes to you, he seizes your hands with the warm grasp of deep emotion, and with sobbing vowe he thanks you jor his rescue from vice and 's penalty. It is your happiest moment. The | sciousness Of having aided another to seek a | a ile gives you your most perfect satiaiac- | Ls CHRIST'S APPEAL TO SINNERS, So Christ came to save us. He knew all the | agonies that lay before Him, He might have hated us, but he joved us, Our King—he became our | Saviour. We have in God the three personalities, the three means of grace—cur Fatuer and Friend, our Saviour and Redeemer and the Comforter of sinners who will accept the divine love and par- Jon. Suppose a prisoner summoned to the impe- One friend offers to see him start, rial preseuce, auother to lurnish part of the means for the Jou Hey, Fhoae dy uot palisiy tue trembling pubje terday morning of drawing together a congrega. tion of some twenty persons, including four repre- | Sentatives of the fair sex. The handsome church | at Orst sight appeared to the visitor who came in | from the garish sunlight to the dim light of the house of worship of the descendants of the Hugue- nots to be positively empty. Becoming accus tomed to the deep shadows of the place, the de- voted band of twenty, including the “bedeau,” were discovered in the chancel and aisles to be of sombre mien and musing with sadness, for all the reporter knew to the contrary, upon the disso- lution of the congregation and the consequent wreck of the church. Little did TRY HANDFUL OF WORSHIPPERS who had assembied to welcome back their pastor alter his summer vacation dream of the terrible prophecies which their venerable teacher was about to enunctate for their edification. The ser- vice was conducted in @somnolent manner, and more than one head of the congregation was seen wagging towards the land of Nod, The time for the sermon at last arrived, ana slowly and pon- derously the Rey. Dr. Antoime F, Verren, who ha® been pastor of the church for many along year, ascended the pulpit, and upon arriving there | buried his face for reflection in a large and snow white pocket handkerchief, This being concluded and several verses of 4 psalm sung by a very small choir, Which possesses a “basso profundo”’ vuice of bea few bars ahead of time, the congregation Awaited the discourse. Silence reigned and the pastor stood erect in his pulpit, surveying with «dismay his almost imperceptible congregation. In facial appearance he has somewhat of the Father Hyacinthe type, but with more stolidity than the excommunicated Frenoh priest, A SERMON WHICH IS NOT A SERMON. My dear brethren, commenced the reverend gentleman, we lave met together this day to re- open our church, which has been closed for the Space of two months. We have all reason to be thankiul to our heavenly Maker that He still pro- tects and ch eris) " E have’ been removed by death from our midst, I would bere make thg remar! I believe the wajority of our eobatrjimen ta a | city careiully observe the laws of hygiene, (or their average health i3 remarkably good when compared with that of other residents of this city, whe, nie ourselves, have to support this terrible citnate, The wortality-statistics published here by the Board | Of Health show that in a week we have occasionally 800 deaths, with a birth proportion of merely 400, Death has not spared our flock, for we, #ke others, have had to mourn; but when the service for the dead has been conancted here I have seen the blanched cheeks of the sorrowig relatives as- sembled round the dead corpse of the loved one be- come more life-like aad their tears lave ceased to flow when they heard the reassuring words tliat this mortal clay must enter into Cy gig be. fore entering into iucorruptibility and the joy of | their Lord. WHY THE SERMON WAS NOT PREACHED. Ihave beiore me my notes for fodagia sermon, and also have itimprinted on the tablets of my memory; but Ihave decided not to preach it to- day, but to wait for a more propitious opportunity when more 01 our congregation shali be gathered togetier, and I have, therefore, to ask you to hold me excused ior not preaching tt on this account. Our church is in grievous straits at the present moment, and needs all the ‘a it can get from its friends aud well wishers. It was founded by French Protestants a couple of centuries ago, | who were driven as exiles across the Atiantic away | from the fair land oi France, where their religion | was persecuted and they themselves rendered homeless. Many of their descendants here have become so Americanized that they have forsaken the church of their forefathers and attend no place ol worship at all. The reverend gentleman then said that the press of the United States dare not pubiish | all the truth of the religious persecutions which exist in this country and was gagged and in he hands of the priests, and then guve some excru- clating historical details about torturing Protes- tants, making candle fat out of their adipose tissue and utilizing tietr bones for mercantile pur- | poses, und, in short, reciting some terrible hob- goblin tales which, if based on fact, appeared somewhat romantically and elastically treated. RIVICULING THE FRENCH PILGRIMAGES, Massucres in the name of religion will be ere long recommenced in France, | believe, for the vil- rimage fever is now raging, and Bugiand ig send- fig people to the mummery, and this couhtry, I hear, intends sending its contingent to the solemn farce. I remember in 1816, when the Bourbous (Louis XVIII.) again came into power in France, the priests tried to excite the people then, as now, as against the Protestants and iree thinkers. The Popes have desired for a long time that short | work shall be made with these sects. ABUSING PIO NONO, While occupying this puipit Ido not like speak- ing in terms sufticiently strong or merited of that miserable being the Pope. He pretends to be the successor of St. Peter, Now what proofs have we, except concocted and forged documents, that St. Peter ever was at Rome—nis habitual residence being the Holy Land? The Catholic dogma about the rock upon which Christ built Chureh, through Peter's instrumentality, must be taken by us in a spiritual and not ine material sense, Peter Letrayed his Lord, and is it hkely that he would be | made the perpetual representative of Christ on earth? What is there more holy, Lwould like to know, in being the representative or successor on earth of st. Peter any more than St. Paul, or any of the other disciples of our Lord? If I were to announce myself as successor Of any of them would itentitie me justifiably to any additional respect at your bands? No, | answer; and the same rea- soning applies to the Pope. THE SIXTY SISTERS OF CHARITY FROM FRANCE. Last weck sixty nuns arrived by the steamer from France and doubtless as many secret ae saries of the Church of Rome as passengers, who come to this country to try and overthrow Prot- estantism and corrupt our sons snd daughters. MASSACRES. T shall not be at all surprised should Tlive to see it—but 1 expect ere then to have crossed that bourne whence no traveller returus—that religious massacres will take place in this land, any people go to church exciusively nowadays in this country to get money or votes, and the love of God i8 trampled under foot, 0, my brethren, may those present never be found torgetful of their reiigious teaching! 1 muy say, with justifiable pride, that some of my religious teach- | ing has had most happy results, and I pow have to | inform you that I shall renew it at my house to | those who are desirous 0! appearing a3 communi- cants at the Lord’s supper, fifty thousand Prot- estants were killed by the Oatholics at Paris in the sixteenth century, and I fear that jurther massa- cres will take piace in that land ere long, say within ten years. The feeling there is now iden- ticalin many large parts of France with what it | was in 1816, when the people were led blindiold by the priests. ‘he nineteenth century is now going back to the priestly servility of the eleventh! MENACES. This church of ours is surrounded by enemies, and lam told that at the end of this street, both at Filti and Sixth avenues, sentries are posted to prevent people coming to worship here. I am told on the best authority. May God bless the teaching of His Word. Amen! BT, PRANOIS XAVIER'S CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Father Daly, 8. J.— Haydn's Second Mass. Rev. Father Daly, 8. J., preached at the gospel of high mass, yesterday, on the two great command- ments of the new law, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole Soul, and thy neighbor as thyself.” The whole code of the teachings of the Redeemer may be reduced to these two grand ideas, the love of God and our neighbor, We should make a seif-examination and @ constant study of every thought, word and action to find out whether we are in aceord with these precepts. In regard to God's love towards men it is shown at every moment of our lives, as well as in the great price he paid for our redemption. Actions must accompany protestations of our love for God, Tiere is no use in pretending to such a love if our conduct docs not show a conformity with the divine law. The Creator says explicitly, “Whoever keepeth My commandments, loveth Me.” The eloquent preacher then proceeded to show that the love of our neighbor is a necessary consequence to the love of God, and exhorted his hearers to avoid everything that tends towards the injury or disparagement of our Iellow man. ‘The mass sung by the choir was Haydn’s Second Mass, which, with the brilliant organ playing o! Dr. William Berge and the clockwork precision with which the well-trained choir sung the trying music, was a delightiul treat. Tne “Qui tollis,”"a baritone solo, in the absence of Signor Bacelli, was admir- ably rendered by the tenor, Signor Tamaro., At the vespers in the afternoon Miss Maury Werneke sun; @ very beautiful contralto solo, “Salve Regina,” 0! the Italian school, and showed a remarkable pro- gress in both volume of voice aud intensity of ex- pression. Tamaro made his own “Ave Verum” a gem of the occasion. Berge’s Second Mass will be given next Sunday, and Cherubini’s Messe Sole- nelle on the toliowing week. | ponderous calibre, which always seemed to | | Of these people ts abundant, but it is @ kind of BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH Sermon by a Secretary of the America: Missionary Socicty on the Civilizatie: of Africa and the Mental and Social Advancement of the NegromWhat Is Already Doing. The Rev, Mr. Streebie, one of the secretarics of the American Missionary Society, preached yester- day morning to a small congregation at Plymouth church, Mr. Streebie selected for his text the last clause of the thirty-first verse of the sixty-eighth Psalm—‘“Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her handa unto God." In reterence to Airica he said when- ever that Continent is converted Providence will have much to do with that or. ganization. God is piacing on the Continent of America the means of Christianizing the | Africans. My subject will be the destination of the African races and the relation of America thereto. The civilizations of the world, their char- acter and their history, were then rapidly sketched by the preacher. It ts the destination of the Alrican races to represent that civilization which will represent the amiability and mildness ofthe Apostie John. The Airican races on their own native Continent embrace a vast number of people. Notwithstanding the drain of the slave trade, AFRICA [8 MORE POPULOTS to-day than she was two hundred years ago. The ceusus shows that since the war they have increased more than half a million, ‘Ihe Airicans have the very efflorescence of the affec- tions, The civilization of these Airicans will not be the ype the world uas seen, but it will be the gentlest and the most amiable. Americans owe these colored people a debt which can only be paid 2 giving them the means tor boa be lt the facili tes for the obtainment of knowledge fo the arts and sciences, ‘the effect of this will be to send missionaries from the colored people in America to instruct their kinsmen in Africa. We must there- fore give them an a ae Piety, What is wanted is to go to the South with the ¢ fuicrams of civil heats) that have made Ww |, the cpr ‘hrist land what it is—namely, thé schoo and the home. Never, since our Lord Jesus preached His Gospel to men, has there been FIVE AND 4 HALF MILLIONS OF PROPLE in one dr if 68 a fous to read the Word of God as the colored people of this country. The religion emotional religion that is united too trequentiy vices, The American Missionary So- clety has for its ebject the givin; these colored people an intellectual piety. It had two higher educational institutions, and the rincipal one is at Atlanta. ‘rhe result of the exam- ination at these colieges was that it showed that they excel better in mathematics than in any lower study. Governor Brown frankly confessed that be was entirely converted from the opinion that the race was an inferior rave as far as education is concerned. He had always thought that in the primary studies the negro would excel, bat when it came to higher mentai work he would be tound Inferior. This opinion he had now to give up. Further illustrations o! "his character closed a very strong appeal for the colvred people, TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY. This World a Poor Portion for a Man=— An Excurs' to Heaven—A Glimpse of the Ete 1 Orchestra—Uhe Giories of a Christian's Eternity, At the morning service yostorday, which was largely attended, Mr. Taimage presented the story of Caled and his daughter Achsah as the basia of an earnest sermon on the wusatisfactory portion we bave ta (is world and the gjorigus life that God has provided for His people hereafter. Tne text was from Joshua, xv., 19:—*Thou hast given mea south land; give me also springs of water. And He gave her the upper springs and tho nether springs.” The tact 1s, said the preacher, that as Caleb the father gave Achsah the daughter a south land, so God gives us this world. Iam very thankiul He has given it tous; but Iam like Achsah in tie fact that 1am not satisfied with the portion. Trees and flowers and grass and blue skies are very well in their places, but he who has nothing but this world as a portion has no portion atall, [tiga mountainous land, sloping off tow- ard THE DESERT OF SORROW, swept by flery siroccos; it is ‘a south land’—a poor portion for any man that tries to put his trust in it, What has been your experience? What has been tae experience of every man, of every Woman that has tried this world as a por- tion? Queen Elizabeth, amid the sur roundings of ump, is unhappy because the painter sketches too the Pilaneely wrinkles on her tace, and she indignantly cries out, “You must strike off my likeness without any shadows.” Hogarth, at the very height of nis artistic triumph, is stung almost to death with chagrin because the painting he has dedicated to the King does not seem to be acceptable, for George H. cries out, “Who is this Hogarth? ‘take bis trumpery out of my presence.” Brinsley Sherl- dan thrilled ‘the earth with his eloquence, but had for his last words, “I am absolutely undone,” Walter Scott, tumbling around the inkstand to write, says to his daughter, “Oh, take me back to my room. There 18 no rest for Sir Walter but in the grave.” Stephen Girard, the wealthiest man in his day, says, “I live the Iife of a galiey slave. When | arise in the morning my one efort is to work so hard that { can sleep when it gets to be night.” Charles Lamb, applauded of all the world, in the.very midst of his literary tri- umps, says:—"Do you remember, Bridget, when we used to laugt from the shilling gallery at the play? There are no good plays now to langh at from the boxes.” But why go so far asthat? I need to go no further than your street to find an illustration of what lam saying. Pick me out TEN SUCCESSFUL WORLDLINGS— and you know what I mean by thorough world. lings—pick me out ten successiul woridlings, and you cannot find more than one that looks happy. Jare drags bim across the ferry. Care drags him back. e your stand at two o'clock at the cor- ner of Wall and Nassau streets, or at the corner of Canal street and Broadway, and see the agonized phystognomies. Your bankers, your in- surance men, your importers, your wholeselers and your retailers, a8 a class—I speak of those who are supremely worldly—as a class, are they happy? No. Care dogs their steps, and, making no prea to God tor help or comiort, they are tossed hither and thither, wuile ‘JAY GOULD MAKES NEW YORK QUAKE, from Central Park to the Battery! How has It been with you, my hearers? Mave you not had more care and worriment since you gained that $50,000 than you did belore? But, blessed be God, we have spiritual blessings offered us in this world, hich I shall call the nether springs; and glofies in the world to come, which t shall call the upper springs. I bless God for the present satistaction of religion, Oh, nether springs of comfort, bursting through ail the valleys of trial and tribulation! When you see, oh, man of the world, what satisiaction there is here in re- ligion, don’t you thirst alter it as did Achsah after the water springs. It makes the lame leap as the hart, and thedumbsing. * * * * * * Oh, l, my Father, I thank thee for the upper springs in heaven! It ts very fortunate we cannot see heaven until we get into it, Oh, Christian man, if you could see What a place itis we would never get yo. back again to the office or store or shop, Lam glad 1 shall not see that world till Tenterit. Sup- pose we Were allowed to go on AN EXCURSION INTO THAT GOOD LAND with She ee Ore Saeai When we got thero and beard the song and looked at the raptured faces, and mingled in the superb suciety, we would cry out:—“Let us stay. Why take the trouble of going back again to that old world? Weare here now, let us stay,” And it would take angelic vio- lence to put us out of that world if once we got there. But as people who cannot afford to pay lor an entertainment gometiines come around it and look through the door ajar or through openings jn the fence, so we coine and look through the crey- ices info that good lana wbigh God hag provided for tis. Wecan Just catch aglimpse ofit. We come near enough to hear the rumbling of the eternal orchestra, though not near enough to know who blows the cornet or who fingers the harp! Upper springs of light and gladness! | Upper syenige ot love. It Is no fancy of imine. would not stand here making @ mere fancy. Oh, Saviour divine, pour into our souls one of those anticipated raptures! Let us place before our vision those fountains of God rainbowed with eter- nal victory, Hear tt! They are never sick there— not so much as a headache—(a voice, “Thank the Lord!”)—or neuralgia twinge, or rheumatic thrust. How they must pity us as they look down and see us, and say, ‘Poor thin away down in that world!” And when some Christian is HURLED INTO A FATAL ACCIDENT they cry, “Good, he is coming!’ And when we stand around the couch of some loved one whose strength is going away, they cry, “Iam glad he is worse. He has been down there long enough. There, he isdead! Come home! Come heme!’’ Mr. Talmage then exhorted ail to prepare for the great eternity, and in conclusion said:—‘I am no alarmist. I simply know that if aman does not repent in tnis world he never repents at all. Oh, ut off this matter no longer. Don's turn your ack On Jesus Christ, who comes to save you, lest you lose your soul.” LAFAYETTE AVENUE CHURCH. Godly Sincerity—The Outward and the Inward Life—The Unreliability of Ap- pearances—he Only Remedy for In- sincerity. Dr. Cuyler’s church was well filled yesterday, notwithstanding the dubious state of the weather. The singing, always excellent, was very superior yesterday. Dr. Cuyler commenced his discourse by saying :—I will take for my text this morning two words, “Godly sincerity.” They are to be found in Second Corinthians, first chapter and twelith verse. Every man has two lives, an outward and an inward ite. The first is Known by his tellow men, the second is known partially by himself and wholly by the Lord. Tne inward is the heart life; there is a vital connection between the two, and when a man attains godly sincerity he will have a perfect agreement between them. A depraved soul vitiates the outward life, If I walk through the park and see the clock, I only see its face, but the watchman of the tower sees its heart. Imay find the clock keeping time, but 1tis no trouble to keep a true face outside as long as vbe works inside are all in order. Sometimes the clock will lead you astray; there is something wrong within; the clock has turned hypocrite, Alas! how many such characters in society; dials are PRESBYTERIAN NOT T0 BE RELIED ON. There is insincerity among the best of us; it be- trays itself in many directions, Ue is a rare man who never brought @ hollow act of worship to God, or spoke an insincere word to bis fellow men. Now, of bypocrisy in society, there is quite enough, I am afraid quite too much, You see a party of pleasure- seekers; you would think they were brimming over with love for each otber; that is the outside; but inside lurk envy, jealousy and hatred; so through all there is falsehood behind a smooth exterior, Qutside, bappiness; inside, heartburn, misery, How many are what the palm of the hand and the utterance of the lips indicate? ‘Two men meet and give @ cordial handshake, and then try to over- reach each other all day. Now, with this digorence between outside seem- ing and inward feeling, can there by any godly sincerity’ How many jilustrations we could give of this! I meet a man day aiter day, who I know is doing wrong; he counts on me a3 approving, and behind his back Tsay, “Poor man! what a blunder he is making! I’m afraid be will find it out some time.” WHY DON'T I HELP HIM to fndit out? The factis, 1 ama hypocrite to him; be thinks I am bis friend, but I am not friendly enough to him to be a reai friend, Blessed ts he that Feby gb @ Rs hbor, tor he shall find more favor than he who Hattoreth, that we might ve more true; that we might eschew by risy! 1 would rather a man were honestly lunt than courteously false. lL looked with interest apon the portrait of Oliver Cromwell, by Lely, in the Pitti Palace, When Lely was endeavoring to soften hia rugged lincamenta and smooth out the wrinkle: Jromwell said, “Paint me as 1 am or not at all.’ We live in an age of shows and falsehoods; men live for appearances; a great deal of seeming gold is only glitter. We live in an age when we are tnd- ing out that what we considered sound is hollow; we find more things burst than cotton balloons. Christian professions are exploding, and 1 see uo rewedy but in the CULTIVATION OF GODLY SINCERITY, where the heart is in correspondence and union with God. Ifinstead of relying on exterior at- tractions we had # closer union with Christ, we would be able (o diffese the unanswerabie argu- ment of Christ's visit among men. There is one insincerity towards man and another towards God, Hypocrisy in reiigion is simply seeming to be what we are not, the proles- gion Of love without the possession th it, the pro- feasion of faith withons, ye sion of it, TT! [eis gata of a heart love Is ure to be professed; Rai it is patural lor it to come out. Lt the heart loves he Master the Ups will confess it But were there is NO INTERIOR FERLING and there ts an exterior profession, it ts a sod, solemn falsehood, oiten done unwittingly, but a fearful mistake. Tread in the Bible of a lie to the Holy Ghost; it fg a feartul, terrible thing; but I think when a man inakes & profession he does not feel he lies to the Holy Ghost. It 19 harder to be @ menuine hypocrite than to be a Christian ; it is really exceedingly difficult, for a man is liable to detection, Circumstauces may thrust the mask aside, No one ever went through the life of a hypocrite without some one suspecting. If lying Ups are an abomination to the Lord, how much more is hypocriay to God ? Theré is only one remedy tor insincerity, and that 1s to seek from God reality. Lf outwardly we do not corresponnd to the inward life make the in- | ward life right and THE LIGKT WILL SINT THROVGT. Confess to God, and strive to make your inward life | fare butdo not proiess what you do not feel. | here was & good Women in Moumouth county, | who often con{cssed what a sinner she was to Mr. Tenney, and once he said, “I always kuew it,” madam. All her sorrow and humility was gone in @ moment, and sue said, “Sir, [am as good as you are any day.” I need not enlarge on the principle that sincerity 18 a prodigious secret of power in true religien, GUIDED OF GoD and directed by the foly Spirit. Sincerity is a power whose eloquence is irresistible. Ifa man can be sincere it will work wonders; if you cannot do anything else for Clirist you can be sincere, you can be true, and God will take note of it. God) sincerity—the truth of God—let if sbipe, let it speak, jet it work, let it live. You need not be afraid to be seen if you are what you profess to be. Be honest with yourselves, be honest with God, and if you seek salvation God will vouchsaic it. CHURCH DEDICATION In JERSIY. Bishop Corrigan Dedicates St. Joseph's Church tn Jersey City—Sermon by the Rev. Dr. MeGlynu—Confirmation at St. Pau! During the past five years the Rev. Father Vanuia, pastor of St. Joseph’s church, on Jersey City Heights, and his congregation have labored with upflagging zeal to erect a church which would be a temple worthy—as far as human hands could effect it—in some measure of the name “House of God.’ An edifice was raised, not of wood or of brick, but of stone, solid, euduring and of massive proportions. Though not com- pleted the erection is so uearly finished that the pastor was enabied to make arrangements for the dedication yesterday. The building ts 158 feet in length, 64 fect in width throughout the Nave and 100 feet across the chancel. Above the high altar is an exquisitely stained win- aow representing the crucifxton in life-size figure, the design, the grouping and the execu- tion conveying a scene in the bloody drama enacted on Calvary seliom scen in any church paintings. At cither end of the chancel 1s a stained glass window, equal in dimensions to that above the altar, while all the other windows are proportioned to the size of the nave ana are of stained glass, Taken altogether, it is not oniy a substantial structure, viewed from without or from the interior, but it {s a handsome edifice, At hall-past ten yesterday forenoon the cere- mony of dedication was commenced Us Bishop Corrigan, who was assisted by the following riests:—Very Rev. George H. Doane, V. G.; Rev. athor Willett, S.J.; Rev. Thomas Killeen, Rev. Patrick Corrigan, Rey. Patrick Hennessey, Rev. Father McNulty, Rev. J. De Concilio, Rev. b. Me: Govern, Rev. Father Vanuta, Rev. Father Connolly, Rey. Dr, McGlynn, St. Stephen's, New York; Father Curran, St. Andrew’s, New York; Father Malone, Sts. Peter ‘aud Paul's, Williamsburg; - Rev. Fatuer Callan, Rev, Father Waish, Very Rev. Father Dominic, Pro- vincial of the Order of _ Passionists, and Father Joseph, Augustine, Philip, Timothy and Alexis, of the same order. Atthe conclusion ofthe ceremonies a Pontifical mass was celebrated by the Bishop. The assistant priest was Father Doane; deacons of honor, Fathers Dominic and Joseph; deacons of the mass, Fathers Philip and Alexis; master of ceremonies, Father Augustine, . THE MUSIC was rendered by an orchestra and quartet choir, furnished chiefly from St, Boniface’s church, New York. Of the manner in which that gem ot church music—Mozart’s ‘No. 12 Mass””—was rendered, it will be anfficient to say that those who were dis- posed to analyze the performance were lost in ad- Miration. It can be truly said that on this occa- sion the immortal composer’s masterpiece was ROt mutilated, THR SERMON ‘was preached by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, who took for hig text that portion of the Gospel of St. Mat- thew in which occurs the passage—‘‘All power is given to Mein heaven and on earth. Go ye, there- fore, teach all nations.” Alter pe paiets the cere- mony of dedication the preacher \d :—These words of the Gospel contain the glorious charter of the Church and explain way we are assembied here to-day, This material temple is called a chureh, but this name is only borrowed trom another temple not built by human hands, but that invisible temp'e built by tne hands of God Him- self—built by the power, the goodness and the love of the Triune God. The sanciity of this material temple flows irom that higher temple which con- stitutes the Church of God. 4 THIS MOTHER CHURCH is given us to comfort our hearts, that will grow weary during the long, the tedious journey we pave to travel. @ are assured by the words of Cirist Himself that He 1s near us, nearus even as He was near to those who saw Him in the flesh, who wit- nessed His miracies and beheld His ignominious death, “Lo, I am with you ail days, even to the consummation of the world.” This same Son of Mau is not far away irom us to-day, for ME STANDS IN OUR MIDST in the person of His Charch, to comtort as, to bless us and to teach us, even as he taught the mul(t- tude on the shores of the lake of Genesareth. He has opened here to-day a new schoolhouse, and He has given His promise to His Church that SHK SHALL NOT FAIL to teach what He sent her to teach. He, moreover, gives the full assurance that He will be with her ail days, even to the consummation of the world. And, that His Church may feel the force of thus promise, He says:—‘‘All ers is given to Mein heaven and on earth.” Mark the words, “And on earth.’ He then adds:—"Go ye, therefore, teach all nations, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 1 have commanded you.” ‘All na- CY “all days,” ‘ail things," ‘all power.” This THE CHARTER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, the one Cathoiic Apostolic Church of God, my brethren, have done a good, a blessed, a gracious thing. You have done service to Christ, ta Master, that the loving Saviour will not fail 0 requite, At four o’clock in the aiternoon Bishop Corrigan administered confirmation to about 200 children at St. Paul’s church, the pastor of which is Father Timothy, of the order of Passionists, The congre- gation of St. Paul’s has become so numerous Within the past four years that a resident pastor and assistant were required, and under Father fimothy’s zeal and vigilance the parish has be- come remarkably prosperous, SERVICES AT LONG ence ven SEASIDE CHAPEL, The Grace of God and the True Chris- lian Life=sermon by Rev. B. C. Lip. Pincott, of Ulster County. LONG BRANCH, Sept. 14, 1873. You, BRANCH. should love their neighbor as themselves. Godt. ness uf life crowned the whole. This was the life of the soal, The godly man will live soberly, righteously and godly. @ grand and momentous work to be accomplished before the; could enter On the life to come. They should be faithful and prayerful. They must deny them selves, take up the cross and have their lamps trimmed and burning. They must stand before anawfal tribunal. They should not be 80 mean and ungenerous a SERVE THE DEVIL all their days, and at the end enter the service of the Lord. it was true that Christ pardoned the thief on the cross, that his pardoning grace was sudicient for all tiings, but how much better to enlist eary under the banner of the Cross, and through lt to fight the good tight of faith! ‘ith what noble assurance such a one can enter through the gates of heaven and join there the glorious army of Christian martyrs! Live was short and eternity was long. They should live, not for the present life, but Jor the coming eternity. SERVICES AT POUGHKEEPSIE. pada to THE REDDING CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. A. L. Culver—Strong Argaments in Favor of the Bible in the Public Schools---Objections of Catholics Answered—Moral Influence of the Bible. PovcuxEersi£, Sept. 14, 1873. For the past few weeks there has been consider- able comment among. the people here over the an- Rouncement in the igh School that the reading of the Scriptures would be discontinued, So much importance was attached to the movement that the Rev. A. L,’ Culver, of the Hedding church, im South Clover street, preached a lengthy sermon upon the subject this evening, which was listened to bya very large congregation. The roverend gentleman took his text from Isaiah liv., 13:—“Ana all thy children shall bej taught of the Lord, aud great shall be the peace of Thy children.” THE SERMON. He commenced his sermon by referring at length to civil society; and, in the course of his remarks, quoted the words of a priest, who announced that common law—the basal law of civil institutions— 18 extracted from God’s Word; and said, if the Bible is the fundamental law of Christian lands, the State is bound to protect it. The constitution says, “Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to a good government and the happiness: of mankind, schools and the means ot education shall forever be encouraged.” Washingtom said, ‘Promote thom as an object of primary tmportance—tinstitutions for the gen- eral diffusion of knowledge. Chief Jus- tice Shaw says the public school was intended to provide a system of moral training. Our plea ts not for denominational education tn our schools, but with @ secular education shall be taught those moral principles which distinguish os asa Christian nation. Again, religion and morality are essential to the best Sutnenan ip and the State must furnish thom, It is asked, Whatsystem shail we teach? There is only one system, as there ie oni, y. ONE RELIGION AND BIBLE. Give our schools the Bible, and they have the correct and only system. It is as a book of morals that the Bible has its great weight. Men who do not accept the doctrine of Christianity as taught in the word of God have been pro- foundly {mpressed with its moral . teach- ings. Mr. Rankin’ writes to the Ver- mont Board of Nducation:—“As a text book in morals the Bible is incomparable. No work cam ever rival it; and this is conceded by all the intelil- ent men of ail Christian denominations. Men draw from it laws to regulate their business, As legislators, they have takeu it ag a chart; as public instructors, they bave ensprined it in the hearts of the youth of our land; as scholars, they have bound iis laws in ponderous volumes; and aa thinkers, the great mass have recelved it as the Tele tors of mind.” But where is the Binle ‘more needed than in our schools? There 1% is the foundation of usefulnes! theie are taught all the principles of thri and enterprise, and there are in train- jag minds that are to sway the hearts of people in the future of our State. Friends, I cannot see any way to rid ourselves of our obliga- tions to give this cherished volume to posterity through the nation’s lately expressed will, the common schools. A foe has invaded these long established and long cherished ideas. It came in the garb of meekness and humility, seeking repose in the Elysium of free instivutions, and we allowed it to come among us. We heard tts tale of woe, wo settled it in our cities, it populates our town: finds a home in our hamlets; and now, strong an owerful, after years of nurture and are, it rushes ‘om its retreat and demands of us that the corner stone of our national fabric be removed—demanas national idea be stricken trom the roll of d, With menacing looks and bolder claims, presents A PROGRAMME OP IDEAS which it wants carried totally subversive of every principle of popular government, That foe is the Roman Catholic Church. And what are her de- tmauds? Knowing that popular education ts de- stractive of her be fons she strikes a blow at our public Schools by demanding that one of the dearest rights of a Protestant people shall be sacrificed— Imean the Bible. Then she asks for my money and yours to promote her sectarian schools. Itis said that it is an Infringement on the rights of conscience to oblige Catholics to abide the objec- tionable features of our schools. But its objection- able feature is we have not a State Church and the Pope at the head of it; it is an objectionable featnre that this is a land of religious toleration, that we won't acknowledge the dogma of Papal spelled Oi under repubiicin institutions we cannot burned as her: 6i:3. Would you do away with the objectionadie features? But it is said the Catholics will have sectarian schools, as indicated by the recent move in Brooklyn: I say, then, that her impoverisued and now priest-ridden class must pay the taxes of the public and likewise sappor their private schoois, and that, too, without the help oi large public gifts, for the American people will not sub- mit to the idea of supporting Papal Rome, much less her private inatitutions, The: ter is of “poorhouse instruction.’ ‘Ag, and forsooth, who creates poorhouses, and largely fills them? also our State prisons, peni- tentiaries, houses of correctionY That gun does better on its reco'l than before the muzzle. | They tell us that our school system is from the | devil. Rome has been very slow, even in finding | out her blood relation. The 7ubdlet says, “From our | past ae io eee what we want we know ¢ shall get ouf proportion of the school money. Ye feel strong enough to carry out our views.’? This was the atl je that kindied the fires of the Stmnithfleld; that on St. Bartiolomew’s butch- ered in coid biood the Huguenots; that strewed THE VALLEY OF PIEDMONT AND THB ALPINE PASSES with the bones of the Waidenses and Albigenses ; that made ratty of $000, 0 ot marty the ‘rd, souls of whom) to-night from uuderneath the altar, “How long, oh Lord, holy and true, dost ‘fhou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on | the earth?’ Poughkeepsie has been drawn into the vortex. Our Bible is banished from the schools, Jesuit servants are appointed teachers Out of the some 200 guests still sojourning at the Howland House, and probably a like number stili stopping at the other hotels, to say nothing of the Many cottagers still remaining here, there was hardly a baker's dozen went to church this moru+ ing. Fashionabie folks are fair weather birds, and court the bright sunshine in which to show off their brilliant plumage. The drenching rain storm, therefore, this morning caused A VERY DIMINISHED ATTENDANCE at the S as to-day was the closing services of the season, The sermon was preached by Rev. B.C. Lippia- cott, of Ulster county, New York. text, Titus, il. 11, 12~For the grace of God that bringeth saivation hath appeared to all men, teach- ing us that, denying ungodliness ang worldly lust, we should itve soberly, righteously and godiy in this Present world.” The Gospel, he vegan, stood between them and the thunders of Violated law. In tne warmth of their first love they were filled with ardor in the work of Christ, stung by conscience, they asked “Am i His?) How they roe continue to live as Christians and keep up their Christian arior was unfolded in the text, The Gospel was here designated as the race of God. ‘There was no other way of salva- jou. From the court of heaven an amnesty had Lng proctaimed. Thus men could be saved from i DOOM OF HELL. This salvation was universal to all men. But ail men did not accept it, Here was the great mar: vel, 1m the coming of Christ the proclamacious of | the prophets had been fulfilled. In the oifer of salvation was iucluded everybody—the poor us well as the rich, the humblest as well as tie noblest born. It was a japted to the Inteli gence of all. The king on his throne, the phiioso- her, poet, scholar, artisan and statesman, ua well 8 (ue humolest laborer, nave the way of salvu- | Vion opened to them, There was NO ROYAL ROAD TO HEAVEN. Each must bear the same oross, each must sit at the iget of Jesus, each must rept the divine | grace. Again, the gift of salvation was for ail | times, for those of tae present century as Mach as Jor those who listened personaliy to the uivine teachings of Christ. It would be the same through | the long march of the coming centuries, But for | each and ail of them the accepted time was now, They were only sure ol the present. Dwelling | eloquently on this branch ot his theme, he cn. | forced the teachings of the text as regulating their couduct, They were to be temperate, to avoid TRICKS OF TRADH. The temptation to get rich induced to over. reaching. The golden rule should ever stand be. ide chapel, It was a little discouraging, | Hos subject was | the “Work of Grace in the Heart of Man," and his | the | but this ardor was apt to cool in time. Olientimes, | and our Protestant citizens are without redress. | One reason jor this strange proceeding is that the | edifices are not suicions to accommodate the in- crease of sciolars, and that necessitated you to | bargain for the parish school of the Catholic | Church, No, but the public expenses were of such a magnitude that we could not build. | But, gentiemen of the Board of Education, would | it mot have been better for you to have | let that pile of brick and mortar fallen to the | ground rather than to bave had any amiiation | With that Churcn? Was there ever a compact she | ever entered into that sbe did not in some way { violate or prostitute it for her own selfish ends? Besides, the public would have saffered no great lugs to have Waited a year or two. But, again, dia you cver think of those buildings until the Rev. | McSweeney made hts first startiing proposition 7 And, indeed, was it not the contemplation of the Board to build’ But why the necessity of taking away the Bible? That does not follow, [am an- | swered; it was the result of a decision of the State | Department founded in @ statute law. Then from 1866 We have been living in the violation of law. That does not reflect great credit on the Board of Education. But was not TAR ABOLITION OF THR BIBLE FROM OUR SCHOOLS one of the direct results of the bargain for tha sel.ool edifice? Pray, Who is entitled to be heard | on this matter? Have Protestants no voice ? | Mnst we be silent? Must Christians fold their arma and bow their heads while the Bible goes out and sombre-robed men and women come in? Shall the | priest be heard, and the petition of sixty Christians ie unhonored and unnoticed by our officials? Not By ali that makes the Bible what itis, by all that. makes our land what it Is, we will not submit in silence co (his invasion of our rights! It is asked, What shall we dor e@ must sub- mit for the present; but I hope you will remember this class of men at the polls, There are times when justice, outraged and abused, forgets all law, and in the person of a, righteously indiguant people turns upon her op- pressors and grinds them to powder. Let the American people be offended, but woe unto him by whom the efence cometh. In the Bnglish Parlta- ment, during a heated discussion, afeariess English statesman arose and said:—Tae House of Lords huve no rights which the House of Commons are bound to respect when England is at stake.’? Friegds, it as been asked, over and over again, HAVE PHB CATHOLICS NO BIGHTS? are they not entitied to some respect? I answer to-night, with tie same fearlessness of that states- nan, Wien the Bible is at stake Roman Catholics have no rights which the American people are bound to respect. It was said by our national |, “Let us have pe "Yes, let us have euce: but let it first be pure, and let our only standard be the Bible, Let its purifying bea full upon our firesides and counting rooms, up commerce and trade, in our legisiative halis and in. stitutions of learning, and let it light with ite own peculiar radiance the mounts of {otellect and fait in a mantie of glory on the achievements of mind. Then let the angel of peace rise above, and, stand. ing in te Zenith, Vecome tue Symbol ot our gocial fore them, The diye law dqwanded tual Yiev and Ciy ll lg