The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1873, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, DUTY AND DIPLOMA. ‘The National apse = Viewed \Prayers for the President, Con- gress and the People. Wastelar’s Struggle for Liberty in Spain and Cuba—-How Should We Deal with the Weakest Repndlie of Europe? Blind Spain Without Sab- bath or Bible. pa ‘The Fate of Tweed and the Trials of the Poor and Famished. LYRIO HALL @ar Growing Army Laborers—Conviction and Sentence of Tweed—The Virginins Massacre and the Duty of the Government—Sermon by the Rev. O. B. Frothingham. The unusually large attendance -at Lyric Hall yesterday morning was undoubtedly due to the gen eral sopposition that Mr. Frothingham would speak op the Cuban question, His subject, thongn not specially this topic, was of that broad character, the subject being “Humanity,” that embraced this quite naturally, if not uecessarily, within the range of ideas discussed, He alluded to an- ether tepic of present absorbing mterest—the trial and conviction of Tweed, After some general prefatory remarks, he said that the word hu- manity was a comparatively new one and of re- cent origin. It occurs, he said, a jew times in Shakespeare, but is not ‘ound once in the Bibie, Pity is not hamanity; charity is not humanity, The great word in the New Testament is charity, It does not mean love or brotherhood. The Chris- tian exercises eharity toward his fellow creatures, It w not aimsgiving, but the bond that unites Mutual believers. This isnot humanity. By hu- manity we mean something organic. Kindred people are one by the tie of blood that holds all to- gether, and this tie holds good under all circum- stances. Take the bond of iriendsnip, which is the noblest that holds individuais together. Friend- ship isthe relation between people whose higher Qualities are in sympatiy. They try to build one ‘another up in nobieness, and are mutual servants, who are serving each other all the while. Friend- ship is limited. The TIE OF CITIZENSHIP, by which every man in the community is united to every other man is wider, We are kindred with portiaps a dozen, friends with a few, but we are all embers of a community, all workers together, that the bad may be reclaimed, the foolish made wise, and for the increase and perpetuation of humanity. Does the German acknowledge the humanity of tho Frenchman? or does the Irishman admit the equality of the negro? Weigh the word iweli It comes from the Latin homo, which means @ man, and homo comes from humus, which means the ound. We are all made of the dust. Out of the ground we ali come; on the ground we all lavor; trom the ground each man draws bis sustenauce, and into the ground we all sink when our labor is over. A common labor and a common lot makes us all one, Whether we be American or Spanish, English or African. A common destiny belongs to every one, and this means a common future, Education, im- rovement and mutual discipline is what is Impliea in the jaw of humanity. Benevolence is a feeling— wo is pity and generosity. poe comes without «all; humanity rests in silence. The workingman Says, regarding humanity, that it ought to give hum work. On the ground of humanity all distinc- tions ought to be obviterated. It is unequal and innuman that a few should bave so much and so many nothing. How should we feel if we were Ters, and our children DEPENDED UPON US FOR BREAD that we could uot furnish? Yet, there is this fun- damental question of hamanity which is para- mount above all other. We pity them and would Shed tears of blood ior them, but then society has gone so fi I have been reading lately, he continued, the lie of John Stuart Mill. His father was intellectual and very much attached to this, Dis only child. He was brought up irom his cradle 4m intellectual pursuits. The boy had hours for play; but even while he was walking in the garden he was reciting some lesson to his father. This in- vellectual law was continually over him. The other my! I heard of 8 mother who had a favorite child— a litte girl, grace(ul in form and beautiful in face— wno was indulged in all she desired; she was never corrected nor crossed. These are two extreme cases of domestic training. Which was inhuman’ ‘Ihe mother’s system wag sweeter and gentler, but more ruinous. All the humanity in Mill was caretully perpetuated and cultivated, and his senses kept in subjection to his thoughts. ‘the other was disobedient and would grow up to be a woman of the workd, cold and seit. ish, AS a Wife she woald be very uncomfortable, nd as a mother neglectful and selfish. THE CRIMINAL’S PLEA. ‘The criminal presents himself before society and ‘begs ior light punishinent. He says, ‘We are all cape living. You are getting yours honestly; ama getting mine Ce tery A 1 work and you work.” Il he 1s what he 1s 1t Is because society has pot treated him as @ man. What right have we to put him in prison? Humanity i* interested in the human qualities. It cannot allow ite members to degenerate into murderers and thieves. If there is notaing to build upon in the criminal there is another humanity to be con- sidered, It orders the criminal to be shut up in prison. Homanity does not require him to be Weated Jeniently or to go atlarge. When Judge Davis yesterday afternoon pronounced the SENTENCE OF WILLIAM M, TWEED he seems to have spoken out of the heart of our bumanity. It is better that one man should be Made to sufer than that hundreds should be made miserabie through his misdeeds. There is no in- humanity in banishing from the confines of society those who tear society in pie: We have ail been for some days excited over one of those Duman deeds that disgrace Lumanity aud shoc Buciety, In THE VIEGINIUS MASSACRE there was not only an utter disregard of the feel- ing of the civilized world, but an utter disregard ©! international pledges and common decency. ‘was savage and the deed of savage men; it was in- human, cold blooded and heartiess. Is it intuman Wo invite war? Is it right to embarrass one of the best men, who is trying to remodel Spaint It would seem more haman to confine ail angry feel. img in the smaliest bounds. War strikes at the heart of humanity. It is not in the amount of treas- ure expended; it is not even in the devastation tat war brings to every home; it is that war ants its foot on all the fine, delicate sentiments. var deranges all interests; it embroils people who lave been knitted together, and the whole Of civilization 1s pushed back a thousand years, Wii you make us do all that work over again? An inhumanity that is made permanent is worse than War. An institution like our Southern slavery was Worse than war. If the affairs in Cuba can be fe\tied by anything but the sword let them be, aud Speedily, ‘The law of humanity is that a man should not live tor himself alone. This law re- quires that he should do all he can to make the World a ittie more just aud equitavie, BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST OEURCH, The Dependencies and Duties of Man- kind—An Appeal for the Struggling Cubans, Rev. E. C. Sweetver yesterday morning preached ® discourse on “Ihe Mutual Dependencies and ties of Mankind.” He took bis text the forty-first chapter of Isaiab and sixth verse ;— “They helped every one his neighbor, ana every “one said to his brother, Be of good courage.” ‘the pastor explained that this was epoken of an idol- otrous people, when threatened by @ great Power that was to result in setting the Jews free. They were uniting for self-deience against Cyrus, who was the terror of that day, and to put him down ‘they advised each other to be of good courage. These idolatrous nations were alarmed, they were panic-stricken and even sought aid from their Adols, believing that it was @ PUNISHMENT YOR THEIR SINS ‘Thus in the text the prophet draws @ vivid pic- Vare of the means employed to avert the danger that was threatened by Cyrus, who was sent by God to set the Jewish people free. We must com- Mend this course of the idolatrous people, in that it shows the mutual depen lencies of all mankind Paul likened the buman race to a human body. No one meinber could do without the assistance of the others, Thus the apostle makes ciear the doctrine of Christian unity, The minister iinstrated his osition by tracing the commercial relations pe+ Treen nations and showing the dependence that each one has upon the others, by the re: ‘the various parts of a house ty to eacl tions that h other—if AUG DICKS ATE MeIOGLYG WG Weg PTUSUUEG JB pls! IAG of Unemployed | | through our frame It | from | es angered. Tho/interdependenctes of men In their mternauional relationship shows that NO NATION CAN STAND ALONE and no nation can divorce itself from the others. He referred to the gradual removal of the walls of partition that shut China in from the world, and the vasié of the Persian Shah, who was the firsi Persian ruler to cross the boundary ago the voice of inspiration declared that God had made all mapking of one biood, to dwell in unity upon the curth, The same necessity that exists in dependencies between nations, he showed, exists communities, Among tradespeople each man is more or less dependent upon his fellows. Let one be Weakened and ail are weakened. Once | benefit of the members of the St. Cecilia Choral and awhile God makes us see our dependencies upon each other, If an epidemic breaks out in the tricis Of sin and squalor, the wealthy are affected as well as the trates this also, It is a sign of the unity that exists between men—the DEPENDENCIES OF MANKIND. The panic is like aset of tenpins. When the head pin was struck the crash shook and struck everywhere. The crash isa sign of the unity be- tween men; all ieelit. The minister reerred to the recent butcaeries in Cuba, and said it was the duty of all nations to unite and put @ stop to such outrages agaist humanity. It Was as much the business of other nations to assist ip ey rt Stop to such airocities as it is ours. nation should stretch out its hand and it should have the support of all nations. He did not advocate war; war was terribie, But Engiand amd the Unite States should say to Spain t THE CUBANS shonld be let alone, and the Spanish butchers there will not dare repeat suca crimes, Let them x to our struggling brethren in Cuba, “We will will protect you,” and there will be no occasion for war. The minister showed that in the Church there was the same necessity for unity, and stated that ail should endeavor to assist each other in trying mes like these. ST. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIO CHURCH. The Forty Hours’ Devotion—Opening of the Jesuit Mission—Sermon by the Rev. Father Shea, 8. J. The scene in St, Stephen’s yesterday morning must have gladdened the heart of the pastor, Dr. McGlynn, Long before the commencement of the services every seat was taken possession of and every available foot of space in the aisles occupied by thousands, willing to stand during the long ceremonies and bear the crushing of the crowd, rather than lose the opportunity to take part in the initial devotions of the Forty Hours’ Adoration and, at the same time, hear the consoling truths of religion enunciated by the distinguished Jesuit Father who opened the mission, Solemn high mass was sung by Kev. Dr. McGlynn assisted by Rey. Father Flynn as deacon, Mr. Young- man as sub-aeacon and Rey. Father Power as mas- ter of ceremonies. The grand and impressive cere- monies, peculiar to the “quarant’ ore,” including the procession of the Blessed Sacrament, were gone through with creditable precision and ac- curacy. When the deacon had finished the singing of the gospel, Rey. Father Shea, S. J., President of St. John’s College, Fordham, ascended the pulpit, and, after reading the regulations of the mission, delivered the opening sermon. He spoke in sub- Stance as 10llows :— In consequenee of the length of the ceremonies to-day 1 shall speak to you only a few words, and I begin by saying to you, in the words oi St. Paul, “This is the will of God, your sanctification.” God has no need of us. Within His own being He has not only the plenitude, the fulness of His own ex- istence and infinite pertectious, but He has also, 1n Himself, the principle of ail existing and possible beings and o1 all the perfections they are capabie of Compared with Him we are nothing, and in addition to our nothingness we have offended Him. We have used His favors to offend Him. If He were to treat us as we deserve He would have nothing to do with us. But He is too generous to discard us. Instead of rejecting us He has grand designs in our behalf. He sent His only begotten Son irom heaven not merely to save us, but, as tue apostle inplies, to sanctily us—to make us saints. Man has, indeed, T sae endowments. He has an intellect able to distinguish the truth, but it is often, very often, led into error; he has a will | capable of embracing what is good, but it is in- clined to evil and frequently chooses what is bad: | he has an imagination fitted to concetve the grand- est and most poetic ideas, but it produces nothing but filthy pictures which pollute the mind, There 1g a great deal of moral filth in man. He comes into the world stained with sin, and of his dally acts his conscience cannot approve. Christ came to rid us of ali vice and make us practise virtue. This is God’s will to make ali men, as St. Peter says, ‘Cobeirs of Christ,” His own sons, 80 that we live no longer a mere na- tural but also a supernatural existence, He 18 constantly giving you graces, and to-day He gives you in this Mission @ speciai grace, A mission involves something oa your part, a8 well as on the part oi the priests who conduct it. They are bound vo instruct, to admonish, to ex- hort; you are bound to aitend the instructious, hearken to the admonitions, and do as you are ex- horted to do, in your regard. The mission is for the rich as well as for the poor. The exercises are for all, because the sanctification of all is the will of God. Take, then, tlis grace. Open your hearts to receive it. Itis knocking at your door. Pray, for we can do nothing without the help of God. Let us pray to the patron saint o/ this church, to our own patron saints, to the immaculate Mary, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that God may give us the grace to use the grace to save our souls. Pray earnestly that all may profit by the mission, We open to-day very auspiciousiy. Our Lord calis you to adore Him, and he makes use of me, unworthy as lam, to invite you to partake of His graces. Let us go to Hi even if we have wandered from our Father's home and acted like the prodigal. He has promised to “refresh those who labor and are heavily burdened.” He wili Teceive us with open arms and put on us the royal robe that we wore belore we ieft His house. uring the procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Which took piace at the end of the mass, the choir, under the direction of Mr. Daniorth, the organist, sang the “Pange Lingua” in fine style. itis estimated that about 6,000 persons Were present at the services. CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION. Dr. Montgomery on Rest in the Lord. The services at the church af the corner of Madison avenue and Thirty-fifth street were con- ducted, as usual, by the Rev. Dr. Montgomery and assistant, Dr. Montgomery took his text from Psalms, cxvi., 7, and spoke to the following efect:—There is, perhaps, nothing so delicious to our bodily gratifi- cations in this world as rest, and men are con- | stantly aiming at that one thing—to obtain the | Test which comes after honest work, nothing which spreads @ more grateful feeling than that languor which steals over us at twilight, after we have been up and toiling all the day long. It is @ sense of repose complete in itself, and partakes of the nature of utter vacuity, When even the spirit is un- willing to give itself the work of thought or mental action of any kind. This rest is relreshing and recuperating in its effects npon the overtaxed body, Butin the same way itis a perfect boon to work after one has been idie for some time—after, for instance, @ long sickness, when one has been tied down to asick ped, Then work is joy—work is rest. Thus the nature of pleasure may be said to have many forms, and we might deduce the argument, which may seem a paradox to lazy people, that work is pleasure and pleasure is work. But pieasure has so many dit- ferent aspects, To the preacher, who considers the sermon he is about to preach; to the writer, who dwelis apon the words to which he gives There 13 meaning and sense and continuity; to the painter, who, after years o: elementary study, when he mingies arrives at the oot nis colors together, places his pigments npon the canvas, until what seemed at first a wretched daub gradually assumes the forms and harmony of @ periect picture. This is all work, but it is a work which ennobies the man and gives him the purest earthly pleasure. And the rest which follows this work is the reward of honest, persevering industry. God gives the same reward to the soul which follows Him and seeks rest within His bosom. Tne soul soars at ali tmes for a higher plane, and one might as well say that the angel Gabriel had ceased to labor for our salvation and had gone to pide himeelf in the farthest corner of heaven as wo say that the soul does not soar higher in its aspirations than this mundane sphere. The bird in ite cage, which flutters about and strikes at tte gilded vars, is an exemplification of the desire for liberty and a broader domain, and typifies the Soul, which is confined in itsmovements and wants Test above. Take the prisoner who is condemned to solitary confinement alone, with no occupgtion. It is #aid to be the most terrible ponishment Which man can Inflict upon man, and a person condemned vo this would Pilingy do the hardest work that could be set nim, if only to see his fellow men and have some occupation. and yet solitary confine- ment IS periect rest, if anything can be on this earth, But both the body and the mind crave for some occupation, something to do which will cause them to fi their place in God’s universe and appear well before His eyes. God commands that our body should do some manner of work, and the command is obeyed literally to the letter, for there is ho man who lives entirely without work. The rich are bound by their yery richness to work by taking proper care of their riches. The poor are bound by the necessity of daily subsistence to do hikewise—work, It is not total cessation from occupation of al) kinds that He means when He asks us to go to Him and obtain rest. God offers us the happiness which He knows to be best for us. He asks our souls to come np and pour them in one eternal rest where the sine and the jence that | miseries of this life will be mere dim memories, where the good will live and the bad will perish, and where the immortal soul shall live forever in ROAGM Qs. since Xerxes. Long | Panegyric om St. Cecilia by the Rev. umbie, The panic illus- | was far below, The altar was elegantly decorated Here am I tulfilung God's intention | | righteousness; and a preacher of the Gospel who wanda Bel won oper offers this, He invites us into Mis kingdom, where there shall be lile everlasting, and where eternal peppinese will be our lot as We rest lorever with 8T. CEOILIA’S CHURCH. Father McGuirk, of St. Stephen’s—The Chureh Decorations, ‘There was a solemn high mass celebrated at this ebureh yesterday for the spiritual and temporal Union, The music, as regards the selection, Was high above the ordimary; in point of execution 1 with choicest gifts of dowers, and on ail sides were visible the jairy touches of ladies’ hands. In the centre of the altar was placed a beautiful and sym@- dolical bouquet, with the inscription ‘Cecilia’? in white flowers on background oi red, The first, the symbol of virginity, the latter of martyrdom. The effect of the brilliant galaxy of tapers on the altar was grand, and as the priests in their oright robes moved to and the scene be- came one of gorgeousness, The sermon, or, rather, panegrro was on St, Cecilia, and = was lelivered by Father McGuirk, of St. Stephen’s church. The preacher opened his remarks witn the statement that when one said St. Cecilia was a virgin and a martyr lie pro- nounced her eulogy. The major part of the sermon was on the beauties of virginity and the glory of martyrdom, When the story of the faith, the beauty and the tenderness of the young patrician matd was parrated many were affected to tears, The history of the young in's tile, from her cradle to her last interview witn Pope St. Urban, was a poem of pathos, The brutality of her mar tyrdom and the manner in which the Roman exe- cutioner hacked her immaculate body, were vividly described by Father McGuirk. ‘The panegyric ended with a tale of the glory of the martyrs. Alter masa there was benediction of the blessed sacrament, and the Sunday school chiidren—boys and giris—with lighted tapers came ito the chureh, and while Standing in the aisies sung a hyma to st Cecilia, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. “The Terror of the Lord”—Sermon by the Rev. Henry Powers. The Rev. Henry rowers selected as the subject of his discourse yesterday morning “The Terror of the Lord,” taking his text from IT. Corintnians, v., 11— “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men”—that is, according to the popular interpretation, or rather misinterpretation of these words, said the preacher, the apostle felt himself urged by the vision of the awtul future which awaits mankind to preach most strenuously the Gospel which had been committed unto lim, in order that he might ‘deliver them from the wrath to come.” The supposition is that a constant and must feverish portrayal of the ter- rors of death, judgment and hell torment entered into the New Testament preaching as its most im- portant element; and that, therefore, a large in- fusion of this element of the terrible ought to dis- tinguish the presentation of the Gospel in all times: and lands. Hence the fearfol pictures of the bot- tomless pit, the graphic portraitures of an aveng- ing God, and the agonizing exhortations to fiee unto “the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world,’’ which have characterized the minis- tration of the Christian Church throughout 80 great a portion of its entire career. The mean- ing, however, of this and other similar passages, when rightly read, bears in a widely different di- rection. There is nothing in it, nor in the Gospel, about terror of God, in the dark sense of that word, and nothing, also, about AN AWFUL FUTURE, What the apostle really said in this place was:— “Being conscious, therefore, of the fear of God, we persuade men.” And what he meant was that he played no doubtful or double part in making himself an expense to the Corinthian charch, as had been charged against him py his calumniators—some change which the apostle had made tn his plans had been ascribed to unworthy motives, Itisevident from the touch of bitter sarcasm with which Paul replies to these charges that his keenly sensitive heart had been wounded | by them to the very quick, and so he makes this appeal, like one Who 1s conscious of the integ- riiy of his motives and has nothing to fear trom any quarter, unto the Master bimseif, unaer whose eye he had been working all the time and before whose judgmeut-bar he was ready to appear at any momeut to give an account of bis stewardship, “Having the lear of God before me,” he exclaims, “1 am iree from all otner iear or care; my heart is open to His gaze, As one who is conscious of his accountability unto God, so I preach the Gospel and so I conduct its at- jairs.”” And this he said in the sure persuasion of a man who can thus look upto the Judge of all the earth, and commend himself in the end and in spite of all opposition to the good opinion of every honest heart. We see, therefore, that there 1s nothing in these words to justily the use so commonly made of them. Men tell us that it Is necessary to employ fear, which bas in it a large element of torment, in order to persuade the world from sin unto does not present the terrors of the hereafter very strongly 18 pronounced by the masses to be un- faithiul to the truth. He sounds THE ALARM TOO FEEBLY, it is urged, and consequently the “piood of souls will be exacted of him;” just as though the truly fearful things which lie in 4 man’s pathway are fu- ture things alone, and that, from the Frescne, one may wander on and on, both easily and pleasantly, ina path of sinful self-indulgence if be will, but that some day, if he don’t look out for himself, he will be confronted with dreadtul realities, of which, until then, he had never dreamed. It is taught very generally that one may be seif-deiuded, may walk in # Vain show with easy mind and satisfied con- science to the very last, but that when he passes tion—the fear which there is held of God, and again of that notion of atonement by substitution, It is@n antiquated doctrine, and should net jonger lag Superfiuous upon the theological stage, for the moment its main idea is opened with the master key of phe fatherhood of God we imme diately perceive that it cannot be the true ‘one, No father, certainly, would punish another who is innocent for one ‘who is guilty, No human court would consider tt possibie to administer justice on such @ principle as this. And in further, illustrating this point Mr. Powers satd :—Suppose to-day some innocent man in this city shouid come forward and pat himself in the PLACK OF WILLIAM M. TWERD, what would be thought of it? And if Judge Davis accepted the substitution, would not the commu- nity ery out in rigptennt tnd ation? Again, you Does not the apostle declare that our God suming fire; and does he not assign that as the reason why He shouki be seared?’? Yes; and this is the pith and grandeur of the theme. God is love, and _ love seeks ever the absolute purity of that which it loves. God’s love isa fire which will not burn us, becanse we do no; love Him, but it wall burn us until we love Him, Tbe man that reststs this burning of God’s love and sins away his days of zTace will some time fear and suffer the most of all, The conclusion of the sermon touched fecl- ingly upon the goodness of God. “If ye, being evil, yet Know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which isin cheaven give good things to them that ask im CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, Christ’s Mission on Earth and Its Les- sons—Sermon by the Rev. George H. Hepworth. At the services yesterday morning at the Church of the Disciples, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street, there was the usual large and fashionable attendance. More than usual fervor, however, seemed to infuse itself into the preiimi- nary exercises, and particalarly in the singing, 1n which the entire congregation participated, and which had asortof old fashioned camp-meeting- like ring of enthusiasm in it, The Rev. Mr. Hep- worth preached the sermon, His subject was, ‘The Life of Christ and Its Teachings;’ and his text Jobn, xii., 25—And he tnat hateth bis life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” We have here, he began, one of those paradoxes of which the New Testament is sotul. It certainly contradicts the logical expediency of the time, and the fruit of such a course would have been exceed- ingly undesirable to most men, If Jesus had been only worldly wise, and had at first unfolded the course He was to pursue, it would have received an immediate denounciation from the learned Hebrew. Ifone wanted to take A CROSS-CUT ROAD TO OBLIVION, tnat was the way. But if he wanted to be regarded by posterity as a mighty ruler, he must de backed by power and prestige. To contradict the influ- ential would be death; to oppose them, immediate annihilation, Christ consulted none, His coarse was marked out by the Eternal. He had only one path, Jesus lived tben for a purpose. Even if He should spend His life in its purchase, it would be cheap, And so we find a life not only of singular but of divine consecration, a life of op- posite extremes, yet in all He did or said with that one purpose in view. Men might threaten or hate, bat He would not swerve. When Judas in the night kissed Him, instead of calling down the wrath of heaven He submitted without a sigh. He yielded without @ word to the bitter hatred of men and to the bitter will of God. That afternoon as the iron crusted through His flesh He prayed Heaven for nothing save tor forgiveness to his tormentors. When all was done He said, It is completed, He meant His labor on earth. That labor was to answer the spiritual necessities of mankind—to become a balm of Gilead to every wounded life—to become a glimpse of heaven to those who were walking down to eternal gloom. Men were aying, women were dying and children were dying. No wonder that the great heart of the nation throbbed with anxiety for a solution of tie problem of their spirituat nature. We know that the storms of this life are pitiless indeed, Without faith and hope life is A LONG WINTER OF DISCONTENT. after enlarging quue extensively on this topic he went on to state that all men must come, sooner or later, face to face with death, What light shall be our guide to the future world ? What mind here knows more than us? Who shall teil us, I can lead you to the land of the hereafter ? It is Christ, who has been there and who will leat us there. We look at the life of Christ and ask ourselves, What is its significance’ It seems tome that without Him we would be like men living Separately in caves, with a thousand possi- bilities not fulfilled and a thousand longings not satisied. Christ saw that the human breast needed a shelter, and He gave us what we needed, The floor of the house is THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, every stone of its mosaic a beatitude, the walls stuecoed and frescoed to illustrate the loving faith ofChrist and His disciples. Tue roof shall be studded with what seemed to be stars, like the vaulted oe Ea but the father, looking through his tears, shall see the dim face of his dead child, and the child shall see the face of his dead parent, as though those who went belore watched over us and stood ready when our time came to give us a helping hand, This is what Christ has done, and what was the motive?’ ‘The pyramids were built as @ monument to the name of Pharaoh; but Chris- tianity, the building of the Lora, was built not to preety any personal ambition, but all for love for us. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. —-—--— HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH. “Emiilo Castelar in His Struggle for | Liberty in Spain and in Cuba: Shall | ‘We Help Him or Crush Him !’—Spain Needs Lime to Think—The Causes of Her Degradation—A Country Without through the vale his{delusion will be dissipated, and he will find that he has absolutely nothing be- fore him but the bar of judgment and everlasting vorture. Therefore, frighten men thorouguiy if youcan. Overwhelm them with a sense of their danger, and lead them shivering and cowering to the shadow o/ the cross for safety and for life, Now, there is nothing tn this world which will startle men 80 immediately and so completely aa the sense of sudden dinger. No wonder, therefore, that zealous and misguided preachers of the Gospel, who look to the outward conduct rather than to the state of tne heart, and who are anx- lous to produce an immediaie and telling im- pression upon their feliow-men, should freely use this instrument, and, Knowing the terror of the Lord, as they understand it, should endeavor to persuade them that His judgment is ipexorabl stern, that hel! is horribly tormenting and that ite is alarmingly uncertain at the best. The medieval Church from un early period of ite history pro- ceeded upon this theory. The Roman Church has adopted it deliberately and worked upon the fears of its memovers to the very utmost. it may even be doubted whether there ever was an i! known to pagau religion so {ull of ghastly and un- utterable horror as those which have become Jatailiar to the eyes and ears of the disciples of a Teligion which declares thas its God is love, But, then, the Papal priesthood believes that it holds m its hands the power to mitigate these tortures, and so it dispenses indulgences, grants absolutions, dwells upon the gentleness o! the Virgin and ih various ways ANNULS THIS BROODING TERROR, The Protestant clergy, however, have kept and increased tue terror, but have renounced the keys. in the Calvimstic theology, no matter how its terms may be qualified, there lays the dark back- ground of uncompromising danger, and the awakening evangelical preacher seeks, therefore, to lead men—not to God directly, for He is too ter- rible—not to Jesus Christ, for He is too charitable— but to God, through Christ, who is figured as an infinite offering to His vengeance; and so a sense of dread has grown up in the heart of Protestantism, which is more than all else the secret of its failure to convert the world unto God and good. Butis there then, you inquire, no element in God, in life, in death and in eternity, which may fairly be described a9 a fear of the Lord? a@ fear which the Lord tmmseif has putthere ana which is to be wietded by His messengers, a8 @ means of awakening and re- forming mankind? Most surely there ts, but it is the fear of sin, and not simply of its consequences in the next existence. it is that filial, not slavish, fear of God, which leads the goat to stand in awe of life itself, of J day unseen power and of the eternal mystery of love. Undoubtedly it is a solemn thing to loye with » haman will, with a sel- fish, earthly soul, Pressed by temptatiens on every side and ignorant often of the right, deed, this life 18 wolul to the tnan who has no higher power to lean on, no light frem above to guide his steps, no bope reaching beyond the vale to nerve and in- spire his heart. Every moment there are infu- ences pressing apon him which tend to make his existence # burden and RESPONSIBILITY A CURSE, 80 long as thought and feeling endure. Yet, never- theless, it is here and now that the burden must be vorne, the suffe experienced and the deliv- erance achieved. “Learn to live and then you will know how best to die” was the preaching of the aposties, Save yourself from the sin that ia within and around you, and let a healthy future pad out ofa renovated and advancing present. ‘Terror there was truly in, the Gospel sometimes, for then, a8 now, there were some men who would give heea to nothing else, Slumbering on the edge Of & precipice and slipping slowly to its very verge, he that would arouse them must cry aloud and spare not, But we must not imagine that there is anything healing or purtiying in the fear that was thus evoked, ‘To tremble velore the vision of the thongs of the Furies, who are believed to scourge the guilty soul through eternity, is to be the slave of the unseen power ; is to become @ poor, cowering, selfish seeker after safety simply, in- Stead of @ free, maniy, earnest, upright and heaven-regarding lover of holiness and truth. Mr. Powers treated at length and eloquently ROL OF Bg, a Sabbath—The True Policy of the American Government. The Hanson place Baptist church was last even- ing crowded by an immense by ® public announcement that the pastor, the Rev. Justin D. Fulton, would preach upon the ex- citing subject of the relations of our government with that of Spain on the question of Spanish rule m Cuba, The preacher is an impressive man, whose face expresses solidity of character and determination and energy of thought; and the sermon, with its living spirit running through it, was at times eloquent and always forcible. He chose his text from Joln, xxi, 9—‘As soon as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals there and fish laid thereon and bread.” He said:—The thought suggested by the Scrip- tural lesson is that Providence 1s in advance of production. It is the watchful forethought and care of God which make existence a possibility. We get into straits and dimiculties, need help, see our weaknesses, and then try to wake up our God and call His attention to our wants, as did the prophets of Baal when they wanted fire to come down from heaven. Elijah believed in God. He did nothing to awaken Him. He believed that He was conscious of his needs and ready to come to his help, and went forth in this spirit, building the altar and placing on it his sacrifice. God heard and warmed him with fire irom heaven. This faith is necessary at this and at ali hours, Providences are THR HANDWRITING OF GOD, They deserve to be studied and pondered over and acted upon. Many treat providences as they treat the clouds and the veering wind, referring them to the Weather Bureau. So they declare that events belong to politicians and not to Christians, Such are derelict to duty. They consent to the en- dangerment of humanity. There isa more excel- lent way. Christ lived by the day and for the day, and so lived for the race and for eternity. Moses, Josuna, David and Daniel, the men who wrought great achievements In the past and who are accom- plishing great things for the present, worked while it was day, believing that God worked with them and for them. The President of the Republic of Spain is a man of this character, and In his struggles for liberty in Spain and in Cuba deserves our acquaintance and support, For the first time for centuries a Spaniara has won the applanse of Europe by the brilliancy of an imagination that scorns the exaggeration for which his people are distinguished, and for that directness of putting things which made him, for eloquence and influence, the match of any orator in Europe, even when he was not backed by major- ities and sustained by the judgment of public opinion, He is a man who is centaries in advance of nis people, and kas, by his own herculean pow- ers, lifted nis country out of the Slough of bespond to a level with the requirements of We hour, As orator and er, in the Cortes worth @ numerical majority. ye stood among the ablest statewmen of Spain. There were Serrano President and Prim Minister of War, and others quite as favored, who resembled the israel. ites of Feypt and yet turned themselves back, ear ing the jeeks and onions, of which they Were jona, CASTELAR, LIKE ANOTHER MOSES, strode forward at the command of God, never look- vance, but giving full scope to his radical doctrines ) ing backward, never counting the cost of an ad- | rection congregation of | people, whose curiosity and interest were engaged | for liberty coraparatively alone, Indeer, despite | and the crowns Of rejoiciny the poverty vf his followers, no sooner had the Cortes met than Castelar made a strenuous speeey te the country, having overthrown ¢ bloody tyranny of bel to not ceutent fiself with @ monarchy, but to fese no time in adopting a republic. Prim wished to replace the dynasty of Isabella by merely changing the name of the royal house, Castelar opposed the great War Minister with all the formidabie and telling array of eloquence which was at his command, here has been nothing like it in all Europe, Bismarck fought tor his King and for the old portion of Prussia. Thiers accepted of a republic in France because he could get nothing else. Casselar, With fortune and tame within reach under @ monarchy, walked out alone, contending for sepablican ideas, whicn were dear to his heart. le had made republicanism his study, and when his in was learned and he ue eae er ewan God gpeped the door a re and pu . How signif- cant the tact! |e eapey ig THE FIRE WAS KINDLED while Castelar was tloating on the sea of thought, and when, in the gray mor! cold and famisied, he approached the pluce where he was to take his stand and begin his work, be sure that a fire of welcome had been Kindied by the Lord Hunsel{, and fish was laid thereon, while the Lord said to hin, “Bring whatye have and join your posses- sions with m; preparation and there shall be more than enough.” He obeyed, and, lo and behold! burope first heard and then felt Castelar. He ruled Spain by the power of his thought and made the King giad to resign @ sceptre which he could not safely hold. Only once dia he support the Ministry—when Zorrilla brought in the bill abolish slavery in Porto Rico—and then insisted that the act should wo every Bee aies province and colony, speech which he then made cost him th of every lover of Maxey ia Spain and secured him the confi ev lover of freedom in As it was in the past so im the pres- ent. Romanism and slavery in origin and in aim, one—one in combining against educa- tion and development, Castelar, called to the Presidential chair after tho assassination of Prim and the abdication of Amadeus, because he rep ese sented in his person the principles of republican government, finds himself couironted by perils which make his been dark and which place his life at the mercy of miscreants. THE MOB THUNDERING AT THE GATES OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER, and desiring to wreak vengeance upon the repre- sentative of a flag which has been insulted and which @ great nation declares shall be respected, cost What it may; the brutal crowd leaping upon the warm and writhing bodies of the victims of the Virginius massacre, are specimens of thts na- tion with which he has to deal. The influence of Romanisin makes the government of which he is the head weak aud plots his overthrow. In Spain there ig noSabbath. Our Baptist and Presbyterian church members work on the Lord’s day as on any day, and only remember the Sabbath to keop it holy by worship at night, Those who wor! in iactory or field lose all if they do not work on the Sabbath, and up to this hour it has been found impossible to obtain a foothold for obeying this fundamental command of God in Ro- man Cathohc spatn, As I have said before, so I Say now, that there ought to be a test made, and only those who will try to keep the Sabbath shouid be admitted to church membership; but, as I have been nepoaratyy told, it 18 very difficult to make the rule binding there or here. Think, oh citizens of America, what you are preparing for your chil- dren, you who give way to Komanism, permitting the Bible to be banished from the school and the Sabbath to be taken out of your life! <A well ordered Republic, without a Sabbath and withoat the dissemination among its people of these prin- ciples, 18 an impossibility. Slavery in Guba 1s another thread with which the ae peaks to form @ rope with which to execute Jastelar. to he extend The support ubda, and nce and sympathy of the world. EFFORTS TO FREE OUBA have been made, not alone by filibusters from ‘America nor by the wealthy classes in the Pear! of the Antilles, but by the leaders of republicanism In Spain itself. The insurrection in Cuba, which was encouraged by the troubles in the home govern- Ment in 1868, wrote on its flag ‘Liberty for All,’? but underneath it, in fact, wrote “Gradual Eman- cipation.” As @ result, weakness characterized the movement. The nature of the war has been determined partly by the nature of the country and partly by the nature of the comba- tants. The speaker drew a glowing picture of Cuba’s former beauty and prosperity. As soon as the government of Isabella wae overthrown Cuba began the revolt. The republicans at home offered the insurgents religious freedom, the right to es- tablish independent imstitutions of credit, every- thing bnt emancipation, which they did not dare offer because of their fear of severing the only remaining tie holding this dependency to Spain. Fully one-third of the slaves at present working in the sugar estates in the island are natives of Airica, while had Spain been willing or able to fultii her obligations no African negro less thén 48 years ought to be found in the plantations. In the light of this truth think of our complicity with slaveholding! THE SLAVE TRADE conld not prosper without our acquiescence. It does prosper, ad no one makes ab appeal against the horrid practice, Why is not Cuba free? It is not the fault of Spain, The progressionists who came into power with Prim, Topeta or Serrano, upon the downiall of Queen Igabelia’s gov- ernment, had jong been solemnly pledged to abolish slavery throughout the Spanish dominions. Castelar held theia to their pledges, and as a result the bill was passed in 1870 which provided for emancipation. Had it been accepted by the colonies as Jaw, and had the insurrectionists welcomed it and rallied to the support of Spain in its enforcement, Cuba wouid now be a free State of the Republic of Spain. It was not welcomed. Cubans fight for independence, not for liverty. Two years elapsed before the volunteers would allow the law to appear even aa a historical document in the newspapers. The reason of this is apparent. ‘The slaveholders are to a man opposed to it. Of the 1,500\qngar lantations but 300 could stand emancipation. iow, be it understood, fur two years the insar- had been going on, ‘nominally tor the freedom of Cubaus. Spain was a Re- public. but the insurrectionists cared not to join Spauw, They sought independence. They proposed only gradual emancipation. There was no uplit ior freedom. The result result has been that the insurrection has lacked | force, and has not yet succeeded. These are some | of the difficulties which surround Castelar, and it is the question for us whether we will heip him or crush him. The sentiment of the Spanish pcopie, who are tar below the leader of their present gov- ernment in enlightenment and culture, and of | the brutal volunteers, has prevented the Cortes from enforeing its decree in Cuba, Abraham Lin- coin, with Seward, Stanton, and @ republican Con- gress and an army at his back, found it impossible ‘to go in advance of the people. SPAIN NEEDS TIME TO THINK. Public opinion has there to be moulded and fashioned, if not made, to conform to the require- ments of freedom. Spain, with her dependencies, numopers 88,000,000 people. These are largely Roman Catholics of the most bigoted and super- stitions character. There is no free ae to stand for God and the right, such as distinguished the North in our confiict and helped the government in the struggle with wrong. We have Bible readers and Bible distributors in Spain. The word of God is getting hold upon the hearts of the people. What is wanted to-day is a clear and distinct utterance in behalf of liberty, Telgious, social and political, and @ sup- port which shall make an utterance mean something. In the light of history let us read our duty. Say unto the lovers of republican and re- Higious freedom in Caba, “Go forwara!”” Theissu- ing of the emancipation proclamation saved 5 Let it be ours to STAND BY REPUBLICANISM IN BUROPE and not to be swept away by the passions of the bour to the betrayal of lioerty. The sensitiveness of the nations eager for the profits of slavery can never be forgotten by our people, The cordiai support received from Prussia and Germany we can never forget. Can we remember this and be slow to crush out oppression in Spain'? I admit there are duttes we owe to our banner, to our prestige as a nation, but a man or a nation ts never so large, so influential, 80 godlike as when annoyances are disregarded io pressing forward toward the good. ‘The cry for annexation is full of mischief. The American government never leads but follows its people in any scheme of aggrandizement. It wus not by arms, but by swarms of adventurous Fe ats and squatters that the way was forced for he occupation of California and Texas. A terri- tory must be Americanized before it can become American. With respect to Cuba no progress in the way of Yankee colomization is as yet percepti- bie. It has been well said that American mer- chants, traders and artisans do not to any extent turive in Havana, CUBA IN AMERICAN HANDS would, by reason of its climate, be at all times an unprofitable possession. Even the soldiers neces- sary to garrison the strong places would, if they were whites, and especially aram-drinking Yan- kees, perish like fleas; an battalions, or- janized alter the fashion of native regiments in india, could never be depended on. It is to be hoped that our peopie will consider the cost of an- hexation before we raise the war cry. OUR TRUK POLICY Js, then, to take Havana and hold it until Cuba comes to her senses, and is ready to unite with Spain in guaranteeing religious and civil liberty and in upholding good order. Then shall we give & worthy support to republicanism in Kurope, which will gird Castelar with our strength an: show to the peoples of = that the only na- tion ready to re ize thi public of Spain was not to be turned out of the path of right by any- Uhing personal to itself; but, with a magnanimity never before shown, thers to itself the heart- love of the world, because, like Jonathan of old, the representative of our nation and heir of un- told blessings goes out to Castelar in the wood and strengthens his hands in God. In this work all can engage, NOW 18 OUR GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to distrinute the word of God among the Spanish people of Europe and America. Letus hope that ‘We shall be #0 noble, 80 grand, #0 true to the high- est interests of hamanity religion that an American shall in the eye® of their people, sitting under the shadow Of despotisin, become the messenger of ce and the herald of liberty to all the world. na let ne velleve that if we act on this principie and are governed by these high motives we shall find Providence waiting for us and waiting on us; and as Christ had the fire and the meal prepared for the disciples as they ap- ES Obed MALT, BOY HhANdABe | proached the shore, BO MLBl Khe pals Af vuKboy eee eemwuneres provided for a nation great im goodness and pit in q PLYMOUTH OHUROH. The Death of Deacon Fanning—A Ser mon by Mr. Beecher on Suffering as an Educator—Fidelity to Duty, The death of Deacon Fanning, one of the oldest deacons of Plymouth church, and who had occupied his accustomed place on the previous Sunday, caused indications of @ sense of loss to be more or less manifest yesterday morning throughoat the service, not the least conspicuous of which was the singing by the choir of “Beyond the weeping and the wailing.’ Mr. Beecher’s subject was suf- fering as the interpreter of moral truth, and as a great moral force acting through the imagination. He selected for his text the sixth, seventh and eighth verses of the flith chapter of Romans:— “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly, For scarcely for & rightcous man will one die; yet peradventure for agood man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us in that, whilo we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,” The representative verses of this chapter, said Mr. Beecher, are those in which Ss Pani says he rejoices in hope and glories in God. Not only so, but he glories in tribulation also, bringing together the two great elements which move humanity in Joy and sorrow. These twin verses have been m the first primary moral agencies in morality and in educating aud es- tablishing the human race on a spiritual plane. The Old Testament appealed more to joy, 48 & positive and formative motive, than to any- thing else. Itemployed sorrow as a threat, and gave a mysterious element to suffering and added to 1t a new interpretation. The New Testament develops this suffering and gives it a new life. Mr. Beecher, at some length, explained the first step of human love as manitested through the Senses and illustrated in childhood. ff a child sees a parent returning good for evil—not doing it dramatically, as a scene, but doing it by habit— it will affect its imagination and teach it sigmifi- cant lessons, Suffering is the midwife which brings us into @ higher ilfe, Mr. Beecher directed the attention of his hearers to the beginning of the effect of suffering upon the imagination, wnen young men ane young women first enter upon the battle of life. ‘Of course it was comparatively easy to manifest fidelity in small things; but think of the effect of fidelity to duty, as mani- festod py the captain in being burned at the wheel on board his boat at Lake Erte, in order that he might fulfil his duty in landing bis passen- gers, The engineer too, on the Shore line of raii- Toad, who stood at his post to save the train; or the engineer above New Hampburg, who although pressed between the rocks gave calmly and un- dauntingly directions to the last for the disposition of that portion of the locomotive that could be used. Mr. Beecher also referred to the acts of Grace Darling, to Florence Nightingale, to the army of American women workers during the recent civil war; to Howard who had “circumnavigated charity throughout the world;” to Joan of Arc, 0! whom he said he didn’t care whether she saved o8 lost France, she saved the world; also to John Brown, whose name goes travell! ing on, as in- stances of whataman can do who willing to suffer for great sentiments. The practical result, then, of these truths 1s {ound in this—that it gives rest to those who are embarrassed and tried in re- gard to the intensity of suffering which feli upon our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. They may rest in the simple exposition of the New ‘fes- tament, that it was necessary that He shoald suffer. That was onty an historical argument, and Was only thus applicable to us. ‘He was to bear our sins.” But the great and the living truth was that the life of God was brought down under na- tural law, and was the manifestation of tue human thus cloistered. It was that which the world did not know. It was then that it was seen that the forces and the laws of the Pentateuch did not represent the highest eres being. There ‘Was another and a higber disclosure, and it wag this, “God reconciling the world to Himsel!,” not the world reconciling itself to God. Then this tratn comes home tous. Are we showing the heroic and divine side of our nature and are we cultivating it? Mr. Beecher closed with strong practical en-~ lorcements of this aspect of the trutn, CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Dr. H. M. Scudder on Preparation for the Ending of Life’s Voyage=The Nation Getting Ready for the Possibility of War with Spain in Vindication of Honor and Liberty. Dr. H. M. Scudder, pastor of the Central Congre- gational church, of Brooklyn, preached yesterday morning from the fonrth chapter and eleventh verse of Hebrews—‘‘Let as labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbeilef.’’ The text, like an angel messenger, meets os, weary life travellers, assuring us of a rest, a place in heaven, a country with a central metropolis, with fountains and rivers, with a sea, but without salt water, tempests or sea-sickness; with oid, for the paving stones are made out of it, and pearly large enough to hew gates out of, Above ail, heaven is a rest from sin, struggles and sorrows; from anxteties, fears, doubts and forebodings; from bereavements, calamities and woes. Not a rest of indolence, but coexistent with the intensest activity—as the sun loses nothing, though it flashes out its sunbeams without inter- mission, The exhortation to labor includes the ideas ;—"Be zealous; be earnest; be wide awake; be quicl e active and striving.” The eyes of a certain spider are set on the summit of a tower, so that it literally scans all its little horizon; so the eyes of a vigilant soul, as though set on towers, desery danger and discover duty. By disobedience we array against ourselves a tremendous power, far beyond the compass of human thought—viz., the Word of God. It ts “quick and poweriul.”’ It is @ living power—the origin of ali life, of ail force, A word went out the other day from THE CABINET AT WASHINGTON, the word “prepare!” It was called forth by the horrible massacre of those on board the Virginius, What, then? No sooner is that single word pro- nounced than a stir begins. The navy yards wake up; men are hired; work goes on by night as well as day; half-puilt ships are finished; disabled vessels are put in trim; hulls are calked and cop- pered; guns are adjusted; powder is shipped; monitors, sloops-ol-wur, iron-clads, Dictators get up steam and head for Havana, The word ‘‘pre- pare’ runs down our exposed seacoast as far as the southernmost point of Florida, as fast as the telegraph wire can ash on, and sounds aloud in every city, in the mouth of every river, in every port, “Prepare, get ready to lay torpedoes, let every ismantied fort be pat into defensive position.” If the exi- gency shall arrive, if impartial examination shail show thai the national honor and the interests of humanity catl for it, then the word “prepare”? shall be condensed into the shorter but mightier word “war.” And who shall be able to measure the forces that shall emerge from that one word, “war,” when uttered by Congress? Men will be enlisted, armed, sent, landed and marched; ar- ullery will speak its THUNDER TONES OF DEATH) cavalry will make its dash; battles will be fougnt on land and on the sea; cities will be taken; the American flag will fy over Cuba, and in the very Tustie of its unfolding will wi! r in the ear of every slave in all the length breadth of that. oppressed land, “You are & freeman for- ever! ‘his flag makes you free!” God grant that this last result mi be the Iruit of the inhuman massacre which caused the whole civilized world to shud uch be the power of a human word, what must be the word of God—the expression of His almighty and independent will? [tis a living word—the origin- ator of all the forces in the universe, It is an omntpotent power, which creates, repairs, restores, heals and pertecta. All else dies. Rocks wear away, Jertiie soils Laat gy Cr Mag Plants fade ana Ss perish, me: fall, animals Perr is SHALL PALL ont of the skies like untimely figs ont of a ng tree. Science is the record of vast cycies o' life and death, but the word of Goad survives all losses and wrecks, all deaths, Itscif unaffect sovereign, original, ever-enduring. Disobey not, Array not yourself against the om- nipotent Word of God. “Tho Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. It pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow,” It sirikes into the animal soul and subdues it. Strikes into the spirit and conquers that, Strikes into the joints of every sophism and lames it go that it cannot even limp, and then, having subjugated the bens in all its parts, it turns into a sword of defence and guards him as the Naming sword of the cheru- bim guarded Paradise, The soul is now God's Eden, and He will keep tt. Blessed are they wio are thus pierced, If you love Christ and follow Him you have noth. ing to fear. Then God's Word is your pilot, your compass; the wind that fills your sails, the water that floats you, the cloudless sky over you by dav and by night. "Be at peace. Let there be no rest- lessnéss except that which people on board ship fee] at the close of a long voyage. They wish to reach the shore, ‘They say, one to another, “Tow many days yet before we sh tin? How many miles did Wwe make yesterday?” Bring out tha chart on the cabin ‘table, You see the track is lengthening, we are coming hear. The scent of the land will soon float out over the water towards us} and then we shallcatch the dim ontline of the shore and draw nearer and nearer till we can se angel forms and the familiar countenances Srigndp WAY Wont PELOTe. ANG BOVE ALL the,