The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1873, Page 8

————————ee eee —— 8 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1873—IRIPLE SHE’ THE SEVENTH DAY Blending of Rest, Praise, Prayer and Precept. INTERESTING CHURCH ANNIVERSARY, Chapin on the Talismanic Belief in Religion— Beecher on “Standing and Waiting”—Froth- ingham on “the Use of God’s Divinest Gifts in the Service of the Devil”— Fulton on ‘“Intemperance as a Crime”—John Cotton Smith on “Ts Christianity a Fail- ure?’—Talmage on Na- tional Affairs—Zhe Cuban Backdown. CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. The Talismanic KLelief in Religion— Ceremonies and What They Amount To=The Minister of To-Day a “Pray~ | amg Machine for a Whole Parish”?=— Sermon by the Rev, Dr. Chapin. The congregation at Dr. Chapin’s church yester- | ay heard one of the most interesting and instruc- tive sermons that have emanated from the great champion of Universalism for many Sabbaths. The discourse was purely doctrinal, inasmuch as its | progress developed the tenets of Universalist be- Nef, while at the same time the preacher infused into his remarks the boldness of figure and beauty | of imagery that have made many of his sentences almost like those of an apostle, The sermon, | which was preached from the text, John iv., 15, | explained the materialistic conception of religion, | or better “talismanic” interpretation of religion, as the preacher called tt. THE SERMON, When the woman of Samaria spoke the words | Which constitute the text, “Sir, give me this | water that 1 thirst not, neither come hither to draw,” she showed that she had a material or tal- | ismanic conception o! religion, said the preacher. | Her words were in response to an offer made by Christ to give water w ever quenched thirs seem to interpret the wor but hit was not, I conception of the water ken, for sue then ch, When once tasted, tor- | cepti and rationalists speech us tronical; sn slie had once pro- there cured this wo! would be no more use in her going to the well. Ifone tries to | @ utes into modern English, or to or ¢ im to iuily eluct 1t is in the that eifica meaning, is a talis regard the s several creed: make little of c ay domany | emonies of their the worid to All s to interio; and as of them, people | know ho and this declaration 1s founded on the belief that certain forms must be obeyed. | With thi first in their neads they look upon | the mini s ing machine lor a wuole and are ¢ to commune with God by co to to pray duty of province. The church to al they not the hear dapal ub t Ht place it by the side of a f ei0 Jet them work out iculution at the will of the bubbiing n Another proof that re- | ligion is regarded as ¢ manic is found m the fact that people live through the whole week with- out ever thinking either of God or church, while on Sunday, the seventh day, they cram all their des | Votion into | A COUPLE OF Hot and think they are from ‘Waited and have seen the tulis the ideas some euiertain r though it may at iirst sight apy doxical, aman may, nowadays, be a at the same time ab immmorz| man, so § false doctrine, ly the growing evil there is but one w: weil, but to ti m, for they have n. According to | jing religion, al- | O direct LYRIO HALL Using God’s Divinest Gifts in the Service of the Devil—Random Thoughts About Coqaettes, Byron, Agassiz and Tweet— Sermon by the Rev. 0. H. Frothing- | ham. | ‘There was scarcely standing room at Lyric Hall yesterday morning. The theme on which Mr. Frothingham discoursed was “Mine and Thine.’ His sermon was based on the words of St. Paul:— “Know ye not that ye are not your own; ye are Paul meant that Christians did not belong to themselves, he began, but to Such lan- guage sounds sire interpret it by | the common laws We are God's by the | sacrifice of millions and by the | Not by the blood of a single martyr or saint, but by the blood tingling in the veins of armies. Inis a truth 80 well known and yet s0 little rememberea that | it canuot be insisted on often enoug. Lucifer, | an archangel, the highest in rank of the cele | hierarchy, basking im the full light of the pert Presence, had beauty such as no child of ear Wwear—truth from the im te mind of the Nigh, and knowledge, and was ble absolute can be bl . Yet he was not happs because these things were not iis own. His beauty ‘was divine and his glory borrowed. ite would be Goa himsel!, and sit upon the throne that was his Tuin, The once radiant countenance of this son Of the morning became darkened, nis flashing eye | dimmed, and he dropped trom heaven and vecame | the Prince of Darkn Contrast with this legend | that of the incarnate man, Christ was the first of | ali created beings, and although He was made in | the jorm of God, £ hot think that equality | t, and took upon Him- | avori end? = Lu- his brightness, was a a im heaven, but he the leader of ‘sinners God. ost | ed as only the | nstanding all He could not rei servant. could reign in hell. and would ¢ Tr NPE Legions of dark brow Mons w come 4 earth. 1 ted his sum- pread sin over all the » good but he could’ tirow hit 2 ana although peo p i ohuron On Sundays, they preier Lucier in t 1 Mon- | days. Christ aad Gied t remained ¢ | A ‘name, legends bri e whole | question of property and owner: 18 a fool- ish and poapo ior @ m: 32 giv Go back to ihe boy choose.” even there you will finc If you tak home to your children, are they wiliing toshare itt Justantly there ig a riot iu the nursery. Each jit tle Philistine wants tt all by hiuse be put in private box or drawer. Loc ne World of | . Ronety 18 for the protection of propercy, | For this laws are made, jalls and prisons bait, 7 | KES ‘OR PROPEL | 3s the chief thing. Follow an old man through his Jast days, lie works no longer, for his « are Numbered, He sits aud plans, and mak: will to prevent other people from spending what he bas made when he is gone. He wants to infuence it as long as possible, He ig not con- tent with keeping it in this world; but tes it up, so that he controls it al- ways. It was once considered very Rye thing for people to own slaves. What right had @ Man to buy and sell fesh and blood’ Hear people talk of their children. They say, “Chis is Ty child, 4 ae proud of his beauty, foes further still, Thi fense Of property associates itself with ‘dens: ‘These men say, “ibis is my philosophy,” or ‘my. School.” It oes still further than this and reaches into the invisible world. ‘Thus men say, “My churen,”” It is considered the hoight of ety to Bay, “My god;” not the infinite or world's Goa, ‘but my od, my possession. So universal is this conception, 80 eager to snatch at everything, it covers whole realms of possession. What’ is having and keeping? Beauty is a gitt—it is love. Jiness of feature. It is gained from a father or Mother, not an unseen heaven, but from a line of Proge ore ols, Git oe Peaniy is like the hight or a floating cloud tinted w: ¢ sun. Of Batar or 9 ith the sun: ” ONF OF Go's PORTRAITS that he hangs up for all to see. Wen a lovely per- Son comes into a room all are made more Lappy. | | Sermon by the | stopped ; even the soulof man w. ings of ages, | } lives, Maue € Has this beanty a right to mar her loveliness? Tas she a right to be vain and proud and conceited, and to tread the earth as though tt were not fit for her footsteps? she aright to use her beauty asasnare, asatemptation? Has she a right to be a corrupter of mankind, instead of its benefactor? ‘The beauty is then gone, because pride, selfishness and vanity will put & bad expression in those once lovely eyes and destroy the peach-bloom on that delicately hued check. 1tis this that will take away all beauty from the fairest face. She Is a coutiette and an enchantress, She snatches one of God's divinest gilts and uses it in the SERVICE OF THE DEVIL. What is talent? It ts a faculty that enables a man to write, sing or play. He looks upon it as thongh no one else hele right to it, That extra convolution in the brain that has been given to him has been marked ont for him by ancestors who have used their brains rightly. Is tt his to Waste? 1tis a drop of elixir so precious that gold will not buy it, ‘This youth thinks that the talent mvolves care. He therefore buries it and lets it go. Or, suppose he has # talent which he uses for the destruction of lis fellow men. He multiplies the rubbish that is already making a stench in the Nostrils of society. Suppose he has the talent of Byron and writes verses for the ruin of young Men and women. It a young man has a gitt of knowledge and plumes himself upon it he is a vision of delight no longer. He becomes A PEDLER OF INDELLECTUAL WARES, Take this wondertul giit of genius. It looks be- hind the shoals of things. it has fingers which le © himself, “It isa very grana thing 4on. 1 will go into the world and placed by privilege higher than man- I will buy up votes, so they will choose me yor, All these people will come brains.” The man having a revela- calling it his own becomes @ sectarian, sell it. kind. PROFESSOR AGASSIZ came to the New World. He was fascinated by our world and became enthusiastic over it, re Wiis the chance fora noble man to work. He went to hails where he could gather companies of people around him and adare: ed them on scientific sub- jects. Napoleon LiL offered him money and friends iy he would come back. Here he stayed and now lies prostrate on a bed of sickness and may die. There are few men greater than he in science, What does he lea’ Himeell, a splendid embodi- ment of high intellectual cuiture, a great pioneer and worker in the broza fleld of scientific discov- ery. Take this matter of children again. Tms child is the praca of the parents, and they are the product of the race behind. I am responsible to all those ages Of parentage gone beiore. Imust introduce tt to the World, 1 launch the vessel, but the ocean must bear it on its way, and the winds from the four corners of the earth must watt it along. Havre is the place where the beautiful ships are built, We should not narrow theim to the di- mensions of our stinted intellects, They are to live in another generation. My little children have been so tied to the tront door that when Llet go they tot- ter and fall down. We come, finally, to tnis idea of property, of material possession—money. this property because we earn it. Do we coin the gold or stanip the bank note’ In earlier times was an ox. The next thing was to print on a piece ofleather. But now we have a ed piece Of paper On Which we write a few and it is money. Do we own that? A man nvents a sewing inachine—not the woodwork, or in, or need! He invents a combination, This man ts Elias Howe. For instance, is it his? He has the trick of brain that tells him how to com- bine the th own interest, or to buy up people, as evidently, the “independent? char- of this church organization, calied attention a forthcoming ‘social festival,” to which he cordially invited ail members of the society to at- tend and all strangers to stay away. ST. PATRICK'S OATHEDEAG, Rey. father MeNamee= “Prepare Ye the Ways of the Lord; Make Straight His Paths.” There was a large congregation at St. Patrick's | Cathedral yesterday at the high mass services. ‘ | ‘amee preached the sermon. ‘the He Rev. Father M the words “Prepare ye the ake straight his paths.” Alter upon the neci fas it were, looking 1 to do the will of the Lord in all el and stjiving elr energies in the worlaly positio attain the wo ; 0 obstacles were too great, no effort too exhausting, so long as they believed that by perseverance their ambition and their desire to accumulate the goods of this world could be finally gratified. And what, after all, were our bod for which men “lump of clay’—a thing made up of matter which irom its very nature is corruptible. And § sometimes made sub- servient to the body—that soul which distinguishes lim from the brute creation, Some of the most in- vellectual men in the world allowed their great faculties of mind, which were GIFTS PROM GOD, to run riot in the ways ofevil, How vitiated wer pursuit of weaith and at nothing to they had in view || the hearts of such men, and how cften were they fluences that are obnoxions to the | filled with in influence of gi Examine them as we migit we 1 ailed tofind in them anything but that which made them slaves to everything that might be a cause for glory or pride. It was tue th sessed § ublime qualities | the creation, but through pride and perver: spirit they wasted on the trausient glories of the w The greater @ man Teason of use he was able to make of the giits of mind God gave him the greater should be his humility. What, then, would be the fate of t people who turned to bad account those facul of the mi nould have to appea fore became by ul’s salvation. leed seem to think i there was nothing to tor, ‘or their special enjoyment here be; who are so puffed up with vanity that t appreciate nothing that does not pander to their honor or their Jame? This class of people, he said, Was not by any means exclusively composed | of those who did not bell in the immortaity of the soul. Mauy of them were loudly at times of the GLORIES OF ETERNITY, but who through ti le were unable to cenit and m . as God re- e should be. When Jolin the Bap- alle on the people to repent he found among the unregenerated J to whom he preach with good hearts, Who at once tarn -Ways of sin, and who, bewalling their past ¥ preparation for the salvation of their sonls, Christ to-day repeated to every one of us, not only during this s “Prepare ve the way oi the Lord; make st his pat He spoke not to the unregener: Jews, t to us and oor received irom God chilaren, Wao Traces in aby nave come to us—a divine intant, full ot compassion for sinuers—and it behooved us to prepare ourseives, that He might find us ready to receive Him. What grief would tt not be to Him who had aied for us to | find us yet in sin, aiter af He had done to redeem us, We should realize what we are, and feel that all we have we obtamed from God—op our eyes to our jaults, to our own imperfections, detach our minds irom the trausient glories of thus world and fix our minds on the glories of the king- dom of God, which will never perish. If we did this we could make @ food answer to the question, dl am i, whence did I come, what 1s my destin- ation?” ‘The reverend preacher then closed by earnestly exhorting the congregation to prepare themselves worthliy sor the coming of the Saviour, CHURCH OP OUR LADY OF MERCY, Imposing Ceremonies, At four o'clock P. M., in the above church, the ceremonies commenced of receiving new members into the of the Blessed and the Holv Angels. ather Meilroy was celevrant on the ton. Two hundred girls and 180 boys formed in procession, and marched round the in- terior of the church, bearing lighted tapers and siiken banners, with appropriate mottoes worked on the The girls were dressed in purple (the Hoiy Virgin's color) and wore white vetls, The boys Wore scarlet sashes and rosettes, Seventy- two girls and 44 boys were admitted to the Blessed Virgin's Sodality and 63 boys and girls were re- ceived into the Sodality of the Holy Angels, The choir consis ot Mrs, Catharine Moore, so) 05 Mrs, E, Southard, contralto; Mr’ Nicholea Doyle, tenor; Mr. FL.’ Dalton, bary- tone; Mr. William Young, basso, The organ was pr ‘dover by Mr. Cortada, musical pec, rhe chorus consisted of 25 voices. owing programme senaure was also weil “The Litany,” by the bo ; hymn, “Immaculate Conception, oy oe rl “spirit Creator,” by the girls; “Phe “storm,” by the boys; “Hymin to St. Francis,” by the boys: “Hymn to the Heart of Mary,” by the girls, con: cluding with “O Angel, List to My Gow and “Sweet Sacrament,” by the girls. The latter were in charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph. ‘The Fran- ciscan Brothers had charge of the boys; Brotner Ignatius, principal. Betore reciting the “Act of Vonsecration” the reverend director, Father Mckiroy, said:— MY DEAK CHILDREN--Since you are now to be promoted to the Sodality ot the Holy Angeis more Will be Cxvected Jrom yuu than ever belorg Tiere: | us fecl the subtle and occult influences of every- ) thing human. It puts him on a hill trem whence | all the surrounding country. Suppose to me | and is the leader of acliqueor party. The genius | becomes clear and beautiiul as it is imparted. | About 25 years ago We call | to use | They | ly ends | acrificed everything? Simply a | fore, resolve to be very faithful in saying your morning and evening prayers, and also resolve to be very obedient to your parents and teachers, and kind and charitable towards all’? The reverend director then asked the candidates, “are you «dis- posed to cherish with special devotion the holy angels and the Blessed Virgin Mary, queen of | angels?’ To which the sodalista replied, “Yes, Father, we desire most earnestly.” “Do you promise faithiully to observe the rules of the sodality #”” ‘Yes, Father, we promise to do so.” ‘Then tollowed the act of consecration, after which benediction of the blessed sacrament concluded the imposing ceremonies of the evening, OEURCH OF THE ASCENSION. Is Christianity a Failare'=—Sermon by the Rev. John Cotton Smith. The Rey. John Cotton Smith, rector of the Chureh of the Ascension, corner of Tenth street and Fiith avenue, preacied last evening to a large congregation. His subject was, “Is Christianity @ Failure?” It was very natural to associate very untangible considerations with this subject, he said. Several preachers who had advocated the same principles presented tnem in such a one- sided light that a great Injury had been done to the Gospel, The facts in regard to the com- pilation of the Gospel had been withheld by many Christian teachers, who hed shown in this matter a timidity which was inexpli- cable to him, They had claimed that the Gospel had proceeded from a Divine voice heard by al! men and immediately believed by all men, Heasked them to judge what he wontd § now without being prejudiced by these teachin, and to listen to bim simply with reference to the ascertaining of the truth, It was a great error to suppose that if there was a revelation it must have come in such a manner as to interrupt violently ALL THE LAWS OP NATURE which God had established. Modern science had taugit them to believe that God always worked with and not against the laws of nature. If there were a revelation by some such extraordinary in- terruption of nature it would be more reasonable to suppose that it had not come by the agency of God, He Wanted to call their attention to the difficulties existing in the processes of navire, Tae huwan mind, i trying to master problems of logic, always met with great ditt ties, One of the great writers of the present Mr, Herbert Spencer, laid down the prineipi all motion was relative and unceasin true that their minds could not observe the abso- | was cessation of motion. l puzzles on which they ne Tily must entangle themselves; so it was wit the work of the mtellect; they couid only go ce lengths, owing to their finite character and lute moment ot one of those | ditto, The iundamentai conception of tie being of God, of the will and other points of tie- ology, ‘involved the same logical ditticul. When a W in the HERALD chatlenved him to prove what he kaew to be true he gave him the opportunity of replying in re a to this important question, What an error it was tos se that the Gospel sprung, like Minerva, 3 bral! There was not @ single manu script of Homer, Tacitus or the other ciassical authors which bore a tenth part ’ THE INDICATIONS OF AUTHENTICITY of the books of the New festament, Tne Sinaitic manuscript discovered by one of the great t from } money in lis | gians of Germany t back to the 820th year of | WILLIAM M. TWEED | the Christian era. Now, what they wanted was to aid 2 a sense in Which everything is ours. | counect tlils : Pan ye are | the apostles liv f c | the world those ingham, | most deeply in the wel Mt | written, but that their writings Were simply the writ otiers, Was noteworthy, tad ngle word of his teachings? Had ich Christ, t! a wondertul h sin rd pour was Instance, Ge to St. Joba. i na entire New tanity. e out path ‘able protections and beneficent instl- s which had their origin in the lie and the ‘the Wus no dowvt of y of facts of the Relormation, ‘The ated them irom the Reforma- 1 longer than the period rom te great Sinaitic manuse THE AGE . of the api n century. ‘Those writings which were not 2" eliminated from the bx doubt on the part of ear! some doubt that St. Paul wro 2 latter epistle, and he (the preacher) thougnt himselt that it did | not bear the peculiar evidences of St. Paul's cast | Ofmnd. But that it wu 2 kind tolic | gospel there could be doubt, it therefore bore the highest porsinie endorse- t. The author o: the Epistie to the 8, if he had been an ordmary human hor would have drawn some of his illustrations m the gorgeous temple of Jerusalem, but ne Tred tothe simpler worship in the tabe nacle, which sho i that he was directed higher and @ jottier wisdom, St. Paul, although his epistles were saturated with Christian thought, did not attempt to commit to writing instantly the | Tevelations of Christ, and tt was only as the | apostics grew older that they began to think it | necessary to commit to writing the words and | Sand doings of the Divine Kedeeimer. St. | Joan gave his testimony in regard to uli the facts Which he had seen With his own eyes. ‘The Gos- pels were written peiore the year 7. in the year 70 the destruction or THE C OF JERUSALEM | ocenrred, and if the ¢ had been written during a later period the ly have re- ferred to the tuliilment o! Christ's propliecy in the t ction of Jerusalem, Why tere no at which they could arrive e The ere @ gre rrive through their hat might be the re- Toe ata being like Christ of in these Gospe to save the human al Senses. ared not sults of Biblical criticism, which no on t | had lived, suc! 1 whose mission had r been OOLLESIATE REFORMED OHUROL. The Witness of Unbcilef@The Theotogi- cal Pheories of Hurley, Spencer, Dar= win and Mill Combatied zmon by the Rev. Dr. J. W. Manning. | In the beautiful church at the intersection of Fifth avenue and Forty-cighth street the Rev. Dr. J. W. Manning, of Boston, preacted last evening, } and chose as his subject “The Wit of Unbe- He spoke oj the necessity of keeping God in sight in all our actions, during all the work and pleasure of our daily life as during the actual time that we went on Sunday for the express purpose of praying in church, The man who let God pass out from | his inner cons 88 Was aman who would go wrong. It might not be to-day, nor the next, but it would happen some time or other under the accident of very extraordinary circumstances, tion, and, not having religion within, be ytelds, We often wonder why men throw themselves aWay as they do without apparently any sufiicient reason. It is because their conscience is not properly bulanced, and they are so blind that they do not kuow the diiierence between right and wrong. Why does @ trustee spend the mouey given into his care? Simply that these sums be- | come the STRUMENTS OF A CORROPT WILE, His conscience and love of justice were overcome; his soul was a1 tus time sinking deeper and deeper, and God was not near him. He had not | spiritual thouglit enough; if he had ne would have resisted. If God had been at bis side in all this He would have rescued him from this sin. The con- duct of this man is an exemple of what it is to be without God. He would not so if bis nature had not corruption of large bodies we sce them cvery day—are | of the want of godiiness. No matter w! crimes, our sins and transgressions, th io tis one is a tives, wnother a det a murde Bach will stow it in bis own’ way and according to that nature which his, What mukes one a murderer, and the other a defaulter, anda third @ disbeliever, if it be not this 'Y Tan has no ea Bemg absorbed in the reaims Of sense, he reiuses to believe iu things to which his soul 1s dead. Lam aware that many usts Will put this in the category of natural re- suits. But with this very scientist woridil- hess is his sim. The spiritual part of him is dead to God, How contemptible their dis- coveries i comparison with that infinite m of which they have lost sigit! When I hear Mr. Herbert Spencer say, ‘God is unknown,” I only feel a caim contempt. This man knows nothing. Our belief 18 to him @ mystery, He thinks us de- Jaded, So thinks the blind man wien he hears us speak of the beauty of the firmament parce is, titer, another miadsome sight of nature. All th Spencer, Huxiey, Mr. Darwin, Mr. Mill, Mr. Alex- ander Vayne—speak in the same way, To them man is A MERE REASONING BRU and they only say that thought isa funtion of the brain, “All that We find in Shakespeare, in Isatah, in John Milton, exists in the reptile’ which we crush beneath our eel Sooner doubt t Umony of our senses than listen to the prompting’ of eve hen. We could sooner doubt that the ski2s exist Above us than that there is no God, The eyes dud the cars of the seleutiiG Man are closed. re was one fact | Some person becomes exposed to strong tempta- | | of Ather | But fortunately, the doctrines of Luxiey, and He said it was just as | | necessary we should remember the God avove | | Was He is like the Prince of Denmark, who, in all the beanties of nature, can only see a foul and pestilent atmosphere. These mnen, Who are eminent in all things else have completely wandered from the truth in spiritual matters and are no more to be believed, We, indeed, bemoan the state of their souls while admiring their great knowledge of other irs. How can these men be reclaimed from their errors, and how can their theorres be made to harmonize with the existence of God? It is hard to say, be- cause those who don’t believe their theories beleve in God, while those who do it is exceedingly hard to convince, At the present moment news 1s com- ing Irom the distant home of Agassiz, chronicling his last moments. He believed that, spiritually, we were all the CHILDREN OF THE SAME GOD, What he leaves bebind him testifies Ms trust in God. The doctrme of evolution teaches us that we can never kuow any but a sensuous philoso ny. win have been a thousand times overthrown, as well as the atheism of Comte, The Pantheon school says that of the existence of God it 18 im- possible to doubt, ‘There is a voice in the human soul tells man he is free, and what is earthly can- not be tree, what is bodily cannot be in- finite. But to the doubters any reply is cOnVINE But to answer all this js to answer madness. They treat us as the people treated Paulon Mars Hill, Though he spoke to them the highest reason they treated him as a publican, Christ could not convince the scoifers around Him, and met with several ob- stacles, But the worst can come back, Christ spoke words of wonderful mercy to the woman of Semaria, Men must know their own hearts. God sent his own Son to save us sinners, and He has done so much jor us, and in answer to our suppli- cations can send the advent of the spirit of prayer among us, Let us pray.’? THIRTY-FOURTH STREET BEFORMED CHURCH, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Soci- ety—Interesting Historical Sketch and Reminiscences by the Pastor—New York Im 18%23. This organization, whose original church edifice was erected on Broome street in 1823, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary yesterday. In addition to the present pastor, the Rev, Isaac Riley, there were present and taking part in the services the former pastors, Rev. Henry B, Voorhes and Kev. Dr. Peter Stryker. Back of the pulpit was placed a large and beautiful wreath of flowers, inclosing the dates -1823 and 1873, while in front hung a photograph of the ola church, surrounded by au- tumnal leaves, At the morning service the pastor gave a history of the organization from its incep- tion, taking his text from Josiah, 1xv. “Vor as the days of a tree are the days of my people.” ‘THE SERMON. After referring to the tact that the objects in nature are often taken as human and divine sym- | bols, he contrasted the trials and sufferings, the happiness, prosperity and prospects of God’s ancient people with those which ths Church, @ branch of what now constitutes God’s people on earth, has gone through since its organization, and, having shown that there is abundant reason for encouragement, he mvoked the biessing of God on future labors, He then gave an interesting historical sketch of New York in 1823, when the houses on Broadway extended as far as the stone bridge over the canal, now Canal street; when the lite of the city was gathered around Bowling Green and the Battery was a favorite resort; when whe ladies of the becu-monde dia their shopping in Greenwich street; when Greenwich village composed of a cluster of houses near present Abingdon square; when the gentle- swainsstroiled armin arm with their Dulcineas through Love lane, now Twenty-first street, and ver failed to exact the customory toll when crossing Kissing Bridge at Seventy-second street; just donning its metropolitan character, and this sociely had its origin in the necessity which existed to furnisn ad- ditional places of worship proportionate to the in- crease ol the population, At the time New York had ten wards aud A POPULATION OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND. The original society was organized by the Rev. Robert McLean, of London, under the auspices of the Mission Society of the churei. He was origi pally employed for three months, at a $50 per month, but continued head of it until 182 hen he re- to England, After worsiipping at places the organization purchased lary Of at the turned various three lots on the northeast corner of Broome and nd commenced the erection of a was finished and the church con- stituted’ on December 10, 1823. pastors were Dr Rey ‘The subsequent Broadhead, trom 1826 to 1837; the Samuel Van Vranken, from 1837 to 1841; the George H. Fisher, irom February, 1842, to Jenry B. Voorhes, installed Janu- ained but a short time, and was non account of illness, He was. , When he resigned and wus ‘rhe records show a total names, The last service was heid in the Broome street church on the 14th of April, 1860, The new © ¢ in Thirty-fourth street was dedicated in the folowmg December, In September of 1859 the metatership of tue Livingston Datch Reformed chure, andoned their distinctive organization and b ie @ part of this ou, ‘The ‘se of the pastor was lengthy and of extreme interest to the members from its many in- | cidents and reminiscences. THE LIVINGSTON CHURCH. At the conclusion of the sermon the Rev. Mr. Zabriskie, the iast pastor of the Livingston church, gave a history of that organization, its trials and the dificuities under whicn it labored in its efforts to maintain its identity. it was his first church, as a@ young Man, just graduated from a@ theological school, and he had evidently made Herculean edorts to perpetnate it. But the coustant changes of the population, resulting from the encroach- ments of business and the lack of such assistance as it Was entitled to from the older churches, had coimpeiled it to succumb and seek an aillance with the ‘ihirty-fourth street church, The services closed with prayer by M Ki THE EVENING SERVIC An immense congregation gathered in the even- ing, not only the pews, but the atsies being filled with peopie. The exercises were especially devoted to the Sunday school, which occupied tne galleries inabody, The Rev. Mr, Gant, pastor of the Madi- gon avenue Reformed church, was the first speaker, and, having been a cholar in the original Broome’ strect school, nearly fitty years ago, he en- tertained the andience with some very Lipoedel | reminiscences connected with it and the old church paiiding. In closing he alluded to the on- glaughts made upon Christianity in these latter d by those who demanded scientitic evidence of its truth, rejerring especially to Join Stuart Mill, and evked if any infidelclub conid gather, on its fitter ersary, such @ Congregation as this, demons that this fact is founded on a living reall 2 " Stryker, formerly pastor of the chureh, then gave a history of the Sabbath scnool from its first organization, taking as ius text the words of the Redeemer, “eed my lambs.” The school had been established white the ciureh was in an embryo state, its first record showing 33 scholars. !t had grown with the church, and now numbers some hundreds. His discourse was inter- Jarded With sketches of the more promisent super- intendents and teachers, and many incidents of great interest to the large number present, who | had received thei early religious training in the school. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH A Sermon by Mr. Beecher on “Standing and Waiting”=—The Growth of the Ma- terial and the Spiritual Compared, The service at Plymouth church was yesterday opened by the singing of the aria trom ‘The Messiah,” “Come unto Me All Ye that Labor, by Miss Lasar, the leading soprano of the choir, It was rendered with all the sweetness and purity jor which the vocal accomplishments of that ta- lented young artist are distinguished. Among the notices that were read Was one announcing a “demonstration” in reference to the contemplated removal of Dr. Duryea from the Classon avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, to the Madison avenue church, New York. This afforded Mr. Beecher an opportunity to pay a giowing trib- ute to the excellencies of Dr. Duryea and to say that nothing but absence from the city would prevent him trom being present, to express his regret that Brooklyn Was about to sustain the loss of a useful and devoted minister and a worthy citizen. The subject of the sermon, which was one of Mr, Beecher’s old-time sermons, was on “Stand- ing and Watting,” and was founded on the follow- ing text (the last clause of the thirteenth verse of the sixth chapter of Ephesians) :—“Having done all, to stand.’? The introduction referred to the low views that were held of the surroundings of the divine holiness, of the folly of making much of the danger of touching the ark of God by unhallowed hands, the effoct of which was that men had to come to think that because men could not toveh the ark they mast not take hold of the car itself, Much emphasis has been put upon the atvine order of things, upon the decrees, along which, as on the line of A TURNPIKE, God is thus supposed to bring out the Inspiration and the appliances by which we are‘ scrupulously conducted, and which we are not to handle un- fairly. Bat such views do not agree with Scrip- ture, which fundamentally adjures men to strive aud to work out their own salvation With fear and with trembling. Neither do these views agree with the nature of the world in which we are living. Neither do they agree any better with the teachings of a divine Providence, for the whole history of God's work among men lies along the line of a just and equitable enterprise. On the other side, there is the danger in the uniting of the doctrine of waiting upon God and that of the ature of man working out his purpose through the natural law, the solution of all of which is this, that we are to work hard in every direction in which we are called by the providence of God to labor, and then we are to stand and wait. It ts a grand thing to know how to work; it is a grand thing to know how to wait; it is a grander thing to know how to do both of them, Mr. Beecher then proceeded to apply these truths, and said:—First—in the material world and in the arrangemeats of society there is a principle or scale of gradation in time—tuat is, in different subjects we see growing DIVERSE THINGS that to the fulfilment of their trae power require different measures of time, Things do not happen alike, either as to their cause or to the production of the event, Everything is not like powder, in which the spark and the explosion is so near to te senses Of & man that he docs not notice anv time between. The time clement, then, is an important cousideration of this theme. Tuen, secondly, there is the gradation of time between these causes with respect to the two elements—first, as to complexity, and secondly as to superiority. The nearer we come to the animal part of lile, the things that we had the nearest relation to, are those that are the most ready and the easiest to do, The brieiest space between volition and re- sults lies m the things that are lowest down in society and in man’s experience. So that we grow up more and more into a nature that is divine just in the ratio of the results that we seek are complex or delayed. We buiid houses now very easily and quickly; aman begins to build a house 1m March Jor people to go into in Uctover to get chilis in aud . But it has taken 4,000 years to eens the knowledge by which that house was built—the knowledge of tools, of tron, and the knowledge of ail the elements which have resulted in the art of building. for the mechanic arts have GROWN SLOWLY. So it is with trades. A man can learn speedily to become a bricklayer, but it tukes years lor mim to learn to be @ watchmaker, So it is with all trades ol like character. Il takes a man, unless he be a doubie-compound Yankee, years to learn one of them eifectually. Mr. Beecher here gave an illus- tration in this connection by describing the build- ing of the East River Bridge, and said that some day, when somebody would waik across it, they would say, “Well, it does not look so much alter all.” But they did not think of what was done beiore those foundations were laid, of the toil of getting the first wire across, of the power that Was not seen, that was in the engineer’s brain that planned and purposed ail the minute detauls, ringing this wonderful structure that joined to- gether two mighty cities all irom nothing. The outside is not tue real work, It is that what we do notsee, Whatsermons | peach in the solitude of my own room, and how they pale and fade out when Iget them off here! ‘Then, in relation to moral Change, which is like a seed, and goes through its gradations. The practical intellect is quicker in its development than the philosophical, an that part of the undertstanding that has relation INVISIBLE THINGS. Man is an observer first and a philosopher after- wards, The slowest thing that can be done in this world is to build up a character. There is no work that takes longer than that of creating a manhood in Christ Jesus. One reason why these views are not more considered and acted upon is that men bring the nouons acquired in lower spheres to measure those in higher spheres. Take, for example, a lady who has become a wite and housekeeper. She gets along so well fora time in housekeeping that she finds hersell so per.ect in housekeeping that she begins to criticise otuer peopie’s housekeeping. by and by there comes a baby, then a second, then a third, then she has five to take care of, until she iinds herself with seven, She finds she cannot manage babies quite as well as she used to manage things. She now has her troabies and perplexi- ties. Some of the babies take after her, some alter him and the rest after somebody else that is back of them both, and she is chastened by her care and sorrows and ceases her criticisin, Now, this expe- rience in lower things teaches us, if we would heed the lessons, what we are to do in working out a diviner lite within ourselves, We act sometimes like a an who goes out to the woods to kill game with only a bow, He sees A BEAR, and he draws the bow witha “whack.” But the bear don’t care jor that, Or, like the man with no guide for his arrow, and when ue draws it the ar- Tow ialls to the ground at his feet. God does not work in that way. ‘This 1s his way—‘Work out your own salvation with iear and trembling,’ that is the arrow; “for it is God that worketh in you,” that is the bow. Then there are the tem- peramental elements to be considered, Notice the man who is very abaominal, That is a man who is blessed all the way down. He has a great deal of patience. Why? Because his nerves are so cov- ered over With fat. But itis a diferent thing, this waiting, toa Inun Whose nerves are underneath his skin, Mr. Beecher closed his sermon by an earnest and touching application of these principles to the three applications of culture in human = life— panel, seif-culture, houschold cuiture and society culture. HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH, Is Intemperance a Disease or a Crime t= The Only Remedy=-Sermon by the Rev. Dr. J. D. Fulton. The Hanson place Baptist church was crowded last evening, and the pastor, the Rey. Dr. Fulton, preached upon the question “Is Intem- perance a Disease or a Crime?’ His text was from Corinthians, vl, 10—‘Know ye not that drankards shall not inherit the kingdom of God ?”" Were there, he said, no other reason for pressing the claims of temperance upon the attention of tie community this were enough. The drunkard is shut out of heaven and is doomed to an eternal hell. Intemperance destroys not only the soul, but it enervates and ruins the body. It is horrid in its workings and more horrtd in its results. A man with a passion formed for drink is booted and spurred for the service of the adversary of souls, Be he young or old, rich or poor, educated or igno- rant, the probabilities are he will be lost. The apostle classed drunkenness with other gross sins and crimes. Society, at the present time, is dis- posed to treat it asa disease, It is not regarded as a sin so long as it is held in check and is under restraint, Is this a safe view? There are reasons why intemperance should not be treated as a dis- ease. It then is pitied, if not petted. Moral power is thrown away which is needed to combat the monster. By calling it asin you tell the truth by act as well as by speech. You array society against it; you destroy the feeling of commisera- tion which the victim delights to cherish; you ar- ray the nobler nature against the baser, the higher against the lower. THE CLASSES OF DRUNKARDS. It mignt be well to divide drunkards into six classes. The animal drunkard is first and lowest. He drinks to be drunk. Habit and appetite are alone his tempters and his rulers, The house of correction and the prison receive such as he ia scores. No one pities them. They die in garrets and cellars and fli pauper graves and go down to the sleep of death without a tear of pity or a word ot love, The rowdy drunkard Is of the second spe- cles. His class is composed of people who delight in being called “fast.” They taik of a “glorious drunk,” ofa “staving time,” of “how they drank so and so under the table.” as though drinking was an honorable business, an innocent recreation. They are not ashamed of it. Cail them criminals and they would resent it. They calla drinking bout @ spree. They wear fine clothes, They are not afraid of the consequences of dissipation. They call it bravery tosmash things, They know nothing of the social refinements of elegant society. They keep away irom the house oi God. They pass down until they rank with the animal drunkard and are lost to society and friynds. Drink brutal- izes them, grace redecins the is class keep your dens of shame, tend bars, guard the ballot box for so much per day and do the mental work of base men. They wear peculiar hats, crowd their moutis with tobacco in the horse cars and glory in pussin for the class they represent, The jovial drunkard is of the third class, They are loved and when they die society mourns them, The respectahie drunkard of the fourth class is more convivial and wild, He leads @ dissolute life occasionally, but has fine business taients, and commands regard. Wheu the duties of lite come upon him, he very olten lays aside his cup and swears off for the sake of business, Others vo on drinking, not to excess, but constahtly, and exert @ ternble influence over the young. They are mighty to drink wine, and Men of strength to mingle strong drink, Seidom do they tall to the low state of the animal drunkard. All in their soctal position and surroundings tends to hold them back from that, and yet some ofthem must reach their ranks if life iaste long enough. Step vy step they pass from want to want, and in despair they go down to the grave. The fiith class comprises all drinkers from the literary circles and 1s comparatively small. They are those Whose mind makes them drink, in order that, through the exciting and simulating Lathe of intoxicating fluids, whose effects alone a ley seck, the “intelligence may keep pace po] 3 ih certain occasions be made to outst Ayal hue Jonget the law “that tney who galt suestery ore mperate. THERM 18 NO NUTRITION IN ARDENT SPIRITS. All that It does Is to concentrate the strength of the system for the time beyond the capacity for regular exertion. Towing strength for an occasion which will be needed for in, rovision for payment TY Yio cortainey of ultiinate bankruptcy. Among this class are the mightiest intellects of the time and age. They are in the immediate and achive perlormence of tug highest works of — Getung drunk is to them‘ their calling, and the most arduous tasks of the brain, Names like Webster and byron and Edgar A, Poe give dignity to their class. “I see before me now a brilliant preacher, capable of magnificent efforts occasionally, and when overcome by fatigue, compelled to Sud’ recuperation in rest and sleep and total abstinence. Would that such could seo their gin! Lite with its responsibilities has com- menced. Their tasks have become herculean, and their gifts of intelligence almost superhuman, This class must be treated carefully, The world wants their power and 1s willing to pay any price for it, You see representatives of this giese among Fae paid contributors to the press. Ne. ri tions are eagerly caught up jad publishers. They work with resistiess energy. They seldom fall very low or commit great excesses, Tho same great mind which called for stimulants bids them beware and continues to be their controlling power, They drink for their brain power, forgete ful of the fact that the world can get on witnout their splouiaid productions, while it ought not to bo compelled to get on without a decent character behind their brilliant reputation, ‘To save them requires great wisdom and friendly remonstrance, backed by ceeds of love. No taunts, no discoure agements, nor bars nor bolts, but a never-failing, never-wearying, affectionate care unto the very end, though he “sin seventy times seven.” We cannot save them ourselves, The hand vhich can hold them up is the tenderest, yet strongest ol all— THE HAND OF GOD. No mortal ever cun iall who constantly feels that he is before the actual presence of that Being who knows every thouut, word and deed, God must be banished from their hearts, and then rain comes, The idea is too awiul and too sublime to be received without deep, long-continued, solemn meditation, and to these men it comes with theur fail, and is repeated more strongiy with every tall, until ab last it abides with them forever, ti they will permit. ‘They are not tempted marerially of man. Their mind premeditates andinieg noe. of its own free agency, and most frequently thelr mind shuts down the gate. They differ irom the criminal drunkard. pa ae a8 easily reached by human sympathy al. ‘The sixth spectes is aescribed as that of the ine ner-man drunkard. They are endowed with the highest type of intelligence, but superadded to that, and towering jar above it and domincering ‘over it, is the most exquisitely sensitive organiza- tion of the inner man that 1s created, and it is born unto grief and sorrow as the sparks fly up- ward. This form is accompanied by the most ter- rible moral suffertn on earth, and 1 unwashed of sin and unredeemed thet anguish in hell must. be indescribable and beyond compare the mostin- tense of all. Of this class was Charles Lamb, We Will not refer to his words; they are familiar to all. 18 DRUNKENNESS A CRIME ? Abstinence irom drink puts to sleep the nerves. that, when aroused, like a million of serpents open their mouths and cry for drink. One glass wakes: them and makes the man their victim. Callit a crime. ‘Treat it, as does God, asa sin, Put it on a ar with fornication, idolatry, adultery, abusers of hemseives with mankind,” Place the drunkard where God places him, awong thieves and outlaws: and revellers and extortioners, and then you may reach him by law us well as by moral suasion.. What sin compares with itin harvests? Look ac the reports of the police, and see that it furnishes nearly all of the occasions of arrest. Its fires feed and sustain the brothel. It arms the midnight. assassin and gives courage to the garroter. Of 24 men in Charlestown prison jor wife, murder 23 were drunk. It was this that steadied the hand that aimed the pistol whose bullet pierced the heart of Abraham Lincoln, It binds shackles: about the limbs, aud turns the key that pushes. the bolt of the prison. And yet men say, “I am going to enjoy my liberty and drink.” ‘Treat in- temperance as a sin und a crime, and you can hold up its only remedy. Then men Will preach against’ it in pulpits and talk against it in Sabbath schools. THE REMEDY isto cease drinking by the help of God, in the same Way thatany other sin 1s abstained from. Fly tor refuge to the arms of a crucified Saviour and you shail live. Nothing else will make reform permanent and change tue heart 50 as to take’ away or Kill the desire or drink, TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY. National Bicssings and Prosperity—A Warning to Shose Who Would Create a Bread Rict—The Government’s, Spanisn Peace Policy Sustained=*We Will Never Pight for Cuba? Every seat in the Academy was occupied before: the services commenced yesterday morning. Mr. Talmage entered ut half-past ten o’clock, and while the immense congregation sung “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow’? with great. effect, he glanced over his notices and selected the opening hymn. Alter the singing and prayer and the reading of a portion of the Scriptures Mr. Talmage remarked that as this building was occupied for otuer purposes on Thanksgiving Day he did not have an opportunity then of saying some things that he would say now. His subject was the “Goodness of God.” He said:— ‘Ywelve months have gone on and we have sung “Harvest Home.” On the freight cars rumbling through the night, and in boats crashing through the ice of the closing canals, the great harvests of the West are pressing down towards our Eastern markets, and are pouring into the holds of ships for exportation, I have it direct from the office of the Underwriters that this season twice as much grain has gone forth to other lands from our ports: as ever before in the same length of time. The in- dication is that there shall be bread for all, Let. not foreign populations in our midst, with pla~ carded carts and handbills scattered through the: streets, attempt to raise a riot, demanding BREAD OR BLOOD! Such a cry as that may mean much in France,’ but 1t means nothing here save the doom of those who utter it. Instead of trying to intimidate the Jand by calling out for a bread riot, they had better call for its sympathies, and then there shall not be one starving mau from the Penobscot to the “golden gates” of California, God has this autumn so bountifully spread our national table that the probability is that all shall be fed unless we forget the proprieties of the place and fight each other across the table. The wheat, the corn, the beel, the venison, the pork, the flax, the cotton, the wool, the lumber, the coal, are reasons of thanktulness to God, and there ought to be an anthem in which the whoie vation can join, the two occans, like organs at either end of the cathe- ral, with open diapason, sounding forth the doxol- ogy of praise to God, find, also, cause for congratulation in the fact that the world is at peace. mean comparatively at peace, Our race is so struck through with & spirit of quarrel tnat, when for 12 montis the na- tions of the earth are not engaged in most ruin- ous war, there ought to be Crier thanksgiving going up to God. Peace in England, though so many are dissatisfied with the throne, and crying out for a reduction of taxes. Peace in France, though the government has gone from Thiers to MacMahon, and THE POOR MARSHAL IS INCARCERATED, Peace in Spain, thougu that nation vacillaves from republic to monarchy and from monarchy to re- public. Peace in the United States, though there are sO many men crying out for war, forgetful of the hospitals which only eight years ago rent the air with their agonies, and the shadows of widow- hood and orphanage that etill darken the land, and the ghastly grave trenches in which more than 700,000 men fell. Oh, Lam glad that we have @ government that Knows how, not only to main- tain national honor, but also how to matntain international peace! (Applause.) Time was in this country When war was poetry; but after the’ confict of eight or 10 years ago war means to me. broken jaws and fractured limot and extinguisned eyes, and masned feet, an dyin; ed from home, and the curse of the Lord God Almighty on @ nation’s criminalities. I have no doubt that Cuba will some day come into our peacelul possession, but FIGHT FOR HER WE NEVER WILL. Her sugar, her muize, her mines, her tobacco, could not pay us, thought it were all put together, ive the sacttiioe ie one £64 an ye American, sol ers. (Applause). “Oh,” people a, only neat the first shot of warit would give us alt business. Commerce would be gaivanized and our manufactorics would again be opened and everything would be Prospero if we could only hear the ciash of war. es, yes but that would be only breaking your neighbor's head to fill your own pocketbook.’ That wil never do. There is only one massacre that I want to see, If War, the grim breaker of hearts, could himself be caught, I would like to have all the batteries of earth open upon him, and all Geka im- palmg nim on their shal ints, and all the how. lizers smiting him with thelr bombshelis, and all the ammunition that was ever manulactured brought in one concentrated fire on the place where he stood, until, piter phe, eee, was over, there nougi mM SOULE NOt Pe ot eh A. PUNBIA Le «glory be to God in the highest; and on earth, ny i will to mon.” bai Tamage then proceeded to speak of other causes of thanksgiving—tne goodness of God to them as @ church and in their domestic surround. ings, and to them personally—on all of which he awelt tenderly, retaining the deep attention or his great audience throughout, ‘There has been A GREAT REVIVAL among those who fiock to hear the Tabernacle peeked andthe awakening is on the increase. early 200 persons have recently commected them- selves with the church and many more are re- ported converted. Two thousand people remain at the prayer meeting which is held in the Acad. emy every Sunday evening after the sermon, SUICIDE BY DROWNING, Information reached the Coroner's oMce yesters day moraing that Join Bogenmeyer, » German, 50 years of age, had committed suicide the evening previous by jumping into the dock, foot of Stanton street, while in & partially hg oo state of mind, Kogenmeyer, who lived at No. Willett street was taken from the water alive, but death ensue while he was being conveyed to the Hleventh precuct station house.