The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1874, Page 8

HEAVEN AND BARTEL Yesterday at the Churches and Chapels of the City and Neighborhood. Frothingham on SBefict and Practice. <ememed Defence of the Common School System by a Baptist Clergyman. BEECHER ON FAITH AND SIGHT, | t¢ us asa precious inberitance + Shall we, through A Memorial Sermon to Dr. Livingstone. LYBIC HALL, Belief and Practice—The Jewish Bellef | mon law. ™ our text Dooks were over, to: the Cathohes. I remember well the preierence accorded to the Catholic Benevolent Society, by the Common Council, while the request of Metho- dists and other denominations for money for their charities and schools was unanimously voted down. From the years 1831 to 1541 the Komanists kept up the agitation, and the cry was, “If we send our children to your public schools you will make Protestants o| them!” in 1841 an important blow Was struck—viz., the defacing of our schoolbooks, a8 above alluded to, through representations vo the Common Council, Yes, said the preacher, they blackened our books, as the Romanists Diacken all we teach in our public schools. Po- tuons were sent to Albany, ‘and Governor Seward, in tis message to the Legisiature, suggested that some steps siiowld be taken “to remedy (ne specie evils of which the petitioners complain.”? | This 1s a brief sketch of the matter wich LOW 80 ve- hemently demands the attention of Protestant Americans, Are we to allow our schools to be- come Wholly secular institutions and interdict the Saying Of the Lord’s Prayer and the Ten Commana- ments for the sake of hot giving offence to Papal ildren? Have Protestants no consciences to be heeded in the matter, and shall our chilaren be debarred from religions instrueuon tn school? An open and @ iree conscience was highly prized b; the sounders oi this country, and is it possible that | their descendants shail not have the benefits of re- ligious instruction, which has been handed down Popish infuence, allow our country to falr imto the degradation of Italy, Spain, France and Ire- jand? God jorbid; and If tell you, my hearers, the requests of the Catholics cannot be granted, MK. EVARTS ON THE BIBLE. Mr, Evarts, in alluding to this subject, says that all persons in this country entering into office are sworn upon the bible, Christian witnesses take their Oath Upon it, while nothing but morality and good teaching can be found in it, and no law could | be enacted 10 open defiance to its tenets. Black- | stone says that Christianity 18 a part of the com- It 18 unnecessary for me to quote you & and Life, the Christian Belict and Life | 1urther what 1s written by Judze Story, Websier, and Mr. Frothingham’s Mef and Life. ‘Theatrical handbills are not generally considered Utopian Be- | “the proper thing in chureh, but in Lyric Hall yes- | terday morning, confronting you in the vestibule | historical equity of the case; for the schools are and staring at you ‘rom Were handbills, headed “Lyceum Theatre.” This, Chancellor Kent, Martin Van Buren, Rufus King and Judge Duncan, of Philadelphia, showing divine law has been engraited in modern law: Brethren, shall we sacrifice the honor 01 our country any louger? We have made concessions enough to our Roman Cathoitc breciren, when we consider the ry settee and chair | Ours and were founded by us, but we have ad- | Mitted the strangers who have settled in our midst to the same enjoyment of political and re- @f course, was all right enough, or else it would | hgious rights as we ourselves enjoy. Not have been allowed from the Independent So- sety meeting here, and particularly as this par- Yicular playbill announced that the particular ‘Meatrical entertainment in /uturo specified in the handbili was under the particular “auspices of Rev. 0. B. Frothingham,” and more particularly as it was to be given for the benefit of the poor. The subject of Mr. Frothingham’s discourse Was ‘Belief and Practice.” ‘Were uttered so inaudibly that it was utterly im- Possible to catch his words a few seats back. This ‘Wasa matter of widespread complaint among | nesses. Here 1s the Tablet, which says:- his oumerers hearers. Mr. Frothingham said:— Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, “Let your ight shine before men,” and he goes on to con- | abandoned altogetner.’? Well said, “Mr. Tabl trast those who merely entertain fine sentiments. He points the tinger of scorn at the Pharisees he- | pause oi the difference between their professions and their actions. They are PAINTED SEPULCHRES. His opening sentences | tem, root and brancn, In Ohio the Bible was brought back into the | pubiic schools and judgment given for the people, and, I may add, the nation, If God's against Romanism and Papacy we did not make it, and there is no reason why it should be ex- punged from our schools, INTERVIEWING THE “TABLET.”? But I must here remark that the Papists do not want the Bible taken from our scaools ex¢ | sively; that 18 but the preliminary step in their | mind's eye to the destruction o1 our school sys- The contest is upon us. Five or six millions of peopie cannot rule 30,000,000 | of Bible-loving and order-respecting po. lic wit- “TDe | Bible does not enter into the question, We de- | mand that we have the right to teach our re- | ligion. The public schools must be divided or | will now examine a few Roman Cat! | but it was @ pity the issue was not made in 1531, | The Catholic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, says:—“l will be a glorious day for Catholics in this city when | our public schools are apolished.” Now, walk up here, Freeman’s Journal. What have you to say ? “Let the public school system go whenée it came— They did not bring their ife into correspondence | to the devil.” Arc we to listen to the capricious with their ideas. A belief thatis not practised is conscience of the Papists in the school matter? | a dream. Any practice that has not a belief for its foundation must be unsubstantial. pends upon caprice or chance. edly a great deal of hypocrisy and pretence in the world. A deep gull exists between the ideas of our best Nours and the acttons of our every day life. Allideasdo not involve an equal degree of performance. Now it 18 mot fair to ex- ect individuals, as individuals, to live up their belies. If a person holds a_ be- lef that is unpopular it requires heroism, perhaps, to live up to it day by day. We have to consult There is undoupt- the drift of the opinion oi the people among whom | The best appointed train in the worid | ‘we live. will not run forty miles an hour over a stuobie eid. Most of us act from impulse. We ao things because they are easy or be- cause other people do them. The belief that takes up @ large mass of people and holds them for some time must work itself out in peculiar ractices. Thus the movarchical idea culminates a@monarchy. li you see a standing army you now that it results from the idea that tle sta- biuty of government rests ultimately on force. ane essence of the Hebrew peopie was that they ere AN ELECT PEOPLE. On that thread all the events of Hebrew history are strung. It produced the Old Testament; it Made out their alter history. This belie! that they are chosen people makes them brotherly to one another, to observe their laws and to preserve the arity Of their race. To-day in New York they id to their old faith, their old laws, their old cus- toms, as did their ancestors, They ‘are brothers; they do all that their beliei requires, What is the essence of the beliei of Christendom ? That Christ is the Saviour and Redeemer of mankind. The Qrst effect that will follow this belief is that people hhold the saivation of their sous as of primal importance, to let nothing worldly allure them from tne straight path which leads to heaven; in the next piace, to lead in the fold as many others as they can. They consider every religion but Christianity a superstition; every Bivle but our | Bible no sure means for getting to heaven. These | Christians are jealous of all advancement in the | Belences and of the general diffusion of education. They are afraid of everything that may, perhaps, shake their faith. On the other hand, there are ple who believe this nd some of these people are good people, too. They say if this life is ali let us make it as good and wholesome as we can. They take quite as It then de- | during the war, We did not listen to the “Southern” conscience or the ‘conscience’ of Utah. Why cannot a Catholic chila be trusted to go to school with a Protestant child? [will tell you why, Because there are no crucifixes, Madonnas or beads before the child commences his grammar or geography lesson, 1 will now read you extracts of oaths taken by a Roman Catholic Bishop, priest and Jesuit. The first is the Bishop's :— ‘The rutes of the holy fathers, the apostolic decrees, ordinances or. wils, reservations, provisions and ve with all my might, and cat be observed by others. Heretics, schismaties and | to our said Lord (the Pope) or his aforesaid succ Will to the utmost of my power persecute and opp THE ROMISH PRIEST'S OATH, I, A.B., do acknowledge the ecclesiastical power of His Holiness and the mother Church of Rome as the chief head and matron above ali pretenaed Churches throughout the whole earth, and tha onl shall be for St. Peter and his successors, as the tounders of the true and ancient Catholic Church, against all heretical kings, princes, States or Powers repugnant unto th same, &c. | THE JESUIT’S OATH. | _Tdo further declare that the doctrine of the Church of England, the Calvinists, Huguenots and of others of the ants to be damnable, and they them. selves are damned and to be damned. that will” not to: sake the same. I do further declare that {will help, sist and advise all or any of His Holiness’ agents in place wherever I shail be in England, Scotland and Ire- iand, or in any other territory or kingdom I shall be, to extirpate the heretical Protestant faith, In conclusion I would ask you, brethren, if we can have any affinity with Such people?” But in the words of our text, “I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall.”” In conclusion, dear brethren, fidelity to God will bring victory, and when you come to die let your epitaph record “that you fought the good tight and were Jaithiul unto death.” 2 nan ST, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL The Laborers in the Vineyard—Sermon by the Rev. Father McNamee, There was a large attendance at tne Cathedral | yesterday, the Rev. Father Kearney officiating. world is everything. | At tie conclasion of the first gospel the Rev. | Father McNamee preached a sermon, taking his text from the Gospel of the day, according to St, much interest in the atfairs of this life as Christians | Matthew, Xx., 1-16. The subject of the Gospel Go in the affairs ofthe next. Do you ask lor more? You must seek it in a faith that comprehends, not ‘only the world to come, but this world—a belie! in which God and immortality are more than sound- ing words. This noble belief will produce a nobie action forever and forever. ‘the cause. PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCB. Protestant Versus Catholic—-The Bible fin Public Schools—Father Lake An- swered—An Appeal to Protestant Amer- feans. A crowded congregation met yesterday morning im the Plymouth Baptist church, situated in Fifty. Grst street, near Ninth avenue, to listen to a ser- As the attempt, so | was a parabie of the master who, on finding men standing still in the market place at several hours of the day, reproved them for their idleness, and sent them to work in his vineyard. The reverend gentleman observed that heaven was represented by this Vineyard; that the master was Cnrist, who | came into this world as a market place in order to induce men to work for the salvation of their sous. By the various hours mentioned in the Gospel Was ¥o be understood the biF NT AGES OF THE WORLD | at which mai ed trom God special invita- tions—irom Adam to Noah, irom Noah to Abra- hata, from Abraham to Moses, trom Moses to Corist Hunsel, and to the end of time, And that even- Ing of the day wounid be for man the evening of life When he shouid stanu before the throne of the S Word 1s | | nent organist of the church, M. Louis Dachauer, Was a long, elaborate and highly, effective work in | F suarp minor, by M. Alexandre Leprévost, organ- | ist of the Chureh of St. Roch. in Paris.’ It was | sung Lj the inimitable quartet choir, consisting of | Mile. Henrietta Corradh, soprano; Mile. Octavie | Gomien, alto; Herr Plueger. tenor, and M. Saccio, bass, The mass Is very wel) constructed, but is unnecessarily spun out, especially im | the “Credo,” where certain passages are | repeated to an extent that becomes tiresome. At the offertory Dachauer’s brilliant and etfective work, “Ave Maria,” written specially for the Christ church choir, was rendered with rare expression by the choir, It commences with an unaccompa- | nied quartet, and im melody and counterpomt it must be regarded as @ Masterpiece. The fine, well cultivated voice of Mile, Corradi and the beautiful, | sympathetic tques of Mile. Gomien united with the | finish and inteligence of style of Herr Piueger and | the fresh, sonorous voice of M, Saccio in giving | effect to this work, The Skill of the organist, M. Dachauer, contributes greatly to the maintenance of the high reputation Of the choir of St, Ann’s, THE DOMINICAN OHUROH. The Inscrutable Ways of Divine Provi- dence—Blasphemers and Unbelievers Feel the Effects of What They Claim Does Not Exist—Sermon by the Rev. Father Meagher. In the church of the Dominican Fathers there gathered yesterday morning the usual motley concourse of worshippers. Though of plain exte- rior, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer outrivals any other in the city in the gorgeousness of its interior appointments, and yesterday at high mass | its appearance was grand. The sunlight stream- | ing through the stained glass panes imparted a life to the already vivid and cheeriul colors of the | wallapa ceiling, while the galaxy of twinkling | tapers on the altar and the incessant moving to | and fro of the acolytes completed a scene seldom | to be witnessed, but always to be remembered. Mass was celebrated by Father Dunn, and Father Meagher read the Gospel and preached THE SERMON, the gist of which will be found in the following:— In the Gospel of this morning we are told to say, | “Lord, 1am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof; say but the word ana my sou! shall be healed.” In this instruction we can see wise | | forethought, for God well Knew that after a time Mereadan: in G were well rendered the choir, The *Tantum Ergo” as @ duet an chorus was a very enjoyable performance. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH Sight and Faitn—The Imaginatio Alded by the Comforter, the True Ex- ponent of Moral Truth. Mr. Beecher appeared on his platform yesterday morning, showmg no traces of unusual fatigue aiter his week of lectures and travel, Plymouth church was full, the cold not sufficing to keep away either the regular attendants or the strangers who occupy the free aisle seats and sup- plementary chairs which, with the pews, fill all the space in the great barnlike edifice. After a noble anthem, in which Miss Dunphy, the new alto, sung @ sweet solo, the pastor read his usual notices, with remarks, which, if not 80 intended, brought general smiles and put the audience in good humor. His text was from John xvi., 7—“It 1s ex- Pedient for you that I go away, for if go not from you the Comforter will not come unto you.” The last scenes of our Lord on earth deiy expression, and His latest teachings especially, as recorded by John, are so full of the upper realm to which He was go soon to return that they are with difficulty understood, even if they be ever so perfectly ap- prehended. His soul shone so brightly through His discourse that even its hght obscures by dazzling our weak vision. John’s record of the last days of his Master, the supper, the betrayal and the crucifixion, are so full of love as to be un- equalled in alt the Hterature of the affections, ‘There is So much of love, of elevation, of inspira- tion, tenderness, of gentle truths which touch the human soul 80 potently, nothing else we know can do, As children ina noble orchard can only taste the windfalls, bemg so small, and the fruit laden trees so high, so isit only through experi- ences of moral excellence beyond the ordinary range that one can interpret the sayings which in those last days fell from the lips of the Divine Saviour. When we come to the history of the forty days I Know not yet how to read these utter- anees of supreme wisdom, I WAIT AND HOPE | men would arrogate to themselves power of mind | and of body which did not belong to them ana | which they could never hope to possess: Every | | day an all-wise Providence gives us indications of | | our weakness and shows us ina thousand ways | | how utterly helpless and dependent we are, We may grow strong, or rather grow strong | in the conviction of our own strength | jor @ short time, but only tor a short) time. When we feel strongest we are weakest. ruined by the late and much-talked-of panic feit | themselves invincible behind their barricade of | dollars. They were, for the most pare men who | believed in tie almighty dollar and its potency to do any and all things for them, They were of opinion, though many of them took good occasion | not to say so, that Providence was on the side of the man With the deepest pocket, ‘Their idolatry has been punished, their scepticism dispelled, eyes opened and their pockets emptied. | see that God 18 @ Jealous as well as a just and that He will not brook such bold ettron- tery from human beings as to have Himself thrast aside and a golden mummy substituted in His place. Wicked men have sought to CLOTHE THEIR SINS IN GOLD, and thus defy Providence. ‘Man’s wisdom is but folly in His sight,” and, although society be mfu- enced by considerations of self-protection in not | going beneath the gilded surface, He sees and Kuows a'l things, and will, in His own good time, | punish the offender. This has been done, and not | jong since, and it may be said with truth that their gold has weighed them down to their proper level. | | “It is not men of money alone who protess a dis- | | belie! in Providence, for a great deal of tue talent , and genius of the present century tends that way too, In fact, it has become fashionable to seem and act as lf regardless of Providence and quite the thing in conversation to pooh-pooh the exist- ence of anything of the kind, It is the crying sin of the world that all that God has given man | should be turned against Him. Talents and abilities, | which come direct irom God, are used as instru: ments against His holy Word and His holy Church. But the Ways of God are uot the ways of men, und ‘no one Can tell What end God is thus working out for His own greater glory. This state o/ auairs was always in existence, but more now than ever before. We have had blasphemers and unbelievers ever since the Church was founded. When | JULIAN THE APOSTATE was invested with the Roman purple he sought to destroy Christianity, not by vulgar force or persecution, but by jinesse of mtrigue and subtie | tact. Wheu this great Emperor lay dying on his deathbed—the battle field—he acknowledged God’s existence and felt the trace of Providence in his coming dissolution, when, catching some of his | last ebbing life’s blood, he threw it towards heaven | | with the exclamation, “Galtilean, thou hast con- | quered.” ‘That mighty military genius, Napo- Jeon L, who is reported to have said that ‘Prov- idence is always on the side ofthe heaviest guns,” | lived to see the Jaisification of that now memor | ble speech. He who had the heaviest guns went into exile on a lonely island in the wide ocean. | The decree which Providence had passed upon him could not be altered by the booming of guns or the | tact of the great genius himseif. The man of faith is always happy, for whether in | adversity or prosperity he recognizes in nis con- dition the will of God, ‘and trustingly says to him- sell, “God does all for the best.” 8T, STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC OHUROH. Is Religion Freet—Church and State— Their Union Injurious to Religion— Sermon by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn. The attendance of the faithful at the different masses in St. Stephen’s on yesterday speaks well for tue practical faith of the Catholics of that par- ish and the zealof the priests who minister to their spiritual wants. ‘The first mass, at five o’clock A. M., was celebrated by the Rev. Dr. Mc- Glynn, At all the early masses there were large congregatious present, many of whom received the holy communion. It is estimated that about 15,000 mon preached by the pastor, the Rev. D. Henry Almugiity, when judgment would be pronounced persons worship every Sunday in this church and Miller, on “Father Lake, or the Common School System of Education.” At the conclusion of the preliminary services the pastor announced his upon the FIDELITY OR NEGLIGENCE with which he performed his duties. Referring to the lukewarmness generally displayed in serving text trom the fifteenth obapter of Jeremiah and 404, lie said that the words of the Gospei fell upon the nineteenth and twentieth verses, which are as He commented upon follows :— ‘Therefore, thus: the Lord, It thou return, then will bring thee again, and thou siialt stand before me; and it thou take ‘orth the precious trom the vile. thou shalt asmy mouth; let them return unto thee, but return Rot thou unto them. ‘And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall; and they shail fight against thee, but they shall Bot prevail against thee; for | am with thee to save thee and deliver thee, saith the Lord. The subject of my discourse to-day, said the preacher, as the majority of my hearers are aware, is ‘‘Father Lake, or the Common school System of Education.” JOINING ISSUE WITH FATHER LAKE. ©n the 18th of January last Pather Lake, a Ro- Msn Catholic priest of this city, preached in St. Bridget’s church on the “Catholic Church and the Great Question of the Day.” Mr. Miller then read an extract irom the HERALD report. After reading it he said:—In every condition | ef human abatement we find that a time ar- tives for men to oppose their fellow men who treat as null and void the ordinances of divine law. I think that sach a time has arrived at this moment. In the time of danger it behooves ‘as all to be watchful, and, shoulda the protectors of the public welfare be found careless of the trust | tonfaed to them, their punishment should be made | speedy and efficacious, The guardians of our lives | and property are enjoined uot to wait till the thief or the incendiary commences his evil deeds, but to notify us of the approach of danger. Is toe mission of watcbfulness delegated by His ministers, whose devotion to their flocks should be ceaseless! Ido not think that the idea can be better defined than in the words of the poet, which are as follows: How sublime | the ear with peculiar force and significance. the ingratitude of man- Kind, showing that despite our indifference God was Willing that we sould work in His vineyard, that we might know and love Him for ail eteruity. “Why stand ye bere all the day idle?’ were the words of the Gospel as applied to the men in the Market place; but they could scarcely be uttered Without being brought home to ourselves, It was against the negligence of mankind that God warned us through His prophets, through His evangelists and through His aposties, and calied upon us to work for tue salvation of our souls. If we claim to be disciples o: Christ we cannot forget what He has done tor us, and must work like faithful laborers im the vineyard of the Lord, This was only A PLACE OF PROBATION, the battie field between righteousness and sin. We were now engaged in that conflict. The eyes of heaven were upon us, and what, with the ex- ample of the saints belore us, everything was cal- culated to animate our courage. “ The reverend gentleman concluded by calling attention to the | fact that ii Christians remaimed taichful from the tiine they Were called, Whether early in the morn- ing, at noon or at the last hour of the day, they would be recetved into the bosom of Christ. The Mass perilormed was by Lamberti, Mr. Gustavus Schmitz presiding at the organ. At the offertory the terzetto, “Jesus Dei Vivi, 8 sung by Miss Sullivan, Mr. Bersin and Mr. Urehs with fine effect. The services terminated shortly afer twelve o'clock. 8T. ANN’'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sin of Idleness and the Approaching | Season of Lent. High mass on Sunday at this handsome little church on Twellth street ts always attended by avery large and decidedly fashtonable congrega- tion. The biting cold of yesterday, despite the fact tn heaven's high arch above his head a glorious Form | thatthe temperature of tue church differed littie a 5 Whose eit hand bore a flambeau bright, His right a scep- from that of the street, did not diminish in we Adiatlen ct putest gold His brow imperial crowned, _| slightest degree the numbers of the congregation. Anc trom ‘ifs Uirone He thus addressed the watclinan | Rey, Father Preston, pastor of the chur¢ “What of the nizut, what of the night, watchman? what | preached the Gospel in the parable of the lat« of the night? RE ‘ ths The yried Ihe th close array, cote ow to’try their | OTS in the vineyard—Matthew, xx. 1-16. The might er a and if thy trump mistake a single sound, Whang upon these vatilements the watchman on his ‘ound | day being Septuagesima Sunday, @ forerunner | of Lent, and the Gospel of the day being a signitt- | cant warning to Christians to prepare for the great With such a view ofresponsibijity do I speak this | nereafter, the reverend preacher took occasion Morning of the present contest and of the battle Which mast ere long develop itsell, for our national Donor has been insulted, The Bible is the gitt of God to mankind, and the experiences of ages have proved it tobe God's word and not man’s word. Too jong has this peo- ple suffered at the hands o Papists Srom Ireland, ‘who are desirous of bauisuing Holy Writ trom our | schools. Communists from Paris, tbingers, may be tolerated here. aus, who sell their rights for W pieces oO! sii- ver; but such men must not be allowed by amerti- cans to have the governing powers in their hands. The faise religionists have entered into a con- Spiracy to overthrow our lity ty. Let us analyze the manner in whicn tals work was commenced. Our public schools, an mstitution of which all true Americans feel proud, were provested against as being too sectarian; text books were clamored German tree- against, and the Bile was pronounced an unfit | in entering the service of the Lora of the vine- | he as paid tor it; but y book for School instruction, The complaint was Ustened to, and that was our first great error. UNDUE PREFERENCES TO THE ROMISH CHURCH, remember Wei, as a schoolboy how certain pages we do political | | | to exhort his hearers against the sin o! spiritual idieness, the neglect of religious duties and apathy in matters that affect the interests of the soul. The kingdom of heaven can only be gained by earnest, persevering work. Working in te vine- yard means the sanctification of the soul, and this can only be done during our lifetime, as when “the night cometh no inan can work.” We know not when the day of life’s labor will be brought to a beyoud the grave there is no opportunity to re- deem past neglect. Now, on the threshold of the penitential season, is the acceptable time to do the work allotted us by God's decree, ‘Many are called, but few are cifosen,’’ says our Saviour, and if we desire to be numbered among the ranks of the elect we should not lose @ moment yard. Spiritual idieness is as fatal to the interests of the soul as is its counterpart in business mat- ters where the temporal welfare is concerned. The pypes selected Jor the occasion py the emi- close; death comes like @ thief In the night, aud | divine | 3,000 communicate. Copies of the annual report of the attendance at St. Stephen’s Sunday school were scattered throughout the pews, From this | Teport it appears that during the past month there was an actual attendauce Of 1,282 children and 152 teachers. The high mass was sung by the Rev. Father Flynn. The music of the mass was Haydn's No, 3. The organ part was played from the orchestral score. When the choir haa finished the singing of Soige’s “‘Veui Creator” the Rey. Dr. McGlynn oc- cupied the pulpit and preached A SENSIBLE SERMON on the fallacy of saying that religion, like the atr, should be iree, Until, said he, God miraculously builds churches and jeeds priests as He did the prophet of old and preserves cheir clothes trom wearing out, religion mustbe paid for, When people ask if religion is not free I answer no. ‘The more precious it is the more readily should you be willing to pay for it. And there is no more sacred duty and no higher privilege than to contribute, at the expense of some self-sacrifice, to the building up of Goa’s altar and the support of the charities that naturally cluster around It. Where better than in the Christian altar can | Christian charity find its source, its nucleus and | its centre; and by what heart and voice can Christian charity be better prompted and advo- cated than by the heart and the voice of the Christian priest. It is simply absurd to say that religion should be | or even is abywhere iree of expense to those who | seek or benefit by its ministrations, In those | countries where, to the unreasouing mind, it may | seein be tree it i8 in reality enjoyed not only at | the expense of the weigntiest pecuniary burdens, | but, what is far worse, at the expense of | THE TRUE LIBERTY OF RELIGION, and, consequently, at the expense of its dignity, influence and benefice: | The favors and exemptions lavished upon the Church by the State in ages of more lervent piety have but served as ap excuse in later ages for confiscation and robbery, and have fur- | nished to the —flery revolutionist a specious pretext to ply the torch, to piliage, | to ravage and to destroy ber sanctuaries and to do to death the persons of her mtuisters, When the Irenzy had passed aWay, the State in various lands sought to make some compensation by pay- ing 4 pittance to tiinisters of religion, and by rebuilding some o! her ruined sanctuaries, This the Chareh has accepted as but some restitution for a great injustice, wulle the State will persist in regurding the pittance asa salary paid to one of its officers, and whe temples that iterects a3 suill its own property, even \uough called by cour tesy houses of God, | m The people but too often enter tnto that view, | and look upon religion asa mere department of State, the churches as so many goverpment build- ings aud clergymen us so many E ESLASTICAL POLICEMEN, It 18 far better that people® should have the merit of paying directly for tle support of charity and religion, rather than turough the intervention of tax gatherers and tax distributors, to whose fingers, it is ramored , in certain countries, no small portion oi said taxes Las @ strange Jasuion of adhering. It 18 certainly more meritorious to | tax ourselves voluntarily for these objects than to pay under the fear of the club of the policeman or the hammer of the auctioneer, It would be an ursed day tor true religion when it should become apparently tree by | Such means. When a | thing, he tries to Matter an pays voluntarily jor & aseli that it 1s worth all n he seems to receive & in danger of prizing it at thing for nothung’he L What it has cost him, In the aiternoon the church was well filled by @ | been pondered y all. Many and many of the men who were | firmly believed. We could then more heartily say, | | Broken, fragmentary for the spiritual revelation. He mustleave. He on whom they had rested as their teacher, pro- tector; their infallible guide, Among His chosen | band of disoiples everything. rebelled against it, yet He says, “It is expedient.” It is for your | good. How could His departure benefit His Church? This question, some time or other, has Some spell out sufficient reasons, It is natural to say if we could have seen, touched or heard our Lord speaking tne words of light and life, witnessed His wondertul | works, we should have more readily and more “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” That the truths of revelation would have made more last- ing and distinct impression on the mind. Ics | belief would have been so strong as to dely scepticism in the Chureh circle at Jerusalem. | and aisjomted views of trutn would have been avoided. Perfect unity would have reigned in the Church. There would have been no sects, All would have been Christians, taught directly by the Master. We should have had no doubts, but have known the exact truth, and the Binle would not have turnished weapons Jor its believers | to fight each other withal. Men of equal wisdom and piety would not then have been divided in opinion and held varying and contradictory tenets while the Lord was at hand to solve all doubts, to settle all disputes. How, then, can it be that there | is variance of belief in the Church of the Vicegerent | of God on earth? | 18 If DESIRABLE TO HAVE UNITY OF BELIEF? | Yes, in the sense the Master used the phrase, not | in man’s sense. It would be no improvement if all the world’s minds and opinions were moulded ex- acuy alike, like cakes ona baker’s counter. The idea of absolute agreement among men in matvers of belief or opmion is bat an illusion dancing in an air of sorcery. Men may think if Christ were still living in Jerusalem we would have ali doupts and questions authoritatively solve, so there could be | no variance, How was it during His life on earth? | Even among His twelve aposties there were disscn- sions, dispulings and jealousies. Had Christ re- maimed He would have been | EITHER A MIRACLE OR A MONSTER. | Aman 2,000 years old would grow entirely away | from men, or if His youth were constantly renewed | He would lose the nature of man. Livimrg here He was subject to bodily conditions. His superior nature was in bondage while He dwelt in the fesh, From His infinite condition for our sakes Ne sub- mitted to be imprisouea within the limitations of humanity. He became a man subject to man's conditions. Is it best that the Head of the Church should he fore in prison’ ‘The infinite spirit under such conditions would be hampered, manacied. To make a mission to atone ior our sins 13 one thing; to remain permanently here an- other. Even had the Lord remained only few on | earth could have seen Him, Great naturai currents | may bring the ocean’s waters trom the tropics to | visit the pole, which man can never find, but oniy | an insignificant share of mankind could enjoy the | privilege oi seeing the Lord were He permanently at | Jerusalem. Even i! .you could see Him it is not ce tain you would believe. Did not the Lord’s tol- lowers in Judea doubt? SAVED BY FAITH, NOT SIGHT, | is the teaching of the Holy Word. Only by faith and the power Of moral intuition were the early teach- ers powerful in truth, Ali knowledge comes not by the senses, The true Christian has his moral sense illumined by the direct assistance of the Holy Ghost acting wpou his moral element, by faith lilting him to a higher plane and a nobler’sphere. | What is the design of lile ¥ Are we born here with all the elements of grace, simply to be periectea by a life of harmony, and then be carried to anotier life’ Instead, we are huried into this earth like the soil thrown Irom a pit—rough, unsightly, im- periect. We grow. by labor, by experience, re- sponsibility. To be of value men must earn their growth. They are not made like a potter makes vessels of cla a! pint to be a pint and a qui to ever remain a quart. Men are made at zero, to grow by their own exertions—not born furnished with a house aud clothing and a table served by airy messengers, while they have nothing to do but stand like wax candles in arow. ‘They are born into a world of benches, 01 anvils, uf tovis to work withal. and they are to | WORK OUT THEIR OWN SALVATION. | If Christ were in Jerusalem we should have no better Church, We don’t want the unity of stereo. typed men, We have men who never dispute— in the graveyard, There might as well all be who do not inquire and endeavor aiter the truth—men content with just so many atticles, who must iollow just so many rules like machines, without individuality, pigmies, homunculi, not men. ‘The disciples did not hold one opinion. Even Peter could not understand the teaching of Christ, but | endeavored to persuade Him to resist the persecu- tion ofthe Jews. There are some truths which are not susceptible of proof unless they be enter- tained by minds susceptible to their influence. Moral truth can only be appreciated by those Who appreciate moral ideas. Truth, to be susceptible of absolute proof, must be as low as our physical constitution. No two men see or hear exactly alike, nor can two men have exactly the same knowledge of spiritual truth which cannot be tested by figures. Only dead men or wooden- headed men see all alike. Blessed be variety of | belief, honestly entertained and taken in love. | With Jesus in heaven He is near to every believer | and ready to help all. Imagination, aided by the Comiorter, is a better enlightener in the truth 4 than the senses. By it we gain knowledge of in- visible things. ‘The senses create idois, whether | unsightly stocks, Apollo, the Bible, a crowned | church. The necessity to see Christ by the imagi- | nation is the grand element of truth in Chris. fianity. Jt was necessary that our Master should go before the comforter, the Holy Ghost, could come to be our light in discerning the truth in Christ. How near is death! Your iriends have | gone home. Lost, but not lost. They are with | Christ. You go soon to them and to Him who | hath redeemed you. Welcome tnose gray hairs | and signs of Jafling life; welcome infirmity. You | are not far away from home. Hope, trust that ere long you may be with Christ. SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL | OHUROE. Sermon by Dr. Wild on Halting Between | Two Opinions. Dr, Wild preached yesterday morning from | I, Kings, xviil., 21—“And Elijah came unto ail tne | people and said, How long halt ye between two | opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The deilcate but intrinsic relation (said the Doctor) existing between the moral and physical untverse is dificult to defige. | How much and in what direction a man by spirit- nal devotion can modify the physical world one cannot definitely state. That matter and mind infringe one on the other in the constitution of man few will deny; and yet, in laboring to define the essence and properties of matter and the nature, mode and manner of spiritual exist- ence, many of the scientists and theologians of our day seém anxious to find a non-interfering dis- tinction and difference. ‘They seem desirous of discovering @ chasm of nonentity between the two. They try to account for all the phenomena of nature without having recourse to spirit, or to dis- cern @ plan of existence and action for spirit that | shall be entirely free trom the material. Matter came not into existence of itself; neither are its laws selfevolved. Its very existence implies a | Creator, and are we Wise in supposing that He | flung His own work so far from Himself that He | has not and cannot have control over it? Most | assuredly not. By this line of argument we pur- | chase the independence of matter too dearly. Who shall deny but that the industries of man have both changed the seasons and productions of nature Islands once | luxuriant are now barren and the barren have been made fruitful. Nature alone would never have produced the fogs of London and New York, They are the products of @ civilization that has | fashionable and apparentiy devout congregation, | When for years he had been lost to the outer | Tiver and without | our times we talk as if every second man was a been greatly ordered by prayer, That Elijah, the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tishbite, should produce a drought by ts is thi iter all; for r has fhaped the course of uations and penetrated Into the domain of nature with an irresistible influ- enee. In closing the pastor invited all who loved the Lord Jesus Christ and felt the personal necd of Him to remain and partake of the sacrament spread before them. OENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. David Livingstone—His Life and Labors and His Heroic Devotion to Christ and Humanity—Memorial Discourse by Dr. H, M, Seudder. The Central Congregational church on Hancock street, Brooklyn, was crowded last night. Dr. Scudder, a3 announced, delivered @ memorial dis- course on Dr. David Livingstone. whose death in Africa has recently been announced. The Doctor read for a Scripture lesson the sufferings of Paul by land and sea, as described by himself in IL Corinthians, xi., 25-33. The text was taken from IL Samuel iii., 383—“Know ye not that there isa prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?” The topography of the moon, the Doctor said, is better known than some portions of our earth, He then described some of the obstructions to the exploration of Africa—chiefly 18 malarial marshes and its savage inhabitants, But these hindrances only sharpened our appetites to know more about that sealed land, The Doctor gave a brief description of the known geography of Africa when Livingstone first went thither, its flora and fauna, ite natural history, races and its savage tribes. It is peculiarly the home of reptiles, and its inhabitants are exceedingly strange. There lives there a people who will not fight and others who do nothing else; there are tribes there in which the women do nothing and others in which they are the Amazons. Africa has been the sepulchre of travellers, and one greater than they all has just died there, away from home and fiends—alone. And in every house here the word has been passed, “Dr. Livingstone 1s dead!” Who is this man regarded by so many millions ? He was a Christian hero, Dr. Scudder gave & SKETCH OF LIVINGSTONE’S BIRTH, early life, conversion and his medical and theo- logical student live, and his first journey as @ mis- sionary to South Africa, He referred also to Liv- ingstone’s marriage to Miss Mowatt, and paid a fitting compliment to the Christian heroism of that excellent lady, The event which first set Livingstone against the slave trade and made him determined to risk Ife and everything to open up Alrica to civilization and Christianity was the sacking of Livingstone’s home by the Boas. ‘They were resolved to shut up that land and he was determined to open it. The return of Mrs. Livingstone and her children to England, the Doctor’s own return subsequently to his home and his second trip to the interior of Airica were described. jivingstone received such @ reception im Europe as no other man received. His great aim was to preach the gospel in Alrica so that he might save individuals and tribes, and there are parts of that country en- tirely changed by his life and teaching. When he was lost he was traced by his cap, his mustache, his dog and the goodness of his character. He sought not so much to promote science as to save Africa and to bring her into fellowship with Christian nations, The great traveller's suffermgs by water and land, among wild beasts and gavage men, and African fevers, were sketched with a vivid pen. He had had these fevers 275 times, yet he gave not up his cherished purpose to save Africa for Christ. world, and it was rumored that he was dead, the editor of the New York HERALD SENT AFTER HOM and found him. Dr. Scudder said he wished he had words adequate to express bis gratitude and appreciation of the services which Mr. Bennett and Henry M. Stanley had rendered to the world in bringing the lost missionary again to the world and to his friends. The munifi- cent expenditure of $20,000 by the former and the endurance, courage and perseverance of the latter are worthy of ail praise. Dr. Scudder quoted jrom Livingstone’s letter to Mr. Bennett, describing his condition when Stanley found him— a mere ruckle of bones. The generosity of the HERALD office was laid at his feet. He was asked to retura wath Stanley, but his work was not done and he could not give up Africa. And now the news comes to us that this great man is dead. He has fallen on the battle field, and that is a sublime death to die. The gentleness of his dis- position and his pecuhar tact in escaping troubles and entanglements with the natives were re- ferred to. But Livingstone could fight, too, and he did fight when it came to the last extremity. camples of his strategy were given, and one it that has not been published heretofore | was related by Dr. Scudder as it was told hun ‘by a gentleman in his congregation who olten et tertained Livingstone at his home in South Atrica. At one place where ‘THE GREAT MISSIONARY was stopping a plot was made to kill himself and all his followers. The plot was discovered, and, as the massacre was to take place about midnight, Livingstone kept watch himself, and just beiore the appointed hour he called all his attendants together, went to the river and captured all the boats of their enemies and took them across to the other side, leaving his would- be murderers on the wrong side of the any means of escape. In bis application of the lessons of the life of Living- stuue Dr. Scudder emphasized that which a liie of | devotion to Christ can bring @ man to. There were some persons before him, he satd, who were debat- ing whether they could give up some little thing for Uhrist. Let them look at David Livingstone and receive an inspiration from his unselfish and heroic life, and take Jesus as their portion trom this tame forth, even for evermore. HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH. The Peril of Dishonesty in Dealing | with God—The Story of Ananias and | Sapphira—Sermon by Rev. Justin D. | Fulton. Hanson place Baptist church was attended yes- terday morning by a large congregation. The ceremony of baptism was administered alter the sermon. Rev. Mr. Fulton chose his text from the filth chapter of Acts, third and fourth verses— “But Peter said, Ananias, why hatn Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of theland? While it re- mained wasit not thine own? and after it was sold was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.” critical moment in the tian profession to wear the garments of Christ. attempted to rob God, light of the truth that God is unchangeable. Ananias was without doubt a minister of the world; it has been thought that he was one of the 120. lieved that God would take better care of him than he could himself. tle’s feet and sald, “it is yours; take all you need.” Ananias desired to share hi: It was a history of the Chris- the devil be allowed Ananias Let us reread the story in could Barnabas was one of great faith, and he be- He laid’ his money at the apos- ‘eputation without bis sacrifice, and Peter said, ‘‘Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land? While it remained was it not thine own, and alter it was sold was it not in thine own powerf Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.” It ts perilous to be dishonest in dealing witn God, I | pray for the Holy yes to bring this truth home , to our hearts. The question was not decided. | Ananias was not afraid to deal with God as he ‘would not dare to deal with men. Ananias believed it safe to TAMPER WITH GOD. Ananias, standing before the people, after St. | Peter had rebuked him, did not confess. He acted as though to say, “Nobody knows this but my | wife; lam sate, Can the Hoty Spirit make an im- pression on Peter’s mind which it would be safe to follow?’ Ananias did not believe in God; he thought he could do this thing and never have It known, But the power of the Holy Ghost heiped | Peter to know Anantas; he loved the favor of men more than of God. 1 seem to see him, He wauted the same reputation as Barnabas; so he goes and selis his land, making @ great noise about it, say- ing it is for the Church, and comes and lays the price beiore the apostle, who rebukes him for lying. a The apostle believed in God; he believed that he was doing business for God, and all the money be- longed to God, and he would keep it sacred. In scoundrel, but this is not so; there are hosts of true, trustworthy, honest, loyal men. Ananias, standing, stolid, before the apostie, is suddenly struck down; he loved men more’ than God; he could keep his money from God, but ne could not keep back his soul, and three hours after, when he had been buried, his wife came, and Peter said, “And did you sell the land for so much?” If she had said no, she would have ne d the Lord and be- trayed her husband, but, like many women, she feared her husband, who was near, more than her God, who was far olf, and she said, ‘Yes, for 80 much.” It was a terrible moment, You say this is @ queer subject to set forth to | bring money out of people, but I believe God meant me to talk to you, not appeal. And Peter said, “How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord; behold the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door and shail carry thee out. ‘Then fell she down straightway at his feet and ylelded up the ghost; and the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.” — The first thought is that Satan knew his man. He had tried the 120 ministers, and there was only this one who fell. We make a tremendous ado about Ananias and about that one apostie who betrayed Jesus, but we don’t think of the eleven who were true, | Ananias was rebuked for his shortsightedness, ‘There are others who forget they are dning buni- | ‘Ress for God ; that he is looking into the accounta and seeing all you do. Like @ man who sald to me yesterday, “I don’t like you; you never preach but you say some things that 1 don’t like; but I believe you love Jesus, and 1am guing to join your church.” Now | don’t expect to be loved. Tam not one of that kind; but 1 do love Jesus, and expect to work jor God, The royal mau 18 the man who loves God, Who lays big hand in the hand of Christ and gay: 1 put my interest in Christ, and stand the world, believe in a religion that will go down into the night and hold on, I have faith that when GOD TAKES HOLD es ber he keeps hoid, ¢ nanias never got hold; he got int to have position and a little popularite, ne CbUreh Now let us think @ minute. Andnias was re- buked for his shortsightedness, now, he thought he had comtrol of nts ‘property, and the devil Zot, him, and Ged let the D mi. deal. tyrant. He forgot: tim with whom De hades We are to recognize God, not as @ He does not hold us, we come to Men are drawn to Him and become Christ and the glorious influence of the irit takes possession of the soul, and they say, pray you, come and glean in this harvest feld.”? They look on this cause at home and abroad and recognize its importance. You are stewards for God. Give up everything and give Goa his own. Weare not only heirs, but partners with Gon ne 1 say, Christian men and women, we can work this debt off in an hour it we will, I don’t ask you to give what you expect to get, but whas ‘ou have got, Christians are under obligations to eep their pledge. I don’t ask you for anythin; remarkable. but just what the Lord God puts 1! into your heart todo, The cause‘of God is going on, At the judgment all actions will appear IN THEIR TRUE LIGHT. God keeps account of our income, keeps account of our responsibilities and of our abilities. Write down on the cards what you think God wants vou todo. Satan is here and will hold a grip on every one hecan. After you make your pledge keep it, 8T, JOHN'S METHODIST OHUROH, The Worlds We Live In—The Reaim of Selfishness or of Spiritual Life—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Vincent, The pulpit of the St. John’s Methodist EpiscopaY church, Bedford avenue, was occupied yesterday by Rey. J. H. Vincent, D, D., the Secretary of the Sunday School Union of that influential denomina, tion. His discourse in the morning was based upon the eighth verse of the second chapter of Ephe<« siaps—‘‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it isthe gift of God.’* After an appropriate and graceful introduction, wherein it was shown that the grace, the salvation and the faith spoken of in the above passage were all the gifts of God, the speaker proceeded to say that ir @ man were saved he would certainly be delivered from eternal sorrow, and would enjoy in this life many an hour of ecstasy—~ @ foretaste of the spiritual delights which were promised to those who continued faithful unto the end; but there was more in salvation than was included in that definition of it. People who were next door neighbors often lived tn different worlds. Who would say that the artist in Rome who picked up an Italian boy in the street and Pat upon canvas or tnto plastic clay more than any one else saw in the flesh lived im the same world as his humbie subject ? The culprit who re- ceives his sentence stands so near the judge that he could reach over and grasp his hand; but who would say they were therelore near together? Guilt, condemnation and deprivation of all civit and social rights belonged to the one, @ crimi- nal in the sight of God and man, while the other, @ man of integrity and uprightness, was the representative of all that was stronges' purest and best in human law an human society. All of us had our individual world in which we dwelt, We were subject to mighty spiritual currents, Which swept us aownward or upward every day. There were men who lived in this world thoroughly under the dominion ol seif- disnness, whose highest amvition was to consum- Mate schemes of personal aggrandizemen aud who, even in the social lellowsbips ol lle, trample on the rights of others to enjoy cer- tain immunities, And a peculiarity of this selfish< ness Was that men grew Worse as the years passed by—the appetites, the lusts, the tempers and the ambitions that had been fustered and were allowed to have their own way, uachecked by moral prin- ciple and religious devotion. This part of the ser- mon was enlorced by apposite illustrations. There are men who, a¢ @ previous period of their lives, were seusitive to religious truths, but by dwelling in the sphere of selfisnness have become unholy in their thoughts, desires and ambitions, cher:shing envy, jealousy and all things contrary tosupreme jovefor God. There was, however, another sphere in which men and women dwelt, where there were a keen sense of sin and an in- tense hatred of it; wuere there were a conscious- ness oi exposure and an intense anxiety to be de- livered irom that peril; Where tuere were a sense of guilt and then of pardon; where there were @ peace with God and joy in the Holy Ghost; a region. where God was loved supremely, and strong iaith exercised in eternal realities and in Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour. It was a terrivie thing to live under the vondage of human seliisuness; and when a man was taken out of that sphere and into a higher one of spiritual freedom he experienced a great salvation, It was taking bim out of darkness where the heavens are black into the brightness where all the glory of the sun of righteousness shines upon him. Dr, Vincent then went on to show that this salvation came by grace and through iaith, No bumao power could do it, but it was effected solely by a ivine and gracious interposition, it was dtting that a spiritual faculty should be employed in lay- ing hold of spiritual truth. Religion was not a thing Of outward observances, pilgrimages or of physical refreshment, put it consisted 1D the soul’s laying hold of spiritual truth, which the eye could not see nor the ear hear. There was @ | power in the human soul which looked at the in« yisibie and which believed in the possibility of par+ don and of @ conscious oneness with Crist. Such a faith was more than @ mere intellectual apprehension of truth; it was a laying hold of the whole soul of the truth and living by it, 80 as to become @ re- ality. The speaker urged his hearers, as Wesle; beautifully expressed it, with a “recumbent faith”! upon the Lord Jesus Christ, who would whisper | such words in the midst of a sphere of selfishness as would lift them up into a reaim of light, of free. dom and of peace. In conciusion he said that there were some people who thought about the requirements of religion, as thougn they were ar- bitrary things, but there was protound philosophy in every part of the whole scheme of numan re demption, and what they knew not now would be Jully anderstood in the iuture world. At the conclusion of the sermon the holy com- munion was celebrated, Rey. Doctors Haven and Vincent odiciating. CATHOLIC MISSION IN BROOKLYN. Impressive Opening Services at St. Mary’s, Star ofthe Sea—Sermon by Rev. Father Garesche, 8S. J. The mission was formally opened at St. Mary's, Star of the Sea, Court street, South Brooklyn, yes. terday. ‘Ihe large edifice was filied almost to re. | pletion by a devout and earnest congregation at. the last mass, the aisles being thronged by men and women, who bent eagerly forward to catch every word that fell from the lips of the dis- tinguished missionary father. High mass was celebrated by the pastor, Rev. Eugene Cassidy, Rev. Fathers O'Callahan and Sheehy officiating as deacon and subdeacon respectively. The volunteer choir of the church acquitted themselves satistac- torily under the conductorship ot the organist, Proiessor Hoey. After the Gospel the Kev. Father Garesché ascended the pulpit, and the ORDER OF EXERCISES of the mission, which will be held tor the next two weeks by Rev. Fathers Van Goch, Masselis and others, was announced. There Will be masa every morning at five o'clock and a sermon. There will be mass also at six, seven and I-past eight o'clock. A sermon will be preached at the last mass. In the alternoon at three o'clock the “Way ol the Cross’? will be said. At hall-past seven o’clock in the evening the services will con- ist of the Rosary, a sermon and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Tue conditions for performing the mission so as to gain the plenary indulgence are as follows:—First, attendance at five o1 the exercises; second, a sincere confession ; third, @ fervent communion; fourth, praying ior the intention of Holy Church. Instruction will be given every evening to adults who have never re- ceived the sacrament of the cucharist. ‘Alter two o’clock and aiter Benediction daily Father Garesché willbe in attendance at the pa- rochial residence to answer any questions that those who are non-Catholics may desire to pro- ound upon the truths and teachings of the hurch, Having instructed the congregation upon the exercises of the mission, Father Garesché pro- ceeded to explain that a mission was a speciai and extraordinary occasion for the dispensation of the riches of divine grave. it 18 a season when the mercy of God is exercised more particularly toward the careless sinner and the obdurate of heart. It is @ period when men are reminded more torcib; of the actual requirements of their situation, an are appealed to by arguments which impress both head and heart. Now are men cailed irom a life of sin to a life of salvation, and the holy sacrifice of the mass is offered to-day to the Most High God, that the opportunity thus afforded may not be lost, but that all may lave the happiness of experiencing the plenitude of the graces dispensed, ‘The rever- end speaker then proceeded to make @ most ear- nest appeal to his hearers to devote at least one week ol their lives in working out their eternal salvation, that they may realize on their deathbed the consolation wiitch alone belongs to the faithiu) servant when tie last Jew moments of time aré fading and judgment and eternity are opening. In the evening a most eloquent, logical and Im pressive sermon was delivered pA the reveren¢ father upon the creation and the end of man The object for which we are created 18 to know, love and serve God in this world, that we may bt happy with Him vorever in the mext, At leas 2,500 people were present, tue large edifice being crowded to e. Se