The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1874, Page 8

“THE WORD. Church Services Yesterday in the City and Suburban Churches. FROTHINGHAM ON VICE, | teraay morning was “fo suppression of Vice.” Dr. McGlynn’ Explains Lenten Fast. the SERVICES AT ST. JOHN'S, HOSPITAL. Beecher on Adversity and Re- ligion as a. Yoke. ANTHONS MEMORIAL CHURCH. Bormon by the Rev. R. Heder Newton— Christ’s Divinity a Logica: Certainty, ‘Proved from His Works. ‘The young and able rector, KR, Heber Newton, 0; | ‘the Anthon Memorial church, on Forty-eighth ~atreet, west of Sixth avenue, preached an eloquent | sermon yesterday morning wo his congregation, ‘tasing for the text these words from the New ‘Testament:—“What wink ye of Christ i—whose won is he 7” ‘This, said the reverend and Jearned gentleman, | ‘was the question of ai! isracl. It was the problem | ‘hat had occupied the minds of Jew and Gentile. | ‘4a satisfactory solution had becn eagerly sought | for im every succeeding generation tii the present | time. And now the question is of more Vital importance than it bas been here: tofore. Never was tuere an age that more yequired to ask the question, “What think ye of Christ?” than the present; for ite hope, faith and salvation depend upoo a satisfactory answer. Several philosophers and many scientific men tell Ba, dwelling largely upon the fact, of the superiici- ality of human wisdom, How, then, can we wonder at the inability of mortals to understand why God bas chosen to reveal Himself im Christ? The | preacher would not attempt to prove that Christ ie God. If faith cannot help the seeker after truth Bo human proof would avail to convince him. He | (the preacher) would not appeal to the miracies that Cnrist had periormed, por to the wonderful works of His hands, THE DIVINE TEACHINGS of our just Master were oi themselves, rigitly | understood, suificient to convince the sceptical. | He looked upon the character of Christ in His | beauty, His piety, loye, pity, sell-abnegation, spir- itual Valor, hojy temperance, justice and ovner | riect virtues—manhood without imperiection, joliness without ostentation, long-sulering with- eut murmur. His enemies could find no charze to make against Him. Positively combining every | orm of grace, beauty and perfection, His 1reedoin @@ not ron into license, nor His familiarity with | the disciples engender aught but love and respect | jor Him. Innocent yet strong, wise but unassum- | ings waving im Himseif combined all jorms of ex- | cehence, He was bot a hegative but positive char- acter—a character that manifests itself without consciousness of sin. Again let us ask, What tbink ye of Christ, whose son 1s He’ In His great | Mission to the Jews iis teachings were no mere | eclectic dogmas ; they exhibited WISDOM WITHOUT LEARNING, His declarations were delivered in a calm con- scioushess of His being Himself the truth and the | ht. His calmness, confidence and cieeriul hope at the time of His aeath confounded tue philosophy of | Greece aud the dogmas of Judea. People must | note all this and ask themseives whence came is great perfections. VAhen Rome failed and sunk anto decay Christianity lived. Througn all the trials of many ages Caristianity has lived and now | Bourishes among the civilized nations of mankind, The numberiess pictures wherein artists have sought inspiration to impress His glory do but con- | vey their author’s despair, and leave tae undinisned ‘task to bear witness to their inability of approach- ing a likeness to His mysterious beauty and giory, © that soar superior to their art. He 1s more than ean be traced or pictured by human hand. No just | explanation of what de is can fali within the com- pass of words. ‘The Church does but feel itin acknowledging His holy influence. At the ex- | ration of nearly 2,000 years His name is more an mighty on the earth, The astounding fact— the great historical, uncontroverted fact, that | CHRIST ALOSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD, azzles the mind and sets philosopay at naught. | *What think ye of Christ; whose son is He?” The heart says that He is God, and bows in reverence | belore Him. No other explanation wili answer than that God has chosen to reveal Himseif in | Jesus Christ. No criticism of science or philosophy has yet reached Him or dimmed His glory. He is the foundation of our hope, and they wuo trast in | Him wilinever be deceived, You have seen the | force of Christianity, known the infuence of Christ’s teachings. His witness is with Him in the ; Church. We touch His inspiring ideas in lile’s Dusy scenes, we see His works around us and hear | Him calling upon us to follow. To walk with Him | is to be in heaven; to part with Him, death in- | deed. He ig the living inspiration of Christian | men. What think ye of this Christ, who isin the Sacrament still—this loving Master who Speaks to your soul to-day’ If, from the evidence of ts works, you believe He is more than man, HE MUST BE GOD. If He is God how dare you stand outside Ris Churct ? How can you reject His teachings if you admit His divinity What relationship has your soul with Corist? Does it know Him?’ Is His Mame on your brow and His spirit on your lips’ | Can you own Him as God aud keep away trom | Bis people ? What means it that this Nazarene’s | death should invoive your salvation and open the door for the heart to receive Him? It isa ques- tion that deserves the attention of your whole soul; tor if Christ be God and we forsake Him how can resurrection or ile be expected frum God, our Master? In the midst of religions doubtings, should such occur to your mind, ask your soul, With the contriteness of Christian humility, What ‘eink you of Christ ’—whowe son is He ¢ 8T, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL Sermon by the Rev. Father Flattery— The Rich and the Poor, The Rev. Father Fiattery preached the sermon at ‘the nigh mass services at the Cathedral yesterday. Be teok for his text the gospel of the day, according to St. Luke, chapter eighteen, from the twenty-first % the twenty-fitth verse, that notwithstanding the knowledge the Saviour bad of what was to happen to Him His thoughts ‘Were all bent on the salvation of mankind. When He bade that the blind man should be brought to Him He questioned not nis faith, but simply asked, “What shall | do for thee’? and on the man mak- ing known his necessities He healed him, This was in keeping with His mission. When Joun sent from prison, asking by what signs the Messiah was Knows’, the answer was, go and tell him that “He makes the blind see, the lame walk, the lepera are eleansed, the deaf liear, the dumb speak ana the 1 is preached to the poor.” ‘The attention, the reverend father sald, of Catholics shoud be called to this at the opening of THE SEASUN OF LENT, because it was a time when the Uvurch prescribed certain conditions Which had in view the recog- Mition of the weakness of the flesh. It was a time when we were reminded that we should live less | luxuriously, when even some of our very necessi- ties, so to speak, should be dispensed with. The | motive of the Church in 80 calling upon the faith- | ful to cut off their amusements and to be jess | Juxorious than usual in their ways of living was to teach us that we should mortify our flesh, be- | come, in fact, masters Of ourselves, Above ail we were taught to GIVE AID TO THE POOR, This was one of the chief pnipos of Our Lord's mission on earth, and though He might have done away with every species of human suffering and misery as easily as he rubbed away the film that hid from the eyes of the blind man the hight of the day, He did not, because, by @ special order of Providence, it was decreed that poverty and plenty shouid exist inthe world. {his being an ordinance of God it could not be done away with. He left these | two things in the world as He had found them, in | order that every man might have sympathy with bia | feliow man. ‘Shere was no unequal distribution of | anything that was necessary to their existence | among animals. The birds os the air and the fishes Of the sea did not find that inequality that exists | among men. The reverend preacner then went on | to show how God gave riches to one class of men, © #0 that they might be @ biessing to them; that is, a blessing when they shared them with the poor. It | ‘Was not an injustice on the part of God to give an abundance to some men more than to others, but He made it the duty of those to whom He gave Plenty to aid those who had but little. It was THE BOND OF CHARITY shat made the rich and the poor of the church one 4p the sight of God. Jt Was true that there was no bounden law that compelled the rich to share their | Wealth with the poor, buf for all that 1b was the Christian duty of all who were well todo in the world to do What they could to smooth tue path of the Jowly and the needy. God had placed in the heart of a rich mana teeing of pity ana sympathy Jor Kis poor Geigibor, and if Me did nov give aid and assistance to him it was because he refused to ve heed to tie feelings God had implanted in bis art, The reverend Father then cloged by show. | dng that ope Of the wissions Of Whe charch was to |much to sult the £ngiieh peome, The Onio women | gnawing, craving desire aiter truth. ‘The reverend father said | | itis not necessary. | of Wales has sav a! the sir 4008 foun sisug, y LYBIC HALL Rev. O. B. Frothingham Ve" »wiates His Views on ViceAttempted violent Sup- Pression of Vice Ridic: ‘Temperance Movemen' the Social Evil. ‘The subject of Mr. Frot’ ‘Aogham’s discourse yes- fleus—-The New ‘7 Cut West and A society in this CIty. saving for its special object the suppression Of * Ace, nad suggested, he said, his theme, although ,me aid not inten to speak at length on the @pjects and aims of the society. Their object aeemed to be to put down vice by violent me’ as, and, as far as possible, to eradicate it from Feiety. The pelicy and principle of its suppre’ were the prevailing policy and prio- ciple, emperance Was anevilthat meant the wre of muscie and nerve, the breaking down of agt mora) and noble purposes and ruin to families. At was an evil that threatened the very existence of repablican institutions, Drunken voters must | elect tipsy rulers. Therefore, say these reformers, we must put it down, We must call in public | } opinion aud the police, If the tempted person is wo weak to save himself we must save him. The NEW TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN THE WEST comes under the same designation. It has, how. ever, some new features. At ite meetings are prayer and song, argument and entreaty. But, underlying all this is a determination that the vice of intemperance shai) be pat down. Unwel- come champions present themselves in public liquor saloons and do not vacate the premises until the proprietor is obliged to shut up shop. The same mevhods apply to the suppression of houses Of immoral resort. They think to put down avice that hasits root in human nature. They think that nothing but absolute suppression can be tolerated, We speak of the suppression of vice. What is vice? To hear many. speak one would think that itis like @ gatment, which can be put on and off at will—someting which the weak pravtise hecause it is pleasant, and which the base practise because it is profitable. Many vices are ephemeral, but not ail of them. Some, indeed, are habits, but too strong and inveterate to be imme- diately laid aside. What 1s any habit or propen- sity but the reiteration of the indulgence of some propensity? After @ while the vice isin our biood | asa part ofournature. Is this not true of the gTeat Vices that curse the world? The Church, from its view of vice, evolved the doctrine of total de- pravity. It ies said it is useless to try and LIFT YOURSELVES BY YOUK WAISTBANDS. Yon must have a new leverage. There is no | power to eradicate vice but the power that | comes from above. The Church Kept always in the same old groove, and, consequently, people outgrew it; and so it adopted the practice of crushing out nature instead of guiding it. They vook some Of the very marrow of the country and incarcerated them im monasteries and nunneries, The success Of this plan is shown in the writings | of Chaucer, Boccaccio and others, The Church even went so faras to try to banish all unbeliel, and even thought itself, They tried to stifle tue The heretic was burned, books were suppressed, teachers banished; the Inquisition was always ready, the axe was ever Dusy and the prison celis | were dark and deep. These terribie scourges | afflicted France, Spain, Germany and Italy. And what was the result? The humbiest | people Were proud to be unbelievers, When Luther scattered his seed it dia not fall on a used up so}; but the moment his seed touched the ground the ground became alive. You can cut off the head of @ thinker, but not the head of thought. Now in all this there 18 a lesson, one expressed by the old proverb—If.you drive nature out of the door she | Will come in atthe window. A DFEP-SEATED, HEREDITARY PROPENSITY is not to be cunningly conjured away on the spot. , There is one thing certain, and that is, that every attempt to suppress vice is followed by a reaction. The world goes on at about the same average rate, and if you make it go a litue iaster now it wil go just so much slower aiter awhile. Progress marches and does not leap. Ithough Father Mathew’s temperance movement in ireland was foliowed at first by enormous results, after a while it was only regarded with indifference and apathy. Vice has many guises. Suppress intemperance and aico- hol and it comes out in opium. Take the terrific vice, THE SOCIAL EVIL It ig an outrage upon decency, the corrupter of youth; and yet the moment you raise your hand to Strike it to the ground the philosopuer says “Svop!”” May it not be possible that these vile places are the outlets of the volcanoes that would otherwise rend the planet? Are you sure | that these persons are not saviours after their Jashion—poor victims of a vice of which they were made living sacrifices? Low things must keep | low. It is by the fire down in the hold that the | with its passengers, is propelled n. These great vices cannot be uppression, but by discipline, which Deans thought, consideration and loyalty to noble purposes, by this means nothing will be sup- ressed, but ail subordinated to a worthy end. isecipline means the building up ofa character. The Puritans, though austere, were not suppressive ; they were the best type Of manhood and woman- hood we have seen to this time. Passion must be guided, but not quenched. You must gtve the thirsty man water or he will take something else. BEEKMAN HILL METHODIST CHURCH. Woman’s Whiskey War—A Call for the | Sappression of the Drag Store Liquor | Trade in New York—Sermon by Rev. W. ©. Steel—The Onio Crusade Re- viewed. Notwithstanding the announcement that Mr. Steel would preach on the Ohio liquor war the at- tendance at the Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church yesterday morning was very slim. Tne dis- conrse Was very much like a temperance lecture, being richly stored with statistics regarding the | production and consumption of whiskey and the | murderous consequences, The financial aspect of | the question also received due consideration, and the amount of money said to be invested in the production of “ardents’’ is something scarcely ca- | pable of belief, ie | in ve portion of the Bible which was read in opening the services, occurred the words ‘Wine | is a mocker and strong drink an abomination.” | The text was taken from the fourth chapter of St. ) Pani to the Philipplans, thira verse:—‘Heip those women which labored with me in the Gospel.” | THE SERMON, } The gist of the sermon, which was avery long one, Will be found in the following :— The Church of Christ, a8 a whole, has not recog- nized the strength of women as reformers and | Gospel workers. it has not paid proper heed to the admonishing words of St. Paul; it has let one Of the mightiest powers it ever owned lie dormant for centuries, Like many other grand experiments and demonstra , the task Of testing | ‘S FIDELITY AND STRENGTH has been leit the mighty nineteenth century to prove, and nobly hat the Work been doue by those brave-hearted women of the West, who feur neither the threats nor ribald raillery of the dis- pensers of the soul-corroding dram, No matter how much sceptics may sneer at the idea of the women’s attaining any resnits, it will not aiter | their determination or prevent the ends of their | Jabors. GAMBRINUS DEFAMED, It has been leit to American women to crnsh the head of an exotic hydra, Would to God that its keepers had never come to our shore to pol- lute our morals and debauch our youth, You all remember—it is not twenty years since— when tue first lager beer saloon was opened | in New York. It was «# novelty and every one tried the new beverage just for experi- ment, only, however, to become habitual bibbers, , The papers of the day proclaimed tue virtues of Jager in loud and unmeasured terms. Milk and water were Co be things of the past, and beer was the coming drink. The German paper of Cincin- nati says that a devil of conversion has seized the souls Of the women of Ohio, and they think them- | selves capable of coercing men to comply with their outlandish demands. The same paper states further that the European people will not be able to comprehend what this movement means, May be so; but as it 18 not being done for the grattfica- tion of Europe, the women of Ohio care little how ridiculous they seem in foreign eye: THE NAUGHTY NARCOTIC. | From medica! and scientific testimony it hag | been proved that the use of tobacco prodaces an appetite for alcoholic drinks, and, for this reason, something shonid be done to kill this cause of the appetite for liquor. A THRUST AT THE DRUG While the women of Onio are bi ng up the nmilis in the rural districts it would be weil for the people in New York to cast about them for some means of ie era the hellish traMe in the metropolis. know, a8 well a all nen who know anything about New York iife, that in the several drug stores on Broadway there is dis. pensed more whiskey and brandy than 1s passed over the bar Of maby a prosperous liquor siore onthe avenues, The kid-gloved gentieman from Fi'th avenue stops here every afternoon and morning to get bis dose of poison, d, as he can do it in a guiet and respectable way, he thinks it po harm, THE DOCTORS TO BLAME TOO. The doctors are as much to biame as the drng- gists, for they give prescriptions for liquor when The physician to the Prince that in nine cases out of ten where liquor is ordered it is not Irom necessity. God knows nis master took nine or ten times too J | from | be offered—when | Comforting assurance | versal know bow many of te skeletons in honses are | her work, corgmitted solely to her kept closeted by doctors and dri ‘and, turn- | hands, of winning ‘fouls to Carist. Every- ing théir knowledge to ry have made wing else in church ‘4nd it was & im. two pledges—one for the ‘and another | pertinence. Nor W4sany other work at all com- for the doctors, The doctor, if he signs the pledge, = to it in CAgnity and reward. Whatever affirms that he will never order liquor unless tt 18 nefited man Was worthy of mane meeneee t actually necessary for the panent’s heaith that he do so, ind the druggist binds himself not to sell liquor unless on the order of a doctor who 18 | koown t Le a man of reputation and honor. THE WORK IN O10. Van Pelt, a man who stood out for three weeks against the {ponents Of the women, and who used to howl ribald songs and deliver blasphemous | sermons in the presence of the has been converted, and is now in a band of singers and prayers going around inducing men to close up effort, but prfseminently the sal | soni. And it “¢hould never he forgotten that sav- great ing men mea'st, not only saving them to “the feast,” but Savi teas from Soin and its feariul consequenges, len were under condemnation while insin, and tt was false charity or equally false modesty @ fail to WARN MEN OF THEIR DANGER. sony the holy apostle; but seemg “the terrors of the Lord” he would persuade men. Men were asleep under Sinai and its lightnings were glarii taelr shops. Tue Cincinnati wholesale liquor deal- | around them; asleep on the edge of the pit a ers are inning to feel the inMuence ef the | any moment, in negicct and ease, m! lost— movement. ‘Their C. 0, D. invoices are being | and lost forever! e difficulty of this great work returned to them unpaid fer, and as they | of persuading men might well call forth the ex: Bary ou yytte CRM, thy Teo | “Wi Mon id ie dane andi wha se don’t pay. These are only @ few of the goo: at, then, cou! one, Or th should the Uhuren labor to win souls? ‘The results of the crusade, and the greatest good will never be fully made known, for it 1s in the private fainily that the effect is most felt, Everybody seems to have a reason for the cru- sade. ‘The liquor dealer says it is @ move of the politicians to lorm & new party; anotner says it is going on because the Methodists wa: omething | to talk about, and a thind individual says it is from | the mina of @ crazy Yankee doctor. It is, not- withstanding all these epinions, a grand and good work, in which all denominations join. Archbishop Purcell, in his Lenten letter, requests all his people to sign'the pledge. The movement will soon ex- tend over this Stave and become national. 8T, ANN’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Arrangementtor for the Lenten Season. Rev. Father Poole, at the high mass yesterday, preached on the coming penitential season of Lent, having first read the rules prescribed by the arch- bishop for the term of sackcloth aud ashes. He strongly advised the congregation to remember | the importance of the lenten season, during which the Catholic world strives to atone for the sins of | the past year. Fasting and prayer, in commemo- | ration of the forty days of our Saviour in the wil- | derness, should be the ruling idea in the Catholic | heart. The faithful observance of Lent will go far | towards obliterating the sins of the past. He dwelt strongly on the peace of mid and happiness consequent upon @ reconciliation with God and the reception of the holy sacrament and com- munion. ‘The mass sung on the occasion was like Joseph’s coat, of divers colors. M. Dachauer, one of the | best organists in this country, has @ vocal quartet | such as iew choirs can boast ol, Mle, Corradi, tne soprano, has enjoyed in Europe all the honors that a first class prima donna in opera can expect. Mile. Uctavie Gernien, the contralto, is an artist of undoubted ability, and 18 thoroughly en rapport | with Cathohe music. Mr. Pflueger, the tenor, is a conscientious musician and well acquainted with the requirements of the Mass, M. Succio, the bari- toue, IS tramed in the best vocal schools, and is ) automatic m precision of rendering, with a certain degree of expression. The musical selections at high mass yesterday were the following :—‘*Kyrie” (Bellini), & long elavorate composinon; “Vent Creator” (Nara), belore the sermon, in which the jovely voice o! Mile. Gernien found a congenial theme; “Credo,” from Mercadante’s four part Mass; “Sanctus” and ‘Agnus Dei,” from Rossini’s Messe Soiennelle, the contrasto solo of the second | number being rendered in magnificent style vy Mile. Gernien. At the offertory an unaccompanied quartet oi Auber was given with that effect, finish and expression that characterizes M. Dachauer’s choir as the first in New York. Dachauer’s vespers formed the musical feature of the atternoon services. The Lenten announce- | ments of this’ church are very interesting. The | devotion of “fhe Way ol the Cross” occurs every | ‘fuesday evening in Lent, in the basement chapel | of the Parochial schoolhouse on Eleventh street. | Rey. Father Preston preaches on Spiritual subjects | every Wednesday evening during the same sea- | son. He wil also deliver appropriate sermons at high mass, on punday, on subjects connected with | the penitential season. St. Ann’s choir, under the | direction of M. Dachauer, will give the following | forenoon aud evening services every Sunday :— February 22—“laydn’s Second Mass;” evening, | Gordigian “Stabat Mater.” March 1—“Mozart’s | First Mass; evening, Gounod’s ‘‘Stabat Mater.” March 8—“Beethoven’s Mass in C;” evening, Kos- evening, Concone’s “Stabat Mater.’ palestrina’s Grand Mass;” evening, bat Mater.” March 2%—"Hayun's First Mas evening, De Grandral’s ‘“Stabat Mater.” Bach’s St. Matthew Passion Music will be given, for the first time in this country, at St. | ‘Abn’s church, on Good Friday evening. No other | church in this city can present such a@ magnificent | musical programme. | enth Mass ;” March 2 CHAPEL OF ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL. | Religious Services Yesterday—Stirring | Appeal in Aid of the Children’s Home at St. Johniand, In the chapelof St. Luke’s Hospital, yesterday afternoon, the Rey. Mr. Ferguson preached, anda | coilection was taken up for the benefit of the Chil- | dren’s Home at St. Johnland. The text was from | Isaiah liv., 2,3—Enlarge the place of thy tent, | and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations.” | Catholicity is the motto of the Charch of Christ: | Under the old dispensation Jehovah saw fit to timut the promises to the peculiar people—to tne children of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, In the fulness of time, however, when the Lamb slain the the preparatory dispensa- tion of types and symbols had reached its completion, then, in the circumstances preceding ana following the advent of the Messiah the world was notified in the most unmistakable manner that all this was changed. And the fact of this departure from the ancient order is what the | church commemorates in the season through which we have just passed. In the series of epiph- anies or manifestations which was ushered in by the angelic announcement to the shepherds of Bethlehem, and the supernatural appearing of the starry guide whicn led the Eastern magi to their Saviour’s jeet, and which was continued not on the same day, but on the same day o! different years; by His manifesting His divine prescience to the doctors in the temple; in the manifestation of the trinity at His baptism and of His own divinity again at the marriage feastin Cana, we have the that He who is God and Father 01 All, who made o1 one blood a) the nations that dwell on the iace of the earth, absolutely designed that Christ’s gospel should be of uni- dissemination, and that henceforth NEITHER KACE NOR CLASS DISTINCTIONS were to debar any penitent child from the iullest, | Ireest communion with the Throne of the heavenly grace, And, furthermore, owing to the rule “as it | 18 with the body so is it with the members;” ag when the body suffers the members Janguish, or, | when the body rejoices the members partake of its | joy, we reason that there is no believer, however poor or despicable his worldly estate, who cannot lace his hands on these beautiful similes ot saiah and say, with the utmost confidence, “These promises are mnine; my legal mheritan mine by | virtue of my interest in the merits of the atone- ment, the precious biood whereor has become to | every believer the sign manual of the Testator, | Christ. True, they ate not mine by immediate pos. | session. My finite capacities could in nowise con- | | tam these infinite treasures, even were their pos- session possible. All I have now—and that is the source of all the joy | Know below—t THE BARNES? OF THE SPiKIT, @ secret Indwelling power that witnesseth with my spirit that by aud by, when the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in, when the barren daughter of Zion, having come to ber right mind, shall em- brace her Christ, and be enriched by the precious jewels dug from the Gentile mine, Planting his feet firmly on this evangelical basis, the preacher approached the consideration of the text. He expiuined the figure employed by the prophet, dwelt at lengch on the caution coupled therewith, and conciuded with an peal to his congregation to aid in the evangelization of the | heathen in our own and other lands. But not the | heathen alone, There are sick aud dying ones calling tn vain for a drink of water within the | shadow cast by the mansions of our rich, THERK ARE LITTLE HOMELESS WAIFS at every corner giad to stave of the hunger pang | by @ cpust irom our ash barrels. They appeal to us joddiy for help; if not in Words, at least in pinched features and half-clad limbs, ‘side by side | with these children we mast stand at the judgment seat of Christ. They are our brothers, and ont | great will be your condemnation aud mine on that day if we have failed when it was within our power to aid the enlargement of tne borders of | the Church of Almighty Goa, CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, Elements of Successful Labor in Ree vival Work=—Sermon by the Pastor, Rev. W. F. tottome, D. D, At the Central Methodist Episcopal church, | Seventh avenue, near Fourteenth street, the sanc- tuary where Mayor Havemeyer attends worsnip, the pastor yesterday morning preached from Lu iv. 23, and JI. Corin \ ing, Vey 0 out and compel them to come in,” and “knowing, there- fore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.” ‘These well-known passages necded little explana- tion and preliminaries could be dispensed with. | ‘The subject drawn trom them was the work of the Church, the qualifications and the binderances. What was wanted first of all in the successtal ac- complishment of Church work was a thorough conviction of the magnitude and importance oftne | one work committed to her—t of soul saving. | Whatever demand the advancement of intelligence might make on the cullare of the pul | nit she must never be diverted from | | vine Majesty. | words:—“I beseech you, brethren, by the mercy of sini’s “Stabat Mater.” March 15—“Mozart’s Sev- | God, that you present your bodies a living sacri- | misfortunes, losset | with beginning of the worla came to | of the Holy Spirit might be taken for granted, God is always ready to do His part. But what can we do to save men? What law can best effect them so as to place men under conditions of sal- vation? Men said, in arousing a community to any work, “create a sentiment,” but this was working wrong end foremost. The moral convic- Rone of men are all right if you can only get at them. THR GOLDEN KEY OF SYMPATHY. The only key to arouse right sentiment is sym- pathy. Reformers must get in sympathy with the people. So Jesus Christ became one of us, took on Him our nature, got at men’s hearts. On this law ali reforms are based. The great anti-slavery movement owed its grand triumph to this awakened sympathy. ‘he leaders knew they carried men's convictions with taem; all they wanted was to awaken the sympathies of men and then they succeedea. 0 of our city reforms, ‘The conviciions of the people were all along on the side of good government. It wanted but to arouse the slumberiug sympathies of men, and the night- mare of misrule was shaken of, Tne grand move- ment Now in progress in the temperance cause In Ohio owed its marvellous successes to a thoroughly aroused sympathy, which at once developed ALL THE MORAL ENERGIES OF THE PEOPLE in conironting the great miquity which the wemen of that State were sweeping away. An analysis of this movement gave tour underlying elemepts— (1) awakened sympathy ; (2) Cousecration to a purpose ; (3) undivided effort, and (4) entire trust in God, ‘Thus armed, those brave bands went forth from conquering to conquer, The same elements, under the same earnest application, would give success | anywhere and to any moral effort. {tf was a sad thing that the Church of Christ nad to go outside of her own pale so often to see her own principles most successfully carried out, Some o! the hin- derances to this work were shown to be church formality and lack of the recognition of the indi- vidual responsibility of all church members, 87, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. MeGiynn—The Lenten Fast—How the Prophets and Saints Fasted—Prayer and Religious Reading Appropriate to the Scason—A Retreat Conducted by the Jesuits. * The mass sung at St. Stephen’s church yester- day was Marchi’s. At the offertory an “Ave Maria,” py Meyerbeer, was given by Mr. Bernhardt. ‘The vespers in the afternoon were Cerutti’s, with an “Ave Maria” by Danforth, sung by the contraito, Miss Munier. Rev. Father Power was celebrant of the mass, and after the first gospel the Rev. Dr. McGlynn preached on Lent, We learn, both from the Old and the New Testament, from the example of the saints and’ from the constant doctrine and tradi- tion of the Church, that fasting is a great, and in general @ necessary and indispensable, part of virtue. It is a part of penance which we satisfy for past sins and consecrate our bodies living victims to God. Fasting is neces- sary as a remedy and a means for spiritual health. As prayer is properly the spiritual sacrifice of our | souls to God, so by temperance and fasting we make our bodies an agreeable sacrifice to His Di- Hence St. Paul conjures us in these fice, holy and pleasing to God.” Fasting has a | par ticular power TO DISENGAGE OUR HEARTS FROM EARTHLY THINGS, from the objects of our passions and from inordi- nate attachments to creatures. Moses and Elias were prepared by a fast of forty days to couverse God. Daniel, after a fast of three weeks, was favored with the highest revelations. All the saints were remarkable for their love | of this virtue. continued fast, and that so severe as to scem al- most a perpetual miracle. The Jews observed a feat by the Pnilistines, In his penance King David says, “I humbled my soul oy fasting.’’ And again, under persecution, “I covered my soul by fasung and [made haircloth my garment.” And in an- otner place he says, “My knees are weakened through Jasting.” ‘Tobias joined fasting and alms with prayer, by whicn he deserved a iraculous relief aud comfort. Whence the angel Raphael sai‘ to him, “Prayer is go9d with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasdires of gold.” The tives of the apostles and many among their disciples and the primitive Christians were in some measure | @ perpetual fast. Sosevere were the discipline, | temperance and sobriety which ali early Christians | observed that their lives might well be called a continued opiation to God. And through ali the | ages down | THE FAITHFUL HAVE OBEYED THE COMMANDMENT of the Church in regard to fasting. St. Charies | Borromeo, who never allowed himself any colla- tion, made the iollowing rule for bis household :— “In Lent, except on Sundays, no one must eat more than once in the day, and that after midday, If any one finds he wants some other reireshment he mai anda half ot bread and a cup of wine.” But this | to, must be accompanied by prayer and the read- | ing of good books. It would be impossible to over- | Fate the spiritual benefits and graces derived from Meditation. The history of St. Ignatius of Loyola Jurnishes us with a remarkable example of the EFFICACY OF RELIGIOUS READING. Alter the battle of Pampeluna, in which he par- | ticipated as a soldier, he lay sick im the hospital of | that town. Wearted with the monotony of @ sick | bed, he requested his nurse to supply him with books to read. The lady brought a volume of the “Lives of the Saints,’? with which he was so pro- foundiy impressed that his coiversion Was at once effected. Other1ustances of the remarkable effects of the reading of good books might be cited, but these are not needed, tor 1318 evident to us who are already blessed with opportunities that prayer | and religious reading are @ certain means to merit Heaven. In this season of Lent, thea, we should especially have recourse to them, SERVICES THROUGH LENT. Dr. McGlynn conciuded his sermon by announc- ing that during the last three weeks of Lent a re- treat will be given in St, epee church, under the direction of the Jesuit Fatners, The two | first weeks will be devoted to the parishioners in | general; put the last week will be exctusiveiy for the pewholders, who are invited to bring their friends of Protestant denominations to participate 1m the religious exercises, Dr. MeGlyau aiso announced that a meeting of | the parisioners would ve held some evening during | the ensuing week, jor the purpose of taking jur- ther action towurds liquidating the caurch debt. He was glad to announce that at a meeting of isuioners, held last week, Jor that purpose, the sum of $10,000 was subscribed by the few gentle- men who were present, BROOKLYN CHURCHES, PLYMOUTH CHURCH, The Advantage of Adversity—True Man- hood Developed Under Misfortunes— Mr. Beecher’s Interpretation of Paal, Yesterday morning’s bright, spring-like atmos- phere tempted even habitually sluggish people irom their usually late Sunday morning slumbers, within the wide walls of the New England sanc- tuary to prefer their claims promptly. Kegular attendants did not wait for the tolling bell, but breakfasted hastily, and, making toilets without | ceremonious delay, they fliled the pews before Mr. Zundel seated himself at the great organ. its first notes pealed tortn the who had been patiently waiting in vesti- bules and on staircases, quickly poured in through the open doors till every seat and chair and camp stool was occupied and hundreds were fain to stand in the narrow passages, where there was not room to sit, Services opened in the magnificent anthem “Not unto us, O Lord,” in which Mr. Hill, the leading tenor, sung the solos in tones of bell-like clearness and sweetness, the whole choir, under Mr. Camp’s masterly leader- ship, giving the swelling choruses with great spirit and correctness, Mr. Beecher in his prayer sup- Plicated the Divine Father to hasten the time when the contentions and rivalries, the jealousies and hatreds of sects should cease, when good men sbould no longer STRIVE FIERCELY AND BITTERLY FOR TEN®TS, but ali should be willing to see Christian brother- hood among those wno differed in views of doc- triae or forms of worship, He chose jor the text of his sermon Second Co- rinthians xil., 10:—Therefore, I take pleasure in inf mities, in reproaches, in necessities, in perse- cutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak then ami strong,” If the anoatle took AS “casuals,” by | Many made their whole lives one | fast by Samuel’s direction alter their sin and de- | be allowed to take in the eveuing an ounce | fasung, Which'the saints show so much devotion | and made it requisite for those who wished seats | NEW YOR HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, A874.—TRIPLE SHEET, Pleasure tn these things he most have had an abundance of happiness. If this ts the source of happiness there ig plenty of it to make all crea- tures in this world happy. As Christ made @ great difference in the terms he employed to teach the simple people of Galtlee and those in which he spake to the highly cultivated scribes and phari- sees of Jerusalem, so Paul, in speaking and writing to the intellectual Greeks of luxurious Corinth, adaressed himself to them in the terms adapted to their culture, thelr intellectual philosophy. In these two letters we have PAUL'S PSYCHOLOGICAL, MORAL PHILOSOPHY. He resisted the moral code of the Greek casuistry | founded on reason as applied only to pure intellec- tuallity, to the esthetic recognition of beauty, or of bare physical relations, things merely and simply worldly. He endeavored to develop man- hood on tts side of spirituality to the individualty as shown in disposition; not in feelings as con- nected with visible and externalyas opposed to thought, Faul’s keynote was the presentation of. mankooa as displayed in disposition, character. When earth and all transient things are gone man shall exist—in reason, genius, art? No, in faith, hope, love, which would endure and form 4 portion oi the giory of eternity. He did not despise reason, Manhood did not consist in circumstances of Itfe. Paul taught a dual nature in man, He constantly referred to his inner, his spiritual nature—nature which rebuked the deeds and promptings Of is body, his external nature, the deeds of the. bodily self and the dictates of the divine self under the teachings of divine grace. So we should interpret his railing at Greek philosophy, not as undervaluing the Greek mind, but cr’ ticlsing its mistake when it takes the leaves for the blossoms. He determined on goii to Greece as a Christian missionary, not to use the power of reat intellect, to use no power except Christ. ¢ designed that the faith of his converts should not be grounded on the visible but on the invisi- ble moral power of divine love, He taught that true manhood does not grow by the abundance of outward prosperity, bub oy What puts man to the necessity for endeavor, for hope, for heroism, for paneer for faith. No man is harmed by being jomely while he esteems himself handsome, or chagrined at having a club foot if he pre- fers tuat Shape. Paul was naturally extremely sen- sitive and superlatively egoustical. His writings are fuil of I, I, 1, me, me, mre, my, my, my, and mine, mine, mine. He was a Jew of the Jews, of good stock, @ thoroughbred, a Pharisee of the in- tensest dye, @ worstipper of forms and institu- tions, @ tervent lover of his race and country. He Was vomited out of his nation into the wilder- ness—a despised, hated exile, His nature, his outward nature, fitted him to feel his degradation most keenly, Peter and Jonn did not suffer these things a8 Pauldid, He suffers deaths daily by his loss of home, country, honor; yet he says these things make me morally strong. They give my divine part a'chance to grow. By them am [ strong. Through them it T come to know the crystal dome of thougnt lighted by Christ. This stripping off of husks it is which develops true manhood. As the metajlurgist hummers the rock | into fragments to draw forth the pure crystal im- | bedded within It, 80 the deprivation of worldly pros- perity often brings forth in men true hobility of character, Man may be at the top, 4 HOURBON KING, rich in money, supported by all power of the sword and surrounded by all external glories, aye effete in character. Let him be forced into exile and learn true wisdom in the school of adversits He may then prove that his highest excelience was in his lowest earthly state, a better man in poverty then when environed by the glory of | royalty. The apostle says Christ was strong and | became weak. Was there any stronger than He in Galilee when the multitude followed Him, drawn by the renown of His miracles, till He retused to | become their King? Only on the mountain alone | was fle transiigured, He entered Jerusalem tol- lowed and preceded by the surging throngs of } popular acclamation, ‘They cast their garments elore Him, and the lond hosannahs resounded through the valley. How soon, thereaiter, He passed from the Holy City, weak, bearing the | heavy tree. After Him the tumultuous, angry crowd cried “Cracify Him! Crucify Nim!” He ‘fainted by the weary way, was carried | to a death of shame, buffeted, pierced, taken down acad, laid in a tomb of rock, ifs moutn closed se- | curely up and sealed. The Pharisees had then | their triumph. Yet in that death was the root of Christ’s power ag the Prince of the resurrection. | So true manhood may be developed by worldly | mpl weakness. So many @ | woman, cheated of the love she imagined, lives | witha prutal man, rears his twelve children, througn toil, suffering, privation, brings them to nobility of character and passes through death to | enter mtoa royal reward, Rich men, great men | often ENTAIL RUIN ON THEIR SONS, t who grow like weeds on @ dunghill or a palm tree ma greenhouse—soit, rank, pithy, ready to fall before any rude blast: while the sons of the poor, far trom Schools, grow like sturdy oaks on the mountain side, bey to resist even earthquake | | shocks. Many a boy lies on his belly at the forge | fire to learn nis letters; many @ slave steals the time to master the rudiments of education, to be- come intellectual and morai giants, men of char- acter and worth. } It is not pleasant to suffer, to be sick, weak, | filled witn pam. Yet from these ills oiten come the purest character, the truest manhood. Not | true men are your good feliows—good eaters, good sleepers—like fat, good natured, with a fund of goed stories and pleasant jokes. They know the time of day. It is breakfast, or dinner, | or supper, or time to sleep. I raise i ‘A3 GOOD MEN IN MY ASPARAGUS BED; | smooth, tender, succulent. If you woald tind the | sweetest, lairest of the ‘oral gems, tue trailing arbutus, you would not seek it on the top or a church nor in the fleld rich with carelul tillage. You would go to the thick hedge by the forest side; there, searching beneath the snow and the — dead leaves of 12st summer, guided by its fragrance, | should you find its delicate petals nourished by | the winter's frosts and developed im the darkness | of its bed close to the ground, So are virtues de- veloped amid discouragements and disaster. So | now through the sand depression and financial | ruin have stripped the power of Wopitiy from many truly good men. Men point aud sa “HE'S WELL CLEANED OUT.”? | You can clean out beas’s, There is no hell for a real man. ‘To allsuch I would send my voice of encouragement. Now is the time to show your true character. Honors in heaven wait for you. the Ohio. But wait till spring suns shall melt the snows on the Alieghanies; then shall the mighty torrent fill her banks, overflow the wide bottom Jands and send the farmers with their herds into the safety of the bench hills before the rising flood. Don’t sit down to be drowned by reverses, like Seperate sticks too long cut, ratner soggy, to sink in the stream. Rise to true manhood in Christ, where no disaster can reach you. . Rise to live with God and that spiritual! manhood whicn The Evening Service. _ After the opening services In the evening, Mr. | Beecher selected his text from Matthew xI., 30— “For my yoke is easy,and my burden is light.” We are not to understand this as a preliminary figure that lifts men into undisturbed conditions in life. It would certainly be a great misinterpre- tation of our Master’s life and language, which was mentally, spiritually and ideally with- out @ literal sense. We are to understand that the life He came to promote Is full of rest and | enjoyment; but I should not be understood if I | should say that religion, in the highest sense of | that verm, was very easy to bear, There be many who think religion is good for a medicine—better | than much that is worse—and they will take it | rather than be damrea. Others think it is like an | insurance policy. It isa safe provision | AGAINST FIRE, and that religion consists in getting the juice out | ofthis world and then get ready at last to carry | both off. Now, when I speak of a religious life as | being full of Joy and gladness, people think of some | foiks they have seen, and their practice contra- | dicts what I say. They look at persons | who are Christians, and it seems as if they were all of them tied up. They think of what they must do and what they must not do, and men that are large, in a sense of personal liberty, don’t | want to be tied up in that way. They are like eagies, and want the whole air, “I don’t like to | be watched by the deacons,"’ they say, “and talked | to by all the sisters.” Foiks go to church and the service 18 begun, and then the sermon is good and sound and dry, and then comes the going out, which is the most eloquent art of the whole service. They go home and say, “Well, if this 18 the pace a man has got to be put through, why the less I can get ofit the bet- ter.’ Then, the prayer meeting 1s sometimes the most dismal piace & msn can goto. Every one goes because it is his duty to go, and when he gets | there he says A PEW PRAYERS | and repeat the same things be has saia for. twenty years, and then goes home and says, “Well, | thank heaven, that’s through tor one week.” And, | then, good mothers sometime take their good boys there, [remember when I was a child my mother | took me to a maternal prayer inceting, and I must say I never derived any of the virtues { may claim | from it. [can’t blame men ior not liking religion the way it ts set forth generaily; and yet / say It ts | the best thing, the sweetest thing, a man Can have | in this worid,’ It means the whole development of the whoie social economy in men, so that @ man is free to enjoy the laws of | social life. It is only the lower nature in men that 18 ied up that the higher may grow. I don’t mean to say to you that you will find all yokes easy. I | don’t think you wil You have wget toan ad- vanced stave of developed manhood before there 18 any joy in it. Did you ever see a boy try to learn to play on the violin? 1 don’t wonder they call the strings om CATSTRIN I should think the spirit of sil, the cats in creation was in it, How he works through years till lie | gets so that his very thoughts are brought out of it, Iti inst so with @ man learning tyve sctung. | t No earthly power can ‘clean out’? a true man. | In summer boys may almost walk dryshod across | -1Phts also . shall ——, ar vant ae each word, and looks at tt and feel ee it wrong side up, till he at las gets Every ntagle letter 18 @ separat bm: upinacouple of years and you Bee With his manuscript before him and brain 10 hig fingera. [t¢ amazes you. It will Se 2 2, ar aoe say to you bog pots _ Iwasas scheal, never thinks of it . 1 WAS DRILL in elocution, though you may not think so now, of it at al. It becomes second nature in everything, and religion ts no exception. It may come bard) at firs but you will come to love it for its own sake, type of Christianity that I call you. If you find help in creeds follow them; but let them be only servants. Don’t let anything else own you but’ God Jehovah. Thus ways that are blessed and righteous will be sweet, and when you have’ finished you shall stand parities before Him who hath helped and redeemed you, CLOSING OF THE MISSION IN sOUTR BROOKLYN, It is to this large ‘The mission which has been in progress during the past two weeks at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, Court street, near Luqueer, closed yesterday, High mass was celebrated by the Rev. Eugene | Cassidy, assisted by Rev. Fathers Callahan and Sheehy, a8 deacon and subdeacon respectively. Asermon was preached by the leader of the mis- sionaries, Rev. Father Garesché, 8. J., upon the doctrine of transubstantiation, or the @ivine mys- tery of the holy eucharist in the sacrament on the altar. He depicted, in his wonted fervent, forcible and logical style, the grandeur of the gift of God to man, as realized in the eucharist He severely censured the sinful, negligent people who, usurping the name of Catholics, absented them- selves Irom mass on Sundays and days of obliga- tion. The neglect to hear mass was & growing sin, and many of the evils that afflict tncse who: commit this mortal sin are sent as judgments by God in punishment theretor, There were ov’ who, after remaining away from the tribunal of contession for five, ten, filteen or twenty years, became penitent; and when asked by the priest, ave you eaten meat on Friday?” replied, “Never!? And yet of the two sins not hearing mass was the greater offence. f In the evening there was a brief lecture, and the: Papal benediction was given by Father Garesché, TOMPKINS AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN, OHURCH. The Opening of a New Church—Great Is the Lord That Hath Shown Us Li Why We are w Bind Ourselves, Where, and With What Cords, Yesterday was the first Sunday that the beauti- ful little Tompkins avenue church was opened for divine service, It is most beautiful ta coloring and design, and cannot {ail to gain the admiration of all who see it. The pastor, Dr. Clark, among his notices announced that the church would be open on Friday night for the renting of pews. He an- nounced hts dislike of speaking of financial mat- ters at all in the pulpit, and, said he, you know that if there is one thing I pray for, it is that our church may be a spiritual church and not a fnan- cial one. Perhaps it is too much to hope for that any place can be kept solely for God's worship, It is in tne way of pew rents and contributions that the church can be protected and fortified from these humiliations, If you w.ll give as God has favored you to give we shall be happy. Mr. Clark chose his text from the 118th Psalm, twenty-seventh verse :—‘God is the Lord, which hath snewed us light; bind the sacrifice with cords, even anto the horns of the altar.” Luther laid claim to this Psalm. He said:—“This is my Psalm, which I have chosen, which has heiped me when neither nobles nor kings could-help. When you let that thought pass before you you will see what @ jubilant power it has. I cannot pretend to say when or by whom it was written, but it was probably at the time of the dedication of the second temple, It is very applicable to the strong outpouring of thankful- ness and gratitude and praise to God. My dis- course is in two parts. The first may be called an argument; the second shows how to praise Gow. The first part expresses an idea of MIGHTY MAJESTY AND STRENGTH. Now trace along this Psalm and you will see cer tain bright jets of light streaming out. God gave the children of Israe] light in the wilderness, We- can form no conception of their joy when they’ saw that bright cloud, token that God was with: them. There is another. It was @ dark hour jor. God’s people when they were sold into captivity, and when God did come and deliver them, is 1% any wonder that in recollection of their deliver- ance they said, “Great 16 the Lord who has shown Us the light.” Another plain historical hinge 1s when God showed the people the light, and to praise Him they tounded the second temple, and they did it under many difficulties. The Samaritans wisnea to mingie, with all their heathenism, with the: Hebrews, and when they were reiused admittance were their bitter enemies and hindered all they could the finishing of the temple, and it was not until the second year of Darius’ reign that they were permitted to finish’ it, Now, when the- | temple was built in spite of slander, is it any wonder that they said, “Great is the Lord who hath shown us lignt 1” ‘There is not one of us that has not had hie wil- | derness and captivity and whom God has not de-- livered. The most evangelical position God has shown is light, and the name welcomed and hosannas shouted to Him who comes in the name: | of the Lord, You and I know what thatis Wo: } have almost felt the light of God’s countenance. He is the light of reconciliation shining down om each of us as the God who showeth us light, _ | _ And so my friends you see how gaaly the first | Part of my text translates itself But we have a | guty, in the last part of the text. What is a sacri- icef As We ask the question we seem to behold | the Hebrew multitudes agcending to the tempie and offering their sacrifices, and as they go they hear the song of the priest welcoming them, as though to say, “Welcome one, welcome all, and don’t forget the sacrifice; \ bring it, bind it to the very horns oi the altar,” David knew the meaning of thi | for be sald, «4 uise the name ot Ged cine con n ia thankSeiwing.. p! ende thé Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. The humble: | shall see thig and be glad, and your heart shail live that seek God; tor the Lord heareth the poor: and despiseth not his prisoners.” What a comfort is that for those who cannot bring a bullock, but. | have only hearts fuil of thanksgiving to offer. But when we ‘open the New Testament We find: | itis not only a buiuock we must offer. Ivis our- | Selves that we must offer, This is the whole | power of the Gospel:—‘I beseech you that xe % | present your bodies as a reasonable sacrifi God,” That is the offering we are to mike t God it we are to be accepted; and then the question comes up, why the, es ah and where and with what cords? Is it not easy to imagine that the bullocks bronght, for sacrifice would struggle? When we think of: this we see the meaning of binding, and! think, you have anticipated me already. The struggles of the bullock and our own struggie against tempta-- tions and untoward feelings are synonymous., Satan is a rebel, disloyal to God, and he : | TRIES TO INFUSE DISLOYALTY IN UB. Nothing impresses you more in the life of Christ. than the especial care He has that we should not Jorget that He was a servant, come to do His Mas- ter’s will, and who does hot know how pica our poor human nature is taking as from God, how an influence that jifts us_up to-day dies away to-morrow ¢ Our human nature cannot be relied on. How many things there are to throw us from the track! The oldest of us are but children. ie resistance of the bullock 1s but a type of our poor, weak nature So, then, the need of binding is plain. Now, . where shall we bind ? GOD'S ALTAR. The Church is the great exponent of religions -. feeling; it 1s the altar of God set up that we m: offer ourselves. Where afe we to bind the sacri- fice? Yes, at God’s altar, to @ personal Jesus, He who {s our Saviour and Master, until we teel ‘oar- selves bound to Jesus Christ, and if we have not’, something stronger than our poor Will we will 1ail ot holding ourselves to the sitarof God. And what are the cords by which we are to be bound? © ‘The least of all is the cord of duty to yourself. If you will calmly look into your soul and inquire | What your hopes are, you will say, until you have tied your #01 jod’s altar you have not met THE EXIGENCIES OF YOUR NEED. Consider the cords of your duty to your church nd let this hold yOu stilt more. Rising in the scale of argument, consider what you owe to Jesus Chri He came, not resisting, but like a lamb to the wughter, to die Jor thé ungodly ana His enem: les. And what shall we say of the great missionaries? Do we consider that the world is vo ve dotted over with the TEMPLES ON GOD? You owe not only a «levt to the altar, but we owe @ . debt to the great enterprise of saving this world. Remember all this, [ beg you to go home and ponder this question—“Am I bound?” If we have not . @ principle established stronger than our will, stronger than anything that tempts us, we are not . bound; and believe Him when He says, “Take my yoke upou you; my yoke is easy and my burden light.” FIRE ON EIGHTH AVENUE, A fire broke out yesterday afternoon at No, 318 . Fighth avenue, occupied by Cashan Brothers, fancy - goods merchants, that caused @ damage of $5,000, Insured, The origin of the fire has not ae been , ascertained, but Fire Marshal Sheldon will begin . an investigation this morning into the matter,