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

i 1 / i t . - eotnn web 8 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, \ ! back te existence old ideas whtch shor,jq | sessional,” and on Thursday evening “The Catholic pave died jong ago. Is Wt right to revive the“.on- ' chu is God’s Chureh,’? Un these subjects he | viction that ‘aman nature is sinml? Mey cau proposed to appeal to the reason and the intellect | | build and paint and make the eXterior of €¥ jstence | o1 bis KearersS Seats will be 3] cally provided | very beautilul. What is wealth but vanit’,y What for strangers. ‘The reverend gentleman’s powerful | } is We but a span? Your knowledge ts Y cayed and | discourse had a most visible eflect upon his hearers. in th City you ae @ poor naked soul standiv’y ypon the The oxen of the i. ww Hig Pul roclam: eC margin of life, with everlasting de on one masses each morning at five, six al alt | pit P ations a: | side and everlasting lve upon Beg Bong Is it sight o’cloek, “ee cnt eeeatan CADRCEOR. 8¢ . worth while to revive an idea like as | bal-past seven in e 4 and Suburbs Yesterday BORN OF POVERTY AND 7, Ld Bay leotures will be preached at the exercises. Wie Frothingham on ‘THE GOSPEL. | al it of a frightful cha f the ~ x certainly | bas ngage | made men no happier; neW-ase aid it sumu CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS. | Made men no happier; NY per aid it sumuiate Spiritual their ambition. It did Dov make the world more giorious in their views. T’sey thimk that even at their best they are Wort. yothing. Its spoke Of |“ Wdueation=The Rights of Parents ) : a as au inward disease—%, corruption. It 18 tmpos- | Convulsions, sivle for such a thing Fo bela we brain and uot, amd the Schoot Question, | aflect the physical organizauiou. A wan is nO! Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, delivered a lec- Se | happier when he,’is toid that he bas scrofa \ or consumption. “Is the sinuiness of human “ McQuaid on Public Schools and | nawre” an’ oryyoie act ra weoiogieal act? | mg at the Church of the Holy Innocents, cor- Bishap ‘ People are gv.oa in proportion a§ they af@ per of Thirty-seventh street and Broadway. the Rights of Parents. | austerity ge together. In the name of goodness system was unquestionably a failure, ‘The systein | Uhis idea gi human sin/uiness must ve denied, | was forced upou the country origingly by tue ma | happy, beeaupye then there are no inorbid humors He id that the common or pulyifc schoo} naneal | What bearing tus this idea in Ife, government or jority against all right and, ‘justice, and has been ‘gathering ‘round the lear lmpurity and : “ relomm? Avery emiuent Engish divine waid:— | 0% : “It were vetter that the su, moon and stars kept in operation every smce by the same Freeman Clarke on “ Where to shoud ial trom the heavens, the earth fade AWAY means, The time ‘as come now, now- ” Y givd the millions of weu And Wemen jn It die m the = Put One’s Treasure. a cncat agony than tut @ human eoul should Ver, when the matter must be dis- \*commit any venal offence.” This 18 no More than cussed vhoughtiully, and thoroughly, because owe all believe tu a certaiu seuse, Such a man ? mnust be a/ruid to tread lest be should step upon corp f something prectous Take sovernment with its BEECHER AND TEMPERANCE.» pecnoiiite positions, marrage and buman Mrend- Can you conceive @f it without imvolving the most important interests are at stake. We claim that there cam be no true education without religious education. It is simply an absurdity to | ships. . y teac o me eon “go. at all” you must qake | *89 hOt Quy teacher, no mutter what his relig- these risks. It (8 hecessary that & 1008 Views may be, can instruct our young people man Who delieves in the simiulness of his nature without letting /all some seed which will take root Dr. Halt and the Responsibilitzes ot the Ministry. OHUROH OF THE DISCIPLES. Science and Prayer—Sermon by* Rev. George H, Hepworth. At Ue Onurch of the Disciples a very large audience gathered yesterday morning. “Tne sing ing, in which all the congregation jalued, was unusually impressive. should withdraw trom all relations ana become a hermit, His belei in human sinfulmess is accom | pamed by the belief that there is War DetWeen man | and che Supreme, that he is uader the wrath of | OU the ground of religion, because every parent God. It is Nut werth while to revive auy suck Mas the right to say under what religious ingu- | state a8 that, The umes in which meu beieved ence bis child shail be reared. On political grounds, | {he wrath of God were times of woe and terrile | decause the State has no wore right to control tne to contemplate. Priesteraft was supreme. The edUcauon of the young, than to feed and clothe World Was looked upon as a Vale of tears through | them, the system is radically wreng and in reality which men must skulk apd be glad when they | MVites and encourages pauperism. Governor reach the end, Now itis diferent, We seem to Brown while addressing the seventh National have domesticated God. No jaith is so aeploravie | Teacvers’ Convention in St. Louis, said:—“It as the One Whieh thinks God ts unkind, Men must a very customary declaration to pro- stand for themselves and answer jor themselves. nounce that education is the safeguard of repub- \ ‘There are not many things ia religion worth re- | ics against the decay of virtue and the reign of either for good or evil, We oppose the present xt fromt. Kings, 1.,17~ | viving. immoratty. Yet the tacts can scarcely bear out saeejaledaeapeamed nee vetb, bese I i —— | the proposition. ‘The highest civilizations, b “as the Lord God of Israel live } TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. | ancient and modern, have sometimes been ‘tana, there shal) not be dew hor rain these years, | the most agitious, Nowadays certainly your "4 e . | ascals have cated rascals, “1 Know wut according to my word.” The Prophet Elijah, Rev. Wayland Hoyt on the Sleep of | prime rascais vave been educated r v the preacher said, was # model man physically. | Death—2he Tomb of the Christian Open pe erat, nema Hard He had the muscle of Hercules, the shoulders of | om the Other Side—Believers’ Souls Not | Auburn, Sing Sing abd other prisons and examine Samson and the grace of Saul. He spent bis | Touched by Death. some of the crimmals continec there you will nd - 5 me | that there is truth in the Governor's words. youth in the forests of Gilead, east of the Jordan, it was Communion sunday in Seeds Tabernacie parents Wish their children educated in Christian and was early trained to endurance, His beard Baptist church, Second avenue, near Tenth street, | principles they must scek out honest, Christian owed to lis waist, his face was browned by yesterday, and alter the morning sermon the ordi- vance of baptism was administered according to Men to be their teachers, The position taken by the Bishop may be summed up as follows:— alae lagaatlec cade berets eng tig Marcle | Parents have the rigt to educate their commanding. Many @ time he had buried | tie Baptist ritual oy immersion in a font near the | children, It is wrong ior the State to tnter- dismay into the midst of she robbers preacher's desk. Rey. Wayland Hoyt, the pastor, jab ll do Boal i Roe —- iar of col choois 4 o1 axpayers who made their home in the mountam wid hadrecently tendered his resignation, led the tne state does interfere with this right, espe fastnesses and protected the shepherds of the exercises, but made no allusion to his contem | plain by his valor and prowess. At the time of the | plated departure except what might be interred text he stood 1n the presence of the apustate King from his suppiications for unity and prosperity to of Israel to denounce the corruption of his public | the Church and fts counsels. ite named as bis text and private lie, Anab had marred the wrong | Acts, vil, 60—“And when he had said this he fell woman. Sbe was a@ pagan, apd in marrying ber = asleep.” I have been much struck, said Mr. Hoyt, oan in Ahab married ty her Toy ea phat our of by the narrative | have lately read, of the last SS a hoars of Danlel Webster. He came pack to Marsh- rst, Elijab staked bis life on his conference deld for the last time, Jrom the triumphs and de- ee ae ard oe a ee aera ieais Of @ busy life, todie, As his iriends gatuered when he belie re Ss Mgnt. = We, of this day, make believe a good deal. We go | Tund hun in this iast scene of bis great life he to church from fashion or from custom too much, seems to have been searening for some sare solu. | and not because we have any very firm or decided tion of the probiem of human existence. None of convictions about religion. Ifthe minister preaches — the brilliant utterances of tuat profound thinker @ good sermon We think religion a very admirable 4nd wondrous orator comtamed deeper truch wan when, iu this supreme uur, be said, “No man who ts Lov a brure cab Say he does not iear death.’ No tung. We grow hot ofasudden and resolve to devote our lives to its service. li, on the other hand, the minister has been busy all the week, man possessed of reason cau doubt the existence or bored to death by those who have no busi- ofa God, Isee Him everywhere avout me in the | and no one needs to lose his temper. It is absurd ness With him, and preacues poorly, then we lose works of creation and the ordering of affairs. What to discuss the question of intolerance abroad wile our interest in religion ttsell, or think it is nob Greek and Roman sages abd philosophers vainly we have such a glaring tnstance of intolerance at go very much, aiver all, This hanging our faith tried to solve by the deductions of logic hay been bome. No permanent settiement of this’question on the minister is all wrong. Jonp Knox was & juily manitested by the revelation of Christianity. | is possible but one that recognizes the equal rights Man of conviction. Nineteen years tn the galleys ‘Pe idex of | of all citizens. We may trouple the politicians vy did not crush him, and when o¢ stood beiore Mary LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE | our agitation. So much the better, It will and denounced her and her ways he was ready to ig the only grauite thing ou wich the soul can give them a subject to exercise their ingenuity on die, but he could not be dishonest. When Lutuer | resi content. Men died velore Christ. Adam abd | worthy of their time and talents, Europeans stood pefore the princes and cardinals o1 the Diet ' sein, Jared aud Methuselau, walked in tue | come here to study our educational institutions. of Worms he said what he thought, and he could esn’ 969 years; yet \o those who lived longest | Let us have it in our power to show them asystem not be induced either by bribes or threats to re- death was hot to be escaped, Men built tombs in | of schools that embraces all the people while sa- tract a single word. These are the kind of men the rock to last walle tue earth remained. ‘ui | credly guarding the heaven-born right of parents We Want to-day, A man ougit to have convictions | Christ revealed it there Was no sure light on the | to control the instruction and training of their on ali the great subjects of religion. lie beyond, Good men and great inteliects beiore | ospring. We shalj have but sorry work to show Ip the second place, the story of Elijah makes jad giimmers o! we truth, bul no firm assurance. them i! we can do no more than point out weak =. the difference between paganism and Cicero tells us that while reading “Piuto on Im- | imitations ol imported systems, systems so detective uristianity. On the top of armel the nortality’ ne believed it, vet doubted it agaim on , anu ubjust that over one-nalf the children of a Priests of Baal prayed till their voices jaying the book aside. But ior us itig a settied | town seek in private and religious schools, without were hoarse. Still, the clouds did not appear. jyct, as sure as Lie itself. We have the proof not the supervision of the State, an education in har- The red-hot san blazed down on them, as tf in con- | gioue iu reason and the Divine promise, but in the | mony with the views and feelings of their parents. tempt of their words. The pile wouid not light. Iustory of the Saviour. He wasinan. He died. He | The Bishop was listened to with marked attention, When Elijat began tocry aloud to the true God,now- | passed through ine yate of the grave tocome again | and it was evident that the heads of tamiles ever, atroop of angels, each with a blazing torch |, enlarged, glorified by the triumpn over | present intend giving the subject of the school in nis band, came down from te city on nigh and He was brought to those who accept His | question the careful consideration which iis im- set fire to the wood. The flames burst forth, and the saivation Wie and immortality to light. Though | portance demands, the tomb be sealed, ior His jollowers it is open oa ear the other side. Thus, in the text, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. Death loses its Rest | “Where to Put One's Treasure” —Sermon Diack smoke curled high in attestation o/ the real presence of the God of Israel. Such things do not PHEN FELL ASLEEP. th apes of fear. It i sleep. for the weary vody, relief jor the suffering frame. | th ev. Fr n Clar) o - Christians Who sleep in death are, as to their | BY the Bev Freeman Clarke, of Hos clally in the case o! poor parents who find it a bur- not the State to say how much or how little re- ceive. denommational academies, —semt- aries and colleges, Common schools ate losing favor with the people, who prefer private and religious scnools, Education purely secular, or without religious instruction, does not les: crime, Large schools, “barracks’? without re- ligious safeguards, are more than dangerous. The State should lit the education which it is willing to pay ‘or the elementary branches o/ an ordinary English education—say what an education 1s worth, and then pay for it whenever it finds it under’ proper conditions, ‘The State will have nothing to do with churches, but only with parents Jor American citizens in a country of free speci, occur in our day, at least they do not occur in just that way. The Same miracle Lappens, but it does mot make its appeal to eye, ear and imagination as in the days of the world’s childhood, Wheu a map pease sincerely he gets what can be Nad im souls, iu conscious ile. Death affects only the | tome Se ait eae eet a ee ANTE, body, not the soul. It sleeps not. Even curiae | The Rey. Freeman Clarke, of Boston, occupied cor - a 4, y life the tiusing part rareiy, if ever, sleeps. Vhen + Ci e! Woile the selfdependent mans Weak. Now, We the gateser oF eee cbEe by sleep, a eed sight, | the pulpit of the Churcd of tne Messiah, Park ave- nue and Thirty-iourth street, yesterday morning, and selected as the theme of his discourse, “Where to put one’s treasure,” the text being Luke, xli., are continually running alter strange gods. ‘The id-fashioned worship 1S not enough. Some make science their god. Science is brave and can ac- complish many things, but it can’t come up from a smeii, touch, hearing cease 10 repeat the scenes aroudd us, our miuds are often most active, our inteliects most acute, as though escaped from tae thrall of te body. ‘in sleep the mathematician chiid’s grave and teu as what it sees. Some make solves problems Which had baffled lis Waking skill, | 94—‘For where your treasure ts there will your Sr ET gorge et gl kine i have arranged sermons ip sleep, one a Tuanks- heart ve also.” The preacher commenced by re- MS ULY he speaker saic rt iVing seriou, one Of toe best euorts of my iile. Deity ts just as truly present with us as He was with While cue aob of ialurlated Jews were crusning | {¢t¥g to the poor, hard working man who found a pot of gold, and at lastit became a source of ; a pipet a much trouble to him how he snould keep it. He 01 Par é SAW lus Master waiting, standing , ‘ : | With outstretctied arms to welcome him to So OC a rent Dine. tee ee eater LYRIO EALL, THE BLESSED LIFE BEYOND. and at all times, at work as well as Which was tie most real, death or that brighter | other periods, his thoughts were with his gold. Raps at Religious Revivals and Kevi- ‘je He teil asicep. The vision was the reauty. y 7 wallste—Philosophy of Piety and Pana | Max's cruelty, wuiea slew Hi was but the pag, | Whatever he did, wherever he went, his heart was the sturdy oid prophet. We can trace Him all through history, and we can se Him in our own ives. the frst Christian martyr tw death with cruel rocks he saw beyoud the chasm oO! death the brignt le ; . ing dream. ‘111s soul siept not, only the poor, bat | With bis treasure. The mother by the beaside of fee—Sermon by Rev. O. B. Frothing= | crea, crusted, mutilated body. The scene of the | her sick child is the same. She thinks only of the ham. sacred cross {urnisnes its proof. To the contrite little sufferer and tries to lessen its pain, A treasure is where an heart is. It is whatever we most | think about and is a common purpose and gives uuity to our jue. It vitalizes it because we Dave something to thiuk about, Any purpose or any object Is beter than @ purpose iess or objectiess ex- istence. Our heart iollows our treasure. If it 18 hovie we proiit by it; i ignobie it is the opposite. ‘The treasure of the theologian is his dogma. In- minal Wio suffered beside ihe Master He said, “This day shalt thou be with me im Paradise.” (here was uo sleep for the soul of the repentant titel. His body slept the sleep of death, but Ms suul passed into the life of the blessed, into the life kivsium whose portals we cali death. Stand revereutiy by the graves of buried joves, deck the tomb with flowers, resort thither for your mest sacred musings; yet. is the true epitaph to be inscribed thereon, “NOT EERE, NOT HERE, BUT RISEN (7 Stephen saw notoing in death but the way toa nobler lite: saw nothing tu the grave which could deter tum. Ob, worker! oh, sufferer! ye should | Welcome aeato, the deliverer, which opens | heaven. Not alone to the soul is the promise of the new life. In God’s geod time, aiter the parti- The revival of religion was the subject of Mr. and believing ¢ Protningham’s discourse yesterday morning. These ‘spiritual convulsions, he began, always follow very losely on the heels Of commercial disaster, be- cause such @ disaster throws so many men out ofemployment and reduces so many to poverty. War is certainly worse than a commercial disaster, because it brings greater misery. And yet war is mot followed by spiritual convulsions, because war, 4anstead of throwing men out ofemployment, funds work forall. It Kindles the flame of combat in them, andeven in defeat the passion of rage is their consoler, War nerves men; commercial dis- the ne t aster unnerves them. War shows men what they | £it#,0! these bodies auall nave passed into tne great an do; but a commercial disaster shows them | source will He raise us up spiritual bodies, it do. Thereiore which shall be joined to our biessed and redeemed bgcsor iowa dares a viadacnsiggist ne spirits, and she reunited soul and body be swathed CONVULSIONS OF RELIGION im the blesseduess Of heaven, to stout, “Un, death, follow hard alter panic, and not war. The very ee sting} Oh Grave, where is uby vic- rae yore Mueionen lovely and interest- word “revival” is suggestive. Things that are re- | WFY nus has Christ transformed everything img. We wonder when we see the laborer return- Jor us, giving us a generous liberty in ing from hus daily todi with his tu ance Vived are supposed to have existed once, In the (hed . S Gudsenes trae’: | ate “4 hres fourteenth and fiiteenth centuries there came the “All things are yours ;” and death becomes an aa: there is in lve tor hi. ei in dark robes, opening the gates o1 the better Fevival of letters, as itis called. The Greek mind hie. Nor need we doubt His promise, because we Seemed to be obsolete, Men were thinking Of sav. do not now Iee] ready tu die, He will furnish us ang their souls and of otner things. People were dying grace at the proper time. Now He requires Bot aware that there lau been g living mind. This | us to Work. When you come to death he will wei- Mind shone trough ihe dismal sermous and | come you tothe other lite, as Stephen saw Him come attractive to those that help them; others have treasures in the blind; again some in idiots, Tue Church is the treasure of some, and with many the Church of ail souls 18 TOO VAIN. They devote themselves to dogmas and creeds, and questions that are 0; no eartily service. So will some Irinitarians have Christ eclipse God even as tuey hold that the Church eclipses Christ; and these are of those that don’t care what comes of demolished. Man's true treasure is the work which God gives lum to do, When he devotes him- he Wants, It brings bim nearer to hisGod and he feels @ contentment that the pampered sons of prosperity uever can experience. ‘There are two classes Of politicians in this country. One tries to serve the land in making laws for the common ghastly songs. ey saw the poets anu | Waiting to welcome him. You shali sing through 000 and the development of its industries, dramatists, and ue inteilegtual world was re- | the dark vailey, | While Gesiring the extension of tne domatn of wived. it was je! ver Lurope; it Was spon- “DEATH TO UNBELIEVERS. Valued liberty, Such endeavor to put good men in Ganeous. Itc like alter winter, Tuere 1 have been taiking about Christians only. If Office and keep bad men out ot it. ‘Phe other class May ve &@ Fe io t,arevival Of poetry or you do not accept the Master’s terms, if you re- | Of politicians are those that seek oftice special schools oi ry, aud a revival of phi- ject Hix mediation, there ix another side to the pic- | FOR THE EMOLUMENTS, Josophy or Ss) ec: 1ses Ol pullosophy. The reig- tu {f you are not yet enrolled among the dis- , NO sooner have they one than tuey want another. | fous sentiment is 4 deatiicss sentinent—when — ciples Ol (his divine Saviour, whose death brougnt To discharge the duties of the posttion—why, they something like ho; 4st, and a cesire for some- lise and immortality to lignt, 1 beseech you im pen- ever thtuk Of that! Personai greed and gain are thing outside taeiises ve akes them hunger fur | itenee and lata to embrace Him while yet there their watchwords. The peace aud development periection or for the ideal. but certainly we can- | 18 the opportunity. of the country they never think of, not foresee the rime Whe this is coming. A thou- etna a Shall we have a treasure or not” Shall we have gand things Will trample it down in the dust; out ST. CECILIA'’s CHURCH. an aim in lie or not? If the former, tuen let it be wooner or later it Will show iteeli agam aud break hoble and good, something that will make you and | the soil. It Will siow itseii orst ina thirst aver Opening of the Mission by the Jesuit | humanity vetter. Always keep God in view and good things, in respect tur character, in reverence Fathers—An Immense Attendance=Elo- | "ember He made us tor something. Whatever sor pare principles, in generosity aid in devotion to the grand concerns of ite. it will also show itself m a hatred of evil, in the hope of reiorm and in reverence ior tbe iufiniie love. ‘This will | bea your hands find to do, do it thovoughiy, and then | you shail be glorified. Mr. Clarke closed with ab eloquent allusion to the recognition of our friends in the other world, We shail meet and know our heart's treasures there. Live to meet them and you will not be plucked trom the garden of God. SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST OHUROH, Christ as an Atoning Sacrifice tor the quent Discourse by Rev. Father Da- men. The new Church of St. Cectila, corner of 105th NATURAL REVIVAL OF RELIGION. street and Second avenue, was filled to overflow- FA be ho gre 2: pea | img yesterday morning, on the occasion of the pulle " pautiful, and y | opening services of the mission, given by the come tomorow. This is not what people geu- | sesuit Fathers. Every scat was occupied and the erally mean When they speak of reviving religion. What they wish to revive, then, is souetuing pe- aisies packed so that no more could be admitted. cular. It i8 not joyousness ui nature. it is ‘This Dew parish promises in time to be one of the something grafted upon the man—sowething alto. FP gether py itself. Region, as commoniy consid- ™MOSt Unportant in the city under the energetic Jutten. Aneat and ta teful church edifice is the Six- ered, rests on two conditions, it assumes two management o! she Rey. Fatner Flattery. In less Pe! e| truvis, ‘Ihe drat ie the belief IN the siuiuluess of | thau SIX luonths a new churen has been erected | eHt Street Baptist church, between Seventh homan nature; tne second, that throug the aud other improvements made in the yicin- ud Eiguth avenues, and the congregation, judg- efforts of Christ that simiuiness can be washed ity. 1 present nussion of the Jesuits ing trom the attendance yesterday moening, large away. First, tbe conviction that you are a sinner, , promises ‘o jope wnd encourage the spread | ang quite fashionat R ‘ meso and second, tuat through the grace of Christ you | of Catholicity in Hariem to a very iarge extent, | 44 dulte fashionable. Rev. David &. Jutten, the are saved. Ave they artificial beliefa, and At ihe morning services yesterday, Kev. Father Pastor, occupied the pulpit. {1 being communion do they crop o simply by the me-\) Damen, the ceiebraved Jesuit orator, preacheil the | Sabbath the subject of the discourse had ref. ebanical ris of the people? is a@ \ upenmgsermou of the mission. This gentleman |. ‘ ak ss faith in the sinsuiness of human nature and the Sisconsidered the abiest preacher of his Order on | CT®RC to this ceremonial, His text was “In ae ee oes a@natural faith’ Man is a sinoer } tis Continent, His personel appearance is decid- | te Lord nearly all things are purged with blood.” e 8 the salvation which is off . The | edJy striktag and assists iin very materially in The es! Oke t Winter may be long, weary “and cold pres sarions i Snpressing Sits audience, ile is now. probably | 1te Jewish high priests spoke contemptuously of blasts may Dlow. Look abroai upon’ the earth-- | Mity years of age, tali and rather stout, witu Christianity because it had no gorgeous vemples Mhere is No Color, it is ail darkness and tempest. | full features, high forehead aud whw‘e hair. | and solemn rites and ceremontes. Jesus answered ‘But by and by, when tue hard, grinding winter is | He certainly very much resemvles the portraits of gone, the icé-fetters are broken, vuds appear im { Pope Pius which wre extuvited in tuis ciiy, ‘The the trees—all things are new, the air is full of | reverend gentleman spoke lor over ap tour. he them, “My temple is the vault of heaven, my rites are the mites o/ the heart.” The high sweet sounds and everything is green and beau- | frequeaUy Moved his hearers to tears, aud again | priests offered up the plood of pulls tial, Be not afraid becau: one ter is 10ng | by more enol and well pointed witticism changed — They could not take away sin, Jesus sted ia Ow and severe, In preaching, m Ono writing these | their melancholy into smiles. He sketched the beu- blood. His covenant is a richer one than that of belies bave been declared. How ey getinto | efits to be derived trom a@ faithful attendance at , the Jews, the human mind? Certainly itis true that pas | the exercises of the mission, and painted in glowing AT QUESTION sionate, crude people sould suddeniy, in | pictures the terrivle consequences which follow the lias heen fora , HOW shall my sins be remitted? * mood of depression and despondency, | pandering tohuman passions and other excesses. | They are a dark cloud between heaven and us believe in these gloomy things. Preachers git sd | He exborted all the parishioners of St. Cecilia’s to | read this question in every age, it is true that & With lurid eloquence Atng rhetoric upon the naked | atiend the mission, and dilated upon the miseries | designing priesthood may take advantage of this, Kouls of wen and womew. These evil speculators | which ye ‘ r pect ich attended a jife of sin and, op the contrary, jn jeeling go about with thelr cases of cools im | the happiness Whieu was certain to follow in tie thelr pockets, and use them on unsuspecting | wake of # Christian Catholic iffe, He also ex- people, 10 a great many 4 revival of religion iw a | tended an invitation to all outside the Cathoile Matter of life and deaty. Ia revival of religion | Chu « » Ad things a8 War Ace eo celigion | Church to attend the mtiasian, and announced that but this does not destroy its trutn, it 18 recoge nized by the Scriptur They teach us that pr is | the cause of all our Woe and speak of heaven #8 & place where there shall enver nothing that shal | offend, This deeree of Providence no one Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, on Free , ture on the public school question last even- | system on two grounds—religious and political. — ligious instruction they wish their children to re- | The channels of thougat in the common | schools Of this State is either the Protestant or the | ‘odiess, Weulthy Protestants educate their chit- | and schools, The discussion 18 a legitimate one | Sane people are the treasures of some; they be- | humanity so loug as their idea of Cuurch is not | The satisiaction that he | has performed his day's work is to him all the joy | Sins of the World—Se1mon by Rev, Mr. | our sins have driven us away, How shall sin be remitted? That is the question. The text gives us an answer to this query, ‘The term remission itself { means something ‘hat 18 put away. Our sins leave | us When they are remitted. Remission, in a legal sense, means discharge from some obligation, Ip an evangelical sense it means not merely rellows" a disease, but insuring perfect health for ° wer more. Why was | sin tu conten, SHEDDING |, chosen for the remission of sins’ 1 do not Know, and Ido not beiteve «vou frankly does. We may inier, we may co” ¢ Any, Oft elme | cannot know, Still, in read afeotare, fim tuere are certain” inferer 4% the | Scriptures, vifable to draw. Blo <8 Which A wl is so sacred and precious a thing hati! stay not be eacen. Blood is sacred to the pr i= — ' jder afew the pose of atonement, Let us conaide ew the achts on this question. Sin de- stroys lug, Th) sows in thetr uncultivated state, did bob ROC “this, ‘God taught them by bavin the their ains by the death of some ani W.. “cWas sin thas killed Jesus. It was sin that $ bro's the heart o! Jesus. Another inierence that Madly be drawn trom the preceding remarks 1s that liie may be substituted ior life, And ts not life a recious thing’ We read of persons who would we given 4 MILLIONS FOR MFR. Life is infinitely precious, I suppose that when | the Jew brougi.t bis victim,before the priest he felt ‘that the animai’s hie was given for lis life, This is What our Father intended to teach us. My hearers, What Was it that saved us? It Was not Christ per- forming miracles; it was not that He fasted for forty days; it Was not that He had not where to lay His bead; 1t was that He gave His precious life. Another lesson that God intended vo teach was that sin may be transferred. Whenever a man sins he cannot expiate his sin in himself, God always commanded, bring something ving. Among the most solemn scenes in the Jewish service Was where the priest sacrticed a bullock, without flaw or Diemish, to the sins of the whole congregation, Still anotner thougnt is that we cannot appoint our own atonement for our sins, the remedy must be given by the Creator. Man cannot make ile. God, in presenting bloodshed, meant that He alone could prepare the sacrifice. Still another thought is that the sacrifice must be IMnocent and without spot or blemish, and this was Jesus, Some arguments mig.t be advanced to substantiate this statement. Employment of sacri- fice is @ universal custom, Christ said to the Jew: less ye eat of my Mesh and drink of my bluod ye shall Dot live in me.” The blood of Jesus cleanses us irom allsin, We are told to draw bear tue throne of grace through his blood. Another argumeni is that although God loved Jesus more than anything else, yet He gave His blood. Surely Ml any other means would have answered He would have employed them. See Him on the cross. BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD. Drop, drop, drop. Our saviour was 80 anxious to impress this on us that He gave that Last Supper described by the Evangelists, In conclusion he e: Sin, although we often speak of 1t shgnhcingly, 18 no shght thing. We can only be saved through the blood of Jesus; ali other methods are jailures. Alter the sermon three ladies and a child were | baptized by lmmersion. In the afternoon com- munion service was lield; to which none but mem- | bers of that and sister churches were invited, | FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, sponsibilities of the Ministry—The Levites of the Old Dispensation—Sa- cerdotal Functions Among the Jows— Paupers and Poor Ministers’ Families. | Dr.John Hall preached yesterday in his church, at the corner of Filth avenue and Nineteenth street, upon the duties Of the Levites of old. He drew lessons from them to apply to the ministers of the present day, the whole sermon being de- signed to draw forth a good collection from the congregation for the fund for the relief of clergy- men’s widows and orphans, and there is no doubt of its having had the desired effect. Dr. Hall said that the Levites were appointed by the Lord Jehovah to perform the functions around the Tabernacle, not in a sacerdotal sense like the children of Aaron, who himself was High Priest. The Levites performed no ceremony, and set they exercised more than mere iuncuions, The Taver- nacle was cumbrous and was constantly transported from one piace to another. They maintained order around it The smallest amily among tbe Israelite tribes was taken in place of the first born, and 22,000 was the bumber. They did not perform priestly functions nor did they minister at the altar. There are also Levites in the Christian dispensation. THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST is typified in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ ana the ministers of the Word are in subjection to Him. Jesus Christ has veen constituted High Priest by His people. The truth coming trom Fim may be proclaimed, These men are given wo Jim wholly to carry out His great purposes. This is the sense in which the Levites stood to God himsell, as enunciated in Exodus:—“'I bave taken the Li Vites irom among the children of Israel to serve me.” They had to be consecrated to the service of God, Their bodies were sprinkled and an offering was presented by them. Aaron then made an offering of them to God by the approval and sanc- tion of himselt and the people. casion Wien Moses entered the Temple and called aloud, “Who is on the Lora’s side?” when idolatry had become so rank that the whole people was contaminated, the Levites came and stood by his side, and they were told to go through the people and smite the brother and the fatuer il they were guiliy, and they did 80, Moses wished to strike a decisive blow at this great crime. And for this action they consecrated themselves. We stand upon the same level, need- ing atonement and sanctification. We must learn by this to purge ourselves from lusts, ambitions and all evil passions. The ministers of the New ‘Testament have the same mission. We have to be called by the Lord Jesus Christ, by His spirit and the approbation of His peopic. There is some- thing due to THE AWFUL CONSECRATION. Unless we love Him more than we do each other | we are not fit for salvation, Who ts on the Lord’s side? ‘hey must be willing to break with their nearest and dearest, They must be willing to set themselves at war with multitudes about them, rebuking evi doers belore all They must have, above all, morality, wr.ch is their shining light before meu, Alter the entry 1nto the land it was thought bad to leave so great a body of men together, so the Levites were separated and were given eight and forty cities to themselves, and they becaine teachers of the peo- | ple, and some of their places'were cities of retuge, and they Were compensated by being given the tithes of the people, one-tenth of all, ‘The lessons to us from all this are many. We may see here how mucu jealous care the Lord took of the MAINTENANCE OF RELIGION among his people, and how He insisted on the ob. servance of what may appear trivial ceremonie: But they had ali a significance, ‘Yhere is much | importance in keeping the people round the Church, The increasing burdens of pauperism would be relieved if they were in proper position around churches and the churches were in places where they could do most good. How important, | then, are the priestiy functions! And yet it 1s singu- lar that te great vody o! those men who have had nothing saved for this crisis were people who could earn their $3 50 a day, or say $1,200 per year, and wio how want charity, while the mass of min- isters seldom, in the couniry, get more than $600, $700 or $800 a year, Many 01 these die poor, ieav: ums class | appeal to-day. Dr. Hal\ made a further appeal, and the collection Was taken up ior the purpose mentioned above. . BROOKLYN CHURCHES. ee ge es PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Mr. Beecher’s Few Words on Behait of the New Temperance Movement—A Sere | mon on Special Providence and Natu- | ral Laws. | There was an old-time congregation yesterday | morning at Plymouth church, Within and with- out there was @ dense crowd, and when every available hearing and seeing place was secured | hundreds went away sorrowful, because they could not get nearer than the outer gates. The exceptional causeg that brought about this result were the admission of eighteen new members to vhe church ou @ profession of faith, and the balmi- ness of the weather. lt was Communion Sun- day, too, and this brought out the mem- | bers in large numbers. Mr. Beecher was | in excellent voice, spirits and health, and thus all things worked together towards vhe good time which yesterday morning's service | gave to those who took part. Among the an- announcements were several in relation to the | temperance movement; one in which it was stated | | that @ meeting would be held at Dr. Cuyler’s church on Tuesday evening next in relation thereto, and another of the Ladies’ Union prayer meeting every Friday morning, at eleven o’clock, | at the Church of the Pilgrims, notices Mr. Beecher said:—l need not say bow | strongly I sympathize with these movements that | are to be made throughout our land now for the reformation ot OUR MORALS in one respect—namely, the abolition of intem- perance; for | do not suppose that tius pattie is to be fought by one generation, tor it is one that must be fought over again | regard it as one part of the great battle | of the spirit of man against the animal | man. ‘Therejore it must be done in each | generation, yet in each generation every effort should be made to stifle so great an evil as intem- | temperance. There is no other crime like that which makes criminais. All other causes put to- gether are not so plentiful in that respect as the sale of intoxicating drink. Therefore, whatever may be lawiul and proper to be employed, what- ever may be introduced to restrict it, whatever | Instrumentalities may be employed that are right | and reasonable and are simple in their use are en- dong tty Ww) on Tuesday cyeuig he Wil speak On “ihe Con- ) able to Withstand, J read in ine lament of Isaiah, ) tilled to Our agtive co-operation, We have sean @ | Renan amd but that | cribed the lessons to ve learned from the text. | On that great oc. | ing families without means of support. It is ior | by the next. 1) perance and so great a crime as the making of in- | Sree -any extraordinary things within the last years. Another obe is drawing upon us— a af this impulse of religion in the direc- of temperance, in the association of men, in the personal» appeals of women . | and in the prayer unto God, ‘This is worthy of our | best study and admiration. It is worthy the stady of all who love to trace the operations of the human mind, its aspiration and inspiration, with ‘that of Christ, and espectally by those who believe | in Working for the good o1 mankind. Look 4" te not to criticize it but to see what is right in 1, and to learn to hope that by these instrumentalities God will work out not any new and original systems, but 4 deeply grounded work in the PULL HEARTS of the men and women engaged in it. Whatever may be our ideas ag to the working Out of the modes of operation fitted for the Eastern States, as compared with the Western, the best way Will doubtless be jound out, Let us criticise with great Jeniency, and rejoice with Man should rejoice tn plucking his lellow man a8 & brand jrom the burning. THE SERMON. Mr. Beecher selected for is text the 30th verse | of the 6th chapter of Matthew:—‘“Wherefore, if God go clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow 1s cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of lutte faith?” | Different periods, said Mr. Beecher, develope the | necessity of explaining the range and reach of dif. | ferent truths, in our day there 1s not one of the | generally received truths that is so much assailed | Gud 89 slightly supped from under our Jormula of truth as the doctrine of God's particular pru- | dence. The study and advance of science, the knowledge of material things, the laws that gov- ern up to a Certain point, lessen man’s belie! in | that great truth that bas done th It has _done “it, and done it well. But be- youd certain points science itself will come back to this great truch. It ts not wort while for Christians to deeply trouble themselves With the causes that underite all vis, or to seek only the foundations of the record in this particu. | lar respect. Tuis great truth bas such a relation | to the teachings of Christ that if we take it away | we pul! away the string out from the necklace of pears only to scatier w You destroy the co- | hesive element in His tei ing; dissolve it; disin- tegrate it of ail the traths, and by which you can rid yourself of all belie! in that Which are ‘expheit statements as to Divine Providence. 1 can under- stand Why @ man should desire to get rid of the | doctrine of responsibility. [can understand why he should try to rid himself of the restrictions | placed upon his habits, But why suould ian try to disabuse himself of faith in one of the | BENIGN DOCTRINE: | of the Bible, and desire that the order of things | should be so Changed that we should have a world with no one to care for it, Should desire to carry us | back to a world with nothing but late in it, bind us | down to nothing but ultimate forces, Why wan | should desire to do this [cannot understand Ifyou remit the view of the divine in nature you substan- | Waby teach man’s unreality, and that that i the maar tact. The only reason I have ever heara | for depriving man of this hope ina special Provi- dence, the only objection, indeed, that I have ever | heard, is that the facts are against it, Well, are they against it? Mf there be such a | discovery with regard to natural law that | man cab say that science and revelatien are | fairly pitted against each other on the doctrine | of a particular and personal divine Providence in den to pay double taxes. It is for the parenté aud | py, Jonn Hall on the Duties and Re- | the affairs of man, let us see what It has to say. | Mr, Beecher then set forth summarily the claims of | science 1m ibis regard. He then sketched the | position of the world, with everytuing gone out of | It in the shape ‘of intelligence, uotuing left but | natural law and NATURAL FORCE, every man away from it. He claimed that this ; done you take away man's intellig v world goes back to @ bundie of forces. Natural law, Without man, is mere barbaric brute force, ‘That wuich tructifies natural laws was the power ol man’s mind, Mr, Beecher elaborate this view | by a variety of illustrations, in which he claimed | that in tracing the working out of the laws of | Dature man must be counted In as one O the chiel. | In that sense it was true that ali tain together jor good to them that love the Lord. SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH, Rev. Dr. Wild on “Faith and Contes. sion.” At the Seventh avenue Methodist chapel, Brook- lyn, yesterday morning, Rey. Dr. Wid preached upon,tne subject of “Faith and Confession,” taking for his text the tenth verse of the tenth chapter of Romans:. ‘or with the heart man belleveth unto righteousness; and with the mouth con- his remarks the Doctor said:—It 18 true that | every effort has @ cause; but itis not true that every effort is reasonable or the only result which that cause could produce. What is to be will be, | and yet that which is need not always be. Man is | wield his freedom, as a two-edged sword, both | ways, for good or for evil. Even some men might do better than they do, source of morai good or evil—of rewards and punisbments, The Gospel assumes that we are free, and calls upon us to be true to ourselves, to our neighbors and to God. We have only to stretch forth our hanus and par- take ireely of salvation, “believing unto righteous - ness and confessing unto salvation.” @ need not go down into the deep nor travel atar to find it, ‘Thousands there are Who take unto themselves the first part of the text, and “believe with the and that 1s the reason so many PAIL OF FINDING HAPPINESS HERB, and may expect ty fail muct more hereaiter. We have aii seen men and women who believe in God with their whole hearts, and are eitier airaid or ashamed to confess Him. They believe in His Tighteousness, and live lives of honor, honesty and practical Christianity in all things save “coniessing uuto salvation,” which is absolurely esseutial if we woud enjoy perfect happiness or eternal bliss, We prove & man’s faith by tis works; God judges of lis works by nis faith, Hence, though we may deceive nan, we cannot deceive God. He knows our thoughts and the motives which prompt our works, The Doctor closed by arging upon his hearers the absolute necessity 0: not ouly believing, but con- fessing Christ. ‘Ihe sign must be in the foreheat where it can be seen and read of all men. The: Was no such thing as silent partnership with Jesus. It was the duty of every man to belong to some church organization, and to seek for one that best suited his tastes and ideas; and if he could not find such 4 one, to go to work and start oue that did suit him, Individual effort could no more accomplish good resuits in this respect than it must be co-opération, organization, faith and, { above all, contession of faith—iree, voluntary, at all times and in all places, TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE, the Sacrament—Reminiscences of Early Sacramental Days—Questtom of Bap- tism. The principal event at the Tabernacle yesterday was the administering of the boly communion just after the sermon in the morning. Three banared | and twenty-eight new members were received and partook of the sacrament, The ceremony was witnessed by a congre,ation of about 5,000 people, sitting and standing. Mr. Talmage’s sermon referred directly to the occasion and was based on the text:—*“This day shall be unto you for a memorial’’—alluding to the passover which commemorated the deliverance of the children of Israclon the night when the de- | stroying apgel sped through the land ot Egypt cause on the doorposts of their dwellings there the preacher, we come to celebrate a grander | pasaover, ALL PERIL GOING AWAY | from our soul at the sight of the sprinkled blood of | the Lamb of God on the doorposts ot our hearts. | 'The sacramental Sabbath, whether it comes in an American church or English chapel or Scoten kirk, is more impressive thau any other Sabbath. Its light 18 hoiier, calmer, sweeter, its Voices more tender, its touch sotter, its memories more chas- fened. Oh, this {s the amethyst of days; this is the pearl of days; this is the diamond of days; this is ‘the day of days, Among ten thousand million ages | of eternity the 1st day of Marcu, 1874, will be to Ven siguificant and memorabie, “for this day shall Ye un you Jorever 4 memorial.” There 1s something in such a scene to make one’s heart tender, because tt rehearses a death scene. | Now, you kuow there is something very touching | about @ dying scene. Butl am to teil you this | morning of A DEATH SCENE such as never belore or since occurred. When we die we die for ourselves, and the crisis Is alle- viated by all kinds of ministry. Nov so with Jesus. He died not for Himself, but for others. He died in torture—the good tor the oad, the kind for the | cruel, the wise tor the ignorant, the divine for the | After reading these | human. How tenderly we feel towards any one | who has done us a great kindness, perhaps at the | Imperilling of his own life. How we ought to leel, then, towards Christ, the captain of our saivation, on the white horse, riding down our foes; but in the moment He made the victorious charge the lances of death struck Him, ‘This is @ tender scene, because it ts a reunion. How many families there are thut rejoice to- gether to-day. All these Christians, moving in different circles, during the rest of the year will | not, perhaps, know much of each other; but to- day we ail come on one platform, and we make one coniession and we cling to one cross and we | gaze upon one death anguish. This seems to me hot like a church, this morning, but like A GREAT FAMILY OIRCLE, | and we join hands around the cross of Jesus and say “one Lord, one Jaith, one baptism, one cros: one Uhrist, one doxology, one heaven!” While stand here it seems to me as if this communion table, only seven or eight feet ot and three or four ‘feet wide, widens anti! all the Christians of our denomination can git at it; and still the table | widens until all the Christians in the land 0} all danominal tions Come and sit at ft: and eat joy, as every time | and the | 8 worked | Session is made unto salvation.” In the course of | @ iree moral agent, and as such is competent to | Human freedom is the | heart unto righteousness,” but stop just chere; | could render edectual the efforts of an army. There ; A Great Communion—Signiticance of | slaying the enemy but saving tne Israelites be- | was sprinkled the blood of a lamb. To-day, said | still the table widens until it bridges over the sea, and Christians on the otner side of the Atlan Come and sit at it; and still the table widens unt! the redeemed of heaven mingie in the com- munion—charch militant and church triumphant. Again, this is a tender and absorbing theme, be- cause it arouses so many very good, preciang memories. We look back and rememoer the dayd of our child’ when, before we knew th¢ Communion of the bread and she wine, we sat A the side bews or in the galleries on sacramental he ee d down as our fathers, mothers snd Or, it we aa with Myaaters sat at the communion. LLED'AT MOTHEK’'S DRESS and said, “What does all that mean? What ie that in the cup? What is that on the plate?’ Oh, | hdl we remember those sacramental days of out oyhood. We remember how much more tendet ; father was on shat day than on any other day, and | how mother, without saying a word, looked at ue and her eyes got full of tears. On, the dear old souls. They have gone, they have gone; but until | the day of my death and to the day of your death | We will associate this holy ordinance with their memory, and when our work on earth is done we will’ just Up and sit down beside them in the | heavenly chureh a3 we used to sit beside them im the earthly church—father at one end of the pew and. mother at the other eud of the pew—and then | we will drink new wine in our Father's kingdom, ‘This is a tender and absorbing scene, because it is anticipative, We are not always going to stay here, ‘This is not our home. This w only the vestibule of the Church in which we expect at last | to eater. After a while our names will be taken off the Charch books or there will be # mark in the | wargin to indicate that WE HAVE GONE UP to a better church und a higher communion, The grave is 10 place for us to stay in. ‘he trumpet shall sound and the dead shail rise; thé Lord shall gescend from heaven witi a shout aod the voice of the archangel,” and we shall arise, Oh! the re- union of patriarchs and aposties and prophets and oi all our glorined kindred, and of that “great mul- titude that no man caa number.” At the conclusion of the sermon Mr. Talmage read the names of the new members. He said that some of these had not been baptized yet, but he would baptize them before the communion. One of them desired to be immersed instead of sprnkied. Mr, Talmage said te would immerse | that one at an early day, but coud not do so thas morning. He added:—“The only difference be- tween the yaptist Church aud our Church is that Ube Haptist Church believes that immersion tsa the only mode and we believe in sprinkling and im~ | mersion both, So we have no quarrel with any | one.” ‘The baptism by sprinkling ana communion folk lowed, PUBITAN CHURCH, CONGRE- ATIONALIST. Communion Servicce—The Word Master as Applied to the Followers of Christ= Sermon by Rev. Charles Hall Everest. ‘The services at this place were of an interesting nature. Alarge number united with the church upon @ padlic projession of faith im accordance with the manner of Congregational societies, & deacon was installed and some united by letter jrom other churches, The sermon by Rev. Mr. Everest was simple and fervent, The text was from Join xx. 16, and a single word fur- nished the subject of thought. it was “Rabboni," | or Master—the sole exclamation of love and adora- | tion from Mary when she first saw her risen Lord, In a few forcible words the pastor laid betore the listeners the explanation of the word “Master,” a8 understood by the Christian. Noth- | ing, he said, can be added to a diamond. {tis peerless among the gens. Thus it is with some of the words uttered among the vast waste daily thrown away. This word bad crystaiized in Mary's heart, and it came out without exertion and nat- urally When she saw Jesus. We do uot look upou the word “Master” with iavor; it arouses repug- | nant feelings within our hearts. Say the word to | a siave and he has visions of chains apd ean say 1t to @ poor, ill used apprentices and he will j feel his brutal master’s kicks and culls; name it w a sailor and he thinks of cursing and hard words. But there 1s no analogy between these | uses and the Christian's feeinys towards Ubrist. \ ‘The sun is given to rule the day and is its master. but is it @ hara- master in caihng fartb the sweet iragrance of towers, im flung all the world with light and joy? it calia out the fin- prisoned blossoms, brings into betug the dormant | life of al the earth and restores a sweet liberty. A mother gives ber commands to her little child— unwillingly, oltentimes, is she obeved; bat let the | child grow up to munhood and strength and he | forgets that she coinmands—serving her wishes | becomes a joy and pleasure and a second nature. | One may say, on first becoming @ Christian, must be this or toa, mast obey all these rules and regulations.” Jesus is not a hard master, but a Joving and taith/ul friend. All else besides His law becomes harsh and irksome. So we do not under- stand the word “Master’’ as the world does; tt has @ sweet and loving seuse W tie tollower oi | desux—it has no harshuess, creates no feel- ing of slavery. With the wie of Christ its power snd purity are recognized. Though | wsceptic will not admit His diviue nature, yet His Perec lite cannot be denied. And it is this holy, pertect lue which the Curistian emulates. With Chriss lie its periect noviliiy convinces the most doubtful, and, as with the arust, the Christian leves aud worships, Jesus 1s the teacher of trutn | a8 Well as its master. Unbeie, is unsatisfying; it jay 1urnish material for the mind .or a time, but | @t the eud there is yearning aud bunger for some- thing more, Feed # man on chai, ne may bo stuffed, yet never satisfied; he needs wheat, real luve tood, which will strengtuen him, The longing for truth can be satisfied only by the rruth as it is in Christ. | | ot 3 THE GOSPEL ON THE FLAGSHIP, The Moral Shipwreck and How to Avoid It—Sermon by Chuplain James J. Kane Yesterday. | The attendance at divine service on board the stanch iron triple-turreted monitor Roanoke, which Mies the pennant of Port Admiral Rowan, was quite large yesterday, and the congregation of | blue jackets were not lacking in attention to the discourse, Chaplain James J. Kane preached and @ marine oMclated at the organ, the men lending , the barmony of their voices to swell the chorus of praise. Mr. Kane took for nia text the follow- | ing:—I. Timothy, L, 19—"Holding (aith, and a good conscience; which some having put away con- cerning faith nave made shipwreck.” The speaker gave an account of a deathbed vision, when apparently dying of yellow lever, | in 1863, in Pensacola Bay. He spoke of the claga | consciousness he possessed and of the qnal sirug- | gle, and the first feelings and farprise of the dis- | embodied spirit; also Yat ‘Tieeting with the angel of death and ¢ie objects paased on the way to | Paradise, ‘the rst view of the Goiden City, the + Angels and heavenly music formed a very interest- ing topic, After the abeve recital the chaplain stated that he had prepared this sermon on the moral shipwreck from what he saw in the above vision, and commenced witb the assertion that the human faculties were the most tuteresting studies of our composition, were capabie of being devel- oped and enlarged by @ systeinatic course of train- ing. apd would increase im power and magnitude far beyond human calev’ ations. Un the other hand, MW they were neglected the trace of the Divine | workmansiip would be lost amid the rum and wreck that would surey iollow. ‘The subject which the text unfolded was Of a startling character, and the mind of every one should become aroused to the danger of the moral shipwreck. It was difficult to awaken men to the consciousness of the danger wuich lay be1ore them, When the deata Knueil sounded the alarm | that the harbor of eternity was at hand, then mep cast aside their infidelity and hoisted the signal of distress, They found themselves without the heavenly chart, and their immortal souls became lost on the sunken shoa! of sin and transgression. No signal will be recognized in the dying hour | except the name which {3 written upon the heart | of i believers, known only to the true children of God. | HOW FAITE BECOMES SHIPWRECKED. A combination of causes lead to this result. No man becomes suddenly wicked; tt is by a gradual process, as illustrated in the case 0; deiauiters and others. Neither, on the other band, does any man become righteous by @ sudden elfort. A state of holiness 18 the product of many @ weary struggle with the powers of darkness, se.f denial and the crucifixion ot the flesh. The speaker referred to several tacts to prove how faith is shipwrecked. The cause of the snipwreck of faith, as described in the text, is, first, @ careless way of living; second, inattention to the voice of conscience, &c. ‘The chaplain here explained the faculty of con- science aud quoted an extract from Webster, de- fining conacience. He also spoke of the relation of conscience to the other faculties of the min:i, | and gave tne definition of conscience from tne | theological point of view, and said that it was the | organ ot Gods jaw in the soul. | & brief reference wus made to some of the faculties of the mind, such as the wili, inemory, | imagination, Jadgment, &c. These faculties in a | well regulated wind should be controlled by the | will, and the will by the conscience, and wander | this management there was no danger of | the moral shipwreck spoken of in the text. He then spoke of the various forms of the morat shipwrecks and treated upon eash. They were drunkenness, Sabbath breaking, licentiousne: infidelity, blasphemy and iying. ‘The speaker ni showed how these shipwrecks could be avoided, and recommended the Apostle Paui's injunction. “To exercise our conscience dally, so we should be void of offence towards God and towards mau.” CONSEQUENCES OF THE WRECK. In.closing a reference was made to the fact that the human language failed to give fall expression to the consequence involved in the text. An immortal sou! shipwrecked for esernity! We have yet to learn the full meanin, hat word ‘‘eter- nity.” To the Christian believer, who reited for salvatton upon the precious blood of Jesus Christ, there would be an abundant entrance into his Father's Kingdom, snd although tattered and torn, dismantled and aimost wrecked tn the flerce conflict with the powers of darkness, yet all would be well when clasping hands with loved ones who had gone before, and togeth miering the presence of the Saviour and joining in the angelic song of “Home at last! Home at lastye