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8 — NEW YORK HERAJLD, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1874.—TRIPLE } PITH OF THE PULPIT.| The Sermons and Services Yesterday in New York and Brooklyn. FULTON ON INFANT BAPTISM. Beecher on Christian Life as a) Training School. ———-—__——_ NORTHROP AND WOMAN'S WORK Dr. Adams and the Progress of Christianity. WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET PRESBY- TBRIAN OHUBCH. Fhe Rev. H. D. Northrop’s Sermon on “Woman’s Work in Movements of Re- form” —Temperance. The pastor of the West Twenty-third street Pres- dyterian church took the text for his sermon yes- terday forenoon from Philippians, fourth chapter and third verse, beginning, “Help those women which Jabored with me in the gospel.” The preacher ‘Went on 10 sa) | for the | Kept laid up in a napkin” " e | ther, wife, children, aster, brother, friend iss | stay; but under te Gospel God deals with us a8 a mo’ mere drop compared with the wonderful treasure of His love. Supposing this were the character of our love, what a world tuts would be! By the light of ove everything ts transformed, and when we | ask bow itis that We suffer we must think of that love whic! jod bears Us and say to ourselves that Being who does so much tor us we can stand a littie shiering, a little privation, In the end these trials can only be productive of good, | and when We are in trial and trouble let us be re- | Sigmed and say, “it is for the Lord’s sake.” DR. CHAPIN’S CHURCH, Man’s Responsibility tor the Use of His Facatties. Alter the somewhat lengthy exereises which Precede the sermon in this church Dr, Cnapin Tread as the Gospel of the day the parable of the ten talents, irom Luke Xix., taking subsequently for his text verse 20—And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound whicn I have The reverend gentie- power was given to each One of us, and that a man might start out im life saying to himscls “How shall [use the opportunities which are al- forded mer” From this tue proposition might be Said to comprise three heads—frst, that every mau Was endowed With power; second, that every Munk Wes Lound be Use that power; and third, that the power should pe used to the best possipie advautage. That each man was endowed with power there could be no possible doubt, and to those who would argue that every animate object, even the Howers of the field, is also endowed with certain powers, the answer Was, that with all those 1t was 4O Unconscious, Obligatory power given by the Creator, There was No choice about it; while with Mai it was @ conscious power, which found ex- oe in the manner that the possessor wished. t was God's test of us-to give Us this, and on us soleiy depended the making the best use o/ it. MADISON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. It is not necessary for me to clear up the reputa- | The Progress of Christianity. The Rey. Dr. William Adams preached in his tion of St. Paul, though he has suffered in several church, corner of Madison avenue and Twenty- respects, There are those who thimk him the | fourth street, yesterday morning, to a large and enemy of women. In writing to the Church at | fashionably dressed congregation. Yesterday ve- father with his grcavn up children, So tne Sabbath | law 18 to be inter,preved by our knowledge oi what | God gives it to as (or and by our desire to please Hum therein. (t should be the giaddest doy o! the Week, welco med with smiles, a8 one greets the coming Of ais best Iriend, Eveu among the Jews it was not a day of gioom, but of gladness, and Much MO se should it Le so Lo us, to Whom it speaks 01 a Tise'a Lord, | ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. Triath and Palstty Universaiiy Recog- nized. At this church, in place of the Rev. Dr. Bellows, the Rev. Dr. Dewey preached, His subject was “ruth and Falsity” and his text irom Job. He said that the one principle remained everywhere throughout the world of the trath being good and falsity being bad. This was everywhere recognized, and whether it be among the civilized or the most Savage nations, 1p all creeds and in all races, (his | ene great principle was believed in. it was as | universal as the bellel in the existence oj God, | | man from this text drew the conclusion that | because truth was God, and its opposite was the great power of evil. Nothing more than tuis sin | could produce misery, suifering and disaster. | LYEIC HALL. Material and Spiritual Matters Con- trasted—Sermon by the Rey. 0. B. Frothingham. | Rev. Mr, Frothingham discoursed yesterday morn- | ing toan unusually large congregation on the sub- | | ject of “Material and Spiritual Interests.” The divid- | ing lines between the spiritual and material he por- | trayed in bis usual manner, with fine subtlety of | discrimination. To spirituallze @ man, he said, | meant to educate him; to give him culture, self respect, character ; to draw out all the fine qualities | of noble manhood, Spiritualizing generally | means elevation, making Woman more womanly, | and the iiting up of children, | Material wings were symbols of (nought, as this majestic w the symbol of divine iile.’ The wedding ring was | remains of the old tron Chaim which veld women sy Ml in bondage. 1t was now a gulden bond, the s bol of union, and meant the liberty of the afe tions, Speaking ol symbols, be said there was no modern symbol like the gold dollar, —1t nad a sig- nificance even above that of the cross. It symbol- Corinth he spoke his mind freely about women who | ing the occasion of the annual collection for foreign | ized the toil and suffering and sorrow ot all pre- were creating trouble, and it is claimed that it missions the sermon was made appropriate. The alive now he would retract many things said against them, but be would say the same text was chosen from Psaims Ixxxv., l1—Truth Shall spring out of the eartn, and righteousness ceding ages of men. He spoke at length of the ma- teriul side of domestic life, its hard ieatures, its struggles sometimes tor bread, the kitchen drudgery, and the trouble of getting daughters words under similar circumstances, The fact of | shalllook down from heaven.” The Doctor said Married and sons into bustness, He then por- his being unmarried should not go against him, | that he should confine his remarks to the discus- He had special reasons for celibacy. There are sion of the 1uture of the human race under tne | those who do not possess the liberty of entering | auspices of Christianity. There were many theories the married state. The Apostie placed no restric- | concerning the condition and prospects of society, tdon on women, but only in assuming to preach or teach. it seemed more fit and appropriate that men should do these things. WOMAN WAS DESIGNED FOR OTHER DUTIES; and the mind was constantly assailed by sceptical | objections, the most prominent of which was the | alleged slow progreas of Christianity. But the same objection could be urged against any system the she could take part in religious services, could | object of which was the benefiting of the human pray and prophesy, if she would properly regard existing customs and keep her head covered. Women are entitled to much larger liberty than Many of our churches afford. But We are not to jump to the other extreme on account of this, In matters of cuurch adminis- ‘ration 1 was meet for tnem to be silent, for they had husbands to speak jor them. Certain it 1s that the Apostie believed in the order of deacon- esses. He says to the Komans, “Il commend you Phebe, our sister, who is a member of the church, © * * ‘hat you assist her in whatsoever busi- mess she hath heed o1 you.” J wish that all taose who beraie >t. Paul, and make bim out an enem. 1 the wuole lemale race, would read their Bible and learn ihat some o1 Hs BEST HELPERS WERE WOMEN. He received more aid irom Christian women than ll the other aposties together, more than Jesus himself, He hus inmortulized the motuer and graudmother of Timothy, the Roman Phebe and Higo and His purposes in 1edemption, Mary; and here in the vext, those uoble women of Philippi. He would now rejoice to see every woman in the land up in arms against all torms ot gin and vice. Two independent thinking Philippian women, Kuodias and syntyche, wi of suaicient promimence w merit special mention. If woman will bearken 0 the voice of St. Paul she Will be a true missionary, dress plainly aud do what she can towards revolutionizing the worid and bring- Ang avout tue millennium, AB important part Of Woman's power consists in the orming of public sentiment, And it must be Femembered that pubiic opinion rules the world. Without tis power neither constitutions nor throues could be upheld twenty-lourhours. It was the populace WhO shouted lor the release of Ba- Fabas, a wurderer; be was released, and Jesus sac- Tigced. Umph of the populace—pudlic sentiment with (cross and spear sacrificing Jesus. Sentiment has changed 10 the last 1,500 years and given us civili- Ration, churches and Sunday schools. No matter, At Was then the day of the rabble, the tri- | reverses ana how many states revolt if public apinion, which | ie sword, and gun, and knapsack, and sinews, is st them. We can see the ripples on the ore, or the TockS aguinst Which the Waves break: but these are not the ocean. The deep 18 where the swell roils its great tides, thousands of mues out frum the beach. AND THAT IS LIKE PUBLIC SENTIMENT. Tace and the amelioration of its condition, Take, for instance, Vaccination, It is @ wonderful pre- | Ventive agaimst that terrible scourge, smallpox; yetit is comparatively @ recent discovery. The Kingdom of heaven was like the leavening of a mass of meal; it 1s to be accompilshea slowly and surety, not like a flash of lightning. Men were not willing to accept divine revelation, consequently there | was nothing left but to work out theend by a series of experiments. Christian civilization was not by any means an extemporaneous atfair, but there Was one thing that was beyoud all condi- tions and conjecture, and that Was the ultimate coudition of humanity. Not on any hopeluiness m our nature or any theory of human periect buity a8 elaborated by Coudorcet does this con- dition rest, out solely on the promises of the ost While one end of the golden chain is lusteued to the throne of God the other is not leit to dangle im Vacant space, put is caugut up, and, ENCIRCLING THE WORLD IN IS MEKCIFUL FOLD, is jastened securely at the Jeet of the Creator. Science tells us the real uses of the vast AJrican deserts and tne large mountains of Alpine snow. Tuey are necessary lor the process of evaporation, So those arid wastes of history, wiuch appear & mystery and exciied appreeusions for the Chris- tau religion, will appear to be necessary for the accoupushment of sume great, good and all-wise purpose, Jt is not necessary for us tu see the pll- lars upon which our religion rests. Our iaith does. not rest on any theories nor on apy general events; but ou the promises v1 the Almighty, ‘This does Lot mean that the juture will be iree from disasters, ‘Tney always have oc- curred and they wlways Will, But tue advance of the Coristiau ‘religion {8 irresistible, National reiormauions are ulmost mvariabiy accompanied by convusive demonstrations, THE BIRTH OF GREAT EVENTS is with pangs and throes which excite apprehen- sion, Death ouiy 18 supreme quiet. Society is Cogiposed 01 individuals, aud the main point now 4s the regulation of individual men. The worid 13 Qayed vy the reign of laisehood, but imagme if you can the era When universal truth suali pre- Vail; Wueu justice, righteousness and cuarity suall Let the heart of a nation agree to anything, and | abound; when the golden rule shall be the inter- you might as Well get out an injunction against ‘the suurise as to try to alter It, Nomeasure could be carried at Washington or Albany i: Woman were resoiutely against it. If it national as well as the individual code, The most expensive thing Ou the face of the globe is sin, Caiculace if you can the cost of armies, navies, prisous, police systems and other necessary ap- Were possiole jor the women of this country to” Durteuances of au buperfect civilization and see favor uny particular vice there could be no united sentiment among men against it, aud let woman frown resolucely against a prevalling vice, such is her influence, that, U she Cannot work its exter- mibawun, she Wil check and make It HIDE ITS HEAD FOR SHAME, and the man upholding it will abuor himself as being unit lor decent society. An italian proverb gays, “What a woman wills sie can:” a French paying is that “What a Wo.wan wills God wus.’ There is reason in these provervs, eveu if they are exaggerated. No overwhelming opimion on any gubject can grow up Without her endorsement. When she says to 4 wan “Go” Le goes, and “vO tus and he does it It bas peeu said, “Let me Make the songs Of 4 nation and i care’ not Who makes the laws.” 1 will go beyonu that and say, “Let me KHOW Who are the justruclors ol a people aod i willtell you Wout will » r sougs and their laws.” The mother? r edu- cational purposes is InVaiuable. Mons. Girardin gays, “luere 1s no insiauce ol a motuer who could read aud write Whose Cuild could not read and write.” Such being the power of woman, great reforms are not going co ve Wrouglit wituoat lier aid. She has added renown to modern missions, given us Christian homes, men, merchants, ministers, citi- zeus; and now, having proved her power, th Gospel calls tor it. We try to save the Word’ with @ corporal’s guard—a few ministers and deacons; it is a stupendous Jarce to send such a small num- ber of skirmishers against the armies oF sin. ‘These stutewents are borne out by ike present temperance movement. (Here the preacuer read aletter suowing the enoruuus extent to which Uppling is carried Ou by business wen of all Kinds im our midst, many of Whoui—moderate drinkers— could stand up under irom niteen to thirty drinks @day, ahd atiend to business as if nothing had happened lo unman them.) ‘These are tie ones who Wili make the sternest Ught agalust tue forces Of temperance. But some results have been already gained by the nobie Women Who are moving U1 the caus Cuncinnau the druggists have sesulved to re from selling ail liquors unless on a puysician’s pr scription, in filty-ive smaller (owns 0: Olio 245 saloons Have bee auc signed the pledge. or ar Phila Gelpuia, hat never moved in this Maiter before, Shuts Her saioous to-day, bul there are INCALCULABLE. ULTS Yer CNSEEN shat canuvt be se: down in igures. We ure now baving gratilying proois of What women can do when they set avout it. Lt is appareat that Chris- tian forces must carry out reiorms; segisiators, police commissioners aid turukeys only make cun- Bpicuous sailures. “But the means,” people say, “are disgraced; prayer 1 agged in the dith of the grogshops,” where it is like casting pearis be- fore swine. But prayer is too goo, pure and White 10 be contaminated, Godly women, with no sneer or smile on their faces, unmoved by tie sneers of others. have ventured tu save husbands, lather, brothers or tuose dear wo them. And if a single day, 1 Whether these resulte are permanent or not it is weil to have them even jora day, Lf this temperance movemeuat continues it will suow again tue greacness and Inajesty Of Woman’s power; abd if a ian cannot go With them jet him say in spirit “God viess tue women Of this country, WhO Make such heroic forts to save thelr loved ones. CHURGH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. The Church of the Future—God’s Re- quirements and Man’s Needs. What an Ummense amount 01 good could be accom- plished it th ue Were thrown into the treasury Oi Christian 8. The Coristian religion is the only one Whichgives sigus ol growth. All the Others Wear the aspect Of senuity aud decay. Ine number Oi Versions of tue Bible printed in ciffer- eut lauguages 1s 252, and all but lorty-seven of them nave been made in the preseat century, or siuce 1804. Tne Koran rests in its native tougue, with tae exception of @ few traustations made by scholars lor tueir own ends and not lor propaga- tion. ‘rne suppression of the slave trade in Western Airica 18 bot due so MUCH to the Davies of England and America, but to ine settiements ail along the lune Of 1,500 tiles of coast, and penetrating into the heart of Airica, Where the Hnglish language is spoken and Where twenty-five native dialects have been reduced to a written jorm. They gatner the people apd the children, if not into the Curistian jold, at least under Christiauizing influences. ‘Ihe great Arab race i8 taking into its masculine na- ture the great ideas of Curistianity, aud when they are Wuouly converted 120,000,000 Of people Wil be added to the Cnrisuan legions. Aiready 300,000,000 OF tue population of the earth have em- braced Chrisiaoity; and this 18 prool that it is destined, sooner oF later, to unite under its ban- ner ail te mhabitants of the earth. ST, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL The sermon at St. Patrick's Catedral was preached yesterday morning by the Rev. Father MoDowell, who took his text from the Gospel of the day—Luke, XL, 14-29, ine cuilection taken at the ma*s Wus iu aid ol the new burch of St. Agnes, in Forty-tuird street, between Lexington and ‘hird aveuues, FIFTH AVENUE BEPORMED CHUROCA, Sermon by Key. Wallace Atterbury, Secretary of the New York Sabbath Committee, on the Sanctity of Sunday. Dr. Atveroury preached yesterday morning in the church corner of Futh avenue and Twenty- first street, trom Genesis iL, 3—“And God blessed the seyeoth day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all bis works, which God created and made.” Many influences now combine against (he Saboath, Unbelief attacks 1t as a clef institution and bulwark of Christianity. The ine uence of our foreign born citizens, and still more the alleged demauds of modern civilization, the competitions of business, the greed ot vogetuer With the materialistic spirit of our time, are exciled against 1t8 observauce. In Europe, among bott Reiormed and Roman Catholic churches, th ord’s Day rests upon the authority ot the Coaren, Christmas or Euster, rather than Upoo 4h explicit command of revelation, The question deserves caudid consideration, Is there @ divine laW Of tue Sabbata, and if so What is Ls import #rs(— All Law rests in the will of God. This will 18 inane d either in nature or revelation. The #eat commands jorbidding lying, stealing, adul- tery, disobedience to parents, &c., are founded in the Constitution of man, So in the nature of man we s¢ arly the law of periodic rest. Man needs @ Week y Fost for body, mind and soul. This is NOW coucet in her Revo- tution One of her atheistic The Key. Chauncey Giles preached yesterday | 4biy argued the need oi the Sanbath, Now, as the Morning in the Church of the New Jerusalem, in Saesaee anenee co ‘vatelasn a tee: eel ‘ 0a evolution, Would ue Thirty-Hith street, taking for his subject “The | expect to tind this? And there itis in the very Church of the Future—What the Bible one Ronain the sacred record, established by @ she: once . s ‘ plicit ordinance as soon as man was created, - | Teaches Concerning It and What the Na- | Jaw stands wile the reason ol it tenes tue ture of Man Demands of It’ Mr. Giles | We fod this primiuve ordinance reaffirmed said that as religion and the existence of God | #mong the other great moral laws at sina. ‘were generally taugit men were not attracted to | the worship and the love of the Supreme Being as they should be, for the reason that neither the ex- jetence nor the attributes of God were made suii- clentiy clear, It had degenerated into a fashion to speak of the Almighty in a cold, pass.onless sort of way, that repelled ratuer ‘tuan attracted. What we want, said the preacher, [s tie a ofa personal God—a human idea oi God. Wieo people waik of the wisdom and power of God ‘We get no idea of His persopality, uo conception of @ personal veing in whe human form. The ldea may What sort Of @ person a persoual God may be; vut the principle is were, and we can imagine a veing of infinite love and goodness, Human love is warm, Divine love must be inflaitely a0. It most turn to us and waten over us without intermission, Nothing too rich, too large, too veautifal for Hin © Javish upon us, Our jyanner ot loving fatuer, ry, to be sure, in each person’s Mind as to | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS were given in such & Way as to distingnish them from the municipal and ceremonial ordinan: Spectal provisions jor emorcing these great lawa Were embodied in the JeWish charter, and ceased With the Guarter itself, But the great laws re- mained, a8 Of original and universal obligation, and the Savbath law among them. Cnrist, when He came, rescued Jt as other parts of the law from that superstitious regard whieh respected only the outward letter, Inthe new dispensation the old seventh day Sabbath was superseded by tue Lords Day rest. It was sill, however, the same law ag from the begin ning—one day’s rest in seven, | , Second—ihe import of the law. It is a law with the same authority and sanction as any otuer law of God; but, like ail God’s laws, it is under tue | Gospel a law of uberty, because & law of love, ‘To 4 Christian God’s law ts not a mere rule of out- ward life, but @ principle in the heart. God treated the Jews aa @ parent treats a \ittie child, veling just how fay he May go, bow loug he may gain, | ‘al piulosopliers (Prudhon) has | trayed the spiritual side, te sweetness of joint labors ol love, the urbanity and pleasantness o1 a thorougaiy spiritualized housebold. Lf men aud women were ever to become angels they would first be angels in their homes, After showing that the spiritual end was far off, and the material end Close by, he drew, in conciusion, a contrast between Spiritualized and materialized Men. ‘The spiritual. ized man Was a part of our great humanity; his voice was gentle, his manners gracious, ile ma- terial man uad no soul, There Was nothing but the husk leit. | ANTHON MEMORIAL CHUROG. Reaping What One Soweth—Sermon by Rev. Mr. Newton, A modestly uppretending church, without steeple or exterior decorations, is the Anthon Memorial church, in West Forty-eighth street, There was a large attendance there yesterday morning. Rev. Mr, Newton, the pastor, preached the sermon. His text was—What &@ man soweth that shail he reap.” The lessons deducible trom this text he pictured with great vigor of terse expression and copious and Jorcibie incisivencss of illustration, He showed tow the trembling limb and its environ- ment of rags and tne bleared eye and bioated face of the drunkard, were the fuil-zrown fruits o( drink. He portrayed, also, with a Vivid ness Of culor almost dramatic, the c.osing career of tue gambler, ‘he lives of tue roud and devaucuee and their traits he depicted im turn, and so on | through almost the whole gamut of modern dissi- pation and crime, The consequences o1 our acts he showed were unertingly carried out to their end, either of joy or misery. In tae course of lis sermon hie alluded to the widely prevalent custom among merchauts of driving sharp baigains with their customers. To represent au ar- ticle to be what it ts not might be sharp practice; but @ merchant who would do this he would not, after the modern style of flattering euphemisms, designate a keen business man, but cai him in plain Anglo-Saxon terus a liar, But while sowing the seeds of wickedness Was folowed by @ harvest oi misery, crime and death, he showed that, on the contrary, sowing ood seed was productive of happiness here and jereaiter. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. How to Live in tne Light of God’s | Truths—Sermon by the Kev. ©, W. Wendte, of Chicago. The Rev. OC. W. Wendte, of Chicago, occupied the pulpit of the Church oj the Messiah, Park avenue and Thirty-jourth street, yesterday morning, se- lecting his text from Jono, ii,, 20, 21—*‘For every one that doeth evil hateth the hght, neither com- eth to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But be that doeth truth cometh vo tue light, that his deeds may be made manilest that they are wrougut in God.’ The preacher eloquently intro- duced his theme by relereace to the dark- ness of spiritual things in the minds of men, and of their ignorance of the | knowicuge of God. The unenlightened cannot riguctly worsuip or love Him, and our deeds must | be evil unless we seek the light. Worse than spir- itual Garkness 18 auotuer fort of guult. It 1s the Gelusion of prejudice, Like all bigots, they despise because they Will notexumiue the truth, and will | not examine because they despise. We should Welcome new trachs aud exteud open arms to all reforms. There are men and women in the | churches Of to-day who wili some time look back | With shame on their hall-way work of welcoming tue wurhs in ide, To leave tue life of dark- ness and come into the knowledge of day should be our aim. it we desire to live in the light of +God’s truths we must supplement the want together with educated cousciences. Lhe Living iaith im God iB Lue Light of the soul, ihere is & God, and He is the jatuer of our spirit, ‘This assurance comes home to the hungry soul, and will aiways come to those that yearn for Him, as a suilicient answ “Our Father, who are | im heaven.” Let me hear that prayer, and I | care not how thorny the grave, ‘Ihe darkness of life 13 only the shadow of ius protecung wings. I believe in the imspiration of religion; vut consola- ton is sweeter. ‘Lhe providence of God never shines so brightly a8 im toe moment oi bereave- ment; and wulle we seek Him at suci moments We sould not be So ungrateul as vo orget Him in the days of happiness and prosperity. We should all seek the lile 01 religious consecration and ac- knowledge our obligation to Gou, | | PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH Promoting the Peace and Prosperity of by the Rev. Zion—Sermoa Miiler. Though faraway on the west side of Fifty-first | street, mear tue North River, wuere old frame tenements still mostly abouud, the Plymouth Bap- tist clurch Seems @n Oasis, aud the attendance there yesterday morning was auite large, The pastor, Rev. D, Henry Miller, occupied tne pulpit and preached from the text Psulm exxit, 6, 7, &— “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall pros- per that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces, For my brethren and companions’ sakes 1 wili now say, Peace be within thee.” He began by expiatning the D. Henry circumstances under which this psalm was written, ‘Lie duty of the government demanded great things Of King David; but he felt tuat his auty to God was above ovher cons deration, He went to God’s temple aud there showed the devotion aud fidelity of a worslupping sovereign | to the great King o) Kings, Ile insisted thar what David did in his time is the duty of Christians to do to-day. He eniorced the duty devolving upon | churches of the present day to exert their utmost in promotioy the prosperity and peace of Zion, He dweit at ath upon the character of the Chureh, then deserived its wission, and 1B Con clusion be depicted tue final resuits of growimg out of tue triumph of Chrisdan teacnings. CHURCH OF THE COVENANT, The Relation ot Gou’s Law to Man—Ser- | | mon by the Rev. Marvin . Vincent, | D.D. | | The Rev. Marvin R. Vincent, D. D., pastor of the | Church of the Covenant, Park avenue and Thirty. | fifth street, preacied to a large congregation | | yesterday morning, selecting his text trom | Proverbs, iii, 1—“My son, forget nov my law; but | jet thine heart keep my commandments.” Life | Inust have a law, said the pastor. No life is free | in the sense of being uncoutrolled—somebody or | something Will always say “must. Jt may be his appetite, it may be bis justs and it may be his God, Some power every one yields to and mast | obey, and that life is barren or iruitful even ag the law which it accepts. God's exisience is admitted by all, and that He is periection finds no doubters. | Hence the law that comes irom a periect source is | good, and that law is one of command. If | | In lite @ law must ve had. God's law is the best, | ag it is the expression of iis will in all depart- ments of creation, in nature we see the ex- press'on in its order, The law written upon the conscience of men would be more clear bat for moral blindness and tie corruption caused by sin. If man had been pure le would have been & law unto himself, ‘The administration of God's law is not harsh, Nature aloue could not teach us God | tion in righteousness, that this man of God may | an error which they are compelled to defend, | not do it. | Episgie of Peter, ut, 21, for sell; | Yow of the most solemn Kind for itle an or God’s will, neither can conscience. The system of divine law carries tne whole of jure With It. ‘The pastor then drew the attention o! bis hearers tw the manner in which the law is directed to ail, and divided his theme into three parte—our memory, our affection and our being. In thus treating the relation of the law of God to these points the clearest and most joreible deductions, | were drawn Of man’s torgetfulness of his duty at times to his Maker; but to obey His mandates is the only course that will lead to salety. 8T. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. At the usual high mass at St. Stephen’s church yesterday morning the sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. McGiynn, the subject being the ‘in- stitution of the Blessed Eucharist.” In the evening a retreat, which Is to last for the ensuing three weeks, Was opened by the Jesuit fathers, the ser- mon being preached by the Kev, Father Tissot, who bas charge of the exercises. The first week of the retreat will be exclusively for women. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH, Infant Baptism a Hindrance to Chris- tian Cnion—Immersion, Pouring and Sprinkling—Krror and Not Truth Re- sponsible for a Divided Church—Ser- mon by Rev, Justin D. Fulton, The services at the Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn, were well attended yesterday forenoon. Rey. Justin D. Fulton occupied the pulpit. He | spoke as follows:—*For I testify unto every man | that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things God shail add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.” These words reyeal the peril which threatens those who attempt to mutilate or alter or substitute anything human for a divine com mand. The Word of God is codmplete. It was “given by inspiration of God, and 18 profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, ior instruc- be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” There is no place for tradition nor human suggestion or addition. God demands | that we ind in His Word the soul's chart, drawn | by one who knows the perils of the passage, and | He pronounces a@ terrivle woe upon those who shail tamper with it, Despite this solemn warning millions are ving in active dis- obedience, The Charch of Rome _ boasts, in her wicked pride, the right to add tra- dition to Scripture, Her history is our warning. Infant baptism is the taproot of Romanism, Born in error and nursed in pride, it has no natural place in the kingdom of Christ. Hence those who hold in other respects the truth as it is im Jesus find here though it is impossible to make it coalesce with the positive teachings of scripture, It is a hin- drance to Christian unlon, because it asks true be- lievers to disobey God in permitting the Church of Rome to add to the things of God with their con- sent, This men ought not to do. Indeed, men should love God to such an extent that they would | Yet this we are asked to do for the sake | of Christian union, One has recently said, “The only difference between Baptists and Presbyte- Tians is, they have one baptism—immersion—and the Presbyterians have two—immersion and sprinkling. Presbyterians have no _ business with two baptisms. God says there is but | “one God, one faith and one baptism.” if | error enriches then this man might have made his boast seem greater; for, uf Presbyterians have two baptisms, they have three—immersion, pour- mg and sprinkling; and if they have a right to have two, there is no law, buman or divine, that can keep them from having a hundred. If trifing was not in the air, if men had not grown defiant in disobedience, they would not dare thus stand up in the pulpit and make light of adding to the things of God sprinkling as @ substitute for or as an addition to immersion, It 1s because of this in- fluence exerted by Rome that these things exist, The further one moves from the Papal Church the more alarming does such a boast appear. I would as soon proiane God as sprinkle a child and call it baptism. I would as soon violate any other com- mand of God as sprinkle @ man and call it bap. | tism. Sprinkling 18 at home in the Papar Church, Everything agrees with it and seems to | have grown out of it. Itcontains the tincture o¢ | error, which has corrupted every part of this sys- | tem. Its origin is noteworthy. It 1s the child of paganism and was grown amid the barbarians of Africa, where children were dedicated to demons ana were cast into the fire to propitiate the divinities; where Christians had wandered far frum God and were given up te wantonness and pleasure. Various accounts are given by diferent writers as’ to its introduction, One deciares that @ soldier was dying without baptisin; that Cyprian, the bishop, advised that he be sprinkled instead of immersed, with the under- standing at tie time that if he got well he should be immersed. Infant baptism is the product of baptismal regeneration, while baptismal regenera- tion is a pagan idea, Tertullian declares that the heathen, in the mysteries of Apollo and Ceres, sprinkled persons for their regeneration and for we pardon of their perjuries. Sprinkling, says Justin Martyr, is an invention of demons, in imi- tation of the true baptism, that their votaries might also have their pretended inspirations by water, Fides, a country minister in Atrica, lived among those who destroyed their chiidren by dedicating them to demons, He accepted the pagan idea, but changed its purpose, and so dedicated by baptism their children to God. | He did this without Scriptural warrant, and, as @ matter of expediency, was sustained by Cyprian and sixty-six bishops, Had Cyprian regarded it as Scriptural he would not have calied the sixty- six bishops together to consult as to whether it ‘was wise or not to accept a pagan into a Christian baptism. At one time infants were immersed as were adults. Baptismal regeneration soon became an article of falih, Great anxiety was felt ior prisoners who desired baptism, ior penitents.on dying couches, who believed bapusm esseutial to their salvation. Such persons could only ve heiped by substituting pouring for immersion, aud atter- Wards 118 Copartuer, sprinkling, though the most depraved Catholic owned it to be no baptism, ond cases are on record oi those who could hold no oifice sn the Church until they had veen immersed, Though they bad received aispensation in sickness, Ina littie time sprinkiung and pouring, used ior the imprisoned and unconscious, came into vogue Jor unconscious iniants; but tor many years it was decreed “that those Who had no. testinoniais, whether old or young, aud who do not remember that they were baptized, shall be immersed.” fhe error ol infant bupusim produced terrible results, it flied the churches = with = an sun- converted membership, It permitted error of every itorm_ to_ receive a welcome, Mosheime telis us that luxury, coveteousness und adultery universally prevaiied among the Catholic clergy. Preiates, habited in purple robes and gold, converted their homes into places o1 shame and lived lives so mfamous that to describe them would outrage dece: The luwpportance attached to intant baptism required the priest to attend upon Woman in such Ways, that to detail laitasuily the conduct oi clergymen and the progress of injant baptism would present the flthiest account ever issued from the press. ‘This is the baptism instituted by man and clung to by men who know its origin and its iniamy, In 416 the Council of Mela, in Numidia, Africa, en- joined Christians to baptize their children’ jor forgiveness of sins and pronounced a curse upon ail who denied tue doctrine. At this time no one thought of a covenant by baptism; they believed that salvation was secured by the act, and no mat- ter to What excess tuey might go, infant bapusm and inant communion, which for years went to- gether, insurea the devotee, In 757 Charies the Great issued the first law in Kurope for baptizing infants, The Bapust caurches deciared tuut no one can be amember of this communion ol saints but by his own solemn vow made in presence of this charch, It was with this under- standing that the candidate for baptism was im- mersed ta Water and admitted as a brother, upon his confession of the Father, the Son and the Holy Guost, “ie understood baptism,” said Chevalier Bunsen, “theretore, in the exact sense of the First not as being a mere boduy purification, but as @ Vow made to God with @ good consctence, throagh faith im Jesus Christ, Ths Vow Was preceded by a contession of Christian faith, made in the face of the Oburch, in which the | catechumen expressed that faith in Christ and in the sufficiency of (ue salvation offered by Him. It was a vow to live tor the time ta come to God and for his neighbour, not to the worid, ® vow oF faith in bis becoming a chid of God through this commun: 1on of his only begotten Sou (a the Holy Ghost; a for death, The keeping of this pledge was the condition of continuance in the Church; (ts intrigement en- tailed repentance or excommunication, All Church discipline was based upon this voluntary pledge, and the responsibility thereby self-imposed. Gut how could such a vow be received without exam- ination ¢ How could such examination be passed Without instruction and observation? As @ gen- eral rule the ancient Ohureh fixed three years for this preparation, supposing the candidate, whether heatnen or Jew, to be competent to recetve it, With Christian children the condition was | Waxed hot, SHEET, $$ the same, except that the terms Of pro- bation were curtailed according to circum- stances. Pedo vaptism in the more modern sense, meaning thereby vaptsm of new born infants, With the vicarious promises of parents or other per- sons, Was utterly unkuown to the early Church, hot only down to the end of the second, but in- deed to the middie of the third century.” I have quoted this passage at length because of the posi- on the author has long held tn the literary worid. For filteen or twenty years he was the Prussian Ambassauor at Rome, and atterwards ior several years at London, He enjoyed uncommon facilt- ties for prosecuting bis javorite studies, and he prosecuted them with commendable zeal, Asa con- | scientious investigator of eccies.astical antiquities he acknowleages with entire irankness that Infant baptism Was unknown tll alter the end of the second century, ‘fois 18 an important admission. it shows that the command “Go ye into all the world aud preach the Gospel to every creature, Whosoever beneveth and 1s immersed shail be saved, and whosoever believeth not sball be damned,” was the original commission, It 19 kuown that the apostolic church received believers Upon the profession of their faith, by tnmmersion, into the Cuurch of Christ. This we do at tbis hour in obedience to a Divine command, In theory and in practice the Baptist Church of this day resem- bles in every particular the historical church of the apostolic age. A Baptist is a discipie ot Christ, The Gospel is his rule of faith or prac- tice, He is God’s mouthpiece, and is commanded to furnish in his lie an illustrated edition of the Gospel, He spurns shame and treats pretence with contempt. He rests onGod, He becomes the re- ceptacle of good influences and the perpetual ex- ponent of the truth, God's thougnts are incar- hatedinhim. He is the natural standard bearer of truth, He iears God and is entrusted with the secrets of the Most High, He seeks to be right and finds pleasure in doing right. He stands with God, and is at the centre round which God’s provi- dences revolve, aud ior wuich they work. He Knows the truth and the truth makes him free. Like the eagle that, with strong wing and un- dimmed eye, pushes on toward the sun, making | @ plaything of the cloud and a sport of the tem- pest, as rising to his sublime aititude he looks down With unconcern upon @ storm smitven earth, the believer in Christ vecomes indifferent to the schemes and desires of men because 0! his inti- Mate associations with Him to whom continents aud isles are 4 little things and the peoples of earth as dust lying in tae balance. He receives the credit of being @ radical, a madman; of being iD advance Of men, because he looks into the light whe others lovk into the night, because as the eye of the maiden looks to the hand of her mis- tress, 80 he looks to the Lord nis God. He 1s rignt at the outset, and by Keeping in line with the teach- ings of the New Testament his faith grows brighter and brighter unto eat perfect day. re Stands as a link between and a lost world, ‘The people learn of God, of right, of jus- tice, Of law, of the claims of conscience, largely through him. He doves the work to-day committed to his Keeping, speaks the word given hum to speak, knowing that the deed and the Word are pu:t ol the uniuliilied plan of Him who watcueti trom on high, aud wio seeth the end frou the beginning. Can such a child of light have fellowship with tae works of darkness’ There are, sald & prominent Roman Vathoilc dishop, but two parties im the religious world, the Koman Catuolic and the Baptist; all the other divisions le between these contending divisions. As early as A. D, 160 we Und that the discipies in Carthage re- sisted the tendency to depart trom the simplicity 01 Gospel teachings for the corruptions or pagan- ism, No nation lits up the banner of the cross, reiuses to compromise with error, aud adheres, even 10 corrupt Rome, to the faitu as 16 is in Jesus, Great numbers stood With him, #ut when baptis- Mal regeneration became a dogma of the Romish | Church, and in ant baptism was allowed a place in the ceremonies 0: the Church, then the conflict Jor auult’ baptism would take it bard should we descrive the characters and the practices of the | originators of the scueme as they are described by Peaobaptist nistoriant From them Novatian, Donatus and tieir successors separated, and with them they comtended, because of their love of the truth, Furst—Infant baptism is a hindrance to Christian union because 1b substitutes jor jaith in Christ Jaith in man, and makes salvation depend upon, Dot iaith in Christ, but upon the application of water, Which is sUpposed to procure or produce the new virta, Baptists have fought this error long and well, and because of their opposition tiousand have abandoned it, Because the many Pedobapust caurches do not believe in baptismal regenciation iniaut sprinkling is laliing out of use. Parents know that it is unsupported by Scriptural autbority, and that the theory that in- lants are brought into covenant relations with Christ by baptism, while ali who are not sprinkled are Jeit 10 the uncovenanted mercies ol proven tO be utterly absurd, The sprinkled are bot more likely wo be converted in after life because the seal Of the covenant is applied to them in infancy, On. the contrary, infant baptism with multitudes proves to be & nindranée rather tuana help. It serves to ueceive siuners regarding tnetr peril, aud causes them to go down to the retributions of acspair because Of the lack of a well grounded | hope ip Christ. Immersion is the giit of Christ. It 184 Sign to the World that the recipient has passed irom death unto lie. He has received Christ into the heart 4s King and Lawgiver, and has recetved wer to become tie son of God because he has elieved on His name, Having believed in Him he finds it m his heart to obey Him, to pat Him beiore the world, and as the Saviour was im- mersed at the beginning of His entrance upon His pubuc Iue, that He uught fulfil all rignteousness, the disciple imitates tne example placed before him. “tuereioie we are buried with Him by bapUsm into death; that like as Christ was raised up iow the dead vy te glory of tue Father, even 80 We also should Waik in newness of life.”? Second—Iniant baptism 18 a hindrance to Chris- tian union because it ignores faith as a prerequi- site tu baptism and stuitilies the commission, Christ given and spirit urged, commanding the aisciples to preach the Gospel to every creature and administer baptism to believers. Third—it is a vindrance to Christian union be- cause there 18 nothing im sprinkhng or pouring Which is suggestive of the thought which Christ Set lorch by Lis immersion, an act which, irom the beginuing Oi tus public ministry, Jooked iorward to the close of 113 Lie Work—viz., 118 burial and res- urrection, Tuere 1s nothing in the scriptural ac- counts Of baptism that would suggest either of the | Modes Wuicu disubedient people desire to substitute Jor the immersion of Christ. Fourth—iniant — bapuism @ hindrance because those to Scripture cannot accept of it with- out disovedience to God. It comes Out Of the supposed need arising from rhe neces- sities O1 Lapusmal regeneration, and is without significance or without apostolic authority, Weigh At in scriptural balances and it is 10und wanting. Weigh it io tue valauce Oo; common sense and it 13 agaiu provounced worthless, it does no good and it produces much harm and should be abandoned, it was tie ou'growth oj baptismal regeneration and its Use Serves to propagate Unis error, AS a substitute lor Curistian baptisin it fails, because it occupies ive piace but does not accomplish the Work, Let it be removed and believers in baptism ordained by Curist and honored by the apostles Will Suon take Its place, without injury to those Who have avunuoned a ialse jor a true baptism and With posiiive benelit to those who obey Christ. If infant Vapuism, born in pagauism and sustained by the papac:, is tue indrance to Chrisuan union why siould it uot be given up by those who ure Joyal to Christ? such a course would make union insisted who are on is loyal possible wita true believers and would DOL invalidate their claim to be regarded as the chidren of God and discipies of Christ. Immersioa 1s an intelligent act, which from its navure involves, licst, @ proiession Of faith in Christ, and, second, a promise Of allegiance to Him, ‘this 18 Clear irom che command of Christ to make disciples Of all nations, baptizing them “into the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’? Now if jaith shouid precede baptism, and is this statement be true, “that every one Who be- evech that Jesus ts the Christ hatn been begotten of God,” then tuve those who professedly believe ta Cartst and i ot ptures as the word of God @ right fo insist Upon a practice which is a relic of Rowe, and demand that those who make the Bible their rule o: saith ana practice abandon tie teaci- ings of Vhrist and the aposties in order that they May be ih harmony With those WhO Cling to a per- nicious error, and insist upon an unscriptural practice. #yih—Iintant baptism is a hindrance to Christian union because it imtrouuces aD WDEOn verted mem- bersbip into the churci, It is the ollspring of an Judaizing spirit, and betrays great iguorance of the commands of Curist and ol the duty to obey them. Jt 1aciistates the union of Church and State, | and Jurmisheu the seedling out of which grew re- ligious persecution, contiscation, bam stment, the dungeon, tie 1ack, ior a clear conscience and a pure lic. it was this which tied Lurope with murder and prowpted the wuriling prayer of Mil- tou, Wuich he wrote under tue inspiration of the reports brought back by Cromwell's soidiers, who Went (o the heip of persecuted Baptsts, Welland Tigntly did he cry :— Avenge, O Lord, tly slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountatas cold ; Bren ihose who kept the truth s pure 0: old, When aij our tazhers worst Ks, the! The Vales redoub.ed to the Mills, aud wey To heaven. Sicth—Intant baptism is @ hindrance to Christian Union, because it actually divides the followers of Christ. 1t 18 based oniy wm tradition, and should be rejected becaiise it has no Scriptural warrant, In its practice and tendency it 18 one of the worst dogmas o/ Popery. Let it be abandoned by those Who believe im Christ, aud let believers’ baptism be restored and the whole superstructure of Rome Would crumbie down, We are aware that those who practise it piead earnestly tor union and , denounce Baptists as the personitication of bigowy and the promoters of sedition, On the con- trary, Baptists have been the conservators of Wiis world’s weal, They refuse to fix things to please seifor an ungodly world, They Make tue Hible their rule of faith and practice. A Imssion to the Lord binds them. 4m kindness, in love they pead with all men to obey Curist. This ¥nd nothing more. They teach taat each church is a congregation of baptized believers, called and separated irom the world by the Spirit of God and Working in harmony with tie requirements of the New Testament, They oppose the error which holds that the sacraments communicate invisible snd heavenly blessings to the participant; that regeneration and remission Of sing are inialiibly given to the pocorn while by infant baptisin the germ of fait planted in the ine jant’s heart, They gaX pues ‘wacred ‘those who contend tor the right o1 | suustituimg sprinkling for umwersion and iniant | “4 tism 1s an outward, visible and action, in which, following the 6 of rist and the aposuies, the’ w ve heard the holy doctrine and have believea and Willingiy received it with == hei baptized in the name of the Fatuer, Son Hol; Spirit. ‘Thus a line is drawn between the ‘Church and the world, Yet baptism hag ita boliG meaning. Death to sin and the world is a forth in the act of immersion, and @ new and holy life is entered ag this child of God eme! the watery grave. Says Spurgeon :—“We, who have been baptized upon proiession of our faith, were taught in that solemn ordinance to bless the Lord with our entire being, for we were not sprinkled. here or there, but we were in the outward sign buried with the Lord Jesus in baptism unto death, and we were immersed into the name | of the divine God. Over our heads this liquid water flowed, for we resigned the brain, with all its powers of thought, to Jesus; | Over the heart, the veing, the bands, the eyes, the ears, the mouth, the significant element found itsell, symbol Of that universal consecration, which deluges all the inward nature of every sanc- tified believer.” Can Christians be called: heretics or echismatics simply because they insist on obey- lng the laws of Christ, preserving intact the ordi- nances which Christ gave or using them as Christ commanied? It is error, not truth, which ig re- spopainie for a divided Church. A word, then, to those who differ irom us and walk not acco to the requirements of the word of the Lord. We take it for granted that you have never exam- ined this subject, You have accepted the tradi- tion of your Church as though you had Scriptural authority for your conduct. Can you do this salely? Is not the iuture black with gath- ering wrath for those who Knowingly and willy add to the things of God? Rome is exposed to the terrible judgimeuts of an angry God, All who belleve Scripture believe this, Can you not see that if you share her sin you snare her lagues? We believe tuat those who believe in Jnrist desire to serve Him. God speaks to you say- ing, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not artakers of her sing and that ye recelve not of her plagues; for her sius have reached unto heaven and God hath renembered her tniqutties’? Let such a course be pursued, and surely the whole Christian world would be the gainers, and the horrors built up by error in the tnird century would be removed, There would be union tn fact asiniorm. The Church of Christ, under the ban- ner Of the Crucified, wouid stand in line all around the world, and would go up without embarrass ment, without conflict and without hindrance against this enemy of ail righteousness, while angels could shout out to them from tue very heavens:— From strength to strength go on, Battle and fight and pray; na Tread ail (he power> oi darkness down, And win the weil tought day. PLYMOULY CHURCH Mr. Beecher on Conversion and Chris Uan Lite—A Training School, Not a Manifestation of Perfection. Plymouth church was Milled to ite utmost ca- pacity yesterday morning, and many went away, unable to find standing place where the preacher's voice could reach. It was baby Sunday, and @ number of iniants were presented for baptism, the choir chanting an appropriate sentence be- fore the application of the typical sprinkling. Aiter this, witn the usual prayers and sacrea songs, including the charming opening anthem, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace,’” Mr. Beecher announced tis text as found in He- brews, third chapter, sixth and fourteenth verses, and tenth chapter, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth | Yerses—*Whose house we are, if we hoid fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto | the end.” ‘For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stead- | fast unto the end.” “Vast uot away, therefore, | your confidence, which aath great recompense | of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, | after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” Thoughit would probably neverbe known who was the author of this epistie, Mr. Beecher thought it quite apparent it was addressed to the Hebrews ata time of great weakness and gloom, to cheer and support them in their attachment to the cause of the dead and risen Master, They suffered ex- patriation and persecution. So, too, in every age, Christians need encouragement and support in their endeavor to model thetr lives after that of Christ, Conversion, asa change in the direction aud tendency of one’s llie, and endeavor, not asa perfected revolution was the theme of the dis course. It was filied with a reasoning drawn from Scripture and everyday le, with those homely and witty aliustrations which give such acharm to ° the Plymouth pastor’s lauillar tales, He considerd the Cure and Christian ordinances ag the school in which persons desirous of moral elevation may train and drill themseives in the FORMATION OF A HARMONIOUS CHARACTER, He ridiculed the idea tuat an instantaneous re Vulsion could whoily iorm a Christian character, As a Schooiboy has first to be taught how to hold his pen, then gradually and painfully how to form each character beiore he can write Jairly, 80 each of our powers Must be trained in the Christian school. Curist’s followers were called disciples, scholars, learners, Who endeavored to make their lives conformable to His precepts. Let none doubt tue validity of their conversion because they do not find themselves perfect; do not fulfil their ideal oi Christian lie. We buy pianos made per fect, and if they are imperiect we consider our- selves cheated and require a perfect instrument, But we cannot so test tne genuineness of the at- tempt to follow Christ. Men cannot be always kept at concert pitch. ‘They try and fail, and are tempted to doubt tuereby. Tie Unristian life is a procesd entered upon of moral change into the likeness of the Divine Master. ‘lo undertake to perfect thia in a Gay, in ail sorts of men, 1s most ridiculous, PERFECTION 13 NOT FOR THIS EARTH. When men are perlect they are out of place here, Some men need but little repairs compara- Uvely, and in them the change 18 not 60 apparent. Others are like houses built below the street rade, Which need to be iiited a dozen feet im air Boiore they reach the level at which a decent man would keep a respectavie dog. We have basilar instincts to be overcome, unruly passions to be crushed, It cannot be done at once. We make infinite mistakes. Some uoubt their conversion because they Cannot pray. Overs might as well doubt because they pray too easily, like @ faucet, which wil dow all day and ali night if it be simply opened. ‘There are varieties in churches ag in orchestras. All should not be alike, like candies, Some doubt because they are perplexed by aoc trines aud interpretations of Scripture, or even unbelie! in its inspiration, Still they do not doubt the great trutis taught by the Bible, ‘They never doubt God and our duty. Then they should not, therefore, permit such doubts to opscure their faith, Cliristiian life should be full of liberty, should weicome wit, humor, imagination, poetry, art and music. it should not take the fair trees of the forest, hew them down, strip of their branches and bring thei into the church four- square sticks Of timber. It should preserve, un- | fold, develop all there is good in man; shoula | produce true manhood, ST, JAMES’ CATHEDRAL, The Temperance Cause. Yesterday morning, Vicar General Turner preached at the st. James Cathedral in Jay street. There was a large congregation present, Alter the first Gospel of the mass the reverend rather as- ' cended the altar and made an earnest appeal to the congregation in behali of the temperance cause, urging them to do ull they could in support of the movement, He spoke of ths temper- | ance meeting which is to be held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on luesday night under the au- Spices 0} the Catnolic Total Abstinence Union of the Diocese of Brouklyn, and invited them to at- tend the meeting. The proceeds are for the poor under the care of tie St. Vincent de Paul Societies of the diferent parishes. He thought the temperance societies connected with the Cuurch Were better than the independent organizations, as the memoers had the advantage of reiigious instructions, whieh hed the eect of keeping tuem more united and firmer in the cause, wien preached irom the Gospel of tne duy, selecting for his text the fourteenth to the twenty-eigath verses of the Eieventh chapter of St. Luke, relating to the custing out of the dumb | devils, which he said were the sins whtch come in | one’s ‘soul and supplant the germs Of goodness, They should be thankiul to the Lord jor giving | them the power Oi casing out these dumb deviis, | 'Toey should ve thankful to the Lord for giving thein tne holy sacraments. The Lord was to be jJeared im the sacrament i the communicants re- ceived it unworthily, a3 he believed many did. ‘They went to contession and afterwards they were guilty of detraction and cainmay, and he then pointed out the dtugreuce between tuese evils, CATHOLIO MISSION AT ST, JOSEPH’s, Yesterday was the las! Sunday of the mission or the Jesuit Fathers at St. Joseph's, Pacific street, and the services were, as usual, attended by vast. congregations, At the principal mass the distin- guished doctor of divinity and cultured orator, Rev. Father Gerésche, s. J., preached touching the beanties of heaven and the celestial happiness, far surpassing the understanding of the most learned of men, which are in store for those who, having made their peace with God, “con- tinue to fight the good fight to the end,” ‘The reverend speaker reviewed in brief the lessons whicl had been inculcated by the instructions given sinve tue opening of the Missi two weeks ago. He stated that 6,000 perso ry approached the tribunal of confession and had re- ceived holy communion. The attendance each morning at the five o'clock services had been very gratilying, the lary ifice being filled daily. ‘Tho juission will terminate this evening, when the Papal benediction wilt be given, ere will ve es on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, and ‘nursday the sacrament of Confirmation wii) be administered to 1,000 people py the Kimnt Rev. LAWL De