The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1874, Page 5

IMMORTALITY.| Reports of the Services and Sermons in the Churches Yesterday. TALMAGE ON TEMPERANCE. Dr. Edward Beecher and the Universalists. BEECHER ON FAME. The Secretary of the Methodist Board of Education on Heart Power, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL At St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday morning the Very Rev. Vicar General Quinn preached on “Prayer.” The usual large congregation attended nd the music was excellent. In the afternoon the Rev, Father McNamee gave the Lenten in- struction. On St. Patrick’s Day a Pontifical high mass Will be celebrated, beginning at half-past ten o’clock, and alter the first gospel @ panegyric will be preached by the Rev. Father Henning, of the Redemporists. FIRST REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Bishop Cummins preached yesterday morning at Stemway Hall and in the evening at Lyric Hall, to audiences composed largely of members of the Re- formed Eptscopal Church, The Bishop appears on the platform tn the robes of an Episcopalian minis- ter. At both sermons large audiences were pres- ent, the congregation at Lyric Hall bela, a very fashionable one, The Bishop chooses for his texta Scriptural subjects on all occasions, and never varies from the solid style of church preaching; in this respect differing {rom most ministers who or- ganize a new denominational system. BEDFORD STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL OHURCH The morning service at this church yesterday Was attended by a congregation numbering about 300. The Rev. Dr. Ferris (pastor) officiated, and, taking as his text the third verse of the first Psalm—“And he shall be Itke the tree planted by the river, and whatever he doeth shall prosper’’— delivered a sermon on the subject of Christian principle and Christian experience in life, con- tending that the greatest hinderances which tm- peded advancement to a higher condition of morals and faith were the baneful evils of scepticism, or Romanism, and the destructive vice of intemperance. THE BAPTIST TABERNACLE, President Rambant on Faith and Re- pentance. The vacant pulpit, occupied till last Sunday by the Rev, Wayland Hoyt, at the Second avenue Baptist tabernacle, was filled yesterday by the Rev. Tuomas Rambant, late President of the Wil- liam Jewell Baptist Vollege, of Missourl, and who, it may be mentioned, distinguished himself greatly in attending to the sick during the yellow fever epidemic at Savannah some years ago. Owing to the report having been circolated taat Mr. Ram- vant was about to become Mr. Hoyt’s successor the church was densely crowded, The preacher chose for his text the nineteenth verse of the thirty-fourth Psalm. ST, STEPHEN'S OHURCH, The first week of the retreatat St. Stephen’s church, the exercises being exclusively for women, Was brought to a close yesterday after. noon. During the week the church was crowded at every service, and thousands approacked the sacraments. This week the exercises will be ex- clusively formen. At the high mass yesterday morning the sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Lissot, the subject being the Lenten fast aud its observance. In the aiternoon the same father reached on “Holy Communion,” and in the even- ing, at hall-past seven o'clock, Father Tissot again eccupied the pulpit, opening the retreat for men and preaching ou the small bumber of the elect, The church was filled at every service. The Rev. Father Tissot, who is 1 charge .of the retreat, 1s assisted by Rey. Fathers Hacksfield, Sache and Fitzpatrick. ALLEN STREET _ ue QDIST EPISCOPAL OHUXCH, ~ Sermon by Rev. W. D. Thompson on the Bread of Life. In the modest looking brick edifice known as the Allen street Methodist church, the Rev. W. D. Thompson, the pastor, preached yesterday morn- ing to @ congregation of about 500 persons, The church is not at all of the upper ten kind, its mem- bership being made up from the middle and lower rather than the higher classes. There was an en- tire absence of that fervor which, as arule, 18 in- separable from a Methodist gathering. Mr. Thompson chose for the subject of his discourse the “Bread ot Life,” the text being from the Gos- pel of St. John, vi., 35—‘l am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger.” The ser- mon was a review Of tne comparisons which may be drawn between the manna given to the Jews @nd the nature and character of Jesus Christ, UNITY CHAPEL, The Prodigal Son—Sermon by Professor Cort Tyler, of Boston. The only Unitarian church in Harlem is Unity chapel. It is a neat little wooden structure in 128th street, between Fourth and rifth avenues. The regular pastor, Rev. W. T. Clarke, having gone to Washington to preach on the death of Charles Sumuer, the pulpit was occupied by Pro- fessor Cort Tyler, of Boston, His subject was the rather hackneyed one of the Prodigal Son; but, notwithstanding its triteness, he lent it quite a charm and interest, None of his thoughts were new, but they were well rendered and were all good. His portrayal of the erring young man’s suiferings were almost dramatic. He enforced that every diversion from the path of duty was fuilowed by evil consequences, hat’ if he repent and return, does he have no suffering? Surely no, The man who has brought trouble to his parents may repent, but can he restore them their niguts Jost in sleeplessness and solicitude for him? 8T. THERESA’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, Father Thomas Lynch on the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, The balmy air and the genial sunshine had the effect of filling the church of St. Theresa, corner of Rutgers and Henry streets, yesterday morning to repletion with a crowd of devout Catholics bent upon paying their devotions, The music was un- exceptionably fine. Kev. Father Thomas Lynch sang high mass at nalf-past ten, at the conclusion of which Rev. Father James J. Flood delivered a sermon on extreme unction. The text was taken from the fifth chapter of the Epistie of St, James, the thirteenth to the sixteenth verse—“Is any man sick among you let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name o! the Lord, And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man, and the Lord shall raise him up and if he be in sins they shall be for- given him.’’ Father Flood said that the sacra. Ineut of extreme unction was most clearly estab- lished, notwithstanding the fact ot its denial as Well as the rejection of the epistle trom which the text is taken by all Protestant sects, FOURTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHUROH, Common SensemSermon by Rev. Howard Crosby. The Fourth avenue Presbyterian church, on the northwest corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty: second street, contained, at the morning services, a very fair coilection of worshippers. Rev. Howard Crosby, the pastor, preached on a text from Matiliew—“When ye see a cloud arise in the west, ye know that it will rain, and go it will; and when the south wind biows, ye know that it will be hot, and so it cometh to’ pass; ye hypocrites ye dis cern the sigrs, but do not discern the times.” Men know that in crossing the ocean of life storms will suddenly come upon them, and yet they are con- tent, Jor the present is all right, and so neglect the ‘eat engine toiling down in the hold and even let go Ol the tiller. Others confine themselves to the care of the Good Shepherd. It is the turn- ing of these to God that fills heaven with delight. how many in the worid are misusing their com- mon sense! They see the cloud anc yetao not prepare for a storm. Why should there be people who are hypocrites to thelr conscience and God vy Tejusing to use their common sense? CHURCH OF 8T, JOHN THE BAPTIST, In the Episcopatian Church of St, John the Bap. tis, Lexington avenue, Bishop Potter preached and administered the sacrament of contirmation to NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, about 150 persons, mainly children, of both sexes, belonging to some charitable institutions. The congregation in itself was small and of a middling class. Bishop Potter, in his sermon, which was a short one, addressed mainly to the idea of the ne- cessity of all Christians living:at all times prepared for the translation into another world, The utter insignificance of the event which can cause death to the body 1s brought to our notice every day. On earth there is no stability, no security, and men should not build up too great expectations of happmess and reputation in a world where, at ®& moment’s warning, all such calculations could be destroyed. It was a mistake which a great many made and generally repented of in their last moments. One man in 100,600,000 left a name which went down to posterity to be remembered, All investments as to this world were unsa/e; but all concerning the worid to come would bring 12 @ heavenly interest which lasts forever, DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, The True Christian the Only True Noble= man—Sermon by Rev. B. B. Chapin. A rather quamt and unique looking church, with a portion of its front ivy-mantied, having a somewhat venerable appearance, is the Dutch Re- formed church, corner of Twenty-first street and Fifth avenue. Its intemor ts plain and tasterul, and the windows of stained giuss. In the absence of Rev. Dr, Rogers, the regular pastor, caused by a temporary illness, the services yesterday morn- ing were conducted by Rev. H. B, Chapin, He wore a black surplice and read his sermon, He has a clear, ringing voice, and, although indulging in very litue gesticuiation, has a pleasant and effective delivery. His text Was Judges vin, 183—‘Each one resembled the children of a king,” He began with describing the circumstances under which the words 01 the vext Were uttered. He sppiied this description to Christians. It was not, he showed, dress or pomp or power or outward surroundings that make men noble, The Obristian was the true nobleman, aud the spirit of Christianity, kindling his heart and warming into activity all the im- pulses of his nature, gave to him nobleness and Majesty. It wasa@ greatness and glory heaven cence, and it pertained to the soul and to eter- nity. MADISON SQUSRE PRESBYTERIAN OHURCH, What Constitutes Christianity—Sermon by Professor Hitchcock. The massive jagged brown stone and high- steepled church at the corner of Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth street, known in the calendar of our city churches as the Madison square Pres- byterian church, is more familiarly known as “Dr. Adams’ church.” Nearly every pew was filled at the services yesterday morning. The singing is good, but they do not make a special feature of it, Professor Roswold Hitchcock, of the Union Theo- logical Seminary, occupied the pulpit. He read hig sermon, but with a clearness of utterance that made every word audible to the entire congregation, it was evidently a studicd dis- course, and every period was rounded with @ rhetorical smoothness betokening the pains- taking of the cultured scholar. His subject was the ‘Conference of Christ with Nicodemus,” as detailed in the opening verses of the third chapter of St. Jonn. He related how the stories of the miracles performed by Christ reached the ears of the Jewish ruler and philosopher; how the lacter, fn his earnest determination to see the great teacher of new doctrines and investigate the Subject of his miracles and yet to avoid the obser- vation and ridicuie Of others, came to Him at night, and how, on coming into the presence of Jesus, the necessity of being born again was ex- Plained to him, CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, The Rev, Chauncey Giles preached his usual sermon here yesterday morning. The church is a small and singularly built one, but it is always well filled with a respectable congregation. The Rey. Mr. Giles ts an aged man, but concise in his delivery and sharp in his ideas. He reads his sermon from a manuscript, Among other things he said that @ man’s path to salvation was through useful work—not through idleness. The Lord’s arm is under the man who works, and he may have that spirit of independence which idle- ness never brings. The busy man will lift his burdea. Love will glorily his work. Instead of standing alone, he has the rod of adivine power in his hanus. Everybody is on his side. Poverty makes no difference. The Lord was born in a manger, in @ carpenter’s family, and He ate with publicans and sinners. Man Wants to and should be, happy to-day. There is no necessity of waiting for it until we reach the next world. And itis not the Lord’s fault if we misuse the happiness He nas given us. Natural delights are not siniul, Waoen the Church teaches us they are wrong it teaches us to do without what we were evidently meant toenjoy. Wecan obtain pleasure from all our senses, and these senses were given us to obtain pleasure from. The whole superstructure for eter- nity is laid here, and the jorms o! beauty are made to be enjoyabie here. it is the office of the Church to teach us their true value, John saw acity com- ing from heaven to him; our city must come down from above to meet us here, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SAVIOUR, No Ground for Complaint Against God— Sermon by Rev. Mr. Carter. There are few more compact and more tasteful churches in this city than the Charch of the Holy Saviour in Twenty-fifth street, near Madison avenue. Built of Nova Scotia stone, and though without steeple, its fagade is quite highly ornamented. While a stranger would pause to gaze at the exterior he would linger longer in observing the beauty and elegance of the interior decorations. The attention would first be callea to a representation by gas jets ofa golden crown over a cross in the chancel. ‘Then also there isa massive stained window representing Christ biessing little children. The hght streaming turough this and three stained domes in the ceil- ing, gives to the richly frescoed walls and the dark black walnut pews and heavy carpets a glow of soitened splendor. A special feature 18 made of the music and, in addition to a skilled organist, there is @ quartet of singers of rare cultivation. It takes a long time to get through the preliminary exercises; but the music is of that exquisite order—and the services are mostly made up of mustc—that one does nottire. At least it Was so at the services yester- day morning. The discourse was preached by Rev. Mr. Carter, the pastor. His text was Micah, vi., 2and 3—“Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s con- troversy, and ye strong foundations o! the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with his peopie and He will plead with Israel 0 my people, what have I done unto thee, and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify against me.” He spoke without notes; but his voice ig hargh and delivery at times melo-dramatic. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHUROH, The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Its wessons=Sermon by the Kev. Dr. Armitage. This modest, unpretending little church, with- out steeple or decorations inside or out, in Forty- sixth street, near Filth avenue, was yesterday morning completely filled by @ fashionable and at- tentive congregation. Rev. Dr, Armitage, the well Known pastor, occupied the pulpit. The theme which he discoursed upon was ‘The Prodi- gal Son,” This minister speaks in a loud, clear voice and can be heard distinctly in the farthest part of the church. After bringing vividly before the minds of nis hearers the sad picture of the prodigal son when he was in the midst of his ex- cesses, he went on to show the ingratitude of his worthless companions who, when his money be- came exhausted, deserted him. With no other resource this young man, who had been nurturea in the lap of comfort, if not luxury, went to keeping swine, which was considered a debasing employment. It was then that he began to think of hume, and there was genuine repent- ance init. He knew that even the servants in his lather’s household were better off than nimselt, He wanted to go to his father and tell him he had sinned, There was hope, and homeward he went. Did this son entertain any hope that he would be received by that father again? Those of you who have neinneaet sons or daughters know what you would have done. His fatuer had never tor- gotten him, and had prayed to God that he would restore his long lost son. It was the father’s love that could not give him up, What parent wouid willingly give up a child? He ran with outstretchea arms to neet him, and with the iull compassion of @ father’s heart forgave him all, ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. The Lessons of Christ’s Life—Sermon by Rev. Mr, Ingley, of Washington. ‘The congregation at All Souls’ church yesterday morning was not very large, A Washington di- vine occupied the pulpit in the place of Dr. Bel- lows, His subject was, “The Doctrines of Jesus the Religion of Humanity ;” and his text, “There 4s neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor creed, neither male nor female; for all are one in Jesus Christ.” His discourse consisted principally of in- cidents connected with the personal history of Jesus, He began by saying that the theme was a much larger subject than the text indicated. If he were @ painter he would employ his art to por- tray his thouguts on glowing canvas. Tne first icture which he woul present would e@ a marriage Jestival ‘They shoula see the families of the bride and groom exchanging their well Sane ihe and congratulations. In their mtdst ts Jesus, His Whole being reflecting the enjoyment of the scene. Reside this picture shonid be a companion picture. In the midst of a melancholy and lamenting group we now see Jesus. His eye is moist, He was ever joyous with the joyous and sorrowiul with the sor- rowiul, Another scene was Where Christ was at & feast given by a wealthy and influential man. Forcing her way through the entrance 18 a woman. Her ast falling tears drop oF Jesus’ travel staned feet and she Wipes them with her jong hair, The host withdraws himself a little, and wonders that Christ does not know that she is a woman of the town. Christ does know it, but He also knows that she is stilla human being and has an immortal soul, And so He speaks to her gently. Many other scenes were portrayed, showing that Josue throughout His earthly career practised elevate and rect schemes of humanity, and that doctrines were, in fact, the retigion of humanity. ALANSON METHODIST CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. Churles A, Harris on Faith, Hope and Charity. In the Alanson Methodist Episcopal church yes- terday morning, the pastor, Rev, Charles A. Harris, preached to & congregation of over fitteen hundred persons. Many visitors from Brooklyn and the suburbs being among the number. This congrega- tiop is probably the wealthiest of any on the east- ern side of the city, but they are of the old-iash- joned kind withal, responses which could be heard all over the house being not at all infrequent. One old gentleman, who sat near the reporter, kept ejaculating “Amen” and * bless the Lord,” when- ever any sentiment of the preacher's pleased his fancy or met his approbation, The text was trom St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, thir- teenth chapter and last verse, “ and now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” Mr. Harris said that love was the cardinal grace of Christianity. It was superior to faith and hope, for they were privare graces, while love in its Very essence ad reference to God. He referred to the etforta now progressing in thiscity having tor their opject the rele! of the distressed and unfortunate, and said that tt was the quality of love which promptea the ladies and gentlemen to devote their time and their substance to the carrying on of such noble work. The women’s temperance movement im the West was reviewed at length, While it might be derided and made sport of by many it could not help being @ success, a8 the movement was prompted not only by love for the un- fortunate persons addicted to the use of alconolic drinks, but for the dealers in the same, Mr. Har- ris denounced in unmeasured terms the practice of the occasional use of stimulants and insisted ie total abstinence was the only remedy ior the ev! CHUROH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, HARLEM, Pain and Penalties of Sin—Sermon by Rev. W. N. McVicor. One of the most elegant and tasteful churches of Harlem is the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of 126th street and Fifth avenue. The attendance comprises some of the most fasnionable people on this section of Manhattan Islaud. The pastor 1s Rev. W. Neilson McVicor. He is a young man, and has evidently brought to his pastoral duties careful culture. He possesses a deep, pleasant voice, and a style of delivery at once impressive and forcible, He preached yesterday morning on the following text, Isaiah 1.,5—'*‘Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more, The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.”” We are very apt, he said, to look upon the Old Tes- tament and the history of Israel as unimportant and regard it as any other secular history. If we look at it more closely, more appreciatingly, we wul find it more important—next, in fact, to the Gospel. We live in a world of many elements and forces, the same subtle forces that have been working around man since the begin- ning. He spoke of the entanglements of social science, and said that we ure working out both God’s and man’s plan. After descriting the privi- leges vouchsafed the ancient Israelites, he showed the difference in the condition of the people of the same nationality of to-day. Disobedience of God’s laws, he urged, would always be attended by disaster to those thus rebelling. Disease, despair and sickness abounded, but sin producea them all, Sin impels punishment. Divine justice must be satisfied. Bring love and kindness to bear on sorrow, as shown in the life of Christ. God would not have us die. From the battlements of heaven you will see how God led you as Israel, and your song to Moses and the Lamb will be all the more glorious, tender and ravishing when yon learn that the minor notes were taught you in suffering. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Dr. Edward Beecher On the Death of Public Men. At this church on yesterday morning the Rev. Edward Beecher, D. D., officiated in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Sweetser. The attend- ance amounted to about 350 persons. In the course of the service allusion was made to the loss the nation has lately sustained in the deaths of some of its great men, and supplication was offered to the Almighty to raise up worthy succes- sors to them; that those in high places may not consider the chief object of their elevation to be their own aggrandizement; that they may escape the pollution of bribery and corruption, and their highest ambition be their country’s good and the honor of God. The appropriate hymn, “Thy will, my God, be done” (solo), Was here sung, and also the hymn, “How gracious the promise, how sooth- ing the word’’ (choir). Dr. Beecner invited the attention of his hearers to the consideration of the promises contained in Zechariah, xiv., 20—‘In that, day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in tne Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar,’’ and concerning ‘‘justification” and the ‘“abund- ance of ice’? in the filth chapter of Romans, likening the state of society to a great organ wiich 1s not wholly in unison, yet of one or two of the wondrous it would be if all were equaliy true.’’ The preacher pursued the theme of the regenera- tion and sanctification of the soul of man, and, making distinction between that holiness ot spirit, which, as with the angels, is a ae netay with God, @ pure emanation of the heart, and holiness which relates to the body and the things of nature, held that it was most beneficial tor us to keep ever in view and ever before us the great ideal of excellence, to hope for it in accordance with Divine promise, and unceasingly endeavor to ee onward in progress towards that grand end. OHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY, There was so great a rush at Dr. Chapin’s church, corner Forty-fifth street and Fifth avenue, yester- able to obtain seats. The music, which at this church is always of the first order, was unexcep- tionably fine. The text from which Mr. Chapin diately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.” He spoke with his usual impas- sioned eloquence, THE COLORED CHURCHES. ZION CHURCH, This church, which occupies the northwest corner of West Tenth and Bleecker streets, is the largest colored cnurch in the city. The sermon yesterday was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Pnillips from Isaiah, XXviL, 13, The congtege tion was very smali, but manifested considerab! tone of the very excited minister. 8T, MARK'S CHURCH, This popular though very contractea edifice, under the pastorship of the Rev. Willtam F, But- ler, situated in Thirty-fi(th street, was quite slimly attended yesterday. The text was selected from Mark Xiv., 42—‘Kise and let us go; lo, he that betrays me ris. at hand.’? The discourse, which was delivered by @ minister from Newark, com- ee merely the betrayal of Christ by the Apostle eter. Bethel American Methodist Episcopal Charch. This church, situated in Sullivan, between Bleecker and Amity streets, had, as usual, a large attendance, The Rev. Dr. Young, a middle-aged gentleman, of tall stature, with very large propor- tions, is pastor, and, although he manifests an ex- tensive Biblical knowledge, the Doctor possesses a very harsh delivery, the addition of its other attendants, make it neces- sary, a8 On this Occasion, to place benches along the aisles to aid in their accommodation. The an- nouncement that a very inteliigent minister from Bridgeport—a student at Yale College—would de- | liver the sermon, was instrumental in the occupa- | tion of each available corner of the church. The Rev. Mr. Morris preached, selecting ag his Galatians vi, 14—“But Goa forbid I should glory save in the cross oi our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.’ The reverend gentleman, after a lengthy discourse on the text, informed his hearers of the very great | Joss of their benefactor, Senator Charles Sumner, and said, How sad will be the feelings of his asso- | ciate Senators when they enter the hall of Con- | gress and gaze at the vacant chair of their lost | friend! Fifty years, yes, one hundred years, may pass ere in history—with Laiayette recorded to Krance, Cicero to Greece, and Washington, the great Fatner of His Country, to America—with the pen dipped with the ink o/ immortal excellency, will be written in lines of gold the name of Charles Sumner as the greatest man in America. He dwelt quite long on the many efforts of the Senator to forward the passage of the Civil Rigtits bill, after which the pastor, apparently with leelings of intense interest, exhorted his congregation to open their hearts and without delay sign their names to the dollar collection, The choir then, amidst the confusion coursed the closing hymn, that material | day morning, that those who came in late were un- | drew his sermon was St. Jobn, v., 9—“‘And imme- | le delight in the elevated | The congregation is com- | posed very largely of Southern folks, who, with | | perance. | and Court streets, Brooklyn, the Rev. Father Cas- of the contributors and non-contributors, | BROOKLYN CHURCHES. TALMAGE" ACLE, Views of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage—The Imprecticability of a Women’s War on Whiskey in New York and Brooklyn— No Woman with Enough Faith and Courage to Lead—A Surprise for the Temperance People, At the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday morning Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached a sermon upon the present temperance crusade at the West and the impracticability of its being carried on here, for the reason that there seems to be no woman with sumMcient faith to lead forth the host, This reason is different from any heretofore given, and its announcement created considerable comment among the vast congregation that filled the Taber- nacie. The text of the sermon was, ‘Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake,” found in the fith chapter of Judges, whicn refers to the avenging of Israel under Deborah and Barak. After briefly speaking of the incidents mentioned in this chapter, the preacher said:— An army of Canaanitish and infernal influences has come down to destroy this tair land of ours. This army comes on armed with the decanter and demijohn, and legislative enactment, and brewer's tank and apothecary’s bitters and the distiller’s “worm,” that never dieth, To meet these influ- ences some very brave men have gone out and have tried to break to pieces these iron chariots of destruction; but for the most part the land has slept. Indeed, it slept until, a few weeks ago, at the West, the Lord Almighty raised His voice until it rang through the churches and the homes and the gin palaces and off upon the prairie, say- ing, “Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake.” And now this moment, while I speak, this great Austerlitz goes on, while earth, heaven and hell await THE STUPENDOUS ISSUB. Before I proceed to discuss the modes and poli- cies by which the great sin of drunkenness is to be assaulted, I want to tell youtwoor three things which I think will bear me out in the statement that something radical—I don’t say what—needs tobe done. The first tact I want to put before you ig this—that there are coming up @ vast multi- tude of children in this country who have from the very day of their birth » thirst for strong drink. Whether it be developed in early life it is tnere; they have got it. There are young men in this house to-day who have had two inheritances— one an inheritance of dollars (they have nearly spent that); the other is the inheritance o! a thirst for strong drink, They have not spent that is in addition to this, there 1s coming up irom the lower haunts of society an uncounted throng oi children who have peen iamiliar with the odors of the whiskey jug and the aie pitcher from the time they started in life. Another fact I want to show is the multiplicity of drinking houses all over our cities. There never has been much reason for | @ man’s being thirsty a great while. \Where it was only like an eruption on the boay of the city, it has now become @ multitude of carbuncies, that | threaten the very life of the community. What is the use of our assaulting these things by mere preaching? it don’t reach the men who are en- gaged in the drinking. We might STAND TALKING UNTIL THE DAY OF DOOM about the beauty of sobriety; it would not touch | them. We can’teven have the Liquor law exe- cuted. The fact is that when the republicans are in power they dare not execute the law lest they lose votes, and when the democrats are in power they dare not execute the law lest they lose votes. Meanwhile, between discontention of political par- ties, the virtue and religion of the city die. Mr, Talmage then reierred to druggists as tiquor sellers, Instead of being the means of help they had often become the meaus of dissipation. In some forms of disease a stimulus was needed, and under a prudent and skilful physician alcohol bad an iunportant work to d but what was to be sald about the d ceptions practised upon the people of this day by bitters of ailsorts ¥ The preacher spoke of the immense amount of money spent for liquor and then devoted the balance of his sermon to the present movement, saying, You ask me, first, “Do you approve of the assault made by the | women ol the West upon the liquor busimess!” | and in the second place, “Would you have the same assault and the same scenes here at the Kasty? 1 answer, first, that there have been some things done there that have no sympathy with, ana I also assert that so long as we have so many fools masculine we ought to be willing to have a few | fools feminine. (Laughter.) ‘Tuen I go further, | and aver tuat I consider the campaign against the | grogshops in the West to be THE GRANDEST AND MOST MAGNIFICENT THING that has been done on earth since the day when | Deborah, in the name of the Lord God Almighty, | hurled ruin and death on the armed oppressor of | Israel. (Great applause.) It seems that by the | force of prayer and Christian song there were in u | little while 300 saloons shut up, aud in some of the | | Villages all the drinking places were abandoned. | You tell me they will open again very soon. I | reply, Is it nothing to shut up the fire or hell for six weeks? Ivseems that these men engaged in | that business did not know how to cope with that warlare. They knew how to fight the Maine | Liquor law ana temperance societies, but not how | | to contend against prayer and ‘‘Coronation” and “Old Hundred” and ‘Brattle Street.” In one | of the German regiment was | | brought out to disperse the Women. They camé down in battle array, but, ob, | with what poor success! For that German | regiment was nade up o! gentlemen, and gentle- | men don’t like to shoot women with hymn books in cities a stops the sound is perfect, and we exclaim “how | their bands, They tound that gunning for female | and Ismails around us, to | prayer Meetings Was very poor business. (Laugh- ter.) No real damage was done, although | | there has been threat after threat of violence | | all over the land. Let us give fair warning to ail | military companies, to all mayors, to all courts of | | law that on the very day that gne of these Chris- | tan women engaged in this hofy war shall, under | the point of soldier's bayonet or under the stroke of police club, fall down wounded o¢ slain, that day there will be a fire kindled in this country, A FIRE OF INDIGNATION AND NATIONAL WRATH | that all the waters of the Mississippi and Ohio and | Hudson can never put out; and it will keep on— that influence will keep on rolling as with a besom of destruction, over all this country, until the last liquor sbop and the last distillery and the last gin store and the last brewery ‘shall be trampled out under the feet of an indignant peo- ple. (Iremendous applause.) I tell you the curse of the Lord God Almighty is on that business, for- ever and ever, Amen, They say it is not dignified for these women. They ought to be home crocheting or watching the loaves | of bread in the oven to see that they | don’t get too brownand hard. (Laughter.) Ot, | my soul! which would have been the most digni- | fied, to have staid in houses already desolated by | rum, shivering amid hall clad catldren, waiting for | the staggering step of father or son or brother, or | to put on the only hat and shawl that had not been | pawned by their companions, and go out under | the leadership of some great-souled Deborah, and with the whoie jamished family at the back, and | to attempt, with the ARTILLERY OF PRAYER AND SONG, | to put an end to those Institutions where their do- | mestic ruin nad been inaugurated? Who are you, | seated in your homes ot plenty and sobriety, | that you should be so severely critical of these | women at the West? I bid them Godspeed in the work. Now I come to answer the second question: “Would you have the same kind of war made upon the liquor estabiishments at the East and in our midst as ac the West?” I say most emphatically, No! but for different reasons Jrom what | have ever heard given, It is not because | think the women of the West were undignified or unchristian, or that the women ot Brooklyn are too good sor such holy iconoclasm; but itis because there seems to be NO DEBORAH WITH SUFFICIENT FAITH IN GOD to lead forth the host. Here at the Kast we are all watching to see what somebedy else will say, and | we are bound hand and foot by the conventionalities | of society more than at the West, and at the fut- | ter of a newspaper we are so frightened tnat we | are not fit for any great warfare of the kind. I will say, however, O Christian women of Brook- | ‘lyn, [really believe that if you had as mugn faith in God as your sisters in the West, and tife same | recklessness of human criticism—I realiy believe | that in one month three-fourths of the grogshops | im Brooklyn would be closed, and you Would save | your fathers and husbands and sons from a | drunkard’s grave and @ drunkard’s heM. But the | ume hasnot come. I see by the reports of the | meetings in this city in different churches that the | time has not come, There is no Deborah with | | enough faith tn God and recklesness of human crit- | 1cism to go forth in the work. in view of this fact Mr. Talmage, in conclusion, exhorted them to wage war against drinking in | the home circie and against the drinking usages of | society a8 @ means of destroying the evil of tntem- | 8T, MARY’S STAR OF THE SEA, | Fruits of the Mission—A Word Against Relapse—Holy M At St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, corner of Luqueer sidy, pastor, exhorted his hearers to let the fruits of the recent mission be seen in their conduct for the time tocome. They should guard against a | relapse into sin, Espectally, so far as relates to | attending the holy sacrifice of the mass on Sun- | days and holidays of obligation, they should make a firm resolution for the future not to neglect this sacred duty, It should be borne in mind that this isa duty which binds, under pain of mortal sin, unless there is a very serious inconvenience to excuse those not in attendance. In reference to the approaching festival of St. Patrick tne rever- end pastor of St. Mary’s said that he expected to see oeeee saeeeerce in church on that day, and he added that all should remember that the collections OD that occasion will be far the voor. os Therefore he hoped the members of the congr: boa Petay npn Melon A beasing in mind eu cold water given in the name of Jesus Christ will not go without its reward, 8T, JAMES' CATHEDRAL, Sermon of the Rev. Father Riely—Singu- jar Agreement of the Lesson of the Day, the Epistle, with the Great Na- tonal Sorrow—A Suggestive Thought | on Charity. The epistie read at the several masses of the Catholic Church yesterday was singularly appro- priate to the circumstance of Mr. Sumner’s death, Alter peading the epistie, which speaks of the cast- ing out of the goodwoman and her chiud, the | preacher spoke as follows:— This ig an extract from the epistle which st. Paul wrote, under the influence of the spirit of God, to the Christians of the Church at Galatia, It | is a very strange passage und strangely beautiful. | The Galatians were among the first Gentile con- verts of St. Paul; bus they were much annoyed by the Jewish converts, who endeavored to force them into the observance of certain Jewish rites and customs, These customs were excused for a while in the Jewish converts in order “that tie synagogue” ag the apostle said, “might be buried with honor,’’ but altogether inexcusable in the Galatians, who were Gentiles. Now, to persuade the Galatians from any inter‘erence in these rites, as well as to prove that Judaism was completely abolished by the religion of Christ, was the twofold object of the apostle. Let us see how he works out the one, how he proves the other. There is a figure of speech called allegory frequently used in the Scriptures, This figure the apostle makes use of with great effect in the present instance. An alfe- gory is@ continued metaphor, a continued com- parison, in which individuals are made use of to illustrate certain truths which the writer wishes to eniorce, These truths, however, are the primary objects to be enforced, The individuals are merely the tramework in which the truths are contained, and by which they are pleasingly | ilustsated. Now to our text. Who are the in- | dividuals in this case? They are Saran the wile | of Abraham, and Agar, @ bondwoman 1n his house- | hold. ‘For these are the two testaments.” Be- hold the allegory! Now, there were born to Abraham, of these women, two sons; Ismael of Agar, the bondwoman; Isaac of Sarah, free; the one “according to the flesh,” the other “according to promise.” Sarah was !ree, her son the heir; Agar, @ bondwoman, her son a slave; Sarah, ‘‘cn- gendering unto freedom,” Agar unto bondage; barah, representing the Jerusalem which is abuve, Jree; Agar, the Jerusalem terrestrial, in bondage. One, the testament of Sion, received through Jesus Christ, the God of peace; the other, the | law of Mount Sinai, received amid the terrors of thunder aud lightning. The one | the tree Church of Christ; the other the synagogue | of a people in slavery. These are the facts which | this allegory unfoids to us; ana from these facts | We see, a8 the Galatians must have seen, thattrue | Christianity 1s totally distinct trom Judaism; that | true Christians can have no participation in Jewish Tites; that, finally, Judaism tell through at the dawn of Christianity. How is this? Because the bondwoman, which is the Old Testament, was cast | out from all inheritance. “Cast out this bond- | woman and her gon, for the son of the bondwoman | shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman."”’ ‘The old covenant, then, was dispensed with, old | customs iorsaken, old institutions abolished. The Gospel was substituted for the prophets; the Church forthe synagogue; the heir for the slave; the Child of Promise for him who was according to | the flesh; the liberty of the Church of Christ for the terrors of Mount Sinai. The preacher then followed up the text to show that the jealousy between Is- mael and Isaac foreshadowed the prevarication of the Jews in the early Christian times. He then continued :—And would that the evil had ceased here! The Jews are not the only ones to cause a division in God’s militant family on earth—not the sole disturbers of His household. Far worse. The enemy 18 within the very camp; and, with the name and panoply of the Christian, he is a very antichrist. The preacher then presented an argu- ment which he might have bronght home to spe- cial application here, how the new dispensation of | Christ changed these relations between the chil- [bunaer puts his spirit, his nato | to our approval, and none the dren of the bondwoman and the children 01 the freewoman. The children of the treewoman had rejected their King and Saviour. “He came unto his own and his own received him not,” but the children of the bondwoman reached forth to Him in earnest appeal for that relief which had been promised. To a sensational preacher there Was a strong temptation to diverge irom here into some reference to Charles Sumner, whose death now fills men’s thoughts, and who was in a sense, as far as human endeavor is concerned, the apostie of the children of the bondwoman. But the excellent discipline of the Catholic Chureh dictated @ more general treatment, of the subject and the opportunity of applying the test in this way was Overcome. But he used the subject to,point the following lesson of charity.—“And yet we must pity Agar. We must | pity the poor, discarded mother, wandering with er helpless boy through the wilderness.” Uh, what a picture is that presented pane as, weeping, she knelt craving food from heaven for her now frieadiess boy. It 1s a wistful picture just now. Many. Agars and Ismails are around and | about us to-day, homeless, poor and discarded. jany a mother is craving 100d for fatheriess ones. e see them on our streets, clad in unwomanly regs, the color faded from their faces, the beam of hope gone from fhgie eyes. Heavy and sad are tow the hearts that dfite, an | 1% Jong ago, were happy and light, and the voice caet Was once cheerful has turned into the wail of the poverty-stricken. Some disease, or mayhap some vice—intemperance perhaps—has snatched away or alienated from her the husband of her early love; and she is now cast abroad, even as Agar, on the mercy of a world where Christian charity is but too rare a virtue. Yes, there are Agars whom life is a desert and in whom even hope seems to have died out. If we learn to lighten the sorrows of such as these we have learned one \esson of humanity to-day. Make the resolve and objects of your charity will not be wanting. You will find the homeless, the husbandless and the fatherless all round you—in the alleyways, in the attics, in the dark basements. | You will learn the whereabouts of the most indi- | ent if you apply to the members of the St Vincent fe Paul Society. Begin, then, and may the light of | your charity dispel the shadows of unforgiven sin, And may God biess those who are now feeding the hungry and giving shelter to the homelesss, PLYMOUTH OHUROH. Mr. Beecher on Fame—Applause for a Good Deed Not To Be Abated Because the Doer Anticipated Public Approval. Brooklyu’s favorite preacher drew a crowd which more than filled the Orange street meeting house yesterday morning. He was in good bodily condition and his mind seemed to reflect the sun- light which beamed without. Certainly there was no cloud on his brew nor the slightest indication tuat the wordy war of church discipline, which is troubling some of the sister Congregationalist or- | ganizations of the City of Churches on his account, | was in the least obscuring his effulgence or dark- ening the horizon of his church, After asking for a collection to aid the Ladies’ Sewing Suciety of , the church in the work of clothing the naked, and giving notice for a women’s mass temperance meeting in Plymouth church on Thursday evening | of this week, he announced his text in Proverhs X., 6 and 7—“Blessings are upon the head of the just; but violence covereth the moutns of the wicked, The memory of the just is blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.” Hardiy one of | the proverbs collected in this book, written mainly by Solomon, fails to be as wise and true now as when uttered three or four thousand years ago. | Solomon tested some of these aphorisms by break- ing them and suffering the penalty. He was a lux- urious Oriental king whose conduct, in spite of the wisdom of his intellect, broke up his kingdom. Yet the man to-day who should make these proverbs lus constant companion, regulating thereby his acts in the street, store, caucus, in social life and in the family, would not tail to seek the reward of wisdom, Itis the nature of goodness to perpetuate itself. ITS MEMORY MUST WIN APPROBATION, Wickedness naturally sinks those who practice it, like the impurities in the sea, into the slimy depths below, to be unseen and forgotten, It is right for men to wish that their memory should be cher- ished, nor should we esteem a good deed a deed of love, heroism, charity, or its author the less be- cause he foresaw and hoped for public applause aud the approbation of future generations. Men do not forieit the verdict of the disinterested by wishing to be lovingly or admiringly remembered. One of the most disinterested women I ever knew, my aunt, wanted to pe buried in Greenwood, so that the children might like to come and see where she lies. Among the noblest developments of this day is that GOLDEN GULF STREAM OF LOVE which annually carries the hard earnings of thou- | sands O1 Bridgets in this country across the ocean | to bring out brothers and sisters, or to help old fatoers and mothers in the Uld Country. Such Streams of blessing flow constantly from our | shores to all Northern Europe, They shalt not fail | to benetit those who send as well as those who | receive. Not alone those who confer needed physi- | cal benefits on others and those who instruct, but | | they who cheer and add to our good nature, | deserve the approval of contemporaries and grati- tude from posterity. ‘One hymn by Francis Xavier entities him to the thanks of all succeeding ages, A pity ‘tis that John Bunyan, tn his jail, did not | foresee how after ages would bless him for the | “Ptigrim’s Progress.’ All who do their duty have ‘a right to wish and hope for the approyai of their | fellows. They Work not alone tor themselves, but for the race, or for a jarge circie. Every mechanic, in his vocation, not only discharges his task, butifhe works with fidelity he puts his. good wishes into the products of his hangs to bless those for Whose use thevare. Every re, into and his name should be on it, Byen tie eae charch, which, without its interior ornaments, is homely eno! wi U AR¥ IN IT 1S HANDSOME, A hundred mechanics of the Congregation claim @ property as partly their work. They never pasa it without recognizing it a8 in part the result of their labor and the sessor of their good will and affection, I honor the artisan who tries, by hts work, to Save Mankind in their conventence, their comfort or their sense of beauty. Goodyear, who vulcanizes india rubber, is the benefactor of the whole world, So were Pallissy, the French potver, and the En- glish Wedgwood, who perfected new methods in their art and added beauty to usefuiness, So Watt, with the steam engine, and the per‘ectors of printing. Every one who adds to the happiness und good nature of those around him is entitled less because he wishes Lawyers, at whom we usually jeer, though they, too, have their back flings at the parsons, are to ve blessed, for in my opinion the profession mainly strive to promote peace, to settle disputes without bitter- ess and contention, That when the lawyer be- comes enlisted in a case he uses every exertion to Win success for his side, I do not doubt, "Tis human nature. His sympathies are enlisted, I Should do so too, But as a rule I believe they Strive to do right and promote equity; and judges too. Thank God the time has come wien I can apess well of the Bench. I have done my part thundering against its impurity. Now J can again say that our judges are inen who strive to do Jas- tice; they deserve approval and the fame which is dear to noble minds, the fame which grows brighter with lapse of time. So all that devote their days and nights to the sick, all of every elas who faithfally save their tellows, may rightfully com‘ort themselves with the assurance of tne text, that the memory of the jast shall itve in blessing; they shali sine as the stars in glory. §T, JOHN'S METHODIST OHUROH. Heart Power=The Death of Sumner— Sermon by [tcv. E. 0. Haven, D. D., LL. D. Yesterday morning the pulpit of the St. Jobn’s Methodist Episcopai church, Bedford avenue, was occupied by Rev, E, O. Haven, v. D., L.L. b., the sec- retary of the Board of Education of that denomina- tion, His text was the fourth verse of the second chapter of Sesond Corinthianz—*‘For out of much aMiction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which! have more abundantly unto you.” His theme was the nature of Paui’s power over his fellow men. The words which he had read were a kind of window through which one could look into the heart of Paul. Some men who had written much about weeping very seldom sbed tears themselves, Sterne, the author of the “Sentimental Jour- ney” (and the speaker blushed to say that Sterne was a clergyman), wrote such ap affecting description of the death of a poor brute in a stabie as to have drawn tears from many eyes, while a¢ the very same hour his poor wife was dying far away on account of his neglect. It was said that Howard, the Christian philanthropist, whose name is synonymous with charity, erred in the treatment of his own and only son. He (the Doctor) did not think that any charge of moral de- iinquency could be brought against Howard, but it Was true that when he was jar away from home, and his son was released from the rather severe domestic treatment that was given there, he plunged into destruction and rapidly fell into a drunkard’s doom, There is such a wang as senti- mentalism—a counterfeit charity, a Kind of proud flesh that looked something itke life but was productive only of useless pain. But Paul was not a sentimentalist, for what he thought, wrote and said he believed, and he acted according to his proijession. What was the secret of his power? For he was, ag Shakespeare called Julius Cwsar, “the foremost man of all this world.” Dr. Haven proceeded to speak of the intellec- tuality and practical wisdom of the great Apostle, who, when on board of ship in time of dancer, Was actually the captain, though a prisoner, But other men were as strongin mind and as prac- tical as he, and died and left no mark behind, Would it be said that the secret of Paul’s power was in the fact that he was inspired? But toe in- spiration of the apostles was designed to guide them as Bible writers, and in all other respects they could say—*Follow me as | follow Christ.’? One great secret of Paul’s power, aside from the power of the Holy Spirit in him, was that he was a man of intense sympathy. A man of weak body and weak intellect, if possessed ol a true heart and strong affections, was of more use in the world than a man of mighty mental power and good health if he were guided only by selfishness. Intellect was simply the rifle, and passion was the powder. Strong passions properly regulated, make strong meno. The aker dwelt at length upon feeling as the source of moral character, illus- trating this part of the discourse Me appropri- ate parable, and remarking that the Bible taught that man was responsible for the nature of his affections. For ordinary life nothing more was needed than our apimal and social passions; but for the nobler work of Iie we required regard for right and reverence for and consecration to God, The culture of a man was more seen in the nature of his heart than anywhere else; and the heart Was cultivated, not when the affections were allowed to evaporate in dumb show, but when the emotions were transmutec into lie. Paulchanged his emotion into action, which made bim the graad and heroic character of Nis time. ENATOR SUMNER, I cannot conclude, said Dr. Haven, without @ mere casual remark that in the Hie of that states- man whose remains now lie in state in the “Cra- die of Liberty’? at Boston, we see a practical ex- emplitication of converting what we may believe to be an emotion, a principle, into wi!l power and lite. In some respects he was a very extraordinary man. In intellectual power he stood in the very front rank; but others, perhaps, have equalled him in that even in our own country. In culture and m acquaintance with the works of the past and with the men of the past he stood perhaps without a peer in this country; but his great char- acteristic was fidelity to what he believed to be right. Early he came to the conclusion that his great nation possessed a pure, healthy constitution and that the greatest evil under which the nation suflered Was exceptional; thatit was not an in- tegral part of our political economy, and tha! properly worked, our nation could cast out tha evil without a revolution and without any radical change in its organic character; and he resolved that his life should be devoted to that work; and he was successiul. Had there not been some men to do the work of Charles Sumner there never would have been the call for such @ man as Abratam Lincoin, and never would this great work have been wrought out. Though he was not seemingly endowed with that wondrous, strange Magnetic power that calls out the love of tndivid- uals for himself in an extraordinary degree, he will be followed to his grave especially with the tears of that race which he was the instrument in to win it. | the hands of God so gieatly of blessing. SIMPSON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. T. M. Eddy, D. Dw Anniversary of the Missionary Society. The Rev. Thomas M. Eddy, D. D., formerly Chap- Jain of the United States Senate, occupied the pul- pit yesterday morning at tne Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, in Place of the pastor, Rev. W. R. Da After read- ing a portion of the Scriptures, the Rev. Mr, Eddy preached from the text—‘And the gospel must first be published among all nations.’’—Mark, xin., 10. The reverend gentleman held that the great ead of judgment was not near at hand, One of the disciples when these things were to be _ {uifilied, but the Master never answered him, [t was re- corded in the New Testament that that day and that hour no man knoweth, ‘The Gospel must first be preached among all the nations and the great aay shall not come until ail the world shall have heard of the Redeemer. In the afternoon the anniversary of the Sunday School Missionary Society of the church was held, a large crowd being present. The exercises were interspersed with singing, recitations, addresses, class offerings, &c. Bach class had its ban- ner, with some appropriate motto, and as the name was called a representative came forward with the total collections of the class aud handed it to the Secretary. HANSON PLACE MSTHODIST CHUROE, The Hanson place Methodist church was well attended yesterday morning. Mr. Haynes chose his text from the fourteenth chapter of Acts, twen- tieth verse--“Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, be rose up and came tnto the ¢ity; and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.” His discourse was principally to ilus- trate the power of the will, giving the Apostie Paul as a striking example, who, while be was on THE yet asked | bis journey as one ol tue first misstonaries to carry | the Gospel to Derbe, alter being beaten and buf- feted about and finally leit for dead and subse- quently recovering, pursued his jouruey, nothing daunted, TO FULFIL HIS HOLY MISSION. Dr. Haynes said of all the powers the human heart is capable the power of will ts the great- est. He gave several striking illustrations, show. ing tor ailour other powers are subservient to ne Will. The Rev. D. P. Fulton, pastor of Hanson Place Baptist Church, made an excursion to the “modern Athens” Saturday evening last, that he mfynt attend the funeral of an old acquaintance who died a tew days ago, leaving the Rev. Mr. Gurney to fill bis pulpit and direct the thoughts of his numerous flock heavenward. He chose his text rom Keclestastes, iu, 16—*hat which hath been is now, and that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that which 's past”. on which text he preached @ very eloquent and effective sermon,