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4 {The Worship in the Churches Yes- terday and the Sermons of the Preachers. (CHAPIN ON DECORATION DAY, fFrothingham’s Estimate of the Secta- rianism of Christianity. Beecher and the Dangers of Despising. ScoTon PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Mr. Hamilton, from Belfast, preached here, as usual, yesterday, He took his text from Philippians, and made what gmignt be better termed a doctrinal effort than ‘otherwise, and in which the ruies waich governed ‘the faith were clearly set down. St. PAUL’s (METHODIST).—The pulpit was yester- ay morning occupied vy Bishop Foster, of Minots. He preached from the text, L Timothy, iif, 16— “Great is the mystery of godiiness.”” He preached witheut notes, and his exposition of the great doctrines of Christian faith was able and interest- ing and showed careful thought and research. Cuuncu oF St. JOHN THE Baptist.—In the Tnir- tieth street German Catholic church, between Sev- | enth and Eighth avenues, Church of St. John the Baptist, under the auspices of O. M. Capp, Rey. Father Pacificus sung mass. at hall-past two, yes terday morning. Rev. Father Hieronimus preached to an immense congregation on the Feast of the Trinity. FirrH AVENUR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The Rev. Dr. Paxton, was as usual, in his pulpit yester- day morning, and selected his text from Ephe- Bians, if, 7. would always have the fear of God before his eyes, and would pot fall by the way, because he was up- held by his faith, God’s grace was supreme and salvation impossible without it. MADISON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The sermon in this church was preached yesterday morning by Rev. Dr. Adams. His text was II, Corinthians, iv., 16, 17, 18—“Our light amMiction, :which is but fora moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” It | ‘was an eloquent and affecting discourse and listened to with the most earnest attention, “TRINITY SURDAY. | He insisted that the true Christian | | feelings must they have ascended the Mount! | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET. over forty of the young inmates of which being seated in the main aisle of the church, Sr. JosePa’s Carnotig CauRCH.—The Rev. Dr. Duffy preached in this church yesterday in elo- quent and forcible terms upon the Gospei read on the Feast of the Annunciation—Luke, 1, 26-23, The words chiefly dweit on were those in the salu- tation of the Ange) Gabriel to Mary—*Hall, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,” The preacher con- tended that Protestants who pretend to honor and exalt the Son by dishonoring his mother were neither logical nor consistent. The “Messe Pas- cale” was well sung, under the direction of Anto- nio Martines. The at.endance was moderate. DR. CHAPIN ON DECORATION DAY. There was a very large congrogation at this church yesterday morning. Rev. Dr. Chapin, the pastor, preached an eloquent aad impressive dis- course on “The Transfiguration.” A feature of special interest was making the theme appo- site to Decoration Day. He took for his text Matthew, Xvi, 5—“While He yet spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowet them: and behold 4 voice out of the cloud, which said, T"/3 is my beloved Son, in whom [I am well pieased.'’’” It bas been my custom, be began, to reler to incidents in the life of Obrist, for these events constitute the grounds of Christianity. My subject this morsing 1s an incident in the personal history of our Saviour, which is not without fitness on the present occaston, being Trinity Sunday. He who was tranafigurea on the Mount stands far apart from ali other founders of region, because of His connection with the Father. When Jesus had taken Peter and John up into the high mountain He was transfigured before them. Regarding this incident I observe that we should not consider it as supernatural, but as having a deep significance. Whatever were His relations we are convinced that our Saviour | was not so far above human people but that He | needed conirmation. On the cross He seemed to feei as though that supporting presence would be withdrawn, This only elevates His character aud | brings Him nearer to us. We then discern the | secret springs 0 Bis perfection. We feel more | deeply His nearness to ourselves, when we know | that He was tempted as we are. His victory was actuaily won in CONFLICT WITH MORTAL SUFFERING. It could not have happened if he had been entirely iso.ated from our experiences, Jesus was now ap- | } pinned the end of His mission, and was ulready | | Garkened with the shadow of His own cross. He | | Saw the desertion of His early friends, in the next | | place, consider the bearing of this mantlestation upon His disclples, We are told that they are very lain men. With what conflicting though's and | | They velieved him to be the Cnrist. He spoke of | conditions which were entirely at discord with | their opimons of the Messiab. It was with these | confic: ag sensations that they ascended the | Mount Then came the voice pronouncing the Messiahship of Christ. Human natare is iull of | misconceptions, and afterwara taey were not | wholly convinced, The practical meaning of | this transfiguration on the Mouaot hag | @ revelation, an encouragement, in it. | Faith in_the truth which Jesus preached does two | FOURTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The | ermon yesterday morning at this chureh, corner of | [Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street, was | yreached by Professor Shedd, of Princeton. His | ‘text was Matthew xx., 29—‘Biessed are they that Dave not seen and yet have believed.” The char- | acter of true Christian iaith was set forth with | marked vigor of thought and coptous eloquence of | illustration. | THe CENTRAL METHODIST EPIscoraL CauRcH.— | The Rev. Mr. Firman preached here again yester- day in place of Mr. Bottame, and took as his sub- ject “The Test of Christian Experience.’ Man often | imagined he was in the right direction, when, on | the contrary, he was not true to his faith, and fell { at the first strong temptation. The man who sin- cerely tried, however, could find salvation in the | Lord. ALL Sours’ CHuRcH.—At this church the service yesterday morning was preached by Rev. Minor J. | Savage, of Chicago. His text was Matthew x., @9—“Then touched He their eyes, saying, accord” ing to your faith be it anto you.” He showed how tpeople became reat. He instanced Washington ‘as the champion of the spirit of nationality; said ‘that Lincoin would live in perpetual memory on e@ccount of his emancipation proclamation, and ithat the exigencies of a great war gave to Florence Nightingale a conspicuous niche in history. FLgst STaEeT METHODIST EriscopaL CRURCH, | Brooxtyn.—Rev. W. C. Steel preached yesterday | morning on “The Witnesses Contronted;” tnsti- | tating @ comparison between the religious and | frreligions Je and illustrating it by testimony | from both sides, He sald the only difference be- | tween aswearing parrot and a swearing pirate ‘was that one bad a soul and the other none. In | the evening a large congregation listened to a dia- course on “Where is Het” SevENTH AVENUE CHURCH, BROOKLYN.—Dr. | Wild's sermon yesterday morning was founded | upon Philippians, iil, 12—“Not as though I had | already attamed, either were already perfect: but I follow atter, if that I may apprehend that for which aiso 1 am apprehended of Christ Jesus.” | Dr. wild showed the fallacy o/ the doctrine of per- fection. That state was never achieved in th world. It was but begun here and finished in eterbity. CuvRCH oF THE HoLy APosTLEs.—In the Churen of the Holy Apostles (Episcopal), in Ninth avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eightn streets, the rector, Rev. John P, Lundy, preached at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning. The church was well filled with a fashionable audience, and the masic was of the highest order. The sub- ject of the sermon was the “Holy Trinity.” In the evening a grana choral service was held, with a cheir ot over seventy voices. TEP, Nw? AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—In the Nintn avenue Presbyterian church, between Thir- ty-first and Thirty-second streets, the Rev. S. B. Rossiter preacued, taxing for his text a portion of the sixth verse of the ninth chapter of Isatan— “And the government shall be upon his shoulder.” ‘The preacher went on to siow that in the nature of things all moral government must rest upon Christ, and that Carist, being the very essence of love, love was the basis of all government. CuurcH ov THE HoLY INNOCENTS.—At the Church of the Holy Innocents, Thirty-seventh street, near Broadway, high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Fatuer J. Galligan, at nali-past ten. Whe Rev, Father Hayne preached on the nature and meaning of the divine mysteries, He showed the necessity of mysteries for the purpose of prov- ing the divine relgion and of strengthening and beautilyimg the faith of those who put their trust in the holy Catholic Church. PRESBYTERIAN MisstON CHAPEL.—The Rev. David ‘Hi. Vandeveer, a colored clergyman, preached in ‘vhis chapel, Sixth avenue, between Eleventh and ‘Twelfth streets, yesterday morning, irom the sev- enth chapter of Genesis, first verse—“And the | Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark, for thee have J seen righteous belore | me iM this generation.” Like this remarkable Patriarch, we wiil obtain God's special protection (if we keep to the paths of rignteonsness. The Rev. Mr, Vandeveer’s sermon was impressive and edifying. 5 Tue CHURCH OF THE HOLY ComMesion.—An ordination by Bishop Potter took place yesterday in this church, The Rev. Brady EB. Backus and the | Rev. Henry Mottet were assumed to the priest, hood. The Rev. Dr. Eigenbrodt and the kev, Dr, Staunton took part in the services, and the sermon ‘was preached by the Key, Dr. Laurence, who also presented the candidates. Great interest was taken in the proceedings owing to the popularity of the Rev. Mr. Mottet, The services were solemn end impressive, and the congregation filled all the available space in the church, Sr. Tuomas’ Cuvrca.—This church was in the morning yesterday filled with a large and fashion. | ‘The services were performed by | able assemDiage. the assistant clergyman, Rev. Joseph H, Jowitt, now in full cuarge during the absence of the rec- tor, Rev, Dr. Morgan, in Barope. Rez. Dr. Osgood preacied on the Trimity—the subject of the day~ basing his discourse op various passages selected jrom Matthew and the Acts of the Aposties, At te close ol the service a large collection waa | | elevation of the soul. | are themselves tbings—First, it transfigures things which are | visible; second, 1t makes piain and transfigures | things Which are invisiole, Fatth in this trans- | figured life seems to be wanting. We are strongly impressed by what we see, feel and weigh. In no after time are we to be divorced from these ma- | terial conditions. Tne great thing which divides | men is difference in vision. Paul looked not at the | tnings which are seen, but at the things which are | unseen. To see a change in the face of tamiliar | omects is transfiguration. Lie, then, in its most familiar forms is transfigured. Men think thatto | be transformed they must enter another spnere. | Tranzfiguration 1s needed. Our faculties are | trausigured by the conviction of beauty. Life is 4 THEATRE OF SELF. Man leads, accordingly, a selfish life, and things are considered good only as they help him. How is Ufe, then, transigured. We shoud help others in the pata o/ love and duty, Each man can trans- | figure the humblest. How strange itis, what a tendency there ts to pervert or glorily lite! man once asked @ physician if he did not know of | some subtie poison that would immediately de- stroy lie. The physician replied that his office Was to Save iife, not to destroy it. These are al- Most the words of our Saviour. There are men so | faise to domestic Wes that they destroy all the sanctity of life, The old mathematician wanted to | move the world if he could only get something out’ Side of it to place his leverupon. The man who tries to do Weil moves and transfigures the world Where he stands. Do we realize that there is in us A DEATHLESS ELEMENT which shall outlast the stars? If we do, then we know why triai exists; why all is nol smooth and ea<y. In this period of trial is the education and Life is transfigared when | we appreliend the purpose of divine laws. There | | is an eclevation when we discern their essential | or the meaning. A man returning from a party told a | friend that an ul looking feilow had been following | im. It was his own shadow. Life and death can | be transfigured. ‘Those MEMORIAL FLOWERS with which they are strewing the soldiers’ graves most fitting types of trans figuration. These gentie tokens of mem- ory ‘estify to ma.’s work. They teil us | of men working in the battle fleld; they tell us of an obligation. This has wrought a trans- | figuring work. Fiowers are the symbols of pity, | x tenderness and love; that is the seal of our com- | man humanity. The North and the South do not | look like enemies now; they sleep side by side. | The nation scatters garlands not only upon the Northern dead, but upon THE NATION'S DEAD, They transfigure the nation’s thought. I bave been speaking of the faith in Deity, im the power of the faith, in what is veiled and aark tous. Buta voice comes to us from the invisible, and says, “This 1g my beloved Son, in whom | am well | pleased.” In our troubles, do we not wish a voice is | Would come from the starry depths aud teil us in | what power we are? There 1s the cloud of doubt br when througn It comes the voloe which \elis us what we wish to kno’ BEDFORD AVENUE REFORMED CHUEOH, Liberal vs. Dliberal Religion—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Porter. | Yesterday morning Rev. E. 8S, Porter, D. D., preached @ discourse in the Bedford avenue Re- formed church, Brookiyn, on “Liberal and lliberal Theology,’’ which is one of the chief topics that is now being discussed in the pulpit andin the pew. His text was taken from Ephesians, iv., 13-16— | “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up | into him in ali things, which is the head, even Christ,” &c. He said that Christianity should be | Tegarded as the complete expression of all that | Was necessary to human salvation, which he de- fined to be a system of doctrines resting im absolute authority and illustrated vy the | life of Christ, who taught not dogmas, valu- @ble only 48 opinions, but principles of vital and unchanging efMfcacy. Onristianity is complete im Christ, but it is not yet complete in the Charen. The principles of the Gospel admit of no improvement, but conformity to them has not yet been realized among the foliowers of Jesus as @ collecuve whole, {fhe divine ideal of what the Church should and might be was set forth in the text, There was unity of faith, all holding essen- | tial truths together; there was the knowleage of | Jesus Christ a3 @ personal Saviour and a growing joto more iaith and resembiance of Him; there | was stability in mainteining the truth against | Various errors, %nd there was the declaration of the truth by speech and deed in such a spirit of to ask why there were so many varieties of | creed and such Joolish and wicked contradictions of opinion among those who professed to believe the same Binle, and, in answering the query, said that there Was @ universal disposition amoug men to shape their religions to suit their characters, jormulated creeds often becoming fortresses of moral obliquity; that diversities Of intellectual power would account for variations in the views | which men took of the Christian system, but that the chiet cause of the many variauons of religions faith within the domain of Christendom was the prochvity to one-ideaism. The speaker, in ela orating this portion of the discourse, gave an in- | teresting summary of the ruling ideas of the differ- j ent branches of the Ohbristian Church. Still another cause of diversity was the fondness lor human partisanship. He then passed on to con- | sider the singular classification of religions into what were named liberal and iiuberal. There was, he thougnt, @ certain kind of iliiberality, both of thought among evangelical bodies which nad driven many off into doubt or positive unbelief. Tne Oalvinis- tic bodies, whose standards of iaith were broad and catholic, bad always some among them who made the hardest things to ve understood the most Vital tests of communion; the least tntetligible of Giving mysteries they had put forward as the most hecessary to be believed—wWhich was a departure from the spirit of the Gospel. There was also an | Ulberalty among evangetical Christians which | Show@d itself in being @ mere stickier for 4 word or | S$@b pirases. It was an iliberal spirit which re- fused to take any account of the spirit and con- duct of men or bodies of men who might not adopt precisely the same creed in the same words with | Others. Obristians ougnt to exercise charity in ail | things. That was aiso an illiberal spirit which proposed terms of communion not found in the Gospel. Feligion which depended and maintained tae Bible | a8 the supreme rue of taith and practice was not | liberal. Rationalism in all ite that book, while liberalism of various sorts Verted it to justify i@ owa preconceived opinions, A conscientious Gut charilavie veraistonce in | contempt, @ scornful feeling—not merely that a | the divine injunctions, “Abhor that which is evil: | | aroad largely iying in the hating of evil; and, Ay which we vainly try to pierce witn speculation, | | love that gainsayers might be silenced and tne | | impenitent converted. Dr. Porter then proceeded But on the contrary, he contended that @ | forms assatied | ) @rality, though it wasin relerence to that action the charge ‘The doctrines o: human sinfuiness, of the need of aivine regeneration of life through the atovement 1 Christ and of the general judgment wore parts of the faith preached by the apostles, watch traths Underlaia the hopes of the Church. The style of | luberal Christianity found in tne word o! G | the exaltation o1 Jesus Christ to those who be- | Meved, the magnifying of His truth as paramount | to all creeds, and the speaking of that trath in | Jove. In conclusion the preacher alluded to the essed fact that evangelical es were dra | Pg nearer together, and said that they should not er a f dh a in religion which made no «1is- tinction between good and bad principles, which | broke down she Sabbath and arvine laws alike iu the name of freedom, and which converted religion foto a form of pleasure rather than to invoke it a3 a law of lule. PLYMOULA ORUROE, Mr. Beecher Upon the Duty and Dangers of Despiat: Plymouth church was yesterday morning quite | @s much crowded as on days when tne sun shone | With Jess fervor, and when cooler breezes swept over its throngs. @ Choosing for his text Romans, xiv., s—“Let not | him that eateth despise him that cateth not”—Mr. | Beecher satd:— The duty of despising is a very important one, | the doctrine of dospising is one very little | preached about and the dangers of despising are | very little understood. It would seem as though there were no special necessity for such an in- junction as this:—“Let pot him that eateth de- | spise him that eatesh not; but a luttie acquatnt- ance with human life and a little refection upon that human observatiou wtil show that nothing is more common than a@ species of contempt for what we like, but what we dislike; that there is a | kind of egotism in men, which ts all the worse be- | cause it assumes a moral form and is called con- | sotence, and which becomes the rule, not alone of | their own lives, but perpetually the rule of the | judgments which they form of other men. De- spising is a form of hating, a sense of looking down upon things as unworthy; therelore it is a kind of | thing is bad, bus that it is so bad that we must give expression to it in a “way that shall stigma- tize and make it seem odious and hateful. It be- longs, therefore, to that part of man’s economy | which is very important—the general power of cis- liking, oi repugnance, of hating—if we consider | man a3 race and his race history. And it is not unimportant in regard to the individual man in his rise from the lower stages, at whick every man begins, up to the full development of intelligent, civilized, Christian Manhood; because the power to abhor is very | necessary on the Way up to the power of admir- ing, andit is so important that it becomes one of | cleave to that which is good.” Now, as we are | circumstanced, born into Obristian housenolds, Shielded from 10,000 mischief, not even knowing the sins and crimes and vices that are at work in society, it is often the case that men may grow up without having much occasion to abhor anything. But in the unfolding and development of toe human race, taking the world around and time through, the road to good and admmration ior it is therefore, you find in the Old Testanent Scripture more emphasis put upon repugnunce and abhor- ing and indignation at evil than in the later | Scriptures, because of the ascendancy in | later periods of other and better qualities. | it is necessary that mem should have strong | repugnance to evil. In the lowest stages of the | human race men are obliged to live by selt- defence. While they are in @ savage condition | the experience and presumption is that those | around about them have hostile intent, and men | gre obliged to be suspicious and watchiul, prompt | to care for themselves and to repel even tne threat of danger, On that hangs Itie itsell. ‘the same igs urue so far as sustenance ts cuncerned. of tliberality was constantly made. | People that don’t do what we do, and don’t like | | Bame. taxenup for the benefit of the Orphans’ Home, | maintaining tho doctrines of grace was not illib- | ald of the sufferers from tnis and the Lonistana | foods, The attendance here has been largely on the increase since the call of this earnest young minister to the church, and he bids fair to accom: plish 28 mach good in this part of Brooklyn as Mr. Beecher has so long done at Plymouth church. was | The text chosen was a part of the twentieth verse of the thirty-fourth chapter of Joo—“In a moment | shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at There is a queation | Midnight and pass away.” which hundreds have asked and which has not been satisiactorily answered, and pervaps never will ~=be. It “Wuy does Gud per- mit calamity’ God controls and works in nature according to a code of laws which will give the largest overplus of joy over pain; and although great pain and sorrow may arise from disaster, 16 is never so bad but what it might have been worse; and if, when in your families anu in your business, when you have troudie come upon you, you would reflect and thank God that itis not worse, instead of accepting it as & punishment, how much better it would be, More than @ mil lion men asked the question, “Why was this cal- amity? Was God everywhere else but therer’”’ But if that question had been asked in the valley they would have said, “Yes, God was here." It might have come two hourg later, when five pbondred men, women and children would have { been at work in the factories and could not bave escaped. Those three brave men were also allowed toget@ few minutes’ start of the water, and so warn others of the canger, Bot {t was not water alone, but thick mass of mud and. splinters, and this was why it aid | gO much destruction, But description is a | sacrilege. Even chi!dren with whom I talked said, “Oh, Leannot tell you what it was.” The ouly | way to avoid disaster would be to tame nature down; to have no crowding energy. I there was not the great tug of gravitation the water would not have rushed down the valley. But we couid not exist if the laws of nature were more sub- dued, There is great blame attached to the builders, contractors and tuspectors, and even to those who made the laws under which those men worked. gre douoly mad; tn the frst place we must make money, and in the second we must make it in @ minute, And that is the it trouble In our business community, Many of you will not agree with alll have said, bat we can all agree in thia, that we Owe sympathy to our ieliow- beings in trouble, LYRIC HALL. O. B. Frothingham on Seetarianism. Mr. Frothingham commenced bis service yester- day morning by requesting bis congregation to listen to readings trom various ancient scriptures, among which were classed Chinese, Hindoo and Hebrew writings, after which he commenced his discourse by saying :—It is read in the New Testa- ment that on one occasion John, often called the be loved disciple, the bosom friend of Jesus, came to him and satd, “Master there was a man casting out evil spirits in thy name and I forbade him, and Jesus said, forbid him not, for every one that 1s not against me is for me.’? Who the person was is not told. It might have been an Israelite, a Canaanite, Samaritan, Greek or atheist, but at all events be was interested in casting out evil spirits, and had discovered that the name of Jesus was powerful, and though not knowing Him or be- leving tn Him, he chose to exorcise devils in that The disciple should have been rejoiced that they were belped in any way—rejoiced in the evidence that the name of Jesus was powerful outside their circle. Not 80, They were proud of their own power and forbade this man casting out devils, and bere the magnanimity of Jesus shows itself. “Forbid them not, they are doing my work; whether in my name it matters not.” And later, when Jesus was gone, there arose divisions, and there became s party of Peter and a party of Paul and a party of James and a party of Apollos. Peter was @ man of great power, bat narrow force, and he went out and founded churches a‘ter his idea, Paul wasa@ man of great soul, large conception, full of ideas of freedom. He went and planted enurches after his idea. James, the brother of Jesus, was ritualistic, and he went and founded churches in the name of Jesus. But men have jearned through civilization the | virtues of joresight and providence, instead of | living “irom haud to mouth.” | Human nature must have the power of moral | seli-defence in the second stage of development, as | it had the power o7 Pic seil-deleace in the first. ‘thus, when if society, men choose virtue, | vemperance, rectitude, justice, purity, trurh, fidel- | ity, and obiers Choose their opposites and make War upon them, men are obiged, irom tue | highest moral considerations, to hate that | wuich is Untroe, untaituiul, impure, msincere. | All” men should, aud in the extremest | forms do, take sides lor good as against evil. For example, we read o/ the landing of poor 1mmi- | vainpyres that seize upon them and rob apd de, | siroy them, ana we are filled with-horror. There 1s hardly a man that waiks the street but is ready to DESPISE ‘BAGGAGE SMASHERS”” “shysters” that gang around about the Tombs; everybody despises pimps and procurers; | everybody despises gamblers and their hyenas. Only get the right Dames on the right sort of | things and bad men hate bad things, in a sense. But consider tue grave dangers that attend tne exercise of this habit, the use Of hatred and espec- ally oi Scorniui repugnance or despising. We are commanded to it, we take It, we see everybody else using it; bat we seldom stop to asc where should it stop, and consequently we goon de- pising; all we ask is that the thing should be rea- ohably wrong and then we despise it and huid our- selves to no account for the mtensity of our contempt. A man has tola a lie; you abnor it and him too; for when @ man separates the mao from the deed it is a subtle operation and not one in a@hundred actually does it. | Sonal and has nowthe power of promoting the | love of goodness in others. To win men to good isavery much higher thing than to stop men doing evi. The way to stop evil is to LEAD MEN TO DO GooD, | and in order to this something else is necessary than to hate evil. That is one fault with our pun- | ishments—we hate evil; we make it smart; our jails, penitentiaries and gallows are testimonies of hatied to evil. But where are the attractions to virtue, the sympathy, tue leniency, the mercy— where are all those winning things that should draw men from the evil that we hate to tne things which we admire &nd love? 1n this respect we are in @ rude condition, I suppose the faith once delivered to the tbat God so loved the world that ne gave his Son to die for it; and i I understand Christianity, it teaches that the heart of God islove and that although’ the world lived in wickedness, the result ol which stili inflicts pain upon men, the Divine love was such that He would rather ‘suffer than man should suffer. What squadrons of champions } we have—the long line of disputants are pot dead io sacaanae for the falth where they can y votes and where they can by the sword, as be- fore by the fagot? ‘These champions of Gospel truth are misinterpreting cach otuer's motives, stirring up the worst passions, bringing into the arena Of discussion the most bitcer ‘eciings; set ting up for truth odious things, no more like truth | than Juggernaut is ike Jenovan, “Love your ene- mics." How many are there that follow this in- junction? Why, I could write the names of those who do on the paim of my hand and have room for infinite commentaries! But let a text once ray “Set boy |" and everybody is ready to run and bite, They all eel called, and are very likely to “make their calling and election sure.” PRACTICAL THEOLOGY, It 18 & shame for a map £0 to clothe himself with a Ohristian or manly virwe that it becomes | homely and ep ae a The spirit of re- | ligton 1s intrinsically beautifui, and he that holds | any truth in such a way that makes it appesr ugly in the sight of men, that man betrays the principle and the trust, Now, my brethren, whatever may | be the special criticism that you make, whatever be your opinion about this sermon or about this or that part of the philosophy that isin it, the one thing I desire you to carry home witn you 1s this:—“How amin the matter of personal de- spising? Dol despise those that don't know a8 much as I do; those that have not as good taste as I have; thoee that are not as rich aslam; | those that are richer than lam, but not richer than I wish I were? Do I despise the wrong or those that do wrong? Do I despise the lie or the liar—the impurity or the impure? Do L despise | @nything as much asT love? Which is the strong- | est element in me—hatred or love? Which has most power over me—repuision or sympathy? | Have I any such strength of goodness that I. can overcome evil with good? See if there is anything in your daily walk to be changed, a@pything Which can be mended in the honsenoid by wisdom, by seif-denying patience—each esteem- | ing others betver than themselves—“‘in honor pre- | ferring one another.” Whatever may be your | theology seek in the true spirit of sell-sacrificing | love to lead others to goodness and virtue. 18 there not enough troubiein the world without your throwing more into it? Is there not enough and feeling, | Watlingin the chorus oj humanity without your | as one who has suffered and therefore knows. adding @ single note? Is there not despair and pain enough? Is it not time for the new church, the chureni of loving men filled with the love of | God, to stay the wounds of men by patience, gen- | | tleness and kindness—the new heaven and the | new earth in Which are to dwell righteousness ? | The new heaven is the love of God, the new earth the love of man made by the power of God, It | shail be full of the presence of love, whicn is | righteousness, and evil, doomed to eternal death, | will betake itsell to darkness and obiivion, and the | whole earth shall be filled with the beauty and tha | glory of God. wit | goUTH OONGREGATIONAL cHUROH. Dr. Lyman’s Sermon on the Permission | of Calamity. Dr. Albert J. Lyman preached to a large number of persons at the South Congregational church, Court street, Brookiyn, yesterday morning, about the terrible disaster at Williamsburgh, Mass, Next saints was | Off in some Greek city was a man named Apol- los—a Very learned, eloquent man. He had heard of Jesus and conceived that He wasa man aiter his own heart, and Apollos went out and preached Christianity. One man says, ‘I am of the party of Peter;” another says, “lam ofthe party of Paal;”’ another sayslam of tne party of James; and oiten in this Greek city, where Apollos is teaching, they say, “We are of the school of Apollos, these otbers are old fasbioned; this 1s the new gospel.” When Protestantism was born there were two religions and two sects—on one side the religion of Rome, on the other side the religion of Ger- | grants upon our shores and know that there are | mauy, and from that point the dividing wall was run across the Coutinent. The Dominicans, Franciscans and otners took up the side of Kome, and there waa war and bloodshed, and from that time the fact was acknowledged that there was not one religion, but two, Protestantism was the first sect—it broke the first piece oif the great boulder;.and before a generation had passed there was a sect for every division, and bow there are ‘shousands, and Protescautism is nothing but a MASS OF HOSTILE CANTS, covering all the ground not covered by Romanism. This tact of sectarianism began very eariy, and now its altitude is enormous; it is one of the characteristic tacts of the religion of the time. Now that there are certain advantages I will not uestion, but I wish to show the disadvantages. Vhy should sectarianism be challenged? for ido challenge it. Why should it be assailed? for I do assailit. Why should it be annihilated? for this is what I desire iu the name of truth. In the first place, sectarianism is an excessively A revulsion trom | costly thing; few consider how expensive it 13. evil has its sphere primarily within ourseives, and | The religion of Rome is not expensive. The it may be instrumental in deterring others from | eathedrals of Rome, come of which were building it; but in general the revulsion from evil is per- | reat 200 or 300 years, some gave time, some gave | money, and the result is a MCE which is the tem- ple of everybody, and once built it is built forever; and the cost of sustaining these great estaohsh- ments ts for the individyal cowparatively trifing. Suppose, instead of oné cathedral you have two | churches; each must have ite itor, its means of propagandism. In the city of New York a score or 80 of denominations, each supported by its owao | denomination only; each cherisning its own litte dogma, trying to put its hand into every pocket it can reach, People complain that reilgion 18 80 costly; it costs more to support a little religion than agreatone. These sects are hostile; they fight each other. Millions are spent In this city to | support sectarianism, and where dves it come from? Out of tne pockets of the working people, | To use a not very elegaut expression, it is sweat- ing money. Again, next to the'waste of money is the waste | of mind that sectarianism implies, men who | to working @ machine. The Evangelical Alliance which met in New York lagt fall cost $15,0001n money, and cost a great deal more in mind, for in reading the preparations for {tI learned that the Most eminent men were employed fora full year in raising that money—a twelvemonth of mind lost. Is that not a serious consideration when we need all the mind we have got and every scholar Deeds to be multiplied by 100 instead of dividing | bimsei!? This is a question of education aiso. Are children to be allowed to grow up In ignorance? The means of education shouid be facilitated. Yet common educationin public schools is made all but Impossible, is threatened witn defeat because the Roman denominatioh refuses to wake any part in unison with the Protestants. Tae Proies- tants insist that there shail be no common edacation uniess the Bible is read scnools, If it is 60 with common school education how 18 it with colleges and universities? Three bundred and sixty colleges in tne United States— and they are without a single exception secta- rian—appeal each to its own denomination for its support. They are oMcered by sectarian men. Ordinary men have to be chosen as professors, because we bi men are unsectarian. Remove this spirit and you might have a hundred colleg equal to the University of Berlin, whose fame over all the world, and it costa less money than any three or four of our colleges, It seems to me of all evils this is one of the most deadly. The injury done by the spirit of sectarianism to the knowledge and power of truth is incalculable. It is out of the question that men who believe in sectarianism should lova truth. The nature of sectarianism is that it draws a line, and none but those pledged to their doctrines are admitted ; and it becomes impossible that men in a sect should love truth outside of the sect—and there must be truth outside all sects, Take the press: the political press is supported by its party; it lies, 1t slanders; it assalis and re- | yiles in a most unscrupoious fashion. ite business; its business is to destroy the other | party, as they destroyed the noble Horace Greeiey in the last campaign. But the vectarian papers are equal to the political papers, for they are given to wilfal misinterpretation and taisehood, and it is in all sects liberal as well as {liberal. Let & man advance opinions different trom those of bis sect and it won't be long before sianders against his character will be set on foot, I wes 4 cannot exculpate a single religions sect from deeds of this kind. Is not thts an evil and ougnt not all men to contest against it, You say, what 1s to be doner riends. What is tobe done? This is to be done :— Hope for another dispensation—nope for bester times. Your convictions are settling down on the intelligent community. First, all religion belongs i } | basis the same principle, the ritual traced beyond Judaism, way back in tue far Kaat, beiore Christianity was dreamed of, The Budn st priest in India periormed the same ceremonies that the Uatholic priest does now. Tat can be roved, All religion has the same origin; there is no mo- nopoly of revelation, no limit to inspired spirita. | If you claim anything for the Chnistian religion | you must grant it to the Mahommedan. Ali re- | ligion bas the samme origin; there are no prodigies. THE GIL 18 NO PRODIGY. | Suaday morning a collection ia ta ba takan m= ‘0, It is & great book—perhaps, on the whole, the mroatest, It contains the Ulerature Of # singio | should be great scholars devote all their powers | m_ the | It is about | It is idle to hope that these great | PtH Will lay aside their bitterness and become | to one family; all of one make; all ave at ine | A of the High Church of England and the Catuolic are t | raco for 1,500 years, Take the literature of Ene- land or France for 1,506 years, and it will be just | 98 inspiring, Admit that there is good in ali, but admit that it is the same good. We know that Shere ure foolish things in the Bib'e; things that to humanity and charity are wrong; things that are erie. We know ath and we take the good and leave the bad. There are no prodigies; the crea- tion of Christtantty 18 no prodigy. We know when it was done and by whom, and we know it was not always tue Holy Spirit that promulgated it, JESUS 18 NO PRODIGY. We know His race, His time. He read the history Of His nation, and Hie thoughts were formed by thoge who went be‘ore Him, His beautiful prayers May be found tn the liturgy of His people. Hang- ing on the cross His last words were a quotation from an Oia 80) A sweet soul, a great soul. Bend your heads before Him. 1 have no objection, who has? What seasible man objects to vend before a man greater than he. Bend your heads penre this great map, called Jesus of Nazareth; WORSHIP HIM. Don's By force of this great persuasion that all re- Ugions have the same origin we are inducted to fook torward and hope ahd feel that the taint of sectarianism will not rest upon the future. e hints of it in aahsm, the principle is tat iding wall between this life and that there is but one life, one career, one nature, that there is no necessity for any atonement any more. THE OHUROH OF THE DISCIPLES. Dr. Hepworth’s Sermon In Memoriam— His Secession trom the “Old Church.” The Rev. Dr. Hepworth preached yesterday morning, in the Church of the Disciples, an e!o- quent and impressive sermon to a great multi- tude of hearers, The text was taken from St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians xv., 54, in the words, “Death 18 swallowed up in victory.’’ During his aiscourse the preacher said, in sub- stance :—St. Paul was in himself the great intellect ofthe early Christian Church. Born and educated in the rival city to Alexandria, Corinth, and Athens, ne was enabled to contend with the heretical rhetoric of the pagan world. Tne Church of Christ, which he then so well aided in founding, is @ masterpiece of religious triumph. Pushing aside, as it does, with giant hands, the heathen theories of a dark past, we are per Mitted to catoh through its revelations a giimpse of the ‘tidden, happy iuture that Waits the just man, [tis meet to frequently cast our thoughts towards man’s eterna! destiny—to look through the door which Christ has left ajar and see what the Father hag in store forus. We cannot search our hearts without being made con- scious of our own humanity and of that time when our immortal souls will be called to the mighty Jehovah. We have lost by death one of our stancbest and best friends. His departure may seem premature, yet when God's voice is heard bidding the soul to go up to a higher level, those who remain behind the dear departed should re- ceive His flat with unmurmuring resignation, Our departed friend was never conspicuous In his place—hardiy known to many—because his mod- esty hated pretentious actions with a royal con- tempt and approved genuine worth with a royal pride. Born in moderate circumstances, he was raised to wealtn by the strength and energy of his own ability, and bas lett behind a record; that may well be envied. He was trusted and admired, but never feared, and THR STORY OF BIS GOODNESS grows daily upon our ears. He was not more re- markable for business abilities than for private virtues; his home was his joy and his love of chik dren remarkable. But tor him and some halt dozen other good spirits this chureh would never have been butlr, | was his frequent guest and had free converse with him about rhe Gospel, and the result of Many conierences has at last taken Jorm in this congregation, in whose prosperity we are so much interested. The trial was great which tmposed the breaking off of old friendships and the overieaping of traditional restraints, but necessary to be gone through in order toenter a new field. Yet this friend and a few others were the buiwark and stay of our small beginning. He had a ivised me to take a distinct ecciestastical course, and that triends would give freely and largely not only vheir money, bus sympathy elso. He said:—'Mr, Hepwortl think it over deliberately, and if you resolve to break of with tae old Caurck and begin a new movement I PLEDGE MYSELF TO SEE YOU THROUGH.” The very next Sabbath 1 preached tuat sermon which broke the chain that bound me to tue old order oi things and jeft me alone with a new idea, 1 had broken with irienaships I had treasured, put have to thank God for those still le:t me. I stood on the brink of @ great undertaking, and those in our Gear deveased brother’s house we met to begin the work, a part of which you are at this moment contemplating. He and [had been sad- dened and rejoiced toxether as we looked towards the near tuture.. On Friday 1ast we laid towers on his coMn, and, in prayer, commended his soul to God, that he might rest in His peace. God be thanked that in the beginning He raised up to us 80 stauch a friend. We cannot look upon the dead without desiring to know more of the goal towards which all of us are more or less rapidly travelling. And aiter the con- templation of sepulchral secrets without being able to fathom their mysteries the Christian rises on the pinions of faith and eyes the sun of eternity with an eagie’s gaze, Uther sects may gay taat their dead are lost; we cannot think that. ‘The Christian dead are not lost, but only asleep in Christ in that iar off elysium where, in the tuture, we sball strike hands with them and live over &gain the oid cherished scenes of this earth. Death must not be looked upon as dissolution, but rather let it be viewed as tie entrance into another world ol more complete and satistied existence. As the angels of God gaide and guard us in ways we know not of along the high roads and byways Ot life, we need not jear how nor when our departure may | take place to the lana of the hereaiter. ‘The ovject | Of this life 18 to prepare for that which 1s to come. Here below WE ARE IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, where the works of God must be studied diligent- ly and with tervent appitcation. Our smiles, tears, trials, toils, will in the end be the media 18 to follow death, But our absorption in present pursuits make men jorget to keep their eyes fixed on the eud where is the presence of Him who is unchangeable, And sorrow 18 necessary to make us more perfect. We are disciplined through tears. Grieis teach us to give our hearts up to bopes that woud be unknown but jor toem. When the precious metal in the refiner’s pot has com- pleted its purification from the dross which sur- rounds it and the excitement of ebullition has passed away, then wil the mass of shining gold at stilled. This is typical o1 tue exciting struggle of lie, where the passions boil and tumble; but | Where the work of spiritual purification is com- pletea by the fire of that faith which is burning | within us and our souls are cleared down, then | bd God look into them and see his own image, lor THE WORK OF REGENERATION IS COMPLETED. Tous do our griefs puriiy our thoughts and minds ' by lifting our gpiritual’ eyes heavenwards, Our nearest and dearest of kin, in going to the un- known herea(ter betore us, do but take with them @ portion of our sp.ritual nature, lifting our aspira- tions nearer to heaven, and we have, as it were, a@new claim upon God, and no man was ever nearer to Him than when weeping at the foot of the grave. Those who have gone betore us to the other world are as beacons and guides, and we Mast strain our ears and 1x attention to hear the celestial music of thetr heavenly song that beckons us Onward; the chants of fathers, wives, busbands, sisters, brothers, that will in the end surely jead us on to givry. THE WREPING AT THE TOMB OF LAZARUS showed the welling sympathy of His heart; and leaving Gethsemane in tue tribulation which He suffered, His auguishing exclamation was “Not my will, but thy will be done.” While thinking ourselves lost in # wilderness of perplexing dim- cuities we olten meet by the roadside of lile & twig which Christ has broken to guide, cheer and give us good courage by the way. Let us come to the great emancipator, become His iollowers— sye, His triends, that by prayer the sobs which are in our hearts may be converted into sounds of song and gladness, . ANNUAL ORDINATION OF THE DIOCESE OF LONG ISLAND, The annual ordination ceremonies of the diocese of Long Islaad, of which the Right Rev. A, N. Littlejohn is bishop, were held yesterday at the Church of the Redeemer, at the corner of Fourth avenue and Pacific street, Brcoklyn. There wasa | large congregation present. The Bishop was as- sisted by the rector, Rev. William A. Leonard, and | Rev. Dr. Diller, rector of St. Luke's charch. Alter the morning prayers had been said and nd an anthem sung the Rev, Dr. Diller preached beech sermon, taking for his text the fol- lowing :— | “Preach the Word; be instant in 8 season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with ai fering and doctrine’'—1l. Timothy, iv., 2 ‘the dis- course was in the nature of a charge to the young candidates jor the ministry, instructing them as vo their duty to ie pete in the position to which | they had been called by God. He looked upon thus OccaSsiON as One Of the most solemn which had oc- curred on earth to those who were about to enter the ministry ; for during the past week all of God’s eopie throughout all the Christian world had een engaged in solemn fasting and prayer, as weil a8 the bishops and all the clergy. It was his Mission vo preach the sermon on this occasion, | and he would do all he could to aid them in preaching the Word of God, They must take urist as their example, They must hot expect success to follow when they had preached an eloquent discourse from | the puiptt. They would not succeed Dd; teaching alone, ‘Ibe Christian minister must see. the opportunity to teach, reprove, rebake and ex- hort from house to house, and tius compiy with the tojunction given him. They must be “instant in s@ason, Out of season,” Christ was always tht wome act 1 benevuleues and mercy. and 80 Bho! n, ont of ng sul friends, whom you all know, came about me, and | the bottom of the crucible quiet down and be | f street, the ministers of Christ, He then #foke of the a Of the laymen to the pastor, without wio-e post 1t would be impossiole tor him to succeed. 1 close of the discourse the following candid: for the priesthood were presented :~~! Carter, McKiroy and Prescott. The cane them by on of hands. The lo Win: or- the layt: Tol- candidates for the deaconate were pre- seated by the rector Rev, Mr. Leonard. They were then ordained, Holy Communion was th celebrated, and after the’ singing of the come munion hymn the was dismissed with the banediction, “ipa THE ORTHODOX FRIENDS. Hicksite body of Friends last Sunday morning was large, but the congregation which gathered yesterday in the Quaker meeting house, in East Twentieth street, to attend the first public meet- ing of the orthodox body, was #0 great as to me- cessitate the holding of two meeting? at ones, there being two large meeting rooms in the build- ing. The upstairs meeting was the larger and continued longer. Ten o'clock was the hour fixea for the morning service, but tt was not untih hatf-past that the noise and bustle of people en- tering entirely ceased, and until perfect quiet is obtained the meeting is never opened. The large gallery was well filled with visitors, and persons attracted by the supposed pecu- arity ot the Quakers’ form of worship, while the body of the room was taken up almost entirely by members of the society, and on a day of intense heat, like yestere day, the cool and airy dressea of the Quakercssea had a decidedly refreshing appearance, After some moments of silence the meeting was ad- dressed by an elderly Quakeress, who, arising, said, “Lam the water and the life, and whosoever thirsteth let him come,’”” She rejoiced at the sight of so large @ gathering and trusted the Lord would be present to guide and instruct the meeting. “How is it with us this morning,” she continueds “that is the question we should each ask of our hearts, and [ want to encourage you to trust ia Jesus, and uf we are not on the right patn He will set us right.” A prayer wag then offered by one of the elders, which was immediately followed by another, offered by @ sister, whose voice was im tensely pleading and earnest in its tone. She begged God to “Speak to every heart in the room separately and teach them that itis not all of life wo live, nor all of death to die. Let our motte be Jesus, only, and this will be 4 HIGH DAY FOR ZION.” At the conclusion of this prayer and ere the com gregation had responded “Amen!” another votes said, “Let us linger longer at the mercy seat Lord, send the Pentecostal tongues of fire upon the heads of those who shall speak at this meetin, Bless the provisions of Zion and satisfy us all witl heavenly bread, that we may ali be preserved from Specnlapon, and prying into matters that belong te the great God alone.” During these prayers the faces of the members were covered with thelr hands in the manner of Congregationalisce, the eid castom of standi having apparently gong outofdate. A long address was next made by one of tae brethren. “We understand, in the ginning, that God created man,"" he commenc: ‘and that man was Inade but littie lower than tha angela. We understand that by transgression hi Jost tnis place and became an alien towards We understand that God’s object in sending Hia Son into the world was to destroy tue work of the devil. It was by tr: nagression that sin came into the world, and by sin, deatn, and it was, we De- lieve and understand, to conquer aeath, that God pene us His Son. There is a disposition in the land to lower THE STANDARD OF JESUS CHRIST. and to bring him down toa level with ordinat Man, Some of the Society of Friends, who prete to be Christians, say that he was merely an or- dained sacrifice, and was only greater than map- Kind in general because he lived a perfect lite. Men and women who profess to be the followers of Fox and Penn and Barclay say that they believe this, and it is lest the public, who are unacquainted with the Society of Friends, should be misied into erroneous ideas concerning our belies, tiat | speak on this subject.” Then ioliowed # lony rehearsal of the various prophecies of the Old Testament, whicn speak of the coming of a Christ, and many uotations from the New Testament, in proof of 18 divine nature. The speaker closed by sayin “We are not to believe that the ‘Word’ was cloth in fiesh, but, as St. John says, that ‘the Word was made fesn,’" Another brother arising said:—‘*Man forth unto bis work and his labor until the even- ing. As 1 have veen sitting here | have becn thinking that every lace [now see before me I shall see again after death, at the great judgment, and that the Lord God will demand reparation af my hands if! fail to sound the alarm now.” He spoke of the shortness of haman iffe, and the un- satisfactory resuits of tt to those who only sought earthly gain and the applause of mankind, One generation alter another passes away dissatisfied with and disappointed in life, yet each succeeding | one enters into the world with confidence aod & feeling that in its case all will be differ~ ent; but, alas! modern appliances may take the place o! ancient ones, advances in science may be mude and man’s labor rendered easier and more effective; but the, hearts, the emotions, the Ve and the sorrows of men are as they have ever en and must always rewain. This itfe can never bring the realization of she Banpiness we dream of, and shodid oniy be spent in preparation for heaven. The meeting was closed with prayer. At four P. M. services were again held and largely attended, The yearly meeting continues this wees, the eens on Wednesday being open to the public. METHODIST EXTENSION SOOIETY, Annual Meeting Last Evening—The Mis sionary Work in This City. The annual meeting of the City Church Extene sion and Missionary Soctety of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was held last evening at the Jane | street church, the President, Mr. J. B. Cornell, im for the grand development of our Own souls that | the chair. Rey. T. M. Eddy delivered a jong address, im which he endeavored to demonstrate the neces. sity for the work which was doue by the society im the lower districts, Rapid transit was far off, in- deed, and these downtown wards promised to be- come more populous thanever. It was therefore, necessary to build churches in those localities te save hundreds of souls. Let them hoid New York for Christ, and they would save the country tor Christ. The reverend speaker expressed also, among other things, his longing for the return to the hearty old styie of Metuodist preaching, General Clinton B, Fisk, of St. Louis, followed in an impassioned address, in which be paid due reverence to the Methodist faith, for which all this work was being done, and John B. Cornell, an@ other gentlemen spoke in an encouraging tone of the continued growth of the Methodist Church. Am abstract of the annual report for the year ending March, 1874, was read to the meeting. The follow= ing are the most interesting portions of the re- port: ‘The pecnliar work of the society is to establish perma nent hiseion chapels and Budday vouoots in the crowded and destitute neighborhoods oO! this great city, of im i neglected uptown localities, to be centres of Yospel lig! and influence io tae untauzht, careworn thousands laboring people, native and toreign, or to grow into self sustaining churenes and tutare supports of Method! A statistics are given to show t ‘vhey are as complete a3, Dom not having been obtained in time'from two of the churches. Number of church tions, 16; number of pustors aud sssistants, 234 rot Sunday schools, 16; members tn churches, 1,900; teachers and scholars in Sunday schools, 40015 conversions during the year. 700. ‘the ‘society is a SHA total eR het“ aloe ny gato from cach church, elected by the Quarterly Con- additional @lected) members, There, ate pw connesred with the society the following lew yh in charge of a reguiany fond. avenue, be- churches and missions, Sppointed pastor :- ih Hai tween 109th and Hoek gitecta; Corn sixth street, between Second and ii first street, bet near avenue By Tompkins, stre 6: Gereat, “kicar ny atrect, ‘on the east side of the city. ashington Heights, corner Tenth avenue and 1 treet: Grace church, 104étl nue; Perr; (colored), Wost sid and Geri buildin, cored) church, w: mi street, neal 5 2 reot, near Sixth avenue, on the nities, all except the Tompkins’ strecs jan missions. have permanent locations rly occupies manuel (Cok ie purchased "Oy ae, fener Sony é, M and the property occupie he Free past ZeGormerly Trinky Methodist Episcopal chureb, which wi reherously donated to the society by the eS holders at the close of the previous year, t ned ag afree church tor the mi addi on the al , the society has under its care the following churches and mis mn the west side, which are compr fr Une circuit, In charge of ‘one minister, appointed by the Conference, and tour assistants :—Broad way, corner igh fth sireet, near Tenth ave. fue; Hope © hear spring, and No: Franklin street. fit et Chure! ‘& permanent location pel; focated in hired apartments oF DUNG ings. A fortable parsonage has been built during the year for the Wa: ny ton Heights church, at @ cout of al $AooA’ oneshaif of which has been borne by tbe local society of the church. The work atthe Free Tabernac! #n Thirty-tourth street, under the new ma ment, fot witht eraulying success, enficient junds being raw py the local society to defray all the current expem % it murch during the year. The mission work in wistaity ofthe Forsyth street Methodist Episcopa Hi has been continue curing she past year rin Cuny cess, aud similar labor en performed in the viciniiy of the Seventeenth street Metnodist Kplscopal churtiy and Kev. G. Scher, preach peg visited and taught among his countryme: of the Cornell Memorial church. The past year has enerally a year of successtul work. Soovte on een nore numerous, churches and se! sirengthened, special ‘efforts, have been | Officers of the society to make if better ku 5 rly Understood among oul f athe, ncouraged (0 xbect tor ar has been avo are c] meaaure of sympathy ial require 00) to deteav the curredt coming ye: Nw ————&E-S—rc tem, eee eee CT