The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1874, Page 8

SUNDAY SERMONS. ‘Yesterday’s Services and Sermons in the Churches of the City and Suburbs. MR. HALL AND THE COMFORTER. The Rev. George Hepworth on Partner- ship with the Almighty. | ‘Hyatt Smith’s Sermon to} Young Men. | ‘Beecher on the Imperfection of Man. ‘THIRTY-SEVENTH STREST METHODIST EPISCOPAL WnvRcH.—The pastor, Rev. Richard Meredith, (preached on the necessity of always walking with | ‘Christ, With Him we are everything; away from (Him we are nothing. St. PavL’s EriscoraL CHURCH.—The sermon was preached here yesterday moruing by the Rev. Dr. | @ulchahéey, who took his text from Genesis, vi, 9. fe dwelt at length on the confirmation of the | ‘Ola Testament prophecies. CnurcH oF THE NEW JERUSALEM.—Mr. Giles | preached yesterday morning to a crowded av- | ‘dience in the Swedenborgian church, Thirty-fifth | street, on the subject of “The Biessedness of ‘Death, as Taught by the New Birth.” Scorch PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The Rev. Dr. | ‘Hamilton preached here yesterday in his accus- | ‘tome pulpit. The attendance, in spite of the somewhat warm weather, was.larger than usual. | "The reverend gentleman preached a doctrinal | ‘sermon, COLLEGIATE REFORMED DUTCH CHAPEL, in Ful- ‘ton street.—The sermon was preached here yester- day vy the Rev. Mr. Lindsey, who chose the text, “He spread a table for me in presence of mine | enemies.” Subsequently the majority of the con- gregation participated in the communion service, Sr. Mazx’s CuvrcH.—Tne rector, Rev. Jos. H. Rylance, officiated at the morning service and preached on the gospel of the day, The discourse, | founded on the story of the rich man and Lazarus, | Was an excellent elaboration of the subject of Yocia: inequalities and social wrongs. FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The beautiful | ‘and commodions edifice known as the Fourth | Presbyterian church, in Thirty-fourth street, near | Broadway, was fillea yesterday morning, notwith- standing the warm weather. The pastor, Rev. John Thompson, preached a most interesting dis- | course on the life and character of David, CnvrcH OF THE INCARNATION.—The Rev. D. J. | Seabury preached here yesterday morning on the goodness of God which allowed His only son to | Fedeem the world. There was an immutabdle goodness in the spirit which had more care for the | salvation of the buman race than mortals had tor | themselves, CHURCH OF St, JouN THE Baptist (ROMAN CaTHO- | uic).—The German Catholic church of St. Jonn | the Baptist was crowded to overflowing yesterday morning. Rev. Father Pacificus sung mass. Rev. Father Bonaventure, Superior of the house of the Capuchin Brothers, preached on the Sacrament of ‘the Holy Communion. , Prren’s Pexce.—A collection was taken up at all the Catholic churches in the dioceses of Brook- lyn yesterday, except St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, “st which iatt8® church contitbutions wit! be re- | ceived on next Sunday in aid of the Pope. Elo- quent appeals were made by the pastors, and a generous response was given by the saithful, Be ok 4 = OLD Jomy § ‘Werxodisr onvecu.—The “germon preached yesterday was by the pastor, Rev. N. G, Cheney, who took his text trom I. Corinthians, xii., 28. The singing was considered | excellent. The choir is under the direction of Mr. | J. W. Dikeman. Communion service was held -at the conclusion of the sermon, ‘Sf. FRANCIS RomaN CaTHoLIc CHuncn.—The church of the Franciscan Brothers in West Thirty- first street was well attended yesterday morning. The altar was profusely decorated with flowers. Rev. Father Eugene celebrated high mass at hali- past ten. Rev. Father Charles preached, taking for bia subject the “Sacrament ofthe Communion.” | Sr. Perer’s Cucrcu.—The Rey. Father Q’Rellly, | 15—Study to show thyself approved unto God, a | erator, Rev. Dr. Paxton, of New York, and Rev. admunistered. Ninety-two new members were | | there would be a great “congregational picnic” of NEW rise from the dead? Are we predestinated to sab vation er damnation? 4c., ignoring thet each bu- man being must work out his own salvation, Sr. BripcEr’s Rowam Oarvourc CHURCH.—It was stated in this churck yesterday, of which the well Known Pather M Curran tf pastor, that on Trinity Sunday $1,003 had been collected as Peter’a Pence. The sermon was preached yesterday by the Rev. Father Corley, of St Peter's, who dwelt om the | fre world, bringing an infuse so ieee upon the parable of the invitation to the Lord’s Supper and, | SS oh a affec' ing 5 ea Instead o one hem and Lt Ing cal in conclusion, on the evils of avarice. The Rev. D. | O/"Cntiss tt shall be constrained te tolerate them M McDonald, Missionary Apostoito of Prince Ba- ward laiand, took part im the services. EBENEZER Bartisr CHURCH.—A} the Baptist | and to bear with this cause use itself as ae eines in) the world.” rues ie is ou an tlras' [rome ue can see tion of it in she Chi Everythi looked dark to the disct) before the day OL Pew } meeting house, Thirty-stxth street, near Broad | tecost, They were praying, 120 i. sonen way, yesterday morning, there were just nineteen | and all Jerusalem wag against them; but the spirit people assemblea, including the venerable parson | °f God came down Comforter spake shrouga tl mforti Peter and wrought th the hearts of # multitave of and the HERALD reporter. After @ ary ng prayer, | hearers. ry conviction 4 of in and of ‘righteousness followea by @ bymn, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Badger, | and of juagment, un’ ousands that had in a | the morning deen hostile to Onrist and His truth, preached, taking bis text from IL Timothy, | peiore nighttall were His pledyed and earnest {ol- lowers and disciples, standing by the twelve, ready to protect and defeud those whom otherwise they | would have consigned to death, So God provides Jor the protection and defence of His few and ice- ble servants by giving @ power, even with them, that coutrola the world outside and changes its | hostlity imto friendsbip and good will, And you seo the same thing on & smaller scale at Philippi, | Where the jallor, who seems to have heartily en- ts in Brook- | terea inte the business of 1g them into lyn and a leading member of St, John’s, who died | the stocks and treating them as any oom. a few days ago, The text was taken from the first | MOM Prisoners, was convicted by the Comiorter of sin and of righteousness and a id be verse of the fortieth Psalm—“God is our refuge | ig) an of | dagmen, at became a fast friend of the e6 and strength, @ very present help in trouble.” | est soliower of Christ. This important sense we At the conclasion of the sermoo, @ number of attach to the od iH wilt convict pe world | of and of ri 101 of ju 81 members were taken into the church after which fie wilt — the Holy Sacrament was celebrated, the Rey. Dr. make @ sentiment in your favor; he will leaven Warren assisting in the service, workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly divining the words of truth.” Sr, JouNn’s Mgruopist CHURCH, BROOKLYN— Yesteraay morning the Rev. Dr, W: preached @ discourse commemorative ‘at Sylvester Tuttle, one of the oldest mi uproot hostility; he will the world itself with the principles to which you are committed, 80 that you will not only be tolerated and sustaine Dut the world itself will come under the sway 0! that Gospel of which yo@ are the chosen preach- ers.” You can easily see how this would encour- e and sustain the disciples in the eurly days of the Cnourch. CONVICTION OF SIN. And now let uslook at the particular form of CHURCH OF THB ASCENSION.—The Rev. Dr. | Irving preached here yesterday morning, in place | of the Rev. John Cotton Smith, who 18 absent. His text was taken from Matthew, vi, 2% He spoke on the subject of charity, and praised that Christian goodness which never let the rignt | ‘Sine CON Mit Dy RON ie Te Wee greaiesen. 2s hand know what the left band did. There was a | Viction of sin, of righteousness, and of judg- spectal blessing to those who did charity to vheir | ment. ms it eae rere, ashee to explain the fellows, and the Lord watched over those wno | SnunehO™ Weottae” aatenha tin” the words did 1. Owing to the absence of the Rev. Jonn | of the text, you woul probably find it a little dim- Cotton Smith, the rector, the attenaance yester- | cult todo it, Conviction of sin ig not a work of imagination only, The imagination of a wicked day morning was something less than usual, man 1s often filled with terror, and I don’t doubt that the Holy Ghost has at times used this power of the imagination, But this conviction 1s not ideptical with toat which 1s a conclusion of the judginent, Lapprehend that many transgressors now sin to be sinful and have a very clear notion of the bad consequences, but they make a calcula- | tion that the pleasure ts near and available and | the penalty, it it comes at all, ts remote; so they | snatch the pleasure and take their chances as to | the penalty. Such a case is very dreadful, and if men would only stop an¢ think they would see that that very knowledge and judgment and con- viction ig @ dreadful element their gut. Yet this conviction of the judgment is not the whole | work o/ the ec REG: upon men’s minds same ection. Drs, Doryea and Van Dyxe were invited to partic: | gq yet the operation of the natara! con: not le Pate in the services, science is the whole of con- parent victing work. In its earlier and less vitiated FIFTH AVENUB PRESBYTERIAN OHUREH.—The Rev. | stages conscience denounces the sin to the sin Dr. Paxton preached yesterday morning from the | ner; but by and by it ceases to speak, is drugged, text, Solomon’s Song, iL, 3—“As the apple tree and in Many 1ustances holds its peace altogether | fora time, But in its earlier stages it condemns a among the trees of the wood, so Is my beloved | ginner to his jace, and the Spirit of God uses tis. among the sons. I sat down under his shadow eee ies - genes ae reed the Holy Ghost he knows ain ag sin; as hay - with great delight and his fruit was sweet 10 my | fore God; that he onght to hate it because it is taste.”’ The reverend Doctor, in applying the text, | hateful to God; he hates himseif because he does said that the tree was that of natural redemption, and that Christ’s love could be piucked with the same facility as the sweet and ripe fruit trom the not hate sin, A surgeon may know and describe with accuracy the sensations of a panent, but it 13 tree. Man nad @ misston on earth, which was to | Tecognize that which was offered to his band, | a different thing to feel the twinges of pain him- God offered this fruit to our taste, and it was our | sell. There isa stmilar distinction between the place to pluck it and make use of it. Dr. Paxton’s | impressions Of the tmagiNation and the actual ex- perience of what sin is. Are there any of you, was a very eloquent discourse, and his metapuors were sublime, dear brethren, who have had incipient feelings of this kind Let me give you two counsels touch- ing them. First of ali, do not take them jor savin, TALMAGE’S TABERNACLB, BROOKLYN.—The great Tabernacle was crowded at both services yester- day. In the morning the Holy Communion was | Ross STREST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BROOK- | LYN.—The services at this church yesterday were unusually interesting, the occasion being the in- | stallation of Rey. William A. McGinley, as its per- manent pastor, by a committee of the Presbytery of Brookiyn. This new addition to the pulpit of the City of Churches comes {rom the interior of the ‘Stave with a high reputation for piety, scholarship | and oratorical ability, The spacious edifice was | filled to repletion. Rev. Drs. Buchanan, the Mod- religion. You way have these and never be saved, Convictions, sense of sin, do not saveany more than a keen feeling of agony cures-the dfsease. In the second place, if evra) these convictions do | Not stifle them and i togetrid of them. Many have done so; many have been advised todo so; the feelings have been spoken of as morvid; they have been told that they were frightened without | cause; that they needed something cheeriul to em- | ploy them and turn ther minds i another direc | tion, Men bave rushed into business, hastened to Pleasures, changed their employment, their so | ciety, their associations, eng Mp henged the very land in which they dwelt, in ler td get rid | of these convictions and secure whet they sup- | posed would be relief and peace. But they never get true peace; they get that feeling that is de- | icribed as “peace, peace, when there iy No peace.”? beseech you not to try to gel rid of these convic- | tions; but go to the Physic: go tO the cross, trust the Savior, put yoursel! in the Redeemer’s hands, Spay ever it mortifies and humbies yon and ‘8 you of your own right onenese take this salvation that is in Ett ghd then, and. thea only, will you have satety, and @ retiaple guaranty ‘ot peace. How does the Spirit thus convict of sin? He has two great Inssruments—the jaw * one. e law 8 copy of the Divine ag it concerns men, aeli teaches our duty aha itt 80 far it t8 like ‘God, It cannot tolerate the least deviation /rom its re- quirements. A man migat as well talk of a mathe. | Inatical straight line with @ little deflection in it, received, making @ total of about 450 during the past three months, Many of those wno were re- | ceived upon certificates yesterday came from | other Brooklyn churches. Four or five came from | Dr. Cuyler’s, on Lafayette avenue. One came | from the Protestant Episcopal Church of Ireland. Mr. Talmage’s sermon was a brief but earnest one, appropriate to the occasion, and when he had con- cluded the communion was administered, Pre- vious to the sermon Mr. age announced that his church at Prospect Park on the 17th of June, #ud he hoped to meets al] his people there. THE COMFORTER. Yesterday morning the Fiftn avenue Presbyte- Tian church, corner of Nineteenth street, was | accommodation is out of the question. Until a filled with an audience who listened to a sermon Pra mame ok he ie rboey fei sr nnn sell, ant e a ery ie Pec oes by the pastor of the churcn, Rev. Dr. John Hail. of bis neighbors; but one peo of that law dis. Tho text from which air. Hall atscoursed was | peis these delusions in & moment. One great John, x., &11—“And when he is come he will re- oubie with two-thirds of our guperticial as literatare ia that it knows nothing of God's law, prove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and | of jadgment. Of sin, because they believe not on | me; of righteousness, because 1 go to my father, and ye see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world ts judged,” These words are a part of the last discourse of our Lord to His disciples. Have you not noticed | what a firm hold even trifling cireumatances in | worse; armen me, jaw has oftripned. on, sa woundes im al pabbgarhdigaaedie a0 po raisin tay | itis unfolded to him, pours the oil and she wime and the reason is that it knows nothing about Go bimselt. Jn ite estimation God is simply an exag- gerated, an enlarged, a Magntfied manu, and there | can be bardly @ greater blasphemy against Him than to treat Him so! But there isa second agency in the Sptrit’s hand in producing this con- vicuion, aud that is the Gospel. When a man sees | she cause of Jesus Christhe thinks more of the law; he does not think better of himself, but into hia wounds, and lifts him upand carries nim of Toronto, late missionary at Cape Town, Africa, | what a very firm hold these last words of our and author of the “Martyrs of the Colosseum,” | pjessed Lord before His crucifixion ought to have gave an exhaustive discourse yesterday morning | upon the thoughts and memories of all ofus! And to the large congregation of St. Peter’s church on | this not merely because of the tender and touch- the duty of'a Christian, but preaching from no par- | ing circumstances under which they were spoken, ticular text. St. GapRren’s Roman Caruorre Cuvrce.—At | their intrinsic value. He 1s about te leave His last mass Father O’Fiaherty preached on the gospel | “#Sciples in the world, and in the most tender and | but because of their inherent importance and | on the way to the new Jerasaiem. Then e will convict of righteousness,” says the Saviour, ‘‘be- cause I go to my Father, and ye sec me no more.” Righteousness {s composed of two things—freedom from inherent sins and perfect obedience to God’a requirements. The angels have both, Man had | one of these at first, but lacked the other because he broke God’s law. Jesus Christ bad and always | and God treated Him as sinful in order THAT JUSTICH MIGHT BE SATISFIED. 24—“A certain | gentle spirtt He is preparmg them by this dis- of the day, taken from Luke, xiv., 6-2 Tich man made a great supper and invited many, | COUrse for the new position in which they wouta and he sent hi servant at the hour of supper to | say to them that were invited that they should come, for all things were now ready.” their hearts with the promises of that Holy Spirit, the Comiorter, who shall be to them in His stead; who shall continue the work of teaching them, find themselves; and especially is He encouraging | ‘ Now, ted ae ne tn this ieloas Pee | he sai ment, because the prince ot word i Judged" The prince of this wortd is | Satan, the wisest and strongest foe that hagever | risen against the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ caine to this world to grapple with this prince; he | meets him on the fleld of the 1aw, the law ts satis- will have both; bat He identified Himself with ro Gocay until as last the race shall emer; MADISON AVENUE Baprist Cucrca.—The Rev. | Joseph F. Eider, pastor, took for the text of his | discourse Hebrews, vii., 26—“For such a high priest became us, who is boly, harmless, undefiled, | Separate from sinners and made higher than the | heavens.” After the sermon the communion was | partaken of, CHURCH oF St. JouN THE BAPTI8T (PROTESTANT EpiscoraL).—Dr. Duffie preached the sermon, in the course of which le showed how division and schism creep into the Church by allowing men in i¢ who are not worthy members, God has not con- ferred the gift of infailibility on man, but we shoud endeavor to keep such people out of the Cnurch. TABERNACLE Baptist Cuvrca.—The congrega- tion, about 400 persons, attended in the morning, | yesterday; to the ministration of Mr. B. Henry , Of praise and thanksgiving, the unutterable | ms text was taken, he began, is a kind of letter of | Taylor, graduate from Rochester Theological Uol- | lege, who bas, by his elegant sermons, rendered himself a favored pastor. His text was the tuird | Verse of the third chapter of Colossians, Curren oF Curist.—This appreciative and | earnest congregation, worshipping in the new | hall, Second avenue and Twenty-taird street, were | yesterday, in the morning, addressed by Elder H. | Munger. His discourse was based on the story of | Naaman, in Il. Kings, v,, and directed to show the | instructive power of iaith. / $f. GEORGE’s.—The morning services were per- formed by the rector, 8. H. ‘Tyng, D. D., 8r., as- | sisted by Rey. £. HL. Peet, D. D. br. Tyng preached, | ‘the text belong I. Corinthians, i11,, 18—“We all | with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of | the Lord, are changed into the same,” &c. The | tenor of the sermon Was that the true study of the | Holy Scriptures, leading to a knowledge of Jesus, requires @ periect conformity ww Lim, SICKNESS OF MR. Frorimanam.—As tho nenal | crowd of worshippers presented themselves at Lyric Hall, yeaterday morning, they were toid at | the door by one of the ushers that in consequence of the sickness of Mr. Frothingham there would be no service held, Considerable disappointment ‘was evidently felt, but it was borne with meek. ness, and mach sywpathy was expressed for the popular preacher, TRovwry Cuvnon.—The sermon at this celebrated church was preached yesterday by Rev. Mr. Green, of Mississippi, who adjured his hearers to search the Scripturés and to carry out the will of God faithinily, He ridtculed the scepticism of the pres- et day, WPen Roonle demand 0 KOT AMA We ) @dgaen Men, Roor aad ahecur | fled, and Satan is jadged as having no right over us to control us, no claim upon us. If you have not received these truths, receive them, not biiadiy, but examine carefully, and when you re- cetve them then will be fulfilled that which was written im the Epistie to the Romans, ‘For with the hears man belteveth unto righteousness, aud with the mouth confession 1s made unto salvation ; for the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth fi Him shall not be ashamed.’ May God bless to us His truth, and to His name will be praise forever. CHURCH OP THE DISCIPLES Fate and Free Will—God and Man’s Power—Sermen by the Rev. George H. Hepworth. Mr. Hepworth spoke yesterday morning on the power of God and of men. His text was L. Co- rintbians, xvi, 10—'For he worketh the work of the Lord, as 1 also do.” The chapter from which and who snull fit them for the new duties and obli- gations under which they will necessarily be laid. He says to them plainly, “I am going away.” Now, from what was He going away? From a peo ple to whom He had come in mercy, and by whom He was being rejected ; from His own, to whom He had come, and they did not receive Him; from men who scoffed at Him and reviled Him and hated Him and pursued Him with the most intense ma- lignity of purpose ; irom Scrives and Pharisees and hypocrites, who endeavored to turn His good into evil, and who never spoke anything but evil of Him; from reproach and scorn and personal saffer- ing and contempt. And to what was He going? Why, back again to His Father's bosom; back again to the homage and adoration of angels and the holy company above; back again to the songs delights of that throne from which He had come down, He does not say, “It is expedient for me that I go away,” but ‘It is expedient for -you that Igo.” He is thinking not of Himself, but of His disciples. Why 18 it expedient that He go? He gives one good reason, and that is sufiicient: “It I | go not away the Comiorter will not come to you,” introduction, commending Timothy to the tmtelli- gent bnt novelty-loving Corinthians. It is in some Tespects a very peculiar ‘letter, Its intimations are of very great Importance, showing our rela- tions to God. This subject has always beem @ mystery. St. Paul, by his intimations, adds greatly to the dignity of mankind, If what he says is true id not have been in harmony with His Surpuse and te establishment of His Church in | We must bein dead carnest. We must not put of ne world. If He had remained His disciples | unti to-morrow what ought to be done to-day. We would have gathered around Him and #His Church must needs be a local community, It was His pur- pa that His Church should be expansive, a alt- lusive force, with its ministers going into all the world and preach | to every creature. It was His purpose t! disciples should walk not by sight but by fatth; they were to accept a condition of things that was normal, and in the are in a sort of PARTNEGSHIP WITH THE ALMIGHTY, ‘We speak of ourselves as being pertectly free to do what we wili'tn one breath, and m the next of God as the controller of the untverse. We have often wondered how these two elements in our strength of faith and hope and love, armed | lives could be harmonized, We are sure that God's with the truth and taught PF, the ‘Spirit, to | power i# boundiess, ana that our own within a go forth, taking the as it_was, | small circle ts ail powerful, Let os look at this and endeavor to subdne it for Christ. | seeming contradiction for awhile. It is evident to ail that God not only rules all but overrules all. Without His will not a star could move in itg orbit. ‘There is no such thing as accident m all the cir- “| am with you a6 you divine me iA my worda, a my spirit, to be apprehended by faith and truste: to, even when unseen; Tam thas to be with you | until the end of the world.” Thatisthe meaning | cumference of the physical or spiritual world. He of His words. And now, when He i# gone away, HOW WILL If BB WITH THEM ? In the world that hated Him and them, shall they jare better than their Master? Hardiy. “If they have persecuted me they will persecute you. The time will come when be that killeth you will think he doeth God service; ye snail be hated of all men for ny sake.” Those are the Lord’s words; He hia nothing; He never stooped to cajoling men into can compel theif thing to serve @ good purpose in the end, Though your seventy years of tite is failure to you, to the world at large it is @ warning and bieasing. At the same time we are sure that nan ruies everything required by religion, for it implies that we might Gisobey, But for every act that we do we are heid acconntable, We are monarchs of our whole jife. Man can build himself up or lower himself down, This His service; they accepted the place with their | being 80, it becomes hecessary for (od to offer in. eyes open to ite diMenities and hardships, Yet, | centives to dd. kven God cannot compel shall they have no helper? Notso. “When have | soul to go to heaven or hell. I take tt that Onrist’s miasion was to give us an ideal or pattern, and to | gone,” He says, “I will send to you the Comforter, show us that rene sea pouishment and right and aod there are two purposes that He will serve; the one is personal; He will be with you, teaca- | reward went hand in hand. it a man were to ing and leading you into the’ truth, | offer you aloes or honey you Would not hesitate to recallin my instructions, ministering to | take the honey, yet, when Onrist tells you of your needs.” But what about the world | heaven and hell, you lollow your own caprices and around; what about its hostility and bitterness? | forget botn, No man ever contradicted the Ser- “Tt may be strong enough to exterminate us, and | mon on the Mount. We experience its truth | with us destroy tins infant, struggling cause. Only | every day. The question then natnrally G% WhAs ChARCH Un | aries How ay YORK HERALD. MONDAY. JUNE 8. 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, &_ bundrea ponde: wl to } wement. We lave power to swim or — and Testa wita ourselves % ry serve the strongest master in the world, There are a thousand powers in the world, but, like this old hero, we must serve the strongest, and ere many years we shall find our Iife setting itself to music, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Mr. Beeeher on the Science of Genesis and the Theology of the New Testa- ment, Mr. Beecher’s text yesterday morning com- prised two passages, one from 1. Jonn, tL, 2 8— “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and tt doth not yet @ppear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hash this hope in Him purifieth himself, even a8 He # pores’ ‘Tnts passage was taken in connection with Ro- mans vill. 18th to the 21st verse inciusive—“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared witn the glory which Shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expecta- ‘ion of the creature watteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same tn hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glortous liberty of the children of God.” The imperfection, the universal sinfulness, of man, the corruption of man’s conduct, and, in one sense, of bis nature, have been admitted in all ages and by all schools of Christian theology, and just 8 much tn other religions ag in the Ubristian, It is a fact about which there can be no disputation; the whole world ltes in wickedness. There are two Scriptural germs, from which two very different views of the condition of the human race are to be evolved. The one ia the supposed historical, re- garding the origin of man, and the other is what may be called the prophetic, and regards the death and termination of all men, one acting from the past and laying its foundations in supposed his- tory, and the other taking its forms from the future and arguing from that what must be the condition antecedent or preceding such prophetic development of man’s nature, The paravle of the Garden of Eden, and of the fali of man and the untversal stufulness of men as derived from their involuntary connection with a great onknown head, strangely enough has formed the basis of the most enduring theory and the most untversal— the most oppresstve and the most inconsistent with every one of those feelings which spring up under a rigorous education in the ethical princi- ples of the Gospel. It is impossible to develope in human beings the character which made Christ what he Was, under the ethical principles that Jesus taught, and then in the light of the Justice, the reason, the Mumanity of any Chrisuan period to go back and agsume ‘the facts and the philoso. phy which have @t the basis of the theology of ages withouta violation of every moral instinct of the sense of trth, Of justice, of honor. Now, truth, justice and. honor are in such a sense funda- mental that ii you violate them there is no foun- dation on which any system can stand; it mast go to the dust. And that general view which hes come down + us, teaching us that we are condemned, not on account of what we have ourscives done, but that we are condemned on pccount of tat which was done for us thousands 0} @go, that on that sccount we are held ole to penalty, and eternal penaity ig a fact so violative of every educative stinct of right and Justice that no man can con- template it with any degree of moral emotion in his soul and not repudiate it as the foundation of a | theology. ‘This view grows more and more REPUGNAN? TO THB BDUCATED MORAL SENSE of men under Gospei juen. it contorta the truth ‘Views of divine government. v1 government on grounds which, ‘ ale ne pater of the two. shen sim sare which ts to. refate the ‘literal text of creation, and to show that the race ally developea from the lowest will that to every theory; the aeaipas Ty Dus isdowan't troy the fact in any THR HIGHER LIPS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY THE LOW. The lower does not understand the higher, I Bona tne tea tue at Baas D most discriminat 3 ntleman 1D 5 im that he can’t tal! wee bink that he couldn a8 I ait by him on the bank on summer even! tem, fam sorry for you,” and he whines and twists himself as much as tosay, “soamL” I don’t know which is. the Most puzzied—I to get an idea tuto bis head or he Wo get one out of He knows there 1s some- thing above a dog; there is a apirit of aspiration in him which shows itself from the tail to the ears, and he longs to fet up into something better, but he cannot [ K you will dnd in First Corin- second ohapter,a much more dignificd, with wonder and and pulpit sometit Bree 1 cannot evs eine? even bring intuitions down to my own tho! ve me @ sense of what she immor Of te soul and of-he future lire may i sleep Sai my best Sunday's sermons aré always ent eat to relieve you of that necessity. If I wake at four in the morning on rg rig Ue in just somnotlency as that it is that my body slept but my reason and moral sense are awake, oiten and oiten I lie in that state, im it I tashion Out sermons which if you could hear them you would never wait to hear those you do, They are so mach T, 8O ByMetrical; there 1s an cement in themI cannot describe, And, springing irom my bed, I say, “God helping m 1 will have a ser- mon to-day,” but the moment I try to prison my inspiration into words it Is gone. As I grow older, see more of men, study them more in detall, the exhariences, ths Possibilities, the necessittes that are upon the race, I do not written more plainly in nature than in the Bibie. it takes away the vagueness and gives me a Ploacuical Teason why I cannot understand od. it makes in my soul an unspeakable gladness, tor I am living towards Him in spite Ol fault and sin, As a mariner steers his way toa certain port, so through sorrow, through tempta- tion, through trial, through discipline, through mistakes, 1 behold my Vilot, restorative love, Jesus is His name, an knowing that the work that he has attraction He has set on foot, abandon the work or diminish the attraction. But at last I shall conquer and more than conquer through Him that loved me and who has forever and forever given himself forme. Be Christians under the teachings of the New Testament, not by the ecclesiastical doctrines of the Church, but by the tuspiration of the Holy Ghost, the instruction of God through the letter by the spirit in your souls—through the New Jerusalem, the new gladness of souiship, of victory, of eternity of gladness, SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL OHUROE, Dr. Wild on How Perfection is To Fe Gained—Mrs. Dwyer and What He Thinks of Her Crime. Seventh avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, was well filled yesterday morning. The pastor, Dr. Wild, selected his text from Hebrews, y., 8, 9—“Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered,” &c. In the earthly Ife of our Saviour, said the preacher, doctrine and practice sustained a beau+ tital relasion one to the other. His whole career was @ sublime exposition of inward conviction and heavenly design, A man adds convicting force and clearness to the utterances of his lips by observing and practicing the rules of elocution. So Christianity gains in favor and increases in power when the followers of Jesus confirm their faith by a consistent practice. God’s idea of sin, and God's remedy for sin, can best be understood Creator is curiously and faithfully brought out with an intensity of suffering and meekness of endurance, that when xnown cannot fail to com- mand our love and admiration. In Jesus human- ity received a second trial, the success of which ¥ ouce reveals the true source of evil Because the first Adam fell elther from created weakness or perverted competence. Now, since the second ts Bit human government, wonid Scandalous. | attribuves to God elements of character and of | administration which would cover any earthly | rojer or parent wish injamy. That which is right | in God must be right in man, relatively to his posi- | tion and in due proportion to his nature. The | essential quality of right must be the same between | ruler and ruled, at one end of the law or at the | other; for that which is wicked in me subject me | to eternal penalty. With what kind of reason | or conscience can | turn rouna, confess my guilti- ness aud the justice of my penalty and everiasting | janishment, and then worstip the same act, Rpringing {rom the same attribute in God? Phat Which is witked in man ts wicked in God; and as | much worse as it is more pernicious i the Infinite Being at the head of government than in an in- significant being at the bottom of things. ROPHETIO THEOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. In the New Testament there appears a new, although undeveloped, germ; it was conceive: both by Paul and by Jonn. T nave just read in your hearing Paul’s expression of the theory :— “The creature was made subject to vanity.” Now, by vanity is understood the transient, the evan- escent, the secular; the creature was made subject to the laws and conditions of this mortal life, “not | willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected | whe same in hope.” The creature shall be delivered from the bondage of sin into the glorious liberty of fhe ons of God. $18 to say, I beheld a great face lying in wickedness; not on secount of their | own willingness were they subjected, but under a seheme which promises through those very expe- riences and this condition to open mere and nore out this nascent condition and come into rit rious liberty of a lateer stage and be the children of God. We are born, not of Adam, but of Christ; | our roots take hold, not of the old soll of Eden, but of the soil of the New Jerusalem; and our of fe is to be evolved, not from the poems or the parabolic teachings that gre but shadows, intimations, 8, aC cording to the line of instruction. of an- tiquity, but we are to take the clearer Itght that shines in Jesus Ubrist. The doctrine that the creature was made subject to this mortal mutable state; thut out of it by education and evolution, under the Divine Spirit and guidance, 1 might come into the glorious liberty, not of antmal life, or of man’s life as we understand it, but of the life of the sons of God; that is full of inspiration, of attraction, bi) hope, Ail that is sweet im purity, all that 1s wining in affection, all that ts asemat- ing in qualities addressed to the imagination, lic in such a,theory as this, that men are born ip seminal form in this world; the race comes in at the lowest point, and is wo rise by education, un- der the supervision of the Divine providence and the stimulation and guidance of the Divine Holy Spirit, into the larger sphere, the spiritual, the son-ahip sphere, where they are to be like God. That has all the stimulus which comes from fear in the other theory and all the additional attractions of hope, This view of man’s being created in u lower stage on purpose to be developed to the higher does not do away with the doctrine of the divine ef- caciousness of God's eda Men say: | “if this development is in the Ime of | Dature, then where is the use of tne Holy Spirit?” Just as if that line of evolution didn’t make the guiding of supernal law even more necessury. Ac- coraing to the old theology the function of the Divine ppirit ts to work lu special jines o1 election, “The whole world lies tn wickedness;" the vast Majority are to be damned, a few to be elected, Upon these hothome P ta, this conservatory of the human race, the Divine Spirit is supposed to be working. Now, what the sun is doing upon this terraqueous giobe—steadily unfolding the plant from the germ—that same thing is the Son of THR NEW BIRTH. The reality, the intelligivility and the necessity of the new birtu are even more apparent under this New Testament view of the origin and the destiny of tue race. tis heid that there is to be @n absoiute change. is a view not to be contested. ought to fil) the mind with an undying gladness, But itiseven larger than we have been accus- stand that men, be; mal nature, grad rise to that which is spirit- ual, the time when the spiritual dominates over the animal—that 1s, the ney. birth—the poimt be- tween death and Ile, between animalism and Spiritualism, between the flesh and the spirit, which Paul 80 much discusses; in other words, Righteousness doing upon a higher scale for the | souls of men, me . With some limitations this | It is a view that | tomed to understand or to teach it. It you ander- | ning low down in their ani- | Adam has lived a pure life in a sinial world He thus condemned sin in the flesh, by proving human ability suMficrent to overcome temptation. God, through Christ, opens up a new and living way that bonorably permits life’s issves to Mow on and life and sin are permitied to exist together. Tue Divine brought ttis about by means of an atone- Mment—an atonement which, while honoring the law, makes @ glorious provision jor life—salvation and the forgiveness of sin. The true way | of becol perfect is by doing the will | Mf ‘tlg of gh pag Sod ives re must learn that possibilities are neither this is furnished by the terrible marder which bas been committed during the past week in Williams- burg. Mrs. Dwyer kilis her children out of an in- wane conviction or over faith in heaven. The reason she alleges for the actis that she wanted to send her chHdren to heaven. Her anxiety about ber husband’s being out of work and her religious convictions unbalanced her mind, but her love for her children’s future safety remaimed unshaken. in her pore she had wondered what would be- come of them and she ho) heaven, and when her mind became shattered she Teso!ved to send them the: Probably her reason ‘was not dethroned all at once. It tottered little by little till it was overthrown. Knowing her | rash desire to put them from the evil to come she | should have been cautious about taking murder- ous weapons in her hands. A strange possibility in her was tempted all at once, and it should be a warning to us that when we become aware that | bilities may become probabilities we shouid | guarded when evil opportunities are crowding | upon us, te flee from temptation. LEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. “The Greatest Wonder”—Sermon Exclu- sively to Men by Rev. J. Hyatt Smith. Last evening the Lee avenue Baptist church, in Brooklyn, was fliled to its utmost capacity by an | andience composed exclusively of men, drawn thither by the announcement that the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, one of the chief movers of the liberal movement, whieh is exciting considerable commo- tion in that denomination, would preach a special | discourse to the masculine portion of the com- munity. Mr. Smith has on three previous occa- sions, during the winter and spring, summoned such an audience, and over a thousand men have responded. It is said that this novel expedient, which was resorted to especially for the purpose | of reaching young men who seldom frequent houses of worship, and of presenting Gospel truth in a unique and original garb, has resulted in the reformation of a large number of dissipated young | men. The spectacle which the assemblage pre- | nessed at @ religious service, where the female cle- | ment usually predominates, there not being even the glimpse of a bonnet visible in the spacious audience room.’ After appropriate introductory exercises, consisting of singing, led by a precen- reading the Scriptures and prayer, Rev. Mr. | Bamed ~The Greatest Wonder.” His text was | taken from the third chapter of Acts, whica con- tains the narrative of the curing of the lame man @t the beautiful gate of the temple. The preacher satd that human life in all its varied conditions | Was full of prayer, and in eiueidating this thought he instanced the one-armed soldier play- ing @ hand organ, the senseless drunkard lying in | the guttex, and the laying of the lame man at the their way to pray in the temple, little thought be- fore theyapproached that they would be instra- mental in furnishing the poor fellow with a pair of perfect lege. when men come to that poiot in which there is a clear ascendancy of the pure and the spiritual in them they are born into the new life, And this doctrine of entire development is grander te) whe special doctrine taugat by the oid theology; its limitations are wider, its operations e umiversal. It was supposed that the Bible taught astronomy; then there was a great fight until the Church tarnea round and said, “Tie Bible don’t teach astronomy—only morality.” 80 they gave up that the astronomy of Genesis was net the astronomy of Galileo, and of intelligent setence. Then the geology of the Bible came in Question and fared the sume way; yet there are some who still believe that the earth was created in six days, of twenty-four nours each. Sneh a man is tWin brother to the oldest mummy that T bgp we Almyahyy Mes i the tombs of Kevnk. gud phe muamy, J The preacher maintained that this miracle clearly illustrated the gracious provisions of the | Gospel, There were multitudes of moral cripples | found in every grade of society, poor, | struggling fellows lamed by evil habits anc | passions, who had to contend with numerous ad- | Verse e influences, and amo those untoward | agencies he mentioned false irlends, croakers and | Pharisees. Human agency carried these unfortun- ate peeple by faith and prayer to the beautiful of the wine state. take that view lestroy the Bins oe have been ane oe Latand in the head were 4 globe of | by faxth in Him | live on, | beguu and the | He never will | higher New Testament into the | by studying the life and character of Christ, for in | Him the problem of man’s reconciliation with his | habit becomes equal to instinct in time. | spectal weaknesses nor sin. An Ilustration of | | accessible only by rowboats, d they would get to | | sented last evening was one that is rarely wit- | tor, Smith proceeded to deliver his sermon, which ne | was the greatest miracle which was ever Wrought MAL the coabiasion of bis address, which was nD a ened to with earnest attention, Mr. Smite ‘called for instances of miracles of grace in the audience, audin response quite a number of young men rose in their seats who but a short time since were Prodigal sons, OHUROH OP THE DIVINE PATERNITY, grea carey! All Matter, and = Omsprt: on by the Rev. Dr. Chapin, gee 5a There Was assembled in this church, at the Services yesterday morning, » very large and select congregation. Dr. Chapin selected aa his text Acts, Xvil., 20—"Forasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of God we ought not ww think that the Godnead is like unto gold or stone, graven py art or man’s device.” In the city of Athens, he began, Christianity first came in punlic contact with heathenism. I ask you what it was to which Paul addressed himself? He appealed to the 2nd. cercalaly, Rit ante ameROe aS = spiritual nature of man; not for the purpose of understands the lower, pat the lower cannot patel rhea with the alm of eventually higher. ave some riences | exalting him. The glory of Christianity racter, certain Feconcll tions and harmonizations point in the heart which yearns towards God. re momen: espe hey are wes aie ‘me | Athens, with her marble gods, was a mighty as- piration carved in stone. They rested on no mere fictitions bases, This shrine was built to an unm known God. Paul seized a point and upon tt Taised the fabric of the Gospel. From that day to this ‘the purpose of the pulpit is to put forward this argument, In her appeals does not religion come across as many obstacles as did the ancient Philosophers? Consiaer how attached. we are to material things. There is nothing more important than the position of, people towards religion. How shall they be brought to religion? There 18 ora peck ee actaal opposition to the religion of THE GREAT OBSTACLE 1s maliference—though unthinking indifference—to the greatness af tie question or the importance of it, One method o/ touching it is to strip re! hy of all which 1s format or extrinsic, We betieve the facts which come to us from the material world diminish my sense of the sintulness of man, It ‘also augments. I snould a8 soon expect that the Fenty Seeame se Stacie von eeealiey lants should grow without the summer sun as | jn other words, man is antagonistic to which ance ol God's spirit, “Ye must be born again” in | Cnute Ile. Paul did not present the facts of gon trast; he took the ae assertion and called us the offspring of God. This was enough to refute idolatry. In the assertion of this fact was in- volved the ruin of that glortous idolatry, The stream cannot rise higher than the mouatain. There are those who criticised harshly and dise agreed with Dr. Channing when he spoke of THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE. This is precisely what Paal urged. Is this not a valid argument against material interests in the present day? We are beings who think. Is there no reality of thought in the untverse? Is there no expression of ae, in the human face and in things around us? Our physical organization came by ocess of development. Professor says, “When I look at the heavens and earth I ask myself if there 1s no being tn this universe that knows more about these thi ngs than I do?” This thought gives us an idea of the Being whose offspring we are. This is the oracie of conscience. There is no epoch in history in which Teligion does not stand as one of the most impor- tant elements of influence, This presents an argu. ment against the idea that the head of ail ia or silver, The belief that animais are ca; t) thinkmg would only extend the fleld of thought. A gentleman, after seeing some poys throwin: stones at a monkey, said that it was at first dim. cult to determine which was the better animal; but, after reading a paragraph of Locke or a quota- tion from Shakespeare, he very suddenly arrived at the conclusion that even the lowest order oy" men was infinitely superior to any brute animé Oonsider what it is that makes history a fountain’ of inspiration to us. It is the elemento! self-sacrfice. Abeing of self sacrifice and holy and loving matey) cannot be the offspring of anything like gold or ver. This indifference would pass away under the realization of our higher being. Let any one ask how far ne can go without help from religion, We need something to startle ns out of our indtfer- ence, The man who thinks asks where his 5 in this world is. The only adequate answer is that. we are the ofspring of something er than gold. The troubles that come early in iite amount to little, but certain hard natares are only intenst-- fied trial, Sensitive natures have no rest & that of an immortal a A man wandering in a forest y when he comes near the end, because the trees begin to get few and far between, ‘This ig Ifké the sense of approaching dissolution. 'When* our end is drawing uear the wondertul depth of: | sentences from the Bible which have been in our ears since childhood strike us with a new meaning. We read them mechanically till some’ spriny touched in us, By and by this Bible,: raised above all coins and metals, becomes heavy; with the freightage of our human hopes. &; that death ts shadowing begin to discern nigh meanings tr its utterances. Everyone remem- bers the aneng f a skeleton in one of the boats. belonging to the Franklin Polar expedition, A New jtament was found with nim opened atthe words, “Ob, death, where is thy sting? On, grave, where is thy victory?” It was a challenge in the. very lace of death. A NEW OHUROH IN HOBOKEN. Laying the Foundation Stone of a Cath- olic Church—Vast Concourse of Specta- tors and an imposing Display. , ‘The foundation stone of a new Catholic church, to be erected on the corner of Fourth anda Willow. streets, Hoboken, was laid yesterday afternoon with imposing ceremony in presence of about ten thou- sand spectators. Twenty years ago the ground whereon the church property stands was a vast swamp, the site of the present edifice being Rev. A. Cauvio, the first Catholic pastor sent to the city, bought a lot several yards higher up than the present site, built a church on it, and in course of time became. | the owner of the entire block. It fronts on the public park, and is now one of the most vaiuable pleces of property in the city. When failing health Separated the Hoboken Catholics from Father Cauvin, a year ago, Rev. Mr, Duggan, of New Brunswick, was sent to take his place. The latter devoted his whole energy, towards the erection of @ new Church, to meet the growing DS OF THE PARISHIONERS, for whom the existing structure has long been too small, notwithstanding the fact that services were held in tt five or six times on Sundays, All the old buildings that irom time to time had been erected on the southern side of the block were recently tora dowa, piles were driven and every- thing made ready for the laying of the foundation stone yesterday. From New York, Brooklyn, New- ark and Jersey City masses o{ men, in the regalia of temperance and other societies, Kept pouring into the city for three or four kp and by foar o'clock the square was thronged with spectators. ‘The societies filed into Washington street, whence, with banners and flags, to the music struck up by their accompanying brass bands, they marched to Tenth street, returned through Willow and stopped | in turn to survey the site and salute the clergymen and laity there assembled. Upwards of 6,000 men | passed in procession. The school children and the convalescent inmates of 8t. Mary’s Hospital greeted them and MURMURS OP APPROBATION came from the windows of many houses as they assed. About four o’clock the ceremony of lays ing the stone was witnessed. In the box which Was deposited beneath the stone were copies of the New York and jocal Nia Ue! coins, medals and a cross blessed by the Pope for the occasion, as well ag the usual parchment inscribed with the names of the existing rulers of she country, and thé high officials of the Church, The stone was laid by the Rev. Robert Elliot, one of the Paulist Fathers, 10 also preached the sermon, spoke at length of the true CHURCH ESTABLISHED BY CHRIST on earth, and of tts unity and indivisibility, He congratulated the people on the zeal they dis- played in endeavoring to raise up another temple to the true God, and praised the sacrifices made by | Catholics generally tor the like end in this gotntry. | While the reverend gentleman was delivering hi discourse, the reverend tor and his, assistanta | wound their way, with baskets, through the mul+ titude and took ‘up @ large sum of money. The work of construction will be pushed forward with | vigor, and in about three months the religious ceremouy of laying the corner stone will take place, NEW JERSEY’S CATHOLIO COLLEGE, | The Erection of the Edifice To Be Coms menced This Weck. Bishop Carrigan having given his full appropa- tion tothe great enterprise, now being entered upon by the Franciscan Fathers, the work will be tempie gate as ejoquent appeals for heip and sym- pathy. She elptede Cripple who figured 80 cmt: commenced during the present week, ‘This will | Yell them was, in the way of recelving a blessing, | DO, te Omer seat of | theological studies, | ‘ay ol i 8 carried there no doubt by friendly hands, and | B€Xt to Seton Hail College, in the State, the sequel showed that he got infinitely more than | Robert P. Gallagher, is the architect | he expected; for, while he was simply seeking @ | and Henry Frankoni, the contractor for the mason repienished purse, Peter and John, who were on work. The edifice will be four stories high, 00x42, composed of brick with stone lining, and the esti- mated cost, when completed, is Fic.000. Ampil@ accommodations tor 100 students will be provdece and candidates of all nationalities who Lrg to join the Franciscan order will be eligible mission. The headquarters of the order, now im, Syracuse, N. Y., wil be removed to Trenton whem the seminary 13 completed. The project is recet' ing warm encouragement throughout the diocese 0! Newark, The edifice will be at once an orna~ ment to Tronton and a credit to the State, No pains will be spared to render. it an educational 4nd a theological institute of the highest order, gate of the temple, and often these agents were | A smail charch will be attached, wherein th devoted mothers, wives and sisters, ere Jesus | Catholic German Pees, of sbersbur; 1 | Christ, the almighty and divine healer, met and | and the environs of Trenton may worshi) whic! healed them atthe beautiful gate of grace. Re- | wilibe a great boon to these people, who ligion efected @ perfect cure upon all who submit- | ted to its gractous power, and the subjects of cone | verting grace, like the lame man, experienced te | Joy of God's salvation. Tne wondes Of Conyernon | spirivugl 5 nce under tha er sun to Bt. seorcting rays of ae centre of the city, for Francs’ charen, in songplarion. now have to travel 4 the