The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1874, Page 8

8 SUNDAY AT CHURCH. The Pulpit Utterances of the Preachers Yesterday. BEECHER AND BACKBITING. Frothingham’s Description of Human Nature. Children’s Day at the Methodist Churches. CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION.—Yesterday morn- ing the congregation was a good one bere, and the Rev. W. BE. Seabury preached on the subject of the power of God, exhorting lis hearers to respect, submission aud obedience. CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH.—The Rev. Dr, Bottome preached a short sermon yesterday morn- | dmg upon “Faith.” He expatiated upon tne infa- ences which had been wrouglt by 1 aud the neces- amity of it for all Christians, Perpr’s PENCcE.—A collection was taken at St. Mary’s Star of tne Sea, Court street, Brooklyn, yesterday at al) the masses and vespers, in aid of Pope Pius the Ninth. The contributions are be- dieved to have been generous. First PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The Rey. Dr, Pax- ton preached at this church, a8 usual, yesterday, and took his text trom Matthew. The sermon was an eloquent one upon the influence of Christ's teachings and the revolution they have worked im the world. UNIVERSITY PLACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Here the Rev. Dr. Booth, the pastor of the church, preached the sermon and made it a purely doc- trinal one, in which the claims of those who wor- shipped God in their own pecular way were touched upon. GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MADISON AND MONTGOMERY STREETS.—The services at this church yesterday were performea by the pastor, Rev. B. Kruse. The sermon, which was preached toa large and attentive congregation, Was on the par, able of the ten virgins in the twenty-first chapter of Matthew. WILLETT STREET METHODIST CHURCH.—In the morning yesterday Brother J. V. Saunders led the imtroductory service aud Rev. J. B. Merwin preached. The discourse, directed to inculcate that “Fidelity is the basis of all good,’ was based on Proverbs xx., 6—"Most men Will proclaim every one his own goodness; but a faithful man who cap fina? { CHURCH OF THE SEA aND LAND.—The morning wervices yesterday were performed by the pastor, | Rev. Edward Harper, D. D. He preached a sermon demonstrating the mantfest proofs of God’s exist ence in tne abundant evidence Nature displays of a Creator's hand, The text selected was Psalms hii., i—“The foo! hath said in his oeart, there is no Goa.” | First BaPrist CHURCH.—At this church, corner | of Fourth avenue and Thirty-uinth street, a bold and vigorous discourse was preached yesterday morning by Rev. Dr. Anderson, the pastor. His text was Genesis, iil, 9—"Where art thou?” He said that God would noi call to men if His arm were too short to save them or His ear too heavy to hear them. His match! love would go to any depths, GRACE CuuRCH.—At the morning service here the Rev. Dr. Potter preached a syort sermon on the duties of menu towards each other, At the afternoon service the Rev. Dr. Kirkus, the assist- ant, preached on Christian life, exemplifying the aiderences which were feit by persons who lived gn unbelieving, selfish existence and those who dia sometiing for the service of God. ALL Saryrs’ CHurcH (EPISCOPAL), SCAMMEL Srrert.—Morning prayers yesterday were read by the rector, Rev. W. N. Dunnell, who also preached toa moderate but appreciative congregation. His e®arnest words on “The Stucerity of Worship” Were founded on the ninth Psalm of David, “I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I ‘Will show forth all thy marvellous works,” &c. Wrst PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—An energetic and effective sermon was preached yesterday Morning at this church, in Forty-second street, near Fifth avenue, by the pastor, the Rev. Thomas S Hastings. His text was Psalm xxxvil., 1— “Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of miquity.’? ‘The sermon was listened to with the most earnest attention. MORNING StaR MrSsion. —The Morning Star Mis- sion Sunday school held a missionary meeting yesterday afternoon corner of Twenty-sixth street and Seventh avenue. A long address was deliv- ered by Rev. A. L. Fisher, of Brooklyn, on the im- portance of city mission work and the field it presents in this and other large cities, The chil- dren brought the meeting tO a close by singing a mumber of beautiful hymns, | BEEKMAN HLL METHODIST EpiscoraL Carren.— Yesterday was “olildren’s Sunday” at the Beek- man Hill Methoaist Episcopal church ana was cel- ebrated accordingly. The scholars of the Sunday school assempied at the church at three o’clock and went through an interesting programme, con- sisting of hymns, recitations and addresses. The friends and relatives of the scuolars were present i iarge numbers. East Baptist CHURCH, CORNER MADISON AND GOUVERNECR STREETS.—The sermon in the morning yesterday was on “Humitity of Soul,” based on the story of the Pharisee and the Publican. The pas- tor, Rev. Edward Love, D. D., preached. Con- sidering the neighborhood tue c Tegation was large, and it is gratifying to learn thai the Sunday sohoolattached to the churek is both numerously and constantly attendec Zion EPIscoraL Cuvrcii.—The attendance at this charch, corner of Madison avenue and Thirty- eighth street, though not very large yeste morning, was select and fashionable. Rey. John M.Gallaher, the rector, preached from the text “And they all with one consent began to make ex- cuses.” Taking the parable from which the text ‘was drawn, he showed how excuses were made against entering upon a Ciristiau life, aud the Mallacy of such excuses, CHURCH oF ST, TERESA (ROMAN CATHOLIC).—A large nomber The holy se ttended at high mass yesterday. e was celebrated by Kev. Fatner Flood and the sermon preached by Rev. Fatver Farrell. His subject was that excellent one, the gospel of the day, Luke, xy., 1-10, the parat the Good Shepherd, The mass, waydn’s in y the choir—Mrs, Koch, 80+ prano; Mrs. Panu’ prans; Mr, J. Boy, tenor, and Mr. Moreno, %« Mr. D, F. Nully presiding with his accustomed ability at the organ. 2, was well given ALLEN STREET METHODIsT Episcopar CavrcH.— Yesterday being “Children’s Day," appropriate ser- vices were held at the Alien street Methodist Episcopal church, At nine o'clock A. M. the usual Sunday school exercises were ; ided over by Mr. Weekes, the Superintendent. At half-past ten o'clock A. M. special services were Leid, at which abont 200 children attended. After a hymn py the children Bishop Janes delivered a@ short exhorta- tion to them on the duties of their future lives, and then read the “Our Father” and the lessons of the day. The children having then sung hymn No. 676, the Bishop commenced his sermon, taking ag his text “If any man speak let him speax of the oracles of God’"—1. Peter, iv., 11. He insisted vhat Scriptural knowledge and that only shoald be taught, either irom the pulpit or in the Sunday wsohool; that politics should only be referred to in order to teach the children the duties of citizen- ship, When the Bishop Dag | the Bible plainly proved. | “0” and ‘Father.’ | power he glorifies it. Looking upon the marvel- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, remarks by Dr. Thompsom, & collection was made to defray the expenses of providing a better educa- tion for such children as should distinguish them- selves in Sunday school, At the sacramental ser- vices a° three o’clock P. M, about sixteen new mewbers were received into the Church, TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE, BROOKLYN.—Yesterday morning Mr, Taimage baptized @ score of infants by sprinkling and immersed a number of adults, who preferred that mode of bapusm., In making his announcements, the preacher gave notice of the grand congregational picnic of the cburch at Prospect Park, ou Wednesday next, 1t is thought | there will be 5,000 persons present. A collection to defray the expenses Was taken up yesterday. Mr. laimage’s sermon was based on the story of the widow of Nain, whose only son was raised from the dead. The preacher learned from this subject that Christ was @ man and a God, which Do not insult the com- mou sense of the race, he said, by telling us that | this Person was only @ man, in whose presence | the paralytic arm was thrust out well, | and the | devils crouched and the lepers dropped their | scales, and the tempests folded their wings, and the sad procession of the text broke up in con- gratulations and hosannas. Mr. Taimage also drew [rom the subject that Christ was a sympa- thizer, the master of the grave and the conqueror of death, On Tuesday next the Tabernacle pastor will de- Mver the Commencement oration before the | Literary societies of Rutgers College, New Jersey, There was a large gathering of people at Lyric | Hall yesterday morning. The choir opened the | service With a wusical rendition of a portion of the | ninety-second Psalm, Mr. Frothingham then rose, and, with the words | “Let us listen to the reading of the ancient Scrip- ture,” proceeded to read extracts from the Egyp- | tian, the Ubinese (and the first sentence from this | was sufficient to explode the notion about the | “heathen Chinee”) and the Persian writings upon | moral philosophy. These passages were searching and sublime in their character. The choir then | sung the familiar hyms, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” | only the (the Frothinghamonians’) objectionable | words, Jesus’? and “Saviour” were changed to | It began with a duet in the | clear ringing tones of the soprano and the | sweet, smooth-flowing tenor, and was altogether | well sung. After prayer and the singing of a hymn Mr, Frothingnam began his discourse by | quoting, with modifications, a passage from the eighth Psalm:—“When I consider the heavens, | the work of thy hands, the moon and stars which | thou hast ordamed, what is man that thou art | mindful of him or the son of man, that thou | visitest him? Yet thou hast made him a little | lower than the angels; Thou hast crowned him with honor and immortality;” and said:—I | wish to say something about buman nature—the keys to human nature, the keys that unlock the secrets of human character. The question is not a speculative one; it is very practical, the most prac- | tical of all, because in all our dealings we deal with | human nature—whether in public or in private, | whether in political affairs or at home among our friends and neighbors, or ameng strangers, we deal with men and women. And we get a theory of men an women whether we know it or not—some ideal of human nature—some conception of its dignity, Its worth, ofits depravity or worthless- | ness, This is alike true of those who hold the | Christian doctrines and of those who hold tono | religious belief. If we look into our own hearts ‘we will find that scarcely do we do an act or speak a word or maintain any of the familiar relations we do from day to day that do not take for granted some theory of human nature, What is many How, then, are we to deal with men? On what basis do our institutions rest—what substance do our | laws represent—with what matters do our philosophers deal? How are we to interpret the literature of mankind? If we go to the Bible, there is no consistent theory of human nature there, but all manner of views of human nature. We shail find that in the mood of contrition the contrite man speaks of human nature as essentially ap and vile; in the mood of ambition and | lous works of nature, man seems small, And yet | hardly 13 the word uttered when instantly the dig- nity of man’s reason comes up and man is but | | little lower than the angels. It is not quite true, as our most distinguished preacher said but last , Sunday, that there are two germs of doctrines in | the Bible respecting human nature, one of which \ was an historical germ, describing man in his his- | tory as he had heen, and the other a prophettc | germ, foreshadowing what man was to be in the | time to come. That is to say, there ts no Old Testa- | ment doctrine ofman set oif against a New Testa- | ment doctrine of man. The story of Eden Is in the | Old Testament, it is true; but the story of tne tall is not inthe Old Testament, The interpretation , of the story of Eden is in the New Testament, and in the New Testament alone for Christians. It comes from the tongue 0: the same person who talked of the prophetic 1uture of man; the doc- | trine belongs to Paul. Paul was a preacier of man’s regeneration; he was also a preacher of man’s depravity. ‘The whole conception of man held in the Christian Church dates back to the Apostle Paul, and there is but one doctrine in the Christian Church, but one doctrine peculiar to its special shading ‘and not common to other religions—the doctrine of human nature as fallen in Avan, as redeemed in Christ. Open the Bpistie | to the Romans in which Paul unfolds his theolog- ical belie’, and no language in tne’ creeds is stronger \lan that he uses in describing the abe | ject, miserable, fallen, destitute condition of hu- | Man Nature—not of any particular class or tripe of men, but of allmen. Essentially he speaks of man as carnal—be 1s in himself capable of doin, | no good thing:—“What I would, I ao not; what Would not, that Ido.’ While it is easy enough to will, to achieve what I will is impossible. “In me (that is. in my carnei constitution, in my mor- | tal constitution, in my flesh) awelleth no good thing.” He speaks even of a law of sin and | death, coupling sin and death together as | passing upon all men. Ail men died | because ail men have sinned; all men are under | doow of death because all are under the doom of sin. If men did not die it would show that they did not sin; that they do die shows that they have | siuned, it was Paul's doctrine that Adam was the erfect Man—that be fell and dragged down the ture race with b We cannot hold the id ‘Testament abewerabie for that; we }oid the New Testament answerable for that, and the doctrine of man's depravity rests upon the New Testament alone. Now, tts doctrine is variously interpreted by Curistian churches. The Catholic Cuurch has , always taken a mild view Of it, as announced by its greatest teachers. The doctrine oi THE CATHOLIC CHUKCH in general, and stated by its most liberal teachers, is this ;—That the first man was made upright, but was made dependent upon supernatural grace ‘or his moras dignity, elevation and support. His act of disobedience cut of from tim the supernatural grace and ieft him the mere natural man. It separated him from God and the angels: it left him himself, He was not whdlly depraved; no cvil impulse was implanted in hun; mo force of evil was made native to lis being; he was simoly ieit alone without his Heavenly Friend. The co: quence was that ail his powers siumbered ip tira they were there; the germs extsted in his being— the germs of good, of the highest good—but oniy the germs. There Was no sunshine; the breath of Holy Spirit was withdrawn, the dew ot tne celestial grace no longer fell upon him, But the seeds of purity were within the soul, He could not have the vision of divine things; the eye was closed; his conscience fluctuated, was wayward and trembling; his heart clung with fidelity to the | things about him—to his kindred, his friends; but | it could not rise by its own force to cling to divine beings. His reason was periectly adequate to all his terrestrial affairs, but the sublimest truth was closed. Thus everything in man was let down, as | © natural powers were there in pos there only in possibility, The Catn- | ohe Church, therefore, never made @ point of slan- dering human nature. Jt did ample justice to the heroes and saints of antiquity, Who under favor- able circumstances, bemg exceptionally weil born, or bred, or tamed, could bring these germs of character to something like a flourisumg and flowering development, But the average of man- | kind, who depend entirely upon themselves, un- instructed, untrained, undisciplined, unprivileged, | were leit on the ground. ‘This was the Catuoite | doctrine ; @ doccrine that simply say8 man is cut | oe superuavural grace, bui he has ail in him- sell. | | Protestant teachers made their definitions much Severe; they went a great dea) mrther. | said in general, Man’s disobedieuce not only | cut him off from all supernatural grace and neip. but demoralized him; made his whole being jan- | led ane out of tune ; Intruduced into bis constiin- Vion a fatal taint and latd him under @ matgnant | power which prevented his ever ripening under Ratural sun and air. The Protestant doctrine, | wWeresore, was that man not only was unable to do good, hat was obliged to do evil; not oniy bis conscience could not travel the way of absolute Justice—it was obliged to travel in the opposite direction; not only man was unable to love the rest and the best—he was unable worthily to | ARL'DIDg. SU Way» part Of DUMAR Davre— | be the knowledge that every man is @ knave and | of education is told in the words instruction, edu- @ force in humanity—a malignant power working iD men to compel them todo wrong. This doc- trine, pushed to extremes by THE GREATEST PROTESTANT TRACHERS— by men like Luther and Calvin and Augustine—is hot that doctrine of total depravity which is the most cruel, the most bitter, the most absolute element in Christianity. I acquit the Roman Church of holding tt; it ts chargeable upon Prot- estantism alone, But it is not held by all Protes- tant teachers in precisely the same torm; it is modified trom time to time under the press of hulosophy or instruction or culture or refinement. Stil itis held, One of the most prominent Pres- byterian preachers in the etty of New York, a man of great reputation and of great character, too, @ Very noble person, @ Very Wise man in mary respects, stated only a fortnight ago in his sermon | that depravity of human nature showed itseli in | diferent forms. It did not always break out into | outrageous excesses, aud sometimes Lt was So | covered up With the amenities of life as not to be | seen at all; still, the spi. it of the world, the worldly | spirit, the spirit of the Prince of the Worid, was in | every ebergeuc person. ‘the creed of Piym- | outn Church holds’ that the first man | was created upright; that he fell by | an act of disovedience, and that all! Dis posterity are not only prone to sin, bat are sin- jul and guilty in the sight of God. ‘This, | say, is | no speculative doctrine. It 1s @ practical and | vital quesuion Which is at Work in the minds of all Of us al! the time—this disposition whtch ts all but universal in society to judge men by low stand. | ards, to put the worst interpretation upon men's | conduct. The man who always speaks well of | others, Who judges athers kindly, Who pailistes | crime ana offence, Who makes excuses for turpi- wude, is regarded as an enthusiast, That fashion | of interpreting human nature is called dreanung and visionary, and wild and unsafe, The man who judges people by their worst is supposed to be the Wan who has most knowledge of the world, and knowledge of the world is currenély supposed to every woman is no better than she ought to be. And this is the taint of this old doctrine of human depravity. Mark the criticism as you go throuzh the streets upon politicians, reformers, phiiau- thropists, merchants, iinanciers, statesmen, whether upon the dead or the living—mark the shrug of the shoulders, the shake of the head, the wink of the eye, the eXpression that says, “Well, well—if we Cliose to say all that we kuow.” THE REFORMER is a man who wishes notoriety, according to the | judgmentof this theory of human nature, The | philanchropist is @ man of a very good, but a very weak and soft heart, he hero ts a man itn whom the energetic will predominates. The patriot is a man Who wants to live comiortably on his coun- try. ‘This doctrme of human nature 18 bequeathed to ali people by Protestantism, and tt will be many, many generations beiore it 18 worked out ol the blood of the most liberal people, The cus- | tom in the training of children, even now, to a very large extent, {8 to consider them imps of | Satan, small embryos of the evil spirit, sent into | the world full of temptation, beset with snares on | every hand, brought into life, which means watch- | Tuiness, trial, struggle. bitterness, disappointment, | sorrow and sin, Wiha lurking taint of evil in their | bearts with affections on which tuey must | fix a searching eye, With aconscience that m be walled around with sanctities day by ce everything must be kept down, cramped, on: | strained, hmited. The idea of treating children as if they were the embryos human beings is new. It comes irom disbelief, it comes from the doubters, from the sceptics: it belongs to the infidel. So tunis old doctrine of human nature creeping out in methods cation—the old word was instrnction, the new 1s education—and the whole aim is to hedge in the mind and prevent its growing naturally, Books must be carefully selected; certain studies must | be careinily excluded; all sciences are forbidden; there must be a certain amount of Scripture, of tutoring by the priest. The Catholic Church says | openly that secular education is abominabie; that | public schools not superintended by religion are | ol the evil one; they are nurseries of vice—going on the supposition that the minds to be trained 1 these schools are not rational minds, to be trained by rational methods, bur diseased, impoverisiied | minds, that must be taught from above. How 3s it with Protestantism? 1t hates the Catholic Church, | but will not allow secular education. It says, “You must have the Bible in the schools,’ partly out of spite to,;he Catholic Chureh, but more essentially becanse according to Protestantism human nature | is depraved. The bible \ THE CHARMED BOOK, must be brought in, You needn't read mach it isn’t necessary to read it: have it on the de it will protect the school, Have it on the desk; the Devil can’t come in!” According to the «oc- tring of total depravity the theory of law is that jt is a supernatural giit; the lawgiver was in- spired ; he had the celestial grace imparted to ui The Church gave the law, the priesthood ia me statute, and the character of the law showed the touch of the taipt ol this old doctrine; it was always severe, lt treated vice and crime error and turpitude and foolishness as diabolica developments of vuman nature, that must be put down, crushed and obiiterated. The insane person was possessed by the Devil; the criminal was pos- sessed by the Devil. On tis doctrine of human depravity purely secular government was not to be thought of fora moment. The Devil saying how | the Devilis to be governed—the Devil's chidren undertaking to regulate their own lamuy; | the thing is absurd. So the tendency was toward monarchy; the king reigns by Divine right; by virtue of iis kingship ne is mspired to wake laws and to rule With judgment ana equity. If there must be a republican government the gov- ernment must be in the hands of the Suints, Thos ovr Puritun forefathers detiberately determined at one time that only the elect—the Church mem- bers—should fill the ofices, And now this idea which is trying to put the name of God on the fore- head of the United States,constitution 1s simply another confession of the belie! that men cannot | govern themseives; that the constitution without the name of God in it 1s atheistical, and, being | atueistical, must be depraved and abomimabie. | ‘Tne idea is that if the name of God 18 inscribed on the /orehead of the constituton the spirit of God is | in the constitution and will preserve it. THE SUPERSTITIOUS JEWS in the olden time never would tread carelessly on | a piece of paper lest it might have the name of | God written upon it. So these men who advocate the measure reserred to think that the constitution Would) become sacred. It 15 time that — this doctrine of inherent sin was discarded. It is time that ali this talk of deprav- | ity and debasement ceased, Our vocabulary shouid not conta ihe words tdleness of numan | nature, debasement of human nature, depravity | of human nature. Our vocabwary should contain none but words expressive of faith tu the constitu- tion of man, of hope in his :uture, The doctrine of human depravity 1s a libel not omy upon human | nature but upon human ciaracter. It is a libel on tue Supreme God. {t 13 an affront to all that 1s | worst a3 well as all that 1s best In human char- | acter. You will never make a man strive to progress ii you tell Lim he progresses to his doom. | You will pever make one respect himself by telling him he is a child of the Devil. You will never make | @ man good by convincing him that he is bad, or better by assuring him that be is worse. Human | | nature, like material nature, lives on the sunshine | and the afr. It connot have too much of these. If | you make it live in shadow, it fares as your tiowers | do, ag your grass does—it dies, Hope, faith, cheer, boundless prospects, a great beyoud—these are the elcments that wiil bring human nature op to its | mark. Talk of the grace of the Holy Spirit— | great hope—that is the Holy Spirit. | ALL SOULS CHURCH. | | The Rev. Dr. Bellows on the Comfort Brought by the Spirit of Trath. The Rey. Dr. Bellows preached to tne congrega- tion of All Souls church yesterday morning, taking for his text (St, John, xtv., 15 to 17) the words:— | “4 will pray the Father and he shall give you | another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world | cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither | knoweth him,” &c. Alter some introductory re- | Marks relative to the context the minister said in | part:—When severai men meet to discuss finance, | politics or religion each comes with his fixed prej- udices to money, Men and creeds, Each one tries toconvince all the others to his way of thinking, and as a result each goes home more confounded than when he entered the inquiry. This is the | Way of the world, Let but the Spirit of Trath, with all its power, come into such meeting. Let all those who have had convictions submit them | to the test of truth, [tis not the triumphs of in- | dividual judgment which ever convince the many. | it is only when peopie's judgmeyts and wills are convicted by all-powerful truth, The surrender of | opinion is then mnattended by any humiliation; it Is truth, love, wisdom, God, tilat has the triumph. Where does truth keep itself when it does not act? We hear of the Moly Spirit of frutuywith @ | certain awe. We know that tue Church has repre- | sented itas bodily des vending fromm above, The of speech employed for expressing the entrance of te Holy Spirit inte our hearts are Well enough, but we mist not confuse truth with romance, What Christ prouises to send into our , hearts is holine goodness of heart, love’ for our neighbor, Justice, honor, truth are not figu of speceh; they are attributes of man’s best nature, We may be so sunk insin that these attributes may become inoperative. Where can God be Known or felt if | Robin our thinking and reasoning iacuities? [| ot hope, hope that was born of the love of Christ, do not mean for 4 moment to coniound oar souls in any other Way. Jesus speaks of God’s presence? inus. [ inot KNOW ny own child or my best iriend save in my heart. This limagine to he the way which we know God. Hts works gust appeal to our reasoning faculties before we can comprehend His greatness or His giory. De- | stroy @ man’s Mind and he retains not ihe slightest conception of the Almighty. It is not until the mind grasps these ideas that our soul becomes God with | convinced of the indwelling of God's spirit, When Jesus told his disciples that they should | receive the Spirit of Truth, he tntendea that alter | all their oltt doubts that may have clung to them | from the olf Jewish faith siiould be swopt away by his death on the.cross, they should tuen open | their hearts filly jor the reception o1 entire con- | viction. If Christianity ia to hoid tt# office, as it surely 18, it can never trinmph through creeds, dog mas Or ceremonies, There wust be a commanton berween God and man. Christianity is no more | ie ae for the dogmatism which fs found | tor a@py more thay biverty is respouyibie for | subjects of honest and sincere juagment, | it 48 to criticise justly and Jatrly in matters of pub- | erned for the last twenty-seven years since the countless ont! that are committed in her name. not only ever consistent himself, but ever divine. 18 is the Holy Ghost that calls fi to repentance through your own soul, This and nothing more, PLYMOUTH OHUECH. Mr. Beecher on Uncharitable Criticism, Evil Judgments, New York Justice, and Tweed on Blackwell's Island. Though the weather threatened rain yesterday morning and most who went out carried umbrel- las, Plymouth church bad not a spare seat or stand- ing room unoccupied when the bell ceased tolling. As the sexton ceased the call to worship the noble organ pealed forth a charming voluntary under the touch of Mr. Bradley, @ young English organist, who occupied most acceptably the part so long filled by John Zundel, who has gone to visit his na, tive scenes in the oid Republic of Switzerland, ‘The organ prelude was followed by Barby’s “King all-glorious,” in solos, by Mr. Hill, tenor; Mr. Camp, barytone, and Mrs, Hutchinson, contralto, with choruses by Mr. Camp’s strong and well drilled cnoir, the whole rendered with One effect and forming a magnificent opening service to the devotions of the vast throng which filled the barn- | like edifice, Alter the usual prayers and hymns Mr. Beecher asked the deacons to take up a mid- summer collection, to be used by them in relieving distress in the diocese of Plymouth church, while the bulk of the well-to-do portion of bis flock should be enjoying their sammer-vacation in the mountains or by’ the seaside. Then he read the notices for the week, including one of a Sunday school picnic on June 25, He had three engagements, he said, which had been made for him for that day in different directions. He could hot be 1n three distinct places at once—musteither stay al home and disappoint the expectations of all the three or choose between them. He thougnt he should go with the Plymouth Sunday school ex- pedition, and be obliged to excuse himself trom attendance at the two other services, These pre- limimanes being finished, Mr. Beecher read his text from Matthew, vil., 1—‘“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Both the context and many other passages of Scripture show that this is not a pro- hibition of proper judgment as to conduct and character. These are properly judgeable, are fair In an- other passage we are instructed that we are to know them by their fruits, and to judge of them by righteous judgment. What is forbiaden ip the text is an unjust and partial judgment, that habit of wind by which we are always criticising men and their motives, seeing their faults rather than their exeellencies, a8 though they were our antagonists and we ther enemies, with severe, unjust, harsh criticism, He who habitually forms suco evil judgment 18 under condemnation. This spirit excludes him from feilowship with men and from the kingdom of God. We are to discriminate between good and evil, truth and falsehood, J! a man assails me With vituperation it would be false charity to say he praiged me, or if I caught him in my cherry tree stealing cherries, to say he was probably merely borrowing them. ‘Things are, and they should be judged ag they are, The safety of yourself, your tamily and the commuuity demands it. Itis not saie 10 pat THIEVES IN THE TREASURY, as we have found, or dishonest men on the bench. We must judge or the men we place in positions of trust and responsibility. Neither does the text forbid the forming of juagments by those appointed to judge under the law, nor by those whose office lic concern. But the text forbids all undervaluing. Of all heresies the want of love 1s the worst, aud of all infidelity that is worst which fails, in sympathy with our fellows, to see all the tauits and weaknesses of men, and not the strength and the good they exhibit, Tus disposition sprin; from the malign influence which is in us, and not from our better side. We are all brethren, subjects of common weakness, and it tll becomes us to criticise each other for our common failings. If in @ hospital those attlicted with diseases of the head should revile those who have weak lungs, or those with weak siomacha should scorn tose with broken arms, setting themselves in parties according to their various ils, it would resembie THE ANTAGONISM OF THE CHURCHES, They are all 1n hospital aud need the divine aid to cure their weaknesses and Weir mantioid ailments, In the fnodest, prunitive forms of society the trait of prudent suspicion is necessary ior personal safety. Our tendency to harsh, unkind judgment is a dark remuant of that low form of iife, litue removed from animalism. It is not your duty to | play the devil’s part and spy out or prejudge the Tauings of your neighbors. Charity lorbids us to expose another's !aults, If you must fight wick- edness stay at home, where you will find work enough in yourself to empioy you all the days of your life, Some men take credit to themselves for severe critictsm by saying, “Iam a biunt man and blurt out what I think.” If a man should, be- cause he is a plain, blunt man, x right and left upon everybody, be would soon be excluded from society. No fellow ts so blunt as a bull, yet they are Dot regarded desirable as equipments to an orphan asylum, So aman who goes through the worid bellowing and howling is hot a worthy type of Christian civilization, Others always decry a enerous act. ‘Wait,"’ they say, ‘till we see what e intends to gain by it.’ Others, I/ké leeches, suck at the blood of all, detracting irom the merits of everybody, willing to credit none with good ine tents or Virtnous deeds, We are all sick. lame. Symmetry does notexist in this world. Blessed be God that taere 1s 8 large class of men who are seeking the right and striving for goodness, though there are far more who do hot. But | if we apply tests none can stand, uone can abide the measure of i's thought, We are to forbear uncharitable criticisin in the lorm of wit, the coin of criticism current | everywhere and every where received with smiles, Hunior tends to good nature, the prerequisite of goodness, If thy brother hati aught against thee, make thy peace with him beiore bringing God thy offering, GOD CAN WAIT; MAN CANNOT, Kindness Yo our fellows is one of the first requisites of godliness, We are not to serve God by waiking over other men’s heads. We are to hopor all men; treat every man as thongh he was made of God, see through a lens the vastness of his possible future of glory. An acorn is smail but the full grown Oak may shaue anacre. Not all temples und works of art can equal im grandeur the brain from whence they sprung. We are not to seek for fallings to fill the chalice, which is from below, not from on high. No evil report lacks listeners. Ships are not sent to sea il there is bo harbor for them to land their cargoes. Jt is rare that a gathering of hali a dozen persons does hot greedily hear a tale of scandal; scarcely a church which does not adversely criticise other | churches, We exalt the virtues of our friends and condemn the balance of mankind. This Springs irom seifishness and filis society with Wretchedness, We throw out ichor, not boanty. Religion becomes the motner of uncharity, separ. ating, disintegrating and arraying men against One another. Men do not form just judgment of one another. Parents who sympathize with their children are most apt to do this; and itis in this spirit of srupaty that we should judge the acts of our fellows. We are apt to think ill of the un- successful. ‘Thrifty Yankees do not like a shiltless shack. I would almost ag soon be.in an Italian dungeon as a New England poorhouse. New York has, to my knowledge, been moat wonderfully gov- have Known it. Men have been elected Aldermen to make for the interests o1 themselves, their iriendi their party. They were ‘on the make.’’ It woul have been most strange Only it was so eommon, At jength one man rose out Of this state of society whose boldneas and success led to his exposure. HE GOES TO BLACKWELL'S isLAND and the whole community sing peans about the triumph of justice. It justice had its way, 50,000 men would be there. Soa man goes to Congress and falls, naturally, into rings of railway Aoeee or other sciucmes for preying updn the public. He is exposed, and the country rings utter denuncla- tion Of the fraad, and the man who has betrayed | his trust becomes @ Judas—an Arnold. Yet, not he alone, but the community ts in tault. The stream flows no higher than its source, Public lack of virtne is the unclean sprig of official cor- ruption, From corrupt seeds in the community come those who scandalize our institutions. It 1s for us to see to it that there be none todo so any more. CHURCH OF THE MEDIATOR, The Rev. J. Edgar Johnson on the Love of Christ. Yesterday morning a most admirable and im pressive discourse Was preacted at the Church of the Mediator, corner of Jefferson street and | Ormond piace, Brooklyn, by the Rev. J. Edgar | Jounson, of Hoboken. The preacher selected for his text Matthew, xvi, 16—'And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ The preacher clearly main- tained that life in all its varied conditions was full the living God. Every grade of society, the rich and the poor struggling mortal, needs that hope of Christ, The very soal of man has an anchor of hope. itis his nature. The history of man speaks it. God spoke to man through nis own tmage that man might anderstand more clearly, He sent Christ to talk with man in his own image that He might suifer as man suffers, aud through him imight believe. There were many, the speaker said, Who tlougot they needed not the Christ, the hope of the Hving God, They looked upon the fa- ture 48 Upon the rays of the sun—backward, ‘Time was wasted in discoursing to sach men; their time had uot come, Bat how would it be should adversity, sorrow and death come? How was tt with Socrates? Did be not fall to weakness at | death? Was his death like his Iife—hopemal? Yet One dying with weeping friends around, the other, Christ, witn evei cling of hatred, with every mark of scorn, spit and mocked at, deserted by all, But the one, Christ, rises above this physical suffering, and for man forgives, The race bought with a price, bought upon the cross for the cross, says Hope, hope for the weary. 8T, JOHN'S METHODIST CHURCH. Christian Culture—The Work of Educa- tion in the Methodist Church—Sermon by Rev. E. 0. Haven, D. D., LL. D. Yesterday morning Rey. E, 0. Haven, D. D., LL. D., Secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, presented the claims of the society in the St, John’s Methodist church, Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. A resolution was adopted at the last General Conference ap- pointing the second Sunday in June as “Children’s Day,” when collections are taken im ali the Sab- bath schools of the denomination to increase the educational fund, the object of which is to assist deserving young men in thorough preparation for the work of the ministry, His text was taken from the Second Epistie of Peter, 1, 5—“And be sides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge.” in his introductory remarks the preacher said that the purpose of the word of God was to enable man to escape all littleness and all evil in this and ima future world; that everything sought its own perfection, and that the Bible pre+ sented a standard of human life which, if adopted, would enable mankind to attain unto a noble specimen of regenerated humanity. Everything, whether in the vegetable, animal or human world, in order to reach anything like perfection, should be surrounded by influences trom which it could draw nourishment. Plant must not ouly be well rooted in a good sotl, but it must also have sunlight. Every animal, in order to be fully grown, must have suitable food, and so man must be able to command the proper influences of growth, The Bible taught that man was partly of earth and partly of heaven; all the potencies of the universe were represented in him. and the faith spoken of in the passage under consideration was simply exercising that energy by which human | Beings are connected with the upper worid; the exercise of the soul seuse, by which God, truth and noliness were recognize| . The virtue spoxen Of in the text was not merely the negative of vice or the absence of evil, Purity and innocence were desirable and excellent,but they were not the whole of virtue. The soll has lost its virtue when it has been exnausted by improper culture, and a man is destitute of virtue when he is inactive, inert and useless. Virtue 18 positive character, courage, earnestness, activity, life; and having faith, the frst requisite to excellency, 13 activity. Man, cre- ated im the image of God, is cailed upon to be voluntarily active, and there were the strongest reasons why Christians should be virtuous and industriovs. In addition to faith and virtue there snould be knowledge to regulate them. Dr, Haven proceeded in eloquent terms to show that there was no antagonisin between scientific and religious knowledge. Science was simply a knowl edge of facts, of iaws, of principles—a Knowledge of God’s pornos, plans and action—and it would be found that never were efforts to improve knowledge made systematically and earnestly ex- cept under the influence of Christianity. Our country had sent out lately a vessel well commis- stoned With instruments that showed the highest mechanical ingenuity, with skilled men to visit distant parte of the earth, that at the appointed tume they might direct their gaze to the sun and see the planet Venus as it shail cross the disc of the sun and be very careful to note precisely the second to a fraction when the planet seemed to touch the edge of the sun irom the position they might occupy. Great Britain and Germany had also sent their corps of astronomers and learned men to do the same work. But who ever heard of a corps o/ investigation going out trom a heathen nation? Science is cultivated only where Christ is known. This was only an indirect but an infallible consequence of religion; for of what value was science tomen who did not be- lieve themselves immortal, and what firm focnda- tion had knowledge to rest upon except the faith | that was communicated througa the word of God? Jt was arrogance on ihe part of one-sided men who knew norhing but matter to undervalue other knowledge. Was it not valuable to know what man has done on this planet and especialiy to detect the providence of God in the history of the race? Was it not valuable to know the nature of the human mind, and espeotally to detect the mage of God in it? Was it not desir abie to know the reasons’ for faith in immortality and to know what repentance, the joy of pardoned sin and communion with God were, and to thoroughly investigate and to bring to the test of experiment all those principles that were revealed inthe Word of Godt {n order to bring avout this knowledge God had appointed the Christian Sabbath and the ministry of the Gospel, the benefits of which were ably portrayed, the Doctor maintaining that Christian civilization owed its existence and perpetuation to those agen- cies. In conclusion, Dr, Haveu explained the work winch the Educational Society of the Methodist Church was accomplishing in aiding worthy young men in Rabie @ thorougad education for the work of the ministry, and also in asstst- ing young women who intended to enter the foreign missionary field, ‘the society was now heiping 200 young mento more efficiently prose- friends and relations. He began his discourse by dwelling on the faculties of the human heart, which he divided into two classes—natural and moral. The heart was a wonder!ul organ; Philosophers had dwelt upon it, and ts sung of it. St. Paul satd that some of its peculiarities were to be guarded against, and others cultivated. ‘There was in that or- gan, especially in the female, a vast pre- onderance of vanity, though beneath that might lie a vein of tender feeling. Woman generally desired to please, though to be esteemed ought rather to be her aim, Vanity was to woman whut ambition was to man. He described the vanities of the aristocratic Woman, Of the literary woman and of the religious woman, and stated that in all classes where this vice was indulged tn it was sel- fish in its nature. Another weakness he described was a love of novelties, and yet another, a ten- dency to irritability ot temper. But, in’ contra- distinction to all these, woman was distinguished by a true constancy of affection which counter- balanced all her other weaknesses, and besides that her womaniy sympathy. RBUIGERS COLLEGE, One Hundred and Fourth Commence- ment of Rutgers College—The Bacca- laureate Sermon by Dr. William H. Campbell. 7 New BrUnswicr, N. J., June 14, 1874. The exercises attendant upon the 104th com- Mencement of Rutgers College began here this evening with the delivery of the baccalaureate sermon, The Second Reformed church was crowded to repletion with the students and their fair {riends, together with the people of the church and the friends of the college. The town 1s ale ready beginning to fllup with alumni and their friends, and by Tuesday the city will be decked out in her best commencement attire; ior come mencement season is the event of the year in tig vicinity. The graduating class to the number of thirty (by the change of course in the scientific branch of the college 741s bereft of one section, and so turns out a smalier number than her suc cessors will) marched in at the appointed hour and took front seats with the Faculty of the college. On the platform was the venerable President in his royal purple-eaged gown and on either side the pastors of the two reformed churches of the city, also in ecclesiastical robes. The preliminary exercises were rendered more interesting by un- usually excellent music from the choir. It is newly organized and is under the direction of the pastor of the church, who has placed them, to the number of thirty or forty. on a platform behtnd the pulpit, and leads them himself with his baton, then tarne ing about and proceeding with the prayer and sermon. Besides the usual hymns the choir sung to-night with fervor and an expression that indl- cated good training “Hosanna to the Son of David,” by MacFarren; “The Lord be a Lamp,’? from Julius Benedict's “St. Peter.” and the “gyening Hymn,” by Hopking, at the close of the service. THE BACCALAURFATE SERMON, by the President, Dr. William H. Campbell, wag unusually short and was delivered with great im-~ pressiveness and with an affectionate earnestness which characterizes all his addresses to the students, ‘The text was “The law of the Lord 1s perfect, converting the soul.”—Psalma xix., 7. The chief element in @ good char- acter, he said, is a reverence for law. All the wise, all the good, all the useful, all the happy revere law. Wisdom, which is the use of right meang inorder to gain ht ends, springs from the knowledge of law. Goodness consists in obedi- ence to law, and usefulness and happiness are th conseqnences of such wisdom and goodness, an this must of necessity be so; for, next to the lawe giver, law is the divinest thing on earth, and hencer reverence for law constitutes a good character. If, then, you wish to become thus wise, good, use- tal and ‘happy. obey the command of St. James— “Look into the perfect jaw of liberty, and con- tinue therein,” and henceforth you will dwell by, an exhaustiess fountain, from which you may ever partake of the pure water ofilife. The right thoughts of the lawgiver must le at the founda tion ofa good character. You must not think of God as an avsolnte Deity, who has brought into the world intelligent creatures only to rule them with an iron hand of mexorable necessity. The Scriptures teach and experience shows that mam 1s endowed with reason, conscience, affection and will, by which he is able to know, approve, love and choose the just and the true and the good, an: his powers, though limited, seem to be capable of. AN ENDLESS ENGLARGEMENT, but only in the author of all that is good, beaut. Tul and true cau they Ond fit exercise. Our mind is formed to seek rest as the last resort, our rea~ soning stops when {fundamental principles are reached; we seck rest in the conviction of a first ) cause; our sense oljustice leads us to honor the cute the work to which they intended to devote | their lives, After a brief appeal by Dr. Warren a collection was taken for this object, ¢ OHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. Celebration of Children’s Sunday— Christening, Baptism, and Sermon to Children by Rev. J. M. Pullman. The exercises in this new church of the Uni- versalist faith, on Fifty-seventh street, near Eighth avenue, yesterday morning, were of @ varied and pleasing character. It being the occasion of the | baptism of about thirty children and eighteen young people, the altar and, fount were tastefully decorated with fowers. Each child, when it haa received the baptismal rites, was presented with @ neat little bouquet. coursed some very sweet music. They have as yet no choir and all the singing is congre- gational. Rev. J. M. Pullman, the regular pastor, preached the sermon, taking for bis text Psalm xxxiv., 11, 13 and 14—Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” “Keep thy tongue from evil und thy hps irom speaking guile.” “Depart from evil and do good; seex sear and pursue it.” asf commenced, this is a sermon for children, and will, of course, not be very interesting to the elder members of my congregation. It should be short, deep and wise. I have taken a text that expresses Just what I want to say. Ido not wish to make you fear the Lord but in one way. You have all seen those signs that are aometimes put upon the fences .to warn Meanwhile the organ dis- | people trom trespassing upon the premises, and | saying that a dog will be sure to bite them uf they do. You are now in the fleld of the Lord, but 1 do not wish you to fear the Lord as you did the dog. I you are put upon the cars without money the conductor will teil you to pay your fare or get off. But I do not wish you to fear the Lord as you dia the conductor. Fear does not mean now what it used to mean. Jesus said, ‘in my Father’s house where are many mansions.” Tnis world {ts that house. Suppose you should find yoursei! in a fine, large residence; you would wander around from Hbrary, dining and bay rooms, and in none could find the master, He must be in some room in that house, but you cannot find bim, FEAR GOD as you would the owner of that large house. He built and beautified it for you, and you are afraid to do @ wrong action for fear He might tind tt out. IT want you to jear todo wrong. Boys, be brave; and girls, be trae. Be afraid of doing a wrong or mean action, Girls, you must have no secrets from mother. Never keep anything back from her. Teil her all that 13 in your heart. Ifyou begin to hide Little things it will not be long be- fore you will hide big oues too. boys, teli your father all he aeks. [i he wishes to know what you did in school, or how you got your coat torn, tell him the truth and the whole of it. You cannot be very iar aay, When you tell father all, You are living in @ Iittle new world of brothers, sisters and iriends. You are too apt to think that you know more than those in the older world. You have not | been very long in this world, and some older heads: know more about things than youdo, You can go | ant, the speaker said, would drag down the dewth of Socrates to the death of Christ, and even weep at the reading of the death of Socrates, How | Gulerent Was the death of the One from the other! | Tight and you cap go wrong. Tell everything to father and mother and never do @ mean action to playmates. As J was coming out of my study this morning | saw abig boy and a little boy who had hold oj cach other's collars, preparatory to begin- ning a fight. The main object of the big boy scemed to be the trial of ms strength upon tne little one, but he gave as an excuse that a brother Of the little boy had srruck mm the day betore, Boys, do not fight. You must not try to fight With a voy whois younger or weaker than you. You do not know anything about Dr. Channing; but when he was a little, weak, pale-faced boy at school, he saw a big, rough boy hit alittie fellow, and asked him why he aid so, The bully replied that it was none of lls business, and il be bad anything iurther to say on the subvject ne would receive a similar whipping. For the first and only time tn his life he went in the fight and did handsomely. It 18 right for you to FIGHT A BIG FELLOW when he abuses you. Tell mother and father all, and do no mean action to companions, “This fear of the Lord 1s the beginning of wisdom,” says we Bible. He illustrated this by several ple: 9 stories calculated to fasten upon the minds of the children the great truth embodied in the text. Succeeding the discourse was the communton ser vice, which closed the exercises of the day, THE RUTGERS FEMALE COLLEGE, The Rev, Thomas Armitage, D. D., preached the Baccalaureate sermon of the Rutget church, in Forty-aixth street, to a congrega- tion composed, for, the most part, of the lady audents of the coliego and = their Femaie Col- | lege last evening in the Fifth avenue Baptist | way. gave notice last Sunday, the reverend gentieman | f | soctal source and author of all subordinate good; our sense Of weakness leads us to look for a heavenly helper, and our moral nature to look ior pardom from sin. All this points to design, and through the désigned we look to find a designer—a near God, @ father, an upholder and lawgiver, and, having found the lawgiver through Christ to bel your Father, you have laid the true and solid: foundation of a good character. Secondly, yot must know what law is, as well as its nature ant extent, and law 1s everything by which Goa makes himself known unto us, ‘ne invisible reveal himself in His work and word. ‘thus everys thing that exists is a revelation of God, and to usa law, and it was so designed by God, for St. Paul declares:—‘‘For the invisible things of hing from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.> ‘Thus the world is iull of the revelations of He has written his name and character on th stone beneath our feet, on the lofty mountain, tha broad sky, the deep sea and still more juily in His written word. These all, in their oneness an@ their countless parts, are the revelations of God, and they form His system of law, physical, in- tellectual, moral, spiricual, soeial and written. And so the whole system of law 18 perfect; if covers the whole pathway of life, all ts momen occasions, conditions and relations. It stoo) down in condescension to the smallest wants of the individual and lifts itseif up with an easy gran~ deur to tue higucst aspirations of goodness. ‘Thirdly, we must remark, it was love that prompted! God to give this perfect law. Every de, artment® Of it was given ior the guidance and good of man. Every precept 18 ‘A DIVINE ANNOUNCEMENT, ene how agood may be gained, There is @ yoice in every precept, calling men to seek good, for body and soul, in the easicst, safest and no There ts in every distressing conilition life.a best, which we may grasp and make ou! own. And law is God’s divine announcement of love, telling us that God has made that best thing possibie. Despatr is a word that has no place im all the vast domain of law. He who turns his backt on it walks into hopelessness, but he who keeps nis face towards it must become hopeiul, however’ abject his condition. So in the lowest sphere of law—the physical—commerce, trade and manufac- tures have been so changed by knowledge of the physical law as to recast the forin of society and change the type of our civilization; the printing press, the discovery of America, the magnetia telegraph are ali instruments in his hand Jor the aiding on of the race, God is always seeking the highest ends and mak- ing the lower helpful the higher, and 80 it is proved thut all laws compose a system, that its author is one and divine and its pur- pose 18 the highest good of men. The great physical discoveries—some of which we have men- tioned—have always been a kind of physical Jona Baptists, preparing the way of the Lord, making ready Jor spiritual progress; and thus, in the hope~ fulness which may well fill the soul of every om who turns his thoughts to any department of Goa’ laws, may we not ask you to have, as an addition: portion of your goodly superstructure of character, the love of God seen in His laws, as henceforth our great and appropriate attraction? Fourthiy,, et the law of love do its perfect work in you, causing you to Keep its preceyey in that spirit of love which prompted God to give it. All law ts a Sealed book to him who comes not to it in love fox the lawgiver and who does not draw from it the Inspiration of love ior Him, THE LOVE OF GOD speaks forth from every precept of every departs ment of law, and who sees it not and is not warmed by 1t into love is dead in the sin of being without any sense of the attractiveness Of the love of God. But such are not ye who have laid the foundation and erected the two portions of the goodly super- Structure which we have been describing. Ag wise master builders yr complete the edifice Of @ good character with this, the third part of the structure, But you must remember that knowl~ edge and doing good are not ends, but means He who purposes to be in harmony with the one voice of law, which is the voice of God, must indeed have love, but a love which ‘in its - breadth shad find impuse enough and goodness and strength enough ta stand frm agaiust weakness, discouragement and opposition; and this alone is found in God; and hence all the vast domain of law ts one wide, ex- tended portraiture of God, atsplaying Him in alk the attractions of loveliness, the Scriptures speak- ing of Him in thelr persuasiveness and all else chiming in with their grand and sweet accord. And when one has gained from the lawschis love of, God he wili have an impulse which will bear biow gladly on in all the spheres of usejuluess which. law may appoint, ‘The iace of the Father, seem first in the law of grace, will now be seen an pee in every taw of nature. And there will ch revelations made to such pious observera in the reaims of this Mie ig intellecvual and moral as well as written la as will put a new face on the earl from the useiuiness they will be able to caase, Ink My inmost soul 1 beueve that great discoveries come and great events happen when Providence needs them, and they come about by the mem whom God appoints, And he who reverently Waits to read aud obey what God has written im | his great rolls of law will have much to read and honorabie work to do, The sermon concluded with a brief personal exhortation to the young men of the graauating ciass to be sell-denying above all things; to be devoted to the pursuit, tha study and the obedience of God’s law as mant« fested tn Hts word and work, and thus become @ type of grand Christian manhoud—wise, vaeial, good and haopy.