The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1874, Page 6

6 SUNDAY SERM ~_ Farewell Di-courses by Popular Pastors, MR BEECEER ON SELF-SACRIFICE. | Religion= Glances at Our National Life. Mr. Hepworth on the Law and the Cospel. Small Congregations in the Fash- ionable Churches. Unrrep PRessyTsriaN CuuRCH.—At this church, ®tuated in West Twenty-llith street, between Bixin and Seventh avenues, the pastor, Rev. Dr. Kirkpairick, preachea in the morning before a somewhat smail congregation. He chose for his text St. Panl’s Epistie to the Ephesians, iv., 30— “ano grieve not the holy spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Sovra Bartisr CAURCHL. Twenty-fitth street, the morning sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. A. C, Osbern, D. D He chose for his (ext Jonan ty., 9—"And God said to Jonah, doest thou well to be angry for the gourd’ And he said, Ido well to be angry even auto death.” The congregation present during the service was wuch smaller than usual. CaLvaRry Barris? CavRcH.—The attendance at ‘this church, West Twenty-third street, was par- ticnlarly slim at the morning service yesterday. The pulpit was occupied by Rev. R. S. Macarthur, who delivered an efective discourse, choosing for his text St. Luke, ix., 5I—“And it came vo pass when the time was come that he should be re- ceived up he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.” WesrMINsTER CHURCE.—The morning sermon at whis church yesterday was preached by Rev. George b. Matthews, who 1s to be installed as pastor this evening by the Presbytery of New York. He took for his text the last part of the minth verse of the second chapter of the first epistie genera) of Peter—“Ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out ofdarkness ento his marvellous ght.” Pi.an™ Baprisr Cavnon.—The Rev. J. Spencer Kennard, the pastor, preached the morning sermon @t this church, in West Thirty-third street, ) ester- day. His discourse, which tended to show tne ne- cessity of an enduring faith, was founded on the text taken from Matthew, x, 22—‘And ye shall be hated of ail men for my name’s sake, lor he that endureth to the end shali be saved.” ‘The congre- ation showed a considerable jailing of in point ef numbers {rom last week. Wasuinaton Squake METHODIST EriscopaL Cuvecu.—The Rev. Wiiltam P, Abbott, pastor of the Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, preached to a small congregation yesterday morn- ging from Isaiah, xxvili., 16—Therefore thus saith (me Lord God, Behold, 1 lay in Zion for a founda- tion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, ® sure foundation; be that believeth shall not make haste.” The sudject of the discourse, as the text indicates, was the great importance of build- tng our hopes of salvation upon the right founda- tion. Thousands have built on morality alone. Men have built splendid characters on morality, but uniess sustained by an earnest belief in Jesus Christ they will perish. Some people are apt to build their hopes for the futare upon the recoliec- tion of tne hour of their conversion; others trust to some wonderful victory over sin wnich God has permitted them m the past, to win, but Jesus Christ is the only sure corner stone. Dr. Houtron’s REFORMED CaHURCH.—The Rev. Dr. Button preached yesterday morning upon “Par- ticipation in Sin,” at the Reformed churcn, on East Washington square. The text selected was {. Timothy, v., 22:—‘“Neither be partaker of other men’s sills; keep tuysel! pure.” “Men are drawn together and into society by as natural and reg- alar laws as those Whicli cause the isolated drop ef water to cohere with the waters of the sea, and this tact prevents any individual life from being | without a certain amount of influence on others. Could we see ai! the invisible cords that surround ® man we would then plainly see that every act of bis is communicated to so- | stety, aud exerts an infiuence on society for good or evil.” <Aiter this prelude the | Doctor, referring to bis text, said “the question, m what way do we become partakers in other men’s sins? is what I shall endeavor to answer.” When We justify men in the commission of sin we @ecome partakers, as the present Jewish nation ate partakers of the greatest crime ever committed because they justily their forefatuers in the killing of Christ Jesus, When we encourage men in sin ‘we also become partakers, whether we encourage them by our conductor precept. Society, by en- Guring certain sins which in the sight of Goa are heinous, encourages their commission. We also become partakers of other men’s sins when we de clme using all lawful and proper means of prevent- img them. Dr. Hutton was listened to by smal congregation. BEECHER'S FAREWELL. Yesterday was a day of great interest in Ply- mouth church. It was the farewell sermon of the season from the pastor previous te nis summer vacation. It was known that he would not preach again in Plymouth church until the fall of the year. and therefore there was an unusually large atrend- ance of the members and also of the regular congregation. When the hour came for tue aamiseion of the strangers there were fewer ya- eant pews than asual for their accommodation, but the rain and the cessation of the excitement of the scandal had diminished the usual nu and nearly ail were accommodated with sex The sermon, a ful) report of which is given veLow, Was im the jubilant, confident, carnest, hearty strain of Mr. Beecher’s best @&ys, aud showed that recent outside (roubles had disconcerted him but litte, He made no public aliusion to his vacation, but in the invitation tothe communion service signified the probsbility that all would not meey him again. Mr. Beecher gave as Nis text the 20th chapter of Matthew, 20th verse:—“‘ihven as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to min ister, and to give hie jife a ransom ‘or many.’’ Also, Philippians, the first eleven verses of the second chapter :-—“If there be, theretore, any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any Seliowship oF the iCany bowels and mercies, fulfil ye My joy, (hat yebe Ukeminded, having the same Jove, being of one accord, of one mind. Let notu- img he done throngh strife or vain glory, but in lowiness of mind Jet eseh estcem ether hetter than than themselves, Lvok mot every man on is own things, but every man aiso om the things of others. Jet this mind be in you, which wae also im Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it Mot robbery to be equal with God, but made him- self of no reputation and took upon him the form of @ servant, nud was made fv the likeness of men, and being found to lastion 4 & mun he hamoled Aumnself and became obedient wnto death, even (he death of tue cross. Wherelore God also Lith nigniy exalted him and given bim @ bame which js above every baue, wat at tie name of Jociua every knee should Low, of things In heaven ura things on earth, and things under the earth, snd that every tongue should coni bs Lord, to the glory of God tne You will observe, said Mr. Which sounds trough this passag weli-repunciation, cher, that that 19 bine glory of It ts not the vision of a God ta the pienitude oj power, pot it is the vigion ol o s not 4 God disrobing himseil of power. Iv tributes of royaity, bat the babii Pade, that are the jusigBia hore hela phe at yt 8ervi- kyery ONS. | At this church, West | | rows. NEW YORK HERALD, | orher name that is named goes under, and ail cre- ation is exalted to rapturous praise o. @ Being Who ls set forth by the symbols of sufermg and self-renunciation. That which i here atvered— ald ttis nhotadirge, but a pwan—that which 1s here uttered by the apostie of our Saviour, was also, in the first passage that fread substantially stated by the Saviour himsel'; tor when they | Were making the last progress toward Jeru- salem, just before His passion and death, | the mother, with ber sons, drew near with secret umbition toexait James and Join to the | first places in heaven, to seats om the right hand | and on the left of Christ. And our Saviour, with great gentleness, instructed—for instruction to this case Was rebuke—Whereas the other disciples were exceedingly angry and to tiem it Was that our Master turned and said, “I know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over | them, and they that are great exercise authority | upon’ them; but it shall not be so among you. Whosoever will be great among you let bim be your minister (not your clergyman; by no | means), let Bim be” your servant; whoso- ‘ever will be chief amopg you let him {ne your slave? That 18 the full force o' sven us the Son of Mas came not ed unto, but to minister, and Lo give | his life a ransom for many.” There can ve no question that the Onristtan religion lias come down | bo us with # color Which {t had Dot in the primitive ehureh aud Which it ougot not to have, and hat it | has been so statned tarvugh and through will the ascetic element as to make religion a vorally (iifer- ent thing wi the appreiension of men, frum What the religigas spirit and service were to the Od Jestamen?saint and [rom the spirit of the anos- es themseives and Irom the law and nature of tings. ind clon upon a lower nature of @ higner nature, and that it 18, there/ore, in the highest and n. viest sense of the word, natural Men have peeu atraid to call religious things nat- ural for lear that they sould drag them down and degrade them, but the true way 18 to BRING NATURE HIGHER and show it asit is, as the organized thought of God and to make it larger im its spuere, 80 that we shall no longer think of mere matter When we speak of nature, but inciade in it mind and emo- tion and disposition, and the total of a g.orious manhood, And I say that religion, instead of beg an interpotaced thing, a stop-wap, mude by reason of man’s tall, an episode in the history of crealion—that religion is the nature of things, from eternity to eternity, and expresses the best things of God and the best things of man, and tuat 1% Dears in itself the nignest uobdleness and tae highest happiness, The Jewish religion in- volve cognized in the experience of life abundant sur- But the genius of the religion that was stituted by inspiration through Moses was tainly cheerful and even joyous, and the 8p1 the Old Testament, while while, in other Words, It recognizes the expericace of cue human race wheuever it lite itsell Up to the level of the ideal plane where the human race are enritied to live, the spirit of the ld Testament is wonderiuliy joyous, ‘Tue life of Christ also, 1 take it, is greatly misinterpreted. It involves sutter- ing, and at the last and great dramatic bon an awiui passion which auman thought may bot com- ot t It Nas Its sadnesses, pass por iathom. yet, It seems to me, no man can read the lie of Curist continuously, from beginning to end, and take in what must have been the move- Ment of whe thoughts of such a one as He going about clothed with doubie power from on bign and irom on the earth, and doing goud; ue man -can suppose that that could bring forth ony other Sruit than the fruit of joy, The essential spirit of Christ Was not sad, but deeply joyiul, and so it 1s said, “Who for the joy that was set before him". that ever hovered and lightened his path. dured the cross; joy, superemipent and abou. Ing floated up’ the’ iife of Christ upon uuder waves. Miet His disciples He was not as one a suderer, overcome; ke Was 1b suffering, beyond sutferin, if | may So say; for He said to them when the shadow was on tim, ‘My peace I give you.” Now He that ip the extremity o: suifering tad peace to impart to those around about Him Was not over- Whelmed With any such ignoble sense oi sufering as we have been wont to attribute to Him. The writings Of the apostle are full of appeals aud iuil of earnestness, and recoguize in the most eminent degree the conflicts of hie, but the very sptrit of hope and of joy pervades them. They aiways MOVE WITH THE STEP OF VICTORY. There is nowhere else, in an equa! compass, Such an exaltation and an exultation, 1 think, as are to be found m the writings of the Aposties, and pre-eminently of Paul, the suderer and tae re- joiwer. 1 know not re you shall find, i you come into the imi svirit of it, a more magniticent IMStance than that recorded iu tue closing Verses of the eighth of Romans, where he lias been speak. n- the ing of the sufferings of the whole world, where he | looks upon the creature delivered from the bond- | age Of corruption into the glorious liberty of the chudren of God, and says that the whole creation is going on aud stil groaning and travail mg in pain. Ana then, alter Pare Ou all the ligut and darkness in Which the worl moves he says, “What shall we say then to these tugs? If God be for us who can be against us ¢ He that spared not his own Son but delivered nim | up for us ail how shail he not, with nim also freely give us ail things? Who snall lay anything to the charge of God's elect’ It 1s God that justifleth. Who ts he thatcondemmeth? itis Christ that died, | Yea, rather that ts risen again, who iseven at the right hand of God, who aiso maketh intercession tor ue, Who shail separate us irom the love of Christ?” Now, Jook at this magnificent de- fiance with which he throws down the gaun- tet to every conceivable form Of earthly misior- tune. ‘Who shall separate us from the love ot | Christ? Shall tribution or a@istress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or ‘Sword? Asitis written, ‘For thy sake we are Killed all the day jong; we are accounted as -heep ) for the siaughter, nay’ °—and where 1s there such a magnificent burst of joy and cheer as this’ “Nay, in ail these tmipgs’—in tribulation, distress, per- secution, 1amine, nakedness, peril, sword. “We are more (han conquerors through Him that loved us. For! am persuaded”—now his thought over- leaps the bounds of time and earth and takes ta a universe!—“shai neither death, vor life, nor | @ngels, nor principantes, nor powers, nor things preseut, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, ‘nor any other creature shall be able to separate us {rom the love of Gou, Wilich is in Christ ) desus our Lord,” A GOSPEL OF JOY, NOT GLOOM, Now, | ask whether the whoie view of the Chris- tan religion, as it 18 laid down in the New Testa- | ment, isnot one of joyiulness? Whether that is not the predominant ‘element—the gening of it Jask you whether the religious lile, which nas been handed down to us from the Church of the medieval aues, is not, I will say, stained through With @ sense of melancholy and restriction, of joss, of narrowness and of suffering, 80 that the popu- lar impression ts that religion, if not morose, 13 yet moody and melancholy, 18 sad and sorrowiul; that its joy lies in what 1s to be in the jife that ts to come, not in the thing itself. I ask whether toe ascetic view has not been preached, and 18 not stili preached un- couscivusly, preached by men who disown it in terins, and who yet make representations of great doctrines in such a way as that the minds of mea are impressed witli the conviction that to do the tings that are noblest, best, uivimest in accord. ance with the highest law of a true manhood, re- quires great suffering, that if requires a special dispensation o1 grace to enable meu to do those things, because they are so hard, pot only, but so painiul in the doing, Now, this ascetic view of religion is not only faise in general but in particular it destroys {ts power, it is for the wellare of the race thai they should understand that the highest line of mannood is not only possible, bat it (is tne most redolent of joy, This is @ secret which tne world ought to have disclosed to it. No miner is unwilling to work night and day, only gold follows the work. ‘The very mother, io the midst of anguish and travail, rejoices tal @man child is born into the world, Nobody counts the suffering which 13 victorious ia the end, and 3+ 1s Deed that the world should understand that religion is not @ series 0; suffer- ings ip the nature 01 a price paid for ajoy by ana by, but that it is the revelation of God to thw worid of that higher law of trne manhood which carries witn tt now and forever Lereaiter the high- | ext happiness’of which men are susceptiple. I de- clare that every single Christian duty jail down CARRIES IDS OWN PLEASURE IN IT} that if men want to know the sources and secrets of the biguest joy, they will find (hem tn those very tuiugs Which are ordinarily esteemed ua most aii- ficult tobe done under a sense of duty—things \nat men balance and say, “Must tl deny myself or be damned? Weil, ou tue whole, { had rather deny taysell, It if hard, but stiil it ts better to cut off my Tigi hand than to go to hell.” Ana so they con- sent with themseives to do things that are painiul, onerous, bit disagreeable tn every way, that are think, to nature; and they do it ey are afraid if they do not, that by and ng will be farder than they can bear, y desirable that men slould under- ver may seem to be the difficulties veward Of christian auties, they se the very reward of good, srdag men think they are, and hin| as the devil tempts men to they are Jost a8 Ill o1 joy a8 pples that are shaken down over the heag of the world, i¢ig the imistortune of the word to hav erstood that righteous- ness is sad and painial, and that joy and bilarity are to be sougit for 10 an unspiritual lie; that soubsufering and tears and mortifeations belong | to the spiritual life, but that gaiety and liberty and joyininess belong to the fesn MMe. It is @ slander, ANd One that Carries detriment and dam- nation Lo uucounted thousands, Wien our Mas ter stood in the midst Of Puiesitue, look. | ing out upen the currente that were flowing sometimes north and somerunes south, the Various dynasties, ambitions ail \ines of en- deavor, aud saw men fuctuating from right to | leit apd from lest to righs, all seeking happiness, } He, as it were, questioned the world and (ie men that were init, and found that they were varren | of happiness. find it, Rienes seugot tt, and ric stand ty Power sought 1t, and power did not 8 did not Bnd it, Vanity Songht it; it Was Dotin Vanity. Men sought it | in (he flesh, and there i died. the ways in which men sought to make tiemseives happy, Obrist stood and said, ‘ome ante ime, ail ye Unat labor and are heavy laden anal will vive you rest, Take my yoke upon you and jearn of me, for Tam meek and jowly in heart, and ye siall ind rest unto your svuis.’ He that would know lie secret place of joy cannot find itin tue flesa, Hor in the Jower social jive, nor in the merely intelectual life, put it the realm of the morat lie, And, looking at ail where true divine mapRood inieres, Let fim lay the hi life g@ecording to that higher a and he #oall find reat unto his wou realms *4 the sou) Which neves ideciare that the Christian religion is the | . to be sure, penitential elements, and re- | ds | And when in His darkest hour he | MONDAY, JULY 6, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. hears the tempest nor feels the thunaer shower; aud te very earthquake may shake and roll every other thing aud Hot disturb the settled peace that God has given to those Who know how fo retreat to the inuermost divine temple of the soul, and flud their rest in God, THE JOY OF SELF-RENUNCIATION, sider now tts law of sel'-devotion—the law of sel-renunciation, U you choose to call it, or seli-sacrifice, or Whe giving up o! yoursell for the bepelit % ethers—give it whatever hame you please. It strikes everybody, perbaps, tuat this must be & heroic thing, but that tt isa thing the world will not be expected to flud nor to practice. It belongs to the category Of beroisms, let 100) upon il a8 painful, necessary, but necessary just as surgery Is; not’ because ‘they laugh wuen they are cul, Dot because i! they are not cut by and by they will die, and rather than dte they are willing to suffer, So men say, “Yes, we are willing to deny ourseives and take up our cross and serve other men, to use the whole power of our being for the production of happiness and power in other men. “but then the trouble com in this Way—that the moment, in the first plac they J0ok at it wrongly, they think that it is order- lng them Lato the realin of labor and pain bearing and storm bearing. They do not understand its genins, Then in the next place they say, “One Uning | do know practically, and that is, that Ua man don’t attend Lo his own business his business won't attend to lim. Ihave got to look afrer my- sell, and when I go over to wy shop or my store, and you tell me. ‘Now look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, that 1s just what we do, and we ty to get them, too,” perverting to fis conscience the words that are the jargest disinterestedness, But men way, ‘it is a law of iife that business la business, Aman must take care of Himself, fhe law of seli- preservation and of Individual responsivility prompts him to do so. You have got to look a.ter Yourself, and nobody will look after yon. Will you teil me thar 1 must live a lile of seif-renunciation Why, it is the same as saying seif-destruction, Society would not stand an hour.” Let us, then, consider this a littie wore at the root of it, you look at the lowest stages of animal ie alter its creation upon the globe, you shall see that it has but two substantial | fuuctions, seil-preservation and propagation. All the lower ‘orms of aniinal lite have but these suo- | stantial functions. ‘Yo preserve themselves by eating aud oy defence against enemies 15 their law to themselves, They bave not the | faculty for anything more. To jorm ideas and to jJorm communities is notin them, The law of the Jowest jie, the itie of mere flesh, 13 to take care OL sel!, and it is not cquipped ior anytaing more taaa that, In the higher development o! animal lie a new element comes in—namely, congregation, community. Now, to live together in its ‘Own wature implies something more than mere seli- preservation ; tt tuples, more or les, the ieeding or by another, which 18 @ very low form of self-abnegauion. So society In its | earliest stages was iormed, Men came together for :nutual delence, jor government, Lhere must ve | infestine government, Suvoruinauon, some sort Of | rude authority and jaw and suomission thereto. These eements are Duscent aud cruce, but never- theiess, a8 compared with the state of the anil below, the savage society of this world is ap im- mense growta apd development, But as you go still bigher you will find tuere comes im the social @s distinguisned from the aniinal consociation. There 13 developed the society ive of the huuse- hold, in other words, even in savage life fuwers Diossom here and there in the Midst of rudeness, coarseness, ciuelty and unutterable degradation. ‘Lhere is the beginning Of the goiden candlestick, as set up in the house, and the light of maternal love shiues out, and there begin to be the seminal Jorms oi a higher life, in which thipkiug Jor otuers, caring lor others anu doing for others 18 THE MAINSPRING OF JOY. In the lower forms of life the pighest form of happ:ness 1s phy=ical sensation ; next the pleasure Oo! exeruon in War, in the Chase or in commerce. First mere physical thrills are pleasure, then tbe exertion Of rude strebgth and the sense ol su- periority of man over man. But even tn tus there develops a stul tiner eement—namely, tne element ol heroism. You shad never find that element of heroism in which there 1s Dot Uhis in- herent quality—aameiy, that it is not tor the per- son’s OWn sell but, ior others. A man stands upon nis threshold and defends | hig house against twenty men. He gives [ms Ife for the ‘tor country and kind, aud tion of sentiment that Makes him care- less of his own self. Then he rises, Butas society still turther regenerates itseif we begin to fiud More and more that the pleasures of men consist 1n the pleasures waich they produce in others. There 8 a low orm 01 It tp Jasiionable society, in politeness even. iuen because We want to make them speak sweetly tous, We try to make ioiks happy because we Teflect that they may make us happy. Thisisa low form, but it {8 @ rude seeking alter an im- | portant principle waich underiies the very genius or Caristianity —namely, that your bappiuess comes irom making other people happy, using yoursell for the weLare of others. but the essentially heroic hature is shown in generosity, in devotion. in fidelity, in maguantmity. ven rode men remew- | ber the sensauious of a great generosity better than ulmost any other. Men nave # drunken revel, and the wild bight rages till the morning dawus, with what they call pleasure. But ajiter all, when one of them goes out in the morving somewhat sobered, and hears a cry of distress, and foliowip; it, sees @ Woman set upon by brutal villains, an thrusts Dimsel! Wituout a question into tue alt uy, making her cause his own, and with high confict | and some wounds, smites down and slays and de- | trate tWousand nights of debaucn are Jorgotten, ui Cominouweaith, he stands has that exaita- } ONE,ACT OF HEROISM 80 exalts him that be never jorgets it, and itis | never forgotten of him. Nay, where, 11 you were | to look, would you expect to find the most happi- | mess in this world’ I think we oid mser 18 happy. | Hapay? Yes, nappy Just as boys mase musi¢ on old Un pans, To us they are cacophonous enongn, | bat the voy finds music tn them. L remember drumm:ng on the head of a meal chest. My mother | said, “Stop that noise! and I marvelled at the | Want of tastein her for music. So there are | vartous low joys, such as joys ot ambition and | vanity. 11 18 aosurd to say thattnere {3 no pleas. ure in these things. It that were true the whole worid would mot go ater them. But, atter all, where 18 the most joy? You know just as weil as I do that, taking all things togetper, there is more Joy tn home than an) where élsi The mother singing by the cradle side does not care for the route and the parties going on in soci- | ety. Her baby is worth more than all the resplend, | ent pleasures in the worid. And what is her bave | toher? A burden? Yes, What is it? A yoke of ser- | vitade. Yes, an easy yoke. What isher vabe to her? | Aremunerator’ It does not even know her. It | does not understand a wora she says. She carries | it in ber bosom all night. Jt eats her. It | 1s her jailer; shuts her up tu the house, takes her from a tuousand Habits and accustomed ways of lhe, and her friendships are all swallowed up in this, She gives her !Me to it, Day and might she pe It oUt Upon the Most heipiess thing that f ves, and yet she is the bapplest creature, She | ever seems to herself 86 happy a3 when, with her | helpless chiid she sits apd it croons and she sings, and her heart is glad. Her happiness consists in the pouring ont of everytuing that is sweet and beautiful and aoble in Womannood into this un- conscious receptacie—her litte child. Look Qt the whole household life. When there are six or eignt unlicked cubs ranning around the house there are some crosses (oO bear, but, alter ail, is there anything in ‘hig world that men can look back to as they can to @ good home? On! the old home! We remember it ior some reasons and for others; but. aiter all, with its instructions and its reguiations, its restraints, its noes and shalis and every bing ‘else, it 1s the Edeu of a mau’s memory, and when old age makes men’s hands quiyer, througn the ioug lite, they | have loxgotten almost everything but ome, That | | they rethember even to the'moss ou the bucket; that they remember to the weather stain on the | oid Wall, and father and mother live when even God js Jorgotten, 80 poweslul is the impression of | the houseuold upon the soul, The household is ; the only piace in this world where regularly, and by i the force Of nature, men live sell-sucridcing, seli- | renouncing lives, Why, What is heroism but agspark kindjed in the household, curried out and made into a fire, a fame at large ine? Irthe things @ mother does every day 01 her tile were done on @ fheld da iarge the world's sight they would be | called heroic, Grace Darling, to save unknown | Persons became heroic, buta mother gives herself with a thousand times more paiu-vearing and obscur rity to Save Ope child. It is comimon aud the sim- | Re want of Repuney does uot make it less berotc, | Heroisin js cneap. It 18 80 abundant in the famil | that we do not think o(it. Seii-renunciation—fall, | cheerful, continuous—We see it all tae time im the | household, We admire it, ‘ennyson can oniy sing itso that ail the world hears it it becomes heroism. Ii anybody coming out of the famuy Shall do tne same thing for or for the human mind anywhere just that | which we have been accustomed time in the family, he 18 Uilted at ouce into a hero, Who would no*, jor those be loves, du anything, bear anytuing, susfer anytoing? What is there Nebuchadnezzar, was pot one of those sorcanate | that Is hard to bear ii we ouly love enouch ¢ Some | men who earned his own position, but rather une | | Men canuot sail along because the ocean of iife has | o; those aniortunate youths who had greatness ran out and Lbey are stuck in wie mud Oo: the lower | thrust apon him. Sut when tue tide of @ movie, | to power, | lle Of selfishness, | generous, loving spirit sel-renuucIation aNd selfsacrifice-—then they are | ited up irom the shallows on wuich they bad ran, and then they make Uieir voyage of tile easily. | When men Carry out ipon the world-life tue words ) p e | and deeds of the household, other men prais their herojam @ad cali them bappy. ‘here are | | Many selfish men, many proud, cold aod savage men, Who, looking Upon some generous, devote | act, Wil say, “ii Toowd only do such a@ thing a | that, | would be happy.” Gh yes, 80 you would; no doubt about that; but you won't do it, You won't cultivate the mouds out of which aucm actions by apd by are developed. 1 make thexe illustrations to show you that the essential Gature Of S@i/-sac, | ing but pleusure imspiring, iat it is not lower sphere of animal creauon ove o/ the gr Divine xecrevs and princes and of ine ere Manhood—namely, stien living On a low plane and in a comparatively | burrow spaere, bat that tp ivatton of it there Will show you Lhat the nunciation t& piescure, not pair Joy, bot sorrow, [donot like io terpret what 1s going on before t that i brings have “ur ey Waen | | He that gives most is highest; should seem to have everything given to him in ! lie? How bland influence on the street and | everything that heart could wish, Just see nim. Taere is uis Kossuth, that heroic man whose | name the world will never jet die til mewory Itself | | bas perished, See, he is an exile, He ts living | | afar from bis native land and friends, 8 wan- aerer.” Let me teli you that your pity i§ Dot Deeded, His soul is ted. on noble thoughts. His H Ile has been consecrated to sacrifice, and because he has known ow easily tu give uF ‘ail he has ine herited all, Cnrist said to disciples that Uf they wave up ali and followed Him they should inherit wll things—houses, lands, wives, children. Kk | HUMAN DSVBLOPMENT NOT ADAM'S FALL. You know very well that 1do not believe tn the technical theology that man fell Irom a state Of | were acquainted with the mysteries of earth, but | Perfection, because be never had such a state to fall from. and never had any heigut to ial has been working lus Way Wp al] the time since, do not wean to give in my faith to the theory that man ever was a brute absolute, but f Go | belleve that the race began its career upon | irom, and that be the earth, as a human race, at the lowest | conceivable point at | cau eXist, and that every single siep | it has taken has been a gradual unsolding, an evo- | lution, an education. Living first ou the flesh lane, they acted according to the law of sel!-de- lence, then risiig to the social plane that it was to their Interest to live together ; and then they rose to the higher piaue of patriotism and heroism, and they come at last to tae spiritual plane, and hear the divine command, “Live not aby longer for yoor lower auimai nacure, vor (or your mere social ature, nor or a sua.) disposition of yourselves, nor even jor tuat civil nature tu which you more © heroically distribute yourselves, Understand tne | | truth that when yuu come into the spirit you live for higher ends—that — is, God, This is the revelation of God in | Jesus Christ, who, tnough he was in the | form of God, ana thought tt not robbery to ve equai with God, made Himsell of no reputation and took upon Himself the iorm of a servant and was made in the likeness of man; but even yet more | humbied Himsel( and vdecame obedient unto | death, and that the most iguominious death of the cross. “Whereiore God ago hath highly ex- | alted him.” God, by His everlasting decree on Which the universe stands; God, by the inevitable nature tat runs through all eternity, exaited him, he’ that keepeth | back most is lowest; be that would be chief let niu be your siave; he that would go up, let mm go | a. This 1s the law; not the special atid aroitrary | enactment of Christianity or tue Church, Use the | Whole power of your life for other men and that shall uarmonize your own life and fii ic with bless. | edness. ‘Jake my yoke and my vurdenu; they are | light, Uney are easy, they shall bring rest to your | soui, Live lor yourself anu you iret; live lor others and all goes smooti, Live tor yoursell and you moan, you are despondent, are fuil of desires. pin- | ings, yearnings, condicts, euvylugs and jealousies ; but live jor others, give up ail things, yield all things to Gud and to manxind, conduct yourself with humility under the law of love jor other men and ail will be bright above and bright beneato and | brigut in the eternal tuvure, INVITATION TO HE LORD'S SUPPER. j And now We are toge her to ceieprate for the | last time this summer, peradventure tor the last lume un earth the Lord’s supper. Who may come and take ity To Whomis this odered? For whom isit? Whatisit? Iris bread for the hungry, lt | Stauds here to-day saying “I represent God,” It is the crushed cluster iu tiege cups that stands | here to-day sayipg “Lam Jehovah.” itistaattnat Sets forth to men the giving up of ail things to others that represents the divine ideal. It is the | conception oi Gid, Who lives, not as the ceatre of the universe toward whica as toward a mighty | vortex ail things flow, but who sits throwing out | and everywhere, a3 tac central sup, His light aud | Warmth, lie and power. He represents Himself | by the loai and the crushed cluster, saying, “As the loal ieeds others, but not itsell and (ulbis its nature | in ieeding and giving strengtu to others so am [| that eternaly give myself.or others. And so the | | cluster tuat gives its lue and its very innermost blood that otoers may be cacered, itseli destroyed, but gloriously reappearing in those that are lielped, So it still symbolizes tue nature of the God ol ail grace and 0! ali joy.” Oh, how blessed to be God A that me: to b2 spreading iorever, and with ine finite circles, joy Upon joy; joy ust in the form of ; a@ostract raptures, but joy by exalting men, by en- | I | 0:God stood before the iis | reasoning, ments and useful implements which had been the property of the temple at Jerusalem, that they might be profanely used in the Loations which were Ofered to strange gods. Then it was that the hand appeared in the midst of the assembly and wrote in tracings of feariul light the words of Menance and of doom, Belshazzar saw them just above the column opposite the place Where he was Fecliping in a state of semi-intoxication, and it sobered him atonce. Al! his lords and nobles, ail his wives and concubines looked up and saw those mystic words, which contained Dt only the | fate of the throne, but the fate oi the Whole peopie, of Babylon, Struck with terror and amazement he called at once tor the ChaiJean interpreters; but they had read no ianguage like tat s S took nO cognizince of the mysteries ul heaven. I believe that he began at the bottom Horrified more than ever he sent jor Vaniel, the | deliverer of the Hebrew peopie, and the propiet ing, and told Ww Seldom hear and what kings delight the least of ail to listen to—the trutii—the naked, bald (ruth. “You have been weighed in the balance and you have been found wanting, To-morrow you (ie. which luman beings | Most assuredly, friends, that announcement must | Rafiner was bere. have been an unwelcome one to the King, who nol having fought nis way to the throne used bis gorer for selfish purposes and drained tot ouly he wine cup, vut the love and respect of the whole nation at a singie drauglt. Now, | take it, brethren, that we learn from = t3 story tO nave some respect at least for that dis- cipiine through which we are ourselves passing. ‘There are temptations in every man’s Iife, and in every man's life there comes sor. ow, sooner or later, You no more surely possess a cradie than you will posse: grave; and it is no more cer- tain that you have laughed with joy than that you will weep with ;. if your heart has bubbled over with happiness it will surink with n itseif some time because of an overwhelming sorrow. When you look at those varied changing ‘rom the hill top, in the sunshine, to the valley covered by the mists and the damps which settle there eternaliy, you discover, 40t only to your great surprise, but also to your joy, that those varying changes are but the rhyth- mic notes of the great harmony of lie; that as monotony in music would weary the ear, so monotony iu tue life wouid tire the heart, To look forward W a great emergency is terrible, but to look back upon it With the consclousness that 1v has been conquered and trodden underfoot afiords the most solid happiness of life. Im the second piace, | want to say tnat we are tanght by this story to keep a watch On ourselves all the time; no man knows when a@ great temptation will come: he | Suould be ready. Temptations ite in ambush some- times and spring upon you unawares. Be ready for them, Belshazzar wus in the midst of great danger, though he little dreamed of it. It 1s perfectly plain to every man who has thought | about hs own experience that there 1s a law in | heavenly home which {stn sture tor you. this life which must be obeyed. Taat law stronger than your arm and more sudtie in its ways than your cunning, You cannot get over it as you climb a fence, you cannot dig under it or batter it down, ‘ou can only rush headlong against it, and, broken b pieces, ial to the dust. Wrong dies—right lives. Last of all, We are taught by this story that every man heeds an interpreter, and that fhe ordinary means Which we Have used lor tnterpretation are not always suficient, Every one ol us is surrounded by magicians—the subtlety of our own minds, our thoughts, our imaginations, our poor which, under ordinary circum- stances, are enough. But there are times in our human life when these human interpreters stand looking at the inscription on the wall with dumb lips, Wien they cannot give us the interpretation to those mystic letters God hath written, And where, where shail we find a Daniel inspired by the Almignty, who can read those letters as his = Bative tongue ? Breturen, 1 know but one, only one in this broad universe to whom the language of heaven !3 com- mon. It is the Lord Jesus Christ. If we can only learn of Him as disciples, make Him our daily com- panion and friend, tue hour will come wnen, be- wildered at our own unworthiness and at the long list o1 our misdeeds, as tiey snail be read by the recording angel beiore the throae of God, we shall be in despair concerning the tuture, and Christ Jesus siiall stretcn His hand up to us and say, “My sacrifice was made for you, und turougn faita ip me you have reached heaven.’ 0 breti- Ten, We can trust Christ gna mot be deceived; He | mobling them, by teaching @ nobler manhood and | will interpret all mysteries aright, { | We speak sweetly to | his country , so much for us that it stretches its handong | to alt the | fows— which ia always | though + were the caprice of widee is not pain Lyd hd fetes f an im- | whole city laid siege to it. ssible thing, that it is the revelation of the | were given to win, higher nature. Ib i* the letting down inco this | dressed in colors, tue | but they did not kuow how to wield tke sword o al | hurl the lance on the battie-fleld; they were im- iat Mea shoul’ learn how tO | potent in time of war. live tor Others, Low God lives, Hoc tnererore How | eXplained by the inspired writer, to live happily. J simstrate it by showing you that | jore tue banquet this huge army h Ju The very Lonsetold ive of wen Gou nas ordained | apd disappeared. The watchman on the outer wall e | whoie city with one gaecord gave itself up to | suherent nature of sel-re- | pleasure Which came as tue reaction of fear. co mucins | gave them ® least. | Choar | high mad say —"dsn'l ib pbraoge thut that died up soul | walting foy them {0 grow up into it by the Divine pores: and toshining, and so making them joyful , ere preparatory to the outbreak of eternal glory! \ Now, who may come to this table? “I was bap- | tizea in my youth, my parents were Christian peo | le; l was brought tip in the ordinances of the Lord; I kuow the Catechism rom end to end, and 1 believe in the “Westminster Coniession,” every word of it, and have always been accustomed to the house of God. It is said that “knowledge | putteth up.” Ido not ask you to come it that is ali the reason you liave got. If all you have got is irom the touch oj man’s hands, however sacred | and reverend—if thatis ail, 1 do notinvite you to come. Ido not give ths invitatioa to members | of the Church, ido not give it to those that are | moral, | do ‘not give it to those wuo respect services of religion mereiy; but if there be any soul here, in tuo Chui or out of the Chuicn, | THE COMMUNION SERVICE. | | . The entire Moor oi the cnurch was occupled by | communicants, aud the service was interesting and solemn. It was extremely simple and did not occupy more than thirty minutes in the adminis- tration. At its close there occurred probabiy one ; of the most interesting spectacies © that | ever Plymouth church has been re. | Maurkable jor, An announcement had been made Mr. Halliday, at the more public service that an opportunity would be al- | forded to those triends who desired to shake hands | wilh the pastor fies vo bis leaving tor the vaca- | tion, to do go. Mr. Beecher, wita Mr. Holiday ana | Mr. T. T. Howard, stood on the floor of the church at the right of tne platform, and for nearly | one hour he was occupied with shaking hauds , / to @ conunuous siream of earnest well- | | wishers, Who seemed to pnt all the | feeling they Lad into the heartiness of the grasp they wave the pasroi’s hand. Tue deacons and more intimate fnends of Mr. Beecher stoud aside and watched the scene, some of them with strong traces ot emotion. Mr. Beecher was the happiest countenanced man Of the assembly and preserved Nis‘cuaracteristic seli-composure throughout this very severe ordeal, |THE LAST SUMMER SERMON OF DR, HiP WORTH, At the Chureh of the Disciples a good congrega- tion assembled yesterday morning—it being the | last Sunday of their meeting for tue summer } Season, The aim being to have congregational sing- | ing, there ts no chotr—simply @ leader of the | music, who stands in view of the congregation, | The singing, however, is not as hearty and in- spiring as congregational singing ougnt to be, After reading the hbeautifal fifth chapter of Matthew, Mr. Hepworth preached from Daniel, v., 30—"In that night was Belshazzar, the King of thinker, as well as to every Ouristian, | the atmosphere of the two books which | make up oar complete Bible is very different and bewildering. In the Ola Testament God on certain occasions makes himself personally | visible and comes into close communion and con- ‘ tact with human nature. ' always resembles to my mind a dear mother who | 1g watching carefully over her child in its tender. | | est youth, carefully guiding every footstep and | Protecting it all the time, The New Testament, ou the other hand, is a book for the world tn its adult i age. It contains the religion of our manhood, of | our mature growth, of mind and body, Instead of | the burning bush and of the yoice trom the top of Sinai, coming from the eloquent lips of the clouds, we bave the form of a friend, Jesus Christ. We enter into personal and | frieudly relations with Him. He stands in the place of Almighty God to us. He does not ) give us a religion ol detail; bat is satisfied to infix | Into the wind certain general principles, obedience to which insures success for this world and salva- tion in the world tocome, He leaves, then,to our | own option and jnagment the privuege and re- | spousidility of adapting those genera! principles to every given experience, and wo every peculiar emergency through which we may be called upon | to piss. “The story which | want to relate to-you | this morning is one of the most dramatic con- | tained im the records of the Heorew people—so | dramatic that eveu the cnild delights to read tt, | ana every tiougutiui man 18 startied into wender | at its significance and tuns off into revery con- | | cerning that mysterious providence Which cares visibly to help us out of the mire wuen we eal! upon Aim, and which writes upon the wall of | | life with flery Gager cae doom of evil tainking and of evil acting. Beisnasz the grandson of T, He was born to the throne and | His power Was unlimited. A nod, even | moment, ited & | | Peasant toa nigh position, and a irown, even though It were tne pussing anger of an tnetant, dragzed, a chancellor down to the very dust, Tho opie Of israel Were his slaves. They vad served tin Ever since he ascended the throne and roped himself in purp ‘They been taken cap- tive by Nebuchadnezzar and were restess under thew serviinde and iifted up ther | hands at every Sabvath day to that Jenovan tat had rescued them /roim slavery once, but who Dow seemed +o wrathiui with them that He would leave | them with their chains for ever, few days before the incident which Daniel relates an enemy, countless in number, had poured irom the north- ts like an avalanche, and surrounding the The peopie of Babylon ‘hey curied the hair, they ¥ rode upow prancing steeds But for some reason, un- & day or two be- | ad broken ranks | gave the signal of the retreat of the foe and the the Chaideans, slain’’—and said :—To every careful | The Old Testament | CHUROH OF OUR SAVIOUR. The True Revelation of God—Sermon by Professor Cole, of St, Lawrence Uni- versity. There was but a very slim congregation at the Church of our Saviour (Sixth Universalist Society). in Fifty-seventh street, near Eighth avenue, yes- terday morning. ‘The pastor, Rev. Dr. Pullman, being away on his vacation, Professor Cole, of St. Lawrence University, preached the sermon. He | vook his text trom John, Xiv, 8—“Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.” Jesus had said in one of His inimitable dis- courses, that He Himself was the true repre- sentative of God. Philip had asked to be shown the Fatver. man to see a visible work of divine glory, Man must have a God, and so the nations of the earth had peopied fountains and grovtos with gods. But | all the leaders of the ancient nations felt the de- sire for a better and a higher revelation, Even the Jews nad felt this craving, and cried, “Show us the Father and we shall be satisfied?” And what was the true idea of tne Father? An infinity with @ ,OViug ueart; One Who so loved to see man an- elic that he would not let him go antil he haa rough: him into that glorions relation. The word meant all that they anderstood by the word “satuer” on tts earth—love, kindness, teaderness, all those qualities which threw a halo ROUND THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE, The reverend preactier then pictured the immor- tal and suviime qualities of man. He penetrated | the starry depths and aspired even to kuow the very thougnt of God. Which was the satisfactory theory of the universe? Which was the satis{ac- tory idea of God? Let one look up at the gititering stars, and could any one sup- se that they were indiscriminately throwo to = their = orbits) =by a blind power? No, the very thot ht was an insalt. Every creas tion of Gou nad a enevolent desizn, the light that | luminous wisdom—this was the satisfactory ex- | planation of the provlem. What was the signifi- cance of the !act that obedience to the principle | of righteousness tanght by God always insured | permanence and success to a nation or an indi- vidual? It showed that God had created this | world to bless the rationa! beings who inherited it. The idea of the loving, benevolent Father was the only one which could satisfy @ rational soul, There was a tender and weak side oj human na- ture. There were times when the blood would | not bound with life-giving strength tn their veins. Thouga their lives were, perhaps, histories of proud conquests, thougit men’s achievements were won- boda to concemplate, human ille bore, neverthe- 1esa, AN ASPECT OF PROFOUND PATHOS, He found no sympathy upon the earth or in the Sky; trials and temptations beset him, and he felt | like'a child who Kuows tuat it must be guided by | @better and a stronger haud. The old sto1es be- lieved that men must bear adamantine lives; but even they could not overcome the strong. feeling of ; dependence; and unless this sentiment entered fully into their hearts they could never fully ap- reciate the Joving word of God, Out of this teel- ing bad come the rich stream of charity, pouring | through ail Christendom, revivifying and bringing } Joy to every soul, It was for them to carry forward | the Work of Jove and charity and to save human \ pele This was the per.ect revélation of God and (is mesaage to men. Biesse@ be God for this | great re’ velation. | “Shew ug the Father and we shall be satisfed;” | but let them exclaim, "We have seen the Fauner and we are satisfied” THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL'S PARISH, BROOKLYN, 5. D, The thirtieth anniversary of Saints Peter and tion of the present church, Was celebrated yesier- day in Brooklyn, K D. The church is bemg, to use the words of the veneravle pastor, “rejuve- nated,” and is expected to iast for twenty-six years more. There was a very large assemblage of the old residents of Williamsburg, as they Knew Father Majone was to speak of yeaps long past. The Rev. Father Gallagher was celebrant, Key. J, Woods, deacon, and Rev. L. Gerrin, subdeacou, The mnsic and ceremonies were, as usual, of the first order. The reverend Pather spoxe substan- tally a8 follows:—The Catholic Chureh 1s an un- conqneradle strongiiold, an impregnable tortress, against which mnititudes of enemies on all sides have raged im vain, Belug the Churen of Chrisé Peter its head“and endowed tim with the same Charch herself, The Hely Spirit has a real in- dwelling in the Church, and speaka with a living voice to mankind through the Po who is Christ's representative on earth. winds may biow and the rains may fail, the floods may come and all may beat against the edifice of the Catholic Church, but if falls not, tor it is built on @ rock—that 1s, on Peter, the Holy Father, the Pope of Rome. Look at rmany to The day, with: ite 15,000,000 of Catholics and ali the “ation which But | | blessings of truth, grace and ci foliow in the Wake of the Catholic Church. the goveruiment persecutes and endesvors to tear away from the Catholic German heart the faith of Christ. Why 80? Because the Catholies of Ger many dare state the truth, {s this jair from an American standpoint? Is Protestantism? If #0, have Knowu Protestants to be betier than this Rel. 1,000 01 13 Nobies and i grew higher aud | until at las! Ch pped the climax by welding lus servants lor (hose conseyrated orga. | thered SuaAcZar g together Protestantisin, the men to be better than their 1e- ligion, and that tnere is not one ina hundred in this free land of America who does not agree with ine, The persecution of the Caur the German government shal; come to Rough) ee hat kings | experiences | lt had always been the craving of sboue upon the earth was an emblem of His own | It was not ior them to say :— | Paul’s parish, and the twenty-sixth of the founda: ' it shall cougner all its enemies, for Christ made | infallibility as that with which He graced the | and | | did that of old pagan Rome, If the Charch in her infancy subdued the might of Rome, how much more $0 shail she that of Germany, with the pres- tge of the past and the present in her hands? | Austria and other European countries pre- | Sent much the same condition as Germany; but ; here in America matters are otherwise, because | America 18 the hoine of free conscience. ye therefore cool and catm with ail those outside the Chareh and be comforted and encouraged tn our own dear jand, Even in Europe civuization and intelligence will wipe persecution away, and his- tory will set down the author of the German per. secution asa Nero. Walking with the Churen you will observe the destiny whch God has marked | out for you, and being ‘giited with the fulness of Catholic truth you will triumpb and have glory in the magnificent attributes of tue Catholic Charch, Well may we rejoice to-day in the privileges of the great Cathohe Church, for itis the anniversary of our own Churet bere in Williamsburg. Thirty | years ago there were but 400 Catholics tu this dis- trict and two churches—one for the Germans and the other lor tbe Englisi-speaking peovle. The | faithful, true, zealous and indeiatigabie Father Well did he do his: work and long may tis name be tn benediction. Young tn years and iresn irom the seuwinary, | was charged with (ne respo sibility of this parish. There was great poverty, the Catholics were few and_itriendiess, aud remember tuat | walked six blocks every morning tocelebrate mass. Be.ore my time Father O'Don- nell omiclated from St. Paul's, At the commence- ment, alter ali my labor and alter exhausting all resources, I secured $1,300 with which to begin this chureh, Mr, Wiiltam Lake, Who Was the most prominent Catholic, and myself, Who was the first resident pastor, invested as best we could, This is the fist church ouit by sr, Kiely, and has been the harbinger of nearly 400 magnificent temples in these United States erected oy that distinguished architect, We started tn the spring of 1s47, aud when I was asked by Bisho» Hughes what should be its name, [ named it afrer the great aposties St. Peter and St. Paul, The corner stone was lant by Archbishop Hagies (then Bishop), in the presence of a vast concourse Of peop.e, composed princi- ally of Protestants, Now {can state that since the jaying of the corner stave (o this time L do not remember one Who bas personally insulted ie. In the Catholic Altimanac I counted wenty-five churches Wwituim the — Mmits. originall assigned to me by the late lamente ubishop Hughes. he last of these is the Charch of St. Sylvester, which has been contided to the care ol my late zealous assistant, Father F gan. | would feel ashamed | to recount to you thy trying terrible Javors I have undergone, I needed patience and inward grace and the spirit of the priest!y 1¢ priestly lie isa life of sacrifice, tor ti. 2 f ust love you | unto santification, and must uk Ol the ‘init and ther. wise his life as a priest would oe ahe vetore God and a hypocrisy before man. {here wonld be neither Mantiood without grace nor grace without manhood, We are, as you see, again rejuvenating , ts church so that It shall lust at least thirty years more. We may be gone, bat God will know us. Let usin our ume do good to all mankind. Let us do good every day Of our existence, Let us do good belore God, Let thir.y years more of use- juluess be added to our lives. “Let us worship our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in spirtt and truth and usefulness and we shail live with Yim forever and lorever. COLLEGIATE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH. Dr. Ludlow on National Danger and True Liberty. | The Rey. Dr. J. M. Ludiow preached yesterday | Morning in the Reformed church, Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street, toa very thin congrega tion. He selected his text from Galatians, v., 1— “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith. Christ hath made us free.’ | suppose our thoughts this morning are more or less confused with the noisy patriotism of yesterday. It would be almost useless to invite some of my audience to a half hour's meditation of a purely spiritual faith, 1 pro- pose to economize the prevatling sentiment, and ' speak of afew soleuin thoughts that the nationat | sentiment has developed. We have been gloritying | ourindependeuce. We have begun in this country a new order o/ things, and because of our wisdom and energy liberty is to be the ruling power ‘ throughout the world, andyet those among us Who: | are at all read in history will dnd that there never was an age when the haman veart did not aspire > be free as now; never an age when men did not make as noble sacrifices a8 now; never an age when these did nol inees with some success, But alas! there has been a deeper motive at work ;. there Was never a tiie when people dida't try to enslave others, spirit of tyranny has been. strengthened; at any moment our constituuon may be battered away, a8 was the ojd Roman Re~ ublic, Tne endunog forma of goverlinent have been, as a rule, the most despotic, the | weakest have been the freest. The Republic of Rome eXisted in nate only about 500 years, It really existed Jess than hali that time; ‘and since the inatitution of Christianity, which marked tac, decline of Kome, there has nardly been @ iree- gov ernment that attracted the attention of men ex. cept our own. ne despotic imstiiutions of men, have been tue most endarig; you can hardly tel: when some of them beg: One iamuly of the Ottoman Empire is entering on its seven hun- dredth year. The lover o! republican Institutions ig made solema When he notices that the SYMPTOMS OF DISsULUTION in the old Republic ure being exactly reneated, even so early witu ourselves, We are young as a eople and yet have tue diseases Which marked the st stages Of the degeneracy of Rome. Seli-ag- grandizement was the ouly thought uuring the last days of Rome, and it is the deadly mark of our times. Rome Was diviae 1 among just such ring# as are being contmually tormed th our country. | Let me cite an isiance. There was a youn, prod’gate poliuician who was notoriously guilty o a crime which tinges the chees of polite society. He was brought to triai and every point was de- cided at once in favor ot the prosecution, The case went to the jury and the verdict was ‘not guilty.’ Why? Because the defendant was Clau- dius, the James Fisk, Jr., oi that day. Perhaps an Ulustration o/ the sense of justice would be re- Iresming. One of the old Persian rings passed a Jaw that the tanned skins 0; all the judges who had taken bribes snouid cover (he chair of Justice. aIGNs OF DECAY. | . Another sign Oj dissolution in the old times was that men of Virtue in power were compelied to make use of men of vice, aud such men as Clandius were the tools of tie leaders of both parties fn the State till they became masters of both, just as was done three yeors ago in this city—just as to-day we are told that no party can succeed in the plain | Dame of principle; we must use policy, Another thing which ened the evil day in the old Ke- public was the unsettled state of jaws. The laws Were once regarded as sometoing permanent, but in tae last days of Che Republic the laws were sub- ject to tie whims of each new party, each Jegisiator regarding himseif, not a3 @ custodian, dui a maker of laws. | Law was but au expression of the policy of the Teigning power. it las been regarded by law- makers a8 ove o! the frst principles of satety that | laws must not be changed. Whon Solon drew up | the code of laws ‘or the Athenians he made the eople take au oatii that for ten years not a sing! law snould be changed, and then exiled himself jor ten years, 80 taut he might not be tempted to change them. Lycurgas did the same thing. | Leave laws alone tli tor the pubde safety you must change them. People are losing all respect for 1aw and they care lite for legislation except as it adfects themscives, Another jeature that marked the decline of the Repubitc was the forma- tion of associations of trade unions, I think there is something like that in tue air to-day. Again, while the philosophers lauded the virtues the,sdme as ever the people began to parade un- Uiushingly the vices, they became to be calied not vices, bat irveguiarities, Another feature, re- { ligion, even such as they had—religion of senti- | mental mychology—began to lose its hold ou the people. } TBE ADVENT OF THB EMPIRE. | _ Now, take it all ia ad, fcontess know of no page of history so near like what we are to lay as when | the sun Of repuviican government went down be- d the seven nills of Rome to rise in the splendor of imperialism. Such crvil freedom as we have to- day ta @ Very strauge thing. I believe the ultra democratic will ve the final form of government jor the World, Kings do not reign by tne grace of God. (Te 1a diferent with the idea Of republican- ism; Tt ts bibuica:, When Moses read the iaws te the people caey said, What the Lord hath sat we will do. That was tue Ireest election ever made. 80 as this was the original orm of government, so +L thtuk it Will be toe final, Mut the return to that form of governuient will be very slow, beset with difficulties; it will come not in wnswer t) the ery of itberty. In our relief trom the tre Mendous power of the priestly class to-day, Which is Importiag irom the Vatican, the arsenal 0: Rome, the old shackles which are of fo mor use there. It will come, but b¥ no Kind Of legisla tion. You cannot make republican iiberty by mere law, Laws ave Lue expression of the masses of the people. [i will come only when the grand pottics inangurated by the GREATEST STATESMAN we have ever seen find { say it reverentiy), our Lord Jesus Christ, shall be tmplicitly tollowed— namely, that every man shall obey the highest in- stinct of virtue in himseil, rectily his own lite and become a jaw to himself, and guard against toe insringement of hts neighbor's rights by brotherly love, then bind ali i One Compact party, ai! having one Will, the REVEALED WILL OF GOD, Christ taught thut you must regenerate the heart life first, then you can hope to have some permanent freedom and happloess, We bave turned away irom We teachings of Christ and | tried sad experiments for republicanism, which js | not Christian in the deepest wand brouaest sense, that it roots itself in the hearts of vhe people, tx simply a tree planted in a desert, ana the hol and arid breath of our passions will burn ont the lite ‘of that tree. Ib makes little difference to you and me unde what form of government we lead this earthly lis the great liberty after ail is hot that whicn States confer, 16 18 the liberty of the heart Ue. There i no such tyranay as that shown by the rule of our bad passion’ over us. \Where the spirit of me ord ig chere is liberty, liberty lear, Irom lust, from sorrow, oy [uth in the ' This 19 berty. There ts no ot On, that today might dence for every one! Oh, that ty w resointion fo siand ‘at eWwiih Christ bas made Us free r real indepen pr witness tha) liberty ay a iy |