The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1874, Page 8

8 SUNDAY SERMONS, —_—-—— Dr. McGlynn and the Philosophy and Poetry of the Confessional. eat of my blood body—“This do in remem- brance of me.”” es ALL 8OULS' PROTESTANT- EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN. ———— Opening Services—Sermon By Rev. | George Porteous on the Coming of | Jesus Christ to the World. The opening services of this church, formerly | | the Congregational church, were well attended yesterday, both morning and evening. The Rey. Dr. Porteous occupied the platform, in full canonical robes, and conducted the sligltly altered | Episcopal service in bis usual impreasive manner. ‘The text selected was Irom the eleventh chapter of St, Mark's Gospet, the first vo the tenth versa, | inclusive, “And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, | unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sendeth forward two of His disciples, and saith unto them, go yo: : way into the village over against you, and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall fina a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him and bring him, and If any man way unto you, Why do ye ‘his! sav ye that the Lord hath need of bim, and straightway he will sena him hither, Aud they went their way, and | found the colt tled by the door without in a piace where two ways met, and they loosed him. Rev. R. S. Macarthur and Liberal Christians. Services at the Reopening of the Brick Church. Robinson and the Loveli- | ness of Christ. Dr. Yesterday's Services at the Sea Cliff ing. And certain of them that stood there sad | yp asto what 18 the Gospel which 1s absolutely |...) Camp Meeting: unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? | essential both to the spirit of our character and | Charge of their duties in the sacred tribunal of And they said nto them even as Jesus | the model of our lives. The Doctor said he sh‘uld | penance are brought into such intimate ac- had commanded, and they letthem go, And they | pass over many things he had noted to gay, a3 this quaintance with the sins and woes of humanity, PLYMOUTH CHUROH. brought the colt'to Jesus aud cast their garments | Was the day of Holy Communion. Conflae him- | ¢..¢ ne should say anything at all upon the poetry i sponte. upon him; and he got upon him. And many | self to three of the doctrines of the Gospel. A | tH y anything P Christ’s Loneliness as Applied by Dr. | yiyoad their garments m the way, and others cut | doctrine he defined to be that teachings which wo | of the subject, But, argued the speaker, there is Robinson. | down braucnes of 4 res =< Hinge A tnd ty - soot | he ln Sells gar athe a divine poetry in that sacred tribunal, for what- a] | the way. And they that went before an ver ie At Z J be i « During Mr. Beccher’s summer vacation the | fC Wal: olsg wiring: HosanDu; blessed ia he] against preaching doctrines. is” absurd. in | eYeT things are supremely true are supremely | Orange street meeting Louse 1s undergoing the | that cometh in the name of the Lord; blessed be | physical and mental and social scienco | beautiful. What else 19 poetry but the Analagoas to that chaotic ; the. kingdom of our father David, that cometh tn | the name of the Lord; Hosanna tn the highest!’ The Doctor said that Jesus Christ, when He came to the world, was totally misunderstood. There Were some of His own countrymen who recognized Him as the Messiai; to them He was Lord and Master; but to the ideas of the Pharisees and un- | believing Hebrews His doctrines and teachings | Were antagouistic. They wanted One who would narrow the boundaries of their so-called religion, Process of renovation. condition into which our care!ul housewives throw their homes at {frequent intervals of misery, tts carpets are up, its seats uncushioned, Carpen- | ters, painters, upholsterers and scrubbing women | hold tt by thetr power to make it untenable by all | else through uncomfortable measures by which they propose at length to make it the more enjoy- y > able. : So what is left of the Plymouth flock—the | Se rg Pa dee ie aoe ite home guard, Who are satistied with tue salt breezes | rant people and distribute “iread aud’ words | of tho Heights and prefer their own homes to the ened, a eo oy ine) OG Ba one narrow quarters of the summer boarding houses, | §x;gctod, Iie was not the Messiah they wished for, | or the unfortunates whose dally duties do | and so they were offended and turned their backs not admit of a vacation or a prolonged | againet Him and vor His enemies, No doctrine ie i 4. labor. ; Could have been morg offensive to these people Absence from accustomed labor—meet for Wor- | than the one He preaowed—the equaiity of man; ship in the large lecture room. Here yester- | this grand doctrine ea been hinted at ana ab com- | prociaimed in whispe but no.man had ever Gay they came in numbers suilicient to COM: | Perore dared to give 1t Bold utterance and preach fortably fill tts benches and some of the seats in | i, It was the first seed sown towards overthrow- the adjacent parlors. Among the worshippers ing the philosophy of ws _ ol CA ae | f e pr em. | World. ie knew that what He said would often Boorse: vdcvaseldathce ake ira ep ebae arth Bret His countrymen end strike the heathen Hebrews bers of the cliurct; most of the remainder being | jn the teeth, thoroiore he sald, “Blessed are the from the regular atiendants, only a very few | pure in rer hty — Eira oy Rene a » ! men who sia! not ve offended tn me.” Chris strangers being present. No crowd thronged the | Yocw that His preaching would be an offence, but doora, standing patiently waiting for seats, aA’ | He did not blame those who were offended because | when the magnetism of the pastor's eloquence at- | MS. a He) yas poaiioe Be; [es ad of | . | but His doc i i tracts the multitudes, Those present appeared | Ws aimost necessary that chey should be offended devout and attentive. Dr. Robinson, of Troy, | at Him. Until there comes some other man who occupied the platform, and when he prayed with can do better deeds than He did Christ ia and will tervent petitions that the beloved shepherd mignt , D¢ the Messtan of the living God. emerge quickly from the cloud of chastisement or | trial Which now envelops him and be disclosed | BEOPENING OF THE BRICK CHURCH. again in tocreased radiance and with redoubled | The Prayer for SelfKnowledge—Sermon | power for good, the whole congregation evidently | by Rev. James A. Murray. | attered a silent amen. Mr. Camp was at his post; The Brick church (Presbyterian), at the corner Pp conducting _ musical ieebonge rol the pectiee. | of Fifth avenue and Thirty-seyenth street, was re- | with the grand piano in place of ihe organ, Miss vin v aye Lasar, too, the leading soprano singer, was in | Opened mor yiaiaeed eaters dbrabeneead ee pas 904 Voice ; SO that the psaim singing, iu which all | {ug been closed during the pi + pas- joined, though lacking oe volume a the very tor, Rev. James A. Murray, announced that the | voices which sweil the chorus Of the usual Plym- | 4», nid be open on Sundsy mornings durin; nth service, was beart “ ’ chureh woul 1p 9 Ciietration,? “aS DeATHy and notlacking in masical |) onth of August, and that he himself would Dr. Kovinson chose for his text Matthew, xiv., | occupy the pulpit. The congregation, of course, 25—“And When the evening was cume he WAS was yery slim as compared to the tarongs of wor- | ‘| shippers who generally crowd this edifice during | there alove.” ihe life of Christ presents an in- | Mnite unity, Itis rounded to perlection. N. raliats teil us nothing in nature 1s perfect. The | the wiuter, although it was not small for a sum- deat of the plant, the bone of the anima! give us | pop congregation. The reverend preacher took hints of tne pian on which they were organized; “ pe ihe broken ate indicates the dimensions of tne | for his text Psalm cxxxix., 3-24—“Search me, In the course of completed circle, All things in the outer world | © God, aud know my heart,” &c. are narra with the traces Or imperfection. But | nis brief remarks he said. there was scarcely a he life of C! SI perfect. one Can reas ne His history without the idea of His loneliness. | spiritual craving of the soul which wag not fully | Like the Loh pegs betaeidsoy gene i rghogel ae satisfied by the Psalma. Although t., Ohristian air rather than seems to reside in itseit, His whole lite tells us a story of a lonely existence. In the Caureh founa itself now in very diferent and text We see a most alfecting scene. He had sent | strange surroundings the prayers of David were | fault of the priests so much as of the people, Inany things are received by us on authority, and help to shape our lives before we can compre- hend their demonstration, religion, powertul influence over us, 1s the doctrine of -uni- versal Sopra, ity. | depraved, | “winged things."’ for them, we are working in and for eternity. whole church, on the heart of each of whose mem- Saviour and the Church. He thanks (od he ts no Minister, Ali gooa men say Amen! (General as- senting murmur, almost rising to applat Ww do not desire him as a witness, THE APOSTLE OF LIBBRAL CH ANITY. Tn this new system loose ideas of morality and loose interpretations of the Scriptures have found apostics in both these men, If these ctouds of modern philosophy meet and clash it ts ali to the glory of Jesus. God 18 not dependont on the advo- cacy Of any such men or any number of them, and the assumption, too prevalent tn the preas and on the platiorm, that Ciristianity must suffer from the presont complication 18 almogt too absurd to re- quire a protest. ‘The sermon concluded with a pointed application to the audience as to the kind of testimony they handful of Christians In Philippi, “Only let your conversation be as tt becometh the Gospel of Christ.” Just as if he had said:—Brethren, it is a good thing to have @fiae churon if it 18 paid for and an eloquent pastor if he be holy, but all your frokitecture, and painting, and preaching, and | rich membership will be absolutely worthless up- | less the members of the church live as it becometi | the Gospel of Christ. The tendency of the Church ts to roll the whole work on the pastors. This is the way peop!e become priestridden. It ts not the Men are anxious to have Some One do all the praying | and holy living for them. They are willing to pay | for it liberally. They want a through ticket to | heaven and are willing to pay a little more for a | wag ina sleeping car. brethren, put these ideas | m you. H you want to build up this warning to be careful when they find thomselves in jashiouabie watering places, where many of them are going ta the course of the week, A col- lection Was thén taken up and the communion ad- church or apy other church to which you ; ministered, belong there % but one. way only let, your i piper — i conversation be a3 become e spel. , " ‘BEMONT. That means two things—First, that this 1s | OSEPH'S OHUROH, TBS all that is reanired for success, and then that is ab- solutely essential, The only way in which we can | demonstrate the truth of the Gospel is by mani- | Philosophy and Pociry of the Confes- sional, by Dr. McGlynn, fosting its transforming effects in our lives, and | Rev. Dr, MoGlynn, pastor of St. Stephen's ee ae oon a mA gre Co gocure 1t3 | chureb, lectured last evening in St. Joseph's advantages. What does Paul mean by “Conversa- | oyyren. 7, jal aie ae > tion’ This English word hada larger meaning church, Tremont, on the “Philosophy and Poetry whon our Bible was translated, It meant not only | Of the Confessional.” The lecturer, in the com- whee cay freee, eres +g et | mencement, said that he should have more to say Carried on. It really tmeang a man's character, | UPON the philosophy than upon the poetry of the what he is; and & Man's actions, what he says | Confessional. It might seem strange to some of and does to his fellows. Then the question comes | pis ministerial brethren, who, in the daily dis- truth presented in the beautiful? The truth must ever carry with it a poetic charm when presented with the beatitiful. Tho confossional 1a a divine institution, Itis very sad, therefore, to see how it is misunderstood and cven reviled by some who profess to love the Saviour. Our Divine Redeemer did not alone consider it sufficient to come into the world and die, and thus make a sacrifice for the gins of the world, but Ho also instituted a priestly ministry by whieh to apply to individual hearts the graces He purchased for them by shed- ding His blood on the cross on Calvary. By the eneficence of Wis grace He pardonea one of the thieves upon the cross who ¢x- pressed true contrition for his many sins, while He leit his companion to reprobation. One it should bo so in The first doctrine, which should have Mark, I do not say total depray- Tset that aside to-day to hold your attention to the faci taat the Gospel teaches that ali men are All apostles, martyrs, preachers, women, children, however gified, beautiiul, aspir- ing and charming. God teaches that. However bitter the fact the announcement should be wel. come because it prepares the way for our salva- tion. The effect of this doctrine should be to break | down our pride, Jt ought to set us to work to find the way of salvation. It ought to lead us to spend our strength and means in promoting the moral cniture of others, Schools are good, but the world | must be taught that intellectual culture docs not secure spiritual elevation, which 1s ehown by the fact that among the most cuitivated people we may find the most abandoned, the most learful crimes being committed by those whose calture is great- est. Christians must live high, manly, pure, splr. itual lives. Inthe next place tuere 1s the doc. trine of the atonement —_ We will not discuss that scholasticaliy. sut the Gospel teaches that somehow | Jesus Christ aied, the just for the unjust, to bring | men unto God, and in doing this tastea death tor see’s table, a woman, who was a sinner. Ho vin- dicated His right to admit her to His presence, and declared that because she had loved Him much her maay sins were forgiven. This was the every man. Whatever this means 1t represents | Philosophy of the tribunal of ponance. He said to the Son of God as draming the very dregs trom the | the palsied man, ‘Son, be Of good chee"; thy sins gobiet of human destiny and returning 1t to men filled with the waters of life everlasting. The glory of every man and woman—oi that crowned emperor and that sable slave—is that Jesus died | are torgiven thee.” The Scribes and Pharisees hearing this said, “This man blasphemeth! Who oan forgive sins but God alone ?”’ Jesus, perceiving their Moughis, said, “Whether tt is easier to say, y ° Lik rere nyt eutennec wad cone ee : Be. | ‘Thy sins be forgl¥en thee,’ or to say. ‘Riso up Ougit to treat my tcllow men? As people for | 82 walk ;’ but that ye may know the 5on uf Man Whom the blessed Christ as died. ‘Tiere 1s no | lath power upon earth to forgive sins (Ho saith unto the sick of the palsy), 1 say unto tnee. ‘Arise, and take up thy couch and go into thine house.’ '" Hits enemies said that God alone could forgive sins. Jesus worked the miracle to deny what they as- serted that He blasphemed when He claimed worthless man. There mast be no abandoned woman. The whole itfe of Christendom must be as becometh the Gospel, which teaches that every man ts part and parcel of the great atonement. Lastly, the doctrine of the indestructibility of the 4 ry the power to forgive ins. They human soul was stated, It cannot be destroyed, to forgive fins. r re 7 hemed when the; denied that | Works of art and strength will perish, but the soul fi ane TeIott i Nes, Nag is the asbestos which defies the fires of eternity. We shall never perish. The Greeks called words | They fly and drop into the in- destructible soli of the soul and reproduce them- selves indefinitely and jorever. How inspiring, yet awiul, 1s this doctrine, We shall live forever. ‘We have immortality to ripen our work, Our fel- low men are io live forever. Working in them mo | Pharisees were right ‘In saying that God alone, as the efficient canse, can forgive sins. Because He is God, and has the right to choose the instrament by which He will bestow the grades of pardon tor sins, thereiore it is that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. It was a ot Christ's ministry to apply to individual cases the pardon for sins, and He gave to others the ? r to do what He himeelt had done. The 56 ‘ospel exert. . | pv dy ministry tuat He began was to continue in ee cower, mush grow. happier and srongen RRS EG ua aae Srna | oy 4 wd ch mi 38 0 pet aire tie A aD ay Ce ying sins, After our Saviour’s cracifixion His cometh the Gospel? CALVARY BAPTIST CHUROH. sciples were gathered together in an upper room, the doors being closed for fear oi the Jews, when Jesus raised from tbe dead, appeared tn their | midst, He saluted them with the salutation of Rev. R. 8. Macarthur on the Question peace. He snowed them the wounds in His hands of the Hour—Arraignment of “Liberal” | and iis side, the triumpn over death, by means of which He was able to bring them to heaven. And He sald to them, ‘as tne Fathor hath sent Me, I also send you.’ By the same | anthority and commission He sent them to do Christians—The Quarreliing Apostles of Modern Philosophy and Their In- *'pnifleance, ) 'e The ovher party ts | bear how and mean to bear in the future, and a | day there came to Christ, as He sat at the Phart- | art ol the work | away His disciples. He was there on the moun- tain alone with the stars, Alone, yet not aione— | for He communed there with the Pather, | hen He spoke to the multitude, try- ing to lt them up into a spiritual liie, | He stood alone. In the figurative language of Elijah, “He trod the wine press alone.” He walked alone as He went on His way to Jerusa- | jem to face death, alone in advance of His diacipiles. n Getasemane lie stood alone. His disciples could watch and weep no longer. Nature asserted itself. They fell asleep and He stood there alone con- templating His near sacrifice to save man. In the stili dear to every Christian heart. Psalm might well be called the Psalm of omnisci- ence, and it suggested the examination and study | of one’s own heart, Men would frequentiy. study and kuow cther natare: their own. The 139th when they scarcely knew Passionate men thought THEY WERE ONLY SOMEWHAT IRRITABLE, and sensuous meno thought they were only fund of enjoyment. | depravea tendencies within them. men measure tiese teneencies and come tu a fall consciousness of their fauits? Men did not know the strength of the How could Some men shrunk Pretorium He was alone to endure the mockery of | from introspectiou—from prying into the emotions Qtrial. His chosen disciples had deserted and de- nied Him. Gustave Doré pictares Him bearing the | Cross alone, His tollowers the jeering rabble. Hi ausciples had fallen away ashamed or afraid. In | of their soul-. tne complex nature of human feelings, His | Psalm opened a way for redemption, ana David could teach men how toarrive at the knowledge of | ‘The soul was also olten bafited by But this all His nature He was alone tn spotless perfection, | tne atvine law and of their own minds, B lamb without biemish. Satan in the temptation | Most men would freely coniess that most of their jound in Him no flaw. When the sinning woman | goodness was simply a consequence of favorable ‘Was brought before Him, His purity sarunk irom penalty without justice. He stooped to write on the ground and silently judged the whole accusing crowd, who shrunk trom His purity. His words and thoughts and life always made him alone. He suffered to save, not Mis friends, but the gulity. His mother and brethren did not understand His circumstan, “every man had his price; but this theory was an imputation upon the dignity of human nature, ‘fhe other theory maintained that calture of the mind was tie only Way togoodness. But the ex- rience of eighteen centuries had shown that barbarism oO! the ueart couid coexist with culture Considering the season there was quite a large audience yesterday forenoon at Calvary bapust church, in Twenty-third street, between Fifth and | Sixth avenues. Some plain speaking was evi- | dently expected from the pastor, Rev. R. S. Mac- | arthur, and he spoke plain beyond @ peradven- ture. In the “long prayer’ he prayed for purity, | that we might avoid even the appearance of evil, aud that pastors shoald not only not neglect to teach the commandments, but should be prevented teaching people to break them by their bad | example. The church will, it was announced, re- main closed till the first Sunday in September, THR SERMON. The reverend gentleman preached extempore. the forty-tnird chapter of Isaiau—“ Ye are my wit- nesses, saith the Lord’? These words, sald the preacher, have a local significance and applica- uop, which need not be considered now, and con- | tain a general truth of universal application, | a wo | the Holy Ghost. | ¢ irom part of the tenth verse of | Committed To be sure, there was the rule that | er el ate , 7 ends the very same work as that which He performed when He cured the man aofMicted with palsy, But it was not enough to remind them of His world. Efe! agg in order to prepare theie for so sacred . He prepared their hearts forit. To the Son of Man was given @ power which was ratified in heaven. He must assist by mere sons of men, chosen ow! sacred in all the world, tn all ages, to the end of time. Who are these men? Priests of God, priests of the eternal priesthood of the order of Meichise- dec. What does He do? With mysterious rite He consecrates them to His work. He breathes upon them, imparts to them @ portion of His spirit—God He say ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them, and whosdever sing ye retain they are retained.” Christ has sent a ilving, speaking, teaching Church, and has not His teachings to a mere dead book. This living witness—Hia Chureh—is to teach all truth, and in the nineteenth century she teaches the nations, as in the first century, that the grace 01 salvation 1s to be bestowed upon some, and withheld jrom others. The priest of the Church sits in the tribunal of penance to ren- der judgment. By the very nature of the case tne consecration these | trom the common | | herd of men, and embalm them and make them beyhood. How lovingly He laid fis hands on tir he would bless, How He took Jonn to be His be- loved disctple. He was willing to be lifted up on the cross to draw men to the higher life. of the intellect, Let them look at the ancient Greeks, who united knowledge of sublime art and | philosophy to tue Gos BARDARISM OF THE HEART. | a So, all men who think and who attempt tolivea There wa: no doubt that worsbip of hnman berrer Iie wilt at many times find themselves goodness de} don outward dross, Adversity gione. The loneliness o! our Lord on earth must completely crushed it very frequently. Piety had Ineet our loneliness. 1 believe in the communion too much the character of the Vines depending on i the saints; but these are thoughts and feelings . ad the strength of the treilis, 7 } | openly manifested in men and women. ‘There 1s 7 which we cannot share with any but God. Weare | rj oat concern 0) penly jai . by His representative, and invites all men to Bione with Him in the coset, alone with PED Rea oMWere potatin quatealeres | nothing in Christianity that requires secrecy. Its | come to Him and receive consolation, and let the | Him in the crowded street, when We versions of conscience prevailed to a greatextent | principles and practice are all avoveboard, When | light of His countenance fal! in biessing upon exercise the prayerful spirit which needs no ut- jn these modern times, Any couscience was | our Saylour was asked, as recorded in St. Luke, | t2¢™ The confessional is the place where | terance. We are 2lone im sorrow—alone in death. really perverted which was turned irom lis direct by Jonn the Baptist § ne | Christ the physician wil, in the person The dying man hears voices we bearnot; sees | courve in forming a decision on tue many cases of Where dwellest thou?” he replied, “Come and ses! of ; Hi* representative, admimister to Bick beckoning bands when we see nothing. So it will | casuistry arising everyday in life. The constant ‘Phis is tue severest test, and it is the Christian's, and wounded souls the healing they need; be with us all. We must go into the valley alone— | trouble was tlat meu did Hot see the blemishes of | Addison invited his friends to come and see how @ the place where the or Magdalen and alone? No, it need not be. We may have the companionship and support of the Saviour, who has trod the dark road bejore us. He died that no tan migut need to say, ‘My God, I am lorsaken."” CHURCH OF THE MEDIATOR, Dr. Thomas F. Cornell on the their character. A wanton debauchee, it must also be inferred, was sometimes more easily touched than a habitually callous Christian, Were there not multitudes of Christians who came reg- | ularly to church every Sabbath and yet had not | recaived the diviue grace in their hearts? Was | this not truc? There were very many persons who were uocon- scions of the impediments to Christian yirtue Rev. Communion. which where secretly developing in their charnc- The services at the Church of the Mediator, ters. The Bible had a great deal to say about the deceitiuiness of sin, Consciousness of the sin was Ner of Jetterson street and Ormond place, lyn, yesterday morning, were of the solemn char- acter demanded oy the celebration of the Lord’s Enpper, it veing the first Sunday tn the month and the frst celebration by the newly appointed rector. The new embelii chaste and pretty; all the appointme frosh and new look, The beautiful wainut altar, with ts dark blue background, was relieved by a NOT NECESSARY IN MAKING SIN. Men came pee to sin without being con- scious of it, and this was the point of greatest peril, The sin was bad enongh, but its hidden se- | Crecy was the worst part of tt. How solemnly was this prayer foreed on their lips! Such prayer for seli-kiowiedge was one of the best tests of character. When they offered prayer to God they ought to weigh what conse- ences the ‘answer might tnvolye. The means nh God might take to search thetr hearts by liction and temptation were awiul to contem- plate. Adversity, what @ powerful revealer of iments of this ¢ ‘the searching which God ( give in answer to the text would also he a display in ail the richness of nature's coloring; fmman character !t was! Perhaps the search of ns are com | ashamed to confess ourselves before Him, for He | yi i r nt witnesses of the power of @ grace $ vere! ° the violets, ilies, roses und caielias, és aiso was tueir hearts wouid be attended with sorrow and | gnabic us to do and to 8 fer ior Jesus, fom se. Fare sald te wonidenmoe be amoele oo chi w ie the font filed and running over to the door, The ‘sahpointment. Let no soul offer this prayer who | stepuen to tiis hour martyrs attested it. | hearers that there was much poetry connected music was rendered almost perfectly, under ine | [yes uot perfect gr pega poche ds Throngh finaucial panic, death, thg loss of all near | with the confessional, He drew from the genius idence of Professor Havatic, . Dr. Cornell williar'to iteeit to this danger, was this not #24 “ear to Us, Noutlug away on the sca of eternity, | of eminent poets most noble tributes to the purity guide of * arorg eth Delore | Monee @ prot that sin was leas deouded than cate + We feel our réliance on the cross of Christ, Thi | and-soul whiteness luduced by it. From Leng el- selecting bis text, wished nis hearers to remomber , St 0008 @ Prvof that eas dreaded than suf ¥ gay, a aying Woman, wh | low's “Evangeline” the lecturer drew a beautiful there were hundreds of poor, sick, famlshing chil- it was a most assuring reason for offering this | pursed Nee Test OMe EON BEGAN, | | pleture of the matde Gren in their city deprived of even the frosa Prayer that it was baad asa, | precious!” (A solemn husb, broken by hobs) | A# homeward she comes from confession, with God's | Bir of heaven. [He wished to Institute @ fund Men vecisted even a feeble MeasUren ene a their | Jul@ed by the world citer as unworthy, the charac passed ou her way It seemed like the hush of Jor such children, under the name of the “Fresh own sins, bat God dealt very tenderly with Mis | (OF OT ORIG TTARE TTC one tm pill abiid " 7 " * end 1 ex! nesses and often relapses into sin, is noble. Christ | r v Atr Fund,” and the contributions of the first San- - meni? hy RECON REA ea re has declared them “the gait ot the earth,” "he | PX cht Penne anes a precious tbing Gay In every month to go to that fund, aud that to His divine meres, y od Vet on a il,” the city On a mountain.” The | with Christ, and that there was a divine poetry, | foud to be used for such children, The Doctor's wou proceeding going forward there is a criminal trial, The priest is the Ju¢ge; the penitent represents the criminal and the prosecutor. It is a trial of sin as an offence against God. But the priest sits there not consecrated alone as judge, but he sits there also as teacher. In the confessional God places his priests as the guides of our conscience: God has provided tor the needs of the soul, and is Christ the priest who sits in the confessional First, the fact must be emphasized that we are God's witnesses. Jn the Second Corinthians St. Paul says: “Ye are onr epistie;” in another ¢ lace, “Ye are a living epistie, known and reed of all men,” This fact is corroborated in passages all over the Word of God. God incarnates truth every sinner may be brought near the health fle Here Christ performs in the spiritual Cnristian could die, Voltaire, au contraire, ofered | Gan give. nificance of baptism, cally buried witn Christ and rise again with the resurrection of a new lue. God is represented by the professors of Christianity. The worid judges Him by His peopie, This may seem unjust, but it | is the Way of the world, II we find an incompetent | lawyer with a large collection of diplomas we are | apt to jump to the conclusion that the legal pro- being carried iorth to his ourtal, “Young man, say unto thee, arise.’ In every confessional througnout the world He restores men who are dead in trespasses and sins to itfe and delivers them to theirmother—the Church, And not only 1s the priest who sits in the confessional a judge, a teacher and a physician, but he ts also a father to repentant sinners. The parable of the Prodigal his physicians halt his fortaue ior six weeks more | order the selfsame act as that which He performed | Me. wagertians All By, Mclr protection, tacitly, If | gm the physical order when He spoxe ana said. t9 hot avowedly, tal s1tLOn. ais is e Sig- | ry "i shoy are in the font tyme | the young man, the son of the widow, as he was | fession 1s hot what it claims to be. So, too, We | Son well applies to every oeing Who sing, for sin 13 judge doctors o: physic aud theology, ‘and | bat_a riotous living in-a land faraway’ from ous the family—in fact, in every relation in | Father's house; and te parable in question pre- lie we Judge ol the whole by @ part. sents a most touching picture of the misery and It may be unjust, but the fact remains. | aésolation of the soul that sins, The priest in the Secondiy, the character of the tostimony shows the power ot Christ to remove sin and give peace. No prophet need explain this fact, whica is as pa- tent vo the world as to the ciect. There is no rest Jor the wicked, Guilt ls a crusning load, till senst- tiveness is utterly deasi. The blood o7 the Lamb cleanseth 1rom ali sin aud gives us peace toward J, ourselves and the world. Christi | confessional is the father to the prodigal, | Wille the prodigal ts yet a long way olf he sees him und has compassion on him. God Is just, however. He will only give perfect pardon to those who truly repent, and he that will not repent and con- fess is not worthy to hear that sentence, “i hy sins are forgiven thee,” Let none of us, then, be best men and women who ever lived have been ‘ tender peatonitne” Cs and are Christians, The proceeds of tl ot nesoner S pleating, ts delivery exsy and Torcite, | Cron iscionce nnd full eooderheee Maree Ones thes |. thirdiy, the value Of the testimony is great | of st Joseph's church, Tremong °F ‘te benedt » selected his text from I, Corintuians, x., 16— | and Ilis light shone over them a8 the light of the Sooaee tenets be without a wituess, The | “The cup of blessing which we bless, is tt not the nunion of the blood of Christ? The oread i we break, is it not the comsaunion of the suo over (he dark valley, Here, where the sad and dreary knowiedge of sin might be | THE MEANS OF GAINING ELERNAL LIPE, Wody of Christ?? Is it pot @ gad truth, as the time and piace to repent. It was a solemn sud the Doctor, to see that that which Prayer to offer, but one which might save them Was civen for our life should be made tne forever— ch me, O God, and know my | strife ior Christians, the discussion to the heart! | Triuity, the dispuce of the sacrament? The fault lies pot la the Trinity or the sacrament, but in | ourscives. Men aud women attend the house of God not as learners, but as critics; not as children, CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, | Conversation as Becometh the Gospel— but as teachers; tmputient to criticise, 80 read: A Sermon b: ; to distrust the truiu that the real eect is itd; ot ni Daas caine wiiling to grow in faith, but wishing to attain This church was crowded yesterday to tis last faith without growth. The Lora’s Supper was capacity for regular seating. Some saton the Noor | Often made tho debate of theologians. Waa With Mao, nor With tue the Bibie as iti on, eae | and many stood. Several clergymen were present. he any iit The text was Philippians, L,, In the sixteenth cared on the night | chapter of Acta, Dr. Deems said, an account Is He was betrayed, where He took bread, and alter p 3 " , giving thanks siid:—--Taee, eat, this my boay | StVen Ol Paul's going with Silae to Plulipp), and Neither add wascu is broken for you; this do ‘in remembrange | fF Preaching the Gospei he was publicly beaten, or a Christ M sie ped cap, when We ail believe that truth will finally triamph, but e pped, and said:—'Thia is the New w estament in my blood, thisdo ye as oft asses Te know that the surroundings of one who is propagating the truth has mach to do with its spread, It did not help the Gospel that Paul had been so treated. Suppose ti had occurred in one of oar American cities, what shonld be done? According to our tdeas of policy @ clrowar would | be sent to all our coreligionisis aad @large amount | drink it, in remembrance of me." This is no sig) no metaphor. Not tnat the bread or wine ve comes changed in substance, but in oMce, They to speak, pledges or warrants. Tuts ts the sacrament; the biood of Otrist; the body fed by Obrist. His word gives warrant. It asks [or faith; Tepentance with @ boly lite, The Bible asks no lesa, the Church no more, None are teo poor to eat and sup at the Lord’s table. None are too Of money raised and @ splendid church wretched. All can come without price. Some have | built end an eloquent preacher employed afear of communing with our Lord at Fis tabie, | { Tat story the work Of toe devil; he huids many | °24 & professional operatic choir hired and some fault, But Christ can cail you from | ll the adjancts of respectability secured. Paul did | 'k vy, bs Tue Jagt command of Chetat waa drink an’ no sack thing, fe supyly wrote back ta thaLittlo | highest eviden , 80 far dependent on His | mark of His condescension, So all creation, from the Stars to the smallest atom we tread on, speak to the action of the Divine Hand, There is no atheistic particle. Creation is a broad book, in- scribed by God's finger. A step bigher, as in the nineteenth Psalm, takes us from creation to 1eve- lation, documentary proot of the character and te or God, Still higher, there is the new creation ln Christ Jesus, and Christ's followers the it We must not underesti- if God's greatness appears to be | Teatures it is His wilima We must not under- CATHOLICITY 1N BROOKLYN, Laying the Corner Stone of St. Teresa's Church, Classon Avenue, by Bishop Loughlin, The corner stone of the thirty-ninth Roman Catholic church of Brooklyn was laid with appro- priate ceremony yesterday afternoon, in presence of an assemblage numbering several thousand peo- | ple. The new edifice is located an Classon ave- mate 1ts value, estimate tt. GOD IS NOT DEPENDENT ON PARTICULAR PEOPLE. it has been satd that Christianity receives @ Shock to shatter it for acentury fromevents tran- | sparing to-day in our midst. Christianity laa cou- | guered end will conquer now and jor every gene: tion to come. A CEDAR OF LEBANON TAS FALLEN, eminence of ground that commands a fine view of the Surrounding country, and insures a free cur- rent of air for worshippers in the summer time, when @ cool atmosphere is an incentive to devo- tion In church, ‘The parish, which was created A moodly tree, grand in stateliness, in whose loft | Hows We huve taken pride, It haw ‘been struck. by | UY the Bishop last spring, embraces the area of | lightning. With @ long, resounding crash 1; lad | sefritory bounded by the city line, Brook- come to the ground and brought with it a lew lyn avenue, Grand avenue and other thor- twigs and saplings, BUT THE FOREST eranns, The tees are rooted deep, grappled with eternal rock, They ure unshakeu, I! a conspicuous man | falls must all Christians fall? Those rooted in the hea of God, who have encirc the Rock of | oughfares which haye not been decided upon. The district is very sparsely settled, and a few years must elapse before the congregation Will be able to bear all the burdens of the debt in- faehnae beet kas bet the prea her, deliver no | curred in their interest, The parishioners at pres- , 4 clearly defined opi | er an ardent hope, Which opinion and hepe wit Rowen cotta tan Gal Maal ter believe, be justified. ‘ihe Church founded by Jevas | Father McNamee, the young priest who ua taken Erann ys dyithakond ite fires o1 pagan and Papal | upon his shoulders the responsibility of the new stance ote Will Hot jail, The present circum: | church, 1s fall of zeal and energy, and may be said tobe “the right man im the right place,” veing able toendure the hardships aud iatigues of the ua- NO TRS? OP ORTHODOX crwistiaNItY. Cine at tha oy Tepudiates the Bible. the | as well aa a divine philosophy in the coniessional. | | nue, near the intersection of Butler street, on an | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. dortaking. ate Longiiin, preceded by the Rev. Father Taafe, of St. Patrick's church, and Father McElroy, of the church of Our Lady of Mercy, ascended the platiorm shortly atter four o'clock itereey aiternoon, and tollowed by Rey. Fathers iely, Landry, Reardon, O'Hare, Moran, Corcoran and O'Rorke, proceeded to the northwest corner of the edifice (the basement of which 13° floored over), and read the usual offices for the occasion, In the cavity of the stone was placed o box containing t copies of the lead! Journals, ooin, currency, & parchment record of the parish and dioceses and other materials of information for some future generation to scan and ponder upon the muta- bility of all things sublunary save faith in the eter> hal truths and teachings ofGod, Upon the con- clusion of the ceremony the Bishop made a lew remarks, congratulating the Catuolics of the dis- trict upon the progress made in the erection of the | Dew building, which was only commenced on the ist of May last. He urged them to give practical proof of their sincerity im thus promoting the cause of religion by manifesting, through the exer- je of charity, purity, honesty and sobriety, their adherence to ‘the commandments of God. By ox- ample alone could they expect to lead others to the joid of Christ, and earn, through faithiuiness in all things, when summoned irom the brief sour here, the happiness of Heaven, he Irish clyie and chureh temperance societies, numbering several thousand members , paraded, | and made a fine appearance as they fled past the building and deposited their contributions in the baskets Which were arranged for the reception of currency. The societies were the St, Patrick's Mutual Alliance, Ancient Order of Hibernians, St. Patnick’s, St, Joseph's, St, Paul's, St, James’ and other church telaperance societies, Captain Campbell and Sergeants Eason and Corr, with filty men, were on duty in the vicinity and main. tained the most excellent order. The chured, which ts 149 by 74 feet, will be constructed of brick, with brown stone trimmings, and is to be com- ee about November 15, It will cost $100,000. he design is the Roman order of architecture and 1s the work of Mr. P. C. Keely. Divine service Will be held in the basement as soon as that apart- ment can be placed in a fitting condition. ALL SOULS’ CHURCH, The Necessity of Preserving a Pure Character—Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Jenks, of Boston. The congregation at this church, commer Fourth avenue and Tweatieth street, was unusually slen- | der at the services yesterday morning. During | the absence of the regular pastor on his summer vacation the pulpit was occupied by the Rey. Mr. Jonks, of Boston. This gentleman chose as his text, Ecclesiastes, 1x., 8—“Let thy garments be al- ways white.” There are nations, the reverend speaker began, that wear white as tokens of | mourning; but white ts general!y a symbol of joy and happiness. In those countries persons who sought to hold public offices clad themselves in White; but it would seem rather like a mockery for OUR OFPICE-SEEKERS to wear white. It has always been a perplexing question how men may live in the world and keep their garments free from stain whon tuey meet allits temptations, Men of a religious turn of mind have always acted and felt as though there wasone mode of morality for thom and | another for the men of the world. ‘The result ig that to-day there 1s a distinction between worldly men and those whose sphere is higher. The worldly man looks upon the unworldly man as an object for his pity and @ mean creature. The truly religious men found that they were not to keep thelr garments white by avoiding sin and the haunts of misery, but by encoantering it and trampling tt under foot. The old Church had such dread of its adver- saries that it was continually drawing its followers from temptation, and telling them that the only way to overcome evil 18 to avoid It, Now you find | the Church leading men into bovels of misery and despair. The Church builds asylams and houses of, relormation; it leads Christians to those paths where their kind influence ig mostly necded, and makes THE CHURCH OF TO-DAY @ working organization. It 1s only when these | Christians and church worshippers descend into | the very homes of crimes and misery that they see vice, not surrounded by all its gilt trappings and gaudy tinseiry, but naked and hideous, They are able to penetrate to the lowest places, and see the squalid misery which vice always creates. By such visits they gain for themselves moral strength. The true purpose of the Courch for a long time nas been fa- tally misunderstood. alled Christians are busy keeping their own garments white and seek- ing their own salvation. They have always kept away from the evil and soil of the world. They are beginning to feel now t there i8 a higher | duty than all this. A change has come over our view of caurches and church duties. The long faces of the past have given way to the hearty siniles of the present. The Church of to-day does not consider eae cheeks, lanky tte and elongated uoses the abit of her duty. Strange that the cesthetic idea is so rooted. It is an idea older than Christianity. | 1t ts dimeult to root out the mistakes in anything relating to religion. Strange that so many years have taken us to find out the trutn of this poiat, THE OFPICE OF RELIGION 1s to fling light and joy over the multitudes, Chris. uanity bas cups of innocent pleasure in her hands, and her head garlanded. In our country there is great lack of common honesty. Virtue i3 despised and vice exatted. Fraud and recklessness rule the hour. What are we coming to’ How shall we avoid the precipice toward which we aré approaching. The national char- acter is now passing through its severest test. True jaitn and honesty are now needed. In the language O! a politician, success fs a duty. A re- that 1 was brought up to the Tabernacle, where [ Rot blessed, A brother described his financial and spiritual impecuniosity, and remarked that when he had no money and no religion he longed fot some of each 5 but when he got a little he wanted more, and now his cup was ranning over. fe confessed that when he had only a little religion he hated Brother Boole, but now he loved bim, A sister Inquired if all things are ours—that 18, the Christians—what ts there left for the ainnera? A colored sister declared that she had entered the fold fair and knew when she gotin. Sister Bot- tome could pow understand better than ever be- fore what the apostie meant when he satd that the things that are seeo are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal. A VETERAN CHRISTIAN’S INVITATION, Father Reynolds, how eighty-four years of age with his venerabie locks floating down over hi neck and leaning on his stam, stepped forward and void of his conversion and uniting with the Church in 1808, He had seen and experienced great joy and poset in his long Christian life and ministry, and he had got so far along in his joarner how he could gay to those wh: ere youver than he: Brethren, come on, it is all safe out here;.the Rock is under my feet, This, he sald, was his thirty- third day at camp meeting, and glory to God, said he, 1 am not done yet. Bishop Peok, following Father Reynolds, sald he was taken back to bis hoshaod, when Father Reynolds taught him nis AB O's.’ He was glad that while he now us an old man could invite those who are youngerto ‘Come on,’ he could refer to his venérable father in the ministry calling him and them to safe resting places Still beyond. Dr. Green, of Toronto, was lad that Bishop) Peck had such a good eacher, and that he showed hiiméel: 4 good a Scholar. I expect to meet you, he dg, on the banks of the New Jorusaiem, and to see your hoary heads crowned with glory in that better land. Glory be to God, the Doctor ex- claimed, for what I have experienced here, I was Just as happy as J could be at Round Lake. I had to ask God to stay His hend; but want to stay here a little longer to work for Jesus. 1 leita beautim! spot in Saratoga county to come here, but 1am drinking better wator here. A PRESS CORRESPONDENTS EXPERIENCE, Brother Mooney, of the Afethonist, said this was tho twenty-second camp meeting he had attended and the fourteenth as a correspondent, and he had observed one thing here that he had never ob- served before, and being a member of the press he feit doubly interested in it. He had heard the cor- respondents of the Hknaup, World, New Orleans Picayune, Worcester Gazette, Christian Advocate and the Methodist testily what God had done for them, It may not be of much consequence to you, he sald, but at is very impor- tant to us Who are watching the gees Movements of the Jand. Instead of looking down upon the representatives of the press with suspicion let them fegi that they are of you. The press has to be recognized asa great power, and if reporters could get blessed of God what glorious influence they might exert on the community. Brother | Mooney then called upon the men of influence | Whom he saw before him to interest tue respective editors of the papers in religions news, that more of it might be published and thereby mach greater good be accomplished, He expressed bis owa sense Of happiness and rest iu Jesus, and hoped to meet the audience in the becter land, Chaplain MeCave sung “O how I love Jesus.’” Bishop Peck preached an excellent sermon at eleven A, M., On one Lord, one faith, one baptisin, ane Rey, Mr. Boole in the afternoon, on the supe riority of the Christian dispensation over the Mo- saic, based ou LI. Corintinans, iii, 2. Prayer and experience meetings were lield during the day. AN AMERICAN CARDINAL. Archbishops McCloskey and Purcell. SOMETHING ABOUT CARDINALS. (From the Cincinnati Commercial.) New York, Juty 28, 1874, The meeting of the leading archbishops and bishops of the Catholic Church, at Cincinnati, In May, has caused considerable speculation as to the probable nomination, or promulgation, if one has been already made, of an American cardinal, in well informed Catholte circies, Since the New YorRK HERALD has taken the sab- Ject into consideration there is a great deal of anxiety about the matter at Rome, where that great journal's influence 1s as potent as at Padua. Its correspondents In the Propaganda and the Via Babrino and the Fontaine are well informed gentlemen, What is a cardinal? Who may be one? What does be represent ? What are bis duties? The title cardinal, altnough old, does not go back to the “twilight of history.” It was fora long time the exclusive designation of the leading Roman clergy, the parish priests, When they ofiiciated on the occasion of great festivals of the Church, in the basilicas, they were incardinated to Perform tho functions. In process of time an Eccle- siastical Senate was formed to advise and assist the Sovereign Ponti in the government of the Church. The constitation of this body was not per- fectea and ultimately fixed in its present form until Pope Sixtus V., who reigned only five years, four months and three days (1685-90). The dignity ligion is needed which will keep men trom lying and stealing, as an eminent preacher says, We | are responsible for ourseives and are cailed to a count only for our own actions. “Let thy garments be always white.” We have our duty to consider, our own errors to correct and our own char- We have only to keep acters to mould. selves, We are apt to sa, people think we ought do, not what wo think we ougnt to do let us gesure ourselves that our garments are white. | There ave some sins into which individuals and conimuuities are apt <o fall. The first is a disposi+ tion to misjudge character. It is not safe to jndge irom @ superficial examination. Hf you trust only to the outward appearances you will do @ serious wrong. The second is the misinterpretation of motives, Astraight stick will look crooked in water. Just so witn * MEN’3 MOTIVES. Looked at through some mediums they seem all Tight, and vice versa. To these add misrepresen- tation, It 18 80 easy to vary the eFidence and put in a little of home manufacture. Although we consider them harmless little addl- tions, yet as a power it 13 dangerous to use. Wo give our own coloring, with no desire to stray irom the trnth. “Let your garments be always white ;” that is, always aim at perfection. Let them | be symbolical of purity. Do not waste time over past sins, but improve the opportunities of the | present. Let us seek to have our standard not | only high bnt spiritual, Letas seek to mate our | , Character high and pure; soin the midst of cor- | ruption we snall not share it. The injunction that our religion lays upon us ts a simple one—it says: “Let your garments be always white,") SUNDAY IN THE WOODS, A Quict Sabbath and a Big Crowd at | Sea Cliff—Sermon by Bishop Peck—Ex- | periences of Saints and Sinners, Sea Crirr, L. L, August 2, 1874, {closed my letter yesterday with the expecta. tion that Bishop Simpson would be here to-day to hold up his end ofthe preaching, but at a late hour he sent a telegram stating that it was impos- sibie for him to get here. We are, therefore, de- prived of his services to-day. Notwithstanding the heavy rain of yesterday a goodly number of people came on the ground—most of them, how- ever, from points between this ana the city, The aiternoon, from two tll five o'clock, was devoted to @ praise and experience mecting, which wasled vy Rey. Mr. inskip, who has thus far kept quietly in the shade, taking very littie part in the public exercises, Chaplain McCaso, who is here, led the faithful in their songs of praise. There were nearly forty testimonies given besides several songs sung and brief exhortations delivered during the session, and several sinners went forward to the anxious seats to be prayed for. The evening hour was devoted to exhortation and prayer in- stead of sermons. Rev, M. Meredith had charge of the exercises, and after prayer by Rev. ©. 0, Keyes and a powerful exhortation by Bishop Peck several anxious inquirers went forwara for pray- ers, among them one of the policemen on the | ground, our- what will other | CAMP MELTING EXPERTENORS. The six o'clock morning meetings have been hitherto rather slimly attended; but this morning, probably in deference to the day, a goodly congre- gation gathered in the Tabernucie and continued in prayer untliseven A.M, At balfpast eignt A. M. a love feast meeting was held in the same place, in charge of Mr, Boole, who gave a brief address, in which he urged tne people to throw astdo ali religions constraint, and to speak aud sing ag the spirit should give them liberty, The experlongos were as varied | and dissumitar as the people who gave them. One of cardinal ts the highest in the Church after that of Pope, who is selected by the assembled body of cardinals in conclave. This is often confounded with consistory. The former 1s never held but for tno purpose of electing a Pope; the latter 13 nothing more than & Meeting of the cardinals to hear an allocution or any o\ler thing the Pope may have to say to them. ‘The secular rauk Of a cardinal is that of a prince, being classed as electors and next after kings, Their insignia (besides those worn by bishops, which ali cardinals, even those who are not tn sa- cred orders, are entitled to use) are scarlet rob hat and stockings, and aring of sapphire set gold. Whenever the Pope says mass in St. Peter's they. ag well ag all bishops present, must appear in cappa, which is a large cape of ermine, with @ train, On other occasions they wear the mantal- letta and mozzetia, like bishops. With cardinals .. the former is scarlet, while with bishops it is pure ple. The latter is of lace and is worn by both, ( ‘she number when the college is full seventy, divided into three classes, as follows:—Cardinal bishops, six; cardinal priests, fifty; cardinal dea- cons, fourteen. The first class, when full, consists of the bisnops of the six suffragan dioceses of the former States of the Church, Ostia, Porto, Albano, Frascati, Palestrina and Sabina, The hext clags consists of the cardinal which includes the cardinals in and out of Rome tn holy orders, The Archbishop of Bor- deaux is only @ cardinal priest; the Archbishop of Dublin is the same. The cardinal Press were originally the archipriests who presided over the clergy attached to vhe principal churches, of which there were already twenty-five at the close of the flith centary. The cardinal deacons are fourteen in number, aud have ina) charge of the poor in the different districts, Both classes derive their tittes from a particular church, and in that church he has special jurisdiction, The deacons are generally men who have been selected from the most responsible classes for their knowledge of iaw, diplomacy and statesmanship, and are em- ployed in the temporal offices of the Papacy. Every cardinal exercises quasi episcopal jurisdiction in his church, gives solemn benediction and issues dispensations, ‘Those who ate priests can give the tomare and minor orders, They out: Yank all other prelates, even patriarchs. Their appointment rests exctusively with the Pope. ‘Two thirds of the cardinals are natives of Italy, notwithstanding that the decrees of the Counc: of Trent and the Constitution of Sixtus V. direc that the cardinals should be selected from au nations. On the Ist of January, 1874, according to La Gerarchia Cattolica—the omcial directory of the Pontifical family throughout the world—there were six cardinal bishops, thirty;nine cardinal priests and Titteen cardinal deaconé, Since then two cardinal priesta have died, Bamabo and Caso- nia, leavingonly fifty-two, and eighteen vacancies, The six bisuops were born in Italy, twenty-th Of the priests and the nine deacons. The of the remaiuing fourteen ts:—France, fiv many, which includes Austria and Hungary, South America, one; Ireiand, one; — Spain, two; Portugal one, ‘Tho oldest is the cardinal ty er four; priest Filippo de Angelis, born iy, Aprii 16, 1792; the youngest ia Cardinal Priest Bonaparte, born at Rome, Novem. ber 15, 1828, ‘Tnetr residences are cailed palazzi, whereas they are, except tn a few cases, nothing more than pianos, the French ¢fage, the American flat, Mr. Hooker, the American banker. lives in the top floor of a fine house, near the Geser church; Cardinal Bonaparie occupies the ong under him, ‘The latter lives in ® patazzo, t former in a comfortable suit or flat of apartments. ‘These eminences are never seen on foot in tie streets; it {# not etiqnette for them tobe seen walking in Rome, When they wish to take “a constitutional” they go outside of the city walls, erta muros, and let their carriages follow them, Who may be a cardinal? Any good Catholic, priest or layman, whom ths Pope may please to appoint. This reminds me of a late editorial in the Chicago Tribune, that tue Pope intended to confer the dignity on the pious and pugnacious editor of the New York Freeman's rn thin hoax; a bad sell on & youtg fittaché of that journal. But there is no reason to stato ‘that ho wil not be appointed, because he is eligibie, Few men have done more than this admirer of Southern slavery aud causeless rebellion to awe] the pence of Peter. Rome, like ail other piacea, aged lady told how the Lord had answered her | hasa quick ear for the chink of scudi, \rilist | Prayer, She came a stranger on the ground poverelan renal. iikeo une Feniess iia, | carrying @ heavy carpet bag. She prayed for oe his golumas to al} the servant maids and | guidance and bm As sho tolled up the bill a | prous aA who Slt the wrongs Of the Pope. gentleman Volunlesred to carry her el, 3 ostentatious zeal ne @ handsome sum; ‘Thus, sald she, f was reileved of my burden, Soon Aiter & carriage sto} beside me, she contioued, Lpad'a voice said “wey yume wd tay i eres” a¢ f sails nti raed: ate bate ani eau allto the Piazza di Spagna, and ww) @ONTINUED ON WINTH PARR) | as heis& man of the strictest insegrty, ho sj i y 2 Hea, te