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NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, PULPIT EXHORTATIONS. Yesterday's Sermons and Services in the City and Suburbs. | | | erty WORSHIP IN THE WOODS. — A Crowded Congregation at Plymouth | Church Lecture Room. } Gallagher's tor Beecher. The Ambition of Mankind De- scribed by Dr. Cordo. Consolation | perience, tor | Your actions misrepresented—a very common ex: | the pole; nay, even more so, for the necdle docs | 18 complete. How strikingly was it given to the ony. ttorgiven? Ig there a certain tearful looking for | wrath? Jesus endured al! this when He exclaimed PLYMOUTH OHUROH. A Fime Sunday and a Large Congrega- | tion—Sermon by Dr. Robinson on the | “Power of Belief in God.” The Plymouth lecture room and pariors were Biled to overflowing yesterday morning, and there ‘Was to be beard that well known ring and thrill of | feeling which makes the singing of the hymns so | heartfelt. The congregation having remained | peated during the first two lymns, Mr. Halliday said that, a3 asmail minority in bis corner pre- | ferred to stand up while singing, perhaps the ma. | jority, as Plymouth church folks were known | to be very magnanimous, would yield to | the minority, adding as an inducement | that they could sing so much better when stand- mg, Which afterward appeared to be the fact. Mr. | Halliday also announced that next Sabbath they | would be able to worship in the church, as the | cleaning would then be completed. Dr, Robinson alluded very feetingly to the pastor in his prayer, praying that, now he was far away | from the voice of calumny and annoyance, he | might get thatrest which was so necessary to | him, and come back spiritually and physically re- | hewed, and be able to teach his people more fully | apo earnestly the power of love and trust in the Father and in Jesus. ‘The text sclected was from the second book of | Chronicles, the thirty-fourth chapter and a part of | the third verse:—“Whtie he was yet young he | began to seekaiter the God of David and his fathers.” This 13 also recorded of David, who, | idolatrous life; andeven afiet he had repented | images which be bad set up. So it was when the was made king. Me had awakened to the idca that | idols and graven images were not the true God, | 4 that to worship them must be very wicked: after searching and tbioking for twelve years | he began to teach the people that there was a | mightier God than idols, and proceeded to cut them down aud burn them and rebuild the tem- of his tatner, David, which the wicked kings beariy destroyed. Now, we see here the enduring character of the God of David’s test | mony. David’s greatest influence was through his religious character. He had sinned, but had repented deeply. There was no preience about Bim oO! appearing what be was not. No man sung the praise of his Gud with such servent feeling as he; and with snch enthusiasm did he Fing | of hts God that for sour hundred years aiter he was dead the people sougnt ater “David's | God.” His God had been to him a rock and tower of defence in time of trouble, aod Josian, having been tangt in this faith, had the same fecting, and also sought after and touad tne God of ly father David. Now we come to the way Josiah sought after God; there was his first spirituai awakening; then he destroys the idols, and trics | to put down the desire to worsnip them; and as | ® Means to this end repairs the houses ot God; this Yeads him to believe that there must be a real God ; then his conviction and repentance; then he had | @ terrible ieeiing of sorrow at finding himeelf so | far trom God. There are some men who walk #0 | much nearer the light of God, whose minds are | Itited far above their fellows, and in that light able to see so much more ciearly thetr faults and | sins sdat other men cannot understand their bitter selfaccusations, itis only in the Jamiliarity o! a n conviction of real — sintulness, Then we come to his public protession of | God; he read the word of God publicity iu a vemple. , See how this willingness to do God’s will proves the Saviour’s words when He says, ‘‘He who will- ‘ogiy doeth my will sball receive the true doc- trine.” Now this ive of Josiah may teach us many things. Religious life, commenced in early years and carried oo all through hfe, will land us | safely at last. There are many wicked men who Jangh at the purity and symmetry of a young religious lic. Now wie it is "right that we should try to lead our Ihe dren into carly Christianity, we should not expect too much of them, Josiah was several years, even up to manhood, before he came to a true knowledge of God. ‘The same with men who come to the Chareb a8 a haven of refuge and are | met by the Examining Committee, who fear that he wiil sip when he gets in, a thing wnica deacons | and others never do, by the by. Josiah was the son of an i religious mao, and this lile of hisshouid | encourage usin our Sunday schools, in helping | scholars of wicked parents, Some years ago tiere | came a bey to our Sunday school at Troy | Whose home and parents were the most wicked | and miserabie imagimable. He did not seem to improve much or take that interest in hia lessons ‘which showed to lis teacher that he was profiting by them. A short (ime after he had been tnere the Biress of poverty, Which puts work early on the | young, obliged him to go away into the country. | Some years afterwards, a6 one of our missionaries ‘Was passing through one of the worst paris of the city, he heard a voice singing one of those heau- til pralms which we sing in the Sun- = school, and on entering the miserabie cellar, found this ges teow, how a young man, mn his deathbed. went to him, and he said he ‘new and remembered the hymns We used to sim od try to teach him; and he died repeating thal ost beautiful of all psalms, “The Lord my shepherd, 1 shall not want; He Jeadeth me through Ui pastures (it was all cold and | Gark and dismal around him), in the paths Of righteousness; Oh! my soul; thy rod and thy | aff they comfort me;"’ and, though one would | | think he bad more of the rod than the staf, stifi he held to the staff and was saved, FIRST REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sermon by the Rev. Mason Gallagher, of Paterson, N. J.—‘The Sympathy of Jesus”—Consoling Words for Henry ‘Ward Beccher—The Devil Always At- tacks the Strong, Using as His Agents . Bad Men and Women. At vhe First Reformed Episcopalian church, Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street, yester- @ay morning, the Rev. Mason Gallagher preached from Hebrews iv., 15—'For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities, but was in all polots tempted lke as we are, yet without sin.” | How much expression in the word sympathy! It is one of the sweetest words in our language. ‘There are some who appreciate its meaning better ‘than others; vet, all in some degree know its mean- ing. In childhood we sought a mother’s sympathy, and though in after iife we form close relations, yet we contemplate @ mother's sympathy with peculiar emotions, And thia sentiment was anti- cipated by the heart of the Redeemer toward His mother Mary. We must ap- preciate the meaning of the word sympathy to understand the text, which is, literally, “We have not a high priest who cannot. sympathize with our weaknesses.” We have here ‘the derivation of the term sympathy. If we know What sympathy is we know how Christ feels toward us. If we are notin the habit of exercis- ing fympathy toward its proper object we cannot enter into the force of this passage. Nay, we | most feel that our nature has never felt the Re @eemer’s power; that we are strangers to the | Christian faith. Some are highiy endowed witha sympathetic nature; others manifest but little in- terest in the condition of thelr fellow mep, Their Dearts are hard; they aie and go to their own place whore they find congenial sptrits, but not in heaven. An excessive manifestation of sympathy 49 not always ® proof of its possession. There are @howe Who can weep over a tale of woe who ave pothing to give toacold and forsaken starving sinter. This idie waste of feeling gradually hard- tter nature and unfits for usefulness. petay implies satering. Who does not seek tore at once. to mitigate grict by once to m' © griet by 1? age ‘al for one in amiction om of another who has calamity. No one else 4 sianngs 61 the sufferer, on the cross, “My 4, my God, why | hast thou forsaken me?’ Rave you @ confict with sin? is temptation ferce’ Corist_ met the enemy in the desert and overcame ins ficreest temptations, The living, all- werful sympathy of Jesus is to the Caristian the source of bis stretigth and consolation, nis com. fort to-day, iis support in his dying hour, We must have faith to-rest in His love and live on His race and irust in Him alone. It wil not do to fook to the mother of Jesus, supposing that her womanly tenderness and symputhy will be moved because she is a woman. If she could hear prayer the argument is utterly unsound, Jesus, though @ man in courage and magnanimity, was yot pos- seased of all that Is gentle apa fazels 78 woyan’s nature, made pectiiarly and solely of a woman, nd the tender attributes of womanhood shone ‘esplendent {i thé mek and lowly Jesus. Tne children saw it and the dying thief was Metted by @ Saviour’s tenderness On the cross. ‘That same look 18 xed upon the impenitent now, and ti you are lost, as you leave the awful presence of your Divine and Judge, will you not re- meniber that He once gaved on you with the ten- derest compassion and entreated you to be saved ? | You can turn away trom Christ, or you may make Him henceforth your guide and your God unto death and your portion jorever, ‘for ye have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the jeel- ing of your tutirmities, bot was in all pointe tempted like as you are, yet without sin.” The Rey. Mr. Gallagher Jectured in this charch at the evening service on “The Revision of yhg giish Prayer Book in 1662," this being the seco lecture of the course. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Seeking the Things Above—A Sermon by Rev. Dr. Deems. Yosterday was s beautiful day and the Church of | out examining, and will take the | the Strangers was crowded. The seats of the pal- pi pit were occupied by geutiemen and the aisles | whereas the pradent Guring bis earlier years, led a very wicked and piieq with caimpstools, while scores of people stood. Dr. Deems began feebly. his usual animation came ashe proceeded, The | spirits should preserve the truth, and to find tt wi young King Josiah, @ mere child of eight years, text was Colossians, ti, 1—"Seck those things | which are above.” He began by ssying:—Let ua first of all rejerce that everything is not down on the flat of lowest selfishness and worldiiness. There are high thimgs—‘things that are above’— © things that stretch away into measurcless heights, inviting and soileiting the highest aspirations, | And yet how Mat and stale and unprofitable is the life led by so many thousands of human beings who have.in themselves the measureless capabili- ties of immortality! The address of the Apostie is not to these who have no spiritual vitality, who are “dead in trespasses and tn sins,” but those who are “risen with Christ,’ who have tasted the good things of the new fife and felt the power of the world to come, Tu@ exhortation to those is that they seek ‘those things which are above.”’ And why should Christians seek the lowest things? They have forsaken them for Christ. Why go back to them? They have left an Ezypt of bondage for a promised land of Iiverty—why long for the feshpots of the old luw home? There are higher things. ‘There is periect knowledge. ‘Now we know in part,” It ig a very great thing that wo can bave any knowledge. But all trac knowledge begets a aesire for greater and better knowledge. The | thing we most know now is that we are very ig- Jamily relation to God that we awaken to a norant. From the days of Solomon down to date | men have been studying botany to some extent, and yet Projessor Agassiz teils us that he can coun: on his fingers al) the specimens of which we have thorough knowledge, And yet there 1s not one of these specimens concerning which you and 1 could not in ten minutes ask ten questions, not | one of which conid be answered by any scholar. 1t is So iu the department of mental science; it is so in spiritual things. The simpie fact is that we do not know any one thing perfectly. This 13 @ great embarrassment and humiliation, Ir there were just one thing we knew periectly we might know so much nrore of ovher things. We shail never have infinite Knowledge. That is possible to God alone, But among “those things Which are above’ must ve perfect knowledge of something. “Wien tiat which ts periect shall come tuen that which is part shall be done away.” “Then shait i know even as aiso lam known.” Per- fect holiness i» among those things which are above, be spotiessiy cicansed from his staius of sin, to be established in perfect devotion to God, to have the body in sunjection to the sonl and the soul 10 subjection to we obedience of Christ, 1s a lofty height on which the smite of God makes per- petual sunshine—where the atmosphere is kept pare ata breath of the Roly Ghost, For our soula this is as high a thing as perfect knowiedge is lor intellects, Jf we bave rigen with Christ it is natural that we sbould desire to ascend with Him. Pertect happiuess is among “those things which are above.” Happiness is of the heart. Love is 118 essential. There can be no happiness without Jove. That happisess be periect three things are requisite—a periect being, who loves us pericctly, whom we love periectly. Is there such a being ¢ Yes. Jesus has shown that the God of all periec- tion loves us periectiy, 60 as fo be incarnate lor us and soffer and die for wu hat He spared nothing—gave us all, and then e the last pos- sible proof of perfect Jove for us. While, perhaps, we cannot know perie.tiy in our morta! limitations and must wait for the “then” of which Paul Speaks, we can love perfectly, all our affections, in their fullest play, always set on one object. This perfect love casts out all tormenting tear. These are three things among the loftest things, “those things which are above.” The best lite is a lile whose powers are employed in seeking such | heigits., Tiis seeking involyes several things. First Of ali, we are to believe in the existence of heights, A peopic dwelling in a vailey which was always covered witn clonds, so that vhey could not see tie mountains on any side, and had never seen them, and had no desire to climb them might not believe in their existence. The danger with usis that in these low dwelling placed of every day work we may cease to believe that there 13 anything higher. We maybe content wih the ings which are below because we do not believe in the existence of higher things. It is a sad degradation when aman believes that there are no heights of moral character beyond those he has attained, Why should we not believe in a loitier spnere of existence? If there be a power- ful God He can pile transcendent heights on heights, If there be a God He wil gtve us always better things than before. He will seek to draw us ap, He must haye provided satisfaction for all the longings which He has created. As “risen with Christ” we must have such longings. Why should we not believe in the possibility of their gr: tion? Phen, we must cultivate love for 3 things whicd are above.’ Else we shall never seek them. Men do not hunt tor what they do not want hor ly Searching for what they deem value- Jess, “ond your neart on high and ali your hfe wii foliow your heart, Lastly, we must use ail the means beeper Ad the finding of the things above, Ifany soul is higher vhan mine In koow- ledge, holiness and happiness, whether that soul be lo the church militant or the church trium- em I must learn how that soul reached that height, and then I must pursue. Above all, it mast he remembered that Jesus says that He is the way. Keeping close to the side and pressing in the footsteps of Jesus we shall ascend. ‘ne Saeed then discuseed the two reasons at y Paul. One i, that Christ is among those heights and Christ to the Cbristian ts all jn all. To him there is nothing without Christ, “Whom have I in heaven but thee?” “And there isnone on | whether we bave ever given formal statements to | contracting parties in this arrangement are God | earth that | desire beside thee.” We shail be “for- ever with the Lord” when we find the thiugs above. The other reason ts, Christ in God.” We are going up stream to the fountain head. Ali our springs are in Him, All Our strength and comfort come from film. Having the higher we have the lower. He who stands on mountain ee a and valley below, and all the hills around, ‘The question then comes, ‘What are we to do with the things below?’ We are not to love them, but use them in helping us to the things which are above. Food, raiment, physical and temporary things are stairs on whieh we ascend. ven sorrowiul and pitiful worldly things, our suferings and onr an- hoyances, may be made steps up to heaven. “Een though it be a cross that raiset me.” The sermon was closed by encouragement to young and Weak Christiana, Do not be discouraged by the rapidity with which others ascend, por with your | low attainments. | Uing so long as you do not cense to Kee. Soek- ing Is your business, finding is God's basiness. Pat your standard bigh and keep sceking—keep #eck- Be had been , outside appe the people still continued worshipping the graven | travelling and preaching during the week. But | 22 ty icles i sees all the fill | | them, We seldom think that we may be precisely! lying God that we live. Man needs reltgion t9 bring him up, to raise him out of sin and wicked: ness and to give him a new ilfe, which shall be lift forever—a life that shall be to him the powe) whereon to stand, and that shall uphold him befory | the great God. Religion must commend itself t¢ all of us as part of the divine nature, for no human power can do what it does among men. Religion! | must have the evidence of the power of God. There | Is unmistakable evidence of divinity in the prop! 7 cles, God gave the apostles power to speak | Wora which He meant the world ehould hear, | this power was given them by the medium of thé | Holy Ghost. The continnity of the world demand, | this, To-day we are in heaith and strength, Wi) } feei the full blush of manhood upon us. To-mot row we may have parsed away. We cannot set | what a day may bring forth. But God can mak | His chosen ones see far ahead and up into thq future. {need not say the bitterest enemies tha) the new Christian Church had were obliged to com} | fess, and did so, that Christ did works which nom | could understand, His miracles were MORE THAN HUMAN, | Besides, a man ought to know Wherein religi: constet It is not so, however, as we ae cat | Imagine. Truth 18 masked and is hid, and it | built ay man's duty io iook for it. The truth is only giver { by the working of the Holy Ghost, Put man} { search for it and ao not find it, simply becausi they don't know how to look jor it. It 16° like au) edifice which is built upon solid foundations | whereas another close by is not. Both look equal | fatr to the eye; both are in good proportions ant | are handsome to look at. Some will choose wit! edifice which }) in the poor foundation, and which wil some day fall and engu'f all who are in ft} ‘0 to the bottom and exam) | ine the foundations, Then it Ja time to look at th | | AEERCE, Their oat 1s the right one not led away by false appearances phets. Ged has ordained that Ht as by faise re ordered to look in tne book called the Bible } truth we have not found out alone, but with | the ald of the Holy Ghost; all Scripture was inapir | ation, True, it was neld in the memory of mor } from the time that it was uttered. Some of it ex | tstea simply im manuscripts, while of the oth rtion nothing existed at all but that impalp: 40 Komething called memory. Years passed o} frow the time that truth was uttered until it foum: expression in writing. It was | THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST | which preserved it. For we know of our own ex | perience that we cannot remember for any lengt | of time many things which have taken e | required a constant miracie to preserve thes | words, God felt that it should be written dowr | He committed tmfallibly to them the one truth ¢ the Everlasting. It was then needful. that then ligion should be dispensed by certain men and chose them to teach the mensage of life. Thea | | are the ministers jo! God’s Word. In this caliia were, of course, peculiar temptations and ovei | | We say there isno human power that can save! rend | an the game position. It is only by the spirit of the) jer ed account of the deeds done in your body you not receive Him then? Wil you not pat Him on? He 1s offering Himself; Ie is piead- ing With yop that 7%, will accept Him. Will you refuse Him longer } Will you not begin at once to put Him on, that your shame and your nakedness May no longe) ppeat ? Oh! begin this very hour to clothe yoursel! with Him who alone will protect you irom the dark waters of death and irom the aime that will hereafter be set loose upon the SOUTH BAPTIST CHUROE, ELIS Dr. Cerdo on the Ambition of Mankind. The pulpit of the South Baptist church on West Twenty-flith street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, was filled by Rey. Dr. Cordo, of Jersey City, who preached an eloquent and instractive Giscourse irom Matthew, %x., 26, 27—“Whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister, aad whosoever will be chief, let him be your ser- vant.’ He sald these words were spoken at a time when the mother of Zebedee’s children, with her sons, came and asked the Saviour to grant | that her two sons might sit, one on God’s right | band and one on Mis leit in the heavenly kingdom, Jesus answered and said, “Ye know not what ye ask; for to sit on my right hand and ou my left is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.” The Jews in those da; could not get over the idea of temporal kingdom, and the disciples grew from fishermen to be politicians, and disputed with each other as to who should occupy the best places. Christ dealt very gently with those He had chosen as bis foiluwers, aud His words on this oc- casion were intended as lesson to teach them to be lowly, like Himseif, He taught them that he who would stand frat in power must do the great- est work. Ambition is a good thing, and it is not to be wondered at that the disciples, descendants of the Jewish race, were s0. An unambitious man or aD unambitious church will amount to nothing. You may lay it down asa general principle that every man should desire power. Brutal force te the lowest, intellectual power is great and glorious, but th eatest and sublimest gift is the soul po wer- e power of love. Whatever may be one’s calling, bis ambition runs highest when his soul power 1s strongest. Power among men wiil be measured according oO his fellow man, The men whom world laces On the roll of honor are not tie men who fave come among us With authority, but the men who have done the most good ior humanity and the glory of Ubrisc’s kingdom. In Wilham of Orange, We have the type of 4 noble man, whose services in a good cause aud whose whole life en- titles him toionor and praise. The services of the great explorer, David Livingstone, who spent thirty years of his life in a heathen country, seek- hanging cares, The man of is rent o every side with this and that to tempt him an | | pull him down. He has enemies to figut, and, bt | | sides alt tnts, they nave the care of ‘the sou | | Which are committed to their charge aud fe | which they sxe: Ba igrnemeel y — Fd mus | over these am rovec’, | Godcwin coutra the work, Ue most teach | Word. They must not speak and act and waik 1 | the paths of his own fancy and do 2s he pleases ; in all things, but according agit is written for | him to do. There isin all need oi the power of the Holy Ghost. He must also expound God's Word as it js, teaching what is him, He js set on an eminence and holds AN EXALTED POSITION | before men, and if he beset up so hignand so * | great, what is his fate if hedo wrong and where Reed is not so Mach the sim inion of the world is upon him? Truly it is office, and the Mon who takes it must be In all thia the only power that will avail isin the Hely Gbost, which gives, the spirit and the Inspiration. But besides this: agency of the Holy Ghost there are other instru-| mentalities at work togive trac religion which) | are known by the name of the sacraments. We know, 0! course, that there 1s no power in water to cleanse away siu, and we are all aware that io bread and wine there is no power to give lile; but, these things have a meaning from (cd which gives: the aligh | careful and discreet, them virtue and efficacy an: makes them the! The sacra- | Savers of tie for those who receive, ments have a hidden meaning whichit 1s neces-| sary to understand to appreciate. 1s not! jaced round or over, but must be in the Chureh.) 1 Here comes the wonderful goodness nnd mercy of| Of tbe siniul, the lowly and the sulfering. the hving God. He has sent Ills spirit to live in) Church ts of less value than the ends it te intended our hearis andin our consciences, and we are taught not to defile the temple God has given us. AS Ue is dwelling in us we receive Him if we expect to be saved. It ia not possible except by the Holy Spirit we can be saved. No other power will avalius if we wish to live in the presence of Him who 1s the holiest of holics, We sometimes wonder how these DOCTRINAL IDEAS may become practical, but tney do in ali these matters, apd this trust and faith show unbetievers the power that is in the Church. He sometimes goes out to other men, but we are not told that He dwells in them, whereas it 13 His pr He dweils in the Church. This caanot perish so long a6 God is in it. It is the drawing out of this spirit which bears up those who preace and carry out His Word, Shey carry arouna with them thin Divine presence, and thoy stand vetoved of God and as examples to those Who fall away and yw: Theirs {s an altar upon which the incense snail continually rise and be wafted to the On of uninterrupted happiness tn the bosom of tie Lord, The Rey. Frank Hallam preached jn the after- noon also on the subject of “Righteousness, Tem- perance and Judgmeat.” SPRING STREET PEESBYTERIAN CHUROH, Patting on Christ. At the Spring street Tresbyterian chur‘h the number Of the congregation in attendance at the | morning service yesterday was unusually large. The sermon was delivered by Rev. J. M, diutchison, of Jeffersonvilie, Ind., who is now on a visit to | Rey. George McCampbell, the pastor of the church, Re chose for his text, Romans xrii., 14—“sut put ye onthe Lord Jesus Christ... The apostic, said the preacher, has been exhorting his brethren at Rome, in a most solemn and egrnest manner, that they would rise to a reaijzation of their responsi- bilities; that they would remember thetr days are passing; that they act worthy of thelr position as children of the light and of day. ‘The night is far speut,” says he, ‘the day is at land; let us, thore- fore, caat off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light; let us walk honestiy ag in the day, not in rioting and drunken- ness, not m chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.’ But in the words of the text, “Putye onthe Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the !usts thereof.” Ii we profers to be governed by the teachings of Christ we must strive to imitate His example. wit is worth while to remember hat our own feelings are in respect to this matter. How swiftiy we form opmmions in regard to emch other | from the life that falls under owt ongervation, We natnrally expect to find something of Citriat at Jeast in the cnaracter and lie ofevery Cartstian, aod if We miss tbat sometning doubts will gather in our minds, Christiiness or Christ-likeness 18 something we look for in cvery woman who pro- fenses to be a Christian. And the inference is that it or not wo in reality regard the profession of Christianity a8 a disciplinesiip in the fullest sense “That our iife is hid with | of the word, But ict us proceed to inquire wherein | world was made | we may put on Christ. What wes there about His tated? What Is it to be Christilke? What is con- formity to Him? account Ot His life and you will fail to find m His | Words or conduct the least taiat of: impurity or the Sie Cr evidence Oo: impure thought or me- ‘tive, He was holy, harmiess, undefiled; neither | was guile jound in His mouth. His was virtue that had been tested by temptations ana soser- ings, aun epraved. In iis life we have a practical Mlustration of the provyerv—'1'o the pure all things are pure.” Second—We ought to | Christ. How much is suc mt on tne humility of humility neeced tn the | places in the syoagogae, We want others iQ 40 | the lowly work while we look after the weighter , Matters. We ail want to be prominent members anc i thet and the feariul responsibility of, and what is not trae falls upon) 1e. | arity that moved unstained amld the low | ing to enbance the cause of civilization ana re- gion, made his name a power and caused his | memory to be honored by the civilized nations of the globe. Livingstone said the luxury of doing | good was all the compensution he craved in this World, ‘The maxim | of Obras is fult of tefieting ay ‘went Feat among iis do somertiog for them. to order to the of one’s claim to greatness, it is not necessary to know what 8 man is or where he came from, but what has he done in_behaif of man and for the glory of his Maker. There is no holier ambition than the aim to mould another man’s character into our highest conception of character. When a man is first con- Yeried to Christ then he begins to be worth some- thing. Power is the richest boon we can give to man if he onjy Kuows how touse it. What men word of the Gospel but the service of if, One singie act of charity, ; well administered, will go further to convince a | miwn than a dozen sermons. There are many men and children amoug you who will measure your religion by the service you render in tals worid, Give the poor a lift; if your nelgbbor ts in distress heip hin out of it, and if you see & man | down when all the world condemns him, have the courage to stand by him and help, and if you can, save him. If you do these things you do urgeut service for humanity and your Maker, Men little understand what God has | laced {hem in power for. Cortainly it 18 not to to evil. Princes are too likely to think that their greatness consists in thelr position and not in their good services, itis not to be disguised that 100 many of our cburches are closed to the = rhe to accouiplish. Iam deeply grieved, sometime: when I see that so littie is done tor the poor an those in darkness. Our Snuviour-shepberd minis- { the purer the character and the | nothing but & general aspect of tne country before! Yary sometimes, while He never turned to the | Aposties, if you claim this covenant with Ohrist bed we heat xe AR ae | us. Ifwe would examine minutely and take ir! rp el de, ah Times, (Roe ag ag ey Tnve” alvesdy Piateataae men? M orist was charged with Sabbath-breaking, | the objects one by one we must descend into thi How are we to put on Christ ? We must not ex- ast, to Christ “and the quardiausmp eer | gluttony, intemperance, sedition and b'asphemy, | yaliey beneath, where we can see each separat¢, yce to grow into His stature in a day, for in a Iife- oly Ghost. You can dnd no flaw in it, Decause it | condemned and executed publioly as the vost | 414 qistinct object. So it 18 with this subject ee We can only hope to approxiinate to what | 1s signed by the unmistakable handwriting of God. i fe'a mere name? “deus a bear fot th - STEBRPED IN SIN, -tagllis Ancien ‘Improvement It 18 hug berre believing saul ean be at. Your present iend leserted by wake to our situation and respon- | condition S mate tri¢igre youn deep. sense of guilt irom sin | cast down inspirit and given up to their Insts. Soliton, Whe Jou come tostand vefore Hiin to | are justified und loved. tiow oltas we have esog of families receiving intelligence that property in another country had .been entailed to them by some one of whom they had never beiore heard. ‘hey receive the announcement and rejoice before it bas really been proven, Shall men, then, believe in each other and not believe in the records of God? Would not an entire disre- rd to a telegraphic message be considered an insult? Ihave put this in the plainest and most every day piatform. Do not by unbelief brand God a lar. Consecrate yourselves to the only Christ, to trust and tolive with Him forever, CHUROH OF THE MEDIATOR, A Sermon by Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Cor- nell, on the Power of Evil. A forcible and impressive discourse was deliv. ered yesterday morning at the Church ofthe Medi- Ator, corner of Jefferson strect and Urmond place, Brooklyn. Two magnificent bouquets of rare and beautitul flowers adorned the altar. The music was excellent, Professor Navarro, the organist. wae in his happiest mood. Miss Crowell, the soprano, and Miss Purdy, the alto, with Mr. McCollum, tenor, and = Mr, Houghtaling, basso, sung with their usual good taste, and were devotionul and artistic. Tae chorus was also finely rendered, The rector’s discourse WAS listeued to by a largo, Jash- fonable, though devout audience, the text being found in Matthew, Xvill., 7:—“Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe unto that man by whom that offence cometh.” The Lord touches upon the course of evil, said the rector—the evil we meet with every day and everywhere, it 1s for man to overcome sin, to cure its evil; it is not God. Yet many blame God for their evils, and Ye and walt tor Cod to clean and make clean, But waiting gains nothing. “The hair may tara white, the grave may swallow you in, but you walt in vain. us has been unable to explain both sides of this text; yet He says, “For it mast needs be that offences come; but woe unto the man by whom the offence cometh.” The trouble 1s, man comes saort of doing or he over- does, A man may live and be, as it seems, like an angel, but the natural sin wil sometimes show itself, The history of society has ite evil and ita | good. The wisest men are apt to act like fools, and pubtic dois are apt to act iike clay; but ll is vanity, “but it must needs be that offences come.’ ‘fhe experience of evil 1s in the very act, When we jee) pain we know what pleasure is; when we feel sick we know what health is; when | we sin we know what right is. Wien sin comes it 1s by man, and it is man's will that gives the con- sent and by the will that it comes. The virtues and vices of men are found at their own doors. It 43 not his reagoning faculties, but his will, He has the power to rise up to heaven or sink down to hell. On every human soul lies the fortane of hts ule. It ia with His own bemg God touches the heart, and Jesus came, lived and died for sinful man; but at is tie will that is necessary for salvation. It is the dispost- tion of the will No man lives to himself, every one isin communion witn some one else, s0 woe to the man to whom sin comes. Every sin brings its own punishment, seeking more: selfish man is drying up in his own sell; a lustful man aing in his own lust; a worldly man swallowing up the vanities of wag world, Man ia responsible jor bis own acta the influence of men is the destiny of the futare. Let us in the future live the life of Jesus—o! Him who suffered and died for all. MADISON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. A Baptist Spiritual Sermon—Progresi in the Life to Come—Our Life Hore Determining Our Place on Entering Heaven. Quite @ large congrezation for the middle of August was assembled in the Madison avenue Baptist church yesterday morning. The Key. A. H. Burlingham, D. D., of St. Louis, Mo., preached a very lengthy sermon on our progress in heaven. He chose nis text from ‘fimothy IL, iv., 7-8—“I have fought a good fight: I have Gnished my course; Ihave kept the faith. Henceforth there is Inid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous jadge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but to all them = also that love his appearing.” Some definite connection be. tween the present and future life was doubtless words; he looked back over an eventiul career, tered unto the bovily a8 well as unto the spiritual Wants of His followers. He raised the dead, cured the stck und fed the hungry, Some, indeed, there | ere among us who can offer but & poor apology | for Ooristianity. How hard it is to make | men feel for their fellow men. If the re- | ligion of Jesus Ourist means anything it means | that you are to knock @t every door men’s bearts until you find admittance. Men's bodies atford avenues to their souls, and we si take the field opened to us, It ta the duty of the Christian to study and practice charity in strictest sense. We bring reproach upon our- gelves by letting s0 many about us die for want of food. The Church curtats its power by neglecting | these common means Of work to humanity. But how many will say, “{t is not worth while to preach that way.” “Give us the true Gospel.” | An! they know {ull well what ts right and what is | wrong. We neglect too muca the commandments Cnriat gave us on the subject of charity. There is too much of selfishness, jealousy and sectionalism | Know well that its constituent clements wili make | among us. The true road is the one laid out by our Saviour in the text:—“Whososver will be great among you, let him be your minister; and Whosoever will be clitef among you, lect him be your servant.” OHUROH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, What Constitutes Eternal Life—Sermon by the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D. D. There Is seldom, during the month of August, 60 jorge an attendance at any church as that which filled the new Chureh of the Hoiy Trinity, corner ot | yesterday morning’s services, The Rey. Stephen | H. Ting, Jr.—who, unlike most of our pastors, 13 \ taking no summer vacation—occupied his accus- | tomed place in the pulpit. The introductory ser- | vices were rather long, and would have been | tedious had it not been for the real excellence of | the choir’s einging. Dr. Tyog chose as his text | the First Epistle Gencral of John, v., 11—“And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.” The bounty of Jesus Christ's Gospel is something tangi- ble, The property of God is spiritual, but sub- stantial, and i\s substance 1s proven by a higher quality than sense—in fact, by something higher | than we possess. This fact is certain, whether we | accept Or despise tt. In the lie and death of Jesug | Christ ate enshrined the mantioid glits of God—in | His sacred biography sre tie absolute bicssings of God. To practteaily urge this point use the text | as something whtch will entitie you to BYERNAL PROPERTY. } The gubstanttat quality of t#e Gospel cannot fail to fmpress you. Ged has given us life from Him- self through fig Weloved Son, and the relation of | ther and God the Son. Our very breath is | ite Inspiration. Ail vhings are His. Before the eternal. His world is His bond. | His, His errand to man was one of grace, which First—It is His purity. You may look over the | nad long betore been decided. His life in the midst | of the poverty of the earth and Mis iznom-nious, | | death upon the cross were all foreign to His | divine nature, All you read on this subject from the Bible is bat the gradual devolopment o! a plan | which began even before the world waa born. What 18 the description of this cternal property? Perhaps in the Garden of Eden we have @ hint of this everlasting possession, Our text defines it ag evernal life, and concindes with the statement | thab whoever has the Son nas lie. The Gosyel fills | man with joy and vigor in the cays wnen he most needs spiritual strength and support. Christian You need not iose heart at any | Church to-day. We are ambitious tor the enief | hope makes this iuleritance real to the heart. | Faith anminbates thag, \ THE EVORNAL LPB includes the drvine savor af God. To be assured f | earnest Christian life will secure to him who liv | Must Forty-second street and Madison avenue, at the | man to the Father is througu Jesus Christ. ‘Tho | WI He was God, and He alone is | The Divine | character—what avout his liie—that can be imt- | Saviour stands in tris service asa substitute. The | | forlorn condition of those He came to restore Is | and it is asif he had sala, “My fight well fought, my course finished, my faith well kept are to make brighter my crown of righteousness.” The accu- mulated treasure of his life here was to enter into his life there. The relation of life to heaven is a eudject of no inconsiderable importance; a broaa, | religion exclusively; a true Christian life | | embrace all proper secular relations | and employments, and make them divine, The spiritual is the most essential etement, The | soul must be iiited and filed with God and waik and dwell with Him daily. He roust not shrink from the duties and sacrifices of religion. Such a | life, I say, will secure more of heaven. | _ But what do we ineam by saying that some will have a better and latger heaven. than others? We it a delight to all. But heavem hae resources be- | yond the po ppd of wny of the redeemed to- | exhaust, ‘The tance to} the highest glory. m | sources. He has not had-so much reference to us a8 ecaie belore they have reached God i® infinite and has Ing place. He has supped it-with saeh an abun- dance that when His redeemed ones shall be Batia- fled there shall remain unused asupply absolutely | | inflnite; and yet there should be no waste, God Himself tills ali these places. Mis must be a bound- Jessheaven. This heaven is mure to one than another, because some have more capacity for en- | joy.ng it than others, Such a lie as I nave de- seribed is God’s method of increasing our caracity. No one would think of disputing our ability to | increase our capabilities here. Earnest living can accomplign more in connection with a naturally strong character than with one naturally weak. By his living the original germ is enlarged, the im- | Mortal can loge nothing; its power shall survive the shock of death, 10 dite is only to the of immortality, that living increases its power, then itis@ matter of infinite concern how well | and how much We live a4 Christians. If we are | kindly, if we do good to others and drink deeper | and deepor of trust and receive our inspitation | from the Holy Spirit, if we rise to aplave nearer God, then shall we havo stored up our vantage ground in heaven, for we shail begin our journey With far greater promise than tt we bad hardly gained an entrance through the gates. In my future treatment of this subject I desire to present some points which illustrate how such & lie prepares one jor a HIGHER POSITION IN RAVEN | on first Haypdly dl The degrees of bappiness in heaven are nct based upon the absence of guil but upon the diversity of experience which mas! exist, Allare holy, but all nave not made equal progress, Men ditfer hero in attainments, why not there? It is not the lw of heaven to be alike, it 18 not questioned that these striking dis- tinctions go down to the grave; why not farther? at is there in death to make all alike in their capacities ? It is not always the most diligent student who Wins the laurels. The question of ability les be- hind, and, on the other hand, those possessing ability and Jacking diligence may lose them; 80 may Christians, of naturally impoverished intel- lect, by ardent Jollowing of God, have greater glory ip heaven than some on whom nature has lay- asked a weaith of mind, We stay here for a purpose, and it makes a vast difference whether we grow here or not, Our life here will cetermine whether we shall at once soar to @ bigh place or whether we shall crawl up. Your life here must in a great measure settle whether you reich heaven by the merest chance go 10 refreshed. | | | i pray for such @ place, humility that 18 woinstructive, place in heaven 48 the discipline of life will A covetous man Is always | se migaty saints who have gone be- | | fore forever wilh fave an umtravelied dis- | ade a heaven like Himeelfexhaustiess in its re- | to Himsell in making heaven. it is his own dwell- | cage and let the prisoner iree. {this be the law | weak and jaded, or whether you It is not a mark of piety to pray for a humble place in heaven; you never ought to It indicates @ kind of When I am re- leased irom this life I ought to desire as hi ay ' Peg. The in is answeri 0} on | ing. When you are most disheartened Jeans 18 of the body of Instead of ministering unto | that this love bas a divine perfection a rogre: Sepnee irom thee dine nature of our High eet. | saying. "eek and ye shall find, He thatseeketh others we want to be ministered unto. Let us | of all doubts. God Cd these cor pag oy Pim sana Abitiag sy on ee Seaver ‘Bi “How can one op and so far whed | fndeth.” Blessed promise! All may weil ‘Tgnest rather cultivate tion to serve and to be of | My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” | man’s conception of teaven 1s likely to rece! feel for the aS and hu- | at lest every earnest seeker shall the it service, Let ua ever keep before us the example ese Words are a sign of the Son’s inheritance. and color from his life here. Ail mapity?’ He iy the central fact | 8. of Him who leit the Throne of Heaven that @ cannot pass over this pro) in a dey, and | ideal phases of heaven which experience ‘placed of Chi that ‘the werd Nes! mains minister to the lowlest of m that man will find it a long walk wo endeavors to betore our lingering vision op paper, will, dowd “God was in ” “Onriet was and ie Emanuel, 8T, JOHN THE EVANGELIST. } egintrd—We ought to put on love. It has been | pass over this eternal property. God 18 this | less, be realized. A’soul must have progress come God with ue.” | Jesus- ‘on the throne of — / Said that “all that Jesus did was but the unfolding | day for Christ’a sake looking upon each eysurate with its own nature; it cannot be con- the universe tian ia here reminded that Tne Spirit in the Chureh—Sermon by | 42‘ expression of His Tove.” From the cradie to | One of you as reclaimed sinnera reconciled | fined within any Axed limits; it's unbounded; the assed, Or Hus nature o- mpptaes.. gat the Rev. Frank Hallam, ef Georgia— | a fn, otto love held Him jlea Ham surred am, 40, Jove. | thls is ine ba Gospel ina | soul cannot ’ ‘ angels Ly ty 5 ipported le was Le beseec! Ly become recon: c diless the debt of gratitude and whe base- | The Mission of the Clergyman—Hew 00 which the whole web of His life was woven. | toa God by showing oo the beauty oF Susie in heaven. God” PSA never pet e withering han disobedience In our troubies and trials | jxe Sometimes Falle—The Imfluence of °°, if We would be Christians, we ought to have | life and death as your Saviour, the Son in whom ts upon it. Where is Gabriel? Has he soared ni bat ners, ween) penetpene a nat secvernecs I the Hely Ghost and the Temple of God. tren eters ought to puton Christ more in | fee, Be written i i fhe Tecord, you have | higher than when God first plumed nis miant How thankful we ‘should be to havea fieod. in | The services at the Church of St. Joha the Evan- | A—We olight to put on obcatence. IrJesus | tito love of Ourist Though God's wercy ts um | Cave™ yy Wuere,, is, ian? 18 he no tartber, Christ, who not can sympathize, but can re- | geist (memorial to Bishop Wainwright) were con- | had any ambition It wag to be of service to mai changeable, his justice 18 inflexible. “By the | than when hé first went to heaven? Think {t not, 7. . ? Are od subject to pain of bedy? Jesus | the diocese of Georgia, | +8 to do the will of him that sent me and to finish | endure. He who clines to ¢ ae Ae onarele c fapeitanes Hieueus tobut “an Sealant vin of red ty apguish that you mught lovk | jy nis sermon the reverend gentleman took for his work.” Thor exposed tothe severest temp- | sufferer on God's bounty, but one who stands | God, if it brings us but one step nearer God. our i * a 5 a Has ny f been D Ppa ae Rear ntety t i | the Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians—“Ye So the leneak area het toy oe mrad eras ‘pe = | ed by oe Purpose i you ackudwicage your Gprating’ ives. eres aaventie more aetractty the grave of Lazarus and on TORS | are the temple of the living God.” ‘ne preacher ors in the lace and | allegiance to Christ. ‘he estate is so secured that | in that I shall pave the feliowship of all the agony of His mother. Is your character assalled, | said:—When we stand on an eminence we gain Was true to His Father's will, as the needle ts to | it can never be alienated from us, aud tne record | gone before. it eRe Another advantage secured to souls by Christian \fe is its reward, which God will bestow, It i¢ peer taught that God will reward the faithfal yy eternal blessings, God allows it, God en- courages it apd will forget nothing 10 the Mual summing up. WORSHIP IN THE WOODS. The Approaching Camp Meeting at Sing Sing. —— Preparations for the Forty-second Anntal Gathering of Methodists— Appearance of the Grounds—A Miniature Town Among the Trees, Once a year only does the vittage of Sing Bing Teap anything like a pecuntary harvest. This sea- son, ag 1s probably known to even children im arms there, commences and ends with the annual camp meeting. Stepping from a train at the railroad depot into one of the many ancient-look- ing vehicles drawn up in uncomfortable proximitg to the platform, and which are denominated “car- Tinges” in sonorous tones by the importunate drivers, the traveller is jolted over a dusty, rugged country road for about half an hour cre hi is deposited in a mintature city of tents, Here ts noticeable an absence of ali bustle, confusion or boisterous conversation, Even the atmosphere seems laden with a religious odor, Under these stately oaks for nearly half a century thd divine plan of ssaivation, as expounded by John Wesley, has bean from year to year elucidatea to thousanas of enthustastic worship- pers, with ail the fervor and impreasiveness which religions zeal has stamped upon some of the mas- ter minds of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh, A STROLL IN THE GROVE. During the past six weeks a force of men have been actively engaged preparing the grounds for the forty-second annua! gathering of the New York® Camp Mecting Association, which Lakes place next Tuesday and will continue teo days. A number of families Jrom New York and elsewhere have been domictied in the grove for.some weeks past, and sioce the first arrivals, early in July, the asaocias tion has this year considerately caused the grounas to be well lighted a! night by a sufficient number of.large kerosene lampa, with guitadle reflectors, Those families alinded to have also had the advantage of an abundant supply of good water, which, heretofore, has only beon conveyed to the grove with the aid of a bydrauic engine, during the actaal camp meeting days, Among the improve- ments effected since last year are the erection of @ substantial fence around the entire south side of the grounds, and an addition eleven new rooms of to the alre: CAPACIOUS LODGING HOUSE. ‘The last named structure will now afford accom. modations tor nearly 200 guests, who may selecs rooms, according to their size and location, a6 from $1 50 to fs per day. The visitor may observe three or four large boarding tents camp restaurants, capable of seating about 250 persons, who will pay ior, and perhaps receive, all the “delicacies of the season.” Ete ao ly! ment of rty, im whose ability and _ willingness render substantial aid and comfort to the inner man the committee of arrangements, as expressed by themselves, have full confidence, ‘There are also on the grounds a post office, books fe under the control } | store, grocery, Meat market, milk and ice de; express office, irait store, daguerrean gatie important, adry goods and notion store, wher the feminine portion of the praying flock may RENEW THEIR RUCHES AND RIBBONS, as the desire of that cex tc please is not 1orgottes Tnere have, thus far, been erected by the Camp Meeting Association 150 tents, each one i; | Darber shop, and last, though by no means leas readily amio their daily devotions. enough to comfortably contain a moderately aed | family, Out of this number only seventeen re mained not rented yesterdi morning, | although i might reasopably ove ite feried from the numbers of persons | who arrived by the steamboats and cars during | the forenoon, on sneir way to the camp Beek | grounds, that tbo few tents remaining unengage would be rapidly and eagerly secured by the. visitors, All ol the tents now occupied by families present a decidedly neat appearance, while some of them evince A LAVISHMENT OF LUXURIOUS TASTE part of their owners. Nor is music jacking | | on the | apprehended by the apostle when he wrote those | in this tranquil outdoor settlement, as ovcasion- | ally the soft melody of a parlor organ, or & har- | monium, steals through the deose foliage from onder snow white tent where a mild eyed devoveo Of Methodism is presiding at the manuals. Several Ol those temporary abodes of the faithful are tur- nished with croquet grounds tmmediately im the | rear, and at this and kindred amusements both | young and old may be seen at intervals enjoying | THE DEMAND FOR TENTS hemselves, | within the past week nas greatly exceeded that hould | it extraordinary advantages in heaven, Not | witnessed on any former occasion, and from toils | circumstance alone the committee in charge of | the grounds anticipate an unprecedentedly num- erous gathering this year, The project oi erecting { a number of handsome frame cottages on the grounds has not yet been put into execution. It | 1s understood, however, that the association has decided to iease lots—of perhaps 25 by 100 teet— | next yeur to parties who are only awaiting thé | Opporvunity to build cosey houses thereon, in | which they and tueir familics may rusticate in re- | tirement during the sweltering summer months, The exercises of the approaching meeting will be | under tne direction of Presiding Eiders Rev. 8. | Brown, D. D., aud Rev. M. D'0, Crawford, D. D, ‘whose names shou'd be at once a guarantee for its success. A cordial invitation is extended by the committee in charge, who usk the people of the city and country to “come up to this Feast of Tabernacles with faith and prayer, and God wii} give them the desire of thet hearts in the salva- ton of many souls.” | ST. ANTHONY'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS | Tne Dedication of a Catholic Parochial School—Trouble About the National Plag of Italy—Address of Dr. Brann. Yesterday afternoon the dedication of St. | Anthony’s Parochial School, situated at No. 60 Macdougal strect, between Houston and Prince, took place in the presence of several thousand spectators. St. Anthony’s church enjoys the repu- tation of being the Italian church of the city on | account of its pastor, Father Jacomo, being an | Itahan; but owing to an unfortunate question of nationality, which will be found described below, a number of the Italian branch of the charch absented themselves, although one of the main objects of the senool was to educate Italian children. The schooi in ques- tion is a large butiding, resembling in its exterior &@ tenement house, and has been used in its lower stories as a hardware establishment, It runs back fullya hundred feet, and is capable of ag: commodating 800 children, For the present only the top stories are to be used, and are fitted up with the modern style of school furniture. The direction of the establishment is in the hands of the Franciscan Sisters, at whose head stands Mother Superior There: and by six other Franciscan Sisters. The cost of the building so far has been $26,260, and the whole cost when fitted up will be $3,000 more, COMMENCEMENT OF THE CEREMONIES. At about balf-past three the jollowing societica filed through Macdougal street, all of them bearing magnificent religions banners:—St. Aloysius’, st. Anthony's, St. Bridget’s, Ancient Order of Hiner nians, St. Patrick’s Mutual Alliance Association, ft, Columbia’s, St. Peter’s, Holy Innocents’, st, Michael’s, Young Men's Father Matthew Aasocia- tion, No, 1, Varick street, and many others, Shortly afterwards appeared upon the sceno rae CHILDESN OF oie belong 0 Anthony's church, Meanwhile, Father iene and Fathers Jerome, Campbell and Andrews, of St. Anthony's, conducted the follow- ing clergy to Inspect the school house s—Fathe Qorran, of St. androw’s; O'Farrell, of St. Peters; Donnelly, ofSt, Michaei’s, and alter visiting the wame they professed themselves greatly pleased with the arrangemente, While this was going on @ band of music played national airs, ‘The inepeg for. } ought to desire ah at —. GALLERY TERNITY. | Abother beneMt of @ Chriation life Will consiat ia (OONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE)