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NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3], 1874. SPAIN. ‘Reinforcements for Puigcerda— Reported Carlist « Defeat. MADRID, August 30, 1874, General Lopez Dominiquez is marching to the Telief of Puigcerda. He arrived yesterday at Vich. ANOTHER ATTACK BY THE CAasisTs, ‘Tne Carlists have made a night attack on Puig. cerda and again been driven back, with heavy loss, ‘Thev have burned their dead and appear to be pre- paring to leave. REPORTED ENGAGEMENT NEAR RIPOLL, It is reported that the Carlists sumered heavily dm an engagement near Ripoll. RUSSIA AND SPAIN, The Text of Russia’s Note of Declination. VIENNA, August 30, 1874, The New Free Press publishes the text of a cir+ ‘cular pote from the Russian government, dated August 19, declining to recognize Spain. The note says:— 1 Russia cannot recognize a government which is ‘unrecognizea in its own country. She nas no wish to interfere with the internal affairs of Spain and favors no party thera She will onlel: com- municate with any government which possesses Jegal authority and promises to be permanent, ‘Germany and Austria are tree to act in tus wat- ‘Wer in accordance with their own interests, GREAT BRITAIN. ‘ Quarantine at Queenstown. Lonvow, August 31—5:30 A. M. Quarantine regulations have been put in force at Queenstown, which cause great hindrance to commerce, All persons are prohivited from leaving or embarking on vessels ‘rom ports in America, the West Indies, the Medt- “terranean and the Black Sea until it ts ascertained ‘hat such vessels have a clear bill of health, WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, August 30, 1874, Sales of Gold for September. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell gold dur- ing the month of September as follows :—$1,000,000 on the first and second Thursdays, and $500,000 on the third and fourth Thursdays, respectively, mak- ‘tng In all $8,000,000. Superintendent of Documents and Li- brarian of the Interior Department. ‘The Rey. J, G. Amos, of Uhic, has been appointed Superintendent of Documents and Libtarian of the Interior Department in place of C. C. Adams, who resigned to accept a prominent position in the Treasury Department. The Ten Per Cent Tax on Banking Notes. The sixth section of the National Bank Act pro- vides that “every national banking association, State bauk or State banking association, shall pay @ tax of ten per cent on the amount of notes of any person, State bank or State bahking associa- tion, used for circulation and paid out by them after the 1st day of August, 1866, and such tax shall be assessed and paid in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Rey- enue.” The Attorney General holds that the issue ofsuch bills is a paying out within the meaning of shese words as employed in the statute, and that ot only the association or bank which receives them and pays them out Is tiable to the tax of ten per cent upon the amount paid out, but that the association or bank which originally issues them, or otherwise pays them out, is also liable to the law. He also holds that an ordinary firm, stich, for illustration, as Smith & Jones, if engaged im the business of banking, is a State banking association within the meaning of the statute. Under this ruling the Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1s collecting the ten per cent., much 10 the surprise of parties Who protest against such gn interpretation. FIENDISH MORDER. A Man Robbed and Tied to a Rail- road Track—Terrible Struggles To Be Free—A Train Cuts Off 4 Foot and He Dies. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., August 30, 1874. August Gardver, a Frenchman, while walking on the railroad track near Henryville, Ind., last night, was attacked by three mea, who robbed him, tied him on the track over a small culvert and lett | him. Gardner succeeded in getting all the fastenings loose except those holding the left foot, ‘when & passenger train ran over his leg, cutting the foot off. He fell into the culvert, crawled out, jay there till morning and was then found. He ‘was brought to this city, where he told the above story and then died. THE PILGRIM FATHERS, Celebration of the Landing of the Eng- glish Colony at Sabine, 1607. PORTLAND, Me., August 30, 1874. ‘The anniversary of the landing of the English ‘solony at Sabine, August 19 (0. S.), 1607, was cele- brated at Port Popham on Saturday, About one ‘thousand people were present. Hon. B. C. Bailey, of Bath, called the assembly to order, and Gover- nor Dingley was called upon to preside. He said the day, the auniversary of which they had assem- bied to celebrate, was peculiarly a Maine day, They had met to commemorate the landing of the ‘Grat English colony upon these sores for the settlement of the Plymouth Colony of Massachu- Betts, As Maine Pen they had a right to cel- ebdrate an event of such significant importance in the colonization of the country. ‘then introduced Dr. Hoyt, of New York, as the orator of the day, who delivered a carefully Prepared and elaborate address, the,chief weature of which was tracing the history of the origin and progress of the settlement of Pemaquid 4n connection with the settlement in New York, under what is known as the Duke of York’s patent. A vote of thanks was passed to the orator, ‘Tne Governor and @ copy of the address asked for, for Publication and preservation in the ar- chives of the Maine Historical Society. Brief @peeches followea, the speakers being J. W. radbury, President of the Maine Historical So- clety ; rge P. Davis, R. R. Sewall, Rev. Mr. ‘Cushman and Hon. A. J. Gilman. The Doxology was then sung by the audience and a blessing pronounced by Rev. Mr. Cushman, ‘The Bath band was present and tue occasion was ® complete success. The Maine Historical Society Was well represented, DONALDSON’S BALLOON LANDED. PHILADELPHIA, August 30, 1874. Donaldson’s balloon landed about noon yester- Gay twenty-three miles north of Baltimore. AN EX-OONGRESSMAN DEAD, PORTLAND, Me., August 30, 1874, ‘The Ron. Joshua Herrick died at his residence in Alford to-day, aged elghty-two years and five months, He was born in Beverley, Mass., but re- moved at an early age to this State, and wasa “member of Congress from 1842 to 1945, INOENDIARY FIRE NEAR PORTLAND, PORTLAND, Me., August 30, 1874, At midnight on Saturday the carriage manufac- “ory of Daniel Livby, at Libby’s Corner, with all its contents, was set on fre and destroyed. The loss 48 about $4,000 and the insurance $2,000, A son eC Mr, Libby is suspected of being the incendiary, A WOOLLEN MILL BUBNED. Newsera, N. Y,, August 30, 1874, ‘The Valley Woollen Mills of Haigh & Mellor, near this. city, were damaged by fire this morning to the amount of $6,000; fully insured. Supposed in- cendiarism. BAD DROWNING AT PORTOHESTER, PortonEster, N. Y., August 30, 1874. Frank Stoutenburg, aged twenty years, while ‘bathing this aiternoon near Captain's Island, was taken with cramp and drowned. The “eceased and his aged mother were spending Sunday at Fanning's boarding bouse at Greenwich, Conn, A DROWNED BOY FOUND. i Care May, N.J., August 30, 1874 ‘The body of an unknown drowned boy, about “thirteen years of age, was found yesterday on the peach of South Seavilie, twenty miles from nere. Ic bore the appearance of having been several days in the water. The boy had brown hair and Jai front teeth, and wore drawers. The Cor- took possession Of the body and buried it on o1 $he beach, [BEECHER IN THE HILLS The Plymouth Pastor’s Sermon at the Twin Mountain House Yesterday. TOUCHING PRAYER AND PRAISE. Appearance of the Great Minister After His Ordeal. BLESSINGS ON PERSECUTORS. “Vengeance Is Mine; I Will Repay, Saith the Lord.” SYMPATHETIC SPIRITUAL UNITY. A Sermon with All the Olden Fire and Eloquence. Twin Mountain Hovss, N. Ba} August 30," 1874. ‘The Sabkath morning opened with a biue sky, flecked over with snowy clouds. The clear, brac- ing air of the mountains was tempered deliciously with the warmth of the sun, and the light that poured over the pine-clad hills all round cast giant shadows from the peaks far over the valley. All nature looked bright and expressive of cheer, and the guests at the Twin felt its full influence, From all parts of the compass, within a circuit of thirty miles, vehicles of eyery description came rattling up in front of the hotel, depositing their burdens of prayerful people. Many an ancient New Hampshire conveyance, coeval with the callow day, of the late lamented Horace Greeley, rumbled in with its load of wrinkled age and peachy youth. Light spring wagons of the latest build whirled along by pairs of dainty steppers and piloted by tall column “swells,” came up with a sharp turn before the piazza. Large coaches, filled with hotel guests, emptied themselves. There were special trains—one from Fabyan’s and another from Little- ton—wnhich brought their composite crowds, All Seemed cheerful and happy, and some to whom the great Brooklyn preacher was a stranger in the flesh exhibited a mildly tittelated curiosity. Ser- vice was to be held as usual in the large parior, and the guests were privately admonished to take their places early. Rows of temporary benches for the outsiders were placed along the centre of the room, and facing these benches was a platform about ‘eighteen inches high, from which Mr. Beecher was to deliver his sermon. A HAPPILY MOULDED MAN. At a quarter to eleven o’clock there were fully five hundred persons in the parior, with perhaps one hundred standing without, and at ten min- utes to the hour Mr. Beecher entered and stepped lightly upon the platform. He had risen and breakfasted early and looked in splendid health aud spirits, his blue eyes clear and Juminous and a rubicund gleam ail over his face. In such moments Mr. Beecher looks a happy moulded man of high animal spirits, and from this physical ex- terior one can readily .trace how, as his sermon went to show, with him liberality is the unique doctrinal test; heart is more than head; that the body is valuable as well as the soul; that love should be sacred lavishly, and better unwisely and too well than not given forth at all. A SIGNIFICANT HYMN. When all were settled down he rose ana an an- nowncer® the 1o2a Hymid— ~” 4" My soul repeat His praise, whose mercies are 80 great. It contains two touching verses, in the reading | of which the preacher’s voice trembled. Our days are like the grass, or like the morning flower, |_Ifone sharp blast sweeps o'er the field it withers in an Bat thy compassions, Lord, to eridless years endure, And children's childien ever And thy words of promise It seemed as if he felt then that asharp blast, indeed, had passed over his gray hairs and bowed his head in sorrow, but that something super- human had buoyed him ap through it all. Yes, after all his trial there he stood, with that sense of latent power visible in nim which we recognize in the war horse as he champs the bit and paws the ground, He was anxious to begin his sermon. He was sure that every word of it woald teil. When he haa finished reading the hymn he sat down, but no one began the hymn; so after a brief pause he sald, “Is there anyboay can start the tune of Boylston?’ A thin voice, like that of an uncertain-aged maiden aunt, began to faintly pipe the hymn; then another ‘woman's voice was heard; then a man’s; and be- fore the second line was ended the entire congre- gation were wrestling like athictes with the mel- ody. The reporters at the table, particularly the Bostonians, joined in with vigor, if not with pre- cision. “BLESS THEM THAT PERSECUTE YOU.’? Mr, Beecher then read the tweifth, or Golden, chapter of Romans, whose grand recital of Curis- tian dutics, lofty reproot of unchristian selfish- hess and beautiful injunctions of human brother- hood are beyond even Mr. Beecher's power to re- touch orimprove. The chapter was read with fine emphasis, and where the Apostie enjoins the Christian, “Bless them that persecute you,” he seemed fairly laboring to do so, but it was evident further on that he had laid his trouble away with the passing of this chapter, reptete with the spirit of mystical Nemesis—“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” PRAYING FOR TOLERANCE AND FORGIVENESS. Mr, Beecher then called on the brethren to unite in prayer. His orison was eloquent and beautiful. He called on all to rejoice in the fresh and calm of the morning; he prayed for a blessing on all pres- ent, coming from a hundred sources as they did, each with his thread of life-history, of family, of friends, of joy and suffering, each differing, but all united in one purpose here. He prayed that the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness might be among us. “We need, 0, Lord!» he cried, “help to be forgiving, and Thou art the fountain of forgiveness, Let us not sit down in remorse; bemoaning our mistakes, May we forget the past. We are not Ghildren of the darkness.” His voice was full of emotion, and he prayed on Jervidly for those struggling against evil, for those “making toward good,” as Mathew Arnold says. He asked mankind to be knit and bound together all the wide world over, As he ended the prayer he an- nounced the clarion hymn :— Awake, and sing the son; Ot Moses and the Lamb. MR, BERCHER’S MANNER AND RLOQUENCE. The sermon which followed, and which will be found below, he delivered with all his old fire and vim, No such spirit as his could jong ite crushed under any trial. It would kill him to silence him. The marveilous physical recuperativeness of the man glowed like @ rising sun on the tide of his eloquence, making his words shine witha beauty of which cold type can convey no idea. Attacking tne idea of external unity in Christ's Church from the ridiculous side.he caused many a smile, even if he convinced but few of the hard doctrinarians who listened with @ cold grin to his inveighing against the sects, who, like Dryden's Jebusites, consider themselves God Almighty’s gentlemen. His sailies of humor were well appreciated. His description of a dry-natured man, probably a Scotchman, as one whom you might soak in @ joke for a month without getting it through his skin, will stana beside Sydney Smith’s declaration - that to get it through his head would require @ surgical oper. ation. He applied the sympathy for our neighbors to the congregation by saying that we would all be glad to see our neighbors get a seat alter we had got one ourselves. He showed how difficult it is for him to resist saying a gooa | suing hynatentnatioaly padipg to his statement of all present being gentlemen and iadies, “for the time being.” He spoke a iittle Over an hour, and seemed fresh at the close. The text for sermon was from the chapter he had read—‘“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same ofice, so we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.”—Romans, xit,, 4-5. THE SERMON. Is this sympathetic unity a peculiarity of the chureh life? Are these words meant to explain simply this; that when a great numoer of persons @re joined ina church connection they are in & epiritu: ympathetic unity, Yes, it means that; but it means that on the way to something a great deal larger than that, It is the declaration that the ideal condition of the human race is one in Which mankind are knit together by a sympathy which makes one man @ brotwer to another man, and tuat, too, as is explained by the apostle Paul in Coriathtans, the twelith chapter, without regard to bis nationality, or sect, or Condition 1 iile, whether bond or tree, Jew or Gentile, in the Chureb or out of the Church, THE IDEAL CONDITION or that condition into which God's providence is steadily conducting the races oi the world, and which they wili reach when they shall be ripe, 1s | the condition in which every man shall leel every | other man 18 part of himsell; or in other worda, in which every man shall feel as @ parent ieels in tne 1amily, where every person In the household is in one sense part of himself. Mankind will yet come to that coudition in which nothing will be so near to the heart of man as man, without regard to the tact of relationship, kindred, interest or neighbor- hood, The mere fact that one 18 a human being will open and kindle the human beart toward him in all sympathy and in all kindness. It is of this matter of the sympatuetic unity of goul with soul that I shall speak this morning. THE CHURCH a3 A SCHOOL, Ihave said this: was not a question of the arti- ficial lie of the Church, and let me say that [ look upon the Church simply as an instrument, as an educating institution, by which God attempts to diffuse the light and the knowiedge of true man- hood to the race, [tis subservient institution; 1b is not itseif @ primary end; it is secondary. It 48 full of grandeur and excellence. It ts simply a servant doing its Master's will, ior God’s purpose ig the salvation of the world, It is the deliverance and elevation of every living human being on globe that lies before the Divine mind as the Teason and the motive of administration, through the periods of time, and the Church bears relation to tis great end, just as the common school bears relation to the prevalence of intelligence through- out the community. We believe in schools and academies, but we believe in the community more than we do even in them; and their value les in vUhis—that they are biessing the community. Not that they are themseives sacred; they are good for what they do, and not for what they say, and the Church is good for what it accomplishes. That which is greater than any Church is that for which the Church itself was createc—namely, universal mankind, We are thereiore to suppose not that God is working for the Jews or Jor the Gentiles, for the Asiatic or ‘or the African, for the Euro- pean or for the American, but for ail of them. We are not to suppose that Divine Providence is watching over good people, virtuous people, heaithy people. He watches over the good ana over the bad. His SUN AND RAIN FALL ALIKE upon the human mind, and the Divine purposes have respect w every one, without regard to na- tionality or condition. ‘Vhat is the ideal state, aud toward this feeling of sympathy, of benevolence and 0i love, man for man, the world is perpetu- | aliy tending, Now, when we speak of that unity which ali mankind are seeking We sball not be able to form & just opinion respecting it unless we take into consideration this internal unity, Everybody wants unity in the churcnes, everybody ia striving to unite the churches, and there will be no difti- culty in uniting churches externally; but what ad- vantage would it be in a village {1 persons should all agree that they ought to be united and should remove their houses together, 80 that they touched each other, and should all call themselves by the one name “Adams,” and should all have breakfast at the same minute, at the stroke of the bell? They might thus march as soldiers on parade in an eXternal physical, mate- rial unity, but tt would not raise a single one a step in the scale of intelligence or make him Kinder or better, or destroy his prejudices. It would do no good, and yet the ciurches have been calling lor unity, and each separate church has sougnt to estabiisn unity by bringing all men to accept its jeter? doctrines and modes of government, ut that is vot the kind of unity which 1s needed, THE TROUBLE WITH SECTS, | The fact that there are separate denominations of sects is of little account, if they only behave themselves and do not quarrel and are not arro- gant anddo not pretend that they are the only People that Know God, aud do not Claim to be or- dained to rule over their tellow men, and do not sit on their peculiar throne, according to their Church order, and say to others, ‘Bow down to us when you hear our sackbut and psaiteries.” It 1s not that there are 80 many sects, but that they are 30 Weak In that which is good and so strong in that which 1s bad. That makes the trouble. 1¢ is mot organic unity nor unity of belief exactly that should be sought. L never saw @ man that was big enough to report the wnoletruth in respect to anything that he looked at, and it has not been considered safe, eae: a Mean Where that Bean nae of men ; 28, to put everything in everybory, yne man car- | Fies sd "ugh, anotter. so much find Motors much, and it takes twenty men to make on souud man. Different men represent different elements, but no one man represeuts all elements, Tbis thought Mr. Beecher enlorced by a variety of striking thustrations, in which the hopeful man and the cautious man, the reflective man and the perceptive man, tne cool, coliected man and the ; enthusiastic, impetuous man, the sympathetic Man and the ee aD en EG Man, the generous man and the selfish man, the proud man and the humble man, were all made to play a part. Allud- ing to the dry natured man he sald, you might soak him ina joke for a month, and it would not get through the skin. It is not by unity, but by ORGANIZED VARIETY, | that a community is strong, and the Church of Christ is strong, not by its likeness but by its differences. Suppose every man in a town was a blacksmith and nothing else, Fortunately it is not so. Some are tanners, some are hatters, some are weavers, some are carpenters, some are printera, some are farmers. ‘Tne town isrich by the variety of its urtieans and the | Church is rich in the variety o1 the elements which @re represented by its denominations. How pre- posterous it is, therefore, for any Courch to under- | take to give @ solution of the nature of God, which | involves every concetvable question of human dis- osition, for there is only so much of God as we jave sparks Of tn Ourselves that we can compre- hend. God laughs when He sees (oolisn man try- ing todo such things. It is against nature. All | the strifes and quarrels in the different sects, to bring everybody to see things as they see them, are waste work. They are trying to do that whicn will never be done. You cannot have EXACT UNITY OF BELIEF from the very structure of the human mind; but | | there 1s a kind of unity which you can have, and that is the unity or bo in the bond of perfect, | sympathetic unity. When men like each other and move together and think togetuer, they may think differentiy, there is unity. ence is perfectly compatibie with unity. Are there not four parts to a good tune, und do not all these parts help each other? The differences are only methods of unity, provided they are concordant. In this Twin Mountain House to-day there 1s more unity than in any church or sect in Carist- endom, although there are hardly two of you of the same name. You are crowded together here under circumstances of great inconvenience, and yet yousre polite. Each of you 18 willing that all the others should have a seat after you have got one yourselves. There is no strife here. You are harmonious, You wish well to the house and ali that are init. You are kindly disposed to believe what Isay, and yet you are of many difler- ent churches and sects, There is a genial kindly sympathy prevajent here, in short, you are gen- tlemen and ladies. For the time being everything moves in unison, and I will venture to say that there is nota room in this house where there will not greater happiness after the services of this morning. I will venture to say Rigo A will feel more kindly toward each other and nearer to gach other and more helpiul ol each other during this week, for the experience of this morning; and [I ask you ff unity like this is not the best kind of unity? By this SPIRIT OF SYMPATHY all hatreds and ail injurious conduct, under differ- ent forts, are done away. It forbids envy and jealousy of every kind. It forbids all indifference to others, all neglect of them and all carelessness toward them, and, on the other hand, iv en- joins solicitud for the welfare and happi- ness of otiers, It makes it one’s duty to sympathize with our fellow-men of every class, at all times and under all circumstances. If envy and jealousy only squeaked like rusty hinges there would be @ nolse in the community as if Bedlam were let loose. But envy and jealousy go out in masquerade. They are cloaked under pleasant forms. In the feeling of the mother for her chul- dren we see something of the good time coming. She has many children; she does not neglect the* son of twenty-one nor tie son of twelve, but it is the infant in the cradle who 1s the master of them all. She cares for them in the ratio of their needs, This is the type of the great Christian motherhood Which is to come, the law of strength, of violence, of pain and of power. Still RULE THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSEHOLD, It is far off, but the day ts coming when tls bond of aympathy will spread irom the household to the neighborhood, to the nation, and finally embrace the world. Good nature, if not a grace, is the nurse of all the graces, Let us be kindly to those who are beneath us. L remember a carpenter who said he would be pleased for a week because [ Bpoke to him on the street. We can let others less fortunate get a few beams from the light which we leave on our track through the world, Indifference to men ts @ sin. ir. Beecher dweit at jJength on the various ties of sympathy which obtain in the world. As it is we sympathize with our kin, We sympathize with our neighbors. With our brothers of these sects we have our sympathies. If sects of vices, of pleasures, we sympatnize according to vur tastes, and this rightly qualified no man should be denied, ‘The parable of THE GOOD SAMARITAN ‘Was used to illustrate neighboriiness, Mr. Beecher remarking that the poor Israelite lay, aiter being left by the robbers, as if he had been in Wail | But Jove sufereth ong ana is kind. It envieth not, stree! The whole human family, he said. is one and God is the father, and you are united by Christ into on Of love, — fogk mb the UALR great Nousehold | Average temperature for corresponding date ‘wap, Spring up and judge them accoratng to this 1aw which I have been developing, We feel ourselves jusufed in great indignation and great vindic- tiveness tuward all tuose who have, by vice or crime, forfeited their place and their citizen’s right in society. I think the horror with woich we teach our children to look upon thieves and bur- giars and harlots is one of the most pitiful of pos- sible commentaries on human nature. Jadged by this higher ideal, what @ state of things in which, when men need the most and are dying for want of somebody to suffer for them and to take care of them and to bear with them because they are sinfui! There is not & church or an individual tnat knows how to suiler for the outcast as Jesus Christ suffered for the whole world, His enemies including. After still jurcher elaborating the duty of showing sympathy to our fellow men’ Mr. Beecher concluded as {ol- jows:—Oh, my friends, it 18 ineffably sweet to be right in this regard. He who ts right by the force of conscience is never so happy as he who is RIGHT BY THE FORCE OF LOVE, for conscience is @ hard master and’ carries a straight rule. The more acute your conscience is to inspire you to duty the more it tormenta you when 2 violate your duty. Conscience 1s a des- pot. It almost never smiles. It sits and scowls, and its business is to Magellate rather than reward. It vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up; doth not behave itself uncivilly; seeketh not’ its own, Love transcendent shall avide when doc- trines and ordinances and churches shall have = passed = away; = when —_noth- ing shall remain but’ the — supreme | Moral sentiments of the sou Faith, hope, love, above all other things, high as the spire of a cathe- | dral 1s above the rvof or the foundations, shall exist, for they are God, and are yet to be God over all blessed, because blessing torever and forever. APTER THE SERMON Mr. Beecher referred to tne retiet of @ minister in the mountains by the benevolence of former Sab- bath gatherings here, and appealed on behalt of a | widow, with five young children, upon whose lit- tle iarm there rested a mortgage of $500. A gen- erous subscription was the response, in the cous | tribution to which Mr. Beecher was pleased per- | sonaily to see that the gentiemen of the press were permitted to share, HAGEMAN ON BEECHER. Boecher, the Modern Abelard—The Scan- dal a Death-blow to Free Love Doc- trines=Beecher’s Sense in Appointing | His Own Committee. Last evening Apollo Hall, in Williamsburg, had over 2,000 people in it to listen to the Rev. S. Miller Hageman on the “Great Scanaals and their Lessons.” Hundreds were turned away, there not being room for them. Before the sermon prayer Was offered for the great preacher who had ‘just come out ofthe fire untarnished.” The pastor then took for his text Jeremiah, ix., 18:—“And the ravens brought him bread.” He began by saying { the greatest scandal which has ever taken place in history, all things considered, since the days of the famous émmorale between Abelard and Héloise has come to a close. The circum- stances which gather around the case render It | fascinating ; 50 mysterious the shadows, so solemn the silence, 80 grave the oifeace, so conspicuous the actors, so deep the plot, above all so eminent the man standing charged as a teacher sent from God to the people, that it stands in history alone. It has the two events in common with that of Abelara and Héloise; Beecher in every respect | sage that.ef established guilt is the Abelard of the | age fin ministers, both brilliant, both orators | ofa continent. There is another element of similarity in both. It gathers sadness, and shame, It leaves its shadow on & mother, a wile, a | woman. It has sent a broken heart like the beautitul Héloise tothe convent and cowiof a darkened grief, Whatever is or is not true, the most indecent exposure, the most unmitigated dishonor, the most uncivilized holocaust of human ; history. In sad and appalling juxtaposition to this great centered scene, six other figures here ap- pear, within only a short time, all clothed with royal authority irom God, a8 his messengers, all | charged with the highest commission that men can carry through the world, and all responsible for | their pro‘ession and post to the pubitc. Brethren, shall we be sensational or severe, if for the dignity of the Churcn, the honor of the ministry, the defence of christ in His cause, for the instruction and re-enforcement of the popular mind we pause seriously on such specta- cles of high guilt in holy place and interpret its | lessons and uses as Overruling providences of God \ to the public. [am not here as a propuet to pro nounce a prophecy or to utter a fancy. lam with | a grand stahd tor the accommodation of a band, —TRIPLE SHEET. PRESIDENT GRANT. His Visit to the Home of John M. Forbes. Reception Soiree at the Vineyard. The Services Attended by the Executive Yesterday. Martia's VINEYARD, August 30, 1874, General Grant could never have selected a more auspicious time jor his visit to Cape Coa and Martha’s Vineyard than the week which has just closed. Ever since ne left New York, on the City of Peking, last Wednesday morning, the weather has been the most charming of the summer sea- son, and whether on land or on sea the elements have so satisfactorily deported themselves as to merit grateiul recognition from the most {astidi- ous of pleasure seekers, Everything, in fact, bas combined to render the Executive wanderings Pleasing and entertaining; and when the distin- guished guest returns to Long Branch it will prov- ably be with most hearty feelings of pacification and satisfaction, mingled with the fatigues and excitements of the numerous ovations which have been forced upon him at every polut. There have been numerous occasions which have afforded quiet seciusion irom the enthusiastic crowd and opporvunities for enjoying intercourse with his more intimate friends and acquaintances. Yesterday, more than any other day since leay- ing New York, was given up to private enjoyment, the only exception being a complimentary soirée given in the evening at the Seaview House on the Biuflg, The greater portion of the day was spent with Mr. John M, Forbes, at his summer residence, on NAUSHON ISLAND, about a dozen miles distant trom the Vineyard. The party went over ina special steamer, and be- sides the President and Mrs, Grant, included Post- master General Jewell, Miss Barnes, daughter of the Surgeon General, Miss Campbell, sister-in-law of General Babcock, Bishop Haven, Mr. Hoyt and daughter, of New York, and ex-Governor Stearns, of New Hampshire. When the steamer reached the island, Mr, Forbes and the President rode over to the Naushon mansion in the saddie, and the rest of the party were provided with carriages, THE SOIREE, Nearly the whole day was spent here, the party returning to the Vineyard early in the evening, in time for the reception tendered by the guests of the Sea View House now sojourning here. This was a most brilliant and enjoyable occasion, and was participated in by several hundred ladies and gentlemen, the latter appearing in full dress and the fair sex im the choices! and most elegant toilets which a refined taste or a craving desire for display could possibly conceive. The event was largely shared in by all who happened to be at the Vineyard Savurday evening, those who were not favored with cards of invitation contenting themselves by crowding the corridors and piazzas of the mammoth hotel and peeping through the windows fora glance at the Execu- tive lion. There were thousands of these coming and going all the evening, and the scenes outside were scarcely les8 enlivening and briliiant than those inside. The rustic policemen who were on duty at the various doorways and passages found their authorivy was not respected, and early in the evening they surrendered to the multi. tude. It was @ sover and good nati red crowd, though, and everything was eminently pleasant all round, The recéptiod took place in the spacious dining hall of the hotel, and probably not less than & thousand ladies and gentlemen were presented | yothe President during the evening. The room | Was most profusely decorated with fags, streamers | and flowers, and at One end of the hall was erected which disc vursed Recon ert during the evening. The cloth” was most liberaily represented in the presence of the greater portion o1 the Methodist | clergy in attendance at the camp meeting, and be- you @ stranger to dying testimony and ‘girlhood’s | grave. 1am here to speak to the reflective heasts of the masses, pondering this affair avxiously and | iudeterminately in their minds. In Scripture many | great scandals have occurred, but God Jet no one | Of them go by without practical application, The | first Jesson 1s a lesson to ministers, it has several particulars. It shows, first, emphatically, | that while & Minister 1s @ man, yet he ought to.be the very best expression of , & man, the finest portraiture of God manifest in | flesn fired seven times im gold. I regret the | theology that regards a minister as a persistent | Apostie in any successive sense of continued or | cumulative inspiration. I protest against any- | thing and everything, in creed or church, which Itt @ mifister as an apostle ex-cathedra or incathedra above his people. He is not simply a waite | cravated iunctionary, with a tall vest, a long coat, | a longer face and a diabolical intonation of words and music tortured out of every shape of the laws ofelocution or musical rendition. ‘The minister 13 a citizen, a townsman, a Catholic; never an autocrat. His lite, not his trap- | pings, must ve his badge, He must be | greatas an artist in progressive holiness, and then | he will be a great preacher, for God is uttering a | Message 10 him. There are Many things that lead | to ialse entnronment of cleric dignity, one of these | ecclesiastical noms de plume or sobriquets by which & man {s put at once peculiarly beyond other men. The epithets vary in different churches, ; inone it is a D. D.—a doctor of divinity. Like | every other doctor men are very apt to be fright. ) ened and run away from «his doctrines and diagnosis, and leave an empty church on his hands. | Aguinst all this conferring of D, D.’s by college | aiter college, againgt ail this expecting it and wondering why it don’t come I protest. The | Bible sounds out “call no man Rabbi,” Christ | among His | worshippers retuses to be | crowned. I honor such men as Beecher, | Spurgeon, Hyatt Smith and Talmage ior resisting and denouncing on several occasions | this aristocratic nomenciature as utterly unbe- | coming in the pulpit. The day will dawn when | together with pulpits, gowns, genuflexion, read | sermons, written lor style, not jor souls, will fade away in a better, stronger future. Every minister, | then, 13 @ man, the best expression of a man, but | One with all other men; he is not an autocrat or | | aristocrat save in the royal aristocracy of holiness that fiuds kindred lmeage in the heart of God. Such scandals, instead of detracting from the ideal of the tiinistry, ought only to plant it as the piltar | and ground of the (ruta as high as the throne of | God in heaven. The second lesson to-nignt is to | teach them that all, no matter how scattered in | spuce, shoulder tosshoulder, in convivic fellowship, ‘here is & cannabalism of character among the ministry in many instances which 1s never seen in a Fiji Isiander. We are all in | war together to one music, one step, broken only a3 an army 1s ordered to break step on crossing @ | bridge, on the bridge of death. We must all stand | by Beecher asa preacher, as & man, irrespective of his doctrine or nis theology, until it is _unanswer- ably shown that he is gulity, That has not yet been shown, being far from it. This scandal is a. lesson to ministers to study human nature, that they May discriminate men. As a general rule ministers are the most verdant set of men ex- tant; they are cheated at every corner and made the subjects of counterieit, Their trust is vio- lated. The man who would pay hush money ts @ mistaken, weak man for that occasion; the man who takes it is a scoundrel of the first stamp. The second lesson is that this scandal 1s the death warrant of iree love. The speaker expatiated forcibly on this fact. The lessons were as follows:—First, @ lesson to @ man not to put himself. in the hands of @ power outside himself; second, @ les- gon to the press as the conservators and instructors of public thought; third, @ lesson on the religious art and function of letter writing the best instance of which ts Dr. James Alexander’s letter for forty years; fourth, a lesson to churches and ecclesiastical complainers, Beecher was right in appointing as a committee a court of six honest, unquestionable men; he was right in having his own case judged by his own people: they knew the truth and the circumstances as no others knew it. If the public is dissatisfied, or any man representing the public, they have their remedy in court. Mr. Hageman then concluded amid enthusiastic | excitement, wnich nearly overflowed itself, not- | withstanding his dignified appeal to the audience that no such manilestation should be made. In closing he relerred to the verdict of Plymouth church, expressed his unqualified faith in Mr. Beecher, founded on the fact of his thorough Christian manliness, He believed he was too manly to tell adeliberate lle, and let it go down by day and night through generations to history and to God, He beiieved the unqualified denial of his guilt on the part of the great preacher, in the absence of collateral proof to tne contrary, shail siand as his world-wide vindication and reinforced greatness, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s | pharmacy, HERALD Building:— 1873, 1873, “~ ++ 88 1874, 60 «8:30 P. 6A. 58 73 | 9A. 65 63 | 2 Masseee seve 19 4 WPM 65, Average temperature yesterday. +. 61% sides these, the Occasion was participated im by many prominent laymen of the President's relig- fous denomination. THE INEVITABLE POLITICIANS and office-holders were aiso on hgnd, as smiling and serene as & summer morn, and eevee, | the mamber were such veterans as Postmaster Burt, of Boston, and Congressman Buflinton, of Fall River. Such as Boutwell, Loring and the Boston Collector were conspicuous only on account of their absence, and as for Butier, he has not been seen or heard from since the President invaded the State. Probably he 1s looking out for his cbances in the Cape Ann district and can’t well spare time to come down to Cape Cod at this critical moment. Among the representatives of independent journalism present was the genial “Brooklyn Joe,” of a well known illustrated weekly and journal of civilization, whorode in the | Tangs: same carriage with the President to and trom the acene of the levee. The Bench and Bar were rep- resented by Judge Colt, of the Supreme Court, and ex-District Attorney Gillett, of Westfeld, and aniong the prominent professional gentiemen | Present were the Hon. Stephen N. Stockwell, the | vetern editor of tne Boston Journal; Charles W. Slack, of the Commonwealth; Manager Folsom, of the Boston and Provi- dence Ratiroad, and Manager Blood, of the Combination of Massachusetts Railroads, which begin everywhere and end nownere. The cere- | monies of “reception” occupied almost an hour, | the visitors being presented by Sergeant-at-Arms Morrissey. Subsequently the tnvitea guests par- took of an elegant collation of substantial solids and invigorating liquids, after which there were some Terpischorean festivities, which were con- tinued uncil midnight. The President did not mingle actively in these, but returned to his cot- tage at the peayecea ny early hour of eleven o'clock, there to seek the repose which the fatiguing bulla- baloos of ail the week had rendered so desirable, EXECUTIVE ATTENDANCE AT DIVINE SERVICE. Both this forenoon and this afternoon the Presi- | dentand Mrs. Grant and Mr. Jewell attended | divine services at the tentin the grove. Bishop Haven ofMfciated at the morning service, and reached a powerful discourse, in which he en- joined upon all to pay less attention to worldiy atfairs and prepare for the glory of the life nere- ater. At the early morning love feast the Postmaster General was present, and at the close he made a brief address, remarking that he was deeply | touched by the exercises and scenes around him, and that if such sentiments prevailed throughout this land there would be an elevation. of public sentiment and an increase of the national great ness which would place America foremost among the nations of the earth. ‘Tne attendance of the President at the meeting has attracted the presence of thousands during the day. Probably not less than 50,000 people have been upon the island, and most of them will remain during the night. Special trains and boats were run from Boston, Providence and New Bed- ford, and all were heavily loaded with gay throngs of humanity, who have mingied freely and pleas- antly in the reigious as well as the secular fes- tivities of the Vineyard. THE CLOSE OF THE CAMP, To-morrow the President will visit New Bedford and be hospitably lionized, and immediatejy upon | his departure the Doxology will be sung, the bene. | diction pronounced and the camp meeting of 1874 will have passed into history. “QUT OF THE DEPTHS,” Recovery at Rockaway of a Drowned Newarker. A telegraphic despatch was received in Newark yesterday from Rockaway, stating that the body had been recovered of J. W. See,@ young gen- tleman of Newark, who, while on a fishing excursion with other young Newarkers, was drowned last Wednesday morning off Coney Island. It appears that on last Tuesday afternoon young See, together with W. E, Rothery, Matthew Rothery, George D. Haynes, J. Weed and William Sideasy chartered the yacht Katie, of Newark, and started on @ few days’ fishing excursion. ‘That night they —_ reached off and anchored in the cove at Coney Isiand. In the morning, about four o'clock, they weighed anchor and stood out for the Narrows, with @ brisk breeze blowing and quite: a rough sea. The Katie was under a full press of canvass young See had charge of the lines, trolling for bluefis! and suddenly a boom swung around and knocke him overooard. Being an var swimmer, his companions at first feared not for his saiety, and threw him an oar. His heavy clothing, and the dimculty of stopping and wearing round of tne yacht were ‘ainst him, and, before assistance could reach him, he sunk to rise no more alive. After spending hours trying to recover the body, his gricf-stricken companions turned away, and two of them proceeded to Newark to convey the dreadful tidings to See's rents, the Rey. Mr. and Mrs. I. M. See, of the Wickliffe street Presbyterian church. The effect of the heartbreaking news on the parents can be more Teadily fancied than described. Ever since the occurrence Mr. Rothery and the others have kept up @ close search for the body, but nothing was seen or heara of it till yesterday, as above stated, Last evening Rothery, Haynes and Weed started for Rockaway to take charge of the body, which is in possession of Coroner Ramsey, at the Sea Side Hotel. Deceased was a young man, twenty-one FOAL rans wreesaacenceredrepegnggernqers years of age, Of fine promise ana employed here in tua cllv Ja phe Rkesbxtenian fibie Houag, | of 7 THE CONFLICTING RACES. The Attcrney G-neral’s Opinion and Recome mendation in the Matter—The Whit:s the Aggressors—The President's Position. WASHINGTON, August 30, 1874, The announcement that Attorney General Wik Nams was about to make a pilgrimage to Long Branch lor the purpose of tayipa before the Presi- dent the stories of Southern radicals of outrages Upon the co'ored people, and that he will invoke action at the hands of the President, naturally creates much comment here. What course Will be advised by the Attorney General, whether 4n Executive proclamation, or tue employment of the military, or prosecutions of whites by the United States District Attorneys in all the cases of face conficts, is not yet known, but it 1s deemed certain that he will recommend VERY VIGOROUS MEASURES. The Southern conservatives are just now watchs ing the course of President Grant with much anxl- ety and with an interest by no means unfriendly, many of them believing that the lately disclosed treachery and hostility to the President of promt, nent Northern republicans, as well as the noto-. rious actions of such politicians as Moses, Patterson and Kellogg, will make him less ready to accept partisan statements to the prejudice of the South- ern whites. Some of these conservative politicians now in the city say it is no new thing tor Mr, Wil- liams to be their enemy, and that from him the South can expect nothing but prejudice and mis- construction; that the letters which go to the Attorney General from the South are written wholly by one side, and being private, are far less trustworthy than the news. paper accounts of the diMculties te which they refer, They declare that for the Presi- dent to take any action on such ex varte state- ments or even to allow his judgment or feelings to be influenced by them would be MANIFESTLY UNJUST? and they suggest that before yielding an ear to the hostile suggestions of Judge Willtams it would po well for the President to hear the other version of these transactions, either by the reports such representative Southerners as Gen- erais Kershaw, Gordon, Forrest, Duke and Bristow, or by reports of trustworthy agents. in respect to these disturbances these gentiemen al- lege that it will be found in nine cases out of ten that the biacks are the aggressors, and it would not be diMcult by gcing back for two weeks to prepare a perfectly frighttul list of crimes by the negroes, and they instance the numerous at- tempted outrages upon white ladies by negroes recently committed within three miles of the Cap- itol and within the hearmg of the moral and political gospel of Congress. Tho Attorney General’s published avowal tuat he concludes the whites to be the oggresso 3, because they finally get the vetter of the negroes in these encounters, {s, they say, a conclusive proot of his deep-seated prejudice against them. They further suggest that even in cases where whites have been the aggressors, or in resenting injuries have gone too far, it would be well for tho Executive to wait and see whether the State authorities and the law-abiding portion of the community are not competent and ready to punish the law-breakers without a recourse to federal courts and the federa! military. So far not a word has reached the War Department of the necessity for troops to preserve order. The War Department ofiiciais’ hope no sucn demand will be made, The army is now principally occu- pied in preserving peace on the frontier. To change the station of troops would imperil the lives of settlers, while 1t would also degrade the army to the duty of a political police. 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