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8 “THE PULPIIS YESTERDAY. aa ar the Scandal. Queen Jezebel and Elizabeth Compared. Who Are They That Pass} Judgment P ite a eg: CHRISTENING CHRISTIANS. Newspapers Spreading False Gospel. THE (COMING EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. WASHINGTON STREET METHODIST EPIS- COPAL CHURCH. Sermon by an Editor—The Apostle Peter's Sworn “Statement’’—Beecher Compared with Elijah. ‘The Rey. G. lished at Rondout, on the Hudson, and pastor of the Washington street (Brooklyn) Methodist Episcopal chureh, preached yesterday to a large | congregation and made several allusions in his sermon on religious despondency to the Beecher weandal. ‘The text chosen was trom I. Kings, nineteenth chapter and fourth verse, which reads as follows:—“But he (Elijah) went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and be requested for himself that he might die, and said, ‘It is enough; now, 0 Lord, take away my life, for lam not better than my tathers.’’’ The preacher, in opening his dis- course, passed in brief review the characteristics @f the leading aposties, whom he categorized as follows :—John was of a Joving and tender disposi- tion, nut upon occasions showed that he desired a summary vengeance upon God’s enemies as in the ase when he wanted to call down fire from heaven | upon those who followed not Christ; wile Peter, ‘who was supposed to be a courageous man, be- *" srayed his Lord through personal fear. PETER MADE A ‘‘STATEMENT’’ AND SWORE TO IT, showing before the day of the Brooklyn scandal that a man may swear to a lie, knowing at the same time that it is alice. Great and good men, who have aiways lived exemplary lives, | When they meet wivh some great tribulation are | occasionally overtaken by despondency and wish that they were dead, and think that tbeir troubles are greater than they can bear. Elijah was afflicted in this manner by the wicked Queen Jezebel, who threatened to take his life for having caused the death of the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmal. Llijah, broken-hearted and discouraged, went into the wilderness, and a!ter suffering hunger and thrist and physical prostration, in the words of the text, exclaimed in the fuiness of despair:—“Now, O Lord, take away my life, for 1 am not better than my fathers.” *: WHEN MR. BEECHER SAID “I wish that 1 were dead,” he uttered nothing that presupposed guilt nor anything which con- tained a hint of suicide. He spoke simply the lan- guage of despondency, and ali the jools m the | United States foisted upon his words a construc- tion suggested by their own narrowness ; they gave the phrase an interpretation in waich a all na- ture was seen struggling with a large one’s regret, THE WANT OF SYMPATHY. There are iew among us here who have not lost fm the course of events many dear relatives and | Iriends,and who will Bot recognize the cry ofsorrow Whicn Ejtjah uttered when he found himself alone, and said, “I only am leit.” Sometimes the Chris- tian feels like giving up, and sees nothing anead but the gloomy prospect of a blighted life. In tis state o1 things an allwise Providence, in addition to giving balm to the wounded Chrisuan spirit, gives the sufferer liopes oi a joytul hereaiter. Men must Work in this World to be happy, and when | occupied their thoughts are ofttimes nid away trom | @ concentrated thought of themselves and their own woes, ELIJAH WAS OUT OF BUSINESS. Elijah was like a rudderiess suip on a broad ex- anse of waters, drifting hituer and thitner, for is occupation was gone and his imture fate in this world was unknown to him, except that for ‘the time being he was being persecuted by reient - less oes. While thus sojourning as an outcast in the wilderness a°hurricane and an earthquake took place, and, KE KING LEAR IN THE STORM, the spectacle of the angry winds was consoling to Elijah, as it spoke to his O! the tempest concealed am bis Own bosom, wich re-echoed back to the warring elements. Some of ws are bound to undergo terrible ordeals in life, and honor to him who play his part well here on earth as one of Christ’s disciples. Let us all feel the earnestness of li/e, knowing that we have the prospect of eternal happiness or misery before us, THE SCANDAL—“ALL THE WORLD GOING TO THE | DoGs.”” People when talking about the Beecher scandal Temark occasionaliy, “All the world is going to the dogs” and “ihe Christian Church is being disin- tegrated.” tng nonsense. MR. BEECHER TO RETURN FROM THE WILDERNESS. Mr. Beecher, like the propliet we have been talk- ing about, who was taken up to heaven, ts about returning irom the wilderness to carry on his | Christian minisirations with renewed usefulness. | And now, in conclusion, let us on this blessed sab- ath pray for the jorgiveness of our own and of others’ sins, so that our lives may be nobie and a credit to the Master under whose banner we serve. | 81, JOHN THE EVANGELIST. Sermon by the Rev. Frank Hallam, of Georgia—Bishop Smith of Kentucky Upon thé Coming General Convention. The Rev. Frank Hailam, of the diocese of Georgia, who bas been officiating at St. John the Evan- gelist’s (memorial to Bishop Wainwright) during the absence of the Rector, the Rev. W. T. Egbert, preached here for the last time yesterday, in the morning upon ‘Michael contending with the devil about the body of Moses,” and in the evening upon “The Christian Race.” Iu the morning he took his text from “Jude,” minth verse. “The Lord Rebuke Thee.” There was a belief, said the revereud gentie- man, among tie Jews that God had Moses for the special purpose of taking the people into the promised land. It was also the design of the Lord that the Place of sepulture of the great Hebrew leader should not be known, while the devil endeavored for his own purposes that known. In the combat which ensued between Michael and the devil the angel would not take it upon himself to punish the devil, but appealed to God to doit, saying to him, ‘The Lord revuke thee,” conscious, a8 he was, that in the bunds of the Lord alone lay the power and privilege of judgment for the offence. The lesson whieh tuis teaches usta that we should suppress our own power of judg- ment and accusation against our fellow men, and not be hasty in taking the privilege we may have of casting the stone at those who have sinned. We may be in such relations to the party sinning that we leel it our duty to be the one to pass the judgment. You may see, dear brethreo, tuat judg- ment requires an end—an execution must take Place. How is it possiole lor us to execute on our brethren ¢ if a judgment has an execution we have little right to nope ior mercy ourselves. [8 it pos- sible lor us to judge of the motive of others and to make our minds up on what may be, after all, only an exterior semblance, with much madden from our sight, so that we Have no possible right to pass judgment in our minds upon others when we need S80 Much allowance ourselves. The moral perfec- tion of others is something we have nothing to do with, We must nave divine sanction tor that. “Who are tuey that pass judge ment?’ says the Word, Judge not and ye shall not be judged. It is the whole doc- trine in these words. The next thought IM comhection with this text is the question of rits im the otuer world. Lf we know so livtie of ¢ joys and sorrows of this world, what can we now of the realities of unseen things, If we do not Know the forces that are moving the thunder clouds then the Mission of the angels is almost a | mystery. Still we know that where Caurist was Deaten down, body exhausted and soul weary in the desert, the angels came and ministered to Him; again in the garden they went and consoled Him, No | jot only was it given that they should bear up the Son of Man, but that they should support | the terrestrial Church, At ail times the angels are hovering above us, Blessed as tney an of «God «wey «(forsake §=kgt tag lzra, editor of a newspaper pub- | Won't believe them, Jor they ure talk- | it shouid vecome | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. confided to them. There are also angels of @ differeut order—those of darkness— Who hover round us to lose us. If the great Evil One was everywhere he would have the gilt of Omuipresence; but instead of that he organizes his spirits and sends them outupon his work. ‘They | minister to the passions. He 1s the embodiment and centre of all evil, the mover of the organisin, @nd they execute, the head of an army of men WhO contend to do evil, as Michael convended for | the body of Moses, The words oi the evil spirits are opposed to the grace of God. When Mr, Hatlam nad ended his sermon, he intro- duced the Right Kev. Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, Who wisued to say a lew words, REMARKS OF BISHOP SMITH. The venerable Bishop said that It was with re- Imctance he spoke on the Lord’s Day on any thing else but a text from the Lord’s Gospel. He had been a minister filty-seven years, and during } that time he had endeavored to preach Christ and Him crucitled, But he thought there were occa- sious when collateral subjects claim our utmost attention. Such adfairs, lor instance, 48 our mis- sion Work and the prospects of the Churen, ‘The | | mind of the Churen in this country, and I may Bay all over the world, is just now directed to our Gen- eral Conierence, Which meets in this city 1n a tew weeks, On the first day the Bishop of Lichfleld, | Who, iu Balfimore, took so active a part three years ago, will preach the opening sermon, Your atien- | tlod has been catled to tuis point by the religious | eheets, and there seems to be a sort of solicitude | and lear attending the meeting, and it seems to | be thought that itis the signal of a severe crisis in the Church, In the providence 0! Goa I have been present at each general conierence since 1826, | with the exception of one in 1829, when | was in | the same city. But for the last twenty years | every convention has deen looked forward to with depression and With a general prospect that litte | good woud come of it. 1 have an entirely difer- | ent spirit. I have a hopetul spirit and look always | ou the bright side of things. The interes:s of the | Chureh which Christ founded will not be let to fall, as He himself promised us, Ali things shail be made to work together Jor the glory of God and | the salvation of men. The first day has always | dispelled these gloomy thoughts and doubts and | fears. Only What renders this meeting one of sur- passing interest 18 that fiity bishops out of flity- iour are entitied to seats; but surely the fathers of cur Church, men of high'wisdom and piety, are | not likely to come together without purpose. | ‘The lower house Wil consist of four ministers | from each of forty dioceses and the same number of laymen, making a very large body. It has been | found calm and thoughtful on ail occasions thus far. | Let us all look up for Divine grace that our judg- ment may be mature and deliberate on ail matters { wnich may come up. ‘fo be sure there has not | been that lively interest in this city concerning | the convention which I have seen on other | occasions, but this may be owing to the vast ex- tent of the city itseif and the aifflcuity of testing | Opinion. The meetings will be held in St. Joun’s | eburch, where the galleries can contain large num- | bers of people. On the same evenings several churches will be open, 8T. STEPHEN’S CHURCH. Dr. McGlynn on the Ministry of Christ and the Priesthood. A very large congregation attended the services | at St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, on Twenty-eighth street, at eleven A. M., yesterday. | The singing and the music were exceptionally fine. High mass was celebrated by Rev. Father | McCauley, and Rey. Dr. McGlynn, the pastor, | preached an interesting discourse from St. Luke, vii., 27-50, The text, be said, was a beautiful illus- | tration of @ true conversion, in which are joine¢ faith, hope, Jove and sorrow Jor sin. The lesson | Rev. } | finds its appropriate interpretation in the won- drous monument of the wisdom and goodness of God our Saviour which He left with His Church. It was necessary for our salvation that He should supply an all sufficient ministry for our salvation This ministry we find exercised in this Gos- pel. 1t ig mot necessary for us to question the wisdom of God. When God first came upon earth and planted His ministry, and | Himself taught it to mankind, He met with opposi- | tion, He found murmurers and opposers on all | sides. When the poor sinful woman, spoken of in | tbe text, came to Him in the house of Simon, the Pharisee, and anointed His feet with precious ointment, and kissed them, the Pharisee said, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know | surely who and what manner of woman this 1s | that toucheth him, that she fs a sinner.” \ The Pharisee was surprised that Jesus did not spurn the poor creature that had prostrated her- | self before Him. But what did Curist ao? He was | something more than a prophet, and not only | | knew what manner of woman she was, but of | what clay He had made her. He did not drive het from His presence. He forgave her sins and bade | her goin peace. He taught by this ministry that | His mission on earth was not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. ninety and nine sheep to seek the one that was | lost. This sinful woman rushed into His presence | | tnadmitted, in spite of all improprieties, aud found | Him whom her soul sought, and she asked no | more. She kissed His feet, anointed them with | ber precious ointment and with tears, and these | actions told Him of her perfect repentance and | | wondrous love, and He vindicated His right to | admit her to His presence and to forgive her past | wrongs. fe tells these Pharisees—“l1 she has sinned much, yet many sins are jorgiven her be- | Cause she has loved mucn.” Let those who would | love Christ and serve Him best put on a spirit | of gentieness and humility. Let His ministers learn to exercise this doctrine of humility; to be | kind, pa t, loving, as Christ has been. Our Saviour vindicated to Himself the right of ad- | mitting this woman to His presence and forgiving | sins. He has left His aposties to do the same work. He has said to them, ‘As tne Father tath | gent me, 1 also send you.” To His priests He has given the power of absolving from sin; He has , unparted to them the Holy Ghost and delegated | to them the same power to exercise His miulstry | as He possessed on earth, The Church is the faithful, loving spouse of Christ, mindful of its Master. He says te her, “vo this in remem. | brance of me.’’ Whenever she can gather together | a lew Willing hands and hearts she erects to Him | an altar, and to this altar the prodigal may come, | clad infis unseemly rags, and prostrate before | Him, say, ‘Father J ' have sinned,” and | be forgiven, Our Saviour did not. alone | consider tt sufficient to come on earth and | | die and thus make a sacrifice tor the sins of man- | kind; but He instituted the priesthood, by which to apply to individual hearts the graces He pur chased by shedding His blood on the cross. ‘This woman He forgave recognized, as did the prophet Of old, how beautiful upon thé mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth fe tidings, that pub- | lisneth peace; that publisheth salvation, This is the philosophy of the tribunal of penance. ‘The Chureli of Christ has stood in every age and stands to-aay, in spite of the murmurings and the mis- representations and persecutions of Scrives and Pharsees, With hearts ali withered, procigais and sinners of every degree may come to Christ and seek His forgiveness in the tribunal of penance. Look at the parable of the prodigal gon. It pre- sents a most touching picture of the soul that sins. You know that the prodigal son, when he came to himself, said, “I will arise and go unto my tather and will say unto him, Father, I bave sinned against heaven | and before thee, and 1am no more worthy to be calied thy son.” He was but preparing to go to | econiession, It is the blessed ministry o/ the priest that he is the father to tue | age ae and while the | prodigal is @great way off he sees and has com- | passion on him, The tribunal of penance is the very door by which we enter into close com- munion with God our Father, Itis His command | that through this sacrament of reconciliation we | may become purified and fitted to sit at His table. It is here the new and the clean garment is put on. Here we are permitted to come at the very feet of Jesus; to kiss His feet and annolut them | with our tears. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, The Convicting Comforter—A Sermon by Rev. Dr. Deems. | Never has so great a crowd been seen in this church as was present yesterday morning. Dr. Deems’ sermon was founded on a passage in the sixteenth chapter of John, beginning “It is expedi- ent for you that | go away,” and containing the promise of the Holy Ghost and a description of His omices. The discourse was opened by the state- ment that What often seems most inexpedient to us 1s the very thing which seems best for ts im the sight of God, Apparently it was impossibie that life should have for these disciples @ greater dis- aster than the departure of Jesus, His death would seem to tear their lives to pieces, But He | | saw through all, God was in Christ. But the man | side of Christ had its human limitations. That must die, It did die. But the God side was to'be | | perpetually with His people, and that residence | since the death of Jesus is in the Holy Ghost. | Jesus taught tnat the presence of the Holy Ghost | was more profitabie to the world than His own bodily presence. Then the Doctor explained these | words in the original text. notit, but he, The personality of the Hoiy Ghost is plainly implied by the language. ‘the next was kosmos, transiated “the world,” meaning tne in- telligent beings on earth, capabie of receiving moral influence. The third was the word trans- lated “reprove.” It had several significations. | In logic it signifies the refutation of an error by sound argument. In law jt means convicting an accused person. In morals it means making a guilty man feel that he is guilty. The word tised | shows tue work of the Hoiy Ghost in the salvation of the world, First, there 18 conviction of sin. Unregenerate men have ideas of sin. The wi | ings of pagans and of immoral men in | Christian jands show that they perceive the violation of relations caused by sin, More than Wal individuals know Lagmusalyes to be | door oj | pale, | the Holy Ghost proves to any mi sinners and are quite ready, some very fiippantiy, | to contess that they are sinners, Itis possivie to unrepenting all | Wan Sanctuary has something about It above the prove to 4 man that he is a sinner. an sinner, a lost sinner, and win bis assent to these propositions, and yet ne may go away from ui, eat a hearty meal and Sieep a8 quietly a8 a new born babe or & the interview whistling and play saint waiting lor the cail into heaven, But when his own guilt and corruption that man whistles no more Uli his sina be forgiven—his appetite and his sleep go. He ig penetraied with a sense of the meanness, the filthiness, the degradation of sin, and so hurt and stung by a sense Of Lis being a sinner that ne ab- nors himself, Sin is then hell to him. He would be willing to endure hell a thousand years if that were necessary to burn out this horrible element from bis nature. Moreover, the work of the Holy Spirit ts to carry into the inmost souls of men @ feeling of the hemousness and ruinousness of un- belie!, “He will reprove the world of sin, because they believe notion Me,” says Jesus. ‘The second part of the work of the Holy Ghost ts to convince wen Oo! righteousness, When Jesus was crucified the Church condemned Him and the State executed Him. He died a malefactor’s death. with @ malefactor’s intamy, Now there is probably not an intelligent, thougntful person on earth, who knows the bistory of Jesus, who does not believe that He was at heart an innocent person, what- ever else he may think of Him, ‘The opinion of the world has gradually come to that. It is the Holy Ghost’s quiet logic that has mace tnis con- viction. But 1m each individual something deeper must ve done. He must not only be made to see, but also to jeel that by rejecting Christ he 1s hold- ing on to his sins. He must have created within a desire aiter righteousness, which is like a Con- suming hunger. He must be made to feel that by trusting himself wholly to Jesus, who has risen and gone to the Father, and by that resurrection established all :fis claim as @ personal Saviour, he may have such a leavening, regenerating element introduced into his character as shall produce in him a righteous lite. This can be produced in a ™man’s soul only by the Holy Gnost. e remaining work of the Hoiy Ghost is to convince the world of judgment, to show men how wrong their decisions on spiritual questtons have been, and how right have been the dectsions of Jesus. Over tis kosmos, this world so capable of orderly beauty, an evil spirit has exerted and 19 exerting amalign influence. Tne whole landscape of re- demption is represented by tne preacher as lying around a human soul in all its grandeur of propor- tion and perfection of detail, but we did not sce it until the Holy Ghost showed It, Like men sit- ting Ln darkness, let us pray for the ght. Come, oly Ghost; our hearts inspire And lighten with celestial fire, 8T. GEORGE'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Tyng—The Great Companion of Our Saviour. There was avery slender attendance yesterday at the great Church of St. George, in Stuyvesant square, The worshippers of nature on the green- sward, unaer the umbrageous follage and amid the »parkling fountajns outside the church, in- finitely outnumbered the orthodox people inside. Dr. Stephen H, ‘tyng, a8 might be supposed from his well known conservative tendencies, let scan- dal and sensations severely alone, and preached @ good, Short and orthodox sermon. The reverend gentieman chose tor nis text the thirteenth verse of the seventh chapter of St. Luke—“‘And when the Lord saw her, he had com- passion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.” This was the Saviour’s expression when He raised the only son of the widow. The incident is men- tioned only in St. Luke, as the death and raising of Lazarus is mentioned only in St. Jobn, and that of Jairus’ daughter in St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. Luke. The incident 1s no fiction. It is repeated daily. How often does the Lord hear the lamenta- tions of despairing widowhood and spare the only children! This has happened, is happening, and will happen thousands of times, as long as the the sepuichre is not closed against It 18 bard to realize the death of our loved ones, the child who has twined round our hearts. As sie presses the clay cold corpse the mother cannot be convinced that the spirit has fed. Only after severe and repeated trials do we begin to feel that the day may come when we shall ve lett desolate and alone. So itis with honors and wealth, We know how uncertain they are, but in prosperity we are very apt to Say or think we sball not be moved. How light a circumstance may strip us of all! Uur strongest prop jails, the greenest leaf the tamuy of man. | fades, the strongest friends iall away, our most joved are removed from us, The purer our affection the more bitter the loss. Our deepest affections are nursed in the bosom of our warmest afllictions, ‘This is noc God's fault. By uo means, It is in the world, in our hearts, in our forgetiulness of God. To go back to the village of Naim, here on a bier, motionless, the dead was borne by Benind came the widowed motner, She woult have toiled strong men. bereit of her Oniy son, | through sleepless nights or gone to the grave her- He would leave the | One is the pronoun, | | | sell to save her son. Who heeded her? The rich cared not for the poor procession. But one drew near. One always, at this moment, too, touched with human sorrow. She was no stranger to Hun. Heavenly tenderness beamed trom [ils face, A weilspring of divine sympathy surged in His heart. ‘Young man, I say unto thee, arse!” His power to raise irom tue deat Was only exercised Jor ap only brother, ab only daughter and an only son. He Could not pass by misery without a tear or suffering witnout relief. ‘louched oy our wretchedness He came down trom heaven and suflered even the humiliation of the cross to save us. He preached the Gospel to the poor, aud His Jast injunction to His disciples was to proclaim salvation to all in every iaud. He Las gone to pr pare a place Jor us in the heavenly mai sions, and He will come again to welcome us thither. “Weep noti’ Those accents of Godlike benevolence made way to the widow’s heart and checked ber blinding tears, and then the miracle was accomplished. What @ scene was this! The same tenderness was shown by Him at the grave of Lazarus; but there was no mother there. ‘The muititude Was awed. Greater than the prophets, He exercised independent power. ‘The prophets, as did Esha with the Shumanite’s sou, prayed when they sought to restore life. Christ, the arbiter of the quick and dead, reiied on Hmself, &o He Wil relieve our souls from death, and say to us who believe, ‘by sins be for- iveu.? OT ssily, this isan Ingtractive lesson to us who are grieved by losses. ot our loved ones’ Would we restore them, If we could, Christ has promised us reunion when our few days on earth are spent. “Weep not!” 8T, PAUL'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL OHUROH. God’s House—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Hurst. The chapel attached to St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church was well filled yesterday morn- ing. Dr. Hurst preached thesermon. The discourse had for its theme the tenth verse of e1glty-fourth psaim:—“For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. Ihad rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God wickedness. Nowhere from the distant past, said the preacher, has there come a more touch- ; ing and eloguent description of the excellence of | public worship than is to be found in these words. One can travel the Old World and see beautiful ruins with historic associations; yet they do not testify to the supreme excellence and fitness of these words. sublimely beautiiul, becanse in connection with its language there is no statement of reason. in thy house is better than a thousand.” heart it finds a sympathetic response. logue gives no reasons for its commands. verse of the Apocalypse. absence of iogic in God's Book. Would we distarb the dust | to the sorrows of this transitory life? | than to dweil in the tents of | The text is It is simply asserted that the place of worship ts de- ligbtful, and no reason is assigned for 1t—“A day The | absence of argument is one of the prominent fea- | tures of God’s Word. A striking proposition or | command is uttered, and in the warm, devout The deca- “Thos saith the Lord’? is the characteristic of she Serip- | tures from the first verse of Genesis to the last There 18 an entire Ii 18 only the theologians who microscopically discover sylio- | gisms, theories and wordy conciustons. God’s culldren are content to rely on their Father, are | content to know that God's hand protects and provides for them, and that an hour t@ His that regards every place—the wood, the river de, the mountain—as a sanctuary. | Between these extremes is the golden medium. The Chris- unhaliowed, ‘It 18 holy beart-burden is itited In reluctanily crossed the st of the sanctuary have left strengthened and firm, Iasked a deaf man why he attended churen when ne could hear nothing. He said, i come here because | know What it means. My heart takes it in. | am among worshippers of God and He speaks to my soul. This 1s a telegraphic system too subtle for science, uniting the heart to God. We should be lke the old heroes of history. Before doing our battle, like them, we should go to the temple and have our Weapons sanctified and biessed, Then, with the sacred benediction still ringing in our ears, we would find our heart flred and our arm nerved. So we should go forth feeling the earth is the Lord’s, and endeavor to restore it to His worsnip, So may we have jaith to seek and we shall ind— | to knock and it shat! be opened. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, | How the Followers of Christ Came To Be Called Christians—Sermon by the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D. D. The city’s fashtonables are focking homeward | now that the time prescribed by tashion has ar- rived for the closing of seaside hotels and summer resorts, and those who constitute tnemselves sat- ellites of the upper ten thousand need not now fear to be seen on the avenue or worshipping at the leading churches, To judge from the immense throng at the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner round—Bethel. Navy a d’s house, Feet that day morning, one would think that a large dele- gation from the beau monde had re- turned to the city. The commencing ex- ercises at this church are unusually long, and would be almost tedious were it not for the delicious sprinkling of really good music, The subject to be deduced from the dis- course which the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., delivered is “How the Followers of Christ Came To Be Calied Christians,” and he based it upon the text Acts li., 20—‘‘And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” Antioch was a strange place for the baptism of the infant Ohurch, the youthfas preacher began. This infant Church Was identified as having relationship with the Church of the Messiah, and was allied to tt. This name “Christian,” which was first applied at An- rioch to all those who expressed a belief in Christ, was first given in ridicule, put it neverthe- less found its way to heaven. The ridicule of Antioch describes the character of the redeemed. That this name was not self-given 1s quite clear. The Apostles call themselves by a diferent name in their records, In but three passages do we find the term Christian applied to them. The first occurs in the scene between the Apostie Paul and King Agrippa, when the Pagan king called Paul a Christian in derision; the second is one where it was employed as a name which meant popular contempt, and the third in the 1st Epistie o1 Peter. The apostie knew the evil speaking of the worl It was only when the Gentiles began to ally them: selves with this institution that the Romans were annoyed. Christ was the anvinted in all their creeds, but Jesu3 did not come up to their pro- phetic interpretations, The early Coristians clung with faithtul tenacity to the fortunes of the cru- cified Christ, THE RARLY CHRISTIANS were 60 called for the principies o1 their allegiance to Christ first in Antioch, This word, which now Bignifies so much that 18 noble and pure, was originally given a8 @ nickname. Who will excite the scorn of the Gentiles who calls himself a Chris. | tian? Here are people who are sald to be born in @ Christian country. It was a discriminating title. | Here are men and women who observe the virtual institutions of the Cbristian Church. Are these people Christians, oh, ye Gentiles and judges of | Antiochy Tue chie: peculiarity of these people | Whom they thus designate was something not | visible. This great peculiarity was earnest- | ness, First, @ Christian after the Antioch | idea claims partnership in the office | of Christ. The peculiarity of these ear'y Christians Was their claims in the Christ. The office und work of Christ Were manifested mostly in the days npon earth when He periormed His miracies. These were all manifestations 01 His official presence as Christ. The Apostles knew more about His man- hvod than they did of His Messiahship, His good works and purity of life were plainer to their com- prehension than His divine mission. In the midst of great uistress they acknowledged their beliel, and the severest torture, even deatn, could not make them forsake what they considered the true faith. However buffeted or beset by the waves of paganism anu persecution they clung to their great leader and never once forsook his banner. This is what excited tne wrath of the Gentiles. They 80 tuentified themselves with the | pa life of Christ that they were uplifted into a joer sphere, If thy sins daily claim pardon through the divine intercession of Christ, and if through thy conscious weakness thou leap neavily upon the Redeemer, then hast thou a right to the Antiocn title. He who has any rela- tion to Jesus has @ participation in the bestowal of this grace. The believer who claims relationship with Christ looks back upon the times and triumphs of Christ as assurances | of bis own future. This, my iriends, is being a Christian; this isto enter into the fulness of the privileges which were promised at the beginning of tne world, Our blackness is still acknowledged belore God, but our comeliness is also seen. ‘This is what excited Roman wrath. One more pe- | culiarity of the Antioch Christian was Dis sense of | tue presence of Jesus Christ. They sang songs of praise to Him as tnough He was ib their midst. | | Jesus Christ was @ peculiar person, contimualiy . present in the association of i THE ANTIOCH CHURCH. | Even aiter the crucifixion of the Saviour, they re- | cognized Him as an individual presence. What we need now is not machinery; what we need is a | recognition of a Christ, verily and indeed present. Ob, toat our doubts could be dispeiled, This is the | only experience which can excite our enthusiasm. | A faith which sees Christ 1s one which is to | upllit the Church, Tue nearer we come | to the spirit of Antioch, the nearer we come i | to the meaning of our name. We have seen that the title was not given them by them- ves, not by Jesus, but by the Romans. | ask you if you would like to have been a Christian in | Antioch? faith, so I come to thee to-day, brother. I have heart sins that must ve forgiven and infirmities that must be stricken out. You have need of Christ in his officers as well as in the charm of His personal presence. Be a Onristtan, for the Chris- Uan is a participation in tne divine future. 8T, PATRICK'S OATHEDRAL. The usual high mass services were celebrated yesterday at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathe- dral, in Mott street, The Rev. Father Salter was the celebrantor the mass, There was no sermon, | but the reverend Father announced that the paro- chial schools would be opened to-day and called the opening. The usual sermons at high mass will probavly be resumed next Sunday. UNION CONGREGATIONAL OHUROH. Man and His Saviour—sermon by Rev. Dr. Lockwood. ‘The congregation at the morning service yester- day, considering the time of year, was very fair in | pumbers. Rev. Dr. Lockwood preached on “Man and his Saviour,” taking as his text, Hebrews ti., 6 and 9:—“For one in @ certain place testified, saying, what 1s man, that thou art mindful of him or the son of man, that thou visiteth him? |*™ * * But we see Jesus, who was made a little | lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, | crowned with glory and honor; that he, by the | grace of God, should taste death for every man.” | The Apostie’s words have reference to the words of the Psalmist (eighth | Psalm). Here and in other parts of the | Psalms is expressed a sense of wonderment at the greatness of the works of God and the harmony of ature. What is man in contrast? And yet, con- sidering what has been done for him, he is @ most Important creature. Man ts not to ve regarded so Much a8 @ creation as an emanation of the Deity; he is made after His own Itkeness, Man is the i house, praying, singing and communing with | very chef d’@uvre of God’s work. Such as Ms was Him, has an upward and heavenly direc- the very form in Which the Son of God became in- tion. In the gpilastic period of Christianity | carnate. Man has been told he was the son of the foliowera ‘of Jesus had all things in | God. The Lord dignified him with the lordsntp of common. ‘They sold their possessions and goods, | the world, The first man was the beau tdeal ot and parted them to ail men as every man haa In the martyr period the slave and the novicman ye:nt to the prison or the flaming pile Whether they were burned to @ cinder amphithea- tre, they Went to heaven hand in hand, In the prince and the German peasant jought for the faith with battle need, together, or torn to pieces by Wild beasts in th Retormation period tue German axe side by siae, This equality for faith and motive for action I been one Lord, one faith, one baptism. pian can tear down or destroy Christ's Gospel. In God's Church there is neither Jew nor Greek— bond nor tree. ‘This is equalization, and the feel- ing i8 fostered by meeting together in His Hous Take the truth lor purposes of prayer and praise. Truth 1s great support of public worship. of Christ away and the Church 1s no better than any other ediiice of wood and stone truth that clevates the Church above everythin The Church and the Gospel are adapte very land, 'y every human condition. It is in- ructible, Its filed with given toit. Onr faith never goes bet broad world for any one to nelp it. If 8} rstition, s characterized the Whoie his- tory of Christianity. Among Christians there has No haman It ia the the vitality God has gging in the humanity, formed and ordained by God as the tora of creation. Such 1s the view of the primeval state; but man fell, The fall of man involved three i operdataa depravity Of mental and physical qualities; he became weak, discordant; he lost the sovereignty over the lower animals. Since his fall the seeds of death were planted in him, tne | only remedial expedient being Jesus. There was need of a Saviour, and hence the need of Jesus. ‘The Son offered Himself as sacrifice in their beuals, Was accepted and saved. Jesus, taking man's form through his own death removed the death enalty entailed on mankind, In His Saving man je becomes the model man. The greatest source of apostacy in modern times*is losing the signt of this modei, the Son of Man, Jesus undertook all the various shades of humanity—infancy, boy- hood, manhood. He has in his own example taught us how to withstand most grievous temptation. He teacties how to live and how to die, His death 8 not to be regarded so much as an example as a | remedium, the sacrifice and atonement for ail. He had to be man to die, and God tosave. Sin is | an infinite evil against an infinite God, hence the necessity of infinite sacrifice tor the eMcacy of atonement. “He tasted death” for every man, ignorance and persecution assail it the Church | The resurrection, too, was of equal necessity tor goes to its Bloset and God's spirit fignts | the atonement. He rose to make His death eMica- the battle of race. To-day the Church | cions, He burst open the gates of death, He Hea between two tendencies—the ritualise | crashed sin, and with Him in His glorious ascen- tic tendency, that would exait everything con- ‘ceremonies nto @ sacred sigui@cance; and the other tegdeucy nected with the Church and its sion rose the glorious, freed spirit of man. His resurrection and ascension were necessary as prooia, The preacher concinded With an eloonent | the most eager pursuit, | of the Lord, Forty-second street and Madison avenue, yester- | Be not content with a mere external | upon the parents o! the children to see to it that | they were in attendance prompty at the hour of | exhortation on the infinite saving power of the blood of Jesus Onrist, but declared his disbelief in the likelihood of salvation without the union of good works to grace and faith. FIRST REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Truth Percetved—The Truth Appro- priated—The Truth Efficacious. The First Reformed Episcopal church was well attended yesterday morning. ‘The rector, the Rev, Wm. 1. Sabine, preached an effective sermon, taking for his text, Jeremiah, xv., 15—“Thy words were found and I did eat them, and Thy Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, for I am catled by Thy name, 0 Lord God of Hosts.” The prophet is looking back to opportunities he had possessed, and ne traces the improvement of his opportunities to the glorious and blessed results, no less @ result than the joy and rejoicing of bis heart. This rejoicing of the heart, this abiding satisfac- tion, is what all men desire. This is the object of They may differ as to the method of obtaining them, but as to the ultimate ena they are entirely agreed; they seek what they euppose will afford them lasting gratification. Now Jeremiah the prophet appears before us in the light of a man wno has obtained a true heart Joy. He tells us how he was saved and how wo may be saved. Let us ponder well on the service You who would find rea! prosperity, you who would dweil: in periect safety, listen to the words of Jesus and learn lesson of inestim- able worth, To know God, to recognize the author of truch and yet to live in disregard to it, ts that not sin? Dear triends, the Word of God found and appro- Wwonderiul advantage and entails on him @ vast responsibility, None can say, ‘1 never heard of Jesus.” With what weight that asseruoy may fall from men from the wilds of Ajrica I cannod say, but coming from our lips it will be worse than vain and utterly false. A gospei heard and lorgotten 1s WORSE THAN WORTHLESS. That was the ruinoft Bethesda and Jerusalem. How bitterly they have deplored their failure to accept salety, We have a great and powerful leader; let us trust him. We have a soul-saving God; let us con- sent to be saved. ‘Thy words were found ana IT did eat them.” What we eat 14 part of us; but our lile and growth 18 intimately connected with what we eat. Suppose the Christian world turn fatthless, wnat is gd toone who has a personal knowledge of Life has no grief that the blessed Saviour can- not assuage, and death no terror that he cannot allay. Tne atmosphere of Onristianity should be one ofjoy. Surely a soul saved should proclaim its everianhing Jom, The joy of earth is transient, but the joy of heaven 18 @ calm, quiet, steady noonday sun. Let us abide in this joy; tt 1s before you, Wilkyou not make it yours by simply casting your- self on Christ? God says, “Except ye eat the flesh ana drink the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in me;” and may the Lord incline you to accept the offer of His mercy, which He has graciously presented. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Incre g Attendance at the Services— Evening Sermons Resumed—Sickness of Mrs. Beecher=Dr. Robinson on God’s Care for Man. Plymouth church vacation congregations ap” pear to be on the increase, and continue to sur pass in number any previous vacation time. Encouraged by this fact Assistant Pastor Halliday announced yesterday morning, that evening services would be resumed, and the first was held last night. During the prayer that Immedi- ately precedes the sermon some little excitement was occasioned by the sudden indisposition of she is occasionally subject. She was obliged to be carried out, and, after sitting a few minutes im the lobby, sufficiently recovered to be taken home in a carriage. There was quite a percept | ble jubilance on the part of the regular congrega- priated elevates the possessor to a Condition of | $$$ IL SES rea 2s 5 meeting of pertahioners will_be held tn the chapel adjoining the church, on Tuesday evening ne: for the purpose o! contribuung towards the objec! bcd 1B SERMON TH N, was hed from the text found in the gospel for the day, Matthew, Vi., 20-25—Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shal! be added unto you.” God ts the author of your being, who created you from nothing, and without Him you could not exist one moment, Your Creator it is whose sustaining hand of omnipotence supports you tn all your ne- cessities in lie. We can returD to Him nothing but what He has given unto us in compensation for the blessing which we enjoy. Ifman gain the whole world and lose his own soul what doth it him? Therefore 1s the soui of man of more value to him than all this world put together. Aik | the treasure in the worid could not lave recon~ Mrs. Beecher, who was seized, while sitting in the pastor's pew, with a violent palpitation of the heart, to which , ciled one aoul to God. It required an infinite sacrifice to effect the redemption o/ fallen man— the sacritice of Kis Divine son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on Calvary, What can eqnal the infinite power of that sacrifice which gave life eternal to man’ Take the soul away from the body and it is mere inanimate clay: therefore the so ee life o; man and his most precious pos- WHat I8 THE WORLD? Mammon. “No man can serve two mas- ters, God and. mammon. St. John telis us “Alt the world 13 concupiscence of the flesh, con- cuplscence of tae eye and the pride of life. There the kingdom of God dwells not. No vetter definition of the world has ever been given to mankind. When man grew rebellious in the progress of the world do we not read that He opened the foougates of heaven and destroyed: the unrepentant, deluging the world. Then, whe: man again began to peopie the earth and forgot his duty to bis Creator in sodom and Gomorrah, God showered down fire and brimstone, sweeping the wicked inhabitants from the fire on earth into the eternal torments of hell. Where these two cities stood there remains at this day naught but two stagnant pools of water, Are we to believe that NOWADAYS THE SINS OP MAN are less offensive to God than they were in: the days when these awi!ul visitationsfell upon the unrepentant people? No, far from tt. If He passes by those who give way to Dlas- phemy and to the gratification of their unbridled passions, without striking them down tn the wrath of His just and offended majesty, it is only for their eteraal punishment in ‘the. ilfe toward whica all are hastening. The heart of every man has a ruling passion, and the con- flict between good and bad 18 going on from the time when he reaches the use of reason. The man who gives Way to unbridled passion is never satis- fied, for sin feeds upon itself and satiation leads to- but endless desire which can never lead to peace. The heart has been hkened at peace—one — who ny ment of every consolation, having no ene: But finally a rebeiion arises in his dominion, and. he offers a ransom lor the arrest o! the ringleaders who have destroyed his peace. They are caught and punished, aud the other subjects who were seduced from their allegiance to the king by those who were executed, become thencelorth (being pardoned) the most obedient subjec So it is with man; if he will out search hi: finding the ruling passion in the ki exterminate it, then by the grace of God the lesser vices will be easy of Control, and thus alone can we become the true and faithiul servants of our divine Lord and Master, our Creator and Re- deemer. Exhorting nis hearers to approach the throne of grace through the tribunal o: confession: ‘the reverend pastor closed his sermon. CHURCH OF THE MEDIATOR. Jesus Christ and His Religion—Sermon: by the Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Cornell. The Church of the Mediator, corner of Jefferson: street and Ormond place, Brooklyn, has a large congregation, which the Rev. Dr. Cornell, by his zeal, has increased to what it is at pres- ent. Yesterday morning the attendance was farger than usual, the Doctor taking for his text the eighth verse of the second chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians— “Beware, lest any man spoil you through philoso- phy and rain deceit alter the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” The question ofthe day, the reverend. gentleman commenced by saying, was the ques- tion about Jesus Christ and His religion; to this point tend ail discussions in philosophy and science; directly or tdirectly they flow into this | current, The best of human thought has here its tion as they left the church after the service, and — hearty and matual congratulations on the result ore aney nignt’s meeting were heard on every ie. Dr. Robinson preached from the words con- tained in the eleventh and twelith verses of the thirty-second chapter of Deuteronomy—"As in eagle stirreth up her nest, futtereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth thein on her wings, 80 the Lord alone did | humanity jead them, and there was no strange God with | Him.” ‘this chosen band of people, said the | doctor, lived .for years im the high places of the earth amid juxury and comiort, ull at last they turned trom their true God and set up gods and idols of their own, and by their avom- inauions provoked the true God to anger So he stirred up their pest by sending Pharaoh, an 1d0j- atrous and exacting king, to reign over them, who | exercised sucn deprivations and tyranny that in tuume restored them to their senses and fitted them to enter the promised land, God uses the domes- tic hfe of the bird to teach us, There 1s much simi- larity between the home ive far up in the moun- | tain eyrie, Where the wild, strong bird mother plays with and suckles her young and that of , human families. There is the same petting, froilick- ing and love behind the strong barriers of home. | But the eaglets must not always stay in their nest; they must go onwards and upwards toward the heavens, and so the mother stirs up her nest and sends them out to fly, first from crag to crag, them gaining strength they | go further and leave their home ve ; Dut the eagle mother still Watcues and cares for them, and, seeing them tire and begin to fall, she instantly dives beneath them and lifts them and bears them on her wings to rest. We see in this simile the awakening, the conviction of sin and the renewal of faith in'the true God of the Israelites, God | stirred them up in their home tn Goshen, and caused them to begin again to turn their hearts to Him. God sometimes awakens men who are , living an easy and luxurious ite, and makes them | dissatistied witn their former career. Sometimes it is by sickness, at other times, especially in youth verging ou toward manhood, a subtie influ. ence or consciousness of individuality, when the youth first finds himself. ms voice of God should not Lghtly be disregarded. It 1s not enough to say, “I will arise and go to my Father;” they must arise and go. How many say, in substance, “How many servants of my Father have enough, and to spare, and | starve with hunger,” and yet they will not arouse themselves aod go to their Father. This starting out tor God 1g a great step to take. Can 1 expect to be helped and supported when | fail? are questions asked by maby a one swaying between the desire and the reality. ‘The picture of the eagle mother, hov- | ering over, caring jor, and bearing her eagiets upwards and onwards, until they are aviec to beat the upper air alone, seems to come in here as a | promise of help from our heavenly Father. when we have once started on the right way. ST. MARY'S STAR OF THE 8EA, The Orphan Asylum Debt—The State and Sectarianism—Why Sinners Escape the Judgments that Befell Sodom and Gomorrah—The Wrath To Come tor the Unrepentant—Sermon by Rev. Eugene Cassidy. At the principal service yesterday forenoon at the Church of St. Mary's Star of the Sea, Court street, near Luqueer, South Brooklyn, the pastor, Rev. Eugene Cassidy, before preaching the ser- | mon, announced that in accordance with a circu- lar of instruction which has been sent by the Bishop to all the pastors in the diocese, contri- the floating debt of the Catholic Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn, which amounts to $50,000. There are 150,000 Catholics in this community; the fact that so heavy a debt rested upon the Orphan Asylum of which they have care did not speak well for them. They shoulda not permit the burden to re- main for @ single hour. Up to within two years ago they were trusting to a considerable extent to the generosity of the State, But then the State | gotso magnanimous that iegislators coulda make | No distinction for the necessities of anybody, THEY WERE NON-SECTARIAN in ali this, and said to us, ‘You must make your children public property by sending them to our institutions; then we will take care of them." ‘This is the spirit of liberty which animated the State. “You have,” they sald, “your Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy and Sisters of the Visita- ; tion. Your Franciscan Brothers and others en- gaged in teaching schools. Well, we can’t afford to bring children up Catholics, but send them to the State schools, They will cost us $6 cach, It 18 true, but we will make them for the State and not religion. God has nothing to do with it.’* But under the guise of State and vaunted liberty these people are sectarian to the very core and aun to destroy the Catholic faith, are bound to bring ap those whom God has in- trusted to our care, We say to them, You have not known us long enough when you make such @ proposition, We who would sacrifice our lives for ine maintenance of that faith, are we to rer our Ce OO, FTO es OF ite ste Catholics can always give . port of those wnow fea has committed to their e' depriving them: of SBeic Betarnl quae aanena you wil find that the in which we © | blackleg. butions were solicited irom the faithful to pay off © | taken sick. resting place : any subjects of interest there, as to its first course or final ena, are there brought fac to Jace with God and His revelations in the bible. Nor is this a matter about which students an ° scholars alone are interested, It is not the yeader im his library, the professor in his chair, only who are avitating doubts, asking if Ohrist’s and the preaching of the Gospel have not lost their power in the world? and must soon make way for some new things. some other system, some higher wisdom that should explain all mysteries, solve all questions and hea! with its touch the maniiold evils of humanity? The Church will never hold the whole truth till 1t embraces all that hold the truth, till is finds. room for the thinker and the man or large and of little faith, the dogmatist and the clevotee, the conservative and the liberal, Ali these God sets in the church not as conflicting elements, but an pattie g action in every part, each member being developed according to his place and office in the body. It 1s a lesson We are slow to believe, although we admire its abstract truth, The Church has be- come divided against itself from its very perver- sity and assertion of the one particular trath, as of necessity contradicting some otner. Protes- tant Christianity has the appearance of a grand battlefield in which each ts opposite to each other, every man having some fragment 01 trusn or petty opinion, instead o! standing as they should— ‘one grand, united host, moving on to sin and suf- fering that desolate the world. “Beware lest any man spoil through philosophy and vain de- ceit after the tradition of men, after the rudi- ments of the world, and not after Christ.” The admonition has @ special application; | tt is more than exhortation agajnst a school | Or phages of tought threatenin, to cramp the Church of the aposties’ age. Newspapers and books are spreading a false gospel of regeneration, to be Wrought without cross or sacrifice, that all moral principle to @ mere question of utility. Good and evil, in this view, are not regarded as essential conditions of actions. The religion of some men never gets below the brain, never reaches the heart,; never grounded in the faith ; they furnish the upper room with splender, but the under rooms are Jett cold, cheeriess and deso- Jate, No cheerful, bright aud gladsome room to cheer @ weary traveiler, nothing to do for the sick and in want. So little of religion grounded in the faith, so unlike Christ, who ever made this Ife a life o1 beauty, a beauty that could not wither: or death destroy. MORE ANTHRAX FEVER. The Epidemic in Newtown, Conn. The epidemic among the cattle in Connecticut,, which was exclusively descrived In the HERALD, still rages. It was at first supposed that the: disease Was spinal meningitis, but after the post- mortem examination of several of the animals it was definitely settled that it was solely a disease of the spleen and intimately allied to charbon or Many deaths occurred from this disease in the fine herds avout Newtown, Conu.. and it was: especially severe on tne farm of Mr. Fairchild, who had brought over 100 fine young steers from Illinois. A veterinary professor of reputa- tion declared to a HERALD representative that the canse of the disease was the rich pasturage which made blood very fast and produced a pres- sure on tie venal valves above the spicen in the animals thus {nducing the disease, rotung the spleen ttself and finally causing death. It was: hoped that by prompt attention, giving the animals carbolates of soda, lime and iron vonics and stimulants that they mignt be saved, but by later advices it scems that anthrax fever is still making sad havoc among the herds of Mr. Fair- child and also among the cattle belonging to Mr.. Stillgon. Since the publication In this journal Mr. Faironiid bas had twenty more of his cattle at- tacked, of which number six have succumbed, and Mr, Stillson has lost three out of the Jour animals. A post-mortem examination was made on Friday night by Professor cressy of one- | Of the animals, the result confirming the previous statements that the spleen was diseased in the manner heretotore described, and that death en- sued therefrom. It is @ pevullarity of anthrax fever that no poor cattle are attacked: only those in a fine and healthy condition. sariners and, stockraisers should look to it that the moment one of the herd withdraws from the company of ; the rest, and appears langutd, or 18 seized with: their natural guardians, orphan will be supported by them, and reared in | that faith which t nymeel! uae establabod,” A trembling, they immediately seek the assistance ot some veterinary surgeon, who will treat tho animal for anthrax fever and not spinal-meningitis. THE WORKINGMEN'S MEETING, A preliminary meeting was held yesterday attere noon at the Masonic Hall, Thirteenth street, tm: reference to the one to be held at Tompkins square to-night, The following programme was agreed upon:—Messrs, Buck, Lilly and Beck will address. the meeting. Christian Myers will be present and speak also, The Park will be illuminated with. torehlights. A resolution was adopted bearing on the ‘peo+ ple’s Pi w eeoneen assembie.” speeches were delivered denouncing Mayor Havemeyer, and contradicting the report that the meeting would be abandoned on account of Myers’ pardon. Mr. 4, Swinton has accepted an invitation to speak. Judge Case was expected to preside, but is pre- vented by il ‘8 irom doing so, Mr. Leander Thompson wili preside in mis stead. Mr. P. D. Maguire will act as secretary. easrs. Theodore E. Tomlinson, John E. McMac- kin, J. T. Elliott, Dr. Theodore Kingett and John b Wolf have been invited to be present. The French Workingmen’s Association will meet at Lodge No. 5. Bakers will have @ representa- tion, Altogether some forty different lavor asso- ciations will be there. A police committee, com~ posed of 200 citizens (who will wear badges), wilh preserve order, eat French organizations will select their own akera, No inflammatory speaking will be allowed at to McLi’s Meeting