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Bs DEVOTION. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, S$ SEPTEMRER 7, 1874.— jove of God sor this world is beautifully Ulustrated | hard s:one, we may be permitted to clasp the 1 this mother’s love for her child, Aud how deep | warm eet oi our risen Lord, should be the love of the child ior such a parent? FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. Goa has Mmully manifested His love for this world in Christ. He, Curist, stands as @ mediator between TRIPLE ‘SHEET. ana even death for the love of that child? The | stead or iaying our aching heads against a cold, | toward the goal. There are three great means of Gospel power lay im the fact that it revealed ministration—the puipit, social means of grace | God in an attitude of suffering and sacrifice that and pastoral means, Of these the pulpit de- TOUVOHED THE MOST CALLOUS HEART. cidedly first in importance, ant nothing will make | The Gospel represented God as loving aud sacri- up for defctency in that particular, Yo the pu'pit | ficing. God were only wise and omnipotent the minister should bring a mind of the maturest that were something to ingpire reverence; butin coula pe taken, Mr, Talmage satd we learned from this subject the folly of depending upon any one form of attack in anything we have to do for this world or for God, Look over the weapons 1ing, battle axes and the Gospel they saw Goa’ : Ms | of the olden times, javeuins, heart. A God of love Ay feel poy ideas te nae | habergeons, and show me @ single weapon with only He that could move and mould the human | which Abimelech and nis men could have gained Goa and the worid, For Christ’s sake He nas promised to pardon freely, For His sake He will give ns heaven. Our love for Him should be ail ' perfection, enriened and illustrated by cuiture and Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Armltage—The | groreq with a Knowledge Of science and literature. Seal of the Holy SpiritmAn Indirect Al- | He should endeavor to make bimself an ornament The Returning Pastors and Their i ses Yesterda absorbing, It is His love that enables us | to the pulpit and show himseli as a workman Who | heart. God in sufering— hought mad : Discourses ye to bear all our trials. It makes the =— to the Beecher Case—The Wave | Meet not be ashamed. Every agency and means | the Drain «ddy.. Follow tim’ mae tine the Goa | Such @ complete triumph. It 1s no easy thing to week strong. If it were not or Christ's | smd the Lilies. | Of grace should be used to make the puipit | Man, for He must become a’ man to reveal His | take a temple with suca armament. I saw a house sake What could we endure? In joving Christ we ‘he Rev. Dr. Armitage yesterday preached the | eficient. This department cannot witn safety ve | t great love. See Him when the load oi a whole serinion in nis church in Forsy-sixth strect, near | Pegiecled. esterday Ww! evolutionary times, ‘The social means of grace are a great | world was laid upon His shouluer, And tuen jol- y lay where, during tue Ri & man and his wife kept back a whole regiment of PROFIT AND L058 OF —_——>-—__— Plymouth Church Exhorted to Duty by Brother Halliday. FORTY HOURS’ ACORATION. ST, PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, Opening Sermon of the Fall Season by | the Very Rev. Viear General Quina, on Death, At half-past ten o’clock mass yesterday the Cathedral was well filled with the old occupants of its pews, the greater number of whom have been absent /rom the city during the past month, Pro- fessor Gustavus Schmitz presided at the organ with his usual skill, The mass was by Tuztani, in | © major, and the choir consisted of the following | solo singers:—Mr, Urchns, Mr. Bersin, Mrs. Giles and Miss Beekman. The Rev. Father Kearney acted ag celebrant of the mass—a “missa can- tata”—and the Rev. Fathers Kane and McNamee, with about twenty neatly attired aco- lytea, assisted in the sanctuary. At the ap- propriate time the Very Rev. Vicar General Quinn ascended the pulpit to preach the first ser- mon since the beginning of the hot weather. He those his text from St. Luke, vil, 11-19, which re- \ates the miracle performed by Christ our Lord by restoring to life the son of the desolate widow be- fore the people of Capernaum. The very rever- ¢nd preacher spoke as follows :— The gospel which I have read, as prescribed by the Church for this Sunday, presents to our minds one of the most touching incidents con- nected with the life and labors of our blessed Lord aopon earth. This incident Was nothing less re markable, notuing less striking, than the raising of the dead to life. Some time previously thou- | sands had looked on while the sick were healed | ano the deafand dumb and lame cured; but to behold this wonderful miracle @ multitude of pers had come from Capernanm, where they had seen Jesus perform miracles before. This multitude bad been moved by public report to the scene of the mtracie, and now not only they, but also the muititude following the bier of the widow's only son, became also witnesses of this wonderful miracie—restoring Uie to the dead, | They were first Ulled with great fear and dread, | nd naturally s0, considering that they were be- solding a miracalous work such as they had never | Witnessed before, but their fear was soon turaed mto great joy—joy to a mother’s heart; joy in | gratitude to God for permitting them to become | Witnesses of so great a miracle? joy because God | RELICION. atrive not to eradicate merely the rougher jorms | mrnishes a much larger amount of happiness in | partaker in His power and glory and nature. In Gods rengemnee but vo soothe our souls to Sweetness. iis love stimulates us so we can bear much for Ris sake. He bore much for our sakes. The motives of those wiio live not their works are Luings that touen the Divine reword. Time tries our Works—strips them of the foolish coverings we put around them, And God judges our mo- tives. The man who truly loves Jesus Christ will let this life go that he way have a better lie here- alter. The worm delighteth ia the luxuries and frivolities of this world, We must let our light 80 uine that men may see our good works and glorify the Father wuo is in heaven. Let us all desire to comply With God's wishes—ever delight to please Him. It is pot that we may reap honors of men or movey, or that We may get to heaven, that we compiy with His wishes. These tings will come ii we Jove Him truly and obey Him, But we must love Him for Jesus’ sake. This is the true motive. TWELFTH STBEET REFORMED CHURCH. Profit and Loss—Sermon by Rev. Dr. | round of Christian thought than this sealing of the Lockwood. believer. It was @ beautiiul thing to follow the In the absence of the pastor Rev. Dr. Lockwood | pen o: the writer, and to see how the thought of preached an effective discourse yesterday from | &ne mind aod the feeling of the heart were laid Matthew, Xvi, 26. From this text he drew bls | pare at the point of the pen. So we telt toward | Fifth avenue, Doctor’s fock had not yet returned irom their summer pasturings. The reverend gentleman took for his text the thirtieth verse of the fourth chapter of the Epistie to the Ephesians:—“Grieve | not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption,” He said that he had bali made up his mind in the morning to preach on another subject, but he had finally come to the conclusion that quite enough had been sald about wt elsewhere; so he had finally abandoned the idea. Then, referring to his text, he remarked that in his opinion it dealt with what he would calla | question of Coristian privilege. He knew of nothing that was more precious or comforting in the whole theme, “irofit and Loss.” In a company of sci- | the inspired or uninspired writer who picks up entists this problem was once propounded, and 1 | with his peu the allusioas of his time, The apostie was decided that it couid not be solved, Butit can | ig this in the use ne made ofthe word “seal.” The | be, yet only by the use of heaven’s arithmetic, | word core allusion to an ancient custom, and he | which alone contains @ calculus adapted to such @ | applied it to the impression the work of the Holy | computation, Loss and gain are here estimated | spirit makes on the heart. Seals held avery im- | on eternal principles, and accurate calculation re- | portant piace in olden times, They were sign | quires that we should estimate as God estimates. | manuais and became | ‘The supposed profit or gain 18 the acquisition of THE SIGNETS OF POWER. | the world, The speaker here introduced a variety | The delivery of the signet by the monarch to an | of illustrations showing the inadequacy of am- | inferior transierred to him the power of the royal Ditton, pleasure or weaith to satisfy the cravings Of | name, and whoever received it received the privi- the soul, and then proved conclusively that the | leges and prerogatives of the monarch, ‘the Christian can really get more out of this world | gpostle, in using the term seal, made it a fit like- than the sinner, besides his claim to another and | yess to the work of the Holy Spirit on the heart. better. Man really owns only what he canenjoy | as the seal impressed itseif upon the wax 6o the and often one borrows more enjoyment by appro- | Holy Spirit imprinted itself upon man’s soul. | It priation of what belongs to another than the | was the signet of the King immortal, this impres- owner himself enjoys; and moderate enjoyment, gion given, conveying, as it were, the power and” by being more lasting than excessive enjoyment, | the authority of the Lord Jesus, making man a whe aggregate. And where, then, is the advantage a as of the Worldiing over the Christian? Where is his | 8° psalms David said, “My heart 1s like was.” great gain? He seems to be a loser even in regara | This spirit had made his heart meit like vo this world, So that, in the place of supposed | wax under its sweet and divine infuence—made protit we mast put loss. And now We consider the | it susceptble to the power of God, nad torn tne Supposed loss—the loss of the soul. The man | adamant irom out o/ It, and illed 1t with the delt- gaius @ loss to lose an infinite gain. Here | cacy and tenderness o! the bosom ol a cuild; ali the preacher terseiy and joreibly presented meited, when confronted with the beauty of the the value of the soul so a8 to properiy estimate its divine nature, with its abundant benedictions, | help in the rninistry, and through them a great There was but @ very small con- | influence can be exerted, The sick chamber, and gregation present, the many empty pews showing | Scenes Of afiliction where God's providence amc! quite conclusively that the greater portion o/ the | the heart; social gatherings, where tue sweet | fuence of home and the family circle ts part low Bim as He Was followed by that inturiated mob to Calvary. See Him in His great agony of death, for it Was there, in that scene of all scenes, that God Eternal fuily revealed Hunsel{ to man, The cross of Jesus Christ was capavie of Wooing | mount—ail can be made to serve the great pur- | every human heart and changing every guilty so! pose if nsed with discretion and effect. A heart: Sympathy is necessary between the pastor and his congregation, and geverous concessions should be made tn regard to taste as t Matters in preaching. Some preachers have one cannot be combined in one man. sary lor effective preaching. Open tne Bible and note how oiten Paul appeals to his disciples and hearers to pray for hts success in the ministry. At the conclusion of his discourse Dr. Chapman offered up a fervent prayer for success in his mine | istry, in which the whoie congregation partici- | pated, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. “God’s Sacrifice in Christ.” im the heat of yesterday morning, when the pulpit was taken by Professor Hunt, vf Princeton own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with nim treely things?’ The length upon away the sins of the world, this sacrifice merely an ordinary gi!t of Him who “spared not his own son.” it was a gift to suffer- ing, to trial, to mocsery, humillation and to dis graceful death; a gilt for the scourge, the altar and the cross, But long ages ago had this been foreordained, and the Saviour of the world was consigned by the foreordination of God to be made @ little lower than the angels, that he might work out this great purpose, and ve eventuaily “clothed joss. He injerred its value Irom what God has | Solomon said, “set me as @ seal upon thy heart.” | with majesty and power,’ fhe omnis- done for it in creation, providence and re- | Solomon desired to be brougnt into intimate rela- | client eye of God, when the Father made demption, and = from its OWn intrinsic | thous With the Divinity, that he migit Wearit like | that sacrifice and delivered Him up ior us all, worth as @ rational and immortal | A JEWEL ON HIS HEART. traced the whole career of Jesus irom Bethlehem essence. He then measured the loss | Sealed by the Holy Spirit to the day of redemption | to Calvary, aud took into its view all the cruel by eternity. As the clock of eternity measures off | meant transiormation. The clay or wax impressed its cycles, the lost Jook up and cry, “How long?” | by the seal must be of a corresponding impres- And it sounds the death Knell of hope, as the pen- | siou—one the mage of the other. Tne shapeless dulum, swinging w and tro, seems to say, “For- | clay or Wax assumed @ hew lorm under the acal ever! iorever!? Eternity!’ O eternity! dread | and it was taus wita tfan when sealed with the thought when associatec with a lost soul! I am | Holy Spirit. It gave him a new nature, new linea- not surprised that that word eternity, seen ona | ments, new lines, a new expression. It altered tract, once converted a soul. Now We are pre- his every facuity and point and imprinted a new pared to solve this problem of profit and loss, and | gure of his soul in its constitution, in its rela~ sufferings and agonies which the Saviour would be called upon to uadergo. Nothing of what oc- curred was matter of surprise to God, but ali had been legibly written in the Divine mind before which all abd every event of Curist’s lite, includ- ing His betrayal, His judgment by Pilate, His ig- nominious treagment, and His uplifting on the cross, were long before but as scenes ol a living panorama. Compare this with the greatest an Ne and other good quality, some another; but all these qualitics Prayer 1s neces- Professor Hunt, of Princeton College, on | of A thoroughly summer congregation of the slim- Mest proportions attended Dr. Paxton’s church College, who preached a very impressive sermon from Romans vill., 32—‘‘He that spared not his give us all reverend professor dwelt at the pricelessness of God’s gift "The Re' to man in His own adorable Son, who came to take AS a gift is the measure of human love showing the disposition of | the donor toward the recipient, the value of whica is to be Judged of by its relative costliness | to his estate and affections, so we have here the reatest possible proof of the love of the Almighty Fatuer to sinful man in the relinquishbment and BLESSING 81. PETER’3 SCHOOLS, As was announced at all the masses in St. Peter's church, Barclay street, on yesterday, the formal blessing of the new schools in connection with that church took place at four o'clock In the aiternoon, The new schools are located at the corner of Church and Cedar streets. Taey are built entirely of brick and present a very hand- some appearance. Previous to the ceremony a large concourse of people, among whom were in- termingled the members’ of several benevolent Societies, together with the boys aad girls the parish—numbering upward of F000 children, congregated in tne church and from thence marched tn line of procession to the schools, The Very Rey, Father Quin blessed the schools and afterward addressed the multitude Were floating accross the streets and the numver of people present must have been 5,000 or 6,000, Vicar General tee expatiated to a satisfactory ‘th on religious education ana on the economy of Catholic education in particular. He said that the Catholics of this city saved it $1,000,000, con- tributing themselves one-third for educational purposes, while the whole city had only to make Up the other two-thirds, v. Father ’Farrell, pastor of St. Peter's, then addressed the people, and endeavored to show in forcible language how and whut knowl- edge gained by being united with religion, The ceremonies commenced at four o’clock and termi- nated at hali-past six. The school building meas- ureg 73 feet long by 46 in width, and is six stories— $0 feet high, The male department wiil be*under the charge of the Cnristian Brothers, and the fe- male department under care of tne Sisters of Charity. The children, after attending mass at eight o’clock this morniag in church, will proceed | free gift of His own divine Son, What greater | to cake their places in school. love conld there be than that of His — dearly beloved Son to atone in person | ST, STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC OXUROH, for. the wickedness of mankind? Nor was bie on A large and fashionable congregation assembled at divine worship in st. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, Twenty-ciguth street, on yesterday morn- ing. Not only was the congregation unusually large in point of numbers, but the rich attire of many of those present was an evidence of tiie fact that the birds of wealth and fashton had but just | returned from their sojourmings in the country, | Those who attended the service in the hope of doomed to be disappointed, however. as no sermon was preached. Father Costigan celebrated high mass. It is understood that the regular morning jermons wili be resumed next sunday. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, The Rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem—The Great Work To Be Done. irom the stoop of the building. Flags and banrers | | being regaled with an intellectual treat were | men hour after hour, becanse they were inside the house and the soldiers werd outside. I read that Abimelech and his army came up, surrounded this temple and captured 16 without the loss of @ single man. Although, I sup- pose, the old Israelitish heroes told Avimelech, “You are only going up there to be cut 10 pieces, | yet you are Willing to testify to-day that by no | other mode—certainly not by any ordinary mode— could that temple have been so eusily captured. Fathers and mothers, brothers and ‘sisters in Jesus Christ, Wnat the Chureh most wants to learn to-day 1s, that any plan is right—any plan is lawful which helps to OVERTHROW THE TEMPLE OF SIN ana captures this world for God. We are very apt to stick to the old modes of attack. We put oa the old style coat of mail; we come up with the sharp, keen, steel spear of argument, expecting in that way to capture the castle; but they Lave a thou- sand spears where we have ten, And so the castle of sin stands. My fear 18 we will never capture this world of sin for God by any keeu sabre of sarcasm, by any glittering Fleams o! rhetoric, by any sapping and Tuining of profound disquisitions, by any gun- ae explosions of indignation, by sharp shoot- ings of wit, by howatzers of mental strength made to swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gor- | geously equipped, pawing the air. In fine, all | attempts on the part of these ecciesiastical foot soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers are use- less, My friends, | propose this morning a difter- ent style oi tactics. Let us each one go to the | forest of God’s promise &nd tuvitation and hew down @ brancn and put it on our shoulder, and let us all come around these obstinate iniwuities, and then this pile, kindied by the fires of a holy zeal and the flames of & consecrated Iie, will burn them out. What steel cannot do fire | May. Aud I this morning announce myseif in fa- vor of auy pian of religious attack that succeeds; any plan of religious attack, however radical, however odd, however unpopular, however hos- tile to all the conventionalities of the Church ang State. lf one style of prayer does not do the worl let us try another style. If the church music o! to-day does not get the victory then let us makew the assault with the backwoods chorus. If a pearer meeting at half-past seven in the evening oes not succeed let us have ono as early as the morning. If asermon with the three authorized heads does not do the work, then let us havea sermon with twenty heads, or no head at all. WE WANT MORE HEART in our song, more heart in our almsgiving, more heart in our prayers, more heart in our preaching. © tor less of “Abiinelech’s steel and more ©. Abimelech’s conflagrations! [ bad often heard ‘There is 4 fountain filled with blood sung artistically by four birds perched on their Sunday roost in the gallery uncil 1 thought of Jeury Lind and Nilsson and Sontag aud ail the other warblers, but there came not one tear to my eye nor one master emotion to my heart. But one night I went down to the Airican Methodist meeting house in Phiiadeipuia, and at the close of the ser- vice a black woman in the midst of the eongrega- tion began to sing that nymn and all the audience joined in, and we were floated three or jour miles nearer heaven than I have ever been since. I saw with my eyes that ‘iountalo filled with biood,” red, agonizing, sacrificial redempe tion. |heurd the crimson piash of the wave as we all went down under it. For sinners plunged beneath that food, Lose all their guilty stains. The reverend gentleman said he further learned. m human flesh, but a8 aprophet, had condescended tions and in its actions, The moment God sealed | hoblest . gift. by a parent oarth— from this subject the power of example. [If Abim- jo visit His people. nany subjects jor consideration, but one subject in | yarticular—namely, DEATH. {tis a subject which uniortunately does not interest jhose tov much chgaged in worldly occupations, It is @ subject, also, wuich has few attracuve fea- hares for those who give themseives up Lo ihe de-. ignts and pleasures and enjoyments snd irivoli- les Of the World—a subject irom which they turn way in disgust lest 1t should disturb their peace f mind, and one which the sinner contempilaves or a second only with dread and alarm, looking ipon It not as the end of life, but as that which is wintroduce him to a lite of eternal woe, Not- withstanding ail this it is a subject well worthy of yar consideration, It {8 not a speculative subject, jut one Which contains in itself something of real nterest lor us all; for all things else are uncertain cept death, and the apostle telis us, | ‘it is appointed for man once to die, | ind after that the judgment.” Oh, how feolish, | then, to imagine that we cun escape that which is | jo certain by excluding it from our thoughts. It | ® the policy of true wisdom, and has been the | volicy of the saints, not onty to meditate upon leath, but to approach tt, so that when it came | they Were not to be alarmed or taken unawares. | Sut what is Geatu? It ts the end of our existence; | jhe gate by which we enter into eternity—the youndary line Which separates tue temporal from | taunts of enemies, no curses of murderers, no he eternal; tt 1s that which Causes us to part om our nearest and dearest—ircm relatives and lends; from the pleasures, riches aid posses- | and hate and want and weakness were all outside, vions of earth, waich men so anxiously sacrifice iheir lives for; it is, in fine, that which compels as to close our eyes for the last time upon the jbings of earth to open them in eternity. It Is, also, that quick, decisive and irrevocable call which summons us belore God ior judgment for our good or evil works, and punishment according to our | leserts. This 13, indeed, death. But tnere are | yther aspects of ueath, and the most impressive 18 | jhat by Which our bodies are reduced toa viler | pass than clay itseli—to corruption and to the | ood of worms. But it is its uncertainty that | makes death so horribie in the eyes of mortais. it, Francis of Sales says in his writtags | when shail I die! Shall it be in the summer or in | jhe winter, in my house, on my couch or tu the | Jeid? Or shall I have my ghostly lather by my side jo whisper in = ear the last sweet words of ope? Of ail this 1 am uncertain, but still know [must aie.” If fauits are committed dur- ng life they can be easily corrected anu repaired, | put death cannot be rejected when itcomes 1ts | . Mivance is irresistible and {ts uncertainty certain. | This one consideration alone should move us fre- | yuentily to think of death. “Be not deceived,” | jays St. Paul; “God is not mocked; for whatsoever | } man sows these things also shall he reap.” [he end of our lives generaliy betokens how we have spent them. A deathbed repentance is very | P » | him before the world with vile moutuings, but eat ene ae bat opidom (vestowed | parpitating utterances on their horror-stricken | with that seal he would, in the end, come out sin to sin day alter | ears. There were women in the transac. | bright and beautiful. He would brush of the dust atthe bour of death. They have no right to ex- ctit. There is one fllustration in the Scriptures, is true, but this the exceptuon, not the rule, Which says, “AS men live, so suail they die,” ior at tue last hour it is not likely they can turn away jbeir eyes from uring life. ‘This thought will have a wonderiut sect. in controlling the actions of ous lite, putting a estramt upon our passions, and implanting humility in our souls, which 18 the foundation of al grace and virtue; for how can We be elated with pride and boast of our position aud family, when by the tousideration of death we perceive that we shail got de distinguished from the meanest of the earth | on the Jast day? This consideration will also strengthen in our souls the virtues of faith, hope and rity, and help ua to reform our lives if we have lived in sin, The reverend preacher fnally exhorted the congregation to permit no day to pass until death without aiming ata more perfect state, 80 that thetr last hours may be like unto those of the saints. The Rev. Father Farrelly will lecture in the Cathedral on Sunday, tue 27th inst, its Relics and Rains. JOHN STREET METHODIST CHURCH. Rev. Dr. Cheney on Our Love Christ. A fair sized congregation attended Divine ser- vice at the old John street Methodist Episcor ehurch yesterday morning. Kev. Natuan Cheney occupied the pulpit, preacuing @ briet dis- course from IL Corinthians, 1v., 5—‘Ourselves, your servants, for Jesus’ sake.” The speaker wal If we iove @ person, we express itin our language or in our appearance, or in gifts or acts. The bestowal of @ gift to one is very often as an expression of owt love jor that person. The doing of a kind act is an expression of charity or of love for our friend or fellow creature. It is a very beautiful thing to study the expressions of the for love which men bear to Jesus Christ. But how ao we, how can we, show it to Him? How can we malfest this particular love or de- votion? It cannot be done in any shal- low way. The maniiest and holiest love is that which 18 the caimest in expression, There is always a peace and consciousness about It ‘@hich coptrasts wonderfully wita the impuisive expression. And, as man grows older, he wiil coutibue to show his love in a calmer and milder expression. In answer to we query “How can we | show our love W Ouirist ’ the reply is simple. We most first of aii keep His holy commanuments, and we must learn to love to obey His mandates, It 18 Not i 1ooking, speaking and in acting that love is aiways maniiested. ‘These expressions too often belie the heart. bat would it be possible tor one to love God and not show these man ions? I would answer, No. But these bxpreesions will al- ways be in proportion to that iove. We must hinger bear Jesus, and whoever loves Him will like to stand by His side and do His bia and even to die ior Him. Yes, be who truly loves Him will do these things for Jesus’ sake. we do on this earth we Te may the debs we owe who gave 4is only begotten Son to’ sufer and dye that We poor mortals might live and inherit eternal life, A beautiiul llusiration of what our love should be is the love of @ poor motner for ne: child, Did youever see ber who would deprive’ herself of a portion of her scanty garments that her child migot be warmly clothed; who wonid deprive herself of food that her darling child might | sobs at the size of the stone may be turned into | the things that are behind lim and sweep past DUD , AMOO a poe slabt of phe have Iagre, WhO WOWG suMler Cold wriVAlioD, This gospel presents to us | We ind a dead and total and irretrievavle 103s on pe lor the grace of repentance | tion, those dois which they adored | on “Rome, | the side of the loser of the soul. muca enjoyment out of the world as the Christian and loses what is Worth ten thousand worids, and loses it beyond ‘recall, and becomes an eternal He gains pot so | a mau with His spirit of redemption He gave hin instead Of the spirit of ignorance that o1 knowl. edge, instead of the spirit of scepticsm that of taith, instead of hatred, love. It also (this spirit) bankrupt. Who will then make a wise bargain for denoted ratification. As tne geal oi old ratified eternity? O ye business men, be sure that you | letters, forms aud covenants, so did this spirit Make not a bad bargain here. Tbrow your bonus ra:ify aud wuthenticate God’s promise to and mortgages and bank ck into the streets, if man. By it we were joined to God, for you please, but take stock in the bank of heaven | tn setting his seal upon the Christian He had sworn and save your soul’s interests for eternity. And | an oat, made @ covenant, which could not be to save your souls give them to Jesus for Keeping. | broken. The word “earnest? was a legal term, | the word in its ordinary sease meaning the pleave or binding, as, for instance, the “earnest” mouey THE CHURCH OF THE STRANGURS, 1m a trausier of property, It was not the entire wep ys | purchase money, but it bound the bargain and | The Stone Rolled Away—A Sermon by | Mace tire purchase just as valid as if all te money | Rev. Dr. Deems. | had been paid in gags 9 ig earnest of God's e: spirit Was this, He had placed His seal upon us a3 ‘The church was crowded, and the sacraments of ah earnest. of’ His love lor us—His promise ot 81 baptism and the eucharist were administered. | vation, By Lis-word he had secured to us eternal | The text was Mark Xvi., 3, 4—“And they said among pleading sick man’s voice is in his ears. | life. is spirit, meee eee ee God's in- ‘ tentions, and, thus seaied, the Christian possessed | themselves, who shail roll us away the stone from | to a4 eternal iife a8 surely ws if he already stood the door of the sepulcbre? And when they looked | on tie other shore and ielt the crown of glory they saw that the stone was rolled away; for it | resting on nis brow. This was a sweet consola- ; sab) tion, vo know that we had been transierred into | was very great.” There never was such a Sabbath | the elder brother and that as that described in this context, To Jesas it was | OUR INHERITANCE TO ETERNAL LIFE | a Sabbath of silence. His ministry had closed. No | was the same as His. It was aiso a recognition, | as the seals were used 48 marks of idenutication | Oi property and the like. Tuus God gave us lis | | Love | Holy spirit to mark the Curmstan as His own, | “Him hath God the tatner, sealed.” That, Indeed, a ~, | Was a sweet revelation, Men may scout, demous | and Jesus was in the sepulchre, No longer from | nite put the Christian with the seal o: the Holy | mount or lake side came the tones of His voice, | spirit was known to God and the world. Even | preaching the Kingdom of God. To the disciples it | with His divine Son himself, when surrounded by was a Sabbath of grief. Many another Sabbath had | Sco“ers, when the heavens were forbidaing, when | | the earth rejected Him, ana everything was dark come upon them ana found them with burdened | without and agitation within, when His own heart hearts. They had had the common cares of humanity | note at ine pre mae ak ae and the pinching of poverty. Sometimes their | pat upon Him Me, SSAtI Ok bg pt nets broke. Sometimes the Roman yoke nad | agency, of sublime utterance, of profound galled them. Sometimes their own heart-sins had | doctrive, of infinite purity, and if the world re‘used to recognize nim God did not, and in the face of given them heart-sorrows, They had been sons, | th world went out the recognition—“This is my lovers, husbands, laborers, patriots, sinners, men. | peloved Son, in mpom am =o please: It was But never such a Sabbath as this had they seen. | precious thought that our Master was a sealed lt was not a Sabbath. It was not a rest. The Christ and His servants sealed Christiavs. What | God the Father did in sealing with His holy spirit heart had been torn out of their lives. To the His divine Son He does for us. Paui bore about churchmen it was@ Sabbath of guilt and fear, him re eceaicn tail bead Be go vite ¥ | would the seal of the Holy Spirit was upon him, Many @ Sabbath before they had meditated the | wicn that seal what had & Christian to tear? tt murder ofthe great Teacher, but never before had | was like the blood of phate on the lintels of the Sapbath sun seen their hands actually stained | door waen the angel of the Passover slew the first z e use that W: It e with His blood. ver and anon thelr hears beat Pty" Gy id Goda angel kuew ns tn ag they seemed to hear the accents of His marvel- THE LORD'S CHOSEN, lous voice, as if its accents still hung on cloister When God places iis seal on a man, men may beam and would occasionally descend with its slander him, uttack his character and denounce | froin His servant and, till the day of redemption, women is any blow | He would not iail to identify uim, though the world Think of those three women | might scoff and menrevile. The godly man may go under the waves ‘or a time, but will never sink entirely, but arise to the surface stronger aud purer from the very combat he may nave nad with them, Greater to | than to men. | sitting tnrough all the Sabbath under the dark- | ness of that grief—tnat grief which feil bn their souis like frost on ore benny the tag | of these Women with those mean disctples. What ‘A BED OF LILIES, | Were those eleven men doing? Nothing; they | ana seeing a nuge wave roll over th | were just like otuer men when first bankrupt. | them ue of sate, He feared tiey had bork But the godly women Kept the Sabbath, and they | crushed; but instead, alter the wave had roiled kept the spices they wget Noh en, wheD | beyond them, they raised thetr heads and seemed ne sant Wat Pa eent to the sepulcire, ny | to laugh and shine tu the suulignt brigater than | Rope seas eC awased thet. est ever. ‘The only damage tie wave had dove was | | | And what a sight awaited them! The stone wae | to wash the roadside dust off them and make them Bone, AL angel Wee adwee Tce ID he Mscory a; | Walter from the very tussle with the water, The | se Te te eee er ve kuow in the viograpay of | Speaker closed by exhorting his congregation | earth, and, 50 jar | PTs heaton ayy | Hot to efface the seal God had given them by bad Goa. But what wesan angel to heartbroken Mary? | jive, nor to wear a counterfeit seal, as the devil She vores satay, ee ae Jesus than a million of | was splendid counterfetter and could make the | | angels. She saw Jesus. Heaven makes its reve- | pag seem good to a nicety at clues. The seal the lations to the heart rather than to the head, to | Gniistian had Was God’s, It sould be kept jove rather than to intellect, to activity rather | sacred si than to despair, to Mary ratner than to Jonn and F; sail | | Peter. | | “There are some sepulchres from whtch we should | 81. PAUL'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. not desire to roll the svoue away. Part of the past D | 1s such a sepulchre. From the future, out of which | D¥+ can rise the glory of salvation, let the seai be or nee past there lo asepoichre ta witch, oorpacs | _,D% Chapman commenced his pastorate at St, | ip tha ; he. Gorpses of broken vows; corpses of oid | Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, corner of | hates; corpses of old ri thagd On! A — = | Twenty-second street and Fourth avenue, by a never see them more; at we coul forge! er very names. No! there 18 nothing there to anoint. | SF iat ebuplent* ede a be nichte wai eh tees Let the stone stay. But there is another sepuichre of the past where there do lie some things very | the subject being very appropriate to the occasion, sweet, ooly and precious. Let us keep our spices | tne preacner was listeucd to throughont with marked attention, and at the conclusion it was ready. Let as listen to — oar of ae ba eae erhaps the very first should be | evident that the impression left on the congrega- the importance of not dwelling on dificulties in | tion wag decidedly favorable. Pointing on ‘i He remembered a steamer passing Chapmen on the Mission of the Preacher of the Gospel. | Was rolled away. Christian work and in the discharge of the duties onerous nature of the duties imposed by the min- der in Joseph's garden are Hisremains, I can at least go toward them, if I cannot te near) pinicter and the great responsibility that rests | the tomb’s aoor li I cannot enter and anoint the | upon him, the preacher proceeded to give a clear dear limvs of my aear dead, There are always Wuetler you are to build up @ family, or a church, | D¢Cessary to an efficient ministration. The minis- | Ox @ 8ChOOL, OF @ hospital, there wili be two classes , ter is the agent of God Himself, and, inside the | know, the other the difficulties that you do not know. The women knew that. the ae was | Jargest liberty 1s allowed the agent. At the | same time nis duty 18 clearly indicated | ghard had been set, These would probably come } lat tue morning and the wi it later in the morning and the women aid ner Koow | demption springs out of the gooaness of God | the part of God that we do not Know, and those | himseif and is marveliousiy adapted to its purpose | doing their duty, Remember that the women | the Gospel is one of the instruments appointed to | knew Of the set and seaied stone, but they did not | work it out. Tiils Is the only attitude, theoretical which iove brings. Jesus may be dead! Bat yon- | istry of the Gospel, the sacred trust reposed in the them. Lean carry sweet spices and lay them at and lucid sketch of the qualifica | dificuiuies in any Christian’ or Christly work. M Sonfecnabirer of diiliculties—one, the difficulties that you do | line marked out for bis guidance the | there, But they probably did not know that the and fully illustrated, The whole scheme of re- | o! them. But there are aiways proceedings upon proceedings are always aidful to those who are | Jts origin and p.an are divine, and the minister of | know that Heaven had broken into the grave | or preee that a minister can occupy and feel sorth | in in the night and Jesus was gone msel! the thrilling inspiration of his mission. | na angelic servitors had been left to | Just as a mariner has to adapt nimsef to the state | give them sweet and cheering messages. | of the element on which he is cast and take advan- | Bot we must not ve vVisiwnary in the | tage oi everything within his reach to enabie him | | sense of iorgetting that there are difficulties, Men | to steer his Vessel to her destination, 80 a wintater | who undertake great works Itke the Mount Cenis | of the Gospel should take advantage of every | tunnel, the Atiantic cable, a railway across a con- | means Within pis reach and use them for the gai- | | tinent | koow that there are palpabic, vast ana | vation of the souls that God has intrusted to hia | | costly difficulties. ‘There are costs which are cer- | charge. It is omly he who is imbued with the | tainly known, which civil engineers cau certainly | spirit of Christ that bas @ rigut to cross the sacred | calculate, and there are probable costs which | tureshold and undertake tue great responsibilty | hinge upon comjectured contingencies, and there of preaching the Word of God. The onject pelore are possible costs which may be brought to light | nim is so great that it should absorb the whole by the progress of the Work. The men whotur- | man, and every element of his whole beng nish the capital necessarily look at them; but | Suould be inspired with an earnest indwelling | nevertheless they go forward, spirit of devotion to the minisiry, He must | “che rest of the sermon was occupied in showing | be a man Of one word and of one aim, so that tne | how faith and love were quick-sighted, and that | world cannot misnacerstand him. Concentrauon | the highest duties have the sternest difficulties, | i8 ap indispensable eiement of success every- | | and that easy virtaes are poor virtues, where; aud he only who |s concentrated in practi- | It closed in tot way:—We a toward Jesus | cai furce aud practical aim can succeed anywhere, jnst as early as possible; but, having brought | ‘This is pi minentiy (rue of the ministry of tae aweet spices, they may be wholly unneeded. Our | Gospel. The man Who embraces it should forget | apon the gift of a son for his country’s good. How Chiko plete Conces Ratton aanembtos:in Flymouty widely different is that! Personal pride enters | Church yesterday moruing. Assistant Pastor Hulli- tne the Ce et ie aes earthiy spt He | day preached. After the sermon the Lord’s Supper | kes to see iuIs 80 ants | a ee bts son in military accoutrements | wag aaministered. The text was from Nehemiah, | | all things!” No | tor God over as, and to jearn even of his camp Itfe, He takes the | chances of some glory accruing or some recom- pense froma grateiul country, while tue darling of the family circle is given up, not to dishonor and a certain and inevitable shameful death, but to an honerabie grave or to the reward of bravery. The death of Christ was desolate; the cry, “My Goa, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? There was nO eXultation of victory by the side of the cross, no cheering, no hosannahs when the great Inystery was accomplished and the Lamb of God slain; and the most extraordinary part of this sacrilice Was that it Was made for those who were uttterly undeserving of it—the most unloveable— Whose ill deserts were abscrbed in the ocean of love, and for whom was spread the royal least Jor their sweet coercion by the affection of Divine love, This extremity of God’s goodness to fallen mlab was never more ielt than oy St. Paul, “the least of all saints,” who individually glomed that it was worked out for him, Such love tas no exemplifi- cation among men, nor was any gift ever given conpershie to that of the Son of God by tne Patiiers Projessor Hunt then proceeded to show how thia act of God insures the sanctifiation of the Chris- tan, for “shall he not with Him treely give us care can be too ‘who has saved us at such a ransom, and who will, if we believe and trust in him, make everything to work together lor good for each of us by the power o! His un- changeable love. When Jesus is given, all is given, and the doors of the treasury o! heaven are Open. Then, indeed, the Christian can go to the cross for pardoning grace and for all the mercies that he neeas; and as the gilts are ilimitavie, so can we muniiicently multiply our requests to the munificent Giver of all. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, The Three Great Elements of Gospel Power=—Sermon by Rev. J. B. Hawe thorne, D. D., of Louisville, Ky. The Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, D. D., 01 Louisville, Ky., preached yesterday morning at the Taber- nacle Baptist church in Second avenue, near Eleventh street, to quite a large congregation, From the crowd of worshippers at the church it | ‘was easy to tell that the summer vacation was to agreat extent over, and that the good people of | en masse wo the breach; not a dissenting voice this city had returned from the sea bathing and camp meetings and rusticating to the ordinary pursuits of city life, with its regular round of Sun- day sermons. The theme of Dr. Hawthorne's dis- course was one pregnant with interest, and en- titied ‘The Three Great Elements of Gospel Power.” It was carefuliy and attentively listened vo and favorably received. The reverend preacher took his text from Paul’s Epistle to tne Romans, 1., 16—‘1 am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it 1s the power of God | and salvation to everybody who believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” At first glance this would seem a very simpie thing tor Paul to say. Of course not; who need be ashamed to own it? Certainly nothing was MORE HESPECTABLE THAN CHRIZTIANITY, ‘The great nations of the earth were Christian na- tions. There was no civilization worth preserving which Was not essentially Christian in its charac- ter. But the people among whom Paul lived were ola yery different nature, and they looked upon Paul a8 @ ‘“‘hateiul Jew.’ There was a people who were looked upon 'as the Britons look upon the Hindoos, and to this despised, conquered race | Was it not yet ao to some extent ? Paul belonged. Until a very few years ago the Jews were exciuded irom all respectable positions in the world, At that period the Jews were particularly odious among the Romans. it would, therefore, seem @ remarkable thing that vni§ new religion should be pioneered by a detestable Jew. Add to this that Paul wae destitute of outward that he was represented as being valdhead fovuted, with one eye. Paul’s theme contained no element which was lascinating to the carnal sense, He came to unicri the standard of a religion that has no esthetic element in it, and makes an ap- eal ~ TO THE SENSE OF THE BEAUTIFUL in man. Christ was unite the old Hebrew prophets, who were great pocts and lovers of na- ture. They were gathering ali the time flowers from hili to dale, and twining them round the rugged edge of truth. The reHgion of which Paul was the apostie only promised the cross of ignominy, so it was, indeed, heroism to stand up and 81 oldiy, ‘I aim not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.” And why was he not ashamed of it? His Teason Was grand and concinsive. In the creation ol the world God exhibited His a power, and in redemption He manifested His spiritual force, One secret of the great influence ot Christi- anity lay in the fact that it always addressed man as an immortal being. If it was ail of itfe to live | and all of deatn to die, What more was the laborer woo tilled the soi than the ox or the horse? When Christ came and proclaimed the tmmortality of man He invested him with a dignity which he never belore possessed. If they looked upon man as a creature o! a few years only, how could Le be respected ABOVE THE BEAST OF BURDEN? But if Man was put here to be transplanted toa nobier and better sphere, where he was to grow to a greater manhood, it was ciear that he be- longed toa superior scaie of beings. The Gospel had great power, because it appealed to man 4$ 4 deathless creature. Whatever kindled in man the hope of tuture lie was the only power which could transtorm him into a child Of light, and this was the power of the Gospel. Another power of the Gospel was exercised through tie conscience of man. It was the facult, power and majesty of God, God held audience with man. A Who had not felt it? It spoke and the cowardly assas- sib Was arrested in his path aud was unnerved before he struck the deadiy biow, It was with this faculty that the preacher had matniy to do, His office was to bring it out in its full power, If and through which he merely spoke to the passions or to the imagina- | tion the demagogue or the poet could outrang him. Conscience brought the sinner into court and Constrained him to write his own condemna- great | |, cimb= | through which man apprehended the | sixth chapter, part of the third verse—‘I am doing | @ great work, so that I cannot come down. Why | | should the work cease whilst Ileave it and come | | down to you?? Nehemiah was one of the captives taken in @ War 450 years before | | Christ. He had been appointed cup- | bearer to the King, One of his brethren from | Jerusalem approached him, and he mquired of | Dim the condition of the Jews of the city, and he | heard that they were in great afliction, the walls ; | Of the city were broken and the gates consumed | ; by fre, All this struck deep into the heart of | this loving man; he wept and prayed for Jerusa- | lem; nor did he attempt to conceal the sins of | the people. Nehemiah prayed not only iervently but intelligently as well. How ardently he loved | his brethren, and though separated from them | and Jerusalem his country was as dear to | | that this was | the ants and caterpillars are begianin elech hau sat down upon the grass and told his soldiers to go and get the boughs and go out to the battle they would never have gone at all. What made Garibaldi, Stonewall Jackson and sheridan the most magnetic commanders? It was because they always rode atead, A father on the wrong road was apt to lead his children wrong, whiie a father on the right road would leaa them to Curist. He also learned irom thia subjecs the advantage of a concert of action, and uoder this head he spoke of the necessity o! ali working together in the caus of Christ. t seemed to him not done, and as if there were ten drones in every hive to one busy bee. While there are a great many toiling for God there are some who are too lazy to brush the flies off their heavy eyelids. They wave jain so long in one place that. to crawk over them, and he would not woader If some of these church brotuers should wake up tn hell, ie DEVOTION ON LONG ISLAND. The Forty Hours’ Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament—What It signi« fies—Imposing Ceremonies at Ste Patrick’s Church, Huntington, Yester= day. him as ever, For months the afilic- | tons of his people haunted him; he wanted to go to the land of his | fathers and repair the walls, He waa in a position | in which be hoped to be influential in accompiis! | ing this. He tried to hide his anxiety from the | King, but as he handed him his wine cup one da: | he said, “Why art thou sad?” and he answered, i “Why should not my countenance be gad when | the city of my fathers lieth waste and the gates | | are consumed by firey’ He now had the King’s ear. What should he request. After a moment's prayer he said, “Send me to Judah, the city of my fathers’ sepulcures, that I may rebuild it’? ; on hia way he learned that the people were Jealous because there had come a man | to seek the welfare of the chiidren of | Israel. Be rose in the night and examined the walls, and in the morning he said, ‘Come, iet us build up the walla, that we be no more a re- proach,” and they all rose und the work begun at ‘once With great zeal and heartiness, but the work was not to be accomplished without great difl- culties, The Jews were great in thrift and pros- perity, but with the wails of their city broken they had no defence against those who might ; break im upon them. Fired by the zeal of their noble leader, tiey did rise and build; they rushed was heard. But when Sanballat and Tobiah and | Geshem heard of it they laughed them to scorn; | but Nehemtan said, “The God of heaven will pros- | per us.” When all these MUTUAL FRIENDS | heard that the wails were being finished they were | | enraged and conspired together to fight Jerusaiem. | | But by day and night the walls went up. Nehe- | ; Mlab was Ldap neato comiorting and tnspiring bis brethren. nballat and his friends, being assured that the Jews had become aware of their | inspection, conciuded that discretion was the bet- | ter part of valor, but they were not d 3. only | thwarted. The walls were completed, but the ates were not set up when Sanballat and eshem sent to Nehemiah to meet them on the jain of Ono, but Nehemiah knew they meaut to do | him mischief, and he sent messengers unto them | | with the words of the text. God help yon to take | these as watchwords. I! every Curistian could | only be thoroughly advised of their piace in the building up of Gou’s kingdom as Nehemtan was in | the building of the wail. it seems to me that these words lave a peculiar fitness tous at tits janc- ; ture. Here in this house to-day, in tne presence | of this tabie, let us piedge one another in tnis | great work. Everything that has come to us has | come through the teachings of our pastor mainty. It has been God’s spirit uttered from this platiorm jor twenty-seven years that has given usa con- | Spicuity such as no other church has. How thankful | may we be that God has given us such | @ teacher, such a leader, and one who has at tained such success, Now, while you have loved and cherished him and been proud of vim, has there not been neglect? | have never felt’ that our pastor was not thoroughly loved, The afection and pride of this church far transcends any L ever saw in more than flity years’ experience, and yetI am constrained again to ask the question, is the wail complete between your door and him? Let me ask, have you prayed for your pastor fer- | vently? Lhave not been able sometimes to disabuse my mind of the notion that Mr, Beecher was so strong that he needed no prayers, but could carry on tis broad shoulders his burdens and others’ too. Have you not in these weeks had a BAPTISM OF SYMPATHY | for him never felt before ? Let the honest deter- mination of every soul be to-day, | will arise and build. Let our repiy be to every solicitation, “1 am doing @ great work, so that I cannot come down,’’ Our relations open to us other auties be- sides those tmmediately connected with our pus- | ter; we have our Sanday schools, where we have | thousands of souls to influence. Let us to the wall belore our own door, no matter what tne wiles of the enemy. Be deat and dumb and blind to all. Woy snould our work cease while we come down to them? — | TALMAGE'3 TABERNACLE, Brooklyn’s Boanerges at Home Again— He Proposes to Fight the Devil wiih Fire. The Rev. T, De Witt Talmage preached his first sermon since his vacation at tne Brooklyn Taber- | Macle yesterday morning. The congregation was | unusually large, every space of the commodious edifice being filled. Some choice flowers decorated the platform, while behind the desk were the words, “Welcome home,” wrought in flowers and evergreens, As thereverend gentleman appeared | upon the platform Mr. Morgan, the organist, played | ‘Home, Sweet Home.’ Mr. Talmage’s sermon was founded upon the story of capture of Shechem and the temple of the god Berith by Abimelech and his army. Shechem, as the story goes, was attacked by Abimelech and the men of Shechem took refuge in this tower of the god Berith, thinking 1t would bea place of safety. But Apimelech went Into the wood, chopped down branches, deposited | them at the foot of the tower and burned it down. | marked and extraordinary degree. | Impressive ceremony. Huntington, L. 1, which has long been known. asthe garden spot of that tract of land lying bee tween the Atiantic aud the Sound, bloomed with flowers of piety and devotion yesterday in a For the first, time the office of the Catholic Church known as. the “Forty Hours’ Prayer or Adoration” was. imaugurated at St. Patrick’s church, and tue blessed sacrament was exposed for the adoration of the people with due and most The devotion originated in the city of Milan, Italy, in the year 1537, when that place was surrounded by the besieging forces of the King of France, who sought to take upon himself the sovereignty of Milan upon the death of the Grana Duke Francis Sforza. The Milanese refused to surrender to the rulership of the French King, but invited the Emperor Charles the Fifth to assume the protectorskip of Milan, It occurred to learned exemplary Capuchin friar, Father Joseph. di Pero, that the devotion of the public adoration of our Lord in the divine sacrament of the euchar- ist, a8 @ propitiatory offering, would avert the scourge which was about to fall upon the city. The people complied gladly with the suggestion, and the exposition and adoration was begun in every church in the city, The efMcacy of the devotion was made apparent, as the irritated feelings of the rival monarchs were changed into sentiments of concord and peace,, and the Milanese obtained their desire. Thence- forth miracle bore fruit in great plenitude, and in 80 many Ways that Pope Benedict XIV. made tt obligatory on all bishops of the Papal Staves to ex- pose the blessed sacrament in the churches once Seer and granted wany indulgences to the [aitu- ul who would visit the churches daring the ex- sition. The devotion was introduced into the Jnited States and formally inaugurated by the late Arcavishop Kenrick, of Baltimore, 10 1857. An indulgence o! seven years is now granted those who visit and pray fore the eucharist and » plenary indulgence to all who go to coniession and receive holy communton, ‘Such was the origin of the devotion which called together the Catnolics of Long Island for twenty odd miles around Huntington to the beauttlul Gothic church o1 which Rev. J. J. Crowley is pas- tor, yesterday, and the handreds who for the first tume witnessed and took part in the ceremony will never iorget it. The tine architectural jines of the red brick edifice, whic! ands apon a knoll, surrounded by neat gravel waiks and sioping ter- Taces of Lk age? velvety hue, the tall trees and many colored tints imparting to the stained glass ws the mellowed rays of THE SEPTEMBER SABBATH SUN, all made up the externals of a picture which deen ened the meditations of the soul aad broke tn s0- lemnity, harmony aud peace upon tae mind of the worshippers, The altar was richly laden with rare Natural flowers, arranged in elegant vases, and sixty wax lights lent their illumination to the scene. THE EXPOSITION MASS was celebrated by the Rev. J. G. Crowley, assisted byKev. Father McElroy, of the Church of Our Lady o! Mercy, as deacon; Rey, Father McNamee, of 5% ‘Teresa, a8 sub-deacon, and Kev. Fatber Taaffe, of St. Patrick's, of Krookiyn. After the gospel the reverend pastor explained the object of the devo- tion in brief, and urged his flock to aval them- selves of the spiritual graces vouchsaled those who devoutly attended at the adoration thus in- augurated, ‘STO, which was very fine, was sung by the choir of the Church ol Our 'y of Mercy, which is considered “the Cathoile choir of Brooklyn, The mass sung was Mercadante’s in D minor, and was inter- preted by the quartet of the church above named, composed of Ass Delia Barniele, Pai Beever, Monica Newman, contralto; Mr. Nicholas Doyie, tenor, and Mr. William Young, basso, At the con- clusion of the mass ‘THR PROCESSION was formed in the order subjoined :— scores on either side 400 And tr eing Gpnted candies Eight acolytes. ris strewing flowers Tattle eohiseormted. host, THE MU! the celebrant beneath @ crimson canopy, bot ee eapporie four wen, ‘The dexcow ‘and mn on either side of the celebrant Boys carrying lighted tapers, Giri carrying lighted tapers. Women of the congregation. Men of the congregation. The choir chanted the ‘‘Pange Lingna,” and the procession moved down the aisle and around the sacred edifice, On re-entering the church the host, which was borne in the ostensorium, was Lon in the alcove above the tabernacle, the Atany of the Saints was recited and the congre- jon dismissed. The adoration will continue uptil noon to-morrow, when the grand high insss of reposition will be celebrated, and the first forty hours’ adoration ever heid on Long Island oatside the city Of Brvoklva will pass into Catholic his- ANGAA- | the tuiggs ON EfiGr haDd wud pusa oyWard | Mou, ADLLUAL aNd DEFDADS the chi¢l element of | That it appears, was the only way in which It) WEN