The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1874, Page 8

8 THE DAY OF REST, Lively and Earnest Sermons from Our Recreated Pastors. — TALMAGE ON THE HEAVENLY RAILWAY, The Duty of Rest, as Expounded by Mr. Frothingham, THE HOLY NAME OF MARY. | A New Bedford Preacher in Plymouth Pulpit—Mr. Hepworth on the Frnitless Fig Tree. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, Father Kearney on the Blessed Name of “Mary, Mother of God.” Righ mass was celebrated yesterday in the Ca thedral by the Rey. Father McNamee. The at- Ytendance was thin, and showed that the sea side | resorts preserve still thelr attraction.for a large mumber of people. Terziani’s mas3 in E was sung by the choir in their usual excellent style. Tne rendering of Mozart’s “Veni Creator,” by Miss Beekwan, and of Bassini’s “Salve Regina,” at te offertory, by Mrs. Giles, attracted much attention, The organ | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMRER 14, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. tnere were a God and a devil anda heaven and a heli, and this truth must come back to us again if we are to have the old morality, People sinned then a8 Weill as now, itis true; but no man under- took to prove his sin no sin. Unaer God’s vast Mountain range there are shallows and rocks and Sandbaaks in this Wearying land, but there are aiso the crystal fountains 61 truth and velie! where we may drink, become strong, and find a retuge and @ saleguard from the storms and passions and iis of haman itfe, and a pledge of the iuil possession of the jewels and treasures o1 eternity. 8T, STEPHEN'S OUROE. Sermon by the Rey. Dr. McGlynn—The | Feast of the Holy Name of Mary—Efi- | cacy of Her Intercession. A large and respectabie congregation assembled in St. Scephen’s church yesterday morning to cele- brate the feast of ‘he name of the Virgin Mothor of God. The high mass was celebrated by the Rev, Father McCready, and the imposing ceremonies | Were gone through in strict conformity with the — Roman ritual When the celebrant had finished the singing of the gospel the Rev, Dr. McGlynn en- must ne consecrated in 1 faith meant poise and balance, The reuliy good man never talked apout his religion—bypocrites alone did that; Dut the man of taith showed It In his acts, which Won for him in this world esteem and admiration, and in the next eternal comfort. . FIRST BAPTIST QHUROH. The Rev. Mr. Kelsey, of Passaic, on “The Ministry of the Disciples of Christ In the absence of Dr. Anderson the pulpit of this church Was filled yesterday by the Rev. Mr. Kelsey, of Passaic, who delivered to a moderate, but extremely devout and attenuve congregation, avery impressive and ejoquent discourse upon the work of disciples in the ordinance of Christ's Kingdom; taking as his text the words irom Mauthew, Xiv., 19—"Aand gave to his discipies, and his aisciples to the mul- titude.” The preacher began by remark: | ing that the mode o/ God's distribution to man 18 by mau and passing mercy downwards to ve dis- tered the sanctuary. Having prayed in secret at | Pensed by believers and finite beings. He who tbe foot of the high altar, he ascended the pulpit | ¥20WS vest His own unapprochable essence, aud and delivered an interesting and edifying dis- | that the Heaven and Heaven of Heavens cannot course on the feast of the day.. He took as bis text The Church celebrates on this Sunday, the first | aiter the festival of the nativity of the Blessed Vir- | ein, the feast of the boly name of Mary; and itis with special fitness she has selected the gospel which I have just read for you. A great revelation | ‘Was made to the world tn the interview which the a@ugel Gabriel Lad wita the humble maiden of Nazaretn. Tue whole world had been longing for | the advent of the virgin, who was to usher in a | better day. Even among the pagans a belie! haa | grown up that it was necessary fur God to inter. | tere or the world would go to ruin, and that it was & virzin who Was to be the dawn Oi tue better day, | ‘the Jews, | GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, the clear light in the prophecy of Isaiah, Which reads more like history than prophecy. From tue was under the direction of Mr, Gustavus Schmitz, Alter the Gospel the Rey. Father Kearney preached on the festivalo! the day—that of tne | Holy name of Mary. His text was from tue Gospel of | St. Lake—‘+At that time the angel Gabriel was sent | from God into a city of Gauiee called Nazareth, to @ virgin espoused to @ man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s ame was Mary.” The Church, he said, called upon all her children to ceiebrate annually the name of the mother of the worla’s Redeemer. That they would all do so this day he had no doubt, therg within the walls of that church who had not once in a experienced the efficacy of that ed name? ‘They had all felt grief and sorrow, but not one of | his hearers had ever eit any beart pang which had Hot been endured by the mother of Goa. The name of Mary weaut a sea of bitterness, and tue dark | shadow ofaiiction hung over her trom the cradle to the grave. Zhe greatest secret the world ever beard or ever will hear was communicated to her. | In ber lonely cottage at Nazareth tbe archangel Gabriel, deputed specially vy God, intormed Ler | that she Was ty become the MOTHER OF THE MAN OF GOD. In other words, she learned tnat she was to play, after the Divine Son, the most important part ever taken by any child of Adam. The happy iruits which bave owed so abundantly from tie message of Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary the world has already leit, Tne wystery of the house of Naza- Teth is now known irom pole to pole. Ihe happl- | ness of hundreds of rutliions of people lies at this moment inthe contempiation of it. Jtis their sheet anchor. It sootnes them in affliction, It moderaes them and makes them reasonable in prosperity. If IS THE SWEET NAME OF MARY | Wwe honor to-day, How mauy recoilections which touch your hearts have you all rot bad of that dear and powerlul name? In it the Churen of Christ has found a wellspring of joy and comiort. Ip there anything more beautiful in lang: e than the endearing terms in whicn the Mother ol God 18 Invoked in the Litany? “Cause of our joy, pray very beginning Of the human family there was the primeval tradition of the woman who Was to | Crush the head of the serpent—the new Eve, who was to be the mother of the better Adam aud bow | the heavens to kiss the earth and raise up earta to the embrace oj heaven. contain Him, knows that all His gilts in our condl- | the gospel of the Jeast, Luke, }., 26-38, and said:— | ¥0M Must descend by rivuiets to man, who would | Their Maker was their Father, aud they should be otherwis? unfit to receive by reason of the dazzling of His splendor. It 18 the mother’s heart | Which gives secondary comfort and consolation to | the child and yields that which comes primarily | from the Divine fount; itis the ruler’s strength | which gives strength, Vitality and biessipg to tue bation, but it is all of God, He gave through Moses a standard of duty jor the people, to David his wodei power o/ repentance, and to the prophets the gilt as mediators o! the future ilfe, standing between past and future and gilding it with the serene results to ve disclosed, | The Christian Church was also, and pre-emiuentiy, | Made, in the persons of its individual members, THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN DIVINITY AND MAN, | and the dispenser of tne precious giits of the | | they dor , they would just go @ little aside irom the path of €nd consecration 1n | Ee and that the enormous treasure whtcn ne h ad to carry would render the journey very un- sale. But he was ashamed to confess that could not return without the escort of armed men, avd, not yielding to the temptation of fear, he | Tesolved to trust to God. And so he bum»led hii self beiore God, and they finally set out upon their | journey without a spear and without a weapon, They were four months accomplishing this last journey, but at last they reached Jerusalem un- harmed, a3 God’s loving care HAD WATCHED OVER THEM, | Here, the preacher tuougit, was quite ‘an in- | teresting lesson for Christians—a jesson teeching | supreme and unalteradle faith m the Divine Father, The lesson was that we should:never trust human agencies in the piace of God, Where | Gou’s promises were direct and covered vhe entire | ground meu should not be trusted, even though | they claimed to be instruments of God’s power. | In this age Gou’s mtervention was not so patent | to all eyes as in days of yore; but the truth, nevertueless, rewained the same that in the mat- ter of Salvation men were to trust God and not human agencies, Men @ at liberty to trust to men under Goa, but not to trust them in the place of God. Even in chese days some men might oe guilty | ol the error contemplated by kara, to substitule human agencies—tne place of God, Another mis- | take was Co use tie right agencies and attach such importance to them as virtually to displace God, | It Was so When they despaired and cried, “My last | hope is gone; what suall I doy? What should | THEY SHOULD TRUST GOD, never restrict Hin to certain limited agencies. When they abandoned their fattn in Him and put it in certain wroag contrivances of their Own in- genuity, they also made a grievous mistake. This was the cage of the merchant who declared that | alter thirty years of honest work, he could | not prosper and that he must become dis- | honest in order to do weil, Let them be ashamed to do this and thns to degrade their position as believers in God. Some men thought stric’*st integrity to make ony Let them be asnawed of doing this, Let them live in the trust of God with absolute truth. They were equally to | be asuamed Of putting faith in improper contriy- ances for their own personal com{oris, When they professed to be Christians they, of course, gospel. Whue Jesus Himself is alone the great | meant to@ay that the comfort and ‘happiness of yearned for the comiuy o/ this virgin, for they had | | Mediator, He has commitied to a}l Mis faithiul dis- | | which cannot take those boous directly from | the hands of the Almigh'y, Such employment | | 18 God’s own asaigued’ labor for believers, | @ mediatorial work which constitutes tuem a | human priesthood and should fully engage their | ciples interior mediatorial functions, and | IN STIMULATION AND DISSIPATION | made them to be the dispensers of Gou’s | 0 el | gite and graces to. & mn-cureed” world, | from the sorrows and griefs of their lives. Why their souls Was found in the love of God. ‘And yet some Men sought solace did they not go before God, tie great, loving God, and seek solace at the foot of the blessed cross? In a city like this the contrivances o! gayety and dissipation were naturally but too common. ‘That lorm Of recreation which was hallowed by the approval of God was good enough; but there were | me according to thy word.” | God chose the virgin who bears it to be tis words, their writings and their lives. The tood in | the miracie of the loaves and fisheS was produc | by Divine, but was distributed by human nands; | and as the dew drop 11 its own powers makes perfect reflection of the heavens, so should “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is witha, thee; blessed art thou among women.” Such was the Salutation of the angelic bearer of God's message to ~~. long expected virgin in a despised hamiet | oe ‘Gesiated province ia Judea. Wheo he had 4 Chris's Oisciples perfectly reflect God, and dis- Messiau ler love of holy chastity would have fed | tibute fits olessings among mankind. Man re. her to forego even that great howor; but wuen tie | FADER MIE PG ome Cae eee , , . SUN a virgin, she answered. wish an wud | The Centurion Wag conscious of his ieeble human- ‘Behold t andi 1o! : i 6 | ity and the discipies ou the lake leit, until the SE Een otiere Oe Bue: went pe it done tO | voice “it 18 I, be not afraid,” that they wee Inestage and that auswer that we arc assembled | TE&', to sink; and il the read ‘had been here to-day. foueyhahcetl a pele hand of Jesus muiti- ' . tudes migut have been alraid to take it, regarding calls to img he snare in te reueinpiion of mau, | 1,88 tC0 Sacred for use, who Yee kathered conde sald, eo” Every. J |, Whe 5 ot the Lord, thy God, in vain.” And the apostie | te case of the bread alluded in the miracle, does teils ua that at the name of Jesus every knee shail | tMS hesitancy exist in reference to those gifts of bend. There is, then, much in a haue; because | CMPnal life Which the natural man receivetu not, | tle name stands for the person who bears it, The | WUlch are regarded by tuo many as unreui, strange name of Mary, therefore, 13 no idie soud; because | OF Ueartuly, and how dimcuit 1 1s for such to be- | iy A ob | Weve that God gave Christ a natural heart, | that the gilt of the Spirit bas descended | upon man, while to such pardon, adop- | on and eternal happiness in heaven would seein but a vision of romauce and rapture. ‘The siep- | herds might listen to the distant angelic cnoir, but | to bring the heavenly music near must ve done | | by aisciples, Some inen may say, “Speak, Lord, | for Ihy servant heareth;” but the many tn affrignt | mother, It telis us of her wondrous humility aud purity, which were such as to bring duwa rom heaven the very Son of God, THE LOWLY VALLEY is rich in pasture and produce, while the to(ty | Inountain tops ure bleak and sterue, The name of the Nazarene Virgin calls up her conception of Jesus, her history, her lifeloug devouon to Hun, Jt tes a3 of the heroic part sue acted during His | public ive, and especiully at the last sad scene va | Calvary. Her name reminds us of the efficacy of | her imtercession aud cails up heresies extermi- | nated, which seemed for a time to conquer the | Son of M@a and destroy tue Church, His iwystical body, and which now exist only ina few pages of history, Arianism is now, througa her interces- sion, a mere historic name. Lt is the spirit toas we nd in her offices that it is througu ner here- sies Have been rooted out, ‘thou hast over- | come all heresies.” And therefore her name often, then, as we reiuse to believe this, and to re- alize that His work 18 to be carried out through | our own distributive working, Wwe blaspheme His | grace and restrain His spirit by our sellish indu- jence, NORTH BAPLIST CHURCH, Human Weakness and the Need of Di- vine Help. for ode zraly sue 1s the source of all our ae 4 eS abe oe brings | The North Baptist Church, corner of Christopher joy, because through her we hope to meet her ac) children ho =6made war on a eal Divine Son with confidence at tue great day of her wbo bore them. The wughtiest in | 40d Bedford stzeets, hasa large and respectavle | reckoning—that terrible day when tuere will be no favor, when the actions Of all men will be laid bare, and when the clients of this good Mutuer may bope to lear the consoling words:—“Well done, Liou good and faithful servant, enter thua the joy of the Lord.” But the world ts fut of sin aud sorrow, and it is in connection with these that Mary looms up gloriously. ‘“Retuge of Sinners pray for us.” What a glorious title! Have we not all iound her a refuge? shé vot for us— our own great comfort in life, and will she not ve ‘Wo us the one grand consoiation when the hour of death aruives and this deceitiul world iades irom our sinking vision, CHBIST CHURCH, | Sermon by the Rev. Dr, Hugh Miller Thompson—A Fixed Gospel—Loose Morals the Consequence of Variabie | Creeds. During the morning services yesterday in | Christ's Church, corner of Fifth avenue and Tairty- | Qfth street, an eloquent discourse was preached | by the Rev. Dr. Hugn Miller Thompson, rector of the church. The @ite and intelligent community of the Jasbionadie locality filled to a partial degree the pews of the church, and seemed to enjoy the | devotions after their long weeks of rest and recra- ation inthe country. The rector read his text from St. Panl’s Epistle to the Galatians, L, 8, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any | other gospel unto you than that which we had preached unto you, let him be accursed;” ana in- troduced his subject by stating that he was about | tellects have lavisiea on her name in prose | congregation. Yesterday morning the attendance and verse the riches of their minds, All that bas | was fuller tuan has been usual during the hot | Deen bald in ber praise by st. Bernard, St. Augus- | | tine aua St. Thomas is recalled by the name ery, ; Months, the pastor taking for Mis text the ninth ~~ Se ona adhe eamena nt | verse o. the third chapter of the first book of singing of songs, @ day of jubilee, sSab- her litany. Sue ts at tue Same time “tne retuge of | ©" ive, therefore Thy servant an under- | bach is a day of rest. Sabbath means | sinners,” “the coeenecr heaveu,” “the comiort | Standing heart to judge thy people, that I may | rest, freedom from work. According to the yess of the aillicted’? and “the healtu of the | discern between good and bad; for whois able to | old conception it was not a day of | Weak.” JB tact, language 18 too poor W express | jyuge tuis Thy so great a people?” absolute inactivity, still less was it anstere or Let this name, which contains 80 much heavenly | Te reverend gentleman commenced by | gioomy. The Jews were joyous people and be- truth and sweetness, sink ueeper and ueever into | saying:—King David slept with his father | leved in the promise, the common {uture for them. cur hearts. Let us emulate the virtues of Mary | that we may be partakers of her glory. In every — trial and temptation let us invoke the assistance | ofthe Holy Mary, mother of God, ey we sfall | in che place of the father was the son, Just beiore Tactically experience the power of her imterces- | py, s pa Hon, We will pass unscathed through the fre of | aR VOR C Wat tae nog preteen, creeds or eRe temptation as did the children through the fiery | that king to whom all other kings surrender—e furnace. Let those who learned in iniancy to usp gave his dying counsel in these solemn and | her hame, and those Wio have not a8 yet honored )| it, address her in the words of the angel and in those of the Churen, “Holy Mary, mother of God, pray ior us, sinuers, ROW @nd at the hour of our death.” Amen, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, The Parable of the Fruitless Fig Treem | Mules as 1 is written in the law of Moses, | that thou mayest prosper in ail that The Necessity of Faith—Sermon by the | gyoy doest.”” And thus did the dying fatuer Rev. Dr. Hepworth, commend his son to God. The Rey, Dr. Hepworth preached to a large con- | Wit these words of wisdom, Juliy realizing the gregation at the morning service in his new | solemu responsibility o: his exaited position and cuurcb, He selected his text from the Gospe | | humbly couscious of bis own insuMciency, Israeis young man Was in just that mental and spiritual according to St. Mark, Xl, 13—‘He found nothing | but leaves.” He said that the morning lesson condition which taught him to court continuali; which had just been read was a very instructive and Solomon sat on the throne judging Israel, | pathetic words:—I go the way of all the earth. | Be thou strong, therelore, my son, and shpw thy- the best gut and to seek the wisdom that comet from avove. If we compare our text this morn- ing to our own lives we shail fud out our weak- | ness. Human iife is made up in a large measure Even | and thus, jor the first time in the nation’s history, | | work. Op Sabbath the servant was dismissed | 5 | out of sight. On what ground was this self & man, and Keep the charge of the Lord thy | Tresenotion of Test followed? On want God to walk in his ways, to keep his statute, nis | tary ghounas. It was needful for their wel- commanuments, his judgment and his teati- fare. In later times, when there was danger Deeply impressed | Muititudes of people professing to be Curistians Who weat beyond this, They tried to seek their | main comfort and joy in petty show of equipage and wealth, enacting the glittering life of mere He would be ashamed to do tits | | Dutterfies, | | Having once proclaimed his supreme fatth in the | | living God, and in Him alone, be would ive BP. to iit the | this declaration ali his life. He would enjoy al | ne things of the worla which God had given him. | Whenever they found tuemselves wavering in this | | suolime faith in God and thinking of seeking re'uge | | m these contrivances of their lower nature let them resort vo that greatest of blessings, prayer. LYRIC HALL, Rev. O. B, Frothingham on the Day, | and the Duty of Rest. Rev. 0. B. Frothingham commenced preaching again, after his vacation, yesterday morning. The desk and table were pretttly ornamented with flowers. The services were opened with a very | fine “Te Deum” irom the quartet, Mr. Frothing- ham sai Iwill announce for my subject, “sab- bath Rest.” The word rest is one of the great Bibie words, charged with a pure and deep signifi- cance, With the ancient Hebrews it meant all | ‘ that was good; the best thing they | say ‘Let not God speak.’ Ail this is no accideutal | es | but an integral part Of God’s plan of salvation. As | looked forward to was rest. The most touching description, to them, of the world beyond, was “the wicked cease irom troubling and the weary are at rest,” and the writer of the Hebrews—prefiguring the future, spoke of it ag “the rest that remained to the people of God.” It is worth while for us to considerit, There are two words describing this day, Sabbath and Sun- day. They were two separate days, one at the beginning and one at the end of the week. The words have different roots and meanings. Sunday is sun’s day or day of the sun. It was an old heathen festival of joy, a day of beauty and bright- | ness; to Christians the resurrection day, a day of | lt Was uot a day Iree irom human sympatny, On the contrary, it Was a day full of 8)mpathy, Jesus was rebuked Jor healing men on the Sabbath, but | Jesus iuved in @ time of decadence, when the | | majesty of the graud oid time was passing away. A map ought to SHOW MERCY ON THE SABBATH. The rest oi the Sabbath was simply rest from from his toil, the slave was for the day emanct- pated, all implements of labor were carefully put that this Sabbath of rest would be forgotten, tue | prophet spoke of when they were delivered fiom | bondage in Egypt. Then as the people said, “We | cannot spend one day in seven,” the propheteaia, “fhe Lord will provide.” The idea may be carried | further still, God rests; God made the world in six days; you rest because God rests. It was an after- | though, never the foundation of the day; it was | always for sanitary reasons, A Sabbath of rest isa day when everything shall rest. but the con- science, the heart and the soul. Is no such time of rest required now? An eminent teacher in London says, “Let Sabbath be aboitshed? It would | be better to distribute the Sabbath through the } to commence a new year of teaching, and that be | one. It presented Christina very peculiar attl. | of sin and suitering. ‘The frst shows us our guilt, | week"—well, if we could, but can wef. There 1s | would endeavor to continue the same round of | tude, and for hes arth Lapht me pias had | the Secopay coe a acne ene ae | one day tat, for centuries ts, been set | worship jor the spiritual advantage and satistac- been @ stumbling biock in the way of Christians | vie | | apart: laws have protected t; business has tion of his hearers, and what he meant to teacn | SeeKing the path trom darkness into hight. Jesus Makes it oecdiul that we should have vainly nibbled away at its edges, still tr abides; | ey @ irend who can show us jow to | put tet it be an hour or two hours which cannot be | Was usually presented as the good Samaritan, but | suiter, und give us at tue same time an assurance | in the moraing Jesson He was shown in the severe | Of sympatiy and relief. No religious system that | lailg to provide lor these necessities o1 our condi- atritude of a judge. They had seen Him lifting the | tion can have a permanent hold upon the human Was nothing less important than A FIXED GOSPEL,, a fixed rule of life by which alone the character of the Christian man and the life of the soul can pe dying girl from her couch and restoring her to her heart. Conscious f Pale NG, and foduing Goaiy | ; 3 pt ers 3. But in this instance He was seen | Ourselves, ii i3 hard to believe that He is ready to moulded, shaped, developed and controlled ac- | mother’s arms. Bi is was seen | y pacified toward us for all our abominations. | with the | AUTHORITY OF A JUDGE pronouncing the doom of the fig tree which bore | no fruit, There were abundant harvests in many 5 What is so adapted to produce this confiuence ag lives because of the fruit that came irom them. | the death of Curist? He appears as the way and We nave all had seasons of great disappoint | the truin and the light, ‘Herein God com- ment, of severe spiritual despondency, because no | mendeth Lay se aie aly while Ae wore adequate effect, apparently, tias followed our good | Yet Stuuers, Chiis BE Be OOO ane Intl Ri te Gonoanh fe aiies | reasoning is STAT Teed caetibead spared not his " : resolutions. Regrets concerning past conduct son, but gave him up for us all, how will be not Oo! Christ 1s @ trustee of this one Gospel, and wheM 1114 regrets for evil thoughts entertained and | With nim also ireely give us all things?” But its ministers and apostles speak in God's name | eyi) words spoken have, doubtless, filled us all. it Still, though God 1s thus shown to be love, He is | they are bound to speak tbe truth, for they carry | was his desire to present a few words of encour. {elt to be infinitely above us, We shrink from tell- | it ib trust and wave no right to cuange It No | agement to those who were just | ing Him oj our cares and weakness, If we knew Matter ow wise the administration may be, the | STARTING UPON THE CHRISTIAN PATH, | of one who had experienced human life, and had trustee is lalse to bis charge when he changes the look forward to those attainments which coruing to the obedience which the omnipresence and righteousness of Christ, our Lord, demands, Ivis the old story which repeats itself when we return to God and devote to Him the homage ana tender love of our hearts. There can be but one Gospel, one fixed creed, and hence the words of St. Paul, “Though an angel came from heaven to Preach another, let him be accursed.” The Church ‘Till Luis is believed We Cannot love ium. It i8.con- | Hdence only that BRINGS MAN BACE TO GOD. This js the true principie of our recovery. But to yet the almighty power of God in bim, we might terms of the trust; but Curist’s Cnurch is | would surely come a8 @ reward of patience and | ‘ust his personal recollections of our condition imtrusted to the hands of its pastors and the | long enaurance, The first thing, then, woich tue Would encourage our application and de. One uuchangeable truth—the Gospel, ixed and in- | young men and women should do was to break | pendence. Whether, therelore, we look Variable as ever, they are bound to preserve im- | away from the thraldom ofevil habits, How was | &t the deatn of Christ as adapted of itself to excite pity and awe, to touch our religious feelings a8 guilty and miserable, to tu- struct aud quicken our conscience in relation to | ourseives, to religion and morality, or to God, itis | clearly the power of God to every one that | believeth, for without faith the whole sacrifice is | robbed of its significance, I must believe that He is the gift of tne Father’s love; that in dying He Violabie and perpetuate unciiangeable forever. | it best to be accomplished’ It was the very first Never was there an age, perhaps, wien things | step to take in the direction of the true seemed So unsettled as LOW. Principles in political, | Cnristian path, How can we find our way /rom rocial, economical and even in domestic ue seem darkuess into the eternal sunlight? A great many to be set aside and totally disregarded, wiule vie | took the Jaise position of building on their own Jargeness of the Gospel in reference to individual honor and seif-respect. These were, doubtiess, im- Wants is Made & prevext to cover the basest trang portant elements, and were mighty in their jorce , gressious of the law, The philosophy of the past, | sometimes, but were not necessarily effective in ‘We are told, Iaust pass away, and that | the direction that would lead us toward the d does homage to law; that I deserve what He suf- ALL BOOKS AND THEORIES SHALL DIR, sired result. ‘There Were some men whose wilis fers, and that, in earnestly pieading His death, I because until ine last fact i3 discovered the theory | were strong, who accomplished What they under- | acknowledge Iny own guilt and desire to be freed is liable to be corrected, Such are the notions we | took, but he insisted that those were excep. | from it, or these truths are powerless, Belteving oiten hear; but there 1s no mistake made in throw- tional cases; that most men had made resolu- | Wem forgiveness is inseparable from holiness, ing away theories if we continue to aduere to tacts; | tions they had never carfied out, and that most there 18 one incontrovertible fact, however, | men had determined on & better condition for the MADISON AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH, hamely, if truth be doubtful right 18 also | future, which was all — douptial, and if truth be vutiavle right | A SHADOW OF A SUBSTANCE A Lesson of Supreme Faith in God=—Ser- 18 also __—variable, All that is lateat | notyet attained. Many had made excelient reso- mon by Rev. Dr. Ganse. in this proposition can be discovered by investiga- iutions and were fully beat on carrying them out, uou, aod when an age or society itself clings to @ | when the mighty giaut temptation wrestied with | wrong notion or looks upon truth as either doubt- | and threw tem into danger, It wras very easy | at this church, corner of Flity-seventh street and ‘ul or variable, loove Mora as a consequence pre- for a man to relapse [rom good resolutions, since | yy, ; vail. ‘Yrutn 1m itself 18 HOt changeable, but that | he bulit not on an eternal rock but on a’ sandy | Madison avenue, to a very small congregation, He truch wuica a Man often accepts is changeavie. | Joundation, so that when the storm came the fouse | took his text from Ezra, vili., 21, basing bis dis- God's truth—that is, ly id trot r 1s a — fell. Now ~ method hie re oat have course on the captivity of the Jews and their re- subjective truth may be, changeable. er ail, | men pursue began by telling men Ss was the Gospel teaches, not for knowledge sake, put not tueir world, It belonged to God. The laws | ‘Urn under Cyrus. He said they learned from the | for le. It was preached the sauie to the Jew and | which governed it were not of men’s legisiation. | Chronicles that the kingdom of the ten tribes was polished Athenian aa to the savage Indian. It Is | No power o/ theirs was sufficient to break any | overthrown by the King of Assyria, Some of the | Jews intermarried with the Assyrians, so that the | Hot the Gospel nor God's truth, then, which | law. No cnuning or subtlety could enable him to changes, bul the men, ‘To one age or ube Nation | avoid a breacn of the Jaw. Man was surrounded | and watched, but Was aigo protected on every | religiogs rites of the Israelites were vitiatea by | The Rev. Dr, Ganse preached yesterday morning or obe Man one side of the Gospel may be the | brigbtest, but the Neate te ooriee oie hand by itunaan cee | the idolatry of the Assyrians, A hundred years | Voice to every man. ‘This xed Gospel 18 pret NSEI oF : to aman ature. It 1s sometmiog to live | which were present iu the siars above, on the | ster Nebuchadnezzar overthrew the kingdom of | by. ples are imposed upon meu to build | earth beneath ana tn tue lives men lived irom day | the two tribes or of Judah. During these periods | God asks man 10 | some extraordinary prophecies were uttered by | up their mora) characters, and the reverential, un- | to day and from year to year. changeable law which it inoulcates is mainly a law | come into His house, where there Was no rent to | Ol lie, Men (ell us thatit 18 not right to cramp | pay and where no taxes would be demanded; | Jsala and Jeremial, predicting thelr return gud restrict man’s iree thougut by aay law or rule, } where he could eat unsparingly of the fruits of the | irom captivity, &c. The Assyrians themselves | but isu | brig The oom ot bette heid eee te ‘o | were overthrown by the Medes. Dr. Ganse re- WHAT IS REVELATION WORTH, | bid him weicome; nay, tb was as if everythin . and what the “Ten Commandments worth? | were his own. God made 3 peated nere the ancient fable of the King of Medes, | What shal of priuciples and duties? Waat | ONE REQUISITION, | who tried to degtroy Cyrus, and told bow Cyrus of conscien ’ Ab! Old-fashioned moralities | and tt was exceedingly important; that was that | finally conquered his cruel grandfather, This took are ariiting away, and it is ad obvious fact that | man sould ieel constantly under great and yrate- | loose believing ieads and las led many to loose | fui obligations to Him for blessings, ior pardons | Place ia the year 569, when Cyrus became King of | living. ‘The man who ioid4 tuat there is no fixed | and lor mercies, aod that he should substitute Mis | the Assyrians and Medes, In the year 538 (B. God's trutu ba ommand, 10 principle to live | wisdom for his own ignorance and His love sor the | Cyrus conquered Bavyiou., ‘There le found Daniel | by. Without settied princivies there can be no | fickieness of human nature. Man coud nonothing | aud otner Jews. Cyrus | settled results. Right and wrong are as trath aud | for God, he could not add to His glory, Whatever | GAVE THE JEY BIR FREEDOM | untruth and fixed believing is essential to Axed | man did was done for himself. Now, then, man | and some 42,000 returned to.their home again to | living. But there are those 10 Mock at their | could do one of two things, either Jove God or re- bulid their ancient teinpie, Some of Cyrus’ succes | own creed and th 'y their good old parents kept | main indigerent. There was, however, sors, however, put obstacies in their way, tearing Sunday, but they cannot deny tnat Goa’s word uaa A THIRD CLASS, ., | that they might become jaituless to the allegiance | @ sovereign command over conscience and over | who positively resisted the will of God and wit- | of tue Persians, However, in 515 (B. C.) | thought, Men read the ¢ommandments and | tingly broke His given commandments. They fole the second tempie was completed. For sixty | actually change them im their practical daily j lowed their own will ike the wiiko’-toe-wisp, | years history jost sight of these Jews in ivfe, A man may be high up in religion to-da which Was in the meadow and marsh to-day and | Jerusalem. At the ead of this period Bara was | empowered by Artaxerxes to lead another com- yy | and to-morrow the ground may give way trom | in the swamp apd mire to-morrow, The reverend any of his peepie to Jeragaiem. Ezra gathered onder him, his moral condition be Ghanged gad pla | gentleman then proceeded at some length to point moral uature be broken into by } Out the necessity of having implicit faith in the | up an immense amount of mone A very natural SOME SUAMELRSS AND DISGRACRPOR Wouax. | Almighty, which was the all-important element tor | thought seemed to occur to He refiected athe © way Af POUR Bad Wah | eiervaldalvalion. J here mysh he Ja apd man) duspbe het a jong iguruuy of 90) fille™ to ApCOUm ® | never has been anything like it for universality | | age Of impulse and emotion, scarcel; ) then Lhere ig tye pewes oJ the lereaiter, We huow located and the waves would roll over tt, ‘There since the world was maue. There never was @ time when in all classes, from the highest to the | lowest, every pariicie of human energy was 60 | drawn upon and taxed in every way as to-day, | and more in America than anywhere else, In | other piaces there are privileged classes, but with | us there are no suca distinctions, Again and again men who have the sapitary welfare at neart have jiited their warning cry to menace of weak- ness and premature exhaustion, theresore 1 PLEAD FOR REST, though it be nothing but lying on a sofa and read- ing a novel. There Was in the olden time a thing | we have almost forgotten—a thing calied leisure. | It was the habit of men and women to do nothing | and to believe it the crown of existence. They had not always wanging over them the vision of some great duty they must pertorm. If that prea could only be orouglt back and we could feel it Wasa satisfactory and saie thing to do notning; but we say we cannot afford it. Can we afford sickness and premature decrepitude and nervous exhaustion ? Can we afford to see our | children grow up starved and stunted ? Other things are expensive «as well ag Jeisure. Health 1s expensive, elasticity of mind | 1s expensive; but time, peopie say, these golden moments are precious, Whatis time? Time 1s | notmng, time costs nothing, time only metes out | experience. We make time; you can put eternity | into an hour—the one precious thing is energy and thought and purpose, Get a littie of that, no matter how much time you spend in getting it. | For myself, |} am not so sure but that the English | radical is right When he says:—*‘We need not one | day, but two—one day of rest and one day of joy.” But it will be said, again, that restis not Tespose, or sleep, or inactivity; the conception of | rest must be a conception of varied activity. The human brain cannot be still, and a varied activity would give periect resco to man. fhe varied labor is not labor, bub relaxation, The cuauge must be trom work | to that which relieves us from the tax. There is | no probiew upon which the future more depends than upon the solving ol how shall these houses of | rest be improved, how shail they be suved from | inanition and made au opportunity for iilung tuto joy and repose; and 1 PLEAD FOR THIS, We shail not do justice to this idea of rest, till for all peoole there is provided some means of getting out of lavor by throwing open galleries of rt, by having delightiu! music tuat ali may enjoy, by | making the church service a joy. Tne age) waits for @ discovery which shali make reat possitle for ail meén, But mto this idea of rest enters another element; rest of mind in great ideas and rest of heart in great hope. Tuere are three things that men and women must re- member, First, the necessity of turutug periodi- cally in upon themselves; coming face to face with themselves. Is ours an age of reflection? [tis an ever tested by the old standard o1 houor. Why are people led astray as they continually are ? Because the old habit, which usea to be srequent ot calling one’s self to account is falling into disuse, Second, each persou should jeel that he or she ts soime- thing more than an individual. We think of our Tights and claims; is there nothing more than this ? Everything, al] men and women, share a common grief, have # common origin, tread a common way, seek a common goal, having over us the sane destiny and fate; we are caiied to tememver that WE BELONG TO ONE ANOTHER, How are we eniarged by the thought of this great brotherly sympathy! And yet this Is not all, hay, Not the dest, We think of our possivie selves, the selves we Know we ought to be; we dare to | hope ior something in the beyond; we dare to think of ourselves not as creatures of the moment, but a8 entities, as plants ta the garden of Provi- dence, 1It18 an audacious thing to do to dare to present ourselves betore any great Weal thought and say, “Lam kindred to it.” But at the end comes this sense of rest, We remember how large the promise is, and how perpetual the supply of power that Is poured into all willing hearts, and SS Not What it 1s, though we surmise and conjecture, Let us try to believe more than we do in rest, SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHUROH. Truths in Trees—Nature and God— Sermon by an Eminent Chicago Divine Yesterday morning the Sixteenth street Baptist church was reopened alter \he summer vacation, and its pulpit was filed by the Rey. E. J. Good- | speed, pastor of the Second Baptist churca of Chicago, which is reported to be the largest white Baptist congregation in the United States—Rich- mond, Va., havinga larger one, however, Of colored people. The text chosen by the preacher was from Getiesis, second chapter and ninth verse, viz, :—*and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight nd good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of Knowl- edge of good and evil.” “it is our belief vhat the earth and sea and sky and | all that in them 18, began to be by the creative flat of the Aunighty, Matter ts not eternal; nature is not sel/-existent, The material universe isa revelation of God. “The invisible things of Him, Jrom the creation of the word, are clearly seen— even His eternal power and godhead.” The Psalmist, in sublime language, places, side by side, a8 co-testimonies, the external created universe, and the law, the Scripcures, the institutions of the divine religion, written in books and in the human soul. Selecting from among the countless objects of nature we take tne tree, and consider it first a8 @ witness toGod. The language of the text Thay intimate that some trees were not proditced by the Great Creator, “and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to tne sight and good tor food,”? But the meaning is, Tather, that every tree has its uses in the economy Ol nature, 18 ac some perce pleasant to the sight and good Jor fooa, and is God’s handiwork. He lanted the germs and designed the forms, the oliage, the blossoms, the fruit—tne endiess variety Which Characterizes this class of vegetation, As they came from His mind and hand they were per- fectly adapted to their purposes, were beautified and serviceable, EVERY TREE HAS A VOICR which proclaims the power and glory of God. “The trees clap their hands’? and praise their Maker. Lelt to themselves trees olten degene- rate, and thus show the wisdom of God in placing man in the garden of Eden to dress and till it; to preserve highest standard of perfection. Nothing 1s more responsive tO mun’scare than the tree. It can be sSbaped, transplanted, improved and made to sub- serve almost any object of human desire. Even left to itself, aut guarded trom fire and flood, the tree of the iorest multiplies, grows, expands and becomes a source of wealth aud comiort beyond our ordinary calculation. The tree bears its wit- ness everywhere to the Creator’s goodness by its beauty, its iruitfuiness, its uuhty, its comfort. The earth would be a monotonous desert but for the forests and orchards apd groves that adorn and fructify its suriace. If any association can calt forth solemn awe and the sense of God’s pres- ante itis the deep solitude 01 the lonely woods, where THE WINDS MOAN AMONG THE BRANCHES, If there is anything that can excite admiration of the Creator’s skill it 18 @ stately oak or grace- ful eim in the lively hues of spring, or the deop coiors of summer. In their towered strength or lines of beauty they reveal God’s great and won- deriul thoughts. T'hey outlive map. They pro- claim their Maker’s benevolence day by day, and awake at mianight in the summer winds to sing their solemn song of praise. 11 the neart is ca- pable of being touched with gratitude it cannot Jail to be moved when the fruit trees yield their luscious burdeo, each In season, supplying some new sensation of pleasure or element of food. ‘Toe Litde birds nesting in their cieits OR SWAYING GN THEIR BOUGHS, sing and carol in strains that melt the heart, and my. shall Dot man, on their bounty feasted by their various loveliness charmed and helped in a thousand ways—also sing and rejoice over the Lord God who made to grow out of the ground “Every tree that 1s pleasaat to the sight and goud for Jood.”” TREES HAVE THEIR HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS, for the first and most solemn of these memories ig that of the tree of knowledge, the plucking of | Whose fruit by our first mother signalized the re- Volt Of our nature against God and the introduc- tion of all the sorrows and miseries that follow sin, ‘The tree of lite was a fruit bearing tree,” the use of whicn preserved huinan iife, gave nour- ishment and strength to the bodily powers. The other tree was to furnish the test of obedi- ence, by means of its iruit, und finally through disobedience in eating from its forbidden treasures, man was to discover the curse of evil— the ruin of sin, When We look on a tree, we may well be reminded of our Maker's wisdom and human lolly, Weread again that the Son of Man was hanged on a tree, that he jorgave our sins in dus Own body, and then provided a fruit of Wich Uw @ man eat he stall live forever, THE NEW TREE OF LIFE GREW ON CALVARY, and the blood of Jesus stained the burden with Ticher crimson than that which mantled the cheek | Ol the apple that won Eve’s desire. In conclusion, my hearers, do not lorget to ask yourselves “What shalt be your doom in the day when the great Husbandman cotues to gather the crops of a life's opportunities.”? Will you be like the barren fig tree, cursed and withered, or a palm in His garden, a | wiid olive tree or a cedar of Lebanon? Remember the promise “they that are planted in the uouse of the Lord shall fourish in the courts of our Lord.” BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHUBOH, The Famous Pulpit Filled by the Rev. A. H. Quint, of New Bedford. Plymouth chureb was yesterday filled by an at- tentive congregation. One could see that the late cool weather had brought back from the seaside and mountains the tourists and sojourners of | Brooklyn who worship in this famous tabernacle. There were brave men and fair women, the latter in resplendent fali toilets, who usnally fill “old Plymouth,” and the same leaven of strangers which lends sucha variety to the audiences at this church. The flowers on the platform were beautiful, and it needed only the form of the eloquent pastor to complete the picture of a winter audience. The music, a3 usual, Was fine, the congregation joining in the hymns with an unusoal unction, The ser- mon Was delivered by the Rev. A. H. Quint, of New Bedford, with a fervor and eloquence worthy of the rostrum on which he stood. Mr, Quint is a ro- bust, manly preacher, and impresses one with his physical vigor as well as syith the sturdy indepen- dence o! his thought. He took for tis text the eighteenth verse of the fourth | chapter of second Corinthians—"Whie we look not at the things which are seep, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” The preacher defined tae term temporal as temporary aud transient; the contrast the apostle makes not be- tween this life and the life to come, but of things now existing which are not seen by the eyes as Against things vow existing which are seen. The aritt of the whole sermon beauttully illustrated this apothegm, There Is the existence of the oak in the acorn, that force invisible, where the existence of the matter Js plain enough, and several physical illustrations wete made to prove the proposition, the same as Paul’s comparison between the in- ward and oOutwird man, tue one being imperisi- able the other temporary. The eloquent preacher, continuing his illustrations, asserted that the in- ner or true man would sucvive after all else in him perished. Ideas govern the world, not bayonets, and ideas will always beat the dayoneis. The transient things have their uses in the lite of man, but they should be so moulded and directed that they will iead © the bigher Chrisuan or spiritual Ie. TALMAGE’3 TABERNACLE. Consolation for Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones. Yesterday morning the new Tabernacle was crowded by @ Very attentive congregation. platiorm in fiont of the grand organ was ricily decorated with floral devices of artistic design. There were a Massive crown of tuberoses, & cross, star and an anchor resting on pedestals, which latter were dmped in mourning cloth, There was aiso a figure of the lamb, recumbent, bearing the cross, & dove pendant from tne organ, and otuer chaste insignia. + The occasion ior these decora- tions was the fact that the services were specially set apart a3 commemorative of the departed mem- bers of the Tabernacie congregation who have died during ‘the summer vacation, The sermon which was preached by Rev. DeWitt C. Talmage was founded on the story of the journey of the Israelites across the wilderness in search of the promise¢ land, their trials and deprivations, and the devastation and death which beset their path. When tiey reached the borders of the land toward vbich they bad been so long journeying they sent out scouts who bronght back evidences of the giorious country which they were approacb- Ing, ané among the evidences were bunches of grapes which took two men to carry between them, Sut, said the speaker, though these grapes were laige and beauti(ul, | bring you tis morning a larger cluster—a heavenly Kspcol—a cluster of hope add profit aod Christian consolation; and f am expecting that one taste of ti will rouse your appeuts for ‘THY PROMISED LAND. Many of this congregation during the past snm- mer havegone never to return, The aged have Jaid down the stad? and have taken up the seeptre, Meu ia Hiddie jue have come to they Lanes wo he trees and develop them to the | The | —_— July and August from the store, tne office or the’ hop, and ‘hey did not and never will go back again. Dear children have been gathered im Christ’s arms. He found this worid too rough for thom and so He gatuered them in. Oh, how many wounded souls there are—wounds, wounds for which this world offers no medicament! Only from the Gospel of Jesus Christ shall their conso~ lation come, I console you with the divinely im- Planted idea that your departed friends are as much yous now as they ever were, The desire to have the ‘amily in one plot God implanted, and | death cannot break up tue Jamily relations, Abra- ham Would not allow Sarah to ve buried in the com~ mon burial ground, but in a plot sacred for her, The speaker dwelt upon the love demonstrated for he dead by the living in the care of tueir burial plats, and said it is a consolation to feel hat when Men. come ana with solema tread carry you out to your resting place, they will open the plice through | Which some of your triends have aiready gone, | and through which many of your (riends will fol- | low. Sleeping under the same roof, and at last sleeping under the same sods, the autumnal Nower that uritts across your grave will also drift | across theirs, Iconsole you agata with the fact o your present acquaintanceship aud communica- tl n With your departed rieuds, 1 have no syw~ pathy, | need not say, with THE POISONOUS AND DAMNING IDEAS OP MODERN but what T meant iTUALtsn. D hal eau id the theory set forth by the: Apostle, When he said, “We Peet a ee lop great cloud 0! Witnesses.” Just as in the ancient ampuitheatre there were 80,000 to 100,000 people iooking down from the galleries upon the compat going on in the centre, so I say there are a greau Many of our iriends in all the galleries of the sky" looking down upon our earthly combat. It is @ sweet, @ glorious, @ consoling, @ spiritual idea. With the Wings of angels heaven ana earth are 1n constant communication. It is impossible, I know, to realize the idea that there is such rapid and perpetual intercommunication between earth and heaven; but it isa glorious reality. You take & railroad train in full motion and another tram from the opposite direction dashes past suddenly and you are startled. ALL THE WAY BETWEEN HERE AND HEAVEN is filied with the up and down trains—spirits go= ing and coming, coming and going. That triend of yours that died last summer, dou’t you suppose ne told all the family news about you in the heavenly iand? Don’t you suppose that when there are hundreds of opportunities every day jor them in heaven to hear from you that they asic about you’ They know your trials, your tempta~ a your struggles and your victories. Aye, they do. RESURRECTION DAY. I console you wita the idea of aresurrection, know there are many who don’t accept this, be- cause they don’t understand, You ask me a great many questions I cannot answer about this res- urrection day, You say, for mstance, if a man’s body is constantly changing, and every seven. years he has an entirely new body, and lives to seventy years, and has had ten different bodies, and at the hour of his death there is not article of flesh within him that was there in the ays Of his childhood, in the resurrection day which ef the ten bodies will come up, or are all to rise? THE CANNIBAL IN ORDER, Yousay, “Suppose a man (iex aud nis body is scat- tered in the dust, aud out of thas dust vegetabes: grow, and men eat the vegetabies, and cannibals slay the-€ en and cat them, and cannibals fight with vther cannibals, until at last there shall be 100 men Who shall bave wituin them some parti- cle that started irom the ground, coming up through the vegetable to the first man who eat it, and throughout the cannibals who aiterwards eat him, there being more than 100 men who bave partial right in tne particles of that boay in the resurrection, how can they be assorted when these particies belong to tuem ali ?’? AN ARM ON THE FLY, You say, “There is & missionary buried in Greenwood Cemetery, and if, wen he was in China, he had his arm amputated, in the resi reciton will that fragment fly 16,000 miies to jof the rest of the boay?’? Have you sny more aif- ficult questions to propound—any more mysteries? If so, bring them on. Against a battalion of skepticism | will march these champions of divine assertion, ‘Marvel not at this, for the hour ia coming when all who are in their graves shalt come lorth.” Yon explain what makes the seed dropped in the earth here come up a red flower, this seed ao yellow flower, irom the next seed spring up a plant which bears @ violet flower. Tell me why the leaves of the trees differ one trom the other. Why have some cows horns, while Others have none ? Explain the power of the mind on the body. Explain one-hali of the mysteries of everyday lite, and 1 willexpiain to you the mysveries of the resurrectiou, You canuot answer me the very pac question in regard to ordinary affairs, and am not ashamed to say I can’t explain God, Judg- ment and the resurrection. I simply accept them as facta, tremendous, intinite. BISHOP WHITEHOUSE’S SUCCESSOR... The Contest for Episcopal Honors Next Tuesday=—Dr. De Koven, of Racine, Wis., the Probable Chote: OnIcago, Sept..11, 1874, On Toesday next the Episcopalians of Illinois will meet im annual couventiou—the thirty- seventh—in the cathedral of Sts, Peter and Paul, in this city. The principal business before the Convention will be the election of a successor in the episcopal chair of the diocese to the late Rignt Rev. Henry John Whitehouse, second Bishop of Iuinots, On Monday, March 9, 1835, the first Episcopaliam Convention of Illinois met at Peoria. Tuere were then but five charches in the State. Three of these were represented by pastors who, with six lay delegates composed the Convention, and, “after a long and full discussion, in which the views of the Convention seemed perfectly to harmonize,” it was unanimously resolved to invite Rey. Philander Chase to the Bishopric of Mlinois. Bishop Chase, who was consecrated eighteenth in the American Episcopal line, October 8, 1813, had resigned the diocese of Olio, and was then living on a farm in Michigan. He accepted the situation proffered him, and for nearly seventeen years labored incessantly when, in 1357, his failing health rendered it neces« | sary to elect an assistant Bishop, twenty-six clere gymen, canonically resident, composed the Con~ vention that clected Dr. Whitelouse, He suc ceeded to the Bishopric on tue death of Dr. Chase, | 1m 1852, His loug and honorabie career, during which he saw thirty-five of his brethren “go up | higher’ from the tpiscopal bench, is a matter of | recent history. That the growth ol the diocese | under bis administration was as marked as the | progress of the State appears from the act that | atthe Jast anuual Convention ninety-four presby- | ters m canonical resivence were present, includ ing seven rural deans. So great and historic @ di- | ocese naturally deinands : ‘A PRELATE OF POWER. Bence it 1s that almost by common consent’ Mewbers of the diocese are looking beyond sts | limits jor a new Bishop, in order to secure one whose election will not be attended by fierce con- | tests, bred of iocal likes and dislikes, and wha | will come to his high office without @ suspicion of undue personal preference lor, or prejadice against, any part of his flock, Consequently, the ‘ real contest is between foreign presbyters, and one of them is inevitably certain to be elected. There are within tne Kpiscopal Church in this State hardly hull «dozen extreme “Evangelicais’* in the priesthood, and the Low Church party can hardly be said to have LB al and positive existence. The advanced Kitualists are in consid- erable force, and bot among the clergy and laity the G B.S. (Confraternity of the Blessed Sacra- ment) has a numerous and influential member- sulp. The at bouy of the Churca, however, is composed of conservative Higa Church men. THE CANDIDATES thns far mentioned as likely to be placed before | the Convention are as follows:— Arkansas—Bishop Pierce. Ilinois—Rev. Clinton Locke and Rev. Edward | Sullivan, Chicago; Rev. F. M. Gregg, Springfield. Wisconsin—Rev, James De Koven, Ra Massachusetts—Rev. Phillips Brooks, Boston, New Hampshire—Rev. Henry Coit, Concord, New York—Projessur Seymour, General Theo logical Seminary; Rev. Dr. Houghton, Rev. E. A, Washourn, Rev. Henry C, Potter, New York city. Penny acl eye Thomas F. Davies, Philadel. Na. POF these a number may at once be eliminated a candidates who will in wll probabllity be never in the race, Lhe three tlinois clergymex can hardly, be considered eligible, being local clergymen, THE MOST PROMINENT CANDIDATE, and, probably, so far as it is possible now to tA tg the next Bishop of lilinots 18 Kev, Dr. James De Koven, of the Kacine (Wis.) Theological Seminary, Dr. De Koven has twice been a formidable candi. date for Episcopal honors—once two years ago, in. Massachusetts, and ns this year, in Wisconsin, The unhappy scandal of the Wisconsin contest, which brought so much discredit upon the Church, will be fresh in the memory of the HERALD’S readers, On each occasion his oppo« nents secured his defeat by alarming the laity with reports of his Romanistic tendeucies or actual ractices, His position on auricular con~ fession, the real Presence, prayers for the dead and to the saints have been fully discussed in the HERALD, His advanced sacramentananism has navuraily secured for him considerable oppos | sition in the diocese of Iilinots, bat he nas a ma~ jority of sapporters in Chicago and this vicinity, and the clergy !n the central and southern parts of the State are reported 10 be so strongly in nia savor a8 to render It almost certain that le will be the next Bishop, Whatever and however violent the opposition that his doctrinal views may have raised up against him here as elsewhere, no one can be found to question the spiendor of his talents, the vastness Of nis learning, his great administrative ability aud iis untiring labors im the cause of re ligion. All Of these have marked him out for the Bench Of bishops, and there is but little doubt that ou Wednesday next the Diocesan Convention | of Winois will juscify the remarks mude by the late Bishop of diimois but a few months since | ert} ( @ violence with which Dr. DeKo vandidature had been opposed in W! in, Bishop Whitenouse said:— Posed 42 Wisconsin, “Opposition or defeat maxes Iittle difference t¢ Dr. De Koven, It is only @ question of time, He i a born bishop. and be Wil die biahany in the missionary Seid with such success that © % ite. Sees j