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tnfiuence with their sons, surely Mary 18 no jess ae with Jesas, St, Antoninus remarks that ' ary uot merely asks, but commands, | 1 God heargened to tae prayers o: Moses, Joshua | aud Ellas and wrought such Wonders as we read of in the Old Testament, what wil He not grant to | the pravers of Mary, His mother? When she asks | ol the Father she presenis to Him the wounds of | Jesus, and when she appeals to Jesus she reminds Him of the womb that bore Him and the paps that gave Him suck. She is always ready, and even Auxious, to exercise her power. A mother uever forgets the last words of ber child, and she cannot reiuse tme dying request of the truitof her womb. What did Jesus ask of His motier? After He hud prayed His Father to for~ give His executioners and promised heaven to the repentant thief He said to His mother, “Woman, behoid tny sou.’? She is ever ready to discharge the duties of a kind and loving mother. The dil culty the Prodigal Son experienced i tetarning | to his jather's Rouse was that he had po movher. More fortunate iban he, we bave @ most tender Mother; and, no matter ff our sins were as nu- | merous as the sands on the sea shore, she is pow- eriul enough to obtaia the graces of sincere sor- row and pardon, There are many beautiful pray- ers ip honor oi Mary, Bota learnea and illiterate can say the Rosaty. Bear your cross patiently, pray constantly to “the refuge of sinners’ and you will surely fear the heavenly invatation, “Arise, my beauti(ul cue, ana come |"? LYRIC HALL, Rev. O. B. Frothingham on Spiriteal Force and Its Supply. Quite alarge congregation assembled in Lyric Hail yesterday morning, in spite of the @ebious Weather, After the voluntary, Mr. Frotbingham Opeped the services by saying, “Listen to readings of various scriptures on the subject of charity”— under which head were extracts trom the Bible, the Koran of Mohammed, and the Chinese and Per- stan scriptures, Alter the singing of hymn, Mfr, Frothingham said, My theme this morning is, Proffers of Grace from the Heralds | of Christianity. ROBERT COLLYER ON THE CHURCH. Confession and the Confessional, as Viewed by Dr. Rylance. MARY’S POWER IN HEAVEN. | CHURCH OF THE MESSIAB. Sermon by the Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicagom“The Church of the Living God.” The Church of the Messiah was crowded yester- ay at tae morning services by a fasnionable and intelligent congregation, the great majority of whom Were strangers, who bad been attracted to the chureh by curiosity to hear the Rev, Robert » er, of Chicago, who had been announced to deliver the sermon, It was quite lengthy ana delivered with all that originality of thought and expression characteristic of the reverend gentie- man. The same sermon was delivered by him in “Spiritual Force apd Its Supply.” The word his own charch two weeks ago; soa brief outline | sore ig one of the great words of ‘0! its main polis Wil be suiicient to give am | our qay. We jhear of material force, idea of its argument, After quoting at length from hig text he spoke Of religion as distinguished from religious systems, He said that systems might mse and fall, that men might live and die, and each be different an his way of teaching or in What he taught; yet so long as the basis of the systems was pure morality the teachings were of divine origin, and tke apparent difference of no account When judged tn the dight of right and seein There ne s force, in 4 word, I mean the pewer of those senti- d + Som Cones oF a) __ | ments .and purposes which tend teward ideal 80 to speak, whica made us perform good works | things, as we cail them; toward the establishment En a and accomplish great ends we dreamed | or principles and purposes which age matters of ‘The Hebrew prophets, tor instance, dittered | thought, not matters o1 sense. in many ways, but still the very difference they Now | think it will be generally coneeded that this mamuested they ascribed to God—it was His work species of force ia undervalued; tuat 1s to say, they were dog when the grand result was') material forces—forces of money, of partisanship, looked to alone. It was this power that built up | o¢ pusiness asaociations—will account forall the psa bai haa ee eo he See hi Te progress of society, while the five moral forces never died; it could Lever be stamped out. | So, and in order that you may not think se I ven- It was Heaven supremacy over mae’s | ture this merning to make this plea in behalf of doings that taught the apostle that ke spiritual force. A great preacker said, a few that (he Work Was 4 divine Work, Men Might have | months ago, that of two thinge he Jelt certain, diferent ways of Jollowing Curist, but if tuey | teaching—tirst, the spiritual helplessnese of ma pure morality, luWardness and sell-sacrifive, they | second, the spiritual helpiuiness of God, Man h forces of nature, will force, elemental force, social forces, intellectual lorces, By spiritual force | mean none of these, By spiritual force 1 mean | the force of aspiration, of reverence, of trust, of | hope, of fatth in principles. Love of truth is spir- | itwal force, love ef excelence 1% spiritual force, enthusiasm for goodness is spiritual force, sympa- thy with human beings and great causes ts spirit al force, integrity 1s spimvual force; wy spiritual hud divine authority to do the work be was doing— and that tpey were the base of all his faith an worked with the right intent, with the spirit of | Mf erty is | to be holy, but rather those who have proved result of cnance or of that struggle for exts ence which with mapy makes life so hard and Wearing, it 18 not tm any sense an accident, but, oD the con- trary, 1s God's own appointment, He *,a5 placed us 28 We are, With a thorough know’.edge of our character and capacity, and m comy,anding us to serve Him in that position PLEDGES HIMSELF TO GIVE US, ayy, THINGS that are needful for life and yzodtiness, In that woudertul discourse upon the Galilean mountain He reminds us that our heavenly Father knoweth all things that we have ped of ‘The heavenly | Father, whose uame 1s Only another wora for love aud power, knows the Gustacles about us. He could alter our lot, if His love saw need of alter: | ing Mt, and therefore We may trust Him that our path in life is best tor us, the surest, straightest Way for us (rom earth fo heaven, esides tis, We are bound to take into the ac- count the promised assistance of the Hoiy Spirti, which cam more tha. compensate our obstacies. ‘the promise, “AS Say day se shall thy strength be,” Was not spacen tor a petty Hebrew tribe only, bet lor all the Israel wd, God's help, given either sprreually, that 4s by imward grace, or previdentialy, that is by outward appointment to make the Burden kgbter, must very clearly place aithtul gen very nearly on a level in their provation lie. A burden twice as heavy requires ho more effort ta one who has double strength, and so far @6 practical results are concerned 1b matters litste Whetber the weight be lessened or she power augmented, Jv 18 better'to have God's help in trying circumstances than to be left to the Wweaknese 01 One’s own infirmity, even when the trial is) but light. No ran has any duty laid upom him woich is beyond his strength, if that strength be honestly and faithiuily put forth, and since every man in this jue has quite @8 mucn Go do.as lits best powers can accom. poe diference between one maz and another s legs than we are sometimes ready to pelleve. Adverse circumstances may make the way more totlseme, but they also make the discipline of life more thorough aud efective. The most brilliant vievories follow the most hard fonght battles. It isvertainly easier to oat down the streai with & sovoring tide than it 1s to labor at tue oar with tense sinew aud weary muscle, and yet we gain more strength ina single hour of honest work than in @ liictime of idle dritting, It 1s easier to tnd ail things as we want them in the Christian lite than it 1s to struggle on when so many things | seem to be against us, and yer the type of our Christian Mannood 18 much tess noble, 1 there 1s | no brave effort in it. instinctively we leet that there Was .reason.as Well as courage in the King’s reply to Westmoreland before the battle of Agin- court:— I woutd not lose so great an honor Asone Wan more, me thinks, Would share from me For the best hope'l have, And we may apply it to that spiritual contest which seems even more unequal. One hindrance removed, and a part of the honor of our redeemed life is Shared from us. One dillculty taken out of the way, and the beauty of continued patience in well doing is less illustrious. One stumbling biock removed, and the glory of the eternal crown reflects a ray the less of the Saviour’s grace and of | the behever’s faithiulness, There may be difiicul- | taes, but it Matters not, tuey are but STEPPING STONES TO HEAVEN, thers who are less sorely tried, or who have greater Means and opportunities, are no nearer the Redeemer’s heart and have no higher throne in heaven than those who in fatthtul, loving earnestness are patient in weli doing. Those whom God rewards are they who continue quietly and resolutely on the even tenor of their ‘way, ‘uifilling the duties of their appointed lot, how- ever rough and lowly and discouraging. They Who shall be accepted at the last are not those | | who have had weulth and letsure and opportunity belouzed tothe Church of the living God; Jor | no spiritual power in and ol uimself, These two Po- special systems of religion have their day. I not | sitions belong togetler—they are but two | originated by the Divine band they would pass | forms of one statement. The preacher ad- | away; but not so s mitted that there was spiritual force in | THE RELIGION OF THE LIVING Gop, } the world, buat that at came trom | the worship of the Al hty. Religious thought, | ani He was mistaken. I think thateverything | Worship itself, would remain as tndestructible 48 | else was incidental—tne divinity of Christ—the | Aud religious | As hospital 1. rather tha the springing up of the green grass. Bystems Not so origina’ that would make it ap: | Trinity, 1 believe his faith in the spiritual heip- | fulness of God rested on these pillars of dogma. I | | he took account of nis behef, he would see that God | to cure, as asylums that would | wasa Imiled beimg, exercising a iocal power on destroy — ins preserving trom bara man, and, of His own discretion and will, minisver their charglings, should be made away with, so | Ing to feeting, 1n bebalfoi His own kingdom. So it ought churches that had no longer the divine | js, I think, that mulutude lines in them to go do ‘That younger sister of | lieve that this iudividud ; Personal Christ, sits on of people Po longer be- | religion. science, he Suld, Was Bot an euemy to jis throne, and ministers im all sovereign Feligion itsell, but it fad destroyed many belicis | majesty to His people. What becomes, once thought indestructible. It was the special | then, of the faith im the everiasting tems that were struck at and made to give , LOT religious thought, not tue religion of the liviug God, which coula Le destroyed. The Church ot God welcomed science. She was not sumply tue Church’s handmaid, she was the Church's sister— the two having nO jealousies, and Who gat to- sy heipfainess of God and the helplesspess of man? | Are we not left, then, with no hope im the tuture | that man may stand on Ms feet ¢ the spiritual neip- | lessness of man, a thing to be taken jor granted? | a tung we must assdme as a first principle ? | Why, sooner thay doubt that man has inherent in wer engaged in a common work of light. | nimsel! spyritual power I would believe that ile bad Hcleuce could hot destroy religion, lor taey both | not mental power, foras 1 look at it the spuritual originated from ale divine source, aMd, CoL- | yorce of man 1s the most astoushing fact in al! this | sequently, could not be inimica FORMS OF WO were one thing, but religiot The forms might pass aw hever. Ordinances and convictions and doctrines Yong held sacre be alvered, modified, even abolished; but t gion of God hever. ‘The iove of man who was prompted by sell-sac . pUTe morality wod inwardness went up to God, ana God’s love reached down to mau; for it was thi amperial power of God tat conveyed them. anti-slavery movement, ior exampie, he belie had been prompted by’ this power, and the men Who were engaged in it had been pu: by it. God simp) : poses. This power was every great reiorm. It | history, I know of nothing so vast and omni uP rust quite another, but religious trust 1am aot willing to resort to THEOLOGY AS A WITNESS, What is more surprising than this: thatfar away in remotest time men should have been taking up | terial things and transtorming uty ¢ that us Jar back as you can read you find | u taking mountains as types of eternal sublim- | y, the wind as @ suggestion ofa holy spirit breathing through tue earth + Now this mplies a you Can conceive what a tremendous thing | spirit force is Or look again. What are the great | Vor. The choir, which is evidently composed of | present as the working Ol this spiritual jorce, aud | its task. | trom the First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, vi., 20, I take facts as they lie on the suriace of the world. | 2i—O Timothy, them into | 804 oppositions of science, so-called,” &c. books destroyed the foundation of the Christian | | religion, By the assumptions of Deism men were ol readiug the invisible from the visibie, | shorn of their true relations with Creator. ws that have veen erected indifferent parts | really imperil the joundations of Curistianity? their loyalty by their devotion in the lace ot trials. Many shail come irom earth’s weary patns, trom troubled homes, from distressing cares, Irom the | lowly piaces of this World to share St. John’s place | on the Master's breast, while the children ol the | kingdom shall be cast out, Jor laituiulness is the | great condition, and they who by patient continu. | ance in well doing seek lor giory, honor and un- mortality shall have eternal life. CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. Science vs. Religion—Rev. D. D. Miner on the Theory of Evolution. | The Rey. D. DB. Miner preached in the place of | Rev. E. H. Chapin, yesterday morning, at the | Church of the Divine Paternity, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fith street, The congregation, ultra fashionable as is always the case in this | church, was moderately large, and the services were characterized by great earnestness and {er- trained and finished artists, deserves commenda- | tion for the thoroughness with which at mastered | Are to forget the past. to forget a thing, but the very necessity | determination lixes it more Urmly in your mind. The way to forget 1s by reaching out toward what keep that which is committed to | 18 velore. The reverend preacher took his text thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings Whatever placed the Bible ona level with other the divine Did the revelations of modern science evolve conscience from it? And still further, not even the germinal uuity o1 the universe could be es- | tablished by the hypothesis that sought to dispense With an intelligent creative power which arranged ail Here were,the lorces of heat and sunlight, which could not be explained by the tendency t growth and development, placed here by a kindly hand, caring for the wants of men. these innumerable forces sprung into life withouk the intervention ofa Divine creative pawer? need what wonderful supplies of grace were re- ceived. | Was a true atheist, 1or in every man there re mained an innate and influence. selves as finite beings withoal thinking of the one Who was infinite; and so they came to Him | Without whors the gradations of all beimgs and the | the voice of God, though the world irowned upon mysteries of the universe could not be explained. ‘They leaned on Him, lived in Hun, hope through im, aud would do so ferever, “This One Thing I Do”—Sermon by the Mth street an-l Lexington avenue, was very small at the services yesterday morning. in the pulpit, He announced tor bis subject— ‘upon the text Philippians, ili., 12, 13 and 1i—“Not as though I had already attained, either were al- Teady periect; but I follow after, if that I may ap- prehend that for which I am apprehended of Jesus Chrést. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; do, forgetting those things which are behind ana reaching {orth unto those things whicn are before. I press toward the mark forthe high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” sented to you last Sunday, he began, was a very prolific one in character, amd has suggested my | than that of Paulin this text? | race which Paul had to accomplish. but he spent 1s time in thinking over bad sp dations. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. but were evidertly Could they lor a moment believe that Revelation Was a natural tact, anal out of this It was very doubtiui whe-uer there ever CONSCIOUSNESS OF DIVINE POWER They could not think of them- TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH, Rev. Dr. Holme. The attendance at this church, corner of Fifty- Rev. Dr. Holme, the paswr, occupied bis accustomed place “This One Thing I Do,” which, he said, was based but ths one thing I The sabject which I pre~ subject this morning, which is a kindred one, Was there ever amore vigorous picture of & runner Here is an eager map pressing forward with a definite end in view, with a determination that nothing shall interfere with the matter in hand, and with no thought of giving up the struggle. His whole mind was bent upon success, Were ever words more full of hope, more full of unflagging energy, more full of lofty enthusiasm’ These are like words spoken by a young Man jast setting out into lue with GLORIOUS DREAMS OF THE FUTURE? and yet these words Were spoken by St. Paul the aged, in the last year o! his life, when he was soon to be a martyr, For thirty years he had lavored in the cause of Christ, and had achieved what uo other man ever did. He forgot all that was beaind him, all the grand achievements of nis early years, and said, when his end was drawing hear, “Broken as lam, a prisoner, I still have a single object to- ward which I am beading all my epergies, and am still, as 1s Were, @runner reaching out to what is coming.” Were there ever grander words trom a man than these? The first thought suggested is | | thts: there is nothing in this world like religion tn Jesus to Keep men young. Paul, though grown old in tne service of the Lord, was as energetically pushing iorward in THE LORD'S RACE asin the palmiest days of Is ministry. If you have noticed in Paul’s writings, he never gave an excuse. On one occasion he said that What he achieved Was not due to him, but to the grace of God that was In him. It was a battle as weil as a He had w ofthe Waters, Yet the skU’q artificers round her engineg could not be Mave to periorm more than Wty revolutions in a Dinute, and all their genius could not increase ber power. But the power of the human beday, ‘can increased. Muscle is capable of ALMOSP MIRACULOUS DEVELOPMENT. “The-eye of a pilot at sea astonishes landsmen. Tne ear of a musician Is alive to the smallest variation Of sound. in a sudden emergency a coward has ‘Often acted with bravery, and even weak women have performed the most courageous exploits oa record. Man can do what machinery cannot, and this applies especially to Curistian enterprise be- yg the hand of Omnipotence 1s ever at the back it. The preacher then adverted to the glorious an- nals of that little island of the sea, Britain, which he pronounces @ marvel of history. He showed how John Wesley and his companions, by obeying them, carried out successiully the grandest of Christian enterprises, Rey, Mr, Thomas concluded his discourse With three applications of the text, Pointing out, first, that a large number o1 people are not practical Christians because they want to get to the end and have all the fruit of experience, without making any beginning or susfering any trial; the second ciass think that little care and the third class are those whom the supposed rigors of Christianity entirely scare away from religion. 8T, TERESA’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Mission of the Charch. Notwithstanding the threatening aspect of the ‘Weather yesterday morning @ large congregation gathered in St, Teresa's church, corner of Rutgers and Henry streets, to listen to Rev. Father Mac- donald, D. D., a young priest from the American College at Rome. The altars of the church were brilliantly tluminated and the music (not by any means the least attractive feature of the service) ‘was of the highest order. Rey, Father Ward cele- brated high mass and at the conclusion of the gospel Father Macdonald ascenaca the pulpit. In the beginning of the discourse the manner of the youthtul preacher was strained and his gesticula- tion rather unnatural and forced, but as his ner- vousness wore off his delivery became free und smooth, and at times he was almose eloquent. The subject of the sermon was ‘The Mission of the Church,” the text being taken from Ste Matthew, xxviii, 20—“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 1 have commanded you; and lo! { am with you always, even to the con- summation of the world, Amen.’? The original condition of Adam was one of physical perfection, ‘The triais and tribulations of ordinary mortals did Not fail to his let. To make his joy the more com- Plete, if possible, God formed a helpmate. Ths | man and woman, placed in the Garden of Eden, | were possessed of every pleasure that could charm the senses. Sorrow or pain, hunger or fatigue, they never knew. The livciong day was but one round of new delights. Ina word, ail the pleas- ures of sense and intellect which we must labor so | assiduously for were theirs, unailoyed. They walked with God; and where God is there muap be perfect peace and bliss. Does it not seem a ncn ee eae Churen ana restore those ceremonies which were formerly rejected a8 unseriptural. Altogetber the atmosphere of the Church was troubled. He be. Meved, indeed, that the Church was for the second time on trial. ‘He knew there Was too much sturdy Intelligence in the Church to admit of any of the superstition of the past, but he would neverthe legs ask the congregation to think upon the sub- ject and, if necessary, speak upon it when @ proper Opportunity presented itseli of denouncing & procee which had for its object’ the im} upon the Church a yoke of bondage from which 16 night prove dimMecult to be relieved. He trusted some important action in reference to this matter won be taken at the Jorthcoming Episcopad Con- vention, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, Sermon by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. Tbe Rev. Mr. Talmage preached to a large con-- gregation yesterday morning, After the singing and prayers he took for his text the following:— “And the manza ceased on the morrow after little sacrifice is necessary to a Christian life, and |-tney nad eaten of the old corn of the lana”’— Joshua, V., 12, Hts discourse related to the passage of the Israciitish army across the wilderness at the time manna fell from heaven and thereby” saved them from perishing tn the sands. Only those who have had sometning to do with the comuissary department of an army know whata. Job itis to feed and clothe five or six nindsed thousanad men, Well, there 1s such an army as that marching across the des- ert. They are out of army supplies and there are no railroad trains to bring them down food or blankets. The tcod comes from heaven to the rescue. He touches the shoes and clothes and they become storm proof. The bisec- tion of this subject leads me first %o talk abous the fact that there Is especial emergency, and,. second, to talk about the fact that THB OLD CORN OF THE GOSPEL is for ordinary circumstances. Ii these Israelites. crossing the wilderness had not recetved bread from the heavenly bakeries there would first have. been along line of dead children, Women and men. buried in the sand, and it would have heen told im history that a great company started out from. Egypt for Canaan and were never heard of, What use was it to them tuat tuere was Plenty ot corn in Canaan or plenty of neat in Egypt ?- What they wanted was something to eat Fyrht there, where there Was notso much as & grass: biave. In Other words, an especial supply for ap especial emergency, and that 13 what some of you want, The ordinary comiort, the oruimary direc: tion, the ordinary counse! do not seem to meek your case. ‘There are those in this house this Morning who teei that they must have an ownipo- vent and mmmediate supply, wud you shall have it. 8 1b PAIN AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS through which you inust gor Did not Jesus know all about pain? Did He not suffer m the mosi sen- sitive parts—the head, the hounds and lee? Oh,, there 13 no such nurse as Jesus, Worried soul, you Will Wake up amid all your troubles and find around about you the sweet consvlation cf tne Strange, then, that man should by his own deliberate act deprive himself of all these biess- ings aud become a sinner? Yet this was so. Strong and wise as Adam was he fell, and tt was | only through God’s mercy that he could be saved | from eternal condemuation, Tie question natu. | rally arises, | WHAT IS TO BECOME OF US, | fight as well as work. ‘Ihe Greexs teil a story, that when Solon lay dying he overheard a conver- sation on philosophy, and asked to be allowed to join in it, ior although be was dying it was not too late to learn something. This man was intensely energetic. Qld age is very prone to dwell upon the past, ana, in fact, op this account, we speak of | the garrulousness o1 Old age. ‘They tight their bat- tles over again. Paul would have none of this. The future was spread out be- fore him. The Emperor Wiliam of Germany tant victories over the French and Austrians. He did hot consider himself too old, but pushed for- ward for iresh victories, and conquered France lay at his feet. Just sach is the Carisuan lile, for- geting what 1s behind, Tuere was sometht like this in the character of Alexander tue Great when he was giving away his territories. Soime one said te him that he was giving away every. thing and was keeping nothing tor himselr, He replied, “I WAVE HOPE.” Just so with the Christian, You ask how you You may ly determine for such ‘The apostle does not CRY OVER SPILT MILK, There was a man once who had no time to at, ‘There is something ennobling in this de- When we bave religion pre- Via men, even when tier | to press as God doing His own rti, the costllest and most Wastare what? | That w e great tion. Could the existence Migher. Growth is man’s destiny and privilege in work ‘unseen, We could not always kuow aud temples of worship balldings Liat Fabed anaiertean ter gen ni) scah eee ee nee tuis life. His spirit grows forever, One ol the what God will do, tt was tru men have put up simply to express their | Of this universe be explained by the theory of de- | greatest weaknesses Is to talk Of past events We, could do aa wep 1, and faith in my tings, These mighty | velopment? Mr. Darwin had endeavored togive | aud successes. | It is a bad sign to near all knew what we could do. sy les are simply expressions in granite and aaa pxiatenc >. >rsi | any man eloquent on past deeds. Whatever the then, were nothing more than Of those dre is a hopes ‘at a fon the key to the exis siggorsclees the, upiverso)by, = past been it showd not dwarf the future. the religion oi the living God, w “ncross oceans to see them, They cost | MM tuis tendency to development in ull matter. | ‘That is the secret of te apostle’s success, and that impertal power of tue Almighty, s generations to erect. Kings’ palaces We were in ih its many results, was ail uk to lusiguificunee in comparison. LOOK at the this life consequently oue mpany inter- | Acropolis of Athens. See what remains of that din the bark of life, There r be outward wonuertul temple of eptune; that cer- trouble with those who labored in the right, 1s 4 | demonstration of spirit prompted by the qualities of mwarduess, sell: It proves tt has been a native ®ucriice aud pure morality; yet there would be man. What are the greatest pro- always inward peace; there might duct of literature? This is the mighhest proof OCTWARD DARKNESS, of ma at 10 The greatest 01 all books, | but always inward light. This was no dream, but py @reality. The workers of unrighteousness even ¢, had God's pity. The father mentioned in the Scriptures gave all he had to the son who h mitted, are those which have lasted long- | 2 Those wuiech are oldest, and are read and Fondered most, are the sacred books—cali them | ® Christian, or Greek, or Persian, or Chin it mat- ane the dd of bis opportanities. God ters not, They nave the clear always ready to receive Us When We went to hin yichest thought, the most far-react chart Ourselves; but what we spent we spent, and what — they comprehend the greatest range of se ri Was lost was lost, If we made ourselves beggars, ence. We read that Aristotie controlled the mind We were looked upoa as beggars; yet always | of the midaie ages, Well,#o ne did, Bacon, we were welcomed, rich or poor, If we bad the rigQt | gay, controlled the "But | mind of’ th dern age. spirit, nd oO: @ modern age. books that are th » Sucred DOOKS. id mi Look at the D in absolute subjec- ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH Professor Tyndall bad now proclaimed chat matter was the primal cause of all life, was not borne out by the ‘act’ | Shown, as he thought, that matter grew in propor- tion to the resistance it encountered, and that evolution was in the direction of the least resist- His thougnt plainly was that from common ee were. thing to thit purpose, and by cultivauing the spirit of Puul you insure suc oy _BEBEMAN HILL ance. germs tue varieties of lile were evolved, vation, as well as by other motors, in bis opinion, st_observation, the | jj the various organisms were evolved. Professor ‘yudall how wanted God at all, and that ail organisms could be waced back to matter as ave controlled the mind, anaent | jower growth could not be explained by science, tain links nad been lest they must naturaily come The assertion | , Mr. Spencer had By the meteorological influences and accidents of culti- to prove that there was no THE ONE COMMON SOURCE OF LIFE. On the theory of steady development from | to higher the chasms in the grades of 11 cer- | | that 18 | | purpose is the Key to all success, Will tell you tbat they set their minds upon a sin- | gle object aad bent wil sheir energies toward 1. it is @ sipgieness of purpose that wins the day. | We find this same purpese in Paul, Elijab and | hhethodist Episcopal Sunday school took | yesterday at two P. M., under very pleasing cir- THE SECRET OF ALL SUCCESS | The unity of purpose aud consistency of | Men ot mark In life. Would to God Lb could Choose as we had them ingle object and then bend every- “METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Christian Enterprise—What Is It that | and the Church is the enemy of the worid. wag not content with recounting hits former brill- | A word most on the jips of the present | is “excelsior’—a word which Was caught from | @ poet, | sire to climb) still higher. ‘There 1s something in | dt very stumulating. | Sented to us with its great leader Jesus Our souls become elevated, bouies fall, heed not give up the desire | bore Witness to this’ fact when he proc | Inust have a triai of some kind. | Who, inheriting Adam's siniui nature, are still | shorn of the bulwarks of defence le Was’ possessed | or? Let us rejoice that God has opened a way for | | us to gain heaven and excape the terrible conse. | | quences 0/ Sin through Jesus Christ, our Lord and | | Saviour. Christ is the y, the, and the guide and helper is the Church. “A beautiful type of the | sublime oftice of the Christian Church 1s found in the history of tie Children of Isracl. God gave them a pillar of cloud by day and w pillar of fire by night, | | so that a gtide and an evidence of God’s goodness | | and favor was ever with them, and when they | were in necd of tood fe sent them manna irom | heaven. ‘Truly a most beautiful figure of the noly Church, Man is born in complete ignorance, but | is endowed With @ mind capable oi cultivation and the reception of truth, ie is surrounded by | objects wuich stimulate his curiosity, but in order to avoid Jaliing into error he must find a | teacher. At first the simple lessons of child- hood, Jearned at ® mother’s Knee, are suf- cient, Luter on he is sent to school and college and culls from the wisdom which has | been accumulating for ages such portions as it 1s | deemed rignt and proper he should extract. But the turther he advances into the reaims and hid- den mysteries of Knowledge the harder becomes his task and the more dificult 1t becomes to solve | the all-important questions which arise. Whence | aml? What am f£ destined sor? How came 1 | here ? What am I to do in thisworld ¥ These are | Momentous questions, and if the theory of immor- | tality be not Iaise, @ iletime even js ail too short | to spend in the correct solution of them. Con- science 18 pot infallible, neither are the opinions ot man, It was for this, then, that im the gooa- ness and mercy oi God the Church was established, It was to prevent humanity irom being harassed with doubts or deceived by plausible theories, Christ has revealed “the way, the truth” and “the ligne” to the Church, and ail things else necessary, To the Church in the person of the apostles was issued her broad commission. He that believeth the Church beYeveth Christ, and he that refuses to listen to her teachings is wanting in bis duty to God, because the Charen has been AUTHORIZED TO TEACH by Christ himselt. itis the province of the Church to teach. How well she has performed her duty listocy will bear Witness. She has educated the world. The great philosophers 0! antiquity knew nut as much of God as th hia who has mastered his catechism. Her jearning basin truth been the learning of the world. An eminent statesman aimed Christtanity has marched at the head ol civiliza- ton tor over 1,800 years. Lie after allis puta probationary stare. ‘It 1s decreed that all of us To some is sent Wealth, to others power, talent, sickness or pov- | erty, as the case muy be. ‘Sle fascinations o! the | world are tempting, but if we only resist and are | ; faituful our reward wili be so much the greater, | , The world Js the great enemy of God and of man, | Is it | Gives Courage to Christianity t | not @ glorious thing to feel and know that the | The reopening exercises ef the Beekman Tiill | ce ON | tion. S. will, still the fact re- | back le conviction that every being was Sermon by the Rev. Father Patterson, | qhaiis (\ multitudes Of men have been | eoClved out of a fundamental gern) oriteown, | cumstances. The improvements and decorations of Dublin, Ireland—Christ’s Legacy to | bound aod inthrailed by them, Thisseems to ma | Sciearitic men were by 00 means agreed that the | of the building were a subject of general admira- His Mother—Mary’s Power in Heaven, | }>/'bendgus declaration of the power of spiritual — possibility of evolving organisms irom lower grades — gion, Indeed, it was evident to the numerous The spacious church East Twe day morn) of the proto-martyr, ia was well filled yester- le and apparently de- ng those pre: were test—character, What is charac- n writer says character is disc sould Say Charact-r was CONDENSED AS All else ts as nothing in comparison with the ch nty nth st by a resy pied Will, vous congrega A the Lord Mayor of Dnblin and lady, the Misses | acter m Mnparting impon t fara ed religion, must be re- Selly, Mi ick and other friends of ble forces ¢ i me resistance. That 1 vived With great caution. There were no undis- The mumc was of the usual hign | sree, Dome 15 a cc puted lacis open to scientific men that one torm | 2 iss s 7 pitt Mts has never been of creatures had developed into another form. mass was celebrated by the | a tume when more or Jess of this character wus ‘This, sf proved, Went to show that there was LO Fatuer Byron, ra ech ‘he d. Apap alk Ne bok nt ew bey evidence of oue ss us lite opening into some- ter the t gospel the Re . hob phir { spirit ol believe thing different. Were it not su tbey should find Alter the first gospel the Rev. Dr. Mec ges when thi ‘nal force haa attained tie the sak looking to the maple or iuen, Dus Hoch ascended the pulpit, and, having read the greatest P been when the social forces ing of the kind appeared anywhere, It was true that tomary no’ , be announced the Re ork, Here, then, is the secret tury nad Toynd them evolution springing from, | Father Patterson, of Daviin, { ee ; tome. This power, whic! nexhaust- germinal development. Bul Uus Was only true of | ee Aca aa ape Aieercad yen t in us, the possibilities of wich | jdivsyucratic evolution, One kind of animal de. | friend @nd chass: of i deliver an i T hail the advent of this gr veloped into its form of maturity, and anovuer | imstruction, Father Patters evid a ine ce as oe Led en be mie in kina developed into ano r,and that was all. | le of ne < ry calli Tos nd sacrifice, belie MIND AND BODY, Gentleman of no ordinary 1 although tim li ¢ when this species of fellow Mind was not the flower or fruttage of the | his v« is neith werlul he was | De abivers: hen We sali be as the apostle says, | brain. I they visited a large factory where tne Ustened to with th tren. | Che of anc . water jell upom the great wheel they found | 0) S gesture: e i “HITR: Ty — on that if the wheel stood still the machinery was = te i Utes natural and appro * CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST, useless. Wouid it not be absurd to argue that be- he wording of bis sermon plain and simple, and | wy. wae, cause the wheel was broken the water was the texis of Scripture and extracts from the The Virtue and the Reward of Patient jo:4 powerlul than beto So che brain was | fathers weil and caretuily c Discharge of Duty. the organ of the mind, ong ne mund ‘i reppin The Rev. T. K. Conrad, D. D., assocts - heverthere not evolved from the — brai ho) tg oa fy ort are’: 7 K- Conrad, D. D., associate rector, | ite tendency of the cercal to develop dying Jesus to tis 1 preached yesterday In the beautif urch of the | its kind was patent, and there was to Sri Weary, of Clenttion and, Mane Heavenly Rest, Futh avenue, near Forty-tith exhaustion im ths process, If the mind stood ripen a y Ma reet, to a smal sry intellic related to the 'y just og tne wheat stood related | tl Whon Jesus, th his raothe et to Sriail, but very intelligent looking | +5 tne staik there Would be no éudden wrestlings | disciple statiding, w' he ioved, be and fastionably dressed cougregation. His text and prostrations, but a steady development. , caiculation, moth his timibie oe bgt was, them who by patient continuance in lat uid they lind? They found man swayed by mag roth) ie inoapet gag A, ek for glory, honor ana Immortality, | tle influx of den joy or paralyzed by a | 8 ‘ay evils SUTTOUNG Us All in this valle glory, TAMOFtAL aiden grief, primary t Was tund itself, through which we are passing on th mans, ti.,7 The conditions o heaveniy Lome beyond t gra by St 1, are ne posed to dange’’s trom within and dar oy _ Bt. Paci, are nos: in the Without; 80 that cial saintiiness, but only in wartlarc the holy fort. The brig izes of the of the whole career of mau from the cradle to the IMMROEYONNY Lost aly , porn of a weman, g ivr a sbort Ore Alone Who have won great victories 4 ' With Many miseries. There ain p for ¢ who tn quiet and resoiuce home withont its cross; no day without its alloy | geyotion to aut ? fo Aust all the trials and temptations and da ke a cap arshpy What are we to do? Give up the contesir a weary and 3 struggic. sable and willing to help us; and afer | “Wontunued patie 8 us of unceas ) one ig BS Powe Mary. All the saints | jng opposition, o: effort, rather thet of the ¢ @ one in attributing tO | of pesuits artane s Ss Res Xhaustoie influence with her Son and ts attained, and teaches us to look for the arnings a fond mother to ex- | evi the feailty of our spirttual life tn the our beni been sent into | earnestuess with which we maintain the conflict to kuow, a and be ae Hua To attain evil, in the clokeness with which we cleave to € is ais ssary: and to ob= 1 im the days of darkness and depression, and ern a yt in the mere coveted res of actual vict 1 tT i a ne { actual victory. This condition of eternal life ts then a promise, and consola' s ei Gavriel in th fullof comfort to those Who tmourn the hindrance Acgustine ary, full of grace to spirituauty tnevilable In a bn restlesa ¥ HOPE OF SiNNE | age like ours. Untoward circumstances of every while St. t hesitate ¢ t he | sort surround us, Im many cases our datiy occu. Rie ise fosttien oe Ne God. (St dames | parton are unsanctitying, There is litte time tor Now no ove ever waik earti so full of jus- | Prayer and praise and works of charity, but with Mary, the most of us, as with the Master, the prophets in crowded with occupation that,‘as with Him, so is so patriar $ in he in con. gtancy and the virgins In Wha. be Mary's intiuence wi Sita many ate coming and going that we have scarcely to reason that ¢ time to eat our bread, If we could be placed been “ows, a be mite where there was less to distract and draw the requests of their mothers. us down we might hope to be holy; but mother of Alexan oF ape Great, w under the adverse circumstances of life | ail the calummes of her enc Plage i . Aor Fingie tear. Constantine, when aske ye measure of attainment is beyond was accustomed fo refer app to I reneh. And yet, however unpropitious muy her, Helen, Now, il earthly motuers Mave such | our Jot, or hywever nauch it May seem to be the | had been Clearly ésvablished. thought ¢ gern, and th Lhetdigl in conftct in regard to the prineipies Ly wien ism Could be se Proiessor Agassiz ry ‘organism sprung irom its own 2 occupied & Very high position in the world of science, When scientitic men were th athe, their teach. ficaiiy aitirmed, nd Ib evolved emotions and feedings or th body. Jt was po ¢ for the mind to destroy ti physical ft of the body dependent upon It. GRAVITATION AND COUESIC It was thus tm: St that the nigher forces of nature controlled the low iversal as grav! ation, but cohesion doi. | t the cohesive aftinicies, of li transcended me: Mauity in ¢ ster, If hiy did the dead soi! not produce its | t ubenitivation * Inthe physiology hemistry chemical were not 8 pre | people.” He said: # me. The world has put upon them arbitrary | trust They are enterprise and conservatism, } | Conservatism deals with great questions ta a | cautious and careful spirit. these principles felt strongly the necessity of | | guarding against unthoughtful inovation, On the | | other hand rashness plunges boldly into every. | | meanings. pel sense of the word, | according to the Which is Over against Galilee. @ | lowers an impossibie command, this | feed the muiritude, tu and they succeeded in de | parents residing in the vicinity who were present that no pains had been spared to make the Sab- bath schocirooms commodious and comfortable, | and an arustic eye would easily observe that both | | taste and judgment were displayed in the changes | Proaches and eternity looms up in ail its | that tiave been made during the recess, | ‘Ike exercises were full of interest and were | varied by the singing of the school children and | prayer. Some addresses of an earnest character ditors. At tue morming service, Rev. W. H. Thomas preached from Luke, ix., 13: “But he said unto them, give ye them to eat. have no more but five loaves and two fishes; ex- | cept we should go and buy meat for all this | And they said, we ‘Two words maxe a picture for Men possessed with But rashness ts not enterprise in the Gos- Enterprise is a matter of | It reckons up everything and, | best principles‘ of common euse, sees Its Way to a successini result, | But in regard to Christian enterprise a new ele- hing. | ment enters into it aud forms its maim feature. It | is that an Almighty power ts at the back ofit. The | a Catholic revival divine and potent influence wit and noble enterprises to Chen | in the diflcuities they meet with, and will never | Copgregation was concerned. r. Nojorui of attraction | fail to carry them through su h suggests grand 4n8, WSSIStS hes | essfully even unto | ne end. A general commanding au army in the (ation. Covesion itself was | field olten gives orders, the wisdom of wiich his chemical aMlniues, Toe rey- | saberdinates are at a loss to comprehend. So showed how these chemical | with Jesas in this country of the Gadarenes, | He gave his fol: | Tle told them to Knowing that they had | pat five loaves ana two fishes, hey oveyed Him, | ng so. So it is with of nals and plants t found that tne iood | CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISE. | was taken irom the soil a distributed through | Ti we act when Goc Paks to us the results will the whole economy of the i world, Drop speak for themselves, Tuke jor lusiance the order ¢ acorn into the soil and it bad in it the germ of | given to the Ist tes to cross the Red sea. There | a jie Which would finaly produce an oak. There | were ho bridges nor any means of doing it. Aud, | Was no evident wat Matter ever roarshalied | for amoment, © t what aimMeuity 18 of Mov. | itsel! to the jormation of an acorn. This single | ing an army of one hundred thousand men, pro- | example would bold good im ali the antinal and viding for their Various wants and being prepared vegetwble world, 'T 1 no evidence of the | for all contingencies, Hlere a whole nation is | grain changing imt Wheat, and so (orth | movea at once by the divine command. They are All The distinguisuing characteristics and sensa- | gathered on the banks of the Red Sea, and without | tions of man lad Leen represented as being ail the offshoots of the primary germinal aevelop- | ment, What was a human sensation? It iu- | t Voived the existence of u sensitive being. Often- | t tumes in conver on they Were so absorbed in | t object that t » sensation by other | 1 es ‘Thus the the sensation was dependent on att condition of the mind, TUR MIND before @ sensation vould | fresh irom the contuny Te dir Sensation | the pr belt provided With any naiural means of - ing, E.Fiuse they go forward, leaving the reswics | COR(CSSiOn Was not necessary to obtain the forgtve- ‘od, ail obstacles vanish before them. ame fashion the waiis of Jericho fe!] down at ound of the trumpet, simply because the com | mands of the Almighty were oveyed, | ibis jesson Was preached powerfully by Jesus, | of & malefactor’s death. d his humbie asciples to go and teach | ud apd learned world, heediess alike of the o Aiter | Coud not possibiy be € ntering Info supereiiary disdain Of the Grecian sophist and the Moeir experience until sentient beings. — powerlu!l Romen, Atded by Omnipotence, these The telescope stood related to the power of vision | tnen found that they were able to cope with the | very muc¢ 0 did. It was not the eye that | world; because wita divine assistance men are Saw, bur the organ of Vision, whieh was much more | capable of doing thousands of things which, if left Nighy developed in oue inan thaa it was in | to themselves, they could not at all attempt or another. Ii they could not evolve thought from this ten- dency of matver to development, bow could they | compass Man is not @ machine, The City of Peking was bailt with the utmost care, and no ¢ pense Was spared upon her to make ber a wouder | | garded with indiference. The reverend gentieman | as Church is rich in everything we need, She is by | the grace of God all-potent, “an ever present help | in trouble.” She takes the little child, its soul tattited with orizinal sin, in ner bosom | and makes it clean through the sacrament | of bapus Later on is administered the sacra- ment of confirmation, When more mature and | the soul is capable of greater giory, then 1s given | the precious Sacrament of the body and blood of | Chmst, than which even the Eternal Pather him- self has nothing more precious to bestow. And tf, aiter all these, Man sbonid stili Jali, for the batt of lle 18 & severe conflict, relie! can be found | in coniession and absolution, When death ap- | | VAST AND SHADOWY GRANDEUR | | then comes the priest of God to anoint with holy | oiland whisper words of pea the soul waiting to be ferried across the rushing river, And even when the body ts laid in the tomb the Church does not desert her charge. and comfort to were delivered, that of the pastor appealing very | Millions daily kneci berore the altar or God and forcibly to the a | beg for mercy from the Most High for those souls woo have gone before, Such, then, is the true mission Of the Church, She receives us as littie chiidren, strengtnens us through lie, and when | death comes provides us with @ passport to ever- lasting life and glory, Have we not a right, then, to devote our lives to her service? Only devils ate her and those who love her. Let us gloriiy erin our speecn and actions, Let us make use i her help. Let us cast ourselves on her aud her and then shail we be sac.” 8T, MARE'S CHURCH, by the Rev. Dr. Rylance. | The subject for the morning discourse at St. Mark's, yesterday, was “Contession and the Con- fessional.” After the usual services Dr. Rylance | drew attention to the fact that eMforts were being | made both here and abroad to revive superstitions which had been rejected at the Reformation. It | was Claimed that the Church was passing through | itmight seem to be unneces- Sary to give the matter any thought, so far as his It was long since a | dead issue, but the old controversies had been re- opened and the question could not now ve re- then began to dilate upon the subject of ritualism, , which, he said, was taken trom the Church of | Rome, @nd then proceeded to treat the question, and contenued ‘that conlession, brought into vogue by the Ritualists in England was hot in consonance with the teachings of the Scriptures, it was renounced at the Reformation, and the time had come when | every man of the Charch must see to it that such abuses should not be allowed to exist in the Prot- estant Church. He gave @ historical sketch of | What he submitted was the origin of the confes: | Stonal, aud proceeded to argue that sacramental ness of God for sins committed, He contended that Clirist was the only mediator to the Father on behalf of the sinner. His ambassadors might speak and comfort them, bus they were only helps to en- able the sinner to pray. They were only means, hot anend, ‘he Gospel called men to te turone of grace, He atided to the Jact that there existed formeriy @ system of penitential discipline; but it | was inare of @ public character, aud Une confession of crime was made beiore a whole assem- blage, by whica penaties were imposed suitable to the character of the crime coutessed. There was at the present time a subile eifort veing made to introduce tie confessional in | Prgland by certain members of the notions Luarch, Who Were cudeavoring to Rymanize tue | working power was even more Gospel @8 thickly strewn as wus the manna. around about tue israelitisn army. Especial solace for especial distiess, especial comlort lor especial trial is what 1 preacu this morning. Your appetite has failed lor everytuing eise, Oh,. uy @ litule of tis Wilderness manna. ‘ABs & father pitieth bis children so the Lord pitieth you.” “Can @ mother jorget her sucking ciuild, that she should not have compassion upon the sou fs womb, Yea, she may lorget, yet will not 5.” Alter speaking further upon the necessity ot those in aMictiva looking to Jesus for comfort, he sald, there are men here this hardly know wiat is the matter wich them. They tried to get happy ; they have tried to get together a large amount Of money and geta lirge account at the bank, and get investineats yielding large percentages. ‘they are trying TO SATISFY THELR SOULS WITH A DIET OF GREEN- BACKS and government securities. There are others who- huve been trying to get famous, and have suc- ceeded Lo a greater or less extent, and they have ) been trying to satesfy their souls with chopped. feed of Magazines and newspapers, and all these men gre DO more happy now than betore t made the first thousand dollars; no more happ' now than when they first saw thelr names favora- bly mentioned. ‘hey cannot analyze or define their seelings; but 1 wil tell them whats is the matter—they are hungry for the oid corn ot the Gospel, Tuat they must have, or be pinched, wan aud wasted, huliow-eyed and = shriveiied up with an eternity of fumine. 1 know that the Infidel scientists of this day are offering us a different kio4 of soul food, but they are of all men the most miserable. I have seen a great muny of them, but | never knew a man who came within a thousand miles of betng happy who was. an infidel scientist. The great Jonn Stuart Mill provided for himself a new Kind of porridge, but yet When he comes to die te acknowledges that his: philosophy never gave him any comfort in the days Of bereavement, and in # roundabout way he admits that his lie was a failure, So it 1s with als indvel scientis: They are trying to live on telescopes and cruciples and protoplasms, and they charge ts with cant, not recognizing, however, that there ig U0 such intolerable cant m all the world as ttus perpetual talk we are hearmg about positive plilosopty and the absolute and the great “to be,’? and the everlasting ‘no, and. the higher anity, and the latent poteauanties and the catuedral of the immensities, IT IS ALG CANT. Ihave been transiating what these men have been writing, and Ihave been translating what they have been doing, and I will tell you what it alimeans, [t means that they want to kill God, My only wonder 1s that God bas not killed them, T have to other days tasted ail their confecitons, and I come back and tell you to-day that there 1s no nutrient or ie or health in anyming but the bread made out of the old corn of the Gospel. What do Timean by that? Imean that Christ is the bread or lie, and taking Him you live, and live. locever, Are you ready for Hiw? PLYMOUTH CHURCH, A Comparatively Small Congregation= Sermon by Dr. Quint on the “Theories and Experiences of Religion.” The congregation of Plymouth church yester. day morning, {f compared with other congre- gations in the City of Churcnes, probably, be considered large. Compared, however, with that of previous vacation Sundays, It must be regarded as small. The feminine element was not were tn force—a circumstance that may be attributable to the condition of the atmosphere, which threat- ened rain, rather than to any want of allegiance toachurch in which, it is said, that element finde peculiar favor, Dr. Quint, of New Bediord, occu- pied the pulpit, and preacied trom the ninth verse of the fifth chapter of the First Episile of Johnn~ “1f we received the witness of men tie witness of God 1s greater; for thls is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his son’? The Doctor hus an alter-dinuer and sieepy way of saying SMART THIN and proceeded from tnis text on the theory and experiences of religion, Among other truisms in whicu the sermon abounded were the following:—Just as far as theory 18 practical is that theory worth arguing avout. nly thoso Uhings are essenual Which are used; truths, m- deed, that go into the life of man. Comparatively few theortes in religion are of this viral character. ‘Truth 1s the foundation of some good experience. Correctness Was essential to theology, but its. important. Lt Might be as correct as a locomotive he saw at Martua’s Vineyard @ short time ago, it had been " preach a sermon | Confession and the Confessional—Sermon | made correctly enough on some new theory, bub: itcould only be made to go three imiles in eigh hours. You may have the best churen govern ment in the world, but If it does not work it 1s of little use, Does your religion give you peace with jod? ‘that is the question. Does it show yous hat there is no other nelp but in God when yoo discover that you are a sianer? ‘That is THE TRUE THEORY about sin. God never meant us to settle specula. ive questions without giving the heart and tne onscience a share in the settlement. Great trutis could never be put upon paper. When we seo what sin really is David's words are bo ionger a Mystery. The best theortes of prayer ive found in, the prayers of: n old Christian who tas walked with God these many years. Having examined the correctness and completeness of tue theory the Doctor proceeded to examine the stability or the theory, Ifasman were troubled much about doctrine, and the were a believer, jet him come to the cross; let him come close to the Masier, and let him try lo persvude some one eise t he won't be trouvied much about doctrin throw away reason?" say you. No, itis ¢ kind of reason to test the truth, THE RANKRUPT TRUST COMPANY, (From the Pittsburg Gazette.) Woe understand that the final stat ont of the ! conartion of the atfuirs of the defunct Nation ‘trust Company has been prepared and will be preseuted to Court to-day. It appears from it that che tae bilitles of the company are about $1,120,000 and the assets $385,000, leaving $735,000 on the wrong side of the ledger. From the iatier sum is to be sobtracted $149,000, the amount of the depos! made by stockholders, leaving $596,000 as soe aul that the stockholders will be required to pay to the creditors, I order to cancel that amount tt Will be hecessary to levy an assesament of $207 60 on each shvre, 80 the siackholders will not only lose the value of their shares, but will be required to pay Dearly $300 additional on each share, and it may be that the assessment will ve much heavier, because it 1s said that five hundred and provably eight hundred shares will be unable to pay any thing, thus requiring @ greater levy on tte other: The city is the creditor of the Nation Trust Com: pany fo the umount of $380,000, and the county t@ le eXfent of $150,000, the’ balance of the $595,008 bo Le uivided among other creditors morning who.