The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1874, Page 5

, CN - ’ REGENERATION. The Returned Pastors Teach Repent- ance and Reformation. Immortality of the Son) and the Wisdom of Wishing Long Life. A ERIDAL PARTY AT MASS. PLYMOUTH OHUECH, Ten Thousand Applicants for Admis- sion—Mr. Boecher’s First Sermon After Vacation—The Doctrine of the De= pravity of Man Explained. About 10,000 persons tried to get inside Ply- Mouth church yesterday morning, the ushers said. Over 3,000 of these found sitting and stand- ing accommodation within the wall: the service commenced the surging and !mpatient crowd in the vestibule and in the street tried to force itself within hearing or seemg distance. This occasioned so great a pressure upon those standing at the outer doors that it became absolutely necessary that the crowd should be driven back into the Street. This was done by the police, and in a few minutes the vestibule was cleared and the large doors of the church were closed, This hed the eMect of dispersing those who were unable to ob- tain admission, to other churches, or to their homes. The large doors were in a few minutes opened again, and the vestibule was filled up with those who had patiently waited for this cnance, Within the church was a muititude of taces, every entrance door being blocked by a crowd that seemed to be engaged in trying to solve the prov- Jem of how to compress itself into the smallest possible space. On the walls and on the front of the galleries were garlands of flowers stretched trom Bide to side; floral stands, with plants and Nowers, were also placed on smail pedestals on each side of the gallery windows, On the platform was the usual May-day pyramid of floral beauty, composed, instead of the flowers of spring, of autumnal planis of brown and golden beauty. These were the gratuitous offering of Mr. C. L, Allen. Behind this autumnal decoration, and to the left of the preacher’s chair, were seated Mr. Sam Wilkeson and Dr. Bayard, brothers-in-law of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In the general audience were nearly all THE FAMILIAR FACES that constitute the stock congregation of Plymouth church, The Beecher family were, pernups, the most potable, and included Dr. Charles Beecher, Dr. Edward Beecher, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Perkins. The choir was largely strengthened by some of those who had formerly sung in the choir. anthem was Zundel’s “Te Deum.” It was Intended that another anthem, somewhat appropriate to the welcoming of Mr. Beecher, should be sung, and in which the choir had been Practised for three weeks past. Mr. Beecher, bowever, strayed into the practice meeting on Saturday pignt and, finding out what was going on, pul his veto upon it, and selected the “Te Deum” tor the opening of the morning service. It proved, however, in another respect to be of littie consequence what was sung, for the con- fusion occasioned by the demand for admission by the outside crowd caused comparatively litue attention to be paid to this part of the musicai Bervice. Ail was quiet when Mr. Beecher rose to lead in the opening prayer. portion of the Sermon on the Mount. nounced the 199th hymn, commencing “Come, thou Almighty King, Help us Thy name to sing.” This was foilowed by a prayer, which was of the tender and earnest character usually offered by Mr. Beecher. Geiore the singing of the hymn that followed Mr. Beecher announced thatin accord- ance with the usual custom on the first Sunday aiter vVacauon no evening service would be held in the house, It was stated by one ot his friends after the service, to some inquirles, that Mr. Beecher is not quite tree trom his anuual attack of hay Jever, and thatit it would have been con- sistent with his public engagements he would have stayed a few weeks longer at the White Moun- tains. ‘he subject of THE SERMON was the depravity 0! man, and the text selected was a clause Of the tenth rse of the sixth chapter of Matthew—“Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” The “divine will, Mr. Beecher raid, is universal jaw; it is the crown, therefore, of universal hope; the foundation 1s the Divine will or law, seeking lor the highest good oi ali the creatures o1 God, and that, according to the circumstances ot their crea- tuon and the high end to which they have been put by Divine Providence. We have been taugnt irom our childhood that we were sinful, and so we are; that we are corrupt, and surely in some de- grees, first or last, ail men have corrupted them- Selves. Nevertheless, the general concepuon which has been iormed with respect to the nature and character of man has been reasoned of in peculiar terms. The mode of statement, too, 15 again wide of the truth, When we say that every man needs to be educated, and that that isa universal necessity, that is truth. But if itis said oj the thoughts and actions, of every- thing belonging to human experience, that ‘13 not true, But it 18 said all men are corrupt by reason of their own original nature. Who made that nature? It was the work of God. I was not born where I was by my choice, Itis not by any fauit of my own that I was born with a prepara- tion that goes to make up my mind, or by any help oi my own. It was given to me. Itis not the Jauit of the hawk that it is the hawk or toe virtue Oi the dove that itis tue dove, It is no degrada- ‘Then he an- tion to the worm that it is the worm. it js so because God meant that it should be so. It 18 the condition of men that is the cause of the infinite sympa- thy, infinite forpearance and infinite difficulty. | It is Leeded that man be born again, not once, nor twice, but continually. They need a strength to upbear them, as respects all time and extent. This is truth, but 4t is not in accordance with the reasons that have been held. [tis notielt that important discrim- inations ought to be made when we apply the text, “Thy will be done on earth asit is in heaven.” Remember that the will of God is not understand- able at once, not simple and general, and widely g0 at the point of aspiration, because of THE INEXORABLE RULE of judgment that all men are to be judged in their fallen condition just as they are to be judged in heaven; 18 tne poor Airican, under the cir- cumstances of the hard life we found him in, to be judged by the same rule that the archangel is’ Toat men throughout our own civilized land, born some of thieves, some of robvers, some of in- temperate parents, some born where no culture comes; if you bring down this rule upon all acts id apply it continuously to all men in common and one mind, you might as well by one wide sweep and fash of lightning wipe out all the race. No man‘can be measured by such @ standard as that. It that were the divine purpose and con- ception and it were to be constantly applied If WOULD SLAUGHTER THE RACE. Shall we make virtue less? Shall we make morals less? Shall we take away irom the world all the motives that exist to swell manhood ? No; the standard must be kept. It would destroy the Face iu another way. What need we theny We need a divine Being, and especially one that shall stand betweea them and the influences under Which they have been born into this lie, by which men Can ve led step by step until they reach this final jorm of perfection. When we pray ‘Thy The opening | Alter this he read a | It is a great fact, universal, both | i | i} | | | | | thus God warms the world under-His wings. BEECHER PREACHES IN PLYMOUTH. | | family the many points: at will brin uKanalowe-| family there are many points in it thi pring | the ‘will be done,” it is that will under the limitations | of time, of forbearance, of gentleness and patience on the part of God, He has so fashioned His moral government that it looks upon imperfecuion and unrighteousness with that least of allowance that is necessary to bring it into a final iorm. It is not possible lor Man to conceive of the conception of a divine nature. Only so much as we have ourselves can we understand, Qnd no more, Can any man understand what te sun is? He never can, No man can form any conception of apy meutal quality, only so far as | the argument or the germ Of itis in ourselves. Consiaer how very impertect is the understanding Oj our Own selves, and what are the causes of the Influences that move them. How much greater Must be the knowiedge of that mind which governs the universe. [tis impossible tor man to anderstand the nature of human government. We know how unattainavie 1s the knowledge of ‘thy science of right government, If man does not anderstand this how muctt more unattumavie 18 the knowiedge of the divine government that Ancludes infinities! Men speak of the divine will a8 if it could be put into a catechism, ag ii it were singles on a root and we coud count the nails | here and there. We understand a little of the divine government. We give it B Magnitude by our imagination; but alter all, our knowledge 18 Very \ittle. There are some thiugs that we Go understand in the divine nature be- | e@ause they are brought to us by famihariues in our own nature; as love winch begins at zero and goes on to maximum, that begins in tl hula and asses on to the highest Knowleage in the bellcver. hen we pray to God, let Thy wili be done on earth, itis im 1s vast intelligence, and in the Fuies of His wisdom, it is in the knowledge oi the adaptation of His government that ail things will WORK TOGKIHEK FOR GOOD £0 tham that Jove 1 God is @ universal portion | | | | | grand display was the result. The same zeal which makes their national festivals | | so noticeable is brought into thet religious | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. being. itis at this point that we come to a much clearer apprehension Of the divine nature, We | come, too, much nearer to our knowledge of God, | when we say, ‘Thy will be done on earth, a8 it 18 in heaven,” when we come to see that it 1s the will of God never to give us rest, because we are to grow in the, perfect stature of perfect men 1 Christ Jesus. Tne government of God, then, seeks our final perfection, and never lets that down. It assumes that periection is the result of growth, and {t adapts itself to this necessity in man. The divine nature broods over the worla as the hen | broods over the chickens under her wings; reek | iod | is one that sits in the centre of the universe, to adapt Himself to the infintte wants of man, who 18 a being thatis made imperfect, I, then, we can | imagine that the principle of the moral govern. | ment is that the race is itself utterly aegraded, | then we see God reproducing myriads and myriads through the ages jor no other purposes than that | they may suffer. This ts heathenism enshrined. This | is an infinite insult to the consciousness and honor of the human race. A race that swarms again and again, and then again, not once or thrice, but myriads of time; a popu- janion more than the drops of the dew at night or the rain drops tn a tropic storm by day. Each one of these @ Kingdom that this race 1s | propagating. Will God survey this and sit un- moved and cold as marble, perfectly finished Him- self, and then hold out the law of infinite periec- tion, thus keeping man at one level condi- tion? That is a tyrant that would make Nero’s administration one of intense humanity. There must be taught that there is a government over all, that adapts itseif to the condition over which men overcome ills, or the system of religion is AN ABHORRENT TYRANNY. Tf this, then, bea fit and a genera! view of the relationship of God’s government to the human consolation, Any system other ground {nstruction and also warning. that deals with man on any has @ philosophy tnconsistent with true charity. There is no __ folly so real that takes a high standara and applies it to the lower developments. It would be like going to an infant school and apply- ing the demands that are required at an infant ex- amination. We hold that men are sinful, but we do not stop to consider the circumstances, but simply hold them to an abstract line of duty, and wben chide them, How many men are they who are by birth and by nature imperfect, 1 afirm it true that men are by nature depraved ana that it is in accorcance with nature and by creative design. Men are not 80 full of good influences as to be,german to good things. Itisaslow devel- opment, however, and a development that is full of Mistake: We do not see what we look at, Every scientific man knows this, <Aiter an ame plification of this thought Mr. Beecher showed at length the power or divine sympathy on mav, a power that stood in the relation or the germ to the blossom. He concladed by showing that the ultimatum of this perfection on earth would be immortality, and by an earnest appeal to the congregation to seek it. At the close of the service a large number of the congregation waited to stake hands with Mr. Beecher, and in about hali an hour he managea to work his way to door and slip away, In the afternoon he visited the church and mission schools, LYRIO HALL. The Wisdom of Wishing a Long Life on Earth—Quality and Quantity of Liv- ing. A large and attentive audience assembled in Lyric Hall yesterday morning, The platform was very pretty decorated with flowers and _ oprill- jant hued autumn leaves, Mr. Frothingham read seiections from Confucius and from the Chi- nese Scriptures, He then satd, in the Hebrew book of Proverbs 1s a passage describing the | beauty of wisdom. It ts written, “In her right hand is length of days.” By wisdom, in these old books, 18 not meant what we mean by learning, knowledge—it means goodness, the highest at- tainment of intelligence and moral manhood; and the teaching is simply this, that good life and long life correspoud. Quality and quan- uty go hand in hand and balance each other. Allancient people delighted in representing their just men as enjoying what was virtually an im- mortality on earth. Thus in mythology the saints were represented as leading fabulous long lives, and to the Hebrew patriarch the same longevity is ascribed. In accounting for this longevity some say they are merely fables; others say these ages were meant not to describe individual men, but their families and tribes; others say the years were not our solar years, but shorter, ut literal believers in the Bible accept the fact as it stands, | The old patriarchs, they say, did live ail these cen- turies; how they were able to live we are unabie to understand. Pernaps none of these explana- tions are cwrrect. it 18 possivle that these bulmbers were symbolical, There is one point upon which I Wish to fasten your mind, that 1s that tn these stories the relations between the quality ana quantity of life is sustaimed and as- sumed, They mean that if man will justily his manunvod Providence will justuy his old age. At ail events, among the Hebrews tis was a cardinal idea, You find this one idea—namely, that those who Were obedient to Jehovah ENJOYED LONG LIFE. This was promised trom the beginning. The an- cient Hevrew had an honest respect for this world, He believed it was good to live. He did not despise food and sheiter, He prized them at their full wortu. He firmly betieved thatu he were true to himself and his manhood he would nave virtually an immortality, and this idea was entertained until the captivity and Jater than that. Later along, say 600 years B. C., this tone ot Jeeling altered. Open tne Book of Wisdom of Solomon, and there is am entire change. The relish jor this lite and 2s good gtiis is passing away, and the good men ure represented not as the ones Who enjoy life most, but as the ones Wuo are at cross purposes with life, and in this time Godis supposed to lavor those who die soonest, Wisdom, he says, 18 equivalent to gray hair and goodness 1s Old age. \ou see this Spirit Ol Visionary asceticism coming in, You all | Know how it is im Obristianity; the Chureh adopts this tone, this world becomes good tor nothing, the other world all in all. A good man gave as evidence of bis goodness that he did not stay in this world. All Christian Jiterature is saddened by this thought. A Christian writer reports as irom an old Greek poet, “Whom the gods love die young.’ My suspicion 1s, the reporter of these Words twisted their meaning. A Christian ‘poet says, “Lhe jess ol this coid world the more of heaven.” Wordsworth makes his rustic sage say, “On, sit, the good die first, and they whose hearts | are ury as sawdust burn to the socket.’? In the present time this spirit of asceticism 1s on the decrease aud the old WHOLESOME PAGAN LOVE OF LIFE is coming 1uto vogue again, We now believe in length of Gays; we try to live long. 1s that senti- ment a blind one! 1t seems to me purely natural. It is a good world; a perfect power made it, a per- ject jove orders it, the Divine love makes it the urn into which 1¢ pours itself, We, theretore, come back to the good old conception that quaity and quantity go together. Let us see how tat May be. ‘Vake the question on a physical plane. That is long life which contorms to the materiil conditions of life. The popular idea is that men live and aie according to some special providence, Now, this is superstition, It an iniant dies there 18 a natural reason. The old Scriptures say that when the Hebrews were about to pass out of Egypt an ange! passed over the land and slew the first born o1 Egypt, sparing the first born of the Hebrews. it could not be so. If the angel did that HE DID IT WITHOUT ORDER: It should be remembered that the people of Egypt had, by thetr mode of lite, law themselves open to pestilence, while the Hebrews, by their simple mode 01 Itle, were unassailable. ‘There must have been some such reason as that. The ange! of death is absolutely impartial; there 1s no exception; the long lie is the healthy one. It used to be thought that in a state of barbarism people lived ionzer than in civilization, Life isa great deal longer under Civilization. Why? Because civilization improves quality, and thatinsures quantity, This | is not yet fully understood; but when this is un- derstood we shall see men and women growing up strong and vigorous, praising God, not that there 18 a@ heaven beyoud, but that the earth is here again, The length of lite depends in sume consideravle degree ou the healthy activity of the brain. The brain is the organ of immortal power, and according to its condition 1s the quality © te man. Ignorance is a foe to longevity. We talk of immortality, that is‘a continuance of lie beyond the grave, Does that word immortality stugest quality or quantity, which? It suggests quality. The early Christians said none are lin- mortal bat the believers, The old pagans said ail but heroes and sages go into a land «i snadows, & land of vacancy. The Christian, improving on this, Says that those Who are not belie Instead | of going down Into this imofensive piace, will go to heiland be burned, J think the pagan idea is ‘ the most cheerful and may be more true. CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (MELROSE), A Grand Festival at the Little German Church and Procession of the Sodality of the Most Blessed Virgin—A Word on Prussianism and Bismarck. Yesterday was a gala day for Catholic Melrose, The church had a dual festival, the first part of which is prescribed by the ritual, being the Feast of the Holy Rosary, and the second a lay feast— the anniversary of the young ladies’ sodality of the ‘Church of the Immaculate Conception. Not branch of the Church celebrates anniversartes with the same ¢cla¢ as the Germans, and the major part of the sodality being of that nationality a observances. Two yeurs ago yesterday a branch of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, which has its ramifications all over the Christian received holy communion at the eight o'clock high mass, which was celebrated by Father Stampf, Pastor of the church. At the seven o'clock mass all the married ladies of the congregation re- ceived communion, aud listeuved to a sermon full of good advice and encouragement irom their pastor, ‘The event of the day was the eignt o'clock | mass, at which the rKodality attenued, Those wlio | have not witnessed it can jorm no idea of the impressiveness of A PROCESSION OF THREE HUNDRED YOUNG GIRLS, | and ranging in dge from thirteen to twenty | years, all clad in white, witn blue ribbons | and sashes, marching with downcast heads to the | solemn music O1 the organ, up the aisle of a | charch upon which all the art of simple adorn- ment has been artistically lavished, ‘Tue last and choicest gilts of Flora had been previously leit at the church, and the good sisters attached tu it | with deit fingers distributed them on the alter, im | the windows and on tue pillars, The rich au- tumnal tints of the follage which decked the church contrasted soitly with the red and golden garments of priests and acolytes, and the whole scene WAS One Of ImpressiVeness, calculated to awaken in the soui & prayer.ul mood—tne hap- piest fickle man experiences. Helore administer- ing the holy particie Father Stumpf delivered a sermon to the young ladies, in which he told them of the duiy they had taken upon them- selves in becoming members of the Sodaitty of tue Blessed Virgin, To them, he said, the members of the church and those outside looked for an ex- apie and an expression of Catholic conduct, and wf ovoth or either were wanting they noc only did | themselves but the Cburch an injury, Many of | them, he said, could do much to incline the enemies of the Churcu to a better understanding oO! her doctrines, and in doing 60 they would reap | that reward which is the object of us ail to obtain. | He congratulated them on the fortuitous cicum- stance oi their birthplace. Here they could exer- | cise unmolested the teachings of the Church, whereas if they were IN GERMANY THEIR LIBERTY WOULD BE CURTAILED and an effort be made to stifle the promptings of their young souls, He said the birthright of veing a German Was a proud one, but the name of | “Prussia”? had become ovious by reason of the enormities perpetrated by Bismarck in its name. — | Atthree o’clock a@ grand vesper was sung, and after service the Key, Father Fredreci, of Six- | teenth street College, received alarge number of | oung ladies into the sodality, ‘These young fais, who have been on probation for some time past, Were attired in the same manner as their | sisters, who received holy communion tn tie morning. Father Fredreci avaited himself of the opportunity afforded to teli the novices of the du- ties they assumed in joining the sodality, He told them that no matter how high a grade of gooduess and grace they might obtain there was | still a higher, and it was only by striving for this | that mortals at last reach the fruition of their hopes, which 1s in the world beyond. ‘fhe young ladies were duly installed as members of the so- ciety, and, with benediction of the holy sacra- ment, the iestival closed, BROADWAY TABERNACLE, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Taylor—“Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.” There was @ very large congregation at the morning services in the Broadway Tabernacle, | Every seat in the gallery was occupled and the pews on the ground floor were all filled. ‘The | pulpit platform was charmingly decorated with flowers as a sort of Cheerful greeting to the pastor, the Rey. Mr. Taylor, who has just returned trom | Europe. The reverend doctor preached the sermon, | He took his text from St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, ti, 2—“For 1 determined not to | know anbything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.” The discourse which the reverend | gentleman sounded on this text was a most elo- quent one, and was listened to with rapt attention by his hearers, He said that all great men were animated by one idea, had one great ambition that absorbed ail minor ambitions. Napoleon Buna- parte desired to be a great conqueror, and to the attaiament of this eud he bent his every energy. It was so with Luther in his determination to crush priestcraft and the superstitions to which it | gave life, It wasso with St. Paul. He did not | content himself with saying that he was resolved | topreaci the doctrines of Jesus Christ, but he | deemed it necessary that he should add, “And him | crucified.” This was his great idea, He could | have referred to the many works of Christ, to the | maniioid blessings he had showered upon man- | kind, to His great miracles, to His veachings; but all these he considered, in his letter to the Co- Tinthians, secondary, 80 to speak, to the iact that the Master had been crucified, It was this great sacrifice that he Was determined to hold up to the | view o1 Christiams—that God had so joved the world that He hud given fis biessed Son as a sacrifice— ‘A SACRIFICE TO REDEEM THE SINNER. and to open unto bim the way of saivation, And AL Was this constant preaching of Christ cruciiied that crowned Paul's labors with success, The | idea tuata man who had died on the cross be- tween two malefectors was worthy of their re- spect and worship Was abhorrent to the proud meu ot that time, and yet Paul, confident of the | strength that God had given him, persisted in preacming Him “crucified.” ‘This was the stum- biing block in the way vf those who at first re- jused 10 be convinced; but it made no difference 10 Paul. His way was clear; lie desired to impress upon the souls of men the great love that had been shown ior sinners by the same crucifixion, | and he hesitated not. The Doctor then went on | to show that in the cross was to be found the true consolation and comtort of the Christian. It | Was @ symbol of love and of mercy—the sign of redemption. It was the emblem o! salvation and @sign of mercy and hope tu the sinner, In tals worid there Was aiways strife and war; and the | sea, the earth, the air were pitiless, Men, in deal: log Out justice to their feilows, were withuut hear yet Christ had, by His death on the cross, extended mercy to the guilty, to the very ones who had the Jeust reason to expect mercy, to souls that were welgted down with sin. He had willing'y taken off the ioad of the sinners, and even though it bad crushed out His very life he gave up that lile freely m order to secure to the sinner his salva- | tion. God had not only extended mercy thus | wonderiully to the sinner by the sacrifice of ms | beluved Son on the cross, but he actually | YEAKNED FOR THE LOVE OF MAN, His mercy was unbounded, and He was always ‘willing to pardon and torgive the greatest oiences ugainst Min, provided the sinner was willing 10 goto him. The love of God, as maniiested by the sacrifice on the cross, filled the leart of man with | @ joy ecstatic, a peace that surpassetn all under- | standing. It changed the darkuess in which the sinner was Wout to grope in‘o light, and made the promptings of couscience, that once tormented im so sorely, to hecome a source of happiness and delight, 16 Was this Christ crucified that was necessary, the Doctor remarked, to stem the tide | of corruption in bigh and low places, to | crush out dishonesty im office and all the evil practices of the day ir private, and | public life, In the light of that sacrifice no sin could remain undetected, 1t was a light that made every word and thought and deed stand | out boldly in its true character. It diifused peace in the domestic circle, It made plain the Way of the mun who wished to do good, and even in places of business it unrew light upon the “smartest? transaction, which no-honest man could mistake. To him who contemplated the cross as the symbol of the great love Christ had for man, and gave heed to the lessons the great sacrifice taugut, there could not be two ways of | doing right, there could be no compromise with wrong. The Doctor argued that tne Christian needed no sacrament, no outward ceremonies, to impress upon his soul Christ crucified. Though the material cross that we saw in churches was a beautiful reminder of the great sacrifice made Jor sinners, yet it Was in our hearts that the cross shouid really be erected and cherished, 1t was by our good uceds and actions that we were to show our love for the cross and for the loving God, Who was 80 good to sinning man, more than by any outward show of devotion. As the Jew at the time of the Passover went about with candice m hand through his house to see that there was no leayen in any part of it, so the love | of Clirist entered into ourhearts and sought to | DRIVE OUP KVERY VESTIGE OF SIN. We should, then, put the cross im the centre of | our lives and consider ita sacriiege to have sin enter where tbe sacred eublem stood, ‘ihe preacher then closed by saying that the cross it us to have charity for oue another, that it taught churches and ministers to set aside their prijudices aud diferences and squabbiings, to have but one idea im commou—the promulgation of Goa’s‘holy word. Being ali sharers in th i | | | demption, we should devote all the energies of our lives to the salvation of our fellow men, mstead of Wasting tiem in vain biekerings about doctrines and sectional distinctions, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, “The Sinner's Relation to Christ.” Yesterday morning Rev. Dr. Hepworth preached an effective sermon on the above subject. The congregation was large and seemea to be deeply impressed with the eloquence of the reverend teacher, Mr. Hepworth's first prayer was not jong, but was a model of lervor, In effect he said:— “O Lord, we have come togetner in Thy name, but without Thy spirit aids us we cannot receive the mercy of Thy blessing. Open Tuou the doors ol our beurts that we can receive Thee In the | chambers as a welcome guest. We have come in our weakness this morning, and we pray for a greater degree of strength, We come before Thee ; recognizing that there is nothing tn ourselves worthy of Thee, but trusting in Thy pity to give | unto our souls @ benediction.” ‘The congregation | then sang the 182d bymn of the “Songs of the ec Nerd the first verse of which was as fol- OWS :— © for a thousand tongues to stn, My dear Rodeemer's praise! The glories of my God and King, ihe triumphs of His grace! Dr Hepworth chose for his text the faith verse | worid, was started in Melrose, and an idea of its success may be formed When it 1s stated that yes- terday 350 yours Jadias, members of the sodality. of the fiteenth chapter of St. Joln’s Gospel—“ror withoutme ye cau do nothing.” When our Lord | Diterad these words. said the preacher, Le was | | ‘The occasion wa | when lost he can lever, never recover 1t. | Jormed man out of the dust of the earth, and into an an ethereal mood; He demanded not a part of the soul. but the whole of it, insisting tbat He was the source of all strength and of ail Dope, whether of the present or future, and of ali happiness, Whether that which we enjoy a8 the result of worldly successes or of that higher order which 1s the logical end of spiritual sell-sacrifice. Even as the branch 1s bound to the vine so the healthy soul | Must be bound to Christ, and the soul 18 lost and dead when severed from Him, as tue branch 1s dead when severed from the vine. Jesus Crist is the living head and tountain of ail strength, happiness and joy. The relation between our- selves and Curist isa very beautiiul oue. In the first place, with all possible solemnity and em- phasis—i! I understand seripture aright—there Is Re hope for any man except that when he receives rom CHRIST HIS LORD. Sin has already overwhelmed us. We are com- pletely subjugated by it—serving tt, doing its biddings and unable to free ourselves from its | thraldom without the aid of the Lord Jesus. Who can estimate the tremendous power of sin? It seems to me, next to omnipotence, there 1s no nook or corner in the human heart or in the physical world where it is not to be tound. It Vhrows its shadows not only in low places, but upon th’ royal robes that hang so gracefully from the shoulders ofa king. There are none who have not been weakened and demoralized by its suble power. Like the union of two elements which in combination make gunpowder, tt throws Into & THOUSAND KAGGED FRINGES man’s hopes, joves @nd aspirations. When he tries to lead a life of virtue ke seems to be drawn back each moment as if by an elastic cord, and every time he seems to yield the cord draws lim backward, until at length, by a supreme effort, he bursts the bond that confines tim and 1s a tree man, througn the pity and love of Christ. cannot suiliciently express our sex to Almighty God because He ha which We may be saved, the bogs and quic! dry jand with our faces turned heavenward, ‘The eloquent preacher then gave a beautisul ple- ture of true iriendship, its joys and divine sympa- thies, illustrating it by saying tuat Jesus Christ arranged a way by Christ drags us {rom | Was our friend out of pity for us and looks down trom His golden battlements cheer our suftering lives, ST, BRIDGET'S ROMAN CATHOLIO CHURCH, The Fitch-Sherman Eridal Party— Father Mooncy on the Loss of the Soul, St. Bridget’s Roman Catholte church, corner of avenue B and Eighth street, was the scene yes- terday morning of such a crush as is rarely wit- nessed even within the walls of a Catholic church, the celebration of a solemn high mass, but the special attraction was the tact that Licutenant and Mrs, Fitch ¢née Sherman) were ex- pected to be present, Lieutenant Fitch was born and brought upia St. Bridget’s parish. It was in St. Bridget’s chureh he received his first commu. nion and in her parochial school the groundwork of his education was lald. As early as ten o'clock the church was crowded, The galleries were crammed and the aisles closely packed. party, but it soon became a problem as to how they were to get to them. About a quarter to eleven o’clock the mother and sister of the groom took their seavs, and the orcbestra struck up the wedding march. A passage way was forced for the bride and groom through the centre aisle, and this was the signal for such a rush to see the young couple as would have disgraced a secular place of amusement. Father Mooney was justly indignant, aud in a few terse and well chosen remarks rebuked those persons who had no re- to sweeten and spect for the house of Goa and who were present | merely to gratify their curiosity. About hali- past eleven the ceremony oi the mass was com- menced. Father Thomas J. Mooney, pastor of the church, Was the celebrant; Father John Lynch, deacon; Father John Kane, of the Cathedral, sub- deacon; and Father John Salter, of the Cathedral, master of ceremonies. Tne mass chosen tor the occasion was that magnificent produc- tion, Mozart's Twelith, and the superb man- ner in which it was rendered will long or remembered by all who had the privilege of hearing it. The choir consisted of Signor G. Guell. organist and director; Mrs. A. Jawarski, soprano; Mrs. Geisdort! and = Mrs. Znuhseh, altos; Signors Adams and Barbens, pat ; Messrs, A. EXkorm and Cannon, Signor G. a, baritone; extra tenor, Signor Lotio. ‘hey were assisted by @ fuli chorus ana the orchestral part of Grafulia’s Band, musical arrangements were periect m every respect. The rich tones of the organ, the clea‘, ringing Voices ul the choir, combined with the im- spiriting strains of the band, poured forth a voiuine of meiody that seemed to thrill even the very Walls of the sanctuary. During the service the choir also rendered the by Handel, ‘The altar was brilliantly Uluminated, | the robes of the oMiciating priests of the most ciegant and elaborate designs, just im- ported from Italy, and the ceremony was most impressive. :’ At the conclusion of the Credo Father Mooney preached on the immortal- ity of the soul, taking his text from the sixteenth chapter of Matthew. discourse, Father Mooney, in a few appropriate remarks, assured the bride and groom, their rela- | tions and friends of their being cordially welcome at St. Bridget’s church, THE SERMON. The text of the sermon was “For what is a man profited if he shall gaiu the whvuie world and lose his own soul, or what Shall a man give in exciange lor his soul.” This my brethren is a question emanating [rom the jips of God Himsel!., God, not only the Creator but the Redeemer 01 tue universe. When Jesus tirst put this question He did not mean it for the Pharisees or the Sadducees alone but He destined it should be written indelibly upon the | minds and engraved upon the souls of men to the end or all time. 1 question is daily, yes hourly, being answered by two clusses, Man has a soul, an immortal soul. ‘That soul he can lose, and this senseless clay he iniused a spirit so beautiul that man was fit to be a companion to God. He endowed the object he created with will, memory and understanding, and these intellectual endow- ments fitted that soul to associate with Him, By the power of Intellect man Can svar into the stars and tell us of worlds millions of miles distant irom our own. Heaven 1s not too high, the lightning flash not to quick for bis intelligence, The depths of the ocean und the treasures uidden there are accessibie to him. All of these things are but evidence of the fact that the soul was created not tor the earth, but for heaven, nd to be @ companion to God. The soul can be lost to heaven, but then it 1s gained to hell. I read then the value 0; man’s immortal soul, not in his achievements here be.ow, bat in the tears of the Saviour, in His drops of blood, in every lash inflicted and in every pang He suffered, So great was the love He bore us that He was not satisfied to pray and weep and suffer for us, but He must lay down His life to save us. If man could only be awakened to a realiza- ton of the importance of this subject, this earth, anstead of being a whirlpool of vice, would be changed into a steady stream of crystal virtue, We must all answer this question sooner or later. Ten thousand worlds are ho comparison in vaine to the worth of one immortal soul. We pamper the body and seek after worldly riches; but once the soul is lost it 18 lost forever and forever. | God has done His part, and now you must do yours. He puts the question to you, and in love and mercy He awaits your answer. Millions upon millions have been swept down to the ocean of eternity, but you are in your own litte bark and can be saved if you but will, Keep tiis question ringing in your ears. O what will It pro- ut you i! you gain all things else aud be plunged into a gulfot eternal woe? May the blessed spirits o1 the saints, who have gone before, and who are now around the throne of tue Saviour, intercede for you! I will cherish the hope that you will this day decide firmly to shun vice and embrace virtue, Follow the cross and climb up it as by Jacob's ladder and enjoy the society of God and the angels, THE BRIDAL PARTY. After the mass was finished the bridal party, which consisted of the bride and groom, Mrs. Fitch, Sr, and the brother of the groom, Mis: Maria Patterson, Miss Lizzie Sherman, Mis: Phillips, Mr. Tpomas Shermi and several other iriehds passed through the vestry of the church to ® pastor's residence, where they were enter- ined for a short tune and received congrataia- tions, Mrs, Fitch was dressed in gray silk, lightly trimmed with black and large black buttons on the polonaise. A black la match the dress, the sombre hues reiieved by a sinali light blue ostrich plume. Gloves'were Worm a shade lighter than the color ot her dress, Our- side of the parsonage an Immense crowd, which the combined efforts of several policemen could scarcely control, nad gathered to catch a parting glimpse Ol the bride and groovin, CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS. Dedication of the School and Unveiling of a Statue, At the Church ofthe Holy Innocents, corner of Thirty-seventh street and Broadway, an immense | concourse of people assembled to witness the | dedication of the free school attached to the church and the unveiling of @ statue of Christ placed in the niche in front of the church. At the ing or thanksgiving, while the Communion indie evening service, which commenced about three | o'clock, Father Preston preached a very eto- quent aod apprepriate dedicatory sermon, The church was thronged almost to suffocation, and an immense crowd filled the stree in the immediate vicinity. Judging from their conversation a considerable proportion of those present were atiracted thither by the announce- ment made in the morning papers that the Lord Mayor of Dublin wouid be present and review the procession. Many sons and daughters of the Green Isle, Who had never seen a real, jive Lord Mayor, | were eager to feast their eyes with what would | in ail probability be their first and jast sight of We | eof gratitude | ands Of unbeliel and sets us OD | Seats had been reserved for the bridal | Indeed, the | dalielujah Chorus,’ | Beiore entering upon his | Goa | e scurt Was thrown care- | lessly around her neck, and her head was adorned | with a black velvet hat, trimmed with gray silk, to | one, but they were all doomed to disappointment, 48 His Lordship failed toappear, At half-past four o'clock the ceremony of dedication commenced, | and as the procession of priests and deacons moved | out of the church, canting the dedicatory service in Latin, the beautitul statue of Christ, which has | been recently imported from Italy, was unvelied. | At this point the eagerness of the crowd | to gev near the procession und have a closer view of the ceremony occasioned much pressing aud some inconvenience, and the poliwemen on duty had as much as they could do to keep the passag | clear, When the ofMiciating priests had move | along the iront of the schoolhouse and turned io finish the ceremony insice 4 rush was made to fol- low them in, and the utmost exertions of the po- lice could not Keep the crowd back. The greate: good humor prevaijed, and no one was injured. | home gentiemen with over sensitive corns and a few ladies with excessively Jong skirts made the | | scene ratner amusing by little exmbitions of tem- | per that only excited the merriment of the crowd, | | Father Larkin eventuatiy succeeded in stopping | the rush by good-numoredly reminding the crowd | that they would miss the fine procession of the socicties that Was about to pass li they Went Inside. AS the dedication ceremony was about over the procession O1 societies moved past, coming from the direction of seventh avenue, It was headed | by ten or twelve marshals on horseback, wearing | the queer cocked hats, with enormous green Jeathers, sashes and other paraphernalia usual on St. Patrick’s Day. First came the Ancient Order o! Hibernians in great numbers, marching behind | | the banner of Division No. 6, Alter them came | | the various temperance and other religious socie- ties, each headed by the large green baxners, | with painted figures, that are carried on the 17th | | Maren. American and Irish flags were also | rried, the Stars and Stripes invariably waving | side by side with the green. Tne principal tem- | perance societies that took part in the pro- ion were the St. Columba’s T. A. B. | Socie St. iael’s, St, Stephen's, | Sty Brancn No. 1 7, A. B., the Parent T. A. B. Society and numerous others. | Several thousand men were in line, and it took nearly ab hour to march past. During the march } pass the band played within the church, the law not allowing bands oi music to parade through the streets on Sunday. The crowd must baye num- bered over twenty thousand persons, and nearly all were Irish, Three or four men went around among the crowd collecting money to pay tlie debt | incurred tn the building of the church and school, and a@ respectable sum was realized, Altogether the affair passed of very creditably, | | the only drawback being the non-appearance of | | the Lord Mayor. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. Installation of the Rev. James Board- man Hawthorne as Pastor. The instaliation of the Rey. James Boardman Hawthorne as pastor of this church yesterday | drew together a large and highly respectable con- | gregation. Divine service was conducted by the | Rev. Baward ‘Lathrop, D. D., now of Stamfora, | Conn, but formerly for more than twenty | years pastor of this church. He was assisted by | the Rey, Dr. Bright, the Rev. Dr. Backus and the | Rey. Dr. Hatt, The choir was under the direccion ot Mr. P. B. Sparks, and consisied o: Mrs. E. Ben- tegeat, soprano; Mrs. P. B, Sparks, alto; Mr. W. Radley, tenor, and Mr. Harvey Mitchell, bass+ ‘The opening anthem was the *Benedic anima,” | frem Mosenthal’s mass in D. ‘This was followed by | Mosenthal’s “Gloria”? No, 3, in E flat, to Novelio’s | “fear me O Lord.” The floral decorations were | In excelient taste. | | ‘he Rey. Edward Lathrop, D. D., preached an eloquent sermon on “Tbe Power of the Gospel,’ | ting his text fromthe Second Book of Kings, 1l., 19-22. At the close of his discourse he de- livered the Bible to the new pastor, which he char- acterized as “the sword of the Spirit,” and then | extended to him the right hand o¢ iellowship. ; ‘Tne Rev. Mr. Hawthorue replied as follow: 4 cordially thank you, my brother, for your warm greeting and for your expressions of kindly sympathy with me in the labors upon which I aim | about to enter. Having occupied this post for | twenty years, and being endeared to the people by ties 80 many and so sacred, I know that you a deep interest in their welfare; and when in- jormed by the Pulpit Committee that you had | consented to be present to-day and take the jead- | ing ;art im these services, | felt that my joy in meeting you would not be less than that of the church and community, Through the first four or tive years of my ministry I was biessed with the | take the words of ¢ dally counsel Of a venerable father, who, for more than fiity years, has heralded to a perisning world | the story of ‘redeeming love. Now we are Separated. His work is done. War worn, batue- | red and helpless, he sits by the margin of the | inky stream, and tn’ all the serenity of triumphant faith, waiting for the Master to cail hia home to | his reward on the other shore. In nis absence | noting 1s more grateiul to my feelings than whe | advice ana benedictions of those who, like him, | have had long experience in the holy work vo which I trust A VOICE DIVINE HAS CALLED ME. Tcome among you, my bretnren, at a time when the Ark of God 18 being subjected to some or the mightiest assaults of which Satanic power 13 capable, | doubt deeper far and darker than ever swelled against her before, a current strong in learning, rested with genius, fearful but calm in its prog- s.?_ The vld desperadoes of infidelity, the tollow- | But there are the misguidea disciples of Carlyle | | and Emerson, and the army o! Material: led by Darwin and Tyndall, Wo teach that there ts that that | nothing in this vast universe but matte | there 18 no God, no soul, no spirit realm; | nan, having “sprang from bats and bugs and poles, has no pre-eminence over the beast.”? Their hame is Legion and their purposes are various, ; but in this they are agreed—that Christianity | must go down bejore advancing civrization. | | Great and good men in the Church are filled with | | fear, They think that we shall have a tidal wave of infidelity, apostaey and corruption—one that | snail sweep the nations irom shore to shore and | leave utter desolation in its track. | pathize with that feeling, THE WORLD 1S NOT GOING BACKWARD. God's plans cannot possibiy tail, The continued progress of Christianity 1s tixetl by the immutabie Juws of Jehovah, and the day approaches when His | triumph spall pe compiete. ‘To preach the glorious | Gospel of the Son of God is an honor which an archangel might afford to covet. Butitis a task | | notless solemn and awful than that of sounding | the trampec wien siiall wake the dead, I some- | times stand bewildered between a conviction of | obligation and a sense of insuMiciency. With one | breath I feel lke exclaiming, Wo unto me if [ | preach not the Gospel!’ and with the next, “Who | | 1s suiiicient for these things’? In the prosecution of tis sacred and momentous | 1 do not sym- | commission the presence and blessing oi those | Woo ere bearing the same burdens and fighting | the same battles make me “thank God and | | take courage.’ Wherever the glorious Gospel 1s | preached by men of simple faith, men calied of God, and whose lips are touched with the heavenly fire, it will not fail to melt the heart and mould the secret soul. Whenever I shall so far forget | | my allegiance to Christ and the dignity of the pul- | | pit as to drag into these sacred precincts the | business of party politics or anything else that belongs not to the Gospel, ‘may my tongue cleave tothe roof of my mouth.” With all my heart 1 believe the Bible to be the Word of God. To me Every line is full of light; every word Bedewed with drops of love divine, And with the eterual heraldry and Signature of God Almighty stamped From first to last. If this be your faith, my brethren, {t will be a joy | forus to labor togetuer, and by the blessing of God we shall rear here to lis glory a spiritual edifice that shall fill this community with the light | and veauty 01 saivation, 8T, MARKS OURCH, | sistance to themselves. There ts coming on her “a current of | | ers of Voltaire and Tom Pame are aimost extinct. | cv ey bread and wine are not dead symbols merely, bus they typify to our outward senses @ spiritval par. ticipation {n the benefits of Christ’s death. ‘The Janguage of St. Paul is not to be taken literally or in a carnal sense; but by partaking of the bread | and wine, by faith and in love we are brought into communion with the Lord Jesus, and thus we spirituaily feed upon Him. We can, said the divine, confidently believe on the authority of the Lord himself and of His aposties that there is a presence, @ real presence in the ordinance of His dying love, for there is not only no geod reason why we should hesitate to use the words “reat presence,” but they are just the words to express the true concepuon of the Lord's Supper, a8 op- 1 to the RSTITIONS AND TEACHINGS OF THE ROMAN- ISTS. The Council of Trent tn its thirteenth session de. creed thut “By the consecration of the bread and Wine a conversion is mage of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His biood. which conversion is by the Hely Catholic Chureh suite ably und properly called Transubstantiation,’? while in the vate im the Council published, it is said :—"in this Sacrament are contained not only the true body of Christ, and whatever appertains to the true nature of a body, such as bones and nerves, but also Christ whole and entire.” Rome asserts that the suvstance of the elements ts changed, allowing and adirming in other places that the species or appearances, what she calls the accidents of bread ‘and wine, such as taste, color, size, » still remain after consecration. Dr. | serts his belief in @ true, real, substantial sacramental presence of our Lord and-His flesh in the Euciarise; the very flesh which was born of the Virgin Mary, bab which is now glorified in heavet. while his fol- lowers on this side of the Atlante tirough the lips of a leader affirm their faith inthe real, ace tual presence of our Lord under the form of bread and wine upon the altars of our which Jaith 18 symbolized and thus taught to multitudes: of ignorant, credulous people in the advanced ritual which already flourishes around us, and which 18 80 pieasing to persons of a sickly senti- mental tone of religious jeeling, We mist not st to His disciples when He reclined with them round the rable of the passover in aliteralsense. Men cannot change by a word or a gesture a wheaten wafer into the complete body of our Lord Jesus, St. Paul says that the rock whose stream followed the israelite into the desert was Christ Did he speak literally or figuratively? All scholars of all schools say the latter, and if the apostle spoke in a figure why not the Divine Master. Christ himself supplied a key to the true interpretation of the passage waen He spoke Of himself as THE LIVING BREAD, which He would give jor the life of the world, and When He said that bread was his own body some were offended, but as i to correct the mistake they labored under, the Saviour added, “It is the spirit that quickened,” or maketu alive, the flesh profitetn nothing. Let us take this holy sacrament. to our comfort, assured that the Saviour will meet us in His own appointment, and that He will make the visible sim a seal of our ward and spiritual Brace) and fil us with joy unspeakable and full of glory. SHILOH CHURCE. Rev. Henry Highiand Garnet on the Persecution of the Colored People in tho South. The Rev. Henry Uighland Garnet spoke last evening, atthe Shiloh church, in Sixth avenue, upon the persecutions of the colored people in the South to a crowded audience. He took for his text, or ‘sentiment,’ as he termed it, the fifty- ninth chapter of Isaiah. The reverend gentleman said :—After the war of the rebellion was over and the sacrifice of treasure and of biood bad been made, it was hardly tobe hoped that the nation would find immediate repose. But all hoped for peace and that hope has proven delusive. The folly of the people who made the rebellion Suil crops out, and they believe they are not yeu’ conquered, but that the Southern heart shall again. be fired, and that there can be a return to the old order of things—tnat slavery shall be restored practically, and that they shall secure their separ- ation, The old idea of these people was, by any Way they could, to perpetuate human bondage. That attempt has been abortive. They succeeded to some extent. They intended to divide the country, to rob the arsenals and to make slavery secure and perpetual. They were smitten by the Strong arm of an outraged people and by the wrath of God. They brourht about a double re- Their first Intention was to divide the Union. They had aroused the friends o! God and humanity, aud even men in the South Were glad to meet this enemy of God forever. Some others were undisturbed in the enjoyment ot their comforts—they cared not what hap- pened to others, and when the voice of the Almighty came and said, ‘Where 1s thy brother they answered, “Are we our brotuer’s keeper?” They were prosperous and cared not what hap- pened. Some loved the Union more than they did their God. To talk to them of destroying the Union was the one thing they couwid not brook. Seward said there was a Higher Power than that o1 the law and the constitution, which was God, and a storm of obloquy and derision was launched athim., But all these saw that they must meet the enemy, and a defeat more overwhelming than that of the men who endeavored to destroy the Union never took place. The second subject to consider is the present | of the diMenity. | Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Rylancem‘The | Real Presence.” The minister took his text from I. Corinthians, | Xi, 16—“The cup of blessing, which we biess, is It not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the | commanion ot the body of Christ?” I seldom, said | the pastor, turn aside from the line of positive | | Christian teaching to discuss m the pulpit suo: | jects of a distinctly polemical character, and never | | in a narrow, intolerant spirit. Error, asa rule, is | not effectively combated by asserting and vindl- cating positive truth, Bat the truth which a Christian minister is set to teach, is so manifold | and vast and many sided, that allowance should | | be made, not only in charity but in | Justice. Tne essential articles of the creed of Christianity are comparatively few | to which individual teachers and schools may add | their peculiar speculation and theories; but these | are never to be imposed as of divine obligation, nor accepted with any higher feeling than one of | fairness and respect to their defenders, individ. | | uais being at hberty to accept or reject them, ac- | cording to their Inherent probability or the Weigut ol evidence brought to sustain them, THE EUCHARIST, ‘The word “fucharist” means a service of bless- | cates the fellowship between Christian believers | mutually and between them and the Saviour, of which the Lord’s Supper is the visible wituess and | bong. The simple fact that this ordinance was | instituted and ordained in memory of Him as oar | sacrifice, to be observed through all the after gen. | erations of His followers, 18 enough to assure us | that He will be present in or through % im some way with those who thas show forth | Hisdeath. It isvery empuatically & memorial, | remembrance of the tramsactions of on dnd | and death, as we are taught in His go | tender injunction, “This do in remembrance of than an ow |.me," but it was meant to be mo ward sign; It is also a seal on our agaurance of | enildren study with his, | paid tim boid attempt of the revels to subjugate the colored people, and if they Jail they are determinea to murder and ostracize their white friends, and [am surprised to see some white people here in the | North scare these men who have gone south and attempted to lift up the colored man. But the Northern rebel ts too civilized ever to speak of mur- der. They have amore refined way about it, and they Say extirpate the negro. This 1s their solution 1 say these people had better take care Of themselves and leave the negro alone. li a morning paper can be believed an emiment Jawyer, a man of great talent, a fine jurist and an author, recently gave some ol lis opinions on the subject. The last work I remember his publishing | Was to prove that siavery was a divine tastitution, and he found quotations to prove his grounds im the Book of God. This man ts besides an enughtened CHRISTIAN OF A CERTAIN KIND, He says the negro must be extirpated as you do a weed which is plucked up by the roots, Tam too just to do as the white men often do, blame a whole race tor the fault of one of tts member: and Ido not hold the white man responsible for these opinions. ‘1his bloody idea ts not American, Which makes the cheek mantle with shame. Itis not French, nor German, nor Italtan, nor Spanish, nor Engiish, nor Scotch, nor Welsh, and it is not Irish, for hundreds of thousands of Irishmen repadiate such a thought, though the man is an Irishman who pronounced it. 10 18 malevolence at variance with all Christian religion. It is devilish, diabolical—in one word, itis O’Connorism. It rankles of the bicody spirit of 1863, when men were murdered in the streets of New York. Extirpate the negro! it cannot be done, because God and ali His angels staud by us, and When We have them it isenough, I say this idea is devilish, for men do not know that they are fanning the flame ot bloodshed in the South, Thank God it was not a Southerner who uttered these words, Jor it takes a Northern man to do the dirtiest Work of slavery. A Northern man who does tela has a double face, and if you Mipped a cent at him it would stic! If we had been disloyal we should have deserved the con- tempt of all honest men, but to a man we stood by the side of the defenders of the Union and the liberators of our race, lt was said we were UNFIT TO HAVE THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, but this v because we have stood by the loyal people of the country with our votes, and this is another reason why they desire us to be extir- pated. If we had thrown our votes with the other side this persecution would not have come down upon us. Ii we try to learn, they try to muraer our teachers and fnen say we are ignorant; and we raise ourselves, they say we are trying to level social distinctions, But between siavery and extirpation, give me the latter, The reverend gentleman then went on to argue | the Civil Rights bil, and said that he did not think the clause as to colored people having the same Tights as,the whites while travelling and tn hotels, &C., of avy consequence, because the soctal level would always right itsell; and as for learning in schools together, that was not necessary as long as the money was given properly to tne colored people to run their schools. He was Just as op- | posed to mis children studying with the children of some White men as they could be to having their ile thought the question of the persecutions in the South could be settled by the colored people moving away irom Georgia, Ten- nessee and Louisiana where they were persecuted to other States where land was cheap, and they would be welcomed. It would be the best retribu- tio upon those who persecuted them, and they Would starve to death without negro help, tor the | Irish and Germans would not work for tie wages o! the negro, THE OZAR AND THE POPE, [From the Nord, of Brussels, Sept. 24.) ‘The Weiner Presse asserts that some months ago the Emperor William caused inquiries to be made at the Vatican as to whether he could count upon an amicadle reception by the Pope in case he should carry out bis project of going to Rome, and should » Pius IX, Gnderstood tg have replied. that no aout vo happy to receive the visit of his Majesty, but that he regretted that ‘his situation would not aliow to give his {linstrious guest so brilliant a re- aa his A eg red gave to the Emperor in i” the Holy Father is said to have added hie letter thas he recommended the Niaesty. We A e bhat to the protection of his are justified in __bdelievin our into error, contemporary has been le Cabinet of Beritn and the Vatican are of a nature The rejations which exist between the voremder any euch proceeding impossible. Be- sides, it hi Jiways een understood that if His Majesty's th enabled him to return the visit ne King Victor Emmanuel he would Theet the latter at Milan and wouid not go bevond outward grace to ail who worthily receive it, The that city,