The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1874, Page 5

IMMORTALITY ——_—e———— Sacred Utterances from the | Congregated Bishops. soles ebetae THE SALVATION OF SOULS. Almost Christians---The Holy Spirit---Mis- sionary Work a Duty, HOME LIFE AND SPIRITUAL CULTURE, CHURCH OP THE TRANSFIGURATION. Sermon by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, England—The Salvation of Souls. ‘There was a very large und fashionable congre- gation in attendance at the morning service of this church yesterday, The'sermon was delivered by Bishop Selwyn, Lord Bishop of the Church of England, Lichfield, England. From his text the preacher drew some wholesome lessons, He al- Juded to the Episcopal Convention which was being held in this city, and spoke of its importance ima Christian point of view. Yet tt and every convention of the kind would be of no advantage ‘to the Church unless all engaged in it and those ‘who had the welfare of the Christian religion at heart went to work earnestly to bring souls to Jesus, The precious blood of Christ was shed for the salvation of all mankind, not for any particular class, and it was tne bounden duty of every one, who was so blessed as to know ‘What the Christian religion was and who enjoyed its comforts and saving influences, to do every- thing in his power to bring the knowledge of the Word of God to those who were not so blessed. There were thousands in our very midst who stood in need of the-assistance of Christians who could give light where all was now darkness, It Was not necessary to go into distant lands to find good soil, where THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL once planted would sprout up and grow luxu- riantly. The drunkard who: reeled by our door- steps and the profigates who revelled in the grati- fication of their vile passions like the swine in the mire of tue valley, the men who by false dealings, by tricks in trade, injured the honest and well meaning, the worldly, all were subjects which should prove an _ incen- tive for the thorough Christian to work Jor their salvation, Everybody aiter his own Jashion could do some good by earnestly striving to bring ‘to Jesus the wanderers irom vhe true path, All the sermons that were preached in all the churches were but the means to spur on the good work of the Christian who wished to oring otaers to salva- tion: but in the active work of the Christian among those who stood in need of grace lay the Teal strengtn ai those who sought to bring their fellow men to Jesus. Even in our very house- nolda did this work often find an ample field ; for the thought sbould oiten impress itself upon the mind of the Wife that she had a husband to save, ‘and upon the mind of the husband that he had a wile tosave. The parents of the Jewisu children vrought them to Jesus that He might touch them and thus sanctily them; and we, like them, should seek out those who were in need of Christian com- Jort and bring them to Jesus that they might see the error o! their ways and repent of their trans- @ressiovs and become TRUE FOLLOWERS OF THE MASTER, As Christ died ior all those who enjoyed the happi- ness of being Christians, as He had taken upon Himeelf the burden of tne sins of the entire wocid, how could His toliowers stand idly by while souis as precious in the sight of Gou as theirs were grop- ing iu darkness? ‘here were ties in religion stronger than ties of blood. They were the apicitual ties which bound souls together, earnestly for the worldly weliare of those who ‘were bound to them by (uinily relationship, braved dangers jor them, suttered for them, and.at times died for their sakes, how much more should men, bound together by a spiritual relationship, work earnestly tor each other’s eternal welfarey The reverend gentleman said he had heard of the great number 01 persons who every week came to this country to make their homes in the distant West. Many of them who came out thought but little of ‘their eternal salvation, and if allowed to go to regions where the visita of the ministers of God ‘were like the VISITS UF THE ANGELS, dew and far between, even those who had had the seed oO! laith planted in their hearts might jose all the benefit of the knowledge they had received, and u®imately become lost to religion. Here was an ample field jor the active Curistain. These emigrants could be visited on their landing on our shores, and they would be touched to the heart at finding utter strangers taking an interest in thetr souls, and the work of salvation would meet with dittie, it any, obstacle. So, too, the good work could gO on among the thousands Of strangers ‘who visit this city. They should be sougnt out and invited to attend the services on the Sabbath day in the church, and warmly welcomed when they came. We snould, in our humble way, every one of us, do something during our life to bring at Jeast one soul to Jesus; and if we all resolved to do this, and would work faithiully to accom- lish 1t, the blessing of the Lord would follow hem beyond the grave. Noone should go before the Lord empty handed, and we should strive to do good for others’ salvation, so that finally when we were summoned before the Judgment seat we should be met each by loving ones, whose salva- tion we bad worked for, and who would stuna be- fore God witnesses of our good work on earth, CHRIST CHURCH. Dr. De Koven on the Universal Call to Salvation. Christ church was, as usual, crowded with a fashionable audience yesterday, and Mr. Pearce, the organist, dealt forth some exquisite music with his splendid choir. The preacher of the morning ‘was the Kev. Dr. De Koven, of Wisconsin. This is ‘the gentleman who was recently elected Bishop of Wisconsin by one vote and whom the laity threw out. he reverena Doctor 1s somewhat obscure in his method of preaching, and indistinct by reason of the rapidity with which he speaXs. He took his text irom St. Paul's Epistie to the Ephesians, iv., 1—'‘l therefore, the prisoner of the Lora, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.” He said, Paul had been bound with a chain when in prison, and the chain clanked and the soldier that guarded im was aroused. But he cailed himself here not the prisoner of man, but the prisoner of the Lord, The words of the great cpostie here Tecail those of the Saviour, when he says, “1 take ye,” &c, But here the question of the vocation of the soul comes to Us, WherewWith we are called. We are ordered to love God and one anotuer, so that we may be worthy of that glorious liberty Which is promised us and which will take us into ‘the jellowship of Jesus Christ. it 1s encouraging to us to Know that we are all called through the obtaining of cur Lord Jesus Uhrist. us to other things and to evil ways. cation 18 no partial vocation, Jor we are toid to wreach the Gospel to every man, and the meaning of Christ Was that every man sitould benedt by 16 and that all should be saved if they so pleased themselves. The Gospel of Onrist receives many persecutions and is not believed in by all; but there it is, and men are sent into the world ani- mated by His Spirit to save souls and redeem them trom moral darkness, We all have equal vocations, and the thing He speaks of ts for all Chnstians, The Bible is the same to allot us, Wihioso believeth snali be saved, said the Lord, and | THE PATH TO A BETTER LIP is closed to no ltving being, itis true that we are between two fires; on one stile God's com- mandments calling on us to repent, and on the other our own weak nature, which breaks down at all times to che slightest temptauons, There 1s no call unaccompanied by grace to heip us carry it out, We mast not rely on our own strengtu, but On the strength of the Lord, who sends as the call. One has His grees cote tn, 008. wat, and another in another, The handiwork of the Lord is shown througnont, and we are really without excuse if We break down in our attempts to a better life. External uw ture speaks Of the true existence of God, even of the pring ods and we can have no donbt vecause we sce Him not. It is not hard to understand the Word of God; and, spite of ali, His Word is not listened to. Vain are the words of him who speaks if he be not listened to; vain ts eloquence, vain are allearthly gifts, if we near not the blessed words of praise. Grace accompantes the Word of God. in the most comfortable sacra- Ment of the Holy Communion there is bovn union and grace, in which we know Christ craciiivd— not the putting away of God, bub the taking; lor We know the words, “Wno does not cat my flesh and drink my blood cannot be saved,” The mission of the Holy Ghost 1s not to supply Ghrist’s absence, but to accomplish his presence, It is the same image OF glory to glory, and in itis ‘the spirit of the Lord. The words ‘earth to earth, dust to dust” are solemn ones, but we do not realize them until we find the blank 10 the house- hold, Sometimes we hear the voice of the loved one gone. The sun snines over hill, field and grove, and all ts beautiful. [lit up mine eves and my hands, and in the midst of the giory and the pissing I see the last shadows of the day and the harvest that is being taken in and the shadows darken; the sun disappears over the glorious, bright cioud land and bids goodby to earth in a Jast tender tint, and a voice sounas, “Why stand | ye all the day idic?” And then stars take their Places in the if men strove | We must com. | bat our poor weak flesh, which 18 abyays leading | And our vo- | | ruler tu the grossness of their faith. | Seek Signs and Wonders and show the barrenness | | NEW YORK HERALD, but the night grows darker, and 1 walk in the hight of the fire | nave kindled, and at midnight the sound comes, “#ehold, the bridegroom cometh!” Let us go forth with our lamps trimmed and take partin the good fight, and when when fnaily ail 18 over and the hour of final peace sounds, when we die, let us go into the long rest Wiich the Lord hath provided for us, CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY BEST. Sermon by Bishop Stevens, of Pennsyl- vania, on “Almost” Christian ‘The Church of the Heavenly Rest, Fifth avenue, above Forty-filtn street, was crowded yesterday morning with a fashionable congregation thoroughly representative of the residents of the avenue, The Right Rev. W. Bacon Stevens, D. D., Bishop of Pennsylvania preached in the moruing, taking hia text irom the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts, twenty-elghth verse—‘Then Agrippa said unto Paul, almost thon persui tj me to be a Coristian.”” The character o1 St. Paul was moraily asublime one. In both phases of bis career he was a noted man. On the one band ag @ bitter, untiring peraecutor, on the other a8 a nobie preacher in the cause of Christ, Wherever he was and whenever he spoke he had but one theme— Jesus Onrist and Him crucified. There in the midst of royalty and power and wealth stood Paul, the Jew prisoner, solitary and manacied, & sentinel keeping guard over him. He, A DISCIPLE OF THE DESPISED NAZARENE, stood tnere to speak for himself and Jesus, and s0 well did he perform this duty that his words roused into action the torpid conscience of the young monarch, and crying out in the agony of uncertarnty, “Almost thou persuadest me to be & Christian.” It was under these circumstances that the words of my text were first uttered. Now there are multitudes er aes in the world who are almost Christians, and they are divided Into vartous classes. * ‘The first that I shall notice ig the intelligent, thougntiul portion of the com- munity who are theoretically beijevers. Religion comes so strongly iortitied that only a few wil- fully deluded men reject the Scriptures. But, alas! the belief in precepts and the practice of them are too irequently disjointed. 1s it not strange that truths so vilal to the welfare of the soul should, tf believed at all, be so olten unaccom- anied by the practice of them? Iv is not the case in regard to temporal affairs; then why should it be soin regara to spiritual? It religion were a mere matter of intellect these theoretical be- hevers would be saved, But itis not; tt is @ mat- ter of the heart as well, We are saved not omy by a belie! in soe Si but by belief in Christ and by accepting Him aa our personal Saviour, Then we have that class who are intellectually and morally convinced but who hesitate to connect themselves by any decided act of faith. They attend divine service, lead moral lives, but they only skirt the margin of the eternal kinguom, and jail to plant their Jeet upon the Rock of Ages. So long, then, as they {ail to take this decisive final step they are ONLY ALMOST CHRISTIANS, Then we have the ciass who let some one thing interfere with their soul’s salvation, like the young man who had kept the law from his youth, but when told by our Saviour to go and sell all he had and take up his cross he went away sorrowing, for he was.of great sessions. Then we have the C1ass illustrated by tle parable of the foolish vir- gins, who allow the absence of some grace or qua!- ity to interiere with this all-important action. ‘fhe ou, tn the parable, represents the renewal of the sacraments and the constant watchfalness neces- sary in the inner itfe. The condition of the almost Christian is peculiarly dangerous and terrible, ior God has said, “Unto wnom much 1s given much wiil be required,” and the sinner will be judged and punished 1n proportion to the light which has been offered him. ‘Tne Bishop concluded his dis- course with a fervent exhortation to his hearers not to delay to take that prompt action and final step necessary to imsure salvation, In the eve- ning the pulpit was filled by the Right Rev. W. O. Doane, D. D., Bishop of Albany. 8T, STEPHEN’S CHURCH, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. ‘McGlynn—An Appeal in Aid of St. Joseph’s Semi- nary, Troy, N. Y. A large and respectable congregation assembled in St. Stephen’s church yesterday morning at the high mass, which was celebrated by the Rev. Father Fox, 0. SF. After the first gospel, the Rev. Dr. McGlynn having announced that a ladies’ fair, to help to deiray the debt of the church, would open in the basement hall of St. Stephen’s on the 20th inst., deiivered an eloquent appeal in aid of the Provincial Seminary, at Troy, N.Y. He spoke in feeling terms of the vastness ofthe harvest in this country and the fewness of the reapers. The discourse was listened to with the attention which the pastor of St. Stepben’s always commands. The following is a synopsis of THE SERMON. It 18 not only a duty, but a high privilege for the laithful to have a share in the grand and novile work of educating young men for the priesthood. In the institation of the sacraments and in the establishment of a mlistry to confer them Christ plainly points out His plan for the redemption of man; and it is the privilege of the laity to help tne periection of that plan by contributing to the establishment and support of seminaries tn which the young Levites of the New Law may acquire ecclesiastical knowledge and form those habits of virtue so necessary for the conversion and the edification of the world. In presenting St. Joseph’s Seminary, at Troy, as entitled to your most liberal support, | would direct your attention to the cry- mg Want Of more priests in this great city and diocese. If your jJaith be a_ living jaith you will not hesitate to contribute With a generous hand to the education of candi- dates for the priesthood. If you really believe } that the sacraments are the channels of God's grace, and that the blood of Jesus flows as eill- caciously through them as it did from the wounds | in His sacred hands and feet on the cross, you will need no appeal to support the institution in which those, “who bave been called as Aaron” are trained in the paths of virtue and qualified to Act as ministers of those sacraments. You should remember that you are but the stewards of all of this world’s wealth that you possess, and that the Master will call you to a strict account of how you bave administered the trust. You might well take a lesson from our separated brethren, who support their theo- jogical seminaries with no niggard hand and en- dow them with PRINCBLY MUNIFICENCE, if Catholics would imitate their good example we would 500n have not only a suMcient numver Ol priests in this archdiocese, but we could sup- port nome missions, and even send apostles to preach the truth and show the light to those “who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.” In to-day’s gospel we read of the ruler who had travelled from Cypernaum, a city on the western shore of the Lake of Galilee, to Cana, for the pur- pose of asking Jesus ‘to come down and heal nis son. who was sick at Capernaum.” This man’s faith was at first imperiect, for our Saviour ad- dresses him as one of a class who always looked for signs and wonders and yet did not believe tne more when these were wrought It was characteristic of the Jews to ask for Signs, Such wonders they sought eagerly, artly through curiosity, partly through am- nition to appear to strangers as the favored people of God; not with a view to repent- ance and conversion. The ruler’s faith was gross, but When his son was miraculously cured we are told that he and bis whole house (family) believed, Catholics who do bot perform their duty in work- ing out the divine plan of redemption by helping to educate ministers for God’s altar and tor the ad- mintstration of His sacraments, are not unlike the They, too, of their faith in their reluctance to contrinnte. to the support of these institutions, which the Church, under the Divine guidance, has estaplished as nurseries of her priesthood, Let your contri- butions to-day show the fruitfulness of your faith in God’s plan of teaching and redeeming through the ministry of His priesthood. LYRIO HALL, Mr. Frothingham on the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life. The congregation was as large as usual at Lyric | Hall yesterday Morning. The platform was very prettily decorated with flowers, and a large basket of brilliant autamn leaves occupied one | Mr. Frothingham read selections frum the | side, Persian, the Turkish, the Hebrew, and Hindoo scriptures and from the Bidle, After the hymn had beem sung he said:—‘l believe in the Holy Ghost, Jord and giver of life.” I take these words from the ancient creed of the Church, The whole article reads, “I believe in the Holy Ghost, lord and giver of life, who proceeded from Father and Son, who with the Father and Son together is worshipped and glorified.” What 1s méant by these words Holy Ghost, 18 Holy Spirit. They both mean the same tting—breath—moving air, the most impalpable, fine, Uilusive thing we know, so subtle and illusive that it seems to disappear the moment we try to apprehend tt by the senses. The early Christians, with a view of making this subtle spirit tangible, made it a person and associated it with the inf- nite God, with the redeemed Saviout, so that the moment’ they thought of these eternal persons they thought of tnis also. They would arrest it and make tta working power, and {believe the men who constructed that creed were in- Nuenced by no dogmatic spirit, but had a@mpie end in view to make periectly definite arm sin. cere to the apprehensions of people the fact that there Was a universal Spirit of Lise in the world, If those men bad lived to-day, I think they cause there 18 more Knowleage now. it may seem @b audacious thing to say, but sav it ip all sin- | cerity, To my mind thé true successors of these | men are Huxley, Tyndall, Darwin and Spencer, the men who have constructed and are enlorcing what is called the hypothesis of evolution, have the same aim that these people bad. are aiming to bring to tangible orm the fact th: there is au all-pervading Spirit of Life, They don’t make a person of it. ‘They are careful of wnat they say. ‘They won't even speak the word God with any definiteness, The words force, and Jew, are too definite. Of these they know nothing. They know there is a breath, a spirit, subtie, trae, pure and holy, which pervades this world. The name they are TOO REVERENT TO GIVE. Now, it seems to me that this evolution hypoth sig should do the same thing ior us that that arti- cle I have quoted did for the ancients. It should make tos Holy spirit, lora and giver of hie real thing to us. See how by ths evolution pothesis the Spirit of Life is & real thing in 1 world, It pan everybody in organic relations with this Spirit. The “man who wrote that ors velieved that only Ohristiang could tuat Spirit of Lite, We believe no matter to what nation or tribe they may belong; without the least regard to the theories heid, the mere fact of being @ con- stituted being entitles them to partnersmp; and anovher thing, this Holy Spirit, lord and giver of life, makes the whole universe one. Now what I want to dous to interpret this great article of our modern taith. Take the words as they stand in the ancient creed, “I believe im the Holy Ghost, lord and giver of life,” 1 would translate them into modern spirit and thought. Spirit, I have said, is breath. Jesus, talking with Nicodemus about people born of the Spirit, said :— “Why do you question the wind? ho can tell from whence it comes or whither it goeth?” So Jesus, you see, can only define this spirit as a breath. The atmosphere encircles the globe, pure, dresh and elastic, Itis the fairest sree of this spirit. Without it where should we be? Another symbol of spirit, universally recognized, is light. God, says the apostie Jonn, is light. Tms lignt ts nothing; itisa iorm of motion, and yet see what it does. It is the Holy Spirit of Lie, and we are continually, in all our daily hie, coufessin: our faitn in it. ‘This is the creed men an women ought to profess, hecause to disbelieve that is the sin against the Holy Ghost—that ts part of a sin never forgiven. Be an atheist, if you will; let the so-called Holy Scriptures go trom your reading. Do that, and yuu can be saved. But to disbelieve in this Holy Spirit, lord ana giver of Iie, 18 the sin you wil never be forgiven in this world or the world to come. PLYMOUTH OHUROE. Sermon by Mr. Beecher on Immortality— The World a Chrysanthemum World— What the Man Did Who Sat Down on a Thorn. There was@ smalier congregation outside Ply- mouth church yesterday than on the previous Sun- day. Better system was adopted by the police and ushers, which result 2d in better order among those who were unable to gain seats. There was a large number of strangers present at the morning ser- vices, including many of the clergy who are dele- gates to the Episcopal Convention, now sitting in New York, and also two distinguished English- men—viz., Right Hon. W. £. Forster, M. P. for Bradiord, England, and a member of the last Enghsh Cabinet, and also Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. These two latter gentlemen expressed their desire to be introduced to Mr. Beecher, who, at the close of the service, warmly shook them by the hand, and they engaged in @ few minutes’ conversation. THE SERMON, The subject of Mr. Beecher’s sermon was ‘Im- mortality,” and was founded on the text selected from Hebrews, iv., 9—‘There remaineth, there- fore, a rest to the people of God.” The belief in immortality, said Mr, Beecher, was the hope, the individual aspiration of the Jews, rather than am announced doctrine. it is nowhere im- Pileltly taught in tne Old Testament; it formed no part of the Mosaic economy. All the threats and promises that were made in the older era were secular. Yet we discern perceptibly, in the nobler and moral natares, a seeking after a continued lite, or a life that was everlasting. The enunciation of this truth be- longs to the divinest stage of the Jewish life. This expectation has grown to what may be called a universal certainty. This expectation of another lie has not vanisbed asa shadow; it is a founda- tion that is something better than an apparition; itis found with men, even with men in a savage state. This fact does not, I am aware, prove the existence of another state of being, or of immor- tality. Ido not think that the desire is evidence or presumption of the thing desired, but there is proof of its existence in widening circles; in other words {t is the testimony of the conciousness of man, and of what man uDiversally needs. Judged by the signs which belong to it it completes what seems to overshadow the existence of man. The worid seems, after all, a Kind of chrysanthemum world, The chrysanthemum begins to grow in summer and shows its buds in October, and then needs to be taken care of, or put tuto the green- house or to be kept over somehow, so that it may thereby come into a state of beauty in the autumn. It has not enough life in 1t without the atd of these warmer helps. It is thus in civilized society. Men do not reach a development of perfection; man’s nature 18 not in itself periect. Tne love in hig nature 1s but an indication of something better, whitch he is but perfecting in this lite, for the race 18, at the best, Certainly imperfect. Do not all these indications prophesy—I do not say do they demonstrate—but do they not furnisp such a Sulisfaction to che rational faculty as to give confldertce to the production of a conviction in mau? Men who are low want but little of the fu- ture—they want but little more than that which is merely animal. But in a state of real develop- ment comes the consciousness of our whole and complete manhood. ‘The sense of incompleteness is never more strongly developed than in the de- cisions Of reason. This is true of moral sentiment; this is true of the affections of tife. Noth- ing is more disturbing than the imagination. All that i8 manifested in this are so many SYMPTOMS OF THE SOUL’S HOME SICKNESS, and Of its true hope, The true love always opens ossible love that rebukes the natural tacts; it calls for something higher, something nobler than the original affection. There is no father or motber that does not make for his or her offspring a love that is larger and nobler than it js, There is in every parent’s heart an ideal that he never reaches. Happiness is the proper state of man, but 1t aoes not follow that it is the proper state in this world. Take the race universally, and happl- hess is not the best thing for maa. Joy isto be our portion, but in the nascent state it is found that men are made by suffering, by hardships, by disappointments. Joy comes not because man is always smelling summer flowers, but because man sits down on s thorn, which makes him get up very quick. ~Laughter.) The world is very | ears, | large conditions of the sympathetics of the son! | produced by mere reasoning, bat it is the nature | how much more will men rejoice—-nay, rejoice ten much Itke a foundry | once sawat Salisbury. Mr. Beecher here described the process by which the castings are cleaned and brightened by knocking against @ach otherin a huge wheel. The effect produced upon the iron was somewhat analagous to the effects of sorrow and disappointments upon man, Which resulted in this iife in the higher torm of manhood, I! we consider and believe that these things are substantially true if is pot meant thereby that when we grieve for this rest we are expressing a mere feeung of discontent. @ spirit of Jault dading. world with ali manner of ill-luck. hot a panting aiter indolence, WE LONG FOR A RE: that remaineth to the people ot will be our true faith. be a man without bearing a great deal of sorrow on account of others and their follies. Of the nursery become at last weary to the nurse's { don’t think that the longing to be with God comes in such u way as the catechism lays | down or the Church attempts to produce it. The | Intellectual state ag it exists iM such conditions 1s not promotive of an emotive state, Tuere are di, because that witch are often descrived in words like unto the followin “AS the hart panteth tor the water brool The sout does not sit down and say God 18 great, good, everlasting, just and endureth forever, therefore, 1 long for him, Do you sup- Rett the mother away irom her children thinks of | her babe in that way? Does she say, “My babe 1s | beantifu), has faxen hair, little dimples in its chin ana beautitul blue eyes?” No, it is the woman's nature in itself which {3 the source from which all these thoughts come. So people of Christa moods do not project the thought uf God; it is not liselt oats | owt in such desire and in such ex- clamations, Tt seems very strange to go back the Psaims of Davia ior the best expressions of | this language Of the soul, Butit bas never been expressed so beautilaily as by the warrior David. | Tbe gate of death is a gate of peari, out or Which you | escape frum your own wretchedness. We come into life crying and puling, yet all men rejoice at our coming. Yet, aiter our disetpling and educa- tion and purification by sorrow we go out of lile, thousand tumes more than when we came into life. This is the way all the aposties went. It 1s the Way our Master went, ana is the way we vur- selves mast go If we are to attain unto Als divine manhood. “It isa rest uo man can take away from you, God has aiove jor you that can go to no other; there is a joy for you that no other can have; there 1s @ faith jor you that nove shall take | away; (tis @ portion that shail give us song for our sorrows. When God wants you, when He needs | ‘ou, He will want you to go bome to Him and be forever with the Lord. THE RUSSIAN CHAPEL Services Yesterday—Sermon by the Kev. Father Bjerring. ‘The little Russian chapel in Second avenue was well filled yesterday morning, After the Liturgy of St. Chrysostom was sung, Father Bjerring | preached a sermon on Mark, vilt., 34. He said Jesus rist once calied himself “the way, the truth and the life;”? and now he s:ows us the way. “ Who- wens ant gleam jorth merry; | would have warded wale aruinie deren ye De J A0CVer wrillcome alter me, let him deny almaaif It 18 not | It 18 not charging the | It is certainly | In this world ho man can | the harmony and fulness and “one thing neediul” ‘The cries | | ALL SOULS PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, and take up his cross and follow me.” visinle and temporary world in which we live there is nothing oxed, but everything passes away, We may sometimes appear to be at rest in body, but our thoughts and secret desires are imeessantly moving; therefore if we are not pro- gressing we are relapsing, sinking from the spi- ritual life into that of the flesh, from the human into the animal life, The destiny of man is the highest imaginable. “Be ye perfect even as your Father which is in heaven ts perfect,” says the Word. Ifyou desire not to be with Jesus, and how is 1t possible without keeping His word and fol- lowing Him, then He wiil proclaim you His en- emy and deny you in the face of heaven and. earth, “Wuosoever stall be ashamed of me aud Of my words in this adulterous and sinful genera~ taon,"” says Christ the Lord, “of him, also shail the Son of Man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of bis Father with the holy angels.” And so either we must follow Christ, His word and ex- ample, or vainly call ourselves Christians. The apostles Were nos always alraid of sollowing Christ ‘The time came when they walked this eartia with gladness, “They,” a8 writes the Narrator of the Acts, ‘departed Frejoicimy that they were counted worthy to suifer In this | doctrine. | the shame for his name,” He who desires to Jollow Christ let him deny his seli-iove, let him not be devoted to his own honor, mn*erest and pleasure, bnt like @ traveller meet all the things in passing id 800n leave them behind, Hows it possivle to tain to such self-renunciation? Kyen as the warrior renounces ail the joya of domestic lie when he enters on @ campaign, to Solow Christ you must take up His cross and be ready toendure sufferings and trials out- Ward and inward, such as the chastening, putiiy- ing and merciful dispensation of an all-rulin; Providence may choose to visit us with. We cal at “Our iife may bid with Christ in God.” iat Such, O Christians, is the doctrine of the cross go necessary and essentisl in Christianity, that the Orthodox Church, not content with proclaim- ing it oiten by word, still more frequently repre- sents It to us in symbols and in signs, At our baptism she jays upon us the image of the cross, atevery prayer she enjoins us to make the sign of the cross on ourselves, and irom time to time she solemnly presents it for holy salutation. Let us be attentive, let us accept this commandment, not as though from human hips, but as irom the los of our crucified Saviour himself. “Let us Gang curselves and take up our croga and follow rin CHURCH OF ST, JOHN BAPTIST. The Relation of Home Life to Spiritual Culture—Sermon by Bishop Gregg. The Right Rev. Dr. Gregg, Bishop of Tex preached yesterday morning at the Church of St. John Baptist, to a rather small congregation. The right reverend preacher took his text from Luke, X., 41, 42—“And Jesus answered and said unto her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things,” &c. No character in the Scriptures had been more misconcetved than that of Martha. It was not very strange that it should be so, as Mary was gener ally represented as being the very opposite of her sister. But John says that Jesus loved Martha, showing that it was a perfectly Christian family, Martha was the eldest sister, and the care of the family seemed to have devolved upon her, In every household there must’ be some one—the mother or the eldest sister —who fliis thisimportant duty. On the memoranle day to which the text referred Mar- tha scarcely knew how to make the entertainment choice enough. It was sach @ company as she probably never had entertained and never again hoped to entertain. Jt was no wonder that Martha was perplexed and distressed at the ab- sence of her sister. And go it was written :—“Buat Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me.” This exhibition of temper was a grievous error. Mary 1mproved the present opportunity and LISTENED TO THE DIVINE WORDS of Jesus, while Martha was simpiy bent on serving. Tt was, however, Incorrect to regard Martha sim- py as the type of the earthly minded and Mary as ae spintually minded woman. Both were faitn- 1uJ disciples of Christ. and they simply differed in their modes of expressing their teeling. The one Was bent on entertaining Jesus, while the other was determined upon achieving salvation. Both fmifilied important duties, There was an im- portant lesson to be derived trom these words of jesus. A great many women were like Martha, oppressed by the petty and too onerous duties of the household. These small cares of woman were seldom fully appreciated by man. The more re- fined states of society had alleviated woman's burdens toa very great extent, but her tribula- tions Were nevertheless manifold, Man expected frequently some things [rom woman which he nad no right to expect. Upon her were supposed to depend the comforts and happiness of the con- wacted world whic was comprised in the word “home.’? She only asked, in view of what she had to bear, that he be satisiied with some shortcom- ings when she remained UNSTRENGTHENED BY HIS PRESENCE, The history of wom: lile, DO Matter where she was placed, was one Ol vast anxiety and sleepless watches, ‘The responstotlity of man bore no vom- Parnes: to the irksome routine of tae daily lie of home. He, the strong man, Would soon give way under the care of the burdens which oppressed one who was weaker than he, The case ot the woman was harder in the world than it ought to be. Man was not entitied to make a servant of his wife, and was not to derange everything by his disorderly habits and then require that she supply his deficiencies. He should make her a wie and not a drudge. What wonder that there were many Marthas ip the world, mothers and daughters, who, amid the constant press and bustle and daily anxiety of home, iatled to sit at tue leet of Jesus as they ought todo? This ‘“be- ing cumbered with many cares,” it was true, was frequently caused by women themselves. It interiered !n many cases with the spiritual nature of children, and Was whe canker preying upon tne Christian development of a gra- Ctous family life. A preying care was often caused by the habit of serving which grew upon women, and sapped the very foundation oi that home which was woman's noblest sphere, THE SLAVISH SUBJECTION to household cares, which exhausted the body to the sacrifice of the soul, and which put the hus- band and the child before duty and before God, was aiso highly reprehensible. The religious du- ties of the family and the spiritual nursing of cuildren were frequently neglected in this slavish subjection to the merely material wants, It com- pany arrived on the Lord's day it was frequently made an excuse for stuylug away from church. It was not such a spirit that made a home an abode of spiritual happiness. It was woman’s mission to save man by faithfully doing her duty. nd her full duty in that noble sphere which was signed to her, But tor her, as ior all, there was ‘one thing needful,’ she must sit at the feet of Jesus and take Him into her heart. This work. of course, must also have its proper bounds, and the needs of the family MUST NOT BE SACRIFICED to the various religious meetings and charitable undertakings which appealed every day to the heart of the charitable in a vi city like New York, Some had found in Martha a type of numer- ous Christians who served the Saylour zealousiy, and yet failed to sit at His feet, while the ight generally painted of Mary received the full light olheaven, Bota characters should be united ina harmonious life, the active and the contemplative, the eartoly and the spiritual. Let the wise Martha and the meek, loving Mary oe blended {n one, and would be secured, BROOKLYN, A Union Church Demonstration—A Ban- | quet for Such People a+ Mefrain from Throwing Texts at Each Other's Heads. | Yesterday alternoon a very large congregation assembled tn the edifice known as All Souls Prot- estant Episcopal chureh, Elm place, Brooklyn, Pursuant tO & cali issued by the pastor, Rev. George B. Porteous, invitiug people to attend a “Union Church Demonstration.” Dr. Porteous, on coming forward, said that his position demanded, he felt, an explanation. The movement, looking to tuc unton of Christian churches had begun and the justification might come by and by, He had beon quite surprised to find himeelfin favor of the Union Church movement. He nad been associated ina Church of great power—he had been tn the Chareh of Kngiand, His impression nad been that the position he would occupy would be undenom- inational, On coming to America he had expected to find Church iiberty, but he had not found it. Having ascertained definitely that there was a movement that demanded no more de- nominational sectarianism, he had joined tt, and now he would work tn the vineyard, as he {eit assured that it sprung from the hearts of the peo- ple. The speaker urged his audience to drop their bickering and schisms and to unite In one name 4s God's people, If there were any sectarians pres- ent suck people would be DISAPPOINTED, AUT NOT BERATED. But to those who came there to know liow to serve God without throwing texts at each other's heads it would be a banquet, and he welcomed them to the Church of All Souls—a name as sacred in tts | Scriptural sense as im its ecclesiastical meaning. The congregation applauded as the speaker re- sumed his chair, Rey. Dr. Throtl, formerly rector of the Church of the Messiah and editor of a weekly religious paper, then addressed the assemblage, Looking back over the early life of Christ we find that purity of lie was the first thing thought, society at that time was appallin every description prevaied, Dr. Throll (uen re viewed the advance of Christianity up to the six- teenth century, When the first step was taken toward digenturalment from the restraints of The condition of ) and vice of | eee MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, 5 He claimed that the best evidence of truth of this movement and its ends was found in the fact that all advocates of the Church union bave been pure men. ‘The othr speakers were Rey, Hugh 0. Pente- cost, of the Cuurch of the People; Rev. George P. Woodward, of the Main street Methodist church; Rey. Marun Somerville, of Greenpoint; Rev. Charles U. Goss and Rey. Mr. Smith, of Vermont. denomipations and sects which have beretovore, they Contended, divided the Christian world. TRINITY CHURCH. Sermon by Bishop Robertson, of Mis- sourl—The Need and Value of } ion= ary Work in This Country. Though now situated in a section of the city wherein there are comparatively few Episcopal- ians residing, Trinity church has a large congre- gation every Sunday. From their uptown homes come the descendants of those who were com- Municants in this church @ century ago; and they, With therr numbers eked out by poorer worship- pers from the lower part of the city, and casuals from brookiyn and Jersey City, attracted mainly by the music of the male choir, make up & gathering that fills the church, Both services yesterday, were more than usually well attended, and during them worshippers stood crowding in the transept, who could not get seats in the pews Dor on the aisle benches, At the morning service Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, preached, his subject being *‘Men and Their Relations to the Church.” At the afternoon service the Right Rev. Dr. Kob- ertson, Bishop of Missourl, preached on ‘Mis- sions.” He drew his subject trom the text:—“Be- hold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thees’—Deut,, |., 21. Bisiop Robertson began with picturing the rapid growth of our country, the steady overlap- ping 01 our population fron: civilization on to the prairies, and the needs and duties which the in- Crease brings to the people of the older parts of the Union. ‘Yo the West, he said, the Atiantic States are pound with mighty bands, and it is to their tnterest vo introduce Christian principles into the Western country. The section of country whose centre is near the Mississippi River, said the speaker, it is acknowledged will be the ruling section of the country within a few years, and ior this reason evil ‘should be checked in it by the opposition of moral principles. At present it gives place to all the vices common to new settled regions, but a little effort ex- | pended now would have great effect on its future. Now 10 1s luke A LAZY GIANT, whose head is in the snows of the North, whose leet are bathed in the vepid waters of the Gull of Mexico, and whose either haud rests on the Alle- gnapy or the Rocky Mountains, He will arouse and he will work harm in the future if he is not cared for now, The speaker urged that the Epis- copal Church should put forth its powers Jor missionary work in the new founded towns and villages of the West, If the Episcopai Church will pot do its utmost in this work, another churen organization will. Brave, sell-sacrificing, Palais men, firm in their fajth, are going tirrough the West; and they understand the valae of missionary lavor there, and, 48 @ result, the region ia Mapped out and better Known in Rome than in New York. ‘The Bishop declared that he did Dot oppose foreign missions; he loved the glorious lives of missionaries in the distant countries, He thinks, however, that mis- sionary work in this country will have effect abroad. Our citizens are a pasting, roving and determined people, and if they go out from their homes With strong principles they will impress their beheis on whomsoever they meet. One hun- dred years irom now the United States will nave 300,000,000 of people, of whom thousands will be dis- seminating their ideas abroad. What those ideas Will be depends upon the influences to which our people are subjected now, and while they are building their towns and cities on the prairies, MISSIONARY WORK AT HOMB should be more attended to by the Episcopal Cuurch. Besides the vices of a new civilization to be conquered there are the evils of avarice and luxury to be checked in older civilization. That English minister saw the true necessity when he exclaimed, “Half the Charch should be missionaries and the other half should work Jor their support.’? The above are the main poimts of Bishop Rob- ertson’s discourse. He treated them ail elab- orately and very skillully. His remarks lasted through three-quarters of an hour, during which he gave no evidence of more oratorical power than 18 necessary to make him an agreeable speaker, ST, JAMES’ CHUROE. The Growth of Christian Character— Sermon by Bishop Whitaker, of Ne- vada. The pulpit of this neat little Episcopal church, corner Lexington avenue and Seventy-second street, was filied by the Right Rev. Dr. Whitaker, Bishop of Nevada, who preached from Il. Peter, ill., 18—** Grow in grace.” This growth in grace, he began, is a work most significant of the eternal love and favor of God toward man. We live because He has given us life; we have hope of the future, because He hes given ws a Saviour. Salvation is God's gilt, All the elements of the Christian char- acter are the result of God’s grace. They are heavenly affections, wrought by His kindness. We understand the text to mean Christan character, and in this we are asked to grow. God has given men different faculties, so that some become su- Perior to influences that would conquer weaker men. Man uses his conscience to distinguish be- tween right and wrong. The man who avoids evil influences, who, being able to distinguish the right course, keeps to it, and who shapes his life in accordance with his belief, is, in a high sense, & man of character. There are few in the world who even do this much. There are 1ew who do not think more of What they Nave than what they are. A man may be almost perfect in the eyes of the world and yet not possess the Christian character. There is a higher character than that which the world's judgment bestows upon an individual The high- est character TAKES CHRIST AS ITS MODEL, and derives its power and inspiration from Him. ‘This would tend to elevate the affec- tions and to purify and educate the conscience, by showing 4 standard by which the character’s imperfections may be seen. Grand and noble ts this exhortation of the Apostle, “Grow in grace.” The sole object of Christian religion is the growth ol such a@ charac- ter. Salvation is grace, for without God’s grace it could not be done at all. In the mass of humanity the lowest faculties are the strongest. 'To overcome this God seeks the heart; to this end God works in man, He would bring each part of our nature in harmony with the rest, and He would bring us in harmony with His laws. But no man can reach this without the life-giving energy of the Holy Ghost. The whole nature can be moulded only by God's spirit working in you. The formation of Christian character is a§ truly @growth as is ihe progress ota tree, which first sends fortn its blossom and then the fruit. The germ of the fruit was there all the while, but it nee‘ed the influences of the sun to bring ‘it to. maturity. So in every Christian there is @ process analogous to this. The true jdea of God working in man is the gradual unfold- ing of the powers He has bestowed. ‘A GROWTH IN GRACE is to be obtained through certain processes. A man may grow in grace, or he may shrink and produce no iruit, Growth implies time, and tf Christian character were instantly formed it would not be a growth. It needs time and tt needs careful and continued effort. A tree that ts dead puts forth no buds, be the spring ever so < in Christian character, you are ving the lite of yoar Saviour. Then your trust in Ged will be Steadfast, and you Will think less of self and more of others, The question js not, are you periect in all these qualities, but are you growing and com- ing nearer to them? Ali other forms of beauty shall die, but this shali endure forever. You must use faithfully the means by witch this character is to be obtained, Let the forces of your life draw you toward Curist and give your heart com- pletely to Him. CUBAN MBMOBIAL SERVICES, Celebration in the Church of Santiago on the Sixth Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, On the 10th day of October, 1868, the Cuban rev- olution was commenced at Yara. The patriots, who preferred death to Spanish tyranny, and who struck the first biow for independence, were @ small band, composed of professional men, planters and emancipated slaves, and were under the command of the late Carios Manuel de Ces- pedes, who subsequently became President of the Cuban Republic. Since that day rivers of blooa have been spilled, and “war to the death” has been the rallying cry on doth sides. Having kept the ficld from that day to this, the patriots grow confident of ultimate success, and within two or three months they hope to receive material help from the South American republics, acting under the initiative of Peru and Chill. The religious celebration yesterday of the #ixth anniversary of the revolution at the Charch of Santiago, tn Twenty-second street, near Filth aye- nue, as might be expected, was largely attended by the Cuban residents and rejugees in this coun- try, both rich and poor, A large number of the ing jost relatives im the foariul struggle. The method of the speakers was to denounce all | beantiul and warm. i yon have not re- ceived the holy lie you will not grow in | Christian character. i+ you ate growing ladies present wore mourning, many of them hav- Among | of the navy. those noticed 1 the churen were Sefor Aguilera, the venerable Vice President of tue Cuban Repup- lic; Miguel de Aidama, Cuban agent; Messrs, Echeverria, Mestre, H. Cisneros Leandro Rod- riguez, General Villegas, President of the Society Amigos de Cuba; Garcia Angarica, Mora, Bombar- hier, and many others of note, the church being entirely filles After the conciusion of the iscopal services the pastor, the Kev. Dr. Joaquin ima, formerly of Havana, entered the pulpit and spoke in Spanish gi ia) SERMON. The text was taken trom St. Luke xix., 42, describing the triumphal entry of our saviour into Jerusalem and conciuding:—“I! chou hadst known, even thou, at least im this thy day, the Uungs Which belong UBLO eae peace but now they are hid from chine eyes.” The love of country, said the eloquent preacher, is sanctified by Jesus Unrist, for we find in his career an intense love Jor his native land, and read of his poignant grief when weeping over Jerusalem, Every nation has “408 day” alluded to in our text, and we must take advantage of it to secure our everiasting nappi- hess, ere tt be too late apd the night come uj us. Brother Cubans, ye who are here ag.exiles 1n foreign jand, Isupplicate you not to delay in attend. ing to the things Which belong to “thy peace.’”? Let Jesus Christ be the corner stone ol our social fab- ric, and when we have our hearts fixed upon Him we Cau go through li'e as brave soldiers of our Lord, spreaaing His glory and iame and working out our own salvation. Earthly happiness has al end, but not that o! heaven. WHILE OUR BRETHREN ARE FIGHTING IN CUBA, doing wonders of heroism in behalf of the liberty of our native land, let us pray for their ultamate success, and, dear brethren, | hope, from the bot- tom of my heart, that the day is not far distant when We shail be able to return to our Canaan, to the land of our fathers. have read witn sorrow in the newspapers of this city the recital of an af- fair which recently happened in the Cath- olic Cathedral of Kingston, Jam. One of our Cuban brethren, @ Roman Catholic, was receiving the burtal rites of the Charch in the satd cathedral. The Cuban flag we_ all so dearly love had been thrown over his coMn by some of his patriotic friends, A priest tore {it from off the coMn and said that they wauted po politics there. Naturally, all the iriends of the dead man were greatly burt, to say the least, by this priest’s con- duct. [ maintain that the Catholic priest m ques- tion nas FORGOTTEN THE TRADITIONS AND RITUAL of the Rowan Catholte Church, as 1 will now prove, The Catholic Churen centurtes ago blessed the crusaders’ flags, likewise those engaged in Sue Albigenses strife, Then, again, 2 the thirty ears’ war Ferdinand of Austria pepe the Virgin of St. Loretto a commander of the Austrian army and decorated her image With @ marsnal’s baton sash, In 1810 Viceroy Vinegas o1 Mex: pointed the Virgin of Los Remedios, in the rai of the City of Mexico, toa similar warlike post, aud decorated her statue in the Austrian fashion. Jn conciusion, therefore, 1 think that the Jamaican priest Would do weil to consider belore again com- mitung a similar indiguity upon the ovouy of & dead Cuban patriot. ‘The rest of the sermon was of a strictly evan- gelical nature, At the close of the service a& Col- lecuon of over $100 was taken up on benalf of poor Cubans sufering from smallpox and other- wise afflicted tn Jamaica. The singing was excellent, the following per- sons having volunteered their services in the choir:—Selora Simoni Amaiia de Agramonte, widow of the celebrated Cuban general of that name, soprano; Miss A, R. Bulkley, contralto; Seflor Martinez, bass; Mr. H. A. Bischor, Signor J. Godoy and Dr. Baralt, tenors, and Emilio Agramonte, organist, The lollowing ia tue rogramme of the Music performed:—‘Glorla,” No. 2, Gunther; “Te Deum,” Kotschmat; “[oflam- Taatus," from Rossini’s “stabat Mater,’? solo so- prano; conciuding witn Gounod’s “Ave Maria,” “THE OOMBALS OF THE CHURCH." Lecture by the Right Rev. Bishop Gross, of Savannah, Ga. The Right Rev. Bishop Gross, of Savannah, Ga., levtured last evening in the large hall of the Cooper Institute. He took for his subject “The Combats of the Churen,’” and gave a vivid and highly interesting description. of the straggles of the Roman Catholic Church from its inception to the present time. He said:—“What more obscure than the beginning of the Church ? a little colony tn Gali lee, twelve poor, ignorant men, who then come menced to teach the reiigion of their Master, Jesus Christ, to the nations of the world, Rome was made the head and centre of this Christian religion, and alter @ space of 2,000 years it 158 still the head and centre, and all the powers of the earth have not been able to prevail agalust the visible head of the Church, Christ’s Vicar on earth. The mightiest empires and Dations have passed away, and still the Charch remajns. | During these centuries and ages that have passed the Roman Catholic Church hus fought and siruggied with all the evils borne of the overweenng ambition of God, detying princes or the depraved instincts of igno- Tant men. When the hordes of barbarians, the | Goths, the Huns, the Vandals, came like a tide, sweeping all before them and carrying devastation and aestraction in their path, the Popes of Rome and their armies of monks were the first to stem the tide. POPE JOHN MET THESE BARBARIANS and bid them pause. Benedict with bis any, ot { monks civilized these barbarians, and Sctiotastica, with her gentle sisters, taugnt her own sex purity and chastity. The victory of the Churca over Paganism was not as complete as the victory | over these wild men. They became her best and most docile children and lent their strong arms in her defence. And she needed them; for when the muttering of another storm was heard in the East, when Mohammedanism, with its bes- | tial doctrines, had overrun Asia and when the Turk was thundering at the gates of Vienna, the Popes ot Rome ed the armies that fought the fight of the crom®against tne crescent. It was the inXuence of that Church that sent Charles Martel, | Richard Cour ae Lion, Godirey Bouillon, and the thousands of warriors wno assembied under their | standards, to beard the Saracen in bis den. If | Europe has been spared the infliction of Moham- medanism it may thank the Popes of Rome. Aiter the Turk came the outburst of the Refor- mation, then the reign of infidelity and im- morality—the French Revolution. hrough ait | these storms the bark of Peter rode triumphant over the waves, and the Roman Catholic Church, THE CHURCH OF CHURCHES still outlasts the worst efforts of her worst ene- mies. That mighty power commands to-day the aitention of the world. And now men drunk with victory raise their swords against her. Prince Bismarck and Emperor Wiliam are now attack- ing the Church, She girds on her armor for the fight, for her strength was always a@ match for any power that might be brought against her. Bismarck said there was only one | man in Europe who coald disturb his peace, and that man was Pope Pius IX. He alone in ps | dare dety the will of Prince Bismarck. Bismarck wishes to make the Church of Rome sub- servient to the State, but Bismarck, | and King William. will pass away, and | still the noble old Churen will remain, and no | pores on earth will ever make her bend the nee. The right reverend Bishop then closed with an elegant peroration, in which he re- viewed the principal points of his lecture, and called on his audience never to lear for the satety of the old Church, as God Himself bad promised | to protect it, CHUROH DEDICATION IN BROOKLYN. | The First Primitive Methodist Episcopal church, | Which has just been erected at the corner of Park | and Canton streets, was formally dedicated to | divine worship yesterday morning, the Rev, Joseph | Wild, D. D., preaching the opening sermon. There Was a large congregation present, who listened | attentively to his discourse, At the close of the Services the collection was taken up, and there | was a itberal contribution, the sum amounting to ; Rearly $4,000, The cost of the edifice was $38,000, | Of which $20,000 has already been paid. The Rev. | F. Bottome, of New York. preached yesterday alternoon, and the Key. Frederick Bell, the pastor, | preached in the evening, | ide ~ ANOTHER OHARLIE RO3S CASE, Abont half-past seven o’ctock Saturday night | Jesse Roach, a child about three years of age, son | Of Mrs. Altce Roach, of No, 262 Madison street, was | strolling along the sidewalk near his bome, when | a woman named Margaret Yerger, of No. 26 Monte | gomery street, coming saddenly past, snatched | littie Jesse up in her arms and threw & large | shawl over the cata, for the purpose of conce. ing it. Jesse Roach’s brother, about five y | old, was playing near by, and saw the woman | Yerger pick up his littie brother, His screams brougut out several persons living in the vicinity, who, on ascertaining the cause of the child’s out- cries, held the woman Yerger and would not suffer her to depart till the arrival of OmMicer Judge, of the seventh precinct, who took her into custody. In the meantime Mrs. Roach had been apprised of the occurrence, and when she came on 1 she indignantly demanded her child. ‘The woman Yerger tried to hold little Jessie, and it took some of Officer Judge's most forcible persuasions to make ler give up the child, She was arraigned berore Judge Wandell at Essex Market Police Court yesterday and was held tn $1,000 bail ta answer on a charge of kidnapping. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S OPINION OF THB } GERMAN NAVY. An Imperial order of the day, addressed by the Emperor of Germany to Lieutenant General de Svosch, Chief of the Admiralty, is thus worded:— KIgL, Sept. 20, 1874. All that [ have seen here bas made so agreeable an impression upon me and has given such a proof | of the constantly increasing prosperity of our navy, that I experience very great satis/action in expressing my gratitude to you by attaching you | to the battalion of marines, and giving to the ort | Jaeger-Berg the name of Stosch. shall take other special decisions as to the recompenses to Se! 4 luncuonaries | be awarded to (he oflcers and oshe: nee