The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1874, Page 5

SALVATION. Many-Sided Views of Religious Faith and Christian Duty. DR. VINTON ON THE PERFECT MAN. Goodness and Happiness Iuseparable—Seience Reconciled with Faith, LESSON OF THE FADING LEAF. LYBIO HALL. Mr. O B. Frothingham on Goodn: and Happiness, Yesterday the Rev. 0, 8, Frothingham delivered #m cloquent discourse on goodness and happiness, | showing the two to be inseparable. Previous to the sermon he read extracts from the Scandina- vian Scripture and from the Apocrypha) Book of Wisdom. He then said—Wisdom is represented | in Proverbs as holding in her right hand length of days, and in her left nand glory and honor. The description goes on to speak of wis- dom as being incomparably beautiful. She saya of berself, “Sly delight is tne delight of men,” Nay, abe gays more, “My delight is in the Lord.” These are strong words, but no stronger than can be quoted page alter page from the old Bible, which so many think gloomy, but which really is the most joyous book in the world. But the association of good- ness and happiness is foun’ in ali Scriptures, Uterature, poetry and ction. ‘There are different Btages Of the close association of goodness and ppiness. Tone idea first appears in this form that happiness is the reward of goodness; next, that happiness and goodness are linked together; the next stage goes {urther still, and makes hap- piness the evidence of goodness, 80 that people are tobe good in order to be happy. “Let us live apply,” says the old Hindoo book, “and be as the blessea God.” Singularly enough as this is the gharm of all poetry and Ilterature, it 1s scouted im practical ife. Moses, Jor his gooduess, was exiled. Jesus, for His goodness, was hung on the cross, Paul, 1or bis goodness, Was scourged, banished and finally beheaded. Jobo, tor his goodness, Was piunged tutoa caldron of boiling bil, Peter, tor bis goodness, laid his head under the axe. Savonarola, for his goodness, was burned at the stake, Sir Lhomas Moore, one of the best men | in the world, died, in the reign of Henry VII, for his virtue, Mazzini, for nis goodness, was made AD exile and hunted over Kurope. The honest olitician 1, for his bonesty, likely to lose his elec. | jon, itis tne current morality on the street that overmucn righteousness does uot pay. Here we Dave the iaeu that goodness and happiness travel together, contrasted with the idea that joodness and happiness travel apart. Religion 8, choose Whether you would BE HOLY OR Harry. Be holy and Le to heaven; be nappy and go to the Other place. But religion rectifies vis by saying happiness will come hereaiter; bus if good- hess ana happiness ao not go together here why Should We (wink tuey will hereatter ? Waat is guod nere is good there. Let us, then, look into this Matter; and in order to form any reasonavie | Opinion we must define terms, What is guuduess ? | Is asceticism? 1s a nar: ow, Cluse, prim disposition? Ui so, we will give up the casa; jor happiness can- ot follow on that kind of guodncss, What do we mean by goodness? Do we mean that spirit which bets itsel! against the evils of the world? This is not happiness, because it brings the heart nearer Ad divine, bus takes it away from the Duman, rr HAPPINESS IS PURELY HUMAN, What is goodness? What ts it else thana simple conformity with tne facts otf life, a correspundence between one’s disposition and the tacts that cir- Qumstances weave around him? This, then, is goodness, Now whatis lappiness? Most people, when the word huppivess is spoken, think of leasure. Itisanything but that. Pleasure und ppiness scarcely ever correspond. What is pleas e? Tae deaght of a moment; a thrill of the erves ; but it 1s incidental, uccasional, transient, and is always followed byreacuon. People talk of a hfe of pleasure. There may he moments or hours Ot pleasure, vut a lile ol pleasure! A ilie of eating nothing but ice cream and lancy cakes, and drnk- mg Hothing out champagne! Pleasure is the sauce ot life, not the veel and veer, What ‘is happiness? There ave three things necessary | to happiness, health, competency and good con- | Bcieoce, Which of these three things come at | aphazard? Does good health? It 1s the hardest | thing to get ana to keep, Does competency come by accident? 4t seems so sometimes; put take | the world over and the thing “enough” is gained only ou the severest terms. Does &@ good con- science come by chance? Was there ever aman lived who said that? It seems easy enough to be good in youth wien one knows nothing; but as we Citas @ little older we see how complicated tne world is, and see what hosts of temptations lurk In every path, and how dalicious the temptations are, Then one begins to realize that govud con- science does not come so’easily. Happiness, like fooaness, ccemes irom perfect conformity 10 = Conditions; + 0 goodness and hap- piness do go together. if you are good you | Will be happy, and are they not the same thing? It the good man is not happy he is not good. He may bean Evangelical Unristian of the most ap- proved style; but somewhere there is a vital con- ition he has not met. Happiness is the test of qarnen, it ls the test of piety. A religion that jon’t make men happy is seif-condemned; a relie gion that makes hall tne world sear nell cannot be @ true religion; areligion that brings forward its best man, @ saint, and shows him as a narrow, downcast person, who 1s afraid to look you in the eye, Who prays God be mercitul instead of God be praised, Cannot be a true religion. Do you ask, then, which we are to seek—good- ness ‘or happiness? Choose for yourself. It de- pends on temperament which ts easier for you. diby the Way 01 goodness take that door; by the way of happiness take that door, They both lead into the same beautiful world. ST. MABK'S CHUROH, rmon by Rev. Dr. Vinton—“Show Thye self a Man.” Rev. Dr. Vinton, the former rector of St. Mark's church, again filled his old pulpit yesterday. The divine took his text from I, Kings, il, 2— «Show thyselfa man.” I abhor, said Dr. Vinton, the theories that would make man the descendant of a monkey or of anything else save his natural parents, the first man and the first woman, Ho ‘Was made in the image of his Maker, and it is bis bounden duty to take the advice given in this text, Men have argued the fact that to be a perfect man one must be @ Christ, That isan utter impossi- | bility, but man can use his best endeavors to | rieot himself, and, taking Christ for his exampie, | ve ag near like Him as possible. itis an avsurd | burlesque for any nan tu put onthe garb of the | Saviour of the World and call himseil Christ, be- Cause that he cannot be. The poet nas said of man, “Io bis action how like an angel, in bis ap- rehension how like a God.’ Shaxespeare, said he minister, may have meant to portray himself by the remurk, but he fatied, lor Snakespeare was not an ideal man, ‘To thoroughly show one’sseli a man it was necessary for mortals to look for a higher and orighter a to guide them than has been shown by the llie of even the greatest of men, and that light couid only come from heaven; {t must emanate irom the Lord of alt creation, He hoped his words fell on wilitng ears, and that they would commune with themselves, that they would try and understand that it was the light of | God that was necessary to make them men. The whole life of Christ proved what a man could be who lived in the Lord God. and in Him was THE PERFECT HARMONY OF MAN, strong, the sweet and the sublime, What we el by flashes invested the whole character of Christ, said the minister. If we take His biessed words, We Can see ow necessary tt is to live close to Him and pattern atter Him. “I am the way and the life, and no man cometh unto the fatner but by me.” To accept these words would make life more easy anu beautiful. God wanted us to live ror Him and uot tor the world. Christ lived not for the worid, but that He might save it; and He So loved {t that He gave His life tor tt. He asks | but our love and near approach to Him in return, and surely WE OWE THE DEBT and should try and piy tt. Christ had the tender- ness 01 @ sensitive Woman, looking always to God, He feared no man and lived tor nothing human except to exalt it, Let us look to Hin and trust Him. He has said He was “the way and tha Life,” and if we believe in His words and follow his pre- repts we will certainly come nearer snowing our- selves periect men. Let us go about doing good as He did. Christ was not ashamed to call all men brothers, neither did He jear to sufer for those He loved. He showed Himsell a perfect man, ST, PATRIOX’S CATHEDRAL The Real Presence of God in the Sanc- tuary and the Sacrament, St, Patrick’s cathedral was well filled yesterday morning With adevout congregation, Rey. Father Kearney sang mass, The sermon was preached by Rev. Father Jonn Salter. The text was taken from the last chapter of St. Matthew, last verse— “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever {have commanded you; and, lo, 1 am with you way, evew unto the end of the word.” When wor divine Lord anid Saviour explained to the wostles the mission to which He nad appointdd | love toward our fellow men and to | belore the guilty King with a grand intrepidity, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTUBER 19, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. them He ended his commission with the words just Quoted, He sajd this to them in order to give them strength and courage to preach Christ cruci- fled and to overcome the obstacles and to bear the Persecution which He could foresee would fall to their to% He knew they would need His help, and he arranged to give it them. He was with them when dragged before the Magistrates and authorities, He was with the successors Whom they appointed, and He is with the Church now, 60 a8to keep her judgment in- fallible and to prevent her from teacning error. t only is He with the Charch, in @ spiritual sense, but in @ real personal sense also, on the @itar, in the blessed sacrament. God so loved mankind that when they sacrificed thé Saviour on Catvary He formed @ new plan whereby He could be with them sien This wondrous love was crowned vy the giving of dimseif. He feeds us with His oWn precious body and blood, and so man | becomes tue temple of the living God. He knew that not only the apostles, but mankind to the end ot all time would be subject to temptation. Oh, mystery of mysteries! So long as the Church shail last, £0 long asa single priest shall be leit to oMiciate at her altars, go long will Christ Him- | fell be with her. It was not sufficient | for Him to come down {rom heaven, it was not suMicient that He should be born in u stable, suffer Pere onen hardship and an ignominious death, | ut to crown ali He comes down to us, notin all the majesty of His divinity, but in the humbie form o1 bread and wine. What greater proof of God's love cou!d mankind ask for than this? But God requires something in return for all this wealth of love. HE REQUIRES LOVE IN RETURN. God gives no grace, grants no favor, but He re- quires sometuing in return. Moses took off his shoes before the burning bush because he thought God Was there; but ip Our day Catholics enter the Church as though the real body of Curist was not in the sanctuary. He invites you &t all times to come to Him, in misery, in poverty, in sickness and distress and | be comforted; but instead of heeding His | imvitation mankind sink deeper and ceeper into | misery because they tara from God. He is there | ob the altar that He may enter into their hearts; but men are so wedded to their vices that they | will not give them ap 80 that they can approach te altar of God worthily, Let us resolve to uonor | Him in our hearts. Let it be our joy and consola- Uon tw approuch the holy table aud receive the body and blood of our Lord us a balm to every wound. He is the same God that cured the lame, the hait and blind, aud that cast out devils. Let | us come t3 Him in all our spiritual and temporal | necessities. Oh, jor faith, if only ® grain of mustard seed, to help us to partake of the blessed sacrament wortnily! If we ao so frequently we Saall some day see our Saviour tn all His glory and | majesty sitting on the right of God the Father, SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. | i QGo@s Supreme Love for Sinners. The Brooklyn Seventh avenue Methodist Episco- pal church was well filled yesterday morning. The pastor, Dr. Wild, took his text trom Romans | v., 7:—"For scarcely for a righteous -man will one die; yet, peradventure, for a good man some would even dare to die.” The speaker held that if sin had not enterea the world it would be very difficult to define what our primeval condition would have been. But what- ever the difference might be between a sinless and | sinful imberitance in Adam, he was inclined to believe we suffered no logs, a8 Christ, our second | Adam, Was our compensation and qualification, “Asin Adam all die,even in Christ shall all be made alive.’ From this passage he understood that as Adam was conaemned on bis own personsl responsibility, and that though the | sequences of his guilt touched all his descendants, and corrupted and deprived them ofsome superior conditions, yet, through the lite and death of Onrist, no one was condemned ex- cept for that for which they were personally ac- countable, It was true that many might be lost, not simply because Adam sinned, but because we were {ree moral agents. In sucha primevaf trial as Adam's one sin brought instant condemnation, Dutin our present relation, through the mercy of God in Christ, we might sin many times and live, thus saving more than would have been saved by @ primeval trial. Hell wus the home and goal of the Biaves of sin, for ere one conld get to sucha place he must toll aud sumer im resisting the spirit of grace and goodness of God, which were cesigns to lead him te repentance. They bartered their ireedom, exchanged good for evil and learned to givry in their shame, taking pleasure in uarighteousness and roiling sin under the tongue as a sweet morsel, It was utterly im- ssivie that such people could enjoy heaven, and 8 (the speaker's) theory made God eyen more Merciiul than the Universalists did, masmuch as be did not velieve God would FORCE A MAN INTO HEAVEN who did not want to go there. A sinner would mot be tiappy there uniess you could change his isposition and affections. But some argued, y aid God permit men to be born if He knew they would be damned?’ Did He know it and might He not withhold His knowledge of events? If tir then, power to do whatsoever He willed was disproved. in summing up this dis- course the Doctor said that there were three mo- tives elected for actions, Some rendered evil jor evi, others assumed @ neutral attitude ana par- doned an offence, while those on a higher and more Godiike motive plane rendered good for evil. None would think of dying for @ sinner, scarcely tor the | neutrally righteous man, but for a good man one | might dare to die. There was an irresistibie elo- quence attached to goodness that took hold of sinners quicker than anything else. It was this Motive which governed God’s disposition, and hence His love was sure, unchangeable and im- partial. As Caristians we should strive to emu late His example to be more than rignteous; to work toward the higher plaue of forgiveness and jove God be- | cause He first loved us. OHUROH OF 8T. JOHN THE BAPTIST. Personal Responsibility Before God. The Right Rev. Dr. Williams, Lord Bishop of Quebec, preached in the above church, at the core ner of Thirty-flith street and Lexington avenue, yesterday alternoon, The rector commenced tue services by reading the lessons and the eighteenth chapter of I, Kings, after which the 469th hymn ‘Was sung— 4 God shall charge His angol legions Watch and wari over thee to kaep; Though thou waik through hostile regions, ‘Though in desert wilds thou sleep. ‘The Lord Bishop took for his text the fourteenth | chapter of the First Ezekiel, nineteenth and twen- | tleth verses, &c.:—“They shall not deliver their | own souls,” The key note of the prophet’s mes- sage is personal responsibility, said the preacher, | The son shail not bear the Imiquities of the father, nor the lather those of the son—“The soul that sinueth shall die.” ‘rhe quickening of the conscience is the basis of the prophets’ mission and the whole dritt and purpose o1 the proplets’ message. We lay too | much stress on the prophets’ predictions, and not enonghon the purposes which animated them. ‘Their powers were not derived from without, but witnin—moved by the Holy Ghost, Elijyaa stood | | which, at the distance of many centuries, is fresh betore the eyes of men. From the presence o1 the Lord he came, and WITH THE WORDS OF THE LORD HE SPOKE, and his tongue could not ve tied, He told the King of the judgments and retributions to come to | pass, and when the King heard his words “he rent, his robes and wept soity.”” With a true prophet's | power John the Bapust came, high-toned, stern, | uncompromising, to preach the advent of God. Then the whole of Jerusalem, Judea and the re- | gion round about went out to him and were bap- | uzed aud cleansed of their sins, But with the jor- | giveness of sin comes conversion—the feeling that | 4 man has turned from wicked ways and is mov- ing Godward, Each man feels the need ofa clear conscience; if it is to live We must be loyal to it, Health may fail and weaith be lost, reputation | gone; but the answerable conscience 1s a posses- sion the world neither gives nor can take away. } WAINWRIGHT MEMORIAL CHURCH. Sermons by the Bishop of Missouri and the Bishop of Louisiana. At the Wainwright Memorial church, West | Eleventh street and Waveriey place, the morning sermon yesterday was preached by the Right | Rey. Dr. Robertson, Bishop of Missouri, and the evening sermon by the Right Rey. Dr. Wilmer, Bishop of Louisiana, At the morning service the Rev. Mr. Egbert, the pastor of the churcn, was | assisted by the Rey. Mr. Moore and tne Rey. Mr | Hughes, who read the lessons, Bishop Robertson took his text from 1. Corin- thians, Xv., 37:—''And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, {t may chance of wheat or of some other grain.’ The Bishop drew an illustration irom the wheat mentioned im the text Apparentiy dead, it | springs into new life in the proper season, and | go it {s with the education of children. The seed | seems doud im them for atime, bucit alerwards | springs ints nein the Christan deeds o: alter years, And 80, too, it ts with anew tnougntin ‘he world, for instance in the We of Howard among the prisons, We shoula not be impationt | tor good results, but should watt God's good ume, ‘Tue Seed may O¢ apparently dead, but in His own wise way He shall cause it to sprig into blossom, | Wyckliffe sowed (le sced Oo: the retormation in the Church two hundred years betore the truit had grown to be ripe, ana he suffered persecution for the new thougat., But the world had to wait til it pleased God's time for the fuldlment of the | Vault of heaven ani | poor, | nerubor test of blessings, The Bishop again referred ‘O the illustration of the ciilldren, and said that though the mere dogmatic utterances might die, Yet the {rult Was sure to appear in the lives of those who were rightly taught when young. The Sermon closed with au exhortatton to be patient and to be trusttul of God who ever worked In cer- tain, though nidden ways. In the evening a sermon was preached by Bishop Wilmer, who did not take any text, but de- liveread a practical address to the congregation, tull of pious thoughts and evidencing the large ex- rience 10 religious teachings which the venera- Prelate bas had, At the eveping service Rev, Mr. Egbert was assisted by the Rev. Dr. Egenbrodt, © the Theological Seminary; Key. M. W. Benton and Rey. Mr. Hughes, PHILLIPS PRESBYTERIAN CHUBOH. God's Love for the Church=Sermon by tho Rey. Dr. Snodgrass. Tne new edifice of the Phillips Presbyterian church, corner of Madison avenue and Seventy- thira street, was formally dedicated yesterday Morning. There was quite a large attendance, made up considerably of former members of the Fifteenth street church, especially invited to be present. Alter the preliminary dedicatory exer- cises, in which the pastor—Rey. Dr. Alexander— participated, the dedicatory sermon was preached by the first pastor of the church, Rev, Dr, Snod- grass, who chose his text Psalms, Ixxxvil., 2-“Tne Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob,” Gates in the time of David were places of concourse, Zion is the city of the Great King. Zion ts only another name ior the place where the people drew to- gether to praise the Lord, Our text, tnen, means that the Lord loves the places where the people congregate to worsiip Him more than other places where they collect together for other pur- poses, The distinction of any place which is dedi- cated to the service of God does not lie in its locality nor in the material of which it ts com- | Jacob said, “his 18 none other than the | posed. house of God.” He was not then in a material house of any description. He was covered by the his pillow was asrone, When he arose in the morning the place had mot changed, but meanwhile it had been the scene of an ocourrence which would have hajlowed any spot. A ladder was placed upon the earth, whicn reached up into heaven, and God's angels weut back and forth upon it. God renewed His promise that He would hot iorsake him. Jacob cried out, “Surely the Lord was in this place. And this is what made the diflerence between the night and the morning. There 18 no especial advantage or value to be attached to the material of which & house of worsliip is made. The arebitecture does not ren- der it more or less hoy. It is a house lor the Worship of God, @ place of intercourse between Him and those who seek His favors. Regarding the gates of Zion us litly representing THE HOUSE OF GOD, I offer to your cousideration the reason why the Lord loves sucl places more than others, Because any stich house 18 @ house of prayer, and then, has aname which towers over the names of all other houses in importunce, ‘the same thing may be said Ol every Suncthary whica is consecrated to the Divine worship, no matter to what branch of the Christian Church it may belong, if they only pray, The church is not a place o1 prayer to the exclusiou of ail other places, In connection with this, there is another place tor prayer. We pray at home for our iamuilies, and we are told to pray privately to God in our own closets. We pray ih Church jor all conditions of men, for tue for the sick, and for those who go down upon the in ships. In our families we pray for our immediate | Teiatives and those with whom we are acquainted. Consider the place which prayer bolds in the Di- vine approbation! You may thus see how the Lord delights im the gates ot Zion. First, the church is a place where vrayers are offered up; and second, it 1s a place where the Word of God ts Tead, dhusis God’s preference for the building dedicated to Him accounted tor. ‘There 18 nothing in which He more delights than to see that His words are listened to. for the publication of God's word, church stand among the many gates o! Zion that surround the Throne. Let it be @ sanctuary in Which true prayer shall be made and answered, where the weary and heavy laden shall find rest for thelr souls, and where songs shall be sung that snall be a prelude to the one in heaven, 8. STBPHEN’S CHUROH, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. MeGlynn=—The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant— The Duty of the Forgiveness of In- juries. The services at St. Stephen's yesterday morning Were well attended, At the first mass, which was celebrated at five o'clock A. M. by the Rev. Dr. MoGlynn, there was present a large congregation, the majority of whom received holy communion, The number of communicants at the other masses could not have been less than 2,000, The Rev. Father Carroll celebrated the high mass in pres- | ence of a large and attentive congregation. After the choir had finished the winging of the “Vent Creator” the Rey. Dr. McGlynn ascended the pulpit and delivered a telling discourse on the Christian philosophy of the jorgiveness of injuries. The | parable of the-unmerciful servant gave the pastor of St. Stephen’s an admiradle oppor- tunity to contrast the beauty of the Christian dispensation with the deformity of paganism. Before reading the gospel of the day The church, then, 13 @ sa- | cred building, set apart not only for prayer, but | Long may tus | the Doctor impressed on his hearers the obliga- | | thon which rested on them to help to defray the aebt on the church, and urged them toattena the fair, which is to open in the basement hall of the church on Thursday, the 20th ‘inst. He then read the Gospel—Matthew, Xvill., 23-35—and spoke in substance as foliows:— The parable of the unmerciful servant is de- Signed tu enforce the law of forgiveness of in- juries, This heavenly law, unknown to the Greek and Roman philosophers, isa distinctive charac- teristic of the kingdom of God on earth—His Churcn. In tact, the terms denoting a stranger in the Greek and Latin languages couvey an idea of dislike and hate. While we cannot but admire ; the great clemency shown to the servant, who was indebted fur an immense sum of money to his master, the conduct of that servantin nov only reiusing to lorgive his ieliow servant the small seizing on him and casting him into prison, must excite OUR STRONGEST INDIGNATION, And we canuot Lut approve o1 the punisbment inflicted on him by bis enraged master when he trees and their green ornament, He had attained | Greal admiration and @ genuine affection for leaves, and he had never ceased to love their ever varying color, their Deautilal sbapes and | aelicate structure. But there Was more | than this because there was & human | interest bound up with leaves, In our | joys we take leaves as the embiem of it; In our sorrow We still take them to decorate and make holy our regrets, and leaves still crown the vic- tor. From youth to old age jeaves are the mirrors of ourseives, and are so many tongues—nature’s tongues—that speak to us the language of the great Creator. The fruitof any tree is simply a modification of the leaf thereof—for instanee, the peach, which tn shape and in the peculiarities, bears exact resemblance to the leal. Even im the shape of a tree you may detect the same general princtples of existence, It is the proof that God Works In a systematic way. AS we have the changes and the leaves, so we have the Seasons, and the leaf goes through the same vicissitudes of being, Besides, it harmonizes with our ile, 48 it has its diferent seasons, It comes into beivg in tke spring time and grows as we do, until its summer comes, corresponding with our gush and strength of youth; then the autuwn, when the rich tlats clothe the Jeaves and the full strength of mun 18 developed; and then tie winter, when the leaf has lalien and tades away as old age seizes us and carries us to the grave. Leaves, to be sure, fade continually at all seasons, buteven here the stinilitude is borne out with ourselves. Life and death are close neighbors on every tree. No sooner has the leat begun to live than it hos begun to me, Sometimes an accident happens; it is crushed and willed belore its time aud fades away, and then again it may live until the natural death comes. Some fade in summer, but the many in autumno, Some jew Unger on the branches during winter, alone and discousolate looking, and are only pushed out of existence by the advancing growth of spring, S@itis that we fade continually. Nuture 1s no respecter of per- sons Or Of seasons, and sometimes the shadow falls in summer tume, Men and women lade in the same manner, while some in the winter of lle are still hanging on the tree unitl they are pasted of by the hew growth, They are alone, iriends have gone, the world seems a biank, the whole universe 1s like a uew one to Luem, ) Without God in the world, without hope in the neXt, & man’s condition 18 mdecd miserable. [tis luke taking a great leap in the darkoess, where there 18 wathng and gnasbing of teeth, But the Jading and passing of the one Who hopes tor the everlisting glory, ob, it is bewutilul, It 1s alto- gether lovely; and when atthe last moment the dread visitor comes and turows his dark shadow like a yell, the beauties of eternal life open heiore him and he sees vhe Jace of Christ. Leaves aiso {alt Prephetically. ‘they show in their birth what their life will be. It 18 like characters among us Who show their beauty {rom tne beginning, and whom We feel are destined for the better Ine alter this earth shali have Jaded away like the leat, and Me eternal biessings Of life everiastiug shall ve | made manifest to us by the Father Almighty, | BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Sermon by Mr. Beecher on Individualism and the Influence of the Charch. Mr. Beecher preached yesterday morning to the usual overflowing congregation. Mr, Joha Zundeil resumed his old place at the organ, after an ab- sence of four months in Europe. The subject of the sermon was the liberty of the individual and church organizations. The text was selected from Ephesians iy,, 20-24—'‘But ye haye not so learned Christ; if s0 be that ye haye heard him and, have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus, That ye put of concerning the former conversation the old man, which 18 corrupt according to the deceitiul lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of ‘your mind; and tbat ye put on the new man, which aiter God 13 created in Tighteousness and true holiness.” It ig a doc- trine of the New Testament, sald Mr. Beecher, tuat the knowledge of God is made known through the production of the Divine Spirit in the man alone. Itis that part of the divine nature which is ensphered within us, and gives to us the most essential part of onr knowledge of the divine nature. The knowledge of Goa may be regarded as extraordinary, a8 rational, or internal or ex- perimental ‘There are two causes that turn our thought wore or less to the investigation of the divine nature, The one in the past has been as to the truth of the divine nature in philosophic sys- tems, And then teaching them in dogmatic forms, So tnat we approach THR MIND OF MAN on the rational state and in the subjection of the reason to the intellect. In our time the same tendency 18 Carried On iu the investigation of the progress of moral and physical sciences, s0 as to iurnish a knowledge of God to mun from the side of God’s working und irom His Creative side. Now both of these methods are, within certain hmits, indispensabie, and both of them desiwable in ac- | companying & representation o1 the divine na- ture; and that process by which God may be made Known to Man is one that differs frequently, anu is one that can go on without any substantial progress being made in the snternal and experi- Mental kuowiedge of God. Noman can under- stand anything of witch he has not in some Way % specimen in nimsell; no man can un- derstand courage ut! he has no courage; no man can understand reason li he has no reason. Our | knowledge of God depends upon how much of the imtertor nature Of God 13 reflected within our- selves. It 1s upon this principle the Churen is to know what it does know of God, The Church is made up of men liviug for God, an assembiy of elementary souls under un organization that are there tor that spiritual and special purpose; not | to the prejudice or the rejection o1 SECULAR ORGANIZATIONS, but of all men who know Jesus and who have car- ried within themselves something of His lise, ‘There 19 supposed to be a special sanctity in the moral instututaons of the world, and there is, just ag there 18 & sanctity in the household. Caurches | are but single channeis of influence. Did not God create the whole framework of society, as well as oi the Church’ Churches are not the only divine thiog, and when 1 look at sume of them I thank God that they are not. (Laughter.) The end that is sought inthe internal development of man 1s | that there should be a nobler, purer condition, deiivered him up Lo the jatlers uutil he showid pay | the last larthing, Let us apply the paraole:— ‘The servant wno owed the 10,000 talents is he Who 13 indebted to God to an enormous amount, because Of original and actual sin, This man, moved by some Special call from God, Seels that he lust reuder an account of all his debts; he falis down beiore God or the minister, confesses ail fs yuilt, seeks and obtains forgiveness, Going fort Irom the church, Where he knelt at tue tribunal Oi penance, he meets a broiler who offers hun some insult; he resents it hastily, cherishes il Wul against that brother and forgets Gou's indinite Mercy to nitasell, although he prays each day that God may t ercilul to im, as he has been to tue orgive Us, as We forgive those wno trespass against us." ie dies in that Stace of en- mity and hatred, and is aclivered up to the de- mons who shall torment him ior ever and ever. because thou besoughtest me; then, have had compassion also on thy fellow ser- vant, even as 1 had compassion on thee 2”? THIS DIVINE LAW of the forgiveness of injuries is contained in the prayer composed by Crist liimself in which we, as Members of one brotherbood, call on mmon jather, When Jesus taugnt us to say “Our Father,” He implicitly tuculcateu tae duty of forgiving in- | juries, But our saviour not only taught the duty, ‘He aiso set the example, When He prayed on tie | cross jor His executioners, and snail we, white looking on the cructdx cuerisn enmity? God nov only commands us to iurgive our enemies, bus threatens that if we do not He shall not torgive us:—"if you Will not Jorgive men neither will your Father iorgive you your ollences,”” ‘The titular saint of the Church in Which we are assembled gave a noble example ol the observance of Geu's command to love our brethern jrom our | hearts. When his enemies were cruelly stoning bin to — death he prayed his heavenly Father to forgive them; and im consequence of that prayer God changed the persecutor of Curist, Saul, into “the vessel of elecuon,” the apostle of the Gentiles. [f meu would out observe this com- miandment the reign of peace and good will would be es:abiisned here on earth and we would have a} joretaste Of the inedable peace which reigus in | heen. The music, Miner’s mass in A." was given with great success by the cuotr, under the direction of the organist, Mr. Daniorti, The choiris composed of Mine, Bredelli, soprano; Mile. Mumier, alta; Herr Ber’ t Signor Coletti, basso, aud aT chorus o1 twelve vou in the aiternoon Ceruti’s “Vespers,"! Blance's “salve Reama’’ and Corini’s “Panta Ergo” were sung in presence of an im- meuse congregation. OALVABY BArTiST CHUROH, “The Fading Leaf’=—Sermon by the Rev. R. S. MacArthur. Yesterday morning the pastor of the cuurch, preached @ sermon ou the subject of the “Fading Leaf.’ He took his text from Isatan, Ixty., O—“Anc we atl do fade as a leat.” The reverend gentleman said that recently, while passing the summer in Nyack, he made the study of jeaves a special one, aud he had de- voted much time aud much observation to the phenomen$n of the ever changing varieties of | the Rey. R. 8. MacArthur, | through God; this 18 the creation of Man in Christ Jesus, The end of tie Church 1s to make Cariscan nd every Caureh is invalid taut don’t. The of God in creation ts to oring men into that mep, design pittauce for which he was indebted to him, but in | Hkeness; and the Church 4s Invaluable just in pro- portion as it does this. It is of no consequence What the age, the association, we name or tne contiguity o1 (he Churcu may be. ‘the question is, does the Church inifil thisresult? A tree that won't bear fruitis DO better for baving a good name. Ihave planted } GIAPE VINES, acres of them, and they have been the very best kind of grape vines, Delawares, and all the other choice sorts, but there were many vines from waiich I didn’t get any grapes. Mildew was on the leaf, and there’ were spots on tne bunches. [don’t revile the grape abstractly. 1 say that they Were a very fine quality; but where the vines didn't grow grapes | say they were fail- ures. There is no Church that is sacred in itself because It has a sacted name or claims a certain Telationsiip to God, | do not say tuis tor the pur- | pose of undervaluing cuurches, but to stim- | ulate us to our duty to a migher con- | ception of what tug Church 1s to do. 1 declare the, right of every wan to develop | within himselt @ divine nature without any ex- | ternal aseistance. Men feel hit a man is nota 4 ‘ churen ane , ‘The just sentence prououuced against lum is:— | 200d Man i he don’t join a Churen and don’t join “Tnou wicked servant, forgave thee all the det | shouldst not thou, | The Church has claimed too much ascendancy and | ‘he right Churen and say the right catechism, too Much authority over the organization ol men. ‘The only reason for the combination of good men | is tocombine so as to develop a true Christian | jie. J insist upon it that men be toid the truth in | the language of the age in wich they live, and not wholly according to the formulas of bygone cen- buries. THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage on the Martyrdom of Stephen. A full and very attentive congregation was | present at the Brooklyn Tabernacie yesterday morning, when the pastor, the Rev, T. De Witt Tal- mage, D. D., preached a very eloquent sermon from Acts Vil,, 56 to 60, inclusive—"And said, be- hold, [see the heavens opened and the Son of May standing on the right hand of God,” &c. He began by saying that Stephen had been preaching a rousing sermon, such a sermon as people caunot stand; so that tis congregation got mfuriated at its truth and power and were seized with an impulse to rush him = out. They accord- ingly dragged him to the edge of the | clit and pushed lim over, and they then proceeded to hurl down stones upon him. It was While he was thus looking upwards at the vision vhat sustained hit, tnat, on nis knees, and drip. | ping with blood, ne offered those two beautiful prayers, the one for himself the other for his mur- | derers—"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit,” and ms jast Words—Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." | The preacher proposedjto speak, first, of stephen | gazing ito heaven; second, of lis looking at Curist: third, of his being stoned; fourth, of his dying braver, and, ffch, of his falling asleep. We Would Gil Of WS do weil to be often sound gazing, ike the thartyr, Into heaven, We have at home pon our walls, and delgut visit noble galleries of a but whay are galery 18 there to compare with that gor: | keous paiaee, lighted by God himsell, thas | Vision 01 St Joho rich With gold, purple sapplire and ali the precious stones, into which the kings ofthe earchare to bring their honor and glory. | | Ply in that blest abode, heaven, for, as they trends, advance in years, their whom they nave known on on th, poulti- e wa th 8. parture from us as we do the vessel’ which bears our ireuds to another shore, and stand looking alter them, as they go into heaven, even as we Tain our eyes to see that white speck of sail on the horizon. We tmagine them standiug in the ciouds with transfigured face and orm, and we inquire Of ourselves Whether they are ‘altered, whether they care for us, while in the still silen: we imagine that we fave the presence of their laithial hearts, and cal then by their names and ltaten while we gaze. Next, this steadiast gazing of Stephen en- abled him to see Jesus, Artists have delighted to imagine different representations of the Savion: and to portyay His features; but we should each individually seek both to see and to hear Him who ppactonsy invites all in the words ‘Look unto me,”’ { we see and hear not Jesus in this worid we shail only sce Him to our condemnation in the next; but faitn here takes the scales irom our eyes and reveals Him as He ts. Abasuerus invited ts nobles to banquet; George Ill entertained tbe aristocracy at the proclamation of peace; the Emperor of Russia welcomed the Emperor of France, and even the Emperor of Germany re- | ceived Mr. Bancroft at his table, heard of such an mvitation to those so jar away, to the abject, the degraded, the wretched and the poor? While such looking unto and realization of Jesus byJuith makes the face radiant which was clouded with sin, and the sin- ner hears His voice proclaim deliverance, around Whom all the nations of the earth wili gatuer. But they stoned Stephen, The world always Wants to get rid of 1ts good men, Who are a re- buke to If, its Ways and Its vices. Yet they couid not get rid of Stephen, for is not all Christendom Baw. full o1 his Jervor and elevated by the con- templation of the calmness and resignation of his martyrdom? The best of men are abnorred for Jaitiiuily doing duty, aud those Who udvo- cate moral and retigious reform, expose wicked- ness, and who would porify society and the Church, are anathematized by the newspapers and brought inte contempt and derision by the world, ‘They might stoue Stepnen, but they could not Kill him, He yet lives and now addresses ail the world; His words, telling of justification by faith and the resurrection, Dow live and enlighten the Churen, ‘The assauits on Wesley, who Was jostled, spit | Upon and had bricks thrown at bim while preach. ing, could not stop the spread of Methodism, of which he was the jather; and when our martyred President was assassinated by Booth there sprung drom his blood the hew itie ofa nation. The great care of Stephen in his last moments was that Jesus shonid recetve Mis soul. Is this our great care? Very little it matters Whether we are dis- posed of, so lar as the body is converned, by cre- mation or taumation; bus the allimportant | question is, where will our soul land? 8T. JOHN'S METHODIST CHURCH, Science and Religion—Prayer vs. Natu- ral Law—Sermon by Rev. H. W. Ware ren, D. D. At the conclusion of a series of able discourses which Rev. Dr. Warren has been delivering 1n St. Joun's Methodist church, Brooklyn, to large audi- ences, on “Man, fearfully and wonderiuily made, physically, mtellectually and spiritually,” he re- marked a week ago last evening that having been both a teacher of science and theology he thought he saw the solution of a problem mucn discussed | in these times, viz—‘Does prayer contravene Batural law? As that was the nounced for discussion yesterday the spacious edifice was filled by those desirous of hear- ing one of the ablest thinkers of the Meth- odist denomination descant upon the natural relation of sclence and religion, After the usual imtroductory religious exercises Dr. Warren read as a text the seventeenth verse of the fiith chapter of St, Jame “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and tt rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.” In his introductory remarks the speaker said that the early Grecian philosophy assigned a personal cause for every effect. When the green grass spread over Eleusis, Ceres did the work; when the clouds came from Parnes, it was Jupiter that ramed; and, then, as men grew wiser they found that matter had power, and chemical science sub- stitutes absorption and capillary attraction for Ceres, and meteorology substitutes heat, cold and currents for Jupiter. They have swept away theso gods, and men now desired to enthrone principies and laws instead of @personal God. The Christian philosopher con. ceded the utmost that was claimed Jor the rigidity of law; it is perfectly inexorable. Gravitation does not cease if we fall off precipices, and there is no mercy or compassion in it. But a little deeper thinking would show that these natural laws fall, as it were, into different departments, such as. gravitation and light, and also manifest themselves in vital and mental directions, and these departments do confiict in various ways. Gravitation would hold the ocean to its level, bat the sun contravenes gravitation, swinging it up in tides, lifting it up in mists, carry. | ing ite through the sky and pouring | it on the land. Coheston would hold rocks in perfect firmness, but heat and cold aissolve them imto dust. Momentum sends the ocean waves on the store, but the vital force in tbe animaicule builds up the coral reets and op- poses them. What is the law of victory in these contests? If we examine we find that the Fiore yields to the subtle, the low yields to the high. giliance with himgeif the bignest forces, With Weston’s muscle he travels a hundred miles a day; with wind, three hundred; wttn steam, six or eight hundred milesa day, He cannot tear rocks to pieces with his fingers, but he reaches into the heart of the mountain, puts his ethereal gas there and it tears its way out, Now, continued Dr. Warren, we bezin to see light. Laws are rigid, but were constitutiunally made to be overcome by this higher power. What are tne highest powers? Not to go through the nhystcal world, tt would be at once conceded that mental was above Material power; there ore Mad controis material Jaws to his own ends, There ts, too, a realm of feeling and spiritual power that shows a greater power even than mental action. tind's estimate ‘of this force was clearly seen in the fact that He conated the world at its cost—a word; wisdom or mental power He could bestow with a thought, but spiritual power was worth Its cost—tne life and death of Cnrist. The Redeemer of mankind Was satisfied to pay that great price because the worth wasso mich. This princtpie was evident when it was remembered that the Bible is a record of things impossibie to man. It tells of water up- right as a heap, water that 1s burned, and water that floats tron, = “Impossiie," says the sceptic. Yes, ft is so to those who know not the Scriptnre nor the power of God, Twice a year this world swings tuto the reaim of meteors, and these things from beyond the world light us up at nigut. Three hundred and sixty-five days in the year It rolis in the midst of spiritual powers superior to earth;* therefore miracies are in the realm of jaw. It is as natural Jor Water to burn as to quench fire, 1 you get the right kind of fre. Some one has asked with a Baeer— When the loose mountein trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease 1f Thon go by ? « No, not cease, but, if need be, be overcome with abigher power. Men feared confusion it law was thus abrogated; but the fact was that there was | this conilict constantly, yet only the low went down and the high ascended. might exist without light, but what a irozen world Uils would be! HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHUROH, BROOKLYN, Stealing as a Proclivity and a Profes- sion—Sermon by Rev. Justin WD. Ful- ton. At the morning service held at tie Hanson Place Baptist church yesterday Rev, Dr. Justin D. Pul- ton preached, His text was—'Thou shalt not steal.’ He began hia discourse by saying that these words were addressed to the children of Isiael as they were assembled on the plain be- | neatn Mount Sinai, the multitude numbering 2,000,000 of people. Never was there such asceue before aud never Will there be again until the last day. Toe commandment was delivered to a peo- pie who were pecuilarly surrounded by and exposed to the crime Of stealing and dishonesty of every | description, the book of Exodus were read by the speaker, ilustrating What was requisite satisty God tor violation of that divine precept whi ch was addressed individually, “Toou shalt not steal,” to each man, woman and child. The Israelites who were to be delivered from their enenues, the Egyptians, baa | in their possession & vast amount of jewelry and property which they had stolen from them, and He commanded them to desist from thelt. Do we recognize that itis God's Influence over Individ- | ual man that sustains the world at this hour? We talk of nations going to the bad because we see rulers going tothe bad, But here is a world going Vo the bad without this divine instruction, and we have to deal with a Goa, and without the sustain. ing power of God we could not survive. There is @ strong similarity between the Jewish nation of ola and our own American nation in tis respect. ROBBERY WAS BECOME A PROFESSION, Do you know that you cannot, therefore, toler. | tu this churen We are in- No wonder good peopie are foud of gazing tuto | debsed, have you ever cousidered bow deeply, to ate dishonesty and wrongdoing without injury to the community? But who ever | doctrine of the | topic an- | Man advances according a8 he takes into | The earth and sun | The laws of restitution laid downin | K nthose times to | , 5 good and fsithfal men in office, such as onr Mayor and a few members of the Board of Aldermen wha are associated with him for his and their labors, Do you not Kuow, then, that when you piace an honest wan in oftice you help religion and society ? We cannot afford to assist impurity or @ishopesty by countenancing tt in any place in life. Dishonesty was ever’ where in ancient [stael and 18 everywhere in America. Yet there are | honest men’ to be found iu places where dislone | esty has so often staiked Jorth, Against disione esty to-day there are to be jound in Wall street Merchant princes who are workiug manfully, and are We not under obligations fo them? Champions 0! honesty im every Waik of business and society represent colossal truth and are pa ed columns of strength, The speaker felt this fact, because We have got God among us. 80-CALLED PROGRESS, Stealing is, nevertheless. a peculiarity and a business aud this assertion ts Mantest and plain to ail, else we ask, ‘What means our strong houses, with iron bars At the Windows aud stroi bolts on the doors? What meaus the felegra| ines conuecting our dymiciles with the police Stations to give the alurm when necessary ? What are hundreds of pulicemena patroiling opr Streets iu the day and night for? hy do those armed boats ply alog | the shipping of tue merchant marine in our bar- bor in the siteut hours of the night. What need have we of coustabies and sheriils if tt 1s not tua aiter- ove thousaud years of so-called progress men are prone to steai *” Stealing is not confined to men, tor it Must be said there 1s much dishon- esty among Women. Besides tue 1emale shoplifte ers and dishonest domestics their are wives Wao take thelr husvands’ mouey and “wonder where it is” When he asks abou! it. Servants steal tea und sugar {rom their toasters. Chidren take that which belongs to tucir parents, dlen go to the Market and think they are buying two pounds of | Meat, Whereas they get only One pound and ) three-quarters. He Was sorry to say there were those who went outside their church to deal with otters, abd in so doing they are irequently de- frauded, The child has @ procitvity tor stealing: sugar; yet you cannot afford to keep sugar under lock and key. It would be better to have a dr: man carting sugar to your house every week than to excite that desire of the child to get these sweels surreptitious), The first inspiration to steal is the lock and key. The first attempt to take that which did bot belong to us Was always ute tended by a pressure of the outstretched hand and @ pressure of outraged conscience, which echoed | an our hearts the diviue commandment, “Thow shalt not steal.” KLEPTOMANIA, WE ARE TOLD, IS A DISEASE, Stealing has been interpreted by that name, Surely, then, kleptomania 1s a terrible disease, A young woman had fora long time veea persist | ently requesting the speaker to pray for her, and he had done 80. Une evening alter services she sougnt an aucheuce with hit, and with paiid face and trembling said she was @ thief, She said 810 could uot resist the temptation to steal every turn: that she could get her bands on at times, an there were many articles then im ver house which had nm stolen trom peuple. He advised her to make @ restitution al once; but she said she dare not, sie would” be arrested. “Well,” said the speaker, “I would rather go to heaven irom a jail than to hell irom @ house built of stolen gooas.’’ The young wo | man went off and made restitution as {ar as her power and was happy theacelorth, Nothing but restitution will cure the sin, Restitution 1s to stealing woat coniession ts to lying, and a new lie | begins with the remedy, Many have fatled to re- | form because their contrition has been unaccom.- panied by rescitution, Where there 1s no desire to restore what is taken | THE SPIRIT TO ROB WILL RULE, He knew of men who are in prison to-day and who have ill-gotten money in keeping, awaitin, | enjoyment upon their regaiming freedom. ‘They | Will go to hell unless they make restitation, as there 18 no eXpiation without restitution, A thiel in prison remains a thief until covetousness 1g supplanted by the spirit of iove, Piilering 18 @ Prolession, because as such we tolerate it. You can haraly pay tribute enough to traitors. Se¢ the position given the rebel Lee, by our news- papers, in all allusions to tue man. Yet Lee went out irom under the shadow of Washington, went out from under the government whicb fostered his fatuers and himself, and de livered the most awful blow against mm the world, Honor him if you i, but to me it Somesiing frightful, If a man steals a rig you scorn him athiel, Ifhe steais a militou of dollars you honor and respect bun. If te sieals two mullious of dol- lars he becomes “Boss ol the town.” stealing 18 the Curse of business, and 1s behind stagnation in every trade and branch of industry. The speaker concluded his discourse by urging his hearers to unite individually in making public jeeling healthy and respected,su that for the future it may be known that a great thief is worse than & small tnlef. Put rogues 10 the pil- Jory and drive them from public place and power vy your individual effort. By so doing society will be purified, and the tes of brotherhood wii) expand and the spirit of truth will permeate tae moral atmosphere, which is now so strongly taimted by disobedience to. the command of God, “fhou shalt Dot steal”? A BAPLIS. CHURCH WAR. To-morrow the Long Island Baptist Associs- tion wil meet in annual session with the Geth- gemane Baptist church in Brooklyn, on which occasion some fun of an ecclesiastical sort may be expected. It will be remembered that a year ago this assoctation had a hard fight over the Lee avenue Baptist church, which is regarded aa heterodox on the communion question, One party was for turning 1 out of fellowship, while another party pleaded strongly for caution ang calmness in dealing with the defiant caurci, U was then supposed that the church was more of | thodox than its pastor, Kev. J. Hyatt Smith, Bas | this can no longer be claimed, for at a church meeting called irom the puipit recentiy and Ja! attended the most periect unanimity prevailed touching the subject matter in controversy be> tween the churca and the association. | A COMMITTEE ON ORTHODOXY. | Last fall the associat.on appointed a committee | to inquire into the status aud orthodoxy of Lee avenue Cauurch, That ciurch demurred to tue appointment o! any such committee, but waving Us rigat of dependence it bus had trequent care Tespondence With that comnmuttee during the year, ‘The resale Was that tue committees propounded @ series 0: questions to aswered by Lee avenue chareh aud on which tue committee uugnt base ite Teport to the association, The church in its answer to tae commitiee says that it has looked caremuly over the records of the association, and does Not anywhere flud that the association adopted a con- Tession 1 faith, so that tie question of the commit tee, “Has the Vaurch deparied iro. ihe saith held by the association?” Cau have Qo pertivence to tam controversy. The churca cites its oWa confession Of faith, adopted in 1863, When {tt organized and was received 1ulo leilowship, and deciares Unat i stands by that confession to-day, The courel stands upon the Baptist doctrine of iudependenes, It declares itselt strongly ta avor ot beitevers! baptism by Mmmersion, bub does not feel itself bound to drive irom the Lord's tabie auy recog. nized disciple of Christ whose heart is mghtin lle signto, God. The supper is & commemoraave | ordinance, aid the believer is responsible to God alone iu bis communion, In auswer to another question of the committee, the church declares Uiat ib repels the insuib odered to it ab the inst. tution of the Marcy aveaue Bapuse courch. Toe committee also ask, “Does the Church believe fa mixed communton, ag held iast wivter in the Beds tord avenue Keiorimed church (Ur. Porter's)?” Lee avenue cuurch ausWers adlrimatively, and dates 1is revival, Which has couunued up to tuis Ue, | Irom that event, ~ ASTRONOMICAL SOIBNUE, | | A New Survey of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. We learn from the Aevue Scientifique, of Paria, | that a new survey of the northern celestial hemts- | phere ts in course of execution by the astronomers | Of the present day. The first was pertormed by | the celebrated Lalande trom 1785 to 1798; the Sici | ian Piazzi came next; Bessel revised Lalande’s | catalogue of stars in 1821, and flnisned his labors | in 1833; Argelander, aided by Sechoenield and Krue- ger, undertook the observation of all the stars | visible at Bonn, and not beiow the tenth magut | tude, This enormous work, comprising 342,129 | stars lying between the North Pole and the second degree of south latitude, was Unished in 186% But such strveys must be renewed at intervals mistakes may have sipped in, omissions may have to be suppued and certain stars, supposed to be fixed, may turn out to be planetary im Some’ olen sytem iin our solar one. A bew revision has therefore been commencea | under the auspices of the German Astronomical society, aid lourteen observatories Rave Te | sponaed to the appeal, viz, Puliowa, Dorpat, ngiors, Bonn, Leyden, Catbridge, aig, Newichacei, Manuheim, Beran, Christiania, ago, Camoridge, United States, and Palermo, at of Pucowa, Russy ation of the 020 tandy t 1 HOUT Sha considered becessary Jor tue precision oF the New catalogue, At Dorpat, Russia, M. Schwartz has assumed the | survey of the zone lying between the Toth ony jotn degrees north dechnation; it contains 6, stars. At Helsingiors, Russia, MM. Krueger, Fae 1 Levoeinen are engaged ip revising tue | degrees porth declination, At Fonn, Higle Wu Sehoevleld Lave assumed Lhe saine task Jor 40-50 degrees; at Leyden, M. Kaiser does the 80-35 degrees; at Harvard Colleme, Came bridge, United States, Mr. J, Winiock lus chosen the 60-55; the Observatory of Trmity, Vambridge, | takes the 30-45; at Leipzig, M. Brabus surveys the | 10-15; at Newichatel i. Llrseh observes the 20-40; | at Berlin, M. Auwers sweeps the 16-25 zone; at \ Carisuiania, Norway, C, Poaruley periorurs the same Task 4s My Soun i | Gove at Kazan by M. howol | Mitherto named may ve cousidere slage Of Coupletion, The joLowing are i¢s3 ad. vane Mannhettn, M. Schoeareld, the Lo zone: | Palermo, M. Cacciatore, thas iyuig vetweettet | degree northera deciington and 2 degrees south declination; last M. sadord hat observed 9,300 star's of the 36-40 “ome borthera SEAN Ween tne ternibte tire of 18t1 Pat a Stop tor hi labors, and itis not to be foreseed when Leamay | resume Wicii ia Chat cithe