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a PULPIT TOPICS, Mr. Talmage Denounces Theatres— Mr, Frothingham Extols Little People. | HEAVEN, EARTH, PURGATORY, HELL Eulogies of Bishop Bacon—The Great Sacri- | fico—Recognition of Friends in Heaven, THE DEVIL'S TACTICS LYRIO HALL. All Souls’ Day—Worth of Little People. The congregation at Lyric Hall was even larger than usual yesterday. Mr. Frothingham delivered an eloquent discourse on Al! Souls’ Day. He | gsaid:—My sudject last Sunday was All Saints’ Day. All Saints’ Day is xed for the 1st of Novem- ber, and commemorates the saints; the 2¢d is — All Souls’ Day and commemorates the sinners, The sentiment of All Saints’? Day is that | of honor, praise, reverence, gratitude in those who have shown a periect life and have helped win signally in the development of their characters. The sentiment of All Souls’ Day ts thatof tender pity and compassion towards those who nave struggled and failed and are struggling | now in search of peace. The custom was early in- stituted, and meant simply this, that all believing people should remember on a certain day those in purgatory, and by masses and prayers do what they could to shorten their torment. It was nat- ural in the days when the belief was held that mortals could avail with immortailty by prayers. This custom prevaiis no longer except in one Church, where ignorance is the prevauing condi- tion still. Itis not altogether unmeet for us, who Bave discarded the superstition, to remember the day. Sometimes it is easy enough to remember tbose who have enricned our tives and it 18 not hard either to remember those who have wronged us, but to think of all—all the dead, ‘With the calm, considerate, even judgment of lellow es On earth, is not easy, but Lt is our duty. lt 18 a great mistake to think of tue dead us Vanishea—as Unreai—absent. Oh! they are very Yeal, more real oiten than the living are, for as often as we rememoer them they are with us, and until we are auninilated they will live. Deati bas made them real, und they stand belore us, pure souls, simple intelligences, consciences not dis- guised, DEATH CREATES ANGEM® AND SPIRITS. Witbout death there would’ only be bodies. How present the dead are! Yhey haunt the homes where they ounce lived. Do you domot the power pfihedead?® Doubt anytiainy rather than that. They are all-powerlul; they are che ruers. The great Coniucius, who has been @ shade tor so Tuany ceuturies, is a living power, a saviour in thousands of homes m the vasc Empire of China. Moses and the grim, haggurd prophets have lela im their sceptre hauds the race of Hebrews trou earuest times tll to-day, 1 ransfgured Christ, Gead anu buried, reigns supreme vyer all the worid of Christendom. As We think of these thiogs is it not borne in Upon Us Witu tremefdous power that tue dead are the real peopie ava we tueir Bubjects’ aud Is it nut only a Privilege to think of them, bat a boly duty? Letus think of some of the offices the dead still periorm for us. Jake, Oirst, the religious men. There are not so many who are conspicauus in this world. ‘They work not with their tauds, but with their hearts they reveal tue strength oO! faith, the mignt of love. They teach us to cail God father and mother and men wrothers, They are dead! Let us be thankiul they are alive. Take a diferent class of the Gead, those who think ou divine thiags— theologiaus we cali them. ibedlogians in tucse days bear avery hard name. sy (hose who speak Kindiy they are spoken Of aS men Who have lost their way—men who went alter nothing and jouud tt. They who speak more sternly speak of them as dec Ts, cheats aud tyrants, Here we are to- day to try abd throw oil the burden of prejudice the theologiaus have weigyted us with. hey are and we can afford co rememoer them gently, god in thinking of them we ought to remember two things—trst, we should be profoundly grate- ful for their nonrisbing and begetting, almost, the love of truth; second. that hey have made it so much easier to und the wuth than it would have been but for them. REMEMBER THE DEAD, I pass by the conspicuous figures and think of the ‘vast araiies of the tuilers aud deivers of the earth ‘who have passed away and leit nO trace except their works. | honor August Compte tuat, in mak- ing bis religion of humamty im place of the Roman Catholic saints, he substituted for every @ay of the year one of these hard working, toiling men. “Ali souls are mine,” saith the Lord; are Bot these God's, too’ It is easy to remember the great; do we remember the little” ‘ine littie have Made the world, not tae grea. I is to the little ones we indebted for the best gifts we enjoy; the great ones gre very few. Think how many there ure who have never heard 0; Raphaei or Beetho- ven, who die ungoticed and unkown, who read but few books and see but few peopie, touching oriy the hands of their kindred about them, pass througa lie utterly ignorant of the immense re- sources within their reach, abd yet these myriads Of littie people Dave bulit bomes and trained chil- dren, generation aiter generation, in endless suc- cession to the present. We tuink of them us a Mass, as we used to tuink Of the milky Way; but it you look at this vast cloud of dead and anaisze them you will see that each individual had a mis- Sion—did stand ior something. Faitu, that power by which humanity sireicues lorth its hangs alter the unseen tuings, What is it bat the combined and concentrated effect of generations on generations of small men, who have beeu doing eXactly that thiog, and thus created the capacity 10 ourselves. What is hope? That power by which all men train their eves through tue dark present to tatch a glimpse of some more beautiuul sature, aud yet that is pnt the conceutrated radience Men have shot jorward jor generations. Chari What is it but the combined and accumulated Kinoness of ali these geuerations. ratence—the force oy which we stand under difficulties aud en- dure; What is it bus tne result of the imnume are efforts made by these litte men tw h felves up. Truth— is 1t but the that veracity is wha ds men the boud that actually hold ge thers what is it but the straimmg ail these nvisible people after some bond of continuity, 1a ail our cuurches to-day the dewa make the pray- ‘3 Waich te living murmur. ‘The dead wrote the Seriptures whica living read. ay nothing but good of the ¢ is ay old proverb, fae dead cannot say anyt Two orders of angels *ho ie: angels who frighten the g iu their own deience, nkind—vrigat t le and dark y rom darkness We, being neither Catholic nor Protestant - tng outside, are able tu read the history as it is, Let us have our “Ail Souis’ Day,” butlet i not bea ngle day in the ye when, by obeying tablish the love of 8T, STEPHEN'S CHURCH, Sermon by the Rev. Father McCready= The Devil's Tactics—Scandal His Chief Weapon. The services at St. Stephen's yesterday morning Were of tle ustal solemn and imposing character, High mass was celebrated by tie Rev. Father McCauley, and the Rev. Father McCre; preached Qo elogucnt sermon on “Scandal.” Lie selevted as but every dav—every hour, law of Kindness, we can es- truth. bis text:—“And whilst men were as he enemy came and cversowed cuckles among the wheat,” Matthew xill., 25, and said:—The parable read in \us day’s gospel has the rare advantage of being one of the only two which our divine Lord has ween fit to interpret. Stripped of its imagery and Ggurative language this parable teaches us that the devil, the enemy of God, ‘he encmy of all that is good, the persistent enemy of God’s kingdom on earth aud of man's eternal happmess, is ever vigi- lant and 2 He is uuceastng in bis endeavors to destroy rk which Christ came on earth to estab) bis he tries to efect by dissomino ting jalse doctrines iclous NMaXims among the people of God a as preventing the good seed, the eva ical precepts avd counsels of Christ and of God's holy jaw and commanaments srom springing up and or: 1g forth THe FRUIT OF HeavENLY vintUR im men’s souls. We tind that vy the “ood seed” is Meant the just by the “coch are meant of (the wicked one, Bhose Who work teem.” ‘Vve covire puravie ul t« mately resolves itseif into a deseripiucn of the Jametitabie efects which » $in the Worid among Ulrist’s Culds meni oi the dreadiul puoi ined whali have liad tho unbappiuces or miving scandal to their bretiren. What, ther, are We to understand by scandal? According to tre Cy rmlogy of the word i @ Stumbling block, someting IM the w Which One way Strike bisivob and fall, Aypiyin this in 4 spiritaal sense scandal may he devine “goy word or uct or oinissiou of itseli aud uncer the circamstances calculated to induce another to tx, fo fall away from the grace of God and s0 to | | Pampliets and books which the emissaries ching NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY cause ois spiritual ruin. Unhappily this sin too common tn the worid. It seems rth men were banded together for no other Purpose than the spiritual destruction of eacn otber. Scandals ere dany brought to ligutia the poutical, social and no chance of escaping from the vengeance of God if | even religious world. These are reproduced and He 1s dis d. Christ expiained tius very plainiy | Sensauiona'ly served up to pander to the morbid | Himscif when Hesaia, “if youare uot with you are ppetite, the prurient minds and diseased imagi- against me.” Our choice then, between these Daious Of a scandal loving public. These are bad | two. If our lives are & constant endeavor to | enough, but still worse are the prints and evil One Send Lroadcast over the jand, thu ing pure mindy, corrupting innocent 18 an dragging multitudes dow2 to the lowest depths of Sip aod degradation. it were, indeea, an idle, 1f not 1mpossible, task to recount the many ways and lorms in which Christians can be, and all, Rig of this le Magnify it as we may, i: 18 equally impossibie to form a just estimate of THE MALICE OF SCANDAL. With truth might our Lord exclaim, on seeing the cockie of scandal everywhere growing in the World arnong His most cherisved seed, “An euemy hati done this.” Assuredly they must be enemies indeed who thus unite with the arch enemy of God aod man in overthrowing His kingdom on earty. If a just and terrible retribution overtake not the giver of scandal in the midst of his career of crime, let him not be over-confdent or fatter himself that he will escape. Tue sower would Dot nave the cockle to be pulled up irom the midst of the wheat. He tells ms servants to leave tt till the harvest. His justice now seems to sicep, But He has said, ‘Vengeance 1s mine, and 1 will 1e- pay.’ “I shall send my angels and they shall gather up out ot my kingdom ali scandals and Workers of iniquity and snail cast them into the lurpace of fire, and there shali be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”” CHUROH OF THE INOABNATION. Memorial Services to the Rev. H. E. Montgomery, D. D.—Sermon by Bishop Whipple. Very interesting services were held in this e | church, corner Madison avenue and Thirty-fiftn street, yesterday morning in tribute to the mem- | ory of the late Rev. H. E. Montgomery, D. D., who ‘Was during tne past nineteen years the rector of this church, The Right Rev. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, preached the sermon. His text was St. John xi., 28—“And when she had so said she went her way ana called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, the Master is come and calleth Jor thee.’” The peculiar force of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is, he began, that it is the gospel of the heart. It tells us of people who lived in the world iike ourselves and who pore sorrows as we do, We all love to linger on it. The world was bright and beautiful, but the stricken hearts of Martha and Mary asked for con- solation. Their hearts turned to that One whose divine compassion is never withheld. Martoa went out to meet Jesus. Her womin’s heart had but one thought. shall She could not fathom the eurrection, but she believed in the power of Jesus Christ. So she nastened with gladness to tell Mary that the Master had come. Jn this text, then, do I tind my lesson jor to-day. A man who but a short Line ago was telling me oF his plans, and who was tnentull o: generous lite, is dead. I know of nothing in human exverience whicn so touches the heart as the soul Misting trom its earthly temple. This 1s a bereaved parish; the pastor bas been called away. Very awiul and mysterious is death, but not more so than the resurrection, My heart misgives me as L turn to speak of that heart which LIVED FOR CHRIST AND DIED IN HIM. Of his youthiul lite | know tnis—the friends of his youta were the Iriends of nis manhood. In his youth he gave up ailior Christ, While a theolog- ical studcot he visited dissant missions, and by his bravery won the jove o! all, Haa God so ordered bis lie would have beeu spent in this way; but a parisi iu Philadelphia needea his services soon aiter he was ordained, and he be- came their pastor. The mission became @ well ordered parisi, but Men GOD CALLED BDI here. Here be jound s straggling parish, but I cannot write a history of it, He was the best of pastors, because le was the best of men. He was one of the ‘usiest meul ever knew, and one of the most trutniul. He bated shams. It was not a truth of word alone that he respected, but a truth of ite. He was a brave aD, but such meu are always brave. He never considered what the world would think, He was a weil cultured imag, but his theology was of tie simplest kind. His unwavering trust made bim jaithial to the Church. My brethren, weep not for toe dead, bul lor the living. Weep for those who are fighting lile’s battle. Your old pastor will never again plead with you to work in God's viue- yard. You will not forget his lessons while the grass 1s not yet grown over his grave. THE MASTER CALLED HIM. His death was not that sudden death from which, iu the holy iltanies, we pray the Lord to deliver us. He heard the Master’s voice culling him and he Went. Lshare this sorrow in commen wiih you. We must puri, 1 to my Western diocese and you to your business. Rewember that ior each of us tuere are hours of preparation and then our time will come. JOHN STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUROH, The Great Sacrifice—Sermon By Dr. Darby, of Columbia, S.C. The old Jobu street Methodist Episcopai church was filled to its utmost capacity yesterday by 2n eager throng, to listen to the words that jell irom the lips of Dr. Osgood A. Darby, of Columbia, S. C. The minister took his text from Geuesis, xxii, 2— “Take now thy sou, thine oniy son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, aud yet thee mto the land of Moriah.” Said the preacher:—in those days much of the world was idolatrous—people worshipped when, where and what they pieased—ana it was to cor- Tect this error, a8 well as to try the faith und trust of Abrabam, that God ordered him to take bis only son, whom he so dearly loved, and slay bin. Finding, however, that the mau Was willing to obey divine laws, even though he killed nis frst born, the Lord sent iu time His angel from heaven to stay his hand, This order to Abratiam was bot the order o1 an arbitrary Creator. He ordered nothing more of the man tha He was willing todo bimseif. God sent His ouly begorten Son into the world to redeem it, and He did so by the sacritice of His own precious life, Gou, though He could have done so, stayed bot His own wand when the Saviour of the world Was nailed to tue cross aud the cruel spear pierced Tlis sidg. Goud Joved His Son as no mortai can love, bat to Save (his wicked world He offered Him up asa sacrifice, and tie Christ that died that we might live did His Father's bidding witnout a murmur, and died saying, “Father, thy will be done, not mine.” ine order to Abrabam was evidently intended as @ forerunner of what the Great Creator intenced to do eventually ior the worid. He had created it, but those He created had not obeyed His divine commands. He did not wish to destroy every vestige ot what He nad made, and so by the wondrous working of His mighty will He devised the plan of SACRIFICING HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, that the world migut hve. And, said tue divine, in this Christ that so loved us—have rust Him—we shal, like Him, have . the example setus by Jesus Curist a beautiful one, and the cross’ He lett us to curty nota dard uve to Lear. He bore 1t for us; ile asking too much when He asked us to rv His Saxe, now that He tarred no longer 4 with men, but had gone to dwell with iis Patherand the angels in heaveu? The laws that He laid down jor us wheu He was ou earth aie plain and pot hard to ovey. They are em- braced tn a few simple and beautiiul remark: from lips tha Ki a8 NO Man ever spoke vel ur e€, “Love the Lord thy God, rough Jesus Christ.” [eis at ing to receive and Christ has ome to me J will in nowise cast ye JUis an Invitation that couid emanate only ch # man as Was tie viessed Saviour of tne CENTRAL BAPTIST OHURCH. Sermon by Mr. Irving, of Glasgow=—Jus- tification by Faith. The Rev. Mr. Irving, of Glasgow, Scotland preached yesterday morning and eventng in tbe Ceutral Baptist church in Forty-second street, In the evening he spoke upon “Justification by Faith.’’ He said that it was not the province oi a judge at @ court of law to give pardon, court had two prerogatives—elther to acquit or condemn. The idea of paraon suggested that of lorgiving, and this belonged only to tne palace or the monarch. But this was God's privilege. He was the Supreme Ruter who vould justify. When fe ted jaan and all animais He said they were i tiey were when iirst made. re 1 three convitions belors God, con. acd, justiicd or acquitted, and these ‘three ested three conditions of peing, either being 1eced, righieous or guod. This, Of course, ap- pled to Meu abd womeo and not to chudren, who, bot having apy wii o1 their own in the sin of vivth might be considered as innocents, Bul aiter Adam veil and (he oiginal sin was upon brow only t¥o conditions rewaincu, aud, roas all creation was beiore pronounced goud, bis Wunsgression made ali hable to the sin Which owitted, since that time tiere 1only two conditivns, the condenned ustified, he wicked aud the righteous, 1 have ceased to be and we upon the merey of God, deals 1b ont as Wwe ure righteous or bad. All the teachings of the Bibie suppove these cwo conditions, We hear of the Wheat ana the cham, the tares and the piauts, the sheep and the goots, the tlean and the unclean, and ail the numerou tions from the Bibie to prove that jor mau inere are only the CONDITIONS AND NO THIRD, of our de f Hon plainly to us, We axe to. enoose between she id | whosits above like a monaren and judges us by ,Jesus sald to her, “Thy brother | The | uon, theo. of our own justification be- | Ii the apis oue, and We have pot the excuse iriends there, would tiv ibt on the subject, God puts the ques- out to hunt tiem up? Lamb on one side and the publicans and harlots on the other, We cannot even deceive ourselves ip any belief that we are. a that which we should not do. There is no midd: ition and | Some person: repeat? | would, in all probability | please Him, then He may justiy us, but there is no | possibility of apy other condition put condemna- lon, God is the great ruler who may pardon us, | the acts which we commit and by our jaith tn Him. Uf we live Hygptoonsly and inrespect for the laws of | God, then He may pardon and save us. If we live | otherwise, eternal suffering will be the penalty, | Mr. Irving elaborated upon this tueory of the justification of man by faith and preached a very | edective discourse, 8T, PATBIOK’S CATHEDRAL. The Roman Catholic cathedral in Mott street was crowded at the hali-past ten o’clock mass yesterday morning. The altar and its surround- ings wore am unusually impressive and solemn | aspect, and the sanctuary, robed in all iis trap- | pings, carpeting and tapestry, reflected the one | leading idea which brought the large congrega- | | tion together—tre Most Rev. Archbisuop McUios- | | Key was expected to officiate. The Archbishop, | ; however, had to disappoint his “loving children.” | He bad gone to Portland, Me., to attend the | juneral of Bishop Bacon. The services at the cathedral were, however, no lesa interest- | ng. Rev. Fatner McNamee officiated as ceie- | tenet, attended by a deacon and sub-deacon. But the great feature of the services was the music, the excellent rendering of “Schmidtz’s | Filta Mass.” specialiy composed by the organist, | Mr. Gustavus Schmidtz, tor the first oMiciation ot | the Archbishop on iis return trom his tour in | Europe. The various parts, *‘The Kyrie,” ‘“Glo- | ria,” “O Salutaris Hostia.” “The Venia Creator” and “Agnus Dei,” were all finely sang. ‘ihe same | | mass will probably be performed next suudzy, | | when the Archbishop will no doubdt oifictate, The sermon was by the Rev. Father Jonu Kane. | He selected his text Irom St. Matcnew, xi., He explained very eloquently tue parabie o! sowing of the cockle and the wheat and the | gatuering up of the samo with care and discretion. | le Was listened to taroughout with great atten- tion. SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL OUR | | | | Christian Perfection To Be Looked for | in Eternity. Rev. Dr. Wild preached yesterday morning from | Hebrews, vi., 1:—‘Therefore, leaving the principles | of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfec. | | thon.” The speaker alluded to the redemption of the soul and the charm which tmmortaiity lent to | | life. Man and the atonement were beautifully co- related by means of the rich and ample provisions of redemption, and man’s destiny might be as se- | cure as grand, Without this remedial scheme man was helpless and weak. The creature was alienated from the Creator, but in Christ he was | brought nigh, and located and privileged with a | competence of endowment and opportunity to keep the divine law, please his Maker ana work out his own salvation—a salvation that guarau- | teed the sweetest assurances of peace and | security for time and eternity, Real pro- Tess was possidle, for ile and lile’s jabors are coutinuous. Each day of practical | obedience was increased power. lous diligence | won heaveniy commendation and the reward of grace. The plaos and lavors or the Christian were not confined to earth or limted to time; they laid hold on eternity. Death stays not his hand nor Jrustraves his desigus, but simply changes the base of his operation, trausplautng Its ooject to a fairer clime and a holier sphere. On throug ceaseless ages the soul will coucinue to unlold its NeVer-to-be-eXhausted power, passing on irvum | system to sysiem, irom cycle to cycle, amid the | novuntide splendor of a never-failing day. If we | understand the doctrione of Christian perfection argbt we shall see an endiess gual, becoming more and more assimilated :o the nature and character of God. 1t 1il comported with the aig- nity and destiny of mau to be governed by a worldiy policy, to be so time-serving as to neglect his most vital and lasting interest. It Was @ sad sequel to the giadiatorial struggles of lve when deato annulled our contracts and despoiled us of our heart treasures, and then, robbed and be- | reaved, sorrowiul and desoairing, without hope in. | Christ, the sun of lite sank into a deep night, the spirit returned to God who gave tt. It was weil to | let our plans be commensurate with our being and in harmony with the divine economy. Man’s | first and greatest: duty was to accept tue principles | and doctrines of Christ, and then to go on unto perfection. Permapent ana revi Christian proge Tess Was only poxsible by laying down such a !oun+ dation and building wisly and sately thereon. | ‘Lao Doctor's sermou was long and able. In clos- img be adjured his hearers to strive to become periect in Christ, who Was their righteousness and sanctification, that they might reach thar goal that | led higher and higher unto the periect day. | 8T, ANDREW'S CHURCH. | | The Rev. Father Ferris on the Beauti of Catholicity. Yesterday morning a large and attentive con- gregation was present at the bigh masa in &t. Andrew's, which was celebrated by Father Cur- ran, Immediately after the first gospel the Rev, Daniel Ferris, late of Beifast, Ireland, delivered a very instructive discourse on the beauty or the Catholic religion. He trst demonstrated now glorious and how worthy of man’s love is the Church in her dogmas, and then pointed out how vhe precepts which she imposes are most con- ducive to man’s happiness and the well being of society. In conclusion he gave an admirable ex- position of the love of the Churen for ber children | by showing that the instant we come into the world she receives us into her arms by pouring on our heads the saving waters of bapusm, aud from that time forward she never loses sight | of us, Scarcely have we come to tne use of reason when she confirms us in tne jaith by anotoer sacrament, and during our entire journey through this ‘valley of tears’’ sue is ever Tready to regenerate us by the sacrament of pen- ance and vourish our souls with “tne bread of ent witn the sacrament of extreme unction to re- ceive our last sigh and give back our souls into the hands of Him who created them. in return for all these favors she expects us to espouse ber interests, to sympathize with her in her sorrows, to share in her joys and to applaud athertriumpns. We should apply ourseives, as to asource of joy and consolation, to tne Church, our tender mother. We stouid find our gioryin her doctrines, our bappiness in the observance of her precepts, and our salvation in the abundance of the aids which she offers us to win the crown of eternal glory. | SEVENTH STBEET M. E, CHURCH. | The Recognition of Friends in Heaven— Sermon by Rev. William P. Corbit. The Rev. William P. Corbit, pas‘or of the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal churcn, preached yes- | terday morning to a large and exceedingly atien- tive congregation. Lis theme was the recogni- tion of friends io heaven, the text being trom St. John Xiv., 1-3, ‘Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, beiieve aiso in me.” The reverend preacher introduced the subject | by dwelling on the magnificent thoughts contained in the three remarkale verses quoted above. There never had been a shadow ofa doubt as to the meeting of the good in heaven, but one ques- tion which had frequently been asked and never decided was whether they would kuow one another. | Me (the preacher) took the affirmative side of the | question, for tais view of it was clearty taugnt by | the text of the morning. Jesus said that there were | many mansions in His Father's house, and that | | He went to prepare a place jor them. Now, why should He lay stress upon tie fact of their tuture | meeting if they Were hot to know one another? He (the preacher) would deai with the matter in | the most common sense manner, and first of all | he wonild cull attention to the significant fact that | even tie pagans of the ancient times beliaved in | tuts doctrine. Homer enunciated it in a most une | mistakable manner, and Cicero expressed tae hope | of again meeting his loved Cato in the better | world, Passing irom these great naimes of the an- cient World to the untutored children of natare, the savage aborigines of Aiuerica, they sound the | sung bellef prevailed. THE WHOLE JEWISIL NATION, With the exception of One i} branci, who were | not Worth noticing, also | ed in this doctrine | of heavenly recognition. Take David, for lustance, | and alter the deat Of his cuild te Wook of ms SuckcloLh and ashes and Hauilested composure of mind, He said to his servants, who were aston. 1 at this, that as he could save ine lie of tie child “he could ¢ Some sceptical minds would provably o at he onjy meant he would go inte tue c crave, but Clits objec. top wus not worthy vus consideration, — Alt the Ulterances ol thie | sinus Of the Jewish Tace Mdicated tat tuey vely hearts, never allowed (nemse.ves to be separated from their acar ones by death, Thus botn paguns and Jew avowea this soiema wud high do Did not every reined soul € the hope at parting with beiov d# OF Meeting, if not ny. earto, at all events in heaven? No ma pers nal identity, and eve himsen by arsociaio. | coud thus identity th | they not be equati went to © clear O: lis vuid remember and memory. And if they cnviGda.ilies way snould mber their rends? aud knew that they iad Y HOt mMmeutately start | When it was ii rivile; W be there, fouricen years ago, he War ellen 200 | durop miles to meet a friend, Thus it eagle ff ge @ had said tha. sucn violent , come over them that they would be unable to recognize one another. But Ua child died forty years ago did the father not remember it just as well now as he did soon after his death? Another Important consideration was that the body would be mangled death, but the soul conld not. The soul would remain the same aiter death; po, it would not only remain tho same but it would also Improve, Why, could le forset the hmeaments of bis sainted mother and father? Ah, never, and he thei again in another and a better worid. the reverend preacoer tm liuded to an ocour- rence at Cape May, where ho saw two young ladies who recognized each other, alter a suort time, a8 cousins. Suppose he were at @ hotel in San Francisco aud lis brother, whom had not seen lor fifty years, were sitting at the same tale with bim. Pernaps they would not recognize each other at first, but he probably would offer the sup- posed stranger a dish, asking hita politely, “Will ou have sume of this, my friend ?? and this might lead to @ conversation, resulting in a loving re- cognition. Instances of this kind could be muiti- piled a hundred fold, ON THE SUBJECT. J&SUS’ UTTERANG! The Saviour, it would be remembered, went to raise Lazarus irom the dead, and satd to Martha. y brother shall rise again.” Now, if the sup- pliant, Lazarus’ sister, would not knuw him again, . What was the use of thts promise? Was there any consolation in it unless He meant recognition? Then, again, Jesus represeated heaven as a place of soclul enjoyment. Could Jacob sit down beside his dear son Joseph without recognizing him? ‘Take the transfiguration scene, and it taught this very doctrine a tie meeting of the glorious rep- resentatives of all nations and races—Moses, Jesus, Peter, Ellas, &c, another? Peter of Moses just as they, 1! the: May or Saratoga, would be introduced to people by their friends. He could multiply these in- stances, but would foroear, The reveren’ preacher then ctosed with au elaborate peroration on the glory of the heavenly recognition, A OOLORED BISHOP, Consecration of a Negro as Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Hayti. Sinee the draft riots, when negroes were hung to our lampposts on account of their color, New York has seen @ wonderful change in the status of How did they kaow one hoped to embrace | Well, Jesus probably toid John and | went to Cape | the sons and daughters of Africa, who have, | | against their will, become naturalized in America; but yesterday witnessed a startling ecclestastical innovation tm which the main figure was a son of Ham, viz.—the consecration of a Protestant Epis- copal Bisyop, at Grace churcb, by Bishop Arthur Cleveland Vox, of Western New York. The newly made prelate, the Rev. James Theodore Bolly, D. D., is @ native of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Hayti, and speaks English with great tacil- ity, although French is bis mother tongue. He 18 about torty years of age, is of @ pleasant, refined and intellectual aspect, and has made many friends. since his arrival in this country. Heis the frst colored bishop aMiitated to the Protestant Episcopal Cnurch of this country. The Church of England, it may be remarked, hus colored bishops on the West Coast of Airica at everal of her possessions there. The Episcopal Churcn in Hayti contains about fifteen clerg:mea and parishes, Periect religious eyuality exists in the said biack Republic, having beea anew laid down in the recently adopted constitution, Bishop Holly willbe the frst Protestant Bisiop of Hayti, and is amenable to discipiine o! the ‘otestant Episcopal Church of thé Uuited States, wich acts as @ parent Church, but does not accept any direct responsibility lurther over the bishopric. THE SERVICES. i The consecration took piace alter the usual morning service, and was iargely attended, both by wnite and colored peuple. Awnong the personal iriends of the new Bishop present was the Consul General ot Hayti m this city, Mr. Van Bokkelen. ‘The impressive services of the Church for the con- secration of bishops were couducted by Bishop Potter, assisted by Bishops Smitb, Stevens and the Bishop of Kings:on. ihe candidate made his responses in a full ana distinct voice. ‘be sermon was preached by Bishop A. C. Cox, who uwelt upon the efforts now being made to Christianize une colored race, and hoped that the blessing or the Almighty would attend upon tho newly made Bishop of Hayts when he preacuied the Gospel of Christ crucified to Lis bretoren in the tropics. OHUROH OF OUR SAVIOUR, The Question of Hell. The Church of Our Saviour (Universalist), in Fifty-seventh street, near Eighth avenue, was well filled yesterday evening with a most atten- tive congregation. The pastor, Rev. James M. Pullman, preached from Exodus xxxiv., 6 and on ‘I'he Question of Heil.” What have we to tea In the juture life? I answer, just what we would havdto fear anywhere under a moral govern- ment We Universalists believe that the moral gov- ernment under which we are born will be pursued to perieotion. It was to that end we were born, ind whatever pain or penalty we may be com- pelled to suffer willbe applied until that end ig. accomplished. What we have to fear, then, irom | | NOVEMBER 9, 19874.—TRIPLE SHEET: mation made in the new dispensation which was comiag upon the earth, 1t may be regarded as the most extraordinary enunciation that was ever uttered, Many are accustomed when they intro- duce new things to smooth down ail the difficulties, togive every explanation that will put the mes- sage they utter in the most favorabie light, to make a proclamation of ease, of victory, to make straight and smooth the road that would lead to success and the result that is sought to be accom- plished, But Jesus strikes down all that which man 1s accustomed to revere and to adjure the things that he is supposed to love. What, then, 1s it that 1s secured from this presentation of the apparent dimicuity? When we look ata system that nas a complicated development we have a Tight to 100k at it in one or other of two aspects. We may lvok at it as A FINISHED RESULT, a thing that fs accomplished by a system. Or we may look at it as the method of the absolute result sought to be accomplished. You may look at it as the end or the instrument; you may look at it as Ristory or the {ulfliment of that history. Mr. Beecher here traced the prevailing notions at the time of Christ of what his kingdom would be, and filustrated it by the instance of the mother of Zebedee’s children, who, believing that Christ had Ked that ner kingdom ; wanted oue oj them to become Secretary oi State and another Secretary of the Treasury, so that they might find it profitable tobecome pious. The teachings of Christin this regard were to ve looked at in their fval endeavor; the victory alter the battle; the fruit, alter long culture, growing into ft at the beginning. There was difficulty and adversity ip the attainment, and on the road by which we come to it. This work, looked at im the words of the Master, 1s the work of SOUL BUILDING. Mr. Beecher then arew the analogy of the building Of @ house, and compared that with the process of soul building. While we live in the body we have to control the bouy for grest spiritual reasons; to convert 1ta lower tendencies into sentiments, 50 as 10 Maintain Vigor and power in the moral nature. It anybody tells me Bt they are voru into the kingdom = of y & flash, taen it has not only burnt out all their lower na- ture, but iv has burnt out all consclous- ness of allright and all perceptions of truth. No | man builds up a regenerated churacter within him excopt by degrees, 11 this is true oi tie individual how much more true Is it of man collectively. Mr. Beecher here described, at length, the historic de- erate of Man, asshown 10 the spiritualizing of his lower senses. He said that we might trace the progress of civilization and Christianity, we might almost aay, by the way in which the table i ating and drinking was the most physi- cal of all things, and there was uothing that brought man 80 Lear the beast as that. But when the lamily are asseaibled at the table, frst thanks giving unto God, then the lively talk, the pleasant repartee, tne attractive parra- tive; no one at the table thinks of the physica) act of eating. So it always remains upon society itself vomake races, to make nations, I pick up a smooth, white stone in a plougned field, I look ab i¢ ana think how it has been moulded and formed by the BILLOWS OF THE SEA, thrown upon the shore, and then buried until it has smootned itsel! go smooth tuat it rests in ny hand soltly apd without any perception of angu- larity. Ilwe look ut these views, tien, m the lugnt of these truths they give us a cew concep- tion, in the frst piace, of the method of the Divine Providence in relation to human society, and the assertion of the fact that God has given the seed, and that it is obliged to develop itsell throughout ali stages. Jt you believe in the truth that the final end is divine there 13 no occasion for scepticism, All truth was not born with our Saviour; liad it been ut- tered 1¢ wouid had jallen upon minds that were not ready to recetve it; 1t would have falien upon darkness, and the darkness comprehended lt not Adam was nota periect man. kven ii you take the parabolic conception of him; as given to us, he was not, by any means, periect. The race. had to GROW IN GRACE from that starting point. Even Paanl, in the Epistles to the Corintaians, shows in what a low condition Inun was. He had to imstruct men that incest was LOU a virtues Instruct men that 1b was not tne thing toget drunk atthe Lord's tabie. If] want to go up stairs | use the lower stairs to get to tne higher. ‘That 1s all the use the lower stairs are to me. But many men sit themselves down at the bottom stairs and they say, “Inose stairs are slippery. 1 think 1 won’t go any further.” THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. The Rev. Dr. Talmage on the American Stage and the Propriety of Christians Attending Theatres. An overflowing congregation attended the ser- vices at the Tabernacle yesterday morning, when the Rev, T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., discoursed upon | theatrical amusements and the tendencies of the the Divine Raler, is not His wrath, but His love. | Examine the next man you meet who is in anger or wrath and yon will find that bis = emotions are = excited his failure 1u some respect. Anger and wrath be- by | long to people of impotent power, but they posi- | tively do not belong to Almighty God... Indignation ast wrongdoing He does possess, becanse that be- longs to every moral being. Anger and wrath ex- haust themselves, but divine love is exhausiless. Oor Heavenly Father corrects His children just as a wise parent corrects his eartaly ’ child, No Courch ever yet painted tne doctrine of retripntion in ail its horrors, ‘luke Jor instauce, the case of any man woo, after the use of intoxicating liquors lor years, has become adrunkard, He has been gradually descending in the moral scule, and when, at last, lie is toid by his physician that he must yive up what has been blood ‘to his veins and marrow to bis boues, his soulis plunged into an agony of Markness. An opium eater in Baltimore was on his death. | angels.’ And even ut our deathbed she is pres- | bed, and before expiring he said, ‘My soul | has no jear of ap angry God, my only horror is that Tari guing to a world where I can get no more opiuin.”? Sin 18 a stimulant, aud te cares of the opium eater and the drupkard are out taint types of tne horror of darkness @ sintul soul ts piunged into when in the providence of God they are awakened to the fact that they must do witiout it. He meets the terror of the Lord, aud the fanciiut picture of a buroing bell is notuing to the agony ke experiences, ‘rhe Universalist doctrine holds that God 1s against sin, not only now, but forever, and that there is suco a thing as souls beiug saved as by fire. Our hopes rest, theretore, on this moral government, Which must and will have our souls saved. We object, thereiore, to the doctrine of envless_tor- tre and utter annthilation as admitting God's moral detea', ior by creating an endiess hell He perpetuates evil forever. ‘the mora! sense re- volts against such @ doctrine. Beside ENDLESS TORTURE 18 EXCESSIVE PUNISIMENT, most aparently so; it is unjust and conscquently NOt consistaar with the characte: of God. All the Jorces of the universe are most assurediy at work to save, and not to destroy. If you accept the theory of total annihilation you deny tue dearest hope of our existence, the hope of im. | mortality. Think of it, brethren, How can it be? ‘lake Jor instance the case ol any child born amid evil surroundings and reared amid iniquity, We almoat wonder that be- fore reaching maturity they are mot pericct devils. Because they have not reached a certain grade of moral exceileuce, 18 tinmortulity to be snatched from them’ ‘ine divine mercy is impugned by such @ dovtrme. Do you tell me that alter the power Of Almighty God has been exerted for the salvation of souls that the burned out iurnaces of hell are to ve filled with the cinders ol what wero once the children of God? The doc tely worse, taan that of endices torture. bo you think tue Divine nature wouid be satisded with exerting all His omnipotent power simply to American stage. Previous 40 the sermon a fine, manly looking saulor, who had embraced the falth, was formally admitted to church membership and received the right hand o1 fellowship from the pa tor, who addressed him in a Jew appropriate woras of special Christian applicability to tue profession of the sea. This admission to the privileges ofmem- bership by the hand of Dr. Talmage and the deacons of the church was productive of a mani- ! The cha: of the majority of the aerogenes nae Hacare ee Hoertines and the moral olfscouritig of society. How can Christian men and women join in those passages in which religion and virtue are derided, which invariably receive the loudest applause at theatres? If vou wanted a confidential clerk, wo relishing the periormance of “Jack Sheppard Tt might be said that the vicum foulest murder oi tne present century (Presi dent Lincoln) died in a theatre; but let 1b alse be remembereu thas he was shot by @ piay actor, ‘To most the stage and the theatres represent on! remorse, ruin, despair, drink, darkness, Woe an death. Crimtnais had over and over again a& cribed thetr erimes to theatre going in the com mencement ol a wicked career, and the Bishop of Carlisle bad potted out how the prisons aud lu Dane Sa be wore filled with Diar-goers. He ught the paients in the congrega- tion to keep their children irom this contamina. tion; and to the young men he said, ‘Know tnat for all these things God will bring thee into judg. ment.” Dr. ‘Taimage then sald that he had only half dealt with his sudject, and would contigue it on next Sunday morning. THE MEMORY OF BISHOP BACON. Remarks of Father Keegan, of the Church of the Assumption. At the Church of the Assumption, corner of York and Jay streets, Brooklyn, at the principal mass, the pastor, Rev. Willlam Keegan, called attention to the death of Right Rev. Bishop Bacon. The de- ceased prelate was, he said, the creator of the Church of tne Assumption and the parish. The edifice was dedicated June 10, 1842, and the pastor believed that if there was one Spot on earth more dear to Bishop Bacon than another it was the Church of the As sumption, and if he could speak now grave he would say to tms congregation, a pe least, my iriends, have pity upoo me and pray for me.’’ He dwelt upon the great zeal which the de- ceased Bishop had evinced in promoting the well- being of the Catholic Church while laboring among the few members of tho faith, comparatively speaking, who were then to be found in Brooklyn. Rev. Father Keegan succeeded Bishop Bucon, Whose assistant ne had been for two years prior to Lis transler to the prelacy of the diocese of Port- land in 1855, and has ever retained the warm- est affection ior him. He was the ireon recognized by the aying prelate, to whose side he hastened upon the arrival of the steamer at New York on Wednesday last. Of the priests who were in Brooklyn when the deceased was of the Church of the Assumption there remain but three, Rev. Fathers Keegan, Cassidy and Malone. Tne former pamed clergyman will leave ior Portland to attend the obseqguies this morning. Rey, Fatner Keegan 1s desirous of correcting an error whien has been ag throago the ra accreditung the birth of Bisnop Bacon to Bragkiya, whereas he was born in Dey street, New York, tween Broadway und Church street, but the nouse has been removed full thirty years ago. 8TS. PETER AND PAUL'S, BROOKLYN, B.D The Late Bishop Bacon—Remarks by Rev. Father Malone. There was a very large attendance at last masa at the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Brooklyn, 8. D., yesterday forenoon. Tne venerable pastor, Rev. Father Malone, in reading the notices pre- Paratory to the sermon, requested the prayers of the congregation for the soul of Right Rev. Bishop Bacon, late of the diucese of Portland, Me. Tn¢ reverend clergyman said the deccased had been for several years on the mission in Brooklyn, where he had always been faithiul and zealous in the discharge of nis duty as a priest. He had gained duriug bis mission @ strong foothold: for ue Catno ic Church in Brooklyn, having butiv two churcues—the Church of tue Assumption and that of St. Mary’s star of the Sea. He was toen called to the episcvpacy of Portland, Me., wach diocese, included also the State o: New Hamp- shire. #isaop Bacon on going there found butiew priests and still ewer churches. ‘o-day there are | im his Jate diocese over one hundred priests and | fest impression throughout the cofgregation. | The reverend pastor then took his text from Zachariah, xiv.,20—‘In that day there shall be | upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the | to mansions of eternal bliss. Lord.” He said the horses of princes and con- | querors bave irom immemorial dave been deco- | nand of God has stricken me!” are the words ol rated withchimes. The day will come when ali amusement and ‘hilarity will be consecrated tothe Lord, tue conqueror ef sin and death, Not only should we ask ourselves ‘Will that day cove?” | but each should put to himself the question, “How canI hasten it?” more lively and inspiriting entertainment, aud three holidays where we now have one, But let the belle ring tor toe right pur- pose, not to commemorate wrong, but to consecrate festivity to the Lord. Young persons, who have espoused Christianity, came to him as | their pastor and asked him “ought we to attend trine of total annihilation ‘s worse, influt- | chain a soul in endless heil aud then to say, “I’ve | got you there at last.’ The endless loss of any- thing worth anytuing would prove God to be no God, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH OHUROR Mr. Beecher Preaches on Soul-Build- ing=—The Law of the Development of Truth in tho Nature of Man=—The Germ Theory, Tue clear skies and the balmy weather of an Indian summer day had the effect yesterday morn- | ing of crowding Piymouth church to its utmost capacity. Alter the baptism of three children, Mr. Beecher, who was in one of his brightest moods, preached @ sermon on “Soul Building,” selecting bis text irom Matthew, x., 31-38—"1 hink not that Iam come to send peace on earth; I cane not to send peace but u sword, For I aim come to seta maa at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the dauzh- ter-in-law agaist ler mocher-tu-law., And ainan’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that joveto father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that joveth son or daughter more than me is Dot worthy of me. And he that taketh not lis cross and followeth after me ts not worthy of me." Considering this, Mr. Beecher said, as part ot the mission of the assembled apostles to preach, and that in some sense it Was therefore a procia- theatres?” and he felt it was right that they should be guided in the matter, How, then, are we to find out? We must judge of the tree by its fruits; and the question is, what are the influences Whicu tueatres exercise? li they are good he Would himsell go and be ready to support them. In Greece idolatry and sacrifice to false gods was assisted by scenic and theatrical represen t::tions ; ala 1D spite oj Lue goou in the pliys of Sophocies and Euripides the most disgusting scenes were enacted. The poets aud orators forgot Solon, and surrounded the stage with the very suadow of daraness, It Was not unl Rome had existed jor 700 years that piuys were introduced along the Komaus; and then ali tuat was re. presented was cruelty apd — lasciviousness, Nero covered the tuvatres with gold aud they were of such immense size tat they coutained parks, statuary and tountatns, while Wine ud persumes Were evea sent in aise tiled showers Over tne audiences, ‘Lhe first in- troguctivn of the stage into Krance was by pile grims, Who represented tie scenes which they had Vistied; and tiey then gave sceues irom Scripture, the sabjects being tilustrated on turee fours, rep. reventing heaven, tho world and heil; out these Gegiaded into dissoluteness. In 1s62 the French goveruinent supported the drama by a vute of 3,800,000 irancs. ‘lhe stage Was urst itroduced into kingiaud by the miracle plays, represenung SCeLES Ib Wie Lives of the aposties und tue burning and other sulierings of martyrs. They even went 80 tar a8 to represcat God hiuselt and the devil and his imps. These again were put down. Tucn they enacted the morat and Christian virtues, and on one vovasion While acting beiore the sovereign Faith, iiope and Charity got beastly drank. In 1762 we first actor arrived ip America, trom England. A siags for rehearsals was fitted up on the quarterdeck of the ship ior lus company, Who first estaolisned themseives in Virginia, They removed to Pailadelpiia in 1754, and the Quakers We want more amusement, | asked the governuient to stop their performances, | te reply being that no indecent plays should ve enacted, No one can deny THE WEAUTY OF DRAMATIC ART, or the charms of poetry, music and eloquence, Which were appreciated by such pure minds as Milton and Scott. Nur 1s it possible to ignore the genius on the boards of a Malabran, Garrick, For- Test or Mathews, ven thelarge learted charity displayed by tie profession in our war and in th dew York, Boston and Chicago fires must be ad- mitted, ‘The spread of literature amoug the ignorant and the graud language oi Shakespeare among those Who can neither writc nor read might be thought a good, but the questions are, 1s the drama mnocent? Are the surroundiigs of the American stage pure and innocent? ‘that is the point lor the Christan, ‘The influence of the stage upon the actors and employés themselves is undeniably bad, ‘There Might be such instances as that of Miss Cushman, against whom there never had been a@ bieata of Suspicion, but Charlotte Cusimang are not found M1 pro‘usion, Players are tuvariabiy discontented abd miserat A inan im a state of extreme prostrauvion Was told by hls Goctor to go and see Couries Mutie w: Wily,” he said, “lam Char.es Mathews.” dhe biasing miucuces o the green room are destructive o: atl womanly virtue. Waat parent in tue vongregutia would hke @ Gaugtter to 06 a baliet givi, Bud the proot of how Widvspread 13 the ing (iat timimorality ate taches to Iho calung of the stage Is ty be found in the jact that @ Woman's Coancc ion with itis only Spoken O11 Whispers. Wuere taere Is one person Who irequent theatres serving God and is Cuareh you can be snown tive huudred witu nopes | Aud varacters Dasted, Liss the adjuncts of the | stage Which render it | A FOUNT OV EVIL, DRUNKENNESS AND IMPURITY. ‘dake away these and the theatre ius. Look at Bootn’s, and every ovner tocatie where an attempt haa been made to purity tae surrougdipgs oF ti! | alter fing the shot. L upward o/ sixty churcnes, whicn is the work of hig great wissionary lavors. During his abseace and Sickness 1n urope, whither he Was accompanied by a sympathetic coniessor, Bistop Bacon made @ general contession, and the speaker felt coufident that ii the Bishop was now present bis request to the people would be to pray ior the repose of his soul. His remains are pow in Portland, where the last eartuly honors are being paid him, noi alone by those of his flock, but by taose also who are not of the iaith, but who reverence and respeot his, as they do the remains 0/ all Catnolic prelates, ior the great practical good which he bas done Jor society, 8T, MABY'S STAR OF THE SEA. Purgatory—Pray for the Souls ef ihe Faithfal Departed. At the principal service held yesteraay forenoog Rev. Father U’Noll preached a sermon on the chan ity of prayers for the souls of the faithful departed, The reverend gentleman, after dwelling upon the punishment which befell Lucifer and the other re- bellious angels of the court of heaven for having conceived the thought of placing themselves on an equality with God, spoke of the divine mercy of the Creator for man, who was continually vioe lating His laws and living in deflance of His commandments. This monthis specially devoted by the Church to rendering assistance to the sowis of the faithful departed by prayer, that they may be released from the purifying flames of that temporary place of punishment and admitted “Havo pity on mei Have pity on me! at least you, my iriends, for the Job, which express their appeal to those whom they have known in life, and surely such words would soiten the heart of # stone The cry is not to strangers, but te those who are of the same fold, whe have partaken of th jzme — lite-givin; 6 sacraments. Purgatory is an abyss of fre to wii hundreds of thousands of souls Who belong to God are consigned every day. They cannot heip them selves because time for them is no more, and thoy have to render an account and exptate by ure the penalty duc the sins of lies told in @ joke, in excuse for idleness, tor jocose words reflecting upon others, ior distraction during the sacritice of the mass, neglect at prayers, going in tne way of Temote temptation, too much love for relatives to the neglect of adoration for God, vanity anda self. love. It is written that no one shall euter heaven unless he be [ree from all sin. NOTHING DEFILED CAN ENTER HEAVEN. Hence it 43s that in purgatory the souis of the just are detained untl they are cieansed of their sin. A souldeparung in venialsin benolds the face of God witha unspeakable joy, but shudders atthe thought of entering tne Divine presence until purged of all stain of cin by expiatiou in the fires of purgatory. Ji you claim God as your father it 13 your duty as His child to be obedient to His will You will theretore obey Him by offering your prayers jor those pout souls in purgatory who are vara their release, ‘They are your brothers in Jesus Christ and you @re bound in duty to assist them. How oiten da we sce “rind lunerals take piace, the deceased being persons who have dieu sustuined by the sacraments, and of whom the relatives and irienda Buy, aiter they nave been cunsigned to their nats row resiing piac# and. the worms, “We can dono more for thei and we know they are in heaven ?”” Taus, too olten, are the faithial svuls abaudoned by those whom in Iile they have loved and be- irlended in dire extremity. ‘We know they are in heaven’ ig a blasphemous assertion, ior waa shall restrict tae justice of God? When you will oe in purgatory yourself you kuow uot, and you, too, Will need prayers jor your de- livery, for not more than one soul in a militon, on dying, ts sufficiently pure to enter ueaven. Lhe speaker concluded his remarks by urging bis hearers to retain in their memory what they had heard from the priest, and not toturn a deaf ear, as they too often do. Rememoer what 18 to be Te- membered ior yoursalvation’s sake, and forget the Man, as it matters not whetner you iike his style of delivery or not. Try to find some o1 the imper- fections pointed out by the examination of con. science. and never jail to ask the assistance of God and the blessed Virgin Mary in behalf of the souls of the faithiul departed, who one day will be able thereby to make intercession for you. 8AD SUICIDE OF A YOUNG MAN, He Shoots Himself ‘Through the Hearts A Women in the Case. Coroner Eickhof was yesterday morning called to No. 269 Bowery to hold an inquest on the boay of Anthony Strauss, a German of twenty years, wno committed suicide the night previous by shooting himself 1n the leit breast with alarge pistol. It ap pears that deceased had been partial to Annie Lauer, about eighteen years of age, living at No. 73 Eldridge street, whom he sometime since thought to marry, but from some cause he determined ta five her up, as he was strongly advised by iriends ta do, On Saturday evening young Strauss, who still cherished an atiection ior Annie, mat her in Hes: ter street with a young man, aud atter passing a casual remark with her weit home, accompanied by some iliends, and at a jater hour, retiring to Mis room, unuressed himseil ana went to bed. Soon wier eieven o'clock & younger brother wno slept With Him went o tie room aud tndiug the Jigutout, asked lum avout i, and Authouy rephed that i¢ Went oui, whereuyon the vrocher Weal Gown stars. some teen or twenty Wines euvsequently & noise was heurd im tae Upper part of tue house, oub no one Seemed aware that it was the diseharge Ol @ pistol, About one o'clock, however, the brotier, to tis room, sas horr.tied to snd Au Uhony Gead in ved, With biovd issting Irom a Slastly Wound in the lew brews, neay the region ol the heart. ie mus: Nave died almost instanuy It 18 believed by the tamuly that tne ace was prompted tirongu sear of being ridiculed by lis companioas tor enrortaiMiDg suck aS) AdAlawer - 8 hich xemard lox tas.