The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1874, Page 8

8 “ST. CECELIA'S DAY. God’s Gracious Mercy to Sinners and the Rest He Offers Them. What Have Mankind To Be Grateful to God For?—Mr. Frothingham on Thanksgiving Day Tho Office of Music tu the Public “wen Services of the Sanctuary. OLOSE OF THE CHURCH YEAR OEUROR OF TEE DINCIPLES The kw wUtuMID Weethor, combined with the SccreNtiEBe Oy GH oToWTOM! eR, aperaied 10 rer an Gnesually bere congregewon yesterday Twumrtitag: bo te Churah ofthe Tuscipies. After the SAU! pralntowsy eoercines, WhICR CoAsisted Of Fewer yy ‘the nactn me staging by the entire | comgrngution, Wit. Legworts arose and announced the SAN ENT Af Lis xermer to be “The Duty of Con. feemen.” The text was from the sixty-fourth chapter of Isaiah, Sixth and eighth verses—“But we all are as an unciean thing, and ali our wighteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do (de asa leaf; and our ipiquities, lke the wind, Dave taken us away. But now, O Lora, thou art our Pather. We Gre the clay and thou our potter, end we all are the work of tny hand.'” These words were ejaculatea, not only from the | ‘ps but from the characier of the great man woo | uttered the: They constitute part of a prayer poured forth im behalf of an erring nation, and Dy & man who did not scek popularity by excusing tmiquity, but who had moral independence enough teextract the truth and learlessly expose evil. Bis words naturally are terse and forctble, and their meaning apjarenton the suriace, He is a man in deadly carnest, and he goes on in a etraight line to the end. He commences by con- ‘teasing the presence of great evil; he then re- | minds God of his forbearance, long sufferieg and | Wjroat kindness in the past, and concludes by im- | Dtoring & continuance of His biessings. 1 wish to ‘wpeak to you to-day net only upom the daty but jhe privilege of confession. It does not form as | ‘amportant @ part io our lives or in cur pubite ser- vice as it should. It ig at the very founda- tion of Ohristian excellence. At home and in enarch we are in the habit of praising | Goa, and there is a necessity ry moment and every hour of our lives for so doing, im testimony | ©{ His mercy and goodness. Again, we are in the | habit, both in public and In private, of asking | ‘emofits of God, and there existe the aame neces- sity, for there is not a moment of our lives when we are not poor and needy. The human nature ‘mover reveives its fll of any good thing but always | | | shore. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1874--WITH SUPPLEMENT. im his igno lukena bim- | could be Bo doubt that God had walked apon the | self to a headland cling out heto the sea of | janet. We cannot thank a universe. We canuot iufe, As his imcreases he compares | grateful to a | ‘We cannot bless the irre- © ed to @ boulder, but the tume comes when i sponsible circumstances or thank the AY gen, whic hat man in all We would all irmeut calied the @f the colors would be thrown how think you we m: ‘im devas, my ques before you gor alt re yor nor tea ‘niles it is ww would U3 aad ogress , at all. op md ge and | Power above, there is something to be thank/al The , for in ourselves, who sets out to do , I don’t meas the persunai devil, Only s few peo- rin the end, | ple comperstive! + Katahdin was, | to Tae <4 finds nothing there that has any touch oi ialig- said, | ply was, “My dear | myriads of stare, bu} no demon. The geologist ‘utpped for | turns over, leat oy leaf, the stony strata, and ands e make the same mis- | have got rid of the iatellectu | take adont God. We ever-estimate bis loving- heaven. We cannot toank the ony would burn us up if i 1s way, We dumb; , we are mate; we jiverse Of joy and hup- piness in thougat and benignity, and look about see lite 50 bitter to myriads of our Jelow men, Every is a tragedy, and | the moment we feel inelined to pour | and a iur- out our hymna of praise itis ge mur of complamt comes instead, ra this world + A desert, with no oasis? No. had nothing but that to say { shoald not be here If there 1s notning to be thankiul for to a . We should be thankiui for 4 new | appreciation of nature, We have | GOT RID OF THE DEVIL, i ly have got rid of that. We are read: One daylast | not afraid of eg tha ly to spring out | {aime | beheld | on us at any point. over the aniverse. from | te be bat a | end to end, we see Out one law, one order of pro- Ww We bave got | @ Cah trust thought, lemental devil. I moan by that we hai belief tm any malignant spirit jur Ing tm the eloments, We have learued better tuan that; und it & & great lesson, The chemist has taken the materials of which creation is mado all feces, searched it with his mito! nity. The astronomer searches the ait and fluas | there nothing—no deadiy angel, threatening lic. We have got rid of the elemental devil and we | +1 devil, The Uatho- | lics believe the Spirit of unbelief is the devil; gindness. In one sensehe is near to us. He isso , Protestants believe the spirit of unpelie! is the close th.t we can jeel His breat Dose, very close indeed; but when words, “be ye perfect even as he is pervect yw great the distance then from God. How f most i travel tnrough the woods, my flesh torn thorns and briars, I hear these My soul distressed with so: rows aad triais? And ob, 0 glud am I when | al rive, not at the summit but at the fovt o! God mountain. No man gets iurther than the base of God’s mountain; the house is on the top. But alter man has toiled amd suffered and labored, and when at last he cries out “O Lord, I have Bt ed, but alas! I fear in vain,” then the ange!s waft him upward apd Golden roo now, my friends, | | 1 id relative to the jast clause of the text:—‘‘Ihou art | our Father.” What a rich thought ts bidden haga po eagT4 - men is a aie se, ¢ ont aus 8B MeARTS ODE, oud in’ the iaimly—the relacion between futher and son, If you ever loved your earthly father a3 loved mine you will get some of the re- lations of the human soul to the Creator. There ts not! im the world like a father’s or mother’s love. It is 80 pare, 80 sweet, so fragrant. Though we lal @li our lives it would be no retura for the sacrifices they have made forus. In childhood, in youth, yes, in they by UB, father wo sit at the feet of one whom we trust im. . Beyond the home there is no type of a fe ‘es love. We may have a teacher god we may try to ase him, but loving intimacy exists aever. is like a marbie God and we like a marole child looking up. So with tho, prophets God seat. We acknowledge their liom but we ‘ear their threa heir e alr of life like the vibrations Words rumbie in ths of a thunder storm, put Ol we ao = eC aoe Xb Wuen we sit at the tect of a We dread what they shail utter ne frienda, the great privilege les in the divine rogative. it 1s the privilege of the King’s son to apeak to the and know that his requests will be listened to. We ate His children. e know this, for we have the words of the biessed Saviour, His Son, Who taught us toeay, “Our Father, which artin neaven."” LYRIC HALL B. Frethingham on Thanksgiving Day. Yesterday at Lyric Hat! was marked by the usual full attendaace. Mr. Frothinghem read extracts from the Bible, the Koran of Mohammed and from the Hindoo Scriptures, and after the singing of a hymn said :—The call has gone forth from the high quarters of State that on next Thursday the peo- ple shall gather together to render thanks to the Almigtty for His mereies, As we have no service on Thursday, I wili give the few thoughts { have on the subject to-day. There ie something grotesque ia a general decree appointing a day of thankagiving, agifa yearns for more, and oitentimes in its deep neces sity cries out in very agony for God's blessing. It | Seems to me, however, that we too frequently @egiect confession. It does us g00d to bow down, ag tn the ashos, before God, and to confess, as did tho Prophet Isaiah, our righteousnesses are as Mitay raga, Let us remember that our abilities | ‘ere as nothing to onr inanilities, Whats we have one is but ag a grain of sand on tne shore of the Mighty ocean of life. We sometimes find tenit | with the confessional as instituted by the Komish Church, | admit, a8 wo all do, that ¢@ne fruit which tnat tree bears is injurious, Ana 1 very gravely ana greatly doubt whetner it is ever right or proper to receive pardon or abso- lution from the band of any man nvt better tran we ourselves. 1 believe that tnereis nota man ‘who treads this planet bat who needs lorgiveness from the Almighty, and consequently no man | can have the right to forgive. But when the woul is | BURDENED BY SORROW OR CRINR, | when the load of grief and remorse ia so great that pa suffering humanity staggers under it, then hear; yearns for aud craves sympatoy. O the pth, the heighth, the breadtn of the unceasing | longing of that heart, which has no other heart to go to to communicate its secret! The Romish Courok suppiled ibut want when tt bade every ae The system it- | fied and totelii- been productive | we ounnot doubt. have th | Man and woman under tts authofity to 76 times to eqn teaaca. etated oi His band, aud I would that you could approci- , ate the great gratification to be derived frum the pouring out of the soul to Him. No maa can con- 1988 himseit without fail biul self-exa: ion, We ere in the midst of a hurrying world. There is Rardly 8 moment of leisure in American ite. At ome, ia the midst of tits family, with his litte @biid upon his knee, the shacow of tne day's toil is op the man. fe It ts impossibie to shake it off, and | on at Dight, when Sweet, reireshing siecp should Ris portion, this phan‘om Of business mocks reams. From the beginning to the end of the we hurry. What we need are hours of quiet. i we couid only oe! to be calm and serene how Tefresting would then be every day and hour of | existence, Now, the surest way to reacn this end 1s to take the time and caimiy think over the best methods. Find out where you ere woak, 50 {hat you can apply for strength. | In what particular you are most liable to be tempted, wo that you can avoid the siumbiung block, itis a @trango {act that no man can find out himself uniess he studies himseif by himself, You cannot got an impartiai criticism ‘rom 4a iriend as the world goes, because a friend wil magnify your ood qualities and gioss over your evil ones, In | to one’s enemies tre same principle holds ; they will magnify the bad and detract trom the- |. ‘whe only Way it can be done is by private, guict, calm, severe study. Just a6 @ merchant | ctor | takes an account of stock, so it is im- ortant that you should look yourself over, and wherever you find defects in your spiritual nature ent mato it as a surgeon would into your body. | . often think 1t would be woll ii we could sit down in friendly 1asbion, as it were, with an enemy and listen to the story he would tell, it might be colored, tt probably would be, but im giv- ing bis estimate of us the words would ring tn our ears like the scund Of & bell on a win- try morning, cutting as a k: cold ag ice, but they wotld do us a great deal good. If we are Ya search oj spiriual advancement, I kaow of noth- ing productive of #0 Much good as the laying of the $oul down on tie board of dissection, as it were. We should lose our soif-conceit uncer the operation. Sel:-excuse is a prominent feature in the experience of aii of us. What we see in others, whether It be habits or manners, not to our !tking, we condemn, while we excuse the same thing In ourselves. We are tar more generous to ourselves tuan to our Ieliow man. WE NEVER MEASURE OURSELYES BY OTHERS. Tsay, then, that the performance of this duty of introspection and then Of con‘esston to God ol our weakness i3 the sure foundation of Christian ex- | cellence and the shortest road to heaven. It teaches us humility. There is no pro | im boastial utterances, Far better is tt to acknowledge a iact and then face it. Every nan who attains to eminence does Moby humilit the y nd by ing: popu instead of the teacher. And here tt ta, [| ink, that the sclence of the nineteenth century makes 4 mistake—it has mot the grace of | humility. Far be it from me to detract irom its. actual merits—as a Christian minister and as a man I accora it ail credit for what it has accom. lished—Dut it makes a mistake because tt is arro- Beat And conceited, The scientist of t in- stead Of making an assertion as u the 1 dare | might develop its error, rushes at the foundation | f Our faith as if with a crowbar and tries to over | the whole thing. He tella you that the sraths which have stood for over 1,800 yoars are @ myth, and then leaves you surrounded by blighted | ads and withered lea What wo most need is | humility in our private lives, The American mind | = not take to this idea easily. Once a convic- on ts formed it ts hard to roof it out. We want to remember that wi ‘ee, but men; not D inte, but pygmies; we jot mak Eee which rv the universe, aud me | fe only by it A Lp ‘aal after his con’ ais’ Faapiiity vo ap sion The effect of ity was to take the conceit out of itn, he arrived at & er stage ot excellence als ity and he exciaimed, “1 am | jeast jta—the the very the sain Yory least of all | ‘who labor in this vineyard of Crist!” but in nis pT Bg ripe im faith ry ence, tt fruit, Whea and rich t he 1o0Koq forth of his God, and cried oat, “O entef o1 siuners!? When one goes pad compares timseif to Ged he } yond nimse{t inva aster | | they | God every year on thatanniversary. Now, the | rite yin Vice and dissipat.on and crime, and Treason they gave thanks go heartily was because Dearly breaks bis heart, tney had so little to glve thanks for, It is always ew ari for | How day ever could be set apart ior grateful /eelings, This feeling ts spontaneous. It will not come at our call. Itis absurd to think by making the day @ national boliday wo shall make the mation thankful for meroies, The firsts New Engtaod Thanksgiving Day was spontaneous. They could mot help it, A Small band of men driven from their land and cast on a strange coast—a little band, considering themselves specially chosen God tor @ parttecuiar purpose—these few people, standing om the rugged shore, praised God—praised God so heartily that instituted & perpetual praise { manhood and womanhood, tov, | dear pre- | God is | devil. lace him under the | tlenu fot heaven and atthe banquet boards | all. Ani @ few words | to lotoxicate man; think of the iron waiting :or | 20, An impression prevalis that people are thank. | ful most when they have the most to be thankim, | nize him alterall tue evilhe had done? He was. | was for, They are entirely mistaken, We are gratefal when we have the least to be gratetui for, least check in p:osperity Makes men thiuk of God, Who ia grateiul ‘or uninterrupted uealth? Nobody Lever know of. It is @ thing taken for granted. But many aad many & time have I seen sick peo- ner every day don’t know how to be THANKFUL FOR A CRUST, Providence always comes with @ shock when wo least expect it. There is scarcely any night so dark that there is not an occasional star init. As ‘we go along we find a good deal to be grateful for. For many years the Thanksgiving Day has becn gud less a day of grateiulness for mercies, Llook back to the days of my youth, In Massachusetea, where the custom was originated, (t was tho fashion to preach political sermons, and since moro and more, till now it can scarcely be found. Now thanksgiving is extended ali over the country; it 18 a national holiday, ana the religious element is fo small it can hardly be discerned. Why? Because when men take @ broad view of the word, the feeling of gratitude, which ts always personal, can- not be found. We are called upon to be thankfal, What tor’ For plenty? Om in Nebraska people are femishing for !ood, and in this city of New York, the richest city on the Continent, there are thousands and thousands of people who do not know from day to day where they are to get their meals. Are we then to praise God for plenty wnen there is none? Wiatsnali we oe thanktal for? For wealth ? The money making power {9 para- lyzed for a time. What snail we be tadnkiul lor? Peace? You have read of the affairs in Louisiana for the last three montns; thisiga state, not of peace, but of suppressed revolation. What shall we be thankful jer? GOOD GOVERNMENT ? While now it is proposed to substitute another form of government for the pressat, wich is de- ciared to be unrelfabie and corrupt, events poopie say you can give thanks for the earth, for tne great prairies, for the tertility of the soil. But was the sou already fertility ? No, The soil bas to be made. At the beginning this oid planet of ours was a nar, rugged, cross-grained thing, on which tt was scarcely possibie for man to set bis feet, and it was only by the toil of myriads of generations that men were able to make anything at all out of the earth. As God gave it to us tt was only tne possi- bility of an earto, Consider how much 1s required | of man before there is any harvest at ull, fighting against drought and flood or insecte. There 18 always some enemy man must overcom or be cast down and destroyed themselves. n not, therelore, be unreservedly grateful even fo’ the ground. But at ail events you can be ful for intel Tr power to live, thaok! nee, Hardt There is not much intelligence to be thankful fo’ There is such a vast amount of taculty jor which we can be gratetul; every saculty ave lias to | be druled and trained, ‘The truth ts, oor faculties have to be brought ‘0 the grindstone and eharpened and pollaned beiore we can do anythin Have we any faculties? We speak of mind as if every man nad {t and it was his own fault if be did not use it, It is a great who have no min POSSIBILITIES OF MIND, be trained. We speak of the genius of Amoricaas, Genius i6 & quality they have acquired from the necessity of their case. They had to exercise their wits, aod hence is come this wonderiul inventive genius. Any other nation would have done the fame. Genius {6 not a gift, but am acqui- sition, Here, then, wo stand without any definite but tt has to oni Ma ve thangs for, and when we undertake to offer up our full hoarts our tongues begin to stamm Then, again, whom are we to thank ? | To wh the tribute of our grati- tude? I jough when men believed in directing, tending, personal power which fad onal our persot a » When people velieyed In @f individual, personal Creator who sat on the oircle of the world—ae the old Hobrews thought—directing affairs like the general of an my. It was eas) h to give thanke, then, all gifts came fim; but how ts tt now? Tr of the persona deity has re- ceded! This superintending has ne oot. with the mist of imaging ion. Far beyond the reach of history or thougnt lie the causes. Instead of belng sure per- thoro is a Sersonal God at Me ag eration tg ai Hugh ‘Miller wrote a book onthe or POOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR, and undertook to show that those footprints Gould be Liaced Allover the world, 9@ Lat there | Heaven and agatnat thee,” the old man, in tre | excess of his joy, oniy replied a3 be pressed bim | losing its religious signidcance; it has been less — | then the religious element has been diminishing ; | | Bat at all } given to us in tts | at all. | | ple praise God because they had one hour of peace, | !mage of 0 it is im poverty. A person who ts sure ofa din- | who nas lost on | able a, who betleved ho was Unable to over- We have got over that superstition, We beheve the chambers of the humau mind are sarees and tbat when the light of truth falls on them it purges them, and all, be they Christian, agen, lurk or Jow, think that believers enter | into immediate contact with what was the latent | mind which sapere the world. The joy of sncn & position of faith and trust is unspeakable. (ut = 5 comes Our absolute trust in tue order of ry ra There is something to me apsolutely pathetic as I think of this worid so tull of beneficent power, and sucn resources grieved and insulted and pa- taking 1 @lland still offering her guts to ‘hink of ¢he grain ververted into something erations to be discovered made into cannon | 2118; and think that nature abhoca it, that it is | Qgainst the whole order of things. We can bo gratelul in ourown hearts at least if we oxperi- | ence nO gratitude to a being above us. To believe | that we do right ia to have a hope and uplifting hall not only be on Oue day Of tho year, | aday on which we can praise tne | ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL Sermon by the Rev. Father Damon— | The Mercy and Goodness of God to | Sinners. | Yesierday 8 mission was begun in St. Patrick’: Cathedral, and the circumstance drew together an immense congregation, the matin and side aisies | being densely crowded by men and wom many of whom, in all probability, had mot attended tue service before in a long time. The Kev. Father Damon preached the sermon, and prefaced it by the announcement that the evening sermons during the present week would be exclasively for | the benefit of women, and that the evening ser- vices during next week wouid be (or the exolasive | benefit of men. Anexception to the rule, how- | evor, it Was stated would be made in the case of | Protestants, male and female alike, who would | desire to be present on any evening auring the | two weeks, aud for whom seats would ve re- | served, Father Damon's sermon was a mort effective one, and was delivered in his usual style of exhor- | tation. His allusions to the misery o! the ainner's | life, the solid happiness of the man who loved | God and avoided the ways of sin, and the good- ness of the Saviour as contrasted with the in- gratitude of His creatures, being marked by pathos and depth of feeling which apparently eunk deep into the hearts of his hearers, He took lis text | from the fuarth, Cees Andes the First Thessalonians, third verse—‘For this is the will of Goi—your sanctification,” How consoling and ated H ‘0 | | was It bob, a, to us puor sinful creatures Know that we pad to deal with @ God who was 89 good, 80 mercuul, who was all bounty, ry who ardently desired our welfare aud etornal sal- vation oven more than we did ourselves; who, | according to St. Paul, vas & most merciful Klag, ; who could not bear tat any of His su.jecis should | be lost. Hence tt was that Ho was represented in the Roly Scriptures under a thousand images, | parables and ares, all conveying tu the min throughout the idea of bounty, love snd meroy. To be cunviuced of tats we see Him in one place represented as AJOVING FaTErn, who had a son who was dissipated, wicked, with strong and violent passions, who tired of the re- | of | Straints of his tather’s house, This son goes off to | land and there squanders his father's and poverty and misery becawe his lot he re- | ned to the peternal home. Was the father | Wiilng to receive bim, to paraon him, to recog- He ran out to meet him and threw his arms about bim and pressed him to nis heart, poe RE j The | “My son, my sou, thou livest, tuou' livest;’’ ani when the son cried, ‘“¥ather, I have siuned against | | closer to bid heart, “Thou livest, tuou livest.!’ Again, God was represented under the beautilul | bis readers desired if 80 much that the second | Altogether A GOOD BHRPHERD e of his aneep, und who went over mountains and valleys, through briars and thorns Seeking for the lust une, and who, having round if, places it tenderly upon tis Shoulders and car- | ries it home rejoicing, because the lost one had | deen found, and what was supposed to be dead | had comy to life again. With this idea of the God | that loved us, stoners, he said, Dad no reasen to | give way to despair, to be discouraged and to ex- | claim, ‘‘My sins a,e too great even for a God to forgive!’ If they were not satisfied by the aa- surances of God’s lve, as pictured in the exam- plos of the good father and the joving shepherd, he would point to the scene that took place in tne house of one Of the princes of the I’narisees, when Mery Magdalene, the sname Oi Judea, tne scan- dai Of Jerasaiem, the reproach of her people and the shame of her sox, threw nerset{at the Suviour’s | feet, aud, bursting into tears, repented of her sing, | The Saviour ald not say “Begone,” but with His | face beaming with joy, and with @ smile on His | ups, He addres.ed ber by the endeanng name of , daughter, and bade her go in peace, “Thy sins are | forgiven ‘nee because thou hast loved much.” If stil the aimner doubted the goodncss oi God, let | him look up at Calvary, where the suviour was | hanging by threo natis, surrounded vy a mob, crowned With thorns, the blood streaming trom every wound, and who, with His last proath, gasped, ‘‘Kather, forgive them, for they know not what they 40." H The reverend father then proceeded in an eloquent strain to pomt out the advantages 10 be | derived ‘rom a mission, He satiit was a special grace oi God by which Iie hoped to bring vack those who hag wandered away, Ti was tc good shepherd in search of the lost sheep, and even those who would pot attend the mission regularly would feu its power in their places of business and in their homes, Tuere would be a stil small Voice within them that would vid them j “GO TO THE MISSION," | It woutd tell the man who vad turned his back upon religion, the renegade, to go back, and would remind many Of the pleage they bad given when leaving their home, in-a foreign land— solemn pledges, Made to a doting mother to be true to their religion, and the appeat of Jesus in their hearts could nut be resisted; the granite beart would be turned to flesa und feciing and the man who was @ stranger to morality would in tie end be made to love virtue and abhor vice, fle would be a changed, ® Rappy man. Tae mission was a renowal, he s#id, of (00 miracies and won- ders God had pertormed jor the Israelites, He (Goa) would take the repentant siuoer in His arms, as He had taken the Israciies, fight tus batcica and finally lead bam, ae He did them, to the land of promise, The explorers sent out by Moses, it was true, he said, repurtod that the land Was iull of auysses aud giamts; but the Isracites found it # land FLOWING WITH MILK AND HOX2y, There were the same kind of expiorers nowa- \ | + | days, who would try to throw obstacies ta the way \ i ie of those who wouid want to go to the mission. here gave a very striking picture of tno way young | men {nelined to turn over & new leal by going to , tue mission would be laughed and speered at; | and, taking the drunkard as one type of a toiser- come bis bad inclinations, he snowed how by | God's grace the vilest habits could be overcome | and a bad life changed to one of purity and sell- | sacrifice. God, be said, was anxious that His chil- dren should be saved, and to every one, no matter | how tow he had tallen, He would extend a father’s | welcome, and to ali who despaired of ever being | able to overcome pasei ns grown in strength, be- cause unbridled for years, He would give grace to | be strong in good, and strength, if truly repont- apt, to 80 live that when the final hour came | death would have no terrors, but, on the con- } trary, Welcomed as a relie! from a world of suffer- ing fo a land of joys eternal. OHUROH OF THE HEAVENLY REaT. Sermon by Rev. Thomas K, Conrad on “The Law ot Progress.” At the beautiful Charch of the Heavenly Rest, in Filth avenuo, near Forty-fifth street, yesterday morning, & wel: dressed and deyout appearing congregation listened with deep interest to a ser- mon by the associate revtor, Rev. Dr, Thomas K, Conrad, who read his text, Jeremiah xxtii., 1-8:— | “Therefore, Dehoid the days come, saiti the Lord, | shat they shali no mors say, the Lord liveth, which | brought up the children of Israel out of the land of | Egypt; dut, the Lord liveth, which brought np and wiueh led the seed of tha Touse of laracl ant aft ruscope and | Gospel | @ close an | eal kind todt bave arisen in the oitice, north country, and from all cowatries whither I had driven them." This closing Suoday of the year, according to the Charoh’s calendar, said the preacher, sugzested that the annual circle of the teaching of the Church was once more finished, and that wuen they should uext assembie it would be to bear the advent call renewed, to preaent the tribute of a ricn and loyal service, the gold and irankincense and myrrb, al the manger of the God focarnate, and to begin again the viessed story, 30 sweet and sad, 80 bright and hopetui, of the Savior suffer- ing and victory. At such a time their thoughts would naturally dwell upon the past and remind them that they bad not profited quite so fully they vught by the religious privitezes of the year. And yet it was notewortny that the services pro- vided by the Charch for the closing Suoday in the year had notiung sad or mouraful im them. The cullect, lor exampie, had NO GLOOMY BACKWARD LOOK, but spoke of wills stirred up to earnest effort, of goud works atd abounding recompense, Kqually the epistie reminded them of the coming of the King who should reign aud prosper, and the 4 recounted One G1 the stories oi the Saviour’s geatle care for His people, and of their acknowl. edgment of His mission as the divine propuet, It was thas the obvious teaching of the day that we should recognize the work and duty which are before us, rather than dwell in gloomy retrospec- tion on te tatlures or ihe sins of a dead and irrep- arable past, ‘Inia was tie prophei's message to the Jews, and ts equally the leason of the Gospel, We are not, of course, either to be unmindiul of past mercies Or careless of pzst sing. Penitence and thanksgiving are both parts of the Curistian system. | dwell upon the past, to look mourofally upon it, counting tts failures io Aespi or its bleasings iu topeless regret, 1+ very rent irom the spirit which recognizes the evil and thanks God for the good, and then takes courage jor # Dew and better future, In tact, We are compelled to recognize the past when we (aro ourselves away from it, nd we are not to ignore it, but only to disrega a3.an element of the Christian life, looking away trom it in hope, expecting the hocizou to expand as we mount higher on our way to God. We all know how graciously God ieads us © this onward, out- ward loon, both by implanting in our souls the privciple of hope, o4 the strongest and most in- aestructibie attribute of our humauity aud by satisiying our Lopes by THE EVIDENOE OF CONTINUED PROGRESS, Ho makes us prisoners of hope that hereaiter we may be freemen in His promise. [tis His way to eave the good wine until the lagi, as He did at the marriage feast of Caos, He bids us opeed While we climb, lest our weak @nd dizzy brain shoud cast us down while wo are looking at the things veiow tm FiGin the earliest promise onward through patriarchal days and throuzn the Mosaic revelaiion to the days of Ubrist there was con- tlaved progress. Alter the birth of Christ this progress still Coutiaued in the effusion of the Holy Spirit and tia unceasing growth of the Cburch, ‘na even at the presem: day men are still louking forward, expecting the glories o! the iutore itfe and the revelation of a better state hereniter. And what is true of the historic Church 1s e all true of the personal experience of tae raithiul, H Hopes are Maturing. Powers are strengthening, Biossings are gtveu in richer measure. Even ag the days pass swiitly and the gray hairs come and we feel that this little life 18 inding, we begin to realize the promise of the better land beyond and to anticipate tne light which soun to break in upon the dls- is 80 embodied spirit. The precept to look onward to the future thus translates itsel( into an exhor- tation to progress toward the good which is stil uvattained. 1t reminds us of the need of eainesc- ness, o1 humbieness, of prayor and of giad antici- ation, that 8» we may win new victories tor Snrist and for Ourselves, aad secure the blessing which is promised to fartitul earnestness. At che conclusion “ol sermon Dr. Conrad an- nounced bis resignation of the associate rector ship of the church, which he stated he had held for seven yeara, and loft with great regret in obe- dlence to @ conviction Of duty, In a few words of farewell he acknowledged ¢he kindness received daring bis ministry and testified his affectionate regard or his congregation, and urged them to racttaé the lessons of earnest faith, of true- orted work and of truthful reliance upon Christ which he had tried to impress upon thea. PLYMOUTH OHUROH. Mr. Beecher Taiks About Newspaper Reports of Sermons—His Persona) Ex- Poriences Thoreof—Sermon on Consola- tion, Previous to the singing of the hymn before the | astonisned his | sermon bir, Becoher somewhat very latge congregation by tndulging tn a long talk about powspaper reports of sermons. Tho talk was Ilatened to with even more tatentness than waa given to the sermon, whioh followed the singing of the hymn, Mr. Beecher said:—There have arisen in these days of newspaper enterprise roports of sermons in the daily journals. Yormerly, 80 antagonistic was the dally press to what was understood as ree ligion, that notices of religious services could not present with us in this congregation the son of the proprietor and editor of @ daily paper who the first proprictor to allow a column to appear in Saturday's issue of the publication of religious news, The column was hired at so much a year, and the news was provided for that column for ; publication, The proprietor, however, found that ; with which her name is inseparably associated. year the claim for compensation was rescinded and the column appeared every Saturday without any trouble to the friends of religion. From this mali beginning reports of the anniversaries of religious societies came to be regarded as news. The sorvicos of the sanctuaries neld on the pre- vious day are now sketohed a3 matter of news in the Monday morning journals. This is an enter- prise for which the community ought to be grate- fal, and is a certain and effectual answer to the current impression that religion in our times is | dying out, There has never been in history a pe- riod when more time and thougnt were given to this aubject than there have been to-day. Our GREAT DAILY JOURNALS would not continue to give the space they do to zeligious qoestions il it did not meet the wants and demands of thelr readers. In aoing so they are not only accomplishing a great work, but they are greatly moulding the thought and conscience of the country, But in doing this there are cer- tain liabilities which ought to be guarded inst. ‘The office of a reporter 13 @ most responsible one ; Many Of {ts duties involve the performance of work that involves him in relations of great dim- culty apd delicacy. When, therefore, one has preached 4 sermon of a critical character, and in which there has been endeavored to be put forth views that need great expiicitness of statement, and finds on Monday morning there 1s singularly served Up an extraordinary maze of opinion, and finda one's self the supposed father, of a uninten- seriron that appears, perha’ tionally, as if the reporter bs given way to nis fancy anit hia own adaptation. qt must be rememberea that it is a very critical thing to report a sermon in this aketchy way, and the difficaluea are greatiy increase] in prepor- tion to the number of ite od that have to be dis- eriminated upon, and which are adjusted to the demands that go to the constitution of a sermon. Not only are there these dimicuities in the re- porting, for a reporter to acquire this ekill A CERTAIN KIND OF GENIUS is required, but the difficulties are intensified | when statements are mode in such a way eitner by the speaker or reporter 48 to probably excite ousiderabe discussion. But a reporter t i hen he haa squandered | pe procared without paying for them. We nave | Saint, for which appropriate music was composed | cf & newspaper | the | 1s only sketched, and does not greereity Profeas = ne a oe @ sketch. ae oe the ily journal seized upon by one journal after | suother, particula: the us = jour- m who, whenever they al you, ere very much like ‘asshoppers who jump first and then consider where they are to run, I have received greet courtesy and iorbear- ance’at the hands of many religious journals. I have also received no considera! amount of ju- dicious biame ; | have received some that was not ; judicious. Besides all this I receive hundreds of jeLters, all saying the same things and making the same inquiries; such as “pO YOU BELIBVE THIS?” id you state that?” and ending with “I want to attack you if yoo did.’ It 1s Dot fair to make & mere sketchy report the basis of such mquiries d of these attacks, Mr. Beecher here related an auecdote of a good-naturea gentleman tn Bos- ton who will go on attacking bim because of something he (Mr, Beechor) to the Yale siudents about a mon aching unti! he preached tmaself to the right tcel- ing. Mir. Beecher said that this was said at the end of one of iis _ lectures, and the context expiatoed what he meant. Bul the Boston man goes on saying that ir, Beecher says that a man is to preach himself into a right feeling. ir. r concluded by ing :—I mention this in order to give confidence to those who read the widely circulated papers, Since & new economy anda new phase of giving instruc- tion has arisen, which i8 changing the mind of man to many respects, I think ther some sense of right and duty mani in everything, and certainly it «ught to be Maniiest as not to take an addresa which necossarily e sketch, and only the leading points glanced at merely, and hold tae man who has been speaking of some of the finest distinctions in the- ology, p-ssibly, and make him responsibie, not tor that waich he says, but jor a mere sketch outline ofwhat he says. THR SRRMON. Mir, Beccher selected jor nis text Matthew xi., 98:-—“Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, ana { will give you rest.” At the outset of the discourse Nr. Beechor described the suffering condition of the world when these words were spoken, Iie then described the condition of human Itfe in the times of personal sorrow and deprivation of the blessings of health and competence; showed how the condition spoken of in the text had reference to the blessedness of hfe; that the comfort that Christ gives to those who believe in Him and take His yoke upon them Goes in a reat and trac sense iit them above all tho trials and dificuitiea of Ine, mentally and spiritually. This truth was tllustrated with very much of tne old time graphic power and tender and picturesque description (o¢ whiok Mr. Beecher iy so famous, 8T, CEOILIA’3 CHUROE, — Festival ofthe Paironess of Music=Ser- mon by the Rev. Father Stone, The handsome little church at the corner of 105th Streot and Second avenue was densely crowded Yeaterday morning, the votaries of religion and of the art most closely united to religion, music—of which St. Occilia is the patroness—tilling the edifice inevery part. The festival of the Saint has at all times attracted the attention of the devout As well as those who love music for ali the div:ne elemeats with wiich it is so replete. The cere- monies in the ohurch yesterday fully realized the Most sanguine expectations of those who congre- gated there, The solemn high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Join Lynch, of St. Bridget’s charch, who, during the course of the services, sang the Gregorian chant with a depth of feeling and melodious solemnity that failed not to create an impression worthy of the occa- ation, The Rev. Father Stone, C. 3, P., officiated as deacon, and the Rev. Father Byrne as sub-deacon, the Rev. Dr. rlattery, pastor of the church, as-" suming the duties of master of ceremonies, At the termination of the first gospel the Rev, Father Stone preached a sermé taking for bis text tho words of St. Cecilia, “Let my heart bo undefiled, twat 1 may not be confounded.’'—words ta the office of St. Cecilia, and found in the Psaims of David. The reverend gentleman opened his irse = by, Captivating description of heatnen life in ko of which Cecilia, prior to her conversion, hi been the gem and the centre, He then went on to show how the greatest empire the world ever saw was overthrown by the mystery of Calvary and the spirit of sacrifice it teacnes, which spirit lorothly proved to have been powerfuily iliustrated iu the purity, self-denial and intense tove oi God which ¢his es Saint so july exomplifica. In conclusion, he calied the attention of the congre- gation to the practicability of walking in the 1007 | prints of the beautiful patroness, and of raising in their own memory @ tower more solid ana endur- ing than the jamvos stracture of Cecilia-Motelia, ‘which perpetuates the pagan glory of one of St, Cecilia's most powerful ancestors. The music on the occasion was worthy of the Churoh of Bt. Cecilia. The mass perfurmed was yy. Mercadanti, under the direction of Signor Cario lora. who presided at the organ. The quartet { Was composed oO! Miss Louise Dennison, soprano; | Migs Teresa Atkinson, coutralto; Mr. Edward Atkingon, tenor, and Air, David Kennedy, basso. But tne great teature of the day was the beautiul ode to St. Cecilia, depicting the death scene of the j by Mr. Mora, and rendered in exquisite style at the offertory. In tne evening there was grand wusical vespers, the attendance veing equally large as at the morn- Ing ceremonies. The chora: arrangements were erfect, An claborate discourse on music in con- ; Bection with the Catholic Ouurch wis delivered by | the Rev. J. ? Bodfish, O. P.S. ‘Ine reverend gen- | tleman sald nearly alithat could have been sata | in connection with St. Cecilia and the divine art the people of St. Cecilia parish may | well feel gratified with the manner in which the astoral fesiival of their church has been cele- rated as well as with (he talented and untiring pastor, who has worked such wonders in tnoir re { BLESSING A BELL. Impressive Ceremony at St. Patrick's Church, Jersey City—Discourse by Bishop Corrigan—The Bell a Christian Inve: ¥ Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of blessing a | bell for St. Patrick’s church, corner of Bramhall and Ocean avenues, Jersey City, was performed by | Bishop Corrigan in presence ofa large congrega- tion, The bell, which weighs %,600 pounds, was | stationed in front of the high aitar. Tne deacons were Father Tissot, 8.J., and Father McManu! The pastor of the church, Rev. P. Hennessey, and | the pastor of St. Bridget’s, kev. P. Corrigan, were | also present. Previous to the ceremony the Bishop delivered & discourse as follows:—At all times, as we can easily perceive, various instruments were em- ployea to call people to prayer. At one time the BEAUTIFUL VOICES OF CHILDREN inug himself in Circumstances in re- gard to ms report, which probably a great many of you are not able to appreciate, He | may have instructtons to report a discourse, and those instructions may be to furnish a column or haifa column; bur the exigencies of news and the thousand things that cecur at night in a news- apor oMice require that a sermon shail be cat Sown something, It is imperative that somethin, must be cut down. There 1s not the reporter al | hand at the time, and at the last_ moment the ser- mous aro cut. ‘There isa piece cut out of the middie, then a picce at the top, and a good pieco ut the bottom, and it ts so cat up that no one BO moch about tbe printed sketch, neither the man who reported it nor-the man who preacied Now, itis not mechanical space that one lays pin of a sermon, and a sermon without an end is worse than a bird when It 13 disrobed of its beantiiul plamage. The art of mak- ing 8 discourse i to arouse & lamang, indeease throughoot., Ja order to do 3 there mitst a form of structure that mast be adapted ‘equentiy w the character of the discourse, in the early part of it there isa licensed tone rT , in cider that at the close you may come in and aweep it all away, On the next morning you will fod that the firat part of itis reported and that the lagt part has been lolt out, becauso of these unforeseen exigences and difficulties that have arisen, and difficuities mainly of a ie vithout, therefore, it being anybody's faultin particular, some gentlemen go to werk and make this report the ask tacked 10 eS way. u inisunde! peiteve that of this misunderstanding ; wish to say wo you, and throngh yuo to the whole world, that my sermons, and the sermons for which I hold myself responsible, every week in & pamphiet form. 1 am not respon. sible ior Lo epe ies the BS sermons by mo ni im it he did realiy say 0 and so. | am a’ my voice, and ag Sa 4 lasting benefit derived to the by ¢ ublication, bat the printed ‘mons for which f will hold mysetf reqpon ple rinted in a pamphiet form, It i un- hat these Cannot appear nntil about two weeks alter tue delivers, aerman which who Fe) there 1 a large community high and | certain | roundwork of a letter totho minister, and : have persons who will toot | are printed | acoount you may be 1 appreciate | were employed for this purpose. In the old law the priests and tne Levites made use of aliver trumpets to cal the people to prayer. It ts commonly supposed that THE FIRST BELLS were introduced in the Christian Church by St. Paulinus, bishop in Campana. Hence we have the Latin word "Campana" for bell, The bell Isa christian invention; it velongs to the Churen: When man first rebelled against God, Nature, in | turn, rebelled against him, That very earth which was to be subject to him was cursed, That isthe . reason why everything used about the altar—tho | linen, the candles and everything employed in tho gacred ceremontes—are blessed, The bell also is blessed that it may DO 173 WORK WELL, The ceremony 15 called bavtism, not that any in- apiniate thing can receive the grace ofthe Holy Ghost, yet the ceremony 1s commoniy Knuwn as baptism. It is washed iaside and out with toly water to teach us purity of heart when we en:er the tempie of God. So also with the application ofthe holy otls. Incense, too, is used, because In- cense in the Holy Scripture is typical of prayer, | and when it ascends under the bell it teaches us | to raise our hearts to God, In THR OLD BELFRIES OY KUROPR it was customary to place not one but many bolle, | For instance, at Bruges, in Belgiam, there arc . ninety-nine bells, It was also costoneey, to give names to bells after some saints. And When this bell bearing the name of St. Patrick calls you to church you ought to ieel thatit is your own glo- j Tous apostie that ie calling you. So also we have sponsors for each bell—persons who promise, as in the baptiem Oo! a chiki, that it shall do its duty, well, This bell once consecrated PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART fo your spiritual life. and the sorrows of y will its voice ve beard by you. the grand office of keeping belore your minds turec times a day THE GRAND CENTRAL FACT of our religion, the great mystery o1 the Incarna- tion, Even if it only took away our minds for a tew moments from the things of this earth what an advantage it would be. [ therefare exhort you to recite that beautitul prayer, the “Angelus Dom- | a times a day, and, above all, never for- 7 ; TEAR MASS ; on Sundays. You will have no excuse hereafter ; sbout Knowing the hour, And now, while we per- | forts the ceremony, join with us In spirit and raise | your hearts to God, so that in the last great day of called to partake of the re- wards of the blessed, ‘The tollowing 13 the inscription on the bell:— QELOOL TELL ITLEAE TELE LE NOLETELETELOLOLONTOE MUD i | 13 Pio, JX. P, M. Pontificatas ejus Anno XXIX, A Christo Nato MDOQCL! A» orecta Nevarcenct Diocost XKL Sanocto Patricio Patrono Sacra { Gonvoco|Signo| Noto {Paeee” Ooncio [rare | §Arma ibics Horas |Pulgura lresta Rogos L Qrececccccsacscorsprreses sesssece ed denateteeesieeeey | et THE BALL —_ea,9 SEASON. What the Dancers Have in Store for Them. ——~e. The Expense of a Night on’ the “Light Fantastio.” The winter Is to many the most enjoyable vexson of the year, bringing with its snow, icc and cold the accompanying pastimes of sleighing, skating aod dancing. The latter amusement nas already becn inaugurated, and from now until the ena of March hardly an evoning will pass without a ball at one of the many dancing halls in the city. Dancing (s @ very popular recreation and can be indulged ia at all prices im proportion to tne position and purse of its patron, The Ubarity Ball, the (nfant Asylum, the Twenty-second Regiment, the Lioder- kranz, the Orphan, the Cercle de I’Harmonie ana other balls given at the Academy of Music are alla little expensive when @ gentioman takes upon himeeit to escort a lady. For instance, it 9 young gentleman 14 anxtous to do the correct thing ton young lady acquaintance whom be has invited to accompany him to the Charity ball, he will Gna $40 or $50 a good thing to have in his pocket, There are lanumeravie little expenses attending fashionable reunions that, added together, make s considerable hole in half a century, The foltowing bill Of items will probably cover the expenditure of the evening :— $v WB Two tickets to the Charity Bouquei to the !ady (cheap One pair doable button ki Garriaxo to und tro... Supper ana boite of wins. : ithe ta carefal to select a young lady who wit have no relatives at the baii, as font parents ant young brothers have a tendency to being on hand abou' supper time. Of course there are plenty of delighs(ul balls at Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms, fry- ing Hall and Lyric Hall, where the “light tantes- tic’ can be induiged in at far less exponse. ft ig a good thing to have a young lady friend résia- ing close to Forteenth strect and Irving place, as then one can avoid the carriage vill. A young mean might attend ono of the invitation hat money balls and do it well for a ten-dollar bill, as fol- lows :-— Car faro going 0 flat money... seeee to Pair of white kids. 1% Supper. 3 33 200 $t0 35 Tnere are instances where @ young man has squeezed through the evening for less money. In case of an emergency, where the exchequer is empty, @ couple of dollars would purchase a pair of cleaned kids, @ couple o! oyster stews anda Pint of lager; but a gentleman should be well ac- quainted with the lady before risking the loss of her affections ovor an oyster atew and 4 glass of lager. BALLS TO COME OFF, There does not appear to be any lack of bally this season, and the different halls have been put in Oret class order for their patrons. General Ferrero hus newly painted and frescoed nls As- sembly Rooms at Tammany Hall and done ‘overr- thing possible to pleaso his patrons, and General Funk nas also made ail arrangements for the com- fort of the visitors to Irving Hall. There are not so many balls this year at Lyric Hall, as Mr. Trenor fas been catering more to lectures, con- certs, dc, The engagements atthe Academy are not yet made, but there is every prospect ofa brilliant season, The following Is a list of engage- ments made :— xi . NOVEMBER, 23—Rosoommon Social Ciud, Ferrero’s Assembly 24—Theatrical Mechanical Association, Ferrero'’s “Assembly Rooms, %4—United Engineers Association, Lyric Hall, 25—Journeymen Horsesiioers Benevolent Society, Ferrero's Assemoly Kooms, Firat Ward Coteric, Irving Hall. | 95—Progress Ola, Lyric Hall. 26—Amt Usterhoizen Krankea Verein, Ferrero’ Assembly Rooms. 26—Roscommon League of Friendship, all. 26—Jackson Light Gaard, Lyric Hall. DECEMBER. 1—Orange Lodge, Lyric Hall, 3—Schwarzien Association, Lytic Ball. 4—Anctent Urder of Hivernians, Ferrero's As- sembly Rooms, 7—New York Schuetzen Corps, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms, 1—Firet Battalion Lrish Brigade, Irving Halt 1—M. Powers Association, Lyric Hail, 9—New ks Matual Club, Ferrero'’s Aasembiy Room 6—Baruch Lodge, Irving lfall. 9—Young Bachelors’ Club, Lyric Hall. 1e—tans nt Association, errero’s Assembly 10—Carroll's Assoctation, Lyric Halt, 11—Mannattan Coterle, Ferrero's Assembly Rooms, 14—George Kiltott Association, Irving Hall. is—Foung, Men's Association, Ferrero’s Assembly m3. 15—Battation au Gardes Latayette, Irving Halt. sig eae Social Club, Ferrero’s ably 0) Irving | 16—Orange Lodge, Lyric Hall. 17—Troop F, Fires “cavalry, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms. 17—Arcadia Soctal Club, Irving Rall. 21—Knickerbocker Association, Irving Hatt. aoe Association, Lyric Hail. 22—W. H. Burns’ Association, Irving Hall. 22—Frothingham Society, Lyric Hull, 23—Gulding Star Lodge, Lyric fall. 25—Manbatian Turtle Club, Irving Hall, ‘26—Progress Club, Lyric Hall. | 23—New York Letter Carriers, Ferrero's Assembly Rooms. rome Association, Ferrero’s Assembly ‘Ooms, . poh F. Kelly Association, Ferrero's Assembly oms, 81—Flax Mill Association, Irving Hall, 81—Lodge G, No, 10, Lyric Halt. JANUARY. Hie! Connell Association, Ferrero’s Assembly jooms, 6—Mutual Brokers’ Society, Irving Hall. j base 4 Weights Club, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms, 7—Charter Qak Council, Irving Hall. 8—Jefferson Social Unton, Irving all. 11-—Twenty-second regiment, Academy of Music. 1i--New York Young Men's Roman Catholic Bex nevolent Association, Irving Hall. bm sh Association, Ferrero’s Assembly Oras, 12—Bugaboo Clab, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms. 12--Erbolung Association, Irving Hail. 13—Acme Coterle, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms. 18—Lincola Union, Lrving Hall, 14—Iniant Asylum, Academy of Musio. 14—Hoboken Turtle Club, Ferrero's Rooms, 14—French Waiters, Irving Rall, 15—Caledontans, Irving Hall. 16--Flyaway Club, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms, 18—E, J. Shandley Association, Irving Hall. 19—Sf, John the eet Society, Irving Mall, 2—Mount Nebo Lodge, irving Hail, 21~-Circle de l'Harmonie, Academy of Music, 21—Hermann Lodge, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms. 21—Kascnen Lodge, at Hail. brs ro Healy Association, Ferrero’s Assembly ors. 22—T, J, Oampbell Association, Irving Hall, bate Stripp’s Association, Ferrero’s Assembly jooma, 26--W, Walsh Association, Irving Hall. 26—Linwood Club, Irving Hall, 26--Young Bachelors, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms. 27—Private Coachmen’s Union Benevolent, Fer- rero's Assombly Rooms, Assemoly . FEBRUARY. 1—Lawrence Detimore Assuciation, Ferrero’s As sembly Koons, 1—Letter Carriers, General Post Office, Irving all. 2—Wyoming Association, Ferroro’s Assombiy kooms. § his 2—Fronch Oooks 2~Gentlemen's sons, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooma, 8--Monroe Light Guard Association, Irving Halt, 4—Charity ball, Academy of Music, 4—New York Masquer: Club, Ferrero'a Assem- biy Rooms, 4—The Fiks, Irving Hall, 6—Livingstone Association, Ferrero’s Assembly ¢—sparkling Coterie, Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms, se Uanigen coterie, Irving atl 9—M, Creigan 0 ‘tau. isso g stg 0—vonste [ toLiederkrang ball Kéadems of Music. 11~—Amt Hagaer Ciab, Ferrero’s Avsembly Rooms, 1—Sincert e, No, 69, Irving Hall. yaa Soclet? Alsaclenne-Lorcaine, Irving Hall, MARCH, 4—Cosmopolitan Cooks, Irving Hall, 14—Non-oummissioned “oficer Sixty-ninth regt- mcut, trvu rigs Gianeing over the above list the dancing com munity will recoguize many very popuiar Dalla, (OONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE.)