The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1874, Page 8

EERE CHRIST’S COMING. Pulpit Reiterations of the Story of the Manger Which Cradled Man’s Saviour, NECESSITY OF JESUS. Ritualistic Ceremonies in the Episcopal Church of St. Albans. THE OUTLOOK FROM BETHLEHEM. Mr. Talmage Continues His As- sault Upon the Stage. DROWNED Preaching Patience Its Rewards, LYRIC HALL HIS WIFE, Mr, Beeeher THE SPIRIT OF JESUS AND THE TEACHING OF CHRIST. Mr, Frothingbam’s usually wel! filled ball looked rather dreary yesterday morning, but those who braved the storm had the-pleasure of listening to a discourse of a style pecullarly Mr. Frothingham’s own. Alter the opening exercises he said:— At this season the thoughts of Christians turn back to the imfancy of the person irom whom Christianity dates its origin. They sre really two persons, JESUS AND THE CHRIST. Jesus the man, Christ the oficial; Jesus the mortal person who suffered and died, Christ the immortal person, who lives and reigns in heaven. Christ is the name of the official, Jesus the name of the man, The births of the two do not fall to- gether, their attributes do not correspond, their functions are entirely different. Christ was not fairly vorn till Jesus was laid in the tomb, We cannot, therefore, speak of these two in the same breath; one was the child of nature, the other the child of fa:th. Usually the functions and the person are inseparable, though we may speak of them Separately; but in this case the two re not only separated but cannot be brought to- gether. I announce my subject, therefore, as the Spirit of Jesus, Iam notto speak of Jesus as a teacher, but of the sou! of His lite, the animating purpose and principle of His being; for looked at | historteally there is no great commanding person | of history of which we know s» littie as we @o of Jesus. world and its affairs; not a line from His pen has been preserved, nor was ever, Erobably, given to the world. passed away, perbaps forever; there is not a ouge, HOt @ street as it was when Jesus lived ‘there; the very walls of the city have been so often renewed that the dimensions ot the town are lost. ‘The sacred city is the tomb for the memory ot the being who consecrated it; it is useless to seek | for Jesus there. We go to the Gospel, which con- tains the oniy record of His lite, and there is no- thing definite. The genuineness of tnem is so | doubtfal, it is so plain that imagination and fancy have heaped together iegends that have cov- | ered the literal character entirely {rom our vision, | that it is net possible to put the haud on a single | act ana say, certainly, Jesus did this; it is not pes- | sible to put the hand on a single sentence and say, Jesus certainly said that. We question history. The great Jewish liistorian, Josepais, a man ot | large imteiligence and great culture, a man living in the same generation as Jesus, passes him by in utter silenee; there is not even a text in Josephus’ writings That reiers to Jesus, except one, waich alludes to His execution as a minor aud indifterent Matter. That ai.usion shows that Josepnus knew | Him, but did not think Him a person of whica it was worth while to speak. A singular thing, | somewhat dificult to account jor, on the theory. | only religion that Jesus Was the great historical personage that Christendom reputes Him to be, but something easily intelligible to those who take @ rational | Had He been a great | leader or a great teacser or an original mind | view of Him as He was. would Joseyius have passed Him by? Never. Suppose He had graveiy atiected the Jewish ques- tion, would tae Talma have been silent about it? Never. The truth ts, from these indica- tiona, that Jesus was not a great teacher, Was He a great teacher? Great teachers before Him bad eutertaincd every thought that Me cherished. He bad remembered the richest literature o1 the Old World—the Ula Testament— and bad been fed on it from His caidnood. Ask Jesus for a doctrine of God; you receive from Him, the ai ont Jewish Jehovah, but soitened by the tender view of Lhis most loving beart, a loving, compassionate being, but Jehovah enil. Ask Jesus lor @ doctrine Of providence, He pomrs To the birds of the ait, Sustained im their element bp invisible hana; that is all, Ask Jesus fi a ‘ine of the hereaiter, He has nothing new to He has the doctrine of His peopie, He be- lieves lu the resurrection. in the good ume com- ing, but there is nothiog to suy that he expects Jetictty on tae 0 ide of Geath; there is no tn- Sight into the soul's need, no fine outiook into the future. Ask Jesus jor a doc rime of human nature andhuman iile, there is none; there 13 hofiting dike a scientific grasp of the conditions of existence, and al! through tnere are gleomy suad- ows pussiag before the mind witeh torment u doctrine of posses % lor 4 = g é those Who co het of holding th everiaviimg dannation of any jieve His mina able to eniel € that; but did utter Words at tlines that pave given a plavsantity to the idea that He ‘saugbt that doctrine. acquit Hira trom that; but 1 doa’t think His mind ever cleared itseil from the doubis that hung around that pened. It 1s forpessivle tor apy buman mind to outstrip far its age. Was Jesus an original and supreme moralist? Was He an eminent teacher? Remember, His ca dinal thought was this—inat fle was the Messian; that He was to Introduce tha Messlanic perio and (nat 1s course Was to be marked by conver: sions and revoiutions which should do away with the present stare amd introduce # new order of things. He believed in what is cailed the end of the world—not the burning up Of the worid, but the end of the period and state of socicty that then existed. He velleved in some peat catas- tropbe which should wipe out the woria as it then was. 1! Jesus couid be held to any beiler He must be heid to this Now, consider whet an elect a belief like that must have on our moral conceptions, Suppose we believed that next week or next month a new order ot tsings Would be insutated, Where would be our great problems, vue moral stiencet When Jesus was asked, What shall the rich man do with his wealto? Give i vil bave no need of it next week, \ ed for the soiu- » Of poverty ke said, Peed the poor, Vice was atoned by a tear, and virtue was not honored apless ssented to the condition of a dying world. sm.tten man must ask for anotuer ewiting; the perseented most bless his persecutor, Ii ts very evident that there 18 no chan n Fational human Mle on these conditions, If we Would speak of Christ carnestiy we must speak of tits spirit, We cannot sit at itis feet as teacher, but we can open our hearts to the sweet breath of inepiring love that steals vyer us The spirit of Jesus, what is it? In the frst place it | was a spiric of singular purity, pure with rhat sweet and sunny citunliness which at carnest amd sensitive and p* te nature possessed. He was tutense!y so. sittve, more ke @ women; He foved the com- | paniouahip of women; He loved and lived in Hie Trieads; He would have them always with Him; ut inetk how, at the Garden of Gethsemane, at the | jast hour, how He fied from the bosom of tae Su- to the side of His triends, and with what » turned away irom the latter, Some wis cowardly wren He came to the that Socrates died more ike a god. like a philosopher and Jeans Cnrist DIKD LIKE A WOMAN. waa tole, His york anaccom- lished, His ‘leads dropping of and leaving lim to face His ve . Socrates Was a man of intelligence and conscicuce, with a s Ho felt wha riority, auG he tossed ov bis enp of to whom ile was of uo ‘consequence but with. Jesus iife was a matte, o! «consequence, Such & purity means 304) someting; the purity oi an icicle is noshing, but the parity of one whove heart tingied with love i+ -orsetbing. £0 MOt gather tuis alone from the Cospel--see the effeet On a mus ike Paw, Wer ol a stormy neture, drawn vile wey aed that. Koad (ao work of this mag and 600 wnat agony ho tad (o keep the better dream of purity vefore hm, Follow ulong a couple of hundred yeara in the early Christian history amd see the eect of ae same singular purity ; pat this s00n Ceased to ye felt. Look again—the spirit of Jesus was a spirit of Wotkeruood; a sentiment of love Ipapired very The Jerusaiem in wuich He lived has | » | extent He | Seng. me aie. Road the lst of virtues thet are is Urea—parience, peneds eee bag Vg of the of peace. He was called the Prince of Peace. Paul struggies with this idea of peace, Cy foretxa’ to nis own nature. Kead twelfth chapter of Ke. mens and to this ir see sweet and Batare he loved fected bin? ‘As as hive peacefully with who sag "Avene bot sourslvess” ite Fund wae bs ‘ourselves ; adds, #°¥ pis wrne: Twill repay.’ saitn the Lord,”” 1 says, ‘thine enemy hunger, | Jeed bim; tf he thirst, give nim driak ol adds, “Tor in ed ig thou shalt neap coais ot fire om nie Bead”—that is the way to mi m sudfer. See how this sweet spirit 19 struggting with Pa and does not succeed. | plead for the spirit of Jesus. 1 insist that the spirit ts not <bsolete. siet the spirit of Jesas should be the tn- spieation eo ight of our life. is there any too much of that sweet purity in thia world? 1s there any too much oj brotherhood? We aeed the spirit of Jesus ali the time. Yield to the spiris of Christ, the spirit of gladness and joy. The ro:ormers need it, the patlosophers need It, the Church needs tf, and ‘before all cree ad professions the spirit ol love rutes in ail hearts. OHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. SERMON BY THE REY. DR, HEPWORTH—‘“THE OUTLOOX FROM BETHLEHEM. The severity of the snow storm prevented a great many of the regular attendants of Dr. Hep- worth’s church from being present at the morn- ing services yesterday, The reverend geatieman, however, was as cloquent in bis discourse as though he was addressing the vast audience bath, He took jor his text the seventh verse of the second chapter oi the Gospel according to St. Lake :—“And sie brought forth ber first born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes apd laid him in @ manger, because there was no room tor them ia the inp.”’ The reverend preacher said that when a person had entered a room Gilled with a | delicions perfume the organs of the senses | seemed to Jail to recognize and appreciate its presence, but that if the person returned after 8 whiie.trom the open airhe would at once recognize, with au exquisite sense of apprecta- tion, the perfume laden air. He satd that he often with an influence that was not appreciated by us, because we had become too accustomed to it; be- cated under its power and energy. If as a bird flying from south to north and north to south, now passing over THE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAIN TOPS, A | now over placid lakes, in whose depths the moon | ana stars «aw thetrown faces as tn a mirror, then over moorland, plain and lore! | i imagination wing our way beyond generations ‘ynat bad passed, through ages and ages of centuries, o& our return would be better | able to value the privileges and prerogatives we | enjoy, and which God, tn His wisdom, had placed | within our reach, He askea his hearers to leave | behind them for the moment the Continent, with its railroads and telegraph, and turn their backs | upon tts churches, its printing presses, its public scnovls and all that vast machinery by which the | youth of our land were ante to rise to a cultivated, | past, amtll they stood where Jesus stood as a child. They could, he said, pass irom age to | age, as AMAN IN A BALLOON | passed @yer one scene and landscape to others | that differed every hour, only glancing at the | Hl mlearars until they at last baited at Bethie- ry hem, | First they might aight ata — tendal | | castle of the Middle Ages, waere some sir | knight was surrounded by a civilization that would seem to us utter barbariapism, but which was per- fect civilization tothe knight. He was influcnceg | by military glory, was tais knight. Superstition | ruled his every acrien, and he knew not what it | meant that the pare of heart would see God. In | the court yard were his soldiers, with their swords | clasuing in deadly feud in drunken carousals, | while in Wis banquet hall at @ time there were | 10,000 people who were his absolute slaves, who | | had no thoaght, no ambition, ho purpose ip lile. From that castle they might go to Engiand in the © time of Allred and to France in the time of Cuarie- magne. What was Engiand 1,000 years agor Where was her ilterature that nowadays threw | suci a glory over tho nation, her religion, ner eneral character, that justified her proud boast hat the Bin never sct on her domioious, and that, | be be who he might, who set foot on her soil leit his fetters bevind him? to Charlemagne, ne was the lord master Of 15,000,000 to 20,090,009 of peope, himself * HALP A SAVAGE, agiantin muscle, 2 man who had never been | overcome in bat:ling with nis foes, whose sole | ambition we: miiitary glory aud splendor, whose | Slave to a despotism. The reverend gentleman then went on in this biessings of Christianity, bad me more and civilized and tree in’ thought. fle eloquently spoke of Rome ana Athens in their palmy aays, when the arts flourished, and contrasted the bar: barism of the long ago, belore Aristotle's time, with the refinements of the Centuries that fol- owed, and which so distinguished those ancient umes, even before tie advent of Christ. He then showed how, even when men be- fore the comng of the Saviour, had reached a state that even now coull not be con- | sidered other tian learned and civilized, were | really barbarians, lie to come that was consoling. They bad gods by the thousands, and when they spoke of a god in pariicular they referred to a something in wood or marbie thac was the Work ol a man. When a person died they could only specniate about a provable ic tocome. Their taith, ia fact, was that of ag utter determination to submit to a fate the after resuits of which they could assert notaing defini'« avout. ‘Tue reverend gontieman, alter ‘elaborating this idea, showed how trom tie cradic 1 Betivebem the great consolation, the civilizing infiueace par ercetlence of yaankind, had sprang. couid not be gauged by THE OKDINALY RULES OF SCURNOE or human caicuiation, It was a miracie. none stanging beside that cracie could forecast the future the birth of the infant aestined to bring about for the world, it proved a revoiution of unmeasaryble power and chergy. It sowed a | seed that had brought up golden grain every- Tiepworth ciesed by saying that aiter into the ages that had rolled by, and contrasting tue BEAUTIES AND GLORIES OF CHRISTIANITY with ine darkness and sujerstition ana donb and hopelessness of the lives led long ago by m deemed in ther time enlightened, no one couid fait to appreciate the benetits of the Christian re- , ligton, Thongh ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. | SERMON BY THE REV. DR. M'GLYNN—FKEQUENT } COMMUNION—-THE FORTY HOURS’ DEVOTION— | AN IMPOSING PROCESSION. In spite of the storm a large and fashionable congregation assembied in St. Stephen’s yesterday morning. McGlynn, assisted by the Rey. Father McCready as deacon, the Rev. Father Macauley as sub deacon and the Rey. W. P. Costigan as master of ceremonies. AS the quarant ore was commenced at this church yesterday the decora- Mons of the high altar were on a scale of unusual Magnificcnce. The sanctuary was brilliantly lighted and rgfotent of the perfame of the various Noral devices whieh ornamented the altars, The acolytes, torch bearers, thurifers and mass serv | ers, dressed in cassock and surplice, discharged thetr several duties im @ manner which evinced Care/ui training, The music of the mass was Dot unworthy of (ve occasion, while the organist, Mr. | Danfor played with his usual abilit After the post-communion Dr, McCiynn deliy- ered an impressive and eloquent discourse on frequent commianion. In establishing we devo- | tton of the forty yours’ adoration the Church | wisued to bring prominentiy be/ore the faithiul | THE INEPFABLE LOVE of Jesus, of which the sacrament of the eucharist jeadivine pledge. God so loved the world as to | give it His only begotten Son, and that Son, with an infinite love equal to thatof the Father, has piven us Himself to be the food of our souls, All Know the treasure which we possess in the auor- | able secrament; but all are not aware to what an it is essential to their salvation, or how they stonld avail themseivea of it, Some look | upon the blessed eucharist a8 a treasure in a | grent measure sealéd 0 them, and thus uncon- Sciously deat the benign totention of its divine founder, It Js tae ost-cxpressed Wish of tne Sacred Heart of Jesue that we snovid communicate often, ‘With desire,” He says, “have {desired (o cus this pasch with you, to give taveell in nouriaurmeout to you.” With what extreme tenderness does Hu invite ua! “Come to | me all you that labor and are burdened and J will refresh you." He assures us that His fean is meat indeed and that His blood drink indeod, He compares the eucharist to the material pread, of Witch we make datly use, | Whica formed the daily sustenance of the Israel. i Mea tn ube desert, in order to slow how necessary whtch, as arute, crowds the church cyery Sab- | thought that the nineteenth century was filled | cause we had been born beneath it, bred and edu- | » We, springing ; | from the mids: of our generation, suddenly, could | } | virtuous manhood, and force their way into the He seems entirely detached from the | cou go back by slow degrees. | en as | and | sa superstition that made hima | Tain, minutely traciug the progress of the ages, | and showing bow, step by Mer hed tbrough the | ry as they kucw no'hing of the | He consid. | | ered that birth at Bethlehem a something that | Soilemu high mass was sung by the Rey. | for the and trength of our are His sacred and diced. He tells us that He is the bread of fite; that he who to Bim shalt 3. that be wio never hunger; believ aio Him shall ver thirst; that he who eats His Mech and ¢rinks | His bicoa shail have life everlasting aud that He him the last day, raise up o ‘the Churon, teaching the doctrine of her divine | founder, urges ber children to nt, NAY, | to daily, communion, phe desires that ali the | faithful should communicate, not Onjy spiritualty, but aiso sacramentally, each day that twuey assist mass, that they may have @ more abundant in the hoiy sacrifice. 1 unctl ot Trent says :—“It is tors to often represent to the fal! persuaded of the necessity of every day pour. thetr bodies, they ought not to neglect to nourish daily their souls with this sacrament, since it ts certain that the sou! has not lesa need Of spiritaal nourishment then the boty hus of ma- terial nourigument,” Again, it declares that the eucharist is tue antidote which preserves us fiom mortal sip. In view of Christ's sweet and frequently re- peated invitation to ths heavenly panquct and | the advice of His spouse, the Church, it is surpris- | ing how few make irequent communion a pisc- tlee. There are, inaccd, aoine good souls who cluster around the communion ralis every morn- Ing, and, no matter what their troabies, they seek and find comfort ard consolation in THIA SACRAMENT OF LOVE. Others there are who do not approach so f quently; but the great majority are sluggish aud avail themselves of every excuse to stay away from “the bread of angeis.” The members of this congregation should avail themselves oi the ex- tracrdipary opportunities omercd during the de- yotion of the forty hours’ udoration to cleanse their souls in the sacrament Of pemance and re- | dresb them with the biead o1 lie. At the conclusion 0} the Sigh mags the proces- sion of the blessed tormed, and having marcncd | down the centre aisie, returned to the sanctuary. in the front of the eee wes @ well dried corps of aculyt jowed by sixty little girls, tastetully a: , each bearing a torch and a bouquet of natural flowers, while several’ pretiy chtidren strewed flowers before the biessed sacra- ment. On the return of the procession the clergy cnanred the Litany of the saints and tte cere- montes were brought to a close, ST. ALBAN'S CHURCH. FATHER MORRILL ON THE OBJECT OF CHRIST'S COMING. The services at St. Alban’s (Episcopal) church, Forty-seventh street, near Lexiogton avenue, were conducted yesterday forenoon vy Rev, Father Morrill, assisted by & numerous surpliced \ choir, The altar was brillantly illuminated by a large number of lighted wax tapers. The vest- | ments of the celebrant on the occasion were pur- | ple, im keeping with the penitential season of Ad- vent, and the ritual), though in the English lan- guege, was chanted In solemn and effective tones. The services commenced and terminated witha procession, led by an acolyte, acting as cross bearer. Indeed, lt may ba stated that the func- tion Was almost a counterpart, with some very ht Boafications, of the celebration of mass in @ Cardolic church,’ fhe cross, tho emblem of }-man’a redemptionjs, appeared conspicucus in | BEY. Manye parts of he church. Before the ‘consecration of the “elements Rev. Father Morrill delivered a very edifylug discourse. He took his text from Jcbp, lil, 15—“God 60 loved the world,” &c. The preacher commenced by a | vriet reference to previous discourses recently {| delivered by him irom the same text, Yesterday Morning the two points taken were :— First, the object which the Biessed One came to accomplisa, which was the salvation of man; second, the means whereby. we become partakers ot this sal- vation, which Is justifying faith, Surpassing ail amazement to both angels and men is the econ- omy of divine grace. Father Morrili went on to snow how this was set forth in the Nicene creed. Go with me to Betniehem, and I will show to thee an infant which is, that it is, im order that thousands of years old In sin and guilt mightest be reborn to God aud righteousness. Go with me to Capernium and [ Wil point out to thee @ physician, wie, being what He is, can remove irom thee thy maludies by taking them al! upon Himself, and a teacher, pale being what He is, can lead thee into all the ruth. GO WITH ME TO CALVARY, and jel me kneel down at the loot of the central crogs set up there, und now what cost thou see * The heretic’s scenic display, his exemplary mar- tyr producing the greatest of moral effects? Why, iithou art of te laitbrl thy soul recoils with horror at such q wicked misrepresentation, Fur beyond the possibility of. description, thea art Jooking @t the Tree ot Lite, whose leaves gro ior healing of the nations. And I am pointing out to ; thee the Good Shepherd who is ag cown His life tor “fis “sheep, ual: through death He may destroy tim who has tue power of death, and deliver us woo were sudject to bondage. Who in matter of fact will share in this S80 great salvation? was the second point. The answer is Simply this—All who traly belteve in Christ, Incidentally, Father Morrtil went on to remark:—Suppose that your preacuer had said of any provounced sin of the fesn that it ‘was Not go Very ruinous to tie soul as the letter of Scripture says it is, and that, considering THE LIBERAL TONE OF MIND which is supposed to be now under special cultiva- tion, perhaps it will be Worked out as pot being a af gtave offence against God. Why, you would not have lelt disposed’ to tulerate him in the pulpit. Nor do I perceive why you should patiently listen toa preacher who, to jall in with the age, would even intimate, in conira- diction’ to Scripture, that grave sins of the intet- lect are not as dampable as grave sins of the flesh. This was supported by numerous Scrip- tural quotations, the resuit being (nat he piginiy does not velieve tn Ciiist who thinks of Hin otherwise than He ts set forth to us in Seriptare ghd the creeds of His Churcy. ‘he reverend speaker Next enumerated in detail what Curist is | to us—sav.our, redecnier, reiuge, cousoler, frieud and protector, | . Pocre wil | Aloan’s church on Christinas Eve. Un. Christmas Day three disuact services will bes held, the priu- cipal one to commence at cieven in the lorenoon, | i | SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPI. COPAL CHURCH, WILD ON THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AND THE MANNER OF HIS ADVENT. Notwithstanding the severe storm yesterday the Seventh avenue Methoaist church was weil Qed, Dr. Wild's text was from Genesis, xix, 10—‘“The aceptre snail not depart irom Judah, nor @ law- giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and voto htm shall the gathering of the people be.” Special time:, said the pocior, and groat mon are generally equal. c is no! made by men, but oiten results from the very want of such characters, A people or nation DR. may become demoralized and near to destruction | | when tho strong snd pure minded have no rale ner anthority, The very dangers and straggles of society in such @ state May, However, reveal men | equal to the emergency. ‘The Moseses and Gideons | are always within cali and reach oi Providence. As | precious stones are thrown irom their hiding piace imto open view by the flerce upheavings of the burning mountains, aud arc made more vréliant by the burnmishing process which they pass | throngh, so in times of national dangers, social disorders, political agitations ana Fetigons | emergencies, the true Luthers, Wesieys and Was! ingtons are reveaied. Men and their times are Jrequently adjusted with diMculty, but the diving law, the very coming oi Curist, was heralded by ; the heavenly planets. | ‘The speaker liere gave an eloquent portrayal of | the Saviour’s advent and the unsatisiactory pht- losophers of that day. He is the peoutete ing | and the King of the Jew and Gentile. In Him 13 the mijiennivm, and in Him universa! peace. In this special season It is appropriate that we ace beled Christ as our King and acknowledge our- selycs 13 Subjects. Let His peace be in oar hearts, for that is where He scts up His Kingdom. SECOND REF. PRESB. CHURCH. | | A SYNAGOGUE ADVANCED TO BR A CHRISTIAN WORSHIPPING PLACE, | The Second Retornied Presbyterian charch in | West Thirty-ninth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, was yesterday well filled, note withstanding the severe snow storm, witch made travel so dificult. The ouilding, which was tor- | merly a Jewish Synagogue, has only been recently | | purchased by the congregation. Extensive alter- | ations have been made to suis their requirements, | 80 that the edifice which has for so long been a mon- ument to the old dispensation will hereafter re- sound with the praises o7 the new. In the absence of the pastor, WhO Was unaivle to be present on ac count of ihealth, the pulpit was ocenpted by the Rev. R. L. Somerville, The text was taken from the third chapter of Se, Paul to tie Ephesians, from the four- teenth verse. “For this cause T bow. my knooe unto the Facher of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of , Whom the whole family in hexven and earth is | Named. That he would grant you, according to the Tiches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts py faith; that yo, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to com: reheod with ail sain's what ts the breadth and length and depth and height; and to know the | love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that bts might be flied with ali the fulness of God.” AG the time oi writing these words to the church at jus Paui was in bonds at Rome. He ex. jained (to the brethren how, he ‘pe Christ, he jews rejected the Gospel of was egpeciaiiy calied to reach it to the be a midnight celebration in St. | The specialty of the times | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. heathen, How nal would have been for see ate ctalan 4 tncloss tte Mat ne sooms a et ing he eR eee mpelle unde! che su iz to oadiive would eventuully resuis bene! wo himsetf and others, And tos proved to be 0, for throughout bis captivity the Gospel was car- ried into the centre of the Roman Empire. It was telt Nero’s household, and there 1s no doubt that many of hia officers and ministers were favorably impressed with tts truths. It must have been a source of courolation to Paul to know that he, @ prisoner, was the honored tnatrument of carrying tne true religion into the jod’s not our wars, and b; never dreamed of, much glory 41 He way bring to Himself great good to ua, The Christian ministry through- Out all ages bas been most greatly biest snd has derived its tone fro: 1s which seemed almost im bi urnendurable. The first thing 1 desire to call your Attention to 1s the being to whom Paul addresses his supplications, Under the old dispensation 1¢ was customary to address God, as ‘the God of our fathers,’ but under the new dispensation we come of the Creator as the Fatner of our Lord nist, God tndioate Clearly that we ueed sometht we have nut within ourselves to recommend us to God; some title whereby to aadress Him which will give us hope. When the rays are brought to bear upon some combustibie ob- fect, the thing beneath the glass begius todry aod shrivel, aad finally to crumble into dust. Something analagous to this must the fate of the sinner be, who goes imto the presence of God and calls upon him His full notice vnless he has something to ican upon, The way to come to then, with- out fear of being repulset or rejected, is through Christ. You will see im the text that Peul suye that we are oli of ose famtly, and the greas Javit o1 our time is that we, as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, too oiten iorget that MEMBERS OF EVERY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION are our brethers, ‘The lamily is divided tanto two parts only—one part in heaven, the other upon earth, Aud Members of this iamity on earth are just as secore as the saints in heaven. Outside of this iamily, however, there is no salvation. This oniy 13 eternal iive that we are members of one family, which is on heaven and earth. Io apeaking of tho posture. of Paul while making his supplications, the preacher animadverted on the attitude assum by most people during. prarer at public service. He censured severely he careless, easy, “fashionable,” indifferent air which 1s 0 general; characterized it as exceed- ingly irreverent, and thought that we ol our time had no right to alter the usages ur customs which had been handed down by the Charch strom all ages. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. SERMON OF BEV. JAMES M. PULLMAN—‘“‘HasT THOU ENTERED INTO THE TREASURES OF THE snow ?” Yesterday morning ® very appropriate and peauti(ul sermon was preached by the Rev. J. M. of our Saviour bad only a small congregation, on account of the terrible state of the weather, exercises commenced with the singing of the twenty-ninth hymn— Welcome, delightful morn, ‘Thou day of sacred rest, Wo hall thy glad return: Lord make these no.nents blest. From low deilghts and mortal toys We soar to reach immortal joys. The prayer of the pastor was a3 follows:—"Great and wonderfal art Thou, Lord God; infinite im before whom angels and archangels veil their faces, we bow to and acknowledgo as the infinite and holy Ooe; irom first to last the supreme Ruler and commander, We believe ia Thy perfect good for us with supreme tenderness, No matter if we are plunged into wickedness, into the depths of rescue us and call us jorth from the darkoess of night taro the light of perfect day, wrapping us in tne cloak of Tay charity and covering our muiti- tadinous sins, a6 the white snow now tailing covers the earth with its mantle of purity.” Alter singing the flity-eigata hymn, au urgent appeal for the chitdren of the Fifty-fourth | Btreet mission was made and the charit- | aple were asked to provide for them a { Coristmag dinner. Tne pasior then com- menced his sermon, the theme of which was “Win- ter’? and the changes of the seasons. Tucre are two reasons, he said, given tu us, two ways by which We ascertain our duty gna destiny, Of course tho first revelation in adaptability to our wants ty this hallowed volume—the Bible, In this God speaks to us through the prophets and His bieseed Sov. roveuled in the great book of Nature, in which we Taay read all the goud lessons of tae Bible over again illustrated in @ thousand ways. Nature has a clear voice, heard in the music of the rivers, and im the dashing mountata torrent, and every blade Of grass bas @ tongue that speaks volumes to the soul, The simpiest wild flower as you pass it py jooks up in your face and smiles, God sings aveee the meadows ia & giadsome voice, and ae + _ GRAY OLD OORAN takes up the monotone to sweil the choras of His praise, When He drives His rolling car oi thunder throug the skies, leta loose tue hurricane, or forces through the volcano’s read hot mouth the ; Durning laya, we have some evidences of His | power; and when He sets this grand atom we cail the earth spinning through space, we have agreater exhivition of His force; yot the | | simple change irom day to night seems sucha commonplace fact tnat we lose sight oi and miss | | the lessons that are equally taugit in the reguiar and unimportant events of nature. We want | some grand revelation, We think if He would | only BOW THE HEAVENS and come down with lis caarivts and angels we shouid be tore certain of His grand power and | give, by such 4 revelation, the piace of sober cer- tainty to our cortured and restiesa bearis. Some- times we grope in infidel darkness until some ‘ litne thing—tne glecs:me laughter ef a child we may have heard 4 thousand times—giv Meaning to tne Word, Tien, as to how briei the autumn, with iis bending corn, its pleasant, fading days, with Qoods ot glorious sun- | shine, and the summer, witn its giowing robes ‘ and pomp of flowers; how great the contrast be- tween winter wiih its desolation! In ali this God saya, “BRHOLD THE SYMBOL OF YOUR Lives!” Do we not find when we have adapted ourseives to some condition in ie that we must Who dares count’ on to-inor- Temember the voice that to that man who said, “Soul, thou so much goods lati up ior so many years, ‘Take thine ease?” The loves and | change it? Do | you | hopes Of the boy are vot tne loves and hopes of | the nan, Enjoyment brings saticty. We tire of the things that pieased us Most, a6 Culidrea tire of tuelr toys, We toil and strucgie on thronga ite until We awake on the brink of the grave to dnd | “what shadows We are and went shadows we pur- | gue.” The season offers us a 3 associate it With its | death—uot to , TRADITIONS OF HORROR, but to look it calmly in tne face, for it comes like monarco’a goms. The grave hides our weak- | messes, iaults and sits, and let us hope that, snatcning Uz from the judgments of men, it gives us to One whose meroy endureth forever, PRESBYTERIAN. MEMORIAL CHURCH. ‘THE VISIT OF THE MAGI''—DISCOURSE BY REY. C. 8. ROBINSON, D. D. | The cougregation was not large yesterday morn- 1ng at the Presbyterian Memorial church, corner of Madison avenue and Fifty-third strect. Rev. | pr. 0. 8, Rebinson preached on “The Visit of the | Magi,” and his text was Matthew, il., 1—“Where ts | he that is born King of the vews! For we have seen | hiestar a the east and are come to worship him.” | among all the graphic pictures drawn by | inspiration there is no one scene which has laid hold of the popniar imagination | ivke that of the birth and adoration of | the infant Jesus, The chapter opens with an ac- count of @ singular visit made by strange men | | from am unknown country coming to the sacred | ‘ otty, Tey were the Miugt—a caste among the Medes—meanimg holy men or sages. They had | been predisted in the Old Testament, ‘They tell us, themselves, that they came to worship THE KING OF THE JEWS, | The star that led them was only an saves aac | It was the comunction of Jupiter and Saturn, When Merod heard of heir arrival he was trouble and the poopie Witt him, not sympathetically, ba simulcaneou: He jeared a rival, and they joared his yiolence, or a revolution. The Kin | called a cotinell of priests, who consulted ancien | prophecy, and found a passage in Micah which hrew lighton the subject of Obrist’s oirth. He inquired accurately, tor he was planning murder, | The Jast vision we have of those honored sages | jeaves them out on the road, journeying with all expedition, the stariight on their foreheads and ct “pg nd their gilts in thelr hands, with the ue | them of soon seeing the Kimg of the | Jesgons from this story are that the ou | all ite ditions of enlightenment yearns lor | Also the kingdom of grace holds ‘a central tion, Ali other Kingdoms are bent to 1, . 1 posi- hi the stable 6t oane an, | palaco hung a sword; over the stable stood A star, | Bod guides toward Christ, BROOKLYN CHURCHES, a ad THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. DR. TALMAGE UPON THE AMUSEMENTS WHICH ABE PROPER FOR OHRISTIAN PEOPLE. In spite of tho continued and dazaling down- fail and the deep snow which covered the ground the Brooklya Tabernacle waa fully two-thirds full Jesus: | Either of these metheas of addressing | that { of the sun are | concentrated, fad by the wid Of & burning glass Pullman ((rom Job xxxviil., 22.) but the Churon | Tne | majesty, awful in thy perfect supremacy! Thou, | will toward menkind. Thou dost love and care | hell, if. we torn back to Thee Thou wilt finally | In the other we dud His wisdom | estion we ought not to pass-vy concerning the b<neficent oulice of | sDOW, ADG Covers alike the victor’s wreaths and | yesterday morning with the ardent copgregation whigh bas faith in the ministrations of the Rev, T. De Witt Talmage, D. D, The devotional exer- cises and psalmody were conducted in tho usual fervent styie, and the admiatetration of the Lord’s Supper followed the sermon, the pastor inviting all, whether within or outside hie congre- gation, to participate in that revered commemo- ration of the passion and death of the Saviour. Dr. Talmage stated that it had been his inten- tion to give a rest as to his discourses upon pub- lc amusements; but, considering she season of the year, when so many young persons would de- aire to be,rightly guided as to their Christian duty in the matter, be felt it tacumbent on him to con- tinue the sudject and to point out to the juvenile Members of his congregation those special amuse- ments which might innocently be indulged tn by them at this testive season, He concluded that this was the exact time to assure bis congregation that there was no dark land of gioom before those who abstained from unchristian pleasures, and that there were plenty of innocent and home amusements which would contribute to happiness and hilarity. Dr. Talmage then took for his text the Kirst Epistle of St, Pani to the Corinthians, seventh chapter and thirty-first verse—‘‘They that use this world as not abusing it’—and satd:—Thig is vue distinction which the Word of God makes be- tween lawful use and uniawfal abuse, and the difference between the Ciristian man and the an- christian 18 that the former masvers’ the world, whereas the latter allows the world to master him. For whom did God create the world bu: for Man, filling it to repletion with the beauty of colors and o/ jorm; making of the ground a carpet of flowers and of tne skit fresco’ muking a fal chorus of ten thousand voices with the accompant- ment of His thunders, and tne whole earth reso- pant with tue clashing cymbals of His cr tive power, But did He create them all for strangers or for His own children? Would not the man who had up- holstered nis home ask his own children first to come and partake of the beauties with which he nad filed it? And would not sons and daughters have rights before strangers? So is it with God. He has builé @ magnificent mansion and opened a vounteous feast, but tho first advan- tages are offered to those who can say Abba, Father, He could not righteously give more aa- vantages to the world outside than to those who are His, amd for the children of God all these things are prepared and given, That ig God’s view of the heritage which He has given us, and in the name of the King of Heaven I to-day serve | A WRIT OF BJECTMENT | upon those who have squatted on the domain of earthly pleasure, and I put in tue claim oi right to | @aith's pleasures ior the chitdren of Gou. The Christian ts frst eutitied to them and to all that is healtninl, innocent and advantageous, First there 18 music, vocal ana instrumental. God began the wore of His creation with music, and from the serenade of the bird, with its beautt- ful notes, to the trump of the archangel He bas assvciated His creation with music. Let every Christian parent, then, cultivate in lis _housenold the pursuit of music and have his children in- structed in the flute, the ptago, the vioitn or the | organ. For in these will be found ilimitable recre- ation, asource of pleasure which will make the mind soar and be jubliant; which wil quell pain ‘and anxiety, aod, i property used, will tend to | strengthen the immortal soul. On the tleld of Wate: luo it 1s said that Wellingtou was told that the courage of the Highianders was giving ie When it was reported to him he immediate ordered the pipers to arouse them poy the tones of thelr Dative Music and those troops Marcned on to victory, And 8» it 18 with the Christian, ronied in the conflicts of lite, who with | an ear attuned to music May march on to victory. Cutuvate, therefore, the best music in your famr ltes, and Lam thangtal to say that teere 1s not an evening iu the weck in which concerts with good music are not to be found tu which you can obtain access, There are Steinway Hull, the Academy of Mu-io and tnnumerabie other places where you can always enjoy tins mnocent source of pleasure, Procure season tickets and take your children there. Iam thanktul to say that the Board of Di- rectors of the Academy of Music have done a ser- vice to the cause of Christian entertainments in | prohibiting any secular music in the Academy on | free from dissipation abd is recuperative. ‘There are many Christian people woo are ignorant of ite excellences, desponaent and Weak people, Who are tuvariably in bad spirits. Sucn people would de- rive spiritual benefit trom irequenting it, for their Gepression as regards spiritual things is irequently the reault merely of an incompetent liver. Such people frequently imagine fiat It 13 & good sign to be poorly and downcast, and think that becaus2 Richard Baxter aud Rovert Hall were men of that kind of temperament they are right in being 80; Dut I tell you that God will hold you responsible for not arousing yoursels to the full use oi the en: ergies Ho has given you. The connection between body anda soul is so intimate that by feeding on animal aiet you can so influence the quailty of your blood as to partake of the nature of the lion or the bear, or render your disposition cruel; and your ideas can be go Clouded with tie FUMES OF TOBACCO AND LIQUOR that you may sbatter the jewel of eternity which is within your grasp. The most magzificent ma- chinery may suffer irom neglect, and be worn ont for want of use. There never was @ more mag- Diflcent physical and muscular developinent than that of Luther’s. He was aman who could have thrasned any five other men ii it had been right to do 80; but iu the Unristian every nerve, muscle and bone ls consecrated to God, and that ts not the Impulse of the Coristian’s life which induces & mab, instead of pu'ting jorth ail his energivs in tne service of God, to ask, ‘Woat is best for ays- pepsia?”’ logtead of striving witt spread sails to carry all the cargo possible sucn people occupy their whole time in stopping up leaks and in working off the spleen begot of indolence. Again, Wiat better recreation can people desire than parior games. You, of course, cannot and will not nance your childyen to stay at home vuless you maxo their homes bright and cheerial, Although how ¢ross and surly, you, the Sabbath, and they deserve great credit tor it. | Next there ig the gymnasium, which is entirely | perhaps, were lively and ull of spirits as well a3 | young oncs yuursell; and although your eyes are | dim and your apkies weak, you should remember | the young eyes that glisten und the frames that are inil of robust health, For these provide games | that do not inirmge the lawot righteousness and that have not a taiat of imiuity; and instead ot mayine “How those children ao go on," encourage them in that laughter which is tree fron the sud experiences Of the worlu, and in their radiant hilarity and joy. Tne night will come svon enough and those tair iaces ‘be clouded by iie’s realities, and, perchance, by pangs and deso- | lation. Encourage, then, the | the present but of past ages, and to parlor social- ties, which contribute to wit and joy, each adding | to the general hilarity, annex ihe games Of chess and battedore and all those which are £0 sens!- | ble-and 80 good that tuere 1s nota taint of evil in them, | galleries and museums, to historical societies and | scores cf otber places, which will stand the se- verest test; and to those lecture halls which have | been adorned by such men as Agassiz or oy the | discourses of Boynton on geology or Dr, | Mitchell on the subject of astronomy, irom whence knowledge has been poured forth waich has made Our great country filty years in advance oi any oth Also tuere are outdoor sports and enjoy- ments in which we can tnduige. There is croquet | gua fishing and the «un, und innumerable inno- cent ontdoor occupations and amusements out. side of We me The life that Intowns Is so unnatural is outsiae of it fuil of gun and resilient, and beautiiul in the country, and calls ont for the Church 01 God to id {| hope we may have a winter if which laley ponds and grounds may present tho op- | portunity forskating and every outdoor oxercise, ‘¢ want bright eyes, strong nerves, courage in | heart, consecrated arms and strong lungs, all 10 be used as not abusing them, ot there is another pleasure, to waicn [ must refer, the pleas: ure of doing good. You young men who are cross and sour, did you ever experience that heavenly touch which makes the very sky itsel! break into music. You wiil say | cannot spend anything on my jellow man. Well, you wave two hands and two feet, and ut least $10 to give away annually, and, besides, you can bestow five hua- dred cheeriui looks ana five thousand cheerful words upon others. You meet a blind man and give him two ce 3}. you meet a boy with a bar. Tow, which he cannot lift and you assist lim, and @ stok Dut NOL puor man, to whom you can offer a few words of comfort, and {hee the story of au embarrassed man an idea that times Will be better. Although you will have spent very little thero wii! be a thiill of re- ' creation tn you whicn wall more than repay you, | Colonel Gardiner sat before a maguiticently spread | table and wished he could exchange existeace with his dogs; but which was happiest, Vuionel | Gardiner or those two Moravian missionaries who asked admission into a lazarctto, and who were | told that it they went im they would not | be permitted to come out again, and wito went in with full deliberation, firat to help and to convert the sick and then to die; ‘There ts no snch recreation as the recreation of | deing good, Yet mere secular amusements arc | not a fit founsation for the soal to build on, tor ali Life’s piaesares are deceitful and evanescent. xd own Ite has sor me the most painiul evidence of how brightly the aay may open and yet-close 1n darkness, Alter a severe Sabbath day's labor in Phitadeiphia [ took a walk along the banks of the Schuylkill, with my wite and daughter and my aister and niece, The day was lovely aud every: thing -apoke of ure. Pleasure boats were going out in numbers, and we were asked to take a boat. We all five got into one, h many rains and treshets some days before. hold of the oars and had been pulling for some time, when we hoard a shout from the shoro and saw the yee. hands, as if to bring us back. Lt was impossible to stop, and with an a AWFUL PLUNGR we were Griyen by tho waters over the dam of the Schuylkill, ¢ tu the rim of the capsized boat, all, save dear child, woo sank, and my ear wife, wh "ent wader the dam. the iatrose aines, hot only of | Moreover, go abroad among the art | | the poor cheer him with tue | Place. long the swift be of eed amine. —— the harbor oF Sebecne giori ere we shail shout ever- more, ‘Home at last.’ " PLYMOUTH CHURCH, SERMON BY MR. BEECHER ON THE BEAL PHI- LOSOPHY OF PATIENCE—ITS DEVELOPING POWER IN THE S0UL DESCRIBED. ‘The suow storm had the effect of diminishing the attendance at Plymouth church yesterday morning. Yet, despite of the atorm, there was a congregation that very nearly filed every pew; ladies were, of course, largely in the minority. Previons to the sermon Mr. Beecher made scverat announcements, prominent among which was that of the fale now being held tn the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the House of the Good Shepherd. After stating tts very excellent objects and saying 1¢ was largely dependent upon private benevolence, le said:—“l have more pleasure in giving this notice because this institution ts tn the care of ‘Slaters,’ ladies of the Catholic faith, Tney are Catholic and we are Protestant, but 1 hope vhat we are both Christians, I thank God that there 1s One thing into which sectarianism cannot enter. Charity knows no sect, and therefore I hops that when you see the Members of another sect striving for 80 good # purpose you will turo. your hearts toward them, and you will exercise a true bevevolence when they call upon you.” The subject of the sermon was ‘The real philosophy of patience,” and the text selected was the third and fourth verses of the first chapter of the Epistle of St. James, “Know. ing this, that the trying of your faith worxeth: paseuch But let puiience have her persect work, hat ye. may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” ugnage, said Mr, Beecher, its rise at ag early periow in tl 6 the race. It commenced with words derived from material things, and there was any tendency toward the immaterial and the invisible. AS 2 mere matter of fact, terms that indicate the nobi ‘perience of man- Kind were almost all of them words that bad an ordinary and Cy cre sigoificance, having a known. Meaning. So tim one iamuily how long ry be preserved the derivation tn the auadea.o¢ ing 10 a single word, and this would indicate how long was the distance that it had travelled; and the distanze (ravelied would be jong, inasmuch aa it would be as long as human nature iiself, As a consequence, one vi tne aifitcuities of ave exinted Scripture, which tt ts supposed may have exis: has deen as to these words that have these varic shades cf meaning. It hay been always necessary to indicate the shade of meaning ‘that was neve to the place where it was used. We have almosy no terms that pni'osophicully and jaccurately de- termine mental states. We are obliged to use vague impressions and illustrations of vai ous kinds; and thus by this means use that which men can understand. Wo can thus very olien use words that cat express accurately ail the shades of fain whi belong to the development of man. You will fina in tots passage iro James the word “patients”? described a8 having its periect work. Patience has here a bi ig power. Let patience have its pertect work. It 13 au educatcr, thon. A true patience inspires faith and reveals the futuro to some extent. Whal, theo, is the work of patience? What, then, is the scope of that work? What is the discrpime of the child in education? Mr, Beecher here described, with some minuteness of etait, tno education ofa child, He then went on to describe the interior of the ature ot man, as Tesembling & commonwealth. Our natare Bopgions within, and self-goverament means tho olding of one part of our bDature while we are working the development of anotuer part. Let us consider the nature of man. First, 1c is physical, Secondly, 1t 1s eecial, co-ordinately inteliectnal and moral. Last 1 all, Spiritual. In developing the lower order, a8 by a thousand reasona it comes tobe the strongest, we sro lutentiy interested and we begin to exait these influences and there- by come to cultivate a repression of influences which we have educated. No man can sound every taculty at once. ‘There is not wind chough in the instrument to doit. Theretore all action the matter of development is, a3 @ matter Of fact, acontipual change of relation, No part of the mind is to have such activity that sucn develop- ment is to suppress every otherpart. The scope of this is our happiness. It is builaisg, soul duild- ing. Patience worketh peciection. HOW PATIENCR WORKS, The means by whict patience is tanght tn the providence or God are many. The reasons tor Which these are employed and the Occasions re- quired sheds iight upon maiy mysterious passages of life. There 1g, for example, the neces- gity of industry. Men are not anything except bundles of tendencies and cavacities. The pri- mary tendencies of mau’s life are the preservation oi the body, the obtaiming of food and warmth. This is a tendency that appeals to the human family for exertion. The cultiva- tion of this culty reaches a Wider scope, and the element of disposition comes in, aud with it pa- tience. We talk of means of grace, as i they were allin the Bible ana the bymn book. Before there was @ Bible there was physical industry which prepared man for the use and development ot himself, and which educated the different parta of nature. ‘Then tiere are the economies of hie— for example, pain in ali its ten thousand forms; that becomes an element of patience. Lt is tne soul teaching itself to endure in conditions of suf- fering, !t is mankind rising up, and it is generally the earliest mannood that involves in itsell a prin- Cipie. It ig not generally the young men Who are willing and who are ready to die tor their princl- p'es or for their country. It ts the power that en- dured that ‘develops heroism. Still more we are obliged to discipline our patience by reason of our own soclal pleasures, o2p the body under, live regularly, has become a sort of a gospel, Now, to certain extent that is trne, But we havo heart that has spread ite tendrils around and over us. Can you @urantec that, this love that it shall bring no pain back to you. Can your imagination nave exe: cise and cometh from it no acaing influences? Can I by this bave my happiness under my own control? What if God vurns my cradie bottum side up? What tf my companions are to-cay everything to me and nothing to-morrow? What is my prosperity, if bankruptcy comes? Men are dependent on physical things, and itis wise to obey physical iaws, but how much of oar nap- bloess depends upon our trials, Tnere are con- attions that we Cao arrange for but there are Many that wo cannot control. A man who de- ends upon his enjoyments and his development ‘a the society around him can never get out ot It What he seeks, This ts where comes in the necea- sity for the devetopment of patience, Mr. Beechor here enlarged upon tho development of faith in man; and the need of fojlowing alter righteouse ness, and closed by @ number of filustrations drawn from nature aud every day lie, showing that {t was by earnest, unceasing effort that we were made strong and ft tor the abundant en- trance of the Kingdom of God, HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH. HARD TIMES AND HOW TO 'SOFIEN THEM BY DR. FULTON'S METHOD. Notwithstanding ine inclemency of the weather & considerable congregation was in attendance at the morning service in this chureh yesterday. The text chosen for the sermon by the Rey. Dr. Fulton was Romans, Xli., 8—"Owe MO man anything, but to love one another.” These words of the great fApostie, acted on ana lived up to, would disen- tangle soctety from tue dimculties which environ it, and would open from the valley of our humuta- tion a path to general prosperity, The great trouble to be apprehended at this hour ts from the tendency which permits selfishness to over- come generosity, and which proves that @ face Of flint Is more essentiat to success than 4 heart full of sympathy and love. Only those who believe in the infinite fasherhood of God can rise to the higu level of duty; only such will imifil the injunc. tion, “OWe no man anything,’ remembering that nd strugging will bood what is due them. Firat, love is the need of tne hour, Love makes every man put himself in every orner man's It causes him to be true to God, true to Bel!, true bo every One else. There is novhing sad- der cver written against the Cliristivnity of the Hiucteenth Cant than that thero should bo sur feriog and distress in a year when tre ficlis have Yielded abaudant crops and when there has beea no bg 2 Hence or destructive conflagra- tion, but m she Universal stagnation in business the ripened flower whose evoas ling 18 selflann ana whose fratt is calamity, The avsence of love permits ecifishness to be sue rome, In illustration o: ls subject the preachor here made reference ty tne disaster of the Atinn- tic, when love mace ten sacrifice the inte res ts 0 selfto tne interests of otners, Love 1s brains to the bewildered, eyes to the bind, cars (0 the dea. Love ennoovles all, Secondly, eelfishness is the curse of humanity, It dismtegraces society; 16 snaps 10 twain the bond of good fellowship, worketh tll to everyvody ccerywoers, ‘doa Hate gives evory Man & chauce to know whether love or nate of lives in him; tt love, he rises to the le ig] benefactor; if nate, no anrivels to the dimensions of & savage, Thirdly, man owes love. He is ta debt to love, He has recelved more love than ho has ever given back, Love rocked his cradie, ministered to him in manhood and sollowed bim to the man can pay love, becauso he always hi some one to pay itto, Love comes to him from the ocean of God's fulness; Ho may pour tt forth ta streams of bene(action éverywuore, Thora is a possibility of misdirecting our sympathies and of doing injury to general interests even while we {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGEI gtave, Fourthly,