The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YEARS SERMONS, The First Religious Teachings of the Opening Year. FEAST OF THE CIRCUMCISION My. Hepworth on the Way to) Begin the Year. BAD BOOKS AND PAPERS | John Weiss on the Tragedy in Nature. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, HOW TO BEGIN THE NEW YEAR. An extremely large and highly intelligent con- gregation assembied yesterday morning to listen to the sermon of Rev. George H. Hepworth, at the Church of the Disciples, corner of Forty-iourth | street and Madison avenue. The reverend gen- tieman had chosen tor his theme “How to Begin the New Year," and bis remarks were received with proiound attention, In the prayer tmmedi- ately preceding the sermon the reverend preacher invoked God’s heip that men may be made hon- orable, upright. truthful aod just during the new year. Might He make this @ year of grace, and inspire them all witn confidence in Him, no mat- ter if He send joy or sorrow, Let the divine spirit consecrate this congregation to Him from Sunday to Sunday, and thus make the year one of spiritual triamphs and biessings. The reverend preacher took his text from the Gospel according to Mat- thew, xvii, 29:—Have patience with me, and 1 will pay thee aL’? The remarks of the reverend gentleman, which he based upon this text, were extremely brief, as he was sudering froma violent cold, and lis voice was very boarse. While his sermons generally occupy from an hour to an hour and a half in the delivery, he spoke little over half ap bour yesterday morning. As wiil be seen trom | the fll report below, the reverend preacher took ‘this occasion of omcially expressing his New Year's Wishes to all his bearers, and, in fact, to all Chris- tians, and to express the hope that the year 1875 might afford them, twelve months hence, a grati- fying retrospect. THE SERMON. He supposed it had irequently happened to them, | she reverend preacher began, that they observed | adebtor who was unable to meet a note, They | elther telt pity or contempt for him. If tey felt | assured that he was anxious to aischarge bis auty honorably, and was merely the victim of unfortu- nate circumstances,all the kindness of their natures would naturally well out toward him, butif they | knew that he lived extravagantly at nome, ana did | mot mean to pay bis debt, they couid oniy feel the contempt which he deserved. On the lst of January every oue had @ Gendt to discharge which he owed to the divine Creator. and it was his basiness, as thetr minister, to ask them whether they had paid Of aninstaiment of the great promissory note | which He held and to which they were the second party. It was important that after having passed | through this year they shovid ingaire wha: they ‘were and where they were. DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. Last Thursday night the oid year died; it died quietiy, as age generally passed away; it died leaving its benediction to them and their children, Almost instinctively, as the hours passed by, they dreamt of the past and the future. As tne last etroke of twelve rung out upon the night air they instinctively cried out, “Goodby, ola year!” and they silently offered up prayers to God that they might build better in tne new year than they had ever built before. The New York custom of cele- brating the new year, oy the way, waa one he yiked, He could not easily forget how cordtally ‘they al! shook hands with him on that day, ana he had no doubt that the season was one of great Btility in other respects. It was atime when the impulsive, rash deed ai ready regretied was laid under the sod, when men could approach one an- other without formality and without coldness, The words, ‘‘Happy New Year!” had a giad sound of mutual jorgiveness, kindiiness and charity which Was most grateful to the heart. NOBLE LONGINGS, Now, brethren, what were the thoughts that arose most naturally at this season, what were NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ral to His commands, ana tresting still more ¢x- plicitiy to His love and charity. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. DEDICATION EXERCISES, The new temple of worship, Rutgers Presby- terian chureh, corner of Madison avenue and | Twenty-ninth street, was dedicated yesterday morning. A very large congregation was present, and the exercises were of a highly tnterestin character, Following # voluntary on the organ and another by the choir came the “invocation” by Rev. Nathaniel W. Conkling, D. D., the pastor. Singing & hymn, in which all the congregation par- ticipated, and reading jeotions irom Scripture and prayer by Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field followed, and theo was preached the DEDICATION SERMON His text was Mark xit., 30, 31— by the pastor. thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind and with all thy strength.’ This is the first commandment, and there 1s no other greater than this, The Lord thy God, mentioned in the text, was Him to whom they bad met to dedicate their churen. The vet! which kept God from mor tal view nad been rent in twam. The name of God was love. He was not an impersonal iorce, but a living God. There might be possibly re ligious worsbip and not Christian worship. There ig DO trae worship without luve. Love of God is the criterion of the regenerated soul—the test of the soul’s redemption. In church this worsoipiul | soul way soar On the wings of song, may breathe ts3 longings in prayer, may draw in asplia- tions and hopes irom the words of the | preacher, be guided and strengthened by the sacraments, ney, should worsnip God with ail their energies. They should present themselves as living sacridces on the altar of worship. This Was worship ol the heart and soul, ‘They were en- Jomed to love God equally with their mind, True religion was something—a matter of intellect. They might not be apie to meet all tue capuous objections that had puzzled the philosopners of the olden umes, But this was po reason why they should give up the Gospel for a table. Anotper point ne enforced was that they should not put off | ‘he Worship of God until their strength was gone. | God was entitled to the flower of their strength. Elaborating this point at tengto he Copa the coneluding lesson of the text, which he said was | the eniorcement of Ubristian brotherhood, THE DEDICATION. | The formal dedication oi tne church succeeded | the sermon, This was @ very simple yet impres- | sive ceremonial, LYRIC HALL. MR, JOHN WEISS ON TRAGEDY IN NATURE. “and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all | oniy possibie solution. And more than this tare to saggest. mental ir to create immortal personality, it must be as u person, | and it canpet ve in the few | bg which ® mortal body spends outside o! @ | | sou! I conceive, then, that after the a of the body we shall be substantially, in the drift of our char- acters, the same that we were belore and shall be dependent upon the sam sor the con- ‘ tinuance of our being. ie a but if we live the senses must rent parts of us; matter and spirit will be coupiea | been transmitied through eternity will not coase to act the structure of the person. The idea of escaping trom toem involves the idea of nonenttty. | Would we escape i! we couid t Could we escape It | there would not be enough sense in Us to start & | preference tor @ nonen'ity; nonenuty would have | preierred us and the grave would close over its own, Wher ‘ali the avuls that have passed out of Life during all the ages ? Have they wertlod in places whica exempt them from the laws 0! life? Has labor been abolished? Has the sense of antagonism expired ? Nay, it must be quickened | at the experience of more numerous and pro- founder differences of social, mental and moral habits. Hi been sponged out o: the heart of shake. apeure? No baby cherub he, ciean bereit of tragedy and comedy, iatuousiy smiling on ail the tempers of the immortal ciowd. If man had forgotten to earry with bim bis sublimest emo tions, or if Deity had negiected to provide the aa- tagonistic circumstances wuich force them from us as at the point of a celestia! sword. A Leaven Lot worth aying for and because the nerves which can be wruug and the sine ws that cap be stretched have heen drawn out Of the frame or the sonl. Let us hail a better, mure heavenly hupe, that the elements wii continue to challenge our natural powers, preserve them to the pains and exercises O! @ Justy munnvod, sur nish imposing situations, tragic mom nts 0: Coill- gion, romances o! love, tuus triumphing Jurever over death and the grave. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. REV. FATHER QUINN, There was, as usual, a very large congregation oMotatiag clergyman at the last masa, At the ter- | mination of the first gospel the Rev. Fatuer Quinn, Vicar General, preached a sermon, taking bis text from the Gospel according to St. Luke—‘‘Aiter the Dighth day was passed the ¢hild was circumcised, I If tragedy be endowed with ele- tion reed. il and the tendeac.es which nave deny the existence oi a devil. strated the tact that he ts in reality @ personal | To Christ | ave Lear, Hamlet, Coustance, Cordell® mugs we look to Christ. only not & piace ol torture, wi FEAST OF THE CIRCUMCISION—SERMON BY THE | God throu; and singing of @ few more hymas the congrega- dispe LAIGHT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. BEV. MR. KNAPP ON CHRIST 48 A MEDIATOR. Alarge congregation assembled in the Laignt street Baptist church yesterday morning to bear @ sermon by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Knapp. The Organs Of OUF ext selected was Hebrews, xii, 2 It t8 not | strange, said the speaker, that unconverted men Af the devil demon- devil he would defeat his own ends. very mapy aen go simply as they would to an ad- viser or @ friend, but they who have been enlight- ened by the grace of God are superior to such things. There is @ sense in which a man can intelligently look to Caret. He must lose Bight eet au else and concentrate bis mind upon Him alone, The astronomer, in gazing ut a ‘ai ticular star or planet, tuiuks o! nothing else, and is there.ore enabled to discover the pecallar | auties of the heavenly ord. In like manner oe Ay y Woridiiness exerts uwerful influence upon the Masses Oo! Men. Many, Rowever, turn away from tnis influence, and in this way get nearer and cioser to Christ. We con- tantly hear people say that aver they nave thor- ougbif examined the Bible they will turn their at- tention to Jesus, But, delieve me, this will not do, We mast have /aith in Christ sad in Him alone, and when we have acquired this all else ve plain, Christ must be viewed iu all His various characters, like unto the human heart. NO man can pray to God without recognizing Carist ani nope for puceess, “There must be & mediator, Do not for get what Jesus Himseli has said of the necessity | if your soul can catch one oy ooking voward whol’ ee o1 our coming to Him, glimpse of the dear Savioar Him you wiil never, | @m sure, © rely desirous oj salvation. y as many Ways ax you please, but until you come to Obrist you will never—you can never be satisied, some scientists hoid that this theory ‘not good—tnat maa mast do something bimself to obtain salvation. Ibey wili not allow that at the Oatnedral. The Rev. Father McNamee wasthe Jesus ere it all’? oy His birth, His life, His suffer- ings and His death, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. A NEW YEAR'S SERMON BY DR. TYNG. Yesterday morning Rey. Dr. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., at and his name was called Jesus.” The reverend 0s church, corner Madwon avenue and For'y-seu- gentleman, after alluding to tae general charac- ; OBd sireel, preached @ very appropriate New ter of the feast that was being celebrated, ad- , Year’s sermon, taking for his text Psaim Ixv., verted to the ‘act that although not compelled to do 80, the Lord had complied witu the law, At the time of the ciroumoiion the name was given Mr. Frothingham’s platform was occupied by Mr. Johu Weiss, whose Sbakespearian lectures are so renowned. He delivered a very eloquent | discourse, the subject of which he announced to | be—“The development of moral out of pbysical | evil, the tragedy which it invoives and the divine purpose in it.” The physical and moral evils which supply the elements of tragic lile were in. volved in the world’s growth and came down | directly into the lineage of mankind; their roots are deeply imbedded in the earth and — Spread through all its strata; they grow | up into the tree of know edge of good and evil, of which if a maneathe shali nourish smiles and tears. Nature never valued life in itsell, only the | best life, apa her measures to save aud propagate | that have been of the sterncst kind, With this | object in view she invented the process called death, AS her creatures increased in sensitive- ness, hardship, privation and suffering corre- sponded; no innocent life has been respected oy her and favored with immunity; the strongest and not the weakest have been petted by their relentless forces. Her motto over the entrance of every period might be, “In the midst of death [ | am in lule.” Let us observe vhis natural antici- | pation of the tragic element, in the far‘distant past and gather a few of its omens. There was | no society for the prevention of cruelty | to animais in the pre-historic times, and | Bature preserves the same indifferent tem- | per of her old devices. An animal | that has become decrepit is left without | belp or sympathy, to die by starvation. Sus- temance is dependent upon incessant stratagem, bat was curiously prefigured in the habits of some plants. For instance, tne wiliness of plants 1s | particularly bosttle to the insect world, yet no little people in the world are more deserving of consideration. It is noticeable that ingects always work with more noeatness and finish than is ab- soiutely necessary for comfort. Wasps were THE EARLIEST PAPER MAKERS. There is a Gy that uses a saw and a species of Amertcan apt that puts together a rafifor the crossing of streams. In short, insects bore, do | mason work, dig mines, cut, saw, make traps, | raise crops, spiv, make paper, silk, noney and | wax, and perform carpenter work. Such endow: | ment o! talent and patience ought to be favored with immunity trom bad designs. But nature con. trives plants on purpose to circumvent these | first chapter of the Acts o1 the Apostles— which is not confined to animated creatures, | | which Obriat taugnt. Jeet of the Master be catches His spirit, and mental His Father in heaven, the same that was an- nounced to the Biessed Virgin when the angel ap- peared to her and told her ste was to be the Mother of God, the same that bad been told to Joseph by the angel whom he saw ins vision. ‘The Dame that was given by the Fa’her in heaveu was given by Mary at the moment ot the circum- cision. The reverend gentleman then proceeded | todilate on the power and eilicacy of tne holy name, at the Mention of which every knee should bow in heaven, on earth and iu hell, as was set forth by the aposties, By the virtue ofthat name sick had been heales reatorec to life. He then showed the necessity of bearing in mind the great respect taat was cue by all Christians to the holy name, and in rewinding the congregation that this was the season for good resolations observed that vothing couid better 8—“Thou makest the outgoing of the-morning and evening to praise thee.” Berore the sermon the preacher gave an interesting account of his visits to the child which had previously been given by made during the past week to the missions at- tached to the church, which, he stated, were in a { very prosperous condition. The word rejoice | really means to sing, eatd the preacher, and let us congratulate Ourselves this New Year’s morning if we Can only sing. Taking the wordsol the text leads us to the thought that at no other hour of the day 18 the earth su full oi beauty and so voice- Jul of praise as in the morning, when the fading stars confess the supremacy 01 the coming day. “Thou makest the outgomg o1 the moruing and ev. ning to praise thee.’ He who is in symnpatny and the dead = with nature and Nature’s God must recognize the | beauty o1 the sentiment, and Do one can watch the sun gloritying the earth or see the day de: cline without having a heart filed with glacness | and praise to Him who created the might ana morning. The mastic and harmony of the uni- stimulate the saith.ul to preserve the zrace of God yerse come from than the frequent reovileciion 01 the name of Jesus, the tuought of wnose mankind was weil Calculated to strengtuen us in the moment of temptation, The Cheral arrange- ments were excelient. The services were con- cluded shortly after twelve o'clock, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. DR. ARMITAGE PICTURES THE AGED DISCIPLE. Im the fine church on Forty-fiith sirect, near | Fifth avenue, the pastor, Dr, Armitage, before the | sermon yesterday morning, called attention to H the fact that the present 1s to be observed as a uduess ANG love lor | even the Lord God. week of prayer in all the cnurones, and announced ! t prayer meetings would be held in the lecture | A sieutagriod . © | MR. BERCHER'S OPINION OF SHAKESPEARE Toom every evening except Saturday, The dis- course was addressed particularily to the aged, his text being the sixteenth verse of the twenty- ere | went with us also certain of the disciples of Cega- | rea, and brought with them one Mnason, of Cy- | prus, an old disciple, with whom we snould lodge.’ | After referring to the context im order to | 1 } THE GREAT SOI, OF MUSIC, What have materialists, who resoive all things into tue attritivn of molecules ol matter, so precious and stimulating as those who behold the Mngers of God im othe) «firmament and skies? Gladness glowed in the first morning. on an eurth redeemed irom @ formless condition, and When at length man stood upright upon the globe theo human history gloriously began, But since that first morning what toils and trials have sur- rounded humanity! BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. AND SHAKESPEARIAN STUDIES A SERMON ON THE HIGHER LIFE. For some not very apparent reason Plymouth | church was more than usually crowded yesterday morning. Alter pucking the church to its utmost capacity a large number went away, unable to obtain admission. 1t being the Orst Sunday in the | ® proper understanding of tne passage aod year there was an admission of new members: ' to the conscientious regurd for detail munifested Seven were admitted on profession of faith and | | by the aposties and the evangelists in their nar- | Tatives, and especially by Luke, | physcian, he sketched the caracter of Mnagon drawn from the meagre details given of bim and from the probabilities a8 shown in bis association | and residence. He then proceeded to consider— on tne women ol Shakespeare. He sal | Hirst, what an old disciple is; second, what an | Old disciple was, and, third, what an old disciple | istobe. And, first, heis the pupil of @ noble master, and as such be acquires the doctrines Again, whie sitting at the through friendship and constant intercourse with five by letters irom other churches, In addition the beioved to the announcement of the renting of the pews on Tuesday evening next, Mr. Beecher took o¢ca- sion tu say a word for Shakespeare, in announcing the delivery, in Brooklyn, of Br. Weiss’ lectures —Next to tne Bible Soukespeare has given rise to more mental activity than any man, probably, that ever livea—certainly of the Anglo-Saxon race. {t may be that Plato and Aristotie, in their sphere of Is scholarship, may have orfginated as much activity in their time as Shake- speare in our own; but they have not im bis characteristic way. of the mode invitation to unite nh to are of the ordinance of the communion. At this servico | the floor of the church was entirely tiled witn communicants, TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE. BAD BOOKS AND BAD NEWSPAPERS ARRAIGNED. The Tabernacle was thronged in every part at the forenoon and evening services yesterday" Arbucéle played the cornet and Professor Morgan | presided at the organ. Mr, Talmage, who has jast returned from a trip to Charleston,, 3. C., resumed | his. position at the reading desk and preached, | continuing his sermons on public iniquities: The | text read was as follows:—“Many of them also which ased curious arta brought their books to- gether and burned them be/ore all men; and they counted the price of them and found 16 50,000 | | pleces of silver,"—the Acts, Xix., 1% Pau) was | stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons bout the sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the people brougot out their bad books and in a | public place made a bonfire of them, I see the people coming out with their arms lull of Bphesian lteratare and tossing in into the flames. | hear an economist standing by saying, “Stop th waste. Here are $7,600 worth of books, do you Propose to burn them aliup? If yow don’t want | to read them yourselves, seli them and let some- body else read them.’’ ‘No,” said the people; “if these beoks are mot good for us they are not good: for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch | Until the last leaf has burned into ashes. They ave done us a world of harm, and they spall mever do anybody else any harm. Hear the flares roar and crackle,” Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities of this country is A GREAT BONFIRE OF BAD BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, We bave enough iuei to make @ blaze 200 feet high. Many of the puviishing houses would do well to damp into the blaze their eniire stock of goods, and & groat many of the newspaper establish- Tents would do well to roll into the flames all their next issue of 50,000 or 100,000 copies. Bring forth the insufferable trash and put tt tnto the fre, and let it ve known in the presence of God ‘and angels and men that you are going to rid your houses of the overtopping and underlying curse of & profiigate literature. ‘Ihe printing press is the mightiest agency om earth for good and for evil. The minister of the gospel, standing tn a puipit, has a responsibie position, but 1 do not think tt is ag responsible as the position ofan editor or a publisher, At what distant point of time, at what tar out cycle of eternity, will cease the influence ofa Henry J. Kaymong, or a Horace Greeley, or a | James Gordon Bennett? Take the simple statistic | that our New York dailies now have A OIACULATION OF THREK HUNDRED AND FIPIY THOUSAND PER DAY, and add to it the fact that three of our weekly | Periodicals have an aggregate circulation of about 1,000,000, and then cipher if you can how far up | and how far down and how far out reaches the | Influence of the American printing press. Bternal God ! what Is to be the issue of all tus? I believe } | Ged intends the printing press to be the means, the chief means, for the world’s rescue and evangelization; and [ think that tho great battle, the eTeat last battle of the world, will not be fought with swords or guns, but with types and presses—a purified and gospel litera:ure triumphing over, trampling down and crushing out iorever that which is depraved, The only way to figny bad books 18 by printing a good oie. The only way to overcome unclean newspaper literature is by scattering abroad that which is healtniul. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christian printing press. I bave to tell you this morning thatl believe that the Greatest scourge that has ever come upon tiis mation has becn that of unclean journalism. It has its Victuns in all Occupations and depart- ments, It has helped to fill insane asylums aud penitentiaries, aud almshouses and dens of Shame. ‘he bodies ol tnis iniection lie in the ! hospitals and tne graves, while their souls are be- | ing tossed over into a last eternity. dishevel countenance vacant, hands tremoiing, bursting into teard ite of come maaeeenn ete eB by finger nails into the Piain belore will be pla’ ‘& romance all night long—having wal Selated halls of caaties—and your industrious com. — will be more unattractive than e' hat you haye walked in the romauce through parks or with blooming princesses, or loungea ‘he arvor with the polished desperado, On, those novel-readers!—I mean those people who read | 8° many novels that it te their chief Sattstaction | aud ther mental pabulam. Tney are unftied for this life, which tremendous discipline, They know not how to go through the jurnaces of trial through which they must pass, and they are un- fitted for the life where everything We gain we achieve by hard, long-con'inued and exhaustive work, Ag I charge you to abstain from all those books which, while they Dave some good things about them, have also an admixture of evil, The heart of most people Ike & which lets the smail particles o/ gold tall through, but keeps the great cinders, Once in a while there {s a mind like a loadstone, which, tty ed amid steel and brass Olings, gathers up the atoet and repels the brass. But it 18 generally just the opposite. Ii you attempt to plunge torough a bedye of burrs to get one blackberry you will get more burrs than blackberries, You cannot afford to read a bad __booi however good you are, Alas! i through curiosity, as many do, you pry into an evil book your curi- Osity 18 a8 dangerous as that of the man who should take @ torch into ® gunpowder mili merely to see whetner it would tlow up or not, I cuarge you to stand off irom all those books wich cor- rupt the imagination and inflame the passions, I do not reier to that kiad of buox which THR, VILLAIN HAS UNDER #18 COaT, i walting for the schoo! to get out, and then, looking bovwh ways to see tnat there is no policeman around the block, offers the book to your son on his way nome, | do nut speak of snat kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out in polished style, and, with acute plot, sounds the tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of the soul. Years ago &@ French lady camo forth as an authoress under the assumed name Oo! “George Sand.” She smokes cigars, She wears gentlemen's apparel. She steps off the oounds of decency. She writes with a style ardent, eloquent, mighty sor its gloom; horrible for it unchastity; glowing for ita verbiage; vivid for it% portraiture; damning in its effects; trangiusing into the lioraries and homes o/ the world an evil that has not even begun to relent, and she bas her copyists in all tands. Cursed be the books that try to make impurity decent, crime attractive and hypvcrisy nobiet Cursed be the books that swarm with livertines &nd desperadoes—wbo make the brains of the young people wairl! Ye men who write them, publishers who print thei, ye booksellers wi distribute them, shall be cut to pieces, if uot at last by am aroused community, then at last ~=6by «the hail of Divine vengeance, which shall sweep to the lowest pie of perdition you murderers of sous. Thougn you escape in tis world you wiil be fouod at last, un- der the hoot o1 eternal ca‘amities, and you will oe chained to the rock, and you will bave tue val- tures of despair clawing at your soul, and thoso whom you save destroyed Will cowe around to torment you and to scatter coals of sury apon your ad and to rejoice ete: naily in the ou cry of your pain and the howl of your damnation, I consider at the LASCIVIOUS PIOTORIAL LITERATURE of the day is tremendous for ruin. nere is noone who can like good p.ctures better than ido, Fine paiotings are the aristocracy of art; engraving is the democracy of art—and I love to see tie good pictorials scattered through the rai traios and in tile housed ; but obsceue pictorials, lasctvious picto- rials, such a8 are flocdiug our great cities, these are damnable, The queen of death holds a nightly banquet, and unclean pictorials are the printed invitations to her guests, Aias, that the iair brow of America should be blutched with such a plague spot, and that reformers and phiantnropista, bothering themselves about smaller evils, do not Ta:se ther voice against tus overwoelmin, na- tional calamity, Cherish gvod bouks and news. Papers and beware of bad Ones, Que column may save your soul; one paragraph may ruin it. ‘he reverend speaker then urged h.e hearers to cast | from thoir libraries all oojectionav.e books and | pictorials that might perchance have 1ound @ | place in their collections. Mr. Talmage announced that on Sunday next he Would talk upon tue sudject of tae God-defying extravagance of our Americ.n cities, anu he pro- posed to piough otuer 1urrows in the fleid o: dis- Course upon waich be had entered. mr. 'Talmago alluded to Mr, Vandephod, who had taken pains to lecture in public about nim (Mir. Tulmage). He said, “Mr. Vandenn.-ff first demolianea me in Brovklyo, in the Academy of Mu-ic, and two nights after be demolisned me tn Steinway ball, New York. In the audience room ol our beautiu: Academy of usic, Which holds 3,000 poople, he dad & beggarly audience Of 250 peuple. (Eats: ter.) That was hts first demolisming. Then he went to New York, aod in @ vast hail, AN AVALANCHE OF HORROR AND DESPAIR, The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern | pest has already swallowed its mutiions into the | Stock has done a glorious Work against an In.a- mous literature. Let toe pevupie all do him honor. They tried the other night to kill him in Newark, It they had slain bun in nis battle against a bad Iherature, tt would have kindled a fire of tndigna- tion that all the waters of the Hudson and East rivers coud not have extinguisned. That | man has already literally gathered up whole tons \ | | | of iniquitous literature and consigued tt to tae flames. But the longest rail train tnat ever ran over tne Erie or Hudsoa track was not long | enoagh or large enough to carry the beastliness | and the putresaction which fave gathered up in the bad books and newspa;ers of this land in tue last thirtv years. is amid such circumstances that I put to you | this morning a question of overwastering im- | portance to you aud your famiiics—that is, What | books and newspapers shall weread? You see I | Charnel house of the moraily dead, Anthony Com- | that holds between 2,000 and 3,000 people, had another audience 0! 250, Out of pocket some $500 or $600, Puor man,lam sorry ioraim, (Laugh- ter.) If he will come to me | will heip to pay the deficit, But he has shown to all this country that | tn our great cluster of cities, with more thau a | Malilion population, there can be got together only 500 people on the side of immorality and against the Unurcd of the Eternal Gou,"” Aiter his sermon Mr. ‘Talmage prayed that grace be vouchsated in the aiscnarge of their proies- sional duties to ail editors ana reporters, ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, BROOKLYN. SERMON BY THE REY. FATHER HICKIE—TER HOLY NAME OF JESUS, At St. Michael’s church, South Brooklyn, yester- day morning, the pastor, Rev. Micuael Hickte, preached at the halt-past ten o'clock mags, Thuugh the title of church ts here applied, perhaps the the sentiments that swayed their breas:a? It might be ls business 10 utter these thoughts trom the puiplt, but be Knew that they ali baa teit them just us weil a6 he had. It was a noteworthy circumstance that two business Men sitting to- | gether scarcely ever Conrersed on those profound and elevated subjects on which they pondered in their hours of repuse and ioneliness. He had no doubt, rowever, thattne Lord would give tuem credit for these longings, these thoughts and taese desires. ©, young men, might they cueriso these nobie thougnts and cultivate them more and more, even though they did uot freely utver them | It was curious that living oObly seventy years they yet divided this brief epoch into various shorter spaces of time. No animals had this sense O! time, nor did angels know any subdivisions of the periods oftheir existence. God knew nothing With him, David said, a thousand years It was a curious thing that man was the only being in heaven or on earth that knew anything avout time. CBRTAINTY OF SALVATION. in his converse with tuem he nad entertained many doubts of their salvation, but may they be al melted by God's love and thos remove all these | doubts and make certain the success Of their liv God grant that as these months came and w they might cling more and more firmly to that cross to which he bad clung tor eo many years, | and to which he hoped they would ail cling ag they lived. How much good they miga' piish! Ii ailtnese 2,000 people in this temple of the Lord were inspired by God they nught convert thisentire neighbornood, This vicinity was oaly indifferent to because their hearts were cola— because they sailed to serve as such examples of godliness as would render them powerful iljustra- tions of what taitn could do. Les them therefore Bat, for @ revival untii every one contessed God In is heart. There was no church in New York that stood exactly on the basis on which this stood, They kuew how heavy was their debt, and God | grant that each member might do his share to pay itoff. Let tnem aliow him to assess them, not only in money, but in the works of their beads and minds. WORDS TO YOUNG MEN, Let bim ever he did before and pray more fervently than he had ever done in the past. Let nim go down on his knees and pray for these young men whom he joved better than any other Class in this congregation. They came here in large numbers, but tet them not only come from curiosity, put be- come strong In that reveaied power which brought an 'o earth and good will to mankind, He had timseli been once subjected to all their tempta- tions and could appreciate the triais of their lives. He could tell taem that though everythin, in lite faded, yet one thing grew clearer aa clearer and lasted stronger and stronger, and that was the religion of Jesus Unrist, tneir Lord and Saviour, and he loved ail the others. He \\ked to go down to the counting houses and see the busi. Ress men shape the destimies of the great city, Bat let tbem do it, not in their own names, bat in thai of God Almighty. Let every business man feel that he was bere on earth to do busimess tn the name of the Lord and in service of the great inciples which He representa--truth, charity, justice, love. THE BLESSINGS OF AOm He loved the old people tov. Wid age was a viessed (ning. it was the sweetest time in tie, | the vrightest, the meliowest. What was the price- fess thing of life to those who were old? It was the religion of Jesus Christ. It made all the alf- ference in the world whether they were to die and | be no more, or whether they were to die and live jorever. It was not necessary for him to talk much longer. They saw his condition and how unfit be was to speak much more. And yet he felt thas he must offer ove more observation, | WISHES FOR THB NEW YRAIy He hoped that this iaitn of which be had spoken would grow in brightness, in clearness; tnat It wotlid rise out of the darkness of upbelie! as a ehip came jortn from a pall of fog. When he was cruising off Nova Scotia last summer he saw a snip dimly, and he noticed how siowly it came through the fog and sowed all its outiaes; and when the two suips met it was With hearty wishes of good will aud ‘God speed!’ Thus they nad met on New Year's Day in bidding one another @ ‘Happy New Year.!’ ‘They went in different directions—one east, the other west—but might God's biessiugs rest over them all. He would close witn a tew words. When the year 187 died, a3 1474 had done, might they he be stili iound clinging to that glorious Toss a8 Lhe most priceless treasure of their lives, and Waiting to be summoned to a higner ana bot- working people. The pitcher plant has secreted in it a watery fluid which kills every insect that touches it, and | Him comes to be like Him. God spoxe o! Abranam as | bis friend, the only man thus addressed under the 1g not yet worked out, aud it never will be untu | same rules which will appiy old dispensation and until the Saviour came upon man's nature and observation have ceased to exist. | apply tu newspaper reading. | | group them together. | | niversal thought. A NEWSPAPER IS ONLY A BOOK, pogcespa tgednctbopting seas Still the mine | ig @ awilter and more portable shape, and the proper term to Gse would be tnat of chapel, tor the congregation worship in the extension” pariors of the pastor's resivence. This new parish embraces to bvok reading will What shali we read? go down on his knees oftener than | | this grogshop ts open night snd day to tempt and destroy the most industrious and painstaking members of creation. They are skilled mechanics, but nature reluses to eniorce a prohihitory law for their protection. Let us observe a ground beetle which bas ceiected from Nature's bill of jare a May bug ora cockchafer. The brigand, in his smart costume of green and gold, attacks it irom behind, and with his sharp Mandibies, slices off the nearest ring Oi its bouy, ‘The cockchaler con- Unues to retreat, the beetie follows steadily, slices of the next ring and the next, till the whole ab- domen is demolished and tae poor cockchaier travels off with its thorax, which the fastidious beetle does not care tor, Why did not nature | endow oer beetle with an instinct to destroy the | May bog instantly’ The guillotine and gar- | rove are merciful. ure’s pian is on | @ greater scale, but founded on a similar Want of principie. Existence is main- tained by the digestibiity of all her creatures. | The spider sups upon his fly, the toad grabs the Spider, the spake 1s swallowing the toad when the hawk descends upon it, and man is lying in wait for the hawk, and other men scrupie not to use up | the man, and death bolts the whole series ata meal. (Laughter.) It 1s a continuity of mutual swallowing. ‘‘Your Heavenly Fainer feedetn them,” upon each other. tis by no means ina spirit of paradox or by way of metaphor that we attribute to nature a want of principle; this want may be jound as well where the morai conscious- ness exists a3 where It docs notexist. The higa estimate which mankind puls upon tts capacity for turning its g 1ei8 into nobie advantage of the soul is shown in the fact that it has tnvented trag- edy to tell and set them forth, Tae human race ia invited to see it through teiresming | tears, We sorrow not as men without hope. We know that Hamict has reached ‘‘sometning after death—the ubdiscovered country,’ where viriue | serves him better in the future conflicts of the | | soul. He will not decline the confic:; seeing him enmeshed by the fatality of bis own disposition, and slowly put (0 deata, We feel, as we go home, as if we followed him, lifted up oetter nerved to bear “the whips and scorns of time.’ Nature's plan does not adrift principally toward pity; all her accumulated circumstances wouid deieat such an totention, while they furnish something superior to pity. Her weather 18 the bato that tempers steel, her gale the ventilation of a tainted mansio! If the sentiment of pity had been tn- voived among the forces which élaborate @ world ty would have thwarted history’s most instructive period. To secure tuis desirable resis NATURE ANTICIPATED the need of Cromweila, Rovespierres, poleons, who select their agents wit! special eye to absence of sentiment and Whose awful lessons bite instructive features with their acid on the mind. Apparently the outiin become worn, and bave to be from time to time renewed, to which end a supply of unfortunate in- bocence, of bungling honesty, is always kept on 1 blood sunk to hand, What sincere and French sou when the gracious and beautiful heads Ol Marie Antionette, Mme. Rolana and Charlotte Coraay, fell into the basket! But when the execu- | tioner lifted them up veiore the eyes of Europe tears fell to rectily nature's insensibility and men | pete deeply than before that liverty existed | | Na- | iy SUFFERANCE OF JUSTICE. | The heart nas aiways taken a great fancy (o the text, “Like as a lather pitieth bis chilaren, so the Lord SS. them-that fear him, ior ue remem- bereth that we are dust.’’ Is there any encour ment or solace in attrivuting an abstract quality of pity to overruling powers which do not grant to man concrete and impartial applications of itt | Man has learned by bitter experience that when the pinch comes and he is not ractically pitied the tender text be- ies its pretension. Sympathy 1s man’s own dia- | covery. It was made alter countiess savage ex- periences of the advantages of matual aid in bear- Ing the ills of life. Moral evil was sure to be the resuit of creativeness that admitted physical evil into its driit, An intelligent Creator must have joreaeen that if the survival of (he fittest depended upon the demise of the unfit, the further the method developed the more numerous wonid the circumstances of misery become, What moral or What practical deduction can be made trom all this presepiation ? It is Uhis:—That tragedy co- Operates in the development of immortal person- ality. TO this end 4 Creator has tolerated an eyo- earth, when the pupils who sat at his feet ound thereby tne nearest way to his heart. Outwardiy the old disciple sits at the fect of Jesus, wuile in- wurdly he catches the spirts witoin him, Second, what has he? Me holds in bis hand toat book, old in composition and compilation, but containing matter always and entirely new. It took 1,500 years aud sixty writers to lorm it, and it nas ex sted More than 1.800 years. since tts compie- tion thousands of books uve been written to ex- pound it and yet its depth of meaning remains un- Travelled, Again he husa cony.ction ol the truth of the religion which be prolesses Une grand thing with the old discivie 18 he nus Ceased to doubt, Satisfed in his heart ne longs to have all the old and young subjects 0. the giace which bas been afforded him; eazer to dovote ali his energies and powers to the soud of the Church and to winuing souls ior heaven, To him has been granted t..€ privilege of graduation in the niguver classes of Christ's pupils, Las ly, Wwoat is toe old discipie to be? He 18 son 19 de young again; soon gomg where thore are no aches, uO pains, no impatred senses, There are no old men in heaven, There ne will experience the iull fruition of his hopes asa Christian. Be of good cheer, for eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man to conceive of the eternal joys thas await bim. In conclusion be addressed himsell to those tn the congregation who, i! such there were, were old and yet not disciples. He urged npon tuem that they had a great work to do, aud though the tenth apd cieventh hour had passe, they migot yet commence work inthe vineyard, trusting to the Lord thereafter to pay them the penny, TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. MISSIONARY MAS$ MEETING LAST NIGHT—-THE WORK OF THE MISSIONABLES—SERMON BY DB. TUPPER, OF RICHMOND, A missionary mass meeting took place last even- ing In the Tabernacle Baptist cuurch, on Seconda divine avenue. The charch was well flied ana the cun- gregation was evidently much interesied tn the Proceeaings, which were in Donor o/ two mission- aries whom the Baptist church ts sending off to Africa to work among the heathen. These gentie- men, tho Reve. W. J. Davia and W. W. Colley, were on the platiorm and were surrounded by a goodly number of clergymen and others assem- bied to see them, perbaps tor the last time, be.ore their long journey to an almost unknown land—the land where Dr. Livingstone worked and preached, and where he served not only God above, but humanity beiow, Attong the others who were on the platform were the Revs, Jonn Darling, H. A. Tupper, D. D., of Richmond, Va, and James Boardman Hawthorne, pastor of the Tavernacie Baptist church. The services opened with @ hymn appropriace to the occasion, after which @ prayer was offered asking bicssings upon the work which the two men were going to do in the far-off land and upon themseives. Another hymn was then sung, and then the Rev, Dr. ‘tu - Without taking any text t there was no nobler carver than that of tie missionary, for tt was the work with waict God was best pleased. It had been asked woether tue beatnen Could be saved without the Gosp How- ever that might be it was certain that the Christian would not ve saved unless he preaches the Gospel to the heathen. It was ® work waich Was necessary and blessed in the eyes of God, It Was the duty of the Church to send men ons for the gpg al and it was the duty of the Oniistian World to furnish the wherewithal to do tt, On the One hand seience sent men over the world to Giscover all the secret and pidden recesses of nature, but it was simply (hat men might know more than they do oi carumy matiers, Cominerce sent men ali over tue world, but it was Jor mere money getting. Diplomacy sent men out to be more wily than orners in discussing (ne aifairs of nations. Kelgion aione sent ous men in the service ot G There Were 3,000 01 these now at Work, but what waa this when, tf each o, these Bpoke to 100 people every day,’ it would require | 100 years to speak to all the unconverted? ihe Dootor went on in a very eloquent and convincing ter sphere. (rant that they might not have lived lution from strain. these tweive mouths in vain; but at the expira- DARK ELEMENTS, Some of the other gentiomen spoke also on (ue tron of this new sear be neared toe God, more Taitue | Whose Varlous ComMatious render tragedy their | BULIGEL Of Mixsionaey Work. aud WiLL More prayers I is good not simply to read Siakespeare, but to critically tnvesiigate bis writings. To young men who ae veginning their literary studies lectures | will afford an opportunity of nearing a man of ge- bius, and also afford an approving opportunity of gaming a knowiedge not only of the great author, bat also o1 the nature of mind, TUK SERMON. Mr. Beecher preacned a sermon on the indwell- ing of the Spirit of God, selecting for bis text the twenty-suira verse vi the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John:—"Jesus answered and said unto bim, 11 @ manlove me, be wil keep my words: and my Fatner will love him, and we w.ll come unto tim and make our abode with him.” This language (.a1d Mr. Beecher) is not solitary or sin- | gular; tis atext that reappears uader various | Jormas and iinages. “Avide in me aud lin you. As the branch Cannot Lear iruit of itsell, except it abide in Uhe vine; no more can ye. except ye avide in me.’ The three evangeists calied synoptic, Matthew, Mark and Luge, deal very largely in the external experience oi the religion of Jesus, Jonn aivers trom tuers 1D Teveuling the internal life of Cnvist. is remarkable how tar from educated style of thought and will is the course of experience generally. Our grade ol education 15 mainiy in the relation of things to ideas. We are reasoners, We use sacs as grapes are used, for tho sake of the wine whicn can be pressed out or | tuem. But the sact ia that sou destroy the cluster ‘for tue sake oO the wine. So the facts are used | only tor tue sake of the conclusion, So that men come to say that facts are very good, but doctrine is supreme. With the excevtion of the Apostle Paui, Who bad recetved a hiveral education, there 1s hardly & philosopher to the whole Binle, Among, the our evangelists Joun stands aione ana pecu- har, Ib may be said that the Keyaote of the Gos- pel, the uvctrise Ol ao iIncarnaed Saviour, vt a mind in the human mind, is not an elaborate psycnological theory or truths, It is a statement of facts, In Matthew's Goapel it 1s the same, but the facts are stated, In the ovuer the facts ae siated internally but not externally. Mr. Boecuer here described the dif fereut mental build of men of each of these ciasses, Anu Said that ihe mysiteal nature rejoiced im Jonn. He then expiaiued tue mode 0: treating Scripture by which we could get more out of it than is generally sought, Mr. Beecher then turned to Cousider the hignesi iorm o1 being that contains Within itseli the germ aod seed of ali creation, of every element knowo tv mau. Of every tuculty, and Oi those emotions, and whion faculties, organ. %eO Ana expressed, le back of ail the lacuitues o1 mind, and in quality is tar in excess of any- thing We Know, Aiter tracing the natare of tac mina 0: God, and contrasting it with the nigher and lower elements o: man’s nature, he Consider tue iistancs = betesca and the peasants of Gormany; buakespeare and tac yeomanry of England, between = Emerson ud the blue bo; of Massacnusetts, Ive distauce t¢ so great that they Cannot be said to be the same veings. If it be so Of these minds Gwelling wita us, how much more go is it When you extend your vbservation above Qll human being and consider the Divine nature, Tt 18 possible to Narrow this thought toough it be solaraway. It1s this knowledge of the aivine in man that enlarges bis capacity, and euxpheres mund with mind by thought, by imagery and by Spiritual experience. foe ineffable has no vars, no limita; in this intercourse thero is absolute | freedom in the higher spucres of human life, ag belongs to the lower spheres o1 human lite, hat, then, must be the terms of intercourse that live above tae sphere of mortal lie? What must be toe nature of that God shat represents man most perfectly’ Mr. Hoecuer bere enlarged upon the turvugh the influence oi the, Divine spirit, and urged, a8 analogous, the relationship 01 Culloren With their parents. Itis, he 9 in the suaceotibility Of mind with mind that he placed Lue whole doctrine o; the Spirit of God, The in- dwelliag of the Divine Spirit to man fs the fruit of ching in the man’s sou To the Do you velieve in tue tiigher life’ he would say that there ls asphere in which a man’s mind may awoll tp pert is sinless, not because Ibis perlect, not because It is pervectly good, not because {t has reached to the standard of (he perfect measure in Christ Jesus, bat because the mind reaches unto a direct infta- € of divine light that then aunot belp bat 1u. and \owul Mir, Beesues concluded uy & MU tam | ntercourse Of man with the Creator | Vpeace; not because It | | Soaltour minds be the receptacle of everytoing | | that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction between the tree of Iife aud the tree of deatn? Shall we stoop down and drink out | o1 the trough which the wickeaness of men hus | tilled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in impurity and chase fantastic will-o'-the-wisps across the syampa, when we might walk in the biooming gardens 0! God? Oh, no! For t:e sake oi our present and everlasting welfare we must | make an intelligent and Cnrisitan choice. Stand- ing as we do chin deep in the fictitious literature, the first question that many ot the young people ot our congregation aro asking me is | “SHALL WE READ NOVELS f" I reply there are novels that are pure, good, | | Christian, elevating to the heart and ennobliug to | the life, But Ihave still further to say that 1 be- lieve ninety-nine out v1 the 100 novels of the day are baleful, blasting. *sstructive to the last | degree. A pure wor fiction 1s history and pveiry combined. It tsa oistory of things around us, With tue licenses aud the assumed names of poetry, The world can never pay the debt which it owes to sucn fiction writers as Hawthorne and mcKeuzie, and Landon and Hunt, and Arthur and Mrs. Holmes, and Marton Hariand, and a score of persons whos: uames may occur to you. The follies oi high life were never better exposed than by Miss Edgeworth, The memories of the past were never more faithfully emoalmed than in the writings of Waiter Scott. Cooper's novels are healthiully redoleut with tne breata of the seaweea and the air of the American forest, Charles Kings- ley has smitten the morbidity of the world and led a great many to appreciate the poetry o! sound heaitn, strong muscles und fresn air, Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing the preienders to gentility and nigh biood, wvickens has built his own monuinent iw his cooks, which are an ever- lasting plea for the poor and che anathema of in- Justice, Books like these, read at rignt times and read inright proportions with otner literature, cannot help but be a and purifying; but, alas! for the loathsome and impure ligerature that has come upon this cuuntry in the shape of novels, like @ f eshet overdowing all the banks of aecency Aud common sense, Way, they are coming now | irom some of the most celebrated publish- ing houses in the country. They are coming with the recommendation of some of our iumily newspapers, prolessed Coristian newspapers. They lie on your centre table to curse your cuil- dren and biast with their iniernal fires wuole generations unborn, Why, you find these bouks 1p the desk O1 the Schoo! miss, ip the trunk of the young man, in the steamboat cabin, on the table Of the hovel reception room, You see a light in your chila’s room late at night. You suddenly go “tn and say, “What are you doing?” “i am read. ing.” Whatare you reading’ “A book.” You look at the book; it is a bad book. ‘Where did aiyale tie abrons oeera Cy cant there are \ ad who wonld tike to loan your son or daughter a bud ook Every wnere every: Where, unclean literature. i charge upon It THE DESTRUCTION OF TEN THOUSAND IMMORTAL | | SOULS, | and I bid you this morning wake ap to the magni- | tude of thom. Ishali take all the world’s litera: ture, guod novels and bad; travels, true and false; histories, faithiul ana Incorrect; legends, beautt- ful and monstrous; all tracts, ali chronicles, all | bag bd all tamily, city, State, national libra- | Her] and pile them up in a ‘pyramia ot literature, | | bigh as heaven and deep as hell; and then I shall | bring to bear Upon it some grand, glorious, infal- | ; Hble, unmistakable Christian principles. God help | | Me to speak with reierence to my last account, | sna Goa help you to listen. I charge you to stand | {! oo! from alt bouks that give you false pictures of | uman life. Life is neither a tragedy nor @ 1arce, either knaves Men are not all OW poorly prepared is that young m: youby woman for the duties ot foeday who spent last nignt wading through brilliant passages descriptive of mingatnoens Knavery and Wickedness! The man will be looking ail day | i his heroine in tne shop, by the For e, in tne act ; In the connting room, and he will not find ber; and he will be dissalished at his practic OF ee nging, for @ lule of romance, Tan Wo ves himself up to th | Bree nces e indiscriminate reading of | NERVELESS, INANR AND A NUISANCR. | He will be fit neither tor store nor shop Dor field, A woman who gives herself up to the indiscrimt- uate reading of novels will be unfitted for the du- ies of & wUe. mother, sister, daughter. ‘there | ali that part of South Brooklyn trom Twenty- eighth street to Ovington avenne, a scattered Popuiation which bas been long sadly in need of some little church ol its own. Bisnop Loughlin, having selected the Rev. Father Hickie as the pastor of the new charch, made such aseloction as was sure to insure success, for already the young Pastor has nearly liquidated the cost of the ground for @ new church edifice, work upon which will commence at the earliest practicable moment. The people of this tar-away neighbor- hood vie with each other in aiding the pastor in his efforts, but still outside help 18 needed at the present time. A lew years hence and, no doubs, this parish will be one Of the most prosperuus in the diocese of Brovkiya, ‘The subject of the Kev. Father Hickle’s discourse was, ‘Tne Circumcision of Our Lord,” the ieast of which the Cnurcn celebrated last Friday. The important event of tho ussizning O1 & name to the divine iniant, the occurrence of which tne Angel Gabriel joretolu when communicating to the Virgin Mary the wondervul secret of man’s re- demption, is the graud iestival which, we may Say, still absoros the attention of the Church. 1nis is the complement of the Christmas lestival. /Eignt days aiter tueir birth, the Jewisn male coldreo, according to the Musaic law, were to be circum- cised, when they received the name which they alterward bore in iie. To this paiutul rite of cik- caweision our divine Lurd cunlormed. fie, 00, was circumcised, and received frum the ‘nigh priest, at the suggestion of His reputed father, the name Jesus, This name was SOmetaing mo e that & were term to designate Hin irom oiher childre! there was @ deeper méauing and significance in it. To what a tide of conflicting emotiuns does uot the mere mention oO! this adorable namo give rise in the human breast! What a gusn of teuder feeung sufuses the whole frame on tne bare conception ol the sweet namef We teel tuat in that name is embodied the entire plan of man’s Teaemption, a8 devised by the most august Trinity and carriea into effect by Jesus Himsell. The pastor of this new courch tees very much gratified at the manuer in whica his tair, 10 atid of the church, was attended and supported The debt which had been over the ground, already purchased for the site of the new church, bas been by the exertions of Father Hickie, almost entirely Mquidated, A jiew thou-and doliars yet remaio to be subscribed, 1n any case the churca ts secure. The postponed reception by the ladies of the re- cent fair, will take place at Lyric Hall, Kighteent® street and Fourth avenue, Thursday evening next. SEVENTH AVENUE M. E, CHURCH. THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, The Rev, Dr. Wild preachea yesterday morning from 1, Thessalonians, xv., 1—“But of the timew and the seasons, breturen, ye bave no need that I write unto you.” The speaker helt! titat eur pres- ent iife was educational and prop. tory tn fe fcveral stages and designs. Providence nad Clearly indicated that every step we took in this Ife had a noble or ignobie relation and influence to the life (0 come, #0 that, in a germinal form, au infinity of weal or woe turked in every thought and was attached toevery act. In none of the seasons of Iife would we find a full complement of Pleasure. Our weary spirits sighea ior springs that failed not, and for an expertence all tranquil Sod unalioyed wish sin and aorrow. Such an existence was waitiog ip the beyond lor those who Itved and labored for the good to come. To do the fight thing at the rignt time, in the right place, should be the purpose and aim of One and ail—for ease and success naturally at- teaded timely and seasonable action. The pra- dent and industrious farmer worked hand in hand with nature. He was careiu! in discerning the Teasons and wise in observing the agreement be- tween time and labor. In spiritual husbandry tt Would be well to be as discerning, For every man there was a work, We shouid study to know our Ume, work and place, assured that if we were successful in our study and application we should Taake life profitable and rewarding, It is appro- Priate, coutinued the speaker, that we consider the times and seasons ol life this morning—the first Sabbath Of another year, Rounded und tutt (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGHJ