The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1875, Page 10

pn 8 NEW YORK HERALD, MOND THE PULPITS. Mr. Delapey on the Unity of the Catholic Charch. MR. SLOSS’ FAREWELL The Sympathetic Character of the Saviour. FAITH AND ASPIRATION Rev. Father Kearney on the Star of Bethlehem. CHRIST AN EXAMPLAR FOR YOUTH. LYRIC HALL. The usual large congregation assembled in Lyric Halt yesterday morning. Mr. Frotningham read portions of the Hebrew Psalms and the Bible and an extract irom the Persian Scripture. Alter his invocation ana a hymn he said:—The week of prayer ends to-day. The week of prayer is an tn- Btitution suggested and sustained by the Evan- gelical Alliance, an institution of now some years’ standing, the obdject of which ts to join the tnoughts and desires ana aspirations of all Caris- tendom in a concerted effort to draw down fresh supplies of the Holy Spirit upon the world. It is @ Christian institution, A company of athe would never have thought of it, for they dis- believe in a personal God. A _ society of theists would not have proposed it, for their God expresses its thought and will in the laws of nature. A society of positivists Would not have propoged it because they believe ‘mn humanity as the source of ail spiritual and moral power, A society of Spiritualists might per- Daps fall in with suct an institution through their jaitn in the ministering of departed souls, but their phiiosephy would render it unlikely. The Catholics would not bave proposed a week of prayer because, according to their theory, there is always a periect communication between Curis- tendom and the Holy Ghost. The weex of prayer, therefore, 1s not only a Christian institution bat a Protestant institution, because “Protestants be- lieve in the special interposition of the Holy Ghost and prayer as the means of securing it. The subjects proposed for prayer merit some | notice. Monday, the frst day, was devoted to looking backward and torward—bdackward with gratitude, forwerd with expectation and hope. Tuesday their thoughts went abroad to national objects of prayer. Alter this the senti- ment drawa back nearer to the heart, and the objects of prayer were our chil- | @ren, oar homes, our mothers, all teachers, ali ministers. ‘Then, again, the thought goes broad to foreign lands and the object of prayer is the prevalence of spiritual liberty, the establish- ment of peace among the nations uf the world. Alter this the thought of the missionary work | comes up and Cnristendom is called on to pray for the reclamation of those who have wandered intoerror. Tuis done, prayer goes upward, and Christendom ts calied on to pray that the Church of Christ may be simpler, purer, stronger. And to-day the subject of preacning 1s peace among ‘gil the members of the Christian family. Now, re- Mark what petitions are. In the frat place the spirii ia “prent from tne spirit which prevaiicd a fe. ‘ ago; the spirit of bigotry has almost dis. 4; there is @ lttle | appearance of it .@ prayer tnat ‘Israel may be converted, bat that is the only trace; the spirit is growing large, liberal, comprehcusive. Note the objects for which prayer 1s offered—spimtual liberty, the de- chine of superstition, peace among nations, the establishment oi eternal relations of amity among differeat races—spiritual objects every cne. No prayersior power of national greatuess; and mark the superior importance of ali these objects of prayer. What ace worto praying lor i not such as these? Bat is it a good thing to pray for these ? Sappose, as is not likely, that prayer could call down glits, would it be a thing tu felicitate our- | seives Upen that giits were Lestowed In answer to prayer? Wonld it be well? Sujpose any great gilt could be bestowed for the asking, that any great evil could be averted by asking, that avy great crime could be fended oif by petition, would it be Well? Ob, iriends, no greater misiortuoe than . that could belall, because the character of man- Kind, the eevation o; mankind, depends upon their earning the right to possess it. No greater Misiortune could beiall than tuat meu should believe literally 10 prayer, DO greater demoraliza- tion Oo! mankind than that peopie shouid acton a Deliel in prayer. Suppose that one oi the nospi- tals that are given out as maintained by prayer Was maintained by prayer alone, Wuat would be the result? The springs of pity would dry up, and We should have nothing but a series o; petitions that beniguity suouid come down to relicve a World too lazy to nelp itself, It may ve a good thing to beiieve in a living Goa, in a he!ping, ever resent God; but, exalt the nobleness of that be~ tetas you will, it is dearly purchased by toe sense Of the absence of wan. Setter a thousand times that man should believe in bimsell than veiieve in a spirit invisible outsice of bimeelL It is not likely tuat the week of prayer will produce any re- markabie effect. up to-morrow and find ourselves IN THE MILLENNIUM. The old haggard world will go on and there will | be no ceasaiion of the roll and roar of the tron Wheel of vestiny that bears us on toward our goal. What will the believers in prayer say when the effect of the week of prayer i to produce what tuey prayed for? They will say, Oh, they did not pray earnestly and taichfully. Troe, that is tne Feason; that will always be the reason. Suppose all the earnest believers in prayer would witn sin- cere devotion crave as jor their lile tor these gri gifts. A new sunlight would break on a sorrowing World, new airs begin to fow through the corrupt channels of State; the desire would bear lis own satisiaction. In a word, aspiration alone, by tts own laws, would give us all that prayer ever could. The question then is between aspiration and ES Jt does vot lollow because we cease pray- Ing we give up aspiration. Ou the contrary, ag one deciines the other revives. Let us consider the diderence becween prayer and aspiration. There is Dut one poiut of speculative difference, and that 4s, Whereas prayer assumes a personal being, an individual with ears—to bear and heart to feel, aspiration does not. Tne man who pri to sumebody and expects @ definite an: would never pray uniess he supposed that where sat a being who coul¢ grant it, Aspiration assumes no suco (hing; it assumes @ possivility of a@ justice more real, a height and depth of good- ness and glory, which eye hath not seen; it sap- poses no individual, but simply an ocean from Wuich each can gather a supply. But with that Giference between prayer and aspiration, all dif ference ceases, both look up, both yearn, only one asks ior gilts, (be other seeks an attainment. fhis difference being made clear, see what an Jmmense avaniage aspiration has over prayer. Prayer always teuds (0 become mechanic: bave forms of petitions instead of petitions, devout men speak of prayer in the language of mechanimm. One orthordox divine com- pares prayer with the pulling of a string ‘wiich rings bell in heaven. Another says that existence is a clock, and praying is winding up the clock, Auotuer compares Corist to a treas- ure:, who has full bogs ! to pay all notes pre- sented. Prayer isa note indorsed by Christ and id by the infinite God. Tis is the language of vine wen. Aspiration, on the otuer band, is Vital; it cannot be anythiug else, It implies thought, feeling and emotion. It implies a VITAL COMMUNICATION between the Onite that asks and the Infinite that responds. Avother advantage—prayiog makes a rson aepend on other powe Every humao ing petitions as @ suppliant. The spirit of ri risaspirit of submission, Of loneliness, of rostration, runothg sometimes into sell-abase- ieut. We empty ourselves tnat God may make us (ull, We make oursel notuing that God may make us all. The position of prayer te on the Knees; the position of aspiration ts erect. Prayer pends & man into the closet; aspiration seuds Bim out of doors. Aspiration makes great iccount of the possioilities of a person. You see the enurmous diflerence, prayer abases, aspira- tion inspires. Another distinction—pra isvery seidom answered; Of the millions of prayers of fered probably not one in a million ts claimed to be auswered. Iterature of prayer is mainiy made up by trying to explain why prayer is not Qnswered; wud go It comes to pass that the great Seacters, in laying down the conditions for suc- ceseful prayer, make them so stringent that Bot n(n a miilion can fulfil them, ‘On the other hand, aspiration ts always satt elting auswered. P 5 ration never tails of Swap devices always receives what be appires for. fA the bart panteth after the Water brooks”—there it is, aspire, and you have what you aspire for, Did any r- gon ever live who aspired to ve t fer, bat what be was? There is sn ate ni that aspiration sould be {hereiore the decrease in (ue apisit Of braver is @ It is not likely that we will wake | 7 Dlessing, 80d an fmerease tm the spirit of aspiration will be sent as G@immisnes. Prayer, ia fact— not 1p soectes aspiration, aod it 18 ou as ptration that hui Bature lives. In our times about the decrease of 1, ours, to do a, itself 1D th men, how much more inteill- jt they are, how much wider and closer in aym- thy, go where you Will, and see how the pevpie ‘¢ striving to build up their external affairs are at the same time buliding op their characters, And boy, it ‘after tnese material and external things oan go satisty itself, what may we Rot anticips'e wRen the having ex- erted all needful pal tht! Vurns itseif on xR, sball be secured, and there is nothing more to be done. Then one on mo wil turn their thoughts towa frucn and justice and general joy. Bay thi e very materialism of our age is @ proof that the age is spiritual. Some say, yes, bus vou are failing under she bond- belie’. Nature was ‘They spore of z. Nature lib- re. It is trom nature that we get the great lesson of ration, It is nature that takes as. piration aad encourages it. We now look at natare as fe able to by the tight of knowl- edge. We see that existed through milo! of years. Here bas been a ceaseless aspiration. Go back to the very teginning ana the very mist that encom ihe earth inclosed all the possi- bilities of the beautiiul world We see, Ul at last wa asa time when aspire t, 80 UBIversal a8 it is how in this society of ours, that ty called 8 material, so coarse, ao crude. Aspiration must be cultivated. It is not a thing to be dounted, but to be quietly assumed, aod where we , will, by an earnest and simple desire, we may lt ourselves up, having somethig @ great deal better toan an answer to prayer—nave humanity oestowed upon us and sealed witiin us, CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES. UNITY OF THE CATHOLIO CHURCH—SERMON BY REY. T. P. DELANRY. Rey, Thomas F, Delaney, of the Order of Fathers of Mercy, yesterday preached a most eloquent and impressive sermon iu 5’. Francis de Sales’ church, Broadway, rooklyn. On the Sunday previous 1t pit orator would deliver a discourse on the unity ot the Churen, This announcement filed the Among those present were @ numoer of Protes- quence and learning of this young missionary. On the conclusion of the gospel of ing his text said:—‘Go, teach all nations, | baptizing themin the name ol the Fatver and Ghost; and behold {| am with you 7 How striking the great | Son and Hol, | aotil the em | sottertade that Jesua Christ nad for Hts Church ap- | pears to us. So great was His desire to give ail power to it, tac He gether ond said to them, “All power is given to me in beaven 4d on earth; go therelore, teach ali nations; ‘or benold, 1 am with you.” He prom- | tsed to direct them in their teachings, to sustain them against all obstacies which they mignt en- counter or whicn might dismay them, Thus en- couraged, they could dely the world and its ene- imies, and teil them, in the words of the propliet, “Ye can combine logether for its overthrow, but | it wif avail mot, jor-{ am with you.” Tats | js the guarantee we have had for the Church’s protection in the past; this is | the guarantee we uave vor the future. Still, It we Scan more Closely Cause of the great success of the Cnurch, we find this striking truth ex- isting in the Courch—ite unity, Tis unity emazes the world, This unity proves its divinity. Alter reierring to bine univeisalliy Which exists in the Church in ali its teachings, the reverend tather to-day sie has BELIBVED AND TAUGHT ALWAYS, and wil! continue until the expiration of time, behold the continuation of pontiffa who have occupied the chair of St. Peter! The changes of the world have not affected them. wynastics have passe’ away, empires have changed, thrones bave crumbled, but the chair of St Peter remains. The bend oi the wiscreant has tried to destroy Courch, altars have Leen ton down, Cloisters invaded and. the scaffold, gibvet and stake lave been used to force cui | dren of that Church to renouace her. Versecn- tou, instead of Weakening, has strengthened the Church, and stom tie agouy of their sufferings the children of the Gourch have cried out, na Jides, Unus Deus.” There is only one faith, one God, The Church, like its founder, speaks to the scnsual and corrupt o1 heart, to those whose sole enjoy- ment is tae gratification of their passions id hoids up be.ore them the banner of parity. e Charen and the world have grown old. To-day we look upon Rowe and behoid iu the midst ol 11s abominations and persecutions a venerabie old man, whose vitality ana strength of inteilect astonishes mankind. His white locks are bleached by years Ol sanctlsy, sanctity which has unnerved the hand of his enemies ana made them feel what there is truta in what ne has deciared. The charca 18 ONE, HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC. After speaaing of tue ceremonies attending the services in tue Church, which, he said, are the same, Whether perormed in tbe wigwam of the ed Indian or in tbe cathedral, be con- —“Reiigion nowadays incalcates one course for the enlightened aud another for che un- enlightened, It commands the masses to be sub- servient +o authority and enfrancluses the rich upd learned irom restraint. The peopie beiteve in the ministers. The lettered man believes in the Brole and hunself, and error tustructs inepir- ation.” ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. DR. BELLOWS ON THE DECEPTIONS OF LIFE. Dr. Bellows preached yesterday morning from Job, xxix.,. 2 3 and 4—Oh that I were as in months past, a8 ip the days when God preserved me; when his candle shined oon my head, and when by his light | walked through aarkness; as I was tn the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle.” The reverend gentiemgn said:—The sighing for | days that are past or lor younger days is not coa- happiness, But (ois passes with the experience of life’s dutics and cares. There is a gradually | saddening influence as we walk on in life. Every year after adolescence is passed darkens. Young women, men of twenty-five, iook back on the pass- ing of the iast seven years and think how good was the world to them then, and they have noth- ing left apparently but dissipatea dreams and ex- ploded hopes, and before them a dead future. Perhaps the first moment of anticipation is the greatest of one’s lie. For we bave in youth such @ haio of happiness about us that we helieve the world to be @ biessed one and every- thtog tm it good and nubile. We have not experienced as yet tie first cold biast of disap- poiutment, So the Prodigal thought when he leit hig fatver’s house and weat to wander through the world. At this age there 1s ao unvounued confidence in God's providence, but In mature age the past and not the /uture strikes us as the beau- tifuday. Wueo we h was im the world ai whoie length of the borizon everything was a great expectation. A& age Comes on life tends Moore and more to drudgery. We at least ex- pected to ind a worid of neiptul people, who w: williug to Help us slong; but instead we find Malicious and wicked people, and we think we cao never fall tuto ther ways. We find buman nature unmistakabdiy bad aud with an ap- | pearance of govd will, and we yieid to the usual run aod graduuily fail mto tue Ways of other men, and we find at last we are little better than the people we once wiarvelled at, It seems that the Creator should not have made our prospects so blank abd our hopes so much better than th reality. God's meaning and purpose is th we should have se disappointments and know bow (0 overcome tiem, We cher- ish hopes which, i! granted, would deieat the pian of an all-wise Providence. If we wad sil that we wanted it would not subserve His pianos. Life is a rugged pata Which we must cliimp up, and God will not be wirlt os in #hirking the trials of ue. Weare all like children, and we dou't want lo go to school, God promises us u- | ture happiness, but we are no more satisied than the child who ts told he can have what he wants @ year hence. Batyou cannot have the desires of your heart in the very shape and at the very time you want them. We ate dreadiuliy disappoinied, and it 1s only experience wich gives the ablliy to bear uncomplainingly What beiore we consid- ered calamives, So far as | wave observed the happiuess Of lie does pot depend upon success Of insuccess. Life is not what we would wish it to ve, t pot what you excusably may think it to We can- not forget the day When We first left the domestic fireside to go to boarding schoo) and when we were put in with a lol of otuer boys we nad never seen bewre and were Known, not by a name, bot by anumber; and alter, at college, when placed among cold, Unlovavie companions, among suspl- clon and competition, and ii ts only When success has crowned {ho eflurts that one begins to enjoy and to bope again. The temptations and the victory are the sentiments whicu show us the priest and the | King 'b our natures—that power that can gild vie hardsome dutica, ere it i# that the critical | eriod 18 strongest. How lew see at a glance this Bing thetr natures when he unveils his solemn face and shows his grave credentials, It 16 con acience, woich sits in & Househoid of its own « issues its decrees. Wuen we acknowledge heartily this direction of 4 bigher thing, we then understand the inner vocation of life. Things are not What theyseem. JI’leasure, power, success, do not bring lapoiness, There is something tore | that we cvave cor, itis our immortal knowledge Becessivies and laws regio) vack. ‘They may all be satished, but if this inner thing rematn, then Pe ores eee Fe a og im- ul 18 gione 18 0 lyre, a Pisses up many eyes before the refeerion of tis thing comes. If are sick and youdo nothing 1 ates your case. Ii you are morally sick and take not heed of God’s warning you are on rd path, Let pay our debts to our Almighty Creditor. He asks omly hearuness and wihilingness—that is all, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. DR ANDERSON ON CHRIST THE EXEMPLAR OF Yours. At the First Baptist chureh, corner of Park ave- Due and Thirty-winth street, yesterday morning the pas‘or, Dr. T. D. Anderson, preached a sermon addressed particularily to the young, taxing his text from the First Ep‘stle of Paul to Timothy, tl., 6—"The man Christ Jesus.” After reference to the happiness expressed in the New Year greeting he said the question would naturally saggeat itsely how such happiness might be made permanent, disappointment prevented and contentment se- cured, My young irtends, life ts before you, and I desire t) make you feel lls dangers and realize its solemnities. The possibilities of life are not seen im youth but come to us day after day and year after year, giving us mighty power for evil or for good, and the more so as the iif here cannot be severed (rom the it’e hereafter, and the character Jormed here must be carried with us into the next world. He proposed in bis discourse to present 10 them the man Christ Jesus as the embodiment of the Christian character, which they must take a8 an exemplar and guide. I know that to the young the consideration of the abstract 18 lees tory thax 01 the concrete, and so J presen’ @ loving example, AN HISTORICAL CHARACTER, He makes possible all the promises of God’s love. The term “man” indicates that he was born 19to this world, He t8 One Whose biograLhy bas been written; @ wan baving part in the afurs of the ‘earth upon whicn you are to-day. He cam9 witiout surrounding circumstances to make known te love of God to us. ‘The speaker then advised his hearers to strip the | Mun woo loved them, aud how throug Lim wey | could break the vouds Waich piad them to sin, | Reverring to the aidicuity wh ch some experienced lb regarding the Mun Christ Jesus as a real per- sud, be said the Saviour understood now [is per- had been announced that this talented young pul- | \ church yesterday with an attentive audience. | the day tac reverend father ascended the allar and, announc- assembled [lis apostics to- cvuntinued:—\What the Courch belleves and teaches » fined to Job, Youth waiks tn hepe ana exuberant | wready trust in ali that | a when all was bright the | sonal presence assured is aisciptos, and He \ tneresore toid them, “Lam going away: but twill ' pot leave you comiortiess; { wiil send to youa comiorter, und he shail anide witn you always, | the spirit of truth, which the world cannot re- ceive.” NoW Jesus was never 80 near ILis discl- ples as when at Pentecost the spi.it came down | und preceoted Him in ali iis character ana loveli- | tants, who have become impressed with the elo- | ucss to them. So you who say, “Ii | could have | been wita toe man Ubrist Jesus on earin | would | then have been His discipie,” can realize His presence and influence move cleariy than! you nad gazed into His ere apon the Sea of Galilee or | im the vestibule of the Temple. You can better see | | Mim and feel His power 1 enabiiag you to resist tempration than you could had you been with Him in the wilderness of Judea, He will render you contentin tne performance of iifc’s duties, Une other conception sweils out this pbrase aud makes it co significant, IT want you to look at | the man Christ Jesus as @ sympathizing Iriend. | You do not have to seek Mim through didcaity, | He voluntarily took upon Him the nature of man, and if fle 18 kept out from the heart it will be ubrougn you alone, He understands all your ex- | periences., He knows what sin 1s, and was | tempted in all points just as we arc, yet withous | sin. He closed by exhorting his heareis to throw wide open tue door aud Lov bar it against the en- trance o! “the man.” | ;HORTEENTH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. | SERMON BY REY. DR. 8. D. BURCHARD. | Rey. S. D. Burchara, D, D., the pastor of the Thirteenth street Presbyterian church, delivered a | sermon yesterday morning before a full congrega- | tiop, choosing tor m3 subject “A Sympatnizing | Saviour.” The text was taken from Hebrews il., loe—‘For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing Many sons unto glory, to make the captain of tueir salvation perfect through sufferings.” The preacher said:—“The view here given of Christ is eminently suited to the condition of the wants of man. In approaching Him we are not repulsed with sternness, for He is a mercifal Re- deemer and high piiest in things pertaining to God. No man in the universe was more approachable than Jesus. He took upon Him our nature and bore our sorrow. He understacds and appreciates the sufferings of humanity in all its phases, having been in person in the world. Looking first to His triais in the flesh it may be eaid that as God He was immorta, lpfinite, therelore unchangeable. Neither hunger nor thirst could reach His eternal divinity; but by the mystery of the incarnation things which | were not admitted to His divinity were made pal- | pable and manijest to His manhood. In the latter Me was tempted beyond the possibility of our en- | durance or even of our conception. He was brought into tue world as Lhe prince of saints, apd the powers of evil were brought to bear upoa Him. Who conceive His Wials and the temp tious to whica He was | aeae A doly man hat bitterness in bis soul at the cousciousness of being tempted, and as his soul groves it makes the Sen-e of being tempted almost iutole erabie, What must have been the sufferings of our Lord, then? All the alter attempts to destroy Hie iffe were as nothing as compured with the | | aiiurements of ein with which He was tempted. He suffered a8 pever man suffered before. The | Sadducees aud Pharisees reviicd Him as well ag | His words, which they could mot deny. Tuey hunted Him @8 #0 impostor and as one only fit for persecution. He was all divine beiore, and all strength was in His arm; yet He had to take upon | Him our shape and undergo the suserings of cru- cifed humanity, in order that He might redeem our sing aud take upon Himseil all our tranegres- sions. The text does not ia.ply thatin the absence ol suffering He would bave no power io redeem our sina, He cawe tn order to stand in ihe same con- | dition a5 ourselves, and to understand by expe- | rleace our temptations and our sufferings, Thus He was abie to succor us and to say, “Come unto me ail ye that labor or are heavy laden that | may comiort ye.’ What beiter language tnan ins could assure the sin-vurdened a: tue tempted of His sympatny and succor?’ This 1s the language of merey—not mercy in the abstract, but dropping like dew from the lips of the divine Recteem who bore, according to tudisputabie records, ferings and temptations like our owa. St. John says:—“if aman sin is it fatal?’ We have an advocate and appeliaat betore tie throne of God. He says, too, ‘140 not wiso you to sin, butir you do, do not consider yourself helpiess, nut plead at once and apply for His love to be forgiven.” The Scriptures clearly bring out the fact that Christ, | having borne cur nature and sotlered our troubies, is peculiarly Htted to be oar mediator and act as our advocate. He is tue great High Pricst to whom we must look for deliverance. He 18 a sympathetic Saviour, aud We shalt aiways flud Christ's love open to UB as @ VisIOL of love and cesestial beauty.” | ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SERMON BY THE REV, FATHER KEARNEY—THE STAR OF BETHLEMEM. The Rey. Father Kearney delivered the sermon at the ligh mass services at the Cathedral yester- day. He took for tis text the second chapter of St. Matchew, Which tells of the three wise men who followed the star of Betniehem until toey founa the Saviour. The reverend gentleman, in an eloquent and impassioned manner, relerred to the traditions that had been in existence among the people of the East as to the appearance o/ a wonder/ul star. When it did appear, he said, everynody was lost in admiration. But ooly three persons went to see what it mantiested, They bad been looking for the coming of the star a3 @ precursor of the coming Of @ Saviour, They foliowed tt nut knowing where it would lead them, but satis- fied only that it would bring them to the Promised One. Their frionds upbraided them for their fool- hardiness io undertaking such @ /oolisa jourocy, as they called it, pointed out the dangers they would bave to encounter, the strange and inimical people they wonid have to meet; but they could hot be dissuaded from their purpose. so tney started and jollowed the star unui it disappeared, They went about seeking Where the King had been bora. At the patace they could Jearn nothing 0. bin and when tuey Went back to the city, the speared and they followed it untill it stopy over THE STABLE IN BETHLEHEM, Seeing the cuild they fell down and adored nim. A salutary lesson was to be derived from the earnestness of purpose, the deep faith of these three men. They beueved that by following the star resoiutely they would in the end reach the place Where (heir King was born who would indeed be their God, Tuey were prompt im going, and on their journey they never taltered and no obstacle Was too great to deter them from proceeding. When they went away on their journey the Jews stayed behing, contentiug themselves With telling the tifee to return and tell them if they found that the star really revealed the accomplishment of the great proshecy. ‘the jes:on to U8 was a Breat One ; it was this; that as Che wine men were earnest 80 Stiould We be earnest io our search of Chiist, We should, like them, goon our journey through life undeterred vy any obstacte. Owners iig ht ,cer and tel! us that it Was of no good ‘or us to Lol and struggle, that nothing would come (Of ih bus We 6usuld = @o on, Unicsa ‘ and sign of glory, a thing wmeh maxes other | question of everyting abstract aod only consider | AY, JANUARY Il, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, we were earnest in our demre to seck for tne Saviour we would never find Him. He was Waitiug for us and decided that we shoutd come to Him, but to win His smiles aad benold Him ace to face we had need of strength; courage to over- come the temptations which wouid beset oar path. God was always at our call, and if we sbowed the right disposition He would give us the grace mecessary to SAVE OUR SOULS, If Re saw in us an earnest desire to follow the Saviour, u> matter who might oppose us, DO matter how hard the journey might be, however, great the cbstacies, the temptations, we should find Him even at our aide as it were, and with Him with ua who Could be against us; w woud iavail if allthe world with ite myriad of evil spirits were against us? By earnestness of pur- pose and faith in God we would win heaven. FOURTEENTH STREET PRESBYTE- RIAN CHURCH. FAREWELL SERMON OF REV. ROBERT SL0s8. Yesterday morning the pastor of the above church, at tue corner of Fourteenth street and Second avenue, preached bis farewell sermon to the congregation of which he has had the spiritual charge. The services were commenced by prayer, alter which the parable of the Prodiyal Son (Luke’s Gospel, chapter xv.) was read in 8 very touching and descriptive manner. Ihe text of the sermon was found in J. Timothy L, 15. The preacher saii that everything confirmed the text, “Christ came into the world to e sin- ners.” Humanity has always ecemed to prize highly practical wisdom, and especially when emvaimed in pithy sentemmes which have laden from the lips of wise men, truly “APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES OP SILVER.” One thing man 1s certain o1, God cannot le. Sometimes tiie is proved to us in the wispers of Nature he: self, in the voice of conscience, or in the evidences o1 His displeasure im the thuuder or throes of the earth in mighty convulsions. All logicai law. But woile a! things in external na- ture and in the heart Speak of a Saviour in the | Dible, God utters tho prectous word in a spirit of | prophecy and pornts to the Saviour of the world. | Tue prophets pointed to Christ with such minute derail and certaiaty, aod @esceibed his suferiugs | 80 clearly, that they aimost seemed to stand | emaed by gtving a number of illustrations of the ode of Goud iw jnstifying man, apd io expressing 8 and apost ‘at emphasis | m | Dis confidence that these pro; would be in heaven, } and significance, propping to the Iront of the plate Jor m+ shall meet them there, I shall go there. You cannot put me in hell.” TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE. WHOLESALE EXTRAVAGANCE IN THE TWO OITIES— ASCATHING BEBUKE TO WASTEFUL MEN AND WOMEN. | The extreme cold weather did not materially decrease the atterdance at the Tabernacle yes- teraay forenoon, all the seats being occupied. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached, resuming the thread of his series Of discourses on pabiic iniqui- ties. His text waa taken from Isaiab, wherein the prophet toreatens jadgment for the pride of the woman—t, ¢, “Moreover the Lord saith be- cause the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with etretcned-iorta necks aud wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go,and making a tinkling with their feet. in that day the Lora will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tiaras like the moon, The chains and tne brace- lets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the orna- ments of the legs, and the head bands and the tablets, and the earrings, the rings and nose Jewels, the chaugeable suits of apparel, and tae manties, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses and tie ne linen, aud the hoods and the veils,” As soon as this text was readand fully com- prehended there was a giggle amoung the fair sex of the assemblage, who nudged each other, much to the amusement of the sterner members of the congregation, ‘The reveread gentieman, in be- ginning ois discourse, eaid that itis through this winuow oO! the text that we look in upon tne vo- Juptugusoess of vur ancient city. The descrip- tou, win # very little variation, If as appro- riate to New York and Brovklyn as to Jerusa- lem and lyre. One migit think that Isaiah had be.ore him the iashion plates and the head AT THE FOOT OF TH? CROSS. Isaiah, speakin with the clearness of prophetic vision, seemed (o be present at the scene o the crucifixion, but everywhere, while foreseeing the Lrlais aud troubles of humanity, the prophets stiil poinied to ulimate deliverance tbrough Jesus Christ. The preacher then rey.e Wed in a scholarly manner the spiendid ritual of the ancient Jewish relizion, the ceremonies of tne priesthood in tue temple and the sprinkling of BLOOD UPON THE ALTAR to purity the sanctuary; adding that Christ, to redecim the world, weol farther than the sacritices Of tue high priests, ana sacrificed Humselt to 1ut | away sim trom the World. Low as scepticisin has wallowed in its “slouga of despond” it has Lot destroyed the manhvod of the Prince and Saviour, Even those who deny His Godhead exait Mis | mavhood, and, aiter all the daws sceplicsm has tried to pick in the MIRACLES OF THE BIBLE they overloox the greatest of all miracles, the birth of a perfect man in the midst of a corrupt worid and age : He who finaly poured out His ise asa sacrifice and His lile-oreata in @ prayer for sinners, “it is finished |!” The pastor than bade tarewell to his congrega- ton, and said thas he would merely say to them “Goodby,” and gave it tue old, true meaning, “God be with you!” BROOKLYN CHURCHES. GLO Al ae PLYMOUTH CHURCH. SERMON BY MB, BEECHER ON FAITH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS—A PLEA FOR THE NEW TES- TAMENT MODE OF PERFECTING MEN. The temperature of the atmosphere, which was far beiuw ireezing point, bad an appreciable effect yesterday upon the attendance at Plymouth | | squandering Jor me with sinaller income. Bat | Meu and women cruss over the line which | church, In the morning the churc was filled, every seat being occupied, but there was no crowding in the aisles or lobbies. Two children, cold ag it was, were baptized, and among the stranyers were Miss Anna Dickloson, the well known lecturer. mr. Beecher preacued @ very able sermon, with ali bis characteristic power, on the subject of “Faith and Righteousness." The text selected was St. Paul's Epistie to the Philippians, iii., 9—“And be found in him, not having mine own righteous ness, which is of the law, but that whichis through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.” There are two expressions here, said Mr. Beecher, the interpretacton of the meaning of which has filled the world with inflnite pamphiets and lumbering books. I hope to give some aim, | and atany rate 1 hope some happiness, to those minds that have been twitted with explanations ofialth and works, and faith and righteousness, It is now the concurrent beltef of the Guurch, and the Roman Catholic Church, that faithia the gut | of God—that faith 1s an indescribable quality, and that there is no such thing us salvation without faith, I suppose nearly all persons have a very vague impression that faith isa kind of solution of sait that God sprinkles into men, that stimu- lates them and makes them resembie God, making them equally bright with fim in heaven, That God is an indispensable quality, Who comes down when mea have got that faith in their breasts, and that they are then saivable. i | they have mot got that fatth tuey are | not salvable On the other band, it is said that man is good, even on the ground that his conduct. is good aud perfect. This feeling, on the other side, that conduct and character are nece: sary to salvation 14 subject to Censure, and not ing 18 More suspicious im a preacher than nis teach- ing morality. 1tissaid that he 1s not @ sound reaciei li his preaching 13 nothing but morality. f be preaches high aoctrine, aud, ubo all, just fication by saith, he isa man Who loves the bibdio, is capabie o1 high princtples, and bas got this view Of faith over all—that fixes it. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE. Now, you wiil notice that the Apostle Paul here gives an account of his own experience. No sonal conduct than Paul. Hear what he say: ircumcised the eighth day,” equal to our infant pe baptism; “of tue stock of israel,” got the right nation; { the tribe of Benjamin,” tue very joy and pride of gil that mation; a “Hebrew ot the Hebrews,” thoroughored; “as touching the law (tne ceremonial law) “@ Poarisee,” there was only one beyond that, and tbat was an Exsence; “coucerniog Zeal, perse- cutiug the Charch;” “touching the righteousness which ts in the law,” the ceremonial ui tne Jews, “bameless.”” Now he was ut the top, but the foundations of it all were gone. What “he had counted gain le counts as lors for Christ.” ‘this is. the glow of the apostie’s spirit. If you notice, it is “through faith.” Fa is itee?f an instrument. Suppose # man should speak of the eye in the same Way, asking that which he sees. If a man hes got anese, hen he can be @ philosopher; but he cannot ve one wituout it It is ine end sought, not the means by which you seex it. Itis the disposition and the way which @ man comes to Christ. You notice that Paul does not in any way get behind the truth that righteousness is the ereat end and aim oi naman lite. 1 is ritual rigbteousneas that he condemns, DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEBREW. Mr. Mattnew Arnold has snown, in one of tis re- cent Works, that there iy no more wonderiul fact in history than the development of moral ideas by | the Hebrew race. The moral clements in ideas that strike men to-day are those that were kept within that ttle pocket of land that was situated On the eastern end O1 the Mediterranean. Toe Hebrew moral nature was that of perfeciness in man, They embarked with that theory. That was their ideal It is true tual as time went on this idea wus largely absorbed iu the coustruction of the State aud the Courch, and in this they made use of man as the material. Tne teachers of Israel were never their priests, and the most pow- erful influences of Israel were never their ser- vices, After #ll, the jouptain of their mural law Was i thelr prophets, Ana, with a single excep- | tion, they were never ordained priests; they spruog irom the people, They were born to that nature and to that consctence. toe peculiar genius of the people thas they found room Jor every talent Lo b2 exercised, boet, né might be, Ii @ Woinaa were a poet, she might ve, and sing too. Ii she were a prophetess, she might propuecy, and this was right. She was permitted to do everything tnat she could do, and HW sie could do better than a man sne was per- mitted to d0 (iat, That, too. was right. [t was {he prophets who struck right at tne moral sense of the peopie, All Lhrougn they were labor- Ing to get men to attain to a periect manhood ; to get every part of his nature right. Well, that is righteousness. He tsa true man who is a righteous man, The systematic iorms of virtue aod man. hood came later. . DENUNCIATIONS OF AMOS, Ihave never said anyiMiog avout churches and | dogmas that has begua to compare with the oid | words of the prophets with respect to th sacred things tuat belong to the Jews, Wh Jews caine to practice @ ritual observance, then the prophet Amos denounced them. Here there was someting clse thas was putin the place of righteousness, THE NEW DISPENSATION. When the new dispensation came tn the old was | put out. Justification by faith came to be the purpose of tae New lestameat, It simply became the vetter Way of attarning the me result. Tue Oid Testament sought to attain this by one kind of cation and the New Testament by another, conception of the Spirit of God 18 ms ay Ifa man were a Th fest In Christ Jesus, God gave, in ihe manuestation of Lis love ta His Son, ah epitome of what man saould be, It gave to maa @ larger sphere of hops it gave him @ new inspiration aud motive. Tt brought near to him the love of God, 1 do not | know anything that i® nober than the strife of | the old and new digvengations. Mr. Beecher con- man had more reason to pave configevcein bisown | | pied by Mr, Samuel Benton, dveeses and the jewel caskets and the dancing schvvls aud the drawing ruom parties of the pres- ent day, and that he actualy foresaw saraioga ana B ignton and Loug Brauch, We also see the Mascuine eXtravagabce aud Aissipaiion which @lsays correspond exactly with the ‘emimine, Woman may have a greater varieiy of apparel, but she hves a quieter lite, and, therelore, May have | the great varieties and luxuries of dress without impediment. Men would bave just as mucn if they Knew how Without iuteriermg witu their Worldly occupations, Tne rougn jostiings of life are inimical to a man's dragging a dress trail two yards iD jengih or pending trom bis ear a dia- mond ciuster. In the time of the text as Well us 4p all ages o1 the world THE TWO SEXES ARR ALIKE IN MORALITIES or in immoralitics. Wuile it way be weil, accord- | ipg to parlor sentimentalities, that men deier to Women aod wowen cefer to men, 10 the presence { of God and in the tight of eternal respunstoiities both sexes are alike, They are cqual under tue Jaw 01 GOW; they Ought to ve equa: under the law ol the land. Tue reveread speaker then graph- ; leaily depicted the scene on tne prowenade in | Jerusalein, Whero the vain glorious of the fair sex of 2,500 years &gO Were secn as described in the text, and aaked, But where is tuat scene? Vanished, Where are those gay streets ? A’ VERMIN COVBKED POPULATION Pass THROUGH THEM. Where are the haads, and the necks, and the foreieads, and the suoulders, and the ieet that sported all that magnificence ? Aghes, ashes. It 18 absolutely necessary that we drawa line be- tween thas whitn is the lawful use of beautiiul | adornments and that cxtravagauce whica 1s the | source of 80 much crime, wretchedness aud abomination io our day, Toat is sin- ful extravagance when you go into any- thing beyoud your means, Tnat which is rigut for ive may bo wroug for auother. ‘Thar which 1s lawiul array ior a queen may be sinful outiay fora duchess. ‘That which may be economy ior you with larger incowe may be | wa | separates between whas they can pay for and stili keep @ pumciency to meet moral oblgauon, on the one hand, and, vu the vtver band, toat extrava- gance which bis or her meais cannot compass, Toey have passed irom the ianocent into toe cule pable. Actuss that ilue bave gone a multitude that Ro man cau bumber, We judge oj woat we ought to have by What other peopie have, ‘tbere are jamilies hardly able to pay their rent and in debt to every merchant in the neighvorhood wao Sport apparel inapt jor their circumstances, and yun go near the slore that the firat ousiortave in bu-tuess or the drst besiegement O! sickLess tosses them IuLo paaperism, were are thousands of families moving irom neighborhood to neighbor. hood, staying lung enough in each one to ex- | haust all their capacity to get trusted. They | suadeniy find, out that the INTERNAL REVENUE, Nearly $7,000,000 Collected. Daring 1874 in the City of New York. THE BANKING TAX, Consumption of Whiskey, Lager, Tobacco and Cigars in the Metropolis. During the year 1874 the number of internal revenue culiection dis*ricts in the city of New: York was reduced from five to four. ‘This result’ naturally flowed irom the abolition of the ime come and numerous other imposts until the fed- era) taxes are now almost confined to assessments on the manufacture and sale of tobacco, spirite: vous and fermented liquors and on banks and bankers. The taxon domestic whiskey remaing at seveaty cents per gallon, but there 1s a propo- sition before Congress to increase it to eighty cents; fermented liquors pay $1 (less seven’ anda half per cent) on each barrel of thirty-two gallons; aud cigars, irrespective of quality, pay $65 per 1,000. Tnere are besides special taxes ley- ied on rectifiera, $50 per abnum; retail liquor dealers, $25; m Mquora, $20; retail dealers in! leaf tobacco, $560, and on sales of over $1,000, aity cents ior every dolar in excess; dealers in manu- factured tobacco, $5; manuiacturers of cigars,, $10; and on brewers, $50 and $100, according to’ extent of operations, The total amount of INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTED IN NEW YORE. during the year 1674 was $6,860,187 17; the largest amount coming from the Second district, embrac- ing seven of the most central wards of the city. It appears that the number of retail liquor stores is 10,049, Including 1,123 in which lager beor alone ig vended. The dealers in manufactured tobacco, chewing and emoking, cigars and snuff, reach 11,710; but as near!y all liquor stores keep the commoaity, it would seem that those exclusively engaged iu the business (cigar stores) Cannot exe ceed 2,000. There are 231 recuifivrs in the city, 613 Whouesaie liquor deulers and 77 breweries. RECAIL LIQUOR DEALERS. The Internal Revenue Bureau bas recently issued {nstructions lor a wore rigid enforcement of the law in ine cases of retail liquor dewiers. When paruies commence business tey are required ta make application for license before thiriy day# ox- pie. Otherwise a penalty of fly per cent ts to be added to the special tax of $25. Retail dealers in malt liquors cannot seil spirituous liquors without paying the prescribed speo.al tax; nor can retail liquor dealers, as such, sell five gallons 10 any one person at any one time unless they pay. @ special tax as wholesale venders; nor can they either lawiully seil tobacco, snuff or cigars withs oUt paying the special tax tor this privilege, THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT, This district takes in the First, Second an@ Fourth wards, Mr, Marsoall B. Blake is tne Oul- lec:or. The bulk of the revenue is derived from taxes on banks and bankers, and on the tobacco interest. The total amount collected during the year ending December 31, 1874, was $1,707,995 7L, Tis sum includes $990,278 impost on tobacco, as iu is handed for the purposes of trade and con- sumption in all forms, and $601,831 tax on the capital und deposits of monetary ingyitationsy The sum of $16,998 was collected from brewers, which represents ap equal number of barreis of beer manu/actured in the tour breweries existing tm the district. The fotlowing came under the special taxes now imposed by law: — Rectifiers, v0; retail liquor dealers, 1,088; whole. sale liquor dealers, 331; wholesaie dealers in malt liquors, 7; retail dealers in malt liquors, 38; deal- ers in Jeal tobacco, 265; dealers in manulactured tovacco, 1,401; manusacturers Of tobacco, 9; mane re wars, 133, BANKS AND BANKING PIRMS. The number of banks and bankers in thd Thirty-second district is Cn) but there are otuers Wuo carry On this class of b not liadie to pay an internal revenue tax, which amounts to one twenty-fuurth of one per cent per mouth on capital and deposits. This tax ts paid | semi-annually; but in the case of netional banks neighborhood | is unaedlthy, and they bire a cartmav, whom they | | never pay, tO Lake them to a partot the city where | all the araggists and butchers and bakers and | grocers wiil be glad to see them cume in, sending | to them the best rounds ol beef, uotil tae sught suspicion comes into their brain taat all tne pay ‘they will ever get trom their cust.mer is the honor Of his society. (Laugnter.) There are | ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND SUCH THIEVES IN BROOKLYN. | There are circumstauces where men cannot meet cher obligations. 1t 19 @$ nunest for sume nen to Jail as it 13 tor otber men to succeed. They do their best, and through toe misiortunes of itie | they are torown aud Cannot pay thelr devts. That ig oue thing; but when you yo and puicnase an article loc which you kuow there 18 no provability of your ever making recom- pense you are a Villain! Why dou’t you save the time of the merchant and the expense of an accountant tor bimy some day to lis store, and wien nv one is looking suculder the bam or sparerib, and iu modest silence take them along with your (Laughter.) | 1t 18 the lesser crime, for in the otuer case you get notonly the merchant's goods, but you get his time and you rouse his expeciations, (Laughter.) Ji you are going to steal do 1¢ at tue least possivie damage to the trader. Society has to ve rocon- structed on this suoject. It is not tne absolute necersities of lie that we find so hard to meet, but the fictitious ones, God promises us sheite but not a mansion, in this world; and raiment, but not chincailla; and food, but not canvaspack ducks; su long a8 we have enough to mect tne positive necess.tics of lile we ought to be content ‘until we can adord the superfuities; but just as 800 as you see aman deliverately consent that | his outgo shall excel his iucome you may know he has started on THE BROAD ROAD TO BANKRUPTCY and moral ruin. This wholesale extravagance | accounts for a great deal of depression fn our na- tional fvances, So long as Onesialt of the lined OL tunis country are in debt to the other hal cannvt have a healthy Auancial coudition in this country. The theatres o1 New York cost tuat city every year $2,000,000, 1a one way and in another. We spend in this country $95,009,009 every year for cigars and tobacco. In tie United States we expend $1,483,000,000 for rum, If you have an ex- | portation of vbreadstuffs tour times what you have how, and an importation of gold jour times what | Of beer stamps sold brought $411,138. | mentioned:—Retail liquor dealers, 2,61 Why don’tyou go down | ‘under the following heads:—Spirits, $ you | you nave how, there would be no permanent pros- , perity until people could quit their siniui lavisn- | ment and learn honest economy, To this | widespread eXtravagance 18 also chargeable much of the crime. It is the source of sO mauy abscoudings, bankruptcies, defalcations and Knaveres. The store on broudway and toe oMce Wail street are swamped by che residences on ison equare. This widespread extravagance so accounts for most oi the pauperism. There e & great many families who have every luxar; 1n Iife, yet expend every dollar that comes in, and, verbaps, afew dollars more, not even taking the | Common Christian prudence of having tneir lives if you, dnsured. with every comilort in life, are nt, and then depart this life | leaving your chiidren to be hurled into pauperism, | you deserve to have your bones sold to the medi- cal museum for anatomical speciinens, the pro- ceeds to jurnizh your chudreo with bread. “A man that provideth not tor his own and specially a his own housenold, he is worse thao on infl- del,” | A_ statistician has estimated in New York and Brooklyn 0 WOMEN WHO EXPEND ANNUALLY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS BACH IN DRESS, Itis no rare thing when tne wedd! that there are bridal aress $1,000 or $1,600, Things have come to such @ pass when we cry over sin we wipe the tears away with a $150 pocket handke:- eniel, (Laughter,) There has been many a man who died solvent, but has been insoivent belore he | got under the growud, One would think that the debts most sacred would be the depts Of the physician and the undertaker, since they are the two last contracted; and yet those two prores- sious are swindied more frequentiy than any otner, In the agitation and the excitement the iriends come, and they want extraordinary atten- Von abd exXeiavrdinary expenditure, and then when the cad scene is p t to make compensation, — It merchant se ova8 and they are id jor, L unders' he can reciaim the goods; but i) a man departs this Ife and, through bis Iriends, indeptedness 18 Ccon- tracted that is uot met, incre seems to be Do re- hie!, for the patient has gone of with the doctor's | pulls and the undertaker’s white slippers; and Greenwood and Laure! Hill and Mouut Auburo hold to-day thousands of sucn swindies ‘Toe reverend geotieman concluded his discourse by an urgent appeal to tue people to quit this waste, remember the poverty which was abroad and aispose of their means in such @ way that at the last day they would be «bie not only to render an account as to the manner in which they made their money, but aiso now they spent it. FIRE IN THIRTY-SECOND STREET, At half-past six o'clock last evening a fire broke out in the main haliway of the brown stone dwelling No, 112 West Thirty-second street, occu- It was caused vy a defect in a heater in the adjoining house, b: Which the hot air was directed against the wood- work iu the wail of Mr. Benton's house, ‘The fire damageu the furniture of Mr. Benton to the ex- tent of $300. ‘The house is owned by Mr. Sinciair Sinith, of Orange, N. d., who: is estimated about $500, NVR 54 march | weighers, formerly employed, were fouad to be | unnecessary. | And beer. their busivess comes directly under the supervi of the Commnsaioner of Internal Revenue as far as liquidating taxes is concerned, At present there are in this city 50 of tue latter Genomination, 2% banks and 42 savings banks. BECOND DISTRICT. The Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighto, Nioth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards compose tie district of which General Max Weber 18 the Vollector. The amount received during ihe caiendar year just closed was $2,014,241 71. The tobacco trade id dealings in the commodity ytelded $1,347,173, and the amount The brews eries in toe district numoer eleven, The follow. ing are the number 0! persons from whom internal revenue taxes are collected in the wards above hers, 146; wholesale liquor dealers, 166; wholesa! malt liquor dealers, 6; retail malt liquor dealers, 122; deaters in manulactured tobacco, 2,91: ers im jeal tobacco, 38; manutacturers of tobacco, 5; pediera Of tobacco on joot aud public convey= ances, 19; manuiacturers of cigars, 270, TUE THIRD DISTRICT comprises the Seventh, ‘enth, Eleventh, Thir- teenth, Fourteenth and Seventeenth wards, As the Fourtn is the great beer manufacturing 4! trict, so 18 the Third the most important cigar manuiacturing district in the country. About one-tenth of the cigars made in the United State: are produced in the wards above montioned. Tne collector Mr. Morris Friedman and the total amount ‘ized in the district during the last year was $1,915,540 03. The stamps were solid tovacco aud cigars, $1,722,887 15; fermented liquors, _ $69,77 Danks aud bankers, 48,385 215 ous, $5,787 44, The ollowing are the number of dealers paying Internal Revenue taxes in the district:—Kectl fiers, 21; retail liquor dealers, 2,312; wholesale liquor dealers, 64; wholesale dealers in malt ie quors, 2; retail Geaiersin malt liquors, 412; dea.ers 1n ieal tooacco, 194; dealers in manufactured to- bacco, 3,319; manuiacturers of tovacco, 8; manu- factures of cigars, 948; pediers 0/ tobacco, 38; breweries, 26, Notwithstanding the general depression in busl- ness througnout the couutry during the past twelve or eigateea montns, there does not seem to pave been any falling Of in the cigar mapue Jacturing trade, New York supplics not alone the local coosumption In cigars, but furnis:ies in tare quantities the Western and Southern States, FOURTH DISTRICT, . On the ist of April last the eignth and ninth cok lection districts im this city were consolida and now jorm the Fourth district. The new dis- urlet comprises all of the territory above Four- teenth street to the Harlem river excepting the Sixteentu ward, Mr. Charles R. Coster is the col- lector. The manulacture of malt liquors is the great interest in the Fourth, the magnitade of which can be estimated by the fact that stamps were sold Guriug the past year for 962,735 barrels (Whirty-two galions) of aie, porter ‘The amount of revenue collected irom all sources in the two districts consvlidated and the new one formed from Januiry 1 to December 31, 1874, was $1,212,449 25, coming i10m breweries, 86; rectifiers, 24; retail liquor dealers, 2012; wholesale liquor lers, 52; re'ail dea.ers in mal liquors, 551; dealers in manufactured tobacc 4,076; dealers in leaf tobacco, 18; banks and, bankers, 16. CUSTOM HOUSE. Bome of the weighers at the Custom Howse have been discharged—or, rather, put on hour work ine stead of receiving regular salarica—and this fact has given rise to considerable gossip. The simple facts are that tne business of the Custom House has been 80 much decreased of late, owing to ine dulness Of general trade, that a great many extra As to removals, &c., there is not ® Joundation of truth for tue sensational stories afloat within the past few days, Notwithstanding the stagnant condition of bust- ness during the past year it may be well to note the increase, wi hin forty years, of trade at the port of New York. According to an oi feport in the possession of Assistant Survevor of toe Port, Mr. Benedict, who has been in the Custom House for twenty-two years, it appears that in 1835, un der Collector Swarcwout (who alterward de- juulted), tue imports amounted to ONLY FOURTEEN MILLIONS, while in 1874 It was in the neighborhood of $140,000,000, The labor at the former period was performed by 184 iuspectors, who received for their services $3 per day. in tbe service of the | department were also seventeen weighers, eleven | annum, There are no warkers and no measurers, gaugers, eleven measurers and jour markers Who euch received about $1,500 per annum. In 1874 there were atrached to the Custom House 260 inspectors, who receivo $4 pe! pineveen weigner: and nine gauge as formerly, the latter service bein riormed the weighers andthe marking by tie haspeators. i In 1836 there were less than 2,000 arrivals at this port aud no steamers, In 1874 the number of Vesseis from joreign ports alone arriving in Kk 1,261, 1,068 of which were steam Which would average 2,500 tons burden, T dves not include coasting vessels, while the mer- chandise reiurned and weighed by the United Braves welguers aggregates the enormous weight TWO MILLION TWO MUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TOUNDS It is claimed by the officiais that the department in this city is managed at a less cost to the gov- (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE. juginess Who are -