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8 _— HE WAY OF LIFE. Selected Utterances of the Pulpit, Pointing Out Man’s Duty and His Destiny. MR. HEPWORTH ON PRAYER. Philosophical Theology from Plymouth— Thoughts for Troublous Times. DR. CHAPIN ILLUSTRATES TRUE GREATNESS Power of the Holy Name of Jesus---The Conditions of Mental Peace. MR. TALMAGE ATTACKS SOCIAL SINS. Unity of the Church—Beauty and Harmony of » Soul Development, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. MR HEPWORTH ON PRAYER—ITS POWER AND EPFICACY. The cold weather of yesterday baa no per- Ceptibie effect upon the congregation which habit- Dally gathers at the Church of the Disciples, on Madison avenue, and the large and pecuitarly con- stracted audience room was entirely Oiled. After the usual religious exercises the pastor an- nounced his subject as “THE MYSTERIES OF PRAYER,” taxing as his text the words which suggested the topic, irom the ninth chapter of Luke and the twenty-ninth verse—“ind as he prayed the fashion of bis countenazce was altered.” He said, I have often wondered what Christ saw or ‘witi whom or what He communed that so strange an effect was produced, Could He see beyond the confines of time? Did He catch a glimpse of that celestial city of which He was and was to be the hght? Did He see the Father ‘Whose Son He was? Did He hear the voices of the angels and catch the strains of that exquisite Music of which the atmosphere of the hereatter ts @aid to be full? Evidently it was something a@trange and beautifu'— something of which it ts impossible for us to form a conception—which caused His countenance to change. In following the career of Christ we find that He openly con- fesses a constant dependence on a superior and exterior power. He is the least independent character in history; the most childiixe and re- Ceptive of influence from above. In His superior moments, when He towers a giant denouncing ‘the sins of the world, it is hardly Christ, but God through Christ. He would have hardiy dared an- Gertake His task save that He drew power from sources unseen, and listened to voices unknown. He lays down the rule that man depending on timself shall be de- based, wiile those who recognize their constant dependence shall find themselves exalted. He tn- troduces a law, embodying @ principie not always easy to comprehend, but iliustrated in His daily life ana action. To make it more emphatic He gaid to His disciples, “Whatsoever ye ask in my Dame that shall ve given you’’—a precious heri- tage; heirs of a marvelious domain o! power un- explored. He ie!t the promises, which we can 80 tar comprehend as to realize that they involve om- nipotent power. We are bound to act upon these promises as do persons ia business upon a promts- sory note, payable in the future and indorsed by a Tame beyond all doubt. And yet | coniess to some embarrassment in approacning my suvject, prayer is 80 strange, 80 little understood, so littie prac- tised. It is like something placed afar off, to be resorted to in an emergency. It should be es- teemed a marvellous privilege, causing us to feel like the High Priest who entered tne Holy of Holes to offer incense and obiation to the Almighty, with curtains drawn snd atone with Jehovah Prayer ‘lies at ‘the base of human progress; it is the pivot upon Which the spiritual life swings; the centre of all aera and goodness. No mau can attain the ighest iaeal except through communion with God. Prayer is like incense rising (rom the heart to heaven, while its absence leaves an altar with- out fire, containing oniy asies. Life is grand when redolent with communion with tue Highest. Some of you may ask, Is not prayer A PHILOSOPHIC MYSTERY? answer, Yes. Can youexplain itt No, You say those things which I can understand tuose will f believe aud practise; but where ts your authority Jor my allegiance to what is beyond my compre- hension? Science is a great thing. It is the twin brother of religion. But as is olien the case with twins, while one is pale and sickly tne other is } strong and vigorous, Religion seems to me the Sta.wart child, with attitude proud and nobie; while the other 18 its humpbacked, distort a brother. What is science and what has it accomplished? What it knows is creat; what it does not koow ts infinitely greater. Science. though \ioperial aad imperious, is like @ child creeping along the nave of a great cathedral; he | gees with wonder the beautitully painted windows ani the iofty columms, but it cannot comprehend the butlding; only God, the Builder and Architec can do that. Science Is that cntld crecping towar the altar; it Cau ouly wonder at the grandeur of the expanse; It knOWS Hot how nor what. Prayer isamystery. Let us regard it by analogy. Take ‘the smali seed beiore it is cast into the ground. Can youexpiain it? No. What ts it? There is an outer husk and within a little atom o! proto. piesm. If I am iguorant I canovt tell what will come of it. If you tell me that, cast into the ground, an entire crop will come of it, Liaugh and Stand on the dignity of what | know. | say It is absurd on the face of it. Howcan the green and beautitul things you describe come irom this ? We will not argue, ouly wait. rich loam, the sunshive and the rain wave THEIR WAND OF MYSTERY @bove it. Idare not go down into the labyrinth, as that wili be to «disturb the process, and the secret remains; it grows into a small leat, and on into astem; 1c buds and blos.oms, and in the autump [ shake it and there drops into my hana 400 like those I planted. And we live in tue midst of such miracies. Do you believe, then, only in what you can understand? Never beieve in Western grauaries again; never believe in the barns flied with nature's mysteries. Ia not the argument logical? Is it not iair I should draw the analogy? I jusge of value by the resuits; I judge With ali the acumen possess; I draw the line trom what I cau to what I cannot understand and turn to the results, 1 understand tha: I am taik- ing to men and women and not to angels. Tb: 18 nO one here but ts more or aiected by sin, thouzh all are hoping aud striving toward heaven. to simple iuct. for Let ua come down | Life 18 full of temptations; they are found everywhere; in the cluo room, tn the } ball room, in that holy of holies, the household; they are stamped on our lives, on our bodies ana souls, yet it is our auty to stand before Goa pure men. Can you do this alone? No, We want heip, In @ stand up contest sin will prove the victur in tne end unless we are sustained by a ower which comes at call, In the midst of temp- ation prayer is a shield, enabling you, when an eneuy steals upon the soul, tu say, ‘Get thee be- hind ine, Satan.” Prayer enters into every ques- tion of right or wroug; it enters a mysterious force into the spiritual life. Again, ali men have theiy sorrows. Many will look anxiously toward the skies before auother winter. Can you bear ajl your sorrows alone? Obey Gou’s precepts and you carry in your hearts a power wuicu drives | despair into hope. Believe it, so as to try 1t; sub- fect God to experiment; test iv by the muriauc acid of criticism and it will come out pure gold, I am sometimes asked if 1 am not airaid tne Bible 1 prize so uighly will be tipped over by the man ot seience. I answer no, |i that can be done | want it to be. Hammer away; you only hurt yourself and do no harin to it. Some people say they have prayed and got no results, That is ‘A COMMON EXPERIENCE. Did you ever have # iveling tnat there was some- thing in your lilé, Some indeseribabie controlling power, causing things Lo turn out entirely dider- ent irom what youexpect? You do not perceive the results, because they are not immediate. There is the diflcuity. Effects foilow on causes in ail physical tuings; 1¢ ia not 80 in spiritual things. ‘There you produce tie cause; the effect I4 tu the will of God and not in yours, When pi ir wends its way to the bosom of the Almight: hears the words and keeps them, But He never prom- ised you a ireestone house if you would but ask for it, like the genii which responded to the touch of Ajaddin’s amp, But Gou always bends Dis ear to prayer, and torough it will be founda girength ip your trust not attainable wituout it. The Israetives prayed for frecdom, and expected that their cuains would drop off at once; but not so. It took forty years to get an answer to that prayer, anu baia years too; yet look at the prom- deed land and at Jeraseiom. Was not the prayer answered? You ask jor a handiul aad God will ive youan armiul, In the passage of the Red Een and in the Wanderings in the wilderness was Bot prayer answered ? Believe so with your whole beart; do not give it up. You know what Lusher maid, have liad 80 much work to do to-day that have been compelied to pass three hours in prayer.’ You say you have to attend to busin have not time for prayer, I belteve you wot go to your business with clearer beads and I piant it im the | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1875—W1ITH SUPPLEMENT. stronger hearts tf you devoted more time to Bas Dear friends let us believe in prayer, and Ving faith let us join in it. Let us pray. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SEBMON BY THE REV. FATHER M'NAMEE—‘‘THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH.” The Rev. Pather McNamee preached the ser- mon in the Cathedral yesterday, He took his text from the twenty-eighth verse of the twelfth chapter of the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians:—“And God indeed hath set some in the Church, first aposties, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers.” He said that at a time when the prerogatives of the Church and espectally of the Holy See were being made the subject of 80 mach and such bitter controversy; when emperors and rulers, blinded by malice, were forgetting that they were temporal, and in thetr wicked efforts, were trying t» destroy tnat which {8 spiritual; when statesmen were laying aside the management of affairs of state in order to spread broadcast over the land the warning in- telligence of the dangers to be apprehended from the prerogatives claimed by the august prisoner of the Vatican, an occasional reflection on a dis- cussion of these matters would not, be without Ite fruit for Catholics. With that aim in view ne invited the attention of his hearers to the consideration of one question—‘' means did God establish on earth to pre-erve the unit, of His Church?’ When, he said, the Son of G became man He had a twofold work to perform— He came to TEACH AS WELL AS TO SAVE MEN. He opened the gates of salvation to mankina by His sufferings and death on the cross, but the sacred part of His missior—that of teaching man— had to be continued through succeeding genera- tions that each might be taught the faith oj Christ. There were certain apne established by Christ by which His church could always be known. One of these waa its unity. The Church was always one. Without this unity she could not fulfil its mission. She was divinely commissioned to teach ail na- tions, and this mission she couid not fulfil unless she was one. She could not fuidll it with a divided voice; ber pastors could not teach tho faith of Christ if they were not alla unit regarding the articles of faith. The Holy Ghost was an ever abiding presence in the Church, and ‘the Sus Preme Pontiff, who was the preserver of the unity of tue Church, was a pastor that could not teach wrong in spiritual matters—could not place the Church in a@ false path. Protestants, he said, might ascribe the primacy which tue Roman Pon- tits always enjoyed and exercised to their cunning or to fraud or to the barbarity of the Middle Ages; but, he said, uniess the primacy was divine, there was no other way to account for the fact that thia primecy had ever been conceded to the Pope by the unantmous consent of all. It was 80 copceded because it had been conierred upon Peter and bis successors in the see of Rome by God Himself. Following up this assertion the Rev. Father pro- ceeded eloquently to show how the Pope was in reality the vicar of Christ on earth and as suca in- falnple in his teachings, so far as the Church was concerned. CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. THE BEAUTY AND HARMONY OF GOD'S WORK IN DEVELOPING MAN’S SPIRITUAL NATURE—DIS- COURSE BY REV. CHAUNCEY GILES. Selecting for his text Isaiah, Ix., 17, 18— “Por brass I{ will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, snd for wood orass, and for stones tron; I will also make thy officers peace, and thive exactors righteous- aess. Violence shall no more be heard in thy Jand,, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise’—Rev. Chauncey Giles, of the Swedenvorgian congregation, yesterday preached adeeply interesting sermon on the beauty and harmony of Goa’s development of man’s spiritual life. The pastor spoke of tue blessings God 13 con- stantly showering upon His children, and asserted that all tne riches prepared by the Lord were for | man; every door that leads to any good was open day and night jor the entrance of those who came to Him for His bountiul gifts; every vessel that ploughs the seas comes laden With guts to show man THE RICHNESS OF HIs LOVE FOR US. The text beautifully Ulustrates God's purpose— For iron | wiil bring silver.” God desires to make us understand how He is seeking to give us @ ligner degree of good for a lower one, He always offers us greater Value and seeks to change our natural yood, which 1s represented by brass, for goid, which represents spiritual excellence. He wouid exchange jor us that of less value to us in this world for that wich is of incalculabie value in the next. The minister expiained that the text was symbolical of the Lord’s love for us, and he pointed out that wood, ‘ron and stone represented natura: values, and that God gave us in exchange for these eral Of Spiritual vatuc that le next world would be to our advautage. He also pointed out the diferent STEPS IN THK DEVELOPMENT OF MAN. Stone is the lowest order of matter; iron tsa higher form of matter, and represenis a higher degree of knowiedge. ‘For wood I will oring brass.” Wood represent. the passive deiight of the senses; in its poxsession there is no motive nor aim except gratification. Brass represents natural good; It is a good that comes by science. It must be evident to every mind that these higher deiights grow out of lesser ones of the sensuous; vut God gives them to us to show the greater value of them. We cun see the various steps Irom the lowest form of savage life to the highest step of scientific life. Tne Lord intends We shall take a Ligher step until we reach periec- tuou. ironis only the frst grand step. There isa bigher step represented by silver. Iron repre- sents the ictter, sliver the spirit. The iron re- lates to this worid, the sliver to the spiritual world, These symbos represent the divine order | in which Gud always acts. EVERY GATE THAT OPENS will show us sume new tiuths, The divine love | shad be an everlasting light, The sun snail never | more go down, neither shall the moon withdraw | Itsell, “but the Lord shall be thine everlasting hight, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.” CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE OF MIND—SERMON BY REV. WILLIAM R. ALGER. The Rev. William R. Alger, at the Church of the Meselab, corner of Thirty-fourth street and Park avenue, preached yesterday morning from the foliowing text:—“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you”—John, xiv., 27. The thing of chief importance, began the reverend preache! to every man, was the state of hisowngoul. This decided his Lappiness or his misery. This con- stituted his heaven or his hell. Jt was the result of his past life and the idea of his future fate. Is the mind which I carry strong, rich and calm, fur- nishing the inner condition for deriving tbe yt Most profit and joy from all outward affairs? Oris my mind poor, sour, wretched and restless, adding from Itself a new misery to every outer ill | it meets’ This question must poseess, for a wise man, deeper interest than any other he can ask himself. For the scenery of our destiny in all lume and all worlds is radiated about us from the | qualities of our inmost being. The deepest yearn- ing of the soul of men is 'or peace. Wander through the flelds in the pleasant summer time, gaze on the shifting hues of the panorama pictured betore you and watle you wander a low voice seems to WHISPER TO THE SOUL “PEACE!” Look up by night to the heavens as they beud Majesticaily over our little earth, so still, 80 beautiul, as if with faint smiles they would beckon us away from this noisy Gen to their tar and silent shores and how intensely the soul feels its need of peace. Mingie in the crowd of busy men lose yourself to the hum of the multitude—yet the mo- ment you paus lor peace becomes oppressive. Turn your thoughts Inward when alone. Let the solitary soul reveal the past and lovk into the future, and you will find its remorse and joy, its dim memories and vague aspirings, its fears and its hopes, all biend- ing in One sigh for peace. Such is the constitu. tion of human nature, the universal language of man. Oh, how many prayers for peace have gone up to heaven from crowded city and lonely desert! How many hearts, saddened by disappotntment, convuised by passion, torn by remorse or wrung by bereavement have turned to God in an agony oi supplication for PITY, AND PARDON, AND PRACE! Alarge portion of mankind misapprehend the asia on which peace shouid rest, and attempt to abs It Oo false foundations, Peace must be based on something li itis to endure. We must have somethiag to depend on. Independence 13 bat another uame for self-detence. ‘The question is, What shall this something be, the worid, seli, or God? Let us examine these supposable sup. — of @ peaceful soul. Some suppose the true ass Of peace is Outward prosperity, the enjoy- Ment Of exterior luxury. Ali their efforts accord. ingly are directed to the aquirement o: these. This notion is entertained by the mass of every civilized community and is the cause of that vio- lent strife of rivalry, fraud aud oppression which fills the world. What @ mocking deceit it is | Have not thousands spen: the best years of their lives 1@ the pursuit of worldly good oniy to find the angel of peace farther off tian ever when they strove at length to woo her to their weary bosoms? Many imagine the sure foundation of peace to be iaid in a life of culture, INTERNAL AFFLUENCE AND DELIGT, They labor to understand the mysteries of being, f acleuce, the principles of art. This Of all reliance on those resourc and sovoission in which on: Of religious trust wing security and biesseaness exclusively reside, Others think | | stoicisa asia of The | loftiest pagan de- ciered dence from petty pains and pleasur the world, t this | Independence of the sow was more be thought, . nd meditate the soul's desire | f as it goes; but to stop here ts to fail | tained by Onrist than in any other way. King and peasant, slave and the ignorant and ‘Wise, the rich and t! they iS PEACE Lord, who is the Maker of them all. id dungeons, trom 8 and ind in rags, they may come if he be pure in heart, may look up to heaven with calm confidence and say to that God who ts no respecter of persons, ly I thank thee.” Such e is immutable lece Of earthly music, a prelude to that lufe which is the conscious music of immortal, heaven. CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE GREATNESS—SERMON BY THE REV. E. H. CHAPIN. There was & very large attendance yesterday morning at the Church of the Divine Paternity, corner of Fitth avenue and Forty-filth street, The Rev. Dr. Uhapin, the pastor, preached an able and effective discourse on “True Greatness,” taking a3 @ pasis the text Matthew, xx., 93—‘Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to Minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” He began by picturing tha life of Christ as a lise of true greatness. His was truly a noble life, a life Of toil, trial, poverty, self-denial and self-sacrifice, the last culminating in His cracifixion on she cross, @ sacrifice of Himself for the sins of the world. He said that a man who 1s completely wrapped up in his own interests and who bas led an isolated existence is the only man who ever complains of the unprofitableness of fife and the utter ursuits, It 18 tiness and vanity of human ben ni : jorth @ helping because he has never stretcned hand to those who are lo: ence than himself, He has made his own sphere arrow by excluding from tta circle every one but himself; and aa time saps the freshness of his own nature, having no inherent strength and no sup- port to tall back upon, he naturally thinks the whole world as much of a wreck as nimeeclf, No one lives tor bimeelf alone; Deither does he die for himself alone. A life of true greatness 18 never a selfish life, A noble life excludes all conaidera- tions of self in its great schemes tor the uplilting of humanity. There 18 & great work going on in the intellectual world; the mind is exertin wonderful influence. This great thinking faculty ig the finest part of the work, but no more honor able than the lowest. Nature intended some men to be leaders, But in a certain sense we can all achieve greatness; we can ail become fellow workers in the great theatre of life. A great many people of ro-day would be ashamed to have on their hands the marks of honest toil which stained the hands of some ancestor, Whose wealto it was that has raised them to thelr present position, A man who had been a plumber by trade became wealthy and was moving In quite a select circle. A man, thinking to embarrass him greatly, re- minded him that he had once been a plumber. The man whom he thus thought to embarrass re- lied that he had been a plumber, and asked him { he bad not worked well at his trade? Tue im- periections of a man that is raised to a high office will be plainly seen when contrasted with his great position. A man does not become great trom bis position; but the position can become reat through the exertions of the individual. fhe young King of Spain has not become sud- denly pes, because of his snas veces elevation; but il bis personality sheds any lustre on the de- caying throne of his ancestors his greatness will be established. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. THOUGHTS FOR TROUBLOUS TIMES—SERMON BY REV. JAMES M. PULLMAN. Yesterday morning a sermon was preached in the above church by the pastor on a peculiarly ap- propriate subject, ‘Thoughts for Troublous Times.” One ot the first things that must strike a listener on looking at the Rev. J. M. Pullman is his strong American individuality, the harmony of his physique, and the air of robustness, virility and general hardihood of the whole man; these im- pressions will be deepened upon listening to him, All his figures are bold and original, his arguments forcibie and his eloquence at times electrical. Yesterday morning, atter a prayer and the usual musical services, he chose his sermon from the text of Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians, iv., 16, 17 and 18, He said:—How good @ thing it 1s to have a good friend!—large- nearted, sympathetic, hopeful and affluent in aims, spirit and vigor. Sucn a friend comes into our home when we are in trouble, bringing Iile aid strength with him, He is better than medi- cine; he 18 @ gift of God. How good to have, in addition to such qualities in a iriend, that of wisdom! Thei he not only mstiucts and directs as the’ tligs obscure and dificult, shows usa clear path jor our ieet, and polo out the royal road to happiness, Such a friend was and is the Apostle Paul to humanity. ‘Ihe influence o/ nis great heart bas not yet cessed to throp for us nor tue powers oi his divine insight to be a lamp to uide our paths. In these times of our trouble we lean on the sympatiy of such a precious {riend. Ita man Wants to get alow view of humanity he needs to see that humanity ina panic. Then he wili find men he supposed strong, weak ; those he believed self-centred and self-contained were just the opposite, and brave men very cowards. For not alone, as Shakespeare has it, “QONSCIENCE DOTH MAK“ COWARDS of us all,” but panics make cowards of us all. No ordinary remedies will suffice on such occasions. Fire, mast be fought with fire, grand passions with grand passions; the little remeuies that tide over little troubles are imsuifictent at times wheo heaven and earth almost seem passing away. A change must come over us all by which we maj know “the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are cternal.”’ Does Washington look back with regret to the winter he spent at Valley Forge, or does Christ look back With sorrow to the scenes of ignominy and suffering that closed His short ministry? Does any true man that has ever been tried and tested | look back with regret? No. It 1s the storm and not the sunshine that tests the ship. Itis not physical power which enabies tue man to conquer trouble, ‘The lion 1s his superior in that. It 1s the something tbat gives him the motive and power to direct his course. By virtue of the moral qualities he triumphs, and po man can arrive at the apex of exceUlence until he achieves man- hood. Map need not be—if he will not be—“the slave of circumstance or the fool of loss.’ | Space will not permit a longer ailusion to the logical analysis of “duty” and its appltcation to the sermon, which was ome of unusual beauty and eloquence. 8ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER BYRON—THE POWER OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS. The high mass at St. Stephen’s yesterday morn- ing was celebrated by the Rev. Father Macauley in presence of @ large and fashionable congre- gation. Nini’s mass was sung by the choir in a very creditable manner, the solos-being rendered with thrilling effect. Alter the first gospel the Rev. Father Byron preached an excellent ser- mon on the holy name of Jesus. Having read the gospel of the festival—Luke, xi., 2i—he said:— The prophets of the Ola Testament, foreseeing the eS mystery ofthe Incarnation of the Son of od, the sublime dignity of the heaven-sent Re- Geemer and the wondrous efficacy of His gracs, had Loe ge et Him by the names, Emmaouel, Angel of the Great Council, Admirable, God, Powerful, the Prince of Peace, and various other titles designating some attrivuce of His sacred person, jut He chose for Himself another name, which might manifest Him to us as our Saviour and Redeemer. The name of Jesus com- | he goal everything in itself. It telis us what Jnrist is, Woat appertains to Lim as the and what He has done for us, It isa name salt word made flesh,” for it embi the divine and the human natures. The power of the sacred name of Jesns is as great | to-day as it was in THR DA S which 8 both OF THR APOSTLES, aithongh its effects are not so visibie. The wonders | Wrought in the soul by and througn the holy name are far more astounding than the miracles | (he mere mention of | ent to enliven our taith, | perfortnod by the Apostles. the name should be sum. strengthen our hope and inflame our charity. In the afternoon the church was thronge non-Catiolics and members of other parish: many the direction of the organist, Mr. Danforth, SEVENTH AVENUE METHODIST EPIS- -COPAL CHURCH. THE USES AND ATTRIBUTES OF CHRISTIANITY. Dr. Wild, of the Seventh avenue Methodist Epis- | copal church, was attentively listened to yester- | Mis text was | from L Jonn, il., 12—'Beloved, now are ye the | day morntng by a large audience. sons of God.” The promises of the Gospel (said he) are rich and inviting; they grandly offset the pomp and vanity of this world; they are season- able for man in bis greatest need, and they bid a goodly price for virtue and peace. Tne source of power is unlimited, if time perpetual be the nat- ural and legal heritage of man, In the light of immortality who shall competently sound the depts of man's imperial and immortal Dature? Who shall authoritatively deine the mit his attainments and the quality oi his experience? None put God, Up- ward and onward he suall move, unfolding and enlargiog through the ceaseless ages of eternity, It Marvelous thougiit that we, the children of | Wrato, are the heirs of veo—children of na- ture, but the sons of God; e8 of earth, but the frec-born Of heaven. Jimo rights and earthly vir- iy t& | tues, lawiully gamed aod well preserved, ‘hall being | Asioli’s “Vespers,” Datey’s | and Mercadante’s “Tantum | Isrgo” were given in good style by the choir, under | | | there unchallenged of angels or God; and apps 18 he, Whose titled right and power of might, through faito im the Son o! age all establish & sonship relation with Onris bristianity now walks forth 1p grace and peace, comiortin; tng ana ennobiing man, llie, labor and expe: ce, She enshrines, epfolds and evolves national pros- perity and peace; | and domestic bliss and security; individual herolam and sacrifice. She tederates thé buman family by proclaiming THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, & brotherhood that mie over the bounds of na- ture: overtops the prejudices and sympathies of kindred and tongue. Like the cleaves in twain the desert o! Time, Making iruitiul and green the wastes of earth. She turns to good and holy account the tullest efforts of the weak and the s:rength of the strong. She ministers to the poor and lowly by the impulses of an abounding charity; she seals the lips ot nder and disarms the man o! vengeance. She 18 quick to heal, slow to wound, ready to beip, unwillivg to burden, tardy in offence and pip tolorgive. She gives grace to conversation, weign' to lspeuage, pene to the mind, salety to judgwent, @ tone of health to conscience, honesty to purpose and charity im’ thought and intercourse. She speaks in song, comesses in prayer; she endures and forbears In duty and trial, diligeut in business, fervent im spirit. serving the Lord. She ts all this and more, for she ts A VISION AND FORETASTE to feed the bereaved and comfort the disconsolate. She wings the imagination to realms immortal, and again associates parents and children, hus- bands anc wives, comoanions and friends. Tie Doctor continued at some Ura upon the equality of need and Supply in the lite to come, whic! would do away with those conditions that tempted virtue and encouraged evil, What we needed was the power and presence of Christ to transform us. As the lapidary exposed precious stones to the di- rect rays of the sun, that its power might enrich and beautify them, so we in Christ's presence would ve changed into His likeness, glorious and races, color, clime, river Nile, she | making good and useful Christians of | These things were only the upper stratam, | comparatively sublime. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. im the scale Of exist- | MR, MACARTHUR ON THE EDUCATION AND 8UP- PORT OF PREACHERS. A large congregation assembled yesterday in Calvary Baptist Church to listen to the words of their pastor, the Rev. Mr. MacArthur. The sing- ing, with Mrs, Hull as soprano, was very good, and earned general approbition. Tie sermon was @ plea for the support of theological stuaents, and the text, Romans x. 15: “And now shall they preach except they be sent ? as it 18 written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things !” Among other things the preacher said the words of the Apostle Paul here are founded on those of the prophet Isaiah, fifty-second chapter and seventh verse. The passago in Isaiah is very picturesque and beautiful. The prophet was de- scribing primarily the return of the Jews to their own land, God had delivered them irom their captivity in Babylon; they are men to reign again in Zion. No more shail they be asked to sing their songs ina strange land. In vision the prophet sees the appointed heralds running on the distant hills to announce their return. The running of a herald bearing such joyous tidings 18 surely a beautiful sight, It 1s bis coming or runping that ig so beautiful, The word ‘feet’ is embiematic of that coming. Even they, therelore, become beau- tilul, Now Paul applies this language to minis- ters of the Gospel. The application 1s appro- priate. If the coming of a herald to announce ‘that peace is made between two nations is a joy- ous sight, much more is the coming of the Gospel heraida announcing that man may be at peace with God, The passage, then, means that the coming of the Gospel ministers is an object of de- light, and that thelr employment is one of honor and olessing. The first point to which your atten- tion is called is that ALL TRUE MINISTERS ARE CALLED OF GOD. God alone can make @ true minister of Jesus Christ. The Bible everywhere affirms this truth. Jeroboam was rebuked because ne exalted to the priesthood othera than Levites. Many passages affirm th’s:—“The prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name wh:ch I have not commanded him to speak shall die.” “The Holy Ghost said, separate me Barnabas and Saul tor the work whereunto I have called them.” “No man taketh this honor to himself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron.” There are many other passages of like import, Our jathers were right when they emphasized the im- portance of a “call to the ministry. ‘They were wrong when they drew from this truth the inference that men thus called did not need a thorough education to fit them for their work. No man can teach what he does not know, ang God will not vary His laws to suit the whims ‘or to gratity the indolence of men. The ministry must keep abreast of all the discoveries of modern times, OUR BAPTIST DENOMINATION needs additional preachers. The past year has been one of great denominational growth. Our progress as a people is simply marvellous. In tne past year we have gained flity-three associations, ooo churches, 756 ordained ministers, aud 127,632 members, making the present grand totais 943 associations, 22,510 amnrehe 12,008 Urduined ministers avd 1,761,171 cure ‘members, of whom 102,496 were baptized during the past year. The point which I make to-day 1s that we have about 8,000 more churches than we have ministers. Tne churches during the past year have increased faster than the number of ministers. The preacher here made a most impassioned appeal for aidior the theological students in three seminaries—those at Rocnester, at Hamilton and at Greenville, South Carolina. He besought the peopie to act worthy of the glorious cause presented, of the great de- nomination to which we belong, and of the blessed Master whom we serve. ‘The congregation was deeply moved, and showed its interest by the very large collection which was then taken up. This church stands in the very COPAL CHURCH. CITY EVANGELIZATION—A POLITICAL AND RELIG- 10U8 QUESTION. Rev. J. F. McClelland, of St. Luke’s church, de- livered a highly interesting and tnstractive dis- yesterday morning on the subject of “City Evan- gelization,” taking the ground that It ts folly to spend money and time upon the heathen in foreign lands when we have co many at our own doors. Tne opening services, consisting of prayer and singing, were condacted in the usual impressive and earnest manner, when Mr. McClelland began his address. Before proceeding directly to the question in hand the speaker referred in very touching and appropriate language to the struc- as itis iy Abba hats | dear to the Methodistical neart, About its chancel rall hundreds, yea, thousands (for the church is one of the oldest in the city), had first found forgiveness and obtained that “peace that passeth all understanding.” He deprecated the now popular idea awong Metho- dists of building fine churches, surmounted by loity and imposing spires, and almost wish that the last such had been erected, Mr. McClelland thought the best argument he could put forth in behalf of the City Church Extension Society was an exhibit of the work it has already accomplished in the way of taking chilaren tnto the Sabbath be raga and nem. Indeed the society was like the good Samaritan— continually going about doing good and EPITOMIZING THE GOSPEL SPIRIT, People, he thought, were ignorant of the true condition of our large cities. They see tne great tide of commerce flowing through our thorough- fares, they count our church spires and charitable institutions, and exciaim, “Behold our piety!” De- there 18 a seething cesspool of vice, Into New York all Europe is neath whic! misery and crime. everything to keep men down—saloons, brotnels and other dens of vice—but we have to help them up. Thousands there are in our midet who do not see the inside of achuroh year in and year out. They are not all depraved—not ail irrepara- biy lost. Many are without the means to present a respectable appearance, and therefore preier to stay away. These people must be sought out and brought into the fold. We jst go to them, lor they will not come tous. Aside from the religious view, this question of prevailing vice has A POLITICAL ASPECT that should not be lost sigut of. d by flooding the entire city with the Gos- pel, The swamps and marshes must be drained and cleansed, and it ts the business of every citt- zen, be he @ churchman or not, to assist in the matter. As for compulsory education, that 1s ail yery beautiful in theory; but how can you hope to rejorm children at schocl when they have Bchool of depravity at home? Unwelcome re- straint and discastefal tasks will never do tne work alone, We must go among these peo- pie, build churches and school houses at their very doors, for they wiil not come tous, and it needs just such a society as the one In whose be- half he was speaking to do it. CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST. SERMON BY DR. HOWLAND ON ‘‘SELF-RIGHT- RousNEsS.'” The Rev. Dr. Howland preached yesterday at the Church of the Heavenly Rest from the text, Luke, xviil., 9—“And he spake this parable anto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others,” The reverend gentlemen #atd:—Some men discover in them- selves that they are righteous and good, and that of themscives they are thus, Natural history telis us that there were animals in existence many years ago which are now completely extinct, and We find now, where explorations are taking place front rank for its liberal contrivutions to aul | worthy objects. BEDFORD STKEET METHODIST EPIS- | ture? Is nota mental state a fact ? course in the old Bedford street Methodist church | PONS OE Sa $$$ nnn, in some new virgin lands, traces of these animals the life of Christ b> ed, and He went back which have so long 4 1d away. Compare the to daitiee there He did wonderful works; He aposties to these. They are in the same mann traversed both coasts the Bea of Galilee; extinct and ha’ from this verta fore spent a year or two at of Sidon: then ‘There are certain men who think that they do all | came back to verusaiem. Now this has some rela- that juired of them. Such ag fol- | tion to Christ, but 1s not the true Christ, any more @ moral life and have been ‘@ DO need of God’s pardon.”” en's sinfuiness takes a different (orm nowadaya, Animals are different from men because they bave Do sense of responsibility to God, There ts nothing more monstrous than a man living on God's bounty and not acknowledging His great goodness, And there are men who partial ly, tt not wholly, occupy this ground. Let me ask you to consider now Christ Himself deals witn seil-righteousness, How His soul could be stirred by self-compliaat wickedness, See what He says in Luge xi. and in Matthew xxill., where he 8] of sell-conscious oodness and self-righteous pride, Observe now le rebukes the Pharisees and how boldly He tells them of their 81D8, and where He asks them how they shall escape the damnation of bell. CURIST DENOUNCES THE SELYISH MAN. We must not forget this side of the question of our Lord. When any man has elated himsel! with self-righteousness he must be treated like a brute andthe medicine poured down. The cry of the self-rightevus man to God always is, “Let’me alone and I will not trouble you.’ If we suppose the sell-righteous man believes in Cnriat 1a ie His faitnial iriend and upholder? I might say of such @ one who does not {ulfl his duties toward his God, How can ne fulfil them to his fellow ment Such gone lives @ Dal:-living and half-dead Iie, an object to be pitied. Sad ts the condition of such a man, and it would seem that all his senses had deserted him. A certain death is in store tor him, for how can he be saved? Did not Christ come down into the world TO SAVE ALL SINNERS? And did He make apy exception of any among them? Was this one spared and this one con- demned? Was the self-righteous man not con- demned in express terms by our Lord when He spoke to the Pharisees? {ft ts illustrated as fol- lows:—A certein King knew that a number of aley siaves had been concerned tn a crime, yhen he went to them und questioned them they all denied it Cpe one, and he confessea. To ti others then be said, “Get thee away; I accept thi one.” If we say we have no sin then the trath ta not in us; but tf we confess our sins our God will forgive us and take us to His fola, where we may have no further sel!-condemnation, but where He will guard over and protect us, BROOKLYN CHURCHES. ° PLYMOUTH CHURCH. PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY—WHAT REALLY OON- : STITUTES CHRISTIANITY. Every seat was occupied at Plymouth church yesterday morning, and every doorway was crowded with people glad to obtain even a footing in the sacred edifice, and who kept their places through the whole of the. long service. Mr. Beecher was in excellent spirits and preached one of his characteristic sermons. The platform was adorned with a beautiful stand of flowers, composed principally of calla lilies, scariet leaves and flowers, and a tall vase of flowers stood on the litue stand. In his prayer Mr. Beecher said, “May we be worthy followers of Jesus Christ; may we pity rather than revenge. Grant that we may be willing to be toward other men what Christ was willing to be to us. May Thy blessing rest on this church; grant that all its history and experience may redound to Thy honor and glory; may we think more of the world and other churohe: we have charity for all; may we have love for mankind. Grant that Tay kingdom may come everywhere, and the whole earth be filled with. Thy glory.” ( Alter the prayer @ collection was taken up for tae purpose of‘providing clothes for the poor. Mr. Beecher selected his text from the Second Epistle of Peter, L, 2 to 11 inclusive—“Grace aud peace be multiplied unto you through the knowl edge if Goce and of Jesus our Lord,” &c. Here, then, said the preacher, is the theological school; these are the topics of lectures to be deter- mined. Now itis a matter of more than curiosity to know what it is that the apostie in this way sums up as the - CIRCLE OF KNOWLEDGE, We know that mep aro taught in schools of theo- logy of the existence and attrioutes of God and vhe attributes which he possesses, and of the revelation of him in the Old and New Testaments, of the character of God as disclosed in them as the Favber, Son and Holy Ghost, of the ee of man, the need of regeneration, of the sanctified life of the Saviour and fis triumphant death. We have what might be called tne Greek idea of Uhris- tanity—tnat 18 to say, it ts religion turned into au intellectual form—it 1s turning in every ele- ment, either as @ tact or as an idea, and 80 ar- ranged that their relation one 40 another is Shown; bnt the whole system of Christianity as laid down. by doctors of divinity is a Greek Chris- tianity. Now, was this the metnod that the Saviour taught? Did He uniold to the philosonln- cal sense the nature of man, the duty and theory of tue? Was that tne metaod of the Now Testa- men There are two great sections of knowledge—the Outward aud the tuward—now iu all things, so far as whe globe is concerned. We are dependent primarily upon, observation, end all our great Principles are Simply a atatement ot the condi- ton of facts, and so man ongit to understand phi- losopny dealing with it im its own sptere, with its own subjec's; ani when the apustie to bis writings to the Corinthians, where he seems to undervalue philosophy, it 18 & pbilosophy falsely 80-called, for tf you will reflect a moment. you will see that there 13 mach that not one of our senses can appreciate. For example, i) a man presents | to me a picture I see the trame and canvas und the grouping, but there exisis in me an enthusi- asm and exquisite setse Ol pleasure tiat is per- sonalto me and does not exist in the picture. | Now when you come to take tuis out | ask, is tne | sense of beauty and Color 4 tact or uot @ fact; m7 sense Of pleasure, is ita fact? Itc mesfrom that picture, but ts thut mental state tn me in the pice When we can see and examine things we say, “On, yes! | 1 see that plain enongh ;” but when | we rise imto the regions of the sol it not so plain. Is _ the soul any less a fact than matter? Now we find that the teachers of theology have been taking the in- nate consciences of men to reader them toto in- telligent forms, and to present these intelligent forms aa the truth. Now Ido not disown it, but I do gay this mode of representing truth has led many from the reality of the trutns ofthe Bible; they have been errors of teaching. Now if you | ture in which he then stood—a church hallowed | id he could | ilasion and | | they might Know all these and not be arctiitects. continually pouripg its offscourings. We have | it 18 @ monstrous | capeer gnawing at the very vitals of our institutions. In answer to the question | “How stiail we remedy the evil?” the speaker Fit ts, taught by the aposties, that the main ena of will tuke the passage 1 have read, you will see that when the aposties went out to preach, their principal end and aim lay in this, that they attempced to develop iu the souls of men certain emotional and mental states, building up the in- side man, and then letting the tnsine development be a iruitivl source of external conditions, They came to men with a difierent teel ing from the theologians of to-day. We come to interpret the system of the aniverse, the nature of God. But when the aposties came they came not with a vast system, but with pdrposes and influences by which they meant to lit up human souls; 80 they bad a practical design upon the consciences of uian with reference to them- selves. If I were to open an architectural school I should teach the nature of bricks; hould teach the nature Oo! stone and marble and ot metals and of wood. Lshould teach all these, but It bears the same relaiion to architecture that ABC bears to litcrature. Bur to know how to butrd a house convenient within and comely with- out, although it requires a knowledge of matertals, also requires @ higuer knowledge. Now the apostles were all the time thinking ol the SOUL HOUSE. «Know ye that ye are tempies of the living God?” “Ye are rooted aud grounded and edified.”” What ts edifled but the Latin phrase for butiding? Build. ug up men vy tovisivle trath requires to a cer- tain exteat OBJECTIVE TRUTHS, but to a far less extent than is generally supposed, See wiat the Apostle Peter felt to be the essential elements, “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertaio unto life and godil- ness, through the Knowiedge of him that bath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, and having escaped the cor- Tupiion that is in the worid through lust.’ As Darwin woald say, allmen are born animals, and the coarse of religion isto develop @ higner nature, so he would say, growing up, evolving, having escaped corruption, woica ts in the world through lust, a8 @ means of escaping animal lite, giving all diigence, add vo your ‘aith virtue, and to virine knowledge, and to knowledge temper: ance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness oa a. kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity, for if tnese things be tn Fa] and abound they make you that e shall neither be barren nor aniruitfalin the nowleage of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now there preaching the Gospel is to build men . where they can be partakere of divine natare, Io otner words, Christ is to be born into thcin through cer- vain states in themselves, Jt 8 #aid In the Apostolic days were the Chris: tian c! cters and pattern churches. Var fre it, Pat id Peter were exceptions; but take the average Of Christians in the Apostolic age, And one Of our Sunday school scholars can t their Christianity, There ts more real sont power to-day than at Previous history of the world. The nd middie and end of the Kingdom of ndition of gratitu id love and truth and honor and yA T ingdom of God ts In you; it is you. That is the Churci of Christ, which represents Chris«'s likeness in living forms. There is but one true Church, and t:at is the contribu. tions Of all churches vo the truth that GOD 18 IN YOU. The boay of the life of Christ is not Christ, bat Ris soul life, He that merely 1ooks up at the spirit- tual says, how conid' He ve born of woman and be Jesus ? how could He be s divine spirit live years asa caroonter? There be thos than the casket which contains your diamond ts the diamond itself, That was He that taugnt and felt and wept and suffered. Now how are you go-~ ing to understand this? Can any catechism teach = ? Wemust study Christ’sitie, He was born in thiehem—so were many others. He was brought Up @ carpenter and. worked years atit. There were hundreds of carpenters brought up to the trade, but He became a diatinguished speaker—so did many others, Yea, but He went down into Jerusalem and got intu trouble. Yes, there aro a great many who get into trouble, (Laughter.) You know ail that, and you don’t know anything; itis that which you can understand only by thrill of 1t yourself, Look at @ mother, with ten or a dozen children, She has high intellectual caval see, Dus she gives up everything for her children and becomes larger by selfdenying. Bow down before her, sharp thed- Ingtan; that Woman has given her lile a ransom. Not that 1 would compare any one to God, but this experience is an interpretation of Jesus Christ. Whoever loves another better than himself has Christ in nim. When I see men quarrelling about the attributes of Christ—when I see some philosophical miods damn nt and.lefti—couid they tell what Christ was? en your mings are ‘mn barmony with Him then Christ may appear to every one of you. We are called upon to-day to defend the Bible. The Bible and the churches both have been ob- Jects of suspicion ana doubt, but the test of truth Of the Bivle ia the response in ourselves to the truths it enjoins. We Judge of a thing by the whole. That may be @ beautiful otrd though it has lost a tail teather. The Bibe is manifostly a book by whicn God lilts men out of animal lust. Leta man go through the Bible; let bim reject Genesis and Exodus 1! he please; let him discara Numbera and Chronicles; let him seek after righteousness; let him say, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks so my heart panteth after thec.’? Let bim take the Word of God and begin at the beginuing. He may reject this thing and that thing, but no one can read it and not say, “This is th® book of all the world to me and that is enough.’? Tbe mistake made about the Bible ts that it has been conside:ed an encyclopedia. But if you want to know how to be virtuous; if you want to know how to go through good report and evil and be & cheer fal man: tf you want to feel that joy ts in sor- row, that sorrow blossoms with Joy, go to the Word of God. Where can you find such taspiration as there? Say what you please of it, disprove its dates, you never cun prove that it ig not a book that brings strength and peace to men in sorrow. When, therefore, it sald that science 1s going to overthrow the Bible, I know it will change o great many things, but they will never get to the root of religion. No science can take away the religion of experience. I look toward the change with complacency. There will be suf- fering, because there are some from whom Wf you take away a bit Of faitn you tuke everything; but nothing worth saving will be taken away, and therefore I say hold tast and never wander away from your faith. True Christianity can only be taught Uy developing the spirit in yourself. Abide in your faith, tuough you be weak, and ye shali in- herit all toings. Lt is the pleasure of God to make eternal It'e the gilt without equivalent to ali who will receive tt. THE TABERNACLE, MR. TALMAGE ON TENEMENT HOUSE EVIIS— IMMORAL LITERATURE AND THE THEATRES AGAIN. The Tabernacle was thronged to excess yester~ day forenoon by a very attentive assemblage. The pastor, Rey. T. De Witt Talmage, continuea the thread of nis discourses on “Pubiic Iniquities.”* He took nis text from Judges, xvi, 19—“And ste called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to affuct him, and his strength went from bim.’” Belore opening bis sermon the reverend gentle- man, in the course of the prayer, alluded to the Louisiana trouble, which he deeply regretted, and prayed for wisdom for the President and the House of Representatives, and that no State shouia be humuliated by the grounding of arms 1n the balis of legislation. He commenced his discourse, saying tt would. take a very skil/ul photographer to picture Sam- s0n ag he really was, The most facile words are not supple enough to describe him. He was a giant aod a child, the conqueror and the ae- feated ; able to snap a lion's jaw and get captured by the sigh of @ maiden, He was ruler anda slave, @ commingling o! virtues and vices, the | sublime and the ridiculous; sharp enough to make a good riddle and yet weak cnough to be caught {in the must superficial stratagem; honest enough to settie his debt, and yet outrageously robbing somebody else to get the material to pay it; a miracle and a scoMng, a crown o/ glory and a burning shame, The speaker then crew an ideal picture of Samson as he stood beiore bo was sho. n and deprived or his strength by Denlan. He continued, saying, it seems tome that tt is big time that PULPIT AND PLATFORM AND PRINTING PRESS Speak out against the impurities of modern so- ciety, Fastidiousness and prudery say, “Betier not speak; you will rouse up udverse criticism; you make Worse what you won’t make better; better aeal in glittering geucralit‘es; the subject ts too delicate for polite ears.” But there comes a voice from heaven over- powering the mincing sentimentalisies of che dav, saying, “Ory aloud, spare uot! lilt chy voice luke a trumpet and show my people their trans- gressions aud the house of Jacob their sins.” So toa‘, turning away from the aivice of men, I take the counsel of G and this day arraign, expose aud denonitce the impurilies of modern society. ‘The troubi« is that When people write or speak upon this theme they are apt to cover it up witha course of bel/ea lettres, so that they make tue crime aitractive, instead of making it horrible and re- puisive. Lora Byron, in “Childe Harold,” adorns this crime until it smiles like a May queen. Michelet, the great French writer, covers tt up with passionate rhetoric uotil tt Mames like the rising sun. Belore L get through you wil) fina to-day (nat I am not making that mistake, for, if God heips me, instead of making this crime so | Frevatentin society attractive I shall make it ag loathsome as a sinallpox hospital. There are to-day influences abroad which, it unresisted py the gerd aud the printing regs, will turn New York and Brooklyn tnto a Sodom and Gomorran fit only for the storm of Gre and brimstone. You who ‘arc seated in your Christian homes, compassed by moral and religious restraints, do bot realize the gulf of tniquity that bounds you on the north and tie south, aod the east avd tue west; but I shail this day open the door of ghastiiness and borror and compel you to see and compel you to listen until, God belping, you snail be startled and aroused, throwing out one hand for help and the otner for battle. While 1 speak this moment there are tens of thousands of men and women going over the awful plunge ofan impure lve. | call upon you to marshal im deieoce of your homes, your Church and your nation, There banqueting hall that you dave ed. {ts roof 18 tretted with fire, its floor ts tessellated with fre, its chalices aro Chased with fire, its song 1s @ song of fre, Its walla al or of fire. It is the banqueting allo A LIBERTINE’S AND ADULTERESS’ PERDITION, Solomon rejers to it woen he says, “Her guests are in the deptns of heil.”’. Pauperism is the cause Ol @ great deal of the uncleanness and crime, There are a great muiltitade of people tn our midst who have to choose between the almshouse and crime, There are women who can get no sewing and bo kind oO} work todo, What about them? Thousands of them have been fighting the battle for bread five, ten and filteen years. They soid the plano, they sold the pictures, they sold the library, they solid the caipet, they guld the chairs, they soid the bed, they sold the wardrove; there ia one thing Ww sell, and thatis their immortal nature, Al that crisis infamous solicitation is made, and they go down by the ten thousand, With one awfal Ming they throw away their needie, and their soul, Beside this there are in this cluster of cities—f mean New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn—there ‘€ 600,060 people janimed together in tenement houses, with no opportunity for seciusion or de- cency, and do you wonder that so many of them forget the covenant ot their God? Forty aul filty families sometimes crowded to- gether under one roof, Que hundred and seventy thousand families living In 27,000 houses, This tenement house ie ake more terrible than any ttiing to be found in ali Christendom, putting out of sight almost tne London stories of St. Gues and Whitechapet Those tenement houses are the bopper for the mill thatts grinding up the bodies and souls of men and women and littie coildreo. Do ali you can for the poor, Keep them from velng crowded off into sin. Snoff not ap tha idea in derision that anybody should surrender to such tetuptations, There are sitting before me to day 509 people in furs and diamonds, who, un- der the same pressure would have gone overboard. i, O man! O woman! you have not done as badly as they, it 18+because you have not been ag mach tempted, CORRUPT LITERATURE, There are hundreds of thousands of sheets in the shape of novelette literature fons abroad, every plot turning on lbertinism and full of sala- cious suggestions, Much of the printing prees of this country reeks with pollution. The child that comes to fliteen or sixteen years of age now in these cites has read more bad books and seen more bad pictures than your grandmother and grandtather read or saw up to the time they pat on spectacles, There was one citizen in Brooklyn who made $400,000 by pudlishing ovscene books, and when he was seized by governmental authority there were found $30,000 Worth of stock on hand, That man ie dead, and gone to perdition, but his wife has his Money, and now moves, Lam told, in respectabie circles, Lev it be here told that oi the four mea who originally pavlished ali the depraved vooKs and newspapers and pictures in this country, three of them lived in Broukiyo. Two of them are dead. Iwish they all were. There was one house under the contro! of a man who was a member of the church, and that house did nothing but make bad books, circulara and pictures. When the authorities seized upon the place they found six tons Of stereoiyped piates Wwe | [CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE]