The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1875, Page 8

| 8 “GOD'S LABORERS. Man’s Intuition the Best Basis for The:logy. “A DEVOUT.LIFE? Satan and the Christian Church. THE FORTY HOURS’ DEVOTION. Privileges of Christians in Labor- | ing for God. CHRIST'S GREATEST SORROW. CHURCH OF MAN’S DISPOSITION TO SEARCH—THE SUCCESSFUL SEEKER. The Church of the Disciples was filled with a large congregation yesterday morning. Mr. Hep. worth preached au cloquent sermon, taking for nis text the 27th Psalm, 8th verse:—“Wheu thou saidst, Seek ye my fice, my heart said unto thee, thy face, Lord, wili 1 see: The command to seek the jace Of the Lord 18 employed im yartous parts of the Scrip:ure, acd it would a, pear in the | act of seeking man’s desi By in some way is in- volved, This quest on naturally arises before we | yield im; licit obedience. to ths command, Who | anG what is He, (rom whose lips is the order | emitted? And I often think our conceptions | of Goa are so very Vague that our allegiance to him is affected thereby. TR-re is something in Scientific conclusions and researches which is iiwely to unsettie one’s mind, espectally the large class of minds that have no time to grapple with so great or important a subject as the existecce and influence of an Almighty Providence, The yery foundauioa stone of religion, then, ts the per- sonality of God, David and Moses aud Isaiah and Daniel not only thought of Him as a person, bat looked upon and spoke with Him; they bela communion as friend with iriend, and words which He uitered in their ears they uttered in the universal ear of mankind, Those words were en- graved on stone ana written on parchment; they have urged men to an ideal manhood, and when you ask again, How can I believe in a per- sonal God? Are there any arguments that lead men along tie well-travelied high road of logic to this stopping place? I answer, Yes; trere are a thousand avenues by which the mind travels in the direction of God; there are @ thousand provi- dences which the ordinary mtad accepts as tre corner stone of their belief in an Almighty Provi- dence. But to my mind the one great reason why men believe in the personality of the Almignty ts | simply and only because they cannot help it. It is just as natural to attribute certain even's in one’s itie to the motion of an THE DISCIPLES. \ | i | | | | co! UNSEEN HAND 4B fo? 2 rose to Send ous its perfume. That result | 18 just as certam im one’s experience as the tight | Of the stars, a3 the greenness of the grass teneath | our ieet. jormulate the reasons of thetr belles, such iacis- | ive facts that they could vperaie on tue mind of a sceptic, Tbe argument for belief in God | dogs not lie in our mind. We Lelieve in Goa | just a8 our chiidren veweve in us; they kuow | not why; tney care not why. Man’a intuttion, therefore, is, ait s jor theolozy. itis aM IMstantaneous arrivai | at a result without any knowledge O° the process. fhe difference between intuition apd reason is that intuition Walks across the wide river on ab unseen bridge While reasou stands ou the farther | Dank trylug iM ValD fo Gevise a method by wiicn It can atrive on the Otaer side, and then slowly iinding its way along the bak to ite evurce, auu then With tullsome stéps coming down on tue other bank, tli, alter years O/ tou, It Sianus beside intuition, Wnich by a Jew steps crossed tie hiddeu | bridge. I believe that men are both attracted and re- | pelled by their beter in Cod, and tnat proves tis existeace, Li you pul a muguet Lear some tron | shavings each little particle will seeem to jump toward the magnet. brethren, tuat 1s theo to me and the vest logic of my iffe. It afforcs u ali the Must conciusive proots Of the existence ut an aumigely power aud wisdom. God is an ine upite, great maguet, unseen, Waose attrivutes are Dut faintly pictured. You and | and ali the rest of the world are simply great nandiuis of atoms o: metals, ius infinite waguet moyes along in its orbit, and, sumetow, each tm cura feels drawn upward (oward the invisible and the anktowd. Amid auguisi and joy alike, the eye, as though impelled by some UNEXPLAINED LAW, iifts itself to the sky, aud there Is no such hap- | ploess 4s be enjoys Who has chmoed uign enougt to feel tue ‘active iorce of Goa's spirit; While ano.ner man, in ois badness, jus raily feeis repeiied. How many times th you Been an ighcrant man bidiug luimeseil under tne ject, hoping that by disat poses -umetning between te eye o: the Higher power and is imserabie bo it ts God’s re- tributive justice that be Canuot feel anyting but | fear, and (his very (earfulu.sss proves that there | 18 @ power and Wisiom and affection which we | call God. Now, dreturen, tais impulse to searen | seems to Le the towsdation of our progress, The | commandinent is to ud cut God i you can, | Man's curiosity 1s (be CORNER STONE itis the impulse which iro ceatury \o century, Gayo: Knowledge, suc for ing wimsed ke inter. Of all We possess to-day ; drives the human race, nce to ti man’s Woud Would remain io ignorance aVage Urutulity from cycle cu cycle. For lustance, some thougutiul mau stands planet, aud looks, perhaps, ou a riven nits the Work Of Lue ewrthquake, He wonders what secrets lic bene et; how the earth came into existence. digs stratum ait jeal in that gr¢ fire at we green grass wich id pickaXe in hagd be i, 4ud Cac Ove 1s a DEW stratum ne goe facts ud as disco xoown ol the scie Another man of diger_ne cermin magic teat w wris:; Wiati®ivy Me drives a ito is arm and two or buree resi he recoils irom wiat Ww ‘palo; tuen a torth that re 1s this ioatty Db t duidw swe Calli mechanism? Led by finds his Way through th artery whe simces raTt propels the life hui; A mau of differ rrounds tue worid, of pi in Bpuces O1 the evernitios a us. Whatare cuese specks which we sce? He, witn his magic glass, Ouds ais Way and then torwalates ali t and Hauds wis Lite TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE who Come alter Gil, and as centuries go cts ue gathers ues TO US SOMMe KuOWledge of the about Us, Abd @¥crono;my springs i. aud we ‘that thought our- verse find that we 1 ah obscure c. rer, strutions indedaitely, Clences ure per! pictures iu t é he impetus given Us Was Wheu | hou Saidst to wie, “seek ye my iecer” “Hy heart said unto thee, thy tace, Lord, will J seek.” In other Words, All Uiscoveries are the Te- suit of man's curios Every science, 1 said, is a picture. It is mu . We have at ome a LOX Of bh part easing in iaelt, but ail t ke @ larger picture, I pul astronomy scleaces together Sugh the whule od lo ask, WhO What does He just here to call ; it ts contained teart said unto My heart? Yes, the ; arts each lock con Sn physiviog and i see a unity of Rememver, dewlog with mun’s iteliect, | have mtroduced anotuer stand- ard, anot hod 1, i¢ ig the peart of The mind cav sta'ement, but sndments af on tie act or testlly to aspe- ll know whether te ue?’ lo what proof cant diouut? 1 cannot man. nt then into cruciole and Gud thew texture; I canuot pul them alar off and jook at them through the telescope. What proofis there? One Open bo every Gue of you, more determined in its ature; | prove it vy my heart, in is pot the whole of Man; 4 man’s heart, afections, emotions, loves, ;A8stons, appetites , Bb you think of Mt, are infloitely more tuan any jadgment. for Inatance, a man knows he ought not to arink, yet he drinks; lis mind says no acd bis appetite sa: yes. Olrist, thes, put into ie certain trutos | ‘which CHAIN THE HEART ofman, Suppose 1 come with warm sympathy | ‘when you are in troubie and tell you how I teaned on Chriss and {i suppose tery feW then bere cocia | } | up irom | ulmalgumation with the winfes is killing tuem off. | even now to be met with runbing through the fire NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUAR mise to YOU; = gau your neart; you were stub- rh vefore ; down we go on our ‘cuees and ur out our hearts like orothers, and when we rise how enriched you are—beart aud heart, that 1s every- thing that has been touched, ana ‘you are born | acai, you are regenerated, not by human logic, but by vivine affection, vou are most riehly blessed, not when you see God, but when you love Gin. Now why do you suppose God says ‘seek ye my lace?’ It seems as if a lighthouse, throwing is rape tow: & vessel driven by fierce gales, shvuid cry out, seek my face, there 13 a sale har- borage Mere; tut is tre whole story, the captain says, Igo where 1 pleuse, what hap- You find nim next morning among the jagned rocks, Now, the end of life, the object of life, 1s happl- Less, and the end and ovsect of religion is t9 pro- | «luce happiness, By reitgion is meavt shat power | which can bring #@ simile on your ups when Doth. | lg else can, religion Which makes @ man rave is false; the whole world should be happy. © Yoes not the summer wind siag a tt goes O11 tts | Way, the birds leap from branch to branch, the | oveun make the sub-bass of our orchestral glory? — Lut someuow men have broken tue harmony; you | and 1 are singiug @ kind of chromatic chord in | a sic. The “one ena and mtssion of Christ was to | teach you how to jorget the old tune, and begin | in concert pitch with uature and tue Universe, und tO Sng Wi perfect accord With every bird, with every Wind that blows. Christ’ came to | touch our hearis’ with the suflering | ul the cross, We were sient, then redeemed. We | break out in new voice, in new tune, aud swell the antiem, “Glory be to ive Father and Sop.” That 13 Suppose | | ile; We are out or accord with This beautitul mu- | WDph. | Sider the dragon as personitying the old Roman | Ewpire, which attained s€ch boundiess power | Defore its aecitne. Such unsatisfactory interpreta- tions of God’s word should be protested against, | “Phere was war i heaven’? is a simple, easily understood statement, and why not take it in tts | must natural and iiteral sense. When the devil | rebelled agaist God and was hurled from heaven | With bis adherents we all beue@ve there was a | conflict between the good ana evil angels in which the powers of darkness were deteated. The war is not yet ended, Satan hus brought the cousict withla the human sphere, and is bow working for toe Gestruction of God’a kingdom. The dragon and the woman are airayed against each otner To-day as they have been for ages, but we bave THE DIVINE PROMISE that Satan will not prevatl. Compare the beauti- ful description of the Uburch, personified by the woman, with the feurful account of the great red dragon, On one sile we see allegorically ex- pressed all that is pure, holy and lovable, while on the other 1s -presented @ horrible monstrosity, typica! of crait, deceit and ali kinds of wicked- During some stages of this mighty coiliict seemed as it the devil must eventually tri- lost to sight, apparently overwheimed by the power of sin, It has aways re- appeared, however, beautiful and purified. orueals, but is yet triumphantly marching on to its glorious cousummation. Temptations beret the plous pilgrim, but God will never allow any of ' Dis saints to be tempted beyond endurance. Sa- tan, with his awiul aod supernatural power, would the :uM Of reiugion. Let us come to seck the Priend of the Woild at ihe foot ol the cross, and | Kneei there and ask God for His spirit, and we | Shall 115¢ to OOF feet singing, Peace on earth aud | good Will to meo,” and tuen keep cur eyes fixed | va tie throne of Go’, He loves us, He Would not | tbat a sheep ve lost. Come, and at Calvary’s top we shall Gnd rest and peace paxsing all under- stanaiog. May God graut that out o: our discord | we may come, aud ere Jong our voices join in thanksgiving aud -praise to our Father wio 18 in heaveu. MADISON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REV. WARREN RANDOLPH. At the Madison avenue Baptist chureh yester- day morning a large congregation assembled, The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Warren | Kandolph, the Secretary of the Americin Bible | and Publication Soctety, in aid of the funds o! the Levevoient and Sunday school branch of tnat | organization, He chose for his text |. Corin- uta: iil, 9—For we are laborers to. | gether with God.” He said:—There 1s here pre- | sented the most exalted privilege that 18 ever ferred on map. Exalred as the privilege is, mullitudes of professed@srisuans tail to under. Stand the e2tent of it, The spiritual work to which we are called 1s oiten exempliiled in the Scriptures in paravles, asin toe foliowing:—“be- hoid, a sower went forth to sow,” &c, “The seed ig the word, aud the result Of the sowing in the | narvest is sometimes thirty, sometimes sixty aud olten an bundredfold.” The apostie uses a peculiar phraseology in tois Epistle to the Corin- thians--*You are God’s nusbapdmen.’’ Ine Co- Tintbians, in this rilling, played ap important part. Tne work of sowing whe truth and reaping for the Lora is suli going on; and I wish to point out | how you may particypate in the work and interest yourselves in the labor of the Lord. It is nut con- flued to merchants who occupy high positions, nor to great ministers of the Gospel, like Spurgeon, No! The privilege of being lavorers in the king- com of God is not limited toa few men, bul is open to members of the Christian Church, how- ever humbie, poor or weak they may be. Every man bas an equal right and may take an egual share, Toe preacher here gave bDumerous and efective | iulustrations of the Work performed by teachers | and iiss.onaries in establisuing Sunday scuools | in Various parts of the Uu.on upoo which were | Sab-equentiy built up large churches and pros- | perous communities composed of their member: He then depicted wits great force the great di Cuities 0 be surmounted to the Southern States in the way Of raising the hegroes from their pre: lebDasement, but Which could only be accom: vuings of tie Gospel, for vy its | Were elightened and raised ignorance with whicn | they are now surrounded and enclaspe}, se | caid it 1s impossible Jor white inen to do the work; | the only waf open being to Sducate and iuetruce | men Of ther own cclor Im order tnat) they may go among their feilows and | periorm the good work. Slavery, be caida, was tne Plague spot of the Souta beiore tne war, and un- less sometaing 1S done Dow Jor the colored free- men in thai secuion oi the United States they will coatinne to be a plague spot and the source of moral a cers Whose baneiul influences will ve felt | infusure years with terrific force. It has been suid that’ the colured race. 1s dying out; that | ‘this 18 not 80, for the last United States census shows a millon of increase. Their great draw: backs are ignorance, superstition and umpressi- bility. Therriguorauce 1s shocking aud lament bie Leyoud description. Tue schools alreudy in operation have exercised already a beneficial in~ fNuence, but still they as@ body are possessed of | litle more than whac wight be calied insttuct. ‘Vnew religion 1s but a religion of emotion, mixed up With superstition anu barbarism. They are | bloodshed aad the crackling of the fagots, tbe soul | and love; vut it often happened, he remarked, that | style, but subdued colors decidedly prevatied. be tov formidapie an adversary jor unaided min, | but when his assaults have almost overpowered us | then tue influence of the angeitc host is thrown on our Fise und the devil 1s aiscomfied. And the seeming triumphs of Satan curing tne days of per- secution and intolerance were in reality victorics | for God’s church. During these fiery triais, amid of the martyr rose joyfully and triumphantly to heaven, swelling the number of the angel band surrounding God’s throne, At the couciusion of the sermon the sacrament of the communion was administered, ST. PATRICK’Ss CATHEDRAL, SERMON BY ARCHBISHOP M’'CLOSKEY—THE ‘PORT¥ HOURS’ DEVOTION.” There was a very large atiendance at the high mass services at the Ca'hedral yesterday, Arch- bishop McCloskey preached the sermon. He said thatas the services, owing to the beginning of the forty hours’ devotion, would be rather longer than usual, he would simply make a few remarks concerning that devotiov, There was nothing, he the spirit of the Church, in this penitential season Toe Church at times has almost been | said, that couid better dispose us to enter into | most eloquent preachers of the South, would dis- gress and Perpetuity of the Christian Religion.” “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of | this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, | and of bis Christ; | ever.” | ‘Though these words are recorded in the historic text, said Dr. Moran, they must oe understood as embodying @ promise and a prophecy concerning tue future Kingdoms of God. However such an enterprize May be regarded by men engrossed in secular pursuits, it imvolves the one great peeriess interest of the world, Indeed, | the world cxiste but for this end, and | ite material mechanism, instinct with in- | destructible force, 18 ever unconsciously work- fog out Its predetermined processes and results under the overruling providence of God, who always keeps thisend in view and reigns for its | It bas passed through persecutions and various ; accomplishment, Tbe preacher then proceeded to | take a view of the enterprise under consideration, | glancing first at the present stage of its progress. | He took a rapid geographical survey of the ad- | vancement which Christianity bas made in the Old and New Worlas ana of the multitude and variety of antagonisms, moral ond tutellectual, which It has had to encounter. He showed that every step of its progress has been made at the | expense of amazing pergonal efforts and heroic | sacrifices; that every foot of territory Christianity has won and every subject it bas added to tne kingdom of Carist bas been the result of a con- quest the Most dificult to achieve, because it is the conquest of truth over ignorance and error--a conquest of priuciple over passion and priae. Its Jucure triumphs, said Dr, Moran, must | be achieved as in the past and by similar means, He then considered, not in dry detail, bat generally, the exemenots whica imsure the perpetual progress of Gou’s kingaom in the world. A passing glance was given at \ose | causes to which uttention is most irequently | directed in the pulpit, such as the assu:auce given Churca and work of the ministry, and the infla- ences Of the Spirit of God, all of which are picaged to the triumph of the kingdom of Goa. ihe | preacher said it ts a significant fact that the intel- lecvual portion of the race, with the exception of | Blew narrow-minded scientists, 1s enlisted under the banner of the cross, and that its allegiance 1s this first preparatory act of worsbip and of love. ‘fhe spirit of the Church at t’.e present time was one of penance, mortification and fasting; and more devout and assiduous in our prayers, more of greater detacbment Jrom the world aud THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, its vanities, its pleasures, 18 liches, and par- | ticularly Its siniul enjoyments and amusements; | when we should give up all wor.diy thoughts ana desires and be renewed, a: 1t were, eatirely in onr hearts and souls. In the beautiiul devotion | the forty hours we had, he satd, what ex. | presses our holiest desires aud which | trengthened, purified and sanctified us. We bad in tuis wonderful mystery. of° Diviue love—the blessed sacrament, the only true sourc? of all | spiritual ive sud heht—a hever-latting, alleabounc- | ing fount of nieey grace and ead Christ bad centred in it all the prodigies of His power— | His greatest miracies, all the mercies and graces | of His infinite love. It was cur sweetest hope, | our purest and best joy; Our source Of consciation | and strength; our 1eruge and help, our glory and | our pride. it was it which enabled us to strugg!a against temptation and Mvally to trinmph, init | we would tiud or great and ull-sufictent reward, We knelt bevre the altar where.tne holy cus | ciarist was exposed during the jorty hours, he sald, not only to give expression Of our Jaita, oUt to make PROTESTATION OF OUR FIDELITY many who came into the preseuce of the Divine Saviour und knelt down vefure Him tad their of Lent, than by unitig our hearts and souls in | the Lenten season was a time when we should be | determined to live holler and better lives; a time | | ful stimuli to suai irrevocably pledged to carry that banner 10 tri- ump over the world. The Gospe! mude headway turough soctety, not only without human aid ana | the usual apphances o: human skill ana power, | but io opposition to the cumoined force Of all, But sitive its divine origin has been es.ablished and the leaven o: its spiritual induence | Das 80 thoroughly diffused itself to every enlightened nation, and its genius has so thorouguly imterfused itself with the spirit of Modern imstitutions everywhere, the eaucated jortion of the race, who had in the beginning looked scornfully at Curisttanity as the mere of- spring of human weakness and folly, have coms | to reverently acknowledge it to be the very wis- dom ana power of Got. The signal triumph which Caristianity has thus achieved on minds of fact that the Gospel itself su; plies the most power- culture; 80 that, Whenever its truths are embraced and its principles cstablisned among any people, that people must of necessity Tixe IM tLe scale gf intellectual development, it may be assnmed &s an incontrovertible postu- late that, When other things are equal in a strug- Rie G! tis character, the oause espoused by 1L- lellect must tiumps und Lesome the regaant ower of the world, in addition to the joreguing, tisty be noted that the Divine Author ol the Gospel has stamped upon it the general law of | seil-dittus‘on, andin tis fact we bave auvther | sure promuse and prophecy of its fal triumph, LYRIC HALL, MR, FROTHINGHAM PREACHES’ ON LIFE.” “a DEVOUT hearts lar away, aud did not think In Wuose pres- ence they were. } Tue right reverend gentleman then spoke in an | eloquent strain of the love tue Saviour has for all | Mankind, O/ His desire that all, -tuners and salnis alike, should come tu Him, sud then Closed with an earnest exhortation jor all to avaii themselves | ef the special graces that were obtainable by a sincere repentan-e aad tie worthy reception of tue boly communion, | The holy eucharist wilt be exposed id the Cathedral until Tuesday. THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. SIMPLICITY IN PUPLIC. WORSHIP ADVOCATED. | There was a iuil attendance at tue Friends? | meeting house, Rutherturd place, vear Second | avenue, yesterday ‘orenoon. The platform was | occupied by six venerable gentlemen, while on their leit were seated three ladies, attired in tne peculiar Quaker fashion. The younger female por- | tion of the congregation, who had the exclusive use Of one of the aisles, were attired in the usual No music oi apy kind was empioyed, and the inter.or aud buniiog inthe bushes jor tae Lord Jesus Christ. ‘Tnis is obe of the religious rites sal prac | tiscd by them at certais seasons. Many, too, be- | heve that poutics and relygion are ldeuticai, Their | preaccers vel! them often also that they have no need of the Bible, jor Gud makes to them oirect | manlestations, aud that they are specially chosen | to direct their lives. They tell them that ihe siole | 13 the while man’s 000k, aud that they have no | concern Withit Bishop Vaughan and uis retinue | of priests bave come from Burope to appeal to the | Impressiviitty of the negro: that is, to the | younger portion, Who may be cought by tre tinsel aud snow o! Rowanism. Against ail (mis we must | means cf Suuaay schools, tor tavough them much * cannot be Kivdled trem the can be done. A top; but set the lignt at tne bottom of the pil: and the wuole will soon be aglow, conciuded with an earuest appeal for aid, which | was Irecly responded to by the comgregation. | ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH. | THE REV. FATHER M'CAULEY ON TEMPTATIONS AND THE REMEDIES AGAINST THOM. There Was 4 ,00G atlendance yester morn. | ing at the ign muss In St. Stephen's, which was celebrated vy the Rev, Wililam Paul Costigan. The music of the mass Was given in @ pleasing and | creditable manner by the chotr, under the airec- | uon of the organist, Mr, Dantorth, After the first gospel the Rev. Father McCauley ascended the pulpit, and having made the customary announce. ments and read the history of our Lord's tempta- and last in the desert, a3 narrated by St. Matthew, ched an edtiying sermon on the nature of ations aud the remedies against them, He Suvstauce as lo.iows:— iwise Lord, the great exemplar ol! all vir- tues, uor ouly taught His heavenly doctr.ues, but gave (o the Word exampies o1 every Virtue. Even Ta the matter of temptation He has left us, as we Tead 16 [O-da;’s gospel, a memorable exaiaple of we should resist tempta'1ons, UO matter irom Waoat source they come, Ail the sources of sin are, aceviding to St, John, Coucupiscence of the dlesn, CONCUpi»¢-DCe Of the eyes an PXIDE OF LIFE. | All temptations come through the sensex, the | iniellect or the will; and te devil In his hatrea of Gd aves ail he can through these sources to th- jure man, tor whom Gud died, ii, how 8 wich God bas placed wit we muy defy our arch enemy, apd, 1 the words Of oul Suviour, vid him “begone.”’ These means are prayer, the irequentiug Of the secraments ava especialy tue avoldauce uf the proximate occasions o: sin. In (uis penitentiai season tie Cuurch enjoms on her chudren the obligauon Of tasting, Waicn is @ most etticient remedy against sin aad a powerfui ald (0 prayer and the contemplation of heaveuly trucas. The evening services, at half-past seven o’ciock, consisted of tae recitation o! the rosary, benedic- ou of the Liessed sacrament and a sermon by the Rev. FaherCarro:. There was a large con- gregation preSens at these services, all Seemed \o euler conscieutiously into tue spirit of te season. EIGHTEENTH STREET M. E, CHURCH. | AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. | sermon of the Apocalyptic serica was preached yesterday Morning bythe Rev. M. &. Terry, Who chose tor Wie text the entire twelith chapter of Reveration, The preacher argued at length regarding the proper 4tyretation of the couflict between the woman and the Gragon. ‘The dragon is another term ‘or #atan, while the woman {s uncoubtedly the Chwres of Got. #atan is here presented in @ most Mideous and terrible guise. The seven heads and ten horns must not be understood in their terai sense, but rather as asymbolical eXpreasion to designate crait, cun- ning aad power. Likewise the term ‘red dragon,” used in the chapter, denotes tue murderous and unholy bloodthirstiness which 18 one of tue chief attributes of the great enemy of souls. “War in heaven” is @ significant and unmistak- | abie term. By heaven Is not beceasarily meant only the immediate neighborhood of Jehovah's throne. Many persons atiempt to exp!ain the revelations in this chapter mere abstract ideas. Some arguo that this war so graphically described Means the continuous struggle between good amd | was unusually well attended yesterday, asit had | found Him a@ strong stad, Lear fia | evil for mastery in the Duman heart Orneraenms | been announced that Dr. R. 8, Moran, who has | devils? Together they teach that man goes | and sveechos teylug to prove that the cause of the | truco, Heaven is space, a4 God is omnipresent, | | Hai The uz ally Jarge audience gathered at Lyric esterday morning to listen to the Rev. O. B. Frothingham on the subject of ‘4A Devout Life.’» The reverend speaker, contrary to mis more geaers] custom, confined his readings to the Sacred Book of the Christians, omitting extracts from the other ancient and revered writings with yrhicn he 18 wont toistract and entertain his peopie. THE SERMON. By a devout life is understood a life of contem- plation, of thougnt, aspiration and prayer; there- fore, 1t1s purely juternal. Its form of expression las differeg in the various periods of the world’s nistory, In the early ages 1t wes expressed in tae form of a sacrifice of something which was conosida- | eredaga gilt to God, This was perhaps of a | human victim captured in war; of lambs, bul- locks, kids, doves; something which was pecu- jlarly precioua to the giver. Asin the process of time man became more kind and merciful in his thoughts these were dispensed with, no more | altars were erected and in their stead symbols Y 15, 1875--WITH SUPPLEMENT. $$ $$ $$ $$$ $$$ the well-deserved reputation of being one of the course on the “Elements which Insure the Pros to be glorified that ne may me down to heal, and only 4a wo moet and absoro the Orighter light can we radiate through the deepest darkness. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. | The text was taken from Kevelation, xi, 16— “cuRIeT’s GREATEST gERMON BY REY. MR, MACARTHUR. Yesterday, at the above church, in Tw third and he shall reign forever and | Street, near Sixth avenue, the eloquent young pasto: preached @ sermon of exceeding interest from the Gos;el of St, Matthew, xxvi., 83, in which “Christ’s greatest sorrow” in the Garden of Gethsemane and the lessons to be drawn from It were beautilully illustrated, He said:—Tbere are three important considerations in connection with the mysterious sorrow in the garden, and it may be said that in these are embraced Eden, Geth- gemane and Paradise, We go out of the second gate of Jerusalem, aown o rugged path into the valley, aud on the right hand lies the sacred gar- den, & small plot of ground, nearly square, sur- rounded by @ rough stone wall. Eight olive treea stand within the enclosure, and in this spot took Place the grandest drama in noly history. It is night. The streets Of Jerusalem are silent and deserted, the pilgrims in their tents on the hill side are asieep. All the lights are out. As Christ approached the garden with His disciples He | by promise and by prophecy, by the ugency o: the | © solemnly motions eight of them to remain with- out and three to enter with Him; those three wlio were Witn Him on the Holy Mount and witnessed | the transfiguration. What a spectacle to see the | Waves of Chnist’s mysterious sorrow roil over Him as He prays in agony, and the drops of bloody sweat fall to the consecrated earth! At length He returns to His Lee nen His soul is again at peace and he calmly awaits the ARRIVAL OF HIS BETRAYER. One of the greatest elements of Caris’s sorrow 1s perhaps the ingratitude of those for whom He lived and died. When the people would exalt Him they did so by a cross, ana when they crowned Him it was with a crown of thorns, His own tamily did jo Him, and they who _ shouted nas” one day cried “Crucify the next. base ingratitude! O shametul coward- ice! But shall I speak barshiy of tnem and not | justiy of ourselves? They groped in the twilight; | ‘we walk in the full splendor of the noonday sun. Shrist was truly aman. ‘True manhood 13 not in- diderept to danger and suifering, Dr.- Parker said:—"Ssuffering is a question of nature.” The poet suffers more than the mathematician; the commanding officer trom dezeat suffers more than tne common soldier. Jesus Christ was not only a man, but He was manhood, He gathered up all the exquisite sensibilities of the race. He was | Weman, too, Allthe most deauttiul qualities of | Woaiannood and manly in manhood was the Lord | Jesus Christ. | The preacher eloquently deduced tne religious | lessonsfrom the pathetic picture of ‘our Lord’s passion and agony and concluded with wn earnest appeal to tis heaters te seek a revuge trom sin in His bounteous love and mercy. UNION TABERNACLE, BROOKLYN, E. D. THOSE WHO ARE NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HAVE THEIR LIGHT BURNING LY THE FORECASTLE. AJarge congregation yesterday morning gath- the highest cuitivation is, coubtless, owing to the # ered at Apollo Hall, Brooklyn, E.D., to hear o discourse by Rev. Samuel Miller Hageman, irom the text found in Mark, xil., 34—*Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.” The minister began his address by declaring that the greatest discov- eries of the world were those that. anninilate distance and bring men in distant points nearer together. He referred to the ciectric telegraph, the invention of sicam and other discoveries that | science had given us. Among these he mentioned particularly the telescope, which brings the heavenly bodies near and enabies man to hola AN INQUEST ON THE SUN and become famiiiar with its component parts, Science is working wonders in bringing nations and men nearer to each other—tn anninilating dis- tances and giving us rapid traasit jrom one point to anotner—and who knows, he asked, but we may jet bring tne sun so near that we can cut iv | with a knie? Indeed, it becomes a question | whether the sun may not yet be made to gen- erate heat to propel a vessel across the ocean or drive a railroad car. Ali nature has begun, he said, 10 solve the problems of the natural world and bring them 89 near that we can uae tnem, WHEN CHRIS! SWEP! THE WORLD with a biood-stainea hand He struck out the dis- tance that separates Godand man, The power of that great heart of the living God demon. strated to us that we are not farfrom the Kipgdom | of God, The minister re‘erred to the diferent de- grees of sin, illustrated how one man can be nearer to God than another, and proceeded to consider When a man can be said to be near Jesus Christ. When a man feels that he has the image of God in hits heart tie is near Curist, If you feel a paiu ia your body you may Know it Is not far trom you. | If you have God within you God ts not far om | of the bailding 18 characterized by the severest | Were offered, liko incense, which was supposea to | Everytting about you has the image of God simplicity. The most compiete stillness prevatied | be an embiem of the giit. Furtheron in the pro- | stamped upon it. The serive, to whom Christ or fully hal! an hour aiter the members were in | their places. They appeared to be absorbed in reflectiou. At length Mr. John D. Wright, one of the occupants of tue platform, arose ana said that he was phexpectediy present, but he felt it to be good and consoling to meet the people there that morning. The circumstance of Peter making inquiries of the Muster which appeared, | pattle to overcome by the teachings of the Bible, | trom what followed, not to be proper, brought to | ‘Tne rising geueration mast be urst appealed to by | mind tne fact that many peopie exhibit a strong , the human with the supernuman, tne mixing of inclination to meddle with the faults and short- comings 1 their neighvors. 1t will be remembered was rebuked by the Mas-er, who sald, he perish, What is that to thee?’ We are led by experience to the knowledge that a great deal of time 1s unproftably spent tn interfering with other pergons’ affairs and falling iio the same ition as Peter. Mary, Who had chesen tse Better part, Was active and very solicitous avout ber sister, but her example couid not be iollowed without much Injury fo ourselves. Air, Wright next referred to the writings of THOMAS A KEMPIS, which he | raised bighly and regretted that they were not more generally read, ceptsaré us precious a6 can be Jousd in oly writ. Tuomas & Kempis remarked, “That he that judgeth others oiten erred and sometimes sinned, vUt those Who sittetl in judgmeut on tuemseives do weil.” Tat great and good man Leonard ticks expressed similar view-, Tue speaker said he hav ustenea with deagot to his teachings. Hicks on one occasion stated that ne bad a litte wallet, 10 Ong end of Which fe placed the tailings and deficiencies of his iellow men, aud his own fauits he leit at the otherend. He threw tae Waliet over lia shoulder, piactng the end with his own defects belliud lim aud the Vices uf others in Iront, go that thé luiter would always be kept in Some oi Nis pré- | cess of man’s reflaement only words came to be offered in the jorm of prayers, and finaily these, | too, were dispensed with, and no oifer of prayer ; Was made; but in lieu thereof an inward reacting jorth of the heartto God. These expressions, though | so dissimilar, have at the Lottom the same thougat. | The idea of a devout lice is the sume every wuere; itis the idea of consecration, the giving up of something hear and dear; it Is the mingling of | our own thought with the endless thought which | e'rcies through the world. In India, for example, The preacuer | tnit Peter asked, “What shall this mando?” He | where the Indnite Belng ts regarded as every- “If 1 will | thing, the ali-tn-ail, the effort of the devout per- | gon 1s to make bimself nothing, to abotish, — | if sach a thing could be done, his very consciousness and so be absorbed 1a Him, Pass- jog over to the resem ene we sng vie membership of the Koman Cathohe Caurci P | Mary between them and the All-in-All, aad to fer | they bring their gilts, wile the Protestant has | the sudering Corist, whom he regards as God Dimseil and whose ideal life he strives to imitate, Outs:de Of these, and outside Of Christiasity, the | | idea 13 the same. In illnstration of this the and God, and Auguste Comte, the author of tue positivist philosopry, wiro belteved in no sou! ana no hereaiter, and yet ip his catechisin laid down rules jor a devout hie and atrecting nis disciples to pray three times @ day to some pirat n who had afforded them reliel in their trouvle, thus | Tecoguizug THE SPIRIT OF DEVOTION | aud consecration in the human heart. Tne devout iils, Mr, Frothingham said, 18 not peculiar to any form of religion; tt depends on no doctrine aud 1s boru of no cree: vout life as a tradition, por Corte because he sight. He carried the wallet everywhere he went, Dad been so taught. Alter sowing the great tine aud, of cours brought it to meetug. Listen. | portance of tuougutin comparison with the ma- ing one day to a dfScourse delivered vy a dear | terifl universe the erend gentleman contin. littie lady iriena, he wecame deeply concerned, ag | Wed:—Devotion Is associated with all that ts beat her remarks bore testimony to lis Condition, The 12 lite. ‘This feeling has made the temples of laitn love of God was uwakeJed in iis heart. He changed the position o1 tne wallet; the defects of others he placed ochind his back and brought his own directiy belure oiseyes. Hicks ound he had enough to do, sufficient to occupy bis time with profil, and te never forgot the iesson, The Speaker next touched upoa the merits of Hicks, Who Was 4 powerul tostrament, he said, lor good, Uh many occasions he (ihe speaker) had wept like a child; the tears of coutrition poured down nie ctu awhen silting at the feet of that samtly luan. ‘This Is the kind Of mivister we require. Th desire to have only eloquent end learn preachers ls not sound, How many attend fash- lonable churches, and derive, if any at ali, no other that transient satisfaction. All tue gran- deur and show ia these edifices often amount to | no more than SOUNDING BRASS AND TINKLING CYMBAL which do not reach the soul. The mintat the true ministry—shoaid only speak of tie blessed Jesus, which power wili come, spontaneously, to | the mau beartiy tn the service ui G Words of admouiion and holluess, such as were Wi terea’ by Blas Hicks, are promoted by the spirit of the Creator, Mr. Wright, who grew very lmpres sive 4s Le proceeded, Went on 10 say tat under | the dispensation now existing we did hot serve an austere Master, but aioving Fatuer, a kind and merciiul ikuler, The peace which tis world can only give tis World cau take away. A rich legac, jeft to us by Cnrist Jesus was @ peace which this world Cunnot give and cannot take away. Keturn- Ing to tue Sulyect Of Almpiictty in pulitc worauip Mr. Wright remarked:—We see dany magnificent courcles erected, many of them covering entire biocks of ground. Tne preachers have the reputa- ton of being eioquent, ieur: aod polisned, ana attract, caci Of them, Crowds of admirers. But is must be remembered that our Saviour seiected ‘rom among fishermen and tent-makers [is heaven'y appointed agents, to spread the lignt | and blessings of Christianity, Even St, Patl—a learned ana cievaied man—(said Mr. Wright), giver the Vision that resulted in his conversion, trampied under foot bis heathen ideas of su- Deriority, and aeclared Limsell to be the bumbie Servant oI God, PORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTE- RIAN CHURCH. % MORAN ON “ELEMENTS WHICH IN- SURE THE PROGRESS AND PERPETUITY o¥ THE CERISTIAN RELIGION.” The Forty-second street Presbyterian church | DR nt. more than a match ior the temples of commerce, more than a maten for the residences of man. And why is it, then, that @ devout life has go fallen into disrepute? tor that It has so fallen cannot be doubted, It 1s because there has been 2 complete divorce between devoutness and the me We are compclied to live, ‘the common (dea is that @ man can Only lead a devout live by devoting himself entirely to that, and tie resuit is a loss of Ume and of intelugeuce which cannot be endured. Acter speaking oj a@ series of uo1s, written by a number or very liberal Catholic priests, Wiico advised the saint 0: to-day to patuern after Joseph, the Jainer of Jesus, Mr. Frothingham said:—Wno knows anything about tum? He is not a character of history, and all we Know of him 1s from the patutiogs o: ‘the oid mas- | ters representing him as coutempiating his baoy | and lovely wie, or leading thew through the desers ol Egypt. Atum, @ Titualist clergymin, in a@ recent sermon, spoke of the new and extended career which the ovservance of mtuai- iso) Would tiruwW open to Women, 1 maxing altar clotus, dressing aitars and embroidering vest- ments, it is not to be disputed that the common im- preasion o! the devout man is very disagreeable. He 1s expected to ussociate as little a8 possibie with anything use'u) In fe He may not be an actor, tough he have the genius o! Joseph Jetfer- son or Kdwin Boot, He mey not sing in the opera, hough be have the gefius of Muro, He must not PLAY ON TAL VIOLIN; he must eschew all amusements and refuse to associate wiih those who attend them; he must make Sunday a8 useless a8 possible, aud no mi ter what the opportunity afforded sim to do ho Must not doit op that day. Mr. Frothinguam argued eguinst tis jorm oj devoutness and urgea upon his hedrers the necessity of a truer and higher devotion, to be manifested in work, with proper alms and tendencies, for the advancement Of self with reierence to tue good of the entire race, 1s there a donbt that ilie woula be better i men and women reported themselves to headquarters at stated hours? A sailor, ho mat- ter what is capabilities, 1s Jost 1! he can- | not take hits observation’, and in the great voyage of life ia It possible that any person can steer aright save by ihe star thal | Raphael's paiating of the rausiguration | seats two pictaroa in one, In the upper the giori- fied Christ is seen conversing with the great men Of His nation; while atthe foot is the poor man Who, a8 tradition says, Was posscssed of devil the people surrounding him, their eyes turne: toward the brilliant features of Ubris' hs gic etal critics fave foand fault with this; buat wi was the Grace giorifed but that He might cast out faciag the Virgtu | speaker mentioned Theoiore Parker, beleving in | no Saviour or other intermediate between tunseit Parker did not cultivace a de- | | uttered the words of the text, came with the image | of God writven in bis heart. If you are near 10 | God you have His 3 ‘our hear TRE LIGHT Bi You have all the lights out that you want. The | minister here referred to tne interest with whico a parent exXauiues the pictures of @ chiid taken in toe different stages of coildgrowth, how ear- nestiy is development is watcaed ana how 1 Gelibly each picture 1s left upon tne miad, aud | | stated that Jesus Christ has come to leave Lis pic- | ture on o'r hearts.” It comes gradually, Once it | tg the image of a | BaBY CHRIST—A LITTLE CHRIST, | At first you only have a littie faith, No man can become @ Curistinh tn a day; no man can get tne picture of Christ written m his heart at once; | put graduatly, as ,Dopresses ip studying | Chiisv’s image, tt beconies imi reased, UDI he has @ picture living m bis cart tyat ts worth more | than the pictures of al our Inends put together, | It ts a8 the jace of /eous Ciirist aiways looking pia vis @ becutivl jic ure, too, Did you e rT CHRISI’S EYES FLASH WITH ANGE! 4g thouga sayinz, “J told you so” | Ol you who teels that you have the moral likeness of God upon you, you are not far Lom Jesus Christ. ou Cannot go much turther and fall to see Him. If you re ye CONnsciOUrness that you have Go@ Within you, hou art not far ‘rom We kingdom of heaven.” The preacter next con- sidered the cowardice thst keeps man from ac- Kuvowledging his love for Curist, He spoke of the heroism that inspired tne scribe to acknowledge Cbri-t, ani said it was’ very cidicult for him t come out irom among the Sadducees and deciare for Jesus Christ. When 2 man says “I think a great deat of Jesus Christ at nome, bat I don't Went to talk avout Him tn public,” he displays | cowardice. Not oue in a hunared, he believed, will stand up pomlely for Jesus Christ in the busi- ness ys hfe, E THE COUNTER OR ON 'cHANGR. What are you ashamed ot, breturen’ asked | the minister, Ashamed to be a Caristian? | Ashawed of Jesus! Sooner far Let evening blush to own a star, | Astamed of one who has laid down His life fur you Ashapied of Wiuse side has been pierced for you? Mow any man who has been vrought up Wm a Christian housenold, educated trou lafancy in love to God, dedicated to God in Vaptism, can be ashamed of 1, 1 cannot see, The minister referred to the in@uence of a Chr tian mother 10 Sastiiilug a love of God in the child's Agu mnind, and declared :hat there ts not a child hike taut Who is not nearer the kingdom of heaven than the littic heathen who has not been permitted to have ‘he image of God stamped upon bis heart, ‘The mao who is obligated in childhood to lead a Christian hie is PUL IN HARNESS WITH CHRIST. He must plougt with Hira aud go into a copart- nership that should never be dissolved. ongnt to be converted all the way up cradie wud they will bave the picture o: Curist in | their hearts. Mr. Hageman related how, on one | Occasion, when he delivered an address at Priuce- ton College, a young man said to him, “1 have no mother to pray for me; | am an orphan, When | you pray with the students pray sor me.’’? He did | pray Jor bm, aud related to the students the re- quest 60 singularly mad A gentieman subse- quently informed tum t that prayer had been the means of conve: weg twenty-six of the class who listeped to it, tell you, continued tae clergyman, there 18 something in such prayers as this, The mau who has @ loving spirit— wio 18 gentie—is not far irom the king. dom of heaven, temember this. Any man, however much he has sinned— any man who has a gentio, loving, earnes' is not far trom the kingdom of God. The rt of heavea, breturen, is a kingdom of beauty, and | Many OF you ure nearer than you think. You wio | are not ashamed of God, you who travel with | THE HAND THAT 18 VERDING THE BIRDS under tue window of His providence, are nearer | God than you imagine, | that Jesus Christ detests, itis that man endowed | e Ty If there 1s one | But if there is anything | | der would have pecu tie resutt te i Eptacopal Church losing gtound is the usutpations Of its bishops and ciergy. Ido not agree with the writers of said articles or tne makers of said! speeches, I do not think the Episcopal Church has been shown tobe in @ decaying condition, but Ido think that the best way to bring it tuto such a condition is to make the laymen of the lava. think that it is already there. IfI want to make peoete coubt that St. Paul wrote the epistles uted to him oy tradition, &¢.,1] go to raise adoubt about Shakespeare ever having written the plays, &c., that tradition says he wrote, and by rd) doubt on one thing that has been generally credited on the autnority, &c., of tradition, ull pee | nd tradition apart untill come to St. Paul and leave people te anioference. A word to the wise is sufficient. The decay of the Episcopal Ohurca, if it is less strong than formerly, ts due to the. want of tac! and more than all, 10 my bumble vpinion, the wan! of faith Io ber clergy. The more our Lard is to We're one with Him we By so much we oursel THE COURTS. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Before Judge Sherwood, TWO BURGLARIES BROUGHT TO LIGHT, On Friday night last two men went into the clothing storo of Jacob S, Alexander, No. 8 Market street, and asked to ses some oF His gouds; but after inspecting nearly everything in the store went away without making any purchases, The same night the store was broken into by cut- ting a nole through the Mooring from the cellar, after which abou! $509 worth of property was car- ried away. The next day Mr. Alexander went to the Seventh preciuct station house and gave an accurate description of the two men who had ia- spected his stock the previous evening. On Saturday Officers Wood and Moloney arrested John Dolan and Jobn Daly, at No. 44 Forsyth street, and found in their rooms nearly all of the property be- longing to Mr. Alexunder, and also s9ma $60 worth oi boots and shoes, which were identified by Mr. doseph Boyes, of No. 133 East Broadway, as guods that had been stolen from his store on the 5th of Febroury. On that occasion the bur. glary was edlected by means of sorte the rear door off its hinges. The prisoners, Dolan ana Daly, were held by Judge Sherwood yesterday in $3,090 bail each on two separate charges, CANNIBAL QUIGG. ‘ William Quigg, of No. ¢51 East Ninth street, was arraigned on acharge of mayhem, preferred by Dents Gallagher, of No, 233 avenue C. On Sature day night Quigg went into the liquor store of Edward Hare, at the above number, in an intoxe teated state. aad, without any provocation, delib- erately assaulted Gallagher, who was sitting in the store at tie time, Alter beating lim severely be bit aptece of Gallaghe>’s hp of. Quigg, who was arrested by Officer Holbrook, of the Thirteenth recinct, was held by Julge Sherwvod yesterday 1a $1,000 bail to answer at General Sessions, FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. Beiore Judge Murray, ’ VITRIOL THROWING, A sulky lcoxing German, named William Bergh, was charged by Mrs. Ann Murphy, of No. 336 First avenue, With throwing vitriol upon her clothes an’) burning holes ali over them, His motive for thy act was @ lancied trespass on his premises. Hq) denied the charge, but was held in $300 to answe® at the Spectal Sessioas. Bergh was oace before tn trouble jor bratally assaulting a little boy tor some. fancied insult. ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Thomas Foster, of 525 First avenua, was charged by his friend, Henry Mann, with bighway rovbery, He appeased astonished, but the facts were too clear to be put aside by a simple dental, and he wos held tor trial in deault of $2,000 bail, Mr. Mann testified that on Wednesday night, alter ne had received his pay as lopgshoreman, he met the accused, and in his company became In- toxicoted from the e#ects of several hot whiskeys; when about io separate (he defendant pushed him Up against the wali 0: a buiiding and touk $23, all the money be had, out of his vest pocket, A DEN BROKEN UP, William Hodges, the alleged proprietor ofa school tor thieves at No, 511 East Sixtecnth street, and abouc twenty-fve of his pupils, were ar- raigned by Officers Handy and Mallon on com- plaint of several citizens of the Eighteeuth ward. Hodges kept tworooms ia the rear of his candy shop, to which resorted all the bad characters of the wurd. Oj late thieving had become so general in the beighberood, ana of such frequent occur- reucs, that the residents aud business people made common cause agatost Hodges and nis cus- tomers, the result beimg a ratd oy the police on Saturday night. ‘he Coart held Hodges tor trial and discharged the other prisouers wth a Caution as to their future conduct, TWO SELF-CONFESSED BURGLARS, On Tuesday night last burglars broke into and rovbea of $20 worth of cigars and liquors the liquor store of Ernest H. Luur, No. 674 Eighth avenuc, Officers Davis and O’Brien, of tne Twenty-secoud precinct, arrested on Friday two weil known thieves, named James Brown and Josep Rodgers, on suspicion, They denied all kno vledge of the burglary, but were remanded, to give the officers @ chunce to obtain evideuce upon Which to convict them. On Saturday the officers were success ul 1n their efforts, and found sixteen boxes of the ¢laars c onceslsd 1D @ Wood shed in tie rear of No, 092 Eighth avenue. This tact peing made known to the accused tuey confessed their guilt, and also gave information that will lead to the recovery Of all the stolen property. The prisoners were yesterday held in defautt of $2,000 ball each. A Woman who Was arrested on suspicion Ot belug an accomplice was discharged. HARLEM POLICE COURT. Betore Justice Morgan. A MURDEROUS ASSAULT WITH AN AXE. John Kricte, the foreman of the stables bolong- iug to the premises No. 1,562 Second avenue, on Saturday had a cispute with Samuel Kutliager, the clerk of a grocer Whose horse is svabled there, as to the ownership of an oid iamp. From words they came te biows, aud tne iignt was ended by Kriete seizing a0 axe and aiming a biow at Rule Jinger’s sk Luckily tne biow fei snort, or mar. A severe tut het dangerous wound ou the forehead was ine ficted, Kriete was helt to auswer, THIS DAY, CourT—CiaMbers—Held by Judge dope COURT CALENDARS SUPREME Nhird Mond, otioa caiendar, sl OURT—SPECIAL TEKM—Heid by Judge Van .—Court opens at hal!-past ten o'clock A. M,—Demurrers—Nos. 11, 3, 17, I-sues of law and fact—Nos. 155, 1, 65, 64, 48, 60. 163, 165, 147, ba 163, 1680, 169, 170, 54, 102, 174, 175, 177, Surnr RT—GENERAL TE2M.—Adjourned untill Monday, ™ Scrnemy CouRt—Circvit—Part 2—Ue!d by Judge Van Brunt.—Nos, 1: 413, 462, 899, 098, 672, 2200, 463, 853, 460, 640, 16, 1910, 1012, 1014, 1950, 1025, 1039, 1045, 1 1052, 1070, Part s—Held by Judge ‘Court opens at half pas M,—No3, 785, 1563, 150135, 2111, 2118, 5 168334, 15905j, 1889, 2110, 2106, 1889, 877, 1119, $79, 822, 861, 929, 1055, 2117, 2119, 1005, 98, 1407, 1063, SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL 'TERM.—Adjourned for the term, SUPERIOR CouRT—TRIAL TERM—Part 1—fleid by uuge Sper on A, M.—NO3- 7, 8 My 1719, £49, 1255, 785, C81, 6) Part 2—Heid by Judge Care | tts.—Conrt opens at eleven A. M.—Nog. 28, 654, Citidren | from tie | with great posers who trifics with the gilts given | hia, ana throws away his lie Dies on tie seasuore, He closed nis eloquent dis- course by speaking of tne ene, diapiayed by | persons in the pursuli of their dally vocations and declared “If you want to work for Jesus Christ as | you do with the needie, at the plough or the bench | and the apvil—ii you had strack ont half the | Sparks in the exercise of conscience by acknowl- be nearer to God, whereas plod » now you are far THE DECLINE OF THE BEPISCOPAL CHURCH, To THE Eprron or rk HERALD :— Ihave read with considerable {fiterest articles casting his peb- | | eaging God, | i ifm | never setn? | pos O scintiate the Christian life, you pre | 1010, 1078, 990, 746, 874, 1024, 1026, 1028, 1030, "1032, 1034, 1435, 1038, CouMON PLeas—Equity Term—Hela by Judge ceenecoars opens at eleven A.M,—Case on—No, Pt aa PLEAS—GENERAL =‘TERM.—AQjouraed ne die, COMMON PLEAS=TRIAL TeRM—Part 1—Held by Judge Larrenore.—Court opens at eleven A, Mv 1527, 1243, 1244, 1194, 1216, 1876, 1065, 1650, 1969, 2105, 2415, 2409, Part 2—Ileid by Jauge J. i, Daly.—Court opens at eleven A. M.— Set down—Nos, 1432, 119, 1294, 2110, 2238, 1311, 450, 3313, 1320, New—Noz, 1980, 1381, 1382, 1383, ‘1us4, MARINE Cocrt—TxtAu ‘1eRxM—Part 1—Held b: Judge shea.—vourt opens at ten A. M.—Nos, 1467, 990, 1460, 1365, 2319, 45, 1179, 1308, 2750, 1170, 1171, 1882, 444, 3007, 1505, Part 2—Meld by Judge Alker,—Court opens at ten A, M.—Nos.1481, 2% 1266, 748, 1400, 1190, 2521, 2622, 1566, 1572, 1573, 1574, 1676, 1577, Part 3—Held by Juage McAdam.— Court opens at ten A, M.—Nos, 1540, 1651, 1473, 1474, 1270, 1102, 1447, 1642, 2028, 1058, 1060, 2348, 2356, 2388, rte 2857, 2460, 2627, 2767, 2797, 2847, 2303, 2954, 2735, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS—Held by Recorder Hackett.—The People Mark Campbell (con: Unued), disorderly nouse; Same vs, Joho Kane, robbery; Same vs, Andrew White, robvery; Same vs. Jonn Doherty, rovbery; Same ve, Mi Fitz geraid and John Tuo felonious assault and battery; Same vs. Jamos Tuile and John Mason, felonious assault aud battery; Same vs, Michael Gorman, felonious assault and battery; Same vs. John Shay, mayhem; Same vs. Henry Smith, per- jury; Same va. George McHenry and John Lynch, burglary; Same vs. Michael yle and William pe grand larceny; Same va. Lanra Johnson, grand larceny; Same va. Barthulomew McCarthy, gene larceny; Same vs, George Smith, grand jarceny; Saine va. Herman Pubibrock, grand lar- bame vB. rge Febu, grand larceny; Same va. Leo Witkososky, grand larceny; Same. ys, John McOarthy, grand larceny; Same vs. John Kelly, grand larceny; Same vi ghviatoaper, Fiyho, cen; Brown, grand larceny; Same va, James {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGR1~