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8 THE WORSHIPPERS. Full Attendance of the Devout at Ail the Churches Yesterday. JESUS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. Mr. Hepworth on Man's Salvation. by the | Atonement of Christ OF TEMPTATION. The Delafield Memorial Serviee—Sermon by Dr. Weston, THE BODY—A PRISON OR A TEMPLE? Mr. Beecher Enforces the Triumph of Meekness. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE INDICTMENT AGAINST CHRIST. The usual large congregation gathered for wor- ship in the Chureh of the Disciples yesterday morning. Mr. Hepworth, though evidently iabor- ing under severe indispositivn, preached a sermon @ little shorter than usual, but one whove elo- quence touched every one of his hearers, Felected his texi trom St. Jona, lii., 1l6—“For God 80 loved the worid that be gave his only begotten Son, that wcosocever believeth in him should not perisn, but have cverlasting lite.’ My dear friends, when I go through the incidents in that remarkable last week in tue live of Curist—a life Which began ip mystery and which ended in a | miracle—a series of {acis is presented tv my mind He | mination to follow in the trace whfen He bas blazed from earth to heaven, that we May not lose fave grown indifiereut, Irs not. alwaye possidle to dud the path the oe has laid out; but it Sway poset “Th: | has jald out; Dut itis always ple to say, “Thy sins, who Lave often regolved to walk in the light, as the blessed Word has it. is there any | hope? Oh, my iriends, there 1s no sin in the wide cope of God's provicence—not one—that shull not | be whitened py the mercy of Cbrist. Penitence | Shall erase all We swear the right and do wrong; we love t right an: peak the wrong. | We can be elevated into the blessed enthustas, and the Lord can come to us and say, “Be thon clean we oe be clean, pe u ys my ; &o ear of penitence. He saya to yo | day, “For God 0 loved the worid rhe gave his only begottem Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall cot perish, but e everiasting life.” LYRIC HALL. 18 THE BODY THE SOUL'S PRISON OR TEM- | PLE?—SERMON BY REV, 4 3B. FROTHING- HAM. | The Rev. A. B. Frothingham preache2 yester day moyning at Lyric Hall, before a very large and | Digbly caitivated congregation. His remarks were | stemed to with breathless attention. His elo- quent argument was to the effect that the body Must be carefully nourished apd kept pure and Per-ect, in order that it might be successfully at- tuned to the divine harmony of tbe soul. His closing remarks, deprecating animal fooa a8 belonging to the age of barbarism, were received with especial attention, apa the sermon altogether created @ sensation, The reverend gentieman’s subject was on “Body and the Soul.” The foliowing 13 the substance of his remarks:—I do not propose to discuss the question of the relation of the body and | the soulas one of specuiative interest, but simply | one of practical importance. The practices of Lent ure cf the nature of @ conspiracy against the body; in the ancient times they were very austere; im modern polite society they are very attenuated and mild, The Lenten season with us is put @ gentle slowing of the fast strain of society. Let us hope that the old idea of Lent will soon be for- gotten, and that it will only remain as @ rattomal | pause in the <dissipation of modern society. But the doctrine which if embodies is a very old one, | and vaat is that the body 18a clog to the soul, a | prisoa, a dungeon, a heavy wear.some thing, that has to be dragged along as well as it can be done, and is always a burden to the spirit, This theory | came into the Church from the East and became Ay not easily interpreted by the ordinary rules of his- | deeply rooted in the mind of Christendom, Io torical criticism; they stand out im bold retief | tne early Christian Church tt had a vast influence. against the page on wh:cli they are recorded, not H There were holy Men who boasted that they could only unique in character, but | crucify the body. The idea had its root in the con- WONDROUS IN IMPULSE, | sciousness of the soul when it attempted to rise The spirit with which they were achieved seems | superior to the body and its conditions, The to diffuse itself tor.ugh the hearts of thosewho moment one required a delicacy and per- read, till in teeble sort the world treadsin the | sistence of effort the body was in the footsteps of its Leader and emulates His example. | way. A third of the time mu3t be given to the When I turn to this third chapter of Join I find an | poay for sleep. one-eighth for the digestion of interpretation of facts almost as remarkable as | meais, and so forth. The philosopher feels himself | the facis themselves—an interpretation which | weighed down by the senses; the artist in his leads my mind from the historica! spirit to that | seeking for beauty 1s hampered and tortared by Iysterio.s power which rules events. The only | this crude physical organization. This is the ex- interpretation which illustrates these events is to | pertence of the poct and peasant; there 1s no be found in ‘bese words which I have read to you, | merchant, no artisan, wno is not perpetually “For God so loved the world that he gave hisonly hampered by tt. Everybody has something wrong begotten Son, that whosoever believeth hin im should not perish, but have everlasting life.” And 3 am reminded at once, before the amazement end astonishment have disappeared of that STRANGE LEGEND that comes to us ‘rom the East, that faraway tn the past uges the whole race was founa tm- Prisoned in the granite walls of a dungeon, to which there was only one door, and that was barred and belted. Merc, came from on hign, but bad no key waich would fit the wards of the lock. The flaming sword oO! Justice filled the air, and no one dared come near. At last, a crowd of ithesses, with Christ in their midst, came betore the door oi the vrison. Justice remains firm, The Master says, “Why wil you not let Mercy throvgh to comiort the agonize | souls within ?”” Justice replies, “Punishment or my death 1s the decree of God; elther I must be banished, or their Pain must be continued.” ‘Then the Saviour Baia, “Ob, Justice, ! will bear their misery,’ and even the siern vrow of Justice grew serene, and ne said, “And do you know tne paid *” and toe Master said, “Yes, w. And are you willing to bear it?’ “Yes, 1 am ready aud willing.” “And when?” said Justic “in jour thousand years | will fu fli 110 wy own person.”’ And then the rusty iron gate tell back, and Mercy and Love and Gentieness and Truth and Com- passion, all bearing in their arms tue love of God, All passed veneath the portal, avd men's groans changed to smiles. The luur thousand jears went vy, aad durinz every decad o! them all JEHOVAM SEEMED NEARER tothem. Bitone day, on the top of Calvary, a cross was seen aud on li Him Who nad given the promise, Halls im hands end feet and bead dropped on the snoulder, While the agonizod lips Bay, “It is-finished,” as though he saic, “2 have kept my promise; let me rise to heaven in peace.” And we e told that then an earthquake #nook the earth, n the Cead came forth trom their graves, the dead? Those that have reaped th venelit of the vreadtu) promise; and every gen- eration can turn back its bead to that cros: Lo fm must pe in his phys.cal system, aod there is the drag upon the mind, And there lies the root of the doctrine that tne drag must be got rid of before the spirit | can soar to its highest realms. H THE SACRIFICE OF THE BODY. | The old inference of this doctrine was that the | body must be crucifiled—must be crushed. Is that a just inference? Suppose any one is in an un- heaituy, loatnsome prison; what will do to reform his condition in it? He will do what he can to transform the prison into @ home as beautilul and attractive as it can be made, Is that not the ra tional view to take of 1t? If tne body is a prizon, then make It as happy Ss. gou can; give it fresh air, clesose aud refine it. but you will at least disguise it as the ear; eted and weil furnished ceil 1s aisguised, Ano:her ‘heory 1s that the body is the temple of _ the soil; that the latter ig elther an angel itaul being, or else the germ of such a being, or else sometning lke what is called @ tea. { ple, Which the body is supposed to serve. is 18 & very old theory. ‘ihe feeiug taut we are some bodies 1s soinnate, It ts so Mstinctive in people to t.1mk O1 their spiritual as som-thing diferent trom tneir phyatcs! propensities, that the theory Will probably contioue to ve lieid that the body is situply the residence of the soul. A lew sceptics take tie ground that the spirit- al primcivl: las pothing distinctive in it whatso- ever, but thetr number is very small. In a book by a very unorthodox sutaor I find this strong pas- suge :—“Let us suppose that we bave investigated every particle of the boly, that every form of mo- tion, of every atom, has been traced so that every cuve can be expressed in algevraic figures, and We bave still not made the first step toward ex- P.aining thought and are still at a loss to see that these explanations will cover ali the sentiments of the heart, all the longings of the soul.” And itis but tuo true, THE TEMPLE OF THE SCUL, Let us take this tacory; what practical refer- waich is the symvol of tne eteraal sor- ence can we draw from it? What ts the couclu- row of Carist. it 38 the symbol cf sin of Paul's magnificent theory that tne body is everything glorious, an iilastrat.on of the the tempie of the soul? A temple ts a sacred laurel wreavi of victory; we are drawn to It &s tO notums eise historically presented. We Make pilgrimages to it; und when we stand where the dear Lord has stood, we ook up as if there ye Tit in the clouas through which we might realy see Him. Now, my dear friends, never uot that morniug baa words like those been spoken, aud it is to tms Jact that] would cali out atteation; ana irom that morning mau’s moral nature has been piaced on an entirely dif serent basis. Man before lived as the Esquimaux @o, in a jong wintry might, unlit save by a star or two, or, perhaps, by the upper disk of tne suo or moon, which suows itseli lor a short time, then RasteDs away. but when those words were ut- ‘tered the sun rose in the fall biaze of his glor, and pursied fis journey io the zeritu; the earr W green bencath men’s feet; it was emergence irom darkness Into lgh:—a Moral change of siandpoimt. It was tne end of despair aud the beginning of hope, the end of tears and the beginning of smiles, whe burtal Cf defeat and toe grand Inangural Dour Of Victory Such 98 Man Dad never dreaned of. By the magic of that une thought, the race. by suddeil power, was lilte tain, hg and forgiving God. Ob Face passed jrom tue in the ice o' winter from the green grass of summer ‘When it listened to tuose Words. My breturen, we @o Dot seem to apureciate this safficiently. Ihave said that io DO history or iiterature are words to be found lik» these. I go to the Bast, where men’s es:0NS are Warm au their imagination heated ; listen to the giants of literature, but | hear nothing ot that kivd, Confucius haa written much; he often grows into eloquence; he has said many wise things, which we treasure up, but never did he dieam, colossus #8 he was, of such @ thought as that. He aso looked up and won- dered, but the word ‘iather” never escaped his lips, eecause the conception of jather never Tested in nis heart; he never drank of the water Which ¢ mes fromthe throve of God, In Athens Isee the marble images 0! go'!s, Jove and a thou- rand others, Worsbipped by the simple jsolk of those tines. | hear the words of great philoso. pliers; they talk of science, of metapnysics and ineology, vut ! hear no words like those con- tained in mytext. Ged 1s repeated oiten, but every time itis uttered 1ti8 uttered with & cer fain chagrin and (read, as though they would the g0d8 were not. They are so capricious, and in our misery tue iron feet of tbe gods themacives tread upon humanity; toe crumds that tail from the tabie of tue gods become the wealth of hu- Mankind, [tis justsoin Rome, tis just so in Jerusalem riself. [stand in Jerusalem and look back through ali the ages or the past, andi see scow-cappec Sinai, the clouds resting nal! way up; the thunder is im the clouds, the light- ming fashes. Then comes a voice—it Is the voice of Jehovah, and what saya the voice? “Thou shait not, thon shalt uot'—it Is the com- Mand of a despot: no fatne there. look the Oid Testament terough from Abraham to Malachi; f is the same. “vn, that I bac a herd o} bul- docks, that | migbt spread thei blood on ihe gitar apd make thee pov bate me.” And then when Jesus 18 BEARING THE CROSS throvgh that very city, 1 listen and hear these Strange words—Vor God so ioved the world that he gave hus only begotten Son, that whosoever believetb in Dim shali not perish, but have ever. lasting lve.”” My bretiren, these words crea'ed a@revulution intue history of the world, They hve made changes tu theology, changes tn ett ¢al re ations, and nave so far altered religion that tmstead of kKpocking at the door of heaven we take Ddoidly hold oO} shaking in chains, in terror, as we jit our servile eyes to tue throne of Him who mode us. What a differsace vetween and sometimes aroand them to hold the leaves together, but asa bud shat burats irom ite boud- age 1nd shows its rosy petals, I would have you come to God, not as one you fear, bus as one you 1 would have you come with thanksgiving and love, without a thougnt of fear. What a won- ‘rhe world never knew God | with Tove. @erful picture that is. the door and walk in, not jove and jesr! J jbink the Church vas made @ mistake 1D preach- a 30 much Jeary as it has; NO Man can increase with the necessities of their bodies. when he is timid. Bat when he loves his best qua ‘ities comne to the surace and a man blossoms ike a Jower—not like sume of the roses you find | in @ greenbouse, that have wires through them | building. Op this theory, that it 1s a shrine of the soul, Low we should venerate it, how we siould tenderly watcn its indrmities! Now, go turther. ‘rake tne idea that the dody 1s not a temple, but an organ oi the soul—its jorm of expression. Will you clog it, will you so nse It that it 1s impossible for the soul to express itgeif through it? It cao easily be done. You havea great epee Will you suffer it to be clogged with aust so that the genius Of music cannot express itselt throuzh its won- droua mecuanism? Ti people tru:y believe that their bodies are organs of their souls, with what veneration should they treat them; how carefully should they cuitivate and develop them! Tne Kd with wbich the soul gazes upon the universe, the eye which drinks all the giorious music of the world, &c., &c., 1b seem# tome the only infer- eace ts that men svould treat their bodics as they Would the boviest possessions of their lives. MATERIALISTIC VIEWS, Take another view of that materialism which proceeds from the theory that the boay creates tue soul, This doctrine says that body is ali the life there 1s, aud that what we cali the soul is an a bloom, something that takes its precise ston frora the body itself. The capacities of expression, the wiil, ue faculties of hope, of love, gavs this theory, depend entirely upou the minglins of the nerves. If they are coarse the will is brutal, love is Justiul, hope is dormant; but u the organization is tine reverence begins to bloom, bope becomes pure, and waen the organism is at its best then man loves lovingiy, then his will is respect ui, then he aspires alter the best thoughts. [hus as the organization ripens and Matures, this soul ripens and matures, This 1s the theory persons as yet, and Whetner it will be ever the theory of many re- mains to be seen, But what sort of a lie would man lead who accepted this view? Supposing & man had no other relations in Ive but muccoier and nervous ones, then this man, of all others, is bound to treat his body with veneration aod never-ceasing solicitude. Iti: be true that this soul can bioom and viossom di- vineiy, if man only keeps his booy pore and perfect he must be imsane if ne should neglect is Interests, Suppose & man had a wondertui ma- cane aud should allow the rust to corrode iis fine meial, 80 that it would finally grow cat of use, What Would be thought of such a person? Sup: pose one had a plant which, tf carefully tended, ‘was able to produce a flower of wonderiul beauty aud matcaiess odor, aud be would neglect it, expose it to drought, would you not say that such @ person was utterly unworihy to be mtrusced with any of this beauty or iragrance? We know what cae a groom ever takes of a rare horse, Now, suppose one had ao animal very valuavie for ite wouderiul speed, and should treat him as a dray hovse, What would you think of such a man? OC DUTY TOWARD THE BODY. Every man, woman aod cbild pas an organiza tion fiber than thatot any creature in tie unl- verse, the external laws working in it every sec- ona of time, and yet though we know that this organizition 14 capable of producing such forma of the soul, a8 love, patience, Lope, charity, rev- erence, &¢., We are careless whether 1t does or pot, Is not such a man a 1ool 7 ie fate 2 which is the Jatest scteuce, makes two things plain, In | the first place the soul must be approached through the bedy; M we want to make the soul fine we bave to begin with the body. discovered that it is of no use to approach the wretchedly poor by addressiog their minds first before appealing to their boales. If you want to reach this people with the Gospel you must first mive them !uod and shelter and make their vodies comfortable. By that means you make their syd tem sensitive, and it is only when this load of sul- fering is removed that they can (eel and think. It 18 Very true that when a great revival takes hold | Of (he poor they jorget their physical suffering, but it is Olvy jor a moment, and When they retura to their squalid homes they will soon be engrossed Thus if you would make your soul Rensitive be careful Lo keep the body periect ana refined, THE END OF LIFE. In the second place, the ond of all life is the at- talpment of Inte! ual dignity, “Live to at,’? “Bat to live,” are not the tne dogmas, but “Live toat you may be @ rational being.” ‘This te the true theory of itfe. The end of the race horse is speed; the end of the flower is its beauty and Iragrauce. Suppose a oatbedral organ ts covered cobwebs, and by @ crude, wild the Jews, through hatred, lifted the cross hand, dasbiug of irregular potes, and pres- oo the navdy top of Calvary. Let the past | ently @ soul of gepius draws out all the divine be past; ict us drop the curtam before | music, would yn not say, ‘That is what tbe organ old days of misnterpretation and i” It may have only once expressed ok at the Master, heart made jo: | ie ideal end, but, nevertheless, this 1s its end. oI S bursting jes Our uearta Phd ica xs deter- | You enter a concert room and hear a Wieniawanh ‘on will not escape it, | spir- | It bas been | | and you say, “That is what the violin was made for!” Thus the best an shows what man was | made for. The question or questions, then, is that trit oT of jon above below; how treat a to make te hake it ear, cess of nutrition by which this organization tries to adjust itsel! to the world we live in, by which it | tries to draw from all the universe its supply of | delicacy, force, beauty. Now, this is a new | setenceé, and the very first principles of it are not | even agreed upon, such as the advisability of eat jug animal food, &c. THE SEST FOOD. However, the tendency tbe toward an cn- Jargement of the refining p' 83, putting Of the old man, with his deeds of bios the new man, with his gentie, innocent lie. We can.ne teeth, ‘fhe gorilla 1s said to have larger caine teeth than man, and yet lives on herbs. It is Wo be remembered that every new kind of anl- mal food is suspicious, pose to some epicare some Kind of food he has never heard of and he wilt revolt against it, Ubserve also tat tbe sham- bies are now remuved as tar a3 possible from our Tesiiences, and aiaughtered, our cookery must disguise the fleap, See the tendency toward preierment in the wing aptitude df men tor cereal food, grain, rbs, kc. Men find themselves s ronger, vetter and sweeter tempered with it. It has been dis- covered again that some of the most fearful dis- eases that human flesh is heir to are caused by aD excess 01 animal nutrition, Extra eaters must be extra arinkers, and big fires ure necessary to consume the rubvish that men throw into their stomachs, and these fires are the alcoholic armks Which men take. But observe how as tne jood OWS move Freflned the arioks l-ecore lighter and fees fierce. The whiskeys are 5! ited by light wines; the brandies by tea, coffe. chocolate, &¢., and ttis is the tendency by which the body 18 to be mace finally the fitting organ of the soul, Observe that the communion of the supper 1s the secret o/ all religions because it is illustrative of the transtigaration of the body into the soul. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH MB. VARLEY ON THE SAVIOUR AS AN EVEB PRESENT AND ALL POWERFUL PHYSICIAN. A large congregation gathered at the Fifth ave- nue Baptist cuurch, yesterday morning, to listen 10 @ discourse by the Rev. Henry Varley, the dis- unguished English evangelist. Mr. Varley has devoted his life to city mission work, in which he has been eminently successful, having organized @ society, numbering 3,000 members, in Loncon and built alarge and commodious church edifice jor their accommodation. and rray eyes, very wide apart, and his preaching 1s charactertized by an intense earnestness and personality. THE SERMON. » My dear friends, he said, I would speak to you this morning from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, from the twenty-filth to the thirty-fourth verses, inclusive—“And a certain woman which | had an issue of blood twelve years and had suf- fered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had and was notbing bettered, but, rather, grew worse, when she had heard of | Jesus came in the press bebind and touched his garment, For she sald, if I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole. And straightway the Jountain of her blood was dried up, and she feit in ber boay that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in bimself what virtue bad gone oat of him, turped him about in the press and said, ‘Who toachea my clothes?’ And his disciples said unto him, ‘Thou seest the mul- titudé thronging thee and gayest thou, “Who touched me?’ And he looked around about to see ber that nad done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was Cone in her, came and fell down | before Him and told Him all the truth, And He said unto her, ‘Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be wholeof thy plague.’ God’s gospel is a living Christ to every Tun, woman and cuild. It is Dot @ system of Morais; it 1s Dot simply a devout Ite. Christ ¢ to give another aud a new life to man, Notice how this thought 1s brought out im the story read. | On the platiorm+there are two ters, | first is Christ in all His loveliness—the foun- tuin of light—the wellspring of eternal life. T' other character 1s the very opposite of (Christ, having @ vital disease. an issue of that blood ‘Which ta the life of the body. She presents an ex- ample of the condition of every che who 1s apart irom Christ. All have a disease, | A VITAL DISBASE. | . In some it takes tae form o! pride; in others of self-righteou-ness, 2nd again in that awiul mait- | ference which 1s the worst of all, and a contemp.a- tion of which makes mv heart bleed. Another form is that of licentiousness, appetite, love of gain, coveteousness, whicn is i try. I need not enlarge on this, Tne tei every wiiere are that man is 2 sinner. There 1s no doubt of Christ's ability to deal with all forms of aisease, wita even death itself. It 1s my intention to show that through ali the generations Christ hus had the power to deal with every form of spiritual disease. And, frat, 1 beg you to notice | the great truth that Unrist is 80 perfectly edu- cated—ani I speak with reverence—that there is no buman heart in this church bat he Knows its trouble, aud is willing and auxious to restore it to heaith. The general idea is that Christ can and wiu help them in the utare; that He ts not ready now, But as illustratedio | the story of the woman tbe cure is radical and | immediate. She nad spent her substance, sorta. Hately, for had she anything left she would have gone to another physician. Men are wont to de- = on human means a3 long as possible. Neither aptism, the Lora’s supper, this Church or that will avail. What 18 required is a realization of our utter helplessness and dependence on Christ, who can save us % the uttermost. A womanin ‘have been seex- Birmingham once said to me, it town.” I said to ing pevce ever since you | har, “1am glad you have not found peaec. peace is not a fee'ing but ap inheritance. Faith Will not save us, but the work of Christ throogh faith. Neither are we sacred by conversion but by the recepsion of the Lord Jesus. Observe that the woman suid, “if I may touch but his ciotues T shall be whole.’ You bave ail felt Ourist. He is not a fable, but is living and here. Mr. Varley, atts point, made an eloquent appeal to bis hearers to come to Christ as did the womnan,-and be healed at once. ‘On, wretched travesty of the | Gospel,” he sai, ‘which makes ita o tedious process, There hever Was and never will be such a thing; it is instantaneous. Like a room with shatters. it 18 only Decessary to throw them open end the light streams in. Fancy the saviour say- jog to the discasea woman, “Go home, take some bee/ tea, aud pervaps you will be better in atew weeks.’ There Was Dune of that; and in search ing this Book you will find no statements in ac- cordance with it. Notice once more that Jesua perceived that virtue had gone out of Him. ‘Out of Him:? and I have no more prominent idea to place before you this morning. It is only in Him that salvativu can be found.” Could my tears torever flow, Could my zeal no languor know, These fur sin could not atone; Thou must save, and Thou atone. Our salvation 18 through the death of Christ. He las already died, and as far as He 1s concerned we are saved already. The d.M-ulty is, toough you oiten #ay you believe that He djed for you, in reality you do not believe it. Again, in the case of the woman, THE YEELING OF RELIEF had been realized. Was she bealed first or did she feel fret? Ui course the healing process must first tuke place, Faith may be likened to tne sap of the tree of which feeling is {he precious fruit. Once more ; He turned and asked, Who touched me? He knew, but He wanted the confession which mauy keep back, The woman knew tne virtue out of Christ had made her strong. And 80 with every one Who approaches the Lord. It + Seems as though this hand had been on the Master Jor twenty-five years, lieiping ine in every relation of life, and as [live Inever expect Him to leave ; Ine & Moment until I see Him tace to face. Une other thought:—She jeli belore pim and told all the truth, I can nnaerstand oe saying, It is too good to be true: but Christ's gifts Christ said to her. “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole.” Daughter! did you notice that word? She did not come claiming relationship; but tne Master cau give uo small thing, and with the same haud that healed her He lifted ner into the family of Goa. The same hand wich receives Him as @ Saviour recetves Him ae the giit o1 life, 1 | ask you, In one Charch tuere 18 a baby Christ, in another a paste- board Christ, and still another, a manuscript Christ; oat ours is a living, oreathing Christ. The issue which I wish to Pee belore you Is, press forward to film, not to Peter, not to the drown, but to Christ. Mr. Varley ciosed by a lervid de- scription of the exaited privileges of a Christian 10 this Dineteenth century and a renewed appeal lave you roceived this git? to his listeners to find out ali the virtue there ts | in Him who jor our healing gave His lie. | CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. SERMON BY THE REV. DR. DEEMS—‘‘SANCTIFY | THE LORD IN YOUR HEARTS.” | The Rev. Dr, Deems preached yesterday morn- ing at tre Church of the Strangers, Mercer streot, | near Eignth, be‘ore a large congregation. Alter | the reading of the lessons of the day and the | singing of hymns the preacher announced his text a8 taken irom the third chapter of the first epistle of Peter, veginning with the fitteenth verse. There is nothing selfish, he said, in true religion. On the contrary, the Christian takes care of him- sell by taking care of otter people, He becomes reireshed by teaching. The thought required for the instruction of others necessarily gives a men- | tal exercise which ts of true benefit, The texts read sbow that tne followers of Christ were among thelr veraecutors, but their pieaching and putting oD | are told that man is an omnivercus auimal, with | then, after the cattle are ; He is an athlete in | Appearance, wita florid complexion, dark hair | hings of the bible | Where | in the Scripture 1s it said you will find peace?” | St. Paul says, “For He ts our peace,’ and this | it is | are commensurate with fis character. | nerved them on to a successful expounding of the | Gospel and to the fuldiment of their glorious mis- | sion, Every man owes to his fellow man that he to | give testimony of the bee pen him, It ts cowardly not to do so, e sees it himeelf he oughs to explain it, and to give his thoughis iy | to others that ‘they may dwell upon them. He should give a reason for the be it is in him. “Sanotify the Lord in your ope tha: hearts,” as the epistle says. Many a young soul is afratd to tell ite experience; but 16 should not | be so, A pastor or the older members of @ con- gregation should have no terror for the youn eart that 18 full of Christ and of a desire to fully united to Him. It seems that everything else ta sanctified except the Lord; and success in any undertaking, as we dally see, sanctifies it, In the several avocations we sanctify the toll, the | mental and bodily tabor, that go to make up our | lite’s work. But we should have the Lora in oar | Dearts, imbedsed in all our ideas,-so that His | Presence shail ever appear in all that we do. The preacher then went on to give practical explana- tons Of datly life and how sanctification could bé secured simply by the love of God and the union with Him tn spirit in tbe varions vexations and pleasures that eacn day may bring us. CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST. MEMORIAL SERMON ON MAJOR JOSEPH, DR. BDWARD AND MB. HENBY DELAFIELD BY REV. DR. WESTON. At four o’clock yesterday afternoon a sermon in commemoration of Major Joseph, Dr. Edward and Mr. Henry Delaflela was preached at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth avenue, by Rev. Dr. Weston, rector of St. Jonn’s church. The text was taken from I. Samael, i., 23—‘*Saul and Jona- than were lovely and pleasant in their lives, andin their death they were not divided.” Dr. Weston saidi—There are times when death seems to come very near tous and we are made to realize more vividiy the brevity and uncertainty of human itfe, Such is the case when the pestilence visiteth by midnight and destroyeth by noonday, or when some awful calamity overtakes many of our friends and acquaiatances, or when we are brought down oy some severe sickness, or when the music of some be- loved voice tn the household is nusbed and there is an empty seat at the fireside. Such was the spectacle witnessed last Tuesday at Trinity church that for impressive solemnity was, perhaps, never before seen in our populous city. There was borne up the crowded aisles of vhat cathedral the remains of three brothers that had died within tnree days. There have no doubt been similar cases, in the events of accidents or of epidemics, where whole families have fallen victims at a single blow, but in this unprecedented instanca the deceased nad passed the allotted term of three- score yeara and ten, and come down to the grave like spocks of corn fully ripe unto the harvest, and all three -uccumbed to the same disease, Their united ages amounted to 250 irs, Two others bad just preceded them, the five aggregat- jug 409 years. The vast concourse ot mourners that thronged the spacious temple was AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO THEIR MEMORY. The remarkabie affection existing between them, which was maintained throughout a long life without a ripple of interruption, ending on); with their almost simultaneous death, has ested the words of the text, David’s lamenta- on over the death of his fallen iriends is mimit- able in tenderness o! pathos and ta hardly ex- celled 1 mis parmonate grief over the remains of his misguided Absaiom. Saul and Jonathan must have possessed most affectionate natures to have elicited guch a glowing eulogy from the Psaimist, Especially is his tribute to Saul emphasized and iutensified by the reflection that the King had persecuted him most cruelly; and yet his wrongs do not seem to have blinded bim to the splendid qualities that, despite nis infirmities, seem to have been possessed by Saul toan emi- nent degree. Especially does he dweil on the vir- tues of his faiien friend Jonathan. Saul had suspected the loyalty of his dauntiess son; but Well did that son vindicate bis integrity. He | died fighting valiantly for his royal Jather. and Jouathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided, They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than Hons. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul; who clothea you in acariet with other delignts, | who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. | How are the mighty fallen in the midst ofthe battle | 1 O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high 8)? The abiding affection of Saul and Jonathan was beautifaily illustrated in the lives of those wno ; have just passed away, and here we would | speak with becoming reserve. Into tne sacred | sanctuary Of those homes, darkened with their | great sorrow, we would not rashiy intrude, They | alone realize their bereavement and the stranger meddieth not.” The reverend doctor then read several extracts irom the press, detulling tne | record of the lives and eulogtstic of the deceased, but dwelt more particularly upon the life and char- | acter of Major Joseph Dei | Was intimately acquainted. In conclusion he | said:—I believe all tae brothers were loyal mem- bers of the Church, but Major Joseph Delafield made an open profession belore the world late in | lite, though wf we are to judge the ; tree by ite fruits he has nin me 80 | secretly in his heart. Emphatically ao | ee Mab, yet with characteristic modesty and | diffidence, like other good men, he did not regard bimself worthy to approach the tabie of bis Lord, | Lgave him bis first communion at thi chancel Tails. When to health he was @ ccnstant attend- | ant on divine worship, and, as I remarked iast Sunday, I often essayed to teach him, whose death ; Rag made so wise and who could teach you and | | me to-day so much of the | MORALS OF THE ETERNAL WORLD er sees through & ‘enerable man, he He had | he has now entered. He no lu | @lass darkly, but face to face. indeed belonged to another generation. exceeded the allotted age of man fifteen years, | | and in tmnking of this we are | of the good King Hezekiah who prayed for longer life, and in answer to 13 prayer ad fiiteen years added to his existence, And so bere was another man’s Ile lengthened out be- | yond the usual space filteen years, Was it in answer to the prayers of loving ones? Was it the effectual, fervent prayer ol the righteous which sent the siadow backward filteen degrees on the dial of ages’ When, ancientiy, some pamee a great man that nad gone, 4 lamed him ’ asked a friend, True, who has biamea Henry, Edward and Joseph Delafield? No one. Detraction ‘or once, in lie and death was sileat and censure was dumb, and they, with instinctive modesty, would have shrunk from anything like public eology. Yet we realize that the memory of their pure und unselfish lives is the property of | their survivors ana the vintage of humanity. | Lives of great mea all remind us | We may make our lives saline. Also in the hour of temptation and dtscourage- ment we see the jootprints on the sands of time, and seeing take heart again. Diligent in business, they may nave bequeathed material Wealth to their sona and daughters; bat they have leit them a more precious legacy—the heritage of a good name. They may have handed down a high and honorable escutcheon; but with the poet they may say, ‘Their boast 18 notthat they deduce their birth from loins enthroned and ru'ers | of the earta, but bigher far thelr proud pre:en- | slors rise,” children of parents passed into the | skies. | ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER M’CRFADY—THE SPHERE OF CHRISTIAN WORK. Tf one might judge from the large congregations which worshipped yesterday at the different masses In St. Stephen’s there can be little doubt that Dr. McGlynn’s numervus flock are entering lato the spirit of this penitential season. The high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father MeVauley. Generall’s mass in G minor was well rendered by the choir. The gem of this composi- tion, the “Et Incarnatus,” a. duet, for soprano and alto, was sung by Mme, Brignoll and Mie. Munier with much taste and feellng. At the offertory Mr. Romeyn, the tenor, | gave Rosasini’s “Oujus Animem’” with good effect, Tue Rev. Father McCready preached an able and instructive sermon on the sphere of Christian duty, He based his discourse on the Gospel of the day—Matsthew xvil., 1—9, in which is described the transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor, and took as bis text the exclamation of St. Peter, “Lord, it 18 good Jor us to be here.” The following ts @ synopsis of THE SERMON. reminded | the Church in the variety and appropriate selec. | tion of her motives of devotion. On Jast Sunday eld, Win who: he | We cannot but admire the wondertul wisdom of | | she presented us with the extraordinary sp:ctacie | | gimoat incredible, of tae Lord of Glory physically in the power of tne devil, carried trom the desert to the mount and from the mount placed on the pinnacie of tne temple, To-day she representa world to surrender io Him, Fatoer ‘is well pleased,” lawgiver and prophet. On last Sunday we en- vered on Our anoual fast, formidabie Indeed two Weak fiesh and blood. To-day, along our Way, & bright, encouraging, cheerin; light Sashes across our pato, Holy Charch will not permit 04 to lose heart, @ courage, she jast Sunday you sympathized with your Savionr io His temptation a suffering; to-day rejoice with Him in /iis exaitation. The latter | ag it were, the reward of the former. So suall 1 be with you, Go on; ee) the good fight, suffer with Christ you shall also be glorifed with Him, Welcome, then, merit even a passing gilt t beautiiul, | tg body of our long-suffering, incarnate, | live . Lard, it is good for us to be here.” Such was the ex-cianiation which escaped the lips of THE ENRAPTURED PRINCE OF THE APOSTLES | aiter hé had witnessed that cioreus transfigure- Him suwmoniog Moses and Elias from the unseen | as we stroggle | be suffering, Wf by it wo | of that whict, but for the Gospel testimony, would be | | the congregation. | position. | @one, May ali bear tieir burdens cheerfully and | roperty. There is a general unbeltel among mankind a rf | protest agalist animalism, The stream of thought NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. tion. 8%. Luke tells us that Peter Rnew not what he said. The b which he and all men It not by one ge act continued of activity, of service, It may lite long sacrifice and buaiiiation, that we can ex- ect to come to the glory prepared for us, bd mee ee be 8 worker, ago—"In face shalt thou eat thy bread’—there ‘unt e 8 of the Christian, that to which all the Diners must be subordinate, 1s the salvgtion of his own soul, This 16 the fleld unto whict’ he 1s called to labor; this is the vineyard over which God has given him charge. to work, to dresa and to keep it. od, who has left nothing undone for His vineyard, has ven our souls regene) in baptism, fertiltzed x His precious blood and plentifully watered by is cholcest graces, into our keeping. It 1s for us, therefore, to take care that instead of the thorns and thiatles aud weeds of ain it bring forth the rich, meritorious vintage which the Master ex- pects to gather and for which He will amply re- pay us. "ke the evening services the Rev. William Paul Costigan gave an eloquent instruction on contri- tion, In which be displayed an intimate knowledge of the buman heart and profound knowledge of moral theology. CHRIST CHURCH. THE USES OF TEMPTATION, A largé und fashionable congregation attended the moruing services at Christ church yesterday. The Rev. Dr. 4. M. Thompson occupted the pulpit, taking Jor his text St. Jamos, first chapter, second and third verses:—*My brethren, count it alljoy when yo fall into divers temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience,” The reverend gentieman said :—No Oristian can deny that God wills not the death of a sinner. It 1s His divine desire that all should be saved. Why, then, does He expose His children to temptations which bring that salvation into risk? Wedo not pretend to solve the mystery. It is one of the mysteries that clothes mortal life in folds of dark- néss, But we can throw some light upon it from the analogies with which we are familiar. There ts no growth except by active resistance to gs ;mething. Strength, whether physical or moral, is developed only by Pet ag and there ig always danger in the strain that is requisite to overcome the opposition. No man periorms any noticeable physical act without incurring the risk of injary to himself, No man gains a moral victory without having found a crisis where he might have failed. And tne victory in every case 1s in | proportion to the danger. The greater the victory the greater the strato and risk. The world is a great training school, and God 13 the Master. We are scholars, emoryos of what God expects us to become. Our nature being what it 18 there 1s no way that we can see to be trained into self-control, into perfect manbood, where Treason and wi!l govern appetites and passion, ex- cept by overcoming opposition. The risks must be by apd, we may reverently say it, also by He knows the risks .far~ better than we. The father who sends his son from the safe shelter of a home to the bustling, wicked city knows better than the boy the risks to whica he exposes him; but still the tather sends him, know- ing that it 18 oniy by eacountering and overcom- lng temptations a healthy, virtuous manhood can develop—a manhood where yirtue’s safeguard is not Ignorance, but principle. ‘Tne apostle had such a view in mind when he bade Christians “count it all joy” that they are in the midst of temptations. It is the noble joy that thrills noble souls when time has ripened. and the hour and the man are met. Another chance to win! Another barrier to beat down! ‘he rev- ereud Doctor conciuded by assuring his hearers that God’s hand was always within reach and ever ready to assist those woo sought it in troubie and temptation. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL IN- BERIT THE EARTH. Plymouth church wae filled to its utmost capa- city yeaterday morning. At hatt-past nize the crowd commenced to collect, and some time be- fore the beginning of the services eveu standing room was not available. The alsies, as usual, were filled with chairs, and the ushers were kept busy in their efforts to accommodate the throng. Even after every part of the house had been tightly packed there were long lines of would-be spectators extending across the street and up and down the sidewalk for yards. Many persons were unable to effect an entrance and sadly postponed their visit until the next Sabbath. Two large bouquets decorated the platform, one com- posed of clematis and jeesamine and the other ofa magnificent group of water Illies and camel- lias, The female element largely predominated in | At half-past ten Mr. Beecher, with a cheery emile, appeared upon the platform turough the small door behind the pulpit, the crowd being so great aa wrender it imposaivie for him fo enter in the usual manner. The great preacher looked remarkably well, and his face had an almost youvbiui expression. Divesting bimeelf of the tra- ditional cloak, he sat quietly with upturned face, while the choir sang a magnificent anthem trom Weber's Mass in G. <A very brief prayer followed, after which Mr. Beecher reaa, with mach feellog, the Tbirty-seventh psalm, which seemed a signifi- cant selection, considering his present critical The hymn commencing— how divinely fair, Thy dwellings are! was then sung and an eloquent prayer followed, In bis petition to the throne of grace Mr. Beecher said, “What are our praises to Thee? It is not the flower that makes the sun happy by hghting up its face to receive its rays, but it is the gun that gives nouris:ment and life to the flower. If Thou art for us who can beagzinst us? All things Work together Jor our gooc. We submit ourselves to Thee bearing our trials and saying, Thy will be manially, and learn tat it is not the darkness from night or terror, but the shadow of Thy. Wings. Whom Thou lovest Thou chasteneth.” Notices were then read, and Mr. Beecher spoke at length regarding the pew band of colored jabilee singers who will shortly give entertaininents for the benefit of Hampton University. Another hymo was sung, in which Mr. Beecher jomea with much Rising — hurriedly | he gave cut his from the fifth verse Of the fi1ih chapter of Matthew—*Blessed ure the meek, jor thoy shall inberit woe earth.” These beatitudes may called moral paradoxes. “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comtorted,” 18 an expression not likely to meet with wnqaalified approval. Men do not usually | think that afliction 18 a good thing. But what is meekneas? Are we quite rignt in our estimation — ol it? Meekness iaa quality, not atacuity. Itis a term th designates the spirit of the whole man und characterizes @ particular mode Of car- | Tage. Meekness may be described as the holdin, of the mind iu a cal, geutie and sweet mood, is @ holding of man’s self when he is roused by passion or rage. itis, therefore, « certain calm- hess and certain peace of mind and self-control. It is not a negative; it Includes tho thunder and energy oO! power. it is the b ide of \. Meekness does not necessarily mean feedieness. There is the meekness of weakness, the meckness 2 a middie nature and the meekness of a strong an, At this point of mis discourse Mr. Beecher launched out into nis jocular vein, and gave exam- | plea of cases were meeKness, like honesty was the pest policy. A very proud father has perhaps a #0 Who 18 in a way to form an undesirable matri- monial connection, Does the father, if a wise man, £9, to his son and stormand rage, putting down his foot with emphasis, abd. swearing that the connection must be broken? No; he goes quietly to the young man and enters upoa « mild conversation. “You have been visiting lately, 1 believe, my son.” “Yes, | havebeen going around @ litls.” “I suppose you have visited the Blanks,’ “Yea, gir, 1 have, and I have become attached——" *‘Uertainly, know, they are very worthy people, and = =you naturally have become attached to them.” “Ha 1am attached——" “Yes, yes, I understand; they are very good people, and you are quite right to visit them.’ So the father by mildness may avert the thréatened catastropne, which anger or imprudeuce would surely precipitate, Again, take the case of a creditor who has a debtor that he distrusts and for whom he has no security, he be pradent and ees, he does not go to mim with binster and bravado and say to him, “You owe me $50,000, and this thing has been going on long enoug! You must pay me at once or find sufictent security.” No; the discreet | creditor invites his debtor to dinner at Deimon- ico’s, and alter every one is in @ good humor he finds a chance to transact his business aud ap- proaches the tmpecunious debtor soitly and kindly. By the ume the dinner is finished the creditor has obtained security for his debt, and when the ci comes he is ail right, while other creditor: for their mon: in thls cage surely biessed 18 the meek, for he shall inherit his debto: z = S g 3 s > 4 sé = S 5 5 5 < 2 34 < the superiority o: morai forces. strength, boldness, cour and otner animal qualities, but there are very lew who believe in the, utility of meckness. The whole Bible is & Men pe! ‘e in running through the sacred book is a faith in calm, spiritual life, Ifyou can strike your ene! to Wl round you fool if you do no ni al says the world. You are @ fool 11 thas 4 he | Word, A man can do more by his higher nature than by the lower, Meekness and calmness are powers in tre world, We can alvide the great cities and the whole world into three classes—the top, middle and tue bottom. = middie stratum | at Sedan, | do not ple, and the pb! opher Plato, We have none of Alexander's b! in us, but the biood of Plato is in our veins. The Yankee is @ cross between the Greek and the Hebrew. Christ ts the roeteak exampie of meek- The words, ‘A reed will not gentleness are becessary characteristics, and ‘he Man who recognizes this fact end treats his sub- ordinates like men always the must successfu', A certain course treate ment strikes @ responsive chi he Numan heart. If you 1000 a Valley and snout “Father!” the echo will softly reply, “Pather 9 If you shout ‘Devil!” *Devii” comes back to yous So itis with men. Gentleness brings bavk gens. tleness, and that is the true softener o1 the hearts In diplomacy it is the same. The most successful diplomatists are those who are trustful, acd not those who distrust everything said and done, Count Cavour, whose death is be deplored for the sake of Italy and tne world, was an eminently trustiul, gentle man, and whose success was greater than his? Better days are coming, when Meekness and gentleness will be in the ascendant. A hymo was sung at the conciusion of the ser- mon, and Mr. Beecher pronounced the usual bene- diction, ‘The audience seemed impo hurry to leave their seats, and many Of the chron brethren. thronged aroun bore atin’ to shake him by the hand and to show theif unchanging faith 1 his Worthiness, TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE. A BROADSIDE AGAINST THE BULWARES OF UNI+ TARIANISM—THE DEITY OF CHRIST MAIN~ TAINED—DOUBTERS COMMENDED TO THB IN- ’ FIDEL CLUB. The Tabernacle was crowded yesterday forenoon by a very attentive audienve, who listened to a discourse by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage against “Unitariauisy.” He took for his teat Romans, 1x., 5—‘Christ came who is over all, God blessed. forever. Amen.” He began nis sermon by re marking that Paul was a reckless man in always tolling the. whole trarh, tt’mattered not who it hit or what theological system it upset. In this one sentence he makes a world of trouble for all Arians and Sociniaus, and gives a cud for scepticism to cnew on for hundreds of thousands of . years. We must proceed skilfully to «6(twist «this passage of Scripture or we sball nave to admit the divinity of Jesus Christ, All the vers.ons agree—Syriac, Ethiopic, Latin, Arabic. Perhaps this word God means a being of great power, but not the Deity? It 18 God over all. But perhaps this word God refers to the first person of tne Trinity. God, the Father. No, it ia “Christ came, who ts over all, God’ blessed forever.” So you see which ever way E take it 1 am compelied to leave it just as ali have beep compelled to leave it wno have gone before, ag an incontrovertible proof of tho eterpal and. magnificent godhead of the Lord Jesus Christ. About the differences between the evangel- ical denominations of Christians I have no concern, If I coulda by the turning over of my band decide whether all the world shall finally be Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Congregationaiists or Presbyta rians I would not turn over my hand; but bee tween Unttarianism, WHICH PENIES THE DEITY OF CHRIST, and Trinitarianism, woich argues His divine nature, there 1s a difference as wide as eternity. If Christ be not Goa, then we are base idolaters, If Christ be God, then those who deny it are bias phemers. “At the name of Jesus Christ every, knee shall bow, ali things on earth and things im heaven,’”? See ali heaven coming down on their Knees—martyrs, aposties, confessors and the Arcn- angel on bis Knees—before whom? Aman? No,’ & God! Kvery tongue shall confess that He is God. Men change; tue b changes entirely in seven yeai the mind, the heat, the affections change;’ but “Christ is the same. yesterday, to-day and forever.” He must be a God. * * I ask you if it is nog common sense to believe Uhrist when He sa) whether He 18 God or not? Ought not Be to know? 1ask Him how old He 13? and He says in’ 80 Many words, “Before Abraham ‘was, | am.” Abraham had been dead 2,028 years. Was Onrist 2,028 years old? He says 80; and in Revelation: He says, “I am Alpha;” Alpba being the firas letter of the Greek alphabet, 1s was as much as to, say, “I am the Alpha of the great alppabes, of all the centuries.” Lest Christians should’ think, lest we should think that this power. of everywhere-ativencss stould give out, Christ intimated thas He is going to keep on,’ and that on the da; fore the world’ . is tobe burned up, He will be in all the prayer meetings in America, Europe, Africa, 10 40,000 places at once, for He declares in 80 many wo! “Lo! lam with you always, even unto the end the world.” Now Christ comes and He says owns this world; He owns the next; He owns all the glories of the land and of the sea; He profeases to be vast in his possessions. 13 Be in tue sion of all those things? woes He own them all? If He doea not, what is He? An impostor. A man | with venerable aspect and gray beard comes tato’ the White House at Washington. He says to the’ President, “I am King William, ofGermany. i have come over fncognito for the parpane of. recreation and amusement. | gained the victor; “Suppose aster a while the Pr dent finds out that he is not King—whas then? An impostor. Now, the Lord Jesus Ohrist protessed to be & Ene eternal, immortal, invist- lo, the only wise God. I have shown you that Christ is Goa, from what inspired men have of Aim and irom what Ho said of Himsell; now Want to show you that He 1s God from His won- derful achievements, I suppose that all veheve the Bible. If you do not, what do you doin the Brooklyn Tabernacle ? Why do you not go over to-day and | ‘JOIN THE INFIDEL CLUB ON BROADWAY ? Why do you not beip them on the new statue of Tom Paine they are rearing to Boston? Why do iss not take your hat, and, stealing tne hynin 00K, a out and find assoclates among men whe lieve in the Word of God? Mr. Talmage then proceeded to discuss “the Saviour’s acbievements—surgical, alimentary, marine and Mortuary.” He never made a patient squirm under cauterization; Ao never tied am artery, and yet with one word He stuck fast Malchus’ amputated ear; He beat music on the drum of the dead ear; He made & man who had no use of his limbs tor bei Pu years shoulder his matcress and walk off. This Doctor of om- be nag surgery came up to the maa with the hifcless, useless, shriveiled arm, and Ho says to Dim, ‘stretch torth thy hand,” The man stretched it forth just as good as the other. He was a God! The speaker then depicted the miracle Of the soavesand fishes, the turning of the water into wine at tre wedding feast ; to the haul of fishes Which He vouchsafed the luckless fishermen, and to His allaying the storm 9nd walking on the sca. dc. He concluded his discourse by drawing a vivid picture of the resurrection and the judgment. He #aid:—Op that day, wuen Christ is surrounded by all the dominions of the saved, we will see what on awilul libel it was when men said that Onriat was only a man." THE NEW BISHOP OF PORTLAND. The Rey. James A, Healey, who has just been appointed Catholic Bishop of Portiand, Me., though still a young man, 18 one of the oldest of Boston's Prominent Catholics. He has been in that city upward of tweaty years, and hia departure will be lamented by ail classes and sects of society. He was at first connected with thé old cathedral in Franklin street; after that became Chancellor of the dioceses, and when Bishop Williams was ordained to the See of #oston Father Healy succeeded him as rector of the parish of St hae Dee the largest parish in New Eng- land. He is & man of untiring industry and large executive ability, and his lubors have been of great benefit to some of the societies of the Church ag Wellas to. the people of Dis parish. The diocese of Portland will certainly have in him a zealous and eMcient bishop. He has two brothers iu the pees one of whom, Rev. A. Sherwood lealey, 13 rector of the new Boston Catnedral, and: the other is rector of @ purish to SpringQela, Mass, BLOODY “YRAGEDY IN A SHANTY, ——_+—_—— RUM, ANGER AND DEATH—THE VICTIM UMs KNOWN. Some time during the course of Saturday night @ drunken quarrel, with fatal termination, touk place in the shanty of Philip Olwell, Fourtn ave- mie, betwe Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth streets, The first that was Known of the tragedy was at four o'clock yesterday morning, whem Olwetl sougnt out OMcer Goodenough, of the Nines teenth precincts, and informed him thathe nad killed an unknown man in his shanty duringa fight which had taken place between them wh both were intoxicated. Proceeding to the shanty Omcer Goodenough tound the report to as on the floor yp te dead man, with and contusions at his head and eversthing in the room indicated that th had mn @ terrible struggle between the parties, Oilwell said that the deceased, who had no hom entered his shanty and requested him to go out for some liquor. The request was ‘obeyed, and they both became very drunk and fought, which be kicked and beat the stranger in such at th e1 1d soon afterward, Olwe! ir nd taken to the statiom re tain Mount ordered him to be. locked up to await the result of an investigation {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGRI ,