The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1875, Page 5

pot See EE PULPIT ECHOLS. Mr. Hepworth on the Christian’s Ground for a Hope of Heaven. THE DISCIPLINE OF DELAY, Father Costigan and Dr. Booth on the, Ascens sion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. =~ LIMITS OF CIVIL ALLEGIANCE, Pharisees in All Religions and Occupations De scribed by Mr. Frothingham. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. WHAT GIVES US OUR ONLY RIGHT TO HOPE FoR HEAVEN. The brigot weather yesterday called forth a much larger congregation than usaal to the Church of the Disciples. Mr. Hepworth, while disavowing the intent on of making any rhetorical display yet couched his discourse in words which affected bis hearers most deeply. The text selectea wi the firat ohapter of the first episile of St. Peter, 18tn and 19th verses:—‘‘Ye know that ye were not re- deemed with corruptivle things, silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb witbout biemish and without spot.’ My dear friends, sald the preacher, what does that mean? Is it a truth? 1s ita myth? Is tt & faisebood? As @ statement it is either worth everything or nothing, Neither can we be satisfied with our own doubt as to its authenticity and value; a position of that kind is both unwise and uomaniy, If itis false it ia time we should know it; if true it ts ume we should act upon it.The statement, as given by St, Peter, is very defloite and explicit. It is not one of those vague passages which can be inte: preted inany one of a dozen ways, the probabili- ties im favor of a given way shitting, as a sandbar | At the mouth ofa warbor, with wind and tide. On the other band, it purports to be a clear, bonest, WELL DEFINED STATEMENT of avery simple but very precious fact—first, we are redeemed, and that implies captivity, that are we captives? We need not go to the Biole to set- tle that question, Our own consctousness ts a sumMciently authoritative standard. Are you bonds- meu, or Israelites, still working unger the Pha- raohs of Egypt, doing the bidding of others, hoping for reward, fearing the lash of puuishment? or are you the Roman citizens of God, made tree witu a great price, paid mot by you bu: by another— which ? if we are stili in Egypt 1t becomes neces- sary to pray and work for ireedom. If we are consciously iree it becomes us to spend the rest of our lives in thanksgiving .and praise and rejoic- Ing. You see the subject, dear iriends, concerning which I desire to speak, and I want to come-to | you, not as to a congregation, out toa@iitue circie of iriends; | want to speak to you out of the deptis of my heart. Icare nothing for rhet- | Olic, Dut everything for truth. I will not stand but com upon the order of my coming, @t once to the point of issue; Heither wil y Wita great care, Dut trust God to give me ihe ea: nesthess necessary to the expusition of this Got bel, 1 want to ask tuis question of you, “WHEKE ARE YOU GOING WHEN YOU Dig 1? Something must bappen. Have youany definite idea as to What tuat something Will be it is folly to live as thougn we were to II ort We are temuded constantly of tue sleader ue with whicu we hold lie; tuere is nothing quite 80 ccriain as the fact Of ceath, and he who makes no te: whatever lor (hat event is a jool. ‘he man Who looks face to Hogency 8 contingency that will tax every eic- meut ol strengts he possesses, and sirain to the utmost tension all the moral courage of bis na- ture—and yet glances aside as though it Were not imminen\, lives a lite of folly, the end of which ts inevitably remorse aud regret. If we were brutes we migut do it with impunity; li we were but fluweriug shrubs, that live their lives along til some croel han. tears them up by the rvots and Jeaves Luem to Wither, We mignt Gnd excuse in indiderence; bat so long as spirit of Almighty Gou is resideut in our hearts, 80 ioug as We are forewarned by § Of AdmMONIMOn aNd ten thou- Sand experieuces ulong the patos of life, we do Serious ibjustice to vurselves; aye, and set a gravely bad cxampie to those dear to usif we Hegiect setiiiug the one proviem of iife, whicn is dearn, to Ou: satisiaction, or without enveavoiing to Hud the suiution of that Gread enigwa to ike coward alJ O01 that grand transition to te hero, say, toen, my Drethern, thinx you you will go to heaven, wod “by Wat right do you think that ? burey chere must be some conditions anreceaent to your going to heaven. Can everybody go tuere? Wiiere, vieo, is tie Stanelard ol rigoc? where the punisumeaut of vice’ Heaven becomes simply A PLACE WIIH OPEN DOORS by which every soui thac dies can enter tnto glory. Is this so? is there uo Condition, and if there be Bconoition, have you acceded with it? Do you kuow What that condition is? Are you sure of the fusure ws you ure sure uf the word of God? Per- bups you Wil say, “God is so good and so merciiul that He caonot bear to see uny palo or huayer ang turst, OF puolshment,” and cepend om God’s good. tess. Nay, iy brethren, @ litle common sense! if you depend on that jou depeha bor on God gvoduess but u on tits Weakucss, aud God is nos Weakness. That siate is out A PREMIUM ON VICE, but I would jike to say sill further that some provision must be maue for tne futare jor your eins, DeCause (hal you have sinned Is not doubted, ana that there must ve peraon there 1s ne dou; and i God pardons sinners without any punish- Ment, tren iaw is BO law; Justice has aorugated ber throne, Gut li Gou is eternal jast.ce, where are you? {f God shall me.sure you by any staud- ard wharever, what will be your ineVitavie fate? en justice Speaks, Man dics, we will cali then lor the everiasting rocks 10 Cover us and call tor the foous to pour ‘heir weight upon us, that God's eye May DOL Test Upon us, Justice! U my Dieturen, tue oue thing oO: diead is justice! if mere were BO Oiler clement in God but that, [ were doomed indee Yet re- Memver, though there ts mercy all, avound- ing, justice is wot elimmaied from the divine character, avd there must be found some way by Means Of Which mercy shall redeem us, and Justice 1 sel! be satisfied with the payment of her deut, Mow? Let me go deeper, my brethren, Honestiy now, what have you anu I in our present Possession to DUF Heaven—with Which to bes God bo pive us heaven—anythiag? Let me see You say, “I have a good life.” Aye, my brother, a youd ile is everytinng, an honest wan is tne no- diest Work of God, and 1 should ve sorry to utter bsingie Word of deprecation against (he cadea- vor (6 ve honest, do not believe in a Christ- anity whica Cannot show itsell in deeds, and when 8 wan’s life contradicts its profession that man is # hypocrite, A wun’s lie, your life, if it is beauu- ful, is a Very acceptable offering unto Ged; but, Ab, let us thivk a moment. It just occurs to me Ww say that tue very best ile you cam lead 1s the Very, best tuing you can give toGod. Tuat is 4 STARTLING STATEMES Great heavens | ii we canuot be grate.ul when God gives us everythinz, them are we imorated, aud Laimost think #e are im that conaition when We think that because we are grateful we can claim dnyining. Everything we have belongs to God, ‘The least you can do is to be gratetul for tle things that are past; butif you go up to beaven with the recommendation ot @ good life, [ Unek God would smile on you. “Yes, weil done; you Were a goud aud faitufui servant. 1 gave you everytiing and now you come to me With @ little sheal of corn, aremembranve to me for all these things. Bre ‘iren, does that sheaf of corn pay jor all these years of watchiuiness? Does it pay for wile? for children ? jor the stream that quenched your Sates? and sa Diss “Wita this I expect to buy eternal Christ trom tuas moment in Bethlenem to the Mioment ne Was lifted up to glory? Do you say &t the foot of Caivary, “50 much jor me, and now I Wil give to Thee?” That is asweet motive and one that tie Bible Ut to human nature. Because God loves ui us to love Him; not because He ts a creator; not for reason except inat He first loved us, and e@ begets love, abd God's iove is poured around about us in such abuudauce thas if we onivy open our hearts to the appreciation of its greatness it will steal tuto our being as perfectly as the ottar of roses pervades tie jar tuat noldsit. If that ts tue power o! your ile you are born again; the oid heart hag been taken out, People talk to me abouc faith aud works; I have taiked to you avout buem this Morning. What is the relationsup be+ tween them? Jt i8 that of matrimony. Works are vie product of fatin and FAITH THE MOTIVE OF WORKS, and we canuot have jaita without love, On, brethren, the difference vetween love and fear! How | nate the counterieit of religion which tands in tie pulpit and taixs avout punishment veriastingly. 1 betieve God isthe Shepherd of wr souls; I beleve ii we trustin Bit He will bake us 'o Walk in green pasvures and lie down vy Stil Walters. So long as we tremble before Goa ‘ace With @ dread con- | Wel, 1 am giad to be remembered,” | Can you present your iittic sheal of corn | yearerday. | foruetn chapter of I When a soul 1s compelled to depart vernict I believe that 4 siiudder, whose tm heaven, on Its ow! the heavens to tts foundation stone, | ceasity. God would oot that any soul should die; | oy would redeem the huudredtn sheep, tnongh | reis vo power to briug the sheep i! he is uot | willing to come. bue turn your tace to the sunshine, if you can, and, if it be possible, see the sini.es of the Fatuer's face, and then go singing all the day. Religion 13 joy to Ail and uuion with the Father bhereaiter, | My friends, let us Bot Miss tle. us Lave it, inen. MASONIC TEMPLE. | MR. FROTHINGHAM ON PHARISEES, Rev, 0, B. Frothingham, pastor of the “Inde. | pendent Society,” preached yesterday morning to | @ very large congregation at Masonic Temple, oorner of Twenty-third street and Sixtu avenue, | Belore commencing nis discourse, and in accord ance with bis usual custom, Mr. Frothingham, tn @ tone of voice as deep and solemn as ap echo from the grave, sald, “Listen to the reading of ancient scripture!’ and read extracts from Cnt- nese, Persian and Hindoo writings, the subject matter bearing & remarkable resemblance to the New Testament story of the Pharisee and Pub- lean. The subject of the discourse was an- pounced to be “Pharisces.’’ Mr. Frothingham said:—I do not mean the Pharisee of any particu- lar type or class. We always think o! whem as spoken ofin the New lestament—a class of men ceserving of contumely and to be treaied with | contempt, for they Were the objects of the Vituperation of Jesus. We find also that outside of the New Testament, in the Taimud, for instance, they are spoken of as the very echo is What We cali an @arthquuke, shakes | to have but short er ‘and the | meteors that flash throne Oo: God trembles because of that awiulne- | into durkness fo: eve | plague of men, a8 @ class of people who were ca- | Pable of teaching and who did teach very beautt- | them deservin, haa a desire | secret soul of Christ, was a Pharisee, Josepu, of | Arimathea, who offered a tomo for tue body of rhe dead Jesus, was a Pharisee; and when the people of Jerusalem asked if any of the rulers, or Phart- | | Bees, believed in Cnrist they spoke of the class — With the most prolound respect, Paul was a Pharisee; indeed, be boasted of the tact; so that, | although denounced by Christ, we seo that toe Pharisees among the Jews were b tallof the same cla They Were not, as 1s popularly supposed, a | of it. Nicodem certain opinions in poiltics, religion or pnhiosophy. eee Pluce Im the Siate correspondeu wita that | of the | | JESUITS IN THE ROMISH CHURCH. | In that age they believed in the Jewish Church | through ana through, and had at heart iis per- Petuation as an tustitution. Their poeition so- Ctaliy Wus of the best, They velteved in the union of Church and State, Piety and politics went band iu hand. Jehovan was the ruer. He made | their laws and the propiets were His mouthpieces, ate Was supposea to have celivered them from | Dondage, anu consequenily Jehovan to them was | the first and last, Lue alpva aod omega, tue all in | all, They were patriots; they had guided their nation througn times of serious trouvies, They | hated tue Roman Empire, whose yoke they bure and under whose hee: they were, They abhorred | the Publicans, who were tax-gatherers jor the | Romans, and they suspected tue Sadducees; con- sequently they could not | lated, Thus they ureaded the influence o1 J | the Baptist, who in their view Was preaching an | insurrection, They were conservatives or raai- cals, a8 circumstances demanded. As to their | religious benef, they held sirictiy to tie law of | Moses, to the sacred writings of the prophets and | to the traditions of their nation, to tne must mi- nute detail. As relizionisia they bad the | STOMACHS OF OSTRICHES, ‘To them every sen- | they could swallow auytoing. tence in the Bible—yes, even detached Words—ha | some pecuilar significance, Tey Were exceedingly | | Puectilious about the law on the observance of the Sabbath, for tustance, for there were promises: aitached tu thes: commends. Jt was no wonder, then, that they should cry out against Curist, be- cause He put the sjirit velore the letier of tue Jaw—ine motive peore the act itself, They wero | formalisis by the very nature of taeir positon, Ali of the accusations, thereiore, made by Jesus Were periectly just, Inasmuch a3 they reiated to the typical Puarisee. ‘imey could not resist t | logis or their position. “i ane nolier than tho} | Staud aside,” seemed to be the motto of these mon, audit was the result of their owu exciusiveness, | Lhe potot I wish to make is this—this spirit of iso- jauon prevails ail over the world, cousequeutly there are | PHARISEES IN EVERY SECT. A Pharisees is a mav Who Is separated from his | fellows, who 1s exclusive and whu causes this ex- | | clusiveness and Judges ovner imen trom bis own | dpoint entirely. in tne very nature of things ch # man muss become hypocritical. There ts tie philosophic Pharisee, who ctaims to be in the possession Of a truth that ordinary mortais have not access ty. He livesin an ideal sphei He scorns preacners and preaching, and, Wrapping the rove 0; his meutal imfauibilty about nim, ex- | citins, “Stand aside; 1am wiser than thou.” The scleauhe Pharisee is the man of science, who, having got Oo tne trailor a new orde® of truths, plants bis joot upon them as on a pedestal, an Jrom ais position louks Cowa with contempt upon otuer meu Woo are seeking aller truth us earn- estiy ashe. He has the key, he thinks—no one eise has 1.—and consequentiy no one elxe can gain acmission to trath, Theo tuere 1s the Phart- see 0) SOcIety—tue mau OF Wouwan Who Claims to be of the dlite—tue vest society—or to belong to & high and most poweriu: party, ‘Ihe best type we ever nud io Chix Country Was the Soutnera slave- ho.der in the pany days o: that barbarous isti- tusiou, Ge Was the person Who was privleged. | He looked upoo the turut and inaustry of the North with contempt. He disdained money, Walle at the Sawe me the amounts Which ue iay- ished so ireeiy were iu reality stolen from the | negroes. ined there are the Pnarisees oi race. | The koglsh, for instance, piay the Pharisee to the Movgollan and African; Cnristianily plays toe Pharisee toward Judaism. ‘ihe early Onristans called the gods of Oliier religions devils, Wh even at tuis Jate Gey, with all our boasted clviliz ton, 1t 18 ho UNCOMMON thing to Lear a rough in oue of our lower wars, a creature woo never bas arisen to tie dignity of manuood, CALL AN ISRAELITE 4 CHRIST KILLER, Atraveiier in ao Lasteru couutry relates that OD the outsKiris of @ Lown he noticed @ plie of Valuadie goods which bad evideuily been there ali night. He inquired of (ue owner if be was not airad that thieves id rob hum of bis treasure. “tuleves rob me! Way, tuere’s not a Christian within Gweuty miles of here.” This was what @ Mosiem Pharisees thougut of a Christian, Every sectarian is @ Pharisee. He supposes that he aione bas the pearl of wreat price. te thinks that his siice of the Guspel cake contains the Wedulag ring, While all Of (he other siices are no better thau sweetesea bread. Every proies- Sion hus its /larisees—tue jaw, medicme, tue pul- it. Mr. Frotiimgham seo made severar severe comments ou the attitude of religious sects toward | the stave. Hie claimed that evangelical frotes- | tantisua had irom the Very start beeu an enemy to | the theatre. Inits narrow egotism it cinssea the theatre us an imstitucion of Satan, and whue he Was not to be construed as saying that actors and | actresses Were apy better tian any other proles- | sional peopie, they were cer‘ainiy no worse. In conciusion he suid thac (he one thing most needed In the World Was intellectual sympathy—tiat | broad charity which Would lead man to put nim- Seii 1 his Neigibor’s place, as tt Were, and Lo juage | from his standpoint, | | PLYMOULH CHURCH. | MR. BEECHER ON THE AGENCY OF THE DIVINE | SPIRIT AND MAN'S RELATIONSHIP THERETO. | Yesterday was the Sabbath appointed tor the | | baptism of children in Plymouth churca, and four- teen infants, varying in ages trom three yeais to two mouths, were presented to Mr. Beecher vy | their proud parents, tor the reception of the sacra- ment, It ouglt not to be necessary to say that the church was crowaed and that many people bad | Father a8 He knew im. We shouk to leave its doors, being whadle to pass between | them. On sucha glorious Saobath morning as vat of yesterday Mr. beecher's audience is not | | greater than upon aday damp und dismal, Pily- | | mouth church can only coutain a certain number | | of persons, and that number are within itevery | He said that He was tbe God of Abranam, but Sunday morving that its pastor preacues, | ‘The services, excepting the ceremony of bap- | tism, Were of the same routine as usual, but they were not by any means of an ordinary character. Both the pastor and the choir seem to have rein- jorced and recruited themselves for great efforts Mr. Beecher preachéd the best ser- | rae he ves onentemehned oa ae and the choitr— | Goa may be found there. Or, i you should say | wuicn ought to in whic Miss Anua Holbrooke, a contralto si Do you see your indebtedness to the Lord Jeeus | 4 bom sated made ber dévut in the piace of My Dunpby— and earnestne: The opeuing anthem, pbegin- | ning— | Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee, And ail the midnight shadows tlee; tinged are the distant sxies with glory, A beacon light hung out ior thee, Mr, Beecher made jah, gregation sang the 206th Bymu of the Plymouth — Collection, At its final cadence the doors at the | left hand side of the platform were turown open, | and a procession of parents, wita their infants, was ushered inty the church from the rear vest. bule, and condacted to positions im the arc ve- | tween the plativ, mand the jews. Mr, Beecher | | baptized the children ava the procession fied out | | again, The pastor now prayed | ng aod ferventiy | that, ameng many things, go angling Now suall meet | al) sounds sik 1bto harmon. extricate ourselves irom it us in; tor grace to resist thst animahzation which forces us at times tO sympathize Wich passions, that place we du not understand Him. Oh, precious mriends! believe Me, LOLs soul dies Without a shower Of yrict and wat patieuce may aot be permitted to serve | sect; ‘they Were not bauded together to establisa | tuen morality. be otherwise than iso- | Most radiant piace on earth, ohn pataeuc joy every one of its features—its low | Booth, “which is preseuced taus in these words | carelessly allowed to teed, ; Bot God's spirit omnipotent, omniscient t | @ Goa the result of proolems | Goa,” | MADISON | belieis availabie. | us—coat God ts the God of the living—is one of the | question, but to the doubt. | it true of the mture, | im the future. was rendered extremely well. After the anthem | {le St ve short prayer and read the | soul on, This The choir and the con- | U8 aud our de for aid and help to | the i thickers whicn snus | Couragement to the Church to-day, it makes an } aufual iniquity, He also besought that rne infants might grow into novle people, or that if any were lound | S they Might not ve like | rosa the sky and then sink | AC the end of the prayer Mr. Beecher gave out yinn 865, and then sat dowa as if to admire tie | bouquet of orenlds, ros€s, passion flowers, Likes of | seVéral spectes, emliaX aud ierns wiicn was at his side and the K.ngly purple flower, which itfted its high head out Oo! an ordinary garden por beiore him, at is leit band, it was ap agapantius— | an umbel topping a long shait of yreen, wnuse base was in a basin formed by leaves a! tuched to itlong, cimetar-like tolidtions, which 10-¢, | curved and drooped in grace over the rim of tie Vulgar clay pot, The 865tu hymn, Woteh was suug whie Mr. Beecher occupied tiimsell with admiring | the Mowers, {8 (un Liree parts--@ solo, a duet and a | chorus, Miss Lasar sang the solo very sweetly, | Miss Holbrooke proved inat she nas an exceilent | voice and meihoa by her singing with Miss Lasar | in the duet, The chow and congregation sang the | third part, which Was simply the refrain :— | Barth hus no sorrow that heaven cannot heal —_ | Mr. Beecher took a3 bis toxt the thirtieth verse — Ol the fourta chapter of St, Paul's Episiie to the | Epliesians:—"Avd grieve uot the Holy spirit of God whereoy ye ure sealed unte tue day of re- demptiou,’? He said:—"Lere, as in mauy other | places, the existence and the active agency upoa the human heart of the Wivine Spirit is aot su | niuch explained as taken for granted, Aud it 18 | bot needful (nat it should be explaines, | am willing to accept, Without expianation, without provis, that may avfect the reason. For along tume it was needful that men should have their conception of God cleansed. It became necessary that such a conception of God #8 arove out ol the nature of man suouid be changed; that the Creator should ve credited witi @ spiritual nature, and mot be conside as material. We need to cloine God with @ moval and spiritual nature, Yet our tous clotmpg God nas grown & habit of misrep- resenting Him, Which, in an opposite direc- tion, has doue alinvst as much to overcome we true conception of Him as did the gross idea, God 10 be represenied 48 nervous, vapttous, 1 tavley No! Tnere is nothing 20 patient a» Goal! in speaking of the divine spirit as a se; arate eie- ful doctrines, while not living veautiful ves, | ment or individuality of the Godhead, | uo uot un- | But we flnd on investigation that this sweeping | Geriake to explain i. condempation % unjust, for they were not all of | ‘ » Who evidentiy | the soul, for truth and to commune with the | 4Miovg Many med, every development of patriot It is sudicient for me to know that there 18 a higher spuit working u,on Every agreement in great feeling | ism, 18 an effect of the influence o1 Spirit, Maukind develops lirst into auimalism, then* into a rude guctal state and | afterward into reason and morality. So it bas | been on tne great biack continent oi Africa; so in Asia aud in burope; and su 1b has been iu America, among the wiite, the red and dDlack: among the Iree and the bond, ‘The great iuw has deen proved that out of nothiug cous everything to tne world. First zero, then sociailty, then reason and From this jaw is proved the exist- ence of the divine spirit. As Leverrier decided Jrom the perturbations of the planets that there Was some yet unseen planet so we must deter- lune jrom the law o1 vevclopment that there are in the universe certain over active moral in- fluences. If it Were not so our scheme of lve the divine | would be uncapped, imperfect, even tatuitous, ‘Tne doctrine of @ divine spirit, coutibued the preacher, is one that is proved by the ieeling of | every Man that there is something he needs out- Side of tae influences of sociely. Beyond society, church or cutuedral man needs the tietfanie, and iis tuis jueifable quiity im God which 1s repre- sented (0 us by the term “divine spirit.” afr, Beecher gave some very striking Jivustrations of the fact that there are many things woich to some people nave an ineffabie value derived from sou! and heart associations, aud not irom tne formulas of tne world, 1he poueliest house on this continent 18 one, perhaps, which some oi you think of as the | You remember with wable eng, its head-bumping garret, the cresking Weil and the dovrsiep Where the auimais were I go with you to the house and | say, “Here's where you were born, In Lhis Old rainshacsie house;”” but you say, “Here's Wiere my oid motuer sat,” ava with such earnest patios, 1p loues barlened with love, that | Lam stilled and do not disturb the maren of re- surgent memories in your wiad ana heart. There q | 18 wany @ man Who, Wille ae Would cry'at a cer- Tain vayrick, Would ot be able to emit a tear ina cathedral; ana olten a mua wii do himseli much g00a by swinsiug an old door back and forty aud isienibg to its creaking, He Will say, “An! it has tue same old sovad,” aud his mind Will be Mooded with memories Of Nis Doyhoou, I beiieve it is the nature of God not only to quicken ali jo: ms of na- ture and phenomena of every kind, but also to shine directly down into tue soul aud dictate its bester emotions. The apvstie says, “Know you not you are temples of Goat” | Aud now we cume back to the injunction of the text:—"Gileve not the Holy spirit of cone Is ow We cannot see God cogitate a God, but not the God for us. are the pure in heart, for they shall The eyes are in the affections, and wien | voey kept clear we may see Goa, Tnereis | maby @ man who lives jor (he tings of this life— thatis, simply tocat. He prices bimseli on being | @ goou citizen—even a pudlic beneruccor, for be pays his butcher aud his grocer; and he says:— “i have done no harm;1 have doue my duty,” Yet ne is @ man Wuo bas made bis paanch | his god; who has ade bis velily ws monarch. Oh! collopy man! Oh! obese wretch who 1 feea me, leed me alwa: ‘Tuou art no bette the oyster thuu aey st! Thy hor- izon is bounded by Fulton Market. Tnis man who devoies nimself to eating, when the Divine Spirit reaches pim, what coes ve find? Little here, Dothing here, sumethiug here, and very muco he:e. The sun shines upon the granite Tocd, but what does the granite rock bring forth? The sup of the Divine Spirit suimes down upon all men, but some erect barriers of sensucusness to avoid Its rays. Mr. Beecner now went on to speak of other sius wuich interpose between eu ana the Divine Spirit, Mo dilaved apoa avarice, auG tuensaid: You have ali heard me exhoityou tO Make movey, because indusiry 18 One of tue grancest virtu But lcondemn tae making of money into a G Avarice, wheu it resuits 10 | this, is aC beistic and oppused to a ings of God, Ina@like manner, continued Mr. Beecner, | ere 18 aN intense egoiem which interposes be- | tween some men ana God. A suvdject of this | comes to tnink of hiniself as & God, and to believe the world purblind taat it does not see his great- | ness. in suort, » Man may net be gross, sensual then can We glieve it? through opacity. We can | or avaricious to destroy the elements in sim which please God, but pride, inience and iotolerapie conceit, will intervose between a man and Gd, Mr. Beecher again read his text and said, Les me read the coulext, baving done which, be said, Ths is What ihe World calis gush—a mush of magnanimity, ‘There are men ‘Who put Up these verses 10 their counting rooms, It is @ good tolng to do. Let me reaa them again, He began, “Let all bisterness,” and then stopped Treading to Fay “The least dit of bitterness will spoil a can of milk.” Having ended the Onal verse of tue chapter, which begins :—“And be ye kind to ove apvther,” be supplemented it with this ad- vice :—"But when @-aiun annoys you more than usual, Daze away at sim, and then you can read the verses again with the reflectiou that ‘after ail @ man canudt always be @ saint,’ ” SQUARE PRESBYTERIAN CHUROH. THE GOD OF THE PRESENT—SERMON BY THE REY. W. J. TUCKER. The morning services in the Madison square Presbyterian churcn yesterday were conducted by Rev. Dr. Adame, the venerable former pastor, and the Rey. W, J, Tucker, the young pastor-elecs Dr. Tucker preached from Matt. xxil., 32~“lam | the God of Avraham, and the God of Isaas, and the God of Jacob. God 18 mot the God of the dead, buc of the living.” Toucbing a future life, he began, God is not the God of the | dead, but of the living. From Ais works we learn the secret of tue power and helpfuiness of Christ. He gave men access to God, and showed them God’s compassion for sinners. Go through ail the Gospels, and you wil) find that Christ’s one endeavor was to show God to man, to | draw men unto God and (o make them know tne ake our best | ud try to make all Christiag je thought which ts now vefore thoughts of Cg conceptions of God that has been given us by Christ. Christ addressed Himseli not only to the Wherever God ac- kKnowledgeu lumsell as a God 1. Was of the living. Abraham was dead, Abraham lived ia esernity, and God's covenant was ever the same to him, Mf | God is the God of the living, then He is the GOD OF THE PRESENT, Living in the past 18 not living. Neither ts It I shoud where you find God you might answer among the men that walked 10 the olden tame. | would say that He might be with them. Or, if you shoud answer that God is at Mount Sinai, | would say sureiy | that God may ve found at Calvary, I would say surely He was there. But God may be jound here, Where men are sinning and suffering, struggling sang Wita great power ot expression, sweetness | under temptation and fighting out the batiue of | Ive, there 1s your God. Some Christians call up | their God out of the past, and others picture Him Religion, as many live it, is open to selfishness. if a religious Ife meaus the way of getting to heaven let us not only try to get there | ourselves but to heip ovners on the good road. |i let heaven be the end, i of life He urges every dea keeps up 8 connection between We oiten speak of death as the | great destroyer; but there is @ love that is stronger than death, Deatu can break up all we have in common With other souls. For a time we look oUt upon the same scenes, Tead the same books—in_ iact, enjoy life together, and death comes, We still have the same sights, hear the same Voices; but where is the one who gave to all these jamtiat objects a colormg? But are we cat off? Have we nothing in common wiin those who have gone before us’ We have the same God, | and We are here in the Midst of jile’s struggies, he sounds whien | They live ina oigner plane tnan we, but we have | Who, then, decides the claims o1 tradition to tw where | one God and the same aim, This idea Laat God 1s God of the living offers gieat en- | Infinite aiference jo religion WHERE YOU PUT GOD. It matters greatly to-day Whether we are living | | Gal wil. | nance. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. : 5 upon the momentum gained in the past or whether we have been put im metion by a now force ac'ing tn the present. Why may we work joyfully to-aay® Because there ts a spirit in every heart teat turns to tue living God. to-day a God that has beea moved, and tiat stands a8 Acrovg i His holiness as when He spoke on Mount Sind, es tenaer as He who suffered on Calvary. [say unto every one of you as you go out into toe Workshop of iife, He is your God as you are living men, Si. STEPH. CHURCH. THE REY. FATHER COSTIGAN ON THE ASCEN™ SION. The bigh mass at St. Stephen's yesterday morn ing was sung oy the Rev, Father Byron tn presence of alarze and atrentive congregzaiion, Gordigiani’s mass Was rendered by the choir wader the direc- tion of tha organist, Mr, Danorth, The *Gratias Agimus,”’ au alto solo, and tue “Quoniam,” a bass solo, were given With good effect. At the offer. tory Mr. Romeyn, the tenor, sang the “Ave Verum” with much taste and feeling. After the first gospe! the Rev. Fatner Costigan ascended the uipit, aud, faving announced toat the Rev, Father McCready would lecture iy dt, Steplen’s on the 2gd inst, in aid of the poor of the parish, preacied @ very insiractive sermon on the lessons taugit by the asceasion of our Lord, ‘the suo stauce of ‘’ THE SERMON was:—“Ye men 61 Gaitiee, way do yon stand look- ing up ito neaven? e may day that the ascen- ion of cur Lord periecica tae eud which Almigaty God had in view Jn the creation of man; for God created wan in order tuat ue mighc enter into heaven and flil up the palaces let vacant by te faten anvels, But by men’s own fall heaven— Which during the time o1 lis Inuecence had been open ready to receive him on the completion of bis cour, upon earth—was closed against him, And how Was heaven to be opened? By the mys- tery of the incarnation, itis true; yet not py tne tirst act, but by ibe last. Bacu detal of that great | mystery brought with it som contributed its snare toward Tedemption of mau, Our Lord intended to be upon eurth visibly ony for a time, and if i8 both just and generous tat huy- tug accomplisned all that he bad to do, we suould rejvice ac His triumpnant retura to heaven, Tne aration impiled 8v much sudering and humilt- pecial glic and the compleve ation~look at Bethiehem, Egypt and Calvary—aod | Was (aa scuce to continues? ‘The ascension implies an act of restitu ton to the sucred numauiry, By the Chured the ascen- B10 lus a.Ways Leen held as a great solemnity, itis sne who has given to it the nameof admirae bie, Tue ascension orlugs heiveu closer to us, because tt encourages the exercise of those vir- thes Which led us on fo heaven. [rayer, that exercise in Waich Laith, hope aua jove can all God expression, is encouraged and made mw re couf- | dent whea we tnink of the ascension. With such athougnt {ts is nut diMcuit to say—“Our Father, who artin heaven.” kor our Father is there and the ascension draws us aver Him, | UNIVERSITY PLACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. DR. BOOTH ON THE ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST, | Yesterday morning Dr Booth preached on the | subject of “The Asceusion.’’ Be took his text from St. Luke, xxxtv., 50—“And he led them out | as faras Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them, and it caute to pasa while he biessea them, he was parted irom them and earried up into heaven. ‘Lhe sequel or lesson,” satd Dr. SERMON BY is, ‘Are we prepared? Thus for the last time Christ stood in the widst of His disciples, and it is | not lor you tou Kuow the times or seusons which the Fainer has put in His own power, course, it is not for us to jook into the future, and it is not necessary Jor us to know, The love of these disciples for ther leader was shown by great depth of feeling in toils last meetng, and wolle rapt in intense admiration they saw His face light up ana a glorious halo surround His person. ‘Ten call- lug Mis litte baod around Him and saying tne biessings of the Father aud the Son and the Holy Ghost, He commenced to rise, and to tnelr speecn- | less astonish went cou tinued to rise until He passed irom their stent. When they had recovered irom | their lutense excitement and woucer they looked up and beheld two men Gressed in white standing | near tuem, who said to them, ‘Ye men of Guilee, | why seand ye gazing into heaven’ This same Jesus whicn is taken up trom you into he: en | sali 80 come in like manner as ye bave seen Him go into heaven.’ The fact t! Son of God cendes into lieuven brings to us more surely i Joyiui certainty that we shall visit tue heavenly Thus the ascension to us is as an uplified torch to jead us to a heavenly home, THIRTY-FOURTH SI'REEL REFORMED | : CHURCH. DE, RILEY ON THE “LIMITS OF CIVIL ALLE- GIANCE."” Yesterday torenoon the Rev, Dr. Riley preached a forcible sermon in the Reformed Dutch churea, Toirty-fourth sireet, near Bignth avenue. He was attentively listened to by a select congregation, who were evidently moved by the preacher's elo- quence. The text was Matthew, xxil., 2l—“Ren- der therefore unto Cesar the things which a’ Cmsar’s.” The text marks with divine clearness the limits of civil aliegiauce. Nineteen Cariatian centuries could be calied to witness that there is no More vital conflict tuan that between human conscience aud human ambition, The astounding | doctrine of the Pope’s iufaliibility gives to man the attrivute of God. Limitiess autnority is thus givea over tne minds aod tivns of men; and tis could not tail to bring on nacious struggle between meu’s cuty to.the State and their devo- tion to the Churey, The great Empire of . many bas now staked her very life upon the issu ot the present struggie with the Courca of Rome. Men 80 well educated aud highly civiiized as the Germans undoubtedly are canudt fail to see and appreciate the MAGNITUDE OF THE CONFLICT. They see and measure those pretensions of Rome which aspire to enslave the souls of mei Here, 19 America, Our great Centennial annive: sary loses its value and significance if we to surrender the iiverty of our con- sciences at the bidding of tne Komish Pope. There may yet be @ cuilisiou, and that soon, too, between Stale autuority ant tie Pope's spiritual preten- sions, Tbe cruel and despotic Alba may again have to be oughtin some otner form ou the fleids of free America; tue bioody Inquisition | have to be put down once more and reltgivus liberty agai purchased at tne price of biood. Anytuing short of complete domination over men’s bodies as well as consciences will not ry imperial Kome, The conflict between Pope people m soon Come. and When it does, then will our repuh- | Neanism and jove of liberty ve vrougut to a severe | test. The crafiy Poarisees wanted to entrap | Christ by asking I it was right to give tribute to Cesar or not. They wantea Him to indorse th yayaient Of tribute to Caesar, and thus spoil n infiuence Witu the Hebrews while these people auxiousiy looked for the overthrow of Kome’s imperiai legions, But the Pharisees were sorely disappointed wuen the divine Master, by tie flat of His mighty word, forever drew the line be- tween man’s uuty to God and bis allegiance to the Siate. And the ackuowleaged great lvyalty of ent as Weil as modern Christians to te laws of the countries wheveio they have lived shows that the precept of Christ has taken Ineradicabie root amony the faithiul of His Couren. ‘Tuere are three elements in this question—the civil power of the State, the Charca and the con- sulence of the ividual; is @& triangular baitie for supremacy. Ti Church forcea King Heury 1V. to siand humbly at the Pope's door, und belore that, thea aud now, | Works incessantly for the eosiavement of men vodies as Weil as their minds. The consciences of ecciesiastics crave THB ALLEGIANCE OF EMPIRES, Bismarck says$ HO; Chis shall not Such alle- giance as the Pope claims means sabjugation of conscience io an earthly ruler, With the Refor- mation Came emancipation of consctence. Rous- seau declared that governmeat 18 norming but & social compact, avd others bave taught that in every generation society should be broken up and reorganized. Communism goes s far as to thin that there 's DO authority but that of the individ- Let these theories run riot in excess if they choose, but we must acknowledge that the nation’s being ts in conformity with God's ordi- The pation’s life comes not irom a singi but is born Of many families. It 18 something dii- terent and stronger than the emanation of family ties. The authority o: our government does not rest upon the right of conquest, its rulers rule by the grace of Goud, The nation’s lhe 18 sacred avove ail human things, and there is no ower but thas of God etit, The nation 1s ordained by God, It i8 His servant, and receives from Him its power. Its jaws are (hose of Gou, and it bh the power tO make men do right. it emana from that authority which is avove ali nation: Its authority comes not because the majority vote it, but because the majority bold authority as @ trust from God, it issues irom the moral nature of man—that is the state—and bas an organic Unity in itseif, Tue word ‘Church’? means “the Lord's.” It 3 eternal communion of saints. It founded by God Himself, through the Holy Ghost— ruled by thé same head and maintained by the sume soul. THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH in its sphere 18 the same as that of the State tn ite sphere. Ihe Church avd the State make the great purposes Of God move to a bappy termination, Winence comes the issue, then, oetween Cuuren and State? it is sin, the desiroyer of all human happiness, that does it. The Church ang State or obner Mmstititions can come into no conflict with each other Qottl sin intervenes to corrupt them. The blame put by the one upon the other ts bi awuse there 18 sin between them, What gave the power to bind the conscience? Traditio power! It iS the conscience Of the Individual The binding autnority o} the Scriptures themseives depend upon ssheir rational appeaito men’s pri- | vate judgment. The divine condempation of sin rests upou human responsibility. There is in man an mnAte POWer Ol discovery Of Tight and wrong, 1 bring to you | and, of | #o taat between them | Ne | weight. Bayard Taylor ne | | Ths power is the last tribunal to which men can | appeal, Ovnscience, as it 18 called, is not the Judge; it i# the eve, the mouth, the ear, the will that direct the decision CONSCIENCE IS NOT THE WORD. the doing of right in tue sight of Liverty of | te 1s Goa. Ith God that makes consclence powerlul, conscience {3 not a rule by which |can invent private regulations lor my own government, It 1s the voice of God 1p men’s souls; tuat power of laying hold of the truth. Dr. Newman, oue of the | bighest among Koman Cathohe autnoritics, says | | that “couseieace recognizes not the convemence | Of the state, but 18 a messenger ‘rom Him who | teaches ali good things.” 11 is the voice of God. Couscience is at tne door of public aud tig places | rociaimung what 13 right aud condemuing what is wrong. Conscience mare Pilate & coward and Judas bang bimsel). he State may demana aile- | giunce, but conscieuce reiuses to Lend the knee. The Churen may set idolatry in the place of God and With dlasphemous efrontery proclaim @ man fnstead of Gou, but conscience Will reluse to ac- | Koow.edge the J. Ihe conclusion to which we | come 18 that flual auchority 1s ia the will of God, And couscience the power whereby we can know tha Will, | seeder | ST. THOMAS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH. | THE DISCIPLINE OF DELAY—SERMON BY THE REY. DB. W. F. MORGAN, St. ihomas’ Methoalst Episcopal church was | well fitled yesterday by an eager audience to lis- | ten to asermon by Dr. Morgan on the above sub- ject. Tne minister took his text from Acts, L, 4— | “He commanded them that tuey should net ae- | part from Jerusalem, out wait for the promise of the Father.’ This day, said the preacher, was in aucient times called Expectation Day, the oniy | Lord's day that intervened between the ascension | of Jesus Christ and the deacent of the Holy Ghost. it represented the period daring which the apostles wele oveying the command ot their Master, when Iie commanded them thut they Stioula not depart irom Jerusalem, but Wait ior | the promise of tne Father, Jt was, DO doubt, @&@ day of jalense suspense to | the aposies, but delay was oue of the ways that | God bad oj teaching us ani bringing us bearer to | Him. Delay Was mauilest in everytning in na- ture. Tue veautiful sprinz that we ailso dearly love, did NOt at a Bingie ivup leave the lap of win- ter, bat ner cominy Was a delay, Aud so with the flowers—tuey do not c me op from the earth at | tne first touch of the warm sunsime, but thew | coming 18 SioW aud Gelayea, And so WU delays | the fuifimeat of some of His promi two uls chidren tuat He may the better teaca them ovedl- ence to His will, ‘Ute divine said that we snould | all thank God for the discipline of delay. We | snouid thank Hiu for cloggiug our feet woen we were tempted to go too fast, for it was this very discipiube Of dclay that made us ponder and | think, aud so fitted us better to soar on angels’ Wings to that home that ias been prepared ior those who do tue Masters will, Lhe disvipline of deiay Was God’s excellent method of regulating | buman efforts, and we snould not repine at it. | The aposties did not repiue when told oO tarry at | | Je:ussiem and wait the Fatner’s promise, and | surely we have no rignt toexpect to be exempt | from falling Under God’s yoveruing laws, Rather | let Us thank Him for that law; iet us lay it to our hearts, and say (hatin Gis wisdum God has pro- bist this méaps to teach us more clearly our uty op earth, He had to come under this divine | law, and He taught His disciples in the beautiful words of fhe text, that they, too, must submit, All divine laws were good and beautiiul | af men would only look at them lu the rignt light, | and tney were not hard to obey if we made up | Our minds that they were jor our good ana iuily | determiued to ovey tiem. | iasung to those who obeyed them, and no man could ever repent of having truly sought the Saviour or of having bowed meekiy as te did | the divine wil, God nad given us no Lerribie commanas; they were lignt and pleasant, anu He Was willing at all umes co listeu Lo Our BUppilcae | | Hon, to heip as fund the way, and tv instruct us | what the commands were {: we asked Him, and it Was ior this reason taut He deiayed. discipline us, and we shouid accept His command | as did the aposties at Jerusalem, and tarry ior tae | juidlmeat of His biessed promise. GENERAL SHERIDAN’S FATE, HOW AND WHEN AND WHY IT HAPPENED—TEHE GRE\T CAVALRY LEADER VANQUISHED BY A BLONDE—WHAT I8 GOING TO HaPPEN WHEN THE JUNE ROSES UNFOLD—A FEW WORDS ABOUT HER. CHrcaGo, May 3, 1875. When that plocky little Lieutenant General Philp H. Sueridan, United states Army, was telegraphing irom the capital of Louisiana to whole atmosphere was charged with assassina- tion, that an armed banditti waited but a /avor- able moment to break forth revolutionists, and | that he was not afraid, how iew of the people of the United States, who, witi varying comment, ‘the blessed Saviour suifered deiay while | ‘They Were Ihe ever- | He did i to | the Honorable the Secretary of War that the | GENERAL BEAUREGARD AND THE WAR. To rae EDiror oF THe HERALD:— Asa Northern man, intimately acquainted with General Beauregard and the more personal events of nis career, permit me to offer afew remarks upon his recent letter to Governor Porter, of Tea- nessee, which by some has been greatiy misunder Stood, partly because so materially misprinted. General Beauregard Js a man of very great natura) kindness, ana this was one of the traits which wou for him the devoted attachment of lis officers and men, Torough the same spirit he was careful that the kindest treatment should be given to all cap- tured i0es, and, consistently, since the war, nu Confederate leader las been more moderate iu counsel, when asked for it, and more earnest tha' the strife of bygone days should yield to the moral and material benefits of am honest recoucilement He has met his old comrades of tue United State Army on tue most iriendly terms, and, daring the recent menace of war with Spain, he attended, with some of them, wn inspection of the Mississippi deiences, freely communicating the results of bia own recent thought upon pertinent military mat ters, In aletter to the writer at the time, he ex- pressed his pleasure over their cordial renewal 0; old associations, saying:—‘*T'his 1s truly clasping hands across the bloody chasm |’? The invitation, therefore, by the soldi and citizens of Chicago “to all those who recognia the American flag,” &c., could not have embrace¢ amore gallant and generous heart, amd I ain suri that the bouncing objection, made on that occa sion by an individual bearing a military title, that | no invitation should be sent to General Beaure gard, “aa man Who bad said he was in favor o} shooting all prisoners taken under the American flag," would not have received any notice from the General bad he not oeen addressed on the subject in a friendly letter by the Governor of Ten nessee. Then, with @ characteristic irankness, which will not eurprise his friends, the Geceral, while statiug to Governor Porter what bis actual treatment of prisoners bad been, reierred aise to the discussions about retaliation raised by the casual exigencies of the war. As to his actual conduct, he deserves the high est regard from those of his former enemies ts whom gratitude 1s pot an absent quality, Tau may be shown by a few signal tustances, First—Atter the battle of Manassas he spon taneously paroled the captured federal surgeons, awaitlag the government's assent to his request tor their anconditional release as non-combatants, which was granted. He urged that this should be | the practice on both sides to the end of the war; and, in like manner, he released the surgeons captured at the battle of Shiloh, If contrasts are | to ne made, it may be said that General Halieck, later, when sending back a Confederate surgeon, | exacted a regimental lieutenant colonel in ex- change. This treatment of surgeons as non-combatants, introduced fourteen years ago by Beauregard, bag | been iecently proposed in Europe as a humane | innovation. | Second—At the battle of Manassas some six or eight Ruode Island soldiers were captured whe had shown personal kindness to a wounded Con. | federate ofigér. These men were unconditionally | released by Beauregard upon his learning that tact. Third—At the battle of Ball’s Bluf papers we: found on the dead body of General Baker, which afterward seemed necessary to vindicate General Stone, the federal commanaer, when he was put | on trial for nis conduct of that action. These pa- | pers were chivalroasly seat by Beauregard, | under a flag of truce, to General Stone, because he himself had shown particular regard ior tl | amenities of war. Fourth—lt occurred frequently that, pending operations, captured prisoners were brougnt te | headquarters, These recetved their meals at | Beauregard’s own mess tabie, having the same food as bimself and staff, and on several such occa sions were received as immediate guests, without | Telerence to their rank, | Fyth—In 1863 a number of negro prisoners were | captured on James Island iu an attempt that was | made to carry toat vital portion of we delences of | were watching his course, knew toatin that very hour he had mev his fate; that for the frst | time he was vanquished, and that too, by ‘the all-powerful god of love. Whatever recollection Louisiana may have of Sheridan, Sueridau’s remembrance of Louisiana is so | fraught with endearing memories of @ personal, | that all thoughts of @ pouticul character Must re- gentie, kindly tinge *.om the aasoctath tue bright of that memorable Jan. wary ufair in tue Crescent City that tne Lieuten- ant General became tne accepted over of the t | young lady whois to become bis wile in June nex | THE STORY AND THE ROMANCE OF IT, | The Presiaent’s instructions to General Sheridan anent the Louisiana mat! were, among other things, to give his trip the appear- ance of @ pleasure party, but to keep his eyes about bim, and, if need be, aswame the viMeut reins of command, With this view ho invited his brether, Colonel Michael Sheri- dan, to accompavy him and to briny young Wie, a miec of Colonel (as Just received his mertied romotion’ to the chiettaincy of tae Commissary partment, fo stil iuriher merease tne | numerical strength of ois perty, he suggested that Miss (irene, the young daughter of his old army iriend and valued staf oMcer, General Rucker, of the Quartermaster Geueral’s Deparc- ment, be the quest vo: ois sister-in-law. He kKuew the young lady a3 a bright, tutetligent giri who had Made many conquests among the susceptible youog ollicers, vut had no thought of personal danger. 1¢ had not occurred to him to be afraid. rangement Was agreeable to every | MacFeeiey, who one, and the party started. Tue political results of the known the nation over. The persou 4to Pailip H. Sheridan Wii be known in June next, when the estimable young guest oi tue journey Will, by the license of ihe State, the word 01 the priest and the cousent of the parties most interested, write, mstead of Miss Kucker, Sheridan, As yet THE ENGAGEMENE is only whispered in the army circie here, which, As this is the Aeadquariers of a military divisioo, is large, elegant and select. While the General's ice is appisuded, tue Worldiy-minded wonder Dat sO galant and distinguished an ofMicer as the Lieutenant General, who had toe entre ol the Mis. Poiip H Most Jashionavje society im the jand, and Whose prestige as 4 solaler would conier distinction upon any family whico he might houor with a marriage counection, had not iong nee made uu ailiance with some Wealthy lady of @ Jamily known by its elegance, hospitality, cul- ture and fortuse to the whole nation, Batitisa warm and manly heart that beats under Pail Sheridan’s brass outtons. With him mercenary or merely social considerations could have no junc— ihe bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring. | So itis with Phil Sheridan, Such a man must | marry where his beart prompts, not bis pockes. | For that matter he is rich enouga, and, as to social aavantages, bis rank Will always procure him such | ashe .ay Wish. Ati this seems \o be disparaging | the young lady whois to be the Lieutenant-Gene- | raiess. Butit is pot. Ali she io the eyes of those woo would find awie for Phil is weaitn. she is young, beautiiul, brigat and accomplished. She is & Dionde, With the vivacity usually charac- teristic of that type. Her father ‘n old and re- spected officer, not rich, for riches seldom come to toe man who devotes iis lie to the army. Like all the army people bere, his social Standing is of | the first character, us Wie and three daughters | renderiag his home peculiarly attractive to | Iriends and callers. When the June roses are unfolding Miss Kucker orange biossoms will be | im their most fragrant vloom. Sheridan's cam- | Ppaigns are short and decisive. So with his court | sh ihe wedding will be of the quietest char- | acter possible, Ta consonant With tue exceilen taste of the Rucker’s family, and meets the wish of | the General, woo abnors wedding displays. Even | | the bridai tour wil be short, extenuing only from the Rucker house, which is on Michigan avenue, | near Fourteenth street, to the Genera Piatn bat | ample brick, long the home of is bachelor days, @ | | mile south on the same beautiiul thorougnlare, | Altvough General Kucker 18 mot his family are Catholics, and this circumstance is, tt 18 said, highly gratiiying to the gallant «room, wuo, | | though by no means @ Church partisan, hardly a | memver, yet has 4 warm regard (or the old faith | of bis fatiers, to fall commanion with which, on | the principle of once a Catholic always @ Cath- | ole, he will, sooner or later, revurn. It probable tat the Catholic Bisoop will per. form the ceremony, though i it should involve | the lenst dispiay it will be abandoned as @ part of | the programme, since the words uttered oy an | humbie priest are just as sacred and oiten jar more grateiui. society's great regret will ve that there wuil be no weauing; the Generai’s joy 1s, that be and his Wile are spared the guttering snam, A Word as to the ueral, {t is supposed that ne has turned the hal) centary aud is descending the mouncain of lile info the Mysterious Valley be- yond, Notso, He entered the Military Acaaemy im 1848, av the age Of elubieen; consequently he 1s just jorty-seven, And a haler, heartier, galianter, Wwarmer-learted and more sensivie man—Dbarring | bid gray weirs deflance. The nation will giaaly throw the legendary silpper after him and bis } tale bride, be entitled to | the wording Of wn occasional despatch—doesn’t | the city of Cuarleston, and tne Governor of South Carolina formally demanded their surrender for trial under an old law of the State. Beauregard, however, refused, alleging that in bis bands ttt, were captured enemies and entitled to the same | treatment as other prisoners of war, Sizth—At the pattie of Drury’s Blut, on the James River, in May, 1864, where Beauregard cap- tured about 5,000 prisoners, he salated, as he passed, a body of them who bad defended their position with great bravery, and his courtesy was answered by the.r cheers. | Moreov: whenever it could be done witt safely, prisoners in bis possessivn were at ono sent across the lines (particulary in 1862), subject to ultimate exchange, thus escaping the necessary hardstips of a prolonged detention, And, whem ever requested, the General admitted supplies te be sent irom tne federal it to ols prisoners, With studious care that they should be so applied. Asto the severe measures theoretically advo cated by him and others, as well ae by the press, in certain exigencies of the war, they shonid not be misucderstvod or misstated as proposed orig: inal measures, being the very opposite of his unt form conduct; they Were solely in the way of retw lation, as allowed by the rules of war, and dee upon the intormation of the time, to be the only means of protecting other lives cast inthe same cause, It must be remembered that for a long time captured Conlederate privateersmen, con- demned to death by hanging, were hela in irons under this threat and denied the rights of prison- ers of war. The federal code itseif, published as Generat Orders 100 and formuiated by Dr. Lieber, from the harshest aud obsolete practices, went the gr. lengin on this same point of retahation and directed the execution of certain classes of pris~ ouers, ‘Therefore, while Beauregard’s actual conduct the true measure of men—was such, in respect to prisoaers, to claim the highest esteem, his sug- gestion of the contingent application of the severer laws of war was from the exigencies of the Lime as presented to him and others, ana was io the interest of humanity, to protect those whow | it was their first duty to protect. | It was General Beauregard’s part to be the first | to bear successfully the standard of the Confed- | eracy, and, as ® consequence, upon him was at | once poured & pent up political passion of many years, ag well as the new anger excited by civil | war. Hi e the subject of much | tdie abu: acqusing him of borrowing from 4 plantation the name which bis fathers bad borne for centuries, | and which nad won military distinction im his an- cestral country. ° But, rather than to foster false impressions of | acts and character, 1t shoulda be the duty of the few who still cnerish prejudice to endeavor to imitate Beauregard’s own example in laboring for peace and good fellowship im the country. If men must look back, let # go further, and ro- | member aiso the time when, on the field o! Mex. ico, Beauregard’s brilliant services aided so mate nally in the great success which brought vast territories, With resulting wealth ana such mate- rial development, to our United States. Respect- fully yours, W. J. My New Yorx, May 6, 1875, THE MISSING METROPOLIS. Up to the hour of going to press no news ha: been received about the missing steamer Metrop- olis, Captain Ellis, which left the island of ser muda on the 15th of last month for New York, and Was last spoken on the 23d ult by the Austrian bark Jacob, which vessel brought on sew eral of her passengers. In conversation with a number of seaiaring men festerday tues | expressed the opinion that there was a chance o1 | the said vessel vaving attempted to e her way back to Bermuda, owing to the prevalence of the recent northerly and westerly winds. Othe | think what tne prolonged encenes of news respect+ | ing her omens no good. Li sh ni treached the isiand of Nermada or beea supplied wita vro | Visions vy some passing Vessel tt Is almost certuia | that all on board are op snurt rations. The quea- tion of wer wrrival at Bermuda Will douviless ve solved by the arrival of the English steamer Serane which is hourly expected in this portirom Cig -