The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1875, Page 8

8 PENTECOST A Lesson Drawn from the Schiller Dis ON uste r. KEG HEPWORTH INERATION Dr. McGlynn on the E of the Church. paciile THE BROAD AND NARROW PATH. on Patient En- durance. Beecher Envoys at the Church of the Epiphany. THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. THE SCHILLER DISASTER—SERMON BX BEY. W. R. ALGER. The congregation of the Church of the Messiah, Towty-fourth streey and Park avenue, listened yesterday morning with evident pleasure and in- terest to # touching sermon by their pastor, Rev. W.R. Alger. The text was Revelation, xxi, 1— “And tuere was no more sea.” The sad catastro- phe of the steamsnip Scnllier was employed to Mlwatrate a beautisul allegory founded upon the morms and struggles of life. ‘he preacher puid that there are two vast oceaus whose unknown mysteries and fathomless depths must ever claim the admiration and wonder of mapkiag—the hfe. Yhe mighty storms of an enraged sea that #usp asunder like pipe stems tall masts of tne greatest ships are not more dangerous or de- tractive of lie than the burricanes of passion Which engulf its victim who is heaved and tossed athwart the rough sea of troubled thought witnout knowing What biessing or calamity itmay bring joruo, The elements of our terrestrial globe ud those of the Duman heart do not act of them- seives. itis Goa alone, who, to fulfll tue ends of iis oWn inscrutable ways, directs the tempest that carries catastrophe, calamity and desirucuion upon Ke sable wings, Such catastrophes are the expression of God's omnipotent will: otherwise Vey could not have happened. Bebind THE CURTAIN OF STORM CLOUD, tis His flat wnich directs the whole. If man be Jmamorial deata shouid have no terrors for nim. ‘Li wmmortality exisis not taen God is not God, and 3b Would be impiety to think thas calamities came grom His hand. Tae will of God must be good aud 2t 1s omnipotent on the £ea@ as on the lapd; in toe aGaire of lue as im the Workings of our minds. ‘yne Murmurs of hope and fear that are blended ther im the Wreck Walco strews tue saud sean of Waters and the ocean of | our normal relations, but rather an addition to onr natare of @ part of the power and wisdom of God—a kind of commingling of Gows | bature Wita ours, after euch @ sort that im our | to be read to ve understoud, great emergencies we are conscious of a strength not onr own, and in such wise as being helped and up-borne by invisible hands, placed beneath us by ue command of the Almignty. For instance, it is sad, “(will put a new spirit within you, and f will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of flesh.” And once more i is commanded, “Cast away all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed and make you anew heart and new spirit, for why will ye die, for 1 bave no pleasure in your dying, saita the Lord God ye,” implying @ certain partnership between us aud God, Listen to the direct word of Jesus, coming like a golden command, that gwes us a conception of ideal character:—“Jesus answered and said auto him, Verily, vertly, 1 say UBto you, except aman be born again, le cannot see the Kiugdom of God.” Unat passage to your common sense ; it needs only It is @ statement of # /undamental fact in God's providence; it is a barrier to our eternal b! itis A KEY TO HEAVEN, which will turn for us only on certain conditions with Wbich We have compiled, and, of course, the Impiteation 18 very Clear that il we have not com- phed with the conditions the door of heaven will | not open; for remember, Gow’s world ts a world | governed by law, Again, it is said by Jesus, “Verily, verily, Tsay unto you, except @ man be born 01 water and Oi the Spirtt he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” Bet whatif men are thus born? Listen again, “As many as believed in him to them gave be wer tO become sons of God, even to those who were born not only of blood and the will of the flesh, bus who were born @ second time of the spirit and the will of God.” Then this again will happen. “For whosoever beltevetu that Jesus 1s Corist, is born of God, for whatsoever 1s bora of God overcometh this world, and they | are victorious that overcome the worid even in ad 80 the victory 18 promised to those | | | { | | faitn,’” who believe in the name of the ever living Son of the ever tiving God, The necessity for (nia new birth is proveu, not only by the assertion of boly writ, but by our everyday consctousness, Neither you or iare at pre! t fit jor the kingdom of heaven; there must go on within us & process of purging and cleansing. 1 is likened in holy writto @ lire which burns away all stubble and leaves the ground free. You and | iu order to enjoy the biiss of heaven must undergo & process watch we have not been througa belure, “We shall al be changed In the twinkling of aneye.” Something must happen to us be fore we can pillow our heads on the bosom of Cnrist. We cannot come into heaven With garments all stained with guilt and crime, We must be clothed in waite, Where shall We get our new garments, so that, properly vested, we may approach the turone of the Farner and cry out giory | giory | glory? Now then, let Me ask What 18 this change the Bible speaks of? Let we question it a hittle closeiy. thou? Come and reveal thyself, ob! secret of rev- elation, mystery of Ged, come lorth and speak for thyself. WHAT DOES GOV TNQUIRE OF US? What can be superadded to ts that we may stand witn courage belore the Almighty, and eel that we have a rignt to redemption? Tell me. First, is it an external reformation of our ilves? Js shat being born again ? jaws, is that ity Yea, emphatically yes. Let us not try to cleanse water at the mouth of the river, but find a w: to the source and cleanse that, Yes, change a man’s iife; but in order to Go that you must go behind the man’s life and change B18 motives. Look at the streets of Jeru- salem. I can see walking tilere a man of noole stature, a man of priestiy mien and on whose shoulders hang priesily garments, a man who | thangs God that he belongs to ‘wou! @ud (be eternal Waves that sweep over men’s | cherished things give clear music 0! Heaven Lypify the voice of God. ip all ages tne sea veca & bar and barrier, triai and mystery w we pride of me When tis toll! hand reacned its briny saore it said to bim:— Buait thou go, and mo further.” 1t say Muy Suvdue the plain, mountain add forest, put 2 will break and scatter your hardy barks like bubbles, and swallow them up like peuples.” Jt Was Dalwral that Job, wandering on the roch- bound shore of nis joneiy Patmes shouid liken tae workings of the sea to the tossimgs of our human passions, and exclaim im tbe words of tue text, Tuut when ile is over “there shall be no more sea.” This figure implies the killing of worldly pussions aud prejudices, the gutuering of God's treatures a A HARBOR OF REFUGE, even a baveu »i rest. meeting place Of mysteries and loveliness—the horizon lime—and thik Upon the lunumerab.e wortds Of life which creep Under it, the millions Gi fisues and insects, the marine piauts aud fow- ers teeming with their thousands of wonders of ue deep, 50, 100, looking ito our own lives, May we beuuid io them thousaues of unexplored men- lai mysteries and hidden secrets whose very ex- Sieuce have Bot Delore Deeu dreamed of Lise 1s #o abyss fall of Marvels—a probiem solved but vy we grave. We dip ito its margin bere apd tere, Gow and toen, Wondering at its proiound Gepiss; out volder winds seek its lower suundings asi ia divi bell, bringing up to the suriace jrom ume to time a lew solema suggestions of the qwigaty unkoown world whither we sre all jour- Leying. Tae moon divided tides bv and fo e ‘waters twinkle tu the oreeze or surge and swell to abe dirge vi tne tempest, swallowing up frail barks in the rage of its Muctuatiug tide. Our p: Bions, 100, are aways On The Move, aways on the watcd to gebour betier thoughts Ungusrded aud waLow taem Up li @ sea of Mental troubles. this World is Testlessness and anpeaceful- but remember thut soon you suull rest and peace ig heaven, for de there ail be no more Deata sball swailow ap 2 Imamortaitt, Ben Jbe time mGst S000 Come When mea Will not ser- Maize Ou lMmortaaty; they shall see and know jook Upon the Ocean without at. Uae cannot lu its depths great ships Bave CWinkiDg OF deati. Joungered, and EVERY BILLOW IS & TOMBSTONE to commemorate the 1088 ui Luose Wuw le bemeath fiz giussy surface. It is the Sudlimest of; sepul- cores, and fittest emblem of death, All otner | J graveyarcs SkOW some distinction verween the tick aod poor Whe repose veneata eward; but not so the sea. The om au the same sun shine toe Wau thas encivse tne princes ur of pauyers, uudistinguishable from escu over i ther watery restiag place. The carta 04 11s Contents are Bot our own. We Bie aweilers ia them, Lut possess them aut. They be ii ty Us an Cudiess World to come, the Ju.uess Whereo! Shall be man's beyond the grave. J) tuis 18 Got so Way de We oemold the starry won- a, With imeumeravie revolving suoW us these myriads of These things are mine, but you This ot be. It would MAKE GOD A FIEND. Who can contew the scene of a dead mother sireiched by the sands of the sea with her oany Mn her aris, inseparably wrapt io the embrace of Geath, aud bet estou, uy toere shall ve suotuer, Rappier fae in re or her aod 3t beyond tae strand of lie!’ The greas Columous, judging irom a sirange plecs of wood pcked up vy tne seasiue, predicated the ex- evence of & far Of—then’ anknewao—comuUBent; 80 We, too, 0OKiNg ON LDe strands of ine, must nis) KDOW that UY (be sigus aod Wwkeus seen here W around Us there is uaoller aud w better ‘world above, Were bere « » NO MORE ‘The apocalyptic aiegory de dea of oC@nus anDObaced, bul the ovliteracion of eorroWSs aud calamities, the troubes and burdens The evs of catastropues, calamities. col and sudden death are tue sum aod results ef ignorance, greed, caricssne-s, rivalty between sordid men who are suruggiiog for worldly gains. fhe progress of scien: ais- mination o knowledge aud increase ol carefui- ese Will, 1M times yet W come, avert the dangers that sow send mee to sudden and premature Then, indeed, When ine differences of creed at now divide men shuil be jor- be no more sea If, then, the jividual be calied upon to pass benind the v ore bis matoral time, jet friends be comforted Dy ‘he thought that be will rest and rejoice in the Laven provided tor bia. iw that bright world to whieh T go Tempests stall forget to biuw, there shall be no more sea. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. * not convey the havens go.ten, KEY. GEORGE H. BEPWORTH ON REGENERATION, rhe us ge congregation assemoied in the Church of the Disciples yesterday morning, and it ts to be hoped the sound doctrime enforced by Mr. Hepwortn will be pondered apon aod then acted upon by his listeners, The text selected was from Hi, Cormithians, ¥., 17:—"Therefore if any man be dn Christ, ne 18 a mew creature. Oid things are Passed away; beho! things are become new.” 4 ertamly @ Very sigBideant and @ very em- Dhstic expression. As s statement of am exact fact it belongs to the realm of the m ellous, and *# word from G law it atvracts oar deliber- sie attention, It implies the necessity on our part ©! a very peculiar experience, an experience the Memory of Which will remain with us always, and the resuit of which will be more and more visible as We progress in Christian life, Brethren, I want to speak Very plainiy indeed concerning what in tue Vid and New Testament is called REGENERATION, OR NEW BinTit Let agstand fora iittie face to fi with is and fek it A Variety Of questions, Which It will be only too giad to answer. i Dod in the Old Testament that God is coustantiy promising as the reward ©) obeutence s certain newness of jifs, a ‘kind of supernatural renewal of ourselves, onsisting of n tofux into the soul of a power withoot, rather than a regeneration powee Within, Th does not seem graces BEG Progressive, oa to be As We gaze opon that | THE SPIRITUAL ARISTOCRACY and who points to the poor veggar ‘rom whom even Christ would have shrunk, wita disdain. Tuat man walks the straight and narrow path; there is no law of Moses with which be does not comply; he swears by Abraham and isaac and Jacob; be knows how to kill the buliock belore the altar, and yet that man may be damned by whe just previ- geace of God, It is not he wno can lay Lie sacri- | fice on the altar who shall receive tne benediction of Christ; it ie Wwoose liie Is pure, he whose heart 1s pure, t! jue being tae result of the cause within at And so I say that to be born again imecludes change in a man’s lie but is not to be measured by it. Mar nocd is something deeper than external ceeds. A man’s Character it 18 that teils here in deeds and there in bliss. well, then, ths new birth is pot at all like taking off an oid suit ; therefore, live | To eoniorm with God's | NEW YORK HERALD, M Tieave the interpretation of | mother we cannot do better than in the | morning to a large congregation, among whom Pray what art | ol clotees apd clothing yourself in a new one, | fresh trom the tatior, tcned, and giving it to @ goldsmith and ‘My dear sir, mcit that all over again, e @ vessel of the same shape und oi the ame goll; let mé bave every scratch erased, every dent taken out, but let me have the same goid in tne vessel.” Tuat is the new birtr of which Christ speaks, the necessity of which is cor- rovorated by our own consciousness. It sounds im trumpet tones through ail nations, From age to age the cry goes up, “Ye must be born again, or you can never enter the kingdom of God.” That awful act 18 proven by the logic of the everiast- ing word and is only announced tv Hoty Writ. bave asked aud tried to answer the question | what it is. Now let me ask, How 1s1t to be ac- complisued ’ Do not mistake me, we are geting iuto decper water, yet we can swim if we cannot Waik to the other side quite sateiy. How is tuis change to be accomplished ? 1] answer, it ts to oe accomplisued partly by you and partly by Goa. | Doo’t let ns leave either element out, The aifi- | eulty With some people’s religiog is that godliness | qguties are irksome to you. t iz thing | that Jeads (o tue sammit. from | to them is simply an improvement of themsei On the otuer hand, to ve goalike 1s to have God in On the other hand, It is | | more like taking an oki golden vessel, all battered | suppose He communicated His id you, and God is willing to periorm that miracie. | Ay! wiracie doilsay?’ Nothing ts a miracie with God. if He bas commanded us will give us the power to obey. What is your part and what 1s God's part? Your part is calmly and quietly by introspection to come to yourseii—to recognize that at present you are ab- solutely sinful, that prayers and otner religious ‘Taat proves surely i you are notin your normal condition—that e sick. God made you, and since then some- ry pened that shuts you out from His face apd makes you shun Him. I teil you that it is truth positive that coere is something Wrong In ou and me. Your partis to recognize that aud other kindred facts, ana then cry ont in prayer to God, not only for pardon, but for neip taat He will assist you ald save you, and them you have dove your part, Woen a man is down in the dust then he has cone ali that God requires of him, and the promise is that HE SHALL BF EXALTED. When a man is coascious of bis own Iittleness, ay jor the reception of sometming nsel!, be will have poured apon aim nd that man is con- in. What aiferent d of turning away then be is re better thav tae ® tof tue living Gud. secraied, sanctified, born motives aod aims, and 1D) srom G Companvuuship with Him, soail sic i darkness, but When @ man shall dei and jong for Goa and the revelation he 1. Toss fs the lower plane of \ife in wh living, but there is another plane up yonder, a pave where ¢ live and walk who pave been hited up by the spirit of Goa in answer to their prayers, there are men living on vhis footstool who are Suints, reaay (o do, and bear, and suffer, without sin, oveR Sbrist dia, Christ seat His Com- Jorier unto ‘he world, and He is here now, tals Com- forter, (ais Holy spirit—sent on @ mission. What is the mission’ To unbar the doors to ali who ask, and Wecan uve im Christ and draw on fis re- sources. My orethren, this is a strong statement. Give it @ careiul consideration, 1 am sare it is truth, and [ Wantyou to feel it. if there are any walking on @ plane bigher than where we are, brethren, jetus say that we will walk there too. besiece the Throne of Grace till this Comforter takes possession of Our hearts. it seems to me s mauy of o8 hve im @_ vailey, and know that sun has risen only by seeing it giid t the mountains. It seema to me thas these mouvtain tops are the mea of God who are bora agi The ipvitation to you and me is so begin to climb, Let those who Will live in the valley. Brethren, we aie in the pata if there is any beignt NEARER TO HEAVEN we will climb upward, that when the sun first rises above the horizon he kiss oar cheeks, and [rom that lofty height and saintly experience ‘ace ivoking down on this worla and breataing the best air, aud Jookiog upward, sure that whea il be lifted higter on tu ab we rest at the fi La hi bave, bat climb oo, guided by tae Holy Spirit, tsi our [eet (ouch tue rugged Lop ol God's grace and glory. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. DR. M'GLYNN ON THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH. The nate day of the Coristian Courch was cele. brated with special splendor in St. Stephen's church yesterday. The veautiful marble altars were decorated with rare taste, and the countiess lights im the sanctuary displayed the different de Vices invo Which plows bauds bad weaved the choicest proaucts of the mouth Waich the Casne- lic Church has dedicated to Mary, Tne masic of the mass was not anworthy the occasion, The choir, under (he direction of the organist, Mr. H. B. Danfortn, did justice to Rossini's mass, Toe “Domine Veus,” a tenor solo, was well suug by Mr. Romeyo, and the ‘Qui toliis,” @ duet, was reodered with good efect by Mme. Brignoli and Mile. Munter. Immediately besore the serinon Swoore Boenglorao sang the “Veai Creator” with wuech spir T ylemn high masa was sung by the Rev, Mevauley, sted oy te Kev. Fasaer as deacon, a Rev, Father Carroi Alter the singing of the ne Rev. Dr. MeGiynu pi a quent sermon on the Cnrist suid:—We sre calied on to-day to celeprate the birth oO! Our mother Chureh, ner natal day, and we Were inieed unworthy Children of auch ® mother Af We did not rejoice and ve giad at THR RETURN OF THIS FRSTITAT. We should giory ia such & move for is she not | the “bride coming dewn from teaven, the city of @ development Oo | God, the tabermacié among me Cari’, abi as toward Him and enters into | If a man doeth evil be | and | | barrow, We wii | | was iaid out ONDAY, made good Hts promise. He (id not leave us orphans, He sent the Paraciece to cheer us tn our orphanhood and teach us alltruth, Po-day we eclebrare the fulfiment of that promise which Christ gave to iis Church a8 a corporate berly. Let us rejoice over this heavenly birth, 8 glory in the assumed foundation of Our Christian fateh, Tue words of the Gospel tts day are full of most important traths; the great mystery of @ triuue | God. We have the three persons m their attribu- tive functi ns in the act of man’s reaemption, 1) Father sending the Son to shape and hion ibe body of the Churen, the Son telling the iniant Church “I go to the Father,” and the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete, vivifying the newly formed bouy of the Church, The mother, whose birch we celebrate | to-day, 18 the bride of Christ, His immaculate spouse, His mystte body. Thus the heart of the Churet 18 BOt a mere buman heart, bur the very Jove of the saered heart of the Son of God. And the mit! the Churen 18 not the meré aggres ate ol the mielligence and wisdom of the fathers and theologians and sacred writers. I isthe mind oF Christ, the spirit of truthivifying and liiuminat- ing it. In celebrating the birihday of our tbe 4 ords read in the mass ask God to establish im our bear's the perfect reign of the spirit of divine love and unutterable peace. ‘The Doctor concluded by rendivg a beautiful transiation of the sequence, “Vent Sancte Spiritus.” | MASONIC TEMPLE. THE BROAD AND THE NARROW PATH—I8 ORTHO- | DOXY IDENTICAL WITH PURITY OF CHARAC- 'TER?—SERMON BY REV. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM, ‘The Rey. 0. B. Frothingham preached yesterday tue element Of foreigners, especially Germans, and yell known /ree thinkers was, as usual, Cuaspicu- ous, His tueme was the relation of narrow fuith to largeness of thought and purity of ive. In order to go trom Germany to Italy, he said, from the land of chill winds to that of sunshine, it is necessary to pass through the Alps, and even now, alter so many centuries of progress, there are footpaths there that must be trodden with great circumspection lest an inch’s deviation should burl the traveller into death, How many people have, through the deviation of an ineo, jorteited all they bad and hoped for, Homan life is full of such paths in which a misstep is positively fatal, J see in a young man wao bas no barriers of consclence and restraint about him an exemplification of this simile, There was one time when be was in justsuch @ narrow foutpavh; his foot slipped, he fell down the precipice and was lost, So 1t is with the dissolute, with the gambler, with the libertine, I see a happy, joyful samily with no skeleton in their | closet, The two people who furnisned that house | walked side by side before they were united; they were circumspect and careiul and everytuing being clear before them they determined upon tie | final step of unton, and now everytming is bright | and fair, 1 see another family, torn, distracted, miserable, without circumspection and trasting only to caprice, to appetite or something else of | the kind: the man and woman had decided upon | marriage apd now they have such @ future belore them as they would gladly obitterate, NARROW LIVES AND NARROW MINDS, i See, thereiore, the necessity of walking straight | and careiuily in the paths of life, To be sure, the sectarian carries the theory rather tvo fa: believes that as the faith sboaid be narrow so the conscience should be narrow. Tne Young men’s Christian Associations devote themselves to the task of taking hold of young men who come trom the country. Tbey wish to keep them away from | rauionaiism or infidelity and condue them witain tne sais realm of orthodoxy. If his thoughts do | not wander, they say, bis conscience will net wau- | der, and if bis conscience aud thougnts will not | wandcr his appetites and desires will not go = astray. But 18 it worth — while to shut up toe wonderful domain or | thougut, the eMulgence of truth, tn the mere hope | tuat your feet may not slidey The upshot of this | careér would be that at the close of lhe this man | would have no mind, no Insight into truth. Isis | worta While to do this on the mere uncertain | chance toat the conduct of tue orthodox young man Would be more irreproachable ? | STUNTING NATURAL GROWTH, For 18 tt so certain that this imteliectual stifing | will produce purity? No! it may lead to purity, but it also may lead to impurity. 4t is a mistake to suppose that the narrow doctrines saleiy lead to purity of character. A river, it is sat, uviess it flows within confiping banks, 1 overfow and make a marsh <A.! the siver finds its own way and cnooses, 30 tospeak, lis own banks, If banks are | made woo high or too close together the cvnse- quences may be dangerous. You say the harrow courea is the stroog chureh. ‘Troe. it is strong jor not doimg the right work of ai ull; itis strong Jor limtration, tor propaganc- ism, but it Weak, very weak for sympathy, for heipluiness and rattoual culture. | once saw a picvure of oid @ried-up irowzy monks, and in tne midst of these ancient pieces of parcament a young, vtight-eyed man was saying nls prayers, | With a face expressive of keen dismay. Had it come to this? he Must have thought, “If lgoou | living in this narrow, circumscribed way sual 1 be once like these men *’ Was it that which be asked bimselt ? CULTURE IDENTICAL WITH VIRTUE. } Jesus having thoughts of immense breadth had to conform them to the idea oi the Messiah. Weil, | under the | Jimait ns Imposed by His own age (for It Was | said that af He had not done so fils principles would not have outlasted fis owa generation). | Provestantism bas put | Christianity has never nm abie to rid ivseit of been able to rid itse f of the narrowness of Luther | these limitations, just and Calvin. Luther, for instance, was a tremen- dous man, but yet he was a fanatic, a | bigot. 1 say it is the largest view which It is true you can’t educate | man In virtue or tiiness, and where there 1s | malignity in the he: t will opiy seize upon edu- | cation as @ superior tool for its dangerous designs; | butisit not, nevertheiess, true that itor and knowledge increase crime and vice decrease ? | Unquestionaoty ic 1s true taat the best educated communities are the mos¢ virtuous. Educate the | mind aod you train the man to nobler purposes and nobier work | THE THEORY OF APPETITE. There are a few people who claim that their ap- petites are God-given aud by Divine appointment, | and It 1s Said that these people are the disciple: oi “broad views.” Pardon me; no. If there are | a people who are Darrow and limited in their teilecta it is they. 1 have young dissolute man who drink, you like devotion; | like spirits of o1 you of another.” (i@agher) Was *“proaa” man? No, he had never read a book, never given @ thought to the noblest institutions of the world. He was so truly narrow in bia mind that it might almost be said that he bad no mind at all. People like him who live unon this theory of privileged licentionsness are the children of appetite, and desire, and iustinct, and mo more, | THE BLOAD AND NARROW PATH. The “broad pato” is the mental path, That | should be de. ASK every ble question, | learn all you can. The vessel is a thousand times safer im she broad ocean, where it is wildly plunge | ing and leaping t closely creeping | near the Sciily Islan mo! e in the realm 01 conscience, the ‘The path of daty is path. Suppose that conscience ts the beaten track that has been made solid and bard by the tramp of generations and you bave the right theory. There 1s nothing new to be learned alwut houesty or right or justice. You may muitiply the ideas but ge immutable priueiple. One man | of ig Bis tailor rst, another of debts of honor and irien » but the obligation itself isthe same thing. No discovery bas ever been | made soowmg the honesty Oi not paying one Conscience is, however, at the mercy of whim, or change—it is prescribed law, it looks is the salest one. Ss by the cattle, and now the once mar- row path is the broad centre of a iarve traMc. So | 1. is With that Darrow path of conscience: tread it | again and again and you will {nd that imntelli- | gence, happiness and intellectual streagty wil meet you init. aud that the path will become broader and broader until two broad pais, ming- ling togetuer, you Will eajov tue ine of life, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR. BERCHER ON THE DUTY AND MERIT OF PA- TIENT ENDURANCE. Piymouth Church was, of course, crowded yes- terday morning, and Mr. Beecher preached a & sermon, selecting wis text from the writings of St. | Yaul. The Plymouth pasvor always takes his sub- | ject {rom Unis part of the Hook when he wisnes to | preach with more than ordinary fervency ana et- sectiveness. He aimost deifies St. Paul and he certainly always giorides that upostie as the great. | est of all Christ's discipies, and superior to all men koown (o Have been upon earth except ihe Master in the fesa. The anthem with which tbe services were begun was “flow Excellent is Thy Name,” in tne staging | of whict the greater part of the music fell to Miss Lasar to be periormed, She arqnitted herseif of it | with admirabie skill. Mr. Beecher, alter a short | prayer, read the eleventh chapter of St. Paul's | second epistie to the Corinthians, avd (hen Watts’ hymn, “Let Zion and ber sons rejoice,” the 1900m | 4 ofthe “Piymouth Collection,” was sang. Aftera longer prayer and the reading of some notices | to the congregation oy Mr. Beecher @ hymn | written by the Rev. Mr. Charles Beecher was sang, with the refrain, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,? aud | the pastor proceeded to deliver his discourse. He | | announced his text as tne last clanse of tne thir. | | teeath verse of tue sixth chapter of the Epistie O, the very body oF | od by the sur of God,” Christ mag | or Pa cone all, 1 to tie stand.) He Epwesians—“Ana, valor—Thia is baving ® pars) | reierence to Jay Oooke MAY 17, 1875.—TRI of at remarkable figure drawn from warfare, by whieh bhe spostie describes tne Christian nan as @ Warrior, and after setting forth all the havilluments with whieh the Christian must equip himself before commencing the pattie, he says there will come a period in the contest when the warrior, having done all else, can only stand. There may come a time in every battle when the combatants can neither advance nor retreat with safety; then victory comes to that side which re- Maivs Steadfast, waiting jor the turn of events, while the men who have the opportunity to be active work round and cause the defeat Of the enemy. Many peopie would think that the active men had Won the fight, but the general knew that the real victors Were the men wno Were content to stand or die, If need be, one by One, to hold the key of the position, There are men, said Mr, Beecher, who desire to stand still aiwayss but the propiet says, “Having done ali, stand.” Activity 18 the batural enjoyment of men. We must have grace to enjoy thorough la- ziness if We are properiy constituted. Many per- sons take credit to themselves for diligence when, in fact. there is mo credit realy due to tiem, If @ child is prescribed aloes it may take credit for accepiing them and their bitterness; but if luscious grapes are prescribed to it, three pounds daily, and tne cha faithfully follows the prescription, it has no right to say, ‘What a good child I am!” Tam not to be considered joing &@ grand thing, @$ overcoming @ great dislike because I prei 1 preach because there is 36 work which pleases me so much, There is no occupation for which { have such a love, Bvery minister who has @ healthy theology must feel A PLEASURE IN PREACHING, The ministry 19 one of the most dlessed avo- cations ever known to mend, although there are bitler experiences in tt; even St. Paul feit this; he felt that so great was the joy from the central idea of God’s ministry that’ the super- lative experiences, toough they be bitter, were occasions for thanksgiving, lt was when Paul wi ty peal chained to @ soldier, and the cries of the Christian world came to lim lie said “ And now having done ail to stand.” There 1s @ world of Christianity in patient endurance. There are @ great many peopie Who are callea upon to bear troubles whick never get luto the news- papers; therefore, tney are ar. ‘There are people born With marks upon toeir faces, and as peopie pass them they pity them, They are lorced Lo say to themseives early in life, Il am com- pelled to keep away from my Kinu.’? Lord Byron was born with @ club foot, or early became delormed, and the defect embittered bis whole 1am an old man, or people suy 80, and such an occurrence would not now overpower me, but if L were subjected to it im my youth it might have unged my lie, Ifa mab goes to the war and comes back with only a shouider and no arm it 18 different, People will ALLOW HIM TO GO INTO POVERTY without remark. but for cougenital deformi! or defects wrising from diseases everywody lias remarks, and will urge their subjects to re- member that they are tie will of God. How easy itis to bear auotner’s woes! Mr, Beecher, afier =: 3 A speaking Of Men having their Gearest popes Ovel~ thrown y the visitavion to them of the iis of ine, ‘tow awiul to live with the consciour- to acnieve in iite, knowledge success is Still debarred from them, There is not @ Village in the iaud wuico does not contain some | ambitious youth whois not thus dgebarred, and it 18 to Such youch Chat the injunction ‘to staud’’ is addressed. Lam always affected by the throwin; of men out of careers, and 1 cannot use the stoc parases toward such men. It is not svemiy to mention uames, but I cannot go by tue house wiich Legrand Lockwood buiit for himself and ws family and say, like many peopie, “Waa a waste! Over $1,000,000 Spent, and now where is he? Oh, the vanity of man.” Mr, Beecher also made a short “one who meant the best,” aod who, going aown carried thousands with him. The preacner said in effect, that he had kuown noble women to be married Lo nonentities of men, apd be comsidered that such @ woman who caries her great little self (ner Haspend), up does more for Christianity than all ing heroines that have ever the imjunction contained in the text was pecu- liarly Gousolatory to all persons who find them- selves In lower Stations than those which their Jaculties Ot them ior; and he considered that no Suint in the Catholic register, a long list of illus- tious soais, 1s more heroic tuan the sou or the daughter who is content to remain without pub- licity with parents, living alone for them and re- Jjecting ail the opportunities of life, CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY. MGR. RONCETTI AND REY. DR. UBALDI OFFICIATING—THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS DELIGHTED—AN ADDRESS BY DR, UBALDI TO THE SODALITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN- DECORATIONS AND MUSIC. Mgr. Koncetth and the Rey. Dr. Ubaldi were yesterday the guests of the Rey. Dr. Burt- sell, pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, Second avenue, near Twenty-second street. It had been announced that these Roman ecclesiastics would participate im the services of the @ay, and the result was that the church was crowded at tue bigh mass and at vespers. Hundreds o! persons from ether col gregations, who had been unable to attend the services at which the Monsignore and his secretary had already officiated in several charches in the city, yesterday crowced to Dr. Burtsell’s handsome | little edifice to ree and hear the distinguisnea | priests from Rome. The Count Mare/oschi did not put in an appearance within the sanctuary, and if he was present at the service he must have mod- estly hidden himself away. ; Great attention had been devoted to the orna- mentation of the altars—the rather, however, as the day was one of especial devotion at this church, it being the annual May reception of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin. The high altar, a splendid piece of marble workmanship, was ilia- minated with a number of lights, and large, hand. some vases of costly value were arranged on either | side of tne tabernacle, the fowers which they | contained breatuing a delicious perfume, and an edging of gas jets ran around the seaml-circa- lar backgroand of the sanctuary, belping, with the other ligats, to throw @ radiance upon the utifal picture of the Crucifixion, @ centrepiece high above the alta e, which ascends grace: a star Io gas jets, a little ornament that excellent narmony with tue general arrangement aud decorations of the sanctuary. This being the Month of May, when every church in the city has caca evening particular devotior mm honor of “toe Immacuiate Mother,” the Virgin's altar was tastefully embeilisned with ornaments, jights and flowers, Flowers especially were profusely interwoven with the otner orna- ments, and on every side the choicest exotics and in spring were or delicate tend- ron the part of the giris who are e Papi much attention. loft was handsomely festooned witi yellow, the centrepiece being the insignium of the fsherman’s supremacy. At pine o’ciock . Roneett! celebrated mass for the childrem of the Sanday school, wao number nearly 1,200. The Monsigoure, not being a fluent speaker of English, not attempt an adaress, even to the children; but when at the aif-past ten o'clock bh the Rey. Dr. Burt- sell ascended al flags Were suspended, attracting Tue railing {9 front of th the to preach, his first words Were to exp! on th 4 of the Monsignore, the plessure it nad afforded the latter to see such a@ delightial jcture as the Sunday scoool had opened before Bis eyes at the nine o’clock Mass. This preture ‘wou d long remain impressed upon his memory. ‘Tne high Mass was celeorated by the Rev. Dr. Ubaldi, the deacon being the Rev. Father Lougren; Virgin’s sodality. Adjoining the | fine silken banner oft ality nd on eitn | tue sub-aeacon, the Kev. Father Morris; the mas- | ver Of ceremonies, Mr. Halioran; some priests | aurenh tn Sullivan street being from the Itaiv so present. Mgr. Roncetti occu & seat promimentiy on the gospel side or t netuary. ihe sermon preached was by the Dr. Burt- sell, Who WOK as bis subject the gosp joly Ghost upon the Aj port Bartsell’s discourse lasted aoout minul nd Was ejoqnent in the alternoon, veginaln, t half-past four o'clock, the veapers were sung before 4 jarge con- grogation, ond alter this service the May recep- tiom of the sodality took place. ‘Was again ablaze With grouvs Of tapers, and still further Moral offerings added additivmal beaaty to lis appearance. In he seats immediately tu front al ‘ead some seventy-five young ! snow white dresses ana vy ane of fowe’ %. s The Virgin's altar | | } } Burtsell condocted the devotions, tue former, | with a gorgeous white satin stole around his neck, performing the ceremony Of receiving se’ eral pew meravers iato tue fraternity. Ait aamission of new wembers Dr. Burtselt mi Drie! address to (he sodallty, im which he urgea constant prayets 1o Mary, whom Jesus, her son, could never refuse any favors sie asked tor. Dr. Ubaidi next addressed the children briefly, speak- ing in excellent English. He said thas the lesson of Pentecost sho teach them how to prepare * the receiving of the Holy Ghost a how their lives shoaid be conducted after ceiving the Divine Spirit. The Gospel told that the apostes, with Mary, were us alltogerber when tue Divine Spirit descended They were unanimous—they wer of one mind, one heart, one tiougnt. They persevering in prayer, and e is the le: which we anor ) ‘ake to ourselves—we should al- ways pray i grace of the Holy Ghost. But, having receiv ie divine favor, we bad still sometning tarther to do, and wh the aposties bad received the divine Ore, they went forth showing to men the giits that had been comerred upon them, and it was narrated that immediately, mm them, by their ‘burning words of eloquence, 5,000 Jews were converted. So it was with the memvers of tne sodality. They should, by the furce of their example, by leading true | through charity. PLE SHEET. Christian lives, by purity of heart and agin ness of pee in the cause of religion, uy all With whom they became associated, al mm their every day life Nlustrate the glory of Gou's holy Charch, It was @ noble mission that t true Christian Woman was endowed with, oltel- umes greater and more efficacious (han even that of the minister, tor th nijeness Of WoAD'S | pature Dot seldom won where wan’s greatest ex- ertions failed, Dr. Ubaldi they blessed the su- duality and wished all its members happy, peice- fai and uselul lives, ‘The music at tue mass was very fine, a chorus of twelve voices bemg aaded to the regular cho r, ‘Which consists of Mra, Treadway, soprand; Mrs. Ash, alto; Wi Mr, Lehman, basso; be! the high mass yesterday were ” from Gonnod elec! it “Kyrie,” “Gierla”? and ‘Credo’ Cectiian Mass; @ ‘‘Sanctus,’’ “Benedictus” aud “Agous Der” irom Haydn's Third Mass; the offer. tory piece bell ‘Salye Regina,”’ solo, with quartee feo Mh sper! ae Dixit bomt- iy ; nus. 3, “Laudate arene “Magnificat,” by Ceratti by Handel, and the “Tantam Ergo, ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A DIVINE INSIITU- TION—SERMON BY THE REV. P. J. DEALY, 8. J. ‘There was @ very iarge congregation present yesterday at the high mass services in tne Cathe- dral, The services were more thaa usuaily grand and imposing on account of the day being Wnhit- suutide, ope of the greatest festivals of the Church, The Rey. Father Kane was the celebrant of the mass, The Cardinal Archbisuop was, for the first time since lis installation, present. He was attired in his full robes of office, and, as a matter ” by Bagioll. of course, was the cynosure of all eyes. Tie ser- mon was preached by the Rev, Fatner Dealy, of St. Francis Xavier's churen, The reverend gentleman took for his text the second chapter of the Acts of the Aposties—“And When the days of Pentecost were accomplished they were ailin tne same place,” &c, He said that when the Holy Ghost descended upon the aposties their hearts were filled with the influence of the divine spirit, Enlightened trom above, they began their divine mission by making five thousand con- verts, which was the commencement of tuat glorl- ous society which, under the guide and protection of the Holy Ghost, was destined to spread to the uttermost parts of the earth and to last until the end of time. The feast of Pentecost might be calied the birthday of the Church, when the spirit of the incarnate God descended upon an assem- plage of men, binding them together in unity, kindling in their hearts a charity, and working througa them a sanctification which the world never witnessed belore. Jesus Christ, he said, was crucified through love. He shed His blood and gave up His life through love of man, and tuat infinite love and His precious blood merited for the world THE COMING OF THE HOLY GHOST, Jesus, the sun of Mary, wnom the Jews regarded as the son of a mecuanic, and who often inquired “ig not this the carpenter's sont? He it was who undertook the task of changing the face of the earth, $0 to speak, and to substitute for idolatry, superstition and error tue true worship of the | living God. To accomplish this task He chose twelve uneducated, ignorant, weak disciples, whose uearts He so filled with His spirit that in a day, ay, iM an hour, He endowed them with all the necessary qualities for their great work. They were by that spirit fired with zeaj aud replenished with holy faitp, were tnese Oshermea, who were Tegarded as ne retuse of the world and the off-scouring of ali.”) They were ignor- but were made wise; they bad been us:tanimous, and had been made patient. bandoned the Master for the world and the fe but once filled with tne Holy Spirit they abandoned the world for the Master; they nad despised the cross for the sake of thelr lives, and now they laid down their lives for the cross, and shared among themseives the conquest of the world, their only arms being patience and charity. The reverend gentleman eloquently re- their great | Work 0! converting cuuuons to Which the early Church was sub; auc how the faith spread more and more just in propor‘ion to THE SEVERITY OF THE PERSECUTIONS. He said the growvu of the Church in the midst of triais and ‘8 and persecutions Was one of those prodigies at what the buwan reason stood confounded, aud which made it acknowledge the narrowness of it8 own limits and pay bom: to the omolpotent power of God. it would be easy to understand how a systein of rengion Could be made agreeable to men by at- tractions of luxury and ease and the pandering to evil passions; but the ever increasing growth of the Cathoue Church, through persecution and under rules that proaibit the gratification of one’s bad inclinations not only, but which called for ering aud humiliation, Strack the mind with we. with all his pbiivsopby, Was never able to get even a village to adopt it as its rule of yet the apostles counted waole nations. And Was not aove by force or violence. Moham- suit of Violence; heresy was always estabiis! by pande: to the bad in- clinations of men; but the Gospel was established by feng) gentleness and pumility. it was neither by tae mildness of its laws nor v: laxation of its moral doctrines that it accom- plished success; but by & iaw which required mea to love their enemies and to hate (nem- selves, All this was plainly the work of God aad @ proo! that the Church was @ divine institution. ‘The Oburch was, tu stronger oy the spirit of God, who speaks through her, and even those who were inimical to her ister examined her bistory and her acknowledged that there was ni world lice the Catholic Church: she exerted over tue human There was, he said, ufliction everywhere, and there were TEAKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. We might oppose grace to reason aud men yet be obdurate, but wi heart Was proof agatnat charity. On the battie Neld, at the bedside of the fever stricken patient, in the poor man's hovel, ‘where the priest comes with kis Words of hope aud sympathy nd pours ti alm oof grace inte bis rt it was everywhere a power. it was, indeed, by charity that the Church conanered the world, True the powers of the earth had ofven risen against her, but their infu: ence badever cowe to naugot If left free sae would r= steadily working ont the salvation of souls. If she was persecuted then it would always be, as ever, ber time of harvest, and it often hap- pened that persecutions came to her when her members were torpid. At no time was there a unity between the shepherd the fock mow. schisms, kings aud republics had assailed ber, but they had passed away apd she alone Mained, In ola ave though she was sne yet r tained all the vigor of youth ana immortality. ‘The reverend gentieman closed by earnestly ex- horting his bearers to cherish whe eo 5 they might enjoy @ life of eternal happiness wit! Him who bad jounded it by His veachings, His sufferings and His death. CHRIST CHURCH. SENDING THE HOLY GHOST THE CROWNING ACT OF SALVATION—SERMON BY REY. DR. THOMP- SON. Whitsunday was appropriately celebrated yes- terday morming at Christ church, corner of Pith avenue and Thirty-flth street, There was a large and fashionable attendance, as there always is at this church, and the music, though al lent, comprised an unusually varied and select programme. A notable and pleasant feature was exquisite floral decorations on the altar, placed there im sweet and living rei brance of deceased members of the church. course the grand feature of the @ay was the music, They have two choirs of Mfty voices, one composed of boys, dressed in white gowns and vc- cupying the chancel, and the other of young ladies, occupying the organ gallery. In addition to chant- reh aud be | | ever devoted to her principles, so that one da ve THE ANNIVERSARIES. THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION. ‘The anniversary of the Congregations! Union was held last evening im the vnureh of the Pn- grims, Brookiya. Dr. Ray Palmer, Secretary of the Union, reat a brief report of the financial condition and the origim and operations of the Union, It was organized in 1853, since which time it bas alded 925 churcues, and its mcome hag been $600,000, These churches are scattered over thirty-four States, @hey have paid to the Union tn furtherance of its work $28,000, and have returned on loans more than $26,000. ‘The Union has aad more than ninety applications from churches for aid since its last meeting, Itbas beiped thirty-eight, but the treasury is now ever- drawn more than $30,000, *: Dr. Storrs followed Dr, Palmer with a sermon of remarkable power and clearness of thought and conception on the value of the influence of the local church, His text waa taken from Luke vit, 5;—"He loveth our nation and hath built us & synagague.”” Tne Doetor traced the synagogue irom its origin through its diferent stages to the church which supersedes it, sketched the uses and influences of the synagogue and the cburch over local communities and potions, neid up this Republic as the most striking tilustration tat the world has ever had of tue moulding power of the Church without @& hierarchy and disso- ciated from the State and aemonsiratea the wonderful influence that this coun- try has had on the world during ths hun- dred years of its history. A ceutury is a short time 1h the bistory of @ natiou. Frauce 1s 1,400 years Old; Rome was 700 years coming to the di- Inensions oO! an empire, jut yebin these 100 years: we ougit tohave dune muca ior the worid, The Doctor calied attention to the remarkable changes that have taken place in Europe withia the century, and «specially noted thore in France, the present goverbiment of which he styled the vad republic. Even in steady ngiand, if Chatham should arise he would hardiy Know it as the England of bis day, #0 great changes Nave taken piace there. In the depart- ment of pure science we have done attiv; in ap- lied science something. Ip history, poetry, phi- josophy, &c., something has been done, but nov much, In fine arts no great work has vcen pro- auced by an American ident, either here or abroad. But we have done certain things by which we have made the world our deptors, The Doctor here recited and elaborated a umber of things, among Wich Was the sieamboai, tne tele- graph, the printing press, the demonstration that democratic institutions cao live, ani tab the Church, separate irom the State and tree from hierarchies, can prosper, aud that the Da- tion, thus enlightened aod iree ana demo- cratic, can keep at peace with tie world, ‘The Doctor, however, aliuded to our War of Inde- pendence and oi! 1812 with bugiand; with Algiers in 1815, with Mexico in 1848, With the Indians on our borders time and agaio, and our recent civil war, But yet we have kept at peace with all Dations, notwithstanding we have bere tne bet biood aud the Dighest tempered people of Agnting ali natiol ‘fhe Doctor then showed how ail our success republic, IN science, ari, literature, overnment, education, &¢., was iargely due to the jocal Church, and clused by declaring \uat be is a todo) the nation who bdlids a synagogue or a cuurel THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. The semi-centenntai of the American Tract So- ciety was commemorated last evening at Dr. Hall’s new church, corner of Filta avenue and Fifty-fifth street, whem the building was filled to its utmost capacity, Justice Strong, of the United States Supreme Court, presided, The devotional exercises commenced with @ long and fervent prayer by Dr. Rogers, after which the hymn “Blow Ye the Trumpet’? was sung by the congre- gation. 4 Judge Strong then made a short address, in which he spoke of the commencement of the Tract Society and its great progress within tbe jast bail century. Rev. William Gillies, of Edinburgh, was then in- troduced, and spoke of the benedt to his country that had accrued through the agency of the Ameri- can Tract Socicty and the advantages of coipor- teurs, He stated that since the visit of the Rev. Dr. Cook to England and Scot- land, im 1853, the churches there had employed 210 colporteurs, and they had done a great amount of good, He relaied Many instances of their work, aud trusted that their number would soon be doubied, not oniy there but here. Anderson, Piumer, Macioskie, Man- Ming and Agams were then respeciively intro- duced and delivered short addresses, Mr. Shearer, the secretary, made the ‘ollowing statement in regard to the society :— The society issucs six periodicals :—The Americun Messen- ger, the Americanischer Botsch yter, the Onit’y Paper and the Morning Light, monthhes; and the Christian Weekly and the De ‘olka/rewid, Wlustrated weeklies, The first four have an agvregate cirnulatiod of 450,\K0 monthiy. The Mustrated Christian Weekly has & circulation of about W.00) copies; the Voueyreund, 6.8 U. Publications for disiribatioa among the destitutc, in- giuaing annuities, wave been ganted, amounting to 2 pages. They have been S, or nearly 50,)00, Frain distributed Ywrough thoes engaged in personal r EXPEND™ URES. effort for souls. legacies, $112,422; sales, ¢ from 8 neles and + distr: 442; cash appropriatio! soreigo land: van account, paid jormer loan o@Sract on debt for paper, $7.00); all othe? ex treasurer's report, $51,920; total, $650, treasury. $2.09. The committee are Qeeply impressed with the oblica- tion W vigorously prosecute aud eularge mission ary. colportage, During the year 210 colporieura, in- ciuding 42 students trom 17 colleges aud theviogteat Seminaries, labored in 35 States abd Territorine and | the adjoining British provinces. They held or Penae 6,491 religious meetings, made 170.848 tamil ts ‘Versed 00 personal relig.on oF with 120,17) ilies, found 25,4 Protestant ilies who habitually Regiected attending evangelical preaching, 7,978 tam- thes of Roman C.tholica, 12,50) taimilies Gestitute of ait BE, the (Bible and Gi97 Provestans o Gy for s House, $80,000 ases.as by the ; balance ip the religious books exce families without the Foreign grants daring the year aggrerated neuriy 15. $3,511 U6 in puviications, $4,912 4 in cash and 22 64 in electroty pes. The Massachusetts Society for Promoting © Knowledge was formed by Rev. Drs. sav and Morse. Lieutenant Governor Philly This was the earliest org ‘Trai a istian ica. ubsequently there were organized. in 1807 the Con- necticut eiglous Tract Society,” 1808, the “Vermont jous;” 18/0, the Protestant & N York; i812, the “S ns. the “hvangelical,’ + 1SM4, the at Boston 15, thi P javer School of Batti- more, and the 17, the “New k Met! “Protestant kptscopa., Female,”’ , er. as le and Tract So- ews art ation Biv! the “Western, ‘and in 1824 the olety st General” at Washington aud the “New York State” at Albany Toward the close of 15i4. measures for the formavon of vas Tract octety”” ‘@ National Socie’ and the by the “Relig ‘American t and Dr. James Milnor was joward = Maicolim — wi constitution, and on the Kev. in adopted @ he society was organized. 8. Vs Wider, a ful Board of otic D. ted President,an Wiilin ers, m A. Haliock sec fetary; Moses Alien, ‘Treasurer, and Key. Howard Malcolm, Director, ‘now the sole survivors of the first Board aud all of whom continue to be identified with the society. Its list ol members and directors embrace: Over 31,00 names. tuciuding members trox | eal denominations. Tt has issued, exci | cain 9,079 distinct paoltcations, of whic! ing the fsalter and singing various pieces, spe- | cially arranged for the occasion, was Dr. Atwood's “Vent Creator,” and Gounod’s communion service, both being antipronally im the “sanctus” of the communion service, Mr. Humpories, the tenor, sang s S00, showing @ sweetness and yet compass of voice rarely surpassed in our church choirs, James Pearce, M. B., the organist. under whose direction was the music, played the organ with rare and felicitous skill. Rev. Dr. H. M. Thompeon, the rector, preached # powerfm and impressive sermon, appropriate to the day. His text was St. Jono, Xiv., 25—Bat the Comiorter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Fatner wiil send im my name, he shail teach you al! things and bring ali things to your remembrance, what- soever ve said unto you.” Wuy was nor, lie 1 dowe at tue Lord's ascension ? so oo OMPLETE THE WORK OF she sending of tne Holy Ghost, Comforter, 8 the coming of the They were to-day commemoration teis Most Important event in Coe grand scheme o! saivation, The conceptions of the great majority ot people of Christianity and the Gospei were strangely different irom that of God and the Scrip. tures, Is seemed to most as if the Work of saiva- was the see 8 Af tm eat mission. work. He die: e, and He does a Himsell to save the world from the penalties of sin. The sorrow/ul, the heariwrokea, ‘the iame, the hait aud the diind came to the fe of Christ and tound mercy, But was this allt Wa: the work then ended? shoud they be content with mere pardon? For the pardoned criminal there Is the after iife, Hi tne brand of the prion be t fr Hiow can he again become al ned citizen? How is he to recover his unbiemished honor? The man, though pardoned, is stil a pardoned criminal. Stil the name and character of a criminal attach to him. Cliria} Would save with an everasting salvation. tion was completed ae cros@, st what Ubrist Himself say: obtain pardon and to ton saivation dialects. ic has printed 8 copies r tioms, including 164,379,0W of periodicals aud 27,086," volumes. 1 $13,507,589, of which nd legacies, $8,967, 21e 74 were trom reuts ppropriations in Mission DTess BMD: 6, to tions to the valne of $1071 4.88 years of missionary colportage 5.008 men, whose record shows 10,0. (ed, 376,293 relieious me Mi pease family visits made, 6 23 conversed With on personal religion oF prayed with, 495 Protestant families visited who tabitu tend evangelical preaching, 919,840 jam ied, 5, Protestant 635 families destscute b aatisfac tory prog- Te prinied in 143 language: 07. SB3 pabli volumes sold, Nea zi feligious books exce the Bible. ceipts by decades show ver, follows:—From 1825 to, 1835, y 154,695; 1845 to 1555, $3\0s444; 1850 to 1) 1805 to 1873, $5,183,301. A comparison between ‘and 1875 is alec insirnetive. Thea only tracts were 6d and if Dus ope imucuns | Now 1.733 vouumes and atx Cuaeed, then $.55,50) pages were La ssc Addi:iom to 7,980, 0) copies of of tracts were printed. | The Were $10,103, In L876, $592,808, THE PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MIs. SIONS. total casi receipes The anniversary services of the Board of foreign Missions of the Presvyterian Church were ceie- brated last evening in Rutgers church, Madison avenue and Twenty-ninth sireet, the kev. Dr. Wiliam Adama presiding, The Rev. Dr D. Irving read & brief statement of the condition of the Society, from which ry dd that the receipts for the re $496,718; eXpenditures, $495,000, Payot Of $38,282. Two physicians, ten i Ma eight Missiouaries nave uring that perio The soard of 26 missionaries employed in ditere countries, 168 mules and male 500 tive — tabu churches and 12,000 youtns in ther sen: colleges. The society Gas laborers ¢ yyed in Caltornia, Japan, China, aMong the Indian tribes in this country, Siam, India, Persia, syria, West Hit and different couvines im Addresses were deliver jonary subjects oy the Rev. Drs. Irving, Tromoall, of Chiu, aod Blip woud,