The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1875, Page 8

8 “DEVOTION. Children’s Day---Flowers of Earth and Flowers of the Hearth. —_-+———_ MR. HEPWORTH ON IMMORTALITY. | Pane St Consecration of St. Anthony's Church by Bishop Loughlin. THE NEED OF .GODLY LIVES. Growth in Grace Defined by Mr. Beecher— Mr, Frothingham’s Estimate of Love and Light. OHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. GORGE H, HEPWORTH ON THR PROOFS OF IMMORTALITY. Mr. Hepworth preached to his large congrega- tion yesterday morning On the subject Of immor- tality, He selected bis text from 1, Corinthians, xv., 57:—"But thanks be to God which giveth ua the victory through our Lord Jesus Cbrist.” I never prepare myself, my dear friends, to speak ‘0 you upom the subject of Our immortality with- out veimg overwhelmed by the grandeur of the theme, andl am again and again impressed, as I read concerning it in both the Old and New Te Ments, with the fact that all the apostles d pended very largely for their fa:th apou the prom- tse and the life and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ 1s is well for us, perhaps, to gatuer together all the povsibilities which human in- genuity can devise t).at we may Increese and cor- ruborate our natur:! faith im wbis subject; but, after all, the best ar :ument fs that which comes from the !act that the stone was rolled away from the sepuichre in Judea; that Jesus did rise from the grave and did reappear on earth im the presence of those who loved Him and of those wom He had commissioned to carry on the great work He had begun. lam not gumindful of the fact of the strong argument in tavor of immortal Itfe, which isto be nad in the fact that all men, in all ages and ail climes, bave socepted it, Notuing is more evident than that tue Seed corn, of which this is the fruit, wes planted by am Almighty hand, nothing more evident than fuat man has bad nothing whatever to doin Jashiouing this instinct of immortailty. We are one in griefif notin joy, When heartsare giad they may separate, but when they are sad tey ome together around the same aitur. Between King and peasant circumstances form a bridge Suat cannot be crossed; but when the king loses bis chiid and whenthe peasant digs his silent Brave beneath the overhanging boughs of the forest, then they wingie their tears ia common broshersood, mindful of the jact that tere is @ house above, not built by bands, and, as when & Periume touches my uerves 1 Know the rose is somewhere, though i see it not, 60, when J see Lats tendency, though | see uot the house, | kuow that poader there is 4 house Whose Jvundutious must beeterpai, Once wore, i tuink, | cao argue irom the Jack of tue INTENSITY OF MAN’S LONGING. Brethrea, away down at tue core oi our hearts we Wisd for the otuer World more was for this. Even though we de not note the fact there lives no man who has not dreamed a beautifui dream con- verning the time to come; tuere is Uo man Wao has not sobved Out, peruaps uncousciousiy, bis prayer conmecting tae unseen with the seen, tne eterpal with the finite. You know tha: argument bas veen put pio beautitul suupe 1u those Leauti- BY. fui lines of Addisou’s—it is the argument o patural philosopay, of naturai bistury and of Batural religion:—“Cato 1s in the forest aione, overwhelmed vy the sefisnnoss ef man, d Gent, ready With bis sword to seek eurrauce the World beyond, and, as he ic Q wuust be 60.” “Cato! thou reas Whence (his pleasant hope, tuis Jonging after immortality, or, on tue Whence this secret dread and horror of (ali notaingness? Why soriuaks the soul [rom destruc- thon? "Tis aivinity wae stirs wituin us.’ So we od tarougs Datura! reugiou a degree of HUNTING AT ANOTHER LIFE Jt seems to we | find w still eirvnger argument in the lact WhICD Must be Patent to you wud ali of » buws Hf (his doctrine Was taken out of our lives tue worai tove Of our Livet would siuk to Zero, We are avie, unuer the present circumstances, te live im the temperate zone, and woe seat of the Sianting suo tOat «trikes Our path comes irom the fact that we believe tu immortality. Lf tt were net lor twat, got only would the sun be ex. tmguished, bat de bio: ted out altogetuer. I can imagine no despair deeper Loan tuat waich comes to the soul, thoroughy convinced that waen bi tual when me breathes tus just 1 nes bis iast for Ou! the horror at wir Woen We hear tae clous of earth jailing im . if there if no Voice im the air, bo power bo spirit that jaf eyes and points iis greeDess aod Leaven itself ls vut » mo end crucity. But When, om the other va can fee) that weitner lie nor deata, princtpalisies nor powers can se arate jrom the love 0 God, wien we know tat they that gO go wut to BWI the door on its rusty hinges, and when we are as- Gured that some time We suali pot vur band oo the same dour, aud, lookimyg uot cacaward, but forWard, see the [aces of our loved ones, nut lost, with eyes of g triumph, we utser the words of our to God, wht ve th us the ) st? Let me on the resurrection Beiter you nor 1 bave @ for we fect of bever estimated tung pecuiar | life oF Master. Z before he dea He pre- Gicced 1. He told His Crctpies that His deatu Was Of equal importauce with tis life, We wc- Bmowiledge (be miracie O1 the Siar siamuing over Que Village Of Bete enem, but THE GRRATER MIRACLE $e fm Christ's deatu, nov ois lie. Now, Jesus woised to fis disciples, and tnerefore to you, Suat He would rise ogsin—Himsel! persovaily and Mnaividually—frow the grav ye Will rise also, Si. Paul way Christ is dead, them are we de ise, take beed to you Gren of a King, for the tim ebail strip Of ruis diagu. shail be clothed wits Ghali recoguize the i@therbood « priest racter of your some'bhing Marveious \. ere ke it again and Qgain, sud [ am as sure that Corist vas kept His iM Speuklug to you, You and Now, Promise as lam sure chat | Let me, i can, drive the Bar. Bb me J believe that were & Dian fespectiiny us Mf Crist bave @ plas, that pian is BOL by fail, Gs wer is irresistible; with God to wi ty os wot omy put toe revelation aod ell, NOW, Goo bas given Com mandmest eur governuy a true that a Ruma Peing pad post mest Of aculeveme acd a say the ena may. cx jolly in the mind of the Al migaty that He shoud give @ that cane not be complied wit € imenis— who keeps (hem € sera0n on the Moua'—*#Lo fist Notyou nor i. ‘the Tea Commancmeuts are so far above us that We cau scarce ven ¢ garments when we stand—mwors Ged said, “Thou shalt Know no 0 me.” Tiere is @ god in € @ chamber in every Gulden call on ius Go the Mount, # Cig’ Winds Gs losether ir re the port's are Av angel looaing o separ sy and afection Woick Aimighty God, We qua: but we do QF fagiily anu uneage, IN THI® DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY, when we have none (o LOurt of;aad do you tell Me we can ule wi work unfinished. Tue Wee oi ihe fores Slitl€ Stalk und tarouga Centuries it grows uutli \t Gas attained its stature, Wen it begins to de tismever decays tii it bas accomphsbed its mission. [be Waman race is Jet in ita green stalk; It bas Mot yet sent out ita Hist eal, and as 0 Lie possible Viossum perfected in the Midst Of OlRer surrocOuings, We have no Gream, no concepts Do you ce me this is to ené just now?! | thibk not Ow say, as @utific wen Dave snid, what is beaven ana where Mois? Where do we got mienaa, L do Dot Know, bus | oe1e¥ men are Mgt iO asseruDg thas 4 World aud around us many years, yet jae time will come wh | be consuined; the World bad @ beginning and tue world n ave an ending. yme wil cow Whea our solar system will back into con- fusion. f old bast jald the foun- dsucn of te earth and the heave are we work of Ihy hands. Toey shai perish, Wax oa tine wysewy thon shalt enutire; yea, all of buen Pse a papment. ae » verture phe NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, a , But thou art the same, and THY YBARS SHALL HAVE NO END.” We should recovuize that as 4 wonderful propheey if it had been uttered by Tyndall or Dar- win or Huxtey instead o! David, And Isaiah says, “And all ue host of heaven shail de dissolved, and the heavens snail be rolled vogether tke @ scroll, 4nd all their host shall ‘all down, as tne leaf falleth of from the vine and a8 4 jailing fig from the fig wee.” God, tne fig tree, and ali matter, the leal ‘Dat bas lived its life, And im Corinthians we are bid to 100K Not at the things Which are seen, for the things when are seen are temporal, and the toings which are not seen are eternal. And so L could go on to the Inst chapter of Revelation, ‘There are two ucts, The earta had @ bexinning, | them, and they shall be changed. ume wheb God spoke tne universe into being; and vefore tuat wherever God Was there were the an- geis, and where they And me, And so we sa ei | ent of that taer; i God and us is broken. te love of God ts eternal, And they woo bury th ir loved ones burya part only, We shall ail meet again. Love dies not any more than God dies. Here, then, are the simple facts, | bid you hope. Ihave been with you in your trouble and secon you meek, How blessed are the tears that are oniy of separation! tow biessed to fee) that we snail meet again! Those we 80d are lifted up to heaven and away, but come back to earth and visit us in the siumber of night like dregms, And so we trust in the ever-living God, and w He does is right | and best, DEDICATION CEREMONIES. SERMON BY BISHOP LOUGHLIN. ‘The impressive dedication services of the Roman Church were periormed in Greenpoint yesterday, in the consecration of the Chureh of St. Anthony by Bistup Longulin, The church was filled long before the hour set for the ceremony, and bun- dreda only witnessed that portion of the exer- cises denowinated the ‘“extertor circuit.” At half-past ten o’clock the clergy emerged from the Vestry into the chancel, ana after prayer the pro- cessional was resumed down the centre aisie to the outside of the church, the priests reciting the usual prayers, A cross-vearer led the line, followed by the altar boys, acolytes and cen- ser-bearers; then came the clergy, precea- ing the venerable Bishop. The service the muses was then commenced, Rey. Futher Curran, of St. Andrew’s, New York, the celebrant, assisted by Rev. Father J. McCabe, of St. Loula, Mo., deacon; Rev. Father | Connolly, of St, Anthony's, sub-deacon, and Rey. | Fataer Carroll, of 5t. Vincent de Paul, master of lace beneath the ceremonics, During the singing the Bisnop ap- pered to be sndering, and the clergy. evinced thelr sympathy with him, as, in consequence of en accident church, he met witn on bis way to the the altar, said :— times. His praise wiil ever be in my mouth.’ ”? We are assembled on this occasion to invoke the blessing of Aimughty Uod on this house, to invoke | Bis blessing on ali woosbail In future time as- — semble within its walis to offer to Almighty God the tribute of homage and praise to whico He is | entitled. Gratitude is natural to man, and if tue members of this congregation could experience the imll feelings of gratucude which the truta of God inspires they Would see the fuil force of the words of the text I have choseu from the writings of the royal prophet, Some seem strictly bouad to praise and bless God— those Who have received of Hi8 gilte—and that leods me to consider irom whom We receive those biessings, their nature and tueir vlject. 1, Who He 1s, Irom whom we receive these fa- vors. Itts expressed in the words of tie Evau- gel:—"God so loved the world that he gave tis only begotten soa, that all men might be saved.” This is the beginning of the obligation of Coris- ‘tha retura .or tbe great love He bere eaci one ous, Every member of this congregation should reaize that Christ, the eternal Son of God, we begotten Som, caine inio the world to save of them, and when we thoroughly under- stand who He is we can then fully realize the e. on. He is infuiely great, inti- fnitely gioriwus—Patuer ana Son receive of Ha favors and partake of His bless Tue sagerig and Saviour shows how much God 10 me to be our teacher, not only as # Victim to oncie us to the Fathér by sufering for cue sio8 of mankind, bUt as @ teacher Of each One Of US, & lig im our pata that we wight come to a full knowledge of tree truth. hose men in 4 special manner and He el for & special tulssion (has ail comug generations to the end 01 time might come to the knowigige of the truth, toat they may exclaim witn the text, “(li praise the Loru at ai times; bis pratse shail ever ve in my moutk.” He fas not only esian- bsved « Cour througa grace, that we at U he bas estabilsied the are saved by faith fa grace, but through the gut of God, tne ning through tue blessed sacra ppomied tu ters, througa are administered in their oi their being of God. ted We vlessinys accruing of baptism, confirmation, a&c., and in the sacrific mubion, aud urged the congregation to be par- tasers of toe full influence oi the truth, that they might end their days a8 God intended they sbould, to enter inw tue portals of biessed, ely after the conclasion of the sermon tue bishop retired. THs MUSICAL BXBRCISES of the day were us follows:—Preiude; overtare to . dication services. “Decoration ’ Yarmer's Graud Mass in & fac; under the @irection of Professor Zeiner, with the following solvists:—D. Coletti, basso; J. f, Mooney, tenor; Mrs. Kennedy, ait 8 Prosser ans Faucks, ropranes. 's “Ave Maria,” pus jude, “Seventh Regiment Marea.” IN THE AFTERNOON. the varions Irien societies of the Eastern District Of Brookiyn and the lodges of the Ancient Order of Hibern'aos paradea in honor of tae charca Without masic, fully 4000 men being in the Lne. They passed through tue courea, dropping weir offerings by the way. The services of the day ded with singing oy the children alter the { the procession. in addition tw the pastor of the chnreb, Rev. Patber Lane, tne loliowiag clergy men participaced —Fassers Corcoran, Of St. Jo , Of 8S. Peter and Paul's; oF St. Vincent de Paul's} tevily, o| St. Stepneo’s; Borns and Meagher, of tne Dominican Order, abd Tuiry aug McDonaid, of the Souety of Jesus. MASONIO HALL LOvE AND LIGHT—-KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY FOR THER GUIDANCE OF SENTIMENT—SERMON BY REV. O. B. FROTHINGHAM. Rev. O. B. Frothingnam yesterday analyzed the claims of love and light, sentiment and science, to | the consideration of the world, His congrega- tion Was large, as usual, The burden of Jesus’ teaching is simply love. Love your neighbor, pray for those who bate you. It @ singular toing toat tae duty of learning ana living up to the truth never once oecura in the teachings of Curist, Jt 1s Paul who wrote that de- licious poem im the epistie to the Corinthians, in whien be Says that knowledge and everytuing else passeth away,and that out three tnt remain, faitn, hope and charity, and the last he piaces above all. When John says “Goa is means the light simply as far as 1 lliumines the pata of saivation through Coriss, While this tradition of love rons through the Words aod wrivings of Christ, Paul, Jonn and the otwer aie we God tradition of the supremacy of \i@dt runaing through (he Hebrew writiags. Thos there were two schools—taat of love sad that of iignt. The early Hebrews piacea knowledge o power—tue sage before the king. 1e pies, LOVE 1% THR CaTMOLIC CHORCH. The Catholic Church represents jove. The key note of ite rites aud traditions is love. J will tell you an old story which is apposite to this, Beatrice, a young giri Who nad devoted her life to the Church, 18 importuned by @ beautiful youth vo jesve this sad mode of existence. Sue yields to bis entreaties, and there follows first a life of pleasure, then one of sname. Worn out at just sie returas to the old ent and & ks the nue at the port you remember poor sister Beatrice # and how astonished sue Ww to hear “Why, yea, she is etiil here; Would you jike to see her?” she is asnered in, and there ts her other self only, somewhat cider. it was the Virgin Mother who had taken her piace in the convent while she was aw nd now quietly revigned her keys again to her with. | outa word of reproach, Coristian cbarity. Itt« the heart of the Cathoue religion~(his all pervacing love; while Protes- tan lian! represenis the oluer senoul Of kuowiedge, that of hight. OMPARATIVE ACTIRVEMES These two > represeated: as being essary it tagouis to one another, ut Fttinw two sides of the ne | Wiynwiv tev ate Lut abd She earth shali have ap ending, And | know | that li there is & God at ali, that God was | betore matter, where uving | know not, But my common sense tells me that thera was a | d, and stay Dob | of being it was feared he woula be unable to Preach, but the rev. genueman had determined to fulfil nis pledge, and, stepping \o the front of | ‘Il will read the first verse of the | Thirty-toird Psaim—‘I will praise tae Lord at all there are who would | Of the Mass @ud Doly com- eternity among tue | itis @ lovely story of | ‘The aportie of love says that for the of ail the acrid things of the world y poco upoa love, What was it tuat | Caused the abolition of slavery? Love, The vreat ruse of love swayed the hearts of toe abolvonists. | | They felt that there Was a greae stinging Wrong | dove Lo millions of human begs, ip the present | Warfare agaist another curse, intemperance, 1 | | ls the beating rt of love which is tae moving | spirit, Thus the apostle o: love finds no enu to | the great things which it bas accomplished. The | apostle of light again says that the world nas been | equally comiorted, biessed, supported, purified by kuowiedge. “You owe it to me,” ne says, “hat mer have been brought together, so that from | one end of the werld to the ower hearts can hier- | ally beat with a single throb; you owe it to tne invention oj the electric telegraph; you it to me that le has Deen proonged—you owe that to the study of hygiene and statistics,” 1b ia the boay aud DO’ the soul that sclence looks at. What re- Sults from that? That there is less bereavement, less sickness less death. ita good tang to | | have well urained cities—the power of keeping | pestilence away? You owe that, not to love, pity or charity, but fo chemistry, which looks at no beaven, but simply analyzes torcea, elements, | geese, ERRORS OF LOVE. Ag both are regenera ors—saviours—let them strike bands. Love and lignt ir go quite to- | gether, itis true, One is alway mewhat in ex- cess of the otner. There are times wuen love is in | excess of light and when rhe latter shouid assert | Mtsel. Suc times we have now, ‘There is so much more warm appealing than coid reflection in this age that we must /ay More stress upon ibe latter, 1t 18 not very ioug ago that @ weil known evaugeiical divine of Hugiand said toat for the purposes of salvation knowiedge Was worthless. | Tos 1a tue cry of all tre churches, Knowledge | comes much harder than mere sentiment, which | je social, [resb, genial, Joyous, impulsive. Every- body ean feel. The iess people Anuw the more | they feel. icebergs are at the mercy oO! every wild, a8 Guring the War, ior tustance, there was | @ contagion of antipachy to the Soutuern people. | How ts it cow? The sparks of iraternal love are | kindled eve:ywhere by these Ceuteanial celebra- wons. NARROWNESS OF LOVE, Love ts merely a matier of clique; the Christian | | omy looks witnim the pale ol Cliristianity; wwe | wise care littie for the foolish, the rich jor tae | poor, You have observed Low the poor aways | | beip the poor, Thuse who have studied the lives | of that most unfortunate ciass living ip our midst, | the prostitutes, tell us suci stories Of teuderness, | | Jove, forvearauce as Would break one’s heart. Bat | sympathy is simply possible for those who bave | selu tae same sorrow and experieuced the sume | terrbie uwials. NECESSITY OF MORE LIGHT, There ts too mucu love in compari-on with ight. See low tue jatter 1s ever necessary to help love in its good werk! The people Ol Massachusetts are noW agitated by the quesion Wiat vo do with & boy, baaly burn, cursed in bis parentage and at jast @ cruel murderer. Woo 1s to be protected and pitied, ke ana lis parents or society at iarge We must know how to prevent the birth of such crea | tures, @r, 1 they are born, their crimmal develop. Mmeuts. The same question presents itseif in ihe Inwans. Oa the vue side there 1s the romantic | giae of sentiment, wich sees in him (be jovabie nero; the other gees tn him only the murderous Savage, Who should be extirpated. We need light, 1igot, grapple With Luese questions, in order tocarry ou! the true purpose of love. A single beam of light will guide the weary wanderer to tue haven OL rest when Jove as dropped upon tis knees, Lopeless, long ago. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SERMON BX THE REV, FATHER DaLY—THE NEED FOR GODLY LIVES. | The Cathedral was crowded to the doors yester- | day, At the last mass the Rey. Father McCabe was the oficiating clergyman, the Rev, Father Quinn, V. G., and the Rev. Father Kearney being present during the celebration, At the termina- tiom of the irst gospel the Rey. Father Daly as- eended ihe pulpit and preacned upon the text “We pave labored the whole might and have | caught nothing’—Luke, v., 5. He showed that not only those who devote themseives solely to @religiove state of ie are expected to ve as nearly periect as possible, but that the duty de- VYoives Upon ail Caiisti ns who velong to ‘be Church of God to follow closely the divine precept laid down for thetr guidance. We might probably sas, with the apostles, that we had labored ali our hives in vain because We bad not practised the ry Virtues. Itis not safiicient to lead an ordipary ile ke the man who bad received but one talent, We bury it, not thinking that God wil one day demand both principal and interest. The reverend xeutleman conciuded by exhorung the congregation to sanctify themselves by faith in the grace oi God. The music Jormed a prominent Goud grotiyimg leature of the services, and was jer the directiou oO! Professor Gustavus Scamitz. mass selected for the occasion was by Pun- Berou, Mozart s “Vem Creator” was inteluceusy r-puered by Mr. Crcas, tue basso. At the oie: tory Mine, Breveli sang thy ” roli, with beautiful effect Calist, the senor, Mr. berson, lending Vaiuavle Besisiauce during tue muss. WILLETT STREET METHODIST EPIs- | COPAL CHURCH. “ABRAHAM'S FAlTH”—SERMON BY REV. J. | SAUNDERS. | The Willest street Methodist Eptscopal church Was well atvended yesterday. The Rev, Mr. Saun- ders took bis text from Genesis, xxi, 1, 2— “and it came to pass after these taings, that God id tempt Abraham and said unto him, Abraham, | and he said, ‘Behold here lam. And he said, | Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for @ burnt offering upon one Oi the mountains which I will tell thee of.” Abraham’s /aith, said the minister, was possibly the most perfect that everman possessed. It was | small at first, beczuse the commands that God | v. gave bim to do were small; bat Abra. | ham obeyed them most implicitly, and when God found that Abrabam beuevea in | Him He great trial a joving father When Goo called him to destroy Bi only sud well beloved son; vut did nos murmur. It Was God’s Will and ce set out to do ih GOD STAYED HIS HAND in time, however, because ile was satisfied with Abrahain’s obedience, and jor that Arm faith im Him God blessed Abraham above most men, God spesks to us turouga Wwe Lord Jesus Caria, and asks us to have iach, Christ asks us to ha in His saving power, aud it Is only by having in Him tat We cum be saved. God may ask ot many (hiugs to do, and we may compial think thew hard, but If we look at them witoa tri Christian spirit they will appear easy and pleasant, God asks ho impossibilities of men, but as that shey obey His divine laws aad that they have faith in the seying poWer o/ that Glrist who came on earth to die t tlive, Materialist slopped in thelr arguments when they had ad- | Vanced the sole idea that all there was could be seen and felt; but true Christians know better. | They know that there is something beyond this lue and that that someting can only ve reached by Jaith mn Christ Jesus, He bad asked us to bee lieve (n Him and promised to save us il we did, and He wii certainly keep His word, | | CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MERCY. REV. FATHER M CARTER ON THE PAPACY. | The well known excellence of the musical ser, | vices at this churct® usually attracts a large con- gregation at the la mass, BOT withstanding which the extreme heat of yesterday seemed teo much for this expression of piety on the part of the members of the Charen, the cariy masses being thore most largely attended, while at hall-past ten o'clock there was but @ sparse assembly of wor- shippers. Those, however, who did atvend last mass were rewarded for their zeal bya sermon preached by the Rev. Father Mevartee upon a topic just Bow Of Special interest to Cathoucs— Vide, “me raracy.” Pather McCartee is a young pricet, dnt recently arrived im this country, since which time, how. ever, he has heen adopted into the diocese of Newark, his previous career of ten years in the priestagod baving beea spent in missionary iabor as assistant pastor of the Catuedral churcti, Skib- veran, county Cork, Ireland. The theme of the reverend father was weested by = the Gospel read during tua in which Christ Is represented ae entering upon His work in addressing the muititudes who bad followed | jlim to the Lake Genesareth, and where ts recited Mis first cali Peter, When ile aduressed Bim, “Pear aot, | PROM HENCEFORTH THOT ENALT cate Starting from thit the speaker sho tabisnment by Christ Himseil Pever, calling attention to t of an’hortty conferred on mim cer while He remained on earth. t vivid sketch of the growth of the Papal supremacy, and the submission to the Sovercign Poutificate de- rived irom Peter, even in the dark days of perse- eawon preceding the reign oi Constautine, tracing ite aiStOry a8 oe OWE BVertingurbable light soar beamed jorth over all che Christian mations throug! ages of confosie®, barbarism and blood: ned, Ponowimg Oe procession of the comvuries he pointed out bow in the ca:aviisumemt of PRIBWS CULATR Onrist had shown Mis for wiedge of the ne- | cessity, io the churea would nave to endai represent Him vicegerent, endowed wita puwe Taus was reached tne infai- name ogma of lioillsy, Which, asbough but recentiy proclaimed had been @ bond Of UNION and strength woicn hi j ; kept the Church togetoer if darkues# and dis tress—a principle of faith jeit thea as firmly as now attested vigation. The preacher Wee p r c 1 bls Vans, ormriawe | betrer, | establishes the | veauctial and deitcate and tender aod requiring | | the proper wotve which ougat te influence us, | on the platform werg handsomer, more fragrant | What Kind of a gesture be power of expression that rendered bis address specially inieresting. Mass was sung by the Rev. Father Reardon, the choir lending it8 usual efficient charm to tne sacred service, CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. OBSERVANCE OF CHILDREN’S DAY—DISCOURSE BY REV. DR. E, H. CHAPIN. The second Sunday in June is set apartin the Charca of the Divine Paternity as “Onildren’s Day.” In other words, it is the day on which, in the morning service, the Sabbain school children are Made the subjects of special attention, The host Of little ones filled the churoh, 1+ was a most pleasing spectacle, and its beauty was enhanced by @ profusion of peautiful fowers—“a charming intermingling of the Nowers of the earth and the flowers of the hearth,” to quote the pas- tor, Rev. Dr. Chapin, An unusual feature in the preliminary exercises was tne singing and toe hymns of the children, and their infantile voices ringing out in a clear and harmonious ac- cord was one of the most delightiul feavures of the morning worship, The text selected by Dr, Chapin was, “Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”” The Jatherhood of God, he began, was fully and for- cibly exemplified by Christ’s love of little chile drea, as shown while He was on earth, Obrist could give His disciples no better idea of the holiness and purity of heaven than by telling them that of such ts the kingdom of heaven, He then proceeded to uniold the meaning of the text, There is a mystery uo one can solve, Na- ture is not divided from God, Much less is humanity divided trom od. In thie great world of humanity there is @ steadiast power Working beyond man’s power, f y! tue expression of @ divine Iie is the outware majerial universe, Meu jeci that there ts some- tuing in them beyond the outward world. I had ratuer be & FANATIC OF THR SOUL than the fanatic of the sense , Jv is higher and Tne true Ife embraces both; the true man recognizes that there is # kiugdoiwn of God; recogulzes the spiritual Hatuye Of Lis inward be- lug. We recognize every whé@re and in ali denomi- nations aspiravions toward the divine. History rocesses of the divine will, And history 18 iull of mystery; how Wroug, now rigut, A divine purpose alone explains it, Man bas tomething to do in the Reais | out of this purpose, A day with — Go 1s as @ thousand years and a thousand years as one day, His work is slow and gradual, but sure. In te text the Kingdom of God means the Gospel— @ Gospel sure to grow, sure to prosper, Woat en- couragement to good workers, What consolation Lo tnose Who preach God’s Word, Lhe good seed falling on good ground is sure togrow. Man Works and God Works. His purpose lives and grows in the heart o! man. His great character- iste i8 Working Witoin. Jt is notin manners, in tor ms, it is the Work o1 the inner Ike. It is a gradual work; itis notsuduen. Conviction may be sudden. There urst comes the blage aud then the sullear. Not laws, Dot institutions are going todo the work, it must come irom tue heart. iu children are (he utmost possinuities of the times. Uhrist says this, Lere is the tender sol —a soll diferent irom tne pard, indurated sou of the grown uu. in the chiid is that disposition Chiistianity requires—reverence, submission and trusting iaith, fhe worst man is yet a child, for deep Within him there still reaiaius some of tre jee.ings ol the emid, In these children centre all tle hopes oj the luture, Beautilui are the dowers | ofthe earth, and deucate aud tender, but m re the most Care/ul culiure are toese Gowers of Lae | hearth, | ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. THE REV. FATHER COSTIGAN ON PURITY OF IN- | TENZION, The diferent masses at St, Stephen's yesterday were well attended: At ithe nine o’elock masse, which was celebrated by Bishop William Mc- Cioskey, of Louisville, Ky., there Was an ummense congregation present, The high mass was ceie- | braved by the Key. Father McCready. Imumedi- | ately after tue first gospel the Rev, Father Costi- | gan ascended the pulpit and preached an instruc- tive discourse on “‘i’urity of Intention.” He si lected his text from tae gospel of the day— Luk ¥., ll, m which is narrated the miraculous draught of fishes, und said:—This muracie is sug- yestive of many practical lessons. it was @t the commencement of His issionary career (hat our Divine Lora periormea it, From this mistory we | may leara now the Same action differs in its re- sult according to tbe Spirit in waich it is per- formeu OF according as it 18 oF it 18 HOt vlessed vy Goa, | ST. PETER AND HIS COMPANIONS had totled duriug the whole of the night, but nothing came of it. They alterward by our Lora’s direction labored only tor a few minute: and they were abundantly repaid. How many ol us may have occasivn, because we have forgotten to excialm either at the end of the day. when w examine our consciences at night, or on looking back UpOA the past years Of an active and anxious lie, “We have been laboriug il this time and have done hoviag for beaveu!’? God grant thas. we Way DOt have tO say SO at the end oj Our days, when we are on the pointol entering into eternity. J) we attend to the important lesson of purtty of intention We Wili be secure agaist waving thus to reproach ourse!ves, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Mh. BEECHER ON THE GROWTH OF GRACE—-Hz | ALLUDES TO THR INFLUENCE OF THE TRIAL ON HIS PREACHING. The usual large attendance was noticeable at Piymouts church yesterday morning. The dowers and varied than any since the *pring opened. THE SERMON. ‘The text of the sermon, which was on tne de- | velopment of grace in the soul, was taken irom | il, Peter, toird chapter, last verse:—“Bat grow ip grace and tm the kuowleage of our Lord ana Saviour Jesus Christ, To nim be giety both now | and forever. Amen.” Mr, Beecher opened the discourse by saying that men—most men, as leasi—thought that they modelied the peo ple and citcumstanees around them, and were not themselvet aiterea by tue very f.ct of their efforts to change exterior | things, Ween ® man has accomplisued some physical or social success he 1s proue to look ac it as being sometning entirely outside of bimselt, util be invert bis vision he cannot fall to see that every onange he ma! im bis sarroundiogs creates ®& change in bis inuersel, As the gTaver, Whick changes the smoota surface of plate or block with fantastic lines is worn and crvoke@, so is the inner man affected by the onanges wrought around him. The change: e, perbaps, at Orst not moticeable or pronuunced, but loek back for five years see tbe changes in mind and sentiment which altered cireum- | stances—circumstances you yourseives have | altered—have wrought in you. Many men through sire rejoicing at the nge whey are making, bever for & moment dreaming that they are indirectly cmanging them- S are the causes which elavorate, Temould, sometimes re tewper, | olutionize and finally settie a man’s character, Some men, in retrospective, Judge themscives by @ financial criterion, others by & standard of re- ligious suscepuibdility, and so on throu story, every one with an example for himself. | hose Who judge themselves by the standard of their religious susceprinility are deceiving them- selves, lor susceptibility Is more & matier Of or- guniaition than anytulng else, and, consequently, Unies the organization 18 reformed tue suscepti- bility remains, |) a man feels ss good at ® camp meeting Or @ revival (iis year as he did five years ago be immediavely conciudes is every bic as | 00d #8 Le Was then. He don’t Know exa ood he Was tae, UUt that he wos good is and (bat he i good is a very rational deduction, tas to BOW honest or true {tis he di quire. From this it wiil be seen th may unsafe criterion cauuot learn Whetuer he is not. To grow in grace # continued contest with the jower man iaust be kept ap until the pri of the fight becowes a Volition, practice duties (hat they May come natural and easy to us. One is taugat eiocution sod oratory not that he may Rave tae Tales ever presemt to his mind, but twat, by practising ti become #0 familiar aud used to them ti y be eapario! him, Tomk of am orator, after to thi to delive idea, pausing with 0. ir it, Imagine a young man wi seavol vo about to ente duct to to enter, is forever to | he sbail bold | easy, and bis training Wi | fae tan who, whea he goes in himseit, “I must be honess,’’ 18 MOL Bear as honest as he who goes there and is honest without tnink- ing of it. ihe latter has practised the principte of | honesty aati is has become @ part of himself, In | epiritaal irs toe same doctrine hoias, Some | mem just the role when the occasion arises, and their spiritaal contests with the feshy jower man are ae success(al ae those of t! who by practise bas given thé jower man to under- stand toat he cannot do this that, Tonce knew an old man who lived im a rickety shanty the Miami potto Yort mention nis ag | MIR} @1NR plenem wnagime m~ f | O1it—fun that would hart no one, Bur they bad a | Extension and Missionary society of that denomi- | Geatn in 4 certain sense, | K. Peyton followed e | the meeting separated, Christian young men for Christian work, Thia Convention met, as 4 Southern delegate sald, ‘im the ola reb capita”? it Joliowed a& visit in the South in aid of the association cause conducted by Messrs. G, A. Hall and ', K, Uree on venalfofthe committee of the Convention, This had extended over 6,000 miles, [rom Virginia to Texas, reaching thirty cities, and everyWhere meeting with such & welcome 4nd such blessed results that fifty South- ern delegates from along its track came up to the Convention, From their number the President ot the Convention was selected, apd Hardie, of selma, do that there are always Hoosiers present im the churek, The {rst floor of the shanty Was occupied by pigs, the top story was occupied by the vid man Whom | have mentioned, At nigit the oo- cupants of the first door used oltew to disturb the otier occupants by their noisy Couversation, Ou such occasions he Would Iift up one of the loose boardé in the oor and mention in vocilerous tones | to the pigs that the noise was not agreeavie and Jorthwith they the talking oaly to begin again when he went to sleep. It is thas with some | men’s inWardnesa, When passion disturbs them s 3 1m its low ire they lift up a@/| when Major Joseph * loose board "and iwi down an order to , was unanimously cominated by ® committee of cease, which jor vhe moment is obeyed, | thirty irom as inauy States and provinces and then disregarded, It in retrospecting men would ask themselves such questions as, “Am | less self'sn thant used to bey? “Am | more .orgiving than of ola? “Have I the peuuriousness which once marked me ?” and ponder on them before they answered, they would find whetuer they had grown in grace or not, They them would learn whether or not the germs of grace deposited in their souls by @od had taken root and borne fruit; whether the fruit was ripe or still Forks 1 have Spoken of susceptibie nature: on impulse, do good things and tuen relax into their old ways, ‘They remind one of the grain of mustard seed cast on shallow soil; it gre d when the sun came it withered, because there was no Clay @round its roeis to save it, These susceptible people bave not grace at the roots of ‘ir good deeds, aud, consequently, the puuanthropic feel- ings engendered quickly 98 they come to life, Those who have the seeds Of goodness pro- tected in the soil of grace r stately oaks of kindness and bear arica iruitage of happiness to ‘hemselves and those about them, Cy nay ve Mr, Beecher looked at the aiid the irrepressible enthusiasm of the dele- gates took the chair, every one felt that @ nove of concord bad been stiuck, the sound of which would be heard all over the land, giving joy to every Chrjgtian and patriot. NEW YORK CITY, The repairs on the Union League Club house, recently damaged by fire, have been commenced, and will probably be finished by September, August Sopp. residing at No, 64 Chrystie street, accidentally ell from his wagon yesterday morn. ing, Leet his leg, He was removed to Belle- vue Hospital Margaret Coughlan, of No. 67 James street, ac- cldentaily fell from the second story window of her residence to the sidewalk, yesterday morning, receiving severe injuries, phe was taken to the Park Hospital, At half-past tw clock opposite the platform and said:—{notice tua | John Spencer, aged forty-three years, while oflate { have been given to long sermons. Here he | asleep on @ train near Kingsbridge, yesterday made @ long pause and smiled, as though he had injured about the head and morning, was erly. boay by being struck by the engine of the express train, He was takeu to Bellevue Hospital, Bridget Kiernan, of No, 211 Greene street, was knocked down last evening by Edward Decatur, who resides in the samme house, during an alterca- tion and was severely injured, She was sent to Bellevue Hospital, and her assatlant was arrested and locked up in the Filteenth precinct station house, The American Temperance Union had a pleasant meeting yesterday afternoon at De Garmo’s Hall, ‘West Fourteenth street, a large audience being | present and an address being delivered by the vy. Dr. Macarthur, pastor of Calvary Baptist Charch. These Sunday afternoon gatherings are gradually gaining ground, BROOKLYN. conceived @ briiuant idea, The pause continued; the temptation was too great; it had to come, and with & more pronounced smile he said, “Hvil communications corrupt good manners.” The allu- sion to the long winded harangues of the counsel on the great trial caosed a eneral laogh, after which Mr, Beecher burried to 4 close, gave out a hymo aud conciuded the services, THE FREE TAB |ACLE. FLORAL DAY AND JUBILEE OF ATH SCHOOL CHILDREN. Yesterday was “Floral Day’? at the new Metho- ist church in Park avenue, Hoboken. Fiowers from the South and the West were wound into wreaths, gariands and bouquets and strewn all around the interior of the edifice. Tropical birds in stlvery cages sang during the service, and the cosey structure was well caiculated to gladden the hearts of the Sabbath schooi chlldren, for whose entertainment and edification the display Was made, At the morning service the Rev, J. B, Brady, the esteemea pastor, ranged al! the ebil- dren in the central aisie, and preached a sermon, Willlam Rooney, thirty-nine years of age, was arrested for burgiariously entering the dyeing es- tablishment of Victor Busse, No. 364 Atlantte ave: nue, and stealing a watch, valued ab v Waton was found on his person. Andrew Bennett and William Rathwell were Wauich, though intended exclusively for them, was warmly appreciated by the elder mem- | taken into custody yesterday, charged with steal- bere of | the congregation. he speaker ing @ pocketbook, containing $70, irom Andrew wok bis text from isalms, XxXXiv., Ll-17, Wherein the royal prophet exhorts cuildren to works of piety. The teachers, observed the pastor, had oc to much troubie in order to traia up the cril- Nichols, of No. 192 Chauncey street. They are hela for examiaation. ‘This forenoon the case of Mrs, Margaret C. Mer- rigan, whois charged with the murder of Mar- garet Hammill, at No. 199 Ninth street, on Sep- tember 2, 1873, will be called for trial in the Court id Terminer. Judge Pratt will preside. 4 cause O! the priceless value of their young souls, because the litue ones were destined one Gay to fill creditabiy the piaces of the old, and as they were, in @ certain sense, sheep without snep- heras, 1t was necessary to watch over them and repare (beM against the days Of danger. Speak- | e first triai of the prisoner the jJary disa- 4 chudren’s righ MM greed, standing six for acquittal and #ix for mur- Fs that MU alte tak coe pias der in the second degree, The accused ts im very Said that the young snould nave tun, and plenty der in the secon LONG ISLAND. Tight, aiso, tO @ppreciate tue high. and ennodling fun to be derived from @ study of the Bivie, a rigat to be gentle, true ladies and gentlemen, aright to respect Ola age, lo love one anotaer, to be prompt in ovedience and to despise tie Vato pleasures aud the empty riches of earth. The speaker ilaimined Wis discourse With beantifal picrw of youtaful ile aud elicited occasional laugater and plaudits | from the littie ones. Ip the aiternoon the school | session Was @ Very interesting one and in the evening concert and jubilee took place. Rev, Mr. Ostrand, of Hariem, and other clergymen we; present and delivered addresses. METHODIST MISSIONARY MEETING. APPEAL FOR AID TO THE CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY. A meeting was held jast evening in the Eighty- Sixth street Methodist Church tn aid of the Charch Adrian Graulear, a native of Holland, fell over- board from bis boat on Friday, at Sayville, and was drowned. He was engaged in spreading oyster spawa, when the boom swung around and knocked him into tue water, He leaves a wife and | tvo smali chilareo. Smith Silsbee, of Patchogue, drew a revolver on Clark Smith, of Bayport, on Saturday, at Sayville. Jt appears that Silsbee had staked off some oyster Gosree and claimed that they belonged to him. ‘inuing Smith on the Jot, he prepared to shoot him, He was put under $000 Douds to awalt the action of the Grand Jury, ‘The sixtieth summer meeting of the Long Island Bible Society will be held at Sag Harbor to-mor- row, meeting for business at three o'clock P. M. and for addresses at fifteen minutes to eight nation, This organization is composed of one Geiegate from each Congregation im the city to 7 CLOCK. the constitution, all persons comtrib- gether witn Jorty elected members, Mr. J. | qung annaslly to the Moenety are’ momars, end B. Cornell 1 the President. The objects every min i the Gospel who is a member is | entitled to t in tae Board of Direction. Of the soctety are to establish missionary chapeis in outlying districts, particular'y with the design of bringing children within Sunday school imfu- ences, Sixteen local stations are in existence, at- tended by clergymen permanentiy attached to them. The meeting was very !ully attended, and a | very decided interest was manilesied in the pro- ceedings. In the absence o the pastor, Rey. A. D. Vail, Mr. George Hamilton presided, He remarked that whatever was said on the subject that brought them together be was sure would touch the fee!- ings and move the hearts of his hearers to a gener- ous response in aid of the good work the Onurca Extension Society baad in view. It was a cause There was @ fire in the woods of West Babylon which burned over @ considerable area of timber land belong to Ezra Sammis caused by sparks irom a passing loce- motive. Anumber of fires have receutly occurred giopg she line of the Southern road, trom alieged the part of the employés, Aday OF two ago ovel full of coais ana threw them into th is of Mr. Thomas Wellwood, near Bellmore, The result was a fire and the destruction of consideravie umber, aad # sult for damages Is probable, The Huntington Board of Excise have, as yet, granted only one license, although they have re- cerved quite anumber of appitcations, At their pear and dear to every one wno desired to see ee ge bk ee Pleas or : ist preached and souls saved and edified. zens, asking tae Lumber of Ieenses be restricted the two botelg and one to nd the ovner, sigued by 270 ladies, aski There was the consolation, besides, of coming nearer to Him who was willing to overlook ail our infirmities and pardon ali our sinus. Kev. A. OU. Moorelead was the next speake: it tradic ve abdviished irely. The the matter of these petitions ander The temperauce peopl Hemp- Slead are moving to ODLain tue InGicémeENt of Lhe Excise Commissioners of tuat towa by the next Graad Jary, om tue grouad that they the law by improperly granting licens acau the society, The ti; but It was sometim necessary to stir peopie 80 a8 to keep it in remei ampton fd oi Excise, it 19 understood, pro- sig no spread the Gospel athe city of Sem or ne ae ee ere a day tat , re. Pa le SE gy cog oe Fold al MRT used to reconvene upon tue applica work would go to ruin in t country at large. ‘clal centres on the | 8, accord! to all history, was of comtroiling effect, and taerefore was of the highest consequence to see that the light o1 pure Christianity Was spread in the neglected quarters of the city. It was & comtest of iife and It had come to the Point that the Gospel had lost ite power and they bad jost tneir power. Caurches had been removed from tae lower wards, and there was no denying that the good cause had lo: ground while (heir opponents were gaint They had achieved some victories. Mr. Aéoor head said fursher that tne people should wake up and take the city of New York for Christ, United efforts will succeed. There were pieaty of men and women ready to go to work for God if only sustained. The children were ton of petitioners. Mrs. Saran Hartt, wife of Mr. Jonn Hartt, of Brooklyn, and daughter-in-law of Mr. 3. H. Hartt, of Northport, committed suicide at the latter place unter pecailar and distressing circumstan- ces. Sue Was on a Visit to her fatuer-in-iaw, with her two children, he younger only five months Old. She had been subject to fis of depression at times, Ween her feeungs were intense. Daring the day on Friday she vad asked several persons the tide w. and also asked the use of her Waterproof through tne night, About two o'clock on the Jollowing morn- ing the grandparents beard the child ory)! ud goimg up to the room found ti Search was made and Mrs. Harts the great ovject \o gather in and educ: So! dead body was a off the docks, times @ pair Of shoes or a little clothing given toa it Laving been kept foatiug on tl rface by th boy or girl would bring in mily. The the way dow that the drownlag Was premed: duced by temporary averrauon wm STATEN ISLAND. peaker conciuded by making a0 earnest appeul for generous contributions, remarking that this nation Most all ubjess Corruption was checked in ‘this city. | Police Justice Wandell said that their object was to cnoourage the missionary spirit, Coii- dreo Mgr] = in er a 4 were not among those who appeare fore the eriminal courts for being drunk and disorderiy, though The gardeners about Staten Island report thas | itcould not be demied ti ome .of them were the volorado potato bug has made its appearance charged with the graver ofences.. Mr. William = tuyore, ‘There wili be & Dumber of steamboat excursions from Staten Island on the oceasion of tne New York Yacot Oiuo regatta on Wednesday next. The Democratic General Committee of Richmond gounty, will have a meeting at Adams’ Rotel, Tompkinsviile, this aiternoon, ree v'clock. A general mecting of the members of t Ancient Order of @ibernians of Richmona county will be held at the rooms of No. 1, Tompkimavilie, this evening, at haif-past seven o’clock- ‘The Staten Isiand Sunday School Teachers’ Ar sociation will nold ite anuaal meeting this even- ing, tn the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, at Port Richmond. ‘The question of a division of the ‘wssociation will come up for discussion, Application has been made to the Board of Trustees of the village of New Brighton for the opeuing of @ road through the property of tl Sailors’ Snag Harbor, and argument will heard jn the matter, ov Friday alternoon next, the Village Mall, at three o'clock P. ining in d8tail the work- of the society. liberal contrioution was taken up, after which CHRISTIAN YOUNG MEN IN COUNCIL. REPORT OF DELEGATES TO THE RICHMOND | CONVENTION—CAUSES OF JOY TO CHRISTIAN | PEOPLE. The Young Men's Christian Association of this city held s large meeting last might in Associ: tion Hall to hear from their delegates to the Iater- national Convention, held last month in Rich- mond, Addresses were made by Messrs. M. K- Jesup, James Stokes, Jr.; Joum Dooly, Willtam Taylor, J. B. Morrow, B. ©, Wetmore, G. A. Pink- ney, J. 5. Bussing and W. HH. Sage. Mr. R. C, Morse, one of the delegates, made the Any one of the seven glorion# results achieved at the Richmond Conveation would have made the meeting 4 remarkabie success, If 316 delegates jrom thirty States and provinces bad simply come A HEROIC DEED. While a number of children were playing yes fogetuer to discover and report &@ large in- | terday on the wharf at the foot of 100th Atrect » Crease in the namber amd strength of the | ji, girl, seven years old, named Emma Marray individual sociations, together with ac- accidentally fell into the water, A crowd present tivity of the aMliatea societies, resulting in i oveqon bewildered and hesitating, and mean hundreds of conversions—through the efforts | while the child bad sank twice, when Patrick of the State committees—in Pennsylvania McMahon, a one-legged fisherman, living near by (with its 124 associati ), Massachusetts, New | who nad been attracted to it, plun, yt Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana ana Minne- sota; if only these blessed results i been re- ported, the Convention would ve given ex- ampied encouragement to ail friends of the cause, Along the's0,000 miles of railroad interiacing tnis country 90,000 empioyés at work, most of them young mi erable roilim over restoratives to bring th littie girl back to life, Suen a deed of heroism as that of crippled McMahon is rare, and for tm son, if for mo other, tb is one deserving chronicled, rea- to be BEYOND REACH OF TOE CHURCHES. a ° 7 ett cago, Brie, Meadville and a | THE SILK FRAUDS, good work amon A HERALD reporter, in conversation with Unitee oe or teen Genre | states District Attorney Bites yeuverday, aeked ones er that gentieman if he had any information to give wor! io Wi J (000.000 ‘Germat Tespecting bis Visit to Washington and the grea’ stik frauds, Mr. Bliss stated “that developments 1m this ease are not to be expected in Washington, but in thus city.” He has sume facts in his pos- session of which the public were perfec’ igno- rant, but !' would be deicating the ends ce to make t; 5m publieat tue present momen| Mr. Bliss intends co carry on the war against ik and other smugglers with ene) is palleved 1m MD MAME GARE GUE CIC de in thin country, A rapid visitation of Ge Cbristians im Lng” of our cities was undertake! the past winter througn the efforts of the com- mittee of the Convention. The admirable and competent visitor was Rev, F, Von Sonimembacb. He was well termed by pr. W. Nast A GERMAN INCARNATION OF TI SPIRIT OF AMERI- CAN CHRISTIANITY. He was @reatiy piessed (4 armaRyANm German,