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8B PULPIT DISCOURSES, A Panegyric on St. Dominic by Rev. Dr. Brann, THE DANGERS OF SELF-EXALTATION, A Defence of Bible Reading in the Public Schools. THE NEED OF A BLESSING. A Universalist View of the Lead- | ership of Jesus. CHURCH OF ST. VINCENT FERRER, PANEGYRIC ON ST, DOMINIC bY THE REV. DB. BRANN. Yesterday the Fenst of St. Dominic, the founder of the Order of Preachers, was celebrated with great solem- nity in this church by the Dominican Fathers. The Sacred edifice was richly decorated for the occasion with eraperies and other ornaments of symbolical colors and devices, Hundred of wax tapers burned on the grand altar and before the shrines of the Blessed Virgin and Bt. Jozeph, Jing a dazzling Wght on the gilded Barvings and beautiful frescoes that surround the sanc- tuary, wile the air was laden with the odors of flowers fad sweet incense. The gram! high mass was celebrated by the Very Rev. Father | 0. P., assisted by the Rev. Fathers | Meagher and Quinn, The music was of a very high order, Mozart’s twelfth mass being efficiontly rendered | r composed of the following artists: Morrison Fiset; soprano, Miss MePh Mary E, Tracy and Cecilia Tagliabue; Freitch, Groschell and Ott; basso, Mr. st, Mr. Hauschel, After che gospel the Rev. Dr. Brann ascended the pul- pit and delivered a most eloquent sermon on the life of the great apostle of the thirteenth century. | T his test from the gospel of the day, the tenth chapter of St. Luke, twenty-third to twenty-seventh vez, in which our Lord teaches the great lesson of charity tg all men and illustrates it by the parable of WThe Good Samaritan,” the reverend preacher suid : All the saints of God's e been distin- characteristic virtue, which fitted thom iritual wants of the age in which they {vidual had a special mission. St, Dom- al we sbrating, like all the practised every virtue, but the distinguish- | s character, aa shown by almost every act was a desire to manifest the virtue of zeal, virtue of the missionary, apostle and preacher. Tho by a obe , Mile #, Misge ‘olo | th eal of God and charity made him the greatest reformer of bie day and the founder of one of the most illustri- ouz orders of the Church, he words of the Psalmist, “My zeal hath row faint, because my enemies have for- is,’ the preacber continued:—Zeal 1s an effosion of divine love; it is an outpouring of that Jove from virteous hearts. Zeal must spring from the persona fication of him who exemplifies it, It Moust not ve confounded with mere energy or enthu- | Sinem. The zeal of St. Dominic was essentially divine, Decause in Ms exercise he practised silence and quiet- | ness, self-restraint and humility, meckness and obe- | Aience to the will of God and of His representative on ded by God only of our souls. This ethat would sonal unless we gin by th w can We underta Domine unde the necessity and pra it from his e armor of vir- to bis mistion and triumphed, | ved after Lim in his saccessors from the nineteenth century. Zeal must be i science. Seeundum scientiam, whose wrecks etrew the strands of p failed in their w b ood ir teachings ail ally against aud religious order, » laws of God and rthe iuspiration of the | ily, and at the same re from the wint of | man Holy Ghee time cieare plein presenc Contrast Dominie with th: i al and able f motives ditt Ueness, holiness a nt seliassertion, war | DOW meant of intidelity in hat of the unfortun Ss geuins to t and is tempt groat refor ngs to interfere with efforta, were no such defects al of was the perf ng of his love for ‘for his ord of in fellow n time a. al; but the apostle of ge » conqueror and the con- evangelization of the i the unhappy infidel. He lias been falsely accused in hietury of taking part in what are termed the religious perse: y. The acts of inetitu- tions, purely po! in- Strument him; but these calumn y the ight of impartial particularty no Amer: ging of the nature who lived over eix there is w we State of the thirteen Phas the original Union thas has not been most cruel and bloody persecutions in gion, ant dant of the ved in ub Great Britain that Id not take a part in the yen, can men nattaching to erations that the name men wh an way eniuries ago ? 1 St. Dominic was rema The severe doctrines of Jesus » for its moder. | would never t not that the 4 them all tyre to the Church auen, in ines since its f white robes of dais children, emblomat ocenee and purity of his tea fen been stained with th t called to sacrifice our truth, let us imitate the Xa er of their Order and by a Sympathy of zeal with bim for God's honor make our lives conform to His law GRACE CHAPEL. THE DANGER OF SELF-EXALTATION—SEEMON BY REV. DR. SWEETLAND. Srace chapel was well filled yesterday mor ~g eon announced that Rev, Dr. Sweetland would fil! the pulpit. The minister took for his text Luke, Vili, 14-—"'For every one that exalteth himself shall be fibased; ane le that Lugbleth himself shall be exaited."” The divine said it was very common for us to magnify our own Importance, to magnify our business, to mag. nify cur social position and to loom stightinyly upon our neighbors, ae if they were not aur equals, We m too greatly the prospega@ of our future lives, and looked upon if ag nat ural enough that we should consider oureelvea superior to our neighbors, We all wanted to take high positions; we all want that reason we too conspicuous, and for the Miarieces—we ‘were Lon prone to say with then hank Ged, we are DOL as other mer Let us t i that we foar not too high, lest we fall and be Some men give alms in a baughty, only a few pepnice— th hoy had done a great deed; amall emoant they would have at once giver as mesn. condemned the Jesus Christ when on earch was mild | and meek, and He tanght us buwility by His own beau- tifa! example. He did not, Decause he was groas and go about proclaiming it, but He about doing good unto ethers mildly and bumb!. 0 by His ample teaching us our duty more px cowd teach it, [t was natural for ire to stand high in the eyed of their fellow men, and the de- | ree was © laudable ope; but because we sit in the bigh [erative jnnd we should not feel so exalted as to ome uncharitable. We should remember the exas- pie that Christ eet na, and tho words that He has | spoken, “For he that exaiteth himself shall be abased, apd he that hambjeth himself shall be exalted.” man to be a true vistign must de mild and gentle, ‘and the history ef some-of the greatest men the warld hue ever prod! come proad ueed ‘ia itis not neccessary to bé- and : shows on the other hand w many great men Mem erie faen, Leh ud woud td Srauagie of 7 Hl | a | in th | us? | man who will refuse his consent I still will protest | against it, | they are to turn subjects of the Pope when they rally | | though he had slain both th NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, and try and be like Him, and pride wil mover enter oar | boarts or cause our nfall. GREENE STREET METHODIST CHURCH. A DEVENCE OF BIBLE-REVYDING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND AN ATTACK ON THE POPE, BY REY. OBCAR HUGO, ‘The Rev. Osear Hugo repeated yesterday morning a variation of his oft-delivered sermon on tho Bible in the public schools, He is a very foreign-looking man, with a dark, bushy beard almost hiding bis face, and such a decidedly foreign accent that it is somewhat diff cult to cateh his meaning, His English is rather broken, too, and betrays avery imperfect knowledge of our language. In the following report some of his idiomatic phrases are preserved, to give his address the true coloring. The congregation was very small, but it lis- tened with lively satisfaction to his denunciation of the “Pope in Rome” and Catholicism in generak A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER. Why is it that God has blessed this country with such extraordinary freedom, while Europe is yet in a state of bondage? But after residing hore for some time I found that the reason why the country is so blessed is because this is a Bible land I challenge any one to show m Bible land, No country can be free, politically or s0- cially, without haying the Bible as its guiding star and its shining light, Why is this sof Because the Bible is the Word of God ond tho two are inseparable. “Wherever the spirit of the Lord dwelleth there is lib- erty’’—a liberty acceptable to the sight of God and of man, But of late years some most insulting demands havo been made by a religious society upon this Bible-loving people, If there is any place im the country where the spirit of the Lord ought to dwell it is the public schools; nd how can you bave His spirit there unless you have His Word? And I am astonished that there are actually Protestant ministers who are siding with the Catholies i holy war a ust the Bible, “But it is against: en millions of Catholics to allow tho Bible to be read,’’ I was told by one of these mon, “Ab, but it is against the conscience of thirty millions of Protestants not to see it read.’ “But this is a free vy," said he, ‘Ah,’ I replied, **but it is God who made it free,’? WHO 18 THE CRIMINAL? But the qnestion is, “Who makes this demand upon | One man only, and this one man is not an Amer- ican, but a sickly, little bit Italian, a blood-stained tiger, who sends his curses on every God-fearing and Bibleloving man, Now shall we, 30,000,000 Protest- ants, allow ourselves to be trampled in the dost by this foreign priest? No! never, This country was never in- tended for priestly abuse, This country, built up by Yhe blood of patriots, shail remain.” Here the pent-up feelings of several of the fair mem- bers of the congregation found vent in the nrost in- tense though half-suppressed ejaculation of “It will, it will;”’ “Blessed be the Lord,” “Ainen,” && CHRISTIAN SENTIMENTS. Fight years ago this attack upon the Bible first began. It would have been more becoming for a native Ameri- | can to have protested against this closing of the Bible | than for me, a foreign citizen. But some years ago L told you here that this attack upon the Bible is but_a shani for a real attack upon our public schoot system. In over 5,000 pulpits have I raised my voice in this defence of the Bible and the public schools, and over 15,000,000 | people have listened to me. If you choose to lower your dignity before a pack of cormorant Jesuits, why do it! The Bible is your property, and what you have got from the priests is grog shops, lager beer saloons, lhonses of prostitution, &c, [ will ne’ consent to close the Bible in our public schools, bocause the Pope in Rome demands it—(‘Ameu™)—and if 1 at the only Let us prevent the Pope's design, uf lor not nothing clse in order to spite the Pope of Rome. (Cries of “Amen.””) CATHOLICS ARK NO AMERICANS. He says, “But I have 7,090,000 subjects in this coun- try.” Well, if they are his subjects it is certain that they are not citizens of the United States. Nobody can serve two masters. And then they tell me “the Bible ig | a Protestant book.’ I deny it, It is the revealed word of God God’s command is above man’s command. “Bat,” they say, “we are American citizens and pay taxes.” Al how quick they are to turn Americans | when it comes to American institations, and how quick | round his flag and march in thousands through the streets in violation of the law which recoguizes no tlag | but the glorious Stripes and Stars. ‘And in this «train the speaker went on for some timo, slaughtering the Pope and the whole Catholic Church in | the most ruthless manner. As he fually stepped out of | the palpi which he had ¢o brilliantly adorned with his matehless eloquence it was with as proud a micn as | se dangerous enemies with his own mighty hand, Whether His Holiness and the | Catholic Church can ever rally from: this crushing blow struck by the eloquent and wise Hugo remains to be seen, RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE NEED OF A BLESSING—SERMON BY THE | REY. N. W. CONKLING. The Rev. N. W. Conkling, of the Rutgers Preshy- terian church, returned from his vacation last Saturday, and yesterday morning preached to a large congrega- tion, His text was from Judges, i., 15—‘‘And she said unto him, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a | southland; give me also springs of water. And Caleb country which is free and which is not a | 7 ‘nis passion urges men on to seek until they be gatta- ied, which they are not now. Christondom Peileves that the claim of leadership is founded in Jesus. a twen centuries that have witnessed the progress of His teachings attest thia, Yet even now mon aro not able to say with honest understanding, I love Thee, 0 my God! Is it because prople will not be led by Him? S80 one or another branch of the Christian Church will say. But sectarian views do not satisfy men in these days— nothing less than God, than the infinite, will satisfy them, At this tine, when men aro holding back from churches, they may well exclaim with Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we turn ?”’ POPULAR CHRISTENDOM invites People, not to Jesus, but to its particular con- ception of Him. The multitude crave the real Christ, but refuse idealistic misrepresentations of what the sects take Him to bo, Those claiming to be Christians will not suffer me to go to Christ, because I cannot tell iy beads after some given form. “The aspirant to theo- logical honors bas only to indoctrinate himself in the tenets of a particular sect, and ho is received as a new | light in Christ's Chureh. Christ founded no particular | Church, The true Church is that in which the indivi- dual builds upon the rock of Jesus—every man for himself, Modern religion ts but A PASSION PLAY, and it is going away from Christ—hot making toward Him, The eleventh commandment, which Christ gave to His followers, “Love one another,” is never obeyed. Doctrinal differences may be heard preached from every New York pulpit; but the teachings of Christ are not so easily understood, As the lukewarm followers of Jesus sail when they were about to abandon Him, ‘His say- ings are bard sayings; who can hear them?! Nino- tenths of the people caanot now find religious comfort in those sayings because they are hard. The olden seer caught a beautiful idoa in toaching a untyersal Father, Christ brought us nearer to it Father, How can I not believe m Him and follow His leadership who shows me God in naturo? The trees, rooks, running brooks, the birdlings in their nest, every spoar of grass, all convey a knowledge of infinite wis dom in God. I know the messenger when I see the message. He shows me God in the flowers that deck the felds and I recognize the divinity of the message. The heaven overhead {s not more real than tho heaven to come hereafter, Tho old hilo~ sophie idea involving the condition of life in death is the trno ona I cannot read the Gospels without believing in their teachings, Some things in them may bo taken and othors rejected. I do not find spiritual ood or the broad of lite in miracles, They bring us no nearer to God, Neither is there a Gospel feast to be had im the genealogies scattered through the Scriptures. But why shouid [, therefore, reject the plate upon which my soul's food is laid. If a man shows me a work of art I don’t ask whether his parents were born in Jerusalem, [t is not good to lead | religious passion against a atone wall of reason, but rather take it up to the high mountain of faith in Christ, from which God can be seen, Christ must not be contemplated through sectarian glasses nor viewed in the distorting mirror of conilicting creeds. FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN (BRICK) CHURCH, SERMON BY REY. J. 0. MURRAY, OF PRINCETON, There was a very small congregation at the Fifth aye- such as did attend service wero treated not only to an eloquent but an able discourse. The pulpit was occu. pied by the Rey, J,.0, Murray, the former pastor, but now a professor at Princeton College, The text was taken from Matthew, v., M—* A city that is set ona hill cannot be hid.”” When bold Hugh Latimer, breast high with faggots, faced martyrdom at Oxford more than three centuries ago, ho said to his fellow martyr, “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley. We shall this day light such a candle by Gou’s grace in England as I trust shall never be put out,’? By God's grace it was oven 80, The prophecy has been fulfilled, That candie has never been pnt out. The fulfilment of Latimer's prophecy, — how- ever, depended upon principles which Christ had announced — long before. That portion of the Sermon on the Mount from which the text is taken asserts the indestructibility of the Chris- tian element in human life, Ye are tho light of the world. ‘‘A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.” This image of acity set upon a hill is one of fertile sugges- tiveness, The Palestinian cities were often built on the brow of some rocky eminence, where they were seen afar by day and by night, . They could not be hid from the gaze of travellers on the plains below, Christ meant to teach men that the power of high moral and spiritual position is commanding; that His RELIGION ENTHRONES ALL WHO EMBRACE IT and embody it in their lives, in the summit of exist- ence—a majestic object in itself placed on an eminent sphere, This {x Christian character when it 1s a city set onahill, Iteannot be hid, Christian character will | assert iis power as irreprossibly as galvanic currents or gravitating forces. Hence it was that the candie lighted on October 16, 1555, in the flames around tho stake of Latimer and Ridley has never been put ont. In proceeding, then, to discourse of the —pe- culiar moral power resident in Christian char- acter, it may be well to direct attention for & moment to the fact that the world is held by moral forces, Ever since Christ came the great events of history have all been shaped and controtied in the interest of His kingdom, or before His coming the were ordained in view of and in order to His glorious ad- vent. The epochs of history are the great moral crises, where the higher interests of nations or mankind hang in the balance. Much is said in our day about the all dominating power of materialism. Tt should be remem- her the upper springs and the nether springs.” ame of the woman who made this request, said | the speaker, was Achaah, She had been married not | long before to Othnicl, the son of a younger brother of her futher, Achsah’s settlement in life was in many SA very pleasant on Her husband was a brave, chivalrous n, of good habits and earnest pur- He was ul for a8 to the matter | oung 0 20 well prov pores, | of an inheritance in the promised land, for, as a wed- | gift, he hed received from his wife's father a fleld, and it w she says, asouthland, a most desirable in heritance, But afcratime she comes back to her father proffering a request. She had, upon examining HER INHERITANCE, | ked springs of water. Without these it | was almost Hence she immediately applies to her father to remedy the defect, And her father | answered her at once, in the fullest kindness of a noble od man, giving her the upper springs her springs. | sry, simply told, of Caleb's gifts. There | found that it | This is the ' Isa religions class which holds to the idea that there | a thystical ge belonging to the letter of Scriptures; that e' passage, though relating to | ep t aud most historical incident, fas an inner moaning of mysticism. Not ¢ with any such idea, we yet cannot fail to see that many relations of Scripture which are, at first plain statements of occurring incideuts, at the wurably higher truths, One srence to Achaah’s wedding gi On the very surface wo find this teach- ing—that however pleasant and honorable the earthly lot, there is «till a vital want, and that is the blessing from the Lord. I wonder if Christians themselves remember as they should how absolutely dependent they are for comfort, satisfaction ond sapport upon tho religion of Christ Which they profess to have? No “southland”” will stand them in stead of that. They must look to tho Heavenly Father only for assistance, and unloss they to Him as little children approach ‘their parents, with the most contiding faith not only in His willingness but | in his ability also to give, they will reap naught but dis- Appointment, BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. | THE LEADERSHIP OF JESUS—SERMON BY THE REV. MR, HASKELL, OF LOWELL, MASS. ‘The Rev, Mr. Haskell, of Lowell, Mass., preached yes- terday morning in the Bleecker street Universalist church. The subject chosen wus that of the leadership of Jesus, The attendance of the congregation was rather slim. The reverend gentlemen chose his text from the sixtf-seventh and sixty-eighth verses of the sixth ter of St. John’s Gospel, in these words:— ©Then sald Jeeus anto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered bim, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life,’" In the course of his sermon the preacher eaid that the hinge of Chriet were in His day far in advance of the ideas which then obtained, Many eminent men in the wor! hietory had, like the divine Master, announced doctrines that were far beyond the comprehension of the century in which they lived, Four hundred years lumbas, contrary to betie led another cont nt besides the ast. other the van in ent departmente of bu wiedge. Blackstone étauds at the head of juri: ts; fay hael ig pro- etuinent,in urt; and #0, too, are Bacon and other teach. ere in seience und metaphysies, It follows, therefore, that the human kind must have leaders and teachers, How, then, ehall we choose spiritual ieaders where there ig eo much contradiction and opposition among the different religic ts? If we take up t papers reports of free shinkers’ me of Chrigtian divines will be found side by is A sentiment of re wanted in every heart; and, y not bow same altar, it although the hot right for © d unbelof of another. TY 18 THE ENEMY OF RELIGION, ¥, perbaps, of some, but not of all reli. f The reiigious nature of man’s mind { questions among the churches, The inidclity of this age bears testimony to the religious cravings of the Luman mind; just as the body craves food, light, nour. Ishment, «o does the mind want religioug nourishment, Infidelity i¢ not @ phantom called forth by empty bratna, ‘Our intense soul passion prompts us to look for relt gious leaders. This sentiment is no sickly dream of youth, but the belrest of holy emot . It prompts us to stoop and with a kiss say “God, @lovo thee! The religious paesion of humanity flies hither and thither to What Will satiafy ite yearnings. With ontetretched arma aud clasped hands it fe: iy exclaims, ‘I love thee, O my God!” All men iad that they may be ghlg trough any age tosay thia, The great question again preset (a jtz01r, the religious lead Whom all can con 2 hag not Fei The reli- 0 say d ji te? answered this all absorbing in GUA WA UA MN MAC AY A a DARA. adh errogation, } indepen those days, showed | Lather taught a new doctrine; and | th 1 differ. | aect to condemn the | It is not just to | bered always that this set parades its forces in fall view while the moral agents in life have much of their en asa latent energ, It is not so much, after all, the power of numbers or armament that snate from defeat as it is what ts called the mo fighting hosts, On all principles of a more historic chronicle there should be no such thing as American ce, but the causes secured it. The moral order of the world demanded and the morale of that hand- ful of American patriots bas neve' un equalled, even by the Covenanters of Scotland, the herlanders under the Prince of Orange, or the Ironsides of Oliver Crom- well. The forme of me powors are various, They are organized into institutions from the Christian Church «i Sunday ; but organized o: a y were never eat interests of mankind more deeply or more sensibly than they are to-day. They were not unseon by that omniscient glanee of Christ. It is sig- nificant that among them all He gives sach rank to Christian character U He recognized in it such power | that He said to His disciples, “Yo,” not societies or in- stitutions, “are the light of the world’? “Ye are the salt of the earth,” The preacher then went on to speak of the formation of Christian character, in which connection he said that it was nota thing made in a day, but completed out of mighty struggles, Sharp tribulations were the fails school teaching the g | apy, thy paged out the Wheat from the chai. It is a | spiri id formation which pay have had a feeble begin- fing) but which, through the power of divine grave be- conies ‘at length consolidated into a moral whole, having unity, symmetry, glono—the cross’ of | things through Christ, ig not an outburst can do strengthencth me, of enthusiasm, bat the words of truth and soberness. In’ conclusion Mr. Murray said that the admiration of virtno | was not of necessity virtuous, bat the age or the man is hopelessly ruined ‘whose Indifference or contempt to- ! ward Christian virtues rules either of them. And if to- Christ, which day mf voice reaches the ear of any youngénan of gen- | | erous impulses and springing ambitions waiting to hear | let that voice be m of Christian rank of spirit. some voice calling him forth to duty, the words of Jesus, enforcing the cla fnost position in th ual powers, city that 1s set an a hill cannot be Throned on those heights by the essential royalty of Christian attainment; established there by the arrange ment of Providence ‘which is guarding the interests of Christ’s kingdom, it is well to remember that such | heights are Zained only by prayer and struggle, Re- | member the words of Jofin Milton—nobler he never spoke—‘‘I cannot pruige a fugitive and cloistered virtue, + | onexereised and breathless, that never singles out and | Sooks her adversary, but shrinks out of the race where THAT IMMORTAL GARLAND I8 TO BE RON for, bat not without dust and heat.”’ Is this the type of Christian character for which wo are striving? Is it | to this high assurance we are aspiring, or are we content with a low place, We may have this and yet not | utterly lose heaven. We may have ail this, and yet ur attainments in this life bardly rise above its de- cies, but the sad thing will then be that being called to high estates, we settle down upon the low. ‘o matter what may be your station or abilities, if the character is head and deeply Christian it is thereby put on a moral height, which ovelooks all our noisy and showy Worldliness, ' “A city that is set on a hill Cannot he bid.”” Many a lone wayfarer, struggling In darkness, will see it from afar, a6 its lights gleam out, and will take courage, Many a wanderer will catch kight of tts sheltering walls, and turn bis footsteps to the home of our soula—Christ Jesus, ‘Ye are the light of the world.”’ ' | PRAYERS IN THE SHADE. WHAT THE BROOKLYN PRAYING BAND 18 DOING AT LEFFERTS’ PARK, Yesterday there was held tho nsual Sabbath afternoon services in Lefferts’ Park, on Gates avenue, Brooklyn. The religions services were inaugurated there by an or- ganization known as the “Brooklyn Young Men’s Pray- ing Band,’? which came into existence as an offshoot of } the Christian Association ten years ago, Six years ago they determined upon hiring Lefforta’ Park every Sun- day afternoon for open air prayor, There they | have found a growing congregation. This year the first eervieo was held on the scoond Sunday in May, and Brothers McDonnell (President of the Band), W. HB, | eonducted the services regularly, without an interrup- tion, ever since. Yesterday the attendance was about fifwen hundred, The services opened with the singin, of the ‘Coronation’ hymn. Rev, Mr. Devine then of- fered a prayer, invoking a manifestation of the Divine | Spirit upon the work and all those who were in atvend- W The Director then gave out the hymna:— Pour Jeans, Itong to be perfectly wholes want thee forevor to live in my soul; Break down every idol, east out every for Sow wash me and I shall be whiter than snow, announced that after the sermon a meeting would de hekl to hear the exporicnces of those who cau bear I was | | Hl Po WHAT GOD MAS DONK FoR THEY i uy Thorn attehdalles Al thowo meerimys, “The Precious Nano" was then aung, 884 Rhea iho echoes had died away the Rey, Dr. Duryea, pastor of the Clinton Avenue Jeeotviauan chuygh game forward aad wok fer Wa nue (brick) Presbyterian church yesterday morning, but | attractiveness from one sires H all; id”? | Hopkina, Charles A. Miller and Alfred A, Hallock have | text the words found in Luke, xvi, 9—"1 Muke for yourselves friends of mon of unrighteousness; they may receive you ftatiom,” Ho said:—When Jesus “4 story of the stoward who hart wasted tho goods of a cer- tain’ rich man it waa not His purpose to show the people how much He knew, but to teach them, He always spoke to them In clear and simple words which they cond easily understand. The story He told them was of the steward Who was called to give an account of his stewardship. The man could give no account to excnipate himself. Ho had not faithfully discharged the trust reposed in him, So the Lord said—that is, the steward’s master—Thou may nger Steward.”” Tho steward thought to himself, “What shall I do? I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.’ Finally he called about him the debtors of his master, with “whom he desired to make friends, 80 that when he should be put out of his stewardship they might recelve him into their houses, He told ¢ debtors of his master to lessen the amount of their in. dobtedness to him, and thus he gained their friendship, Every one of us is like the unjust steward in this, that we ave living in some one else's house, on somebody else’s land, or in the world which 1s not ours, but belongs entirely to God. You | have not the power to make a grain grow in tho earth | without the sun and rain, nor can you plant .the seed unless nerves your arm, You are but tenants in God's houso, and the keepers of God's profits, for which He will demand an account, You haye nothing from which He cannot take you at any moment. Lot Him but | put His finger on your brain or on a valve of your heart | and you are gona, You are like the steward in this, that You CAN'T TAKE ANYTHING AWAY Witt YoU. Amass wealth, extend your tniluence till the conti- nent shall feel your breath and the world learn of your greatness, if-you will, but the instant you die you go out of the land. Heaven must then take you from all | your earthly greatnoss and power. Then God says, ‘Thou must be no longer stewa As far as you are concerned, if a worldling you hi nothing to look for afterward, When you co out of this world can you create another world? Is thore any provision thore laid up for Pa Tho steward, when threatened, asked himself, ‘What should he do? Where was ho going ”” Most people avoid thinking of death. They forget | that they must die, Hence it is that they make no provision for the things of etornal life. The reve- rend gentleman urged his hearers to make good use of se things of this carth to lay up treasure in heaven. The prudent disposition of the mammon of earth is that which gtves Joy in heaven to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, ‘and to all the saints and angel’, “Faith withoat good works will not save us;"’ 80 that we piust in life practically demonstrate the Sincerity of our faith, and in tho end the heavens will open and the hand’ of thoeo we have helped to eternal happiness will | be outstretched to “receive you into everlasting habita- | tions,’” ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, yesterday morning, one of the recently ordained priests, the Rey. Father Hogan, preached the sermon, The attendance was small, Viear General Quinn and the Rey. Father Kearney occupied seats in the sanctuary during the services, Mr. Schmnitz, the organist, and tho regular choir were absent on vaca- tion, but in place of the professional singers were some thirty of the young ladies of the parochial schools belonging to the Cathedral, The mass sung Was Concore’s and the singing was in every way praisoworthy. Mr. Urchs, the Usual baritone of the church, led the choir, In the afternoon the vespers sung were Rossi's, The sermon was an inculcation of submission to the laws of God—those of love and char- ity. Our object to attain was the kingdom of heaven, and the way to secure this was to practise the great pre: cept, “Love God above all things and thy neighbor as thyself,” say nto you, PETER'S PENCE. A-coliection for the Pope was taken up in all the | Catholic churches of the diocese of Newark yesterda The pastors were enjoined by Bishop Corrigan to re- mind their congregations of the duty they owe “the Father of the Faithful’? in this his hour of need and affiction. The contributions in the Jersey City churches were very liberal, especially in St, Poter’s, although the Catholics have been for month past severely taxed for such purposes as the Catholic Protectory, the House of Rofugo and St, John's church at Orango, not to men- tion charities which are purely local. SEA CLIFF CAMP MEETING. MINISTERS PRESENT AND PAST—SPORTING, PRAYING AND PREACHING—THE STORM KING'S REVENGE, Sea Curr, L, L, August 7, 1875. After a day’s respite and breathing time between the Holiness Convention and the regular camp meeting the latter openod here on Tuesday evening very inauspi- ciously. The number present at the opening services was, by actual count, 150, Four presiding elders, how- ever, are here conducting the exercises, Many minis, ters run up and down foraday, but take very little part in the proceedings. Of the clorical fraternity who | are or have been present since the opening I noticed Rey. Ichabod Simmons, of Brooklyn, E. D., who preached | the opening sermon to the heroic few who braved the wind and storm to venture out to the Tabernacle. ‘The Rey, W. H. Parker, of London, Ontario, preached on Wednesday evening a sermon on the apostolic meth- ods of preaching contrasted with modern methods. His discourse was a very good historical essay in part and an excellent exhortation in part. The Rey, John Jolins, of Thirty-fourth street Methodist Episcopal church, Now York, preached in the morning a sermon for adaptation and fulness of divine sympathy unequalled by any that has been delivered on the camp ground this year, His exposition of the Scripture lesson, Song of Solomon, fi, was something execedingly rich and fruitful of religious thought and comfort, It reached many hearts in tho small audience, “Foar not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” These « the chosen words upon which he dwelt in | his discourse, and he introduced many touching trations into his theme from the domestic peculia of sheep and their treatment. On Thursday morning THN RKY, DR. MILE of Drew Theological Seminary, preached a vory. classi- cal and slightly metaphysical sermon on personal con- secration—“I beseech you, brethren, by the morcies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacritice, holy, ppceplable to God, wich ts your reasonable service, e Doctor showed very beautifully the relation that exists between full consveration and full salyation, 80 0 listened to his able analysis and exposi- t fail to be satisfied that holi- | al thing that somo of its advo- cates repre And Dr, Crook, of New York, who followed with an exhortation, emphasized this point... Holinoss is not talk but work, not a profession go much as alife. Rey. Dr. True, Revs. William MoAl- ister, W, Lloyd, J. V. Saunders, Robert Roden, H, Olm- stead, W. Ross, Dr. Stephenson, a Presbyterian minis- ter from New York; Dr, Du Puy, Roy. T. Sto- henson, of Glen Cove; Rey. A. D. Vail, A. 3. Morehouse, J, W. Bouton, J. 3. Willis, ©, K,’Mar- shall, St. Lous; J. Peuu’ Jt 3 W. Be Davis, C.D, Foss, Dr. George Taylor, J. W. Horne, H. Aston, F. W. Ware, J. B. Merwin, D. 'D.; W. Platts and some ‘others, from New York, haye been: or are now in this | ment. Prosiding Elders Crawford and Kettel, of ork, and Sing aud Fletcher, of Brooklyn, are here superintending. faving ad so much talking to up to this time and s0 iy ings to attend the presiding elders have dis- | pensed with the afternoon service and give us preaching morning and evening only. Besides these two preach- {og services at half-past ten A, M, and half-past soven P, M. daily, we have a morning prayer meeting at six o'clock for ihe carly risers, anothor at half-past eight A. M. for the later birds, a children’s meeting in the Tabernacle at half-past two o'clock P, M. and a prayer meeting at four P.M. So that while the pri ing ser- vice is omitted we are not lacking for mootings. THE CHILDREN'S CHURCH is in charge of Rev. Mr. Vail and the prayor meetings in charge of Rev. A. C. Morehouse and bis brethren, except the carly morning moeting, which the saintly “Sammy”? Cox supervises, | We have had almost continuous rain and wind storms here from Monday until Thursday, when the | weather cleared off bright and beautiful, Some of the good brethren hero, in their anxicty to get the people to | come up from the crowded city to the poautitul air and | scenery of Sea Clif, have talked a little about going or | sending to Washington to bribe “Old Prob’’ to give | them fair weather, Besides washing down the hills | pretty thoroughly and cutting deep gulleys in several places, the only damage that the storm has done here | is to cuta very neat gore out of the innocent flag that , oats from the great Tabernacle, so that it reads now, “The earth is the " Ieis A SIGNIFICANT CIRCUMSTANCE that this fag should have borne to the breeze for four years such a transparent fulschood, and now, at the very time that so many beantiful entertain ments in the name of God and religion are going forward, He who holdeth the winds in His fet shotld cut out His own name from that flag and | let the gap be Hlled up with something olse truer | to the character and conception of the place, There aro probably not less than 1,600 persons living more or less | permanently in this encampment, and yet it was hard | to get 300 of them together at any service until yester- | day. Sea Clif is something like Washington, D. C., in its conception—it is a city of magnificent distances, and | when people can get dheir material entertainments near at hand they hardly care to walk half a mile to the Tab- ernacle service. hat with bathing, boating, fishing, driving around and other pleasant pastimes the young people’s minds are diverted from spiritual concerns. It taken for granted that the old folks at camp | meetings are converted, 80 that all the Gospel ammuni- tion must be oxpended on the young. But here the young k away, and the fruits of preaching, at loast in conversions, are not seen. Wo had an interesting yacht race here yesterday, conducted by some of the Young men of this place and the vicinity, Half a dozen Yachts were engaged, and tho distance waa fifteen miles in the bay, doscribed in threo circuits of five miles oach, ‘THR NEW RAILROAD TO SBA CLIFF. We are likely to have a branch of the Long Island Rail- road hore by the fall. @ railroad company’s president and ongineer were here & couple of days ago, going over @ ground with Nie gona of the Bea lid Assocta- jon. ‘The branch will cut in off the Loouat Valley branch, ata point between Glon Head and Greenvale, and the distance will be about two miles, It can be completed in sixty days if the Mi i of way can be securod, and it is believed there wit! be no difficulty on this nat Two of the ee owners have agreed to ir Leif grounds, aod the others will prob- give it through tne, hg 4 i ‘; ubly do 40 when Th’y have boon toustited, Whep finished this road will be a great relief to the timid ones ho, in the storm of nat Monday, feared they were to Whurpong, | iy tle Wo fog tug ied | i | | not haye given out the notices | offered prayer after his sermon, theroby giving a little | feelings. ri | of the world. | Jes ‘The captain of | fore vou work, ‘The fam Srmh the Thomas P. Way fstenea Ats boat there for twenty minutes, and proposed to fight it out on that Iine rather than go forward and face the storm that he knew would meot bim turning Sands’ Point, But the ngers held an indignation meeting on board and insisted on being carried either back to New York or forward to Sea Clif, For a while a storm raged on almost as flereoly as that which tossed up the white caps on the Sound, and if the brethren had boon of tho world instead of the Church there would have been some tall swearing done at that time. Tho Md: however, started on her course and roached port in safety and without any other damage than the spring- ing of a fow a on’ her forward dock, She left on her rogular trip next morning and has continued to run as usual, During the fog which prevailed on the Sound on Friday morning he ran aground just above White- stone while making for that “landing, and. for an. hour and a half she stuck there, until a couple of tags, pull- ing for twenty or thirty minutes, got hor off again, with- out damage or loss save the loss ofiwo hours’ time, Sho mado her regular trips, however, as usual, At last the spell is broken, and Sea Cliff is to have an old fashioned camp meeti The people are gather- the preachers are on the ground, and every man, including tho trustees of tho association, “hitherto because of their oxtreme modesty kept in’ the back- ground, has a mind to work and does take partin tho meetings. Yesterday gave indications of what may be expected on Sunday and the days following. About 2,900 people gathered in the Tabernacle at the preaching | services last night and nearly a8 many i the morning. The Rey. Dr. Crook, of Sixty-first street charch, New York, proached in the forenoon and Rev, Professor Wheeler, of the Methodist, in the evening. Both ser- mons wero designed to bring sinners and the Saviour into closer contact than they hi been and in the prayer moeting that follow: the improvised © altar’? was surrounded with ponitents seeking pardon and believers seoking the baptism of power, And many of both Glasses subsequently professed to have obtained that after which they sought. One German man, who had been converted, amid and sobs tried to. give utter- ance to his sense of grateful joy, but could not do it satisfactorily, Among the most active workers in the eting were Mr. E. Rinehart and Alderman of New York, both trustees of this camp ground. ' The Rey, John’ Pegg, Jr., of Brooklyn, KE. D., preached on Thursday evening, and the J C.K. Mar shall, of St, Louis Conference, this morning. The Rey. J. 3. Willis, who came up to-day, pre: ing. The p Rev. Wesley R, Davis, of Brooklyn, will 1 morning, aint Rey. George Taylor, of Brooklyn, in the evening, with Rey. Dr. Foss, of Harlem, sandwiched in for tho afternoon. This is an excellent trio of preach- ers, and great results are anticipated, A SMALL BUT HEROIG TAND gathored in the chapel this morning before six o'clock, and spent an hour in prayer for tho divino blessing o the preaching that was to follow later in the forenoon, A large meeting was held in the Tabern at half-past eight A. M., for the same object. — Lust year during the camp meetings a family prayer meoting was held in the parlors of the hotel every night. — This is on and in its stead the young people amus . with music and song, ahd certain of them I understand are seeking to gain the trustees’ consent to have dances: occasionally in the parlors. amusoment will be added to th popular house by and by, but for the presont the association don’t care to in | tfoduce any besides those already existing and re- ferred to. ‘As soon as the Long Island Railroad Gompany bogin work on the new branch road tho trustees will hol a1 auction sale of lots, so as to obtain mo enough to eir indebtedness on this gro And, in pective and actual improvements hero, worth of lots have A within the ‘A few days ago a German lady bought ch, and I understand another is negoti- ating for a dozen more, The rumors that THN ASSOCIATION WERE DISINTEGRATING and about to assign their property I am credibly in- formed is uttorly untroe, Their hotel alone, if sold to- day, would meet all their obligations and leave a margin besides, And this is but @ small item tn their actual assets. Their steamboat debt, instead of being $4,000, is but $1,200; but, whatever it will be at the end of the season, individual members of the association are ready to foot the bills and take all the risks, As a summer resort Soa Cliff is already camp meeting placo it will probably fade away by and by. THE SECRET OF POWER THROUGH SUFFERING-—— SERMON BY REY. W. BR. DAVIS, OF BROOKLYN, Sea Curr, L. L, Angust 8, 1875, A. congregation, numbering about 3,500 souls, gathored in the great Tabernaclo here, this morning, and listened to the most powerful and thoughtful ser- mon yet preached here by the Rey. Wesley R. Davis, of Simpson church, Brooklyn. His general theme was “Power Through Suffering,’ but under his ablo troat- ment several grand topics of thought were brought prominently to view. It was a salvation sermon, but one designed to appeal to the common sense and rea- | son of men rather than to their entotions, {t had in it, however, enough of the emotional to draw tears from many eyes and hallelujahs from many hearts and voices, and though he spoke about an hour ther was an evident desire in the hearts of the people, though 1 yoice or vote, that he should continue, And, as Presid- ing Hider Kettel afterward expressed bimeelf, that his | emotions and his toterest having been aroused, he could not Brother Davis time for the collection of thought and settling of the ‘And this seemed to be the universal prompt- ing of the meeting. Mr, Davis’ text was Revelation, y., 9-10—Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof: for thon wast slain, and hast re- deomed us to God by the blood out of every kindred, and touguc, aad people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and pricsts.”” reforred to the scientific inquiries that have been made and that aro still being-m God's power in nature. And yot it has ever been o mystery, though matter is no longer the dull clod that it Was once supposed to be. pressed the secret of power, All the compassions of God's love may be reduced to one fact, and that the fact of sacrifice for us, The visible cross hich Jesus was crucified was but the symbol of the ble cross that the Father bore from the foundation The Lamb slain on the cross was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. mystery and broke its se: filment of the past s as Tue ov OP TY YUTURR. Who could open the book? Who can give signiGicanco to the ages to como? John looked and wept becanse no one was found worthy to open this book or to break its seals; and while thus weeping thd angel came to him. and bade him weep not, because the Lion of the tribe of Judab, the root of Jesse, would prevail and open the book. What dit that moan but that sacrifice was to in- terpret the future as it had the past? Christ, by His crucifixion and death, was to come into all the thonghts of the world, and His Church was to assist in this ro- demption of the world, Three or four thoughts spring out of the considera. tion of this text:—L. The secret of power as coming out of the sacrifice by God of His Bon, Because Ho was bruised for our iniquities He so conditioned Him- self to this world as to get the greatest control over it. We bavo the idea sometimes that God's power takes on the attribute of power, and that He can do all things because He is Almighty. This might be true if man was a thing; but he belongs to the realm of power in- telligont and free, and uot of things, Wolhave been | startled in our theologies by the thought that the Di- But that is because we are so broken The truest joy is that which can vine can suitor. in our projudices. suffer, ot came down on one of our moun- tains and gave us a revelation; He, revealed His ory Moses so that He almost blinded his eyes; but yet the world was not saved. It hold back from Him, Then God gave to the world His only begotten and well beloved Son, so that we see Jesus Christ was able to take the roll of humanity and to break its seal, Christ’s power is placed in the Gos- pel in constant alliauce with His sacrifice, And He has taught us that He miust come to mastery by suilering. “and Tif 1 be lifted up will draw all men with me.’’ Litt Me up, be says, and I'll strike my lines of magnetic love into all Jands and draw all mon into Me. Christ is also ropresented as the light and the life of the world, and all through there is the thought of power by the cross. 2. We see here not only power in its divine source, but power in ite mightiest manifestation—"Thou hast re- deemed us upto God by Thy blood,” Not by the death of Christ, bat BY M15 BLOOD ARE WE REDREMED. Tt was not the death of the victim of old, but its blood that made atonement for the people, The blood is the life, and here it stands for the power working in our souls, 80 that the house is renewed and recreated, And thus itis that the life of Christ in us does the work, There was that in the suflerings of Christ on Calvary which satisfied God, This we know, but how we don’t know, It is tho life of Christ impressing itself on our lives that ts to take out of them all the sources of sin, and to give to the soul all that is pure and holy, Mr. Davis hero drow a picturo of the wretchod condi- tion of humanity before God's thought came to it, and | then briefly introduced God's great thought of power through suffering which He gives 0 cael the blood of His Christ. And thu may we be renewed individually, What a force this ist Tt is power in its mightiest ~— mani- fostation—redeemed by Thy blood. 3 The text gives us the rango of this powor—“out of every kindred, and tongue, and’ people and nation.” ‘There aro no spots of Paradivo on this earth; there aro no islands of bliss hore not touched by sin. 'This great atonoment by Christ projects itself to all men, and this because the curse is universal, We n hide it from one another, but down deep in our hearts we know that we are sinful and sinning. The want of salvation, of a now life, is in all souls on this carth, The fool may say in bis heart, There is no God, but he can't say, Thore is no sorrow, But Jesus Christ enters in and lays his redemptive hand on every soul, and wherever you see a man, no matter how degraded, you see one for whom Christ suffered and died. And this is the only. powor that can got into the souls of mon and give them strength. There is no redemptive trath in the teachings of sclence. But Christ can, by His Spirit, reach the miner in the ptt while he picks away, and the mother in her home while she nurses the babe and attends to her daily round of domestic duties, THR KINGUOOD OF THR RADE. The purpose of this suffering: “hath made us kings and priests unto God." Kinghoog ig the normal right of mankind, But wont out of Bden unkinge uncrowned, And thus he wandered along the ages un- Ul a little over 1,800 years ago, when a change came over the vision of his drama, and he saw the hand of Christ stretched out bidding him come in, Though uncrowned there are many crowns for him, ‘There ts here and now for you and for me a coronation thr Josus Christ that shall givo us the sway of our own iy ‘This is the outcome of the atonement. Whon gives yo! His Christ he asks for kings and priest unto himself. ‘Ie offurs yon wot oniy digni ‘hat ojninion, Christ camg to hig soyercignty by sacrifice, and we are W reach ours by sacrifice 1%. You must not look for your fee bo- hha rst; work oof us in No doubt some forms of | @ success assured, but as a | expressed by | In opening Mr. Davis | » to diseover the hiding of , But hero in the text is ox. | came to earth and He laid His band upon this | But this was not the ful- | AE Se SEN CE ehes poten ee ee wi with the toil you 8 7) peace, Tacthe afternoon the Rov. Georgo ‘Taylor, of Sanda street chureh, Brooklyn, and in the evening the Rey. Dr. Foss, of Harlem, preached. An address was de- livered to the children by Rev, A. D. Vail in the afters noon, DIOCESE OF IOWA. LETTER OF BISHOP-ELECT ECCLESTON. Puiwapeerusa, July 31, 1875, Rev, J. S. Rxep, Chairman of the Committee of the Convention of the Diocese of lowa:— Reverend ANp Dear Broraen—Whon I received your notice, two months ago, of my election to the episcopate of Towa, I received also a protest against the “manner of the election,” ‘which now bears the signatures of delegates from many of the parishes represented in cone vention, and with a request from these gentlomen to give a patient examination to the matter before answer- ing. My long delay has been that I might avoid all appearance even of haste In answering. But having | troated all parties with all respect I could, I must say that the information so far received by me does not, ia my judgment, sustain the charges upon which T under- Stand the protest to be based. Nor do the many other grave quostions started by the protest. seem to me to point to my declination as duty in the premises, Hows ever, the Chureh in her wisdom has not left such 4 question to the judgment of one man, however honest he may be in intention, Happily, too, for this case, the standing committees exercise the right to examine the entire case when the testimonials of « bishop-elect are Iaid before them, and, if anywhere, surely we may expeet Divine guidance when the highest officers in the Church are deciding upon the election of the head of a diocese. To such an examination, by such acourt, under such guidance, Lam ghd that this case must now be submitted. The decision one way must j, and the decision the other way will wisely guide ion, ing our Gracious Master to control this final de- cision, with: kindest regards to yourself and the other members of the committee, and in Christian love toward all in and of your diocese, Lam, sincerely yours and their brother in Christ, J. H. ECCLESTON, WAR AGAINST RUM. THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE IN BAST NEW YORK—NEW TACTICS OF THE LAW AND ORDER ASSOCIATION, ‘The relentless war which the “Law and Order Asso- chation” of Rast New York has been waging against tha saloon keepers for some time past has so far proyed un- successful. ° Every attempt that has hitherto been mado to conviet liquor dealers for ping their saloons open on Sunday has signaily failed, and the only effect pro- duced is that those saloons which used to have musi¢ and dancing have been deprived of those sources ot iat= traction, Indeed, many of the most zealous of the “Jaw and order’? people adinit that, were it not for the class of people that resorted to these latter places and. | thoir noisy and disorderly habits, very litte effort would | have beon made against the saloon keepers. A number of women of doubtful character and youths of the corner boy stamp were in the habit of coming from Brooklyn on Sundays, and their conduct in these saloons was reprehensible in the ex~ treme, This became such a nuisance that all decent citizens of East New York were anxious to put a stop to | it, and the effurts of the “Law and Order Association” | to close up these haunts of vice were appreciated by | even those who like to enjoy a quiet glass of beer on a Sunday as wellas a week day, All this music and dancing has now been got rid of, and the obnoxious class of people who were drawn to the neighborhood by such inducements have disappes ‘The other liquor dealers haye also become more cautious and the doors of their saloons are cither closed or have screens hung to hide the interior, Tt was expected that yesterday would be a lively day in Kast New York, in consequetive of the avowed inten- tion of the law and order people to adopt a new and irri- tating plan of operations, In accordance with a resolu- i dat the meeting of that body, held the pre- n was divided into eight districts, having @ permanent committeo, whos' duty is to visit all the saloons found open on Sundays and report to the Executive Committee of the associar tion for farther action, It was rumored algo that theso committees intended to taste and obtain samplos of any liquor thoy saw carried from the saloons, in order to cute the delinquents, A secret mecling of the Law aud Order Association was held on Saturday night, | aud it was expeeted there would be considerable excite ment yesterday in consequence of the decisions therd tal Contrary to expectation, however, a Hunanp reporter | found everything quiet and peaceable as usual. All the liquor stores were doiug a quict business, having thd front doors closed or @ screen across; but there was nob the slightest effort at concealment. In the German lager beer saloons everything Was just as on a.week day, and in the gardens—with “Garten Wirthschatv” in largo titers blazoncd over the doors—quiet family parties me auley sitting at the tables smoking, chatting and ig beer. ie was absolutely no visible drunkenness, though tho town was full of pleasure seekers from New York and Brooklyn, who all indulged in a little beer aad soemed to enjoy it. For a long time the reporters could gain no tidings of the committees of the Law and Order Association, which were said to be at work on the sa- | loons, and many liquor dealcrs oxpressed the opinion | that the threat was an idle one that would not be car- | ried out, The police, however, were of a different opinion, and one policeman said ¢mphatically that the | \ committees — would ly vo to work be- fore night, though did not anticipate any trouble. Between four ond five o'clock Mr. / Horace Miller, Presidont of the associatior an | othor prominent members were seen going around from saloon to saloon, making observations and taking a lish of the names, for the purpose of laying the matter be- foro District Attorney Britton to-day. They did not enter the saloons, vor interfere in any way with their business, and were very qnict aug unobirusive in their demeanor. Owing to the diMculty of gotting a jury to convict in such cases the general feeling in the locality is that thi | last effort will have searcely tore effect. than former ones in the samme direction. THE COURTS. TOMBS POLICE COURT, Before Judge Otterbourg. ASSAULTING AN OFFICER. Thomas Vint, of No, 34 Oak street, and Alexander McDonald were arraigned, on complaint of Ofticer Mink, of tho Fourth provinet, who charged that the defendants were, carly yesterday morning, acting in a disorderly manner near the corner of Oak and New Chambera strvets; that he ordered Vint into his house, and that tho latter assaulted him, stabbed him in the shoulder and cut him in the hand with a knife. MeDonald, he alleged, aided in the assault, The defendants denied the charge and accused the officer of having begun the at- fray, Vint declared that Officer Mink struck him in the face without the slightest provocation, Two sistera of Vint, very respectable looking girls, were also charged with attempting to rescue their brother from the cus- tody of the officer, They stated that they merely tried to prevent the oflicer shooting at their brother. They were fined $1 each, Thomus Vint was fally committed for trial, and McDonald was held for examination, It looked like another police outrage, this dragging to « station house two decent young women and keeping them there all night for an act so natural as that of ate tempting to save thoir brother's life, But this was dong by tho order of Captain Williams, DISORDERLY HOUSE. On complaint of John Kiernan, Jacob Lawell was coms miited to answer for kooping a disorderly house at No, 2 New Chambers street, WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT, Before Judgo Bixby. SITTING ON A STOOP. James Tracy, a sailor, of No, 460 Wost Nineteontl, street, was yesterday hold in default of $3,000 bail on a charge of larceny from the person, Mr, Elias W. Sloat, of No. 116 Sullivan street, on the night of the 26th of July was sitting on a stoop at the corner of Greene and | Canal stroets when Tracy and another man approached and tore a wateb and chain, valued at $129, trom his person, Honce the arrest. DISORDERLY HOUSES BROKEN UP, . © ‘About twelve o'clock Saturday night the police of tho Fifteenth precinct made a raid on three disorderly, | houses and arrested twenty-three persons, The pra prietors wore beld in $1,000 bail each to answer, whilt the inmates, malo and female, were dischargod. + ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Before Judge Sinith, THE EXCISE RAIDS, 3 Commissioner Stiner made another raid on Saturday night on the concert saloons, About twelve o'clock hi and his aids, Messrs, Hendover and Robinson, with 4 posse of police from the Tenth precinct, went into the saloon Nos. 17 and 19 Bowory, kept by Nellie Burns, alias Brandt, and arrested the proprietor and soma twenty-three persons, mate and female, who were com ‘ogated there, They wore all arraigned before Jud, Binh yesterday, and after examination the Justice con cluded to dischargo all but® the proprietor of the placa, whom be held in F1,000 bail lo answer, ‘WAS IT AN ACCIDENT? Mark Gartland, a boy about sixtoen yerrs of age, wag arraignod on a chargo.of felonious assault and battery, On Saturday afternoon Wark was playing with a pistot and shot a Nttlo girl, named Annie Larkin, six years of ago, in the forohead, Tho little girl lives at No, 719 Kagt Ninth strect and was taken (yo Bellevue Hospital (OONTINURD ON NINTH PAGE] td ,