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APOSTOLIC LABOR. The Question that Triumphs Over Time. WHO IS CHRIST? Beecher on Waves of Weeling. ib Do We Require Opiates or Stimulants ? THE NON POSSUMUS DOCTRINE A Religious: Doctor of Finance. “CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. 80ME OF THE CLAIMS WHICH CHRIST MAKES EN HIS OWN BEMALF—THE NINETY AND NINE. ‘Mr. Hepworth’s spacious church was filled to over- Yowing yesterday morning; and it is probable there would have been a much greater crowd had there been -pformal announcement of the anticipated presence of the great revivalist, George. Weeks. Mr. Weeks has lately settled here after a sojourn of three years in Lon- fon, where he has carried on his good work with great success. Mr. Hepworth selected his text from Isaiah bxiii., 1:—"Who is this that cometh travelling in the freatness of his strength?” In a general way we assert that Jesus is tho loftiest and grandest character of alltime, but we must have a personal conviction of that fact before we can bow in lowliest attitude at the feet of the Redeemer. When we are at the White Mountains fér the first Mme we aretold that Mount Washington lifts its head above all others, and when we stand on the rocky summit we feci that we are nearer heaven than tver before and wo can look down on all tho wther mountains below us. I think it is something after the samo way that woe feel when we try to measure the character of Christ, looking at flim as an clement of history, as ono character in the midst of a group of great characters, He secms to us scholarly critics to bo simply » AMONG MIS PEERS, am elder brother of the group, and nothing more. That te the way in which the criticism of infidelity in the last low cohturies has expressed itself. Idesiro that you shall follow meas 1 go from page to page of the words of Christ, proving in his own words the position He has aright to occupy. 1 will try to an. swer the question Isaiah puts, ‘* Who is this thatcometh travelling in tho greatness of his strength?” I want “i best to call your attention to Christ’s ideas concerning own pre-existence. You will finda remarkable ¢ in John, in which this matter is made clear yond denial. He is in the midst of a controversy with the bigoted pharisees, and they are ridiculing Him lo His face, because He claims to be an authority, and, in order to CAP THE CLIMAX vf what they consider His ussumption, He says, “Verily, verily, 1 say unto you, if a man keep my taying, he snall never sce death.” No man had ever fared to utter such words before. When the Jews jaid, very vaturally, “Now we know that thou bast a fevil Abraham is dead, and tho prophets, aud thou sayost, If a man keep my Saying, he shall never taste of death, Art thou greater than our father, Abraham, which is dead? - And the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?’’ cannot you see the pbharisees looking squarely into the face of Jesus, und presenting this logical dilemma? Jesus answered and said, “Verily Tsay anto you that beforo Abraham was,Iam.” It was a kingly utterance, not the utterance of imposture; Je was the utterance of one who used His words to curry distinct and well defined suggestion to the hearts of jis hearers, And so the earthly life of Jesus was only m episode. In reality it stretches far back into the ages of tho past, and His life did not begin with the manger in Bethlehem. In John, xvii., He says in the prayer before His disciples:—‘‘And row, O Father, ify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” The time of Abraham is of recont date beneath the shadow of suctt an utterance as that, and if Christ utvered the truth, his life extends far back BEYOND THE REACH OF MATTER, and is hidden in the holy of holies which men, not somprehending its mystery, call eternity. Christ came forth from eternity that He might lead us to the glories of the great beyond, and it seems to moa corroboration of this when Christ, speaking in the fifth chapter, says bo the pharisees, ire ie Seriptures, for in ‘them © ee havo eternal life, and they are they which of mo. ‘All through the revelation of God we find passages q@hich in a more or less distant way referto the fact Yhat Christ is coming. Jesus says, “I am he of whom the prophets spake,”’ But we do hot rest satisfied with that. It strikes us with awe that He we call our Sa viour should bave lived in the heart of God in tho be- ginning of aW things, but what are our relations to hin at the present time ?, What is Christ to you, my brother? Does He stand to you in the relation of teacher and guide only? Is He not also your final ap- Here I would call your attention to one remarkable ‘thing, and it is that all other men are independent of their systems, while Jesus is a part of His. Every philosopher that bas ever lived STANDS OUTSIDE of his philosophy. Not so with Christ, You cannot take the life of Christ out of the New Testament with- ‘out robbing it of its one distinguishing feature. Christ claims that religion consists in loving Him personally; it is not cough to believe inthe New Testament, but ‘we must belleve in Him as the central figure. Christ Bays distinctly, “I am the way. Other men have said, 1am a way, but Christ said, “Iam the way; re- Jigion consists in’ believing in me. ‘There is not one poor sheep that finds himself far way from Christ but who can listen and hear the echves of His voice, and the Lord will tind His way to the poor lost Jamb and bring it to the seat of mercy. It seems to ine I cannot better illusirate this than by Raving our dear brother sing to us the “Ninety and | Nine.” Mr. Hepworth took his seat while Mr. Weeks played and sung tho beautiful hymn called the “Ninety and Nine.” Mr. Hepworth read a few more passages | illustrating Christ’s claims, and finished his discourse dy eaying, “It seems to me’ the verdict which the Ro- man soldier uttered finds its its way to our lips— ‘Truly, He is the Son of God.’ MASONIC TEMPLE, THE MORAL NEED OF THE HOUR—DO WE RE- QUIRE OPIATES OR TONICS?—THE QUESTION ANSWERED BY MR. 0, B, FROTHINGHAM, Mr. 0. B, Frothingham preached yesverday morning at the Masonic Temple fo a decidedly small audience. His theme was “The Moral Need of the Hour.” Ho said, substantially:—Observe that Jesus always mecis tho Pharisees in ono spirit, in that of Andignation and rebuke, When He speaks of them Mt is as of external, superticial people, When- -ever He spoko to them it was with a sharpness ewhich looks almost like rudeness, This was because ‘the crust covering their bodies had to be broken ‘Whrough. There were masks to bo torn of You read ‘bat. when Jesus dined with the rich Pharisee a woman erept in, and seeing Jesus recline—as was the custom | dn those days—knelt beside him and bathed his feet in . tears, The woman was recognized as one | from the lowest NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER I, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. sumutants? Nono of the cardiwal virtues, such as self ‘control, trath and kindness, will grow where people's lives only have these idle and external aims. How many of such people exeretse self-control or can deny themselves a pleasure in the ot h might brin; sorrow in the future? Can truth gr if it is convenient and ‘profitable, lie ifit is inconvenient and unproiltable. There is plenty of easy going sympathy of cluss with class, of | ‘the laborer wi ness, do wo see that? Howrare and uncommon it is for a | man or woman to help another because he is a man or she is a wornan, |, At one time religion supplied the tonic, the stimu- lant; but the Catholic religion is opium—on every sido | an angel, a priest, asaint. When Protestantism mado its first apy nce it came with an immediate rush of the eternal presence. WHERE 18 THAT OLD FAITH? Gone, gone, tall recovery; nothing left but an _empty form. ‘The truths underlying these doctrines are unseen even by those professing them now. They arg simply figures of speech, The Holy Spirit has becoma a breath, the anointing oil has become rancid and the holy wnction is scarcely better than grease, (Suppressed Jaughter.) The Gospel of gush is ull that remains of the great faith that saved thousands of men and women. There is a general impression among earnest men that this Gospel produces lies, villainy and perjury; and where, th are we to look for the real tonic of grace? We need not strain our eyes into the dim hereafter. Hore, close by us, hidden by the hour passed go idly, are those same graces which religion once embodied. bUTY. One word more, A clear acknowledgment of that orga word Duty. Itis not avery glorious thing this juty, but no revelation of the grandest heroism is half so great as daily duty, done not because it is pleasant, but because it ought to be done. To take up the facts of our daily life and be true to these facts, that is duty. ‘There is an old tradition of a rivaly between Greek and Oriental art. The Oriental artists built a gorgeous structure of resplendent colors, while the Greeks built Tight opposite one of simple white marble, When the screen separating them was removed, the gorgeous colors were reflected more beautifully upon the white marble than they even looked in themselves. So it is that a life of everday duty carries with itall the glory of the most ecstatic bliss, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. RELIGIOUS REVIVALS AND MOODY'S AND SANKEY’S VISIT TO BROOKLYN—A WELCOME AND A PROMISE OF SUPPORT TO THE GREAT REVIVAL- ISTS—SERMON BY THB BEV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Plymouth charch could not well have been more crowded than it was yesterday morning. Every aisle, ail the standing places by the walls, and even the pulpit steps were occupied by the thronging multitude. There were tho usual flowers upon the pulpit-platform, dis- sominating a refined fragrance throughout the interior of the church edifice, Precisely at half-past ten o’clock Henry Ward Beecher ascended the pulpit and took his seat. Every eye was riveted upon him, but unheeding this he began arranging the notices he was subse- quently to read, while tho organist led off with symphony, followed by the singing by the choir of the anthem, “Glory to God, and peace and good will toward men.” Among the preliminary exercises was the reading of the account in the Book of First Kings of bow the altar erected by the prophets of Baal remained unkindled, while that of Elijah was set burning by a fire from heaven—> reading into which was infused a dramatic style and vigor rarely excelled off the stage, and during which the dropping of a pin could almost have been heard at the remotest end of the galleries. In one of his prayers that style of ex- pression peculiar to the great Plymouth pastor cropped out in his invoking the advent of the time when nations would cease to fleece one another and pound each other with impetuous war, The subject of the morning dis- course was ‘Modern Revivals,” and having’ refer- ence particularly, as Mr, Beecher subsequently explained, to the contemplated revival meetings to be held by Moody and Sankey in Brooklyn, and certainly in a long time Mr. Beecher has not preached with more earnestness, with such fiery en- thusiasm, and in terms more plainly spoken and yet moro eloquent and impassioned, as in this discourse, He spoke nearly an hour anda half, and such earnest listeving, such rapt attention, such a completely spell- Dound audience, has only on raro’ occasions filled the church, The basis of his discourse was Psalm Ixxx 6—“Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee.” Men are subject, he began, to recurring periods of activity and rest, One-third of our lives is spent in sfeoping and eating. The tide runs out and comes back, and isso methodical and regular as to ceaso to be an object of observation. There is no school, no sect, no philozopher who advocates working the whole twenty- four hours, But in all ages men left to themselves have developed, «WAVES OP PEELING. This phenoménon {s universal, Sometimes it takes on the war spirit, sometimes the peace spiri. Strong impulses are at the bottom of it A striking instance was that shown in the passage of scripture he had read jn the opening exercises, wherein a people exterminated the very prophets before whom they had bowed down only the day before. Three times a year the Jews left their homes to go to Jerusalem. ‘The cizy was full of them, and environing hills wero white with their tents and green with their leafy bowers. {t was a rude method to bind theso people together. It was based upon a vital principle, upon the susceptibilities of men to great waves of feeling which do not belong to normal conditions, Single men do not develop much. Men in combinations develop the highest and be: There is needed a stimulating atmosphere. Out of con- stitutional tendencies great nations sprung. Some say it is the result of machinery, magnetism, fanaticism. It is the growth of human nature. Jt is spontancous, History is full of great impulses of whole countries, ‘The Crusades were great religious movements. The re- vival of letters emanated from the development of great impulses, and as society advanced in refinement it’ de- veloped itself.in higher attainments in all arts, The Reformation is another instance, As it was followed by sublime results men prawe it, He now came to speak of RELIGIOUS REVIVALS, There was a great prejudice against religious revivals as abnormal and unphilosophical, These popular move- menis, call them what you will, meet the needs of men. No man who has watched these great movements, con- tinued through days, weeks and months, can fail to see their benefits. If ono at night stands by the ocean and sees itfur out stretching itself with calm placidity and the surf creaming on the rocks or courting tho sands, and in morning, waking, hears it’s voice thundering against the clilfs, he feels in the presence of God, So, no one can see society in its placid condition, then see it roused by these great religious movements, and watch the progress, without inseusibly feeling that he is in the presence of Jehovah. It was a wonder that | these tremendous capabilities for doing good were so little utilized. Undeveloped men must be restrained by force, either frorm within or without, or else anarchy ensues, Monarchy keeps men mute, keeps subjected those gg agin #o dangerous to the State aud the laws, Wnile elections in Europo were damnatory in the medieval ages, they are in America cleansing. Although itis said that republican liberty is a failure, that London {s better governed than New York, and that life and property are safer in Europo than here, | the fact is apparent ‘that there is agreat deal more | average happiness under our government, Our govern- | ment has avy number of faults, but bappiness is devel- oped with freedom. This 1s the answer, and this the argument, This is the true test of government, Every four years we have here a political revival. NEWSPAPERS, THE BELLOWS OF THE COUNTRY, blow the people into a heat, ‘his is part and parcel of one great experiment, This political oxcitement is beld in proper check, and there is no’ danger of expiosion. These periodical political revivals are a benefit to the country, AS to religious revivals, men say that they | tear up things, that they are rude and irregular. It is | said that If these great movements are of God they will | have their growsh through God’s working, and be | regulated by him. As there are mischicis connected with these movements they will not believe they are of God. Does not the same sun produce the grain and the | flower, and the poisonous shrub? Is not the earth fruitful of odious reptiles? Does not the fungus | destroy our crops? There is every condition of mind the highest ideal of manhood. There of the town, and there were immediately shrugs | and frowns and outbursts of indignation, Jesus | turned to her, and with the greatest gentlenoss, and @aid;—"Woman, thou hast loved much, and to those | who love much much is forgiven.” You know, when | @woman goes toward the evil one she does not stop | (half-way. A woman whoso heart bad become dark. | wened to the beating of reproof was she, but sho «ill thad sensibility to recognize goodness and to cheriwh thope of forgiveness; and it waz to save this wounded ‘spirit that Ile spoke those words to her, Tho Pharisees | fwas more likely to lead a better life after being crushed | I {40 the ground, whilo the woman would be the better for lifting up by Jeous’ words, The very large majority of | \people work not for humanity but for three things— MONEY, POWER OR PLEASURE. ‘There is Mr. Peter Cooper, who started in life a poor | ‘young man, and resolved that if he evor attained Wealth he should give bis fellow-mon a chance which they otherwise would not have. But fie 1s an excep. tion, The vast mass of people whom we see going up and down Broadway work for money, but with- any special aim of doing any good with | ; Without being identified with any no- ble cause, As to the pursuit of power, itis naturally demoraliziog. When power is inberite it has w natural grace; but when it is the power of the rich politician who ‘has earned his money in un pulons ways, it is awful, The other chief ain is leasure—-to have fun und frolic and merriment—and re tho pursuit of pleasure is carried on more erten- Sively than on any portion of the planet. Paris and Tondon aro no worse than New York and San Fran- cisco. The gambling houses, the gin shops, the houses Of prostitution, flourish here with equal brilliancy, In this ago the prominent facta that stare us in ti face are pursuit of wealth, lust for power AND GREED POR PLEASURE. 4nd this being true can wo wans anjates Instead are the rude, rugged elements to be developed, It must be done by work. Butter is made by churning. The rock is thrown by powder from its bed, where it ia of no use, and mude serviceable. God’s work is with the flint and the hammer, If there are irregularities in religions re- vivals it shows all the more that they are regular at the | bottom, The objectors say that such movements are opposed by good men. He has rcad in the paper of the | ropused advent of two Christian gentlemen to Brook- | yn to open religious meetings These gentlemen had | been veceived with magnetic enthusiasm in Kugland * ountry. They ehould give these men their sympathy and cordial support, Brooklyn might bave too much legisiation, but it had not too much religion; the market was not glutted with the latter commodity, | f these great movements develop the highest senses in the least, if they develup the best part of manhood in tho smullest degree, if they rouge to a more spiritual | life, then they are to be encouraged. It is said by cor- tain men that revivals are mere machine work; that, to use @ common phrase, they are GOT UP avratns, Tt is not difficult to ridicule them, and {n fact they have in them the elements of ridicule, Good men, and earnestly good men, too, contend that thes move- | ments are tuking God’s work out of His hands, t they are substituting machinery for God, Might a8 well tell the furmer, with his winnowing machine, “You're taking the wind out of God’s hand aud suspending God's wind.”? They who do not sow shall not reap. We don’t leave everything to God. Don’t we bring cur children up and seo to it that they come up? There is the mother’s lap, there is the school and there the cato- chism, The teachings of these are not God’s infusion. It is none the less Divine because of man's instrument- ality. 4b dos not lower God’s work, but makes it higher. I balieve in getting up religious revivals; in songs that touch the imagination and feeling; in preaching that euerene the sphere of thought; in doing anything resulting in the best and highest’ develop meut. If revivals are got they are got up as erops are by obeying God's law. eliove in the sovereiguty Of God jm churches, eo Mrlyled Bibles Am laborer, of merchant with merchant; | mission but kindnesas—by which I mean the sentiment of kind | Christianity among themselves. Tho the recognition of the brotherhood ofmen—where | jail, warm, glowing sermons; but all these things we do not leave to God. ‘The first good effect of religious revivals fs that they give intensity to normal influences. After enlarging On this branch of the subject at some length, Sa rents, Many think God simply God of the Church, icked men and outcasts, what’s God to them! Their extended further than to cultivate culprit in the gutter—each is a child of God. There is not in Brooklyn one out of tive who could et intoachurch. There are mot accommodations for them, What is that great class to do? Is it not a bless- ing that there is some way of ’ REACHING’ THE GREAT UNREACHED? ‘To a large extent piety is a hothouse plant. There is @ certain propulston—driving out, You say it is total depravity, Christ did not sit m the Tempio and tell the publicans, the outcasts and harlots to come to Him, He went among them, put His arms around their necks, made them feel His presence, His love and His sympathy. So should he of the Ghurehdo, In ‘America chtirches are to agreat extent close corpora- tions, In fact, MUTUAL LIVE ETRRNAL INSURANCE COMPANIES, They are narrow. They don’t express the whole force of Christianity, They don’t seek out and gave,* In the further progress of his discourse, after show- ing that to the great majority of the people of Brooklyn the Sabbath is nothing, he said that it was to be re- marked as to Mr. Moody, that he never made his relig- ious revivals the substitutes of ordinary Sabbaths, It was asign of God’s good grace, the great, good work that*had been accomplished by Moody and Sankey in Great Britain, He boped and trusted that they would outcast in the ‘be ulike productive of good result in this country. | ‘There are some men so fustidiously religious that they would rather GO TO -MELL, with refined Greek, than to heaven with John the Baptist, They cannot bear to see a man with large physique and red face, who looks as though he were made for mowing grass, preaching in the pulpit. They are familiar with all what Schiller ever’ wrote, and Goethe. They are wsthetic dandies, They cannot bearto hear tho vernacular used. Such men must be musically piped to. A man has bad bad luck, gets des- perate and opens a rum shop, and just as ho’ begins to make money, there comes along a’ temperance revival, His money’ is in danger, Think that man a monster? Get him away and talk father and mother, of childhood duys, and the better years of his life, and he may close his rum shop, but you can’t do it by bombard- ment, Call it” depravity, it is the same what you have. You would fight, too, for your money interest, Human nature is the same the world over, There are clocks that strike and clocks that ring and clocks that whistle, but there ts the same machinery moving moving each. ‘There are sellers of greenbacks worse shan any liquor dealers, In conclusion he insisted that religious revivals properly conducted are followed by good results and no reaction, They clean out the household, give higher thoughts of life, make better citizens, ‘infuse more honest watchfulness in business, develop’ the prismatic colors of life's highest ideal, open to view the stars above us as well as the earth under us, and in the accomplishment of the least of these they are worthy of sympathy and support. It was a work in which they should participate. They were not to wait to seo if the thing goes and then take hold. ST. PHILIP’S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, A NEW RECTOR INSTALLED—THE DOCTRINE OF APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION EXPOUNDED. ‘Tho services at St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal eburch (African), in Mulberry street, yesterday morn- Ing, possessed for its congregatton an enhanced inter- est, in consequence of the installation of their new rector, Rov. J. 8. Atwell. The edifice was filled. The Right Rev. Bishop Potter officiated, and the Rev. Dr. Gallaudet preached the sermon. Rey. Dr. Denison, Rey. John Peterson and one or two other clergymen assisted at the services. The new rector read the scriptural lessons of the day, after which Bishop Pot- ter propounded the usual questions according to the ritual, to which were made the accepted responses, Then a trustee delivered to Mr. Atwell the keys of the charch, and all united in prayer for his ministry, The installation being over the congregation sang the 190th hymn. The sermon followed. Rev. Dr. Gallaudet selected for his text the twen- tieth chapter of St, Jobn, beginning with the twenty-first verse:—Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be unto you; as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. on them and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost, Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; aud whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained,’” ‘There could be no more appropriate theme, he said, on such an occasion than the Christian ministry, the source and extent of theif power, and the right of the Church to send them forth among men to show the peo- pie the way to salvation. Spenking at another time to [His apostles, Christ had referred io the power given to Him in heaven and on earth over MAN’S SPIRITUAL CONCERNS, reminding them that they too were ‘invested with large powers and grave responsibility. Here was the great idea of the Christian min- istry emanating in continuance of the mis sion of love for which the Saviour was sent out among us. Beginning on the day of pentt- cost the Apostles proceeded to carry on the work, founding upon the Rock of Ages the Christian Church, For the perpetuation of their mission they procured others to join with them, and Saul was appointed by Christ Himself. Those selected by the elders and deacons of the primitive Church went on as their pre- decessors had done before them, and continued to keep up the succession, But changes came; the days of miracles passed away, yet, by following church history, it will be found that the office of apostie never ceased. called by whatever name it may be. Dr, Gallaudet pro- ceeded to trace in outline the history of the Christian Church up to the time of the Reformation, concluding that the bishops were the ouly ones who Lad power to ordain others to go forth preaching the Gospel. This the Church; held firmly to, while, 1m modern times, many persons are found contending that any one who desires may CONSTITUTE HIMSELP A PREACHER. Indeed, Christianity, by the refining away of other such important fundamental principles as the doctrine of apostolic succession now encouraged, bad run into Spiritualism. This doctrine, then, they would find it beneficial to their eternal welfare to uphold. In conclu. sion he urged them to do their duty by their pastor, to support those so ordained to work for them. Tender ties united the pastor to his flock and they to him when both were faithful. hatggeoge to the new pastor, Dr. Gallaudet welcomed him to his labors, He had labored elsewhere, the speaker said he knew, and could fully appreciate the importance of the trust confided to his care. He hoped | The | it was the beginning of a long and useful career, mantle of a virtuous and active predecessor had fallen upon him, and he should endeavor with zeal to fulfil all the sacred duties of his calling. At the conclusion of the services the communio administ large number of the congre ion, The Sunday school With banners and mottoes marched in procession both before and after the servicws. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. THE TRUE REMEDIES FOR THE FINANCIAL DE- PRESSION—SERMON OF REV, T, DE WITT TAI- MAGE. The Tabernacle was thronged to excess yesterday forenoon by a congregation of 5,000 people. The sub- ject of the discourse was ‘A Cure for our Financial Evils.” Rev. Mr. Talmage took for his text Lamenta- tions fii, 39—“Wherefore doth a living man com. plain.” Our blessings are so much more numerous than our deserts, that the prophet is surprised that any- body should ever find fault, Having life, and with it @ thousand attendant blessings, it ought to hush into perpetual silence everything like criticism of the dealings of Gody For the last two or three years the land has been set to the tune of “Naomi.” There has been here and there a cheerful soloist, but the grand solo bas been one of lamentation, accompanied by dirges over prostrated commerce, silent manufactories, un- employed mechanics, and all those disorders described by the two short words ‘hard times,” The fact is that we have been paying for the BLOODY LUXURY OF WAR. ‘There were great national differences, and we had not enough Christian character to settle them by arbitra- | tion and treaty, and £0 we went into battle, wasting life and treasure, aud well mgh swamping the national finances, and’North, Soutn, Kast and West have ever since been paying’ for those four years’ indulgence in barbarisin, But the time has come when this depression ought to end, yea when it will. The best political economists tell ts that there is no good Teason for continued prostration in business. Plenty of money awaiting investment, magnificent harvests crowding down from the West to the seaboard, the na- tional health with never so strong an arm or so clear a brain, yet we go on groaning and grieving, as though God iad put this nation upon gruel and we had had but one decgnt breakfast in six months, fauentet) ‘The fact fYhe habit of complaining has come chronic in this country, and after all these years of Whimper and wailing ana’ objurgation we are under SUCH A MOMENTOM OF sNIVRL that we cannot stop. Cheerful conversation and cheer- ful finances, I notice that the peopie in the community who are most vociferous against the day in which we live are those who are in comfortable circumstances, If you meet a man with perpetual talk about bard times and bankruptey and dreadful winters that are to come, you break his courage and you break him down, Last winter was the coldest [remember to have seen, but there never were more large-hearted charities than poured cut on the country—better provision made for the poor—so that theré have been scores of winters when the poor had a harder time than they had last winter. Now another winter {8 coming on, and I hear the ovil prophecy already rising on tho air. Now let mo tell you you lied twice about winter and I believe you are lying now. (Laughter.) It will be the easiest winter we ever had, either in ono way or another, The poor will not suffer so much as behavior will care our imdividual and national | | he went on to show that peepte inside the Church are | win such ® soil? | too apttothink that they have nothing to do with Idle, untaught, unregulated peoplé will tell the truth | those ontside, and vice versa, Some thought they were but they will | doing enough so long as they were motal aud paid their The whole under class belong to you. | eh him of his old And when he had said this he breathed ed toa very | | His head. Nothing ts too good lor Jests. is not man’s, but God’s. The priesthood is to be kept | borne with tho dolorousness of the times that he suys:— : Iv WE DO NOT INFLATE, we shall have Communistic outrages 'in this country such as they had in France.’’ [do not believe it In ‘America public opinion is such that if the people in Uhig country attempt a cutthroat expedition they will Jand in Sing Sing or from the gallows go up on a tight rope. If the people of the United States will for one weak talk cheerfully I will open all the manufaeto- rigs, I will give employment to all the unemployed mén and women; I will make a lively market for your realestate that’ is eating you up with taxes, Twill stop the long procession on the way to the Poorhouse and the Penitentiary, and I will spread a plentiful table from Maine to California, and from Oregon to Sand; Hook, and the whole land shall carol with national jubilee, 4 My friends, if this morning disbanding you should re- solve never again to utter a dolorous word about money markets, but by manner and by voice and wit and cari- cature, and, above all, by faith in God, try to scatter this national gloom, do you not believe that the influ- ence would be instantaneous and widespread? The effect would be felt to-morrow on Wall street, and what is felt on Wall street is felt around the world. For Gou’s sake and for the sake of tho unemployed quit growhng. (Applause.) Let our fagged-out business men find out that there is at least one prayer meeting, one Sunday school and one church fillea with illumina- tion, Depend upon it, you men in com- fortable circumstances, ‘if “you do not stop complaining God will blast your _ harvests, and see how you will get aloug without acorn crop. He will sweep you in the floods as Ho did Galves- ton, and He will devastate you with grasshoppers as He iid Minnesota, and Ho wit! burn your city ag Ho did Chicago. If you men in comfortable circuinstances keep on complaining God will give you something to complain about, Mark that! He will turn us over to financial disasters and take trust away from us. ‘The third prescription for the cure of all our individ- ual and national financial distresses is a great spiritual awakening, The merchants of this country were posi- tively demented with the monetary excitement in 1857. The religion of Christ has a direct tendency to make men honest and s0 , and truth telling, and are not honesty, sobriety and truth telling auxiliaries of mate- rial prosperity? If we could have an awakening in this country as in the days of Jonathan Edwards, of Northhampton, the ‘whole land would arise under a moral, higher moral tone, and, with that tone, the honest business enterprises of the country would come up. Agreat awakening has a direct influence upon tho financial welfare of this world, If there should come a great awakening in this country—which God inay grant—and all the banks, stores, oifices and shops should close up for two weeks and do nothing butatiend to public worship—after such a spiritual va the land would rouse up to such financial prosperity as we have never dreained of, 1 have nothing to say against money. The more money you get the better, if it comes honestly aad goes usciuilly. For the luck of it sickness dies without medicine and hunger finds its coffin in an empty bread tray and nakedness shivers for food and clothes and fire. 1 have nothing to say against money or this canting tirade against money, as though it had no practi- cal use. When f hear a man indu ge in it, it makes me think that the best heaven for him would be an eve’ lasting poorhouse. (Laughter). But money cannot satisfy the soul; it cannot pay our ferriage across the Jordan of death; it cannot unlock the gate of heaven for our im- mortal soul, Treasures in heaven are the only incor- ruptible treasures. In concluding, Mr, Talmage exhorted his hearers to take care lest when they lost their material property their immortal souls were not also lost. Guard the soul as the highest treasure, that it may enjoy tho presence of God, HANSON PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH. SERMON ON CHURCH TROUBLES AND DUTIES— DR. FULTON DEFINES HIS POSITION. ‘A-very large congregation attended the morning ser- vices yesterday at the Hanson place Baptist church, in Brooklyn. There were no apparent traces of the late ecclesiastical storm, Rey. Justin D, Fulton, D, D., the pastor, preached an eloquent sermon, which was listened to with rapt attention by his hearers. The pulpit was beautiful with the variegated hues of several magnificent baskets and pyramids of choice exotics, which filled the atmosphere with fragrance, After the preliminary services Dr. Fulton read a notice from the Board of Trustees to the effect that the church having voted against receiving the resigna- tion of the pastor, a request would be made on next Sunday for additional funds to defray church ex- penses, The pastor commended the action of tho trustees, He had heard that some members had given up their pews because he remained pastor of the church. When they were converted they did not join a mmn—they joined a church; and an incident which brought gladness to his heart was that a brother who yoied to accept his resignation had since paid one year’s pew rent in advance, They might vote him out, but as long as he remained m Brooklyn be would pay the rent of a pew in that church and his family should attend there. They stood on the threshold of a future which would be either glorious or intamous, and which it should be rested with the members. The pastor then chose his text trom the first epistle of Peter, 1i., 5—“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to olfer up spirit- ual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ? In his introductory remarks Dr, Fulton elaborately de- scribed the manner of building a temple in the time of Peter the apostle, and compared with it the great Chris- tan Chureh. Here was told the story of the killing of the Apostle Stephen by a mob and his triumph over his murderers, Speaking ‘of the Church, he said Jesus called it His home It think of that? it is Jesus’? home, where He comes when He is tired; where, when His heart is weary with wandering through the desert, He comes for resi. His children meet Him, ‘They cail'Him pet names and bring their chvicest boxes of ointment and put it on holy, and the Church has no power if itis not, You may’ have manuals for political clubs and business meetings, but no meeting of the members of a charch worthy of God could be held uniess they were ruled by love. “Every man in the Church must be right and live right. When the churches of Brooklyn got to be @ holy priesthood they will not tolerate lying or deceit, or fulseliood, or cunning, or disbonor. The Church is a mind'to think, a heart to love, and s hand to help. There is no real love of Christ that does not work out Uhrough the life. I would as leave have the pagan religion, bowing down in idolatry, as that of Jesus Christ When it does not make the Mau better. If we go on quarreling this pal- pit 18 valueless, The preacher then outhned what he considered the duties of the pastor, ns, trustees and members of a church, Work placed before a Christ, Fidelity in preaching niust bo sustained by a life conforming to teachings of pel. The reputations of a pastor and church de- pended upon the membership, A minister must be above tricks. He must be the itnpersonation of vir- tue, truth and hovesty. The power placed in the hands of a clergyman is terrilic; there is nothing like it im the — world. When says his usefulness is geno, they have done the most terrible thing that can be done. united Church, which will bear upon its arms the form of Jesus and hold Him up in the face of adversity. The preacher believed that the Church would doa greater work in Brooklyn than had ever been concetved. Church as an organized power, tunnel mountains if necessary, bridge seas if necessary, but it must go on because God was with it, He closed with a fervent appeal to those present to assist in tho inauguration of an era of greator useiulness, On next Tuesday evening a special business meeting will be held, at which it is probable that the differences amicably adjusted. RUSSO-GREEK CHAPEL, DOCTRINES OF THE GREEK CHURCH—ITS RELA- TIONS TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCHES—SERMON BY FATHER BJERRING. The liturgy of the Greek Church was sung, as usual, yesterday in the little chapel on Second avenue, near Fiflieth sireet, after which the Rev, Father Bjerring expounded the doctrines of his Church, and showed what relation she bears to other churches, especially to the Anglican communion. His remarks were based on John, x., 16—“There shall be one fold and one shep- herd.” He said that a characteristic mark of this ago is the desire and effort for Christian union, Besides caring for the spiritual interests of the members of the they hayg ever bajora Waydel XUlliDs jp 80 avers, | Orthodox Church in this city the chapel, established here by the Holy Synod of Russia, is also commissioned to assist inthis reunion effort, and for this reason the services are conducted in English three Sundays in tho month and in Sclavonic one Sunday, This arrangement | is made, too, for the convenience oi Greeks and Rus- sians resident here who may not understand Sclavonic, bat who do understand English, and also for Englisth speaking people who seek unfon with the Oriental Church, that they n tion of her doctrines and forms, Father gave & synopsis of the doctrines of the Greek Church as they were printed in the HenaLp some time ago. 0: marked that he did not seek to persuade persons to unite themselves with his Church, nor is it his mission here to make proselytes, But he reunion of the divided churches, so that the words of our blessed Lord shall be fultilled:—“There shall be one fold and one shepherd.” The efforts made by the — of the Greek, Anglican and Uld Catholic churches THN BONN CONFERENCE give hopes that the aspiration of so m: tay he realized at no distant day, promised by the tians without num! United States, As rding to their nationality, in harmony with theit d-given mission, will extend each to the hand ot fellowship. is, said the preacher, a place where He can | rest; a place where He can be loved. Did you ever | The Church | church demanded strict conformity to the mind of | The need of to-day is a | between the pastor and the church oflicers will be | Miles. arable from the lust of power and cunning calculati how we may exalt ourselves at the expeuse of othe! leads only to greater and more lamentable divisic and not to a blessed reunion, 1t is this fact whieh already unites the Oriental with the Anglican Church that we seck not the point of reunion in egotism, how ever refined it may be, but in the only mediator be- tween God and man, even Jesus Christ our Lord, who alone has the power to unite everything both in heaven and upon earth in this wonderful kingdom of light, truth and love, Father Bigrring closed with the aspiration that He, our only Lord and Master, the Supreme Head of the Church, might give ear to their humble prayers, that all who confess His holy name and bow their knees before Him may receive the holy supper of His infinite love together at the same altar. CHURH OF THE CCOVENANT, THE EVER-LIVING QUESTION, ‘WHO CHRIST ?”—SERMON BY REV. DR. VINCENT. Rey, Dr, Marvin Vincent, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, chose his text, yesterday morning, from Matthew, xxii, 41, 42,—‘While the Pharisces were gath- ered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” There is, said Dr. Vincent, acommon saying that fools may ask questions that wise men cannot answer. It doubtless requires a wise man to answer questions, but a wiser one still to pro- pound queries that shall awake the deeper reasonings of his hearers, The philosophers of old held the at- tention of their audiences by the subtlety of their questionings, as is instanced by the discourses of Socrates and others. In the teachings of Christ ques- tions abound, and they are adapted not only to bring iB forth answers, but to set the reasons of men to work, and to open new and startling vistas to the imagination. Christ’s doctrines were largely sct forth jn questions, Thé Pharisees doubtless thought the query absurd. It was a diaiecti- cal artifice intended to confound them, and it succeeded, It was a question that did not stop at that day, but is as pertinent now as then and is the living question of to-day. Allattempts to banish it into the region of limbo have been in vain; Caesar, Socrates, Aristotle, the host of emperors and sophists’ have all ‘passed by, but the progress of centuries has not passed by Christ! Pilate never had a harder question to propound than when he asked, “What shall I do then with Jesus which is cailed Christ?’ He could not be set aside or ignored. They thought themselves rid of Him, but the resurrection confounded them, and since then the stream of secular history is often lost in the history of the Christian religion. “He is in all familiar things which we do, or which are done around us. In your letters of ‘to-morrow the very date of ” the year recalls Him; your very speech is fraught With Galilean terms; the numberless words adopted from the ' Gospel ana used in our sayings perpetuate the idea of Christ, the mark of Christian civilization is on us and our fives are regu- lated by tian rules, It is not in human nature to be continually meeting this Jesus of Nazareth and nob havo our interest aroused as to who He is. The ques- ton is one of tremendous importance to all men, He is a living example of fidelity for you. The lesson of His life is your rule of living, and in it He must be supreme in all,” The question as to who Christ is was never more pertinent than now; the acceptance or rejection of Him is the acceptance or rejection of God, and as honest men or truthful souls you cannot shirk the question, but must accept it as a testimony of your love for the Christ. ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH. THE IMMUTARILITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-- SERMON BY REV, DR. CURRAN. The high mass was celebrated yesterday morning at St, Androw’s church by the Rev. Father Dunphy, of Halifax, N. 8., in the presence of an attentive and de- yout congregation, Tho music, Farmer’s mass in B flat, was rendered in a creditable manner by a volun- teer choir, under the direction of the organist, Mrs, Lacy, Atthe conclusion of the first gospel the Rev. Dr. Curran, assistant pastor of St Stephen’s, who was lately ordained at Rome, Italy, delivered his first ser- mon, He selected as his subject the immutability of the Catholic Church, and founded his discourse on the commang and promise given by the Saviour to His aposties when sending them on their mission to teach and baptize all nations (Matthew, xxviii, 18-20), In the course of a sermon of unusual power and cloquence he described the ineffectual attempts of the Arians, Eutychians, Monothelites, Greek schismatics and Lutherans to wreck the bark of Peter, and sai What shall we say of ourselves of this boasted age of enlightenment? We have in our midst political, social and religious heresics, , The law of man’s mind is indeed progress, Progress requires change, and if the change be for the better promotion of morality or the advanco- ment of science or art, the Cnurch gladly imdorses it But, if tie proposed change be a variation of one tota of the doctrines taught by Christ and handed down by His apostles, the answer of the “Spouse of Christ” is written in LETTERS OF BLOOD on the pages of history. The Von Possumus (‘‘we can- not”) issued in the halls of the Vatican by Pius IX. is but a repetition of the answer given by the Sovereign Pontiffs to every mnovator in doctrine and to the im- perial tyrants who abetted them. The Catholic Church can never compromise in the matter of doctrine, This is the genius of our religion. There may be an improvement in discipline; but there can be none in doctrine, The Church to-day ful- fils to the letter the command given in my text. She teaches whatever Christ taught, and she teaches with an absolute security from error. She has the promise of Truth that He will be with her ull the end of time; she is built on the rock against which the powers of hell shall not prevail; she is the “pillar and the ground of truth;” she is the guardian and interpreter of ‘the deposit of faith;” she alone possesses and administers the sacraments instituted by Christ, those chanuels of grace through which the merits of Christ flow to our souls, The Catholic Chureh, then, is our loving mother, and has every title to our respect and affection. Shé longs to gather all the “stray sheep” into her fold; and we should pray God to hasten the day when there will be only “one shepherd and one sheep fold.”” ST. ANN’S (R. C.) CHURCH. SERMON ON CHARITY BY REV, FATHER HAYES. There was quite a large congregation at high mass at this church yesterday. Rev. Father Hayes preached at | the Gospel on the parable, Matthew, twenty-eighth chapter, “The Kingdom of Heaven is hkened to a king who would take anaccount of his servants.” The kindness and forbearance shown by the king towards the servant who owed him ten thousand taleutsand had not wherewith to pay it, had not the effect of instilling like sentiments in that servant’s mind, when he after- tho, Gos. | Wards met one who was indebted to him for a small “So shall my Heavenly father do to you, if you | sum, | forgive not every one his brother from your heart,” | The importance and efficacy of the great Christian } constantly | virtue of charity was | divine Redeemer. We cannot hope to obtain favor in the Church of Christ lays its band on a man and | the sight of heaven if wo withhold forgiveness from | those who have offended us, The preacher dwelt long and eloquently upon the manifold charms of the virtue of charity. adducing examples to show its power and | greatness. He exhorted his hearers to remember al- | ways the command of the Saviour to seek first the king+ | dom of hea and laid down salutary rules for theur He then spoke of the possibilities of the Christian | Suidance. ying that they would | ‘The musical services were unusually interesting yes- | terday, | Louis Dachauer. There are many gems of uuquestion- | able beauty in it, notably, Qui tollis,” in the “Gloria,” a duct for soprand’ and contralto, which was | originally sung by Grisi and Alboni, when | the mass was first = produced in’ Paria Corradi and Gomien sang it yesterday with much feeling and devotional expression. The “Credo” begins with a phrase of plain chant, followed by a bass solo, conceived in a nobie style. “Et incar. natus est” 18 a quartette without accompaniment, all the voices entering on the words, “Et homo factus | est.” The effect is very dramatic. “Agnus Dei” isa | Yery melodious tenor solo which is afterward repeated by all the voices, “Vent Creator,”” for ‘soprano, tenor and bass, by the celebrated French baritone singer, Faure, was sang be- fore the sermon, and a quartet, of remarkable beauty, “Sub tuum presidium,” by Dubois, organist of the | Church ot the Madeleine, Paris, formed the offertory | selection. Rey, Father Lynch was the celebrant at | high masa, CUBA'S CAUSE. SINGING OF THE ‘TR DEUM” OF SANTIAGO YESTERDAY—ANNIVERSARY oF THE DECLARATION OF CUBAN INDEPENDENCE, Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of tho declaration of Cuban independence, and the occasion was celebrated in an appropriate manner by natives of that isle residing in this city, A special service was Twenty-second street, between Fifth and Sixth ave- form sume intelligible concep. | wnusually erring then | those n the subject of Christian anion, Father. Bjurting fe. | Pointed, ‘The chor was composed’ of the following | did and does seek tho | pec coming when the diiferent Christian confessions, | trials, had made arrangements for the carrying out of an brilliant musical programme, and who attended the service for the pur- pose of hearing good music were not disap- artist Mrs. General Ygnacio Agramonto, widow of the patriot of that name who perished early in the struggle, soprano; Miss Louise Kemlo, contralto; Mr. Wilkie, tenor; Mr. Barry, bass, Among the selections rendered were a duo from ‘Stabat Mater,”’ arranged by Sefior Agramonte, and a trio, composed by Sefor Cor- tada for the occasion. Among the very largs congroga- tion present were José Antonio Hechevacria, the Cuban Minister; Miguel Aldama and Setior Artaga, whose in- y pious souls | funt son was baptized in the course of the service, Rev. ‘his reunion, | Joaquin de Palma proached an eloquent sermon in Span- Saviour himself, is sought by Chris: | ish. ber, and by very many indeed in the | people with that of the Hebrows wandering in the desert, look ‘into “the future I see that | and thought that Providence, through their present He compared the present condition of the Cuban was educating them and preparing them for entry into the promised land of freedom. — Moses, ho {s neighbors | said, preached one true God in opposition to the idola- The aid in this Work is tho | tries of the Egyptians, and wante to extablih a repub- subiime vocation of the Oriental Church, Thon will wo | le instead ofa monarchy. God had placed the Cuban also, with ali the powers of our souls, say to the moun- tains, “Be removed!” and the moantains of division will be torn away, and God—who is the God) of eternal Jove—will bless our work. To bring this er, will require humility in ourselyos and lo POL Drive MoUs awa, wasibion, \ inge) under the control of a nation that very nearly a proaches to the Rgyptians in idolatry, and they 6! ould not worship the idols of their tyrants, as the Jews did when they Seomiie the golden calf. The reverend ntleman conciaded by prophesying that at no distant ‘he Vubans would gaier upon their heritage, urged by our | the mass being the work of the organist, M. | ar tae crore | fod, at the Cuban Episcopal Church of St. James, in | nues, Sefor Emilia Agramonte, organist of the church, | 5 ADIRONDACK MURRAY. — A Large Gathering in Music Hall, Boston. A Sermon on Moral and Spir- itual Education. Bosroy, Mass, Oct. 10, 1875. A large congregation gathered in Music Hall this morning to lsten to the pastor of “the Church ef Christian Unity,” who selected his test from IT, Peter, iil., 18:—"But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,” THE SERMON, ‘The Scriptures are almost paternal in the directness” and familiarity with which they address us, They talle tousas afather might to his child, To read them is to receive counsel from God, ‘Their exhortations sound like those of a father’s voice, They express authority, but it is the authority of love and tenderness, and anx- iety in our behalf, Whoever reads the Bible reverently must feel that God is interested in him. The father’s: heart speaks through the father’s words.” In this tone Mr. Murray continued briefly to say en- couraging words to his congregation, and then took up the thread of his discourse, saying:—I propose to speak to you this morning in reference to that moral and spiritual education which is possible to all of us; nay, which is obligatory upon all of us, and which brings to us, a8 it progresses, the delights of knowl- edge and the joys which wait upon the gracious devel. opment of our souls, The germ idea contained in the word education 1s that of leading forth the natural capacity of the mat An educated person 1s a person who has been Jed forth, or brought out or developed from what he was into something larger and fuller and more complete. Moral education is, therefore, the leading forth of the moral capacity of man. When his religious powers are trained in legitimate exercises until they have reached their finest expression of efficiency, when his principles are regulated and adjusted on a fit spiritual basis, when the attitude of his mind is reverential as regards the Deity, and his conduct upright us regards man, then may he be said to be religiously educated, Education ig not something, therefore, as you sec, which comes to a man from the outward; it is not something that is brought to him as aresult, and added to him, making him the larger by this outward addition; but it is something which takes place within him; the work- ing out of a force or an influence, or of many forces or influences, which push him upward and push him out- ward by a genuine law of growth, as natural aud beauti- ful as the growth of atree. The impulse which effects this development is interior, and the history of educa- tion 1s the history of changes from the narrow to the liberal, from the small to the great, which go on, ax the days pass, within the heart and the mind, He then went on to say that there is not a creation o& God, there is not acombination permitted by Him, tle object of which is not man’s education; you are to look upon the whole world in all its growths, in all its ever revolving changes, as ordained for your instruction and assistance, There is notatree, there is nota spire of grass, there is not even a daisy head that you passed this summer in the fields that was not created and put in growth and bloom for you. No man looks at Nature rightly unless be looks at it in all its profusion. in all its sublimity, as having direct aud benevolent relations to his soule The whole earth is our school room, in which we sit as scholars sede the great objective Jessons with which He has covered its floor and adorned its walls, and traced in golden lines upon its vaulted ceiling. Evory natural creation em- bodies some fact or expresses some law; the Divine mind’has carved some idea into every mountain form elevated above tho landscape. Every tree represent some idea, All rivers teach the lesson of benevo- ‘The oceaus stand-for mighty conceptions. The heavens suggest His handiwork. Day unto day attereth speech, and night unto night. showeth wi ‘The ancients grew wise in this schoo! which we moderns dospise. ‘They were rehgioug in their senses. They saw God with their eyes and heard Him with their ears, and hence they were ministered unto in a thousan ways which we, in the arrogance of our bookish knowledge, reject. Without surrendering our methods of religious growth it were well for us to to avail ourselves” more fully than we do of theirs. Tho saying of the Saviour, “Except ye become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of God,” has not only ref- erence to the attitudes of our mind, but to its employ- ments. Wherever you find a law, wherever a chemical combination deftly made, wherever a germ force, thera Say find, and im them, too, His kingdom. For His ingdom is built in the midst of things, aud is founded! on the basts of laws, operant not only in one, but in a thousand directions, and is peopled with facts. Wis- dom as to these is wisdom as to God, and he is wisest as regards the Creator who comprehends most clearly all the use and relation of created things, To under- stand the catechism, and not know anything of the tree that shades your door, or the shrub or the flower in your garden, is to be imperfect as to knowledge. To know theology, to have its detini- tions at the tongue’s ond, and not at the same time to know the law of gravation, out of which come the forces that make universal harmony in the world of matter, is to be only half impressed wiih the majesty of Jehovah, ‘The first thing for a man to learn when he moves into ‘a house is the location and uses of its apartments, so as to be able to set its furniture in order, and thus to make its connection and conveniences helpful to the family life. Now this earth isa house into which we hay moved; its apartments are many, its furniture variou: its connections happy. In all its arrangements, tl wise provision of a Father's thought anda Father's band is perceived. Not to know things, not to feel them, is to lose that One sense of connection with God which every child of His should bear in constant mem ory as he inhabits the mansion prepared for him het Yon are mastering the alphabet of that universal knowledge which comes to no one in any perfect meas~ ure on this earth, but which continues to come in fuller and fuller measures of perfection as the inquiry is pur- sued And this pursuit is interminable; for you must ember that you, like the seeds cast into the groand in spring time, are only planted here—you are not grown, Allof the lives here in this audience, all of the lives being lived in the world, are only so many seeds sown out of God’s hand. We are only rooted here; by and by we shail push’ ourselves upward and | got altitude of growth and become floral before God. & matters little, therefore, how small you be now, if by and by you shall become great. You may be only a bulb, you may be only @ fragment of a root, you may be only a cast-off tendril; but if the bulb bo Vital, if the root have life iu it, if the tendril is not ut- torly withered, it shall grow and sprout and begin to climb, and the numberiess ages to which VOU apg heir | shall furnish you with opdless opportunities of ealarger | ment A chureh that {s not tn its spirit, in the admin- | istration of its ordinances, in the expression of its pul- pit, in the feeling of its membership, sympathetic with all humanity, tolerant toward all opponents in opinion, and pervaded with the sweet sentimentof Christian charity, is sare to prevent the very consummation for the accomplishment of which it is nominally created. You cannot base a church of Christ on anything less wide, loss liberal, less sympathetic than the heart of Christ. You cannot fence in a few utterances and say, Within this enclosure can bo found alliruth. Whoever attempts to fence in truth fences more out than he fences im No segment of the sky will hold all the = stars. You must count all abovo. | the horizon line if you are to tabulate the mighty number, You canuot include the truths of the divine nature and administration in any theological segment. These truths are everywhere, and they are not revealed to any one body of meu. They are not comprehended by any one class of minds; they are not discovered by any ove particular genoration of searchers, Thero is room for new discoveries from | age to age. Original investigation is forever in order, | and each century makes its addition to the bulk of pre- vious accuraulitions, Kducation is tous forever pro- gressive, and the human mind at the dawn of each generation goes ia search-of the undiscovered as birds. go forth from the groves with the coming of every morning to caavass the ficlde fur their ‘and feel in tho movoment of their | flight the joy of a fresh experience, close with this word ofcheer. The theme suggests it, Whatover your state spiritually may be, you neod not remain in it You cau grow out of that’ state into a | better one. You who have tailed can grow out of your | tailure into success. It you are despondent you can grow up into the condition of hopefulness. I! you are gad God will lift you into joy. Ifyou are in the midst of sin you can be redeemed out of that sin and become upright. If you are weak in the structure of your vir- @ you can be braced with the bands of everlasting owor, The heavens aro full of attractions, and by their sweer might you can be lifted until vou stanc higher than the stars. 1 care not what your sins ure, £ caro ot what your follies are, I care nob | what your infirmities are, You may be beyond hope, | as your friends think, as you yourselves ink, but charge you to remember that there is hope for you, for | there is hope forall, There is no cloud of sin vo your soul, darkening the sky over you, casting the gloom of its shade upon you, that God ‘cannot blow away with a single broath of His mercy, Ask that that breath be sent forth, and itshall be sent Ask that thas. cloud be scattered, and betore you have done with the asking, look, and you will see the blue above you, clean | aod without spot. Let the days come to us gioomy and | dark; let the nights come black and tempestuous. We | fear not the one, we dread not the other. For beyond | the darkened day of this mortal and sinful lif, bee | yond the gloom and blackness of the night of | all who grow into the grace and knowledge of the shall come by His mercy, assisted, albert, with it~ ing steps, to the new day, in the puro and abou ne | light ot which they ghail stand rejoicing, and to th land within whose shining boundaries there cometh no night, This is the hope I hold befere you 1m this cloa~ ing moment, Take it with youto your homes; take i with you to your toils; hang it in rooms of yo rief; plant it upon the graves whero dust of | loved ones is laid, and when you lie pi on that which men call the bed of death, but which in fact but the cradie in which men are rocked into a Iife, let this luminous hope be there, banish: ih and paolo indebted,