The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1875, Page 5

i, THE REVIVAL. Fast Day Services in Brook- lyn and New York. GREAT GATHERINGS OP SAINTS AND SINNBRS. The Brooklyn Pastors at Early Prayers in the Tabernacle. MR. BEECHER PRAYS. Notable Increase in the Re- ligious Interest. THE MORNING MEETING AT THE TABERNACLE, Yesterday having been designated as an occasion for fasting and prayer for the outpouring of the Divine Spirit, the special revival meetings at the Brooklyn Tabernacle and the Rink were more than usually thronged, and showed a marked addition of interest, In tho Tabernacle the exercises of the morning opened with a ministers’ prayer meeting in the chapel, attended by a large portion of the Brooklyn pastors of all sects. On its conclusion at eight o'clock the clergymen entered the large auditorium, taking seats at the front, which had been reserved for them, Before their entrance the body of the house and galleries had been closely packed. Every inch of room had its occupant, hundreds being obliged to stand through the exereises, Mr, Sankey before the opening sung hymn 56:— ‘The great Physician now is near, the audience joining in the chorus, Mr, Moody began the service by giving out the hymn “Hold the Fort,’ After this had been sung he directed the doors, to be kept closed for a few moments of silent prayer. A most impressive scene followed. AN heads were bowed; many dropped to their knees in the pews, and the only sound audible was an occasional sob or deep drawn sigh escaping from some of the thousands silently bringing their hearts and their wants to the throne of mercy, When this ad continued for a few minutes Mr, Moody, who was kneeling with Mr. Sankey on the platform, led _ the congregation in vocal prayer, full of fervid emotion, which brought frequent responses of ‘‘Amen!’’ from his hearers. At the close of this invocation he asked the meeting to join in singing hymn 87, begmning: Lord, I hear of showers of blessings. This, he said, with its supplication that some portion of the gracious shower should refresh “even mo,” tallied more perfectly with his feeling this morning than any other of the hymns he knew. The singing being over, he said no requests for | prayers would be read this morning, the meeting being | specially intended for the spiritual benefit of those | present, He then read partof the ninth chapter of Daniel, containing the prophet’s prayer for the repent- ‘ence of the people, This gave him a text for an exhor- tation to earnestness in prayer. He said:—When God comes near us we have little to say. We should go down in the dust before Him and beg for His biessing till He ball answer our Petitions. Daniel held on to God till He gave bim his desire, so should we place ourselves | close to Him and plead till He fills our hearts with His grace, Now let us again engage fora few minutes in silent prayer for God’s spirit, After a short space, in which the whole vast throng seemed silently to ask Reatonly aif, Mr. Sankey asked that the fourth hymn should be sung. In this the whole meeting joined, winging it with great feeling, and giving the impression ef intense sympathy in the sentiment, This was Specially notable in the rendering of the second verse, a8 follows :— I need Thee every hour, Stay Thon near by; ‘Temptations lose their power When Thou art ni Cuonvs—I need Thee, o Every hour © bless ne now, my Saviour, T come to Thee. . _.This stanza was sung with the utmost softness, al- * most whispered, as though every one joiuing in it felt it asa petition to a present Saviour. George A. Bell, | of Plymouth church, led in a short, earnest, prayer that | those present might continue their importaning until | God should give them a gracious answer, A stranger | fm the gallery, with noisy utterance, carried on the | Petition at great length. Mr. Moody, at its close, aid, ‘Now let us again pray silently and try to get ack to ourselves; that’s what we need.’ Mr. Sankey | subsequently led’ the prayers, followed by Rev. W. Steele, of the Fleet street Method- fat Episcopal church, who also made some remarks, in which he said Mr. Moody had struck the key note of the occasion wheu he said it should be de- voted to getting rid of sell, throwing uway all pride and making themselves humble before God. He al- luded to a gractous revival which had followed a day of prayer at Rochester. offered a brief prayer. MR, BEECHER’S PRAYER. Mr. Beecher was sitting near the platform. He rose, and, leaning against it, commenced a prayer in atone | 80 low that its first sentences could only be heard by those near him. His petition was as follows :— Grant us, our heavenly Father, to draw near to Thee, Come to us—we cannot go to Thee; yet not in Thy brightness, for we could not live. We cannot bear to gee our own selves in the light of Thy own countenance, ‘We confess our unworthiness, and we confess that when we look over our souls, over long periods of tim y are as a troubled sea, full of roughness and o| ‘waves. and if it be thag there is not light it is because | the Son of Kighteousness rises over the horizon and shines, The light is in Thee and the trouble is of us. We confess to Thee how little we Joved one another, how angry we have been with ethers, and how little we have loved and how litle odness we have had. We confess to Tae our pride, ow unwilling we have been to be as little children, to confess our sins to one another and to bow down to one another, and how we have fallen into judgment ever one another. We confess a want of meekness, we confess the want of sweetness. We have worldly as other men, pretending to preach Christ, but, ob, what a Christ huve we preached! And if men have seen the angry Christ that we represented, if they have geen the sell-seeking Christ, the unbumbie Christ, the *Christ without burdens and refusing them, the Christ without across and without tears and without blood, and if we have gone about depending on our own wis. | dom and excellence of speech, preaching the outward Christ and have borne none of the spirit within us but the spirit of the world. Oh, Lord Jesus, how we have slandered Thee! Our souls are heavy that there is so little of Thee in them. That we are so in fact and in preaching is because we know Thee so little and have entered so little into the very temple of Thine heart, and now we pray Thee Thou wilt draw near to us, for we cannot think of Thee in judgment robes, Thou Bulferer for others, Thou whose nature it to heal, oh, bring Thy nature home to each one of us, for we need Thee deeply, need Thee im our | outward ministrations, need Thee in the household, need Thoe in the transaction of our daily duties, need | Thee for waiting, need Thee for going forward, need ‘Thee in the watches of the night, in hours of prayer, Rey. Dr. King, of New York, one ubout as NEW YORK AHRALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, tie throng surged in, filling ‘seats and aisles, until at lust they were locked im the face of # crowd large enough to fill another building of equal capacity. The doors of the Simpson Methodist Eptscopal church and the Dutch Reformed church adjacent were jang open and in a few minutes both were crowded, ‘There was yet a great concourse of people in the street andthe pumber was constantly augmented by fresh arrivals, and the mass thus collected surged to ana fro in the broad moonlit avenue from church to church, vainly seeking admittance, Many of those present bad come {rom the upper patt of New York and some from Jersey City, aud their disappointment was very keen. Others again among the young people took the matter philosophically, and many disappointed couples wan- dered off arm ih arm to seck eonsolation in a quiet moonlight saunter, A ZEALOUS LAYMAN, who was accompanied by his wife and daughter, finding himself shut out from the Rink, opened his hymn book, and, standing on the sidewalk, lifted his voice in song. ' He was immediately surrounded by bun- dreds of people, many of whom joined tn the chorus. When the hymn had been sung the or- panzer of this extemporancous mecting began to de- liver a somewhat unpolished but very earnest address to the assemblage. He was interrypted by a policeman, who said he could not permit the sidewalk to be obstructed, and ordered the self-constituted preacher to move on, Nothing daunted by this unex- pected episode the evangelist took up a position in the middle of the strect, and exhorted the crowd until the people began to come from the churches, when he de- parted, accompanied by bis family. ‘The meeting in the Simpson church was presided over by Brother Needham and that in the Reformed church by Mr. George A. Bell and others, WITHIN THE RINK Mr. Moody alone appealed to the people. After the usual prayer and opening hymn the master spirit of the revival opened his Bible, and after reading the fortieth Psalm, wherein David describes how he was lifted up by God'out of a pit of clay and his feet set upon a rock, he said:—*"You will observe there {s a pit and arock and a song and a salvation; but bear in wind the Lord did it all, and the sinner had only to receive help from the one that was mighty to save. He had only to cry from the depths of the pit and the Lord lifted him out.’* The preacher then read from the sixteenth chapter of Acts, and called upon Mr Sankey to sing Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. When the hymn had been sung’Mr, Moody an- nounced as his text the woras—“What must I do to be saved?” He said: want to ask all the Christians here to-night to be praying ali through the meeting that the Lord may help me to answer that question; and then every one here who 1s not saved may be taught by the Spirit the way of life, Iwas ina meeting not long ago when a man told me that he was forty years learning three things—the first was that he could not do any- thing toward his own salvation; the second was that Christ could do ‘it, and the third was that Christ had done it all long ago. No man will ever be saved until he stops trying to save himself. If the way to be saved is to believe in the Lord Je’us Christ it certainly is not any work of the body that we can do; itis an act of the mind—it 1s receiving the of God—it is laying hold of Christ—it is laying hold of _—_ ternal life, The moment we lay hold of Christ's mighty arm and trust in Him He will save us, If He don’t save you, there is no hope for you in Christendom. No Popo, no bishops, priests or ministers can save a soul, We must look right up to Christ, and it is ptterly im- possible for « man or woman to be lost who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ, Some one asked A CONVERTED INDIAN how the Lord saved him, He could not answer in words, but he built a fire of dried leaves in a circle and within it he placed a worm. ‘The creature tried to escape, but when it found itself enciscled, without hope of escape, it eurled itself. up to die. ‘Then the Indian rf. his hand In over the fire and lifted it safely out, ind turning to his interro- gator explaincd that it was in the same man- ner that Christ had saved him. 1 never knew any one that was saved until he had given up ail efforts to save himself, because it’ the Lord is going to do it He ix not going to be in partnership with a sinner, Aman cannot work out his own salvation. That is | the gilt’ of God. “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life” If it is a gift we cunuot get it by work. When I was preaching in Newcastle a lady game down from the gallery of the church and said to mo, “Well, Mr. Moody, you bave taken the last prop away from my soul.”?, “Well,” [ said, “thank God for that” ‘Thank God for that,” she said} “why, L have been trying for years to save my soul, and I hoped to accomplish it soon.’”? ‘Weli,’’ said [, “Just drop working and trustin God.” She came back the next day and told me she bad found the Saviour.” Mr. Moody here related the story of aman who de- Scended into a dry well by means of a rope, but when he | got to the end of the rope he found that it was not long enongh—he had not reached the bottom of the well. He hesitated loug but finally closed his eyes and drop- ped. How far? Three inches, Sinner, you are in the position of that man to-night. Let go the rope, let go of your soul to-night, and just drop into the arms of Jesus and He will savé you.” If yon want to be saved stop working and just go to Him to-night and tell Him your story. He will take you to His loving bosom, close His arms about you; you will be saved and your name be written in the book of life. TRE INQUIRY MEETING . was held in the chapel of the Simpson church after Messrs. Moody and Sankey left the Rink. Thoy re- mained anti it was timo to proceed to the meeting at the Tabernacle. Hundreds of inquirer were present, and the revivalists were ably assisted in working among them by the local ministers and sev- eral laymen. The Reformed church was tilled until a jate hour, and the greater part of the congregation was composed of young men evar Fred, Beil preached in the Rink until after nine o’clock, THE CLERKS’ MEETING. At the late services in the Tabernacle last night, es- pecially intended for young men, the building was com- | pletely filled with an audience of all ages, from boys of very tender years to old men with gray haira, Before the regular meeting commenced Mr, Sankey conducted a service of song, but had frequently to complain of his audience not joining in the singing with energy and enthusiasm. When Mr. Moody entered he read the hymn, “Free from the law; oh, happy condition,” which was sung by Mr. Sankey, the con- gregation joining in the chorus. After prayer | Mr. Sankey, by special request, sang “The “Ninety and Nine.’ Before he commenced the doors | were closed, and Mr, Sankey’s impassioned rendering of the hymn was listened to in breathless silence, Mr, Moody then read some verses from the fortieth psalm, making a running comment as he proceeded. Tho text was the words of the Philippine jailor to Paul and Silas, “What mast I do to be saved?” and | their answer ‘Beli on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt bo saved.” The sermon was exact the same | as that preached an hour previously at the Rink, and | will be found reported above, On the previous | ning Mr. Moody had preached ‘Hell | nd’ all its terrors; last night bis subject was | “Deliverance from the pit of woe throngh faith in | Christ,” The visible impression produced on the audi- ence on the latter occasion was not nearly so great as on the former, but largo numbers remained | for the inquiry meeting. When the sermon was concluded, Mr. Moody requested all the Christians present to rise and sing the bymn, “Just as lam without one plea,” when nearly every one present stood up. He then requested those who were not converted to take their seats, and about one- third of the audience sat down. The Christians were then invited to speak with the unconverted and Mr. Moody himself hastily left the platform, and | was seen to engage in earnest conversation with aman | seated near the form. The meeting was thus turned fnto an inquiry meeting, in which the large numbers who remained congregated im groups arouud a few very active workers, THE LOGAL FAST. | seven o'clock prayer meeting in the Tabernacle Lay | Messrs’ Beecher, Lawson, Reed, Parke He set us the example of fasting and prayer on very | churches of Jersey City yesterday was most edify, many important occasions, And acting on His advice and example the Christian Church, Catho!ic and Protes- tant, has always provided times and seasons especially devoted to such observances, Yesterday was one of those occasions, which, as if by a common inspiration, the different denominations here and elsewhere had set apart for prayer and fasting. A very small proportion, doubtlesa, of those who attended the religious services in the churches yester- day afternoon and eyening refrained from taking food. ‘The climate and the occupations andthe hurried life of our people here are against fasting, and in the peniten- tial season of Lent, for instance, the usual fasts are not rigorously enforced. But the devotional part of the observance was pretty generally conformed to, The Methodists had.provided for an afternoon and evening service in all their churches, but the afternoon services were not very largely attended in any mstance, becanse the employments of the people who belong chiefly to the mechanic aud laboring classes do not permit them | to give up an afternoon to such services, The evening services were, however, better attended, and a deeply religious anxiety seemed to rest upon several of the congregations, Our reports from some of the churches indicate that the people are expecting a great religious awakening in this city ere the winter closes, ‘This was especially noticeable in the remarke made by Rev, Mr. Thomas, pastor of Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church, who reminded the faithful few of his flock who gathered together for prayer that God had been bounti- fully pouringout His blessings upon many ungrateful hearts, but that now they should bow their hearts and wills before God and feel encouraged by the indications all around to go forth and LABOR MORE EARNESTLY AND SUCCRSSPULLY than ever for the salvation of sinners, And as a further meentive to action Mr. Thomas urged the brevity of the season allotted for work for God and the necessity for more complete consecration to that work, Their apeciet work at this time is not to build up Christian character but to proclaim a free and full pardon for penitent sinners, And in this spirit some persons present asked prayers for themselves and for relatives and friends, In St. Paul’s Methodist. Episcopal church Dr, Hoidich di- rected the exercises, which consisted of prayers, experiences, exhortations and songs of joy or peni- tofice; but all indicating a glowing faith in the coming revival, which thoy professed to fee! then and there in their own hearts. In the Twenty-seventh street Meth- odist Episcopal church the Rey. W. W. Clarke, who ig instrumentally doing a great work there, delivered a brief address, which was backed up by another by Dr. Fason, of Canada, The prayers were earnest and fer- vent, and a deep solemnity pervaded the audience, many of whom were in tears, Mrs, Macauley, of the Water street mission, was present and moved many hearts by her prayers, In the Seventh street Meth- odist Episcopal church the prayers and addresses and experiences were directed toward the longing de- sire for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon this greatand wicked city, and also upon the country at large. In the Second street English speaking church Dr. Benjamin M. Adams, of Brooklyn, preached in the afternoon, and Mr, McAlister directed the devotions in the evening. In the Second street German chureh, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Yost, ted the exercises, and made Some remarks upon the necessity for and expectation of a revival. ON THR WEST SIDE of the city the day was observed by the Germans in Fortieth street church with religious exercises in the evening. Rey. Mr. Grimm presided and ted the devo- tions, In Fifty-third street church the day was ob- served with religious exercises. There was not much abstention from food, save that here and there one denied himself or herself a dinner. In the Bedford street church the largest congregation of any as- sembled in the afternoon and listened to an earnest address by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Gregory, touching the progress of the revival in Brooklyn under the labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, and the hopefulness with which be looked for their coming here in the beginning of 1876. The necessity for a great re- ligious awakening, he declared, was never more pain- fully manifest than at present, when vice flaunts ite tinsel in the light of day and the influence and power of evil are everywhere manifest. He deemed this a good time for all Christians to open their hearts to the Influx of the Divine Spirit, that they might be able to resist the tendency to backsliding and worldliness, He urged prayer and self-denial and fasting as prepara- tions for the work before them, THR UNION PRAYER MEETING. ‘The committee of ministers and laymen appointed some time ago to make suitable preparations for the coming of Messrs. Moody and Sankey to this city pro- vided in their programme for a union prayer meeting of the clergy and congregations of different | denominations, which was held in Association Halt yesterday afternoon. It was presided over by Chancellor Crosby, and was very largely attended, the congrega- tion nearly filling the hall. On the platform were Drs, Armitage, Hepworth, Anderson, Rodgers, and other eminent city pastors, and Mr. W. E. Dodge. president of the association, and other laymen, The hymn, Nearer, my God, to Thee, which was sung with grand effect, prepared the aud- jence for the earnest and fervent invocation of Dr. Anderson which followed. He prayed:—‘‘0, God, our Father! We can address Thee through Jesus Christ Thy Son and our Saviour! We implore Thee this moment to give to us the preparation of heart which shall enable us to come into Thy presence with entire unity of aim, and with perfect faith in Jesus. With a very earnest desire we come before Thee that sin sball be expelled from our hearts, and that our souls should be perfected with the love of Christ; that love which seeks not its own, but the good of mankind. We pray for a special blessing on the labors of Thy servants in be able to labor in the same field and with the same energy to bring sinners to the crosa.”? Another hymn was sung :— Ineed Thee ev'ry hour, Most gracious Lord; No tender voice like Thine Cun peace afford. Rey. Dr. Rogers followed in a few remarks, after which Mr. William E. Dodge said he rejoiced to see THE REVIVAL SPIRIT ONCR MORK ABROAD. He remembered once a prayer meeting held at six o'clock in the morning in the dead of winter with just such a crowd as this im attendance; but this was over fiflecn years ago. Since then we have had no revivals, The war and the anxieties of the war and the troubles that have followed since have left thousands of youug people who are ignorant of ‘A GENERAL REVIVAL} but he now heard the winds in the tops of the mulberry trees, and he believed such thoughts were stirring in the hearts of men that we shall soon see an ‘old fash- revival.’? Dr. 8. H. Tyng, from the audience, then led in prayer, and was foliowed by the Bishop’ of the Moravian Church, Rev. Dr. Hepworth then addressed some earnest far distant when we shall have prayer meetings at six o'clock in the morning. So far, however, he believed one thing was lacking—we need more constam: and moro | earnest prayer. It seemed to him to be the,only one sonal efforts. Those in the Church should work and concentrate their efforts. ‘A spbcial mecting of prayor was then take place in the same hall on Sunday eve past seven o'clock, for young men exclusively, and after the benediction by the Rey. Dr, Armitage the audience departed. PAST DAY IN BROOKLYN, The day opened auspiciously in Brooklyn with a College, in which about 100 ministers participated. Among’ them were Drs, Cuyler, Talmage, Budingto Fulton, Thomas, Hodge, Rambaut and ‘Sarles, an Bell, Wyatt, Steele, Martin, Dixon, Hughes, Everest ‘and others. Fifteen or twenty ministers .led in au- divle prayer. Mr. Moody also oifered a prayer that | the hearts of the ministers might be broken, emptied of self and filled with the Holy Spirit. He was greatly moved while praying, and the effect was noticeable on many of the ministers. A colored brother said he had been laboring for twelve years in Brooklyn and sought earnestly, but failed to get the broken heart that he HOW IT WAS OBSERVED IN NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN—UNION PRAYER MEETING. in joy, in sorrow, wherever we be that we can pray with Thee, Thou’ light of our souls and joy of our, souls, Whem have we in Heavén but Thee’ There is | Bo one on earth to be desired beside Thee, Thou chief among ten thousand, and the one altogether lovely. Now, while we do in debasement and humility bend down before Thee, we will hot shame Thee, by acting as | if Thou didst love to have us always thus prone on the earth before Thee, for with inimitable tenderness Thou 80 dost look upon us as we do upon our little children, that have done wrong, and are weeping at our feot, ‘Thou dost lift us up, and with thine arms about us we fare made to feel the love of God in Christ Jesus—the height, the length, tho breadth and deepness of the wonderful sweetness of this luve, that we cannot unde: stand, but we rejoice in it, and now and here witne: the love of Jesus Christ to us miserable sin Joris Thy name by us or without us; glorify Thy Son, Bewner | by setting us aside, or by filling us with Thyself. ven | a8 the lantern shines in a dark night, not of itself but what is within it, go let us shine by the Christ within ‘as, Haston the day that shall finish our life work and bring us all home, Amen! ‘A tone of deepest feeling characterized this supplica- Mion, which, after the opening sentences, was distinctiy though not loudly uttered, and the whole audience feemed to join im its petitions. It was followed by Singing the hymn, Thear the voice of Jesas saying, | atthe conclusion of which Rev. Justin D. Fulton, of the Hanson place Baptist church, rose and prayed, | while the tears streamed down his cheeks and bis voice joked with overmastering emotion. The ‘‘Dox- was then sung, and the meeting closed with the benediction by Rev, Dr. Bu ington. Following it was a well filled woman’s mecting, which lasted till ten o’clock. MR. MOODY'S BIfI At four P, M. the Tabern: + most attentive congrogation, almost every one bringing ® copy of the Bible and many being provided with pen cilsand paper to take notes of Mr. Moody's remarks during the reading. These comments were in his usual quick way and of a most practical character, show! him to have been a close and loving student of oly book. EVENING MERTING AT THE RINK. ‘The multitude that gathered to participate in the Meeting at the Rink in the evening was by far the largest that has been attracted at any time since the edvent of the revivalists in the City of Churches, not | ‘ven excepting the mighty concourse that greeted them on the first Sunday. Before six o'clock the quiot streets in the vicinity began to fill with mo | }EA DING. was again filled by a (ma pedestrians, Tho moment the doors ware ananed. From time almost immemorial fasting has been recognized as a factor in the promotion of national or municipal piety. But those who fast most and longest aro not necessarily the most pious, Compulsory fast | ing has rarely, if ever, tended toward devotion of spirit, and deep poverty and deep piety are seldom found harnegsed together in the Church or out of it, Men do not voluntarily go into the sackloth and ash business, nor remain longin itif they can get out again. We have some notable ex. | amples of cities and nations of old proclaiming fast days and observing the fast sacredly, and theroby averting a threatened danger or calling down « prom- wed blessing. The case of Nineveh will come up to | | every intelligent reader’s mind at once, This was a | peculiar case and illustrates how a bigoted churchman | of that age became a backslider anda renegade be. | cause he refused to preach salvation full and free to that wicked city upom the only condition of repentance and turning away | forsin. The Ninevites were not Jews, and in Jonal’y | opinion were not worth saving. There are plenty of Christian ministers to-day very much ike the old Jewlsh prophet in their opinion of she value of certain classes and communities in our large cities, They would deliver them over to Satan for the destruction of the | flesh—as Paul did some opposors of religion In his day— if they could, taking the chances of saving the spirit, and not much concerned whether it is saved or lost There are frequent instances recorded of the lsraelites, in times of great peril or suffering or threatened dis- aster, POTTING ON THE SACKCLOT AND ASHES ind praying and weeping before Gud. A few years ago | England went into the fasting and praying attitude for the recovery of her royal heir apparent, who was sup posed to be dying. And America, during the war of the rebellion, engaged in this business more than once | and with very decided results. Indeed, neurly every civilized country in the world to-day recognizes fasting and prayer a8 an element of power in averting danger or in calling down blessings upon the city or the nation. The Saviour of the world Himself teaches that “this kind eamneth not forth but by prayer and fagting,”” and hence | when 5,000 souls were brought to Christ in a’ single needed, ‘He asked his brethren to pray for him, which they did. The Rev. Mr. Martin, of the Young Men’s Christian Association, said that the revival reminded him of ssight he had seen in San Francisco im 1868, | day. He was at that time pastor of a church in Virginia City, where, he said, men who had never yielded to sacred Influence before asked Christian men to pray for them and where saloon keepers destroyed their liquor an rustied into the streets crying and begging Christians to pray for them, He sald it was just such a bright, clear day as this, and that it marked the beginning of | ‘a deep fecting such ashe prayed might begin in this | city to-day. At the conclusion of the services an affect ing incident occurred, Dr. Cuyler arose, and going over to Mr. Beecher grasped lis hard and shook it | warmly. The Rev, Mr. Lawson, of the Greenwood Baptist church, also rushed to the pastor of Plymouth, and Mr,. Beecher was immediately surrounded by ministers and compelled to go through a vigorous hand- shaking, OTHER PRAYER MERTINGS, Prayer meetings were held at Hanson place Baptist, Central Congregational and Second , Presbyterian | churches at @ later hour. At haif-past ten A. M. a uniun meeting of Presbyterians, Methodists, Reformed Duteh and Refofmed Episcopalians was held in Simp- son Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. A. R. Thomp Reva. ‘id, Adam McClelland and Westey R. Davis took part in the exercises, ia which prayer, Singing and short addresses on revival work and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit occupied the time of the meeting. In the afternoon and ¢ ig meetings were | held in the Young Men's Christain Association a, in the Tabernacle and in several of the local churches, ‘The revival has given such an impetus to the churches near the Rink that some of them are looking for large accessions, and one of them, tho Primitive Methodist church, in Park place, of which Fred Bell is pas tor, can’t accommodate halt of those who seek admis- sion, His church building 18 not yet two years old, and already the people talk of enlarging it. ft. Bell is asmall edition of Messrs, Moody and Sankey combined. | That is, he preaches very much like Moody | | and sings a little like Mr, Sankey. To relieve the | pressure on his church @ little he has ed the Academy of Music for Sabbath morning and evening services daring the winter, beginning to-morrow week, Zist inst. The greater the activity, the more the genu- ineness of the religious sentiment in the 260 churches of Brooklyn, the bertet will be the home government, for Christians will vote as well as pray; and, say what we may of the sacrifices enforced by Christian duty, they are nothing to the sacrifices of the drunkards and debauchees’ martyrdom, and the privations of him whose meanest of all paymasters Is Satan, FASTING IN JERSEY. a neighboring city. We see more than human effort in | their work—we see the special grace of God, Let us | ing. Hundreds of business men, with their families, wended their way to their re spective churches, where prayers were offered for the continuation of the revival so happily commenced, Prayers were offered especially in some churches for the Commissioners and employés of the city govern. ment. A revival is to be opened during the first week of December for the members of the Legis lature, Board of Aldermen, Board of Public Works and the Police and Fire Com- missioners. Chief Engincer Farrier, of the Fire Department, has acceded to the request of the Fire Commissioners, and will detail several men trom each company to attend church in turn, The Police Commissioners found it unnecessary to issue any instructions to their men, who, asa rule, attend church regularly. The greatest anxiety is manifested for a Moody and Sankey revival. PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. OUR TOO GREAT SELF-ESTEEM—MR. BEECHER EXHORTS TO HUMILITY, Plymouth lecture room was unusually crowded last night. Though during the week many Plymouth church members have been seen at the meetings of Messrs. Moody and Sankey at the Rink, Friday evening brought them all back within their own fold. Mr. Beecher came in at half-past seven, accompanied by Mrs. Beecher and Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mr. Beecher opened the meeting himself by a long, earnest prayer. Two other prayers followed, with hymns between, Mr, Beecher’s manner was solemn and impressive, and he delivered his address in an un- usuatly low tone of voice, which he never raised once, He began by reading, ‘Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked; I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,” &c. That describes exactly the average experience of Christians not living in the light. It de- scribes a condition of contentment without any reason for it. It describes an assumption of character which is far from being real, which is continually leading us astray, Weare under the dominion of the world and our senses, and we aro measuring ourselves by their low standard, by our power and influence among men, by our standard in society, by our walking in tae con- ventionalities and refinements of society, A thousand things make us teel rich, So when God looks down and sees that FEELING OF CONTENTMENT He feels just asa mother, seoing hér babe's clothes, thinks of the vabe inside the clothes; so God thinks of the spiritual man—of the condition of the soul in looking at that squalid, often red and blear-eyed, sick one, Miserable is the man who sits down insido of his good reputation. When you think of it, how much all our moral elements are like the spark from tho flint, How seldom wo find persons who wear meekness like a garment, full of sweetness and gentleness, whoso pride is influ- enced by love? How seldom do we see a beautitul char- acter? We are all of us Christians—most all of us; yet when you come to look at the quality of soul it is such as described by the Saviour. We think we are rich; yet, if measured by quality, we are poor indeed; WB ARE ABSOLUTRLY MRAN. And oh! if we look from the standpoint of God the sense of our inferiority and sinfulness great that we cannot stand up under it, It is said fo man can see God and live.” One reason, I think, is that when we see him we are overpowered with the weight of our own inferiority. Out of absolute subjection of thought and soul springs the right kind of life, We are hoping to participate in the blessing which seems to be moving through the city. We have strong hopes that this spring of the Lord which has set in will be followed by a blessed summer. You will say the first thing, ‘Let ocr loins be girded up; let us go out and bring some one in.” I don’t say not; but the place to begin is with our ownselves. We ought to have such a sense of our inferiority as will make us humble. If you cannot feel that you are blind and sick, if you don’t feel HUMBLED TO THE DUST, and wonder God 1s not ashamed of you, if you cannot feel the sense of moral inferiority, then those qualities which God most blesses in works of revival are want- ingin you. The first thing isa man’s own soul. It is adreadfal thing to have a soul without God, without any germs that point to a higher lite. The gate of heaven is found by going down in self-esteem before God. God has told us to come to, Him that we might become comely, Let us read a fow words “If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your father which is in heaven know bow to give good gifts unto his chil- dren.” A dear sister called on me to give an account of a distant parish. She told of one family where the husband and father had been intemperate, and the wife, for shame, had hid her trouble and the children actuaily Starving, and one morning they asked, fo all fathers make their chiltren starve?” Iv Ma, was their experience, It touched the mother’s heart j and she went out to beg something for | them. Now is there anything you could con- | ceive of which would tempt you to shut | the door in her face? Your heart Mcrae fall of pity. | Jesus is better than you; how every feeling in Him is stirred when you cry for bread, He comes with im- | measurable bounty to give you gentleness, and sweet- | ness, and charity and long suffering. You fancy you are a great deal better than others, and you live in the fancied sense of your goodness, CITY EVANGELIZATION. In response to a call issued by the New York Church Extension and Missionary Society the pastors and representative members of the Methodist Episcopal churches of this city convened last night in the Centra; Methodist Episcopal church in Seventh avenue, After a prayer by Bishop Foster, J. B. Cornell, the President | Of the society, stated the objects of the meeting, and urged the necessity of earnest co-operation to promote the work of evangelization in this city. Bishop Janes next addressed the meeting, and laid special stress on the need there is of furthering missionary undertak- ings, as they are almost the only medium by which the poor can be reached He praised the society's labors in the past and encouraged them to renewed efforts in the future, Dr, Chapman, of St. Paul's, folk jowed with a stirrimg appeal to the’ sym- to the assemblage. He thought the time was not | | provand con,, $500 was taken athy of nis hearers, and alluded to the revival Messra, oody and Sankey have inaugurated as a specific for the Social maladies of the day. The treasurer, Mr. Colgate, gave a synopsis of the society’s work, and announced a general meeting of the Methodists of this cityon the 23d inst., at St, Paul’s church, to devise means of meet- i ° | ing the needs of the organization, The Convention Fe rd ee end: bosides, make pet- | then adjourned for refreshments, and aftor its return to the church speeches were made by Dr. Harrower, Dr, | Dashiell, Oliver Hoyt and others. UNIVERSALIST REVIVALS, During the past week revival meetings have been held in the Harlem Universalist church, 127th street, under the direction of its minister, the Rev. J, EK. Seitz, and have been very well attended. Last night they were brought to a close in this cburch with a sermon by the Rev, G P. McCarthy, of Bleecker street, METHODIST MISSIONS. THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS AND APPROPRI- ATIONS—REQUEST TO THE GENERAL CONFER- ENCE TO MEET IN BALTIMORE IN 1876, The Missionary Committee met again yesterday and continued its appropriations to domestic missions, The Southern Illinois Conference received $600, Southern Kansas, $4,000; Tennessee, $7,000; Texas, $5,500; Troy, $1,600; Upper Towa, $1,000; Vermont, $1,400. All these represent reductions ranging from $100 to $1,000, The committee hada resolution before it at adjourn- ment on Thursday evening, offered by Dr. Curry, and | recommending a change in the seat of the General Con- ference from St. Louis to Baltimore, The resolution, after due consideration, was adopted. The conferences, having been interrupted by the resolution business, were resumed, and Virginia received $7,500, instead of $9,000 given last year, Washington, which is « colored Conference, and is doing & good work among the colored people in the District of Columbia and adjoining territory, re" ceived the same as it had last year, $3,600, Western New York got $700, West Texas, after some discussion, in which Bishop Harris and others took part, and which brought out the fact that white ministers in any way connected with colored churches or people in that part of the country are tabooed and insulted by the Chureh South, and it is absolutely necessary to pro- tect and stain our white ministers, the same as it had last year, $6,000, West Virginia received $4,500, West Wisconsin $2,800, Wilmington Conference received the same as last » $3,000, Wisconsin got $2,500 and Wyoming $700. A few conferences, passed over because of the sickness of their representatives, were then taken up, and Detroit oo tenet being $250 less than last year; Ilinvi nas got $5,500, which was $500 loss than last pee’ Missouri received $3,500, alike reduction. 8t juis, in view of the el scourge and failure of crops and general financial depression, got $5,000, leh was $250 ong. than the appropriation for 1875. The vote by which Southern California received $3,000 was reconsidered, and, after a deal of discussion The committee wok & recess, THR APTERNOON SRESION was presided over by Bishop Harris, and on the recon- sideration of fornia Conference $500 was taken off. A reconsidera' of the vote by which Alabama ro- ceived $7,500 brought out the fact that Dr. Lakin is the only Northern man laboring in that Conference, and the white ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church ist that State have no influence whatever over the white people of the South, and their congregations consist sometimes of less than half a dozen. A four day’ ‘The observance of the fast, humiliation and prayer in the Presbyterian, Methpdiah Rafarmed and Episcopal | werg sho only persons present, meeting in Montgomery was cited, in which for threo days the presiding elder and the fog! in charge jishop Mayon re received | [ ss Maritine population of this city, received at whites they could gather were nos It was agreed, therefore, w give ,000 instead of $7,500. notice that at the proper time he reconsideration of the appropriations to all the conferences comprised be: the Potomac and Ohio and Mississipp! and the lakes and the Atlantio, except Wilmington and Baltimore conter- ences, and that they be reduced fifty per cent, What ‘money is given to them the Doctor considered as worse thar thrown away, The consideration of the domestic missions pmong foreign populations gave the Welsh mission in North- ern New York $150, the Swedish in California $500, the Swodish in Central Illinois $4,000, the Danish in Des | Moines $200, the swedish in Erie $200—all these sums deing the same as last year. The Norwegian mission in Minnesota received $2,000, the Swedish in the same | State > fot, $2,000, the Swedish in Newark Conference, located chiefly at Dover, N. J., received $400; th Swedish in New England ‘got $500 and the Swedish in New York, which comprises the Bethel ship and the $1,800, a reduction of $200. The Norwegian mi in the New York Eust Conference, located (a noe r received $1,500—an. increase of $300. The Swedish mission in ‘the same conference and city, which is nearly self-supporting, got $600, The Swedish mission in the St. Louis Conference asked (or no:hiug, and re- ceived that. The Norwegian work in Wisconsin got $2,000, @ slight reduction from last year. On repre- sentations by Bishop Harris $300 was appropriated to the Swedish church in Austin, West Texas Conference, to be used at the discretion of the Bishop residing there. The German missions being called, California German work received $1,800, a reduction of $75 only; the Central German Conference $5,250 and the Chicagd German $3,000, the same as these conferences had last ear, though they both asked for mote. They would ave been cut down as well as the other conferences but for the energy of Mr, Rothweiler in pressing their claims, But be had A HARD FIGHT over the East German Conference. This Conferenca takes in all the German communities and churches east of the Alleghanies, and running as far south as South Carolina and north as far as Bangor, Me, Several members of the committee took the ground that there are very few Germans in this region who do not understand English as weil.as they do Ger- man, and there ts no real need of a distinct German ministry or conference, The General Conference will probably be asked next year to wipe out this East Ger- man Conference. It received $6,500 instead of $7,000, as it had last year, The Louisiana German Conference got $2,000, $500 less; the Northwest German, $4,500; Southern German, $10,000, This Conference takes in the city of Indianola, Texas, which was lately devas- tated by flood. ‘the German Methodist Episcopal church and parsonage were swept away, and the mis- sionary and his wile were also lost, Bishop Harris represented that the Church had sent to this Confer- ence the best German preacher in the country except Brother Rothweiler—Brother Schlimbigh—and it is absolutely necessary, in Bishop Harris’ and Bishop Ames’ opinion, to sustam him there. The Southwest German received $7,000. Both these sums are the saine as last year. Adjourned until this morning, CHURCH CONGRESS. YESTERDAY'S SESSION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONGRESS—SCIENCE AND RELIGION AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DISCUSSED, Pamapevraia, Nov. 12, 1875. The fourth day’s session of the Protestant Episcopal Church Congress was held thts morning in the usual place, Right Rev. Bishop Stevens presiding. The ser- vices were opened with religious exercises, The sub- | Ject forthe morning discussion was “Mutual Limita- tions of Religious and Scientific Inquiry.” Thoro was quite a large audience present, this being the last day. The first speaker was Rev. Wilham R, Huntington, D. D. He began his subject by drawing a distinction between scientific inquiry and the sciences, Theology ig a knowlo:ige of the things of God, and yet theology was not a science. For theologians theology is the science of sciences, The cause of the heat between the theological and anti-theological student Is that both are trying to prove they are trespassing, when the ground upon which they stand is common ground, Geometry has no quarrel with religion or theology, but geology has been at war with Gencsis ever since the science became a general study. After enlarging ‘upon this subject he concludes:—‘‘When we verify the branches of human knowledge among the sciences then ‘we see the need of some point or apex to the pyramid, and theology supplies that point, The path of science is strewn with broken sciences, but no broken theology lies along the path of the Church, There ts no new re- { ligion to take the place of the old.” The conclusion, a | vivid description of a silent house in consequence of the | death of its master, was especially grand, and was loudly applauded, Bishop Thomas M, Clark, of Rhode Island, followed. | He said:—When men devote theinselves exclusively to | many THE UNION CLUB FIRE, | PERILS FROM A TOP STORY XITCHEN—LUCKY ESCAPE OF 4 FINB BUILDING, Yesterday morning about eight o’clock a Gre was discovered between the floor of the kitchen and thé ceiling ofthe grand dining room ofthe Union Club House, corner Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street, It was extinguished in a few hours, with a loss occasioned by damage to the building of about $18,000 and to the carpets aud furniture of about $4,500, The first noticé taken of it was by the steward, who perceived one of the metal ventilators in the cornice to be red hot and the interior woodwork in flames, By an error in send» ing an alarm to the Fire Department { was some twenty minutes before the engines were on the ground, When they did arrive the fire had seized on the wooden beams beneath the brick and iron ceil- ing, aud was burning vigorously. To get properly at the seat of the fire it became necessary to cut away one of the three panels of the ceiling of the grand dining room, The frescoing of this ceiling cost the large sum of $9,000, Three of the beautiful wall panels, done in delicate tinted tracery, embossed 0} gold ground, Were so scratched and soiled as to make it {mpossible to restore tham, and they must be entirely replaced. The grand dining room is a noble chamber, fit for & prince. Yesterday, despite the fuin and desolation wrought by the fire, it still preserved suilictent of its olden appears ance to impress the visitors with admiration of itd beauty and proportions, THE DANGER OF HEATED BRICKS, ‘The fire, according to Engineer MeManus, originated from the bricks in the kitchen, on which the live coals are hauled out of the furnace, becoming overheated, In this condition they communicated the heat to the iron girders beneath the floor of the kitchen and cone stituting part of the ceiling of the grand dining room, Under the girders were wooden rafters, to which were nailed the laths that supported the ornamental ceiling, ‘The wood being excessively dry and the irén almost red hot the consequences may be easily inferred, Is t supposed the fire was smoulder- ing for some time before it was discovered, and that when the ceiling was pierced and the air admitted it burst into flames. Not long ago the club house was re« modelled and the kitchens placed tn the upper story in the northwest end of the building. On the same floor with the kitchen is the meat room, the servants’ hall, oyster store, ventilator, servants’ toilet room, book« keeper’s room, superintendent's room, officers’ mess room, chief engineer’s room, store and Linen room, scullery and two bedrooms. [t is thought that if the fire had broken out in the early morning, at one or two o'clock, more serious consequences might have bap- ge In the kitchen are two large ranges and a roiler or spit, The latter is in # coruer, and the fur- nace used for it is held responsible for the fire. Water, and not fire, did the chief share ot damage in this instance. Notalone did the dining room suffer, but also the billiard room beneath, and even the west sitting room underneath that again. The latter, how- ever, escaped very lightly, and simply shows few traces of damp here and there along the cornice of the ceiling. In the rear billiard room matters are worse. The quantity of water that soaked through the floor of the dining saloon so damaged the ceiling beneath that it must be taken down and replaced. All that of the building on the Fifth avenue side éscaped injury. Crowds gal on Fifth avenue during the progress of the fire. Among them were many members of the club, naturally very anxious as to the result of the fire- men’s efforts, The provision within the building itself for meeting a conflagration was fair enough, A six horse engine in the basement was driven to its full ca~ pacity, and a hose directed from the hall of the dining room did good service. ‘fhe billiard tables ure not seriously injured. The paintings were saved without any material damage, and the report that the walls were blackened by the smoke is not borne out by the fact, The employés of the club worked earnestly with the hose belonging to the house. The fremen were under the direction of Chief Enginecr Bates and Chief of Battalion Gicquel The insurance patrol were also efficient in covering with tarpaulins the valuable furniture and pictures and putting away Precious articles of vertu and bric-a-bi The Chair: ot the House Commitiee, Mr, Edward Cooper, staied that no lire was used on any floor above the basement, except in the kitchen, on the top floor, the reat o! the house being heated by steam pipes, Ho had no doubt that the lire originated from the heat of the range in the kitchen, Mr. Carroll, the Superin« tendent, was absent when the fire was discovered, SKETCH OF THK CLUB. ‘The Union Club was founded in 1836 and began its. career at No. 1 Bond sireet, where the office of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction was for & long time in after years. In 1837 the club moved into the study ofa machine they oftimes forget its purposes, which, think, is the danger of to-day. Ido not creeping into the minds of the rising generation, {t becomes the clergy to take into consideration the relations between theology and science, We-waste | our strength in discussing the different ideas in regard to the baptismal faith when the question of the day ts:—Is there a moral trath? I think we are conducting this moe of religion in our colleges in a strange way. Itisthe study of the past, Hides for | shields wero well enough in the days of arrows, but where would they be to-day? Are any of our brethren brome gay 4 themselves with shields of bides? 1 have card a great many outrageous things said here, and I will pass them in silent contempt. The point I am com- ing at is if we would cope with the scientific question of the day we must be careful not to bear. down our. faith with avy unnecessary loads. The Bible gives us the mind of God complete, and, as in some of the large castles there may be found littie cracks which do not impair the strength of the building, so there may be slight imper- fections in the Bible, from which nine-tenths of the material of the attacks of infidels are taken. Faith may tremble to-day; the earth of God may seem to be mov- ing in aperiloas way, but God is on the throne, and the Church is an established fact, and aot a theory, that will last until the earth ts no more. Rey. ©. C. Tiffany, D. D., of New York, was the next speaker. He remarked the discussion of this subject cause there was an impression that science was getting the better of religion, but he shared no such convic- tons, The only thing that couid hurt religion would be belief in materialism, for that would take away the foundation of theology. Materiglism introduces universal scepticism. Theology in the explanation of miracles. If nature can produce is of divine power? Science and religion should aid each other. We cannot get rid of the Bible if we | would—it is rational in its beauty to science, Volunteer addresses were delivered by Rovs. Dr. Leeds, of Christ church, Baltimore; Wilham Newton, of Philudelphia; C. 8 Bates, W. Garrison and Dr, Sul: livan, of Chicago; Prof. L. N. Dutten. of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and the discussion was closed by | Rev. Dr. Galiandet. | AFTERNOON SESSION. ! At the afternoon session the subject for discussion | was, “The Best Methods of Promoting Spiritual Life.” | The writers were Revs. L. W. Bancroft, D. D,, of Brook- lyn, L. L, and Phillips Brooks, of Boston. The speak- ers’ appointed wore Hev. J. Stuart Hauschel, D. b,, of | Charlottesville, Va. ; Hon. John W. Andrews, of Colim- | bus, aed and Rev. John H. Elliott, D. D., of Washing- | ton, D. Dr. Bancroft thought that this was the most Lo tant question yet presented for consideration. The spiritual life he defined in the words ot an old writer— the life of Godin man. It meant that the old things | wore to pass away and new things from God to come, the spiritual life being life flowing through human. channels Its vigor is wenly and divine, At the close of this discussion the Congreas adjourned. _MORNING STAR MISSION. _—_— Christian churches and Sunday schools are asked promptly and generously to remember the necessities of this mission, It holds a valuable property, and if the present crisis can be passed will be in the receipt of rents enough to ultimately pay off all indebtedness, But the whole property will be sold on the 16th uni $5,000 can be secured to discharge a foreclosed mor gage and other bills, Collections are asked from churches, Sunday schools and individuals to meet this necessity. Relief may be sent to 0. M. Bogart, banker, No, 3-Nassan street, and Dr. R, P. Perry, Superintend- eat, No. 61 West Thirty-third street THE HARLEM CHURCH WAR ENDED. The First Baptist church of Harlem will be dedi- cated on Sunday next. This ia the institution which about two years ago was the subject of what atthe time was called a war. It will be remembered that the then pastor, excluded several per- many of the congregation, sympathizin, polled members, a break in the seciety was the result, During the ‘‘war”’ the elurch burned down, and in a sui ueat lawsuit over the insurance money the opposition beat the pastor and he abdicated. A BROKEN HEART. j ‘Tho residence of the late Mr. James Atkins, on Bram- | hall avenue, Bergen, N. J., was yesterday the scene of & very distressing event, It was the day appointed for the funeral of Mr. Atkins, as announced in the Henano, and his bereaved wife was propering to leave her room prior to participating in the funeral services in the parlor when she suddenly fell down and became Mubio and, on 2 phe being sent for, it was tained that she asc ruptured a bloott vessel and had literally died of a broken heart, The scene which | ensued was distressing in the extreme, Both husband wud wife aro to be buried on Sunday, AN ILL-ASSORTED UNION, Rebecca Kelly, who alleges that she was seduced by Patrick Eagan, of Hoboken, and is the mother of his child, complained to Recorder Bohnstedt, of Hoboken, esterday, that she had been turned out of her home into the streets by the faithless Patrick. Both were = to jail, the woman as a witness againat ber alleged ces think we comprehend the degree io which infidelity ia | was one of the most important of the Congress, be- | sometimes seems to invade the province of science, a8 | @ resurrection how can we claim that the resurrection | a building on the west side of Broadway, near t ner of Leonard street, It remained there for three years when it changed its quarters to a more | stylish building across Broadway, near the corner of | White street, There was a lapse of seven years before H another change took place, aud this time it was in obe~ aience to a general impulse that appeared to have seized | on downtown people to move up. The club j Was next found on Broadway, one door from Fourth street, ina house formerly occupied as a resiuience by | Joseph Kernochan, As the club edvanced in wealth | and influence the question of building a Rouse of i own commensurate with its dignity, afflaonce and nui | bers, was earnestiy taken up, and, in 1854, a committee | was appointed to secure an eligible site and erect | thereon a suitable structure. The corner of Twenty- first street and Fifth avenue was selected, and in course | ef time a really imposing edifice of brown stone was | reared above all the surrounding dwelling The | roomy, massive style of architecture adopted harmonized well with the character of the club. | Its reputation was that of being eminently solid and | respectable; im fact, it wus at one time looked upon as | exclusively Knickerbockerish. The club house entrance | was placed on Twenty-first street, in the middle of a | front over 100 feet long. The cost of the building was | $250,000, but its value to-day must be at least three | times that amount It was completed in 1856 and occupied in May of the same year. The clab numbered | at that date 500 members. To-day its roll is about com- pleted, the limit being 1,000 members, The property is vested im trustees, and the government is | conducted by a committee of twenty-four mem- | bers, who elect a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, appoint the superintendents and clerks and prescribe the duties of servants, This | committee appoints a sub-committee of five to direct | ard control expenses, reccive and consider complaint, and report upon any communications addressed to ii by members, officials or servants. Admissions to the club are very strictiy regulated. . It possesses a fine billiard room, reading room and tolerably entertaining library, On'the membera’ roll of the club may be found the names of mostly all the men of New York distinguished by wealth and social influence, The call which brought it into existence was signed by the fol- lowing citizens:—Samuel Jones, Thomas P. Oakley, Hone, roe Robinson, W. B.. Lawrence, Charles King, E:T. Throop, B. 'B. Brenner, G. M. S. 0, Williams, ¥, Sheldon, J. Depeyster den Hoffman, and John H. i, MoCrackan, AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY SEIZED, At about half-past eight o’clock yesterday morning the United States steamer Henry Smith, freighted with a raiding party of internal revenue officers, under the direction of General F. D. Sewell, Supervisor of the | District of New York, arrived in the neighborhood of Thirty-eighth street, North River. The other revenue officers present were Colonel McLeer, special agent, and Deputy Collectors P. R. Hawley, K, Ryan, W. H. Whit- | lock and J, H. Hale. In addition to these gentlemem | there was a captain of police, two sergeants and fiftecn | of the crew of the police boat. Everybody was armed, in anticipation of a stubborm defence. When the Henry Smith was made fast the combined forces disembarked, and headed for alley~ | way at the rear of Abattoir place, runnin; een, | Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets in the imme- diate vicinity of the river. The officers had no sooner Janded than the neighborhood turned out in mass to see what the excitement was, quickly guessing that an attack was to be made upon the illicit distillery in “the | alley.” The raiding party, forcing their way through the gate of the alley at the river side, came toa tumble~ | down rookery, in which was an illicit distillery. When | they burst into the place the birds had flown by an | opening «in the cellar connecting with rear buildings, but left behind them good evidence of their existence, | The still, in internal revenue phraseology, was ‘boil- | ing.” 1 was perfectly new and the spirit was running out at the end of the “worm” Its capacity was. | about 750 gallons. Three mash Mod of about 6,000 | gallons capacity each, were found filled with mash, |” The following is a detailed list of what was captured :— About 18,000 gallons of mash, which ts to be pum; out in tes en bet be he yy ery 6 rum, eight hogsheads of molasses, st «8 copper { connections, and 1s pronounced a perfect beauty by the | revenue officers, The still will be smashed to pieces; | and ali that the revenue officers will preserve for sale | will be the captured spirita, molasses and the broken ‘up copper. ‘. ‘The confiscated articles were then placed in charge of General Costar, of the Internal Revenue, and hts assist-. ante, as trustees for Uncle Sam. Their value to their late owners is estimated-at $16,000, The fraud on the revenue committed at this place is estimated at an av- of $600 a day, The remaining mash is a) juiicient to make upward of §2,000 worth whisi It may be remembered iat dome meoeire ae Aetiae Inspector Birdsall mado a similar seizure in this noto- tious alley, In the li t Taide have been made wei: ‘istillery had seizures might be possibly made, itters stand some of na are Gradea vote well pie beep theit eyes closed. ih Specimens of a new bogus postal card were detected im the Post Office yesterday, Thoy ste made in imita tion of the old style card, but are not technically counterfeits because the words, ‘this Is not a lawful’? are printed over the words “United States Card,” and in placo of the asual direction to write an only, erate message On | Message anywhere you like and send Ik” Fn ction 3 +