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* trast; but when we remember that these men braved “RELIGION. | The Sabbath Services in the Churches. “APOSTLES AS PREACHERS.’ | Mr. Hepworth on the Old-Time Revival in Jerusalem. FROTHINGHAM ON __ DISSIPATION. The Holy Ghost Discussed by Mr. Beecher. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE APOSTLES AS PREACHERS—SERMON OF REY. MR. HEPWORTH. The average attendance at the Church of the Dis- ciples was decreased considerably yesterday morning, owing to the threatening weather. Mr, Hepworth made a most earnest endeavor to awaken in his hearers a realizing senso of their position. He took his text from Mark, xvi., 15:—‘And Ho said unto them (that is, the apostles), Go ye into all the world and preach the good news (the Gospel) to every creature," ‘The traditions of the Hebrew Church were the em- bodiment of selfishness. Tho spirit of Christ was the spirit of charity, They would inciude within the circumference of salvation only their own fa vored race, but He stretched His arm out and enfolded within the circumference of His love the whole earth. I would like this morning to introduce to you the first service of ordination, at which service men were set apart to accomplish a given service and to become the servants of the Lord, to do nothing in thetr own name, but in the name of Christ, and to speak, not with an eloquence of their own, but with the earnestness of tho spirit. Ifyou will turn to the iwenticth chapter of John, nineteenth verse, you wil! find the scene to which I refer. What was the promise of ordination? ‘That was their preparation for the Gospel preaching, which God had given into their charge, Ifwe turn to the second chapter of Acts wo shall {ind the accomplishment of that promise spoken of:—‘‘And when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all of one accord in one place, and suddenly Vhere came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing, nighty wind, and filled all the house where they wore sitting, and there appeared unto them Hoven tougues, like as of fire, and it sat apon cach of them, avd they wero ail filled with tho Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other \ongues as the spirit gave them utterance.” THEIR ORDINATION, then, is absolutely completo, Jesus hath breathed upon them and changed their natures, It is very much the way in which God, after He has fashioned an outward semblance of man out of clay, breathed into ita soul, Christ’s breath was inspiration to the apostles. It was by the means of this supernatural power that they {im the figurative language of the Bible) could take deadly serpents in their hands without injury. All 1s fone in the name and by the power of God. Look, now, to see the result of this supernatural agency. If we turn to the second chapter of Acts, we shall find ‘hat the first preaching service in which the apoties en- aged was AN OLD-FASHIONED REVIVAL SERVICE. They had a motley assemblage. Perhaps it was in the streets ol Jerusalem. Men from all parts of tho world gathered to hear the word of God preached. They NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. Accumnuintion of thought and the ever-increasing refine- ment of mental nurture, ‘THR DANGER OF ISOLATION. Whenever man will open his heart, bis conscience, this supreme world is his through the process of accu- mulation; but corresponding to this is the process | of distribution. Every little flower-pot has a hole at | the bottom, and if you stop that yent the plant cannot grow, for its communication with the organic forces that are imbedded in nature is cutoff, How great is the ambition for wealth, for the power of wealth, for the weaith of wealth! But if the rich man’s nature is isolated from the world, see how his heart dries up— how the very man dies out! The richest man who keeps open his sympathies, so that when anything pera in something oes out, is blessed by all, while he who cuts himself off trom the rest of the world is curred by mankind, It is the same thing with knowl- | edge. How beautiful is it to sce a man pursue knowl- edye while the zest is fresh! How beautiful his face | becomes; how, his eyes light up; how his voice becomes deep and sonorous! But when the communication is cut off between the man who knows and those who know not, his ambition perishes, he becomes a parti- ‘sun, a sectarian, and men point to him with scorn as ® bookworm, a8 a man who thinks he knows, and because he thinks so men do not care whether ho knows or not. More deadly even is the condition of the man who possesses goodness and whose goodness 15 not balanced by @ corresponding process of distribution. The Pharisec’s charity was a bargain, his piety a trade, and therefore it was that Jesus sought him out as the sub- ject of His most bitter invective. It was not because ¢ Pharisee was not good, but because he was so good shat he was not good for anything. (Laughter. ) THR QUESTION OF BALANCE, Oh that the knowledge of balancing acquisition with distribution were only better understood! Whenever more comes in than goes out it rots at the heart; whenever more goes out than comes in then there is languor and weakness. And now we come to dissipa- tion. How sad it is to see in the young this draining of vitality into the gutters of debauchery! All nppreen: tion of the heroic, of the divine, of the saintly things of life ceases; the will force becomes demoralized; the man has no purpose, no resolution any more; he is a nuisance and a burden to society. There is not a dis- Inte man or woman who does not potson the whole community in which he or she lives, There is terrible contagion from the influence of an unclean heart, If there are children they inherit the curses and diseases which their parents bave inflicted upon themselves, INTRLURCTUAL DISSIPATION, But there is an intellectual dissipation which is | equally dangerous, I read a few days ago a book on the ‘Border Land of Insanity,” and from this it would appear that we all travel on this border land every day, for whenever there is an outgo of mental force not warranted by accumulation the disintegration of the finer portions of the brain begins. An experienced physician the other day that there was three times: as much insanity in its incipient stages in this country as in England, Men overworked day and night; no accumulation of mental force except through news- papers and light magazines, and what an outlay of brain force! This waste goes on in spiritual feeling, too. Nothing 1s so slowly accumulated as spiritual emotion, ‘Thre are probably only ten people in this community whocan pray with fervor, who can utter the Lord's Prayer in the spirit in which it was written, (Laughter.) Most people cannot pray fervently more than once in six months, (Laughter.) And yet people go on pray- ing, shouting hosannahs, &c., as though the very cheapest water were the water of life. How sensible is the difference from loud-mouthed glorification to an empty heart! (Laughter. ) THIS 18 THE DANGER OF A REVIVAL that the outgo is so much larger than the income. People who never thought of anything but their din- ners now rant hourly about God, (Laughter.) People who never felt a compunction of conscience about cheating their creditors now talk about their sins, It is impossible that this outgo should continue when there is nothing within. There surely will be a re- action, just there is a reaction from the midnight debauch, All this display and wastage of emotional power isso much subtracted from the real integrity of the man, and no wonder if indifference, atheism anit viciousness follow, For 200 years in Europe all the efforts of priests were directed to make men feel a rap- turous love for @brst, and during this very period soci- ety was most demoralized—war followed war, blood- shed, carnage, raping devastated the earth; and all this while the world lay prostrate at the feet of this bleeding visionary Christ! No, if there is no reflection, if there is no accumulation of sterling worth, of man- hood, virtue and honesty of thought and purpose, then this avalanche of religious emotion will only lay waste the soil that it should fructify ! PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR. BEECHER BAPTIZING INFANTS AND ADVO- CATING THE POLITICAL EQUALITY OF THE SEXES—WHAT IS THE HOLY GHOST? The attendance at Plymouth church yesterday was told nothing new, but the same old story. They told it with earnestness. They had respect jor neither high nor low. They only cared for duty, and their courage caine from the throne of God. ‘Then they were glad respecting the word, and the samo day were added bout 3,000 souls.’? That must have been a wonderful ‘vice. I wish we could transfer ourselves from this nineteenth century to that meeting. Here were the Pharisees and Scribes and Saddueces looking on and tis- Jening to detect a slip in the grammar of the preacher. Three thousand men and women joined the ranks of the new army as the result of that single service, and if you say, as many say now, ‘Excitement 1s exceedingly dangerous,”’ I answer, “There must have been excite- ment there, when men yielded their long-cherished doubts and iniidelities ang took upon themselves tho higher truth of God.” They were excited with gladness, and the excitement remained. It was not tho mere flush. of the moment, notan emotional outgush that came from the preacher's eloquence; it was # continued influenco of the Word of God, based on a firm conviction, and we are told that they who were convicted remained Steadfast in the doctrine preached by the apostles. Let us ask one question. How far were these mon in earnest in their preaching? If they had received large salaries; if they had occupied high social positions; if, in consequence of the power with which they were endowed, they had been lifted up from the place of taxgatberer to communion with the high ones of earth, we might then suspect their motives, Thon, in tho midst of our belief in them, like a siender seam of cop- per in a block of silver, would come suspicion and dis- the Nemean lion; that they braved the sharpest pangs of poverty; that they bore the persistent hatred of the Jews; that they died . IN ATTESTATION OF THEIR SIXCRRITY, we bow our heads as in the presence of superior be- ‘St. Peter preached all the way from Jerusalem to Rome, and then was crucified with bis head downward, because he esteemed it too much honor to die as his Lora had done, James was beheaded by Herod, who was determined at any cost to root this heresy out of Judea, Philip was hung by the neck to a pillar in Asia Minor. When see this great company, I feel my own littleness. Here is the mpulsive Peter; here the gentle, kind hearted Philp; the silent, motherly, womanly John, with man’s form and woman’s heart, I seo ‘Thomas, the inan who believed with his eyes, not with his brains (and he has many lineal descendants in our midst to-day), and in the midst of the group I see the towering, gigantic form of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, quiet of manner and with & serenity that comes irom a consciousness of power—never speaking pt direct! t given much to conversa- tion, but when asked a question giving an answer that meant everything—not given to criticism, but when he saw an evil he rebuked it on the spot. Brethren, the group is before you. Here they stand in the amphi- theatre, with the whole world’ gazing on to see how Christian men die, stand with no sword in their | hands, trusting simply in Jesus Christ, and saying to ir own hearts, ‘It Lam to die [ will dio as children power of a life ix great, brethren, but not to be compared with the power’ of a noble death. It 1 a glorious thing to live well, but how much grander to die well, Look for a moment into the doc- irine they preached. What was its peculiarity? Thoy did not preach by any power of their own, First, they spoke of a personal religion and of man’s personal relation to Jesus, which ix the power of the gospel. It is easy to assent to general principles of religion, but it is quite another thing to make a personal appl cation of the same facts and truths. Christ died, not for a world, but for you and for me, We often excuse our- selves in this Way—we say, “There are a thousand op- portunities offered me, but f have little doubt but mn the fend it will be all right,”—there is an immense eal 0 INTUITIVE UNTVERSALISM in thé hearts of men. If you are a Christian and a | Inember of achurch you have taken upon yourself a | solemn vow, and you are obliged by your oath, uttered in the presence of Almighty God, not only to be true in endeavoring to keep the commandments yourselves but also true in trying to persuade every one who is out of the ark of safety to come into the tents of our saviour, Lf you do not will God hold you guiltless? ell you, no. Are you mean enough to want to be saved yourself and not try to save others? We need he preaching of the apostles, Oh, that St. Peter were nere, [think if he were the day of SENSATIONAL PREACHING would come again. If there is a time hereafter when | th awful quest.on will be asked let us get ready tor it | s0 that we shall not be found wanting in that dreadful | day. Weare all im the desert together, and how aro | we to find find our way tnto the lightof God? It is tho | infusion of love into the higher qualities of man that makos Christianity, All we ean carry with us is our love of Christ, and L pay my debt to God through the overflowing love that suifered on the cross of Calvary. MASONIC HALL. ‘DISSIPATION—THE WASTE OF PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL FORCES—SERMON BY REY. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM, Rey. 0. B. Frothingham’s discourse yesterday on | “Dissipation’ was preceded by a number of the usual | religious announcements, arvong others that of the ap. proaching Woman Suffrage Convention, which is fraught with immense importance to the spiritual inter ests of men. Mr, Frothingham prefaced the definition of dissipation with the truthful observation that before anything could be dirsipated there must be something to dissipate, He traced the gradual accumulation of the | knowledge and the civilization of mankind, and the | flow stages by which it had developed from primeval barbarism into its present high state of culture. De. picting the growing refinement in the taste for food, he alluded to the prediction of an enthusiast that the time would come when men would for their sustenance | pluck out tho very heart of the earth and hive on nectar and ambrosia, Drawing the parallel with the food of the mind, the speaker here touched upon the immense | tive im their history—all that appealed to their patriot- as large as usual. That means it was crowded to the doors and that hundreds were turned aw Before the sermon a little girl of seven and six infants were baptized. One of them was held in the arms of John L. Hill, who was one of Mr, Beccher’s counsel during the great trial. Among those who attentively watched Mr. Beecher as ho sprinkled the little ones in front of the platform, was the ‘‘sweet singer in Israel.” Throughout the entire service Mr. Sankey was the most intensely interested spectator present. His eyes never Jeft Mr. Beecher for a moment, Even while with covered eyes he bent his head in prayer, he could be seen glancing between his outspread fingers at the preacher. In his short prayer Mr. Beecher appealed to heaven that the efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Brook- lyn might bo successful, and that when they went away they might leave behind them a religious fervor which would not soon expire. At the conclusion of the prayer he announced that he would be absent from the city several days, but would return in time to attend tho Friday evening prayer meeting. He announced the seventh annual meeting of the American WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION to be held at Steinway Hall this week and referred in most complimentary terms to the ladies connected with that association. “Tho meeting wil be attended,” said he, “by Lucy Stone and other ladies, who, while advocating a larger sphere for their sex, make that sex more beautiful by their purity and excellence ot hfe. 1am sure that for wisdom regulated by decorum, and for domestic pru- dence, we shall look far before we find any one more tit to speak to American mothers than Lucy Stone; Il am sure that we shall look far before we can tind any one to equal Mrs, Howe im learning and genius, and I am sure that when avkea what’ woman may be as a teacher upon the plattorm we could not do better than point to Mrs. Livermore and say, ‘They may be such.’ I have lost nothing of my coniidence in the propriety of woman’s suffrage. I believe that no day will ever come in which public and private and business aflairs shall reach their maxi- toum of earthly excellence until the ordinance of God. ‘It is not good for man to be alone’ shall be fulfilled in every one of those departments, I believe that the Joined and intersphering influence of man and woman will at last be as cleansing in the body politic as it isin society, whatever may be the confusions which will occur in the time of change, and that in the end the upity of man and woman in public affairs will work as it has wrought in the Church—not contusion, but ele- vation, and as it has wrought in the household—not confusion, but elevation, [ deride ana tread under foot the whole doctrine of Orientalism in regard to woman, I accept with growing faith and confidence the great Western doctrine, the OCCIDENTAL TRUTHS, that men and women a le not alike, equal, and that there is no perfect man untii he has his companion in woman, and no perfect woman who has not her com- panion in man, and no perfect family that has not over all this one head, made one from two, and that that which is true of the household will be true, ultimately, of human society. And, theretore, in spite of various distigurements and eruptions, 1 still believe and rejoice in the progress of everything that shall tend to give | unity to the influence of man and woman in public affairs, Armen, that He left them any directions. There is no evidence that they were not left to form an organization as in any neighborhood to-day an organization for such pur- poses springs from the elevation of the moral sense of mankind, Christ leit these MEN WITHOUT 4 CHURCH, without a charter, without an ‘outline of policy, with- out any literature, without ordination, and simply com- mended them to go to Jerusalem and wait ull the power came upon thert from on high. They were not to wait for any outward manifestation, for anything to flash upon them from the sky. They were to wait for ® ‘ng to come within them, It was to be a revelati They were all together; that is explicitly stated. They Spent their whole time together; there was, therefore, that comes from the un of social forces, No man alone is able to develop himself, even in the lowest spheres of development. They were not only together as so many materials, kindling into a flame, but thoy were all of one accord, and very likely for the firat time in their lives, too. Sorrow often makes unity and they were in orphanage. They spent their time in prayer and singing,’ which, if you look at it, means that in- stead of sitting together desolate, mooning and listen- ing to ill-omened predictions of the future, aud driv ling and groaning about their weakness and their wick- edness, or anything of that kind, they sat together and prayed and aang. Prayer is flight or it is nothing. It is the nobler part of mau, winged with imagination, iifting itself ont of the bondage of material life and talking with Him whom then it sees, While they were thus gathered together there came a rushing sound as of aimighty wind and the fiery tongues that seemed to Speak to their souls that wisdom and eloquence should be theirs thereafter, What did come? We are told that it was the Divine Spirit. It becomes of very great im- portance now to determine WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE between those men as they ‘e after that and as they had been belore it, We observe that, in the first place, these men were lifted instantly by this inspiration out from the condition of vulgar commonplace into a conditioa which we willcall by no more appropriate name than that of romanticism. They were lifted ont of the common rank into the heroic. By vulgar | do not mean poor, unless poor in spirit or poor in senti- ment, ‘The moment they were touched by the Spirit there was something thatgave them reasop—intuition; something that gave to the sentiments enfranchiso- ment—that brought them into the higher realms of ex- and there was the insight which comes from the exaltation of the faculties of man. There are given to us all hours that disentangle problems. There are moods in which we see things all round, but that con- dition does not abide—it is not permanent. The apostles, however, were clothed and filled with this power of exaltation, and it seemed to abide in them, Now if you ask in modern phrascology “What was done to them; and what did it?” [say that a divine in- fluence descended on them, inspiring thom in such &® way that ail that part of their life that sprung from the flesh was held in abeyance and con- trol; and all that part of their soul-life, which includes reason, the moral sentiments, the imagination and the elements of spiritnality—all that part was raised into unexampled power. When aman is in that condition he 1s like a light-house, thunder and darkness, rock and storm at the base; but AT THE TOP the light burns clear and never goes out, When men pray for the Divine Spirit it would be wise for them to understand precisely what it is that they pray for, and what are some of the Jaws and conditions under which men may expect to be blessed by the Spirit. The descent of the Divine Spirit then will be made known to us by its opening the eyes of the soul to an invisible world and to truths that never have physical formsand yet are the most important truths of our existence, People pray for the Holy Ghost. “Fillme with the Holy Ghost,” is one ot the stock prayers. Mr. Beecher compared men who cry out in this way without preparing to receive the Holy Ghost toa man who should go out to a well with iis bucket and hang- ing it on the nozzle of the pump, ery ont, ‘0, well, fill. my bucket!’? without niaking’ any exertion himself. Another class of — Chris- tians were adverted to by Mr. Beecher as being like dry pegs in the house of the Lord—*good to hang old theological garments on, and that’s all.” Many people, he said, were brought to Christ by adversity, whic! penetrated their vutward shell of worldliness just as the autumn frosts strip the chestnut of its burr and permits the golden nut within to escape. “More blessed,” said he, “are they who, like the apple blos- som, come to maturity with the sunlight kissing its cheek into beauty.’”? ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. THE EARLY CHRISTIANS OUR MODELS—SERMON BY REY. FATHER COSTIGAN. ‘The high mass at St. Stephen’s yesterday morning was celebrated by the Rey, Father McCready, in pres- enco of a large and attentive congregation. Rossi's Mass No, 4 was sung by the choir with much taste and fecling. The ‘Gratias agimus” of the “Gloria,” analto solo, was rendered by Mile, Munier in a very creditable manner. The ‘Credo’? opened with an echo, produced by the voices of the choir in answer to the words in- toned by the celebrant, which was grandly solemn and impressive, At the end of the first Gospel the Rey. Father Costigan delivered an edifying discourse, in which he contrasted the sanctity and fervor of the carly Christians with the wickedness and lukewarm. ness of modern followers of the Crucifled. Having read the epistle and gospel of the day, he said:—In to- day’s epistle the apostle of the Gentiles gives thanks to God for the graces bestowed on the Thessalonians and reminds them that they had become ‘followers of the Lord, receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost.” The history of the early Chris- tians 18 for us full of instruction and encouragement; the lessons which it teaches are most salutary and should inspire us to follow, as nearly as we can, ih the footsteps of the early disciples of a crucitied Saviour. In the primitive ages of the Christian era the converts from Paganism did indeed receive “the Word in much tribulation ;”” yet they were filled “with the joy of the Holy Ghost,” and the infant Church was a spectaclo worthy of both angels and men. In those days even tender virgins proved superior to the united powers of earth and hell, and thousands sighed for the grace and the glory of sealing with their blood their faith in Jesus. Compare the innocence of the lives of the early Christ- jans with the depravity of ours; their fervor with our tepidity; their austerities with our sensualities; ana the contrast should strike terror into our souls and make us tremble for our salvation, Let us keep Detore our eyes the examples of the Thessalonians and the early foliowers of Christ, who lived up to the duties prescribed in the Gospel, and we must be con- vinced that the only road to ven is full of trials and tribulations, and that if we wish to gain the ineflable happiness of the blessed we must deny ourseives, take up our cross and follow Christ. SEVENTEENTH ST. M. E. CHURCH. PARTICIPATING IN THE REVIVAL—PREACHING ON THE COMING OF THE LORD. A notably limited congregation attended the services atthe Seventeenth. street Methodist Episcopal church yesterday morning, although it had been previously announced that there would be revival services, The pastor, the Rev. A. W. Lightbourn, was assisted by the Rev. R. H. Bleby, who preached the sermon. His text was taken from the Second Epistle’to the Thessalo- nians, {, Tand succeeding verses, which treat of the coming of our Lord. Tho preacher said, substantially :— The coming of the Lord is one of the most solemn subjects recorded in the Book of Life. When that time shall bw is not revealed to meu. Then a justice long restrained will be executed on them that know not God. Before the contemplation of an immortal soul’s sepa- ration from God’s glory words are beggared. The imagt- nation cannot calmly picture it, Satan never perpe- trated a more dangerous lie than when he made Christians believe thatthe Saviour bad done all for them; that nothing was required of them. If religion did not make men obtain that holiness which fits them for the worship of God it was not a true-religion. ‘THE FAITH THAT SAVES must be a faith of the heart. It must beget action. So much is heard of the love of Christ that it becomes as a thrice told tale and soon is heard with comparative indifference. And yet neglect, pract though not perhaps intentional neglect, is the worst offence to God. The preacher conciuded by exhorting his hearers to more active efforts for the spiritual concerns of themselves and their neighbors. When he had concluded the pastor of the church advanced to the reading desk and took up the bur- For the text of his sermon Mr, Beecher chose the fourth and eighth j He dwelt ina spec in which Christ says to his apostles ceive power, after that the Holy G ne upon | | | you,” &c, The scones of our Saviour’s passion, waid | he, ‘were over and had passed into history, though then unrecorded; His sleep bad beon awakened; He had dwelt with His disciples for forty days, showing Himsoif in many ways and proving to their consciences | and consciousness that He was the very Jesus that they den of the theme just treated, and proceeded further to picture the scenes about the Judgment Seat on the last day, mw,” he said “there is somethin ne and hear it? Why are there so many empty benches here? The presiding elders of the Metho- dist Church have called a series of meetings to com- mence tonight, Do you know that the Methodist Chureh has been standing still herein New York ? We onght to be ashamed of our position, Now are had known, and that he had risen trom the dead. And | now they had drawn together somewhere on the Mount | ot Olives, and they seem to have had there the final | conterence, In the last scone the disciples asked whether they were about now to enter upon their life work a administrators in the new kingdom that they supposed | Was to be given to Isracl. The great master com- | Mmanded them to return to Jerusalem and there to wait, | The change they were to wait for was unknown and | mysterious to them, It was a power from on high. | When the Lord went up into the misty. clouds of heaven and disappeared from their sight they set their | faces toward the city, THEY HAD NO CHARTER and no directions but these:—"Go back and wait, and by and by there shall be given to you a powe The preacher here described the city of Jerusalem as it appeared to the apostles on their approach, with its mighty temples and palaces gleaming im the sunlight, He also pictured the various classes of its inhalntants— the Pharisees and Sadducees, the Athenians and the Herodians, with their religious worsbip 4,000 yours old, and = around =the altars of which was clustered ali that was venerable or attrac- ism. And here,” continued Mr, Beecher, came these eleven wandering men, accompanied by a icw women perhaps, and they are to combat all this vast system. Their whole charter and equipment tod of this, “Go; wait Uill you are endued with por They were the humblost kind ot men, If we except Joun, there was Was not one of the original disciples that had the slightest tonch of what wo call ening. They did not even understand their own testamentary Scripture; they did) pot understand their own Master they did not understand — the kidgdo’ that He came to establish, They bad just let tail tr their lips, “Wilt thou now restore to Isracl the king: dom ?'’ expecting a material kingdom to be ruied by he Jows, Christ had not organizea them; He leit them in the Jewish Church, and there is no evidence we going to Join in with the other churches? Un- less we are willing to make some — sacri- fi we, cannot. Last Friday we had an afternoon service and very few were here, morrow afernoon we shall have a service at thr o'clock, lasting one hour, In the evenin @ public tery) and each succeeding ming w aturday evening there will be preaching. praying band will be with us next Sun- the day morning. An invitation was then extended to all who wished to join the chureh to come forward, and two persons were received as probationers. The pastor briefly ad- dressed the probationers, and again exuorted his hoar- ers to work for the conversion of sinners, ‘Ihe singing of the Doxology closed the services. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. TURNING MEN TO RIGHTEOUSNESS-—-SERMON BY THE REY, DR. ARMITAGE. Tho congregation that assembled in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, in Forty-sixth street, near Fifth ay nue, yesterday morning, was rather small, The pastor preached from the words, “They that be wise shall sbine as the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars, forever and ever’'—Danicl, God blesses the world and controls space, but there is no work that He does to-day that is half so grand as Histening to the child who has a sin on his breast or rising to open the door of mercy to a man who is flying from the wrath to come, God would have every man saved, and He places us hero that may put our Christian love against the despondency of our fellow mon and lift them up, This was £0 | | sweet in the Gospel _of Christ, why don’t the people we will have | | gelical labors in this count | | | agreat work. It was something to be a Shakespeare, a Newton, a Milton, a Jefferson, but what was this to compare with the great Work ot Saving men—convert- ing them from the empire of Satan to the seeptre of Christ’ When God called us to turn men to righteous. | ness He called us to participate in His own work. Can this work be done at too great an expense? Christ came into the world and labored and shed His blood and died to save sinners, and should we not try to tako the bruise from the heart? to wash the stain from the conscience? to take our fellow man from the mire and place him on the eternal rock? It is a won- derfu! thing to turn a man to righteousness; out of the compantonship of the vile to THE SPHERE OF ANGELS! There was more joy when the angels beheld a man turned to righteousness than when they first saw that great orb, the sun, start on its course, It was a vastly different thing from placing a rock or rearing a moun- tain, for the man you turn to Christ is to live and move on in a sphere that shall only end wath eternity. How rich was the man who goes into God’s garden and Plants a seed and then brings bac! ull harvest! 0, that all might come in like the cart staggering beneath us load of golden — sheaves until the vast granary of God was full, Remember that every one turned to righteousness is a compensa. tion, But you may ask, “How van I do the work?” Well, goat’ it earnestly; obtain a large spirituality; never mind your overweaning modesty, that will not retard you; it will the rather help you iu your work, Remember Daniel Webster when he attempted to make his first speech at Dartmouth. His modesty was too much for him, and he was hissed down and jeered at by his associates, But Webster said he laughs best who langhs | This modesty was the foundation of rt. and the keynote to the character of the man who after- ward shook the nations of the earth with his eloquence, You need not throw off your modesty. it ow the = modest « men that ~—_accoinphish the greatest works and do the greatest good. The reward for this work of saving men is ainple. “They shine as the stars, forever and ever.” I don’t know any more about the stars than you do—no more than any man may know—but I do know that there is not anything in the universe more beautiful than the stars as they shine on THE BOSOM OF GOD in their dark setting of night. Can you lay down at ‘as you look through your window at the stars , my heart is as pure ag that star that 2” "If you turn men to righteousness you can. 1 don’t know what use God will put us to, but He will unquestionably tind some work for us to do, and we shall be as useful as the stars—the North star, the Po- lar star. If we but turn men to righteousness we shall live after the stars have fallen like figs from a tree be- fore an untimely blast. PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. A PULPIT EULOGY OF THE HERALD—SERMON BY REY. MATTHEW HALE SMITH. In the Park Congregational church, South Brooklyn, last evening, Rey. Matthew Hale Smith delivered the second of his “aggressive discourses,” taking for text Jeremiah xxiv., 2—‘One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe. Tho other basket had very naughty figs which could not be eaten, they were so very bad.” Mr. Smith said:—When the press is good it is very good, and when naughty, it is very naughty, No preacher, said he, can ignore the influence of the press. It is the first estate, instead of the third, The masses acknowledge its power in everything. Under its influence men buy and sell, praise and blame, A candidate for public favor is not accepted until the people have read the morning press. A united press guarantees any election in this country. Men whoroll up great fortunes do it through the help of printers? ink, Fifty years ago the press of New England was Satanic, Religion was lampooned, The tract and Bible societies, the missionary work and revivals were subjects of ridicule, and evangelical Christians could not get their daily news without having their religion maligned, The New York Observer was founded by the son of an orthodox minister, not asa religious paper, Dut as @ newspaper in which the religion of its readers should not be insulted. A complete exorcism has taken place, and in no place in the country has RELIGION A PAIRER PLAY than in New England, A paper 1s not necessarily Sa- tanic because it is sensational. The press is not Satanit Decause it gives the news of the day, whether it be good or whether it beevil. A paper is just what the people choose to make it—that is, it must satisfy the popular demand. People who read Sunday papers de- tnand a certain style of hterature and get it, A relig- ions paper caters to its readefs. Men want nows and take a newspaper for the news, and it they do not find itthey stop 1, Time after time efforts have been made to set upadaily religious paper in New York. Such a paper has never succeeded, because it does not satisty the public demand for nows. Ina great trial a family paper announced that its colamns would be free from all allusion to the matter. ‘The paper lost patrons by the hundred, while the enterprising press could not meet the demand for its issues, The London Jimes id . By EXTRAORDISARY?IRIMUTE TO THN MEW YORK HERALD when it acknowledged that it had to come to the Henaxp to get the account of the English battles; and the same New York Heratp has put to shame the re- ligions explorers in Africa and the national lowers sent out by governments, in its ability to lay bare the un- trodden portions of the world. Under the samo Heravo influence our flag was hung on Lot’s wifo at Sodom and will probably yet float over the North Pole. The daily newspaper named is a marvel of knowledge, enterprise and skill. It sweeps the globe. The trans- actions done in all the world aro laid at morning on every man’stable. We know what our race is doing in the great centres of commercial power, in the courts of the world; the Cabinets of Europe are laid bare to us; wo know as much abgut tho parliaments of nations abroad as we do about our own Congress. Rehgion is willing to take its chance# with stocks and bonds, railway enterprises, voyages of discovery, the tramp- ing of armed men, the revolutions in government and the march of ermme. The daily press is the great tract and religious organization of the day, The great, re- spectable press of the country is loaded down daily | with news of the Church universal The lightning flashes daily over the wires the important Church movements of the world. Formerly men waited for religious information an entire year until the anni- versaries came round. THEY TAKE IT NOW, LIKR AN OMELET, with their breakfast. The enterprise, the brains, the capital, the circulation, the energy ot the press is put at the disposal of the’ religious community. Such fa- cilities lor spreading religious knowledge could not, in the time of Flizaveth, have been purchased with the jewels of the kingdom.’ These agencies for spreading divine truth are offered to the Church, like salvation itself, without money and without price. In fact the exorcised press will do much toward hastening the millenniutn, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, HARLEM. DEDICATION OF THE NEW CHAPEL—SERMON BY REY. DB. G. W. SAMSON. Something over two years ago the First Bapgist church on Fifth avenue, near 127th street, was dee stroyed by fire. Following on the heels of the fire flend was the spirit of dissension dividing the congregation into two factions. Like most church quarrels, it was a bitter one while it lasted. . The dispute was abont hrop- erty, and honest “muscular Christianity” was in a fair there meet God and learn to love Him. He next went on to speak of the various services of the sanctuary— the preaching, singing and praying. In conclusion he urged that as men need food to nourish their bodies, 80 they needa Lord to nourish their souls, The sanc- tuary was the feeding place of the soul, Mr. Kiersted, one of the trustees, made a statement a8 to the financial condition of urch, He said the chapel cost $8,000, all of which, except $1,000, had been ST, PETER’S (R. C.) CHURCH, SOUTH BROOKLYN. THE CAUSES oF INDIFFERENCE IN RELIGION— SERMON BY REV. FATHER FRANSIOLI. The services at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, in South Brooklyn, yesterday, were very well attended in spite of the threatening aspect of the weather, Tho merited reputation for fine music which has been ac- quired by the organist, Mr. Cortada, and the choir of this church, always insures a large congregation. The mass played was that known as Mercadante’s four-voice mass, with the “Sanctus” and ‘Agnus Dei,” of Mozart No, 12 The music of the “Veni Creator,” sung Just before the sermon, was a selection from Handel, The choir consisted of Mrs. RK. D. Hall and Miss Gallagher, sopranos; Mrs. James Furey, contralto; Mr. Rudolph Kinmer, tenor; Signor Pospero Luceio, basso; besides a chorus of twenty-four voices, under the con. ductorship of A. Cortada, organist and musical di- rector. At the conclusion of tne gospel the Rev. J. Fransiolt ascended the altar steps, and, taking his text from the gospel for the Sunday, Matthew, xiii., 31—35, com- meneed a sermon on the causes of indifference in re- ligion. In the Church of God, if we failto appreciate properly His justice and goodness we become LUKEWARM IN OUR DUTIES to Him. We transact our business as if He were not concerned at all in our affairs. We go on trusting en- tirely in our own power, and when we mect with diffl- culties we plunge into misery. This 1s not rising up to the great aim for which God_ ha: vind those groat powers He bas given us and with which we would always be successful if they were di- rected under His will. The second cause of indiffor- ence, lightness of judgment, distracts our minds from following out the ends of our existence, The excessive value we put upon gold, this thirst for money, leads us into error, because we become entirely occupied in advancing our material prospority; we are losing sight of the necessity of saving our souls. The third cause, the plucing of value on things which havo no merit, such as the sensual passions, plunges into indifference without hope. Scandals in high places are Do excuse for such things. They only the more clearly prove that religion has no power when theso passions are gratified, Wo should tight against these causes with activity and resistance with the hope to get our salva- tion. THE PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. “4 GREAT OPPORTUNITY”—8ERMON BY THE REY. J. SPENCER KENNARD, In the Pilgrim Baptist church, Thirty-third street, Detween Eighth and Ninth avenues, a stirring sermon was preached yesterday morning by the Rey, J. Spen- cer Kennard. The subject of his discourse was styled, “‘A Great Opportunity.”” His text was from the words in St. Luke’s Gospel—‘“‘Son, go into my vineyard this day." He argued that this great opportunity of going into the Lord's vineyard and there helping to save souls was a momentous one, which ought to be ein- braced with all the strength of our hearts and minds. What higher aim could man claim than that of saving a fellow being’s immortal soul from everlasting damna- tion? If we would pause to estimate the value of a soul and the tremendous tgrrors of that dreadful death to which it 18 exposed, then would we rush to strain every nerve and fibre of body and mind to save it, It is, “unhappily, only when great dangers are in our path that we arouso ourselves to a sense of the soul's peril. The ways ot wickedness onsnare the unwary, as do the hunter's pitfalls the unsuspecting animals which he marks tor his prey. In the pursuit of life men cross ways that seem good to thom, but which really lead to their destruction, while othe: sometimes encoun- tered from their very narrowness and ruggedness seem evil in themselves, but which in the end lead to life eternal And it is to turn the sinner from his ways that the Christian heart burns; it vibrates to its inmost core with eagerness to labor in the Lord’s vineyard—to profit by the great opportunity which God affords the zealous believer that he may pluck souls from de- struction as brands might be rescued from burning, The conversion of man from the errors of his ways consisted in showing him the enormity of sin and then persuading him to love the Lord Jesus; to turn from sin and death in order that grace and lifo may be em- braced with all our might The task i a and comprehensive one; an undertaking that should engage the best powers of our mind as well as the strongest efiorts of the body. It is the saving of an undying soul that absorbs our faculties; of a God-given, heaven-born spark of immortality, with allits wealth of suscepti- bility and aptness for happiness; it is the lifting of that soul into the compantonship of God and fellowship with. His angels—this is the great work which alone is worthy of pursuing. And let us not forget that in doing this great work, profiting by the grand oppor- tunity which is ofered us, we are discharging an ac- ceptable grand service to the Almighty, one which can never be thrown away nor lose its merit. When a per- son asked Mr. Moody what reward he expected for his labors the great ovangelizer replied, “I am working for immortality."’ And he said truly; for the work of saying souls is one deserving of that immortality to which all good Christians aspire, CHURCH DEDICATION IN HOBOKEN. The dedication services in the enlarged German Evangelical church, at the corner of Garden and Fifth streets, Hoboken, were largely attended yesterday morning. The interior of the church has been beauti- fied and arranged in the most modern fashion. Tho cost of the enlargement has been over $7,000. The dedi- catory services were performed by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Mohon, Around the altar was a largo display ol Jerusalem cherries, oleander, palm, &c. Tho baptismal fouut was wreathed with living ivy. The text chosen by the pastor for his sermon was the Orst verse of tho eighty-fourth Psalm—‘“How amiable are thy taber- nacles, 0 Lord!” In nis sermon the speaker traced the progress of the Church since its foundation. The choir sung the 24th and 103d Psalms very effectively. In the afternoon au interesting service took place, when the stained glass window in the chancel, pre- sented to the church by the Sunday scholars, was an- veiled. In the evening the Rey. Dr, Justin, of Union Hill, preached ; and this Ld ave Rev. Dr. Ormiston, ot ihe Collegiate Reformed church, in this city, will preach in English. REVIVAL IN HOBOKEN, PRAYER, PRAISE AND PREACHING IN A RAILROAD DEPOT. The passengers’ room of the depot of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Hoboken was filled yesterday afternoon when the “Blind Preacher,” the Rev, Dr. Parker, of the Reformed Dutch Chureh, way of splendid development when it was decided to | SOK his place. invoke the arbitration of the courts. But it is all over now, The ‘Lucas party” and the ‘“anti-Lueas party’ are no more, The dissevered elements became re- united, and as the first fruit of the restoration of peace it was deeded to build a small chapel on the site of the old church edifice. A chapel was agrecd upon as less expensive, and, therefore, easily paid for; less imposing, it is true, but impo: ing a less burden of debt and as fully meeting the pres- ent requirements of the congregation. But it isa very neat chapel, being built of brick, its dimensions 42x63 feot, the windows stained, the floor carpeted, a pulpit of plain but tasteful pattern, and a small but rich toned organ, The chapel was dedicated yesterday morning, and jt was filled to its utmost capacity. No grandly tiresome formula was followed, A sermon was simply preached appropriate to the occasion, and hymns appo- site in character were sung by the choir. Samso The pastor at one time President of recently president ot a col- His text was Psalins, IXxvi the sanctuary.”* He preach mon Was, in consequence discursive, Dut at the same time vigor. ously delivered. It was listened to with the most carnest attention, Alter an introduction congratulatory of themselves in having once more a temple of worship, and hoping that it would prove a spiritual blessing to all, he proceeded to speak of THR WAYS QF GoD, One of the ways of God, he said, was making Christ a living person among them. Christ went about daily to see What they were about, and visited them im their Stores, in their counting howes, in the markets, im heir homes, and wherever they’ were. He spoke’ ot | n of science and their views of Christianity, Isaac | Newton, after he nad discovered the law of gravita- | ton, spent thirty years in studying the Bible. Persons | who believe in God mustadimit that He is a person. “Sy heart cries out for the living Go said David. We | see the eflect of the magnet, but we don’t see the power hidden in the iagnet. Some men thought it very queer that God did not exercise his power differently trom What He did, Practical men of the world were specially apt to think so, He was talking with a Jew yesterday and asked him why it was that the Jews had more wealth in this country than that owned by all the Jows in Palestine. They’ know how to make the best investments,” answered the Jew, And so it was, There was a deep truth in what this Jew told him. The Jews make their investments in Christian lands. They make more money where Jesus rules, Christ's rulo was rapidly extending China was slowly but surcly becoming subject to His sway, and so was Turkey. Dis« cussing turther of the power of God he referred to MOODY AND SANKEY. Theso men had been endowed with great power. Me aud Sankey are the tempest of thunder and lightning clearing the atmosphere, They were of God and they had power, He expressed the beliet that the best results wout continue to follow their evan- Coming next direetly to the text, he spoke of the 8 of the sanctuary in bringing people together and giving them 1 {men and God's ners] power, He told how Amos Kendal opened the Bible, and Ins eye striking the passage, “thus said the Lord,” never torgot it, but carried Dr G. 8 College, but_m urgetowp, D. 0. way, 0 Aod, isi t notes, and the is Rev. Rutge “thy with some | whieh had been made to them the memory of it through his daily life, "In the sanc- tuary they meet men and learn to love them, and they Near him sat Mr. Reasmer, the Superintendent of the road. Among those present were a large number of the employés of the Hoboken Ferry Company and many of the railroad employés. The whole of the waiting room had been filled with benches, These re- vival meetings have been carried on by Dr, Parker since last July in the Elysian Fields, and on Sunday a week ago, through the permission of the railroad com- pany, tho present services were commenced. They commenced by the singing of a hymn by the choir of Dr. Parker's church, and in which those present heartily joined. THE SERMON. The text chosen by the preacher was, “God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that who- soever believeth in him should not perish, but hay everlasting life.” God created us, said ‘the blind preacher, and He has a right to our bodies. A man may owh his watch, his barrow, his house, or what not, but he individually belongs to his Maker. God, therefore, has a right to command His creatures. He tolls you to love cach other, to keep the Sabbath Day holy, not to steal, not to be covetous of your neigh- bor's success; but you break all these commands and stand before the heavenly throne as convicted sinners. For this reason God sent His Son into the world to save sinners, But God, in His infinite mercy, has had pity upon the weakness of our natures and sent the Saviour, that whosoever believeth in Hii may have eternal life, In the annals of the world there is no nation which is over.known to have existed which did not admit the existence of a god or a great spirit, and before whom the people did not feel that they were sinners and insignificant in comparison. This, therefore, is evi- denced, that mankind feels the sense of error in which it lives: JESUS CHRIST, THE JUST, came to this world ani suffered for the unjust, On that truth let us rely till we pass over the Jordan of death and hve in the hope of a glorious salvation. Tho speaker then, m pathetic terms, recounted the history of the prodigal son's retarn, and, atter an earnest exhortation to the congregation not to neglect the call in the name of tho blessed Saviour, a benediction was pronounced and the gathering dispersed, THE UNIVERSALISTS. Last evening tho fourth in the series of revival meetings in tho Universalist cnurches of New York and Brooklyn was commenced in All Souls’ church, South Ninth street, near Fourth street, Williamsburg. The special sorvico for last evenmg was a praise meet- ing. The services will be continued every evening dur- ing the ‘week until Saturday. To-night Dr, Chapin, of this city, will deliver a sermon, and the other evonings will bo devoted to the consideration of subjects con- nocted with the leading and living of a Christian life, CORNELL MEMORIAL SCHOOL, The Cornell Methodist Episcopal Memorial School celebrated its seventh anniversary yesterday, in the building in Seventy-sixth street, near Second avenue, Mr. J. B, Cornell presided over the exercises, which consisted of singing by the children, the reading of the annual report and addresses by Bishop Bowman, the superintendent of the school, and others, 5 THE REVIVALISTS. Last Sabbath of Mocdy and Sankey in Brooklyn, “DARE TO BE A DANIEL.” Three Services During the Day at the Rink. Yesterday was the last Sabbath when tie evangotists, Messrs, Moody and Sankey, were to be in Brooklyn ii the capacity of revivalists. As might be expected, long before the announcement of the opening hymn in the eight o'clock service at the Rink the vast edifice was crowded to repletion by what to all appearances was @ devout throng of worshippers. It was estimated that over Feven thousand people were present from the be- ginning to the end of the services, which lasted upward of two hours, The services were begun by Mr, Sankey, who sung, in cloar, ringing notes, that now famous hymn of the revivalists, ‘Hold the Fort.” The entiro congregation rose and joined in the hymn, at the conclusion of which Mr. Moody made a fervent prayer. After the invocation hymn 79, of the Sankey collection, com- mencing “Sowing the seeds of daylight fair,” was an- nounced, Mr, Sankey loading in the solo, the choir and congregation together joined in the chorus, The rendition of this hymn as a specimen of congregational music was simply magnificent, i Mit. MOODY'S SERMON, The attention of the audience was then called by Mr. Moody tothe Scripture lesson of the day, the life of the Prophet Daniel as set forth in the Scriptura, Taking the entire book of Daniel as his text, Mr. Moody in his rapkt and burning words explained the key te the life of the prophet, In his words he portrayed Daniel as one who had gained his power and influence by having been set apart, separated, from the world, and against whom no record, sacred er profane, has left a stain. Taken to Babylon with hadrach, Meshach and Abednego as a slave, he was placed in charge of an officer of the guard of King Nebu- chadnezzar, who was directed to give them meat and wine to eat, such as the King had at his own table. They found that the meat and wine had been first made offerings to tho other gods, and Qaniel had strength and mind enough to say “No!” that he would not violate the Hebrew laws and touch anything that had been given asa sacrifice to any god but the King of Kings. Some of the nineteenth century Christiana would have said, if they could, ‘Don't be peculiar; you have been chosen by the King for preferment; eat the meat and drink the wine and keep favor with the great power; it will do you no harm.” Daniel would not compromise. His religious law forbade him to recog. nize another God than the Lord God of the Hebrews. The meat and wine were kept from them and the Lord made them strong in life and faith, But as Hebrews Daniel and his three friends were held under surveil- lance. Then the King had a dream, and the wise men not being able to reveal it to him, Daniel, shown that vision by the Lord, because he had been his servant, gave joy to all Babylon and saved its mep of wisdom. on, throughout the several chapters of the book, the preacher commented, having for his Principal point that a Christian character should ba rmly detined; that under all trials and temptations an or woman claiming to follow the doctrines of Cori should allow any terror of immediate death or trouble to make them lose confidence in the Lord. When Daniel was made aruler in the land, and 120 princea were put under him, and they made a conspiracy that ifany man called on any strange god within a certain number of days he should be cast in the den of lions, and the’ lawyers of the King obtained his to the law, ‘the Christians of the nine- teenth century would have said to Daniel, “Go away in the country until that thirty days is up. If you won’t go away, shut your window, pull down your curtain; don’t let these spies Kear you pray- ing to your God, or you will lose your life.’ Did he do so? No. He saw them watching him, but he prayed Just the same. He was the third ruler in the land, the treasurer, and he had to wateh the 120 rascals of princes who were plotting against him, but he made time to Lage threo times a day to the lord God, low many of the youth whe come from the country to New York and Brooklyn dare to kneel down in their rooms at night or in the morning and pray to God in the presence of ther room mates? They have not got the spirit of Daniel within them. In the lions’ den an angel held the lions still, and in the fiery furnace the great white Shepherd came down and kept away the flames. Oh! Let all so hive that with @ purpose in heart they may all become Daniels, daring to stand alone, act as children of the Lord. It’s a great deal better to be in a lion’s den, with God with you, than in a palace without Him; and then when the st days approach the souls can go to God, safe in the welcome they will meet on the other side of the great river. The services were closed by singing 1m full chorus— Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to alone, THE AFTERNOON SERVICR. At four P. M. the Rink was made the tabernacle for a sorvice designed especially for women. Tickets bearing the namo and residence of each worshipper! had been issued, with the design of collecting thé tickets to make a directory for the pastors of the vari- ous churches, so that they could call upon all the fam- ilies represented and continue the revival work. The groat Rink was filled; but few men being present four o’clock the doors were closed. The congregation rose and united in singing the twenty-ninth hymn. Prayer was then offered by Mr. Moody, after which the people sung the hymn, “I hear the Saviour say.’? When silence was restored Mr. Moody said:—There are between 3,000 and 4,000 people who havo received tickets to attend this meeting this aiternoon, most of whom want to become Ubristians. As they are here let us pray for them, and then let all Pfay for the others who have not been able to get within these walls. As this is probably the last Sat bath afternoon that wo shall have in Brooklyn let pray that the blessing of dd shall rest upon thi meeting and upon all other Le ges to be held here, After the prayer that followed, the Fifty-seventh hymn in the collection was sung by Mr. Sankey alone with profound effect. PUT YOUR TRUST IN Gop. Mr. Moody then called the attention of the congroga- tion to the one word which should lay hold of their life and faith—the word s0 ofien repeated in the Uld Testa- iwent, ‘Trust,’ and given inthe New Testament as ‘Be. lieve in me.’’ It 18 not to trust in this Church nor that Church, nor in that minister; it is not trust in money nor in lands, but trust in the Lord and vou shall be saved. If you want to be saved don’t trust in yourself, but trast in the Lord and you will be kept in perfect peace and you will be surely saved. Look at Psalm ixu., “Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out yonr heart before him; God is a retuge for us, Selah.’’ We are told to trust in the Lord. He will scatter the clouds of storm and darkness. Job trusted Him thro! all the billows,that dashed against him, and, putting his trust in the Lord God Jehovah, the waves of hell could not overwhelm bim If He don’t save you nobody can. You remember that when"the great Dr. Chalmers was wrecked at sea he found nothing but a plank from the wreck to cling to. He was afraid to trust it, but a sailor cried, ‘Trust to the plank."’ He did and was saved. So, when he ‘was asked by a woman who came to him, ‘What shall [ do to be saved?’ he said to her, telling the story, “Trust to Christ, just as I trusted to the plank, and you will be saved. ‘frost to the same power that I trusted to then—Christ over all.’ You ask how shall we trust Him, Look at Proverbs, iii, 5—“Trust in th Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Trust Him with all your heart. Don’t let there be any room for doubt, but give Him all your heart, Trust is the word I must impress upon our hearts. In the midst of a bloody battle the life of Napoleon was endangered by his horse. A private sol- dier caught the steed and saved the great captain’s lite, Napoleon said, ‘1 make you captain of my bodyguara,"* Tho soldier went to where the guard was halted and said, “Give me a horse.” “Who are y said the officer in commani. “TP AM CAPTAIN OF THE BODYGUARD"? “Who appointed your” “Napoleon.” The officer took him at his word and gave him the command. Now, dear friends, take God at His word. Come to him now, Trust in Him. There is no reason why you should not; He has never tailed to keep His word. Who will take God at His word now? Cast your sins upon Him now— thix minute, You can trust Him while you are asleep or awake. He loves and you can think of Him all the time; there is no power in heaven or hell that ca: keep you from thinking of God and uating in Hi all the time, Let the widows trust in Him. wouldn't. daro to wrong a widow, for God protects them, Look at the forty-ninth chapter of Jeremiah, eleventh verse:—“Leave thy father. Jess children, 1 will preserve them alite; and let thy widows trust in me.’ The troubles we have in lite will be cared for if we place them on the breast of Christ. O my friends, won't you trust the Lord? After prayer, the services closed with the singing of the ninety-fourth hymn, the chorus being repeated nearly a dozen times by the whole congregation, ta make, as Mr. Moody said, ‘all Brooklyn ring with it,” SERVICES IN THE EVENING. Last evening at the Rink the services were attended by an immonse throng, and to a very largo extent, as Mr. Moody requested, there w: in entirely now set of faces—many, evidently, unused to finding themselves in such a piace. Mr. Moody opened the meeting by the singing ol the third hymn, “{ NERD THRE BVBRY Ht “f after which Deacon Hawley prayed long and earnestly that this might be a pontacostal time Mr. Sankey then sang (by request) ‘Ninety and Nine.” Mr, Moody gave out the notices for the present week. All th meetings are ticketed in the hope of reach! church going people, except one—next Sunda after noon—tnder the direction of Mr. Needham, to a mixer audience, The services in the evening, which closed the law Sabbath of the revivalists in Brooklyn, were in mow respects similar to those carried on in the afternoon, Mr. Moody preached from the same text, or rather ox- _] of any special feature, horted in the same manner, and the meeting was devel, ~