The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1875, Page 8

8 — MINISTRATIONS. The Utterances of the Preach- ers Yesterday, THE SOUL HERE AND HEREAFTER. Mr. Beecher Protests Against the Abandonment of Pleasure to the Worldly.~ THE EVIL OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY. Beautiful Ceremonies of the Forty- Hours’ Devotion. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE SOUL HERE AND HEREAFTER—DR, HEP- WORTH'S SERMON ON CORNER STONES. The inciemency of the weather yesterday morning made aconsiderable decrease in the attendance at the Church of the Disciples, but still the church was mod- erately well filled. Dr. Hepworth preached a very log- ical sermon, taking for his text, St Luke, vil., M—“And he said, Young man, thee, arise.’” was making its way beyond the limits of the little ham- let of Nain, that the widow might lay her only son under the sod; but jt was a glad and joyful company that returned home after it had looked on the face of | Jesus. Filled with compassion, always ready to do His Father's work, He saw the company of mourners and touching the bier He bade the whole procession to halt. Perhaps some of those present had beheld some ef the miracles He had achieved, but no one had seon such a deed as He was about to perform. They must have been filled with wonder when they saw Christ standing in the presence of death and assum. ing power to be its conqueror, When they heard that marvellously sweet yoice saying, “Young man, I say ‘unto thee, arise,” it was a strange sight; it was the end of t@e old dispensation and the beginning of one entirely now, At no time till then had any one trodden our green planet to whom Death was captive. Men might read nothing else, but they all dreaded him, When the grim messenger from the dark regiows of night knocked at the door he would euter whether they bade him or not; the ONE INSCRCTABLE MYSTERY was death. Noone understood it, Jesus at the same moment brought light, as well as immortality into life, and from that moment it has been all sunshine about us. The incident 1 have related and the topics which it suggests I wish to discuss. We are interested in the end of life more than its duration, There is a certain kind of dismay in our hearts that looks to the shadow that comes in every man’s life one time or other, and ‘we shrink within ourselves as the processions pus aud we think that our time may cone any moment, You and I believe in immortality, but if you were ealled on to give a reason for it you might hesitate; and yet so important a dogma as our hereafter ought to have a sure foundation. It ought to be laid on the Bound rock of reason and God's revelation, not on the shifting sands of our own feelings. Now, there are two facts which I would like to state. The first is this: scientsfic men have beon hard at work for many ages.in order to find out how matter came into existence and when matter will cease to oxist. They have, at last, come to the strange conclusion that an atom once created can never be annihilated. The cter- Bity of matter is one of the verities of science; you cam- not destroy a particle of intangible dust that floats in the sunshine. 1t may change its shape, but cannot be i. Tt cannotbe hurled back to the oblivion ne. It will exist tll the 1ast moment of the last day, Whon the trump shall sound and carth shall be destroyed und the heavens turned up like a scroll. earth again in rain, proces. Not a drop us take the next step. not only that matter is indestructible, but that thas which we call force is also indestructib! For instance, heat isa force. It cannot be destro; changed to motion, the motion to electricity, and then back again; but it will always remain a force. Now these aro my two facts as foundation. Man consists of both these elements of which | have been speaking. First, be is the representative of matter. You cau see it in his orgauization. Then he has within him a very curious something else. Let me for the sake of argu- ment cail ita force. Man consists, then, of two ele- ments, matter and force, and they ure intertwined about each other during the period we call life. Weare made of matter and then breaibed upon by God, and man becomes @ living soul, not an automatic machine, Man, then, is THE GRAND MYSTERY OF CREATION. Now, man’s body changes its form ata given time. There comes a period in human life when we undergo a shock. The wheels stop, the pulleys cease to move, and we pnt the worn out machine under the sod. After years we look and find nothing—earth has taken back her own. Now, I think I have the authority o! science for saying that the force which makes man a living soul {s indestructible, that the matter is inde- structible, that the energy is indestructible. Man's body goes to earth and assumes other shapes, Man's soul pros—-whero? I will try to show. The next ques- tion to be settled is this:—You say what reason have you for supposing the energy called soul preserves its Identity? My answer is plain. First, from the Bible, which is my authority; second, from reason, which is some men’s authority, It is one of the few pointe in buman experience where man’s reasoning owers and intuition agree with the Word of God. You cannot take out of a man the feeling that he has a soul. Nota man travels the earth but stands in awe of a judgment day that may come. The Scriptures say in Roraang, xiv., 10-11—"But why dost thou judge thy brother? or wliy dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knoe shall bow to me, and every tongue shall coniess to God,” Well, when? After death. I cannot give an account of myself if the soul is to be metamorphosed into an animal or rock, When I die this energy must remain with me and I retain my individuality or else there is no sense in this revelation. I, my own character, my own identity, must and will appear, In Matthew, xxv., 31, we find that wonderful account of the coming of the Son of Man, in that day when God’e flat shall go forth and the world return into nothingness and only eouls will live—the good in glory, the bad in everlasting remorse and gorrow, It is true, only to go through the same is destroyed. Now, let that sometime we shall stand before tho judgment seat. | Jt is also true that when we are of ug preserves our individuality, other sphere of existence, where It is a blessed thought, brethren, moan, is from the nostrils of God and retains its shape and power; once aman, always atman to the end of eternity, God sent Christ into the wor! d because He loved that part of us, What a bi forward to the future, and when we get to heaven there will be no glare of the sun, but the genial, gentle light of the presence of God. This life is but the ante chamber to the palace, but the robing room of the eter- nal future, and we are allto get ready that we may be ushered into the presence of Him who cails by name, © blessed Christianity, which came when we were sitting In darkness and showed us the way to Jight! God be thanked for the antecbam' but how ean we thavk Him for the palace? ever! buried, the best part ud enters into an- it will be conscious, MASONIC HALL. “MISERABLE SINNERS’—MR. ¥ROTHINGHAM TELLS WHY WE SHOULD LOVE VIRTUE MORE THAN WE DREAD THE CONSEQUENCES OF VICE, Mr. 0. B. Frothingham’s sermon yesterday on ‘Mis- erable Sinners” founded on quotations from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans and from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first treating sin as a sad reality inberent in man, while the latter rejects 1t wholly as simply | he ought to mark the difference between himself and | ment of Christianity preaci amo: the “mumps and measles” caught by the soul, ‘The epeaker began by showing how deeply the orthodox idea of the domination of sin, the idea of the inberent Worthlessnegs of man, was imbedded in the Christian Teligion, in ite doctrines, in its liturgy, and even in its Very architecture, for the Cathedral was built in the ebape of across; the blood-red windows typified the Diood of the atonement, the music was a wail and a Jament, Every time that there has been an outburst of Ohfistian focling it was prompted by this overwhelming Sense of sin. it was this sense of sin which caused Luther to assaii tho turpitude of the Roman clergy, and the reforms originated by Wesley aud Posey aro to be ascribed to the same cause. Whenever thore is a new revival, a ngw outburst of emotion in the Church— even in the most liberal sect, even among the Unutari- ans—it takes this form of the necessity of a fresh re. demption from this crushing burden of sin. 3S BUPFRRING A rnoov oF SIN? And yot the Sense of sin is lost in our dally life, Goto the Catholic which is taken the Italian opera; there is no spirit of sin in it, ‘Th priests arc comfortable men, the laity are © men. ‘The sense of sin is one no diMeult to by any body of men. The ond ‘des eee to be neh all misfortune, all calamity could be asin commitied by the adiicted or suffering. Mt ‘his morbid idea of sim; ays Rotwituetanding His protests, I say unto It was a sad procession that which ‘That is the truth. Water is drawn by the rays | of the sun into the clouds, and afterward descends to | We are told by science | It may be | the force that is in | <d thing to look | Thank’ God for- , after age. If their idea ts true, very reverse must also hold Are those who in the robes of nghteousness ? live on Fifth avenue? (Laughter. ) ood and apetlens who prosper at the brok- era’ board in‘ Wall street? (Laughter, ) 18 CONDUCT A THST OF SIN? istory of the Spanish Inquisition, and I nd that these Lae hy themselves pure and upright, ned und mang! people simply because they thought their sinfulnmess might be redeemed tor. tures, Take the men who ught upon us the civil war. They do not think they committed asin in pro- ducing this bloodshed; but is scarcely one of them who doss notsay, “Iacted from the best of motives!’’ All this shows that even conduct cannot be regarded as a true test of sin, for how difficult, how im- possible it is to divine men’s motives in thelr actions! ow olten a man is generous, is noble, simply because he is avaricious of fame! Another test, that of ex- P mnireape is equally fallacious, as usually applied to sin. ‘hose omy who know something can Looe that they know not! ing, and one must haye a consciousness of good to see the evil. Hence it is that those who have made this confession of sin in the strongest terms have generally been the very saints of this earth. DARWIN CALLED IN. Wo see how the energies of the most energetic people of the earth are paralyzed by a snowiall, and so itis in this morai world of ours, — These lighi, ungubstantial flakes from the hidden chambers of the air paralyze mankind, Is it not always 0? Take war, we all know that itis an ‘and tho whole nation may realize how terrible and wrong would be a war with Spain, and hg we may have war with Spain, What is the matter ? vis that the dream has not become a resolution—the thought has not matured into action. there a living man or woman who can be what he or she feels they ‘ought to be? Kind, well-intentioned people will some- | times be subjected to the darkest inoods, against whose power they cannot resist. What ii it can be easily explained by the theory ofevolution, The tenth Coe nia the fitth century, are still in our blood, In a hundre years from now children shal! be able to do what we can do now, and we shall be able to accomplish things that appear to us now only as dreams of ituagination. Let the facts remain as they were; let us lay the emphasis upon their interpretation by Emerson, and not of St, Paul. MUN LIKE PLANTS NEED SUNSHINE. ‘The people who massacre themselves and call them- selves “miserable sinners” are beyond redemption. Yo lay the emphasis where Emerson lays it is alone hopeiul, 1s aloue moral. The man who, with St, Paul, broods over the hopelessness of his sin is passive, needs priests and mediators and abrogates the sense of his responsibility. And this sense gf irresponsibility eradicates the very man—Just as I have read in the re- ports of the Brooklyn revival statements of preachers who seem to throw the responsibility both tor their virtues and sins upon their Saviour. Emerson's fol- | lower will not hope only that every man shall worship | in 4 Christian church, but they will hope for increased knowledge, wortn, manhood. Why is it that the believers in gin are so much more earnest than the believers in virtue? It is because the dread of the consequences of vice impresses us more strongly than the love of virtue. As we shall grow more perfect the time will come when the forks of the demon wilt not drive us more quickly than the smiles of the angels, and when we shall rush on to light and culture aud sweetness as Diy oh as the “‘mis- erable sinners” now rush away from hell, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. . | SERMON BY THE REY. H. W. BEECHER—‘‘AM I TO SEE THE DEVIL'S SLAVES RUNNING AWAY WITH THE PLEASURE OF THIS WORLD AND I Nor To ToucH 11?” ‘The unpleasant weather that prevailed yesterday did not diminish the throng that weekly wends its way to | | Plymouth church. Mr. Beecher announced that the church had determined to hold a series of morning prayer meetings, but as much difficulty had been found } in trying to fx uponan hour when all could attend that it had finally been resolved to hold meetings dur- | ing the evening instead of morning. He invited all, whether members of the church or not, who wished to | converse with bim about religious matters to attend these mectings, which will be held in the lecture room at half-past seven every evening, except that of Thurs- day. When he advanced to deliver his sermon Mr, Beecher sali ‘lam sorry toinform you that] have left my notes at home. Fortunately I don’t deliver written sermons, and sol am not brought to the estate that many a man in like circumstances would be, The | trouble is I am afraid I shall talk too long, for when a | man doesn’t know exactly what he is going to say it takes him longer to say it, Fortunately 1 remember | | where the text is, Itis in the twentieth and twenty- first verses of the fourteenth chapter of Zachariah ‘In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar,’” &c, At first, he contineed, the contrast which you shall find by comparing theumise men of Judab and the | wise men of Greece is in nothing more striking than in the forward looking of the old Jew and the backward looking of the Greek. ‘TNS GOLDEN AGE | was behind the Grecian. They spoke of a time of sim- plicity and of purity and of excellence, when meu were noble as of a long anterior age. But the propnet—and in that he was in strict accordance with the latest | thought of mankind in our own day—always louked | forward for a day to be unfolded which should have all those blessings that the imagination can conceive as belonging tomanxind. This future, of course, they | were forced to describe with the best symbols and | the best experience of the time in which lived, and, therefore, as in the case we ‘have ‘in hand, they declared | that in that glorious time when the world should come | to its true manhood the very bells on the horses should have inscribed on them, ‘Holiness to the Lord,” and | that in the temple there ‘should be no cutting down of | the bells of gold and silver, but there should be a com- ing up of the pots that had been for vulgar uses, There should bea coming up—the kitchen should be equal to | the parlor inthe temple. The passages of Seripture does not mean that the bell if used should have in- | scriptions of tity upom them, but that the bells of ornament or of beauty should be regarded as religious, | Or, to drop the figure entirely, that amusement and | beauty should be regarded asa part of religion—not by | | degrading religion, but by lifting up amusement and | | carrying it higher aud consecrating tt | | Cominon thMgs cease to be common, and low things | cease to be low, cease to be vulgar, When they are per- | YORK HERALD, MONDAY last evening to a large congregation, His text was taken from Judges, v., 25—‘‘He asked water, and phe gave him milk ; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.” The story of Sisera’s diecomfiture was briefly told. In his contusion and defeat be sought the tent of Heber, Kenite. Heber was the friend of Sisora’s master; not so Jacl, Heber’s wife. She was a stanch patriot and lured the great captain to hisdoom. She gave him a royal wel- come; met him at the door of her tent and welcomed him in, She recognized his rank and gave him a splen- did feast, He asked for water, and she gaye bim milk, She paid tribute to his rank by bringing forth butter in a lordly dish, She lulled bis suspicions, covered bim as he laid down to rest, and, when slumber was upon him, took a tent pin anda hammer and nailed him to the floor. So dis- honesty in public hfe, with it8 fascinations and allure- with its enchantments and extravagance, leads its victims on, hiding all the while the bitter and cer- tain punishment that waits upon all who lead a dis- honest and fraudulent life, ‘The savings banks in whieh the poor and the humble place their hard earnings for safe keeping are robbed by men in official life. A board of directors seems to be simply a decoy to induce men to part with their money. Many of these men stand high in business life, and per- sonally are very honest men. But er pay no atten- tion to the business of the institution they represent, and this neglect to guard hess ut into their instita- tens becomes a high crime, 0 low morals of the day underlie this great dishonesty in public life. Men do not lose theirs standing in soviety When detected in acts of gigantic dishonesty, Much of the dishonesty of the day results from the extravagant style of living. When ainan is elected to @ public office the question isasked, What is it worth?”” Not what is the salary, but how much can the man make out of i, Men handle thousands of dollars of the public money whom the men who elected them would hot trust with $20 of their own money, OUR OFFICIALS ARE THE RBPROACH OF THE HOUR, This Centennial will be a blessed thing if it brings back a little of the old time honesty. Imagine Wash- ington adding his commission on provisions when he presented his accounts of the expenses of the war to Congress Judas, when he repented, carried back the money, Zaccheus was an oflice-hoider. He stole the public money and put it into his pocket. Under the Fda of our Lord he repented, and paid back four- fold, Such repentance as that, in penile fal would put money enough into the treasury to complete thd bridge over the East River aud not hurt anybody. The remedy for present wrongs, in this regard, is a return of old time honesty—an honest discharge of trusts accepted by honorable men; raising the tone of morals by bringing reproach and punishment on eminent defaulters; rising above party and family con- siderations and putting honest men into places of trust; reducing the style of living to an honest stand- ard, and compelling business men and traders to make thelr living out of their customera and not out of their creditors, Our peril is not from Chinamen on the Pacific coast nor from infidelity on the Atlantic slope, nor is it from the Pope in the Vatican, It is in the dis- honesty of the day, in winking at frauds in public places and in corruption in public affairs, These things will write our doom in letters of blood, Political cor- ruption knows no redeeming power and national death knows no resurrection. CHURCH OF STS. PETER AND PAUL. FATHER MALONE ON THE PROFANATION OF GOD'S | NAME, PERJURY AND BLASPHEMY. The “Rey. Sylvester Malone, pastor of the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Williamsburg, preached yester- day morning upon the second commandment:—Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”” In the notice before the Gospel he admonished his con- gregation against the sectarian spirit and religious Jealousy as well as against any hatred of their neigh- bors on the ground of difference of belief. In his sermon he said that perjury was by too many considered to be no crime, and even among Catholic children he was sorry to say that there abounded blasphemy, imprecation and the common use of the name of God and the holy name of Jesus. What am I to do ag regards the young of my flock, who instead of bemg encouraged by parents in reverence at home and trained in gratitude for the blessings and goodness of God and in thememory of the atonement and redemp- tion afforded us by the blessed Jesus, are constantly in the presence of parents who will not moderate their passions or temper and thisk nothing ‘of the | profane use of the sacred name. I can only tell and | warn the children, ‘Don’t imitate your fathers,”? who will, as certainly as the promises of God are true, take their part in the punishment which God has allotted | to blasphemers, and whose curses will go where all curses go, You, children, want to go to the heaven | of peace and rest, the abode of the blessed and the | sanctified, to that glorious Inheritance to which God | would draw you by the chords of His love and by all those | holy sacraments and opportunities of grace which He | jx affording you here. Although your fathers may | take God’s sacred name in vain, 1 can only tell you that the punishment of that sin is eternal, where no ray of God's light nor hope can come. This js the only way for meas exercising the truth committed to me in the commands and teac “er of our blessed Lord, for | it is my duty to seek the elevation of all souls cgm- mitted to me by Him, to preserve, if possible, the purity and reverence of the young, and to guard them against those evil influences which imperil their im- { mortal souls, So may you see and adore God when | the bright day of the resurrection dawns and worship that holy name before the eternal Throne. * THE SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. EXPOUNDING ITS DOCTRINES—SERMON BY THE REV. CHAUNCEY GILES. Quite a large congregation gathered at the house of | worship on East Thirty-fifth street, between Park and Lexington avenues, yesterday morning, to listen to the pastor, Rey, Chauncey Giles, on the subject of “The Doctrines of the New Church as Revealed Through Emanuel Swedenborg.”” His text was Matthew, vi., 27— The light of the body is the eye; if, therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shail be full of light.” According to the doctrines of the New Church, as well az by all rational principles of reasoning, man has a spiritual as well as a material body. The latter | only clothes the former, while the spiritual gives the | material its form and possesses all the organs of sense | and trust and all the activities alike with it. There is | great difference between spiritual and natural sight. The | | Timit of the powers of the natural eye is soon reached, | but not so with the spiritual. Around vs are things in: | | finite, having forms so various and altering so fre. | formed under ‘the higher inspirations of a man’s na- | ture, when they carry with them not the flesh but the spirit, and the spirit not in its lower forms, but in its | higher and divinely illuminated forms. The under | hirelings of a hospital are looked upon as disgustful | drudges; but when Florence Nightingale waike through | the wards of Scutari, or when, in our own land, a Miss | Barton or a Miss Woolsey, or any other of the thousand angelic women who have performed such self-sa ficing deeds are named, tears of admiration and sym- | | pathy drop from our eycs, and we cau find uo words to | oxpress our feelings; yet their deeds are the same agare | done by the hireling and the curmudgeon. In one case | | itis done from noble motives for humanity, and in | the other it is done only for money. Thus we see there ig a way by which th ings can be raised. We | all, however, fail into the 9 and the habit | of the Church Wem, ble and large ating taking them away from temptation. | to men, “If you love the Lord Jesus C | much in prayers, much in your cl by Weare saying | rist, you will be | set, mich in the pting to hem from } | Bivle, much in the ship of the saints, which is all — true, it is not the whole truth, for, if’ God had designed that all men’s duties shonld be confined to the closet and the Bible, with alittle prayer, human society would have organized | | itself differently from what it has, What are | you going to do with th | Shops, and its ships a “What shall we eat?’ ous ax the drops of the which you have relatioi ‘ast outside world, with its | 1 its thousands who are asking, | —this great multitude, numer- ea, in which you live, among where you area father, or brother or mother or sister ; where you are employer or employed ; where you are thrust out every di whether you ‘will or not, to do worldly and physi | duties. How are you going to say “4 WILL ABANDON ALL THESE THINGS to bea Christian? I will have no cares. Where there | tions are gotten rid of, | should be the watchword. | in a receptive state and our eyes facing the light, This | quently, each jeading into the others, The spiritual 4 sight has no boundary, Iv is capable of increasing and | widening its vision as it Ig educated, even to the eternal | world. Constant improvement can be made in this spiritual sight, and it should be the desire of all to | attain this ond, that more of the order and harmony of | the breadth and extent of the universe which God has eveated may be known. The obstacles that prevent this | should be removed, for they are many. Indifference is the more prominent of these. Men won't see for themselves. They allow others to lead them, saying they cannot see things c! aud are | willing to trust to the guidance of th can, The | Lord put us here to see and we should make good use of our spiritual sight’ Truth was created to be geen, | and He wants us to see it, The next obstacle of im- portance to the full insight of the spiritual church is prejudice, This ts A gfeat difficulty with which we fave to contend, and it#howld be overcome. Another j diflienity is that we have imbibed false doctrines, Spir- itual things cannot be seen clearly until all false no. Diligence in seeking the truth Jur minds should be Kept is all the Lord asks of us, and improvement will foliow. | If those who come to the New Church will only sce things as they are there is no fear that they will turn away, but they will remain and at last say “they were | blind, but now see.” FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE COURSE AND EFFECT OF THE KEVIVAL— SERMON OF REV. MR. ARMITAGE. There was a large attendance at the Fifth Avenue | Baptist church yesterday morning, despite the | threatening weather. Dr. Armitage preached from the | way, the trath and the light, As NOVEMBER 22, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. God took the frase own it rebuild It, ed ‘ioe eb fi the men oui and r fm Cog od is pet >. to see backed by orn earning snd inf iding by erned by men of learning an uence, aidiny ir wordé of kindness and cheer the apféad of the Gospel, this deep religious fervor of the present time will remain for ages to come, and angels will re- Joice over us and sing glad hallelujabs to the Lord God ‘omnipotent who reigneth forever and forever, 8ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. COMMENCING THE FORTY HOURS’ DEVOTION. ‘The dull misty Weather and the falling rain yester- day morning had no visible effect on the congregation at St. Stephen’s church. The spacious temple was crowded to repletion, many of those present being un- able to even find seats. The high altar, as well as the side altar ef Joseph and Mary, was brilliantly illumi. nated and tastefully decorated with floral designs. Solemn high mass was sung, commencing at half-past ten, with Rey. Fatner McGlynn’as the celebrant, Father Macready ag Deacon, Father Byron, sub-deacon, ang Fatner Costigan master of ceremonies. Owing to the extreme length of the service no sermon was preached, but before the end of the mass Father McGlynn, in eloquent terms, exhorted his hearers to take advan- tage of the means of grace afforded by the forty hours? devotion which they were about to commence. He said that this devotion was in commemoration of the suflerings of the Saviour before He gave up His life on the cross, Never in the most frenzied dream of human lovers has the imagination conceived of such a perfect, all absorbing love, as that which Jesus Christ displayed toward poor suffering humanity, When, at the last supper, He took bread and blessed it, and said, €, eat, this is my body; and when He took wine and gaid, Take, drink, this is my blood, He, the Son of God, who created all things, was not powerless to execute the designs He had conceived toward man- kind, The exhortation was in reality an exposition of the real presence of the body and blood of Christ under the ‘‘thin veil of the sacrament,’? ‘ A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE, At the conclusion of the mass it was announced that tho procession of the blessed sacrament would begin. The doors on each side of the high altar were opencd, and as the organist performed an exquisite march there slowly came in from the sacristy about fifty little girls arrayed im white, some of them, however, carrying baskets lincd with scarlet tilled with rose leaves. The rest carried in one hand a bouquet of scarlet and white flowers, while with the other they held aloft a lighted taper. | On the head of each was a wreath of laurel leaves and clematis, from which suspended a was destroy 2 long flowing veil. ‘As they met in front of the altar three acolytes came down and led the procession, the middle one holding ‘a crucifix, As the ‘procession moved along the aisle was thickly strewn with the- white rose leaves, Follow- ing the girls were fifty acolytes in surplices of black and scarlet and purple, with white laco cassocks. Then came a magnilivent silk canopy, studded with gilt stars, carried by eight young gentie- men of the congregation. Under this were the dea- cons, the censers aud the officiating clergy, Dr. Me- Glynn, in an attitude of profound devotion, holding up insight of all the blessed sacrament. The procession slowly wended its way down the centre aisle and back again to the altar. The host was then exposed on the tabernacle and the Litany of the Saints was chanted. A more beautiful picture than was presented it is not possible to imagine. Down on their knees before the altar were the priests in their magnilicent robes, the deacons in their suits of sombre black, the acolytes in searlet and purple and the girls in virginal white, A thousand gas jets and tapers flashed out their light, the blaze of which was dimmed by the shadowy cloud of incense with whieh the altar was surrounded. Alto- gether it was a scene bewildering to the senses, and, if not calculated to awaken devotional feelings, would certainly impress the looker-on with the the pomp and power nd glory of the Church of Rome. The forty pours? devotion willend with the mass whioh will be sung to-morrow at ten o'clock. A plenary indulgence will be granted to ali who faitnfully perform the duty. TWENTY-FOURTH STREET METHO- DIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. DR. J. A. M, CHAPMAN ON THE NECESSITY OF FAITH. At the Twenty-fourth strect Methodist Episcopal chureb the Rev, J. A. M, Chapman spoke from the eleventh chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Heb: ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, tho evidence of things not seen.’? We need faith to bring us into sympathy with Christ. The cross !s God’s measure of estimate for the souls of men. We needa firm conviction of the sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice for the human soul. God, who is watchful in providing all things—who gives us the light, the sunshine, rain, flowers, and healthful changes of the seasons; He who knows our minutest natural and artificial wants; He who has provided the wonder- ful phenomena of nature for our delight and preserva- tion; in His infinite goodness and mercy, if we Uo*but observe His ways, put our trust’ in His Son, our Saviour, will surely lead us on to the in truthfulness and sincerity of faith what you will from Him and it shall be done unto you accordingly. Why should wo feed upon crumbs of faith when the table is loaded with abundance from heaven? Why should we go miscrably ciad when it isin our power to put on the purest of white linen, to drape our souls in the garments of Christ’s faith? And it is infinitely consoling above all things to know that God’s mercy and forgiviness are great chough and magnanimous enough to forget— to blot out—the ging of the veriest sinner from the re- pentant thief on the cross, even to the despairing Mag- dalene. Oh! joy of joys, to think that in this great sinful city there is not one soul so black but that faith in the blood of Christ can wash white as the driven snow. CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION. ADDRESS BY BISHOP HARE—HE IS TAKEN SUD- DENLY ILL IN THE PULPIT. A fashionable congregation assembled last evening in the Church of the Transfiguration, in Twenty ninth | street, near Fifth avenue, tor the purpose of hearing a | discourse delivered by Right Rey. William H. Hare, Missionary Bishop of Niobrara, This revorend gentle- man has been a long time ofMciating in the Indian country. Bishop Hare commenced his discourse last evening by thanking his hearers, on behalf of himseif and colaborers, for their support of the mission, He then sketched gome of the difficulties of missionary labors. He alluded to the work in the Fiji Islands among the negrocs and the Indiana, Ho then dilated upon the intellectual studies of this human race since the days of Adam up to the present time. After continuing his remarks for abort ten | minutes, he descended from the pulpit, complained of | being unwell, and asked the congregation to sing a | hymn. He retired to the vestry, but was not able to réturn at the conclusion of the singing. ‘The officiating an then made an appeal on behalf of the Nio- , and a collection was taken up. ‘The gervicos were concluded about nine o'clock. Inquiry of one of the church officials developed the | information that Bishop Hare's illness was not serious, He had merely fainted from exhaustion, haying been in poor health for some time past, “AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.” THE CATHOLICS DENOUNCED AS MIES OF | OUR FREE INSTITUTIONS—OSCAR HUGO ON | THE ‘EVERLASTING MICHAEL.” A large audience assembled in the Second Presbyte- rian church, in Jersey City, yesterday afternoon to hear the Rev. Oscar Hugo on “America for free schools | and free Bible, but not for Gray Nuns, priestly pro- tectorics and black Jesuits,” He began with a bitter | complaint that several pastors denied him the use of their churches in Ohio because some of the mem- bere of their congregations, who were candidates for political office, might Jose votes, Some told him not to come round till after election, ‘This proves,” said be, ‘that the Popo is secking to establish his power over the American people. But when I came to Cleve | is a trouble J will drop it.” That is, if the nerve aches | tex, found in Acts ii., 46 and 47:—‘‘And they, continu. , Jand I found a people who are determined to keep the cut it off. Christ did not eay that a man should be taken out of the world, but that he should perform al) big duties in the world with the exalted spirit that | should glorify their everyday life. The world is tocome | up; nature 18 not to be forever simply the opprobryous | | footstool on which philosophers shall wipe their feet. LT regard the doctrine of being a better man by getting | out of the way of temptation as a coward’s doctrine, WHAT IS ENJOYMENT? | Itis thought, too, that ifa man becomes a Christian | the world in the matter of pleasure—that worldly | plonsures are not for a Christian man. Well, what do | you mean by worldly pleasures? Why, ‘company, dancing and festive enjoyment. Where ‘do you get your conception of that? When God arranged the juspiration of Moses for the worship | of His people all their meetings were prolonged | with feascings and enjoyment such as the world has | | never seen #ince. We have fallen into asceticism tn | | our day. The Christian sbould make the distinction between bimself and the worldly man by coming to | pleasures from higher motives, not by abandoning them, Am Ito see the devil's slaves running away | with the pleasure of this world and I not to touch it? ‘Take all the pleasure you will, but let it be a pleagire that makes you sofler, better, more generous, more nie, and that gives you the elasticity and the grace at belongs to the birds of the air when they sing going heavenward. Until a recent period the devil owned all the music of our age; all the art there was in the world, mostly all the wit and a great deal larger share of the literature, These higher influences of the soul had been suffered to slip into the hands of | the adversary of men, and St was left to us to have bare walls and ironclad duties and to waik grimly through lifo, hoping that by and by we shoald get all our | pay in the life to come. 1 want to see this world made nd listen to its music, most of | bright for tho Lord Jesus and every clement In this | world mado to the hor betls on ie Lord,’” } peak for Christ, and the ver; | # to be jaseribed, “Holiness unto PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, | DISHONESTY IN PUBLIC LIFE—A SERMON BY MATTHEW HALE SMITH. In the Park Congregational church Matthew ever ri be re] it, but, e wei on With | Hale Smith delivered the third of his course of xexmana } joy is truly tou the joy of the heart, You recetloat ing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with glad- | ness and singleness of heart. Praising God and having | favor with all the people, And the Lord added to the Church daily such as sbould pe | The whole spirit of this text, said the prencher, is | an exhibition of delight. In the first marked advance- ing seemed to have nad | nothing oratorical, charming or learned about it, But the writer of the Acts of the Aposties laid hold of the Spirit of God, of the resurrection and of Jove, and with | earnestness said, “I Velieve these words,” and he | the is of the people. deluge ot bring greater | Tral, misery to the people than the forty 3 of Christ's | The disciples waited for absence from ainong: them. the gift of the Holy Ghost according to the teachings of their h ts, The Jewish rulers had brought ther | food and their idos to the synagogue to worship and to keep the passover, when suddenly there came from heaven the ‘spirit od, rushing | like mighty winds, and they h it of God, as Voices di g upon | tt erced their very soulg, | | A personal happiness in- volved in conversion and exhorting mento come to Christ, the speaker sald he did.not believe there Was a city in the United States that does not abound with the Jove of Criss HVEN THE CITY OF BROOKE | to-day is better, happier, richer, because God has been there and her citizens have been tnade free men. A short time ago they were fuil of expectation and it became ir they wore lifted out of the miry clay, and to day they rejoice they were disfranchised citizens, but | by the help of God, broken their bondage, and joy, honor and happiness ensue, My dear friends, there isnot @ man among you who, if he saw a ship: wreck, would not launch his lifeboat and struggle to fave one fellow being, and, when he had saved him, would shout, “I've saved @ man! I’ve saved a man!” How much ‘more, then, stould you rejoice when you eave to society, to God, and to raiment; your soul white a wear and | bat as individuals, | zens, Pope from crossing the ocean The fight has only com- menced, and it will be waged for ten years, The bish- ops and priests see that they made a@ great mistake in being too hasty; they were ‘a few years too soon. | Archbishop Bayley, the ablest Catholic prelate in this country, and an American by birth, realizes this, and he is about to issue a manifesto setting forth that bishops like Purcell, of Cincinnati; McQuade, of Rochester, and Corrigan, of—well, ome place or other, are not opposed to the public schools as bishops, Individuals! bah! (closing his | left eye and bringing bis fore finger to the tip of his nose, an attitude which provoked great’ merri- ment). The Pope claims in this country | 6,000,000 of subjects. Subjects, mark you, not | Joyal citizens of this country, So thata man cannot be his su be aloyal citizen, No man can rve (Wo Mm Géd and the Pope, (Roars of laughter.) Only one man in history tried to serve two masters, and he sig- nally failed, MEWENT AND TANGED HIMSELP, which I hope the Jesuits will do one of these days, (Renewed laughter.) The Catholics say, We are citi. Citizens indeed! Precious citizens they are! This country would be much better off without thom, The public schools are the only chanvels in which we can consolidate all the foreign elements into one American, non-sectarian people, The people, opposed to the Bibie,are composed chiefly of that class that fills our jails, Eight years ago the ery against our schools was that they were Protestant, Three years ago there wae a change of captains, and the cry went furth that our schools were Godless, A priest in St. Louis, two years ago, when addressing a benevolent convention, said that he was opposed to — the_~—‘public— schools because | they were criminal institutions that turned out pick- | pockets, burglars and murdere Well, 1 would like | to know what kind of people the priestly schvols turn out. inte, of course! (Laughter), Who are the houses of prostitution and | gambling dens? Why, the saints of the Catholic | Church, (Laughter). ‘ake up th RRALD ever! | morning and read the list of criminals arrested for all | sorts cf offences, and what names do you find’ Some- thing like these, Michael O'Brien, Michael O'Reill Michael J Michaa) thie ‘Michael that. | keepers of ram shops, nal a everlasting Michael everywhere. (Convalsive laughter), lam ‘The priest is not, He cannot become one without committing perjury. A priest put his fist to m: oll Amilo ag Mogi ng 9h jumed fo enter a jail in rier wes aM) oe one of my religion, af all the ners belonged to his flock. (Laughier.) Tbe glorious American ma- jority of 41,000 rolled up in this State on the constitu. tional amendments shows that the people of New Jor- sey are determined that America shall be for the Americans, not for the Pope and the Jesuits. (Ap- Plause. ) ‘the speaker continued in this vein for three- quarters of an hour. He gave a humorous sketch of the conference between Vicar General Quinn and the com- mittee of the New York Board of Equcation on the Proposition to incorporate the Catholic with the public schools, The lecture was repeated in the evening in United Presbyterian church 1p this the Seventh avenue city. DR. STORRS REMAINS IN BROOKLYN. At the forenoon services held in the Church of the Pilgrims, yesterday, the anxiety of the parishioners of Rev. Dr, Storrs regarding his proposed acceptance of the call from the Brick Presbyterian church of Now York, was set at rest by the announcement which he made from the pulpit before he commenced his ser- mon, that he had decided to remain as their pastor, There was applause, upon this announcement, among the congregation, THE EXHIBITION OF 1876, tL Bal SESE ES IMPORTANT CIRCULAR TO EXHIBITORS FROM THE BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION. Pamapxirata, Noy. 21, 1875, The following circular will be issued by the Centen- nial Commissioner to-morrow. It is of importance to exhibitors, especially as it cancels and revokes @ pro- vious order upon the subject of transportation of good: Unive States CENTENNIAL Commission, INPERNATIONAL ExuipitjoN 1876, PHUADELPHIA, Burwau Ov TRANSPORTATION, ‘ ‘TO RXHLBITORS, First—The general recoption of articles at. the Ix. hibition buildings will commence January 5, 1876, and close on ae 19, 1876. Machinery and other heavy articles will be admitted as goon ag the spocial fodnda- tions for them are prepared, and it is desirable that ores be in place prior to the reception of other exhibits. Second—In boxing gooas for the Exhibition screws should be used instead of nails. Yhird—Each package must be marked, “To the Di- rector General, International Exhibition of 1876, at Philadelphia,” and should be marked on two adjoining sides, giving the following information:—Name of the exhibitor; siding at which to be unloaded; specific lo- cation allotted to the exhibitor; weight of the package; total number of packages seut by tho exhibitor; serial number of the particular package; within each pack- 4 age should be a list of articles and a copy of the out+ side directions; each package should contain only arti- clos for a single department, Norw.—To facilitate the deliv there have been constructed wi several lines of lines are of packages 60 marke ‘4 ha Exhibition pens ent points on these y for the delivery of articles to be exhibite late vicinity. Hach ing isdesignated by anumber, and the address label oF tag on each article or patkage must give the number of the siding at which it ig to be delivered. Tho address label Should algo state she location “in tho building in which the article is to be exhibited, in accordance with the systom for designating localities, as follows ;— Each column within the b lettered bered; the letters designating th of wise from east to west, and the number the lit from north to south. "Each exibitor will hi defined with referenee to the directory of the building will git this system. Fourth—The exceptional arrangements made by the United States Centennial Commission with transport tion companies do not in avy way affect the regular rules of such companies in regard to the classification of goods, or the conditions of receiving or transportin; the same, except in requiring the prepayment o! freight. ‘lhe rates for transporting goods for the Exhi- bition will be obtained from the po pec of: the transpor- tation companies at the place of shipment and not at Philadelphia. Fifth—Through bills ot lading shoutd be obtained, so that goods will, without any attention by tho shipper, be sent direct to the exhibition. ‘They must show the precise route by which the articles or packages are to be transported, specifying in detail every road over which the freight is shipped from the pot of starting to Philadelphia, so that it may bo returned by tho see route ag received. If forwarded by water, the line transporting it must be named. A duplicate copy of the bill of jading must be mailed by the shipper to the Chief of the Bureau of Transportation, United States Centen- nial Commission, Philadelphia; and letters of advice should also be forwarded, giving information of the shipments made and full particulars in regard to articles of bulky dimensions or excessive weight, Sizth—The transportation, receiving, unpacking, ar- ranging, repacking, and reshipping of the goods ex- hibited, ‘also the storage and ropair of empty cases, will be at the expense of the exhibitor. Seventh—For the purpose of making a complete rec- ord of allexlibits admitted to the Exhibition, and to secure efficiency, order and despatch in their reception and installation, all packages on arrival at the Exhibi- tion enclosure will be received by the Chiet of the Bureau of Transportation. They will then be unloaded and placed on the space allotted to the exhibitor; and at the close of the Extubition they will, when ré- packed, be removed from the buildings. For this ser- view, which the United States Centennial Commissfon will unpertake especially for the accommodation of ex- hibitors, a torminal charge will be made, which will bo as follows;—On cach separate article or package weigh- ing 500 ds or Jess, $1; on each separate article or package Weighing over 500 pounds, twenty cents per 100 pounds. Articles weighing over 10,000 pounds, fragile articles, plate glass, &o, will be subject to an additional charge after arrival ‘at the Exhibition, to cover the extra cost of handling if any, There will be no terminal charge on exhibits of livestock. Empty cases and packing materials will be handled and stored whe: Done tor an additional charge to cover the expense thereof, Eigith—Goods must be free from all charges incident to their transportation when received at the Exhibition enclosure, and the terminal charge must be prepaid: Ninth—The customs regulations, issued by the Seo- retary of the Treasury of the United States, permit, after transportation entry has been made, the imme- diate transportation, to Philadelphia, of goods im- ported from foreign countries, They will be trans- ported by bonded line from the port of arrival to Philae delphia, and delivered to the Collector at that city, where Warehouse entry is required in all . The customs regulations for these goods must be strictly complied with. Tenth—If no authorized person is at hand to open and arrango the goods in the Exhibition building, they | will be removed and stored at tho cost and risk of whomsoever it may concern. Eleventi—The Exhibition will close the 10th of No- vember, 1876. The removal of goods will not be per- mitied prior to that date, and must be completed bi fore the dist of Decem 1876. Goods then remain- | ing will be removed by the Director General and sold | for expenses, or otherwise disposed of under the direc- tion of the United States Centennial Commission, Circular No. 107 is hereby cancelled. : The Centennial Commission reserves the right to ex- plain or amond these regulations whenever it may be deemed necessury for the interests of the Exhibition, A, T. GOSHORN, Director General. D. Torrey, Chief of Burcau of Transportation. CENTENNIAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Active preparations are being made by the New Jersey State Board of Education to have a good repre- sentation of the public schools at the Centennial. The | Board will hold a conference this afternoon with the teachers of the schools in Jersey City. 1t is proposed | to have the inore prominent school buildings photo. graphed, as well as class rooms, with teachers and pupils at work. Books will algo be furnished, in which and nui ns len, 2 | spocimen compositions will be written, THE BURNED FERRYBOAT. The hulk of the burned steamer D, ‘R, Martin still lies at the Coast Wrecking Company’s dock, Stapleton. Passengers who have usually patronized the opposition line were compelied to travel by the old line on Friday and Saturday, although they were promised a boat on Saturday morning by Commodore Garner. There seems to be considerable speculation as to who are the real owners of the Martin. RAVAGES OF DIPHTHERIA. There seems to be but little abatement of diphtheria | among children in Jersey City. During the past three days three families lost two children each, Two child. | ren of Mr, Jaines G, Haskins will be buried this after. noon, from Grace church, corner of Erie and Second streets, The old residents state that the mortality from this diseaso was never so great within their mem- ory. nt ANOTHER SING SING ESCAPE. As foreshadowed in the HeRatp a few days since, the impending discharge of almost the entire force of guards and keepers at Sing Sing Prison apout New Year's, consequent dpon the accession to power of a democratic administration, is being utilized by the convicts, most of whom are doubtless anxious to get away oven before their custodians are dismissed. Since the election some'six or eight of the jailbirds have uns ceremoniously walked away from the prison, the last, who was employed there as one of the State barbers, making his escape on Saturday afternoon. He was not miased until locking up time in the evening, at which hour a rigid search of the prison grounds and immedi- ate "ie feb ended proved futile, It is believed tl the escaped man procured a suit of citizen's clothes, and was thus enabled to pass the guards without exciting suspicion. THE DOCK DISASTER, To Tue Eprror or tie Herato;— Your reporter was misinformed as to the condition of the ship Thomas Lord, which was in the sectional dry dock at the time that structure fell, “The ship was not “strained,” but had been simply placed on the dock to have new copper put on, to complete her class by the Rureau Veritas, She wasin excellent condition, Instead of several hundred tons of ballast being on board there were scarcely 120 tons—just eno oo tery, - EVANGELIZATION. Continuing the Good Work ob Moody and Sankey. SERVICES IN THIS AND NEIGHBORING OVTIES, AT THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY. The announcement made through the press that the Rey. Frederick A, Bell would open a series of revival, meetings at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, at-, tracted to that building about 2,000 people yesterday forenoon. The services were commenced at half-past ten o'clock, with the singing of bymn No, 101 of the revival collection :— All hail the power of Jesus’ name. ‘The losson read was from Hebrews, twelfth chapter—= “For whom the Lord loveth Ho chasteneth.”” Am T a soldier of tho Cross, ‘A follower of the lawh t be, Hymn No. 116 was next sung, the congrogation joine ing in the chorus. Ip reading the notices before the sermon Mr. Bell said there would be preaching at the Academy of Musi¢ every Sunday morning and evening till further notice, ‘There would also be services overy evening, excepé Saturdays, inthe Park avenue church, These revival services would be under the direction of Rev. Mr/ Spurr and himself, ig evening there will be “‘m regular old fashioned love feast,” to which all who have souls and who want to save them aro cordially inyited, After a liberal collection Bir, Boll said it had been aid by tho press that there would bo MANY DUTATIONS OF MOODY AND SANKRY, Re would say just this upon that point, whoever hy to imitate anybody would makes miserable failure o! it Mr, Bell then, in a clear, ringing voice, sang “Hold: a Fort,” the assemblage rising and joining im the: 4'g0 FORWARD! Go rORWARD!”” i were tho words chosen for the text, from Exodus, xiv.) 15, He said this very significant text is connected with’ the deliverance of the Israelites trom tho land of Egypt after experiencing many miraculous escapes in Rae journey. Thi: Rinpenid of the Scripturo is of giorious interest, Nobody ever read a novel half so interesting as the deliverance of the Israelites, But ho wanted to leave the children of Isracl and tg say to all who had made a profession of fuith in this re- vival that they aro o.. the way to the mangion of the Lord. In their journey they are pursued by enemies,- it is true, but they must go forward to deliverance, te was not truo that the Christian did not care for the sal-! yation of the soul of the sinner, That was not so; they, loved that soul, but they hated the sin which bad ‘pole luted it. They desired to help and save sinners. To them they recommended a friend and a brother—in: Christ crucified, Christ died for all sinners while the; were yot His en@mies. To those who were converted’ he would gay, "Love your enemies,’’ It is hard and diffeult, it is true, but if Shey abide by the text, “Go. forward,” it will not be har * When the Duke of Hamilton was dying he called hig, son and read to him that passage of the Scripture, ‘4 have fought the good fight,’’ 4c. To his brother he said, “Douglass, in a little time you shall be a duke; BUT I SHALL BE A KING’? ‘The Eope which euch a Christian expressed wi @ sure hope in heaven, Then ‘go forward.” Ho love for Christ sweetens energy in the cause of roligion. gives tho highest zest to lite, The speaker had only just begun to live since his own conversion, Some ono had said,’ “Love covers @ multitude of sins’? It hides the soars and encourages the young convert, Tho speaker exhorted his hearers tobe firm in their determination to (iH forward in the cause of righteous¢ ness. He urged them to guard against ever going back. again to tho City of Destruction. asked tho assemblage to pray for the success of the. movemont. All they asked was that they might press a ae the fort” aud take the city of Brooklyn for rist. A prayer and tho Doxology terminated the services,, the congregation rising to sing. SERVICES IN THX EVENING. In point of numbers the evening services inthe Brooklyn Academy were a complete success. By half ast seven every seat tn the house was occupied, and Petes the services commenced it became necessary ta close the doors, s0 great was the crowd. Rev. Fred. Bell opened with prayer, after which the hymn com- mencing In eonclusion he The great physician now {s near was sung, after which Mr. Bell announced the object of the series of revival meetings which they had inaugu- rated, After an earnest appeal for Lberal donations to, the baskets which were being circulated Mr. Bell preached from Ezra, xxii. ‘The hand of our God i¢ upon all them thar seek him." The discourso was al- versified with anecdotes and solo singing by the preacher, and at its conclusion an appeal was made for sinners seeking the Saviour to stand up, but without eliciting any very hearty response. The services wero concluded with the singing of the Doxology and the pro« nouncing of the benediction by Mr. Bell, AT ASSOCIATION HALL. The seryices at Association Hall last evening were moderately well attended, but owing doubtless to the unpropitious weather the congregation was not more than sufficient to occupy the lower floor. The galleries were entircly deserted. The first baif hour was de- voted, as had been announced, to ‘‘a service of song.’ ‘The opening hymn consisted of the frst four vorses of the hymn, ‘Tis the promise of God, fall salvation to give Unto him whom Jesus, his son, will believe, Tho next selection was two verses of hymn No. 16;~< “Free from the law, oh happy condition!” which was followed by the singing of parts of the hymns 62, 56 and 92. This closed the service of song, whereupon a collection was taken up forthe benefit of the missionar; fund of the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States, The Rev. Wendell Prime then offered prayer, whieh was followed by tho singing of tho 102d hymna. He then read a portion of the Scriptures, consisting of the 10lst Psalm and the fifteenth a sa! of Mark, and, commenced his sermon, choosing for his subject the reviling of Christ by the Jews as exemplified in the, thirty-first and thirty-second verses of the fifteenth chapter of Mark. ‘The preacher commenced by calling attention to the lessons suggested by the verses of the text and the fact that all the four evangelists gave accounts of the Saviour’s crucifixion; but they had omitted to say anything of His physical sufferings. All we have in that regard is contained in the ono word, “crucify.” Matthew and Luke give us de- tails of what Ho suffered from men’s contempt and hate. They tell us how the passers-by reviled Him in the words of the text. This was to be expected of the thieves_who were crucified with Him aud from the soldiers, but the scribes and chief priests were men of learning. They were the aristocracy, and not mercly » political power, These wero the that kindled the fire that now burns so flercely. The preacher here went on to point out the benefits of education and the, necessity that exists of its being properly applied and not perverted. He thought the day not far distant: when the educational system of the country would be a purely secular one, for, said he, it is no duty of the government to furnish the people with religious instruction; that belongs to the Chureh. He howeven called attention to the danger that might arise by: adding to, or the taking away from, the words of the Scripture, for by adding to God’s word will surely add to superstition, just as surely as taking away trom it will inevitably lead to infldelity. Let us, therefore, take heed how we hear, and be ready to cast out all those as pretenders who claim to exercise equal au- thority over our hearts and lives, PRICE'S PRAYING BAND. Yesterday morning unconventional revival servicog were commenced in the Seventeenth street Method! church, under the direction of a praying band, AG half-past ten o'clock the exercises opened with the hyma I need Thee every hour, after which one of the participating clergymen delivered an earnest prayer, as follows:—-‘‘0 Lord, our heavenly, Father, we thank Thee for thy mercy seat, Wo thank ‘Thee for this blessed privilege of prayer, Come to us, Uthou Spirit of the Holy Ghost, and prepare every human foul for @ profitable awakening to thi Lord. Thou art a friend of sinners, Thy name Jesus, Let us be able to truly. say that tho blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed us from sin, May, we feel that the world is our parish, and go about seck-. ing the lost sheep of Israel, Find out the unconverted in this house, and make an earthquake in thoir rebel- lious hearts; strike them down as Thou didst Saul off ‘Tarsus, until they shall acknowledge Thee!” ‘After this invocation the leader of the oxhorters asked that all who desired prayers for themselves, their familios or friends, should state their requests," Upon this ensued a most touching scene; brother arose in different parts of the house and besough ors for prodigal and erring sons; husbands} Praeeal tio grace ef God for wives und wives {or husbands; @ negro woman arose at tho back of tho church and in well chosen language desired the prayers: of the godly for the liquor sellers of New York, who were sowipg the seeds of so much sin and scattering so much esblation in our homes, There wero hymna sung, and many persons went up to the altar to pray for conversion, One of the praying band said he had been awakened in the Parker House {a Boston by God Himsolf—ho had communion during the whole night with the Godhead, the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost—and in an excited and enthusiastic manner the brother discoursed of the rapture and delight he ox. perienced in such communion, ‘Tho services were concluded by singing the Doxology, and after the usual bgoediction was pronounced the congregation adjourned to meet again at three o'clock in the afternoon and at seven o'clock in the evening, The revival at this church promises good fruit. FREE METHODIST HALL, There are sinners in Gowanus, but there are none in even that beautiful section of South Brooklyn who ever keop her baie BENNER, Owe, | [CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE.)