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Imagination the Poetry of Prophecy. GRUMBLING A NATIONAL . VIRTUE. Cardinal McCloskey’s Greeting to His Flock. Commemoration of the Late Vice President’s Virtues. Long Life Not Always To Be Desired by Public Men. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. PROGRESS IN CHRISTIAN LIFE—SERMON OF REV, MR, HEPWORTH. ‘The Church of the Disciples was crowded to over- flowing yesterday morning. Mr. Mepworth took his text from Hebrews, xi, §—"By faith Abrabam, when he was called to go out into @ place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.’ The burden of the whole epistie to the Hebrews, said Mr. Hepworth, is faith, not in God, but im Christ Jesus, Bt. Paul tries to convince the Hebrews by their own record that the prophecy had calminated in the manger at Bethiehem, and he demanded that they should be- lieve in Lord Jesus, glorified by the cross, with the same faith which drew their hearts to their kings and patriarchs and prophets If you will allow me to read you @ few passages to which Paul made reference, we shall all discover the character of that faith of which Paul speaks with such sentiment and eloquence. ‘Abraham departed as the Lord told him.’ Thatis the first record of the covenant which God made with Isaiah, and are not to suppose Abraham accepted it without a struggle. His home was entirely Batisfactory, yet, in answer to the call of God, he ‘willingly obeyed, and followed the silent and mysteri- ous voice; and this faith isso large and beautiful that ‘the record of it is one of the tenderest ‘ts of the Old Sonament Mi. Hepworth ape Teak the Mary of Abraham offering up his son Isaac, That, he said, is ‘one of the spiritual tragedies in the bistory of a great peers, and it does my heart good to feel that Abraham but a type of the natural human heart, It is natural for man to have faith. Man does not naturally dis- believe. History will tell you that all anbeliet and INPIDRLITY ARB THE RESULT OF EDUCATION and culture. Go back in the earliest ages and you find there the sweetest faith in God. It is unbroken by any doubt, Faith is imdigenous in the soul, one of the nat- ural products of the human heart, You stand in place of God to your little ones, for they have no self-reliance. Belf-reliance comesafter childhood. Dispelling childish Mlusions is one of the saddest things in life, There is atime when you believe in every’ and then the reaction comes and you believe in nobody; and you need in that hour help from God, that you may not be feft in the midst of the dark problem, but be led into the upper land. We must go farther. We cannot re- main in the pleasant fields of childhood, and we make the passage generally as the children of Israel did into the land of bondage, That is the next step of educa- tion and disexpline, How curious it is that every ono Ws captive, As Egypt held Israel, so THE WORLD HOLDS YOU AND MR. Perhaps to-day there isnot afree soul in this build- ing—not one who has accepted the conditious of the proclamation God has made. When we get into the world how terrible its pressure is! It is a hard task- master. Our universal doom rests with leaden weight on us all the time, bow when we close our eyes in the sleep that knows no ‘ing do we know peace, See bow this lel is carried out in the Hebrews. “The Egyptians made their life bitter in bondage, in all man- ner of service in the field.” That is the way the world ses us There is very little satisfaction to be had out ‘of it. The man who knows nothing of the real wealth, of where thieves do not break through and steal, ia poor, indeed. But it is said in next ehay that it came to pass that the king of pt died, and the children of Israel sighed con- cerning their’ bondage. I suppose ten thousand men have sald, when they were i. in their business, “The time shall come when J will look invo religion; this world is not satisfactory.” Oh, how strangely wo mistake things! Itis no uso to eay “I am hungry or thirsty.” & SNATCH THE BREAD AS YOU GO. If this Christian religion which promises rest gives Fest, let us have it We need it not when we are filty ‘or sixty years old, but we need it while we are making the rep God is never absent. You may be lim, but He is never strangeto you. He may be helping you all the time while you are unthaa! ful and unmind/ul, pursuing your own way. Whata marvel and mystery God is. But the greatest mys- tery is, after all, His iove, His forbearance and long suffering, There is a magic in Christianity, a super- ere ree im the ministry of Christ, and that min- istry did not end when He was laid in the tomb. He an keep His promises to-day far better than He could to the people of Israel, God is always near, and the Father's yearns for love of His children, I ‘would we could feel that if only we could have a thor- ough apprectation of the fact that God yearns toward us Suppose all on this planet would throw up their ands and say, “Thine, and Thine alone,” all heaven, wi MAGNIFICENT SURPRISE, ‘would throw back the answer to earth and lift us up on high to Him who is the light of life. The Israel were led out by Moses and the Lord into the wilderness. I have a strong impression that ou apd I must go through the wilderness foro we get to the promised land. We live in Egypt and cannot go to Jerusalem with- ‘Out crossing the desert, and only after mach suffering shall we earn the right to crose the Jordan, Many a man has found God in his misery, when he never found Him in his happiness. In this e God made another promise. The children of Israel were Jed out of the wilderness, and then Sinai lifted its hoary head and a voice was heard. Some time we shall seo our Sinai and hear the rumbling of the thunder and the voice eay, “I will lead thee.” Wehave the faith of childhood to begin with—the captivity out of which God will lead us. We must get out of Egypt and go into the wilderness, and then we shall have the pillar of cloud and fire to lend us We want to cry out of our need, and we get closest to God when we can- mot get close to any one else, But shall a man Btay always in the desert? No. When a man carries Bis faith with bim he can go anywhere, Abraham is our childhood; Egypt is our manhood; Sinai and the desert come next, and then, after all is done, Jordan | and the green grass of the promised land.’ Where areyou? Some in Abraham, most of us in Egypt, fome of us are going through the desert, some of us | are near to God and ready to puss over. God be thanked we diseern the perfume of the green fields al- ready; but, from beginning to end, not a promise bas een broken. God is always kind and always sure, MASONIO HALL. “THE DECREASE OF THANKSGIVING”—NATIONAL GRUMBLING AS A SIGN OF NATIONAL REGEN- ERATION—SERMON BY 0. 1B. PROTHINGHAM. Why it is that we give no more thanks than we do, | and why it is that we should give thanks, was what Mr. Frothingham attempted to show yesterday, His discourse was, as usual, extremely discursive, and its climax was rather unexpected, showing him to be a | believer in thanksgiving after all. With what indifference we look upon the starry heavens! If but a single star appeared once in a long ‘while how enraptured we should be! It is not the Deity trooping in at the front door, but at the back door that we welcome. We express no gratitude to the Divine Giver for His best gift, Our ancestors used to talk of the blessings of the earth as His “gifts,” but this superstition has gone. Have we friends? We ows them to such amiable qualities ag we may possess, Have we bealth? It has beep gained at the sacrifice of abnegation and at the cost of much pleasure, Have we children? How much has it not cost us to rear and nurture them? This is the way in which we look now at the blessings of the world. GIFTS THAT MUST BR RARNED, In our food a gift? See how the farmer battles with difMeulties innumerable, and when the crop bas at last been snatched from the very jaws of death, as it were, thas to go through the many processes that must make it food. Your very apples, pears, grapes, aro not Kiftse—we make them. The orchard must be educated; the grapes are instructed beliind the giasa, The earth Was not a gif. A planet was given, a rocky, scorched, Dhistered globe, and man placed upon it—a little being With bis two bands—who bas made out of this planet ‘Bhabitable earth, Man hes gubdued its oceans, jt Volcanoes, ite furious elements, and if man's labor ‘Were to be stopped only for one week ail life must perish. How the everlasting battle gos on with the | ‘worm, the gr: hopper, the mildew, the blight! The Fase “mother oath’ oan only be applied to aSparta Amother who feeds her sons on black bread and water. WHAT WH NEKD NOT THANK Por. ‘ as wre be said, God has given ua the mind, the hon With which we can subdue the clomenta. “But ese SeRSEB and qualities must be educated. Who was ‘ever born with wai « perfect wisdom and discretion? Col- Jeges and Must be founded to impart to man of employing the God like qualities ‘which he has been given. In is only in the countries fp which these institutions flourish that man’s intelli- ence soars above the brutigh and iow. No, we cannot ven shank God for memory, conscience, imind, soul, for all these have been educated, and we know with what dificuity, » And so thaukegiving Goases, and ingtead of praises to le of | ; ences; we are beings; ‘we are all ‘thus stopping to count our gains, there are afew improvements which 1 may now as causes of thankfulness. WHAT WE SEED THANK FOR, In the first place. the abundant supply of food. This may seem a shght matter at first, but it is only re- cently that the majority of mankind bave been assured of a reguiar and an abundant supply of food. Through cultivating all kinds of , through the wonder- ful means of distributing food and through the possi- bility of communicating ina minute with the remotest sane of the world, @ vast and extended amine bee ie at poor been humanized and have become touched with the vitalizing wand of intelligence and civilization, ‘This progress of the lower classes is the dawn of aspi- ration. A world of promise and hope is foreshadowed im their rude and chaotic struggles. As I look upon American society from this point of view I see no an- archy, nO chaos, but a beautiful cosmos of progress, tingling with intellectual growth and civilized advance- o GRUMBLING A8 A NATIONAL BLESSING, It has become the custom to abuse our institutions, A pesimistic it seems to be abroad. I read the other day in the work of an English author a remark that there was nothing so sad as the dey of young nation, and more especially when the latter is ‘the imheritor of the proudest race of Kurope. It is no Purpose of mine to rebuke such a view as this. But 1 observe that this very man says “I cannot believe in the permanent decay of any modern race born of the Anglo Saxon stock.”’ This very spirit of criticism is a sign of a hopefal and glorious future. The most disheartening period ina young man’s hie is when he deems himself perfect, and looks with com- plsceny, at his worst faults, So 1tis with a young nation. tiswhen the man has been beaten, defeated, that he Degins to rise above his foibles and misfortune. Th: very fault-finding is the most hopeful sign of our na- tional regeneration. But afew years ago we thought we were in advance of all nations, but now, when we see the English government achieve prodigies which ‘ours bas not yet learned, we say, “Let us learn; let us improve ourselves.” I think of this and I seo a’ re- vival of intelligence, of responsibility, and moral re- sponsibility which will justify the most brilliant | promises ever made of our future, and ag I see this the counting of losses and gains, turns again to thanke- aving, and I give thanks to the Supreme Being, un- ‘nown and unknowabie, for life, for effort, for danger and for that sublime hope which shall crown life with vietory. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ‘MR. BEECHER ON THE CIVILIZING POWER OF THE IMAGINATION—WHY MEN CAN COMPEL GOD TO GRANT THEIR REQUESTS—THE DOC- TRINE OF THE IMPUTATION OF SIN REPUDI- ATED. ‘The usual crowded house greeted Mr, Beecher yes- terday. The day was lowering, and the window blinds | being partly closed it was found necessary to light the immense chandelier which depends from the centre of the ceiling. In making the announcements before the sermon the pastor stated that a basiness meeting of the church would be held on Friday night next to consider | amendments to the rules of the church, All proposed changes, he said, should be handed in at that meeting or they would not be considered, ‘The text of the sermon yesterday was Romans, vili., 15—‘‘For ye have not reccived the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye bave received the Spirit of adop” | tion, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” The | history of ideality, Mr. Beecher said, and of imagination, in connection with civilization, would be one of the most instructive histories tha, could be written, and of great practical utility. The popular impression ja that tmagination is the decora- tive faculty, that it is for the ornamentation of life and that its exercise bears the same relation to the more ‘earnest operations of the mind as dancing and amuse- ment do tothe business affairs of life. The imagina tion is the seer of the soul, Itis the poetry of proph- ecy. No other faculty has done so much to redeem the race from animalism as the imagination, The in- formation conveyed through the imagination has done more to instruct mankind than any other agency. The lower down you go in the social scale the more you will find men are susceptible through the imagination rather than reason. The former has been essentially the civil- izer of the world. The whole tendency of this impe- rial faculty has been one higher than the flesn, and its whole mission TO LIFT MEN OUT OF THE VISIBLE and the material into the higher realm, where they see without eyes and where they live, not upon the tangi- bie, but upon the intangibie—the invisible. Paul ex- pressed this when he said, ‘We live by faith and not by sight.” A man’s life consists not in the abundance of things that be possesses, but in that realm where thoughts are things, where feelings are laws. Self-tor tures were cheap among ascetics long before the time of Christ, when they existed and were practised in greater measure than since Christianity came into the world. I confess there is no part of hurvan history that touches me with more profound sympathy ‘than the efforts of men to live a spiritual life, and their mis- takes only show how little the way has been trod. Shall we raise monuments to the men who have suf- fered under the burning tropics in attempts to dis- cover the source of the slimy Nile, or the man who has gledded to the North Pole, and shall we have no | admiration forthe men that have sought no earthly Nile, no physical pole, but who have sought the river of life and who have tried to stand near the axis of the | universe, near the throne of God? I honor the men, | whatever their name, who have sought this life. mourn their defects, frequent failures and often great disgraces, but I honor their efforts to live nobler, sweeter, purer and grander lives, No person can read | | the continuous teachings of Christ on the higher power | of the human soul by reason of its exaltation without | being impressed. When He was asked by the disciples why certain prayers had not been answered, He said it | was their want of faith; that is, it was the want of a certain state of exaltation in their minds, There 1s a state of preparation by which a man may raise into such a state of mind that he can do things that under other conditions he could not. Mr. Beecher went on to say that THERE ARE MOMENTS THAT SOLVE PROBLEMS, and hours in which the mind reaches conclusions in | flash which at other times would require tedious reason- ing. Some men, hecontinued, say when in that state that they “experience religion.” In exhorting his | hearers to persevere in prayer he illustrated his point by telling of man who called upon a friend late at | night and asked for bread. The friend was in bed and | told him to be off, believing that be did not need what | he asked for, But when the man reiterated his request | the friend yielded and granted what he asked. There is, he continued, in the mind of man that which ean fly | higher than the senses, that can stop at nothing short | of the throne, that can induce God, nay, compel God. 4s that blasphemy? One cry at midnight of babe compels the mother; one little hand outstretened, one | little tear, appeals to her love and compels her to grant | | its request. To make more clear the meanivg of the text-when it | says that we are the sons of God the preacher ex- plained the law, which prevailed in the days when it was written, by which the father owned the children ag | he did property. To say to a Roman or a Jew that we are the sons of God meant that “God is the Father, | Christ ig one son and Iam another; the children are | | all um the father; the father is all in the children”? This | | brings the thought to the exact point in which it stood | im the mind of the Lord Jes rist—namely, that we | are the sons ofGod and th: ours. Hi THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMPUTATION OF SIN sprung out of that docrine, and it was a barbarous the- ology whien was founded on it—that all the children of Adain, by imputation of his guilt, are sinners with | him. ‘There was no need of St, for ever; himself up in gin without going bac tors. The rough, coarse man was compared toa closed tele- | scope. Draw him out, said the speaker, and you can see heaven with him, See what a light this doctrine | throws on onr fellow men. Seo what reasons there | are for helping men, They are your brethren in Christ Just as you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s, In this light I am not ashamed to take the hand of the poorest negro that ever slaved in a rice swamp, He is my brother. ST, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. THE BETUEN OF CARDIKAL M'CLOSKEY—HIS GREETING TO THE CONGREGATION. Seldom has the Cathedral contained a larger azsem- | blage than om yesterday. 1t was gonerally known that | Cardinal McCloskey, whose return from Rome was an- Bounced on Friday last, would bo present at the ser- Vices, and, accordingly, the spacious edifice was early thronged by a devoted congregation, The interior of the Cathedral presented an impressive spectacic, the main altar being handsomely tlluminated, At haif-past ten o'clock the organ, presided over by Proteseor Gus- tavus Schmitz, pealed forth a strain of solemn yet joy- ous musie as the long procession issued from the vestry room on thé left. First came the cross bearer, followed by nearly thirty acolytes, then tho officiating clergymen, and next Vicar General Quinn and the Abbé Valois, from Montreal, and last of all His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, who, to all appearances, was in the best of health, cheerful and bensgn in expression. The processionista filed off on cither side of the altar, the Cardinal taking his seat | on tne throne, The Vicar General remained on his right and the Abbé on his left The Rev. Fathor Far- | relly, secretary to the Cardinal, officiated at solemn | high'maas, the Rey. Father Kane acting a# deacon and | the Rev, Father Hogan as sub-deacon. The Kev. Father Kearney was, a8 usual, the master of cere- | monies, man can set to his ances- THE SERVICRS were carried out with aii the splendor and solemnity characteristic of the Cutholie Chureh, At tbe close of the Srst gorpel Cardinal MoCloakey ascended the pul- | similation [og wishes and the im. In referring to his visit to pe Pius IX., he said that on no , occasion had be been received 80 warmly in Rome Never before he become so in- ‘timate with the Holy Father: newr had he seen 80 much of him or of his and affection. He had been with him on, public occasions and in private, Ho had waked with him ip the garden of the Vatican, ver had he seen him more cheerful or im better hpalth than on bis re- cent visi, He appreciated, of coqrse, the persecution of the Church throughout ‘all Deke of Europe—more especially in Rome—but he nevertheless had confidence in the promises of the divine Lord, for He had said that the gates of hell should never prevail against the Church. He had also given forjh that heaven and earth might pass away, but that His promises would be fulfilled, ‘TH HOLY PATHER’S THANKS. The Holy Father bad desired his in an especiai man- ner to return his thanks to the congregation and to the people of the archdiocese for the Warm manuer in which they had received his legates, and for the good and kindly feeling they had ever shown toward him; aod he seat them, through him (the Cardinal), his Pon- tiffical benediction. The remarks of His Eminence were listened to with profound attention, The ceremonies of the mass were then proceeded with. The music, as performed at the Cathedral yesterday, under the direction of Professor Schmitz, was beyond all praise, It would hard to say to which most credit should be gven—the chorus or the soloists. The mass selected for the occasion was Rossini’s celebrated production in A ninor. ‘The offer- tory piece was the “0 Salutaris,” by the samo com- poten which was sung with great taste and ellect by me. Bredelli. Previous to the sermon the ‘Veni Creator” was sung by Mme. Ellerreich in a rich con- traito voice, The tenor part was filled by Mr. Bersin, the basso by Mr. Uricha, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. A @HKERFUL RELIGION VERSUE A LUGUBRIOUS ONE—SERMON BY REV. W. BR. ALGER. There was a large attendance yesterday morning at the Church of the Messiah, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street. The sermon, preached by the pastor, Rey. W. R. Alger, on a cheerful religion versus @ lugubrious one, was listened to with the most earnest attention. God, he began, has endowed us with won- derful faculties, He has filled our habitations with goodly treasures, He has surrounded us with the | seraphic hosts of beauty. Cheerfulness is an excellent prophylactic or recipe for warding off invad- tng iis, A bappy man is always stronger and more capable than an unhappy one; be is fuller of vital en- ergy. In the normal condition of things enjoyment is favorable to virtue, while wretchedness is a pander to vice, The great DIVERSITY OF RELIGIONS in the world may be represented under three forms, First—There is the raw religion of barbaric supersti- tion, What is that? A sensational assimilation of the dark and portentous phenomenon of nature, Tho eav- age tribes who hold this are slaves of terror, shud- dering and torturing themselves in the rites of their worship, Second—There is the arbitrary religion of morbid dogma, What is that? A metaphysical as- of the dark and rtentous fucts of life. The civilized nations who hold this are victims of anxiety, imagining themselves to he under a doom which they strive by various artificial means to avert. Finally, there is the healthy religion of faith and love, What is that? A rational assimilation of the order and benignity of the universe. The en- lightened and emancipated individuals who hold this, trusting in the infinite perfection of God, try to learn this well, as expressed in the constitution of His works, and to do it, and then, enjoying every good He has placed in their power, leave results in His hands with- out misgiving. - The spirit of the first form ot religion is natural alarm; of the second, artificial anxiety; of the third, grateful content. The first is the mild re- ligion of ignorance; the second THR TECHNICAL RELIGION OF DISEASE; the third, the yeracious RELIGION OF HEALTH. The first is an instinctive growth of superstitious im- agination, the next an elaborate product of morbid in- teliects, but the last is the normal correspondence in human experience of the divine plan enacted in nature ‘and providence—a true, cheerful religion. To love your Maker and your neighbor, do your recognized duties to the extent of your ability and with a bounding beart enjoy the world without dread of a Satanic power in return, or inherited doom in bistory, or a yawning perai- tion in the future,—this is a cheeriul religion, The fret- ful grief and gloom ¢o frequently met with among men seem litle better than an inexcusable petulance when we consider how numerous, how far-reaching and beneficent are the arrangements bropared by the Creavor for securing’ our happiness. The eye never wearies gazing on visions of beauty. Tho ear never cloys in listening to strains of melody. The heart is never surfeited in experiencing emotions of love. The mind never palls in searching out truth and contem- plating mystery. We are placed in communication with the surrounding realm of nature and REINFORCED WITH ALL THE MBANS OF DELIGHT gathered there. Shadows pass, landscapes spread, torrents fall, forests wave, mountains loom, oceans roll and stars shine in the living mirror of the mind. The mighty arrangements made for human enjoyment show that faith, exultation, abounding joy, not foreboding and wickedness, are what the Creator means for us, And when the whole race are reconciled in co-operative justice and love instead of antagonizing each oth destiny will be fulfilled and every one be happy. ‘After referring to the pleasures expericnced by Newton, Beet- hoven and Claude Lorraine in their respective inspira- tional spheres, and showing how, by reckless excesses and violation of Nature’s laws, man loses power of en- joying pleasure, and, further, that the pangs of pain ereally warning voices against evildoing, he pro- ceeded to show that suffering is a disguised blessing and that happiness is the reflex accompaniment of the healthy condition and action of the faculties of our nature in harmony among themselves and the universe, and that to carry about in a clear and strong body a pure and joyous soul, full of delight in the works of nature and of generous sympathy with the welfare of | men, is to exercise A CHEERFUL RELIGION and exemplify the will of God in the genuine falfill- ment of our human destiny. How mistaken, there- fore, as well as pernicious, he urged, is that dismal theology which veils the ‘present with gloom and shrouds the future with horror, which depicts this life as the terrible battle ground of virtue with the invisi- ble powers of evil; where all should stand in constant fear and trembling; which lays the promptings of na- ture aud the delights of the world under a ban as snares of the wicked one to tempt souls astray ; which considers gay musie and dancing and mirth as sacrilege, and which teaches that sad countenances, doleful voices, groans and sighs and sackcloth and ashes are a more acceptable offering to God than the joyful sound of minstrelsy, the smiles of beaming faces and the in cense of glad and grateful hearta. The influence of such a faith is bad, it makes religion a sorrowful, re- pulsive, unnatural thing. It perverts the whole order of the moral world. It makes many persons think themselves religious when they are ouly superstitious, pious when they are only gloomy, just when they aro | only hardhearted. TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE. LESSONS OF THE LIFE OF VICE PRESIDENT WILSON—-SERMON BY REV. T. DE WITT TAL- MAGE. The Tabernacle was crowded to excess at the fore- noon services yesterday, even standing room being at a premium, The organ and cornet accompaniment was appropriate to the solemn occasion, which was to com- memorate the virtues of the late Vice President Wil- son, The text was from Genesis, xlli, 41—“And he made him to ride in the second chariot,”’ But three years ago the people of the United States were looking about to see where they could find some one who could interpret to them the dreams of national honor and prosperity, Casting anx- Jously about they found their Joseph to be one who had been brought up amid bumble surroundings, lifted out of the pit of destitution; the only coat of many colors he ever wore was the garment which his poor mother made for him; and by vote of more than three-foarths of the S' of the Union it was decided that Henry Wilson should bo Vice President of the United States and ride in the second chariot of national and authority, But suddenly the pageant of his high carcer is halted, Tho second chariot stopped. North, South, East and West are in mourning. Henry Wilson is dead. Through my mind this morning there rolls » long fanereal cortége, marshalled within a few years, led on by the toseing plumes of Abraham Lincoln's hearse, ‘and followed by the pomp of Horace Groeley’s obse- quies and the minute gune of Charles Sumuer’s tri- urnphal march to the tomb; and mow the body of the Vice President, taken from the rotunda in Washington amid the highest military and civic bonors, the bells of the city tolling his farewell, stopping but two or three times on the sad journey—once in Fadependenes Hail, to sleep a few hours in the birthplace of our froe institutions, and a little while in our great mo- tropolia, which he had so often befriended by bis legisiation, and then in Boston, where learning and eloquence will strew their brightest garland hia dust, thon to lie down for final rest amid bis old friends and neighbors in an unpretending village of Massachusetts. Ihave thought that as bis last visit in this region was at my own honse, and the Inst public religious address he ever delivered was in the piace where I now stand, his Christian counsel still ringin in our oars, it might be appropriate if this morning preached a sermon somewhat in memoriam, He was & man whose life was a protest against indolent discour- agement, If there ever was a man who hada right at the start to give up hin earthly existence as @ failure, that man was Henry Wilson, Born of a dissolute father, 80 that the son TOOK ANOTHER NAME TO ESCAPR DISGRA nover having a dollar of his own before he was twenty- honor is | pib, attired in the robes of bis high office, and, | Priefly addressing the congregation, in ' cleat j and well measured tones, expressed hig | Bratification at once again being present with nis peo- | { ple, Ho said they would not, perbaps, expect a seriuon | one years of age, toiling industriously In a shoemaker’s shop that he might get the means of schooling and cul- ture, then loaning the money toa man who swamped it all and seturged ngne of it; Lub still Wliag O@ aod in every direction, this | your the eye on God, you can mount the SUCCES. saan in. health of body tnd of mind alte doen tn couragement he commits an outrage against aud the race, ‘Let every disheartenrd man look | pictures—Henry Wilson, ing Ofleen ‘at $5 a week, to get bis education, and Henry t difference between men’s successes, the speaker said he had come to believe, is simply a matter of industry, Never be ashamed to do any ting God calls you to do. Other celebrated men may have had for their coat of | a shield, a sword or acrown, Henry Wilson had for pl ty Beene coi anien 5 Guana ane 4 igent in business, fervent spirit, serving the Lord, he was a man who anianet bis integrity against violent temptations The tides of political lite all set toward diss} yo. The Congressional burying und at Washington holds the bones of a great many ‘ongressional drunkards. 1 believe that three-fourths of our politicians die of delirium tremens, or the con- gestions and irritations and the exhaustions that come of strong drink. At the bauquet Mr. Wilson never par- took of wine or liquor, and he never drank the health of the people in anything that hurt his own. This man whose death we depi stood unscarred amid the temptations to political corruption. He died comparatively a poor man wi he might have filled his own pockets and those of all his friends if he had only gonsented to go into some of the infamous oppor- tunities which tempted our public men. Crédit Mobilier, which took down so many Senators and pub- lie — touched him but glanced off, leaving him un- contaminated in the opinion of all fair minded men. He steered clear of the “lobby,” that maelstrom which has swallowed #o many strong political crafts. The bribery railroad schemes that run over hulf of our public men always left him on the right side of the track, With opportunities to have made millions of dollars by the surrender of good principles he never made acent in tbat way. Ifthere ever was a man after death fitted to lie on Abraham jue, and near the marble representation of Alexander Hamilton, and under the statue of Freedom, with a sheathed swerd in her hand and a wreath of stars on her brow, and to be carried ont amid the acclamation and conclamation of a grateful people, that one was Henry Wilson. Applause.) Ho was fit to ride in tho second chariot of national authority and if he had lived a little longer I don’t know but that we might have put him in the first. (Ap) see) He was an humble and modest Christian. By profession he was a Congregationalist, but years ago he stood up in @ Methodist meeting house and told how he had found the Lord, recommending all people to accept Christ as their personal Saviour, He hated shams. I bless God that we have had so many good Christians in the first and second chariots—Washington, John Quincy ‘Adams, William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk and Henry Clay, I mistake in regard'to that last name; he only ought to have been President, It has seldom Deen 80 appropriate for all the chureh bells to chime and the organs to sound forth. ‘‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,” &c. He did not step down; bo stepped up. THE TROUBLE WITH MANY OF OUR PUBLIC MEN is that they do not die soon enough for their reputa- tions or the good of their country. Henry Wilson died atthe right time. All his family was on the other siae of the flood. By the memory of Henry Wilson, I charge all our men in public trust to put aside the wine cup and to refuse a bribe, and to despise uncleanness and to seek after the regenerating power of the Holy Ghost, as the surest defence against every temptation, ‘The man whom God keeps is well kept, CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. DB. DEEMS ON GOD AS THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION, ‘The Church of the Strangers was well filled yesterday morning. In opening Dr. Deems referred to the two sermons preached on two immediately preceding Sun- day mornings, in which ho attempted to show that on principles granted by atheists and by infidels the foundations of Christianity were more secure than those of atheists and infidels. The text for the concluding sermon of the series was I. Samuel, il., 2—“Neither 4s there any rock like our God,"” He said, substantially, there could hardly be selected trom the objects on our planet amore appropriate representation of God than a mighty rock. Now the atheist believes there is no Rock. He sees a foundation in tho earth; he detects a great prevalent Jaw in nature, and yet he cannot discover that there is one who lays that foundation and one who makes that Jaw, and who therefore must be in all the very best meanings of the word, the Rock. There is to him nothing fundamental, nothing surpassingly strong, nothing permanent, nothing to protect, no final and secure asylum for the soul. The infidel believes that e is such a Rock, but that Ho is far out of human sight and human reaching; that He cannot be found. The Jew belfeves that there is such a Rock and that He is now to be found im the sacred writings of the Old Testament. The Christian believes that He isto be found in the person of Jesus Christ. There can be revcagion undertaken on the supposition that the 1 led tions of nature are uniform, have always been uniform, and will always be uniform, without the supposition that there is a consistent and permanent and strong intelli- \d that 16 God. is bad enough, but that of the infidel # worse; and the inconsistency of the Jew is worse than that of the infidel, and that of the Christian is worse than that of the'Jew, Sup- Pose them all dead and mevting in eternity, and that the doctrines of Christianity be true. The atheist can turn upon the infidel and say:—If I had believed in a God, from that fundamental dogma I should havo worked out a belief of a revelation, and all my powers and life would have been spent in finding how and where He had revealed himself, Tho infidel can turn on the Jew and say:—It [had beheved Moses and the prophets I would have found him of whom Moses and the prophets did write, Jesus the Son of God and the Saviour of the world. The Jew can turn upon the Christian and say:—If I had believed that God was manifest in the flesh, that Jesus was the divine Saviour, I would have lived as a man shouN for whom the blood of the incarnate God had flowed. I would have adored Him, loved Him, served Him, devoted body and brains and money and lite to making men know this great salvation. But where shall the half-hearted, careless, lazy, inconsistent Christian turn? What shall he say? ‘The universe protests against his mcon- sistencies as absurd to the last degree of madness. Oh, brethren, if there bo no rock like our God why do we build another foundation? Why do not each of us build evermore upon this Rock; and why do you, who give intellectual asgent to Christianity, not cry, day and night, “Lead me to the Rock that is higher than 1.” 8ST. CECILIA’S (RB. ©.) CHURCH. FESTIVAL SERVICES — UNVEILING RAPHAEL'S PICTURE—SOLEMN MASS, PANEGYRIC AND LECTURE. Yesterday morning and evening festival services ap- propriate to St. Cecilia’s Day were held at the Church of St Cecilia, Harlem, under the direction of Rev. Hugh Fiattery, pastor. The announcement that the festival would be celebrated with great solemnity, that there would be a solemn mass and panegyric in the morning, a lecture and grand musical vespers in the evening, to- gether with the unveiling of Raphael’s superb picture of St, Cecilia, as an altar piece, drew together an un- usually large attendance both morning and evening. During the morning service the music of the mass was as follows: ‘‘Kyrie’’ and ‘Gloria,”’ third class, Mercadante ; “Veni Creator,” Deitech. ‘These preceded the panegyric Father Reardon. Then foliowed the “Credo,” third ciass, Mercadante; the offertory, ‘Salve Regina,” A. J. Davis; ‘“Sanctus’’ and “Agnus Dei,” Rossi, and a clos- ing overtare, Rossini. In the solemn high mass Rev. J, Lynch was the celebrant, assisted as deacons by Rev. Fathers Reardon and Keefe. As the hymn to St. Cecilia was being sung Mrs. Joseph Payten, accom- panied by the pastor, Father Flattery, passed to the rear of the altar and drew the curtain, which, falling gradually, presented to the congregation what the ar- tists of this city have declared to be a “gorgeous work of art,” ‘Ad “PICTURE OF ST. CRCTLIA,” BY RAPHARL. The painting, which the popular pastor of the church has striven more than a year to obtain, 18 one of the most charming of altar pieces, The evening service comprised a grand musical | ‘yespers, a peculiarly interesting feature of which wus | a male = by Messrs. Soto, Wanlich, Fritsch and anothi ra, A. J. Davis, both in the morning and evening services, gave valuable assistance to the fine soprano of the church, Miss Louise Denison. The other singers during the a! and evening were M Jeasio Atkinson, alto; Mr. Ed, Atkinson, teno: Charles A Pe tenor, and Mr, W. H. The lecture on “Music and Religion,” delivered by Dr. Duffey, was a learned poetic effort, in which the use- fulness and appropriatness, if not’ the necessity, for masic in religious services, were clearly and effectively demonstrated. After the services had been concluded Father Flattery retarned thanks to the choir and to the Choral Union, to whose co-operation he ascribed all the credit of the grand celebration, CHRIST CHURCH. MUSICAL SERVICES FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY IN 3 IN ADVENT. Although these are musical services peculiarly adapted for the first Sunday of Advent they are gen- erally overlooked and very seldom are they made a specialty and performed with such effect as they were at Christ church yesterday. Mr, James Peirce, who presided at the organ, had composed an obligato accom- paniment for brass instruments, which greatly enhanced the charm of the music and conduced to make the Irendering of Mendolasohn’s “Sleepers Awak jarly striking. This anthem, together with “Hosan: n the Highest,” which Dr, Stati of St Paul's, Lo don, composed Lesage fi for this day, were sung with considerable effect, and a couple of ordinary proces- sional hymns were made very pleasing by well per- formed accompaniment, In ‘addition to the chancel choir @ chorus choir was stationed in the gailery, and in the responses of the service and a ‘Te Deurn,”’ in which both joined, this arrangement served to make a good effect, Rey. Hugh Miller Thompson preached an advent sermon, which seemed to affect his hearers, the more 80, no doubt, from his having announced his de~ termination to resign bis rectorship and seek a place where his work as a minister would be more effective feud tend to produce greater resale SHEET. THE BROOKLYN JOBS Reply of Demas Barnes to Kings- Jey and Kinsella. Statements That Should be Legally Investigated. Brooxtyn, Noy. 27, 1875. To tim Epiron oy tas Heratp:— In arecent issue of your paper there appeared a statement of Mr. William ©, Kingsley, Superintendent of the East River Bridge. In a later issue of the HzraLp there appoared a statement by Mr, Thomas Kinsella, editor of a newspaper alleged to be principally owned and controlled by Superintendent Kingsley, As both of these gentlemen discussed matters of great interest to the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and made my name the basis of their remarks, I ask the cour- tesy of a part of the space occupied by them in your columns to correct some of their statements. A bridge across the East River, more closely uniting the destinies of these two great cities is of vast con- cern to nearly two millions of people. Twice as much money has already been appropriated for the work ag was expended in opening 350 miles of canal through the forests and across the rivers of this State, Tho mechanical features of the bridge are yot a matter of experiment, and what its final cost will be, the man- agers deciine to say, I believe in the bridge, and was one of its original promoters; but I believe in its proper mapagement, and that unless more economy and in- tegrity shall be exercised in the future, than there has been in the first four years of its construction, it will never be built, It is, therefore, a matter of public interest that no misconception shall be allowed to exist in regard to the transactions of the men who are responsible for the delay which has already taken place, and for the expenditure of so vast a of money, The bridge at first was to have been completed June 1, 1870. The time was then extended to June 80, 1874, It should have been completed long before this time. ‘The two cities nave already Jost nearly $1,000,000 in interest paid upon tho bridge debt. On the present plan of proceeding the interest lost or paid on the bridge, before it shall be completed, will amount to $3,500,000, The Heraup reports Mr, Kingsley as saying:—‘Mr. Barnes made the report of the Committee of Fifty, insinuating charges of dishonest dealings against me, as general superintendent of the bridge, Ho was very anxious to into the bridge direction, and as there was no to be had at thetime I sold him $10,000 worth of my own, He wanted to be Mayor. ever since held me responsible for his defeat.” statement is not fact, e also reports Mr, Kinsella saying:—‘I believe Kingsley’s interest in the bridge a public spirited interest - * Mr. Kil ey and his artner, Mr. Keeney, are risking a large share of their fortunes on its success, * * * I would believe the words of these men sooner than | would the sworn bly of Barnes, the only man who has assailed em. I propose to show that Mr. Kingsley’s interest in tho bridge was not “‘apublic spirited interest;”’ that tho reason why stock could not be had by those who were willing to assist the enterprise was because Mr. Kingsley and bis partners could carry it without in- vesting any money, and because they wanted it to control the organization for their personal purposes. The sentiments entertained by myself respecting the management of the bridge were generally shared in by this community. Mr. Kingsley is apublic man, well known in con- nection with legislative proceedings as a member of the State and local conventions, and for years a8 one of the Commissioners for building the new Capitol; also as ope ot This ‘THE ASSOCIATES OF TWKED, korg Connolly, Murphy and Stranahan, on the East River Bridge, and as the person who has built most of the sewers and fated many of the thoroughfares in this cit; eis known also as the contractor who re- ceived 000 more for building a reservoir at Homp- stead, Known, too, as the person who received over $500,000 for work done on the Wallabout Basin; as the one who received $141,000 for lands turned into Pros- pect Park; as the man who received $150,000 of tho stock of the Nicolson Pavement Company and $65,000 in cash “for his personal and politi- cal’ influence; as the man through whom $175,000 of money was paid out by the Bridge Com- pany, and as the principal proprietor of two news- pase in this city, his partner irf the mewspapers being r, Thomas Kinsella. To discuss the public acts of a son, having so many claims to the reputation of Being @ public man, is quite legitimate. NOT A MEMBRK OF THR COMMITTEE OF PIFTY. I was not a member of the Committee of Filty and did not know of their report on the bridge until I saw itin the newspapers, About one year afier work was begun [ was informed by the treasurer that $10,000 of the stock had been allotted to me and that I had been made a director of the company. certificates of the company, as the money was called for, not of Mr. Kingsley, as he states, I paid ninety per cent on the ealls made upon me; Messrs. Kingsley and Keeney paid but sixty per cent on theirs. The law was then changed, the cities assuming all the stock, In May, 1873, Mayor elect Schroeder, then Collector, wrote as follows :— “The amendment proviaing for the forfeiture of de- linguent stock was recommended by me, first to get Tweed, Sweeny and Connolly out of the list of stock- holders and thus to weaken the influence of W. C. Kingsley, who always held their proxies when an elec- tien for a Board of Directors took place, and secondly, to compel Mr. Kingsley to pay up.’ ‘Mr. roeder and Abram 5. Hewitt made the follow- ing report on the bridge management :— ‘There had been paid to Mr. Kingsley under this (fifteen per cent) resolution (for advances) the sum of $175,000, an amount largely in excess of the sum which, wt that time, had been paid by al] the private stockholders on account ol the stock held by them. At that time the expenditares on the bridge amounted to $1,179,521 40-—showing an overpay- ment of $116,023 03, The payment of money to him beyond ‘amount to which he was entitled could not be explained on any hypothesis consistent with the proper discharge of the directors of their duties to the public. This looks very much as if others besides Mr, Barnes criticised the bridge management. 1 asked the privilege of examining the records of the company and was refused, whereupon I resigned as di- rector. My resignation was notaccepted I was so- licited to remain, being told that my departure would ruin thecompany aud some of the men in it, My resignation was not acted upon for over one year, but in the meantime I had been conceded the “privilege” of an investigation. I made such an investigation as could be made without authority to compel the attendance of witnesses or to examine the books of those from whom supplies were procured, 1 was prevonted from inventorying the stoue and material, as will be seen from the following letter of Egbert ‘L. Viele, an emi- nent civilengmeer, whom I employed for this pur pose :— I received the ‘MR, VIELE’S LETTER. Naw Youx, Noy, 10, 1872, Hon. Dumas Banxns, Chairman Bridge Committee ‘— Dean S1a—I find it impossible to mak istactory esti- mate of the material purchased by the New York Bridge Com Tolvercome the obstacles thrown in the way of @ correct measurement by the unnecessary shifting of the materials by the employes of the company, requires as much detective skill as professional acumen, which service I must decline to perform. * * * Lam, very respectfully, yours, EGBERT L, VIELE, Convulting Engineer, From the records of the company gross irregularities were discovered. Money had been credited for stock subscriptions before the same bad been pete 1 sy uuantities of the supplies liad been pure by Mr. Kingsley from companies in which he and his associ- ates were interested; no portion of the supplies had been advertised for; fifteen per cent of the money re- ceived had been voted to Mr. i moe Ba & secret man- ner; commissions were received by Kingsley on all tho supplies, on the pay roll and jand purchased; the money id to Kingsley was covered up in fictitios accounts ike “commission accounts,” gad expense ac- counts,” ‘construction account,” &c. it was also ascertained that prior to the examina- tion entries had been changed on tho books aud the records mutilated in various ways. Mr. Kingsley’s account liad been overdrawn $116,000, of which aum $50,000 only bad been covered back. Varions propositions were made to the undersigned to modity or suppress a report of these facts. Among them were the Mayoralty, @ a to Congress, large personal emoluments, && ‘A report of the {ucts,’? they said, “would be ruin; it must not be made.” But a report was made in the Jeast objectionable manner in which such facte could be stated. Tho result is weil known. The President, the Superintendent and most of the — resigned and went to the Legislature for relie! Mr. Kingsley’s next statement is as follows:. All the money that vie to raise was about $225,000, In order ¢! he iM Wir ihe balauce between this amount and the $200,000 ‘That {s his firm subscribed for a trifle over one-half of the stock, necessary to control the Board of Directors and the expenditure of all the money. The subseri © not required to be paid, and never bi hile a portion of it was bemg paid in in ton instalments fifteen per cent on « larger ment $750,000 would hi cent amount was being drawn out, Had the arran, not been discovered and stopped been drawn out by the holders of the pool stock before they had put in $00,000, Mr. Kingsley continues:— ‘Tho Board wanted mo to take salary, I declined, in- forming them that L wae & contractor and took lange riaks.. Mr. Kingsley did not contract to do anything, neither did he risk one dollar, The Board was himsolf, His reply was to his own clerks and ners. He gave to the bridge but a small portion of his time, Mr, Kingsley proceeds to say :— Tt was agroed by the Board of Di ceive fifteen percent on the amount of expenditures incur. red, according to their resolution, after the foundations had reached three feet above high water m: He now admits that the agreement with his partners was fifteen per cont; but as late as April, 1872, Mr. Kingsley and all of bis partners said it was but five per cent. “When was the five per cent arrangement mage!” asked @ reporter of Mr, Kingsley on the aboyo ctors that I should re- He has | —, Towhich he “That was all ute Thectne bnew oth att were any wecresy about it 1+ was all done ip THE ‘‘ARRANGEMENT” was not known tu the directors until after my examine tion, two years after it was made. Mr. Kingsley con fesses through the Hxxaup that it was fifteen per cent, god ontey ema ane it was, and as the eban, ry Mr, Kingsley continuee:-7 -* ™Pression '* was T took the priv: ch rk Shacyetrete ae 4t @ time when nobody could by No one but the partners were allowed to have any ob the stock until the organization was scoure in hcit hands. As money could be, and was drawn out fast than it was required to be put im, he could as well bave subscribed for all the stock as for a part of it, Mr. Kingsley continues: — It was simply ordered that the alteration of teon” to “Bve" in the original resolution wouldite saliciore, A aed confession of 4 mutilation of the records, which for over a year the mauagers bad labored to con- ceal, and which all that time they had stoutly denied. The mutilations were so adroitly done that Mr. Hewitt examined them with a magnifying glass to satisfy him- self of the fact. ‘Now that Mr. Kingsley !s in the mood of explatni will he not please state why he did not carry back the whole amount of his overdraft instead of a part of it? Five per cent to that date amounted to only $59,000. He had drawn out $175,000 and only returned $5,000. ‘There must be still duo from Mr. Kingsley on this ace count $66,000, A reporter asked Mr, Kingsley :— Rurorrx—Havye you an interest in the sawmill and lum- ber poy omy ergy suid tofurnish lumber and timber sup- Mr. Kixosury—None whatever. The sawmill was estab- shed some twenty years ayo, and not, as has been stated, concurrently with the building of the bridge. The sawmill and lumber company here referred to was incorporated by W. C. Kingsley, A, C. Keeney, A. Ammerman and others April 1, 1870. Subsequently Alexander McCue, one of the directors of the Bridge Company, became an owner in and director of the saw- mill company. Mr, Kingsley continued to say, in this interview:— Of the lumber found necessary for bri in the cainons aid. elsewhers, Uh aanthand” Lust ‘he na m8" “The other man,’’ whose name Mr. Kingsley ‘“can- not remember,” is his sawmill superintendent and artner, Mr. A. Amtmerman. ‘The total purchases of his sawmill partners up to that time amounted to 143,409 34, ANOUT MR, KINSELLA, Mr, Thomas Kinsella is the partner of Mr. Kingsley, whom he sometimes serves in one way and sometimes in another. Mr. Kinsella went from the Eagle into the Water Board, controlled by Mr. Kingsley. The Water Board had the letting of pavement, sewer and reservoir contracts to Mr. Kingsley. Having acquinat the secrets of the Water Board, Mr. Kinsella was trans- ferred to the Eagle, then controlled by Mr. Kingsley. inferview with the Herp reporter are very, very old stories, and the juestions emb: im them haye been under discussion in Brooklyn until had supposed they had been worn. throud- bare years ago. My connection with them in any but ajour- nalistic capacity is very remote indeed, Whether Mr. Kinselia’s connection with these “stories” is more remote than as newspaper apologist for his partners will be seen. He says that ‘he was a memiber of the Water Board in 1869; the end of five or six months, by the Ist of January, he was back in his old position.» Very true, he was back im his old ition on the Kagle on the Ist of January, 1870, but ¢ also acted as Commissioner in the Water Board and drew his $5,000 salary until April 1. He was a Commis sioner but twelve aays short of a year, ‘THR NICOLSON PAVEMENT JOB. He went into the Board a firm opponent of the Nicol son pavement, but soon thereatter we find him advocat- ing that patent with great ardor. The following state- ment of Mr, Bonesteel, President of the company, will throw somo light upon the subject:—‘The Nicolson Pavement Company of Brooklyn,” said-Mr, Bonesteel, ‘ ok company of this city of which I am Presi- dent. Up to the creation of the Water Board we made no great headway, Then, seeking holp wherever I could find it, { became acquainted with Mr. Kingsley, through the introduction of A MUTUAL FRIEND, STRANAHAN, and interested him in the company. For his onal and political influence we donated to him $150,000 of the stock. This stock was worth but little or nothing at the time, and for any subsequent increase of value depended upon the securing of contracts by the com- pany. We did afterward secure contracts, and, in con. Bequence, the checks ($65,000) were given'to Mr. Kingsley—that much being due to him between Angust and February—because of the stock he held and ap agreement we had also made with him that he should receive a given sum per square yard of Nicolson pave ment laid in Brooklyn." Hon. 8, B. Chittenden fixes the date of this transaction in a letter to Colonel Julian Allen, of the Committee of Fifty, by explaining how he exchanged checks with Bonesteel for Kingsley on four occasions, during the fall of 1869, for a total amount of $65,250. Alere were $150,000 worth of stock, an unending con- trav worth $400,000 and $65,000 known to have been received by Commissioner Kinsella’s partner for ‘in fluence” in securing contracts, which could only have been obtained from Mr. Kinsella’s Board. The events occurring during 1869 and through Com missioner Kinsella’s Water Board would fill a column. ‘The water receipts were reported to have fallen off, and the Atlantic avenue pavement scheme was gotten up; the Hempstead Reservoir job’ was hatched, although deferred; $12,500,000 were raised by taxation and borrowing; $40,000,000 were fictitiously added to the assessed valuations of property in order to keep the apparent tax rate down, but by which $300,000 por annum were added to the city’s proportion’ of the Btate Cc. have shown that Mr. Kinsella had more tax, & Ithink I than remote connection with patent pavements, that Mr. Kingsley risked nothing in the bridge, that bia connection with it was anything but that of a public spirited interest, that he received profits from his connection with d other public works, and, unless stating the facts be ‘‘ mahee,’’ neither of these rentlemen has been maliciously spoken of. DEMAS BARNES. NEW YORK BROKEN BANKS. Mr. Algernon 8. Sullivan, the counsel for the de Positors, yesterday stated to a Heratp reporter that Judgo Westbrook had signified his intention of signing the order to-day for the removal of Mr. W. A. Carman. from the receivership of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, and further, that he would nominate his suc ‘cosso! ‘The secretary of the Mutual Benefit Savings Bank, on Tryon row, yesterday in answer to inquiries, said: be thought the institution would have to go into liqui- tion. The prospects of a resumption of business on the part of the Security Savings Bank are not very bright. ‘One of the officials connected with the bank states that in his opinion it would be the better icy to at once go into liquidation, rather than incur the risk of » run which would, it 1s" considered, in all probability, ensue on a reopening of the bank. BROOELYN SAVINGS BANKS. The Brooklyn savings institutions have thus for re. mained unsbaken. Asa whole, the banks of Brooklyn: are strong, The recent movement put on foot by cer- tain bank officers, to enlist the co-operation of their “pig brethren”? in the proposition to reduce the rate of interest paid on deposits from six to five per cent, has not proved successful so far, but it has led to some un- easiness on the part of poor men and women who have had “their little mite [aid for @ rainy day’ in the savings banks. These latte ple have in bundrede of instances taken out their hoards and put them on deposit in New York, or kept them at home, The directors of the Brooklyn, South Brooklyn, Dime Sav- Williamsburg and other long established banks of that city are opposed to any reduction of the rate of interest, and they do not agree with the theory sug- gested in advocacy of the measure, that there is “no investment profitable for the funds on deposit owing to the present stagnation in business.’’ aay they have their funds in long seven per cent interest-bearing: ‘United States bonds. BROOKLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Considerable offence has becn taken by the members of the Brooklyn Board of Education, citizens and min- isters at the remarks of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in his discourse on the public school question ana bis aliusion to immorality on the part of somo officials in their relation toward female teachers, Rov. T. De Witt Talmage, before preaching yesterday forenoon, announced that on Sunday next he would speak upon “The Bible in the Public Schools and the Moral Stand- ing of the Teachers in the Schools of Brooklyn.” ALLEGED PICKPOCKETS ARRESTED. Detectives Corwin and Folk, of the Brookiyn Central Office squad, have for several weeks past been on the alert for a gang of pickpockets who have boon operating in certain Catholic churches during the morning ser- vices, Ye ‘mornin, be ig ter babe) Coz- yen, irty-two years of age, residing at No, 328 ee UTA walle on hie way from one church to ‘other. en found pomection, bute. police. say thoy tow bits to have “dono time” for picking pockets. is held to await examination before Justice Walsh to-day. BROOKLYN ROBBERIES. The stove store of Messrs, Ray & Forder, No, 61 Fuiton street, was entered feloniously on Saturday evening, and the sum of $150 was abstracted from the safe, Daring the temporary absonce of the family of Sam- uel Burie, of No. 672 Lorimer street, E. D., on Saturday evening, $100 worth of property was stolen by busg- lars from the basement of the house. : Forty dollars’ worth of carpenter's tools was stolen from No. 60 Fleet place yesterday, CRUSHED TO DEATH, George Peter, a brakeman on the Morris and Essex division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, was thrown between two coal cars at South Orange Jast Saturday afvornoon and crushed to deak>