The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1875, Page 8

CLERICAL IDEAS. Beecher Considers Atheism a Good Medi- cine for the Christian Body. GOD CANNOT BE FOUND OUT. | “4s Thy Days So Shall Thy Strength Be"— Very Comfortable Words. HOW TO CONQUER HARD TIMES. Loins Like a Man.” CONDEMN NOT BUT PRAY FOR RULERS How Talmage Calculates the Suc- cess of a Sermon. THE BIBLE ON TRIAL BEFORE THE PEOPLE. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MB, BEECHER ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD— ATHEISM THE MUDICINE OF THE WORLD— GoD NOT TO BE EXTINGUISHED BY AN avkzic. Never was Dudley Buck’s grand anthem, “0 Come, ‘Lotus Sing Unto the Lord,” more finely rendered than at the opeving of the services in Plymouth church yester- | day, when it was sung by Mise Clementine Laxar, Miss Holbrook, Mr. Camp and Mr. Hill, assisted in the chorus by the well-trained volunteer choir. Mr. Beecher avnounced before the sermon that a concert for the | would be given one week from | benefit of the latter bod Tuesday next, In doing so he took occasion to compli- ment the volunteer choir in a handsome manner, He | said that ingratitude is one of the bascst of traits, and | he thought we are all coustantly falling into it, As in- stances he referred to the fact that every day we read | books over which men of intellect had toiled for our | pleasure or benefit, and feel not the slightest sentiment Ofgratitude. So it ts, too, he said, with the newspaper we read every day, and which bas taxed the brains of fifty men to produce; we throw it down or crumple it because it is mot full enough of horror or does not suit our tastes, but it never ex- cites a fecling of gratitude or sympathy. The choir, he said, is a living portion of a living congregation, the minister of song and is a composite individual. At the conclusion of this address he said:—“There, after making that speech, if you don’t crowd the house at that concert I shall think worse of you than I ever did before.” The text from which Mr, Beecher preached was taken from the fifty-tiftn chapter of Isaiah—‘‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are | higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts than your tuoughts, For, as the rain cometh down from heaven aud returneth not thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it Dring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, #0 shail my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not retarn unto me Void, but it shal! accomplis! that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” This passage, he said, is striking as revealing the consciousness of the Divine Being of the difficulty — which inheres in the nature of man—or Lam anity. THK DIFFICULTY OF UNDERSTANDING GoD. It is not the declaration of the peculiar magnitude, Not Among Ashes, but “Gird Up Thy | Jt ts | NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, DISUEMBER 13, 1875.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. ~-. And the reason why the lower animal cannot lerstand is because he has not got the tools to do it with; he has not got the faculties through which we understand such things, No man stands where he can fully understand the character and feelings of a su- porior order of beings, and certataly not such a one as God. This distntegration of faith, and this overturoing of belief and disbelief is a great misfortune to the individual It is a great misfortune that there should be atheists im the world, and so far as the individuals are concerucd it is er of commiserntion and But looking at world af large the atheism and the infidelity to- day is the medicine of the workd, It isnot good to take, bat it necessary tobe taken, for the impost- tions of mon and the ingenuities of men to describe | and the accumulations of mtes and ceremonics and the misplacing of authority, andall the organism of Christianity and the chu and the ministers, the doctrines and the wheels of the world ure absolutely | clogged up with things which men want to let yo, und we shall not cleanse them but by some such great sweeping inuadations. A man is NOT PRAMITTED TO BE BURIED in grouna that bas not been consecrated by a priest, and | thatatttts day of the world, Now, youcangot very well reform these things by reagon, avd there seems to be no force developing within the sects thal will disposes them of these evil ideas, that will cleat them of these | fungoid growths upon them, and, though the way 18 piteous, yet the ism of this century shall put the Christianity. of the next ov a much Iigher ple, jovhe it with fresh beauty and give it conscious power upoo mankind, If there ix no God it will be no harm to Know it, and. if there 1s a God they are not going to Xtinguish Him by turing any of their alembics, or thing elge over Him. What we think of the 'sun the dou’t care about. God is or He is not, and eitiedray it is better tbat we should know Him; and | therefore, whatever inay come from the reacarches of thoughtta! men, let itcome. It may do some harm, Dut it will cleause the world of ten thousand evils. France is better to-day because she had a revolution, a man sits before me to-day who is better be- eau had a bitious fever, and the medicine that he took then removed a xcore of evils, And I think, when you look at the hist of victuals which the churches taken for the last thousand years and a half, you ill all agree that a Little purgation would not de them hurt. Investigation ts bot scepiicisin, and revolu- tivu Is notannibilation. The Bible has never taught us that we could know God in the sense in which theology says we should kuow Hin. 1 aiirm that the Serip- tures, which endlessly symbolize God, beginning and | middle and end, assume ttis—that the divine -natare is tureand the principle of the divine nature is peiple that it is pot possible for man to un- pretand God clearly and perfectly, and the non-under- standing of the divine nature is a cardipal principle of cripture; amd when science comes along and says You can't tind ont God perfectly or demonstrably,” it is just sailing in the wake @ Scempture, Tuat isin the Bible from beginning to end, | CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. | “AS THY DAYS, 50 SHALL THY STRENGTH BE.” | ‘The.boautiful weather yesterday left no excuse for ro- | maiving indore, and the thoroughfares were thronged with churcb-going people at an early hour, Mr, Hep- worth’s chureb was filled by a larger congregation than usual. The reverend gentieman selected bis text from Deuteronciy, X¥xtil., 25—“As thy days, so shall thy | strength be.” Such a promise as that is evidently a part of revelation, he said, In no other literature, ox- cept that of the Bible, do we find words of such import. | ance, of such sublime significance. Net one of the gods who professes to control the physical and spiritual universe ever dared through the Jips of myths to utter such a sentence, He alone has the right 10 use it who has the ability to keep | the promise, and I ke to turn from that verse | to the twenty-seventh, which i¢ its fulfihnent and com- plement. “The eternal God is thy refuge, and under- neath thee are the everlasting arms.” Here we are told that we cannot be so perplexed that God cannot extricate us. This ig one of the many sentences in Holy Writ, which we see afar off and for which wo give | thanks, but which, somehow, never enters into the inner recesses of our hearts, and becomes a component part of our nature. Whi how to trast in God as He bids us, our lives, instead of being checkered by storme and sunshine, will ran along smoothiy on the high level of the table land of Chris- tian faith aud yirtue, for these arc very comfortable words to bear, very difficult words to believe—words is 80 marvellous that they HI Lon the whose chemistry | ange it utterly and ri ly OLD TESTAMENT & THE of the New Testament; in this sertence both utter pro- cisely the same thor A great many look on the Old Tosiament as Abook of aweanddread, Notso, The Old Pestaruent is as loving and tender asa mother. It deals details of personal lifé, it contains a longer eat- f duty, but all thro the Old Testament you semplified the love which Jchovah had tor Hia i find the words of my text repeated in the The ~ of Jesus. 80 shall thy s “Twill be with When ye pra Jesus on alway, even unto the end of the world to Scope, being, or power, but it is « declaration—it — will come and abide with you."” There isa mystic con- springs from out of the declaration ail the more. The nection between the Jehovah of the Old Tr bt and preceding verses arc, “Seek yo the Lord while he may of the new. If thes hot one they are be found; call ye upon him while he ig near, Let the rt, Both are workiny for the set wicked forsake bis way and the unrighteous man his Now, my dear friends, let tis look at this passage. thoughts: and let him return unto’ the Lordand be We are taught, in the first place, that in all the chai will he will abundantly pardon”? And then right in iilas- tration of that is the decliration tuat His thoughts are not our thoughts. His ways and thoughts are as much above ours as the heavens are higher than the earth— illimitable, nameasureable, incalculable. + There is to-day a prevaient tendency towardrathersin under one form or auother, It ie wot to be denied that the scientific minds of France, of Germany, of England and of America ure, if not there, tending toward if, and that unacr the negative form, or a positive lor, atheisin may be said to be the prevalent tone of many of the leaders of scientific thought. In its positive forin— ntheism—that ix a denial of any personal God that as answered to Buch idea of persouulity as we derive from oursand a kind of mystic Jaith im the universe, as thougl’ everything that exists ix God and that God Js the sum of Creation, So that we ives are cou- Atant elements or molecules in God and that He is everytl This form of mystic faith—pantheism— bas existed from an early period and, moreover, seems fo run in particular constitutions, "Men need to be born in a particular Way in order to believe it, I think. While come positively deny a formal by in the existence of God, some deny the fact. While some profess utterly to disbelieve, there are others that take the extension of Maunsell’s ground, that God is un- knowable. But while the great prelate in the Church of England tangbt the unknowableness of God from the Christian standpoint, uot perhaps in the wisest way nor with the best result, the purely acientific schools say, and are reprosented by very many of them as believing, thut while it may be that there is a conscious existenco— which there may be—that We caunot demonstrate it. That t may be held as a sentiment, but cannot ve af firmed ae a tact, and that in the uature of things, when men apply their minds according to the best methods to the probiein of showing the existence of a personal God it cannot be shown that there is one. Nowa thing that cannot Le shown to exist as a fact, when You come to look at it familiarly and say, “It is but a possibility; it ina hypothesis aud ouly a hypothesis, ow moch it will be shorn of pow and of that power which a belie! in the existence of an overruling God and Providence always exercises on hutan al faire, 1 need not attempt to show you. So, then, I think , THK QUESTION OF OCR DAY intellectually will become more and more, not whether thw or that “sect is lineally descended from Jeruga- Jem; not whether this order of iministers is apostol not whether they ought to wear such and such gar: ments, black aid white and what not; not whether they ought to turn their backs to the people or stand to the cast or the west—-all very important questionz—but still not the questions that are to be the profoundest, I think, of ourday, The question will not be what is Lutheranism as differing trom Calvinism, and what is Calvinism as distinguished from Arianism, but whether there is to be a religion anyhow; whether there ie a church except in men’s imaginations; whether there is aground for theology; whether there is a revelation Jt is not a question of the inspization of the Bible; it is fa question whether there is anything to ivspire’ any- thing with. Itis the question back of all other ques tions—Is there a God? and, if there is, do we know anything about Him, or can 'we know anything about Him? Th to all investigations the same rules which they apply to the investigation of matter. This part of the tendency to vegative atheism results from the reaction of what I may call the scholastic theology, which assumed an im- mense knowledge of God, which assumed that the Bible was #uch a revelation of God that, although there might be a good degl ieft, it was enough to give ample rtraiture toGod. None need to be told who are miliar with scholastic philosophy how it arrives at its conclusions with deductions and logical screws and @ plentiful use of “therofores"’ and ‘“wherefores,” running out to unspeakable minuteness, so that, as Matthew Arnold says in one of his treatises, treated as an unnatural man living around the corner of another street whose comings in and goings out we know all about, and could give siatisties of the whole matter.’ This is somewhat irreverent, not a little comical, and altogether trae. Now, when you come to such a mediey, such amass of beliefs, the calm, quiet analysis or another element scatters, and A CLOUD OF NOTIONS PLY AWAY. And is it not strange that men who are themselves in & transition state, knowing and seeing how much is suf. fering under the processes of investigation, easily slide into the mapression that it is all the samo, and thavt which is sought so much as part of the Bcience of God in theology ie detnonstrated falve—that it is fiction all the way through—is it not quite natural that they #hould assume that instead of knowing all about this great Unknowable, men know nothing bout it, and that it is vanity and folly to pur sue phantom thought in that dircetiony There ‘aro many realms which have not been entered foto which are necessary to a truc understanding of the divine nature that science is ehowing us fast. Step by step, by astronomy, by geology, and etill more lately by other pgscent sciences, we have transformed in us ibe, notions of the methods of cr tion, so that the intelligent, well-read — man does not stand where all Christions stood a century 0, Redornand the lower, but the Jower caunot understand the higher, In other words, that which becomes wore iu the ascending scale cannot be understood by that which is lesa. [vis impossible for a lower animal to understand a man. 11 18 impossible for an cagle to un derstand an emperor, and that impossibility grows more striking as you ascend into the realm of inagina fon. aud into the conscience and spirituality aod wor. have mercy upon him; and to our God for ie tendency of the scientific school is to apply | ‘God is | Dthesis of the scientific method, one and | should , Now, in the order of development the higber ca | d works one general plan, God never meell from any human Jife, When His hidden it is your own fuultand not His The No one can hv: h long continued prog. perity, Nott n guide us on our journey to heaven, Wo must sometimes have the lesigr light of the moon The trouble is we are alraid of God, The not whelly eradicated from | our minds doctrine win, for | they are true {strange spirit which makes mien afraid 0 . We all believe in retribution— we are taught that by daily cxperien but, | brethren, it’ seems ‘to me it Is" "bet for us to get rid of every trace of fear, for that is a var- ven. We ought to be able to come to Him ildven to their parents; your relationship onght | ti and sweet What you can depend on it at ali times; for “Thou, O Lor THe ONLY T oneGod, one spirit, one fath e find change, but the eternal heart beats in y pulse from eternity to eternity, The ih was begotten when man was first mode never inished in itk otensity feet of Chri art | NG BRING Wherever we look hot any power equal to the power of Christianit ‘The text tells us that the future is God’s care, ayd | not ours. It is on nto human life that no man can tell what 1 to happen to-morrow. There are some events that cast their shadows before, but “RAVES FROM MORTALS HIDES THE BOOK OF PATE," and itis apartof fhe wise man to prepare for uncer: be prepared for the worst or tone we are about the fyture—the re feel about the future, Ido not mean ald not be golictous about what we are to y nen and women are wearing their y. If weeowld only feel that | WE ARE IN GOD'# HAND: then we should roli the burden off our hearts and sim- ply say, “Thy hand leate us, Pil take the step to-duy,”? n if G to walk to-morrow He will give power, d enter into my life? does He eliminate me I, A mon retains his own individ steamer is perfeet in workman. | ship and m but the steamer canuot go with- outa pilot, How is it with our souls? We have got the machinery, but is it enough? No; uniess you an in’ the wheelhonse; unless you have a you must inevitably go wrong. “No steamer left to find its own way from the Atlantic vo the onan can de left to find his own way from taynty, and if possibl bert. 0, how life out through the craule to the grave, Here is the organization per fect, Come Lord and take possession of we are the captuins and Jesus Christ is the pilot, and in stormea or calms we must be vigilant. is not th ptain, but the pilot who controls the des: tiny of the whole thing. Ask Christ to come and take possession and there can be no danger, no harra, But, after all, it SEVENTH STREET METHODIST EPIS- | COPAL CHURCH. \ SENATOR VINTON ON TEMPERANCE. Yesterday morning Senator J. E. Vinton, of Wiscon- sin, delivered a very able discourse on temperance at the above church. The services commenced by the pastor, Rey. 8. P, Wallis, reading a portion of the 118th psalm—“0, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, and bis mercy endureth forever.” The 362d hymn was then eung, and this was followed by prayer before the pastor introduced the speaker, Senator Vinton, who that “hi: proceeded to say informed us that, in 1808, intemperance prevailed to a large extent in this country. Its horrors even invaded the churches and the courts of justice. Chris. trans began to shudder lest we should become a nation | of drunkards, At this time a few good men adopted a pledge; yet the trouble did not cease; but Tally after rally and formed a ‘total They sent public urers | throughout the land, flooded the country with | until intemperance was, at least, driven from tho chorebes and the hali¢ of justice. Keformed drunk. ards then took np arms againet the destroyer, told of their past woes, and each blast from their trumpets went forth like the voices of 10,600 men. Then came the Washingtonian movement, It was decided by a council of the young men that after the drunkard had signed the pledge be was not cared for, but left to lapse back into his old ways, Out of this council came THE BONS OF TEMPERANCE, whose motto was ove, Purity and Fidelity.” No sooner did this organization begin to wane than ap peared the Independent Order of Good Templars, whose motto was ‘Faith, Hope and Charity.” The speaker then divcuseed in an eloquent and ef. fective manner the uselers character of the liquor | seller, He showed that, although the business paid in cuue to the government about $62,000,000 an , it cost the taxpayers of the United States ‘ariost, confine and hang the criteinals made by the trifle over $97,000,000, The Board of Ex | city sit im solemn conclave and reaulve who shall, in sun Of money, sell liquor, “Yes,” sald the 8] r, “a man can get drugk be steals—according to law; assaults bis neighbor and kille him—according to law. Then you arrest him—according to law; try bim—according to Jaw, and hang bim—according to low and go immediately temperanc pioneers mad: | comes through hard intellectual labor. this happens and we learn | | now, says Jolin | speak their ininds treely upon beliefs | that faith what it may. We respeet the man who stands | that has not a livin | itis trath, | yesterday forenoon. | upon which he spoke the preceding Sunday—the Bible \ Holy Word covtaining the sto: learn of Goul's Word is in’ the four minutes in which Oe hear it read in school. Hé who votes to put the | Bible out votes to wuke this n of atheists, | of infidel f iso of this | fora | tho ferry-master looking the other way, he would | ¢ according to law; | | us? At the close of the sermon a colléction, amoupt- | ‘on licensing more liquor sellers to make more thieves and murderers.” MASONIC TEMPLE, THE OLD SYSTEMS OF RELIGION AXD THE NEW— SERMON BY REV. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM. There was a large attendance at the services yesterday morning ut Masonic Hall, corner of Sixth avenue and ‘Twenty-third street. Rev. O. B. Frothingham preached a discourse, drawing a contrast between old systems of religion and the new, and taking as the basis the text:— “Sten do not put new wine into old bottles.’’ After showing the forciblenoss of this utterance, in view of the fact of the dange of bursting of the bottles made of skin, used im the old times, he asked the question, hen we can drink wine of rich old vintage, shall we be content with poor, miserable stuff? Following this with contrasting the difference between wines of the true aromatic, nutty flavor and the baser fluids of the same name, he proceeded to show that Jesus saw that new thoughts could not be put into new forms. His enemies said to Him, “Why are you and your | disciples feasting while we are fasting? Aro | you not a Jew, one of the faithful, and yet you do not’ | keep the Sabbath as we dof? He saw t made for the Sabbath and not the Sabbath for man. would not refuse to dine with aman because he was a Greek or Samaritan, or lived the other side of the | country line. He therefore said, put not new wine into old skins. Living in an age barren of inventions, be yet was up tothe spirit of the times. Methods then, a8 now, were different, One says all truth comes | down from ‘heaveo; another believes that al! wuth One fays man was created perfect and fell; another says man was made imperfect and rose. One believes in “inspiration; anotbier believes in reason. The question exabodiod in these DIVERSE BRLIRFS one worthy of earnest attention. think creeds are 4 matter of indifference. Such bave no conception of eternal harmony, of everlasting duty, Let them go. Let us consider the | argument by which certain aimiable poople reason | themselves into staying in a system which they do not | indorse, The old house in which we have lived, and in | which our ancestors lived before ms, is dilapidated. | ‘There are rats im the cetlir and cobwebs on the walls. | But there are some rooms that are very comfortable for | all that, and atallevents itis much better than being out of doors, So reason many, and yet they would like | a new house. What would be thought ofa man who | was building a new house and yet never gave it a thought or Jooked at it? And yet this is what people are doing. They do not give @ thought to THE NEW SYSTEM, They say the new house is not furnished. The fact is, the new house is built, It ts lurge, airy and well appoimted. They who excuse themselves from living in the new house must give | some better excuse than that there is no new house, Shall we disturb those who are wedded 10 the old be- liets If we open the door the draught throws them into consumption and they die. Let us admit that there are those Who, with a spirit of hero'sm, cling to the old system. ‘They cannot break from the meshes of tra- dition, They are bound in an old system from which they cannot escape, But these are uneasy ones. They think; they have aspirations; the others do not thitik, do not aspire. Did they not owe a duty to such? ‘The agony of leaving the old house may be gevero, but itis soon over. Once make the effort, once make the resolve to be true to their own minds, aud an inde. seribable joy and content follows. ‘Talk of the old bottles bursting! Why, the new wine has been poured into them thousands of tines and they do not burst They stretch. They -have an infinite capacity for stretchin Our orthodox friends cling to the divinity of Christ, to the atonement, to was Some THE EVERLASTING HELE. One hasa com’ealside to this, He has pictured to | himself an angel hovering over our church copgregations—ehurehes of magnitude, churches | of latitude, churetes of platitude. One believes in inspirations in an indefinite way, one in depravity, one in everlasting punishment. Not over three months ago in this city he heard a dis- tinguished clergyman dilating on the incon-istencics ot the Bibl The minister did not think bo was doing this, but he was making aa infidel of every toughtinl mab in the church, There isa Masexch setts clergy’ ratulates himself that he re- conciles his eand his orthodoxy, It is high time uart Mill, that ail” persons “should ‘The time is past for JUGGLING Wrrit WORDS, | Nothing can be substituted for the virtue of sincerity, | Without sincerity there can be no manhood, It is urged that by remaining in the old system one can do more good for liberalism than by coming out of it. by deliberately made those Such a This statement is who think themselves honest men. man bas no right to rank himself among | liberals, Whatishe bet a traitor in the camp! It may not be necessary for a man to sharply detine his religious ideas, but if he does, Jet him stand by then. We respect thé man Who stands firm in bis-taith, be | up and says if you don’t believe this you will go to hell, Wi W Where to mect such men. We do not ct the Calvinist or the rationalist who 60 mauipu- lates bis ideas that he stands HOVERING BETWKEN THE TWO PAITHS, One thing is true, that no idea tells upon the world heart behind it. Truth will always bear standing by. Conviction is trath. The trouble we do not go lar enough. We are too ehortsighted to tell what will be the result by and by. How sweet and beautiful a thing i# a love of truth, Not love of one’s theories or crotchets, but Jove of truth stnply because | We speuk of this as an age of opinions. Why is it not an age of profound conviction ? We are tn an age When dogma bas been divenchanted. They who sce the light may now live as the chiidren of light, and sce and fee! all the fultiess of its glory. TALMAGE’S TABERNACLE. | Meitude for n | are shoe! acknowledged God or Christian principle; because it threw Fuspicion upon the Bible itself; because the common schoo! was a child of Protestantism, and she had aright to do what she would with her own; be cause the God of the Bible had had this land under His benediction, and He intended it to bea Bible-reading and God-fearmg nation. He also spoke approving'y 0 a educational a 7 cs cneys Granv’s: essage, and ju conclusion said that if they had any- thing to'say in behalf of God’s Word let ‘Them ray it now, and if they had prayers to offer let them pray now. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER FARLEY—THE VOICE OF CONSCTENCE. AtSt, Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday ordinary high mass was celebrated by the Rev, Father Brennan, After the first gospel was read Rev. Father Farley, sec retary to the Cardinal, ascended the pulpit, and, mak- ing the usual announcements, among which was that Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of the coming week are what are known as Ember days, and are set apart for prayer and abstinence, read the gospel of the day—St. John, 1, 19-28—"And this 1s the record of Jobn, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jeragalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he con- fessed and denied not, but confessed, 1 am not the Christ,” &e. He said:—My beloved friends, all the dealings of God with man contirin that sentiment that His mercy is above all His works, His tenderness and kindly so- wn's welfare is shown in all parts of His administration for the good of the homan soul. The gospel we have just read not ouly jpculeates humility and self-denial, but shows us that, though the Lord G: intended to send His beloved Son to teach us the truth and the life—Une whose OWN POWER AND MAJESTY would attest the truth of what He tanght—He also sent before Him an angel to, prepare the way for the Lord, He sent one ‘without guile, known as John the Baptist, the sanctity of whose life Jesus Christ Himself bears witness to, and to whom He estimates there were none equal John was tho precursor and was sent to prepare _ the Way, and was — chosen because the Lord wisled to have no one to come before Him but one whose integrity would not be de- nied, ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,” said John, Itis of this portion of the text I wish to speak to you to-day, The voice that cried out in the wilderness is the conscience of man, At the first fall of man he lost bis brilliant intellect, his will and memory were impaired; but’ God left him — his — conscience to teach hin what was right and what was wrong. This was the ono power left unimpaired by original in. Conscience ‘was to bo a witness to call hun to repentance and make him know the glory he bad lost. Happy the man who possesses a tender, susceptible conscience, and woo to im who makes a talse conscience for himself, when he has smothered all those impulves for good which are born in every man’s heart. As the safety of nature lies in the purity of its civil tribunals, so the satety of man’s salvation depends on purity and tenderness, SOUIPH REFORMED CHURCH, “CONGRESS AND THE CHURCH’’—SERMON BY REV, DR. ROGERS, The South Reformed church, Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street, was well filled yesterday morning with a congregation that listened with much attention to a discourse by the pastor on ‘Congress and the Chureb.” His text was Exodus, xxii, 28—Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people,” and from I. Timothy, i.,1-2—“ exhort, there- fore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, interces- | sious, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority: that we may lead a qaict and peaccable lite in all godliness and Louesty.”” The pastor advised that here were had, first, a positive command, and, second, an earnest ex- hortation, Though 2,500 years had clapsed between the utterance of the one and the other, the same spirit was breathed in both and their tendency was to the same end, Both the command and exhortation seemed particularly applicable to our land, and to this time when the national Legislature had just conyeued, ‘Tbe American people given to habitual abuse of their rulers, and they just as habitually neglect to pray forthem, In no other country are men in au- thority so mercilessly scrutinized; not only in their political connections, but in their private relations they wre attacked, Once talked of for office, and instanuly your pedigree and family history is given to the world, dnd illustrated papers ‘begin the work of caricature, while the professional interviewer seeks you at all hours, subjects you 10 searching cross exaunnations, and jiteraily tarns you inside out, If elected, your astonishinent is very great to hear of excellences you | never before knew of, whilo, on the other hand, you crimes never dreamed of. No wonder, under such a state of things, the better clase of our citizens shrink | from holding office, Under the old Hebrew system ofgoverninent the offi- cial commanded respect by his position; and so it should be with us, Whatever the private eharacter of those in authority, the lact of their being promoted above their fellow vitizens shouid be suificient to stop indiscriminate abuse and virulent attacks, The com- mand of the text refers to the official character of the roler, and should so be obeyed. Not that we are not to be particular a8 (o what’ manner of men we select — | for our offi , have the 8 of government, for thix should always reaiest attention, and the time may come when the personal chatacter of a ruler is so tainted that the patience of the people is exhausted and revo- lutions engendered. Upon the re’ for those in authority depends ip a great measure their prosperity, The Word of God does not describe the form of authority or government that should be adopted, but dues say there shall be some settled form, ard that its authority eball be respected. One man may live alone and get along well cnough. Robin- | son Crusoe alone perhaps caused no trouble, but #0 THE HIBLE IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS—THE | QUESTION OF ITS EXPULSION OR RETENTION | ON TRIAL—-SERMON OF REY. T. DE WITT TAL- MAGE. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded in every part Dr. Talmage resumed the topic in the public schools, Any institution that cannot bear the presence of the Bible ought to perish. This book is the Koh-i-noor among diamonds. Iv ts the | mightiest power ever projected by the hand of God upon the nations, It is like a nurseryman's garden | where the flowers and the fruits and the trees are so | closely crowded that from that uursery you may plant county or aStute, One seed of that Word of God was planted a good many years ago, and it came up in the Reformation, Another seed was planted, and it caine up im the blood and flower of the American Revo- | lution, Another seed of this. Word was planted, and 1t came up the white flower of the qwillennium., In a court of law when an onth is taken, sometimes the ofticer will tell a mun very roughly, “Kiss the book ;” Dut while the Word of Géd may be used in a court of Jaw irrey ly, We put this book this morning to our lips and give it the kiss of earnest affection, and we y, Take away ali other books, but Jeave us ‘this; put outall other lights, but extinguish not this dear old book, Now, there are a great many who would \ like to crowd it oat from the public schools and to the very verge Of tue world, and then pick it up and fling it ito the blackness of darkness for- ever, and there are teus of thousands of men in these United States who are determined to do that very thing. Well, the book is ou trial, and you are the jurors. Now, prisoner look upon the jury, and jury | jook upon the prisoner, Is this book guilty or’ now guilty? Now is the tie for us to divcuss this ques- | tion. If this Bible ought to be put out of the common schools it ought to be pul out to-morrow morning, and let us go down to the schools and pick | up all the Old Testaments and Now Testaments | and hurl them out of the wmdow, and Jook under the | desks lest there may be some joo ves of | jour's sacrifice, | d then let usdecido | nce hurled out, then will | But if the Bible ought to be reiair that question, Let the Bible all the Christian churches see their mistake, and you will open a war such 98 the world hag never Seen,” On the one side all the forces of our best civilization. On the other all th rth and bad in ecernal darkness, I again and again that if I opencd outh on the subject it would be dis- | astrous to Ine, and this week, while 1 was abeent in Canada, many threstening letters have been received by my secretary threatening me with all sorts of things | if | propose to Keop on in the advocacy of the cause of | d, and wehin ten days they have ouce fred my house, attempting to consume my family, and asecond time made the attempt; bat if there are any people , in New York or Brooklyn who have any sdea that by such a process as that my lis shail be closed on this subject Iwant to tell them now that they are very imuch mistaken. (Applause.) I calculate the success of a sermon by the amount of wrath it stirs up in infer- nal circles, Tn these two sermons 1 have been syinpa- thetic with the thousaud teachers of the etty. Thelr ye | isarduvus. This management of forty or infty fidgety, intractable youth, this application of rewards and pun ishinents, (bis suppression of vice and development of virtue, this Sending out of so many BARS OF BOAY AND FI TOOTHCOMES: on benignant ministry, this breaking so many wild colts to the harnegs ot hard, practical, everyday life, sends a great any of the teachers home at night neuralgic, une strung, exhausted, and for tive nights of the week there are no more weary people in the city than the 1,000 public schoo! teachers of Brovklyn, I want you to understand that, * * * Ifyou cast the Bible out of the schools you decree that three-fourths of the population of this country #hal) have no religious culture at all. A great Majority of the children in this country nover see the inside of a Sabbath school, and all that thousands ever The reverend gentle e the expulsion of the Bible also, because it wag a war upon | the consetonee of men. The Catholics are not opposed to the Bible being read, but they want their own | perocbial schools. * * + mantis | morality who eays, “1 despise God’s Word; I will have nothing to do with i." 1 would’ not trast such =& Man in any station ot life I} would not trust him at the ferry gates, with | he was opposed to run through without paying his two cents, (Laughter, ) Show me one man, one child in all the world that has ever been injured by reading it. The preacher also opposed the rejection of the Hible because wuch expal sion iroviied the right to lake away other books thay | ing the laws, then re' | pel and asa | newspapers | js required for the work, soon as Friday joined hin there was government de- manded, So s00n as an organized community loses its | respect for {ts rulers, just 80 svon hus its demoraliza- tion begun. ‘The Bible plainly and explicitly teaches that civil law must be known, and obedience Wo all its exponents is a Christian duty.’ The government must be obeyed so Jong as it subserves its ends, If it fails in administer. Jution becomes imperative, that in the end a'betier government may be secured. sonal abuse of those in authority, as now rife in this land, has become a positive sin, "The sentiment of tr. rev it has accomplished some good, perk 8, in exposing | corruption, has done much harm in the manner it has of presenting publ oflicers to the ridicule and scorn of the populace. The preacher, as a minister of the Gos- Itizen, protested against this abuse of our He also decried the mann ‘aii our rulers, and in times of elec the pamphlets and documents that flood every sirect, abusing this, that or the other candidate, Dr. Rogers, in conclusion, said that the present Con- grees comes togeter under peculiar circafastances; the dominant party of many years has resigned 1s sceptro and the opposition has a say; the Presidential Message more than ever before is looked upon as a re- murkable document and wakes mucu discuesion, The intluence that may be brought to bear upon the mem- Ders that arc new to the halls of our natioual Legiela- public officer ture are many, and there should be the reszlve tospurn | The people all over | thoge not of a righteous nature. the country are looking to the present Congress for such laws and enactments us will again inspire confidence; the standard of values must be considered aud wisdom We are also in our centen- nial year, and this land of wealth, of good men, good | women and happy children must go on and prosper. It wili be so if the Christian religion continues upper- most inthe hearts of the people. Let us abuse our rulers less and pray for them more, Let us pray tor the President and Congress that they may barinoni | though not in accord politically. A NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. DEDICATION OF THE BOHEMIAN CHAPEL OF STS. CYRILLUS AND METHODIUS. ‘The new Church of Sts. Cyrillus and Methodius, situ- | ated in Fourth street, between avenues C and D, was yesterday dedicated with great religious pomp and ceremony by Vicar General Quinn, A procession was formed at ten o'clock A. M. in the sacristy and pr ceeded to the main entrance of the church, where the rite of benediction commenced. After the opening prayer was recited the choir, chiefly composed of m ers of the St, Cecilia Society, sung the “Miserer: excellently, This was followed by the chant of the s by the pricets, the responses being given by choir, At the conclusion of the benediction grand golomn high mass waa sung by the Very Rev, Superior of the Capuching, assisted by the Rev. H. Bove, 0. 8 S$. RB. as devcon, and by the Rev. Pagchalis, A.M. C ., ae Subdeacon, An eloquent sermon, in the hemian language, was preached after the gospel by the Rey, Wendelin Wacula, the pastor of the pewehureb. 1 y sung the vari- ous parts of the . At the close of the coremony the Vicar General addressed the con- grogation, congratulating fits members on now having achurch, He saul: yur thanks are due to His ne of Baltimore, Archbishop Bayley, whose charity and generowe consideration of your wants. perusitted your pastor to come here aud labor for a time among ou.” Hesaid that whatever could be done by His iinence the Cardinal, to unite, consolidate and strengthen them by his wise counsels would be cheer- folly rendered, Alter some turther remarks ou sub- jects pertaining to their spiritual interests, the cere- monies were concladed by the benediction of the most holy sacrament, SOUTH SECOND STREET METHODIST | EPISCOPAL CHURCH. REOPENING YOR SERVICES YESTERDAY—SERMON BY REV. J, M. READE, In August last the South Second strect Npthodist Ppiscopal church, in Williamsburg, was closed for re- pairs and enlargement, It was reopened yesterday for divine service, under the pastoral care of Rev. John Mm Jr. The alterations cost $13,000, The rededica- tion sermon was preached by Rey, J. M. Reade, secro- tary to tho Methodist Board of Missions, who took for his text the worda, "For he ever liveth to intercede for ing to upward of $3,000, was made toward paying tho debt incurred for the improvements. A véry tin- roseive prayor meeting was held in the afternoon, fol. jowed by @ sermon trom Rey, W, D. Davia and the ed beyond expression with being charged with | rence of a people | Yer- | ence exists as Weil 48 the custom of hurling epi- | thet and criticisin at every public officer, from Presi- | dent down to constable; the art of caricature, though | Pin which | dedicatory services closed with preaching in the even- | ing, Rev. J, H. Platt officiating. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. “HELP TO HARD TIMES'—DISCOURSE BY REV. JAMES M, PULLMAN. Atthe Universalist Church of Our Saviour, in Firty- seventh street, near Eighth avenue, yesterday, the pas- tor, Rey. James M. Pullman, delivered a discourse en- titled, “Help to Hard Times,” He took for his text the words—'And he sat down among the ashes, and God said unto him, ‘Gird up thy loins like aiman,’’? One | ofthe grandest spectacles this life affords, the pastor faid, Is the spectacle of a man of courage patting with adversity. This battle nas given to the world not only the grandest work of man, but the grandest men the world las ever seen, Had this life been merely a world of comfort, there never would have been recorded the deeds of valor that have brightened the history of all ages. Out of the struggle of Ife comes all that is worth living for. We are in the midst of what ts called hard tiines—a time of alarm, a time of crashes, atime when we look | forward to financial adversity. He proceeded to say that out of vbis condition of things good would come and hard times would add to the sours growth. There are three ways In which men meet adversity. The first 1s by succumbing to it, by lying down and jetting the great car of misfortune roll over their unresisting bodies, While this inethod is the result of weakness it is also pitiable, Jt shows a weakness that can only suffer, and the Lord Jesus pitied all such, ‘The second inethod is by simple endurance, They BEAR MISFORTUNE WITH PATIENCE, fortitade and resignation, whother it be loss of money, property or friends, One mistake of ours ts that the altitude of endurance is the highest altitude, It is not; it is a good altitude—a step far tn advance of the first course, Notonly may a man succumb, not only may he bear up and endure it, but, third, he may rise above it, overcomo it, and make ‘the very misfortune astepping stone by Which he may mount to higher things, to perform higher duties to himeclf. ‘the pastor illustrated the power of man to make an enemy | his friend by some apt similcs in nature, | The forost und tho stream is the enemy ofman when he attempts to ombark in agriculture; but when the forest is cut down and used as fuel to warm him, and the stream grinds his grain, they are his friends. The strongest enemy will invariably make | the strongest frend. Apply this to the advorsity of to-day and you will find if you lic down there is nothing to do but ‘to die, Endurance may induce others to | profit by yourexample, After administering a rebuke to the croakers who cry ‘hard times’? that they may profit at the expense of their fellow mon the pastor closed by admonishing his hearers to rise above the | adversity that threatens and trust im the Lord, who Pities and sustains the weak. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH. SERMON BY DEACON JOHN 8. DAVENPORT ON THE SIN OF THE PEOPLE. Last evening in the Catholic Apostolic church, in West Sixteenth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Mr. John S. Davenport, deacon of the church, preached from the verse in the psalm of David— “Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions, &c.”” This, he said, expresses the love of our Lord Jesas Christ for the Church. He endured all afflictions and miseries, Ho fought with sin and death as David did, that he might make it possible to dwell within our nature, His purpose was that God should bea hving being inthe Church, and the Chureh one, holy, undefiled, with the Holy Ghost to witness for Christ that He would come again. ‘This was our Lords great purpose. He died for individaals, that He might make of His Church a dwelling place and a habitation for the mighty God of Isracl. The sin and the wilful- ness of men have defeated this purpose. The Church isdriven into sects. Instead of being the Holy City it has become the city of Confusion. Instead of the Church being one lady, a woman preparing herself for the coming of her Lordand utterly devoted to Him, she has become A WOMAN OF EARTHY AIMS and worldy purposes, good or bad, as you like to con- struc them, but not utterly devoted to Christ and His glory. In the minds of most men the fact that Christ gave Himself for His Church has been forgotten, A gect or a party is set in place of the whole Church, while he would bave us see that the whole company of the baptized is His Church and that its division is con- fusion. Christ wants to see, not only repent. ance for immorality and vice, but’ a tional repentance, such a repentance for the Church as David uttered for Israel. In answer to this repentance Christ will be able to restore the Charch to the position it held at first. When Ho comes again He would have us ready to confess the sins of all the people of God, to weep over the lowest state of the Church, and to pray Him to rebuild Zion, the symboi of God's order, God's will, God’s truth and God’s love. So when the Lord shall rebuild Zion He shall ap-, pear in all His glory. The confession of this gin of the whole baptized people of God in departing from his ways and following their own is what we of this chureh are doing day and night, that we may be ready for tho | Lord as His bride when He comes again. | FAIRS, RECEPTIONS AND MEETINGS. The Ladics’ Fair for the benefit of the parochial schools of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic church will open | to-night in the basement of the church in Barclay street. The Charity Fair for the benefit of the Free Cooking and Sewing Schools for Women and outside relief fund of the Ladies’ Directory will commence to-morrow, atnoon, in the Masonic Temple. It will be under the direction of some of the best known of the many chari- table ladies of this city. Its purpose is excellent and it will no doubt reap a rich harvest for the good of the poor girls of this city particularly. ‘The fair, which commences to-morrow evening, hav ing for its’ohject the procurement of funds toward the erection of a new church for the congregation of St. Francis Xavier in Sixtecuth street, will be very at- tractive, On the first night there will be a stereopticon | exhibition, and varied programmes are arranged for the ainusement of visitors On other evenings. The quarterly meeting of the Woman’s Union Mis- sionary Society of America will be held to-morrow in the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn. The Rev. P. F. Deal J., of the Chureh of st. Francia Xavier in this city, will read a paper on “The trugules and Sufferings gf the. Early American Mts- sionuries”’ before the Long Island Historical Society to- morrow evening, ‘The third annual reception of the Home for Old Men and Aged Couples will take place to-morrow afternoon at the Home, No, 487 Hudson street, next to St Luke's church, ‘A necting for the purpose of organizing a branch of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be held this evening in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, “Frank Forrester” is at last to be publicly honored. There has been no writer upon sporting topics whose productions huve been so widely read as his; yet com- | paratively few people know that was Henry William Herbert, and that he died sadly and alone in this city. A meeting of gentlemen will be heldin the Astor House at two P. M. to-day to devise means to obtain money to erect « memorial to him. WHY THIS SECRECY? IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS STOLEN FROM THE DIs- | TRICT ATYORNEY'S OFFICE AND A PRISONER | CONFINED IN THE TOMBS. | Some papers—public documents—were parloined some | days ago from the District Attorney's office, and they | ara represented as being of immense itnportance to the office from which the papers were stolen, and also of the | greatest importance, consequently, to the interests of the | city and county of New York. These papers, whatever _they were, were taken from the desk of a clerk named Henny, on the lower floor, and the District Attorney at once put Detectives O'Connor and Ficids on the track of the supposed thick ‘These officers succeeded in ar- resting one Henry A. Allen, a telegrapher, employed in the ollice of the Western Union Company, whose resi- dence is at No. 55 West 4 th street, All the cireum- stances of the case were uppressed by the authorities, and it was with the uimost difficulty that aHeRaLo reporter succeeded in finding out anything about it, | The reporter late yesterday afternoon visited the was afler hours, persuaded bly for the purpose Tombs, and, though’ it Wardeu Quinn to admit him, ovten of seeing the condemned nen. Once inside he man. to wuin access to Allen, who, upon bei tioned in Felation to the charge agvinst hito, open bie mouth. He subsequeptiy said that he ait not take the valuable papers froin the office of the District Attorney, but that they lad come somehow into his possession, “Lhese papers are of immense impor | tance, sir,’ he sutd to the reporter; “but their precise character | am forbidden to divulge, The Dist Al. torney has sworn ine to secrecy, nud when I tell youthat my wife, when she called to see ne, Could not extract from me their contents, owing to the strict injunction of the District Attorney, you may, perhaps, imagine that the matter is of the most unusual importance, Should I dare to tell you, he continued, atter being | pressed hard, 4 would jtined, and the ends of jus- tice would be defeated. For God's sake,” he said, tin- | pressively, “don’t mention the matter, | I dare not tell you; but this IT can pay, that, jot your imagination Tange as wide as It will, you would fail to even guess at | the great weight of the documents. 1 did not steal them, but surrendered the principal paper to the Dis trict Attorney in company with my counsel, I beg of | you, sir, not to mention this matter, at least for the | present} at a later date I will give you the whole story,” | Wardon Quinn positively refused to give any particu. | Jare when asked, and thi in the District Attor- | ney’s oflice wore ordered by Mr. Phelps to preserve the greatest Kecrecy. It is understood, or at least itwas “given out’? by some one, that the papers stolen were extradition papers signed by the Governor of New Jersey; but from. the manner of Allon and the great, the fearful mys- tery surrounding the case, there remains no doubt that the mattor is of far greater importance than any of the officials are willing to admit; im fact, they won't | admit enything. SYMPATHY FOR A GERMAN PATRIOT, The New York German Patriot Association of 1848-49 (uf which General Franz Sigel is & member) yesterday, through the bands of its secretary, banded resolu- tions .of sympathy on the occasion of the death of the Rev. Georg Friedrich Schlatter, of Baden, Gey many, io hie tne. Mr: Sablattar, of Hobokes: ” na- | | | Frank’s”’ rg name | i | rival claimants contested po a asia am INTERNATIONAL ROWING. STEPS TOWARD A CENTENNIAL MATCH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA—CHALLENGE TO OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE AND DUBLIN-—THE INe VITATION TO ‘*ToM BROWN.” Below will be found the official invitation to the great British Universities to come over next summer and see us in our best jackets, and repeat, if they can, the little lesson one of them taught us on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1869, over the Putney-to-Mortlake course, Probably no feature of the year will equally Interest our youth, and after the generous reception the visiting crews will flud at Saratoga and Philadel- phia, and, doubtless, in this city and Boston, Chicago, and even San Francisco, there is every reason to think that 1876 will inaugurate to accompany our national university meeting an international one. + THK CHALLENGE, ‘The correspondence reads as follows, a copy of the challenge being sent-to each of the institutions named :— New York, Dec. 3, 1875. To rim Cartary or THE OxvoRD Usivensiry Cre Drax SiR—At the annual Convention of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, heid at Springtield, on December 1, 1875, 1t was unanimously decided to invite the crows of Oxford, Cambridge and Trinity Uni- Versities to compete with the leading crews in our In- tercollegiate Regatta, to be held on Wednesday, the 19th of July, 1876, The race wil! be rowed at un early date after such regatta, in six-oared oats, without coxswains, and over the Intercollegiate Regatta course. Tho Rogatta Committee were instructed to communi- cate with these Universities gnd urge upon them the acceptance of our invitation, Yours truly, B, PRANK REEFS, for tho Regatta Committee, VROM FRANK REES. xk, Doo, 8, 1875. New To rim CAPTAIN OF THE OxrorD Uxivensity UkEW:— Dear Sin—We earnestly hope that your University, will send over @ crew as requested by our association, We are confident that a8 s00n a4 you land in this coun- try cvery attention will be shown you by our represen- tatives and by our people at large, While in training at the place of the regatta no pins or efforts will ve spared to make your visita pleasant one, and every- thing that can be done to assist you m your prepara. tions, and make your work léss arduous and more agreeable, will be done, Facilities for the transpurta- tion of boats and crews shall be at your disposal, as well as boat houses and trainmg quarters, We shall try and make a good impression on our English cousins, and show them while here how warm and cordial are our feelings toward them, and how much we have de- sired their presence among us. Hoping to receive a favorable response at an early day, I am yours truly, « B. PEANK REES, No. 303 East Seventeenth street. TO THOMAS HUGHES. New Yore, Dee. 8, 1815. Hon. Tomas Hvaues, M,. P. Dxak Sik—At tho annual Convention of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, held Wednesday, December 1, 1875, you Were unanimously elected um= pire, and the Regatta Committee were instructed to communicate with you and urge your acceptance. As | the coming year 1s our centennial year, and our re- | gatta promises to excecd in interest any that have here- | tofore taken place in our land, we are anxious as an association to have everybody and everything con- | nected with our race of 76" in accordance with the | jmportance of the times. It 13 the highest compliment we can confer as an aasociation, and is intended as such by those who have always admired the author of “Tom Brown,’ and the sterling integrity of a distinguished man, Who bas been a friend of our country; and also as compliment from not only American colleges to Eng- lish Universities, but from America to her parent country, England, and as one small means to help strengihen that friendly feeling between the peoples of the wo countries, which seems each year to be growing stronger. We have, therefore, hoped that, our friend across the water would revisit us, and at thé same time, | while visiting our Centennial Exhibition, confer on American college youth the great Louor of acting as their uinpire. Hoping to. recelve your acceptance at | an enrly dato, 1am yours traty, . FRANK KES, for tho Regatta Committee. No, 308 East Seventecath street, OXFORD UNIVERSITY TRIAL EIGHTS? [From the London Post, Nov. 86) ‘As has been customary for somo yeurs past two “eights” have been told off during Michaelmas term to | go into work with a view to a race, wherein the rowing abilities displayed by the men might serve the President of the Oxford University Boat Clu and his coadjutors aga guide in their selection in forming a crew to con- tend against Cambridge in the annual contest of the two universities, The meeting of the two “eights” has been awaited with eager expectation, and yesterday was brought to an issue, The morning opened very unfavorably, sleet falling fast just as a start was necessary (o the scene of action, Mr. Moss’ crew were allotted to the Berkshire station, an immense ad- vantage with the present state of the fast running | stream, added to which there was a strong wind blow- | ing across the river from the Berkshire shore. The course to be rowed over was from Abingdon Lasher tothe Cottages at Nuneham, and at about twenty- five minutes to four the President gave the | word “Go.’? Mr. Marriott's crew at once went to the front, “ and, running im capital style, | heldalead of halfa length up to within a quarter “of a mile of the Black Bridge, when Mr. Moss, with consummate judgment, availed himself of the course of the waters, and a spurt (which was greatly assisted | by the back running flood) enabied him to go up and | pass his opponent, who was rowing gamely on under the adverse circumstances named, The bridge was | “shot by Moas about a length and @ quarter in ad- | vance, and Marriott's plucky efforts were of no avail, | ag he was vanquished by some four lengths, Both crews wore admirably steered, The wiuners will be presented | with silver medals. Appended are the names ang | weights of the competitors:—P. Hornby (Balliol), bow, 11 st. 2 ibs; A. J. Kayall (Brasenose), 2, | list. 8 lbs. ; H. Hobart (Exeter), 6, 11 at, 12 1bs.; J. 0. | Saiter (Pembroke), 4, 12 st. 143 Ibs. ; P. Brown (Trinity), 5, 12st. 12 Ibs. ; R. Wilhams (Corpus Christi), 6, 12st. 7 Ibs. ; J. P. Stanton (Chi Tos. 5 HL ist Chureh), 7, lst. 1 | P. Marriott (Brascnose), stroke, 12st. 4 lbs.; R. Rig- | den (St. John’s), coxwain, et. 2° Ibs. W.0.) HL | Burne (Keble), bow, 10st, 11 Ibs ; W. Ellison (Univer- sity), 2, 10st. 10 Ibs; W. Brinton’ (Christ church), 10st. 1844 . Mercer (Corpus Christ), 4, 1st, 1 Ibs. ; EF. (Trinity), 5, 12st. 6 Ibs. J.” M. Bou- | stead ( 6, lust. 12's; B.A. Miller (Exe- } 1. ©, Edwards-Moas (Brascnose), tory, 7, 1st. 64; W. D. Craven (Worcester), cox: stroke, 12st, 8 Ib wain, 7st. 11 Ibs, INTER-UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL MATCH, {From the London Post, Nov, 20.) On Saturday afternoon the association players ot | Oxford and Cambridge met at Kennington Oval to play their annual match, The weather being in every way suited to the winter game, there was a very large at- tendance. Oxford won the toss, and the ball was | started from the Gas Works en, Roffey sending it off at 2h, 4m. At the outset Cauibridge pressed their oppo- nents, bnt just Wore twenty minutes had elapsed | the Oxonians rallied, and Otter kicked a goal. After | this Oxfords were decidedly the best, but they pre- | sently lost the services of Lear, who was severely kicked on the shin bone, and tho Cantabs, being nu- merically stronger, were enabled to score a goal at 3h. 46m., the Hon.’A. Lyttelton pa: tape. Just before half time Parry secured a second gol for Oxford; but ends had not long Leen changed | when Duff sprained his ankle, and, having retired, the sides became numerically equal. Poth teams then | worked well and some spirited play took place; but twenty minutes elapsed ere another’ goal occurred to Oxtord, kicked by Bain, and before Ume was called Fernandez made a fourtu, the Oxford side thus winning by four goals tu one. {From the London Post, Nov, 30.) Tho annual draft from the Manton stable, consisting of horses in training, with gome brood mares and couple of stallions, chiefly belonging to Mr. Crawfurd, was brought to the hammer at Tattersall’s yesterday (Monday). The chief attraction of the sale was Gang Forward, who looked remarkably well, ond being gnar- anteed sound in wind and limb by his trainer he soon reached his reserve of 8,500 guincas after being put in at 3,000 guineas, The ham- mer thon fell, and Mr. Stirling was announced as the purebaser and the horse's destination Australia; but shortly afterward, on Mr. Carew. Gibson, who had great difficulty in forcing bis way through the crowd which surrounded the rostrum, claiming to have bid the same sun, a certified by sev- eral gentlemen in his company at the titne, Mr, Tatter: sali put up the Jobagain, In fifty guinea biddings the son up to4,000 guineds, when Mr. Gibson retired, and another offer of 100 guineas secured Gang Forward for the stud of the Hon, Tom. Fider, at Adelaide, South Australia, Mr. Elder ie ono of the largest breeders in that colony, anil at pres- ent owns 3,000 head of horse stock’ alone, which he intends to increase to 8,000 bead. He t®a triend ot Mr, James Fisher, who bought Peradventuto, by Ad- venturer out of Mandragora, and Et, by Parmesan out of Queen Illy, for lin at Doncaster, the former (who cost 1,250 guineas) being ove of the sdlect stud of brood marcs belonging to the late Mr. King, ot Ashby delaLaunde, Agolitary bid of 100 guineas secured Mr. Reginald Herbert a cheap horse in Royal George; Dut there was more competition for Manton? Simon and Pascarcl, the first and ast of which trio join Mr. J. Percival’s string; while Simon goes into Mr, Sheward’s stable, The common-lomking Alex. ander failed lo reach his reserve of 300 guineas, which price Mr. Lant gave forStruan, who joins that ventle- man’s breeding etud in Warwickshire. The remaining lots fetched as much as they were worth. A few mis cellancous also heey hands, the chief of which was ‘the four-year-old filly by General Peel out of Farming, {CONTINURD ON NINTH PAGE. | | | SALE OF BLOOD STOCK.