The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1875, Page 8

PULPIT ECHOES. Christ’s Idea of Religion Was Not Ascetic. HE WAS A SWEET SOCIALIST. ‘The Saviour Taught a Higher Thought and Emotional Life. ‘WHO IS ON THE LORD'S SIDE? Chide Not, Else You Avoid Not a Drubbing. FROTHINGHAM'S IDEAS OF FAITH. | The Age of Reason Has Come and the Seientist Overawes the Theologian, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. HOW TO BEAR OUR BURDENS—SERMON BY THE REY. MR, HEPWORTH, Mr. Hepworth preached to his flock yesterday morn- | ing from I, Peter, i., 6@—‘Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heavi- | ess, through manifold temptations,”” Two great sur- prises God includes within the experience of Christians, these two opposite elements—heaviness and rejoicing. ‘Then we are quickly told by the apostle, lest we {all into error, that heaviness must needs be, and is only for a season, while great rejoicing, when it begins, will last forever. There are somo men who are under the impression that Christian life does not, nd ought not,.to include heaviness, and some young Christians are greatly im wonderment because after the new birth and acceptance of God they still have seasons of great and continuous despondency, We only half Jearn Christ when we kuow that much, ‘the other half of education is more important. Gold, however pure when taken from the mine, must needs ‘be put into the fre before all the alloy is taken away. The two saddest passages in the New Testament are con- nected vory closely with this matter. himself looked into the young man’s eyes and said;— *Foxés have holes, the birds of the air have nests, ut the Son of Man hath not where to Jay his head,’ an ‘expression of loneliness unfathomable. You can see | woken words a heart homesickness for God, feeling u sense almost of estrangement and over- whelmed with the consciousness that it is au alien and ‘stranger on the earth. Surely we can follow in the * STEPS OF OUR MASTER. Wer a basa right to expect a io command. = eGhght to accept His experience also. Many mista... about Christian iii¢ Its aim Ge not to teach you how to get rid of iife’s load but how to bear it, Jesus said Limsut, “fake my yoko upon ou, for it ia easy; take my burden, for it is light.” ray, have we dropped our bucket into the waters of ‘that well aud drawn the living water? I think not. Jesus intended to convey the fuct that all human hto fs hard, that God intended it should be hard, and that did not intend to intervene between the ensations of God, but simply to teach Men that life's lesson, though bard to be learned, must be learned and that God's hand when heaviest is a Father's hand and not the hand of a tyrant, and when He utters that sentiment He means that of all the bur- dens which men must bear His burden is the hghteat. For instance, men are bearing on their shoulders a | i$ that he ought not to | great wei iheone man fe lave had that burden at all; his shoulders bend, and he feels that there is an injustice about it, To such a quan a burden is a very heavy thing. You cannot Mmeusure its weight by avoirdupois, because a leaden heart on top of the burden makes on infinite we.ght. | To bear s burden in such a way is not religion; tt Is Pt NADULTERATED PAGANISM. The other man reasons thus—“I have strength equal wowy wy. F verere thts burden ts not mine, but | and I know He willhelp me to carry it. ‘That up his burden, and it is nothing but go many pounds avcirdupois and the man’s heart makes it less, | That ig the dullerence between some Christians and others, We are told in the third and fourth verses of this chapter comething which [ think will surprise you, un- | Jess you are well acquainted with the book—“Blesse be the God and Fathor of our Lord Jesus Christ, whieb, according to bis abundant mercy, hath begotten ui ain unto a ively hope, Notico, the adjective is em- phatic. God dues not give us & dead hope, “by the Fesurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an in- herttance incorruptivle and undefiled and that fadeth not aw: the pow: to be revealed in the last time, umes wonder which has the most effect, the rrow or the little to-day, This is small “have here im comparison with the eter- nity God gives us, and surely we ought to be able to bear what comes, with God’s help, if He has reserved for us an inheritance incorrupti- ble in heaven, where we shall dwell in and joy. I can bear pam fora little, if, after a little, it is to go away forever. This life,’ after all, 1s nothing. God ives it az our primary school, and when we have fearned the primary lesson we are to take a vacation— the vacation of death for a little while, and then grad- uate into the eternal happiness, The ufth verse tells ANOTHER SECRET. We who are kept by the power of God. That is a | wonderful thing. I would searcely believe it if it ‘were not corroborated in so many other places. I find in Isaiah—"The Lord shall guide thee continually.” In Psalms I find—He will not moved; He that keepeth thee si ; old, He that keepeth Israel shall not slumber’ nor sleep.” These are but representative passages in the book of law, the book of revelation, the book of promise. You cannot be too grateful that you are moLyour own keeper; don’t worry, if you have faith in God you have everything. It isa blessed thing to be kept and to feel that we are kept by God, and it ts a terrible thing to feel that we must koep watch and ‘ward over ourselves all the time, weak, unles Here are men of honor, and who knows what tempta- tious might drag you down. The great trouble with us ail ig that we do ‘Lot accept the word of God as such @nd act upon it. Almost every one hasatheory and he searches the Scriptures to substantiate his theory; tho only way ip which to study Christianity is to put away all preconceived notions, all prejudice and study it dispassionately and then our hearts will be made glad, MASONIC TEMPLE. MR. FROTHINGHAM SAYS:—‘‘THE AGE OF FAITH IS OVER, THE AGE OF BEASON 185 coms.” . Alarge and fashionable congregation attended the morning service yesterday at the Masonic Temple, cor- ner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, where | Rev. 0, B, Frothingbam delivered one of fis peculiar discourses. The services did not commence until about eleven o'clock, and wero not over until one. The assembiage was equally distributed between the sexes. Costly at- tired and jewelled ladies, with their gentiemon escorts, continued to file into the hall until the commencement ofthe sermon. Some of the gentlemen, who probably considered the time tedious before the entrance of Kev. Mr. Froth.ngham on the platform, amused them- selves by reading the daily papers. An excellent choir rendered appropriate music with considerable taste, When the reverend gentleman delivered an extempor- @ncous prayer, in which he solicited that his hearers might be comforted by their brief hour of meditation in that place, There they would think of their duty, of the interest in religion that should never grow old, of the graves never made by hande—the eternity Of heayen. Let them think of the majesty of their own batures, of the greatness of their responsibilities, of the infinite future and the mighty anticipations con- nected therewith. With such thoughts as these they could feel the great awe coming to their hearts, hush- ing all unboly desiree, enlarging all sympathies, making @ur foclings of humanity more comprehensive and He concluded with an exhortation that the | inge thoe engendered might not cease at the end of the hour, vat go out with his bearers Christ Jesus | y, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by | of God, through faith unto salvation, ready | 1 think that promise is a present help to me; | Human nature is so | trusts God it is good for nothing. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1875—W1TH SUPPLEMENT. vetede With Thh Gavantoment or Faith pro- ‘supposed knowledge and should be founded pon all iniormation that ous io St It eae “4 “s upon knowledge, and here in came & quarrel claimed to reat upon history and the fat of the Creator, No religion was necessary to save the world. Men would go on and prosper without Christianity, Mohammedanism, Buddhism or any other form of wor- shi] It would ‘appear there was @ conclave of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, at which it was agreed that the Sou should come down from heaven and take upon Himself mortality in order to save sinners. Now, that was a fetion. Such a transaction not have occurred. Itwasafable,a myth A. that dis- tributed millions of Bibles bag oy assertions committed an act of faith, What did his faith rest upon? The Bible. That was not the Word of God. He (the speaker) had no objection to the faith itself, but the foundation whereon it rested. Pius IX. by lieved that the Roman Church hold alone the keys of tho kingdom of heaven; that all persons must belong to his denomination in order to be saved. This was also a fiction. He might bea good man, implicitly be- eving what he taught, We ail know by what means this Church was raised, most stupendous exam- ples of faith in America for tho past fifty years had been that of the Mormons, yd had journeyed across the desert and suffered untold hardships tn the advocacy of pone doctrines, But what did their faith rest t their upon a OF DELUSIONS, It appeared ly ridiculous to any inquiring mind that Joseph Smith was an inspired prophet, or the Mormon Biblea revelatiou. No one who examined into the subject could doubt for a moment but that it was a delusion, Faith was not freedom or knowledge; it was a direction of the mind to what had not been seen or discovered. The method of science was the observation of fucts, and then to look on further and further, The reverend geptleman here cited instances where faith had been successfully founded on scientitic study—among them that of the case of an English naturalist, who had.found a curious jawbone, evidently belonging to an animal of a species long since extinct. This naturalist went to work and constructed other Dones, until he had completed the skeleton of what he considered @ perfect representation of the ereature while living. He built his faith upon the assumption that extinct auimals wore formed upon exactly the same | amined. He was right, as further investigation proved, When David Livingstone entered Africa he had faith, also founded upon scientific study, as to the extent and resources of this wonderful country. Geographers af- terward substantiated the value of his discoveries, Science no longer used the word “faith,” It was wo | confident of its own weapons. Social science was: | hardly, yet born ; it was a creature of yesterday, One of | those days we should know bow to remedy the condi- tion of society. Rev. Mr, Frothingham then wenton | to give othor definitions of the necessity for founding faith upon scientific truth, The above are the princi- pal points of a lengthy and eloquent discourse which was attentively listened to by the assemblage present. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ‘MR. BEECHER ON THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN— THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD. Mr. Boocher yesterday made a powerful appeal to his evening for the benefit of the volunteer choir of the and the music furnished by it, which was not, he said, | ofthe “rigmarole, fantastic kind that pleases musi- cians in European lands," but such as was adapted to | religious fooling, For tho toxt of his sermon Mr. | Beecher took the 20th, 46th and 47th verses of the fifth chapter of Matihew:—‘or I say unto you that | except your righteousness shall exceed the righteous- ness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shail in no case | enter into the kingdom of heaven. For if ye love them | which love you what reward have ye? Do noteven the publicans do so? And if yé Same yous nrothren | only what do ye more than others? Do not even tho publican do so !”” The kingdom which the Saviour came to establish, | the preacher sald, was not an outward, visible and | secular kingdom, It was a condition, a state, and it | might appear under any form of outward government or ecclesiastical government. It presented AN IDEAL MANHOOD, | Itwas the showing of men the wayto a higher | thought life, and emotional life, and character life. Whether it was collective or not was lett to circum- | stancos, Whether it devoloped itseif under the Jewish Church and within it or under subsequent Christian organization, and if any of these, whether in one sect / or in another, or whether it developed itself in men | out of all sets or outside of Christianity itself, Among philosophers, wherever in the whole world that ideal manhood which Christ came to make known and to in- | cite should be experienced, that man was in the king. | dom of heaven, which is a kingdom of character and not of place nor of organization. And, therefore, ho ‘elo those that were listening round abeut hic and who fooket up to the Scribes and Pharisees as the best teachers, and as, in the main, the Dest specimens of what men could be under the ordinary Jewish institutions at that timo, he says:—“If you expect to belong to my kingdom—that is, my kingdom of heaven, this new and higher devel- opment—your righteousness, your idea of right aud of conduct must be higher than that ot the Scribes and | higher than that of. the Pharisees."’ The technical question, according to our way of thinking in our time as to WHETHER THE PHARIS! or not, did uot enter, I think, into the mind of the Sa- viour at ail, He bad before Him the new departure and the condition to which He meant to bring the mind of man in the individual and ultimately of the whole | race. It was a gift which taugit a man so to use hitm- | self that harmouy and happiness should be possivle to | all and under all circumstances. There have | been times when men hi been taught, and | there are many yet being taught,’ that | religion in this world ts @ sort ot yenalty “suifered, a | sort of price paid for the promise ot joy more than uivaleut in the life to come, That is the ascetic idea of religion: but Christ’s idea was not that, | of mind which He calls a kingdom was meant to make | men supremely happy; and joy in the language of the | apostle was one of the signs, Joy in the Holy Ghost, | righteousness, exalted morality of life, that peace | which cannot come except by harmony and joy in the Holy Ghost—that is the kingdom. In one aspect that is the way to define it, Whon a man’s whole life ts conducted in the same spirit as Christ's he will be filled with that tranquillity, and he will be | BLOSSOMING OUT IN JOY. | That is Christ’s idea of religion. ‘Those that suppose our Saviour came to make right living painful and gloomy only, with the reversion of the heavenly rewards to sustain it, I am sure can never have pondered on the HS WERE SAVED ‘That state declaration of the Master himself and the antithesis in — | which He put himself to Jobn. | In the time of the Saviour there existed three great socts, There was the Pharisee, who was the literalist and the Puritan of the Jews in one respect. There the Sadducee, who also wasa liberalist tn one respect, but was affected with Greek philosophy, and then there was the Essene. “The Essenes bore a striking resetm- blance to the Shakers of our day in all their doctrines, Christ says, ‘John came neither | eating nor drinking, and ‘you said, He has a devil—a demon.” The Son of Man came right over against John, presenting the opposite phase, As Christ says, “The Son of Man came eating and,drinking.” That is @ man like other men—going with the poor, going with the rich, going with the priest, going with the leper— not afraid to go anywhere or to touch anything, like any other man. John, the ascetic, and CHEST, THE SWRET SOCIALIST. And men say, ‘‘He is a glutton and a wine bibber.’’ Mr. Beecher here read a considerable portion of the Sermon on the Mount, making appropriate coraments upon cach verse. Now, he continued, this is the Gospel that toaches men to be happy in misery. Was there ever another gospel that attempted to do that’ | The kingdom which Christ came to establish in the | world is such that it lifts a man above all | these things, where He can look down A! ged them and | control them; and this kingdom, it will be observed, was one that adapted itself to men as they are. Now, | if a man should establish a school of art, every one would say, “There comes in the doctrine of election. | Those who have the inspiration of art will be directly or indirectly benefited by it; but no others.” As the milk from the udder of the cow, when left to itself over night, brings the cream to the top, so in every society the tendency has been for | THR BRST NATURES TO RISK TO THE TOP, leaving the skim milk below and the cream above, a very large extent churches are, in fact, nothing but institutions for people well off, They are what might be called academigs of instraction and mutual insurance companies for the prosperous. They have little relation to the out- side world. I am not saying that they ought not to ex- ist, bat, because the arr nee of claiming to be more than what they arc ought to be rebuked, 1 do say they are not fair specimens of the large spirit of Christianit which takes im men in the ratio in which they ‘coed, | and not in the ratio in which they have, the bounties of | life, Christianity teaches the fatherhood of God—the God that so loves humanity that He will take upon Himself the amplitude of human suftering. Look at these things that come to the realization of a man:— My God, though I should be poor, sinful and weak, my ‘ather is the God of infinite love, and He sits regont at the very centre of universal afiairs, and from His heart and hand flow forth the vigilance that takes care of all thin, When the little babe puts its tiny band into mine its hand is ag strong as mine js, since it is mine that guides it, and when I put my hand into God's it is as strong as His, since He guides it. Then we hi jo elements 2h. PROTHINGHAM'S DISCOURS, F After the singing of a hymn, Rev. Mr. Frothingham | Proveeded with his regular discourse. He remarked it | Was ulways friendly to speak of faith. There was an age of tie world when science was secondary to faith, | That wae a great and noble time. Tho age of faith, however, was over; the ago of knowledge had | come. The of science now held the sceptre and The theologian reclined on the floor. Little by little | gclence mastered the realms of knowledge; ft reached | forth ite hand to snatch the crown from the altar. Faith ‘and knowledge stood looking at one another with angry Jooks, The ‘ormer claims that the latter intrudes upon its sacred precinct. It aske questions it has no right to task And answers questions it has no right to answer, Faith told science \t had no authority to interfero; that its aims were Nitlowary and ite regulte now, Sct ence contended @ Welfare of faith depended upon Knowledge. Faith was at present unreet into The shadow. It allowed itself to be misunderstood and abused. Knowledge approved such a system of belief. Faith could not be responsible for any dogma; it was ® direction Of the intellect, Science dealt with the un- derstanding, with what can be known, with tho pres- + ent Faith dealt with the imaginative, with what can- oot hekuows ond with sho fulure, The labor would of the kingdom of heaven which t here, and not alone with these principles as their motive force, but that magnificent background, an assured immor- tality, More and more! think, as men grow old, they feel the need of this, and even scepticism breaks into it as men break into a poem, not supposing it to be his- tory, but finding a great comfort and solace init. To me’ THE PRARLY GATR 18 THE GATE OF THE GRAVE, and this Ihave, because I have joined Christ's king- dom; I belong to Christ’s kingdom, which is distin- geass from the lower kingdom of the carnal man. There ought to be a vense of superiority about a Chris- | tian, even over other men that in all outward things | | got ag he does, for he should act from a higher motive, {am sorry to say that | am humbled often by hearing | how far this is from the truth, The president of a New York bank with which IT am accustomed to do business tome the other day, The fact th: man is member of g church ig with us not a pre. | sumption of honesty, but rather the other way. kets | true that a groat many people belong to the Church who do not belong to Christ; it is true that many per 4 principles as that of living creatures which he had ex. | Thore was proper scientific foundation for such a faith, | people to attend the concert to be given on Tuesday | chureh. He spoke in the highest terms of the choir | To | 9 ’ | all the temptations to which they al and ‘are brought into the Church as scholars are trained aad brought under discipline when they are taken schools, There should be developed in them ‘A SEXTIMENT OF MIGHRR MORALITY. ‘The Christianity that 1s anxious to get men into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and then treats them as if they were common dirt and leaves them to them- selves is not Christianity, There are thousands of men that bave such a sense of the sacredness of everything religious that if they come into the house of God they step reverently, with uncovered head, and when they come before the altar bow themselves down, and then when they come out of the church and meet some poor man to whom no hat is lifted they pass him by without any salate, or if they give | any it isa mere “Ahem!” Know ye not that that was | atemple of the Holy Ghost which you passed with 8 contumely and coldness ? Know ye not that that was oac for whom Christ died? What right have you to put such a one upon your wheel, tease him and turn him and make use of him, and then cast him off as if he were nothing? A gardener receives from a botan!- cal garden for the first time a all shp of spruce in @ little pot, and one gays, looking at it, “What did you ive be that ¢”” ‘Twenty-five dollars, sir,” The friend astonished til he is mformed that it is a specimen of that enormous Californian treo, and may grow to be ag large as one of them, Now he can carry it around in & pot! When Iseo little men in little pots carried around I say, “They're little now, but in the other life they will grow beyond all measurable size.’ BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. REY. 1. DE WITT TALMAGE ON PUBLIC INIQUITIES, At the Brooklyn Tabernacle, previous to the sermon, 129 new members wero received into the church, The | text of Mr, Talmage’s discourse was taken from Luke xix. as follows:—“When he beheld the elty he wept over it.” The reverond gentleman began by describmg how Christ stood upon the sum- mit of Mount Olivet, before His entrance into Jorusa- jem, and looked out and saw the vision of tho city’s sin and doom, and then continued as follows:—Standing on some high tower of the beloved city of our resi- dence, we might look off and see a wondrous scone of | enterp! amd wealth and beauty, long streets, faced | by comfortable houses, while we might find thousands | of people who would be very glad to cast palm branches | in the way of Him who comes from Bethany to Jeru- | salem, greeting Him with the vociferation, “Hosanna! hosanna! to the Son of David.” And yet, my frierfds, | how much there is to mourn over in our cities! | Passing along the streets to-day are a great multitude. Whither do they go? To church, Thank God for that, Listen this morning and you hear multitud!nous voice of praise, Thank God for that, When evening falls you will find Christian men and women knocking at homes of poverty and, finding no light, taking the matches from their pockets and, by a momontary | glance, revealing worn faces and wasted hands and ragged bodies, sendjng in before morning candles and vials of medicine, and Bibles and loaves ot bread, and two or three flowers from the hothouse. Thank God for that, But listen again, and you hear the thousand | voiced shriek of blasphemy tearing its way up from THY DEVTHS OF THE CITY. You see the uplifted decanters emptied now, but up. lifted to fight down the devils they havo raised, Ltsten to that wild laugh at the street corner, that makes the quent sermon was | aap ne The Israoclites had Scarcoly been out of bondage six weeks before they made up their minds to rebel. They knew that Moses | was with God on the mountain, but they became im- ent, dissatisfied, and put a slight on his name when ng — Mee) - z aa god, We age’ ing worship, le brow; us out of t, but he has forsaken us.’ Aaron then told thon | to bring their earrings and golden ornaments, thinking their covetousness would prevent compliance; but they by personal ministrations in the sick room, among the afflicted and the poor and tho distressed, The gentlemen who were advanced to the priesthood were the Rev. Amos Turner Ashton, of St. Thomas’ church, Amenia, Dutchess county, N. Y.; the Rev. Spencer 8. Rooko, of St. Mark’s church, Brooklyn; tho Rev. A. E. Johnson, of St, Peter's church, Stone Ridgs fi ¥ nt stripped themselves of their gold and jewels, supposing | the Rev. Josoph H. Young, of St. Mou that the prophet’s power would endow.them ~ new | Kisko; the Rev. Edward H. Van Winkle, of St, Mat- blessings. Aaron made them a golden calf, and they | thew’s church, Jersey ony The deacons were pre- fell down and worshipped it. God then said to Moses | sented by the Rev. Thomas H, Sill, of St. Chrysostom 3 on the hill, “Get thee down, the ple are becoming polluted!’ Moses descended, and hoard the hosannas Of the people as they offered up sacrifices to the golden calf. The Lord was wroth; but Moses threw himself in | the gap. Yet God sald, “Let me alone, I will strip them from the face of the earth. Thou hast been faith- ee will make fee a penne Denies” Rg Rave pleaded again, saying, “Nay, slay me, O Lord, but sparo my heritage.) io prevailed and God forgave them. Then Moses sald, ‘WHO IS ON THE LORD'S SIDE?” Now, continued the preacher, how many of you are penitent, obedient, on the side of the Lord? Every man who refuses to bend the knee, every one hard of heart and rebellious in will, 18 against the Lord. Draw the line, be one thing or the other; let the Lord know to-day on whom he ean depend. In the familiar chapter of Matthew He said, “He that is not with me i3 against -me.”” When you look at it face to face the religion of Christ allows of no indifference. When it comes to the great principles that concern men’s consciences, when it comes to the proprietor- ship of God in man’s existence, and man refuses what God has given him, there 13 no room for further lib- erality. . the American Revolution, 100 years ago, when the colonies demanded their rights of the mother country and finally had to revolt, the lines were drawn, Every man was a whig or tory, a patriot or a traitor. the man that would stab tho hearts or stauch the wounds of his fellow men. So with Christ. We must take sides for or against Him. chapel, assisted by the Rev. 8. Buel, of the Seminary. ‘here were sevoral other clergymen presont and assist ing in the service, among whom were the Rev. N. EB, Cornwall, the Rev G. C. Houghton and the Rev. Messrs, Webb and Piorce, The ceremony was a very impres- sive one, The church was draped in white and there Was a very fine floral display on the altar shelf. The young men ordained havo been hard at work for over a year in missionary and other fields. peiarnectiery CHURCH DEDICATION. THE ROMAN CATHOLIO CHURCH OF THE TRANS- FIGURATION (BROOKLYN, E, D.) OPENED FOR SERVICE, The Roman Catholic Church of tho Transfiguration, at Hooper street and Marcy avenuo, Williamsburg, was dedicated with appropriate ceremonics yesterday morn- ing. The procession of priests and choir boys, headed by Bishop Loughlin, of tho Brooklyn diocese, filed into tho building at eleven o'clock, and, passing down the centre aisle, made a circuitt of the outer walls, chanting the ‘‘Miserero” and sprinkling holy water along the course, Again approaching sthe altar grand mass was sung, the Rev, Father Taff, of St, Patrick’s Church, acting as celebrant; the Rev, mons, but by his administration of the sacraments and 5 —— Fathor Keegan, of the Church of the Assump- CITY MISSIONS, tion, ag deacon; tho Rev, Dr, Loughran, as sub-deacon; the Rev. Father Carroll, of St. SERMON ON THE NEED OF EVANGELICAL WORK IN LARGE CITIES, BY REV. DR. STORRS, The annual sermon on behalfof the New York City Mission was preached yesterday afternoon at the Rev. Dr. John Hall’s church, corner of Fifty-fifth street and Fifth avenue, by Rev, Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, Tho text was selected from the eighth chapter and cighth verse of the Acts of the Apostles—‘‘And there was great joy in that city.’” This, said the preacher, was one of the great citios of Peter and St. Paul's Church, as master of Cere- monies, The Rev. Father Keegan made an opening congratulatory address, after which Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, delivered the dedicatory sermon, A mass in D, by Alois F. Lejeal, was rendered by a choir of twenty voices, assisted by the organ and a string quin- tet, The entire ceremonies lasted over two hours, bcd service was held as usual at half-past threo orcloc Tho society In connection with this church has been in existence but a year andahalf. It was organized through the efforts of its present pastor, the Rov, Father Fagan, by direction of Bishop Loughlin, tho Samaria, ~and it was a significant fact that ea net py ets br earymta ee pirat church for the purpose, In May last sufficient funds it was also tho first city outside of | had accumulated to warrant the commencement of Judea in which, after Ventocost, the Gospel | work upon tho site already purchased, The corner stone was laid on Jw 4, and the build- ing was completed about a week ago. The foundation is of stono; the superstructure of brick, with free- stone trimmings. The dimensions of the church are 114x350 feet. Tho pews, altar and gallery are finished in hard wood; the walls are nearly plain, In, archi- tectural structure the building 13 Gothic, Its cost, in- cluding that of its site, is $43,000, INSTALLATION OF A PASTOR. Tho installation of Rey. F. H. Marling as pastor of tho Fourteenth street Presbyterian church, located at | the corner of Fourteenth street and Second avenue, took place last evening. “The edifice was crowded from the doors to the pale lk The Rey. R. R. Booth, D. D., pre- sided, The music was especially fine, Mr. George Simp- | son and Mr, Adolph Sohst being assisted by Mrs, Pan- litsch, Mrs. Ayros and the choir. The sermon was was preached. It was inhabited by a mixed raco, totally antagonistic to the Jews and their civilization. The Samaritans would shelter escaped crtminals from a Jowish city, and there was a similar hatred enduring among the Jews for all that was Samaritan, Yet thero Philip, who was not an apostle but simply, a deacon, preached the word of salvation. He was a man un- doubtedly of broad faith and large sympathies, and told out of the fulness of his heart and with warm Christian zeal the story of Clirist’s sufferings and passion. He | was listened to by the Samaritans, or rather the citizens of that city, with attention because, _ per- haps, they likewise expected a Messiah who should | bring them glory and greatness. Philip, however, | spoke the words of salvation and delivered the message | of glad tidings, and his miraculous works, beside, aided him. The message and the miracles attested each | other, This significant fact—the preaching of the Gos- pure shudder and say, ‘Poor thing; that’s a lost soul!’? Hark to the clicks of the gamblor’s dice and | the nysteric guftaw of him who has pocketed the last | | dollar of that young man’s estate, This is the banquet | of Bacchus. That young man has taken }the first glass. That man has taken down three-fourths of his ostate, This man is trembing with last night’s debauch, This man has | pawned everything save that old coat. This man is in | delirium. Oh! you say, 18 it not strange that there should be so much suffering and so much sin in all our cities? No, it is not strange. When I look abroad and sce the temptations that are attempting to destroy men for time and for eternity I am surprised in the other direction—that thore are any true, upright, honest Christian people left, In this opening sermon ofaseries which I intend to preach on ‘Public Tniqui- ties” [ havethought I would first take a cursory glance of most of she whole subjects, and in doing 50, belore 1 | go on on the coming Sabbaths, to be more specitic, pointingout this, that and the’ other evil and the | modes of eradicating them. I want you this morning toast look about in this aud other cities and see what ate the temptations that deatroy men in this life and for the life that is to come, For instance—and I only givo jt now'as an illustratioo—look all ar ! see the temptations to acaune vam Beets COMMERCUL FRAUDS. | ere is a man who starts in busines: “I don’t care what others do, 1 een ee est;”’ but on the same block are Shy honest, and they put him at a great The min twists ena: derme avout Ureing tO penalty of the law and despises while ha is just alittle anxious about the Sheril!. Go throagh the stores and offices in our streets and tell moun how many of those stores the principle of Christian religion is dominant. Not in one-tenth of them. The com- mercial world to-day is rotten through and through, and many of you know, a great deal better thon can tell you, that tt requires a great strength of moral char- acter to withstand the temptations to commercial dia- | honesties. When a man has sacrificed any temporal | financial good for the sake of his spiritual interests the Lord is on his side, and one with God is a majority. Bat look around you and there are other temptations, See the pressyre in our cities of political life, How many are going down under this pressure. Tero is, not one man out of a thousand that can stan! political life in our cities. Once in a while a man comes and says, “Now, I love my city aud my country, and, in the strength of God, I am going in as a sort of nassion- ary to reform politics.” The Lord is on his sice, - He comes out as pure as when he wentin, and with such an idea I believe he will be sustaingd; but he is the ex- ception, When such an upright, puro man docs stp into politics the first thing the newspapers take the job of blaekening him all over, and they review all his past life and they distort everything hat he has done, until, from thinking himself a highly respectable citizen, begins to contemplate what a mercy it is that he been so long out of Sing Sing. @ bewitching thing is POLITICAL LIFE for many of our young men. They go in at the grog- shop caucus; they come out at the ballot box. To get | nominations they must sidie up along the rum-gouked | population, They must “treat;” thoy must go into the low saloon which is marked by a mug of beer on th sig hey must cross palms with the lecherous wretches; they must chuckie over their low jokes— yea, they must go down to the level of their constut- | uency, What is the matter with that man who once moved in polite circles and often in Christian efrcles? What is the matter with his eye? It is aot soclear, What is the matter with his cheek? It has an ungatural flush, What is the matter of his hat? It is a rowdy’s hat. Why has hig entire nature gone down seventy- ve per cont in moral tone? He has gone into polities, The most hopeless, God-forsaken people in our cities aro those who, not in a missionary spirit, but with the idea of sordid gain, have gone into political life, [pray for the prisoners in Raymond Street ‘Jail and toin they may be -converted to God, but never have any faitn to pray for an old politician? (Laugh. ter.) I suppose God could convert him, but I don’t know of any case, For the last twenty-five years in our great cities the political history has been a history of fraud, of discovery of gouging and of swindling, until our sister city has a debt of $120,000,000, Park swin- | dies, water board swindles, penitentiary swindleg, city armory swindles; swindies black and White; swindles ofall sizes, Fraudulent men applying for fraudulent contracts to fraudulent officers, who wrote out the eon- tracts on stolen paper, and then went home over a pavement every stone of which was laid in dishonor; riage every spoke and rivet of which were wit. ses of their crime, Fraudulent olection inspectors seated around fraudulent ballot boxes, tak lent votes, giving im fraudulent returns an: the State Logislature men more fit tor the idiot a or the penitentiary! Oh, what an appailing state of political life—the simple {act that this day JOUN MORRISEY CAN BE A SENATOR! Ever and anon we get up a class of reformers and we | send them into political lifo, and before we know it @ great many of them aro in the race of dishonesty, un Ul we are ina state of bewilderment and don’tknow | who are the worse, the men in the “ring” or those who are out of the “ring.’’ New York Court House, costtn) more than the Parliament Houses of England—more, am told, than the Capitol at Washington. But where went the money? Ask the Connollys and the Sweenys and the Tweeds of modern politicis, Oh, how much bewilderment there is for our young men in polities! | Thoy gay it is aquick road to fortune, They say, “IL know men who, five years ago, were worth nothing who now are worth money." Of the one, hundred who go into political “life 1 bid an’ gternal + farewell to ninety-nine of them. Their morais will be debauched, their families will be disgraced, their souls willbe dam For a little while they will lounge about the Court House in the winter and in the sum- mor flash in and out at the Saratoga races, and then | there will be a big funcral—a long line ot carriages full of bloats, and that will bo the end of the politician, starting in a grogshop, ending at Greenwood, the family doctor certifying to the Board of Health that the honorable So-and-so died of congestion—a soft way of patting delirium tremens! Oh, that is the prossure, | the mactstrom, that is taking down hundreds of the | best men of our city, The temptation is overmastering some to whomn lam speaking this morning. They aro | going down for time and eternity. Beware! Beware! | | “Mr. Talmage closed by warn’ oung men against exposed, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. ‘TAKING SIDES"—SERMON BY REV. DB, ARMI- | TAGE, Afterthe singing of the hymn yesterday morning | commencing, Lord, in the morning Thou shalt hear, Dr. Armitage, the pastor of the Fifth avenue Baptist church, delivered a very impressive prayer, in the course of which he said that there was not a heart throbbing to-day that has not one week less of throb- bing tham last Sabbath; 60 many pulsations less before the judgment; ono week less in which to perpetuate Christian graces. fe then besought God to ail every heart with true repentance and for forgiveness to’ | those who had inflicted wounds on the Spirit of Love. | i he has | (Laughter.) Oh, what | sons make a cloak of religion the better to carry out their schemes. This, tho preacher said, reflectod dis. SrOdit OR Wao churches. (or phew ahold Keaat those whe | ‘Tho minister golected for his text Exodua, Xxxil., Who is om the Lord’s gido, let him come unto 2 4 most instructive and alg. | | members of the Christian Church, was majestic and "near to the interests of tho people. ' It had two aspects, subject of preseuyon iisen Ta TRG aac Eecond, its difficulty. Tho one had alrady poo ance: trated; the other might thus be defined :—The dillicul- ties attending the evangelization of New York city apt and cogent illustrations this portion of his sermon, The epistle to the Church of Ephesus was a manifesta preached by the Rev, William Ormiston, D. D., of To- ronto, Canada, The charge to the pastor was delivered by the Rev. Mr, Booth, the charge to the people by the venerable Thomas S. Hastings, D. D, ‘The benediction was delivered by the new pastor, SATURN AND “BIG SIX.” pelto a heterogencous people—suggested tho general | theme of the speaker's discourse, to make the Gospel heard, and to apread it throughout the cities of Amer- ica, This duty, that devolved on the ministers and which, though widely distinct, were not inharmonious, In our own city of immense population, with its rapid tendency toward increase, THE TASK OF RVANGRLIZING tho masses was one of magnitude for sevoral reasons. Sdémeo of these Dr. Storrs characterized thus:—Vice, crime, fhtellect, weakness, wealth, enterprise, and pro- gress tended toward cities which, thorefore, exercise an indlueuce over the country and the world vital to its wel- | fare. Taxing New York’ for an example, he observod | that, like that city in Samaria, New York is inhabited by a vast mixed population of different religions, ten- | doncies, superstitions and habits, Thero are no less , than forty different nationalities in New York. As many languages are spoken on the streets, and over 80,000 people of foreign birth dwell therein, ’ Its influ- ence on the world is consequently great. The lettors that leave its shores weekly reach every part of the world, and its piers, so to speak, overlooked the world, As a proof of the yreat iniluence wielded by this city—over this continent at least—Dr. Storrs said that tho sound of the Doxology which was sung in Wall street after the WILLIAM M, TWEED'S HOROSCOPE-—THE STARS REVEALING HIS HIDING PLACE, A short time ago we laid before our readers a horo- scope or chart, showing the position of tho various heavenly bodies that ruled in the sky when Ulysses 3, Grant camo into this world, That horoscope was cast | and sentto us by Professor Lister, the astrologor of | Sixth avenue, In this city, It had been cast many | years before the Prosident attained to any prominent | position, yet it foretold his election to the chair of | Chief Magistrate, That, with many other things which | were predictod, has been proven true, It further stated, however, that after the 4th of March, | 1877, this power and influence would wano, _ RACING IN JAPAN. [From the Yokohama Japan Mail, Nov. 11, 1876.] AUTUMN RACE MuERTING—FIRST DAY, WEDNESDAY, Novemner 3. Tho weather seemed likely to mar tho success of the moeting, as the day was bleak and chilly in the extreme and rain fell occasionally, but, notwithstanding these drawbacks, the ladies were present on the Grand Stand im unusual force, thereby in a great moasure causing tho uncomfortable state of the weather to be forgotten, The entries for the yartous events were all that could bo desired; and, as new blood had been imported to @ considerable extent, anda more than usual dogree of mystery had been observed by some owners during the training, the racing generally bid fair to be exciting, The band of the Veaduick was i attendance and dia- coursed sweet music daring tho monotonous intervals between the various races, THe TriaL PLate—For China ponies that have novor won a race here; weight for inches; entrance $6, Once round, about a mile. . Mr, Morrson’s Andante, 10 st. 11 Ibs. 1 Mr. Robertson’s Gladiateur, 10 st, 11 Ibs... a 2 Mr, Broughty’s Kuo-pu-chu, 10 st, 11 lbs. 3 Tho start was a good one, Andante lod off, but was collared by Gladiateur at the top of tho hill, when tho two raced in together. Both jockeys did their best, and Andaute’s rider succeeded in cleverly ot by aneck, Kuo-pu-chu was never ablo to reach the others, ‘Time, 2:21, ‘Ta# Yoronama Dzpay—A sweepstake of $15 cach, with $150 added; $10 to be pald to the Seeretary of the Race Club on or bofore the 3ist August, 1875, and $5 to be paid at the date of closing the entries; in case of non-entry tho original deposit to be forfeited; for Japan ponies, bona fide griffins; first pony to receive ‘onty per cent, second twenty per cont and third ten r cont; weight for inches. Five furlongs. - rr. Buckle’s Smallhope, 10st. 4 lbs, Mr, Morrison’s Dash, 10st, 2ibs, Mr. Ola’s Moonshine, 10st, 6lbs. .. Mr. Robertson's Black Dougias, 10st. élbs. . Captain Costiganis Tsuji Ura, 10st. 6ib; Mr. Watson's Tile Laird, LOst. dibs. . Mr. Roberts’ Cupbearor, 10st, 8lbs. Mr. Williams’ Sunshine, 10st. 6lbs. Dr. Buckle’s Stalomate, 10st, Sibs. Mr, Carl’s Mephisto, 10st. 2ibs For a wonder, ail the ponies ero started, and, strange to say, there was little or no trouble at the post. Dash led off, being closay followed by Mooushine, and these two seemed to have tho race between them, but Smalilope, yory well ridden by bia owner, came up at the distance post, passed the leadera and won with something to spare. Timo, 1:22, ‘Tue Cuartence Corp—Value $150. For China ponies; weight for inches; entrance $10; one mile aud three quarters, ry BRecoccocenm Mr. Sinbad’s Dixte, 10 st, $ lbs..... 1 Mr. Morrison’s Monymusk; 10 st, 11 Ibs. 2 Mr. Robertson’s Gladiateur, 10 st, 11 Ibs, 3 Mr, Robertson's Sequin, 10’st, 8 Ibs 0 A good start was made, the fat y Bk, leading, being closely followed by Gladiateur, “Sequin yy was finished at tho hill, but Dixie, who was carefully kept bebind the others to the half mile post, took first pee when called upon and won easily. Monymusk ul some trouble in beating Gladiateur for second place, This event was the great upset of the meeting, mune ‘was not even mentioned in the betting, Time, Tue BrrranniA Cur—Presented. For China ponies; winners at this meeting excluded; weight for inches; entrance $5, Once round and a distance, Mr. Williams? Grasshopper, 10 st. 5 Ibs. 1 Mr, Morrigon’s Braomar, 10 st. 8 Ibs. 2 Mr. Robertson's Favori, 10 st, 5 Ibs 3 Mr. Pringle’s Pretender, 10 st. 11 Iba. ey Four only started. Braemar led to the three-quartor mile post, when Grasshopper came to tho front and disposed of his opponents as he liked, Pretender waa as good as his name, ‘Time, 2:39, ‘Tur BANKERS’ Ovr—Presonted. For China Ponies. Winners in China or Hong Kong in 1870, or of two races at last meotimg here, and winners at this meot- ing excluded, Winners of one raco at last meeting here 7 Ibs, extra; weight for inches; entrance $5; once round, Mr. Morrison’s Black Rod, 10 st. 8 Ibs Mr. Jobn Peel’s Bonito, 10 st. 8 lbs. Mr, Radloy’s Lord Harry, 10 st, 11 Ib: Mr. Robertson's Sequin, 10 st. 8 lbs.. Mr. Broughty’s Kuo-pu-chi, 10 st. 11 Ibs. Mr. Pringie’s Northern Light, 10 st, 2 lbs, Mr. Burnside’s Pontiff, 10 st.’8 Ibs. Mr, Radley’s Ivanhoe, 10 st. 5 tbs. ty If Bonito’s owner had had more time to train his pony the result of this race would doubtless have been different, As it was Bonito made a very game struggle and got second place, but had to succumb to-Black Kod, who won by alength. Lord Harry was a good third. SECOND DAY—THURSDAY, 4TH NOVEMBER. Tho weather on the second day was all that could ba wished, so that the attendance at the grand stand was better than onthe previous day. The band of the ‘Vsacnick was again present. cocounm ° war was heard, or reached, across the Rocky Moun- The belief that there wiil be no third term, therefore, tains. In view’ of theso facts ho thought that the : si is firmly held by those, who believe in the potent in- fluence of the stars, and there are probably several peapin ta: be. found acne Wito sever ae eae Bahn ihtuehes oP Maturn, who confidently assort that Grant will not occupy the White House during the next een, are found in the character of the people. hey are chatgelul; ever moving, and> hard five years. There ad at least two people in this coun- to reach. No current of influence could ¢fY¥, however. in favor otathird term. It is evident be poweriul enough to control mére than one of the from the President’s Message that he believeth notin many cireles in this city. Vice is not only flourishing, but trained and fostered evils stimulate each othor, and criminal intelligence expands. After elaborating by the immutable flat of the stars, neither doth he despise | another term, andthe action of Bishop Haven last week shows conclusively that he has no faith in any | celestial “house,” although he has a yearning for the Dr. Storrs referred to the lavish expenditure of money on foreign missions, and the really partial neglect of the home mission. In forty years, ho observed, not more White House and its present occupant. Many people | than $846,000 had been spent on the City declare that we needed no ghost to come back to earth, Mission, while over $7,000,000 had been con- and no occult message from the spheres to convince tributed last year by American Christians to- ward the work Of evangelization abra@d. He did not wish to be understood as speaking aught against such contributions. But he asked that more attention be given, practically, to the home mission, Iu conclu tion, Dr. Storrs remarked that the welfare of thie world depends ou the moral life of the cities, and that noth- ing will bring about the evangelization of our country 60 quickly as the diftusing of the same throughout our great cities aud towns, ST. JAMES’ M. E. CHURCH, HARLEM. | SERMON BY THE REY, CYRUS D, FOSS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS. There was a large attendance at the St James? Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Madison aye- nue and 120th street, av the services yesterday morn- | ‘THe HOROSCOPE. ing. Attracting the large congregation was no doubt | the fact that Rev. Dr. ©, D, Foss, President of Wesleyan University, was announced to occupy tho pulpit. He preached a clear, straightforward and most practical discourse, taking for his text the second chap- ter of Revelations, from the second to the twenty-fifth verse—“I know thy works and thy labor and thy patience, and how thou canst uot bear them which are evil,” &e, St. John, he began, was directed to write the words of the text unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus, After Christ left uhe world He still loved the Church, seusible men that Gencral Grant is serving his last, term. However that may be, Professor Lister holds”- severely to his prediction, unmindful of the petty events of this mundane sphere, ‘The Professor has cast the horoscope of the “illus. trious fugitive,’ William M. Tweed, with the view of assisting the police in discovering his present where- abouts. We lay before our readers this morning a copy of this figure, with the inferences drawn from it by the astrologer. "It is unfortunate that President Biatsell did not think tw summon the Professor to tho Central Office when the escape became known to con- sult with the officials, as the great English astrologor Lilly was once brought beforo the House of Commons to help that illustrious body out of a scrape, Had our police been put upon the track by him at the time | thero is no doubt that ag surely as that the stars rule the destinios of mankind so surely would the “Bogs” | have been captured ere this. Below will be found &. Tweed, the Tupi, CAST DECEMBER fith, th. 5m., P, M., 1875, tion of His love as revealed tyrough His chosen evan- gelist. There were t point® embodied in the words of the text—tirst, praise of the Church; second, blame of the Church, and, third, the prescription for the cure of its faults, "The Uhurch is Saturn represont Tweed. ‘The former planct is in an GOD'S PROULIAR TREASURE, | angle, therefore the fugitive must be in the city, a little They shall be mino, saith the Lord, when I come to | southwest from bis old home. ‘The plan for his’ escape make up my jewels. On tho great day of judgment He was matured when (he planet Saturn turned direct in will say:—I was thirsty and ye gave mo drink, I was motion, which was on Monday, Octobor 25, From that hungry and ye fed mo, I was sick and iu prison and ye time till he made his escape his friends were only visited me. He never forgets anything. He remem- watching an opportunity. Two persons, who are repre- bers all the deeds of all our lives, our patience in strug- gented by the moon and Mars respectively, will get gling adversity, our endurance of hardships, our ab- themselyos into serious trouble through thoir partici- gtenance from evil, A mun may not have emiment pation in the plot, They are mon, dzessed in ‘n little virtues; but ff he holds on to what is good and true brief authority,’’ and one of them will betray tho he will’ at loast be commended by Jesus for this, other, One of these men is tall of stature. ‘Tho other But while observing the words of praise in the text 1s of modium height and has dark hair. The lattor is it was worth equal while to note the words of blame exceedingly pompous in manner, and thrusts himself and how spoken, The art of censure some people forward on every possible occasion. never learn. They go at it the wrong way, and it Tweed is hiding in a wretched place—a basement or does no good. In the text was shown a model of cen- —cellar—where many women congregate, and where a sure. Varents must censure their children and hus- number of dogs are kept about the premises, bands their wives and wives their husbands and friends ‘The moon 1 within one degree of being in quadrature their friends, but there was aright way und a wrong with Mars, This is an evil aspect, and denotes tbat in way of doing it, After Jolin Wesley had preached one day or one wook the ‘Boss’? will bo captured. His a very ener; course on theduty of chiding sin- taking will be an instance of perfidious friendship, for nors and calling them to repentance, one of his hearers the very person who has becn paid to keep the secrot went out, and, secimga drunken man, began a tirade will betray his hiding place. Mr. Tweed made a grand of scathing censure tipon the evils of imtemperance mistake in selecting Nis assistants on this occasion, and the ruin tt brought upon its victim and family, Tt will be seen from the above that all the loud talk and, how unless be stopped drinking, he was sure to go of our astute police about ‘running Tweed to carth”’ is to hell, Tho result of the chiding was that the drunk- superfluous, aa he is already under ground, ard turned upon bis censuret and gave him a sound | In the above diagram, says tho Protessor, Venus and drubbin Smarting from his peating the man oe ATE went to Wesley and. told him’, about it, A MILLIONNAIRE'S WILL, ‘Tam not at all surprised,” said the groat Tho bequests of the late James S. Seymour, who rocently died at Auburn, N. Y., were exceedingly lib. eral and widely distributed among charitable and relig- fous institutions, as will be seen by the following list:—To the Cayuga Asylum for Destituto Children, in- terest only to be used, $10,000; to the Home for the Friendless in Auburn, $5,000; to the Theological Semi- | nary of Auburn, $5,000; to the Congregational church in West Hartford, Conn,, $5,000; to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Hartford, Conn., $5,000; to the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, $5,000; to the Theological Institute of preacher; ‘‘and what is more, I think you doserved 1,” | The membors of the Church of Ephesus were told that they had lost their first iove, Fathers and mothers could recall their first love. Touched by love they bo- came one in every thought and endeavor. Thoy could algo recall their first love to Christ, and what a pleasure it was then to go to church, Ceromonials will not save, There must be love in the soul, The backslider forgets his conversion, But lot one return to his first love, LAT ONE REPENT, and there is joy in heaven. From’ along tho shining anks of the angels are sent up anthems of praise, Re- ntance is not to be sorry that you have sinned, | ‘udas, though he confessed that he had shed innocent blood and cast away the pieces of silver given him for | Connecticut, located in Hartford, betraying Jesus Christ and went out and hanged him- | College, 10005 to the Overlin (Ohio) College, self, did not repent, | $3,000; to Beloit (Ww the Amorican and Foreign Christian’ Unton, $5,000; to the American Biblo Society, $5,000; to the Ameri: can Home Missionary Society, $16,000; to the Relief Fand for Disabled Ministers in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, $6,000; to the American Board of Comimissioners for’ Foreign Missions, $6,000; to the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation of the city of Auburn, $12,000; to the First Presbyterian church in Auburn, $12,000; to the Cal- vary church in Auburn, $12,000; for’ the purpose of founding a hospital in the city of Auburn, $18,000; for tho purpose of founding a pubite library in the city of Auburn, $1,000, and in addition, for the purpose last | mentioned, a storo on Genesee street, with a lot in tha ront. Tho oxscutors of the estate are Messrs. K. W. Arms, After repentance must follow the first works. In | other words, repentance must be followed by deeds, They must be active Christians, They must not be satisfied with securing thoir own salvation, but they must strive for the salvation of others, In the toxt was laid down tho whole programme of duty of tho | Church. Unless this programme was fully and faith- | fully carried out Christ might direct the candlestick to | be removed out of its place. If they would continue as | a church they must discharge the duties incumbent on them as a church, ORDINATION OF PRIESTS, Bishop Potter, of the Episcopal Church, held an or- dination Aerviee yesterday morning in St. Uhrysos- 1 1 ty-minth street, corner of Seventh | Of Aurora, and Harmon Woodru and James %ymour, bean a Pie yc ached by the Bishop, and | Jf, OC Auburn, The private bequosts of WF Geymour Wyene, | The Sen ee id », wero very liberal, the balance of his estate, with the deseribed the work and oflice of a priest in the Church exception of some individual bequests, being distributed of God as a preacher and a teacher, uot along by ger. | among his noaress relatives. - Mr. Morrison’s Monymusk, 10 “Tux Visitor's Cur,—Presonted. For China ponies; winner of tho Blui Cup excluded; winner of the Chal- lenge Cup or of two races at the meoting 10 Ibs, extra; Wier winners 7 Ibs, extra; weight for inches; entrance Ono milo and « half Mr, Robertson's Gladiatour, 10 st. 11 Ibs Mr. Williams’ Grasshopper, 10 st. 12 Ibs Mr. John Peel's Bonito, 10st, 8 Ibs. Mr. Robertson's Sequin, 10 st. 8 Ib Mr. Robortson’s Ocoola, 10 st. 5 Ibs, Mr. Sinbad’s Dixie, 11 st. 4 1 0 This was a very exciting race between Grasshopper and Gladiateur, Who ran neck and neck for the last half mile, and finally Gladiateur won by @ nose, Bonito ran agood third. Timo, 3:2834. Tax Axiypo Cur.—Presented. For Japan ponies, Winners at this meeting, or of two races last meeting, or of more than two races at the last two meetin; here, excluded; weight for inches; entrance ne ‘Three-quartors of a mile, Mr. Ola’s Moscou, 10 st. 4 Ibs. . Dr. Buckle’s Sirius, 10 st. 6 Ibs. Mr. Reid’s Drizzle, 10 st. 8 Ibs, Mr. Robertson’s Lim Whiter, Mr. Morrison’s Drift, 10 st, 2 Ibs My Captain Costigan’s Tsuji Ura, 10 st. 6 lbs, Mr. E. Mason’s Chevy Chase, 10 st. 6 lbs . Genoral Saigo’s K’sadzuri, 10 st. 6 lbs, Mr. Robert’s Cupbearer, 10 st, 8 Ibs... « A fieid of nine showed up out of fourteen entries, and gave the starter lots of trouble at the post, but were finally got off with an excellent start. Moscow ran through his ponies and took the lead, winning a good race with Sirius second and Drizzie third, Tae S&LLING §Srak $5 cach, with $74 added, For all ponies. China Pais 10 st. 7 Ibs. for “13 hands; Japan ponies, 10st. for 13 hands 3 inches, to increase for inches, as per scale; the winner to be sold for $75, with his engagements, by auction, imme- diately after the races, and any surplus realized and \ _ eoccoooen: the declared yalue to go to the race fund; if enter: to besola for $50, allowed 7 lbs. ; if for $25, allowed los. Five furlongs. Mr. Morrisou’s Black Rod, 9 st. 10 Ibs. AB Mr. Burnside’s Proselyto, 9 st. 7 Ibs. <e Mr. Radley’s Lord Harry, 9 st. 13 1b: s Mr. Broughty’s Saxon, 9 St. 10 Ibs. eo | Mr. Pringie’s Pico, 9 st. 10 Ibs. ae Black Rod was the favorito won easily by a couple of lengths. Progelyte, perhaps to Mr. Burnside’s astonishment, was second, and Lord Harry third. ‘Time, 1:21. The winnor was sold by auction for $130, as the shades of night fell on the conclusion of the secoud day’s proceedings. THIRD DAY—PRIDAY, STH NOVEMBER. ‘The day was flne and attendance at the course goo but a strong wind raised too much dust to make i quite comfortable for the spectators, The band of the Yesadnick again did excellent service. . Tur Horpex Race.—Value $75, For all ponies, ovor six hurdles; China pontes, 11 st. ; Japan ponies, 10 st. ; entrance $5, Once arou distance, Mr. Robertson's The Sno! Mr. Morrison's Andante, 11 st. Mr. Burnside’s Pilgrim, 11 st... Mr, Robertsou’s Dibs, 11 st..... Dr. Buckle’s The Slasher, 10 st. Mr. Radioy’s Ivanhoe, 11 st... +8: . sees For this six started, but one (Slasher) might just ag well have boen luft in the stable. Pilgrim fed off, all of them taking the hurdles neatly, The Snob was leading in the straight, being closely pressed by Andante, who, however, never could head him, and the Snob landed a winner by about a length. nboe shied at the last hurdle, and a stirrup breaking at the same tithe his rider was unfortunately thrown and stunned, but sub- sequently recovered under Dr. Wheeler's care, Tho fact of aJapan pony beating China cracks in this race was never expected, and the result rather interfered with book makers, i Tur AMERICAN Ccp,—Presented, A handicap for all winners atthe meeting; to be handicapped at the close of the second day's racing; entrance ten por cent of amount of stakes won; compulsory; open also to beaten porties at the mevting, at an entrance fee of $5, Ono mile and a quarter, Mr. Morrison's Braemar, 11 st,, Mr. Ola’s Mohstotz, LL st... Mr. Williams’ Grasshopper, 11 Dr. Buckle’s Smalihope, 10'st. 2 Ibs Mr, Sinbad’s Dixio, LL st, 2 Ibs Mr. Robertson's Gladiateur, 11 st. 4 ibs.. Mr, Robertson's Favori, 10 st. 10 Ibs. Mr, Peel’s Bonito, 10 st. 8 Ib: Mr, Savile's Crusader, 10 st. 7 ibs, sees ‘Nine started, Grashopper and Gladiateur carrying top weight Mohstotz rushing with the lead, making the pace very hot, Down the straight Mohstotz and Gra hopper raced neck and neck, nearly every ono’s att tion being fixed onthem and not noticing Braemar, who, running wide, made adesporate effort at the Anish and won by about’ half a length, running close to the outside rail Mohstotz beat Grasshopper by a head for second place, Time, 2:60%. ATTEMPT TO BRIBE CUSTOMS IN- SPECTORS. The following additional particulars have been gained with reference to the seizure of baggage worth $5,000, by the Russia, and briefly alluded to in Friday's Herat, Information respecting them will be filed in the Custom Houso to-day. Inspector George D, Carroll, ald to Deputy Surveyor George 8. Nichols, mot tho steamship Russia at Quarantine, and while making and receiving the passengers’ declarations of baggage, Mr. Mason Hirsch, umbrella importer of Philadelphia, pro- sented bis, on whieh he declared two pieces of silk, value 250 franes, anil being questionod he positively de- clared that that wag all his bagzage contained which was now or dutiablo, and that ho had brought no articles for other parties, aud took oath to tha same before the (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE ~ eoccocen ! | }