The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1876, Page 6

THE DAY OF PRAYER, elnainiatinetiones=> Exhortations of the Preachers in the City Pulpits. PETITION. THE POWER OF Reply to the Challenge of Tyn- dall, the Scientist. THE CORRUPT AMUSEMENTS OF SOCIETY. haneellor Preston Against Dane- ing and Club Life. Philippie of ¢ PROTESTANTISM VS. POPERY. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. PEECHER ON THE SCHOOL AND WHAT IT TEACHES. Mr. Beecher seemed in excellent spirits yesterday morning and preached with his usual vim. His text was from the central clause of the twenty-ninth verse MR, OF CHRIST of the eleventh chapter of Matthew—‘Learn of me,” Our Saviour, he said, was regarded by His countrymen as a rabbi oraJewish doctor. He was not a member of that class, and yet He was a public teacher, Not one conventionally authorized, but among the Jews there was an extraordinary liberty of personal develop ment, and our Saviour taught and was regarded, be- cause all mon went to hear Him as an accredited teacher and addressed Him as ““Rabbi.”” They came to Him as to @ teacher. ¢ WHAT 18 A scno ‘A place or an arrangement by which men may perfect themselves in various degrees in knowledge; und the condition of being a scholar ig the condition of being in wanj of knowledge and being at the same time willing to know, When a man conscious of not knowing gocs to a school that he may know, there is an understand- Ing, a tacit agreement which inheres in the very rela- hionship of the parties, that the master shall teach and the scholar shall receive his teuching. Now, where is Chrst’s scvool? I might answer this question by asking, Where sitnot’ For Christ's school is every place Where men seck to know what are the nobler elements of knowledge and how to employ them in human lie; wherever there are scholars’ seeking « nobler manhood—that is the end of the school. That school is in the soul of the individual, and every strug- gie that goes on in the human soul, tending’ toward good, if 4 part of the teaching of the ‘school of Christ. As the school is everywhere 80 it includes everything. Whatever goes to make a man healthier or stronger !u body, more skilful, adept and adroit or augments the bulk of true physical manhood is part aud parcel of that school, Meckness and humility are among the elementary branches of instruction’ in the school of Christ, they stand in the midst of a world of fa world has been controlled by the lion, the wo! fox; it 18 yet to be controlled by the lamb and tae dove. Another branch im the school of Christ fs pa- tience. Now, all men learn patience irom the school master necessity, Men Jearu finally how to bear and endure for the sake of certain ends they have in view, und pationce i one of the things that are TAUGUT BY NATORE AND BY GOD working through nature and society. But patience in the schoo! of Christ is a branch of knowledge that is to be taught by faith. Not because we must are we to be pationt; not because we have through long experience ound 14 does not do any good to be impatient In the schoo} of Christ there is patience which comes from faith, There is that patience which men feel when travelling bome after along absence—they do not feel the heat and dust of the journey; the patience which springs from the faith that we arg in God and sur- rounded by Him; faith that lifts iteelf up and rests in this, “Lam learning of Him; if He leads me through ways of difficulty it as that 1 may learn patience.” Tn the same schoo! much i# made ot fortitude. We sre commanded to take the badge of Christ in the form of a cross—“‘He that will tollow me let him take ap bis tross’—and no man need go out hunting much tor trosses, No man can break from the animal up through to wepiritual manhood without a great deal of sufter- ing—conscious, internal, self-intlicted. No man can do anything without that, ‘It is not special to religion, 1 should be very grateful indeed if I could take ap Cremona and exp my feelings at pace by it; bat if Iwant that musical skill I must pbiain it by suffering sell-denial and discipline. What- tver In society or in industry obliges a man to hold buck the worse part of himself for the sake of elevating She better part, that is learning, that is self-denial. Dhrist’s school is just like any other—it has afew smart scholars and @ great many dunces in it, and there are multitudes of persons in it who have never learned meekness, never learned patience or fortitude. ‘A man may learn ina school false science, amd in a thurob false love of Christianity. You may be the best of churchmen and obey every single rule and observ- ance, and if there is not in the centre that dominant and growing tendency of your whole being to so grow yourself that you show a Diessing to men—if you have 1 that, Pad! says, you are ‘sounding brass and @ unkling cymbal;”” you are good for nothing. Now bow far must we learn this? The Schoolmaster tas iaid down the programme, ‘I say unto you, Love your enemies.” There, that is a precipice ten thousand jet bigh in the way of the natural man, right across the road. But look at the specifications in it, ‘Bless them that curse you.” Why, that is so foreign to human nature that if a man does it people say he is @ hypocrite. “Do good to them that hate you, pray for them that despitefally use you and persecute you” Why? That you may be the children of your Father. ALL MEN ARE CALLED Every man fs called to be a pupil of Christ, not nec- tasarily by joiming a church. There is no law that hall prevent a man’s attaining any amount of knowledge or 1 any profession without going through a or @ prolessional schol Now any man may bea Christian without joming a church—in his shop, in his household, anywhere. Churches have smothered thousands of men, deluded thousands of men; men have Whought they hac peace with God when they had only a sort of supericial peace. Men have thought that the Church is very much hike ® railway. A man goes to © principal office, sits down iu acar; that ts the end of hie responsibility; it ie the road’s business after that to take him from New York to Boston, 50 these men sit down in the church and say, “Now take me to heaven.” No man ever got an education by paying college fees, sitting down and say: teach me.” You have got to iearn if you would be learned. To be @ Christian is to have in you those dispositions which belong to the Lora Jesus Christ CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE WARNING GIVEN US BY THE FATB OF THE HEBREWS—THE POWER OF JESUS’ BLOOD. Mr. Hepworth took his text from St. Luke, 1, “To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember bis holy covenant” He said:—Let us look for & moment to the time when God made, with His chosen peopi¢, a covenant. While the Israelites were gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai the Lord appeared unto Moses and gave bim, not only the Ten Commandments, but a great many commandments whieh be was to preserve in his heart and from time to time deliver, according to the emergencies of the hour. The covenant made with Abra. Lam ts made with us; we are beneath the canopy of God’e protecting love, and disobedience to His laws is civil chaos and national rain, Look a little closer, Wo are told in Hebrews, viii. that the covenant which was broken by the Israclites was renewed, and in avery peculiar way. Listen for a moment: renewed, not directly by God, mm the top of Sinai, but by the incarnation of His only begotten Son, Thus it follows that we are living under acovenant, For if that frst covenant had bee {auitiess—if the people of lsrae] had kept their covenant—there would have been no need for further promises on the part of God. God said:— ‘Behold, the day is coming when i will make a new covenant with the people of Israel, not according to the covenant I made ith their fathers, but these two covenants I will make yolnds and into their hearts and to them a God, and they shall be to me as childr the difference The frst covenant came do: Sinai, writ Ly Swe tablets of stone; Dut when Jesus Curist came all things were changed, for Gop WROTE 1S LAWS tn our mind and heart, and to-day you are to be judg by the epirit of your life; not by your deeds alone, by dwelling of the Holy Gbost, and he who shail ghest in the kingdom of heaven is he in whom shall be found the least of self and the most of Goa. What is thin covenant? In the ret piace, it is a covenant of love—ijove in all its operations—and thay is very dificult to understand, When yo ve good fortune then it is easy to comprebend the affection of God for you; but God holds the stern frost of winter as weil as the summer rays of August God plays on « harp of a thousand ttrings, and be makes music out of our life when he givet us sorrow as well as joy. ‘bere are some people in whom God and the devil occupy about J places, They waver between the two, but that is poor theology, and poorest comfort—it is the rankest heresy. ig yoa and ed ‘and comfort you mast believe if you have ‘want JO} ever, its whatever He does He does for best, it will come ows best in the end. J ey ways be be saw three I mto a glasshouse, once went ner ‘th mt veschiee itfor a few minutes took |t out and put it tn the second furnace, and alter watching it thero a fow he took it out and pat it In the third fur. . “Now | i my laws into their | w asmile of sutisiaction Uroke pyar bin NEW YORK HERALD, ‘MONDAY, JANUARY: 17, 1876. face. ‘What do me mean?” eald Wesley. ‘*Why,”” said the man, “ nl put it in the first furnace 1 saw it was not bot enough to make it transparent, so 1 put it im the second, for | did not wish to test it beyond its endurance, but Tl saw that was not hot enough, so | put it in the third, and pow it bas come outa beautiful, transparent piece of glaas.”’ That reminds me of the | providence of God; it is not success that makes the | man, ib is the truest man who ean bear the heaviest burden We try to get away from these | burdens, bat God comes and takes by force and puts us into the furnace, Your | child dead Not hot enough, Your money gone, kot hot epougb yet, Then he takes us and puts us into the furnace seven times heated, without money and | without children, and leaves us alone like a scarred tree, and then, perhaps, we learn the lesson, and may hear the Is saying, What shalla man give in ex- change for bis soul?” The covenant Christ makes is a | covenant of mercy also, and it will require a great merey to cover up our sins; no little mercy will was away the evil, it must be a flood that covers the moun- tain tops, and then we may find our way into the ark of safety, Our sinfulness is an ugly fact. If you were to die to-mght would you go to heaven and be happy? You can go without your sip, but not with it, He who keeps the gate lets no one pass who is not pure, How, then, ean you and I go there? Our propitration is the Dlood of she Son of God. Where can I find Him? 1 follow A MOR OF HEDREWS Mrongh the streets of Jerusalem, i see Jesus lifted up on the top of Calvary. Lhear blm say, “Father, for- give them, know not what they do,’’ and I say to my beart,’ “The Lamb of God,” and I gay, “If {can only touch that blood I know that God will pass me over,” and when! speak of the death of the Master L mean that every man must be touched by the spirit of consecration, and then, when we come to the golden | threshold of the new Jerusalem, the angel will open | the gate wide, and every man who has on his heart the stain of the Master's blood will be saved, ST. JAMES’ CHURCH, HARLEM. REPLY TO TYNDALL—SERMON OF DR, FOSS ON THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER, Dr. Foss preached yesterday morning in St ’ church, at the corner of Madison avenue and 126th street, the subject being the efficacy of prayer and how {t may be answered both in the spiritual and the physical realms. His text was Ezekiel, xxxvi., 26 and $7—‘Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I, the Lord, build the ruined places and plant that that was aesolate; I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will doit, Thus saith the Lord God; 1 will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock." Some of the ancient philosophers be- lieved that the earth rested on the back of an immense nt, the elephant on the back of a tortoise and the tortoise om the back of a serpent; but this theory, as Washington Irving remarks, fell through for want of a sufficient foundation, The Psalmist says that these things go according to God’s ordinances, It appears that everything in nature in its development and decay repeats the old declaration, “Thou, Lord, hast spoken it and wilst doi,” Mira: cles agree with this belief, for the elements are by them more thoroughly shown to be the handmaids of the Creator, and by using these forces of nature it is that God answers prayer in a physical manner, Prayer of the kind may even be answered by men, Suppose, for instance, that a part of a city is suffering from malaria arising {rom a swamp, The people send aprayer for relief to the authorities, and they drain the swamp and thus remove the canse of the malaria, Perhaps angels do God's work in effecting the chain of physical causation God can answer prayer also by operating on the mind. Men can do this, too, If we wish to get a man to do anything we influence his will. The speaker concluded with the exhortation, “Child of God, pray on, for Ged holds all nature in His hand, and bas said every one that asketh ro- ceiveth. ? ST. ANN’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. FEAST OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS—SERMON BY THE REY. FATHER PRESTON, The Catholic Church celebrated yesterday the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, commemorated in the Gospel according to St. Luke, ii, 21—‘And when eight days were passed for the circumeising of the child his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.” At St, Ann’s, Twelfth street, the high mass was celebrated by Father Hayes. The music and sing- ing were excellent, especially the “O Salutaris Hostia.”” At the elevation of the host the church tower bell was sounded instead of the altar boll. The text o! the sermon was taken from the second chapter of the First Epistle of John, verses 15, 16 and 17—‘Love not the world nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world the love of the Father 1s not in him. For all that is in the world, the concupiscence of the fiesh and of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father butof the worla."”’ In beginning the reverend gentleman spoke of the day as one suitable for meditation on worldly and etercal things and called upon his listeners to ask themselves in their hearts under which standard they stood, the cross, with its self-denial, meekness and humility, on the one | side, or the world, with its fashions, follies and wicked- | ness, onthe other? The prevailing sin of tho age ts worldliness, and there was never a time in history when so many men were Sighting the dogmas of re- vealed and natural religion, There is nota kingdom ; that stands up in defence of Christianity, while many are ready to rise against 1% Men in the department of science, who proiess to be wise, do not hesitate to cast thetr javelins against Almighty God, and on every side is science arrayed against religion.” Few men of science are there ovtside the Catholic Church who have not fallen into error. Let us look beneath the ce of what we call socicty, and we shall find ers and mothers who think more of the figures ‘their children make before man than before God. Men seek to achieve honorable mames and amass wealth without regard to the means by which they attain them. This, he continued, is the spirit of our modern society. Ouramusements have become corrupt, and there are many wholive atone for the love of the world. They waste all their strength in the pleasure of the senses, and have none left to serve their God. Women trust themselves in the arms of strange men at balls and parties; au offence at once against modesty and decency. The sacred name of charity is profaned by prostitutes giving public balls in its name, and leading men into the paths of impurity and perdition. Men leave their home for the pleasure of the club and the mys- teries of secret societies. These are the signs of the times. Let us pray God that He may grant us grace in this day of sensuality to resist the world with all ts pomp, and open our eyes to dhe ever true, though invisi- | bie, Light, TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. | DR. JUSTIN FULTON ON THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBERTY. The Rev. Dr. Jastin D, Fulton, formerly of the Han, eon place Baptist church, Brooklyn, preached in the | Tabernacle Bapust church, in Second avenue, near Tenth street, yesterday morning, on “The Beginnings | of Liberty in the Word of God” Four immense | American flags were suspended over the centre of the church; two others, with a large New York State flag, | formed the background of the platform or pulpit, | | while from the gallery, the organ loft and the win- dows depended no fewer than forty-three Union flags. ‘A miniature forest of cedar and Norway pine bordered the platform on either hand, while on the right of the speaker was a life-size statue of the Goddess of Lit- erty, and to his lef’ an American Indian, in ail the glory of tomahawk, shield aud bow, The navy represented by @ miniatare Jack Tar, in full uitorm, in the act of pulling with his left hand the lanyard ol mall brass howitzer, while with his right he waved small flag in defiance of ome imaginary enemy. To add to the effect the windows had been darkened, and | gas jets, backed by reflectors, threw a brilliant light over the gaudy scene. Before beginuiag his sermon Mr. Fulton requested the congregation to sing the hymn— My country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty. ‘And itwas sung with great gusto. The text selected | ‘was the first verse of the first chapter of John—"'In the beginning was the word.” Liberty, in (ts origin and in its mission, said the speaker, is engaging the thoughts of mankind. In | every Iand whither the story ot our American life has gone peans gin behalf of what freedom bas brought and won for the people who have found on this broad continent a home. Itis@ good time to cali ectention to the truth thas the beginnings of liberty are | in the Word of God. The chart of nope is the New Testament Those woras which fell from the ps of the'God-man—*‘And ye shall know this truth, | and the truth shall make you free’’—are the Magna Charta ot human liberty, | grit the government of God, through the statutes ad- dressed to lstael, made the Jewish nation supreme in | ancient times, is 1% well to conclude that God has hothing in His Word and tn the constitution of His | Church. as uttered in the acts of His aposties, ealca- lated to bless and keep a people, whose growth is the | wonder of the world and whose influence permeates ail | lands? Is it Dot rather our duty to thauk God for the | achievements wrought for as by our fathers, and to | remember that it was love to God which brought them from theif homes in the Old World to dare the dangers | of the wilderness in the New! Atthis boar this uation | most Jove God and their country shan ment is the light of men, In tt are the paths outlined | be that those who bo to it that only Protestants are which it is safe for us to tread, The initial types are | controi the party, all there and hints are given which outline God's | elected to office, the party that said, thoughts concerning the best models of government | “Put only Americans in office.” Let ft be and the genius of liberty and law, the union of all who love our Lord Jesus Christ. How shall we effect our purpose? With the ballot? FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. God forbid it should ever be spelt any other way. That “COME UNTO ME”—SERLMON OF BEV. DR, HALL, silent falling ballot must be the voice of this people, and God grant that those ballots may be for the uphold- Yesterday morning, in the above beautiful temple of worship, at the corner of Filty-fifth street and Fifth ing of Protestantism. God grant that we may live to avenue, the pastor preached a very cloquent and tempt to shut. Christian citizens, endeavor to do your duty and | will endeavor to do mine. | tain her freedom, sce the open Bible—one that no hand may dare to at- practical sermon, the text of which was unto me all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” The preacher said:—1l do not need to remind you in what spirit and in what generous terms such an offer should be accepted, Here we have an invitation from one who is at the head of the princes of the Church, calling to His side the miserable, un- happy and the wretched, saying, ‘Come untome,” He gives them the bread of life that they shall hunger no more, What man is there in this city who coula say to suffering humanity, ‘Come to me, and I will take your sins away??? Who is there in the city with power to say, “Come to me, and I will make you rich.” God has so arranged the ways of life that men MUST RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS or they will be miserable, Who are those invited to come? "In the first place, the undecided, of course, who keem, as it were, to be standing on a bleak ridge of high- land.’ On one side is a secure and pleasant valley in which is peace and plenty; © 6 other a barren, bowling wilderness. The undecided ma; ust to their felluw men and loyal to home duties; but they have never consecrated tbemselves to the cause of Christ, Then there are the indifferent; they are found away from Him too much, completely immersed in their own affairs, They say they are {feighted with business, but I would liken them to flowers that look fair to the eye, bat which are growing ona deadly marsh, the poisonous miasma of which is slowly but surely enveloping them. ‘Then there are the ignorant, who know nothing ubout “the chief among ten thou- sand and altogether lovely.”? There are also decent sinners and indecent sinners, The former are those who ouly live to make money, and in some sense such men may be benefactors of their race, but the Lord would call them covetous he heathens have ther gods; tho {dol of this class of men is money. Bus this is @ decent sin, The man, however, who cheats and steals, de- frauds his employers, or the woman who, while leaning upon the arm of the man she smiles upon and calls husband, yet gives ber affection to another, commit in- decent sing The reckless, also, must be thought of. God will break their rest, make them unhappy, thwart their plans and blight their expectatios opul they bend to Him. Then there are the stojcal philoso- phere, who affect not to care, and the cynical, who cul- tivate a habit of laughter, and all these men are reckless failures—heroic, stoic, cynical, what you please, all fail of their purpose until they give atten- Vion to the message, *‘Come unto me.” TRINITY CHURCH. NEW YORK AS A FIELD FOR MISSION LABOR-— DISCOURSE BY REV. MORGAN DIX. One of the incentives that aided in filling Trinity church to its utmost capacity was the announce- ment that the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix would repeat the sermon on “City Missions” he recently preached for the City Mission Society, The reverend rector spoke of the great field that is presented in a populous city like this for earnest and persistent missionary la- bor. Hereare the mansions of the rich, the squalid hovels of the poor, the stately charebes where the word of life is preached, and districts full of poverty, hunger and crime, where missionaries could labor most acceptably. He drew an eloquent picture of the advan- tages offered by a dense population to bring religious and TEMPORAL A1D TO THE NEEDY and diseased, and declared that mission work con- ducted by Trinity church was not alone spiritual, Jt numbers all works of mercy; the feeding of the hungry, the clothing of the naked and the visitatton of the sick, New York, one ofthe grandest cities of the world, a city between two rivers, displays alike its images of its glory and the marks of its shame, Some speak of it as berng the headquarters of Satan, This is false. In reality it is good and bad comminglin The good ts very good, and the bad is very bad, Dr, Dix pointed to the churches, the public schools, the institu- tions of art, the bethels and the mission schools as the images of glory; ana the vile dens of the dissolute, the crowded tenements and the resorts of criminals as the marks of the city’s shame. This city suo longer an ‘American city, said the minister. IT 18 A GERMAN CITY, the head German city of the world The great German cities are Berlin, Vienna and New York. Here we have a conglomeration of al! Ruropean nations, Native born citizens are pushed out of the way; we find offices filled by foreigners, the great public works bails by foreign laborers, and three-fifths of the voters of the city have a foreign look. The most powerful church owes its allegiance to a foreign head. we b Pee) then, is the necessity for earnest mission work bere! Tho rector then referred to the condition of Trinity parish forty years ago, when it was a reproach that it only supplied the Word of the Lord to the rich, This re- proach had been removed by Trinity, which now supplies Uhrough its bethels, its schoola, its St Barnabas Home ‘and other institations to the laboring poor the Word of God The rector spoke of the City Mission Society, and gave some statistics as to its labors last year. It held out ite hand and arm to the poorest; it is a visitor to and a support of the needy, as well as a teacher of the Gospel to the poor, St, Barnabas Home, one of the best of the institutions of the parish, is TUR NOTA. OF THE FOOR, where the houseless are sheltered, the hangry fed, the Wants of tho aged supplied; a piace for the succor of little children, a protector of the friendless girl, who is safe there fom the mintons of the devil. ‘Afver tou: hing upon the self-sacrificing labors of the Sisters of 1ue Good Shepherd and the zeal of the Christian priests, the rector referred to the iy of Christians in contributing to the support of Chris- tran work vutside of theirown parishes, and the diffical- ties experienced by the managers of the institutions, who last year had to carry om mission work with the receipts from the building fund, because they were not supported by the Church. He concluded by exhorting his hearers to rise above their apathy and indifference and place the City Mission Society where it should be— the leading society of this State. At the conclusion of the sermon a collection was taken up on behalf of mission work and # large sum was realized. LEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. POPERY MUST BE CHECKED—SBRMON BY REV. 3. HYATT SMITH. The Lee avenue Baptist church in Brooklyn was crowded last evening, the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith having previously announced as the subject for his discourse ‘The Progress and Purpose of Popery in this Country, and the Daty of the Christian Citizen.” His texts were Deuteronomy, xix., 14—‘‘Thon shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark ;” Deuteronomy, xxvii, 17—"Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark; Proverbs, xxii., 28—‘Remove not the an- cient landmark which thy fathers have set.” Mr. Smith satd:—‘In entering upon the service that is before us this evening, which is to consider the progress of papacy in our land, I would say thar tT have no sympathy with those who feel called upon to deal only abuse against the Roman Catholic Charch. I will say, as | have always said, that in the history ot the Roman Catholic Church® she has had multitudes of God-loving, Cbrist-fearing people, Iam not to be understood as making an onsiaught upon the Roman Catholic Charch, [have tn the past and [ do no now arraign the Roman Catholic Church in that her principles are opposed to the freedom of thi Repnblic and can never in any sense be reconciled. The issue is direc It 1s ‘Tue VITALITY OF PAPACY said, ‘Give us an open Bible, and let us build our own conclusion.’ ‘I,' the priest says, ‘will not trust you with that book. "1 will interpret t for you.’ It is can for the spread of bie faith In the conflict that surely must come apon this question I do not believe there will be one drop of blood spilt It will be a battle of conscience, words and influence, But should tt come it will be yours and my duty to go and do our share in the be ie! for Protestantism—yoa would be « traitor to your God and your country if you did nok (Applause. of this Repubite. To-migh! 65,000 common schools and Republi. I would like to take a vote asto whether the as 1 epeak, there are 000,000 children in this ther them on a plain and Bible should be taken as would fairly shake THR OLD MAN [N RO! and show him that America bas and 1s still able to re. (Applause) Papacy demands the removal of the Bible, and the politician who would sell his birthright for a mes# of pottags on Fort Sumter struck all parties of the North to a unit so has the sounding note brought ~ as Pro esiants, to a unit, and we are prepared to defend th question till deat! liisas i Known @ troth as it that the sun will set t he Pope has eet his ¢) America, He ts loo! to this beautiful Jani conironts new responsibilities. Freedom for the in- ut | habitants of an ocean-wasbed Repubiic has been gained | siay through severe reverses, which drove us as a people | Cardinal in the land, and the American | from our wanderin, with humble hearts to seek the help that came to us from abova No one wante to forges Valley Forge—ho | Washington, when his little army of ragged and ha’ starved patriots w in his tent and without which he one seek to put out of from President Lineol: tietam, After speaking of the great nambor of foreigners who have immigrated to this country and the fear felt by ed fervently to God for that help new he could not succeed. Let no our mind the cry that went up when ou soldiers fought at An- many that they will pot become good citizens, Dr. Fulton asked, How shall this incongruous mass be as- milated? The answer, be sard, was found in the consti. h, There must be a change of sen- pei as the; fashionable av. it i foolish 10. tak communion. Men who do this fo cept sentiment in ite atead. The Church in the past mado ite greatest mistake when she turned from the | Ward nf Gad to mde aretapte of mom, The New Trste. jas about to assault the enemy, knelt | only waiting the time that he may walk silently in and this Republic They have people with wounded pride and | have borne it, They say he ts only a prince of the | Church. There is not a maa here but knows that he ts | &8 much a temporal prince here as Bismarck, God bless bim, ie in Germany. How long would we allow o & prince to sway bis sceptre here? Our people seemed almost to be pleased with I, He was dressed asa | Cardinal, without the eap, which I suppose has been kept back for som & His colors were red, and young ladies, who adormed themselves with the very | Same color that should have been on their cheeks The young men mast have @ cardinal red necktie Shame op them! The State should give them a neck- utmost .that Catholiciam may be mise with chartty, APITHER BAPTIST ROR*PRE: TRAIAN, banner of our Jard Jeswe Christ at any band lected from the Gospel according to St Matthew, xi., 23—"Come that she claims to govern the conscience. Our fathers — ‘an honest work for the priest to endeavor to do all he | Protestantism ts the very root ont of the school or pot Such a ‘No!’ would go up @ less than Esau's established a | purposs | Nhat color was quickly taken up by our fashionable tie of another color. See to it that yon do your driven from our shores. The duty of every citizen ts to be charitable Go | named forth in love; butdo not mistake cowardice and compro- | shall be ove steadfastly in your ephere and We most go forward in a solid phatanx, with the Lat THIRD REF. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE BIBLE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS—SERMON BY REV. DAVID GREGG, A large congregation assembled in the Third Re- formea Presbyterian church, Twenty-third street, be- tween Seventh and Eighth avenues, last evening, to listen to a sermon on “The Bible in the Public Schools,” by the pastor, Rev. David Gregg. His text was Deute- ronomy, !v., 6, 6—“Behold I have taught you statutes and judgmenta, even as the Lord my God com- manded me, that ye should do so in the land wither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore, and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great pation is a wise and understanding people,” After a general introduction of his subject and forci- bly stating the efforts being made to exclude the Bible from our common schools, the pastor said that the twenty millions of Protestants in this country had the rightto be heard equally with tne four millions of Romanists in this matter. Ifa fraction of the people or of a State do not wish to be subservient to its laws and institutions, let them withdraw, and go where they will be better suited, If there be a Roman faction in this country who will not assimilate themselves with the teachings of the majority, let this Roman Catholic stain be removed, The Bible in our schools is a great moral standard—the guide to show us what is right and what is wrong. Its teachings made this country and carried it to the present condi- tion of glorious prosperity, Those who would have this great book excluded from the schools are the ene- mies of the principles upon which THK GOVERNMENT WAS POUNDED, and would seek its destruction if it cannot be ruled by the doctrines which bey ( advocate, Such are from the ranks of Romanists, and Rome is opposed to the Amer- ican principle of religious instruction, Rome 1s op. posed to the American principle that the State has the Tight to educate. Kome is opposed to the American system of divoroing the Church from the State, That the rotestants of the fcoun- try ever put themselves in the condition of persecutors is a great slander, The press, the ballot box, the courts and all else are open to the Romanists, but the right to pull down the American system of education that recognizes God ts not open to them, These thoughts and others of a kindred pature occu- pied the pastor’s attention for more than an hour. He concluded by exhorting his hearers to read the Bible in public and in private, and in this way it can never be driven trom us by our enemies. PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT AND MODERN 6PIRIT- UALISM. At the Park Congregational church, in Brooklyn, yesterday the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith preached @ sermon based on the Sunday school lesson, I. Samuel, xv., 23—‘‘For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.’ The teachers of the Sunday school had, be said, requested the sermon for the reason that witchcraft and sorcery enter largely into the new range of international lessons for the coming month. Witchcraft, ho said, was recog- pized in its various names in all parts of the Bible, Moses forbade that a witch should live in the land, Under the law a wizard was stoned to death, Passing rapidly through the Scriptural record of witchcraft, be came to speak of modern Spiritualism, saying that in all ages down to the present men have be- witched the ple by lying words, and have lined their pouches with gold through pious frauds The vilest and most shallow, he felt, was that which disgraces the nineneenth century and ) g under the namo of Spiritualsm. Itbad trap doors, double floored boxes, cabinets, bong brass bands, ghostly hands, with performers, who, the sorcerers in the days of Isaish, “peep and mutter in the dark,” pre- tending to call up the dead and hold converse with the departed, doing no good, throwing light on no dark pathway, helping nobody to mend the mistakes of fire Mothers coming back to their children with no word of caution, no Warning to keep them from evil, no wordof instruction to guide them through the stern duties of life, fatly comtradicting the words of Jesus that “the dead cannot pass’? the boundaries of the two worlds por convey wrong 1 to the living— “neither would one be pees, ough one rose from the dead.” the particular and uni- form influence of this modern witchcraft was, he said, sintul and deplorable; it made the word of God ot no effect, it flung @ he in the teeth of Jesus our Lord. Its breath was like the sirocco, that blasted everything on which it blew. It blasted spiritual hfe, broke up the housebold, ruined many denom- imations and threw the sands of over every green and bright thing that blooms Its infatuation was ruinous to busiuess prosperity. He said he had met aman in his walks in New York who was supposed to be @ millionnaire, He had gay to invest, and a medium was selected to eid in m: ne the investment The spirite of Clay, Webster an Calhoun e Invoked to give an opinion on the matter, Webster never knew much about investing money, and he seemed to know less than he did be- fore he exchanged worlds, The investment of course was rainous, and in poverty and in ary the man now treads his solitary way in New York. Turn away, he said, from these shows “Try the spirits, and see whether they be of God.” If they do not confess the Lord, they are from the Di Put on the whole armor of God, and with the sword of the spirit turn the wiles of the Devil Tho words of Jesus, he said, would tell them all they would ever know about the de- parted until “the pearly gates swing inward” and they crossed the glittering threshold. Take care that these wily systems do not beguile you as the serpent be- sguiled Eve with his subtlety, Say rather with the | ecstatic poet:— | Should all the forms that men devise | ‘Assaalt my faith with treacherous art, Pa call them vanity and lies, And bind the Gospel to my heart. MRS. LOWERY’S “EXPERIENCES.” The announcement that Mrs, Lowery, better known ‘as the converted actress, would begin a revival at the Warren street Methodist Episcopal church, in Brook- lyn, brought quite a crowd to the afternoon and even, ing services. Mrs. Lowery appeared at the afternoon meeting, and alter some remarks touching her mission issued an invitation to the congregation to attend the last service and bring their friends along. The result was that the charch was completely filled last | night when the revivalist began her discourse | She preached on the Scriptural text, “As you sow so | shall you reap.” She said that she herself was not learned as the world had !t, and consequently when she read the Bible she did it as a little child, and so inter- | preted it according only to the strict letter of the | words, But nevertheless she saw in that sim. | ple text a world of wisdom and a lesson to | putt every individual and every condition of life, When he saw young men indulging their grosser appetives nd passing from jolly goodfellowship into the lowest | | | | | | depths of dissipation she thought that to them the | text had surely @ deep signification When she saw ng women losing physical strength | and mo courage through @ consiant atiend- ance at balls and revellings she thought | that they, too, had reason to study the meaning of the text and appreciate it As the mustard seed spoken of in the Scriptures took root, and in time became a goodly tree, go does the tdie word dropped almost :nvoluntart); The first glass of wine, taken perhaps only half w ingly, wili become engrafted in the nature of man, and { if not speedily eradicated will form the germs of vice great enough to drive bim to perdition In the same way the good seed it rightly sown will soon ripen into @ glorious maturity. rs. Lowery then went on to ve that her own conversion way diferent from that of many people, but that this simple text bore a part in tt she in the Bible, “as you sow so shall you reap,’ ana it flashed upon ber that the seed she was sowing could not be productive of good to men and could oply tood to make minds worldly and deaden in the human heart the veneration tor hol things which they deserve. A deep sense of this trut determined at once to de converted, and from that day w this she has biessed God for His goodness in so enlightening her. The revivalists then made a stirri appeal to her hearers to look well at their own mode of life and see if ts bore scrutiny. “If you realize,” said is on one side, and the other and any side, and | ghe, ‘that God is looking im your ‘hearts willing to do ‘anything for offica, and is ‘doing | ag 1 am im your faces, and cannot be ali in bis power to help the removal in| deceived, if you realize that every word | the same manner as the gun that was fired | and action is recorded, and will come your soul into wretchodness or lift it up ‘of God, will you not come and supplicate His pardon ?”” A tic es a mission and the success she hoped to attain she cluded her discourse by urging upon her hearers the necessity of immediate Conversion. “THE SCANDAL. ARRANGING FOR THE ADVISORY COUNCIL. A preliminary meeting of the Plymouth church com- mitice was held in the lecture room of that edifice yes- terday after the forenoon services. The subject under discussion was (be proper method of procedure, looking to the inauguration of the advisory council of Congre- churches which will shortly be held in Brook- lyn to pass upon the action of Plymouth eburch in dropping the name of Mrs. Francis D, Moulton from the roll of membership, It was agreed that ail the churches 16 list of that Indy for the mutual council ited to attend the advisory council, except Rev. Drs. Budington and Storrs. carry ont your alms on principia The énty of th ‘The advisory council wiil meet in that chu The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is to be auited In the | Setter missive, which was published about a month ago, Issue that i# now upon us | am. will be sept’ out to-day. The action of Plymout ehurch with Biagrecadhanat 6 Fecent course business will also be submitted to the gbugphes ab the romina conned. THE CENTENNIAL. How the Exhibition May Be Made of the Greatest Benefit. THE LESSONS WHICH EXPERIENCE TEACHES Proposed Assemblage of Interna- tional Congresses. A PICTURE OF THE HEIGHT OF CIVILIZATION, To tux Epirorn ov tne Herat Congress, in the exercise of its constitutional power to provide for the general welfare, having deemed it fit and beneficial to order the commemora- tion of the Centennial by an International Exhibition, having secured the assistance of foreign Powers by an assurance of its national character, and being now about to legislate for its support under governmental control, will naturally desire to omit on so interesting an occasion ‘no suitable provision that may enhance the dignity ofthe celebration and the resulting benefits to our own people and to the world, Apart from the grave lessons taught by our experi- ence at Vienna—the {ull significance of which will ap- pear when the record of the official investigation shall be brought to light—of the necessity of the manage- ment of the celebration, both as regards the expendi- ture of governmental moneys and the dealings with the foreign commissions being subject to govern- mental supervision, there are some points bearing on “the general welfare” which the experience of the past commends to special consideration. The first is one which the Centennial Commission early brought to the public attention—the advantages of assembling im International Congresses for confer- ence on topics of common interest, the scientists and experts of our own and of foreign nations. A second is the propriety of an invitation by our govern- ment, in the name of the sovereign people, to foreign sovereigns to witness the Exhibition to which they are 80 courteously contributing, A third relates to the fit- ness of an arrangement by which the Exhibition shall, in the fullest sense, inure to the general welfare, with no restriction of the pleasures or benefits to be derived from it to those classes who can afford to purchase the enjoyment, but with an opening of the Exhibition, from time to time, to all persons without charge, The reasonableness of such an afrangement, its accord with the spirit of our institutions and with the spirit of the occasion, and its profound importance to the country, in reference especially to our youth- ful population, and the advantages to be derived from the visits of schools and guilds and societies, seem too _ obvious to need discussion, A fourth may be the employment of experts to prepare reliable reports upom tke Exhibi- tion, with the view of deducing from tts various branches every useful lesson that it may teach in mat- ters of education, art, science, law, manufactures or commerce, to the end that the whole people may reap benefit from the celebration ana that there may re- main @ permanent record for the student and the his- torian, Of these points the most pressi perhaps, from the shortness of the time, may be the inviting of Interna- tional Congresses and of the foreign sovereigns. Such congresses are a feature of international exbi- bitions especially fitted to develop tts full intellectual benefits in harmony with the idea that the Exbibition should be, as Prince Albert expressed it, ‘a proof and a living picture of the height of civilization and the de- velopment of mankind.” For America such an assemblage in our midst, of the foreign masters of modern science would have fur. ther advantages which no thonghtful Ameri- can can overlook, in the appreciative knowledge which they would carry back of the capacity aud re- sources of the Republic in progress, in education, science and art, the character of its people and their continuous development—considerations bearing directly upon our national prestige, credit and influ- ence, our intellectual ‘and scientific rank, the tncen- tives to emigration and the confidence im our future Such a gathering of the recognized leaders of modern civilization to “consider questions,” as s European Journal expresses {t, “having an interest for all hu- manity,” would of itself raise the Exhibition far above the idea sometimes entertained of it as simply a sigantic fair; would give to it an intellectual character beyond that of any similar exhibition im the past, and would make our Centennial celebration of unexampled dignity in the history of the world, with new proofs in the record of its congresses, of the happy fruits of in- ternational harmony. Among the subjects for the congresses sug from Vienna nearly two years ago for tne consideration of the government and the Centeunial Commission were the following :— 1. Education, with reference, among other branches, to the question of obligatory education, to schools for teaching trades and polytechnic institutes such as exist in Austria and Germany; the teaching of elementary drawing in all schools, of music, the plan of sending children of marked genius to the proper schools of en- gineering, mathematics, design, &c., and the question how far the living languages may be advantageously substituted for the dead 2 International Patent Right.—A subject which was very ably and satisfactorily treated in a congress at Vienna and one of the greatest and most immediate im- portance to our inventors, manufacturers and artisans. The foreign correspondence of our government on this subject would doubtless show something of the extent to which Amorican patentees now sutfer from the want of international patent protection and of the steps that have been suggested and partially approved of in Europe for the adjustment of this difficalty, & International copyright as affecting authors, pub- lishers and readers. 4& Agriculture, in {ts various branches, including the dairy; agricultural implements; agricultural school and farm steadings.—Subjocts which could be comveni- ently illustrated on the spot by each great Power erect- ing a farm steading on Its own plot. the House committee on public lands, and on which the expression of the different countries of Europe and the opinion of European experts might be found o importance in assisting to restore our declining forests and avert the consequences threatened by our reckless waste of timber. 6 Vines and Wines, where the experience of Europe might be of much advantage, 1. Fish Culture and the Preservation of Game. & Medicine and Surgery, in which tl in their respective specialtiés, and in regard to general scourges, like the cholera, aud om diseases, like diphtheria, each of the great Po shall send with its commission national band. As regards the progress of Americans in music it is stated on what appears to be reliable authority, that at Leipsic there are 800 Americans stadying instrumental music, and a Milan some 200 studying vocal music, 10. Engineering. —And in connection with this sub- Ject it might be well to have a collection from foreign countries, as well as from our own, of models showing the great achievements of modern engineering. ings and domestic architecture, and these again micht be illustrated by moqeis from all countries, 12 Mining.—Where papers from Ruropean experts, made in the prevention of explosions, 18, Telegraph; astronomy, criminal jurisprudence ana othe sciences 15. Art Museums and art Exchanges—The expe & Forestry, which recently occupied the attention of best known | men of both continents might contribute information | ry & Music.—Which might perbaps form s centre of i attraction for gompesers and performers, especially if 11. Architecture,—Including eburches, public butld. with working plans and models, might be of singular interest to our people, and where an advance might be V4. Photography.—Especially in tte application to statuary of the world, with the marbles of ont own artists, would give an idea of the advantages which @ permanent museum would afford to our people, A congress on ‘this subject might concentrate the art interest of America in a manner the most favorable to united action: and the representatives of the art museums of the Old World could throw light on the facility with which such national and State collections may be formed and combined when ttie occasion demands {t, and illustrate also the best mode of pro- ceeding for the establishment of a national art school. 16, Prehistoric remains, especially of America —In this work of research the Smithsonian Institute and the Peabody Museum of American Archaology and Ethnology, in connection with Harvard University, are already jointly engaged; and an international congress called by those bodies, including names so illustrious as those of Professor Joseph Henry and Professor Asa Gray, Robert ©, Winthrop and Charles Francis Adams, would command the cordia! co-operation of the anti. quarian and archeological associations of ali countries, The recent and continuing discoveries in our Western States and Territories are creating profound interest at bome and abroad, and show the breadth and richness of the field yet to be explored. The American pro- Jectors of the congress might arrange for an exhibi- tion, even if on a moderate scale, of the sculp- tural, architectural and hieroglyphical symbols of the lost civilizations of this continent, and particularly of Central America, to assist the researches of the congress, and to awaken a dete: mination to establish, with the assistance of the na- tional and State governments, @ museum devoted to American antiquities, and a commission of exploration to commence the work, already too long delayed, of res- culng from destruction the still existing remains of the prebistoric period of our country, extending, as some Tecent discoverers believe, to an antiquity, perhaps, more remote than any indicated by the ruins of tha Old World. Among the happy results of the establishment of such amuseum and commission would be the oppor- tunity they would presently afford us of materials the ‘most interesting for international exchange, enabling us almost from the start to offer to the governments and academies of Europe a series of photographs of American antiquities, to be followed by architectural stones and sculptures, bas-reliefs, mosaics, tablets and hieroglyphics, for which we might receive in return what even European savans have pronounced the more modern relics of Egypt, Greece and Rome, 17, Among the benevolent congresses might perhaps be included one on the best method of mutual co-oper- ation among the working classes with small means, such as artisans’ and laborers’ dwelling companies, peo- ple’s banks, clubs, unions and co-operattve stores, illus- trating the motto of ‘self-help through fellowship in work.’? 18 Meteorvlogy —In which we have made such rapid and satisfactory advance, 19, International iaw reform and the peaceful settlement of international differences.—Subjects which have been already discussed in European congresses and which may be deemed especially appropriate to the Centennial. 20, The programme of the Centennial Exhibition suggests @large number of subjects, in regard to some of which those chiefly interested tm their discussion might demand for them a place im the international con- ferences, Such for instance in matters of philan- thropy as the education of the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the recovery of youthful criminals, houses of refuge, asylums, hospitals, police, municipal govern- ment, sanitary and prison regulation, &c. In political economy, weights, measures and coins, and in science, manufactures and art, » large variety of subjects where an exchange of views might be bene- ficial. In Europe, national rivalries, deserving sometimes & stronger name, embittered by past wars, and animated by the expectation of future strife, aud the fear of war added to the burden of military preparation which hangs like a cloud over the continent, give to America the advantage of a neutral ground, separated from Europe and its quarreis, and devoted to peace by its traditional policy; and these features, combmed with » growing confidence in our peaceful and continuous development, afford to the Republic as a suitable place for international congresses an advantage not to bo overlooked. What congresses it may be well to call might be readily determined by the Specal Committee of the House on the Centennial, which could readily obtain the advice of the Smithsonian Institute and the men of our own country most eminent in eac particular branch. Thi bjects fixed preliminary conference with such gentlemen would secure the most judicious decision as to the treatment of the several topics and the selection of the learned foreigners who Should be invited to assist in person or to papers: and toe baif dozen American experts on subject might be committed the preparation of the pre- ramme aod the carrying out of the arrangements, sub- foce only to the general control of a special commis- sion or manager, to be appointed by the government, Fn most cases two or three days would probably suffice for the sittings of each congress, and in the ments of the general programme congresses of o kin- dred character might, for the convenience of their members, be grouped in succession, Ip case the Cen- tennial Commission should think the Exhibition » sufficient burden for Philadelphia, the sittings of the congresses might be conveniently beld at New York, If uo step bas yet been taken in the matter of the con- gresses it may be a matter of regret, but there ts still time to make them a complete success.) The Exhi- dition is to open in May, but the semble in August, September and + The plan has been betta ‘approved by gentlemen fitted to judge of te practicability and prot resulta, And it would afford the best opportunity for calling te the front and honoring before the world our countrymen the most eminent tn the various bt es of ari, science and culture, of whom we are so justly ad, and to whom the Republic owes so much of the advance and pros- | perity which jastify our patriotic pride at the close of | the first century. To this class, whom the { | American government should always be the first to honor, an extraordi slight was offered at the time of the Vienna Exposition, and so pains could be too great to repair ip our Shecenpre ig pm scored $0 grave in its consequences so compromisi our mal character, ‘The rule adopted by other governments of selecting es their representatives m yminent for their attam- ments and services 1 science and in the fine and useful arts seems to have been overlooked in the choice of some of those selected at Washington to represent at Vienna the height of culture attained by the bw ages) The Chief Commissioner expressed sharply his esti- mate of the character of some of his associates when he said, “I have repeatedly stated to diferent assistant commissioners when I appointed them that I held which I should good reason to | | in my bands the power of si | not fall to exercise at, Vienna if 1 bad believe them guiity of any impropriety. But such a caution, however fitting from a master | jailor when giving to convicts their tickets of leave, | ‘bo Chief Commissioner would have ventured to ad- dress to true representatives of American science such as Agassiz, Henry, the Bernards, the Drapers, Ruther- furd, Bond, Newton, Joy, Rogers, Mayer, Eggleston, Gibts, Cook, Lawrence 'Smith and otlers, whose names are honored alike abroad and at home. Take the names, simply, of the gentiemen who advisory committee to the mental Commission to Vienna, who were to hat sed as chairmen of the groups, but whose services were dispensed with after their infla~ ence and circular had assisted to arouse popular and Congressional influence in bebalf of American ane sentatives at the Exposition, and imagine a Chief missioner threatening them with suspension if they should disgrace the country, The Hon. SamueiB. Rug- gles was the chairman and Professor Charies A. Joy the tary and with them } 6, Henry Winthrop | Chandler, . Horsford, Jackson §, Schult, Abram S Hewitt | George E. Harney, Professor E'sierry Hunt, Charies L. Tiffany, John Priestly, John EB. Gavit, fessor, Robert H. Thurston, President F. A. P. Baroard, Theo- dore Thomas, General J, A. Gilmore, Isaac Newton, William ©. Worthen, Calvert Vaux, Orestes Cleveland, Salem H. Wales, Howard Potter, Rev. Dr, i. ©. Potter, John Taylor Jotinston, George P. Putnam, Judge H. C. Van Vor: LB a Samuel D, Tilman, Francis A. Stout aud Charles L. Brace. No government can boast a prouder wealth of mate- rial than our own for international congresses om topics the most useful to mankind, and the Presiden will doubtless rejoice st of placing the remembrance took us at Vienna from missioners whose mi of their j rience of Europe, and especially of London, during the past twenty years exhibits the ease with which Dational museums are founded, the rapidity of their growth and their favorable influence on modern in- dustry and art. For America the tmportance of @ national maseum, where our young artists who are an- | i, able to visit Florence and Rome can pursue their stadtes, seems te be admitted by all who have tntelligemsly ¢x- amined the subject, and such art collections as can bo temporarfly arranged at the Centenntal by drawing thither all the cag in We county of be guyoug Jow the pian alpred ‘visas ir lude in another letter, i bieah vay uNGzoN Savane New Youw. Jan, 1%