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6 ~ SHRMONS YESTERDAY. Views of Prominent Clergymen on Important Subjects. GOD'S PROVIDENTIAL CARE OF US. Rev. Father Farrelly on the Miracles of Christ. THE FALL OF MAN. Mr. Talmage on What Constitutes the Happiness of Home. THE GARDEN OF EDEN. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. Go's PROVIDENTIAL CARE OF US. The attendance at the Church of the Disciples yester- day morning was very slim, owing to the inclemency of the weather, Mr. Hepworth selected his text from St. James, iv., 13, 14, 15—“'Go to, now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and seli and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be~én the morrow. For what is your life? It is pven a vapor that appeareth for a lit- tle time and {het vanishoth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, fe shall live, and do this or that; We are hardly conscious, I think, how deeply Footed in our nature our belief in # superiniending Providence is. We assent to the general fact of su- perintendence; but wo find it a little dim. cult in some experiences to recognize the actual presence of God. The mind grasps the dogma with ease; the heart assents to it with great difficulty, Logically the chain is perfect between our lives and the hand of the Lord; but practically there 4s a‘ woak, if nota broken, link somewhere. In our higher moods we lie quietly in God’s palm, but this mood is uot a line that runs unbroken through our life, There are times when we are apt to feel that there is no dasis for the ola belief that God rules everything; we are apt to fee] that ave made a mistake and that God lives outeide the u rse rather than inside; that He looks upon His wonderiul creation, but does not walk through it kko a tender-hearted superintendent whose duty and pleasure it is to see that everything goes weil. We never have any question about the power of God. If I were to ask you who made the earth and the planets the answer would come without hesitation, God. God made everything. God controls everything. Be walks with GOLDEN FOOTSTEPS from ctar to star; He shakes the dust out of His robe and 1,000 new planets are born; His pathway is in- describably beautiful, and itis adelight to Him to ‘wander from one end of the universe to the other; and He who controls the stars in their courses marks the falling of the tear of grief, God 1s no more God m His greatness than He is in His littleness, and the world is ot more pertect in its larger than in its smaller wheels, We recognize these general facts, but we fiud it ex- ceedingly difficult to apply them to our human lives and to make them inspirations, encouragements and hopes in our personal experience. I believe that nothing escapes the provideuce of God. 1 believe in | the literal translation of the word Emmanuel— God with us I do not believe in a God outside of His own universe, When a watchmaker makes a watch he sends it out and it will keep perfect time till it is impaired by age, and he knows nothing more of it, There are some who believe that God made the world in | wx days and thepretired to his own palace, away from | His workshop, on the seventh, there to stay and leaye the world till it is worm out, then w be consigned as ‘worthless to that conflagration that sball burn up the world hike a scroll. But that theory is so cold that [ cast about to find another, That cannot be true which Alienates me from Him; that must be trac that draws me to Him That is the true standard { think. Whatever doctrine so commends itself to your mind and aifection that it draws you upward inw a more im- plicit faith and more quiet endurance is for that reason true. Now, 1 believe in the docrine of Provi- ce not extended over the whole human face any more than over the lite of each individual person, Under its benign influence I am encouraged to do and to be; it 1s a doctrine that sweet- ens human life, adoctrine that makes me brave when 1am alone; for “thou, God, seest me.’’ It is a doctrine that enables me to lay loved ones in the grave without a murmur, though not without a tear, Ihke to turn first to the Scriptures to find what they have to ay. David sang of this matter, and he never hada higher theme: “The Lord ig gracious and full of compassion. One would think He wasa personal friend, only of larger stature and wisdom. “Slow tw anger and of great mercy, the Lord i# good to all and His tender mercies are over all His worka’’ Then | turn to Matthew; | “Fear them not who kill the body, but rather tear Him who is able to kill both soul and body in hell.” A sperrow shall uot fall to the ground without your Father seeing, The very hairs of your head are num- dered. No stronger expression could be used than that, God cares for everything. . But some will say those things which you call special providences, and which you take great delight in de- | hominating “answers to prayer,” may they not bo coincidences? Let us look at this matter. If, for in- ftance, 1 pray to-day and get au answer, I may have | 4 doubt if my neighbor prays ana gets an’ answer, still 1may doubt, butafter Ihave been praying for ten years, and find the most remarkablo answers to prayer and alter I tind the character and tone of my whole life has been changed by means of prayer, 1 heap up the probabilities against the coincidences to such an exteut that you must find a law for it, and what you tall coincidence is so like an answer to prayer that the two things cannot be separated. I do not care what you call it, if when I pray 1 receive what you call coincidences and I cal] answers; 1 do not care $o long as I get what I pray for—it is an answer to prayer, and there is an end of it * We are all willing to admit that the Hebrew race was A PROVIDENTIAL RACER. ‘What I want to prove is that God deals not ovly in races Dutin men, See the number of coincidences to which I will ailade. Jacob's favorite son was Joseph. a curious coincidence, was it not, that one day Jacob said to geser “I want you to ¢ 4 see your brothers and brifig me hews of them?” It was a curious coin- cidence that just at that time his brothers were won- dering how they could get rid of him. Joseph went A remarkable coincidence, was it not, that when Joseph had been cast into th it some merchants passed by ¥ They might have y two days carlier or later, or they might have gone by another road. Then Joseph would never have beon taken to Egypt And it was a coincidence that Joseph was sold to Poti- phar, and it was a coimcidence that the | wife of Potiphar was @ lustful woman, and on ac: count of her appetites great events bappened and Jo. seph was bast into prison, and while he was there ther were also two men of the King’s household. It is a re- markable cotneidence, again, that one of these men is lib- erated and he mentions to Potiphar the fact that Jo- seph, the interpreter of dreams, is in prison, Another eurious thing ts that Pharaoh had a dream whieh no- body could interpret but Joseph, so Joseph 1s sent for and he interprets the dream, and on the strength of that he is made the first man in the kingdom, and ho saved grain enough to last the country in the seven years’ famine. And so these things are piled up. Aro they coincidences? No, they eannot be happenings; ‘TRESR EVENTS ARB ORDAINED, and we are compelled to say, “God must be in this thing.”’ There is a chain ranning through these event and you cam account for them only on the ground of God's superintendence, My argument is this:—God does not plan to-day and not plan to-morrow; is with one man and not with another, God deals with all alike; and if in the life of Joseph thore was a special guidance and special idence, so in our lives can be discovered the samo fond and heart. That is the foundation of our faith. Jf 1 am what I am through the grace of God, I am con- | tent ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. “THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST” —DISCOURSE BY REV. FATHER FARRELLY. Despite the inauspicious weather the Cathedral was, as asual, crowded yesterday, The officiating clergy- man at the last masa was the Rey. Father Hogan, and at the termination of the first gospel a sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Farrelly, The reverend gentieman took his text from the gospel according to St Matthew, vill, 6J3—“The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thon shouldst come under my roof; but speak the word only, and my gervant shall be healed.’ The preacher referred at Jength to the miracles of Christ and the object for ‘which they were accomplished. Ever since the festi- yal of the nativity the Church had been Jeading the ‘pithful through the various SAVIOUR’ fal, He perform: faith but to enkindlo All the miracles were performed to exceptions—one being on the journeying trom Bethlehem to Joru- became hungry, and coming to & had oply leaves and no froit form muracies that toward Him, " — ype the throne of glory, and coal Uhat disposition, dumb, The, Tt was | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1876. miracle performed by the Saviour fm healing the Cen- turion’'s servant was but the foreshadowing type of a figure of ; GREATER MIRACLES TO‘RE PERFORMED y His Church, It would be remembered that His dis- ciples wondered atthe works which He didand the miracles which He performed when He turned to them and said, “Amen, lieve in me shall do even greater gniracies than I have done.” What greater miracles was ps paestnle te per- form than that of curing the blind and the lame and causing the dead to arise? Yet He said greater miracies than those would be performed. The leprosy men- honed in the Gospel was typical of sin in the soul, and as Christ healed the leper so would the sinner be cleansed through the grace of God The inasé performed by Professor Gustavus Schmitz was Mercadante’s, in minor, At the offertory Haydn’s duet “O Salutaris,”’ was beautifully ren- deredby Mme. Bredelli and Mme. Unger. The choral arrangements were, as usual, excellent MASONIC TEMPLE. B, FROTHINGHAM ON ‘‘THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. In consequence of the disagreeable weather the at- temdance at Masonic Temple yesterday was not as large as usual, The reverend gentleman prefaced his dis- course by calling attention to a “social reception” which is to be given to the members of the congrega- tion at the Union League Club Hall on Tuesday even- ing nex ‘THE SUBJECT OF THE DAY was announced as the “Sermon on the Mount.” Rev. Mr. Frotningham preached an eloquent discourse on this topic. This sermon, he said, covered three of the Jongest chapters of the Gospelof Matthew. In its pres- ent form it was doubtful whether any portion fell from the lips of Jesus, Tho Gospel of Matthew was written in Greek; Jesus spoke in another language. The book had passed through many editiona, The frst edition had been lost, We should look at it as a liter- ary curiosity representing the ideas of the times—per- haps the ideas of Jesus, certainly the ideas of | BEV. 0. Christianity, As reported by Matthow it was four tmes larger than that reported by Luke. The sermon us given by Luke was assigned to a later date than that set down by Matthew, Luke said Jesus stood as He taught, whilo Matthew states that He sat, Luke gave a series of “woes:"—"*Woe to you that are rich;’? “woe to you that sin,’ &c, Matthew did not give these ‘woes.’ According to Matthew, Jesus blessed the good. Ac- cording to Luke, He blessed the poor, Matthew say ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Luke says, ““Blesse are the poor.” Matthew says, ‘Blessed are you that hunger and thirst after mghteousness.”? Luke says, “Blessed are you that hunger not.” These were very essential differences, The speaker then went on to | give various other proofs of ineonsistencies existing in the two reports of the Sermon on the Mount made by Luke and Matthew, Some of the loveliest beatitudes were mentioned by one and omitted by the other. He then went on to discuss the pequliarities of rebgions worship at the time of the delivery of this celebrated sermon. He divided the religious eloments into two ¢lasses—priests and prophets, The priest wished to keep things as they were; the prophet wished to bet- tor them. The priest built temples; the prophet saved souls. The priest was a man of form; the prophet did ort with form. The priestly ty was represented by the scribes and pharisees. Thus two parties were incessantly at war, and it was under such surrounding circumstances that the Sermon on the Mount was said to have been delivered. There was noe original in the language, Each statement was aralleled and balanced by equal sentiments taken rom Hebrew literature, There were many nobler Ri im the Old Testament. He (the reverend pi er) did not say those things in a derogatory sense; but we were not to guided entirely by one teacher. The voice of ail hers working in one harmonious whole should be alone listened to. Time, which weak- ened everything else, strengthened moral Principles, The word of all ages was the word of God. eo advised his hearers never to lose sight of the distinction be- tween absolute morality and implied morality. Tho foundation of the latter wasin thought. It was easy enough to say, be just, kind and good, but how to | complish those things was the question. It was easier to bejust, kind and génerous In this age than it was only one hundred years ago. The world was more enlight- ened and the conditions easier. So will there be moro freedom and intelligence one hundred years hence. As men acquired knowledge they found it much easier to do good. The Sermon on the Mount recommended an absolute and implicit trastin Providence, It also directed, first, to soek the kingdom of heaven, By heaven was meant a new order of things. Jesus, in civing those instructions, had no ideas of the nineteenth cen- tury, nor of social science. What we possess had not been procured by absolute trast in Providence, but by working bard ourselves, Nobody progressed by doing nothing, noteven man. Again it was said, ‘He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.” Jesvs meant literally what those words fmplied. He announced it is a bad thing to be rich and a good thing tobe poor; that it was as difficult fora rich man to go to heaven as fora laden camel to go through tho eye of a needie, Lazarus went to heaven because he was poor; Dives went to the other place because he was rich, The Sermon on the Mount gave absolute directions to the rich man to give away all his wealth. No amount of generosity would satisfy the requisition of this ser- ‘mon. Peter Cooper's or Mr. Peabody's manificence would not satisfy such @ requirement, By at you should give away everything and keep nothing for yourself, A mecting of the Social Scteuce Association would be worth a great deal more in solving this prob- Jem between rich and poor than the Sermon on the Mount Rev. Mr. Frothingham dilated at considerable length above poits and was listened to attentively. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. “HOME, AND WHAT CONSTITUTES ITS HAPPI- NESS”—SELMON OF REY. T. DE WITT TAL- MAGE. The Tabernacle was comfortably filled by the usual attendants of that place of worship at the forenoon services yesterday. Rev, T, De Witt Talmage preached, taking for his text, “Let them learn first to show piety athomo”—L Timothy, v., 4. If man does not serve God ona small scale be never will serve Him on alarge scale, Faithfulness in small afairs isa prophecy of faithful- ness in large aairs, Home! Ask ten different men for a definition of that word and they will give you ten different definitions. To one man the suggestion of that word means love at the hearth, plenty at the tablo, indistry at the workstand, intelligence at the books and devotion at the altar, In that house discord never sounds its war whoop, nor does deception trick with her false face, It isa greeting at the door, It ts a | clapping its hauds with laughter. Life is a tranquil lake. Pillowed on the ripples sleep the shadows. To | another man the word “home” suggests want looking | out of the cheerless grate—kneading hunger in an | empty flour tray—the damp air shivering with curses, | No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers and murder ers in preparation. Obscene songs their lullaby. | Each face a picture of ruin, with want in the back. | ground and sin staring from the front. No Sabbath | wave rolls over the door sill. Physical hunger aud | death gnawing the body. Spiritual hunger and death goawing the soul. Awful place! In the one case the word is significant of all that is bright, In the other it conveys all that is dark. Home is the most powerful test of one’scharacter. A | man’s disposition in public may be in gay costume, | while in private it is in dishabilie. Public life is often | a very different thing from private life. Men will sometimes, in business life, all day long bo courteous | and good natured, damming back their irritability and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightful the dam breaks and scolding pours forth in floods and froshets. Private life is often public lile turned wrong side out Such persons do not under- stand the precept of my text. They do not show pie athome In the home wo show forth our real chara ter, Reputation 1s only the shadow of character, and ‘a small house will oftentimes cast a verv long shadow. There are men who do not exhibit their bad temper in ablic for the simple reason that they do not wantto bi Rocckea down. There are those who are philan- thropists in public life who im home life act the Nero with respect to their slippers and their gown. If a inan makes pretensions to kindness and gentieness in public while there is pone fn bis heart be is making a frandu. lent and over-issue of stoc and he is as uurighteo ‘as a bank with $300,000 or $400,000 of bills in circu! tion but no specie in the safe. If wo do not exhibit Christian character at home it 1s because there is no grace or genuineness of charac- our outward plausi- springs from feat of the world and the slimy, putrid pool of our own selfish- ness Home is also a refuge, Itis the tent we pitch to rest in. Children come out to meet their fathers as in the Narrows pilots take the band of ships. The door sill is the whart where heavy life is unladen, In the home we may talk of what we haye done without be- ing charged with self-adulation, We may lounge with- out being thought uugraceful; we may express affection without being thought silly. We may express our thoughta without being thought uncultivated The grave is brighter and warmer than this world without & tent from marching, without a harbor from the storm. God pity the poor, miserable wretch who has | notany home, Home is, farthermore, a political safe- ter in our soul, and bility of vebavior ' only guard, The safety of the State depends upon” the character of the home Why cannot France have &® permanent republic? Why doos ste vaciilate now from monarchy to republic, and then from repablic back again to monarchy? She has no home on which to build. The Christian hearth. stone is the only foundation for a republic. In tho family virtues are cultivated whieh are a necessity for the State, and if there be not enough moral principie to make the family adhere thore cannot be enough politi- cal principle to make the State adhere. No home, no tree institution. No home makes a nation Goths and Vaudala Confounded be all that propose to overtop and destroy the famity institu- tion, Home isa school, Deeds, words and examples are (he seed of character, and children are generally the second edition of their parénts; but the second edition improvement and correction of Parente should then feel thelr responsibility, The teachings of religion must be inoulcated ip the young by tho home prayers and exercises. Every ot with bie hand \s writing up the history of his children, compos- ing it !nto a gong or painting it with agroan. Hom fires the best estaic man can attain on this where are only pilgrima The reverend in, 1m conch sion, prayed that his hearers might all, through their faithfuiness on earth and through the rich grace of the Lord Josus, attain the rewards of eternal nappiness 1a . smile atthe chair, Peace hovering hike wings, Joy, , | cious to you, that home which He has prepared for all who love Him and serve Him. ST. AGNES’ CATHOLIO CHURCH, SERMON BY BISHOP CORRIGAN, OF WEWARK. The Forty Hours’ Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament were begun yesterday at St, Agnes’ Roman Catholic eburch by the celebration of a solemn high mass, with Father Pratt as celebrant; Father McCauley, of st. | Stephen’s, as deacon; Father Anthony as sub-deacon; | Fathers McDonald and Thebaud as masters of cere- monies Generale, or mass in G, was sung by the yvol- | unteer choir, under the able direction of Professor E, Marzo, and, considering all the singers were amateurs, that fine production was acceptably rendered, A fea: ture of the music on this occasion was Giorza’s “O Satutaris,”’ sang as a sole by Mra. Robinson, soprano. After the chanting of the gospel by the deacon the Right Rev, M. J. Corrigan, Bishop of New Jersey, ascended the altar steps and said:—In the fitty-first chap- ter of Keclesiasties are found the words, “I will givo glory to theo, O Lord! King! and I will praise 0 God my Baviour. Thou hast been a help and a pro: tector to me, and thou hast preserved my body from destruction; from the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the midst of the fire I was not burned. Thereiore I will give thee thanks and praise thee and bless thee in the name of the Lord.’ In reading the acts of the martyrs, continued the preacher, we cannot fail to notice the evident and supernatural protection‘of those who laid down their lives in the service of God. There is special beauty and tenderness in the care displayed of the you nglings of his flock, those, namely, whose radiant wraaths cn- twined the rose of martyrdom with the spotless lily of Virginity. Among those saints there are few whose history appears to us with so much sympathy as that flower of the Roman nobility, your patron St Agnes, whose youth, beauty, childlike simplicity, heroic courage and enduring love of Christ endear forever ber name. Let us revert to the time of her existence, which was the end of the third and commencement of the fourth century, a period of terriple —perse- cutions, when the Church of Christ had lon ceased an object of contempt, an had, by its progress, already inspired terror among the paging, Even a century earlier Tortulian bad said, “We are but of yesterday, and still have overrun your empire, palaces, Sonate, courts of justice. Your towns and cities are full of Christians, and we own all you have, leaving only your temples, and those abandoned. The more bitter your persecutions the more bitter our rowth. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the hurch.”? Yet, notwithstanding tho marvellous propa- gation of the Christian Church and the utter folly of persecution, the Emperor refused to learn the lesson that no weapon formed against the Church of Christ could prosper, and in the terrible storm which followed St. Agnes sutlered. Then followed a graphic descrip- tion of her sufferings and miraculous protection. The beauty of Su Agnes’ death, the preacher went on tosay, was enhanced by the fact that 1t was but an illustration of the principle of Christ's sacrifice and the glory of virginity, Here the reverend gentleman suc- cinctly described the condition of woman in the an world, the elevation of her dignity by the Gospel and the creation of the virgin. ‘The virgin son and virgin mother, he continued, raised up the prostrate and drooping daughters of Eve and sounded the note of their freedom. St Panl says, “There is no longer Jow or Gentile, bond nor froe, male or female; you are all one In Jesus Christ, heirs according to the promise; the barriers of nationality are broken down.” The total subjection of woman was done away with, and as she rose from the mire that other dignity almost un- known—nay, alas! regarded but too often as a burden and reproach—shone forth in all its splendor before her enraptured gaze. Whenever the Gospel was preached this tlower of Christ appeared—north, south, east and west—everywhere, under all circumstances and inevery state of lite, It we ask reason for this new thing on earth, this miracle unknown to pagan ages, St Chrysostom answers, ‘Tho crneified life is at once its root and its fruit.” No corporal fecundity produces this race of virgins, They are no offspring of flesh and blood. Ask you the mother of these? It is the Church. None other bears the sacred virgin but ‘Vbat one espoused to the single husband—Chriat, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. BEV. HENRY WARD BEECHER ON THE FALL OF MAN, Plymouth church was apparently crowded, as usual, yesterday, despite the unfavorable condition of the weather. In the pew of Joseph Howard, Jr., were seated General George ©. Custer, United States Army; Stuart Robson, the comedian, and Lawrence P. Barrett, tho well-known tragedian, Mr, Beecher preached from the text, ‘Unto you that belleve Christ 1s precious.” This belief, said he; What is it? Where does it come from? What is its nature? Boliof which has the same interpretation as faith in its most ordinary un- derstanding is an intellectual process, and it designates | astate of conviction in view of evidence. Confined to tho province of philosophy and of reasoning, conviction and belief and faith are substantially the same. An intel- | lectual state is very far from meeting the | description of faithin the New Testament That is something more than a mere intellectual conviction, though ofter! it has that and sometimes has itnot In a moral state faith or belief in its most generic state or use is the realization of the truths which are not taught through the senses of man, but which aro taught through the higher faculties of ‘the mind— truths that aro imperceptible, imponderable, unalyza- ble, invisible, If aman tell mo thatagiven lump of gold weighs a certain amount, I contest that; but can Avy man analyze a lover’s feeling, a mother’s feeling, or that inspiration of heroism which in some high hour of battle seizes a heroic nature, or any of that in- tuition of wisdom which leads some statesmen to see and to strike through the darkness a great plan of re- lef? There isa realm which belongs to the spirit, which is invisible, 1mponderable, intangible. In that realm faith, in one use of the word, dwells, If you suppose that 1s my definition look at what is said in the opening verse of the chapter from which I read :—"N faith is the substance of things hoped for.” Not tho conviction, the idea, the conception—it is tho reality, the ‘substance of things hoped for.” And in another place, “What aman sees, what doth he hope for?” Ivis, therefore, unseen, The whole range of faith, In its most generic form, is this:—That is con- sciousness of conviction, of feeling, of belief that do not come under the ordinary laws Of the senses, but | are dealt with by the mind iteelf, Now, as applied to the conduct bf men, this generic idea takes on specific developments all the way through. There is a faith that works by each of the emotions of the human soul, so that while the generic conviction of taith in the Bible 1s the conviction of the reality of the great invis- ible realm in which we are moving, it may run through the whole scale of human facuitles. Now, when wo | come to analyze we shall find that faith in a person or beliof in him carries a slight shade of ditference; If 18 A RECOGNITION OV TRUST in that person and there must be something which we hike in him, We beheve in him first and trust him afterward, How we trust in a friend when we know him or think we do! We believe in his disinterested- ness, we beliove in bis honor, we believe in bis fidelity, we believe in his truth, wo hélieve in his disinterested | affection, We lie down in his heart as a child lies down | avd goes to sleep in the mother’s arms; we aro | ashamed tohave a doubt rise on the mind of hie | treachery to friendship; we give ourselves utterly up | to it, and the man that is worthy of a friend and has that heroic conception of friendship is a traitor to him- self and is a traitor to his mind if he attempt to blur or blot the sense of truat with doubt—with a doubt We put ourself and our life in his hand, and whatsoever he asks we do. We believe in him. I want to bring before you the soul’s trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, To you | that believe, to you that have ever had | the experience and knowledge which brings | Christ home to you in His aispositions and in His | various relations to poor struggling human souls, to every one of you that evor had « Christ that was your precious Saviour—in worship, in veneration, Ho ts pro- One of tho things that strikes aman | that is made like me in reading the Bible is the reve. | lation of a God in Jesus Christ, who knows and feels | for sinful man, because he is sinful man, Almost all | other religions’ present God as a being that loves man j and feels tor him as he grows more perfeck Paul says:—‘‘Tbe creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly.”” Now, if He made men as He has, and put them where they are, in all conditions, groping up, siep dy step, through ‘the ages, we wanta God that ie precisely adapted to the creat that He has made and put into the world, and stamped generation after | generation with the same essential characteristics. We nta God that is adapted to the state of mankind, Thoy tell me that 1 Fallen from what er Was any better than I am now! The only fall | ever had was the fall from a | woman's womb. There was not a calf that did not know more than I did when I came into the world, and was not betier able to care for itself. Thore was notan tmeh between me and the brute. {[t is the bottom of conceivable existence, and they tell me that I fell; I fell up! No, When I look out upon the accumulated | facts that are patent, that every mother knows and | that every sensible man knows, that we begin at zero, | thas which we get is by unfolding steps and all are | poor; we are without goodness; we are without any- | thing. Weare an empty line, with nothing in the cir cle except mare potentialities, but, as respects develop- ment, nothing. Then hfe puts 1 before the zero and makes us 10, of puts a2 before it and makes ns 20. We are born untrained and distempered in every way. What we need is that there shall bo a God that loves righteousness and truth and knows humanity. Mr. Beecher deprecated the idea of a God who sits in the centre of the universe, perfect Himself, and saying Is—The Way of Return to It” The text was from Genesis, ti, 8, 9—And the Lord God planted a gar- den eastward tn Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree thatis pleasant w the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and whe tree of knowledge of good and evil.” The preacher m opening bis discourse said :— It j# evident trom the very nature of the Garden of Eden and the plants which grew in tt that it was no material garden. The earth never bore such fruit as is ascribed W its trees. No rivers ever rose and flowed like Pison, Gibon, Hiddekel and the Euphrates lt must have been ‘ 4 GARDEN OF THE SOUL. It must have been a picture composed of the most beautiful forms of the vegetable kingdom to represent the innoceuce and periection of man before he had lost the image of his Maker, and when he dwelt near to Him in the light of His Wisdom and in the warmth of Hig love. Such is the teaching of the New Church, The Garden of Eden is a parable given by the Lord to reveal to man the secrets of the divine love and wis- dom. Indeed the whole Bible 1s a parable; those things which were actuaify done as well as those which were | seen in vision, The sacred Scriptures were given to reveal divine truth to men in the only way in which it can be revealed—that is, by vhe ineans of natural sym- bols—and i 18 of po more consequence whether the symbol is a material fact or an imaginary one than it Whether the Ognres in a picture painted to reveal the — sweetness and beauty of innocence are exact copies — from nature, or whether they are tho ideals of the artist, The only question in either case ~ Do they | iitly embody and express the spiritual truth? In sup- | port of the above Dr, Giles went into an claborate argu. | ‘ment proving that the Garden of Eden represented the quality and form of man’s intelligence belore the fail, | ‘The garden was planted in man’e affections, It was | anted eastward. The east represents the Lord, Man | Eas various kinds of affections. One class are purely ‘al, and aliy him to and to the animal; | the heavenly affections are within and are exposed to | spiritual and divine influences, and when the wordly | predominate the whole man turns away from the east (the Lord) and turns toward the west (darkness aud colu| i} pel LORD GOD PLANTS A GARDEN IN EVERY SOUL. ‘And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree, What is the din man’s mind? The ground is man’s will or affection in that part of his nature which in the Word is called the heart. Truth agsecd; no truth grows and bears fruit which is not janted in the affections, We must have some love for it before it will grow, because love is a warmth; love life, Love gives to the understanding all the power has to apprehend truth. The ground in our minds is | formed by the union of love and knowledge in use or | by experience, Wise men are not those who know | the most or who have the most ardent affections | ‘They are those who havo loved the trath and applied it | to life. The spiritual ground is formed in a way ex- actly analogous to the process by which the material | ground is formed. There is a SECRET HIDDEN IN THE PARABLE which has been hidden since the foundation of the world, 1s is this:—When man, lived in the Garden of | Eden he did not have to study toiearn, The celestial | man had a perception or rntuition of the meanings of the outward world. Learning wasas easy as seeing. Tho sou! was so finely attuned to the harmonies of na- ture that it vibrated in accord with them. You have | the same capacities now, The possibility of the | samo state exista in every one of you. You can get back into thi den if you will, It is along and dif. | ficult journey. Indeed, we are so far from it and there | are so many different opinions of its mature and the way back that many have ceased to believe in tts existence. But it does exist in possibility for every | one. Every divine truth leads to it The Command. | ments are great highways, and every effort we make to | live according to them is One step back to the heavenly | paradise, We have the Lord who plants the garden | for our guide and our help, and we have only to fol- | low Him patiently, faithfully, perseveringly, to see its blessed gates open, and to dé delighted with'its beauty | and to rejoice in its blessedness, | CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. | CHRISTIANITY IN BRAZIL. | Yesterday afternoon, in the above church, corner of | Thirty-fifth street and Park avenue, Rev. George | Chamberlain gave a very interesting summary of the Christian work in Brazil, especially that of the Presby- | terian missions in that codntry. The speaker saic — | “We may never forget, without serious damage to our | spiritual interest, that tho Christian field is the whole world. The thought of Christ was not that we should possess aloné our own cities, neighborhood and coun- | try, but the boundless universe—the uttermost parts of | the earth, God formed the sea and dry land and every | foot of it for a purpose, I beg of yon, — to think of Brazil as related to tho Lor Jesus Christ, so I need no apology to speak of it briefly govern tony ” The speaker then alluded to the situation of this beautiful and important part of South America, saying, that in the area of its square miles it equalled the whole of the United States—if we excepted British America. Its great and glorious Amazon was unsurpassed on the globe, receiving, as it does, the tributaries of a hundrod rivers, while the reat system of waters embraced an empire with un- imitable resources which merely the scratching on the earth by its people has forced recognition trom the world of commerce, ‘THR DRATH KNELL OF BLAVERT was rung in 1871, as all children born after that date | were declared to be free. A large portion of the pop- | ulation are of pure Indian blood, but the Portuguese element largely abounds, The efforts of the Huguenot colony from Geneva to introduce Chrisuanity were traced, and the suflerings and martyrdom of the fath- ers touchingly narrated. In 1822 Braxil entered on a new era when her political system was changed to aconstitutional monarchy, and this opened the way for the free preaching of the word of God. The condi- tion of the people to-day in relation to religion is about as follows:—Une class wholly devoted to idolatry; another class embracing the spirit of Irench infidelity, with all its rationalistic and materialistic philosophy, | which seeks to think all religions good, but none of vhem divine, and the the third class, seeking Christian truth, and open to its blessed convictions, Tne speaker eloquently pleaded for the helping band of the home societies to enrich and extend this latter eld, WILLETT STREET M. E. CHURCH. REVIEW OF A NOBLE WORK—WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN HALF A CENTURY, In the Willett street Methodist Episcopal church last evening the pastor, Mr. Saunders, preached a highly Anteresting sermon from the text, ‘‘If thou hadst known, even thou, in thy day the things that belong to | thy peace,” found in Luke mx., 42, In the course of hig remarks the speaker reviewed a portion of the his- tory of the church, adding, however, that the an- nouncement to the effect that the occasion was the cel- ebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the church edi- fice was erroncous. The anniversary will not occur | until the first Sunday in May next, ‘The great event of the time to which the words of the text refers was undoubtedly the coming of tho Messiah. According to a recent assertion of Mr. Var- ley a thonsand Jews gathered recently in Paris and ro- joiced that their sect bad slain the Christian Saviour, | earth | street to Fulton ferry, Chatham street to City subject “The Garden of Eden—What It Is—Where It THE ELEVATED RAILROADS. THE DIFFICULTY OF MAKING CONNECTION WITH THB YERRIES—SHALL THE BATTERY BE IN- vapED? In laying down the routes for the proposed elevated railroad lines one of the most difficult questions that came under the notice of the late Rapid Transit Com- mission was how to connect the New York Elevated Railway, whose southern terminus is opposite Bowling Green, with Fulton, Hamilton, South and Staten Island ferries, as well as to complete the loop with the pro Posed east side lines. The Commissioners, no doubt, under the law, had full power to encrosch upon the Battery park, but after earnest consultation with their engineers they resolved to place the line as far as possible along the curb of State street, Below will be found A MAP OF THE PARK, which 1s necessary to properly explain their work :— -B- Proposed @treet through Battery for Stages &o.to relieve Whitehall Street ‘A reference to the map shows two jlines, the heavy one along the curb being the one adopted by the Com- mission. It will be noted that at Battery place and State street they have taken an oblique direction through-the upper end of the Battery. This was found necessary, as the engineers considered it impracticable to make a sharp curve around the corner by the curb. 1t will also be seen that near the lower end they have invaded the park to make the connection with Fulton ferry, via Front street, and that the main line runs down through one of the Battery avenues to pier No, 1, adjacent to three ferries. In laying out these lines the Commissioners believed that they would meet with but little opposition, but it seems that in this particu- Jar they were in error, and CONSIDERABLE OPPOSITION to entering the park at all has been offered by factious citizens, Who fear that the beanty of the Battery will be materially marred if the road goes over it, The Park Commissioners, who have been applied to by the company for permission to build according to the Com- missioners’ award, referred the matter to their land- scape architect, Fred Law Olmsted, tor investigation and report, This gentleman’s examination resulted in the conviction that there would be less objection if the road was set back a few feet behind the edge of the Battery, on State street, than if it were. constructed along the sidewalk or curb, He argued that if erected on the curb it would be an unsightly obstruction to a good view of the park, whcreas, if placed inside, by the aid of shade trees the structure could be entirely hidden. The dotted lines on the map show the course Mr. Olmsted proposes w take in the construction of the extension of the main line to pier No. 1, and ‘THR CONNECTING LINKS WITH OTHER FERRIES. The writer, who conversed with the ex-Rapid Transit Commissioners, Messrs. Mott and Canda, on the sub- Ject of the proposed change in the location, found both gentlemen concurring with the views of the landscape architect of the Park Commission. Mr. Candastated that he heartily approved of putting the line inside the Battery, where the columns could be entirely hid by | Vines and creepers, and the road entirely shut in from sight by a raped growth of evergreen trees. There is no necessity for placing columns on the avenues or walks, and he could not see why any property owner should object. The company are ready to push their lines to the ferries ina few weeks after they have secured the right of way, and they are also prepared to begin early in the spring the construction of the east side road, which is to run through Frontstreet, Coenties slip, Pearl street, New Bowery, Chatham square, Bowery and Third avenue, with branches ee to the Thirty-fourth street aud Astoria ferries, and ‘oine Grand Central depot The Elevated Railroad Company propose, If they get he Jewish Messenger has denied this eharge, but deny as they may, the speaker knew that two things are certain in regard to this matter—the Jews rejected Christ 1,800 years ago and they reject him now. It | will not do for them to fall back behind the assertion that it was only a mob from Jerusalem that put the Saviour tw death. } In referring to this, the Centennial year, Mr. Saunders said this nation belongs to God Almighty. No other | nation of the earth was founded like tt. Even the first | discoverers planted a cross upon one end of it while the | Pilgrims planted the Bible upon the other, Everything | tells us the land belongs to God. The free schoo! ques- | tion was, thank God, at last being agitated in Congress, | while there ts every reason to believe in the ultimate tri- umph of the tomperance cause, Then, tov, Messrs. Moody | ‘ana Sanxey are doing a world of good, and seem to be the | chosen instruments of God to awaken a deep moral and religious sentiment throughout the length and breadth | ofthe land. Let us protect the Bible and our liberties | ‘as the surest guarantees of peace. | In reference to the Willett street Methodist Episco- pal church, the pastor alleged that she had done a | ‘world of good and had made a history that any com- | munity should be proud of. During the fifty years of | her existence she liad had 2,500 members, aud the Sab- bath schoo! had in that period sent forth thousands | upon thousands of men and women into the battle felds | of tho world prepared for the fight Four thousand | five hundred couples had been married and 12,000 men, | women and children had been buried from the time- | honored edifice. The total expenses of the chureh for | all purposes had beeu about $260,000, while the church | property, valued at $50,000, is clear of debt. The church now has 340 members and about 400 children in the Sabvath school, with 50 teachers. | Such, continued Mr. Saunders, is the history in brief | of the Willett street church, and who can estimate the amount of good she has accomplished by the holy fires kept burning upon the altars, while sho stands today ‘without @ stain of any kind? In conclusion the speaker urged his congregation to give up the ideas expressed by many that the church should move up town toa more aristocratic neighborhood, stating that nowhere could they find a broader fieid (or their labors than the ‘one they are now in, and declaring that this fed was never more in need of the labors of a Chmstian church than at present, THE FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ‘The Rev, John Hall, D. D., preached an annual ser- | to creatures whom He has made imperfect, ‘Man, now | be like mo or I'll damn you!” He represented Christ as loving men, not for what they are but for what He is; not becanse of what 1s in us, but because of what isin Him. When one, he enid, bas euch a Saviour, | Such an experience, the Saviour is particularly pre- cious. Such a life begins small and spreads out asa tree springs from a seed, and spreads ite branches ont over the earth. Sometimes Christian experience flows with & musical ripple and sometimes like lakes far up im | the mountains, surrounded by peaks that shelter them &nd are not moved by winds or storms. CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. REY, CHAUNCEY GILES ON ‘THE GARDEN OF EDEN.” . The Swedenborgian Chorch of the Now Jerusalem, in East Thirty-fifth street, between Park and Lexington avenues, was well attended yesterday morning, when the inclemency of the weather is taken into considera- tien, The Rev. Chaupcey Giles preaghed. taking tor bis mon Iast night in the Fourth Presbyterian church, Thirty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue, to the Young Men’s Association of that congregation, His text was from the second chapter of St. Paul’s second epistle to the Thessalonians—‘Comfort your hearts and estab- lish you in every good word and work.” The Chris Han lesson sought to be conveyed was of a threefold patare, First, the necessity of the Christian man to maintain himself, for the reason that be who will not ‘work should not ent; second, that he should take care of those ‘who are dependent upon him, because not to do this is ‘worse than infidelity iteelf; third, that Lae? f man is bound to serve his own generation; to do all good to Jow and Gentile, Christian and pagan alike, for to di Jess would be an abuso of the God- ited powers within aame reece SS eas Sanat Ll .< bis audience wrapt in the ti wi be eatoided his argument and eemeatns application jtions laid down to the Christian | to a new street across that corner of the Battery. of the three work which is being 80 cuccessfully carried on by the young men of this congregation, the right of way through the Batiery, to erect a hand+ some station over that part of the Battery where the | tracks form a triangle, On the map above given It will be seen there is a proposed street under the trian- Je, and immediately over which the station will be built, ‘o Mr. Olmsted belongs the credit of this Sageeericn Be ie Proposes to make it quite broad, so as to allow the es and other vehicles that now lumber up White- hail street to Gnd an easy exit into State street, Battery place, Broadway and Greenwich street, It ds to be hoped that if THIS DIFVICULTY OF CROSSING THE BATTERY be settled permanently, the Commissioners of Rapid Transit recently appointed to settle disputed rights of property owners will have no serious trouble in giving the companies the right of way through the streets named by the previous commission, It may be stated ip this connection that the Corporation Counsel has given a written opinion to the effect that the Park Com- missioners have the power to permit the road to be erected over the Battery. THE JERSEY RAILROAD WAR. Railroad Company to the Delaware and Bound Brook Company at Hopewell and elsewhere active prepara tions are now in progress for the completion of a new route from New York to Philadelphia, which will be a serious blow to Tom Scott's monopoly. ‘Trains will be placed on the new route—one terminus of whick will be the Central Railroad depot in Jersey City by the 1st of March. The distance trom Bound Brook to Berks Street is about sixty miles, and the local trains over this portion of the track will be so few that through trains can be run at a rate of speed which will be a saving of time when Compared with that of the Penn- sylvania Railroad. Arrangements are also boing made with the Baltimore and Ohio Company by which a con- nection can be established with the West and South. Agents have been sent to Jersey City to purchase the property between Hadson street and the Hudson River and Essex street and the Morris Caval basin. This is to be the site of the new depot, A CENTENARIAN'S FUNERAL. The funeral of Mrs. EHen Curran, who had reached her 106th year, took place yesteraay from the resi- dence of one of hor sons, No, 311 Railroad avenue, Jersey City. The body was enclosed in a plain casket becoming the humble sphere of life in which she bad moved, and was shrouded in the habit of the religious order of Mount Carmel, to which, also, the late cente- narian, Bridget Cogan, who died not many weeks belonged. It was & rare spectacle indeed when three sons of the deceased took their iast farewell of all that remained of the venerable woman, Oneof them, an old man, with long white hair, approaching tne casket, stooped down and said with a loud yet trem! youce, “Well, goodby, mother.” Each of the sons followed, using the same words and kissing the The procession moved to St. Bridget’s church, the obsequies were performed by the pastor, Rev. Father Smith, The roniains were interred in 8k Peter's Cemet By a singular coincidence James Tuite, Sratttsn thane Erne notes a ie day. interred to-day, VIRGINIA. MILD WEATHER AND A BUSY TRADE IN NOE+ FOLE—FASHIONABLE SOCIETY SMILING O% MEN FROM MASSACHUSETTS—A GHOST CAUS- ING A SENSATION—WORK IN THE NAVY YARD—~< THE QUESTION OF MARINE GUARDS ON VESSELS OF WAR. ‘ Norvoux, Jan. 21, 1876. At present Norfolk is probably gayer than it has been since the war, and the naval officers attached to the fleet now stationed here are havinga very pleasant time, sunning themselves in the smiles of the pretty women for which this locase 16 fustly celebrated, It im vory seldom one bas the good fortune to visita com- munity so blessed with feminine Deauty—not that: strikingly beautiful women are numerous, but plain women are a rarity. The average of the fair sex are favored with delicate complexions, lit up by a brilliant, color, and, whether blonde or brunette, they: possess a bright expression that supplies any want of regularity: of features that the close observer might detect Busi-- ness is very brisk. SMILES AND GOOD CHRER FOR BOSTONIANS, , ‘A committee of Bostonians paid a visit here carly im the week in order to present a flag to the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, and, although they came protected by their wives, went away badly damaged by the light ar- tillery of the fair ladies. They were escorted to Fort Monroe, the Navy Yard and the fleet by a committee of the Blues and some of their lady friends, and the jatter took especial pains to return the attentions that their boys had received from the Boston ladies during their visitto the Bunker Hill Centennial. The festivities: concluded with promenade concert and hop, which was given in one of the principal halls of the city, and which brought to light a blage of beauty quite sufficient: to dazzle the quiet men of Massachusetts, in whose: honor it was displayed, On the whole, the visit of the Bostonians was a decided success, and plainly showed that the Norfolk people haa forgotten all their griev- ances and were only too anxious to clasp hands with the North and let the past be buried in silence. ‘We are getting along all right,’ said a well known South- ern gentleman to me the other day, ‘‘if they would only let us alone, and we could choke every mam who talks about reconstruction. We have accepted our defeat and are trying torebuild our fortunes as good citizens of the United States; but it is rather an- noying to be continually pestered with reconstruction. Let bygones be buried; give us honest legislation and the South will soon recover."”” There is but very littlo doubt in my mind that this gentleman gave a very cor- rect view of the case, and the warmth of the reception given to the Bostonians the other day plainly showed that their hearts were right, in spite of al) the imsinua~ tions of interested demagogue politicians, 4 PRANTOM VISION, " ‘The latest curiosity in this place is a ghost, or what should be more properly described as a phantom vision, This mysterious apparition is slightly eccentric in tts habits. isdaining to seek protection in the dark shades of night, it appears boldly in the bright sun- light, and, in order that everybody can see it, has located itself in a window of a house in Portsmouth. Looking at- it from across the street in a particular light it pre- sents the distinct appearance of a lady holding ‘a child, which as you cross the street ually fades out of sight, so that on close inspection the glass presents no ange feature to the vision. Old residents of Ports- month insist that it has been visible for years, but it 18 only within the 4s few weeks that it has attracted public attention. The gentleman residing in the house 48 much annoyed with his ghostly guest and seriously proposes to demolish the pane of glass, an act of cruelty that would probably diminish the receipts of the ferry company about $25 per day. NAVAL AFPAIRS—WHAT [8 GOING ON [IN THR NAVY YARD. There is nothing very active going on at the Navy Yard at present, but there are some indications of put- ting the monitors in readiness for sea. There are six— the Catskitl, Passatc, Lehigh, Wyandotte, Nantucket and Montauk—and all are now in commission. The Cats- kill went into the dry dock on Tuesday last ana will probably be ready for sea in about ten days, but it wil? take nearly a month before the other five are in an ey advanced condition, The Worcester went ous of commission on Tuesday, and has since anchored off the yard and taken the place of the receiving ship New Hampshire, which will proceed in a short time to Port. Royal to fill the position of store ship. The Powhatan, is still at the Navy Yard awaitii lers, and the new sloop Alliance appears to be in about the same condi- tion that it was a month ago. On the whole, the Navy Yard gives one the impression that appropriations bave run out, and they are only employing the help that cannot possibly be avoid The Canandaigua is. also lying along the dock, undergoing repairs, The- Hartford, Admiral Mullaney’s flagship, and the Ply- mouth and Huron are all anchored in the stream, pt for sea in twelve hours’ notice. MOVEMENTS OP OFFICERS. Judging from the latest intelligence received here Admiral has received orders to come to Norfolk and relieve Admirai Mullaney, who has been ordered to the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, to relieve Commodoro Balch. Admiral Leroy is on his way in the Brooklyn, which will probably arrive at Key West from Barba- dos about the 23d, and he will then come on overland, so that he ts expected here about the 1st of the month. It is then understood that the flagship and vessels will proceed to Port Royal and go through a naval uri in case there is no better eniployment for them. GOOD WORDS POR THE MARINES. The attack that has recently been made upon the Marine Corps has excited considerable indignation among naval officers, and, though I bave interviewed some twenty or thirty on the question of their utility, the invariablo answer seems to be, ‘1 do not want to go to sea without them.”’ I had quite a long conversa- tion with a naval captain of considerable service on the: subject, and he said:—‘The Marine corps are as essential to a_man-of-war as a police force is to New York city. It is very essen- tial in order to preserve proper discipline on board a man-of-war that the police duty should ‘be performed by some body of men separate and dis~ tinct from the sailors. Seta Jack to watch a Jack would never do, as there {s that feeling of {reemasonry among sailors that it would be impossible to place any dependence on them. It has been urged by some of the enemies of the Marine corps that the French navy possesses no similar organization, but then it must bo taken into consideration the different class of men with which their vessels are manned. The crews of their men-of-war are enlisted almost entirely from the farm ing element throughout the country, making good sailors, easily instructed in discipline, while our crews are composed of all nations, in general, a class of men requiring to be kept down witha strong hand, I have served in a man-of-war whose crew was com- posed of seventeen nationalities. In fact, in order to show the utility of marines it is only a short time ago that the crew of a man-of-war nearly mutinied and were cutting one another down with battle bone ps it required eighteen posts of marines throughout the ship. to preserve order.”” WHAT EXPERIENCED OFFICERS SAY. In answer to the request of Brigadier General Teilin, Commandant of the Marine corps, nearly all the na oificers of high rank have written letters expressing their views on the Marine co: and ite utility asa branch of the navy. Admiral Mullaney says:—“I be; to state that the presence of a guard of marines aboard vessels of war belonging to the navy is a valuable aid. in the establishment and maintenance of discipline and efficiency. Indeed, basing my opinion upon an experi- ence of forty years’ active service, I can confidently say that the Marine corps, in connection with the , ptain A. B. Luce, fleet captain, says:—'‘A large rtion of our seamen are foreigners, having ‘no feel- ings of attachment for the navy, indifferent to the honor of the flag and only concerned in a temporary subsistence. ey are obtained from the same sources and are of the same general character as in 1775, when our infant navy was struggling into existence. The reasons for maintaining a Iné corps now ar therefore, of precisely the same force as they were 1 years ago.” | Captain Thomas Scott Fillebrown, of the Norfolk Navy Y says:—‘In view of the military organiza- tion of the Marine corps and its relation to the navy, b~ cousider they are decidedly better ealeulated to dis: charge the duty of protecting the public property el Mire ds aed yards than any watchmen that may employed.” Captain W. D. Whiting, recently fleet captain, — “1 would unhesitatingly declare. th abolition ‘of tho Marine corps to be, in my opinion, @ very serious blow to the naval service. It bs per! natural for those unacquainted with the daily routine of a man-of-war to suppose that there is little distinction bet ‘th sailor and the private marine, serving and associating together as intimately as the limits of @ sbip require, and that an equal number of sailors could supply their places and perform their duties; but this is a error, growing out of an imperfect fs duties performed by the ‘no less than of the clannish feeling of each for bis Every man-of- war's man knows that there is a certain antagonism between the two elasses, which rendors.the marine re- liable in the discharge of guard and police duty in a Pancer vot UNO Mra ete from a sailor of is own class.’ Captain J. £. Jouett, of the Powhatan, says:—‘‘The ror hechstadorsaaa the ld couaty, such an Austria, ing that in the o| ri Prussia, Russia From the daties of a sailot are transferred to generation ich men can - made to understand the duties and obligations of a ut not so an American sailor; they despise a to guard his mess it convenient to let him get ‘@ branch of the service so well organized and disctplined may be when wanted to operate on shore the: are found to make the best and most dashing sol- diers. Commander E. ©. Merriman, of the monitor Nan- ket, says:—‘The Marine corps, in my opinion, jal on board @ man-of-war as any other 'T RS ion of the machinery necessary to keep it in per- wo dregi order, "The augeestion to incorporate ihe marin the army would never work well, as no army transferred to a man-of-war would ever do the doty as efficiently aga marine officer educated to ‘shat especial branch of the service."" WANTRD ON THE MONITORS, Tn conclusion | may state, as an instance of the anx- fety exhibited by officers commanding men-ol-war to have marines on board their vessels, that an application ‘was recently made to the Navy Department by the cers commanding the monitors now at this bavy yi me . cone guard soy ine vossel, The javy has gran! if request, small has beew ordered to each monitor ae ae