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b THE GOSPEL. NEW YORK’ HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1876. the world yon could still trace the old features dis- tinctly. The man who loves Christ sees Him in the book of Leviticus, As we get on into the different offerings we shal] seo a great diversity of them. Some are offered on account of sin; some are propitiatory; Springtime Congregations in the Met- | vut to barat offering is self-depreeatory throughout, ropolitan Churches. > THE The Plymouth Pastor Moral Intuitions. CHRIST A DOOR. On THE CREATION OF WOMAN. The Christian Significance Barnt Offerings, of MOODY AND SANKEY. ‘Froth ngham on the Reviv- alists’ Aim. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. CHRIST AS THE DOOR—SERMON BY THE REY. MR, HEPWORTH. MriTlepworth preached to his flock yesterday morn- ding from: the text, St, John, x., 9—‘I am the door,” We ro apt to regard that part of the Scriptures most ‘adintrable which speaks to us of our salvation. Christ alls himself a door, and the phrase implies an exit @ndanentrance. He is the way out of something and * Hes the way into something. From what we know of ‘Christ's character and self-denial we are safe in as- Gerting that Ho is the way out of the lower and the way into the higher. There can be no loss inattach- ment to the Lord. You must gain by intimacy with euch a triend. One cannot study the life of Christ without a consciousness of added power in his own heart. Those who believe nothing in Him know noth- {ng about Him. Those who know Him most intl. mately prize Him most highly. The sceptic sunds on the outsido of His life and criticises it with scorn, The believer stands op the inside, and thanks God with great humility and great gladness, Now, it has pleased God, tor purposes into which I shall not inquire, to exalt Christ to the highest possible position. In the economy of salvation Christ stands tn the place of God, and if the Scriptures aro true, and neither you nor I dare to doubt them, then whatever we receive in the present life, and whatever we hope for in the life to come, is to be had at the hand of Jesus of Nazareth. An cternal wisdom, behind which we detect an eternal power, has constituted the Man of God the Judge of all men, from ‘whom we are to receive the helpfulness of a’ daily providence, and at last the destiny of the soul. I would Bot have you on any account receive so strong a state- ment on my authority. Perbaps some of you are in- clined to think that I have exaggerated, that in our spiritual life it would be just as well to LEAVE CHRIST OUT OF THE QUESTION and go directly to the Jehovah of the Hebrews. Do you remember what St. John the Baptist said of the Lord? He turned to the little ee. of converts gad Hebrews who had gathered to hear him and #aid:—‘Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the #ins of the world."* You wili not forget either, in after time, that Jesus, not through egotism, but in the consciousness of a kingly prerogative, said, “I am ‘the way, the trath and the life;”” and again, He said to the sisier weeping for her brother, “I am the resurrec- | tion and the life’’—as though He held in His own Personality the golden key that would unlock any door in the mansion not built with hands. He claims to Himself, by a succinct statement of facts, | authority over life in all its completeness | aud supreme authority in the world to | come, And then, brethren, if you will turn | to Philippians, you will tind Paul corroborates that | statement when he says:—‘‘Wherefore God, also, hath | highly exalted him, and given him a name which is ‘above every name,’’ And there is no exception that at the name of Jesus, with its imperial splendor, every Kuce should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus ‘Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. And | then in Paul's Epistle wo the Ephesians, “We find | his to be true: That God says wé have received the | adoption of children by Jesus Christ.” And again, by | him we have redemption, through his biood and sacri- | fice; and again, we have the forgiveness of sins, ac- cording to the richnesief his grace; even when we ‘were dead in sin be hath quickened us together with Christ, and raised us up together, and made us enter together the heavenly throne. Then, brethren, to whom shall you and I Jook for our salvation? Whose life is the fountain of our Strength and joy? Whose death ts our consolation in ‘trials and our hope in the midst of our own departure ? “There is no other name by which we can be saved” — ‘that is the complete and inclusive sentence of ‘THE INSPIRED WRITER. We will not, then, discuss the matter, for it seme to de as plain as human language can make it, We should simply admit the fact, and then kueel at the feet of our ‘Teacher and ask what He willhave us do. God has methods of His own by which He proposes to save you and me. I need not say that He did not consult either you or me about it, nor that He does not propose to Consult us abour the way in which we are te get to heaven. He is strong enough and wise hogy = and good enough, and therefore has a right to dictate terms. Now here comes a curious psychological fact. At is that while you and I want to be saved we are yet so Belf-willed that we aro determined, if possible, to be Saved in our own way and notin God’s. Thatis the @ne great peculiarity of human nature and the great tumbling block in the way of human pertection. And po the bar ged goes on, with what result? To God, misery (if I may use the word with reverence), be- cause we bave gone astray, and (o us double wretched - ness, because we have gone astray. The trouble in our spiritual life lies in our own seli-conceit, in our egotism. How foolish itis when wo think of it Suppose you should see ina warehouse some coarse material, ‘nd you should say to that material, “It is abso- lutely necessary that I put you through a somewhat | painiul process of discipline, but if you have perfect | ‘rust in the machinery you have my word for it that | 4n the end you will come out.a priceless fabric,” and | the poor’ material iilied with dust and dirt | wives a half assent, and the process begins; butafter | B whi when ‘the dust is flying, it grows In the Hebrew a burnt offering means toascend. It was yours when you laid it upon the alter, but as it burns it ascends up to’ God, It totally ceases to be yours and becomes the Lord’s, A durnt offering ts this—I am God’s by right, and He/is the absolute Ruler of all, and I have robbed God; 1 am not acceptable to God now, I have rendered myself imperfect. No bullock, no lamb, no bird ever committed a sin against God, and so I will ask Him to take them in liew of myself, so that He will receive me, though their God says he carmot take the fropertect being, but that He will take the perfect substitute. God takes the offering instead of the author It says in three places in this chapter that a burnt offering 15 a sweet savor to the Lord. Tne sacrifice hides the sin as if it were a veil. Christ is your propitiation. Just as the bullock, or lamb, or bird was the representative of the Jew, just 80 Christ is your offering. God smiles upon you, and accepts you for Jesus’ sake. I offer you, out of this burnt offering, a perfect saviour on whoi you may rel A man’s whole life is what he owes God, and there 1s not a man here who has devoted his whole life to God, No man has ever given his whole life to God. That was a remarkable observation which the GREAT RBVIVALIST, MR, MOODY, quoted from John Wesley, when he said, if he haa twelve men who loved noone but God, and hated no one but Sin, he would turn the world upside down in his Master’s work. Christ did His own will in no way, but poured out His Jife Jnst as the blood of that beast upon tne altar, in “working out His father’s mission, Every man was commanded to offer a burnt offering, but provision was made for all classes, Higher classes could bring their bullocks, those of the second classalamb and the third turtle doves, for turtle doves were soabundant that no man was too eommand that ty» must be. Of had people who tire of talking of Go's laws in the church, what will ye do with eternal ‘talk? O! ye that are driven by sinful Yastes from, Jesus, what will ye do im the future world ? Angels of God, how can ye admit a polluted spirit among tle blest? A large number of people think they have a SPECIAL INHERITANCE OF GODLINESS ; 7 depend on their goodness, their emotions, thoughts empl acts, which are more in the line of grace than the sinners by whom they are surrounded, But they can- pot bi ved by inheritance, for as temptation comes more strongly to the prosperous, so | am constrained to believe that hell 1s made up of the aristocracy of this world. Man is inherently wicked; the best families now may be nurturing criminals; there is no such thing as inherited grace; every man must be born again, We must cast aside self and live for others. It always seemed to me that a bachelor who was accumulating wealth for his own selfish mdulgences was a withered specimen of humanity. Every sinner, by the very tendency of his faults, pulls down his associates and debases society, bat the new birth changes all this and lifts the man up, ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD LABORERS— SERMON BY BEV. FATHER KEARNEY. The Cathedral was crowded yesterday to the doors, and the services were as, usual, solemn and impressive, The officiating clergyman at the jast mass was the Rev. Father Mori. At the termination of the first gos- pel the Rev. Father Kearney preached an eloquent ser- mon, taking his text from the gospel of the day, accord- ing to St. Matthew, wherein is described the parable ot the vineyard. It presented the master and those who labored for him, The master called at different times those who were idle and sent them into his vineyard, and when the day had ended summoned them together poor to haye some, The burnt offering was not to be a wild beast; it was to be a tame and gentle beast from the herd, God wanted the strength of the beast. When Mary brought her first born son she came to the temple with a burnt offering. She brought two young pigeons as a burnt offering to the Lord. She was so poor that she only could make the poorest offering for her motherhood, God would not take @ partial offering in representation, The flesh of the burnt offering was to be burnt upon the altar in the fre and the blood was to be sprinkled upon the altar. They show us God’s claims upon ourselves, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR, BEECHER ON MORAL INTUITIONS—HOW TO SEE GOD, ‘The number of people who contrived to squeeze inside the walls of Plymouth church yesterday sur+ prised even the oldest ushers, who thought they knew the capacity of the house, Several delegates to the Advisory Council were present, and Mr. Beecher stated before the sermon that out of the 170 churches invited to take part in the council 125 had accepted and there were still a number not heard from, - “That is the deepest chapter in the Bible,’’ said Mr. Beecher, referring to the eighth of Romans, from which he had just read, ‘For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.’” In it there is an intimation not only that there is divine power exerted upon the human soul, directly and per- sonally, but that there may bea consciousness of it on the partof man. It may be of a kind such as that state of mind which in ordinary affairs we call con- viction, and which is caused by the presentation of facts to the mind, ‘The witness of things spiritual with many bas been a favorite theme, and many fantastic results have -sprnng from the ignorant use of this declaration and much mischief has come from it. On no other matter in the Bible perkaps depends so much as upon this, Is it true that the divine nature opens itself to men in such a way thatthey are sure and justand good grounds tbat they are known, ac- cepted and guided by God? This is of infinite’ im- portance both to the individual and to the race, and it ought to be well considered, inasmuch as just now tho tendencies in the thinking world are working ‘away from any such condition. We are passing through & period of unfaith, I will not saya period of unbelief, be- cause there never was a period when all men seemed so cager for belief, It is the distinguishing peculiarity even of the doubt and scepticism of our day that it | doubts on» the way towards certainty. Many of the philosophical statements of truth do not satisiy the mind glowing and kindling with hunger for a larger knowledge of God and of the universe, and there are | many men who to-day are regarded as sceptics who are i in some sense John tho Baptists, ing the way. | THEY MAY RE MERE ROADMAKERS; | but nevertheless the least service in the revelation of | the divine glory is honor enough. The human soul in its upward course is not to be overpowered by doubts ner by scepticism. All unbelief, while in the indi- vidual it may be tinal, in the history of the community and of our kind is an intermediary stage on the way toward the truth—toward positive belief. Now if in such a sense God is unknowable, that He is to us what the secrets of the inner globe on which we live are, it amounts substantially to banishment and the de- struction of the development of humanity, If on the | other hand there is aside from the testimony of the | senses such evidence that an honest minded man may say without doubt, “I know that my God lives”—if | there is such a manifestation as this, it is of trauscen- | dent importance fer every one to know it, and it is | therefore a matter of some regret that these who have | velieved in the power of the Spirit of God-have often held on other matters such fantastic views a3 to cast doubt upon it in the minds of others. I understand the Saviour to say all who are ina state of mind to appreciate the Divine Spirit, to them it will be given, just as to them that bavea suscepubdility to numbers and who understand mathematical rules its given to | understand problems. j In regard to the presence of God in Christ Jesus, the Saviour taught His apostles that the Father would be with them as Hie bad been; that there would be such a Tevelation to them through the Holy Ghost of the teel- ings and thoughts of our Heavenly Father as would a them such consciousness of His presence as they had of Him when He walked with them in the body. He taught them that that was to be a higher state of the | mind in which they should have intuition. Not | the sight of the eye nor the bandling of the hand, but | tof that inward eye—the sight of the soul,’ He | tanght men that the Christian state was one in which men should see God, not with the eye, ‘For I declare unto you that the things which you believe most are the things which you never see.”’ I believe in honor, truth, fidelity and integrity more firmly than in many things I see. A QUESTION. The question arises now whether such an experience | $s founded on reality, Ifyou will turn to the fifth | chapter of Gallatians I shall have one step taken toward | proving the reality of this intuition, The truit of the | Spirit is here given. Consider the frait, the result, the | elfect. You take notice that when the presence of the | Spirit ts to be identified we are to identify it by certain things which follow from its presence—certain, effects designate the cause, “The fruit of the spirit is love, loy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.’ gain, you will find in the fifth chapter of #phesians, “For the truit of the spirit is all goodness and right eousness and truth.” ‘weary of the process and should say to you, “I wantto ‘Dermade into the best possible fabric, but | don’t like | this way and 1 won't have it; thers is pain connected | with this process; there area great many things I | = not understand. I want you to make me into therrichest possible material, but I want you to do it | fniny way.” What would you say to that? Would ou. think there was any common senso exhibited s | re thren, I think not, and yet we are doing precisely | bat thing with Almighty God to-day, although we o nwt confess it; we are living on, thinking we are are jjods, whereas we are really TUB CREATURES OP CIRCUMSTANCE, ond stead of eitting on our throne of self-conceit we | ght to take out seat at the feet of the Master. Oh, | “we wunt to get to Heaven, but we want to go in our way cmd not in God's. Ailow me vo say that Christ ie a door into your- | self—A door thro whick you can walk | into riect knowledge of your own heart. | Cbrist! hes us how weak we are and not how strong , are, Christ himself depends en God and Christ | stawtly retires ito solitude that He may hold communion with God. Christ is the one ideal man that has evyr lived, and if we desime to be Christ-like | ‘At ie sale to follow in Hie footsteps in every respect. a ee He w constantly de- | e igher power and ey day communes | swith that higlir power, tr fin d arroy's they | eps tLbgme by the’ hand ot the Al- | mighty, and help Christ says distinctly that we may | enter into the syne relationship with Almighty God as He wae. The pt\iosophy of Christiankty ts the phil- wsophy of self-extnetion. Weare to be buried with | Christ. Ob! the exaltation of sitting on the throne with cur King yd our Master! Let us orcas tho # threshold and enter \ne Temple. esha | (FIFTH AVENUX BAPTIST CHUROH. | CBRISTUN SIGNIFIQNCE OF BURNT OFTER- INGS—-LERMON BY (HE REV. THOMAS ADNI- TAGE. ‘Tie atsentance at this durch, in West Forty-sixue | \ewas quiteful! at the services yesterday morning. Rev) | Whomas Armitage, D. D., occujted his accustomed pul- Pit, Heammounced as his subject “Burnt Offerings,” and as his}text first chapter of heriticus, I may say that this is atmest remarkable book, he began, because itis made up\of Divine utterawces. Jt is very evident shat it is tho Gospel in embryo, that it 4s a presentation of divine thoutpta I do not | hink there are more references to any | vother bdeok than to this in the New Testament. ‘here are Jorty references to this book \in the New | Testament, Thero are some very beautifaNhoughts onnected with this book. The eyes must haye been opened in awakened icterest. You go and ledt at a beautiful marble statue, you see physical beanty\ndi- eated, perhaps an indication of intellectual beauty) A | ‘man skilled in sculpture takes a light and throws it ‘upon a statue, so as to bring out various expressiows ‘upon the face; he cam make it smile or weep, It js Just so with this book of Leviticus. The man who ), looks below the veil sees the beactiful | . GOSPEL SHINING CLEAR. Af 8 yolk wore thrown over the It is not, then, simply a magic influence that now and theu tills the heavens with a wonderful illumination of knowledge, as happenea when Paul was on his way to | Damascus. It is not a dramatic inspiration such as Shakespeare had when passed before him in vision all that wonderful gallery which he has created. ‘THE SPIRIT OF GOD WORKS IN MAN j certain moods, certain states of mind and certain hab- its, and a man that has that wrought in him is im a condition to have moral intultions—intuitions which | are just as certain as material intuitions. As the sum- | mer’s san shining on the orehard brings forth the | | fruite of autumn the son of the Divine Spirit shiming on the souls of men and women, in-the human mind, at last brings forth this fruit of ‘love and joy. Whea the soul is under the dominion of these feelings it is | in a condition to have intuitions, There is something | inside of a man by which from the material he looks up to the higher, to something nobler. That which is true in respect to thought power is also | true im respect to emotive power, A man of trained honor and honesty has a sense of dishonor or dishonesty in other men be- | fore he knows any facts about them. Hie has an intui- tion, Now, when a man has come to this higher state | of life and lives in these higber moral conditions until they are as familiar to him aa writing is tomy hana— when he has had these moral states wrought out in they are no more to be doubted than any other intui- | tions are, The best certainties of life are these intuix” tions, by which aman may say, “I do know there is @ God.” Bat when men have it you will see now hard it | is to prove it. If-I tell you that in the midst | of trouble and etorm I have a refuge, that in | the midst of the thunder I have peace and | quet, you may say to me, “Oh, that is fantastic, that te imagination;’’ you may say “Prove it; showme facts to prove it.” A lady e to ‘Torner, when he-was painting, ‘Why dod you put such extravagant colory isto your pictures? I gever sea any gach in natare.” “Don’t you wish you did, madame?” was his answer, He saw what she could not. | ‘The man who, living a worldly and carnal life, says, “L | never have any of these glimpses or these intuitions,” is | 10 her position. If, then, you desire to have the wi ss | of the Spirit that you are God's, there te the road, | “Blessed are the purenn heart, for they shallcee God,” | and I have shown youshaw to see Him. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. me, | | | “XE MUST BE BORN AGAIN” —SERMON BY REY. 8. Ha TYNG, } Rev. Dr, Stephen H. \Tyog yesterday morning | preached avery intorestingtdiscourse from St Jobn, | ili,, 7—"Marvel not that'l said unto thee ye must be | born again.” The preacher asked what conceivabie the year nor of the allurements which most assuredly | privilege is greater than that of the new birth? Like produces like; to be begotten again by God; to be a | part of Him, one of His limbs, as it were, and tending | towards God’s likeness, What joy! There isnot ono | of us who bas not at some time had the foolish conceit | that he would like to live his iis over again, to begin | anew, This desire is in itself sconsclousness of our | infrmities, But thero is no @ixir of youth, no | turning back, our very gray hairs prophecies of death, © But this divine provision thabwre macy be bora xgain gives us hope; the hoary-headed, man may bo- ttle babe. It is not, the Word that w\ man may thero ia the ) imperative | - | to do? and paid them the same hire, The master represented in the gospel was God, and the laborers were His crea- tures—men whom He had created. He is the master; we are the laborers; and as the master called at differ- ent times so has God called us at different times during our lives unto His vineyard, that we may labor, and that when the day of toil had passed we might receive our hire. The master who calls us is He who made us, that we might save oursouls. In the very beginning of our training the first question that is proposed to us is why God madg us? It was that we might bo with Him in heaven, that we might know Him, love Him and serve Him in this world, and that when the world passed away we might enjoy the happiness of heaven with Him forever, When we fell into the sins of our first parents God came down from heaven, humbled Himself to the very earth, took on Himselt our natcre while man. All kinds of reproach and insults He bore meekly that He might satisfy His Father for the sins we had committed against Him, While, during: the week of Passion, He was prostrated in prayer in the garden, His voice piercing the clouds, He exclaimed, “Not my will, but thine be done.”? He accepted this humiliation and punishment that greuter glory might be given to God, and that mankind might be redeemed, From the moment in the garden that we follow Him hour by hour and minute by minute, until we see Him nailed on the cross, during all His sufferings, we ask ourselves, Why has this God-man so humbled Himself—why has He suffered so much ? And our conscience tells us that He has done all that He might save the souls of mankind, and that we might receive the reward promised to the faithful. a WHY THE PARABLE WAS TOLD, ‘The Church presented the paravle read at this time that we might see that the Master is continually call- ing us to tabor and to toil that we might save our im mortal souls. The reyerend gentleman forcibly urged the great necessity of following the precepts laid down for our guidance. The Church and her ministers were a continuation of the life of our Lord. His ministers, who were allotted to the people, were in their indi- vidual capacity an example of the Divine Lord Him- self. Unless they followed strictly and truly in His footsteps, unless His voice through them were heard in utterances of advice and exhortation, they failea in their duty and were not what the Lord desired them to be. Man must hearken to the voice of God, and unless man tried to save hig soul he would be cast’ out among those given up to punishment and destruction. And the reward came with the toil If we disregard the precepts of God’s Church then our Divine Lord will turn a deaf ear to us and we will be cast aside, It was woil, then, we should consider now how we stand among the laborers in the vineyard, Another call had been given in the Gospel just read. lt might be the last; it might bé the eleventh hour. What wero we Itis easy to keep God's commandments, to keep His law. Nothing more was required than to keep the law of God. He tells us we are not to depend on ourselves in laboring, but that we have Him to help us, We do not value our souls as He values them, and | surely we can suffera little for the great object in view. In concluston the reverend gentleman urged the congregation to strive to be among the laborers, so | that when the word went forth they might be among | those who would receive their hire and their eternal reward in the kingdom of God. THE MUSIC, The mass selected on this occasion by the organist, Professor Gustavus Schmitz, was by Generali, in @ minor, which was splendidly Interpreted by the choir. At the offertory Cherubini’s beautiful composition, “Laudfte Dominum,” a soprano solo and chorus, was rendered with excellent effect, Mme. Bredelli singing the passages intrusted to her with much sweetness and artistic fimsh, The services ended shortly before noon, TRINITY CHURCH. THE LABOR OF LIFE—SERMON BY REY. WYATT. At Trinity church yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Wyatt, of Westchester, N. ¥., preached the sermon, taking his text from Genesis, iii., 19, in part—“In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread.” You will recognize from these words, said the preacher, what sin has imposed upon man, But sinco Jesus Christ took npon Himself the curse of sin for us there is the way pointed out that makes the necessity of labor, though bitter, to be accepted as medicinal The mani- festations and miracles of the power of Jesus Christ when on earth were then alluded to, the preacher saying that none have thoroughly looked into them without being convinced of their truth, Tho very existence of the Church is proof of these manifestations. In performing these mira- cles it was the purpose of Christ to teach men that faith is necessary, The tntoliigent conviction of this 1s what 18 desired. Zaccheus saw and belicved and his professions for the future were in conformity with his belief. So must we consider the work we have todo in keeping with the faith we acknowledge. WORKS OF GOODNESS. DR sidered to be an essewtial part of the ceremony of the high masa, The sahotuary yesterday = ae ornamented, and Sever looked to better advantage, The high altar was resplendent with lights, which were mellowed by the radiance from the stained win- dows on either side, Choice flowers filled the’ spaces between the candelabra which rise high above the magnificent white marble altar, The virgin’s altar was also chastely decorated, At the base of the marblo statue of the Immaculate Conception an oil lamp burned in a small stained vase, and on the platform beneath a large basket of fresh and beautiful flowers rested on a pedestal, The appeurance of the entire sanctuary was rich in the extreme, THR SERMON, The celebrant of the mass was the Rev. Father Mc- Cauley, and the sermon was preached by the Kev. Dr. Curran, who wok his text from Matthew xx, 1% God, he said, us all to be saved, and gives us sufficient means to attain our salvation. There is not one among us who, if he so wills, bat can receive every grace that is needed to se- cure the friendslup of the Heavenly Father, The ono enemy to man issin, Butwe have abundant assur- ances from God Himself that He will sustain our efforts to combat human passions and evil inclinations, and to bring us triumphantly through every battle waged to save our immot souls, The grace of God 18 over- whelmingly powerful, and while we fear for the conse- quences of sin we should still approach the throne of grace petitioning cenfidently for pardon, in sorrow for the past and in the strength of our best resolutions for the future, In the conflict of life we cannot rest upon ourselves, but must depend upon the mercy of Him whd has 60 constantly exhorted us to pray that we enter not into temptation nor lose the grace which the sacraments confer upon us. The Scriptures afford us proois that all men will not be saved. We see around us those who are wicked, prone to vices of almost every description; men who to the last hour of their lives will sim, Neither hope nor repentance have they. But nothing defiled shall enter heaven. The means by which we can lead good, moral lives, doing justice to ourselves and to our neigh- bor, are at the disposal of each of us. For those who reject the invitations to become reconciled, after hav- ing offered to their God mortal offence, what can be ex- pected? But the vorce of God, in speaking through His Church, calls the many to repentance, offering abun- dant graces, and is willing to save, To thoso, then, who care more for the eternal happiness of their souls than for the miserable gratification of their senses, the narrow way must be taken that leads to salvation. In this narrow way lies the Observance of the command- ments, with the assistance recetved from the sacra- ments of theChurch, The preacher concluded with an eloquent exhortation, urging that no care or labor is too great in preparing for the Judgment Day. CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. SERMON BY THE REV. CHAUNCEY GILES--THE CREATION OF WOMAN. At the Church of the New Jerusalem in East Thirty- fifth street, near Lexington avenue, yesterday morning, the Rev. Chauncey Giles preached to a very large con- gregation. The text was taken from Genesis, il, 18-24:—“And the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone, I will make an help meet for him.”” * bd s “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh thereof, And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and brought her unto the man,” He said:—In considering the subject of man’s condition in his state of celestial perfection, and his fail from it, we must not forget that we are regarding the natural events as symbols of the changes and ac- tivities which took place in his will and understand. ing, in his affections and thoughts, The whole account is a parable “In every particular as well asa whole, We must adnere to our principles. It will not do to regard this account as part parable and part literal fact, Those who regard the first chapter of Genesis as a literal history of the creation of the material um- verse and of man should adhere to the letter as they would to any history, only more rigidly, for we cannot admit that Infinite Wisdom could tail to give a perfect account of any event He undertook to describe. But af we believe IT 18 4 PARABLE, the most perfect method of communicating truth upon profound spiritual subjects, then we must try to dis- cover the spiritual secrets which lie hid beneath the garment of these natural symbols; and this is the work to which we must address ourselves. ‘And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and brought her tn unto the man.”” This is not an account of the first creation of woman. She had been created ages before, The term used in the original does not mean to create, but to build up that which had fallen down, It is stil! a parable, We must adhere to the principle with whick we set out, Whether the doctrines of the New Jerusalem are true or not they are consistent with themselves, What a beauti- ful and striking representation this is of what man’s spiritual nature may become in a regenerate state! It is here represented by the most beautiful form the Lord has created, The difference between the regenerate and unregenerate state of man’s sel(hood is as great as that between a rib, a mere bone, andawoman, And you may give to her all the charms of innocence, love- iness, intelligence and beauty you can conceive, and then your conception will not’ equal the reality, . Take all the elements which pure and noble women con- tribute to life; the tenderness which sofiens the hard ness of men’s intellectual strength; the gentleness which moulds rade power into attractive forms; the life of affection which guides a soul to cold and brilliant thought; the grace and harmony which she infuses into the rude contacts and harsh movements of masculine life; thequick sympathy in suffering and sorrow; THE WINNING SUASION OP HER APPECTIONS ; the wise teaching of her patience and the enduring Jabor for those she loves; the uplifting power of her ex- ample, which draws mah up from the low level of his | desires as the attraction of the earth draws all objects down to its Surface; and the sum of all, and more than all, the nameless and measureless inffuenco ot her pres- ence which imbues society witha higher and fresher life; which gives to it its fragrance, and warmth, and quickness, all the germs of its power, into a more ac- tive and orderly growth—take all these elements of influence from society and nothing but bones would re- main. The collective life of humanity would be a rough, huge and repulsive skeleton. The other truth I wish you to specially consider is that the deadly stupor that comes over us through Adam came from claiming our life to be ourown, That is the subtle poison, the fatal soporific, that®eals our highest faculties in a sleep which too often knows no waking. It seems harmless enough. And yet to think of it, to approach it until we come within the sphere of its subtle poison, dwells the keen edge of a heavenly con- sciousness, and in the degree we come under the bane- ful power it incapacitates us for heavenly enjoyments, and even blots from our nature the knowledge that we are spiritual and immortal beings, that we were created to be the children ot a Heavenly Father and to dwell in a heavenly, blissful, beautifui, eternal home. MOODY AND SANKEY. THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS AT THE HIPPO- DROME—SEVEN MEETINGS GIVEN BY THR | REVIVALISTS YESTERDAY, About three thousand people attended the morning | Works of goodness and sacrifice on our part are de- manded, We must see Jesus Christ face to face, and | labor in His vineyard. It is by the sweat of our face | t we eat our bread, and so by our good works will we | taste the bread of heaven, This is the way in whieh tho original curse can be removed, but the labor must be constant and not spasmodic,’ No more common or | mischievous vanity can exist than tho belief that the | labor in God’sservice can be commenced to-day and broken off to-morrow. It must go on always, and not relinquished when the occasion secms to suit. The preacher then reverted to the subject of human labor, dwelling fora while upon its selfish tendencies. TI is much of this inthe world, and there are but few hearts whose sympathies are not called into action | when, in the daily press, they read of those who have taken their destiny into their own hands, all beoat of the dissatisfaction of the | labors of their life. It is the seifishnoss of labor that | makes us feel the curse of the original sin. We should not be like the Doasts or birds. Every branch belongs each to the other, and man’s heart must be uplifted above selfish feelings and ideas before ne can know the full meaning of life, He must apply to his vocation: or labor whatever he can ot purity, honesty and good | judgment, as he who does this is far better than he who carries on a branch of labor with a bad conscience. Every man should endeavor to cherish in his work and in society the very highest standard of religious truths—not some indefinite truth, but those that in- yolve the intellectual satisfaction of coming to Christ If Christ\s words are like | him—there comes out of them moral intuitivos, and | for His sake alone, This daily: walking m the paths of religious trath gives better men to society and teaches them how best to make their lives a living pretace to Christ and their end that of the good and Schuntal ser- | vant, ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. A SPRING SUNDAY CONGREGATION—AN ADMONI- | TORY SERMON TO SINNERS, A day so sunny and spring-like as yesterday, | coming when one might have reasonably expected keen winds or damp air, produces not ungoldom in thevminds of the fortunate classes who belong to the realm of faghion and style a laudable desire to attend religious services, Stay-at-bomes there are in every congregation, and St. Stephen's parish furnishes its ist of these backsliding people as well as churchés vehich do net present to worshippers such a splendid liturgy and gorgeous ceremony on Sabbath mornings. However, the beautiful weather of the foremoon yes- | terday brought out of doors and to this church @ very large-congregation, who, judging from their fashion- ak le attire, especially that of the feminine worship-. (pers, were not unmindful of the approaching season of belong to elegance in dress and the adoption of latest novelties. The vastchurch edifice was better filed thanJ@ many Sundays past. TRE MUSIC, The mawie of the mass was of the most select charac- ter, and was! admirably rendered by the efficient choir, Nearly ail Cie solos were noticeably well given, the | crowded one, not a sent bei service at the Hippodrome yesterday, commencing at eight o'clock. It was aservice, as announced, for the | special benefit of ‘Christian workers.” The singing of | “Hold the Fort’ opeyed the proceedings, followed by a solo by Mr. Sankey, “Go work to.day in my vine- yard.” Mr, Moody next read a portion of the fourth | chapter of John, after which the congregation sung, “J Jove to tell the story. Mr. Moody gave out for his text the thirty-fifth verse of the fourth chapter of | John—‘‘Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, 1 say unto you, Litt up your eyes, and look on | the fields; for they are white already to harvest” I think if it could be ever said that there was a harvest ready it is in the city of New York. Many have asked | me whatI think of the prospect, I can but answer | that I have never bad such encouragement as I have met here, and all that is wanted is that we should work earnestly in the fleld and the blessing is sure to come. It depends on the reapers more than any one else what the harvest willbe. It depends upon you and not how a man preaches ora mansings. You have got to labor with your friends. You, who are all Chrietian workers and ready to go to work, must go abroad and invite men to Christ, and they will come. ‘The whole city is ready to meet Christ, and it is for you to point out the It depends on you, wateh- ‘men, whether we shall see marvellous results of th: awakening to Christ. God will bless your efforts, One lace where we went we found a whole family who Enew nothing of Christ. God first converted the | father, next the mother, then the children, until in a | few weeks all the family were gathered in, This 18 not | the time to criticise ether the workers or the reapers, | but itis high time that you should be all up ang work- | ing; bring in the sbeaves and lay them at the Master’ feet. Mr, Moody conciuded his address by giving number of illustrations and examples of his experi- ences, ‘The services were then closed by the benediction | pronounced by Mr. Moody, having lasted the allotted | time of forty-tive minutes. | | THR APTERNOON MEETING. The afternoon meeting was held for the special ben- fit of women, Such a crowd of them ag was present ve promise of an interesting devotional season, | ¢ great hall was full of human beings, and tho clergymen who participated tn the services declared itto be one of the most successful of the revival. The choir, according to custom, introduced the reg: ular exercises with hymna! singing, and then Messrs. | Moody and Sankey appeared and at once opened | the procsedings. Mr. Sankey sung two of his | sweetest songs, ‘‘Ninety and, Nine” and ‘Almost Persuaded.’’ Then Mr. Moody preached from Luke iv., 18—"The spirit of the Lord 1s upon me, because he hath annointed me wo geee the gospe! to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach de- Jewerance to the captives,” &e, At the cenclusion of the services the inquiry rooms were thronged with ladies desirous of improving the! condition, Altogether the revivalists were highly grat- ifled with their meeting, BVENING MEETING, The meeting in the evening for men only was a in the house, the stroets oa densely packed, and Before it began singers being \in excellent voice, As thero is eVery | as usual there was the tromendous crusi at the un- opportunity afforded in this church for a good opened doors, It i¢.safe to say that 3,000 ple were Of sacred musicy tho Oatholic public general} F to | packed and wedged in and around the M. avenue this choir for a hither degree of perfection than iwaby | entrance, so that it gave tho =~, force of police other, the Jesuits\\church in Sixteenth street and S&,| all it could to ie poaval from Ann’s in East Twclith street alone ex and | breaki in through doorway. Nobody took ence ib Wd that the ©cred music bare ie com, trouble to infarm the multitudepressipe so eagerly | when there were hosts of pooples now livin = that the gateways oa : £ ‘ippodrome were open. Through these hundred ope wise than shovin, absolutely compelfea to throw themselves, rey Koa the surging mass to keep it ip ‘When all who could get into the building were seated it was found that there were a great women and girls among the audience, notwithstanding the positive announcement that the meeting was to beheld for men only. But they were not ejected, and, like the lady choristers, were permitted to remain during the ser- vices. Before the conclusion it was apparent that no special reason existed for their removal, as the sermon preached by Mr. Moody was substantially the same as that he had already delivered to the women in the afterboon, The evening meeting was a pronounced success, and on the were of New York's most prominent eee Among them were Rev. Dr. John Hall and a of known citizens, among u David Dudley Field, the well known Iawyer. In the body of this building the auditors were comprised largely of aclass of people who rarely go to church, who Were drawn to the Hippodrome last night by the power of the Holy Spirit and curiosity. They were most attentive and listened wi re to some of Mr. raptui Sankey’s hymns, particularly that called ‘The, Prodigal Child.? The other meeting, which was held in the bina avenue hall, had as many as 3,500 people present About te to eight, after th jut a quarter it, e Himini sing- ing by the choir under the direction of the leaden, Mr. Moody stepped on the platform and said:—‘‘Let us Pe e services by singing the hyma, ‘The Physician Now is Hore.’ Let us all rise and sing it.” Mr. Sankey repeated the est and led the people, while Mr. Moody, book in hand, stood at his old post on the front of the rostrum, After the bymn had been sung Mr. Moody sald, ‘‘Let us unite in prayer,” and the Rey. Dr. Adams, above the bowed thousands, prayed aloud, thanking the Almighty for the advent ot Christ and our salvation. Mr, ty next announced that prayer meetings will be held daily at noon in the hall on Fourth avenue, preaching every evening except on Saturday, and on day at the noonday mbeting the subject will be intemperance. After these an- nouncements Mr, Sankey sang ‘Sowing the Seed,” and then Mr. Moody said, “I will read a tew.verses in the fourth chapter according to Luke, me prpee sony t Great fourteenth verse—‘‘And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee; and there went out a fame of hum through all the region around.” Before reading he requested the people to sit down and not to disturb the audience by walking around the building, Mr. Sankey sang the “Ninety-and-nine,” but before he did so he prayed that some lost sheep stray- ing away from the fold of Christ at that moment should be brought back to it, Afler the bymn Mr. M called the audience’s attention to that portion of the eighteenth verse which says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor,’? a aker then told the story of the Prince of Pri ers, John the Baptist, “and God’s acknowledgment at the moment that Christ besought John to baptize Him. ‘The wonderful voice from heaven reached Nazareth and the fame ot the Anointed spread throughout the land. Mr. Moody, dwelling on the after life of Christ id His reading inthe ee, said: le will come again ‘and begin to read whero He.left off, and the day of foe party shallcome, Tit dread day had not yet arrived; but this ts the accepted year. Now is the time when His mercy prevails and salvation can be had. Gospel means good’s spell, or Godspell or glad ts the best news that man ever heard. “One reason,” said Mr. Moody, ‘why I regard the Gospel as the best tidings I ever heard 1s, because it tells us that Christ conquered Death, our greatest enemy, There isn’t one of you who doesn’t know that he is. Well, don’t you think the book that tells you that this enemy is conquered, buried in the bosom of Christ, lost its sting, is the best in the world, If man believes in Christ, death can’t touch him, and his sins shall never bo mentioned.” Mr. Moody concluded by exhorting his hearers to seek Christ with the full assurance that He will come to them, no matter who ‘they are, if they be willing, The address of Mr. Moody was fall ofallasions to the mercy of the Lord, which were illustrated+ with little stories, quaintly related, and many of them were so touching as to have drawn tears from eyes long unaccustomed to them, Tho speaker éupplemented his address with prayer, and Mr. Sankey sang “‘Come Home, Prodigal Child.” TRE PRAYER MEETING. The meeting was concluded a little before nine and soon after there was a prayer meeting, for which nearly halt the audienco remained. Before the prayer meeting was begun Mr, Moody asked those of his hearers who were anxious about their soul’s salvation to meet him in the inquiry room, and dozens followed him thither, Rev. Dr, John Hall conducted the pray- ers and services thereafter, which terminated about ten o'clock. ) THE OVERFLOW MEETING. Tho large hallon Fourth avenue was occupied by over 3,500 persons who could not get into the meeting proper. Hon. W. E. Dodge presided, and addresses were delivered by Drs. Tucker, Chapin'and Messrs. W. T. Booth and Streeter, "Mr. Sankey during the time occupied \by Mr. Moody’s address in the great hall, came in and sang for the extra meeting. At ils termination almost 1,000 persons remained to take art in the prayer meeting conducted by R. R. Me- urney. Addresses were delivered by A. Foster Hig- gins and others, : MASONIC TEMPLE. REY. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM ON THE REVIVAL. The delightful weather of yesterday attracted a large congregation to the morning discourse of Rey, Mr. Frothingham at Masonic Temple, corner of Twenty- third street and Sixth avenue. Fashionably attired ladies filled nearly every seat in the large ball, The reverend gentleman, previous to bis discourse, called attention to the second reception of his society, which is to take place at the Union League Club Theatre on the evening of the 25th inst, He then announced that the subject of his discourse would be the series of revival meetings under Messrs. Moody and Sankey now going on at the Hippodrome, He would not speak of those gentlemen in a spirit of criticism or cavil, but as graciously and politely as possible, It had been said, with some consid- erable degree of foundation, that the end which those gentlemen undertook to accom- plish was visionary; that the revival was artificial in its method, its philosophy unsound and its spirit thoughtless, It was no doubt a popular move, ment, in which thousands and tens of thousands were interested. Some of the noblest clergymen in the city were its devout friends, It was prayed for by men be- fore whom the speaker should stand with uncovered head. There was no doubt but the revivalists possessed the courage of sincerity to carry them through their arduous duties. They stood in no awe of the rich or any other class, and their work so far was singularly free of many mistakes which characterizea revival movements of past ages. They did not deal in denun- ciation—no banding down of the infidel as a curse; no holding of the unbeliever over a pit, A spirit of love, | kindness and compassion seemed to pervade the move- | ments of the two meno who controlled it They were sincere, but many who did the most harm were the most sincere. THEY ARB SENTIMENTALISTS. In considering the ends which they wished to ac- complish this necessity amounted te nothing. 1t wae objected to, then, that ‘they were sentimentalists; that they passed by considerations of the actual worldly warfare passing around for visionary ideas of a here- after. Why talk of the sufferings of Christ crucified, an event which took place thousands of years a0, who suffer untold agonies? Mr. Moody probably has at heart the sorrows and sufferings of tne world—the effects of intemperance, the disruption of homes, the trouble brought about from crime of every descrip- tion. He should deai directly with those issues, There were two leading methods of advocating religion—irom the outside and the inside, the work of the reformer and of the regenerator, Mr, Frothingham then went on to dilate upon the controlling imiluences of these methods. He decried advocacy of visionary ideas im religious teaching. ‘He would first go at the actual root of trouble, It was absurd to preach to the cold and hungry while making no effort to ameliorate their condition, That was not the plan of the reformer, Mr. Moody was nota re- former. He proceeded in the shape of a regenerator. He worked on the doctrine, “Give them anew heart and you give anew life.” It was the best plan if it was only properly conducted. Revivals could be carried on by good men and women going out into the world and impressing upon the heart some great and good thought—striking ithome and making them feel it. Let them preach of the beauty of God, his absolute justice, the Creator, preserver, constant benefactor, ‘whose goodness is boundless, watching the fall of the sparrow and the lite of every man and woman on earth, This was a perfectly simple doctrine to teach. Then they could preach that man was a human creature, not a beast or plant, but a being with @ spiritual existence. Suppose this was grandly presented to the world, would not the blood beyin to ungle im the veins aud the brain to feel a powerful induence at work? The lot of man- kind would then grow sweeter and sweeter. Suppose they were to preach that there was a close direct com- Taunion between man and God; that iniluences from above were continually coming down to us; that each who asks prey Feceives what he asks. Would not @ thrill of delight pass through the human soul? This was revival excivement, The philosophy of Messrs. Moody end Sankey was wrong. They taught! tional doctrine at all. They passed o the living issues of the day as the idle questions of idiots and tools, They bad but one thought, Christ; that He was the God-man, Even of Christ they did not speak from any enlarged standpomt, Why did they not take the Christ of the Gospel, the Christ of the great human heart, the Christ who embraces everybody in his arms, the Christ of the heroic soul, the Christ who preached so eloquently that every heart was touched. MR. MOODY'S VISION FIXED, Mr. Moody's eyes were fixed upon one single point in the life of Christ, His death, great signiticance in the death of Christ was in consequence of the mis- sion with which He bad been intrusted. His was @ sacrificial death. This was the grand point in the argu ment of the evangelista. They-wished to make their followers Christians through and through. They would be periectly gatistied if this was ed. | Eve thing else should be put aside in advocacy of this prin- concluded the Roman Catholi faith of the vile an them under the banner of the cross, If the two gentle- men sueceeded they were entitled to praise, but the efficacy of their work still remained to be demonstrated, THE ADVISORY COUNCIL. RESPONSES TO THE INVITATIONS TO ATTEND AND WHAT THEY BAYx. In order to ascertain the prospective number of attendants at the Advisory Council called by P!ymouth’ church, to meet in that church on the léth inst, a reporter of the Hzraup called on the Rev. S. B, Halli- day last evening for the statistics and other facts im connection therewith. Mr, Halliday, though fully en- gaged in his usual Sunday duties, went for his record of the latest returns and gave to the reporter the fol- Jowing:— Answers have been received from 151 churches, leaving twenty-one still to be heard from, Of the number of answers received 125 accept the invitation and promise to be present, Twenty-six churches have declined, about one-half of them giving as a reason for 80 doing the prevalence of a special religious awaken- ing among the people in their churches, making it, im their judgment, inexpedient for the pastors to be ab- sent Some four or five decline, being un- favorable to the council, and the remaining six or eight assign no reason whatever for de- clining. Every one of the New England States is to be represented, the Connecticut and Massachusetts delegations being very large, The Western and South- western States represented will be Ohio, Michigan, In~ diana, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri and Minnesota, In addition to the above there will be the anticipated representatives from New York, New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia Phe Plymouth congregation has made atple pro- vision for tue members of the Council, and the myunc- tion on the many who have voluntarily opened their houses to them is, that they shall not endeavor in any way to bias the minds of the counféillors, leaving thgm perfectly free to form their judgments on such matters as ay, be laid before them on the facts presented in official or regular torm. The Council, it is said, will be the largest ever held in such form, and those who have been most active in securing the Council are more than satisied with the prospect the statistics afford ofa very general representation of the Congregational de- nomination, NON-SYMPATHETIO COMMENTATORS. Among the Congregational churches other than Plymouth, the members of which, with one ex- tidinga, which should lighten tho hearts of | CePliom, aro, presumably | pot in fll ae. men rather than make them heavy. Nowadays | Qoc' changed greatly from what they expressed, men act as If the Gospel was bad tidings. “It is not. It | trough the reporter, in the Hrraib of Monday last They say—and particularly the Clinton avenue church members, those of the Church of the Pilgrims and of the Park Congregational church—that they are in no sense opposed to the gathering of the Advisory Coun- cil, as Prymouth church has chosen to call it. What they geuerally do object to is that the Council, as called, shall be looked upon as other than a gathering of Mr. Beecher’s friends or friends of Plymouth church, whose action is not binding upon even Plymouth church itself, nor upon any of the churches of the denomination’ other than Plymouth, whether represented in the couneil or not. In con: versation with Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, pastor of the Park Congregational church, the reporter learned that out of the past expressions of desire for a National Council there was declared to be a strong probability that such a council would grow out of the meeting of the Advisory Council, Not, however, as at all in an« tagonism with the Advisory Council, but simply be- cause of the seeming necessity for an authorized declaration concerning the government of and discf« line in the churches which shall stand hereafter ag Jongregational law in relation thereto, @fittaleer SUAS CHURCH DEDICATION. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Allendale” néar Paterson, J., recently built and presented to the congregation by Mr, 0. P. Archer, was yesterday dedicated to public worship. The services began af three P, M., and were conducted by Revs. George F. Dickinson, Jesse 8. Gilbert and B. M. Harcourt. COLUMBIA COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI A meeting of the Alumni of the Law School of Co lumbia College will be held at No. Great Jones street to-night. It is expected that the meeting will be the largest held for some years, as the terest centred in the Law School at this time is very great and may call for action on the part of the Alumni, _ % UNSER FRITZ Colonel Unbekannt, of the Eleventh regiment, has. Just received a letter from Berlin, addressed to him by. Herr Von Normann, the Chamberlain of the Crown Prince of Germany, thanking him and his regiment fos their offer to serve as an escort on the occasion of his expected visit to the Centennial Exhibition, which waa spoken of some time since. The Crown Prince has ex- presged himself to the effect that he would like to be. come aequainted with the American Union by a visit to this country, but time and circumstances will not permit him to avail himself of the opportunity offered: by the Centennial, GUNPOWDER ACCIDENT, The five year old son of Mr, Schenck, of Bayville, a day of two ago got possession of @ can containing a pound and a half of powder and set it upon a hot stove in the kitchen as a mark at which to shoot with his bow and arrow. In the room were his sister, aged seven, engaged in washing, and another child, about three years old, playingon the floor, Ina short time there was an explosion. The door was burst open an the girl was blown outside the building; the boy w: thrown down and very badly burned, and the kitchen was torn from the main house, would probal have fallen in upon the children but for a tree whicl supported it, The mother, who was in another room, hastened to the scene and strij the burning clothing. | from her boy, thus probably saving his life, anda neighbor who shortly afierward arrived extingnished the fire, which had already communicated with the woodwork, and thus saved the house, The boy's in- Juries are severe, and it is feared that he wili lose the | sight of one of his eyes, THE 0. A. U. AT WORK. | To-morrow a special election will be held in Newark, | N.J., to select a Sheriff to fill the unexpired term ofthe lateDavid J. Camfield. The candidates are John D. Harrison, republican, and W. H. Brown, democrat, The office is the most valuable, in point of fees, of any. in the State, and the fight will prove a desperate engagement. The campaign, so far, has been exceed, ingly bitter, and has shownto what an extent party feeling can be carried. Mr. Harrison has represented his ward in the Common Council to the satisfaction of | bis ‘constituents and with credit to himself. He has | been a successful manufacturer and amassed | fortune, which {s very largely relied. | upon to carry him through the struggle, His opponent, Mr. Brown, is @ young man and poor, Re served as chief engineer of the Newark Fire Depart- ment last year, and In that capacity gave such univer- sal satisfaction that when a change in the political complexion of the Common Council caused his removal from office business men and the officers of ore 5 , Ance companies, without regard to politi a a | petition for his retention, When coy ey came to | Dominate a candidate for Sheriff he seemed to be the | popular choice, and received the entire vote of the Con- | vention, with the exception of three vi on the first | ballot. The nomination is considered by bis opponents | £0 strong as to require peg! effort on their part to de- | operation of the 0. U. A. M. and cieties, The Nowark Evening Courier, edited by John | ¥. Foster, which 1s the organ of. eo OA rl mounts the embiem of the Order ove: name at the top of its editorial colw publishes | number of communications charging Mr. Brown's wife with being a Catholic, thus debarring him from bolaing | office, It is saia, on the otber band, that Mr. Harrison | isa membor of the 0. A. U., having received from John Y. Foster the same advice that he gave to Mr. | Blame, “that ho had better go in.” The repubhean ticket to-morrow will flourish the samo star that was finted on the ticket which carned Mr. Wilham HL irk into the State Senate last fall and which is as the emblem of the 0. A. U. LEGISLATION FOR THE PEOPLE. The movement to cripple the power of the Director at Large in Hudson county, N. J., has now taken ® practical shape. A bill is before the Legislature which not only probibits the assumption of extraordinary | powers, but strips him of the voto privilege, For the purposes of the act the counties are divided into threo | classes; first, thoso having more than four Assembly- men; Secovd, those having less than four and more than one; third, those having only one, Freeholders. aro to be elected in the fall and. to serve for aterm of two years, except the first Board, half of rbieh shall serve only one year. Half the Board shall be ciple, Inthe mythical book of the Acts of the Apos- | annually. A Director at Largo shall be chosen in tles was related that while Paul was peeing at | the counties, whoso compensation shall be $200 in thé Ephesus a aurber of his heaters came with their | first class, $200 in the secona and §100 in the third. books, pictures and works of art and barned them be- | The compensation for members shall not exceed $600 ¢ fore his eyes. The evangelist desired that everything | year. This bill will afford teliet to Hi else abould be destroyed except the doctrine of faith in | county, where tue office of director bas created Christ ‘hey asked us to abamlon the stady of | much troublq ,