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2 SEVENTH DAY, from Metropolitan Pulpits | Yesterday. & ho appem, sau waea Coe word OF God, if it is the | Word of God, ts brought into the argument, it becomes a most importaut factor of solution. A great many of us have a theology ofourown, We have built it up in our wanderings through many | years of life, we have made for ourselves, apparently, | 4 perfect structure, a philosophy of tife, and when we | go to the Bible we go with prejudice in our bearts. When distrust tg the normal action of our minds we are utterly unable to get hold of the whole truth, A grout many go to the Bible, not to Gad out what truth | is, but to corroborate or enforce what they have pre- SYENCE | viously devermined the truth to be. The only way find cut what God would have, us do away all our prejudices and all our pr lions and conceptions, make our Diank as possible; then’ when we Bible we may recerve our from the Spirit of God. Jesus puts it v forcibly when He says we ought to leave on csinto ‘of manhood and come | down to the simplicity of childhood, for then only can We receive the things from God w a it is Hie delight togive. The more childiike the more uesriy | wo are likely to approximute to the tolud of God, and | the more we put aside our own judgments and opin | Sermons Frethingham on Rev and Irrever The Plymouth Pastor's Idea of the King- dom of Heaven. nee study tho wo a loeaheselbcreeesanio fons the more Iikely’ Ws 0 prize tis book ond find TORT ’ pRAYR our way through the vurious mysteries of lite by the HEPWORTH ON PRAYER holp of the Ligst which this book alone cau throw upon them. — + U1 i turn to Philippians I fad this remarkable state- | ment Concerning the duty of prayer:—"Be careful for i of Svste , nothing, but th overything, by prayer and suppli- Want of System and Lack cation, "with thankegiving,' let your request bo | > Te now unto God, This is” the command. of Faith. ment of the Aimighty. Feel that you an | spousivle for wothing, tbat you are ‘m the bands | Of au Almighty Being, and in everything you do by the means of prayer and supplication, not forgetting to | | give thanks for what you have ulready received, let | Romanism a Danger Republic. to the | your requests be known unto God. And then, my | Geur friends, turn to Proverbs and flud this sentence concerning the attitude of the Almighty :—‘The sacri- fices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but the prayefs ‘of the upright are his delight” God's pleasure, then, is im granting our requ God looks down ind ation When you look up in supplication, God stroiches His strong buna down and lifts you up and saves you whenever your beart in all its urgency of Fequest goes Outto Him God and are ono in strength whenever you pour into His Wishes and fears and bopes and sorrows. This is one aspect from which to view God that is | n taken; this is an idea of the character of the | whieh is uot apt to be appreciated. Our | prayers are cold and heartless, and we are oppressed PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR. BEECHER ON THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN— THE WORDS OF CHRIST NOT TO BE INTER- PRETED LITERALLY. Members of the Council who showed their cards at | the doors of Plymouth church yesterday were admitted and provided with seats in preference to all others, but 80 dense*was the throng that surgod areund the build- ing and blocked up th , eagerly seeking admis- Sion, that delegates and pewholders found great difi- a F os ke brent pals wie pee 3 ‘i { we admit that the hairs of our beads are numbere: Galty tn reaching the’ It was only when @ | put jy 13 impossible to make this a practical and opera: gentleman mounted one of the gate posts, and, bran- | tive truth in our lives; and this is the barrier between dishing his cane, shouted hoarsely to the crowd to full | Godand us. We a re dare to take Him at His word, ‘ ‘ | Oh, if we could tecl that God bears our prayers, would kK, 3 patie attendance | u 3 back, th tthe police in attendance took the matter | wo’ no pour ous our voice in one lileiong song? We in hand and made a line through it. The people who | assent to this with our minds, but do not consess It were turned fro doors would have filled the house | with our hearts, ‘The prayer of the upright ts o again. Bef rmon Mr, Beecher announced that | care by. fe ce oe PAD SAS. Fe te ps “— Rey. Dr. Salter, of lowa, would preach for him in the F . ren, ih evening, that delegates to the Council) would ve fur- i he hall say, Here i am.” Why, brethren, this 13 | @ priceless privilege, God asks us to speak to Him, | hod F f nya || and lie answers us, that when we cry to Him in faith nishod with tie or the Hippodrome eveuing ser DWH BRA FMLMRG, ace Tan oR adl pn view by Mr. Halliday, and that Miss Clementine Lasar, #? ‘The apostie said, “Ask and you shall receive, the well known soprano of his chureh, would give “An | knock and it suall be opened unto you, seek and yo Evening of English Song” tn the lecture room next | Monday night for the Brooklyn Woman's Guild. Mr. Beecher choso for the text of his sermon the shal Sind." What is the doctrine of the Bible concerning our attitude ? Turn to Daniel—And 1 prayed unto the Lord my God and mado my confession, and said, Oh i ia avr sg | Lord, the great aud dreadfui God, we have sinned an thirty-third verse of the sixth chapter of Matthew's | commuted iniquity and dono wickedly; now, for the Gospel—"Bat seek yo Arst.the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto a iS a ” One ev ‘ ivi | We are to adit our dependence on Him every hour, you,” One of the evidences, he said, of the divinity | ou af Go is to hear us it ia to be because we confesd of the Saviour lies in the habit of mind which was | bofore’ Him freely the things we havedono. Perhaps manifested in speaking of men and mind; that whereas } tus ts,the hardest ordeal we have to pasa through. [t } Lord’s sake, forgive.” There is no Pharisee who-can bring his own seif-rightevusuess to the throne of God, d oluer teachers at other times havo spoken of men as | Is harder for us (o admit that we are less than pothing Measured by the feeling that we are (vo small for God to recog. As 9 nize, © at all | | zit they are, with aa oecasional poetical forelooking at | than to admit any other thing. by each what (hey might be, it was Christ's habit of mind to other we stand very well; but God measures us by the speak Of men a8 they are to be, of tho | spiritof Jesuy Christ, and then wo stand i Then ideal manhood, aud to adapt it to the state | bow@are our prayers to beanswered? For our sake? of things as they are. As it were, He had | Are We to plead liteandiovef Not atall “#or my Son's sake I will give it thee.” Let me look at (his matier from another standpoint, | T cannot expiain TH MODUS OPERANDI OP PRAYER. Itis a myetery to mo, and my most cunning logic cannot solve the problem; but I find it 16 not necessary to solve it. That is not the on!y mm, ry in which | be- Neve. How many people who have ¢ont telegrams from one part of the country to another have under- stood the chemical process gone through witht I take nol obe Ib ten thousand; and yet we have perfect contidence in the possibility’ of scuding the message, aud trom the nature of the answer you know the ques- tion was cent, aud the nature of the answer ts the standard by Which we measure our faith in the trans. belore Him the perfective condition of mibd, as one familiar with it, Living in a digher realm and inter. | preting it tomen, just as in every household the in- telligeut father talks to the children as to what they | sould be or do from the higher mauhood to which he bags attaindd and not trom the level of the ebild. tis out of is peculiarity that much obscurity springs in Word of Ged, for if you take the instructions of ‘ording to their iiteral tenor they will run reason and common sense. The very Sermon io Mount, Which is so much talked of and so littie otived, is ttselt an impossibility except in the ideal Ag Our poiitical system is, as society ts d, a8 men now are, 11 1s Impossible to ive with Out any Kind of foresight Or solicitude, It would slay enterprise, it would destroy manhood, { mizsion of (he message. And if we apply the same | + IT WOULD TURN THE WORLD TO BEGGARS. | rule to God we shall be satistied, “1 think, The Church lauded alms-giving above overy othor gf of | You say ir is . miracie ; 1 do Brace, aud the results have been such aSto make the | not care whether it is miracle or experiment uot desirable again. it has been tried, on the other haud, by political economy, and the Poor laws of England have come nearer.to destroying ber at Abe root than almostany other thing; and charity given Yo them that ask, taking away from them the responsi- bility of taking care of Uiemselves, as life now ts, would aestroy (he race for al! worth. But it you conceive tho | Saviour as standing with His eye upod buman vature perfected, speaking of things as they are to be and are growing to be, Mt becomes very aiflerent; and these declarations of the Saviour are not only true, but in a wider, far higher and more uobie sense than that in which we bave been accustomed to regard them. Now, it was 10 thie mood of mind we may not; if itis a fact thatts enough forme, What do you mean by nuiracle? Simply that you don’t understand | bow {t ts done, Perhaps to the angels it ts just as natural as for me to lift this book in obedience to my own volition, How docs my will act on my nerves and muscles? Why ts nut that a mystory t How um [to Judge of prayer? By trying the exper!- meut, Some of you have been ‘praying mon and women for many years; you Know no more about the philosophy of the service than the veriest child, and yet you believe tat, Why? Because you have’ per- formed the service und it has proved its own value, Oue peculiar thing about Mr, Moody 1s prayer. I nevor look ai thal man without breaking the commandment Suppose that our Saviour looked out upou she throngs that we ought not to covet. I do covet that man's that cawe after Him from towns and villages and (rom | heart—that man's (uth, You cannot account tor the couutry round about He saw how they were, In meetings in any other way. [t :3 oot the main, following one course—n eking’ to Joquence, Dui in his faith make themselves better off aud happier; Now ail round whundred of the best about Him was the friction and the (ret of lite, and He | ministers iu New York bang upon that man's said to them, “Why are ye chielly solicitous for these | UNGRAMMATICAL LAPS Things! Seek the kingdom of heaven and its rigbt- | and logical sentences with tears in their eyes and ecusness, and all these shall be added to you.” Now, | their hearts > 1t scems to meas If woen he if tuey had interpreted His words us the woman of Sa- | prays he jus yes in order to see God, and he marta did His utterance at the well they wauld have | Waiks to and every one of lis prayers ked that He should open the dovrs of this kingdom | fs like write (© you, beginning, “My atouce, It was in no such narrow spirit that He was ng “Yours always.” That is the euking, but in a spirit so broad, su large that we {itis the way it should be with most fail lo take in its tull scope and ton, u pray su long as It is earn- they did upon whose ears it fell See the result i Tay er (8 a8 good as any other; , the men who are working and planning, ter with Him, but heart does. Only CARRYING ON THN VAST WORK OF SOCIETY, and life wil! set itself cet. | diction doe: do not forget H not m 1, that te all, were to throw down thelr implements and seek right. to music: and when the time comes to walk through cousness, Will ships be launched, will mountams be | the vatley of thu shadow of death you will need 9 Iriend bored, will imines pour out treasures, will ali Kinds — to roly on want Ge rod "and the staf, made out of timplements spring into existe will the world really follow righteousness? That’ ta not the teaching of the Saviour, but simply this, as | under. Stand it, “The aim of your life i2 to supply the animal Mag, andeo long as men make the supply of their of tue wood of the cross, and then you ‘shall walk through the shadow itself, and say, “I foar no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy etal they comfort me" bodily wants the aim of their tives, and derive their | MASONIC HALL. controlling motives and maxims trom these external | } conditions, so long will mew groan.’ If men itive for | REVERENCE AND IRREVERENCE—SERMON BY | that which they bave in common with animals they REY. 0. B, FROTHINGHASE. | will live unhappily, if they hve for th have in common with God they wil! happy. Christ tells us (hut the kingdou t whieh they | ow strong and | There was the usual large attend: docs not come — yesterday morning at Masonic Halt men, and the |* saying that av Holy Ghort, made this explanation Mr. Beecher went on as itis usaally pursued is though tis very wrong in that way. ing ab fortune, not man hood; bappiness, not v ; ease, uot goodness vis generally true, be contended, that the wisdom which springs from this e nent ef nature ww better, even in shis world, for ali praciical affairs than tho wisdom which springs irom passion. The m he coutinued, shall inherit the ea Not very soon} ace at the services | Rev, 0. B. Froth. ingham discoursed on “Reverence and Irreverence. Reverence, he began, is the mother of religion. Do gone worship or none kuee! but dolts? Ig. norance 1s the mother of devotion. Must not devotion, then, be un:versal Ignorance belongs to the human | mind The quality of the devotiop will depead on the quality of the ignorance. Sweet, aspiring ignorance wil! show correspouding devotion A German philoso- | | pher, the Uke of whom there will not be a thousand ! | | not wrong 5 T take it; but they shall yeara bence, said, “Two things inspire me with Mr. Boecher went on to addresa “in a special manner | awe—the starry heavens and the eense of the delegates to the Council who were present. He moral accountability !o man. in there be warned those who might be located in obscure places, With perhaps a few niiners, farmers or mechanics for sheir congregations, not te long for large churches aad concetved two greater mysteries The majesty of the eternal is seen in both. We raise more questions than fasbiouabig societies, but to cultivate the feciing ex- | 1 wer je to @ Savage, but is , « ing ex ans :mple to vage, onened roa girder we answer. Tho universe i e.mple t ge, but Lord*! When a maiden, he & received a letter ; {60 4 sage who knows ail that is known! We feel our from her absent lover, ai within it a eimple driod forget-n he eld it up in rapture, for ib joke to ber a love that should never die So, said he, 1 ean lift up redeemed the poorest creature of Christ's weakness now moro (han ever beiore. New hght ts dawning upon us We have to waik with extremest circumspection not to shp off. Ignorance is mystery. teforo Him for a love token He wili know ik Ob, | Weare in tho dark more or loss, The evi! mind peo- work for Christ, aud not for yourselves The speaker att e feferred to the wucertainty of human lifo, warning his | Dies the dark bec hehe canine thet ah tras Feverend hearers that tuany of them were nearer home | Wful mind peoples the dark with angels. Why ts it than they know, for some of those present would cot | that primitive people have always worsnipped im Survive the present year. je dweit upon the tre | e *t feel Wmplacs weloome the faithful pastor will recelvg | ‘ress? Tle becaase there they mort feel the to the kingdom of heaven irom those souls redeemed adh gevrsteet pn ellen through bis preaching He spoke of those who were | The whispering breezes, the tal! trees, ticking of brought to Christ by him at ludianap : vs of r) gar panes, Logansport and Fort Wayn Torre Haute, | rack: 0 a dnd those whe insects, crackling of the leaves, the long vistas— a brought to Christin yet larger numbers by | ali these things reach the imagination and get bold of | poet eben Meg lange ng oe cloud Ss the fancy. Hew is tt when we stand by the dea A ui be, “shave gone ap bofore me. ab, tam | ricb, farm ler over many propie They ane gone few moments ago that forma was animate with a soul, bs Qud out ot the darkness | @nd the soul has now gone. How ts it when we sta these times, by tho grace of God. | lilt up my veston | by the newborn babe? A few momyents ago there was | and see tiem afar of. Hereavter I shall go up and en. | bet lite, and a new soul is bere. All this is enveloped tp | ter with them, and in thet bour what will the darkness | ® Cloud of mystery. Thero is an oid Jowish temple (hat aud troubles of this world seem! Oue taeh o: | bas not eeu cleaved for centuries from teag of erasing Will outmeasure the whole globo of earthiy ex | trom the roll the aame Jehovah You ¢anhot en n im Jesus C Mohammedan tempie without taking of your shoes githey aro waiting for no, Jospel, who have You enter a modern temple and you remove your hat here so succor me, let me rather de your denelactor. All this shows superstition Look at old cathe Let me rouse you up to that reward above all ovher re. | dtals whose ruins alone remai Standing in wards that await you. Do not let us reek the carnal them one ts profoundly impressed with the man. Let us sock the kingdor o! 1. | power of ration, And yet it t# sad to think that such @ noble gontiment should be debased inte | puersities, Some oug has said there are three kinds of | Teverence—one for Hint above us, one for that on the | level with ae amd one for that below us There are Shree irreverences we see in the world—the irreverence | of the sensualist, the low-lived, the degraded, the wul- loud mouthed, which we see at ncarly every cor- Ber of the street Such irreverent ones know mot what they say, They have never been taught to bend | the knee. Obsceuit: fanity are only phrases to them upmeaning. To another clase of irreverent ones | religion eeems only a poverty of beart eousness, and ict us bels Jow aud grow out of that” CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. ‘THE BIBLE DOCTRINE O¥ PRAYER—SERMON BY REY, MR. BEPWORTH. Mr. Hepworth preached to his Qock yesterday from the text, St, Luke, vill. 26—''Aud they came to bim db ‘oke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. shat all we peed wi) fol Religyous’| ople have much te account for for this irroligious | Se ey en Serene tO. eee ee piecrence The good round oath of the New Yorkeaty | the raging of -the water, and they ceased, | munis not halt so wicked as (he confession of somes”| and there was a calm." We have, in the instanco | What shall we say of the irreverence of tntellect? alluded to, an cxrnest prayer, and aivo its answer, | Such say that religion iw woll enough in ity way, that ehyret sort of polico force. that priests and pas- tors blind people; that Joeus & @ myth, and all that rring read hymoer with an emphasis; the ro. | vivatist reads them asa@ matter of business He sat with Charles Bradiaugh shortly before the tatter satled from thie country. The man did not expect to live. He looked on bis past, then thought of his wife and lit- Ue ones far away, and yet ho was tranquil; and he was | Brethren, if you will permit mo this morning. | would like to ask, What is Bible doctrine concerning this most mysterious duty and privilogo! 1 do not care to Aitempt to explain it philosophically. Undoubtedly 1 Gad myself anequai to the task; but I can find Out very easily what the Bible would have mo beileve hi ther Tut The | concerning it, aad, If I volieve in tho authority of the | Boag man can give a, fall, biography of God. | sacred Scriptercs, then I go to the Bible inthe same jo can tell why Joseph was sold; why Egyptians | Spirit and for” the fame purpose that a were = overwhel ocd) ‘a =the opt gas hy § Iawyer consults bis fibrary, When the enact= ious “weapon, ig. the bands of Sam- meak of the Legislature ia road = ace be con loll whe your fom died; why tis | respected by his porter, | God came internally in the darknoss and silence of the | thetr existence. The sermon wa: | ytold no frhin” | te reach Him finally. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBKUAKY w, 1876.—WITH Sailing craf was sunk on Sunday and all on board wero ' lort. He can tell what God is doing in this ctty and in Brooklyn. What shal! we think of such garrdlous | hess? Is there any reverenco in this? When a reve- lation comes !t comes like a beam of light. Revela- | tion is for sacred hours, Revelation ts the highest | mystery. It is said that the masses of the world must | have God presented thom in a familiar way. The merchant who toils all hic thoughts to his porter ts not It is not mght going about and telilng the masses of men that God is doing this and that, as though He wasa man, It destroys rever- evee, Look at the mysi 4 of prayer, Men can- | not ony every = da t is too august a thing, He who can say “Thy will be done,” | exbausts prayer. Think of the irreverenco of the ta- | ilkarity of using prayer as a means of asking God for a | : TIOKEE TO YHE CRLESTIAL VAST, or of asking God if He will not do this and that for 5,900 and 6,000 men, as if the All Good did not know What to do and would not do it in His own way. Look , at men’s views of the Bible. There may be vastly | more reverente for it in the man who seldom opens it | than in that man who datly thumbs it and dug ears it. | The book is for sacred hours. Thore is nothing sacred | in mumbling over its words to crowds of schooi children | in the morning. ‘Their thoughts are not upon its | words and teachings, but who shall be at the head or foot of the claes, ‘Yo my tind there can be no true re- | vival without first teaching reverence. Pursuing this | branch of his theme at some length, the discourse con- cluded with a siugularly graphic description of the | glory of the beaven of the bereafter. | TRINITY CHURCH. SERMON BY THE REV. MORGAN DIX ON O¥ SYSTEM AND LACK OF FAITH.” At Triuity church yosterday the forenoon services “WANT | | wore quite numerously attended, tho weather being such as to entice abroad even the most delicate. | Toward the close of the services the Rev. Dr. Dix preachod a short sermon from the text contained in | L Corinthians, tx,, 26, 27—"I therefore so run, not as | uncertainiy; so fight I, not as one that beateth tho | air: but I keop under my body, and bring it tnto sup- Jection; lest that by eny means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” THE SERMON, The greater, said the preacher, contains the less, 80 what an apostle feared might happen to plain men. To | avold such a disaster bodily discipline was neceszary, | ‘The figures of the text wore striking and familiar, | They came home to those towhom they were ad- | dressed. The runner in the race who became dazed | after the start might use ever so much effort, but if he | did not run to the goal directly he might | never win, So with tho fighter who beat the | air like the old crazed Spanish knight who | attaked the windmills, In this land of novelties among whose people there exists so little veneration | for the examples of the past, the basis of morals and religion ta in a very unsettled. condition, Religion it- self isever the same and life is ever a race or a com- | bat, More settled principles are tnerefore needed. | For tho contests we want clear heads and good weapons, In the great mass of our people these things are lack- ing, and emotion takes their place. The people act too | moch on impulso; they are nervously active, like butterfies. WANT OF SYSTEM. Tt should not be forgotten in all this nervous activity | that each of us has a fixed time to live and all bave | some power todo good. Men of moderate ability by principle and perseverance have accomplished much, while others of transcendent ability bave ouly left hore and there the traces of their geuius, and merely for | want of system. As it is with individuals so | js it with nations, The want of unity is the loss of power, whether we look at the family, the Church or | the State. In our day the spirit of partisanship takes | the place of staiesmanship. The peuple are the leaders Decause the battle of the day is merely for place or | | power, and not for principle, hence the ship drifts un- til we are reminded of the text lest it should become a | castaway. Among Christians there is dissonsion, One ys “‘Kehold here ig Christ,”’ another proclaims that He is elsewhere, Neither is there any system im ordinary life. How the changes of an hour upsot men, Take for examplo almsgiving. Tm that which most needs | eystem but few give with regularity, being moved ac- cording to momentary impulses. Blessed is the man who 1s syétematic in his charities, in his prayers and ip bis life, His faith is fixed and steady and hit fife proclaims ite power. ‘The lesson the text taught was a condemnation of erratic | movements and the misapptication “of — force There are enough rea! and dangerous foes to engage us without striking at the shadows of morbid fancy. All our evils may be traced to the body—to our perverso- ness in chosing to run by sight and not by faith. We should turn aside from the tempting sights, the strange aud diverting sounds of the world. Its hage distorts the truth, mixing friends and foes, angels and demons, | until we can scarcely tell which is which, To avoid evil we need @ foothold outside the world, the foot- hold of faith, that mervellous gift which God gives to — ' all who rightly seek it, so that we shall see Him with | the heart and desire Him in His righteousness more Whar all cleo, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, THE PARABLE OF THE SEED—-SERMON BY REV, FATHER ELLIOTT. Thero was a large attendance at the church of the | Paulist Fathers yesterday, tho long services being | marked throughout by all the solemnity and impres- | siveness charactoristic of the Roman Catholic Churca, | ‘These elements, moreover, were greatly enbunced by the grand Gregorian nrusic which accompanied the last mass, and which was faultlessly, rendered by @ well traimed assemblage of choristers. The Rov. Father Dwyer was the officiating clergyman, and at the termination of the first gospel the Rov, Father Biliovt preached an eloquent and foreible sermon, taking his text from St. Luke, viil., 4-16, which sot forth the para ble of the seed. The reverend gentleman gave a lucid explanation of | the gospel referred%o, The seed was the Word of God, | which came to us in two kinds of ways. In the Grst - piace {t came externally through the mouths of those | whom He had appointed to deliver it, The word of the | | Christian preacher authorized to deliver it was His Word. The Lord spoke whon the Gospel was announced from the Christian altar. The Word of God was in | every event of our tives. lt was God's Word | that was in the success of the business | man esking him to thank God for His" favors; the Word of God was in his failure, by which he was cast down to the earth in disappoint: | ment, and wastherefore bidden to divorce his heart | from the things of the earth and turn his thoughts to : those riches which would last forever. Tno Word of night when the sinner fooked {nto bis heart aud began to despise himself and reflected on his past life. It was | the sting of remorse when the sinner reviled himself, | and in this the Word of God spoke plainly. If the Word of God touched good soil it would bring forth good fruit. It was the same Word that created this universe out of nothing and whieh could have created a million worlds more beautiful than this, The Word of God, as , St. Paul said, was the essence of God H 3 | mnself, Ac. | on the advance of this powor as defined in the attitude | cording to the parable some o! the seed meationed in ' the Gospel fell by the wayside and the birds of the air | came and picked it up, which meant that the Word of | God fell upon those whose hearts were hardened by } » evil habits. The reverend gentleman finally alluded to the seed | which fell upon good ground and was productive of | good fruit; which was illustrative of the firm hold which the Word of God had in the hearts of those who | recognized and endeayored to carry out the object of ened to with pro- found attention, and had a decided eifect on the large | congregation, The services did pot terminate until one o'clock. ‘ ST. BERNARD'S R. C. CHURCH, SFRMON BY REV. FATHER SCHWEERE ON THE END FOR WHICH MAN WAS CREATED, AtSt Bernard’s charch in West Fourtcenth street, yesterday, Rev. Father Schweere preached before a large congregation. Father Schweere is one of aband of mis- sionary priests consisting of bimself and Fathers Damen, Massellis, Niederkorn and Putten, who are at present giving a mission at Transfiguration (Roman Catholic) church, in Brooklyn, Father Schweere took the toxt ofhis sermen from Luke, viii; M—“And that which fell among thorns are they who have heard and going ther way are choked with the cares and riches and’ pleasures of this life, and He sald that we are created not for this world, and our first duties are therefore due to God Hence we must make the cares and riches of thia life not our end, but the means to serve God. rirst, we must keep His commandments and make use of all the talents, all the graces, all the gifts we bave to serve the end of our creation—the salvation of our souls, ‘We must always remember that we are created for God, and we must use everything in this life only asa means It is not necessary that we shouh be always praying. Fach of ys bas a load of cares and troubles to bear in this life, OUR DAILY CARKS, We should daily olfer up these to God and He will re- ceive them as pleasing sacrifices. We must attend diligentiy to business and tho wants of our families, | When trouble comes upon us we must remember God permits it, and we should not murmar against His de- cree, But we may strive with all oor might under the blessing of God and with His ad, remembermg that all the acts of our lives are morcly a preparation for | the great bereafter. When in sickness or in pain let us Lear it patiently, and our sufferings, if accepted in | the rmght spirit, are the most effective prayer to the Almighty, Some of us unfortunately look upon the } kecumatation of the riches of this Iii the end of our existence. But never jet true Christians fo! that the goods or the obtaming of the goods of life should be made the means te serve the of our Creator and not the ead of our Dretiren, khere is pokhink 1 hide Lid oam malen | tng to their sense of justice. | the Protestant, the Calvinist, the Armenian, the Jew | or the intidel may sit down at the communion table in , Want truly happy, because happiness in this world ts nov the end for which we are created. We are created for God, and Our souls will never rest uutil we rest with Bam, FLEET STREET CHURCH. THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, 15 If HRATHEN OR CHRISTIAN?--SERMON oF IfEV. W. © STEELE. The evening services of the Fleet street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, were atiended by about 250 members of the ‘Order of United American Mechan- jes” and others, who wore attracted there by the an- | nouncement that the pastor, Rey. W. C. Steele, would preach to that Order upon the subject of government as affected by roligion. The reverend gentieman took for his text Proverbs, xiv., 34—‘Justice ©: aiteth a nation; but sin maketh nations miserable. Said God is not indifferent to the welfare of man, and He therefore declares a positive law with reference to His dealings with all nations, If a nation Is trao to SUPPLEMENT. | week and told him Cay J deen po ee Pon duty by it sung. ‘He trusted that every one then nt would at last be aroused and then and there rosolye to do some work for the Master, and not be compeiled at the last day to say that they bad noth:ng buf leaves to show for their lavors on earth. Tho singing was attentively listened to, Mr, Moody then read a portion of the third chapter of L. Corinthiaus, after which all sung “Work, for the Night is Coming.’ Mr, Moody presched an a oper sermon from the text, ‘They tbat be wise sbal! shine as the brightness of the firmament.’ He explained what tt was to shine, saying that it was not shining aa the pocts, the estach or 45 great astronomers, but He wants men to shine as John Banyan or as the woman who gave her two mites. You cannot shine so well and so effectually as by ge | souls to Christ, Every one of you can lead at | least one goul to Jesus. No man or woman 18 so des- picaple that he or sho cannot Induence one soul to the cause ofthe Ravionr. We mast have more personal work, We don't want you to come bere merely to hear | idle curiosity. Let us You don't need to He is going down the singing or to gratity an work, work while it 1s still day wait for au introduction to a sinner. | to perdition, so burry to save him—hurry to rescue His, laws, and honors and» obeys Him it will) inevitably receive the reward of rightcousn0ss; on the,other hand, will He assuredly punisi the uation which is unholy, The nation fs incapable of being puny ished as a body except in its aggregation of individaals, | so thet thoge who transgress divine law will be alllicted tu their individual capacity, The speaker, among other illustrations adduced to show the decay of nations which bad forgotten to glorify God, cited the case of the chil- dren of Israel, and said had the Jows continued faithful toGod there can bo but little doubt that Jerusalem would have been the capital of the world to-day. But their punishment has been great aud lasting for their unfaithfulness. Though the Jews in’'New York have money and iniluence sufficient to purchaso Palestino, 80, | @ man on the street in Chicago one alht, be said, and him from the gull he is about steppiug into, The speaker told several very@ouching stories, each of which » ed to carry great Weight with it, He accosted the man turned aud cursed hun verribly, Three months lator this same man came to his room at five o'clock in the morning and begged to be told what to do to be sayod, Ho was saved and the next Sabbath was teaching a class lia mission school, At tho conclusion. of the discourse Mr. Moody re- quested all who would endeavor to lead a soul to God to rise, whoronpon at least two-shirds of the entire audi- ence stood up. TUR AFTERNOON MEETING. Thonsands were turned away from the women's | Mr. Moody appealed with | meeting in the afternoon, | all the carveatvess of his nature to the mothers then yet they seem to be incapable of again univing as a na | Formulismn and the rejection of Christianity has always led to national disaster. Look at the con- dition of Spain to-day in verification of this fact. The relation of the State to the Church was next considered, and the reverend gentleman contended that the union of the two is distinctly forbidden from on. | the nature of the kingdom of Christ. Christ himself has said, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.” He traded not in the temporal, but In the spiritual armor. A union of Church and Stato is not ouly prohibited by the Word of God, but it is also contrary to the consti- tution of the United States of America, Tho former | situation of the different States showed the necessity of | such an exclusion. In somo States Episcopalians, in others Presbyterians, in others Quakers constituted the dominant sect, so that it was impossible that there should not arise political strife and joalousy on the subject of ecclesiastical ascendancy, The only security was i disputing the power of sects to control. Thus, then, has tho whole ower over the subject of religion hero been left to the Slate governments to be acted upon accord. And now the Catholic, the national council without an inquisition inte bis faith or worship, There had been a President who was an infidel; there has been a Chief Justice who was a _ Romun Catholic; all forms of belief had filled high places of trust under our glorious government, so that & man may believe whatever he pleases, provided that his belief does not interfere with the tree exercise of otver men’s belief, or What may be an injustice to the | State. The constitutions of the several States coincide with the national constitution, Any law respecting the establishment of a form of religion is forbidden. So is compulsory support in religious instruction, compulsory attendance on religious worship, restriction in the free exercise of any religion and festriction upon the expression of religious belief. Its chief principle is equality of human rights, [t haa been claimed that “equality in human rights’! was to | be found in infidelity, but that assertion had proved a woful failure in the Reign of Terror, when it was clearly defined and demonstrated that it is impossibie to found liberty on any otler basis than that o! Chris- tianity. Redemption by Christianity gave republican. ism its true power over humanity. Hi with illustrations amplifying "this assertion and showing the triumphs of God in every step of the faithful Republic. The legal recognitions of Christianity in the constitution of the United States are found in the oath which is admivistered to the President. Also in the section which provides that any act not signed by the President or returned within ten days afier its passage (Sundays excepted) shall become a law, The Senate and the House of Representatives have thoir chaplains, and so have the army and navy. The State laws forbid the keeping open of liquor stores and places of amusement on Sun- days, andthe Governor prociaims thanksgiving and fast days. To that extent Chriztianity is legally recog- nized, Mr, Steele dwelt upon the educational ques- tion with reference to the continuance of the Bible in the public schools, Intelligence and morality alike de- maudeé that the Bible should be retained, as through its influence alone could the masses be educated, failure of the late effort in Spain to eetab- lish a republic, was duc, he considered, to the of knowledge among the people, suine was applicable to the condition of France, which was lacking in a non-sectarian public school system, Phe greatest peril was to be feared {rem the pos- sibility of the union of Church and State. Rome clai that power of Church over State. “Wherever that wer hag been possessed, it has beep secured by our omish friends,’ remarked the speaker, and be read from extracts in illustration of the assertion, He con tended that an in{ailible Pope is no less infallible in po- litical than in apiritual affuirs, and concluded with a peroration patriotic and poetic upon tho greatness of the country at this era and -the necessity of maintain- ing Ler institutions intact. |DE KALB AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. THE PERILS TO BH AVOIDED—SERMON OF REY. 8. H, PLATT TO THE 0, U. A, M. ‘About 200 members of tho Brooklyn lodges of the Mystic Order of anti-Catholic citizens, who boast of being members of the ‘Order of United American Mechanics,” assembled, with others, last ovening tn the De Kalb avenue Mothodist Episcopal church, for tho purpose of hearing a discourse which the Order had requested Rev, 8. H, Plat to deliver. The text was chosen from II. | Chron The reverend gentleman began his dis- course by citing the title thereof—‘Our Country; its perils and its hopes considered.”” He contrasted its greatness with that of other nations and dwelt upon ita restless progressive mature, its natural resources, agricultural superiority and the richness of its mines of gold, silver, copper, tron, coal and other wealth of the earth in which the Continent abounds and its vast commercial facilities as afforded by the rivers, lakes, oceans and canals. He then considered the institutions for free instruction, the freedom of religious worship, the grandeur of the svstem of the open ballot in the selection of our public officers. THR PERILS TO BE AVOIORD Jay in the extension of corrupt politioal pfwer, in the election of bad men to difice, in bribery, the barteriag of principle for personal advancement in pol'tical office, in contract jobbery, by executive favoritism and ju: dicial complicity with crime. Another great national eri] was to be found in the prevaience of drunkenness, which ix widespread and is sapping tho foundation of every virtue. He read statistical tables in proof of this assertion. The next peril the speaker found in the revolutionary measures of anti-republican despotisin, whose aim {8 conquest and whose instinct is obedience to the Pope's mandates He dwelt icles, xiv., 1L of Catholics ou the school question and in recent legiae lative schomos, whieh latter are for their sole aggran- divement and not for the public welfare. This should story ig replete | The , Tho | | | | | | | | be guarded against. The speaker alleged that their » toneis are opposed to the spirit of our American insti- | tutions. To tbis had alway: it had been objected that Catholics 3 been found true to the Republic. So was the Southern oligarchy til) a distinct and direct issue | was mado by the government, then they showed their enmity. ~ ‘The country’s hope is bonest toil and the develop. ment of its vast material resources, which will in a few years cause business prosperity to roll like a tidal wave over the land and sweep off the existing businoss de- presston—hope in tho restoration and conservation of social virtue, beginning at home, running thro the schoo! and permeating all business reiations, There | was also hope to be entertained for the restoration of the old Puritanical principle of accountability, first to, God, for God reigned above Pope and above all men. gion hand in hand the victory would be great tn jus. tice, liberty and trath, and the roward would be aot here alone, but in the world to come. MOODY AND SANKEY. SERVICES AT THE HIPPODROME YESTERDAY. The'four separate services held at the Hippodrome yesterday were all largely attonded. The morning ser- vice, for Christian workers, beginning at eight o'clock, and concluding at a quarter to nine, waa participated in by from 4,000 to 5,000 people, very many of whom are teachers of classes in Sabbath schools The afternoon sérvi for women only, began at three o'clock and terminated at four, The large hall, on the Madison avenue front, was filled to its» utmost capacity, and every one present seomed to evince a deep interest in the proceedings. The meeting in the evening, from eight to nine o'clock, was for men only, and at the conclusion of this service amecting, made up exclusively of young men, was held in the Fourth avenue hall, lasting three-quarters of ap hour, At cach of these meetings a Jarge number arose for prayers or to testify their willingness and determination henceforth to work assiduously in Gad's vineyard THK MORNING SERVICK, ‘The morning or eight o'clock service was opened by singing “Joy to the World, the Lord is Come,” Previ- ous to the arrival of Messrs, Moody and Sankey the congregation sang she thirty-ffth and third hymos— the latter bong the universal favorite, ‘1 Need Thee Every Hour.’ Mr. Moody requested his colaborer, Mr. Sankey, to sing “Noth But Leaves.” Before complying with the be sa Mr. Sankey said ho was impelled to his because very four “Curiakiana ‘bad “come” bisn during"tho resent, urging them to take hold of the work in the Lord's vineyard, anything could be judged from the countenances of the good ladies as they came filing out oi the great building. TUE EVENING SERVICE The meoting in the evening was for men only, In fiftcon minutes after tho doore wore opened great hall was tilled. The twenty-ninth and eighty-seo- ond hymns were sung, aud Mr. Moody elected his text from Gonosis, til, Ho talked with all the earnesiness of bis nature to the fathers of erring sons and pointed cut to them their responsibility. Then be appeated to’ tho backslider and said:—God can snap the fetters that bind your poor heart to the worla. Only confess your sins, and Oh, bow glad your Father will be to receive you. You have not lost God's love. Ho loves you all the whtie, and He wi!l sever cease to love you, Then come back to Hin again, and what rejoicing thero will be in heaven. See what a warm welcomo the prodigal son received, Youfs will be as warm and-as boarty. Another ciass are those who are without God and hope. I contess we Christians are not all we shouid be. You can find a great many flaws m our character, but you can’t find any daw in’ the sharaciter of Jesus Christ. We don't want you to follow us, but we do want you to follow the Saviour. But where are you now? the future? Living im a land of sickness and death, you are not taking amy thought of the future, Just stop and think fora moment. Obl how your hearts are bard- | ‘The sorrows that twenty yenrs ago made woep and turn to God do ‘not affect you Your hoarte are getting to be like stones. You who are in the middle of life, will you not stop and think? Life only up a hilland then over and down the ot’ er sid What a solemn thing it ts to getat the top and look down, knowing that the descent must be made! Look- ening you Low, ing back over the road you have passed on your way up | you See yonder a stone marking the fast resting piace of a mother, ain, You promised to turn to Christ—live a purer life, Will you do it? And thon look down the road. Noné of us know how near the bottom we are. We know pot at what moment the grave will open and swallow us up. Are you ready to go before the great white throne? Think of it. ‘Think of eternity and how you aro to spend it if you do not take this question home to your heurts and ponder it. Will you epend that eternity in everlasting bliss with motlior and loved ones, or will you spend it with the outcasts in a lost world? Dear friends, do think of it, for when you have seriously pondered the question know you will give your hearts to Christ. [can’t tell you how my heart has been aching for this meeting, ids oannot bear to see so many souls go down to per- ition, At the conclusion of his discourse Mr. Moody re- quested ali who wished to be pr: for to rige and ro- main standing About 300 stoud up in response to this invitation, most of whom were gray-headod men who were on the road down the ill gf life An invitation Was next extended to the professed Christians who fecl the need of more grace to rise for prayers, aud in- gtanily 6,000 men left their chairs. Mr. Moody prayed long and earnestly, and then re- quested all who had risen tor prayers to go into the ““nquiry rooms.” “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,’ was sung tade, and the glorious old hymn never sounded more grandly than now. THE LAST SEBYICE. The young men's meeting in the Fourth avenue hall was an enthusiastic one, It began at uine o'clock, just after tho goneral service was over, and lasted until a quarter of ten After prayer by Mr. Moody, who inveked God's sweetest blessing upon thi hundreds of poor wanderers ip e inquiry u Toons, a young student from Princeton College told of the glorious work sot in motion at the college Uy Mf Moody and stil! going on. Loa class of 125, all thirteen have g.ven thei in all but fifty still outside the fold. What ts Known as an “overflow meeting’’—that is, a meetizg made up of those who could not get into the ; main hali—was beld tn the Fourth avenue hall during . the progress of the genoral meeting The room was filled to its utmost capacity. The Rev. Dr. Booth con ducted the services. ADVISORY OR NATIONAL WHAT THE CONGREGATIONALISTS HAVE TO SAY ON THE SUDJECT. During the visits of the Herato’s reporters to the Choreh of the Pilgrims, Dr. Storrs’; the Clinton ave- nue,, Vr, Budington's, and the Park Congregational, Rev. Matthew Hale Smith's, yesterday morning and evening, they found the members of these prominent churches of the Congregational denomination in Brook- lyn somewhat changed in tone regarding the usefulness of Plymouth’s Advisory Council; but the majority still hold tenaciously to a behef in the necessity for a national council for the satisfactory settlement of the questions now uniler cousidcration, and for the future governmont of the denomination in the United States. | It must be understood that the persons interviewed in the churches named were not the pastors, but those who could be considered as reprewanting the congres: tions in regard to Plymouth’s trouble. Among these there was no antagonistic expression to the proceed. ings of the Advisory Council, Among them the hope ig very generally cntertained that the Council will come to such results, or make such recommendations that the unbappy My th business may be remove out of sight. They feel, how » that’ the Council would have bad move iniluence bad there been more of the stroug men of the devomination present or had there been fewer of Mr. Hoecher’s avowed partivans on the judgment seat. And vet there is believed to boa strong conservative element shown to be pre which promises to make such a disposition of the case as will moet the approval generally of tait-ininded ion, The history of the ¢ shows, they claim, that no settlement can be hoped for, nor will the public mind be quict untyi al! ia told that can be told—until all speak who have anything vitalto say. In this connection there isa fecling which it is thoaght the pastors of two ofthe churches named would do well to cousid Mr. Henry C. Bowen make a caretu! note of They feel in all the charches named that there is nomad so groat, oO magnetic, so far above the common level, as to bo ableto dectine to come to the bar of public opinion when he is called) Andin consonance with that feel- ing they express regret—very avep regrot—that Ki Dr. Storrs and Rev. Dr. Budington decline to go defore the Council and tell all they know, even if only as a basis for a national couvell. They. further declared that it was imperative on M Bowen, a3 a member of Plymouth church, to give evi. dence when called upon to do so, and that he ought to be prepared to give direct testimony if be has any, and not confine himself to hearsay evidence, In short, it | was clearly felt yesterday among the members of theso ; churches that it was the duty of Drs. Storrs and Bud- be, pho and of Henry C. Bowen to go before the Coun- cil and make a frank statement of the reasons for tak- mg the position toward Piymouth's pastor which they have assumed. Had they done so and not béen prop- erly treated then the claim forthe need of a national council would be stronger than ever. A FREE CHRISTIANTY. A correspondent who give? his Impressions after bearing Moody and Sankey very pertynently asks:— Has not the time arrived for a free Christianity? A Christianity with creed only--Christ and Hi Keene Sy od A Christianity with spiritual Ife and power, for which hamanity ts yearning, and which will sweep the world victorious? What a future it would bring! THE NATIONAL GUARD, By & special order from the Headquarters of the First Division of the National Guard, a Board of Exam- iners has been appointed to examine and report upon the qualifications and fliness of ali persons elected as noncommissioned officers in the several organisations. ‘The Boara, consisting of Colonel Josiah Porter, acting Chict of Artillery; Major George W. Sauor, of the ‘Third Cavairy, and Major Henry Parker, will convone to enter upon its duties this evening at the rendez- vous, in West Thirteenth street, and sudsequently will hold regular sessions tor the transaction of business. STEALING A TRUNK. Ex-Corporation Counsel Deladeld Smith reported at the Central Oitice yesterday that a trank, belonging to his brother-in-law, George E. Fowler, containing $200 Pb of clothing, had been stolen byw Msheg con- Tolive hanna wes glaveh gestae ego uaa soeqeoled Dh recovering Hho propery “Tg poet gogebed, The mecting was a glorious one, if | What are your hopes for | Ob! do you not care to moet that mother ; th the utmost earnestness by the eutire multi. | uls (o Christ and there is | and | THE STREET CAR DISCUSSTON. REMARKABLE FINANCIAL E&BPORTS - FUNDED AND FLOATING DEBTS—OBLIGATIONS OF RAIIa ROAD COMPANIRS TO FURNISH SZATS—OPPO+ SITION TO LEGISLATIVE INTERFERENCE. At tho present moment it is an interesting: matter to ; look into the returns presented by city railroad com- | panies to the State Engineer respecting their financial condition, and to examine to what extent the earnings aiid cost of operating the lines enable them to meet the demande of the public for reagouadle accommodation while travelling on the cars. It will not be denied in any quarter that invostments in such enterprigos ara deemed of the safest and most remunerative dezcrip- tion or that such stocks command a decided premium | inthe market, There is, moreover, a certain kind of | hocus-pocus to be noticed in doctoring ap the balance shocts that must puzzle people of ordinary discriminas tion, such as showing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fynded and floating debts, upon which beavy inter. est ig represented to be’ paid, and for which any reason for their existence will be sought for in vain, Capital stock 1s subscribed for and paid in, according to reports, fully equal to the cost of construction, including road-bed, tron, cars, horses, lands, buildings, &¢, and thero etill seoma to have been debts contracted ucarly as much as the tofal outlay for laying down and stocking the roads, for which nothing can be shown. Take, for instance, the Dry Dock and East Broadway line, The capital stock subscribed and paid in is set down at $1,200,000, and the cost of constructing the read, with all its appur- tenances, $1,100,000, This would leavo a balance of $100,000 surpins capital Stock, but it seems that tho company acknowledges a debt of $700,000, while the trafic has always yielded large dividends to the sharo- holders. . These figures cortainly ‘require some kind of explanation, If putting the road in operation cost $1,100,000, what, it may be asked, has become of tha $500,000, which it is necessary to account for in order to make up the capital stock alleged to be paid in, ag well as the funded and flating debs? This de- scription of financial management is not confined to the Dry Dock and, East Broadway line. It seems to exist iu other city companies. The president of oue of the principal roads was asked to throw light on this subject ¢ could only account for i by supposin: that there were many het expenses connected wit the business outside the purchage of iron, horses, cars, | harness, buildings, &c., and which had to be met to | be giving out evidences of indebtedness upon which | seven per cent per annum has to be paid. . | | WILAT IS IMPOSSIBLE The railroad companies have given up the argument that their profits are so small that they cagnot run any more cars without loss, and if compelled to de so areduction of the wages of conductors and drivers must follow. It has been shown that without any marked reduction in dividends the service could be tn- proved so as to accotnmodate the pub'te—that 1s, to fur nish cach passenger witha seat. The pretence is now put forward that the thing is {mpossible, and that } people will, under any circumstances, avail themselves of the cars’ in travelling through the city, The com- | panies therefore Insist that as the public, accepting their statements 48 to the insurmountable diMiculties | in the way, are apparently coutent to be treated worse than cattic, then mattors should be allowed to continue asatpresebt, This, of course, would be a very sat factory solution of the dificulty as far as the companies are concerned, but it would also be a settlement of the matter entirely at variance with the engagements embraced in the grants aud charters that confer on them franchises of the greatest value, The street railroad corporations are bound in express terms and ' under spocifiod penalties to ran a sufficient number of \ their venioles to meet the requirements of public con- venience, and that passengers shall be furnished within those vehicles with proper accommodation. It will not be said that proper accommodation is afforded when three persons are forced to occupy the space intended for one; nor can it be questioned that under this sys- tem an inviting field is opened to organized bands of pickpockets to proy upon passengers, and of which full alvantage is taken, and that the system also tends di- rectly and unmistakably to the injury of bealth and ' morals. It is a great mistake to suppose that the street car companies are free to put on and. keep off | cars at their own good will. They are bound, as stated ' above, in the clearest terms to keep running number of their vehicles to meet the wants of public travel, and when they fail to do 80, as they now persist in doing, they violate their trust and rendor themeelyes liable to a forfeiture of their franchises, MBANS OF KMLIEE. A gentleman holding au !mporiunt position tn one of the-companies stated to a HekALD reporter that tt 1s out of their power to provide a suflicient number of cars to meet the prossure of travel moruing and even- tng. The matter of introducing a new description of vehicle to accommodate more passengers was sug- gested, but that idea, like all others baving in view the discharge of their obligations to the public, was considered impracticable, on the sole ground that they would involve expense and lessen dividends. The gentleman was frank, and, taking the ground that no more cars could be run, no matter how desirous the contpanies might be to meet the rements of their | agreementa with the city and State, he declared that no togislation could effect an impossibility. When” ‘told that tn cases of large excursion partics: requiriug conveyance cars wore easily found and oc abe Bi service in addition to the regular business of the tino, and that these vebicies are held for special and profitable uses while they should at certain hours every day be kept running, and that there was no inconvenience or stoppages When these large cara were passing over tho lines, sometimes carrytag han- ) dreds of people, and it was not reasonable to supposo that if now placed on the roads any dissatisfaction or delays would follow, while there could be no doubt that @ considerable amount of additional accommodation would be furnished, tnere were objections, im the way. Conductors and drivers could only bo. employed @ few hours each day, and horses would have fo be workea in the same manner. According to this gentleman there was no remody for overcrowd- Ing, and the best course, he*thought, was to let the matter alone. However, it is wel! to Dave it distinctly understood that the companies are openly and de- fiantly disregarding their agreements, and that it will be found when the Legislature acts in the manner tho circumstances require that what are sought to be now made out insuperable obstacles will vanish Into alr. Lot the no seat no fare bill be passed, and the publio will then see how soon they will be properly accom. modated, . re THE INJURIES TO A LADY ON A THIRD AVENUE CAR—SUITS COMMENCED FOR TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGES. Some two weoks since Mrs. Anne E. Cummins, whtio riding on a Third avenue ear, received serious injuries by being thrown into the street. The conductor also spoko insultingly and drove off the car, leaving her lying tn the middle of Third avenue. Details have al- ready appeared in the HxxaL, A suit has now been commenced against the Third Avenue Railroad Com- pany by Mrs, Cammins, The following is a copy of the ' complaint which has just been served:— To the Superior Court—Aone k. Cammins against the Third Aveaue Railroad Company:—Tho plainti al- leges—1. Thatat the time Leroinafter mentioned the delondants were and now are a corporation, duly imcor- poratod under tho laws o! the State of New York, and were the owners of acortain railroad known as ‘The Third Avenue Railroad,” with the tracks, cars and other appurteuances thereto belonging, and were common carriers of passengers thereupon, on the line between the places hereinafter mentioned, 2. That on or about the 4th day of February, 1376, the defendants reecived the plaintiff into ong of ‘their cars for the purpose of carrying her thercog aud upon said railroad as a passenger from the corver of Canal streat and the Bowery, in the city of New York, to Eighteenth | stroct, for the sum of five cents, paid by said plaintift to said defendants, 3, That the defendants, not regard- | ing duty, did not use ane care thereim; but, by the negligence and improper conduct of the said defendants and their servants, the plaintif, withoot negligence oa ber part, was violently thrown from said car was greatly bruised, mjured and ‘wounded, suffered great } Pain of mind and na aud necessarily meurred great | expenses for medical ‘services, &¢, to ber damage of $19,000, |” Whereforo tho plaintiff demands jadgmont against the defcndants for the sum of $10,000 besides the costs of this action, GEORG E GALLAGHER, No, 54 Wall atret, Attorney for Praatig. THREE CLASSES OF PASSENGERS. To THe Evrron ov tam HERaLd:— ‘The street cars of Now York carry three classes of passengers, all of whoin, strange as it may seom, are compelled to pay the same fare, whereas fares should be proportionate to the degree of misery suZered, Tho first class, most of whom sit in cach other's laps, stand on each other's toes, or suspend themselves by straps from tho rafters and Switz, like parrots, in tne air, receiving the benefit of trapeze practice without orte second clase are crowded into each other's om- braces on the rear cod, & surging mass Of miscrabie men. : > The third class work thoir way, serving as footmem and roustabouts They hand old women, baskets, bundies, babies. pups, kittens, Kc. jn and out, Wh the car for an inside to got oil thoy must all di mount, If itis an up grade thoy belp to give the car astart; ifa down grade thoy all give chase as the car rolls on, and a stern strugglo for a place ensues, which some fall by the tailsi¢e and “muss up the track,” Jor which they are severcly reprimanded by the conductor. About the time perches are again so- cure! by the romainder the paiatial vehicle again ~ pauses for @ passenger to alight, and the same scene is re-enacted to tho end of the retreshing journoy. OBSERVER. SUBURBAN VISITORS ON THR STREET CARS. To ro® Rotrorn-or tix Hexato:— AS any one will readily admit, we, who lve afty milos from the cliy, and who must visit it to do our shopping at intervals of Dut a few weeks, are forced by the very nature of the case to resort to the street cars in order to travel whilo going to the different stores, situated as they ore ot | IQONQINUER ON NINTH PAGEA »»