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THE WAY 10 HEAVEN. Popular Pastors. Pointing It Out to} Their Parishioners. ADVERSITY MAKES ANGELS. Life an Organ, in Which Troubles Are Harsh Notes. —_—_>—_—_ HOW TO PRODUCE HARMONY intial Strike Anxieties and Pleasures Together and | You Will Bring Porth Grand Music. ®T. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SERMON BY ‘FATHER KEAN, NEW YORK snerréyes ana ears are BB dead end deaf as those of the men I mention, We receive by nature from the hand of the Creator various gifts; the brain to think with, the heart to love with and the will to work our purposes, yet without we are educated to their use they areas if we possessed them not. We must ob- tain the Christ nature—Faith, Hope and Charity—and all of the virtues outgrowing from them before we can properly do the Master's work. We may have THE TURES THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES, but we must cultivate them, as wedo the brain iv other organ, to bring forth all their qualities and | powers, The things of the flesh are what we feel; the | other things are apprehended epiritually. A steamer may have au excellent engine, but it is useless without | Steam; a ship excellont sails, ‘but it cannot move with- | out wind; soa man needs not only the virtues named, bat also the seven gilts of the Holy Ghost to use them | Properly. The structure of the spiritual man 1s just as complicated as the structure of the natural man, Law | surrounds us from the outside, Jt says, “Thou shalt | not do’ and “Thou shalt do,’ but the tratts of godli- neés are within the heart. The holy apostles speak of love, joy, peace, goutleness, patience, long suffering, | meeknees, temperance and chastity, and all these are | mene by the Christian. They have a foretaste of eaven, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR, BEECHER ON THE USES OF ADVER- SITY—UUMAN LIFB COMPARED 10 THE BUILDING OF AN ORGAN “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity, for they soon shall be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb,” said Mr, Beecher yesterday, reading {rom the Thirty-seventh Psalm, and the suppressed mur- murs and significant glances that followed among his In the Cathedral at the half-past ten o’cloc! yesterday morning the Rey. Father Kearn cbrated high masa The edifice . was, as filled to its utmost capacity by a devout con- | gregation, The music was more than ordinarily | good and deserves especial mention. Rev. Father | | service | y col usual, | Kean preached, taking tor his subject the approach of | Lent, Before commenc.ng discourse the regula- tions for the observ ¢ read, and the fol- lowing letter from His Eminence the Cardinal Arch- | Sishop, announcing the extension of the jul and a | | lee commutation of the requirements :— Canninan’s Resipenon, New Yore, Feb, 23, 1876. Rey, Dean sik—You are respecttuliy requested by His Eminence a Archbishop to announce 10 your congres that the term of the jubilee is pro- | y within the octave | of the longed in this a f the four char to three, making twelve visits in condition of the jubilee, Permission is hereby granted to all confessors'in this diocese to. commute this cond | tion into otber works of piety or charity, in cases | where ibed number of Visits cannot be msde. | It isto be borne in mind that the indulgence of tke fubilee cannot t ned more than one By order of ence the Card JOHN M. FAR THE SERMON Father Kean then read the last portion of the eigh- teenth chapter of St. Luke, relating the incident of our | Saviour restoring the sight of the blind man who im- | portuned Him by the wayside. ‘How appropriate to | the different seasons of the ecclesiastical your are the | selections of sacred Scripture which the Church makes | uction, Weare now on the eve of Lent, | | | j | | | selected that portion cf Holy Writ where the Lord declares the time is at hand when He must suffer; and later on tn the chapter we Und the story of | the healing of the blind may. Tho application will be seen when we consider the nature of tho season of Lent, Lont is but a season of preparation tor the holy wees which follows it, for for forty days we are to con- template the terrible humiliation and suffering of the Son of God, which Was necessary for our eternal salva | tion, He tells His apostles that the time is fast ap- proaching when the Son of Man must suffer aud dic. | The work of the crucifixion was the most terrible tragedy ever perpetrated, but it was deemed necessary, for everyibing depen upon its consummation. Had not Christ died on the cross our lot would indeod be a miserable one. And during this season set apart by the Churet itis our duty coustantly to rettect on the aw- | ful consequences of sin and bow dearly Jesus must have loved us, The Apostles at this time did not understand in reality what Christ meant, ‘They saw in Him all the elements of a good man and they also saw how power- ful He was over the forces of nature und how physical diseases were cured simply by a word from His lips, and they could not conceive of any one being cruel enough to kilt Him. They could not catch tho meaning of His being spat upon and scoffed at and crucified. So to-day, there are a great many people who are like the apostles in spicitual blindness; but, uulike the man by the wayside, they do not ery to Christ for light. The Temembrance of Christ's suiferings shoald awaken in our hearts bo:h gratiinde and sorrow, Gratitude at the | Godlike sacrifice; sorrow for our multitude of sin The Church asks us to join in the tears shed over t bleeding bedy of her spouse, And, in order to awaken grief she 18, in a cortain sense, for a time COVERED WITH SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. | 1 All the beaw tar decorations are covered as it were with a veil. The Church also asks, nay commands, gand 80 that We may unite our sufferings, cant though they be, with the agony of the 8. This is the idea of the Chureh in this scason of Lent. >proaching jore for tasting ; hot as a piety, but on accou ly 4 eeason for pray ‘orrow for sin. her Kean said essential r that the example of the blind man should be followed in pleading with God; and that in order to be successtul it was necessary to pray with faith, with perseverance, and with ener, The forty hours’ devotion will be commenced at the Cathedral on next Sun¢ MASONIC TEMPLE. “RIGHTS AND DUTIES’—SERMON BY MR. O, B. FROTHINGHAM, ‘The morning services held yesterday morning at the Masonic Temple drew together a moderately numerous congregation, Mr. 0. B. Frothingham delivered the sermon, choosing for his subject, “Rights and Duties.” He said:—The word “rights” is one of the greatest of this generation. It is one of the keynotes of time. It isin all mouths, It isin ali literature, The newspapers use it Books and magazines uso it, There are Tights social, individual rights, public rights, personal rights of property, and so on. The word ‘rights? with another, viz, ‘individual.’ js one of the rights ization. Every mind forms its own opimon ws ig Wn conclusions. Every heart is free to obey its own instinct. Every soul must worship in its y, of notat all, In the Old World individualty 1; bere it is recognized to its fullest extent. It bears, however, a different interpretation. Instead of being the beginning of a new order it is the end of an oldone. It is the tapering off of an old system which itself was evil in times gone by. ‘Rights,’’ instead of being the rallying cry of the fature, is simply the wail of the past. The one central idea pervading the world is God. God represents perfection, absolute truth and goodness, What is the idea of God that bas always pre- vailed? It is the idea that God is a sovereign. He reigns over all. He i above all supreme with all other creatures at His fect. Hisis an eternal the absolute person, superior to all dea comes to Christendom from the Old here we find distinguishing explanations of Jehovah. These representatiuns of the sovereignty of God in the Bible are due simply to the fact that the Jews wero contending against foes on al! sides, and Je- hovah was their chief. Under His banner they marched; under his oriflamme they fought. There was an undertone of sweetness running through the idea | of the Old Testament, the sovereign idea that God is an individual person, a being doing what be will, with | bo “rights”? to question, TAXING THE WORLD; & being who moves irresistibly on without asking Jeave from any one. He directs the moving of nations about on the chess board of history ag the chess player moves is pawns in the game. He levies taxes ‘on the world, and has ordained his priests as his vice- regents, who are sacred individuals. In the straggie for “right,” the people become ungenerous; they lose their sentiment of brotherhood. As Foon as they ob- tain their rights they do not acknowiodge their duties, Dut discard them, {p no instance in the history of the world do | find any class of people that, after securing their rights, have been found to respect the rights of other It would seem when all have ob- tained their*rights they have no duties to perforin, Rights and duties are considered tar separated from each other; but what aro rights and duties? The ques- tion has only two sides. My duties are your rights, my rightsare your duties. All je aro obliged to render to others certain things. We are all living and striving together with common aims, and we must work together, The way to carn rights is to make people willing to give them. The world has always granted rights, and will always do 0, to those who have | garced them, ST. IGNATIUS’ CHURCH. SELMON BY REY. DR. EWER—FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY. Yesterday morning in St Ignatius church a fine Rev. Fer- germon was proached by the pastor, @inand Ewer, from Revelation, xxi, 2—‘In the Midst of the street of it and on either side ot the river was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits,” &c, Few people are aware how narrow the dividing line now is between the ser- ‘Vices as conducted in the above temple of worship and that of the Roman Catholic Church. The painted altar, | Durning candies, intoning of prayers, singing of the acolytes and all the forms of the Catholic service aro | imitated in this high ritualistic church, After the musical fervice and the offering of the sacrament Dr, Ewer preached {rom the above text, saying: — THY SERMOR, The Califorpia Indian is so debased that he has Jooked upon the towering crags of the Sierra Nevada for centurics with an eye dead, dali and lustreless, with an ear dead to tho roaring of the mighty cataracts, ith only the intelligence of the beaver and the bear, Shame Tm. ahaine Wo many Cathale Christians that | upon each individual through life. \ control over matter and who has instituted government | ward thought of a man; if the mark of growth is to be | people gave evidence that the application of the words was not lost upon them. In the absence of the regular | organist, Brother Horatio C. King, who is one of the | finest amateur musicians in the State, presided at the instrument. ‘“Spobr’s anthem, “As Pants the Hart,” was rendered finely by Miss Clementine Lagar, The officers.of the church occupied themselves before the services in distributing tickets of admission to the business meeting on Wednesday evening to members of the church only, in accordance with the resolution passed on Friday night, to prevent strangers from filling the room to the exclusion of members, THE SERMON. Tho toxt of Mr. Beecher’s discourse was the fifth, sixth and seventh verses of the drst epistle of Peter— Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,” &c. Here, said the preacher, is recognized in full feature that experience through which all men that have striven to be more and more manly have had to pass. It is true that now and then men are found—and in very quit ages and in sheltered circumstances not a few—who pass from youth to manhood without special agitation, cither within orwithout, Sequestered they are, But taking the world collectively, judging by the experience of men that now live, or by the records of the experience of the best and ablest men that have lived, the passage from unwrought boyhood to perfected manhood is one full of channels, sand bars and rocks, with many storms overhead, much exposure, much trial, so that it would séem as if being born was only the dream of birth; as if the four-score years and ten were Jabor pains, and a man was only then born when he died, and all the creation groaning and travailing in pain, Now the apostle says that in these experiences and as a part of it, there are great joys and rejotcing—dells, as 1t were, sunshiny, pleasant, delightful to find and to dwell in, yet neverthless alter- pating with sharp and rugged experienees—“Who aro kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed im the last time.” That is this which ehall be made apparent | in the fulmess of His glory and bette in the day of consummation, when everything shall have been per- fected. “Wherein ye greatiy rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through mani- teinptations.”” | It, on the whole, is an ongoing ex- ience of joyousness; still, interjected upon it are pm | Constant occasions of sadness, of drearinoss, of suffer- ing. They are intermittent, As the day rolls into light and then again into darkness, so joy and sorrow alternate And then He says that this trial of them saith, though it may seem to thei to be surplusage—Ho says that the trial of their faith is a blessing; that it bas the same relation to faith | that fire has to metals that are locked up im dross— dead and worthless—until by fire they are molten and brought out, and then they are usable and vaiuable; 80 that faith is, as it were, the product of the furnace. It is that which is lett over when, by various trials, the body has been subdued and passion has been gubdued and faith js left dominant Let us look a lite, then, at the trial of men’s faith. The race has been brought up to believe that there is a personal God who is accessible and comprehonsible enough to justify the offering of prayer and affection, To this is added that {tas aGod who has supreme over mind, each being governed by appropriate influ- ficulties of time? May you not find through the ages Adirect tendency to exalt and carry up men toward righteousness and so carry them forward to an ulti- mate disclosure of Joy and peace 4 COMPARISON. The preacher here compared life as a whole to the bujld:ng of an organ in which every key is ¢ producing one little note, and ich Jittle by little each stop is brought into accord with its neighbors. The amount of groaning and screeching and whining and driving up and down required in tl process be- fore the whole noble instrament 1s completed and brought into tone was almost incredible, the whole creation, he said, bas groaned until now. You are pot the whole it You are a singlo pipe in ono stock in a multitude You are to be tuned, each one in himself; then you are to be tuned with each other and then with thestate, and tho State with the neighboring State, and the globe is yet to be touched by the hand of God and every pipe in the vast fay 18 to sound jn sweetness, in beautifal voice and in absolute harmony with every other voice, We are in that process of upbuilding now. 0 ye un- born men; 0 ye that are crying in inbor pains; 0 ye who groan, you groan in concert with the whole crca- tion, Oh, do uot lose faith in yourselves or in the minis- trations ofa Divine Providence that in its root and heart is love. Do not Jose your faith that all which is inexplicable and obscure to you Is so only becanso you are so small and undeveloped, and leads to the joy, the rest and everlasting salvation which Christ came to make known and into which by faith He will bring you. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. REPEMPTION—SERMON BY REY. DR. LORIMER, OF BOSTON. The Church of the Disciples had a larger attendance yesterday morning than it has had for many weeks. Mr. Hepworth bad exchanged with Rey. Dr, Lorimer, ‘wor shall around the inepte ties Ht Stan ahh font of the Lamb to praise forever and ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. SERMON BY THE REY. DR. M'GLYNN—THE LENTEN SEASON. At this church yesterday a large congregation was in attendance, The altars had ante-pendiums of a pur- ple color, As usual, the singing by the choir was ex- cellent, the solos being rendered with spirit and feel- ing. Rossi’s mass in D minor was the selection, Im- mediately before the sermon Bellini’a “Ven! Creator” was given. At the offertory ono of Danforth’s com- positions came as a pleasant sequence after the solemn warnings of the sermon. In the afternoon the ser- vice of the vespers was Mercadante’s, with “Ave Regina’’ by Corrati and “Tantum Ergo’ by Assiolt, THE SERMON, | The mass was celebrated by the Rev. Dr. Curran, the sermon being preached by the pastor, Rev. Dr. MoGlynn, The preacher delivered a most instructive discourse on the observance of Lent, exhorting his parishioners to avail themselves of this time, vot only to approach the sacraments within the period pro- scribed, but, in accordance with the spirit of the penitential season, to deny themselves many ordinary pleasures, and above all not to indulge in intemperance of any sort. After explaining the pas- tora! jetter of the Cardinal, and giving sapreeeee to some thoughts on the Lenten season, be showed how necessary it was that we should co- with God’s will in our own regard; how essential it was that we on our part should prove by good works our desire to save our souls and todo all 1b our power to carry out the of Tremont Temple, Boston. Dr. Lorimer preached a very. brilliant sermon, and one entirely out of the or- dinary run of sermons, and also one that evinced an immense amount of careful thought and study of the subject. After the usual preliminary seryices Dr. Lorimer said:—I invite your attention to a sirange text, but a practical subject—Revelation, iv., 6, 7, 8— “And oefore the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal, and in the midst of the throne and round avout the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and bebind, And the first beast was like a lion, the second beast like a calf, the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle, And the four beasts had cach of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyos within, and they rest not day and night, saying, ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is and is to come.’”” plan of our salvation which had been dictated to us by Christ Himself, It was idle for us to go on believing and hoping in cternal reward while we not only were at war with God, but knew that wo were sinners con- tinuing to live in sin, neither resolved upon penance and reconciliation nor upon the life of harmony with God's law, that as a consequence should follow. We needed 10 piowse God by faith with good works, and as this season’ «was preparatory =o the great festival of the year when the son of God was honored as the triumphant victim for man’s salvation, when faith in Him could scarcely have been avoided, the teachings He left us should now be putin practice and the good works imculeated by Him be performed, 10 order that we co-vperate with His mission for our redemption, BKLF-DESIAL. Self-denial was imposed by the Church at this season that it might serv @ penance as well as recall us to a contemnlation of subjects which concern immedi- ately our immortal souls. Especially would he (the preacher) recommend utter abstinence during Lent This language in part describes the creatures seen by Ezekiel in the first chapter of his prophecy, and spoken of in sacred writings as cherubim. They were first introduced guarding the tree of life with A FLAMING SWORD, Afterward@oses is directed to cast two molten figures called cherubim, represented as bending over the ark of the testament. The figures were likewise woven in the veils hanging in the tabernacle, and in Solomon’s Templo were two colossal cherubim upon the banners of Isracl The four Greck banners were likewise images of the cherubim, And jn the first part of the Psalms of David altuston js made to the cherubim, The Prophet Ezekiel represents them as having wheels re- volving within wheels and carrying In these great wheels complete cycles, And in Revelation Jobn teils us that these sacred creatures are prostrate before the throne, crying, Honor and glory unto him that sitteth on the throne, It is evident from these passages and others that the cherubim were the servants and miristers of God; that their office scemed to be to watch and guard, They wore designed for a protection and a shield; hence their flaming sword with which they guard the river of lite. Muclr perplexity has been engendered by this complexity of symbolism, and there has Leon much controversy. The presence of these things. implies that they are intelligent existences designed to teach us important truths. Jt has been supposed by some writers that these four things represent the evangelists, Dut that Idea has no foundation. The true meaning of all this symbohem, unless I am mistaken, all centres in the Church of Christ under the New Testament economy and ia designed to show forth its character and wotks, The appearance of the cheru- bim at the garden gate is the proplisoy of the coming Church. What Ezekiel saw was the prophecy of the coming Church. What John saw in Revelation is the Church, its work finished and appearing in this man- ner {o Indieate the nature of the work effected. In reading the Bible we cannot but be impressed with the fact that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has a great mission in the world. Thero be many views entertained as to the peculiar character of this work, ‘Dut as to its boing of an important nature no one can deny. The Roman Catholics take one stand, and think that only by their Church can men be saved Others, going to the other extreme, say that the Church is | caly ornamental, where they may be entertained by delightful music and the charms of delightful oratory. ‘They see no practical use at all. They have no idea of | ences and both so that they accomplish definite pur- | poses and foreseen results, ‘Yhat is to say, in the mind | of God creation is vot an experiment. I can imagine a | Faraday sitting alone in his laboratory and by fire | and by reagents, by galvanic and electric influences, | watching the conduct of metals or of gases, seeing what they will do if combined or if they are put under | euch and such regimen, exploring and finding bis way. We are not to understand that God bas created, this | world and that He is watching an experiment to see what such and such an Influence wil do from some na- ture of their own of which He is not advised, The n is upon @ voyage, but it Js not upon a voyage very. A# IS THE SPARROW TO THE EAGLE, The moment wo attempt to moasure the extent or the forethought of God.we are like a sparrow attempt. ing to tollow the flight of an eagle—we are not dig enough, It is a part of the Divine plan that we who beheve in the Word of God are also instructed that obedience to the law shall bring prosperity and disobe- adversity. In other words, that there is inherent in the nature of things such a quality of rightness and wrongness under | given circumstinces and conditions that he who acts rightly shail find it to bis account to do so and he that acts wrongly shall be withstood. Now, to hold that theory 1s not very easy. Itis very easy to hold it | if porsons do not think about it; if persons do not com- | pare facts with principles; if people do not study and philosophize im thetr rude way upon Unis matter. To say that uprightness is profitable would seem to be in the tace of facts and to be unjust. Men tell us that the | law of the world is force; that adjustments are acci- | dental; that there is no evidence of a Providence that favors We good and distavors the bad; that good men since the world began have borne the sins of their ago and nation; that from the earliest days of the worla the most notable instances have shown that the rule | would be the other way.” Men find their faith in such a being and its outworking tricd continually. Wo | find not only im the writings of Byronic poets but even | in those of Solomon himself a murmur of scepticism, | Tt is the more seositive and thoughtfal natures that | are open to this feeling. There are some men who never have any doubt; they do not have any trouble with conscience; they bave not any. They are hap- pily constituted animale, with enough thought | and feoling to make their’ animal existence robust, rubicund and roaring. That is all they seem to live for. They have no trouble, Well, just below them aud With still less trouble is the pig; he has still fewer troubles. And below him and with still fewer troubles isthe worm, whose whole life is a mere rouitiplex | squirm, And below that is the stone, and that bas not a bit of trouble. But begin at zero—at nothing—and ‘AS You go up troubles multiply, and there is a good reasou for it. It ts easy In arithmetic to make vith one or two figures, but multiply the figur difficyity comes in. If men slept all their liv woull bo little trouble; but they live, and trouble | grows; for the great round world bas millions of men, each one making bis path along, and they must necer | sarily collide, Such ts human life. I don't undertake | | | to tell you what theology says about haman hfe; this ig what observation tells you about it Now, ‘when men take these doctrines inculeated by the Bible and gO Out into the world, evidently it does not seem to | ‘them that they can possibly be true. j AN ILLUSTRATION, Mr. Beecher illustrated this point by instancing two | fami one of whom had two children who give promise of great blessing, while the other family had a half dozen who wero being brought up candidates for the State Prison, A plague came and the only two children of virtuous parents fell victims to ft, while the brood of iniquity was spared, The parents who had lost their ¢ ures would naturally say, “Can any one form a conception of a father who would doinis thing’? Well, L will read a little far- ther:—‘Therefore pride compasseth them about as a ebain; violence covereth them asa garment. Behold these are the ungodly who prosper. in the world; they inerease in riches. Verily 1 have cleansed my heart in vain and washod my hands in innocency, For all day long I have been plagued and chastened every morn- ing.’ (Seventy-third psalm.) Can you find a watl out of your own heart deeper than this? And it has been at one time or other the feeling of almost every sensi- | tive heart. But he was sorry for and asbamed of the feeling afterward. First, let me see how he got out of it, and then I will get you out of it. “When! thought | to know this it was too painful for me”? Now, that | would not mean merely going to meeting, bat “until I come into that higher life—that which is the revelation of God's sanctuary, Betore | had reasoning by watch- tag and feeling this end, but 1 did not seo the other Now, in regard to oursetves, What is it that men are seeking in this world? Is it merely worldly pleasure and wealth and strength as the jnstruments of pro- ducing this pleasure? Tf that be the end of map, then T join th If in this life only we have yd we are of all men most miserable at tim But if alue of troubles in our physical nature are according to what they will do to our unphysical nature ; if the computation of wealth Is the riches it gives to thé in- found in the soul character, then we have a new test We are put {nto this world for the sake of evolving from ciroumstances and surroundings a spiritual na- | ture, Weare to build in every ono of us this germl- nant, angelic nature, ond all lite ts but a school for that purposes The effect of prosperity or adversity Is to be measured on the one eide or the other by what it does for this angel nature of a man, and a wan may be apparently overruled outwardly aud palofully iu thls hfe, and yet it may be for bis good. Suppose that this great world ie interjected into these gerins and that these germa are to be carried opward and onward by the other influences, and all of them Prarie tan end—namely, to litt the individual i scale of man- hood—may You not Gud im this the solution of the dif | steer between these two extremes, and perhaps you | line, that the Church was instituted by Christ, And it * charity and deeper honest, | faces indicate to us that they are spiritual qualities | | which Christ has designed for the Caurch to embody, | | we see the poor widow defending her family from ignor- | that wins its batt in garrets and ceilars and gains no the Church commensurate with the importance attached to her in the New Testament, and here are the two great difficulties, Men are trying to exaggerate the Church and substitate her for Christ, and others are trying to so underestimate the Chureh that you cannot assign any good reason for her existence. IT bave selected this passage that I may will study up this subject—the Church and her posi tion Tn reaemption—and TI shall show, following this has been instituted by Yim, if for anything, to embody the grace of redemption He has instituted for fallen man, A Lord to the world, a8 a Saviour not preached, however, as the ultimate end, but that in this life those who know Christ shall differ from the world; | shall have purity and teousness, have a larger | have a broader manhood and a nobier womantood, breathing hopes: of an ever- lasting life, a life that rests in God’s power. | Now our Saviour, in speaking of the world and of the | Church, discriminates between them. The Church of | Christ is not this denomination or that denomina- | | | | | tion, Jt is. all very well for you to hold your particular views ‘earnestly and "consistently. A man without convictions is a jelly sort of aman; but we must go beyond such narrow bounds and compre- bend the great truth that Chriet’s Church is one, You notice the cherndim have four faces; the Hebrow lexi- | con tells us the faces denote spiritual qualities. The as the fruitage of her redemption, From time immemorial the lion has been an emblem of courage: itis thus applied to the Saviour, “the | Hon of the tribe of Judah.” Our Lord's courage was conspicuous; He never boasted, but when con- fronted his 'encmics He did s0 calmly. nover | swerved from the path of duty, and ‘equally con. | spicnous ought this quality to be in all of His disciples, The Church of Christ ought never to know fear, Moral courage is THE ROOT VIRTCR of her existence and her hfe. Unless she possesses moral courage bow can she grapple with the evils of the world? How can she measure their weakness with her strength if she has not courage? Often tn the his- tory of a man, as, by the way, tn the history of your own pastor, a light fails on the mind. Shall he hide it? Shalihe bury ttdeep? Shail he go on preaching that which ho does not and cannot believe? Shall he trifle with this thing, or shall he be honcst and let the truth shine forth? You know how your pastor acted. You know that having received his convictions from God he | spoke them, andevery man who had an clement of Lonor in hit has honored him from that day to this, whether they believed as he did or not, because he was courageous, Courage is needful; wo ‘may need it to | defend. We live in an age that is destructive and we have broken down so much that sometimes it seems as if we bave only the fragments of a past civilization about us. Some things need to be defende1, and in an age when two-thirds of tue human family are BENT ON DESTROYING ancient institutions and undermining ancient. laws, and people think that nothing that 1s old can be good, it requires some stamina to stand up and maintain that some of the old things aro desirable for the in- coming generation. Courage is needed, How often do ce and want? Ob, the heroism that you will find, 1 you will but opens ar eyer to eee it! Itis the heroism crown but the diadem that God places upon the heroic brow, whether that brow glistens before the eye of the multitude or is pale in obscurity. But here we have the face of an ox. One of our great missionary s0- | cieties has a motto representing an ox standing bee tween an altar anda plough, and the motto ta, “Ready for Either’—ready tor sacrifice and ready for the plough, The position of this ox represents every human creature; that poor dumb it is the quintescence of patience, Christ intended that the Church should di y it Achurch that is hot- | headed and quarrelsome is not the church that Christ wants. There is great power in baving the abibty to wait. Patience and perseverance are absolutely neces- sary to our work. ‘e live ata rapid rate, So it isin | our churches to a very great extent—people are impa- tient. You have a plodding minister, who ts building up the church siowly. The people say, ‘We don’t want him; we want a brilliant man who will make a stir and a sweep,” and they often do make a sweep and some- times they sweep & choreh out of existence, Laughter.) Some people want a new GOSPEL ADAPTED TO MODERN TIMES, You cannot have it. The Gospel is adaptod by God to humanity, and when we nh to tamper with God's Word we do it at our peril. ¢ don't want new things, ‘Dut trae things, God wants the old things, bat to have them glisten bright and fresh with the genius of His oo When there wasa fall of aman the human © eX sympathy, and Christ imtended that the Church should garner up the sympathy needful for the human family. Lastly, the fall of an eagle. While the Church should | possess moral courage and great pationce and sympa- Uby, there is stilt another element, The je the princet birds, living very largely a life above this world of ours, and’ olteatimes he soarg up above tho | storms into the clear air, with his eye fixed steadfastly | pon the sun, The idea suggested is of a life above the world, or, in other words, a spiritual life. Christ has ° heaven to us, and if we are His Christians, heaven bas been open to our souls, and we live in heaven though our bodies ve on carth, You will find med make their own world largely. Whatever a man’s mind and opinion is, he thinks the whote world is like | bm. 0 loved, if you bave Christ in your beart, | ours is Pspiritual life, and heaven ts about everybody. | pray you to study these things, and roalze that you | proj are set apart in the world to forward the mission of re- demotion. and d by. when we have periormed our | marks. spo! , fro! | good Master the Sal ellen th posal je to et from intoxicating drink, which was the ruin 80 many; which was a cause leading {0 most heinous crimes and which was transmitted iv {ts pernicious ef- fects trom parent to child, its banetulness being most deploravle im all its forms. Who could tell how much Wi Jost that might be gamed; how great the desolation that existed; how’ wide- spread the anguish and the miseries were on account of this vice! As in past years, he pow invited the congregation to take the pledge against all intoxt- cating liquors, ie had reason to believe that a large number of bis parisbioners had in former years fol- lowed his advice In this regard with great advantage to themselves, and he hoped this year fora simiiar result. In concluding the preacher addressed some touching words to the congregation as to* bis own responstbill- ties as the pastor of their souls and the obligations he incurred before God by greata burden; but he trusted that for their own sakes as well as for his the people of lis parish would render this great buruen lighter by taking to themselves the Churchi's invitation to approach the sacraments during this season, and that when those who were now wandering away were again recelved into the Shepherd's care they would re- main within the fold to the end. THE NAVY YARD CHAPEL, A NEW CHURCH FOR THE BLUE JACKETS OPENED YESTERDAY. There were religious services of a very interesting character at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday after- poon in the new building on Cob Dock, cloge to the Colorado. There were several prominent clergymen present, among them the Rev, Dr. Inglis, of the Dutch church in Brooklyn; Dr. Hall, Secretary of the Sea- man’s Friend Society; Rev. Hyatt Smith, Mr. Haines, Mr. Burke, Mrs. Knapp, @ choir of boys and some dozens of ladies and gentlemen. The building In which these persona gathered is two stories high and 80 by G0 fect in size. On tho firs’ floor are the guard room, cells, bathroom, barber shop and washroom, On the second floor is the chapel or, more properly speaking, the reception room, which is 60 by 30 feet, It is fitted up with platform, pulpit and parlor organs, and adjoins the library, @ spacious room on the eastern side of the building. The place is heated b two large boilers, which were erected mainly throu, if the instrumentality of Commodore Snufeldi, late of the navy yard, and wow Chief of the Bureau of Equip- ment and’ Recruiting, Washington, D. C. Access to the Cob Dock was obtained by means of a steam ferry launch, whieh plied between the main yard and the pier on which the chapel stood. Well dressed marine: and sailors were in attendance, and escortea the lad and clergymen to the opposite shore, The chapel, at two o'clock, was already well filled, in the centre by “piue jackets? and marines and on the left by ladies and gentiemen. The ushers wore warrant officers, and & marino, with overcoat, waist belt and cap on, stood as orderly at the library door. in front of the pulpit Was occupied by the clergymen before named and the chotr of boys, under the leader- ship of Mrs. Knapp. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Inglis, and opened with prayer. THE SERVICES After reading the Scripture, Dr. Inglis, ina few re- f the advantages to de derived from the possession of such a place as this, and enlarged upon others who had been instrumental in eae ls After the boy choir had sung one of their pretty hymns he called upon Dr. Hall to speak to the sailors. That gen- ‘tleman said that this building was only a just tribute to sailors by the government in a direction in which it {s not supposed to have any particular considcration. Ho then went on to speak of the advantages of Chri tian culture to be bad in that building, aud also the great acquisition, to the ranks of Gos- pel workers a convérted sailor became. He referred to tho romiso made by Christ to His followers, whom He found as lowly fishermen, that He would make them fishors of men. He had often thought that sailors became like the apostics of old, as hearty and earnest fishers of men. Dr. Hall continued his brief address, which he opty illustrated by means of pointed little stories. Dr. Hall was succeeded by Rev. Dr. Engleshaw, who briefly commended the es- tablishment of this reception room. While the choir was singing several ladies and gentlemen came in and one of the ushers requested some of the sailors to get up and give them theirchairs. The lads did so, but felt 80 conspicuous standing in the aisle that they quietly crept out of the room after a fow moments. There Wero short addresses by may clergymen and laymen, among them those of Dr. Haines, f. D. Williams an Messrs. Burke and Williams, But that which seemed to ‘The space immediately the thoughtfulness of Commodore Shufeldt and all | is followers; and how many poor peo- ‘are there not to-day wno sigh for something to do? it the Lord gives a noble and dist ished occupa- tion for the faithful to perform; a r not always easy, for that which is eary of attainment is always cheap and little appreciated. Men would not celebrate THE BIRTUDAY OF WASUINGTON if he had sought quietude and an easy life. They cele- brate his memory because Me grappled with we that were difficult to achieve, undertakings whic seemed almost insurmountable. The disciples stood in great need of being guided by the band of Jesus. They were common meu. It was necessary that they should be so, for had they been strong-minded men and of great character the world would have attrib- wer the success of Christianity to the force of their geniu: Th eloquent preacher concluded his moving perora- tion by an appeal for those within bis bearing to re- ceive words of Christ in their minds and His image in their hearts, BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. YOUNG WOMEN ADVISED AS TO THEIR PROPER SPHERE OF CHRISTIAN DUTY—SERMON BY REY. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, The Tabernacle was thronged yestqrday by an atten- tive congregation. Rey. T, De Witt Talmage resumed the thread of a series of discourses addressed to women, taking for his text the words, “How have I hated In- stroction and my heart despised reproof.”’ (Proverbs v.,12) In this world, the speaker said, women are 10 Jarge majority. They outnumber us in the family, in the Church andin the State, In Massachusetts they have 70,000 majority. In the State of New York they have 14),000. They ought to be preached to, They decide eternal destinies. They adorn or bjast the do- mestic circle. They help or they hinder the State, Where there is one sermon preached to men there ought tobe two sermons preached to women, The trouble is that for the most part religious counsel comes too late, Let the young women of this genera- tion be evangelized, and the world's redemption is «done. Literature will be right The laws, the Church, the State will be right, Failing here we fail everywhere, The character and position of women decide the character and position of the State, Suppose a young woman makes her home unhappy. So surely as the years roll around, that home tn which you now dweil will become extinct, Jn that day it will be too late to correct all mistakes, and there will be nothing left for you but bitter lamep- tation, Now is the timo to atiend tothe ha of home. Timo is fying very quickly away, Daughters should ask their parents’ counsel, and seek their prayers, and after lovg years have passed and you 4o to see the grave where they sleep, you will find grow- ing all over the mound something holier than the cy- ress, sweeter than the rose, chaster than the lily—the Bright and beautiful memories of fliilal kindness per- formed ere the dying hand dropped on you a benodic- tion, and you closed the lids over the weary eyes ‘of the worn out pilgrim, Itis a good time for a young woman when she is in her father's house. Suppose a young woman spends her whole life or wastes her Young womanhood in selfish display, Worldliness aud frivolity may seom to do very well while the lustre is in the eye and the flush is in the cheek and the gracefulness is in the gait; but when years and trouble have clipped off those embellishments what a hfe to think of. Oh! Ifthere is nothing to remember Dut flowers that are faded, and splendid apparel that ts worn out, and brilliant groups that are scattered! Bel- shazzar’s feast is full of sport until the tankards are upset and the enemy marches, in and nothing is left but torn garlands and the slush of the wine cup and the rind of despoiled fruit, and fright and terror and wou When the trinkets are all gone, WHAN THE GAY PRET HAVE HALTED, when the rovel is done—whatthen ? I go into her dying room, There are lace faus to cool her cheeks, gorgoous upholstery to shield ber eyes and a godless group to look down on the scone, but no pleasant memory of the past, no hopeful consideration of the fature, She worshipped her own eye, or cheek, or wardrobe, and her god hascast her off. Like Queen Elizabeth in ber last hour, she withers on the couch and clutches at the air and cries “A kingdom for an hour!’ In the theatre it is the tragedy first and the farce afterward, but that young woman has reversed the order of her li It is the farce of a useless existence, followed by the tragedy of a lost eternity, The actress asked, in her closing moments, that ail her jowels might be brought that had been presented to her by foreign courts, and as they were brought in the casket and with her dying hand she turned over the diamonds, she eatd, “0! you dear jewels; what a pity it is that I have to part with you 80 soov,"’ The pieasures of this world are a poor Batisfaction to us in the Jast hour. The opportunity for doing good should not be wasted by ayoung woman. Thero 13 no age when a woman can accomplish so much for Christ, I belieye, as be- tween sixteen and twenty-five. 1 would to God that all the young women of this congregation might rise up in soul to-day and py “O, Lord! here I am for time and for eternity. If there is anything m my arm, in my looks, in my soul, in my vivacity—it is all Thine, and Thine for ever.”” A young woman should not omit her opportunity of Personal salvation, How strange it. is that there are So many intelligent women who will trample under foot the Jewels of their immortal souls and travel on in darkness and 10 sin, when GOD'S CHARIOTS ARE HARNESSED to wheel them up the King’s highway No cross, no Christ, no God, Opportunity gone 19 gone forever. Privileges wasted, wasted forever. The soul lost, lost forever. This is the year, the month, the day, tho hour, the minute, in which you ought to take Christ as your personal Saviour. He died for you on the -cross and Is forgiving and gentle to all who will accept His grace, Away with your money. His grace is free. I offer it to all the people here to-day. Other embellish- mente fade, other music will hush, other grandeur will wither. You cannot with your frail arm beat your | way through the trials of life, “Your heart ts not iron, your perves are not brass, your brow is not adamant O! when the storm comes, when the lights go out, when @ messenger from the otber world stands in your room and says, “This hour you must be off,” and you stand on the brink of the great sea without helm or j pilot or compass, will you then, do you tbink, with your weak arms amid the thunder and the dark- ness be able to pull to the other bh. If you at last eaven will 1 be to bDiame? No! 1 offer you full and free sal- jon through Christ. O! mothers, wives, sis B suittbe neutical part of the audience best was the | brief, pleasant addross of the Rev, Hyatt Smith, of Williamsburg, who by happy exercise of a keen knowl- edge of human nature touched a chord of sympathy in the hearts of the sailors. They are queer people and do not look at things with the eyes of a landsman, Rey. Mr. Smith knew this, and, while carefully avoid- ing all attempt at nautical ilfastration, succeeded in | spect to the memory of distinguished dead have been y ters, daughters, the charms of the home circle, choose | with Ruth the Christian choice and say with hor, “Thy | people shall be my people, thy God shall be my God; where thou dieet will J die, and there will I be buried.” I want you in the last day to be among the groat sisterhood of the clect. | When the mountains are fall- ing I want you to stand firm. What a day that will be for the Christian woman—her kingdom come, her robes listening in the light of an unsetting sun. ave a coronation, and reign queen forever, erend gentleman then told an ancedote descriptive of the death of a Christian young woman, and in concla- 8100 hoped that those to whom bis discourse was di- roctod might meet with such a happy end, and realizo | te fruition of a faithful life in the happiness of eter. nity. THE STAGE AND THE PULPIT. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN AND REV. HORACE BUSH- NELL—REV. ©, A, BARTOL'S MEMORIAL SER- MON. Bosron, Feb. 27, 1876. Few more thoughtfal and eloquent tributes of re | uttered than were comprisea ina sermon preached in conveying wlolesoine homo truths to the minds of his | hearers. The scrvices lasted until four P. M. and will be repeated every Sunday hereafter. Books are much needed in the library, FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SERMON BY DR. HALL. The Fifth avenue Presbyterian church was filled yos- terday morning to its utmost capacity by a fashion- ablo and attentive congregation) who listened with much earnestness to an eloquent sermon which was delivered by the Rev, Dr. John Hall, pastor of that church. Dr. Hall took his text from the Gospel according to St. Matthew, xix., 27, in these words—‘Then an- swered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have for- saken all and followed thee; what shall we have there. fore?” ‘The question of Peter arose from a particular ante- cedont; he putthe interrogation to our Lord after | hearing what Jesus had said tothe rich young man, | and said to him, ‘If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments.” Alter telling the young man how he ould guide his life, Jesus added that would bo perfect the young man must Hall that he had, “end thou,sbalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me."’ The anewer which Christ gave to the young man caused him to go away sorrowlul, “for he had great possessions.” Thus, it | Christ treated the young man upun his own ground, | ‘was shown how Ce mre it is for sinners to approach | Christ; for under His influence they would become converied, and the evil one might lose his prey. ‘And T would not,” said the preacher, “advise any young man in this house to do the same thing, because THERE 18 DANGER IN IT,” When Peter heard Christ say that it was so diMcult fora rich man to enter’ heaven, he said, | historical discourse; he pablished many pamphlets and “Lord, we | have abandoned all and foliowed you.” Christ, who | treated His discpiles as children, said to Peter, “Yo which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shail sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the tweive bogs of Israel.” the disciples did not understand all that Christ said to them; they knew that this which he said meant something good and desirable, but they did not then comprehend the whole of Christ’s meaning Christ also treated His disciples ag irienda—and there {8 no friend in this world like unto Christ; He is the good Master, who will do _évery(bing for His servants, The poor man in our own day strug gies to give his son a good education, proud when he can say a, son has been in the disciples and C! @n education which fits them to enter into that mansion not made with hands, Some of you may baye bonds | of the Ligaen five jatd away for enjoyment; but Pen poses an iepcone may pass away from the earth and leave bebind ihe munty papers on which vour hearts were set. On the ovher Christ gave You will be associated with me in | ingdom of ligut, erected by the Holy Ghost, The | this city to-day by Rev. Dr. Bartol on the late Char- lotte Cushman, the eminent tragedienne, and Rev, Horace Bushnell, tho distinguished Connecticut di- vine, who dicd a few days since, The church was thoroughly filled, and among those present were many Members of the profession so long honored by the late Miss Cushman, THE SERMON. “Diversities of gifts, but the same spirit.”’—I. Cor. inthians, xil.,4 The artist’s risks are Increased wh: he tries to put two heads on one canvas; and it may seem rash to portray such persons as Horace Bushneil and Charlotte Cushman inasingle discourse, Firat, Jooking at the dissimilarities, one was aman, the other awoman. Mostly men herotofore have been drawr in this rbetorical pen and ink. Masculine berocs have been the subjects of how much masculine praise; not because feminine accomplishments have been quite | despised, but modestly exhibited in the family and un- | der the roof, The great tragedienne was cosmopolitan. The necessities of her profession made her a travelier. The circumstances of her life and biography were open aud manifold, so ¢: eral view that fer croati jarly in appearance known; her features, the illumina- tion of go many a stage, sculptured and photograpned; her companionship aud nance not only all over the United States, but mm ind, Italy aod France, although I believe in w jatver country she de- clined opportunities of theatrical fame. But Dr. Bushnell, although for his pre-eminent powors unavoidabty celébrated and unable to shun e: tensive notice, lived comparatively obscure. He joui neyed for health to Minnesota, California, and once across the Atlantic, He gave an occasional oration or books; he was active in securing 4 boautifal common and other privilegos to the town where he resided; but in one short, quiet road be mainly went to and fro, be- tween his study and his pulpit, in the little city of Hartford, or to houses in his parish where lay the sick or the dead, or in which sorrow craved comfort or doubt relief, Thecyes of the great world were little fixed on his habits and daily career. The most stubvora Cree, in tbe Church has been and still is against ‘he stage and all ite properties and scenery, dressing and dancing, dramatre dialozue or operatic The orchestra, (o the saint, with all its pipes and drums and bassoons an: has been demon! open eyed and :200n-faced ng crowd before the curtain on the broad way to ction, the fre- quented portion of the theatre pit. : other tn a other illegitimate; one sacred and the other sacrilege? Tt depends notou ‘lc avocations, but the motive of both, and the way either is pursued. They are alike ue f expression; why need they be rival arte? hat do (hey equally propose to express but the trath of human life, as ite imme! many-colored panorama js unrolled through the by an Almighty hand? | “As tn a mirror” is the English of tho Latid phrase | | Commissioner of Public Works, Gencral which my wondori eh: eyes Grst beheld printed overthe oouighis, Pre bold, as sid the mairier up to navare; to show virtue hor own scorn herewn will algo act, or “answer my parv” of the in expownding my views of human fortunes diving Say not I advise aught unchristian or unwise! What is the repeated exhortation, ag to the utmdst sublimity of effort or achievement man ts of, but this:— “Pat yeon the Lord Jesus Christ!" Cicero has been called “the mocking bird of eloquence,’? because he bag appropriated the exquisite traits of all other orators td limself, So must we sprees and project all tl moral graces and virtues, and we can doit only through this native faculty by puritans so scorned as mimetid and denounced as irreligious. Indeed, wherever 1s any lively and effective demonstration, of language or ges ture, to impress and quicken men with the image of truth, impulse to devotion or stimulus of any worth, this incimation sses the private person to multi+ ply himself with the riches of hus race, into the mem« bers of the community, and be or share by generosity tho whole society to which he belongs. Such dignity has the natural propeusity to widen our being by putt ting others on. Though, then, Charlotte Cushman was ap actor and Horace Bushnell a reacher, | believe thr both, with whatever diversity of method and degree, cul tivated this art capacity, an Seaped the proper truié to nourish others and themeelyes. 1 muintain, ip principle, the heavenly grace and human strength were doubtless fused together in the actor and preacher of whom I speak; and the stage, I think, should be more proud of the ‘conduct than even of the unmatched achievement of its American queen and pattern in every way. Was aught lett for her of the hag in Meg Mersilies, reduced froin Scott's “Guy nity or ol horror in Dickens’s Nancy in “Oliver Twist??? The im- personator of these parts was clean and sweet, in per- fect balance, without one gaping defect or eccentrid fault. A born princess, she was native to command. A wave of influence, as froma magnetic battery to @ company holding hands, swept from her and laid ow the thousands in the assembly she acted or road to » hushing spell. She had what the French histori Nisard, attributes to Cwsar—charm. It was mol grandeur, in and through the artist's gilt « ‘What majesty is in her gait? Remember If e’er thou luok'dst on majesty. In my two illustrations to-day—pulpit and stage— actor and preacher, Charlotte Cushman and Horaco Busbnell—the power was as manifest us the skill, Both had like, not only in their mode of communication, the circle of beauty; but in the substance of demeanor, the indomitable and rectilinear will. The circle wass0 large, 11 Was the right line of heaven and earth; and to preachers and actors 1 commend them as models which to copy is equally blessed and safe, WASTING WATER. equity. HOW WATER I8 ALLOWED 10 RUN IN THE FERRY HOUSES—SEVEN FERRIES WASTING 4) QUARTER OF A MILLION GALLONS DAILY— WHERE ARE THE WATER POLICE? While it is generally understood that the water sunp- ply, as at present regulated, js, and has been for some time, totally inadequate to the needs of the population or the demand that may be made upon it at any time, tm case of a large fire, yet much might be done toward hus- banding the water which is now brought into the dif-, ferent reservoirs. Tho pressure, too, might be thereby, increased if some check, either by the use of meters or other means, could be placed upon the waste which is constantly going on in almost every building in the city. The Croton water officials have long been aware that there is every day a large quantity of water allowed to run into the sewers and rivers, and yet no very strenuous efforts aro made on their part to remedy the evil, That the necessities of tho city re- quire additional facilities for the bringing of more water to the city has for a long period been a recognized fact. To accomplish this, as has already been pointed out by the Heratp, a new aqueduct will bave to be Pallas also a new reservoir. This would naturally be a work of time, but in the meanwhile much might be done toward increasing the service of the present sup- ly if more conservative policy were tnau, rurated. n fact the quantity now brought in by the presont conduit might be made, with good and Judictous management, to serve all the requirements of the people until the ‘new routes are completed, and considerably increase the efficiency of the Fire De; ment’s service if the Inspectors of the Water Board would perform their duties eficiently and sec to it that a stop is placed on the enormous leakage now occur- rin ng WHERE ARB THE WATER POLICE? ‘There 1s attached to the Croton Water Department a body of mon known ns the Water Police, whose duty 1¢ is to ‘ol the city and discover every building where a wilrul waste of water is goages and allowed to con- tinue, It seems, however, that these officials aro but indifferently performing their duty, to say the least, even if they are not — entircly neglecting it In case of the ‘discovery of any waste these officers should report the fact to the bead of the department, and it is within his prov- {nce to enforee the law and so prevent a continuance ofthe evil. This, however, appears not to be the prac- tl whether from connivance with the offending parties or from unwillingness to properly perform the duties of their office. Did the Water Poliee honestly do their work they would find a sufficiently large num- ber of cases where water is allowed to run away as to make a material difference in the supply were this leakage stopped. A visit to the majority of the bar- rooms, hotels, breweries, manufactories and other large buildings would show a state of alfairs entirely unwarranted by the needs and uirements of the businesses therein carried on. But the OUTRAGKOUS WASTE OF WATER which is hourly going on in the various ferry beuses om both sides of the river {s something startling. No pre- tence even is made to either hide.or prevent it, and un- Jess the inspectors, who are sup} to visit these. places, are totally blind, they could not fail to note the: enormous wastage that is going on. A HeRaLp re- porter visited thirteen of these ferry houses yesterday, ‘and im seven out of the thirteen found water running from a three-quarter !nch pipe in the waiting rooms for drinking purposes which was allowed to tow off into the rivers. None of these pipes were provided with « faucets or avy visible means by which the stream could be checked. In fact no attempt 18 even made to do and night and day, yearin and year out, the water {s allowed to drain into the rivers. From one of these pipes alone it is calculated at a low eati- mate that over 10,500,000 gallons of water is annually allowed to run to waste, Multiplying this by the seven instances referred to would give 73,500,000 gal- lons which has been given only to swell the volume of the rivers. Jn addition to this it was found in almost every ferry that the pipes supplying the tanks on board the ferryboate for use in the boilers were allowed to run after filling the tanks. This, itis said, is done to prevent freezing. As the voluine of water allowed. to run from these pipes is three or four times the size of that let flow irom the drinking hydrants tho | amount thus wasted can be better imagined tran cal- culated. Then, again, the same course is parsucd In | the winter time on almostevery plier dnd dock along. | both shores of the island. WHAT IS WANTED | 38 to protect the pipes leading from the mains by box- ing and filling on the outside with non-conductors, as is done in Ruesia and other cold countries in Europe, 80 that the frost cannot penetrate to the water remaining in the pipes. There is, too, a large waste going on in the stables occupied the horse car and stage lines, ‘where it will be found that innumerable taps are open and the water constantly running therefrom {nto the sowers. These places should be compeiled to use self- acting or gs faucets so arranged that it would bo im ble for the waste to bo continued. If these Teal and those of a similar nature were done away with, as they easily might the. ae of a scarcity of water would be greatly dimtntshed, while the gen- eral comfort and convenience would be vasily aug- mented by the imcrease of pressure that would imme- diately result. The calculations of expert engineers on the subject of the water supply tu this city go to stow that Ciera is an absolute and unnecessary waste of over fifty gal- lons per capita per diem or a total of over 50, 000, ious daily over and above every possible or tmagina- Sie necessity. In London, ied the quantity plied to every inhabitant is reckoned at thirty-two galoat, and even then the supply is considered ex- travagant, Here the rate averages 115 gallous per in- habitant. In Boston the rate is sixty-two gatlons, What, the bg open of the extra quantity given to New York? question is easily unswe: i is simply by waste that this quantity is disposed of. Let the Croton Water Police do their duty and the result will be greatly-to the benefit of the citizens penerally, as well ee security against fire. In one jn- stance, ly in the case of the Erie ferries, at Twenty-third street and Chambers et Sg john Porter, was notified of the wastage going on and he. promised to seé to the matter. This was many months: ago and still no change has been made. Will the Cro- ton Water Departinent do its daty? A QUAKER ELOPEMENT. A SENSATION AT MILLBROOK—THE RUNAWAY COUPLE IN NEW YORK. [From the Rhinebeck (N. Y.) Gazette.] The village of Millbrook, on the Dutchess and Colume, bia Railroad, is ina fever of excitement over an elope ment which occurred there last Saturday, The prin-' cipals in the affiir aro Mr. John Raymond, a Quaker,’ forty years old, and a Miss Katy Whaley, a twonty-one~ year old house girl. Thé facts of the case are these:== Katy was working in John’s housoasa servant, For about eighteen months they have been suspiciously in- timate, but, it seems, Mrs. \d was unaware of the true state of affairs until last Saturday, On that’ day John and Katy got their heads together cocted a plan for their especial ire and stornation of all the quiet, peace-loving citizens of village of condensed milk and coffee mill i On the day mentioned John and his wile visit a friend at Verbank. Thesame ‘the milk train on the Dutchess and hie a8 the train neared Verbank John said to eng 1 depot come fa" Thetvaeuspectiog line iaymond ee Bh ST. [CONTINUED ON NINTH | '