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8 LENTEN SERMONS. Man festation of God's Love for His People. CHARACTER OF CHRIST'S APOSTLES | The Gospel Sowed Like Seed | in the Ground. THE BETRAYAL OF TRUSTS. A Plea for Personal Sermons by Henry Ward Beecher, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. SAVED FROM THE LIONS—SERMON BY REY. GEORGE H, HEPWORTH, Rey. George H. Hepworth preached to considerably Jess than his usual congregation, taking his text from | Daniel, vi., 22—"'My God hatn sent his angels and hath | ebut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hart me.’ | You are, perhaps, familiar with the story from which this text has been taken, It is more like a romance of the Imagination than a piece of veritable and prosaic history. It 1s not only interesting, but also instruc- tive, It ts another illustration of the power of an ear- nest and determined religious conviction. It ts also an Mlustration of the way in which God has usea His revelations of the olden time for the edification of the people and the maintenance of His own cause. Daniel was in the midst of his peoplo’s captivity, and yet on account of the probity of his character and.his gifts as a seer he was clovated by degrees till at last Da- rius determined to make him the first of the three pres- idents who had contro! of the 120 provinces of bis im- mense kingdom, We will watch the progress of Daniel and see what followed from fealty toGod. In the first | Placo his compcers were envious of him and deter- mined to get bim out of the way. They organized a plot for his destruction; they dug a pitfall that he might fall in and thus end his career and give them his | vacant place, Their ambition was an unhallowed one; they were uttorly selish; they sacrificed honor, con- selence, friendship and religion to attain their own ends, and the result, brethren, was what might | be expected, The careful student who secs a cause ean eagily predict the eflect, If the cause is honora, ble, though for a time, like some streams in Eastern lands, 1t disappears, there will come a time when it will reappear further on, They know also that if a cause is wrong, that thongh it may be clothed im pur- ple and seated on a throne of ivory, though it may wield a sceptre that makes the world show an unwill- ing obedience, the time shall come when that throne shall totter, and that sceptre shall be destroyed, and the king shall drop out of sight forever, That is the law of listory, illustrated in every page of the world’s | annals, To be right is to be successful; to be wrong is to be deleated. The common~sense of man- kind makes a buttress to propo- sition and holds it up, These men illustrate the same fact—they plotted against Daniel and were defeated, they threw Daniel into the lion’s den and he escaped, and after that the King ordered them to be cast in, and they were killed ere they reached the bottom of the den, Theae is, then, a wrath of God, and though we call it the wrath of the Lamb, yet the wrath of that eternal love, which must be ob , is Severe to TUE LAST ATOM OF JUSTICE We are made almost (o forget the groat retributive revelation of God’s character, It is my delight always to preach the love of God. I like to speak of God's affection for us as resembling the power of gravitation, this But when I look abroad into the comunity and see men going down the way ot dissipa- tion, knowing that every step they take they are ‘doing wrong, consciously breakin, God has established, the reward for that they are maliciously aud the well defined laws which I am reminded that beside } irtue there is a punishment for the wicked, and my boart goes out in pity and [ would that [had the power to draw them back from the er- | ror of their ways, for! know this, that 1 man who trusts Hita never fai he who trusts the Lord Jesus Christ always wins the victory. You may feel you can conquer youreelf any time, but the only victory 1 have ever known is gained at the foot of the cross, There only is a man_ safe, We are taught in this story that Daniel knew the writing was signed ard his time of trial at | hand, My point is this—that not only the wicked have their trial, but also the good, and @ great mauy Christians seem to misunderstand this, They Uhink that the nvinute Uhey enter into intimate relationship with God that minute they ought to be freed from ail doubts and troubles of every Kind, and they are disap- pointed in this resp They have an idea that when & man becomes a Christian ‘he ought to become rich; that he ought to have overy wish cf his heart gratified, That may be your theory, bat itis not the theory of revelation. It is your notion of how God ought to act, but God does not eee fit to actin that way, and our | posture ought to be not on our feet dictating to Him, but on our knees aeking him how to act. Our business ig to put away all preconceived notions and take the Bible for the indisputable word of heaven. What does Christ say about this? Take my yoke upon you, for it ts casy; take my barden, for itis light, Does he say there is no burden? No, but of all the burdens you must carry, choose mine; for it is the best and ny yoke ts the easiest of them all, The misery and trouble aud sorrow are a part of God’s economy, You wonder why all these sud afllictions come upon you; but suppose it Were not so; suppose the family circle were never broken and we’ were always healthy, would we not be more than satisfied with’ this work? Would we not | regard the other world as unnecessary? would our souls grow? Now, unless you exercise your affections you will find you grow ecllish, It is exercise we must ave, aud ® RCISE 18 PAIN, and you must ponder over the knotty question again nd again, and after you have worked to the uttermost light will break’ :n on you and you will see what itis, It is not happioess that blesses us most; it 1s misery, out of which we get the sweets of God. Make aman happy all the timo and you destroy that man, but make him miserable and then he will enjoy his happiness = Ao laugh he “must cry; he prospe and. ad- versity, ahd e nges in ail the various experiences of our human lives, and it is His finger that plays (he symphony, 1 bave often | thought that overy expericnce was like a stone in a | mosaic, Here a little bit of white stone that means | happiness, God tolls us what to do with it, Right | next to it comes a little piece of biack stone. That ie misery. God tells us where to put that Absolute submission to the will of God is the end of life, and if we simply follow His bidding and put this stone into place and that stone into place, according tothe pat- tern He has given us, at last we see the white and black and green and blue, ail shaded jnto each other very beautifully and not a stone ont of place, the whole pattern of seventy years complete. That is when God takes care of our hves. But when we put the stoues in where we think they ought to go there is no picture, no symmetry, and when we get to the last day wo Will get into'an tmmense picture gallery, and some of the pictures will be like beadti- ful landseapes, framed {n God's love in its completeness, But there will be some of our lives that will glook very obscure; bill and vyaliey will bo inextricably mixed together. When God is in &@ man’s life we can make the picture, but when man makes it he makes it without any symmetry. That is | ‘the lion in our paths, but there is no fear when man puts his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh! the biess- ednees that we are in God's hands whatever happens. In the tenth verse it is saia that David went into his house, ana, bis windows being open it his chamber to- ward Jerasalem, he knecled upon his knees three times | a day and prayed and gave thanks before bis God as he did aforetime. Think of the symbolism of the story to have one’s window open toward Jerusalem, to fil your lunge with « here coming from God, ‘and in the time of the greatest trial to iall on your knees and give thanks ns aloretime. ‘What? thanks when my baby dies?” Yos; is not the child sater than in the mi of your love? To feel that God is with you is to straightea up and bear the barden, though it be tons | He can bear the weight of the world who bears it with jove in his heart, | CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, | CHRIST'S APOSTLES—-SERMON BY REV. STEPHEN H. TYNG. The morning service at the Church of the Holy ‘Trinity was well attended yesterday, and the Rey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr, took the occasion to give his con, eregation counsel upon their duties to one another as Christians, | THR SERMON, | The text was Jobn, xii, Philip comet and tell- | th Andrew, aud again Androw and Philip tell James.” | *he preacher commenced by saying:--There must have veew a personal reason that moved our Master to solect each of His ples, as their after jore illustrated | their claiin for kuowledge, This was early recognized | jn the cases of Peter, Paul, Joba ‘and James, | Each bad a particular type of character | and 4 different ylation for work. What werd the — speci poculivrities that exis in Andrew and Paihp, which gave them prominen the Cqjlege of Apostics? We never hear of them sefmons, we never read of them in this book ng OM great Missionary tours, they do not coniirm the eburekes. They were th pies of per- | onal work, They were the aposti 0 pave ther selyot to individual infuence. Andrew and Philip ftand iu the company of the twelve as the men who, from different experiences and guiaed by different Motives, fad dedicwted themeeives to mun and man | work | and or this congregation It was easy enough to ill a pulpit, easy enough to bea missionary; there was not much dificulty in filling offices, but it was sometimes very dificult to cull from the body of the church a company who, lige Andrew and Philip, would do individual work for the Master, Mr. Tyng then spoke of the occasion of this confer- ence between Andrew and Philip, Certain Greeks in the city desired to meet Jesus. Inquiry was directed feara the apostles, for it was common rumor that their person, Those who were brought to the Saviour should irom the very day of their conversion try to take others toHim, Mr, Tyng then spoke of the peculiar sympathy between these two, So closely were they und in aim that they grew into a close conference. heir successes and their failures became common | property. This working together in the cause of Christ is a cholce fellowship; it takes precedence of al! other | associations, It was common among Christians to aspire to influence, but the great mistake in mony workers was beginning too far away from home. We had seen that the case of An- erew and Philip. Andrew had just found bis own brother Simon, and Philip had brought his neighbor Nathaniel to Jesus, aud now all Jerusalem had come to realize tbat which the mere immediate friends of these men had alrealy known, in MR. MOODY, who began in personal, humble, retired and unseen work, which has now been so honored and blessed by God.’ Mr. Tyng then explained how the disciples party or s was often a terrible perversion of the Christian zcal--it wag not to lead them to outward ave sought to bring the inquiring Greeks not toa denomination—th religiousness to join the the hands Church, to of a bishop laid upon them, but it was to bring them to the glorious person of the Lastly tho speaker dwelt upon the ways of work, Those Were simple and adapted to ail times and ‘These disciples used the ability that they Saviour. rsons, ad instead of deploring their want of greater talent, Surely their example ehould set at rest that indolent | apology so often made by Christians of want of ability. Thore is no great learning needed to bring a soul to Any one who knew Him as a personal Saviour Christ, could lead some other soul to the groat Physician, TRINITY CHURCH. “THE SOWER SOWETH THE WORD’—sSERMON BY THE REY. DR, FREDERICK OGILBY. Yesterday betng the sooond Sunday in Lent the Rev. Dr. Frederick Ogilby, of Trinity chapel, preached in the morning in Trinity church to a large and fashionable congregation. The text was taken from the Gospel according to St. Mark, iv., 26-27:— “And he said, So fs the kingdom of God, asifa man should cast socd into the ground; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow up, he knoweth not how.”? ‘The preacher said that our Lord, being pressed by a great multitude while he was preaching by the seaside, entered into a ship and ‘sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. He left beliind him tne desert in which he had been for some time sojourning at the period of his tri- umph over Satan, He was now coming to the land of the Gadarenes, where many of his miracles were to be performed; and where, in the garden of abundance, as the name of the place imports, far differeut scenes from those be had just witnessed greeted Him, The para. ble in the text ts the second in the order of deliver; which He had preached to those who follow. i Him He told the multitude that when the see “o> sown some fell by the way and w the alr; some fell upop stony ground, where n no earth in which it could take root or be nou portion of it fell among thorns and was choker brambles; but angshor part of it fell up ground and it sprung upjand yielded abundanti, poruon of the seed wh fell upon bad grow Jost forever, but that which found root in good was to lie there at rest for many days without seen, or Without shooting up & green blade to that it suill lived. So, t00, must it be with the Ge of God, It must first take decp root in the suscep. portions of man’s breast, and lie there fora timet ye pondered upon, so that after having been thus Guiy planted the seed of the Gospel may Dring forth good fruit. Like the inysteriows workings of nature witu the feed that is cast mto the bosom of the earth, so, ¢ truths of Clrist’s proachings be allowed time y aud blossom into truit, There are and have where the fruition has been spontaneous, but ihey are few, The working of God’s grace docs not come to man as ff IN A WHIRLWIND, but gradually extends ite holy influence over his being and actions, By self-examination and communion | with Gou we cau know abd note the changes that take place within ourselves, aud thus be able to mark our own spiritual condition. of the Gospel fade from most men’s minds; they can- not see it, but Know whither it goeth. The gospel is ike cd cast into the ground; gestation is not hastened | by (te ephemeral influences of conflicting elements, | bui its revivilication is induced by the calm, gontle im: Mucnces of truth aud light which breathe their aroma irom the fount of b@avel.—- As the seed in the ground cometh forth in season, so also does the word of God in | due time bear good frurt, ‘And now comes the question of great importance as to the proper application of the lesson conveyed tn the text, There are many means used for the purpose of spreading the Gospel. One system now in operation among us is that of assembling thousands of people to pray and sing praises, We do not speak againgt this eflort to convert sinners, but only desire to correct error, It may be asked, Why do not ministers of the Gospel go forward to help the work? The answer is, because the whole system of the Church 13 at variance with thié system, When Peter preached the Gospel he said to the people whom he addressed repent and ye shal! be saved. Again, when ot of the aposties went down among the Geatiles and preached Christ crucitied, the inspired record simpiy says that they were converted anil baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. This baptism and confirmation admitted at ono time about 3,000 souls to communion with the Church, The Church derives this system of the reception of converts directly from apostolic teachings in God's own words. The Chureh tells men where to find grace; she knows how the greatest influence of human elo- quence-dies in the mind almost as goon as the echo passes from the ear and is forgotten: but not so with the voice of God, which has tts scatand centre in the . heart, Where it springs up and grows strong under the fostering care of Christ’s guidance. The Church has at her command abundant means for sustaining the ° STRENGTH AND LIPE OP THE SOUL, Is it not enough that Christ Himself has said unlessa man be born of the spirit and of water he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; except a man eat of the body and drink of the bioed of Jesus, that. wa: for muny, there is no life in him? What, it may be asked, | does the Church do with neglectful ‘men? She says that there is one natural law for all living things on earth, She says that her children and those who hear her are in this Lenten on invited to daily prayers and seli-exemination. Sho offers to lead them step hy step through the temptations of this life to the blessings of the life everlasting. I! you have not,yet awakened to the teachings of the Gospel the power to do so is open to you, und to as many as the Lord shall see good to call. There is no one'tn this congregation to whom it may not be said, as to the blind man by the wayside, “Be of good comfort,” MASONIC TEMPLE, SERMON BY MR, 0, B, FROTHINGHAM—THE BETRAYAL OF TRUSTS. The Grand Lodge room in the Masonic Temple, at Twenty-third street and Sixth avenuo, Was filled yester- day morning by the congregation of the Independent Liberal chureh, to hear the sermon of their pastor, Mr, 0. B, Frothingham, on “The Evil of the Time.’ He prefaced his sermon by reading selections from the Holy Scriptures ot the Persiats, Hindoos and Chinese, relating to freedom from decay, the advantages of casto and thé attainment and perpetuation of virtue, He then said:—Every time has its own peculiar evil, In the feudal times of Europe, when the dit- ferent classos of soclety were strongly marked, the characteristic virtue was loyalty to all those in authority or in the classes above The charac. teristic evil was cruelty. From the princes to the serfs each class treated the ones bencath with baseness and neglect. Ours is the commercial age, and its great virtue js honesty, punctuality im the payment of obligations and aciose adherence to all pledges, The characteristic evil is neglect of responsibility, dishonesty, pecuniary infidelity, ishonesty ina com. munity where men stand shoulder to shoulder in the press of business life and rely hourly on each other, tends to create a disposition to neglect all pledges, Is 1 onthe inereaso among us? At present an engion is abroad Uiat the root of our institution m The pewspapers are full of frauds and etrayals of trusts, and we ask with pale lips, “What are we coming to?” But people who expect and look jor the worst will not only fad it, but make it As S000 as a sensation is discovered or suspected the | editors publish it in fuil, and extras are issued, publish. ing to the world that we area nation of thioves and pick pockets, Abroad things of the charactor whose revelation hes recently startied the people of thi ore studiously covered up. There are two sure that all the indign: was printed Was m1 . If wo could be 1on Was honest, that ail that and all the denunciation sin. cere, we could be kful; bat about fve-eights of it litical eect. The man who is one editor another editor's sinner, It ts necessary to pat ory and pelt him with eggs, but it saint some one tn the | ts wnderstood that when the political event bas passed the man and the indignation will both be forg ten. In Europe if public afiirs were as open to invest tion as they are bere what ghastly Spectres of corrup- tion would stalk through the legisiative hails! In te battle of life, where each 1s striving to gotall be can, we expect some looseness, When two men are bar- gaining wo know that cach watches the other minutely and takos every advantage he can; bat whon a man accepts a trast and has put into bis hands the property, odueation and future life of some foliow creatures or their children, as, for iostavee, in the cave of a man who accepts te position of president of a bank, and consents to hold the earnings of widows ans, Wat trust, he isa thief; he ist He steals not trash, but humanity, But when the trust is pot of a few, but of miltious, but of anation, the trust of a nation's nor, the wotion’s faith, the grandeur of a nat: ’ Yrav that God may raise up mavy such among | hone and Jrost when (he nation savs. we give you this { acquaintance wa’ the shortest road to Christ's | Mr. Tyng iulustrated his last remarks by a refence to the history of devoured by t) dear | too, | Too frequently it happens | | that, like the wind which passeth, so does the intluence | trust, believing that you are not only a man of honor, bat also honored, when a man who consenta to accept A responsibility like that, and then betrays his trust, what shali be said of him? There is no word in the English language, ‘a Shakespeare could not coin one, that would express the utter ab- in which he is held. He is a poltroon in the face of the world, He hax confessed himself worthless in the face of humanity itself. Let | me instance another case. The betrayal of trust by soldiers. They are men whose traditions are all | agaist the offence, The soldier, seldomer than any | other, is athicf, He may be cruel, but, asa rule, he | 1s honest. It bas been reserved for this generation in America to witness soldiers betraying their trusts and selling their country for pteces of eilver, Is it because there is less belief in religfon than theré used to be? | This moral turpitude is not confined to creeds or sub. horrence but upon the character of the man. It is the blood, | nature and training that keep men pure and noble. | In aristocratic society many advantages are derived in making classes. In building steamships we find great advantages in constructing compartments, Two or three of them may be broken and the ship saved, but throughout the ship and damage cargo and drown pas- sengers, In our ship of state there are no compart Another great evil of our time is “opportunity.” It is a chance to do anything and everything people are Tinchned todo. It is almost sure, then, that they will do something they ought not to do. ‘The {ron bar that will stand a strain of a thousand pounds will give way | ifanother hundred pounds be added. Trial ic discl- pline. Temptation is the extra discipline, the added | feather that turns the geale, the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, the last hundred pounds on the bar, ‘There is not a living man wha could noterr, who may not fail. Only the Indimite has no tether. ‘fo men and women the tether is very short, Temptation is alway accompanied by fal thero is not a fall, it was not temptation, only a trial. When it comes to temptation it is all over with the man. America’s great stat who recently absconded from Ludlow Street doubtless Honest in his et days; friends of any. years, and who have not known him since, should hear the stories told about bim now, they would shake their heads in doubt and sorrow, ‘The mah who {s honest ina country store is not always to be (rusted on the Plains, not al 8 tobe trusted in the Indian department (sensation He is wise who keeps within his condition; keeps fortiled and bar- ricaded against taking upon himself more than he can do, more than he is fitted for, The strength of the character of New England life, that has mi it vie- torious all over the land, was the nurture of the young people. They were taught to respect authonty and give allegiance to the power above them. The Tule was insisted on as a law, without explanation or modification. The principle was planted deep and the root was sound, It must be learned in youth or itis never learned, Another cardinal element of Now | England life was self-denial, It is that which is felt bow in ils influences clear to the Pacifle coast. There is po law of greater force than that of self- denial. Learn what nts can do; learn to refuse the cup that you know will poison you; cut off everythin, you page not to hav Live within your means ant you will bo well Prepared fora better fortune, Them 4s your day is so shall your strength be. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR, BEECHER ON TEACHING AND PRIACHING— A PLEA FOR PERSONAL SERMONS, Yesterday being the day appointed at Plymouth church for the baptism of “the infant children of be- sprinkled by the pastor. The annual collection for the American Home Missionary Society was raised, and Mr. Beecher's sermon, beginning with a defini. -on and analysis of teaching and preaching re- spectively, and an argument to show the great | weed of the latter im every community, led ) @n exposition of the particula great _oed of preachers in our newly settled States and Ter- ~ tories, accompanied’ with a panegyric of the noble en who are epreading the light of tho Gospel in those regions, and ended with an eloquent appeal to his 4 people for libcral subscriptions, ‘And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach | and to preach Jesus Christ,’? was the text from which | Mr, Beecher preached. By teaching, he said, knowl. edge is either imparted or arranged, but by preach!ng men are taught to employ that knowledge for their own edification. “ And this definition, though it lie not in the etymology of the word, conforms to the practice of the olden time and is also observed to our day, and as it wheres in the nature of things wilicontinue. It becomes amatter of some importance, therefore, that | Wo should distinguish betwoen the province of tho | teacher and that of the preacher, for though often | combined in the same person they are very aifferent | fanctions. By the one knowledge is arranged or im- H parted. By the other the uses of knowledge are se- | cured in the development of thought, emotion, will, | conduct, and s0, in shgrt, in the prodaction of charac- ter, which is the end of the ministrations of the Gos- pol.of God, Tho Jewish priesthood was not nor was it administered for teaching or preaching pur- poses. Whatever teaching there was was mostly at | the hands of parents, But now and then there sprang up among the Jews, and always with the liberty that belongs to spontaneous spiritual element, ‘A RACE OF PREACHERS, | namely prophets. For, although thé word prophet | signifies one who foresees and foretells, that was the | | minimum of their functions. The prophet really was | | the preacher of the Jews. ‘Tho great prophets were ; the men that seized upon the truths of their time, and | | by their personality avd their power of specch made | them glow and burn upon the hearts of their con- | temporuries, So the prophet was one who taught, but | | taught by preaching—that is, by the personal power of | | their specch. Christ was the first eminent preach i | Although He taught it was only as a preparatory siage | of his preaching. It was His personal power oi send- ; ing home what He taught that made Hin what He was, | The rabbis were the pi ers of their day,but we | ' have no knowledge that they ever threw their souls, | their personality, into their truths. Their interpreta- tions were for the most part most minute and most tri- fling, and there was not moral power to any considerable | degree inthem. Christ came wiih power, Not with | accredited Pod for He was nota priest, He did not | minister, thereiore He did not write auything, He did not philosophize. He came as the architect of the souls of men. In order to build them up to a nobler spiritaal manhood He was forced to take them as they | were and by His vitality and power elevate them, He | taught jost so much as Was necessary to enable Him to preach and He wrought out just so inuch food as they could take, assimilate and digest spiritually, The dis. tinction between Him and the priests and rabbis was | that He was the voice, the living voice, the voice of the | soul. His teachings were full of matter, His maxiins | and teachings were the very root of philosophy. We | have not yet im moral philosophy come up to the root | teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. By living personal | influence He sought to work out these roots of moral | philosopLy into personality in those who heard Him. | The apostles did their work by preaching. They had | substantially for the underlying principle of all thoir work this—that the sow of wan, fully vitalized and | i tnalized, 1s thoroughly competent to all the func- | tions shat are to be required of a man, and that awise , and right-minded man is a sufficient legislator jor him- , self, Subsequent ages have attempted first to estab- | lish the external implement and afterward by itto | work out the spiritual result. The method of Christ | and His apostles was first to inspire the soul and then | leave it free to make such institutions as itfelt the need of intheage and under the circumstances in | which it cod, And we do well to take heed of | tis in our | WHEN MEN SEEK TO CRAMP US | | and tie us up in various institutions we declare that | ‘the soul, which was inspired from on high, is its own | piritual legislator and spirttual adjudicator, ana thatout | of ft comes all the free usages, customs and institutions | that are needed for the guidance of mankind and the | welfare of human society. Thy end and aim of preach- | ing is to bring the living man through the living Voice before living men, to inspire them to a higher life, If | that is preaching there is no necessary conflict between | it and institutions, J’reaching is nota substitute jor institutions, though in one sense energetic and successful preaching prepares the way for them. It preaching is succese(ul institutions will | always follow. ¢Preaching is the rain on the moun- tains; institutions are the rilis lower down that cateh | up that rain and convey it to the millor’s wheel to | weave or grind. A man who merely utters certain lines of thought or reasoning fs not a preacher. {t is not till he ts set on fire, till he isin an clectrical and | rb condition aud brings it to bear upon the earts of other men that he is preaching. I may say | about preachers as they say about horses, ‘* All Lal ran.” Eminent sp as been found in most un- gainly horses, and a preacher may have a bad figure and hareh yoice id yet, if he has a compeiling soul | behind it, do valiant work, Mr. Beecher referred to the taste of the prosent day which forbids a preache: entioning himself asa re- | lapse tuto an atheistical notion. The parts of the | Bible, said he, which are most read aro the letters of | Paul and the songs of David. Tho songs, which have Deen the stars of a desolate world, are Deautiful on ac- count of the personal experience they have in them, | And Paul's letters, what would they be if yoo wok | Paul out of them ?’ They would be like grapes with the | pulp taken out, Paul wrote not what John or anybody else thought or felt, but most emphatically what Paul | thonght and felt himself, No man will ever be a true eges who does not present Christ as Christ has on revealed in him personally. the corrective of the overaction of mstitulions It said that the pulpit is not what it ueed to be, No, by cause @ cood pulpit always Works ilg own change, you ascend a ladder, ifthe Gret roand does It ou any good it is not by tempting you to roost on it, but by | tempting you to ge ove round higher, ALL SOULS’ CHURCH, BALANCE OF 60OUL AND CRARACTER--SERMON BY REV. DR. BELLOWS, The service at Dr. Bellows’ charch, corner of Twen- tieth street and Fourth avenue, was well attended yos- terday morning. As was announced, Dr, Bellows preached a sermon on “Balance of Soul and Charac- tor,” taking for his text the concluding words of Paul's Epistle to the Romaxg, xiv., up; for God is able to make him stand."’ THE SERMON. Civisions of creeds. It is not dependent on the creeds, | if there are no compartments the waves can sweep | ments. The waves of corruption sweep throughout it. | ® | netism of ministers aud loud singing seek to substi- man, | , was | but if bis | lieving parents,” a number of babes in arts were duly | | to it is scarcely di | reasoning held to be a legitimate logical result of the ‘in all the actions and transactions incident to life | Mr. Merwin, pastor of the church, explained that in | been made, In fact a debt amounting to upward of $4,000 ching 1a also j oa, he shail be holden aaeeee en ONeeD | also of the success which had been the result of their | | choleric tempers; but these were beld in checa uy strength and force of will. 18 is stated on the author- ity of history, said the preacher, that Washington | and William of Orange were both of violent temper, but the admirable foree of will in the one and the un- equalled balance of mind in the other prevented the force from flashing. Nothing is more admirable than ihe suppression Of strong desire. We are affected more by the presence of a woman who undor the infuence of a mighty grief is silent, than by her who, with wringing of hands and loud lamentations, proclaims her surrow. The one tells of an infinitely powerful feeling kept down by its own weight, too dep tor utterance, possessing all the soul in its om- prehensive clasp. | We are reminded of the sea in ro- pose, the sea which, under its glassy surfuce, holds the power to toss navies and submerge efties; of the silent air, which, with gathered force, devastates whole regions, are men and women who are not capa- ble of deep feeling, whoge sensibilities are barren, whose souls are passionless, These are not taken into our estimaie. We are not awed or awakened to ad- iniration by the sight of a frozen lake, tor the winds may blow ‘and the elements bo wrath, still it moves not; itcannot, Some people are surrounded by soul- | stirrin, cumstances, but they fail to awaken @ natural responso from within, A man is much a ship. The strength of a ship 18 egulated by the amount of canvas she can curry, to catch the favoring winds, Tiiis is like the bal- ance of a man who utilizes the storms to force himself anead, the storms representing is sensibilities and passions, whose force and violence are conserved and managed by the helm, which is his reason and will. REVIVALISM. The reverend gentleman, in concluding the sermon, took occasion to repudiate the doctrines held ang preached by certain persons who seek to overthrow the intellectual balance of the people, ana by the mag- tute for religion an unhealthy iervor, which 1s de- moralizing and pernicious. ‘These meetings, be said, | were calculated, and their history showed that they had destroyed the balance of sou! and character in thousands, SZ PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SERMON BY REV, FATHER HOGAN—CONFESSIONS, GOOD AND BAD, High mass was celebrated at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning by Rey. Father Moran at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, in Mulberry street, The large edifice was filled upon the occasion. Rey, Father Hogan preachea the sermon. He read the gospel of the day, which was taken from St, Matthew, eighteenth chapter, commencing with the firet and end ing with the nineteenth verso, Previous to his dis- course he called attention to the St. Patrick’s day ser- vices which would be held in the Cathedral on Friday morning next at hall-past ten o'clock. He then pro- ceeded with bis sermon, ‘THE SERMON. | His remarks were almost entirely devoied to | a consideration of the sacrament of confession, During our entire Jife we were continually Jed into byways of sin and vice. This was mainly owing to the concupiscence of our hearts caused by the sin of our first parents. The world was beset with traps and snares for poor hu- manity. To fortify us sehiee those dangers Jesus Christ had instituted the sacrament of penance In baptism we were made children of God and heirs to the Kingdom of Heaven. ut in the sacrament of penance we were given a means of re- turning to God when we fall away from the paths of righteousness, It was for this object principally that the Redeemer had instituted such a sacrament, The reverend genticman then exhorted his hearers to be careful In making a good contession. They should tell all their sins, Concealment ofa single mortal sin was sufficient to neutralize all good effects resulting from j the confessional, It was by bad confessions that a great many were lost. f they knowingly and wilfully concealed one sin from the priest and confessed all the rest that very act would coademn them in the sight of God. He then narrated the incident of a woman who was confessing toa priest on. her deathbed, A companion of the priest stood apart fh the room while the confession was being heard. Suddenly this com- panion gaw a black hand pressing the throat of | the woman. He didnot relate the incident to the confessor until both had left the house, The priest returned, but the woman was dead. Her spirit | afterward appeared and informed him that she had concealed one sin at confession during her whole life, | hoping to tell it at the last moment. When that time | came the devil got the better of her and she was un- | able to comply with her good intention. The result | followea that ehe had been condemned to eternal | punishment, Father Hogan exhorted the congregation not to be led away from this important duty by the wiles of Satan, They might deceive their confessor, but they could not deceive Jesus Christ, The coniessor ofliciated as the spiritual physician of the soul; his mission was to heal ail the ills to which it was subject, Alter dating upon these points for some time Father Hogan concluded with an eloquent allusion to the hap- piness wh'ch awaited those who made the confessional a medium for keeping peace with the Almighty, FORSYTH - METHODIST EPISCOPAL a CHUROH, SERMON BY THE REV. E. &. JANES. It had been previously announced that Bishop 5. Janes would occupy the pulpit of the Forsyth Mctho- dist Episcopal church yesterday morning, and old | members of the congregation were speciaily invited to | be present. The exterior of the church presents any. | thing but an invitimg appearance; indeed the entraneg inguished from the ordinary door- ways of the block of tenement houses of which it occu- pies the centre position, Once inside the doorway, however, the transformation is complete; a roomy and | nicely carpeted hall leads into as tasteful a chapel as can be seen onthe east side of the city. Frescoed walls, stained glass windows, comfortably cushioned | eats, good light and ventilation all combine to make f the room most attractive. In this respect, the front | being tenement property and the rear a sanctury, | makes the Forsyth strect church a curiosity in its | way. THE SERMON, ‘The venerable Bishop preached an eloquent discourse, taking his text from Acts, ix, 31—"Then had the churches rest throughout all Judoa and Galilee and Sa- | maria, and were ed ified; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost were mul- tiplied,”’ In the first part of his discourse the Bishop | Tabor it was no wonder that Peter cried out, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if thou wilt, let us make here | NEW YORK HERALD. MUNDAY, MARCH £3, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. j ~ ——— agaln sie a y-enepted hee by was @ ard ‘er second departure from her home e came the notice of the lady crusaders. They had talked with her, ed with) =her and she had begged of them to appeal to her parents and brother to permit her to return to her home, assur- ing them that she would never again taste liquor. conclusion, the speaker asked the prayers of those present for the perfect and lasting return of the young lady to the home of her parents. Afver a hyma had been suag by the people ‘MRS, MARY C. JOUNSON, President of the Temperance Crusadors, gave a very cheering account of the progress of the work. One day, said dirs. Johnson, while in a saloon m Court street, Brooklyn, 1 saw a littic child come in with & pail to get ne beer. They taiked with the child and gave her a tract, The child returned to her grand- mother, who had sent her out forthe ale, told her whatshe had seen and heard,.and the aged grand- mother er back to get a tract for her and to ask bad rene idea oe and see her, They went, and ¢ result was the reformation of the the rescue of the child from evil aoe om FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. A special meeting of the electors of the above eongre- gation was held yesterday afternoon to elect a School Commissioner for three years, to receive and act upon the report of the Committee on Finance with reference to a reduction of expenses, &c., and to receive and act upon certain !mprovements in the ritual, The matters relating to finance discussed by the committee were private, The improvements in the ritual proposed and hight mat the bernie Bu ie . . That the piyutim ers) in the Mussa) of Sabbath Shakolin byes bees be emiano: toe preacher of the day to reter to its speci cance 10 his sermon. . en 2 The reading of Ruth, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon to be transferred from their present position bee chazan (reader; to read the sheman; ayer) and @ portion of the Mugsapn service on Saba tin ci bar ra vers Ce) chanted. @ order of piyutim (prayer) on Rosh Hashona (Jewish New Year's, in ef a Ys be modified, 5, The committee recommend no changes for the yom kippur (atonement) service, except that the chazan Papers is to kneel at the proper times simul- taneously with the congregation. These moditications of the ritual, having veen recom: mended unanimously by the committee, consisting of Messrs, B. L. Solomon, B. J, Hart, Adolf Levy, ST Meyer, L. Gattman, E. Josepn, B. Herman ana the Rev, 8. M. Isaacs and Rey. Dr. Mendes, were adopted. CONFIRMATION AT ST. STEPHEN’S OHURCH. SERMON OF RIGHT REY. BISHOP POTTER, Yesterday afternoon at the Episcopal Church of St, Stephen, in Forty-sixth street, near Sixth avenue, Right Rev. Bishop Potter preached the sermon and administercd the holy rite of confirmation to a number of persons who desired to connect themselves formally with the church, The address of the venerablo Bishop was mainly devoted to the subject of love, as being the basis of religion, and a warning to those who would not heed the threatenings of God if they repented not of their sins, The High and Holy One, said the preacher, gives us two solemn pictures ‘on which we are to gaze; one a picture of loveliness and mercy, the other one of judgment. The love of God was great enough to have given His only begotten Son w save the world, aud how have wo rewarded Him? Consider the state of our hearts, our envies, jealousies and in- jurious surmiscs, the haunts of wickodness and sin with which the world is fillod. It would not indeed bo surprising ifatany moment the threats of an angry God of visiting the world with Gre should be actually executed, and the shadow of the REPLECTION OF THE COMING JCDGMENT rest on every face. But Christians do not fear dcath, Like St. Paul, in the fulness of their faith they almost seem to leap over its perils. What is man? He cometh upas aflower and like a flower ts cut down; if he is faithless all is lost to bim, but if he has a firm hold of Christ then he has gained blessed immortality, You, therefore, who come to-day to receive the holy rite of confirmation receive anew gift and you should be } thankful to God. ST. PETER’S CHURCH, JERSEY CITY. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST—SERMON BY REY. FATHER MARECHAL, 8. J. In St. Peter’s church, Jersey City, solemn mass was celebrated at half-past ten o’clock by the Rev. Father Willett, 5. J. After the first gospel Father Marochal ascended the pulpit and read the gospel of the day, de- scribing the transfiguration of Christ. He then de- livered a glowing se:mon on the great lessons to be derived from this wonderful event, As Moses on Mount Sinai, amid thunder and lightning, gave the laws to God’s people, so Christ in His transfiguration on Mount Tabor gave to the world the New Testament. In this wonderful manifestation the Eternal Father avnounced the great mission for which Christ came on earth— “This is my beloved Sen, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him.”? Then all the laws and the prophets and tne old dispensation gave way to the new Gospel. The time which the chosen men of God had yearned tor cen- turies to see had at last arrived. The great work of re- domption was about to ve accomp! The chosen and privileged witnesses to this grand manifestation of the Divine mission were Peter, James and Jehn, whose faith bad been so well tried of all His disciples, When Christ inquired of them what the world believed concerning Him they answered, “Some Jehn the Baptist, others Elias an others Jeremiah or one of the rophets,”? Christ then tested their faith by asking, “Hut whom do you say that I am?’ And Peter answered and said, “Thou are Christ the Son of the living God,” a declaration of faith which Christ deciared was not derived from flesh and blood, but from the Father who isin heaven. In His moments of rapture on Mount three tabernacies ; one for Thee, and one for Moe one for Elias,"’ forgetting for a momeut that this world is only a battle field where we must achieve the victory before we can attain the joys and the glories of the Kingdom of God. The transcendent spectacle witnessed In| witn one cry, took bis son to his bosom and they During this pert of Mr. Moody's d uring this part of Mr, "s discourse man; | strong men thro vat the audience were affected 4 tears, The meeting concluded with the Fifty-fourtb ; bymn, + as 1am, without one plea.” The same sermon was repeated in the evening to an | audience of 7,600, among which were at least 6,500 men, Atter the general meeting the inquiry rooms werd set wih oe jeokiog ag a td the Christian workers ba oir uy oeting also held from nine to ten o'clock. eee ss | re |THE INDEBTED ORANGE CHURCH. There 18 4 good prospect that the heavy debt on St: John's Catholic church at Orange, N, J., will soon be Iquidated. An asseasment was levied on every Catho- lic church in the'diocese. The amount demanded from St. Peter's church, Jersey City, was no less than $3,000, A collection was taken up in that church yesterday for the purpose and the assessment has been cleared up excepting about $300. Some of the congregations con- tribute with great reluctance and complain that the support of their own churches isa sufficient 1 peat without being compelied to pay @ penalty for x travagance of others. THE COURTS. TOMBS POLICE COURT, Before Judge Flammer. ALLEGED FORGERY. On Saturday last Amos Hall presented the following Rote to Mr. Alvert H. Brown, of the frm of Brown & Co., No, 84 Beaver street:— Messrs. Venxon H, Brown & Co.:— Floase pay bearer, Mr. Andrews, my mate, $45, on account of brig Rebecca J. Page. JOSIAH HILL, Manow 11, 1876. Mr, Brown, believing the note tobe genuine, gave Halla check for the amount indicated on the Mariny Bark, where it was subsequently paid. [t was afters ward ascertained that the note wis a forgery, and Hall Was arrested. When asked what he had to say he said he received the note from a man who said his name wag Andrews. J F Sie, udge Flammer yesterday held Hall in $1,000 WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT.) Before Judge Kasmire. THE EXCISE LAW. The following Mquor dealers were required to giva $300 bail each for violation of the Excise law:—Jamea McNamee, No, 145 Thompson street; J. i nell, No ds Grand street; John Lacase a Naat West 1 aD Macdougal street. * sec FELONIOUS ASSAULT. Chauncey Kelly, of No. 199 Varick et, was com~ mitted to await the rosult of injuries alleged to have been inflicted by him on the person of Lizzie Fi Kolly says he was in a cigar store in Hudson street and the woman Was raising a disturbance in the street, He went out to put her away, and she foil on the side- walk. The aitidavit charges that Kelly kicked her, while in a state of pregnancy, The woman is now in Bellevue Hospital. . FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. Before Judge Duffy, SETTING FIRE TO A FACTORY. Frederick Flooris, a tramp, was charged with setting fire to the furniture factory of William H. Hayke, Nos, 615, 617, 619, 621 and 623 Tenth avenue, The first or ground floor of No. 623 13 a lager beer saloon, the pro-. prietress of which is to bo dispossessed on the Ist of May and the floor added to the factory. She feels very angry in consequence, and it is suspected that the tramp was let into the building through her conniy- ance. He said he kindled the fire, which was on the flooring, to boil some egge. A hole was burned through the boarding when the fire was discovered by Oficer Cottrell, Ywenty-second precinct. The accused denied the charge of arson which was preferred ost him, and he was remanded uutil further evidence can procured. The attention of the Fire Marshal will called to the case, A BIRD FANCIER. Elizabeth Schwenk, No. 16 Boeckman place, near East Forty-ninth street, charged William Quinlan with the larceny of a canary bird, which was taken from the basement window on Saturday, Officer O’Brien, of the Nineteenth precinct, caught the accused in the act of opening the window of a private house with a painter’s knife, He was held for trial on the charge of stealing the canary. THREE MONTHS FOR BREAKING THE PLEDGE, Kitty McCabe was accused of being drunk, Three days ago she was discharged on a similar complaint, She then took the pledge for a year, but for not having kept it she got three months on the Island, WANTED TO DIE. Ellen O’Brien, a woman who had the appearance ot’ having indulged in @ long course of dissipation, wag brought up by Officer Leahy, of the Twenty-first pre. cinct. It GS ane that she attempted to drown her-, self in the jt River 6a Saturday night, but was pre- vented ye the officer, and while in the station house cell she dttempted to hang herself. She was remanded to the care of the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection, A CASE OF SMALLPOX IN COURT. silt transpired yesterday that achild in the arms of Margiret Lennon, of West Forty-second street (the number was not given), who was arraigned on a charge of intoxication on Friday, hag the smallpox in a very severe form. The Police Surgeon discovered tho fact atter the mother had been committed to the prison down stairs, and Spent his astonishment that it sbohid have egcaped the notice of the sergeant at the Twenty-second precinct station house. Both the child and the mother were sent to the Smallpox Hospital, on Blackwell’s Island. Yesterday the husband came in search of them to the court, but did not seem much fount Tabor was only a faint shadow of the gran- deur of beaven; for ‘Neither eye has seen nor ear | heard nor hath jtentered into the heart of man to conceive what things God has prepared for those who love Him.”” MOODY AND SANKEY. SERVICES AT THE HIPPODROME YESTERDAY. dwelt particularly on the trials and sufferings of the primitive Christians, but pointed out the everiasting | reward they received by being steadfast in the faith, | He explained that the Christian walking in the fear of | all worldly evils or influences. ‘The possession of a | knowledge of fhe love of Christ Jesus was a panacea | against all ills, a sustainer and comforter in every hour | of need and troub'e, There was no rest for the troubled heart like casting ali ig burdens on the Lord, This was perfect rest, because it was a sweet, a | joyous rest. Tie power aud office of the Holy Ghos was then dilated upon. The Holy Ghost is God's cot forter. How often has it happened in the | experience of many of us here that in) an hour of darkness memory has brought to our solace some passage of divine trath directly ap- | plicable to our need, and triumphant in faith we have turned from sorrowlng into rejoicing ! The religion of | the Bible, my dear friends, is a comforting religion, | and the miser, in his baser passions, counting and re- counting his hoarded gold, although his very soul is absorbed in gloating over his possessions, docs not e: perience ON® TITHE OF THE JOT of the Christian who can say, and say truly, that his calling and election are sure, In conclusion the Bishop briefly, though effectively, roferred to the strength de- | yeloped by the Primitive Church, which he in his | consistency of its members, The Primitive Christians | walked in the fear of the Lord and in the comtort of the Holy Ghost; consequently they multiplied, and the application, the Bishop said, wawthat if the members of this little church in Forsyth street were only filled | with the Roly Ghost a pentecosial shower of grace | might assu:edly be looked for, At the conclusion of the Bishop's discourse the Rer. | the improvements necessary to put the chareh in its resent bcautitul condition considerable experse had | n incurred, for which ag yet no proper provision has had been accumulated. These improvements had been nd with the cordial indorsement of the wisest | Church, a statement which the Bishop ac- saying that he himself was at the time in advised the enterprise, and it was, in his corded ip 0 favor of an opinion, only the unwonted commercial depress: | that had interfered with the investment being re munerative from the start, A collection was taken up, bat the result was not announced, although from the statements made by Mr. Merwin it was evident that more reliance was placed on private solicited subsert ' workers among tho occupants of the tenement héuses whiel abound in that section, | OLD JOHN STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. , THE BROOKLYN LADY TEMPERANCE CRUSADERS ADDRESS THE CONGREGATION. yesterday afternoon there w: largo gathering of the children of the Sunday school, of, the members ond regular attendants, to hear from certain tadies of the | concluded with the singing of th tions than on the effort made yesterday morning. T! church is one of the oldest on the east side of the city | nd certainly deserves the cordial port of Christian | At the Old John street Methodist Episcopal church | Long before eight o’ciock yesterday morning crowds of people could be seen wending their ways across Madison Park, through Twenty-sixth and Twenty- seventh streets, Madison avenue, Fourth avenue, and | the Lord was imbued with courage sufficient to ward off | all tho streets and avenues that led to the Hippodrome. Dark as the morning was, treacherous as the weather looked, six thousand people were present at the early services, The choir scemed to be stronger than usual, not from numbers alone but “from ap influx of new volces. The services opened with the singing of the hymn, “Watching and Waiting for Me,” and then Mr. Moody continued his lecture of the Sunday previous, on “Daniel.” Ho called on his audience to “dare to be a Duniel”’ and stand up for the right wherevor they might be. He told the story of Dauicl, the Prime Minister of Darius, Kin, briteds but was of always true to the God of Abraham, Isaac and of Jacob. In enlargin: upon character of Daniel Mr, Moody lamented the want of such a man at the present day, When the offices were bought and sold and the highest positions in the land were money. The necessity fora man like Dantel, who en- tered the lion’s den because he had confidence in the God whom he served, was greater now. Prayer was offered by Dr. Kennard, and the meeting ninth hymn, “Sate in the arms of Jesus.’ AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERVICES. Al the afternoon meeting, at three o'clock, the Madi. son avenue hall was more crowded than ever before on a Sunday afternoon, and the majority of those present singing of ‘Arise, My Soul, Arise,” and after a short prayer Mr. Moody addressed the people. subject was, ‘Instantaneous Salvation.” le argued that there was no necessity of any “one trying to save themselves, that al] that was necessary for a man to do was to throw himeelf into the arms of Christ and ask His help, Faith alone was not sufficient, but the man must bumble himself to ask God to help him, and then he ‘would be saved. There was no sinner so low but could in one moment be brought back to Christ if be would bring bis heart to accept Him and accept His word, There were any number of illustrations in the Bible of what was meant by instantaneous salvation. When Noah went into the ark he was saved, he and his family; but if Noah had waited one moment tq consider Jost with the rest. When Lot left Sodom be was saved because he accepted the word of God at once; but if be had stopped to consider he would have beon lost Mr. Moody drew a vivid picture of lave trying to escape across the border line to Canada in the days of | the Fugitive Slave law, when it was the question of a moment whether he would be brought back: to servitude or = forever under the protection of the British flag. He compared the slave to the sinner who is trying to reach God; he is on the line of satvation, and the work | of a moment may bring him across or dash bim back to perdition. He then preached on the doctrince of | reconciliation to God, and spoke to his hearers temperance crusade movement concerving their work and its prospects. . | MRS. GEORGE WATSON | gave an account of tho troubles and irials ‘which had accompanied the work in Brooklyn and elsewhere, and | efforts Mrs, Watson told of a young indy in Brooklyn The sermon opened with the assertion that many, indeed most, of the world’s heroes owed their reputa- tive ae such to the balance of thelr characters, They werg as & goneral rulo, meu of stroug desires and the following story :—The lady, she said, was in excel- | lent clicumetances, and had become addicted to the ase | | of intoxteating Hquors, fo much so that she ieft the home of her parents and became a vagrant, Afterward | she bad been brought to cougeut to raturn to her of the depth and tenderness of a mother’ | love, and then told a touching story of an only | and wayward son who had quarrelled with his father and left his home for years. The father was too proud to send for the son, and the son ‘was too proud to come to the father, but the loving mother on her deathbed asked for her son, and ti | father senta despatch for bim, Waen‘the 1 on | tered the room the father, still obstinate, would not | Tecognize nis offspring. The son stood ab ono side of the dying woman's bed and the father and hasband on the ‘other, snd as she was passing into the valley of death she joined the bands of her husbagdand bor son Their eves moh, and ths father, of Persia, who could not be bought nor | ven away for | fore going into the ark he would have been | surprised on hearing of their being on the Island. HARLEM POLICE COURT. Before Judgo Smith. CHARGED WITH GAMBLING. Charles Barkley, George Kissan, Josoph Sands, Wile liam Grier, Isaac Benedict, all colored, were arrested for, gambling in No, 402 East 115th street, The wite of the Prisoner, George Kissan, was the complamant, and she made the charge because she has found no good of him since he began to be a gambler, She did not, how- ever, see any gambling going on in the house, nor did any hoe} else, and the ace were consequently dis charge POLICE COUsT NOTES, Justice Duffy, atthe Fifty-eeventh street Police Courty | yesterday discharged Benjamin Johnson (colored), who | was charged by Dr. Matthew Fulgraff, No, 53 Lexipgton avenue, with stealing a diamond ring, valued at $1,500, The evidence aguinst the defendant was insufficient. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY, Supreme Covrt—Cuamners—Hold by Judge Dono nv®,—Court opens at ten A. M.—Culendar called at cieven A. M.—Nos. 108, 117, 123, 124, 131, 157, 158, 17, '182 301, 817, 823, 338, } 342 B44, 245, 946, '248, 349, 350, $51, S52, 353, Scrreue Covnt—Geyrrat Tera—Held by Judges Davis, Brady and Danieis.—Court opens at halt-past i Sane iet a, Naa ik th He 88, Sg, 1 ql d 5, 147}g, 148," 149, h MGA See Surreme Cocrt—Srecia, Term—Held by Judge Lar- remore,—Court opens at half-past ten A. M.—Case on, No, 225, Kimball vs Newton etal. No day calendar, Scurrems Covurt—Cinceir—Part 1—Hel LA Judge Barrett. —Court opens at half-past ten A. M.— on, No. 1189. O’Brien vs. Browning. No day calendar, Part 2—Held by Judge Lawrence.—Court op at half-past ton A. M.—Nos, 2338, 4523, 2563, 1006, 1230, 1548, 1824, 1372, 1380, 1358, 1316, 1278, 18304, 1044, 1116, 2363, 102632, 1056, "1656. 7%, 1062, 1384. Part 3—Held by Judge Van Vorst,— urt opens at balf-past ten A. M.—Nos. 2607, 53, 1105, | 1139, 19, 1287, 1366, 933, 2539, 101 1127, 17134" | 17536, 869, 81934, 819, 050, 1697, 2335, |. Scpgnion Covrt—Ganerat Tera—Hold by Chief Jus- | tice Monell and Judge Sedgwick. —A\ from or- | sete 1,2 and% General calendar—Nos. 22, 31, | _Scepgnion Court—Srecta, Tenu—Beld by Judge ' Curtis—Court opens atten A. M. Calendar called at | pb a 4 Demurrers—Nos, 6,8, 9 Issucs of fact—] | ‘jeyaten’ Courr—Tarat Teau—Part 1—held py Judge Sanford.—Court opens at eleven A. M.---Case on, | No. 121%, No day calendar. Part 2—Hold by Judge | Speir.—Court opens at eleven A. M.—Nos. 1: 702, | wh 963, 2047, 436, 1011, 1014, 1020, 869, 1954,’ 990, 956, 957, 958. ‘ComMON PLEAS—GuNwRaL TERM—Held by Chief Justice Daly and Juages Van Hoesen and J. F. Penna opens at cleven A. M,—Nos. 25, 20, 33, 85, 63, 710, 01, 177, ae Terw-—Hold by Judge Van opens at twelve A, M.—Nos, 13, 2, 33. Pisas—' x Brant,—Coart CoumoN Robinson.—Court opens at cieven A. M.—Caso on, No, 1263. No day calendar. Parts 2 and 3.—Adjourned until the first Monday of April. Manixg Covat—TriaL Teru—Part 1—Held by — Alker.—Court opens at 10 A. M.--Nos. 3769, 6 ty 4356, 3065, 3887, 8841, 8871, 0944, 6903, 7108, 21393, 3448, 8960, 3061, Part 2—Hoid by Juuge Suea—Coui sat 10 A. M.—Nos, $536, 3861, 4315, 3749, 63zl, 7, 0082, 3865, 5675, 3401, 3014, asi6, 4546, 1907. Vart 8—Held by Judge ‘pep’ —Oourt opas at’ 10 A. | M.—Nos. 6212, 6013, 6581, 6882, 4172, 6525, 5734, 6604,” @811, 3608, 2196, 550%, 5190, 6801, 6757, 6574, 6580, 6688, 6882, 6305, 6743, 6806, 6819, 4765, 4560. pa a age ee Pong IN ADMIRALTY. — 5 nage Blatebford.—Nos. 152, $8, 28, 68, 59, 7 13s, @6, Moy 40, 83, B1, 0,684 te oe sleeve. —The People vs. Thomas Allen and Josept: Carr, battery; Same ve, James Smitb, felonious assault robbery ; Same vs Charics Klair, felonious anaault and | CouRT oy GENERAL Skssions—Held by Judge Gilder- | | aud “aed Same vs. Thomas Gallagher, burglary; — A oat d BY Same vs, Joho Reilly, (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE? James Nolan aud 1