The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1876, Page 8

PASSION SUNDAY. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1876.—TRI tends to impair their belief in a great Beyond, is an unlimited curse, and is felt by none so much | those That carry in themselves the consciousness of Discorfrses with Which Yesterday Was | Commemorated in Our Churches. HEPWORTH DEFINES THE BIBLE. | Tt Is aChart for the Befogged on the Ocean of Lite. | | Salvation Does Not Depend Upon Belief. Christ Died for Sinners, Yet Who Would Now Die for Even a Righteous Man? The Magnitude of the Son’s Sacri- fice Illustrated. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. ER EFFECT OF THE BIBLE ON A MAN'S MIND— SERMON BY REV. MR. HEPWORTH. The beautiful weather yesterday was tho cause of ‘Dringing’ together a much larger congregation than Usual in the Church of the Disciples, The ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, which is usually celebrated on the first Sunday in cach month, was omitted yesterday im favor of Easter Sunday. Mr. Hepworth selected Dis text trom Psalms, cxix., 105—“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and alight unto my path.” If in the tory of progress God should ever utter himself and iver a revelation to mankind that revelation would a Undoubtedly be a lamp to our feet and a light upon our path. If that book, the holiest book in our possession, purporting to bea revelation from God, being care- fully followed, becomes a lamp unto our feet and ® light in our path, it is a strong argn- ment in favor of its divine origin and authority, I had the honor last Sabbath of speaking to you con- cerning some of the effects which the Bible produces io aman’s life andon the general life of society ‘With your permission I would like to continue im the | Same strain for a little, for the subject Is not easily ex- hhausted. I suppose that this book bas been the focal point of hohest and of dishonest criticism for the last 1,800 years. Tho results which would accrue to in Odelity if it could be captured would be unspeakably great. The book is the strategic key to every dofensive Position behind which tho soul of man has arrayed itself, and the capture of the book is the surrender ot everything. You remember in the Crimean war, tho walls of the fortress, the old Malakoff tower, stretches itscif in its magnificence avd monumental dignity. The whole force of attack was concentrated ‘on that single point, There were formidable earth- works off to the leit, there were extensive armaments off to the right; and yet the main army paid po heed whatever to the armaments on the rizht or the earth- sworks on the left. The one ceutral tower was the key to the whole position. If it could be captured, vietory would ensue. If 1t could not bo taken, then defeat sat | on the invading armies. 1t has always been so with the Bible. During alt these centuries it bas been our Malakot; yey it has not been taken. Puilosophers have louked at it from tho distance, men of science Dave inspected its weuknesses aud its strength near by. It bas been laughed ut and ridiculed, menaced and threatened, and yet it stands in its simple, unadorned mayesty aud splendor, untouched by the arrows of the Ignorant and unscathed by the skill of scientitic artil- Very. It holds its own, and has done so tor 1,800 years; Stands alone as a myunuin rising from a plain, Whose rock-ribbed top pierces the ciouus and kisses the stars. Some of you have scen Eddysione Light- house. [tis only aslender shalt of granite built on a rock that is avove the surface only at low tive, By | Bight and by day, in summer and winter, it stands, the beacon ligut ‘of @ nation's safety. sometimes in storms tue Waves, with the power of a legion ot devils, come dashing against its gracite sides; 1 1s bid trom View, the wave is bruken into a perfect shower of foam, and even (he steady light fails to penetrate the Obscurity of the broken Wave; but the wave is broken, and the lighthouse stands, sometimes, in the midst Of a terrific storm, you can stand alar off on a veuse deck and see it oscillate; it is impossibie for it to mnain- faiu ils perpendicular position exactly; it will yield @ Dit and recover itscit. But when the storm is over f@nd the clouds are tired of their work, there stands @id Eddystone, and the winter storms and the sum- mer Winrlwinds ure alike powerless to destroy it, Just su it is with the Biole; nothing can uproot it, gothing can take its iufluence or authority out of our Aearts or lives. It has A DIVINE POWKR OF SELY-PRRPETUATION, Its ability to live ts not ip your willioguess that it shail lve, but in its own inhereut immortality. It is not dependent upon your uphoiaing or your aowntreadin, Jt is now depencent upon your good will or your ill will, Whatever nay be your reiations to it, itis the Bame, yesterday, to-day and forever, God 18 in it and therelore it stands, Now let us jook at it ouce moro, Thave marked u peculiarity it hos toward ali—that ts, | {te simpieness ana its proiuadity. ‘Ihe child can un- | manliness and nobility, | hereafter. | With the same viewsitades that enter inte this lile. | any idea of the condition of life in the hei ‘That is not simply a question of curiosity, and yet by — bis gray the very nature of our being it is a question that can- — day the | very pla they were not imtended to accurately de- | i i | { Tho behef in a hereafter is not the result of reason alone. I may say, inspiration, of the soul, that we are to live No man who has lived in this world with very large experience believes that the gift of the hfs to come would be @ pre-eminent merey if it were a iife Is diem of the future? What 18 there which can give us Rot be answered except in imagination; for when the finger of inspiration wrote of Heaven; when gather- ing whatever in-piration bad come through the old ught immort true and final pictured 4} nly lie, itdrew to the imagination, aud reason, The, all pictures, and in the very drawing th much merged one into another, or they were so clus. ¢] contrary to all ordinary laws of rhetoric—fgi zainst hyure as well as igure with Agure—twat it w all Pn the interior of men sense of what the furure life was to be, WE KNOW BY RKGATION MUCH. all know that those sources ofesorrow | - trouble which afflict this world are to be banished | there, ler into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever hfe. If you pat your finger on the bulb of a thermom- you put the Huger of yor io the fmagination roduce a soiling, destroying | element, Nothing brings you more pleasure than the | periume of tlowers, A entation of this idea of a future life dees not tech iting, that does not cel the grandeur of it, All y through, not only the Revelations, but the co- nt 4 | an a the incident books of the new dispensation, 18 the Ut that the heavenly condition shall be extraordina | sirable and characteristic for this—the disclosure the divine | ot the divine presence; that | presence shall be in such @ sense central | as to overshadow all minor —_iniluences, all | 1 institutions, all instruments by which wo | ped, In world we help ourselves up jower line by which we come into this lite, | But when we reach the state ot disclosure on the othor | side the Divine influence will supersede the necessity for those lower instruments, and God will stand re- vealed with a power and a glory that will fill the soul with perfect satisfaction, and we shall derive our life directly trom Hi And then, it is said, in Him bia shall live, move and have our being. It is declared that WH SMALL SEE 18 PACK, that we shall see Him as we yet have. As in monarchizal countries the obscure people gain au id sovereign whom they huve not seen trom t is of the latter who govern them and ina tho ermediate waya, so in this world we draw near by suggestions, iatimations, hints and inter- it in the other life His whole person open to us and we shall approach it by the ple movement of our own souls without the nelp of intermediary institutions oF suggestions. mass of bappiness in this world has been rom social conditions. Civilization means the recession of mechanical and material life; the rel- opment of sovial and moral That ki of Tetinement which leads a man to keep apart from his fellow men ts the d The mi ‘ho know! Widest sphere may begin to claun himeelt a disciple of refinement, and where this comes up into the realm of taste, and beyond into that of benefaction, then a man is retined, In the figures of rev jon “the throne” meant glory and perfection. Oh republican Chris- tians, you Inust dismiss the word. It does not now mean any such thing We have so bombarded it with our logic that it is archawulogical—it is a thing tor mu- | seus, But all your oppressive governments, what- ever you may call them, are giving way before the | tidal wave of God's providence which is flowing over | the globe, We must sarround the divine nature with those aualogies and illuatrations that shall carry the | higher thought of our own time, the finest conception of nobility and vt manhood and of grandeur, And | thus we inust lift ourselves up into the heavenly sphere, aud we are helped to do it not only by the rit of our own time, but by the power of that little talismanic word, ‘Our Father.”” It would be as impossible, Mr. Beecher explained, | for God to make us understand His nature or the con- | dition of the future life as it would bo tor Him to ex- pl the architectural beauties of the DOME. OF ST. PETER'S TO A, BEAVER, using for illustration nuwed logs and mud dems with whicu alone tho er was acquainted. The beaver 1s not big enough to grasp the iuea, and man is not big enough to grasp the frogs! lai of God. Th idea of God is like @ Prince Rupert's drop; al tempt to grasp it drmly and it is destroyed. To Parents who jonged tu meet childron in the other | world as they were in this, and to those who expected to see and ‘than 1t was in this life, but not in the same Do you think,” said he, “the vine of love could flourish here in this impoverished here the clusters that woald hang f celestial sky! No heart bere knows rm is here, but the development must be the fo will meet your father again, but not the veuerad! head, bowed with age aud infirmity. You will meet | your’ moth your babe, But oi), in that perfected State do notexpect to find the séed. You shalt find | the trait, Do not beg that that which is of the earth | earthy shall be translated; for thon tine an “SH tion should go with it, ‘Give God liberty to make | thing that bas been transformed to the TRINITY CHURCH. THE MAGNITUDE OF CHRIST'S SACRIFICE FOR SINNERS—SERMON BY THE REY. DR. DIX. derstand a part o. tt, but another part the projoundest man cunvot comprehend. You bave been at the sea- Shure, douvtiess, and have seon two sights—right close to the sund a ttle child playiully bathing 1m the surt. Avis very shallow water where it 1 playing, and you tay, “Is this the ocean ?’? That isthe occan in une Aspect—.t is the © for the child, Now lcok aur ov, There, riding im tho offing, is an Immense man-ot-war or one of those huge clippers | shat ply betwecn sau Francisco and New York. Thai 1s | Rot tue ¢bild’s Ocean GUL here, that ts the man’s ocean aud yet it isthe same water, Near by itis emerald greeu That indicates shallow water; afar of it is a deep bine, And there you are of soundings, and yet it is the samo Poeean and siretches from continent to continent, Weil, brethren, it 1s so precisely with the Bible, Your htue baby goes to it Aud reads the Lord’s Prayer, It has ouly Adin conception of the sigMticance of the language Bsetand yet it brings its little cup to the well and is tup willed, The od man, whose eye looks through Whe secrets of nature, goes to the ible and he finds what cannot ¢ tons of God, and of | Christ, and of dat, is before them in | ignorant wonder, « ia the amazement which | f§ cwused by own inaluity, and he | efies wut: it i hight Tecan Rot attin unto That js the way on which the Bible is adapted for man's mind, It has milk for babes and meat for tnen. It has doctrines plain to We untatored and enigmas which science cannot solve, fet its peculiarity is that it fills every one rull; and that Bible will Ot whatever you take to i full, and more than full, But it is not only adapted to satisty ine intellect, but the heart in its yearnings, See, olf yonder | isatog. Let ne carry this simile tthe end it | A Vessel is caught in the calm, the tog is one thick cur- tain ict down to the water, and they know they are Dear some coast. See what the captain does Me | leaves (ho wheel in the hands of some subordinete and Jy goes down inte bis apartinent and takes down the thart. Ho knows how he is sailing and he knows his fate of speed, and by a simple process of reasoning he can put his finger on the exact spot where the log 1s, He knows Where he ts and he kaows where be wants to be, aud be knows wit his next duty ts, and so the Vessel sails, while an ignorant captain would drt With tne. current of tide and dash, peradventure, upon the rocks, and al! be lost, Now, 18 W not so tm your relationship to the Bible? Th ois not) smwoth sailing with us always; wre wish it were. We are not only caught sometimes dn aheavy biow, but inthe thick mist of embarrass- Mev and fear, We don't know where we are. We necd direction and guidance, and where shall wo get ity Can any mau give ity Pernaps he is in the fog, too. Will we trust our bod and souls im his hands No, “What wo want at sucha time as thats the Word of God, if there ts a Word of God, What we want is Fevelavion from H:m, aud not a revelation trom earth, J would fike to coutinue this discussion on next Sav- Ddath, and could go on and fil the time allotted to an sermon, It scems to me we ought to know quore about the Bible, in order to trust Oursei¥es to ite direction. Bible, as it demands, What the world wants most is a €impie, chiidiike fwith im the Word of God. Then life Will be beautivied ard bicst, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. FUTURE LIFE AND ITS CONDITIONS Dts- CUSSED BY MR. BEECHER. “And they thail see his face; and his name shail! be on their foreheads; and there shall be no night | there, aud they need no candle, neither light of the lor the Lord givetn them light, ana they shall reign forever and ever.’ These two verses from Revelations, referring to the heavenly Jerusalem, formed the text of Mr. Beecher's discourse yesterda; Ip proportion, said he, as men are civilized and ration. Blized, the importance of a future state increases—in- Ercases with sel!-luve, with self-respect and with every element that is manly, in distinction from the clements which are anitnal, The grav Dutt resent hour. Man, springing above the lower creation, #8 distinguisted from them not only in the moral faculty, but im this, that he lives more largely rgely in the and more largely in the tuture; and that, in proportion to his culture and !argeness, the future be- “wines necessary tv the presont, and sogacity in bust- poss, furesight in administration and faith im social pnd feligious relations become the significant elements 3 lord cares for nothing | At Trinity church, yesterday, tho Rev. Dr. Dix preached at the forenoon services from tho fifth chap- ter of Paul to the Romans, seventh and cighth verses— “For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet, | peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commandeth his love toward us in that, | time when the edifice was built 1 while we were yct sinners, Christ died for us."” It was clear, the preacher said, from the language here used, that the apostle desired to distinguish be- tween righteous and good men, and the patural con- cluson must be that the good man was ranked as tho higher character. The mghteous man may be strictly just, orderly and conscientious, faultless to all outward | seeming, the finished ideal of polished excellence, and | ure yet be # quite unlovable character, The block of 1¢e may be pure and symme.rical, but its symmetry is cold and frigid, more nkety to repel than attract, Such 1s the character of the rightevus man, Every oue ae- knowledges its exceilonce, but no one goes jurther s by will spread palms before Him and ery out, | there anything im this material world that is a fit em- | that we have been constantly enly state? | hin w bering whatever had been disclosed by | Feconciliation, i when the revelation | tg a Jt is deciured that “there shall in no wise en- | inat the wot worketh ubomimation.” Which ‘is saying thut there | Wut it; that | shail not be either sickness, sorrow or pain, or any of | th | the things which belong to this physical conuttion of | iro, ape to analyze that periume, | help’ There | and you lose it, I pity the man (hat upon the lirst | with courage and earnestness, observing the mortitica- | tions impose¢, and who have fallen away or who a | wandering. To them he would say:—Do violence to | yourselves for the ret , de> | onthe passion of our Lord, t | sufferings so you may have a share in the giories of | His kingdom, | hi | the battle of G than the cold acknowledgment, the profound esteem, the distant =regard) for such a character, No cne would die for such a char ter, tuongh peradventuro for the good some'would even dare to die, The good man may the polished completeness of the other, but he is bh more likely to attract our love, We recognize him « warmth that attracts us He holds our hearts When the righteous man dies we surround er with all the formal observances belting a solemn occasion, yet no one weeps. The tribute may be im appearance compleve, while it is cold in reality, Bu WHEN THR GOOD MAX DIKS there are real mourners. In parting with such a man we leel if taking leave of a portion of our better selves. two characters, the tighteous and the gvod man, were selected by tue apostie when he would estimate our possible powers of sacrifice, For the one scarcely wil une die aud peradventure for the oth the goud man—some would even dare to die, No one Wourd sacrifice himsell for a righteous man. We may admire bis statuesque virtue aud calm periection, vut why him who has a certainty of bliss in the | heres Observe the force of irony under all thi How fow there are among ur all that are either ri, | cous or good! Anaif tor these oniy the possibility | one ef us sacrificing bimselt is a mere peradventuri how much lexs probable it 18 that one of us should thore who are neither good — nor What, then, must be thought of dying triendiess, the unknown? What of dying tor e obscure, the ungratetul, the Darrow, gruss sucrilice is not demanded of a ©, appreciation of that one Lord Jesus Chi HK | We Christians tail in giving credence to the | possibilities of sacrifice! | ‘ighteous and goodare used | jenee. According to our ay ve 10 all appearances righteo: belore the all-searching ¢ in the fest place t under that name, impressively upon the great lo ih to such a sacrifice—a sacriai obscure and ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER FARLEY—DANGER OF RELAPSING INTO 8! At St Patrick's Cathedral yesterday morning tho high altar was draped with purple, it being Passion Sunday. The pictures, crucifixes and the pulpit cushion were also covered with loth of the same color, The masa, selected by Mr. Schmitz, the organist, was | Coruti’s in. There wasno “Gloria” sung. Atthe ofertory an “O Salw "’ py Rossini was given, the avioists being Mme. Bredelit, Mme. Unger, Mr. Bergin and Mr. Urebs. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Faricy, Cardinai MeCloskey's secrotary, the text being taken from John, vilt,, 46-58 Father Farley satd:—He gf Bumen character and experience, Whatever tends | coatradicis truth soem coulicts bimsel, as the Jews | to abridge the faith of men in tmmortality, whatever 41d. They would have mado Josus king but a few days Next Sunday they 'Hosan- nd ina few days they will ery out, “Cracify Let us take care that we deserve not the pun- ago and to-day they stone Him, bah Him!” It is the aspiration and, , ishment that fell upon the Jews, Have we not cried out “Hosannah !” and then fallen away again. The world without us is so different from the world within us that we are constantly beset with tempt- ations, making our fives agoing and forward between God and Satan, examine our consciences re shall Hing away. Tare cases he that goes to confession but _o finds that he has committed mortal sin, There get. When aman Jost to him while he st man falls he ex} backward It we sare forgotten. But yi can all be regained by a good c true, It ts in God's goodness to receive us when we seck But we do not kvow when death said that He wil me upon us. God has ne when we aro in told us that He will come y were | What right have we to expect that a good death will ey were 80 | follow a bad lile While the Church has never said at any soul was joat, still we know (hat many souls ¢ lost. Take, tor instance, the case of Judas. He ‘was calied to be an apostie and he betrayed our Lord; buteven of him the Church does not gay he wi damned; but Christ called bim ‘the son of perdition. What right have we to expect the grace of final perse- Yerance when in our lives the links of pod in the chain are separated by long gaps? But it is said that ¢! world 18 x0 yy of pleasures that it is difficuit to resis rf is continually changing and forces us aro weak. “To this it may be casi d that we see around ’us every day men doi g> aud laboring for their accomplishment at more ble to themselves and with more anxiety and i id be needed for them to lead good, eter you instantly lose the fidelity of 118 record: Sv if | Sabimine liven 9 be em to lead good, Feason on those iliustrations | jating graces, | ry virtue and accumu- hand Pray, that ye enter not into temptation,” says our Lord, We must both watch and pray, not umitting to do either and both with God's © many who began the Lentenseason ning few days, that you may meditate Irequently in spirit you share in His find Jesus in your hearts: GREENE STREET M E. CHURCH. FAREWELL SERVICE—ADDRESS BY REV. DB. REID. A large congregation assembled yesterday morning to participste in the farewell services in the old Greéne street Mothodist Episcopal church, it having been de- termined by the Board of Trustees to vacate the old Jocation and to go into now quarters, at the corner of Washington piace and Washington square, The exer- cises were opened with prayer, by Rev, Angelo Os trander, on invitation from the pastor, Kev, J. A. Ed- monds, Alter the singing of hymns and the reading of portions of the Scriptures Rey. Dr, Reid was introduced and delivered an address appropriate to the occasion, Ho chose for his text, Psalm xivil, 9—"We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.’? He commenced by reterring to the absence of Bishop Foster, who had promised to be present and deliver the morning address, and (he short notice he had received to prepare the few re- marks he himself would offer, Bishup Foster, be said, nad been detained at Nowark, assisting Bishop Janes in the arduous work of the Conference pow oing on in that city. Dr, Reid then said:— ‘The love of location seems to have beep one of the liar characteristics of the writer of the Psalms. Ke never seems to have reccived a blessing or a bene- ‘bere he ob- He reters to the River Jordan, and altsough id what was felt in the heart of Puaimist at this timo yet it ism that location was strongly impressed on and that the thought of the river was e diction but he associated it with the place tained it, resent in ike the t Philistines, he recurred to this incident and sald :—' God which'delivered me trom the wild beasts will also enable me to slay this Philestine.’"” Here tne preacher gave a number of quotations from the Paaims, und con- Unued by saying:—‘God is unchangeable, He was a worker of wonders in the past and will be so for time tocome. This very spirit dwells m the heart of every Nothing can efface the recollections of places ud Incidents from tho minds of those who participated You cannot ban- recollection sward over wont to tread, id the old scenes ast it think of Every man wi Mi roams through the w Sanctitied associations. This detweer, SAVAGE AND CIVILIRED LIFE. ne is the human mind affected by such ciream- God is everywhere and in all places at once; | but there are instances where God tavored certain places. Imagine that recognition and thought on the part of the Almighty which saw the titness of withhold. ing from the Jews aud the followers of Christ the | knowledge of the location of those places which in their natural superstition they would reverence. We do aot know the piuco of the nativity or the spot where the crucifixion occurred, All these places are lett in great doubt and uncertainty. God wanted that all our devo. tion should be given to Him and.not to relics which the burmau heart would doubtless rejoice to look at and reverence. Ido not intend to imply that only uncul- tured minds are penetrated with this ide: feelings and thoughts are also peculiar to minds the highest culture as they are to those possessing the greatest simplicity.” Dr. Reid here gave a number or ti rations: e course of which he referred to urgand the peculiar interest @ man would feel for the on which he laid wounded after the conflict. He also gave experience while laying under a tree severely wounded, Dr, Reid then narrated bis reminiscences in relation 10 the Greene sircet Mothodist church. He said thas at the considered to be ‘the finest and largest Methodist churcb building ia the city, and that the venerable Dr. Bangs on its dedication had said he never should lve to see 4 tiner one, Things bave changed since then and now this building | is thought to be unfitted for tho uses for which it was | erected. He then read a number of documents, suchas calls for meetings, &¢,, 19 1887, 1838 and 1839, mention- ing the bames of those who were workers in the church period. Ida t trust myseiftoreter to names F tuan those | have already mentioned, but there doubtless many around me here to-day who remem- ber the mea who bore ‘esponsibititics of the church, thougt they were here to-day, This I reter to, the most spacious church ind it was the most convenient for holding great anniversarics, Here was held the farewell mect- ou ing Of the great missionary family, with Jose | Lee ap bi wie = =at its head, = whieh proceeded to Oregon, Here was held the ab | of abymn, during which a collection was taken ap, | 4 the great Conferen 1844 where such animated discussion took place, and when Bishop Ward said to me—when | experienced considerabie anxiety in gard to the debate then going on—that slavery w: ureadil thing, and that no peace would exist while slavery shouid last, but that he believed it would never be wiped out except with blood. His words seemed strange to mo at the time, but they have since proved prophetic, Dr. Reid conciuled by saying, this builaing may pass away and cease be remembered by the present generation, but many of us. will recall it on the way of etern nd look ov vbatiioments of @raven and say, “I have deen there.” The spot will be there; eternity itout, Crude and are those words, they are such as [ feel in ‘and [ pray thet this day may be one of ben 'y one, and alsy be benediction to the impertec rvices were brought to a close by the singing alter Which the sacrainent was administered aud the Venediction pronounced vy the pastor. In the atternoon a meeting of ghe Sunday school wap held, and in the evening au address was delivered bY | peg | Rev, Dr, Santord. who occupied seats within tue morning services were Kev, Angelo 3. Osburne, Joseph Longking and others, SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. OPENING SERVICES--6ERMON BY REY, MR, ALMAN ON WHAT MAKES A CHURCH TRULY PROSPEROUS. Yesterday morning the new hall corner of Allen and Grand streets was formally opened for service under the name of the Second Baptist church. The chamber of worship is large, cheeriul and tastefully decorsted | With [rescoes and suggestive scriptural devices, and i is furnished plainiy, but in a way to insure the comiors of the congregation, Alter some pretatory services the prayer of devication was mado by Brother Day, and on its conclusion tho pastor, Rev, Samucl Almaa, preached on “Prosperity. Numbers, he said, do not assure the prosperity of a church, It is zeal that 18 most effectual, When Gideon of old led his hosts to batue the Lord taught him that their vast number, instead of bringi strength, brought we » He cut them down; He * weak minded, and chose only those who aod strong of heart to do His mission. e in thos city with very large . powerful, th re infuen- ve Vetter ior them to have a member culiure of refinement Jover nowadays of tlk about at late Of education Acall iy made fo ow, for one, 1 do nol septal for a man to stand in a pul and Shakespeare, and speak to ression quite unfamiliar to bu rs, HOF hin the people whose admirativn 18 ots ee proportion to its prov Ab ts os Mu for these account of his own | applied, but when i: becomes so mingled with them that mer measured by it then it is a curse, Ik seems like tras eriiying an immortal soul into metal so as to weigh and appraise it, Reputation, too, ds pot great ree of a church's success, Jt may spread the name broadcast, it may by congregations flocking around and yet fail to the real end of its mission. No, fame, wealth, cultui and pumbers are good things; but it is the abiding ‘oly Ghost in it that makes a aoe Wa Fme Without Him we can d> nothing. Wemast vo here alone, not in the chamber of worship only, but at our fireside, in our thoughts and in our hearts. What | we want most is zeal—euduring, persistent zenl—zeal | to moet the issues of life and to Jabor to promote the glory of God, We want also vigor of brain as well as of heart, so that we can go into the work boldly and confideaily, We want harmony among us, too—every mind in unison, every heart accord. Nothing 80 retards a church nowadays as lack of co-operation. Let us labor then in harmony; let us have the honest, simple Word of God preached and let us place hearty d implicit belief in It; let usm practical application of carry it with home and have it betore our ey: the affairs of lite. Then can we feel mission is fulfilled, (hat it is really, ly prosperous. MASONIC TEMPLE. SERMON OF MR. 0, B, FROTHINGHAM ON SAL- VATION THROUGH THE FILTRATION OF THE INHERENT SPIRIT OF EVIT. Yesterday morning Mr. Frothingham’ preached in the great hall of the Masoni¢ Temple, corner of Twen- ty-third street and Sixth avenue, and his audience, as udual, comprised somo of the most earnest thinkers of New York. Mr, rrothingham announced that the third social reception of the season would be held by their society at the Union League Cluv rooma on Tuesday evening, April 4, at which time an entirely new com- edy, adapted from Mr. George William Curtis’ ‘Poti- phar Papers,” and entitled ‘Our Best Society,"” would be prosented. The sermon of Mr, Frothingham dealt directly with the spirit of evil, The preacker said:—I wil! read from the an t Seriptures, where the book of the aposties says;—''l know thy works and thy labor and Tondure them.” Here, he said, is an expression neither cold nor hot nor luk m, naked humanity is searched and it manifest, All tho weakness of the human kind latd bare and all the expressions from old writors’ w! made plain. - Labor makes known toa mun lis wants, capabilities and necds, as fire makes periume {rum jn- cense, Why will men look with wieked eyes on women, or Steal, be obstinate, friends of the wicked and enemies ofthe good? All this or; but in the human ecovomy it is ordained that tt shall be, and be endured, | Man muat jer in order that he shai obtain greater strength, that his nature shall be broadened and bis character become more sympathetic through suflering id pain, 1 want to preach truth, yet 1 may be pre- | vented from doing so by a narrow ‘vision, —Salyation rt nd yetl want you to be. uis; but it don’t mal any difference whe Roman Catholics, Uni tarians, Prosvyterians or Methoaists. Greek or Scyt! hereafter or the judgment day. tled by the Great Unknown, lar beyond any svcid of your belief or your power to comprehend the reachable, The soul is taken care of by God, and t spirit of evil inherent in the human heart will bo “fl tered through His crucibies and finally devoted to u mixed good, just aga little shrub that a friend sent mo from Egypt, which looked like a dry and woazen thi ween 2 laced near water blossomed and flourishe: greenly. ALL SOULS UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. BARRIERS AGAINST GOD—SERMON BY REV, AL- MOND GUNNISON, A bamerous congregation listened to an eloquent sermon in the All Souls Universalist church, Will- jamsburg, yesterday. Tho sermon was from the text ‘Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even, lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come | in.—Pealm xxiv., 9. The words of the text, suid Mr, | Gannison, were chanted at the gates ot the city of | Jerusalem when the ark of the covenant, the symbol ot Jehovah's presence to the Israciites, was being con- veyed to Solomon’s Temple on the day of 1t¢ dedtcas ; tion, The temple, rich in its beauty and decoration and orpament, was admired by the peopte, but when in its recesses tho ark of God was there it became dear to them, for God dwelt within it, and in this consisted the significance of Is- Taev’s temple—a holy significance that will never ut- terly perish. The temple was buta promi dpe 1m structure, only a common thing, but when the King of Glory entered it the associations of Israel’s God and Iaracl’s history lodged themselves within it, and it be- came tho holicst, divinest spot on all earth. Protestantism can never know how much it has lost 4n its surrender of the grand architecture, the poctic rites and imposing symbolism of the Catholic Church, which inspires in the worshippers @ spiritual emotion that makes the church the “houso of God."’ Protos. ing word of truth may fail, Catholicism aims at de- votion, and quickens, not by the ear, but by the eye, tho grand architecture and services giving & majesty and brilliancy that charm the mind through the sight; so that in one of their cathedrals 1t is almost 1m- possible not to worship, and if their ceremonies and edifices exert such au’ influence un one not of their creed what influence muat they exert upon those whose fathers have worshipped within them for a thousand ears! x But what would Solomon's Temple have been had the gates not been opened to let the King of Glory int. Tho gates had been built by tne hands of Jows, but of cities, BARRIERS AGAINST GOD, Our hands are continually building gates against the outside clamoring for admission. The first of these is ““arroverence."” Protestantism by its free thought and froe speech, its spirit of criticism, its scientific re- search, bas left uncultivated the religious and spiritual element which is chief in the soulof man. It s o instruct rather than to move; it is cod when the joul needs fervency, its ministrations tending to intel- lectual developmeut rather than spiritual growth. The ery on of Catholicism, on the other band, aro men of feeling, because by memory, music, art and association they cultivate feeling. The Catholic re- gards his church as the house of God, the Irotestant a his “place of mectin uted the atmosphere of contention among its denomt- nations which builds up against the King of Glory a teeming everlasting barrier. Extravagance is another effectual barrier, when our desires outrun our means and liabihtics are incurred both 19 home and church circles until they go down jn financial and disgraceful ruin. Churches are often so dovoted to the struggle for emuncipation from debt 8 paralyzed. There is opon the single ward in Brooklyn a debt the wouid feed, cloth and educate all the poor within its borders, and until that is paid off the charches cannot be free to devote themselves fully to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Selfishness is another barrier, and how sad its Btory—sect orrayed against sect, church —— church, creed against creed; Jealousy, envy, all un- charitableness, with evil’ speaking agd ‘malice— these come and dwell the house of | God. The strong retuse to bear the burdens | of the weak, and the weak will | no Darden at all, thus erecting a barrier whose hinges are brass and timbers of osk impenetrable. Within ihe Chatch there should be no room for personal self- ishness; but bigotry, self-concelt, carping criticisms of men and methods, sensitivoness, 4 copstant. crying ‘out of neglect, lack of earnestness —these are the bolts in the door which keep the King of Glory oat There | ace other gates, as those of pride, folly and unconse- crated service, all of which we are owilding against the King, while within, because of them, our churches, our sects, yea our own hearts, arc desolate, because the King'stands without knocking at the gates that prevent bis entrance. Let us, there‘ore, allof us lift up the gates and let the King of Glory tu. And into Christian Chureh, into our hemes, inte our. hearts ighty God, the everlasting King, shali enter, and ‘we shail is none other than the house of od and the gate of ven.’ ST. MARY THE VIRGIN. GPRCIAL PASSION SUNDAY sERVICES—ROSSINI'S “STABAT MATER” FINELY REXDERED, There was a special Lenten service last evening at the istic Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in Forty Mith street, between Sixth and Seventh avenucs, Rossini’s ‘‘Stabat Mater’’ was sung by a choir of selected ‘Voices, and the place was absolutely crowded, There was a full choir ef boys and the svloiss were Mr, Brandt and Mmes Kobinaon Similaney, Tho music Was very finely notwithstanding that most of the principals eurs, ander the direc- | Won of George B. Hrent rganiat, The *Cujus | Animam” was especially well rendered by Mr. Brandt, nally ‘ine yore. OS cece de- ‘ne el cele. @ pastor, "ta bev. Mr Noyes. PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. OUGHT MOODY AND SANKEY TO BE SUSTAINED— SERMON BY REY. MATTHEW HALE SMITH. in the Park Congregational church, Brooklyn, yes- terday morning, Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, the pastor, preached the first of a series of serm ns on “Questio Affecting the Times." Tho subject w aghe Evangelism, as Represented by Moody and Sankey, to be Sustained!’ The text was {rom I. Chronicles, xii., 32— “The children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know/what Israel ought to do,” The proacher read the three passages in tho Bible in which the term evangelist occurs, Ephesians, iv., 11—*He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teach. era. Also Acts, xxi., 8, which gives an account of Paul's visit at Cwesarea, when he “entered into the house of Vhilip, the evangelst.’’ Vaul’s com: to Timothy, Hl. Timothy, 1v., 6—"Do the vit Radale-[Wor% of am ovangelist” Tho special gifs to PLE SHEET, Him with us, we must keep Him with us Now) tantism aims at inséruction, bringing its worshippers | closely to the teachers thatupon the ear the quicken- being opened to the Lord he made Jerusalem the city | Ler, and while we consider we are suie he is on the | and to this must be attrib. | yin the fulness of uur cxuitant jov, “this | the Chureh described by St, Paul in 1, Corinthians, Xi, 28, are helps, governments, tongues and teachers, recognized evangelists, The deacons mentioned in Acts vi, baptized, preached, worked miracles and fravelled from place to place, aiding the aposties and helping the churches in their necessities. The evangel ists of the Now Testament were helps, and not hin- drances. They were aids in the Church, and not out- side of i, They were helpers to the apostles and teachers, and not rulers, Moody to-day couid do noth- be alone; hig strength js in Church aid, The prepara: Ons made tor his coming and the gushing support to is labors, the choir and the clergy are quite as 1mpor- tant a part of the ctangelism of this day as are Moody and Sankey, The evangelists are to do what the Church cannat do, Butthe Church mast make the jons and gather in the reauits of evangelical Evungelism is onty useful when it is regarded a5 an extra aid or heipor. ‘Wheu the apostles were in prison the Church went abroad everywhere preaching the Word. When better times came the Church work came into its the qualified men, who ‘were called God 2 was Aaron,’’ preached the Word. Joba the Baptist was an evangelist, as well as A forerunner. His ministry, apart trom the towns and Villages where people lived, was an extra one, whom no minister of the Lord imitated. Philip, a deacon, preached in the Desert of Gaza to the Ethiopian, ans ‘turned all Sumaria to the Lerd,” ‘working miracies and wonders among the people.” Stephen was full of faith, and the Holy Ghost and his eloquence drew upon him the bitter enmity of the enemies of the Cross. An evangelist 18 So like & tow-horge on a city railroad car, lifting over the hard spots. He 1s like a stavionary en- gine at a grade, doubling the force, He is like the force that pries the ongine on |ts centroyand enabling the machinery to work. In continuation the preacher Made the following points :— Lt regular religious jpripsmensaliiy bas never been sufficient, Muses bad to be assisted by theelders, Ezra and Nehemiah were tae prophets of the Lord. Yet the “pulpit of wood,” at the restoration of public worship, contained thirteen helpers. The men whom Jobn in bis zeal silenced, were ovangelisis. The Epis- tes of St. Paul contained grateful recognition of the work and success of theee hel, 2 Ubdjections to evangelisin are not valid Looked at from any standpoint they cannot do any harm. ‘Their labors are eminently scriptural and direct. The | coming in of such men, without earning ur culture, | ito Church work neither lowers culture nor offers a bounty to ignorance. The Methodists have always bad | alurge ministry. Yet the schourship of the regular clorgy hus been rising for a hundred years, Men say, “What is the use of spending nine or len years to pre- pare, to preach when a man can leave a carpenter's | bench, take a Bible in his hand which he cannot read correctly and preach to 6,000 or 6,000 people, murder- ing the King’s English all the way, Aman who preaches in Brooklyn to a congregation of 3,000 people on Sunday night boasted that four years ago he was a whitewasher, and did not Know anything of grammar. The question finds an answer in the fact that in spi Of these deficiencies these men have power. While | no Church would settle them as pastors, and would | not uliow any man to preach as they preach, yet if j they are “sharp thrashing instiuments, having tecth,’"” and so reach the multitude, a great good 1s accom- lished. Successiul evangelism must include the bors of such men. All the measures of evangelists ate no’ to be approved. Yet tbe Church has it im its ywer to control extravagances, correct abuses and jofbid excesses. The favor of the Church breathes life into evangelism, and under its frown it dies, The waking up of A great community to the subject of re- ligion cannot but be beneticial, 1t 18 said tbat 1,100,000 copies of Saukey’s hymn books have been sold in this country. Through if millions are singing the songs of salvation. In the pataces of the rich and in the hovels Of the poor, in the worksbops and im the marts of trade, fm the darkest and dreariest wens of New York, chi- dren, women and men are pra.sing the Saviour. The Pauline utterance well becomes our lips, “Whother in retence or truth Christ be preached, 1 therein so re- joiee, yea, and | will rejoice.’? MOORY AND SANKEY, As early as half-past seven yesterday morning all the streets and avenues leading to the Hippodrome were orowded with peop!o making thpir way thither. Bejoro eight o'clock the Madison avenue hall was filled, and Mr. Moody camo forward, looking refreshed from his short vacation, After the singing of the 119th hymn, “Work, For the Night is Coming,” and prayer by Rey. | Dr, Ormiston, Mr, Moody, before delivoring his address, | | announced that on Thursday and Friday nights next | week the front seats would bo reserved for people who want to become Christians and for non-churchgoers, Many persons who work for a living complain that when they get to the meeting all the good sents arc filled It is mot necessary for church members and professing Christians to be’ present every night, and they ought to make room for those who want to find Christ, | ‘Phe text yesterday morning was taken {rom the fourth chapter of John, forty-first verse—Ono man soweth, another reapetb.’’ Tho speaker said the division of Jabor in the Church is told tn this passage—one mao ‘sows the sced im the heart of men, another reaps the fruit, We have been sowing seed for two months. and the ministers now will reap some of the fruit, for the ministers are good, hard working men. I have lit- tle sympathy with the men who are lecturing about coldness in the Church, It Is themaelves that are cold. I think the Church 1s the best instituiion under heaven, Tho Church of God is a wonderful power, and | if 1 thought that the good of these meetings was to van- | ssh after our departure 1 would feel very sore. I hopo that every young convert will join tho | Church, and I bog of them to do 10, Aman whe bas any standing in the Church never comes to want. Those who join will find that God’s | People are tho best friends they could have My | advice is join some church at once; it won’t cost much and channel, of accustomed | —$10 a year for pew rent, and in some churches much | less, Deprive yourselt of one cigar a = and it will | go far toward paying your pew ront, My experience | ds that the ministers are the truest men I have ever | met. There is something for every young convert to | do, Go into the Sabbath school, andif you can’t get | a class go out in the streets and raise one. The houses of the people have to be visited, the nome of the | Grankard and the abode of the wretched, and those far from God, The houses of iniamy have ‘to be visited, and the torch of salvation must bo carried into tho | lques and by-ways and the alicy-ways. This ig the kind of work I hope will be the result of those Meetings, so that it will not be a matter of weeks or months, but of years, and those who have been | made Christians may vecome strong in the faith | forever and lead thousands of others to Christ. There | fs no use in these converts waiting to be qualified as they think, If they wait too long they will dry up. | Let them go to work at once. Bo full of sympathy for | poorsinners; tor if you want to win people to Christ | You must win them to yourself first, and keep up the | Mark 8 long a8 you live, for we have had enough of SPASMODIC REVIVALS. All of uscan do something for Christ, no matter how humpte our station or bow circumscribed the limit of eur action. If we cannot do anything else we can pray. Don’t give up, my friend, but keep on working and God will biess you,.and you will enjoy with Him the kingdom of heaven, On the platform were twenty Shakers, who had come to New York to attend a couvention at Couper Insti- tute, At the afternoon meeting, which was for women only, the Madison avenue hall was filled long betore the time for opening, and an overtlow meeting was beld in Fourth avenue hal, which waa presided over by Rev. Dr. Plummer. It was estimated thas the number present in both halls would approximate 12,000. Mr. Sankey sung at both meetings. Mr. Moody addressed the audience in the Madison avenue bat! on the “Pas. sion of Christ.’ His text was taken from Isatal im, 4, 6—“Sarely he hatn borne our grieis al carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him pti smitten of God, and affiictea, But be was wound for our transgressions, he was bruised for our ipiqui- bes.”" ‘The preacher depicted with lifelike fidelity the be- trayal by Judas, tne trai of Jesus before the Sanhe- she agony in the garden, the Journey to Calvary and the final dea th of our Saviour om the cross. He ‘wag listened to with attention and evidently produced | a-deep improssion i# hearers. In the evening Mr. Moody preached the on of the afternoo! audience of 8,000 men. The doors as injuries in to make their way in the crowd, | One man bad deen seriously injured at the lower y-sevonth strect entrance, but on foe sant being | been very roughly throng, but bad not mat with any very serious injury, as he | balland took his seat with the rest. WI | were waiting the arrival of Messrs, Mood, y the choir sang several effectively led by Mr. Harry Johason, lresid: of the Oratorio So- joty. The overflow meeting last aight was presided | over by Mr. Farwell, of Chi THE METHODIST CONFERENCES, PASTORAL CHANGES TO BE MADE THIS WEEK AND NEXT IN NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN, Next Wednesday the New York and New York East conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh will meet im annual sossion—the former im the Free Tabernacle, West Thirty-tourth street, and the latter in Hanson place church, Brooklyn, By request of the New York Conference Jast year, Bishop Foster will preside over ite sessions this year, Bishop Harris will preside over tho East Conference, im Brooklyn. Bishop Foster has been bere for a few days past, aad Bishop Harris has just come on. The New Jersey Conference has been in session in Jersoy City since Wednesday, and will so continue until next Wednesday, This is the “off year in the two New York conferences, aud the pastoral changes ‘will not be #0 numerous as they were Jast year or wil; be next. In the New York Kast Conference three pre- siding olders, whose term of office (four years) expires, Wil be dispinced, and the candidates w Ww Begs! i ONES Lo have the Dest cl . McAlister, now of Second Methodist Episco- street pal churen, Rey, 3, M, Acama, D, D.. 01 the Conurad trying | It was reported that | ws | made it was discovered that the person spoken of had © ! | 2 kiyn, Forsyth strc chan, eho seems to Pe tm aa ro may ; bi H r n, to Wy: disabled by sickness; der, of Huntingon, Le 1, who is lik ly to Second street or to Forsy: Rev. C. Fletcher, who will provaniy Adains, Of the pastors who will change Wesley R. Davis, of Sim; church, B: goes to St, James church Harlem, in 1 Conference, and who will be succeeded by Sims, of Newark, ’N. J.; the Rev. Charles M. Gi Nostrand avenue church, Brook! dout, also in the New York lyn; Rev. Robert Roden, of The Rev. Goorge I. avenue Methodist 5; return to the Providence came. The Rev, Thomas who is now in Ew Westgate in Bromkinw: the Swedish church, Brooklyn, will be com; the law of the church to change alvo, ‘unless can be made a mission, and is im the no one to suceced him. Jobn street church, York, must be supplied this year, ite late 0 Rev. John Dickin- Pere i att 5 g i i of Willett and the City Mission, New York, we of the New York church, Brooklyn, will one Lo India as a missionary. S Leib rgd aig drpy pr goes and the pastor est arms died bis place must be filled, The Re Bowdish, of Astoria, is booked for Mount Ve and his place must be d'led. But there are plent; plicants for all these places, and still there’s Niet follow. Aclassot nineteen candidates are waiting to bo received into the Conference on trial, and some old warriors who have been resting on their laurels a yoar aro Sooking: for epee) nemsends, this year. Th uestion for the Bishop and the presiding el sto work for all these men, Hard times are pi influeacing a great many young men to enter the muiniatry, who would not hear or the call of rit, to this work were the Spi the times flush with money and employment There wre very few changes this year in York Conference, and onl, or three in this city, The Rey, R. Wheatley and the Rev. A. C, Morehouse, beth connected with tho City Mission, will be com- gS to exchange; . Hatfeld, of White jains, wilt vacate his cha: and Rev, Rioh- mond, of Sing Sing, will do likewise, Th Sanford, Presiding Elder of Prattaville ie Rev. A. District, wilt v. P, Conference nearly as |i astheother, The ingeauity of bisnop and elders will be called into play to provide suitable appointments for all and yet give offence to none, A NEW REVIVALIST. Three women, several men and two policemen as- sembied last night at No, 153 Chatham street, in re- sponse to some circulars which have beeq recently distributed on the east side of town, announcing that Mr. Marchant, of London, would conduct religious services at that place and that no collection would be taken up, The circular also stated that “Moody and Sankey hymns” would be sung. No, 153 Chatham street is on tho gto of the old Chatham Street Theatre, and the plad still retains that name. On the ground floor 1s a siage, with a balf dozen side seines, situated at rear of abarroom. The exercises night were opened by the singing of the hymn “Sweet Hour of Prayer" by a choir preety | of tour females and three men, who were aided by a young man who played on @ not very new piano. ‘Hold the Fors” and - MI were also sung, and thea Mr. Mar- daprayer. Alter the singing of another hymn Mr. Marchant read a portion of the fourth chap- ter of the Guspel according to St. John and then pro- eceded with an address. ‘He asked his hearera to mend their ways and ‘be- children of God, saying that, altnough Adam, urrounded by every happinoss had listened to voice and fallen, thus depriving after Joys wich bad been propared for Fathor bas sent His Son, Jesus, to earth us the way to that happiness which was tae ded for us. the speaker traced the Saviour from His birth to His passion and fice, so noble in itself, was our sakes. How long is the Word of God to be our ears without effect? How long will you reject Him who gave up His lifeto make your peace with God?” Remember that there is atime when mercy’s door is shut, God has a right to your best attention and*h and I affirm that there is no hap- piness unless fo1 God.” . A COLORED PASTOR'S TROUBLES. A spirit of discord has for some weoks past prevaile¢ among the congregation of the African Methodist Epis copal church, of Flect street, near Hudson av Brooklyn. Yesterday the police had to be called for, The present pastor isa fine looking man, named Mar ray. His preaching has not been satisfactory to some of the brethren, who also circulate a scandal in rele tion to one of the sisters, Some weeks ago there was an investigation by the Board of Trustees into ni treatment of a female member, and the Board was di- vided upon the question of his guilt or innocence, The trustess who tried to prove that there hed been Eeeeiens. wore removed and a new set elected in their stead, The deposed trustees declared that the meeting at which they had boem removed was held in the middle of the night, and that wWwas irregular and its proceedin; inva! The: wrote 40 the Bishop, but up to yesterday had recei no auawer. They requested the pastor to ten day! He refused, and on Mond some of younger members proposed him, The members, who appear to be about equally divided on the merits of their pastor, were in @ fever heat of excitement at ten o'clock yes- terday morning, the timo for the service to begin. ‘‘Dar'll be trouble hero ‘tore long, honey, sure you'r born,” remarked a sturdy descendant a Ham to a dusky damsel at his side, as he looked about him on entering the church. Others a tothin 80, too, and a delegation of brethren went to Washing- ton street station nouse and informed the Captain that their pastor had been locked up in the study and was unable to get out and preach. The congregation had assembled and there was much noise, and many Ubreats were used in the church. About @ dozen po licemen were sent to the place to keep the turbulent spirits in order. The door was forced open and Rev. ‘. Murray made his appearance, and ascended tht puiptt amid the cheers of o1 of the flock ant the jeers of the other. In the meantime a party « members who were oppose to his preaching called o+ Inspector Waddy and asked for a squad of pofi “Why,” said the Inspector, “I have just sent you ofMfcers from the First precinct.” “On,” was the reply, ‘them officers was sent to the other side.” The Inspector informed them that he could not undertake to have the police take sides in a quarrel, but that they would keep order. Preaching was had during the forenoon and again in the afternoon, and the lice kept perfect order. The courts will be to-day in the case, HOBOKEN HORSEMEN, ‘The first annual exhibition of the German Kiding Clab of Hoboken took place on Saturday n Hexamer’s Riding Academy before a large invited friends of the mombers. The Academy was tastefully decorated with flags and banners and a brass banc was stationed on the gallery, The entertainment commenced with a quadrille, executed by the following members of the club:—Messra, Schreiber, G: egg bag A Jester Tag, Mt ae YY laeuger, Ferra, rens, ngmat or ani Hexamer, J inder the command ‘ot Paulson. The excell er In which the different evolations were executed was bighly creditable to ail the mem- bers. At the close of the trotting Messrs. Schreiber, Paulson and Hexamer exhibited their skill im riding im the ‘feu de barre” HACK OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Hack Owners’ Association was held Jast night at No. 200 Third avenue, Mr. Richard Jones, the President, read a paper protesting against the hotel hack stands. From the Astor Mouse to Thirty-first it ts said, seventeen of them, and only jumber are and many of ges that stand at them are unlicensed A test was also made Emad the arrests daily maae ir petty violations of the law. ie taking of their would insure an appearance to answer. 4 committee was appointed to call on the Mayor and lay the grievances beiore him, The Sere officers were elected for the next six months:—Rich: ge presi. dent; Maurice Highland, vice president; Thomat Bo: ; D. & Conder, assistant secretary; ‘and John Fulton, sergeant 0, 5 yistom, secretary ; Edward Willis, treasurer, atarms A SINGULAR PROCEEDING. Yesterday morning, a few minutes after one o'clock, Edward Cain, andertaker, of No, 234 Sixth street, ‘Williamsburg, missed $230 trom his pocket, while he was in a liquor saloon, at the corner of Seventh and Grand streets, He caused the immediate arrest o man in the saloon other thar and preferred a charge o larceny against at the Fifth precinet statios Two hours after he wanted Taggart released, but could not get him out except throagh the order of a magistrate. At nine o'clock in the morning he took acoach and wel Justice Elliott, who opened court and admitted Taggart to bail, his accuser, Cain, decom ng bis bondsman. THE RESULT OF A SPREE. Jeseph Victory, of No. 378 Bond street, Brooklyn, having indulged too freely in whiskey yesterday afters noon, became very noisy, and was taken in charge by | Officer Rogers. The mother and sister, discovering that the disorderly member of she family was in trow ble, rushed to his assistance. Tho wemen grabbed loli ot the officer's arm: id held them while Joseph inded. Later In the afternoon Victory was recap- jared at the corner of Court street and Fourth placa EUROPEAN VIEWS. Rev, J. G. Oakley witi weture this eventing, in Duane — Bptseoya, church, on “Sights Beyond ube