The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1876, Page 8

Sermons on the Triumphal Entry | of Christ into Jerusalem HOSANNA TO THE KING, Beecher on the Viees of the Intellect and the | Social Feelings. / — + THE TRAVAIL OF HUMANITY. | . \ Salas | | Dr. Budington Favors Dissolution | ——. of Partnership. | A UNITARIAN sy ar | PLYMOUTH CHURCH. WME. BEECHER DISCUSSING THE VICES OF THE | INTELLECT AND OF THE SOCIAL FEELING | The music at Plymouth charch constantly improves. | Horatio C, King played the organ yesterday, and the choir, under direction of Mr. Henry Camp, sang very pleasingly. Miss Emma Cranch, a contralto from tho ‘West, sang the opening anthem, “Tho Lora My Shep- herd Is,” in a manner which gave universal pleasure. It is understood that the lady may be permanently engaged by Plymouth church. “Verily I say unto you that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of heaven before you. For Jobu came to you in the way of righteousnes, and | Ve beheved him not; but the publicans and harlots HINDOO. | | much solemnity in houor of the entry of the Redeemer believed him, and ye when ye had seen it repented not aflerward that yo might believe him.” These words, woken by Christ to the scribes and pharasees as re- torded in the twenty-first chapter of Matthew, formed | the text of Mr, Beecner’s discourse yesterday. The | publican and barlot, be said, represented the two most | fesperate of all passions—lust and avarice—two flery | dragons that have destroyed more good than | any other two influence in the world; | that aro everywhere accredited with evil and only evil. Ofthem Christ said, “They shail enter into the kingdom of God before you.” in other words, | “Their chance of virtue and of spirituality, and so ot | immortality, are better than you! Who were they whose chances rank lower than the publican and the | harlot? They were the chief priosts and the seribes— | the bighost ministers and oMcials of religion in thag day, meu of high standing in society and the reposi- tory of alithe learning of that day, They were men whose culture had produced a certain degree of refine- | hient, nor were they, at least many of them, withouta great degree of morality. That kind of morality which | society demanded was held in respect by them. Else- where the Saviour denounces their morality as formal | tnd exterior, and not civilizing and Christianizing, To these men Christ said, picking out the meanest and most despised classes, “Their chances of saivation are better than yours.”” We are not to suppose that the declaration ol our Saviour arose tron a lighter sense of the gailt of tho people than is entertained now a was entertained then, He regarded these people as the types ot wic sa He uccepted the judgment which declared them at the very bottom THY MOST IKRECLAIMABLE OF ALL MANKIND, His speveh, then, was not a lightening of the guilt of avarice uud lust; it was rather a condemnation of cal. ture and morality without humanity and religion. Our baviour meant that culture and spirituality without Divine love 1s more dangerous than vice ts (o its sub- fects. The point that was made, and which needs to be fhade now as much as it did thin, is that the peculiar vices of the intellect aud of the Sovial feclings and of tho moral feelings, the vices to which the) subject, e more dngerous than the vices to which men are subject throwzh their passions. Corrupt intellectual and | , moral natures have Icss likelihood ot ever becoming | members of the kingdom of God than they have who are corrupt by their baser passions aud appetites. That is where the emphasis comes, and it should give every man heed to know whether in any degree the dangers incidental to the higher forms of civilzation Are apparent in him, and whether there is any message in this gospel to-day. Look, then, at the ecutrast be- tween prolessional goodness and professional badness a8 spects the clement of growth. In th © belore Us are ou one side those who were yt They were bad; they knew !t and every bods knew \t. “On tue other side are the priests, Scribes and harisees. They represented professional goadness. Vhich of those two states of mind tended most toward dnewed spiritual impulse, renewed spiritual growth ? Aman whoce whole life ‘cousisis in making himself | Delieve that he is good certainly has less motive tow- ard spiritual development thaa one who contesses to | bimeelt at the very outset that he ts not good, that | there is no good ih himr. Those men, at the bottom, had no shield nor pretence. they kuew it pertectly we | Were good, and, therefore, When John came in | Ol righteousness, there was no shield, no bulwark be- | tween them and him, Therefore, the axe was laid at | the root of the tree. The testimony is they were rerced to the heart and reformed, Aud the testimony | js that many phorisees came to hear John, but they Were exquisitely good already (!) They did’ not need Any turther polish to be laid on (!) | “G0 OX, JON; GO ON)? they cried, ‘those men need to be reformed; you aro: | doimg & good work”? But when John sad, “Has nobody warned you, too, ye vipere, to escape trom the wrath to come?’’—well, that wa: address that was very unseemly. Joho was a ragged telliow from the | Wilderness, They thought, “What does he know about our culture and our piety? He has not the least con. ception of what we are. He is doing a good work among these rapscauions nere, but to say they are better than us is ridiculous." "How happy men must | be who have no need of being any better! That w: the way they felt, They had the feeling of the pharisee | tn the prayer, “God, | thank thee that lam what Lam; that | am not one of these publicans.”” The great dan” ger of morality avd culture is, in st plare, thavit all produce a feeling of sel{-satisiaction. Men feel | about religion and knowledge and personal attain- ments as some people teci—for I suppose there | are come such peuple jet even now—with re. spect to property. They do not wisu poverty and they | Go not Wish excessive riches. “What we want,” they | say, “8 a comfortable amount of property on’ which | an live independently and without fear.” There | ix a glorious content, but there is a more illustrious | discontent. It is weil for a n to say, “lL can co: quer my circumstances; Lam, by the grace of God, superior to my condition.” But this should be con- fined Ww the outward man. It should never go to the inner mau. Any estimate of morality and virtue and culture that puts a man in swect content with himself 4s to be abhorred. Coutentment in spiritual things ts wile, Whew a man says, “0 soul, be happy; very good soulart thou; enough, enough,’ 0 woe to Such ainan ay that ‘Then, too, culture tends in some minds to run on Btraight to conceit and to pride, so that it cuts them off trom a sense of the need of divine succor, Men aro | empied to feel not only that they are superior to their fellow inen, but to lift their heads up toward God and “What lack | yet? Am I not virtuous? Who, then, ist?” This pride also teuds to cut him off trom his 1ellow men, And when men make a line between theniseives and their teilow men ou account of supert- ority, that very moment THE TEMPLE OF SATAN 18 S&T UP Yn their hearts. AJ! the way through the life of the Baviour, whatever virtue or whatever culture separates | & man from bis kind, whatever lifts a man out from bis tetlow men dnd separates him from them in such a Fense that they are not to be objects of succor and feli-deniat on his part, was recognized by the Lord Jesus Christ as a heinous crime, Our Saviour taught that no persons were so corrupt as those who made their culture and abilities the ground of spiritual sep- Bration bewween them and others. What a thrust the words of the text wore upon this collection of pious | and cultured people who had gathered around the Lem. | le—men who were so uff the Templo, so afrad ; for thé regular Chureb practices, that they could sparo | fo thought or sympaiby for the human heart “Damn | the man!" they cried, Virtually, ° care of the Temple! Damn the m ritual)? Those were the men before whom the avaricious man tnd the harlot should enter into the kingdom, be- tause their culture had made them idillerent to their fellow men, And when the pit shail be Bncovered, and when, under the convoy of Some angel of God, we jook down through the | jurid twilight and behold the thief and the ravbies and the harlot, down, down below them will be the oajer}, for there 1s no crime like the to humanity upon the threshold of | fight of the glory of God, taking the and the suffering of God in Christ Jesus; taking that ministration o1 all-suffering love that gives everything for the suke of those that deserve nothing; taking these things ouiy to inaugurate the kingdom ot seitishuess—there is bo crime against God hike that. Blexsed be God for households of faith, but woe to those who so fortify themselves that ail the hght is the chureb and shews outside nothing but dark. men. Weare hearing a great dew latciy of bes wh; jo not go to church, avd it is asked, How shall we reform the immoral cissees? You never will reform them until you find enough men, pot as officers of stitutions, not memevers of churches, but simply a> men standing among nm, Wheo u Bumman hearts that can bear the sorrows Of those who | Ofc lost and degraded as | CHRIST BORK THE SINS OF THE WORLD, fandcan do what Christ did for the world; when they | eau lay down their lives for their enemies the immoral will be reformed. [| remember the first dawn of the vouperance motement, whet (t was locked epen by ‘varer elie opoaed Mniringement of their atu he? of ues drunkards became converted at a Peuteoostal io and thoy went out and roformed_ | be the rendering of Rossini’s | ritualism, there were also appropriate services in com. | | trusted to its charge, | services the programme was the most oxtended, | copnection | they on P | coming of a mighty prophet, who should assume tho NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1876.—TRIPLE | their fellows, and from that moment, trom «ae moment ( men in Men—DOL of society 19 Men— Work was a success, We can never lift the lower ut of theyr unmerality until we have compassion that fompassiou of which so litue 1s said and | less is ivi. We are always talking about pub- | stice and about defending society, Alas! the top | y is detending ueelf by treading on the bot- tom. We never shall be able to preach the Gospel to | men inchurehes. We never shail be able to meet the | essitios of men by sending out ordained preach- We must do that, wo, bat we “t make every man, woman and child that | eves inthe Lord Jesus Chri: missionary unto tirst loving Christianity Ull men see Joy, geu- aud peace, so that men may feel the presence | of Christianity as I feel the southern wind by {ts fragrance and warmth. In conclusion Mr, Beecher do- clared that earpesiness was required in preachers rather than culture. Referring to the labors of Mr. Moody in this city he said it 1s 4 sad commentary on the condition of thi ip our great cities when, with- out all those other clements of power, culture and Knowledge, these men work such a marvel U the whole city throngs week atter week to feel the impres: of 4 man like this, who, like the Master, just pours his heart out Jor men’ because they a . Among the announcements made by Mr. Beecher was that of a concert which is to be given on Thursday night, at Strong place Baptist church, m4 Mi men- tine Lagar, tho soprano of the church, assisted by other artists, Tho teature of the entertainment will | jabat Mater, ’* | PALM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES, In all the Roman Cathohe churches of New York the festival of Palm Sunday was yesterday celebrated with into Jerusalem, the streets of which city he was to tread a weck later asa condemned maiefactor, Ina congregations and pastors are inclined to High Chureh memoration of the day, Sermons, as a rule, were not preached yesterday in’ the Cath ole churches, owing to the fact that the | Passion servic | the world, the Eternal City, SHEET, juded ana disappointed, There must necessariiy have been at this period in Jerusalem three considerable parties—viz., the mass of the common ple, the dig Ritaries and priests of the old Jewish urch aod the representatives of the Rowan power and all their sym- Pathizers, No doubt each of these classes had its owo claim to respect aud its own ground of reasonableness | Juris opimons. It is true they were all nistaken, but 1D auother way they were all in some sense and to some degree right in their feelings, Dr. Bellows then descrivea the feelings and the condition of the three classes above mentioned at the time when the Saviour Was on earth. CHRISTIANITY REFINED JUDAISM. Further on iu the discourse the preacher said:—As Christianity was Judaism refined, corrected, elevated and pointed with new bopes and led by a Captain greater than all the prophets, so we must confess that evory age has proceeded to correct, amend, rationalize ande 6 the interpretation it is always another, yet always the same, ow long would it have taken the aposiles to recognize the religion tuey left in Jerusalem and Asia Minor or planted at Athens aud Rome m the dress it assumed five centuries later in the capital ot 8 it clothed itsel! in the pomp ot the world, its purple and jewels, its architec- ture and political power, and became the instrument of THR MOST COMPREMENSIVE AMMITION that ever took possession of the human bo-om? What was Alexander's, what was Ciesar’s kingdom compared with that of the popes in their highest power, when great kings trembled at their croziers and humbled themselves at their reproolY Had Christianity been that fixed, changeless thing, without growth or in- terior development, it would not have been here to-day. It Was the capacity of being separated from the super- stitions of its successive holders, its hospitality to new light and truth, its accommodation to the powers of tho buman mind, that has given it power to outlive relig- jons that did not and could not grow, an- Joid, shed their old bark and put op bew ty with the ever returning spring of humanity. We can respect even those old conservatives, the high | few Episcopalian churches, principally in those whose | priesis of the Savhedrim and the Pharisees, whose Jewish orthodoxy would not allow them to credit such au imnovation, It was contrary to the tenets of a re- ligion of a thousana years, and they were only acting as such bodies of people ever uct, With a certain Jatal hecessity, and us people act even in our present day, : WHAT 18 ORTHODOXY as it is called, and which 1s taken of St, Mattuew, was read in the ser- ss in its entirety. "The color used on the | robes of the officiating clergymen was | from the vice of the m alturs and in purple. Palm branches, blessed for tho purpose, were | distributed to the different congregations through. | out e yand bk; wor urning to their homes during | | the w on und afternoon their hats or other parts of | their wearing apparel decorated with. palm branches | and carrying in therr bands branches, of palm. At the | Cathedral of St, Patrick, on Mulverry street, there was | uo sermon, but the Very Rey, Vicar G spoke earnestly to his hearers in tavor of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and the children who are in- He stated thaton next Sunday | ction jor the orphans would be taken up 1 ull the Catholic churches in the city. ST. IGNATIUS’ CHURCH. THE LESSONS OF HOLY WEEK-SERMON BY REY. DR. EWSR. St. Ignatius’ church, on Fortieth street, near Sixth avenue, was the scene of most interesting exercises yesterday commemorative of Palm Sunday. At all the various morning services there were crowded congre- gations. Tho interior of the church edifice, a model of nout and tasteful elegance, in addition to the brill- jant blaze of gas and burning candies lighting up tho church, was beautified by pa'ms and evergreens in remembrance of the day, A special feature was the | singing,,Which, always excellent here, presented yes- | terday a rather more extended and select programme | than usual, What is designated as ‘the choral cele- | bration’ was uuusually tine, the youthful chpristers | singing with a spirit and finish showing cureful and elaborate instruction. Mr. Dennison, the tenor, sang | the solo, “Benedictus,” with a rare and swect | expression, Tho organist, Dr, Walter, of | course was up to his usuat high mark of | excelionce, Among the p.eces were ‘-Kyrio,” “Gloria | Tibi,” “Agnus Dei” and Nunc Dimittis,” ail of which were most admirably executed. At the eleven o’ciock neral Quinn | the usuul annual col at apy time in the world in matters of religion but the opinions that have got themselves entrenched and surrounded by the greatest numbers? Who so ortho- dox as thoge Very Jews who crucified the Saviour? It was their venerable, protound attachment to the truth that led them to dare anything to quench tole fre: | bumbers of cbildres, men and | brand. They did what the orthodoxy of the law did | ! with the Quakers of Evgiand, the witches of Salem, with the carly abolitionists, with the Anabaptists and | Socinians, and which burned at Smithfield some of the first Unitariaus, but we know that Christianity 13 stil young and growing, still shedding the errors which nen have contounded with it, and we know, tvo, what the function of orthodoxy is and what itcan yet accomphsh, Dr. Bellows then delivered a glowing eulogy on the personal character of Christ, andin cone} Thee, broken from their stock, did not perish fervid April sun—they paxsed on ali zo from generation to generation. We fing them i Thou goest to-day trom Olives to C: ey vary, for we know that though they wave Thee to the cross, the cross will | hit Thee to the throne of human hearts and make | Such treatment again he does not plead for 1 us a Thee ten thousand years hence dearer aud more sacred to our race than Thou art to-day,” ry CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE EFFECTS OF THE BIBLE CONTINUED—-SER- MON BY BEV. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. Rev. Georgo H. Hepworth preached ¢o his usual largo congregation yesterday morning, from tho text Il. Timotby, in., 16—*all Seripiure is given by inspira- tion of God, and 1s profitable for doctrine, tor reprool, for correction, for instructzon in righteousness,” We are atthe present time, you know, standing i the midst of anniversary associations of the utmost im- portance and of the most exciting interest, More than eightecn hundred years ago, at this time of the year, circumstances were converging, arriving at a focus, and the consummation of a historio tragedy was at band, Christ from the hilltop leoked down upon Jeru- salem on His way to that reereant city. Tho people, always voluble, and never to be de- pended upon, and moved for the moment the Litany being unusually prolonged. The prelimi. | hary exercises, occupying nearly two hours, being com- pleted, the rector, Rev. D, Ewer, preached a discourse which, likewise, bad special reference to the day. His text was Zechariah, ix , 9—*Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee; he ts just, and having salva- ; tion; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt | the ‘foal n ass.’ We bave just passed through | Passion Week, he began, and to-day We enter upon | Holy Week. To-day we celebrate a most remarkable | event in the history of Jesus, | THE CROWNING OF JESUS { by the Jews. Wuhile Jesus anathematized Scribes and | Pharisces as hypocrites, He was near the body of the peu- | ple. Alter ull the people were right in heart ;they crowded to hear Him; they felt inspired by His veautilul doc- , trines, although tbey were uot fully aroused to the di- vinity of His mission, From the people Jesus chose | dhs twelve disciples, as also the chosen seventy, Nicodemus also came from the people; so did | Lozarus and the publicans, When they came to see it any good could come out of Nazareth on seeing Jesus Weir prejudices against Him vanished. Jesus said nothing against the masses, Me only wept for them. | dertul chapter of Join which I have go often alluded | mon; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griet; Ybere Was an underlying stratum of good which. Ho | saw and appreciated. We have before us the instruc. | tive phenomenon of the common peopie accepting Christas their promised Messiah, The heart of the people ix always on the right side, Ail that is neces sary is to clear away prejudice this was shown in | the homage paid to Jesus on Palm Sunday. In this | the reverend speaker rather avruptly | branched off to i THE WOMAN QUESTION, | He said that a masculine woman occupied about the same piane asa feminine man, Our boasted nine- | teenth century bad not accomplished much for the advancement of women. Men and women occup: tion or infamy. Limited to put few employments, | with thousands closed against ber through prejudice and mock sentimcutal feeling, it was a shame to this century that where a woman does a man’s work sho | shoulda’t receive a man's pay. Roverting again to | his subject, he described Jesus on Palm Sunday, when | His name was on every tongue. Jesus, who at tincs ) pad suffered sorrow and who had been sick at heart, | Vantages. was now the recipient of glory, Palm trees were | spread before Him and hosanoas tilled the air. How | did Jesus bear carthiy gloryt Did He, in mock mod- eaty, seek to thrust itaside? Earthly glory was sweet | ti to Him. He wae pleased at giving savisfaction. But there 18 this notable phenomenon in bis lite and character, thut while He never foolishly dosired glory He never sought it for glory’s sake. His especial work was u great and earnest one, and He | over lost sight of it as He went about his duties trom | e¥en now turn from the evil oi tneir ways and again | gpecial cases showing how they endured ridicule, day today. If glory came in the end weil and good; it not, then well and good. Lot us imitate Him, Truo greatness 18 siugleness of purpose, and true singleness of purpose 18 the glory of God and the benefaction of man, Let us hold on and hope on and pray on, forget- | ful of self If wo do this tor others? good, and they | Es know it not, no matter, The diamond that pas | years in its matrix of earth is a diamond | ‘sti kle. A great saint on once being asked how he bad | atiained to such apparent holiness, replied that when he started out he had two things in his mind—God and | himseli—and he flually dropped himself, PALM SUNDAY does not closo the glory of Christ. The con- turies are _resc with hosannas to His name. | He that truly followeth Christ crucifieth himself. . The true stuil stands the test of flames. There are sharp and striking contrasis in the life ot Jesus. | The week opens with glory—it closes with gloom. It opens with His acceptance—it closes with His rejec- | P! tion, On Sunday the multitudes crown Jesus; on Sat- | urday His cold forms rests almost utterly unattended, It opens with balleiujahs—it cioses with curses. Those few humble women who followed Christ, where were jm Sunday’ They were undistioguishable an the great noisy crowd of demonstrators. They were pushed away, although they had borne with Him the | heat and burden of the day, When ther Lord was crowned King they looked with beating hearts. In th great nicbt of His troubles they are there alone. The question is not how much you will rejoice at Christ- mas and Easter, but how much you will suffer during Lent ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. THE STATE OF FEELING IN JERUSALEM ON THE | FIRST PALM SUNDAY—SERMON BY REV, DR. BELLOWS, All Souls’ chureh, at the corner of Fourth avenuo and Twentieth street, was well filled yesterday morn- ing. The pastor, Rev, Dr. Bellows, preached on the “State of Feeling in Jerusalem on the First Palm Sun- | day.’ The text was taken from StJohn, xii, 12-13— | “On the next day much people that were come to the | feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jeru- salem, took vranches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, ond cried, Hosanna, Blessed is the King o¢ Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.” THY SERMON. Br. Bellows said the week on which we are entering commemorates in the Curietian Church the great events that happened in Jerasaiom during the last few days of cur Saviour’s career, His death and resurrec- tion, the events, in short, that leat the foundation of | the faith and worship of the Christian world. It is well called “Holy Week," and naturally gives Special interest and solemetiy to the thoughts and the services of all devout disciples of Jest His min- | istry Was drawing to aclose He had undertaken a | task of heroic and stapendous diticulty. The Jows had been in expectation for countless generations of the throne of David, restore the faded power of Isracl and rescue Judea trom being a province of the Roman Ei- pire, Amid ali their sorrows they still held firm hold of their expectation of coming Messiah, and their sublime fope cred contidence was the STRENGTH AND CONSOLATION OF ISRARL. Again and agaip they believed that the do. liverer was come and [oT Ts | by a divine enthusiasm, shouted better than they knew, when they cried vut, “Hosanna,” and called Christ the King of Israel prophesied of old, They express nothing more than common loyalty whon in their zeal they tore their very garments from their backs and tho branches from tho trees that grew ; by the wayside, and strewed them on the triumphant | pathway of Him who went into Jerusalom as a king and went out of it as @ criminal Jesus lelt behind Him, when he took His seat at the right hand of God, first, an example which we are to follow as closely as may be, but which we find it very difficult to follow, except at a great distance. He left us also the sad and solemn yet victorious heritage of His sacrifice in our behail, the spiritual value of which 1t is hard Jor us to estimate or appropriate to our salvation. — He leit, also, certam words which are like the omt- ment which Mary put on the tect of the Master, the periumne of which filled the whole house; for those words, redolent of beauty, have touched the hearts of every generation and dried the tears of sor- row in every century and given to mankind a blessed hope of the’ eternal life whica circumstances cannot take away. Jesus said to His disc:ples in that won- to that the Holy Comforter alter his departure should teach them ali things and bring all things to their re membrance, woatevever He had said unto them, The Holy Spirit then quickens their memory, and the word which we have ts, then, the word of God, written by God's band, wish'the same authority that utterances of hig own lips would have, and we ure to receive it as tho toundation of our action toward each o her and the Most High, and the corner stone upon which our im- mortal happmess is builded, — And yet 1t seems to me, dear iriends, that we havo not yet appropriated the Bible as we vught to have done, It 1s everybody's property, and therefore belongs to nv one. “We can underatand how men are to be saved, but not how we about the game relative position—the man | afe to be saved ourselves, We look upon the New upon the throue and the woman upon tho | Testament as the expression of God’s love, but we aro footstool. Lett “without a father or a brother, | apt to look upon the Old Testament as the hardness of driven from nearly every avenue of employment, God. It seems as though the universe had suffered a | and elbowed from place, there is little loft byt starva: | terrible couvulsion when the last prophet died, aud A BRIDGELESS CHASM intervened between the old and now, and itis agen- eral impression that if we believe inthe New Test ment we can fairly neglect the Uid; that we can tnd our comfort in the words of Christ and po comiort in | the words of the older book. It seems in this we have made an almost fatal mistake. Woe have ubridged, | did not know where to jay His hoad aud whose spirit | through carelessuess and toolishuess, our spiritual ad- | vary hanging over Him, and He dies, We say the story We have unnecessarily narrowed the circle Jn which our hopes grew, in whieh) spiritual good comes, There is no book in which I take more delight than the Vid Testament, and I find Christ there in | I do not believe every chapter and every verse. that’ God revealed Himself in the Old Book, more asa king and despot than inthe New, Tie Old Testament is ali fove from beginning to end; it 13 record of God's great aifection jor the human’ race, a | revelation of His constant promise te those who will enter loyally toward himseif, You may turn to any page apd tind that my words «re truc. Look at the Israelites tn the desert; yes, oven when they were encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai my words true, If you wil listen you will hear the awful v of God, and all the people shake with fear, and thi hear that voice, Your impression that God is In gocd time it will come to the light and spar. | seated on a throne, and that He gave to hoses the | abolition of slavery. There is another side. Christen- | commandments, and Moses came down with his stony tablets, and the first words —Thou shalt not.’ They begin almost all the commandments, and ju say, very naturally, ‘what a hard hearted, stern | 0 Tetog God is—He will what He will, and what He will not caunot be. Thero is something hard and angular about Him.’ But you bave been looking at Sinai all the time. Turn to the green grassy plain; what do you see? Thousands of tents and scores oi banners lifted high, and mght in che centre you see the tabernacle builded by Goed’s direction, and about it the visible | sence of the Almighty himseil. The cloud, which 38 the revelation of God’s protecting care and love, the cloud in which God hath hidden bimseif, which newher the tempest nor the rain can cause to disappear; it stands there, tirm ; God is tf {t 10 prove by day and night that He loves His peopie and 1s ready to guide them, and when it moves they must move, aud when it Stands still they must siand sull, 1 think you will find this truc everywhere—the incident I have given is bat an illusirauon of God's love in the Old | Testament Look through Deuteronomy, tor instance, and see how col ily the — people are given to idolatry, and yet how torbearing God is with them; the punishment comes till they get down on their knees and pray ty Him; but the moment the tear of repentance starts then the God who parted the Red Sea aud the Jordan and fed them on manna in the wilderness will Kindly forgive and build them’ up Again. So again and again, Ul the doctrine of the New Tesiament ts fultilied, that man mast be forgiven seventy times seven. Many peopig ask, *‘Whatis tho road to Heaven that the Scriptures point out?” Let ‘me begin with the twentieth verse uf the seventeenth chapter of John—the diadem in the life of Christ of precious vatue to us poor miserable sinners. It is the verse in which Christ uttert er to the Almighty God in your behalf and mine, “Neither pray I jor tuem alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word.”’ And it is a very precious thought to me that when Christ, inthe travail of his soul, uttered this prayer to God, he prayed not onl for those immediately connected with the churei he had established, but also for you and me in these Jong distant a that we might work in the vineyard, and that our work and theirs might alike redound to the glory of the Father. It is a precious. thought that God saw me inthe juture and prayed for me, and it should be couraging thought that He with whom there ts no 4 and no tuture looked into my very face and jifted bleeding heart to the Father that His savibg spirit might be vouchsafed to us in our trials | and temptations. And yet we are all sinful. Letme turn to a passage that puts us all on the same level. A | aed many bave said, “1 am not good enough to join the churen,” and 1 never yet have disputed the word of any man who made that assertion, | know tt and be knows it and God knows it, The question is not whether you are good enough, but whether God will take you as youare. Some of you are expecting to gfow more worthy. My brother, you will die beiore ou become worthy if you expect to become worthy y your own efforts, He don’t ask you to make yourself clean, Ho asks yoy to come and | let him ‘make you clean. It ts written, Thero is none Tighteous—no, not one, That means you nui me. Do ‘on read your Bible except as a matter Ww ave either gut to accept it with all its conditions, o else discard i, We must learn toread it as a matter of Plossure, aud understand what it demands of ua oud ion said, “The palms that waved for | ta that | occasions when a business man in partnerstip by glorious way as | Y | was im our ownaimes, when we find that the men who rested | ask Moses to go into the mountain, tor they dare not | opposed slavery wore reviled, and even Dr, Chi | then accord with it. Jesus Christ His own self bore our sins ip His body, that we, being dead ip should live unto righteousness—by His stripes we w healed. ar its croes, then, 1s THE MOST PROMINENT BROT im the world, You begin with a conscicusness of your own selfs and you find that Christ is made the Propitiation for your sins, and you can appropriate to yourself tho sacrifice of Calvary. Christ bore your, | ‘sing in His own boay; then, surely, you need not bear them too, But what'will you do for the man who had | sacrificed everything m order to iree yout Why, of | course there ought to bea relationship 6! eternal xratl- | tude, and tove, and obedience, Thatis what religion \s, | | CLINTON AVENUE CHURCH. THE NEED FOR DISSOLVING PARTNERSHIP BE- TWEEN DISAGREEING INTERESTS—SERMON BY REY. DR. BUDINGTON. At the Clinton Avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn, yesterday morning, Rev. Dr. Budington, after the reading of the twenty-second lesson of the Psalter and responses by the people, called special | tention to the fact that next Friday will be Good Pri. | day and the following Sunday Easter Suntay, and | asked all to give grave heed to both occasions. He | then took for a text on which to baso his discourse the third verse of the fifteenth chapter of Revela- tions:—"‘And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, ‘Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, thou King of saints.’” On the above as a foundation, the reverend gentle man proceeded immediately to the consideration of- the combination, in the text, of what seemed to bo op- posites in the Creator’s scheme of government, He fixed the “song of Moses” as that of God’s law and justice, and that of the Lamb as that of mercy and salvation to repentant sinners. Tho rule, he held, was not aiways strictly the one or the other, | but a Godlike union of blending of both; though, on | occasion, mercy, as generally understood, was not con- | sistent with strietest justice. At times there was cn | antagonism between them which only God’s great work could harmonize. He would cousider the seeming antagonism between strict justice and mercy in the light of tke relations exist- between business men who are partners in | a common enterprive, On that basis it was felt that a:l honorable and really successiul business rests on strict justice, Business ditliculties between | partners rest for their rectification on reference to the | | (And here it was ciear that the congregation came to View the sermon us dealing with the question amoung | Congregationalists aa to what is best to do under exist- | ing divisions in opinion concerning the status of Pt mouth Churca.) He intimated that there wi | (as are churches in a given denomination) expects | his partner to act charitably toward him, It in need | o! such treatment he pleads tor it, or his friends ao | for him atfiret, but if bis conduct seems to require | mercy to him, He grows bolder and demands it as a | right. Then is it that, when mercy and charity have bcen extended, improperly in the tirat instance, it be- comes apparent that mercy or charity, not justice, 1 | expected continually; and when such @ condition ex- | 1sts 1b becomes clear that A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP is the best for the one who holds to justice as the rule for his guidance. I such a course were not followed the result would be that the man who had asked to bo | charuably dealt with in the first place would soon, if | impusive and etic und bold in his seltishness, | come to set up his own will as the rule of their actious against that of law and justice. Such a man, 80 ex- cused, would become more vain on every suzceeding | | wrongful occasion, ond in the end simply | render positively necessary what it would | | have been vetter for all associaied with him to have had done at the boginning, when the | ovils growing from the association were cuinparatively ; small, Mercy, be held, must atall times be, iu the light of God’s rule, consiateut with justice. If people in associations could notlive together peacetully it | were beter that they should dissolve their partner- ; ship, leaving the right to be uncontaminated by the | wrong. Courtesy must never be permitted to take the | place of justice when standing in or involving antagon- | ism to it, Mon must not be permitted to hold com- Inauding positions simply because they desire to hoid them, but only becuuse of their ability to hold them, It law and justice be good their exercise is good, aud every time mercy and charity intervene to stay thar | effects the eflect and force of law and justice are sened and society injured. Justice and mercy shou only be combined as God combines thom, and then no evil result flows therefrom. The discourse, of whic the above is unly a very, brief sketch, was listonod to with profound attention by the entire congregation, MASONIC TEMPLE, “THE TRAVAIL OF HUMANITY”—SERMON BY 0. 3B. FROTHINGHAM. “The Travail of Humanity’’ was the theme upon | which 0. B, Frothingham discoursed yesterday to a | large audience at Masonic Temple. The pastor stated, | This Palm Sunday—a Sunday that opens Passion Week; | commemorative of the sufferings and agony of the Son | of Man—was a fit occasion to speak of the soro travail | | of humanity. The ftty-third chapter of Isuiah describes ; | im touching language the suffering and sorrows of the | servant of Jebovah. ‘He is despised and rejected of | and we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was | despised, and we esteemed Him not.” The minister | spoke of the little band of Israelites that sustained tho | | Saviour and kept alive the love for His Gospel; they, too, were discarded and despised. The language of the prophet is an plication to Christ, Christendom describes its Christ sin the | same phrases as tho apostie—as a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, born in obscurity, beginning his ; career in a deadly conflict with Satan and ending it | ‘with bitter tears at Gethsemane, Driven from peenyesl gantry misunderstood by His own brethren, , Scourged by the Roman solaiers, and at last nailed to the cross—this is not one the story. The agovies of the thieves on the right and left of Him were not tho agonies that Christ suffered; is suffer- | ings were only such as THE SON OF GOD COULD SUFFER. He was alone in the world—ptteously and help- Jessly alone—made the mark for the curses and sins of all the world, That is Christendom’s interpretation of the Son of Man. The history of Jesus iy simply the | forerunner of tbo story of the prophets walking over ' burniug ploughshares. ‘ihe Hero sees the cross on Cal- | of the Son of Man tu His agouy is the old, old story of | suffering and agony ; and, this wo all onderstand to be | the history of all who undertake to benefit their fellow men, Whoever opens the gate of tho prison house of man will take bis lie in his hand, and he must make | up his mind to pass slicepiess nights and go down to a blooay grave, Tho pastor pointed to the long line precursors who have been martyred in holy crusade: | or in efforts to benefit their fellow men. He spoke of | ) the great inventors and discoverers, and poiuted out agony and suffering, and not an article of pleasure do We to-day possess but was brought to us by bloody ny. He recalled the persecution of the Jews in tho Miaate Ages as an. illustration of the truth that hu- | | Manity must pass through sore travail, Even so it 10g in Boston was ridiculed fur pony & war and tho | dom hag striven for nearly 2,000 years to putusin a | penitential mood. lt has told us to look upon the | dark side, the shadowy, { ‘THR NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE; | to fix our eyes upon the enormities; it has pointed to desolme wastes, to storms, uproars in nature, and told weeping dows, sobbing rain and murmurivg | flood ; It points us to wild breaches, poverty, sickne: despair, death. The new view tw us forward reads history with an eyo of rig) sui of cooling dew, sparkling fountain: | Babbling brooks ahd laughing rill, ‘This makes us feel | someth' hat the travail that our attempt is m4 better of Ceemg 4 is humanity in life, That little company of Jews in Babylon read the past with geuerogs visions. | They hanged their harps upon the willows, but tho | eternal music of their race was going on in their souls, The minister next considered whether Jesus | suffered, and graphically depivted his bravery and hero- | ism when,tHe conironted Pilate, wuen He sat down by the well in jesert and drank of the waters of life m His heart. only sow the crown of thorns; angels sow Toses, Jesus was a hero; He kn was a regenera- | tor, and He was disinterested. The travail of human- | ity, Mr. Frothingham insisted, proves that there is | puch a thing as disinterestedness. Men doubt it; but | the history of the lives of the heroes apd regenerators | | of our race proves it. The preacher concluded by ro- ferring to the gratitude of man, as shown in the travail of humanity, and deciarea that the birthday of man will yet be celubrated and the services rendered by the Denelactors of our race will not be lorgotten, CENTRAL M. E. CHURCH. “WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH JzsUS?"’—SERMON BY THE REV. MB. VAIL. In the absence of the regular pastor yesterday (E. 8. Harrower) the Rev, Mr. Vail preachod in the Cen- tral Methodist Episcopal church, ip Seventh avenue, Dotween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets What with the alluring sunshine of the morning and possi- bly a desire on the part of many to air tor the last time this season the habiliments which did such falthful, | service during the dreary months of winter—tor next | Sunday 15 Easter—a very large congregation assembled | within the prim orthodox walls of the edifice and Joined in the devotion with all that unction for which Methodists in general have ever been distinguished. _ ‘The text selected was trom Matthew, xxvii, 22— | “Pliate saith anto them, what shall 1 do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?” There comes a period in the lives of all men, said the speaker, when a choice or a decision that will affect their whole lives must be made, That time camo for Pilate when he asked the question concern- | tng tho disposition of Jesus, He held the life of Christ best legal and business minds ior judgment thereon. | | ment of the boundiess grace of the Almighty. | the world—n rest in the up Barabbas what shall I do with Jesus, which is called Christ?” Pilate bad no right to trust the de- cision of this qfestion to any one save himself, The decision of the multitude was his decisiou, and by and through it he decided his own destiny and made his name the synonyme for all that is vile and exe- crable, And so itis with every man, There is 4 mo- ment when each must decide; tf we fail, if we are untrue toa high sense of duty and render our de- cision fur what looks showy and pleasant on the sure Jace, but is vile and base or selfish or sordid beneath, we may be happy fora time, bat how sball it be with us at length? God Himselt has taught us that Jesus is the Messiah—the chosen one. What will you do with Him? Ask, as did Pilate, “What shail 1 do with Jesus, which 18 called Christ?” This has boen the greatest of all questions tor 1,800 years, Others have arisen irom time to time, have been discussed and finally dropped from the memory of map, but this question wever being brought home tothe human beart, and, as ithas been the all-absorbing question for near!: 2,000 years, so will it be the greatest of all questions through cach suceceding age. Formerly the answer to this question was, “Crucify bim!" b shall tbat be ouranswerf Men have for ages at tompted to decry Crist and His teachings. Voltaire gave all bis briliiant intellect and opportunities to the writing down of Christianity, and no man in the last hundred years bas done so much to injure itashe, Aud yet we ee the very press which was used to print this ritings now printing Christian documents of which are spread broadcast throughout Ea- jon do not answer this great question as of old; they are more subi 4 astute in their answers, aud the consequence is of the most paintul kind possi- ble to contemplate, For instance, John Stuart Mill, in writtug a biography of himself to show his covtempt for Christianity, did not once mention it, as if it bad not in any way entered into bis lite or bad anything whatever to do with 1. Can there be any more Weighty factor in the lie of a man than Christianity ? ‘The Jews of to-day are far more per- plexed by this question, What shall we do with Jesus? than were their ancestors of the time of Pilate. They see they must answer the howd tion their young men are constantly asking about Christ, and that wer can no longer tguore Christianity, but must face it with more potent and powerful urgu- ments than they have yet done, The answers to this question are exceedingly numerous and are constantly veing added to, but what can they avail? Wo are told that Christ was only a moral toacher, and in saying this they think to rob him of His exsential glory—his crown, “Oh, yes; Ho was a great humanitarian; we admire His broad and gener- ous hberalt purity of His life His love; w: combined in Him all those rare graces and pertections which we ordinarily find separ- ated in men, and we frankly admit that His marveious manity bas won the universal admirat ot many ages; but still He was but a great moral ieacher—only this and nothing more.” Remember the age in which He hiveu! How jow down wero the Jewish people then sunk! How debased and how degraded they had vecome! Could Jesus be, as is charged, but ‘the natura! outgrowth of such an age and such a people? Could anything be more distinct than tho difference—the wonderful contrast—botween Christ | and the age in which He lived? Many people say they betieve Him the Christ, admit He was sent of God and was a Messiah, but they will not believe Him ul Himself over all.’ There is a time when wo all want some mediator between us and God, as did the Jewish people when God called them to the foot of the mount They could not stand in the presence of God and they sent Moses up the mount becanse Moses was their modiator, Some ple find a mediator iu books, others in music—in those grand productions of the divine old masters, the oratoriog and some charch music—productions that awaken all the deep emotions and the warm feelings and sensibil- ities, and actas a mediator between God and their ; some finda mediator in rare paintings, others in architecture and othets again in nature, You and 1 may not foel anything of this; we may be only will- ing to go to God through Jesus—the man and yet tho sept of God—and as on Jacob’s ladder we may cliinb up ‘Him to the presence of God. All should believe one of two things—all should answer this great question in one of two ways—either accept Christ entirely or dis- card Hum wholly, ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH. SERMON BY THE REV. DR. TYNG. This beautiful edifice, in Stuyvesant square, was crowded yesterday, and tho services were as usual very imposing. After the usual preliminary exercises, tho Rev. Dr. Tyng preached a sermon, taking his text from the Psalms, cxvi., 7—'Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee.” The reverend geutieman, in the course of an eloquent discourse, gave a lucid explanation of the text. A re- turn from the past gave the idea of a previous going out. The rest spoken of was a confession to the Saviour. It showed that the spirit of rebellion was dead, and evidenced a submission to the divine authority, @ search for salvation and obedience to God. It conveyed a determination to besaved by the grace of God forall eternity. All these had previously been forsaken, and the return Teant the gilts of peaco and hope and an selon wiodg. ror to the return all these had been lett belind, and the soul remaiued in absolute wonder that it could so com- pletely have deceived itself. 1tulso conveyed the idea ol a rest from foar, a rest from the conviction of past pe No matter how defiant a person had asshmed imself to be, he could not divest himself of the fear which attended the consciousness of his guilt. This return also signified a rest from the paiu aud dissatis- faction of life, with all the happiness that could give to the conscious guilly soul, ‘No mao ever saw a dying sinner boast of his cundition, From all these the soul returns There comes a change from dark- nessto light and the soul rejoices in the glory and goodness of God, It ts a return from the weariness of full provision of what God has accomplished for the benetit of mankind and the conviction of. being saved by His grace. The mind of man could not conceive the extent of God’s goodness, and the retura mentioned in the Psalms meant likewise an acceptance of His grace—a full con- fidence in His truth and faithiulpess. The reverend preacher conciuded by exhorting the congregation to open their hearts to the Lord, in view of the eternal is. | bappiness awaiting the faithiul, It could hardly be said that the choral arrangements for such a church as St. George’s were complete or satisiactory, What between indistinct enunciation on the partof the choristers and an immoderate use of the bass pedals, the harmonious effect doubtless in- tended to be produced was entirely lost infin unmean- ing volume ot sound, ‘True, the splendid mezzo-so- prano voiwe of Mme Jule de Ryther, an artist of superior attainments, was at times heard to great ad- Vantage; but the efforts. of even this accomplished singer could not well cover up the numerous defects which were throughout apparent in the interpretation of the selections given. The services yesterday aid not terminate until after twelve o'clock. FLEET STREET METHODIST CHURCH. FAITH AS AN ESSENTIAL TO SALVATION—SERMON BY REV. T. LIGHTBOURN. Yesterday forenoon the Rev. T. Lightbourn, a mem- ber of the New York East Conleronce, now in session in Brooklyn, preached bofore the congregation of the Fleet strect Methodist Episcopal church, taking for his text the words found in the Gospel of St, Matthew, xvi, 18,19. He said the interpretation of | the text by the Catholic Church was not correct. Our Divino Lord did not intend to convey the right of His apostle to forgive sins when Ho said, “Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth it shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth it, shall be loosed also in heaven. Ail the power of Peter could not forgive the sins of the sinner, Christ transferred to man tho inspiration of His teachings and example by which alone the sins of the world can be forgiven. The great elements cs- wential to forgiveness, then, are found in sincere repen- tance and in faith in the infinite mercy of Christ. ' Apostolic succession is not essential in the preserva- tion ol the ministry, The polity of the Roman Church * bad been to sone extent retained by the tounders of the Angiican Church, but the Christiac Church is unt- versal and is not to be contingd to the narrow limits of any particular form, ‘There is no pecessity for abso- Jute uniformity in modes of worship to obtain salva- tion. Faith and grace alone are needed, Unity in the essential truths, with diversity of character, are quite compatible with God’s law, 1v is better that Christians should be of diverse de- nominations than of one fold, These divisions of Church of Carist aro neit unexceptionadle nor in- expedient. The Holy Catholic Apostolic Church bh did not consider either what His Huliness in Romo Dr. Pusey would make it out to be. This Church docs not ask you what form of baptisin you desire, or what badge you wei It asks only ‘Have you loved God? Have you the faith of Christy Do you con- jorm your conduct to the principles of His wordt’? In tors Church we hear nothing avout Baptists, Pres. byterians, Congregationalists, Episcopaiians—it com- prebends all churches. ‘ou muy excommuni- cate me irom the Protestant or from the Catholic Church for supposed defects in my creed o1 baptism, said tho spoaker, but you cannot exclude me from this Church of Christ. No excommunication of Pope or Sy: or all the combined powers of earth or can do soi I belong to Christ, “1 will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail againstit.” By this Curist meant that He would up- hold His Church against its enemies forever in sec! ity. Scarcely had He ascended into heaven than the persecution of the Christians begau. They were mas- sacred by thousands. The Uttoman Empire was for centuries the strongest persecutor of the Christian Church. | What a sick and to-day! While Moham te rapidly taking hold of the heart cf Mr. Lightbourn said, turning his the Pope again, that Rome upon discovery of this continent divided America between Spaim and Portugal. wishing to control the new overs sion. But at that epoch God raised up Martin Luther, who awakened Christiamity from the sicep of a thousand ears, The decline of the Pope n with the rise of Luther, aud in 1848, beneath the very shadow of the Vatican wail, was heard tne cries of the “Death to the Pope!" Then came the liberty- legions of Garibaidi, paving the way to the of the femporal pogtad of the Pope, the work which has been completed by Victor Emanuel, Last century an- co dy was encountered to Chrisiamity when the jag of infidelity was raised in and men of intettect such as Voltaire, Hume nd. boon were in hishands, fle knew and felt that he should savo | Jows; but then he was weak and gave way to political | reasons, whieh said the Saviour mustdie, "If Igiva the Innocent man from the mahce and hatred of | calcd 1, enlisted in the cause of “rooting out Christianity, These infidels pad bousted the tenderness of | attention to the | Chureb trium, In the oavereoee of threo o'clock several ordained, and aserinon was preached Mt Buck! jn the ? D., of tho Naw York Bast Co Cenfirenes, fair congregation. AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH, BROOKLYN, “pY THEIR WORKS SHALL YE KNOW THEM”— A SERMON BY REV. J. B, MURRAY. Yesterday morning, a8 early as nine o'clock, the police of the First precinet, assigned to the duty of protecting the peace at the African Methodist church, Fleet place, near Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, put in am appearance at the house of worship, The assemblage of colored and white people in the building when the services opened was about equally divided, pot more than one-third of the regular members being present The absence of so many colored worshippers. who are Milate with their tor in his known (oun the “rocalciirant) Ptrustges" was due to the fact them had ce litt, Seat eal rad been up guarding the churc! nm coud hy attend services 10 the bese When Rev. Jeremiah B. Murray, who has been a self-imposed pris- oner in the edifice since last Monday ‘week, took his position m the palpit, contrary to seen there ‘was no demonstration. Aiter several hymns had been sung a collection was taken up by the trustees, Theo the pastor’s friends went round and took up a second collection for tne maintenance of the reverend gentle- man, Mr, Murray announced that on the 18th of the month an election would bo held, at which four mem- bers of tho Board ‘of Trustees would bo chosen to fill the vacancies penis. in that beard, The sermun was on the higher object for which man is created, that he may love God with his whole heart and set to his neighbor a good e: ple, The mortifi. cation of the flesh and the subjugation of the inherent passions of our poor frail natures was urged by the reverend genrleman as essential to perfect Christian life. No preaching was so strong as the power of ex- ample. The Scripturo tells us, “By their works shall e know them.”” Then let usin the treatment of our fellow mal nd in everypact life remember the rewards which God romised for such as love their neighbor and keep His commandments, By following m the footprints of our Divine alone can we reach that “mansion in the skies’ which He has prepared for those who love Him, HANSON PLACE M. E. CHURCH. MISSIONARY MEETING OF THE NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE. Lastevening a platform missionary meeting of the New York East Conference was held in.the Hanson place Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, and thero was a large attendance present, It was expected that Bishop Harris would pre side, but owing to his time having been wholly taken up during the day, and feeling hardly ablo under the circumstances, Mr. T."D. Littlewood, of Connecticut, presided instead. The exercises were: commenced by singing, after which a prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. Tompkins, Tho meeting was then addressed by Rev. J. Willis, Corresponding Secretary of tho Parent Missionary Society, and pastor of the Seventh Stroet / Methodist Episcopal church. He stated that the contributions to the society had fallen off some $7,000 or $8, and urged upon his Christian brethren tha necessity of greater eflorts in bebalf of the missionary cause. It not only wanted our sympathy but our help, ‘We should all feel that we were working for the cause of Christ The society elected its officers annually, and its object was to infuse Chris tian influence into those dark of the pi carth where great good could be accomplished. In the past the cry was for laborers to go forth, but now the cry was not go much for laborers in the missionary fields as it was for the moans to accom. plish the work which has already been com- menced. The past year had been one of great hard- ship, and \t was not to bo wondered at that the con- tributions of the churches to this great work had fallen off; but the missionary cause was ono which should be the last to suffer on account of thedepression of the times. Missionary work was | needed all over tho land. There was corruption in md- crime in low; and the Christian high places ert itself to greater action. Church should ood could be accomplished by prayer alone, There Bas got to be a combination of heart and hand in this work.’ One of the eat curses in this world for aman was to have nothing to do, and one of tho greatest blessings was to have the | privilege of working for the missionary cause. The reverend gentleman closed his remarks by a further appeal for more flaancial help. Bishop Harris was then introduced. He said it was not his intention to taku up much time In speech-mak- ing. He spoke of how he had been in iull sympathy with co ygge ever since ho had been & Christian. How, before he China and other countries to inv work, Ibe Bighop then spoke of his exghteen mont! tour through the missionary fields of those heathen countries, saying that. the work needed - wl aid of Christians more now than it ever did, He wished that he could take his hearers over the samo route he had been; he would not have to appeal, jong then fe) their assistance. Tbe congregation was then dismissed with the bene diction. MOODY AND SANKEY. At was estimated that 30,000 people attended the various sorvices at the Hippodrome yesterday. At the eariy morning meeting the Madison Avenue Hall was filled, and in the afternoon and evening both halls were packed. As usual the afternoon. meoting was for women exclusively and the evening for men. In the morning, alter Mr. Sankey sang ‘Watching and Waiting for Me,’ solo, Mr. Moody said he wished to say a few words in connection with the Young Men’s Christian Association. He thonght it was one of the best institutions in the coun:ry for practical good, and the people ought to sup- port it liberally. It was only twenty-three years since its inception, and there are now throughout the country over 1,000 different branches of the associa- tion, A good many hard things had been sald about the association by people who did not understend ite workings. It is worth more to the Charch to-day than any other organization in the country, There are not ministers enough to do the work that 1s to bo done, and all those that we have do not understand the work as well as many laymen connected with the Young Men’s Christian Association, Tho members of the aseociation have done moro than any others to break up the miserable sectarian war that Was pervading the country. If I thought I hada drop of*sectarian blood in me I would like to let it out this minute. ‘The Young Men’s Christian Association is the Church inaction. It isand has been the refuge for young men in large cities, Young men comii from the country to cities like New York, Philad ja, and Chis heed somo shelter, some piace whero they meet Christian people who will take them by the han¢ and sympathize with them and lead them away from the tomptations that tho airs cities afford. Those associations offer just thé shelter and refuge these young men require. Mr. Moody concluded with an earnest appeal to all young Christians to joi the asso ind assist with their money and the! sing: ing of the eighty-fourth hymn, “Sun of my Soul thow Saviour dear.” AT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERY! Mr. Moody spoke from the same text—sevonth chapter of Genesis, tirst verso—‘‘Come thou, with all thy house, into the ark.” He said:—I would like to have you ask the question, Am lintheark? ly ‘Swer it, Won't you pray that you may be adie to answer i? For it’s a terrible thing to be outside ah on the jadgment day, God told Noah to build the ark, 7 he commenced at once, He was 120 years ‘but he yielded implicit obedience to the comman: the Almighty, When he was building he was subject to the scofls and jeers ofthe multitt just as nen scoft now when they see others obey! 6 vor manda of God. After Noah had masy years ka ey ll nt ape re jook at it, i ‘was any insane pdt among tbe antadiiavians they were willing to put poor old Noah into it All classca acl Sportat hha, it he only led with them to fice from ‘the wrath to come." and more sceptical. * ing tlood. hip diy im! moon, and years ond vag moved pers in those days all over how the on a bright, clear day, in consternation at of the air going into wise men said, ‘Don’t make yourself uneasy’; there is no danger; it is ouly a freak grace was Abt but the: TT sign of the com flood of grace wore ended and the flood >} des eles Ll everything Aon waves das AJ inst dead = bodies = of of ‘Son floating ail arou a8 left on this earth was Es z rew a picture of the impenit present day, wnen Christ is to into tho ark of ealvation, and ‘to accept the invitation. The xame kind scoffed at Noah and bis ark now scoff at ministers But day of judgment is ‘them as it came for the antediluvians, when God mit in His power and glory and judge all men Tho preacher made an earnest. to all present to seck Christ at once and come inte the sho eiebleents aye 1d be wanerea ‘ai * Numbers of People crowded th: after 10 mi jeenth century woul pt * inqul rooms Shese jnfidela to-day? The winter menesen | Sha sermon, and many of them souiained ti aver em ~