The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1876, Page 8

8 IN THE CHURCHES. The Faithful Should ‘?2ke No Coun- sel of Their Fears. sledateetaatehoneat MAY ANNIVERSARY. PLYMOUTII'S Mr. Beecher On High Moral Qualities. DUTIES OF TO-DAY. Forgiveness is the Legend of Religion, CHURCH THE FATHERHOOD OF or THE DISCIPLES. GOD—BSEBMON BY THE tev, GRORGE H. HEPWORTH, Mr. Hepworth preached to a larger congregation than asual yesterday morning. After the sermon the ordi- aunee of the Lord’s Supper was administered, to which vervice Mr, Hepworth’s invitation was as liberal ag tt always is, Betore concluding the usual morning ser- vice fifty-seven converts jomed the church, The sing. ing was led by Mr, ‘Th Iso sang a solo with great effect, Mr. Hepworth selected bis text trom Komans, vii, 18—“For ye have not received the wirtt of bondage again to fear it, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.” The word “father” is undoubtediy writs and yot science, with all her, who 11D nature, its wouteness, has not been able to discover te lotters of which the word is com- bosed, If wo would find something concerning the Btitude of God toward us we must turn over the pages he Biv! of the sacred volume. a book whieh gives us many bints of the biography of the Almighty. It contains a full description of our attitude toward God and of God's plans and desires coucerning us The Old Testament as wel! as the N i » fatherhood ot God, The people of tsrac! ba vd cause to have contidence in the arm that up! A the: and in the veice that advised them aud in the clouds of fire and tmoke that led them, Although they wentastray many times yet God's leadings were always cerrect, ile was ready to break the ehains of their bo nowent they were ready to trast Him, w give then on of the holy He was ready nd when they | the first: place, should always set a goo | | | | } touched were ready, instead of hiyhting their own battles, to al- ow Him to ight for them, and, Winning the victory, t five it to them as of His 1 He requires in re: turn is that ¢ an implicit: trust which barbors no and an obedience which never | lalters of the contrast between the faith which God’s people have and the Want of it which marks the life of the aietul veyoud all power of expres- be © fall es with agreat 8 light ts sued upon our path and the darkn 3 O18. appeared. While others whose hearts are filled with sobbing are jooking up frem new graves inte the BKY and See nothing, you and | ywers ou the resting plies of our Gear ones and retura fo our homes with ajJoy and a hope in our hearts that bas come hike iving Waters from th ee of death as trom a founsatin, and we can say hy will, and not ours, be ¢ Christrantty anisin, and L there is re- yet, brethren, even in the midst 3 ulzble amount of f heathendow ygions fai sometimes found which closely re-embles Christienity. bere isa kind of paganism which may well put cur counteriei Christianity to the blush. There are m this city thousands and tens of thousands Who have uy relaiionstip whatever with Almighty God; who have neither that claim on Him w Bulls from peuttence nor ther s always the result of ealin, qi over us. Lo not say there a perliaps Longnt uot to My dear brother and yet lion. ad precious ¢, Which resulted m | win and assured? Do know God ts im your Hi He Himself 1s really gutding you! Are you saying itis a hand not only of power but of love? And are you wrili everything tv Him to whom the band bel led by Him mto dark places, if only He ‘avery serious question, If w F periiaps I need not ask it; post will surely earry us all, mmto earthly oblivion and for, forward uulo dhe spiritual, determine: | being reconciled, | the bapusma ’ | Ive there, will not only be a baptism of water, but a know whither we are going and what lies at the end of the jour Weill, brethren, the fatherhood of God means | Uso the providence of God. hose of us who stant iu fear recognize the presence of ebanee aceident, Those. who love the Lord and who kuow the Lord loves us see only in every eventa part of the plan of salvation respecting us, If it were a di rth, whoso beart was selfish a b whose would be no such thing as pr pened d be of ho moment to him. I wat you to revognize thatthe thought that God is our Father ought to stir our deepest gratit I deheve that no event of Inte ts witho rdye, and every trouble of our life ma be an oppor- 4 gives Of taking one step bearer to heaven The dilleulty ts wo do not recog: nize the f Woen « comes than yourselves you say “My dear, it 1s providence 8 hand i all right.” anoth not dtifeult to on of rust, but-ob, how bard itis when aflietion in all its stern reality and tts many shadows comes into our homes! How bard itis then to oursolves “113 all right; this, too, is a part ol and I must leara to thank Hin for it shall lose by the experience, avd not gain.” Jeol of ristlanity Is to nal experience, one, per! " ig100 om cart, "Your t Dt Hot to be up youder; It ought to be right here where you are waikyng. Your Teligion ought noi to bea matter to be acknowl: simply by your brava, but it ought to be the most pe tal fact in your a tis fined 10 a creed is not worth the you acknow nmpiy with your fae is not operative; it is useless “The web You ina matter of ev botrom of your motives itis to be elt that 8 rehgion of reason Christcame at the glance of God's many children may be blessed. True Dis that which brings Gos down to carth rather tan ¢ & theology winch is like t ving from view the What an clement of strength God as your father 1 1 your life. The Old Testament s studded with incidents as a crown ts with jewels, twenty-third Psalm David says:—“The Lord is nepherd.”? The word shepherd means tector and guide, and When you and ] can say we belong to . THE COMPANY OF TAE REDEKIRD, When you belong to Christ Ciriet belongs to you Fon know one of the tirst acts of the Apostles after tue day of Pentecost was to choose certain church officials, he consciousness ot and they made Stepben president of the iitle group; but wo told that when he bore testimony for the Lord the Jows were not only pricked in their hearts, but they —gnasi ther teeth, and when bo talxed the coming ot tho Lord Jesus Christ they gathered up stones aud began to stone lim. What was it that ennblied that martyr, bruised to death, to lift up his voice with bis last breath and ery out, atter t tern of is 1a Father, forgive them; the Jat down te you are ofr and ho . twas ° butat and your fh macs Hom aebild vit tails, bathe who mout of the fatherhood I 1 the consciousnees thar Of fis own, He who trusts introduces into Lis lite the el jod eball stand, and nothin aiking about the How much right have erciful, and cannot to forg but yet 4 kote who cannot be forgiven? Ave ditton to be forgiven * sale only we have a guide, Come saved, Then we can I shall not want” ’ ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. INFLUENCE OF CONVERSATION— SERMON BY REV. FATHER KEARNEY. There was a large attendance at St. Patriek’s Cathe. dral yesterday. The officiating clergyman at the jast mass Was the Rev. Father Mori, At the termination of the first gospel the Rey, Father Kearney preached s@ eloquent and forcible sermon, taking bis text fror the First Epistle of St. Peter, i, 1l—*'Let your con ‘versation be good before the Gentiles” Tho reverend gentleman gave a lucid explanation of to the cross, and ye sh —“The Lord’ is ny shepherd; | but now be was working ~ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1876—TRIPLE of sinful conversation, He showed that charity should at all times aninate our — conversation, nd that the main object im speaking to one nother Should be mutual eifieation and instruction. ‘The revercnd gentleman then relerred to the fippaney wh in Many instances, marks the convereation of what known us polite society, and condemved the reckless manner in whteh, oftentimes, a neighbor's character is disposed of. He also alluded to the char- avergation of ordinary life, in our daily carsapd elsewhere, and pointed out the its which ensue from the indulgence im im. moral and improper controversies. The reyerend preacher Mnaily called’ attention to the responsibility whieh devolved upon parents and guardians who, in exumple by making their conversation such as would exalt the tainds of the youth before whom it might occur, LEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH BAPTI REY. J, HYATT SMITH, ON “BRANDS PLUCKED FROM THE BUENING.” On Monday, one week ago, the little tabernacle of the “Chureb of the Open Door,” on Lee avenue, Brooklyn, of which Rev, J. Hyatt Smith 1s pastor, was partially eestroyed by fire, and will be unfit for occupancy for about a month, The neighboring churches—Ross street Presbyterian, St, Joba's Methodist and the First ormed—at onco tendered their edifices to the Lee avenue congregation, to use for one service cach Sab- biti, The kind offers were declined, with thanks, and the Lyceum, corner of South Highth and Fourth streets, was enyaged during the month of May, Last evening the nttle hall was crowded, and hundreds were turned away, unable to obtain admission, the attraction being the witty pastor's sermon on © subject announced was “Brands Plucked ‘and after the usual iutroductory th announced his text as a portion of jeventh verse—‘And ye a frobrand plue us is his usual cust the text, makit then, containin, read, the e congre) ation, ed full faith in God and His God's dealings with His covenanted people many m had not prof son Jesus, often appear to be the expression of divine wrath, when me will demoustrate that they wer acts of positive love. In His providence, even as parents Wrap most ly gifts in greatust disguise, so God pata thick and strange Wrappers over the gifts He makes to His children, Mr Smith = spoke at length on the ministry of grace, showing how God, throagh Christ, plucked brands from the Durning, and then pictured the glories of the redemp- tion by Jesus Ch Mat ands were in the fire of ction, but the grace of God would pluck them out, though it was the duty of all to call on Christ to draw them’ forth from the triais through which God re- quired them to pass, He then reverted to the trials of Lee avenue charch, which, from changes of fortune aud inigritery experiences, should be called “the chureh of the Pigrims,”? The sketeh included brict meution ol the early s‘ruggle of the ehureb, the | carthquake Which nearly overwhelmed it, cho wipletion of the pretty tempie on Lee avenue, the 4 dificuhy with the Baptist Soctety and its withdraw of the right) band of fellowship, and finally the desiroying element, which §0 nearly re- duced the tabernacle ’ to ashes, But Lee nue chureb, said the speaker, is rising above trial and persecution ana fire—ali her troubles seem only to give her strength, and, passing through the furnace, Will only appear the ihore beautiful in hope and jaith in the Lord und His mercies, The love of sister churches in Wiliamsburg, who, irrespective of creed throw open their doors to Lee avenue, has the hearts of the entire’ people,’ but, the im his dry way, our Baptist ded their bands to us. In 1 usion he spoke teelingly to the people of his church, begeing them to humble themselves before God, and new consecration, that when within a mouth th urn to Lee avenue with banners flying, to Und it v0 pre beautiful through its renovation, ervices, which will inaugurate their new baptism of the Holy Ghost, to tue glory of God and His cuuse. CHURCH OF THR PILGRIMS. SERMON BY DR. STORRS—THE MISSES TILTON AD- MITTED AS MEMBERS. The Rev. Dr, Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, preached to a large congregation in that ed- yesterday morning, taking for his text the Epistle at to the Rom. ith chapter and 10th yerse:— “Por if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, we sbull be saved by His life.” Tho reverend gentleman said that this argument, tho Dinding foree of which was so grand, could not be answered. Spring, coming with its warmth and beauty, caused the flowers to open their petals and bloom forth, And so reconciliation by Christ's death was the budding forth into new hfe, wasthe blossoming into greater love and ailection for God. It was not that God bad been reconciled to Paul, but that Pau! had been reconciled to God. God was immutable in power and lovo and wisdom, und upon His great foresight ‘rested all our hopes, for tho | future. Man must be reconciled to Him, not Ho to man, We have to adjust ourselves to the sun if wo wish it to shine with 18 fuil force upon us, We can- not adjust the sun to us, We must turn toward it; so sinful man must turn toward God, and the reconeilia tion must be im himsel’, God was revealed in love which went to the extreme of self-sacrifes, His life was one of continual sacrifice, There was no character possessed by any of our friends | which touched us deeply until we Saw embodied th spirit of seli-sacritice, And thus that Christ's great sacrilice drew pass e and adoring love where be- od coldness and hardness of heart. This was Paul's view of the atonement in the death of Christ. He became reconciled unto God through Christ's death, and until then had never Known how great’ his emmity toward God was or how great was his prede and selfish- ness. Out of enmity he had been reconciled inte love and adoration. The atonement of Christ was the in- spiration of bis joy snd the basis of his hope. Betore Christ’s atonement he had been FIGHTING i0D, What harm could | from this pulpit except with direct reference to life, | and I should not this morning talk om this theme of | man him so long as he was with God’ Paul bad seen the Lordin the heavens, he bad heard His voice in the air, and fell prostrate to the earth, dazzled with the bry Me would as soon have doubted the existence of anything upon. the earth which bis cye had seen and his hand felt as to have doubted the existence of God. When partaking of the Lord’s Supper we are apt to | think only of Cbrist with His wounded hands and | | besides the members of the church, neither the fat! pierced side, when we sbould think also of the glory of Chreton high. Itwas indeed asad thing to walk in the world wit asenge of the dead Christ on the one ng Christ on to the Lord’s ath of thorns, but tho crown of diamonds, Not the palsied and cold band in death, but the living, tender, ng hand, The rev- erend gentleman closed bis discourse by saying that it was the saddest thing tn the world to be fiving day after day with ne « of the reconciliation by the death of Christ and w arth the same as if the cross of Calvary bad never by hand and with no thought We the other. Supper not n. ED AS MEMERES. ® At four o'clock y terday afternoon the Lord's Sapper _was adininistored by the Rev, Dr. Storrs, and forty three new members received into the church, whom were Fiorence and fore Tilten, There were very few porvons p nor mother of Florence and Alice being visible among the congregation. ST. THOMAS’ CHURCH. DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION—SER- MON BY REV. DR, MORGAN, There was a large congregation at the services yes- y morning at Sti Thomas’ church on Fifth ave- After the preliminary exercises, In which two clergymen aided Rev. Dr. Morgan, the rector, the Jatter preached an impressive discourse from the text Romans viil., I8—"The glory which shall be revealed in ue." At this seasou tne outer workl, be began, comes With tts types and prophecies, preaching of the glories which shall be revealed In the future. The great of nature is manifest all about as TH miracle | A boundless power of resurrection is shown in tho the text, and proceeded to dwell upon the importance | ‘and necessity of good conversation under all circum: Mances. Ho submitted that there was notat any time ap excuse for locse and idle expressions. It way ‘of these bent upon saving (heir souls to aver thei whose Ives were notoriously bud, The reverend commented upon the influence of words, avd Coxee ee congregation to avvid all the ovcasion world of nature, confess the resurrection of the dead is hereim mant- fest, Looking at nature, looking atthe emblems of earth, a great lesson is taught, The grand doetrme they told of at this season 1s that MAN CANDOT DIR It is not death to fing aside this sinful dust and live among the just, God's children never die It ia simply a change of te fn soothing rest for the body. of stomber ts shown inthe reblooming of flowers, in the reloxving of the trees! Buta short time ago Na- ture was entombed — was enshronded and buried. The voice of the birds had ceased; the streams #0 longer flowed, We might then well bave asked, Can all this hfelessness become alive again? Can th bare tees become clothed with foliage? Can these flowers bad and bioom and cast their fragrance about us? Will the birds siig and the icy fotters be taken from the streams? We see renewed life on every han vivified nature, The world of slumbering nature has 4, All these things are familar to us and seem not tho miracles they are, but they are es, nevertheless, Of course t re not con- clusive ‘of the truths of religion—not a certain proof of the resurrection. At all events it is not unnatural to suppose that He who @in awaken to life dead nature and clothe It anew will awaken to fe our dead bodies and breathe into them the renewed breath of Me. The air and the ourth and the waters wre filled with mynads of creatures, rejotemg inthe cestasy of ile, When . this mortal — shall put on immortality, and this corruption eball put on incorrupiea, pew — workis of — iife wil be opeved w @a He might point from the None could Jook on this but he must | The grave ia | How strikingly this idea | | wat it be placed in This ts the boauty of re- | | father In the darkness of the night, rushed forward to single acorn to the majestic oak, How wonderfol is the chan, How tull of wonder is ail nature! Look | at the caterpillar, a crawling, loathsome insect from which we ali shrink. At length it becomes a buttertly. | It has torn aside its winding sheet; it has become winged, radiant and endowed with new facultica 50 shall we be transformed. It is sown in corruption, it is | raised im meorruption; it is sown in mortality and raised in immortality; i is sown in wenk- | ness, it is raised in strength. It sbail put of that which is gross and corruptible. The ethereal and immortal only shall remain, 11 shall rise into a new and noble life. “Suffering and pain and sick- | ness will be over. Weakness will crush strength. Tho world cannot lure, the wicked cannot betray. The field of iiberty and glorious jtght has been reached. We shall be CLOTHED WITH CELESTIAL POWER. Wo bave risen to unwonted purity, toa full partict- tion in all knowledge, to the full rapture of the all | iving beings, There was one more symbol at which | he would glance—the wonderful similarity between what was buried apd what is arisen. There ts no con- fusion, and although there are $0,000 species of inscets, and 10,000 different kinds of plants, the lilies of the field are never confounded with the wayside flower. The seed may have been scattered far away, but when | iv comes to lite there ts no mistaking its name oF ia | class. So it will bo in the resurrection, Although countless millions are startled from thoir graves there will be no confusion in identity, Those buried 6,000 | yours and those buried the it week will bo recog- hized as one by the Great Eternal, The bodies of the | redeemed, there 18 reason to beheve, will be the same in the world to come, or, at least, the identification willbe the same. Friends shall know cach other there. They should not neglect the lessons of spring. Everything about them teemed with instruction. Jesus often culled the attention of His disciples to the GREAT VOLUME OF NATURE. This sume grand volume was open tor their perusal, They should study its pages c¢arofully. Ifthey fail to read the Bible they canuot fatl to read the great volume of pature. The beating insect as it whirls along speaks of the immortal liberty youchsafed to God's chosen children in tho kingdom of the Father. What if the sentence of the sou of man be “Depart! I never kuew you.” You may call on the rocks and trees to fall upon you. Let those who would be chil- dren of the resurrection live more prepared for that great event, Let them lead more thoughtlul, purer and holice lives, and then there will be no fear of deuth, but it willbe greeted as the stepping stone to another life—the life everlasting. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. SHALL WE RECOGNIZE. OUR FRIENDS IN IM- MORTALITY?—SEBMON OF REV, JAMES M. PULLMAN, ‘ A very beautiful sermon was preached at the above church yesterday morning by the pastor on a subject which just now seems to be of absorbing interest, viz.:—The recognition of friends in tho lifo to come. Mr, Pullman said, 1 take my text from 1. Thessalonians, iv., 13—“But I woula not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.’ I desire never to. speak of death | the recognition of friends in a futuro state were it not that Iam persuaded constantly that a belief m such | recognition is not only one of.the highest attributes of our spiritual nature, but also gives one of the best re- actions to the trials and struggles of our daily life. ‘The shaping and moulding of character is dected by this wonderful question. It has a direct and continual influence on our habits and affects as ina thousand ways which we do not readily admit, We are prone to take counsel of our fears rather than our hopes in viewing it, add when we ask ip the depths of our souls, Will there bo a recognition complete and sati factory of the friends whom we have learned to lovo here in immortality? we stand appalled at the im- mensity of the subject. But I have never seriously doubted what the answer should be, for if thero is a future state 1 can conceive of no condition by which iny friends, near and dear to me, can ‘be prevented from joining me jn the blessed realms whore, in God's economy, there must be peace and joy. Suppore, how- ever, we look at it in a larger and more philosophic w Are ull who bave lived now alive? When wo think of the millions who have existed before us those of us now on theearth seem the merest fraction; our minds may be overwhelmed by thougbts of numbers, and in contemplating THE INFINITE VASTNESS OF THK UNIVERSE, but when we look at the grand dome of heaven and at- tempt to reach with our poor intelligence all the won- drous springs of lite aud thought the mind recoils at its grandeur; but even while being lost at the immensity of the subject, we admit one fact, that there is room | for all and all'is in divine harmony; 8o our bewildered mind recovers itself, even though we roam from star | tostur, Our doubts on this subject muy be doubts of | jealousy, and you know tho peculiar unteasonubleness ‘of jealousy in which no proof is proof, aud every ap- | petranse is tortured to mean the thing It is not. But some people say to me, Why consider these things at ali¥ why not leave these mysteries where we jound | them, without beclouding our brains with idle dreams? T answer, we need not speculate, We know. The laws of | the earth on which we dwell are subject to ourseruuny, | and we must connect in some way the administration | and law of the world in which we dwell with’ the ad- | ministration and law of the worla in which we are to dwell. A man may say, close this book—the Bible—I am no belev but it you shut it up do you get rid of revelation? No, The truth 18 written not ou tables of stone but on the fleshly tablets of the heart. conten first, that we recognize our friends in another work from the very fact of God’s moral government; man bas got ideas of right and wrong—some things appeal to his conscience ag right and proper and other things do not—this is arguing according (o God's moral gov- ernment and that whieh is rght will be forever right, The being you love here will ve forever loved. How? Memory keeps ‘up the glorious continuity. How can you go forward into a fu o without thht? The / man who dentes this says that God's balance and the harmonies of this grand universal nature end at the grave, People talk of the changes that death makes, and ofthe > water, gas and other constituents ito which our bodies resolved, but they forget that bere we only know pirit through body and bodily senses—iips, eats, eyes, Shall we not too undergo changes which shall make us comprehend with a spiritual sense what seems now to us to be so strange and wunatural? tis that senso which makes a biind mother feel the presence of her child? Why, there 1s scarcely a manor woman who stands by the coflin of a mother, brother, sister, wife or baoy that does not teel the —assurance— despite’ all their wild grief and distraction— of a recognition and union in the hereatter; if they did not, L tell you they could not exist. We canvot deny such facts ‘as chemical affinities when some bodies rush. toward others, biend and harmonize. Shall not, then,” those who have been jomned spiritually together bere by love meet again soul to soul, guided through the | voundiess skies ? It is curious how men disavow, as if it were a stigma, sentiment on matters of this ‘kind. The affectional nature of man 15 the ae ‘st point ho attains to this world, aud through it he shali, Tam coi vinced, see and jo his loved ones in the great mys- torious land toward which we aro all journeying. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. | CHURCH TROUBLES—THE BEV, RB. H. PULLMAN | ON THE DUTIES OF TO-DAY, At the Bleecker strovt Universalist church yesterday | morning Rev. R. H. Pullman preached a sermon, taking | for a text a portion of the fifteenth verse of the third chapter of Hebrews, consisting of the word ‘“Ro-day.” | In enforcing upon the minds of his hearers the import, ance of a correct appreciation of the word selected, for both the present ond the hereafter of mankind, the | preacher hel that every man and woman bad his or | her private and peculiar subjects tor thought concern: | ing their own present and future concerns, It was therefore necessary for all to become awakened to tha | existing pecessity for giving due heed to the value of | “to-day”’ for personal benefit, By proper attention to the lessons of the past we could come to have such aids to Christian life as would enable us to attain the glorious haven of the future which is aesired by all. In the effort to reach ench an end there was no educa- tion of valuc so great as that which leads toh fixed resolution to give one’s self up to God. The older the preacher grew the more did he see the continuous necessity for giving himself to God in all things, When, said the speaker, you give up all, you have all, securing the good through what of evil you lose At this point, and for the purpose of iliustrating the con- ition of entire confidence in God's promises, be told the story of the child who, hearing the voice of her him, thongh he could not be seen, confident of findin him through bié utterance of acall. Giving one’s self up to God was, he held, simply letting go of recd to find yourself enfolded im the Alnpgity. Iv had been said by some that an” entire felianco on God was enervat- ing Bat that was, most assurediy, a mistake, for the most glorious examples of heroism given by mén to men were by those who placed theit entire relionce on God. Then, as such reliance was a | necessity to a proper life, there was also an apparent | necessity that tt be placed withoat undue loss of ime— ol “‘toway,’’ as the text ineal- cated, The days, be said, came silently, ona if the casion for good which they brought with them was | hot secured, they passed away, an jlently as they came, took. with them all of the good which they Drought. The man who would avail himself of the op- portunities for good which time afforded must sero upon them to-day, Ever wishing for to-morrow, under meny conditions, destroys the usetuiness of to-day. God, be fau, gave no day simply as & Kink'to bind other days together. Every day bad distinguishing requisites whicn were wholly its own, and they must be attended to while the day remained, In tact, it was only when aman could say the present day was al! mght for him that he could derive sach advantage from it as God designed. No man should ever seek excuse for wiping out to-day on the ground that he thinks there will be something better to-mor- row. Living to-day was, he held, RIPEXING FOR TO MORTOW, + and suelt was the duty of every man. Hys bearers mast understand distinctly that ‘y had only the cterval to live and work in; that they could lve only to to-tay, and must, theresore, come to a full reahzation of thenecessity for floding God in it, in order that it | mray bo inade their own and they have ull the good it brings. THE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSALISTE, When the preacker bad econctuded, Mr, Q. MeAdam went forward to the desk and announced hat it was meovssary to elect two delegates to re if esent their 80- ciety, and one to nt the church, in the coming annual meeting of New York Associstion of Uni- | versalists, The following were then elected: — For the society—Messrs. J. F. Van Riper and Q@ Mcadam. For the church—Mr. Edwin Knapp. THY TROUBLE WITH REY, MR. M’CARTHY. When the above had been concluded Mr. McAdam read the following :— “Suxpay Moryina, May 7, 1876. “As the congregation may be auxious to receive in- formution in regard to certain matiers, the following is given: “At @ regular meeting on Monday evening, May 1, the Board of Trustees appointed a cotnmittee to inform | Mr, McCarthy that the differences bewween himseli and the Board wonld be 5% ted to the seciety at a mee ing to be called, provided ho would accept the decision of the society as tinal and conclusive, This informa- tion was sent by inal May 2. On May 4 he replied that he was unuble to answer until he took advice, which he would seek that day, and thero the matter rests at present,” PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MAY ANNIVERSARY—ME, DBEKCHER ON APPRECI- ATION OF THE BEAUTY OF HIGH MORAL QUALITIES, Yesterday was one of the days to be marked with red letters in tho history of Plymouth church. About twelve years ago, on a first Sunday im May, some 150 persons were admitted into its membership. From thia circumstance the anniversary of the day has come to be regarded as an occasion for rejoicing in the church, and it ts set apart for the reception of new members, Sixty-five were recoived yesterday, and fourteen of them were baptized by Mr, Beecher before the sermon, A number of prominent citizens belong- tug to other denominations were present, attracted by the interesting services, The pastor's platiorm was turned into a conservatory, being altnost hidden by masses of sinilax and other trailing vines, interspersed with roses and ending on either side of the platform in @ massive vase, of gorgeous coiored and frogrant flowers, The musical portion of the services was tp, augurated with Dudley Buck’s “Te Deum,”? which was | finely rendered by Miss Clementine V, Lasar, Miss Em- ma Cranch, Mr, Eugene Clark and Mr, Henry Camp, as sisted by the choir, under the direction of the latter genti¢man, Mr, Beecher preached from tbe last clause of the tenth verso of St. Paul’s letter to Titus—“That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things,” The special injunction, Mr. Beecher said, of which these words were a part was addressed to ser- vants, and the exhortation was tv make the profession of Christ and His teachings which thoy represented beaufiful—to adorn it by their hves. We have been so educated, he continued, that we are apt to connect beauty only with material ¢hings and to apply tho word to moral things only by a sort of figure. While not denying that there was a sense of beauty in physieul things, be claimed that there ts also a senso of the beautiful in spiritual things. This view, the preacher olaimed, pervades the Bible. It is, be con- tended, the duty of Christians to make goodness so at tractive that mea shull not require to be driven into the Churet by APPEALING TO THEIR DELUDED FEARB, but shall long to enter it, seeing its brightness and beauty, All great moral qualities are beautiful to the natural man, though in’a still greater degree tu the re- generated mun, Many preachers claim that the natural tan cannot appreciate the beauty of moral qualities; but that ts in direct opposition to the teachings of the Bivle, When Christ suys, “Let your light shine unto all men,” He declares that there ts atpong men a uni- versal appreciation of these higher qualities, When a man leaps into an iy torrent to save a drowning child, and, struggling for a time with the Iittic onc clasped to his ‘breast, percelves that he must relinquish it or lose his own life and only holds it tighter, and goes over tho falls, where their mangled bodies are found by the spectators, he is regarded as a hero, Was there ever, asked Mr, Peccher, a piece of sculpture or painting that thrilled the soul like this? Ali men are moved to admiration by it, and yet itis a moral act. ‘The admiration felt for a devoted wife who clings to a bru alized and drunken husband during Ife, and when ho dies weeps alone over bis grave, was adduced as an ex- | ample of the sense of the beauty of self-demal felt by allmeo. When ali the beauty that 15 m moral qualt, shall be developed, the preacher said, the day of mii- Jeunium shall have come. ‘Those who had just joined the Church wero then particularly addressed by str. Beecher. He warned them against retreating from the world as men fly | from mean and despised companions. No man coming into the Cburch, he said, who prodaces the im- pression upon those from whom he separates that he hag separated 80 that he bas no longer any } fellowship tor them, no louger any heart-warming for them, acts contrary to the doctrine of Him who gave Himself tor us when we were far from the knowledge of God and were even in- imieal to divine government, No such method of teaching primary doctrines as shall make them seem barst eed unkind can possibiy be Christian, Wheu wo are preaching any truth, obliging men to give up and | conform to it, there may be a resistance, 80 far as per- | soval will is concerned. But even when men do not | themselves submit to it they see that ie is beautiful. AN men admire heroism, but alt could not, or | would not, be heroes, ‘TUL GREAT SCHEME OF CHRISTIANITY should be so preached that men shod understand their high origin and noble destiny, and whoever makes God seem tyrannical, inst of adorning the doctrine makes it hateful. ‘The preaching of men who arouse the fear, opposi- tion, wrath and passion of men, and think that il they are then converted they will become better Christians, was compared to the action of a man who wanted to enter a house guarded by a ferocious bulldog, and who, instead of slipping in quietly without arousing tho beast, should stand over agatst the house and throw stones tor a while, and when this dog was wire- monthed should go at bim. If a man, said. Mr. Beechef, thinks that is the way to preach the d trines of Christ he has not understood tho instructions of the Master. The preacher went on to tho usual treatment of young converts, who are told to go out and start prayer — meetings or distribute tracts, He did not say this was improper, but he claimed that to represent a Christian lite as hav- | ing its first conception and ity pecuhar testimony to setting everybody to deny something on or about | everybody éise, was a geave mistake, My said he, to every one of you who has found the Lord Jesus Christ ts to make yourself more godly, your own family. — Let every duty that is incumbent Upon you as a busband, wife or chiid rise instantiy to an exalted pince and become more Ium@inons; and do not look for a place to be better in, like a church or a conference meeting, but BE WETTER IN YOURSELY. After having made your own home beautiful if there be opportunities to heipothers do net neglect then. Another thing to beware of was the practice of be- moaning one’s wickedness to others. When amen toli about their misorable lives or their “Christian experience” the effect of it is about as likely | to inspire religious feeling as six or eight | chanks of ice around a hearth would be to kindle a fire, Tho essential power of the Gospel of Christ, said the preacher, so far fas you are concerned, will lie in how much of Christ you have m you and can exhibit to your fellow men, | Christianity’ meant a larger, nobler manhood. Mr. Beecher warned his hearers against the jow and vulgar notions of being Christians because they dare not be anything clse. They should noi, after entermg the Chi jay aside all effort and feel that, being im the Church, they were like passengers in a railway car, that all their duty was done and it was now incumbent upon the Church to take them to their destmation. In conclusion Mr, Beecher exborted his hearers to lead truo Christian lives, glorify God, adorn the teactiing of | his protest; the Lord Jesus Christ, and then when He should ap- 4 amounting to $10,000,000, 18 regularly dealt in at tho | pear they would appear with Him in glory. At the close of the sermon the major part of the con- gregation approached the cummunion table and par- took of the elements. “st. VINCENT FERRER'S CHURCH. SERMON BY THE -REV. FATHER LILLY ON IN- ORDINATE LOVE OF THE WORLD. At St, Vincent Ferrer’s church yesterday morning the high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Dunne and the sermon preached by the Rev. Father Lilly, The hight, airy, pleasent edifice, with its many frescoes and charming paintings, was in good harmony with the warm, sunshiny weather, This bemg the month of May, the Virgin’s altar was handsomely decorated, Around the statue, surmounting the altar, a handsome blue satin festoon was drawn, and flowers and lights wero abundgntly displayed. Immediately adjoining the altar 13 a beauttiul picture of the Sacred Heart—a full size figure of the Saviour, with the heart exposed—beforo which burneu atiny lamp, afew flowers being arranged around it, ‘The muste sung at the mass was Generali’s, in G, with the “Sanctes” and ‘“Agous Dei” from Millard. Before the sermon Ranch’s ‘Veni Creator” wes sung, and at the offertory was given the “Tota Sepulchra’’ by Donizetti. The singers were Messrs. Groschel and | Joseph Ott, tenors; Messrs 8. A. Walker and Marshall, bassos; Mrs. Becker, soprano, and Miss Tracey, con- traito, the organist being Mr. J. 1. Brown. The music was ali rendered in excellent style, though the choir as a whole was scarcely upto the high standard why this church was so long noted for, ‘The sermon preached by the pastor was an instruct. ive lesson taken from the epistie and goxpet of the day, in whieh he showed the folly of attaching too much importance to ths world and its ambitions, It was, be said, impossible jor a man to serve two masters, and were we bo give ourselves upto the world the duty of attending to our eterna: salvation would necessarily be neglec: We should be citer the iriends of God or the slaves of the world. It was im; to attach ourselves to the things of earth and attend ERY a ORR SE 55 aR | strain the company from issuing the proposed addi- | tional stock wero served, The answer is callod tor | as the plaintil beheves and is mbormed, it has little or | { min | | Washington to bl sf ™ ae to familiarize ourselves with shiniog of the eternity that awaited us and making our daily lives not a paa- dering (o the world’s frivolities but a sincere prepara- tion tur acceptance in the worid to come, MASONIC TEMPLE SERMON BY DR, ¥ROTHINGHAM ON FORGIVEr § NESS. Yesterday Dr. Frothingham spoke to a numerous congregation on “Forgiveness.” In this sermon ho essayed, as he stated in opening, to deduce the rational principies underlying the great duty to forgive enemics, ‘The character of forgiveness and its violation, be satd, was best illustrated by instances to which he could re- fer. Take a domestic, brought up well, instructed in her religious duties and with a heart and character naturally good, and place her in the midst of a reckless family, some of the members of which are abandoned and devoted only to the gratification of their own ap- | petites. This girl 1s surrounded by temptations, She ts assailed by propesals. For a time her carly teach- ings encourage her to resist, but after a time she falls, The consequences are that she loses her sitnation, she {8 divcharged and no recom- mendation given. She goes from place to place seeking employment, always viewed with suspicton, and where the story of her misfortune 1s guessed sho 18 rebuifed with disdain, Her single fault eats away all the good thero isin ber nature. No consideration 1s given to her weakness, none to the struggles she may have made, and no chance is offered her to recover till she sinks and 1s drowned in the sea of turpitude, Tako ju who bas hada public charge intrusted to rs he has acquitted himselt of all his he bas established a name for iMegrity and a repuxation for the practice of virtues men delight to honor, Upon this man cirenmstances are brought to bear which cause hin for a moment to forget him self, to violate trust reposed in hun, and from that moment ali faith, alt confidenco. in him gives place to calumny and reproach. His good acts are forgotten, alllis genuine virtue goes for pothing, and the char- actor he took years to build up beconies in a moment worthless, And s0 for want of forgiveness trae merit is permitted to bo crowded outof eight and the ono fautt of a lifetime is held up to shame and opprobrium. Weelaim to bave austere judgments in these days, We quote THE NWCESSITY OF PURE INTEGRITY, and say that society needs law and rectitude to govern it, Butit isnot by putting under the ban a man who hes moved a hair's breadth from the straight path that the ends of the law wiil be most effectually attained, Ot course Individuals must be held to a | sense of responsibility, and if wickedness is not punished . there ceases be so strong an incentive to doing good. But when one errs it is bard to peruntall the goodness of his nature to drop out through the leak so created in his character; It 1s hard to point at this leak and arguo | from it complete abandonment, What hampers men | mostin the practice of the virtue of forgivenoss is doubt as to the erring one’s senso of hia crime and his disposition to reform, They say there ts uo reason to, believe he will not crr again, and so they retuse trust him. Notbiog, perhaps, better i!lustrates this than the ticket-of-leave system formerly in voxae ta England, It was an attempt to put tie principle of for. | giveness in practical appheation in the social system of the country, By it convicts, who discovered durmg their imprisonment a disposition to re. form, were returned to society, but compelled to live under surycillance so that their activns might be properly noted, The ablest minds in the country advocated this system, and beld that it must redound | to the good of socéty, but this doubt as to The actual reformation of the convict crowded their opinions eut, of sicht, Notwithstanding this, itis claimed by an comment jurist, and the views of nany go to strengthen his opinion, that ninety per cent of imprisoned jelons become reformed, and if circumstances favored them would make good, useftul members of society. Now, if human nature 18 to be moulded and changed from bad to cood, it must be by the use of THY VIRTUES THAT RXCITE GOOD WILL, Ts it not our daty to make the most of evcry one that has @ heart in his peed and who is there that has not? And, imdeed, — mi I not ask was any body ever saved Ppt by kind ness? Look back upon your own experiences and those of mankind m the past and you will find that duty bas always been inspired by gentle feeling, omnipotent kindness, Forgiveness 1s the legend of religion, and the characters in the past who most ap- peai to Our sympathies are those who practised it, The speaker then went on to detire the character of for- giveness, which, ho said, must comprise the idea of Tepentance. It must notbe a hiding from sight of | faults, but a complete recovering from them and their } eflects. In all times the great principles goveruing so- ciety were law and justice on one side, with love and | mercy on the other. Many great examples exist of the efficacy of each, but the iesson of our own lives, the lessen of the Redemption, all go to show that klud- ness is the most powerful of all, IMPORTANT INJUNCTION. RUFUS HATCH SEEKS FO RESTRAIN THE 1ssvz | OF FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ADDITIONAL STOCK BY THE ATLANTIC AN®# PACIFIC TEL- EGRAPH COMPANY-—WHAT HE KNOWS OF ITS FINANCIAL CONDITION. Shortly after a meeting of the stockholders of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Compifhy, held on Saturday afternoon, at which it was decided, by a very close vote, to raise tho capital stock from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, the initial | papers in an injunction by Mr, Rufus Hatch to re-" within twenty days, and if it be then not forthcoming | the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief de- manded tn the complaint. ‘THE COMPLAINT. The complaint to which Mr. Hatch subscribes his name sets forth that the capital stock of the defendant corporation, as provided iu its articles of association and in its certificate of incorporation, 18 $10,000,000; that the said capital stock 1s divided into shares of $100 each, and that these shares, with the exception of 129 held by the company itseif, are now in the hands of tho public, Mr. Hatch states tbat the business of tho corporation, according to the best of bis in- formation ‘ond belief, is now in exceedingly embarrussed circumstances, and is largely indebted to eertain of its directors and to diverse raitroad com- panies and other individuals to an smount, as the Plainte 38 intorrhed and belie: ot over $250,000, and, no available assets with which to pay the same; that its corrent receipts do not amount to its current ex. penditures, and the business of said company is being done at a positive loss. Mr. Thomas T. Eckert, Presi- dent of the company, in his report made on the 26th day of April, 1876, to the stockholders of the company, recommends that arrangements be made for the con- struction of a line of telegraph from Albany, N. Y., to Boston, Mass, ; from Kye Beach, N. H., to Portlans, Me.; trom Bristol. N. H., to Willis River, Vt. ; from New Orleaus and Galvestor | Cincinnati to w Orleans via Loursville, Nush- ville and Memphis; from Cincinnatr via 7 of the company may be thereased ag the necessity may | arise to make extension of the said lines. The com. | plunt further sets forth that the detengants, the Board | of Trustees of this defendant corporation, adupted a | resolution at their Inst quarterly meeting, held on tho | 25th of Apri, recommending to the sharcholders that ‘ the capital stock of the company be increased from | $10,000,000 to $15,009,000 tor the purpose of extendmg | | the lines and operations of the company, in accordance with the recommendation of the President, for the im- | | provements hereinbefore detailed. i | Mr, Haten farther s that the issne of this addi. tional stock will be mave aga nst his wishes and against that the capital stock already issued, New York Stock Exchange; that the price of | tho said stock dnring the last three months has not exceeded $22 per share, and the said $5,000,000 | of stock.now proposed to be issued cannot be sold at a price exceeding that at which the present issue is quored; that the whole of $5,090,000 will not net to the | compaty over $909,000, thus being a positive loss of over $4,000,000, For these reasons the plaintiff demands judgment :— That the corporaticn defendants be forever restrained from issuing tho said $5,000,000 of stock or from in- creasing the capital stock of the saiddefendaut corpora- | ton without the consent of each and every stock- holder; that the defendant corporation be restrained from selimg oF parting with any of the said additional stock of said defendant corporation proposed to be is- Sescragion pnneeeey than tho entire par valuo FREE FIGHT IN A SALOON. . On Saturday night, under the potefit induence of bock beer, a terrible ight took place in the saloon of August Wetzell, corner of Union avenue and Stagg street, Wilitafnsburg, in which some thirteen or four- teon men took part. Of these all sustained some in- jury, knives, brass knuckles, beer mugs and chairs aving heen used as weapons, Patrick Burke and Henry Case, who were the most severely injured, wero taken to the Sixth preeinct station house, where their) wounds were dressed. Burke had seven cuts on his bead and two or three on ¢ach band and arm. About midnight the police arrested two of the originators of the fight, named John Herety and Patrick Connors, and as the brass knuckles they nsod were found on their Persons it will no dewbt go bard with them, “CROOKED” CIGARS, For some time pasta man samed Julius Dodin, re- siting in Graham avenue, Williamsburg, has been suspected of making cigars and selling them without indulging in the luxury of a heense of taking the benoit of the stamp act, rly Sunday morning he was seen to the core of our souls, Experience stowed that even in the very Jast hours of life the ‘habit of vetng absorbed in the world’s cares was predominant, and that on the threstotd of (he judgement seat the sere dying sinner could not withdraw bis mind to give eed fo make his peace with God, It was, therelore, of paramount importance to use the time we now had by a police officer ‘ing bis way along with an oid carpet bag. and as he retused to give an account of himeeif he was taken to the stotion house, where 500 cigars were found in the baj Collector Pattor- sou Was notitied and of Dobin, his cicars and bis house, whore 600 more wero found. E ‘ ooo psd > {LONG BRANCH. PREPARATIONS YOR THE GRAND SUMMER CES TENNIAL SEASON—HOTELS GETTING READY TC OPEN-—INCREASED FACILITIES OF COMMUNICA* TION. Love Braxcu, May 6, 1876. Centennial enterprise, as perhaps it would be desiz- nated now, but which in former years would have beet simply characterized as that auticipatory bird-like spirit that leads to iooking after the early worms, it finding most rapid development in our suthmer capital, Verandus, vgstibules, hallways and every nook and corner of the great caravansery of hotels lining the beach, are alive with cohorts of carpenters, masons, painters, scrub-women, uphoisterers ef id omne genus, busilyemployed in putting thom in readiness for the com- ing suinmer canpat Fintsbing touches are also being given to ‘The Drive,” whose evenness and har.iness of surface had been very much demoralized by the storma of winter. Bathing houses are once again raising their sun embrowned fronts alovg the sandy beach, Lawns are tho subject of most painstaking culture, The gen- eral atm is to give a lvok of enticing freshness to every. thing, and the result shows itself in no end to theallure- ments of seductive improvements. Of course all thig is in anticipation of a rich harvest in retura, and there can be no doubt of such result, no doubt that the rush of visitors tho coming season will fur exceed that ofany previous year, uo doubt that the proximity of the Branch to Philadelphia and the conveniences for reach- ing here from the Centennial Exposition and for returning will greatly augment the number of guests, and thus pour plouteous profits mto the pockets of the hotel folks. In fact, it is believed that during the coming summer this will be the great breathing place of our Centennial Exposition visitors, and that the great trouble will be, particularly after tho burning of the Metropolitan Hotel, to find accommoda- tions for the multitudinoas throngs of expected visitors, ‘The general features of Long Branch and its attrace tions as usummer watering place have been too often detailed in print to require se rong: description, Its beach and its bathing facilities aro without @ parallel, If it is possible to get a sea breezo anywhere IT 18 TO BR HAD MERE Its convenience e New York, Reale tape oo down the bay, notto surpassed in tho ri) bagi of its permanent popularity, But. while ‘ali these are familiar facts, the subjects et special pab- lic interest now are the extent of the hotel accommo. dations, the tune they will open, the tariff of prices that will probably ruie and the facilities ulforded for travelling communication, Commencing at the West End flotel, the tact is ulready aunowiced that this hotel will open on the 1st of June aud uoder its ior. mer managers, Messrs. Presbury & Hildreth, The hotel accommodations have been considerably on- larged, and everything 18 being put 1m first class order, Tho Howland House, adjoining, is again to be under the management of its veteran popular promiaigh M.. Henry Vowland, It has beon thoroughly overhuuled and wewly furnished, and isin splendid condition. It | will be opened on the 15th inst., wich a good many of its rooms engaged in advance. Mr, Howland, who bad taken a lease oi ihe Metropolitan for three years, had intended to open the iatter hotel on the opening day of | the Centennial, but the firo flend interrupted bis plans. However, the chlamity enables him to open the Howland House earlier than ho anticipated and with nearly @ tull complement of gavots, moat of those who had engaged quarters at the Metro. liten having pow arranged to go to the Howland jouse, Lauch’s is already opeved, having thrown itt doors open on the Ist of the month, and with, even at this carly stage im the season, a ploasant show of guests, The Pavilou, kopt by Samuel P. Morris, has always itt lateh string out, and bag on its register a goodly num- ber of summer sojourners. The United States goes into new hands, those of Pierce & Butler, and will open onJunel, ‘The Central, kept by P, Jane; the Mansion House, kept by Molntyre & Hovey, and the East End, kept ‘by Isaac Smith, wil all open on Juve 1, The Ocean Hotel, which, iv 13 sald, will be Under the management of Charles Leland, it’ 1s under. stood will open about the 20th inst. © As already inti- mated, ull the hotels have been put in new trim for the summer, Ax to the charges, the ubderstanding 4s that they will be about the same us last year, but less, if ‘anything, instcad of more, and at all events that no exira prices are to be put on because of its betug tha centennial year. It 18 certainly to be boped that will be the programme and that there will bo no yicla. ing, under whutever pressure, to the inducement to put the prices up to fancy figures, THK COTTAGES aro rapidly being put im order {or their summer oo cupanis. Quite a number of cot are already hired, including Mr, George W. Childs’ aud Jobn Hoey’s, A few pew cottages, just finished, will he added to the usual list. There is no authentic 1nforma- tion as to the time President Grant will. tke posssesion of his cottage, but it Is — stated that it will be ‘avon, in fact, as Congress adjourns—a government Solons know that in his recent letter ex- planatory of how he spends his vacations be mean exactly what he wrote, and intends to carry out the programme be started with to the end of the r. In anticipation of the extra rush of travel, is direction during the watering place season there has been an enlargement of the steamer Jesse Hoyt, she having been lengthened twenty feet, giving ber a total length of 235 feet. she has aleo bad new boilers put into her, and has been completely ro- fitted throughout. At her recent trial trp she went from her pier in New York to the Sandy Mook pier ip one hour and five mmutes, aud this under a pressure oft twenty-eight. pounds of steam, though allowed ta carry forty-two pounds, and that with an opposing tide aud a suf! head breeze.’ She bas the same ollicers, Cap- tain James Secly aud Purser Fred de A new mer added to the line is the Crystal , & fine sea boat and large and com- modious, Mr. William 8. Sneden is etill the general manager, Mr. 0. B. Kinney supermeendent of the steamboat division, Charles P. McFadden. gen- eral ticket agont, It is asserted that the Gin rend made .n about an bour and twenty minates. “ bow running a boat from the city a3 late as six P. M., and the probability is that there will be more frequent trips this summer than heretotore. Of course, the all- rail route will continue to run, and enjoy its share of patronage, although there is no questioning the fact that the trip by steamboat, with ti iticent sail —— the Narrows, will be generally proferred route, THE POSTAGE QUESTION. A bill affecting every newspaper and newspaper reader in the land was introduced into Congress April 28 by Hon. 8. 8. Cox, of this city. Its provisions have not been published, but Postmaster James, of this city, says he can indorse'the wisdom of the proposed act tp every particular. The bill is entitled oue to fix the rate of postuge on certain mail matter and ‘for other pur. poses, and runs as follows :— Be itenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembl That, from and atter thé passing of this act, first class mai Matter shail inctade all written matter gent corrected Prool sheets passing between authors aud publishers, and except the written presentation in any book oc pamphlet And the ame, auid address of the sender, preceded by she word “from.” una alse the number and prico nod & | briet wement of e contents, onty the which y bo written on ‘of any article or . 4, third or fourth class, with. class matter, the rate te be one cent per ounce. Third occasion: matter shail eomprise all trausient and printed publications, such as pamphlets, handbills, posters, @n- sealed circniars, proxpectuses, books, sheets, | cor Fected proof sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks exclusively in print, vible patterns, — sam: ple cards, phonographic paper, letter eave! postal cards, upon which there is neither printing nor ‘other than that whieh fs printed by governuvent, and the written or printed address of some porson or to they treo be seut throuzh the wall, postal auvelo wrap pers, cirds, plain and ornamental paper, rep. Ei fc Feseat types, seeds, bulbs, routs, cut al ther mat ter ast therwine proviged fora on by excl om ‘the ma wetht Hate mn a le erature, provided Tor eecond 237 matter; the rate to be one cent for two Fourth class inatter shall embeace only inted mattor issued regularly ae periods a Faynentiy as ‘onke vin’ sree. monty, “snd shal as once in cattied ata uniform rate, to be pald by welght and in ou as heretofore prescribed lor seco! Feo und tied loos sag be regdaterod on the prepayment second and t! the under such of a registration fee bate Lagi ky a 5° an iter fore 3 ‘on whieh shall or prepaid amouni Sesteeethad raves shall be torwariod or Gelivered, bat shat: Bp neta for postne and sent to the Dead Letter office in ington unless returned to the writer or sender shereot ave been purposely oF law re ethane all provistons of Inw ineonsatent herewith ore Tepe: The bill was read twice, referred to the Committes en Poss Offices and ordered to be orinted. MISFORTUNE OF BEING DEAF. Georgo Bentley, aged twenty-five, a deaf mute, re siding at Yonkers. wis walking along the Hudson River Railroad track yesterday morning, when he was by a train going north, this side. of Riverdale, and fe® tally injored. He was takou on the train and sont to St. John’s Hospital, Yonkers. WOULD-BE SUICIDE. Henry Henkel, a young German, attempted to com- Mit suicide ou Saturday night by Jamping from ono og the Hamilton ferryboats. Ho was rescued with somo dimicalty, and was removed to the Third precinct ste- class matter; ee ic