The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1876, Page 8

: 8 “CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS, | Who May Enter. the King: | dom of God. FAITH, THE SOUL'S ANCHOR. Trials and Temptations That Men Must Combat. ee EE ESS THE NATURE OF Beauty of Disinterestedness in Human Character, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. | “ BEECHER oN CHRISTIAN UNITY-—THE | CHURCHES TO WHICH HE BELONGS, Plymouth church was crowded to its utmost ca- Pacity yesterday. Mr, Beecher baptized eighteen infants in arms and preached one of his ablest ard Mr. Zundel, the aged and tb Most impassioned sermons, feebdlo organist of the church, was absent hess, and Mr. H. C. King filed b bly. A duet tor two sopranos, “KE Heaven,” from Racine's “Athali deissohn’s entrancing music, was sung under direction of Mr. Henry Camp, with the entire chojr in the chorus. Mr, Beecher, in avnouncing a testimonia | concert to Miss Lasar, the soprano of bis ehureb, on Monday next, praised the choir very highly, He bad, he said, been helped by them very much, and the devotion of the congregation had been helped by their instrumentality, and that they had been ina certain de- gree worthy of the name of ministers of masic in the Feligious services of which he was the miuister of doc trine, and they are, therctore, assistant pastors in Bome sense of this church. y Lior these alone, but for them also | in me through their word, That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I fn thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.’ These verses from St. Jobn’s Gospel were the text of Mr, Boecher’s seriion, It is, he said, in Some sense neces- tary that spiritual and emotional truth should be re- duced to some physical and materialexpression; but the habit of symbolization—and language is but a system of symbotization—which at the first: step helps beyond that hinders; for while we may obtain the idea of a spiritual thing by likening it to something which is physical, yet if wo go on in that way itis soun the material form which takes the place of the spiritual idea which was at frst iustrated and enhghtened by \. Christ prayed for the unity of His people in the spirit of the inward man; such a unity as subsists be- n Him and His Father, as subsists between the harmonious nature of the saints and angels in the rreat world beyond und above, And so it was His Prayer that not only His personal disciples, but their | fisciples unto the end of ume, should h tial unity of spirit, “But this prayer was ero long in- lerproted in the most material way, and the whole body of Christians bave been endeavoring to enforce an external and individual unity from the day of Christ | till this hour, nor isthe struggle over. It seems to have been thonght that by gathering the bodies of men in one place, aud under one government and reed, unity could be reached, Juxtaposition, the Preacher'said, was not uuity. A family may be’ one Although its members are dispersed all over the conti- nent; and, on the other band, atamiy may be under one roof and yet be as wide apart as if an ocean rolled between them, The only ting which can unite men 18 that subtle interior spirit Uiat unites their souls, | All significant, true and valuable Christian upity Mr. Beecher ‘said, must proceed trom tue pos: session of eminent Christian experiences, and Where they exist unity takes place ' invol- untarily, inevitably, indissolubly. Theretore, 10 be united 1 religious matters men mast be religious Rt higron in this world is developed in very different w the preacher said, and the suri of Moses and the rophets was that to serve pugh iil accepta- Blessed Child of ? wedded to Men- | iw ve this essen- od is to be aright man, hristianity differed from the Old Testament religion, ich that stin the end sought, but in the means vy W ie to be gained, Christianity teacnes that we are not come 10 mghteousness by methods and altar sacri- fees, but that there is NOW disclosed a personal re Tationship between the Immermost soul of God and the Boul of mankind, that the race 1s vow sufficiently in telligent tos lace to face with its God . cetve the div 4 influence by Yoaching of 1 xl upon e heart. And t tthe primary | is the same as ews sought it through the | altar apd the temple. We seek it through the heavenly | temple and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Jews thought a n were in some way finally to come ap to Jerusalem. Jost sight of the true idea of anity, Mr. Beecher described at length the man the ideas of Christianity were moditied second century, w the 8 beeame converted and surrounded moral feeling with their pecaliar philosophica rine, and ere long a large portion of | the world accopted the doctrinal statement as if not identical with Christian experience, as something ine | Feparable from if, When Christianity passed oat of the hands of the Greeks and into the Romans’ ata later period that nation also modified Christianity Intiu- | Phced by their ideas of imperial Rome, it became a Kingdom. It must, they thought, have a detinite fo be whole ecouom p must be a | organization and the world must be goverued by | The Greek idea took the oman took on that y. Both contained a grain of Iruth, but both of then have stood in the way of true Christianity by setting up another mark to aimay It was impossible, Mr. Beecher said, ns men are con- stituted, to have absolute unity in this hfe, it might be possibie in the realtns of pure mathematics, but in We reaims of mind men could not believe alike, and characteristic not Judaism—manbood. er in which varly as the ab Mt, and that wor form of an int of an organy: Is is impossible to conceive a ioral truth its beng culored from bebind by fome emouon, Men are alike generaliy, but specitically they were very diferent. Men cannot agree in their potions of the material things with which they are tamil r t p of the government of a singl © ex pected in their ideas of the whe al government of ing through the ages, intinite in its instru. h nature and dirough Providence? All there is a God, that He tx to be wor 1, that reverence, joveand obedience ure tl ethods of worstipping God and that He calls all that are His to purify themselves trom the lusts body and that they are to be clothed with spirit. verionces. But the moment you take any one ¢ doctrines and attemptto drive men into it togerher, apart, The sharper you make your catéélism the more you split mea olf trom © another. 8 been the origin of sects, Tho moment a man undertakes to tell people what they a ofthe thal believe and to preseribe the exact wose, or stands dyer them with a rod and sys, “Lam God,” or the tame thing, “fam osent by Him,” that very moment men resist, Sects spring from the violation of the personal liber" of the medividual. Lf roneous doctrines were let alone, would die out; but ifan ted it would arouse # threshed em he tks , bis all ina ve dis. That’ which was true of doe true in regard to organ in the ovei ligion. Relygie thinking, 1 Ww ; but what he was proper condition tributed over the wor! trinal religion wasn relixy jatter reli Of the external instrom wus a personal thing, It w and not what a tat be not self and bis God determined bis religion. In 0 promote purity of faith educating imstitutions inthe shape of churehes were necessary; but they not religion, any more than se were cation, Ni they belonged to it, a tion of men together fo vine com- mand, and it that no to genérate And by bring nt, as it were, Was ould not ge into aker knew many the world by gomg into some Christian was able in It alone ail the spirituality tuat be wou ig mon together a majestic cur tstablished. For this reason men s zaves and convents, although the sp men who would bette Chriat had swid the religton of men was to copa uch place. be known not by thoir apostolicity, their ‘ep y," their “presbyrosity” or their “congregatio bat by their fruit, But the fra of the Sp: lore, joy, peace, long suflering, gentle “quith.’” "Now, said the preucher, pe Delieve that Wf there was not any charc Show or singing or conference mecting, you would ever get toss trnits of the Spirit’ Lado not dispute that they are useful, but you lose sight of the thing that you are cultivating in the instrament with which you are cultivating it, Christ, continued Mr, Bee Stands up in the midst of the clamors and controv Fics Of opposing sects. saying, ‘These are the tests that you are in the Fight road by these fruits of lo Ke. ; You should know them, and whoever has them is the best among mon.” Novth Rome, the preacher said, had power to d ¢irange Veneration, but if he could tnd achareh of many members all following the behest of tho Master contained in the words, ‘He shall be ehief among you that shall make himeeli a siave"—it be could tind such a body he Woultt make the woariest pilurimage the world around to worship with thas church, apd he Should say, “¥e aro apostolic, ye are the orthodox,” Unity, ihe preacher repeaved emphatically, must be the spontancous coalescence of concurrent experiences, I am, he said, a meniber of the Roman Catholic not outwardly, not doctrinally, not by or | goodness y | patriotism during the Bevolution, | migh | top. dinance, oat by this: that every pope and every car- dinal and every and every priest of every orde de us Christ in Sincerity and in truth, and evinces in s life the (ruit of this Jove and faith, ‘my soul flies to him aod bails bim, before I know what f speak, as my Lord's child and my brother, He is mine. Not by vrdinances, not by the framework of man’s hand in the strocture of the Church in @ physical way—he is mine by the mighty drawing of God in me and 1 in Him Tam im that Chureb, and noboay can keep we out; Pp without its schism, Tam in it without its priesthood, 1am in it because it 1s good. For that great Church rs like a tropical continent whose jungles are full of many things precious and many things dangerous, whose mighty growths are many of them poisonous and many of ‘them useless, but nevertheless full of | Tiches and full of tloral beauty and full of rare and ad- mirable fruits; and I will net throw them allaway. I take the liberty of loving what is lovable and letting the fest alone, MK. BERCHRK’S RELIGION, And all the great sects that he outside of the mother sect, there ore none of them to whieh I do not belong. 1 am iscopal, 1 love the sweet Layton, and the songs of that Church have Deon like the wings of angels to me, and 2 belong to her, not by any form of outward gov- eroment, but by the holiness that # in her—ber woble ve, her purity, from generation to generation, 10 holy households, in saintly ministers and 1p saintly commu- nicants. Nobody can «rest (rom metho fellowship that 1 love—the fellowship of the soul—with that Chureb to which we are imdebted more than ever our rateful thoughts will be able to own. stormy times the seed which we sow and think forgetting that it 18 biessed with the tears, yea, urished with the blood, of many of the men ates we now deride, I belong to the Church of the Americaa Episeopacy and to the Church of Cal- vin, Calvin 18 mine. Whether he would nave received me I doubt, but I think be would agreat deal sooner theo bis bastard children would, A great reformer | was hea man that stood as the symbol of the progres. sive thought of the time In which be lived. He gave to the world that which it much needed, Men had no objective development of the religious life, and Calvin aiit up y respects 60 mug: | nificent in its force that men said, old; bere is our faith; there ts the structure that holds us.” [ belong to the shouting Methodists and the silent Quakers, for sometimes I am shouting and sometitnes L am silent, 1 belong to them because both represent permanent excellenees. 1 belong to the Congrega- Uonalists, beewuse this widely dispersed cluster of churches, that are not streaming through the sky as a connected meteor, but are scattered broad as the ueb- ule and as the siars separated one from another, east mto the vault a common light. I belong to them because goodness ts universal, and if you love uu belong to ail the churches that are good. you love parity you belong to all the churches shat If you love selt sacrifice and gelf denial for w mien, if you love Christ with aflame that hter und brighter as you near the promised you belong tw all the churches, you belong to Christ, you belong to all that are His Mr, Beecher continued in this strain for some time, ng the Presbyterian Chaeeh in particutur for its | They have among them, said he, sweet souls and Christian households, be upon all the churches and the blessing of Al- y I will seek for no individual union of the | body. I will seek no organization that sball pe identi. cal with others, ‘These are lower things; I rise to the IT see good in all the sects that are Christianlike, and Tbonor them and pray tor them and for all that are beneath their sway and care. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ‘WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?”—SERMON BY REV. STEPHEN H. TYNG, JR. The service of song yesterday morning im the above place of worship was exceptionally Mine, and before the sermon the appropriate seventeenth bymn of the collec- tion was sung, commencing with the verse— To our Redeomer's glorious name Awake the sacred song; Ob may hislove (immortal flame) ‘Turn every heart and tougue! The preacher took for his text the words, think ye ot Christ?”—Matthew, xxii, 42. Th isa question that probes the very heart and moral nature of | man, In this regard thoughts are things, not mere fancies. God sees subtleties are ag transparent as the air, and the ques- tion is not howdo you trest Jesus Christ, but What think yeof Him? ‘In the great hour of doom every man’s acts, will and thoughts will be judged according as he has treated this great question, "As every useful cant that loves the Lord | It has brought | | go to show en through and through; all their | urt 16 the expression of some inventive thought, 80 | the tendencies of a man’s nature—eood or evil—are nc- | | j cording as he cultivates viriue or vice, as he is narrow or mean, broad and genuine. Ia his mental workshop his character is formed, ond the cultivation of tho qualities that go to make Up the man goes steadily for- | ward. Therefore, “What think ye of Christ or about | Christ!” goes a great way toward the cultivation of the | spirit of good and the driving away of the spirit of evil that is constantly assailing and besetting the hearts of | men. Sometimes a man's conscience pricks him as with thorns, aud at times he sings to it iuilaby, bat if he thinks of Jesus Christ be has a friendly counsellor constantly by his side. If you think that you can be | wild and licentious in thought and not in act, beware! It ix not posstble; for every thought. leaves its impress on the soul. God yndges us not by the thoughts of others but by the SHCRET RATIMATH WE PUT ON HIM, | upon the value we set on His well-beloved Son whom He sent into the worla to redeem sinuers, Let us cor- rect our estunate of Him, therefore, and develop our | noblest selves according to God's Word and what we think of Christ. Though His brethren knew Him as Jasus and crucifiers knew him only as Jesus, not one until after the resurrection entered into the thought of His Christly work. What did Isaiah mean when he sad, “This day is the Scrip- ture fulfilled in our 7" Oh, how pri do His prom- | ises seem—those proméses sealed with His blood—the blood of Jesus Christ! He is the true priest, the Temple, the sacrifice above the altar. destroyed, hell an impossibility and heaven secure. In Hin we have an antidote to temptation, faith in the midst of doubt, deliverance from captivity and defence against sin—the King of kings and Lord of lords, Christ came to reprosent God to man, and at the last duy He itis who will represent man to God; and how precious He 1s to those who love Him let thom testify. He they rich or poor, high or low, ignorant or learned, | they aro sustained by therr sweet faith, and they bave no higher hope or joy than in the blessed satisfaction of the knowledge ot @ personal God. TRINITY CHURCH. THE LIFE LONG SACRIFICE OF CHRIST, AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE PRESENT TIMES—SER- MON BY THE REY. F. OGITBY. The morning services at this church wore conducted yesterday by the Rev. Frederic Ogilby. The increase in the attendance, due probably to the lovely morning, was very noticeable.’ The singing by the choir was of the usual high order, The sermon was preached from the text—"I am the Good Shepherd; the good shepherd giveth his lite for his sheep. As the Father knoweth In Him is death | \ are not of themseiven epellant, but when they enter | into the Christian character they become repulsive. A Christian the preacher defined as **One -who has Jearned of Jesus to know God as He is, to realize im- mortality and to understand that righteousness is the eternal law.” Life and conduct adjusted to such conditions give the highest type of Christian manhood. The two most attractive features uf the human character are strength and beauty, and tho character in which those elements are combined bas and always will prove irresistibly attractive. Moral strength and beauty form the single exception to the universal law of death and decay, The - PURK AND STAINLESS CHEVALIER BAYARD, and Join Hampden, the noblest Englishman of his era, are instances of the attractive character of good men who are strong. The moral ideal that to the young ig the smart i reverence that, if po higher quality, aud have lost the power of being deeply indignant at the bad swart man. Our children are apc and Jearn the lesson. Au tilus- tration of the tendency of the hour 1# the use of ir- reverent slang, by which the noblest names and deeds are befouted by cheap burlesque wit that degrades and demoralizes whatever it toaches, and all unix while our liberties are imperilied and our country piundered by its smart men. Vur chief national waht is manhood containing those attractive elements of cha: er, and without which we can have no future—a manhood not alone of capacity to do good, but to bate evil, and with an iron indignity against everything base and wrong. There can be no symmetrical Chnistian character lacking th meat of joyousness founded on a ratioual belief in God and’ well grounded expectations ot a coming Suture. Disinterestedness js an element of the haman character in which men are stow to believe, but when convinced of its oxistence they are ready to fall down and worship it, The chief charm of a Christian char- acter 1s that indefinable one which springs from a life felt to be assuming the dignity of a coming eternity. “phey that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eugles; they shall ruff and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint.” CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. MAN ALONE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS ACTIONS HERE AND HIS FATE HEREAFTER. Mr, Hepworth preached yesterday morning from the text St. John x., 165—“l lay down my life for tho sheep.” ‘This, he sald, and Kindred texts indicate a very pe- culiar relationship between man and God, and they that some very serious misfortune has, at some time im the past, happened to us; it fs @ misfortunc of no ordinary kind. Self. recovery seems to be an impossibility, Outside help is absolutely necessary; God's arm alone can save. Tho aflliction that has fallen upon us is of 80 serious a nature that it requires for its cure a snerifice so great that earth and heaven shudder at the thought of it, It in- dicates, also, A PROULIAR RELATIONSUIP between God and mau, and we see the Almighty in the attitude of one who has not simply a desire that we shall recover, but also a solicitude ‘nour behalf, He has with infinite wisdom perfected a plan by which | salvation is made possible and easy; and He Js go great in His love for us He is ready to send His only begotten Child into the world to suffer untold agony and sorrow that by means of this agony and sorrow you and I might find the way which we have lost, and start anew with fresh encouragement and fresh energy on the road to heaven. 1 want this morving to call for your most careful attention, because it is my desire that we shall look certain facts square in the face. Let mo say, to begin with—what you might regard as ap axiom, requiring no discussion whatever—thas no sin can enter heaven; nothing sinful can cross, the threshold of God's eternal palace. ‘Then it follows as a matter of course that you and 1, ut present situated, are necessarily excluded; nono of u heaved. Since no sip, however light ed by our own judgment, can ever enter into the immediate presence of God, therefore none of us, not one of us, will ever find our Way there anlexs something extraordinary bappens; unless o miracle of Providence shall be perlormed in our be- half. We cannot lind the way; ithus bean irretriev- ably lost. God can find it, perhaps, and out of the goodness of flis heart He may do it, but unless ho does you and I are most assuredly doomed to exclu- sion irom Has presence. It seems to me that position ig welltaken, Our logic shows that it must be true. We need not op the Book o1 divine revelation in order to discover it; | | | | gface to enable them to bear with feelings of oe jon whatever trials the Lord might be pleased to send. The music selectod ny Professor Schmitz, the organ- ist, was M te’s mass in B which, as usual, was rendered with excellent effect, At the offertory the duet 0 Salutaris,” was well sung by Mme. Bre- del, soprano, and Mme. Unger, contralto, ‘ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. SERMON BY THE RSV. FATHER BYRON—THE HOLY 6PIRIT'S ENLIGHTENMENT OF MAN 4S TO SIN, ' At St. Stephen’s church, in East Twenty-eighth street, yesterday morning, a large congregation attended the high mass. The Virgin’s altar was chastely decorated with flowers, and at the foot of the Statue several lamps were burning. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Fatber Byron, who took as the subject of his text the gospel of the day, which was taken from Jobn’s agcount of the Saviour’s last sermon, delivered the evening before His death, The Saviour's words had for their scope an exhortation to obedience to that Holy Gospel which He had brought them, and then because the hearts of the aposties grew{o be sad He consoled them by Promising to send the Comforter, who would assuage their sorrow, The words of Christ revealed to us the meaning Of the office of the Holy Spirit. Both before the incarnation of the Son of God, as well as after His asconsion, it was the office of the Holy Ghost to en- lighten men’s intellects as to the nature of sin, so that they might understand how serious a thing it was to offend God. The samo mercifal work is still the Divine Spirit’s, and will continu to be fer all time tocome, But in proportion to the light which man received as to the horror of sin, so also comes a light which pre- seuts virtue i true colors—inviting, chaste, beautiful; always in its every form an offering acceptable to the Almighty. This ‘contrast in rteelf is meant to help men in clinging to whatever is good and ploasing to God, even though there might be attacbed to it some bitter or troublesome surroundings. The more God's goodness, holiness and pertectiuns are understood by us the greater becomes our horror of sin. But why should it be necessary tor ihe Holy Ghost to eulighten men as to sin? It is because people do not understand the real evil of sin or the real value of virtue. Speak to the men of the world and you wili hear in their con- Yorsatioa nothing but of the temporal losses which dave happened to themselves or to others, but never a word of the spiritual afflictions of their soula. These spiritual bruises, sinfal stains upon the heart, never receive apy attention, They are never thought of, be- cause men do not realize tho evil of sin and understand its nature. St. Augustive says thatsin is any wilful thought, word or deed gp agen dy! the law of God. St. Ambrose says tbat it is a wilful transgression of the divine commandments or of God’s holy law. The man who sing refuses to serve God, aud with every repeated offence cries out w'th the Psalmist, ‘1 will not serve Him.” That is to say MAN MAD OUT OF THE SLIME of the earth refuses to pay homage to his Creator. Well might St. Ambrose say, “Behold nothingness itself taking up arms against the Supreme Beivg to make itself equal to Him.’ How blasphemous ts tue language of the sioner toGod. And yet man is God’s most vored creature on earth. The Divine Magter bas heaped upon him every benefit, created all things for his use and promised eternal reward for fidelity in His service. Nay, God gave up His only begotten Son to save him, aud i the life of that Saviour was writt ‘ith drops of blood the terrible enormity of sin. Man’s insults to God may be in thought or word or deed, and thus we see how the sinner may use every sense which God gave him to mock and trifle with an infinitely great master, God has ever been the kindest father, and since He has done so much for us who can measure our own iniquity when we rebelagainst Him. After being vanquished by the devil and allurod into sin we become the devil’s staves, and thus we pass over from the vice of a master who loves us with an iniinite love t be the slaves of a master that is ever seeking to lure us to [ tend to allude extensively to the semi-centennial occa- Perdition, What a miserable state for a man to plunge into, To those who may have the misfortune of being slaves of the devil there is still the voice of the master calling to return while there i: hance, God 1s too mer- citul to retuse to rece!ve a prayer offered with fervent heart and contrite purpose that the rebellious heart may be chastened Into obedience, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE ANCHOR OF THE SOUL—SERMON BY THE REV. DR. ARMITAGE. The Rev. Dr, Armitage, pastor of the Fifth avenue Baptist church, preached on the subject:—Our Soul’s Anchor.” As an introduction and foundation to his our own judgment corroborates it, We ure satwiled with | discourse, he read the last six verses of the sixth chap- that statement as a and yet you say, * are gradations 1D evil. rling pot im our urgument, What is to become of the dif- ome are better than others; thero | ter of St, Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews, Said Mr, Armitage;—Thore is probably nothing that ferent classes of criminals? Willall go to the same | could more absorb the spirit of a man than standing on place 2”? Just now. ception exclu .ed authority of hutnan judgment and of that sense which we call common. . I saw a turmer some years since putting by his winter With that question 1 have nothing wo do With the fact that they are all, without ex- He took one out that was decayed trom skt and I saw the justice of putting that apple aside. came across, another that was about one-fourth de- cayed, and without a moment’s besitation he put that by the side of the one that was wholly worthless; then he took up # third, aud on examinauon found only the slightest speck, ana without & moment's hesitation he put that with the other two. 1 said, ‘Is not that in- Justice?’ He said, “You do not kaow what I am go- ing to do with these apples, and do not know whether Tam just of unjust. ut I said, “Why do you not put that last apple im the barrel?’ ‘Because, he said, “my whole winter's crop depends on my not Actting in any apple with a speck, Jor when it is jaid away = that =minuve peck of would spread and destroy all the rest.” So a common exclus:on was necessary. We see u murderer, and we say he cannot go to heaven unless a change oc- curs, and we see the Justice of it; there 1s no difference ~ must of opinion on that; but here is a’man who has never committed murder nor stolen outright, aud a man who seidom lies outright, He bas corruption in his soul, and you are in doubt—about what’ will ultima-ely do that mau if he dies uncom- ted 1 have nothig@Mto do, but, so far as neaven 18 concerned, 1 it ts ce into. which no sin can enter; then it is a place into which that man can never, under the heights of Neversink during a great storm and see- T have to do, and that I assert on the | ing a boat apparently drifting helplessly upon the | shore. There 1s no way of beating out into the open | sea, and it seems as if wind and waves were conspiring apples, He was very careful in his selection of them. | to wreck the vessel. Just as she is about to get amon, to core, | the breakers her head turns to the wind, aad she riues He} securely, What ha; saved her when all efforts seemed ofno avail? Her anchor, that has fastened to the ground and prevents her driftiny el does the same for as, God swore that we should nave salvation in His Son if we woud only fly to Him, FIRM RELIANCE ON THE AXCHOR will prove it intallibly sure. Now, it might be said, how | are we cervain that we have salvation in Christ? In England every anchor that gocs on board aship bas by” Jaw to be tesied, and, if a good one, ix stamped. Bi this means come between the slip owner and Joss if, relying on thig anchor and using it properly, his vessel is lost, So corruption | God does not ask us to depend upon an untested an- chor. In order that we may feel sate He tas stamped upon our anchor all ot His own attributes, God hav- ing done this expects usto manage our crait. We use our sense which God bestowed: upon us for securing our salvution. He has given us this responsivity. He iy pot going to drag us into hea’ He has given ug reason and will ex- As to what God + pect us to act the part of men in casting anchor where there 1s good holding ground, It must go out of you and fasten upon something outside, for instance, no vessel could be anchored by fasten’ her capstan. In the jast place, inasmu any circumstances except those which’ indicate'a radi- | an anchor and God has provided it, t is no mere fig- Brethren, atm I right’ Is my position 8%, mUst you not ar is another man, who cal change. well taken ? rive at my conclusion ? | perhaps 18 a member of a church, but has not always me, even so know I the Father; atid I lay down my | jife for the sheep.” THK DIVINE RCONOMY, The reverend preacher dwelt, in his introduction, upon the mysteriousness of the Divine economy, by which the Son of God had become smearnate and had secriticed himself for the sins of the world. Put it would be the purpose of his discourse to show that the words of bis text were ot wider scope than that which they bore on their face and which generaily re- ferred them exclusively to the period of Christ's pas- sionand death and the glorious time between His resugrection and ascension which the Church is now celebrating, THR YEAR TOO SHORT. We are obliged, said the proacher, by reason of the shortness of the year, in which all the events of Christ's life have to be alternately celebrated, to bring together too nearly ant commemorate all too rapidly the events which occupied the thirty-three years of the life of the God-Man, Now, the sacrifice which Christ made of himself for the world did not begin with the period of what is understood as His passion. It commenced near that httle Jewish hamlet where David kept his flocks asa boy, and where, in the stall of a poor cattle shed the Son of God took flesh in the cold of a winter's night. Here ft was that his Orst , lesson was given to the world, Although, too, the great drama of His passion was the culmina- tion of all the sacrifices that He mato, still we bad to look with awe and wonder on that ‘period whieh clapsed between his infaney and his public mis. { which the divine recora gives us but one or npees (siteh as his disputing, at the age of . With the doctors in, the temple), and which oceupied the average lifetime of a generation — | TR LESSON. | Perhaps at no period of the world’s history was the profound lesson conveyed in the lengthy preparation jor bis pablic life more heeded than in the present day. There are times of feverish restlessness, when auticipated youth is made jo supplant the pe- r of childhood, when the powers of the houy and mind, | instead of being allowed to deve wording to the laws of nature, are ts are forced in a cans the bring. treated in the same manner as pla hotbed. Education, which proper ing outof the faculties, is, amon: made to inflict fn Ovi by unduly forcing the mental powers Our youth are forced into the cares and responsibilities of manhood bejore they have the measure of the world their moral principles and convictions are | biished as to give them a chance of successfully | withstanding temptation. The resnits of this are upon is only by an application of the teachings yed in the slow preparation of Him who needed none that we can hop combat these results, Driel treatment of the period of Christ's public mints. try and that rmmediately preceding bix ascension, with the practical lessons to be dertved from them, closed a very clear and able discourse, CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. “AN ATTRACTIVE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER” — SERMON BY REV, JAMES M, PULLMAN. Tho Rev, James M, Pullman preached yesterday morning at the Church of Our Saviour (Sixth Univer: salist Socrety), on West Fifty-seventh street. The sabject of his discourse was “An Attractive Christian Character,” snggefted in the Epistle of the Aposiie Paul to tho Philippians, iv., & ‘There are characte Christian cannot be denied, bat whieh have in them no attractive clemonts. They are ot the negative order; repellant and even repulsive. Austerity and severity , he said, to which the name of | | nity. O'Hare, At the termination of the frst gospel the | Wr conjecture Bur de Father Farrelly preached a sermon, taking his _ given to Mose al been true to his vows, he had OSLY A LITTLE SPOT in his heart; can’t he goin’ Not at there js any moral government, God cannot overlook your sin unless there uivalent for it, So, brethren, you and I, with in Our lives, U..less there'is an iuterterance im the ‘lan of God, can never enter heaven. We ought to stand face to lace with that fact, Let us look into our lives and see what is there, We are ebildren of God, are we not’ We are the children nd he gave to us as a possivil- a y unspeakably grand. Would it not be @ ynstant delight Lo enter into communion with tnat God, Would not prayer become thi not the known will of the Father cail for implicit obe- dience? I think 80; it could hardly be otherwise. Would not everything base and mean and low be dt tastefal to Him? 1 think so, What has bappened that it sbould not be so, and why it that Wis not so at the present moment? So far is it from being true that it is the one great wonder of our lives. | maszy iron ones used by ships. It is as real and as operative as tho In tacts 18 more for 1t is fastened to a rock which will hold it forever, INDEPENDENT LIBERAL CHURCH. SERMON BY MR. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM ON THE COMMANDMENTS. The Grand Lodgo Room inthe Masonic Temple, at meut of the brain. | Twenty-third street and Sixth avenuo, was filled with an attentive congregation yesterday morning. The reading desk on the platiorm at the east was elegantly decorated with rare flowers and exotic vines, The ser- vices were opened with sacred inusic by the quartet of joy ot his lite? Would | the Independent Liberal church, The pastor, Mr, 0. | B. Frothiugham, read selections from the ancient Scriptures of the Siamese, Persians and Hebrews, quoting from the latter the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third chapters of Exodua, Do we not fear. Telative to the commandments, Speaking to those God instead ot loving Tink shales ed inn, from. texts, the minister called attention to the death, when we are tadght that death is life? And is if it not bard to be good, and easy to be what we cali bad? | {° “that. 12 opening the Sermon on the Have we not passions that are extremely difficult tq Mount Josus was very careful to .observe the control? They are lke a team of wild horses; they | moral law of the Jews, and throughout His ministry bo get the bit in their mouths and run away with us| See Sites, . When, the. ponedunme: suas 40. heb this drivelling idiot; do you suppose that wax part of God’s plan originally? is it not trae that poor unfor- tunate lite is the result of some broken law? See that madman jearing bis hair ia his cage; do you think God intended that? A thousand times ho. Theze isa break somewhere. vat our will against God's will, and that is the result. (Matthew xix., 16) and asked what he should do to gain eternal life, Jesus said to him, “Keep the com- mandments.” The young man said to bim “Which? We have rushed into the arena and , All these things have'l kept from my youth ap; what Jack I yet?” And Jesus told him, “One thing thou e dare not lay those things on the altar of Gud, Itas | Inckest; the spirit of the commandments.” ‘The com- the fault of i MAN'S FREE AGENCY, that has directly opposed the Almighty, All the crime and guilt in the world and in your beatts this moment 1s purely voluntary tirely responsible for it, and you will be or it on the last day. T want to startle you if Lean. I want you to feel that tt is your own fault, and pot God's, if youare not saved and, more than this, if you are to be saved you mui begin now. f ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL THE TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS OF LIFE—BSF: MON BY THE REY. FATHER FARRELLY, The Interior’ of the Cathedral presented a very im- posing appearance yestemlay. Spacious edifice was crowded to the doors, while the Services Were carried out with characteristic solem- The officiating clergyman was Rev. Re text irom the gospel of the day accord'ng to St. John. Tho reverend gentleman, in the conrse of a very clear ans forcible address, called attention to the importance and necessity of undergoing the hardships and suffer. ings imposed on aw in this fe with becoming fortitade | Ward, glteriny and resignation, He alluded to the itinstrions example full of dead me set by the saints, who endured so much on carth tor’) I the love of God, posed upon us with a true Christian spirit, trusting in, the ail wise dispensations of the Almignty. Then, again, we may impose voluctary penance on ourselves, besides ug With submission the sufferings to waich we exiremely forcib'e on this subject, parti he desires to be cleansod and paritied by suMlering in this | worki so that he may be prepared ior the noxt. The reverend preaciie cessity of be might fall to t would be everiasting bliss heroaiter. rged Npon the congregation the ne. with cheertulness whatever troab! riot in this world, and the reward We shopld ceive Irom the hands of God all sufferings, no matter | our neighbor so that midst of the | | what the number or measure. In the most terrible aiflictions, there was consolation in kneel dng at the foot of the cross, rine ourselves up to God and accepting temporal punishment im explation of our sins, The sufferings of this world weré as nothi with the reward that would be ineted. ont to the tarthful in the next, In conclusion, the rev- erend gentieman asked the congregation to pray for | mandments referred to are the ten given in the law of Moses, in what we call the decalogue. They contain the spirit of the entire Hebrew moral law. mandments are probibitory in their character. | We must accept the afflictions im- | True { | may be subjected. Tho words of St Augustine were | It retains men within certain definite limits. rly where | new diapensation we are commanded, “Love thy | ia | The com- The Jaw reiative to the Seventh Day is a probibition against giving the whole of life to labor. “Six days shalt thou labor and do ali thy work; bat the seventh day 18 the bath ot the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do 8 any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy mia servant, nor thy man servant, nor thy cattie, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.” It is meant for a day of rest—rest for all. It is not commanded that it Shall be a day ot religious observanees or cere- montes, but for rest. We are commanded to honor our en follow the jaws of soeiety:—"Thou “Thou shalt not commit udaltery,” “Thoa shalt not steal “Thou shait not ir false Father | Witness against thy neighbor,” and then follows te hibition against a covetous heart. Nothing is lett e. It is simply the law as Why told the people, “God said,” and that was enough. The commanus are deficite, well defined, absolate, They cover objective ccods. They aro to a0 OF abstain from doing, Where theold dispensation emphasized the deed the new dispensation emphasizes: the motive. The old law pointing at the protibitivns inst deeds is what we call external morality; out- and shining to the eye, but inward 's bon he man may not sitike a jow, but he may hate, he may not seal, but he may On. the other hand, in the new dispensation, said about the deed but much is said about the tootive. Itis a perpetual questioning of motives. AS the world goes the vid system bas certain advantages over the new. For a real, hardworking world, the old dispensation which says “Thou shalt now” is be bere u the covek aghbor «8 thyself’? Where are we to begin, iinge, of to end? Are we to love him by 8) thy, or by giving him opiates, or yy giving m toddies? Or we to love him ns the brave and noble love? If wo love our. selves and say we want to go to heaven, are we to love shall go there? new law ie coneery tive; it st thio fmits and seldom makes excursions. The difference between the laws is shown in the characver of the Jewish people—ciear, steady and founded on conscience, Among the ot! people are found the atheists, the Spiritualists aud (bo other armics of Christiaos, all looking and working wo change things. pk Eady Bone nw, Bh Hebro: there 1@ a case Of murder. Last week, in the prison at NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY. 15, 1876—TRIP™R SHEET, and | Brook | { y British government pledges itself to { her anchor to | eeds | were going; for they found a home im the Church apd | should thank God for the past and the present, | Was said = that len ney Mae miserable beast ot aman died. He | witnesses for {faith amid abounding unbeliet 4 “a | We are living in ap age which has seen a great revival murder, and the J-ws throughout the land felt that | of scepticism, its ii its selene, ite personal matier with them. ven | philosophy seem to be tending toward) ma the liberal Jews, who have shuffled off the trappings | terialism and atheism or its twin sister. Panthe- of the radical ‘religion, stil felt that they were in a | ism appears to have rated the minds of many who measure toucned by his crime. Their people had been | seek to become the of thought among ua It disgraced by the violation of their ancient law, “Thou | has become the fashion to investigute ‘nature and shalt not kill” They have a probibitory command. | classify facts and all that philosophy, while ment against intoxication, and tbe vice of drunken- | no account is taken of phenomena of the’ humaa ‘ness is almost unknown among them. Not that they | consciousness and the’ of cause which comes to Wey bao wing on ba aes a fink it “but | power im ignored The fauhvot tae any be deesbed ; ve wi on ir and dri God said, “Thou shalt not”—, and they sanction the fo "the words of another, thus, «They believe law so given. It.came to them, it is fabled, out of the clotd and lightning aud living fire on the summit of Mount Sinai, where Moses knelt, while the people trem- died at 11s base. Why do we obey that law? There 1s ‘an instinct that telis ug not to kill, and men all over the world are somewhat guided by it, Is it true that things are intrinsically right or wropg, or are the laws that apt right or wrong simply tho result of expe! in a case of murder the deed is there. It speal itself, but the new law has made the question of gutlt a question of motive. It is difficult to obtain @ con’ ton of steal for the new law has made it a ques- tion of motive, and when the bundred fingers of casuis- try touch the charge it is deprived of guilt and the erime vanishes. If sanction is what makes the law, must we sabstitute real sanction for ideal sanction ? Let the Jaw stand upon the deed and not upon the mo- tive. Reissue the sanction. Take the physical facts of our own constitutions, our hands, our bodies; every lobule of blood is apart of the shrine of tho spirit, ‘ake.our bodies, not the words “God said,” bat words that bleed. Let physio! be more thoroughly taught in our schools and in our families, = LD thore will be a word of God beside whioh the thunders ot Mount Sinat will be silent, ST. MARY'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL. SERMONS BY BEV. FATHER REILLY AND VERY REV. FATHER PRESTON. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church in Grand street is, after St. Peter's and St. Patrick’s, the oldest Roman Catholic church organization in the city of New York. Yesterday morning, sssiated by Fathers Henry P. Baxter as celebrant, P. J. Rigney as deacon, and John A. Gleason as subdeacon, Father O'Reilly held a semi- centenmial service, and in the evoning the Very Rev. Father T. G. Preston delivered an appropriate dis- course, In the morning, after the mass, of which the music was by Mercadante, rendered by Berger, as organist, and an excellent volunteer choir, Rev. Father Edward J. Reilly preached a sermon in con- sonance with the gospel which he read, sixteenta chap- ter of St John, beginning with the filth verse. Betore he bad risen to the speaker's dosk the attention of the worshippers was called—and naturally—to tho decorations of tho altar, which were in admirable keeping with thé occasion. On the apex of the altarpiece, crowning all else, there was a crimson cross, laid in a bed of white flowers tastefully | interspersed with evorgreen. On the right and left, immediatoly below the ether, were additional beds of flowers and evergreens, in which were placed the figures, “1826” and ‘1876, ‘Below a figure of Jesus was banging on a cross, near which were other mono- gramatic exhibitions of 1826" and “1876. Still fur- ther down, at tho feet of the figure of Christ, w another cross and the name of ‘‘Mary”’ in red, resting on flowers, as in a bed. When mass had been celebrated and the special decorations bad been’ viewed and understood Father Reilly began his discourse with the declaration that the sermon which bad been preached fifty years ago that day in St. Mary’s, then in Sheriff street, bad been printed for the benefit of those who migbt incline to read it, and could be had at the door, He did not in- sion of their meeting, but felt it to be bis duty to.make | some relerence to it, Fitty years ago Father Welsh, | and perhaps at exactly "the same hour, was preaching the dedicatory discourse in the lormer edifice in Sherif! street. Long ago as that'seemed to be, he had no doubt that at that par- tioular service he had a larger audience tnan was pres. | ent in the church at the time he (Father Reilly) was referring to the event; for at that time the attendants on Catholic services were mostly grown up Catholics, while now they wore largely children and youtns. In the church edifice in which he was speaking there was, during the earlier service, a sufficient number of chil dren and young people present to fill one-half of the | space, and the satue was true of the days of the week | just passed. That experience, he thought, presented a | Very fair idea of the new stage in church affairs upon which the church had entered. Then there were iew children to bring tothe church, Nearly all who came were fully grown, and many of them in a measure strangers here, Now, however, there wero not only the fuily grown Catholics, but a still more numerous body of * their children, the latter attend- 10g tnd perhaps more dutifully, than their elders. It remained to be seen, he thought, Whether the rising fthors and mothers of to-day would continue the care for their children which had ‘been shown by their parents in the recent past Re- turning again more directly to the 2omi-centenaial oc- casion he spoke of the parish as having been organized for fiity years, and of his being the seventh pastor who had been placed over the chu’ch within that time. All of his predecessors had, he was sure, been remarkably | efficient in the performance of their duties; so much | fo, in taet, that he felt that he was the least of them | all, And yet, nolwithstanding that, the church stood as one m which there had never been trouble, nor had | there, as he believed, been cause for it. CHANGELESS AMID CHANGES. .. Passing, then, to a consideration of the Catholic Chureh service, he spoke of it as being precisely the same as it was not only fifty years ago, but for 500 years and more. How was it, be would ask, that ‘they found the Church and its service unchanged, y looked about them they would find change marking the existence of others? Go where they might—North, South, East or West—they would find change in all save in the Catholic Church. And why? Because the Catholic Church was founded by God’s will, under God's o%n law, and thereiore it did not change. Like the blessed Trinity it had existed in harmony with itself from its beginning and would so continue totheerd. Those who had been baptized | into the Catholic Church were not vagrants wandering | about not knowing whence they came or whither they | were there content to remain. They ku that they were the chosen of God. 1t was no wonder, thes, that they should have peace within their w; for theirs was the Church that was terrible 4 its punish- — ment positive in its teachimgs and loving to all who were deserving of love. it the Catbolic Church talked hike God—as if 1t were God. Why shouidu’t it?. Was it rot the voice of God on earth? And was not the fact that it grew stronger every day, spread out all over the face of the earth wherever man inhabits i, proof of | this? Christ came, not to destroy, but \o build up, and such was the work of the Church. In short, the Chureb understood its mission as the voice of God, and he thanked God that it did. In conclusion he said te ne future was no business of nis or tneirs, When he had closed a collection was taken up for the | schools of the Church, which afforded an opportunity fer saying that fifty years ago subscriptions were for the noha of churches, while now they were for CONGREGATIONAL UNION. SERMON OF THE REY. DR. TAYLOR ON THE NE- CESSITY OF CHURCHES AS PROTESTS AGAINST ABOUNDING SCEPTICISM. Avthe Tabernaclo, at the corner of Broadway and. | Thirty-fourth street, last evening, Rev. William Taylor At the Jast mass the | father and mother, because they are the pillars of the | preached before the American Congregational Union He took bis text from Hebrews, x., 25—**Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorung one another and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” { Me said:—"Good men in all ages have drawn to- gether, and in the enjoyment of each other's fellow. ship they have had, for the time, more conseious éom- munion with God. David, during his exilo, longed for the company of those with whom he had kept holy day. Even in the degenerate times of Malachi they that feared te Lord spake often to one another. And the Lord Himself at once recognized the naturalness of pub 1c worship and pronounced it with a special bene- diction when He said:—‘Where two or three are gath- ered together in my name there amin the midst of them.’ In the same way the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews indicates bis sense of the importance of social religious services when be says, ‘Not forsaking THR ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye ace the day ap- | proaching.”” It is trac that under the Gospei dispen- sation no special sacredness belongs to any iocality. Paul discoursed to the disetplos of Ephesus in theychool of Tyrannos, and there was a church in the house of Phitemon, During a time of persecution the Chris tans of Rome met in the Catacombs beneath the city, and found at once a hiding place and a house of prayer besides the graves of those whose monaments are so full of tnterest to the modern travelier, The Scottisn Covenanters — often worshipped | in some ot valley, with sentinels posted on surrounding heights to give warning tn case of danger, and the Purétans of London tound os secure retreat im prayer in the Intricate places *of | that great city. Now, ail these cases, bave been if they were offered in some stately cathedral, for the hour eas long ago come when true Worshippers may worship acceptably anywhere, provided ouly they worship Him as the Father in spirit and im trath, Thong this is incon- trovertible, it Is both convenient and decorous for members of a Christian church to have some house ot worship which, as associated with their holiest exvert- eners, shall have « peculiar held apon their hearts, apd the more intense their devotion to the Lord is the more eager will be their desire to raise such an edifice for his service. Now, as the mg whose behalf ths evening to address you for its object the assisting of churches to erect SUITAMLE PLAC*S OF WORSHIP. Thave thought that it might not be out of place t direct your attention to ihe rmeidental advantages | which the community derives from the existence of Charch such bald! eso rich cannot, present it fay Maad among us as the | the exercises were ae accepiable to Got ae they would | 1 thing that ia not In the Bible,” And even in oureeutres of education there are some who compassion all who are weak enowse to supernatural in the of time received bis diploma, He immediately began to practise his new profession, and announced to his parishioners that he would render to them bis servicos for half the usual rates. His congrogation, notd withstanding this generosity on the part @ the doctor-pastor, did not take kindly to hig new scheme and protested against nis continuing to practise bis new profession in conjunction with the performance of his clerical dutics At another time Mr. Campboll was asked to deliver four extra ser- mons during the year for the purpose of raising some funds to ve placed in the church treasury, which needed them, but this he dectined to do, and also re- fused to allow apy other preacher to occupy his pulpit for the same end. These and other disagreeable actions on the part of Mr. Campbell, tho trustees of the church say, led to dissension and dissatistaction among the members and caused twenty or thirty families to leave tho church, The troubles were continued up toa yeat ‘0 last March, when an attempt was made to’ reduce the pastor's salary. This attempt faried, so the trustees decided to increase the pew rents filty per cent in order tg bo ABLE TO PAY TUK SALARY, The church at this time was indebted to the preacher $500 on hia for 1874, and he offered to cancel the debt provided the rents should not bo raisqd more than twenty-lve por cent, This was agreed to, but still the income of the church was found imade- quate to meet the pastor's sa! in full, In tact, there 18 still $1,040 du , Campbell, On the 20th of last March tho regular meeting to elect throe trustees in | of those whose terms of office had expired was eld, but without result, a Campbell first de- manded hat either he or one of the elders of the church should preside, and, when this was acceded to by the trustees, by bis contending that all the attend. apts at the church, young or old, paying or non-paying, should be entitled toavote, The trustees, ‘however, claimed that oaly persons twenty-one years of age should vote und the meeting was broken up, Eight days later another meeting of the congregation was held and the pastor’s salary was reduced trom 000 to $500. Mr. Campbell! accused the trustees of causing this vote irom personal malice, and appealed to the Second Presbytery of the United Presbyterian church ut New York, of which he is himself the Mode- rator, The Presbytery wus to have met at the-Forty- fourth streot church on Monday last to take action in the matter, but the trustces held a meeting in the in- terim and formally tesolyed that the Prest fds had no power to actin the matter, and when the Presbyvare put in @R appearance at the phurch doore they 0.0 them locked and the church inaccessible, They : ADJOUKNRD TO 4 DAXCING HALL fn Forty-third street, where Mr. Campbell presided. At this meeting it was resolved that the aotion of the trustees in closing the doors of the charch against the Presbytery in the lawlul and regular discharze of its functions was ‘‘un-Presbyterian, a disregard and contempt of tne and an act of usurpation which bytery does most emphatcally condemn.” “The reduction of the pastor's salary was declared unconsti- tutional, and, theretore, null and void, and the church was recommended to cite the offending trusteds belore At for trial, according to the laws of the Church. The Presbytery also made an investigation into the affairs of the church and declared that there were no grounds for discord among the members. The mecting subse- quently resolved itself into a ehurch sossion, aod elected, in place of the threo trustees whose terms ex- je last March, Messrs, Jobn Crawford, James jowan and Kobert Armour. Tne old Board of Trustees, which numbers nine, contend that the Presbytery has no power in the tem- poral matters of the chureh, and claim that the reduo- tion of the pastor’s salary by the session of the church ‘was periectly legal. They say they have logal advice on the subject and intend to stand on the ground they have maintained so tar. They alsoassert that the elec- tion of the three new trustees was iil Afer the services im the church yesterday.morning Mr. Campbeil read the resolutions which were adopted by the Presbytery condemning the Board of Trustees, ‘The Board had handed into Mr. Campbell, to be road from the pulpit, a call for a mecting, to be held on the 29th inst., for the purpose of electing the three tras- tees, but the preacher declined to read 1t, whe: n one of the trustees arose in his seat and read ia said that a meeting to try the Board, asx recom: by the Presbytery, will be eld on ‘the 23d be. trustees are firm’ in their belief that they done, right, and say they will stick to their presemt course. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. Y¥IFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING—RECORD OF THE PAST YEAR, A meoting commenorating the fifty-Orst annivere sary of ghe American Tract Society was held last” evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenuo and Forty-secomt street. There wasa very large attendance. and great interest seemed to be | manifested in the proceedings. The Rev. Dr. Tyng, of St. George's church, presided. The exercises were opened with the reading of Soripture and prayer, after which Rev. Dr. Tyng delivered a briof address, in the course:of whieh he alluded to the efficient operations of the society during the past half century. Since its foundation it bad daily gained strength, and its fruits were seen on every hand. Its object was to scatter the great and simple truths of the Word of God, and although there were those who believed that the Bibie itself was sufficiest for that purpose and held forth little encouragement to tho early foundors of the society it had cng A m from the start, It was the work of God Himselt. The institution nad done a great doal in the way of saving souls through the instru tasty of an all wise Providence. In con- clusion the reverend gentleman oxpressed his thankful. ness for having been permitted to live to see this glory ous result, to witness the golden harvest which the work of half a century had proauced, ebaon ns big ale statement showing Secretary Stevenson then made a that the receipts for tho year had been, including $101,718 32 in donations and le; $492,252 80, to which was added the sum of $12,325 38, balance of sinking fund account and balance in the troasury April 1, 1875, making the bersed bn ogg dg year $504,577 68. ine expenditures in the menis of the society for th year, Incind Sent to sinking fund account, have $501,803 96, Jeaving @ balance in the treasury of §2,773 72 the year 229 colporteurs, including 46 students 22 colleges and theological seminaries, bad Hl i nd $2,857 61 in publications to the foreign ment, The secretary showed that the two acy employed in the saving of souls were the the ministers, He alluded to the immense number tracts distributed and the the men through the length St the land. Professor Edward Warren Clark, late of livered a very interesting address on the "progress religion in that country, and clearly pointed out the necessity for the distribution of tracts throughout its broad domain. Be snows that hitherto the Welvenee of pagan literatare had. been very great there, el bad the country that many gopial changes Be pene es et i | g was ready to receive iT ‘bat the chat which had recently transpired ta the. tam had to break up the old religiour tere were also delivered by Rev. Jacob Cham berlat , Rov. William J, Tucker and Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr. 1d the proceedings closed wi h prayer. _ COLOR LINE IN THE CHURCH. AN AFRICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH REJECTED BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA DIOCESE. Cuariestox, S. C., May 13, 1876, The question of the admission of colored Protestant Episcopal congregations to representation, which has The majority of the clergy favored the ap- which was rejected by the voterof the lav delegates. A BARRICADED STREET. New York, May 13, 187% To Tee Error or the Herat For over six months West Twenty-ninth street has _ been barricaded, rendering it impossible to travel be- tween the two great thoroughfares, Broadway and Sixth avenue,, The roadway is in a terrible state and , ‘the sidewalk piled op with blocks of nite, aud still pect of repaving the street. ‘hat kind of gow. ernment are we living undér when our law witb one hatd demand heavy taxes and with the ou es eemestions in the way of renting our houses . oppressed ant verrer cnr ‘ote. it mavior?