The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1876, Page 8

8 EXHORTATION Voices of the Shepherds Calling Their | Flocks Into the Fold. Pt ae A TRUE CHRISTIAN LIKE A PALM. | Sn Head and the Systems of Theology. Beecher on the Heart THE GOLDEN RULE A NATIONAL LAW, A Minister Who Refases to “Trim” and Vindieates Personal Liberty, PLYMOUTH CHURCH, GREAT DANGEK OF OUR TIME-—Mn, NER ON THE GREBK AND HEBREW TEN- OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AS FELT IN OUR DAY, ‘The ant brew minds as they are perpetuated to our own day formed the subject of Mr. Beecher’s discourse yester- day. St Paul's words to the Corinthians expressed in the latter half of the thirteenth chapter of the first epistle formed the text of the sermon—+Ch faileth; but whether there be prophecies, th fail; whether there be tongues, ticy shall whether there be knowledge, it shalt vanish away, For TUE BE DENCIES rity never we Know im part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is pertect is come, then that whieh isin part | shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake asa child, 1 understood as a child, I thought asa child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a g' dark to face: now I know im part, but thea shall I know even as also 1 am known, And now abideth faith, nope, charity, these three; bat the grentost of these is charity.” This, the preacher said, 18 not only an admirable eulogy upon the divine principle of life, but it cove: A ground unsuspected, far more wide than that, In | both of these letters of the upostie to the Corinthian Church you may be sad to sce the battle of the He. brew genius with the Greek geniug The latter be- lieved in the supremacy of the intellect, in ideas, in and that ordering of knowledge which wo call philosophy. I believe in that; but the Greek be- the end and the aim of excellenc: character was perfected in the school of phil- all ofall knowing. The Hebrew beheved in itions, in righteousness proceeding from certain bral aptitudes for righteousness, And although ok believed in goodness as something snbordi- omething springing incidentally from philoso- and though the Hebrew believed in reasoning and in ideas as something concomitant, yet the end and th osophy fixed 0 the Gr of existence in man was woral disposition. The Greek thought; the Hebrew says emotion, The question between then = was not whether | each should believe one and disbelieve the other; the question was, “Which is primary; which is dommant?? This question dees not stop in the an- | liquities, It is just as wide awake and more, to-day, Vhan it was in the time of the apostles. In our day | we see this controversy renewed, For example Buckle, in his uncompleted works, by which he has made ah ontribution of rudimentary knowledge to man, endeavors to show that the advances of the buman race bad always taken place outside of moral | education, by physical influences, or by intellectual enlightenment, and that-moral causes had had nothing, or only an unimportant part to play in the great evolu- tion of civilization, Without propounding this, or any- thing like this, the nie influence of the scientitic ersy of our day works in the same direction, controy giving a priority of emphasis to right knowing and to | large knowledge, and to precision and accuracy in Knowledge, It is the old question that is debuted still in the pulpit—the question between faith and science. Essay atlor essay and tract after tract is appearing, WHAVEN rt Which is to lea id he was only uncovering an Hua that ted in the time of the apostles, bat which had been burned beneath the débris of men’s reasonings, and bringing out again clear in all its lines and forms the original idea that the whole scheme of redemption tarns upon making men ( like—making them salvable, that they may be saved— changing them into newness of lile aud newness of disposition by the power of divine gree, that they may be saved, not by a trick, not by some commer- ngement, but by baying put into them a new which they shall grow up steadfastly into of the living God. ng this to be true, Mr, Beecher argued that MODRUN APHORISMS OF SCIENCR— damely, that the true scientist must love the trath for the truth’s save without regard to its practical benefit, was hablo to great masinterpretation and to produce eat error, He admitted that when a man is ng to ascertain what the truth 1s, durmg the ess of reasoning in regard to a yMhysteal and sen- jwous truth be must be able to keep his mind un- omssed. But the truths that crown and radiate in this word ate the traths which we call social and moral, and the preacher averred that so far trom man’s being Ina better state to understand a moral truth when his mind 8 colorless and coot that the highest moral truths cannot be understood by a colorless m'nd and a foul ove; and the mathematican that comes to moral questions with precisely the same principles that are Tight in mathematics wall stumble upon the very threshold, Upon the principle that no man can judge in regard to any elements of musical or proportion in unless he bas working and throbbing in bis in ct something of that which he has to discern in those arts Another aphorism was also controverted—namely, that a true scientific spirit is one that has no regard to what becomes ruth in this world, only that it is true. The true scientific philosop: Mr. Beecher said, is one who Qelieves that while knowledge is im- dispensable to the welfare of the human race, the wel- fare of the race is more important than the knowledge Itself; and that (he use of ail Knowing is to make beng, and that the creation of manhood ts larger than th crowning of things, here ts no more beneiit in scien- tific _ knowledge that has no relstion to the well being of mankind than there ts benedt m the brooding | clouds of the morning. The arrog.nce ot philosophy, | Inefeforo, as it stands over religion, tsessentially Greok. “IN THIS ORNTENNIAL YEAR.’? Of the whole sch2me 9! advance, the preacher con- tinued, of which in this centenvial year we are called upon th observe we may be proud." The development of art and scienee w mot to be Teasured by external comfort, bat by a nobler standard than that, But if mon are lett substantially as they were, if men are no better, purer, liner, it makes no difference ti they have cattle ona thousand bills where their ancestors had none; it makes ve difference tf they live in fine houses where their ancestors lived in small ones or im caves. r owth of the race 18 to be measured from within, true that rouds, warehouses, righ ridges, canals, railways, shops tly used, augment those’ condi« cloments of power which make is no doubt that men redeem time {rom the disposition of matter that they may de- vote it to scientitic and intelicctual culture. All these things ought to make maukind better, more honest, more truthful, more bountitul, more spiritual. But do they? It is & question worthy of profound con- tilcration whether what is called the fruit of civihzation in our day is not growing the animal man a great deal faster and Fironger than it i the spiritual mam, And yet the World's advantages are squandered and thrown away If the animal grows (aster t the man—if the out. side duminates over the inside. Iu, the third place, tho pulpit uneonsetousiy lent itsell to this reat danger of tm: i velvef more important than ite Not in terms, tor Pulpit im (he must expielt terins deciares that the actual tion of the heart before the most upportant thing. But there i A way of advocating « thing In terms and opposiug tt in jact, It is more tue emphasix than the statement that determines the effect in preaching, If a man flould declare in every sermon in the year that God 1¢ Jove, and then go and proaeh God rs Just only, hi mere statement that tod i# love Would practic with the emphasis of the repetition of the Divine snatice, ehty wheel, ond + of that would be crashed, caved with the idea that, while they A heart, if they are substantiaily corre.t in their belief they area great deat better off Uien notuing—as they are, end that a little goodness With @ great deal of orthouoxy is far more presumptive Of saiety than a grent aeal ot GOODNESS WITH KAGORD ORTHODOXY, In other worts, (¢ i8 a spurious and bastard form of | the old Greek’ mind, that knowledge is the end of ex. | istence; tha: to be necurate and think righe is the main thing. Wita us, goodness is the sequence of knowledge, Ii there be those that mas js Not true, then, . Probably, it is wot true But La aed m thew souls ata review of what they bave seen and what they bave felt (hey will join ine in say- ing that there is «danger that mon will substitute the philogophy of religious experience for that experience, and wilicome tinaliy to jadge the experience by their pre- coneo'¥ed philosophy otis, And so the yervant will sitin feat judgment and vhe master, The roul ix te gan and we oneietang must sitdeneath itas } itis tts servant, Ho isthe great m: nistie tendencies of the Greek and He- | y; but then faco | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. and though he be : tow Paul makes ref- ur’ epistics known and | re is n danger here which every | | dumb, he needs no tongu erence when he said, * Feud of ail men.” 1 one of us that is called. tothe gacred work of God, whether in higher or subordinate stations, should take heed that be 1s m right and that living right takes priority, The spirit | the sect emphasizes usually the things about which | Christians difter The spirit of the sect therefore tends always toward the Greek, and has helped to put away (he irne Hebrew spirit. ‘The spirit of dogma works in the same way, £ am not opposed to dogma, if it keeps its place and pertorins its functions as & servant in the house of God, But when it be- | dogma i a demon; it is it is patting knowledge in we of disposition. The great heresy we are to | Jear in modern times, as tn the time of Christ, is that the material will take the place of the spiritual; that the prosperity of the body and of external sooiety will be the measnre of the advances of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ; that the closet will dominate over the sanctuary of the soul, and that this position, thas | should be the giery as itis the fulness of true’ man- hood, will be cramped and reduced if not imprisoned. This is the heresy thas we are to fear to-day, MASONIC TEMPLE. TRE GOLDEN RULE—A SERMON BY REY. 0, 2. FROTHINGHAM AT MASONIC TEMPLE. In the Masonic Temple, yesterday, Rev. 0, B. Froth- ingham preached to a large audience, his subject being he Golden Rule.” His text was Matthew vii, 12— “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this 1s the law and the prophets.’ It seemed to be supposed that the rule laid down in the text was peculiar to Jesus, in the Hebrew Scriptures in various iorms, all meaning the same, as arule forthe guidance of the Jews, one form being “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”” In the East the samo rule was expressed in the declara- tion, “Be careful not to put on your neighbor's head a hat that hurts your owa,” These forms of the same rule had been written fully six hundred years be- fore the time of Christ on earth. Then there was another form, expressing the same rule, “Mlame not your neighbor for faults which are your own,” and in the writings of Confucius for the government of the | Chinese it appeared in every form, aud was equally universal among the moralists of the East and tho West, in Rome, as elsewhere, tho rule wus the same, | though it was more remarkable that it should be so thore than in the Kast, tor the people of the East wero | more imaginative than those of Rome, Still more re- markable was it to find it in China, where Confucius gave expression to the whole law in “reciprocity.” | Now, finding the enunciation of the golden rule throughout the East and West, and through all time, we could see that it was o cardinal rule of the race. It was plain common sense, and required no sacrifice. It told us to como down to the essential of our natures everywhere in the declara- tion, What ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. ‘That was the deciaration of Christ to His disciples, and they again preached it to others We come, then, to find that the golden rule was uni- versal, practical aud good for ail But some might say, ‘Why live by rule? Why not live by nature?’’ And yet, was not the golden rule a natural law? Did it not cotne to us as a voice of nature? To some minds there was nothing 1m nature whieh waa not by ral | and certainly there was nothing grand in nature which was not by rule. The Hebrews, living by striciest rule, lived on through ages and were still extan the ‘same to-day that they were 4,000 years ago, an that becanse they lived and live by a rule that had | been handed down from father to son through ages, always the same, And the same was true of the Puri- stans of New England, who lived and live by strictest rule, Under is miluence they bad bees enabled to at- | mosphere California with the influence of their rule of | Ife; and wherever they went their influence was felt, Then there were the Quakers, who had lasted long through the years, because with them the spirit of the golden rule was strong. Therefore was it shown that the golden rule was, in itself, grand fot. the human | race.” Sometimes the man who follows this rule was | harsh in ms judgment of men less strongin the right, making no excuse for those who were more feubie than he in living up to his standard, He was aristocratic in ethics; cold, severe, sometimes really brutal, for, mis- ! taking somewhat the spirit of the rule, he made no ¢: cuse for others less strong than hinselt. There wero those, however, who believed that a man should not follow in or encourage the seltishness seemingly implled in the golden rule, claiming that a man should live for others, forgetting himself, That was a rule which, however pleasimgly self-sacrificing it mighy seem,’ had been found to expose many to idleuess. ‘There was really no rule superior to that which read, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to yon, do ye even so to them ”’ There was an clement ot selfish- hess in it which was really healthful. ‘The preacher | then passed to. the conaideration of the seeming oppo- to the golden rule expressed jn the phrase, “The al of the fittest.” and say, the front, | sit sury had come to belk “You must fight and let the ‘There-was a hai the expression, The | aened narrowness imptied in golden rule taught men not to strive to put down, but to strive to build up—to do to others as you would havo them do to you. structed tent of the astern pote as a closed parasol; spread out, it covered 1,006 men, So was 1t with the golden rule.’ If it were followed im- plicitry es, how many hatreds, would be avoided, without it, the breach which enmity creates is widened continually, So would the same rule, it apphed to the contest between capital and labor, be eilective for good, Without that rule each of the contestants struggled to weaken the other, and they bad kept on in that way until Tom Huvhes and another stepped in with the doctrine of reciprocity, The same was true of religions or sectarian quarrels, In that regard the religions néwspapers were to-day disgraceful; while, if they tollowed the golden Tule, there would be peace and harmony, On Tuesday next, he said, we would be engaged in decorating the ‘of those who fell in the war, Among ‘the there might be some of those who went without the incentive cf principle; simply for the pay received, But where there was one such there would be many who went for and died for the good of their country; and it was to honor those, and those only, that the flowers were spread, for they had acted in accordance with the golden rule. That was the golden rule well applied. And yet it was easy to make it seem absurd. Say to a man of means, “Give me $1,000,” or, “Give me your villa at Newport,” and you were not asking in ‘The rule Wasas was the curiously con rule, In tho East tere was a man appointed to sce to it that the weights and measures were just, He went out to attend to his dati and finding the weights: and measures his father wrong, he caused lim there and then, bodily and by fine, ment bad ceased the son gave father, but while doing so caused him to under- to be punished When the punish- stand that while acting as an official he was acting for | the many, and must see that right was done. In that capacity he was not his son, but when his duty had been performed be could be his son again and havo deep sorrow for the pain inilieved, That was not ® violation of the golden rule, for his duty was to see to the interest of the many imstead of one, to uphold the Jaw for the good of all. There were. three rules recog. nized in our conduct toward each other. The firet was the iron rule, of evil for good; tho second was the silver rule, good tor good, What was as far as society had reached, but in the future good for evil would be the golden rule, and by it carth would become a heaven. SPRING STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. REV. ALFRED H. MOMENT,’ OF PRINCETON Cor- LEGE, ON CHBISTIAN TO THE PALM TREE.”’ Yesterday morning, at the Spring’ street Presbyte- rian church, Rev. Alfred H. Moment, of Princeton College, preached, taking for his subject “The Palm Tree.” Mr. Moment is ayoung gentleman who has been occupying the pulpit of this church for several weeks past, in the absence of any regularly ordained | pastor, His wanner is earnest, and the subject matter of his discours congregation, asthe sermons ho has preached have displayed more than an ordinary degree of thought, Before the sermon yesterday he mentioned the fact that in the afternoon the Holy Communion would bo partaken -of, and besought those prosent to prepare their hearts and minds for this most solemn feast. The text was taken from the ninety-second Psalm, twelfth vorse—‘‘The righteous shali flourish like the paim tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. The preacher sai in substance:—If you read the whole of the psalm carefully you will find that the aif ference between a Christian aud an unbelever ts de- seribed, It also treats of the goodness of God to His chosen ones and shows that the ungodly man is a Stranger to the Almighty’s favors, True, in anothor is is admitted that the wicked do flourish somo tera fashion, but it is only for a time, and the power ga:ned by unrighteousness invariably wancs, and the magnificence begotten of wrongdoing sooner of later works its own destraction, What a contrast is this to the picture of a man whose roots, #0 to speak, | have been planted in the garden of our Lord! Now, a fow words about the date-bearing palm of the East. At the ‘st of ‘Tabernacies, as mentioned in the Bible, ant when the Roman soldiers, after a victory, m their chariots with their gor- | geous trappings, celebrated ther triamphs, the palm Was used as an emblem of rejoicing and victory. | The obestout of spain, the oak of Bngiand and the try are all beauciul specimoas; palm is more riehly endowed than Harivies of the polm over many otiers of the giants of the Vegetable kingdom are many. Jn the iirst place it 18 altogether independent of the influences of th stearanr cr, with its bonnet of verdure on ite crown, bat the wit ter's cold or the burning heat has noefcet. The harri- cane passes over jt, bending it for the moment oniy, Dut powerlers to change its a! permanently. It stands sometimes for years, like a military senti- ouly building right. but hving | But such was not the fact, for it was found also ; remarked that many youths | niate—lolded, it was | / ' accordance with the spirit so much as the letter of the | j | | possible comtort to | “THE LIKENESS OF THE TRUE | has given universal satisiaction to the | nel, a perfect picture ef the man who has made his covenant with the Lord, It is this quality of fineness which coustitutes the comparison ween the palm gh tree and the Christi ‘the wind of temptation and rocked by the storms of | adversity, ‘8 returns to his home and aviding lace, the bosom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. t matters not how severe may have been the tempest; | whether his sorrows and trials consisted of tho loss of | loved ones, of propersy, or health, His experience will be that God has stood by him, and, if the roots of | nis faith have been bured deep in Jesus, when the | storm has spent its fury he will find = bin. | sell a better iman—he will be purified as if by fire, I remember when a attending ‘a horse race, at which four noble animals were to con- | tomd. At the start it appeared as though they all had an even chance, bat, as the race progressed, first one mbied. then er bolted off inio the field, and at the conclusion only on» came in, justifying ine hopes thi bis seecceny {use this incident r ininds the absolute fact erely to impress upon you | | | | | ! with remarkable sweetness and artistic finish, The | mated. The press of our country is exerting a mightier ‘Vespers in tha altornoon attracted an immense congre- gation, THE RELIGION OF CHARACTER—SEEMON BY THE DE. MORRIS. jhe congregation of Brick church | ‘THE BRICK CHURCH. | (Presbyterian), om Fifth avenue, at Thirty-eigbth © | street, listened to a sermon preached by the Kev. } | that only firmness of purpose and indomitable action | can insure snecoss, How often have t this “4 My experience in coliege lite! How many enter wit! fair proiixe, and how fow, comparatively, endure anto the end! Inthe great battle of hfe too many failures are recorded, and expecially true is this of members of this great Church of Christ, There are so many who make professions and so few who ip heart and life make good their words! They aro as ‘unstable as water,” How true this is of young converts you all know, How small, comparatively, is the number of those who have grown gray in the service of the Most High, whose silver hairs give testimony of their honorabie record! I remember that, a few years ago, while I was in the Western part of this coun- try, @ great revival was in p and expo- ciaily among the young people of the place; but how svon the converts cooled off, and how quickly their zeal diminished is too sad for me vo re- jate. It vanished like the dew of the morning or the | morning cloud. Religion has been tried in the crucible, and the fauit is not with religion, but with | the people who prove faithless to it. It 1s not only the young converts who tall away, but older members of ‘he Church as well, It is only the true and tried Christian who is the same all the time, during revival periods as well as when the Chureh is passing through trials and tribulations, 1 wantto eall your atiention to another thought which occars to me. The word “flourish” occurs in the text, the oxplahation of it. be:ng “exist in all the perfection of its nature’ The difference betwoen an aged Christian and a young con- Vert is something akin to that between a roug! uncut diamond and a polished xem, Mr. Moment, in conclusion, begged of his hearers to test the fruit of their Christian experience before ap- proaching the table of the Lord in the afternoon. UNIVERSITY BUILDING. LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY—SERMON BY BEV, MR. M'CANTUY IN UNIVERSITY BUILDING YESTER- DAY, Rev. Mr. McCarthy, Inte pastor of the Bleecker street Universalist church, who has left that church because of some disagreement between him and the trustees, preached yesterday, before a small congregation in the University Building, He took his text from Romans, vill., 31—‘*What, then, shall we aay to these things? If God be tor us who can be against ust’? We have in these words, said the speaker, established, to my mind, and set forth the priv- ileges of the Christian, the triumph of the Christian | and the emotion of the Christian. I would we were all ag Lam, without bonds and fetters, so that. we could be faithful and truthful to our convictions, I would not be here to-day preaching before this small company if there was not something nearer and dearer to me than friendship, persomal comfort or dollars and cents, Iam here to vindicate personal liberty. Until I contended for personal liberty | was a successful min- ister. When I lay down the principle that, whatever I was among my fellow men, when I came into the pul- pit I spoke my convictions. That word pulpit, how- ever, Labominate, and I believe it was an invention of the devil. The minister who does not preach what ho believes is no man. Tho minister, who trim because ene man subscribes $180 toward his salary ts not fit to preach to a congregation. I believe that most men are slaves in the pulpit, but Ihave cast off the shackles and I come here to say what I think, The man who is a free man is a power in the worl and, though social organizations and afflin ties have their power, there is greater power In the stmple inai- videsluy of the convictions of an honest man who will not be dictated to by ecclesiastical rings, for 1 believe that these ecclesiasticai rings are more corrupt than the political rings if the truth was known, What are the privileges of a Christian? Christianity is not so much as what you do. In theory Christianity | js truth; in practice wisdom; in essence jove; in eifect | peace and joy, and in trumph glory forever. | wondrous privilege of ali Christians is to know that God | is on our side, Ido not mean that He is on the side of | every deacon, every trustee, or every man who gives a largo subscription, If be be the first officer of the | church there may be a skeletoa in the closct, however he tries to cover the ugly figure, is the Church that has not its skeleton, When the Church walks up to the throne of God it will hurl | these skeletons from it and come out purified and | jubilant, God is on our side because He is our Creator. | He has established our being uccording to the mys- | terics of nature around us, if we violate any law | of our nature we cannot escape the penalty, God is our Father as well as our Creator, Curist ablished | no creed, no sectarian government Ho said that God | Wasthe Father of the spirits of all flesh But how lutte do any of us ahink of the teachings of Christ or of true Christianity? Think of that burn. | ing building in New Jersey and that | mother taking her babe from door to door in aCbristian commanity asking for shelter, and every- | where being reused. If we had Christ's spirit with us | the disease would not touch us. I have had some experi- ence that way, when I was doing my Master's work. | Thave handled a dozen children suffering with small- ox and have baptized them, and 1 have been at the edsides of 150 cholera patients. We have doctors and we have drugs, but they kill more than they cure. Whoever hears of a minister curing dis- ease now as Christ and His apostles did? And | the reason they do pot cure disease is because they have not the spirit of Christ within them. Now, if you wish to talk about the emotions of Chrietiamty do not get behind a creed todo it. Do not become a Pope of a cree‘, then kick it over ana prate about Nberal Christianity. If 1 adopt acreed I stand by it ull T grow out of it, because we are ina state of pro- gress and will grow out of all creeds. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, THE LOVE OF GOD FOR MANKIND—-SERMON BY REY. FATHER O'HARE, The attendance at the Cathedral yesterday was ex- ccedingly large, and the services were, as usual, solemn and impressive. The officiating clergyman at the last mass was the Rey. Fatber Mori, and, at the conclusion ofthe first gospel the Rev. Father O'Hare preached a sermon which was both brilliant and effective. The reverend gentleman took his text {rom the gospel ac- cording to St. John xv., 26:—"But when the paracleve is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me.” The main intention of the eloquent discourse was to show the inexpressible love | | of God for mankind. His illustrations were apt and beautiful, his argument lucid and his deductions hap- pily brought out, He showed, in the first place, that | the overflow of | ‘THE INTENSE LOVE OF THE ALMIGHTY | found vent in the creation of man. There could beno | priority in the'ideas of God; but there was priority | 80 far as order was concerned, and when He first | thought of creation He considered the most pertect | portion of it, which was His own Son united to haman nature. God showed this human nature to the angels and required them to adore it united to the divimty. Lucifer refused to do 80, and he was buried from his stronghold with his supporters, and the remaining two, shiraa of tho angels adored the human nature and were confirmed in grace and glory. God created human na- ture and placed it in the garden of Paradise, Satan was determined that this human nature should not be adored, The reverend proacher then prooceded to de- scribe the temptation of Adam and Eve anu their eub- sequent fall, the indignation of the Almighty and His Togret for having created man. He was abouc do tee stroy him when the Son deseended trom His throne and, a8 it were, Kuelt at the iect of His Father and tm plored to be allowed to redecm the race, describing what sufferings He was willing to undergo to save man from the consequences which the sin of our first parents entailed in order that he might be reinstated his primitive rights, caine to the earth spear! kind words and winning all to His eternal Father, my matte, united with ibe divine, the adoration trom the Viry: fuged Him by the angels That act of adoration was more than all the worsbip, gratitude aud meritorious works performed from the creation to the time of the event ttself, While on earth for thirty-three years the Saviour was treaicd inhumanly, scofied at and fh betrayed. Despite all the surroundings He oncoura; Hits aposties with Jove and died on the cross praying for His bitterest enemics, But He still lived wm die holy Church, which was THY INPALLINLE AND UNPATLING ORGAY of commmnication with mankind. He was ever present Ou the altar, His love for naa now was as greatas whem | He died on the cross to redec: | son was naw drawing to a clos the faithtul should adore the human nainre of the Saviour, auited with the divine, vy receiving Him piousiy and worthily into ther hearts Disreapect to | the Church would be punished more sovercly than would disrespect directly to the Lord Himself. There | Were times when @ man would not novice an insult King from an unworthy source; but he would Tesent it if such insult were, for instanee, toward his wile. The Church was the spouse Chrtet, who was her jealous guardiah, Father concluded by exhorting the congregation to their gratitude to God jor the tnnumerabie bless Musical services formed a prominent foature at | the Cathedral, The mass selected by Mr. Gustavus | Sehmits, director of the choir, was by General, in O minor. 16 wasinterpreted in a highly creditable man- ner, and not tho least impressive part of the pro- ammo was Mile. Bredelii'x exquisite r ot Davie! “Salve Regina,” which she sang at the cavteny devoted | Edward D. Morris, D. D., Professor of Theology in tho Lane Theological Seminat Cincinnati, Ohio, After the reading of the Scriptures the Rey. 8. Irenwus Prime, D. D,, announced that the Presbyterian Assem_ bly will hold a centennial service im the Tabernac! (Talmage’s church), Brooklyn, on Monday, at three P.M. Tne Bev. Dr. Morris tuen read irom the Epistle of St, Paulto the'eKphesians, the thirteenth ‘verse of the fourth chapter—*‘Till wo all come in the | unity of the faith and of the knowleage of the Son of | God untoa perfect man, unio the measure of the | { | sh | and | { The | and where | of fifteen which was re. | we discover in that inward, silent, gracious work of the Stature of the fulness of Christ’’—and then delivered a sermon on Christian religion as the religion of charnc- ter. Hesaid that among the perplexing questions of the age noue is more vital thon that respecting the true influence over the minds of the people than any other instrumentality, A book, paper or magazine that comes as a daily, week home shapes to a gra extent the opinions of the ii mates of that home. The reading of fictitious Wor! that are written merely to please; that held not ap some grand ideal, but that nt ife in talse colors; that make it a tragedy or a farce, are injurious to the intellectual and moral powers.’ Much of the cheap literature for sale on bogk stands and in uews offices, that ts flooding the country and is read so largely by the young of both sexes, ts demoralizing in its ten- dency. Viper, the murderer of the litte girl in Bos- ton, confessed that the reading of those ‘corks that tend to inflame the passions aud that are so extensively circulated led him to commit the dreadful crime for which he suffered the extreme penaliy of the law on ay rl Iike the body, ‘he mi 0 1 req development suvstantial lod It is by wielding the heayy hammer at the forge t the arm of the smith becomes strong and mus: 80 in order to bave a vigorous :ntullect there must be grappling with hard sobjects. Reading an account of events that never happened, oi love-sick stories that are enough to make one sick at their bare recital, of polished knavery and wrong, of representing men as ires for its growth and and healthtul paernee. } fends or saints, and women as turies or angels—these direction and method of growth forthe individual man, | the line of progress and development for our race, the adequate consummation of our humanity in the present life, Materialistic ax the age is and absorbed in the in- crease of external resources and comtorss and | full ot theories us to the possibility of making our earth an Eden and mankind entitely happy by simple changes iv human condition, men | ane in their work to inquire whether the | real chiinge which our humanity needs does not rather lie im character; whether all 1nprovements in the circumstances of men will not be futile unless BOMB GREAT TRANSFORMATION {a wrought in man himsel!, The world, both tn its e: perience and in its speculations, 18 certifying to Keneric Jesson of the text that the human race can ate, end and blessedness only in manhvod— aenhood in Christ There men rise to the statue of His fulness, Waen the race shall grow ap vnto Him in all things as their primordial Head, | and the * Christian character + spall then take its place historically im the earth as the acme of all human attainment, tho | divine coronation of human nature, then the per- | fect nan wit appear und the loat paradise of humanity | will be regained. Here Christianity differs trom ail ; merely human religions, however classified from re- ligions of nature which render man the brute slave of the material world in which he lives; trom religions of fear, which prostrate him in terror atthe feet of wild demoniac forces in earth or sky; from religions of in- tellect, whose highest issue lies in the absorption of human intelligence in some pantheistic y; from re. ligions of will, im which resignation to so fatelul providence, the surrender of self to the ray of powers’ void of love and of fellowship, supposed to be the whole of human life. is in omphasizing the relations of Christianity to charac- ter the preacher said that be did not sgnore or under- value any other among the precious aspects or re’ tionships of the Gospel, or desire to turn away the | thoughts of bis hearers from the ** CHRISTUS PRO NOBIS,”? i whose advent into the world first mado salvation pos- sible, whose obedient life and atoning death broughy redemption for man, In Christian manhood there are four divine elements. ‘The first 18 the Bibio, a ordained and fitted to nurture in us such a divine man- hood, The Hely Scripture was given to man asa di: closure of the thoughts and foelmg, the will and purpose, the august personality of the Godhead, to ' pet God before us in forms such as our miods may apprehend and such as may draw our sinful patare back to Him 1m penitential love, The second of these divine lorces is the person- ality of Christ, as the incarnation of all that is thus taught us in Scripture, and the divine example of the perlect manhood which wo are invited i the Scripture vo seck, Examined on the human side merely tho character of Christ liits us into conceptions of real aniiness such ag no other biography, no puilosophis alysis, no bigh poetic idealization has ever suppiicd. To behold Him, the flawless and the immaculate Jesus ot Nazareth, is to see what tne race in all preceding nor | succeeding time ever saw. If we seok for defects or blemishes each blemish becomes the shadow ot some undiscovered grace; each apparent defect is found to be a beauty im reserve. Ibe third divine clement ts the office and. ministry of the Holy Spirit. as set forth in Scripture and revealed in experience or the human character, To that oifice and miaistry the Christian doctrine of the supernatu- Tal must either tind its grandest confirmation or meet an utter overthrow, ithe restorauve work of God upon | human character fs limited to the disclosure of the ex. | ternal word and the presentation in history of the pertect Christ as our. example; if there is no interior process upon the blinded ana dead nature of man, pre- paring him to receive and appropriate these exterior circnmstances, Shen the restoration of our lost | character becomes impossible, and Christianity itselt is only a sweet dream of the night. But how clear and precious a confirmation of trath do | Spirit which eliminates sins, represses unholy inchna- tions, wipes away blemishes, disposes the soul toward Epcos ae the seeds of superhuman virtues, nur- tures each tender plant of grace, aud out of the old dead manhood of gin brings into life ad glory the new man of Christ! The fourth divine element is the PROVIDENTIAL ORDERING OF GoD - toward humanity, and especially toward those who re- ceive Ubrist and His Gospel. He must indeod be a super- ficial student of man and the world in relation fo each other who doc’ nut see that in the divine plan that world 8 not only made subservient to man, but is designed and | ordered as a school of training and culture for man— aplace in which bis best powers bo evoked and his manliest elements be brought into perfect use. bow much higher sense is this true of the Christian man, to whom this world becomes not merely a sceno , of personal culture for earthly ends, but a place whe the germs of an external manhood are developed and where all within him that is most like God or dearest to God may begin.an unfolding that shall be immortal | The preacher dwelt at length upon the points noted briefly above, and closed by urging the exten. sion of Christianity as the great moral power on earth, CHRIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REV. MR. FLAGG ON THE SYMBOLIO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MOBAIC SYSTEM AND THS CHRISTIAN CHURCH, The services at this’ church were conducted yester- | ' day morning by the Rev. J. B. Flagg, wio also | preached the sermon. His text ran—‘“And beneath, ‘upon the hem of it, (hou shalt make bells of gold round about? Exodus, xxviii, 3 The preacher began by saying that the highly sym- | Dolic character of the Mosaic institution gives to its every detail a suggestive force by which it may in some way touch Christian conduct, Accordingly, the golden bells suspended at the hem of the high pricst’s robe ring through the ages, gd their sound becomes tho voice of exhortation in the Church of Christ. The Jewish typified the Christian Church, and in explica- tion of many points in the latter we must recur to the former, Thus St, Paul, in speaking of the ascension of our Lord, refers to the economy of the tabernacle and temple of the Jewish Church. He speaks of the ‘holy of holes,” which, in the templo of the Jews, was an interior place separated from the rest by a rail. Here was the mercy | 4 of the ask of the coveuant, between the cherubim, Over which the manifestation of the divine presence usually appeared. into this sacred reovss no one but the high priest was permitted to enter, and that only on the day of expiation, when atonement was made for the sins of the whole people. The ceremony then perfo-med was this:—Having first PURIFIED HIMSELF WITH WATER AND BLOOD ‘the high priest offered the animal chosen tor a propi- tiatory sacrifice im the outer court, Then taking the blood, he entered into the holy of bolies and sprinkled it seven times belore the mercy seat, meantime making intercession for the people, | This ceremony was made by divine appointment Anecessary condition of the lites? entrance into the promised land, The Jews, it appears from the writings of their doctors, considered the outer court the ig & ead of the earth and the holy of holies hat of en. And so When our ur had, by he sacri ‘of the cross, made a full expiation tor the world’s sins, 1} became him as tho great Hi Priest ot mankind to enter into the hoiy of holes not tude with hands—into heaven—to appear in the presence ofGodforus There he plead before the throne of tho Almighty the merits of the atoaement he has made fot our race, offering the incense of his pertect obedience to conciliate for as the Divine javor, When the high priest’ entered tho inner recess the prople were warned by tho tinkling of bells to prepare themselves for tho | ceremony that was being enacted; and . through the | tor. chureh, far and near, Coristians are called upon at this © soason toturn socir thoughts toward that broly of holies where the Redoemer i» making intercession for them. He bids them remember that the Intercessor, the great antitype of tho typical priesthood, hath com. mencod before the Most High iis mediator.al work for ‘us, and that though with man justiicauun were ii. possible yet with Him who has our cause in hand wll things are posible; wud most carnestiy does sie ¢x- hort all men fo rest that cause in tho confidence of “ficith with Flim who is our advocate with God, EIGHTEENTH STREET M. E. CHURCH, SERMON TO YOUNG MEN BY THE REY, W. F. HAT~ FIELD, Last evening Rov. Mr. Hatileld delivered the second of" course of sermons Fighteonth street Methodist Episcopal church on their dangors andes temptations at tho present day. Tho to young mon in the | 4) ext was selected from Zechariah, 11, | 4—"Run, speak to this young man." He satd:—So | flattering are the proxpects of every young man, so sanguine his hopes, so sublime and responsible his mission, and #0 perilous the path in which ho walks, ‘that it is the duty of every paront, teacher, and hae ter of truth to be in haste to advise the young with re- | some money and you will bo forgiven, gard to those evils to which they aro daily and hourly ) exposed. ‘Tho first danger noticed by tho speaker was the evil Mterature of our times, One of the most important questions to be considered by a young man is, What kind of books and rsought to be road? When wo consider that he's, tenting has anh ne in the importance of this question ty. ed cee eaten in" tormer, times, "Fancy, Yourselves Stipes Piha dea at bS | naga” Sa an San | there is not a bamlet in the country that does not e uplathful portraitares of life young, for they unfit them for called to tuifll. Another danger that threatenéd the ruin of young men was evil companions. The speaker, a few months: since, visited a young man who had been unprisoued for crime, and he confessed that bis bad companions had done more th weaken his regard tor the laws of God apd man and to make him the inmate of a prison than any other one thin; ‘ell me with whom thou goest,” saith the Spanish proverb, “and L will tell theo who thou art.” Our characters will be formed by the company we keep. How essential for a young man to choose those jor his assocutes whose characiers are above reproach, and who are respected by the society in which they move, The lart great peril to young men to which reference was made was the intoxicating cup,. Young men scorn the idea of being ruined by this evil, They think they bave too great control over therr appetites to allow of such a disaster, often smd, ‘It is only one glass, and that cannot harm mo,’? but one glass has proved the ruin of thousands, for all who have gone down to drunkards’ graves began with one glass. The sermon was closed by a description of a noble vessel that was wrecked on a sand bar off the English coast, More perilods than that bar on which that re injurious to the mission they are proud ship was wrecked are those in the daily life of | every young man. Bat you are not left alone, You have a pilot who gave Hix Iifo to save youra Take Him for your guide and you shall excape the perils that threaten your present and eternal well-being. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. Gop's INHABITATION OF THE SOUL--SERMON BY REY. DR, STEPUEN H. TXNG, JR, There was a large attendance at the services yester- day morning at the Chureh of the Holy Trinity, corner of Madison avénue and Forty-second street. The pro- liminary exercises were unusually proionged, on ac- count of the administration of the rite of baptism to some twenty newly admitted members of tho church, | the mode of baptiam being what is known as “‘pouring on water.” It was stated that others who preferred immersion would be baptized on next Sabbath, a baptis- mal font having been engaged for the occasion. Just before preaching his sermon Rey, Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr. the rector, stated that he was going to spend the stimmor vacation in the city, and that he wanted a tent under which to preaok in the open air to the muiti- tudes whom necessity compelled to stay in the city, and who otherwise would be dobarred {rom hearing preach- ing during the summer months. He asked contributions te be sent to him to enable him to carry out succes fully this outdoor preaching scheme, His sermon was from the text, Ephesians ti,, 22.—'In whom ye are also builded together for an inhabrtation of God through the spirit.” The Gospel of Jesus Christ, ho began, attaches no importance to place, It does not LOCALIZE GoD. ‘This is a marked contrast to the dispensation of the Jews, When Jesus Christ came the temple cased to be | the house of God, To Jerusalem and tho surrounding cities, though “called the Holy Land, there is now no importance attached in that respect more than to New: York. Mecca. Under*the new dispensation there is no special holy place. God is not lovalized. This local- izing God 18 not only opposed in the Word of the Gos- pel but.in its spirit, And yet, surely we do consecrate apd dedicate buildings to the service of God. But this is difforent from making a building holier. Are tho outer bricks holier than the inner wall? How high up does the holiness reach and how deep does it go down? ‘A ninglo act sets apart the building, but the continuance of it in sacred service is that which consecrates it, Wherever you find God, there is holy ground, Some of us have holy places tn our studies, in our homes, The HABITATION OF GOD 18 a habitation of life. The presence of God and of His Christ 18 only allowed to those who love Him and wor- ship Him, In journeying over Europe one Snds con- tinually places around whick linger historic memories. So all about us are choice buildings dedicated to art and science, Thoy are things of beauty and use. but shrine more, that shrine life, God's life, What is home? How many sad houses are falsely calicd howe. What makes «home? There is nothing like a | mother’s Jove, and oh, how that love is felt when she is called aw: The mother is the goddess of the home. She js the lite of the home, she that gives it its whole agpect and temper. The husband turnishes that, keeping it together, but his life is not at the cradle ‘and with the hearts of the growing little ones as is the mother’s, And yet how happy the husband who can at mgbt throw off tho cares of his profession or business ané come to a pleasant home to find rest—to find, what is best expressed in that untranslatable Saxon word, comfort, It is at home wo reveal our inner lives. ifwe want to know what a husband 1s ask the wife, and if we want to know what the wife 1s ask the husband. are terrible exce; tions when the husband is misunderstood and the wile misinterpreted; but thisis tne rule. There is no pic- tare like a happy household. Now we can al! belong to the quiet, happy houschold of God, We can all be and harvest’—ior whom the scasons? is for His children. There is not a force, a tact, a phenomenon in nature that is not meant tor 1c of His children. Let us realize that’ we are tho objects of His eats 8 tence, and . that every power that is Ils usea for our benefit, The great Master Build is the spirit of God, the agent is the Holy Ghost, In His Word we have the transcript of 1 i Vans of earthly buildings are defective; God's perfect. God has appointed each to his place. Noo should feel dispiritea because he has been assigned a lowly place, but fulfil the duties of the place fully and fauthfully, A word about the materials of which God’s house i» constructed. Tho Lord quarried the corner stone of His Uburch out of the lowliest passers by— the Scribes and Pharisees, The structure is cemented by the blood of Christ, FATHER DAMEN IN THE FIELD. 4 MISSION OPENED IN ST. MARY'S CHURCH, JERSEY CITY. The great Jesuit missionary, Vory Rev, Father Da- men, & J., who has only just recuvered {rom a revere attack of malarial typhoid fever, has again taken the field in the service of Christ. He, with seven cthor Jesuit Fathers, opened a mission yesterday In St. Mary’s church, Jersey City, of which the Rev. P, Corrigan 1s pas- Asolemn high muss was eclebrated at half-past ten o'clock, Rev, Father Swebr, 8 J., being celebrant, Rev, Father Smyth, deacon, and Rev. Father McCartio sub-deacon, The OPENING DISCOURSE OF THR MISSION | was doliverod by Fathor Co :blan, S)J., who set forth the necessity and advantages of a mission. A mission, consists, he said, in the sending of some one by some person authority. The word is derived from the Latin mittere, to send. Persons are rent by the gor- ernment of this country to France, Russia and other countries to attend to the interests of this couniry, and to sce that no citizen of this nation be injured in person or property unlawfally. Weare sent here to- day by God Almighty to remind you of your duty to God and your baptismal promises, as well as of the naltics you bave incurred by the violation of God's jaw. Ours is A MISSION OF TEACK and reconciliation. Jn case you have broken your vaptiemal vows you may within this boly time enter futo yourselves and redress these evils under which you lavor. Pray to God tw give you the grave to see your own hearts, You may say. perhaps, that you are hot ready just now to atiend tothis mission; that you heave wot time; but is not your soul or as much im. portance as any ol your undertakings? “What will it promt a man if he gain the whole world and lose his ewn goal?’ What will ail your business mterests avail you at. the last hoor when you are sam. Moned to appear bewre the Eternal Judye? Tho exercises of the mission are so conducted that you can attend to it without interfering with your worldly concerns. You may say that you performed other inissions, buc remember that re are man now looking at me that will never see anotuer sion, There are many now in the grave who attended Jast mission, This mission will only ve for a tew days, but is not your eternal salvation worth the ing of a few days? Enter, then, upon it with earnest neas and fervor. You will then obtain a renewal of God's grace, aud you will gain the indulgences attache to these holy exercises. Now, an indulgenee is not understood by those outside tho pale of the Catholic Church, They wili tei you that you may commit what sins you please, then go to haha him Oh, A GREAT MISTAKE. An indulgence is not a forgiveness of sin bat a re- Mission of the punishment due to sin, Christ gave ‘this power to His Church wien He said: —"Whose sins you shail forgive they are forgiven; whatsoever you shall bind on Ce) shall be boand in heaven, aud we either in this worid or the world to come, for dechared that nothing defiled a} vhmnk of hall enter heaven. ly or monthly visitor into a | Mohammedanism has its | hildren, For whom does -God bring seed , | Pricer fears treliecs see ter Ww 6 en the church. would eg bey tat to you, igor a days’ on | obtait the pumshment Sones sin, ast | that raved of Kind care that you don’t deceive yourselves. The hagt gad pnp dese man knows whether be be worthy of love or re The preacher closed with a fervont appeal to hit hearers to profit by the mission, and called on the con- grevation to join with him im praying tor the conver. sion of ail sinners, At the close of the mass Father Damen ascended the altar and explained the programme of the mission. In the evening he preached on “The Destiny of Man.”” P; THE PRESBYTRRIAN ASSEMBLY, , REVIEW OF ITS WORK—THE CONDITION AND ATYLLUDE OF THE CHURCH, Ten days ago the Presbyterian Assembly convened in the Tabernacle, Brooklyn, and during that time they have discussed various topics of mure or less interest to their Church and denomination, The opening any was spent in preliminaries, in the election of officers and the appointment of some few committees, The next day the committees were completed, and at once the Assembly plunged into iis business, Occasionally during the proceedings the Assembly bas been thrown into asnarl by motions and amendments and substi. tutes, and what not, offered by members oj the freshman class, and it required the in genuity of Judge Strong oF some other good parlia mentarian to release the body from its dim. culty, on the whole, for so lurgo a body this Assembly has done remarkably well in this particalar. ‘This result is due, perhaps, as much to the ability and experience of its Moderator as to any other cause, its efforts to effect a closer union between the Presby- terian Charch and bodies who hold its doctrines ip common the Assembly a year or two ago made over- tures to the Reformed Dutch Church for sugh union, Those overtures were rejected by the latter, and instead thereof it offered terms of co-operation in mission and certain other work performed in proximity to each other by both denominations, This the Assembly has declined as inexpedicnt and unuccessary. Early in Ms deliberations the Assembly adopted resoiutions complimentary to the Ceatennial Commission for closing the grounds and butidings in Fairmount Park on the Sabbath, and subsequec tly sent a committee of ite strongest and most eminent ministers and laymen to pro- vent the grectings and the sentiments of the Assembly on this question to the Commission, and yesterday a letter trom President of the Commission in re- spouse was read to the Assembly. 11 is surprising how inull a matter may intertcre with a good Presbyte- rian’s peace and rest. A member of the Assembly felt himself so aggrieved by the common Sabbath (Suuday; that he requested, by resolution, ‘agente to order the word “Sunday” to be stricken oat of all its official records wherever it occurs, and the words “Sabbath” or *‘Lord’s Duy’ substituted, And he gave as his chief reason that the violators of the “Lord's Day” or ‘Sabbath’? call it by THE PAGAN NAME, “SUNDAY,” which has no sacred idea connected with it, The logt- cal absurdity of this proposition is apparent on 1tslace, ‘The changq of name won't make the day more sacred than itis nor make one violator loss, and it, after so many centuries of use, there is no sacredness attachip, to the pagan name, *Sunday,’’ how many centuries will it take 10 make the ‘Lord’s Day”? or the “Sabbath”? sacred? Why, there are men and youths to-day who, after 1,800 yeers, think no more of the Lord’s name than they do of nis day, aud use it oftener in profanity than in worship, Why not change His name also ag well as His day's name? On the quesiton of traternal relations with the South. ern Presbyterian Church the Assciubly was almost a unit, There are a few sonsitive mombers of the body ‘wuo believed that the tirst move in this direction should come from the South, since the Church ‘there had spurned the overtures made to it heretofore by the orthern body. . But the Presbyterian Church (North), the Moderator and others very truly expressed it, 18 tional and not sectional, It belongs no more to tI North than to the South, Like Methodism, it claimg world as its parish, It can, thereiore, afford to be Manimous, and in this case it has snown @ most beautiful Christian spirit by making one more effort to- ward reconcihation and union It something of an anomaly to find a quar. el of & generation past continued into. the day when the groat Presbyterian family throughout the world are preparing jor a grand thanksgiving day, and all the scattered members ure preparing to meots ear hence around the paternal hearthstone of “auld lang syne.’ Shall there be one vacant chair in that great gathering ta Edinburgh, in 1877, and that the chair which should be filled with the Soutnern Presby- terian Charch? Home and foreign missions hold a very exaited and a very dear place in the Presbyterian Church. It is a living Church because it 18 a missionary Church. Its representatives hold up the cross in every land and poser: its doctrines in almost every language and dia- ject. It has big Phin yp in this Assembly trom tne cradle of the human race and from the grave of its Redeemer, trom. B pt go and heathen Asia and Catholic South America, Men who have spent from thirteen to | forty years in heathen or unchristian countries are here in this Assembly as enthusigstic as if they, were in then first Jove und had learned redemption’s story yester- day, The veucrablé Dr. Calhoun, who‘has spent torty beg of bis lile in the regions arouud Lebanon, goca k again to a new field of javor as if ho were a oung tam of thirty instead of a tather of seventy, ie only wish bemg that be may die among the whom he has won to Christ. And scarcely less en- * thusiastic than the foreign missionaries are those en aged in mission work among the Indians and New fiicane apd yn the frontiers of our own country. Connected with the home mission work ot the Church isa department of sustentation. This is designed to | obviate the growing evil of “supplies” Ceaag eee yr tors settled over churches. This evil has inc to such an extent that from one-third to one-half of all tho Presbyterian ministers in the United States are out of the regular pastorate, and churches are left to luck or chance jor the preaching of the Gospel. There are various reasons given for this con- dition of things, bat the chief one is fnancia) ability of tho churches to settle regular pastors. The Sustentation gcheme comes in to supplement small salaries so as to give every pastor coming under its provisions a salary of $1,000 a year. One of the pro. visions of this scheme requires a church to contribute an aggregate of $7 30 per member per annum to the pport of its Tho result has been that man: ehurches make a big effort to raise this amount, settle a thougand-dollar pasior for a fall back into a worse condition t they were botort or look for a higher-priced man and let the sustenta tion pastor fall into the rut whence he had been taken The German population of the United States havi become so numerous and important as an elo ment im our political, social apa religious Ife tha they cannot longer be ignored by ecclesiastical bodica, | The Methodists have the lead in labor among them at o Baptists are doing a little and the Presby- little more, but not enough. Hence the Assenbly’s attention was directed to this matter a couple of days ago as one of greatimportance. And ni doubt new offorts will be je to turn the subtle ( mau mind from rationalism toward Coristianity in the coming year, The Assembly spent Saturday's session in a discus. sion of a matter. that had very little business to come before it, and the venerable measure felt and knew that he had n pathy nor the ear of his brethren. It was a di of the question substantially—is the Roman Catholi¢ Church a church of Christ, or not? The Assembly of vhat it was not; the Assembly of cided that it is, It 1} was not a true church of Christ in 1835 and the centuries preceding, im what respect has it changed since, so that forty later anothes generation of Presbyterians decide the question in the firmative? It has added the Immaculate Conception and tie Papal Infallibility to its dogmas. If these have made it more evangelical, as would seem from the Assembly's deliverance expressed it yesterday, a now to ask { ries—yor, even centuries before modern faeces the plen “° caren oes te prey and teachers, too, have r en graves for ' Cirist and His Gospel's sake, probably, than of all other denominations com- bined. “if the Prosby¢erlan denies tho validity of Roman Catholic baptism, oF other ordi nance, Is not the Baptist bully justified in denying the vahdity of the ordleanos ag administered by the Frew. byterian? And,,mdeed, according to the testimony iven to the Assembiy the Roman Catholic burch recognizes rian baptism as genuino while the Baptist ehurch docs not In the 's view logically the Catholic Church is, so far as the Protestant sucraments are inyoived, a8 much a truo church of Chri both of them false and claims his own to be the only Hees nut sll tn the eonvennial year in. abtagone }o welt 1a - pagel iy branch a nad vine Eee. it referred matier to a comm , wi cae Mi year's incubation will present it tuli fledged in Chicagé in 1877. * A NEW CHAPEL, The new chapel of All Saints’ church, dedicated yes. terday, is a beautiful structuro of pressed brick and Portland stone, in South Tenth street, near Fourth, Wilhamsburg. It 4s intended for the use of the Sun- day school, and is built at the rear of the churoh, which facos on South Ninth street, and communicates with it. Tho interior of the chapel is sixty tect by thirty five feet, with rooms attached for uso as infant class rooms, church parlors, library, &c., that, by an bin cided arrangement of gliss doors, may be thrown mito the chapel in addition of forty tect by thirty. five tect more, ich, together with the visors’ gale lery and the library, will furnish seaung accommoda- ‘on for 800 persons, The other accommodations jur- nished the church by the new building include an ad. mirable kitchen for ago at fi committee rooms, sew. ing, parior and clonk rooms. The cost of the building grounds wes $20,000, Tne dedication services wore three in number. The Atalcation propet by the penvr aad congvoptoas tes ry the pastor Fosponsive service, or act of “aediontion, aber i winging ear, and then either _ tne"