The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1876, Page 13

TRINITY SUNDAY, Celebration of the Festival of the Triune God, “1 AM THAT I AM.” janaciness seeensetoies The Vaunted Rationality of Unitarianism ; Ends in Lifeless Atheism. HEPWORTH'S DEFINITION OF — RELIGION. It Is Something That ‘Comes to Man To Give Him Eyesight. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THR CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECTING SALVA- TION--SERMON BY THE REV, GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. Fach succeoding Sabbath shows a decreasing congre- gation in the Church of the Disciples. Yesterday Mo, uimg the attendance was, for tbat church, very Slim. After the sermon Mr. Hepwerth made the an- Rouncoment that the church had been sold, and that this week he should make an offer to those in whose hands it was, in the name of the congregation, but if the offer wus not accepted, and therciore they could not tontinue to Worship in that place, the organization would not be dissolved, That he should trust in God as to the result, If it was God’s will that they should tontinue to keep that house they would do so—a way would be made; but if it was not God’s will, they should leave it Mr. Hepworth chose his text from Hebrews, ii, 2 and 34“For it the word spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and disobedionce received a just recompense of re- ward, how \shall wo escape it wo neglect so great salvation.” The apostio makes a very sharp contrast between tho old dispeusation and the new, We have had two revelations trom God for our guidance and protection, The one Is spoken of as the tnferior revelation and the other as the superior, The first revelation is as though it had been giver by the angels, ambassadors of God, bringing his will to Men, and this revelation is steadfast and is a precious and bolpful expression of God’s solicitude on man’s be- half, Tho second revelation was made not by God's vngels, but by the eternal Son of God Himself, and ex- Aibits on the part of the Father a very profound anx- ely for our welfare. It is as though nothing, except tho exceeding great sacrifice on His part, would bo suMicieut to remove the great evil into which wo had fallen. The word of Sinai is a word of friend- ship. The word of Calvary ts a word of love, and that, it seems to me, designates the difference between the old pock and the new. The question is then asked by Yaul, very tersely, How are we going to escape if we neglect this very groat salvation which God bas put in our way? lt is ty purpose this morning to usk you to consider some of the conseqvences which must fol- low from carclessness in this direction, Religion con- sists largely in gratitude towards God. We are not cummanded to love Him, but we are drawa to love Him by finding that He tirst loved us, and he who lives out- Bide ali gratitude lives a life of sellishuess, and a life Which ends in discoutent, unhappiness and misery. On the other hand, tho man who lives constantly with bis eye fixed on God's law, who is certain that obedience | and viewory in ‘he long run are synonymous, that man dwells in the sunshine ever, and there is a hope of joy in his heart which no disappointment can | tradicate, Let me ask you to consider the ttn. | meuxe #xcr! which God mado when he sent His Son into the worl, and perhaps that will awaken & protounder gratitude than we have ever known, I would not have you regard God as an arbitrary power that controls the universe, because when we look at Him trom that, light we tind ourselves at a great dis- tauco from Him, ail our afections are closed. But the moment I feol that God has a personal interest in me | Itawakens a personal interest on my side, aud the moment I become assured that God watches over my lite and answers my prayers and calla me His son, that | minute MY RELIGION IN HORN OF MY LOVE, and I cannot turn my buck on it, aud f must obey Him, the world sinks beneath my feet and with gaze fixed on heaven | walk the remainder of my life. Oh, what a sucrifice God has made on our beball! Wo are told in the twenty-first chapter of Matthew of a certain man | who had plantea a vineyard, who, when the harvest cume, sent hia servants for his share and they treated them harshiy and stoned them. Feeling that shere must og some mistake, the owner of the vine- yard sent other servants, and they were treated im the same way. Still feeling that there must be some mis- lake, he sent his only son und reasoned with himself, saying, “Surely they will respect him” But thoso wicked men reasoned with themselve: ing, “Here ts the heir of the property; if we stone h we can live on here forever enjoy the harvest without ying tithes,” and they stoued him; bat they forgot hat Killing the son did not give them a clear title to the property; that be who ownel the property was sll alive, and that their maltreatment might bring flown on their heads the punishment they merited. And the question was asked here, “When the lord of the vineyard cometh what do you think he will do’ Will they ask for mercy? They cannot ask for justice == What will be their plea? Let us look ut the parallel, Neither you IT can appreciate how much st cost aor. God'to send Jesus. ‘The parallel 18 complete when we read the story of tho servant’s Journey on this erruad. God far back seat into ‘this vineyard Moses, thou the greater and lesser prophets, to tell us what the will of the Lord of the vineyard was, but the human face maltreated the propbets one alter the other, und God still said:—*There must bo some mistake, 1 will torgive these peopie not only sevon times but seventy | times seven.” And then at last He sent His only be- gotten Son, and I think the Lord must have reasoned with himself very much as the lord of the vineyard | did. ‘When He performs these miracies, when He | heals the sick, when He calis the very dead trom their Festing place, they will certainly respect my Son, they will ackuowledge their loyalty to Him, and He will lead them up out o/ the wilderuess, freeing them trom all trials, till at last every one sball be redeemed and sod what Bland around my throne in glory.” 1 think must have reasoned in just this way. wonderful love for us! We can hardly conceive thing so great. We are wandering; no one knows that botier than we. We have gone into the mountain de- files of sin, and God sent His ‘ants, and then oth bervants, and at last He sent His only begotten So: but, ab— THR SADDEST STORY that has ever been told since the Euphrates began to | flow—we stoned His Son that we might inherit the ‘eurth for ourselves. In our rebellious spirit we have call for mercy? And yet Gov ever {s our joy and hope. Did | not read to y ‘words that, evs fer ail our iniquity, if we confess our sins He will cleanse us, And to all who have broken out into open rebeliion ugamnet the will of God tho voice of Revelation comes, beds ‘Children, it ,fs pot too late yet.” But it will be too late some time, cyond & certain point our doom ig scaled and He warns us. He say’ “The eir- tumterence of human life divides you {rom Me; it you was thot line without repentance you shi be misera- ly destroyed.” God's law must be oboved or | there would be no God. What is it that is Fequired of us’ Is it something Bard? If it were so we would obey a th more readily, But God enly says, “Give Me thy boart, obey Me and [ will do everything for you Oh, surely it 18 easy cnongh to give one’s self to one’s beat friend. 1b a the oue marvel of creation, that we are like chil- dren with their so absorbed, forgetful that we must leave then Wo walk through life, partial! ion is something that comes to m: Give bim his eyesight. MASONIO TEMPLE. WR. FROTHINGHAM ON ‘‘CHARITY”+—-1TS PARTIC- ULAR MEANING AND THE GREAT GOOD IT CAN DO IN THY WORLD. There was rather «slim attendance yesterday inorn Ing at Masonic Temple, Mr. Frothingham read the thirteemth chapter of St. Paul's first epistio to tho Corinthians as an introduetion and basis to a sermon upon “Charity,” ‘The chapter which | bave chosen,’ be began, “is the loveliest of all Paul’s episties—a lyric poem out oi the beart of the most devoted apostle. The Greeks had three different forms of love—titst, the love of personal attraction or love of the sexes; second, affection, gratitude or compassion— the kind of feoling a parent has for bis child; third, the spiritual relation which one soul bas for another—a love containing uo element of affection or passion, The | one who loves God. ways, “Though I bestow all my good to feed the poor. and though | give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” The Christian is A SPIRITUAL ARISTOCRAT, sets charity above ail other gifts. In bis ume men thought the gift they gave the Lord the most acceptable one, bat Pau! told them that charity was better than anything else, Charny extends only to the to which a wan belongs; it is not universal, “Charity never faileth;"” Chratian charity has failed {rom the very beginning. How do Christians now speak of the Mobammedans aod the Buddhist and the Jews? You have often heard that lovely story in the Talmud of Abraham sitting in the summer evening at the door of his tent, waiting for some person to come along to whom he might offer the hospitality of his dwelling. An old man @ along. Abraham rose, offered his hand, and invited him to enter bis tem they partook of any refreshment Abraham offered thanks to Jehovan, The stranger was amazed and said be knew nothing of it God; that bo was a fire wor- sbipper, Thereupon the patriarch thrust the old man out into the darkness and storm, Thea Abraham heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Where ig the guest I sent to thee?’ ‘He was a pagan and idolator, and 1 thrust fim out’? “Could you not bear with your brother a single night?” Rebuked thas Abraham brought Him back, gave him retreshment and plenty of instruction. Charity does fail. 1t tailed im the Mid- dle Ages. Look at the Jews. They have been perse- cuted ages by Christlans, and in tle nam E here in New York, where no prejudi naneed by the State, they are consiJered beyoud the ine of clarity. Christians are faithless to their owa principio when they turn A COLD SHOULDER TO THE JkWs, How do Christians regard Thomas Paine and Vol- tuire? Charity will never exercise its purilying influ. euco on those Hames. The Roundists thiuk that the word charity belongs only to them, so they do not think they jst exercise charity toward Protesiants So with the Evangelists and even the Unitariana, If there be such @ virtue ag charity that never fails it must rest upon a principle that never tuils, It is pot a Christian principle; itis not founded upon the New Testament; it does not rest upon Christ as a corner stone, but upon humanity, You have heard of the doctrine of evolution; it 1 to the effect that a law of progress was instituted in the beginning, that the uni- verso 18 a flower, and every event the seed of what 18 to come; everything that exists is the product of what bas gone before, and an improvement upon what has gone before, We find it very hurd to exercise charity to priestesaft; bat it was the priests alone who, in the dark periods of tho world’s history, d wisdom and kept the prod- uctagof learning trom perishing. We tind it hard to have ebarity for people who believe in ceremonies and forms. But there was a time when people had to have things presented to their senses before they could be- Neve in anything. Great truths bad to be put up m packages, carelully labelled and tied up strongly, belore people were capable of receiving them. Can { be charitable wo peoplo who hold me gutlty for my opinions? Why notY It is not hard to be charitable to the dogmatists of the day, to the ritualist ft the hour. The world becomes better; there is a power that pnshes allmankiod on. Men and women always asarale do their best. This must be the rute, for otherwise the worid would go buckward, We have al- ways noticed how natural it is for bad people to try to excuse their actions, We all say we are sin- bers betore the Infinite, but irom an- other, wo resent the least imputation of the same, It 18 casy enough to say it, but no man acknowledges bis own depravity in his heart, excuse their actions; they say their motive high ee People are continually meking guod resolutions. These are the boginnings and aspirations, the forerunners of virtua, These resolutions are leaves, not fruit; but they show that good in man is radical and wickedness but incidental As the coral reef, though bard stone, is always blushing, bloommg and growing, so this human nature of onrs has in jt possibilities for good, This ts the basis of charity. The office of charit: iy to all mankind what the Christian virtue 1s to al who believe in Christ. Charity seizes upon the small- est possibihty for good and uses it. We hear of ur- phous charming beasts with his music. It is no égeud, for in some countries venomous reptiles are rendered harmless by music, As long as tho flutes play poison js not shed, Let brotherly kindness bo played upon all the struments and the lien and jamb will lie down to together. CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. THE PEACE OF GOD—SERMON BY THE REV. MARVIN VINCENT. Rev. Marvin Vincent preached yesterday from Psalms, oxix., 165—‘Great peace have they which love thy law; nothing shall offend them,” It does not fol- low from this promise that the lives of those who love God’s law and follow its teachings shall be smooth and unevential. In following Christ and forsaking all clso they accept allthe trials which will inevitably beset their paths and all the disturbances tnat the Satanic Powers can evoke. It isan anciout saying that when a child is born all the legions of hell ery out in alarm, Tho peace of God means something deeper than mere freedom from trouble; a man’s worldly affairs may cause him deep disquietude and yet may be at peace ag regards his goul. Look out upon thé ocean, vexed with storms and’ swept by furious tempests; through it is passing an organized little world safe and sure to its destination, So every day of men’s lives do they pass through the midst of trials sustumed +i the possession of their periect peace. We havea right to expect that a great stream shall flow from a great fountain, but the stream cannot rise higher than ils source, the peace which God gives, the peace that passes all ‘understanding; that ts, the peace which man cannot affect ‘or himself or for his brother man, This peace sball guard your hearts, We all know bow hard they are to guard, but the sentinel who keeps watch over them js clad in heavenly armor and is ever vigi- lant. Christ, in leaving His disciples, said, “My peace I give unto you.” In the ‘my’? was ail the gist of the saying. The peace was not of the world’s quality; the promise bore u deeper signiticanee. If they had known all there would have been no need to add, “Let not your hearts be troubled.” When man says to himself, I have acquired a'l the wealth that I shall need for tho remainder of my day: upon earth; I have gained ail the knowledge that require, and my reputation as a learned man hus gone throughout the world; my social position is secured; L have no reason to tear ‘lor my standing in society— these things do not bring peace, Perhaps as perfect a peace as was ever known upon carth was known hy tho three Hebrew chilaren in the flery turnsce; not that they did net experience the tortures juilicted by the flames which surrounded them, but because they were 80 cluse to God. A mere mechanical obedience docs not produce the peace required. A man may live under martial law, at which every instinct of bis pature rebels, and still be a good and obedient soldiwr. He may live under a civil government which he detests and yet be a dutitul citizen, but a mere matter-of-fact subjection to God's laws is not all that is required of man, He is not @ good subject unless he loves the laws aud be who made them, Nothing should oflend them, or, in othor words, be a stumbling block to them, The Bible ig a tremendous stumbling block to some who cannot bgtieve that such and such expressions, culled at random from the Scrip- tures, emanated from the Almighty. You have been acquainted with men whoso gonduct at times grieved and surprised you. - Altera while the circumstances that seemed 80 suspicious to you were explained; you understood the wau, loved him and became enthusi- ic over his virtucn The Bible presents difliculties even to those who believe in it and Joveit There is ho course to pursue but to trast in it as you would trust in a friend in spite of any seoming thconsisien- cieg Some parts at which we labor suddenly become clear and illumine others which were dark beretofore, ‘The lover ot God’s law tinds no stumbling block in God's providence; all things work together for good to When the brokeu AUantic cable was being repaired the electrician sat before his instra- ment which cheked and wavered unintelligibly as if the great deep were trying to yield up its secrete, when suddenly the muttering turned to living words of joy. P f-bhnd spirit struggle agamst its deficiencies until it Hnally proclaims aloud ite beifef in the Lord forevor, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MANHOOD AND [ls TRIUMPHS—SERMON BY REY. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Plymouth church was crowded yesterday, and the Rev. Mr. Beecher held bis vast congregation spell- bound for over an hour, despite the depressing in- fluences of the weather, ry weal was occupied, aud the services were, a# usual, simple and edifying. Mr. Boecher selocted his text from Ephesians, vi., 13— “Whorefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and baving done all, to stand.” The reverend gonthman gave a lucia explavation of the toxt, showing thut it was a military figure, wherein the soldier, baving done his duty, was ata standstill for further orders, And in this connection Mr. Beecher took o¢easion to refer to THE WOUNDRD soLDIEKS of the war, who wont forth amid rin, cheers, and returned only to be neglected. He made special refer- ence to that worthy class who, deapne the most earnest efforts, cannot succeed, Nevertheless, there was, a vast harvest to be reaped from non-cnergy. The energetic man doing nothing may be vory useful to bimselt avd to society, When a man was willing and anxious, with the desire to go forward, and ‘pout ait, he was position where he migut attain a certain amount of greatness which he could not otherwise do. There were rare and bidden treabores in men which were not developed until they had, in the words of the gospel, to stand. ‘The holding of | one's force was just as noble in the sight bt God as the greatest exhibition of force. Mr. Beecher proceeded Bay that things in this lifo were perputualy chang: Men were changing, for one nowadays would hardly look in the same store (or the merchant who Se men New Testament bas almost the exclusive use of this word, It is not the Jove which has any personal Attractiveness, but the love of the Christian for the Christian, Therefore, it 18 translated by the word charity, which means grace. It is a special, limited tnd peculiar thing; not that philanthropy and affection which we enderstand b#tharily. It is a very aifer- mt t from woat we call philanthropy, Nothing like tho word philanthropy ix foum!in the New Tes. tament It comes from the clusic Greek, the Jove of man #* man, ax a bumun or thin sense it was used by the old paxan pti te describe one of the cardinal exceilencies o gaan heart. © The wors philanthropy ts hota Christian word. The word charity is contined to Christiuns, It te not alms-giving, nor the Lerolsm of fame, lor Paul occupied it five years ago, The greut lesson set forth | in the gospel was to stand, Having done all, having | learned ail, the great thing necessary was to know how { to stand still and to control the force already acquired, | Whew one has suececded Yu this world he shoulu ever \ girrve to stand im himself, ag it were, and bo a man. | He should learn to bea man with «ympathy and ho | Should learn how to do without it.” Ue should learn | wo eplit the rock and see the water flow, and be should warn how to split the rock “nd seo no wator lecome, He should learn to contented, arn to suller, It was severe, for iustance, man of great pride to tari, a1 must learn to hear | patience, for mm that very thing consisted true man- he ‘The clamorous men were by no menus the best, and the man who could staud still lagen wite his suffer: Jugs Was the noblest specimen of bua Wan married apparently a doll, bat wh | tore { rivals, Yet h NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, . mercy. ordoas of reputation befel him she became the heroino by ber noble acts’ Lite was fuil of achievements that were not recognized. There was vo svil better for the true man than the soil that trouble made, ‘The reverend preacher paid gn eloquent tribute to the silent martyrs who suffered for others without a reproachiul word. Men were thrown out of life vy no fault of their own. by aceréent and by chance. But ofall the men to be admired were they who went down !rom eminence into absolute obscurity without a murmur, without complaint, and with coptenteduess simply waiting till their change came, There were many unrecognized heroes in the world. He pointed out with great eloquence the ne- ceasity of standing stiil under the keenest adversity, for ‘Mt Was in that way that men became purified, It was a noble thing for a man to be able to say that he had done his duty and that he now ‘stood. atill Perhaps there was vothing that deteriorated aman more than self-indulgence, nothing makes him so noble as siou ot himself, In conclusion Mr, Beecher exhorted the congregation to love God with all their heart and by so doing they would be enabled to welcome advers- ity in whatever form itappeared, The services termi- Rated shortly after twelve o'clock, ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, THE TRINITY—SERMON BY THB BEV. FATHER KEABRNEY—COLLECTION FOR THE POPE. Notwithstanding the extreme heat yesterday morn- ng tho Cathedral in Mulberry street was attended by the usual largo congregation at the high mass Tho day, being 'rimity Sunday, was a great festival in the Chaureh, and was noticeable besides for being that on whieh the annual collection was made for the Holy: f Father, The music was, a8 usual, of the highest order, | ‘under the direction of Mr, Schmitz, the organist, who | Played his own mass, No, 6, There was a chorus of | thirty voices in addition to the regular choir. The rendering of the solos of the mass was in every instance adinirable, all the singers working at their best, Tho soloists wore Mme, Bredelli, soprano; Mme. Unger, alto; Mr. Bersin, tenor; Mr. Urchs, basso, ‘The Rev, Father Kearney proached the sermon, taking hia text from Mutthow xxviii, 19,21 He said:—“Last Sanday wo celebrated the meoting of the Church; wo heard the rushing wind which announced the coming | of the spirit of God, and the aposties who belore were cowardly and afraid of the Jows were filled with tho Holy Ghost and went forth courageously to teach all things commanded by their Master, And the funda- mental doctrine which they taught was one God, in their divine persons.’ But I wish to-day, said the preacber, to draw your attention to the law of God tor us expressed in the Father, who loved us from all eternity—us in preference to so many others whom Ho might have created; to His love ip saving us trom hell, which we merited through the sin | ot our first parents; to His love manilested in our being | born in a Christian country and as members of the one { 1 trueChurch, Again we may dwell on His love us the St becoming man, humiliating Himself, sufferimg and dying tor our redemption, and us the Holy Ghost in coming to tench und sunctily the Charch, abiding with it forever, Gud loved uy so much that after the offence of our first parents He determined to seud us His Son, When tho angols sinned—those whom.He Created tor Himsolt to be near Him in heaven—thore was no But tor us, when our first parents siuned, His mercy forced Him to send His Son to redeem us Tho great mark of the love of God the Father was His Sending His Son to redeem us. We might, perhaps, ex- pect an angol to be used by the Almighty’ in redeeming us; bat no, {t must be His own Son, and the Son willingly accepts the mission to teach us and to suiler for us. When ascending to heaven to His Father, the Son sends those who ure to carry out His mission— men like ourselves, who can consolo us in our trials | aud temptations, and sympathize with us in our misery, and Ho PROMISED TO BE WITH THEM, RVEY TO THE EXD OF viMe, ‘Theso apostles, filled with fear and trembling, had bidden themselves jest their enemies might persccute them. But the Spirit of God descends: thee 1¢ no longer fear or trombling, aud, filled with courage, tho apostles begin to teach what they had been commanded by their Master, Tooy went forth awong the Jews und did not hesitate to accuse them of putting to death their Lord and Master, And as the Church commenced ber mission so has she remuiued, courageously teach- ing the doctrine of Christ, consoling ber children und coudemning those who teach what is contrary to her | teaching. As our Lord promised to be with the Church, even to the end of time, fe has appoimted His repre: sentative—“Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the ‘gates of hell shali not pre- Vail against it”, Poter still lives im the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of our Lord, Peter was to be no better than his Muster, He was to suffer as his Master had suflered, aud tho present Pope was a true repre- sentative of our Lora in suffering, as 10 holiness of lite, The preacher then went on to say that live ago there wax much said all over the world avont the Pope's celebration of his twenty-lifth anniversary. Friday next Pio Nono wou d celebrate the thirtieth an- niversary of his Popedom. lt was, therefore, especially appropriate that the taithfal should this year show their love for their aged Pontiff by a large contribation to aid him in securing bis civil independence trom his | poke eloquently of the | perseculors. Father Kearn snilerings endured by the Pope, of his privations in being secluded from his people, whom he loved, and of the prison life he was compelied to cndure, ‘The col- lection which was taken up tor the Holy Father was fully up to the average of pust yeara, TRINITY URCH. “{ aM THAT I AM’—SERMON BY THE BEV. MORGAN DIX, The feast in honor of the Holy Trinity was celebrated yesterday hy the congreyation of ‘Trinity church with pomp andelegance, The altar was decorated with live ing flowers and blazing with lighted tapers. In the grand choir was a large orchestral band supplementing tho organ, Tho choir in the chaneel was much larger than usual and was directed with great effect. The services commenced with the processional hymn 138, followed | by an anthem, Weber's “Kyrio Klowon,” Hadyn's “Gloria Tibi? and the Nicoue Creed tollowed, alter which the rector, tho Rev, Morgan —dDix, preached a sermon on the fourteenth verso | ot the third chapter of Exodus—“And God said unto Moses, I Am that 1 Am.” In presenting his ideas the preacher said that the time, the place, the scene, were all in keeping when Almighty God thus announced bis name to haman cars, Tho sceno was ove of grandeur and of solitude; far from the abodes of men; such a retreat us one might seek who would bo safe from the foes of body and soul and alone with the Spirit of the Lord and with his own thoughts. The place was a desert byway, amid the stern and secluded ledges of a mouutam. And there was found, that day, & tan whose name was to pass into history and vo be known even unto the end of the world—a man ot plain manners and burd life, shepherding a wandering flock | and meditating tn silence und loveliness on the sorrows ot his people, There also, that day, bad he beneld a marvel, ono of God's sigus to faith, for a bush had been found burning in fierce flame, yet unconsuned by fire, aud while ho drew’ nigh a voice came from beuven telling him of the dread task before hic. Moves drew buck from the commission of ‘Behold, when ud shull say unto Sout me unto yous al such great apd hard things and uski J come unto the childrey of Lsrael, them, The Goa of your fathers bi y tome, What is big pame? what ship and difficulty, The lone, grave shepherd is tho typo ol pligrim man from age to age. The work laid on bim reminds us of the burden which every wm: must carry. The question he asked «bout God, so subtle, Bo far-reaching, 4 ono which men are perpotu ally framing iv their hearts. God bays to us to-di qe distinetly us He sald to His exiled son of old, “I'am that lam.” The name ts not ono of a past era and a | dispensation ‘ong sinco vanished. It is the name ot God to-day When Christ caine here He assumed that | name as His own, and the Jews would have slain Him | instantly for what they. deemed toe blasphemy, ut dt passed on, in our Lord’s use of it, und became an | everlasting name in the earth, and we may draw trom it all ite great meaning and it shall teach us what we ought to think of God. The man 1s certainly an object of compassionate regard who dogs not feel the sublim- ity of these brief words, There is more than sublimity | fn the words; there is deep teaching; there ts what this — age needs, an ansWer tu'each of its gravest errors. IT 18 4 CREKD IN WRIKV, | a formula by which we may test and exhibit what is | wrong jo modern thought, whigh we may use to keep | our own thoughts clear on the first prinetples of re- higion, Firat, thea, of the leading errors about God | there aro such ag these:—That God, as @ person, d ; that there is no God, as Christians us ad some say that nothing whatever predicated of God, warle others pretend to tell us just | what He 1s und what He is not, Some think and speak | as though they thought He changea with our | views concerning Him; so that what one may elect to hold about the Lord fs tr that man, and is to all intents and purposes his re- | ligton, and good aud sufficient to that end, What does | God say of Himselt? Firat, there 1 personality. | The pronoun of personality is L it implies | and asserts the truth of His being, His unity, | In the Ego, the I, lies all this. | to the point and unmistakably, “Lam.” This His real existence. God speaks plainly, f when He names Himself and say the vocal symbol of eg a the frst word was the | 1 of personality. it expresses a being, a sub- which exists, whielr “Tam” is tho state. ment of «perpetual present; it is the first person of | the present tense, active. It t# the guide to us when we hear the falsehoods of Satan. When the father of | Nes whispers thero 13 po God the answer comes from above, “1 am. When ‘says God was not from eternity and shall pot be hereafter, Uh al present, God and rare the same, that there is but one universal substance, taking one form after another, ex- pressing itself in diyers forms and shapes trom age to age, the answer comes roo far above the region of phenomena, from outside the great movement of ages that roll on and die away, the saine lite words, “1 am" —God When the Jews sau unto Jesus, “Thou art not flity years old, te thou seen Abrabaw ?" Jesus said unto th Bel say ubio you, lenew what it mn f isthe well Known name of the Eternal, ever livin ever-present, never-changing God. Aud then follow tho other great words to repress our curiosity snd to stop, If possiole, our reckless vole “Tam that Lam, The form is like @ well, hiding what may { i | i 1 1 | | thousand | years | On | And God said unto Moses, Lam | It is the answer to human darkness, to | r, to human curiosity; the answer once for | ail. Horeb and the desort expand into a world of hard- | | the greater part of which was the result of the ljaor | trafic. Dr, Willard Parker, 01 JUNE 12, 1876.--TRIPLE | mot yet be looked upon. It is a check on man’s restless spirit of inquiry. It is like that saying of the Lord to Peter, “What | do thoa knowest not vow, but thou shalt know hereafter.” It implies, what | am thou mayest not know; let it suffice thee to know that 1 am what am. ‘onder roll, through the depths of space, the stars and suns; the Constellations of the {ar-otf heavens, and here flits forth @ ttle bat, peering through the shadow of the night and thinking a bat’s thoughts, whatever they be, and 80 much effect as is produced upon the motion of the orbs of night by the tlutiering of hix feeble wings, 80 much and no more is God Aimighty effected in His ab- solute truth and glory by our restless thoughts and theories concerning Him. God is that Ho is, It 18 He that hath made us; not we that made Him, The services were closed by the singing of Weber's “Sanctus,” “Agnus Dei,” “Gloria in Excelsis” and the administration uf the communion, CHRIS! CHURCH. THE DOCTRINE @F THE TRINITY—SEBMON BY THE REV. DR. JARED B. FLAGG. At Christ church, corner of Thirty-fi{th stufect and Filth avenue, yesterday, Rev. Dr, Jared B. Flagg preached on the mystery of the Trinity. His text was from Job, xi. 7—*Canst thou by searching find out Goat” Ho said:—Vew words convey more of mental reprool; fow have moro of intelligible aim, as opposed to that presumptuous spirit which sets men upon the endeavor to draw aside the mystic veil which pavilions the Almighty und peer with curious effrontery into the recesses of His ungearchable nature—that spirit of tho heathen victor who rushed into the holy of hohes to discover what was there, and returned with tho contemptuous assumption that there was nothing because he could’ see nothin;. Brethren, we have peed to guard ourselves with unfeigned humility while we contemplate the great truth which the Churen brings to our special attention to-day. It were fitting, in view of our incapacity, that we bow with awe and reverence before the cloud that covers the mercy seat of God in His most familiar inapifestation. Let us not approach the consideration of the mysteries of the divino nature with the mere foot-rule of the hu- man Undcrstanding, as If we could measure the Im- measurable and find out the Almighty to pertection, We are culled to acknowledge and adore, not to explain the mystery of a tureefold Deity, which 1s addressed to us in the shadowy language of time and sense, as un article of our faith, and not a subject for intellectual exposition. i, Augustine determined to give three days and nights in succession to prayer aud meditation, that he might understand the mystery of the Trinity, On the third night Le was overcome with sleep and dreamed he was walking on the seushore. There he saw a hittle child who was scooping a hole in the sand and tilling it with sca water, “What art thou doing, my child?” said the gaint, “I om going, was the answer, “to put ii the sea in this hole”? “My cntld, you can never do that,” said Augustine. Then tho child looked up, the light of the world veaming trom his divine eyes, and said:—**l can do it, Augustine, us easily us thou canst comprehend the subject of thy thought.” The lesson was that ot the-text, which contains tho force of a veboment afftir- mation that IT 18 IMvOSsIBLE TO FIxD“oUT Gop, Does vot reason tell us that He 1s infinite, ang that { infinite He could not be if a tinite mind could compre- hend Him? But they who would turn our words againat tho doctrine of the Trinity attirm that | we do procisely what we condemn by pro- suming to sy that there are three per- fous (in the unity of the divine navure. We reply, “Wo say it because the Scriptures say it’? Tho auswer is, “You misinterpret tho Seriptures, for they assert no unreasonable doctrine.” If, when it is alleged that the Scriptures assert yo unreasonable doc- trine, it 18 meant that they assert nothing which 18 not level to human understanding, the falsity of the alie- gtion 18 So apparent Chat it seems hardly justifiable to tain you with anv attempt to refute i, There is scarcely anything in the whole economy of graco that An intelligent principle we cannot escapy, believing it personal, and if we can attain to the belicf that such a prineiplo can be personal at all we must have the power of beloving—that 1, Our reason must present no difficulty to our believing ‘on proper evidence—that it develops in three persons or in four persons, or in Jorty persons. 1n supposition there is no contrariety to reason, for there is truly no more ditticulty in sup- posing’ a thousand persons in the Gotbead, ignorant as we are of its ¢ssence, than in supposing a demands ‘our assent. and obedience which is | Bot in this senso — unreasunabie, It wo | Dellovo that tho prinoiplo ot | Deity isan { single person. fence it ig that so many who sot out with the vaunted rationality of Unitarianisin end in the iiteless vacancy of atheism. They begin by denying the triple per- soualily as unreasonable, and they end by (inding (what Just as unreasonable, But the entire history of the | Controversy, which rups through many centurios, | abundantly assures us that the advocates of the Uni- tartan theory will never rest their argument upon the | decision of the law and the testimony of the sacred volume, ls the Unitarian doctrine, as they tell us, without practical benefit? Ii Christianity be no beter than a system of human philosophy, why thea wo might concede ag much; vut if it is as avowed to indeed is pertectly true) that the single personality is | favor of law, order, morality and whatever will pro- mote the wellbeing of the inhabitants of this city. In Usis bundredth year of our national independence, Bothing is impossible for us to do. Avd since we have succeeded in holding an Exposition that bas never been equalled, and since we, the citizens of bo mean cit have conquered our enemies in the past, we may, if wi will, conquer this enemy that has risen up against us, and show to the worid that they who are on the side of the right, trath and God, though in the minority, a mightier than multitudes who ure arrayed against em. CENTRAL M. E, OHURCH. ‘WHO 18 KING IN NEW YoRK?”—AappRESS BY REY. CHARLES 8 HARROWER. Rev. Charles 8. Harrower, pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal church, in Seventh avenue, be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streots, preached last evening to his congregation upon the subject of selling Hquor on the Sabbath. Mr. Harrower believes that a sentiment in favor of enforcing the excise law must be awakened among the church going people, and to thia end he spoke last evening. He said:—**Who is king in Now York? Is it whiskey, and are we all subjects?” To answer ‘‘Yea’’ is to say that the people of New York are either besotted or they are indifferent. New York, whose solid growth during the century is the pride of whe Atlantic const, whose voluntary charities are the admiration of the world, and whose public institutions always surprise distinguished foreignors—New York either besotted or indifterent! We are slow to speak the words. Yet there is reason for asking the ques- tion, 1 grant you, we have supposed that the people of New York are king, and that the peoplo are honora- ble, intelligent and sell-respecting. Legislation has implied the kingship of the people. We thought we wero guided by enlightened public judgment, specially in regard to the liquor and the Sunday questions, In the matter of liquor laws, many have condemned ua Some said the whole traffic isa sin, “Prohibit it!” Others said, ‘*Put it with the sugar business, remove all restriction, it’s a free country.” But the people said *‘oar foremost men disagree as to the wisdom of prohibition, but the tradlc 1s a most dangerous one, and we will try to regulate it,"’ So in 1857 we made ita crime to sell or give intoxicating liquor to any minor under eighteeen, to avy apprentice, to any Intoxicated person or to any person guilty of habitual drunkenness; also tosell on the Sabbath oron election days. In 186%, 11 was declared that ale or beer ure included in the Words intoxteating liquors, In this way, we said, we will try to provent the evil of this trufllc. We be- lieved we had the right and that’ the potuts were wel; taken in the Liquor jaw. The people supposed they wore king, und “lord also of the Sabbath.” We did not muko u religious question of it, Sunday, asa holiday, devoted to reat and quiet for the whole people, is a cus- tom which has come down to us with the rest of our civil order, It 1 like mulo suffrage, trial by jury, the cession of publ‘ highways, holiday liberties, &o 30 wo Lave legisiated for it trom timo to time as wo deomed beat. We determined to make a good day of it, Bot acurse, Other business stopped and we tud the rum traffic shall stop too, Now I wish to remind you of the days of TUR METROPOLITAN BXCISE LAW, From 1863 wo 1870 there was a special law for this city, and Superintendent Kenoneday and Thomus C. Acton succeeded wonderfully in entorcing it. There were threo strong pomts in that law, The license must be in sight of ail entering the place of business, and if not, there was presumptive evidence of unlawful trafic; the doors wore to be closed und kopt closed on Sunday; and the Excise Board had summary power to revoke license in case of any violation of the law, During those three years tho revenue from licenses was $1,000,000 a year, or three times what it is uow, and the urrests on Sunday wore twenty-live per cont less than on = ‘Tucwday, whereas now thoy ara twenty-five per cent more than on — Tues- day. The “Boss”? had to havo the metro- politan law repealed in 1870, and we foll back upon the general State law, But in 1873 tho three great points in the metropolitan law were enacted for the whole State, und we are now as well off as during those three years in overytning but the enforcement oi the law. ‘There uro twenty-five per cent more crimes committed on Sunday than any other day, It appears that on any Sunday trom 200 to 600 violations of the law take place where the police cau see them if they care to, ‘The doors of the saloons swing to and fro us easily as on any day, In yurdens and grogeries liquor flows more ‘freely ou Sunday than on any week day, When for once the law ts enforced our Common Council are * disgusted and outraged. ’* ‘The only thing they sce are the errors of the police, ‘The trouble is they are in tho business them:elves, They are not patriots; they do not applaud the right and earnestly discountenance wrong measures; they sit in dignity and deuounce the whole attempt at order, Who 18 their king? Is itlaw? is it the peo- ple? or ia it whiskey? In tho Contral Park, where no one can dispute their authority, at the Casino and the Terrace Restaurant, it 18 sud The traffe goes on, and | no one tnterleres, ‘So they tuke the infamous ‘basi; ness under their patronage upparently, and stand up for 1 when the offigers of law assuil 1, And Christian New York submits. Ounce more: You have a Board of Excise, to whom you have given the power to revoke licenses whenever their provisions are violated, and | spiritaalize and make us godlike; 1 it is to restore and. Teimpress the divine image in our nature; if it is to draw us by adequate influences from earth to heaven, redeem, iinmortalize and glorify, then you cannot strike irom it the doctrine of the Trinity. EIGHTEENTH STREET M. E. CHURCH. “OUGHT THE COMMISSIONERS TO BE SUSTAINED | IN ENFORCING THE SUNDAY LIQuoR LAW aed | SERMON BY REV. W. Y. HATFIELD. Last evening, in the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church, the pastor, Rey. W. F, Hatfeld, preached a sermon op the right of the Commissioners | to enforce the Sunday Liquor law, taking for a text the twenty-sixth verse of the thirty-second chapter of :—“Who is on the Lord’s side?” The preacher satd:—"Tho question which I ask at the beginning of | my remarks was asked a long time ago, woen Israel was divided in opinion in regard to a matter that con- | cerned their eternal well-being. And this question may be answered by the decision we shall render upon another that ts of vilal importance to the people of | this city at the present time, 1t1s whether the Police | Commissioners ought to be sustaincad in enforcing the Sunday Liquor laws, Laffirm that the Commis- | sioners ought to be sustained in enforcing the law for | the following reasons : Because the law aims to promote the physical, social and moral welfare of the people, Ingemperance is the | Kreatest enemy that now exists in this city or the nation. It stands directty in the way of buman progresa, All civil, social and moral reforms are hin- | dered by its unseemly presence. It is a deadly foe to | health, comfort and happiness. — It bi scatters its poison widely through tt re to be foured thati the cho! | Jor these, though they prevail in certain countr ut certain seasvns bave their tine and they pass away ; but | INTHMPRRANCH PREVAILS IN ALL LANDS | where human fvot has ever trod, and, though the most stringent laws have been made against tt, yet the | evil exists, und in ibis couctry threateus the over- throw of our most cherished institutions The boards | of health have more diticulty tu arresung disease in the loealities where dwell (Le patrons of the dramshop than anywhere else, There you will fnd poverty and squator and filth and disease in Passing, thon, to statistics in proof of bis declaration he said the Official census tor 1574 showed 8,403 licensed liquor shopsand more than 2,000 unlicensed, making } more than 10,000 places whero liquor is sold In this your goodly eity. The people supported them. They Could not Oxixt unless their average rece:pis wero $2,500a year, This would give $18,375,000, but it is believed to be over $26,000,000. It was not sur- prismg that in that year, ‘when $26,000,000 was Spent for tum, tbat there were’ 00,000 ar rosts and 10,600. vagabond children ‘in thi streets, and a vast army of paupers thrown upon the churity of the people apd tho authorities to support, 1t bad been computed that during the year 1874 thero were two fatal accidents every day, « murder and three suicides overy week, and 150,000 accommodated with lodgings in the station houses. In 1872 the police arrested 64,014 persons for intoxication und disorderly concuct. The taxes that year were about $23,000,000, {the most eminent phy- sictans in this etty, stated in a public address not long ago that thirty-three and one-third per cent of all the deaths to this city were occasioned, directly or indi. rectly, by the use of intoxicating drivks, and that 190,000 persons ‘had died in New York in the last thirty-eight yours [rom this cause. These figures, he said, are alarwing, and they are a mighty argument | lor the suppression of the liquor trailic im this city. Now, us more a is sold On Sunday than any other day, where the law does not probivit its sale, more crimes ure committed and more arrests are mado. ‘This is @ motive for enforcing the la he urgod, why the law should be entorced, it was a just law, We were told that the law with meo's rights and liberties, that this i a free country, and that every man lus the right to choose in regard to the manner in which he shall spend the Sabbath, If he wishes, be claims that he may go to eburch of remain at home aud drink bis beer, avd if he has kept an open bar during the week, that he bas the right to keep it open on Stdnday, and that no they can fix the license fee as in 1567-10, Yet what do we see? They secure tu the city about $300,000 in- demnity*for the tratic, whilo tho old Board six years ago secured about $1,000,000, WHOSE COPFERS GAIN BY TAT? The pooplo’s or the whiskey kings’? Then, how is it With the scores of places where the police found the law violated and made arrests? Were those licenses re yoked? No. For three weeks tho wen have laughed in derision, and tor three wecks the people have been insulted. Christians, who 1s King? Still once moro: Upward of 900 cases of violation of the liquor law have boen in the bands of the District Attorney, 1 am told, and not one case bus he prosecuted since January { Some one js feartully at fuult; some one is false to his trust, and I submit to you there ought to be some way of tuding out who itis, Now this is iu New York, and bow happens it? Hove wo changed our minds about the evil of drunkenness? Aro the facts changed’ Why, the expense we are put to tor sapportiug drunken pau pers and the children of drunkards in the Republic, is $40,000,000 more than tho cutire revenue irum the iquor trafic. Think of it, Herois a business which rings to the government $60,000,000, while it creates upers alone that cost — $100,000,000. In New ork State wo carry a vurden for State government, education, national government and the war, amounting to $86,000,000; but to care for the paupers, idicts and criminals that arc trace- able to inteinperance costs u t and $30,000,000 more. And yet this worst of traflics comes und say: "The devil says you give to the good of in answor, "You shall have tt.” “G and to God, It looks as’ if whiskey is king and all of us subjects; but I think, rather, the and they people are king only. The king ts asleep, and while ho sleeps a villain invades the palace and robs it of somo of its choicest trensures. I believe this is one of New York's great opportunitics, power of the peoplo ig as great as ever. What was possible under the metropolitan law is possible now. What the peopic did to Tweed they can du to the whiskey king. Let them awake and speak, and tho desecration of Sunday would disappear, tho monopoly of rum would ¢ease; the feasted pauperisin, the intensified crithe, domestic brotls, agonies and murders would visibly’ ditmiuich, for the people are king. We have been expecting General Newton to blow up Holl Gate rocks on the Fourth of July. The Whiskey Hell Gate rocks are Jong since mined. Statistica of crime, and poverty, and idiucy and idleness have tun- nolled them and charged them. It ts for tho people to ligt the fuse. ‘CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. THE USE AND ABUSE OF POLITICAL PARTIES— SERMON BY THE REVEREND EDWARD EGGLES- TON. Last evening Lee avenue Congregational Church, better known as the Church of the Christian Endeavor, on Lee avenue, at. tho corner of Howes streot, Wil- iamsburg, Was crowded, the uttraction being a political sermon from the novel-writing preacher, Kdward Eg- gleson, D. D., the pastor of the church. The reverend gentleman announced the following text:—‘For the cbildren of this world are, in their generation, wisor than the children of light’? Luke, xvi, 8 He sald:—*'The uso of a political party ts to bring all those who favor u certain line of public policy into combination, and serves its proper and louitimete end when it enables men of like opinions to act to- gether in favor of those opinions The abuse of a party !# that superstition of politics whicn elevates the party itself into something sacrod, just as men {dolize a Church instead of worshipping tac truth and goodness it eushrines, arty ia made such a fetich that a man who deverte it, with or without cause, is in the eyes of its members and devotecs unothor Benedict Arnold, Ibave known a man proscribed by bis relatives und denounced by bis neighbors because he cast a vote against the party with which he bad previously acted. Many a man in this iree country of ours ia suffering @ family and noghborbood martyrdom for his acting on his convictions. Ce pvatalerdlgehnatiger ong poe yaRswon, ly remedy against powsm ol iL and Greeley were icinied for one ae Ube right to stop him. This is tho view held by the opponents of the jaw, But they either forgot or do not know when they tuk about rights and libe | ties, that no mun bas the jegal right to engage in any business any community that threatens to destroy the life of property of his neighbors. This aw is just, because ita Object ix to preserve the sanctity the Sabbath, Those who oppose it, and oppose it most eurnestly, are those who are rolling up wealth oy the miquituus traffic, This law should be evforced for the ke of those who ure casily overcome by the tempta- We owe it to those who are casily jou of the cup. | overcome to put tout of their way. Very whole week without tasting spirits, bat they walk straight through the Sabbath. This law ought to ‘cod for the sake of the fathers, mothers, wives kiven Who bave been made to suifer by intem perance, and who are looking with the deepest 'ntercat upon this movement. This law oughi to ve enforced for the «ake of Christ and His cause, There is moral power evough in the Charch in this city to pat down any evil that exists among us. Lot hor tpcak through ber ministers and members, and vice will hide her av. formed face, law will be more cuntiy enturced and right a trith will triumph over wrong and error, The Comnusstoners who bave undertaken to perform their | duty 1m the fae of mugbty opposition noed the support, | pot only of professiug Christians, but of all who are ia Nenwed the man who is brave enough to bol. He may draw the spears of censure into bis bosom, but he makes way tor liberty. Ouc result of blind party worship ix ‘the application of the party whip in local issues. For the sake of the principles at stake might matter Caane whether o dent or a greseman to my part, But, because by ots Bowmates a man tor Sheriff, for Judge, for Polion Justice, tor Aiderman, tor limpounder or am I compelled to vote for him? A party nomination for a local office is an insult to an intoili- gent voter, When | wants Chiof of Police 1 want a good fugue catcher, but it is of ao more im; ce to mo whether the Mayor of this city is @ decateres or republican than it is whether my coal heaver votes tho fame ticket I door not. In both cases 1 want a mun who does his work weil. i am aware that party, 100 Jonal politician, is something different to what [ ve defined it—a machine (or getting office--and thes beg my speak 4 you to ni Ls 0 bitterwess of par rit. Wo are on Ul threshhold of a bitter Renin toa if you dosire of fro eave many regrets will words and your hearts trom A butcher one anciner sow, as aid ly, i | contests for powe: | enuverted; you must be patient, ’? bal mane and then te 4. Tam Jes How pre- lorius aud choose candidates that BY man grow Loarse in cheering for tt, ave been a@ republicam longer than I have been @ voter, and «m proud of the party which had among its great men Sumner and Lincoln, and Greeley and Chase, and of @ party that saved the Union and freed the slave. BUT WHAT 18 THE REPORLICAN PARTY TO-DAY? A party managed in part by Shepherd, by Spencer, by Pwebback, by Morton, by Simon Cai ‘That ro- jects Dana’ and confirms Camerou’s son, A purty tall of tricksters and hucksters. If it nominates # good man let us vote for him, bat not because we love the party ag it it now—a mere’ ma- chive for selfish men and advocating not one single great principle of consequence. M wo turn to the democratic party wo find what? A party that dates its glorious line irom Jefferson and Madison, But for fifteen or twenty years it has had no idea, no entha- siasm, nothing to'redeem it from being merely nega- tive and obstructive. It has no leaders, no principles and no future, The intelligent e¢itizen fluds bimselt confronted by two parties, each of which 13 divided in itself on the only vital questions before the people, There is no just reason, on the ove hand, why Gov- ernor Morton and Governor Alen sbould not act with the samo party, holding as they do the same opimont on all really living questions. Why should Tilden ané Unstow profess the same principles in opposite par. ties, while Thurman and Allen are in the same? There are no living questions but those of a sound currency and of administrative reform, and the present artifciai and historical division illustrates the blindness of party spirit, But hopefulness 18 the duty of the good citizen, aud there is this ole of hope, that the parties havo never had less hold upon thinking men than at the present time. BROOKLYN THE DEMANDS OF THE AGE UPON PROFESSING CHRISTIANS—SERMON BY REV. T. DE WIT? TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded during tho forenoon services yesterday. Rov. T, Do Witt Tal- mage teok for his text, “Who knoweth whether thou art come to tho kingdoin tor such a time as this??? — Esther, iv., 14. The reverend gentleman sald:—ln order to meet the especial demands of this age upon you you need to be an carnest, unmistakable, ug- gressive Christian, Half and halt Christians, we don’t want any more of them The Charch of Christ will bo better without ton thousand of them, They are tho chiot obstacles to the Church's advancement. All the appliuncea for your becoming an carnest Christian are at your band thie morning. You may havo come in here the bondsmen of the world, and yet before you co out of these doors you inay become princes of the Lord God Almighty. You remember what excitement there was in thit country some years ago when the Prince of Wales came here, and how the people rushed out by actual millions toseohim. Why? Because they expected some day he would sit upon the throne of England. But what was all that honor compared with the honor to which God calls ou this morning, to be sons and daughters of the rd—yea, to be kings aud queens unto.God. “They shall reign with Him forever.” You need also to bo aggressive Christians; not those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Christian graces and wondering why they dv not make any progress, How much robustness of health would a man bave if be hid bim- self ina dark closet? A great deal of the piety of the day t8 too exclusive. It hides iteclf; it needs more fresh air, more outdoor exercise. Thero are many Christians who are giving their entire life to self-ox. amination. They aro feoling their pulses to seo whal is tho condition of their spiritual —houlth. How long would a man have robust physical health t) ho was continually tecling his pulse instead of going out into active, earnest everyday work? There ure a great many people in this day just pulling apart ther own Christian experiences to soo what thore 1s in them, and there is nothing leit of them. This self-exaimi tion is a danger instead of an advantage to their Chris. tian charactor. If you want to have a stalwart Chris. tian character, just plant it out of doors in tho great field of Christian uscfulnesa, and, though storms im: come upon it and the hot’ sun of teal m try to consume it, it will thrive until i& becomes Agreat tree, in whieh the fowls of heaven will have their habitntion, 1 have not patience with these flower pot Chrigtiaus, They keep themselves all. under the shelter and all their Coristian experience In a small ox- clusive circle, when they ought to plant It in the grea garden of the Lord, so that the whole atmosphe could be aromatic with their Christian usefulness, A VINE CALCULATION, ig by so rapidly we cannot afford to bo statistician says that boman lite now go of only thirty-two years. From these has un avera: thirty-two Years you must subtract all the time you give to sleep and the taking of food and :ecreation: that will leave you about sixteen years, From thal time you must subtract all the timo. that yor are necessarily engaged im the earmng a livelihood, that will leave you about eight years. From these eight years you must subtruct all the yeara that @ man sends. in sin before he becomes a_ servant ot God; that leaves about two years, From those twa years you must take all the days and webks, alt the length of time that ia passed in sickness, leaving you about one year in which to work for God, I state tt aa a simple fact, that all the time the vast majority of you will ever have for the exclusive service of God will ba less than one year! Never since the curse fell upon the curth has there been a time when it was sup an unwise, such a crucl und awlul thing for the Church to sleep. You must avoid reckless !conoclasm on the one hand, and on the other t not stick too much ‘to things because they are old. Yes, full of new plans, projects, theories of governtnent, new theologies, and lam amazed to see how so many Christians want ont novelty in order to redommend 4 thing to their confi: dence. So they vacillate and swing to and fro, and they aro useless and unhappy. Do not take bold of a thing merely because it i new. The cburches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the greut masses, People say “the world is going to be Never, unless the Church of'Christ puts on more speed and energy. _In- stead of the Church converting the world, the world is converting the Church, ‘There is work for you, and thero 15 work for me. O that this morning, this whole audience might fee! that the Lord Almighty was put- ting upon them the hands of ordination! J tell you, every one, go forth and preach the Gospel. You have As much right to preach ag I have, or as any mun has, Only find the pulpit whero God will have you preach, and there preach, Go preach this Gospel. You rg 4 say you are uot licensed. In the name of the Lord Al- mighty this morning, [license you. Go preach this Gospel, Woo be unto you if you preach it not! MARY'S’ WERSEY CITY). FATHER DAMEN, THE JESUIT MISSIONARY, ON THE NEW RELIGION. The mission conducted for the past two weeks by the Jesuit Fathors, at St, Mary’s church, Jersey City, was concluded yesterdaye A solemn high mass was cole brated at half-past ten o’clock, Rev. Father Swore, % J., being celebrant; Rev. Father MeCartie, deacon, and Rev. Mr. O'Connor, sub-deacon. After the first Gospel Father Damen ascended the pulpit, and read from the Gospel of tho day, Trinity Sunday, sixth chapter of St. Luke:—‘All power is given to mein heaven and on earth. Going therefore, teach yo all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and behold | am with you all daya, even to the consumination of the world,”? t Hlow consoling are these words of our blessed Lord, Christ established His Church, and He commanded His Aposties to go forth throughout the world and teach all nations, The Church 1s now established and the Apostles teach all nations, “Behold,” says Jesus, the Lord of the universe, “I am with you all days, oven te the consummation of the world.”’ So that Jesus ts with us, and there can be no failing. Now, my friends, we Are not like thoso outside the Church, always chung. ing, always taking away, Lill thore ix scarcely anythi jet. They have taken away ail the flesh trom the bones, Not so with us, Ours is the Church that CAN NEVER HICH ‘Truth can never fail, or we have the pledye of truth Mteelf, “eveu to the consummation of the world." 1 see in the New York Hxxato of this morning thata now religion has beon established. It is styled the “Religion of Hamanity,”’ and if you ploase thay have been incorporated. no doubt these people will claim that theirs is the church of God. Oh, the Lord save us! Now, what Ish It is tho amt- mal portion of our being. What a deplorable co fon has been ours and those who bavo gone before us till this Church bas dawned upon us, Father Damen continued in a vein of bitter irony on the new religion, predicting we would have hum of new religions before many years Hoe then an- nounced that the mission would be closed ip a solemn manner for the ladies at three o'clock and for the man at hali-past seven o'clock. On oach of (hose occasions: all would renew their baptixmal vows and the Papal benediction would. be iaparted, bringing with it @ plenary indulgence. ‘All should’ be anxious,” be anid, « ‘wo receive the blessing of the Pope, view? of Christ on earth, and you all know how holy a Pope bo is, with what wonderful ski’ and wis- dow ho bas guided the Charch in these perilous days.” It was announced by the Rev. P. Corrigan, the pas tor of the church, that there were 7,000 communicants daring the mission and that several persona bad been received into the church, A solema requiem mass will ‘be offered up this morning for the repose of the souls of all the decoased members of the parish since it wag established. Tho mission altogether has been ably successful. A FATAL SLEEP, Ou Saturday night Henry B. Thomas, living at No. 80 Ridriage street, being unable to sleep because of the extreme hot weather, left bis room und went to the roof, where he aid down, He soon fell asleep and rolled of, falling on the roof of adjoining house, « distance of twenty-five feot, The noiwe of tho tall alarmed the inmates, and the injured man was conveyed to the station house, where an ambulanée was whe graphed for to bring bim to Bellevue Hospital Before the ambulance arrived he was dead. The tail bad tured the skull, besides causing internal iajurion, bedy was removed to his late residence by of Coro od was thirty-three years of ship joimer by trade, He leaves 6 wile und