The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1876, Page 8

8 —= HE PULPITS. Beecher on the Organization of Household Affairs, THE DREAM OF RATIONAL RELIGION. The Power of Faith Explained by Mr. Hepworth. Talmage on Temptations of Sea- side Resorts. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ON THE DUTY OF MAN TO ORGANIZE HIS HOUSE- HOLD A¥FAIRS AND ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR HIS CHILDREN—SERMON BY REV. H, W. BEECHER. Standing amid the tragrauce of the floral decorations ‘that were distributed in profusion about the pulpit Mr, Beecher yesterday read as his text the word;:—‘The Bight cometh when no man can work.”’—Jobn 9, iv. Mr. Beecher said that although the ministration of our Lord wus begun late in life, when it was begun it was tharacterized by excessive activity. He labored so in- tessantly that He rarely had time to eat or drink and His overtaxed body often yielded to sleep, and His disciples marveljed at His activity. Our Lord haa much to do aud but little time iodo it, Bhs declara- tion, “The might cometh when no man can work,’ ls worthy of our consideration, Mr. Beecher proceeded to speak of tho general terror with which we are accustomed to louk upon death, tho sloomy thoughts that are wrapped up in it, and depre- tated the idea that wo should attempt to dull the brightness of the proper joys of this life by dwelling upon the gloomy thoughts of death, It was neither useful nor wholesome, Life was given to man for cer- tain purposes, and it is WISK YOR US TO KER BEVORE ‘us tho fact that life does not go on forever. I wish that every Christian man who has endeavored to live a life reconciled to moral principle would refresh his mind with the truth that he is put here to accomplish certain specific things, aud that they must be done Mr. Beecher said he wished first to address those who seem to have no purpose in life or any special pressure laid upon them, Life, my fricnds, is not a mere passage from the cradie to the grave. It is @ period when you bavo urgent duties to perforw, and but little tithe to do them, You are not to live long, and yet thero aro in- tummbent upon you great dutics, ‘There is a great wrong done to every man who thinks that life has no purpose except to flout out of one day into wnother, For in all those veginoing lite there bught Lo be some of thankiulness—a looking for- Ward and saying, “What was 1 torn ior? What are the things that’ must be done beiore my sun gous down?’ [wish io dissuade you from a common mis- tuke—the mistake of being about to do all the good things you udvise, and then not doing them. How hoble the purposes of the young! How noble the direains they boue of the good they resolve to accom: plinh; what beautifu! visions they have of good; WHAT CASTLMS THRY BUILD wm the air! But how few of these dreams are realized; dow rarely are the young resolves carried out! How tasy 18 is to put them off toa more convenient season and say, “Oh! by un by it 1s my purpose tu do this or that.” “No man, continued the pastor, "is wise who does not say, “What lam to do i must do qnickly, for hie is shor.” Brothren, whatever you mean to do there is no time to spare. In the spirit of this passage one should measure his sociul duties, bis duty to his family, his kindred and his friend. ‘It is particularly the Christian man’s duty to make provision for his househoid on the basis ot a prudent foundation. I! one ts shut up with the becessity of poverty it 18a misfortune truly; but nev- ertheless it 1s bis duty so to organize bis afluirs as to make more bountitul the little property be hag in bis hands. Mr. Beecher proceeded to speak of the value of acquiring property and building 4 joundation with it for one's tamily. You never cun bring mau up from Durvarous conditions except by that lewure tuat the acquisition of property gives one, INDUSTRY SHAPES MEN, Poverty as your master is oppressive, property as a rervant Is beneticial, The datly necessity of providing for the care of your family 18 4 things that should not be lgbtly looked at. It is the duty of man to lay up for his children, He — should contusion and chance behind him. ss of home when tho tuther go ucceeded by poverty and separ- re is raggdy in it. The most cunningly woven tragedies are those happening every day in the household when famiies aro broken ui, Mother aud children separated and scattered, owing to Mhe neglect of the father to lay the foundation of au Wgauized household, that when we leave this world we will leave something, A man has a wile, who 1s rery beautiful; he does not desire to see her below her iabon, Another has pretty children; they must Lave ail that will make them buppy. He lives tar beyond bis means, and when he dies a crash tomes and the home circle is broken up, Mr. Beecbor next considered the social aspect bf the sutject and earnestly pointed out the necessity lor the father to bear his share of the burden of the Qousehold by devoting more of his mornings and tis evenings to his children, They should so shape heir business that if a sudden calatuity came upon them the children would bave something left. In rosperity 4 man should settle a suiliciency ‘upon his wily, and under no exigency interlere with it, Every man shoald so shape his allairs that he would be MIS OWN EXECUTOR and avoid the trouble that tullows the death of the head of the house. Mr. Beecher urged upon his con- #regution the value of life tusurance and the hecessity for every mun making a will even if he only had — $100 worth of __ property, Ottea, owing to neglect on tue part of the father, a man’s entire property has been swept away, and the children left like whelps in the wilderness. Mr, Beecher next spoke of posthumous benevolence, and Htrongly approved the propriety of every man being she dixpouser of his own beneficence. He eulogrzed Mr, Vassar, of Poughkeepsie; Power Cooper, Commo- fore Vanderbilt, and Mr. Sergeant, of Massachusetts, y hame, for the institutions they bad endowea during their liv The man who coms mons Beecher shought, is more hikely to dispense it properly than thore who have pot participated” su tho Accumulation, Mr. Beecher closed by referring to tho aflectional bearing of the text, and took occasion to denounce those who argue that when (nteheities occur im the marriage state the parties should separate und wander up and down the earth in gcarch of an afiinity. Marriage is not unity, he said, bot a schooi in which to learn to love. He grapuically portrayed the beauty of unity in the home cirele and pointed oat how husband and wite should bear with ube anothe He concladed by urging bis hearers to Vexin at once to so arrange their business and domestic allairs that they would be ready to gu when called hence. Look at your purposes; there is litle time vo execute By snd by une of you will go; then another, What you have to do do quickly, for “the fight cometn wlico ne man cau work.” CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE POWER OF FAITH—SERMON BY REV. MR. HEPWORTH, Mr. Hepworth preached a very carnest sermon, tax- Ing his text from Mark, x., 40—“And they came to Jericho; and as be went out of Jericho with tis disciples and =a great number of people, bil Bartimeus, the son of Tin fat by the Jaghway side bogging.” It has seemed to me that the menlent whieh the text indicates bas ih it a great deal of suggestion and helpfulness Jesus had just tome from Jerusalem, whero He had been engaged in & heated controversy with the Pharisees—heated, at least, on their wide, They came to the argument with tbe determination to trip iim if possible, Out of Ubia unsatistactory experience He ontered into the eity of us, Jerichy, and there preached His guod word to the people = inthe — market place, in the synmigogue and in the strects He seoms to have excited an unusual interest in that city. The people's bearts must have been greatly moved, lor no sooner did Christ utter His revealing words, which came like light into darkness, than 4 re- vival, immense in extent and intense in anxiety, ve- fan. peuple gathered in crowds to hear Hin, and they ¢cem to have received what Hie said with untalter. tne faith and unilagging attention. He could not weary with the iength of His discoarse. They were hke a Ubirsty land upon which the rain pours itself, Bat the Uine came when He must leave them. | would we had the history of those days 1 would that some man who bad the ability to take His utterances word lor word bad stwod tm that audience and given us an exact tecord. That whole experiowce in the itte of Christ is BS sealed book to ue We lave ouly this little brilliant stone; all the rest of the diadem is lost. Bartimeus was a man well Knowa for years; they bad scen hum daily on tho highway in bis own piteous faxbion begging alins, and that witch appeaicd to the pty of the people was ihe fact that he could not see, ‘Ob, what a pitiful thing to be born blind! It seems to Me We are Hot Krute(ul euougi for Lhe ordinary se every Man Porsesxcs, ‘on US 8O Many things that He has actually covered up by Tite WIGHT OF Wis GENEROSITY soul's gratiude § Hero was bind Bartimeue Weryboay koew him But bark, brother, put your | Rotot such importance us | v'ewek at hand to your ear for a moment; there is a crowd com- ing out of the gate yonder. What does it mean? Jesus has been there for some days, and now He finds it pecessary to leave. He tries tn Vain to say goodby to the people; hundreds’ follow Him to the gate. Aud Bartimeus has beard of this stranger ana of the won- deriul things He bas done. Why, only yesterday He touched @ blind man’s eyes and he saw, and Martineus thought, “Cannot I be cured too?’ and he eried” ‘out, ‘Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.” He is at the other end of the crowd and he thinks it 1s necessary to it his voice in order to reach Christ. And so men think wheu they pray, but Jesus can hear the slightest whisper it it comes trom an earnest heart Weil, triends, Bartimeus had tab, and Jesus looked at bim and said—"Be of good cheer, thy faith hath made thee whole. Seeing to be ap intimate relationship between a man’s state of mind and a man’s state of health. Itisa curious statement, is it not? It is a subject upon which we have thought very little, Bartimeus had faith, Jesus saw it und gave to bim according to his faith, It seems to me we are living iu un uge of faith, I know science has scattered its doubts broadcast over the world, I know philosophers have asked questions ditficult to apswer, and yet I believe the one character- istte of the nineteenth century is Christian faith, though even im this century there is A YERRIMLE LACK of implicit confidence in the Word of God, You and 1 might find it easy, theoretically, to trast in the provi- gence of the Alinighty, but you and I might find it difficult tv stake @ great interest on that faith Wo ‘want to walk by sight, we want to seo our path before us, und God says, “If you trust me you shall come out right.” We uceept it theoretically, and yet when you bring that statement down to 4» man's heart be ts ua- walling or unable to yield bis practical assent to tt, When I read this event in the Scriptures it occurs to me to usk this question :—Suppose Corist should come to Now York and you and I should be in His presence and He should say to us—boing blind, or deat, or lame—“It shall be done to you according to your 1aith; if you ure periectly sure I can do it 1t shall be do.e;” how many of you would get up trom your beds and walk? How many of us would listen apd catch the sound of the Musier's voice? How many of us, sight- Jo-s hitherto, would look out into the beautiful world? Ah, well, ‘after all it won't do to measure us’ by our faith Somehow we are fur off om ‘God, and our one Incking clement is trust in God’s Son, But you gay, “1 have not seen Hum; if I could only look upon Him then] could trust Him! it I could only seo the dead man get up from the bier then I would be sure.” That i avother tliusion with which we deceive ourselves, 1 do not believe a word of 14; | don’t believe a man can walk more sately by sight than faith, Why, if I havo the promiso of God and beheve it 10 be a promise, what more do I want? Am I to say “I want further prooft”” And yet that is what we say when wo take that position, Ob, brethren, this 16 a strange mistake we make. If Christ should come to New York this morning He woald not fiud any more followers than be did 1,800 years ago. Aman does not believe what Ho sees, I know 8 man who can put his finger on a table and lift it up. 1 dou’t believe a word of it, I seo it with my eyes, I know it can be done, The man says— THR SPIMITS DO IT, Icannot see the spirits, butl seo the table move, ‘There is un effect, but I cannot find any cause, 1 don’t believe it, And if Jesus Christ should come trom beaven and stand in New York to-day and oppose us, as He opposed all the legends and traditions in tho synagogue of that olden city—if He opposed us in the same way, Ho would have a small following. ‘That is hot the way to believe. The Scriptures have opened the way. ‘hath comes by hearing, and he: ing by the word of God”’ 1 don’t care because I havo not seon Christ with my esen, To seo with tho eye is, one thing; to believe with the heart is nuother, I know by experience that Jesus Christ is the Lord; that He bas coutrol over heaven and earth, und that it 1s my business pot to Waste time in repining because I did not live 1,800 years ago. That 1s the way Bartimeus had faith, and it is o ttle curious that we should have un examplo of that Kind of faith tn those days. There are a great many people who are blind in our day, after all. There ure men who have not seen for many years anything of the providence of God, and & man muyt be blind indeed who does not recognize the finger of God tn nis Ife, ‘There are other ten whose cyes aro diseused in a peculiar way, men who boast of eyesight and yet who look and do not see, who fisten and do nut hear, Nothing yous right; they ure swim aguinst the stream, Ab, Iriends, it seems to me this is all wrong. Tho one thing necessary is to go to the Lord Jesus Christ and jet Him touch our eyes, and then we shall not only sce that there js a providence, but that we are a part of it, We must con! that we are blind and go to Him for sight; thon we shall sce. I want to impiore you to do what Buartimeus did—ioliow Him who is willing to teach you, willing to lead you and willing to heal you. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. THE TEMPTATIONS OF WATERING PLACES CON- SIDERED—SERMON OF BEV. T. DE WITT TAL- MAGE. The Tabernacle was crowded, as usual, at the fore- noon services yesterday. Kev. T. De Witt Talmage *preached, taking his text from St. John, v., 2, 3—A pool, which ts called in the Hobrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude ot impotent folk, of blind, halt, withored, waiting for the moving of the water.”’ Ho said just outside of the city of Jerusalem thero was a watering place, tho popular resort for invalids, To this day there is a dry basin of rock, which shows that there must have been a pool there 340 fect long, 130 feot wide and 1 feet deep. So far us reinvigoration was concerned it must havo been a Sai tuga and a Loug Branch ona small scale, a Leaming. ton and a Brighton combined—medical and theraneu- tic. That angel of God that stirred up the Judean watering place had bis counterpart in the angel of healing that in our day steps into the mineral waters of Congress or Sharon or Sulphur Springs, or into the salt sea at Capo May and Nahant, whero multitudes who are worn out with commercial and professional anxi0- tos, as woll as those who are aflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic aud splenctic diseases, go and are cured by thousands, We are ata season of the year when our rail trains are being laden with passengers and baggage on their way to the mountains und the iakes and the sea shore, Tho city beats are pursuing tho people with torch and fear of sunstroke, Glad am I that VAGGED OUT AMERICAN LIPE, for the most part, will bave un opportunity to rest, and that nerves racked aud destroyed will flad a Beth- esda, Let not the commercial tirm begrudge the clerk, or the employer the journeyman, or the patient the physician, or the church its pastor, a season of moccu- on, I have observed that those who do not know ow to rest do not know how to work. But | have to declare this truth, that our fashionable watering places are the temporal aud oteroul destruc. tion of ‘a great muititude that no man can numver,” aud amid the congratulations of this season, and the prospect of the departure of wany of you tor the country, | must vtter a warning, plain, earnest and un- mistakabic. ‘The first temptation that is xpt to hover 1p this direction 6 to Jeave your piety all at home, There ts NO SURPLUS OF PIRTY AT THE WATERING PLACrs, T never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the Catskil! Mouatain House or Slarou Springs or the falis of Montmorency. It is generally the case that the Sabbath is more of a carousul than apy otber day, und there are Sunday walks, rides and excursions. Elders, deacons and ministers, who are entirely con- sistent at home, svmetimes when the sabbath dawns upon them at Niagara Falls or the White Mou twins, take tho day to themscives. (Laughter.) If they zo to church 1 ts apt to be for the sake of parade, From the way tue hdies bold their fang you know that they at tso much mnpressed with the heat as with the picturesqueness of half disclosed features. Fo puny souls stand im the organ loft and squall a tune that nobody knows, and Worshippers with $2,000 worth of diamonds on the right hand drop aceatin the poor box—taug hier)—and ten the benedictiva ts pronounced | and the farce is ended. ‘he toughest thing | ever tried to do was to be good at awatering place. The air is bus witehed with ihe worid, the Hes aud the devi But, my doar Iriends, take your Bibie along with you, and tuke an hour for secret prayer every day. ‘Tins may be your last summer. Ifso, imake tt a ft vestibule of heaven, Horse racing business is unother hovering round our Watering places, The the human ruce. Horse | races mn olden times were under the ban of Christian people, and in our day the sume institution has come up under fictitious names, and at is called a summer meeting, almost suggestive of positive re- ligious exereis is called an agricultural thing that is improvmg in of farming; ivr these decept.ve Litles are me cheating aod betting aud drunkenness and Vagubondage, ana the same abominaion tnat were tebe found under the old horse racing sysiem, 1 never knew a nau Why could give himsell tothe pleas. ures of the turf fora long reava of time and uot be baitered iu morals. They hook up their spanking foam, aud put on their sporting cap, aud hglt theve cigar, and lake the reins and stout “g*lang!" and dart down at TWO-FORTY OW THR ROAD TO HELL ‘The great day at nearly ull the Watering places 1s the day of the races, Three weeks betore the race takes the siruggie is decided, akd the men su the secret Ww op which steed tu bet their mouey, Aa! iny iviends, have nothing to do with horse racing decep- thous Wie summer, With the butlignis of Spain and the bear-barting of the pit may the Lord Ge the infamous and accursed horse racing system of England and Awwer.ca, (Applause) New York and Brooklyn idiots, Lowsting of baving imbibed iwenty- tive glasses of Cougress water betore proakiust; families accustomed to going to bed at ten Aut yossiping until one and two o'clock. in the morning; dy ewutious about their heaith, mingling: tee creams and Jemous abd jobster salads and © LS, UHCI he gis tre juices Hit up their voices of lamentation and pros test} debeate wowen aud brain! young men chasséing themscives mio Vvertigy aad cutalepsy— thousands of men aud women commy back trom our waterng places in autema with the fouudations laid Jor aiimonts that will jast them ali their fete. A fragment of St. Paul’s charge to the jailers would be Qu appropriate inscription ior the hotel register in every watering piace, Aud the Lemptatr fw the fountain of hasty and iteto: janevs, pinces are reapo: for more of the do- svi his country than ail other things combined. ety te 60 artticial there that no sure judgment of charucter can ve wrmed. They who form Lompunionsinps amid such CitcuMstances go INL a lot tery Where (here are tweaty vlanks (o one am lo the severe tug of life you want more than glitter and spiash, Lite is nota ballroom, where te muse de- cides the siep, avd bow and prance and gravetul swing of jioug trail cam make up for strong At cross purposes with God; they are always trying to | pepties, usually very | annihilate | common sense, You might as well go among the gayly | alittle Ne God has no measure for lies ; Painted yachts of a samm as to go among the | Tegatta to find War vessels great struggle of huwan life, AB! in the battle of life you Want a stronger Weapon than a Jady’s tan or a croquet malles ? ‘he load of life is so beavy that in order to draw it you wanta team stronger than one made up of a masculine grasshopper anda feminine butterfly, (Laughter.) If there is any man in the community thut excites my contempt it .is the soit handed, " soft headed, fop who, perfumed until the air as absolutely sick.’ spends bis summer jn taking killing attitudes, timenial adicus, and talking infinitesimal nothings, and fludipg bis heaven in a set of lavender kid gloves; boots ay tight as an inquisition; two bours of consum- mate skill exhibited in the tie of a fami bis conversation made up of ‘ab’s!”? and “ob’s!”? anc “he-he’s!”” It would take five hundred of them stewea down to muke a teaspoonful of calf's-foot jelly. (Laugbter.) There is only ono counterteit to such a man, and that is the fretting young woman of the watering place; her conversation ‘mude up of Freach mooushines; whatsbe bas on her bead ouly equalled by#hat abe bas on her back; useless ever since she was burn, and to be usoless until she is dead, and what they will do with ber in the next world, except to set her upon the bauks of the river of lite for oternity to look sweet. (Laughier.) Boware bow you make lifeloug covenants. ‘The reverend gentieman then warned his beurcrs against reading worthlcas literature and drinking intoxicating liquors while passing their vacation ut watering places. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, THE BLESSED KUCHARIST—SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER EDWARDS. AtSt, Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday morning tho high mass was celebrated by the Rev, Father Colton, one of the recently ordained priests, This was the first time the reverend genticman officiated as cele brant of a high mass, THE SERMOS. The sermon, a brief one, was preached by the Rev. Fathor Edwarda, pastor of the Church of the Immacu- late Conception. Tho preacher read the Gospel of tho feast of Corpus Christi, which wag taken from tho sixth chapter of Jobu, beginning with the fiity-second verse. “The wonderful Jove,” said the preacher, “which prompted our blessed Redeemer to come down from heaven and die for opr sakes prompted Him also to bumbie Himself still more and remain with us in the ever adorable sacrament of the altar. The night before His passion, when surrounded by His apostles, He performed that great act which was to be con- tnued by His Church throughout all timo, and which was commemorated on the teast of Corpus Christi. But what was it that could have induced our blessed Lord to thus shroud Himself in this sacrament, to annihilate Htmse!f, as it were, and re- main with us under tho appearances of Uread and wine Tho same infinite love did this that prompted Him to leavo all the glory of heaven and come upon earth for the salvation of the vouls of men. And whata gift He bestowed upon us und what a treasure He left us! What would this world be without this sacrament of the eucharist? ‘The world was cold and dreary betore the Redeemer’s coming. — ‘True, God had spoken at times te the people through the prophets, but itis equally true that men soon forgot the warnings they received, hearkened not to tho voice that they heard and only continued to dive deeper into sin und mixery. God became incensed at this heodlessness and ingratitude, and the comeequence wast be destruction cf the human raco by the deluge. But even this proved not to be warning enough. Again the descendants of those that were leit forgot the warn- ing, and the name of God was ignored throughout al- most the entire world. Even the few who pretended to worship God did so with their lips more than with their hearts. ‘This was the siaie of things when the Re- deemer came and lifted away the clouds of darkness, bringing the light with His Gospel. For thirty-three years He lived upon earth to accomplish His mission, aod He was not thon going to depart, leaving the world again cold and desolate, His Church’ alone, and thoso who professed Him 1m alter times to sigh and lainent tbat they did not live when he was upon the earth that thoy might have purtaken of the food of Ife and tm- mortahty, Our, Lord foresaw all our wants, the trials that would surround us and the temptations that would beset us, THB SOURCE OF OUR STRENGTH. Fe left us us the source of our streugth and support none other than Himself, And if the world is not to- day worse than it 1s, ithe Church is pot more perse- cuted than it is, the reasou lies in the comlort, eousola- tion and strength which wo recetve from His presence among usin the cucharist The blessed sacrament is the pivot on which turns the whole Christian dispen- sation: It is the essence of Catholic worship. Take it away and Wo ure blind and naked und poor. With it wo are strong in the grace of God, comiorted in the hope of ® glorious hereatter, sure’ of an immortal lite as sharers in the bliss of His tathfal servants, **He that eateth this bread sball live forever.” But we should approach thig bo'y sacrament us belits us for such a sulemn duty, Look around and you will see men thinking of everything but their immortal souls, No care or thought ig given to preparation for the great moans hecessary tor salvation. And if we come home to ourselves we shall find that our devotion is too cold and feeble, not wartn and generous as it should be in the presence of Him who lett us Himself that our lives inight have the comfort, and help and hope whieh the insutution of the blessed sacrament was meant to atford us, It does not need laborious effort to realize to ourselves how remiss we may have oe so that if we reflect upon how much we ure God’s debtors we shall have our hearts excited to devotion toward Him, In every want and misery, and even in sin, the Diessed sacrament is op every altar, to be approached for help und assistance. From the saving waters of His presence there 1s cleansing. In Him is the puriti- cation the soul needs. The time must come at last when we stall all wish tobave Him near us as our friend—when we shall crave tor the peace of God. We should live now so that when we ure about to make the last journoy we shall not call for His mercy oither as strangers oF.as enemies, but as frieuds whom this sacrament of His Jove has united to Hin by its gruces and its numberiess heips in the coustant struggle of our lives. CHUBCH OF THE DIVINE PATER- NITY. “AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE HEED WHAT Y£ HEAR’—SERMON BY THE REV. EH. CHAPIN, D. D. At the Church of tho Divine Paternity, Fifth avonue and Forty-itth street, the sermon was preached yester- day morning by the pastor, Rev. Edwin H. Chapin, ‘Tho text was the twenty-fourth and the twenty-tifth verses of the fourth chaptor of St, Marc:—“And he said unto them, Tako heed what yo hear; with what measure yw mote, it shall be measured to you: and unto you thathear shall moro be given, For he that hath, to him shall be given; and he that hath not irom him shall be taken, even that which he hath.” This oeciuration, or ut least the latter part of it, ws repeated several times in the Bible, It is found in the thirteenth, and again in the twenty-fifth chapters of St, Matthew, and in the eighth and nineteenth chap. ters of St Luko, In the latter with al- most tho same application as in the frst text enforcing the necessity of atiention to the di- vine law, The apparent contradiction of tho state- ment—*Vor be that hath, to him shali bo given; and he that hath mot, jrom him shall be taken even that which he hath’’—reters to two different things—the capacity to hear and tho power to improve, Land has different capacities, Some of it can be improved, while some rermains @ barren waste, Man has certain capacities or talents, and the use or disuse of them depends upon the capacity of disposition to improve them, He who does not use the faculty or talent he has will jose it, To him that has the disposit.on shall the power be pven to improve. The wan who takes no heed how he hears the divine word, but will not think or realize their meaning, souu loses the tuculty of hearing them, and their sounds come to bis ears as the rustic of leaves or the rumbling wheels on tho street. But the other mau, who hears apd boeds, will take the (rath with a clearer grasp. The deeper we siuk the plummet of thoaght into the mind of Jesus the more truth will we find, more that is new and bright to us, What a pew hgbt, as of morning, breaks over the mau whose soul is groping In the durkuess for saiety whea he reads, “Iam the resurrection and the life.” What An assurance of relief to the man stung With a sense of as Ue reads that “Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repemteth m than over ninety aud mine Just persons wich need no repentance.” ‘The Bible, ‘vo be Fightly understocd, suould not ve read as & Sune day contract, but as it applies to our experiences. Strike beneath the surlace. Where there is no wesire to ve of use the faculty to do ao is taken away; “for be that hato net, trom him shall be taken even that which he hath." The esvential doctrino is not contradictory, It is not arbitrary; it isa law that AS CAPACITY 18 USKD IT INCERASKS, In physical matior it ts well kuown that somo i or orgaus Will shrivel and w: by inaction, ‘The practised eye of the sailor can more on the discorning in uarrow strip of far off blue the watched fur haven, The Indian buuter preand tore acute of sight and hearing by y the museles of the athiee grow larger and stronger by use, So, in studying hterature und art, the man will discover new beauty. Nature, to the eye that sees and the ear that hears, Nas over’ something Lewer, greater, grander to reveal To this ever ex- ploring mind of man the more it seeks and ls! More Wt yives. Is this mind destined to anni Does it mount too high? Is 1 to vanish bere in the weeds of the churchyard? Shall it be dashea and shattered hike a glass upon the stony ridge of Death? Some quote the toxt with a bitierness of spirit as though there was some injustice in it, They say sueh & mau is rich, and, of course, wealth keeps rolling in upon him; bat we are poor, aud what litic we have will be taken away, There is something wrong with euch | ne er They have onutted some opportunity; they bave not made use of the talents; they tave lost the vantage ground by some luck of oxertion that others nave made, These laws are intense, inflexible. kverybody has some power that can ve of use, by whieh he of some one around bim can’ be beneticed. We are responsibie for the disposi- and if it is nos used the power ts lost tr is more dauger of neglecting small daties and responsibilities than large ones, The small ones are hecessary for great ones, The roason there is so much corrupion 1a bigh piaves @ because there ts so much in the low places, some think it willdo no barm to toll ght spray of the Suiamer watering | wrong, or it may be J places to tind a churucter that can stand the test of the | whe makes no ue of it isa mere icicle of | Ne is a lie, Tt may be for right or A wan of great intellect tellectual splendor. Another man who does not kvow so much, but uses he does know, enjoys tar greater biess- ‘ngs than the former. Power becomes available in ac- cordance with the disposition to use, The preacher closed with an urgent appeal to the congregation to use their powers for rigbt, for truth, tor religion, MASONIC TEMPLE. “THE IDEAL, THE HOPES AND TH& DREAM OF RATIONAL RELIGION”—SERMON BY MB, 0, B, FROTHINGHAM. Mr. O. B. Frothingham condacted the morning ser- ‘vices at the above place of worship. As it was known that this was to be the preacher's last sermon previous to his departure for Europe there was a large at- tendance. After the usual prayer and singing of hymna the preacher addressed himself to the subject of the “Ideal, the Hopes and the Dream of Rational Religion.”” He began by a lucid summary of tho vari- Allof us have power, - world, traced their origin, their working and their ro- suits, Tbe two prominent creeds of the prerent day— Roman Catholicism and Protestantism—were specially reviewed, The speaks ext dwelt upon the weakness and defects of these and various other forms of relig- jous belief, insisting upon the fact that inasmuch as they demanded what is called faith without inquiry, far froin being productive of reasonable religion they tended to render such unattainable. THE MEW, RATIONAL RELIGION, on the contrary, took nothing for grantea, demanded no slavish obedience of the understanding, but, taking ail the ascertained facts of science, allowed the mind the freest scope for inquiry in every direction. It would be impossible to define their ideal, because if circumscribed by definitions it would no longer be an ideal; put {t comprehended every possible aspiration of man after the good, the true, the pure and the beau- titul, The criticiams of those who supposed they up- derstood the new religion and opposed it were an- swered. The main reply was that the old religions en- slaved the mind, and when the substructure ov which they were built was knocked away they came to tho ground, They could not guarantee any more excol- sence, apy higher virtue or any greater purity than the pew religion, Tho development of this idea in detail occupied the preacher tor some time. ‘The contrast between tho old religions and the new, in what they demanded of thoir adherents, was strougly drawn. The former required men to bend the knee, the latter made him stiflen it to walk moro as becomes a man; the lormer made him raiac his band in suppli- cation to un unknowa Supromo Being, and cast his cyes demurely to the ground; the tier mage him strengthen his bands to work out his own destiny by bis own will, and cast his eyes around in order the bet- ter to understand the nature that surrounded him, Prayer was THE OUTGROWTH OF SUPERSTITION, aspiration was the product of tho tree exercise of the inteliectual faculties, aud however much the old re- ligious claimed for prayer as an influence upon the moral and intellectual life, they could claim nothing which could not bo equally ciaimed for the aspiration of the new religion, The preacher then asked whether oven the most Vigorous and superstitious of tho old systems of religion ever produced any greater virtue, any bigher nobility of character iu man or purity i ‘womat could be produced by the aspiration of the new religion. The answer wasa negative one, In conclusion, BIDDING GooDer. Mr. Frothingham took leave of his hearers for the summer, saying that thero wero three things which he wished for them—Fist, that they might not miss bis ministrations. Tbe use of churches, he said, was to “ach people to do without them. Second, he hoped that im the meantimo bis hourers would visit other churches, #0 as to examine into the other systems of re- higion, maintaining that vo one could firmly hold bis own belict until he had beard what other people bad to wy tor theirs and against hw. Third, he trusted + this period of rest would be used by them to nerve themselves for the jong and arduous strugglo which was before them, that upon bis return they would be found more earnest and more solidly grounded in those convictions which he was endeavoring to im- press upon the world, and thus prepare themselves jor the great day when they would enter into that Great Presence where all was light TRINITY CHURCH. THE PARABLE OP DIVES AND LAZARUS—SERMON BY REV. HORACE B. HITCHINGS. Trinity church was well filled at the half-past ten servico yesterday morning. Rev. Horace B, Hitchings preachod, taking as his subject the parable of the rich man and Lazarus the beggar, In commencing his dis- course the preacher said :— p THE sxEMoy, This parable of the rich man and Lazaras is peculiar in this respect:—Tbe scenes aro laid in tho beginning im this life and at the end in tne next, so that for a momont the veil ts liftea which bides the spirit land and the region beyond this earth, By this wo aro taught that disembodied spirits not only exist but are conscious of and susceptible to tho emotions of sorrow and puin, It shows also the dif- ferent disposition made of affairs in this world and the next, While the rich man lived he was surrounded by ali tho luxuries, the ease and comfort that wealth could command, but again he is described as being utterly bereft and in such destitution that ho begs ior just a drop of cold water to cool his tonguc. And then in ter- Tible contrast is the sight of the poor outcast and do- spised beggar resting in peace and comlort ip Abra- ham’s bosom. The doctrine of tho Church agrocs on- tirely with the lessons taught by this parable in the idea that after death there ts po intermediate State, no probationary period The good remain tor- ever bappy, but not in sach an iptenso degree as after judgment, aud the bad are forever miserable under a like condition, When death seals up the book of life there can be no change forever after, and as the grim Wessenger takes us into the next world go must we re- main, If we go into it guilty, guilty must we remain, If we go into it holy, happiness must be our portion, } Thero are no purgatorial fires to cleange and purity, and even prayer can be of no avail of the consequences that wo make our choice in this Ife, It is nos without shutting our eyes that we remain blind to the light. The end of the path is scon trom the vory beginning, and if wo choose the world it is with the full kuowleige that the friondship of the world,and an alliance with Mammon is enmity to God. “LIKE DBAD SEA FRUIT”? We know full well, when choose money or fame or pcsition, that these things are like the apples of Sodom—of iair oxterior, but in- side tul! of woe and bitterness, How awfully responsible, then, is life! for hour by hour, yes, moment by woment, we settle our destiny; and this should teach us the importance of every thought and word and deed. Again, in the story of my subject It is shown that when tho rich man found it was impossible to alleviate his own condition be became solicitous tor his friends und Drethren and wanted Lazarus to be sont to them as a warning agaist their danger. From this ‘we argue that the spirits ot the departed have the priv- ilege of watching over the lives of mortals, abd, if ¢ #0, with what eager interest must they the doings of loved ones lett behind! of us have near aud dear ones in the spirt land, and if wo bring this thought mght home to our hearts the question presents itself whether they can rejoice at our mode of lite; are thoy Joyous as thev sce us Journey upward or do thoy sorrow that our feet are treading the down- ward course? For their sakes, for our own suke, and most of all for the sake of Christ, let us take heed to our ways. The desire of the rich nau for the satety of his brethren could not be grunted, because if they had believed not Moses or the prophets neither would they though one were sent them from tho dead. . Hitehimgs then went on to say that th Scriptures were au infallible guide to heaven; the worid, in regard to the way to heaven, had ali the hght it would ever have Some people were in the habit of deluding themselves by the specious argument that if they had but more light they would certaiuly become Christians, If they could only hear the voice of God as Moses did in the burning bush, or have the help of angels, or if only some one could returo trom the dead, thea they would be convinced and satisfied, but this was not the ca-e; if they had angels to converse with every day they would sul ask for something more. fhe Word of God was ali sufficient, and it was Luta trae ind them to clamor for b more light while celiberately closing their eyes, to 8 jor more wisdom whilo rsistently refusing to be taught. In conelusion he exhorted bis shearers «in the following — terms:—Take the Scriptures, learn your dut: and do that duty without delay, All has been done for you that ever will be dove except what you perform your- self, The light ot God’s word shines on the straignt and narrow path, and if you will but walk im and con- tinue therein 1t will lead you finally not toa pluce of torment, but to the peuce and joy of eternal commu- nion with God tue Father, God Son and God the Holy Ghost, CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. CHRIST'S PROPHECY CONCERNING HIS WoRDs— A SERMON BY Bi WILLIAM BRADEN. At tho Central Congregational church (Rev. Dr. Scudder’s), Brooklyn, yesterday morning, Rev. William Braden, of London, preached a sermon om the lasting value of Christ's words, taking ax a text tho thirty. third verso of the twenty-first chapter of the Gospel of Luke—“Heaven and earth sball pass away, but my word shall not pass away.” The preacher beld that words, in the sonse tn which the term is used in text, had a proverbially bricf existence; they were heard and then passed away. ‘The meiancholy truth ot the declaration was apparent fn the fact that multitudes of words, even when in letter- press volumes, were beard and seen only to pass away, Of the truth of the remark, @ when words were presented by the press to the world, 1 was only neces- sary, in order to find absolute proot, to think of how fow of the great multitade vf books which have been issued from the press during the many years now passed were now before any reading ple. And he would add jurther to the sirength of his declaration by asking simply, How many of books gow fuund on It ts not in ignorance | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. the selves of the libraries of the world were not, cv far as their general usetuiness was concerucd, almost equally dead with such as were out of print. It war 8 ambition, he thought, for an author to strive to leave behind him a worthy memenio of his existence on earth, the form of a book. And yet how vain would the author be deemed who should venture to decla ho wrote not only for his own but also tor suture gene- ations. Could apy one imagine even the wonderfully great but merely buman writers of old saying that their books would live even unto the end of ume? And yet Christ said, **The heavens and the earth shall pass uway, but my word shall net pass aw: Buta might be said that His words were gathe ouly as poo from a boo! - Aud yot they have a hg oe ot passed away. It was apparent that Christ did uo’ mean that its words, simply as so many particular words in a particular connection, would remain during all tre gto come, for lie kuow ‘that there were many otber languages and forms tor the iv rape of eternal truth than those Ho was us'ng. What He meant to convey was clearly that the great truths to which He was giving utterance would remain through all ime; for even the buoks of the Gospels inuke a small volume, as books It was the truth which He preached that was to live, And yet He took seemingly no special simply buman care that His words should live even in mabuscript. The speech of Jesus was sometines very difficult to understand, Aud yet tho great truths which were in His words remained with usand had full promise of continuance. It was now aswhen Peter doclared that the grass withered but the word of Christ would remam. And when, in tho knowledge we had of the heavens and the earth, wo look upward to the heavens and considered what was there, of our knowledge, and then, in that knowledge, read that the heavens und tho carth would pass away but that the word of Chriat would endure forever, we obtained, to a fuller degree, the meaning of His dec- laration. works of ages have passed oway al- ready, but those of Christ bave not nor would they to the end of time, The great truths He gave utterance to would remain with us always, ever youthtul, fresh and vigorous as when He first gave to them utrerance, AMERIOAN FREZ CHURCH. THE NECESSITY OF REPENTANCE—SERMON BY REY. C. P, M'CARTHY. Rev. C. P. McCarthy, pastor of a new congregation called the American Free Church, preached yesterday morning in the University building. Before delivering his sermioa be announced that a social meeting would be hold there next Wriday evening to practise congre- gational singing and to deviso means to keep this new church afloat A subscription of $30 = month had already been started, and he expected within a short timo to raise the subscription to at least $100. Rich and poor ‘were alike called to contribute, according to their re- spective means, THE BERMI The subject of his sermon yesterday was “‘Repent- anco a Divine Necessity in a Corrupt Age.” Ho took his text from Matth third chapter and second verse— “Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at band.” He said:—Thése are very solemn words, coming to us from one who was bimeelf living in the wilder- ness, They were no uncertain words, and they wero uttered in tones of thunder, John the Baptist told his hearers that they must change ther hearts, change their minds and change ther purposes if they over wished to enter the Kiagdom of heaven, Christ was ip Nazareth, Jobm was in the wilderncss—one worker uecessury to another. Every day spent by Christ at Nazareth meant strength, wis- dom, patience; while Jonn, in the wilderness, was pro- ring the for the coming of the Muster, tho jatchet of whose shee he told them he was unworthy to loosen, Repentance was necessary as preparation for the service of tho Lord, and when Jonn called on them to repenthe spoke in the strongest language Ol its absolute necessity. Their cry to repent showed that men were in a false position; that they had power to altef it, and that such power was immediately associated with @ great opportunity. “The kingdoms of heaven is at hand.’’ All servants in tl highest interests of humanity have to engage in this negativo work. This is expressed in the cry, *‘Repent.” This negative work is a _ necessity, It brings its ministry into connection with violent an- It absorbs strength which might employee in direct edification, and it prevents Jor a long period the full exposition of what is superficially termed successtul. Tie idea of success in spiritual work is mach }crverted and mis- understood. Every preacher of repentance 1s a fal- Blinent of prophocy, inasmuch as he expresses and interprets the Divine purpose respecting apostate hu- manity, There is as much APOSTATK HUMANITY IXSIDR THR CHURCH, however, as outside. These preachers only say that which 1s pleasing to their hearers, not the Gospel of Christ. ey are anited, often, with an iliustrious line of ancestry; yet the glory of their positious is tarnished by the reficction that so many ‘voices’ have cried in vain. This call to *repent’’ must be deepened and prolonged, though under the inoat depressing cir- cumstances, for itis adivine testimony im 4 corrupt age. Behola its moral majesty in the ministry of vue honest man. Jobo shakes Jerusalem and all the region rouod about Jordan. He ts only an individual, yet bis march is liko that of an army intent on victory, Let ‘us look at his work; it was twolold—preaching and baptizing—and this twotold work of Jonn must bo kept up permanently during man’s apostacy, Preaching calls to the truth, and baptizing symbolizes its acceptance, or at least is & preparation for its acceptance, ‘The moral signitication of this baptism was rolormation, chango of character. Mark tho language of the great preacher ot repentance, ‘But when he saw many of the Pbari- tees and Saddueces come to his baptism, he said uato them, 0 generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee irom the wrath to come? Bring forth, thero- foro, fruits meet for repentance.’? Theso were strong words, but {t shows that the duty of the mimstry of repentance is to call things by their propernames. The ages have been waiting for the Son of Peace; but thero comes before Him a man whose voice ts thunder and whose glance is as lightning. No gentle word es- capes the lips of this fierce man. The stormy whirlwind has caught bim and borne bm on through the Jordan wilderness, and if a great fire were behind him be urgently makes’ his way. Strangely ter- niblo are his words:—“Repent,” “Prepare,” “Axe,’? ‘Purge his floor,’? *Buro up the chad with unquench- ablo tire.” The great thought in my bead thiy morn- ing on the “need of a ministry of repentance” 1s that man is bever irreclaimabie, because the soul’s recuper- ative energies are inexhaustible, And as man cop- sequently 18 always redeemable the ministry of Tepentance must, until those that are redeemable be reedeemed, perpetual, extending its cry, ‘Re- pent and bolicve” throughout all the world, and beyoud and independent of ali coutingencics, until the must abandoned are reclaimed, the most vicious reformed, tho most depraved supctilied, and humanity in its sublime completeness restored under the Almighty care and superintendence of 18 all wise and all loving Director. 8ST. THOMAS’ CHURCH. THER LOVE OF GOD—SERMON BY REV. FRED- ERICK COURTNEY. ‘This beautiful edifice, at the coracr of Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street, was thronged yesterday, while tho services were, as usual, \ntercating and impressive. The Rev, Frederick Courtney preached an eloquent sermon, taking his text trom the Gospel according to ‘St John, 1, 4-19. The reverend gentleman dilated at considerable length on the love of the Almighty for mankind, He had given substantial proof of 1 when He sent His only beloved Son trom heaven for the re- demption of the world, Mun could never comprebend or appreciate the exient and intensity of God's love, The reverend preacher procecdod to pont out the va- rious ways in which God manifested His love for us, even in Lhe arrangement of the ailairs of lite, and it us tonisbed many how God, an infinite being, conid attend to the minute details of finite beings; yet He knew all things. Heo sbowed how God was known and dwelt on the nocessity of believing in the love of God, who had done so much for us. Many did not realize the fuct that God joved them and did mot pause to consider what a blessing it wasto be beloved by God. The orang adverted to the inanzer in which the love of jod was generated by tho recognition of His arrange- ments and the recognition of His salvation of us, Wo proved our love of God by keeping His commandments and ob-ying the mandates He has issued for our guid- ance through life, He earnestly be ought the congre- ene to moditate upon the love of God, and this would joad to our loving Him with all our hearts. The more ‘we thought of God's love for us the more would we love Him in return, und it was in this way our love lor Him would be murntained. The sermon was listened to with deep attention. The choral arrangements were excellent. FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN EVERY PLAcE— SERMON BY THE REV. JOSEPH Rh. KERR, Tho Rev. Joseph R. Kerr chose the text for his morning sermon irom Proverbs, xv., 2—Tho eyes of the Lord are in every place, bebolding the evil and the good,’ In worldly affuirs it is proverbial that the eye of the master makes a diligent servant, In all branches of business the knowledge that a superior intelligence 18 overlooking the work performed causes the empioyé to put forth his best cflorts to acquit himself honorably in the estimation of tho employer. The laborer on contractor's work, the shop boy, and even those who fll our most important offices, feel the cye and the presence of their superior, and are rendered moro punctual and efficient in the discharge of their duties. ‘We muy sav that it ought not to be 80; that conscience sbould be to us o suilicient mouitor, but stern expe- rience proves to us that it is nota suiliciont check upon ourselves, It would scem that we must be watched; that the buman beart is deceitiul, and that it 19 neces- sary that we be keptin the straight and narrow path by the conviction that the Aillseeing eye is evor upon us. When this conviction ts lorgotien, sin comes upon us avd the barriers of virtue are swept uway. Stubborn natures even flatier thomesel that God has jorgotten them and that they may put ther il cuurses uawatched; b gazo of God is alway pon them, and ihe interests of religion and virwe eed that the text should tind its exemplar, Whent iM Conscious, alter siriet self-examimation, that if God might yield to my beveting sin—and He would looked away | 7 jought of the playt! ‘but sacred tory kinpiy prove chat Mo hae never ceased to. wats over it since its creation; and without His steadfast care where woulkt it now? The divme ature and being make this doctrine one of absolute necessity. His omuiscrcnce is ag necessary as His om Bipresence; if we could ascend to heaven we find Him there; in the abyss below He is oq present, and if we take the wings of the morning flee to the uttermost parts of the earth we cannot avoit Him, In the barroom, where the slave to drink sneaki m through the creen door, in ‘whert aristocratic sin runs riot, in prisons where the dazed couvict watebes through the mouotonous days and nights, in the noisome alleyways of great cities where the ery of murder breaks in Upon the stillness of the bight, out upon the ocean where ships pow sail calmly on and now reel before the Ho is everywhere, beholding allactions, knowl Shear hie, not only for evil but for good. He sees = of water beld to the lips of tie fainting, the f given to the destitute. He hears the kind the desponaent, vor will He torget when on the last bf He sits in judgment and distributes justice alike to all whe come before His seat CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL—SERMON BY REY, J, W. CHADWICK. Yesterday the pulpit of Dr. Alger, in the above church, was filled by Rov. J. W. Chadwick, of Brooke lyn, Before the sermon the beautiful byma No, 225 of the collection was sung, commencing:— O shadow in asultry Jand! We guther to thy breast, ‘Whose love enfolding like the night Brings quictude and rest, ‘The text of the sermon was found in Job, xiv., 14— “Ifa man die, shall he hive again? All tho days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come,” Bome mon, said the preacher, are afllicted with a doubt in re gard to their personal continuance, but the very thoughts thus engendered are a proof of the fact of im mortality; yet not, perhaps, of tho exact kind dreamed of. A man lives again im many ways the world, if he has done anything te perpetuate his name In the Roman Empire tbe thinkers and philosophers talked of immortality ag but that of a name of fuine left bebind, and some exam- conscious nme that their virtues and heroie dvods might go on aad be perpetuated, But VAME IS FOR THY PEW and influence for tne many; the greutest of names is ne measure of its influence, and how few of the really great names of poets, dreamers, philosophers, histo- Tians Lave been handed down to posterity? Alas! but very few, The most famous men aro the fighters, th¢ men of actiou, reformers, inventors and warriors; yot how many of them can we now recall without great ro search ip almost forgotten libraries? Some books live, ut most are dead as dead can be; they aro children, indeed, that ulmostalways die betore their parouta, Our thoughts of immortality, too, aro almost aiways connected with tho affections. ‘In my Father's house there are many mansions,” and they are most of them filled with beloved ones who baye gone be- fore us. As we think of them how tho fountains of love in our hearts babble and moisten our hard na- tures, A wile’s longing for her husbaud, a husband's eurning for bis wife, sister love, mother lovo—an ! how beautiful tho last. Now 1 believe that conscions immortality is swoctenod by curthly remembrances, and I behove tho future life will be better ta. F Reggae as we show our unselfish lovo on earth, Who would not rather have a generation of the immortality of the affections than whole centuries of a colder life? Then there t# what I would call the immortality of organic perpetuity, and this will have sometning to do with the great problem of human destiny. Tho Greeks taught the doctrine of Nemesis, but the teucnings of science through such men as Horbert Spencer and George Henry Lewes have dono more to elucidate these profouna mysteries than Greeks, Hebrews or all the philosophers who succeeded them. We speak of the miracles of the Bible as be!ng strange, bat we are ia ourselves the greatest miracie of God and natura THE GOSPEL TENT. Last night the Gospel Tent, in Thirty-fourth street, ‘was crowded to its utmost capacity as early as half pust seven o’clock, and as there seemed to be no ces» sation of tho throng which streamed along the sidewalls and swarmed about the entrance, arrangoments were made to accommodate them in the Presbyterian church across the street. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, J: presided Jast night, and announced at the openin, of the services the receppon of various letters suggesting the propriety of Laving a collection takes up to tather the work of evange:ization. He stated that the expenses of this undertaking had been other. wise provided for, but if any of those-present chose te facilitate it by contribations he would not have them denied the opportunity. After the asual hymo sing. ing, Dr. Tyng camo to the stand aga and preached the sermon of the’evening. In Ital; there is Bow @ sovereign called Victor ‘Eeminanuel a great. deemer himself, and it to the people of Italy as with tho atttainment = of their freedom, We, too, bave cause to Jook with gratitude the fervent upon our Victor Emmanuel who has rescued us from the slavery of sip. For is not that the worst of slavery which degrades the mind and depraves the associatod heart, which hedges in all good impulses by an evil . disposition, which destroys the yearnings for liberty and chokes the noblest aspirations of thesoul, The spirit of sin, whatever its form may be, 18 downright tyranny. ltentorces an oujous constraint and con- demos to a servile admission of its power, Sin ts bond- age and the oe as tor liberty. first word in it is freedom, the last is freedom and freedom breathes ta every line and sounds in every uiterance.. From its alpha to omega it is pervaded by tho spirit of siberty, the spirit of the air we breathe and of all that ennobles and Deautilles the world. — The one scheme of the Gospel is to put man upon his feet in the character of a freeman, Jesus Christ despises. fawner. He wants the homage otaman. Some soek freodom in forgetulness of sin. They think that callousness affords emancipation, that because they have lost the memory of sia ‘him. self has forgotten it, Because judgements are slow ip our days, because Heaven's fire docs not come down before their eyes to consume, and the earth does swallow up the erring, they think that they can shu themselves up in their own indifference and so attain freedom from sin and its consequences, They have aphilosophy of self-concelt which defies God and detles wan. Ab, but there will be atime when memory will ro assert itsel!, a time when a sense of their abject slavery will occur to them with force enough, Could the oy be indifferent to light, the tongue to taste? As wol might the soul of man be indifferent to the Creator. And does this callousness endure, is tt at all ! No, the mind is ever and anon tortured by that Inward monitor whose voice may be unheeded but cannot be Nushed, The speaker then went on to paint the hor- rors of tho unbelicver’s deathbed, and concluded bya forcible appeal to his hearers to seck salvation in the Gospel and the application of its maxims, DEATH IN THE OIL BEGIONS, A MAN AND WOMAN MURDERED, [From the Titusvillo Courier, June 16] As announced by special telegram in yesterday morning's Courier, a terrible tragedy took place on the Columbia farm, on Wednesday evenimg, between the hours of six and seven on that day. A reporter of the Courier visited the scene carly yesterday morning and gathered the following facts from eyo-witnosses of the tragic ovent as it occurred at the tiune:— ‘TUK SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY, Tho house where the tearful scenes took place is about a quarter of a mile from the railroad depot at Columbia farm, in a northeasterly direction, slightly isolated, bat near by several residences, A ravine, through which water runs in the spring and fall, takes its course in that way, and on the bank, a little to the right as you go up, tho house is situated. The house 18 one story, ith several rooms, on the east side of which is a neat little garden, enclosed with @ picket fence, extending across the front the ends of the house. In the rear ig a small bara outbuildings. On the south end of Small shed used for storing household duor opening to the weai, through which entered and the woman passed out dur the strnyggle Which tok piace, when no eyes except those in it saw, except the little boy whose tenaer yeara ne him no conception of what was taking place. 'bis side or back door is in plain view from several wolls located across the ravine some little di and trot this point some of the witnesses saw wi took place outside the house. As beiore stated the ery of murder was heard, fol. lowed to rapid succession by several shote irom a small revolver, which startled those near enough to hear the sounds,’ Mr. John McCool, the secoud victim, was going to the house of Mr. Lact cer for the pur. pose of borrowing a churn, and was withia a few roaus of the house at the time. Mrs. Dough ran out, followed by Baker. He burried fc exclaiming, “My God! Nick, what are you doing?! when Baker in his irenzy turped upon him, fring the remaining charges from the pistol without effect Thrusting the pistol in his pocket he drew a mY ran for McCool, who, seeing bis danger, turned to but wo lute, as the murderer was upon him and cut and stabi him ina terrible manver. They now reached a small gutter caused by the rains washing tho earth just away from the roadway that the house at the end where the parties came out, Here the struggle took place, Hing ito the gully, and as Mr, McCool describes the position, Baker was first” on top, and in the struggle he (McCool) turned bim and. sezed him by the wrists to prevent the further use of the kolte, All this was done in a very short space of time and before others could get to the place where: prhlfp aM yn. . going op. ~By this ume men had reac e pot und separated the men, wi Mr. McCool was found to be bleeding badly iveanineeoal wounds His son-tm-law, James Cemey, with he lives, and others couveyed him home. - In the meas lume Mr. Jones and Mr. Guthrie passed around a and found Mrs, on face ia ‘irom the house and li about one huvdred feet trom the same, Su she Was ina fainting ft dir, Jones ran to the Pros cured some water and endeavored to restore hor 10 consciousness, but without avail As there was 20 blood on or avout ber person they had no idea she was trorially wounded untit they had carried eames ise an an examiual whon a small bullet hole tn hor lott breast; trom wi trialed (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAG)