The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1876, Page 6

EW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 2 1876. pt, so He nonrished this continent, until in vss of time “He could manifest it to the world, ‘The morning plouet had opemed the gates for the rising » long, Over the eastern extremities of Asia, aud the evening planet had closed them, so long, | over the western extremities of Europe, that the old ’ i i i | divisions of the globe came to think themselves the Dentennial Orations by Prominent | whoie world, ‘This delusion was pot dispelled till, on Preachers Yesterday, | sun, Friday morning, August 3, 1492, half an bour be sunrise, the morning planet left his post to conv three elight caravals, almost as frail as three arks of innate buirushes, from the smail port of P to the mys- i Es Sa . terious regioos of the setting sun, Before the sun NATIONAL AND PERSONAL FAITH. | stove irom ns snamiber, hat Gay. in smiution, of | Westward the star of Empire takes its way; Hi . The first four acts already pust, God's Sovereignty a Source of Joy | A fifth shall close the drama of the day— Good Men. ‘Time's noblest offspring ts the last The religious element, finch as it was, kept pace with the scientific. The discoverers of America were Roman Catholics, and Roman Catholic governments claimed the results of their discoveries Luther had shaken the foundations of the religion of Europe aud had brought forth the prineiple of a free and ennobled religion to combat it room enough on the old continent for these great gladiators to fight out this contest, and, singularly | Shough, there was an emigration of these separate re- ligions to this land at once—both Protestant and Catho- | lic, Bancroft tells us that, outside of Mexico, the very to RELIGIO) IN POLITICS. | Farewell Address of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. | frst colony in North America was a Protestant colony 7 | planted by Caspar De Coligni as a reiuge for Protes- Beem 3 | tants, aud that Jesuit priests stained the sot of the New World with the blood of its a tue ; semmuy | colonists, purely as Protestants, Had all WR COUNTRY’S PROGRESS AND DESTINY. | North” America been’ settled before tho tine of | Cromweil, the feebleness of tho early reformed reli- gion conid never have withstood the old faith, Rut | ie was reserved for a hardy and tuflex'ble people, who | by the thost compiex combinations of political, rocial, and religious life, had been tested and establisbed m | the capacity for self-government and brotherhood, to find their way to these shores, and zive birth to a hew Why Methodist Camp Meetings Are Spiritual Failures. Yet, just at that time | There was not | | tr | vation here, God, in His far-reaching thoughts, put ye enenanesene | Christianity upon & new trial in America, in company | with persocuted hberty, for in the generation of North CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLE | America we have the first instance in the history of e | the race of the founding of a Christian republic on a WATIONAL AND PERSONAL TPAITH--SERMON BE | grand scule, Surely, “He hath not dealt so with any | REY. MK. HEPWORTH. nation. truth forcibl We cail this The sa: tion of 1776, displays itself in the revolu- hie regeneration of our land, Considering the intense beat yesterday morning a large congregation assumbled iu the Church of the | only because it had at t at time reached its rightful Disciples. It being t'e fret Sunday in the month the | MAority and independence. No other epoch bad oe. 3 7 curred since its discovery which approached this in asual urdinunce of the Lo per wasadministered, | magnitude. Its iinportauce wax so immonse, and fitecn new members Were received imtotheehurch, | that it 18 impossible to overivok the hand ot Mr. Hepworth selected his text from tue second Ep God to theciwnole of thar” great movement i rs The long course of training for American independence ot Peter, tirst verse—“Simon Veter, a servant and | was « most remarkable event in Tho vigilant guardiapship of the bistory of that inalienable rights verywhere, their main- apostle of Jes precious faith with us, through ihe righteo s Christ, to them that have obtained like | fi which marked the colonists ness of a UH ie tenance of justice, their endurance of wrong, and, | God aud our Saviour Jesus Christ Peter might well | above all, their unbending religious integrity, pervaded ! call that a precious faith which bad traueformed and | the body as a whole, like leaven, leavening the | And in the method of securin nce, the hand of Gud was also. pre.minently app at. Tas esp eon in the sturdy apd ‘sterling character of the men who settled the colonies; in the of the Revolution, as affecting the fundamental rights of humanity, and hot as springing out of some question of current prudential government, and, there- fore, temporary in its influences; and in’ the govern | ment which Was chosen by the colonies tor the | conduct of the struggle. The prudence, moderation and farsightedness of the Continental Congress, as transtigured him, said Mr. Hepworth, He looked into | mu our radepen- the face of his Mas nd became anew man, Living | y, on the plane of a peasant, Jesus touched hin with his magic tinger, and he became at once a prince of the house | of Israek With no aims or purposes beyond mending bis boat and net Jesus him to embrace the whole world tn the general plan of his salvation, And alter he had eat ut the fect of the Master bis heart beat in sy wverything that was manly aud pure and noble. Only | Voth to the principles on which the war was conducted 5 and the meagures whieh pushed it to completion. A few months’ companionship with the Lord, and from The preacher then took up the prominent names of ® Gsherman he became an apostic; trom betng a cow. | that body and Ferewed their deeas mad expressions at $ se >, whos ‘ considerable length. Aiter tracing the historical events Wie he ram cnenged ic anatcBvereanwviagh) wade nee’ of the Revolution, the words of Adame and Franklin Shall lisp so long generosity, 8e long as it | asking at different times for prayers in Congress, the admires sell-den debate and adoption of the Declaration of Indepen- taught it lov 1. There was great reason, then, y Peter should speak of this ae hadak dence; the tmes when the nation had been Why Peter should speak of this faith as a;precious faith, | Sores ge ree ear of 183; thie end yet it seems that faith in the Lord would transform | troubles in felation to the boundary questions you and ute as well as Peter, Though 1,800 years ouve | and in the late civil war, he then relerred to a Rone by it has pot Jost its power. Faith occupies | cal! for a meeting, to be held at Philadelphia within a & very curious and prominent place in the New | jow days, tur the purpose of showing that the lea Yesiauent us well the Old. We are com. | of the Republic through the Revolution wore infidels. munded to have faith, as though it were sub- | artor effectually disproving that charge against them’ ject to our wills, He who bas no faith is | ihe eloquent preacher, excusing himself to his congre- looked «upon by God a criminal, “Thou | gation for taking to thei of political affairs, on the shalt not kill, Thou shalt pot su Thou shalt} cround that he had the thoughts on his mind and have faith m the Lord Jesus Christ.” commandments as they run, onc them came trom the lips of th Those are the | would pot hive to preach avother centennial ‘er another; all of | then reviewed the history ot the Cincinnatia Alwighiy. The ten | Louis conventions on the questions of religion, rmon, pd St, commandments were evgraven on stone, The eleventh | sumrage and Chinese immigration, closing with'a prayer commandment, “Haye taith 19 the Lord Jesus Christ,” | that, through all the (uture years of the Republic, the bas been eugraved in our human hearts. hand of God may be made munitest, and at the clase of Again, {ait insures Salvation in the iuture, amd we | the second century of life it may be said again, “He Bre fold we canuot look to Heaven with any ‘hope un- | patn not dealt so with any nation.” less we crowd around Il-t who calis Himself the door. | Faith is suid to give a man consecration. It gives a | - "MR Dp "ITTT RS man ditectness o! purpose and attuoes hiin to the con- ST, STEPH CHURCH. cert pitch that governs the angels’ songs im heaven. | ouR CENTENNIAL THANKSGIVING—REMARKS ON We ure told also that faith justilies a man, a doctrine too uile preacved and too littie understood, a doctrine about which there are more errors than cluster around nen most of the statements of the New Testament, Itis a | «DR M GLYNN, palpable avd evident doctrine, taught by Jesus and His | At St Stephen's church yesterday it was announced disciples, \that periect saith “in Christ always | gt all the services that on the Fourth of July, at nine justifies” a man and enables him to escape | * , Aud avoid the otherwise inevitable punishment of | o'clock A. M., there would be special services, con- guilt and crime. 1. isan ithportant and iuodamental | sisting of solemn bigh mass, the singing of the hymn | | THE NATIONAL CELEBRATION BY THE REY. | doctrine of that boox, and one must either give up the | of thanksgiving, “Te Deum’ and benediction of the | book or accept the dogma, It is partot the instruc: | - ‘ i tion Jesus Christ imparted, and, being such, you dare | blessed sacrament, In announcing these services at Dot put it aside, Besides that itis the glory of our | the high mass Rey. Dr. McGlynn sai te, sit is.” said Sit Hepworth, “the one dostrine | you are exhorted especially on the one hundredth upoa which to butid ny hope of all time to come; for t | i how that no flesh can be justified in the presence of | avniversary f our country’s birth to give thanks to to offended Dolly your en we mine cannot be ac- | God for the blessings of ctvil and religious liberty, and teptable to God. We have ull fatlen very far short of | “ ole " ng! iho ctandard of righteousness which hae been given to | (°F tbe $0 many other priceless blessings that tho kind as in the lile of our Musier. Kut weare told that the @an that goes up to heaven with THR NAME OF JESUS | on his lips, and uliers (iat name with earnestness and faith atthe bar of Gipd, it shail be Like a covering of charity, wiich hides a multitude of sins, and we shall country. Sinai with the dread sanctions of a divine revelatios that teaching of instinct and natural Jaw—‘‘thou shalt | honor thy father and thy mother’’—requires us by s the wrath of God into the peace of heave x x te ib tas a great doal to doe with our every. | HAF teachings of instinct of natural law, of revealed flay life. The way-worn traveiler, who has | religion, to honor and love our country, our father. nigh given out under his burden, sinks vy the side of ihe road im despair; as he pillows lis head on a triepdly stone be talis asleep, He dieams of those waiting tor him oa yonder hillside, and when he awakes itis as though he was touched with new lie; new energy land. Ourcountry, in fact, in a la Sense, stands | forthe mature man more than for the child in the | place of a parent—it is in great measure the ie b i Exul | instrument of God's blessings, and holds, as His minis: thrilis bim from head to foot. Exalted above ail | ; weariness he takes the burden up, and, with beaming | f 4 share of Hig authority, eye and hopeful heart, ue tradges on till'at last he fails | the apostle of Christ, speaking with the same author- into the embrace of those who have waited and loved. ity as he who brought down the law from Sinai This is an ilustration of what faith will do for a man, Let every a “ " ‘You vat get that faith only by looking through Christ, | ‘#ught—Let every soul be subject to higher power: 1 often wonder What there is in the iuture of an inf. | those that are ordained of God; they that resist ¥el’s life that should be hopeia! to him. | have talked | purebase to themselves damnation.” If the apostle could say so much of the bloody powor that was even with many. | have usked, “What inspiration have you? What impulse bave your Have yon anything | \hen preparing to put im to the sword and to drench physical vision?" and the auswer ts invariaviy no; but | all the soil of her empire with the blood of Christians, that comes from afar off bevond the reach of your pk e's iaecnee anak a ied and Tals | nat wonder that our hearts should respond ex- | Come out with mo im the star lit uigut, You see of | ultingly as they do today to the teach fonter a listlo, space of blue, with no stars at all Lat | ings of reason d religion in behalf of e bring my telescope tu bear on that litte ° ; dive, apa you find that ligtle spot which looked this blessed land? In. her spirit. is no to your eye is simply teeming with life and gl 1 thought of oppression. look and see vothiug, 1 look through the telescope | ministry, that, as the apostie teaches, has been given to and see everything. Let us look into the firmament . : of our svoial Iie. Here is our ambition, our busines her, not with the terror of power, but with the be- our social Iie—great points of life, ail of thom y | nign sway of a-benelicent mother. to ber maternal heart her enildren of every race and crced and color, whether born of her womb or nursed t | pon her lap or coming i the mature wisdom of their choice to cast their lot forever with hers, She showers benetlts upon all, abd all rise up to-day and of yonder lies a grave, or & sick bed, or poverty suddi naked and terrible. With my vision to lo0k I ee nothing. I nd I can arrive nothing voter th and a longing. But I look through the Scriptures to light over the top of Calvary; Tdirect my telescope, ond, bebold, my life mot eail ber blessed. On the momentous day that closes for thickly tars in that direction than any- | US a ceutury and ushers in the new it 1s the instinctive not trust mysell, but look through | prompting Of the religious heart to pause, to review mpathy with everything grand and great; } well as its profound religiousness, gave a peculiar tone | It was, thereiore, that She exercises the divine | She takes equally | providence of God has lavished upon our beloved | The God who thundered forth upon Mount | the God whose providence has guided and blessed us hitherto wi'l continue and increase the blessing i we shall but seek Him with all our hearts . il TRINITY CHURCH. THE REV. DR. DIX REVIEWING OUR PAST HIS- TORY—HOPES AND FEARS FOR THE FUTURE. The text of the Rev. Dr. Dix’s sermon at Trintty church yesterday was taken from the book of the prophet Ezekiel, xxxvik, 26—'Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everiast- | ing covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them tor evermore.’? God spoke in this wise, said the preacher, to a people whom He had chosen from all others to be His own. In many respects these were a people like ourselves, with many of the appurtenances of the civiltzation of their time, such as we have of that of our own day. Since that time God's purposes for the salvation of His people have becn spread so plainly before all | the world that there is now no need to select any one peuple to bo the chosen of earth, But in one sense we may apply to ourselves the words ofthe text. This isa striking truth in our history, We are rapidly approaching the day of the one hun- dredth anniversary of our national existence, We aro ‘At peace at homo and abroad. May we not now ask that His covenant of peace be with us sn onr future Progress’ This is a good season for reflection. Let us ask ourselves what has been thus far and what may be expected by us. In His divine wisdom God made all things witli a purpose. Wherever responsibility may Xist there is found responsibility. This we should recognize 1 considering the three great institutions of modern civilization—the family, the Church and the State, Certain thinkers there are who cannot see that se jMstitulons have a kind of existence of their own outside of and beyond the atoms composing thei. Yet they bave. Jake, for exatmpie, the Church. It signifies not m rely an organization changing as its members t ‘hange but itis the proper pame of ali who gather in the name of God to perpetuate His glo- rics. It 1s more and greater than its children, for it lives on while they pass away, Soi it with the in- stitutions of the family. Neither is the State « mere inerdent of accidental agzlomeration. Gud endows it with elements enabling its members to enjoy liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These elements make patriotism a sacred duty, They make it. somesbing more than an abstract idea, something to live and suf- fer tor, Among the characteristics of States are their Jaws and creed. The creed of the State is bard to detine with us who hold to the separation of Church and State, It tsa veneration of the bright and holy bame ot God. Its law ts a perpetuation of Goa's Jaw given from Mount Sinai. trous 18 the result of a neglect of law by States in the past. The State's creed should be brief and sitaple, Its kingdom is not the kingdom of the Spirit, but ofearth. We need God here as well asinthe bereatter, Without Him the State can do nothing, Oo tho State devolves the duty of protecting the family and the Chureh, kence it is necessary that 1t should break no law itself ang should keep God’s cor mands as guardedly as an individual. For what we have passed through during the past century, the reverend preacher said, we have cause tor thanks, Buttor the future we have e, too, for feur, unless our pubiie men observe the moral jaws and the commandmenis str Hoe thonghtit.a good sign that certain of the moral and abominations of tho time have not yet been able in a license for their practices, mclusion Dr. Dix sid that when our centennial anniversary comes we had many good causes to sing our “Te Deum Laudamus? with’ a good heart and high hope tor the future, EIGHTEENTH STREET M. E. CHURCH. QUR COUNTRY’S PROGRESS AND DESTINY— SEBMON BY BBY. W. F, HATFIELD. In the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church Rev. W. F. Hatheld, the pastor, delivered a discourse last evening on the progress of the country during the century, its future destiny and the auties of its citi- zens. The church was beautifully decorated with flags and flowers, anda large congregation assembled to hear the discourse, which breathed a true spirit of patriotism throughout, The text was chosen from Deuteronomy, xxxii., 7-10;—‘‘Remember the days ot old.” One hundred years ago, on the Fourth day of July, we flung out our banner to the brocze, om which was inscribed these ever memorable words that made des- pots in the Old World tremble:—‘That all men are cre- ated equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of bap- piness."” From that hour, said the preacher, wo be- gan our march onward toward our high destiny, Atound that day and hour what memories cluster! We recall the names of a few brave meu who loved truth and justice too well to sacrifice them tor any gifts that kings’ could bestow, who. believed that free- dom was for all, aud who trusted in God and went | forth to accomplish a work that was to wreath their | brows with fadeless honors and to advance the cause of liberty and relizion throughout the world.‘ A cen- tury ago there were but thirteen mfant colonies, con- taining a population of 5,000,000, All the rest of the narrow strip of laud along the Atlantic seaboard, from New England to ‘be Carolinas, was a dense wilderness | inhabited by wild beasts and hostile tribes of Indians, | | Jesus ¢ though 1 become | the past, to Jook into the future. As we rev the attracted my busi social eloments, | wonders of our century's Listory the heart that is not suil 1 can over th blank spots | entirely blind must contess that all this ix not of mere | that are filled = with you only jook | bumau achievement-—that it has been brought about fa the right direction ib ays so; let us have | under the guidance and mercy of a living Vasher m faith in Jesus Ch ndall will le mado light, But | keaven, Let us, then, be thankful, And what reasons We tpust not forget that there are two homes tor every | have we not be thankful? What tairer, nobler, He oN carth as well man—the be the home in heaven. | richer land nas God ever given to tho children of men ? Jordan lies between, but a % Ist not strain his | [t would seem as it im the silentages betore man was | eyvs to the green fields beyond aud torget (ue path he | made the hand of God, with prosetent love, was here is treading. © There is something beautiful in that at- | shaping the future lant of promise—a theatre vast and | tribute weeall patriotism. We all love our country, | beautitul—for the enactment of many of the best and nd the sight of the Mag that typifies our iostiutons noblest pages of man's history, All here was fash- bends a thrill tocevery true heart—God frsi, God al yhed on gguntic scale and with singu ways, and country comes in the second place’ As we | lar unity of plan, The vastness of — ocean love the Lord so we ought to love the Institutions of | and luke and river and field and inountain so singu- the lind which bas given us birth, We have our mar. tyrs and our heroes. It is nurd (o tell which is novlest of the two, We bow in rever the martyr at comes to the stake crying owt in songs of victory larly bound together, the tervitty and variety of soil, tbe tronsures Diddon in the bowels of the earth, all told that here was tobe the hone ot a numerous and a mighty race of me With no small part to play in the | the other hero through the smoke and din of the battle | drama of man’s destiny. Yes, our destiny was written | orging on his comrades to victory with his last breath, | ou the focks; it bus been chanted fer ages by the Hoth these characters should be sive by side in our surges of two oceans; it ts sung by the waters of the Yyearts, We are mighty rivers (hat bind (ogether and enrich our jand; PROUD OF THE PRICE itis the motto of our country—"# Pouribus Unum.) Let us not forget to be bons, hd when of God who discovered united often there | ened mind and adveuturous spirit were strengthened m im the whole | aud made prophetic by his Christian fith, Let us we know pot ame with reverence and gratitude Christopher Colum- we have paid for the cross, we are pr we bave paid for our national ins ‘we remember that the two a seems to be a kind of divine patr copie. We have been led in ways ud of the price thankiul for the messenger ar twit land, whose enlight wud We wand in the midst of the nineteenth century | bus, Letus be thankiut tor tue men of sturdy arms with the crown of ourcentennial upon as We stand | and strong bearts who were sent hither, of many a race With the crown of justice and honor and manuood | and from many.a land, to be the fathers of this people: upon us, Let us reseive that we will work for one | for a Wastingidn and his compeers, who wore gitted | | succeeded country 8 for our God Puc ouF politics next our re | smd guided to declare and achieve our hverty and ligion; then we would build a superstructure that | to shape our ivstitutions, Let us be thank!ul would towen teaven itself, To do thie we waut indi | for the bounties of nature, for the inventions | vidual fab aad faith ulo God bless 4 from | of mind, for the progress of letters, for begivaimy to end. God bless every household, black | the achievements of the arts of the usetul the shadow of the cross be thrown ana the beautiful, for cities improvised in the wilder nese, for a continent subdued, for the bondman m tree, for lyberty and union preserve and white, and tne. on tbe whole mu’ BAPTIST CHURCH, FIFTH AVENUE the people uf the land, as they (hei m | aitars, thank God that those aro free, that re THE HAND OF GOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY | |igion is here free asin but few other lands to piich SERMON BY THE REV. DR AnMrTacR. | her peaceful tents and to secomplish without hindrance | trom any civil power her heavenly mission; and lot Futh avenue | them reproact themselves (hat if religion, here unfe tered and untrammeiied, should m any case fail to ful. Ui her biesked mission, they need viame only them- | selves for failing to improve the liberiy and protection of ail thew mghis, tor which religious meu tn other Yosterday the congregation of the Baptist church, Forty-sixth street and Filth avenue, held appropriate services, including prayers for the guidance of the present and future officers of the gov | on of our hiberti the siuging of the natiowal anthem. Tho | lanus are sighing in vain, Let us be thanksul ernment and i Y "Armitage, D, D., selected ax | OF tbe blessings that we know and Jor the many that pastor, the Rev. Thoma rattan ‘i ““ | We know not or are beticr then weknow, Let the bie text the twentieth verse of the 147th Psalm—“He | gation then rejoice, as well 1% may; let it abound in | fh the presenta. | every demonstration of gladness; let it rejwice for the s0 With auy nation. preparer oN . old and (ake heart for the new; but letall this be but tion of hie ideas be eaid:—1 know of 00 sense or form an accompaniment apd expression of a universal of application im Which these words ean be used of the | bymn praise:—“Te Deum | us—we praise m wealth i» which they cannot | Thee, 0 Goa; we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord!” ee eee ites busy | and ofA fervent prayer for a blessing upon the ages to be as sruthiully of our own Republic. Nowhere | Some “Let us vaingle with our, gratit Ps tn history is the hand of God co marked aginthe | healthy self-reproach for owt wumerous short " . at this conti. | Comings, and cross te threshold of the United States of América, 1 suppose that this conti. | Sooner aeury with high resolve to. do what Gent cate into being by the sume mighty pangs | Kevan to ropairaud preserve the health of our politte HM creation which gave birth (o the #astern | eal, social and muividual tile, manners and mora's, t As We euler upen new ceniury We may well fe Got av oun, y hemisphere, mL det bide the young | cue at the thought. of the inalabilty of all haman gmt for ages, pecnuse Mo saw “that it was & ft things and the fate of enipites and republics; yer. we quediy child,” sed «@ He nour shed His own | may find courage and assured bope in the thought that | seven territories, | failure ot | the hearts of a loy The mineral, the agricultural end other internal re- sources of the country were then undeveluped. The coal and oil in Pennsylvania, the iron in Virginia, the copper in Wisconsin, the lead in Missouri, tho sitver in Nevada andthe gold in California were ail unknown to the riy settlers. There were vo canals, ratiroads, steam- boats or telegraphs in operation. Muchinery tor agricultural, mechanical and commercial ’ pur- poses was not in use. The arm of brawn carried forward the various industries, and our Aucesiors kuew notuing of the luxury of rid- ing on springs, sleeping in palaces and’ sitting on cushioned seats in churches on the Sabbath day, How great the progress in a hundred years! From thir- teen colonies we have grown to thirty-eight States and conwwining more than 3,000,000 equare miles anda population of 40,000,000, "Within this wide domain there have been discovered mines of wealth in such abundance that if there should be a al in Pennsylvamia there’ 1s enough in one of the Western States to supply the demand for cen- turies, and gold enough in Sacramento and silve: enough in Nevada to pay the national debt, and enough lott to make every poor man fich throughout the Ke- public, ypeaking of the progress in the arts and in- dustries of the nation, the preacher said the sound of | the loum and spinning wheel that made music in the ears of the matrons of the Republic has been hashed by the sweeter wusic of machinery in 10,000 factories seattered all over the country. Raji cars thunaer over the land, steamboats cburn the rivers and the electric telegraph flashes the thoughts of men through air aud ocean from every hamiet in tho land to the inost remote part of the inhapited glove. Fifty years ago there were customs in vogue that would not now be tolerated. Duelling, gambling, intemperance and other forms of vice existed and sere practised by the most wealthy and jnfluential. The moratity of the ht erature in the early part of the century was vot as pure as that ol to-day. [tis often sald that the politics of former ti e less corrupt than now—that those who managed the national affairs had cleaner bands aud truer hearts than thoso Who direct) the affairs of the State at the presept time. But it the histery of the nation in its Intaney be true, there were iu the days Adamses and Jeffersons men who were as base d steal the pudlic funds, as in the days of Lin- nd Geant Schools, seminaries, colleges and ties have sprung upas by magic; churches multiplied by thousands by millions A million of — papers every day in this city that millions of people throughout the land betore the types are ready for another — issue. How remarkubie has been the growth of this city! A century ago New York was about one and one-half ants published read by are ares mitles in length and hall a mile in width. Toen the present Bowling Green was the centre of fashion There and below Trinity church were the finest res: donces, and there the Miss Flora McFlumseys prome- naved As they have dove since on Madison square. Less (han thirty years ago the maps of Now York ended at Fourteenth street, and Union square was more suburban than Harlem to-day. One hundred years ago this month the city was ihreatened by a loreign Loe. harbor, and the muabiianis were terrifica at the ap pearance of so formidable au adversary, But these times have passed, and how marked the change! No hostile fleet darkens the waters of our beaut uo thundering cannonade {rom a foreign toe falls upon | ourears, But e rywhere is peace im the city and throughout the nation, The Qug that floats above us floats over a people at peace with themselves and wit all maukmd, But that which overshadows all other nis and Which mnakes tbis year a year of gladness ‘ avd rejorcing to the American peuplo 1s that we have our form of govern years, It when we en mm preserving unimpaired lor a hundred predicted by our foes d upou the work of establishing ap independent goverument that we would never succeed; that like the republics of Greece and Rome we would become jnvelved tp taternal difficulties that would result im the tion's downlail, But after the lapse of a century during whiek the government has been tested by war, by ine inst b Kempis to undermiue the founda: and destroy the ve I herntage copterted upon us vy our foretather mont was te the lives, aod will live centuries alter its traducers are de i and forgotten, And it 18 stronger now than at BY period sibec 1 was first formed by that band of nobio men whose names aod deeds are enshrined in d grateful people, That there Was « providential design in the discovery and seve iment of this country at the time and by the peopie to Whom Wo are indeoied for our laws there can be no doubt, The guiding hand of God is seen in all the euts that havo transpired in onr bistery vem the hour when the Piigrims stepped on board the Mayflower to the opening of the Centennial To day we would reeail the carly siruggles, the self- eacrilices, (he privatioms, the above ali, the sublime trust of our foreitiers t od who, ia the darkest bout of their histor: up friends to aid (hem in securing their independence, Let us not forget im tis (he day of our prosperity and im this great Gontennial yoar that all this great nees and glory of which wo speak and of which we fowl av honorsble pride has pot been wroaght ont by our industry, ingenuity or caterprise, but by that God that History shows. how disas- | iy. He Was not of those who despaired, however. | rupt, Who scrupied not to cheat the govern- | avd communi- | A large fleet of British ships were m the | ernment | Jolty patriotism, and, | raised | whom our fathers revered, who is King of nations as well as King of suimts. Nor let us forget that if we would transmit Chis heritage of ours to future genera- tions we must faithfully discharge those duties that devolve upon us as citizens of the Republic. We must see to it that men who prefer principle to party and country to self-interest are pla im power; that the ballot be sncredly regarded; intemperance be held in | check aod means employed for its removal; the Sab- | bath be preserved und the Bible hold its proper place | in our halls of learning, and its religion be adhered to as the rehgion of the nation; for it is this more than anything else that has m us what we are, Jt is ‘America’s aliar and not America’s Congress, America’ | Bible and not America’s statute book, that is the | greut and decp and strong source of her national glory | and renown, With a free press, an earnest Church, an untrammeled pulpit and ap open Bible, and righteous- | ness girding the nation, there shall be no bounds to | the progress and grandness of our country, we shall | go marching down the ages a hght anda joy to the nations, overturning kingdoms of error and oppressio1 and establishing thereon tbe kingdom of righteousne: | and peace, CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. THE NATION'S LIFE—SERMON BY THE BEV, JAMES M. PULLMAN, In this neat and cool church yesterday morning there was a good sizod congregation. The pulpit seemed very appropriately decorated with the Stars and Stripes when Mr. Pullman announced as bis sub- he Nation's Life.” His text was Isaiah xxvi., | Judah, We, havo a strong city; salvation will point for walls an{ bulwarks, Open ye the gate the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.” You may compare the oue hundred years of our national progress, he began, to the growth of a tree. In our discourse it is impossible to name all | the roots that have nourished this great j centennial tree, or tke branches speading tn | all directions and the fruits falling everywhere, | Leaving it for demigeds, whose business it is to flatter | tor their own purposes, let us see in what the conceited greatness of our country consists. In what are we grea? Wo answer, In number, But China: bas a far greater populauion, We are great in wealth; bite wealth is often the corrupter and demoralizer of a nation, We are wealthy iu inventions; ut there ts nothing moral in a machine, there 1s nothing in all the appliances of our art and’ science to guarantee to us any moral worth. They are instruments not only tor | good but alzo forevil. They ure merely passive ii the hand that uses them, What we did Was to open the | doors of this fresh fountain, Multitudes. have come running to these shores from the Old World, We | have stood in our doors and have invited them to come in, Woe have always kept our country as a retuge for the oppressed. We may atthe end ot one bundred years look back and siy there has been no reirogres- on. Other great conDtries have had a moral anda erial value, We have furnished homes for mill- | jo A prosperous nation materially, such as ours, | isagiadsome sight, 1tis something to count up the | happy bomes and the children bora with equal chances | ot education, But this is material glory, therefore we | turn tothe moral glory of our nauion, in which tne only true glory of every country consists. What kind of mavhood has its inetituiions developed? tor | mauhooa is the only thing of true worth in this world, | and as far as we know, tn the next. Are we now going | on or degenerating? Weare not degenerating, but we ce beginning to lore that veneration for :deul char- sWhich is the safeguard of any peopie, What other tings worship? We might say money Wetoach ovr children (hat success: is (he greatest thing to strive for, and success depends mainly upon money, I has been said that Americans worship smart men, that tuey are willing to give into | their hands whmever they fove or cherish. Bacall of | this is merely on the surface, At the first glance we | appear to worship money; bat the war of the rebeilion | showed us what in reality we worship, There is } among Us, apparently, a decline of reverence, Let reverence dic ont of a man’s heart and you put him on a descending plane. We have reason to deplore a de- cline in reverence, not only toward parents, who very | often are answerable themselves for the lack ot doter- ence shown them, but toward the great founders of our country, There is one iliustration of this in our literature." Some works are saturated with a light kind of wit, which consists in burlesquing some great name. | You can scarcely pick up @ paper without tigding that | some fledgling With callow wings has uttempted a little piece of wit, whose only strength is some grent man’s name. As wo took at our | tree of a hundred years’ growth, among the | frais that hang thickly ciustered upon the brunches we see the church of universal hope. When we have all passed away it will be a glory to our nation to know that ehe has fostered the Universalist Church, the trst Chnren that dared to say aud hope that a eticent God would save all His chilaren, The highest govern- ment we can conceive of is one which not only pun- ishes crime, but nally compels the obedience of the crimipal. This is the government of God. We should engender in ail our children a love for their country, | such a love as springs [rom the truce conception of the | great characters of tiwose men who built up our Itber- ties. Fhing out your banners to the breezes and teach your children what they symbolize. UNIVERSITY PLACE CHURCH. THE SOVEREIGNIX OF GOD A SOURCE OF Jor TO GOOD MEN—SERMON BY DR. BOOTH. | The attendance yesterday morning at the above | church was unusually small, The intense heat andthe | attraction of the mountains and de easily ac | counted for the fact. Dr. Russell Booth took his text | from Revelations, xix., 6—‘‘And I heard, as it were, the voice ofa great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”” The subject of his discourse was the sovereignty of God a source of joy to good men, which he developed with strong and well chosen illustrations. Ho began by saying that to the minds of many Christians the Keve- Jation of St John is emphatically a sealed book. While | they rdmire the beauty of its passages they | have no distinct view of the great evens to which it points Proceeding, he explained | briefly his views of the significance and bearing of the latter part of the book. Among other things, he believed we are now living under the sixth vial, which is now being poured out on the Euphrates, which unquestionably represents the great waste and destruction of the Mohammedan power in the Turkish Empire; and there now remains but one of these sym- bolic vials vefore the world sball reach the beginning of the great millennium triumph, the preparation for which is described in the text. In it we have the loud acclamation of the prospect of this millennium of the | great glory of Christ. It expresses the joy they feel im Eerenes they contemplate the glorious sovereignty | of God, The sentiment, which here finds such a ina- | yestic expression, is in some degree the possession of ‘Allthe sons of the Lord Almighty on earth, as well as | in heaven, and this great joy sprines from the thought | of the sovercignty of God. Because the Lord God | reigneth omnipotent, therefore the saints and angels in | heaven rejoice; so, also, the same must bea source ac! | does vhis nation above al! | of joy to ‘tho earth who love the | Lord. “In both they chouse to accept | him as their king, not by constraint or sense of inter- est, but because they teel is right. It is not con | ceivable that men worship God on lower grounds than | this; hence good men on carih must tympathize with | the tngels and saints in heaven asx (hey behold Him | swaying the righteous sceptre in absolute dominion. | The reverend gentleman further explained what is to | be understood by the sovereignty of God, and gave | some illustrations of its workings in the natural and moral government of the world. He then indicated the reasons for joy which good men have in the sovereignty of God. In Him they behold a glorious | sovereign who is their father. They can coulide in His unswerving rectitude. They can have joy in the | government of Goi because they are suro of the prog- ress and triumph of truth and righteousness throughout his moral universe. Under this head he gave some illustrations of the progress of hight and truth from the history of our own and other lands, concluding as follows « lessod ip this Ife forever shall they be whose hearts ree time and tune to this angels song. It shall be well with them, for they are workiug under the guidance and control of Hitn who can make no mistakes and be hin- | dered by no obstacies, It shall be well with therm, for | this sovercign is their father end leads His children | with geutie hand aad pityiog heart, It xhall be woll | with them, for they shail see the glory of that corona- | tion day of God when His kingdom shall como, His will be done upon carth as it is in heaven, Then let our bearts draw near to God, saying in all life's scenes, Thy will bé done; loarnta, at the cross of Jesus the | tutl meaning of that word of life ‘our Fa‘ber.?”” CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. CHRIST TNR CORNER STONE-—SERMON BY REY. | WILLIAM 8, RAINSFORD, OF ENGLAND, | ‘The Rev. William S. Rainsford, of England, preached at the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of Forts second street and Madison avenue, yesterday morni \ and Key. Stepben H. Tyng, Jr, the pastor of the church, conducted the services. Belore the sermon | Ret, Dr. Tyng avnounced that on the Fourth of July Centennial services would be beld at nine A. M. in the Gospel Tont, in West Thirty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue. Addresses would be made by General Edward | H. Tremaine and others and appropriate music would be given by the choir, As tho tent cau only accommo- date 2,000 people tickets were issued, which could be procured at the church or at the tent. | Rev. Mr. Rainsford’s text was from first epistie of | Peter, i., 6-8—Wherefore also it is contained in the | scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, cleot, precious; and he that believeth on him sbail | not be confounded,” &e. He said:—Every one’s thoughts at present are rnoning on the great Extibi- tion, at which all the works of man are displayed for the admiration of the whove world; but I want to take away your thoughts this morning from earthly mon ments to God's exhibition, to an exhibition always pro- eressing and not yet complete, I would like to treat connection with that exhibition: 1 its business; bat the | first is the onty one 1 will have time to speak of to day. Ip the verse which I nave just read that great exhtbi- tion je spoken of as something precious, Let us direct thoughts to that word “precious.” We ail know jab it me tor I don’t believe there is a man | | for the money he can der ey who has not something precious to him. God hes id a precious foundation, on which we are to build our faith—His own chosen and well beloved Son, That is what | want to cali your attention to to-day—one thing precious to all who wish for their eternal saiva- tion. Now, my brethren, is the Lord Jesus Christ precious to you? Is sin precious to you, for 1t must be either one or the other, Every one krows in his own conscience whether Christ is precious to bim or not, and if He is not, pray to the Lord that He may be. He bas been the tried and proved friend of all of us. Time was when our feet were stumbling; He came down and helped us over the rough places. ‘Time was when we we were carried away by care and trouble; we called on Him to help us, and we did not callin vain, He was precious to us. Why ts He not now? Just as the foundation stone 1s the lowest stone in the building, just so low had Jesus Christ to come down to save the worst and vilest of sinners, Wo want to realize the heights from which He came down, Wodo not want any new doctrine; the ola truths invested with reality. this morning, ‘‘Bebold, { lay a chi recious elect, and he that believeth on him confounded,’ God Himself then has bestowed on Us this precious gift, and let us to-day ask ourselves in the depths of onr own hearts, How have we received it? Is Christ precious to us? It is a question which we capnot think on too much or too deeply, for, when the things of this earth are passing away from us and we are fast approaching the valley <f death, that question Will come home to us then in all its foree. PLYMOULH CHURCH. FRIENDSHIP—REV. HENRY WARD BEECHSER’S FAREWELL SERMON YESTERDAY. Mr. Beecher yesterday preached nis closing sermon for the season to as many persons as could be crowded into Plymouth church. It was communion Sunday and a large number of persons remained after the ser- vices to partake of the elements. To-day the reverend gentleman deparis for Peekskill, where be will be the Fourth of July orator to his neighbors. Living quietly ‘on his farm at that piace for the next six wecks Mr. Beecher will then proceed to’ the White Mountains to escape the dreaded hay fever, whence he will return in the latter part of September to resume his pulpit. He announced yesterday that the church would be open throughout the summer, nnd that the pulpit would be | occupled b¥ iauy prominent clergymen, inciuding Rev. Dr. Bray, of Manchester, England; Professor Hyde, of Chicago; Rev. Mr. Noyes, of Baltimore, and Rev Mr. Julian, of New Bedford, Conn. Mr. Boecher’s theme yesterday was friendship, real and ideal, He read as the text of his discourse the fol- lowing paseage from the filtcenth chapter of John— | “Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what bis lord docth; but I have called you friend These are, be said, in somo sense, words of enunciation, as if there were stagos or de grees of familiarity aud honor, aad as if the Saviour hail seen the disciples come to'that point of develop- ment at which they shonid stand higher than before, and He recognized this fitness in them and called them up to the rank of triendship. No word is more hghtly used than the word ‘friend,’ and there is no sphere so difficult to fllas that of friendship. For the most Dart iriendebip is regarded either as a matter of senti- ment or as a matter of selfishness. There ts no con- sideration of the dignity, the scope, the obligation, the divinity that is in friendship. We scarcely’ are conscious that friendship is the very central buman development of the whole Gospel There is such a thing as friendship, pure, deep, lasting, bened- cent; and if men fail to come to it bythe stress of their lower nature, if they fail to understand it from Jack of anstruction or any other cause, 1t must not be thought that it does pot exist. There is such a thing as poetry, though there never was a man born who had the power of song; there ts such a thing as elo- | quence, thouch all men were blundering in. their speech; and there is such a thing as ingenuity, though men may lack ft and not findit by culture, and there is sucha thing as frien¢ship honored by’ God, though men may overlay it, miss it or traverse it with. talse feet. Friendship is the highest form of love. By love in this connection, the love which parents have to ebildren, the love which unites souls in wediock—there is in ‘all these forms of love a passional element; a strong ‘“solfness’’ in parental lov and a strong though subdued and sanctifie passional element in wedded love. But friendship is love without passion, It is the love of the better part of man’s nature for the whole of another's nature, Mr. Beecher instanced the friendship of Ruth and aowi, of Davidand Jonathan, and more conspicuously than all the love of Christ for His disciple: Not onty have we these examples, he said, we have also a charter, a constitution of friendship in the thirteenth chapter of I. Corinthians; wo have, as it wero, the whole function, genius, disposition and duties of a truo tricndship. Beginning with the fourth verse of that chapter Mr. Beecher read to and including the seventh, “ charity suflereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itsclf, is not pul up, ke We have in this passage, Mr. Beocher said, the most extraor- dinory analysis and the most extraordinary intimatious of dutv ip respect to friendship that can be found in ha. man language. The preacher dwelt upon the qualties enumerated and implied in the passage ho had rend as constituting true friendship. He who looks, said be, upon his friends and asks, ‘How much are they worth to me ?’' does not know the first letter of the divine alphabet of friendship. The shepherd is not the friend |* ot the sheep. He keeps the sheep to shear them for their fleece. The gardener is nota botanist because he tenaer'y cares for the hey “eed lettuce; he only cares Ve from its sale. The different ways im which men destroy or impair {riendehip were discussed. One very common type of friend was drawn with a master hand—the friend who says, “He is my friend, nobody likes bim more than | ¢o; but 1am not bling to bis faults,’’ and who there- upon proceeds to expose the weaknesses he has learned of through the confidence of the other in his friend- ship. SIMPSON M. E. CHURCH, BROOKLYN. RELIGION IN POLITICS—CENTENNIAL SERMON BY DR. SIMs. At the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, Dr. Sims presched a Centennial sermon yesterday morning to his congregation, Fis text was the seventy-seventh psalm and the twentieth verse— “Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.’”’ This text, began the reverend Doctor, has just th.s much to dowith my sermon, tnat it reveals to us the band of God behind human agencies. As the patriarchs were trequently led by the hand into ty so wero the founders of our land led; so were our fathers let out of the lana of bondage to this land, which God has given their children to possess. Anniversary times are great educators, No nation could Jong exist without its national songs. There would be no spirit of prtriotism without them. They quicken life and activity, and I take occasion this morning to talk to you concerning the relation of Christianity to our national life and institutions. This country of alt nations in this world is pecularly Christian in its organizations, France, Germany, Italy and Spain had the Christian religion grafted on their barbarism. They are a conglomerated people, Our nation had its re- ligion in personal liberty and personal integrityyand honor, Our forefathers came seeking freedom to wor- ship God, Their Inst act onthe other sido was to com. mend themsclves to God; their frst act on this side was to bow to Hun in praise. They laid the very foun- dation of the nation in prayer. Now it is becoming too common to separate Church and State. Men are beginning to think that God has no place in our na- | tional affairs; that they must be conducted as though we were without God. They undertake to root out the Bible from the common = schovls though this Jand was an atheistic land. It is a Chris- tian jand and nation When the Declaration of Independence was written, they put a's name in the first line and God's providence in the jast Jing, Wh ou call men to sit in honest judgment upon their fellow men ip the jury box, when you bring | men to give testimouy before them, they are put undor oath to God to speak and act with justice and truth, The Jaw understands the power of Christianity, We cannot aflord to separate our judicial and secular alfairs from Christiapity, which lies at the foundation of all truth and power, What man of you would stay here if you knew in five years the pulpit would be va- cated abd the Sabbath school abandoned. It is our Christian religion that has preserved our land from destruction and 1s most instrumental in accomplishing reform in our national government. There is a future opening be'ore us, God is leading His people like a flock. May He direct our energies aright, that tho head of our goverument may be cleansed froin imquity and strengtboned in all that is good and true. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, Although the oppressive heat debarred many from attending the last mass at the Cathedral yesterday there was, nevertheless, a large congregation present. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Maurice Dougherty, ‘There was no sermon; but the services were, as usual, solemn and impressive. In the temporary absence of Professor Gastave Selimitz, Mr. Thomas P. Muiany pre- sided atthe orgau. At the offertory Mme. Bredelli, the accomplished soprano of the choir of Mme, Unger, sung “O Salutaris,’? by Moreier, with splendid effect. In the afternoon the vespers attracted a large congre- gation. WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS. RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT NEWBURGH—A sUK . DAY SCHOOL DEMONSTRATION. awnunc, July 2, 1876, services, participated im by al) denominations, were held at Washingtou’s Headquar- ters in this city this aftorneon. The first service was for children, m which the Sanday schools joined, and, though the weather was intensely warm, most of the Centennial relig! sebolars of the city were provent. John JS McCruskery, Mayor of Newburg, presided, Appropriate addresses were imade, and the sebools sung hymns with brass band accompaniinent. Service tor adults followed, and 5,0v0 ersons were present. Rev. Dr. John Forsyth, chap- Jain at West Point, presided. A historical discourse was preached by Rev. Samuel Cari the videst pastor in the city, Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Baptay Presbyterian, Ketormed Presbyterian, Unitarian and American Reform churches took part in the services, Rev. Dr. Jobn Brown, for fifty-six years rector of 5t George's Episcopal church of this city, pronounced the benediction. BERVICES AT NEWPORT. Newrort, R. L, July 2, 1876. Centennial services were held in the Methodist churches here to-day, in compliance with the request of the General Conference. Sermons appropriate to the day were also proached in several of the churches of other denominations, ROUND LAKE CAMP MEETING, HIGH-TONED METHODISM. NEAR SABATOGA—a, DECOROUS DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS LIFH IN THE WOODS—CARNALITY OVERCOMING OLD~ FASHIONED METHODIST FEBVOR—A SERMON BY DR. DUNCAN, OF THE SOUTHERN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. “ Rousp Lage, N. Y., July 2, 1876. “It iwa failure,” he said, ‘this effort to ongraft the old religious fervor of the Methodists upon the more material, if perhaps more wsthetic, element which finds its gratification in cottages, lawns, croquet and all the varied means of enjoyment found at a summer watering place, The wnovelty of the idea at- tracted at first, and the business sentiment of the people found vent in the laying out of iots for those beautiful structures; more profitably, too, than the forest ground, which was {ree toall. It was then the first come the first served, I don’t complain of all these physical éujoyments, but they are apt to lead the mind _ away from the means of grace at the stand and in the prayer-meeting tents Our people were accus:omed to adjourn from the one to the other, with short inter- vals for the preparation of meals, in which all took a part, and which were seasoned with prayer and song and the Divine blessing. Now thoro is a too frequent adjournment to croquet or the boats on the lake, and I suspect to an occasional game in the cot- tage pariors, not very reprebensible in them- selves, but old-thine Methodism, of which camp meetings were the natural outgrowth, had in ite economy no place for these. The servants now pre- pare the meals, and somehow they seem to have no part or lot in the ecunomy of grace, Look at our prayer meetings—thero is one in progress now. It is entircly decorous, you see, and if a brother, or what ts more rare, a sister becomes somewhat boisterous, ob- serve how quictly he is suppressed by the caim tones of the Bishop there,cr by a hymn which is never sung out of tune; and yet it was the emotion manifested by this Lo:sterousness that was wont to sweep over the camp like a hurricane, arousing the heart, startling the conscience and bringing souls to Christ, The cul- tured people of our towus and cities see a great im- provement in this, but with the improvement the day of camp meetings went out, and people might as well stay at home and practice propriety in them eburches."” THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT A FAILURE, Allowing for the prejudices of the old clergyman, who had thus responded to av inquiry regarding the meeting which has been im progress here for the past ten days, there may doubtless be found in his words a solution of the fact that, neither im point of numbers nor in the increase of religious fecling, has it been a great success. Tha services have been cone stant, the preaching of a character which would do honor to the most popular city pulpits, the singing artistic and melodies exquisite, but unforte nately at the same time the boating has been very pleasant, the croquet lawns green with verdure and the weather sufficiently warm to make an idle exist enco endurable, and so it is that tne powers of datk ness under ihese agreeable aspects have held their ows with the angels of light on the latter's own fighting ground. STRONG IN BISHOPS, The meeting has been particularly fortunate in the number of Episcopal dignitaries present, ‘Bishops Janes, Simpson, Foster and Peck and the colored Bishop Wyman having been in attendance and added to the attraction of the stand. This being the last Sab | bath more than the usual feeling has been manifested, The grounds were hermetically sealed at nine o'clock, not to be opened until five, and, in consequence, tha attendance was almost entirely confined to tho resb* dents. For the first hours of the morning a Sabbath hush brooded over the scene, broken only by am occas sional song of praise from some remote cottage. A LOVE Feast. At nine o'clock the faithful began to gather in frout of the stand to take part im the love feast, which in this instance was without the usual emblems of pread an¢ water, cousisting purely of speaking and singing. Rapidly one after the other arose, and in the old, olé story testified to “the love of God in their hearts,* while snatches of song, apparently resulting from as exuberance of feeling, burst forth at tervals. Occa- sionally some enthusiastic person, incapable of expressing himself im connected languaga, manifested the emotions of his soul by loud cries of ‘Hallelujah!’ “Glory to God‘! and similar expres: sions, but was quietly repressed by the fresiding offi. cer before creating too great an excitement. A short tnterval followed and at halt-past ten o'clock the regu. lar morning services began, ‘These commenced ‘uniquely enough with the hymn beginning— Ihave been redeemed by the biood of the Lamb, sung by a lady whose comely appearance and charming voice makes her very popular with the brothers, while having, perhaps, a less agreeable effect ou the sisters. THE SERMON. ‘The sermon was by Dr. Duncan, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, PresiJent of Randolph Macon College, from Romane, xiv., 8--““For whether we hive, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live, therefore, of die, we are the Lord's,” The subject was a life de- voted not to self, but to God. Referring to the expe- rience of the world concerning it, he said life for self has been found by human ex- perience to become degenera' Instead of bet- ter, mam becomes worse. The seeds of setfish- ness, fostered and encouraged in the child, become more luxuriant in youth, aud more soin early map- hood and later life, until the subject becomes ready to Tob the State, the natiou, and, if it were possible, the civilized world for his seifish gratification. A life de- voted to self becomes deformed too, and even the nobler emotions are contorted to base and selfish pur. poses, Live for yourself only and you become a fa- matic. No toleration exists for the opinions of others, and your own little idea, regarded as the dearest, sweetest. best little idea that ever existed, is held up as something to which, like the image of Nebuchadnezzar, all must bow. In living even for friends and relatives, exelu- mively, you become an idolator. It is tru¢ wo are told to love our neighbor as ourselves, but Satan ts liable to come in and pervert the whole thing, Presently we find ourseives living more for them than for God, aod shall we compare these friends, however dear, to the Saviour of our souls? THE SHADOW OF GoD. In enforcing the sentiment that we shonld not live for anything less than God, he sald Job was called to give up wealth and health; not that he required this, for he was already the pertect tan, but that wo night — profit by his patience and resignation. To you who have lived for others and lost them, bear im mind that tl shadow on your path is sacred ; it is the shadow ot God, and you need not necessarily conclude that God hag smitten you for your idolatry. God sometimes says, “Let me take them, it will be better for them; yon can show the world bow you can endure my will; and as you stand there will make you the ‘trumpet tbrough which he will blow sublimer music than was ever blown before. “Not your judgment, but mine, says God. The speaker then begs to consider the obligation to live for God, © are God’s, he said, im law and by virtue of our constitution. Hie formed us from the dost of the earth, and breathed in it the breath of lite, and when man fell He promised the poor stricken pair to raise them from their falien position. ‘True, a battie was to follow, but in the conflict, while humanity should be hurt, Satan would be crushed. And now Iet me come to another point. His, by creation, through the power of will become is in a@ double sense, taku upon Himself the form of our humanity. He said, 4 will take your cup, and drink of it, and you need nos drink at all; I will redeem you,”’ Christians we are His, too, by choice. Is not this a solemn relation? We belong to the Lord. When Satan comes near us, affliction comes upon us, wo find strength in the kaow. ledge that we are God's, A WORD TO THR AGKD, in developing the points of which this ts necersarity ‘but @ meagre outline, a wealth of illustration was used, oftentimes 0: a most eloquent character, bringing tears to the eyes of his auditors and expressions of praise to their lips. In __ conclusion, addressing himself to the old people before. him, be said:—You are nearest the seat of glory; I see | the light in your face, Wher you get there remember that we are following after ‘in the grand army of Christ. Isee the front rank filing in through the streets of the Kternal City. I bhearthe cadences of their footsteps falling to the glad song, “Glory to Ged in the highest,” and blows God that we are following on while ail around us are the great multitudes of the redeemed living and dying for God. A tle shor ot. oon ond gentle shower of rain comeon during the after. noon, cooling the atmosphere and rendet grounds redoient of pleases odors, Need 2 THE APTERNOUN AND KVENING SERVICES. At three o'clock Dr. King, of New York, Layo from the text, “Butthis one thing I do,” ser. mon was devoted to the consideration of the subject of vital religion, opposed to formalism. In the evening Dr. Miley, of tho Drew ZReclogiens Seminary, preached, pov onde rervices elosed with &@ prayer moeting, in w the Praying Band Sweet Sineers cf Israel took « prominent nary * !