The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1876, Page 8

Wee a eS » SUNDAY SERMONS. —_—. How the Churches Were Attended Yesterday. AND CONSCIENCE. pre ttle toa FAITH Rev. George Hepworth on the Heat. THE DIVINE LEAVEN. Dr. Jr, on True and False Zeal. Tyng, First Sunday of the Camp Meet ing at Sea Cliff. CHURCH OF THE O{SCIPLES. TRE WEAT-—SERMON BY REV. G. HEPWORTH. Notwithstanding tho hest yesterday, a large congre- gation assembled in the Church of the Disciples, Mr. | Hepworth’s, After the preliminary excreises the pas- tor read a portion of tho fourth chapter of Second Kings--the history of the Shunammite’s son, whom Blisba restored to life. His text was from Isaiah, xxv., t:—"A refuge from the storm, a shadow from the deat,”’ Itis very curious and very interesting to note ihe influence which climate cxereises upon nations, | wid Mr. Hepworth, teats of southern temperatures, who are suffer. Ing constantly from the vertical rays of the sun, think of heaven asa sweet spot, where its burn. Ing heat is not fell, and they dream of itasa place to which they wil! go when they depart from this life, ‘Those who live amid the snows of the north love to Mink of heaven as a spot where the grass is always froen and whero summer ever reigns. If one should dwell im Scandinavia an¢ would wish his neighvor well he would tell him he hoped his fre would burn Those who brightly when be reached bome; in Centra! Africa that the sun would be clouded and that the rain would — fall ~—supon_—his parched features. All through the Old Testament, where the janguage is more syinbolical than that of the New, we find the contrast between physical comfort and physical discomfort resorted to. ‘The man who tistrusts God lives outside the shadow, with the sun pouring down npon him all day and the moon in her luluess filling the air with miasina all night jn the Psalms how David calls to tne Lord and asks Him to bide him beneath the shadow of His wing. We have all seen the hen in the country with her little ones gathered under her. You can hear her as she calls out to them, scattered here and there all over the yard, or when she hears the sound of danger in the air she hides them under her wing; and when the eagle or hawk comes aud looks down upon his prey be sees nothing but the mother, with her wings spread over her flock to protect them. So is it with us. Amid the temptations that beset us on ali sites God will cover us with the protection of His own wing, that we may feol the warmth of His heart beating against ours; that we can dnd no harm coming to us so long as we trust upon His strength, But | want to present to you the contrast between NKAT AND SHADOW. We are told in the Bible that God is like the snadow pf a rock in a Weary land, and we can appreciate what Such shadow would be ina day like this, Let me draw you, then, two pictures, between a man of the world and aChrstian man. Fora jong time the Isruelites tray- ellea over dreary deserts, See this broad plain! There, 25 far as eye can reach tts monotony is unbroken by a Bingle lilock; not a grass blade springs up upon it, aud ihe poor Israelisex sufler from a disease of the eyes contracted in this desert. As they wander on from day to day, their ‘ood growing less and less and their water becoming scarce and at last expended altogether, they were discouraged in heart. Tuey looked up at the merciless sun that was pouring torturing beat upon them and their wives and children; they looked up and they saw no oasis beckoning thein to its coolness. Kven tho night brought no reliof, Vota breath of air stirred onthe plain; only the stars camo out and looked upon their misery and their discoméort. Is it any wonder that they were discontented with their leader and wanted to get back to the drudgery of Egypt? Those were terribie days when the sun had no mercy—when there was nothing for them but the grave. [have looked upon the man of the world as pursuing the same course. He has no hope beyond the grave, There is nothing in the way o! green grass or repose in his life He lives in the exhaustion of excitement all the day long. ie bas pursued only that which will leave nim enervaied in will at Jest. Let us look at the contrast and we can doit with soine satisiuction on w day like this, Weare told that When one trusts in the Lord he lives in the shadow of all tive, and [ think it must have been a glorious priv- flege when the Israelites gathered beneath that rock in the evening time and thecooling water quenched their thirst, Mount Carmin Was a promonitory that pro- jected out into the sea. It was wooded from base to top. Green trees sent their — fragrance into the air, Flowers, many like those which we cultivate to-day made everything sweet with perfume. The green grass was a carpet, even to the top of the dountatn, and the foliage of the trees made a grateful Shade, It was so high up that even at noontime the breezes came and went Uill one felt calm and quiet and serene in body and soul. Stand a moment upon that promontory, At the west you can see the waters of the Mediterranean, You can almost hear the rustling of the breezes Then look at the breakers us they come rolling in and break into spray upon the sand. Then come with mo again right into the shade of the woods, Sce all these wild flowers and scent their fragrance! The breezes are making music (or us, The heat is all gone and the toolness i8 upon us And there we sit surrounded by God's shadow, protecte! by [is wing. There we are led by His bounty, protected from all danger and at rest, We lie down at night and sleep refreshingly and rake in the morning ready to do ihe duties of he day. Here is the contrast between those two jictures, All Through the old and new Testaments the first picture ninech | have drawn for you js but a symbol of a lile of Hip, the other of the eatistied ite of faith. When one | das no irust he is beneath the burning rays of the tun, and when ope bas faith in God he ts cool and serene. There is notbing 0 Sweet as the thought that God is having His way in our life and that we are loving Mim, living in Him and are Joyal to Him all the time Such weather as this makes one careful of exposure. You may withstand the heat of today if your head is covered. So many failevery twen'y four hours that we recognize the danger under which we are travelling. What a blessed thing it would be if the showers would come this after- noon; and it in piace of this lassituae we should be invigorated and lifted up to health und strength once more. Perhaps the outward weatber ix but a type of foward life, a in Christ hve amid the cooling breezes of evening. Let a8 not travel in the desert, but lot us live with Flisba ip the woods of Mount Carmin. God grant that we may L:vo the lite of faith, and tind comfort in the Knowledge of who is the shadow under which we live? CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINI'Y. BERMON BY DE. &. J. TYNG, J8.—‘‘TRUR AND FASE ZPAL.” Yesterday the announcement that Dr, Tyng, Jr, was to preach to the Orangemon drought a larger gathering to bis church than was anticipated. At eleven o'clock the members of the society bad taken | their seats on cach side of the middle aisio, and when gervices were begun the building was crowded through Out its length and breadth, By way of preface Mr, Tyng sald that tt had always been customary to raise a collection on the occasion of the Orangemon's visit for some charitabe purpose and that on conferring with a committee he bad come to the conclusion that no one was in greater need of assistance than the sufforing litile children of tue city. Accordingly the collection to be taken ap would be turned to tueir advantage by the gentle wen of St John’s Guild, who would provide iitable means of enjoyment for the uttie ones during these days of suffering and disease. Tyng then ead jor bis text Luke, ix, o4. die said that the two Hiserpies who called opon ihe Lard to sen: Ehas, did acted through ardent but 7) ‘and in (his they were prototypes of the people of Zeal is not what many to be, sim ly an intense, uninethouical ch mast re lovad to God’s glory im any slike a kpite- ( may be used to cut a man’s bread or to cut bis broat Its excelience, tts religiousness depenas en lireiy upon the use it is applied to, the way in whieh Mv ianit sts itself. Many a zesios who deiuged the Inod with blood (ancied that he was actuated by the noviest and most God-given motives, yet he was violat ing the very essence 0! tho livioe precepts Zeal, to De cifective, must be like that lignining mentioned of ola which without injurin, eal, wo day. MALTED THE SWORD the scavbard; « m Abd mould it to its king Without attempting to touch the body. ln our day there 1s a great deal 0; ialae zeal, and of (hat 1 would Itke to speak to ioy hearers, the Orangemen, it is that ardor which, while its end ray be pood, is pursued through devious and injudicvous wats. it ts the ardor of # thousand preacuets of prin- ciples iu the past who insisted upon saving souls by destroying bodies. Now, this faise zeal perveris «he Keripture of God, and the lesson affect: ad down in the wy text Ihave read. Christ's aimee when jvsuied by the townsmen of a plato t aflect the soul live amid the | | We see | 1 thai the man who lives for Christ and | NEW YORK HERAL | they bad reachod appealed to Him to use the means Elias had employed before \o appail the wicked But the answer of the Saviour was that the You of Mun camo pot to destroy men’s lives but to save them. ‘That was the precept which lie sought to inculcate, and which a] all His utterances and in all His para- | dies, in ove shape or another. That is the great do trine of moderation, of viewing the weakuesses ol one’s fellow creature with au eye that looks \hrongh and be- | yond them to the good there is in him. “I aaw a pic ture of the Luquisition the other day,” said the speaker, “which forcibly impressed upon me the awtul effec mistaken zeal had in the past; bat if we look around us | are there not evidences of It to be met with every day. | Are there not cases where men, forgetting the words of | tbe Saviour, presume te call upon God io destroy those who differ from them in creed, and assume to | | themselves the offlce of being the execution- | | ers of God's eondemuation, Ob, it is an | | awful thing to aflect to be an instrument | of Divine justice. Moses aud Aaron in the old dis- | pensation, Peter and Paulin the new, were the only inortals to whom the Aimighty delegated tbe power of | USING 19 RTKMNAL FIRES | to rebuke men and fill the nations with the terror of | His name. But they have passed away aud men arc | sucriiegious when the: dare arrogate io them- | selves the fu:ctions which belong to God alone | | Yet hew many eo-called Christians nowadays | are there who are censorious, who are prone | to condema everything in another’s belief and another's conduct? ow m: ny are there who rail at the note in another's eye and never see the beam in | theirown? There are men, too, wno when they bave | wrought themselves into a white heat of frenzy against | heir” brothers think that they are strong, that | | tfloy are domg God’s battlc munfally, Not at all. so weak as a man in a passion, No | zeal 80 false, so frivolous as that is which | is petulant and censorious. Zeal is not true when it | manifests itselt 1» blows, in hatred, In condemnation. zeal 16 that of the Saviour, nit up thine sword; “I caine but to save;’ ‘Love one another.” Oh t, they are heavenly wtterances. And 1, the true zeal, whic iragrant to God, should | 4S His was—it Should overflow in prayer.”” Dr. Tyng | then appealed directly to his hearers of the Orange Society “Life is too short,”” he said, “to be calling | down fire ou others’ heads; the duties to which | God assigned each man’ are too urgent to be suspended for the exercise of the potty dislikes which difference in belief engenders. Forget these | differences, my friends, Remember that Divine maxim | which comes ringing down the years, ‘Love one an- | other.’ Put it im practice and you will then live in | brotherhood with your feliow nian, be he Protestant or | Romanist, united im the fellowship which the Saviour ' wished to institute and transmit through the ages,” | TRINITY CHURCH. | SERMON YESTERDAY BY THE REV. MR. WATSON, | AtTrinity church yesterday the Rey. Mr. Watson, who officiates during the summer vacation, preached the sermon, His text was from Joba, i, 10—“Kvery | man at tho beginning doth set forth geod wine; and | when met have well drunk, then that which is worse; | | but thou hast kept the good wine until now.” [t often | | happens, the preacher said, that a chance remark care- | lossly uttered curries more meaning than was intended, When Gallileo after being rebuked tor asserting that | the world moved, suid “still it does move,” he gave | | expression to a lusting truth. Tbe world did and etl | does move astronomically aud metaphorically. In a similar way the words of the text were used lor a pass- ing remark. ‘he governor of the feast when Le spoke | them did not kuow that a miracle bud been wrought. Yet tm that eaying utterance was giveu toa beauti- ful and instructive spiritual truth. lt was a saying that jilusirates the diference between man’s giving and God's giving. Man ol himself tends to degencri | but Goa’s progress is toward exaltation. We see this ilustrated every day 1m the contrast between promise | and performance. As with tho wine at the feast, men show their best qualities at the first, and when the | | palate is used to the Letter tlavor of their works they | try to live on the reputation of their earier efforts. So is it with uations, The Greeks, with their Une fancies, their love of philosopsy and the beautifulin ert and nature, dropped into degeneracy avd decay because they were not guided by thy teachings of Christianity. Ih accwty there seems with us at the present day | more of a tendency to vie iu the vanitics and tritles of life than in its exceliences, There is more admiration | for the burlesque than for the true apd beauuiul, In religious circles, too, we find a diluted theology. People look for the easiest way of serving God. When we look at the child, in whose face the pure wine of life 18 blushing, we rightiy ake tt as an index that its future 1s toimprove upon this and | grow in beauty. But how often we are disappointed in our expectations. Passions are indulged in as age comes on, and the face that promised to grow in love- lines is furrowed and distorted with the distiguring hues of sin. God's ways are different, and those who accept and follow them grow in beauty to liic’s’ close. There is mo more endurimg satisfaction to | be bad here tban is found in the | order of the good things Christ bas in | store for His people. Sin’s pleasures are instantaneous and its pains are lasting. But there is a calm uospeak- able happiness in the assurance of rest in the Lord. If uny are disappointed in the comforts of religion, it is because they do pot driuk deep enough to lee! that whatever God ordains of apparent evil or positive good in this life is for their etervai profit herealter. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. OUR NEIGHBOR AND OURSELVES—-SERMON BY THS REV. DR. CHISHOLM, OF CANADA. AtSt. Stephen’s chureh yesterday morning the high mass was celebrated by the Rev, Father Colton and the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Chisholm, of Canada. The preacher read the gospel and one of the lessons of the Sunday, and delivered an instructive discourse | on the love we should bear our neighbor. If we notice, said the preacher, who it is that succeods in business and in the affuirs of the world generally, we shall find that it 1s he who keeps betoro lis mind constantly the | purpose ho has in view and therefore is ever anxious to uso the means at his disposal to carry out his end. Without tne most watchful care and precaution success in mercantile affairs cannot be accomplished, and so it is with the Christian who desires to secure his salvation, He who meditates constantly on the purpose of his hilo bere on earth and on the neverending Ife that 1 10 follow in the world to come is likely to periorm ail she wuties incumbent of him in order to attain the great object for which he was created, It requires thought and resolve to detach ourselves trom the allur- ing pleasures of the world and self-abnegation to re- pond practically to the commands which are inculcated upon Us as necessary of pertormance to please God. The | tevcbings of the Lord are well summed up in the great commauument, “Love the Lord thy God wi whole heart and thy neighbor as thyself for ths Gou.’? The constant inculcation by the Catholic Church of tho love wo should bear our neighbor is one of its distinguishing features, In this great command rests the peace and happiness of tbe world, for i! you tuke away trustful and considerate belief in one an- otuer’s motives and actions there is neth- tng left. = buts incentive = to——ssuspicion, ibfecling and perpetual — disagreement. In tho wisdem of the Church's teaching is peace, that posce which enables inen to live together in fraternal pirit, bearing each other's shortcomings with patience | and forbearance, and Striving in all the discordant hap- | penings which go to make up hfe to preserve chari- lable teelings, knowing as we do that we have an abundance of faults ourselves, it 18 one of the weak- nesses of our human nature that we ure prone to be selfish, that we fasten on the ‘auits of others and yield to malevolence of spirit in forming judgments and in saying tho worst we can with but fittle reason, | In the eptstle read to-day we are exhorted to avoid | | this, and counselied not to mako use of our topgue acainst our neighbor, and the Gaspel tells us that those who do not control their tovgues rholl be punished. ‘There isa terrible tvelination in some persons to be story-tellers, to repeat scandal aud to circulate evils, trucor false, which they themselves may have heard, In the overcoming of these vices we must have re- | course to God, for though seemingly trifling they may do grievous barn, and it needs the Divine assistance to procure that seif-restraint and good feching necessary to conquer such a failing. From this common fault of uttering evil things about | our neighbor grievances arise which strike home as | | | | Wellto those who are addicted to it a8 10 others who are blametess. There ts begotien a want of confidence which 1s followed by disinclination to trust anybody, and much good is lost to the world as a consequence. | Instead of the help which we should generously give to cach other in our daily lives we are apt to fall back | into selfishness, and grudges and sptes eugeaodered by | the imprudence o/ some few personsare not inireqaently revenged, 80 10 speak, On persous well worthy of the fullest coptidence. The greatest blessing we can have | in this hfe is peace—peace with ourselves apd with our | neighbor, and one of the surest ways to disturb this | and to provok» contentions is the saying of bad things | abeut one’s neighbor. Peace on earth 1s @ foreiaste of that peace which regas in heaven. Whatever inter. | teres with its lullest enjoyment here below 1s an evil we should With best endeavor try to eradicate, BROADWAY TABERNACLE, | aA BHORT DISCOURSE BY REV. EDWARD HAWS, About one hundred people assembled at the morning services yeste in the Broacway Twbernacle. The sweltering b dently deterred the large ma- jority of the congregation from visiting the church, Many of those who did make thetr appearance fell into a quiet slumber before the services bad been half con- cluded. ¥. Mr. Haws, of New Haven, oceupied the pulptt and read a abort address, which was inainly of at | ological character. He dwelt upan ine various ki of lives sed by different persons, and their eftects upon society in general Those who departed were soon forgotten by the world, ana ihe quotation here forcibiy suggested itself, “What shadows we are Aud what shadows do we pursue.” The preacher then alluded to the benefits acquirod by society in divine revelation. Without it much sadness and disorganiza- tion Would exist. He next eloquently dilated upon the points embra: in the propositiog that man was a sinner apd Christ a divine saviour, We were all ot the lellowship of Christ even in His royalty. Faith was | the proper rule of al! lives Without it wan could vot become excelient. We should, therefore, examine more | closely ito truth, My this taeaps we Might progress more rapidly jute the hghi of divine veacting. Faith, a longimg for (nore Knowledge and ay evident | wish io do good; those were — characteristics deionging to (be truly Christian man. Violent passione | wore to le mastered, and cach person should endeavor to elevate his particular sphere, There could not , be any parity In society at iarge anless each individual | | undertakes to purify himsei!. There was no sentence | | which be would more cladiy see embinzoned on the | | Bible will always be the text book ‘or the education of | make to maintain the strictest standard of duty, and asserted (bat we need to have our ‘con- sciences re-cnlightened 80 28 to seo the nobleness of doing God's will, To sce that, so be true, pure and good is infinitely Detter than anything man can hope tor, After discuss- ing what it 16 to be conscientious the reverend doctor | good conscience that shall sweeten lite or darken man’s | lett. | wus beset with shoxis; the banks, ‘ately eo blooming, | previous years | freedom, D, MONDAY, JULY 10, 187 walls of the church where he bad the bonor to officiate than the words, “Zach one may do something m the Bame «nd for the sake of bis Saviour,” After treating these poinis from a purely theological standpoiut, Re Mr. Haws couciuded the reading of an eloquent dis- course, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. “‘YAlTH AND CONSCIENCE” — DISCOURSE BY REY. DR, MURRAY, OF PRINCETON COLLEGE. Selecting for his text the niugeteenth verse of the Third Epistle of Timothy, Rev. Dr, Murray, ot Prince- ton College, yesterday preached an impressive sermon, | in the First Presbyterian church, corner of Eleventh street and Fitth avenue. Dr, Murray will fill the pul- pit every Sabbath of the.summer, during the absence of the pastor, Tho subject of his discourse was “Faith and Conscience,” and while the congregation, owing to the ex essive heat, was very sparse those who | were present scemed to be decply impressed by the discourse. Faith and conscience, the minister showed, ure so bound together that we cannot separate | them, that we cannot harin one without harming the other. It ism deiormed conscience thut leads many | a man into ‘utidelity. An evil conscience has oiten made shipwreck of one’s Jaith unulit lies in | fragments on the beach. A disordered compass is olien the cause of shipwreck and a diserdered con- science is the compass that makes shipwreck of the soul. Hoe considered the kind of vcouscience mun wight bold; men may pervert it, aud it is an engine of evil; if it be well trained it is anobie thing for good. It is evident, be id, that the defiled moral sense of mau is due to Fin, ‘The smallest child, a8 Well as the most experienced | man, knows something of a guilty conscience. A ‘guilty conscience — corrod depraves and darkens the soul; therefore a guilty con- science must bea bad conscience. How, | then, can the guilty conscience be tnade good? The | Gospel of Jesus Christ can take it away—cau cleanse the | soul—and then couscience becomes peacetul. How | hopelessiy dismantied were the souls of Judas Iscariot | and Saul of ‘Tarsus, who went about breathing out threatenings aguiust the foliowers of our Lord, So when the sinner’s conscience becomes cleansed it be- | comes good again under the healing power of the Gos- | pel as its spiritual guide, This is verified by abundant | lacts delivered in the inspired Word. The advice | of the Lord was, ‘Go api sin no more’? You | shall cee in every genuine case of repentance a regen- erated conscience, instead of a paintul sense of wrong- doing—a sense of peace with God, We know tess of | the good of a cleansed conscience veciuse we are KO often falling buck to our eld habits, Unless man keeps up the fight, like Greatheart in the “Pilgrim's Pro ress,’ he can have but little knowledge of th nature of acleansed conscience. We need the faculty Of distinguishing between right and wr It con- | science is to be any power tu the soalit must be edu- cated, It needs enlightenment, as in the case of plants, to make it grow. God ‘bas provided for the human conecience light, Just as he bas provided light for the human eye; and oue of the great purposes of | Divine revelation is to train the c ence, The min- ixtor uext considered the relations between morality and religion, and said that the Bible never makes the terrible inistake of divorcing morality from religion. Aman must be religious to be a moral man, and tho the conscience. He spoke of the sacrifice man must stated that a good conscience reigns over the whole life, and it was given to him to make man happy sod not to injure him. It 1s evident that Christ meant His | Gospel to give us peace of conscience. Shall it bo the Faith and a good conscience live to- By turning away a good cou- Science peace 18 wrecked, ‘The Gospel will always give you reliot tora burdened conscience, Take it; lay tt on Jesus’ cross. Ho He alone, by the power of His atonement, which cleanses {rom ail sin, give you the pure, good conscience. Go to Him and dnd a cun- Science void of olfence before God and man, and find it in simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, FIFTH UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY. “THE VOYAGERS"—SERMON BY REV. 4. M. LOUTREL, Rev. A. M. Loutrel conducted the services yesterday morning at Plimpton Hall and selected bis toxt from First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, vil., 29— | “Brethren, the time 18 short.’? He said:—If you have | ever stood on the bank of a river and gazed on the waters us they rippled past you can well understand how people in all ages havo agreed to believe that a stream 1s the fittest possible emblem of time. You linger, half amused, half saddened, perhaps, on tho banks watebing the débris that is borne by on the eur- | face~atew blossoms, fuded leaves, bits of grass or fluttering Insects—all carried out toward the mighty sea, bringing back to mind the sweet verse of the | poet:— entire earcer? gother barmoniously. Time, like an over-rolling stream, Hears all Its soms aw: They die forgetten. as u dream Dies at the opening day. How many people are living who existed 100 years ago? acd in 100 years from this day bow many of us will be alive? Every new year, every birthday is a Jandmark, und the waters of the invisible stream of Time a nstantly washing them away. If | m give you a parable [ should do so with the story ofa ship sailing down a river on a mistaken course, Happy voices muke tbe air resonant with Joy; all apon the bark are bent upon pleasure as they float gayly along, and the songs of children mingle in the choras of mirth, Allis smiling as the morning; the air isbulm, | ladon with the scents of flowers that Lioomed upon the | banks and mingled with the aromatic odors of the dis- tant foresia Everything induces to forgettulness of pain, but there is one thing all those happy voyugers forget—to be sure they were on | the right course, There are two branches of the river—one to the right and one to the One leads among dangerous currents and toward destruction, the other to a fair and prosperous land, Dot the ore that was dangerous lovke broad and tain, | while the mouth of the river of saici: ovmed narrow, | ‘winding and tortuous, and so the happy voyagers eho: the broad river aud satled on, singing, and did not hear | the breakers ibat were almost roaring in their careless | ears, Butafier they had given themselves up to the | delights of the hour and were seated with .pleasure | they noticed that the river, lately so broad and smiling, | became narrower und more diificult wo navigate, It became rugged aud bare; hostile men appeared un the shores and monaced the ship; the waters became dark and turbid, and the roar o! the cataract reached the ears of those who would hsten, and « few determined | to go back, in spite of the cries of “Coward!” trom the beedicgs ones; but they found in rowing a small Doat laboriously back to the forks of the river was a far harder task than to lazily float down with the tide. But as the danger became wore wenacing, ond the breakers were actually in stat, the Waves augrily curling over their black and pointed erest, a few more jumped from the vexsol aud sWain to the shore to fight their way back through the thicke's and to suter by having their bodies torn by the thor But the reckless still r mained until tbe stip went dashing into the rapids and over the precipice wiih ailon board, even while the drunkards were cailing for more wine to drown the thoughts of danger. ‘The preacher coucluded by drawing (rom thie story | the evident moral and exhorting his hearers to be sure | they were taking the right course in the voyage of life, The services conciuded with the sacred song of | “What Shall the Harvest Be?” CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. “PREEDOM FROM SIN"—SERMON BY THE BEY. R & MACARTHUR, There was nota large congregation present at the Calvary Saptist church, Twenty-third street, vetweem Fitth and Sixth avenues, yesterday morning; but such as braved the excessive heat were rewarded by an eloquent sermon irom the pastor, Kev, I. 8, Mac- Artuur, The text was taken from John, sits, 36—f | the Son therelore shall make you tree, ye shall be | free indeed.”’ Our great national holiday, suid he, | had come and gone, We looked jorward to it with dread, Our usual celebrations of the day were alike unworthy of us and of the event celebrated. It was to be expected that tho worst features of tormer cele rations would be worse than ever this year, A cares ful estimate for the past eight years made the average cost Of bie celevration i our city $20,000 per year in losaes and by accidemia 118 cause for gratitude bas thy Josses this year have been much smailer than during The absence of drunkenness was aiso | & marked feature of oar last Fourth, Most of the great meetings Wore opened by prayer. and the hand of God | Was distinctiy recognized in the bistory of the past convury tp the eracions delivered by the leading men of the land. o one eniered more heartily into the celebration than our foreign-porn citizens. They, even more than we, seem to prize the liberties which are to be enjoyed in vored jand. =We cdo well to prize our political ith a great price i was procured, The future 1s (all of hope. Weare on ithe eve of a great political contest. The worst elements of the republican | party have been repudiated; its best elements exaited. very true citizen and every earmest Christian must determine in the approaching contest to put God and | truth above all persona, ends ana political parties, j Hot I desire to speak of Christ as our deliverer from spiritual Vondaxe, said the preacher. Botn in the Old Tesiament and in the New He ts spoken o: asa deliverer. When He commenced His public mimisiry ip the syna- gopue at Nazareth Ho procitimed Himself as | anomted of God to heal the = brokea-heal and tw give deliverance to the captive, in ho other ¢ + doee His work appear more glorious and His Ife more sublime. First, He delivers Irom (ue power ang domipion of sin, which is man’s | Ditterest foe, The sadcest element of man’s bondage | Js that he kuows nov thathe is asiave. No picture ot & man inisery Is sadder (ban Hogarth’s of a maniac who king His pallet of straw be con- | brome, at traws around his head ure to him a crowa o! imperia: spiendor. He wields as he | deems a sceptre of universal power, and his keepers | are obsequions conrtiors Me knows not his terrivie condition, Many siaves in the South became so ne- sotted to be sauiefied with their condition, They scarce know that (hey were sinves When the hope of | treedomn ned upon them they knew something alike of the bitterness of bondage and the Jovousness of Uherte, Precieete en tt fe with man whe nee <0 | opened with appropriate exercises yesterday. | language. The camp meeting programme was not | | House, New York, preached a grand sermon from practise sin They hug the chatus of their bondage | and vainly and foolishly speak of a life of freedom and pleasure. Curistians who have come up to the glorious liverty of the Son of Gol know by contrast the Littern of their former bondage | A travelier from foreign shores jiandea mi our city. Stepping upto aman who had a large number of birds confined tn cages for sale, he asked their price. It was told. He paid the amount Cage after cage was nd the sweet songsters soared toto the air ongs of freedom and praise to God. The Baring bis ankles and bis in showed the marks whieh the chains 4 many years of bondage had jeit upon bis flesh, said be, “was imprisoned jong; | sighed tor (ree promised God that i! ever | breathed the air of freedom in this favored land I should give liberty 10 the drst captive Isaw,” The Christian has felt tho bondage; he rejoices in his {reedo a he longs to see ail men made free in Jesus Chri Christ frees us all from sin, and in no other way than by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can this (reedom be procured, WASHINGTON SQUARE CHURCH. “DIVINE MERCY—A SERMON BY REV. WILLIAM | LLOYD. At the Washi a Square Methodtst Episcopal church yesterday evening the pastor, Rev. Witham Lioyd, preached from the following text:—Pyalm, Exxvii., 5 The subject of ths sermon being the great- ness of the Divine merey, the preacher proceeded to show that the author of the psalm was manifestly a great poet. All nature was to him a revelation of God. The scarlet sky, the majestic mountains and the floating clouds all were suggestive to him of divine thoughts, This resulted from his sympathy with na- ture’s God, Inthe text we had two symbols used to represent the divine mercy and the divine faith(uluess, Of the divine mercy we are reminded first ofits con- spicuousness, The Psalmist sings, ‘Thy merey, Ob Lord, is in tho Heavens.” As the beavers aro visible to all who will ht their eyes thereto, so in the writ. ten word of God is the divine mercy visi- bie to all who study it The key note ot all Divine utterance is merey. From the first promise given to map after his sin until the tast ring- ing words from the cross, “it 1s finished,” announcing tne completion of the weapon of redempiion, inercy 1s the grand theme of the Bble. Its facts confirm its utterances, When Christ coimmanded his discipies to proclaim salvation He said to them, ‘Begin at Jeru- salem," that those who were most closely connected with His deat might bo the first to partake of its benefits, ‘The work of the (rue minister of Christ is not to deal damnation around the land on ali be deems God's focs, but to proclaim mercy to the fallen, peace to the troubled and hope to the hopeless, Narrow down your own sympathies if you will, but do not try to narrow God's. Close your own doors against the wretched if you like, but do not fling the | ecbain of a ‘human creed across the gatoway to the cross The glory of the divine mercy 1s {ts ireedom to all. The faithfullness of God encour- ‘ages every soul to trust in His mercy, for the psalin- ist says, “Thy faithfulness reacheth unto clouds.” Clouds are a fitting symbol of sin and doubt. As the | clouds bide the light of the san, and rob the landscape | of {ts beauty, #0 #in hides God from the soul and ob- scures the lustre of the divine promises, Often is the soul oppressed and darkened by these, but the faithful- | ness of God is above these clouds, like tho sunshine when the heavens were the blackest over as, Trost | gt im the divine faithfulness will enable the soni to re- | Joico in darkness and, like the nightingale, sing its | ‘Sweetest song in the night. The sinner may trust bis soul to tho mercy of God, and the tried believer | rest calmy 1 the faithtuiness of his Lord. Are you | burdened with a sense of sin? Listen to the words | of the Lord:—“I will. cast’ thy sins | behind = my back as a stone that ig cast into the depths ofthe sea’? As the waves of the sea roll over a pebble that 1s cast into it, so will the waves of Divine mercy roll over the sins of all who trust in God, hiding them from view forever But, should: you reject this mercy, and refuse to trast in | this faithfulness, the clouds of sin and guilt wi!l en- wrap your soul in gloom and the storm of retribution | break upon your unshielded head. | SEVENTH STREET M. E. CHUROH. {| “THE DIVINE LEAVEN—SERMON BY REV. J. 8. WILLIs. At the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church, yesterday, the Rev. J. & Willis preached betore a small, but very attentive, congregation. The atmos- phere of thechurch was almost iusuflerably hot, and the preacher as well as his auditors used their fans continuously. The subject of the discourse was “The Divine Leaven,” and Rey. Mr. Willis took bis text trom the thirty-third vorse, thirteenth chapter of Matthow—*‘Another parable spake he unto them. The kingdom of heaven is like anto leaven which a woman took and hid tn three measures of meal tillthe whole was leavened.” The parables of Jesus were all beautifal lessons, but this is one the preacher thought was the most beavtitul a well aa the most practical. There ws no lady who did Dot understand the ellect of the leaven when put toto the meal. It docs not belong to the :neal, bat it was the yeast that put life into it aud assimilated itself so completely with 1t that alter the fermentation was com- pleted it formed one congruous mass. The first thought that strikes us in this connection ts the divine leaven and the principle of its operation. Is refers to the kingdom of heaven and the influence of truth on the ha heart and the affairs of tho world, The divine jeaven is the grace of God which is put into the heart of man, as the woman hid the leaven in three measures of meal. Man without grace is as the meal before the leavem was put in. It would be well | If God would put more of that leaven into all of us There was in the meu! something on which the leaven would wor! there is somothing in tbe heart of man. Thank God, therefore, that man is pot entirely Jost. This spiritual leaven’ has an clement of great activity int, It works as soon as it 1s put into the heart; out if the heart is stony it dies out, hia wor! inz of the leven is the process that is going on contin- | ually in Christendom. It is tho spirit that builds churches, fills Sunday schools, preaches the word of | God, tills the treasuries of the churches, and regulates all Christian work. The divine leaven is behind all | this work that you see; it 1 hid in the heart of man, 1 leaven was hid in the meal, but it worked, never- theless; so, though you cannot see the divine leaven, itis working ail the time. Tho divine leaven, when it operates on the human heart, no matier what deceits, what iniquities, may bave clouded it betore, drives them all away. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Despite the intense heat there wasa large attendanco at (he Cathedral yesterday and the services were con- ducted with the usual solemnity. The officiating cler- gyman at the last mass was the Rev. Father Meister. There was u0 sermon, it being considered prudent to dispense with it owing to the oppressive character of the weather. The choral arrangements were excellent. HUGUENOT MEMORIAL CHURCH. ‘The Huguenot Memorial church, an edifice just com- pleted at Pelham Manor, Westchester county, was Among | those who participated in the services were many familics of Huguenot extraction, residing in the town of Peliam and the agjoining towns of New Rochelle and Mount Vernon. The church, which presents a neat appearance. will seat about 850 persons, aud is situated A grove of stately onk, hickory and otoer forest (trees of apparent primeval growth. In the forenoon, the pastor, Kev. Dr. Lord, D. D.. of New Rochelle, delivered a discourse on the religious history of the Huguenots; the canvea which ied to their organiza- | tion in France; the persecution before which many of them fled to the Western Hemisphere, and their prog- ress in this country dowa to the preseat time, | Huguenots of France,” he said, “held | to all the peculiar truths’ of the Reforma. | tion. They were earnest advocates for an | open Bible—the right to read ant interpret the Serip- vures according Lo thir obvious import. They held to | the suj.reme authority in matters of taith, and that oo human ecciesiasticism or power should compel them to do away with the free use of the Holy Scriptures, or the liberty of interpreting them according to their own best reason and judgment and the dictates of an en- lightened conscience. During the afternoon addr sses were given by clergymen living in the adjacent towns The church, which 18 of the Presbyterian denomination, | is understood to be the onty centea: mem Huguenot edifice of its character in the United St WORSHIP IN THE WOODS. THE SUPERIORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES OVER PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE, Sea Curr, L. 1, July 9, 1878 The promised camp mecting opened last might in the Tabernacle at this place with a sermon by the Rev. Dr, Duncan, of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, a bitod man, eloquent, who was able to recite passages trom different Psaims to constitute his Scripture lesson. His theme was tho promise of alight in the darkness for the upright. The Doctor took the ground that uo matter by what devominational names we may be calied there ts but one true church. which ts styled in bis text tho upright. ‘The Doctor gave some interest- ing remimiscences of his own life and experience and his discourse exhibited a wondertal flow of choice | literally carried owt, for another preacher had been | booked for last night's service, but he fatied to arrive, and hence the Doctor, who had been appoinied for to. | mortow, stepped to the breach jast ight, and filled the gap nobly and well, This morning Dr. Jobn M. Reid, of the Mission Peaima, cxix., 129, It was an able effort to show the su- periority of the Scriptures over human philosophy, science, inveliectual culture, ke, Philosophy has sought in vain to find the origin of matter, and thas had io come to this Book and read in the very first chapter, “In the beginning God ercated the heavens and the earth.’’ And chis is the postulate unto which all true sctenee bas come at this day and to which it must come ultimately. We tura to this book di itis WONDERFUL POR WHAT IT TELLS chant the intern Tr is wandertal alsa in ite moral 6.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. teachings, The morsiny of Confucius, Lycargus and ail the teachers of the old and heathen lands would not be tolerated at tnis day. Bast here to this book we have a code of morals shat bas never becn equaliod and can’t be surpassed. And how do you a couut for it that the men who wrote this book, tor the most part unlettered, could give us such a code? ‘There is only one reasonable answer—a mester mind was behind dictating what they sbould write. This beok has a sirauge power over the lives of men, and this power has been acknowledged by tho enemies as weil as the friends of Christ and the Word, The Doctor re- ferred, in illustration, to what the Bible has done for women, for orphans and aged and infirm; for the in- 0, the sick and the helpless of every sort and name. ‘Tots boot has 6o much power that if you plant it a where in the taidst uf wrong that wrong soon disap- pears, Avd the book itself deciares that it bas this power, aud that {ts power 1s to xo op increasing until wars shall cease unto the endsofthe earth, Why have ronarchs gathered armies together to destroy this book and guarded their fronti: duction to their territories? They dreaged its iniiuence and opposition to their tyranoy, Why did the Romen Catholics refuse a few years ago to admit tue DOUAY BIBLE INTO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, when wo ugreed to substitute it for our own superior version? ‘They could not bear the light even of their own translation, They prefer darkuess rather than light. No one who reads tt can tnil to discover that (hore is a wonderful power ta the Book of God. It isa power that cap upheave kingdoms and shake dynasties, A few yeats ag) we had a rebellion in China, aud what was very remurkable, those engaged in it sung Praises to the divine God, and the only way that this could be accounted for was that years before the mis- sionaries had given portione of this book to the people, and it had # permeated their life that had the rebel- lon continued in the same spirit in wnich it began we might have had avother dymasty on the throne o! China to-day, and one in favor of the Word of God. Dr. Retd then dwelt awhile on the cousistency of the Word of God with itself, [thas been tried and tesied by men and yet that word is stronger to-day thavever. And there never was a period when men read it more closely than they read it to-day. I: is said that (he world ha advanced beyond it, bit tho great men of ine world are relying on it more and more largely to-day than ever. The Doctor referred to the persccation of laity in France, « century and more ago, and remarked that the enemies of the Bible have only shown to us more clearly what a buon God has given io us in His word, Reviewing tho CONFLICTS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION, Dr. Reid remarked that the Copernican system first grappled with the Bible, but now no man is fooi enough te found an argument ‘on what God said to the eariy pe of our race. He conid not make them compre- end a system which was not tven known. And more over {t has now been proved by science that the sun revolves on its own axis, and that light exists inde- pendent of the sun just as the Bible declares it does. Geology also grappled with this Book. She said she had gone down to the lowest strata of the earth and had found that the chronology of Moses was false Many a man’s heart sunk within him for a while, Even Lyell, the Christian geologist, feared to speak a word. But Christian men went down into those geoiogic mines and they returned without finding any such in- But what they did tind was the declaration everywhere legibly inscribed:—‘She is not here; she Js risen.’? And now there are more Christian geolo- ts in the world than Infidel, Hicrology — also rappled with 1% and claimed to bave found Zodiacs and inscriptions on temples in Kgypt thousands of yeara older than Moses deciared the earth’s chronology to be. But the Champoilions ot France went to Ezypt and visited those temples and on their coilings they discoverod unmistakable evi- dence of their Roman ogigin. And so it has been every time when science has $tappled with this Book. The latter has always been victorious, Dr. Reid dwelt on tho wonderful adaptability of the Bible to human con- ditions. While human laws have to be changed every year to meet altered conditidns of society this hook has never been changed and does not need to be, It is as much your book and mine as It was Moses’ and | Job’s and Isaiah’s and Paul’sandJohn’s, Itis ADAPTED ALSO TO EVERY GRADE OF INTRLLECT. | It contains truths so simple that the child cun under. stand thera and go profound that the philosopher and the sage can’t master them. We never outgrow the book! It is the bock ef our childhood, of oar youth, of manhood and old age, It comes to the child of tender years and says, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,’ and it comes to the man in middle lite and ip advanced years with the very same words. But you will tell me that we have to givo the Boox different interpretations now to what we gave it years ago, to mako it conform to science. Granted. But cvery interpretation makes it purer and better, and more consistent and easier to bo understood, Do you know any other book that could stand 60 many different interpretations and yot be as good and as true as it over w Why the text books that were used in our boyhood have been cast aside worthless, because human knowledgo has advanced 80 far beyond them that they can’t be used The discoveries of science have made the firat chapter of Genesis more intelligible than it was before There is in this Book all needed promises, warnings, Instructions, reproots, &c., for all mon, at all times and under all circumstances. You know there is a superstition that says you can go to this Book and open it anywhere at random aud you will know what course to pursue It ney be supersti- sion; but it is a tribnte to this Book. And da-you wonder that the psalmist says, thercfore doth my soul keep thy testimonies. AFTERNOON AND EVBXING SERVICES. Attwo P. M. a obildren’s meeting was held in the Tabernacle, which was addressed by Rt Mr. Oim- stead. At the same hour a prayer meeting was held in the chapel, and at three P. M. Rev. Mr, Thobrun, of India, preached from John, xvi, 7—a sermon on the personal presence and work of the Moly Ghost in the world n the evening the Rev, Lindsay Parker, of Ansonia, Conn., preached trom II, Timothy, 4, 18—“1C we believe not be abideth faithful and cannot deny himself." The jeading thoughts or the discourse were an application of the text to those who retuse to believe tor the lack of evidence. Some say they find it impossible to believe. The position which God takes 1s that If they believe not He w fath{ul. He Kuew what the rece was apd understood its mental coustitation before He gave it this law. The text was applied also to the carcicss unbel ; metrically opposed to the sceptic; for scepticism im- plies investigation, but they neither investigate nor beliove, They build their hopes on God, leav- ing a margin for salvation somewhere. | They make promises and nover keep them. They compre- hend a large class who make no profession and do nothing to apply the Word of God to themselves, But God will make Do law to suit exceptional cases. There is but one condition for all—faith; aud ho that be- lieveth not shali be condemned. The text was next | applied to the Christian to whom it {s 1p the nature of acovenant; and, though ho may break the coveuant, God isfaithful He cannot deny Himeselt. There Avere very excellent congregations morning and evening —about 1,000 persons at each service, The aiternoon congregation Was small, but to-morrow and next day large crowds are expected to be present, and the clerical force will be largely incrcased, SEMI-CENTENNIAL EXERCISES, Yesterday was the fiitietn anniversary of the estab- lishment of the Sabbath school connectea with the O!d North Bapust church, corner of Christopher and Beutord streets, of which the Rev. John J. Brouner is the pastor. There were morning, afternoon and even- ing services, all largely attended. Many of the old scholars were present and evinced marked pleasure and inierest in the exercises. The church edifice was profusely though tastefuily decorated with flags, flowers, &c. At the rear of the pulpit were portraits of Washington and Lincoln, the frames being trimmed with the national colors. Centrally located at the rear was avery iargo American flag, Dircetly over the pulpit was an arch of gas jets, underneath which appeared in figures, formed of evergreen, * 1826” aud 1876." On the floor of the platform on either side of the pulpit wero two baskets of flowers, with red and white flowers as a groundwork, and with blue flowers forming the figures 1826 and 1870 respectively. The banners of tho Sunday school were tastefully placed on the pulpit and gracciully interspersed with the flags and bunting along the bases of the galleries. In the corners below the galleries were two banners bearing these devices udependence, Honesty, Pa triovem, Faith"? “Liberty, Union, Coneord, Hope.” Below the aitar was a shield flanked with the colors. Teachers and chibiren, vearly 600 in number, at tencea the services, ench wearing a red, white and blue ribbon badge surmounted by a silver eagle, MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY, Dennison Smith, a negro, of No, 306 West Forty-sixth stroet, was brought to Fifty-seventh Street Court yes: terday, charged with beating his wife and giving her a black eye. mith seemed to be in a pions mood, and he would occasionally rise in his scat, and, striking an oratorical attitude, deliver a sermon on the immorality of the world, ff not to the ediication, at least to the Amusement of the assembled court, Such orations were invariably cut short by his being ignominiousiy dragged to bis seat by the officers, toward whom he wonld turn, and, rolling his eyes hideously, ejaculatc the prayer, “Oh, do go0d Lord forgive dem, for dey know not what dey say. iam de chosen spirit of de Lord, and my duty 1s to preach de Gospel, Which | shail do, do’ dey crash my boy and cast me into dungeous.”’ ‘He would thon pray that the Lord would confer bumility on his wife, of whieh she was aestiute Justico Kasmiro asked him why he beat bis spouse if he were eo Christiaulike im spirit. He gaid that on Saturday she chased bim with a poker for rome reason unknown, and he was obiiged to a id himself. The Court shought his ex eusea poor one, and Leld him to keep the peace in $800 bail, im default of which be was locked up, MORMON IMMIGRANTS. Tho steamship Idano, commanded by Captain Bed. doe, will probably arrive iu this port to-day from Lv. erpool, bringing 600 Latver Day Saints, who will be de. spatched to Salt Lake City forthwith by Mr. W. C Staines, Utah Emigration Agemt. This is tho largest batch of Mormons which will arrive this year, and they consist principally of Scandinavians. A party of 100 | arrived im this port some weeks ago by the Nevada, | acd Mr. Ernest Young, son of President Brigham, ar- rived ip this city recently from an extensive Karopean tour, The Mormon emigration promises to be very Vent this season, to prevent it# intro. | EXCURSIONS, THOSS WiO FLED rROM THE MEAT ARD WHEMI THEY FLED TO. The sun rose yesterday with an intensity that prow ised ere his course wasruu to set the mercury te dancing among the “big ainetios” and to work havoe with the sweet tempors and starched shirt fronts of tne denizens of the taetropols, Before ecvem o'clock is the morning the ttreets along the Nerth and East rivers were alive with ihe throng» fecing trem the heat by some oue of the many steamboats thar lay ready tostart. Among tho oldest mariao rerorta tn the vr cinity of New York are the Fishing Banks, betwees the Higniands aad Long Brance, Forty years sgo, 1m deed, 1t was the only one. Rockaway, Coney Lsiand, Leng Branch aud a dozen others ave since sprugg ap, aud he rush to the Banks i not so groat at formerly. Besides, in thoso days, fish were # plentiful there that excursionists threw away as man} | as thoy carried bucks; but now, wha: with the constem |. dropping of lead and tine aud she thougandfo!d more disastrous dropping of ashes trom the passing steam ships, fish have become scarce in comparison with the old days, although vccasionally good hauls are made now. Another causeo! the decline in popularity of the Banks is the idea prevalent auong our citizens Ubat none but the roughest charactors visit them, This was really the case for some years, when all the = *gangs’”— ofthe inetropolis patronized the piace aud by their pt kept respectable people away. 1t has lately and since the dungetous characters have translerred their affec- tions eisewhere become again a family resort and bua- dreds of peuple visit them daily. ‘Al niuo o'clock yesterday morning a large crowd, inciuding many children, were waiting for the steamers Twilight and Sei Low at pier 2 North River, the last janaing made tn the city. The men of the party, tor the most part, carried rods and lines andample market buskete, These slowed away, tho vessel ab once out into the stream and in a moment caught nurchwest breeze off the Battery. Ploughing against the tide, the spray from the veséel’s prow plashed im a cvoling shower over the edge of her lower deck, a cool breeze from the ocean fanned the passengers and the Vessel passed ovt into the beautiful Bay, ‘Skim ming over the water the Twilight now passed yacht with a pleasure party on beard, and lungs were Sirained ou botu sides in vain endeavors to bail each other, Again, a brig, with « foreign flag, lazily gliding over the waves, Was Sighted and lett behind ere wl eye had done admiring the graceful curve of ber belly. ing canvass. Meanwhile the scene on board the steamer was worthy of more than passing glance On the promenade around the lower deck, just imside the rail, and only a couple of feet above the water, were SUNDAY | Tanged ‘the anxious disciples of Isaak Walton, ovlivious of the scenery and absorbed in rigging rods und lines, aud in consrivin, carious baits for ish.” Here aud there in the line by the side of hasband, brother or lover was seated a femalo angler. rhe Germans sang, and now and then an “Ach, metn Gott)” announced that some Inex- perienced angler had fastened the pointof a hook in his neigubor’s call, ‘Tbe Cent ‘spirit had not ovupo- rated froin the party, for along the top of the rail, stuck in holes made by the pocket kaives o( the anglers, and umong lite heaps of bait, ilutered little tiny fags, Upou the decks of the cabin inside happy couples threaded to the music ofa harp and violin the mazes of the waitz, and chituren ran hither and thither at play. On the deck above tired ones were resting in the staterooms, OFF LONG BRANCH, And so eating, drinking, singing. dancing, chattin, ana making love, the spiritiess relugees irom New Yor! were borne aiong, til, on the Jersey snore, 1,000 fags floating against bho sky proclaimed the proximity of Long Branch. A mile or two this side of the watering place the anchor was dropped, and simultanceasiy 100 lines were thrown over the vessel's side. Three hours of quictude amid the cooling aceau breezes and then, when the fishermen had uauted in their fiony prizes, @ run back to the city, where ali arrived tired, hungry and happy to take up their burdens of Jife for anetn week. OTHER EXCURSIONS. The pleasures detailed above were also enjoyed b; a large numver who went down en the steamer Set Low. Fort Lee, Pleasant Valley and Shady Side wert visited by throngs. Newburg 2 ap attraction fei many who went thither on the steamer Long Branch, with Captain Curt \d was crowded throughous thé da: ewark, Keyport and other points on the Jersey coast were reached by many New Yorkers on the steamere Thomas P. Way and Matteawan, The General Sedgwick aud the Seawanhaka bore happy party to Great Neck. Kockaway Beach and Coney Island received thetr full quota of reiugees from the heat. Many went thither by the cars from Fulton ferry, Brooklyn, and ths steamers Idlewild, Eliza Hancox and Pilot Boy madue reguiar trips ali day. TO ROCKAWAY. There were excursions to Rockaway by various lines of steamboats yesterday, in the morning and afternoon. The special attraction, however, was the Plymouth Rock, which has become more famibarized to the pub- lic than any other boat by reason ef its nu- merous trips im past seasons to all points of interest in and around the bay and harbor of New York. Commodore Tooker sat on the capstan of the steamer, near the gangway, yesterday alternoon, watching the stream of people that from all points of the compass tlowed down to the Plymeuth Rovk. This was at the foot ef Twenty-secona sircet Almost 3,000 people passed over the gangway at the foot of this street. 1 might be thougit the vessel wus | then uboutas comtortabiy filed as she weil could bo, but at pier 2, where in the neighborhood vi twoo’ciock she pulled up to receive an auxiously awaiting crowd, as many more crossed the gang plank, and when fairly out im the stream the Plymouth Kock might be said to | bave on board the population of a fair sized town. The tmid ones said, ‘‘Ha’int we got too many on beard, Commodore?" to which the latter wouli reply by saying, ~*Chudren, you don’t know the capacity of this boat, she can | carry safely almost as many more ax she now holds.” Certainly the Plymouth Rock was tested yesterda: perhaps, except on one or two occasions, ahi ae Hever tested before. She started in the morming with only a moderate freight of jassengers, but in the alternoon she bad hardly a seat to spare lor the jadies, and as for the gentlemen, they occupied or ratber swarmed over every available space on the vessel. Music, vocal and instrumental, broke the mo- notony of the voyage down the bay, and when Rocka- way was reached there was a grand’ outpouring of the passengers on the beach. The morning trip gavo the visiiors to Rockaway something like five hours to lounge about and bathe or do as they pleased. The afiernoon trip allowed nearly two hours of a sta: which was eagerly availed of by most of the m folks to take adipin the salt water. The crowd oa board was too large for individual comfort, but the precedented rush, owing to the intolerable heat withis tho city, for the cool breezes of the bay, was uuantiel- pated, and could hardly have been provided for. Wher the boat returned at night its swarm:ng freight of pas sengers tilted all tho downtown streets to that extent that the Sabbath evening resembled a workday aoon- | tide. SHE LOVED HIM, NOT WISELY! At the Fifty-seventh Streét Police Court Louis Mor timer was arraigned on a charge of abducting a sixteen. year-old girl from her home. The complainant was the girl’s mother, a respectable looking woman named Aun Curry. Mortimer, who is rather handsome, de. | nied thathe had abducted tho girl, and said he had never allured her by any promises of marriaze, bus | | that she had voluntarily lived with im. The’ girl ner- self, who is also very beatiful, though of rather di- midutive stature, corroborated tement, and, in- deed, throughout the whole case sho seem. d to mant- | lestadesire to save ber lover. Judge Kasmire said | that in view of the fact that the evidence con- _cius:vely showed that there was no abduction he was reluctantly compelled to dischaige tne prisoner, He warnea him, however, that the | ) | path he was leading was one of ‘great ai | ger, and that if the father of some be. trayed daughter should seek his lifo as a satisfaction ; tor the lost honor of some darling daughter, his sym- pathies would be with the enraged parent. ’ Mortimer was therefore discharged, and on leaving the court was | followed by the faiher, who was an excited spectator | ot the proceedings. As frequent threats were made by bim against Mortimer she officer who made the arrest was compelled to escort him, lest in his oxeited state he might do him bodily harm. The girl, who sald openly that she loved him, and who wept vieleatly on hearing her father threaten him, was sont to the House the Good Shepherd. She evidently believes that “Love laughs at locksmiths,” for she promised to re- join her lover soon. RIVER THIEVES CAPTURED, / Atan early hour yesterday morning tha Captain of the canal boat Schuylor, lying at Commercial Wharf, Red Hook Point, South Brooklyn, was aroused from | his siumbers by the noise of men moving about the cabin of the vessel in which he slept. He sprang from his bok and the river thieves, for such the: Made off. Subsequently William Brown, of No. 11° lnlay street, and Johu Farrell, of No. Van Bru street, were arrested and locked oy at the Eleventh Precinct to answer for the uninvited and bi Visit to the caval boat, gprinio POVERTY AND CBIME, One of the first cases brought to the notice of Jastics Bixby In the Essex Market Police Court yesterday re vealed one of the worst phases of the life of the lower | Orders of thoeity. Oficer Cullen, of the Thirteenth | Precinct, who made the compiaint, arraigned before the Judge Annie Marphy, Daniel, aged seven yoars, and five months, The officer, who & singularly comprobensive and intelligent manner, eaid:—Jodge, I took this woman In as an act ef onar- ity. Her hasband is a m works om the oil barges, Four days ago they were dis; where they Itved, at No, 399 Madison sircet, and wane [CONTINUED ON WINTH PAQRA ia \ ye a” 4 4