The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1876, Page 6

6 SABBATH DAY TEACHINGS, Preaching in the Different | Churches Yesterday. RED SEAS OF LIFE. General Custer and the Lessons of Our Indian Policy, THE POWER OF GOD'S LOVE, Centennial Discourses in New York .and Brooklyn. eemierieerse CHURCH OF THE Z RED SEAS DISCIPLES. ERMON BY THE REY. OF LIFE—s MR. HEPW( Perhaps the fall in the thermometer was the cause of such a large gathering Mr. Hepworth’s church yesterday morning. Anyway the people were there and the minister's text was from Exodus, x “But the children of Israel walked upon dry the midst of the sea.’ Yery greatly neglected, said bh and in mistake, for no man can interpret the New Testament | except by the Old, The time ef Christ is but a fulfil. meut of the prophesies of Moses, The sunshine ot the cross is the logical result. of the shadows in which the Israelites walked, the prophecy of the New—the ke, mysteries and these str 0 dificult rightly to interpret. priv over the symbolisin which is given in its pages for us, The Israclices hud only one interpre tation—that of fact or historical truth; but we Chris- tians have a double interpretation for our inspiration and encouragement, Let me give you one or two Mustrations of what 1 mean, You know when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea they were in the hot tands of the desert; they nearly perished of thirst, and instantly Moses appeared in their miust and struck a tock, and out of the bosom of the rock shere tlowed a stream that maae its tight through the —_Israclitisn encampment, We can almost sec them now—parched with tho terrible thirst, looking with wonder upon this miracle and their falling down on their knees and drinking their fill of this water which comes miracu- lously tuto their ridst, If we turn to the New Testa- ment we shall find that CHRIST 18 CALLED THB ROCK, and we will not forgot that we are told He is a well ot living water, and that ifa man shall drink of that water he shall not thirst again, Let me call your xt- tention to another tact of the same kind. The Vid Testament is that unfolds all its It 18 a very beautiful lege to {srachtes were in tho desert they bad no natural Means of geting food, So Moses called out to God told Hin of their want, aud the neat morning when the — Israelites looked out of their tents they hitle shiming particles allthrough the desert, aud cach nian tok his meus- uro und gathered ® hittle bits of material aud then Made ihem into bread or cakes for consumption. Now, We have this simple statement that God fed His people with manna; but this ts noveverytdnng, The manna in the Wilderuess thousands ot y ago Was UL a jype of the same tobe aking of the world, in , iv came down trom ural production, So was it heaven and wus nota p with Christ, He was not born in the natural w ved of the Holy Ghost. irom Beaven, He was a stranger He lett His throne and midst of the by pu remember that the manna cat Nota singie moruing looked upon eumnpinent of Isracliies wihout the um: excopt.the Sabbath day, and then ¢ betore twice as much came down.’ Is it not so witu Christ? is it not so witu the Provi ence of God always’ When we trust in Hun do not we receive from ve our best gitts! I have gone far enough to show you there is « Wouder- ful sort of typology between tue Old Testament the New. Now | want to to you a little abon passage through the R The ple were si remember. 1! ; pwn the Hey maelye: God were owned by seourged by the arly and lave, aved Ho fr jvough some ot our ne that we have got them 7 us even Low are both men and women who are brutally treated and in boudege—people who work early and luie tor nought~-wemeu day jong and a nt, 1a Whose lives 1 or trust in a hig! I thank us there is a tion, We are exiled to ireedon THE OWNS and are to belong to it for their w York ng » contidenee I that to all of to emancipas We are called into vervthing up to Him. We are to yield ourselves to His superior wis- dom and generous helpfuliess. We are tike the israel tes. There is th sea to be passed many a me sare many Red Seas in the worid to. x back \Ou Wil seo one in your own ¥ e either crossed it in. triomp! Dorue by it, You have n twoutd bh of it touay. undonbiediy 1 me when I er how halt the people live, 1 to me why how we get or over the rongh place time in Urs generavon, to my thinking, when we ougnt to ers a 0 yW that we are , Freely deriul sat Little, He has privilege to be Loses ands wide with a wond and » Wh d ¢ on the western the waters and see them part, and then tur forward. God 18 using me for you. Ue: me tell you a litt ce. It is new to me Will be new to you. A poor woman, a few months camo from a distont part ot ‘this country, g to better ber tion, She bad been n comfortable cireumstan he avalanche ea ind KWwept everytt fren mv Aope was to ¢ and find some "7 With what anxiety s who promis her heart musi the term “mother the future. Men cannot understand this, but women appreciate tho jceling and are touched in sym} One day she received cr from je child, il s ammatical be, but the si her ebildren away. nto the woman’s Jace liren, and sand Adeserved ; bad broken art, and the lotter 1 rom beginning to money, with tiis Her was ho lee ro her, er, and there the the mother your blessings wayen or the without a Moses. and death. 7 there are clouds waters; bave litted the gone from eur view. Warm with life arc row cold Jook upon lips that ar has ctaimed them for his eyes to-day in every household Mother, pister or brother, wile or hus! bas bid you goodby ing word. And yet there isa greater thao M stands by your sid those w asunder. When we tru hrt even the Red Sea of the Jordan shall be divide we shall pass dry shod over the bed of the w that we neéd is simply to trast in Christ. Th foriul rod that Moses swung im the air isa t trosa, and he who walks in the derkness has uo cross, dut bo who bears the cross of Christ aloft walks m the light. There is no powor like the power of faith tnd there is nothing that ean Litt u so much as a warm, living, personal love aud trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, CENTENNIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, QE DEATH OF GENERAL CUSTER AND THE nd or child that LESSONS OF OUR INDIAN POLICY—SERMON BY | BEV. JUSTIN D. FULTON. Teeterday forenoon Rev. Justin D. on preached @t the Centennia Baptist chureb, Clinton avenue, near Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, upon the “Death of General Garter and the Lessons of Our Indian Policy.” Ho took for bie text the words of Jeromian, xivtil., 17 @aliye that are about bim bemoan him, and all ye kat koow his name say, How is the strong staf Broken and the bosuttiul rod! The reverend gentle: man said that these words brought to mind th nge, wonderful things we find | bed | When the | foiling all | ne without a part. | tnat had been said by those who fought with General Custer and those whe bad fought agaist him. The probability that the gallant Custer had made a mistake was one too foolish to keep in view. Custer | may have been impulsive, but the only | fault considered by those who blame bim | | was his failure, Had he been successful his name and fame would have been mscrived in history for one of the most daring and gallant efforts recorded. Criti- cism is very ready atall times upon the poticy of t sovernment in the treatment ol the Indians, and yet but very little 4s really known upon that important question. In settling the Indian problem the soldier as always been the chief agent. Honor Was paid to valor and so valor was made abundant, To-day the eyes of those brave men on the Plains in the Far West are upou us Let us be true to these soldiers who leave their homes, their wives, their chiidrén and have abandoned all eomforts that’ they may punish the savage and thereby protect the homes of their tellow countrymen and vindicate the power of the govern- ment in maintaining the law of tho land. They mye gone forth to punish the Indian fien .in human form who have burned the hom of white settlers, burned fathers and children and rav- ished poor, heipless women. This is the question which is before tho soldier to-day, the speaker next called the attention of his hearers to the treachery of the Indian chief Samtanta, It was against such people that General Guster went forth to light, Mr. Fulton briefly sketched the antecedents of Custer, whose name, he said, was imseribed on the roliof fame for decds of valor periormed in the Army of the Potomac, When the dark CLOUD OV INDIAN WAR tue Seventh cavairy, Generals Sherman aud Sheridan both saidto Custer, “We want youto come on here and take the ticld aguinst (bese Indians.’ And he obeyed the summons, It has been said of Custer that be was very vain, and full of ambition, He has been accused of being proud | of lus personal appearance. All that sort of vanity does exist not upfrequentiy among imavy brave and itel- jectual men and Women, But there was one thing i Custer which every good man and woman must feel | proud of, He was beautiful in the purity of his cha- | | racter. “He was pure of nature. He had no camp vices. He never drank liquor, nor did ti . | in any shape, He bad an especial dret, Whom he gathered about bim in cy an hour each day taught them to read and spell, Mling | the bearts of the little scholars with the beauties of the | mspiration of his genius. He was as | POND OF THE Pe | as he was of the sword, aud bis “Life on tho Plain | the speaker said, was well worth being read by all | Joung wen, as graphically and gracetully writen. His memory for minate details incidents was vet e- markable. There 18 no exaggeration in hjs description, He was every inch a suidier and may be termed iho Murat of the army, As" cavalry Jeader be had no su- | perior, Mr, Fuitou then proceeded to discuss | THE QUAKER POLICY | | affecti of dealing with the red m They have no taste for civilizat.on, They are lazy and unwilling co do work or todo good, When you Christianize the Indian, how- ever, you will wake up God in the man. Through At Trinity church yesterday the morning sermon religion bean : a ae srace the be eatecs. was preached by the Rev, Dr. Dix. The text was from | has been to give him the best guns ia the world ant pr®mise him more supplies, But it has not made him | willing to work. When Custer was seut to fight these | savages he abandoned ull hope of military renown, He knew the Quaker sentiment and the sympathy pe a the land for * the poor Indian,” “the defenc | less red man,” He knew itwas asked, ‘Are not these white men guilty?” and “Are not the poor India guiltless?’ There were no bonors for Indian fightin, | General Sheridan haa written in one of his reports on | the subject of Indian policy that we would tiever be able to dictate terms to the Indian until we had pun- | ished him, Ifa white man commits murder he ts pun- ixhed, but ifan Indiau murders anybody we give arms and better tare. Civiization can’ never civilize the Ind: squaw, Sitting Ball has said he will “drive the whites w the sea? It is not trae that General Custer started this Indian war now waging. He simply went where he was ordered to go, and there he did his duty nobly, The law of the land must be carried into | effect on the Plains as well as in every otber part of | the country. To accomplish this work the sOidier is astaif in the hand of the government. The times are tull of peril. There is strife bétween tho negroes and the whites in the South, and men everywhere aro out of labor. Public sentiment born in religion, Religion must come into fashion because it 1s right. The only power of right in the world comes from God’s rule in it, and God's rule must be felt on the Pining. Nothing else will Act undersiandingiy, then, that 3 government eflectuaily in doing its nove work, Fight must take hold of the heart of man, because itis right. In cd Mr, Fulton ‘a high tribute to the nobie Western general who had died in the periorman his duty. in the protection of the ironticr homes and upholding the su- premacy of bis country’s laws, umay gird the +e CHURCH OF ALL SOULS. j DIVINE FRIENDSHIP—SERMON BY REY. RUS- } SELL N. BELLOWS, | At the Church of All Souls, corner of Twentieth street and Fourth avenue, yesterday, Rev. Russell N. | Bellows preached to a congregation of about thirty peo- ple on “Divine Frendship.”’ The small attendance was evidently due to the heat of the weathor, as nearly all the churebes were very slimly attended. The re erend gentleman took his text from Romans, vii, 15— “Por ye have not received the spirit of bondage again | tofear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba, Father; and from James, ti, 24—Ana Abraham was called the friend of God.” He said:—There is no doctripe of any religion more full and universal than the doctrine of tho “Fatherhood of God."’ Yet being so full and univer- gal there is none so little appreciated. creator of our being, but we do not seem to realize that relation of the friendship of God, For we do not merely look up to God as a child, but we beve the more intimate tie of being able to enjoy a friendship with Him. If we can realize what is possible here in the higher forms ot human friendship, we will be able to penize rejation of ours with our Creator, is indeed our Father, who has given us life, and we look up to Him with the love of a child. We lat tookea up to Him king and the ruler of the universe. But when Jesus i | the coming of Jesus into this world we quate representation of what the frendship of God ant. He presented us not only as sons of God but | as Iriends of God. There is nothing new in this pre- sentation but as it takes hold of us and influences our lite, There is doctrine evough in the world at present, but if it takes hold of us aud brings forth Iruit itis most all good enough for our salvation, If this doc | trine of THY PATHERMOOD OF GOD | should hold us it would fill our minds and hearts with | Mis spirit and inspire us to great work m His naine; but the trouble 18 we hold the doctrine generally and the doctrine does uot noid us; we look upon itas a mere intellectual proposition, and it never enters our Jet ns see how human friendship differs from: the other relations of lite, AS eLildren we iook up to our parents and love them. As we grow up our paths are often In d-vergent lines, avd thongh we may be always their children we not always hold the po- tiow of intimate friends, But there does come a ime through the developement of parent and ebild when a | closer relation often, comes into — existence— that of intimate friendship, When we — see jit among those why aro #0 in years we see it m it most beau- tif “form. — What more precious relation in human lite is there than the higher forms of | friendship? There is something very beautiful in the love of a little child for its parea dignity of the friendship of a later Lf It is given to few of us to know what is friendship in its highest forms, [tis not mere business councction, social re- Intion nor even the communion of ilar’ Interests. It is where people are brought together by community of some HIGH AND NoMLE PURPOSR, where orch one knows the other mtimutely, a friend ship where im ail ¢riais and troubles true syinpathy ts found withoat a word being spoken. Men or women who have found friends of this kind find it barder to | love them than their blood relations, Such friend. ship is not establehod ma ora it is born of God and rough God, relation ef human friendship can be of such said of its helpiutness, what, then, must b © heaven than the though rk. ‘That wo are ted that I cannot explain to the couseioust is such a iellowship beween us and the Infinite One strikes ws at some periods of our If Diasplemy to Seem to feel that wo have « sometimes. It t# onl ja such relations outs that we can fealize what we niean by divine Though im may be strong tie power of is stronger, and when We throw ourselves on Hint ceive His sympathy and His friendship, Iti therefore, to say sometimes we are the | fends of God, and | » something every day to make the friendship more pericet, i's apyroval God we ni nyt boastinl, CHURCH OF TH THE POWER oF SERMON DY THE | REV. HENRY 6. DLINN, The congregatious of the Brick church, the Rutgers Presbyterian, Rev, Dr. Conkling, and the Church of the | Covenant, Rev. Dr. Vincent, assembled yesterday in the latter edifice to hear a sermon by the Rev, Honry | G. Blinn, of Cambridge, N. ¥. COVENANT, GoD's Lov ling is at Narragansett Bay and Dr, Vineet is at Bris- tol, RL Each congregation averages 650 5 At the opening of the service the beautiful Chureb of the | Covenant, at Park avenue and Thirty-(itu street, was fairly filled, Mr ey presided at the organ, and during the service the choir, composed Of Miss Kato E. | Stark, roprano; Miss Louise Kemlo, contralto; Mr. | George G basso, rendered tho hymus and chants with grace ana fecting. The minister selected the text of Jeromian, XXxi +I baye loved thee with an everiasting love; therefore with loving kindness havo 1 drawa thee.” | In presen his thoughts expianatory of tha | text, the acher stiui—Homen iaoguoge is ret’ 1h words that express the | swarming, | muititudinous human thoughts, aifections, and arose, at a time whon he was but licutenant colonel of | Labor, the warriors say, is only fit for the | The remedy must come in the forin of | | j We know that | the Infinite One stands in the light of our parent as the | | ne we knew that we | | could look up to Him as our father and our friend. On | received an | divided | human | tithes not the | - | understandin It ix not | nd at scen | | The congregation of | the Brick church is now without a pastor, Dr. Conk. | kwood, tenor, and Mr..Jules Lombard, | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY; 17, 1870. desires, Delicate shades of meaning can be indi- cated with measurable accuracy thereby. Fine emo- tions, transcendent ideas, dainty conceits of heart and bratu, are, or may be trausiaied by speech and con- veyed to the understanding of men, Great sentiments | 01 awe and wonder aud power, of terror hope aud heartbreak, of reverence and aspiration and expocta- tion, of surprise and disappointment and regret, the numberiess other ideas, thoughts, sentiments and emo- tions that visit and inhabit men, bave been embodied in words. Throbbing passions stand gigautic in syll bled utterance. Anger and grict and love, joy, di spair and defiance, ali haze been clothed in speech, and thus conveyed to'other minds as the vital, vivid, elec- trie fluid ts conveyed by the charged mine from land to land, Yet human language tails lo express the power of God and His love; tails to oxpfess the vast, unspoaka- blo idea of God. How much more does langnuge be- come dumb en it would utter God's idea of Bimseit, vi this Supreme Being is hin self a subject! hat? The omnipotent God subject? Can the king ¥ Cun the government bo subject? the mighty God is subject To whom? To what? Notto»ny whom, for the uncreated Creator cannot owe allegiance to the created Tle is alone in Hys triune complete- uess of uncreated being. it is not, then, to any whom that God is under dominion, but to a law, a_prinerple. | And that principle is love. To the old French proverb, “Noblesse oblige,” we may add the English, ‘Love obliges."? Those whom love sways are, in a sense, slaves of a passion, a sentiment, anemotion. They at constrained by love to a given course of action. ts seen in the love displayed among inen. Observe the affection of a fond parent who strives and sacrifices and denies himself many needed things and all luxury in order to advance the schemesand purposes, the iter- ests and wellare of a good, clever, noble son. No one is surprised at these evidences of genuine affection, Love obliges. The case is changed when the same | striving, self-sxcriticing spirit 13 displayed toward a disobedient, aunatural and vicious ghild. Burdened by | stow hoartbreak, pain and anguish the parent labors on, creating surprise because the efforts do not cease. | Love lives and sirives, an indestrucuible principle. See | the love ieit by the wite for the unworthy husband, 1b | is one of the laws of love that the object for which most 1s borne and undergone becomes the dearest. | Why else is the mother’s tenderness the love nearest | God's? Is it not because of the long enduranee, the great sacrifice and the unequalled pangs the child has | cost her? It ts indeed these that render him a part of | her being, that her love cannot abandon him, and of ail her true oilspring what mother loves not most the one Joust fair and attractive! God is subject 10 this potent prinerp.e of love. Ttinheres in Him, Hear His declara- | Uon'that in heaven there is more joy over oye sinner that repenteth than over ninety-nine just persons that need no repentance. The preacher, in closing, elo- quen'ly entreuted those yet unreconciled to Goa, those who had gone astray, those who felt that no one cared tor their souls, to go back in spirit to the Father in heaven, who 18 mourning for their love, and longs, a8 did the father of the Prodigal Son, loving with an ever- | lasting love, and, with loving kindness, drawing ail men unto him. TRINITY CHURCH. SERMON YESTERDAY BY THE REY, DR. DIX. the first book of Samuel, ii, 12—Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew pot the Lord,’’ Hophm and Phinchas, the preacher said, the chil- | dren of the tribe of Levi, though brought up to be priests of the Lord, were as far off as they could be from the purposes of their lives. And still it seems strapgo that they should be so, for the Temple was their birthplace. In its sacred enclosure they made their | home. Their duties it would be supposed should hold them fast by the Lord, But in spite of their surround- ings, in spite of all that should have secured them from wrong, their hearts were evil and their con- | sciences corrupted. ‘They used their offices for | gain. Their father made feeble —_ remon- | strances, but they thrust him aside and went on their evil ways, Such was the life of those young priests who, though dweljing in God's Ghurch, were estranged from her spirit and purpose. | Nothing but a special intervention of God’s graco could save them, and they had forfeited the right to | such an interposition. After describing their destruc- tion by the Philistines the reverend preacher pro- ceeded to draw the moral of their lives, There was great danger, he said, tn living pear the good things of God and uot partaking of them; in hearing the trath and not accepting it There was danger in being per- mitted to live where religious privileges may be en- Joyed and, in disregard of the opportunities afforded, hving on as if no such opportunities were at hand, | What once occurred may come again in the latter days | 48 it happened in the former, 4f we examine our own | fives this consideration 1s apt to make us more thouzhttul, for tnere ts, to say the least, a possibility of danger, It is possible that, in spite of all God done in providing us with the means of grace ani the aids to a devout and re- higious life, some may be strangers to their divine Master, as were the sons of Eli, Precept aud persua- sion hem us in on every side, and to slight or reiuse | our opportunities is not merely a passing indifference. | It isa positive disregard, a rejection of the spirit of | the Holy Ghost. In our'day nothing is so Qimiliar as the sound of the Gospel. It is familiar to us now, and | has been since our childhood. Yet if we disregard it | what more 18 it to us than a dead letter? | It 18 possible with some that while living in the midst of Christian teachings, and while all they once knew, believed and — received as religious truth stands the same as it did when they Lirst received it, the} y have so changed from neg- lecting to partict: iu qheir duties that the truth has lost tor them its familar form. But the fault is theirs and only theirs, if the | change comes. Should this possible divorce between man aud his divine Redeemer come avout it is only by a continuance in sin in defiance to the re- | proaches of his conscteace and in presence of the sigus of oar redemption, Hence the Christian's sins havo | ever about them a tinge of desperation, The very ; body of the Christian is a temple of the Holy Ghost, and cach man is the priest of that temple. When he | sins, therefore, be must bave been trithug with holy things, and the priest has bees false to his cause, The average history of Christian lives presenta but little | variety, and tiie cases of direct providential interter- ence to arouse the sinner from his evil ways are very few, We should, thereiure, accept what God offers us in grace, for iL is nota thing of indifference whether wo | Use the mcans of salvation or not. To ty to serve God and Mammion at once is to live the lite of Hopani and lhinebas, the song of Eli. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. | THE BURNING BUSH—SERMON BY REV, DR. | ARMITAGE, Rov. Dr. Armitage preached at the above church yes- | terday from Exodus iti, 2-6, concerning the appear- ance of God unto Moses ina flame of fire out of the | midstof abush. fie said:—Tnere is no more inter- esting stugy in maa’s hfe and man’s work than the form of education by which he is fitted to perform his work. Every prophet and every priest had a particu- Jar education for his particular work. Moses required cighty years’ education for forty years’ work, The calling of Moses, after these eighty years of study and quiet, rom the midst of the burning bush, shows how God had prepared him thoroughly for the Iendership of anation, Moses bad been in Egypt forty years aud forty years in the desert, He had attempted to treo his peoplo before, but he did not attempt it in the night Moses then had fed, and now God comes in to him and makes the bramble bush preach to him upon the coad.tion of bis people The mystical meapding of the bush ed atsame lengih, He wenton to say that to such a pass in Egypt that every Nile had fed upon the chudren of God's Tho Isractites were required to une y were forbidden | to worsiiip any gods but those of heathen Egypt. This is only au instance of the fery ordeal through which | «i's Church was compelled to pass, and it has been | so in all ages. Since the Retormation 4,000,000 Protestants testified their faith with their blood; aud, whatis more shameful, the Protesianis wreaked their bloody ¥engeance upon Catholics after coming into power, This bush of the guide aud moniior, will lead us, quiet sheepovte to the scene of thi | and a‘realization of His strength, first ed ag a magnet upon Moses’ curiosity, and he said, and sec why this is not consumed, supposed that with his invellect and would have Known at once that tt Was a miracic and bave recognized the hand of God Aimguty. But he did not His cur only was | and after examination only Le fouud the trath, nGod spoke to him from the bush, waraing | him of the preseneo in which he stood, Moses began to unloos s, for the ground was holy, Ho didn't that he was ou holy oF your | om the | | One would hi Alter having deseribed the character of bis obedi- ence the preacher continued:—It is better, much betier, to obey God's commands without questioning your tninds about His reasons, L’ve noticed, when a mon is seeking the salvatipn of his soul, he is fre- quently concerned about the qacshion of “how sin got soto ihe world.” but Cnever kuew a than in this con- dition to ask the much greater question ol “how we aro going te get It oatagain.”” Better be moro cen- pet sin outot the world. Don't ye so anxious to look junto ths burning bush and see wh is doing in the Gre or why He te domg it 0 learn thet the bi is not consumed. It was a Wouderful monitor: ‘The fire bogan to talk’? Tho prying shepherd must keep ata respectful dis- tance from the mysteries of the descended God. We | have our limits, “Come not too near,” Take off your dust-besmeared sanda's. You may be bold enough to approach a flaming bush, but not the presence of the grcat Almighiy. When you are troubled Jet this bush be to you a monitorand guide, Listen to the voice of Him spesking from the midst, and wile you may not be, like Mose: a prophet, be assured that God loves you par friend and that He will | take care of you even in the midst of the flames. ST. STEPHEN CHURCH. | MIRACLE OF TILE LOAVES AND ¥ISHES—SER- | MON BY THE REY. DR. O'REMLY, | The Rev, Father MeCantey colebrated the bigh mass at St, Stephen's chureb, Kast Twenty-eighth street, yesterday morning, and the sermon was preached by | He interjected im his sermon his experiences of travel | terian pastor has begn directed to write ont during the | centenmal year a history of his church and congrega- day, in which 1s narrated the miraclo of the loaves and fishes, the subject of his discourse, ‘The preacher said that the miracles of our blessed Lord wero not in- tended as dazzling displays in proof of His divinity, but as a commemoration. They were also the types of the great mysteries which form the code of our Christiauity. Tif miracie of the loaves and fithes had a popular allusion to the holy euchar- ist. The preacher then went on to speak of the great numbers of the faithtul who receive the eucharist in this city on Sunday mornings, and each of renee fh ity ayy in a miracle far greater an that performed by our Lord in the multiplying of the loaves und fishes. “Christ said that those who were to come aft-r Him wpuld do greater things than He had done. The speaker went on to speak eloquently of power, mercy and justice of God, saying that und the three heads all the divine attributes might be considered. Having brietly g.ianced at these points ho again returned to the subject of the eucharist, dwelling on its reality and its sublimity avd on the wonderful mercy of God in giving 1% to His people. CALVARY BAPTIST CHUROH. GoD AS A ROCK—SERMON BY REV. RB & MACARTHUR, “Lead me to the rock that is higher than I’? These words of David, expressed im tho sixty-first Psalm, formed the text of a sermon delivered in Calvary Bap- tist church yesterday by its pastor, Rev. RS MacArthur, Thereverend gentleman drew a vivid pic- ture of the circumstances under which the words of the text were uttered and the sorrows which inspired | the invocation No man, said the preacher, who kuows the history of his own heart in its experiences can deny that ho has had times of weaknesses and of conscious powerlessness in the presence of God, The preacher had no sympathy with those who looked for man’s firmness aud sirength to some power within his own nature, When the Prodigal Son came to himself he said, “I will arise and go to my father.” Every man who has not become a Christian has never come to himself. When a man knows his higher selt he knows God, or, more truly, only when a man knows God does he ‘know his higher self, Concerning the mystery by which God is surrounded in the Bible, the speaker said many believed that tho Bible created these mysteries, That was a mistake; they had always existed, but the Bible more fully rovealed them. ‘The doctrine of God’s sovereignty and man’s tree- dom was instanced. We cannot, tho speaker said, re- concile them ; yet they appeared long before the Bidie was written, When the fnite und Infloite minds touch there must be questions which only the Intinite can answer, The soul longs tor God, and the intellect cries ad me to the reck that 1s higher than 1;’ for the mind, lke the teart, needs God, The human heart was made to love and to be loved. He is not aman who hag not these longings tor dd to bestow sympathy, But nothing rding to God’s teachings und our own ex. perience: in sutisfy these longings of the soul When David said, “AS the hart panteth after the water brooks so pants my soul after thee, O God!" he expresses that which every man has felt. The preacher dweit at length upon Christ's atone- ment A converted Brahmin, who was asked why be first abandoned his old religton, replied that it was be- cause he feit the necessity for an atonement which that theology made no provision for, The preacher traced the action of Pagans who threw their children into the Ganges, or cast themselves under the ponder- ous wheels of Juggernaut, to an misate fceling that some punishment was due for sin—tnat some atonement was hecessary to the Supreme seifg. “In many res- pects’? said the preacher, “Catholicism ts simply bap- tized heathen as their penances and seli-inflicted castigations phow, I saw s man stand in a cupstrained | Pape ad jor hours ina Cathohe cuurch in Canada 1 ad the curiosity to make inquiries,and learned that he did it vomntarily—that he had committed a sin and was trying to atone for it inthis way.” The sermon concluded with a simile, in which th who had fouhd Christ were likened to persons -on the top of & mighty rock, Whose height was bathed in suasbine while storms and darkness raged around its base whero-stood the un- redeemed, BLEECKER UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REV. MR, SWERTSER—DAVID'S FOLLOWERS. The pastor of the Bleecker street Universalist church, Rev. Edwin T, Sweetser, was welcomed homo yester- day by his congregation on his return from a visit to Italy, Egypt and Palestine. The little church was fairly filled. Over the platform were the words, ‘Wel- come Home,’ extending from one pillar to another, and at either end of tho scroll were flags and ever- greens. A beautiful floral design stood ona marble top tub’e in front of the reading desk and several bou- quets were placed at tho edge of the platform. A hymn to the tune of “Bannockburn” was printed, dis- tributed and sung by the congregation. The following was the concluding verse :— his chureh and people dear, OF, ow, in words sincere. Welcome from # foreign strand ! Welcome to thy native land | It was expected the pastor would make sbme allusion to the extraordinary charges made against the trustees by Rey, Mr. McCarthy, who officiated for nine months im the absence of Mr. Sweetser. Mr. Sweetser threw up his pastorship when he left, a year ago, to travel in Europe and Asia at bis own expense, It was under- stood, however, that no permanent appointment would be made until the return of Mr. Sweetser, Mr. McCar- thy was temporarily engaged, but failed ‘to givo sutis- faction, and the congregation’ claim that they bad to bear with a great deal from lis eccentricities and affcc- tations of manver, Finally he was relieved by the trus- tees, aud he went away threatening to burst up the ‘congregation and muke s:artiing revelations con- cerning some of its members, In che meantime the services were carried on irom Sunday to Sunday in a | bapuazard sort of way, aud it was w.th a great sense of | relief the congregation assembled yesterday to greet their regular pastor, Mr. Sweetser’s sermon was short. | He took his text from 1. Chronicles—“O! that ove | would give me to drink of the waters of the weil of Bethiebem.” This fervent exclamation of David, in his cry and desolate wanderings, was made eloquent use of. Tho preacher’ used vigor. | ous Saxon and appeared to speak eztempore, in Judea, and staied as a fact that the owner of a spring well in that country 1s the posses-or of a fortune. He deserived the cave of Adullum, in which David took refuge from the persecution of Saul, and tho well at the gates of Bethlehem, jor the water of which David lenged—just the same well to-day ss it was in the days of David. He desorbed and dwolt with much fervor on the action of the three followers of David, who, despito all the — periis. of the en- terpriso and the Philistines ravaging the jand, made their way to the well at Bethiwhem and brought trom there to gratify the wish ot their chicf- tain a piteber of water, in bis cry “0! that one wouid give me to Jring of the waters of the well of Beth- iehem.”? Hie related tis incident by way of parable to illustrate the devotion of Him who not aioue put His life in jeopardy, but gave itup on the cross to Dring Us the waters of regeveration, and how tran- eudant the sacrifice of Him in comparison with what might Le deemed the sublime human devotion of David's totiowers | THIRTEENTH STREET CHURCH. CENTENNIAL DISCOURSE "BY REV. SD. BUR- CHARD, LESTERDAY, Tho Presbyterian church in Thirteenth street, bo- tween Sixtt and Seventh avenues, was about half Oiled at the moruing services yesterday. Rev. 8. D. Burebard delivered the sermon, which was entitled a “Centennial discourse.'? It appears that each Prosby- | tion, After reading this history in church it will be sent to Philadelphia, where it must be deposited in a building now about being constructed, and which will be known as a Presbyterian historical edifice. The collection taken up in the Thirteenth street church yesterday goes towards the erection of this building. Rey, Dr. Burchard read a sketch of the Houston sirect aud Thitteenth street churches, The former congregation was organized iu 1ss2, at the corner of Houston and Thompson streets, Only twenty-eight members belonged to the original church, but it soon grew m numbers, Rev. Mr. Lawson was the first pastor. He was instaied on tue second Sabbath ot February, 1832 The mstallation servievs tuok place at Masonic Hiall, then located in Broadway, near Peurl street. On the Oth of April, 1834, the church was formally dedicated. Somo short time atter- ward ‘difficulties arose in the congregation, aud thoy were divided among themselves. For one’ year they were Wilbout a pastor, but mterests soon became reconciled and the cuurch again prospered, cousiderable opposition exhibited to the Housu church by outsiders on account of its steadiast advo cacy of the abolition of slavery; bat the work of whe Lord went on and S34 members were added to the cou. grogation during & period of seven years, Lots were ten purchased for $9,000 in Thirteenth street upon which lo erect anew church. A majority of the mem- vers afterward reconsidered thoir action and withdrew the movey they had subscribed. They considered tho location ineligiblo for achuren; it was then (thirty years ago) too far uptown. This disaffection caused a food don of embarrassment, However, on May 27, S46, tho Thirteenth street congregation was or,anized wrth 186 members. On Sepsember 7, 1847, the church was dedicated. During the progress of 11S erection servicesewere helt im the cuapel of the New York Unt+ versity, In 1855 the church was burned and afterward Feconstructed, The whole debtot the churen, sone $11,000, was aiso shortly atter paid off by voluntary sub- scriptions. Tho reverend gentleman *then spoke at length upon the benefits conierred by the church and tts Sabbath sehools, Some thirty of its members had joined the ministry. Seventy-five had taken an active part in the evil wat on the Union side, sor. members had been within the fold. ston street membership the grand (oval would be sweiad to J,1Ls, After relating seme personal mene relauve to the congregation the roverend 2 | the Rev, Dr. O'Reilly, who made the gospel of the speaker concluded Lis remarks . | his back a - ensued, CREMATION, THE BODY OF AN AGED AND BESPECTED PLANTER BURNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS BAST REQUEST—CURIOUS REASON ASSIGNED FOR THE DESIRE--DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE. : Maniox, 8. C., July 11, 1876. ‘The progressive spirit of the age has again been illus- trated in an event which occurred here toaay, and which can never be obliterated from the minds of those whose privilege it was to witness it. For the first time in the nineteenth century in the eventtul and illustrious history of South Carolina has acase of ac- tual cremation occurred, - ‘THE CIRCUMSTANCES. The following is a brief recapitulation of the circum- stances attending this case:—On Sunday, the 9th inst., Mr. Henry Berry, aged eighty-two, a venerable, re- spected aud refined citizen of Marion county, departed this life, The deceased was a successtul tarmer, hav- ing been one of the most extensive planters in the State, at one time during his career hay- ing been possessor of* 40,000 acres of land, aod in addition an independent fortane, At the time of his death his cotton plantation alone contained several thousand acres of the most fertile laud in tho State. Prior tohis death he had requested that his body might be burned. THE REASONS ASSIGNED for this strange desire are as follows:—About twenty- four Years ago two relatives of bis died, After baving beon buried several years the surviving relatives de- d to have the remains disinierred to be remo' pot located in an adjacent section, Iu accord with this desire the bodies were disinierred, and during the removal the coffin lids became detached and the bodies were exposed to the public gaze. Having been buried a long ume they were, of course, in & fearful state of decomposition, Mr. Berry Was present on this occasion, and, witnessing the scene, made a solemn declaration that his remains should not be subject toa similar fate. He afterward frequently alluded to the condition of the bodies and repeated his declaration made at the me of the re- moval. Very little contidence Was placed in his state- ment ut the tine, but that it was a fixed determination the following will show, The deceased has several surviving sons, all men of advanced age. Several months ago he heid a conversation with them, stating that after his death he desired not to be buried, but that his body should be CONNUMED BY PIRE, and enjoined upon them that they should participate in the proceedings. Naturally the sons were shocked at this declaration, and used every available means to dissuade him from hia intention, Argument was useless, and entertaiming doubts in reference to the faithful execution of lus destre, he entered into a con- tract with ‘two of his employés, allowing them two mules and $300 if they wouid supermioud the crema- lon proceedings. The parties accepted the propo- ton. About two Months ugo he made a will, in Whien he very explicitly states that if his sons uo not allow his body to be Durned and do not participate in the matter that 1 would bo under penalty of disinherit- ance. During bis life he selected two pine trevs ad- joining bis farm which should be used on the occasion ane also designated the spot where it should take place. THE CREMATION. According to arrangements the cremation took placo at eight o'clock this morning. Carriages, buggies and vehicles of every description were in active demand to convey spectators to the scene, and at the appointed time an immense crowd was 1m attendance. ‘Ihe trees designated by the deceased were cut down, and all the Necessary arrangements having been perfectea the Dody was laid on a piatform surrounded by un en- closure about twenty feet in height, Alter appropriate services, hold by a Baptist divine, the combustibies were iguited, and in about two hours all that remained Of the deceased was ashes. PUBLIC BENTIMENT, During the process .a variety of opinions were ox- Pressed by those m attendance, the prevailing impres- sion being that it was an outrage on the sensibilities of the people and that it should Have been prevented by the authorities, LIVELY PISTOL PRACTICE. A scene resembling the Newark tragedy, though not so disastrous in its results, occurred early yesterday morning in the Fifth ward. Roundsman Halpin, of the Leonard street police station, while on his beat at ten minutes to three A.M. in passing through St. John’s lane, heard sounds of an affray on thecorner of Beach street, Rushing tothe spot tho officer touna a man apd woman quarreliing. Both were very much under the inilueuce of liquor. The officer separated them and drove them away. The woman went away, but the man, not seeming to understand why any one should interfere with bis private quarrels, drew a revolver and fired upou the policeman, Fortunately the ball only grazed the lower part of his stomach, leaving but a slight scratch, The would-be assassin then ran down st. John’s lane, through York street and West Broad- way toward Canal street. ‘The officor, first stop- ping to sound an alarm rap, started in pur- suit, When he reached Canal street he was met by Officers Matten and Clemans, of the Eighth precinct, who had been attracted to the spot on hearing the alarm rap, They joined in thé foot race ahead of Uilicer Halpin and were gaining on their man when he turned and fired at then. Ovticer Matten stopped, und, drawing his revolver, returned the salute, ‘Officer Kennedy, of the Fitth precinct, who ‘was on post in Canal street, here attempted to stop the | flying man, but he dodged and ran, followed by his parsuers,. now increased to four. Finding them too mauy for him he stopped, and, deliberately aiming at Officer Kennedy, fired two shots at him, One of the balls passed through the ollicer’s blouse and pants, but was turned off by some pennies in his pocket, thus leaving him uninjured. Officer Roche now came up, and received two shots from the tugitive, which, how ever, were Without cflect. The inan was DOW ¢x- hausted, but, determined to fight to the end, ran int> the doorway of oyster saloon at No. 370 Canal street. He stood there at bay with st the door ahd was just about rais‘ng bis revolver to fire again, when Otlicer Kennedy, who Was too smart for lim, tired three shots in quick suc- cession, dangerously wounding him, One of the shots took eflect 1n his right breast aud two in the right hip. ‘The man then surrendered aud was taken to tue Fifth precinct station house on a stretcher, whence he was sent to the Now York Hospital in an ambulance, At the police station he was recognized as Peter Shaw, agod twenty-eight, residing at No. 22 Varick street. He isan ex-policeman of the same precinct and was employed as a dry goods packer. He had been discharged irom the police force for intoxication, The woman with whom he was quarrelling was ar- rosied afterward by Roundsman Halpin and detamod asa witness, She was in astate of intoxication. Her name is Mary Bray and she resides in Mulberry street, THE RIGHT KIND OF POLICEMAN, James Fay, a convict, egcaped trom the Penitentiary some time ago, On Saturday he was again arrested by Olficer Greon, of the Twenty-first precinct. He gave his name as William Barclay, and asked the officer not to disgrace him by putting handcuffs on him; as he was innocent of any crime whatever. The officer com- plied. At Second avenue and Thirty second street the prisoner, a powerful feliow with a repulsive counte- nance, suddenly wrenched himself from the officer's grasp and struck bim a heavy blow on the head. The companions of the prisoner, who had followed, now surrounded the officer with the intention of rescuing the prisoner, but a few shots {rom the oflicer’s pistol | soon put them to flight. The prisoner meantime drew a | revolver and fired two shots at the officer, none of which, | happily, struck him, He had tine to reno more, fot | the officer clinched with him and a terrible struggle | The prisoner eit with the energy of | despair, and for fully Utes AM exciting struggle | was waged. The officer did not strike the prisoner, but aimed at getting possession of the prisoner's ree volver. Tho latter, on the contrary, strack at the ofticer violently, but did not inilict any injuries, with the exception of a signtly paiatul wound in the abdo- men. Tho olficer gathered all his strength, and at last knocked Fay on the sidewalk, and, baving taken his revolver, proceeded tu haodcul! him. He then took him to the Twenty-first prectuct station house and he was this moruing brought to court, Fay is a desperate character, having been several times in Sing Sing and was Well knvwn to the officer. Juuge Kasmire,. In committing the prisoner without bail, complimented the officer high); DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Edward Dougherty, a carpenter, of No. 360 Seventh avenue, fell asleep on the corner of Thirtieth sircet and Seventh avenue on Saturday evening. Jobn Van Buren, who said he had no occupation, in company with three others, camo along, knocked him down and robbed him ot which he had iy pocket. Dougherty raised rmand Van Buren ran away, to be captured, alter a long ehase, by Oficer Rielly, of the Twenty-niath precinct. On being arraigned be- fore Judge Duffy, at the Washington Place Police Court, yesterday, Van Puren was eld te await the re- sult of ap cxumination which will bo held this alter- noon. FELONIOUS ASSAULT. Early yesterday morning Thomas Green, aged twenty, of No. 415 West Thirteenth street, was ne- saulted and stabbed in iront of his residence by wo men, named John McConnell and Dantel Dawson, ot No, 423 West Thirtecntn street, It appears that some four weeks azo McUonnell strack Green in the face with his fist. Greene thromened to have him arrested for the insalt, but MeConnell was not to be found, Greon had not seen Lim unui tins allrey. A’ soon as MoConne!l and Daweon gaw Green the jatter Kicked him in the leg, and MeConnell, without a word of warn- ing, drew a large knife and stubbed him twice in the abdomen and iu toe chest, The prisoners escapot We time, but wore afterward arrested by Uillcers ‘el and Jewell, of tle Ninth precinct. Greon was 1 to the New York Hospital, where bis wounds were aad to be severe though pot dangerous, se ——neepenepweereeeeeereesinnpeenericanmenneaantmiantainemii tame iammangrsocnitatrisi staan etme ASE RT fe Ate ETE ET TAT LI, r DEATHS. Carsy.—On Sat July 15, Fraxons Cammy, of cholera infantum, aged 1 year and 20 days. A bud on earth to bloom tn heaven. Funeral this (Mot ) morning, at elevon o'clock, from the residence of her parents, 250 Eust 30th st. Carxy.—On July 15, Jawe E., daughter of the late Owen and Cutherine Carey, aged 27 years, The relatives and friends of the family aro invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her brother, Francis Carey, 69th st. and 10th av., on Monday, July 17, at one o'clock P. M. Cakeigax. —On Satarday, July 15, 1876, Janz McDmr- mort, wife of James Carrigan, of the of county Longford, Ireland, in‘the 55th year of her on at Relatives and/riends of the family are respecttully invited to attend the funeral this (ee) morning, at ten o'clock, {rom her late residence, 332 Madison st, CoxnoLLy.—On Saturday, July 15, ex-Judge Micuam, CoxxoLty, in tho 63d year of his age, His relatives and friends aro lly invited to at- tend the funeral, from bis late residence, 222 West 50th at., on Tuesday, July 18, at ten A, M., to the Church of St Paul the Apostle, 59th st. and 9th av., where a sol. emn mass of apy will pes offered for the repose of his soul; thonce to C lvary Cemetery. Davis.—At Paris, France, Jane 20, 1876, Cuartes Wexpeit. Davis, aged 26 years, soit of the late Ben- jamin W. Davis. ? Relatives aud friends of the family are invited te attend the funoral services, on Tuesday, July 18, at three P. M., from his late residence, No, 14 Willow st,, Brooklyn. Fexno.—On Saturday, July 15, Fexwaxpo Fxero, of Bogota, United States of Colombia, aged 29. i Funeral this day cleverf A. M., at St, Stephen's Cathoutc church, — His friends and those of lis broth- ers, Joaquin aud Edward, are respectfully invited. Fox.—Mos:tor Lopez, No. 28, F, axp A, M.—The brethren of this lodge are hereby summoned to attend aspecial communication, on Tuesday, July 18, at eleven o'clock A. M. the Tuscan Room, Masonic Temple, for the purpo: Prd cpr ribale to our late ‘other Henry J. Fox. order o! sabe piate re 3 G. BIOW, W. Mastor, Tuos, F. Watsox, Secretary. E The members of Olive Leaf Lodge, No. 233, 1. 0. 0, F., are hereby notified to meet at their lodge rooms, corner of Green st. and Union place, Greenpoint, on Tuesday, July 18, at 12:80 sharp, to attend the funeral ot brother H. J. Fox, ? Brothers of Mount Ararat and sister lodges are invited to Lassen Brothers wilt appear with mourning rosestes. By order, " id HEO, 8. DOBBS, N. G. Jon» InGratam, Recording Secretary. Frremax.—At her mother’s residence, No. 52 East 133d _st., Renkcca Bakros, eldest daughter of the late Mr. M, M. Freeman, ag The reiatives and (ricads of the family are invited to atted ber funeral, from St, Andrew’s Episcopal church, 127th st.. near 4th av., on Monday, July 17, at halt- past four o’ciock P. M, Harlem trains leave Grand tral depot at 4:05 P. M. AMULE.—Qn Sunday, Jaly 16, at the residence of her son Thomas, 4% Market st, MARrGaRret GamsB.e, aged 87 years. ‘A solemn mass of requiem for the repose of her soul will be celobrated in St. James’ Roman Catholic church, James st., on Tuesday, 18th inst., at nine o'clock A. M. The remains will be conveyed after the mass to Calvary Cometery for interment. Relatives and friends are respecttully invited to attend. Giass.—On Saturday, July 15, Ciara L., infant daughter ot George W. and Clara Glass, Funeral services will take place on Monday, July 17, ., from the residence of her parents, 433 16, inst., ‘The relatives and fricnds of the family are reapect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from his late resi- dence, 221 Erie st., on Tuesday morning, July 18, inst., at nine o'clock, when the remains will be removed to St. Michael’s church, where a mass of requiem will be read for the happy repose of bis soul. Havemeyee.—On Sunday, July 16, Josera B, Have- meyer, in the 29th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter, Horrixc.—On Saturday, July 15, Faxxre 0., daugh- ter of Jobn and Mary Collier. ‘The funerat-will take place on Monday, 17th inst., at four P. M., from the residence of her parent s, 37 Sands st., Brooklyn, ‘The friends are invited. Keuvett.—Suddenly, on Sature Jaly 15, Janes Kruterr, aged 65, born in county Cavan, Iroland. Relatives and friends, and also those of his son, Thomas C. Kellett, are’ respectfully invited to attend his funeral, from tht residence of his son-in-law, Hugh Waldro, 153 East 52d st, on Monday, July 17, at ono o’clock P, M. Kesxepy.—On Friday, July 14, at his residence, 592 Sthav., Wititam G. Kexngpy, in the 43d year of his age. Foneral from the house, at one o’clock this after- noon. ‘The stores of FE. Burke & Sisters, on Bowery and sth will be closed today im consequence of the death of the above member of the family, KEnxicay.—On Sunday, Joly 16, 1876, Jomn Kur- RIGAN, aged 21 years. Relatives und friends are respectfully invited te attend the funeral, from the residence of his mother, 125 Charles st, on Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock, without further notice, Kerwis,—On July 15, George Kerwix, aged 42 ears. i ‘The funeral will take place from his late resiaence, 884 2d av., to Calvary Cemetery, at one o'clock, this day. Latnror.—Died suddenly at Lake Mahopac, Sat- urday evening, July 15, Frepoxrick E. Lataror, som of the late Rey. L. E. Lathrop, D. D., aged 33 yeara, Notice of funeral nereatter, Lewis,—On Saturday, July 15, Rrewanp “ALvIN Vavouas, infant son of Richard V. and Fannie L. Lewis, aged 5 months, Funeral froma 384 Wost 32d st., on Monday, July 17, at one P. M. LeComts.—On July 16, in Brooklyn, Gzorck Wasa INGTON, son of Nicholas and Sopnia A. LeComte. The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, at the resijence of bis parents, Central av. and Magnolia st., Brooklyn, E. D. Mrxxe.—Suddenly, at Manor Station, Long Island, on Saturday, July 15, 1876, Ocravivs W. Mxkka, youngest son of the late John Meeks, in the 22d year of his age. Funeral services at the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner ot Madison av, and 42d st., on Tuesday, July 18, at three o'clock P. M. Relatives and friends of the famjly and members of the graduating class of 1876, Harvard College, are respectiully invited to atte! without further notice, Boston papers please copy. Micnaeits,—July 16, at Huster, Catskill Mountain: Micuak, son of Natban and Margaret Michaelis, aged 1 your and 3 months. Funeral will take place to-day (Monday), at twelve o’clock, from 233 West 38th st. McCoy,—In Brooklyn, on Saturday, July 15, Terence: McCoy, ib. the 61st year of his age, a native of the parish of Creggen, county Armagh, Ireland, The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited tw attend the funeral, from St. Vincent de Paul's church, North 6th st, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of his sou!; thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment, at two o'clock P, M., on Monday, July 17. MeDivitr.—Ssuddenly, on Saturday evening, Jon. MeDrvrrr, in his 45tn year. The relativs and frie ads of the family, also members of the John J. O'Brien and John W. Lanthier associ: tions und members of the Kighth Assembly District Republican Association ere respectfally invited to tend the funera!, on Tuesday, at one o'clock, from hig late residence, 90 Willett st, o'McL —On Saturday, July 15, 1876, Cercgria, wife of W:lliam O'Muilen, 3 Funeral from St. Paul's church, 117th st.,on Mon- day morning, at halt-past nine o’clock, where a re- quiem mass will be celebrated. Rolatives and friends are respectiully invited. Ravesuitt.—In Brooklyn, on Saturday, July 15, of consumption, Vicroxia W. RAVENUILL, daughter ot the late W. H. and Sarah Ravenhill, Funeral services wili be hoid at the residence of her mother, 61 Pierrepont st, on Tucsday, July 18, at three P. M, t Reen—Suddenly, on July 15, 1878, of cholerain- fantum, Coances Raymoxp, youngest son of Albert E. and Mary 8 Reed, aged 2 years and 19 daya, ineral from the residence of grandparents, 400 West 19th st,, Monday, July 17, atone P. M. Scuvuyien,—At ¢ Goorge, Saturday ovening, July 15, Janes Burcugut, infant son of Walter G. and Jen- nie E. Schuyler, a 10 months and 8 days, Funeral trom residence ot his grandfather, 12 West Sist st, on Tuesday, July 18, at ten A, M. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Surta.—Jdaly 16, Tacrza Sarrn, aged 71 years, Faneral will take place Tuesday, nt one 9’¢lock, from Thomas Large’s, East 40th st. Reidtives and friends are respectfully invited; also members of Alpha Chapter, No. 1, 0. C. 8. Surrn.—Saddenly, on Saturday, July 15, rr beloved wife of Cornelius Smith, a native of jamesduf, county Cavan, Ireland. r Relatives and friends of the deceased ars respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 201 East d7th st., this day (Monday), July 17, at twa o’clock P. M. Sterny.—Suddonly, Saturday, July 15, Tony W. StuRny, in the 33d year of bis age, Funeral at Norwich, Conn., on Wednesday, 19th Inst, Swezny,—On Saturday, July 15, Carnie 8., daughter of eg F. and Laura A. Swezey, aged 1 year and 7 months, Faneral Monday, 17th, at two P. ML, from 447 Grove, corner 6th st, Jersey City. Tnorx.—On July 15, Evoxs Torx, son of the late Colonel Herman Thorn. Funeral services will bo held at Calvary church, cornor 4h ny. and 2istsh, on Monday, July 17, at 10 . M. Relatives and trienda, ant members of Holland odge, V. A. M., nnd votoran Tist regiment, N. G., are invited without farther notice. ‘Tontx. —Sdnday, July 16, 1 the 70th year of her aga, Et wife of Edward Tobia, a native of Leigniin tir y Carlow, Ireland, Funeral tekes piace trom the residence of her son-ins Jaw, Jawes Ryan, No. $42 East 65th et., on Tuesday, July 18, at one o'clock, Friends and relatives are te. spectfuily invited to attend, Vevrre.—On Saturday evening, July 15, How. Watten, infant son of Peter, Jt., aud Catrie Le Vetter aged 9 months, id Relatives and friends are respecttully invited to at= tend thefuneral, from the residence of his parents, cor- ner loth av. and 15d st, on Tuesda: worning, at eleven o'clock. Carriages will be waiting at 142d to meet the 10:30 A, M. train from 0th st. and 10th Wrnsrie, Om July M4, Exwa Lovey, you gost daughter of DHL Wersebe, in the 26tn yoar of ber Reiatives and friends of the (amily are respecttully tan ur ero the funeral trom Sixth Strest Baj Uist church, between ays, 1 a nt uwo o'clock P.M. nd C, on Monday, July 17, ILRISSON, 1 Brooklyn, E. D., saddenty, urday, Jaly 15, Francis A., son of Francis A. in the Sith year ot bis age. Sate fikisson, Relatives and iniends are respectially invited to at- oe tend the funeral, (rom the residence ot bis South dd st, om Tuesaay, July 18, at two P, Me i