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SUMMER SERMONS, The Comfort of Christ’s Presence in His Church. COVENANTING WITH GOD. Lessons from the Parable of the Steward and His Master. THE EFFICACY PRAYER. .. OF Thoughts Upon Things Revealed and Unrevealed. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. & aM WITH YOU ALWAY—SEBMON BY BEV. MR. HEPWORTH. Notwithstanding tho severe rain storm yesterday a largo congregation gathered in the Church of the Dis- ciples to hear Mr, Mepworth’s last morning sermon Wefore vacation, His text was from Matthew, xxviii, 20—"And lo! Iam with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”” Such a sentence as that, said Mr. Hepworth, pro- pounced by one in authority, is of priceless importance to the world. It is a revelation of a very startling fact, It might be well for us, then, to look at the cireum- Stances under which the words were uttered, and dis. cover ifthe general interpretation put upon them is the correct one. Jesus was walking under a shadow. The morning of His life had passed. He had borne the burden and the heat of the The afternoon baa gone and nothing was left except the setting of the sun. the work begun by Him should be carried on to its completion after His death, and in ordor to do this He said to His disciples, “Go yo therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaebing them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo! | ain with you alway, even unto the end of the world,” It woula appear, then, that Josus know the weight of His utterance; that He meant exactly what He said, and said precisely what He meant. He ¢ to the apostles that they should not work alone; that immeasurable forces should be with them in their com- | mission and give them clearness of mind and boldness ot heart, Now, look at two or threo things that aro suggested in this verse. In the first place He gave His disciples a duty. He set before if you please, them a bard task, It was NO ROYAL ROAD in which they were walking. It not Deneath the ciear and cloudless skies that they were to spend their time, Their fect were to be torn by the briers of the world’s hatred, He did not promise them that ono single jota of the burden He had given them should be lessened, They were to perform their duty in full, They were.to bo faithtul in the discharge of their duties; but, He says, 1 will be with you in this work. I willbo a help to ou,” and it is a woudrous privilege to feel that the asior who gave us the law is helping us to keep it, and that He, who is King above all Kings, 18 persoually our friend.’ It is one of the prerogatives of the Christian to rely upon Heaven to a very large extent, and to draw his encouragement and strength from the fountains that are above bis head The man of God 1s surrounded by a cloud of witnesses and issafe. The man of the world sinks into. the mire and trouble to him, But he who trusts in the Lord and has faith in God waiks in the upland firmly and securely, and though he stumbles and falis he is lifted up, and though evorything clse gives way his trust in’ the Father never tails, and that trust is like the inpouring | ot hopetulness inthe tune of temptation and trouble. Tho disciples then went forth not alone, but with an unseen force by them, leading them und beiping them. Christ promised that He would be with them, and | He always keeps His word. But He says moro'than that Ho says, “1 will be with you alway,” and that isthe most important word in the sentence, Now you and 1, whe have been Christians for many years, ave seasons of despondency. There are times when we sbat onrsclves up in our room aud feel that God | has withdrawn His presence from ua One of you came to me the other day and said, with tears in’ his eyes, “I do not know what itis, but I must have done something, for ail ny consciousness of God's nearness has gone and my companionship with the Lord is broken off. Ihave prayed, but I have seemed to pray into the air, and I am sad and miserable.” Well, brethren, 4 take it that this promise which 1 have read to you isthe autidote for that poison, It is a truth for your doubt; itis the SUNSHINE FOK YOUR DARKNESS. If you can but cling to the Word of God you shall yet be litted up to songs of triumph. You shall be litted go you Shall see the stars shining in all their bright- d beauty once more. It is not that God has withdrawn from you; it is that you have withdrawn from God. Perbaps some babit stands between you and God. So joug as it is your whole purpose to do your duty God's proinise 1a yours, and He wiil fulfil 1t in spirit and letter. “Lo! Lam with you alway.” That 1s what Christ says, aud then He takes even another step, and, as if the word alway did not express the whole ot the gtit, He adds, “unto the end of the world? Then you and I are included in these words of our Lord, Then Jo-us Christ makes these promises to you and tome, Although we may pot be able to coinprebend the why and wherefore, what God is [ ce nnottell I believe He is, novertheiess, How God operates on my lie wile | am endowed with agency Tdo not know, Still must believe that God is in my Hite just as 1 believe the sun is im the heavens Without God I cau do nothing, ond without the faily feeling that God ts with me, that He ls the most patient of all my friends, that He is the most gentle, the most syimpathizing and the most willing to help, These are tacts which are the very rock on Which Istand, and without that hope all my heppiness would be washed away; but the very moment | {vei that God is with me, and that whatever Bappens is subjected to His controi, then, brethren, I am safe. No danger can overwhelm me. This life is pothing—the other hie is everything; and I look right over all troubles and temptations o/ this present time with a certain eagerness to get holu of the better Things that are to come by and by. The great trouble is we live as tuough to-day was to jast forever. It ts to morrow that is to last forever. To-day is but an atom of Lite to prepare for the future. We torget too often that this life is but the slender experience of the soul which it gets ready forthe grander duties of th fature. Christ said, ‘1 will bo with you alway," only that He might express Himsel! in tender relations to as If you bave never read the fourteenth chapter of John, dear friends, I with you would do so, because there you bave almost precisely the same thougut Christ reiterates His promise, aad then, if you read on a little further, you will find at’ recorded that the Holy Ghost wili teach you all things, and then Ho adds, as a master would say to a young soldier who was PUTTING ON HIS ARMOR FOR BATTLE, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither lot it be afraid,” And, friends, Jesus felt the peculiar weight of His own words. You remember that episode in His career when He predicted that His discipies would icave Him, He said, “Chey will leave me alove;” then, lifting His ayes up to heaven, He added, “and yet not alone, tor the Fatber will be with me.” [often think what a Wondrous privilege it is not to be alone, because the Father is with us, dear friends. When one is travelling alone in the woods at night, though he may be never fo determined to rexch the end of his journey in spite of his fatigue, nevertheless there is a loveliness steals over him, kind of terror in his heart To be diled With a consciousness that no matter how loadly you may cry out, {i danger approaches, no one will hear, hat isfeariul But how sweet it is to walk, no matter bow long the jcurney is, no matter how thick the Shadows may be that gather about you, if you have a companion by your side, Aud, if tha: companion ts Abie and willing to help you, if Lo speaks to you words ot eucouragement «ben you feel you may you can do anything. Tho (wigs may crackle ou the darkness ma: impenetrabie, it is no matter, you have # iriend w th you aad he projects bis courage jnto your heart, and so you walk on with bravery and hope tot you are hastening to, So ought it be op your journey to Christ, bus there is oue thing Strange, and that is that you and | are *o bound to Keep ihe windows toward heaven shat tight we open SELFISHNESS the other win do not THE WINDOWS OF and let the breezes play (nrough, but ed and the curtains drawa. W. enough concerning the things beyond. We are so imu b pf (his world as though there were no other world at all. Do you know where you are going? Ars youin t Fight way for ibe good you aro hoping to reach? Do you | mand in fear of the judgment of God, or do you look forward with joy unspeakable for your rewa A friends, we approach on irom day to day, scoiug noth. ing except that which lies immediately betore us It is the privilege of the Christian to jit bis eyes tp to the broad expanse nd tojook beyond the deep blue ether to or dear ade ou high. I wonder hiow nven of the worid ever get on. One who bas never pledged himself to Christ and never grasped the great truths of Chris tanity, | wonder how that man ever succeeds, When our iopes have departed, one aiter another; when wile or child are taken awuy to the great beyond, wt ts hile to you, then? f feel that this lite is the most Miserable agony unless I can borrow from the life to come. itis there that the mav of God lives, and s0 wherevor 1 go 1 am cheered by the Knowledge that God is with me, that Tam ip the sweet companionship of the Saviour. Nover alone, but in friendly intimacy With one who can supply every want. Untettered by the world’s ailuremeuts, we can soar with eagle's wiags fo the very throne of God, What a blessing that ts and Bhat a privilege! Wo should break out into songs of He was very anxious indeed, apparently, that | ve a promise | dies of despair; infe is {ull of sorrow and | triamph and thanksgiving whose echoes shall never die out, The Christian's life is simply a reward—a little straggle, but a great reward, Think of that and take courage. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. COVENANTING WITH GOD—SERMON BY REV. W. 8. RAINSFORD. “Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."’—Psalm 1, 5. These were the words on which the Rev. Wilham 8 Rainsford, of England, who filied the pulpit of the Church of the Holy Trinity (Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr), | addressed the congregation of that church yesterday, There was @ misapprehension abroad, he said, rela- tive to the term saint. ‘he opimions a8 to what a saint is are very varied, The definition read was the bible definition of a saintt-those that bave made a covenant with God by sacrifice. This truth is clearly brought before us in the Old Testament. When we find any- thing in our religion confusing to us and turn to the Old Testament for light we fiud immediate relief. Tho Old Testament is the shadow of the good things to come, and if we fail to apprehend anything im the New and turn to the Old we are at once helped toan understanding of it, From this text we learn that there was one ground on which God offered to meet men—the ground ot sacrifice, On the same | sround He offers to mect men in the nineteenth cen- | tury. Men may call a religion devoid of sacrifice a | religious body if they please, but it isa body devoid | | of backbone. At the present time in England an out- ery was heard against the idea of sacrifice, Men ridi- cule religion, calling 1% the religion of the ebambles because it speaks of blood, but this is God's religion. Covenant by sacrifice ts the starting point in Christian hfe, Man first must become conscious of his sin, Iu | the old dispensation the dim light cast on man’s path- way showed him to be a sinner. Such was every man's experience, Then when he heard God's voice asking him to make a covenant he naturally went to the temple und consuited a priest about the sac- rifie An inecent life must suifer jor a guilty one, In this suerifice =o man was but acting in obedience to God’s command, and, by Virtue of this obedience, the sinner went forth con- sclously discharged of guilt. The sacrifice was eqially OPEN TO THE RICH AND POOR, The poor man’s dove was as acceptable as the richest tihce of the rich man, This was the shadow; now have the substance. God hath appointed a’ sacri- And Man must connect himself with Goa’s ap- pointed sacrifice and so confessing his sins make a covenant by sacrifice. 10 is u marvellous thing that wo whe are here to-day and away to-morrow may each one into acovebant with the great God, Who are jod’s saints? the preacher aske' Those that have | mnde a covenant with Gou by sacrifice, and they are living apd dyiug all about us. Have you entered into a coveunnt with God? the preacher asked. If 80, ré- member you have covenanted to obey and follow Him, Huw co you fulfil this covenanty Where you should shine as liguts of the gospel you show but ‘too dimly; wi you should stand ‘forth as witnesses how eliom ‘is your vorce heard among the murmurs of the hiess! “As children you are not obedient to God's commands, If we are to be His saints it becomes us to keep our robes unspotted, Our thoughts should dwell upon the gathering time when all God’s saints shall | be called to tim, This time may be close to many of nd We stwould see how we are Walking now hat we prepared for that gathering time II you have into a covenant with God you nay outer now, Saviour has said that He should come again when the Gospel of the kingdom sball be preached in hiries as a wituess of His trath. The Word is din all iands, and no one knows how elu have not already do 80 at once. ST. STEPHE. CHURCH. THE PARABLE OF THE STEWARD AND HIS MAS- TERN—SERMON BY THE BEY. FATHER CON- NOLLY, The high mass at St. Stopben’s church yesterday of Green Island, N. Y., who preached a brief sermon after the communion of the service. Father Connolly read tho epistle and gospel of the Sunday, the latter being taken from St. Luke, xvi., 1-% He said that we were all stewards of God, who quired of us the service We promised Him at our in- fancy. We were made by the Creator that we might honor, love and know Him, rendering Him this service to the end of our lives. When we should be called on at the last day to render an account of tho stewardship of our souls our answer must be in accordance with the fulfilment of our duty as we had it imposed upon us, God will havo then taken all power out of our hands, and we shall have to account for the use we made of it while in our keeping. The parable of the Gospel showed ina very clear light the lives of too many Christians in their reality, but fortunately not of all Christians, Too many gave to God only what they spared from their neighbor. The world was everything to them, and its cares and concerns occu- pied their souls’ ambitions and endeavors, What concerned them was not that their daily lives | pleased God and increased for them divine approbation | and sectred for them a walk of grace, bul how it was that they could stand well in the estimation of thoir neighbor s ax possessors of worldly goods, amass riches and be esteemed for their appreciation of Mammon. Not a tew thera were who, believing and knowing that they were continuing in an evil course, were actually alraid to desist. and follow the true path lest their neighbors might change their opinion of them, How foolish was this defiance of God in fearof the cold looks or frowns of others, and how faithless was such stew- ardship of that which God had given to. be cherished \d protected. Without speaking of the grosser in- sults offered to God by sinners, we find among those upon whom choice ‘graces and blessings had been lavished that THE STEWARD WAS DISHONEST; that he did not use what was given him for his Mas- ter’s service. The steward montioned in the parablo was keoper of vast domains and had charge of the rich man’s funds, Whispers becan to go round that he was | dishonest, and, hearing of these, the rich man said, “What are these things I hear of you? Thou canst be sieward no longer.” The day would come when God would say to ma Thou canst be stew- ard no longer.” God would . ciam what ho j had given. and ask for an account, which could not be returned, How could a return bo given of all the numberless graces which were despised and rejected, of all the yearnings for repentance and re- union which wero stifled? What answer would it thon be to Say that there was no time for the performance of this duty or that, no escapo trom this temptation or that? God bad ‘given you everything—lite, home, graces and gifts, and you were asked to love Him. You | were faithless to this leve which He implanted in your } soul, and lived @ disinterested, forgetful, wandering life. | The steward in the parable said he was ashamed to beg, | | and here again was he like to tho sinner who bad been wasting himself away in seeking worldly instead of hi vonly things, False to bis Master, the sinner feared to implore for mercy; he was ashamed to beg for the graco to obtain the sustenance he needed. It migut be when | sickness came that the conscience which had been | dulled to duty for a long time would be awakened, | that then the inner voice would whisper that aiter faithless stewardship there oaght to be a shame. would come despair. ot tt Now We should learn from the lesson para vie to avoid this, aud by the love and honor we owe to God, and by the lives we should lead in love ing and knowing Him, so render oursoives ever pre- pared to account Jor the stewardship intrusted to us, | | BROADWAY ‘TABERNACLE. THINGS REVBALED AND UNREVEALED-—SERMON BY THE BEV. C. P. BUSH, D. D. Tho Rev, © P. Bush dolivered the sermon at the Broudway Tavernacie yesterday forenoon, Taking for his text Deuterovomy, Xxix., 20—‘*The secrot things belong unto the Lord onr God; but those things which aro revealod belong unto us and to our children for. ever, that we may do all the words of this jaw.”” Ho sal that this passage taught us that God had not seen, Ot to reveal everything, and what the secret things were We, of course, could nottell, Yet some men talked about the secret purpose of God as one thing and His revealed purposo a8 quite another, How could men | know what God’s secret purpose is? And if they did Know it Would tt etill besecret? We wore commanded | to search the Scriptures. Yet there were mysteries in these sacred Scriptures which our finite minds cannot fathom. Thero were limits to oar knowledge, and | sometimes it was quite as important for ug to under. stand what wo cannot know as at other times | © see what we may know, Sometimes it was a | mark ot highest wisdom to stop inquiry as at other | umes to pa b inquiry, ie wes pot in favor of repress: | ing any proper desire for knowledge; he would by no | means confine the intelligence of the world to the cloister and the priesthood, but we should repress an unhallowed curiosity concerning things oot revealed, | as well as all attempts to sound to the bottom all the | mysteries of revelation; for wo ought to admit at the outset that it God be God He must be above our com. prehension, God would not be God if we could take His dimensions wig our litle measuring line; ie wonld not then conMhand our reverence, our homage, our fear. Hence it was that the Scriptures represented Li, above our sight, The Bible was not com. | piled urerciy to gratily wn idle curiosity. The very soul and intent of it were practical; the manifest design of revelation Waa to bring us back into the relation 0! morning was celebrated by the Rev. Father Connolly, | J delieving, obedient, and therofore bappy children of | the Almighty. To this end God had, of course, r | vealed those things which it was most rmportant for uw: af Paul bad ssid to the elders of Ephesus :— od kept back notting (hat was profitable unto you.” G had kept back nothing that was profitable to us, Thi no doubt, was the tule when He selected from the INFINITE VARISTY OF THINGS in His own mind what He would reveal t profitable to im? Would it do him good! need it ‘or bis welfare ou earth, tor his salvation ia heaven? The lite of Methasviah would not have sul- fiéed to read the preiace to the books 1 God had an. | to know, man, Was it | Did he | p the grip of Paul's desor:ption of Christian warfare, and Phe pro | rain on the 9 | eiglteen conturies ago. They aro starving tor lack of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1876. folded all the secrets of His infinite mind, He bad re- vealed all that was necessary for our true welfare both here and hereafter—all we needed to guide us in our daily intercourse with our low meu, in our humble approaches to God. On the subject of our ruin by sin the Scriptures were full aud explicit, Their every page flashed conviction on the mind, because this wo Deeded to know, So the fact that God is displeased with sin; that He 18 angry with the wicked; that Ho will “pun: ish the incorrigibly wicked with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, trom tl glory of His power,”’ There was no gotting over this, for a mistake here would be tat 0 also the remedy for sip, it was plain and simple—“repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” These facts showed us that we should come to the study of the Scriptures ina spirit of humility for mstruction, not in the spirit of speculation; to Know just what God has said to us, not to wonder why He has not eaid « great many other things; to know what He would have us do. “How different the manner of mauy is when they come to the Seriptures. **What,” asks one, ‘was God doing beiore He created the world?” And because he imagines we cannot answer his question, therefore, there is no God. Another asks why God permiited sip to enter tbe world—how God tan exist in three per- sons? These questioners do not see how it is possi- bie. Yot suppose we do not, does that prove anything but our own ignorance ? Has God undertaken to tell us how He exists’ Yot men who stumble over mysteries in the Scriptures live in the midst of mysteries every day Who knows how the sun siines on a fair morning; how the fire burns in the grate on a winter's evening, how the grass grows be- neath our teet? Who knows what the ultimate sub- stratum of body or spirit is? All we know ure the qualities and characteristics of things. And thus we are conversant with thousands of things every da: which have mysteries just as deep and impenctrable as anything that can be found in the Trinity or the incar- nation or the atonement or regeneration or any other deep doctrine of the Divine word, Yet some men push their wquiries and objections inte the very realms of blasphemy in dealing with the Scriptures, and be- ause they cannot understand a great many things which God has not revealed, scorn, deride and reject some of the plainest things which He bas made known, ‘The Doctor closed by saying that speculation saves no man, In the jndgment it wiil not be asked, How much did you know, but what did you do? We tnust receivg the truth as httle childron if we would live. Some inen are too wise to be saved, Many perish by their knowledge; none by their faith. CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER—DISCOURSE BY REY. DR. CHARLES F, ROBINSON. During the summer the congregations who usually worship in the Rutgers, the Brick and the Covenant Presbyterian churches meot in the latter church, cor, ner of Park avenue and Thirty-ffth street, with Rev, Dr. Ctarles £, Robinson, of Troy, as the temporary pastor, Yesterday (doubtless owing to the inclemency of the weather) the morning service was very sparsely attended, Nevertheless the Rev. Mr, Robinson de- livered an earnest address, taking his text from Ephesians, vi., 18:—Praying always with all prayer | and supplication in tho spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints,”? The preacher stated that he thought these words wero eded to consider first what prayer is, | It is making known our requests to God, in fact commu- nion with God. Prayer. he said, 18 very comprehen- sive; through it we pour out our sorrow Jor our si through it the desire for fellowship with God is giv Tho text does not mean, ho explained, that we should be always on’ onr Knees,’ but to | have ever with us the disposition to prayor— acondition in watch prayer is the breathing of the soul, Paul evidently meant that sleeping or waking, eating or drinking, prayer was the natural feeling of the heart, ‘There is no true prayer offered that ts not {rom an earnest soul longing for sanctification, and the preacher insisted that the position as defined in the rituals is of no consequence; that prayer that comes from the depths of # sin-stricken heart 1s always ac- ceptable to ‘The spirit that helpeth our infirmities makes every offering of prayer acceptabic; the spirit teaches us What to pray for, it comforts our fears; when We havo its illuminating influences we will know what to ask for; it will call our wants out in order and wing them to the Hearer and Answerer at the throne of grace. While considering the range of the believer's prayer tbe minister impressed upon bis hearers the hecessity of prayers for others besides ourselves, The Christian 18 narrow minded who can only pray tor himself and bis immediate friend, and God loves the prayer that comes gushing out trom the heart and in- cludes the whole household of faith. As the dews sparkle in the light of the sun so the heart reflects the Son of Righteousness, and as man goes on earnestly praying he ts drawn up to that sua, CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. THE LAWS OF NATURE VS. THE DIVINE GOOD- NESS—SERMON BY REV. JAMES M. PULLMAN, At the Church of Our Saviour, on West Filty-seventh street, near Eighth avenue, the congregation of the Sixth Universalist Society listened to a sermon by the pastor, Rev. James M. Pullman, on the forty-fifth verse ofthe fitth chapter of Matthow—“That ye may be the children of your Father which isin heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on tho evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust,” In presenting bis views the preacher said that amid all the problems of being that disturb and perplex us there is no question which goes before that touching the character of God in its relation to man—i. «, whether the goodness of God can co-existwith our misfortune. If we study our nature we find that of all things in life we have the greatest horror of being subject to fixed fate, of bving imprisoned in a world whose forces are pitiless and irresistible, rigid and careless of human weal or woe, and we continually ask ourselves, ‘‘Docs God care for man?” Are there any evidences of that love and care in the laws of nature? In this modern time there is a scepticism abroad whose foundations ure apparentiy based on natural science. It holds that the laws of nature are inflexible and behind them there 1s no moral force. It tells us that the ship carrying the self-sacri- flcing missionary i8 as likely to be struck by lightning as is the ship carrying a crew of pirates and cut- throats) The very passage selected as his text was urged in confirmation of the statement. “He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth Land on the unjust,” is quoted to show that God treats all alike, caring nothing for either the good or the bad. If that were true, then, indeed, there would be no life beyond, and religion would be a very mockery. That SCEPTICAL PMLOSornY makes men foel that, like the prisoner who saw tho walls of his dungeon slowly closing around him, nearer each day, at last they, too, will be crushed, There is no patriotism in gunpowder; it will kill friend or foo alike. The railway will carry arms and ammunition as readily for one army as for the other; there is no tenderness in the knife of the surgeon, and if 1 knew nothing about surgery would 1 not think the surgeon a fiend when I saw iim lacorating the body of a pa- tient? But we know the pain 18 necessary for the cure, The knife is directed by a kind band and a wise mind seeking to do _— When wo study the laws of nature what right have we to study only the lower ones and to judge God by them? What right have wo to leave man entirely out of the question’ Is he not the creature of God, the being created in His image’ There is love and sympathy in man for men. They were given to him». by the Father. fie could not give what He did not have, But they say we flad in map colaness, bardness and inhumanity. Men have always recognized those qualities tow and others as high. Let those who stady natu dy her highest laws—tho laws of human pature—and they will find the love and sympathy and care of God in and over all, . MURRAY HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES— SERMON BY THE REY. GEORGE 8. CHAMBERS, Yosterday morning Rev. George 8. Chambers, pas- tor of the Murray Hill Presbyterian churen, preached on the text of the day, John, vi., 1-13. He said that the miracle of the loaves and fishes is attested by all the evangelists in their writings, and this seems to show that there are certain lessons of special importance to be drawn from it. Like other of the miracles this one ilustrates the lordship of Jesus Christ over nature and tho omnipotence which roso superior to human comprenension and human con- ditions, Bat it also shows the human nature of the Saviour blended with His Divinity, Wo 6 m it many of the virtues which it wi His mission to incalcato practised by Christ in away that shows how easily they como within the reach of human understanding and obscr- vance, An first of all these is the virtue of compas. sion, recommended to us for our reflection and editica. tion, that infinite compassion which was one of the most prominent characteristics of the Redeemer, and which marked every action of His life, Iu this Serip- tural lesson wo can seo Christ looking upon the vast multiude which gathered to hear Him and seeing 10 them fit objects for care and solicitude. He saw that they were needy from a physical point, and knew that they lacked, too, that spiritual nourishment which it was His mission to impart, There was (hatin them which suggested the sheep without a shepherd, and they were only types of other multitades whose piritual guides Christ knew to be failing in their duty ud lax in theif practice of the morality thi professed to — inculcat He saw thar they were in neea of aid, and an infinite com- passion stirret Him. He addressed himself to tho relio! of thelr wants, first administering spiritual aid by teaching them, then He heaed those who were diseased aad alterward He gave His consideration to their banger and their bodily wants and alleviated them. In this the virtue of Compassion was exempli- fled, (hat virtue which was THE MOTIVE OF 1S MOMNLR prnTHt in the grotto and through which He offered Himeelf ap ‘oo Calvary as a sacrifice for tn s of the world, Well would it be for usio give this virtue our attention, Round about us in this great city are multitudes needy as those which lined the shores of the Galilean Sea nourishment both spirtiualand bodily. Have we pity for their weakness’ Have wo that active compassion of Jesu Christ for the alleviation of human woe and enlightenmentol human ignorance? A lesson, too, is taught in this miracle of the itast we should ropose im the omnipotence of God. The disci seeing the multitude iu want, vainly looked about them jn that | must have been His when He found His disciples sicep- | the n desert place for means of giving assistance and so relinquished all hope of affording — relief. They looked only upon their own weakness and forgot the power of Divinity.. And so itis with us when in distress we remember only our utter lack of resources, our destitution and our feebleness, and fail to think of the omnipotence of God, The preacher thea went on to show how the refereuce in the Gospel to the lad who bad the loaves and fishes was a proof that God has use tor the children, {t is a lesson whieh every boy and girl should take to. heart, and thoy sbould remember that their little eflorts could be turned to great account through Christ, The next son reterred to was that of order, When Chrisi biessed the food he was about (o give them He caused the mul- titude to sit down 10 ranks, and so secured an equality of distribytion, In this the regularity which should | distinguish a Christian hfe was inculeated, It should bo a life of rule, not a straggling, disordered and disio- cated existence. The virtue of economy is also incnl- cated in this miracie. In instructing the disciples to gather up what was left and avoid waste, a judicious practice for the observance of all Christians is sug- gested. Andin like manner a shameiess squandering of the Divine gift of time is deprecated. In conclusion | the preacher exhorted his hearers to remember their hungry and neeay condition, and bear in mind that Christ is the bread of lite, MADISON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE FRIMNDSHIP OF CHRIST—SERMON OF REV. iKORGE DOWLING, OF SYRACUSE. Yesterday morning the pulpit of the Madison avenae Baptist churck was filled by the young divine from Syracuse, who solected for his text the forty-fifth verse | of the twenty-sixth chapter of St, Mathe' ‘Then cometh He to His disciples and saith unto them, ‘Sleep on now ond take your reat; behold the four is at hand, and the S6n of Man is betrayed into the hands of sin- ners.’ *? The preacher said;—I never had so sad an experience in my life as upon a public holiday ina strange place, when I saw smiles upon every face and -heard faughter on all hps, but did not hear a kind voice speaking tome. I can then .imagine the feelings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane when He looked for symyathy and love in the direction of His disciples and found them sleeping. If He had been alone in the Desert of Sahara He could not have felt himself more deserted. No wonder, in the very acuteness of His despair, He said, “Sleep on now and take your rest? It was a pitiful Se hour of loneliness to Him. He prostrated himseli upon the grount im praye@ and uttered the remarkable words, “Ob, ny Father! if it be possible let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, butas thou wilt,” Already with prophetic. vision He sax the | bitter cup wh id be pr He heara | the cries of “Crucify him!” “Crucify him!" and per- haps he saw the weary march to Calvary, bat the heart of the Son of Man was nerved by a higher than human force, and He was enabled to tread the thorny path with more than human power and endurance. How netic was bis speceh in turning to Peter and John, y soul is exceeding sorrowiul, even unto death; tarry ye here and watch with me.” What anguish ing! What must have been His trouble when He found His disciples sleeping there! We recognize Hin asa father and atriend. He gives us counsel to-day in ordér that we may have courage to-morrow. Every trial He places upon us conveys a special lesson, and we should profit by it. Take, for example, a man who has early negiccted his grammar. He goes LIMPING: THROUGH IIS COLLEGE COURSE and finds that every bour brings fresh tasks, whereas, | if he had tmproved uis opportunities, he would have | no reason for regret. The child is but the father of 1 bave often heard nen excuse errors on ac- count of the thoughtlessness of youth, I have no | patience with the men who speak th An error committed through the thoughtiessness of youth bears fruit for all eternity. We must recognize the | cold force of yesterday, We cannot escape the effects of our acts, and our wrongdoings follow us with un- | erring certainty. Oh, ye Who have wronged wives or mothers, do you tell me you suffer no remorse or | shame*' Whai have you to say to opportunities lost, to charities you should have supported, to good deeds neglectedY “Nothing! Onc hundred years ago a tes- | sage of liberty was sent around the world from these shores, and the same message was sent from Christ to ail mea—hberation from sins, cleansmg from all evila, Will you receive this messaxe? Will you take the sor- row of Gethsemane for an example and let the rebuke of Jesus Christ to His disciples penetrate your hearts? ST. BONIPA CHURCH, | THE ROMAN PONTIFFS AND PIUS IX.—SERMON | BY REV. LOUIS HOSTLOT, D. D, Notwithstanding the inclement weather last evening | the modest little church of St. Boniface was well filled by a rather curious congregation, drawn together trom all quarters of the city to receive the Papal bonedic- tion from Rey. Louis Hostiot, D. D, Enght. years ago Father Hostlot, having completed his collegiate studies in Now York, left the parish of St Boniface and went to Rome to study for the ministry. The announcement that Father Loms, as he is familiarly known, bad brought a benediction trom the Pope for his old parishioners natarally brought together a large portion of the old congregation, who through change of circumstances, | altered residence, &c., had left the oid church and | been distrivated through the different metropolitan | arishes, The gathering of these scattered elements lent to the congregation a peculiar interest. Shortly after balt-past seven the reverend Doctor ascended the steps of the pulpit of the church which aga layman he had attended tor years, and announcea | that he bad asked for and received from the Holy Fa- | ther, just prior to his departure from the Holy City, a | benediction for the congr tion ot St. Boasdtes charch, It had been his intention, he said, to bestow this delegated benison without any sermon or remark, but Father Nicot, the pastor, wished otherwise, and he found pleasure in conforming to the pastor's wisnes, His veneration for the worthy pastor, his love for the old eburch and the kind remembrance in which he held the old congregation made the task indeed a pleasant one, THE ROMAN PONTIFFS. He proposed to speak of the Roman Pontiifs in gen- eral and of Pius IX. in particular, and to this theme be lent bimself for half an tour, bestowing upon it ail the energy and fervor of an elSquent patriot. He por- trayed in graphic words the condition of Rome when St. Peter mede his advent in that city, which at the time, according to St. Augustine, held no less than 240 opinions as to who the Supreme Being was. He went un to tell of the early successes of the Apostie and then of the opposition which was ratsed against bim. This opposition, he showed, continued from pontificaic to pontificate, and was extant to-day. Truo, he said, the rock, the ¢ecthing ealdron and the trapped mn | but with its inhabitants Assyria, were obsolete, the war against the Church still continued and as unrelentingly waged now as then, The Charch having triumphed over the terrorisms invented for her extermination other means had been invented and were now in active use. States had assumed the prerogative of the Charch, and had sought to appoint themselves as arbiters in questions of ethics which it was clearly the province of the Church alone to decide acd legs late upon, In a thousand and one ways ideas and doc- trines at variance with the trae teachings of the Church, and calculated to slander her reputation, have been and are being promulgated. The new methods would be no more successiul than the old, for even to- day the faith is spreading and the Church becoming more united. Speaking of the new method of warfare on the Church brought the reverend Doctor to consider the present Pope and his administration of the Church militant, ‘Tho preacher was full of his subject, and his showing, by actual statistics, of the growth of the faith im dit ferent parts of the World, was a grand one for the Holy Father. phitheatro, and RENEDICTION. Before retiring Father Hostiot said that he hoped the blessing which he had sought and received person- ally from the Holy Father would rest on all assen bled in the church, on ail the absent kinsfolk, on their children, their parents, their plans and undertak- ings. The services over the ceremony of delivering the benediction was performed and the congregation retired, A DRUNKARD'S END. Last Wednesday Leonard Leib, who kept a boarding house at No. 23 Beacon street, Newark, was committed to jail on complaint of his wife, as a common drunk- ard, On Thursday he sent for his wite and she did not visit him. On Thursday afternoon he became delirious and violent, On Friday he Beat his head againat the bars of his cell.’ On Saturday morning he died. An examination was made and it was found that his skall was not {igetured, and the dectors believe he died from brain tev@® produced by excitement, He was forty. four years of age, and lea a wife and five children, A LIFE FOR A MEAL, An unknown man, about thirty years of agee entered a restanrant at No. 160 South street, at on, o'clock yesteraay morning, and after taking some refreshment refused to pay for it He ran across Houth street to pier 28, where he fell into the river, Ho was taken out of the water immediately, when he ‘was found to be dead. FELL OVERBOARD, Chartes Hum, a young unmarried man employed as cook on board the propeller George F. Harding, Cap- tain C. H, Roe, of Flushing, fell overboard while the boat was going down the East River on Thursday after. noon. The boat was immediately stopped and backed, but the body could not be found, and it 18 supposed that he must have been struck by the propeller and knocked senseless, Mis pareuts reside in New York, The body of Mary Ann Kennedy, who was drowned from an exoursion boat on the 26th inst... was recovered yesterday and sent to tho residence ot her parents. The body of the boy Rdward Storr, who was drowned in the ver ov Friday, was found at noon yes- terday, James McLoughlin, thirty-five years of age, was ar- rosted last night, charged with rebbing Archibald Me- Crossen, residing at No. 126 Front street. Brooklyn, of $45 while asleep ia the store of the aceused, THE HAMBURG MASSACRE. | WHAT THE COLORED CITIZENS OF COLUMBIA STATE ABOUT THE DREADFUL AFFAIR. The following is an abstract of an “Address to tho People of the United States,” adopted at a conference ot colored citizens, held at Columbia, 8. C, July 20 and 21, 1576, iu reference to the Hamburg massacre :— WHAT THR ADDRESS RECITES, The address opens by stating that those who signed it respectfully submit to their fellow citizens their con- dition as citizens of the United States, and more espe- cially in counection with the recent massacre ot pexce- able and law-abiding citizens of the State of South Carolina at Hamburg, on the Sth of July inst. ‘The document says that the signataries deem it right, In view of misrepresentations as to the cause of the massacre, and due,to the character of the mur- dered as weil a8 of their surviving associates, to pre- sent for the information and consideration ot the American people a caim, dispassionate and trutujul exposition of that terrible affair, Itcalls attention to the act providing for the evrol- ment of the male citizens of the State, who were, by its terms, made subject to the performance of militia duty, by virtue ef which colored citizens of tbe State were duly enrolled as part of its military force The statemenk is then made that “the white citizens of the State, with but few exceptions, failed, neglecied and refused'to become members of the force” provided tor by the act-—the consequence being thatthe active militia of the State became composed almost exclu- sively of colored citizens. The county of Edgetleld, of which the town of Hamburg was then a part, consti- tuted one of the military districts of the State under the apportionment and allotment made by the Adjutant Genera!—one regiment known and numbered as the Ninth Regiment of infantry being allotted to said district, with ovo F. A. Belanger Colonel and? R Rivers as Lieuteannt Colonel thereof, One company of this regiment was allotted to and organized in the town of Hamburg, and its members elected one Jobn Williams for their captain, Mr. Rivers was afterward promoted to the ravk of brigade commander and more recently to that. of major general of division after the latter promotion anew regiment, was the Eighteenth regiment of the National ard, was iormed, John Willams being commissioned as ovionel and assigned to its command, and Lis old voinpany being at the same time detached from the Ninth and attached to his new regiment under the designation of Company A. Some time be- tore the company was transferred in this mauner its ranks became depleted and 1t8 members ceased to bo active at drills and mustors, although it was suil borne upon the roster of the Adjutant General’s Department and never ceased to be regarced as a portion of tho National Guard of the State. Soon after Williams took command of the Eighteenth regimont and the attachment of bis old company thereto General Rivers transferred the arms of the company—whbich had meanwhile been stored away under his charge— to Willams, who is by the rates and regulations, as well as the acts of the General Assembly, responsible and accountable for all the ordnance and ordnance stores of bis regiment. Recently the members of the company whose names remained upon 118 roil reorgan- ized, olecied officers and recruited its ranks to the re- quisite number of men, ‘Thereupon Colonel John Williams refused to reissue tothe company its arms. The company isan incor- porated body, having been duly chartered by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 12, 157 ‘The declaration that one of ‘the causes which led to the demand for the surrender of the arins of the com- pany and the enforcement of such demand by tho bombardment of their drill room was the stavement of General Rivers; that the company did not receive their aruis from bim, and were in unlawful possession of them, is disproved by the tact that General Rivers denies in a sworn statement that he made such an vssertion about the *‘untawfui possession” of the arms. On Tuesday, July 4, the company paraded for drill at Hamburg, and, while passing through one ot the least frequented streets of the town, which 1s by actual measurement 148 feet wide, a horse and bugsy was driven into their ranks by Thomas Butler and Henry Getzen, White citizens living some two iniles from the town, At the time of this interference the company was marching in columns of fours, occupying a space of less than eight feet on the width of the street, ‘Alter romonstrating with the occupants of the buggy Doc. Adains, captain of the company, ordered tbe company to’ divide and suffered the tags. to drive througa peaceably. On the following diy Robert J. Butler, father o! one of the occupants of the buggy, and fathér-in-law of the other, complained betore P. Ry Rivers, a Trial Justice, that the company had obstructed a public street. Upon this complaint Rivers sum- moned, by etvil process, the captain and other officers of the company to appear before him on the following day. the day pamed. Robert J. Butler, the complainant, was present, ac- companied by several owner white’ men, each heavily armed with revoivers, On tho calling of the case it was announced to the Court tbat the deiendants were present and that Mr. Henry Sparnick, a member of the circuit bar of the county, had been ‘retained to repre- senttbem. Robert J. Butler, in an angry and excited inanner, protested agaist such representation, and de- mundea that the hearing should be postponed until he could procure counsel from the city of Augusta, Ga, to represent bis sido of the case; whereupon Adams and bis lieutenants, after consultation with their ator. hey, who imformed them that there were no legal grounds upon which the case could be decided against them, waived their constitutional ‘right to, be repre- sented by counsel and consented to go tv trial. Thero- upon the case was opened and proceeded with for some time, but, owing to some disturbance, its progresa was arrested and the further hearing adjourned to tho Sth inst, On Satur- day General M. ©, Butler, of Edgetieid, arrived in the town of Hamburg, and soon alter mounted armed white men began to arrive in squads of ten .0 iiftcen up to avout ball-past five o’cleck, when the nui {armed white men in the town amounted to two or three hun- dred—the last arrival up to that time being that of Colonel A. P. Butler at tue head of titty or seventy-tive men, Immediately after General M. C. Butter’s arrival in the town he sent for the attorney who had been engaged to represent the militia officers on the Thursday precedmg. An interview w: held, the result of which was that the at- torney was charged with a request from General But- ler to General Rivers and the officers of the militia company to come and covier with him. The attorney leit on that mission, and, before reaching ‘the officers, met a gentleman who apprized him of the tact that he had been requesied by the oificers of the company to see General Builer and ascertain what ho desired. It was agreed between the two that tho former should acquaint General Rivers with the facts and remain at his (Rivers’) house tilt the latter should return trom his mterview with General Butier. This was done. Be- foro the latter returned the officers of the company had met at General Rivers’ house, and when the ap- swer from General Butler came it was agreed upon aka free conference held between General Rivera, the attor- ney, the officers and some of their [riends present, that it Was expedient and best to accede to General Butler's request and Lave aa interview with him, 'o this proposition two of the offi xcepted, stat ing again and again that they were airaid to do 80, be- cause they believed it to be a plot to eflect their axysas- fination. A message was, however, sent to General Batler to ascertain if he could meet them without the prosence of bis armed force. To this he assented, but belore arrangements couki bo made vo bring avout the interview a message came from him stating that th hour tixed for trial had arrived, that be was at court, and requesting tho presence of the trial Justice, Get erul Kivers The latter proceeded to his ofilee alone and found General Butler waiting for him. Rivers was about to proceed with the case when Butler askea jor further time, which was granted. He went off, but never returned to the court, Butler went from Rivers’ office to the Council Chamber, ieee a crowd of med men, whose numbers increased as he went long. He sent a commiitee to wait on the officers, requesting them to come and seo him. The officers again declined to go, assigning the samo reason as be- fore—that they were not safe in their persons so long as Butler was surrounded by thia armed band. Another committee from General Butler announced the latter’s uitunatum, which was that the vilicers should apologize for what took place on July 4 and surrender their arms to him. Upon this the officers asked General Rivers, who was uot only the trial jas- tice before whom their case was pending, but was also major general commanding the division of thé militia to which they belonged, if he demanded the arms from them. Rivers replied that he did not, and thereupon the officers declared their unwillingness to surrender their arms to General Butier, because they were re- sponsible and he had no night to demand them or to receive them if surrendercd, Subsequently a citizen, anxious to prevent what ho feared would be a col- lision, called on General Batier and asked hun what he proposed doing. He replied that he intended to have the arms in nalf an hour or “ay the damned town in ashes.” Another inter- view was held, at which General Butler aguin repeated his ultimatum, and upon being asked whether, if bis terms were plied with, he would guarantee pro- tection to the people of the town he said he did not know; that would depend altogether upon how they Debaved themselves. Immediately alter this General Butler went to Augusta, in company with one Harrison Buuler, and returned ip about thirty minut Another committee called upon him, to whom he said that both the officers and the arms must be given up, and on being asked by the committee if they could satisfy bu by boxing up the arms and sending them to Governor Chamberlain, at Colum he replied:—‘Damao the Governor, Lam not bere to consult him, but am here as Colonel Butler; and this won't stop antil vember.” He was then asked if he would gt that if the arms should be surrendered no one shou be hurt, to which he replied:—“1 guarantee nothing.’’ THE ATTACK. During the progress of these several interviews armed white men, to the number of between 200 and 300 (seme riding and some dismounted), Bad assembied on tuo main street. Butone armed colored man was seen, and he was the Marshal of the town, who ha- Dituaily bore arma, Such members of the militia coi pany as were in town and some of their fends, in all to the number of thirty cignt, had to the drijroom and there barricaded themsoives for protoc- tion, About ten minui alter the last mentioned Interview the white men were posted around the square upon which the drillroom stood and along the trestie- work of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, which runs abliquely with the South, facing the drili- room, and firing upon the drillroom was begua by the whites, Up to this time not a single shot had been fired by either side, The firimg upon the drill- room continued ueariy a halt hour before a single shot was returned irom it The occupants of the driil- room then fired occasionally, as opportunity preeented itself, white the white men kept ap an almost con tinuous fire upon the windows of the building for an hour or more. The occupants of the drillroom heard an order given to bring over cup: from Augusta, whereupon they evacuated the butiding trom the rear, and concealed themselves as best they could 1 various portions of the yards and outbuildings ot the differont residences on the square, Tho cannon, however, was brought and fired threo or four times on the building, hose serving 1t being unaware that the room bad been vacated. hen that fact was discovered a general search by the white armed men through the lots, yards and streets for the members of the militia com- Adams and his leutenant appeared to answer on | Rany was made, Inthe course of this two of them were found and kilied; twenty-seven others were cape tured, put under a heavy guard, und after being kept so nearly two hours, daring which time the search for others was continued, private houses were broken iute and private property carried off or destroyed. A con+ sultation as to the proper disposition to be made of th prisoners was bad, various suggestions were made in the presence of the prisoners, and 1 was tinally agroed that General Butler should be applied to for instruc- tions. An armed detail left the scene, and alter an absence of afew moments returned, and calling out five of the prisoners individually and successively shot three of them to death and left one jor dead. Tho nith man who was called out succeeded in Offecting hit escape betore reaching the place of execution, which was but « few yards distant from the ring in which all the prisoners were placed, bu: received a severe gunshot wound in the knee, The rest of the prisoners were thea required to hold up their right hapds and swear that they would never bear arme again against the wuites nor bear testimony in refer. ence to this transaction before any court. They wer then ordered to march off by twos to the right aud se free; but as they marched off they were fired info in discriminately by the crowd, In this flight some a the freed prisoners were wounded, ‘he party ther dispersed and leit town, When the bodies of th murdered men were exainined by daylight by some o the citizens of the piace it was found that the of one of them had been cut off, dnd that another, whe had not been killed instantly, but had lived for avog three hours after daylight, had been cut in the hip ane a ghastly wound infiu with what appeared to hay been an'axe. These statements aro based apon the re sults of a judicial investigation. ‘The document declares that sueb occurrences have their origin in a settled and well-detined purpose t¢ influence and controi polttical elections, While admit. ting pat many cltizens of the South, holding political views opposed to their own, deprecate such deeds, the signers of the paper are forced to believe that the Hiamburg massacre was “not ooly an assault upor their right to exercise thelr privilege as a partof the arms-bearing population of the country, bata part of ¢ deliberate plan arranged and determined upon by at least the members of that party, who not ouly continue a positive quantity im its ranks, but who control the organization.” n conclusion, the paper recites the peaceable, do- clle, law-abiding’ characier of the negroes simce their emancipation, and appeals to the people of the United States “ip the name of justice and humanity, io the name of peace and ordcr, in tbe name of Christianity and the cause of civilization, to vindicate the honor of the Americun name by insisting that the bumblest citizen of this Kepublic shall be made secure in his consiitutiOnal guarantee of security for bis life, his hberty and bis property. ”” ‘The citizens of thut State, the Governor of it and the President of the United States are also each appealed to in Lurn to exercise their respective powers and in- fluence to prevent the repetition of such an occurrence and to punish the perpetrators of the. present. Sixty signatures are appended to the appeal, PICKED UP AT SEA, HOW LITTLE FRED SMITH LOST HIS FISHING SCHOONER IN A FOG—HE IS PICKED UP IN HIS DORY BY A FISHERMAN AND TBANS- FERRED TO AN AUSTLIAN VESSEL—A BOY WHO DOES NOT FANCY GRANITE QUARRYING, ‘The Austrian brig Enrica, which arrived in this port "yesterday from Gloucester, England, bad on board » Jad of sixteen, named Frederick Smith, who was takem on board out of an open boat, in which he puiled up to the vessel while she was drifting in a calm about 1,500 miles at sea, on July 15. A Hekatp reporter, search- ing for the vessel while the rain fell in torrents yester- day afternoon, found her lying at the middle pier, in the Atlantic basin, Brooklyn, Making his way on board he learned that the captain had gone ashore, but that the lad he sought was in tho torecastle below, Descending a wet and slippery ladder the reporter found himself in a small and dark but tolerably clean apartment, the walls of which were lined with the sleeping berths of the crew. ‘The little space left was crowded with chests, upon which the men were seated devouring their dinner of sea biscuit and bored salt beef with more vigor than elegance, In this company was found the boy Smith, who proved to be about six- teon years old, rather small for his age, with 1air bais and handsome and intelligeut sun-browned features, He was attired in a shirt and trousers, apparently made of bagging, patched and pieced in many places after a style that betokened plainly that the fingers which had performed the work ‘were more accustomed to handling a marlingspixe than a needle. Hats and boots were evidently considered effeminate luxuries in the community and were accordingly eschewed. On the reporter’s introducing himself, Smith, in the tn- tervals between the bites at the “hard tack” he was munching, told-bis story. THE STORY OF THR CASTAWAY. It appears that he pelongs t the village of Suages, some ten miles from Boston, where bis father, mother, two brothers and a sister reside. His father is en+ gaged in quarrying granite and the boy had been cusiomed to help him. The work was very distastetal, however, to Fred, .ud when 14 the Jatier part of May his fatucr bought a ledge and proposed to work it with _ vigor he, as he says, asked and obtained permission to go to sea, He accordingly proceeded to Boston and made his Way to. Commercial street to the shipping ottice of Capt Fluke, a gentieman whe would seem in the light of succeeding events to have been appropriately named. There the voy signed papers cugaging bim- seli to act as cabin boy of the ishing schooner Charles Allsirum, owned and sailed by Hugh McPhadden, who, potwithstwnding bis name, ts an American. le was immediately sent to Provincetown, where the vessel Jay, and reported to the cuptaim. Tbe latier, two days before sulting, imduced the lad to sign other papers, the parport of which be did not understand. To use the boy's own words, ‘I dido’t tuink anything, but signed my name, and when I got out to sea iound wd engaged to be a fisherman iastead of a cabin boy. We saiied from Provincetown on the jast day of May, and reached the fishing banks in avout two weeks, 1 had to doa man’s work, standing watch, catching and cleaning the fish. There are two ways of fishing. Ono is with a single hand line, and the other is with a trawl! or line about a mile long. Each boat has two big tabs to hold tho lines coiled up in them. 1t’s a pretty large line, you know, si cause there isa good deal of weight on it, and to every three feet is attached a picca of smaller line, threo feet long, with a baited hook. Then every six ices there is whut ts called a ‘gauge,’ or large line, With a hook on it, Each tud holds 500 nooks, making ONE THOUSAND HOOKS ON BACT LINK, Woll, at tour o'clock every afternoon two of us would have to get into each dory and pull out with the trawis: sometimes the sea was washing clear over tho vessel, but we bad to go. All the time I outl did Dot see two clear days It was so foggy that we could not see the lengtu of the vessel, and the boats only found their way back to the ship by the sound of a horn blown from the rigging. Several of tho crew got beyond the sound of the horn and were lost, but after- ward, by good luck, found their way back. 1 used te go out wit one of the crew. He and I would set the traw! while | pulled the boat away from the vessel ua. Ul ail the line was out. When that was done we had to pull back to the ship and work around, cleaning the codfish, splitting it open and salting it down. Ob, it was awiul work! I worked one day from five o’clock tm the afternoon, when we got back alter sotting the trawls, ull three o’ciock the next morning, Then we had atways to be up in the morning at three o’elock, to o out and haui in the trawis, That took about four jours. Qb, that wos worse than ‘hand liming’ or cicantng. When the wind and tide were against mo, and every hook had a fish on it struggling to get away, it almost killed me. Sometimes halibuts, weight fifty pounds, would be on the hooks, and it used to tear my hands to pieces to pull in the heavy lines.”” LOST IN THR FOG. ‘The lad’s hands bore testimony to the strict trath- fulness of that part of his story. They were as large as the hands of a full-grown, muscular farm laberer. The skin was thick as sole leather, wrinkled and cor. rugated as the outside of an oyster shell, and dotted all boles from over with biisters and ich large pieces had been toru. “One day,” he continued, ‘was out madory alone, fishing with a small lin id right 0 ahead of me was tho mate in another boat empioyed in the same way. 1 was a kind of green hand, ry hein but followed him along the best I coula; but he pulled he got out of my sight in the bot better than I could ans for. There was no sea runuing at ail, so | could tell by that which way the vessel lay. It was aboat hait-past three the morning, just after day! and | pulled about till noon trying to find the 5 saw nothing of it, and from that time let my boat drift Lwasawialiy navgry and did not know what the fog lifted and 3 saw a schooner nearme. [ iled for ‘n bap missed it im the fog which fell again, Then I drifted a little while till L saw her again and pulled up wo her, She tarned out to be the East Wind, a fishing vessel from Prov. ineetown. She was anchored when! saw her and the crow was engaged in fishing. I went on board and told my story to Captain Dowling. He was a pretty hard man, too, I went to work like one of the crew, and did a man’s work till one morning, when we were saik tng eastward, about the 1éth of July, I saw the brig Furica becalmed and drifting along a little to the west- ward, about two miles and a bait. A I wanted toge home, and so I says to the captain, ‘Will you let me take my boat—I had the hovsted up on board the vessel—and go home!’ I ‘see the vessel : ing castwat Heo said, “I don't care; you stay or go.’ So the crew lowered down m: the piugholes up and I pulled on board this ‘was just two weeks yesterday. Captain maie, Matteo Pasquam, have been vet When I first came on board thoy gave clothing and they have not asked me to stand watch or said ap unkind woradto ma The {eo going to seo the authorities and have ne. The Ja i | ditt despite his hardships, has not been cured his prejudice against granite, Tot he doclared thas if i could obtain work iu New York he would not go heme, He would be no bad addition to the crew of ayacht, MECHANICS AND TRADERS’ SAVINGS INSTITUTION, To accommodate depositors who cannot call im the daytime Mr, William J. Best, receiver, will open the Mechanics and Traders’ Savings Institution on Mom — day, Wednesday and Friday evenings of this from six to nine o’ciock, when books may be presen: Sear. with the ‘‘dealers’ ledger” and tobe