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RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS, Sermons Preached by Various Cler- * gymen Yesterday. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST Rev. W. T. Sabine on a Pe- culiar People. NECESSITY OF FAITH. Bishop Janes on the Constrain- ing Love of God. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST—SERMON BY RRY. 8. H. TYNG, JB, At the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-secoud street, the Rev, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., the pastor, preached, taking his text from Mark, ix., 2—'‘He was transfigured before them."” The transfiguration of Jesus Christ, said Dr. Tyng, wus a fact, nota fable, Against all the pretended ex- positions and explanations of naturalism we bad the testinony of eye witnesses, for their words continue with us unto this day, When Peter was upon the mount tbere came to him the voice o1 God, saying, “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” John was a member of the company and he declared, “We beheld his glory, the glory as of the Oniy Begot ven of the Father,” James, the third witness, was salled to heaven before his testimony could :be given. These evangelists are witnesses whose evidence cannot be overthrown, The transfguration brings before us, in an event, an outline of the second coming and the glorious kingdom of Jesus Christ upon this earth. it | stands for us, also, as an illustration of Christian experience in alltime. It has to do with a Christ out- side of the soul, a visible Saviour to the eyes that are fitted to perceive, and as Peter and James and John be- hela Him thus ‘marvelously transtigured so in the whole atter history of His people is He set before them in a developing glory which the eye of the un- dsrmanaing, of Vision, of faith, can appreciate and enjoy. But now mark the proposition :—He was transfigured dotore them, The change was relative, They wero lifted up from their own circumstances to this moun- tain of privilege that they might be prepared for the Manifestations the Lord would make. Ab! Jesus ts always glorious; beneath the tattered garments of the Galilean peasant always the imefable image of the Father was He, But men ri ed Hintnow His own received Him not. its brightness, though vapor shut it trom our sight and enjoyment, and though obstructions shut out the bright Sun and eartoly dificulties binder the uplook of faith the Lord is ever glorious, These changes in Christ (ior transfiguration means a metamorphosis) are equally changes in us. They ar@ conditions in which the soul can realize Christ. When the heyrt is lifted up in. prayer surely the spiritna light ts clearer, andthe soul that actually pray @hgels on the ladder. John, at Patmos, at the extreme %t (his dispensation, beheld the One whose face shone ws the sun, and was astonished and overwhelmed at ibe sight. The Holy Ghost guides us, enlightens the syes of our understanding and our faith, that we may sec. He iiuminates all our conceptions of Christ in the promises, so that in Christ's own light we begin to recoynize more and more of His inexpressible glory. I take three changes in Christ, which, though like the revolution of the sun and stars, are oniy apparent changes, still, in our experience they seem actual, said the preacher. First of all, the name becomes a person, Inthe transfiguration Jesus ceases to be a mere name—He becomes a historical person. Second, the person becomes a presence. Dg you know any: thing about this transfiguration ? in your counting rooms, in your houses, by the way ? Ob, blessed art thou, whosoever thoa art, that walkest with a jorm like unto the Son of map. The last transfiguration is when the source becomes a fulness, The perception of His fulness we have only for a moment and then He isa man again. We shail see Him as He is, All will proceed irom Jesus, our Lord—ail life, all love, ail joy, all song—and we shall bs transfigured into the same likeness, from glory to glory. CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURA- TION. DB. GEORGE H. HOUGHTON ON THE FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, Dr. Houghton’s church was well filled yesterday morn- Ing. The services wore in commemoration of the Feast of the Transfiguration which in reality fell on Satur- day. Dr. Houghton, on commencing his discourse, said:—We come this morning to consider the transfig- uration, and that in the three following particulars and respects—viz., its effect, wherein it consisted, its source, or the efficient cause whence the splendor of which we read was derived, and its design or reason why the transfiguration took place. At the outset we are met with the fact the purpose of our Saviour in ascending the mountain was quite other than for the purpose of being tranafigured. St. Luke says that He took “Peterand James and John and went up into a mountain to pray, and as he prayed the fashion of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and glistening.” Wo find by the Scrip- tures that scarcely any event of Christ's life was not preeedea by prayer. If this was the cave with our Divine Lord and Saviour, shall the servant and the disciple fail todo likewise, and if prayer on most ordinary occasions, it daily prayer was the tule and practice of Him who knew no sin, what shail de the rule and practice of those whose kuoweledgo 1s ot sinonlyt We know not, assuredly, what may have deen the hature of our Lord’s prayer when the trans Aguration took place, but we do know assuredly that twas a5 He prayed’ that the fashion of His counte- dance was altered and His raiment was white and glistening. It was so with Moses on the Mount, and with Stephen testifying belore the counct|, that his face became as if it had been the tace of vn angel. In the several accounts which we have of the transfiguration we are told by St Matthew that He was transtigured before them—that is, that His outward form and appearance became other or different than 1 customarily was; but yet not so changed as to cea-e to be thoroughly ‘recognizable. St. Mark adas to the BEY. record of 8:. Matthew the more particular aod enlarged | Biatement in regard to the raiment that it became shining, exceeaingly white, as snow, 80 as no fuller can white them, In the — trans- figuration our blessed Lord was not changed, aud as such the three disciples might recognize Him by the well known features of His countenance. The efficient cause of the transfiguration, or the source whence the splendor was seen in the face and emitted from the raiment, was bat an internal imfuence and emanation of deity, It was the glory of the innate ana divine nature, manifesting iteelt outwardly in the body and in the very raiment of Chri Several reasons have been given why the transficuration took place at the time and when it du. Perhaps it was to con- firm the testimony of St Peter on behalf of all the disciples:—“Thou art the Christ, the son of the hving God.” It was also dosigned to convey some idea of the form and appear- ance of Christ when He snail come at the latter day to ze both the quick and the dead; and its final mo- y have been to remove the scandal of the cross, t indicated the power and final giory of Him who and to be crucified and slain, ‘The transfigueation is the sure witness of Christ’s true divinity and of the go, and power of His second comings It ss an infal- i ble indication of the final resurrection and glorifica- | tion of the saints, and It was designed to take away the scandal of the cross and of every cross which it may please God is to be borne 1m this life by their own mortal bodies, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST—SERMON BY THE REY. FATHER COLTON. Rey, Father Colton celebrated the high mass and preached at this church yesterday morning. Though the woatber was very warm the congregation was large for this senson of the year, 7 abject of the sermon was the transfiguration ‘on Mount Tabor, an account of which was given in the Gospel of the Sunday. Father Colton gave a very in- teresting description of the seene on the Mount, when Peter, James and John witnessed the unveiling of Chriet’s divinity from His human form, This sabject; sways so interosting to believers, was very nicely ireated by the young clergyman, whose maiden effort bad abundant opportunity for a display of imagery in depicting the scene. The astonishment of the apostles at the glory manifested, the beauty of Christ's person, ‘which shone out even through His garments, and the trongfaith with which the three apostles were teenies, ‘E ire treated of and the preacher then went on tospeak of the cloud which overshadowed the mount and of the voree of the Father crying out, “Ibis is my beloved son, in whom [ am well pleased.” The contrast between this scene and that on Calvary also formed a leading point in the discourse, in connection h which an explanation was given of the object Christ had in manifesting Himself to His apostles in all the radiance of His divinity, It was necessary that the apostics shoula become strong in faith, im order to peur up under the trying ordeal they were to be put isreagh when the time of the Saviour’s passion ar- rived. Seeing Him as they had been ra seeing Hi Without avy surroundings put those of poverty an ‘The sun 16 beyond the clouds in all | Is Jesus with you | ‘as #0 SOON to bo subjected to the utmost ignominy | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 7. 1876. jowliness, the sublimity of the doctrine He was preach- ing alone to sustain a faith in Him, Christ saw the 4 there was for the transiguration, that his tollow- might be aroused and inage firm jor the terrible persecution snd infliction which every step of the pas | sion would present belore their eyes, So strong did Peter's taith become on the Mount he wanted to build ernacles to Christ, and to Moses and Elias, who Were seen with Him, ax planets around the sun, This scene on Mount Tabor incited the apostles to follow their Master to the end, for they knew that some of the glory which they had seen awaited themselves in the Juture if they persevered in faith, Christ told them alterward that there were many mansions io Mis Father’s kouse, ana that He would g0 and prepare a place for them in order that where He would be they might be also, The preacher went on to show the advantages of a sirong faith in Christ, saying, with St. Augustine, that it was the beginning of salva- tion. We should cast off ourselves aud put on Christ, become ahve to the serious objectot life and sustain Withiy ourselves and Christ the aspirations after a glo- rious hereafter with which the soul was endowed. ‘The sorrows of the God-Man on Calvary were the never fail- Ing Source of consolation to ns in every trial and aftlic- tion, Christ knew how weak and prone to fall was Man's nature and how necessary was recourse to the Father for help in the temptations and snares with which we were ever beset in this lite, Knowing this and desiring the salvation of our immortal souls, He ‘as ready atall times to be our guide and support in r Weaknesses and to plead for us before the throne of His Father, His graces were always in readiness tor us if we only agked for them. To pray to Him, then, was our sure refuge, no matter how great was the temp- tation before us or how difficult was the trial we bad to encounter. LAFAYETTE PLACE CHURCH. THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD—BSBR- MON BY THE REY. MR. SCOTT, The majority of the members of the regular congre- gation of the Dutch Reformed church in Lafayette place are out of town, and there were consequently but few persons in attendance at divine service yesterday forenoon. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Scott, who took for his text the eighth verse of the | thirty-second chapter of Deuteronomy, which reads as follows:—"*When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam HAKot the bonds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” We were, the reverend gentleman said, living in stirring times, and no one could tell what the next move on the chess board of human events would be or what the grand result, For six thousand years the Most High had been pre- paring the way for His kingdom, and it bow seemed that the angel was about to take wing, put the trumpet to his mouth and announce the great consummation at hand. Men, he satd, who engage in the chase of wild animals contracted their lines so that when the beast wax stirred up it could be casily pursued and struck down, In like manner the provi- | dences of God contracted their circles around some purpose of heaven until it was stirred up and made | triumphant, The Jews had what they called their | preparation for the Sabbath, and why, then, should we | not have our millennium Sabbath of the earth? The prophet Daniel and John the Evangelist had revealed to us the inspired record of 1,260 years ending in the de- struction of anti-Christian purposes, Whether on the Euphrates, where sat the real Babylon, or | on the Tiber, where thrives the mystic Baby- | lon, God’s purposes always triumphed. Unless we were at jwult m. our reading of Gou’s Word in the Scriptures the fulfilment of the prophecies must come to pass yery soon, The over- throw of the anti-Christian Papal beast must come wiih the cycies of the present revoiving years, The shadow Of darkness at times, it was true, chilled our hearts; | but yes, for one, he believed that we were ou the very | threshold of the most momentous events of history. It we were only spared another hundred years we wouid witness the most tremeudous changes in men: and the Kingdom of God. Lt might be an era of blood; | for we all know that God’s purposes were often ac- | complished through desolation and sorrow, and we | have to shudder at tho prospect; but His work must proceed. When God lea His people to Canaan there were @arnage and blood beloreband, and when Jer- uxalem Was overthrown for the elect its overthrow was signalized by tribulation and sorrow. Was not all this a type of the second coming of Christ? But alter the storm the calm, aiter the curnago the proclamation ot truce, and ‘alter i this period Christ's | glorivus triumph itselt! The student of the | Scriptures,” having tne fullest confidence im | the majesty of God, was astonished at the revolutions | among nations he read of as he went a'ong, aud felt | that he could not understand how God is acting. It | was a mystery to us, looking at things with our finite view, why He had permitted the Saracens to lay waste one Of the fairest Janus on earih, and had aliowed them to still hold possession there; Why the Crusaders were | over and over again defeated and ‘their bones whitened the plains of Palestine. There was a key to all these | mysteries, but we had it noj. From belore the toun- | | dations of the world God had decreed that Christ's | Kingdom should come, and all these things, each in its | own way, were destined to bring it about. Though wo could not understand why He piled up the gramto mountains, tossed the seas with destructive tempests and spread the sands in the desert, we did under- stand that Ho will establish at last His great white throne. Thus we could look back to the past, witness the present and anticipate the future, aud see in them all the wonderful workings of the Al- mighty with the one end in view—the establishmenyot His kingdom on earth. Alter showing that God bad divided the earth among the nations for a wise pur- pose Mr. Scott said the nations of the nineveenth cen- tury must be obedient to the work of God as be re- quired the nations spoken of in the Old lestament to be obedient. If they were not they would perish, ‘There were human hearts that said there was no God, that, as it were, the globe revolved without an axis, but they were put iew; tankind generally recoguized that He ruled in the arinies of heaven and among the na- tions of the carth. The reverend gentioman then cited the history of the Bonapartes to show that potentates who disregard the will of God were set aside as the whirlwind sweeps down the tallest trees ol the forest, and poinied to the present condition of Turkey to show that she had been tried in the balance, iound | | Wanting and would sooner or jater tall. He closed by exhorting hix hearers to exert themselves individu- ally ia the work of God so that His will would be done an all things, DUANE M. E. CHURCH. THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS—DISCOURSE BY REV. DR. PORTER, The Duane Methodist Episcopal chureb, in Hudon street, between Dominick and Spring streets, has just been thoroughly renovated and repaired, Yesteraay morning it was formally reopened, with a fair attend- ance of members Rev, Dr. Porter, of the New Eng- land Council, preached the sermon, taking bis text froin James, v., 20:—"He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his | way shall save bis soul trom death and shail cover a multitude of sins.’” The revorend gentleman said that three great traths were recognized in the text, First, that the soul of the sinner was exposed to death; sec- ond, the conversion of the sinner prevented the death of the soul; and third, that Christians had the power | to convert sinners, No matter whether a man was an ever or not there was always a fear of death in | This feciimg existed even among those who did ve in a (ulure state of existence. The preacher did not pretend to say what constituted death, bell or. punishment, It was ali mere speculation in regard to | those subjects, It was similar as regards eternity | and heaven, But we did know what death meant, a that it was something we should always avoid af possible, To death happily we should be con- | verted. Conversion just meant what Christ had ex- | plained, “Uniess a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of heaven.” It meant a compiete rev_in- | tion and change in all our feelings, so that we come to love God and His people with all our hearts. The change should mean a proclivity to good where all the proclivities before tended to evil; a religious ardor that | made you bappy in poverty and snflering and under | all circamstances of hie. We should bring influence to bear upon the sinner so that he might change his at titude toward God, and then God would meet him halt way. We could do this instrumentally, and that is the | way it shouid be done. We shoud first be thoroughly | converted ourselves. He never knew anybody to be | | successiul in this direction that bad not been thus con- | | Verted. When God e@trikes a hght in our souls we | | should not hide it ander a bushel, but let it shine out | | as av example to others, The reyerend geutleman con- cluded an interesting discourse With an exhor his hearers to work earnestly among thoir br as to bring them into the fold of Christ, Each one could do something. Preachers should also strike right at the work Of redeeming souls without beating around the bush and dragging in outside issues. It was thus that Moody converted hundreds, and the ministers of the present day should take example trom him. THIRTEENTH SELF-DENIAL—SERMON BY THE REY. woop. In the absence of the regular pastor the services at the above church were conducted by the Rev, Charies Wood, of Buffalo, Tho text ot his sermon was fyom the epistie of Paul to the Hebrews, xi., 26, where, speaking of Moses, the apostle says he “estagmed the reproach of Christ greater than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.” As an instance of the absence of self-denial, said the reverend gentleman, let us take the epicurian who satiates without restraint bis appetite for what pleases him or admires Nero gratifying his grosser desires at any sacrifice, Contrasted with these we look at its | presence in a good Christian life. We are apt to look | STREET CHURCH. CHARLES | have to become pertect, to thrust back the better nature, while in the other there is the struggle to retain it against the tempta- tions of evil Let us look at the lie of A. T. Stew- art, said the preacher, Did he not find it necessary to force back lis better nature and devote his whole mind to business that be might obtain the wealth he owned? Did not that man, of such enormous means, when lying on a bed of illness, thrust back his better nature to give way to plans and projects for wealth and the accomplishment of gigantic cuterprises? How often we say of such men that they are to be envied; what desires can they not gratity; What pleasures can they not command? Go back a few years and louk at the life of James Fisk, Jr. How mauy wished themselves in his place, and thrilied with the thought of being such amon? Had he no trials, no aspirations forced buck 1m the bette: nature? Did he never hear the voice calling to him, “Prepare to meet thy God?” Is there no self-deuial in lives like these? ‘In a child without understanding there is no higher than sensual pleasure, it ioves good things and indulges in them, It does not under- stand Why it should deny itself It is taught seit- denial to’ control this grosser nature. Is it easier to live a life of dissipation than to follow the walks of Christ? If tor one dishonest act you were promised a fortune would 1% be Bo trial to refuse—to refuse wealth and luxury for one such act And yet when, for Christ's sake, we decline to do what is wrong there is more pleasure than in the yielding. There is more joy in such an act of self-denial than in the sin ro- jected. Our lower nature is the stronger at the outstart, avd youth can crush gut spiritual but not grosser things. We must begin by believing and walk by faith. Wo must be told not to do the things that give us the most pleasure; that the most pleasant companions are not the best, and that a Iife of seli-tndulgence is the hardest alter ail. “It 18 difficult to be! that a life of pleasure is harder than that ot a Christian, and we cannot do so while we regard subduing our jower na- ture as selt-denial, Anything that hinders us from approaching the tull séature of Christ is waat we must deny, and when in the other world we look back we shall ree the reproaches which evil,doers cast upon themselves, CALVARY BAPT. CHURCH. THE BEAUTY. OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER—SERMON BY REY. JOHN LOVE, The Rev. John Love, of Massachusetts, occupied the pulptt of Rey. RS MacArthur yesterday morning in Calvary Buptist church, Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue, There was a large congregation present, The text of tho discourse was a partof the sixteenth verse of the fifth chapter of Ganticles—‘For he is alto- gether lovely.” The preacher suid nothing human is perfect; even the countenance of woman, no matter how lovely, will be found faulty when judged by sevore critical rules, Venus de Medici as said to be the most beautiful statue in the world, yet it 1s rather a work of fancy; 1m fact, as soon as birth takes place faults com- f mence to pe developed, blots on the fair suriace of character are seen, and no one does or even will pos- eess the whole sum of human virtues, Yet there is one grand exception to all this, and that is Jesus Christ, whose periect and untarnished character | stands out, bold and beautiful, ‘as an eximple ot human strength without a single human weak- | ness “He was altogether lovely.’? In his loveliness | we have the secret of His power, It pleased tho Father | to endow His eharacter with the warmest sympathies, how else otherwise could He have so drawn tne multi- tudes (6 His-sidey Yet there were no extremes in Jesus, all was rounded and harmonious, Some paint- ers who have made great names for themselves in the | world of art excel in deliveating portraits, some excel in landscapes, where the delicate lights blend with the profoundest shadows; but ifim these works there is an excess, or extremes are reached, their yalue is lost. So in literature, science or philosophy ‘any departure from harmony or the truths of nature rendera value- less the mosi laborious works, and this is where the aiviuity of Christ again looms up strongly, He did got He was pertect. Is there a single quality in His character that pre-e vents us (rom loving Him full¥? He is the embodi- ment of all the grandest conceptions of humanity; in whatever way we examino Jesus His charactor will bear | the closest scrutiny; nov a delormity, not a blot, not a breath of passion, and even when His body was writh- ing in agony on the cross His cry went up to heaven, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do!" Again, He is altogether lovely, for His qualities were developed to the highest degree, and thus we can per- ceive their full beauty. A rosebud may be beautiful in form and delicate in Unt, but nog until it expands into the full flower can we perceive the glory of its colors aod inhale the sweetness of ita perfume. So in chil- dren, Childhood 1s beautiful, but not until they de- velop and grow can we perceive their excelient quali- ties, which before may be said to be only in a germinal state. But Christ was the perfectly developed man, We might forgive our brother seven times, but He tor- gave seventy times seven. We speak of His sympathy ; He could not help being sympathotic, because He could not help loving; and never is Christ nearer to man than when He finds him weeping and alone.”? ALLEN STREET M. E. CHURCH. THE CONSTRAINING LOVE OF GOD—SERMON BY THE REV. BISHOP JANES. At the Methodist Episcopal Church on Allen street, between Delancey and Rivington streets, there was a large congregation yesterday to hear a sermon preached by the Rey. Bishop Janes. Ho read as his text the filth chapter of the second Epistle of Paul to tho Corinthians, from the tenth to the twenty-first verse, showing the power of Christ's love and sacri- fice, In presenting bis views the reverend gentleman said that the text was an epitome of the Gospel and an inspiration to all religious ideas. “For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus Judge that, if one died for all, then were all dead; and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto th$niselves, but unto hin which died for them and rose again.” Can you think ot any doctrine of religion not implied in this passage ? Christ died for all, He tasted death for every man. His death was not an ordinary one; it was sacrificial. Neither living nor dying ‘or Himself; bat for us He took upon Himself our nature, and by His death and Tesurrect on became the propitiation of our sins; the siis of the wnvle world. Christ so loved man that He became aman of sorrow that He might expiate our sins, When we speak of death we meap the separation of our soul and body; but death 18 also mentioned in the Bible in a spiritual sense. As death by sin, which Alienates the spirit from God, takes from the soul all holy desires and creates instead all wicked devices, 80 there is also A LRGAL DEATH. For if a man commits a murder and is tried and con- victed of the crime and sentence of death 18 passed upon bim, that man is legally dead. He cannot make any contract; he can neitner buy nor geil property, nor even moke a will, We have all sinned and been convicted by God’ jaw, and we are legally dead; but Christ has died for’ us, and by His death we may be saved. He gives us through His atonement a part of the Divine Spirit, Itis the gift of tue eros’, reviving in us the good thoughts that sin took from us. If we sorrow for our sin, forsake them and come to Goa im prayer, He will answer, pardon and regenerate us, and the sentence will be taken from our lives, We will have a new character and new purposes. We will live for God and for immortality, We will not live for ourselves. For ‘if any man bein Christ he isa new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things ‘are become new."? Those ‘who are saved are constrained by the love of Christ to live for others and by their influence draw them to religious duties, to uphold the Church aud preserve its dottrines, The constraining love of Christ will loosen our tongues and urge us at fitting times and places to call others to Jesus, It will make us have prayers our homes, He is a cold-nearted, formal istian who does not have family prayers,’ It is the straining jove of Christ that sends the missionary to the heathen ana the martyr to the stake, “Know- ing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." The jerror of sin was so creat that Jesus gavo His lite to save us from it, The terror of sin was so great that when the world became corrupt God sent the deluge and. awept it away. Read of sinful cities, of Sodom and Gomorrah. God sent the fire from heaven to annihilate them. Kvery time a Now Yorker reads that bistory jet him tremble for the wicked city in which he lives. Think of the punishment of Moses for not doing his work in @ proper spirit; dying on the mountain within sight of the promisea land. God can- not be trifled with even in spirit. The preacher por- trayed the terrors of the deathbed of the sinner unpre- pared to meet Christ, and closed by urging his people to be steadiast and fervent in tho right and to be Fo- conciled to ¢ FIRST REFORMED CHURCH. A PECULIAR PROPLE—SERMON BY THE RECTOR, REV. W. T. SABINE, Yosterday morping the Rev, W. T. Sabine preached upon a text selected from I. Peter, i, 9:—“But ye are ‘a chosen generation, @ royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye shoula show forth tho praises of him who hath called you out of darkness futo his magvellous light, which in time past were not a people, but are now the peoplé of God; which bad not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Tho preacher said:—Tho apostle addressing the Christians scattered throughout Pontus Gallatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, institutes a double contrast. ‘First, a contrast of con. dition; they are not what they once wero. They were in darkness; they are in marvellous Jignt Them a contrast of state, They are a chosen generation, @ royal priesthood, a holy nation, a pe- cular people, These bold and broad comparisons, | drawn with an unflinching hand, indicate that those who are really children of GOR bave somewhere and »mehow to undergo a radical and fundamental chango of aims, disposition and relationship. In describing the church generation the preacher satd:—ihey have upon the latter lite as one of hardship and trial, and on the former as one of ease and comtort, But it is not so, When Paul as a prisoner was brought before Nero, the latter said to him he did not know what self-denial was; ho induiged in every fancy of his mind and acted his will anrestrainedly, And Paul replied to bim and said he neither knew what self-denial was, they spoke of their different natures. Nero, in his lower nature, bad not demed himself indoigence in the gros sest kensualities, while Paul, teaching right to others, had often fallen irom the faith himself, No man Can deny eltherone of these natures, and been convicted of sin and renewed into repentance by the power of the Holy Ghost. They have beon for- xiven; they are now accepted inthe Beloved. They _reiy for salvation alope upon the merits of Christ. They love Jesus with trae affection, aod desire | in all poasibie contormity to be made like Him. The | true Christian feels the evil, deplores the guilt, and | Struggles to resist the power of sia, To him it 18 an- But | guish and weartness He bears it as the slave his solt- | tude; he wears itas tue prisoner his chains. He ac- Knowledges it, he confesses 1, ho bates it, he disal- | lows it, HR GRIRVES OVER IT, } there |. That which the Christian regrets and dep’ thi [are trials of self-denial in bovb, In one isis the effort | Clristioss one, in mang mstances, excuses ‘shu defends How fs it possible to confound these two states of mind? The members of this royal priesthood are again to be accounted a peculiar people, because they repose their hope and confidence alone upon the merits of a Divine Saviour, Paul is their spokesman when he declares y grace of God ye are saved, throuch thal not of yourselves.’ It ia the gift of Go Having established the lact of this separation and the peculiar- ity of thix chosen people, the preacher affirmed, “*This ind for those there is no people alone are accepted and redeemed, who have received the offer of the Gosp salvation out of these ranks. Faith in Jesus, convi tion, repentance, forgiveness of sins—this, we believ ix the one and the only way jor us to the joys of Heay These are the terms :—He tbat beheveth and 1s baptized shail be saved; be that believeth not shall be diumned! God made these terms in wisdom and in love, and though I wish them otherwise with all my heart, | could pot, I dare not, go back of God's terms,” The sermon concluded with an exhortation to the sirict obedience of the rules laid down for salvation. WESTMINSTER CHURCH. WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING—-A SERMON BY REY. G. D, MATTHEWS. At the Westminster church yesterday morning there was a very fair attendance to listen to a sermon by Rev. George D. Matthews, founded on the twelfth verse of the second .chapter of Paul’s Epistle to the Phi}ippians—*Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have al- ways obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salva- tion with fear and trembling.’’ fe said he would in- vite the attention’ot his hearers especially to the Jatter portion of the verse, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” The speaker spoke of the great interest taken by Paul in the spiritual welfare of the Church and progress in Christian work. The lesson conveyed to them was that they were to struggle to gain the object sought, to work out ther own salvation with fear and trembling, He felt that his hearers had all a fair idea of whas was meant by work in the connection 11 which the word was used in the text, We could only secure salvation through the earnest, God-fearing work of repentance, and a strug. gle tobe as much in the likeness of Christ as it w: given to mau to be, To secure salvation there was heed for a powertul, long-continued eflort to be freed from the governing power of sin and to secure a trust- cng Jaith in Christ, By that means there would come a change 1n character as well as achange 1m State, Aud the work was @ great werk, requiring constant, powe fuleflor. Asan itlustration he instanced the eflurt required for success by the man wio had determined to acquire weulth, Such a man found that he must be economical in his expenditures, untiring ip business eflort, and watebtul over himself and his business in all things; so much so that he was io great danger ot becoming miserly, Theo, again, the man who sought power, either political or spctal, fouud that he had to live for its attainment for many Years, olten lor more than an average Nletrme, and all the time, If seeking political power, in danger ot destroying himself through the decerituiness neces sury to appeur fair and friendly to such as he would not care (0 be on speaking lerms with were he not in search of power, So was it with effort in ail direc. tions; it Was accompanied by trials and dangers, But by an earnest, persistent seeking for saivation there came a change in character, slowly, almost impercep- tibly; but yet, alier yeurs of determined to live iike Christ, the change was brought about; brought about so gradually that the subject himself Wus Dot so well aware of it ax his neighbors, And dur- ing ail the time during which the change was progress- ing there was destruction going on in the lower human passions until the pertectly lovely change found to be complete, and that which was vaiuable beyond all Price was secured. The acquireme: was not to be compared with it, for that seldom brougat with tt any good and lasting influence. In proot of his declaration he instanced what he con- sidered the fact that aman among us here died but 4 short time ago, siter having acquired aimo-t fabulous wealth, and when he passed away pearly all his influence died with him, And the same was true of others. But, when those who had lived only to progress in spiritual influence and happ ness passed away, their influence lived after them aud was veneticial to all, He, therefore, urged upon his hear- ers to sock salvation, assuring’ them that when thoy were appealing for it, striving for it, they would find thenselves happier by far thau those who were striv- ing jor merely worldly gains, But in working for sal- vation he would warn them against vecoming sell- sauisfied with their effort, holding that all must be done in the spirit of tne declaration, “Not unto me, but unto Thee, oh, God;" it must be done in fear an trembling. Then, with salvation acquired, they could enjoy it and live unto r.ghtevusness until tHe end, SIXTY-FIRST STREEL M. E. CHURCH. NECESSITY OF FAITH.—SERMON BY REV. DR. DE PUY. At the Sixty-first street Methodist Episcopal church, between Second and Third avenues, Rev,.Dr. De Puy, associate editor of the Christian Advocate, yesterday preached to asmall congregation. Ho read the four- teenth chapter of Matthew and took that gospel for histext. He said:—There are a great many. lessons taught in thestory of the storm on the Sea of Galilee, but particularly the lesson of faith, The Sea of Gali. Jee lies in the eastern part of Palestine; it was sixteen miles long and five broad. It was but the widening of the River Jordan, and on the exst and west were high hills, so high as to protect the water from the wind. If the wind should blow from the north it would blow with the cyrrent, which ran south; bat if the wind should come from the south, then trouble might be looked for. And here it is that the writer ot this gospel shows that he must have been inspired, that his writings might confound tne sceptics who would throw doubt om such a great. storm coming upon such =a small body of water, jor he says “the wind was contrary.” Whethis storm arose how great was the peril of thé apostles? They were at their wits? ends and in great terrog and the Master was absent. Here comes in the lesson of contrast. » All was joy and peace after they bad beheld the miracle of the loaves and fishee befofe Jesus constramed them to get {nto the ship to go betoré Him, When they wero i peril, however, Jesus appeared and THEY WERE STILL AFRAID, for they saw the form on the water and thonght it was aspirit, And Jesus said, ‘Be not afraid”? When Per walked on the water and he felt himself «inking, he cried, “Ob, Lord, save me!” and Jesus stretched forth His hand. ' Peter bad little faith, but he used what little he had. Another lesson to ve gathered (rom the story of the storm on the Sea of Galilee is that severe triaix come to good people sometimes when they are doing right, and that in those trials we must never despair, [vis well for us to think of ourselves as sinners, but let us never lose faith ia the power of God to ‘save us When in Buffalo I visited a family where one by one the children had passed away and the father had gone to his rest; the mother, who was arciigious woman and bad livedin the tear of the Lord, war s0 worn down by her trouble that she bad almost given up in despair, and thought the Lord bad turned against her. I told her to read the fourteenth | chapter ot. Matthow and take faith, for tho Lord, though He tried us severely, would | never forget ux in our hour of trouble if wo called on i Our trials, brethren, have no reference to our sins when trouble comes upon us; it is not an evidence of sinfuiness. In the midst of the trials and troubles ot the dise:ples the Lord appeared to them and helped them, and every one may feel confident that they who have faith in the Lord’ are never forgotten, Faith, however, does not come to us asa matter of will, but a ‘matter of divine help, and ti! we Dave not tnith let us pray for it continually ang if we have but little faith let us use it ike Petor and pray for more, and we can be assured that what we ask of God in a true spirit, tf it is for our good, we shall receive it. That is one thing, my betoved brethren, it is welf to have impressed on’ your minds, Aro all the favors you ask ot God for your goou? For if they are they will be granted. SEASIDE CHAPEL SERMON AT LOKG BRANCH BY DR. W. J. K. TAYLOR, OF NEWARK, N. J. The little seaside chapel at Long Branch was dled by a fashionable congregation yesterday morning, and those who had braved the August sun in coming were rewarded by finding the chapel perfectly cool and com- fortable and by hearing an eloquent sermon from Dr, Taylor, whose text was taken from Revelations, x., 4—“And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices 1 was about to write, and I beard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, ‘Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.’ It the rapt seer haa obeyed his own im- pulses we sbohid have had a fall record of all he heard the seven thunders utter, said the preacher; bus the mighty voico of Heaven said, “Seal up those things and write them not’’ The main point is the silence imposea upon the seer, ‘Tho Bible is silent on many subjects upon which men would have it speak out. Inspired mon have seen and heard what they never have revealed, Some great men iinpress ux with an idea ol power and knowledge, and it ts their stlence that impresses us wita their wisdom. Even a fool when he holds his tongue is accounted wise. There are some topicss on which the sitence of tho Bible is absolute, It never undertakes to argue that there is a God; it asserts tho fact and leaves it to our seli-consciousness, It asks not the nature of God. It does not pretend to explain the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. It does not solve the problem of ali ages—the origin of evil—vut ace nowledges the fact and sbows the remedy. It dors not explain the relation of man’s personality and God's sovereignty. In reintion to other subjects the silence ofthe Bible is partial, It reveals enough to awaken curiosity and inspire longings for more revelations. The entire history of the world is inclosed in the first six chapters of Genesis, The rest is AN UTTER BLANK so faras history goes, and in the same way the Bibl takes no note of monarchs or events not essential to Its Progress. Jesus told Hts disciples, “IL have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now, For the same reason we may belteve that the silence of the Bible on many subjects 18 a morey Lo us; we know all we can bear, all we need. The silence of the Bible is wisely intended to repress idle curiosity. All need to know, to be saved and to live for Christ, is re- vealed, effort | tof worldly wealth | | loliowin| THE AMUSEMENT SEASON. WALLACK'S THEATRE. The regular fall and winter season this favorite temple of comedy will commence early in October, as it 18 expected that the Fiorences, with their admirable and popular play, “The Mighty Dollar,” will bold the boards and public favor until that time, The company will cousist of the following artisis:—Messrs, Lester Wallack, Montague, Gilbert, Beckett, Herbert, Stevenson, Holland, Shannen, Leonard, Peck and £d- win, and Misses Ada Dyas, Ethe Germon, Bartlett id Blaisdetl, Mme, Ponisi and Mrs. Seiten = Mr. Dion Boucicault wili appear during the season in “The Shaughraun."’ Among the new plays to be brought out during the season will be “The Great Divorce Case” aud “All for Her” (adramatization’ of Dickens’ “Tale 01 Two Cities’). ‘Mr. Wallack is resolved to keep up the reputation of his beautitul theatre to the high standurd it has aiways enjoyed, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. At the conclusion of Mr. Sothern’s engagement with Mr. Daly the regular fall and winter season will com- meuce at the Fiith Avenue Theatre, the opening night being on September 12, American plays will prevail atthis house, The company is very numerous and correspondingly strong, and comprises Messrs. Brougham, Fisher, Davidge, Harkins, Hardenbergb, Barrymore, Lewis, Drew, Rockweil, Beckinan, Deveau, Merton, Crisp, Chapman, Russell, Woiung, Sullivan, Ko nggoid, Parkes, Moore, Fawcett, Lecierg, King, Ben- neitand Warren, and Misses Fanny Davenport, Curiotta Adihson, Jeilreys-Lewis, Georgina Drew, sydney Cow- cil, May Nunez, Mary Wells, Josephine Bowne (Mrs. Fisher), Emuy Rigl, Linda Dietz, Virginia Buchanan, Agnes Dingeon, A pohike, Ada Gilman, Belle Wharion, Emily Glassiord, Anpie Chester, Kate Hol- land, Alive Grey, Florence Wood aud Sirs Guibert UNION SQUARE THEATRE, An intercalary season will commence at this theatro on the 28th inst, when Mr, Bret Harte’s play, “Two Men of Sandy Bur,” will be produced. This play is the property of Mr. Stuart Robson, for whom the popular author wrote it, aud it has already mot with great succe-sim Uhtcago, The reguiar season of the Union Square Theatre will not commence before the Ist of October, when the “Iwo Orphans” will be 1 vived. This play will be followed by a new work from the hands of Nusand Belot, im which the great emo- lioual actress, Miss Clara Morris, will make her frst appearance. "The great play of the coming season at this house will be “Les Danicuell”? of M. De Neroski, the lust sensation trom Paris, The author tx related by marriage to Dumas fils, and it is thought by many that the latter suppiied the greater portion of the brain material for We play. ‘Zhe sheives of the Union Square I'brary also boid a play by Theogure Barniére, auchor of the “Marble Heart.” Other plays of a high standard will also be produced if “Les Daniehefl” will allow them acbance. The company will consist of the Ki ilesers. Charies I Thorne, Jr. Jamen O'Neil, John Parselle, Stoddart, Stuart Robson, Fied- erick Robinson, Monigomery, Burroughs, Wuder, Quigiey and other genticinen, and Misses Ciara Morris, Kate Claxton, Sarah Jeweit,’ Fanny Morant, Roberta Norwood, Maude Harrison, Mra. Wilkins 'and Miss Girard. ‘Mr. Tisaington will continue to lead the or- chestra, and Mr. Marsion will wield the artist's brush in the scenic department, BOOTH’S THEATRE. Tho regular season will open at thts house on Mon- day evening, August 14, with Lord Byron’s play of “Sardavapalus,” which will be brought out in the most maguiticent style, under. the personal super. vision of Mr, Charles Calvert, formerly of the Theatre Royal, Manchester, This gentleman superintended the production of “Henry V.” One of the great fea- tures of the piece will be the grand ballet, consisting of sixty Italian girls, The premiere danseuse is Mile. Barwietus, a celevrity in the realms ot Terpicuore. ‘the teading male dancer 1s Signor Mascagno, of Milan, who {s said to be wonderiul in bis line. The dramatic company will be very strong. The cast has already been published in the Hexatp. The scenery, dresses, armor, &¢., are of the most gorgeous kind, and are Lis*orically accurate in every detail, Signor Operti will direct the musical part of the play.‘ danapaius’’ will be followed by a new local drama from the pen of Mr. George Fawcett Rowe, of which Messrs, Jarrett & Palmer speak very highly. Then tere will ‘be a grand Shakespearian revival, the produetion of “King Lear,” with Mr. Lawrence Barrett in the title rove. NIBLO'S GARDEN—‘‘BABA,”” Niblo’s Garden opens for the season on the 28th of August or as soon thereafter as practicable under the management of Mr, Charles E. Arnold, a gentleman new to the theatrical profession, Mr. Bensen Sher- wood, whose namo is identified with successful specta- cles produced in this city for a decade, is the director, avd under his superintendence tho opening attraction will be produced. Mr, John A, Mack has been engaged a8 business manager, and Mr, George F. Devere, inte of the Fitth Avenue Theatre, will bo the stage manager, The initial attraction will be a spectacnlar exirav- aganza irom the pen of Mr. John A. Mack, entitled “Baba,” There are twenty-seven acting parts in the pices, and these will be interpeted by a company now to the metropolitan stage. Those thus far engaged are Emma Siockman, Emily Lewis, Lula Jordan, Florence Sevian, Kiie Bernard, Rosa Poyser, George F. Devere, A. Bandowski, W. H. Crane, J. W. Jon- nings, Vining Bowers, J. E. Irving, E. W. Marston, Vincent Hogan, James Danvers, Samuel Glenn, A. RK Brooks and Muns. Ravel. Several people have yet to be engaged betore the cast will be filled, notabiy the leading lady, who plays a boy’s part, and the laay wno will personate the Fairy Queen, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Nilsson sings in St, Petersburg and Moscow next winter. “The Mighty Dollar” 1s drawing near its 200th rep- resentation in this city. Miss Bessie Sudlow 1s with D’Oyley Carte’s Comic Opera Company 1m Ireland. Echoes” is the title of a play which will be brought out at Wood's Museum this evening. ‘Toole has been a great card in the provinces in Eng- land, He was, at last acevunts, at the Loudon Gaiety, Mine. Pappenheim, the talented prima donna, will sing every night this week at Gilmore's Garden, being re-engaged for another season, The Theatre Comique opens for the fall season to, night under the management of Messrs. Harrigan and Hart with a new company, Mr. James W. Morrissey, who has succeeded Theo- dore Thomas at the Forrest Mansion Garden, Philadel- phia, inaugurates bis management with grand operatic concerts, in Which Mr, 8. B. Mills is a leading feature, Colonel Sinn, the pew manager of the Olympic The- atre, willopen that house on the 14th inst, as a “nov. elty” theatre, Ho has engaged a strong, well balanced comp and promises to bring back the most success- ful days of the Olyinpie. The Young Ireland Dramatic Company played at Birkenhead last month for the benett of the Irish po- litical prisoners. Tho manager was a Mr. Nugent, an- nounced as “ate dock laborer of Liverpool and Birk- ouhead.”? Mme. Fanny Janauschek, the eminent tragedienne, has been the re ipient of flattering honors trom royal personages im Europe. One of her characters will be that of the fierce Brunnhilda of the “Ring of the Nibe- Jungen Lied.”” Her Majesty’s Theatre, in the Haymarket, which bas never been opened for lyrical or dramatic purposes since it was rebuilt after the fire in 1867, is an ilinstra- tion of the growing conviction that London has alreaay moro theatres than can be properly filled, for nine years the house has remained without a tenant, and it is now likely to be turned into a large co-operative store, The lease, which will run for fifteen years from next Michaelinas, is to be shortly offered for sale by public auction. The purchaser would be subject to a yearly rental of £1,934 14s, and have to respect the rights of eight owners of private boxes and thirty stall owners. If it became a co-operative store they might claim the right to oceupy their boxes and stalis and look on at the exciting scenes of the play of co- operation. A very fine bill was offered at Gilmore's Garden last night, the following selections being performed :—1, Overture, “Stabat Mater,” Rossini; 2 Trombone solo, ir and variations, Sachs, Mw F, Letsch; 3. Barca- role, ‘'Visherlied,” Lang; 4. Solo tor cornet, ‘The Palm Tree,” Faure, Mr. M. Arbuckle; 5 Song, ‘“éood. by, Sweetheart,” Hatton, Mr. M. H. Stanley; 6 Ovor- ture, “Tanyuauser,” Wagner; 7. Grand aria,-Kucken, Mme. Eugenie Pappenheim; 8 Quartet, “Rigoletto,” Verdi; % Part song, “The Ruined Chapel,” Becker, Symphonia Quartet; 10, Cornet solo, “Christmas Song,” Adam, Mr. J. Le 11. Piano solo, “Wedding March,” Mendelssohn's “Midsummer Night’s Dream,”’ Liszt, Herr Saul Liebling; 12, Gloriay from “Twelfth Mass,”’ Mozart, Young Apollo Cinb; 13, Overture, “Jubel,’’ Weber, The Londo Morning Post pays a very gracefu! tribute to Mile. Emma Alban, the American nightingale, in the following terms:—‘In its way her version of the part of Amina is matchless, unconventional, even though the temptation to walk in a beaten track besets the young singer on all sides, [tis so easy to make an effect where others have done. Mile. Albani bas shown most vividly, more than once, how that she can think for herself, and, moreover, how that she possesses the Power and ability tocarry out her thoughts to @ suc- cosaful and satisfactory end. ‘It ia thia newer which x ke, marks the individuality of her performances With many another artist in her position it 18 dificult to avoid the conolusion that although the sceaery, the costumes and the names are changed, the performer is always the same. With Mlle, Albani the thing is altogether different. Her souls in ber art, and she always succeeds in presenting a portrait of tne charac ter she for the time assumes, tinged, perhaps, with® little of her own peculiarity of drawing, as it were thé unavoidable mark of the style of the artist, but yet with more of the realization of the author’s intention than of her own individuality.”* STANLEY. A SPANISH TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT EXPLORER [From the New York Novedades (Spanish).) Happily the painful anxiety which has been felt for 80 long a period by the scientific world ana the publi generally concerning the safety of the intrepid African explorer, Mr. Henry M. Stanley, is now at an end, and news has been received of the safety of the Hunaup’s commissioner. Since June, 1875, no tidings had been received of hit whereabouts, and many thought that Stanley had mel his death. Now, at last, tidings of his progress have been received and five of the most highly interesting letters from his pen have been roceived in England, written from the heart of Equatorial Africa for publica: tion in the Heraup, We much regret that om limited space prevents our publishing she details, which the Heranp has already made public, aga tribute of respectto the bold explorer. Let it suffice for our readerg to know that Stanley, with ay iron will, comparable only with that of our ancestort Eleano, Mayelianes, Bazan, Ulloa and other's, has kept the world in suspense pending the result of bis explora tions, The Heap discoverer has followed out the pathway which the immortal Livingstone Intended to tread, and has succeeded in ‘circumnavigating the Vietoria Niyanza Lake, has taken soundings over it, prepared a topographical ohart of its isles, bays, tribue tary rivers and likewise of the adjacont mountains and plains, Further than this he has penetrated the hitherto unexplored region of the south, The resulis of theso explorations are of the highest geo- graphical and ethnological importance to the civihzeq world, notably a8 to that portion of territory lying to the south of the source of the Nila The intrepid Stanley has surmounted risks and troubles of no small order, He fas teen far more fortunate than Sir Samuot Baker, who managed to escape trom the gragp o( the savages while on an exploring expedition under the auspices of the Khedive of Egypt. The bravo STANLEY HATELED 118 WAY THKOUGH, * however, alter inflicting a weil merited punishment upon the natives of Bumbireh who were found near the oustern boundary of the Victoria Niyanza Lake, * * * * * * a The detaiis given by Stanley of the pale favos who inhabit near the base of Mount Gam- baragara is a fact of the bighest importance to the ethnological student, When Stanley's letters aro published we would engage our roaders to peruse them, as highly interesting contribations to scien and, in publistiing them, the RznaLp is not the ++HxR- ALD of New York,” as it cails iigelf, but the HERALD of the whole United States. That journal, by its won- derful energy ana enterprise in satisiying public curt- osity, bas proved itsell to be one of the grand neces- sities ot the age we live in. For us Spaniards, we can never forget the arguments of our great thinkers concerning the union betweon nd Alrica, whose coast can be discerned in fine Weather from that of Spain. Ia times gone by the world was filled with narrations of Spanish dis- covery ; now the paim and glory have fallen to America, ~whose representatives pencirate the furthermost parts Of the earth, on behalf of civilization and humanity, Posterity will appreciate the noble task, Meanwhile, all praise and honor to the bold American newspapet correspondent. THE ALBERT NYANZA. A LETTER FROM RICHARD F. BURTON ON THE EXPLORATIONS OF COLONEL GORDOX. [From the Atheneum, July 22) Trigsts, July 14, 1876, Will you allow me to draw tho attention of geog raphere to the last details concerning the Mwutan, or Albert Nyanza, supplied by the energetic Colonel Gor- don? You are aware that Gessi, one of his people, has circamnavigated in nine days, with two lifeboats, the great western reservoir of the Nile, and that the result has deen to verity Captain Speko’s position and dimem sions—about 140 by 50 miles. You also kuow that the Nile, after issuing from the lake, forms a remarkabie fork, of which one branch flows to Kerri, Here Colonel Gordon was stationed in Muy, 1876, expecting the thirty-oight ton steamer to take hing to Magunzo. The other half trends to the northwest and its line still awaits exploration. But this may b¢ new to you. T rthwestern fork either rejoins th¢ Nile in north latitude 7 deg. and east longitude 30 d 20 min. (Greenwich), where a strong stream, navigablé jor some distance, enters tue river of Egypt, and thug Kerri would become an island. On the otber band, bo:h its direcfion and its levels allow it to form the Welle River, which joing Barth's Kubanda, and, should such be the case, it establishes the theory of my eml- nent friend, Dr. Schweinfurth, that the Albert Nyanza is drained by the Welle, If this be tact it will forward the civilization of the country, while adding much te the inconvenience ot the actual explorers, whose labore mast be greatly protracted; and geographers will note another African novelty, a lake with a single issa¢ feeding two distinot river systems. But the most Important, and to mo the most interent- ing, result of the circumuavigation 1s the following:— No river which is not dry 1n the diy season enters the Albert Nyanza. The south end is shoal and growing a forest of ihe ambatch plant, which flourishes only tm eighteen ine! totwo feet of water. On othe! band—and note this—the distinguished explore! snys:—‘There may certainly be a chain of lakes and marshes leading from Lake Albert to Tanganyika, tof Gesai distinctly says the ridge of mounteins on tht ‘west coast does not join those on the east coast of thi lake. Thus there is a gap.”” Some months ago! published my suspicion that th Tanganyika jake with two outleta—remember th: it hes in Africa, **which ever bearcth some new thing, Sir Samuel Baker, when we last met, after detain the native accounts of its connection with the Albe: Nyanza, suggested that the pussage might be blocked up by papyrus and other water plants, a familiar phenomenon on the upper Nile. Lieut. Cameron’s ad- mirable journey has blished the watershed to the we it would be one of Alrica’s primest marvels if two of ber great lakes be proved each to feed twa completely different watersheds, Meanwhile we im patiently expect ‘‘more light” RICHARD F. BURTON oo. THE EXHIBITION. ARRIVAL OF THE COLO8SAL STATUE OF WASHe INGTON—THE BRYANT VASE-—-DAMAGE DONE BY THE RECENT STORMS IN THE ART DR- PARTMENT—THE SPANISH PICTURES JUST ‘ARRIVED—THE NEW CATALOGUE—ITS coM~ PLETENESS AND UNNECESSARY DELAY oO” THE PUBLISHERS IN GETTING IT TO THE PUBLIC. PHinapeirma, Augnst 5, 1876, Tho most important event occurring during the past week in the art department of the Exhibition was the arrival of the colossal statue of Washington. After a passage of 110 days trom Leghorn the vessel containing it succeeded in landing it uninjured at this port. The site selected for the statue is between the ‘main build. Ing and Machinery Hall. The pedestal is boing placed in position, and when the figure is upon it the hoight will be thirty feet, as the statue is cut from a single block of marbie and is twelve feottn height, Tho Bryant Vase, which was piaced on the music stand in the main building Several weeks ago, has been removed from there and is now in the grand contral hail of Memorial Hall, Considerable anxiety has been felt vy artists and owners of pictures in the Exhibl- tion on account of reports that many of the works had been damaged by leakage of the building durmg the Tocent storing, but a careful investigation proved that no work of art has been injured. The principal leak occurred in the Annex Art Gallery, and was caused by the overflow of one of the gutters, one of the leaders having a quantity of débris near the bottom, and that preventing the water from running off. This caused a small stream to pour down near the entrance, but it fell, tortunately, in tue aisle between the rows of statu. ary of the Italian departinent. The other leaks wore in the skylights, the woodwork having been contracted by the continuous heat after the bur'ding was finished, and the water dripping in the middle of the room it Was heceséary to move the statuary m ono or two ine stances, but nothing was harmed and the skylights are being put in order that there may be no fear from fucure storms. No provision has yet been made fot the Spanish pictares which arrived in New York | week. No official notification has yet been receiv by Count Donadio, the Spanish Art Commissioror, from Mr, Sanchez Mira, who has charye ot the culleo tion, and as the spave allotied to Spain is filled, and, if exhibited in tho art galleries, it will be through courtesy of commissioners of other nationalities, whe have more room than they need for their pictures, The collection is a ‘part of that of Mr. Salamanca, of Madrid, and is of such importance that every effort will be pogo be plovares placed in this exht- it not exhibited here, me rat New ee ere, they will be in tha @ revised edition of the catalogue has at given to the public. Great credit 1 due to booytea piers for its completeness and systematic ar- Tangement. The name of each work, that of the artist’ and generally of the owner is given, and the number of each room is placed at the head of the works in that room. This part of the work was com- pletea and given to the Official Catalogae Company nearly two months ago, and there is no reason Why am edition could vot havo been published immediately alter, instead of the imposition which they have been Practising on the publie by keeping the old edition im circulation and swindling the community by keeping back the new until they were auld out. A New Yor publishing company would have published small edi- Uons, muking alterations and additions as new worke Were received, but Philadeiphia is slower than New York by m ‘ y many more than the five minutes allowed im