The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1876, Page 8

‘ YESTERDAY'S SERMONS, prec dad SEs PRIDE AND HUMILITY. The Condition of Woman Previous To and Since the Christian Era. GRATITUDE TO CHRIST. ‘The Interior Life of the Christian | a Growth. CHRISTIAN REST. TRINITY CHURCH. | PRIDE AND HUMILITY—SEEMON BY THE BEV. HORACE B. HITCHINGS. ‘The Episcopal Cathedral was thronged with worelip- | pers yesterday morning. Many of the faces that Lave been missed at graud old Trinity ior months were present It was communion Sunday and the choral service was very beautitul The Rev, Horace B. Hitchings selected for hia text the last verse of the Bospel or the day, the fourteenth verse of the eigh- feenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke— For every one that oxalietl himself shall be abased; and be that bumbieth himself sul! be exalied.”” Iu Presenting luis ideas of the lessou of the text the rev- erend geutieman said ihat one of the great sins of the world was pride; its great vir- tue humility, All through ‘the Iie of ihe Saviour in all His words and actions He sought to teach humility, Pride was caused by the seli exasta- tion of wan, He was proud of bis bigh birtu and | lordly ancestry, yet they came not by nis will, but of Gou.” Proud “ut” bis wealia that gives Lim tue in- dulgence o1 every desire; yet iu a cuy his wealth imay | | Yauisu. Man is proud of bis strength and of bis health, | Jorgetting that Gou gives them and in a moment they may be gone, Forgecting the terrors that brood over | the durkuess of tue night he exaits binsell, and the | God whom he bas ineuited lays bin in the dust Pride Is typiued in the voruieday, The | Phurisee stoo tor, louking on | rable of the gosp ple Of his Or tet around thee that i ain hin vou, 1 extor- tie men gathered thank and pray Lot as other me uujust, adulterers, T iast twice mile week. | tithes 'of ull tuat I possess.”? But tnere, ut | the door of ihe temple, couscivus of and overwhelmed | | | are, dy his sing, uot durimg tu his butmiluy to cross the threshold of Lis Maker's house, the publican stood And swote his breast, suying, “God, be mercilul to me, usinner.” “Ll teil you this man Went down to his Bouse jusiued rather thay the ot Bhat exaitedd bimseli 1 be a Numbieth Limsen stall be exalted, ‘Tue preacher vold again the story of King Nebuchad- nezzar, who Was gluriiying Gimueell for tue greatness of tis kinguom and works (hat ue Lad Wrougut, Jorgetiul of the God from Whol Wis greatness cume. But God heard, and the Kmgdom passed trom the proud mau’s Bands, and be sept wilh tie asses in the Held and the dew fell upon uis body. ‘Theo, witu che comug of humuty, came We Ddles-tag of God, Qdu his kingdom was restured lo wim. = Pride draws the Jove of man away irom God und to bimsell; ye who King ought can add one cubit. unto his stat. the sigut may Vauish, the hearing be | st, the Voice grow dumb, aud ricues tly away; where, then, is the pride of man? Those who are largely blessed should | Pour a portion on those Wio are le+s lortuuate. Those Who receive Ireciy should give Ireely, ior ot them much isexpected. Tue speaker closed by urging bis hearers to Walk in the Ways of Christ, imitate His character, @ou in humility render thanks to God for the blessings Of le and its eternity CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION. VAITH—ANNIVERSARY SEKAON BY THE REV. MR. HENRY JONES. Atthe Charch late of the Kpiphany now of the Reformation, Stanton street, were conducted and the sermon preached by the Rev. Henry Jones, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The occasion was the forty-third anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of the church editice. The reverend gentleman chose his text trom the filth chapier of Secoud Corinthians, seventh verse—“For we walk by faith, pot by sight” He said this verse has always been, a puzzie tomany. For the heathen it was necessary to Bee and make manifest. Human nature is te same to-day as it was eighteen hundred years ago. Empires have crumbled away, countries have disappeared trom the face of the carth, but human nature remains the same, ‘We must have faith. Ali saints that go to glory can go only by one way—thut of tatu. There are not two ways. By only one way can we reach the beatitudes of heaven, whire cur jaith shall be turned to sight. Faith is the prime mover im all this World’s aflars. The agricuiturist hus faub woen he plants his crops, or he would not plant them, The maoulacturer bas faith when he makes bis wares, or he would pot make thi Ii aman bave genuine faith in his business we expect him to do everything required Dy that faub. Soin the saith of everlasting ile, We Must have fuith in God. We must not reiy too much upon our own strength, but look to our Father in | heaven for aid, Some say the aposties had faith be. | tause they saw Jesus, jod unseen to-d Do we | not see Him in every flower and iu every ieal? Our | minds we do not seg, yet we believe we have | them. The things seen are but the shadows of the | Unseen, Look at the lighthouse in the ocean, towering | above the angry waves that dash unceasingly at is | base. We do not see upon what it siands, but never- theless bencath the crested waves is its foundation of solid rock—a loundation delying the might of the sea ihe tact of my not seeing MY Saviour does pot shake ty lath any more than the Violence of tue sea shakes tue rock it beats against, The believer walks by iaith to another world. jumbus had taiin, and alter deys of pavieut watching and waiting his laith was rewarded. We wust look to Gud; womusi turn our cyes to beaven, Where we hope one day to join our loved ues who have gone beiore, Mr. Joves then referred to the first meeting, in Jan- wary, 1833, when six adyteand a few ragged children formed the church suusay. They bad tanh, suid the preacher, but could they sve that in twenty dve years there would ve over 3-43 bap 1,s0u commun cants entered and ih rly young men sent lorth to the ministry? They had faith and weet steadily on, God alone cap tay What shall je harvest be, but if | you are taithtul, when you reach that siauing shore | ihe words of your reception will be, “Weil doue, oou and fai(uiul servant.’ ‘Ibe preacher closed in quoting from the address of (he lamented Bishop M Binia, Who laid the corner tone lorty-three 5 alluding to the future Worstiuppers in the new edi who said, “When the top stone of this building shal be laid, When you enter the sacred temple nuw commenced to Worsnip and adore the Almghty, remetuber tuat it is the bouse of God and the gute o: heaven. Remember that the eye of Jehovah will be upon you and it is tis fevealed Word to which you Will be culled to ist tor every one wsed, and ho that | | yesterday's services | | | | Say not to-morrow you will think of God and eteruit of heaven and of bell; but to-vay, while it 1s culled t day, embrace (he invilation, rellect upon the uncer- tainty of tie and remember that the apostle has de- clared, ‘Beloved, now is the accepted ume; beloved, Bow is the day of salvation.’ CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS. THE CONDITION OF WOMAN AS CHANGED BY CHRISTIANITY-—-SERMON BY DR. DEEMS. ‘The tasteful little Church of the Strangers was yes- terday occupied by the largest congregation ever Crowded within its walls Despite the large attend. | ance the rule of keeping F was eniorced, and wien the pulpit platform and the # had been Billed many were turned away. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Deems, preached a sermoo, which, as tt transpired at the close, Was the anniversar of ou rmen vf w seciety ladies connected with the churen, known as the | “Sisters of the Stranger." The object of this associa. | tion, as explained by the pastor, ix to assist strangers | fm the city who are in want of guidance, money or ad- | fice. Much good, be said, had already been done by members, who Work in silence. Although organ. | ized balf adozen years ago, they never belure bad | even @ serwon preached ior them. The collection | taken op at the close of we service was for their ben- eit, and Dr. Deems made an earaest appeal to those present to coutribute aly. The text was irom Jwul to the Philippians, tutreat (bee aisy, [rae yoke-teiiow, @uweb laver with mein the id, the preacher s “And I ely thuse women Rverything ia huw been changed by ihe Christ, but in nowing was the coange more spparent than in the con n Of Woway. He pro ceeded to coutrast her condivon and sianding in typ various relatious Of Virgin, Wile aud Widow before the Christian era aud since, ‘He did not choose wer posi- | on in the civiizatyon of power in Rome, or that of cuiture in Greece, but Ler position fu the civilization Of religion amoug the Heorews to set over againss ber Standing iu Christian times, Taking the Old and Now | Testaments respectively as guides to hor stauding, tbe Preacher showea [rom the lormuer that a virgia under he Vid lostament was simply oue that was, the word in the thebrew iauguage imples, shut up. Ad that seemed io be cared jor was that she should preserve ber bodily chastity “How is it now’ he asked. Our virgius tly, sowe of them, mightily. Our Le ub has (aught us that chastty Is purely of thou Woat were Or fesiameont wives’ aman. There was no partnerstiip of lov She could wever gloriiy ber wusbaou. Tuere is ve | Dritiaot, brave end plactd wowau menvoned 1m the Ola Scriptures who giorilied sha sapported ber hus bana. and thet svand loved his wile, but It Was vot a necessary Inctor of marriage. Ail ae ba Deen changed, aud yet the respective relations of man tad woman Bave vos beou Varied Tho husband is | worth its weight in gold, | weight in the star dust of the universe. | permeating, | Christian shall grow. | hw | First there must be something to | We ean gubsist. | pitutul im it.” So there are man | and to cause us ivour pra | Qhings, our dependence upon the power of tu NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. stillthe head of the house, Yes, and ne always will be | was this purpose that would draw the Son of God from and all the “woman's mgbts' ple may storm about itus they please, bat until Jesus Christ leaves | the throne the basband will be the head of the | wile. The more sublimely and beautifully a man rales his wile the less she knows about andthe more she rules him. The reverend gent man Wet on to mention instances in which wives had iuspired husbands to noble and great deeds. Going on to contrast the widows of the two eras under discu: cussion, he quoted from the sixth chapter of Act wherein the Grecians ure said to have murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neg. lected in the daily ministration, Then he read trom the New Testament. Paul, he sa 18 not much ip favor with advanced temaies of the present day. SO MUCH THE BETTER POR PAUL! I suppose that the care of all the churches and his advanced age and bis bodily ailments took a good deal of the gallantry out of the man and yet the woman that slurs Paul shows herself to be ignorant. There is one passage in bis letter to Timothy for which women should kiss his picture every lime thy En- treat the elder women as mothers agabe younger ws sisters, with ail purity, Honor widows that ure widows indeed’? I challenge the scuolar- ship of this congregation to point out iD Heorew, Greek, Latin or Sangcrit literature a seutence | hike (hat about widows. It could not have been made | unul Christ was born of woman. ‘The preacher called To a woman ot Samaria who was uot al from taint Christ declared His mission, ether tree ‘Theo when He rose the frst eyes which rested upon the gloritied | form were a Woman’s, and she went and told the men n from the dead, Jesus was sur- towed during His ministry by women, siated in the New Testament, and the Apostles ap- preciated women. Paul's Epistle to the Romans was Nay, more, it was worth us In conclusion, the preacher dwelt upon the wonder- ful power and ‘influence of Europe which had peo- pled this country wnd Australia from its population and had swayed the world by tts knowledge. Thi-, he said, was all owing to Christianity, and Christianity had been introduced to tt and afterward fostered by women, There is, he suid, a pecuffar adaptability 1p wowen for religion. No jove was so strong and no in- fluence so poweriul asa mother’s. The old nursery rhyme has i Hush a by baby buzti Papa hax gone a bunting. Ab, fathers do go hunting, but the mother remains at home with her children, and her influence is all poweriul, Aman may vuild aa ark, ax Noub did, to protect himselt azainst the tloud, but how shail he es- cape the dew? That is woman’s influence, gentle, but Mon mightescape its induence fora tune, When excited vy busivess or otber occupations, but when they returned, weary and disgusted, the mother's, sister’s or wite’s arms surrounded ther and hor influ- ence Was again ail powerlul, FIRST PLACE M. E. CHURCH. GROWTH—SERMON BY KEV. MISS ANNA OLIVER, Miss Oliver preached to a large congregation yester- day morning trom the text Ephesians iv., 15:—“Grow up ito him in all things which is the head, even | Christ.” The interior hfe of the Christian, began Miss Oliver, is represented as a growth. Many of the ilius- trations used in the Scriptures tend to this. We are | exhorted to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord. David said, “He shall grow as a cedar of Leb- anon.” What a glorious comparison! Travellers, even in our day, speak of those trees as wondertul in diameter and circumference, avd their durability is marvellous, tis like these specimens David says the But how wv attain to this state ot Juxurince is the perplexing question, It is not enough that we plant the seed. We must see that it 8, and not only lives but that it grows. So let us the Christian character, grow. Nothing grows unul the germ is planted, We cannot bring something out of nothing. Only God cau do tbat We may say, when we are born spiritually, God 1s our Father, We inherit our spirit- ual life from Him as we inherit our physical life irom our earthly parents, We must first be born into the kingdom of God, and then we can grow up Vigorous.y. ‘The second condition of growth 1s nourishment. Now, it 18 impossible to suy on how small an atoount of spiritual tvod a soui can exist. We cannot determine on the smullest quantity our physical natures can sub- sist on, A prisoner, condemned to starve to deat, hved thirty days on nothing but water, ithe authorities | thought ue Was aided by some Supernatural power and berated him, We kuow that invalids cau live a vi Jong tine oa little or no nourishment, but none of these persons are vigorous. 1. is & dangerous experiment, So itis dangerous for us to try an experiment im our Spiritual lite and gauge the smalless amount ou which Have you not noticed what 4 peculur cry a hungry cbild has? There is something so sad and | y persons who go hungry in the spiritual Ife halt ther days The husks of tuis world cannot satisly i's children. Tuey require something more substantial We may notice, too, that persons who take their physical iood At night souner oF later become dyspeptics. How 1s it With us spiritually? Persons wno xo forth to their daily work with no spiritual ood and depena upon a brief, hurried communion with God at might for their sous strength, 18 it any Wonder we have so many dys: peptics in the Church? The Word of God is a wever laiung source for our souls at all times. Two little hewsboys Were converted once, and after a t:me they mei und inquired after each other's spiritual progress :— “How do you get along, Billy?" said one = “Oh, not very well,” said Billy; “I bave a terrible time, tor Satan tempts me constantly und I can’t get rid of bim.”” “1 know how to fix him,” replied his com- panion; “you just try him with texts next time.” = If every Christian was ready with texts how soon could | we quench the daris of our adversary, Sincere, pure inquire into the growth of Teligion, strained through no creed or doctrine or human interpretation, but interpreted to every human soal by God, is what wo want Sincerity {sof the utmost importance to the soul. Insincerity is the worm that destroys the root We must uot deceive ourselves. How ottea in charch prayer meetings people wuo have atestimony to give Jor Jesus will be restrained froma faise idea of mod- esty. Goto that sume cburch on an evening of a so- cubie and you will hear those who were silent tor God the very loudest in their hilarity and mirth, Now, we want to be consistent and know our bearta Another thing in the sowing of seed is, that after we have itwe must let it alone. Children are con- picking at it to see if it has sprouted, and in the Spiritual lile we are addicted to Going the same thing. Let it alone until it develops and bears spiritual traits. God can develop something out of the poorest mate- ral. How is it wits God's work and our work in the materia: world’ We see @ lake of muddy water aud it is ugly to look upon, What can man do with ity Why, we purity i and make of it veautiful water, What | can God do with 1? He can make a diamood brilliant | as the sun; He can make an opal, rosy with the flush tints of jile, a beautiful jewe Whatislett? A lite water, Ovt of that le makes the pretty crystal of the snow, That ix God’s work. In the southwesiern part 1 Missouri there ix a region called Granite Quarry, and on this quarry there are many boulders, some thirty or forty ject high. And among these rocks are maguifi- cent trees. It seems a marvel bow they can grow: on that bed of granite. They send their roots out in all direcvious over that rock to the unfailing supplies of moisture in the Valley. They aro much stronger than those thatare in the shelter of the bil. So it 18 with our growth, ani the Lord kuows this and makes us strong wher we Would be pertectly willing to be noth. ing but a mere sapling. One thing is necessary, and that 18 that we be rooted and grounded in love. This is one of the prerequisites of growth, It ts necessary that we be whole and pertect in Christ. We all expect to be complete; to be sinless and entire when we stand before Gou’s throne im glory. But shall we make no progress there? Not at ull, There will be higher hetgbts for us to climb that we never dreamed of bere, It we are washed from sin now shail we say it will hinder our growth now? Let us be thoroughiy grounded im love, and as this growth should be deep then nothing can atsturb ¢ harm us. Let us remember, above all things, that there is no such thing as making up for lost tim person whose early education has been neglected will always cel the effects of it. We see that many college educated men are Very delective in this respect. Re. deem the time as beat we may, # lost day is n lost day. Just extend this thought into eternity and we wills how solemn it 1s. It 18 possible ior us so to live that the world shal lived in it it ts possible the standard of the Chureh purer through our influence sor us so to live shall that We are to be verso. Christ, Au artist once wished to model ue of the Saviour, and to test his work he led ie Little child to it, There was no cross, no thorns, no symbol by which it could le recognized, The child rever:bily folded its) bands and exclaimed softly, Tue Saviour."’ It s possible torevery one of us to grow into the likeness of Christ, What all bebolding us shall be reminded of our Saviour, OLD JOHN STREET CHURCH. PRAYER AND ITS CONDITSONS—SERMON BY REY. W. P. ESTES. t the old Jona strect Methodist church, a large congregation listened to Rev. W. P. Estes’ discourse on “Prayer and Ks Conditions” The speaker, after defining the atiributes of prayer and applying the words of the apostle Luke to determine tis functions, went on to say that it is natural for us Lo seck what we require by petitions to the Creator, It 1s an instinct implanted 1p the breast of man to appeal for succor to the all-pow- erful Being who presides over buman affairs, aud as troly as there is in human nature au aspiration, a hua. geripg and thirsting, as is were, after righteousness, every one feels within him au inchoation to essay its The Leart moves on agd on to explore the hidven ways of God, aud then comes a desire to be drawt nearer apd nearer to that greac repository ut all periection. ‘And it we appeal to Him we bave the assurance that He will jeod « willing ear aud stretch His bund (o suc. | cor and protect ux If We contess our sims He is able to forgive as It we walk the world trembhing uw the burden of our iniquiies We Suould always rem ber tuat Christ's blood wil cleanse Us and haste to im. erse Ourselves 10 that saving flood, ‘The ceuiral idea iu Corist’s le ts that He once pronounced timsell, “Not My wil but Ihipe be done;” and He has com: mended it tous when Ite gave instructions to the aposties to teach as they had been taught, That suv- missiow to the will of His Father characterized every action of His ute, and (ie weant to tract us that virwue | rs to bear ip mind, above all Manguty. Hix words coavempiated a degree of devou which would realize the purpose he had. And woat ot Crist that we become a part of Him. m Yesterday, attainment, (tention to the fact that Christianity is the ony re- | ligion which was brought into the world by a woman. | A | be better because we have | be better and | We should so take hold | | Simon, the leper, at Bethany. His throne tn Heaven to this earth of ours, cause Him to lead a life of abnegation ana suffering, and to end it by an ignomipious death npen the cross at Calvary? | Jt was that He might spread His kingdom upon earth, | and that He mizbt secure heirs tor heaven and p-r- | wkers of His bounty. He wants men to be converts toHim. “He puts His grace im your hearts and mine,” said tbe speaker, “and He wants us to nourish it so that this grace may have its fullest fruits iv our | | ) | souls’? He that said, “Ye are the salt of the earth,”” and told us that His mission was to redeem uz, gave us to understand that His work upon eartn was to aid us in all things that pertained to righteousness ; that such was His sole and His abiding purpose, and that we should always fod in Him a guide and a protector. Now it must be borne in mind that when Christ is Sought it must not be through were petitions to which the lips atone give utterance It must be with the Whole soul, with the whole heart, with ail the being. When Paul said, ‘lt am erucitied with Christ,” he meant that he was s0 completely wrapt up Christ that he was na manner a partaker in His sufering. He meant to say that his whole spirit had goue out to his God and that be abided im Ht. So it should be with as, h one sbouid be able to say, The life 1 live in the flesh I ive through the love of God, who died for , and lum united to Him in spirit, and 1 teei that Christ abideth with me.’? Prayer has for its | essential and primary condition, in order to be effica- cious, sincerity, In itthe spirit of man must go forth to bis God and supplicate His assistance, and the utter- ances 0: the hps musi be subordinate to and yoverned by thatspirit. Paul prayed for years and years He Was a Phurisco, aud they were a sect of prayers, But by petition of his ever arose to Heaven; no invocation of aid was ever heard there uutii he felt the terror o | the Lord come upon him, anu, overshadowed by His majesty, be fell upon his kuces and callou aloud, “Lord, what wilt Thou bave me do?” It was then, and | only thon, that he began to prey in the spirit, and, be- hold, bis prayer was avswered, and Saul, the hater of Christ, became Paul the Apostie and martyr. That ex- plains the nature of prayer, It must come | from the heart to calf a respon: from | above, Sometimes a brother or sister kneeis j down and prays with an eloquent tongue | for God’s grace. The appeal is beautiful, 1t 18 touching; | ang yg there is something tht we feel it lacks. Aud | at that moment, perhaps, some poor, filiteraty creature | | raises a voice in prayer. | there, the utterances may be fee e and tremblin | i | | but | comes from the heart, and it moves us, it ruises our thoughts to God, and we hear in that voice an immortal foul acdressing its Creator. Let your prayers be of | this kind. If the spirit isin accord with God we are | in harmony with Him, and, at our asking, the light of | His tace tuils upon us and wo are abundantly endowed with His grace, FIFTH UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. DISCOURSE UPON THE SUBJECT OF CHRISTIAN REST. The services at this church were held yesterday morning in the Plimpton building, Ninth street, near Third avenue, Tho text was derived from Matthew, x1, 28—"Come unto mo all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” ‘The preucher said:—if there is ove thing that man mdst needs and one thing that he would supremely enjoy it is rest. bo cares, tribulations, distresses and miseries of lie all tend to make rest—a cessation from all these—most welcome, and the day of rest, the period of ending, is hailed in the inmost recesses of the heart with a quiet but glad joy. There isa love of rest and recuperation. Mun, returning trom hard toil and exertion, iecis how blest is relief and rest, The night woos him to sium- ber and in its poacetul arms new vigor is infused into his frame, his brain is empowered, and he comes forth from his sleep like a giant refreshed with wine, The mind, jaded and communion with God, ideas and thought comes peace and rest soul and body. — In addition to natural merci that come trom obedience to the laws of God there is apother mercy vouchsated that reaches far within that mystorious nature of man and gives u conscious reve- lation of himself, Under this he is weary and neavy laden, and for this there is rest. ‘Take my yoke upon you and lear of me, for] am meok and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.” ‘ Tue two principles o1 good and evil are evermore straggling within us, but God in His gooduess has given us the power of tho mastery, if we but strive to gain it... The one great rest that offered us 1s rest | trom sin—its burden and its yok Lesser evils are harassed with care, seeks rest in By means of such a change of to | comprised in great ones, and when sin is removed all minor troubles are likewise taken away. It 1s well— Yery woll—that we should have to straggle and man- | fully fight our way to perfect rest. Heaven would be of littie value did we not have to make an effort to ob- tain it, In fact, we can believe that things, with all their drawvacks, are arranged for the bost, and it wo had the privilege of ordermg and arranging them we could make no desirable changes. ‘There 18 no rest for those who do not desire it, The Groat Physician stands ever ready to heal, but there men who, though very sick, would rather die than accept relief.” In all the ways of the Gospel and the Church, aided by the blessed spirit aud power of Got, there is rest for us from the cures of this world. In Hiw alone is rest, There is peace inthe communion ot His body and blood that brings Him near to us, so that we may almost be said to feed upon Him. There im obedience; and the man distracted nd finding no rest in the turmot! of this ve his intellect aud soul freshened gnd reserved in Christ. Especially in the communion of fis body and blood there is comfort to our souls “Come unto tne, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” ALLEN STREET M. E. CHURCH. 4 SURE FOUNDATION—SERMON BY THE REY. W. H. FULTZ. In the absence of the Rev. Charles Harris, the regu- lar pastor, the Rev. W. H, Fultz occupied the palpit at the above church yesterday morping. The text of the sermon was taken from Isaiab, xxvii, 16—‘Tnere- fore thus saith the Lord God, Benoid, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation; he that velieveth shall make make haste.’ The manner of the introduction of the text, said the preacher, is ove which invites ouratten- tion, It is.uttered in the midst of the curses of the enemies of God and serves to remind us that Hie inevitable judgment is tempered with mercy. Let us consider the description herein given of Chrizt und learn the value of union with Him, He is given to us first as a foundation Stone, one upon which all others must rest. He 13 Presented ay the emblem of strength, the keystone of our whole existence, a tirm foundation for our faith in Christ, Some may say another belie! may ve truo and build their faith upon conjecture and not revela- tion, But whatif they find not truth? He is the only rock upou which we may build an edifice of hope that will never fail. The grass will wither and tne flowers fade away, out our life and strength in Him shall be everlasting. Again we have Him prosented to us tried stone, approved and found stroug where others were found wanting and cast away. He is not only the foundation upon winch we may build vur salvation, but u tried and approved means of 1, Others who have assumed the place have fallen in the wrath of His dis. pleasure. He alone sustatns us in our structure and cements the stoues with which we build our hopes tor the future. We inay come to know Him early or it may Ve late when ut the point of death we seo a bright vision of Him in eternity. Inthe next place we have in Hit a sure focndation, one (oat can never fafl, and such ss no man can iay. It is laid for us when we come | to Him and foliow in His footsteps, when we come to His feet with our transgressions and the High | Priest lays hands upon us ing, go and sin no more. Then have a” foundaon on Which to build the ediice of a holy fe. It we look to apy source it is but a couuterieit of the reality, The value of this privilege which is given to Christians may be considered under three neads—namely, the past, the present and the future. The arrows of reworse lor the past will not torture the conscience, Jor the tae be- jever shall not feel the terrors of ming which haunt the doubting and unbelieving. These feelings are not confined to the deeply profligate, for the heart of the benever may be most miserabic. Whore then is our security? Where shail we look tor it but in the words of vur text, “He that beleveth evall not muke | hastet’? In ‘the present the Christian realizes he has given himself to God anu will ask limsell, how cau Live hee God and act out the part in ie He would have me. His trust is infimite and he knows no doubts | nor fears, In the future he cannot jook forward, unless thus armed, Lo the terrors of everual punish ment—ter- rors mere olten feared than coulessed—but | with Christ for bis foundation the Christan will look lorward without tear tv (ho hour of death, aud with bis eye upon the throne of God seek joy tor: ever in His presence. Iu conclusion let us ask our- | selves if we nave united with Christ avd secured our | eternal saivation Do wo rely on Hin? Uniess we can answer these questions we arc eiernaliy lost. If We fail W learn from the text to whom we cwe every- thing, we have juived to lay the loundafion of our sal vation. If wo do realize Him we cannot remain unknown as Christians, and be our paius ever su humbie and the diMfcuities ever so great some poor souls who have not yet found the way will benefited. The reward will be great, lor He who gave us Has Son will do all things ior us, Come then to Him iu spirit and in truth and in the beauty of bolt- hess, till at last We are transposed into the heavenly church of adoration and glory for ever and ever. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, | GRATITUDE TO CHRIST—SEKMON BY DOCTOR J. 0, MURRAY. At the Firat Pre yterian church, on the corner ot Fitth avenue and Eleventh sireet, the Rev. Dr. J. ©. Marray, of Princeton, N. J., preached the sermon, taking his text from Mark xiv.,3—And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box ot ointment ot spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on bis bead.’ It we would make a study of gratitute to Christ, said the speaker, there is po fitter place for it than the house of Ii L would go to the wil- deroess, it I would learn whatJesas is a8 the victor over temptation; or to the mountain top ii I would know What He was asa man oi prayer, so must! go to this eveuing meal im (ve house of ‘Sunou snd see Lomire and Martha, aud Mary and Jesus, it 1 would see best what is & true gratituae to Clirist. Beginning on the very iowest plane, consider how Christ bas enriebed human hte om wll sides. Vast and terrible evils still exist, apd if a picure of human The eloquent words are not | withal there is that in the appeal which proves that it | | of so much ammunitivn and so up belore us we shoula shudder with borror, The dil- ference between now and then ig not the absence of ch evils from. suciety, but this, that Curistianity 1s aggressive against them; restrainus them when it docs Dot abolish, and seeks to aboiish when it may succeed only in part. Again, Christ left no writing. Suppose we had nothing but tho inspired record of His acts, omitting His teachings, we might bave bad Christian- | ity for substance of doctrine. But bow much poorer were every believer for the loss of one of Christ's pre- ceptay Suppose when Tischengor! found the Arabic | manurcripts it had been found also that the inanuseripe | | Society as Paul saw it in Athens or Rowe were drawn contained a new parable of Christ's, we | whole world would -lave rejowed to know it lt is, however, =the experiences of life which’ bring cut in the — suul_ of man * this appreciation of Christ’s words. It never occurs to | aChristian soul to think that Christ's words wero meaut for those only to whom He first spoke them. ‘They do not belong to John or Simon Peter or Philipor | Mary or Marthaany more than to me, The great | miractes are evidences of Christ's power, but they are also @ revelation of Christ’s character, and in them 18a protundity of gratitude. They are part—a grand part— of that divine disciosure of Himself which tills ovr souls with the vision of God. And ax we aced some remind- ers that Christ 18 to be our judge there are miracles to reveal this as well as His saving grace, It 18, however, | only Wheo we consider Christ's expiatory sufferings that gratitude reaches its tull expression. These must be viewed not only in their entirety, omitting none, but | im their nature, Raphaels have painted them. What } mukes them the sufferings they are cannot be painted. Rapuael could not put the ery, “My God! my God! why hast thua forsaken me?” upon canvas. But crowning and completing the motives for grati- tude to Christ 18 His heavenly ministry for his disci- ples. This 18 imparted moro to them than any min- istry of His ever was to the public: and sinners ot His dav, Au iavisthle Christ is not an absent Christ. We need Him just when He is nt the head of His king- dom. What Christian soul, thinking of death us wise | men think of 1, but rejoiees with. u great joy to think | that Christ, bis Saviour, is within the veil, beyond the | dark river; that as he steps into that shadowy land he | govs to and vot from Curist? Can we not trust His | band to tashion our heavenly bome who bas colored | the skies with such wonderful beauty? ‘The heavenly ministry and Christ open a glorious view of immor- tality. “Itinvests 1 with grand proportions and with most biessed attractions. | FIRST VOLUME OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. [From tho Niles (Micu.) Republican, August 24] We have ip our office a bound copy of the frst vol- | ule of the Naw York Henav, beginning with No. 6 aod bearing date “January 20, 1802" It 1s a paper | having but five columus to the pa; not balf the size of the Republican. Its make-up and general appear- | ance differs Wwaterially from the newspapers of the da; | This volume is the property of Mrs. Mary F. Porter, of this city, who takes great interest in its preservation, The Hxraup’s Congressional news is given from Wash- ington under the heading, “Southern Mail’? Under date of December 6, 1802, the mail brings in ormation that fifty-three members only were present—not aquo- | rum—and the House adjourned til the 7th, and the | Senate dong the same thing for the same reason. The House found a quorum ou the 7th. It will strike the average reader as rather odd, in view of the voulumi- noas Coneressional réports of the present day, to read the following proceedings, 1m {uil, for two day. Wasmiactox, Thursday, Dec. 9. The Senato has not yet formed a quorurn. The prob- | ability is that the Message will not be delivered helore Monday. ‘The House ot Representatives met again this } day, and citizen Gregg, being impatient to do so: thing, moved # resolution that two chaplains of diffe | ent denomimations be appointed, one by the Senate and the other by the House of Representatives, After sume discussion among the democrats it was suggested by one of the republicans that it has not been usual for the House of Representatives to resolve upon what should be done by the Senate, and upon more mature consideration the democrats concluded to postpone the resolution till Monday. The tlouse then adjourned, There now beginning to be great uneasiness among the democrats for fear that ail the matches provided by government will be consumed belure a quorum will be made by the Senate. In that case the Message of the President must depend for its effect’ upon its own energies, unassisted by the report of cannon and un- | aides by any pageantry of military manwvres. In addition to this, the economists will lose the expense many men as have been put up in requisition for this giorious event. — Gaz, U.S. Fripay, Dec. 10, No quorum is yet formed in the Senate, and the matches are still consuming with alarming rapidity. The House of Representatives met again this morning and disposed of a tew private petitions. Mr. Thomp- gon, of Virginia, presented a potition {rom some per- son in that State praying tor a grant ot money which will enable him to go into foreign countries and make astronomical observations by which he hopes to dis- cover a inethod of ascertaining the !ougitude at sea. | As asccurity to the government, in cuse they should grant, he promises, belore setting out, to deposit an | account of his theory with the Secretary of State, so that any accident which may bappen to bim shall not deprive the world of his scientific discoveries. ‘The pe- tition was referred to a select committee, .The-House adjourned till to-morrow, at eleven o’clock.—Gazette of United States. FIELD. PLENTY OF AGENCY BLANKETS BUT NO DEAD INDIANS—A STORY TOLD BY A MONTANA BcoUT. {From the Butte (Montana) Miner, August 15 ] We had the pleasure of a call yesterday from Mr. Andrew McKendry, betier known as “Big Andy, the | Scout.” Mr, McKendry arrived in town on Friday last, direct irom General Gibboa’s command, which he left onthe 20h July, Mr. McKendry lett Fort Ellis with General Gibbon’s command on the lat of | April and was one of the party in advanco | who discovered the bodies of General Custer | and his men, On that day Mugging Taylor, ac- companied by young Logan, a son of Captain Logan, of tho Seventh infantry, was a few paces in advance of the | main boay ot the scouts, when they were tired on by the Indians, They eli back, and shortly after Livu- tenant Roe’s company came up and a number ot In- dians were seen on a hill cearat hand. Lieutenant Roe twice sent back to General Gibbon ‘or permission to charge, which was wisely refused, and when the command came up the Indians broke from cover on every side, rapidiy retreating and throwing away their packs. A few moments iater tuey came im sight ot Cutser’s battle field and saw at adisiance of about two miles what appeared like picces of white spar on a side Lill, A nearer approach revealed the sad fact that these were the bodies of Casier and his mea, all stripped and nearly all horribly mutilated. Mr. McKendry states that Custer never reached the Indian village, but with ail bis men was siaugtered on the bill, the bodtes lying asthey tell, in ime of battle. Major Keno’s command was touud, receiving, as has deen before published, their first knowledge of Custer’s fate trom their rescuers. A Lusty burial was given to the remains of the ill-fated band, and the command fell back « few miles to camp. Mr. McKendry staried the sume day for old Fort C. F. Smitu, making the trip there and back without secing any indians. He ports that the village, measurement ol the engineer corps, four aud three- quarter miles in length, many blankets were found branded ‘Fort Pec tanding Rock,’’ “Lower Brule,’? “Red Cloud,’”? “Spotted Tail,” and | Otber Indian agencies, Our informant states that he scouted in every direction for teu muies adjacent to the scene of batile and only Knows seventy-tive dead Indians being found; so the reports that camo a few dayssince of 500 dead Indians berng found are proba- bly uuirue. Mr. MeKendry’s estimate of the number of Indians engaged in the fight is from tive to six thousand, and as he hud previously spent some tine at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tuil agencies and seen large bodies of Indians ho tecis certuin that be bas not over-estimated the uumber, especially as bis opinion was contirmed by | muny others m the command. Ur the on scouts attached to General Gibbon’s command ten were killed. Mr. McKeadry has retired from government service and intends taking up lus quariers in Butte. He isa practical miner, und We hope wul tind speedy employ- ment. He reports that General Gibbon’s command when be left Were 1p good heally aud spirits and anxe qously awaiting an opporiuaity to avenge their talien comrades, A REMINISC. by “actual was and ‘CE OF MRS. CUSTER. [Paris Correspondent Cincinnati Commercial. } Al the Chatwiet the dramatic version of ‘Round tho World in Eighty Days’ 18 running on to its 500th rep- resentation, and I found the theatre still very full, Tuere is ove scene which, since the piece begun, has turned to irovy—that in which three white tourisis conquer and exterminate @ picturesque and well-armed troupe of Siwux. There are about thirty savages to the three whites and the red men are all killed. The reene Was received with silence, except when the Sioux chief delivered a barangue conceruing the wrongs Which bis race bad endured, and his eloquence elicited 8 round of applause, It i’ doubttul whether the Sioux side of the battle thut followed would not have been represented somewhat dillerentiy if the piece had becu mounted since (he recent tidiags from ‘America. To me it brought back a once pleasant, bow: painful, remembrauce of a dinner-tablo conversation with General Custer at st. Pual, | im February last, when he was on his way to the fronvier, U asked bis beautiiul young wile whether she did not feel apprehensive or nervous at going 80 | far beyond the vorders of civilization. She repied | cheertully, “Not in the Jeast,”’ and seemed to look forward with almost girlish delight and expectation to the new scebes amid which she was about ro reside. But her husband jvoked grave as be lisiened to her avewer. The tragedy which nas since occurred has awakened a decp and widespread interest iu France as well as bnglana, It bas been tor Some time a prevalent belief among tbe geographical und anthropological savans of vot Longon and Paris that the whie Americans have undet the diffcuiues of their Indian probien. The hostile Indiaus are said to be only a vew hundred thousane 12 number, Out even «Oo many are decured by some goud judges to de too numerous tor exterm- tion, When their ferocity exceeds Lier love ut Lile, i Whou they are intrenched im wild regions difficult of access MOUNCURE D. CONWAY, | few days ago all Roachton was thrown into a fever of | am apparently very young looking woman, but one of | Hammond was married to a young woman in Indiana, | the | ensnare the daughter, | taking one ot the horses, + | they took a boat and went | daughter gone, run away wit one of bis farm hands, | hua frantic. | once for Roachton to meet the guilty two. | and Seventeenth street. Karly yesterday morning | Patrick Campvell, with se: | striking him when be stabved mi | wwouays PISTOLS AND LOVE. 4 BTRANGE EBOMANCE—HUNTING FOR 4 DAUGH- TER—THE MAN WHO STOPPED AN EXPRESS TRAIN BY HUGGING THE CONDUCTOB. [From the Toledo Blade, August 25.) Down the Dayton and Michigan Railroad, about ff teen miles from here, is a little hamlet, put down on the time schedules as ‘*Koachton.”” There are only | five or six houses in the town, besides tho freight house, and of course the society is very light. Some excitement over the arrival of a new family, a gentle- man from the South, named Hammond, and nis wite, considerable education and refinement. She was a very pretty girl, and attracted a great deal of atten- tion trom the Roachtonites, The new arrivals rented a house near the depot, and lived together in a quiet, peaceable wey, having little to do with their neighbors, and secing but very little | of them. So much for the present, ‘The past has just come to light and forms the second chapter in this in- leresting drama, Some five years ago a man named the in a small town State, near centre of tne After a year or two of married lite he became ured of his spouse and enamored of a young Woman who was working {or them. The feeling of distaste on one side aud desire ou the other constantly grew until it finally culmi- uated by Hamiond’s running away with the girl, who wus but sixteen or sevenseen years old, The two went to Michigan, where they lived afew months, aud then Hammond became tired of his new choice. | So, one fine day, aller they had been living tozether for but a | short ime, Hammond lett the poor itl and skipped | buck to Indiana. He told a very plausible story to his | wite about having been calied away on business, and of knowing nothing of the whereabouts of the girl, and tipally succeeded in geting buck into her good graces. The .1rl, tiuding herself vetra condition, Went into a house of ill tam feuding w'lite of shame and degradauion, Hammond Was a model husband for some tie alter the reconcili- auon, and beuaved remarkavly well, for hem. Finally, about w year ago they moved from’ Inuiana io Kep- lucky, Cawpbeil county, where they went to work fora very wealtuy farmer named Davis, Davis-was a well- to-do farmer who employed a number of hands, acd Was doing a Very zoud business, He was married aud had turee children, a bavy boy, a daughter tourteen yeurs old, and a gon about twenty-three, lhey lived there together very bappily until this mun Hatnmond made bis appearance. From very first this fiend set about to Every opportunity that pre- sented itseit Was eagerly seized, wad the wreteh worked so lung and so cunuin,ly that tinally the inexperienced xirl began to listen to him. ‘Then he plied ail his devi Ish aris, aud Soon aller be vegan to broach the subject | of w clandestine marriage, At first the girl would not hear of ii, Then she began to doubt, and tially sbe consented, Une night, she having packed up a few things durin the uiternoon, the two slipped out trom the house, and | wk a long midnight rive to filtven miles away. Arriving there, to Cincinnati, then came on the Dayton sand Michigan road us neur to ‘toledo as Mbachton, they being the | new family whose arrival caused such a furry im that small burg. When the Jarmer found his only the river, sume finan, too, Who had left biz own wile and children, his grief and anger knew no bounds, 1t nearly drove AL times he would give way to the most Violent paroxysms of rage, and ior hours would know nobody. Then urs griet would overcome him, and he would moan und weep teare of bitter anguish. It was a terrible biow, and nearly killed the loving father. Ater the first moments of sorrow were passed a desire to see his daughter again and meet the man who hud rumed his peuce, caine uppermost in his thoughts, and by caretul inquiry Ire traced them as far as Civcinnati, and then learnea that they had settled at Roachton, on the Dayton and Michigan road, near Toledo, Accordingly he and his sou started at On the:r way up they became acquainted with the conductor ana told the siory to Lim, asking bim to tell them when Roachton was reached. "The train they were in is due here at 6:35 A. M. As they drew near Koachton Mr. Davis, who isa tall, raw-boned Kentuckian, six leet three in keight, w mnuscles of steel, and the corduc- { tor stood on the platiorm. Rouchton was reached, aud | the conductor iniormod Mr. Davis o: the fact, The train did nol stop, bat as it passed a cottage near the track Davis threw up his hands aud exclaimed, ‘0b, my God, there they are in that door?” Then jumping up, le seized the conductor round the neck and begged him in God’s uame to stop the train enou.b to allow them to get of. The request could not be refused, and the father and son jumpeu off the train and made for the corn tie d which agjommed Hammund’s farm. Woat was done when tue four met las not accurately been reported; but as pistol shots were beard soon ter the train moved on, it is thought that sometu:ng serious was done, perhaps a double murder. PROBABLE MURDER. DEPUTY SHERIFF CAMPBELL STABBED AND MOR- TALLY WOUNDED, Deputy Sheriff Patrick Campbell, aged forty-seven, of No, 454 West Seventeenth street, was fatally stabbed in two places at an early hour yesterday morning as he was returning to his house by George Buckland, aged thirty, of the same residence. The two men huve been well acquainted for many years, Campbell keeps a liquor store at the coroer of Tenth avenue while slightly intoxicated he left his store with James Plunkett and three other companions. Arriving near | his home he saw Buckland standing inside the railing and offered him his band to shake. Buckland in an angry tone cried out, “Campbell, I don’t care a damn for you,” “And I don’t care a damn for you either,” replied Campbell, raising his hand as if to strike. Buckland, seemg him raise ls hand, pulled | a ‘long knile and stabbed his. us nt in the leit side just ubovo the nip. Campbeil ran across the streci aud Buckland followed him, stabbing bim again with the kniie, this time in the abdomen, Bucksaud then ran around the corner into @ iager beer saioun, Where he was tound by Otficer Fant, of the Sixteenth precinct, who bad beeu detaued to arrest him, At the station houso Buckland told the Sergeant that Catnpoell bad veen visiting his sister with criminal designs upon her, He said that on the latter’s returu home he met him at the gatoway and spoke to him of the affair, Campbell, who | was very drunk, struck him im tne face. He then used his knite in seli detence, Dr, Wood, ot No. 62 West Seventeenth street, dressed the wounded man. In the afternoon Coroner Croker came to the house and touk Campbeil’s aute-mortem statement, of waich the following is a copy :-— Between twelve aud one o'clock this morning, I, al iriends, amung whom Was James Vlunkett, left my store, und on nearing No, | 454 West Seventecrth street, whieh 1s midway between ro and residence, saw George Buckland oltbe railing. Iwas about to suake bands | with bim when he said:—‘Campbell, L dup't cure a | dama tor you.” I said jorao | care a damn for | you.” ASI spoke be stepped aside and stabbed me. | 1 ran across the street and was agai’ stabbed by him, after which 1 was assisted to my house, being very | weak from loss of biood. 1 was under the influence of | hiquor at the time acd admit that | was in the at of | | auding | SAD CASK OF SUICIDE. Yesterday afternoon Miss Angelina Paolaggi, eighteen, of No. 222 West Sixteenth street, was dis- covered by her mother lying dead on the floor of the room with a botile that had contained oil of bitter almonds by ber side, with which she had evident); committed suicide, No reason could be assigned for | the uct. Miss Paolaggi came to this country from her pative piace mn Frauce avout eigbteen mouths ago, in cum- pany with ber mother. Soou if ber arrival here xbe became engaged at a small salary as soprauo in the choir of S& Culumbw’s Koman Catholic church, in West Twenty-tiith street. About a Weck ago she went out in the country with ber mower, bat r turned al The case is surouded in mystery, but Coro- ner Croker will make an investigation to-day, k PROBABLY FATAL ASSAULT. David Williams, colored, residing in Butler street, pear Rochester avenue, brooklyn, returned to bis home at a late hour of Saturday nigut, being ander the in- | fluence of liquor, and proceeded to abuse his wife, who isa white woman, Jobn Stout, the son of Mrs. Willams ormer husband, interiered to protect bis mother, ed Negro seizeu a stone and threw it a Stout, strikiag Himon the head and fracturing the | frontal bone. The injured man was removed to the Long Island College Hospital, where be now hes in # cr.tical condition. Willams, who 18 a laborer, aged forty years, made his escape, bat was arrested by Ofticer welith preciuet, at an early hour yes. terday moroing. ie was locked up to await the result of the injuries inflicted, A BARROOM FRACAS. Patrick Cummings, of No. 1,137 Third avenue, ana Frank Callaghan, of No. 1,191 Third avenue, became | invoived jn a quarrel with each otuer on Saturday night while playing cards in a restaurant 1m Sixiy-sixth sireet. The result was tnat Callaghan stabbed Cum. mings twice in the back with a pocket Knife, intlicung severe though not dangerous Wounds. Cailaghan ad- mitted at the Fiity-seveath Street Court, yesterday, that he Bad stabbed Cummings in selt- nee, and was beid jor trial im defauit of $1,000 bail. A CARELESS OFFICER. Catharine Kail, aged thirty-six, of No, 324 East Twenty-sixth street, was accidentally shot in the left breast while standing in the doorway of her residence by Officer Smyth, of the Twenty-first precinct, who Was in pursuit of a gang of roughs, and carelessly ais- cvarged bis revolve. Lue wound is considered dan- . i | signed by hersel:. | boarding house, | came to save her busband’s life, Murtagh wi WOMEN’S WRONGS, WORKING HOW THEY ARE DEFRAUDED OF THEIB JUSP DUES. Women who are compelied to rely upon the labor of their bands or brains, and who have not the strong arm of father, brother or husband to protect them, aro subjected to wrongs and Injustice of which the general public have little or no kpowledge, ‘The records of that very excellent institution, the Working Women’s Protective Union, show this only too plainly. This Union, which was organized in 1863 “to promote the interests of women who obtain a livelihood by employ- ments other than housebold service, and especially to provide them with Jegal protection from the frauds and impositions of unscrupulous employers,” has during the past sixteen years performed a work of ser- vice to the working women which is not to be lightly estimated, It 1s notan uncommon practice for ployers, finding that they can dispense with the ser- vices of their employés, to discharge them with a bal- ance still due them, Indeed, some make it a custom to retain a portion of the weekly stipend anent the time of discharge. One of the most common frauds practised upon wo- men is that now wellknown as the sewing machine swindle, Under the guise of benevolence, too tre quently, unscrupulous agents induce the seamstress te purchase a sewing machine, to be paid tor in weekly or monthly instalments, Atleast thisis the supposmtion ot the seamstress. But when the arrangement is about to be consummated a printed form is handed her for her signature, which is but a lease of a machine to her uta rental of $5 per month, while a verbal promise is given that, when she has paid $12 or more rent, the machine 1s to become her own property, Relying upon her credulity and her inability to dis- crimipate between the lease and the verbal promise the victims entrapped. She believes that the money she is pafing per month 1s making the machine securedly her own. The agent knows full well that by one fuilure to pay the monthly instalment, flung back upon the lease which the seamstress bus boeu induced to sign and the character of which she does not comprehend, he may seize and repossess bimself of that by which she is to eara her livelihood. ‘this nay occur, and iu fact it bas too frequently been the cuse, that the seamsiress has nearly paid for tbe machine aud was within only one or two months of ite actual ownership. SHE HAS NO REDRESS. If called to account (he agent falls back: upon tae printed form, aud shows that it was merely teased as $5 per mouth. Soe says she was paying fur tho ma- chine by instalments, and that wheu she bat paid the tu amount asked jor (he machine 1t was to become Ler own property. ‘Ihe wily ageat asks her for writen: prvot of her statement, and presents the written form She canuot controvert 1, So he takes the machine, but iittle worn by less than @ year’s use, anu her labor and money are gone beyond recall. ‘The woman 1s robbed and the crafty agent protected vy the law. Th.scan be called nowwing more or less than a systematic awindle, and the meanest kind of one at that, In partially breaking up tuis swindle and in present- ing the ra-calities ol their agent to the sewing ma- chine companies the Union has done excellent work, Another (urm ot this swindle is in inducing tue poor Wouiwn to purchase 4 machine under the promise of keeping her iu constant work until itis paid for, In. stead of paying her for the work done ull is credited against the machine, and she is compelled to work in the direst poverty or se her machine seized and ber previous Work go fur nothing. Innumerabie instances of this most contempubie swinuling could be given if it were necessary, The above is cut one of the impositions to which working women are Subject. Sivee the first of the year 443 complaints aga.nost cmployers have been presented to the Union for redress. I'he majority of these cases consist of petty evasious of just claims, The merest pretext upon wuich to base dissatisfaction With the work performed is seized upon for a retention ol @ portion of the wages, | Generally the amounts retained aro amall in the eyes of the employer, but sadly largein the eyes of the employ é, since necessity increases ihe worth of apenny beyond its pomiual value, Lamentable as the fact may be, yet it is true that the most of these complaints are made Ly womew against women. ‘Too oiten, und.r the highly moral guise of inflicting an alleged deserved punishment, these poor women are robbed of their hardly earned wages. The case of a leading actress was noticed among the list against a seamstress for the making ol a theatrical robe, $19 92. Another case is tha: of a fasbiovable’ milliner on Broadway uguinst a trimwer, the figures standing at $76, Then there is a distingu.sued dressmaker, whe bas her emporium on Broadway, empioying some- where in tho neighborhood ot thirty girls. She bas fully # dozen cases tied against her on the collection book, the vills covering all suns from $2 up to $30, One of the most Suamejul frauds 18 that of a lace em- vroierer He advertised in the papers for pupils whe wished to learn the art of lucework, stating that he would Hod work fur lis Scholars as soon as they were protcient. Oue puor girl gladly responded to the ad- vertisement and appiied to hun for instruction. He agroed to teach ber thoroughly in three or four days for the sum of $10, and theu find her work, Sho paid bim the money and began her course of instruction, He tailed, however, to teach her as periectiy as he promised how to operate the machine, alleging that he had not time. The result was that ut the end ete week he bad her $10 and her work, anu was no more competent to run an embroidering ma- chine than when ehe tovk her first lesson. She de- manded her money, but it was retused her. She asked him jor work, but (hat was also denied, On her com- plaint to the Union that institutioa entered a suit for her against him, which was decided im her tavor, and he was furced tu pay the bill, costs and sherifi’s fees, During the our that the reporter sat there twenty-nv | compiaints were filed by Mr. Parsons (the attorney employed by the Union) for prosecuti.u. The piuintifia covered ail classes of trade and conditions, There were milliners, dressmakers, nurses, governesses, fur sew- ers and corset sewers. Some hud Iurgo bills tor col- lection, and others a ‘‘widow’s iite,”’ but all cases, | great and small, were listened to attentively, carelully jotted down for’ investigation, and the clients, each in | turn, dismissod with such words of eacouragement as their case demanded, it will thus be seen that the Working Women’s Protective Union 1s doing a gratu- ttous work which should commend it to all who are | charitably inclined, to those who love justice and who believe the words of the Master, that ‘the laborer is worthy of his hire,” BROOKLYN ROBBERIES, Joseph Hull feli asiecp ou his doorsteps, at No. 8 Phillips alley, on Saturday night, and was robbed of his watch and chain, Detective Roch, of the Third precinct, arrested An- drew O'Connor, of No, 104 Wyckoff street, yesterday, on a charge of stealing a gold watch qnd chain from | John Siavy, of Seventecath street. Fitty dollars’ worth of wearmg apparel was stolem | from the residence of Mr. Francis Barrett, of No. 411 Union street, and William McDermott, of No. 29 Maus street, arrested for the robbery. He w held for examination. Francisco Janerio was arrested and held to answe for stealing a pockeibouk trom August Reiche, at then 0, 32 Hamilton avenue, ‘A quaputy of saiis, vawued at $50, was stolen from the schooner Sophia Bebrman, lying at the foot oi Court strect, on Friday night last. The property was yesterday found im an unoccupied building on Van Braut street. T. % Wood, of Ne, 45 South Fifth street, caused the arrest of his son, Charles G. Wood, yesterday, on charge of stealing a watch and omer Jewelry, valued at $150. The prisoner, wno is nineteen years of age, 1s held for court. The resiuence of Charles Gurlman, Liberty avenue, was burglariousty eutered on Saturday night and $50 was stvign from the pockets of Gurlman, who was asicep at the time. Access was gained to the house by means of « rope ladder, which the rogue attached toa second story windo : VENGEANCE BALKED. . The little son of Thomas hurtagh, of No, 223 Kase Fifty-cignth street, was bitten some days ago bya Spitz dog belonging to James Dempsey, living im the same house. Murtagh asked Judge Kasmire to give him an order to have the dog killed. Judge Kasming retased the order, and Murtagh said be would have the Ife of the dog or his master, On Saturday afternooa Murtagh loaded his revolver by inserting oue cartridge in the muzzle of the weapon, the cap being turmed out. ward. Oi course it could not be tired off thus fixed, the iuteotion of Murtagh, who does not look by any me dangerous kind of man. He then proceeded to Dempoay' rooms and met that gentleman on the stairway. je snapped the revolver athim four times aud once at Mrs. Dempsey, whe bse quently arrested and arraigned before Judge Kasmire, who heid him tor irial in $500 bail. —_--————_-—---4# OUTRAGE ON A RAILWAY TRAIN, At a quarter-past five P. M. yesterday a Heratp re porter got ito the train which leaves Yonkers at that hour for New York by the Hudson River Rejiroad, Shortly after the train moved out of Yonkers station the conductor commenced collecting the tickets A decently dressed young man, evidently under the im fluence of liquor, was sitting asleep on one of the seats, when the conductor demanded tis ticket, and he replied that be had already given it. The conductur informed him that the mun 1 thereupon pulled the bdetl-rope so violently that fell on bis back, exciting the laughter of sume of the pas sengers, The laughter seemed to irritate him consider- avly, and alter collecting the tickets from the rest of the passenger in the car be wontup to the Intoxicated uu, took hvid of him by the coliar of his coat with ands, pulled him Violeatiy up on pis feet and ordered bim to ieave the car. The map resisted the pulling and retused to leave the car, but did not raise bis hand to strike or use iy violence whatever, On bis refusal the conductor struck him violently om the bead with his clenched fist, and then, taking his puceh in bis jelt hand, struck the unfortunate map (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE). ' |