The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1876, Page 8

8 ; ~PULAT GLEANINGS, | Condition and Needs of and New York. HEALING OF THE LEPERS. Brooklyn God's Care Over His People a Ground for Gratitude and Obed ence. Reopening of Many of the Churches Yesterday. FIRST PLACE M. E. CHURCH, CONDITION AND NEEDS OF BROOKLYN AND N2W YORK—SERMON BY LEV, ANNA OLIVER. To a large congregation at the First Place Methodist Episcopal church Rey, Auna Oliver discoursed upon the Condition and Needs of Brooklyn and New York” yesterday morning. The reverend lady prefaced her Sermon by remarking that during the past week she had been collecting items from the Brooklyn city mis- sionaries, police and excise clerks, Children’s Aid So- ciety, and in New York city from the Missionary of the Prison Association, Board of Police Justices and other reliable authorities for the foundation of her re- marks. Her text was from John iv., 35:— “Litt up your eyes, and louk on the fields; for they are white already to harvest,’ And she spoke as fohows:—The great need of the world is Christ, Jesus wants the masses. There never was a time that Christian effort was more needed thau now, 1t is not necessary that we gather statistics from China, Africa, Asia and other joreiga countries for items respecting barbarism and sin. Look in our own land and we can compro- hend the needs and condition of things. Look in Brooklyn, Iu the past year 24,700 persous huve been arrested for crimes, aud more than 10,000 of this number are natives of the United States, ‘This is hot very elating to our centennial, but if we can sit tomiortably in the drawing room reading our paper when the basement of our house is on fire we must pay tor such inditterence. @f yhis number 16,200 were convicted of crime. in New York 84,000 persons have been arrested during the past year, 64,00 convicted, and 21,270 were Aimericaus. Now, Christian efforts have been made to rewedy these tings, We have in Brooklyn titiwen city missionaries, Who are doing ex- cellent work, And’ churches, too, are active in this matter, but, nevertheless, these appalling numbers show the present state of things. Now, whatis the cause of this prevailing degradation 1n our cultured tities f Nine-tenths of all these criminals commenced their downward course by drinking, and 4 large proportion of these bave no trade by which to earn a tiving. In tue Penitentiary of Kings county there are 272 women, Not one oi these had any occupation by which to carn her daily bread. ‘This is where one of the diilicuities ies. Lhe second group of facts Is the dificulty of re- lorming those Who have once fallen into ihe binds of the Jaw. Should we not make it as hard as possibile to do wrong and easy to do mighty First, let us close the liquor trailic, Second, exact from our government compulsory cducation that shail teach every boy aud girl some trade by which they can earn a living. Third, let us receive these homeless little ones into our households. Law and Christian cnterprise must work together in this matter, Our laws ure nothing ¢ixe but public sentiment crystallized into form. Now, perhaps our laws ure doibg as much as possible to make it hard to do wrong; but what aro we, as Christian people, doing to make it ‘easy ws possible to do right? For instance, we jay a man or Woman must not drink tmioxicating liquor, bat we give them nothing clsetourink, We fay to children, “You must wot steal; but do we give them any other way to supply themselves with vod? Why not give them a trade? We provide policemen to watc% them, and as soon as they steal then we are upon them and jock them up in our beautiful buildings that tower up to heaven so grand and costly. The only Way (o extirpate sin trom the heart is to 1ufuse right- eousness there, and the best way to keep people from doing Wroug is to give them something right to do, Sydenham Palace, in England, is a good illustration of ths, Experience shows that ‘drinking saloons do not prosper iu its vieimty, Onc tuing needed in Brooklyn ly organization, 80 that people shall know where to seud those that apply to them for aid, 1 feel constrained just here to repeat a remark made to mo by a gentle- mano Brookiyu, He said, referring to the destitute families in this city have been back in the coun wry more than fity miles, and there laborers are needed and will be paid. If these people hoose to live in want rather thap go where work can w found let them suiler.”” Now this is natural, but is 1 wise? Why, you benevolent ladies trom your prov tsion the basement coors. Who pay the police to arr (hese persons and the courts to try them? Who: money is paid for this? Yours, respectable ladies and gentlemen of means Against whom will these people commit crimes? To whose Louses are they coming to break inY Yours, ofcourse. We may say, lot them alone if they would jet us alone, ‘am I my brother's keeper!’ wus the cry of Cain, and i we are not our brother's kee us to keep ourselves. But is it the spirit of Chris- tunity to let them alone? Now what we want is not more poilce or gallows or prisons We need to storm the citadel of these little hearts and make the iriends of suciety, thas ibey may tall into the rat Who supplies the wants of the drunkard? at Aud march together with us to the giorious goal God | gives at the end of the race, ST. PATRICK’ CATHEDRAL. THE MIRACLE OF THE LEPER—SERNON BY REV. FATHER QUINN, VICAR GENERAL, The Cathedral was crowded yesterday, und the ger- vicos were, sal, solesnn and impressive. The offi- clating clergyman was the Rey. Father Kearney, and atthe termination of the first gospel the Rey, Father Quinn, V. G., preacved a sermon, Before entering on his discourse, however, the reverend gentlemen called the attention of the congregation to the opening of the Catholic school, and 1ook occasion to point out the absolute necessity on the partof parents to see that their childres received a Christian education in aceord- ance with their faith and the precepts of the Church, The text of the sermon was taken from the Gospel ac- cording to St. Luke, xvii. 11—-"‘And it came to pass as he was going to Jerusalom he passed through Samaria and Galilee, And as he entered into a certain village there met him ten men that were lepers who stood afar off, And they lifted up thelr hands and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.’’ The miracle, said the reverend preacher, whick was recorded by the inspired evange showed forth the omnipotent power of the Redeemer of the world, ‘ihese men were excluded by the law of Moses from apy bavitation in the towns of their own country in consequence of the Bature vl the dise their lives in solitude and misery. she Saviour the words vet tompassion on them, directed them to show themselves jo the priests, and they were healed. Ihis great mir- acle Was interpreted as typical of the leprosy of mortal Win, and particularly the leprosy of the mortal sin of impurity, 1 was weil to consider Lie nature of sin, iS character, the ell it produced on the sou', and its terribie consequence, lt would be also well to endeavor 10 realize toe enormity of sin, Sin was divided into two clasees—venial sin and mortal sin, ‘The former was a restion against Almighty God, It was thatt us wore © or less in the nature of their various eecup: which should be guarded against by coustant atten. lion, In itself being light, 1 did pot deprive the soul of God's sanctify ing grace; itdid not break that link of unity and harmony whien existed between tne soul and God, but it exposed the sou: to the temptation of committing grievous sil, Lt weakened to extent the power of the soul, Just as light weaken the body, Hence it suouid warded against as likely to expose the souk The leprosy mentioned in Ln ptures Was not applied to this venial sin, but to mortal siu—that whiew gavo the They cried out to diseases soul the hideous stain of guilt whieh at once Separated it irom the © y of the just. It was the most grievous oie: t could be’ commit. | ted—a deliberate act on the | t the*creature, of the | Mere Worm risiug Up in rebellion against the good ness und justice and power of the Oun.potent, Infinitely greater than the groulest crime that could be perpetrated againet the michtiom poten eartu, tur ail men were the creatures of the Almighty. Mortal sin, as St, Paul said, renewed the Passion the Lord Jesus Christ, because it renewed tue cause of His death, [t expresses our ingratitude to the Sa- viour, who humbled Himsel from the highest heaven, and took our human nature and came to earth w redeem the world, Aguiu, it was a viviation of our own promises, because when we Leeame we declared ourselves folio’ 3 of Jesus Christians Christ We accepted His holy iaw, we welv under the. banner o by fevous sin we violat Christ and follow th end gentlewan havin, of mortal sin and the who fasied to repent of it, © to seek assistauce irom Al temptations of the wor: t siate of ui tal sin apply like the leper to , and eve: though separated now from God they could come again to the path of righteous: The choral arrangements deserve the highest comin Lion of Professor Gustavus taking @ganist, More flat was rendercd in enomy of 8 dweit at length on the erribie fate which awaited those vrted the congregation Wy God to overcome | the Cathedral rela tic Under cumits, the able iagnitice cre soprano; aud most a soloists beiug Mine. Predelli, Min contralto; Mr. Bersiv, tenor, sb the Obertory Mime. Biedvii or, he Will syon make it pretty hard ‘or | se With Which ibey were afflicted, | tnd they had retired toa remote place, there to pass | rth, and Christ, taking | posed mare | pas and | & certain | | God above ail else, torely contidently upon bis power | be avoided and | Tt was | e on | of | Suive | God he luet ivr ouly s Revina’’ with great expression and artistic finish, Tho | Services terminated short iter LWeive 0 Cluck, ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH. : | THE HEALING OF THE LEPERS—SERMON BY THE | REV. FATHER M’CAULEY. At St. Stephen’s church, yesterday moruing, a con- | | gregation so large attended as to remind one that the coo! autumn weather had alroady set in, The preacher | was the Rev, Father McCauley, who made the gospel | | of the day, whieh was taken from Luke xvii, the sub- | ject of his discourse, The gospel, he said, related how ten poor men suffering from the loathsome leprosy were healed by our Lord, whom they met in Samaria on his way to the city of Jerusalem to celebrate the | | Feast of the Tabernacles. By the law of Moses the | poor lepers were obliged, for fear of spreading the in fection o mucb dreaded by the people, to keep aw from their fellaw men. These men, like the publican | mentioned in the gospel a few Sundays ago, stood at a a distance, and cried out, “Jesus, Mast have mercy }on us;’? and be replied, | show yourselves to tne priest,” alter which they were | healed, Commentators apply this to the sacred tribunal of pemmnce, in which the sinuer receives pars don and his soul becomes cleansed trom the leprosy of BD. Again, attention is drawn to the one who re turned to offer up thanks. Our Lord, in this cone tiou, gently rebukes the absent ones tor their izrati- tude i not domg the same. Here we might apply this to ourseives, and learn the lesson that we shoud not, alter receiving Goo’s favors, neglect to return Him thanks tor them, Our Lord was go pleased with the turn of the poor Samaritan tuat le not only cured bis body, but cured his soul by Jorgiving him bis si Vhe spirit of the Cburen to- Guy 18 Lo call oUF attention to the leprosy of the soul, Mortal sins far grenter in its ruin to the sou) than | leprosy is to the body. In order to understand this it | 1s only necessary to reflect upon the great dignity of God and who we ourselves ure. Kee) belore your | minds that “the tear of the Lord is the beginning of | wisdom,” ‘There is a bope tor tuat soul which feels ia Own misery On account of its sin. Some uvond the very consideration of the enormity of sin because of the ré- | proaches occasioned from their own guilt, But the | truths of our religion come home to us in a thousand Ways, and it is of grave concern tbat we learn trom | the lesson taught tn the gospel of this Sundi Mortal sin strikes directly at the intinite goodness of God; it is a sbare-taced contempt ot His Divino Majesty. By it, a poor reptile of the earth daringly wages War upainst the King of all Glory, audaciously | thes in the face of his Creator, and impiously tramples | upon the law of God. It is a breaking of tne covenant | made at baptism and subjects the soul to Satan, He who commits @ mortal sin repays the goodness of his heavenly lather with the blackest imgratitude, and in return for the wany graces and blessings coulerred on hit revews the passion and death of Jesus Curist, | and as St. Paul expresses it treads under his feet the | precious blood of the Sou of God. He blindly preters | Some crimipal pleasure belore the sovereizu good that | is infinitely beautitul and amiable, He torsakes his | best iriend, the mereitul Redeemer, and sells his soul | to the devil for a recompense that is but momentary and perisbable, No wonder that God through the mouth of Isaias should say—'‘i have reared up children, but they have undervalued and despised me.” If mortal sia | was not so odious the Great God, who is so prone to | merey and whose very nature is’ goodness, could not coudema to eternal punishment a soul made alver His own image and hkeress and ransomed with the pre- cious Lived of His beloved Son. Ezekiel says—‘Tho goul that simpeth shall die.” 1t is plain that it is our duty to fly from sin, for the unfortunate sinner who | departs tuts lise ia mortal sin uvrepented may bid an everiasting farewell to she kingdom of heaven, There cannot be a more dangerous itiusion than to procrasti- haute repentance, The dreadful catastrophe of the | humberiess sinners who ure every day suddenly cut off in the midst of their iniquities, apd the many ob- stacies and difficulties that attend a deathved conver- sion should be sufficient to deter us all rom living in sin, We should, if in sin, endeavor to make our peace with our Creator, and bave recourse to Lis mercy, icst His justice overtake us, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. “BLESSED ARE THE PEACKMAKERS”—SERMON BY REV. STEPHEN H. TYNG, JR. Yesterday a beauiilul sermon from St, Matthew, v., 9, was preached in the above church to « congregation which thronged every part of the large edifice at tho corner of Forty-second street and Madison avenue, Dr. Tyng prefaced the sermon by an interesting account of the work done during the summer in the Gospel Tent in Thirty-fourth street, saying that, to his mind, three important facts had been demonstrated, viz.:—Thut the great buik of the people stay in the city, and but few go out of town permanently; that Christian work can go nobly on wiile the thermometer tells the story of niuety degrees, and that the workers | of Christ are willing to uncergo and are equal to the greatest physical discomfort to save human soula. He then proceeded with his sermon from tbe text, *+Blessed are the peacemakers, tor they shall be called the children of God’? The sermon by our Lord on the mount gives both light and beat. It is thus like the sun going forth as the bridegroom; it begins like a Venediction ; it 18 most glorious in ‘its scope, and cul- | mina‘es m the ligut of an unending day of biessedness, You cannot sit at the feet of Christ as an in- structor without being moved by inspiration you havo never before experienced. Privileges are set betore the buman family to be enjoyed, but right on their heels come responsibilities to be carried out and accom- plished, responsibilities that have outlived the occa- sion and continue to be preached to-day, In the text before us tiere is no special provisions with which philosophy bas to deal, and 1 maintain with the utmost emphasis that he who cannot find Gospel in the Sermon | on the Mount cannot discover it anywhere. There is | an intellectual phase in it und a morai example; bat between and beyond these, to be wrought out im lite, there are doctriues of reason, affectionate counsels, aud fancies the most sublime that, like prismatic colors, blend aud divinely harmonize. Christ teaches Orat purity, then peace. He is at war with everything that dethrones manhood from its elevatioun—beutitude is followed by beatitade, n | must be misrepresented in this world, and the Lord | says, ‘Blessed ure the peacemakers; man must be tempted—He says, “Blessed are the pure in heart; mon must be wronged—He says, “Blessed are the persecuted ” These thoughts xre never to be separated; they are interlinked with exch | other. Peace! What does it mean? The contrary ot toil and passion, the retiection of submission to that un- broken iife that las its home in the heart of God, and which 18 shed abroad in the heart of the Christian when he is convicied of sin, We grow up intw peace fs wo rise tn the school of Chris’s teachings Some of us have lately been wandering through the different | departments of God’s greatest bandiwo: ks—turough the mountains and by the seaside; we have heard the Wind roariug through dark ravines with terrible threat- enings, while the calm, biue sky above spoke of peace, | by the margin of the ocean, wiich thundered out its | grand anthems; but through all we could sev evidences | | j ot God’s peace. Ibuve siood by the veuside of the dying, surrounded by sorrowing iriends, but God’s peace, too, was there, and you cannot measure it with your oor huinaa puitosophy; it 18 ake the compass on | ihe tempest-iossed ship; the needle in the midst of all | | around and with you every hour aud moment o | purposes fail deflections points due borth, A sinner reconciled with | Gou possesses peace, An idiot has ‘he peace o1 inanition, | | On the battie field the bodies lying interlocked have the | | peace of death, but until oan is at peace with himself | and in bis inner Lie be will go halting to his grave un- | deragreat burden of darkness, It is in the power of | | man to enjoy a temporary lull from trouble, but these | | bodies stil area con-uming tre. It is pot enough to | bo peaceable, but we must be peacemakers, John Wes- coming to this country with a cortain Goveruor, | beara the latter berating Nis servant in the cabin. He Went to inquire the cause and the reply was, ‘You see this vagrant, my valet, he knows I drink nothing but Cyprus wine, aid he has drank up ali my private stock. I wiil cause him to be tied Lo the mast and chastised,” ley replied, “Governor, did you never sin against ) The question struck home. fhe Governor said, will forgive this man for your sake.” Wesicy Cotton Mather was subject to terri- eived them in ietiers and tn the news- “Ye was a peacemal ble libel | | papers, and tied them up as the lawyers do their papers, | filug them away, After bis deatu they were discov: | ered labeliod, “Libeis—Father forgive them, they | know not what they do’? | | | FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. PETER WALKING THE SEA—SERMON BY REV. DR. ABMITAGE. Rev. Dr, Armitage preached yesterday morning toa large congregation at tho Fifth avenue Raptist cuurch, | The scriptural narrative of Peter walking the sea he | employed as the text of the day and went on to show that in it Were contained admonitions to put trast in and willingness to assist us and to loltow the vocations to which in the Ways of Providence we have been severally assigned. He showed that Peter standing on the htile veseel (hat beld the disciples saw the Saviour | atar off, and, feeling that his love for the Master would guarantee bis attempting it, he went forth upon the But in doing this ho was actuated, by a little sense of vanity, He was ous Of suowing lis companions the power which clation With the Lord tiuparted, and 0: impressing theta bis intimucy with Him.’ So it is with men | who are in their proper spheres in life, and who essay | works beyond their power and who seek a position | exaited beyond their capacity. Thus it is with Whe Sunday schoo! teacher who succeeds admirably in im- pressing the simpler lessons of (he Scriptures upon the | minds ot bis young charge, but who, when he attempts to become a preacver, fails, He lurries out of the piace to which he Was alioted, and im when he was doing good work, to assume one iu which he can do little or noting.” So st is with Landreds of men who | rustet on themseives into positions where 3 not Want (vem. Was lorgetiul that be was dependent upon the Loru tor wi, and tuut bis place was to assist, not to dead. He was unmindsul that bis was Hot the capiaiv@y, that he was ouly a deck G, as it Were, aud so slould hove remat wo ti eof them, There is a lesson When Peter t my | water to meet Him. tow, | the cout Huh on the waiers, town i «i he wins tne it Hireets ve dised) yiire who chy ‘ “ht as tue Loed,'? ond could sven @. bat | Churet ‘South, Washington, D, C, | \mto the heart of man the things which G NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMB natural power. He began to sink. Many and many are there like bim. Assailed by fears, hey forget that a good God reigns above ail; that He is all powertu) and (at He promised assistance to those who call upon Him, When the cieuds lower und the biliows of ad. | Versity roll boisterously around them, when they have most peed of the arm o! omn)petence, their terrors beset them, their faith tails and they go down as Peter | did, Faith, strong. powerful faith, that 1s what God looks to find in every breast, He has given us ample prools of His omnipoten He bas told us Himseif that He will come to us When we call, aud in return He wants us to rely upom ths power and upon these promises, If we fail, if our confidence wavers, if we become dis- heartened and lose sight of Him, then He withdraws His band irom us, aud, left to ourselves, wo sink beneath the trisis and dangers thot assai! us. Ye who labor and are burdened and look tor he!p from Heaven be assured it will come. Ye who have fuitered in your hopes, ye who have wavered in your faith, remember that reproof, If you repose in false | strength und it gets you into trouble fix your eyes upon Hie is the saviour. He is oit the deep as well au Zion, life, aud when you find youreeil sore beset call to Him | as Peter aid, “Lord save me,’? and he will hasten to answer you, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET CHURCH. REOPENING OF THE CHUBCH FOR REGULAR SERVICES—SERMON BY THE BEY. CARLOS MaRIYN, This church was reopened for divine service yester- day, the pastor, Rey. Carlos Martyn, preaching from Nehemiah, tenth chapter and thirty-ninth verse— “We will not forsake the house of our God.” The roverend gentleman said that, as this was the com- mencement of the ecciesiastical year, 1} was eminently proper and right to speak of public worship, The text Suggested itand the occasion waranted 1. ‘The im- portance of public worship is grounded in the relations between God and men—God as father and men children, ‘There were duties both ways, His part was love, protection and support; our part was answering that love and in being submissive. God is constantly strong and fulfilling His part toward us, and we should be dilgent and fulfil ours to Him. Again, public worship is grounded in the necessiuies of mankind, It is @ school of spiritual education for the peopie. For six days the people feed the body and on Sunday they feed the soul. We cultivate our ligher seli on Sunday, We feed the soul, If you forsake the house of God you feed the body and starve tue soul. ‘The example of France proves this, Its anation that has no soul She is beautiful asa piece of carved marble; she has her miles of art galleries; her triumphs of art, but in for- gaking the house of God she brings calamity upon her- sell. I predict for her a future as stormy as the Bay of Biscay. If we secularize Sunday we will have the same results as inevitably useflect follows cause, Pub: lic worship 18 also a school of republican equality; out of the Church we are all classitied by circum-tances, wealth and culture, In the Church our differences tude out apd we stund recognized in our common wants, brotherhood and destiny. How important it is then, suid tue preacher, to maintain vublic worship: For this reason | hailthis building and welcome you back to your seats, BROADWAY TABERNACLE. THE PRIZE OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS—SERMON BY THE REV. A, HUNTINGTON CLAPP, D, D, The Rey. A. Huntington Clapp officiated at the above church yesterday morning, “im the absence of the Rey. William M, Taylor, the regular pastor, who is enjoying a vacation, The text of the serinon was taken from tke Epistie of Paul the Apostle to the Phi- lippians tii, 12, 13, 14: ‘ot as though 1 had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, it that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, 1 count not myself to have apprehended; bat this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are bebina, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, | press to- ward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” ‘The words here usod by Paul, said the preacher, are drawn from the national games of those days, of which foot-racing was the least sin- ful ana most graceful. The contestants were, of necessity, of pure blood, and underwent severe train- ing and dieting before entoring a race. When, amid crowds in the surrounding galleries the victor reached the goal, he was crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves and carried off to the city irom whence he came, Here the surrounding walls of defence were torn down | | to signify their uselessness in the presence of the con- quero. He was placed at the head of the army and lorever after supported by the Stute. Let us pursue the words of Paul, the self-denying missionary of Christ, when be says he haa not laid hoid of that which Christ bad laid for him. It was not a doubt about the resurrection, for he had beiore given evidence of his full faith in that, Nor was he tollow- ing aChristian hope, which so many of us think is enough. Again, he was not seeking a certuinty of sal- vation or change of heart. How could he after Damas- cus, where the persecutor became the aposticY Ho knew be was in Curi:t a new creature. le did not mean he bud attained the seais of bis apostiesbip, There is no Christian of intelligence who will pretess to equal knowledge of Christ with Paul, and yet he only opens his heart to know more of God, each view he gets creating ouly a yearning for something grander yet, 1t was boimess aud sanctity that Paul sought to Attain, and he bad it vot It was just the plain trath from the wisest and most honest of men. It was after the time at Damascus Paul saw himself mm a new hight and elt the necessity of | repentance in sackcloth and ashes. And in that con- | dition what does he propose to do avout it? Turn back or stop wuere he was to save himseif trom dis- | appointment and mortification? And yet how olten do we sce this feeling among us in the lower things cf lite! Do the words of Paul sound like turning back ? Let us look at the particulars of his methods. The firat secret of his method was a singleness of aim, so transcendent that ali others sink from sight This has Deen the metuod Of great ariits and inventors, and only such ave had the perseverance and enercy necessary to success—success where men of double ihere would baye been but one Michael Angelo had he contined bimselt to his art, Had Lather aimed at more than one thing the Reiormation would have been atatlure, The second secret of his method was in lorgetting the things behind him. He gave up all hopes and aspirauions and ail earthly ambitions, save for the lessous of good in them. He forgot tho bigotry and batred of his home and laid aside his trials so far as they tended to unverve him. He shut tho door of memory cn his successes. It would be time enough by and by to bring them before Him to whom they were due, We are apt to gloat over our good deeds instead of seeking to perform greater and richer ones, ‘There is nothing more precious than the memory of a good Jie, and yet how much init worth forgetting. The third secret of Paul’s method is in bis looking forward to the mark for the prize of the high caliing of God in Christ Jesus. It was, perhaps, this inspiration to look forward to the things to come that gutuded Columbus over the ocean, Paul had deen di- vinely promised, and was, therefore, sure. So Paul, like the racer, with outstretched hand sought for the heavenly crown, anticipating the fiual triumph of the Gospel. And what a contrast is there iu We crown sought tor by the racer—the one corruptible, the other incorruptible; delivery from temptation and sin and freedom from the terror of death. And we, are we seeking that crown? Does our ex- perience of the world satisty us with its prizes? Nnowid we gain that impossible prize—the whole world-—would 11 compensate us for the loss of Jesus? How few gain anything im the world worth taking out of it, and how many take with them what they would give ten thousand worlds to be rid of ! Bat let us look ata brighter prospect--the pleasure of dwelling in communion with God and of reigning with Him in eternity. Then shall we be perfect; then shall we have laid hold of Him; then shall we, with the Paulmist, join in the song of the eternal day of vie- tory and coronation, ASBURY M. E. CHURCH. THE FAITHFUL ARZ ONE IN CHRIST—SERMON BY REV. ALPHEUS W. WILSON, D. D., OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH soUTH, Atthe Asbury Methodist Episcopal church, Wash- ington square, East, yesterday morning there was an unusually large attendance tor the seasoa, The ser- mon was preached by the Rey. Alpheus W. Wilson, D. D., a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal With the possibly slight reterence to past estrangements involved in the opening declaration that “in Christ havo we fellow: ship,” he prayed, read the hymns, awaited “ir singing and read also from the six: | teenth psalm and the second ch»pter of the First Epistle of aul to the Corinthians The preliminary service completed, he announced as bi text the ninth verse of the second chapter of the First Apistie of Paul to the Corinth ans—“But it is written, eye hath not seen nor ear hard, neither have entered 1 hath pre- pared for them tbat love him.’ In the text, be de- clared, there was given the explanation of the cruet- fixion of Christ, At toe time when the epistie was written, really, to the peopie receiving it, tue seem- ingly anomalous condition of Christ au earth was not understood by them ae it should have been Great ignorance, in that rogerd, prevailed among them, and the human race was the same trom that day to this, for the niass was still in ignoranee of “the things Which God hath prepared tor them,” In all their glorious fulness aud variety they wero still beyond the power of our unassisted vision, In tne deo ade Paul ran baek, in reaaty, in his appre » of Gor, to the time in effect, the same deci Tue tom nthe mind of the Creator at the time of tin five world were the same as were in tt today, 10Y Who inchived to think that the w Tesuiment a which were creation ‘There ip the in the ght of the Alt ation to the human race 1 beliel Was, be ng, for Gow was THE SAME To-DAY AND FURRVER, { He were not We could not have any aasarance that tbe enuuenied whica would set aside wan veh tact 9 y the poses us to learn new as thet the declarations of God sterday, to-day and for. ni the beginning Were Gxed for saves of God, however, did s and caus of Isaiah, who made, | not produce changelessness in map. Man might cha: in the methods by which his work was done, but God never. Proof of this lay in the tact that while | the Old Testament was written centuries ago, its great truth=, notwithstanding the centuries which had | passed since, remained the same and were revealed again in the New Yestament. It nad, and did stil, ultord him great pleasure to feel assured of the fact that God's purposes, in His declarations to man, fore- saw and provided for the changes :0 man’s existence through all time, was the same before the earth was formed that He was and would be through all eternity. Men, he thought, while advancing in knowledge of the material conditions which God had given thom, still fuiled to | progress eqaully in their knowledge of the spiritual conditions which He had prepared for them. There was not an atom of earth which did not give unmi-tak- able evidence of God’s power; and yet, wonderful though it appeared to be, it was not a full display ot His work for man, for His care for man’s spiritual welfare was evidence of sill greater power and mercy, In fact, it was only when God Him- self whispered to us that we were enabled to under- stand the wondertal greatvess of His care for us On this latter pkase of his discourse the preacher built the position that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and that by faith we imperfectly found the truths of God We, unregenerated, were accustomed to look with our own eyes upon the work of Ged; but it was only when we turned the spiritual side of our nature toward Him that we succeeded im understanding Him. 1a conclusion, after | a vivid picture of the sufferings of Christ on the cross and a rapid review of God’s mercies, be cailed upon his hearers to consider them and thereby learn how much the Creator had done for them, both here and hereafter. EIGHTEENTH STREET M. E. CHURCH. GOD’s CARE OVER HIS PEOPLE A GROUND FOR GRATITUDE AND OBEDIENCE—SERMON BY REV. W. F. HATFIELD. ‘This church, which has been supplied during the ab- sence of the pastor by Rev. T. B. Smith, well diled yesterday morning with an atteutive and fashionabie | congregation, The text was selected from Genesis Xxviil., 20-22—‘And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me im (his way that 1 go, aud will give me bread to cat, aud raiment to put on, so that I come again to my Jather’s house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God,” ‘This incident in Jacob’s lite, Mr. Hatfield remarked, stands not alone. From that day to the present God's people have often said, when they were about to enter upon pilgrimages or engage in important dutios, “If the Lord will be with us aud give us protection and prosperity then will we se:ve Lim and consecrate to Him our bodies, talents, substance—all,’’ Several | weeks ago very many of us went forth from our homes here to find homes elsewhere tor a brief period. some went among friends, near or remote; some to the | tented grove, some to the Exposition on their way to the Great West; some to quict piaces far away among the hills or by the sea shore. Some voyaged over #exn, while others journeyed to the mountains, ond all went forth im pursuit of rest, bealih and imcreased vigor, and to escape the noise and heat of this creat city, Beiore set out, if not untrue to ourselves nor jor- gettul of God, we sought H:s guidance and protection, and promised Him, 11 He would ci tor us and our property left vebind aud return us safely to our triends and homes, we woula foliow Him more faithiuily than ever and devote to Him the residue of our days, This event in Jacob’s life suga the subject for our medi- tation this morning—God’s care over us a ground for gratitude and obedience. It becomes a dependent creature like man to show gratitude to the Being from whom he derives lie and by whom that life is prolonged. ‘hat is a weak argu- | ment advanced by intidelity against a gratetul recogni- tion of divine mercies that it 1s usele-s and a waste of time, since the Almighty as nothing to do with the reservation of human life; that this follows a natural jaw, and that man is governed by laws belonging to the realm of matter, and not to that reatm which is m- visibie aud of which noiping positiveis known. But the Bible teaches a different doctriue—that God is governor and preserver of all things, and that His providence is over His people, and, though the geod may fall by accident and by the hands of ‘heir enemies, this docs not militate ayainst the fact that God does exercise a care over thuse who put their trustin Him. It is aground for obedi- ence. God knows our dispositions and weaknesses, and He has used every motive consistent with His character and our free agency to induce us to toliow Him. What more poweriul motive couid be presented to persuade man toa life of obedience than the care His Heavenly Father exercises over Lim? Is be in peril? A hand divine is outstretched to deliver, 1s he | in need? That sume hand is open wide to supply his wants, Is he in trouble or ullliction? A way ts devised | for hia relief and grace promised to comfort him in the darkest bour of lie. OQvedieuce may be manifested by efforts to promote the temporal and spiritual weitare o1 the Church. God calls upon us to take care of the interests of Zion. Jacob promised the Lord that he would give one-teuih unto Him if He would go with him and bring him safely buck. It is our duty to give more liberally to the various charitable and religious enterprises Mat appeal to us for aid, Now is the time to lavor for Christ. At the beginning of ths new period—uafter a season of rest—it becomes every Chris- tian to enter upon the great work of building up the Redeemer’s kingdom with renewed purposes, couse- } eration and earnestness, ‘The reverend speaker alluded to the afflictions some had exper enced during their separation, and reminded them that dark and mysterious 4s were the trials they had experienced they wouid finally appear to have been for their eternal good. ‘ BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. DR. TALMAGE'S RETURN TO HIS PULPIT. Yesterday morning Dr. Talmage occupied bis pulpit at the Brooklyn Tabernacle for tha tirst time since lus vacation, aud an unusually large congregation wel- comed his returm. The sermon, which was delivered with much force, was listened to throughout with a great deal of attention, Dr. Talmage took for his text Isaiah, xxvii, 27, 28—“For the fitches are not threshed with a threshigg instrument, neither is a cart wheel turacd about upon the cummin; but the ftches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.”” The reverend gentleman commenced by saying that the first sermon afver bis return was apt to be cons tory, and that this one should be no ex. ception. Tho heat, he said, had been almost weuiterable, and in the furnace much human life had been consumed; there had been many families broken; misfortunes of vartous kinds bad come upon various people, and ho supposed that, standing in any congregation on this beautiful Sabbath day, the one great need was solace. There were, he said, three Kinds of seeds mentioned in his text—titebes, cummin andcorp. The first mentioned were small seeds, and when they were to be threshed they were thrown on the tioor and the workmen would beat them with a rod or flail util they would become separated. When corn was to be threshed that wlso was thrown on the floor, but instead of beating 1t with a rod or flail horses or oxen would ve fastened to a cart with iron dented wheels and driven over the grain. There were difler- ent kinds of threshing tor different kinds of prdducis, ‘The great thought that the text presses upon our souls to-day is that We must all g9 turough some kind of threshing process. The fact that you may be devoting your Iife to honors able and noble purposes will not win you any escape. My subject, in the first place, teaches us that it 1s no compliment to us if we escape great trial, The fitches aud the cummin on one thresiing floor might look over to the corn on another threshing “Look at that poor, miserable, bruised | floor and say corn, We have only been a lite’ pounded, but ‘hat hus been aimost destroyed.” Weil, the corn, i it had ps, would auswer and say:—“Do you know the reason you have not been “as much pounded as I have? It — is because you are not of so much worth as 1 am; it you were you ‘would bo as severely run over.” There are some men who suppose thoy are (he Lord’s favorites just because their barns are Lull, THEIR BANK ACCOUNT 18 FLUSit and there are no funerals im the hous The reason may be that itis because theyvare fitches and cummin, while at the end of the lane @ poor widow may be the Lord’s corn, You are out littie pounaed because you are of but little worth, anu she is bruised because she is the hest of the harvest, I you bave not been much threshed in life the reason may be there is uot much to thresh, If troubles have not shattered you probably it is because the yield would te ‘very small indeed. When the Kberries are plentiful Very large baskets are car- ried by the gatherers, but when the fruit has almost been Consumed by the drought a quart measure will do as well MY text teaches next that God proportions our trials to what we can bear— | tne staf for the fitcnes, the rod for7the cummin and the iron wheel for the corn, Peovie in great troubie sometimes say, “Ub, [can’t bear it!”” Bat you did bear it If God had not known you could bear it'he would not have seutit upon you. You got through notwith- standing you trembled and you swooned. God will not take [roui your eye one tear (oo many, vor from your jungs one ‘sigh t0o deep. ‘There 1s volta dollar ot” vad devt on your ledger or @ disappointment about goods that you expected to zo up, but that have gone down, or a swindle of your business partuer, or a trick on the part of those who are iu vhe sume kind of busiaess as you are, but God intended to overrule for your immor- iwi help. You say:—“There is no need of talking to me tbat way. I do not like fo be cheated orjout- raged.”’ Neither does tue corn hke threshing, but when tt has been thrested and winnowed and 1s banked up in golden hue at the side of the barn it) fies a better opinion of winnowing mills and throshers. You say, that if you could choose y u troubles you would Le willing to be troubled. Lon, my brother, it would not be trouble. You would choose something that would not burt, and, uniess it hurts it does not get sanctitied, Your trial, perhaps, ix a violent temper, and you bave to drive it like SIX Unbroken horses amid the kunpowdery explo- sions of a great holiday, and ever and anon it runs away with you. Your trialistheasthwa Yousay:—0b, ifit were rheumatism of neuralgia, but it 18 this | and iC 8 such an exbausting thing to breathe,” | troubje is a husband, short, sharp, snappy and cross | about the Louse, aud raising a smail riot because a but- ton is off. How could you know the button is of f | (Laughter.) Your trial is a wife, ever in con- test With the servants, and she 1s @ sloven, though she was very careful about her ap pearance iu your presenco once, Now she ts ER 4, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. careless because, she says, her fortui hearers, are you not ashamed of complaining against Godt Who manages the aflairs of this world, auy- how? Is it an indinite Modoe, or a Sittmy Bali savage? No, itis the one most merciful and glorious and wise Being im ail the unive: You cannot teach Omnipotence anything. Do you not think you have fretted and worried almost enough? Some of you making yourselves ridiculous in the sight of the angeia God 1s always right, and in nine cases out of ten youare wrong. Ho sends just the hardships, just the bankruptcies, just the cr that itis best for you to have. He knows what kind of grain you are, and He sends the right kindot threshing machine. 1t will be rod, or staff, or iron wheel, just according as you are fitches, or cummin, or corn. . My subject also teaches us that God keeps trials on us untii we let go We hold on to this world with its pleasures and riches and emoluments, and our knuckles are Ormiy set that it seems asi! we coud bold on forever. God comes along with some threshing troabie and beats us loose. There are men who keep their grip on this world until their last moment, who suggest to me the condi- Von and conduct of the poor Indian in the boat in the Niwgara rapids, coming on toward the falls Seeing that he could not escape, a moment or two before he got to the verge of the plunge, he lifted a wine glass and drank it off, and then tossed the giass into the air, So there are men who clutch this world, and they go down through the rapids o/ temptation ana sin, and they hold on in the very last moment of life, drpking merrily to their eernal destruction us they go over and godown. Oh, let go! Let go! The best jortunes are in heaven. There are no absconding cashiers trom that bank, no failing in promise to pay. ‘Vhey never cry in heaven, because there is mothing to cry about, Tere are no tears of poverty, because each te atthe King’s table A VETERAN PRINTER BURIED, Last Wednesday Charles McDevitt, an honored mem- ber of the typographical fraternity died and yesterday he was buried. His life was of peculiar interest. The Hekaup reporter on his way to the funoral met the veteran journalist of the State, Mr. Thurlow Weed, going to pay the last tribute of respect to an old and dear friend. Mr, Weed said, “I nave known Charley McDevitt tor fitty-five or sixty years, The first tract issued by the american Tract Society, about the year 1816, was set up by Mr. McDevitt, and he and I worked it Of together in Daniel Fansbawe’s ollice, at No, 11 Clur street, in this city. He joined the New York ‘Typographical Society soon after 1 did, I jomed it in 18:6. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of that society that had hot missed a meeting fer more than fifty years. He was ever active in hunting up and providing for sick members and extending aid to those in distress I Jelt the city 1m 1818, and excepting occasionally since then I have not been ucquainted with his work ior fifty years, Lalwaysatiended the meeting of the society when I was in town, 1n 1819 I went to Albany as a journeyman printer, and during the next year started & paper for myself 1m the adjoining counues. In 1530 4 went back (o Albany aud started the Albany Evening Journal, Mr. McDevitt then went on the New York Alirror, He remuined with it alter it was changed to an evening paper, und at the close of its existence went ‘on the New York Ledger, wheze- he remained until he Was taken sick last December. Until last Wednesday he and Wiluam E, Dean, now living in Tenth street, and 1 were the oldest members of the Typographical Society. Mr. Dean, alter serving as a journey tan, be- camo a publisher, Now he is biind and out ot business.” Mr. Weed attended the funeral of his old-time friend aud was deeply moved. At the late residence of the deceased were gathered a large number of triends and the officers and members of the Typographica! society, and typographical Union No. 6. The body was melosed ina dark, hardwood casket, trimmed with silver and Dearing a plate inscribed :— QUAL RELETE ROLE LODO IE SEDO REDE RE DOLODE 2 CHARLES McDEVIIT. 3 Died August 30, 1876, 3 3 aged 77 years, 8 months apa 12 days, 3 Qrverevcrcerereraeereceseneee ne eeeesnsbeenertceee eens Resting upon the casket were wreaths of immortelles, aud at (he head was a pillow ot white flowers, signity- ing “Rest,” bearing in violets the words, “Our Father.” "The Rey. J. C. Longkin, of the Meth- odist Church, officiated, and during the service, tm an eloquent eulogy, retold the deeds of seli-sacrifice and benevolence that for halt a century bad characterized the life of the veteran printer, Gathered in the house were the young and the aged members of the profession, and the tears fall- ing irom their eyes during the delivery of the eulo- gium gave testimouy of the feeling of the fellow craft meu, At faur P.M. the body was borne from the house escorted by the tollewing pall-bearers:—T. C, Faulkner, ©. ©. Savage, SF. Baxter, Georze H. Bid- well, J. D, L. M. Armour, Israel Smith, Rovert Smith and'H. R. Piercy. ‘then came a long line of carriages bearing mourning friends. The body was conveyed to New York Bay Cemetery, Where the deceased owned a lot, ‘There tue last sad rites were performed, and the veteran printer was laid in the grave. FUNERAL OF DANIEL D. SUTTON, ‘The funcral of Mr. Daniel D. Sutton, who has been for nearly twenty years Kxamining Engineer of the Police Department, took place yesterday from the Second street Methodist Episcopal church, aud was largely attended. The religious services were conducted by the Rey. Mr. Brown, pastor. The remains were conveyed from the residence of the deceased, in Lewis street, to the church in a hearse, euclosed in a cloth covered wainut casket, richly silver mounted and buy- ing the following inscription on the piate:— ]areeeeOr re NACE APOG TELE DE TELE EE HELE EDEOLODO LENO OND $ DANIEL D. SULTON, : 3 ‘Aged 69 years, 3 OOO ROLE REIT TEDE STEELE IOLEDEEETE DEDEDE DE SEDODE DEES There were numerous floral gifts of tuberoses, au- tumn leaves and camellias. The palibearers were John Turner, James Little, Alexaner Green, Guy Coigin, A. 8. Acker, William Elliott, George Moore and Peter Losseo, ‘The interment was in Cypress Hill Cemetery. DISCIPLINING THE POLICE, Some police officers, when making charges against prisoners in the polico courts, have a habit of throwing their arms lazily across the bench and assuming any. thing but an officer-like attitude before the Court. ‘They have also a custom of leaning over and whisper- ing to the maxzistrate something, perhaps, to the detri- ment of their prisoner, Justice Kasmire, now sitting at the Tombs, 18 determined to put a stop to these practices. Yesterday His Honor called Sergeant Smith, of the court squad, and instructed him to inform all officers having complainis to make against prisoners that they must stand at parade rest while doing #0 and state (heir charges in # tone of voice that shall be plainly audivle to the prisoner. Tho sergeant was further toid to report to ue Commissioners any viola- tion of the order, f CAUGHT. ANOTHER BURGLA John Dunteary, proprictor of a boarding house at No, 139 Cedar street, late on Saturday night, was awakened by a suspicious noise coming trom a room near whero he slept, Getting up to sve what was the matter, be proceeded along the corridor until he cxme to a room where a servant girl, named Bridget Farcell, and an adopted daughter of his slept. A noise from within caused hiv to open the door, and as he did soa man jumped through tbe open window on to a sloping shet ‘and into the yard, Dunieary iollowed in hot pursuit aud chased him over several vreakneck fences inio 37 Cedar street, in the attic of which the burglar . Detective Mulvey, of the Twenty seventh pre- cinct, Was notified, and going upstairs a Edward Dempsey, 4 noted thief, whom Dunle once id tified, Beiore Justice Kasinire yesterday at the Tomos Police Court the prisoner was held to ans¥er in default of $2,000 bail. The property which Dempsey attempied to steal consisted mostly 0! clothing, but ip other rooms of the house there was va‘uable property. Tbe evtrance to the room was effected vy sealing the rear fences, clambering on the yard shod aud forcing up the window sash. ATTEMPTED HiGHWAY ROBBERY, - James Rielly, of East Forty-seventh street, and Michael Boylan, of East Thirty-eighth street, wero charged at the Filty-seventh Street Police Court yes- terday with assaulting and attempting to rob a man, whose name is unknown, on Third avenue and Thirty. eighth street. Oillcer Kilmartin, of the Twenty-trst precinct, who made the arrest, says that he saw a man surrounded by four young men, two of whom held bim by the arms and throat, while the other two attempted to rob him. He immediately rushed up, but on seeing bim they \ook to their heels, hotly pursued by the officer, Alor an exciling chase two of them were cuptured ‘On bringing his prisoners 4 (he scene Of the assault the uilicer was informed by the ossatied pariy that be did pot desire (o make a comp aiat, and, saying te knew too inuch jor thai ppeared. The officer, being unable to follow bun, brouget the prisoner to the station Louse, and im Court yesterday made a complaint ot disorderly conduct, Boylun, who is a notorious character, aud who bas been frequently arrestea on charges of larceny and highway rovbery, Was sent to | tue [xin for six months, Kielly receiving two months 1m the same place, ASSAULTED BY A CONDUCTOR. Atew days ago a conductor on the Hudson River Railroad beat a passenger badiy about the head with a patent bell punch and then turew him from the train, A somewhat similar case como up betcre Judge Smith, atthe Essex Market Court, yesterday morning, when George A. Lambert, conductor of car No, 183 of the Belt Line, was arraigned by OmMeer Grauss, of the wenth precinet, charged with assaulting Isaac Palmer, of No. 7145 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, employed ou pier 63 East River. Lt appeared irom tue evidence given that ou (he ten minutes to seven o'clock up irip Falmer got on tuo car and atier paying his fare tell asleep. He was awakened by Lambort dragging bim Jrom bis seat to the door of the car aod orderiug him to get of, which Palmer reiused wo do. Lambert then siruck him twice on the forehead, catting bim severe! At this time Officer Grauss came up aud arrested La bert In bis defence Lambert said that Palmer, who was drunk and abusive, struck bim, When he used the bell punch tor his own protection. Lambert was r leased on his parole until ten o'clock this mornin, when be will furnish $300 bail to answer the charge, is made My! 4N ELEVATED RAILROAD MISHAP. traps oe A DISABLED ENGINN BRINGS TWO TR\INS TO & HALT—A LIVELY SCENE. There was quitea tumult in Greenwich strect, pear Spring, yesterday afternoon, the occasion being an ac cident to one of the engines of the Elevated Railroad. It seems that the engine im question, having two cara attached well filled with passengers, whon near Spring street, broke one of her driving rods, The machine waa quickly brought toa standstill without any fur- ther damage being dove, and of course bad to wait for another train from up town. This train, also consisting of two cars, drawn by the engine Highlander, soon arrived, and the proper signal being given was stopped atasafe distance trom the disabled train, The atten- tion of people in the street was of course attracted to the affair long before the arrival of the other train, and, having nothing else apparently to do, amused themselves by joking the “passengers on their elevated position in life, {rom which they were unablo to escapo with any degree of dignity, Tho arrival of the other train but added a new attraction to the crowd, whieh very quickly grew to hundreds. The passengers in the disabled train, even though they understood the situation from the siart, were not a little excited, and a iew of them made @ Gash for the plattorm, deter- mined to enjoy the genial influence of out of door lite for a brief time at least, even if the tates bad decided that there was to be an appalling catastrophe, made up of broken heads and limbs out of jor, not to say anything of buiman bodies “writhing in the agony of deain,”? as a Wesiern reporter would say. But the conductor was a cool headed man, and a majority of the passengers were also cool headed, and as no one felt the cars PREPARING FOR 4 JUMP into the street every ane got suddenly good humored and made up his or her uund to look at the situation philosophically, Is was not ory pleasant, to be sure, to ive to git Up there suspended, as it were, like Mo- hammed’s coflin, between heaven and earih, unable to pay a visit to the world velow without doing it ve Ubgracetully by way of a posi or awning guard, Sul the crowd consiantiy gathering on the street was in Sunday bumor, and why sbouldn’t their example be followed by those who bad nicely cushioned seats to sit im and a goodly covering to shelter them trom the sup, Abd the passengers made no complaint, except the unfortunates who were hurrying to dine at home Aud those wuo were on their way to catch @ certain boat or tram. When the train expected from up town came along, the passengers in the two eure, seeing the crowd 1D the street and a traiy on the track a feet auead of tb ‘Were nota little startled at first, but, learning how matters xtvod, awaited events quietly, ‘There was one individual, however, who was evidently in a hurry. He wanied tue train to go back to the next station, Had not he patd his fare to be taken on time? “I tell you,” said he, loudly and flercciy, “I am determined ‘to get off.’ A way replied tbat “there could bo nothing easier jor him than wo get right off, instead of going back to thestasion,” Fhelother passengers laughea, and the man in a burry forgot all avout the time tab! and went back to bis seat and looked pensively down into tho street. ‘The coupling of the two trams was finally accomplished, the deiy, alter all, being but compuratively short, aud théy were finally started, ‘The passengers were dropped at the various stations, eee in the best of humor, others grumbling m a low ey. POLICE COURT NOTES, John Slavin, of No. 34 Jackson street, was held for trial by Judge Smith, at the Essex Market Court, yes’ terday, for stcaling a silver watch aud chain and a re volver from Josepu Loenberg, of No. 318 Delancey stree ¢ Robert Irwin, who claimed to be a Custom House clerk, was brought before Justice Smith at the Essex Market Court, yesterday, charged with insulting ladies 1m the Bowery, on Saturday night, Judge Smith fined him $10, sent him to the Island for one month, and re- quired him to find $400 surety, 1n default ot which he would be committed for an additional six months, Francis Reilly was held tor trial at the Washington Place Court, yesterday, by Justice Flammer, for steal- ing $13 worth of clothes trom his room mate, John Brady, of No, 237 West Forty-first street, Judge Kusmire held a special session of the Wash- ington Place Court foray alternoon to consider the case of Mr. John Woll, of No. 578 Hudson ssrect, arrested by Officer Byrne of the Nintn precinct, for violating the Excise law. It appeared from tue evi- dence of the officer that the front door of Mr. Woll’s saloon was locked, that he did not see any liquor sold and bad merely been ordered to arrest Mr. Wolf by Captain Kennedy, Justice Kasmire said, “Mr. Wol you are nonvrably discharged. There is not a particle Of evidence against you, and your urrest is an outrage. * William Leonara, of No. 507 West. Forty-iourin street, arrested for throwing a dog out of a tnird story window, was committed for trial in default of $300 bail. The dog’s feet were ted, and the iront paws were broken, causing the poor brute mach pain, Edward Scanlon and Willian Smith, of No, 220 Madison street, were arrosted on Saturday by Officer Yooker, of tue Nineteenth precinct, while attempting to seli a horse, valued at $50, woich was subsequently ascertained to be the property of Michael Driscoil, of No. 137 Baxter str At the Fitty-seventh Street Police Cours yesterday they were each commiited for ‘trial in default of $2,000 bail. They were also held in $2,000 batt to answer a charge of stealing a horse and harness, Valued ut $62, trom Patrick Costello, of No, 313 Kast sixtieth sircet, ‘At tne Tombs Police Court, yesterday, before Justice Kasmire, Murgaret Bowers, of No, 149 Washington street, Was neld to await the result of the injuries of Anastasia McCormick, whom she struck in the taco with @ swungsbot on Saturday night, injuring her severely. Anastasia, who resides at No. 147 Washing- ton street, 1s lying 1n Chambers Street Hospital. Early yesterday morning a quirrel arose between Charies F. Connors and Jeremiab Mahoney, of No. 383 Water strect, which lly wound up ‘in a fight, During the scuitle, as Mabouey alleges, Connors stabbed him with a kpife i the stomach, inflicting a dangerous wound. Connors was taken before Justice Kusmire yesterday, and on complaint of an officer was held to await the result of the injuries, COURT CALENDAKS—HIS DAY. Marixe Covrt—TriaL Txru—Part 1—Held by Judge Sheridan.—Nos, 4175, 4176, 4177, 6224, 1650, 4236, 4069, 3926, 7939, 3994, 7891, 6195, 7900, 1320. Part 4301, 43.5, 4308. : EKAL Skssions—Part 1—Held by Recorder Hackett.—The People vs, John H. Armstrong, robbery; Same vs Owen Brady, robbery; Same vs. Johv Haggerty, Jeionious assault and battery; Same vs. Bryan Burnyham, felonious assault and vatery ; Same vs. George Vanaewater, asaault ana battery, Part 2— Held by Judge Gildersleeve.—The Peopic vs. David Scandlin, robvery; Same vs. Rene Raisin, rape; same va. Michael O'Brian, felonious assault and battery; Same vs. Joseph MeKiernan, felonious assault and bat- tery; Same vs. Martin Burk, felomous assault and bat- tery; Samo va Peter McLoughlin, grand larceny ; Same vs. John E. Leach, grana jarceny. A SINGULAR CASi. Athalf-past two o'clock yesterday morning while Oflicer Price, of the Twentieth precinct, was on duty in West Thirty-sixth street, he heard two pistol shots in the direction of Ejgith avenge and ran toward the sound. He met William Degnan, aged twenty-one, who says he does nothing for a living, supporting Miss Isabella Ballou, of Nv. 89 Bedford street, who had been shot in the left arin and severely wounded, At this juncture Frank M. Taylor, a grocer, doing business at Tenth avenue and Thirty-third street, came up and ordered Degnan’s arresi. On the purty being taken to the Twentieth precinct station house Mr. Taylor stated that while Walking through Tuirty-sizth street with Miss Ballou be bad been assailed by a gang of ruflians, of whom Degnan was one. He was struck from behind vy a slaugsbot and partially stunaed, His revolver went off in bis pocket. He then drew the weapon and fired one shot at the gang of thieves, who were running away, Miss Ballou refused to make any complaint against Mr. Yaylor and tully corroborated his story, On the parties being arraigned betore Judge Flammer at the Washington Place Court, yesterday morning, Degoan, who deciares his innocence, was held for examination on a charge of ussault and attempted robbery. .T00 MUCH CLUBBING. Mrs. Wirttenberg, a German lady, of No. 2 First ave. nue, notified the Coroner yesterday that ber husband Henry was lying dangerously ill from the effects of a ciubbing roceived on Thursday night last at the hands of Officer Frank Woodward, of the Tenth precinct. 4 deputy hastened to the house to take the ante-mortem deposition, bat nding the man in no danger of death postponed taking 1, Wirttenberg told a story which, if true, reflects gravely not only apon the officer, but upon @ police magistrate, He stated that about ten o'clock on che evening of the 3lst of August ho was standing with a friend named Louis Hoffman at the corner of Allen and East Houston streets, a short dis. | tance from his residence, when he noticed Officer Woodward amusing himself with somo boys, He ro- marked to bis companion that the officer acted like a drunkea map, NOt meaning We remark, nowever, for the policoman’s eara A minute afterwards Wood. ward* came up and grutily ordered them to move on. Hoifman burried quickly away, but Wirttenverg answered that be had a’ right to stand there, at the same time making a movement to go into a neighboring saloon, As he stepped away the officer struck him twice over the head and on the body with his club, knocking lim through the screen doore of the saloon. Wirttenberg fell bieeding to the floor, and his uiece, who happened to be inside, ran to the officer aud entreated him not to kill her uncie, Wood. ward ordered’ her away, saying that if she interfered he would also club her. He then took the bleeding man to the station house, and preferred a charge old orderly conduct against him, The prisoner w: up in a cell, the doorman dressing his wounds. A stranger to Mr, Wiriteaverg, who had witnessed the assault, followed to tho station house, but was prevented from telling the truth by the Po.iceman, woo made a charge of disorderly conduct aiso against nim, and be was likewise lucked up. At the Essex Market Police Court the tolk moraing Judge Smith refused to listen to the prison (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE)