The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. “THE PULPIT. Sermons Preached in Various Churches Yesterday. MR, BEECHER ON REPENTANCE Vorning and Evening Serviers at the Church of the Disciples. “THE HARVEST.” ‘Viear General.Quinn at St. Pat- rick’s Cathedral. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE DANGEBS ATTENDING REPENTANCE—LOVE OF GOD THE MOTIVE POWER IN RIGHT LIV- ING—SERMON BY HENRY WARD BEECHER. The rush to hear Mr. Beecher yesterday was greater than ever before. Beiore hal{-past nine o’clock a crowd had collected in front of the doors of his church, and at twenty minutes past ten—ten minutes before services began—tbere were, by actual count, in and around the building, 6,521 persons. As the building cannot by the closest packing be made to contain more shan 3,000, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 peo- ple must have been unable to gain admission. Many of those turned away had been standing patiently in line apon the cold sidewalks for an hour previously, A number of pew holders, who came just befure the beginning of the servicés, were unable to force a passage through the crowd, although assisted by the ushers aud several stalworth policemen. The singing, under direction of Mr, Henry Camp, was unusually good, and in the opening anthem (ono of Halevey’s) the voice of the new tenor, Mr. George Werrenrath, late of London, was heard to groat ad- vantage. Mr. Beecher preached one of his most eloquent and powerlul sermons, taking for his text the passage from the twentieth chapter of Acts—‘Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” This, he said, was the address of Paul to the elders of the Church as he was about to be separated trom them. Paul theo declared that he had served the Lora with all humility, with many tears and temptations; that ne had kept back nothing from the Church to which he preached; that he had taught them botn privately and publicly, going trom house to house, and then be gives the sum of his teachings, the final analysis, ‘‘Repent- ance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ,’ This is the formula in its perfected shape. When John preached he began, ‘*Repont, tor the king- dom of heaven is at hand,’’ whatever that kingdom was to be. When Christ took up the ministry of John where the latter laid it down He said, “Be- lieve in the gospel.’ Paul says he preached every where the repentance and faith mentioned in the text. ‘This, then, 18 the mitial form of preaching—repentance of sin and faith in the Lord Jesua Christ, — It is not ali of preaching, bus it 1s the root and the beginning of 11; for as soon afone preaches this with fervor and wis: dom there will spring up a vast variety of questions— ‘as, How shall ono repent? What are #pecial method of being rid of them in the Lord Jesus Christ.” Who 1s Christ? His attributes ¢ are tu approach Him? &c. The full measure o! in- Structive preaching covers every particular ot every relationship Which man sustains to the unseen world and to this world. ‘Thu beginning of them all is this KRPENTANCE OF ALL WRONG CONDUCT. All devotion to right consists in ceasing from wrong. One is the converse of the other. You cannot servo God and Mammon. Repentance, then, means a new lite (an so tar as the preparation for it is concerned), to abandon sin. In the Vid and New Testaments to for- suxe sin thoroughly is all that 1s needed, im so far as forgiveness 1s concerned. 1t 1s said that mere repent- ‘ance is not all which-navare demande—that there must be something besides repentance and resormation, that Bature and society demand not only that # man should reiorm, but that be sbould be made to sulfer tor tore- going Violations of known Jaws. And it is said, therefore, that when a man repents and has faith m the Lord Jesus Christ, that either in bim or somewhere else there mast be a provision tor sufferimg which will be equivalent to that suffering ior which the natural law coutends; and it has been one of the confusions of the thoory ot the Divine Word where that suilering should come ia, abd the Various theories of the atonement as they have existed tor 1,500 years have been attempts to show where this suflering which sin ievitably en- tails comes in, We, too, believe that Christ suffered and that His suiferings bad a direct relation to the $aivation of mankind, but in a different manner. Though the laws of nature are fixed anu implacabie so lar us mau in hie physical nature 16 concerned, it 18 wuurely diflerent with respect to the human mind, For exampie, nuturo has no thought; patural law bas fo respect tor love or light or happiness, They have ho discrimination; they take no cognizance of w chi!d, A youth or an old man; they treat everpbody just alike, without the shgbtest sympathy, without recog- Dition of motive, or oi the eleme.t of will or endeavor. ‘There are certain laws which, being obeyed, bring juss 80 much sausiaction or safety, aud others which bring just so much danger or suffering, nothing more. ‘This proposition was illustrated by Mr. Beecher at considerabie length. A certain quantity of arsenic en- tering the human stomach kills, aud wature carries vut shat jaw apd Femorsely v8 alike the hardened de- Dauché who swallows the drug Jor the purpose of quit- fing tue world and the pretty 1anocent clild to whom it 1s ministered m a intake for a curative, NATORE HAD NO HKART, no knowledge, no sympathy. And are we, the preacher asked, lo go, as Many men go, to nature to get our iyfpe to construct from it a paternal government in the heavens? A father and mother night make a law ‘bat their children should rise at a certain bour every morning, With a threat of condign punishment for ite violation, But suppose achiid was kept awake all night by Some great sorrow, or should ve ta ill, would the parents, hike nature, say to it, ‘There's the Jaw; it has been violated aca punishment must toliowy” They woud be brutes if they acted so under the circumstances, When dealing with soil, light, galvaniam, with the sky aud the earth and all , Weare, Mr. Buecher said, satisfied that vature should treat ull \hings without reason impera- lively. And so much of ourselves as is flesh and bone And inuscle must alse contorm to these absulute la if one goes in the way ot pe thinking 11 to be the way of safety, it will still be the way of peril; but when we go higher than that, and in- troduce the iaw of social lie, we are not to pattern in Vhat after the law o! nature, “But men say civil society uves it, and say that who violates any jaw must take the ponaity of thatiaw. If a man commit murder he niust sufier for it, and mon say it 18 necessary. Neces- sary for whatY Tho preacher admitted that in the ad- @inistration of courts the judges have lett in the main but one single course—“The soul that sinnetn shall are’’—and i! the law says that a man shall be impris- Whatare What are the methods by which we oped six months tor stealing @ certain sum, or tb; monchs if it is over that sum, oF not all if it is a@ million, the terms of the law must be kept. The magisirate, how- eer, Acted so, not because it was the best thing con- seivable, but because it is the best thing attainable. If & judge had the power to see that a man was thor- oughly repentant, 1 would be for the benefit of society ‘that he should say to him, “Go, AND SIN NC MORK!” Man is not punisued for the sake of vindicating the faw, but ty teach him te do better ° obliged to act as they do in respect to administering the taws because they are rudimentary, sketchy, siagay, imperiect, a8 compared with the ideal. But men trausier tuis condition to spiritual things, to the law of God. They say that when a man has broken a law of God and has repented it is not enough, Vhat there must be a fuitiiment of the penalty, They trapsier the lower torms ot procedure and justice, which are only tolerable in society because we cannot do any better; they transfer these to the jaws of God, a say thay without that suffering there can be no re- coiving of Him, and that therefore it was necessary tor Christ to dic that there should be an intnite reservol somewhere in the universe iilied, to use the old Jewi igure, With blood, and that when a man sins the should bo taken’ out of that reservoir just ao much 4s would be equivalent to the puuishment due for the sim. Aud this is their muddied theory. Nowhere in Christ's teachings nor m the Weachings of the Apostles in tho Vid Testament was there anything demanded but this, “Ceuse to do evil; learn to do good.’ Lev a man who has stolen steal vO More; hat is all that is necessary for the tuture. For the past he can do nothing. Whatever wrong has been done let it drift, jet it go. ‘Weill,’ men say, “what becomes of it?” ' Oh fools! Ob slow of heart! What became Of all the little jaults you committed in youth? Did your mother stick them oll into a pin- cushion, and bas she kept them wll now? Do they exit anywhere? No; they happened and that’s the end of them, and so far as the universe 1s concerned they are nothing but dry digit marks that sach things did bappen. But was the soffering in Christ? There was; tt was disclosive, It declares dature of God, ana thm it assumed our ew ry nother jatber assumes those of the child. God vt pani first apd jorgiving afterward. God is a jather, and in His fatherboud jove stands central, But love 1self demands everytbing that is noble and sub-, ime in the object beloved, GOD 18 THK BTRRNAL SUPFERER und burden bearer, punisbing men, bat always for the hem. The end and chose court, the well ed, although earthly governin der the wellare of tho com: we are in such a coarse and low condi: son pun’ lied to cont bat 18 beca' Hon. But it is atrocious 10 transier the necessity to de sphere of Givine government, The atonement ot Jesus Christ was a series of seli-sacrifices that opened te the magnificent conception of God ruling im the heavens through all eternit: and with sely the same prineipics that Jesus Christ dia ak one up . Which the preacher called the atoning nature of God, Here sometimes the objection was made, “What do you do with all the sacrifices of the Old Testa- mens?” Christ, they og came to fuldl those types about the slaying of the Lamb, &c. And it 18 also said that the Testament seems to look forward to a = eecher answered by asking whether the | exb:bited the Divine nature as much as Christ did, and it w eto use one of them which should it be. Were we to interpret the nature of Christ {rom that old abandoned law—abandoned on account of its im- perfections—or were we to take Christ himself? “God,"” said Mr. Beecher, “is God's atonement; He forgives men, tor He is love, Repent thea, So much on that ow," he continued, “about faith toward onr Lord Jesus Christ.’ When a man has perceived himself to be inthe wrong way, itis not always he can go in the right way. When a man bas turned away from evil he is oftena great deal more helpiess than while he wus in it, If a man, for instance, unlawfuliy gathered riches he must restore them all before be can be truly repentant, ‘A drunkard,” said Mr, Beecher, “who determines to reform 18 obliged to forego his old company, while the people toward whom he is coming give lim no sympathy, no social life. And so there 18 often @ time atter @ man has left evil when he 16 in & great deal more danger than ever be was before, There is nothivg more dangerous than tor a man to reform 50 that he goes out of both sides. When a man rejects evil he must go back to the old ormula. ‘BREAK OFF THY SINS HY RIGHTKOUSNESS."” He must bave a lite somewhere, and it he bas lett the old life there must be elsewhere sympathy, warmth, life and cheer. Mr, Beecher condemned in most emphatic language the conduct of those Christians who, when a man is trying to reform, stand idly by without cheering him, or who with complacent air teil the struggling sinner tocall upon them in a month or two, that they may see how he gets on, He did not forget to rebuke these who never have the Gospel in their mouths, but who hammering men with the flail of the old Jaw suying, “The soul that sinneth shall die, and you bave sinned, and you shall die.’ He exnorted his hearers to believe that there is a Christ, in whose hands is universal government, and who loved each one of them better than any human being could, “It is,” said he, “the love of God io Christ Jesus that is the motive power in right living. Repentance was not a mere Sentimental sorrow that things are as they are, but a noble, high-minded sense of our own unworthine: andsin. Men could not havea single grand dramat repentance at the beginning of their Christian hte which would shine out and cleanse them forever; they must repent day after day until the work was com- pleted.”’ After alluding to his own taith tn fervid lan- guiage. Mr. Beecher ended with an appeal to his hearers vo have this faith in Christ. ‘What is Christ now to you?” he said, ‘Is Ho now your hope of glory, your guide in life, your rescuer, and in death your immortal Saviour ?”” In the evening Mr. Beecher talked on “Amuse- ments.”? CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, MOBNING AND EVENING SERVICES—SERMONS BY BEY. MR. HEPWORTH AND REV. DR. STEPHEN- SON, OF CANADA, Mr, Hepworth preached an impressive sermon yes- terday morning, taking for bis text Gailatiang, 11, 20— “And the life which I now lead in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, wno loved me and gave himself for me.” Tho philosophy of Christian life is very peculiar. It is unlike that of ordinary cxperi- ence. We should naturally say first the conflict and then the triumph, A large degreo of uncertainty al tends the conflict, a degree so large that we find it ex- tromely difficult to prophesy whether we will receive the crown or not. The prevalence of uacertainty“in human philosophy is extremely discouraging, and the reason why the world does not accomplish much is that when 1 tries to penctrate the future it sees no surety of victory, and #0, disheartened, sits down by the wayside, accomplishing nothing. Now, on the other hand, the philosopny of Chris- tianity is that the triumph comes first ana the conflict afterward, It may seem to bo # paradox, but think of ita moment. If God fightsa battle He wins it; then he who fights in God’s ranks, though he tights to the verge of death, *hill yet win, To be on tod’s side, then, ia to eliminate the whole element ot uncertainty from your life, And there isa curious diflerence be- tween the philosophy of a man of the world on ono hand and the philosophy of faith, as it is called, on the other, Now, I have certain promises, and you did not make them or 1 should distrust them. I spould recognizo the chances of failure, and just to the degree in which ould collect these chances and ag- should distrust, and because of that digurust fail to reach the goal. But the promises are made by Him who created the pianet on which I stand. ‘The promises are given by Him who stunds not so much Withia the circumterence of His creation as withour it, Foned-on eternity. No less a: being than He who is beyond everything, the first cause of all, has been given to me as tho rock on whien { may stand, in the midst of trial assured, in the midst of my sorrow cheered, and in the midst of death itself Tictorious, because the grave has lost its power when God spea! even death is dumb when the shadow of the cross Jails on the tomb. There is an illustration of this, dear friends, You know the Israelites at one time very sadly embarrassed; they were encom- pussed by hostile forces, Here was the Red Sea in front, on either side mountains, impassable; be- hind’all Pharaoh’s host. A civil engineer, looking from a height upon tls group ‘of un. disciplined israelites, would bave at once advised an unconditional surrender, They were 1m a trap, and their doom seemed to be utterly inevit- able, but God's promise was there. That was worth Sumething. God had said to Moses, “I will lead you.”? There was only the promise of God that He would pro- tect the people. But God sometimes works in prob- Jematical ways. When Moses asked lor advice the Is- Taelites thou; surely they wouid be told to retreat, but the word, “Go lorward,” caine, There was no for. ward to go to except they went into the water. Still the command came, ‘io forward.’? But how anrea- sonable to go forward! Even God ought not to demand impossibilities of us, Undoubtedly thore was a strong Tauional party among the Israelites, and that was the logic they used; but there were some who were willing to trust to Him, and they took up the lino of marcn, not to apparent victory, but to certain death; and, be- hold, they stepped ‘cown, expecting to ‘step into the water, but the water receded, and then the miracle was in process of achievement and the whole multitude jooked op the crystal wall to the right and to the left and then gazed With deepening wonder at the dry sand beneatu their feet. There 15, no impossi- bility With God, aud when our reason cduflicts with God's will remember you are pigmies and He is every- thing, | olten wonder how the rationalists ieit when they were on the other side and Miriam jed the song of triumph. 1 want to foilow the course of a soul it makes pro- gress (rom woridiiness to uvworldline: 1 fod that the first command is given by St. Paul, and at firs I am a littie inclined to wonder at it. He said:—-Be ye separate; come out from their midst.” Toat was a curious injunction, What am I to separate myself from when I join myselt to God? Tam iu the world; must I not be @ part of it? Put sside our critical judgment and try to discover what Paul meant by “Be ye separate.”’ 1 take it be did not mean we sbould be exclusive in the sense of shutting others out, Pharisees were separate but they were exclusive they looked upon themselves as RLECTKD ARISTOCRATS in the kingdom of God and looked dowr upon the poor Hebrew wno brought bis cattle to market, Sometimes we Christians get into that state. I have seen a man 80 very good that, im 4 pious sort of way, ho looked down upon bis neighbors. When Paul suys, “Be ye separate,’’ he wants you to come out of the iow moril- ity and take your standpoint on God’s truth, und God's truth 18 not contined to the world; it stretches out into eternity, and that 1s a wonderful advantage; and, moro than that, the motive is changed. The man oi the world is strategic, The man ol God setties down on the fact that if it 18 God’a will whl end | in triumph, for God’s flag never str: its ban- ners to any enemy. Then you are tu be sepurate in your philosophy, but bow are you to get it? Paul said belore be went into the Christian ministry ho spent three years aloue. What did he spend three alonefor? When I hear his speech on Mars Hiii at Athens I know bo man can face death as he did then unless he has something in bis heart which 1 have not xot, and he got it in communion alone with God. If we could only cuitivate the bkbit of being alone ana | getting down on our knees and praying, not three min- Utes, but three bours, it would make ws stronger. toink we live too much :n the huriy-burly; we aro hike straws, carried hither and thitber by the current. In the second place, the object ef Christian life, you must remember, 18 not to separate yourseif you are to from 1% simply for the purpose of But baving armed yoursei! you are ay trom the tempt back into tuem with the consciousness that 4 from the world; self separate your- prepa- ot to t, and that you are no! God hus promised to go with you. When a man ve- comes a Christian he promises to let God have His own way, and theo there is peace and joy. Be yo theref separate to get ready to go back and fight the battles of life, for ul comes the triumph. ry REV, DR. WILLIAM STEPHENSON, who, at the request of Mr. Hepworth, delivered a sor- mon to young men in the Church of the Disciples last evening, is unknown to a New York audience. He has occupied @ prominent position among the Methodists of Canada, and left that body because of incon- venience of jerary system. He is about forty years of age, and a speaker of undoubted power. His sermon last evening evinced popular power in an un- usual degree, His text was trom I. Kings, i, 2—"I go the way of all the earth; be thon strong, theretore, and show thyself a There is something marvellously touching and im- preasive in last words—the last utterances of wisdom and affection, We treasure them long asa sainted prize, and they bold a front place in the ‘book and volume of the brain.”” These aro the last oatcomings of counsel and parental affection from tbo lips of King David to Princely Solomon, Thi ire words steeped in wisdom, and contain the most judicious advice, David was himseli a man. He was, more- over, 4 philosopher, @ poet, a nero, a king, and, with all bis errors, a man after God’s own heart.’ This counsel has the torrible emphasis of death upon it What does it imply? Not social distinction, not com- mercial prosperity, not anything adventitious or ace. dental, Manhood—moral manhood. veloped trom within, Some quit them: like upgrown cbil- dren, never like men, 3oi play the automaton all their 4 hence we have so many political, social and gious echoes among us. Mal 4 forms, standard | jn body. of maphood varies, Some ask not what man is, but | what he has, With others muscular activity and ath- letic powers are the estenti With others again & high mental culture and the sou: lame's “obstrep- erous trump” are demanded. And, and lowest of all, some are so morally blinded as to see manhooa only im convivial qualities, and boen companionship. God's exegesis of manbogd will be tound in Jeremiah v., 1, ‘Find 4 map, one that executeth judgment aud secketh the truth.’’ Such is God’s standard of man- hood. A love of judgment or rectitude A map may wrong bimsell, bis neighvor, bis God. Jehovah recog. nizes and prociaims rectitude im word and lile as an indispensable element in a truly maniy character. Agaiu, God defines a man as one woo seeketh the “truth,” the enlightenment of the under- Standing, tho quickening of the conscience, together with the proper disciplining of the whole moral na- ture. Seeking the truth is to seek the God of truth. To know Him, His nature, attribuies, commandments; todothem. ‘A true map builds upon the trata, guided by the truth, and wields it as an offensive and defensive weapon. The real s1 cannot be fully and show thy resisting sim, strong in beneficent influence, high and holy purpose. The true man is greatly needed just now througnout the world at large, in our large crves in particular, and in the church of God, ie that hath ears to hear let him hear. MASONIC TEMPLE. THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW FAITH—SERMON BY MR. O. B, FROTHINGHAM, The Masonic Temple was crowded yesterday morn- ing. Without text of any kind Mr, Frothingham opened his discourse as follows:—The theme I have selected tor my discourse this morning is “The Spirit of the New Faith.” By the spirit, if anything, I mean the bearing, the intent, the purpose of athing, the spirit of a thing is the temper that animates it, the spirit of a movement 1s the Rroat tendency of it, the spirit of a system is the general intent of the system and the spirit of a man is the drift of his mind. Many ycars ago I listened toa wise teacher who discussed the question whether it were better to hold truth in the spirit of error or error in the spirit of truth, After a spirited argument on conclusion he came to say that it was better to hold error in the spirit of truth than truth in the spirit of error; for, in the first place, there !s no such thing a8 truth—grandly, broadly understood. Unless the spirit of truth be present—tbat 1s to say unless one | the truth for its own sake without any privatdWesign: or intentions—disinterestedly ag we may say—unless he haga disinterested purpose to Gnd the truth, it will be but the semblance of truth. Something ef this you will see in the bright leaves of autumn which are plucked from the trees and carefully packed in a book for preservation. Separated from the trees they have no lite or fragrauce, and soon lose their fresh- ness and color when taken from the sunshine in which they lived. So when one holds character, with- out the teaching of the heart, such a person does not hold the truth. An earnest-seuled man will have more truth, although he may be misled by imadoquacy of resources. Furthermore, said this wise teacher, no man can communicate the truth unless be helds it in the spirit of truth, because a man does not communi- cate by his lips lone, but by his example, by his voles, by hiseye, and, above all, by the arilt of his being. Aud so @ man may go through the world contradicting himself continually, his heart breathing an aroma which differs essentialiy from his talk, Hence itis that so much good teaching has fallen powerless on the world. Hence we conelude, not so much that it is b uter to hold error in the spirit of error as to hold truth in the spirit of truth. Whoever teaches to tho trary makes his 5 error insigoiticant, The _bellige peaceman, who argues duty with clenched fist with his adversary and wages the war of words and deeds as far as he can against those who oppose bis ideas, will never do much to advance the cause.of peace. The anti-slavery man who proclaims his theories in a spirit so tyrannical that he cau have no patience with those who are opposed to bim never broke many chains. ‘The intemperate preacher of temperance, who, in proportion ar his zeal in temperance is earnest, just 1p that proportion puts intemperance and intoxication in its modes of arguing an action, can bever be much relied upon to recover men trom the vice he abhors. After speaking at some length of the errorsin tne Roman and Provestant churches, of theselfish bigotries ot their belie(s, he remarked:—The new faith must rise above this from the very nature o1 things. For what is the new faith—what is its peculiarities? The new faith rests composedly upon the doctrine of revo- lution—not expecting to define it perfectly, but in its broad sense, It believes that from the beginning things have been working themselves into intelligent to use, loveliness and power. It contend they hi begun at the beginning and not at the It rejects everything like supernmural interposition It sees the workings of the supreme law and wisdom | im the very texture of the world. It recognizes its qualities as life, order, righteousness, law, goodness, perfection, individuality, mind and in the collection of mankind that wo call society. Planting itself upon this idea the spirit that animates it must be peculiarly iteown. Itcannot be dogmatic. Jt cannot be nege- tive or scornful. it stands beyond the very last at- tamment im charity. The first step of she world is that of persecution. One creed per- secutes another. Every Church has persecuted other churches. Romanism persecuted; Prot- estantism persecuted; Liberal Christianity perscctted. Persecution was the one way of vindicat- ing the infallible truth of God. Persecution is used etillamong the Turks The Severiens will persecute, the Christians of the East will persecute, Romanism will persecute. In Spain to-day there is the doctrine ef toleration, Spain claims to be liberal to that extent; it will not persecute with thesword. You may believe as you will, worship as you will, provided you say nothing about it, You must not publish a uewspaper. Yon. may have your chapel, but you must not ask any one in, or sing so loud that people outside will be attracted and come in from the street, This is not perrecution, but it is not very easy to define the differ- ence. In closing the speaker drow a beautify! picture of the new faith, representing it as beaming with toler- ation and brotherly love. When the time shail come when the believers in the pew faith should have dis- covered its full beauty then the converts wouid flock into the doo then they would have somo faint promise of true charity. 8ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. THE POWER AND MERCY OF CHBIST—SERMON BY THE REY. FATHER QUINN, VICAR GEN- ERAL. ‘The attendance at the Cathedral was very large yes- ferday. At the termination of the first gospel the Rev. Father Quinn preached a sermon, taking his text from the Gospel according to St. Matthew, ix., 1-9— “And he entered into a ship and passed over and came into his own city. And behold they brought to bim a man sick of the palsy lying on a bed; and J seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee.” Ip reading this portion of the sacred Scriptures, said the reverend gentleman, and also other portions of the New Testament wherein are contained narratives of the miracles wrought by Christ, we are filled with wonder and astonishment, with reverence nd admiration, for the person who bas thus united in is character such great power and such intinite mercy and love. Th:s power rises superior to the cle- Monts themselves. At one time He changed one sub- stance into another and again exercised His power over nature commanding those clements and bringing them at once into subjection. And we are also astonished when we behold Him extending that power to those who are afflicted with various maladies and at once by His will restoring them perfect health. Yet more than this 18 our wonder when we find Him not contining Himself to curing the ilis of the body, for we nd Him even ministering | to maladies of the soul, us was set forth in the gospel jast read. There appears im the gospel thus presented the miracic which the Saviour and walk,” bat he said, “You be of good chi thy sins are f thee.” Curist wished, says 'y808- tom, that the sins of the paralytic should be remitted rst, and afterward that he be healed of his bodily pains, Everything that annoys us in this worla is Sent as a punishment of the crimes we have committed ourselves or in our first parents. They are conse- quences of our ow! itor of the downtall of Adam. Our Lord did not consider the sickness an evil, for Ho told the man to be ot good heart. It was only when the scribes doubted His power to forgive sins that He performed the miracle of healing the paralytic. The Saviour wishod to sbow that on account of pi sins we are stricken with temporal infirmity. All have sinned in Adam, and in him we have merited to suffer, It the human race had not been contaminated by sin the body would have been endowed witb beauty which 1 does not now possess. We would not be sub- ject to disease, death or torments of any kind. But after Adam's fall we are necessitated 10 bear not ovly day's gospel ills in the ‘most enduring pain in the soul also. And yet those very afflictions which are so common to bu- of God for the guilt of the bu our individual souls and presented to Almig! records of victories gained In conflicts for ‘They may, by a supernatural power, be ci supernatural Weapons with which to crush Satan. have each of us our own contests in this lie; some affliction to disturb our peace, and amid all this the Saviour says to us, “Son, be of good heart’? We were happy, indeed, could ‘we only realize fully the abundant graces that would flow into our souls MWe accepted in good spirit those trials that come to us from the Father of mercies. Happy were we could we only cast off the chains that bind usto earth, We are proud and avaricious, seeking our own gratification in everything and endeavoring to {ree ourselves from every little annoyance that would in- terlere with momentary enjoyments. Wo cannot bear to look affliction in the face, And yet these aillictions are the remedies which the heavenly physician applies to our souls that we may be heaied of our infirmi- ties, This poor bu mature of ours shrinks trom everything that is paintul, 1t endeavors to anticipate sorrow by indulging in all the false joys and pleasures that earth can afford, thinking litle o: the tuture glory which is to be a reward for ibe pains aud tribulations borne in life. The sufferings of life, says the Apostic of the Gentiles, are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed to us St. Paul understood well how acceptable in the sight of God is the soul that looked only tw the future prize await- ing it The preacher then went on to speak of the utility of sulferings here be- low, and how they could be best offered up to God in expiation of our sins. The thought of ever pleasing God by offering up to Bim all our triais and Annoyances in this life was not only consoling to who were in trouble, but was a pleasure far greater, if only properly considered, than the fleeting gratifica- tion of our worldly desires, The reverend preacher spoke at considerable length on the many points inci- dental to his subject, occupying avout three-quarters of an hour in the delivery ef the serinon. ‘The tair, which some time since was announced In connection with this church, is now open, and the friends of St, Stephen’s were invited to give it all the encouragement in their power, The tables are all loaded with interesting und valuable articles, weil worth the money at which they are ofered. A num- ber of attractions may also be seen, making a visit to the fair both pleasant and profitable. Tho proceeds aro ee topayof the heavy debt resting on the church. TOMPKINS AVENUE CHUROH. DEDICATING AN IMPROVED EDIFICE—REV. ,D. HBLMER ON CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. For some time past the interior of the Tompkins avenue Congregational church, Tompkins avenue, near Fulton street, Brooklyn, bas been undergoing extensive repairs, Yesterday it was reopened for worship, and the congregation must indeed ve hard to please if they be not satisfied with the work accomplished by those who had the overseeing of the alterations. The exte- rior of the building, whichis of the Gothic style of architecture, is a marvel of beauty to look upon, while the interior, in regard to comfort, arrangements for light, acoustic properties and general arrangement, is one of the best appointed rooms of its capacity in this part of the country, As the services yesterday morn- ing partook of a dedicatory character some tasteful effort had been made at decoration, Across the base of the organ, which fs just in the rear and above tho minister’s platform, was arranged in a floral design the sentence, “Our New Home.’’? On each end of the platform were rustic stands mounted with baskets of flowers, and floral offerings also rested on each side of ‘he pastor’s reading de: THE DEDICATORY SERMON. Rev. C. D. Helmer, the pastor, preached the morn- ing discouzsc. His text was derived from the twenty- cighth chapter of Genesis, in which 1s related how Jacob rose up in the morning and took the stone which had been his pillow, and, consecrating it with oil, erected it as a pillar to the Lord, calling tho ‘place Bethel. The preacher said that nothing could be more simple asa roligious act than this historic igci- dent, A fragment of stone, or perhaps several, piled up into aheap, their sides bearing the lines and magks ot atmospheric changes of ages, were erected into a temple, marking the locality of this special manitosta- tion, it remained also as a memorial because God bad, as it we broken through a veil, and His promises were about to bo fulfilied. To begiu with, God is everywhere in the world; we can conceive of no piace where He is not, but He may man- itest Himself in a special manner. Every tree @nd every blossom thereon is a manifestation of His sence, because He is the author of their existence, but there is only one which did not become shrivelled up when He made it His dwelling place. Every mountain telis of His being, but there is only one e Sinat There is no island on’ tho face of the globe where He 1 not, but there is only one Patmos, These special manilestations are in the experience of overy buman soul, and when toey have occurred they are re- membered ‘either by tho erection of a monument which the eye can see, or by sacred memories which are never by time effaced. While Jacob had taith it ‘was aiter allavery rade kind of faith, and if we but follow the history of the nation tor a few hundred years we will find that it had become so cultivated and ‘the conception of tke divine so enlarged as to produce Solomon, who, having erected a magnificent temple, aimed, “God cannot be Housed in any dwelling i may build.” GROWTH OF CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. Jacob did the best he could. He was not a builder, mot an architect or a mason. Michael Angelo could do no more, but the point 1 wish to lay stress upon is ‘tbat church buijding is subject to the great law of prog- ress. Dean Stabley says that Bethel was the precursor of all that has followed in church architecture. The Church itself as a religious organization is subject to the law of growth and development, Do you believe that the Church of to-day 18 better than that of 100 years ago? It ought to be if it is not, and the Cnurch of 100 years in the future should be better than that of to-day. The Church as founded by tne apostles is accountable for deeds. which if committeu in apy church in the city of Brooklyn would place it beyond the pale of recoguition. The Church could) not stand without change for any length of time without perishing. Nobody looks back at Adam as the most perfect gentleman. Indeed, scientists rate him very low in the a in accordance With the law of progress the fi in should be the most perfect m. The religious nature ofa man cannot be developed separately, or without association, without art, science and social inter- course, Mako the attempt to prodace a perfect ani- mal out of a man by cultivating his physical powers only and you will leave him worse tban you found him. He Will be inferior to the horse or tho elepnant. You cannot take man apart and develop him in sec- tions, The ascetic, moral, roligious; all must be pat together and developed in order to produce a symmet- cal whole. Even a man’s prayers will be shaped yy what he knows or by what he is. If the cave men ot early times had thought of erecting a house of God wrought three special elements of His character— namely, His omnipotence, His mercy and His charity, These are fully illustrated in His redemption of man- kind. Christ, the Son of God, presented Himself to tho second creation in a manner infinitely greater than even in the first creation of the world. He manifested His power tor the purpose of atoning the outraged 5 tice of His heavenly Father, and tor the purpose of ope: ing the gates ot heaven, which had veen shut against the siuner, He assumed no power that He did not possess, and of its possession Ho gave ample proof, The same power which Christ manilested and which was proved by His miracles He imparted to His apusties when He said to them, ‘As the Father has sent me, | also send you.’ Wo have evidence not oniy of Hs great power, but of His great mercy and love, He did not address the sinner in tones of harshness and severity, but He said, “Be of goou heart, son.” His language was et ing to Lhe extent even of i the sinner son and telling*+bim that bis sins were forgiven him, and to goin peace and 8: vtmore, The reverend preacher concluded by asking the congregation to meditate upoa the goodness and mercy of God, to meditate frequently on the enormity of sin, and thas they would be enabled to obtain that grace which would imsure everlasting saivation. The choral ar- Tangements were, a8 usual, excelient. The organ was presided over by rrotessur Gustavus Schmitz, whose melodious mass in 1D major was pertormed with grand etiect, the chorus being particularly praiseworthy. At the offertory Bassini’s *'O Salutaris” was sung by Mm Bredelli m a thorough, stic manner, ‘The servic did not terminate until after twelve o'clock, ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. THE PARALYTIC HEALED BY THE SAVIOUR— SERMON BY THE REV. DR. CURRAN, The bigh mass at St. Stephen's church was yester- day morning celebrated by the Rev. Father Byron and the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Curran. The preacher sfld:—In the Gospel of this Sunday wo are told by the evangelist of a certain man who was brought to Jesus to be healed of a groat mainay. Those wno brought the paralytic to the Saviour are represented as having faith, The paralytic also must himself have been inspired with faith in Jesus; other- wise he would not have permitted himself to be tak to the Saviour aud presented before Him as desiring health. It was natural, perhaps, expect that the ‘Son of Man when He saw such faith would immedi ately accede to the wishes and the hopes of the dis- eressed one, The paralytic had certainly no other de- sign in coming to the Saviour than to be made sane When Jonus saw this man lying ou a bed Ho did not say to nim at first, ‘Rise, take up thy bed the cavern would havo been their design. But in the beauty of Grecian culture the Parthenon resulted. WHAT A CHURCH RDIFICK SHOULD BE. ‘The church edifice should be the embodiment of the most cultured idea of religion, There are two idea. whieh seem equally to possess the minds of churen- going people, the first being that the editice is the dwelling piace of God. This was the old Hebrew ideas Moral evil had profaned the planet and the earth had become deilicd, bat God docs not leave man w his apostacy, When mun erecis a temple does he not take treo and the rock, and they become sacred only be- cause dedicated to God? Tho other idea is that the edifice is for the exclusive use of the worshipper. This is the Puritan idea, and 18 the origin 01 the term “‘meet- ing house.”’ They had no idea that God dwelt there any «more than in their forests or tieids, and does it not seem that when our Lord and Saviour wished to commune especially with the Father He chose not the temple, but the mountain top? Both ideas, however, seem necessary to satisiy our thoughts, end so both be recognized. Is there avy reason why church architecture sboald be any different than tn buildings ‘used for other purposes. I think there is. A church preaches, and the passer-b; influenced, whether per- ceptibly or not, by its presence. Iam not sure even that toe time is come when the spire should be done away with; for, as it towers above the broad structure beneath, it is a representation of the material ot the earth reaching up and vanishing into tho immaterial, Both of the ideas spoken of may operate separately, and yet in harmony. May not the exterior of a church be of Gothic styie ‘and yet the inside be comfortable for 1ts occupants Y Tho insia built for man, andI can say it without being irreverent that God ix not made uncomfortable by rr of man’s comiort being aitended to, The first question, then, that a build committee should consider 1s, How can this room be built to best answer the purpose for which itis in- tended? PROTESTANT CHURCH ARCHITECTURE CONDEMNED, Protestant churches since the Reformation have not beop what they should have been aiter tearing away from the mother church. | may be asked, What are the requirements ant church? and | auewer -y one should have an unobstructed view of the of she came to hear and be able to hear every peraon utters, A building committee that breaks one of these rules is incompetent, it is tor this reason that (he ainphitheatre or semi-circular ar- rangement has been adopted here. But some may say, “That's the way theatres are built.” Well, what of it? I would like the Protestant church to change with the theatres in this respect, wud if 1 had any enmity would ask no keener retribution style of Protestent architecture in vogue for the past 300 years adopied urely die. peaking P tity the: possessed ie wok they periormed, It they are venerable then they may be reverend. The services concluded with a dedi- catory prayer and she singing of the ‘‘Doxology. MARCY AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. BEOPENING OF THE CRUECH—SERMON BY BEY. BEUBEN RY, D. D. At the Marcy avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, yes- terday morning, there was a very large attendance, the special interest resting in the faet that it was the opening service in the edifice, which bas been widened forty feet and greatly improved, The platform was tastefully decorated with flowers, and the interior of the edifice gave evidensze that the occasion was one of joy: After the accustomed singing, reading and prayer by Rey. Dr, Patton, the pastor, Rev. Roubep Joffory, D. D., preached a sermon in keeping with the occasion, taking his text from the seventeenth verse ot the nine- tieth psalm—‘‘And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it”? The text, ne claimed, was a prayer for tho per- manent prosperity of the work which had been done in aid of the service of God. Godly work was, be felt, peculiarly well displayed in the successtul e: ward tbe building up of churches to be ted to His service. Among a Christian people there was always a joyful interest attached to the erectio! lJargement of a church edifice, and the same was true 01 the people of more distant times. 1 was rocognized a8 an \inportant portion of God’s work, even as was the dividing «nd scattering of the Jews, Christ's coming on earth aud the succeeding building up of His Church. Jt was also a part of God’s work to have man work for His glory; and even though the enterprise by which Duiluings Were erected to the service and glory of God Was, a# it Seemed to bo, the enterprise of man, they were crected by God’s desire and for His service, and | Were, through man as His instrument, His work for the good of maukind. Therefore was it that of old they prayed that He would estab! the work of thetr hands upen them and Jet the beauty of the Lord their God be upon them. And therefore was tt that in modern times those who built and eniarged structures for the serviee ol Gud prayed as prayed the servants of God in the olden time. It was for that reason that he had con: sidered the toxt be haa codoseu_ peculiariy appropriate to the occasion of the opening of their greatly enlarged edifice. He did not Jeel that the enlargement of the building itself, simply as such, furnished any special occasion for rejoicing. lt was the object they had in view in the enlargement, and the interest the enlargement evinced in the service of God which furnished the ripe occusion tor feclings of joy. David had rejoiced when the people, who dwelt in houses of ‘cedar while God was worshipped 1u tents, derermined that therealter He should ve worshipped in rtructures more costly and beautiful than their own, So, too, when Nehemiah spoke for and rejoiced in the work of rebuilding the wails of Jerusalem. It was natural that such men | should reyoice in any exhibition of interest on the p | of the people in the buiding up of edifices tor the worship oi God. How appropriate was it, then, that the Marcy avenue congregation shouid take unusual interest in the enlargement of their modest editice, believing as they must that it had | been done tor the advancement of the work of the Lord among the people of the locality in which they lived. ‘Iherefore, was it that they on that day bad met to rejoice and pray God to establish the work of their hunds upon them. But to analyze the prayer more closely would discover two other points of iuier- est, They would bave their work “appear to them”? in the fruit of blessings trom God, So they of the Marcy avenue building, not feeling that they coutd rest sutised with what they had done already, were asking simply that their work might ‘appear to them’? in blessings which would enabie them to feel that what had been done already was only asa foundation stone tor what would be done in the future. The preacher then relerrod feelngly to what had been done in the past from the small Deginning three years ago, and said he felt that there was’ hope, even -strong promise, of greaver progress in ‘the luture. At the time named there had gathered in a small, unpromising rom only forty-five men und women who were willing to organ- ize tor sustaining achurch. Since then the memver- p had increased, until it was now more than 500, and the attendance of those not members vastly in- creased. Then the attendance at thelr meetings for prayer, and the results apparent from their holding, had ever been most cheering. And éven in addition to that they had established @ Sunday school, in which they might well have pride. Then, too, they had, not- withstanding the early unpleasantness which had been occasioned to them, grown up and strengthened, without having t any time felt shat the: was tho slightest breach in the eutire harmony which from the first had prevailed among tuem. These cheering facts enable him and them to, in all nestness, ask God to continue to them the same spirit with which they had been ani- mated Irom the Leginning. In conslusion, he stated that bya slight eflort they could, if they choose, re- lieve tae church enterprise from apy possibility of financiel embarrassment, notwithatanding the dulness of the times. He was followed immediately by one of the trustees, who read the statistics of the ente: prise, showing that oni; to relieve their work of ail immediate money concern. See! ich was then gathered and the proceedings CHICKERING HALL, THE HARVEST—SERMON BY THE REY. SAM- UEL COLCORD. Every Sunday at a quarter to eleven in the forenoon and at hall-past three in the afternoon Gospel service is held in Chickeging Hall (seats free), corner of Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street. The musical part ot the exercises is presided over by Charles L. Gunn, who has a choir of 200 voices. At the morning ser- vices yesterday the singing of s6veral of the Sankey bymns was very good, the choir giving evidence of having keen most thoroughly trained, The hymn, Sowing the seed by the duylight fair, Sowing the seed by the nounday glare, was superbly rendered. It is well worth while even for a person who does not feel religiously inclined to drop in at the services if only to enjoy the singing of the choir. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Colcord, who took for his text part of the thirty-Qith verse of the fourth chapter of St. John—Lift up your oyes, and look on the flelds; for they are white alreaay to harvest,” He said that what was needed nowadays was workers for the cause of Christ, more of the spirit of a great martyr of the year 1527, who, while burning at the stake, thought not of the torture of the flames, but of the multitude of men about him for whom Christ had died, and who exclaimed, “Behold the hur- vest, O Muster!’ Send forth thy laborers.” The ha: ‘vest was ready, he said; the call was torreapers. Men ing for the word of life, and he bad come to spe for them. Was it’ to be believed that the souls of eur neighbors, friends, bro.b- ers, would be aliowed to perish by our withhoiding from them the word of life? Christ had given us a message for them, and it should so burn in our hearts that our lips must open to give it to those who stood in need of it. It was a great and grand work that the Lord called upon as all 10 do— to litt up the fallen, ennoble the degraded and make unhappy homes joyous—a work t! uit of which was to extend throughout all the ag ternity. What Possibilities of greatness and good would we bring home to thoso to whom we brought the Gospel. The reverend gentleman hero told how Michael Angelo took up a rude bI marble from the street, and who, when his friends asked him what he could possi- bly ‘want with it, exclaimed, “There is an angel in it and 1 will yet it out,” and how the great. sculptor did get an angel out of the block that was to-day the admiration of the world of art. There were angels to-da: said, in the gutters and all that was needed that we suould take them out, He never saw a drunkard lying in the street that be did not think of tho positon he might attain to by the grace of God, of the angel that was in him. He never saw one of the Jow outcasts that parade the streets at might who had been driven irom society, trom her father’s house, from a mother’s love, from a brother's protection, out into the cold world to be scowled and scoffed at, without atace to look kindiy upon her—he never saw one of these without thinking how, through God’s grace, she might shine among the queens of heaven, It was upon such ag these that we needed to work. The Church nowadays was cold. It needed to havo its heart quickenod with tho burning fire of God's love for man. If we would only realize how He loved us and bad lifted us up we would not hesitate to give a helping hand to the wayward, That was our mission; of the ordained minister not only, bat of every map, woman and child; tor the words, “Go thou and preach the gospel to every man,” wai addressed not to the disciples alone, but tothe ‘multi- tude—to all of us alike, Notronly for the of the vile should the work of bringing souls go on. The young men who wore just choosing be ‘ween tyme and eternity should be seen to. They necded good counsel and words of love to place them in the right path, Many wero hesitating which to take—the path that led to pleasures tainted with sin; the other blessed with truth and purity. A word py save a soul; thas was a great thing to bear in mind. The reverend gentleman closed by earnestly exhort- ing his hearers to Join, hand in hand, im the good work of bringing rouls to Christ. . A SPLENDID CHURCH EDIFICE. ST, MICHAEL'S CHURCH, JERSEY CITY, DEDI- CATED BY BISHOP CORRIGAN—SERMON BY REV. DR. SPAULDING, St. Michael’s church, on Hamilton square, Jersey City, is another splendid addition to church architec. ture in that city. About three years ago the work was commenced by the pastor, Rev. J. De Concilio, During the past year the congregation worshipped in the basement of the new edifice, and yesterday the whole building wag thrown open for divine worrhip and solemnly. dedicated to God vy Bisbop Corrigan, of a k, assisted by a largo staff of priests, and in Presence of a congregation of about 4,000 persons. Many prominent gentlemen of the city were present. The building 18 180 feet tong by 82 feet wide, and is of the pare Corinthian order. It is built of brick, the front being a combination of Philadelphia brick and Nova Scotia freestone, variogated by running patterns of tesseliated and encaustic tiles 1 mosaic, The sides are trimmed with brown stoue and granite, Wihin the edifice the vauitgd ceiling is moulded into six frames, cach containing a magnificent {resco painti by Muller, chief among which are tho Transfiguration, he the Nativity and the Corosation of the Blegsod Vir- gia. Ovor the maim altar 1s @ painting of the Last Judgment, in which St Michael holdsan uplifted sword, * The main altar is :n itself * masterpiece. There are three aisies, divided by two rows of colamns At the top of each column isa picture of s01 ome of th nts. All the windows are of stained giuss Th altar railing 1s of exquisite , combining cherry, asb, ebony and mahogany. ‘The structure thus far has cost $160,000. The remaining improvements, inciud- ing the continuation of tbe tower, will not be pusned forward for some time. ‘At haif-past ten o’clock @ procession of acolytes and priests entered by the front door of the church, Bishop Corrigan bringing up the rear. The Litany of the Sai nd the usual psalms prescribed in the ritual baving been sung or read u pontifical bign mass fol- lowed. Bishop Corrigan was celebrant, Father Fly: deacon, Father Henry sub-deacon, Ft John, of the Passionists, and Father Smith’ deacons of ‘honor, Fathers McCarthy and Vassalo masters of ceremonies. Very Reverend Bather Doane, V. G., was assistant high priest. The following were among the clergymer present in the sanctuary:—Rey, Fathers Thebaua 8. J., and McQuade, 5. J. ; Rev. D. Senez, Rev, P. Hen. nessey, Rev. J. ‘myth, Rev. Father Albinus and osher Passionists; Rev. Father Brown, of the Paulists; Rev. Father Cody, R Fleming; Sylvea- ter Malone, Williamsburg; Rev. Father Hogan, Rey, Father Borghese aud Rev, Father Holland. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Spaulding, of New York, who took for his text, “This is worthy of the house ot God. How lovely, O Lord! are Thy tabernacies; better one day spent io them than @ thousand !’” ‘THE ESSENCE OF RELIGION is likethat of the soul, Both are derived from God, who is spiritual. The holiest sanctuary of religion the soul itself To believe in God, to love Him, to serve Him, is religion, Henco, when our divine Saviour was asked whether God could be worshipped on the mountain as well as in Jerusalem, He replied that u lay would come wheu God would not be adored either on that mountain or in Jerusalem, but in spirit and in truth. The whole aim of the Catholic Church is to unite the soul to God through faith, hope and charity, This is the purpose of all she teaches and all she does, and therefore she recognizes in the most up- doubted manner the essence of religion. Man is not a spirit; be 1s composed of atwotold nature, If through bi rit he can raise himself toGod yet he is also bound to thisearth. He "UK SLAVE OF MATTER fo all its forms; he is body well as soul Th Church teaches, therefore, that religion without body, without physical elements, without ceremonies, would be a vain religion jor men. It would be unreal, aud we are incapable of a single act tbat is purely spiritual from that spirit clothed with our epi God gave not only spiritual. essence to the Church, but also az outward form and body. something tangi- ble. ‘The purely spiritual religion would be no religion at all. With such a religion we would have no religious forms, no consecrated bishops, vo priests, no tangible form. Man would worship his own passions and be a slave to the base portion of his ni The Catholic Church has not grown out of any har. monious ideas of beauty given to the mindoft man, Not at all. it grows out of that doctrine that Christ dwells there; that itis His temple. Hence the altar 1s the centre around which congregates the whole body of the taitbiul, The Catnolic Church is the mother house of liberty. It is from her comes the teaching that all mon are alike the children of God She levels the king with the beggar, and telis man not to bend the knee to any tyrann, What 1s the history of the world’ Itisa history of the triumphs of the over- powering, mighty masses over the weaker mass. So that for centuries the world has lived for but aiew men. It was Jesus Christ who first preached the doc- trine that man should stand up against this iron power. The history of republics in the past shows that wherever the people had not Christ’s religion t¢ mm moral their liborty ran into license and her CARDINAL MANNING ON TOLERATION, [From thePall Mai azette, Sept.’ 26.) Cardinal Manning, in reply toa letter addressed to him by a Methodist minister at Harrogate, says:— So far as I know, the English Catholics have made no reprgsentation to the government of Spain tn ref. erence to the Protestants in that country. So far as I know, the laws in Spain do not exténd to the prival conacience or belief of any one, but restrain only t! pablic propagation of religious tenets or worship variance with tho rel'gion of the Spanish peopie. U1 der these circumstances no Catholic would consides any representation to be justified, Tne Spanish peo- ple united in faith and religion, and are fully justi. fled in preserving their country and their households from the miseries of religious conflict And, believing ae they do that this unity of faith and of worsbip is a divine law, they hola it to be of the highest obligation to transmit it faitniully to their children. If the Catholics in land were a majority to-morrow they would molest no one in matters of religion by civil laws, Ina pamphiet written by me last year, in answer to Mr. Gladstone, you will fad this more fully treated than [ am able to do now. The principles on which I answered then, and Answer now, are these:—1. Sqyong as the unity of a people in faith and worship exists unbroken, it 1s the duty of such a people to preserve it from being breken by public law. 2 When once that unity is broken up by the religious conflicts of a people, mo civil Jaws can restore unity, which can be restored only as it wag created—that is, by the obedience of faith. The public law of such a country can do no more than pro- tect the freedom and welfare of all its subjects by re- straining what is injurious to human society, such aa the propag: impiety, polygamy, &o, There is, therefore, parallel between Spain and . England, nor between a people united in one faith ang a people unhappily and hopelessly divided. AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION. MEETING YESTERDAY IN STEINWAY HALL—LEG: ‘TURE UPON ALCOHOL. The second ofa series of regular weokly meetings o1 the American Temperance Union took place at half past three o’clock yesterday afternoon in Steinway Hall. The body of tho hall was well filled with people, and even the gaileri nad some scattering occupants, The programme of exercises included a number of Moody and Sankey’s hymns by the choir, reading of the Scripture and pledge, a prayer and recitation. T. S. Lambert, M. D., delivered a short lecture (sec ond of a series) upon the constitution of alcobol and tts physiological and pathological effects upon the different human organs. The remarks of the lec- turer were somewhat diverse and disconnected, tend. ing more to excite Jaughu id good humor than as a lucid treatise on the subject. He commenced by giving some idea of the objects and pur of the American Temperance Union. He said it was an association of the general temperance brotherhood tor the purpose of a united eflort in the common cause, They desired to remove alcobol, tobacco, licentious- ness and yambling irom the social life of the American In the course of bis rambling introduction “! i hth to the corruption of potit: follows but was intend could understand its principles aud its decrees. Mr, Lambert declared that there was no place fot alcohol in the human body, at least not when it was in a healthful state, He described the popular ideas upon the subject of the valuable qualtties of alcohol when properly taken into the system, and said they wore alla fallacy. He proposed in the course of bis sories of “scientilic’” lectures to prove that the bene fits of aloohol were altogether overrateu. He had a nomber of charts, and a model of the human head, by which to illustrate his description of the formation of the brain. He said the brain might properly be called “the throue of a man, and it demanded the greatest care in the matter of feeding and nourishing it. He said, further, that wholesome food, pure air and pure water were all that are required to promote the condition of the brain. The lecturor succeeded in keeping the at- tention of his audience throughout, and concluded amid considerable applause. The oxercises of yester- day aiso included an address upon temperance mat- tera by Rev. Robert S. MacArthur, of the Twenty-third street Calvary church, SCARCE CROTON. To tne Eprror or tas Hexaip For the past four or five weeks the water supply in the upper and western portions of the city has been so scant that none is delivered to a height greater than two stories. If this be disagreeable to those whe ocenpy whole houses and whose sleeping apartments alone are 10 (the upper part of the house, how much more 80 mast it be to those who occupy two or three rooms 10 the three or four upper stories of our tene- ment houses, ana who, on account of what is practi. cally & water famine, must desert thoir homes and pa a high rent tor spartments nearer the leoble water main. Wages aro everywhere coming down, and these poor men can ili afford this increased expenditure, And not only does tue poor tenant suffer, but the poor landlord as well; for as long as this state of things ex- ists he pays taxes—and beavy ones, too—for a whole house, only ote-third of which he is allowed 'o use by those who receive his taxes. Let our city officers ree member for a moment that they have other dutios mag ee cay vee due then ie that the problem of proper jating the water su yet awaits solation. A SUFFERER TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD. [From the London Telegraph, Sept. 25.) Wo daro say that Mr. H. Irwin, Manchester, has no idea that ho is a peculiarly herol¢ person, Poradventure, liko many others of his craft, he has had to work so hard in the cause of charity that custom “bath made it unto fim a property of ensivess’ to be generous. Yet wo cannot heip think- ing that the following facts, as narrated In the columna of a medical contemporary, tell a tale of simple devo- tion to duty on the part of Mr. Irwin such as lifts us high above that sphere of sordid self-socking which too often bounds the horizon of workaday life formed, On the 224 of July last, wo are a weakly, worotulous youth had one of bis limbs amputated in the Manchester Infirmary. Four days afterward he was found bleeding to death, and in such a desparate phight that, to save him, Mr. Hardie, the surgeon, resolved to try a desperate remedy, knowa as “transfusicn’’—that is, the act of transterring to the moribund pationt’s veins the warm blood of some (one man, Where was the blood to be bad? Im old” {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE) dical student, of _ |