The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1876, Page 8

-—SINDAYS SERMONS The Spiritual Man Discussed by Mr. Beecher Yesterday. MODERN RELIGION. A Memorial Sermon on the Late John P. Crosby. RELIGION IN POLITICS. The Divinity and Humanity of Christ Our Saviour. sanantonio CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. @HR OPENED MHEAVENS—SERMON BY REY. GEORGE HEPWORTH. Mr. Hepworth preached yesterday morning from Mathew iit., 16—‘And Jesus, when he was baptizea, went up straightway out of the water, and lo! the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descending liko a dovo and light upon him. And lo! a voleo trom heaven saying, ‘This is my beloved son in whom Iam woll pleased.’”? This Scene to which I havo called your attention, said Mr. Hepworth, was tho inaugural of a new revolation, Mankind had never been without the presence ot God, but they bad never seen it before in sucha vivid and Martling fashion. In the Old Testament we have a tontinuous revelation, God sbowed His hand in buman affairs from the time of Abraham to the time when the star sot ovor Bethlehem, and yet what a difference thore is between the old or primary book and the now, or the book in its completeness and perfectness! I do bot know how itis with you, but after having been tonversant with the spirit of the New Testament I al- ways read the Old Testament with a certain degree of Burpriso, and, may I aad, disappointment. We cannot £0 from the full blaze of light into the room that is filled with twilight without being startled, The Old Testa. ment is the carly dawa, while the New Testament 1 the full blazo of day. You will notice that the great peculiarity of the Old Testament is the exhibition of justice. You are con- antly 1mnpressed by shat side of God’s character. He peaks in tones of thunder {rom tho top of Sinai, and everberation from hill to valley through- ry of the Hebrew people. Beyond NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. and I will give you rest, Take my yoke upon you, and lea of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall rest unto your soul, For my yoke is easy, and my burden is tight.”" These three verses from the clevea! chapter of Matthew formed the text of Mr. Beeche discourse. The more we learn, he said, of the history of the Jews atthe time Christ spake these worda the more vividly do we conceive the unhappy condition of that people, poor, oppressed and afflicted with sick- nesses innumerable that came from squalid itving. The country was hospital. The Saviour himself bad charged them with coming out from their homes to hear Him for the sake of the bread which was distrib- uted. This plainly showed how miserable they were. Their misery was also shown by the Lord’s Prayer. “Give us this day our daily dread.”” This making the loat a god and praying to ft, a8 it were, out of profound bungor, was | significant of the wretchedness of those times and of that people. The fact that much of the life of Christ was occupied not ip instructing, bat in healing, also went to verify the extreme misery that existed one them, and therefore He “Come unto me.’’ If that were the voice of God it was explicit, i{ it were the voice of man it was the most impotent egotism that lunacy was ever affected with. Noman, Mr. Beecher thought, would presume jn his wildest phantasy to say that to the great suffering mass of men about him, And yetif Christ God how unconsciously did we see beam out of His own language that power He was accustomed to wield in heaven! “I will give rest te your souls,”” He said. A mam mi have everything the boay nesgans Mr. Beecher said, and yet his sou! be in misery, jor THE MAX WAE NOT THK OUTSIDR, bot the inside, He who ts wise and {ull in the Inward man 18 master of bis circumstances and life must be subservient to him, whatever it be, The preacher did not mean to assert that every man could lift himself so far ve physical’ things as to be happy in adversity, but merely that there were In- ati enough to show that such a thing was por Not only was there inside of man this capa- city of augmentation, of aggrandizement, by the na- ture of his soul, but there was in the Divine nature a pertect adaptation to that possibility in human lite, he illustration of this, so often drawn from the effect of the arly correct in that respect jent are not only the result of the sun, but to some extens represent the sun. Men who, working their way groping toward Christ, wondered whether there was jn Him grace epough and life for all, when they should reach Him, were like owls, which wondered whetoer, if they could get out of their dark recesses, the sun would be big enough to see, Poor things! They would be blinaca by it. Christ had grace and iifo enough jor the entire race of men for billions of years; the supply was in exbauativic, The uomensity of its bounds science was revealing to us, but the sweetness of it no man could know until he stood before God, There being, then, Such an adaptibility in God, how fittingly Christ said, “Come unto me!?” Mr, Beecher referred to the passage be had read be- fore the sermon, ‘Abide in me. As the Father hath loved me, so bave I loved you.” That meant “Abide in that love until your own mind catches that spirit; until you are lifted into sympathy with meand into inward union.”? ‘That union of the Divine nature was clearer and clearer from the days of tho Aposties down, Consider, sard Mr. Beecher, what the glory of an inspired man is, Do you recollect what a MISERADLE BEE OF FHLLOWS THE APOSTLES WERE while Christ was yet with them? The apostics we almost worship are not the aposties which Christ waiked with, We behold them only as we behold tne moon—seeing only the bright aide, which reflects the tun. Thoy were average, ordinary men of an ai cated, low typo, as cloarly shown by rellings and Weaknesses while Christ was with 1 That was what they were betore they were inspir What they were atter ¢ must tell, Paul presented another e: Justice is forbearance or mercy. You cannot {ail to | spiration. Jt was wrong, the preacher said, to speak have noticed that God is always delaying punishment | of the State of man at his lowest as that His people may have anew opportunity for re- | that of nature, When facuitios and talents pentance. He stands, a it were, with the thunderbolt | have been developed and found their compictest in His hand, threatening to hurl it, waiting tor a form that 1s nature. No man understands tho Ment to see if the people will go down on their knces | Divine nature or his own nature enough to lay down a and ask for forgiveness. Inever read the old book without seeing the hand uplifted and behind it the mercy and forbearance that is born of kindness and dt gentienoss und of charity. Now, when I turn to t New Testament how very different the feeling is. T one 1s the fulfiliing of the other, and yet we almost tail to recognize the bud in the blossom or the blossom inthe periect iruit. The New Testament 1s the "s revelation, 18 the autumnal God hath revealod Himself, not partially, completely as we ean enduro, and He has shown face to our consciousness, und wo see at once tho expression of love on it, and of pity and sympathy with us; and im those dear eyes that are all-seeing there is an expression of sadness, because we have wandered go heedlessly and acted so thougntlessly and tarelessly, and thus brought on our own ruin. Inthe Now Tesiament we do not seo justice, except as it is sovered up. It is thero and cannot be ignored, but over and above it are the foldings of an unbounded love, as though God was telling us thatthe one power ja tho universo is His affection for us. He never Mentions the fact of the eternal logic of law until we become recreant and perverse. God's commands in the Old Testament were uttered in avoice somewhat stern. God's commands in the New Testament are uttered with the porsaasive power of a Sweet and loading love, and, brethren, I am glad to feel that in this incident from which I have taken my text the heavens themselves were open, and not only Jesus saw the dove and heard the voice, Put all tho world could look up through the rift and catch a glimpse of Him who rules the world andasks for your allegiance and mine, and 1 would fain bolievo that when God’s voice said, “This is my beloved son,” Christ stood as a type of the whole world, and that God said, through His only begotten chiid, the son of Heaven and of man, “Ye aro my beloved children; come up higher.’’ There is liteio wonder, then, that whon Jesus began His movement and founded the Christian iusti- tution by the Sermon on the Mount, giving to tbe world a pew philosophy of life, He should bave told of the brotherhood of the human race and should hay kiven us wnat we call the Lord's I er, which telis us to say, not “Thou mysterious creaor, thou everiasting king of kings,’’in trembling tones, but to “Our Father, which art in heaven.” ‘ou remember, my dear triends, when, in the timo Noah, the flood was at its height and all the earth with the gloom of a coming destruction, in tho heavens a radiant bow of promise. to me that when [| look upon this the New YTestament—Christ coming out water and the hea opened, that God might let the world sec Him—tbat the whole sccno Is another bow of promise. It is the prophecy of mother millenniam day, when men shall stand side by side in common brotherhood. The first prophec: addressed to the eye: the second, in Jadea, wi ‘appeal to the heart. In the ,olden Un children, but the voice in the new revi heard with the consciousness of the world, become the treasured prophecy of the human Let me draw your atten Otty-first chaptor of Jobn ‘Verily, verily, I say anto you, herealtor ye heavens open and angeis asconaing and des unto men.’! Again, is a type of the ding I would believe that Jesus whole human race, and I am once more inclined to turn back to the Old Testament to find a passage parallel with this You remember the dream of Jacob, His head was tilowed on a stone, and his sleep, though not dream- jess, Was sweet and refreshing, for in the night he caught sight of a vision—a ladder, whose foot was on earth and whose top rested against the white throne of God, and ascending and descending wore angels stothed in white. AsI would connect the bow of promise with the baptismal scene in Judea, so I would connect the dream of Jacob with this fifty-drat chapter and first verse of John—‘Hereafter you shall seo the beavens open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon men.” We want not only te know there !s a rock on which to etand, but we want also to stand upon it. Itis not enough to have atheology, We must have not only a theory, but a life, and tho eternest logic of the world is to be found in your years. Let as do our work taith- fully in the day timo, for the sun shail ect and we shall le down to sleep. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. BOE SPIRITUAL MAN DISCUSSED BY MR BEECHER—WHAT HE THINKS OF INSTITU- TIONS, SACRAMENTS AND OBSERVANCES, Despite the cold and biting wind that swept Brook- lyn Heights yesterday morning the street in front of Mr, Beecher’s church was crowded with almost as freat a throng as on the previous Sunday, when be- Yween 3,000 and 4.000 disappointed worshippers wero Bnable to gain admission. Yesterday, in compliance with the suggestion of a circular letter from Mr. Halli- fay, tho assistant pastor, many pewholders remained away, that the many strangers now within the gates of this city and Brooklyn might have an opportunity pf bearing the groat preacher. However, if the whole shurch bad been given over to that class, 1t would not have contained more than one half of those in attend- ance and, consequently, as it was, many were turned away after waiting in line upon the cold sidewalks for an hour. Keading the various announcements which preceded tho sermon Mr. Beecher stated that, after the prayer meeting on Friday night, the Examining Committeo would receive applications from persons wishing to anite with the eburch, and added that it was the ra that lotters of dismissal trom other socioties should be banded in by tho applicant im person. Piymonth Charen, h id, hela to the fundamental principle that every church must be the judge of its own mem. bers; and while they regarded letters from other churches as strong presamption of fitness, yet they preferred to converse with all who wisned to come Into the church, and personally know of the faith wherewith they joined. Reading the notice ot a Wo. wen’r Convention to be held at Dr. Storrs’ church, be- Honing on Tuesday next, ho remarked, “Wo aro only sorry that the piace selected for the meeting 1s such as would necessarily exclude many ofus = In a con- vention calied by tho women of all churches surety there are piaces where one could come without giving offence.” ‘The service began with the singing of Dudley Buck’s sathom, ‘Come, Let Us Sing,” which was finely ren- philosophy of tho lifting up of our nature to the Divine nature lace to face, so that wo are as to each other as two friends [ace to face, whose thoughts are moving in oleetrical curronts back and forth, So much of this atmosphere of God as descends into our souls to lift us up to Him, just so much we are God’s above the ordi- nary things of life, As water evaporates and rises in a fine mist above all low and solled objects, refqrming in clou whon gilded by the sun 1s a glory, so tue inward man rises, drawn up by its sun in the fine essence oi the spirit above the discord, tne strife and passion of the lower life. The human soal might rise to such a_height that the impulse of the Divine nature might fall upon man’s and give to him a power of peace, of rest, of joy in thie Holy Ghost. Mr. Beecher Jooked forward toa time when science, with definite impulse anda better instruction, shall open up the higher and possible nature of the souland show at last by scienco what the Bible declares new without *explanation—that we are so made that WE ARE TUE SONS OF GOD, that wo are lifted up by the Divine nature, and that wken so lifted up we are abovo the power of mattor. And it would not be strange tf, in that condition, the soul bad over matter something of the power which God bas. It would seem surprising if by and by the buman soul should be competent to direct matter as God does, and by doing s0 throw a flood of light upon the subject of prayer and upon tho subject of miracier, That union of tho soul with Christ gives tho soul free- dom over the thrall of the animal nao, brings man’s will into coincidence with the Divine will, and so iifts him above she strife with circumstances; for “all things work together for good tor them that love God.” That higher state becomes the cause of our pertorm- ance of all the minor duties wo owe to society. Men have surrounded themselves by institutions and laws aceamnilated during the experience of centuries; but men rise above them and aro masters of them so soon as they rise into this higher atmosphere. ‘Se,’ added Mr, Beechcr, ‘1 am my own inaster just as soon as I am tho Lord’s, From the moment of the indwelling of the Spirit of God I am a king though 1 carry my crown within, [am able to ssy ail things are mine because I am the Lords and joint heir with Christ Jesus to ao eternal inheritat ‘And it ts spirit that 1 all forms of church organiza- eacraments, all observances—sach as the Lord’s Day—all books, ali ministrics—all things which are neediul and heiptul for the lo life, for child Nte—all things are mere outgrows when he comes into the condition of which | have spoken, and for him ALL ORDINANCES BECOME MATTERS OF IXDIFFRRENCE, because he then receives through the direct influence ot God the fruit which these were in! 80 that when a man comes into that bigbor can use all theso things, Dut they cannot use him. I am not going to spend my life trying to keep the Sun- day as if imable jewel. I was pot made for institutions; they ‘e made for me! good law and every good institution makes a mai certain things and loads him into a higher sphere, where he does the same things uader higher inspira- tion. To those that wore inquiring for the second coming of Christ Mr. Beecher said:—It seema to me, dearly beloved, tbat you have stumbled 1: tho ma- terial coming ot Christ in th 8 the old Jews mistook the coming ot Chri expecting him like a royal conqueror, Christ will never come, as 1 bold, m the flesh, Ho suffered and went into glory aoa He will come again in affluence, but not as a visible per- son, There will bo an opening up of intelligence, there will boa growieg band of men in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thas it will be that by and by Christ will come ngain in His disciples and that His spirit will be upon us. And then all retorms willtake piace. Those probings of the spirit, discoatented men wandering out of churches and outof denominations, in one way are snd as indicating a dissatisfied condition; bat in another way they are desirablo as indicating that men are dissatisfied with their lower condition and are going higher until the new heaven and tho now earth shall have come. MASONIC TEMPLE. RELIGION IN POLITICS—DISCOURSE BY REY, 0. DB. FROTHINGHAM. Masonic Temple, Twenty-third stroet and Sixth ave nue, wai introduction of his themo the reverend speaker said ;— Religion in politics! What is roligion? By religion I Go not mean any peculiar form of religion, any creed or system of belieis, by wh tever name itis called, I do not mean the Jewish religion or the Christian ro- ligion, 1 menn simply religion, That comprieos all forms and names anf peculiarities, That is a greater thing, @ more profound thing, and ia signified by the name of anything. By religion I moan a sense of the Divine presence; a teciing of responsibility toward everlasting will; as of the great necessity of jus- tice and rectitude; a wish that overpowers all things, that ovorrules all individual yoll- tion, 1 mean tho relations between the perfect and imperfect, between that which ts changeable and that which is unchangeable forever. more, And by politics 1 mean the honest and earnest efforts of mon and women to place if positions of supremo power and trast the persons who are endowed with the best capacity and the greatest amount of wisdom to discharge them. Religion and politics hare always boen associated together. Ag fur back in his. tory as you can go, before the beginning of authentic history, away in the era of legend and tradition and dream, these two great interests toterblend and tn Jaco, There was not a step takon in the development Ot this modern world of ours that was not characterized by astruggie of ihese two forces, in New England one of the first principles isened to establish their Stato was the principio that only charch members should vou, believing that the source of all power, ali wisdom, all sate guidance was in revi spirit of the Lord. We como ber this, a time when religion and born of the same = im- They aro brother and sister. Men are born Tf in society by the necessity of mutual prog- ress. They are born together in religion by the te! necessity for some religion of the order which is iden! groups in the larger family of nity. Lat us see, then, if therows not a stago that has more faith in ideal thin which are brosder, more comprehens} foand than the policy of this party or that bar Justification of this or that administration. This ts the mistake th. as worked so badly through huodreds and thousands of years—ihat is working so badly se- dored by Miss Clementine V. Lasar, soprano; Mr. A ott fi Gourge Werreprath, tenor, and Mr, Henry Camp (d1- between Church State, Tho question of the jons between Charcb pector of the choir), baritone — tate q none tig. ond the telulwns ‘MB, BEBOMER'S GERMOR. Detween roligion and politicos is another “Come wate me, all yo that labor and are heavy | thing and very diferent When we consider li filled yesterday morning. After a brief” the question of relations between Church and State we must remember that this relation is ope men bave beon endeavoring to maintain age after age, and which always bas been deteated, Sometimes it was the Church that was supreme over the State and some- times it was the State that was supreme over the Church. If the Chureh is supreme over the State thea the State looses all its spentancous Itberty, aud tho people have po initiative in managimg the affairs of their State, The interests of society are secular in- and aro neglected in order that ecclesiastical 1p- lerests may be served. The modern city of Rome is one city in the modern world in which religion | preme over the State, and it is the worst governed city tm the civilized world, It is imposstble to describe the weakness of 1s administration, ita neglect, ite en- ‘This isthe history when over the State. How is jpreme over the Charch? Religion becomes oubservient, bypocritical to a degree that makes it an ol ‘of contempt. think this he case to-day in Russia, in Sweden and Germany, Fortun that between Chu there Js no Church, 1s no Church, because under our system a great many diflerent forms ot beliet, of worship, exist si side, the ry of each reco; he law. is no patio! no State, only an administratioa that lasts tor four yoate. “KEKP RELIGION OUT OF PORITICS”’ isthe cry. Keep crecds out of polifiée; keep pricats and parsons out, but bring religion i@. Politics needs 10n, in order that May not become ideal and visionary. Let me say | few words what f conceive to be the true spirit of the relation between religion and politica, In the first place it me necessary to correct tho prefient in our American _ ballots. strive for power for their indtvidu doctrine, which is the accepted doctrine of the Ameri- can poople, is that to the victor belongs the spoils. Spoils! the highest of trast; spotis! the most exalted dignity; spoils! the grandest responsibiliiy; spoils! the love ot the people and the power of the govern- ment, The faults of the present jormrs of our civil ser- Vice aro duo to this idea that to the victor belongs the spous. Their idea is that they should make themecives rich—that they ought to gather in the perqdsites, Again, nothing can be more fatal than adperence to party irrespective of bonesty, intogrity and manhood. Consult the Justice thatis beyond, Consult the equity that makes a better state of things the day atier to morrow. Be guided by the wish we call honcsty of urpose to put the best man in the place of trust. ut bow are we to find the best man? Js he a man of more than local reputation in reform? That is the question. If he 1s not then he cannot be the best man, ‘The best man is an honest map—one who would scorn to do anything bat what was right and just. When the pure religion shall be established that will be the standard we shail all fix our-eves upon it. The gonl is far eff, but must we dosist in our march toward 4? This ideal politics is only a dream to-day, Itis Our possibility to basten the day when it shall boa dream no longer, to hasten the day when jastice shail mean cquity—guod will toward all mankind. The harder it 1s to attain to this, the moro remoto the dis- tance, the more carnest must be our efforts to reach 14 CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. MEMORIAL SERMON ON THE LATE JOHN P, CROSBY, BY BEV. MARVIN Nf, VINCENT. At the Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian) cor- per of Park avonuc and Thirty-ffth street, the pastor, Rev, Dr, Marvin R. Vincent, yesterday morning preached a sermon in memory of the late John P. Crosby, an elder of the church, who, it will be remem- Dered, was drowned a short time since whilo bathing at Fire Island. The text was taken trom the fourteenth chapter of St. John, eighteenth verso—**I will not loave you comfortless, I will come to you.”” The thought of. the departure of Christ carried with it to tho discipics a feeling of utter desolation, They bad depended #0 much upon His presence that they could not reconcile themselves to the idea of His going away, leaving them in their ignoranco, with practically nothing ac- complished, with, as they thought, the stamp of ap- parent failure on His mission and without delo- gating His authority and power to some ose upon whom they could rely and look up to for advice and guidance, Christ was fully aware ‘of this teelin, ind sympathized with it, and for this reason His closing discourses to them were intended to be of a comforti: id reassuring strat The text Just read sets torth this appreciation Uheir sorrow, ‘and is a consummate expression of His knowledge ot their bercavemont. ‘The condition and fechng of the disci plos 1s repeated in the experience of all men, ai the toxt was not intended for their comfort alone, bub a lace for all men and a alltime, Re- flect fora momenton the nature as well as the pe- cullarity and efficacy of the consolation prescribed. He tells them, ‘+ will come to you.” Mark the bold ness of these words, for they are addrossed toa mighty multitade of sorrowing hearts. Put some one ia Chriat’s place, the best man you know, on whoso wis- dom and love you are accustomed to depend, and let Bim say in the hour of some great sorrow, “I will comfort you," and you wouid bo filled with diegust at auch a display of egosiem and atrogance, CHRIST MORK THAN MAN. If Christ was no more than man then the utterance of these words was an act of consummate presumption, Nothing but Divino wisdom cen lay claim toa thor- ongh understanding of the human heart; nothing Divine power can provide an antidote tor every hut sorrow. Whocan forgive sin but God? Can man or angel presume to say, “Depart in peace, thy sins are forgiven thee?’? No mere man could hate spoken as Christ did. No sane man would have applied such a tost of absolute power to himselt. Who bat the Saviour could have said, **Come all ye that arc weary and heavy Iadeu, and I will give you rest?’ Tho teat of the power Autbor of these words is in tho grasp of every soul. Such an offer in itecif tion of the biasphemout postor, Suct a theory is nut only sirous, Every nt in His file is a refutation of such an imputation. In order to come as a comiorter to tho world it was necessary to have a periect intuition, so as to understand the whole character of man ata'glance. He must know bis entire history, hav mMtitcate acquaintance with the sources of the streame which led to bis griol; tho whole character, in short, must be spread out like a map before him who would attempt to updorsiand oven the smaliest of human eorrows, Christ's profound acquaintance with the human heart comes out in every pugo of the Gon- ords, after all, we must resort for knowl- edge.on this subject. Again, it required not only in- Onite wisdom but infinite sympathy to assuage grief. PITY ONLY 4 PIASK OF SYMPATHY. Pity ta only ono phase of sympathy. Pity may ex- haust itself in sentiment, while sympathy takes upor itselt the burden of gre! id bears it, Some people think that Christ’s giving Himeeil for the world 18 cov- ered by His death on the cross; bat that was only a part of His great work. Jesus says’ to every child ot want and sorrow, “Come untome.’’ All the wretched- ness and squalor and misery of the world He takes right to the quivering Nbres of His heart. Christ had the most prolound appreciation of bereavement. Ho was the lonelicss man in ail history. Ho trod the wine press alone, He was isolated from all the world, and not even to the dear iriond whose head He placed on His besom could he show the innermost recesses oi Hin soul. As He entered Gethsemane Ho entered upon a sorrow which no one could share. Re- member ilis agonizing ery, “My God, my God, wny bas thon forsaken me?’’ Was there ever aay one 80 well calculated, from his own experience, to sound tho depths of the orphaned heart? Out of the desola- tion of that final hour on Calvary comes the baim tor suffering bumaniy. There can be no doubt that Christ has the powerto help as well as to feel Ho said, “All power Is given unto me, in beaven and on rth. When I depart! will send a comtorter. Lleave with you. My peace I give unto you. 1 ain with you alway.” With what absolute authority does He speak! but to speak and the windows of heaven are ope! ind manna falla at His words. And mark how ile exerts His power. These proinisos of comtort are not confined to the old heroes of fnith, Tho true piaco for the bereaved, then, y the side of Him who has the power to say, ‘Let not your heart be troubled.’ Mr. Vineent concluded by saying that too often there was a tendency to idealize the tender of Christ's sympathy as a figure of speech, but not practically avuilable, and commended his hearers to the tender mercies o! 1 powertul Comforter. 8T. STEPHEN’S ROMAN OATHOLIO * CHURCH. THE DIVINITY AND HUMANITY oF CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR—SERMON DY THE REV. DA, M'GLINN. ‘The Catholic Church eelebrated yestorday the Foast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin. The text of the sermon was taken from the Gospel according to St. Lake ii, 48, 49—"'Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and 1 have sought thoc sorrowing, And he said anto them, How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business.” Dr. McGlynn said that In tho feast of tho day and jn the application of the Gospel we have » striking re- minder of tho divinity as well as the humanity of Christ our Saviour. Woe read how he acknowledges the parental authority, wot only of his virgin mother, but ‘also of his foster father; for we learn thut after the in- cient of the finding of Christ Jesus in the miast of the doctors inthe Tomple, He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. We have in this touching iWustration of the true humanity of Christ, We see how Ho, who was tho author of the jaw, voluntarily subjected Himsol! to it and showod us by. His example what He taught in the Word—that Hie cat ot to destroy the law, but to fulfll i, Again, we are romiuded Meg tho lesson of to-day that we have not been redeemed by some new and strange god, but by the God who made us from thd beginning and dloasea His original work and pronouncod it good. The kindly instincts of the human hears have survived t! fall, and wher ir Creator comes © be God the Ke- dvemer He comes not to deny Ilis own work nor to conaemn It, but to give strength and sanctity to its better instincts and capacities. It th Ho who, a8 4 child, stood among the doctors question- ing them, wae the Word of God; that it was H bad tnuodered forth irom the mount, honor thy father and thy mother.”’ And poners 1s it that He permite it to be recorded of that He was subjeet’ to those of we read, “Behold, thy father and 1 sought thee sorrowing.” At the same time reminded that He deco! the son of f bat to do the work of His Father in heaven. Wo are taught afer His example to school and disciptine even the noblest instinets of our nature in subordination to reason and to faith. It is very noteworthy that when the enemy of the truth would seck the most efficient weapons for bis purpose he seeks them not so much in the jons of man’s nainre #6 im his more or Instinets, by abusi: d perverting them. ‘he tempter may even quote Scripture against those who would sacrifice their dearest natural ties to fol- Jow Christ in ovangelical perfection, He will remind them that theso dear ties Dave the holicst sanction of religion, At such moments we may well be instructed and comforted by tho incident of this day’s gospel and the words of our Lord, “Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business?” From this view Dr. McGlynn took occasion to urge the paramount importance of cultivating con- jousness, enlightened by reason and fait as the supreme guide of every tl ng and action, No amount of faith, he continued, still less loud-mouthed ind least of all mere sentiment, no matter source, can be a substitute for this great test of retigious character. We must learn that the business of our life jo be about our Father's wil. The very word that 1s used the pleasure; we should be pure, accurate and patns' ing in discharge of it; we should consider no time or labor lost or excessive that 1s devoted to its interest. It is plainly in kes this thought that our great professions without perform: sare Worse than ofno account, The homely prov {s'as handsome does’? is but the poy by common senee, of the grost truth taught by th apostie St. James, that that man’s religion is vain who, contenting hemself with fair words, 1 to do kindly doeds, It is but the same trath thi by Christ Himself when He said, **Ho that jovet sball keep my commandments." SPRING STREET CHURCH, SERMON BY BEV. ALFRED H. MOMENT. At the Spring street Presbyterian charch, yesterday, Rey. Alfred H. Moment preached to a large congrega- tion from Gonesis xxxil., 25, 26—‘*And when he saw that he prevailed not against bim be touched the hol low of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint as be wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not Jet thee go except thou bless me.’ The proacher described the life of Jacob previousto his wrostling with the angel of the Lord, and drew a vivid picture of his journey to meet his brother Keau. his wrest- lng with the angel was indicative of the sinner wrest- ling with the spirit of Christ, When the angel did not prevail he touched him on the hollow of the thigh and the thigh shrunk, So God, when He wante to bring conviction to the sinner, touches him in his strongest purt, and if ho seizes that moment God will biess him as He blessed Jacob. Jacob, though he felt bimselt growing weaker, still held on to the angel, say- ing, ‘1 will not let thee go except tho bless me.” Jacob understood the power of prayer and God heard bio. “Sydney Smith says, “it is always a useful study to examine minutely what great 1m peril- ous mor 8o we study the action of Jacob in the most momentous moment of his lite. He seized the op- portanity, ence. Conviction was brought to his mind thi he was bdipig with the ie of God and n 8 Make tis waid of he calied out in yer to Dake of Wellington, that at the most critical mo- nt ot the battle of cried out, “Oh God! And Blacher seen debouebing from with bis army of Prussian veterans, and the British army was saved, That is the reason that so many sinn when God 18 wrestling with thoi! born hearts, se 10 acknowledge Him and fail to seize the oppor 'y to return to the bosom of their Fathor. One ot the chief rensons is that they conceited in their own strength, and imogine themselves even strovger than God Himsel: If the spirit of God has touched you pray for your- sol, Pri Jacob did, earnestly and with abiding faith im the mercy of God. No matter how deop your offences, no matter how long you have turned your face from Him, if you pray to Him you will receive the blessing, and you will fod renewed strength to combat the dovil and all his wiles. MODERN RELIGION. DISCOURSE BY PROFESSOR FELIX ADLEB, AT STAXDARD HALL. At Standard Hall, in Broadway, above Forty-second street, yesterday morning, there was assembled a large congregation, the attrastion being an address by P’ro- fessor Folix Adler, an advanced thinker. The ordor of exercises was interesting. First quartot, ‘‘lao- meneo,’’ Mozart; second quartet, ‘‘Peace,’’ Mozart; and after the lecture, ‘Lobgesang,’’ composed by Mendelssohn, was sung with fine effect. ‘he speaker's desk was handsomely decorated with flowers, and as it ‘was siluated ut baleony constracted for music, which was elegantly gilded, tho effect was very good; the audienco, too, scemed like @ theatro assemblage, chatting gaily and exchanging complimonts uatil the professor began to speak, when silent attention was given to his words, He said that this was the first cpoch in the history of mankind and ourown country in which philosophy could take heart, A pation founded as never nation was founded before, completed tho firat cycle of its existence when tho bells rang out that clear July night to joyfully colobrate peace. May we continue to hold what is hoporable.of the legacy the fathors leftus. But in this very season of thankegtving, a world of venality and fraud in our public officers was laid bare, polson- ing the air; corraption in private corporations wos rife and distrust pervaded whole communities, on ao- count of which business was paralyzed, the standards ot living have beon changed, the incomes of the rich have been diminished and the poor have become poerer. Worse, too, than this, the solid purposes and lofty aims on which the moral beaith of communities depend have been undermined—it is not the freedom of vico but the absence of virtue. These con- ditions have been partly recognized, but the hosts who are verging on reform, and, im fact, aro at its very threshold, do not understand the truo nature of the rile distemper that now preys on our vitals. We are ike chronic patients who change from one physician to another, forgetting that all physicians are expensive. We must follow purer rules in the conduct of life. The first root of the evil 1s removed, however, by the downfall of THY ANCIENT DOGMATIO SYSTEMS, and there is far moro io this than the suporficial ob- server will give creditfor, Yotin them man’s duty was mapped out for bim, and grouped about thom wero a Jew great central articles of faith. Yot, wbere- fore do we live? What Ii lite? Why, the very id are the central concept religion was (nat ‘they who have science an: religion, and they who have not science and art should have religion.”” Now, the posseszion of science and art by some ol its eminent professors have not vented them from having a base character, so that jon science and art may be as dropped from the di book and bell, altar and confessional. Now, are we to consider these as tho lost xirs for fallen lives? Shall we seek again the city of retuge as the citadel ot our hopes? No In these dim and ancient vaults of th tho spirit lies fettered. No. Greater and holier is the living day and the living deeds. this land of protessed liberty we are evory one of us labelled. On certain questions of metapbysica if we disagree with out {rr ighbor or daily companion you are soon ma feel that there is an inexorable, even if invisible, wall rising between you. We must give way to THR AFFINITIRS OF THE SOUL and give freer piay to our aflections and sympathies There has never boen a religion that did not emphasize love, labor and duty; but all the modern religious preachers make everything subsidiary to duty to Ged. Are thero no other daties to develop our own souls to the grand and full stature of manhood and whman. hood? If this thought bad been better understood wo ‘would have been spared the woes with which the hie- tory of religion has been filled. The preacher then eloquently diseoarsed on the philosopny ot modern reagion in a learned manner, pecially showing bis acquaintance with the Oriental be BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. MR. MUXLEY COMMENTED UPON AND THE BIBLE DEFENDED BY BEY. T. DE WITT TAL- MAGE. The Brookiyn Tabornaclo was full to repiction at the forenoon services yesterday. Among thoro prosent was Mr. Martin F, Tupper, In making the usual an- nouncements prior to the sermen Rey. T. De Witt Tai- mage stated that next Sunday morning, instead of preaching, Mr. Tupper would read bis poom on the “Jmmortality of the Soul.” Mr. Talmage took for his text Psaims, xix., 6—‘The statutes of the Lord are right” He opened his discourse by saying that Mr. Huxiey had gone home. On bis arrival tn this country many Cbrist people were alarmed lest his lectures would shake tho foundation of Christian truth. He attempted to ride down Monos and the prophets, He came; he went. His lectures, so far as they were assaults upon the authenticity and truths of the Scrip. tures, wore a prodigious failure, Mr. Talmage said that ho did not bolieve that Huxley bad shaken the faith of @ man, woman or child In the Holy Word, And this morning, than ever before, mio! ers of Uhrist take hold of the Beriptures and annuun » the tesson for the day. Tho apoaker then proceeded to deiend the Bibic, holding that it was right 10 authenticity, right in style, mabt in doctrine and right in its offects, Under the first head, he said, thero was no more doubt that Shake- speare wrote “Macbeth” or that Bryant wrote “‘Thana- topsis” than it waus certain that the Lord God Almighty by the hands of His prophets, aposties and evangelist: wrote the Holy Bibie If Job and David an jab and James and Join were impostors style of the Bible many people su, [aarety book was merely a col- Jection of genealugical tables and dry facts. Th son of this wrong impression was that sach peopl ‘aa not know bow to read the We must read dook. Parag: tree, which has a bundred roots hundred branches. Many of the books of this day are only the Bible diluted, ‘tase i a variety of style in the book, but there is no contradiction init 1 Bible contained two doctrines, and they were, man the sinner and Christ the Saviour, Man must come down from his pride and selfishness and worldlimess and Christ the anomted mast go up, If it had not been for the atonement Moses would never have deseribed the creation. The Bible is right in its effect, no matter where you may place it. At the conclusion of hts discourse Mr. Talmage ved that God might bless Prosper the poet, Mr. ipper, io bis visit to Am a CHICKERING HALL. UNION GOSPEL SERVICRS—SERMON BY REV. SAMUEL COLCORD. There was a large gathering at Chickering Hall yesterday morning to hear a sermen from Rev. Samael Colcord, who took for his text Proverbs, xxili., part of 26th verse—‘*My son, give me thine heart,”” The text, he sald, was the voico of wisdom. He felt that !t tanght the fatherhood of God and also the brotherhood of man, In the commencement of his discourse he Proposed to introduce them to a consideration of the message from the Father to man—‘“My son, give me thino heart,” It was cloar that the Father looked the heart, not at the clothing of the It was the man He wanted, without regard to the clothes he woro. It was the pobiity of the man He wanted, not the product of the tailor It was not the forms and observances of any particular Church that He required, thou were good tn their way, for they were simp! ess of religion, It was that Robert Burns, the poet of Sco! id, was one day walking with a friend when some one passed ory poorly clad, But Burns started off with bim arm. When he returoed bis friend with whom first been walking sald to him, “why did you risk disgracing yourself by walking wit! such a man?’ Burns responded that he had not walked with the man _ because of tne country clothing he hed on, but because of his head and heart. So wasit with religion, Thero was tho Teligion of the heart and head, and 80, too, there was tho retigion of aress. In the heart there was found to be a chamber for sin and consequent sorrow, and also chamber, the parlor of the heart, in which all was Joy. If they would find the énjoyment of the parlor of the heart he endeavored to impress "ee them that they must tind their God by seeking Him earnestly, and then they would find their happiness, Following the above declaration ho very forcibly impressed his hoarers with the necessity of socking God and of Elving to Goa their boarte, as asked for in the voxt, THE COURTS. POLICE COURT NOTES. While attending a political mecting on Saturday night Martin O’Toole, of Forty-soventh street and Second avenue, was robbed of his watch. He caught the thief, but Thomas Baldwin, of No. 816 East Forty- eoventh street, assaulted him so violently that he had to let him go. Baldwin was arrested and fined $10, and pat under $300 bail 10 be of geod behavior, Frederick Dily, No. 286 Second avenuo, was held for trial at the Fifty-seventh Street Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a gold watch and chain, wegth $175, from Mrs. Elizabeth Burrow, of No. 156 East Twenty- eighth street. Dilg had been employed by complain- “ to lay carpet, but he denied the charge against tm. George W. Jobnson, alias Jamos Mitchell, No, 171 Chrystie streot, was heid for trial at the Fifty-seventh street Court yesterday, in default of $3,000 bail, to an- swer a charge of being’ thief. He was nccused of havingstolen property from guests at the Windsor and Filth Avenue hotels, He said he was a penman yd speculator by occupation. Matthew O’Brien, aged twenty-eight, an ash cart arivor, of No. 22 Sixth avenue, was arraigned before Justice Bixby, at the Washington Place Police Court, yesterday, on a chargé of felonious assault. It ap- peared from the evidence that he and Charles Gerarty, ‘longshoreman, of No. Leroy stroet, became en- gaged in a quarre! at tho corner of Wooster and Bleecker streets, when O'Brien stabbed Gorarty twice in tho face with a pocket knife, inflicting severe wounds, He was hold for trial. Bilis Hendersen, a colored waiter, cighteen years of age, who said be lived at No. 756 Greenwich street, was held for trial by Justice Bixby, Washington Place Pohee Court, yestoruay, for stealing a dress, valued at $26, from his employer, Mrs, Klizabeth Dearion, of No, 254 West Twenty-tirst street. Captain McDonnell, of the Kighth precinct, arraigned vefore Justice Bixby, at the Washington Place Police Court, yesterday, George Williams, Guiseppe Mouzain and Guiseppe Gerome. The prisoners were charged with breaking into the tailor’s store of Jacob Ulrich, of No, 492 Broome strect, and stealing a quantity o! clothing valued at $300, Captain McDonnell and De- tective Murphy found the proporty in tho porsession of the prisoners. They were remanded for oxamina- tion, COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Surreux Court—Cuamnrrs—Hold by Jud; ret—Court opens at hai Monday Motion Calondar Suragsme Count—GuneraL Teru—Held by Judges Davis, Bracy and Daniela—Nos, 121. 122, 123, 163, 164, 204, 205, 135, 14734. 150, 166, 171, 1733, 178, 194, 145, 146, 163, 164, 181, 186, 187, 188, 196, 198, Supreme Coort—Sraciat. Treu—Held by Judge Van Voret.—Demaurrers—Nos. 4, 5, 9, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 35. Case on Law and Fact—No, 60. Surremx Court—Circurr—Part 1—Held by Judge Donobue.—Nos, 1309, 1795, 976, 1051, 1859, 1877, 1947, 1049, 2001, 161344. 1177, 2919, 2061, 2091, 151944, 2135, 1875, 1488,'1489, 2111, 1703, 1059, 2225, 2227, 1617, 777, 8247, 1905, 2295, 1889, 1148, 1369, 595, 560, 1941, 1901, 2011; 2065, 1111, 1381, 1611, 2039, 1989, 2117, 1985, 1047, 1949, 2107, 2261, 2263, Part 2—Held by Judge Law: rence.—Nos, 770, 2264, 1404, 560, 2838, 3102, 148, 1036, Bb 8224, 662, 500, 1096, 738, 1654, 878, 1486 3,, 3172, 3566, 3568, 1224, 2880, 3662. Part 3—Hola Pe ee ase a08D, 1018, 2008, 0OGr 718: BY, OOe Laos 17414, }, 1918, 2968, 1, 37, 3161, 1785, 1549, 2301. pad Sorgrion CourtT—Grxenat Term.—Adjourned until Monday, October 23, 1876. supERion Court—SpxciaL Teru—Held by Chiof Jus- tice Curtie.—Case on, No. 60, No day calendar. Surgeon Covurt—tTriat Teru—Part 1—Held by Judge Sanlord.—Nos. 250, 290, 6, 97, 297, 163, 261, 286, 287, 209, 254, 285, 205, 289, Part 2—Adjourned fer the term. Common Pieas—Equirr Taxma—Held by Juage Rob. imson.—Nos, 9, 21, 23, 61, 35, 36, 37. Common Piaas—TriaL Taru—Part 1—Held by Judge C. P Daly, —Nos, 873, 863, 875, 968, 556, 557, Part 2—Held by Judgo Van Brant.—Nos. 828, 820, 831, 834, 837, 838, 407. Part 3—Held by Judge J. F. Daty.—Now. 900, 991, 1011, 1013, 986, 755, 814, 880, 890, 915, 1012, 1ozi, 819, 826. Manixe Court—Taiat Tenu—Part 1—Held by Judge Alker,—Nos, 4677, 4175, 4176, 4177, 4069, 8182, 1:29, 4550, 4700, 4777, 4799, 4335, 4837, 4850, 4860, Part 2— Held by Judge Goepp.—Nos. 7301, 4591, 4312, 8919, 4754, 8014, 8015, 8539, 4645, 4598, 4722, 4789, 4531, 4504, 4453, 4453, 4733, 8111, 4636, 8417, 8492, Part 3—Held by Jadge Sinnott.— Nos. 4869, 7117, 7318, 6990, 6913, 6182, 6650, 6261, Bis, 7165, 7166, $453, 8503, 8235, $473, 8474, 8491, Count oF GRNERaL Sxssioxs—Part 2—Held by Iudgo Gildersiceve.—The People va. John Burke and David Jobnson, grand larceny; Same vs. Frank Mul- ler, grand larceny; Same va George Smith, grand larceny; Same vs. Adam Woll ond Morris Pincus, grand larceny; Samo va. Hyman Goldstein, grand lar- ceny; Same vs. James Daly, grand larceny; Same vs. Lorenzo Maino and Vivaldi Michele, granu larceny; Same vs. George Hill, grand larceny; Same vs. John Ernest, grand larceny; Same va, George Keys, faise pretenses; Same vs, Jobn Cain, {nlse preton: Same va. John H. Johnson, false pretensos; Same vs, Josoph. Garcia, petit larceny, Part 1—Held by Judgo Suther- land. —The Poepie vs. Danio! Bo homicide. DOMESTIC DIFFICULTY. Mr. James Sudlow, for many sears doorkeeper at Niblo’s Theatre, and father of Bessic Sudlow, the well. known actress, was arrnignod at the Washington Piaco Police Court yesterday, on complaint of bis daughter Mattie Sadiow, professionally known as Miss Frances Leo. It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday Mr, Sudlo Tved with papors in a suit for divorce instituted against him by hiswife; He returned home Jate at night tn a state of intoxication, and after smash- ing some of the furniture proeceded to broak in the door ot bis wite’s room. Miss Sudlow remonstrated with him, when he struck ber and she then caused his arrest On being arraigned before Justice Bixby he said that he was employed in the Custom House and denied the charge, stating that be had always acted toward his family asa kina father and husband, Jus- tice Bixby held him in default of $300 bail for trial, He was anable to farnish the bail and was sent to the Tombs in the prison van. A FATAL WEDDING EVE. William Simmons, aged thirty-five years (colorod), living at No, 243 Wost Twonty-seventh stroet, knocked down by an unknown white man yesterday, and recetved injuries from which he died, It appears that Simmons wae to bo married last night, and to celeb: last day of bachelorhood ne drank to exoess, While intoxicated be staggered up to a white man, who knocked him ¢own, Simmons’ skull struck on the sidewalk and was fractured. fe was taken to tho Chambers Street Hospital, where he died. The person who knocked him down escaped and has not been found. Tho deceased was a porter employed vy John H. Hall, of No, 7s Warren stree. The Coroner will investigate the caro, A STRANGE ACCIDENT. Terrenco McGuire, janitor of public school at No. 122 West Twenty-eighth strect, was found dead at the fous of his basement stars yesterday morning by bis wife, She stated togthe police that he went to bed a little Jater than usuai, and awoke at ono A. M., when he ut down stairs. His prolonged absence caused her searco him, Ibi thought that be down stairs and received injuries that caused bis death. Do ceased was forty-eight years old. The Coroner will hold an inquest, THE REV. BOTT’S TROUBLES, THE FORMAL CHARGES AGAINST HIM—THE DEA COMB ON THEIR METTLE. PHILapRursia, Oct 14, 1876, The Rev. Mr. Bott will probably become well knows to the public, by bis euphonious name at /onst, before his troubles are over, A sequel to the exciting scene in his church and an amusing chare abruptiy ended by a set of false teeth—given exclusively in to-day’s HxnxaLp—took place last night at a meeting of his dca con: 4 church members. The proceedings will ex plain what some of the charges aro which are mad against the holy man. ‘THR CONCLAVE. A Iittle before eight o’c!ock last evening the deacout and such of the malo members of Bott’s cbureh as havo adesire to fairly look into the little ‘indiscre. tions" with which bo ts charged, saserabied in the par. lor of Mr. Charles S Lewis, at No. 140 Richmond street, directly opposite the church, where Mr. Bott was a that very time holding forth to » prayer mecting About twenty-five gent a were present, all mem bers in good standing of the TwelJ:h Baptist church Charles M. Edwards, one of the deacons, was electes moderstor; Jobn Schultze was chosen secrotary, Mr, Thomas M. Thompson, the denanciator of Mr. Bott, then rose and read a statement about bis standing is the church, which Mr. Bott had questioned, in convor- sation with a reporter of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. The deacons present corroborated Mr, Thompson in bis declaration that he was in excellent standing asa member. Afior this personal explanma- tion Mr. Thompson read the following paper, giving some of the charges against Mr. Bott, It by no means covers all that has beon alleged against bim:— WHAT MR. BOTT IS ACCUSED OF. Puicapgceuia, Oct. 12, 1876. To Tar Orricens awp Mxaners ov THE TwELyre Ban Tist Caurcu :— We, the unders! do charge the pastor of this church, the Rey. Thomas B, Boit, with conduct unbe- coming a Christian or minister of the Gospel, We étand able to prove that the said Thomas B. Bott did on numerous occasions during the summer fre quent a resort called THR “PnsH HOUSE,” said resort situated on the bunks of the. Schuylkill River, below ga be Ferry Bridgo, a place occu a club ground, pon his visiting this resort accompanied, invariably, by a sister of this chu represented as his wife. The lady who oming suspicious, asked him The lad gaia upon another visit, w! Easton, mekig bis namo to full Horace Easton. poss i iked the lady in cl ot she satistied repeated the inqut a beenid Ne came warms st he visitor stated is name was of the Tweltth Baptist church, and stated that very much doubted the lady ae companying him 1g hia wife. the grounds, asthe club ad strict ral of the grounds, as tho clu! strict rales as tho character of visitors, and to satisty hi pai geen the question she visited the church Sunday in company with her daughtor. When she arrived oppo- site the church building she saw Horace through the basement window and recognized him and the Rev, Thomas B. Bott to be ono and the same perzon. HR DROPPED HIS HRAD upon his hands, as if to conceal himself, but she had recognized him through the basemopt wiadow, and went up into the church and took a seat in ono of the vacant pews with her daughter, and was approached by Mr. Bott, who asked her if sho had como to disturb the harmony of the church. Sho answered, *‘No; but why dia pe give me your name as Horace Easton ?”’ He gave her to understand that the church ra'es ob. fected to a minister of the Gospel and his wife PLAYING CROQUET, and that the members who wero strict in their views might object und create disturbance in the had given her, Horace Easton. The la that that was not his name, bat that Thomas B, Bott, Dee church. On Monday, the following day, Mr. Bott visited the Fish House and endeavored to explain to the lady, the church?!" “Do you desire to injure advised her to let the matior entioned Sunday the supy ittem pt to enter the church, but altered d_passed down Richmond street, Tho Fish House, who visited the church, did SEEX ON THE CARS. We further stand able to prove that Mr, Bott an® the same lady were seen and recognized by a different in the evening of sayin, and not see her. one to the grounds im question. re INJURING THE CHURCH. We further charge Thomas B. Bott with age tes Position as a minister of the Gospel, a position which should be abeve reproach, pure and unsullied, to the detriment of the Twolfth Baptist church and the de nom| jon in geveral, as also to injuro the cause of Christ throughout the land. WHAT 18 DEMANDED. We, the undersigned, make these charges without malice afosethougnt. ‘Our intentions are pure—te clear up the ovile that beset our church. Weapmand ‘a full investigation of the abot of the church rotusing to have a full and fair trial, or full and fait we shall appeal to a highertribunal. Respectfully sub THOMAS M. THOMPSON, No. 2,102 Gaul street, REUBEN F. BERNARD, No. 1,016 Lacy street, WHAT WILL BE DOSE. After the charges wero read !t was moved and car. ried that there bo a public trial and that witnesses be brought forward to substantiate the various counts in the indictment. The trial, 1s was decided, should take place in some public hall before the male members of the church. A committee of three was appointed for the pui of arranging mattors, consisting of RF, Bernard, Joha Schultze and Thomas M. Thompson. It was rumored to-day that the deacons would to- night do id the koys of the church and keep it closed until the investigation of Bott ts over, PROBABLE MURDER. Jobn Sulltvan, who is known to the police as a man of indifferent character, was arraigned at the Essex Market Court charged with naving stabbed and danger, ously wounded Mr. Gustave Ballion, of No. 16 Spring street, The facts in the case were fully detailed in the ante-mortem statement made by Mr. Ballion to Coroner Woltman yesterday. Mr. Ballion sald:—This morp- ing, October 15, I lett my house, near six o’clock, vo go to Mr. Breckman, at No. 18 Chrystic street, for the purpose of procuring some goods from Catharine Markot. On my way there | met amanin Chrystie street, noar Bayard, who was carrying a bundle ander each arm. My suspicions were aroused that he pad stolen the goods. 1 looked around fora police officer, and on tinding one on the corner of Chrystie and Bayard streeis I informed him of what | had _ seen. Atthis time the man had tarned into Bayard strect and was going toward Forsyth. 1, in company with the officer, started to run after him, and asI came | to him, or near him, he turned around toward me an stabbed me with a knife tu tho abdomen. At this time the uificer took hold of him. Betore 1 came up with him the policeman and myseli cried out to him to stop, bat he paid no attention to us He never spoke a word to me betore he stabbed mo. 1 took held of him after this and held on to him until the officer teok bim to the station house. The bundlos he bad under bis arms were throwa away by him, but somebody picked thom to the officer, I was taken to the station, with the assistance of othors, The man who inflicted the injuries is now betore me. Justice Murray held the prisoner in defoult of $2,000 bail, and he was subsequontly committed to the Tombs by order of Coroner Woltman. A PERSISTENT THIEF. ’ Jonn Hanlon, aged twenty years, of No. 836 Fast Forty-cighth street, a notorious character, was brought to the Fifty-seventh Street Court yesterday on a charge of snatching 4 watch from a lady on Fifticth sireet of Saturday night. He has been already im State Prison on a charge of watch stealing. A few weeks ago he was detected in the #t of breaking into a grocery store, on the corner of Forty-stxth street and Second avenue; he next broke into and robbed a liquor store, at the corner of Forty-sixth street and Second avenue ho stole a gold waten from August Bowser, of No. 8: Thompson stiect, He was held for trial. “WHO WAS HR? The anknown man who was pickod up insensible in Duane street on the 11th inst. and taken to the New York Hospital, whero he died om Satdrday last, is sup- posed, from papers on his person, tobe A. 8, Bachanaa Two certificates of the Neshamack O11 Creek Company |. for 800 shares and of for 200 shares, both in wore found hit Greenwood Cemet check on the Pennsyly: Teal Jersey City to Philadelphia, The sixty years of age. BUCOLIC ECONOMY. It was on a Broadway car. A gentieman from the rural district ond his wif As the car passed ai they admired the sights in the buatling streets and be compared them with those to be seen “to hum.” Ae the car approached Twentieth street the wife became nervous, and when that street was reached clutched “Yes,” said the conductor Woll, 1 to buy a few things and won't bo gono mere than Ove minutes, will you watt? 1 will be sure in a tow momeuts—"" “1 ow Op, " oar jam, must go right al Amid the lovks of amazement ([OONTINUBD ON NINTH PAGKI the conductor, from Me ene ee ee ee Bg pee ne eT