The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1876, Page 8

« Kurope. PULPIT TOPICS. The Duties of Christian Citizens in Pe- riods of Political Excitement. MORAL REFORM IN LARGE CITIES. Sermor& in Various Churches on the Questions of the Hour. A MESSAGE OF COMFORT. The Blessed Virgin as an Inter- cessor for Sinners, MAKING ELECTION SURE. Rev. William R. Alger on Dra-’ matic and Ascetie Spirit. ALL SOUL# CHURCH. HE DUTY OF CHRISYIAN CITIZENS IN PERIODS OF HIGH POLITICAL EXCITEMENT-—THE HERALD’s wispoM, canpon AND sTATZES- MANSHIP—-A SERMON BY REV. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D. D. In All souls’ church, yesterday morning, Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., delivered a discourse on the present peculiarly excited conditions of the public mind ig, relation to the Presidential contest, taking his text @om saab, xxii, 20, 21—‘*And it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and 1 will clothe bim with thy robe and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hands, and be shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jeru- salem and to the house of Judab.’’ Having re- peated his text, he said:—Yhe threatened in- vation of Jewry by the Persians was the pecasion of the excitement in gerusalem, to which the chapter from which the text is taken refers. There were those who wept and mourned aud girded them- selves with sackcloth, and there were those who were Billed with joy and gladness and slew oxen and sheep apd drank wine, according as their sympathies went with or against the prospects of a change of rulers. he peoplo were mad with excitement. “What aileth thee now that thou art gong up to the housetops, that thou art full of stirs; a tumultuous city; a joyous city; thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in batile?’? Human nature is very constant to Keelf. Wehave just been having in New York the mame state of divided feeling that they had in Jerusalem; of hope and fear, of joy and sorrow, of feasting and fasting, according as the sentiment of perty and patriotism, after their several forms of opinion and preterence, have been thrown up or cast down by the conflicting and shifting reports of victory and defeat in the scattering sections of our vast territorial and political Unio: while the choice of a national ruler and policy bi been bung in the nearly even and most uncertain bi ance of the electoral vote. Our slain men have not been slain by the sword, but by the noiseless fall of Dallots; but the fate of the conflict by artillery and musketry, between two nearly equal armies, could not be more anxious or fuller of intense interest than the result of this peacoful controversy as to the hands Into which the people of this country are to commit the government for the next Presidential term. The verdict ts not yet declared, bat, happily, nothing any of us can say or do can affect the result, THE QUESTION 18 SETTLED, Dut how is it sottled? Only complete returns can tell. End as it may, good citizens will acquiesce in the re- sult; let bad men or impatient or blind partisans on either side object and struggle against it as they may, any dhdisputed decision will be better than farther countenance of an excitement which Wfames the coarser and low disciplined minds of the nation with violent animosities and the desire to use any means of making their own Bide Victorious. Already there aro signs of a dis- astrous disposition to allege fraud or dispute legal re- wurns, or to carry the question iuto Congress. These shallenges, however unbappy, must be met, But ldo Bot hesitate to say tbat either party, peacefully and with the acquiesence of the other, according to power, tg vastly to be preferrea toa prolonged struggle for the mastery in an electoral college, perplexed by pop- ular tumult as to its plain duty, or a Congress made ap largely of persons directly or passionately in- erested in one or the other side of the dispute, What ould be worse for the country (ban thres months more of inflammatory discussion and dangorous sus- pense as to the personal and political character of ovr coming rulers? Inthe opinion of many all the fear- ful evils accompanying a disputed succession ia monarchical countries would be likely to attend such Qn uncertainty. L.tit be our duty to acknowledge al! the real iilegalities or uncertainties, but to discour- age all demagogical efforts to dispute the ro- turns when they have » tair show of legality, and to pacify the angry passions that hav their source only in mere party rage or perso fisappointments im tbe straggle for place. Howe’ tiled ove thing is plain, the coun- 18 so evenly livided in its preferences and wishes that candor must concede that neither party carries anything like ‘weighty moral majority, or has the authority of an rwhelming conviction that its candidates and pul- unqualifiedly ey are yreatly to be preferred and srusted. The nation bas decided that the issues be- lore it are not clear enough and ot such obvious antag- pnism th itcap go with decisive apd enthusiastic | 3 into either camp. That vas been , perhaps, the most tmportant thing more important tha the most essen 1 interests are not in dispute. The people have ilearly said, by their nearly even electoral vote on voto sides, that THE [SSUES OF THX WAR ARE NOT IN DANGER whichever side prevails; that voth parties are over- whelmingly in favor of maintaining the amendments of the constitution; that the periis of ihe southern slaims, which have pressed so largely In the campay, bave not seemed to them real or substantcal; that th arraignment of personal character in the leading can- (dates has not seriously affected their confidence, being judged, of a too vindictive or a too bypothetical nature. Above all, they have the good pense to see what the excellent Governor Hayes nas iready ssid within a few days; that the commercial and Onancial difficulties of the country are mainly in- fependent of party action or even political and Cop- fressional policy, having their origin in much larger and more general causes, affecting simultancousiy | all commercial countr and due some General = misadjustment labor and — capital, or the distarbauce caused by a vast yield of new mines Bf the once stavle measures of value of goid and silv or the creaier production of articles of no absolut Secessity under the stimulus of new power of ma thinery than the consuming ability of the world jus- | fies, Or the diversion of the peopl of the world from | neuitural to civic life or the vast stauding armies | a false policy bas :1° cved upon the great nations Evidently .o. wain evils business bas sul- fered here aud elsewhere are not of 4 purely political are, and cannot be abated by partixan politics. Ab y Fate, that is the decision of ¢ merican people tn the present neutralized result of party preiences on doth siden, W ir comes into office now, happiiy, r ¢ somes in as President of « vouniry prepared te believ hat honest purposes an impartial admin of the constitution by the choice of uber party must be and will be sale And “propitious to the general interests, let bis Special views of the only matiers in dispute be what Shey will, The grokt matters evidently are not much Oy dispute. Take the uisturbed and distressing condi- tion of certain portions of the southern country, par- ticularly South Carolina and Louisian: Is there any if minded man who does not now suspect that the difficulties in these States are inherent and incuratie, Bnd that apy action, or want of action, in the central ernm: may from the inevitable predom: frases of the negro vote? Willanybody deny thatit is Freat nistortune to those States to be at the political mercy of A HORDE OF RECENT SLAVES | Mill mainly anedacated and only half crvitized? It is we can cndurg in the city of New York to ministrators ol our local goverument, and pur State government, too, mainly decided by the vor largely of the uni drilled 1p corner our bureaus of education, aod lower our and moral lie by the predominauce of an at or irresponsible and w vicious ruling We submit to it, beavy aud morsilying «8 because we not escape it without peut ‘Blass She burden or pushing asd constitational rights jes which wo believe to be, im their working, bighly tavorabie to the prospects BRumaoity. Will anybody pretend that the govern- of a majority, iergely composed of mk ing ae ‘Misled voters, is mot « great trial to mes pense and reflection and real devotion vo the public | tinue. | discover that he w: NEW YORK HERALD, good? But, om the other band, a govern rivileged minority of virtue and n ound in Other countries to ba sequevces—to perpetuate inequalities, to discourage popular education, to make the political education dillicult or impossible, to sow distrust and upeasiness aud hatred of iawaod order im the minds of the common people, to encourage crime aud increase poverty. So we deliberate y choose the lesser evil of uoiversal sul- frage, With as ita consequences, But it is still a choice of evils, and in &® community like this it becomes at times almost intolerable and threatens revolution. 1s boi the case & nearly parallel one atthe Soutb? The sudden and complete emancipation of the slaves by tho hecessities of the constitution, unattainable except by the legalized violence of the war power, was the most dreadiul remedy for a bi jad become critically nce, If we treed th but to make them c: zens; and it we'tmade them citizens the constitution loit us no option to distinguish against them in any way as compared with white citizous and voters, and it leit the late slave States no freedom to regulate matters that touched the rights of all the people, vlack and whit iu a way suited to the then urgent State neces- sities. Can apy candid map of either party deny the trightful bi Dip of this political necessity ? Could any party, by any measeres not unconstitu- tiomal, make it more or less irksoi to the natural ruling class in Southern States’ Cup you piace your- suit in the position of a Southern white, late a master, and educated by many past associations in the feel- ings of superiority to the negro, and not understand the inevitable disgust and borror he must feel ot a government, ajudiciary, a representation in State and national posit{ons exercised by his late slaves? The wonder is that the whites bare not taken more and Worse advantage of their newly acquired political power. tut what has the federal government to do meanwhile? inful and distressing as the necessity may be, can it allow the constitution and the funda- mental law to be trampied on acd set aside in Louis- jana and South Carolina because it is inberensly javorable to the political sway of tho least compe- tent portion of her citizens? No! South Carolina and Loulsiand and other States must suffer their part of the disadvantages of equal law and universal sul- Irage. If any are ununited, are humitiated, 1% is because their social condition is highly unfavorable to the in- mediate satisfaction of those fixed principles of gov- ernivent which the nation Onds necessary tor the com- mon good, and cannot and will not change, however trying they may be to special States. That the people of this country has settled by a bloody sucritice of a million lives and billions of money. They will not and cannot go back upon their costly record. ‘There ts no possibility of adjusting our national constitution and our doctrine of universal suffrage amd equatity belore the law to the immediate comfort aud accept ance of the South, or even our own city of New York and the city of Brooklya. The South, as New York does, must adjust itself to ite paintul necessity. NO PARTY, NO PRESIDENT, NO CONGRESS can, without revolution, do much more or less than the’ federal government bas done ever since the war. The difficulties are incorrigible, except by time and the slow iniluence of education and religion. They were apticipatea by civic men ; they have not excecded their fears, and np party can have much to do with changing the conditions ander which they exist and will con- Moreover we cannot stop emigration from the North into the South, and if we could it would bea great calamity. If a new party, supposed to owe ite elevation to a solid South, but whien really, itis likely to turn out, chooses to bave its piace taken by a di- vided South, were in power, its friendliness to its con- stituents there would, perhaps, tend somew! reconcile the Southern leaders to evils that the new tration Wouid soon show itself utterly unable waterialiy to diminish. It might have the happy effect of leading the unintelligent people in the South to see that they misdirect their sacrifices when they attribute their grieis to causes curable by any federal forbearauce or interposition. Their misfortunes are hereditary—form, bone and home fostered. It is impossible for them to bave a union which, it must be confessed, 8 equally impossible for them; not to feel is just now highly unfavorable to their natural feelings, their pride, their past and their immediat miterests, We may id should pity them; ay und should favor the shortest and most considerate dealing with their sociabilities; but we have duties to perform to our wards, to the negro and his prospects and rights, which are even more sacred and imperative, and no party will long dare to treat him with injustice or negiect. I believe that the next administration, be it what it will, 1s equally pledged by the public sentiment of the nation to maintain re- publican government in the Soutn, West and, North with impartial energy. Let’ it favor or disfavor apy class, black or white, #0 it Toliows the constitution and the genius of the national feglings and couscience. Passing then to a consideration 01 the necessity for the preservation of law and order under all circumstances, he came to in entire accord with the position held by the New York Huranp, and say distincily :— * THR NEW YORK HERALD. “It is encouraging to see somevof the chief organs and guides of public opinion in the press publishing articles full of wisdom, prudence and patriotism; and 1 wiil not withhuld ao expression of special admiration for the spirit, tone and nutional temper of the Nsw Yorx Henan, whose course during the present ex- citement bas been a model of caution, candor and pub- lic wisdom. The popular press of the country has now @ great service in its power, and I rejoice to see that so considerable @ part, and the mightiest part of i, is fulfilling it this moment with most remerkal skill, Let 1; continue its warnings and encou: ments, urge the fair claims of both parties, and all will be well.” bd CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. “MAKING ELECTION SURE”—SERMON BY THE REV. RB. 8. MACARTHUR. A large congregation listened to the Rev. R. 8. MacArthur yesterday morning, at the Calvary Baptist church, Twenty-third street, between Filth and Sixth avenues, on “Making Election Sure,” The pastor's text was IL Peter, 4, 10—‘Wherefore tne rather, brethren, givo diligence to make your calling and election sure: for it ye do these things, ye snall never fall.” Introducing his subject the minister said that we had just passed through, or, more strictly speak- ing, were still passing througb a very exciting election, It wi ime when weare called upon to possess pa- tience. Friends should not be lost because their political preferences are at variance with our own; politicians do not care for us iurther than to use us, but we must live with our friends, and no unkind words should pass between those we love merely be- cause of party strife and party difference. Let the purity of purpose be conceded to each party which they so strenuously claim; let cach be givon all that 18 asked by their respective leaders, but do notallow their bickerings to become our own. Each party is bad enough, but they aro not so bad as each asserts the other is. Jn this country one party most suffer defeat, so let the verdict of the people be taken and accepted as fi Either man so recently belore the country as candidate for the bighest office of the land is better, jar better, than strife or trouble. This conviction 1s all the more forced upon us by the recent action of President Grant on the existing situation. With his marvellous coolness and courage, which har so often aistinguished him in the past, aud hke his gailant deeds on the field of battle, he has counselied the course which must lead to the right and periect peace. Let us ali imitate it and justice will prevail. ‘The elec- tron of oitber candidate will not do away with the hard times; nerther will it put the country into bankruptcy. God rales, and He will protect and preserve us from any calam But, continued the minister, we are citizens of another country. We are called upon to make our calling and eicclion sure as Christians—which remark prefaced @ discussion of the doctrine of election. It ‘was claimed (bata fair analysis of the thoughts which men possess on the subject will convince them of the full extent of its meaning. There 1s nothing, however, in this doctrine to lessen our {reedom ot ac- Vion of our efforts to secure eternal | The only question is, Is this doctrine true? And it should be accepted, whether 1t is understood or not, God a sumes the responsibility. Trust Him, and then our election, with ali its glorious results, may be made sure. ‘On Tuesday last, said Preacher, we saw a sub- lime sight, The destinies, tor a time, of 40,000,000 people were settied by a quiet, silent vote. Io this Vast Metropolis, the centre of so many strong party differences, there was universal quiet; not a person suffered barm; all was peace. Now a nation is wait- ing tor the verdict; and at one time, whtie on the tor- ture wheel of suspense, threatened to break out into trouble, It must bave oven excecdinsly harassing to those ditectiy interested. If their suspense was great perplextag how much more sbouid be ours, that we make our elec! for bea: Give mea man who his Jesus in bis heart, who bus consecrated his life to Him, and you will give me 4 man who trom the first has been elected to eternal giory, Though wo have never been permitted to look over the shoulder of God into His book of desigas we are pertmitied to live for Him, and that is enough, See how troubled tue polttteta have been since the late election. They couid make bo promises ior those seeking places of Brow, because they were in doubt as to their own election; but the Christian man or woman, whose calling and elec tion are pot assured, is himself or Lersell alone to blame. It 1s our duty to accept Christ as offered, and that done He is able to keep you and bring you torth into perfect peu Banish ali tears, Give them to the winds. Trust your whole soul to Christ, and all the powers of death and bell will be unavle to draw you from the band of God. To insure an election we sbould bo diligent, God kuew who was to be and is President of the United States T efforts; Ub their parucular can q should be as earnest and acti work, \o make our calling and election beyond doubt. In toe one case one party must fail, bus in ours all can succeed; ali can secure the prize. Good things are always costly. If you want pebbles you can flod them by the hanasful, but if you want diamonds it costs a e deal to obtain them. Just so the prize of the high calling: itcan only be secured by our utmost ex- ertion, As Christians wo stand rebuked by the nestness of the political workers in the recent cam- You know how they flooded the country with and documents; men addressing comparative air 8 1B them to vote fur (his or that candidate; you know how loreigners were nu\uralized tat they might exercise the right of ciuzensmip. You know all this ao more, and the earnesiness with which the Javor Was periorised rebukes ux for our feeble efforts on the greater work. Let the exainple tot imitated, The pustor finish: by calling bis hearers’ own election, Yi re candidaies tor evernity. for life or death. Shall it be everlasting shai glory? You are sons and daughters of God, Noman or woman will be banished from 1s of their own choice, Second—Are you assured our election? If you love Him it is because He loved you: if you have chosen Him it is because a ose you. Practical tests must decide if we ba' in our hearts Set aside all speculations. bave seen the recent earthly race for earthly but remember we are running the heavenly race a for heavenly prizes, aud the glory and power a profit are to last for all time and eternity. May all secure the latter. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH. 4 MESEAGE OF COMFORT—SEEMON BX ™* REY. J. D. HERR. At the Central Baptist church yosterday the J. D. Herr, the pastor, preached from Isaiah, xi., 1) “Comfort ye my people, saith your God.” Durii this week of great political excitement, said the re' erend gentieman, many pes and fears have excited im the breasts of thousands. What anxi: hearts had watched the morning newspapers; w momentous questions hung om telegraphic messages! All was ehaos and contusion im the political worl{ Men wno had ni been known to irserest meme in politics now clustered around the bullets and eagerly bought the newspapers in hope of knowing the truth, Whata joyous thot is, then, to know that God still reigns. We know is'on high, governing us justly and lovingly. There no doubt or speculation. If not for this o world would soon become a moral chaos, But bever forgets his chosen ones:—*I come with a m sage of comiort.’’ as cold water to the thirsty, so 8 news to my beloved. God commands nis ¢c’ vants to speak tenderly. Not only does he pi them, but be also comforts them. The messuge from'God. He sends us testimonials of His regar: His is @ large family, but He knows them all anu "| loves to send them comforting messages. As a fathi pitieth bis children, so doth the Lora love an pity us, The comfortia| messages to us. God wants His people bappy, “In the world tribulation, in me peace.” This com Jort is sent to *‘my people.” His by electin; By wrace, not of works, lest any mi boul boast, but of fash. We are not chosen because better than others, Jacob by nature was not as as Esaa, yet God chose him toshow to youand to me tie riches of His wondertul grace. We are sometinns enemies and rebels, yet God reveals Himsoli to as. All who believe shall be saved, and He has opened the ‘way of salvation to us by Hisonly Son. Many of God’) children ure weary. They are pilgrims, travellers, fqou sore and weary. Like 1 they are discouraged by the way. Christ will be our burdens, will lightes the way, will comfort us if we only turn to Him, PRESBYTERIAN MEMORIAL CHURCH! MORAL REFORM IN LARGE UITIES—SERMON BY REY. C, 8, ROBINSON, D. D. \ At the morning service of the above church yester, day, during the course of prayer, the pastor spoke of the excited condition of the whole country over the Political situation, and asked that peace might come out of the fe ot disturbance and the Republic bq secured to us on a firmer and better basis. | ‘The text of the sermon was taken from the Psalms, exxvii., 1—Excopt the Lord keep the city the wateb, man waketh but in vain’’—and the object of the dis- course was to show the necessity for the work ef th: New York Mission Association, in aid of which tho collection of the day was taken up. Light, he said, we are accustomed Im large cities to associate with security and as prcventive of erime.| Sin comes in, but when the lamps blaze upon it it shuns the glare and seoks its hidden haunts, More hight is wanted hore, and I make it the plea for the mission 3 it is for the protection of our property, the guarding of our lives and characters and all Uhris- tian attributes. We want more chapels and nofsta- tion houses. The arrests for crime in this city were one-third less than usual during the weeks of service at the Hippodrome, and the thought turnishes matter for serious consideration, People from villages cau- not understand the vice and wickedness of large cities, They are beyond their comprehension. It is easy to say men are men everywhere; but they are not and do not answer the sample, In Jarge cities their ideas become exaggerated, they feck to make lortunes iu an hour, avarice and grecd prevail, and bifsiness men be- come mere gamblers. THE TWO EXTREMES OF SOCIETY meet upon the same sidewalk and one negatives the other. The minds of men are gir ones Go intoa village store, how quiet it is and what polite attontion you receive. Let even a minister of the gospel go inio one here and he will not receive the commonest civility. Precious time and business hours are made excuses to tucn bim off almost indecently, Men die and buried on tho same Diock, and we know not nor quire nor care who they are. Passions are stronger. We are fond of pretty veneering ratber than solid wood, tinsel instead of gold. These are plain facts which we seo before us overy day of our lives, Polit- ical intriguers 01 both parties are open to the same censure. The ignorant, heterogencvus mass of fore ers who come to our shores are looked to lor their value in politics, and demagogues and priests set upon them for their votes, The rightof suffrage has become a farce for decent people, and the cry for a comes {rom the whole country, except in large citi in dens of ROBRERY AND ROMAN CATHOLIC RULE. The press is not only secalar, but sceptical. It rales the country with powerful sway—a portion of it for good, but the majority 18 burtiul. Infamous lier are printed without a blusb, talse despatches are put down as enterprise and religion pelted with abuse. All these things form a strong reason for an evangelical eflort. Do you propose education for a remedy? If you do you wili only have a smarter class of villains in the worid. Our missions, are they to be coi red ou! police while we are ip the country? Is it not worth while for us to attack Satan in his stronghold? Do not cities bave claims upon the whole country for their evangelization or HAS GOP NO CLAIM ON AMERICA? But how are these things to be remedied? Legislation has been insufficient, aud Jaw without pubiic sentiment is no gooa. We have been helped and hindered by specific enactments, and moral reform has been a failure among the masses What has been done is but as a bucket of vice out of an ocean of ipiquity. If you build a church where a brewery has been you do not destroy it; it simply moves to location. Our churches ure pot seeking the multi- vudes who have most need of them, and t! do not seek the churches ; nor do tt expect to seck them. What is buriful they will go r, but what is good must bo brought tothem. Thedrunken fatner wit blocks to buy rum, while the good milk for his family must be served at his door. Our Divine Lord sent out His seventy messengers in pairs io the cities to go there and converse with the people. Paul said he knew that bonds and affliction were awaiting him, and yet be songbt the metropolitan cities. working for Christ. They are the high vantage ground for gospel arullery. Bible is full of » MASONIC TEMPLE. CERTAIN TRUTHS-—-SERMON BY BEY. O, B. FROTHINGHAM, Mr. Frothingham began his sermon yesterday morn- ing by saying that the demand for certainty was s0 common that it might almost be calied universal. ars you know how their ers went from town to town, froin to urging ds entreating; | know personal solicitations were Doubt, said the speaker, is agreeable or disagreeable according to the temperament of the person who en- tertains it, There are men and women so eager in the pursuit of truth, so giad in the joy that comes in the arch for it, that doubt is agreeable to their minds as mulant for iurther research. They would prefer not to know. There are others to whom doubt brings simply indifference. Why admit concluaions of things, they say, that cannot be solved? Devove your life go material pursuits, get wealth, got influence, get posi- tion, but let shese questions about the hereafter of the soul fait until tho veil is lifted Theso peopie are simply crashed by doubt. Doubt shuts the door that opens into eternity. They become careless, indiffers ent, prosaic. Their lives become utterly without in- spiration, Such people are to be the most profoundly pitied, because they have given up the simple quest after tratn and uty which digni- lies, enuobles and glorifies the human dein, Then there are others who are sensitive, shy, who suller agonies from doubt; to whom the coudl- tion of doubt 18 tbe cond.tion of the uttermost dis tress; Who must jcel sure, who must have bave their feet stand upon arock. These are by far the greatest number. The tacts that we have certitied ure but very jew, but the smailest is worth ali the conjecture of the mind. A single thing that we are sure ot at all is worth more (0 US than al! the grand systems of the- ology and philosophy that science bas been trying to baidup. Ji there is one truth Known it Will be a greater support iv oar weekuess, a better consolation in our sorrow, a better deliverance in our temptation, than anything that the imagination can conceive be- side, lo speaking of the theory of chance, Mr. Froth- ingham said there was a time when everything was considered to come by chance; but now there is no such thing as @ world of chance. 11 was not so very long ago when a world of chance seemed to be all the natural world there was. Further on law was seen, and now chance is law; the world of chavce is the in of chance comes th omes from anothe How wide it is! for one thing secured. Billions of seeds wasted for one that gérminates The sower flings broad bis seed, mght and left ; some of it perishes only a little of it falls on good ground and is produc- tive, It is so im fruit, in flowers, of animals and man, But enongh was saved to meet the wants of man- kind. Tho harvest ts plenty trom year to year. There are flowers enoug enouga; thero animals jough—as many as are needed. touches the realm of necessity. It will be discovered by and by that tuings were saved which were lost before, aud were ed becaose the conditions were better understood than they ever were betore. The waste of desire, how vain it is! Written upon the front ot human lite the word illusion, Lite is filled with disappointment. Nothing quite comes up to our ex- It turns ns to decay in the vones. but for a moment Ss away andis gone. Aod yet the pursuit of pleasare comes wn men and women with such intensity as though it always brougnt a last. 16 futility of the pursuit of proverb, and yet thore is but desires happiness, The j futility of ambition has also gained notoriety. The writer of Proverbs bas written upon it as delusive, and yet everybody ts giad when he gets the Presidency of the United States, The waste of nobleness and virtue makes esty seem ridiculous We should all be epicurians if we took our views from the nervice ol the world. But it “ a fact thal ey paperdinn € aa Sai repatation of virtue, virtue is a ni 1Dmst Upon the necessity of being virtuous and} heroic, 11 to-day thero were iadications that the war of fiteen years ago was to be repeated, that those same horrors were to be renewod, we should sec the same heroism, Lriotism, faith, hope and devotion tbat we saw then. jut suppose that the waro! fifteen years should declared a pe failure. | Notwithstanding that, the children of those very people would get up in the very places, seize the same weapons devo themselves with the s: atiention and heroism that their fathers did. Take evil. We all know what that is too well, so there ts no necessity of describing it; but here 18 a point which shows (hat evil is a necessary eiement in the progress o! the world:—Tbere is no progress without pain; there 18 no movement without pain—physical pain—moral, public, personal, lt is a spur driven into the siacs of humapity to make bu- manity march forward. For men like ease and com- fo \d unless they ure whipped they will not go the way they were required, In closing ihe speaker said:—There are two atti- tudes tak ainst the law of government or divine decree: one 18 the attitude of complaint, ‘There a men who say it 1s cruel; we reseLt it; we protest against it; we fling ourselves into itstace. To what purpose? 'It 1s mere childish foily to dash your head against the wall. The next is resignation—tho-e whosay we cannot help it; we cannot do anything; it is vain to change or alter the course of things; we must make the best of 1. Those people speak of resignation. It's & passive resignation, that merely submits, which complal: br h, which murmurs, but will but little use 2 Positive resignation ascreatures toa beautiful necessity; a necessity of beauty, law andorder. As the bee makes honey 10- dustriously for man to eat, so men and women, but with a grim determination, but with an clastic buoy- ancy and joy, enter into the great project of couspir- ipg asiar as they can with that great order which draws all the world to 1s. There is vo life so small that may not work into the very texture of Providence, There is no hand so childish but muy take hold of the fnvisible band reaching through the darkness und s0 be led into the highs PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE INFLUENCES OF HOLINESS—SERMON BY REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Plymouth church was again thronged yesterday, and several hundred were unable to gain admission, Mr. Beecher made bis appearance on time, looking serene and hearty, Before the sermon he baptized seven in- fants. Miss Lasar in the choir sang an old familiar RomanCatholic hymn and subsequently the congrega- tion joined in psalms, Mr. Beecher took for the text of bis sermon I], Corinthians, x., 4—‘'For the weapous of our warfare arc not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.”’ Paul more than any other of the workers in the Church might be called the apostle of force. Paul was more energetic than the tumultuous Peter. The whole personality of Paul may be called a force, He had an imperisl nature and the nation from which he sprung was imperial, The Hebrews had an organized theocracy. They be- lieved they were destined to overrun and conquer the world. Paul’s nature was not changed when he was converted to Christ. Throughout his whole life the genius of the apostic was that of a general of an army going forth to conquer, Between Cesar and Paul the diflerence was that tho one’s ambition was to over- come the physical and the other the spiritual world, Pani had little sensibility to poctry and art, and it was only the physical force in arcbitecture that arrested bis attention, His eye was caught by the gigantic power of Rome, and his writings are full of fighting figures, He speaks about putting on the armor of God, about putting on the breastpiate of righteousness, of taking the sword of the Spirit, the helmet of salva- tion and the shield of faith, At no period of the world’s history was there so much misery as then. Tho dynasties of the earth were bad, very bad. Everything was suught for by physical force, by the lower nature in man. The best part of manhood was like an undug mine. The power of gooiness in every and all relations of life was an art unlearned, a sci- ence not discovered. Throughout all Paul’s teachings there runs tho theory that the genius of Christiunity lay in the subjugation of evil by the goodness im man; the intrinsic, inherent divinity that isinthe higher range of buman faculties To Paul’s mind the regeneration of mankind was notin reason- ing, but In the drawing out of the intrinsic goodness in men. He did not believe that the world was to be saved entirely by light and knowledge. When hoe speaks of the sword of the tr igea ne means thereby love, peace, tleness, trash. self-control and holt- ness, and with thes trusted to conquer the evil in the world. At first look goodness ppears weak and feeble before organized wickedness, but see the power that has come down into the world from Him who was born into it in pov- erty and obscurity, and bad no place whereon to lay His head. This power was the power of love and good- ness, Noman is fit to reform another man unless he can feel that man’s infirmities, take him to his bosom and stand in his place. The world is full of men who are bent ou reforming others by the law of terror and vengeance. Here the preacher enlarged $pon the might and majesty of goodness, and related the effects of light upon health. “But if,” said he, in a dramatic wi “you wore to strike a match »n a room and say, ‘Don’t you feei better?’ it would be ridicaiou: The re. gation laughed, and a little child laughed especially joud, whereupon Mr. Beecher said, ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise."’ Then there was more merriment, and Mr. Beecher con- tinued and dweit at length on the beauty of holiness and the influence of love and gooduess, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE LOVE O¥ GOD—SEBMON BY MR. HEPWORTH, Mr. Hepworth preached to his flock yesterday morn- ing from the text, John, xvii., 26—*'l have declared unto them thy name and will declare it, that the Jove where- with thou hast loved me may be in them, and { in them.” We see here a statement and a promise. Christ says that He has declared tho name of God and He adds that He will continue to declare it. What, then, is the name of God which Jesus thus makes the foundation otf His ministry and the rainbow of the world’s promise? The old hymn has it, “That ‘name to us is love.” Jesus then makes Himself respon- sible for the taith of tnose who put their trast m Him, He is said by the apostle to be the author of our faith and its foundation also, He is our completed faith. If ‘we believe in Him we need believe nothing more; if we goto Him we need go nowhere else, Heis the fountain of the river and the ocean that reqgives it atits mouth, and in Revclations Ho is called the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. So that Christianity con- sists in faith, your hand in the band of Christ, and in being led by Him without once questioning his motive, without once trying to penetrate into His plans, rest- ing secure in the /act that He is omnipotent and has given us nis promise of safety. But what did Jesus pray for in that wonderful chap- ter? He prayed that as God loved Him so the world might love Him. He prayed that we might all fall in love with Christ, even as Jesus reposes in the love of God, and that they and He might be one, even as He and the Higher are one; that ali may be one in purity and in spirit. Not that God will come down to the Jevel of our human nature, but that by the process of regeneration, which is magical, haman nature will be transmuted; itshall even partake of divinity, and then God’s plans will be our piaus and His will our will. Love and indiflerence aro not exchangeable terms, Love 18 impulsive; love knows no reat. LOVE 18 ACTIVITY, and one who loves pours out his soul into another's life, and ts interested in that other lilo, even sometimes to the dogree of solf-iorgeifulness. Ono cau become so absorbed in what another js doing that he can torget (or a time, at least) what ke should be doing himseit, {fn Proportion to our love we sball bo seli-torgetiul. ‘That is precisely the kind of love God has for us. But it 1s terrible to think that in such a congregation | ug this there are not only saints who walk with cheir heads in the clouds but men who do not even lok up to see if the heavens are over their heads; and one of the saddest thoughts that ever impresses a | minister in the presence of a large congregation ts that there ure men in the reach of his voice who are on the slippery road to ruin—men to-day who, in twelve months from now, unless something is done to save them, will goto destruction. 1s it not true that morally aad spiritualiy? look to the blue sky we fee! that tn jg vo indifference there concerning their fate, that r is filled with anxious faces trying to devise some means to save them, and perhaps the very rains that reiresh the carth aro TRANS PROM ANGKIS? RYES, that will not be stayed because earth 1s 80 iniquitous. then God’s love is active, and in what way has He shown His activity? fie has done it by sending Jesus Christ into the world to blow the warn- jote—a note sounded from Judean hilltops, and up and reverberated till at last it sounds 1m the ath century clear and distinct, as though Christ had just put bis lips to the trumpet; a voice of wurn- ing, bidding all hesitate im oar career and become more thougbtiul, giving us one more opportunity to look up and unlouwe the bonds of siavery and stand freemen once more; another opportu- nity to take auother chart than that by which we have sailed, it is wonderful, 1 “wonder d more that God loves us thas actively, that 6 anxious for us aud aves so much for us, and jurprised and alarmed at the fact ‘nat we are so undeserving of it i ald think God would just close His hand once in a while and just try the experiment of jotting us get on without Him. 1 wonder that He does not eclipse the sun and jet us walk ior @ fow days or years or generations in the darkoess of our own deeds. I wonder at God's ior- bearance toward all of us. We don’t deserve His kind- ness. ‘ We do not merit what He bas done for us, what He 18 doi tor ua, por what fle promises todo. But, brethren, His Bee w vi ve; that is al ‘ioe Him tt enough. 1 change ou: Var love is not perfect. You must have lave before horizontal, and when you R 13, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. body and blood under the appearance of bread and Jove all the te heaven then it will extend all east fo weet, frown north to south. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. THE BLESSED VIRGIN AS AN INTERCESSOR YOR SINNERS—DISCOURSE BY REV. FATHER WALSH, OF HALIFAX. ‘The attendance at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in Mul- Derry street, yesterday at the various services was very large, owing, doubtiess, parually to the fino weather and the fact that a strange priest would preach at the morning service. The music, which 1s a leature of the religious services at shis church, was, as usual, ofa high order. The sermon was preached by Rev. Father Waish, of Halifax, N. S., the subject being the tenderness and love of the blessed Virgin Mary us an intercessor for sinners, She surpassed all the satuts, said he; is pext to Jesus Christ, who gave her to us as an intercessor; wos immaculate at the conception, and is ever immacutate, It was to her the angel sad—“Hail Mary, tull of grace’? atter Chriat she is most worthy of our admiration and jove. *Does the bis Virgin take an interest in us ?’’ was a question the minister proceeded to answer by reterring to acts done by ber during our Saviour’s sojourn on earta, including the miracte of chang ng the water into wine ot the marriage feast in Cana ol Galilee. Her tender compassion was here showo when she said to (he Saviour—‘*They ba ‘Then it was that Christ, in answer to or appeal of the biessed Mother, wror She is our mother; she is filled with tenderness and compassivn tor ali of us, and is interoe with Cort for us continually, It was Christ Dimseif who yave her to us, who placed us under (he wing o! ber protec- lion, and ber compassionate heart will never cease Lo plead for us at the throne of grace. Not only does she intercede for us as individuals, but she intercedes ior communities Pius VIL, that good Pope, acknowledged the fact that it was by the intercession of the viersed Virgin that he was enabled to retnra to his See in Rome alter a five 8’ exile, Itwas by the tmtercession of the Mother of God that ine Church was enabled to bail the revurn of that goo’ Pius VL, to his 5 The power of the immaculate Mary we must acknowledge; ver in- fluence uas been working froin time to time upon the heart of God in our benall. We must, then, acknowiedge her; we must be constantly on our syird less wa miss the salvation of our immortal souls @ bave passions to sub 1uc—the flesh warring against the spirii—and we know not the moment wheo we will tall fen grace. We must be watchful i wo figut under he protecting. wing of Mary. We will surely win and overcome the devil who lays in wait torus, The very name of Mary is a terror to devils. A great many Coristians are too lukewarm; they nking into indifferentism that will take God froin t@ir hearts; they should ask the belovet’ Mary, the mother of God, to miercede ior them. May tho faith that God has given pis children increase; may you keep away trom you all those influences that tend to Weaken your iaith, It will stand usin need when we come to die. If we had pot the consvlation of knowing ‘that at our aying bedside we are, through Mary’s inter cession, attended by Jesus Crist, our exit {rom this world would be a dark one truly. Mary, the blessed Virgin, 18 our bope tn the last day; will render our deuth peacetul; she will insure us eternal bliss in the world.to come. ‘The musical service, by its excellence and appropriate- ness, added to the solemnity of the occasion. The muss played was No. 6 in F, by the director, Protessor Gustavus Schmitz, the grand choruses being well ren- dered by thirty voices from the Cathedral Choral Society, the soloists comprising Mme. Bredelll, soprano; Mme. Unger, contralto; Mr, Bersin, tenor, and Mr. Urchs, basso, ‘It would be aimost invidious to select any particular part of this fine composition for special commendation, though the ‘Credo’ cer- tainly merits the highest commendation, ‘Et Incar- natus” was beautifully sung by Mme. Unger. Att! Offertory ‘Quis est Homo,’ a duet from Rossinv’s “‘Stabat Mater,” was effectively interpreted by Mme. Bredelli and Mme, Unger. The services did not term!- nate until after twelve o’ctock, ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. CONTINUATION OF THE MISSION—FORTY HOURS’ ADORATION—SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER LILLY. At St, Stephen's church, East Twenty-eighth street, yosterday morning, the mission by the Dominican Fathers attracted large numbers to the service, Every available place in the spacious church was filled, The service was very imposing. A solemn high mass was celebrated, tne pastor, Kev. Dr. MeGlynn being celebrant, Rev. Father McCready, deacon; Rey. Dr. Carran, sub-deacon, and Rev. Father Costigan master of ceromonies. Within the sanctuary were sevoral other clergymen. The high altar was superbly decorated. Flowers and lights wero profusely arranged on tho altar table and on the slabs which form the background, and among the miniaure marble pinnacles which ascend on either sida ot the taber- nacle gracelul ornamentation was also prominently noticeable. Alter the first gospel the mission sermon of the day ‘was preached by t Rev. Father Lilly, one of the most cloquent preachers among the Catholic clergy of this city. His discourse was on the Eucharist, and was for the most part argumentative, The well known texts upon which the Catholic Church has rested its beliet in the verity of the presence of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine after the consecration at | the sacrifice of mass were explained and all the arguments adduced which that Church puts for- ward in support of its teac! said the preacher, spoke Iiierally terea the words which give to His disciples His and this He was careful himsvif to explain, When there was a doubt expressed He showed then had the power to periorm such miracle, to give to His succssors on earth the power to do the same, The Jews believed that Christ spoke literally, and tho twelve chosen disciples so believed, and the belief has come duwn to us to-day with a force equal to that which the disciples were compeliad to receive tho truth im the presence of Christ himself. The sermon uite lengthy, and was listened to with marked on by tue large congregation. At the communion of the mags the ceremony attach- ing to the opening ot tho forty hours’ adoration was commenced. The priests chanted the Litany of the Saints, the blessed sacrament being exposed on the high altar. A procession was then lormed, and the Holy Eucharist was borne around the church and back to the nigh altar. The procession consisted of a num- ber of little Sunday school girls dressed in white, who strewed flowers along the aisles in advance, and these were preceded by the boys in cussock and sur- pee, about twenty of whom carried torches, immediately preceding these came the priests in cas- sock and surplice, and then the celebrant of the mass, rying the Blessed % hi eit ide of him the mediately in frout the mi celebrant aad bis assistants walked beneath a gorgeous canopy, which was carried by eight gentlemen belong- ing so the congregation. Incense was swung belere the Blessed Sacrament as the procession moved slowly around the aisles of the church, and the hymn “Pange Lingua’ was sung. When the pro- cession returned to the high altar the sacrament was placed in a gGificent monstrance und placed on the top of the tabernacle, where it will re- main exposed for the adoration of the faithful for forty hours. On Tuesday next anoiber solemn high mass will be celebrated, with which this devotion will close. During the past week the mission vy the Do- | minican Fathers has been attended with great success. The church bas been filled at all the services and ae- votional exercises and the Fathers conducting the mis- sion express themselves as woll satistied with the result of their labors so iar. On next Suuday the mission ex- cl ly for men will commence. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. DRAMATIC AND ASCETIC SPIRIT DISCOURSE BY REY. WILLIAM RB. ALGER, Yesterday Rov. Mr. Alger spoke of the relations of the theatrical spirit to that of religion, People in this world, be said, have a facility for setting lower things on a standard above higher. The most en- nobling virtues are lost sight of, and the uoimportant good traits of a character receive tho admiration of the multitude, Dress and wealth are preterred to genius, pretentious show is ranked above intrinsic merit, aud people care more about what others think of them than they do about what God knows of them, This habit of setting the real standard of things topsy- turvy fills the world with difficulties and aesiroys the individuality of good and bad. Yet notwithstanding tho tvilure of the world to appreciate true merit there is always goiug on among mankind @ struggle for superiority, a contest for (he attainment of something which all are pleased to invest with attractiveness. This is the divine way of inspiring men and leading them and would be a stimulus that would urge them ward did not thetr rations become venai and the means of attaining them debased. If, however, the contest for superiority bad tur its aim the gaining of a bigh standara of good, the world’s motives would have ao orchestral harmony, and to effect this the genius of the theatre tends. The dramaue art has a spuere ot Us own and & capacity of effecting much good. ides 3¢ i8 Open, generous and unexciusive. Other arts seyre- gate theif benefits and make ot their votaries a privi- leged class which lators te make the world depen kein, while the irits of all men, mimetically presents their ‘ues and vicos beiore them and seeks to teach vi while it ameses. Tho S gow temper of this art, apart from the depraved uses of is calcu. inted tu eflect beneficial results im the world.’ It vends ty reach the mainsprings 01 human action and set them i motion detore human eyes that the mind may be taught thetr anatomy and the heart may be inclined to direct Lheifi to the attainment of the most good. Other arts and other protosst: there are which bold the keys of nonor of the world, they used them jor the good of man the world would long since bave heen redvemed, But thoy ployed them only to bewer seif and Lo eniarge persona! supremacy, All forms of experience meet in the palace of the king. The iyox-eyed scrutiny of governinental power exposes ail their phases and intricacies, and a large cupacity for doing good resides there. The trav fune- ton of the king 1s to represent the whole people with his superior knowleage, using itfor thetr good, But what is the le-son of the ages? He has used it tor ut emolument of favorites and the despoilment of tbe ph he ull God ke 3 kings, The genius bh the arts of defence to their maximum perfection. But they have boen to devising means for eom- mencing and conti murderous wars, to make the he tne are , and he life and power is places the handa of the inedical protession, Ther Junctions are to teach how sickness may be avoided. But the prevalence of sickuess advances the interests of the class, apd irom that have i 2 Hi i E charlatapism has done in the and that quackery is doing to-day, Happily, colar the light of science, the proiession 1s sheddidg its vices and will, we may trust, soou exist only fer the good of Is the police office, the court room the prises where, surrounded by the paraphernalia of the law, secret of the human breast is laid open and abode ofa character revealed, they, too, are the deposit of power. The legal ! i Thoir hands are on th lator of authority, high pro- fessional prerogatives might the good ol man, but tov oftea they are wwis honor, position and tees, And so it and the artist. All bave tunctions which mi but wuich are too often prostituted to self Not so the He gains his knowledge of men not y learm ing charact upon whose loibles be intends to ‘The ideal of bis art is the perfect exempii grades of character, so set up with appropriate foils ‘and truco standards as to let the spectator learn the truenature of each. His is the beat education that can be given if properly regulated, and when dramatio art becomes imbued with moral an1 religious truth it will be food the purest and richest spirit in the worla, fi MEMORIAL SERVICES. BERVICES IN THE FOURTH AVENUE PRESEY TERIAN CHURCH IN MEMOBY OF MRS. EMIL2 BLISS GOULD. Services were held yesterday afternoon at the Fourth avenue Presbyterian chureb, Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street, in memory of the late Mra, Emily Bliss Gould, who died ast year at Perugia, Italy, and whose remains were subsequeutly brought to this country. Mrs. Gould was well known as the founder of the Christian schools in Rome and as an ardent sup- porter of the Florenco Orphanage, which she aided liveraily both by contributions and by her exertions i its behalf, Tho attendance at the church was very large. The services, which wore of the simplest order, were conducted by Rev. Dr. Crosby, the pastor of the church, who also told the story of Mrs, Gould’s life and labors. Tributes were also added by Rev. Dra, Hutton, Adam: i Robioson, The church was with out any decerations or emblems beyond a wreath of white flowers, which was laid on a table in front of the reading desk. ‘The exercises opened with the singing of the 1,200th Hymna, ‘orever with the Lord,’? aud then Dr. Crosby read passages [rom the ninth chapter of the Acts of the Aposties, the tenth chapter of the Gos} of St. Luke, and the twenty-sixth chapter of St, Matthew, ali bearing on the occasion with special emphasis. Prayer was then offered up by Dr. Button, after which the congregation sang the 1,213th Hym: beginning, *Psaims of glory, raimant bright” Rev. Dr. Crosby deiiyered a briei address, He told, first, bow in the year 1817, nearly sixty years the lirst Sunday schools of New York were establia dn the present Exchange and how a young ech who afterward became the wife of the distingui ph: . Dr. Bliss, was one of the most prominent of their Mrs. Gould, oat of respect wero assemblod. He drew a pathetic picture cf the deathbed scene of Mrs. Bliss, and told how the dyii mother gave her last counsel to her daughter, then a child of nino years old. ‘Let,”” she said, “the Lord Jesué Christ be your guide; follow Him, for your wellare for time aod for eternity depends upon Him.” That lesson, said Dr. Crosby, was never lost, ‘A love for littie children marked her as she grew u and later years sho was their best iriend. The ob! thus counselled by a dying Christian mother afterward became the wiie of Mr. Goatd and went to reside with her busband in Romo, in the year 1859. She had not been long in Europe when a great object of Christian charity attracted her attention. It was the Florence Orpbanage—originally startea in England, but alter. ward transferred to Florence. Sho took bold of it with all her Eph and the tog) of Ley enterprise was largely dependent upon her energy and oo-opera- tion. She helped it from Rome, but in 1870, when the Pope was a prisoner in the Vatican, she determined te have in Rome, under the very shadow of St Peter’s, _ schools in which poor children might be she began with $10 in the treasury and with three children taken from the streets; but the school grew and prospered, as every Christian project was sure te grow and prosper. It went on tora ycar wo with great success, until at last she decided on addition to the work in the form of a home where children would be prepared for active life in some remuner- ative pursuit, As a prool ol the magnetic influence which Mrs. Gould exercised Dr. Crosby mentioned the fact that in aid of the home she had projected 4 book which should be made up by contribution trom Various distinguished writers, and for which, she suc ceeded in obtaining the good offices of persons of the most opposite tastes and dispositions. She had beer the life of the home, and it would appear as if all were gone when she was gone, But her prayer for ita success and nce had been heard, and the enterprise was now conducted by the Waildensian Church, In conclusion Dr. Crosby referred to Mrs. Gould's most prominent characteristica, Her devo- tional character, ho considered, wus her great powor, involving self-denial and forgetiuiness. Her leve tos children was another characteristic, and not least was her quality of boldness and decision, without which could pot have achieved such great good as it bad fallen to her lot to accomplish. Rev. Drs, Hutton, Adams and Robinson paid a bricf tribute to Mra, Gould’s memory, agisin nal knowledge of her worth. that eulogy could not add to her eminent qualities asa Christian woman, and drew from her life a lesson which pointed to the inestimable advantages of a pious ancestry. CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, COUNSEL BY THE PASTOR TO ACCEPT THE POs LITICAL SITUATION—OPENING OF THE NEW CHAPEL. At the Central Presbyterian church, on Fifty-sixth street, near Broadway, there was a large attendance, at the services yesterday morning The young, bat evidently wide awake and. plain spoken pastor, Rev, & D. Wilson, thought the presont political situation a proper subject for pulpit discourse, and accordingly preachei from the text, Titus, ii, 1—‘Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, toobey magistrates, to be roady to every good work.’”’ These words of St. Paul, showing the broad statesmanship of this great and learned apostle, timely as they were atthe timo they were written, were peculiarly ap- posite to the present condition of political affairs of thiseountry. ‘They were words that shoul be repeated from every pulpit and proclaimed trom *\\. |yousetop to the surging mai waiching news, cating Voards and anxtvusiy waiting snnounc " , , result of the late election as to who isto be = ext President, Of course, be the result ag it might, botw of the great contending political parties could not be satisied, To the deteateu party the advice of St. Paul ‘was most pertinent, and should be heeded as a trumpet note of warniug, amd by following it peuce could be that the design o polities, but to give a sound, evory day, practical sermom on the importance of being READY FOR ANT GOOD WORK. Good intentious and maguilicent schemes were com- mon. They were like a man dreaming that he had pienty of money, and waking up to find his PURSE BMPTY AND CREDIT GONE. bundred years of plaoning. The demanded thas Christ should be ready tor ry good work and not for some good work. Some will work for something that is popular, bat tf it is obscure work and not likely to be mae known they keep aloof, Kach one should use the talents given, and it be bas only one talent be suou'd use that. They should give thoir time, their faculti to J 5. go ry through the Jerusaiem im bear the cross; walk with Him through shadow of the mountat ‘His face a red with paleness and agonized because Dearing the sins of the world, The poor widow saw the rich dropping thor great gilts church treasury. She cast m hor It was all she had, but heralded by angels. Every one should be willing to ao some work for God, vowever humble it might be. Ail God asked was to have a ready mind, a will ior His work. God would show them their fleld of duty, would ind.cate to each bisor her missivu. The Chures was a wido field. If they cou! could at jeast give worps 0 to those boaring the heat and burden of theday. At & fire tho flames were rolling up to the fifth story. Tue head of a child, who ip tho excite. ment had been forgotten, 1 sven at one of the upper windows. In a moment a brave-hearted fireman is mounting a ladder. He upward through the Jonseiy curling smoke and fierce Names fis strength seoms to bo failing, and there is imminent danger of his falling trom his perilous height. A companion at the foot of the Indder cries, “Cheer him! i) The cheers (rom tho vaat crowd reach his ears, and inspired with uow life and nergy he deties the hotly surging tlames and rescues the child. The words of cheer saved tnat child, How often the words, ‘trod bless you,’ gave renewed anv mation to the despunding soul! ‘They should remem. ber that the worid was dying in sin; they should forget store and shop and office and counting root and work lo save smuers. My thus doling they wou! feel # thrili—the living Joy of eternity. ‘ THe NeW CHARI. At longth the new chapel of the chureh completed, and it was last evening opened with pul ceremonies, The chapet is a new wing of the ehurch building on Fifty-seventh strect, direstly iu the rear of the present church edifice. his new chureb, by the way, 18 built of the material of Dr, Hali’s former church, corner Fitth avenue and Nineteenth street, and is int to be an exact counterpart of the Original edifice; the gilt,by way, of Dr. Hall’s com who the fecctonsare terese | (CONTINUED ON MINT PAGRY