The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1876, Page 11

BHLIGIOGS INTELLIGENCE. iM: nisterial Movements— Chat by the Way. Worship—Moody in Boston. Synagogue °ROGRAMME OF SERVICES. At the Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening the Spiritualists will ve instructed by Mrs, Briggs. E. V. Wilson will address another society in Repubii- san Hall. At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. William Lioyd will speak of “The Piigrim Journey” in the morning and of “The Shortness of Time” in the evening. The Rev. Fred Beil will preach on *‘Killing Time” this morning, and “Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting” this evening in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. “The Expiring Year” and ‘The Giants of Gunesis’? wiil occupy the Rev. C, P. McCarthy and the American , Free Church to-day J. EB. Searles will deliver a valedictory to the var this morning in Willett street Methodist Epis- shurch, and will preach a watch night sermon at t The Locust, Canker Worm, Caterpillar’? will be sected this moruing in Spring street Presbyterian Lurch by Rey. Alired Moment, “Thoughts Suggested » the Dying Year”’ will be given in the evening. The American Temperance Union will hold their reg- ular meeting in Cooper Institute Hall this afternoon, In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev, W. N. Dunneli will preach at the usual hours to-day, In Chickering Hall this morning the Rev. Samuel Colcord will preach on “God’s Great Love,” and this afternoon on the text, ‘Lord let it alone this year also,” At the Freo Tabernaclo Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. K. 8 Bishop will preach this morning, aud in tho evening a praise and prayer and watch night s > fee will be held. “Old Years” and ‘The Year’s Coronet’? will be con- sidered by Dr. Armitage to-day im the Fifth avenue Baptist church, du the Brooklyn Tabernacle the Rev. T, DeWitt Tal- mage will preach this morning on ‘The Destruction o¢ the Brooklyn Teatre.”” In Bleecker street Universalist ehurct the Rey, E. C. Swevtser will ask this morning ‘What is your Lio?” and this evening will discuss ‘Universalism and the Bible,” Cathrin Schertz will speak in the Christian Israclite sSanciuary this evening on the imgathering of Israel into eternal lile. In tho Church of tho Advent Dr, Samuel Osgood will preach this morning. “Tho Pilgrimage ot Life” will be discussed by Rev. J. D. Herr in the Central Baptist church this morning, Sabbath school anniversary in the evening. The Rev. James M. Pullman will preach a New Year's sermon this morning, and will speak of “The Terms of Restoration” in the evening. Dr. Deems will preach in the Church of the Stran- gers at tife usual hours to-day. In Enghtoenth sireet Methodist Episcopal charch the Rev. W. F. Hatdeld will preach on ‘‘The Old Year” this morning. The First Reformed Episcopal church will be minis- tered to to-day by Rev, W. T. Sabine’ To-morrow morning a meeting for prayer will be held by this church, ‘This morning and evening, at the nsual hours, the Rev. BE. S, Widdemer will officiate and preach in the Church of the Reconciliation. The Rev. N, L. Rowell will preach in the Free Bap- fist church this morning on “Accounts Examined,” and this evening on “Timely Seeking.” (he Fourteenth strect Presbyterian charch will have the ministrations of Rev. F. H. Marling this morning and evening. This morning the Rev. Jobn M. Wolcott, of Chesh- fre, Conn., will preach in Madison avenue Reformed ehurch, and this afternoon the Rev. William Lioyd, © poator elect, will address the Sunday school. Dr, Kambaut, of Brooklyn, will preach in the Pil” grim Baptist church this’ morning and evening. Rev. Joseph R. Kerr, of the Fourth Presbyterian surch, will preach this evening on ‘The Trespass C fering.” cov. H, W. Knapp, D. D., will preach tn Laight street Baptist church this morning on ‘God's Wit- ovses,” and this eveningon “Condemned, but Under eprieve. In the Sixth avenue Reformea church the Rev. Will- jam B, Merritt will preach at the usual bours to-day. In Stanton street Baptist church the Rev. W. H. Leavell will preach this morning on ‘*Retrospection,” and this evening a service of song will be held. The usual services (five) will be held to-day at St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church, at which Rev. Dr. Ewer will officiate, fbhis morning the Rev, Dr. Crawford will preach in . James’ Methodist Episcopal church, Harlem, and the watch night servico the Rev. W. R, Davis will each, The Spiritualists will have a meeting for experience 4. Republican Hall this evening. Dr. John Cotton Smith will deliver the last lecture in his course on the “Past and Future of the Repubiic”” in the Church of tne Asce: n this afternoon, his sub- ject being “The Coming Century of the Republic. The Rev. W. H. Thomas will preach thie morning ana evening in the Tabernacle Baptist church. The Rev. Carlos Martyn will preach in Thirty-fourth street Reformed church this morning. A Sunday school anniversary wiil be beid in the evening. * Rev. J. H. Lightbourn will preach to-night in Sev- entecnth street Methodiat Episcopal church, The Rev. J. J. Muir will preach in Macdongal street Baptist church this morning on “Crucified with Christ,” and in the evening on ‘Temperance and the Bible.”” The Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach this morning in the Church of the Diecipies on “The Ola Year aod the New Year,” and in the evening will de- F ‘A Sermon to Young Men.” CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘Rew Year's Day is a good time in which to lay aside ‘rags of unrighteousness’ and put on the ‘‘beau- I garments” of a better life, Your “Happy New Year’? ought to come from the rt when you are talking toa rich man, and from ir pocket when you are talking to a poor one. With the old year let al! your animosities die out, ‘Thore 1s no more useless old lumber than a (eud. The sooner you split it up and make firewood of it the Fighter. The members of a Baptist church in Keutucky have deen calling their minister pet names. Brotherly love Bo longer continues, and they publish a circular in which they speak of bim as ‘‘a thief and a robber.’’ The greatest of these is charity, Camp stools are to be taken out of the chorches. ‘This will make a great difference im tho audiences at some places of worship, but in a great majority of Gases the law is entirely unnecessary. These high winds make us think of tbe poor frost- bitven sailors, Perhaps those who have pi ‘sea room” are pitying us who are sidewalks and making fore:bie rem: jam Pitt is the author of the famifar lines which sug- gest this item :— ‘eli bigwing, Bill; t you hear it roer now? Lord ielp ‘em, how | pities them Unhappy folks ou shore now, When Rev, James A. Waish bought twenty tons of conl, twenty sheep and a cart loud ot groceries, and distributed them among the poor on Christmas morn- ing, he showed that he had stndie: theology to some purpose, Religion is not only adapted to preachin bread givon to a starving man is one of the strongest possible evidences of the divine origin of Christianity, Zion's Herald seems to hav of vitriol mixed with its printer’s ink. It is like a man We once knew who was pericctly rational on all subjects but our, He could talk earnediy of astron- omy or psychology, but if you asked him what be had for dinner his eyes finshed fire as he answered, but may also be practised without injury. A toatl of } sarge quantity of oil | and broiled. I have never eat anything in this Institution but hobnails.” Zion's Herald is unruMed in temper until you men! words ‘Roman Cath. olic,” or “Jesuit.” Then it takes down its large dic- tionary and picks out all the bard phrases. 11 says, it 8 the incarnation of evil in the guise of and again, “He is almost the only man whose word you cannot trust.’’ This phraseology is indicative of undue excitement, and we recommend a spoonful of the soothing syrup of Christian cbarity. If the editor of that journal will look again he will find that there is no flock in the world that consists solely of black sheep. 4 It im said that the Rev. W. Vandemark, of California, ts to act the part of Hamlet in ove of the city ubbatres, In that cage, of course, his pulpit will be occupied by the Ghost, It 18 too much to as of any clergyman ‘that he shall play in “Hamlet” every night and at two Matinees and then preach on Sunday. The people have such a strong sympathy for him that they refuse to go and hear bim preach, and demand that he shali “give himself a rest” on Sanday thathe may prepare for the strictly clerical and arduous duties of the green- room and the sti The people are very considerate. The Widow Van Cott, as she is called, is something ofa sensational preacher. Women have always said that they wanted to get into the various professions in order to introduce a retining intluence. We ex- pected, therefore, that when Mra. Van Cott entered the pulpit she would win souls by her geutle persuasion, ‘and that her eloquence would be as delicate as the notes of abarp. Imagine ber, then, dramatizing the inety and Nine,” running round the pulpit in a frantic way, as though it were a mountain pass, and looking wildly over the audience, as though they were the trees of a forest, with here and there a hyena or a lion, and calling out for the sheep that bis gone astray, To introduce the arts of the theatre into the church Ys simply to make religion a kind of low comedy, and to see sucti things is to be convinced that St. Paul was right when he toid women to keep still, The number of men who labor under the delusion that they have solved the problem of the untverse is very large. Curiously enough they are generally men of less than ordinary ability. We have just received @ long' circular from one of these persons whom the world neglects, in which 1 is distinctly proven by twenty propositions, badly and illogi- cally stated, that Newton and Bacon were dwarfs, and that it was reserved for Dr, Treat to discover the only genuine turtle on whose back the universe is built Every literary man is teased and pestered to the brink of despair by seif-elected philosophers, who have seen everything in adream and want to bore sumebody with the details.’ Littérateurs and clergymen will be compelled ere long to have a sign on their front door, “Men who know everything and are anxious to tell it will please pass on.’” Very few people are aware of the ‘good which Jerry McAuley 18 woing in the Water Street Mission. Once a “ough” himself he preaches to roughs, and without even the most distant reference to English grammar. Everybody understands what he means, though, when he says, ‘Boys, 1 was once as bad off as you, but now sée what a good coat I’ve goton. So much for relig. jon, Come along and get it, There’s enough for. the’| wholo crowd.” There has been considerable excitement 10 Presby- terian circles over the fact that Rev. Mr. Seo allowed women to occupy his pulpit, It has uot yet abated. The Presbytery tried to avoid pushing the matter to atmal, They begged the parties interested to with- draw their complaint, which they all did except Mr, See, who insists that ho will be tried, and, if guiity, condemned. He said that St. Paul’s confmand is that women shall not “babble,” not that they shall not “preach.”? At this Rev. Mr. Craven, wbo was by no means craven !n his manner, became excited, and said, in short, that the word which is translated “preach,”’ and which Mr. See interprets “babble,” occurs 297 times in the New Testament, and that he will bet—he does not say bet, but that is what he means—$1,000, to be paid before sundown, that it don’t mean ‘‘bab- ble’? in asingle case, These little clerical squabbles are very entertaining. They show that the human nature of clergymen is indeed sanctified; for whereas in a political misunderstanding of the same size the broadest and most vivid English words would be hurled récklessly at each other, in these ecclesiastical disturbances the mildest expletives are used, and a vast dev] of circumlocution is resorted to, in order to express what a worldly man would say in one short pithy phrase, That little phrase ts never attered by clerical lips, but if you look atthe flashing eye you will see at once that he wishes he were nota clergy- man for just ve minutes, that he might do justice to the subject and in the proper language. At Gouncil Blufls they have a genuine sensation. A Ittle while ago some ‘mejums’”? were sitting for what they could get, when, behold, a lovely tittle girl, dead, of course, came into the room and prosented the com- pany With a large piece of candy. Whether the candy came from some celestial confectionery store, or whether it was purloined from an earthly manufac. turer of sweots, isnot kuown. To suppose that tne angel stole the candy is difficult, and to suppose that the candy was made 1m heaven Is also difficult. Wo are in great trouble of mind about the whole matter, The funny part of the story is that when the canay 1s held im the band the animal beat changes it to tho shape of a beautiful rose, and when it cools off it is only an ordivary stick of peppermint, The mediums declare that they never, no never, saw such conclusive proof of the’ soul’s immortality, What a delight it must be to gaze in rapt wonder and awe on a penny stick of Deppermint which eame directly from the ir side of Jordan, Not all the gulls in the world bave feathers. Don’t read a chapter of the Bible to starving man until you pat a roast turkey om tne table. He can un- derstand what you mean when you talk about religion if you wit give bim a kind of object lesson and show bem that your religion is to give of your plenty to every poor man you know. Li we havea peculiar horror in our inmost being it is for the man who gathers vital statistics in order to butid some theory thereon. There is a gentieman in the far West who must be a living 1oterrogation point, for he sends out a circular with eight puges of ques- tions in it, He wants you to tell him the size of your head “from centre of ears around top of head and under chin’ and various other things, such as she ngth of band,” tue rength of ancestors” and the “hour at which you retire.” We are so giad that the gentieman whose curiosity seems to be so un- duly excited does not reside in this neighbor. hood, We know of no more dire punishment for the utterly incorrigible than to be doomed to a daily visit {rom aman who is gathering siatistice— who comes inio your presence with a iarge roll of manuscripts under his arm and throws as many ques- ons at you inagiven time Mitrailleage does bullets, The Roman catapult, which only threw pav- ing stones into the faces cf the foe, was ‘a thing of beauty and joy forever” in the comparison. When | wo see such aman coming up our front steps wo always send word that we have just quietly breathed | our last; buthe is never satisfied, for he instantly | | takes out paper and pencil and asks Servant what | we died ol, and whether the rest of the family have any symptoms of the same disease, Alas! there are only two classes of men—the boror ana the bored, The old custom of watching the old year out and the new year im, adopted by the Methodists from the ap- cients more than a century ago, has found favor with | other cnurches and denominations since. From it has | dated many a revival season in the Methodist Kpisco. | pal churches which bas extended far into the spring and bas led many souls to lead new lives and to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, And very largely by this means Las Methodism been extended in the United States, so tbat in @ century it has grown | trom a handful io ve the largest denomination in the | upon the piague of their hearts; and some of those | whom the world disowns the “Waster bi | suvg by the cbildrea in costume The scene of tt NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEE}. street Methodist Episcopal and Park avenue Primitive Methodist churches, Watch nignt services will be held also in Sands street Methodist Episcopal chureh, and in Washington street and York str: Eplenape) cburche most cases consist of a prayer meeting, a love least, a sermon and a consecration meeting in the order given, But in some this order will be modified, and addresses will take the place of sermons and be inter- spersed through the evening. MOODY'S VISIT TO BOSTON. PREPARATIONS TO RECEIVE HIM-~—CRITICISMS ON THE EXPENSIVENESS OF HIS MINISTRY— WHY THIS WASTE?—HIS WORK IN CHICAGO. During the current week the evangelists, Messrs, Moody and Sankey, who have finished in Chicago and are resting through the holidays, will be in Boston to open the campaign there. They come hither from Chicago, where they have spent the last three months or more laboring with great success. Early last sum- mer Mr. Moody took a look over the field, called a meeting of the pastors of that city, and, after consulta- tion and a full discussion of the pros and cons in the case, decided to commence operations there about January 1, There seems to be a very hearty co-opera- tion among the evangelical Christians of Boston in preparing for Mr. Moody’s labors in that city. Some of the Episcopal clergymen join in the work, showing a highly comnvendable liberality and warmth of {eel- ing. Three-quarters of the partition between the sects 18 ice which will stand any amount of theological bat- tering, but which genuine religious fervor will melt, Early in the fall meetings were heid to raise the monoy that should be needed to build a tabernacle and to pro- vide for the running expenses of revival meetings for three winter months. At first the people were slow to take hold, The times wero hard and business was depressed. Fiity thousand dollars seemed a great deal of money to expend for three months’ preaching and singing of two lay evangelists. But the committee having charge of the matter re- fused to stir uoul the money or negotiable pledges were in hand, That they gained their point may be i torred from the fact that the Tabernacle has been col pleted. It covers an ai Of 40,000 feet und will ses 6,000 people. its estimated cost is $30,000, but its actual cost will probavly be $5,000 or $10,000 more, There are inquiry and reception rooms on either side of the main audience room, so that visitors will not be required to cross the street as they were in Brook- lyn to hold private conversation with the evangelists, ‘The Tabernacie is an iron structure on a brick lounda- tion, and very possibly it may be retained tor some timo asa public half after the evangelists shall leave it, and the committee by that moans receive some financial return for their outlay. the south end of Boston, in the midi that are only half filled on the Sabbath, and who: pastors are anxiousiy awaiting the arrival of evangelista to do their work for them, But unle: they look out and take hold of the work them- selves with both bands the winter crusaue Will leave a dozen of those churches with less vitality than they have at present, The floors of the Tabernacle rest almost wholly upon the ground and the people will be obliged to descend several steps to reach them. Tae will be no danger from fire, and at every step in 1 progress the salety of the audiences has been con- sulted, WHY THIS WASTE OF OINTMENT? But such an expenditure of money and time and patience, and hope, bas vot been without its effect already upon the city, One Episcopal clergyman has preactied a sermon against the lolly of spending $50,000 in this way tustead of disposing of that amount of money in some such Way as this which he suggested: — ‘To two tons coal 10 each of 500 fumilios, One barrel of flour to each of 500 families $7.. 3,500 To threo months’ rent to each of 500 tamilies. .. a“ 000 To 1,000 shawii ro 1,000 overcou ‘To 3,000 yards calico for 3,000 dreso To bed clothing for 500 families, $10 each poor to die jor waut of suflicient ‘food ‘and clothing oF to got 500 to attend the churches through this move- 1” To shis inquiry the Cungregatinalist rept style by asking another question ‘“Poes the complaining rector regulate his namely Own persosal expenses according to the saine princi- ple whieh be recommenda bere? And if nol, why not”? The rector has. not responded, But taking a business view of the matter, the Boston Herald, whi itis willing to welcome Mooay avd Sankey, thin that if Mr. Moody canuot begin work there without a pteliminary outlay of $30,000 before a word 18 spoken Or a note sung be is going to be a dear investment, The call for such large expenditures for meetings, which last but a short time, looks like a c that the regular work of tho churches is not a success, AG @ matier of gospel economy, and hot atail out of any disrespect to Mesars, Moody and Sankey or to re- ligion, a great many persons are expressing the samo thought in different ways. But these objections ure answered as oft as they come up and as thorougbly as they can be by the city pastors and religious prese. Dr, Peutecost, formbriy of Brooklyn, N, Y. (now of Boston), points a moral and adorns a tale for the Independent by narrating how difficult it was for a young man in his churob to give up smoking cigars, 7,000 of which at $80 a thousand ($960) be bud consumed in smoke in two years; and yet he could not afford to give more than $1 for Tabernacle expenses whea a collection was taken up in Dr. Peuteoosi’s church. Another Boston minister writes to the Bzaminer and Chronicie insisting that the presence of Messrs. Moody and Sankey aro greatly needed there. “For,” he adds, “there bas not been for a long time 80 little religious interest in the churches in the city ana vicinity #8 now in all the de- nominations. I do not kvow of a single church that 1s having avy special revival work. Tue minds of the people are engrossed in politics and business.” The Waichman, a Baptist paper published im Boston, also recognizes the ‘ed of the evangelists there, bi thinks that the revival that that city needs most one of ‘pure religion’ that shall be pervasive and power(ul enough to reach ard stir to its protounder depths the pupular heart. We have had too many partial and superticiai excitements, it says, but too Jew revivals reaching down, through the influence of the Holy Ghost, deep into tbe very iounda- tions of society, The Congregationalis(, while it sup- ports the evangelistic movement, thinks that such preaching as Mr. Moody's needs a certain intellectual apd spiricual atmosptere condition, especially in such a place as Hoston ; and that atmosphere, it thinks, Mr. Cook is supplying The succession of tnese brethren it takes 4s an ordering of God's good provi- dence; and it sces in it some special augury of great biessings in store for the churches. More than one builder is needed to rajse the epiritual bouse; and the jon between stone mason, carpenter and ‘nnisher, it 18 well to discern and keep ip mind, MOODY'S MISSION IN CHICAGO Tho mectings 0! Chi in other cities, They popularize religious exercises for a portion of the com- Tun ty, and they are helpful to @ class of ministers, bred i schools, to whom a revival is a miracie rarely performed. In our ministry, says the Methodist (New York), no such pasiors exist Our preacn- ers serve before the mast, and know how to manage a prayer meeting before they can compose a Hon, A8 a means of extending the use of a diluted extract of Methodism among other less revivalistic denomina- tions these great meetings are doubtiess very useful. But when we come to the substantial reeusts an | ordinary Methodist or Baptist series of extra moet- | ings usually dears a richer barvest than one of these expensive and labored reiigious demonstrations, In our judgment these dewoustrations have accom- plished their mission, and the services of these ex- cellent brethren should now take a iess expensive aud ostentatious form. That this criticism founded may be seen in the topies that were r discussed in the Christian Convention heid 1 last month, which reiated very largely to prayer and revival meetings with which every Methodist minister is or Is supposed to be familiar. And yet there were nearly 3,000 clerical ana lay delegatés from the West and Northwest discussing those quesijons for three or four days as if they bad come up ‘or the firat time in the bistory of the Coureb. It 1s thought that 100 drunkards ana nearly 500 other persons have been converted and reclaimed by the power of the Gospel And i tl nota friend? unwontea in offico, discussed the 1B tones critical and wondering, occasionally in words of denunciation, often in words of sympathy and bope and joy, but always earnestly, as men discuss things that have Iaid uOrm grasp upon the popular thought. Many self- righteous men of the world have had their eyes turned Th imony given by som: this work as of Goa. A CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT. In St. Bernard’s Hall, connected with St. Bornard’s Roman Catholic church in West Fourteenth street, be- tween Eighth and Ninth avenues, there is being cel brated by the children of the parish what is calied the Christmas Cantata, Iv commenced on the night of Christmas, and will continue every evening till next Sunday, The cantata consists of a number ol bymus land and now uymbers over 1,600,000 members, 61,000 | of whom were added during the year now closing, | Whatever there ts good or practical in that Church has | been adopted in one form or another by other denomi- nations and to-night Drs. Tyng. Jr., aud Sabine, Epis. | copatians; Dr. Luaiow, Reformed, and Drs. Hastings, | Hunter and Rovinson, Presbyterians, will unite with | Dr. Hepworth in hoiding a wateh night service iu the Chureb of the Dawciples. It cannot jail to ve inter_st- ing and profitabie, Similer services will be held also in Bediord street Moihoaist Episcopal church, 1a As- bury church, Washngion square; in St Paul's, St. Joun's aud St James’ Methodist Episcopal cuurches; in Aliem and Willett street churches, in Seventeenili | street and (be bree Tabernacle churches, and in Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopa! churn. In Brooklyn watch night services will be held in in De Kaib avenue | Warren and Fieet street charches; | the way of all earth aad we birth of the Saviour in the er) im Bethlehem is peauti- fully put upon the stage. A number of wax figures | representing tbe Saviour, the Virgin and St. Joseph there, while the children take the partot tt we jd the attendant angels, rooeedts of this rengious dramatic entertainment are for the benefit of St Bernard's chureli, SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. | THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY FOUNDED IN SCRIPTURE AND REASON—DISCOURSE BY REY. H. 8 3 COnB. AM life, said Mr. Jacobs yesterday in the Thirty- fourth street syoagozue, is & mere jour We go this trath depicted be- and Embury (Herkiwer street ‘and avenge) churel atthe rooms of the Ubriat ation, at whew Dr. ingiis « a the Engin evangolist, und othets will take | Carroll Park aod at the Lpiseopal Church of | 1, where Drs, Hail and Baker will lake part; | iu the Free Metiod Scheoectaay eburch, First piace church aud “Adobaails, sir, We have them Iricd, stowed, roasied | Hanson piace M Episcopal chureh; in Jouuevn | | you do not perceive the words of Solomon, the wise fore our eyes in every step we make on the read of | our earthly existence You cannot go anywhere that | King of Istuel, verided:—"Man goeth to bis Jong | home and the mourners go about the streets,” The the robust man and woman are alike snatched away 4s ik @ woment, While all these around | that benceforth be will preach th them, acquaintances and friends, are in tears. The aged man and woman drop off also, as in a moment, and are laid ip that Jast resting place of the dead, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest, And you turn again and again to the Scrip- tures and see the same truth repeated over and over what we go the way of all th rth. You see it in the beautiful Torah of this morning. You see David stand- ing betore Solomon, bis son, in the jast moment of the great King’s life, and he gives counsel and advice to the young mun who was to be his successor to the throne of Israel, in words folowing the text, Il Kings, il., 2. LIVE 18 4 JOURNEY, Life isa journey, Mr. Jacobs repeated, ‘and death is the apparent goal of all earthly existence. We walk awhile in this dangerous’path whose end is tho grave. And jt seems to be inscribed on ail things, ‘A heap of dust thon art aud all that thou shalt be.” But while the absolute facts of death and decay ure thus beiore us in the experiences of every day, what are the les- sons which this broad truth should bring to our minds? They indicate and teach first, the nothing- ness of all cartbly business. A ‘man spends bis years gathering up wealth; bat he never thinks, with tue royal psuimist, I go the way of all the earth, and had be all the we ‘h ot Crasus be could not buy one moment of time in which to live. And then the votaries of fashion in the midst of their gayety andexcitement ure liable tobe cut off in a moment and go the way of all the earth, but this fact ruroly if ever troubles them. Bat we learn another lesson from the inequalities of inte over which we grieve, and iv our grief the messenger comes to tell us that we too must shortly go the way of ali the earth, but when that end is to be reached uivine love has wisely withheld from our vision. THE GRAVE 18 NOT THE END OF LIFE. But I want to tell you to-day, said the preacher, that the grave is not the end of life; that there 1s a something within us which bids us look for something real and permanent beyond this earthly sphere. Death and hw are thus linked together and we shail live beyond the grave, Judaism and the doctrine of the soul’s immortality are so blended together that you cannot divorce them. And this idea of immortality does not rest upon the ipse dizitof any imaividusl oF set of men, but is based on the word of God and reason. The spirit of man lives eternally, and the reunion of body and spirit wilt take place beyond the grave. But some of you willask, Why did not Moses include it among the motives or rewards of obedience to the di- ne law? Toat was not necessary. It was well under- stood, and :ndeed itis more than hinted at in te Mosaic legislation. But in the time of Moses the Isracl- {les were too gross-minded and worldly to be influenced by such considerations. But have you not noticed that (bere is nota single command in the SMosaic law that we are to believe in God? Nevertheless, the facts and principles of their lives showed that the Hebrews believed in God, and hence there was no need of spe- cial legisiation on this point. Noithor was it necessary to enforce belief in the doctrine of the soul's tmmor- tality, There is a necessity for such a faith in the very nature of man. When tbe Creator made man He breathed into bis nostrils the breath of lite, and man became a living soul, But of the others, it is said that they were created mere animal existences, Mr. Jacobs here quoted texts of Scripture in support of bis position, such as:—“Our sou! shail bo bound up in the bundie of the Lord; in thy light shall we see light,’ &c He regretied that thereare men who have a nominal connection with and anamein Israel to-day who deny tho vaitdity or authority of the Scriptures; but they are few and fecble and have no influence over nor following among the people. ‘THE TESTIMONY OF REASON. f But reason teaches us that the immortality of the soul must be an absolute truth, for were it not so all difference between virtue and’ vice, gocd and evil, morality and immorality, would coase, and the injustice of all human and divine legislation would be apparent. Reason bids us, a8 a matter of necessity, to hold on to tuis doctrine and ‘cling to it with an abiding faith, And there is an instinct in man which bids him bope and look for a hereafter. There 1s an instinct io oman which vids bim_ consider himself something higher and grander and nobler than the hoasts that perish. We must hope for joys that are sublimer (han those that come to us here, We must not consider those that are lost to uss lost forever, but as simply parted for a time, and by and by we shall sce them in the presence of our Father and our God. Immortality is a common hope of ail mankind; death is the end of the journey ot mankind, but itis not the end of oumanity. Judaism is wide in its teachings and catholic in its doctrines, and it teaches that tho righteous of all the nations of fhe earth will be partakers of the bliss of heaven, This is the lesson that shall land us in eter- nity and we shall reach the goal of life in another and better sphere than this, The Talmud teaches, too, that the righteous when they are dead are considered ns if they were living. Perish the idea that while here be- low we are to be the sport of fortune and that this 1s to be the end of us—that there is no place in which the inequalities of life shail be rectified. But while we go the way of all the earth, let us hope and beiieve that the end shall be at God’s right hand, where tnore are pleasures evermore, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, PRESBYTERIAN, The Rey. W. 0. Nicholson has veen chosen succes- sorto Rev. J. Y. Mitchell in the pastorate of the Franklin street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Rev. A. H. Elder, late of McKeesport, Pa, has re- ceived a call from the United Presbyterian church of New Lisbon, Ohio, Rey. G. H. 8. Campbell has just taken the pas- torate of the Presbyterian church, Phoenixville, Pa., and Dr. J. 8. Evans, formerly of Brooklyn, has been installed pastor of the Woodside Presbyterian church, Now Jersey. Dr, Asa D, Smith, for the past eleven yours President of Dartmouth College, owing to severe and -long con- tinued sickness has tendered his resignation. In- stead of accepting & the trustees have voted him a vacation in the hope that rest will effect a restoration of health. The Doctor is now seventy-two years of agi Rev. Albert G. Beebeo, formerly of Worcester, has accepted an invitation to supply the church in Ste- phentown, N. Y. Mr. George EK. Gowdy was ordained and installed tor of the Second Presbyterian church, of Greou- Reid, Ohio, a few days ago. RAPTIST. have been accepted by Rev. C. Townsend to wille, N. Y.; by Rev, D. A. Peck to Grapesvilie, P. R. Smith, pastor of the Mount Pisgah Bap- tist church (colored), of Jersey City Heights, has closed the church, and, with the assistance of its off- cers, bas sold the furniture to assist in paying ite debts. Mr. smith says he only received $2 during the year be labored in the church. We have heard of un- profitable vineyards and this seems to be one of them. Mr. George Winters was ordained and installed pas- tor of the East Union Baptist church, Pennsylvania, a few days ago. The J. F. Reeves, of Columbus, has received a call to the care of the Third Baptist church, Atlanta, Ga. Rev. C. K. Bunnell, late of Woodhall, has moved to Canisteo, und expects to devote himself to the Master's work there, The Rev. J. M. Whitehead, having closed a six year pastorate with the North Star church, Chicago, takes cbarge of the church at South Belvidere, LIL The Rev. J, J. Irving, owing to the financial embar- Laoepa of the Western avenue church, Chicago, has esigned, wher L. C. Brickhouse has accepted acall to the pas- torate of the church at Piymouth. LIBERAL CHRISTIANS, Rev. John Andrew has resigned charge of All Souls’ church, at Newark, N, J. Unitarianism does not flour- ish in that state any better than in New York. Rev. W. T. Clarke, recently editor of the Golden Age, and now on the New York Graphic, retires trom the U nd will henceforth devote bim- its, nd Orville Dewey are the oldest ‘They are bot self to literary pu Drs. J. G. Pattroy clergymen in tho country. octugenarians. Rev. Jobn Lyon, formerly of Ware, Mass., com- menced bis pustoral labors with the Universalist church in Briageport., Cono., last Sunday. The Boston clergymen have formed a Universalist Ministers’ Association, with the Rev. lL. M. Atwood as . H. B. Busler leaves his Universalist par- be Ron Algona, lowa, after a three rs’ pastorate, Rev. Asa Countryman bas resignea bis pastorate in te Dubuque (lowa) Universalist parish, to tal effect February 1 The Rev. J. M. Bailey bas resigned his charge at Peoria, LL, and Rev, 8. A. Gardner, at Galesbarg, Ll, has resigned uiso. The Rev. Nash, of Kockland, Me., bas received @ call vo the niversalist church ab Lewiston, Me. Rev. Dr. Barry, of Fond du Lac, Wis, recently preached in a Presbyterian church there, and a rumor weut out that he bad renounced U replied tha yy should of the cross; croxs nore than before, but that nis opinions respecting the tral des- tiny of men are not changed. CONGREGATIONAL, The Vine street church (Congregational) in Boston has extended an invitation to the Rev. A. M. Bradford, of Moutciair, N, J., to become their pastor. The eburch in Vergennes, Vi, sae ven a call to ABH, was called to account, ai do not make to much Rey. George K. Hall, of Littleton, R T. L. Day bos resiguea ot a pastorate oh in Guill T. he privet has resigned ers torate of the ron jason City, lowa, Rev. R, m bas been invited to Say- Rey, Dr. Bacop t# quoted as saying that all je- hominational churches which are Couristan are Con- gregational churches. ‘It is,” says the Christian at Work, “something like saying that all houses which ure not something © seven anda balf years pas street church, New Ha’ has Hon. James Merriam succeeds Rev. Mr. Stone in charge of the Congregational churct: at Indian Orchard, Springeld, Mass, RPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. T. ¥. vale, D. D., of the Charen vf Eng- land, bas been suspended for three months, under tl Public Worship act, for persistence in rituane alter pois iver 4 ned by the Canon on the sub. ¢ defies Open Lo we! ergy ina 0 iit, to seceds or to aniler, 1 conscientiously object ie condemned me. I cannot do second, because ure that the Church of England, motwithstanding the encroachments of tne state upon ner liberties, is the true Church in this lang. I sake, therefore, the last course, andsuffer. The Bishop has canonically or ofper- wise assumed iu person the charge of my benetice, and ‘on him the responsibility must rest.” He elaima tobe the victim of a persecuting association, and says be is but asthe eoldier at tne bridge head, and that there are plepty more behind bim who will fight the same Dattie. And bo predicts that in a few years the Pyblic Worship Regulation act will become a dead Jeter on the statute books. The Rev. G. W. Nelson, associate rector of Graco church, Lexington, Va., has accepted the rectorship of St, Johu’s church, Wytheville, Va., aud will enter upou hia new field next Sunday. fhe Rev. Mr. Rainsford, the English evangelist, is tn Grace church, Sandusky, 8 allernoon Bible readiugs are weil atvenaed and the evening services are hearty aud inspiring. His jabors with the Church of the Holy Trimty bere will not soon be forgotten, MAN CATHOLIC, Rev. Father Richard, the pastor of St. Anu’s ehurch, Detroit, Mich., many years ago, und the only Catholic priest that was ever a member of Congress, was a Gehan of the great Bossuet, the learned Bishop of Ke Re Father Fitzpatrick, of Westerly, Succeed the late Rev. Father Lyne! Patrick’s church in New Haven Weleb, of Meriden, is to be Vicar Gene: Catholic diocese. Rev. Father Michaud, of St. John, N. B., has left that mission to take charge of the parish of Buctouche. Dr J. 1. Spalding, 3. T. L., of this diocese, bas been appointed Bishop of tne Hew See of Peoria, Lii., formed Out of the oid diocese of Chicago. Dr. Spalding tor. merly lived in Louisville, Ky., but for the last three years has officiated in New York. He 1s a nephew of the late Archbishop Spalding, and appears to have in- her: he zeal and abilities of his great relative. 1 is eminent as a popular lecturer and is a good preache Very Rev. H. F. Parker, of Parkersburg, W. Va celebrated his twenty-fifth anaiversary in the priest hvod during the past week. Mr. William Fitzgerald was ordained in St. John’s Cathedral, Cleveland, Obio, a wee . REAL RL, is to ESTATE, The following sales were effected at the Real Estate Exchange yesterday :— William Kennelly sold, by order of the Supreme Court, in foreclosure, F. Smyth referee, a house, with lot 25x100, on Ridge street, west side, 175 feet north of Stanton strvet, to Matilda Hamen, plaiatfl, for $13,000. A. H. Muller & Son sold, by order of the Supreme Court, in foreclosure, George P.. Smith refereo, a house, witn lot 25x75, on Kust Seventy-sixth street, north side, 75 feet west of avenue A, to A. D. Vick tor $7,700, Scott & Myers sold, by order of the Supreme Court, in forectosuro, W. A. Boyd referee, a house, with lot East 130th strect, north side, 287 feet cass of Fifth avenue, to plaintift tor $9,000. c ‘of Bd joreliardt to Teeguita Barents Gist sh. 8. 5.1 rederick T2GUy at. s. #1390 ft. w, of 2d ay., 25x90, 11; wee Kteil and wife to Gilbert W. Banker. Sarah'Burr to James Cuigin 1Lsth st., 4. ixiod ti; uit * bert W. Banker and wile to George Brette . 8, 178 fe. 0. Of Sd av., 20%100,5; Simon J, Marous A. Adler: 3 125 fe. of Lit non and wile to, David 5.8 2-3 ft, y., 20x90, 10 3" Mary HPredetioks ana huibedd 10 1a William ily Mecke ®. Tompk' is and ‘ze Lispenard st... % (lot No. +73) Tusk and wife to Joseph Bondy. ds. 12 Tew oF ME wy. 20x 100.8; Folia Weight ard w eto BB, Hegeman ath 120 tt. w. of 1th ay. 135% will tw Arnold W. Ashwort 120 te w. of 10th av. 5,134 Nom. + 18,50) 2,000 ; 18,000 id band €6. Gael Fe Hrown 17.1x 100.4 it. Cinta Decks: Fan rh 24.7% It, ¢. of 7th ay., « 10,090 sigce 7,000 a 17th i James at, 0. 44 it.'e, of Buh av., irregular 5." Liydéeker sreleree) to A, Spring 21,075 39th at. of 2 11,000 Boyd (referee) to And: 9,000 Essex st., n. @, corner Divisio HL, Landon (reteree) to Jult Nom, 2d fey 40.10 fh mg of 11th, 8 a ‘reteree) to William T. 8,000 TA 8, 100 ft. A. 1,400 Vandi ) to Peser Moller. wy,, 825x102. 2 TOth st. OB. referee) to Wibett Hronse go P. Smith Ridge we, we 8 Frederick Smi dn Jord and oxhers to Lew * 17,200 #00 ft. @. of 10th ay., 25: | (retorce) to Jacob Michi 14th at. a, &. 100 1b, w. of 6th ay, BP. Suaish (referee) to Marsbail 0. MORTGAGES, Brown, Ellas G; and wife to Da + 89,000 ate. Brovison. W and others, #0 Plorene corner of 8th at, ahd Clrcle 3 years, 18,000 Cherry at, € ° + 4,000 Eddy. Louise K. and husband, to’ Mutnai’ Lite in: wautance Company,s. W. corner of Irving place at vee i ;, 88.000 _Stantou #t., f Chrystie st. . 10,000 er, Jallus and. wile, to 2,500 4,000 12,000 8.000 | of 13th 1,000 Kingsland. Daniel nnd wife. to Joseph w. Stuyvesant, w. of 10th st.:5 ya 8,000 rt B., to John B, Lee, | lye es 5,500 ylyear.. 6,500 w. corner” . of Gth ay. £6 ay, ¢. of Oth ay, Same to same, n. s, of O81 Sume to same, ns. of Sth of 4th'av.; Lyon to saing, ns. of Bld sty ¢. of 4th av. 1 ye: Moutwomery, William, to Willinm Rynhart,® & of S7th wt, wo of Lith av. 5 1 ye ‘ to John J. Freedman, » 1,500 Detween 35th mud Soin ate road rs. 10,500 Henry Meigs. n,m of Hid st. w. Mentges, jAuna M. and other yf B7th wt, ke: 2 10,000 3,000 | 3,000 | Nor ad Brosdway: B year 12,000 Stewart, Samuel and wife to yours 10,000 Jnited Staten” Lite in. ‘A. 10 Knickerbocker Li w.& of Klizubeth st, n. of B. aa? Groth et... of Madison wv. ‘Van Buren, Mynder (x. mw. cortier of ith ay. wind Gd Wood, mary ot Benver st, Uo. a1). Wood, Joveph LL. ft. anid. wite bo dintaial iii ance Company, ¥ of Bo Wenn flow it." to Lado ted tinrtiey, corner wei and Vesey «t ‘hoa PIS CCARS WINE AND LIQU (7 STORE FOR ar & lending theatre: oxuss of sale, owner enn. to it. Aeply, to H. K, & F, B, THURBER & CO,, mt. C GOOD BL $ Stand, in ington Market, cheap; Kestaurante. Cigar, Storer, Remple Ooms, MALONE, > Dey st VINE CIGAR SToKkK FO Lous must be sold; | Wi FOR SALE. FIRST CLASS 4 Fish Market tor 4 tine basiness. stablished six Ness, on the best ave: vTLY FOR Sabb jo” eluding | Zox 1004 0 HEIMER. Fee sae dress box JOR SAL cases Canal st PUIXTUR’ 1 carpeuter Work, NOR SAL cash; satisfactory reasun give; BYPy ee Foes SALE SEAN four story English emment A partly Billed; possession immedin mouths; $79 per month. NOR SALE—A LARGE STOC ins, de, at ® all “earl: it, No. 214 East eth ry SALE—TUE STOC id elegant Fixt Inquire CAMPBELL & coe Apply at 185 Flatbush « —OFFICE PARTITIONS, AND Fi POULTRY, VEGETABLE T, —On Oth av., very ddress QUAIL, Heraid FECTIONERY AND ICE CREAM sx. a Uptown years, doing @ y ay - K Ligue equired. Apply RY es f ps vinsT CLASS: os ry Brooklyn. DESKS, SHOW. by JAMES HODGE, 404 FOR OD LIQUOR SALOON, CHEAP, FOR in, Apply 122 Bleeek: GROCERY, ON ‘Al <n ar street in Brooklyn. ¥. oe Apply to W. TCR OF THE } No, 36 208! A ibaoes q year Inquire on premises. ck OF WOOD M RES OF A Faney Dry Goods Store in & good business locality; well vatablished; Teasous for Inquire ix fancy st POR SAL » ROOM running Temple. » pear Madi sell for halt price,’ Pictur Chairs, &e., de., everyth’ two, Adaress W, 1, D. JOR SALE AT Gost OF witl Fixtures, the Oyster between ist and Zd avs. ; will not saloon, having other engagements, av. New York. 1 AND CIGAR STORE, order, at sacrifice, 387 61m RENT MODERATE—BACHELOR'S PAK. son aquaro ; cost &8U FIXTCRES, 0 OR i LET }OODS AND FL. Ti twelve yours; will take part in regi estate. Herald office. DLATFORM SCALI 700 pound TAURA Reieer ‘@ fortune to the right party. ARD, 216 7th av., nenr 23d. be TEAM long ext S800 cas! STOVE: Dorae: Ayes WILL BUY THE & $125 Ypart of Furniture of a Variety btore, Hshed ax intelligence office; must be sold. 642 Kitzabeth r particulars call on G, K., S66 ay., Kliaabeth, ©. Broadway, up stab $3.000. sat sell my reas’ MALSH, Herald oftle BWERALD RL erior wood Stove. ‘erfocting Presses tor sale cheap. i} FACTORY FOR BALE— diverything complete nad in running order; established Address B. G., WiLL WEIGH Broadway. T FOR SALE—DOING ‘A FIRST CLASS Apply te B. ation ( LARGE SIZ ‘Apply any Soon TOCK, FIXTURES AND long « A EE BSS 1 WILL tablfPhed. Ad 12 years "MACHINERY. OFFERS TWO SINGER” BULLOOK ‘They are capable of Printing 7,000 euples exch per our of an elit page paper, an ides ab one The working roo 7 and both ary. 0 hig! man, Accompanying there pr ine 14,000 an hone, we will and the fi List sow REOTYR THER 1 Furnace, with Metal Pot aad tasting Boxes, oue of which t 6 Knives for The lowest ca 16$10,000, ‘These pre ‘The motive for selling these. pr circulation compels us to use t required fo be 5 na press is The inbor requ cet operate these two presses is four men (or boys) aad « lore: which are capable of print ww in one Wet eons BELONGING 1g Machine Bunnet, 4 ribbed. Huck or turning plates om, and chinery co: seen every morning at work on our daily edition. eases is thut our imme: ¢ improved double Builock. ress. peRdilress JAMES GORDON BENNETT, New York Herald. Brat depot. 0) 12x80 DANKE, WILL good order. Diteatly toor. AND STRAM pana Horizontal Tubulars, 34) to $0 horse; Locomotives, = steam kngines, 4 to 120 he Kod us new. is Ww URAS, Adgme aod Water sts., Brook!: Apply 4 Bowling POR SALE—ALL 0 ATLAN: PLANE 8 F! JOR SALE—CENTRIFUGAL patent, in good order, MACHINE. D. W. WES- by PLACE & CO., 134 Engine, 1434x14 inches, built seeu 200 Fronts 3 woop in the United states tor spli ‘Wood, pine, oak and hickory WM. SOWTL O#'S DRUM CYLINDE! rollers, bed $ixo2, meariy 1 i [WAND SKGOND HAN and Machinery, bought, sold and exchanged, biake Crusher and lot 1 ioeh pate SCOTT Tor ER, Ti Paints pitent fore-eni 1) to import; must be sold, dor ©. SQUIRES, 1 Cortland EUOND | id Shears und bending iol ddress, giving full 251, Nowburg, N. Y. W Asteo—a Goon Matcher, for working sp must be cheap. size, condition and price, ©. way, room 2 Waster prices, 7. 1., Wt Engino aud Boiler, in fires dress G., Herald office y ANTED—A SHERIDAN O boxsing Press; alsv wooden Wilh& past Newark, N. J. W: ANTED—PRINTING OFF cheap for cash. DAMON & Joy Address, miving full A Boilers, 1.0 to 130 horse power; state lowest cot box 120 Herald office. LE AT A SACRIFICE—A NEW PROPELLER by Archombault. Can be near Montgomery. SPLITTERS, THE BESE tting all kinds of kindling LIAMS, = Kast 25th ot, D ENGINES, SILERS an alvanised Iron Pipe. BEKTS, 119 Liberty st. TRIPLEX GRIP, LARGE pistol grip, nearly ‘ew an mat miss this c! HAND POV POWER 1 PU: NCH the ND HAND PLANER AND nee and hard wood flooring; articulars as to make, AFIELD, 140 Broad AME: ANTED IMMEDIATELY -20 OR 25 HORSE POWER 1 order, for cash. Ade R AUSTIN POWER BM- Tank. Addross J. LAGO- i OR SMALL Piete 44 Beckman st, Ww. ANTED ‘TO PURCHASE. VAS —APPLETONS' /Jwanted by advertiser, cheap, for cas, GANT LiGiTt BL juins for two windows: Bia. teimmed with AME Any WANT To BU with first class patronage, a4, ‘an excellent raid ices p Jptown of nA cash | TER, box 105 He! Mee. Warten TO second hand Billiard G.W, Wi TED—A STANDING OR four feet lon; side drawers an Heraid witice, W ANTED Ti Bewing Ma order, twliy cw stating price, Pi i ANCING Ae ACADEMY § “partiti ous. «Bleecker st.—Prices qreatly circular. LLE Of pupiis. Priva For particulars sead fo lessons every day. ALL ‘Academy, children’s classes; six dan lessons; walt > 1 order, which thi MIST, Heral A SAMI Le must be willing to WANT CARPEREA ANY QUANTITY, ANY KIND; d, Addeess, immediately, CASH, box ; price tust be lo CHASE bles, standard sise, Address ating price, &e. . Al with gives or wire inclosure; must have Address BROKER, vex 138 ood BVI, ox 4.897 Post off “ACADEMIES, / DODWORTINS DANCI removed to No. 651 Sth av. now open for RICAN ~ CYCLOPRDIA one willing to dispose of it . DOX 222 Herald office. fen of wil 1 1b dosertption. prices Uptown Braned KOOM DOWNS Towns pervou, wishing to sell wil, iow thore OD GROCKRY ST Address Casi: ¥IRST GLASS SITTING DES DANCING,“ reduced from January 1. 7 SCHOOL, the f ciroalar. lessons any Av ADENY, APOLLO new class Tor Tuseday; FLaathE DUMAWS PHIVATE DANCING 24 Wost 4th #t.—Ladies’ taught perfectly im six private ghide waits, specialities, G ACADEMY, sa) BROOME iced YRIDAY KVENI! gentlemen's and SING JAN. 8, Academy, doors from Sth a ANDO'S DANCING ACADEMIES, ey oT, corner 3d av. (bank building). ing, For eh Guth st. Frivare 10 ons any our. d term, ‘Profestor Stl Adairess box 184, Lh prs rE formerly teacher for lent music tarnished for all oeeaston ‘Uttice 26 ant A wine address PELY, at NORD EMY 89 57 best Receptions at NERIDENUE: OF PUPIL, KAD, her of mode teacl rh waitaing, SEE A , Fint GROCERY STORE POR BALE CUBAP, AUSE'S pence ray everythin, Lota Wy Appiy'te i. kK. THURBER x Weat Sh, 154 East corner Hudsou & heads ste Abou, CLACULaRs, 12 aah rk! 1M BAST 18TH, Lissons amp a