The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1877, Page 6

BREAD OF LIFE. Preaching the Leaven of Righteousness in the Sister Cities Yesterday. WR. BEECHER OX ECCLESIASTICAL CONCEIT. “The Joy of the Angels,” “Prayer and Work,” “The Christian's Aim,” “The Pieasures of Sin.” AN EPISCOPAL ORDINATION. Opening a Catholic Mission at St. Theresa’s. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. RCCLESIASTICAL CONCEIT--SERMON BY HENRY | WARD BEECHER, | Whena man has come to that state there is very Aittle loft for him in this life, said Mr, Beecher yester- @ay, reierring to Paui’s deciaration, made while in a | Roman prison, that bo rejoiced that Christ was | preached whether in pretence or in truth. This was | found in the text, which included the fifteentn and | eighteenth verses of tho first chapter of the ?hilip- piane. Suchian entire victory over all the natural | | all their power to advance into a clewrer light and to | bigher attatuments, | means to satisty them. ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 1 unity with the Father and lion ‘igainst Him?” tcehnaed SWEDENBORGIAN. CHURCH. ENOWLEDGE OF TRUTH ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN PROGRESS—SERMON BY REV. CHAUNCEY M. GILES, Rev. Chauncey M. Giles preached yesterday at the Swedenborgian church, Thirty-tilh street, between | | Fourth and Lexington avenues, the subject of his dis- | course bein, “Increase in the knowledge of re- | ligious truth possible and essentiat to haman pro- The teachings of the Lord, be said, had « most important bearing on the buman mind in its j Search after knowledge, Men were constanily tempted to mistake the limits of knowledge for the limus of truth, for it required some knowledge to dis- rt | cover theif ‘own ignorance. belief among | Curistians was alinost universal that we had reachod | J or am I in rebel- B to the lurthest Limit of spiritual truth which could be attained while we lived in this world. There might he new fnets, new ways of sotting them forth, new illustrations of the truth, but the common opinion, he | said, was that there could Se no advance veyond that | condition of tmingg, So determined and fixed was this belief that it hadspassed into a maxun that what was true Was DOt uew, and What wus New was nob true. But if w thing was not true men should ve made aware of 1, go that they might ex. amine it distimetly, It was their duty to use ‘They should examine the subject in the light of reason and revelation, Nover was there atime since the truths of Christianity were ro- vealed when there was so much difference of opinion in respect to them, the {andamental doctrines were not taught with clearness and distinction in any of the | churches, such doctrines as the Trimty and tho Atonement were received in a diversity of ways, which ranged vetworn nominal acceptance aud that belie which admitted of no doubt, because it admitted of no examination, Some of ihese doctrines, they were told, were mysteries {or which there was n0 explana- | lon, They were told that they must accept them as | matters of fact; but was it reasonable, he usked, to | suppose that the Lord intended such a condition of things to be the highest mit of human attainment? Was it copsonant with the declaration that true knowl- edge Was ossential to man’s well being? God never intended, the preacher said, that man should be 80 cursed with oternul teebleness. It would be equivaicat to creating hunger and thirst without providing any He concluded, theretore, thut the Lord bad niany things to say $0 men, aud that Ho never attempted to arrgst their progress while the tendencies of numan nature, such a pertect ripening Of tho germs of nature into the blossom and fruit ot grace, could scarcely be found anywhere cise. Paul | was then an old man, and his : r had been, beyond | that of all the other aposties put together, full of | periences. While in prison word was brought him | how the work went on without, and also the news that | in Rome there were preachers traducing him, Paul's | pride was immense, und as grace iies on top and na- | ture dhder 1t, to strike through grace and bit original | nature was generally easy, 80 that some upheaval of | anger might have been expected at this announcement | that the very men whom he taught to preach were calling him an impostor. But there was only joy that | the Gospel was preached evident in his reply; and all | the way through the writings of the apostles there | was to be found not one sign of conceit, He cared not what became of himse!f, so that the work went on; | and in that it was evident he was unlike many | ministers of our own day who identify themselves | with the canse of truth and righteousness rather than hold themseives as instruments of it, so that they feel | as solicitous about the Gospel as a mother does about | the first baby, aad everything must be thought of and | everything must be done and nobody cau do it but she. But while mothers caring for the ‘ninth or tenth babo get over that, ministers don’t, and it becomes stronger and stronger with them to the end. WHO ak TUKY? So that you will find hoary beaded said Mr, Beecher, good mev, who have so identified themselves with a correct view of the Gospel that they | fee! that if they should die they don’t know what the | Lord would do for another, forgetting thut God could | use up others as He did them, and that He could do | the work better without it they were not in the way, These men wero like grapevines that clasped a trellis | and then said, “What will this trellis do when weare taken away from it?” Paul,the man of all others who shight have been expectod to cry, “What will the cburches do when 1am gone!” did not do 0, The | men whom he was told were speaking 1h | of him were preaching, in one sense, a false | gospel, that is they were preaching a historigal Christ with a malign spirit, No man could preach Christ by ideas, by theology, or plulosuphy, or logic, | Paul manilested’ Him in all those subtle elemeuts ot | taste and beauty, all thote higher elements that do not cunforin themselves to logic, Christ must be preacued AS urtisis preach, by Doauly; as lmusicians preach, by subtle sound, marching in Cohorts, Christ must be eached partiy by ideas, partly by will, paruy by | jearning, purtiy by ewouve power, partly by’ dis- Positional powor, Men who attempted to preach Corist in a malignant spirit were coupared to one who sbould attempt to point out the beauties of an alan tor Vase, turning it ubout with muady bands. ‘The words of tho text expressing joy that tue Gospel sheald | be preached in any lorm, Mr. Beecuer thought should | bo put over the doors of every theological seminary, wherein the accurate truth 4 Jatnudes and Jougitudes of eternity are known, and fresh observations are taken e¥éry day of the Sun of Righteousness; where they tume of the ages to w minute, and wh 1s bound to Preach 10 the classes that enter (hem, ‘Here is the way; walk iat, aud Wurn neither to the ‘ght nor the * lett?” ministers, | JEALOUS AND SUSPICIOUS MINIS When toid of slanuers of the pr might have said, ‘Go: will rule it ull tor ub be might have’ said, after the fashion of many good people of the present day, “1 hope they wili du some good, but I fear; or he might have said to the | churches, ‘Ab, you cannot expect 1 will have fellow- | ship with any such men as they; it does not become me.” All these have been expected, but it was too early in the history of Curistianity to bave them; | they are the products of a mucn later period, 0. don’t you think, said Beecher, if heresy wi thus treated in modern times it would be a itttlc b Don't you think the hounds of iove would be er to run down heresy than the hounds of | ¢ Bow pitcous it 18 to see the mimisiers of | Christ grow jealous and suspicious as they grow old! | row old | ! There was no grow mellow aud beautiiul and s Than who in his di e than old Dr, Alexander, of precious memory ot Prince- ton, aud yet when te lay dyiog—aud bis later years bad been breathing in that irit—he said, “Ot ali the things that I have known and taugot there are only two | tuat remain by me now; aud one is that Lam a smner, | and the other that Christ 0 save sinners. ‘These two truths he leit | and the | not con us it were lell oll, cher | went on to condemn those Who would bring a brotuer up for jetting a woman preach, for letting a theologian, like Professor Swing, preach; lor letting men who are Just as good as they and just as sincere have a tree Cuurse and leaving to bear witness which is the | fruit sower and which not. How paintul, uesaid, 1 | 4s to see nen Who dil noi know the dillerence between | Comsecientiousness and combativeness and who pray ® grout deal that they may be justilied in bitterness a great deal! How paimtul it is round the Lord Jesus Curist just piesa candle! The hight shines of all sides, ri it affects the cand when the but out the socket ui for another. How titty years preaching Christ aud 2} Muchis one particle of the sweet incense of tne divine | waiuro, fv is an awinl thing to be a minster of | Christ unless a man ts a Curisnan, Leis an awial tung for a man to be x Christian ant preach a | Christ of contention and sterile, with Ko and a burs | den which does not grow easter, al is not the apostie of any such men, CHURCH OF THE CHRISTIAN UNITY—SERMON STEPHEN H. TYNG, Ji | At the Church of the Holy Trini rner of Forty- | gecond street aud Madison avenue, tic Rev, Stephon | H, Tyng, Jr., proached to a large congregation trom the text John, xvii, 21, The text, said the preacher, was a prayer jor the real, not the apparent, Church in Christ, a supplication for those who have vital union with the Lord, not in ceremonial but in real spiritual | life, 1118 given, said be, us His model prayer, so far | as the Church has gained possession of the hearts of | men, and enables us to conceive ail Christians as one in spirit, ‘This union is possible only to the tue Jol lowers of Jesus, notto hypocrites and sticklers for forms, There is a meeting place lor all true believers; but this is not to be anticipated, but is to be scudied in | the bistory of the people of God, Christ speaks of the oneness of bolic! in the Father—the great fuct in the Itie of every believer—that it has its source, its | HOLY TRINITY. | Ly THE RLY. | centre wnd returning place in the Father, They are | made partakers of the Divine nature, introduced as tovante ju common vf the Divine inheritance, joie | bers Christ. Into the bearts of velwvers is put | Oo} adoption, whereby we are ied to cry, od yt Rhor.” ‘Still, more than this, hot a | ot God. He | Hy ana with all | f ul z one, howe | seat sentpendy jooks forward to the her, where he | wd reiuge and saicty, Vis is} Ai gorelhadli vere. 18 not | 1 experienve of bel aoe ad of God who # AOL In we Father, “i is so bound by cords of fove to the ag, Fav 4 | so Hoe igall tous, In conclusion | ng Seo yas 4 80 anxious to maintan exeiusi d Visivie relavionslip, ueal, with Christ. Be more | me shall be inse ae gh = | Lamy’s book of life, that you are @ branch of the live fou view, shat the itie of God flows tlirow jor the work to be dofe by believers is to e thie unity by bringing iu others Whoare o1 the ouiside and make them purtukers with you of this ite. The peut persoual question with exch one is, "Am I in the your wa separate, Wither sven! or ecclos! concerned that your if | @HK JOY OF THE ANGELS—-SERMON BY THE | are ministering spirits, sent to minister to us on our | this our solemn act of worship, entering into all the | We cannot see them yet God’s ungels are ever with us | spread of civilization and art or the growth or over- | Haven, Conn., preached a sermon on Christ and His | mission, taking as a text the thirty-secoad verse of | Rutgers sireets, to listen to | by Fathers Neiderkorn, Hiliman and Ward, Alter the | Magdalen, the outcast of Jerusaicm and the disgrace of | of the erring but sorrowlul toliower, his enemies and evnducted him to — that jand of promise, purity of heart, peace of | mind aud good wili toward all mankind, ‘The preacher | of the congregation to tears. | men whole umverse of truth Jay waiting to be explored. SCOTCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. REY. SAMUEL H. HAMILTON, ‘The Rev. Samuel H, Hamilton, pastor of the Scotch Presbyteriau church, preached a sermon yesterday morning on the subject of the joy of the angels in heaven over repentant sinners, tuking his text from the Gospel according to St. Luke, xv., 10, Mr, Humil- ton divided bis subject into four parts:—First, The nearness of heaven to earth; second, The subject of profoundest interest im heaven; third, The reason for the gladuess of the angels, and, fourth, Practica; thoughts arising from the subject Under the first division he said:—Naturally we think of heaven asa place very far off, but the glimpse that the text affords makes it seem not so very remote alter all, It our eyes were opened we might, like Elisha’s servant, be- hold the chariot of fire on the mountain. What is taking place now in this congregation is of intense interest among the angels in heaven, Angels uttend the progress of man throughout the world, and heaven 18 just as close to us as to our Muster Christ, jor we share in His glory, 1t is as true to-day asin the days of the l’salmist that the “angels of the Lord encompass us On every side,”? We are sure that they way tifrougn lite, Angels are present with us now in heights aud depths of our religious Jife, and though with as. sympathizing never be rejgicing with us and approaches to God aud heartless if we could appreciate pearness of heaven to us. We might thought that no event on earth would have at- tr 1d the notice of heaven, much less iucrease the joy tn that blisstul placo; or if any could it would be some such grand and magnificent occurrence us the our would coid the throw of nations and dynasties; but things in heaven ure very different from things op earth, Moral and hot material events are of most interest there, The repentance of @ single soul is better than the founding or overthrow of anempire, Or, again, wo might have thought thatonly when great muiticudes were saved, as the 3,000 on the day of Pentecost, would the joy of the angels be increused, but there is joy im heaven over one sinner that repeuteth, In every repentant sinner the Saviour sces one soul for whicn He has labored, suffered and died, aud He re joices, and His joy t8 shared by the Father, and all the angels: in that heavenly place sympathize with the Father and the Son, From their superior knowledge they know the real place that man occupies in the uni verse, ‘The social distincuods of human lite are not cared for there. They look on man as simply a bearer '$ inage, abd When he repents they see im bia ye ot the Maker restored, They ‘see a tutyre id fellow worshipper with themselues; there- tore the birthday of a saint is kept with gladvess in In every conversion their Lord 1 honored, they rejoice, CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION, CHEIST AND HIS MISSION—-SERMON BY PkO- FESSOR EDWIN HARWOOD. At the Church of the Incarnation yesterday morning Professor Edwin Harwood, of Trinity Church, New the twellth chaper of St, John, The reverend gentle- man gave a biographical account of Christ on earth, who came down from heaven, not by His own will, but by the will of Him who sent Him, He spoke of Him asso meek and lowly that the Jews declined to recognize Him as having any power beyond tbat of men; and yet, he said, He had an attracting power be- yond that of any man among them. He then entered upon an analysis of the elements of the attracting power of Christ, which had been proven to have been, and still to be universal, He lived for all und died for atl, He was a never failing comfort to the most miser- able of those who sought Him aright, and so, too, was He to those 1m the more comiortable waiks of lie. - He came to soften the hard lines im Ife for the poor and the rich, the wfllicted and the bealthtul, His werds ore soothing and helpiul to all temperaments; He as always the same comforter and comiorting to those Who sought his aid. A CATHOLIC MISSION. THE OPENING SERVICES OF THE MISSION IN ST. THERESA’S PARISH--A WEEK OF WORK FOR THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS. An unusually large congregation assembled yester- | day inthe Church of St. Theresa, corner of Honry and v. Father Damen, 8. J., preach the intial service of the mission to be given duder bis auspices during the week, Solemn bigh mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Farrell, assisted | Gospel Rev. Father Damen announced as his text St. Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians, iv., 3. The reve- rend@entleman dwelt on the consolatién experienced by all sinners in the knowledge that the God | with whom they had to deal was full of | Jove, charity and tenderness, The vilest wrongdoer Wilh a cuntiite heart need not petition in Vain for tor- | ye They see Him in the image of the good shep. | rd seeking jor nis lost sheep, and in the parable of the loving father julling on the neck of his prodigal sou. No man should despair of forgiveness, Mary 6 we ler sex, Was pardoned by her charitable master, Re- | ferring to the cruciixion, the preacher drew a vivid and toring picture of that suviime spectacle of the dying Saviour asking His Father opforgive those who ried wloud for his blood, A mission, Father Damen xplained, was one of those extraordinary graces which Gou gives to those whom He loves. ‘There was no siuner Who contritely followed it but could be saved. By the mission God smoothed the rugged path r overturew exhorted bis hearers, young and old, to rie above the promptings of the world, the flesh and the devil, and to come to the mission. ‘To the young map wud woman x0 often deterred from Christiad duty by the insidious na ylen that religion meant the laying aside of all ast particularly addressed bis remarks, Rei gion was only true pleasure, A mind at case, Tighteousness and piety were the elements of all happt hess, (he lusts ol the world were but fleeting suad- ows. Somescepucstiere were who believed ‘not in the power of «mission, and to such he would gay ‘Come and see for yourselves, God will take your burden of sin and tead you by the hand.’ ‘The peroraiion of the reverend gentleman was im- 11 and patbetic toa high degree, affecting many The mission, which com- last might, will continue for two weeks and con- sist of early mass daily at five A. M., ‘another with ip- struction three: hours later, stations of the cross ab three ?. M. and rosary and ‘sermon at hatl-past seven TV. M. Fathers Coughiin, Netwerkora, Fealana, Hillman and Condon, all of the Order of Josuits, Will assist | Father Damen during the mission, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. | PLEASURES OF SIN—SERMON BY Dit, TAYLOR, Rey. Dr, Taylor, of the Tabernacle, exchanged pul- pits with Mr. Hepworth and preached to a large con- gregation in the Madison avenue Church of the D sei- pies yesterday moruing. The words of my text, said he, will bo found in the éeventh chapter of Hebrews, from the twenty-fourth verse, but the words to which I wish to call attention are in the twenty-filth verse— “The pleasures of sin,” In this chapter, which is de- voted to the heroos of faith, no passage is more worthy passiol fore as the sublimest Iie im ancient history. The choice of Moses was n0t made biindly, | in the impulsive ardor of childhood, bat maturely, when he was come to yenrs, Let it be conceded in the outset that sin bas pleasures; 0 much must be true, crelse men would vot commit it, In every imatance man is drawn toward tniquity :o the belief that it wail mini to bis enjoyment Sin may begin through curiosity, or through the impa- trence of restraint. Sighing tor self-forgetiuiness, one may flee tothe maddening cup to seek that end. Vhus sin at Grst is induiged in for pleasure, and douotiess there tsa kind of enjoymént to ts commis sion. But Lask, What are the characteristics of the pleasures of sin? Of what sortare they? What are (bey worth? Its value is what mathematicians would call ative quality; 1 costs more than it comes to. In the equation of tifo it subtracts from the sum total of your Lappiness. The pleasure of sin, in every form, is confined to the moment of indulgence in 1%. You have to manufacture it new on every occasion, every time 1 will be just as volatilo as betore, you t from sin all the pleasure you expected out of it when you began to yieldto it? You know you have not,’ Over every Sinful pleasure you may write the Lord’s own words—- “Whosoever drinketh of these waters will thirst again.” Lt is only when we come to Christ that en-- during happiness can be found. The pleasures of sin leat ting behind them, and will bear no after re- There is zuilt in’ them, and there can be 00 happiness in contet plating that, and when the hour of joy baz fled the guilt is the entire residuum of the jast it stingeth uke an. adder. o the contrast of the happiness of the Christia past will bear examination, his yesterdays reproach, Which enjoyment, beloved friends, will youcnoose? Turn to Christ Jesus, and through obe-® @ience to his commands you will enter inte an enioy- ment that will grow in you and give you the bicssed- ness of heaven. It you wish your life to,resemble the sun shining by day, if you would have your céath re- semble its setting. golng down to shine in the firma- ment beyond, them cling to the cross of Christ; but if you desire to waste your strength, to destroy your soul eternally, you willgive yourseif up to the pursuit of the pleasures of stp. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, VIRTUES OF THE VIRGIN MARY--SERMON BY REV. FATHER MACAULEY, A large and fashionable congregation filled St. Stephen’s church, in Twenty-second street, yesterday morning, at balf-past ten o'clock services, ‘The ser- mon was preached by Kev. Fathor Macauley, He read the gonpel of the day, being the second chapter of St. John, beginning with the first and ending with tho eleventh verse. Tne reverend gentleman deliverod an Interesting discourse on the virtues of the motber of. God and the great love eutertained for her by the Re- deomer of the world. This esteein was exhibited upon nll occasions, aud His first miracle was performed at her request in changing water into wine, Woman was the to fall from a 6 of grace, but sho was. ‘ward destined to crush erpent’s head, gaining t Victory over #in und gutan. ‘God bad in an ex- traordinary manner complimented the Virgin Mary by sending the Archangel Gabriel to announco the great honor which wus ip store for Prophets and wise men bud foretold, many yeurs before, the udvent uf the Saviour and Its mode of coming ‘nto the world. ‘The Church, 1m all ages, had recognized and honored the blessed virgin, Her attributes were spectally re- vered. 1t was not alone as the mother of God that she thus resplendently ehone above ull others cf her sex, but her private virtues were a model: for all iuturo generations to copy. The reverend preacher thea went en to describe the peculiar sufleriugs of Mary at the foot of the cross, the terrible pangs which she en- dured while watching the death struggles ot her be- | loved Soa, her patience, humility and entire submis- sion to tae will of God. We should draw trom her ex. ample, he said, a strong determiuation to foliow in th path of rectitude aud bow humbly to the mandates trom above. The dying Saviour, addressing His mother from the tortures of the cross, exclaimed, “Woman, behold thy son’? The words wore also meant to reach the eurs of the eatire universe. We shouid ponder over the lessons of the crucitixion and the exumple set us by the blessed virgiv. By so doing we would overcome ull the temptations of the world and prepare the way fora bappy future iu tho world to come. MASONIC TEMPLE, PRAYER AND WORK—SERMON BY REV. FROTHINGHAM, Its a custom of our Protestant Christendom, sald Mr. Frothingham yesterday morning, to open every year with a week of prayer. The custom was maugurated by the Evangelical Alliance Association formed several years ago. The objects prayed tor are those of the most vital concerns to the Christian world—the increase of faith, of holiness, of sanctity, of aspiration, of upward desire, the increase of spirit. | ual power in the breasts of believers, the banishing of doubt, fear aud misgiving; the faith of the people, the success of mission progress, of Sunday schools, of home culture. From this pomt they verge upon home matters and pray that children may ve reared taith- fully and auuiluily; that parents may be seusible of their responsibility to weir offspring; that husbands and wives may be more united ip their affections to each other; that the drunkaras may be rescued; that vil proiessions may be broken up and abandoned, All through Christendom is this throb ot sywpathy, to Teach down a hund to those who need help, and lift them .up, The dead churches im faith ure dead churches in practice. We make a great mistake if we think a Chureh only needs praise, Faith in pare prayer, in prayer alone is passed away, Few people ‘vhink that prayer alone will prevail. Prayer and work always go together in these modern days, This week of prayer ig accompanied by a year of work. These supplicators are not supplicators only, ‘They do not conline themselves to spoken or wuspoken peti- tions, They are pot idiers, On the contrary they are brimming over with areal wish to do something tor tue regeueration of the world us they und and it, Tae Christian world docs not believe in prayer alone, but prayer connected with favorable conditions, When 1t comes to be believed, said Mr. Frothingham, 'n clos- ing his remarks, that ‘Christ is an ideal, a dogma, a myth, perhaps a theological fiction; when it comes to be thought, as itis thought now by millions of scier- tlle people, that the Christ of the Christian Church did pot really live on the earth as such, then a mor- tal stroke is hurled to literal prayer. AN EPISCOPAL ORDINATION, INTERESTING SERVICES AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, BROOKLYN—REV. R. B. SNOWDEN ORDAINED. The bhandzome little Gothic church of St. John, Protestant Eviscopai, situated on St. John’s place, be- tween Seventh and Sixth avenues, on the western slope of Prospect Park, was comfortably filled yesterday morning by an attentive congregation, the feature of the service being the ordiuation of Rey. Robert B, Snowden from the order of deacon to that of priest. Mr. Snowden, who is about forty years of age, was for several years a Presbyterian clergyman, and officiated in Connecticut. A littic more than a year ago he abandoned Presbyterianism and was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, since which time he has been at Fort Hamilton, The con- grogation of St. John’s, which number about 500, formerly worshipped in the old trame church which occupied the site upon which the ill-fated Brouklyn ‘Yheatre stood, and the remark had been frequently made that it Was not lucky to butid a playhouse on the ground that had been used for purposes of prayer. The music at 5t. John’s yesterday, which was very fine, was rendered by a@ choir composed ux follows Miss Delepiere, organist; Miss Lillie M. Hutcheson, soprano; 5. A. Leach, senor, and General De Lacey, basso. Within the s 'y Tails were seated Bishop Lituejonn, of the diocese of Long Island; Rev. t. 5. Pickard, rector of the church; Rev, R, , Snowden, Rey. Mr, Spofford, Rev, Mr.’ Adams and Rev, Mr Huntington, After the usual morning prayers the sermon was preached by the rector, Rez, Mr, Pickard, upon the duties and offices of the ministry. THE SKRMON, ‘The text was taken {rom the Gospel of St. Matthew, xh, 10—"For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I soud my messenger before thy face who shall prepare thy way vclore thee."’ end gentleman pro- ceeded to exhort the new applicant lor crdmacdon touching the dignity und duty of the high office of the priesthood. The Christian inimister does not inyeut o. B vided for him from the Word of Go It 1s the duty of the Christian ministry to proach the plain aud more simple words of His divine truth, which are host intimately connected with man’s wellure while on earth aod fis happiness hereatter, The minister must not seek to thrust his imdividuality of thought upon others, He may put the truth in ‘a fresh. form. but be must at all times keep within the accepted and prescribed rules of the Church, presenting the Bible ag the authoritative Word of God, The Christian min- required to preach neither more nor less than these truths, No minister can bo successful in ht ministry, therefore, of whom recupl is not racteristic : ave A mMessage dir from the Court of Heaven; woe is meoit 1 preach not the Gox- pel.’? The speaker then briefly adareased the candi- date for ordination in words of welcome to the min- istry of the Episcopal Chureb. . THE CEREMONY. At the conclusion of the sermon the Rey. Mr. Viek- ard presented the candidate to the Bishop. ‘The litany was reoited by the priests and the people gave responses, Then followed tho communion services and the collect. The Bishop next put to the Deacon, who sought the order ot priesthood, the questions jaid down in the Church ritual, to which Deacon Snow- den rosponded allirmatively, After the imposition of hands by the Bishop and priests the Lord’s Supper was partaken of by the clergymen, and, tho bene diction being given, the congregation was dismissed, MADISON AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH. THE CHRISTIAN’S AIM—-SERMON BY THE REV. GEORGE SWAIN. The Rev. George Swain, of Allontown, N. J., con- ducted the morning and afternoon services at this of study than that which relates to Moses, It sets be- chureb, His discourse in the morning, ‘The Clris- + We do well go forget wh: his owt method of instructing the people; it is pro- | “Brethren, | count not myself to have apprehended, villany, All j bus this thing I do, forgetting those things which Sotarien 91 7 by Se Btn | are behind and reaching forth unto those things which | scoundrels, the magnetizing speils | are before, | press toward the mark torthe prize of the Oe amie ae ex; on the stage high calling of God in Corse, Jesus." The public | games of the Greeks were favorite themes of ‘aul to illustrate important teachings, The com- -mon people could understand them, and thus the ears of the masses were more easily | caught. One of the more popular of these games was | the loot race, and to be the champion oO! & province or | eity was the dream and aim of every ambitious Greek | youth, We may smile at what then was the fashion of the times; but two thousand years bence, perhaps, some of the fashions of (hisday may seem justas queer to those of that age, Like the runner, so seems the tn- ner experiences of the Christian’s soul. It 18 « grand i picture, for by the help of God he is pressing on to und achievements. Paul’s idea of a having a definite aim m view. The Iife—-to conform to the will |. de hungers atter it, and always | presses forward to tt Truc Ubristian experience is one of pursuit rather than of attamment, One of the lessona Paul wishod to inculcate was that | men should not consider themseives sinless. A soul so mighty in the iaith cannot be found, and those ap- proaching that atu! { pertection shrink from, being considered altogether holy, The lesson of the apostle, which enjoins us to press Omward in the bigh calling, teaches us to forget tne habits and ways of the genera sions gone, The whore sphero und routine of our lives should be an improvement upon what is past As in matters of busiacss go in spiritual Ite, you should lay hold on whatever will tend to accelerate it, We cun now do better than flint jocks and forty pound guns in times@t conflict; so the instrament to further the affairs of the religious world are fully as much im- proved as weapons of warfar ia bebii We do better by giving our hearts to the grander possibilities of the future. Our successes should nerve us one after the other to lay hold on, to press on to what is beyond, This 1s the iife that glorities God. He ony lives who lives in Christ; all others are dead. {t is the privilege of all to lead that life, tian’s Aim," was based upon Philippians ill, 13, 14: poi THE STAGKR AND THE PULPIT, THE THEATRE AND THE CHURCH—THEIR SEPA- BATE AND COMBINED INFLUENCE AS MORAL PREOZPTORS ‘OF MANKIND. Among the last requests of the late Edwin Forrest to his executors was the employment of Rev, William R. Alger to write his biography, a task be has very nearly completed, Mr, Aiger, under the inspiration of writing the career of the great American tragédian, coupled no doubt with his long and careiul study of the drama, ohose ‘The Church and tne Theatro’’ as the subject of his discourse yesterday morning, at the Church of the Messiah, of which he is pastor, and to which it is unneces- sary to state the large congregation: present listened with undivided attention. As will be seen by the ab- stract of the sermon, the theatre has never had « moro ournest and plain spoken champivn, He took for his text, Acts, xix., 29, “And the whole city with one accord rushed into the theatre.” The Church, he began, alms directly to teach and to im- press, to persuade and to command, The theatre aiins directly to ontertain, and indirectly to teach, persuade and impress, One advantage the theatre hes had ovor the Church in attempting to educate or exert tnfluence 1s that it doez it without the periunctory air or tho dogmatic animus or repulsive soverity of those who claim the task of moral guidance and authority as their supernatural professional office. The teach. ings of the theatre have also a freshness and attraction in their imexhaustible range of natural variety which are wanting to the monotonous, verbal and ritualistic routine of the set themes and unchanging forms in the ecclesiastical scheme of Sunday druil, THK BLEAK PULPIT AND THE PLEASANT STAGE, ‘And thus all natural competition of the dry, bleak pulpit with the stage becomes hopeless when the min- ister sees the intense sensational pleasure and im- pressiveness secured for the lessons of the playor by the convergent action of the manifold charms of the theatre—the charm of a bappy and sympathetio crowd, of ornate architectural spaciousness, of artistic views of natural scenery; the charm of music, of light and shade aud coler m costumes, of rythmic motions iu marches aud processions and dances, of pootry, of eloquence in word and tone and look and gesture; the charin of seeing varicties of human character act and react on one another, of sympathy with the fortunes and feelings of others under exciting condiuons rising } toa clunaXx, and the charm of a temporary reieage trom | the grinding mill of bueimess and hubit to disport the facuities of Lhe soul irouly 1 an ideal world. Tne re- spective ideals of life held up by the pricet and the player are diametrically opposed to each other, This 1s the real ultimate busis vi the chronic hostility of the Church and the theatre, ‘The deepest genius of tho oue contradicts that of tbe other, The ecclesiastical ideal of lie is abnegation, ascetic seli-repression and dental, Whie the dramatic ideal of lite 13 tuitiiment, harmonic exaltation und completeness of vows and tuncuon. Vioks oF THB CHURCH, ‘The vices of the Church have veen sour ascetice isu, fanatical ierociy, sentimental melancuoly, dis- mal gloom, narrow mechanical tormaiism and cant, andy deep bypocrigy resultimg from the reuction of excvssive pubile strictness into secret indulgence. ‘The vices of the theatre, ou the other hund, have been frivolity, reckless gayety, convivialtty and volup- tuousness. Purified from’ its accidental corruptions and redeemed from {ts shallow carelessness the inea- tre would have greater power to teuch und mould than the Church. Aside from historic authority and a1 prestige, its intrinsic 1mpressiveness is greater, ‘Tue deed inust gu Jor morethan the word, The dog most yield to the life. While in the palpit the dog- indus word is preached im 114 hortatory dryness, on the stage the living deed is shown in its contagious persuasion, or its electric warning. The Church, representing the vested interests of traditional autbor- ity and the present condition of things, has become a School of opinions, not for the iree testing and touching of the true, but for the dri of the established; while the theutre, 1m its genuine ideal, is what the Church ought to be—a scavol of manners or manufuetory of character, The Church paimts the world as a sad and feariul place of probation, where redemption is to be fought tor, while the ytolent and speedy end of the entire scone 18 implored. ‘The theatre regards it as a gilt of beauty and joy to be graciously pertected and perpetuated. The very object of the drama is, by ils spectacle of action, to rousg tho jacuities ‘and excite the feelings, The priest would not have tie passions vivitied; be would have them mortified. On the contrary, the dramatist holds to the great moral canon of ali art, that periected le 18 the continuons end of lite, STAGH CRITICISM, One circumstance stirring a keen resentment in the Church aganst the theatre is that it has often been atiacked and satirized by 1 The legal, medical and clerical professions bave olten lad | to rum the gauutlet of a searching sin on the | stage. Herein the drama bas been a power of whole- sale parification, It bas done much to make cant and hypocrisy odious and to Vindioute true morality and devotion by unmasking the false, The preacher, rigid, hide-bound, of a dogmatic and fornrel cast, can- wot take off the mobile, hundred-featured actor, who, ‘on the contrary, can casily include, transcend hin caricature him and make him appear in the mo: ridiculous or the most disagreeable lignt. No rank’s high elaim can make tho player small, Pince acting each he comprehends them all, Moliére can show up Tartuffe; Tartufle cannot show up Mohére. ‘Tueretore Tartulle fears and hates Moliére, eXcommunicates him, denies his body j consecrated burial and with a sbarp relish | cosigns bis soul to tho brunstone guilt ‘The prevailing temper of ~— the _—_lericul | guid toward the hustrionie guild trom the tirst til now | hus been uncharitable and unjust, mtedeciualiy ina) preciative and morally repulsive. ‘This is shown all t way (row the trenzied De Spectacalis” of rertulli and the viluperative “Histrio-Mastix’? of Prynne to the sweeping denunciation of the drama by Henry Ward Levener, who, hever having seen a play, condemns it from inherited prejudice, although Limsell every Sun- | day carrying a whole theatre into the pulpit in bis | own person, i THR LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, And it is mater of ‘irexh remembrance how the same spirit of bigotry was manifested by a Bos- ton bishop in refusing coniirmation to the univer- suliy respected Thomas Comer becaase he led the orchestra in a theatre, and by a New York pastor be- cause ho declined to read the funeral service over the extimable George Holland becauge he bad been an actor. The theatre bas been lar moro extensive tn the range of its sympathies than the Chureb, The highest dra- matic genius that has ever appeared in the world, Shakespeare, shows in his works a serene charity, & boundless toleration, a gentalappreciation of the widest extremes, kindred to that of God in nature and grace, His loving imagination, like tne all holding sky, « braces Triveulo, Bardolph, Potns, Faistall aud’ Mal- volio, a8 well ak Bassanio, Prospero, Hamlet, Cwaur and Lear, Audrey and Quickly, as well as Portia and Cordelia.’ ‘The tirst glory of the theatre 1s 118 freedom from sectarmaism, and fis first use is to radiate Abroad tis generous spirit of universality, not bigotedly Inmiting attentions to any one province of lite of any sungle Weal, but reaching the whole world of maa in its heights and Vreadths and depths, ex- hibiting, in turn, every variety of ideal and doing Ju tice to them alt," Emperors‘and clowns pass, saints and Villaips josie, heroes and murderers meet, the divine lady ‘and the foul virago appear and vanisn, {and all the meanimgs and values of their | traits and fortunes are laid bare to those wio seo and can understand. The next use of the theatre hes ip the lorce with which it carries the great truths of morality home to the heart and the soul, ‘THE STAGK AS A THACHER OF MORALS. ‘The power of the stage in expressing moral lessons— the rewards of virtue, the beauty of nobieuess, the | penalties of viee ana crime, (he horrors of remorse and disgrace, the peace and comiort of a sell-approving consclenco—is greater than that of any other mode of teaching, When the drama shail be made tn ali re- spects What (tought to be, fulfilling its own propor ideal, it will be beyond comparison the most effective agency in the world for imparting moral instruction aud infinence, No thouzitial and earnest person could pagsibly see the wickedness of lago, tho worwure of Othello, the straggie and remorse of Macbeth, de- picted by a groat actor, and not be protoundiy in- structed, moved and morally fortified, The preaching on the stage is oiten richer and sounder as well 5, 1877. Another service atre is i uncoverii every carctul person on guard. ‘This anmasking of dangers a poet ay of instruction quite necessar: the present state of society, and no- where so consummately exhibited as before the toot- hgnts But the central and essentia! office of the drama is to serve as & means of spiritual purification, freedom and enrichment. [t takes people out of them- seives and makes them hate tyrants, loathe syco- phants, admire heroes, pity sufferers, love the lovers, Bee se {he uuhappy rejoice with the giaa, joy rou large in the romantic paradise o! aympa- thetic human kind, AS be sueatre and fol. and corode heart and mind tn the emulous strifes of the world, BEHIND AND BEPORE THE POOTLIGHTS. Here pictures of beauty and bravery Are exhibited, adventures of romantic interest set forth, the most sublime deeds and engaging traits of mon lifted into reliet, a tide of pride and joy and love sent warm to the hearts of the crowd and all factitious distinctions centrated, is the audience, with its brilliant totlets and ite array of celebrity, beauty and fashion, There are poetry and oi skilled elocution of the speakers, There are the interest of the story, the interplay of the characters and the cvolution an climax of the plot. There is the profound, magnetic charm of the #yinpathetic assembly, all swuyed and breathing as one. And then there is the penetrative incantation, the omnipotent spell of raythm im tbe music of the orchestra, the chant of the singers and the dancing of the ballet, The prejudiced deprecators of the drama bi delighted to depict the kings and queens of the stage descending trom their scenic pedes- ting off ther tinsel roves and sinking jovenly attire into cellar and gurret. How much worthier of note is the reverse aspect, the noble Metamorphosis actors undergo when ihe prosaic be. witderment ot their daily life of poverty and care slip: off aud they enter the ace roatest characiers of history to enact the grandest conceptions of pas- sion and poetry! Further on in his discourse the reverend speaker said that no class is so true and lib- eral to its own mombers in duties or #0 prompt in re- sponse to public calamity as that of actors, He told Of 4 famous singer who, 1m passing through the market place of Lyons one day; was solicited tor alms by @ woman with a sick child, that, baving lett his purse behind and wishing to aid the woman, he took off his has, sang his best and gave her tne mouey collected, ‘The close of this story, which seems to have teen pul into verse, he then recited with pathetic effect; — Tho winger, pleased, passed on and soitiy though ty will not knew by whom this deed Is wrought ; But when at night he came upon tho stuze Cheer atter cheer went up from that wide throng And flowers rained on him. Nothing could assunge Tho tumult of the welcome save the song ‘That tor the beggars he had sung that day While standing iu the city's busy wa; Tn conclusion he said that virtue the votaries of the pulpit, and that if sometimes vice is openly flaunted in the theatres it 1s sometimes secretly cherished 1a the Church. He counselled that netther should scorn the other, but that they should mutually teach and aid each other, and exercise their methods to purity, enlighten and tree the world. CITY. MISSION. Tho “public moeting in the interost of city civiliza- tion,” which was held last evening at tho Presbyterian Dutch Reformed church, at the corner of Fifth avenue apd Twenty-ninth street, was numerously attended, Tho services wefe opened by the Rev, Dr. Chambers with prayer. Dr. John Hall preached the sermon, taking his text from Jobn xvii., 15—‘I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.” ‘This prayer,” said the reverend gentleman, “is without precedent, ‘There ts nothing like it im all literature. In this par- ticular verse Christ prays for His disciples, but it 1s also true that we of the nineteenth century may be in- cluded in the prayer. I bave seen people during the not confined to course of my ite’ who have said that they had 50 wish to live longer, that their only hopo in life was death, which would prove an entrance to the land of joy and happiness, Men should not pray to be taken ‘out uf this world, but to be kept out of evil, The preacher spcke of the good resulias of the City Mission, ying thut there were thirty missionaries, who had visited and administered help to 60,000 people in this city. He said that the ladies had been ot great service through the agency of their sewing societies. The expenses of the charity amounted to less than $50,000 during the year, FREEING ITSELF FROM DEBT. ‘The annual meeting ot the Forty-fourth street syna- gogue was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. B. lL. Solo- mon presiding. Tne auditor's report, which was read nad adopted, showed that thodebt of the congrega- tion had been reduced $6,000 since last year, The net procoeds of the late fur were reported to be $8,000, which will go toward the further redaction of the debt. Rev. 5. M. Isaacs, who bas been the active pas- tor of the congregation since 1844, becomes senior minister, and ube Rev. Dr, Mendes as associate minis- ter will relive the former ol a portion of bis labor, ERS. STURDY LIFE SAV SYNOPSIS OF THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE RESCUE OF L'AMERIQUE’S CREW—HONOR THE BRAVE. A detailed statement of the circumstances attend- ing the disaster to the General Transatlantic Steam- ship Company’s steamer L’Amérique hus been re- ceived at the ‘Treasury Dopartment from the superintendent of the life saving station at Sea- bright, Sundy Hook, where the steamer wont ashoro, The report shows @he immense value of the lite saving system planted along our coasts when offoc- tively adiinisterod. When L’Amérique was+beachod her situation was almost immediately discovered by the patrolmen attachod to the statton and the alarm given, The disaster occurred at three o'clock in tho morning, and the importance of keeping patrols along the dangerous shores on occasions of storm, day and night, was exemplified in this instance, as but tor the patrol system the life saving service would have been of nO value, because the inteliigence of the disaster would have come to the station too late, A6 soon as the alarm was given instant preparation was made for affording as- sistance to the passengers und crew en@pngered by the disuster. The alarm signals were seen vy the poopie on the steamer, but Were not answered. Arrangements were seb on foot for hauling the boat up ihe beac! aud when the crgw at the station got abreast the ves- sel a light was sven near the water alongside of her, and the supermtendent, supposing a boat was about to be sent asuore, endeavored to prevent the rash act by loud cries and signals, but the bout, a lurge white oue, was presently seen emerging from the shadow of the swamer’s bow and upon the crest of a lurge wave, Almost instantly the boat was seen to roll over aud come tumbling toward the beach, leaving its iate occu- pants straggling in the water. Tho bulling surf was thick with huge cakes of floating ice, while a vurrier of ie breast Ligh jiued the beach just clear of the une deriow. A GALLANT XESCUK, As tho sailors came (oward the beach the keeper and his men rushed into the andertow to their ut Auce, and, bringing five persons to the beach im abd With much difficulty rescued four paking nine im all, Threo others were qb- sWept away beyond reach and Jost, But for the timely arrival of the life saving men it 1s doubtiul whether more than one or two “of the twelve pussen- gers in the slip’s boat would have escaped drowning, us they were wil much encumbered with beavy clowh- Ing abd unprovided with life preservers, although there uppeared to be plenty of the Latter on board the steumer, An ellort was made to launch the surt boat, but it was unsuccesstul on account of the bigh seas and ice cakes, THN MORTAR APPARATUS. In the meantime the mortar apparatus had beey sent for and by five o'clock was on the ground, The second discharge of the wortur, with a fine directly attached to the ball, secured communication with the steamer between the main aud mizzen masts.” The distance from the mortar lo the slip was about 150 yurds, A hawser communication was thus estab- lished, and by means of the life car attached to thirty trips were made back avd forth, bringing off filty-41X passengers and fifty of the crew, women and children were among the passengers. boxes of gold bullion, weigiin also landed by the lite car, 7 service attached to the life saving trated by the fact that the vessel wa: Two 80 early dis covered alter she struck, aud the further fact that the three sailors who were drowned in coming off in the stoainer’s boat were discovered 10 Drought ashore, STOLEN GOODS RECOVERED. Somo time since a trunk, containing over $2,000 from Dodd’s Express Company on a train of tho New Haven Railroad Com- It belonged to the firm of John M. Hantord & Co., of No, 90 Chambers street, and was of tho best worth of cutlery, was stolen pany. workinanship. ‘The make was peculiar, and, besides it bore the trade mark of the manufacturers, The case It was in tine Benjamin Rosenthal, of No, 281 Second street, who has the reputation of being a receiver of stolen goods had a portion of the misa- A warrant was accord. ingly issued by Judge Duily on Saturday Jaat, and Ofli- cer Garduer, of the Tolnbs Poiice Court, weut to Roson- and found there « portion of the stolen property. Although the police had managed the affair with aa mucn secrecy as possible Rosenthal could neither be nor at another loan office of his pave gaiied an inkiing of the police movements and solight a place of have a clew which, it properly followed up, will no doubt lead to the dis- covery of the rest ol the stolen goods and the appre- was put in the hands of a detective. discovere that Jug cutlery in bis possession. thal found in Second stre in Bivecker street, He 1s supposed to tomporary safety, The det uy | as more gplendid than that heard irom the hension of the thieves, dus the second rescue was made, but were | it Several the Undertow at different periods on Sunday might by the patrols and | THE CHILDRENS FOLD. The Rev. Edward Cowley to Retire from the Management. EFFORTS TO CONDONE HIS FAULTS —-——— The State Board Insist Upon His Dismissal— ‘the Trustees Yield: It is a gratifying result of tho investigation of the Children’s Fold, made by the State Board of Chari- es, and of the recent exposure in the Hera o| the cruelties practised upon tho unfortunate orphans by the Rev. Edward Cowley, the superintendent, that tne Board of Trustees of the fold have virtually deter. mined to*place the management of tho institution ag soon as possible in different hands, This resolution may be gathered from the interview given below with Mr. James Pott, one of the trustees, From an inter- view, also subjoined, with Rev, Thomas Gallaudet, another member of the Board, it will be seen that the trustees were first desirous of condoning Mr. Cowicy’s faults and content to retain him as manager of the institution, provided he retired from the presidency ot the Board of Trustees, leaving the latter body s atrigt supervision over bis management. Thanks te the firm stand of the committeo of the State Board of Charities, consisting of Messrs. Roosevelt and Hoguet and Mrs, Lowell, this half-way measure and totally imadoquate remedy was not adopted. ‘They insisted that Mr. and Mrs. Cowley be dismissed, and that the management of tho institution pass into entiraly new hands, The employment and dismissal of the super- invendent and the matron rests with tne trustees, but the official prestige of the State Board and the moral pressure of an indignant and outraged public, which was produced by the HERALD’s exposure, have prob- ably inducea the trustees to yield and consent to Mr, and Mrs, Cowley’s dismissal For some reason or other tho trustees. still act in secret and have given no official announcement of their resolu. tion; but unless the pressuro brought by Mr. Cowley’s friends to compel his retention of the management should, alter all, overcome the pres- ens determination of the trustees the public may fee, gratified in koowing that the belpless orphans of the Children’s Fold will in the future be protected against such cruel treatment, AN ANOMALOUS MANAGEMENT, Before proceeding to give the statements of Mr. Pott and Rev. Thomas Gallaudet (who, 1 will be observed, have much sympathy Yor the Rev. Edward Cowley and try as tar as possible to extenuato his conduct) it may be well to point out the wholly anomalous condition of the management of the Children’s Fold. The Rev. Edward Cowley and his wife are not only superintendent and matron, but they algo control the principal supervision over their own conduct, for both aro members and the reverend gentleman is actually President of the Board of Trustees, Henoo it is casy to understand that the reverend gentleman has bad things pretty much his own way, and bas managed tho Children’s Fold asa private enterprise of his own. In fact the Board, as oflicially constituted, is little more thana myth, The official list gives tho following as the names of the trus- teos:— Rov, Thomas Gallaudet, William R. Gardner, Richard 8, Garrettson, Wiliam H. Newman, Elias J. Pattison, James Pott, Nahum Stetson, Jr. ; Mrs, George Depew und Mrs. H. D, Wyman, A reporter was sent to see them all, and be found that Mr, Gardoer was officially a myth, and no longer acted as a trusteo; that Mr. Garrettson was doad; that Mrs. Depew no longer belonged to the Board, and had withdrawe from it tor years; and that Mrs. Wyman was a very old lady, who hed aso retired irom it for some time, Mr. Newman lives out of town, and the only memborg who were uccessible yesterday were the Rey. Thomas Gallaudet and Mr, James Po; DR. GALLAUDET ON THR SITCATION, Dr, Gallaudet, whose noble ciforts in vehalf of the deat mutes are well Known to the pubic, would make un invaluable member of the Board, but, us he nim- self admitted, he was too busy with, his uther work 1a bo able to take an active part in the supervision of the fold, Dr, Gallaudet said th Was a disagreement boe | tween the State Board and the trustees, Stute Bourd vated apon the Rev. Mr. Cowley’s dismissal, and ers, Ruosevelt aud Hoguoct, as well as Mrs. Luwoil, who had conversed with bin on the suvject, had Ireely expressed to him their couviction that Mr, Cowley was | not fit to bold his present position. The trustecs, however, thought thal Mr. Cowley’s \aults did not pro- ceed irom deliberate cruelty, but were probably only ephemeral acd had been exaggerated, and they desired to retain him, but to make him give up the presidency ol the Board of Trustees, so that the trusices them- selves Could exercise a supervision over his manago- ment, In Dr. Gailandet’s opinion it was mantiestly improper that the president the supervising body should be the very man whose conduct was to besupervised, Dr, Gallaudet, however, spoke well of Mr. Gowley, Who was a clergyman of great experience, | but uniortunately ulflicted with a brusque, barsb | manner which, Dr. Gallaudet thought, had probably more to do with bis present trouble than any other cause. He did not believe that Mr, Cowley would ve deliberately cruei tv the orphans ander his care; but his brusque and harsh treatment of parties coming 1p contact with him bad probavly lent a color of proba- j buiity to these charges. Dr. Gullaudet was tn the fold in December last, and be saia the children certainly had no cowed or whipped-cur-like appearance, and he Knew it as a@ positive tuck that many spoke kindly of Mr. Cowle; Dr. Gatlaudet was | asked whether the trustees had the employment a dismiseal of the superintendent and matron, and plied that he did not believe there was any definite provision about that. Mr. Cowley bad virtually started | the fold and called the present Board of Trusiecs | around bim, and be had had pretty much the whole | management of the institution. He believed Mr. Cow- Jey had worked hard to make it success, and for hig own part would be willing to leave him in the men- agement on the condition above named, He didn’t Know, however, what the Board of Trustecs had de- cided‘to do, as he was unable to attend their meeting of Friday Jast, and reterred the writer tor the latest in- formation to Mr, Vou, who was probably the most uctive member ot the Board, THE TRUE INWARDSESS, It was found that Mr. Pott knew considerably more than Dr. Gallaudet from his uttendance at Friday's and he stated during the couversation that neeting a resolution wus adopted to place the mauugement in different hands ag soon as competent persons could be found. “In fact, we are looking now | for competent persons—be it either a superintendent | or ® matron, or pernaps a couple—we bave not yet decided which.’’ He assured the writer that whole matter would be scttiod this week ina manacr Butistactory to the State Bourd and the public; but when asked whotber this mode of settioment meant the dismiseal of Mr. and Mrs. Cowley bo said there was no necessity of putting the matte! into such @ shape as to call it @ ‘*dismiseal;’? that tho relations between the Rev. Kdward Cowley, who was the President of the Buard, and the other members were those of the utmost courtegy, and that the other trustees had no desire to treat their president in any but the most considerate and courteous munnor, Mr. Pott also politely clined Lo give a copy of the resolution passed at the Just ineeting of the Board of Trustecs on Friday or to Whether it siyuitied informal or foul and formal action, but contented himself with stating that 1 was pow with the Stato Bourd lor their revision und con- currence. Mr, Pott thought the matter should now be kept as quiet as possible by the newspapers uotil final ucuion wa had aud that there waa necessity for the utmost secrecy. As to the charges themselves ho thougnt they were exaggerated, and that the chilvren, many of whom had on from Randall's Island, and velonged to the lu’ Classes, “were pretty hard cases (0 manage’ and might bave required extreme meusures to discipling, ‘hero was a great deal to be don the part of tho reverend genileman who had ved Without salary (althoagh be had the exclusive disbursement o/ all the money expeaded for the insti- tution). He bad, unfortunately, like many other people, a dispomtion to quarrel; but he was a clergy- man, and Mr, Pott believed he should be treated with the greatest lemieucy. One of the best features ol the fold, he said, was the wonderful absence ot sickness, of which there had been less thun in almogt any other justitution of the sd, he children are pretty huppy,’’ Mr. Pott deciared; ‘they don’t live in a Filta avenue palace, of course, but they are pretty well se MN, HOGUKT'S OPINION, ‘haps one of the most conscientious and kind. hearted gentlemen of this city is Mr. Henry L. Hogutet, & member of the State Board of Charitics, Mr. Hoguet’s opinion of the management of Mr. Cowley Gilters from that of Mr. Pott: but then it must be re- membered that Mr. Hogue trustee and that Mr. Pots 18, and, furthermore, that, as Dr, Gallaudet irankly puts it, Mr, Cowley “had valled the present Board of Trustees around him.” Mr. Hoguet gave it hat the food had been poor quate, that it was in a dirty condition, and that the ehildren bad undoubtedly beon erucily treated, Such 89 opinion from a gentleman of Mr. Hoguet’s position should be Tegurded ag tinal, more especially wien it is strengthened by th: testimony of witnesses Who havo not yet been im- peached in any particular, Mr. Hoguei’s auditional siatement that since 1 commencement of thia in- Vestigation the tood had improved, thu institution had been cleaned and the children had’ been bet etter or docs not mend the matter, and itis certain ay the public willbe satisiied with nothing jess than the peremptory dismissal of Mr. Cowley and the employe ment of some humane and compeent person in ‘ae place. Tho trustees will bold another meeting in relme tion to this matter sometime this wi hope to take tinal action