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8 LEADING THE WAY Pulpit Discourses in New York and ‘Brooklyn Yesterday. PHILOSOPHY OF TEMPTATION. Talmage’s Plain Talk to Commer- mercial Travellers. THE CARDINAL AT THE CATHEDRAL. Frothingham on the Authors of Disbelief. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THR THRES JEWELS—SERMON BY REV. MR. HEPWORTH. Mr, Hepworth preached yesterday morning from the text Isaiah, Ixi., 10:--‘1 will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my sou! shail be joyful in my God, tor he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, ho hath covered mo with the robes of righteousness, bridegroom @ocketh himself with ornaments and as a bride adorn- @th herself with her jowels.”” So loug as we live, he gaid, we shall cherish tender and precious associations in connection with our mar- riage day. 1t was the supreme moment in our lives; {t was the moment when, like the prophet of old, our fevt touched the summit of Pisgah, aud we looked for- ‘ward to experiences untrodden, to hopes, ambitions, responsibilities and joys that would educate the soul and develop our better nature, It was very natural ‘hat in that bour we put on our best «ar ments and adorned ourselves with ornaments, It was natural that the bride should clothe herself in distinc- tive garments; that she should put the necklace of precious stones about her neck; that she should haug the veil, a typo of her own pure heart, from Ler brow. It was the hour of our rejoicing; it was the time when our hopes and our droams wore all consummated. No wonder, then, that the holy men of God should write she words of encouragement which can be found in Yhe Old Testament in illustration of what happens to & man when he is married to Christ. Solomon speaks of Christ.as his betrothed, and that word expresses the rignt relationship which ought to exist between Him aud every one of us. Wo ought to love Jesus ‘with that peculiar and confiding love which prompts us never to question #18 word, but with implicit and blind faith 10 Him, to obey evory utterance that comes from His golden sips. Gop’s JEWELS. ‘There are three Jewels which every man can possess, ‘They ure like ti rl of which we have heard, in that they are beyond all price, They are to be worn us the coronct of manhood, they are to adorn the person in allthe various embarrassments and experiences of Ife, and there is a magic about them far beyond that of tho Arabian tales; a magic, not of imagination, but of sublime and solid reality not to be comprebended except by its possessor; u magic not to be explained by its possessor to uny ove who has it not; a magic that filis our heart with joy, that fills life from its be- ginning to its end with the giorious music of # heavenly symphony. The tirst jewel is divine love, divine power. In our minds when we think of God wo cunnot wepxrute these two elements of character, and Jortauate it is for us that they must neces- sarily bo intermingled in our conception of His character. If Ho was all powerful alono we might droud Him; if He were ali love alone we might ar ‘His ability to protect us; but since, we know that His divine compassion bas bebidd it an arm ot omnip- otence and that that which God plexses to do He can do wo bave the utmost contidence 1n Him, und we can forget everything clse except His promise to watch over us and to care for us. Be oot deceived in this matter, however. The capacity for love which is in * our hearts is His gift; itis not the result of any pro- cess of reusuning on our part, We do not love God because we have arrived at the logical con- clusion that He is lovely; iar from 4; but rather, as St Jonn suid, because He = first loved us. It is His love that generates our love, ‘We look to Him with faith and confideuce vecadyse He has taken a white coal trom wwe altar of His ow: nas ture und placod it on the hearthstoue of our lives; a tire is kindled thercby, and the holy flame sends its perfume of sandulwood throughout the house aud drivestne chilling cold away. We gather around it, and our hearts are made glad by thegenial heat, Our love is but the result of His love, We take no credit for loving God. We do not love Him hall enough, but the love we» have for Him is the Jove He hath put into our hearts, and we ought to cherish 1t more and more ‘and make it the ove divine impulse of our lives, MALY BELIEF IN THE FUTURE, Our selfish love and seifish sorrow when {friends are taken trom us lies in the tact that we believo with all our hearts in this world, and we make believe or half believe in the world to come. If that world was as real to us as this world we sbould rejoice with an bundant joy when the weary JOurncy is over, and, although ould drop our tears on the bier of our loved ones, we should have a certain kind of satisiac- tion in the thought that for them at least there 1s no More trouble or sorrow. The second jewel is the Divine presence in our human lives. It 18 a Jewel beyond all price. Are we convinced that God ts personally in our lives, and, if so, to what extent do we yield to His influence? What a bicssing know that we ure controlled vy Une who makes no misiakes, and who clears the pathway for our tect to by His might and love. Do we recognize what Delset in that doctrine is? It iz one thing to assent to Q doctrine and another to believe in it. God cares for no man’s creed as he cares tor every man’s hile, Bat- ter to have a wrong creed aud a rigitt life than aright creed and awrong Ife. Because in the one case we lave bewter than our creed, und in the other we are Tank hypoerites, God cannot be avywhere without attempting to set right whatever is wrong, und when He gets iutoa inan’s life He vot only loves the mao, Dut be wants to set the man right, avd the more you Jove God the more quickoning of the heart you will have. Tho third jewel is the Divine glory. If we are chil- dren of God, then we are heirs ot God; and it we are heirs of God, then we are joint heirs with Christ; and ‘the promise is that if we suiler witn Him we shall ve glorified together, There is u jewel, indeed, to bung about the neck. We are suns of God; and although it doth not yet appear what we sball be, yet ‘we may depend upon thiy, that when we get up yonder we shall bave more to do, more power todo it with and more happiness alter itis done. Earth is but the portico of the great cathedral whose threshold 1s doath, and the hour of our victory is when we die. Death is our best triend, and leads us through a trao- that we may emerge into the light of the great beyond. May these jewels serve us in place of acharm to keep sin away, aud to keep Ser a loyal to the cross, which is the type of ris BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS—SERMON BY THE RLY. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. Mr. Talmage preached yestorday to the commercial travellers. There are 100,000 professed commercial (ravellers in tho United States, said no, but 500,000 would not include the number of those atsome time engaged in the service. They have their official news paper organ, their mutual benefit association, with %.000 names on the roll,and bave distributed more shan $68,000 among the familles of deceased members, They are a ubiquitous, unique and a tremendous power for good orevil. In a few days our national perplexi- ties will all bo settied, and then look out for the Drightest ton yours of national prosperity which this country has ever witnessed. All our astute commer- etal men feel that we are standing at the opening door ef coming prosperity, Let the merchants open new sets of account books in place of those filled with long columns of bad debts, Let them start on a new com- Mercial train. It is impossible, it is said, that this Jand from s0 much depression should ever revive. In 1867 there were failures to the amount of $291,000,000, ‘We got over that. Wewill get over this, Mr. Tal- mage then addressed himself to commercial travellers in the followmg words :— Now you, the commercial traveller, havo received orders from tho head man of the firm; you are to sturt on the jong excursion, Well, what is this litle pack- ego in tho valiso? ‘Ob!’ you say, ‘that’s a ‘k of garda. There's certainly no harm in a pack of cards— ie there?’ Instead of answering your question I will tell you that there are thousands of men with as strong & brain as you bave who have dropped down | ito the gambler’s Ife and into tho gambicr’s hell. What's that other bundle in the valiso’ “Oh,” you bay, “that’s a brandy flask.” empty the contents and fill it with cholcra mixture, It’s very important to have something that will help yoo in case of sudden jliness. Only vue more advice to you and then I will bave done with your baggage. Take some good wholesome reading; jot it be u histor. feat work or even » work of fiction, or some work that will be of particular advantage to your business, Get o Bibie with large type. READY POR THK TRIP. Now you are reauy to start, You bave your valize in seek right nan, and your blanket aud shawl our leit, Goodby! Say you have a Sreorwte: RA age, e sales aa reat percentages, bin ther 4 1 forgot i you avout, “What tain are you going to take”? ¢ 7? you say, “i Well, my brother, just | will tako the five o’clock Sun: afternoon train. I Mh day by that, and | will be by Monday mora- commercial establishments by the time the ts get down town.’’ My brother, you are starting wrong. ath breaking pays no betier in xt this world t pays in the Ii the Sabbatn is Ly for the ployer itis wiven for the ployed, ‘he doliar that you earn on tho Sabbath 1s a red hot dollar, and if you put it in a bag with 5,000 honest dol- lors that red bot doliar will burn a hvle through tho bag and let ous ail the 5,000 honest dollars with it, For a few weeks now you will pass halt your time in the railroad train, How are you going to spend it? Don’t do as most of the commercial travellers do—sit reading the same newspaper over and over agoin, look- window, or spending three or four hours in the smoking car, the pustiest piaco in Christendom, Instead of that call Shakespeare and Tennyson and Ezckiel and Paul, inspired men of God-— call them to stay with you and talk with you, PRINCIPLES OF TRADE, But you have come now to the end of your railroad travel, You saunter out among the merchants apd begin business. There are two things you murt remember, First, that all the trade you get by the practice of treating always damages the house that gets it, Besides, you can’t afford to injure your- self tor the sake of your employers, Again, I charge ou, tell the waole truth about everything you sell. Lying travellers will procedo you and lying travellers will come after you; don’t let their lying competition tempt you to do us much, But it is almost night, and you are getting back now to tie hotel. You xo back tothe hotel. Now comes the nightly tug for the com: cial traveller, Teil mo where be spends his evenings and | will tell you whore he will spend eternity. There’s your room with the books; there’s the Young Men’s Christian Association room, there’s the gambling saloon, the theatre and the house of infamy, Tne theatre—do you think tho turrying io that place till eleven o'clock at might will improve your bodily health or earthly fortunest No man over found the path of commercial success or beuvenly reward through tho Atnerican theatre. WiLL, JOUN MORMISSEY EVER DIRE ewWell,”” you say, “41 guess, then, 1 will go to the gambling saloon.” You will tirst go to look on; then you will go to play, You will make $100 or $500 or $1,000; you will make $1,500—then you will Jose all, Then you will borrow some money so as to start anew. You wil! make $50, then $200, then $600; then you will lose all, Those wretches of the gambling saloon know bow to tempt you. They Jead you on and Jead you on; bat, mark this, all gamblers die poor, They may make great fortunes, but they lose them. You say, ‘John Morrissey ig a brilliant exception.” Joho Mornsscy 1s not dead yet. I wish (Sensavion.) “Well,” you say, “if Ican’t go to the theatr can’t go the gambling saloon I guess 1 will go to the house of iulamy.’* Halt! (in a sten- torlan tone), There ure other gates of sin throagh which a mau may go and yet come out, but that gute has a spring lock which soups him in forever. He who goes there is damued ulready, He may seem to be com- paratively {roe tor @ ittie while, but be is only on the limits and Sstan’s police have their eye on hin to bring bin in aoy minute, The carse of God is on that crime, There are mon here to-day whose heaven was blotted out ten years ago. There 18 no danger that they will be lost—they are lost now. T cok down through thoir glaring eyeballs, down into the lowest caverns of bel. Ob, commercial traveller! 1 pray for you to-day. There are two kinds of days whou aoe will specially heed divine grace; theone when you have no success— that night you will be tempted to give way to strong drink; the other day will bo when you have bad great success, and the devil tells you you must go and cele- brate tbat success. ALL OUT POR BTERNITY ! ‘Thore is another day, the last of your life, I don’t know where yon wili spend t—more probably in the railroad car or in some strange hotel, I sev you on your last commercial errand. The tram of your earthly existence ta noaring the depot ot the grave, The brakes are jalling, the bell rings at the terminus, the train stops, Ali out for Etermiy! Show your ticket now jor getting into the gate of the shining clty—the ticket washed in the blood ot the Lamb, Whiat sball it prodta man if he gain the whole world and luge his soul? MASONIC TEMPLE, THE RESPONSIBLE AUTHORS OF DISBELIEF— SERMON BY REY. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM. “1 propose,” said Mr, Frothingbam yesterday morn- ing, ‘to track to his hiding place the author of disbe- hef. That there is a great deal of disbelief in our mod- ern society need not be disputed, I do not mean what ts popularly called disbelict—the disbelief in any spo- clal doctrine or system of theology, Not what Chris- tians call disbelief or what Jews call disbeliaf, I mean something very different from that—a disbelief that goes much deeper; that touches all the fundamental questions and reaches even tho gocret places of heart and life—the disbelief that enervates all moral ear- nestness and vndermines tho foundations of character, There 1s a great deal of that in our modern society, and the question is, ‘Who is responsible for it?? I received ao letter from arothor State last week writton by a woman whom 1 never knew norsaw. It was asad, bitter letter, written by a woman who was not uncultivated nor untrained uor unrefined. She knew how to write English and wrote it well. Sbe had evidently read books and reflected much upon them, but she flung this bitter problem before me, ‘Is there any such thing as truth? Is there any such thing as duty? it there any- thing worth living for?’ Then she said she had Leen reuding Spencer, Huxley and Darwin, and wished to know if I could remove this awful shadow of doubt that liad settled down upon her life, Now, who was responsible for that state of mind? Not those men whose writings she had been reading, Not Spencers nor Huxicy nor Darwin, for sho had begun to doubt be- Joro she came to them; and besides, if I wished to convince any ono that there was such a thing as truth, to a certainty ot trath, { would - roler them’ to theso very men, They believed in thought, stuuy and earnest quest alter wuth. They may vot have beheved us Christians believe—they may not have defined apy of the urticies of faith as they ure defined by earnest theologiaus; but they believed that there 18 such a thing as truth, und they sought it. They were the apostics of their genera- tion, rure, thorough and virtuous m their lives—irreproachable, simple, sincere, single-tniuded, These men devoted their attention to the organization of duty, of finding trath and disclosing it; thereture, these men were not answerable fur tus poor woman’s desperate state of mind.” Whence then came her | douvts’ Some may say they cume irom the nature of the mind, which 1s unuble, when i gets off the pata ot Christian trath, to find any truth at ull, That cannot be so, for itis ‘tbe natural teudency of tue human mind to believe, not to disbelieve, Tho instinct 1s to seek, to ask, 10 question Wheu there is Du knowledge. Creuulity is one of the ancient tacts of histocy. Haste to believe, Superstition 18 the beliet of the magina- tion—bvelief without reason, question or argument—- the beliet of fancy; therefore, I say that those two universal tacts prove that veliel, not unbelief, is the natural attitude of the human mind. What aro the visionary forms of doctrine that prevail over the in- tellectual mind to-day but so inany efforts to come at things, so many yearnings after what 13 ‘undiscovered? Tuere 1s no creed on the Jace of the carth thot was not in its time @ postuve creed, As men go forward they believe more and more ratiooally and intelligontiy, Science opens the world of material thiuge—the earth, the skies—to the kuowledge of the buinan mind; re- veals the laws of physical nature so thut we can jee! that the world 1s not # sport ol chance. Knowledge ot his tory 1s simply a knowledge of the laws by which hu- | manity has been developed from age to uge. Psycholugy that iooks Into t nd of the human mias bas ior its object this presence of law, Sv it 1s with literature that guthers up tue thouguts of men. So itis with urt that tries to penetrate the realms of beauty, Koow.edge and beliet ure synonymous terms, The be- het ot ignorance we call creaulity; the beliet of knowl. edge we cull taith, ‘herelore, 11 was not owing to the nutural unbelief of the human mind that ths poor, disheartened woman has gone down the depths of sorrow. Whois responsible? Who the author? The person, Whoever it is—the system, whatever it ts— that which sbuts the wiudow of truth, shuts the door ot Kuowivdge and prevents people going out of their ignorance ito light Is there any such person’ Is tuere avy such system? There is. Itis ueedicss to say weall know that there is a system ol theviogy which claims to be of Divine origin anu descent, cou. mended by Divine revelations, resting upou the very word of God—tho Christian theology. Lhe claim is entirely irrespective of its trath thatit ts Divine, vot human, that itis truth, the only trutu; thatit is knowledge, and ali knowledge; that everything else that calls itself truth 1s error 11 it does not uccord with this, [bis this system that is respopsibie jor this sad, Dittor, desperate disbelief; because 1 18 this system that shuts the door ugamst knowledge; this system that forbids the reading ol books that contain knowiedge; that proscribes volumes reputed sacred by all the rest of the world; tuat would put out all light that its own light may «bine; tut would diveredit all bibles that its owa Bible may be read; that aflirins what is simpiy tle without buman reason, It 18 this system that has abused science irom the beginning; pautly of philosoph thing, au idie pursuit of involous minds to waste them | in wortuless speculations, s The writings of Tyndail, | Muxley, and Darwin are vetoed, and eurnest minds sucking for the light are warned away from the very books that would give them light. If they disveleve this iorm of theology What huppens? All the gates | ure closed, all the Windows barred, and the beipiess, | hapless spirit turown out Of its sinyle loophole of rev- elation into a waste of sand. My poor, unknown Iriend iu Virgina never read with understanding | Spevcer, Huxiey or Marwin, She could not. v | inind bud been’ preoccupiod—so previously posse: | with ideas of wnotver kind that they aignified noth She bad been warned that such ideas as their writings evinced Jed into atheism and she dare not pursue them, Take into connection with this that the great | teachers of the worid have been under the baa by | tins arrogant, narrow-minded theology; all minds, however great, which have presumed to tad | Knowledge wot contained in the Seriptures, woo have dared to found ideas not revenied in the creed, have been classed among pretenders and imposters, Motammed was seotled aw Voltaire even in this day is repudiated by many, and yet be was a great champion ot hone better in his day could ve found. Yet Voltaire is set down as one of the pests of the human race, So it was with Yom Patue. His theology iw good for nothing. His 1 value, and yet in bis yeverauou 1 pion fur liberty agwinst the t ate, He one of the e | OL ONE OF Lies delamed teac | believer in truth us they understoud it, Buy tet mo say with ail sincerity that ibis my profound Lohef thas hone of these men havo done so much to spread dis 4s never bad any vin Paine was ® belief as the less formidabl thelr opponents, 1 doubt whether Voltaire wl Seen ; wl ‘om Beecher; endered as mucb disbelief as the revivals jut my arraignment is not yet ended, In that let- ter the woman complains that sho has lost her faith in duty—that lite seems worthless, Who is ans' able for that? Not, as I said before, those men who lieved and lived in the very piaces of duty. Where then is the responsibility? “She bad undoubtedly been taken into the Church. “She had Jost her faith in tt be- cause the primary assumption of the Christian system is this:—'Ihat the whole aim and purpose of lite ts to save the soul hereafter. ‘fhe preacher opposed thia doctrine, clabmarag that the present life and its duties well done would fit the soul for the hereatter. The condition of life should be understood; the relations of men and women with each otbér ‘should be appree hended ; with a clear vii jonid see people and things exactly as they are, Duty rests on contidence— on mutual faith between persons, Covfldence the plant on which we all hive, upon which we mustall feed from day to day, and whoever chills it with thin arro- gauce or ignoranco incurs an aw!ul reaponsibility. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. THE PHILOSUPHY OF TEMPTATION—SERMON BY THE BEV. FATHER M'CAULEY, At St. Stephen’s church yesterday morning the high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Fathor Costigan and the sermon preached by the Rev. Father Mc- Cauley. The preacher took his text from the gospel of the day, which treated of the fast and the tempta- tions of Christ im the desert, Ho gave an oxplanation of the sources of temptation and thoir influence upon the spiritual life, He distinguished between the two classes of temptations—those from without and thoxo from within, ‘To the latter class he reterred by saying that Christ was not subject to temptations arising from any conflict between the inferior and superior Batures iu the soul, because His human nature was in perlect subjection to His divine, With regard to the other class of temptations, Christ was equally en- dowed with ap immunity from them. He was as little affected by temptations of this class as the mirror by ‘the image which it reflected, Incapable of sinning as Re was, He was hot susceptible of boing moved by sintul influences, the apostle expressod it, “being in all things like unto us, sin excepied.”? He, however, permitted Himself to be tempted for our instruction, in order that we might learn by His example bow to prepare ourscives tor temptation, how to crucify our flesh and how to over- come the enemy of our salvatiov, As gold was tried by tne furnace go Was the Just man tried by tempta- tion, DEFINITION OF TEMPTATION, Temptation meant the proving, the trying of a man’s fidonty—us, for example, 1 the case of Abrabum, when commanded by the Lord to sucritice his only son, Isaac; of the good and pious man Tobias; of Job, who was severely tested in the crucible of sufler- tog In the genorally received and obvious senso temptation was understood to mean an enticement and alluring to sin; the placing before the mind of the attractiveness of some object complacency 1n which was aviolaiion of the law of Gou, All the temptations of life were used by God for two purposes, First, to try us und to fucrease our merit wod therefore our reward; second, to sunctity the soul out of the very temptations themselves, When we resisted we made a delitorate choice between God and the temptation, Every single act of resisting temptation obtained merit and reward in the sight of Gou, aud they who Were most tempted obtained th most morit it they faithiully resisted, Until o tan was triod he did not know himself, for temptations and trials mude bim upderstand his own nature, and, see- ing Lis own weakness und dopendence upon God, he became humbier and therefore holier every aay. God made use of temptations to chastise us and to awaken in our hearts w batred of sin. The ways of God were mysterious in His dealing with His people, No doubt there were many sous bigh heaven to-day who would not be there but for tho temptations the Lord in His mercy sent them, Our Father in heaven ‘‘will not permit us to be tempted beyond that which we can bear, but will make with the temptation issue that we muy not be overcome.”’ The preacher then went on to show thut the three temptations of our Lord, us related in the gospel of tho duy, embraced tho various classes of temptations to which mun 18 exposed, which are enumerated by St, James—those of the flesh, of the eyes and the pride of Iie, In battling against the allurements of the temp- ter, said the preacher, we must bave the same recourse that our Lord employed in overcoming and repelling the epemy of our salvation, If the flesh rebelled against the spirit then we should cry out with our Lord, “Not by bread alone doth maa live, but in every word which comoth from the mouth of Gou,’’ 11 we should be tempted by pride or presumpuion in God’s mercy let us remember the words of Christ, ‘Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” Finally, if we felt ourselves influence: by the potnp ana vanity of the world, by its absorbing do- Mauds on our best thougbte and aspirations, tet us Jortily ourstives with tbe divine counsel, “The Lord thy God shalt thou adure and Him only shalt thou serve,” Jn the evening, at half-past seven o’clock, the Lenten sermou was preached by the Rev. Father McUready, who discoursed on ‘I'he Causes of the Saviour's Sufterings.”” The congregations that attend these extra Lenten services aro unusually large #0 tur this season and include pooplo from all sections of the city. PLYMOUTH EFYICACY OF CHRIST COURSE B¥ REV. F, HAVEN. Rev. F. A. Noble, of the Contral Congrogational church, New Haven, yesterday occupied Mr. Beecher’s pulpit, The preacher drew a beautiful picture of Christ, and spoke of His promises to sinful man, It is this Christ, so loving, so dear, sald be, that we are to tell aoout, His existence at times has been considered amyth, Thon again He was styledanimposior, There aro gome others who call Him a beautiiul charactor without divinity, while by some it is said He bas been Jelt behind by a new type of civilization. It is claimed that science has superseded the necessity of coming to Him; that we aro not to look to the manger, but to the laboratory for truth; that it is no longer to tho cross we cling or a knowledge of the means ot sulvation, but to the mounds and inscriptions uncarthed by scientific researches, What is man in this life of ours? he continued. Tho man who hos not yet asked that question does not know what life means, Who will bring the light to us? Who will open the veil that obscure: the final consummation of things, so U we can plant ourselves in truth? Science says itis no part of her mission to answer the question; so the only way to learn what iife Is is to go to this Christ. A man’s interpretation of Iie will have much to do with his spiritual feelings. If be finds be ts immortal, that there 16 8 resurrection und a judgment, we may expect him to be alive to his delinquencies, “iudeed, to Le a mun atall isto have Becessity laid upon us, to recoguize our moral way- wardness, Whence sh our deliverance come? Wtio will help us to Christ, chaoge our bad natures and Dring them ito a peace and unity ¥ Christ alove can give us pe we seck. No man unaided by Christ can wake his life correct enough to atoue jor sin, We ought to be men and womea who walk square in the front, where the light of God always suines—men and women who do not live down in tho cellars of dark hearts, but up in the light, where the epirit takes in the beauty of God, Wuo shall come to it us up und seb our faces toward the shining heights? What we want ts to feel the touch of the divine hands. Wo must beor the voice that rang out over Palestine und said, “Come unto me ull yo that labor aud are heavy ladon, and I will give you rest.” CENTRAL BAPTISI CHURCH. THE DIVINE RELATIONSHIP OF GOD'S CHII- DREN--SERMON BY THE PASTOR, RBY. J. D, HERR. Rev. Dr jay, of Halifax, N. 8., was to have preached yesterday at the Central Baftist church, West Forty-second street, near Seventh avenue, but CHURCH. IN SALVATION—DIS- 4. NOBLE, OF NEW he was absent through indisposition, and his pluce was taken by tho pastor, Rov. J. D. Herr, The preacher took his text from Num- bers, xv., 37, 388—“‘And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Spoak unto tho children of Israel, and vid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their geucrations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of biue,’? Tue world, said the preacher, was esteomed a place of social enjoyment and of pleasure, but the Bible oe it to be @ place of judgment, Christ ud, “Ye are not of the world,” meaning, **Ye are not ing im the pluco of judyment, but in tho o ° Of acceptance,’? Now, men seldom ved when they were taken out of the pince of Judg- tent and placed 1b a position of reconciliation, 1t was the declaration of the Holy Scriptures that the world ‘was a place through which God would pass m judg- ment, und When He passed through the land tho land might Weil trembie, Egypt, said the proucher, was a piace of judgment over which the winged angel of deuth passed, but the ehiidren of Israel were saved by the blood sprinkled on their doors, So would Chtis- tans be suved in the same way by taith and by the blood Christ. Again, When Pharaoh attempted to re-enslave the children of Israel they were provected vy the pillar of cioud by day and the pillar of fire by night. In the sume way God made a distinction be- tween His peuple and those taut absoiutely refused to abd it should bo the glory of Christians to they were relateu to God by faith in His When they came to coneider these reiations they wade a marked distincuon between The Sun. found that God those who wero His and those who were not. children of God, for tustance, were called a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, It was not tor any persons to say that they were better than other people, but they couid say that they were rotated to God aifferently. Was not, he asked, the bild that left its homo augrily and went away despis- ing 18 paronts’ counsels, differently related irom the other that remained at home under the shadow and influence of dowestic love? So with Christians; the child of God swood differently related to Him trom the one that had rejected Him, To such Christians the words of the text applied. It was to them the tnstruc- tion was given, “Bid them that they make them fringes”? To them the exhortation was given to put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue. That ares ee. It was the heavenly or upper color used in the Word of God to indicate that relation- ship. 1¢ was intended, to, to be & continual remem- brancer of the condition from which God had taken men—a reminder of the sin and condemnation out of which God had elevated them, It reminded them that they were in the depths of sin, and were condemned under the law, but that God had rescued und saved them and taken them into divine relationship, 1t was mprer to duty, for it was ton. - Thereiore it behooved d, and goo to it that the livery of God bo nos aisgracs ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. ‘There was u large attendance at half-past ten o’clock servico yesterday morning in St, Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Solemn high mass was offered up by Rev, Father Kano, assisted by a deacon and sub- deacon, Cardinal McCloskey was present and also assisted at the services, Tho bigh altar was orna- mented in magnificent cardinal rod drapery, and beautiful flowers with numbers of lights added to the grandeur of the scene. No sermon was preached Upon the occasion, owing to the length of the services peculiar to a three days’ expbvsition of the Blessed Sacrament in the Cathedral, which commenced at twelve o’clock yesterday, At the conclusion of tho mass an imposing procession was formed trom tho sacristy, Which walked around the church, Cardinal Motioskey carrying tho host, Over his head was borne a gorgeous canopy, held alolt by Comptrolier Jobn Keily and other laymen, About 100 young ladics, dressed in spotiess white, walked two and two, carrying lighted candles and silken banners, A pricst roved in vestments supported the Cardinal ou either side. ie services concluded shortly belore one o'clock, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE BEAUTIFUL FEET OF PEACE BRINGERS— SERMON BY THE REV. DR, ARMITAGE, ‘The Rey, Dr, Armitage, pastor of tho Fifth Avenue Baptist church, selectod as bis text yesterday morn- ing Romans x., 15, 18—How beautilul aro the teet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things!” ‘Yes, verily, their souads went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world,’”? The gospel of God’s ministry was tho grandest giftto man. Before Christ’s ascension the voice of the proacher bad not been heard, This was the crowning act of God’s life and introduced tho great moral power of the Christian muiuistry. Preaching appeals to the motives and prin- ciples; it creater purity, dignity and God- like aspirations, Wo cannot fail to adore the in- finite grace of this act, In.any light it is a great po! No cluss of men bave put forth more eu- robling might since the inauguration of the Curistan ministry than preachers. There are better preachers to-day than the world has ever seen. Mon of the ministry have shaken the foundations of empires. Tucy owed no allegiance to party, und by their elo. quence and directing the expression of thought in certain churches the destinies ot nations have be shaped. Such preachers are living landmarks, God’s last word, ‘‘carth,’’ blotted out geugraphy and made bumanity a common brotherhood, paving the way to the evangelization of the globe, Paul spread his canvas on stormy seas, and, by the ald of bis stupendous inaniti ud persistency, told the story of a Saviour, Beior yy years the story of the Gospel truth had gone forth conquering and to con- quer, It had gpread to all lands, even to the enas of the world. What was the character of the message Paul carried and what was its effect? Was it injurious or was ita disgrace to man? Nay, on the contrary, it was good news of peace, ¢lad tidings that carried “not death, but hfe to all. Greut news, indeed, it was io all humanity. No wonder some of our number would rather be a minister than an emperor, a preacher rather than aprince. To us belong the right to carry the news of hope and eternal bliss to the world; ft ls our fortune to tell the story of the Gospel.of Christ—a gospel not of blight, but of benediction; not ot the sword, but of peace and beauty, of tenderness and love. JANE STREET M. E, CHURCH. THE SIGNS AND TOKENS OF SALVATION—SER- MON BY THE REV. SILAS HENN, OF ENG- LAND. Tho Rey, Silas Henn, a Wesleyan minister lately ar- rived here from England, preachea yesterday morning in the Jane street Methodist Episcopal charch on the subject of faith, He selected as his text, Mark xi., 22:—‘Have faith in God.” Ho said there were two kinds of faith, that of the intellect and that of the affections, Inthe former a man brought himself to beheve in Christ and His doings by a pure exercise of reugon; but this was of no real profit toward the sav- ing of his soul, To obtaim salvation one should have an inborn recognition of Cbrist and His law, which depended upon no _ course of argument, but was rooted in the natural affections, This faith of tho affections was the y z faith” which the Scriptures required us to cherish. Whoever possessed it gave up all idea that any exertions of hig own could redeem his soul. ‘This placed faith in a new light og tho foundation of love. If we bad not this sort of belief we would continue to fear God, would have no calm _re- hance upon Him, and, theretore, no love jor Him. But when we realized that Jesus by His own and with His own blood, hud washed away 3, our hearts overtlowed witn gratinude to Him—that is, with’ the love which the law of God demanded. Salvation could not tail to fol- Jow the possession of this faith, aod it was possible to recognize the gift the moment we obtained it, tor it bad one sure Bign, the peace and Lappiness with which it filled the soul. The moinent tne sinner was for- given—tbat 1s, the moment he ceased to rely upon himself and began to trust in Christ alone—tnat mo- ment his troubles ceased, all his doubts were dispelicd and ho lived thenceforward in tho joyous certainty of salvation, CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. THE ATIRIBUTES AND ‘FRUITS OF HUMAN KINDNESS—SERMON BY THE BEY. W. 2B. ALGER, = * The Rev. W. R. Alger delivered the sermon yester- day in the Church of the Messiah, the subject ot which was tho attributes aud fruite of human kindness, Ho chose for his text the thirty-second verse of the fourth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistic to the Epbesians— “Bo yo kind one to another.”” If the injunction con- tained in these simple words wero observed, he said, much, if not all, of the human misery and suffering of ‘this world would be avoided, Rogarding tho beneficent effect of kindly affections between men nothing new could be suid, The most glowing words or the most flowery eloquence could not do full justice to the generous tniluence it exercised. The reverend gentle- man dwelt forcibly upon the grand results which might be attained if the words of the apostle influenced the acts of men, Dividing tho subject of his sermon into four purts, he pointed out the duty, the Vaiue, the power and the possible univer. sality of kindness. ‘The most beautiful of ull ourthiy things, be considered, was human kindness, Jt was a reitecuion of God Himeel!, There were few who had not experienced ts tntiuence, and the memory ot friends, perhups now siceping 1 death, who, 1u years gone by, stood by our side in storm and adversity, spoke to our hearts with a joytuln with the holiest of emotions, — Thy were influenced with kindness for their feliow men re- flectod in thetr faces the kindly leelings they possessed, In the everyday promenade ‘we met people whose countenances ure jilumived by the everlasting gleam ol helt or tho brightness of heaven. In the one you may sce intellects without power, bearts without hope and souls that were blasted in bodies that were wrecked; iu the other, peace and joy and love beam from faces instinct with divinity and mysterious: with heurt revealed immortality, ‘The lesson was thut vice Was hideous and good works beautitul. Human kindness radiated like the sun and brightened all it touched. No one can be beautiful by the mero form ‘of features any more than # man can be witty or wise by the mere uxo of words, The value of human kind- ness could not be over estimated. A map may live in apalace, aud yet, without friends and surrounded by no one but purasites, be miserable, while the tenant of an humbie cottage, surrounded by friends and dear ones, ishappy in iis contentment. fe who cared for no one and for whom no one cared was the poorest of tho sons of mun, whose hearts STANDARD HALL, PROFESSOR FELIX ADLER ON THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION. Professor Felix Adier continued his serics of lectures on the “Origin of Religion’ belore tho ‘Society of Eth- jeal Culture,” at Standard Hall, Broadway, nour Forty- crowded, the doors being closed fifteen minutes after the exercises commenced, there then being some 600 or 700 people present, The lecture was dovoted es- pociatly to the consideration of the origin of the Hebrew religion, trom its fuundation upon the mono- gistic idea until a Jater period, The Protessor ree marked that while the Hebrew people were in the earlier days deficient in general culture and had made no progress in science and art, they bad taken the lead in religious matters, If there was apy one distinctive feature in the Hebrew character st was the family relation. the “Father in heaven.’? Woman had always enjoyed & high position among the Hebrews in their devotions at the family altar. POPE PIUS IX. BROOKLYN CATHOLICS PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIVTIETI ANNIVERSARY OF THE POPE'S ELEVATION TO THE EPISCO- PACY, The lettor of tho Right Rev, Bishop Loughlin, of the Diocese of Brooklyn, caliing attention to tho fact that on May 21 the Pope will celobrate the ditieth auniver- sary of his elevation to the episcopacy, was read in the Catholic churches of that city yesterday, AtSu Mary’s Star of the Sea Rev. Fatner Dennison took oc- casion to make the Bishop's letter the theme of his discourse, He said that the event was ono which enlisted — th deepest interest on the part of ribband was @ distinctive mark, and was typical ot} 200,000,000 faithiui Catnolies, throughout the world that Oiled them | second strect, yesterday afternoon, The hall was | From that relation rose the grand idea of | The vicar of Christ, the visible head of the Charch on earth, had been specially ordained 6 God to boar, 6 won 09 F, cross which bis Divine Master bad borne. Ho was a wonderful man in all that pertained to the high spiritual agtributes of tho great ofice which he has filled for such an extraordinarily long period. Catholics could well feel proud that it nas been allottea to us to live in the same age as Pius IX. He was neld & prisoner in the Vatican and princes looked down up: him from their high positions. Evory indiguity dealt by bis persecutors was un insult to the entire body. of his children. Their hearts now went out to greet bim in the celebration of bis approaching fiftieth anniver- sary of consecration as bisht AS a testimouial of the affection which his faithful children entes ed for him, offerings, he said, would be mado and forwarded to him, and ‘the name of each person contributing would be ten in an album, which would be sent to Rome. The offerings will be received in Brooklyn on Sunday next, CO-OPERATION. ESTABLISHMENT OF A NOVEL AGENCY IN NEW YORK CITY—¥FACTS AND FIGURES FOR THE ECONOMIC—A THOUSAND BUSINESSES IN ONE, M. Edouard Fournier, in his “Vieux Neuf,” gives interesting information of modernized ancient cus- toms, and among other things speaks of middlemen in art, To one La Blancherie, who flourished in the be- ginning of the present century, ho gives much space, La Biancherie, it appears, concelved a comprehensive plan of tntercharging the artistic, and even the indus- trial products of Europe for the benefit of all con- cerned, The plan did not succeed, it would uppear, but of late years the idea has been revived in Paris, aud a concern in that gay capital now advertises that it 1s ready to furnish managers with actors, actors with newspaper notices, newspapers with capital, capitalists with theatrical Investments, and the public with admission to theatres on reduced terms. London has several agencies which advertise their ability to furnish editors with leaders, news, cor- Tespoudence, essays, stories, reporters, editors, capi- taland advertisements at shortest possible notice. But Now York hag a concern which occupies the same place between housekeepers and little tradespeople as these foreign agencies do between artists and mana- gors, authors and publishers. When the little army of blue coated messengers, now an institu. tion in New York, was (rst organized and its magoiticent scheme published, % was said that o man could live. a much casioy Mle after tho concern was in work, ing order, Hecould then send his wife to the opera or theatre in charge of a mossunger and continue his game of billiards until the show was about to close and then go and take her bomne. The now institution, however, would seem to bo for the benefit of the ladies and may be in a measuro regarded as aretribu- tion on the horrid men, A weight of trouble is to be lifted trom tho overburdened shoulders of struggling housewives, and the grocer, butcher, shoemaker, baker, coal men and a hundred other lesser fiends are to be referred to an agent, who will do oll the shopping and ‘‘sottling’” on purely business principles and at much reduced rates, Thus, for instance, a subscriber to this new method may claim the services ofa physician, a sur- geon, a dentist, a hommopathic physician or surgeon, a stock broker, an insurance office, » drawiug master, u teacher of French, a civil engineer, w patent agent, an architect, an ice mun, a candy map, a buoksoller, ashocmaker, a chinaware man and a Chinese wash mun, a druggist, a florist, a house jurpigber, an tndiu- rubber mun, a livery stable keeper, % music printer, & paper hanger, a piano mun, a silver plate manu. fucturer, am engraver, a stattoner, a photographer and an undertuker, at from tfien to titty per cent below the usual rotal rate, Nothing in the line of hougebold mocessaries or comforts 13 omitted from the lists, and all may avail themse'ves of. the benefits, The organization of messengers was ip a measure a Godsend to the ladies, as it saved them often trom being bored, and tho new affair, though ustensibly for the bonellt of the ladies, is also an froportant desideratum to men. It clutins to reduce expenses from fifteen to filty por cent below what they now are, and in these days of coutraction and retorm it meets a public need, HISTORY OF THE PLAN. ‘The idea is not by auy means an original one. It has been tested und hus proved a success in London, where it has been tn vogue for more than a decade. Aglanceat the titiation aud development of the idea will be of in- terest, as showing trom what sinall beginomgs gigantic enterprises grow. About ten yeurs ago, so the story rung, ono uf the clerks in the London Post Oflice purchased or had sent to him a hult chest of pure tea, und not wising to use it all made overtures to some tellow clerks to use parts of 11. He succeeded in reducing the quantity in possession to a suitable amount, and then refused to sell auy more. Presently another clork bought at wholesale price some goods and trag- mented them tuto small complements and sold them ag tho tea had been disposed of, Some one, thinking that it would be a great saving all around, suggested that ail sorts of goods be bought in bulk at wholesale and dis- tributed at cost to the members of the civil service. The plan was adopted, and now the concern which began on half a chest of tea docs an annual business of $12,000,000. The original membership of five has grown to 1,800, uccording to the last ro- port of the ‘directors of tho assuciation, ‘Tho success of the Post Office Civil Service Supply has tempted othors into the same field of ecomony, and now the Haymarket Civil Service 18 tne formidable tival of the uriginul association. The Hayinarket Civil Sorvice Assocition has about 2,000 members and does an annual business of about $6,000,000, The army and 'y hus also its association, bumbering 10,000 and doing an annual basiness of from $4,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, These aro only tne most promiment of the co-operative stores in Englund. ‘every town of avy importance has some such organi- gation, wod it is estimated that about 60,000 subscribers aro on the books of the different concerns, and that the annual business thus done amounts to the enor- mous sum of £50,000,000 annually, ‘THR MODUS OFERANDI. Some curiosity may exist as to how this vast busi- ness is conducted and how mistakes are avoided amid such multifarious complications. The method 18 sim- ple, A member of the civil service goes to the supply store und on presentation of proper credentials and the payment of a fec—lormerly one pound. now two shilimgs aod sixpence—he ts given a; small book, something of the shape and size of a railroad com: muter’s pass, In this, which is valid for oue year, his name and the date on'which the ticket will japse are inscribed, Then the store furnishes him with a tistof Stores of all clasges at which ne can purchase fifteen or in some cases forty-live per cent lower thun the ordinary customer, Like the smart Amorican who gets an order for an clection-bet hat and gocs to the hatter’s, picks out the finest ric in the shop and presenta the order 10 ment, the civil service mun preserves his incog- nito until he bas made his purchase, The shopkeeper is obliged, by contract, to keep his price list exposed, and to make a new list each month, so the customer just refers to bis little hist and finds the discount the tradesman allows, deducts the sume and pays cash down, The American plan fs the same as the English, with such modifications and emendations as were found necessary tor the different xocial condition on this side of the Atlantic, Persona in the goverument employ pay for these privileges of discount $200 a year, and friends of members pay $300 a year. Those Tequiring luxuries and special accommodation pay $500 a year, The widows and orphans ol deceased mem- bers aro aliowed the privilege of discount Irce. It is aid tho Postmaster und Collector of the Port ure apxtous that the scheme should succeed, and intend to lay the matter belore the government employés, STREET CAR POLITENESS. LEX REDIVIVUS, New Yous, Fob, 16, 1877, To tax Eprror oy 1nk Heratp:— One of your correspondents, in his efort to disprove that “women cannot stand,’ &c., advances as oyi- dence the appearance of the shop girls in the large e: tablishments of our city. As to being healthy looking as a whole, they are quite the contrary, and they aro such sufferers from being obligod to remain on their feet all day, that he must recail bow, not long sinco, & plea for “goats for the shop girls”? arose from press and people, and a number of prominent ladies, from pity and a kuowledgo of the injurious effects produced by their position, exerted themselves in their behalf without avail Upon investigation it was found many of them were in a deplorable state of health, aud it Was stated, asa generat thing, they were “unable to remain, on an average, more than two years when they were obliged to stand.’ “Blooming cheeks, spark- Ning eyos wod well rounded forms,” ure not always mdications of healih; many a one lair to look upon is in a precarious state and not enduring, 10 say the Joust. If ever there are suop girls discovered who look healthy or are so, they will be found to be for eigners or of foreign descent. 1 write of Americ not of women of a country where they have been seen fastened to a cunal boat, drawing it, while the men gut on it und rode; nor of a couutry where they have been seen yoked with the oxen, ploughing in the fields; nur of a country where they bave the strength to uct in the ecupucity of porters aud transfer luggage trom poiut to point on their backs. 1 have witnessed an ber of instances where aged persons were allowed to stand, Both ladies roferred to in my first commu- nication were aged—“Grandmother, she must have been, yet she was allowed to stand from the start- ing point to Seveuteenth street.’’ If ever «man docs sucrifice himself vy yielding up his soat it Is generally to youth, beauty and fine featuers, LEX. A TERRIPYING PROPOSITION, New York, Feb, 17, 1877. To tne Epiror or tae AkRALD:— Let there be separate cars exclusively for the ladies, Respectfully, Ww. K. A WINSOME LADY, To THe Epiror ov tuk HeRALD:— Hearing so much talk about street car politeness and as nconstant reader I tulorm you and the Jadies that they are at fault, As tor myself, I consider mysele alady, Whenever I enter a car there are always gen- THE BREWERS’ HARVEST. NEARLY THREE MILLION BARRELS OF BEER AND ALE BREWED IN THIS CITY AND VICINe ITY DURING 1876—INTERESTING STATISTICS CONCERNING A GREAT INDUSTRY, ‘The past year, although fraught with financial dis tress and general stagnation in business throughout the Union, was one of exceptional prosperity to the major portion of the brewers of this city and vicinity. For four years in succession the brewing interest suf- ferea so severely from the hard times, bad debts o& casioned by the loose credit system, the rise in the price of hops and malt, that many large firms became bankrupt and the strongest houses bad no incon siderable difficulty in pulling through, In May of last year one of the main barriers to a prosperous seasos ‘was removed by the decline in the price of hops, For months previously the most inferior quality com- manded forty-five cents per pound, and American and Canadian malt was from twenty to twenty-five per cent higher per bushol than in good times, The gen- eral reduction in prices had its effect on the hop mar- ket, and the great brewing houses realizing the adva' tages to be gained laid in immense suppiics, paying twenty-five cents por pound for the best hops ten and filteen cents per bushel for the finest brands of malt, The result of this wise foresight 1s manifest by the receipts of the internal revenue col. lectors for the several districts in and around this city for the year ending December 1, 1876, showing, as i” does, that more ale and beer have been brewed than has been recorded for years,* The demand, too, has been in excess over previous seasons, and ag the brewers have abided by their compact not to sell to delinquent creditors, but to stick as clusely ag possible to the cash system, all bave cleared expenses and havea goodly bunk account as tho net result of their labors. Tho number of beer and ale breweries now in sum cossiul oporation in the First, second, Third and Fourth collection districts, and the Filth district of New Jer. sey, knowy as the Newark district, is 158, Ofthit largo uumber fully 70 are devoted exclusively to the manufacture of 60 to beer and 28 to weiss beer, ‘Tne capital invested, including real estate, is estimated at $10,000,000, and the annual revenue derived {rom them by the government is closo 1 the neighborhood of $2,246,000, THE CHAMPION DISTRICT. The Fourth district of this city, comprising the Twelfth, Eighteenth, Nicetcenth, Twentieth, Twenty first and Twenty-second wards, is the champion brow, ing district of the United Stat Two-thirds of the beer and ale manufactured jn this city last season was produced by its brewers, Afty in number. ‘This is shown by the official record of the Collector, the re. ceipts monthly tor revenue stumps footing up tor the year the round sum of $1,067,975 19, Tne e ligures Topresent 1,067,975 varrels of beer und ale, $1 dein, charged by the government on each and every barrel sont to market, Each barrel contains, on an average, four kegs, or 4,271,900 kegs for one year’s brewing, which 18 at least 200,600 kegs in excess of the four preceding years. Eacn Urewer of tne district manu- Jactured irom 5,000 to 60,000 barrels, and the largest tirm of the iifty--Gvorgo Ebret—produced 100,000 bar- rels of beer. The number of men employed at the various brewerles of this division is 1,500, The num. ber of wagons used in delivering 18 estimated at 500 and the number of horses at 2,000, The other large brewers are H. Claussen & Son, J. Ruppert, Eckert & Winter, Burnheimer & Schmid, Charles Clausseo and 5.C, Lyman & Co, Thero ts also a large number of manutucturers of weiss beer in the district, ull of whom made money during the year, THE FIRST DISTRICT, which embraces Kings, Queons, Richmond and Suffolk counties, is next in importance to tho Fourth ip the amount of beer and ale manufactured last yeas Tuere aro sixty breweries withiu its limits, which in. clude several jamous Staten island firms The average product wus trom 500 up to 4,000 barrels of ale und eer, the total recvipts by the Internal Revenue Col. lector irom the sale of stémps being 3600,304—an 1n- crease of more than $40,000 over 1874, Liebman & Son mauutactured 40,000 barrels, the highest reached by any of the other firms in the district, Tne brewers oi this section are welland widely known, add their various brands are not only in steady domaca in thia | city, but are sent to Boston, Philadelphia and the sub- cities, Betwoen 1,400 and 1,600 men, 2, and 450 wagous are in copstant employment im the distribauion of ale and boer, This district 18 seve oud in importance to the Philadelphia division, ‘THK SECOND DIsTRICT, which comprises tho Third, Filth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Filteenth and Sixteenth wards, ts noted us the section in which the largess alo brewers of the city are congregated. Outot the whole number of establisn- meuts iu Ubis district devoted to the brewing interesta but three mapuiacture lager beer, wile the rematuing nine make ale u specialty, This nine includes tae fol- lowing named firms:—Beadlestoa, Price & Wer; Heury Ferris & Sous, Flannagan & Wallace, W. Kirk, H, RK Kerr, Shook & sverard, M. D, smith and Macy & Russell. Of these the first named firm brewea 90,000 burrels of ale during the year just closed, and the others averaged from 5,00U up to 45,000 and 60,000 varrels. Tho tutal recotpts of the loterual Kevenue Collector tor the year from the sale of beer stamps was $408,233 44. About one-third of this amount, however, was received from Alvany aud Hudson vrewers, wha annually store large quantities of their brands iu tia city and buy their revenue stamps from tue collector of the district. Anarmy of men and horses aro em- ployed the year round in these great establishments, which, for capacity and quality, stand unrivalled in this country, THE THIRD DISTRICT, lying on the cast siae and taking im tho Seventh, Teath, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and@ the Seventeenth warug, has its tull share of brewers, but none brewed more than 10,000 barrels of ale or beer during the past year, This district 18 specially devoted to the manufacture of weiss beer, ttt out of the twenty-one brewers confining their Operations to this district. The receipts for beer stamps trom January 1 to December 81, 1878, were but $39,318 10, THE NEWARK DISTRICT follows closely in importance te the Brooklyn district in the amount of beer brewed during the past twelve months. ‘there are fifteen large Lreweries within ite limits, the proprictors of which reaped a rich harvest. ‘Along those Who have gained almost a national repu- tation im th: manufacture of beer in that division are the Schalk Brotbers, Kraegler & Co., Kastner, Hensler, Tretz, Whackenhuth, Adum & Vo, ond Feigeusban, euch of whom sont to the market between 26,000 and 60,000 barrels of beer. The great ale firms of Ballan- tine & Co, and Lyon & Sons manutactured from 50,v0t to 95,000 barrels euch, and the total revenue deri’ from ail was $500,000, The capital tnvosted in the beer und ale business in tho district is estimated af over $3,000,000, IMPORTED BEER, The steady increase in the importation of foreign beer, ale and porter has tended to open the eyes of the home brewers, and various mothods have been devised to counteract the movement, but without suce cess, The beer thus brought to this country is used muinly in the large hotels and by wealthy famil' and consists mainly of Dablin stout, Guinness’ an Ailsopp’s. Bavarian beer and brands tro other parts of Germany are also extensively used in this country. The duty on imported beer, ale and porter Inst year was $183,712. Considerable stuff called “London” and “Dublin porter?’ 18 manutactured in this city, and finds a ready gule over the counters of scores of suloons. One cs- tablishment in the Second district does a heavy buei- nogs in the porter line, and others to various sections of the city reap large profits in the same business. RECAPITULATION, Beer manufactured during the year:— Barrels, Revenue, First district... 300 $606,300 + "408,283 39,318 1,007,000 Newark district, 500, Imported beer, Totals... Jens + 2,750,911 $2,834, The outlook for tho beer und ale business for the year never looked brighter, and the various brewers are Making extensive preparations to moet the pabli¢ demands and protit by it A DESCRIPTION OF THE TELE PHONE. [From tho Salem (Muss.) Observer, Fob, 17.] It appears that Salom people have been specially concerned in tho pursuit of this investigation, The fact that electricity in passing through a magnetia helix, or coil of wire, is productive of sound was first discovered by Professor Charles G. Page, of this place, as long ago as 1837, Hts observations were published, and, as he was a man of largo attainments, his exper!- ments attractod attention at home and abroad, Other scientists became interested 1n the same line of inves- tigation, among them the late Colonel Francis Peabody, of Salem, The fact, therelore, that sound could be conveyed clectrically to considerable distances hag been known for some time, and the nature of the ox- periments therewith was shown on, Monday evening in various ways, notably by the transmission trom Boston to Lycoum Hall of a telegraphic message, which announced itsell, not by the usual dots am lines of tetegrapby, but by sounds of aiferent lengths, ‘This wus a very imveresting experiment, Bat it remained tor Professor Bell to discover that articulate sounds can be conveyed by the electr: current, This he has done during his residence 1 lem. Protessor Bell 1s a Scotchman by birth, aod 18 engaged th teaching in the State Institution for tho Dea! aud Dumb in Boston, where be employs te in- genious system of ‘visible speech,” of whieh he is the inventor. Asgociated with him in his telephonic ex- perimgpts is Mr. Thomas A, Watson, of Salem, vo whomMe-expressed his obligations for valuable assiet ance, The apparatus by which this astonishing result is secured is wonderfully simple, Only a telegraph wire, a horseyhoe maguet, two helices and a vivrating disk at each end, The audience can see a mahoguny box upon the table, of the appearance of an ordinary Photographer's camera, ‘The tube in tho end We used 1 this cage to epeak into and to hear out Ulemen who offer Tho majority of them are young mon, Now, ladiga, take the lint, Miss J, A. 3, [CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGRJ,,