The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1877, Page 8

: 7 | j ] é THE NARROW PATH, Pulpit Discourses in the Churches Yesterday, OATHS, MURDER AND DIVORCE. Talmage on Insurance— Earthly and Eternal. RELIGION AND SCIENCE HAND IN HAND Testimony of Life and Reason on the Duty of, Man. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, INSURANCE PEOPLE—SBRMON BY THE REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, Mr, Galmage preached yesterday morning to insur. ance people, His text was taken from Genosis, xl, 34, 35:—"‘Let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years, And let them gather all the tood of those good years that come, aud lay up corn under the hand of Pharoah, and let them keep food inthe cities,’’ ‘These, sald Mr. Talmage, are tho words of Josoph, the president of the first life insurance company the world ever saw. It was divinely organized, and it had all the advantages of the endowment plan and all other good plans. Now there’sa great outcry in this day against insurance companies, It seems to me that itis time for the pulpitto speak out. Many people have denounced all life insurance companies as things that ought to be squeloned. Inthe name ol God and the best interests of society 1 solemuly protest. What an amount of comfort is represented in the simple stafistics that in this country the life Josurancs companies in one year = paid $27,000,000 to the families of the bereaved, nad in five years have paid $300,000,000 to the families of the be- reaved, und hold themselves roady to pay $2,000,000,000, They have paid more than $7,000,u00 pf taxes to the government, so that instead of being indebted to the land the land is indebted to them. If) aid not think that God instituted the life insurance organizations 1 would not take your time and my own pp the Sabbath morning in discoursing on the subject, Life insurance provides for our families when we are gone. XO PREMIUM, NO MERCY. It we do not pay the premium we bave no right to expect mercy; we are worse than an infidel, After the certificate of death has been made out aud the thirty insurance days have passed and the officer of the com. pany pays down the bard cash that officer and the company are performing a religious rite, ‘Set thy house in order.” In our day that would mean make your will, Do not deceive your heirs with railroad stock or Jay Cooke’s Northern Railway bonds; do not deceive them with deeds for Western lands that never will yield any crop but fevers or second mortgages on property that won't pay the first. In the ume of plenty prepare for want, If you could pay the premium on a policy tor your family and you neglect them it Is a mean thing for you to go up to heaven while they go to the pour- house. Your death will be a swindle. You bad the means to provide for the comfort of that household and you wickedly neglected jt, The vast majority of men die poor, Only two out of a hundred succeed in business in this world, Are you very certain you aro going be one of the wo? Sayssome one, “1 am a man uf smali means and I cannnot aflord to pay the pre- mium.” That is sometimes a lawtul and genuine excuse, Aud there is no auswerto it, But im uy eg OUL OL ten that mon smoses out in cigars and drinks down in wine enough money to have paid the premiums, O man! before Jorty-eight hours have passed away, ap- pear you at the desk of some of our great Jife insur- ance companies, have the stethoscope of the physician applied to your chest and buy a policy of some honest cotnpany. Decree that your children shall not be de- creeu to siruggie jn the dark day of your demise, IM) ORTANCE OF TRUST. ;But I must ask those men engaged tn the life in. surance business whether they tee! the importance of ther trust, and charge them that they need divine grace to help them in tueir trusts, You will be tempted to overstate the amountof assets and surplus, to make up for the deficit of 1877 vy addiug some of the receipts for 1878, and you will be tempted to send out meau circulars derogatory to the other companies, and forget that such things are wrong. Unuer the mighty pressure many have gone down, But if any of you z to that miscreant class of people who without any ability organize themselves into a life insurance company, then vote themselves into the jucrative pos:tions, then take all the offices for them. selves, and then, on the approach of the State Super- jntendent, drop all into the hands of those tife imsur- ance undertakers, then, I tell you, you had better go out 0! the business and discourage the Iife insurance companies you tavo swindled. But my word to ull legitimately engaged is you ought to be bet- ter than other men, because the truth is ever confronting you that your stay on earth is uncertain and your time of lite’ only for a few years Does pot that doctor's certilicate or the death column give you athrill? Even your poli- ties Warn you (hat you are morial, According to your pwn showing the chances that you will ie this year are at least two per cent. Are you prepared tor this exigency? The most accountable man atthe last day js the life insurance man, because bis whole business was to think of that one thing. Ob, my brother! get in- sured for cternity. Have the indenture made out and Hgned and sealed with the red seal of the cross, AKE YOU INSURED AGAINST FIRE? But I have a few words of encouragement and coun- sel for those who have engagea in the fire insurance business, We are indebted to you tor the good done by the convention of chiefs of the tire department, lor ®hat you have oflected ju the constraction of build. ings, 80 that orderly companies Low extinguish the lire Instead of the old time riots which used to extin- guish the citizens; and we are indebted to you for tho baitic you have waged against iacendiarism aod arson, for the fatal biow you bave given (o the opinion tuat corporations have uo souls 1 dou’t know any class of men in our midst more high toned and worthy of conildence than these men; and yet I have sometimes feared that you might, without suftl- cient thought, yo into that which in regard to your soul in your own parlanco might be calied hazards, ¢x- tra hudards, special bazards, Unforgiven simon the soul is more inflammable ur explosive than campbene or nitro-glycerine. However the rest may be you can’t affurd to lose your soul. be suid herealter th: while on this earth you had great business faculties, when you went out you went Out everlastingly insoivent. Men of science have united with the sacred writers in making us believe that there ts coming a conflagration, compared with h that of Chicago in 1s7! that of Boston in or that of New York in 18: I've forgot. ten which, 1s as nothing, Brooklyn on tire, New York on fire, Vienna on fire, Canton on tire, st. Petersburg on fire, Paris op tire, London on tire, the Audes on fre, tue Apennines on tire, the Himalayas ow tire! And = what = will =be — peculiar = about — that day will be that the water with which we put out great fires will itsel! take fame. ‘Tho Ohio and Hudson, and Mississipp! J trembliag Niagara shall with red tongues: lick the heavens, The geological heats iu the centre Of the earth will burn out toward the circumlerence fod this world wiil be a living coal, the living coal tall- ing into ashes, the ashes scattered by the breath of the no, and all (hat will Le left of this glorious Planet will be fakes of wthes falling on other worlds Dh, on that day will you be fire proof or will you be a total loss? Will you ve rescued will you be con+ med? Whe world 10 its Daptisinal font of tho Seo shall blaze will you go out on th oscape of the Lord's delv Ob, on that day, for whieh all jo, may it be fou other days nee man had given Lim instead ol the débris of onsumed world a buuse not made with hands, eter- Bal in tho heavens, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, THINGS TO BE NVMEMBERKD— SERMON BY REV, MR. HEPWORTH. The unpleasant weather yesterday morning kept many fair weather Christians from swelling the con- grogation of the Church of the Disciples to ys usual Jarge size. Mr. Hepworth preached a very earnest sermon, taking for his text Revelations, xxii, 17—-"*Aud wao- soover will, let him take of the water of Iife freely.” {tis very natural that the Bible snonld end with o benediction. “The grace of the j.ord Jesus Christ be with you all” are the last words which Ged utters in the Christian dispensation. [1 is none the less natural that the benediction should be immediately preceded by a fourfoid invitation, First, “The spirit and the bride say ‘come,’ next, “Let him) that heareth say ‘como’’’—that is, let every holiness, man who comprehends tho beauty of who appreciates the peace which attends obedience give an invitation In the name of God to every ove within reach of his influence to sit down atthe banquet board of our common Master and to partake of the bounty which God’s hand provides; snd third, ‘Let him that 16 athirst come.’? If there isany man who has triod in vain to find satisfaction let bim try the water of life which God cam give. It there ts any one whe (s tired and worn by tho cares of the world, who o_O Don’t take that risk, lest it | that this life id-up poley, and that tbis fre | NEW YORK “all 1# vanity,” let bim come to the Lord and he shall whica he bus searched ail his life, And last of ull, “Whosoover will, let him take of the water of lile freely.”” If there be any man who has heard of the Christian Ife, but who entertains doubts concerning it, let bim come and make the experiment for himself und bo shall find out by bis own experience whether God both willing and able to keep the word whica he bas pled, ‘TDis verse includes the whole world; every one is invited to come; every man has a right to come. DO YOU NEKD THE INVITATION ? Let mo ask, by way of vpening tho subject still further, ‘Do you and I need this invitation? Are wo bot sails: fied as we are? Ought we not to be content with our present fortune, our present acquisitions? Let mo turn to the words of David, because they are like the balm of Gilead, ike the oil and wine which the good Samaritan poured into the torn places in the body of him who bad been despoiled leit half dead. David speaks of those who sit in darkness and in the shadow ‘of death, of those who are bound 10 iron because they rebelled against the word of God and who contemued the counsels of the Most High. Brethren, do you aud 1 sit in darkness, of are we at the present moment under the shadow of any death? Are we bound in the stroug links of an ironchain? Are we in slavery to anything that endangers the approval of Godt Is it an especial dehght to bold communion with the beings of the upper air, or, rather, do we stand in dread of the unfolding of the things which are to come? Do we look forward with anxious and expectant eye to the reward which we shall receive in heaven, ur aro we afraid uf God and try to hide ourselves from His enetrating glance? Is God very near to us or does ¢ seem tar irom us’ If we be near our best Friend and if we instinctively go to Him in the time of trou- ble then that is a sharp and incisive prooi that we have been born again; we have good proof that God as accepted us, and thatin the later day we shull be clothed @pon with the royal purpie of God’s redemp- tion, But] fear it is not so with us. Indeed, at is far oth- erwixe, | expect, with most of us, Duty, so called, is eds of mercy are not welcome - jar off aud this earth we seldom lilt our ve our heads, We read of the New Jerusalem, with its streets paved with gold, but itis all a dream to ua, an Ond it hard to persuade ourselves o! its reality. It is only a an uncertain hope—only this and noth- sacrifice has no joy is so pleasant and eyes to catch a glimpse 01 ihe stars ing more. ‘Tuen it is true, brethren, that we ought to come out and be sepurate from our old life ana our old hopes, { death must enter our lives and lay low in the gravo that which is termed in the Scriptures the old man, and by somo process, which we cannot trace, the new man must be vorn and we become the babes of Jesus Christ, THR SCRIPTURAL FOOL, ‘The Scriptures use a very strong word in connection with a certain class of people—t! vord fool, The word does not mean @ man demented ora man of small natural ability. It rather means @ man who wilfully misinterprets God's will, who deliberately chooses the tesser instead of th ‘ecater—s man who will not see bis bighest end, who profers thas which 18 low and transient to that which is iofty and lasting. Well, brethren, you have heard the wora of God reached to you ever since you were young. You ee what the conditions of salvation are just as well asldo. You know that if the Bible is true—and you know, (00, that you dare not think it is not true—you must accord with its conditions or your whole future 18 imperilled. And the conditions are written so plaiuly ‘The proce: that all who run may read. Iv isan awtul question—Have you taken the stand that secure your salvation? It will not be His fault if your soul les in despair and darkness in the eater, But now you have a right to ask, To whom shall we come or to what ll we come? ‘here ts one verse in the Bible that ought to be written in letters of gold, and we ought to read the words every “The blood ot Jesus Christ cleaoseth from all si Well, we.are sinners, every one of us, under cond bata, every one of us, where can we fiud reliet and help. ‘Can you help me at the last day? No. Do you know any subtlety of science, do you know any logic Ol philosophy that can erase the Consequeuces ol a misdeed ? I'donot, Ihave searched the worid over to find something that will perform that magical deed, but I have not found it, There is only one can do t— Jesus Christ. Do you believe it? Do you disbelieve it? Whether you disboiieve it or not, if tue fact is 50, then we bad better be up and domg. Wo ure told by tho propbet that though our sins be as scarlet they shall be made white us spow, How? By the power ol the Cross of Calvary; by the lie, by tne sufferings, by tho death and by the ascension of vur Lord and Master, and in no other way. We ought to tind tho golden key that unlocks the door of that mys- tery, for itis of the utmost importance for us to ais- cover what God would havo us do, and then set our- selves to do it, We must enter into relationship with God voluntarily, as tho Israelites did whon they put the blood on their doorposts, The next potut is this—that the invitation once ac- cepted we become as waite as snow. Our praye: re answered ja a peculiar and special way, aod in a pecu- liar and spectal way we are guided and guarded throughout our live: ind, Inst of all, we become by accepting this invitation partakers with the Masier in the scenes of the great hereatter. Whatever belongs to Him belongs to us; He is our elder brother and aivides His glory and His kingdom witb us. He said, “I go to prepare a placo for you, that where | am ye may be also,” MASONIC TEMPLE. THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN—SERMON BY BEV. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM. I propose, said Mr, Frothinghbam yesterday morn- ing, as the subject of my-disimurse, “The Whole Duty of Man.” The phrase is taken from Ecclesiastes, a book that contains the strongest possible statement of the vatioty of human |ifo* in all its relations. Tho Apostle Paul says, ‘“‘Yeare not your own; ye are bought with a price.’ The popular religions adupt the same words as its motto. “The chief end of man is to serve and love Godand enjoy Him forever.’’ The heroes of all ages bave echoed the strain, Mazzini, one of the greatest heroes uf the modern world, laid himself, his position, his power, all he was, all be was capable of becoming at the service of faith and love, In language quite worthy of being classea with the literature of the Bibie he speaks of tho solemn duty laid upon every human being notto think of bimself at ail, but to offer up everything to the Greatest, MR. MOODY'S DOCTRINES, ‘The whole duty of man then, according to this doc- trine, is toserve God. This is laia down as auty— clearly, specifically, absolutely, not asa simple form, but as a strict, positive and severe rule that Juys upon the conscience, the bands, the feet, the body, Mr. Moody would hardly be content with acknowledging the spirit of the good life—he must have the rule of It came into Christianity from Judaism. The motto ef the most intense Christian’s faith is taken trom the one Scriptural book of the Old Testament. With tho ancient Hebrews it was an implied contract between Jcbovab and the members of tue Israelitish Church, A ‘ding to tradition Jehovah promised certain blessings to His faitbtul peopie here and herealter; and, in return, He expected from them certain re- ligious performances. They must believe in Him, accept His word, walk according to His rule. Christianity vororwed this idea trom Judaism. ‘Is it said Mr. Frothing! , alter alengtby dissertation upon this point, “that every human being should set betore himself this sapreme object of future reward and mako that the supreme cad of bis life? We say,” he con- | unued, “that all men cannot carve and draw avd paint; show, then, do we say that all nen should become holy? How should we say that it is the duty ofall nen to be good, happy? Take the testimony of ife—and the testi- mony ot life is honest, simple and sincere—the testi- mony of human nature as itis. We are very apt to say that men are what they are but not what they with tho difficulties they bave to contend with? wo see them thi } ‘The men and women who aspire are few, and they who do it urs compelied from the very samo necessity, as a plant that turns toward the sun, G Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Gi rermens of hamanity—have reached the culm nating point of their majestic ch | which they cannot explain to them: pose which they cannot understand; by a secret work- Do their ard, i TESTIMONY OF LIFE AND REASON, ‘The power of conversion was in Augustine at the be- giuniug, when a and dissolute youth, He could | no more heip being Saint Augustt ban he could belp | being Sinner Augustine betore. Here, then, the testi- | mony of life remforces the testimony of reason. Lt 18 | tor ds to ted out What a nature a man has and shea find out what a man should become, Our fault overy day is in thwarting nature, We say certain things are right or Wrong, putting oar own definition—paltry, cheap definition—apon them, | Itis said by some that all men live for pleasure ia | one form or another, itis not true, Pleasure seek- ers are n class, It isa very hard life to lead. A per sou who undertakes to lead that life is doomed for ihe ost part lo gel a nurrow, acrid heart. | may you say the making of money 1s not u universal aim. The poople who make moncy, who have the knowledge of making means and ends conspire, the power uf economy, are comparatively few, The 4 multitude of people who would rather not have n than bave it, who think it a naisance to invest money, | for it tukes time, ard they want thoir lile for otuer | things than to make and to keep money. Neither is | fume the universal object. It is tne object of a very | few. There are not enoagh people who have ambition, | How few take the pains to make for themselves a name, There are too many who have no regard for public opinion oF respect They are willing to live recluse lives; to turn the cold shouluer against the roe | spect of their leliow creatures. They ought to care | what the world thinks, Shatl wo say that self-culture | should be the nature and aim of men? Alas! you can | count on your fugers the number of people whose aim | omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, Honesty pos sesses the mind, filis the heart, enlarges the conscience, juspires the soul Truth is another human qaghity. | Falsehood is never human; it may be justified, 1 has to bo justified. Piilanthropy ts notning, The Prime end aad aim of man, when tt is born of the na ture, 6 when his heart burns with love toward his fel- lowmen, Then wo take off our hats to the philan- thropist, bow the knee before him and celebrate bfm with pwaus of praise; but the business of philanthropy bas learned as Solomon did atter long experience, that find the utmost gratification; he shall find that alter use to Us; prayer or communion with the Infinite the good life, lt 1s not enough that one must ‘ive tor a high aim, be must have a well- detined creed, Tho prime duty according Jo this rule, a life with the purpose of satisiying the divine law. Whence came this idea into our religions? | asonuble,’? | should be Yes, but can they become what they should be? Are they not what they are by a kind of limited necessity? Are we | | nov justified tn saying that men do the best they can | after knowledge? We dono. | ing of the spifit which somehow came to them without | Equaliy well | y | characterization of them seemed harsh and unlecling. isself-culture, Humanity, suid the speaker in closing, 8 | is the poorest that was over undertaken in this heman world. The business of trying to make the world bot- ter; to suppose, with insufloral conceit, to know than the world whi the world need not respectable. It would be better many cases to let events take their course. “Hands off!” ts often the best rule, Notning 1s 60 difficult to do in this world as to help anybod; ‘The ba: hilauthropy requires experience e' of earnestness belong to men and women as up in the street. Every chureh feels called upon to. organize a charitable society, and sends out its idiest men and women to Qnd out the poor people. Betier aboiish itatonce, ‘Tbe great law that comes to every boman being comes in this torm in buman relations ‘Take your teliow creature and be perfectly true to him and the law is discovered and done, We measure duty by bulk. The worth of virtue is cardinal, not exten- sive, Itia the old Scripture that says he that would obey the whole law and offends in one point is guilty of ull, So we say he-who obeys the law in one point is obedient to it all, ior the infinite is in the atom. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. | THE SUPPOSED CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE DISCUSSED DY BEV. DR. ROB- | INSON, OF TROY. Rev. Dr. Robinson, of Troy, occupied Mr. Beecher’s pulpit yesterday and preached a very eloquent and logical sermon on the topic which has been so much digcussed of jate~tho supposed conflict between re- ligion and science. Taking for his text the passage from the second chapter of 'Timothy—*Neverthelvss the foundation of God standeth sure”’—tho reverend gontleman said the apostle did not refer so much tothe outward and visible Church ag to tho foundations of religion itse!f, Those who trembled at every new rev- elation or discovery in science, for fear it would over- turn the foundation of their faith, were exhorted to have no fear, It did not necessarily follow tuat a sci- entific discovery which altered our view of some rticulur passage of the Bible was a blow at the foun- jons of truth. Many passages which were formerly ad literally now havo to be regarded as figures, and yet the truth stands firmly as ever, All these things Were merely details—accidents, ‘The real foundation of Christianity was the spiritual Ife, The doctri of Huxley, ‘Tyndall, Darwin apa Spencer were discussed at some Jengtb, particular stress being laid upon that portion of them which 18 supposed to be materialism, Dr, Rovingon made an eloquent and powerful appeal in behaif ot the doctrine ol 4 personal God, capable of knowing every soul ana of sympathizing and comforting, as well as of hearing | and answering prayers. In conclusion he described the experience ot the Christian, by which he is ren- dered superior to all tne declarations and fluctuations of :mmature science which muav be directed against the foundation of bis hb. Between religion and science, the preacher argued, there was, no real a tagonism, and they should yet'walk hand ia hand, as they would now but tor misapprebvension. Dr. Robinson made au appeal on behalf of the Home Missionary Svciety, for which a collection was taken up. Nearly $1,400 were contributed, } BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST % CHURCH. CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP—SERMON BY REV. E i Cc. SWEETSER, The text upon which the Rev. E. ©, Sweetsor founded his discourse yesterday morning was taken from Malachi, 1i1., 16, relative to the social principle in Christianity. The prophet Malachi, said the preacher, ‘was the last of that long Hine of noble men who for more than a thousand years stood guard over the spiritual welfare of the Hebrew nation. He was the last of the prophets. In bis time the nation bad loosened 1ts bonds of attachment for the hign moral law. The priests avd the people had gone astray. The former in the temple disgraced the temple and among themselves ridiculed their calling. The people refused to pay their tithes. Wicked men stobdd in good places and worked their evil purposes, until those who wero righteous 1n the nation cried, ‘‘Where is the God of judgment?” Malachi saw their weakness and he saw, ‘too, the day coming when their weukness would be tried, ond tbat be saw another anda brighter day, when the name of God should be a comfort and a blessing among the people, There is a strange similarity between the position of all Christians in the present time and that of Malachi mong the Hebrews, not tbat the presont age is so dark nor that any calamity 1s pending over us as there was over Israel 2,000 years ago, Still it is seriously true that there 1s too much of a paraliel between those times and these. The Christian living in the midst of such a world is not of It, but above it, THK STRENGTH OF UNITY. The preacher exhorted his congregation to greater fellowship one with another, Christian sociability, ho said, is the main function of the Church, All its cere- monies ol no other value except so far as they pro- mote t! suit, Christian communion 1s eusential as Christian worship, and often the lattor falls to pieces because of the absence of the former. The Church provides for thia necessity to a certain extent, but not sutficiently. It is not enough for Christians to come together ouce a week, They should add to their friendly intercourse at their churches, They should feel that their congregation 1s a sort of family gather- ipg. Nor ebould Christiaus bo strangers to each other during the week. Warm goctal relations between the members of a church will strougthen their fattn and keep alive their zeal. Jt will otherwise add to their Lappiness, for as Bacon wrote:—"There is no man who parteth his joy to another but he joyeth the more, and no man who parteth bis grief to another bat he CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. SERMON BY REY. FATHER DALY ON THE PHI- LOSOPHY OF CHRIST'S Laws, The late services at the Rowan Catholic church of St. Fraacis Xavier, in Sixteenth street, yosterday morning, were largely attended, High mass was celebrated and the sermon of the day preached by Rev, Father Daly, The priest read from St, Matthew, xvil—‘And after six days Jesus taketh unto Him Peter and James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a bigh mountain apart, And He was transfigured beloretbem. And His face did shine as the sun; and His garments beeame as white as snow,’ &c. The reverend preacher cioquently do- scribed this memorable event of the Transfiguration in the life of Christ. He next went on to dilate upon the philosophy of the laws handed down to us by the Saviour, their symmetry, and the necessity that ex- isted for their strict observance by mankind, It was evident to ail that our passions should be restrained, or society must become aiso: We ‘were instructed to torgive our enemies and not to ha vor revengeful feelings agi ce nly in consonance with proper living. were to revenge ourselves for every injury inflicted then where would we stop or what would be the conse- | quences? We were also directed to pull out an eye or cut off a band rather than break tLe law vf God, This law might appear arbitrary to some minds. sat when we considerea how noble it was lor the soldier or patriot to die in defence of bis nationality, would not the acts of the Christian who sacrificed nimselt in deience of bis religion aud the truth of God strike us | ns much nooler, Father Daly argued forcibly | in support of the doctrine that Christ’s laws were on- Ureiy consistent with reason, and that they were the | best and sufest mandates under whicn to live in this world, They were banded down to us direct from St. Peter through un unbroken line of 267 Pontilfs, twenty-nine of whom had sealed their faith with thoir blood, forty-five being compelled to flee from Rome through te machinations and persecutions of the ene- | mes of the Church. | FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE PHARISEES aND THEIR PRETENSIONS— GOD'S SCATHING DENUNCIATION OF THE SECT—SERMON BY DR. ARMITAGE. Rev. Dr. Armitage proached yesterday at tho Filth | avenue Baptist church, the subject of his discourse being “The Pharisees,” Ho took bis text from Jobu, “Judas then, having received a band of men | and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, | Cometh tnither with lanterns and torches and | weapons.” Circumstances, said the preacher, made character, and character made man, and, therefore, if oue would know a man ho should know the circumstances which | tormed him, In the samo way, one could not read the | | significance of our Lord's words and doings without | weighing the exact position in which He stood. Not ing would strike # looge reader of the Bible with | greater wonder than the terrible severity with | which He treated certain classes of men, especially the Scribes, Saddncces and Pharisees, | A superficial thinker, sald Dr. Armitage, would conclude that the Lord had lost His temper and that | He spoke unadvisedly in His terrible denunciations of | them, Some persons were apt to suppose chat there was a galling acrimony in His anmeusurea rebukes en- | urely at variance with the uniform gentleness and | mneekness of Jesus, whicu exasperated them by its bitterness into plots tor His death, His charges | against them wore unmeasured aud sweeping, and His Certain it was that He used no such merciless invec- tivo against any other body of men as against the Pharisees, and it was equally certain that His invines- ble opposition to thotr principles, practices and spirit led directly to the shedding of His viood. The preacher explained this hostility of the Lord toward the Pharisees | and showed that instead of detracting irom it added to | His glory. In the first place he discussed the princi. | ples and practices which called down on the sect te Lord’s unmitigated indignation, His appalling denunciations aflorded, said toe proacher, something of a standard by whieh to interpret His conduct to- | ward them. His loftier standard of morais set thom forth inw dark hue, ‘heir affectation of sanctity and moral supremacy and holy distinction made them the worst cnemies of Christ and His sublime toach- ings. Had the Lord not laid open such enormitics as | they were guilty of men would have attributed His tn. | duigence to partiality, fear or cowardice. He would | have been blameworthy had He not shown them their own character and shame, Of if they did feel this themselves, 1t was necessary that their wickedness should be exposed, so as to break their sfundamental principle of grieveth tre less,” “impri | fuse anew the faith, hope and love theirs would paralyze His church, create infidelity and prevent the triumph of His Gospel. Therefore He demonstrated His Divine courage, His power and glory as the Son of God, as the enemy of all un- rornal tr and LL peepypeces His fidelity to God’ Alls own abhorrence ot sin when He challenged their hate, their malice and their fase by an avsault upon the bollowness and seifishuess of the fairest seeming man of ibat «ge. FLEET STREET METHODIST CHURCH. BISHOP PECK’S ADVICK TO CLASS LEADER#. Bishop Peck, of the Methodist Episcopal church, yesterday afternoon, in the Fleet sireet Methodist church, spoke on the general subject of cl leading. The Bishop took no text, hia discourse not being a ser- mon, but rather, as he expressed it, a quiet conversa- tional talk, He said:— THY ADVICE. There will be nothing in this talk but what we are willivg all the world should hear, We ere one Church, no matter of what class we may be, Wo are bound tor gether by fellowship with Jesus, Thore is, or should be, no separated interests in Methodism anda man who proposes to be independent of the great church- ship which goes the world around should not jom the Methodist Church, A church which proposes to be independent, or « minister who will not acknowledge the Conference, or tho Conference which repudiates the Goveral Conlerence, ought not to jom Methodisin, We are one in av or- ganie sense, and it 18 our m sfortunc, perhaps our crime, 1f we are separated in affection and interest from some of our brethren, I would like to broaden a Iittle the idea of cluss leading. 1 propose the sugg tion that @ class leader ts the leader of souls, Now, the analogy 1s suggested by the shepherd who is the leader of a flock, whether he bé an under shepherd or a chief si erd, The leader goes before the flock in the way in which the flock should go, Sometimes he took a lamb in his bosom, but be woula not have been considered a good shepherd who should have led the flock among wild beasts. The shepherd goes where it is safe for the flock to go, * WHAT A CLASS LEADER SHOULD BE, Do not reject the suggestion, because 101s simply that the class leader should lead the life the ¢! should lead. A profession which is contradicted by a man’s life 18 good for nothing. Ifa cluss leader Were an cloquent man, but a backslider, his leadership vould not be of his eloquenco but of hfs life. To be seltish, parsimonious, worldly, is a leadership wich 18 an explanation, wherever it 18, of the estrangement of the class or tho apostacies of the class members. On the class day he would use good words, he would say beautiful things, but when be went into the bus- iness of the world, be was not scrupulously honest and therefore ho did not Jead his class aright, but lead them wrong by bis life, That was the shepherd tead- jug his flock out among the wild beasts, iroin whom he was gent to protect thom. The class leader must himsel! be a mun of God, so that bis example will be sate to follow, The Bishop then gave instances of his own personal experience illustrative of good and bad clays leading, and incidentally gave the lollowing definition of a gon- vieman:—A gentieman is one who cures moro for others than himself. The mechanical or artiticial method of class leading 16 always connected with small classes. A spirit of ease and Christian good sense ex- plains the success of many class leaders. The class meeting 16 a Methodist institution, and it explains our growth in grace more than anything else, Brethren, don’t give up the class meeting. CHURCH OF ‘THE ASCENSION. THE REY. JOUN COTTON SMITH ON OATHS, MURDER AND DIVORCE. After the usual services yesterday afternoon at the Church of the Ascension tne Roy. Dr. John Cotton Smith continued bis series of four o'clock lectures on the “Sermon on tho Mount” Our Saviour’s view of oaths, murder and divorce was the topic discussed. in yosterday’s lecture, the second ofthe series. After some introduc- tory remarks, very general in their scope, the reverend orator stated the theological doctrine that the moral aphorisms of Jesus are always susceptible of a double interpretation, or, rath: always have a duplicate meaning, one as related to practical life and the other penetrating to the very depths of tho ideal, Thus, when our Saviour said, ‘Let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, for whatsoever is more than theso cometh of evil,” ho asserted the truo manhood that a word should be us conclusive as his oath, T er did not think that any noble man could take an oath without fecling the doubt that was implied in that act of the sanctity of his simple asser- on; but under the existing organization of society it was perhaps expedient and essential to coniorm. e precept of the Saviour had reference to an ideal state of society, 10 come by and by, when oaths wouid be unneceseury in bertrtans 4 at the truth, and the simple assertion of a fact would be conclusive. On the second head of his lecture, our Saviour’s view of murder, Dr. Smub, atter pointing out the penetrating depth of the principles iaid down in the sermon on the Mount, de- voted himseit toa definition and defence of the doc- trine of capital punishment, whieh he held to be a doctrine having the sanction of abundant Scrip- tural authority, and defended as oxpedient and essential to the well-being of society. in his view, the question of abrogating the death penalty for murder was one to be decided by considerutions of expediency, and one the determivation of which was dependent upon the special culture represented by the age that was called upon to decide it. The murderer bad for- teited bis right to lite by the commission of the crime; aod whether he should pay the full torfeit or should be man’s simp! ned for life was an issue that must be leit to the judgment of the ociety he had outraged, Special conditions of culture were thus determining tactors in deciding whether the death penalty sbould be abrogated or enforced. The dis- cussion of the divorce question concluded the lecture, and here Dr, Smith defined the position of the Episco- pal Church as conclusive to its clergy and laity of the question at issue, between orthovox believers on the one band and modern liberalisig on the other. Except for the crime of adultery our Saviour did not regard a divorce as having any standing in morals, and, toliow- ing bis doctrine of indissolubility of the mar- riage relation, the Church forbade her clergymeu to perform the ceremony of marriage betweon partics divorced on any less ground than adulterous infraction of the covenant, it might scem hard that parties should be held to the strict letter of the doctrine, but it was, in bis opinion, essential to the highest gocd of society that the indissolubility of the marriage relation should be rigidly maintained and protected. ST. AMBROSE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. CONFIRMATION BY BISHOP POTTER—SERMON BY THE REV. MR. STANDER. The Rev. Dr, Potter conferred the rite of conirma- Uon yesterday alternoon in the Italian Protestant Epis- copal Church of St, Ambrose to sixty-one persons, Ynese new accessions to tho ranks of the Christian faith wero tnostly Ltalians of the humbler walks in life, The services, which commenced a little before five o’clock, were conducted by the Rev. C. Stander. The Rev. Mr, Stander took his text from Luko x.,23—“Blessed are the eyes which sce the things which yesce.’? Tho reverend gentleman said that the progress, industry, commerce and woalth of the worla wero doubtless great things in themselves to contemplate, but the soul of man, which louged for things beyond the grave, must necessarily turn from the affairs of this Ife to seok repose in the bosom of Curist’s Church that leads lite everlasting. When Christ came upon earth to save mankind ignorance and sip presided in the bigh places of tue sation, and His advent was like the light of heaven shooting its blessed rays over an ocean of dark- ness, Ho brought with Him those things which the soul of man yearned after and thirsted for—tnis was sawation through His mediation. Whoo the light of the ched Italy Rome was the misiress of the worid; wealth and luxury were hers; victory rested upon the eagles ol her legions, and ber name wus omnipotent on the carth. italy then possessed every accessory of national greatness, excepting a Knowledge of the true God, and this she obtained Ubrough the holy work of tho evangelists. But it was not without surinounting bumberless difficulties that tho seed of the Gospel was planted. took deep root in the soil, but aiter the Here the Word marty pose of rescuing itfrom the briers and brambles of error which bad grown up thick and fast around it FAITH AGAINST FALSE LOGIC. And now let us bear in mind that no persuasions of a false logic or the affairs of the world should be allowed to stand between us and the true faith; nothing ought to prevent us from joining the Republican Catnolic Cnurch, whose teaching and precepts point out tho real road to heaven. We must hold fast to that which to the illusions of the head, but must rather find a sate ancboraye in the depths of the heart’s convictions. In following unswervingly the narrow path marked out by ‘the Saviour man can Gnd only here a way to light and Iie. M'CARTHY ON TALMAGE. In his sermon yesterday morning on ‘Divine Hu- manity,’’ before an audience of some thirty persons, at the Free church, in the University building, Washing- ton Square, Rey. Charles McCarthy said he was not like some others who proached the word of God. He did not believe in the total depravity of the human race. In a ministerial experience of nearly thirty years, part of the time as a jail chaplain, he had never known A man 80 degraded that some spark of tho Divine na- ture did not shine through the mnss of darkness and sin accumulated in the course of a criminal life Reach this spot and you save the man, for the spark can always be fanned toa flame when properly tended. Our faith in God’s great mercy teaches this, and he was a Jaithiess miaister who said from the pulpit recently, when speaking of @ man who once represented one of the electoral divisions of the city, ‘*He is not dead, but I wish he was,” Such sontiments the Kev. Mr. MeCarthy considered a degra- dation of the ministerial office. it is not the minis. ter’s place to give utterance to such an unchristian wish, The great Saviour of mankind humbled Him- sell to the iowest in iniquity to raise them up sed Ine Hod wishes to inflame every heart, Some may have sunk hat in sin, but none are so attorly steeped in it tha salvation should be despaired of, and no soul-destroying power over others, Such @ spirit as pretending to be interested in the rescue of erring to | Ys good. The velet in Christ must not be made subject | souls should wish them eau, it was a reprehensible seanene, and he was a faithless minister who gave it voice, » CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. MEN THE SONS OF GOD—SERMON BY BEV. DR. TING, ‘The central thought of Dr. Tyng’s sermon yesterday morning was of man’s relationship to God ir this life as contrasted with the unknown state, shadowed forth by the divine promises, into which ho was to enter after death, The thought that men were indeed the sons of God was a sublime concertion, but it involved & Tesponsibility which many were unwilling to recog- nize, and aasume, Atl stood in need of a present ro- ligion, To. resist the temptations, to mect the trials and to be consoled in the applications of this present life, men need the support of the Gospel. Yet ifa man can be freed from the galling requirements of the Gospel he is often satistied to be deprived of its biessipgs, The only spectre of his life is the thought of the future. When soul is awakened, however, to @ consciousness of #iD, oF 18 possessed by some Doigvant sorrow, @ pri t relief 18 looked for, Man cannot wait forthe heaven of realize the divine ble Y Attendaot and minister:ng angels earth as they will be in heave: ‘et ali men are bot blessed wito their presence, man can enter into this relation, Md which he becomos a true child of God, until he has submitted himself to the power of Chri ings in his aaily lilo on earth, @ about him on Lord’s Prayer is a misnomer. It {8 the dis+ ciple’s prayer, an entreaty put mto the lis of those who have need to use it, These are the sinful children of God redeemed by the sacrifice of the Saviour, The punishment which was their desort He bore for them, and by His stripes we are healed, There 1s no reason that appeals to the future glory of the believer that does not attach to his present privilege, The joy and Birength promised for the future can be attained now, All discontent, all annoyance, all care are relegated to Him who has showed such infiuite pity for His buman brothers. ‘The promise is given that in tho future life men sball be like Him, All tntirmities o| sin shall be pardoned away, selves equal to angels, yea, higher than angels, tor to which o1 the angels did he say, This is my sou.’? AN OFFERING TO THE POPE. A collection was taken up in all the Catholic churches of Brooklyn yesterday in aid of the fund which js to be conveyed to His Holiness the Pope from that diocese, as an offering trom the faithful, for presenta- tion May 21, the fittieth anniversary of the consecra tion of the Holy Father as Bishop. The offerings wil! be received vy Bishop Loughlin until March 20, A large delegation of the clerzy aud laity will visit Rome and attend the approaching auniversary. HELP FOR THE HEBREWS. The Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, corner of Eighty-seventh street and avenuo A, held its annual reception yesterday. The inclemency of the weather prevented a full attendance of its friends, and it is therefore probable that the entertainment will be re- peated some day this week. Its object is tho raising ot funds, and is hela on the eve of the Purim festival, because the latter signifies almsgiving. During the day n_ handsomely framed and engrossed set of resolutions was offered Mr. Isaac Hermann upon bis voluntary resignation of the post of acting treasurer of the justitution, a posi- tion held by him for twenty-five years past with iidel- ity and success, Since last May a synagogue has been attached to tho Home through tho exertions of Mrs, Judge Jouchimsen, its Pr ent, This has led to the in- troduction ofa mortuary record, whereby the relatives ot deceased members by an annual payment secure a yearly season of prayer called Kaduish tor the dead. The feature of the reception was the hospitable dis- pensing of confectionery, fruit and wine by the ladies, BASEBALL. Tho popularity of the American game is evidenced by the formation of another association in its bebuif. The Leaguo was last year the only national baseball orgenization im the country, and the eight clubs tn it, though made up of good and experienced players, foolishly thought that they were tho “only representa- tives the game had, and adopted rules quite arbitrary in their character. But opposition to the League’s ruling manifested itself quite carly in tho cent:nnial year, and, when the outside clubs showed themselves able to win games from the League clubs, the dissatis- faction became open and widespread. Through the exertions of Mr. L. C. Waite, secretary of the St. Louis ‘Red Stocking Club, and Jeading journals, a convention was held at Pittsburg on tho 20th inst., and an Inter- national Association formed, Canadian clubs taking part in it. A strong organization. composed of three times as many clubs as torm the League, resuited. A good constitution and an excellent set of playing rules ‘were adopted. Ther provide against tho abominations of ‘‘re- volving @d crooked playing,” and the clubs of the International Association bind themselves not only to reject men who have been discharged for that reason from other association clubs, but also men who, for the same offence or tor other bad conduct, have been expelled fi a League club, Tho actual good of ball playing and not petty jealousy 1s the object of the men who have engaged in the new movement, Of this fact the best evidence that could be given 13 that the Internatioual Association would unanimously have agreed to join in the ‘*ieague Allianco’’ if rule 8 bad been altered so as to permit the Le.guo to settle all disputes between League clubs and the International Association to dispose of their own difficulties, dis- agroements bowween the League and the association to be adjusted by arbitration, whereas now the League determines to settle all disputes itself. THE KELSEY CASE. TERRILL’s KNOWLEDGE OF IT—WHAT THE KELSEY PARTY'S OPPONENTS SAY—WAS HE MURDERED AFTER ALL? The impression sought to be conveyed to the public in some quarters that the man Terrill, now in the Sut- folk County Jail at Riverhead, ‘‘could an’ 1f he would’? give some important information in regard to the Kel- sey case, is certainly not warranted by the facts, or in apy degree by the results of various interviews with the man himself bad by persons eager to twist any- thing be wight say into the semblance of testimony as to his possible knowledge of circumstances which he did not cate to openly roveal. It 1s mistake to sup- pose thut District Attorney Wickham takes no interast in the case, as has been repeatedly alleged. Just pre- vious to a recent visit to Albany Mr. Wickham went to the jail and bad a talk with Torrill, the result of which was (uat Mr. Wickbam was entirely convinced of ler- rill’s ignorance of any material fact or facts bearing upon the Kelsey matter which could be used in evi- dence against any party or parties charged, directly or indiroctly, with partreipation in the alleged crime. In jact, all that has been said by Mrs, Terrill or by Terrill himself evideatly inspired by the hope of being thus enabled tomake better terms for him upon his trial for the attempt to commit au outrage upon the person of Miss Lizzie Wilhs, of Port Jeifersun. Mr. Wickham, while in Albany, in company with a amber of gentle- men from Suflolk county, called on Governor Robinson and bad some conversation touching the propriety of offering a reward and pledge of immanity to any one coming forward with testimony to convict the persons concerned in the kelsey outrage. The Governor agreed with Mr. Wickham that it would be against public policy to make a gen fer of immunity, thus the greatest criminal m dy, he had no autbority to offer a reward uu! an appro- priation should tirst be mado by the Ley ture lor the purpose, ‘The Governor was under the impression, too, that the offer of the reward of $3,000 by Governor Dix was still good, as there was no limitauon of time. In addition to this reward it may be remembered that the Suffolk county Supervisors offered another one of $1,000, which 14 also sul valid, 18 KKLSEY ALIVE? The opponents of the Kelsey party in Huntington, however, say that the truth will never be discovered in this manner, The proper way, they contend, is to offer a reward forthe discovery and identitication of Char! elsey alive. GARVEY’S REAPPEARANCE, The Ring plasterer, Andrew J. Garvey, appeared yesterday at the Filty-seventh Strcet Police Court and became te bondsman of one of his employes, who bad been arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. “IN CASE HE GETS WELL.” There is a epice of romance connected with the at- tempt of A. EK. Penny, of Pom Quogue, to commit suicide, On Tuesday night he shot himself through the breast with a pistol, inflicting a dangerous and, perhaps, fatal wound, though at last advices he was alive. During the afternoon or evening vrevious he had @ mistoderstandiog with a girl named Jackson, sixteen years old, to whom he was engaged to be mar- ried, and they made a mutual return of 4 and love tokens, aud when he went home he became so agitated in mind as to resolve upun suicide. Since the occur- rence, hearing what he bad done, Miss Jackson re- Jented, celled upon him and renewed her promise to marry him In case he gets well. The Seventh avenue gang was represented yesterday at the Filty-sevonth Street Police Court in the person of Francis Shields. Shields, in Janc, 1876, madoa desperate attack upon the life of UMcer William F. Fitchen, of the Twenty-second precinct, and in the course of the encounter tho latter was badly injured. Shields was arrested at the time and held for trial, but fe vail and has since been at large, On Saturday ht he repeated his performance ol June last, and, re of his crowd, again assaulted Oflicer Fiteben, He was arrested yesterday and ned $10, He was held in $1,000 bail, aud, that not being forth- isiand for twelve months, “Ye who believe shall account your- | ee A NEW AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. A GREAT OYSTER TRADE OPENED BETWEEW THIS CITY AND ENGLAND—AN EXPERIMENT AND ITS RESULTS--INTEBESTING STATISTICS OF THE NEW VENTURE, The experiment of exporting American beof to Eng land, and the signal success that bas crowned th¢ efforts of the pioneers in the movement, despit numerous obstacles which they have combated and overcome, brings to Might another venture of N York men, which im time will prove to be a great and lucrative trafic between this couutry and Europe, This other new departure is the exportation of Amere ican oysters to the English and continental markets, Tt bas been known for years back that the great Eng. lish oyster beds, like their coaj flelds, have been gradually giving out, owing to tho incessant and enormous demands made upon them, and ot Inte years, despite prolitic planting an¢ careful attention, have tailed to yteld enough oyster to supply London alone, The Scotch oyster beds have been drawn upon; but they, too, have proved inade- quate for the needs of the British lovers of the delicious bivalve, and scientific meu who have mate tho subject a study predict that, unless a radica remedy shall have been found, the oyster will coon be come extinct in the British Isles. Two-thirds of the English bods are planted at the mouths of their rivers, in coves, inlets and bays in all parts of the Island, whose waters wash great factories and become im- Pregnated with copper and other poisonous minerals, which have driven away bardy tish and are now doing the work for the oysters, The radical remedy pro- posed 1s to removo these beds; but {t ts just here that the dificuity les, as there are no other grounds suite able round the kingdom. Several of New York's prominent oystermen have been close observers of the English oyster market for several years, and have been conversant with the diMculty and the gradual decrease in tho supply; but it was only six years ago that whey were called upon to act. THK FIRST VENTURE, Then an order came over froma London firm fot American sced oysters, and then for the first time they" realized the great field of profit that wonla sooner or later be opened out, Several mon ciaim the honor of being the pioneers in the Introduction of the American oyster to England, Among them ts Mr. Dorrity, the old and well known dealer of Washington Market. He shipped several barrels, but bis success was so indiffere ent that he did not pust the business, and left it tor others to follow up, Other dealers, by way of experi- ment, picked out some of their bost brands and sent them over in barrels Some arrived in good condition in Liverpool, but many barrels were broken during the passage, and tho oysters were unfit to be presented for sale in the markets, The finest and best species, such as Prince’s Bays, Virginias, Morris Coves and Saddie Rocks, so much sought after here, proved to be abominations tothe taste of tho Englishmen. They couldn’t see how it was possible fur the “Yankees” to eat such ‘nabsty, coarse, heavy hoysters,” and intimated that it was another of the numerous tricks the uncivilized Americans sought to practise upon them. Consequently these brands wero withdrawn, and oysters known to dealers in this country as the “bushel oyster”? were sent over instead. These oys- ters are about the size of a silver dollar, and when placed beside an oyster of English growth the differ ence 18 scarcely perceptible. To the taste, howevor, there is a vast superiority over their English competis tors, a8 they are devoid of that copperish flavor 80 es sential tothe genuine London oyster eater, and are teuder and delicious either for stews, raws or tries, PREJUDICE. ‘ Gradually the shipment of oysters becamo larger pet each steamer, and soon the American oyster was sq frequently mot with for sale in the markot that the Koglish dealers became botn jealous and alarmed. The quality was disparaged, the flavor was denounced, and some even went so far as to say that they bred the cholera, These’ stories, however, failed to detract from the American bivalve the favor which ithad already gained until three years ago, when a new discovery was made. Then tt was circulated in the oyster houses in Liverpool and London that the Yankee oystors should not be eaten under any circum- Stances as they were not natural, were disease breed- ingand were only fit tor swine. Thoso who were deeply interested in the American oystor trade found it necessary to make inquiries concerning the new movement, and discovered to their dismay that their enemies based their charges on the tact tbat the eye ican importation was black, wheroas t! all possessed white eyes, Acomparison showed that such, indeed, was the case, but why such a stnail aifference should create prejudice against them was more than thoy could understand. Even this se rious charge finally was lost sight of us the newcomerg grew in favor and thereafter the Amorican and English agents were let alone. THE TRADK ; Recently the trade has grown to such dimensioné that several great English wholesale dealers in Liver. pool havo tbeir hands tull in attending to the Ameri- cau product, which they ship to Scotland, London and the lurge cities on the Continent, The .pioneerin the wholesale business is Mr. G. White, of this city, who is associated in the exportation of oysters with the firm of Dorton & Shailer, ot Fultun market. Mr. White attends to all the purchasing and shipping on this side, and Mr. Shatter maxes tho sales tn Liver- ool, where he is stationed and where ie located the ranch house, At the start but fifty barrels were sent over weekly, but by judicious management on both sides, the business graduuliy increased until 150, 2u0 and finally 700 barrels of choice bivalves were sent euch week. When questioned on the subject yest day Mr. White remarked that the t ¥ its infancy, and that from the present it gave promise of being vast in proportions and lucra- tive to those engaged in it. Intelligence, experience and good judyment were requisite qualities for suc- cess. This firm ship Sounds, Kas Rivers apd Biue Points, which are mostly purchased at Perth Amboy, where they are picked over ana then forwarded to Fauiton market, ‘e they are barrelled and aro taken on board the vessels of the W Star and tho Inman lines, as they make tho quickest passa; across to Liverpool, Speed is vital, as long voy ages are fatal to the oysters. On buard ship they are placed in apart- ments specialiy constructed for them, and as the ship- ping season is.during the months of September, Ocio- ver, November, Decembe nd up to the close of March, but little ice 1s required during the voyage. AS the oysters must drink, they are watered at intervals, and generally urrive on British soil ag fresh, fat and as delicious as when barrelled. Tho protits may be realized when it is explained that but $3 25 is paid per barrel on this side and the ocean freight is $1 45 per barrel, and that they readily command trom $7 to $10 per barrel in Liverpool ‘T'nis amount has been often exceeded, and tho net profit may be safely setdown atirom $5 to $9 per barrel. The Ainer.can oysters now are sold cheaper than the Eng- lian brands, and year by vear will gradually supersede them in their own markets. lacgest exporter in this city is Mr. Edward wholesale oyster dealer at pier No, 24 North Ry le commenced shipp' vysters to England « yoar ago, starting with five barrels, His first consign ment was to Garcia & Jacobs, Covent Lon don, As he id, “They took first rate,” and he cleared $9 85 per barrel, after deducting freightag and commission, The next shipment was fifty barrels, which was followed by 100, and now his‘weokly con. signment to Liverpool and Londou averages (rom 260 to 400 barrels, je has great faith in the trade and preiicts splendid results, He ships per order trom the other sid foliowing named oyster firms, also engaged in th business:—J. 1, Houseman, toot of West Tenth street; J. & J. W. Elisworth, foot of West ith street ‘Theso two firms send on to 300 barrels, Numerous other small dealers add their share, which, with all combined, foots up the average weekly sbipment from this port to 1,900 bar. rela, divided as follows :— WEEKLY EXPORTATION, Firms, Dorlon, Shaffer & White.. Kadward Simons jored the success of their neighbors in the now eretofore stood aloo, evince | it, and it ts said that sev. ‘al contemplate the shipment of large quantiti oysters next # Ifthe predictions of “knowing ones’ pro A ture will not prove fraitioss, Many of the oysters stippod from New York find their way to French beds, and Saddle Rocks and @ are not unknown to the lovers of good eati in Berlin, Vieuna and St. Petersbur; Agents havo introguced the best American bran throughout Europe, and they are slowly but steadily finding their way in public favor, Kastern oysters have also been shipped to California to replenish the beds of the Pacific coast, and not a fow trom New Jor. soy and Virginia beds have found their way to far off Australia, THE SUPPLY. Old oystermen and those conversant with the condle tion of the American oyster beus and the system em | abcde to propagate the oyster, pronounce them inox- austibie and sufficient to supply, not only tho home demand, but tho markets of the world for years te come. The greatest nursery for them in the vicinity of thie city Newark Bay and the ‘ beds’ off Perth Amboy, in Raritan Bay. Thig bed is a mile and three-quarters in length by @ quarter of a imile in width, Filty years i at and the bay surrounding it were covered with # thic natural growth, some of which are occasionally fou to this day, The bed was taken possession of b; company of men from Porth Amboy, Tottenvill Newark, who staked {t off and planied thoasan bushels of seed oysters. As tho grounds wore de {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAG;