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8 HEAVENLY MANWA. Food for the Soul Dispensed from the Urban Puipits Yesterday. MR. BEECHER ON MORALITY. The Peace of Christ—His Eternal Youth the Sacrifice for Sinners, BREAKING PILLARS OF FAITH. Mr. Talmage's “Guide for Christian Bulls and Bears.” FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. YESUS ETERNALLY YOUNG--SERMON BY THE + REV. DR. ABMITAGE, The Rev, Thomas Armitage, D. D., pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, preached to a very largo congregation yesterday morning. His subject was, “Jesus Eterpally Young,” and his toxt Heb, 1., 12— “Thou art the same, and thy years sball not fail’? Dr, Farrar and others, who have written the “Life of Christ,” said be, seem to covet the ability to draw a portrait of our Lord’s personal appearance, and half lament their inability to do so, inasmuch as neither description nor art has left the true impression of His torm. The on!y reliable picture which we can draw of our Lord’s body is by that law of humanity which traces a semblance between the radiant virtues of the inner man and their external expression in the human face divine.” We know ot royal David, His great ancestor, that when young ho ‘was fair and ruddy ?? but whether his great Sen inherited his beauty we are left to conjecture, At any rate the elaborate portraitures of our Lord, which describe His Btature, gait, complexion, features, &e., are but apoo- ryphal and traditional, None of the evangelists say a word or give a hint on the subject, CHRIST’S UNIFORM PERSONAL VIGOR, There are cortain other things, however, about which they speak on which there can be no doubt, as, for example, His uniform personal vigor, as indicating ‘vhe total absence of all personal ailment, either from illness or ago, They tell us of His constant exposure by long fasting, by perpetual journeyings, by inces- faut labors in public speaking and miracle: working; His exposure to the elements on the land and on the sea, and of His prostrations during the livelong night in His acts of devotion, They never intimate that He ‘was sick, till violence was done to His body in His last suflerings, when they speak of faintness im carrying His cross, and fever, as He hung upon it and eried, “1 thirst.” ‘The only case which besrs a contrary ap- pearance to this is the declaration of Isaiah, as quoted by Matthew, saying, “Himself took our iniirmities and bore our sickness.” In this special statement it is mplied that He voluntarily took the “sickness” of the people in Capernaum only as you would take a crushing burden from another, to cast itaway. He “took”? our infirmities to bear’ them, exactly as He took our sins, not to absorb them into Himself, bat to remove and destroy them. So, then, there is the total absence of all indication on the the evangelists that Jesus ever endured sickness as we do, that His bodily frame was weakened by natural disease cr rendered infirm by the rollipg of years. First, then, we bave the healthy ‘young child” who could endure the exposure of birth in astable, the coarse “swaddling bands,’ the hard manger cradle and the flight to a foreign country in order to save His lite. In His boyhood, at twelve, wo find Him as a hardy youth, journeying at the side of His mother and Joseph, from Gulilee to Jerusalem, a uistance of about seventy English miles He entered upon His ministry in the full scope of a peasunt’s strength at the age of thirty, Throughout the three years of His public nunistry there 1s not the slightest indication that His bodily heaith or natural force abated, vut on the contrary His power of physical endurance is presonted as wonderful. And to me it has ever been a delighttul thought, that in working out my salvation the holy Curist Jesus exhibited no inherent weak- ness, In the greatness of His intellectual strength He was full mighty to reason; in the greatness of His Pmotional strength he was full powerful tosuffer; 1n the greatness of His moral strength He was tull able to Jave to the uttermost From the whole of His career, from the cradle to the tomb, proves Him to have been “the Son of God with power,’’ bodily, mentally, mor- ally, divinely. The idea which the Gospel leaves upon the mind is one of perpetual frestness im Christ aud not of exhaustion, one of inviolable strength and not bf weakness, one of unfading youth and not ot age. Although He has been seated upon His tbroue tor more than 1,800 years the world never thinks of Him as chang CHRIST'S ETERNAL TOUTE. At this point we are met by the all ebsorbimg ques- tion as to tue source and secret of Cprist’s eternal youth. How is it that He is tbe same and that His Yeurs will net and do not fail? Ali that as buman must Change and grow old. The inspiring fire cools in each breast, the flush pales on each cheek, care leaves its lines on every brow, the boar irost settics on the locust, chill creeps toward the beart and tremulousness over the band 10 ail others—thev, why not in Him? Wrinkles do not wither, decay does pot waste, nor change impair His identity. In the days of’ His Palestine iite He climbed by @ well marked succession of steps to a definite maturity, as the sun climbs trom sunrise to “the perfect day;? but, unlike that orb, with Him that has been no siow decline, no gradual descent, tor His sun bas not gone down, but poises iiseli still at noontide without casting one shadow, His youth ov earth was pensive while others were gay, disinterested while others were selfish, Other youths were haughty, He was meek; they spoke un- hovisedly with their lips, He never polluted His, The bears ot @ young friend beat in His breast, angel inno- ceuce beamed in His eye aad more than angei anxiety ennobled His actions, 18 wonderful wisdom aston- ished the doctors; His wondertu! purity mortified the bovest, and His’ philanthropy made ine best bene- factors of His race blush Wherever the young Naza- rene went He gladdened the world, carried cheer, fresnness and adorning with Him, breaking up its monotony and shedding rays upon all its path. And why?’ Jecause His youth was essential, and oot merely a stage in His existence; because it was in- herent and not desired, Youth with Him was nota force which could be subornated to the aggressions of age. Asa son, He had rejoiced with the Father ‘the. fore the world was.”? The fragrant, dewy, rich, ever- lasting morning bad ever sat upon His brow. The secret of Christ’s eternal youth is found in His cre tive power, Its source 18 in the infinite spontaneous. ness of fis unoreated self, This must render His eternal youth unaltered ana unalterable, PLYMOUTH CHURCH, MR. BEECHER DEFINES MORALITY AND RELIG- JON—AN ANSWER TO THE INQUIRY OF THE YOUNG MAN IN THE GOSPEL, “‘WHAT LACK I yer?” The genial spring morning brought a larger audie ence than usual to Plymouth Church yesterday, Not pnly every seat but every available standing place was pecupied, and many were unable to obtain admission within the doors. In making an announcement of a fair to be held dure Ing the week, originated by the young ladies of the congregation, the profits of which were to be devoted to the tund for the support of women missionaries throughout the world, Mr. Beecher said:—‘I know itis not considered safe for women to be allowed to speak in thurch, and we hear of churches being disciplined for allowing it; but I am sure there is no harm in letting yhem try on their capacity among tho heathen; and so L think it will come to pass that, once in awhile, we shall get so that even American ministers in shurebes will believe that the women that brought them up and taught them all they know and made them all they are good for, bave capacity enough to speak sometimes even iu churches. Iam sure, waon I bear what men say in church, I will admit that if women do more than that they ought not to speak ab all,” (Laughter.) ‘THR SERMON. Tho subject of Mr. Beecher’s sormon was “Morality and Religion.’’ Tho text was selected from the Gos- pel of St. Matthew, xix., and a clause of the twenticth verse—What lack I yet.” In tho introduction to ihe discourse, be suid, 1 read tho sceno of which this is 4 part, the opening verse of which shows a young man trho came running forward to ask the Saviour what ho should do to ibherit the Kingdom of Goa. The stron, point of interest in him was that there was a living de- frre to becomne @ perfect mun, ile bad aspiration and carnestness, It was recognized by the Saviour, and it js declared «that he appeared so extremely veh that, with one of those enthusiasms wuich Wore common to our Saviour, His heart went aut toward him, Ho came, fully believing, to this duknown teacher—Whetver proplct or mixsiouary be ue. pot, butevidently @ mau ot bigh moral feeling tha a waster—came vo Him to get more light. She (auit in bw case was simply that while be bad this (unger Jor general improvement and was willing, evi- deuily, 0 sacrifice a great deal for It, there were some other tuings that were even stroager. Aitnougn he ‘was willing to give time and endeavor for the sake of maintaitiing is moral character, When Christ said to him, “Go and sell all thou wast ud give it to the poor,’ sbrunk back. Toat was too much, 80 be went away porrowiul, there aro poke noneter conscious honesty. MORAL MEN OF TO-DAY. reat many persons Who aro living ‘They aro not bad bi NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, APRIL 9%, 1877—TRIPLE men in the ordinary sense of the term, nor can they bo calied altogether immoral or worldly men, They put torth a good deal of thought as to how to Ii tly and they succeed tn many directions. They have as- irations, and they are disposed to measure themselves by the bigher standard in the community where they live, These men are called moral men, and in general discourse they are called gery sient are supposed to be pasting iM opposition to those who are called spiritualists. [tts an unfortunate contrast, No man can be strictly moral who leaves ont the spiritual e! Ment; Do man can be strictly spiritual who leaves out the moral element, In the first plage, morality is defined as in goneral'the desire and endeavor, according to the measure of a power, to fuilll duties or to obey laws. With 1! ‘y zeveral definition morality may be divided into five different kinds—namely, physical, social, civil, industrial and religious morality. RELIGIOUS MORALITY. Alter # short survey of rality ler the first t sions, Mr. Beecher proceeded to speak of religious morality, and eaid:—Now, all these passions in the lower reaim of morals need, therefore, to come to their consumma- tion, Thoy need, for their own sake, that thet should be One more sphere of morality, and that ts the religious sphere. Are there no laws for the su- premacy of the soul’ Are there no laws'in this higher manbood? When the sun bas gone down tor the last tune and every passion bas expired and gone out and man sill aspires for that last weuith of the everlasting hereafter, will there be no taw there? no morality tbat reaches beyond tho mere earthly laws? The mere statement of it ts all the argument it needs, I don’t upuertake to say that religion is a mere gate where you get a ticket to present that will let a fellowin, It is a consummation of a perfect manhood, It de- yelops over and abovo the lower obligations and passions of men, It develops the crystal beam of love over them that protects them all, + & PRUSONAL APPEAL. Now, if there be those in this congregation who can- not even say that they have observed the rality, how farjare they away from this réligiot Some of you are worse than that; you have partially disclosed yourselves and there you stand, You some- Limes have a notion that because you sre not as bad ax somebody elgo that you will get to heaven. ‘1 have never seen the inside of Sing Stog,"? you say, yes L lons of mo- think there are many men in Sing Sing who sland a better chance than you. You must take into con- sideration 4 man’s carly edneation. It 1s quite possible land that a man who breaks the laws ot has not done as much di you who live in respec ciety. ‘There area great many of you who are living in the ordinary relations of liic and you have no God, So far a8 God shines in the faces of men and womea you have it, but asa personal God, as your refuge, as a pavilion into which you can fly until the stor: t, a8 your real consoler and strengthene riend so hear that you can say with all the experience, ‘“‘Wuo have | in heaven but Thee? many of you havo this thought of God? You are sure the of this hfe, bave built for this life, have purposed for this life, but what evidences have you that you have learned the words and possibilities of the spirit lite, so that you are at home 1n the light of His countenance? You have gone through all the schools of morals, is it not time tor you to enter tho last school—the school of spiritual morals, and prepare your soul for that compared with which ‘all these are nothing? Ob, undying reason! Oh, refulgent faith! Oh, this unfathomable hea: this love power! Will you do nothing for these? Is not the highest grace the noblest part? 1s that all to be forgotten? Is that to be left uncared for? I puts to you as sensible men, are you doing justice to your souls? BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. WALL STREET FROM A CHRISTIAN STANDPOINT— SERMON BY THE REY. 7. DE WITT TAL- MAGE. Mr. Talmago preached yesterday morning on “Wall Street, Looked at from a Christian Staudpoint.” His text was from Jeremiah, xvil, 2—“As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at.the end shall be a fool,”” Allusion is made, said Mr. Talmage, to the well known fact in natural history that if a partridge or a quail or a robin brood over the eggs of another species of bird the young will not adhere to the one that hap. pens to have brooded them, but will, with the first chance they get, consort with their own species. So @ man may gather large estates, If they bolong to somebody else they will leave him soon. WALL STREET IN THE Past. Across the island of New York, in 1685, a wall of stone and earth, cannon mounted, was erected to keep off the savages, A etroct was laid along by that wall, and as the street took the line of the wall it was properly called Wall street. It is short, narrow aud unarchitectural, but unique in history, and, excepting Lombard strect, of London, the mightiest in the world. The history of Wail street would be a large part of the history of this country, financially, agriculturally, religiously, It stands for the most an- tagonistic opposites—unswerving integrity and tip top scoundrelism.’ The best men and the worst may be found there. 1 would like to put the plough in at tho curbstone of old Trinity and drive it clear down to Wall street ferry, and "so it shall go if the horses strong enough todraw the plough. In the first place Wall street stands for tried integrityoa the one band and tho most outrageous villany on the other, Ii 1 wanied to find integrity bomb proof I would seek it among the Wall street bankers and merchants. Such things have been done there sometimes that bad men have almost given a reputation to the street. But if you Start and Jook at the names on the signs you will find that there are more upright men in the same space on that strect than on any business-doing street o: all our civies, The Board of Brokers, which is con- sidered by most people an ‘aquarium ol sharks, has a record for financial avcuracy equalicd by no moneyed institution im the world, Bat I bave to say also that in that street there are the worst financial desperadoes this country has ever seen, These are the spiders that are waiting for the innocent thes. These are the men who last week attempted to throw our country into the parox- sms of 1869 and 1873—who wanted to make a black onday biacker thau any Black Friday, 1 do not own | a dollar in Panama or Pacitic Mail, or a dollar in any other stock, but jast Thursday when 1 opened the paper and found that one embarrassed broker had been able to make his contract good ani another had been Toagnanimously helped by bis friends | telt gratetul to God. 1 want to say to all men whose principics are not settled in business, “Keep out of Wall street; that is no place tor men whose principles quiver in the blast oftemptation. Remember Jim Fisk, whose splendid success could not tone off his adulterous rides in Cen- tral Park ip the face of decent New York, and who, by his exampie im Wall street, nas blasted the futures of tens of tuousunds of honest young men."? TWO KINDS OF SPECULATION. Aman has as thorough a right to deal in New York Ceutral stocks or Toleuo and Wabash or Western Union ‘Telegraph as be bas to deal in iron or coal or dry goods. Stop legitimate speculation in this country and you stop the factories, the banks, the railroads—all the great fiaancial prosperities inthe country. But bere ‘we uiust draw a Very caretul line between lawtul spec- ulation and stock gambitng. You, the stock gambier, sell $100,000 worth of nothing and get paid for it; you fteal irom that ian just so much money. You suy its @ contract on time, but the man whé buys it don’t waut it, Seller thirty days—you buy a hundred shares; you are to give for tuem $10,000; it 18 to be delivered in thirty days If at the end of that time you caa get the ecrip (or $9,000 then you make $1,000; f you have to pay $11,000 then you bave tost $1,000. That is trafficking on chance—that is betting on chance, That certainly as much gambling as when one 1 his money im one of tho gam- bing hells, It ts against this that I warn young men, By such means fortunes gathered in forty y ro lost in a day. Ob! is it any wonuer that these men sometimes lose their reason—thas some o1 them have suddenly put a pistol to their tore. heads and ended the tragedy? Against this stock gumbling | enter my protest. "1t has been the curse of every Christian country and every Christian age. Mr. Tulmage bere made a iong digression {rom the subject of bis sermon, giving instances of tbe craving for speculation in different countries, The tulip: mania 1p Holland in 1635, John Law's Mississippi scheme in France in 1716 aud the South Sea bubble in England, were spoken of at length. He also spoke of the petroleum excitement in this country in 1804. He said that respectable men and ministers of religion often joined in such speculations. People said, cou- tinued Mr. Talmage. thore can’t bo any mistake about it; good Deacon So-and-So is a director of this com- pany, aud the Rev. Mr. So-and-So ot that. Joimng that’ company 18 almost as good as joining | the Church. Poor fools! = They “didn't Know that when professors of religion go inio stock gambling they all he like sin! (Laugh- ter.) L give you these illustrations to show the young men what fools and Knaves it will make of the people; What an insane aud contagious passion 1 1s, aud ulso that the Lord God bates it, always has punished it and always will punish it, On! mon of Wail street and of all streets, stand buck from nelarions practices | At the opening of every day in your brokers’ offices, | OF in your slores or your banking houses, utter asilent prayer tor God’s blessing, and when the aay’s work 18 done pronounce on ita benediction, Let it be sounded in the ears of the young men of this country what George Peabody said in an address in 1856, when he visited his native place and was speaking to his townsmen. Ho said:—'*Though Providence bas ranted me unvaried and unusual success in the pursuit of for- tune in other lands, 1 am still in heart the bumbie | boy who left yonder unpretending dwelling. achieved nothing that is impossible to the most humbie boy among you.’ THR LAST CALL Some day, when you leave your office or goto the bank or start on your way home, just look up at the clock on Trinity Chureh steeple and by the motion of the bands be reminded of the fact that your vusiness life is rapidly going away and before the throne ot God’s scrutinizing judgment you must give an account for every duy’s work of business since you entered Wuil street, For tho stock gambler there will bea break at the first call, No smug-ling Into heaven, no collaterals on Wo1ch to trade your way in! Through Jesus Christ you enter or you are torever thrust out, I wih you wil prosperity 4a business, Stand close by Ubrist dud Christ will stund close by you, By so much as your tempt y be great your reward witi be guiticent, d that when your vusiness on earth 18 done the pastor who officiates at your funeral should think as the most appropriate text for your fuveral oration :—"As the partridge sitteth on exes, und,hatcbeth them not; so be taat getteth riches, and oot by right, shall leave them in the midst of his daya, and at tho end shail be a fool.’ And God forbid that for the funeral psalm most appropriate te the occasion the words of the English poet :— Bole sata pire CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE TRUE LIFE—SERMON BY THE BEY. ME, ALLIGER. Rev. Mr. Alliger, who for twenty years ministered toa flock in Jamaica, L. L, and who is now a member of the Church of the Disciples, occupied the pulpit of that church yesterday morning. Mr, Hepworth preached lectured yesterday in 8t. John, N. B., to ald a Congregational association there in putting a new front and steeple on its church. The reverend speaker selected his text from John, 1.,4—“And the life was the light of men,”” There was a great varicty of opinion, said the speaker, in the world among men as to what constituted atrue character ora real life, and we in making an estimate of what the characters of men are and ‘determining whut they ought to be ere very lable to err, and we often judged men wrong(ully, and perhaps the greatest evil in the world was the misjudging of human character. It was just 80 1m the time of Corist, and it has been so iu every period of the world since to tho present, CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, When men look to Jesus, eudeavoring to ascertain His character, a right estimate of what He was, they often judged without suflicient consideration, and jormed the most remarkable couclusiogs, injurious nut to Him but to themselves, in Feterence to the Ilie and obaracter of our Lo: It was the samo trait of human nature which led men to err in both cases, whether it referred to human character or divine, when God says, ‘The life was the ligat of men,” the Spirit e the moat important tratns The lato z meant the Lord J this Life was the hght oi men, our minds went our ab once, not to the Nazarene,’ but to the throne of God,’ aud remembered that it was the Almighty God) the - evoriasting Father, tne Prince of Poabe, that was speaking tous. ‘hn the boginning was the word and the word Was with God aud the word was God, All things were made by Him.” In detormining with reference to Jesus Christ, men immediately a) rected their thougnts to Jesus of Nazareth to ascertain His true and proper character, but they found that the spirit of God inspired the soul to know who God was, to know the Son of God who deemed it not robbery to ve equal with God, ‘The divine Son, Gou’s only Son, God’s well beloved Son, who camo from the throne and of whom it ig sworn by the God himself that He shonid again on His Fatner’s throue and rule, the greate: the mightier he best Being that bas ever lived iu the uuiverse of God, Therefore, when it was announced to us that “Tbe life was the light of men,’ it meant the life of Christ, beginning in the eternities, Belore there was a Word the Lite had its existence, and Jesus Christ was with God inthe bosom of the Father, and that was the point from which mea should reason and 10 which they should direct their thoughts if they would come to a correct knowledge of what Jesus Christ was, ST. STEPHEN’S (R. C.) CHURCH, FAITH AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION—SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER M’GLYNN. At St. Stephen’s Church a very large attendance ot hearers listened to the Rey, Father McGlynn, who offi- ciated at the celebration of high mass yesterday and preactied a sermon on faith and trangubstantiation, An unusually large congregation was present, Tho majority being of the fair sex the cheerful colors of their elegant spring costumes blended harmoniously with the pleasant variety of light and shade which dif fused itself around the high altar and over the body of the church, : ‘The Rey. Father McGlynn took his test trom the goxpel ofthe day, St, John, x: 19. In the course of his sermon the reverend preachor said that the resurrection of the Lord Jesus was the confirmation of Christian faith. In the Gospel wo had ample evidence that Christ was with us. The Providence of God had afforded ample testimony that Christ did arise from the dead. And 1m the gospel of the day, we bad again blessed confirmation tuat Jesus was within us, and thatwe may rise to periect life everlasting through iis eaerifice only, lu parting with the disciples He puts the hand of the doubting one into his wounded side, and his sacred body was fonud to bear the signs of past suffer- ings. This was cvidence not merely of the corporeal pain suffered, for the sake of man- kind, but also of the love which He bore to His dis- ciples, and the great sacrifice to obtain them life hore- aitor.’ Ho showed them His bands and side opened by pear, and tn giving them these, with many other gns 0! His idontity, the scene became graphic in the ‘The doubting apostle was invited to come and put his bands intothe wounds of his Divine Lord ; a was with a spectal reason tbat Jesus called the atte: top of His disciples to those wounds to show Low widely His heart was opened to receive His people. It was the same Christ of whom St John gave that he saw the Roman soldier pierce Hi blood and water issue therefrom, It was through the holy sacrament of this Christian Church that bread acd wine were transubstantiated into flesh and blood by the power ofthe'Word. There- jore we should veheve and say to Him, as the douvt- ing Thomus did when he was convinced, “My Lord, my God!’ We should rise up and prociaim our testi- mony, remetubering, as we should, what Jesus said to ‘Thoinss im the metnorable words, ‘Blessed are they who have not seen yet believe.’” Christ came to the poor and humblo hearts whom He had cuosen, over- Jooking all their untoward circumstances, and by t operation of His Word conterrea upon’ them’ the mighty power which was within Himself. He said, “As my Father hath sent mé, | also have sent you.’? By His gooduess and grace these uncouth, strange, {lliterate meu were called, and through their chosen agency the heavenly* mission went forth to teach the kingdom of the Lord Jesus. To associate these hitherto wretched men as ove with Himsel! He breathed upon them, not the spirit of man alone, but of God; the gift ot tocdivly Ghost. A mysterious ceremony was this when the Son of Man breathed upon the brows ot these His chogen disciples, These crude men were the foundation of His Apostofic Church; that Church which we were taught tu look upon as His bride, There- fore it was that He breathes upon them, who were to make it tue repositéry of His confidence and of His teachings, MASONIC TEMPLE, PILLARS OF FAITH—SERMON BY MR. FROTH- INGHAM. Mr. Frothingham’s theme yesterday morning at Masonic Hall was “Pillars of Faith.” His purpose, he explained in introducing bis subject, was neither to erect any pillars of his own nor to pull down any one else's pillars, but to consider whether taith needed any pillars at all, The question was whether the hu- man mind was to be free to'pursue its investigations, or whether it was to be shackled by the traditions of authority. The ola faith from which they had de- parted laid great stress upon the “pillars of au- thority,” which were supposed to rest upon the ada- mautine “Rock of Ages.’? The speaker conceded that these pillars had not beca without some beneficent uso in conserving faith and its concomitant results, People spoke of these “pillars,” bowever, as though they were everlasting and immovable; bnt this was an error, torn down to be supplanted by others and bad equally often been transplanted from a vicious and voxious at- mosphere toa pure and brucing one. The Church of Rome found the pillars of religion in Constantinople and removed them to the West, Martin Luther founda the pillars in the Catholic Church aud removed them to Protestantiam, Pillars tn a book, anu, deeming them insecure there, planted them firmly in the very heart of the soul, WORTHLESS ANTIQUITY, There was a patent and not unnatural tendency in mankind to buiid upon antiquiiy. We veu the old, we bowed down belore the moss-cuvered church, But did antiquity reapre merit’ or did 1t merely represent idl and the power of standing stl? Peop! old age who Were not so much men were respectable vegetables. They 4 weights, cuips. borue along mechanically upon the cur. rent of lite, Old age without its corresponding achievements must count vor very litte indecd, ‘The old age of Goethe, or instance, was marvellous and admitablo, for his Was a life eternal aud towering high above the lives of his generation. Gut tue Hiet A contenarian that presented no resistance, uo uspirae tion, no struggie, was no iite at all! THE WIBLE AND THE CHURCH, Tho Bible, whose antiquity was so yreatly venerated, would undoubledly have perisued had it been iit 1 Its fate beside such Works as the writings of Plato aud Aristode, Iwas jealously guarded in cloisters und monasteries during times Of duuger and assault, Tho Church had become venerable im antiquny; but how had it become so” It hud never stooa alone; it und never come vut and said, Question me as you will, you cannot shake me, Tho Church had always sought protection from the temporal power by aliying itsell with the State, in England the Charch and State were one, and on the Continent the ope always haa some emperor to back him, It was only in this country that there was no established church and that re- ligion sougut merely to rest by its claims upon the heart and the mi Where does tho trae authority of faith rest? Not ip tho Church, because it bad always striven to maintain it by the ald of the temporal power, by the expedients of poli Does it rest in the soul? That is where the mystics, the spiritualists, put it, Theodore Parker contended that the veliet in the infinite was native to the soul, but John Stuart Mill, another man equally great, maintained the very opposiie conviction, Theodore Parker embraced the hope of immortality and Mill doubted it Here, then, were thess two men equally great and sincere; one said the soul was the ouly authority, while the ‘other declared that we must contont ourselves witu facts, with things as toey were, CHRISTIANITY ARRAIGNED, Two thousand years the Christian religion had ex- isted, and whatbad it voae? It bad not abolished ware; it had ot emancipated woman; it had not effuced the lige of race; it bad uot educated labor; it bad not roored out slavery; it had not extinguished violence, By teaching that the salvation of the soul was the only thing necessary it had neglected the sweetness of daily life, ol torrestrial good. By toach- ing that poverty was providential it had mado the vue Officiating clergyman of the day should give ous poor proud of their poverty, tt had consectatod pal for they had often been | Theodore Parker found the | SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. THE REHABILITATION OF A DESOLATE sOUL— BEBMON BY THE REV. CHAUNCEY GILES. At the Swedenborgian, or ‘New Church,” in East Thirty-ffth street, yesterday morning the Rey. Chaun- coy Giles preached on ‘The Rehabilitation of a Deso- late Soul,” a sermon in which the roverend speaker ably set forth some of the peculiar doctrines of the Swedenborgian sect, The text was taken from Isaiah, xhx., 18-23. One of the saddest effects of said Mr. Giles, is the blindness which it causes and the stupor which it induces upon tho mind in regard to all our spiritual capacities, It fills the mind with silusions, unsettles the judgment and destroys all the fixed standards of value, und renders us incapable of distinguishing the apparent from tho real, the transitory trom the eter- nal, The Lord is in the constant effort to wake man trom this stupor and to give bim some consciousness of the real greatness of his being. The Lord declares that He hes not forsaken His people, Every purpose of infinite love and every act of infinite wisdom has reierence solcly to human good. Now He calls upon us 10 seo this grapd truth:—“Lift up thine eyes od behold’? If we would Wit up Cy should see that ull bicssing: gathering thomselves together and coming to us, should see that every angel in heaven, tout ied spirit, who bus passed into ‘the w hat every good man aud woman and yes, hat every material thing Was working tor Lord gives us the most positive assurances 40, People often wonder why the Lord, if dovs not child, us. that this He is a boing of indnite love and goodn biess us more richly. Because and only because wo will not receive it, Hocan only fil our bearts with | love as we open them to Him, ‘I'he cause of our biind- ness aud spiritual poverty 18 not due to apy Unwilling. ness on the Lord's part to give, but to our unwilling. nose to receive, REMABILITATING THK SINFUL SOUL. The burning and barren sanus ol a desert are not 30 desolate of all auimal and vegetuble life as a soul cursed by sin 1s destitute of all tue Living and beautitul forms of spiritual life, Tue soul is waste and desolate, a land of destruction, until the seeds of spiritual tr planted in it and spiritual and ueavenly affections aro cultivated, Heroin lies tue great difficulty in gaming What the Lord regards we prize the most bight; Our wisdom, in tho Divive estimation, is folly. The great difficulty which we ali have to contend with 10 living @ regenerate lite cousists in reversing the (alse Judgment of tue natural mind and acting contrary to ‘appeurances, We are unwilling to give up tho shadow for the substance, because the shadow seems substan- tlaland the substance seoms to be unreal, We are afraid to let go our hold upon the means of gratifying our natural demres becnuse we doubt whether the Lord will keep His promise to give us something better in their plice’ When a man tails m bis undertakings, loses his property, is be- roaved of bis children, he feels as though nothing couid roplace’ them. But the Lord is always in tne effort to give us a greater jor a lesser good. Evory buman being who ts actuated by the love of selt and of the world 1a trying to get the most lor the smi equivalent, Buy ¢ and soll dear isthe rule. 1 1s precisely: the Lord 18 seeking to do for us. will give us a spiritual good fora ural one, which is equivalent to giving us gold ior brass, SL. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, THE TEACE OF CHRIST—SERMON BY BIGHT BEY. VICAR GENERAL QUINN.. ‘There was the usual large attendancevat the half-past ten o’clock service yesterday morning in St, Patrick’s Cathedral, High mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Kane. The music was excellent, a mass by Generali being sung. In the absence of Mmo, Bredelli, who is slightly indisposed, Miss Baermann took the part of soprano, The other members of the choir are dimo. Unger, alto; Mr. bersin, tenor; Mr. Urchs, basso, and Mr. A. Hoch, organist. THR DISCOURSE. Very Rev. Father Quinn, V. @., dolivored the dis- course at yesterday's service, He preceded the ger- inon with a few well chosen remarks upon the life and, character of Mr. Sonmitz He asked the congregation to pray for the repose of that gentleman’s soul. The ker also called attention to the great loss which the Cathedral sustained by the death of Mr. Schmitz Deceased had been organist of the church for a long time, He was always imbued with groat zeal to con- tribute to the splendor of religion through his urtistic abilities, ‘The Vicar Genoral praised deveused’s qual- ications as a professional geotiemen, his truthfulness and sincerity of purpose, his exemplary Christian life and his desire to assist all who needed assistance, It ‘would be hard to fill his place in the Cathedral. His Eminence the Cardinal, the congregation and tho clergy woula miss him. Alter paying this well deserved tribute to the dead musician Father Quinn read the gospel of the day from . Jobn, xx., in which is set forth the apy Christ to his disciples after the resurrection:—“Jesus came in the midst and said to them, Pe Aod when he said this ue showed them Lis side, The disciples therefore were glad when they wthe Lord.” The words of this gospel, said the Vicar General, proved very clearly the end tor which Christ bad come upon cartb, He came to atone tor the sins of oll and remove the great barriers which separated men trom the end and object of their crea- tion, The angels who came to announce the birth of tho Saviour also used (he sentiments set forth in the gospel of the day:—'Peace on earth to men of good will’? Now, Lelore Christ ascended to the throne ot-His Heavenly’ Father He uscd the words, “Peace be to you.”? He showed to His disciples the wounds He bad received in His passion as evidence of the reality of Hig resurrection from the dead, 60 that all doubts might be removed, How great was this privi- lege accorded to the disciples, By it they wore strengthened in their reliance upon all the promises mado to them by the Redeemer, tor He had promised that peace which surpussed ail undorstanding, which containea all that our hearts could wisn for, It was tnat peace which the world could not give nor take away. In order to obtain it we should not alone ve prepared to labor and toil, but to make all possible sacrifices in our power, There was nothing that could destroy this peace in the Christian soul, Looking at our past lives, Would not our consciences remind many of us, our actions Speak in trumpet tones against us, did not possess the peace of God. It we tit was that separated us from the Jove of God our answer must be that sin, and sin alone, could deprive us of all the sacred priv:lej liberally ded. Sin left us in the position of es to the The Apostie Joho said that whoever commit- teth sin commitieth iniquity, for sin ts iniquity, and bo who commits si0 1s of the devil, for the devil had committed sin Irom the beginulng. Consequently, those who were guilty of sin w separated trom union with God. The reverend preacher then dilated upon the evil consequences arising trom sin, giving as cxample the terrible eflects of the commission of even one criminal act by the angels who were hurled trom Paradiso, und the fate of Adam and Evo, who wore turned out of the Gardon of Eden ior eating the forbidden iruit ST. THOMAS’ CHURCH. THE RESUKRECTION OF THE SAVIOUR THE JUs- TIFICATION OF SINNERS—SERMON BY REY. MR, COURTNEY. Rey. Mr, Courtney, of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Churci, corner of Fifth avenue and Filty-third street, preached at tao afternoon service yestapday to a con- gregation which filled every part ol that magnificent edifice, Announcing that he was going to preach the first of aseries of sermons upon the different aspects of the resurrection of Christ, the reveroud gentieman | road, as nis text, the passage from the fourth chapter ated | of Romans—“Aud was raised again for our justilica- tion’’—und proceeded to argue that tho resurrection ot the Saviour was really tho justification of sinners, Two things, he said, were notorious—the gintuiness | of man and the holiness of God; aud throughout the whole world there was Guu is conceived of as Velug tar greater (han man iD power, DUL also DeGrUse UF «a ACKHOW edged discrep aucy between man who oilers sueritice aud God Lo whorm sucrilice Is offered, Dweiliug ou tits pont ab some length Uk «ker Dext stated tbat there Was au Impossibil.iy of God"s lorg.ving mau ex propria motiea Without! an Aluncment and yet preserve his Justice, Wiel Was the foundation of ali moral government LT you held, said dtr, Courtney, that God can lorgive imen merely ol His own desire Lo forgive transgreseors tuon you Liave that orougit Gown to ail moral gove Ment iu the World, and you have the seitiug asid ubvi upon the face of the earth and all right at the bar of heaven vy and by. NEED OF PROPITIATION. ‘And It is because 1t 18 recognized in man’s heart that it i an impossibility on the part of God merely to forgive without atonement that everywhere there 1s felt to be a need of propitiatory sacritice, At this stage of bis argument the speaker reviewed tho Jow- ish system, which was evidently founded upon this pian of sacrifices, This plan wus misunderstood b, Thaby persons who think it an evidence of the unwill- ingness of God to forgive man unless He should be appeased with blood, The preacher showed that the underlying ,principle of the system was the readiness Of God to forgive sivuers. Then he expiawed in devail the meaning of the va. rious sacrifices made by the Jews nd inted out the tact that they were yierely types and figures of the great gacritice to come when the Son oF God should lay dowu His lise for mankind, Some peo- Jo there wore who contended that since Christ died for ail everybody 18 forgiven, everybody is Justified, everybody 18 {reo from sin. The preacher called the attention of these to th that the appropriation of the justification is in Christ Jesus and is mude by faith, Mr, Courtnoy conclud with a meving ex- hortation (o those of his hearers who wero walking in foar and trembl: to have faith and rejoice in tho fact that their Reaurrechon, everywhere manilested | sire to propitiate God, and (Lat Wot only because | everything that is justice and the setting ap i nace of an arbitrary position of mercy, When you have arrived at this You nave alo ed all right | THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The Board of Health vs. The Sanitary Condition of the City. SALARIES, DISINFECTANTS AND STATIONERY, How an Appropriation is Expended for the Benefit of Office-Holders. FS OUR FILTHY STREETS. Causes of the Present High Death Rate, in this city hundreds of thousands of dollars are yearly expended for sanitary purposes and for the pro- tection of the public health, The Board of Health, through its numerous officers and attachés, direct the enforcement of what 1s Known us the “Sanitary Code” Jaws, enacted forthe protection of the health of the community aud the prevention of disease, Yearly re- ports are made by this Board, in which are published glowing descriptions of the amount of valuable work periormed vy this department, of epidemics guarded against and of the improved state of the public health wad excellent suntery condition of the city. The constant repetition of such statements year aiter year bas to a certain extent succeeded in making the people of this city believe that New York is one of the healthiest places in the world, and it ts only now and again that a glimpse at the true sanitary condition of the city is got at when epidemica and contagious diseases break out and all the efforts of the health om are powerless to prevent their spread. New York, notwithstanding the vast sums of money spent in maintaining an extensive department to caro for the health of the community and to preserve the ity ina goou sanitary condition, bas at the prosont {imo a much higher death rate than the majority of important cities either im this country or in Europe, There has been but a slight decrease—two or threo per cent—in the rate of mortality during the past twelve or fifteen yoars, aud when these facts are considered, in connection with the yoarly expenditure of large sums of money, the question very naturally arises whether there is not something wrong in the manage- ment of a department that proves so costly and at the me time so ineflicient, ‘The Board of Health, as at present constituted, con- sts of four momyers, who, it they iulfl all the en- gagements they have undertaken, must, indeed, be kept quite busy. Tho President of tho Bourd, Pro- fessor Chandler, has, in addition to his dutios as Com- missioner ot Health and executive oflicer of the de- partment, several other positions that engago his attention, He is also protessor of chemistry in the School of Mines, Columbia Collego; im the College of kbysicians and Surgeons and tbe College of Pbar- macy, and associate editor of the Chemical News, besides uttending to an extensivo protessional practice as an analytical chemist, In view of these facts it is not perbaps improper to aak bow much ot his time does Professor Chandler devote to his duties as Presi- dent of the Health Board’ ‘The other “Health Commissioner’’ of the city of New York 1s Dr. E. J. Javeway, who is 4 physician having an extensive practice, besides attending to Which ho 18 professor of pathological auatomy, dis- uses of the pervous system and demoustraior of anatomy at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, vise iting pilysician to Bellevue Hospitai, besides holding several OLher modicul positions in wis city, Dr. Jaue- way devotes Wuat time he can spare from the duties juvolved in boiding these positions to the Health De- partment as chairmau of the Sanitary Committee, the most Important position, as far as the administration of the beulth Jaws ig concerned, in the Board, ‘The two otber members of the Bourd—the President of the Police Board and the Health Ollicer of the Port—it is to bo fairly presumed, have enough to do to attend to their own departments, and that they do nothin More than attend the stated meetings of the H Board, From the above it will be seen that the Commission- ers of Health, paid by thts city a large salary to devote their time and labor for the protection of the heaith of the community, cannot do so, even it they were ever 80 Willing, 48 OLher duties engage their, attention. With the rest of the medival officers of the de} ment it is much the same way—all havo their private interests and business to look after—and it 18 only such time as can be conveniently spared that 18 de- voted to the interests of the people. With this glanco at the personuel of the Board, an oxamination of the Hnances will not prove uninteresting. According to the jast published report of the Board of Health, eud- img May 1, 1874, to which reference is made to iilus- trates it financial management, the total expenditures $215,227, Ut thid amount $120,810 went sn'the sume Statement is found the item of $7,200 for stationery and printing for seven months, while for tl ine period only $7,500 was the total expenditure jor disinfectants and all other expenses counected with tuis work, including the pay ol laborers, support of horses, &¢. With these ex- tracts irom the Health Board’s official report tho reader will be left to judge of the financial mauage- ment of the departmeat, From the foregoing facts It will be seen that the gentiomen charged With the duty of supervising tho aflairs of the Health Department have a large amount of other and !mportant business to attend to, aud that ther official duties can hardly receive that attention Ubat ts necessary lor their proper discharge ana fur which the peopie pay so liberaily. At is to u considerable extent due to this inefficiency of the Bourd of Health that this city 18 19 80 bad and dangerous a condiv‘on. The diseases that affect tho heaith of New York ure to a great extent preventible, for they depend on causes that como within the power of a Board of Health to remove by a just and proper administration of the health laws and sanitary code. There is probably uo other Board of Heaith in this country or m Europe clothed with more ampie powers for the protection of public health aud the prevention of disease, If, then, in the tace of such ampie pro- visions, the health of the community is endangered and tue city allowed to remain in a bad sanitary con- dition, the fauit lies with the officiais who, through neglect or Incompetency, allow such a state of afluirs to come to pass, = FILTHY STKERTS, No greater evidence of the truth of the above re- marks can be adduced than the neglectand utter indif- ference shown during the past few months to the tiihy and disgusting condition oO; the streets and thorough. fares ol this city. No amount ot scientitic knowledge und language On the part oi the health officiis will ever convince the people that putrid and decaying gar- bage 18 healthy and exerts a beneficial eflect on tho human system, and although the Street Cleaning Department 1s directly responsible tor this out- Tage ou public decency, sui! the sanitary official took no steps to remedy the evil, although the powonous and deadiy gases " generated by the decaying heaps of filtn in the streets 1s well known to be productive of the jowest and most danger- ous types of disease, particularly of contagious dis- euses, Even in the better sections of the city the filthy con- dition of the stveets 18 almost unbearable, while in che pour quarters, where closely packed tenement houses line tue sidewalks and shut out aimost the hight and air, the eflect of the decomposing heaps of retuse vegetable matier and filth must be fatal to tue heath 0} the antortnaate people who have to suffer the effects of this whulesale poisoning, OVERCROWDING OF TENEMENTS. It has been repeatedly staed m Ue columns of the Henatp during the past two years, nearly seventy- Department should understand that to endanger Rent and iver ofa ang proportion of te commealiy 1s & dangerous experimeutand one that will in the Feny he rag just punishment on the authors of such an With ao energetic and determined head to the De pa:tment of Health such a condition ot affairs could Bot exist, aud if less ‘‘sciepce” was exbibiied in 4! management of this department and the money used for practical work the people of New York would prove” ors. ar ago many of the leading physicians and surgeons of this city advised # total change in tis Health Department, and su; that some oue com- petent medical man should be made sole Com- missioner, with ample power to remedy all the exis ing evils, and that the department be made 1 ent of politicians and political influence. If such a change were made the head of the department would be directly responsible tor the health aud sanitary con- dition of the city. would be bo division of authority and no shirking of res) bility. Gentle. men would not be paid large salaries for attenaing ta their own private business, for avy one connected with the department would be oblt, to give bis entire tine and attention to the duties of his position, the same ne if he were in the employ of apy individual or corpor- ation in the city. If such a change was made many of the sources of disease could ve rémoved and the health and sanitary condition of tho city much improved, 1: penses reduced, as it would be quite unnecessary spend such a large sum of money for an ornamental, but, at the same time, useless commission, The Health Department, organized under such a would abandon Present policy of dead cat hunting and “minor nuisance’? abating, and devote all its energica to a removal of th t sources of diseage that exist within our limits, and without the removal of which 1¢ is useless to expect any material change for tho bettes in the sanitary condition of New York. HORSES FOR JAPAN. [From the California Spirit of the Times, March ©] More important to Caliiornia than would be thought at the first glance aro the late purchases made by the Japanese Commissioners, consisting of Messrs. D. W. Ap Jones, Oku, Hassegawa and Okada, as it is only the beginning of what is likely to grow into a great trade, ‘There have been other shipments previous to this, but the animals sent were not as likely to be beneficial, or anything boar as good to improve the native stock, ag the Jagt selections, We understand that the breeus of horses there are smail and poorly formed, with large coarse beads, long slab-sided barrels, poor limbs, and, in the language of the Duke of Nowecastle, ‘sorry jades” for any purpose. Tho only possible way to get stock which will have any value {rom such dams is to use thoroughbred sires; and a few crosses of tho su- perior viood will work @ revolution in the horses ot that island; and these cross ill, do to breed to the heavy draft race, Whereas if bred to drait or earru orses in tho first place the progeny would be worthless for cituer service or procreation. Not only will there be an increase in size, but the delects in conformation will be remedied, and there will be a basis of improvement which could not be reached 10 any other way. Even with balf-bred horses thero would be many disappointments, As an lilustration of this, we Were acquainted Wikb @ man wio hired a Cotswold buck 10 run with his pative ewes. Tho progeny was 80 much superior that he was delighted ‘with the result, but thinking the progeny of halt-bred ewes would bave the same modicuin 0: blood if bred to a half breed he used one of that stamp, Lt was o complete failure, and he found that the only way he could continue the npprovement in his flocks was to Use @ thoroughbred sire, upd whenever be deviated from this rule be could see a deterioration. ‘Tbe object of the Japanese is not to breod race or trotting borses, but to raise the stundard of the horse, so us to make them effective for all kinds of business, We understand that the Emperor Louis Napoleon made & preseut to the Tycoon of several thoroughbred hofses: from the government stud; but im the turmoil which followed tue revolution and the dethroning of toat monarch, the horses wera Jost sight of, But the present oilicials discovered that ip the districis waere these horses hud stoud the ani- Mals were ofa wuch betier class, and this prompted the formation of the present Comuission, Tuese gen- tlemen bave been very fortunate im their selections x0 far. Of Theodore Winters, Esq., they bought Bradley, Raiston and three iilities by Nortolk, out of alenme Farrow, Ballerind and Maggie Dulo; und of Capuun George’ A. Jobnson, Regent. ‘They also purchased two heavy draught horses trom Mr. Dougherty, of the Amador rancho, ‘he object in purchasing the fillies was to breed and tbus aid to supply thy demand for thoroughbreds to cross 1n the native mares, Braue ley aud Raistou have made their mark on the Cali- fornia tust, and are remarkably well formed animals, with pedigrees that would please the most fastidious, Bradiey ig a double Leximgton, and this in-breeding to such a noted horse jor stumina 18 sure to tell in his. progeny on these mares of Japan. His high temper, which Was the only thing which multtated against nis success as a race horse, 18 just what is needed to correct the siuggishuess of the mares he wiil be bred to, and i! we are rightly intormed about their dispositions this element is xreatiy needed. This do- termined will, which has resulted from tue breeding from generation to gencration of animals of strong Ppurpuse and a resulution to accomplish deeds which hone others cup accomplish, is te greatest cause of the thoroughbred beimg so valuabie an adjunct to elevate the interior races, aud even the periection of form is secondary to nerve jorce. This is what has Ven rise to the old proverb, that ‘an ounce of breeds ing 18 worth a pound of bone,” and “that an inferior horgo of good breeding was better than a more justiy formed one with a less valuable pedigree,” But every one will agree that a combination of good breeding and bigh iorm is very desirable, and these auimalscer- tainly uuite both quilities, Ralston is a magaificent colt, aud it was very unfortunate he met with a mishap which necessitated his withdrawal trom the track. An enthusiastic admirer of Norioik, who saw him run all his races, invariably lamented that he would never see such @ race horse again. Ho could scarcely lusten to any one who contended that there were other horses which were his equal, and even his sire was not to be compared to him. ‘Tuis man saw Lexington run all his races m New Orleans, and to this day he argues that the son was the better borse, and he is tirm in the faith that the day bo ran tue fast three miles in Sacramento bo could bave made four miles inside of 7:15. When he saw Ralston gallop away from the two-year-olds last (all, and saw him in his ex- eroise, he acknowledged that if there was ever to be another Norfolk, that high-headed soa was tho ona But it is useless to dilate on the raciug capacity of the horses which are now 4 third of their way to their fue ture home, As we said, the selections are first rate, only we are sorry to see tne fillies leave. Thero |, reat surplus of thoroughbred and all other stallio in California, with a scarcity of thoroughb: Winters, anxious that tho Ori bavo the best, in this preliminary precedence, con- cluded to sucrifloe the present tor the good of tl future. In our article published some weeks ago wa alluded to the 1avorable location of California to supply the countries further West, and fa Japan there {s suré to be a great demand from this time, It is a rich coun try, almost destitute of fine stock, and after a few im portations these peopie are shown enough to sec the advantages which will result from the introduction, Woe do not despair to publish accounts of the races uf Yokvobama and find descriptions of the run for th¢ Tokio Cup, and we are so well pleased with the gentle manly munners and sociubility of the members of thit commission that if the time ts not too long deferred we will write the report ourselves and doscribe as well a we can how galiautly Hassagawu, the grandson of Hen nie Farrow, made bis last victorious struggle, We will doubtiess think of the cheers which greote¢ the old mare when she won, aud also the hurrabs which made Mollie McCarthy step so daintly before the assembled multitude on the Bay District Course. There will be other inemories to recall, and we do not despair of seeing the race, which now looks so far off in the dusty future. When we saw Fashion and Peytona or the old course on Long Island, though in the dreumy days of boyhood, we little thought of seeing grandchildren of the former running within sound of the sea lions on the clifls by the Golden Gate, It would havo been a more wonderful prediction then than the augary now. HORSE NOTES. ‘The Secrotary of the Hudson River Park Association, of Youghkeepste, N. Y., states that the Board of Man« agers have decided to hold a threo days’ meeting in May, at which $4,500 will be offered in premiums, The dates chosen are May 22 to 24. * ® F, Cockrill bas announced a public salo of thor. oughbred stock, to take placo at the Fair Grounds, Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, 28th inst, The stock to be sold embraces eighteon hond and consists of the vrood mares Sadowa, by Jack Malone, dam Sea live per cept of all Lhe diseases are due to tue etteets of inpre aif Aud overcrowding of the tenements o1 the | te has passed strict laws ts und dwells | Wu The Legisiature of this 3 Aguiust Lie overcrowding of the ten 14-84) the Puor, DUE every One KuoWs all the laws On Wis Ubject ure touwly disregarded by the property | with Uv apparent saueiou of the | owners ui ity Bowid of Heath, | {bere is probably vo other eity in the world that Posresses Luc # Me advantages oF location aud sure roundsugs as New York, w Ub two mighty rivers wash- ing We sore Of the cliy In its enuire rengib, and every advantage that nature Gould possibly bestow in asani- tary point ot view. Yet with all these advantages it 16 tu-duy One O1 tho Most Uubeallay clues In tue world, with a larger death rate than London, Liverpool, most of the capitals of Europe, and even the large cities of India, Mularial disease, developed by an insufficient and badly constructed system of sirect wewerage und de- fective house drainage and swamp lands filled with the worst forms of llth, to fester aud spread disease urning Fays of the hot summer sun, an- thousands of lives. While such eviis as these exist, and are allowed to puss unremedied by @ Health Department that yeariy costs the ciiy of New York over one quarter of a inillion of dollars, itis useless to expect any improvement in the condition of the puvlic hwaith or a decrease i the present high doath rate. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY is appropriated for keeping the streets of this city clean and in a good sauiury condition; it would be interesting IDforimation for the taxpayers Who have to furnish this money to Know bow much bas been ex pouded during the past sx mouths for th Tn Paris a large sum 1s yearly paid to the cily govern- ment by a company for the privilege of sweepig and Keeping the streets of that city cloan, How 1s tt, th that Wil the chormous amount of mouey yearly © pouded in New York that the streots are never properly cleaned? It is trae Broadway, Fifth avenue and some ovher of Breeze, by imp. Albion; Effie Cheatham, by Bull Cheatham, out of Eile Bynum, by imp. Glencoe Dora, by imp. Australian, out of Lindora, by Lexing+ ton; Lousa, by imp. Australian, out of Luileme, by Lexington; Electra, by Jack Malone, out of Eureka, vy ip. Glencoe; Bellevue, by Hiawatha, out of Boe nicia, by Jack Maiono; Patti, by Brown Dick, out of Poor Girl, by Hannibal (son of imp. Priam); Manhatta, by imp. Leamington, out of Columbia, by imp. Glen. coe, and Wait and See, by Jack Malone, out of Lady Barry, by imp. Sovereign, ‘Tho two two-year olds are a chestnut colt by Browa Dick, out of Electra, and a brown colt by Brown Dick, out of Dora, by imp. Aus- tralian, Besides those there are Ove yearlings, ‘Tho annual sale of the Belle Mende yearlings, the property of Genoral W. G. Harding, will take piace on Monday, 30th in at that gentieman’s farm, near Nashville, Tenn. Tho catalogue comprises a list of twenty-live head in all, twelve colts and thirteen tiilies, Goneral Harding's horses bave all wintered weil, and the young stock of last year’s foaling are dotog finely. ‘They aro generally of good size, we hear, aud are bete tor developed for thoir age than the yearlings of the past few years, ‘The programmes of Suffolk and Point Breeze Parks, Philadeiphia, have been published, The meeting Suffolk Park is set down for Monday, Tucaday, Wedne: day and Toursday, May Ld, 1 417, Ten purscs are offered for trotiers and pacers, ‘The entries close on Friday, May 4 The purses are not lar bata great many of the owners will take advantage of them to wry their horses, at the beginning of the campaign of 1877, sm the aciual race, fhe schooling that the horses will receive will be worth twice the entry lee, The Point Breeze meeting will commence on Monday, May 21, and clove on ‘Thursday, May 24, The pursed amount to $5,200, and the classes aro 2:50, 2:26, 2:35, i. the Icading thorougiares of the city are kept in a good condition, and whenever the ability of tho Sureet Cleaning Department is ca into question these streets aro pointed out with pride by the gentlemen of this bureau, but Filth avenue ts not the city of Now Xorkand 2h if abowk time shat the Sicegs Ulaaning 2:22, 2:20, 2:24,'2:40, 2:52 and tree for These should draw out @ splendid lot of horses and result in 8 ne, meetin Tho entries 4g the purses, must be le efore Friday, May 11. Thetwo meotings will infase life into Philadelphia during the month o