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8 THE EVANGEL OF LOVE. |: A Sabbath Garland of Springtime Pulpit Flowers. WHY THE BIBLE SURVIVES The Lesson of the Bird’s Nest Applied to Man. TALMAGE TO HOUSEKEEPERS An American College at Rome—The Forty Hours. WIREPULLING AND PIETY. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. WHY WE BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE—SERMON BY THE REY, MR. HEPWORTH. The Church of the Disciples was (lied to its utmost enpacity yesterday morning. ‘The delghttul spring- Like weather gave none an excuse for remaining at home. Mr. Hepworth preached an earnest and affecting ser- mon, taking for bis text Il, Corinthians, i, 24 The diflerence vetwesn an atheist. and a Coristian, sad Mr, Hepworth, is very obvious The atheist has a profound confidence in bumself, while the Christian has @ profound distrust of himself, The athe:st mukes bis own mind his only criterion of judgment, while the Christian measures everything by the Word of God, The atheist walks by sight, and therefore travels along a very short road. The Christian walks by faith, believing himsell to be led by the hands of angels or by the | impulse of the Holy Spirit, and cannot see the end of his journey. If you would look upon the aeathbeds of each of these you would find the practical value of | the principles on which these separate lives havo been conducted. Go with me for a moment into the cham- ber where the atheist is breathing his last It may Le that with the stoicism of strong will he bids de- fiauce to death and closes his eyes in an eternal sicep, bat more likely he will look forward to the future with tears in bis eyes and die with a regret in bis heart. There is nothing in the darkness of that chamber to lighten up nis soul; Le is drowning without a spar to cling to; be is dying without a hope in the future, and instead of a message of love to those who remarn, bid- ding them so to hve tbat they will meet him on the other shore, bo gasps out a groan of agony and falls over (he precipice into the deep abyss of anni hiation, Leave thie tragic scene, and go with me into (he chamber of the dying Coristian, his life he knows is unworthy, and as he recalls tne days Of ibe past they bear um) ie testimony to bis short comings, if not to hig iniquity. He looks lorward to the future, not because be hus a right to claim immor- tality, but because he has a Friend yonder, who 1,800 yeurs age leit him the promise that He would leuve ibe gate of heaven ajur, that ucross its blessed thresboid those who trust m Hi ght walk un- harmed. There is uc sigh in that chumber except that which comes from a temporary separation, and benexth the sigh is the sunny hope of a reunion which will uever be broken, The one scoue which [ bave described is a terrible ae- jeat, and the vther a glorious tr:umph, In the one case the man who dies dies. In tue other case the man who dies lives. The one goes out of life with a fear in bis suul, and the other without dread, because be bas taken bold of the outstrotched hand of Christ and walks through the valley of the shadow of death, without fearing any evil, because the Master is wiih bin, THE VALUE OF FAITH. It I were to judge of the value of faith then by its practical results, by its effect on Wwe life so loug us that lile lasts, L should say that faith is tho pearl of great price; that amun must bave tha: even though he gets ‘notMing else, that im order to purchase it i were cheap fora mau to give everyibing vise ho owns, A nian’s chiel Lappiness comes trom the fu- ture, and 1 we feel that it will be ali right with you by and by then we c anything. [i you ask where I get this trom one foundation only, the Bivle. { donot get it from science, although on the whole the researches of science corroborate the Bible, [do pot get it (rom philosophy, although philosophi- cai research tends to make a man reverential toward Heaven, ut [do not admit science or philosuphy as my foundation stones im this matter, f go to the Book as toa tinal authority, What the Book tells me to do [do. What the Book says ts true 1 believe to ve Iruc, [tis sate for me to distrust my own mind and | trust the Word. 1 bekeve im the Bible because of its intrinsic worth and merit, I wouder it 1 can make this piaiuer to you, Darwin said ne was willing to submit everything Zo the law of “the survival of the fittest” Everything essential to the good of Iman continued, everything not essential, however uul, perished. It J cau tind anything that bas lasted 1 1s sure proof that itis what wen need. Put the Bible by that standard, it towers above the crierion better than that which measures it, the mightiest lorce for good that the Worid bas ever yet seen, 1 think when one reads the Biblo he is im- ressed with the fact that it bad a Divine origin, t does not peed any logic to prove it—the assertion 18 made by the Book itsel, I feel with regard to the Bible, as I read it more ana more caretully and critically, | am overcome by Une persua- Fion that God’s hund is to be seen ou every page, that Gou’s peu wrote it, that God's spirit dictated it. | It as fo Wondrous, so marvellous, 60 maguiticent that 1 mast adore Him who gave utterance to those principles and precepts, But vuce more, 1 velieve in ibe Bible because it seems to me to be the only book that gocs bo the root of buman motives. Ouce let the spire of God in your soul and 1t will educate you ia the fight direction, 11 will give you hopes you never dreamed of beiure and change your doubts’ into certainties of other kind, and will develop that which is best in our souls; it’ will make whole man of you, a man who trusts in God and trusts to, God. H CHURCH, PLYMO MR, BEECHER ON GOODNESS—THE MISTAKE ABOUT SELF-CULTURE—WHAT HEART RE- LIGION 18 AND THE EVIDENCES OF IT IN THE | LIFE. Plymouth Church had its usual crowded attendance yesterday morning. Mr. Beecher preached from the word “goodness” as found in Galatians v., 22—"But the fruit of the spirit 1s love, joy, peace, long suifering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” “This is taken,” said Mr, Beecher, ‘out of an inven iory the Apostio is describing as out of the garden of the Lord, He looks around about aod sees what some pf the vines and trecs bear, These qualitics, changing the figure back to the man, which fare developed in men receive their name and bave love, joy, peace, long suffering and so on, wad, final! among them stands, ali alone, goodness.” Alter defin- ing what was generally meant by goodness, and what the New Testament conception of it was, ho said:— Goodness is un indispensable and necessary corrective to self-culture, We are living m an age in whica seli- | pulture bas become a cant word; we have borrowed it | from the Germans, mainly trom Goethe. Their litera: | ture Atty yours ago took @ spring in that direction. | They sot the fashion of selfculture, It went some- what into England, but more immediately it came to this country, through the iniluence | of that. very great light in Siterature, Emer. | son, It bas spread through our community, Now we hear, from the pole to tbe equator and irom the | equator back to the pole, Men talking about culture, pulture, as 11 1t Was some Special ypen way, as it it had | tver been anything else but culvure in the world, But ihere 18 an ambition of periccting one's self in the direction of the intellect aud of the taste, and to be large iu knowledge, clear and mice in criticism, iuily in sympathy with literature and art and all its various | theorisms, to be cultured in person and have retined and wamirable taste; avapt one’s selt, in ebort, to the god of beauty and (0 worship him. preme thought of many, and there 1s a very great deal 6! truth ju it in those that are large, but in others it | degenerates into weakness and trash and becomes | loathsome cant. covroREn PROP. Who are really cultured peopl Are they those who hold up their robes tnat they may not be soiled? Are they the persons who say, “I thank God that I om pot a sinner?’ Are they men who hold themselves, by reason of their excellen goud? Are these cul- tured men? They have talien short of the very supreme end of culiure, It is to make one’s self lamin- ous, (ragrant and powertul in influencing obber men for their happiness and good, What isa sword with. outa handler It 18 culture without love. ‘After dwelling upon the choracteristic element of true goodness as found in sympathetic te nderness Mr. Be er gave the following sliustraion :— When men | firat come into the church they are as unlovely as the fosy buses are to-day. But in one montn you wall | see them all covered with leaves and that is a good | and then jn almost two ks after that there | sig, idly developing buds and blosoms, If wits bo ie rap anybody under th circumstances, Mr, Beecher,” standing on my littie por the evidence to you that roses are blosso would I say; 1 would say:—smell, Toat is | IT would say go and look why beauty 16 | | air. ates GCODNESS AND THKOLOGY. | and to declare tuem to exist only on the surface, That is the su- | NEW YORK HERALD. MOND forms of theology. if any man should undertake to gather together uil the noises in this knowa world and 1p contrast with the folly of a to inculeate a comp! stem of morals without th purposes ntinite Almighty God, and even hold them, as if he were God Himseil. relerence to scepticism au y ing that good- for it, Mr, Beeen cluded by a Application, and said:—One thing more, and that is personal to every one of you. you reached that idea of Christianit; Teaehed it that you are making it your hold yourselves responsible with feulty and honor to the Christian idea of goodness ¥ Do you come into the chureb without heart’ You may be taught and helped to attain this goodness. Do you measure yoar power of righteousness as it has been developed within you? is Where that nature of Christ in you that the poor, ig- noraut slaves feel that you are their benetactor? | Vo those Who are dependent upon you feet that you look down Upon them as the stars do out of the night? Do men 100k upon you and tay, “That is a good man?” not thot is a skilful man, a’ great man, an eloquent man. Do men say that is a'good man? God give us religion—not of the altar, nor o! the cathedral, bor of the priest, nor of the school, but of the heart, and of God's heart. * MASONIC TEMPLE. INEQUALITIES OF HUMAN CONDITION—SERMON BY REV. MR. FROTHINGHAM. To a congregation which filled tho hall of Ma- sonic Temple Rev. Mr. Frothinghum preached yes- terday morning upon “Inequalities of Human Condi, tion.” A multitude of the most perplexing problems in regard to life were, he said, involved in this title, and how to justify theso inequalities was the question which had tormented mankind. Atheism had its root in the minds of men who looked at the world and saw that some, without any efforton their part, were gifted | with rank, wewlth and mental and physical power; | while others were doomed to struggle through the world in poverty and suflering aud with bodies tainted with hereditary disease, So it was in respect of moral | quatities—men were wicked by no fault of theirs, and by no merit of their own men were good. ‘The atheist hed only to multiply these distinctions und insist and dwell upon them to make his argument almost impregnable, The theist on bis side has only to re- duce these inequalities to the smallest poesible number And so the argument went and so it would go on so long as these inequalities were based upon Providence, Science alone could cure them, as it was science alone that pointed them out, Progress was the law of the intel- Jeciual and the physical realms; and progress implies slowness of motion and obstacles to be overcome, Witnout difficulties to surmount humanity would sim- ply stop, Lt was the necessity of making ourselves better off that toned us up to making ourselves as well of as weare, There would be bo use of intellectual training if there were no questions to be solved, no doubts to be cleared a' bisc Mr, Frothingham coutanded that the nobler q of heart and mind owed their being to the n y which exists tor their exertion in human life; and as these developed aud expanded in this world, go, in accordunee with the universal law of progress they should continue to expand in beaven. ‘The principle of atbeism did not enter into this doctrine of progress. Many of the greatest wrongs und outrages that have cursed humanity, the preacher declared, in support of his declaration that the abuses and inequalitics do to buman ure, bave had their root not 1m human malignity, but in buman kindness, He sustained slavery, which originated in ancient times in generosity of those who, 10 violation of pi vailing custom, spured the lives of captives taken in war and took them into their bouseholds as servants, ‘The unhappy condition of woman as a mere chattel among certain people also bad its origin in a kindly motive—thut of saving them from spoliation in time of wur by making them a8 it were Ue property of the princes, As some ten were given superior brains, muscles and nerves, 80 destiny followed gilt, foriune followed undowment, and it was nutural that things should follow the same law in human condition as im human endowment, At first equalities wore few in number, but as humun affuirs became complex they multiplied, until now they were infinite, und the diatance between the highest and the lowest could not be estimated. HOW TO REMEDY THE WKONGS, ‘Then the preacher took up the subject of the tre ment of these inequalities, Tne Christian method, he said, was to consecrate the respective conditions of the weak and tho powerful by teaching the poor that it was wrong to wish tw change their station, and that they were bound to pay homage to their superiors and to be grateful for the cold meuts thrown to them, On the other hand, it taught tbe men to be charitavie and kind to the poor, This system in its ideal provided happiness for the poor man; but bis lite was not culti- vated, his beart was not enlarged, be was not justitied in any’ ambition, could not strive; subserviency counted #8 bis chief atiribate, A miry place might be thus covered over with flowers und they would look very sweet, but 1t would not bear the tread of a manly foot, While sll the wretchednese ot tile came trom the Inequalities under discussion, Mr. Frothingham argued that all thé grandeur of life came trom thm also, Yo get rid of them must be the object of future education. How was it to be done? “Those who are down,” said the preacher, ‘must try to come up; and those who aro up, besides trying to climb higher, must remember those who ure trying to get up from the bottom.” Halt of the inequalities in theso Men could not be tuught to look upon their teliows simply as men; they insisted upon regarding them as Caucasian men, ties were comparatively et imaginary oues were almost ineradicable. or as Christian men, or as some other particular kind of meno. With a little effort to remove the fanciful in- equalities within the domain of our own dnielligence some of the deepest ted wrongs in the world could medied at once. Meny an unhappy outcast could be made to believe in a Providence, the preacher said, if be couid sve Providence refiected in bis fellow men, Mr, Frotoingham concluded with gn eloquent appeal on beh: f workingmen and of all who are burdened or oppressed. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, SERMON TO HOUSEKEEPERS BY THE REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, Mr. Talmage preached yesterday to housekeepers, His text was taken from Luke x., 40, After preaching ten sermons of this series to men, said Mr. Talmage, I preach a sermon to women. You say, why thia disproportion? I reply it is because women are better than men. I don’t say this in com- pliment or in soft gallantry, knowing that when women are bad thoy are dreadtul, but as a statistical fact which cannot be controveried. They bave fewer temptations to outbreak in sin; they are natorally more reverential and loving; they are a majority of the Church on earth. The preacher bere explained his text at length, He introduced his hearers into the house of Martha, at Bethlehem, and described the hurry there was m that houso to put things in order on the arrival of Christ, Martha was doing all the kitehed work, while her was in the parlor enter- taining the Lord, Martha at length becoming im- patient went to tho door, and complained, in the words of the text, that sho was left to work alone, ba As Murtha throws open that kitchen door, said Mr, Talmage, to come in where Christ is, [ look in and see a great many household perplexities and anxieties, First, there’s the trial of non-appreciation, That's what made Martha so mad with Mary. It is so with men; they sce a great deai of care and trouble on Mar- tha’s face when they go home. They say, “Oh, you ought to be over in Wall strest these days," or “You ought to be in our factory; then you would kKuow what trouble is.” Ob, sir, the wife and the mother has to conduct at the same time a university, a clothing e tablisnment, a restaurant, a laundry and @ libri while she is health officer and police and president of | her realm, (Laughter) { am talking to the freat mass of those to whom lile is a struggle, and who, at thirty years of age, look like forty; at forty look like ufty, and at fiity look as though they were sixty, You go out tq the cemetery and sce that the inscriptions on the tombstones all read beautifully, bat if these tomb- Stones all spoke the truth thousinds of t would suy, “Here lies a womun killed by too much sewing | and baking and serubbing.”’ The weapon with which sue was slain was a broom, a sewing machine or a Jaaie. If ail the cares and anxieties of the housekcep- ers could come on you for one week you would bea tit candidate tor Blootngdale Asylum. THE CARKS OF HOUSKKEEPERS, What if the tire don’t hight, of the marketing don’t come’ No matier, she must have the morning repast at the inexorable bour, Then the children must be got off to scvool. Then there is all the dict of the day, perhaps several days to pian out, Then the housekeeper must be an apothecary. Sho must hive nething to lessen the croup, to kill ‘be heartburn, | to silence the Jumping tooth, to svothe the earache, She most be ' balfa dozen places at the same time, | of she must attempt to be, though I failto sur up appre is of others, let me aesure you Christ appreciates all your work, Again, there is the trouble and ‘rial of severe econ. omy. Nine bundred and ninety-pine households out of & thousand are subject to it, some under greater, some under less circuinstances. | Especially if a man smokes very expensive cigurs and takes very costly ainners in New York he will bo very econoinical in the household, This is what kills magy women— the attempt to make five doliars do the work of seveu. The woman the bank of tho household. She is the president, cashier, paying totler and discount clerk, and there's ‘a panic every few weeks. ‘This Thirty Years’ War against high prices, this perpetual stady to economize, this. lifelong Attempt to Keep the outgoes less than tle mcome, ex- | hausts millions of housekeep O sister, this is part of the Divine discipline, vis going to make heaven more happy by the contrast. In the Innd of the white robe they never have to mend anything. The air in that country makes everybody well. Why, Martha has had no drudgery for eighteen centuries! I | quarrel with thosc theologians who want to disirivate all the thrones of heaven among the John Kuoxes and the Hugh Latimers. I tuink some of the brightest thero are in heaven shail bo kept for Christian louse. ; keepers, When the marriage hour has just passed the by the joy of being together. The loaf of bread turned into w geological svecimen, the slushy custards and jaundiced or measly biscuits become a matter of merriment, Itisavery bright sunlight that falis on the cutlery or the mantel ornam of a new bom: but there Is something to be prepared for that table tbat the book of “Cookery taught in twelve lessons” wili not teach. + It is the loaf of domestic happiness, and ail the ingredients come down trom heaven, und the fruits are plucked from the tree of lite, an with the new wine of the kingdom, and 11 18 be fires of home tria! and trouble, Solomon wrote out of his own experience-—he had had a wretched bome. A man can’t be happy with two wives, much less with 600. He wi “Better isa dinner hatred therewith.’’ Great are the respon: housekeepers. Sometimes an indigestible article food has decided the late of anarmy, Housckeepers are deciding the Gnaneisl, moral, imteliectual and eternal destiny of the race. But you say your lite 18 one of ce. Oh, my sister! that’s the only lle worth liv! ‘a life of sacrifice for others, MK, TALMAGH'S BOME, But bow’ and the suffering and the toil and people? It is a beautiful thing to admire, but how many bave the spirit? 1 want to tell you thie morn- jpg tbat this trouble is soon going to be over, | seo a great many women bere who I know have trouble. They needn’t tell me anything about it; one glance at their countenances reveals it’ 1 want to tell you Unis 18 soon going to be over, One of the most aflecting re- miniscences of my mother was my remembrance of her as a Christian housekeeper, She worked very hard, and when she came 1m and sat down at the table atnoon, with the beads of eoplension all hoping ber gray hair, and pat her head agaist her hand, | ie avxiety of other remember she used to say, “Well, the tice 18, I um too tired to eat” Long after sho might have delegated this duty to others she was not satisiied to have others do it, Three or four nights ago, in the express tram, 1 shut past that old homestead. 1 looked out the window und tried to, peer into the darkness, While doing so one of my classmates, whom 1 hadn’t seen for many years, came up to mo and said, “De Witt, That night in the cars the whole sceue came back to me. There was the country home; there was the noon-day table; there were the children on either of the table, most of Lhem gone never to come bi At one end of the table sat my father, with asmile (hat hever left his countenance even when he lay in iis collin, It’ Was an eighty-six years’ siniic; not the smile of inunition, but of Chrisimn courage and ot Christian hope. At the other end of tho table was a beautiful, benignant, hard-working, aged housekeeper— my mother, Sho wax often very tired, and t um glad sne hus got so good a place to rest to. Blossed are the dead who die m the Lord; they rest from their labors and their works do follow them, ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. THE LOVE OF THE DIVINE SHEPHERD FOR HIS FLOCK—SERMON BY THE REV, FATHER M'CREADY, At dt, Stephen's Church, East Twenty-eighth stroct, yesterday morning, the high mass was celebrated by the Koy, Father McCauley and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Father McCready. A large con- gregation attended the service, It was evident from the brilliant array of fashion and of the new spring at- tird which was displayed that there was sunshine out of doors and that ihe balmy air had succeeded the dust impregnated wind of the few previous days, The music was unusually fine. Father McCready took the text pf his discourso from the gospel of St. Jobn, x., 11, 16. The pastoral gare, he suid, which was carried throughout the gospel of to- day was extremely significant. The ttle of pastor or shepherd, from the duties which it involved toward the flock, was pre-em!aently appropriate to the King and Pastor of our souls. There was, perhaps, vo depart- ment or avocation in hile so emblematic of simplicity, of guileiess innocence and purity® as that of the shepherd tending his flock, The ancient patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jucob and Moses, types of Christ, were each of them simple shepherds. David, His more immediate type, was transferred {rom bis bumble pas- toral charge to the sovereignty ul a mighty kingdom, woile the glad tidings of redemption w first made wn by Heuven’s own messengers to the lowly ds who were keeping tho night watch over t flocks in the vicinity of Betklehem. Our divine Lord could bave used other very appropriate figures to ex- press His relations toward His people. Ho could have said, “I am your king; 1 demand your allegiance,” and this would have been true to an extent to which oo earthly king could lay claim, But though He was Lord and Master of the universe, though it waa through Him kings ruled and under te shadow of His authority that princes swayed the sceptre, He was content to assume the more humble, but more appropriate designation of the shepherd toward his sheep. He who fled into the mountains when 1t seemed probavie that the fickle populace wou'd by acclamation have bestowed upon Him the regal dignity, would not eet Himself up for king. Yet, apart trom His eternal geveration from the King ‘of kings, and regerding ouly His earthly lineage, He was truly aking; and bad He been raived to the throne of His ancestors, wearing the crown of the Jewish kings and wielding the sceptro of His father Duviu, fio would have rivalied the glory and the magnificence and the wis- dom of Solomon, and would have challenged our re- spect and admiration, Such, Lowever, was not His ambition, He sought not glory, but humiliation, and, “‘naving joy set beiore Him, embraced tue cross.’’? He sought not our admiration, but our love, Therciore Ho would not repes us by proud bearing or by tbe awe and the cold formalitios, of the kingly office, but He would attract us by His mildness and His feet! by the unassuming reiation of tho humbie, jowly shepherd. And nevertheless He was a king, and He did reign; and His reign, though short, was very decisive aud eflective. Kuised on His throne, estab- lished on the tugged heights of Calvary, bearing still the diadem of thorns wherewith tho soldiers crowned Him je Prwtorium, clad still iu that purple ot which His own subjects In derision put upon Him; with no golden s in his hand, but fastened ‘d wood of the cross, He achieved ater tban all the kings ol the earth. He extended His kingdom to the uttermost limits of this world. In & reign of three short hours Ho overthrew the empire of sin, which had lasted for thousands of years. He conquered the Prince of darkness, and was victorious over oven death itself, SPRING ST. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. WIREPULLING AND DIVINE GRACE—SERMON BY BEV. A. H. MOMENT. The Rev. A. H. Moment preached last evening at the Spring Street Presbyterian Church on the above theme, In introducing his subject he showed that his dealing with such a secular phuse of 1ifo as **wire- pulling’ was within bis legitimate scope as a preacher, as even the Bibie dealt with the most commonplace things of life, aud even taught people how to attire themselves, now to avoid the petty vices of everyday life, &c. Prominent among these commonplace aspects of life in the present age was the prevalence of that cunping, ratty modo of action by which people sought to reap undue advantages over others which he bad siyled “wirepuiling.? ‘This sort of wire pulling was to ve iound equa'ly in politics, religion, socte:y and busine##—in tact aniong all the ramilications of modero tile, and it might be seenein the boy playing at marbles as clearly as in the kinpe- ror woo ruled a mi-hty nation. {be reverend preacher here alluded to the twenty-seventh chapter of Genesis, contuining the narrative of Isaac's “wirepulling,’? by which, order to bless Esau he eontrived tc send him out for savory meat on & sham errand — This, Ox: plained, only # Dit of clever “wirepuling”? wplot like that of a stockbroker to raise the price of stocks, He gave numerous practical and jocal illus. trations of this spirit of dishonesty which was BOW rampant. He spoke of one inay woo advised a trieud to couvey @ certain propery te hit in order to escapo paying u judgment, aud iben retused to returo the property, Claiming that the transier was genuine. He referred to a bogus physician who, claiming to have a large practice, advertised for a partner, and thus swindled several persons who were induced to put some cash into this fictitious medical business. ‘These people were by no means ori nal. Their canning craft dated back trom te devil, Whose specia! designation of “subtle” showed him ‘to be possessed of this quality. It was by the strategy of “‘wirepuiling” that he succecded in se- ducing the parents of mankind. Lot, who dispossessed Abraham ot bis most fertile lands by getting up a bo- gus tight botween their respective herdsmen, was an- other leading ‘‘wirepuller” of ancient renuwn, ‘The preacher maiutained that tor people of this Class to Use prayer aga prop of their crafty, cunning schemes was af insult to, religion and to God, Such nen were the meanest anf the most miserable of their race, Their ouly cure was that of Jacob—the Grace Divine. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. “THE BIRD'S NEST’’—SERMON BY THE REV. THOMAS ARMITAGE, D..D. Tho Rev, fhomas Armitage, of the Fifth Avenue Bap- tist Church, preached yesterday morning from Deuter- onomy, xxii, 6,:7.. The bird’s nest, said the pastor, you would think a emall and a strange thing for Jehovah to legislate about, and especially are you tempted to think so when you look at the precision which is used in tho form of the law, calling, as ib doos, for accurate discrimination a8 to its application, and enforced, as it is, by the same holy sanction of obedience that follows the filth commandment in the moral law At first sight 1 seems to be a hard com- mandment, for which it is difficult to assign a ronson, It is said that even the old Jews called this the least of all the Jaws of Moses, I! we can show that the law is adapted and designed to promote the happiness of those who are called upon to obey it, this of itseltis a fall Justification of its enactment, whether it relates tow subject gteyt or small. The enactments of God are peculiar for this feature, and have often called forth expressions of surprise, There can be nothing trifling in & commandinent that annexes to it tho sume promise that attaches to the Jaw whieh entorces obe- dience to parents, And itis remarkable thatthe only two instructions made under the Jaw of Moses, which offer the recompense of iong lie with ovedienco, are wedded unto the jaws enforcing parental honor and tenderness (oward these little creatures and ther Gooaness is the corrective of theology; the harsher perplexities of tho household are more than atoued tor nests, Let us then search, first, for tho principles wis | jany of us ure veiling to take the scou®ke | Lxee you are lonking fur the scenes of your boyhood,” | id taen out o providence He iratthe eight of ten, As the God providing Jor the wants of His own people in His own way, The extirpation of any species ot God's crea- tures $s often attended with serious consequences to man, but the extirpation of birds, either edible or birds of prey, 8 always productive of evi, This seems, to be an interference with one of the jaws of provi- deutwi government. Another principle upon which the law ip the text rests is the right of God to present a test of obedience to His responsible creatures. Would you have thought that God could have under- Jaid the building of a bira’s nest with such a wonders tu! principle as that? But God cap put a mal ence to ihe proof as well by alittle thing one, and | am not sure out that the smaller t! enlorced the greater the proof of obedience in obeying the injunction, ‘a TUR SERMON GOD PREACHES. Let us listen to the sermon which God preaches from the bird’s nest, m any tree or on the grount. ‘The poets tell us of “sermons 1p stones and runuing brooks,’’ but Jehovah preaches as eloquently from the nestip the midst of the bush which overhangs the babbling brook as He does in the cool waters which reflect His image. 1 bave seen the thrust and the lark bover over their nests as if they had more of heaven in their hearts than they could well live under, and it was necessary to let a little of it escape over the rth for sheer relief, Aud was pot that the eloquence of God? But preaching relates more to moruls than music, and it becomes us, therefore, to observe that from this bira’s nest God preaches 0s a lesson of ten- der love. tn a moral point of view this law may ha’ been intended to inculcate a spirit of mercy and tenderness und to prevent the exercise otf ci y even toward a sparrow; tor he who 1# guilty of such cruelty will, if circumstances be faverablo, be crue! 10 his fellow creatures, The Hebrews bad been enslaved for hundreds of years, and their bondage bad de- graded their manhood and ground the diver sensibilities outol ther bomanity. ‘fo promote the revival of their more tender nature, their Lord imstituted this most touching and delicate law, The sume Gud who required them to venerate their own tender mothers | required them to treat with tenderness even a parent bird upon the nest, and to show thut thero was an in- timate relation between the two God threw a great sacredness around the parental relation, You must not take the mother bird away when uffection lea herto her young. The d.vine lesson is that tf you Will heip to lead 8 captive into sin let it Dot be through the affection that they may bear to you, bus- band or wile, purent or child, “Their love for you gives you groat power over toem, Don’t betray the high trust; don’t aggravate your guilt by gaining a heart tbat you may poison it by opening a fountain that you may pollute, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DISCOURSE BY REV. MGR. CLATARD, RECTOR OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AT ROME—AN ELO- QUENT APPEAL FOR HIS INSTITUTION. High mnss was celebrated yesterday morning at half-past ten o'clock, as usual, at St, Patrick’s Roman Cathohe Cathedral, at which there was a large attends ance, Atthoend of the first gospel the Very Rov. Father Quin, V. G., came from the vestry, accompanied by the Rey. Dr, Clatard, rector of the American College in Rome. The Vicar General introduced the distin- guished stranger to the congregation, remarking that he bad come to this country on a shor: visit in aid of the college over which be presided, Tho reverend gentleman then ascended the pulpit and read from St. John, x., 10-16-—"The thief cometh not, but to steal and to killand to destroy. lam come that they may have life, and may bave it more abundaniy. 1am the good shepherd. he good shepherd giveth his life tor his sheep,’? Inthe gospel which he had just read for them, said the reverend preacher, they heard words of the Divine Saviour which could not be mistaken, Christ was the good snepnerd who had come upon earth to look alter the sheep that had gono astray. In order that this flock might be kept intact He had founded His Church and He had lett this Church behind Him after His ascension into the glories of heaven, He hadalso leit arock upon which that Church was founded, We should maintain our unity with that rock and with tno successor of St, Peter, who was the Holy Pontiffof the Church of Rome, It wag the condition of this unity that there bo but one pastor and one head, He (the reverend speaker) came to them to speak of the practical means by which that union with the head of the Church might be cemented. In tho fifteenth coutury many Catholic colleges had been founded in Europe by different countries, and they afterward increased as time went on, The Amer. ican college at Rome was founded in 1854 In that Year the doctrine ot the Immaculate Conception had particularly interested tbe Church, and many tishcps and other ecclesiastical dignitaries were, con- regated at Rome to hear the word of the Pout. Many suggested the founding of an American college in the Eternal Cuy. Four of those distingauis! men were promineut in their re- queste—Archbishop Hughes, of New York; Archbishop Ken , of Bultimore, and Bishops Blane and O’Con- nor. ecorded them his permission, prom tion, Ai th ag $85,000 w: higioust it Rome, vy the Pope, and collections were also taken up in this country. The first collection reached $48,000, the next much loss and every subse- quent your thero was a deticit in the expenses. Ip 1868 the Archbishop of Baltimore, aided by Vicar Gen- eral Doane, ot Newark, instigated a general collection turoughout the United States, which reached some $200,000, Much-of this money, however, had been promised, und 11 fell short some $40,000. There were not sufficient funds now to meet the increasing ue- mauds of the institution, It was such establisn- epis that kept up tho bond of union between the people of this country and the head of tue Church, and it should not be allowed to tail through want of support Archbishop Hughes, one ot the most distinguished men of his time, and one who had done 4 vast amount of good in building up tho Catholic Church in the United States, was a stanch supporter of the college. In 1860, in writing to Rev. Dr. Kirby, President of cho Irish college at Rome, rela- tive to the institution, Archtushop Hughes remarked -— “The opening of tho American college in Home iu the presence of the excellent Bishop of Portland, to speak on the very happy manner of the sentiments univer. ily entertained by the bierarchy of this country, has given Us great consolation, O1 course nothing could be more gratilying than the tender feeling and the most generous liberality manifested by the Holy Father tor the encouragement of this new and important ecclesi- astical estavlisnment, Future ages will do justice to the boundless charity of 118 real founder. It bas been plantea by the most sacred hands; it will be, 1 trust, ‘watered by the bishops ot America, and of its taking root and increasing from year to yeur in use- Chureh of th country there rtained the shadow of a doubt.” The Rev. Dr. Clatard next gave an interesting account of his visit to tue Pope wm 'y last, just before ivav- ing for the United States, when the Holy Father sanc- tihed his mission in the following word: May God bless you and be with you on the way, that you may rewura joylully and in peace.’’ The speaker next went on to explain the excellence of this American college as an ccucational institution, its system of ecclesiastical training, and kindred topics, He con- cluded by appealing to the generosity of his hearers for contributions toward its support, He had re+ ceived ample authority for col ng trom the Cardi- nal Archbishop. Of course be would not be able to call upon them all personally, but requested those Wishing to subsoribe to band in as much as they could aflord to the reverend pastor of the Cathedral, Vicar General Quinn, or to Rev, Father Farrelly, the Cardi- nail’s secretary. SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. THE LAW OF THE RESPONSIBILITY AND RE- WARD IN HUMAN LIFE-—SERMON BY THE REY. CHAUNCEY GILES, The Rev. Chauncey jes, in the sermon to his con- gregation yesterday moMiing, took two texts:—Luke, xi., 48—"'Unto whomsoever much 18 given, of him shall be much required; to whom men bave committed much, of him they will ask the more;” and Revelus tion, xxi, 12—"Behold, I come quickly; and my re. ward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.’” It is sometimes useful, said Mr, Giles, in this jour- ney of life, as well as ina voyage across the pathloas deop, to take our bearings and learn where we aro and whither we are tending; what relations sustain 10 others, what responsibilities rest upon us, and, what grounds we have for {car of evil or Lope of good for the future, This casting up our reckoning 1s as essen- tial to the success of societies as of individaals, for society is a man ima larger form, subject to the same laws of growth and decay, Hable to the same dunge! and weighted with the same responsibilities, It may help us in many ways to learn, approximately at least, where we are asa society of the New Chureh, what responsibilities rest upon us, what grounds we have for hope or tear, what opportunities and means wo have (or doing our Master’s work, MAN'S DUTIES AND REWARDS, In this effort we must not be guided by any fallible human standard, in the passages of infallible writ which compose our text wo have the immutable laws of the Divine order, which determine our rosponsi- bility and measure our reward. The gift we receive is the measure of the service we owe; tho deed we por- form is the vessel in which our reward will be ro- turned to us Let us, therefore, consider briefly what been given to us, as New Churchmen, that we may learn what will be required of us. Tho truths which have been given to us are of a more interior and higher order than have ever been given to men belore, con- sequently they are more powerful, This Is a great It has its corresponding responsibilities. mands of us that we should be brighter and mo: in epirit, Those new principles give to man a clear and rational knowledge of his own nature. ‘Ihey show him that the mind js not a simple force, but an organ. ized lorm, having spiritual and celestial tacuities lying folded up in their germs in the nataral mind, This knowledge imposes upon those who possess it tho obligation to cuitivate and bring Into active uso those higher degrees of mind. When a man discovers that be bas tacaitics of suc’ supreme excellence that all words and all comparisons fail to adequately express them, has he not every conveiv- able motive jor cultivating them? I wo redsed the AY, APRIL 16, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET, subject from a aeavenly point of view we should not say that the Lord had endowed.us with capacities for heavenly bappin \l therefore wa owed it to Him to be st He required us to be happy. All: with them the force of obligation, of requirement, must be dropped, and thuse which express priviige and joyful acceptanco must replace them. Ivis the pejetiogs of those to whom much is cue to enjoy much. I say, therefore, that it is our uly to co-operate with the Lord, to take what He ollers us, and, in order to do it, to empty the vessels of the mind of filth and poison and dust and the mere shadows of good, that we may receive gifts of priceless vatue trom Him. do ail rise from rejoice ia cultivation of there higher e mind. We shall livo im them and rejoice in them, and we shall find that our re- ward will be accordii here hus tnetly visible human form, ton with an invisible God universe asa first cause or omuipresent force, or a God divided up umoog different persons, This a the reason why the various religions which have prevailed in the world have bad so little juttuence on men. Such i@ the nature of the buman mind that it demands a visible aud well detlned object to rest upon. Give men aclear, comprehensible and true idea of the Lord and you bring them roar to each other, you place them more fully under the Divine power. This knowledge has been given to the New Church, It is the chiet corner stone ot ourdocirines. We see how ise to the Lord, and how He can descend to us, y buman life is brought into more direct con- tact with the Divine lite, KNOWLEDGH OF THE WORD, ‘Thero in a third gilt to the Now Church which forms the wedium of conjunction between th ed and man—that is the now kuowledge we have gained of the nature ofahe Word. Every passage of the Word is a Jucob's ladder, reaching from earth to heaven, on which the angels of Divine truth and love can ascend and descend, Man lives at the bottom, the Lord stands wt the top and sends His messages and iljs blessings down to us and asks for an acknowledgment and a return of uffection, thut the circuit of intluence and blessing may be comple By means of theso truths the way is opened and the means provided for endless progress, The man of the New Church bas ly higher conceptions of bis own capabili- ¢ has clear and unitary conceptions of the Lord, Now, what action on his part do such endowments demand? what duties do they impose or what privi- leges do they bestow? First —tbey tree him from all groundless causes of tear and donbt about nig personal salvation, Second—it is their privilege to overcome evils in themselves. which pv other could dv, because thoy gee them more clearly and haye more help at their command, Third—1t is our duty and our privilege to bo kinuer, purer, juster aod more fateful in all our work and 1p all our relations so otbers. Instead of working 1o get to heaven we shall seek to bring heaven down to earth aud introduce it into the field and shop, into the sture and office, into the courts of tice and the hails of logis! und societies of the Church. Fourth—We shall bave new ideas ubout worship, abd bhew mnetives for engaging in it. Fifth, and laste-Every New Churchman will re- gard i as biaduty and his privilege to communicate the now truths and the new life to others by the ex- ample of his own conduct, by currying the lile of heaven into all bis relations with others and by com. Municating to others tbe truths le has recetved, either directly or by providing tbo means to ald ot! doing 1, s THE. FORTY HOURS. COMMENCEMENT OF THE ADORATION CERE- MONIES AT ST, PETER'S, The impreselve services attending the inauguration of the forty bours’ adoration of the blessed sacra- ment of the holy euchbarist at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Barclay strect, yesterday, brought together a congregation that filled every seat in aisles and galleries and crowded all the passages, Mozart's twelfth mass was the one selected to be sung on the Occasion, and its grand music wus finely rendered by the choir and an orchestra of twelve instruments, Mr. W. F, Pecher presided at the orgap, and on the entrance of the celebrant and assistants on the altar pertormed his own composition, entitled the ‘Vidi Aquam.” The celobrant was Father O’Farroll, pastor of the church, with Father O’Keily as deacon, and Father Corley as sub-deacon. Father O'Kelly preached a short sermon on the text of the good Shepherd, who gave Hi for His flock. He dwolt upon the impor- tance of the ceremony about to be inaugurated and the Opportumisies tho jaitutul would be aiforded of re newing their vows of obedience and love. He de- picted the Saviour’s love, whose depth was guob as to fause Him to give His life tor sinners, some rewurn for whicb great boon his hearers could now make by ‘con- fessing thew offences and devoutely receiving the ERETEHARY auring the term of the torty hours’ dovo- jou, At the conclusion of the gospel, alter the sermon, the altar, which had up to that time been illuminated but by w lights, was brightly Jightod and the mass roveeded, DaiBE remarkably long. On its conclusion ather O’Farreli explained the indulgences that would be granted the faithiul who contessed and made certain prayers and visits to the church during the con- timuance of the ceremony. Ho then announced that the procession of the blessed sacrament would proceed down the Guspel side and up the middio passage, during which time the congregation would Femain kneoling. If there were any present not of tho Catholic faith, he said, he hoped they too would kneel, and adore Jesus in heaven if they did not with the congregaypr believe Him present in the host. Mean- time a loug line of children, roved in white, wearing white veils and bearing lighted candles ip their bands, were preparing to march round the church ahead of ‘the priests beuring the -holy eucharis. 1 vassed up the middle passage and down the Gospel side, the pri coming last undor a canopy of crimson and gold cloth, with heavy gold iringes, support at the four corners on pvulos borne by prominent members of the congregation. After marching down the Gospel side the children opened, thelr ranks and stood with their lighted can- dics on either side of the middle passage, permitting some of tho others in the procession, who were also im white but without hts, to march borough, who, passing in ingle file to the right apd to the lott, madea fiuure of a white cross in the contre of the church. Over the altar were the words in jets of gus light, **This ts my body.” The services were quite lung, but the church remained crowded to the cloge, To-day thero will be high mass at a o'clock in tho church and to-morrow at ten THE TRIUNE GOD. LECTURE BY PROFESSOR FELIX ADLER ON THE CHRISTIAN’S BELIEF IN THE TRINITY. Professor Folix Adler lectured yosterday morning in Standard Hall before the Society for Ethical Culture, ‘The large hall was Glled by a very intelligent audience, who listened with much attention to the teachings of the lecturer, Mr. Adler said that for many centuries past certain forms of religious belief had been pro- posed by theologians for the world’s acceptance, They were to-duy recommended to our thought, and it too frequently bappened that we put them away in the memory without examining their principles or think ing deeply about them. As we must be mentally equipped to detend what our reason teaches us is true, we snould analyze our thoughts, fortify them by argu- monts and correct them by reflection if we would rest convinced in the truth of what we professed to believe, Our reason often compelled us to directly assail pre- vailing systems of belief; all the more because they claimed the immunity due to beaven descended doctrines. Were wo justified in our opposition to ortho- doxy? It we id that all religious questions should be exempt from the prying eye of critical investiga- uon, If this meant toleration he was in favor ot it; but if 1t meant that all religious and dogmatic ques- tions were to be shielded from examination by the aid of reason he was opposed to it. THE DUCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. ‘Tho theological idea of a trivity in the individual God was the main support upon which Christianity was founded, Its propounders and expounders as- sorted that this principle must be received on tho strength of faith alone, for tne human intellect was too feeble to grasp its mysteries, It was contended that the idea was heaven revealed to man; and the nou- Christian world reiusea to believe this. fhe speaker in the days of Christ, and drew a graphic picture ot the sufferings of the Jews under the tyranny ot Rome, ‘The children of Israel cried out to Hoaven lor a deliv- erance from their bondage. John the Baptist came, peedily tollowed by Jesus, who was rejected by His own poople, reviled, persecuted and slain. in His Ifetime Chriat probavly never aspired to be more than the Messiah of His people, At that time the race of Abrahaw had extended its branchos outside the laud of Palestine, Some ol iis wise men had read Homer, studied Plato and wore acquainted with the teachings of an exalted Greek civiiation. Philo took offence at many parts of the Hebrew Bibi; he could not admit that God had talke familiarly with man in the manner set torth by the Bible; but be did believe that tho Logos, or word, comprehended all energy and wisdom of thought. Mr, Adler here went into ap exposition of the subtie dif- ferences between the natures of matter and ot mind, and in continuation said that the Logos was figura: tively called by Philo the Son of God, and this gave us a clew to the fiction of the divinity of Christ. rhe Alexandrians refuse Christ, When the sages of the Alexandrian school of philosophy heard of Christ's teachings they asked of tbomselves what manner of man He was, and, alter learning His doctrines, they concluded among themselves that He must be the Logos of Philo, or that tho Logos must have appeared {inpersonified in the man Jesus, the Mesaiuh, Hoe was the mediator—tho Son of God —not now figuratively as was first indicated by Philo, but He was toat tu reniity, Mad not His words Leon hoard; had not the aposties felt His wounds; had they not witn His glory? ‘The realistic teachings of the eariy Christians and tno Jewish logicians’ ideas blended with facility, and a belief 1h the divinity of Christ the tremendous result, Thus, in brie!, was explained, in bis opinion, the relations between the Fathor and the Son, During His lifetime the apostics depended upon Chriat for sustenance and support; and the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, was said to be the visible manifestation of the spirit at this port took his audience back to Palestine | of the Holy Spirit was supposed to have been largely felt in the eariy of the Christian Church, Mr. Adler contended that the religion of the Hindoos and Phoenicians recognized the idea of a trinity ta God, Dut it was-very distmot from that which was taught by Christians. The tamous schism of Arius, which took place in the carly ages vf the Christian Church, showed bow much, even in those days, people opposed to accept Christ as God, But the Arians were defeated aud the Trinitarians triumphed, Suit the world bas since been shaken to its centre by the struggles of rationalism, headed by modern German philogopbers, who were opposed to what he (Mr. Adler) called the unreasoning idea of Christian ortho doxy. THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO. DR, FULTON ON THE SOUTHERN POLICY OF THB ADMINISTRATION—COLOBED MEN UNFIT FOR POLITICS—HAYES NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE, BUT BY THE PROVIDENCE OF Gop. At tho Centennial Baptist Church, on Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, tho Rev, J. D. Fulton, D. D., preached a sermon yesterday forenoon, the subject of which wag “The National Trust—Snall It be Betrayed ?”” ‘The text was taken from the epistle to the Galatians, v., 13:—For, brethren, ye have been called unto lib- erty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love servo one anotber.”” Tho gospel of Jesus Christ was written for the world, said Dr. Fulton. This we all believe who think it was written foranybody, As citizens of the United Stater it soems to be not only a duty, but a privilege, te inquire of the oracles of God’s word for wisdom te guide us in the imtricato paths opening before us, The nation is in peril, and yet possibilities of great useful. ness are placed within our reach. What we are and where we are 1s because of the providences of Althighty God, Nothing is moro evident than that Rutherford B, Hayes was not the choice of the American people, ‘The nogroes preferred Senator Morton, the capitalists desired Senator Conkling, the old fashioned abolition- iste went wildly for Bluine, and they wore joinua by that vast mass of anti-Romanists who believed that he waa true to the republican idea incorporated in our school system, PROVIDENCK AND PRESIDENT HAYES. The nomination of Mr. Hayes was a surprise, and it was a providence, It was believed by all classes that it was for the best, In this enumeration I do not speak of that largo and respectabie class of men who believed that the election of Tilden would promote harmony In the North and peace in the South, They would not choose me for a spokesman, nor am I in sut- ficient sympathy with them to understand the pur- poses and plans which they wero beni on pushing and developing. The political conflict began; each party did its best, and each claimed the victory. THE ELECTION OF JUDGE DAVIS. ‘Though the Eloctoral Commission became a fact be cause one party hoped thereby to win the Presidency, that party lostall hope when the Legislature of Illi- nois suddenly elected Judge Davis to the United States Senate, Had Logan been re-electod Senator Sumuel J. Tilden would buve probably deen inaug- urated President, Had Packard, Kellogg and Wells, of Louisiana, yielded to the temptation to sell out, ‘viiden would have been President. Had Governor Chamberlain been jess true, leas self-poisea and iess sell-reliant, Mr. Huyes would now be Governor of Ohio and not President. This 18 not said to provoke discussion but to declare what I feel to be a truth— that Rutherford B. Hayes 1# the choice of Almighty God tor tho President of these United States, and that the events which have transpired and are transpiring are facts which it becomes our duty to study, to weigh, to’consider and tu trust. Things have not gone my way,and yet 4 trust has been committed to the nation, und it becomes us to ask, Shail it be betrayed? THE POLITICIANS BIT. It ia pot enough to follow in the wake of politicians ‘and say, ‘We have given the negro every right eu- joyed by us, and he mast now take care of himsel! or ‘take tho consoquences.”’ ‘They that are strong must help to bear the intirmitios of tho weak. “ The eflort is being made to ignore his interest; the men occupying commanding positions, North and and South, behold the biack man stripped, woundod und distressed, and yet pass by on the other side, The school clause of the Civil Rights bill wag thrown ont because Christian men had not the courage to stand out for right against prejudice. Because of this the blacks aro compelled to obtain their education under the ban of caste. Louisiana, South Carolina, alone of allthe Southern States, open the doors of schools and colleges to the blacks ulike with the whites, Everywhero else ‘nigger schools’’ fashion, and the old feeling ot superiority 1s { ‘To-day South Carolina has been delivered over to the whites; the future capnot be described; tho fact alone engages my thought. The President of the United States nas taken the position that State governments cannot be maintained by the bayonet, THE NEGRO UNFIT FOR POLITICS. Bad as it 18 for Governor Chamberlain, who, I bo- lieve, was honestly elected by tully 20,000 majority ; bad as it is for the negro, who must now give up politics, for which he has proved his uster unfitnese, It is the duty of Christian men to stand by the Cniel Magistrate and gird him with moral support. While I do this ag a duty, my heart bieeds for our white brethren who have gone to the South to help the southern peopl: white and black, and who have been rejected a treated with scora by the whites, and find themselves support, though the preponderance. Brain outweighs muscle, Pluck 1s proven to be better than froth, Fanaticlem and cant are no match for consid- eration and courage. THK VRREDMAN’S PROSPECTS, For the freedinan there is at best but a sorry out- look. Ho is endowed with the ballot, which makes him an object of bate. He ts ignorant, debased and in many ways utterly helpless. Tho white man in tho South believes that ne is 1uferior to himself, and thet in some ay the problem ot isto be solved so that he shull be made to do the work of the tleldand of the home by necessity if not by force. The college, tho school, the association with whites on % footing of social equality is closed against him. He is to be con- tent with being a negro and associating with negroes, THX PRESIDENT’S PROBLEM. Necessity knows no law. The President, chosen at the nation's leader in this crucial period of our history, \s compelled either to deliver whites and blacks over to the bands of those who fought to build a govern. ment whose corner stone should ve slavery, or else ta reduce the Southern States to an or, itty ed by a civil servic ‘his last is to uproot the foundations of republican iu- stitutions; and the first, while it puts out of the power of the North control over and protection of the South- ern people, breaks in twain the wgis of a nationality aud permits might to take the place of right, How sball the trust be cared for? First, by putting Southern men on their honor and going to work with them in the development of the re- sources of the South; and second, by gving especially to the help of the negro, encouraging him to renounce politics aud any attempt to lexd, und be content in earning an honest living, while enjoying the.privilege of educating bis family and of worshipping Goa in ac- cordance with the dictates of his own conscience, TUB DUTY OF TO-DAY. Let us go to them in the spirit of jove and fraternity; let us in our work for them forget color and caste, and think of Jesus Christ and humanity. The betrayal of this trust vrings peril, Lightnihg rods, with their tops skyward and the conducting coli lying on our chainber floors, are as sale as It is for the Church: to ignore the claims of God upon her. ‘ho tinkle of a tiny bell topples down tho avulanche. That symbolizes the might of truth. Let us believe it, We havo beon called into liberty; let us use it for God and humanity, A CHURCH TRANSFORMATION, The Broad Stfeet Baptist Church, hitherto the most aristocratic of this denomination in Elizabeth, N. J., was surrendered yesterday morning to a Mothodist congregation, the event being made more interesting by the presence of one of Massacbusetts’ most distine guished and travelled bishops—Gilbert, better known to the Christian world as Gill. Haven—who preached the opening sermon in the newly acquired prize. The chureb henceforward will be held by the Methodists, and will be known as St, James’ Church. It occupies commanding position at the corner of South Broad and Williamson streets, and was erected between cight and nino years ago partly through the liberality of | Mr. Anthony W. Dimock, at that time a successful Wall street broker, His subsequent failure materially affected the fortunes of the church, as it became heavily encumbered with debt. ‘Three years ago Revs Meary M, Gallaher, Brooklyn's favorite Baptist divine, accepted a cil and labored hard with bis congregauon to relieve the cuurch trom its financial embarrassment, but was only partly successtul, ard be eventually ri: moved to Now Haven. Since his departure the church has been without a regular pastor, the congregation worshipping in other churches. Recently the congre- gations of the Elizabeth avenue and St. Paul’s Metho- dist Episcopal churches fused and assumed the debt of the Buptist congregation, giving in exchange for tho Broad street church their two church editices, one of which is mortgaged to the extent of $5,000 and the other $: ‘Tne bargain gives entire satistaction all round, the Baptist congrogation having takon pusso sion ot St. Paul’s Church, just vacated by the Methoe dists, ‘The newly christened St, James’ Church was packed with people yesterday morning sone time before the services commenced. The pulpit was covered wito flowers, the platiorm was occupied by tno pastor, Roy, James Munigomery, Bishop Harris of New York, Presiding Eider Arndt and Bishop Haven. Atter prayer, singing and the reading of the Scriptures Mr. Arndt introduced Bishop Haven, who delivered the sermon, Acoliection was taken up at the close, and a large 80M, estimated ut $8,000, was subscribed toward pay. ing off the indebteaness attached to their new place of worship. At halt-past two I, M. a service of song (ole lowed, and in tho evening Bishop Harris, of Now York, preached to a large congregation, It 1s expected that by the close of the month the congregation will raise snfiicient money to complotely relieve the church from debt, USING THE KNIFE, Stephen Fitzsimmons quarrolied with Dora Fleming, of No, 17 Roosevolt etreet, yesterday, and stabbed her of God upon the Church. It descended upon the anostics In the torm of Mery tongues, and the influence in the arm, inflicting ashght woum 3 to tho New York Hosuitak, nadie dea