The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1877, Page 8

GODS WORSHIP. A Glimpse Through Faith at the Heavenly Realm. THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS. Lessons from the Ravens that Fed Elijah. THE INDISPENSABLE VIRTUE. An Anniversary in a Famous Church— Thanks and Praise, —_———_+—_—_—. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. & CHEERFUL SERMON BY KEV. DL. HEPWORTH— DEATH ONLY A TEANSLATION—‘‘SHALL WE KNOW EACH OTHER THERE.” The Rev. Dr, Hepworth yesterday preached another et his cheerful and eloquent sermons to a large pongregregation, selecting his text from Hebrews aL, 13:—“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but baving seen them affar off, and were persuaded of them and embraced them, and coniessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eurth.’”? Death, said the reverend speaker, 18 only @ transition, but much of its solomnity and force depends on the manner in which the grave change occurs and 1s regardea, When the unbeliever Bays goodby at the edge of the tomb it isa goodby forever. The thought of a reunion never enters bis mind. Ho ia no longer a tather tv the child, a huse band to the wife, a brother or ason, Every tie of re- lationship has been permanently severed, To such a one death is a period of despair, an incident to bo dreaded, for around it gatber the darkest shadows that can rest upon man, To the Christian, on the con- trary, death comes as one of God’s mightiest messqn- wra, but sent always ou a beneficent errand. lis Cocthecs 48 vot to aupihilate, ior death destroys noth- ing, It simply removes the chains {rom olf some loved one’s iinbs and unlocks the munacies that holds her within tho embraco of suffering to the eud that she may be lifted intu the in- fescribubly beautiful presence of Goa, who bath taught us to cull Him “Our father whe art in Leayeo.”” When a Christian puts his child Ap the grave be forgets the body aod remembers only the soul; wud, altbough once in a while ho goes to the Cemetery to scatter flowers upon the dust, be knows that the little arms which used to clasp him around the neck are nu longer there. ‘The bud hus been traus- panes to bloom in the great celestial gurden above, 'he parent is lifted up by the assurance thut all iy uot yetover, The child und he were simuply pilgrims and Mrangers. ‘The one hes tinished its eurthiy journey aud the other remains to curry its burden only a few hours longer; to climb the mountain sige uatil he too js called to rest—and a rest, ob, so sweet, lor it means glory without end, aud a gathering around auotuer | heartastone ‘1n & mansion out made with bands"? HAVE YOU LOOKED BE¥OKK? I cannot mention the word beaven without recalling pertain tender associations. Conceroing the future, although the Bible may speak somewhat vuguoly, we bun stisi cuteh glimpses trom its golden pages of the, Ile we are to live, AS the tourist prepares hitweelf” with mup upd guide book to understand the aovelues which he ts about to scek, and 1s able to describe the deuuties of urt aud nature, so the Christian pilgrin and stranger learns to anticipate the pieasures of heaven, Wherever we go, though the way muy be but @ short one, there is u tomb at the cud of the journey. No man lives torever; our bodies wear out, our senses give way; wo become decrepit, und ut last lapso int the helplessuess of intaucy. Ub, feliow men and Women, have you thought of this? Have you attempted to peer into the great berealter and probe the possibilities of your cternal future? Have you Duilt your taith upon any rock¢ Do you expect to see no God, vo Christ’ Do you hope to converse with the Bposties, to #1, ut the fect of Moses, tu leten to the woudrous story of Isaiab ur hear the music of Chrisv’ Voice as he describes the imperial path along which he walked—a king while men thought bim u beggar? 1 ao, 1 believe we shali realize all these things and more, for the Bible gives us the blessed assurauce that ‘hey will come to puss. GOING HOME, In the fourteenth chapter uf St, John Christ says to His disciples, “1 go to prepare a piace tor you,” Won. drous utterance aud Ireighted with more than we think. We are going home, Weare to have rest, to lie down in peace alter iu’s straggles are over. ‘Truly, is there nut something beautiful 1 this idew of home as connected with heaven? “1 am guing home,” suid my lusuer just before he died, and the words bave filled me ever since like the echo of a distant strain of music, A little while longer und his weakness was gene. Hits heart ceased to beat and he entered on that Fest which belongs to the people of God. At the close Of the lute war the President anounced to the million of men who were under arms the glorious wews that the cannon Was no more to belch forth its sulphurous smoke, that the rate of musketry was henceforth to be Bushod, that the tug was sale, America « unit nd the institutions we went out to defend were on the soild foundations of 4 nation’s victory, What joy there was in the bearts of men at the thought ot going home and pressing father and mother, wile and children, once more in their arms, So with us in lle. 1t isu butule Lele. For twenty, forty or sixty years we are in the mids. of a struggle where trom every ambush the enemy may seek our ruin; but at last the call comes to us Irom heaven, “Solder, come bome.’’ We lay aside our soiled uniform und the fag | thut has been consecrated by our prayers and journey into the presence of God. “And we fing that whico Was denied us here—res Did the signiticance of the phrase ever strike you— “there shall be po night there!” Tink of i,” The thing we most dread on earth is night. We have uo Jostinctive aversion to durkuess, The little child trembies with tear whenever the shadows begin to deepen, for they are the symbois of evil, and this childhuod dread more or less clings to us through tie. Lut “there is uo 4 there’? We shall neither stumble nor fall. dis the sun and ccatre and ia His glory we stall live 1orever, KECOGNITION IN THR XEXT WORLD, The question is frequentiv asked, “Shall we know tach ower there’ Will iny father and mother know met Shall | recoguize my wite and children?” Yes; our reiatiouships do not drop when death comes, Aud us we know each other here so shall we know each other in the great beyond. You remember the trans fiyuration scene on the Mouut—Jesua im the centre, Moses vn one side and Ejias on the other, and Poter uud James and Juhu looking up and recognizing them by divine instinct. Perbups they were talking about | the pust or forecasting the tuture, or perhaps God Himeeil bad sent them (o minister in the working out ot some divine pian, Jd they not know each other? 1 surely think they did. Did not Jesus say wo the tiet on the cross, “This day thou shalt be with me ip radia.” Do you believe that when the thief reached the “portals of bliss he did now recognize the Master? Yes, my Christian friends, we shail know Christ and the apostles, ud if we know them We shail kuow euch other. Lot Us thon 100k forward to heaven with great carbestness und unspeakable anti tion, You and | may be Strangers here, but there we shal! be at Lome sufe iu | our Father’s urms. We shall see all of our friends who have gone belore and are clothed with spiritual | bodies; they wiil agai clasp us to their hearts, They | ure waiting for us, and, fellow Curistians, God ts watt ing for us. Let our lives on earth be such that when the summons comes it will tod us prepared to cross to the otner shure and eager for the weivome of our wngels there, | PLYMOUTH CHURCH, MR, DEECHER WAPTIZUS TWENTY-VIVE DABIES— BOARDING HOUSE, HOTEL AND ¥RENCH FLAT MARRIAGES NOT FAVORED, “This has been a very happy day to me,” said Mr, Beecher yesterday ning, leaning over the Mount O.ivel stand, near the close of Lis sermon, and talking 1u @ conversational tion, “1 baveu’t been pri to his crowded congrega- | ching, | have veen talking to you this morning. When | woke up I saw whata balmy day it was, Yesteruay 1 was up in dear old Peekskill, avd as 1 came down this morning the whoio air was tui) of fragrance alld the songs of viras, and I recollected that 1 bad to b, » the children this Morning, and so my talk bas been of them and the huusenold.”” QWENTY-¥IVE HAMIES, Just vefore the prayer that precedes the sermon Deacon Carpenter entered by the side door to the right of the platiorm wud was loliowed Ly a long procession Bi fathers ava mothers, Each of the former bore ia | their arms a live iufant, aod as they Hed in the pro. | besbion svemed so UnUSUAlly long that the cong Wow became quite interested and excited in their ap. | pearunce. ‘They formed two lives in the trout of the | Platirom, and as each child Was sprinkled and named | by Mr. Beecher, be oF the, with the parents, passed | tio the lecture room, ne little girl, somew bat older twan the rest, kissed Mr, Beecher's band aiter be bad vuptized ber. a\rsistuat Vastor Hallway Was the eap- | Deurer ou the juseresting vecusion, | Vhe text selected was Luke, ti. And he went | down with them and cane to Nazareth aud was sub- ject waty them, bat is motuer kept all these sayings | ber bear” We do vot sufficrentiy Wink, #uid Mr. Beecher, that Jesus wos once ting fhild, wud bes grown Up to ull Lhe stag Heke | renee, Alter Wacig the characteristics of the furiy We of Jesus be aunouuced as his suujeet “The | Putmuy id (he Housenold." ln the course of bis Fe- arks thereuw be Bald jemA SiDKie Woman aod a Bogle man ure simply wlpbabetio (ere use iy then ftw vnly when the letters ure joined together tat you can spell out Jove, purity, justice, trois and bedor, The family preceded wii oter insitutions in NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1877 true place to rear children is the household, The warmth and the brooding of | re indispensable to children, Children that are not reared in love not ucep in sensibilities, By no other school can a child learn the superior truths that lead to spiritual life, ‘There is BO other school in the id where this taught except that in which the father 1s the principal and (he mother the chief instructor, It is the parent every Inculty. ‘The family gives a practical solution of the great moral truths tit pertain to human lite, Early ip the fainily the principle of subordination is taught, and that man Who has beer trained in this experiedce is likely to become a yulued member of socie' tt is in ing. The theory of one another cannot at first be understood. It is when you jock at vicarious suffering in the housebold that you see that there is nasa | beautitul @ strong: suflering for the weak, 1O is it that sits all night long by the sido of the cradle? Who is it that has forgotten gayety? Who watches through a sickness so that it takes roses {rom her cheeks She is the just watcher i the morning over the heipless bate. Christ hives tor us a8 the mother lives tor the child. ‘The family also teaches the true doctrine of sin and penalty, The admiistration of this in the family Deautiful from the very beginning. The mother aiwa: strikes in love; he who strikes in wrath is demoniac and bus uo rightto rule. In learning from the family we learn tho doctrine of the liberty of law. The mo- ment @ child is sick the mother remits the law directly. Law tn the family is Hexibie, Law is like shoes, you take 4 pew measure lor every six months’ growth. B; this we get an Insight into the woras of |, **t wall have mercy on those | would bave mercy.” You have 4 purer type of this in the bousehold than you buve in books of theology, We iearn also from the household the true nature of forgiveness. Mr. Beecher here gave illustrations from his own childhood experiences and said he had been quite as much edified by seeing bis brother Charles whipped ug ne had been by being whipped himself, & RARLY MARRIAGES. In advocating early marriages Mr, Beecher satd:— “The womun hag to learn how to submit herself, and the man nas to learn how to submit bimsell, The wile is the Ownerof the man; the man is the king or owner of the Woman, but it isin juve. Sbe hus to learn, howto obey, and cach has to learn how to rule, and both of them in love, Now, when men are young the sympathy 18 free, the emotion 18 fluent, this edaca- tion that should proceed from happy love & facile, but later in life it is dificult Aud there is apotoer evil; 1 is that when peoplo form this connection late in life they do not form a household, To merely live together 4s man and wife ig not forming a house- hold, ‘To live together in two rooms 1s not forming 4 household, When the man and woman are married they shouid set up housekeeping for themselves. ‘they take a responsibility, but they have tu their family, as children ure burn to’ them, the needed strength and necessities and restriclions, and this is (nyaluable in- struction to young people, and, therefore let to say still farther tbat while I[ deplore the boarding hous rriages, the notel marriages, the French flat marriages, deploring all th think thi haps not so dangerous as Where men and women wait untill they can come out in all their glory and lay the foundation of thetr household in pomp and vanity, that their childrey may be born to sumptuous furni- ture and very little liberty, except thas which the law of vanity allows. Children ure tuus bora into a bazaar, where everything 1s artificial and anrealise tic, Marry’ carly, but live at once im a separate household, oven if that housebold be small, Folly would have our children not marry until they cun marry with abundant wealth and bring up their children without the knowledge of the groundawells, FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS SALARY. I would uot take apytoing on any consideration for the happiness | epjoyed during tue first tnree years of my married lite. 1 was set:ied on a salary of $400 a year, in the town of Lawrencéburg, in Indiana, After about a fortnight’s boarding I took two rooms in 4 ‘cond story of a house without a door or yard bolore (fortunately it bad one behind), and in those two rooms—the one of them was my cellar and dining room together, the front one ‘was my bedroom, my librury and my parlor together, In these two rooms | spent the firat two or three years of my married lite, Every day we set in battle urray the question of economy—how to live, how to make the most of what we had, and often how to do with less, And tt was avery paradise Lelow, us | was young and handsome (!aughter), and to this bour we, both of us, look back to these early yoars of marriod life in such smail quarters as two rooms as the happiest years of our lives. Indeed, I may ag weil contess it, us 1 ate on the coufessiunal, 1 wore Judge Burton’s clothes most all tho time and everything we bad in the room was given us, That they were oddly matched was no fault of ours—they came from very different ideas of housekeeping. [ Jook back to those happy years with the greatest pleasure, . MOTHER'S TRACHING, Then there is another trouble, the dispossession of the mother from the child through toachersbip. We must send our children to school, Tho mother cauuot, by beuring children, bearing weakness, bear- ing Sickness, tuking caro of her own work, and yot be- come a minute und faitbtul instructor of the child, But no mother ought to let the child go to school with- out making herself the partner of that child and be in sympathy with it every day. We must pecessarily send our children to day schools and Sunday schools, but he us see to it that we hold them close to us in the family, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. DISCOURSE ON CHARITY BY REV. FATHER HOGAN. A large congregation filled St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral at the late services yesterday morning. High mass was celebrated by Rov, Father Kane and the sermon was preached by Rev. Father Hogan. Rev. Father Hogan read the gospel of the day—St. Joho, xv. 4, 27—commencing, “Remain in me and I in you, As the branch cannot bear fruit in itself unless it abide in the vine, 6o neither can you unless you abide in me? The gospel then went on to ex- plam the great accessity for our loving God and our neighbors with all the strength wo can command, The preacher remarked that the entire law of the Gospel and of Christ might be summed up in tho doc. trive of charity for one another, We should above all things Jove God, No matter what other goud works we accomplisbed if we bad oot charity they amounted to nothing. St aul bad said that if he dehvered all his goods to feed the poor and his body to be burned and had not charity be was but as sounding bruss and a unkling cymbal, Christ, the God of love and merc: jad come upon @arth as a missionary of charity. He came to abrogate certain laws of the Jews which contlicted with this great doctrine, The pre- cepts of charity besonged to God and to ourselves, In the first placewe should love God with alt our hearts and souls; in the second pluce we should love our Deighbors us Ourselves. We sould love God because he was God—on account of His majesty, His great ness, His beauty und His goodness, and because Ho possessed all the attributes vending to captivate the heart of man, In following the bent of our inelina- tions and pursuing worldly advancements we often felt the emptiness and folly of our journeyings; that we bud veen beuting the air und ‘got nothing for our pains, The fect was that vothing but God's indnity could satisfy our cravings, God created the wyrid jor man’s use and venelit, and He ex- pecte#us to iove Him and obey Him. He was tuli- bitely powerful, intinitely good, and tbe possessor of infinite love, ‘The great gilts which came solely through Him to us should influence our hearts. 1t was natural for us to feel grateful to those upon earth who awarded us favors, How mach more grateial should we feel toward God from whom we received our entire being—who had called us trom nothing, giving us our existence, second only to tho Diessed spirits in heaven ? He bad also given us tuculties which placed us above all other created beings, endowed us with the light of faith, callipg us within His own blessed Church and making us participators in sacrawents that insured all requisite graces, We should thereloro devote every efiort of our lives to do Him honor and promote as tar us possible, His glory. St. Augustine tells us that if we live only with God and not tor God, we were deficient in our love. He should be the centre of all our affections, In order to please Him, to do His will, to be charitable in His sight, we mu: His commandments strictly. St. John says U impossible for man to Jove God anu bate his neigh+ vor, How could he haie bim who is God's Image ? We know that we were all of the same origin, coming from the omuipotent will o the Creator, By the price of His precious blood did Christ open the gates Of heaven to us alter they had been closed by the sin of our first parents, beiore God there was no distine- tion vetweon Jew or Gentile, Christian or infidel We were all beirs to the same rewards and punishments, ‘The reverend preacner concluded bis discourse by al- Juding to the rewards in store for the Christian who lotlowed implicttly the virtues of charity aid Cowan for us by the cxample of the Ikedecmer, FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN, ANNIVERSARY SERVICE IN DR. HALL'8 NEW CHURCH—REMARKS BY THE PASTOR-—OUT OF DEBT—Dk. VERMILYE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CONGREGATION, The tenih anniversary of Dr. John Hall’s landing in this country was marked yesterday by a vory large congregution at the afternoon service at his magniti- cent new church in Filth avenue, where Rey, Dre, ‘Thomas Vermilye read an addresé upon vhe early his- | tory of the congregation, when it was known as the Cedar Street Church, Dr. Hull took occasion, while introducing the speaker, to express his thankfulness to God and his gratitude to the congregation for the success Which has marked bia ministrauions in this city. A CHURCH OUT OF DEUT. “I landed ov this continent,” said be, “with no other bonds than those made vy a common love of the truth and of Jesus Christ, In the tall of that year [ to be a miarsier, aud 1 canpot but acknowl With projould (hank/uloess to God Almighty the loving Kindtess, tue tenderimercy Unat He has shown + ay is 1b the seed Hue Jor ali other tor My wuciea. dil wouous of rawiny children i pualane spicuous in (hut whole movement, aud we ought to ve steriez, in State institutions, foddering them by who!e- sale or by machinery, is better than pothing, but the kingdom; only bere is it that fooa can be found for’ i these intervening years, He has given uninter. | Tupted strength tor iabor, and the blessing ot His Holy | Spirtt bas aceomp i tbe trutu, so that tmuly tave Wen auded to the Coureh, and who, L trust, shail be Aved. sci more marked, perhaps, tag been His Kood ness in that community of counsel aba thut harmony of spirit & umong us, enaviing us ly vO-0 ny torma of Christian acuivity, And among ty Wiessings nor the jeont is 44 UnUnMity uf purpose by whicu you wore actuated when it became u wise and prudent thing Ww come away irom Nineteenth street, woere we | had been Worshipping, and seitie ourselves io this busiding. The goodness of the Lord bas been con. willing to praise Him for it, Over and above the sale of the pews, through which many of you made your investments in the finupcial condition of this eburch, we needed no less a sum than $329,000, Three famities ol the churctt were made to contribute of that sum $246,000, and 1 think it is a8 much Christian duty aod privtiege to give Christian praise when it 18 due as it 1s. to inflict ceneure when that is due, One of these gilts, and the largest of them, was made ata time when there was much that was doubtiul us to our future as a church. I recall the words of Mr, Robert L. Stuart—whom I mention because he is not here—wben that gift was made, when euid that through the biessing of God it agsured the tvancial success of this churcp. ‘Ibe balance of $80,000 that we needed you have recently coutributed among your- seives, and 1 am avieto mention to-day that all tho pecuniary liabilities upon this church have been dis- charged; and as has been tho dearest wish of many hearts 1m connection with us for eight years, it is now th ir possession of the Lord Jesus, 4 the least among tho advantages we derive from this circum stance is that tt will allow us to deal tiberally with s be made upon us, and that we are tree to prosecute with unimpeded activity whatever work the Lord gives ustouo, It ut a lew weeks ago we were longing tor the hour when we should bo out of debt, and now thatthe bour has coffe we can- not do better than to stand up belore Dr. Vermilye ad- dresses you and sing *Praise the Lord.’ "” ‘TUE STORY OF THE CONGREGATION, The entire congregation jomed iw the byma as if they meant it, and at it6 close Dr, Veraiiye ceuvered his address. He briefly described the state of religious — feeling in the beginning Of the lastecawry, and then | related the establishiment of Ure first churches o. thie island, In 1620 two schouimasters were by the Dutch Company, and they taught on week days and instructed them in religion on Sun- day, The Coijegiate Church perpetuates that school, In 1683 a regular church was founded, with Dr. Bo- gardus as pastor, and in the Coilegiate Church that Organization is continued. With the trauster of the island to the English im 1664 the Episcopal torm of service was brought in. About 1660 the Jews established 4 place of worship, and some of the inscriptions on the tombs in their | Oliver street burial ground bear dates as far back as 72, Presbyterians first appeared in Now York in 1770, when a church was built in Wall street; Mora- Viana came im 1742, Baptists 1760; Methodists 10 760, aud John Street Methodist Church was crocted in 1768. The secoud Presbyterian church was built io 1768 and was ‘the brick church out in the tlelds,’? cor- per Nassau and Beekman streets, and the third was that erected 19 Rutland atroet. ‘These were conuected with the Genoral Assembly in 1807, when the Cedar Street Church was formed. ‘The latter was made up partly ot members from tno Brick Church, but chielly from the Wall street organization. Dr. rmilye de- scribed at length the edifice erected by the congrega- tion in 1525, Me character and work of its pastor, Dr, Romayne, and the work accomplished during tho firs! twenty years of tts existence, Dr. Hall’s congregation, he clalmed, 13 the legitimate successor of tne Codar Street Church. BROOKLYN ‘TABERNACLE. THE BATTLE OF LIFE—SERMON BY THE REY. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, Mr. Talmage preached yesterday on the battle ot lite, His text was taken from Kings, xvii, 6:—‘‘And the ravens Urought bread and flesh in the morning sud bread and flesh in the evening,'? The ornithology of tho'Bible, said Mr, Talmage, is a very interesting study—the stork which knoweth ber appointed time, the sparrows teaching a lesson of God’s providence, the ostrich of the desert by caro- less incubation illustrating the recklessness of parcata who do not take enough pains with their children, the eaglo symbolizing richos which take wings and lly away, tho pelican emblomising solicitude, the bat aflake of darkness, tho oighthawk, the osprey-jay, the cuckoo, the lapwing and the osprey, by the com. mand of God in Leviticus flung out of the world’s bill of fare, TUE BATTLE VOR BREAD, What wondertul creatures of God tho birds are! 1 don’t know whether aquarium or aviary isthe best altar to worship God from. sut there 1s an Incident in my text that baitles all the ornithologicul wonders of theearth, In the cave by the brook Cheruth sat | Elijah waiting for something to eat. He seos a flock of birds approacning. By their harsh croak he knew them to be ravens. They brought him bread and meat, Some say they were not ravens; some say they wore Arabs—anvthing but admit tho Biblo 10 be true, Hew awuy at this miracle. Go on with the depleting process, hut know, my brother, that you aro rubbing only one man, that is yoursell, of one of the most comfortable, beautiful, patheticand triumphant lessons im all the ages, There is one passage 1 will whisper in your ear, “If one man shall take away from the words of the prophecy of this book Gys4 shall ake away bh part from the Bovw of Life dud from the Hoty Cuy.” iff snocld ask you where ts the seat of wur to-day you would say the Danube. No, that is a comparatively smau coutlics; the great conilict to-day 18 on the Thames, the Hud: son, the Mississippi, we Rhine, the Nile, the Gunges, the Hoang-Ho, itisa battio that bas been going on for a thousand years, It 1s wpe battle for bread. Seuti- mentalists say this world 1s # great seat of avarice, I Luon’t believe i, 11 it were not for the absolute necessities ot the occasion nine-tenths of the storey, factories, shopa and buaking houses of the! land would be closed to-morrow. The groat question with the vast majority of the people to-day is not whether President Huyes treated South Carolina and Louisiana as Le ought, pot whether the Turkish Sultan or the Russian Czar ought to be helped in this contlict—the great question for every man 18, how to support his fainily, to pay rents, to get loud, education and clotb- ing for those dependent on bim, THK KAVENS FEEDING KLIZAM, Notice, in the first place, that the birds in the text came to Elijah directly from God. That is the same God that 1s going to supply you. You have a plate us his table, and you are going to be waited on unless you act hke a naughty cnild and kick and scramble and pound saucily tue plate or try to upset the things: You are going to be served if you will vnly wait your turn. It may not be just the kind of food and apparel you would prefer, but it is the most suitubie, Those ravens didn’t bring Elijah pomegranates; they brought bim bread and meat. God gent this piain food becuuse it was best for Elijah, « WHAT THR RAVENS BRING. Notice, again, in this story of the text that tho ra- vens didn’t ullow Elijai to bourd ap any surplus, They didn’t bring enough on Monday to Just all the week. They came twico a day and brought jast enough tor one ume. You have more coulidence in the Long Isiand Bank than you bave iu the bank of Heaven. If iu the morning your family eat up all the food in the house don’t sit down and cry. About six or seven o'clock, instead of Edgar A. Poe's insane raven “lighting on tho chamber dou! only this and nothing more,’”’ you will tlad Elijab’s two ravens bripging bread. They are your plumed butcher and baker. It you have in your despondency pot Ged on trial and condemned Him as guilty of cruelty [ move this morning ior new trial, If the biography of your ite is ever written, and written correctly, | will tell you what the first chapter, the middie chapter and last chapter will be. ‘The first will be mercy, the second will be mercy, and the lust will be merey—the mercy that hovered ‘over your cradle, the mercy that will hover over your grave snd the merey that will cover all between, Aguin, this Story of the text impresses me that relief came tu this prophet from the most unexpected and scemingly siuall conveyances, It it had been wu robin redbreust or a musical meadow lurk that brought the food it would not have been so surprising. 1t was a bird so ierce and inauspicious that We Lave fashioned one of our tmost hursh words out of its name—ravenous. So your supply 18 coming to you from unexpected sources. God will open the heart of some Shyluck to you. Here js where wo mako « great mistake, and That is in regard to the color of Gou’s providence. A white providence comes to us, and we say, Ob, 16 1s mercy! anda black providence comes to us, and we say, Oh, it is disaster! 1 you begin to pray, The Diack providence brought you salvation, the white providence ruin, There 18 a child bora in'your bouse, Une day there comes ove of the three scourges of ehildren—scariet fever, croup and diphtheria, As tbe great Friend of children stooped down aud leaned to- | ward ils cradie, aud tovk the little one in His arms | and walked away with it ito the bower of eternal summer, your oye began to foliow Him, and you have beon tuliowiny Him ever since, and instead Of think- jug of heaven only ouce a week, a8 you used to, you ure now thinking of itall the time, The dark shadow of the child’s grave brought you to repentance. ‘That was a biack raven. White providence doesn’t always | meau advancement; black providence docsn't always mean retrogratiou. Ob, you chila uf God, get up out of your despondency! ‘the Lord never had so many ravens as He vas tuis morning. IT put it im the bold- est shape, possibly, [am willing to risk my eteraity ou it, ask God tn’ tho right way for what you want, und you shall have it i it is best tor you. God has given me tood (hroe times a day, never missing tt but once, and then | was lost in the mouutaing, but tbat very night I met the ravens, THR RESULT OF TRUST IN GoD, Look down uod you see nothing but your spiritual deiormities; look back and you see nothing but wasted opportunities, Cast your cye forward, and you have the feariul look of tne jadgment, but look ap, snd you behold the whipped shoulders of an mterceding Christ, and the face of a pardoning God, afd the irra. | diation of un opening heaven. | hear the whirl of their wing. Don’t you feel the rash of the air on your cheek? Ravens! Ravens! There is ove question L want to ask you—How many of this audience ure will- ing to pply of their bodies, und to | trust the Lord Jecus Christ lor the redemption ol thoir immortal souls? Atmid the clawer the hoofs and ng of the Wheels of the Judgmeot chariot tbe | Whole watter will be demoustrated, Ob, that this | whole audience might surrender themselves How tO |G Ob, the Lord God, reiul and gracious! | cointnend you to Him, and the work of His gruce. May God felp You, may God comlort you, may God let the light of His conmtenance tall upou you, and give you peau MASONIC ‘TEMPLE. FROTHINGHAM ON THE CLAIM OF THEODORE PARKER. Sponking on this subject yesterday Rev, U, B. Proth- inghum vaid:~On 13th day of Say, 1860, the body of REY. O. B | | Theodore Parker was lad in the ground in the ftalian | etty of Florence, The coremonies were of the sim- | plest kind, It was a festival day and aa the funeral procession passed through the streets crowds of people | moved to and fro with bouquets of Lowers in thor banus, 1+ was tho Feast of the Ascension, and this | thought Was not lost upon the Irienaa of Theodore Parker. Less than one year atter the guns played on Fort Samser and for four years alter the atrite of war mado everybody forgotten. And now that old fouds are forgotten und flowers are blooming op the socs over tho graves of those who died on both sides and sweetening with their odors the memories of the past the name ot Theogore Parker is heard again. 1 bas recentiy been made the subject of criticism here, The school to which he Delonged has passed away, and in the future time bis memory i likely to oceupy even a lesser position than now. Though he denied almost everything the world believes to-day he was uo unbeliever. He was ap at jt believer, who labored to remove the refuse ob- stracting the way, that he might build up a structere of nis own, The Unitarians of bis time rejected ait that be himself repudiated. Men to-day inmde the churches and supporting them because they are a social convenience repudiate the Christian toology, 16 it to this belief that Theodore Parker owes his resurrection ¥ THRODORE PARKER'S BRLINE, Such a believer as be was 1 bas not been my lot to find w my lite, Sec « believer | have never known, 1 do not know, He bas said to me more than once ~The: spetem of religion of mine is to be the world’s revgiew tor « thousend years.” His wea ef God, Whose Providence reached to every person, was so preweed, so miense, that though he loved tbe wtuewi, atheism was to tim the horror of horrors, Hie descriptions of atheism are terrible, He believed jo personal immortality for all mankind, He believed o great Uerealter, when every soul would have wee dooe tt, He said, “if 1 beheved i'd come to nothing whea 1 died J should not caro to sow tne earth with seed.” He ovelieved im Chri: 1s for these beiie(s he is remembered now? The habit of prayer is not gaming in theso times, nor is the idea thut Providence guides the destinies of A be proucher said, aud this new life of Fheodo! Parker is due to bis integrity, not to his belef. His integrity consisted in bis Wholenosa, With him heart and soul made music in harmony with his thoughts. He did wot live on Sunday im Jerusaiem and all the rest uf the week in Boston. As he preached so he twught; as noe taught so he wrought, It 1s not an un- cominun thing tor people of any denomination to live up to their faith, [have no patience with this ory of hypocrite, 1 believe it 18 tho rule of earnest men and women to be jrue to their fuith, but there are many men who make you feel that in order to comply with their faith they are sucrificiug some part of their ature. Theodore Parker was uot of this mould, 418 Was the suuniest of bright natures, His taith was uot a tradition. Hocame toit by study, by thought; not ae ho was told to believe, but whut forced iteell upon in, MOODY'S CREED. ‘This is the secret of Moody’s succeas. He keeps on drawing thougauds o1 people to bear bis dull stories because he is su heartily in earnest, People who ure intelligent go to bear his scrawny, poor creed because they wish to draw freshuess trom the aroma of bis euraestuess, As compared with Theodore Parker in thi respect the preacher said it was like one man’s ac- complishing more with a Jjackknile than another with a whole chest of tools, Theodore Parker could read every book with equal fuirvess; yet where is the preacher Who will read to-day hail the books written against bim or bis ideas? A teacher should know all the truth, and to do this he must be as Theodore Parker, It is the rule to denounce what has not been read; to put down opimons not understood, Once us- sume that your own scnemo js infallible, and you, of course, set yourself against every other. This was not his way. He was always ready to bear and welcome truth ag be understood it, under whatever form it ap- peared. He could not understand how a man could send bisintellect ubead uf him on exploriug expedi- tions, for when he moved the whole man kept pace with the movemuuts of the inind. ‘This muy not bo always wise; but the outspoken man bas a charm lor the multitude, He was not a genius, but excelled by force of churacter, He was u deliverer, whose path is as a shining light brightening until the coming day. ST. BENEDIC! THE MARTYR. A NOVEL CEREMONIAL IN AMERICA—TRANSLA- TION OF A SAINT'S RELICS. lt is no exaggeration to say that more than five thousand people visited yosterday St Michael’s Church attached to the Passionist Monastery at West Hoboken, on the occasion of tho first tranalation of the relics of St, Benedict the Martyr, From an early hour in the day the crowd poured into the church, and not until night had fallen was the magnificent edifice doserted, In the afternoon the ceremony inciaenyal to the relics took placo at solemn veapers. Tho altar was a blaze of lights and the whole scone most im- posing. At tho altar rail was deposited in a cata- falque a wax effigy of St. Benedict, with blood flowing trom a wound in the neck. Ip a glass case were acen the qsseous relics of the saint embellished with flowers, The Very Rov. Father Victor, first Provincial Con- suitor of the Passioniats, was the celebrant (in the absence of the Vory Rev. Father Slefanini), and was assisted by Fathor Filus, chief pastor, Vuther Tim- otby, Father Alexander, and‘ others, making a total of fourteen priests. To this must be added six deacons in dalmatics, and a number of altar boys. THR BERMON. Vespers being concluied Father Timothy preached an cloquent sermon, He took for his text the First Epistle of St. John, ii, 15, 16 and 17 St. Beno dict the Martyr, said Father Timothy, whose relics we sco exposed here, was one of the martyrs of the third century, and bis remains were Interred in the Catacombs ut Rome. in the year 1671 they were translated to the Church of St. Benedict the Abbot in the city of Spoleto in Italy, When that church was torn down « few years ago the late Mrs. Peters, of Cinciunats, through the intercession of Vicar General Gaspurini with the Holy Father, was al- lowed to have possession of the same to bring them to this country. Among the re! of the saint was a brass cr beuring the lettor “*X, being the first let- ter of the Greek word for Christ, and “!’,’’ being the first letter of the Latin word pax, for peace—ihe two signifying together Christ—peace, | The preacher thea went on to tell how St. Benedict gave evidence of liv- ing up to the text that he had just quoted, for by his martyrdom he had given evidence thut ho bad learned to despise what the world esteems and esteem what the world despisey. Father Timothy then, after mor- alizing on this Christian state of mind, said that Job ulgo esteemed not the goods of this world, aad drew a vivid picture of the happiness which awaits ail true lovers of God in the world to come, THE PROCKSSION, The sermon being concluded the procession formed and walked down the churen in the lollowing order:— Father Kiely bearing the cross, lay brothers of the Passionist Order, ten in number; the priests; the relics of St, Benedict borno by Fathers Ward, Felix, Francis and George, and lastly came tue celobrant, the Very Rev. Father Victor, The procession in the church being ended the relics were again deposited within the altar rails. Upward of three tuousand people wit- nessed the imposing coremony. At oighttall the reli were placed under their usuai resting place boside the side altar on the north side of the church, It was an- nounced in the monastery that on Sunday next thero will be a grand sacred concert in the church at tour o'clock on the occasion of the opening of the new organ, ‘The organist of St, Stephens, of this city, will oil- ciate, THE ETHICAL CULTURISTS. PROGRE-:S OF THE SOCIETY AND THE WORK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED—ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR ADLER, Prolessor Felix Adler lectured y! rday morning at Standard Hall, corner of Broadway and Forty-secoud Street, before the Society of Kthical Culture, The ball was densely crowded, so much so that one young man fainted, and many wero unable to obtain admission. During his discourse Professor Adler said that the day was a gladsome one for them to meet, 1t was the most joyous season of the year, There was life in the breezes and a health-giving property in the vernal glories of the flowery Helds.and in the cerulean sky. It was a year since tho society commenced to meet in that hall, and it would be well to cast a retrospective glance over the ground which had boen traversed, to contemplate the work done and to muse fora while vpon the motives which bad impelled them to take it ju band, DISSATISFIRD WITH RELIGIOUS DOGMAS. Religion had coased to represent the peorle’s con- Victions; it was palsied with age and worn out in its struggles to maintain an undeserved ascendancy, The events of the hour gave the lie to tho expression of faith from the pulpits, and the question of the day was what should ve done for the people of this young generation who were so poorly equipped tor the sirug- glo of life, A Jew persons took counsel among them- selves and resolved upon a decided step im this new direction, Thore would ve opposition on all sides, and the Jnitiators of the movement should expect to be classed wmong acoffera of religion, monomaniacs, libertines and enemies of society, T Might Expect to meet with contempt from the pa easy-going liberals who are content to let things take care of themselves, abd Who are opposed to allowing the ‘common berd” Any parcicipation in A movement which they believe to be the exclusive property of their own exclusive order. 1t was necessary to makes beginning, but itn possible, as undesirous, Ww {ound & Hew creed, even OG she basis of absolute pegation, The diflerences between creeas already in eXistence and the absurd vide them showed the hopelessness of suc! Hithervo the weakness of the liberal party tag been ita Gread of Grguuiation; its forces are #catiered, so that 1p ab emergency tt finds itsell paralyzed and us- uoie to ack with proper ellect. contrary, are powertul because of their admirable organization—the — Catholic = Churen — especially 40. The power of the churches i# maio- tained ut the sacritce of treequm of mind and body. The proviem betore the jiberals was, Could they be free and at the same tine through the means of judicious organization? and It seemed they could, instead now of unanimity, the watchword inust be diversity tu the nimity in the deed, Ln this the liberals wou! Unguished from ail the beliovers in the old cree them. ‘The discourse was concluded by a sketch of the work before the society, lhe speaker deserived what bad The churches, on the | trong | —WITH SUPPLEMENT MILKING TIME. An Early Morning Visit to the Pest Dens at Blissville, FILTI, FILTH, FILTH. The Beastly Process by Which Swill Milk is Drawn for the Millim. SOME OF THE SWILL MILKMEN. If @ bombshell had exploded among the ewil} milk hovels at Biissville 1s would nt bave created moro consternation than did the Heni.p when it appeared yesterday. Several times in pist years snese pest dens have becn exposed, but tho apathetic officials of Kings and Queens counties hivo allowed the pro- prietors to continuo unmotosted |heir nefarious trade, It some of the cow owners, feattul of exposure, re- moved their cows, Guff, Fleischmann & Co., the dis- tullera, found no difficulty in induging others to starve their animals for seventy cents aweek, The cows are more protitable when kept in thd. hovels near a city, for then no expenso for transportation of the wilk ig smeurred, The men who stablo their cattle im this svill establishment obtain the samo price for their milk as thuso who bring milk from the country and who aro obliged to pay heavy freight. Consequently, as their receipts ure the same and their expenses less, they become rich more quickly, The business ts likewise profitable for Gaff, Fleischmann & Co., the owners of the death distributing bovels, ‘The swill consumed by the cows would be waste material if there were no cows to feed upon it, so all the receipts coming from that sourco are cleur profit, The Long Islandofictals have a bland style of doing business, and they 40 not appear to be anxious to enforce the health Jaws, They look on with mild ind:fference while thousands of quarts of poison are distributed throughout their cities and towns, If any one should drop poison into their reservoir they would bunt bim dewn and bang him, as would be very proper. ‘The milk emanating from Blisaville dissemi- nates death just as eifectively as would the poison in the wator, and yet the officials uever disturb the milk venders. The milk venders we know are wealthy. The awiil used at Bligeville will produce milk that is capavle of causing all the enteric diseases, and proba- bly typhoid fever, as was tndicatod in like cases by the London Health Bourd a few yoarsago, Many amotber who now mourns the Joss of her littlo ones might have had no occasion for her grief if she had been more careful in ber selection of a milkman. ‘In many cases, as eminent physicians can testify, whole families of children have fallen sick, tingered a few days and have then become tenantz of a churchyard. Many a sad trip has been made to Greenwood 1p consequence of the use of swill milk. Plenty of good milk can be obtained in this and the adjoiing cities, No mother should take milk Irom a vonder uniess he pro- duces undoubled evidence that the gmilk he sells comes trom tho country. A day spodt in ascor- tuiming the locality of the farm from which the milk comes and the quality of the milk will ve, in many cases, a lile saved. BLISSVILLE AGAIN, A few mornings ago the writer paid another visit to the Blissvilio distillery. In the morning milking is going on and tho yard of the filthy establish. ment is full of wagons, The night was dark, and the gray clouds which settled over Long Island like a great black funeral pall were the torewarners of the rain which followed, The road was desolate and in the darkness one was liable to walk over the bank into the salt marsh which flanks the road. As the bridge was reached a gang of cock-fighters wero met, Tho lawless rufians were making night hideous with unearthly yells, Some of them had bags over their backs in which were tho vead or dying lowis. ‘Tho cock-tight trom which they were returning had been held at Blise- ville, und was tor the Deneut of “an oid sport,” Alter the-cock-fghters hud been passed a pistol shot was heard, Lt appears they had attacked two of Mr, Bergh’ men whom they inet on the road and tad recognized, ‘The olticers were veaten and ove of them thrown down a bank twelve fect Ligh, und both only escaped with their lives by drawing their pistols, MILKING TIME, Let not those whu bave belisved in modern dairy poetry or classic bucolics ve lod astray with the idea that they are wbout to be introduced to the “Pretty girl milking ber cow," or that the musical question and apswer:— Vinerw are you guinw, my pretty maid {” Going a-milkiog, off,” she sud. with its suggestion of laughing cyes, clean linen chemisette, und saucv kerchief and ita vista of ver- dant pastures, dotted here and there with contented cows lying umong daisies and vuttercups, can bave any place in What is about to be described. Thoso wuo Tread the article in yesterday’s Hexaty descriptive of the Blissville sheds, with their cight huadred cow: rotting iu their own filth and all the bideous para- phernatia of swill-feediog, cum understand that they ure not going to be introduced to the traditional vow or the traditional miikmaid, Far trom it—as fur as swill milk 18 from the pure product of the properly fed cow, The sheds where the poor beasts are kept to starve and rot were at length reached, Atthe tine of the writee’s previous visit how swill was running into the feeding (7) troughs. Now men were about with lanterns attending to the loading of the wagon: with the swill milk. ‘The clatter of milk cans could be beard mingled with the fearful oaths of the man- brutes as they struck some unfortunate cow with a heavy club to muke her stand over jor milking. The pump bandte was kept in constan: operation, und the water made au unmusical clauer as tt struck the bottom a4 the can. ‘These milk venders keep the p in constant use to help make up the quantity of siops demanded by unsophis- tivated people along thoir routes, The xceve within the sheds was cxpable of makwg one lorswear the use of milk, Filthy bipeds were milking the pour beasts, Mauy of the cows had great fissures on their udders, and when the teat was drawn the poor antinals uetually lowed trom pain, Each biped saton a low stool and proased his head agwiast tho cow’s flank. Almost all of the wretches smoked short filthy vlack pipes, which, with their hyena ike faces, made them bear a closer resemblance than usual to dends, HORRORS UPON HOLRORS. The pails used to milk in are hardly tit to carry swill in to well kept bogs aud rival the bipeds’ faces in tlth- iness, The paws of the bipeds, judging irom present appearances, bave%nut seen soap and water for the 1a decade, Every now and then thebipeds’ beads, whico are driven into ive cows’ Hanks Koock off somo of the caked filth aod it drops ito the pail of slops (inilk); the fiithy paw 18 thea plugged into the milk wad the piece oO: manure removed. How much tiith 18 removed from the paw? The swuch alone is enough to contaminate the milk, even 1° the cows were well fed. The milk which was sampled by the writer bas w pudgeut and uopalutable lasteaod a biuewh-wuito appearance, TUE WAGONS Every manner of vehicle, irem tho elegafit milk wagon to the *une-horse shay,’’ san be seen about the place, Many o1 the wagons aro devoid of any Dame or umber which would jodicate ab owaoer's name oF residence. All the wagons have painted on them, tu Jarge letters und in a conspicuow place, the name of somo county famous for the parity of ite milk. Wherever the owuer’s name is on the Wagon It 1810 some Unpretentivus place, so taab it may nyt attract observation. 1t ts ratber difticut to obtain the names, und any curiosity expressed inthe matter might be the cause of 4 bath im the adjauing creek, But the wagous deliver thousands of quarts of milk daily, aod it is essential What the readers of the Herap should know the names of the venders, #0 as to save suine of their babes during the coming tummer, A YEW NaMus But a few names could be obuined owing to the dif- ficulties alluded to above. When the wagons leave tho gate and cross the bridge thedrivers whip up the! horses and go as if some hobgodlin out of the swamps were alter them. By rung aod hanging on he bucks of the covered wagons, the following aames wore obtained. Probably ina ew days we can give more :— 4 Kilroy, No, 02 Mauj Patrick Baruett, Bediord avenie, Brovklya, M. Curry, Brooklyn, Kastern District, HL. , No. G21 First areet, Brooklyn. lis" wagon— Unio ayo. strvet, Brooklyn. had two summers nue, Brookiyn. G. Khlers, No, 327 Sarcy avenue, Brooklya. fT. Kegan, No lol Norwb Fourth street, Brooklyn, RK. Grillin, Newiows, Long Ishod, No name ou wagon, No. 222 hiry street, Brooklyn, THK LAW, Almost ali of the above keep store Toute, op which they be weil if the city oiticials wouldlook after them. tyaciear violation of the laws #f the State of New York to soll such ink, Section V of the ‘act to pre- vent the aduiteration of milk aud prevent the true in impure and unwholesome milk’ say Any person any of the cities of this State, eng U change or any viv which the fo, nid the same ts vended, d serve a largo ell We Vilepoison, and it would Ie trom which che piewously marked with bin, ber their wind Mudicating by eald marks the loewity whence said milk ts) obtained or pro duced; aud for every neglea of such marking the person or persons so Leglectina shall be subset tu the penalties expressed in the uct, * * * by a tine of not ie iy seetions of Chis hun $0) for each and shall be imprisoned Leen dove, told buw much remained to be accom. pushed, wand portrayed in vivid colors the ideal wen and women who are to be the disciples of the pure faith of ratioaaliem, every offence, und if the tne is Wot tor aut lens than thirty d ne Jail aocil awid fine shail be paid, © * * out tor every Violation of this act by so markOg Aaid cans, carriage oF vehicle as $0 vonvey the idea thy such milk is produced nibentinry ur county | of from a different locality than it really Tattle Ne RAS Ey oF amen Jute, Wu the discretion of she Court. conan Borbing in the above act allows people to keep cows: ip the Blisaviile poison factories and then to sell mille coming from the cows as ‘Orange county milk,’? None of a wagons are marked us they should be with sign o! Qovresesecocs sesese: Pere ee ee nt ee rete ee tO Te tO LOOE CONE SWILL MILK, ROM HE BLISSVILLE DISTILLERY. Devecrerevess essere ressse este eesese sess ee se sect goeeseh Every clause cf the above act ig violated every morning The wagons drive by the Seventh precinct statiog house in Greenpoint and no ollicer over dis. turbs them. The milk venders do us they please. The writer interrogated ove av to where he served hia milk and be elegantly expressed himself as follows :— “Just where [ damp picage '” Ne other state ip the worid would allow animals to be voreecied: ‘with swill and then their milk sold to teed children on, LAW FOR THR OWNERS. Gaff, Fleischman & Co. should understand that the law applies to them. Section eighty of the abot “Milk act” explains tully what udulterated milk is and what food 18 upwholesome for animals Jt says:— The addition of water ox any sufficient quuntity of ice to pre OF upon wny substance ation ishereby decturad Hi, ferment to be impure und uowhoiesome, If the sibove law does not apply to meu who profit by the teed ing of swill to cows then pass laws which will, ‘The intants ot Brooklyn and of this city may die and no officia: will interpose his uuthority to prevent the salo of the poigon which causes their death, It appeara that the health officials on Long Island are as indolent 1m matters pertaining to the public health as they aro in thiscity. Any one can enforce the above law. If the health officials are too busy building up a lucrative medical practice then let tne police take the matter in hand. Mr. Bergh has kingly assisted the people of th city once of twice in matters relating to the pubic health, If be will now take this matter in hand anti! a society for the prevention of cruelty to iatuats it organized it will add lustre to his fame. WAR TO THE BUNG. REY. DR. J. D. FULTON ON THE TEMPERANCI AWAKENING-—-THE VANDERBILT-DODGE PRO TESTS—‘‘BLUE LIGHTNING” ON GOD's TABLE— PRESIDENT HAYES REBUKED-—-MABE IT HOT FOR BIBBERS. The action of William £, Dodgo in resigning his membership of the Union League Clad because of the gale of intoxicating drinks by the club, and that of Will- 1am H, Vanderbilt in lowering the rent of 9 saloon keeper on the Central Railroad from $5,000 to $1,500 perannum if he would abolish his bar and abstain from the sale of liquors, were themes of comment at the mocting of the American Temperance Union, in Cooper Institute, yesterday afternoon, the President, Walter Logan, in tho chair, Tem. perance songs were sung by tho choir, accompanied by the blind organist, Miss Hammond, Recitationt were delivered by Mrs. J. B. C Vandenhoff (wife of the tragedian and lecturer of that name); but the great gun of the occasion was the ad: | regular broadside of columbiads tuto the ranks of those of the clergy who countenanced the use of wine drink- ing, as well ag into the camps of the hosts who aro professional traffickers in the Itquor selling business, THE DISCOURSR, Tho Rev. Dr. Fulton, on bis appearance, was re’ ceived with applause, which be mildly protested against, as he considered the subject df great solemoity and should be treated as any subject should be in 1 house of God, through whose grace he hoped to reach the hearts of his hearers. He took for his text I. Thes- salonians, V., 6—‘‘iet us not sleep, as do others; but lot us watch and be sober.’? He said there was a great awakening in the femperance cau: Aha hoped the example of tho retirement of Wullam fi. Dodge trom the Union League Club, on account of ttt participation in liquor selling, would ‘be followed by others trom the same institution for the samo cause, He declared that William H. Vanderbilt, who cou. trolled a larger body of mon than any other man :n the State, would influence a great many in his emptoy- mont to abstain from drink by the practical temper- auce reform he had started in the case of the saloon or restaurant keeper on the Central road, He was glad to find, too, that even some wine drinking clergymen wore coming tu the aid of tho temperance cause He wag glad to have them assist in the great work, If hus waxon should get stuck in the mud, he would not stup toask Whether the man was blac« or white who came ia his assistance. For himself he would rather have oa grave trodden upun than givo his sanction to the asd ‘of wine, beer or hquor in any shape, (Applause.) Ha did not believe that ministers should drink or smoke, either before or behind the door, The use of tobacco was condemned us almost as vile asin as draukenuess CLUB DUINKING AND TIPYLING HOUSE. The reverend Docior did pot wish tue war against tippling houses to be carried to the extent of making club drinking respectavie, He would have liquor sell ing abolished everywhere, not excepting the drug stores in New York and Brooklyn, where more tatoxt cating liquor, he said, ts sold than in many of the rog- ular places,’ He would welcomo everybody to the temperance cause Who would support it. Extrem. watchiulness was necessiry, It stould be guarded us rigidly asthe Mississippi im keeping itia its proper channei. Some think that stimulants are necessary at times forthe system, and some physicians recom- mend the use of beer aud wine for women. Bat the reverend genticmau argued that this was a false idea, and showed from physiological data that the suggestion could not stand, Strong drink, science tolls us, goed hike an arrow direct to the brain. ‘He pre- wented instances Where men had become hope. fess drunkards by beginning with the usu of Scotch ale—how sons had fallen by bes ginniog with tho sipping of wine at their fathers’ tables—and commented with some severity upon the act of a woalthy citizen recently deceased who cut bis gon off with a miserable pittauce because he was ad- dicted to drink—a habit which the father bimseit had eovouraged at his own table, He would like to fod that son, He believed he could reclaim him. He re- ferred to the recent occasion at the White House when President Hayes had countermanded the order for- Didding the ase of wine at a dinuer given by him tothe Russian princes. Dr, Fulton was uader the necessity of condemning the act The President should have “‘Balmy drink; but the cagle spurns it’? It was, however a great satisiaction to know that the ludy of the White House was oue who deemed 1t an boour two be a crusader in Onto in the temperance cause, WRER GARDENS A CURSE. The curse of Western cities, such aa Cincinnatl, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee and others, said tn¢ reverend speuker, are the beer gardens, which are kept open on Suodays. I'bere was no greater peri! meuacing the American people than these places. He then pro: ceeded Wo describe scenes which be had witnessed ia London oo a Sunday when ata certain hour the voet shops wore ed, [utoxication ruled everywhere. ‘The late Vice President henry Wilsda’s strong tom- perance habits were referred to. Avan entertainment: givon by him at a noted hotel in Boston the absence of wive was noticed by his guests. He remarked that he would give them everything the house afforded, but he prayed that they would pot ask him to furnish wine, die touchingly alluded to the death of bis father, who filled # drupkard’s grave, and said the hafdest task of his life was to reluse a glass of wine at the table of Jobo Quincy Adams, but he did so, and he remained true to bia Kemporance convictions to the day of his death. A GENERAL WAKING UP. Doctor said be would not joo wine drinking league with any of tho clergy, but be would jom uo Jeaguo that would brand with jolamy apy clergyman who should defend the practice, He spoke ot the “blue lightning” on the Lord’s table, and said he hyped to make it hos for every pulpit tu the land that Should oncourage the use of Wine. Ho concluded by urging a gen: ral waking up in the cause of temperance. Kvery man, woman aud child can accomplish some good and they $hou!d make the attempt without delay It was proposed to raise by subscriptions a sufliciow: Amount of money to erect in some convenient part a the city wlaryo tentin which temporance ex. reise! could be daily held, THE RUSSIAN “KNOUT,” ARABIC CULTURE AND SCYTHIAN BARDARISM CONTRASTED—LECTURE AT TURN HALLE, Mr. Charlies &, Nathan, a young gentleman of ingenu+ OUS appeurance, but evident talent, delivered Inst eves ning in the presence of the Baad der Friodlenter, at the Turn Haile, a lecture on the abovo topic. A considerable assembly of Germans philosophical pbysiogomy listened to nis remarks with grave attention, and as they stolidly smoked suggested to the memory of tho Stranger the celebrated “Tobacco Parliament” of Frederic Wilhelm of Prussia, The influence of tho Arabs in the development of civilization was carefully traced, und it was shown how Moslem fanaticism tended in somo iwoasure to the universal good In serving as a vehicle for those sciences and the graces of art for whiclr the raco are Fevowned in the history of the human intellect, The benefit that they conlerred on Southern Europe oy that domination in Spain which while existent was 40 intulerablo Was aptly illustrated, Monuments of 0 splendor of their tastes and imagination yet remain, Culture expanded under their patronage and remained as the impress of their rule, heir spirit wad intused iself through the varied races holding to the fait of Mecea, The Jecturer sought to draw iking & picture ay possible of contrary traits in the bistorical character of tie Muscovites, The nature of the des pousm of the Czars trom Peter the Groat to Alex: ander was the same as that of a slave driver, Thereioro the “knouv’ was = the true emblem of weir power, Its horribie uso a4 an instrument of civil torture was dwelt upon with Foulstic iuelity uueil the hearers fairly ebriiied with a sickening sensation of disgust ub the ite humanity portrayed, What the “kaout”?” 1s may (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE), nklin und Mrs, George | dress of Dr. Justin B, Fulton, of Brooklyn, who fired a |