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PENTECOST SERMONS. Lessons from the Visible Descent of the Holy Ghost. LOVE GOD AS HE LOVES YOU. How the Soul May Approach Perfec- tion—The Unattained. THE LONE WOMAN'S MISSION. Shall We Recognize Our Friends in Heaven? ‘THE BLESSING OF CHILDREN. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. A SERMON BY THE REY. MR. HEPWORTH ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. “In consequence of the inclomency of the weather,” said the Rev. Mr. Hopworth, ‘the congregation is not quite so large this morning.” This was said just previ- ous to the taking up of thecollection, and was intended, doubtless, as a hint that those who were present should make up, by the liberality of thoir gifts, for those who wereabsent, ‘Tho inclemency” of the woather did not affect the heartiness of the congregational singing. Did fashioned tunes and bymns from Mr. Sankey’s tollection were sung with considerable vim by a con- gregation that nearly filled evory pew im the large gaditoriam of the church, THE SERMON, ‘The subject selected by Mr. Hepworth was ‘‘God and His providence,” and the text was the first verse of tho twenty-third psalm of David—“The Lord is my shepnerd.’’ These words, said Mr. Hepworth, are the testimony of the love a good man bears to the Eternal Fatbor. 1t is the expression of a bigh order of Christian faith. This psalm was probably composed on one of the hillsides south of the little town of Bethlehem. After tracing the circumstances and the tifficuities under which David uusuccessiully guarded his flocks ot sheep from the ravages of the wolves, he said:—David turned to God and threw thé whole re- sponsibitity of his own life from his owm soul on to God, From the beginning of the Old Testament to the end is found the fatherhood of God, and the indica- lions are everywhere that God desires to do every- thing tor man, You remember the Red Sea, for in~ stance, On one side were the wild waves and behind them re the cruel onemies of tue children ot Is Tbe word came to them to go forward, and alibough to their near-sightedness there seems to be an impassable barrier, and that on whichever side tney, looked they were shut in to de- struction, yet God seemed to say to them, *‘irust in Me.” All that God wanted of these children of Israel ‘was an implicit faith in Him, ‘There always appears to me something very beautitul in that illustration of God’s dealings with His own chosen people, He wanted to impress upon the people of rael the ono fact that they were not to be the judges of what could be done and what could not be dove. Then we see God again as the vindicator of His people, as the one who wins victory for them. What would the peopic ot Israei have done had it not been fur that clond by day and the pillar of fire by night? God said to Gideon, “I want to prove to this people that it is not they but { that am doing this work,’ and He reduced Gideon’s band to three hundred men, with God as their leader, Gidoon went forth, and the enemy, innumer- able as they were, were overcome and the victory was fescued from them. It was God who did it, who said, “1 will give you the victory.” 3 BUILDING ON GOD. ‘There is no religion, brethreu, without a belief in God’s providence. No man can buiid except he build onGoa. Every man docs buiid on God consciously and unconsciously. Science puts away God, or tries to Go 80, and yet it could not live for an hour unless God was with it Consciously or unconsciously we presume God in every capacity. I take it there is no cour: in numan Iile except it comes from a teeling of God's presence, 1 know of no courage lelt by mysell except the feeling that God is with me and that God will help me. “It 1s8God in us that worketh and willeth to do of His own good pleasare.” And so it is in all the other attitudes of the events of life. A man cannot endure unless be thinks that God cannelphim. Waoen griet is tresh upon us there 16 4 feeling of rebellion; it 18 almost always so with human nature, lf we buve no trust then our grief is black and we become gore, aud the atiitude toward God is that He has treated us badly; but if, on the other hand, our trust is m God, and we feel the pang, we can say “It’s all rigot,”? aud “O God! not my wili, but Thine be done.” God's Ways are to us inscrutable; life 18 80 complex, thero many intricacics in it, that we cangot under- stand it always. If you look at a piece of tapestry on she wrong side you look in vain to see any purpose in \t. How many people look at tocir lives in that way ? Their lite seews to them to be a cotlection of odds and ends, There isa bit of bive and that is their << for. tune. There 1s a bit of black and that 1s their bi luck, How can ple obtain any other ideas when thoy look on the wrong side of the tapestry? ‘When you go to Christ and just turn the tapestry on NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1877.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. before the courts of justice openly proclaimi faith that was tp them. Every eflort was made to silence them, but in vain, Who bui Christ bad ever thought of teaching us that the end of man was the sanctifica- ‘soul, and that this must ve mplished by sacrifice. The doctrine was so pre-eminently the doc- Urine of Christ that nobody else could have established it, He was the teacher to whom we could listen on bended knee. No doctrines entered into the heart of man with the same as His. Every on \d 8O Many persons of world and occupy meditation What impetled ng adoration? it was simply the single Word of Christ. He had said:—‘Whoever wishes to be ct disciple let bim take up bis cross av follow me”? Whence came this burning zeal among Ube disciples? A sing! monition—"Go and teach all nations,” Father Vealy concluded with a prayerto God to send down tne blessings of the Holy Ghost upon bis hearers, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. GROWTH OF TBE HUMAN SOUL TOWARD PEB- FECTION—-SERMON BY REY. HENEY WARD BEECHER. ‘The heat of yesterday caused no falling of in the attendance at Plymouth Church, and Mr. Beecher preached with his usual vigor, He recommended all his people to witness the parade of the Brooklyn Sun- day schools, whiob will occur on Wednesday. “You have po Idea what fine children we raise in Brooklyn,” said he. ‘Men travel from country to country to see fine horses, dogs, flocks and herds, and I don’t blame them; but Ido biame them when after all this they decline to step outside of theirown doors to see the finest display of thoroughbred children in the world.” For the text of his sermon Mr. Beecher read three verses from Philippians, wherein Paul acknowledges his imperfections and exhorts the brethren to be like minded, 1f Paul should come unknown into lite now and mingle among Cnristians Mr. Beecher said that for one reason or another he would stand rejected at the door of most Christian churches, He would be a little too liberal for many and a little too stringent for others, Into the High Church, so,called, he could not come because while he recognized govern- ments he also recognized that they were worthless a8 compared to the freedom of men; and because while he belisved in ordinances be preached that they we! bolisbed in Jesus Christ. While Paul would have in sympathy with many systems of philosophy imbedded in theology, yet the moment tney began to appear in @ cast iron creed bi tenderness would have led him to side with the her tics, There we any among us, Mr, Beecher coi tinued, who were fond of speaking of themselves as having attained toa state of perfection. There wei bal dozen styles of perfection—the Wes! i Oberlin, the Higher Life and he did not know how many more. POOR PAUL, Paul could never bave joined with those, He says:— “I have not attaived.’’ ‘Poor fellow,” said the preacher, ‘he could not get in among th round among the rest of ui 0 said, *I count not mysolt 0 ban al pugeea over them, ‘Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching lorth unto tnose things which are belore, | press toward the mark for the prize of we higb calling of God in Christ Jesus,” The emphasis and the intensity of Paul’s life consisted in making attainment, im lollowimg alter the ideal law which si prebended,” and instead of dwelling on hi never could be reached, and tuus striving and growing Mr. Beecher said he tound great comiort in Paul with ,all thy ad thy neighbor as thyselt.’”’ Either of these th: Mr. Beecher said, is simply im- possible in this Iie; or, if possivie in this Iife, only as the truit of the whole of it and not asa thing to be commanded and to be obeyed to-day. One might as well go to an infant class and commund it to recite in integral calculus or the Principia of Newton, and say to them:—*Children, you bave undeveloped in you the capacity for understanding these th: ought toknow them.” Deuling in the r mature, and with things that we can uaderstand, we would say at that such thing was abeurd. Growth ment of mi physical and his higher gradual development aud the manner in which he mowledgo of tbe law ampie provision bad been made. It was the duty of every man to love the Lord with all bis beart but the knowle of God, the sense of His beauty and love—those were educational results, und ali edu- cation implied time and an unfolding. eu could not obey at once the command to love their neighbors as themselves, As well might the pi ‘ber command bis hearors to make themselves two fect taller than they were. Men had to learn to love God, just as they learn everything else 1n lite, MAN’S WEAKNESS, ln sbort no man keeps tue law of God even in those respects in which he can attain to it; and in a largor sense be does not keep the law of God simply because it is co large that it is to be reached in its am- phtude only through ages and through other spheres of bewg. Men are all wo obey according to their abil- ity at any one tiie and then go on ever reaching {ur- ther and further, The foolish doctrine that a man could go to the utmost limit of bis possibilities at once aces stumbling blocks in the way of sinners and fads © no end of contusion, The doctrine of John that 8 man should be willing to lay down his life tor bis brother bad reference to a biguer state than that of average men, “Suppose I were calling for volun- teers,’’ said Mr. Beecher, how many of you would Py, dows your lives for others? Well, I observe you all keep your seats; and you do right, you are true. It did not follow because nan could not come up to the Jaw that it would be just as well to lay it aside, Stu- dents of painting sireve to copy Michael Angelo and Raphaol and drew inspiration from their works, ul- they could not attain to them. An artist who soul, If you will stands in front of the gates of is love, He will meet only ery tor His and ou in the same spirit apd say, “Thy sins and thy Iniquities 1 will remember no more, Thy peace I give unto thee”? Then from all this audience there will be a rain of tears, and God will be the father of that rain, and the text, as it occurs to you after yo home, will loom up with more and more signiticanco as you recito it—‘‘Hath the rain a father??? MASONIC TEMPLE. BEBMON BY BEV. O. B. FROTHINGHAM ON WHITSUNDAY. At Masonic Temple yesterday Rey, 0. B. Frothtng- bam preached on thoughts suggested by the coming of Whitsunday. The story of Whitsunday, he said, told in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, fs the same as that of the Jewish Pentecost. The day commemorates the bringing of the law to the people, It is not to be supposed that the writer of the story of Pentecost wisbed to be understood literally in his de- scription, The winds that shook the four corners of the building mentioned typified swiitness, ard the tongues of flameeloquence. The story means this— that no individual is anything by hbimsel! alone. The thought of Pentecost ts that every man or woman who desires to accomplish anything should be in in- timate commanication with the source of religion. According to the Jewish account of Pentecost Moses went up alone into the mountain—but not alone, be- cause Jebovab, the Infinite, the I Am, was there, fll- ing all space, Moses sought companionship, not soli- tude, He would be with the greatest, The idea of the Christian Whitsunday is precisely the same. These people in their chamber in Jerusalem hela communi- cation with Christ in the same way, That is all that religion does for any of us. Tho at relies on his gacrament, bis altar, his symbol, asking you to come to those and the invisible spirit will come to you. And when the believer approaches the altar tho vision comes, But the soul is its own regenerator, What matters it that the medal tho priest gives be not worth sixpenco if be can make the simple soul he gives it to believe it will deliver him from sin or danger? Imaginstion cures more than all the doctors together. Speaking of the French pilgrimage the preacher said:—Theso vagrant pilgrims who find their way over to the shrine of Lourdes are in a measure benefited by the aid of their own imagination, The Protestant theory ot Christ is equally groundless with the Catholic super- sitions of saints and symbols. There js no historical foundation for it, yet tho minister, by getting a man to believe that by partaking of a sup of common wino da bitof common bri & regenorating spirit will iter him, eflects a useful purpose, BUT ONE IDEA FUR ALL RELIGIONS. The world of trath, progress, improvement, is in the race itsell. The fuct is, there is but one idea for all the various forms of religion, called by whatever name, whether Moses or Carist or Johovah or the In- finite, Whatever pame you call it by itis there. Give it no name at all, still "tis there, Mr. Frothingham describe me jength man's relative position in the community, icsisting that our dependence on each other is 60 great we Cannot cut ourselves off from society. After giving a tew Illustrations of the danger to the individual thus cutting him- welt off the preacher described the man whose desires him @ force that becomes a tremen- dous lever tor good or evil, according ag itis uader the control of law or not, He also, by way of com- parison, described the mfluence of congenial minds one upon another; bow tor a friendship men suffer without complaint and strive to achiev will be commendable to that friend. en he dwolt upon the force of original thought ‘and individ endence, ‘Why,’ he asked, **Is radicalism so p lessy’? And answered, ‘Because there is no har- mony of action.’? Christ says, when two or thre are gathered together He would be with them. Wore all the radicals to come _ together now there are enough of them to create a revolution tire country. When will they ever it may be, the winds that al the jour corners of the building, but the four corners of the continent, and the tongues of flame that will rest upon those there as- sembled shall be tongues of flery eloquence that will inflame the great heart of the entire people for a new dispensation in religious teachings. ALLEN STREET M. E. CHURCH. ELEMENTS OF WOMAN'S POWER—SERMON BY BEV. GEOBGE W. WOODRUFF. Rev. George W. Woodruff, recently transferred to the charge of the Alien Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of this city, trom a charge at Fall River, Mass, last night preached to a iarge congregation upon the elements of woman’s power in the world. The reverend gentieman prefaced his discourse by reading four distinct passages of Scripture to serve as atext. Then he entered into a somewhat extended de- fence of his preaching upon a topro that to many, he thought, would seom to be outside of the Gospel cur- riculum. He declared in the course of these remarks that the true preaching of the Gospel has to do with everything that concerns humanity. God's Word sct- tied woman’s place in society by speaking of her as a " corner stone in the world’s fabric, and it was plain to every observer at the prezent day that a good and true woman was at the botiom of all goodness and strength in society. Whatever might be said of the intellect or the business of the world the heart of tho world was controlled by woman. In illustration of this the preacher reforred to the family, the Church, society in eral andthe character of nations. The women of Spurta and of ancient Rome were cited as evidence of this, The early tribes of Central Europe, the preacher said, found their bigbest inspiration 1m ul pure, sturdy, unflinching character of their wo- men, and the private virtue and integmty and euergy of the German to-day had their suurce in those old Teutonic mothers. The world over, nistory ES should becoine discouraged because his copy was not as good as the orizinal—was not periect—and who should substitue as his {deal instead of Micnaei Angelo, some village painter, and should thereupon cry out that he hed attained perfectron because his was as good as his master’s— ‘that man would be acting precisely like those who 1n religious matters claim to have attaived to pertection. They bave lowerea their ideal. Mr. Beecher exborted those who found themscives unable to reach their the other side you will be delighted to seo what a pertect pattern it is. How clear und beantiful are the flowers; how exquisitely blended 18 every shade—so perfect is it that you may catch all the perfume of those flowers. THE LESSON OF THE DISCOURSE. I want to impress upon you the lesson of this morning. 1 want that you should believe that God loves you. It you dv love Him 1 want you to feel that love more than you have telt it before) No matter what has been appointed to you, no matter wha iy huppen to you in the future, let your determination in your own mind be that God 1s your father. Be true to Him and he will take charge of the reat. He will that your life here is brightened by some other life. He will see that the music of the duties of our daily life are well periormed, because they are in unison with bis life and the datics of our lellow God, wi His fivgers ran across our Deartstrings, gives us the conscious pitch of goodnes: lor our life. It is tien, my brethren, the right pite and when God sweeps the strings then comes to us the millenniam, and there will ever be with us harmonies that will make our life giad for evermore, Wbat must be the feelings of our God, brothers and sisters, when He sweeps tho strings of our nature und comes across a string that bas never boca toned at all or toned to the wrong piteb. [tis His pieasore that we should keep tn harmony with His will, It is we who keep a single String out of tune, and thus we are not in harmony with the divine nature. If we will only tune that string we sbail be very glad; wo sbull rejoice with a joy unspeakable, and shall pour for‘h our praises for ‘bis great goodness t: ward us, 80 that if we fail in ail things else we shail foel that all 18 gained when we have gained an uuswerving trust in Him, Let us, hence- forth, trust less to ourselves and more to God, and Jet us trust Him ail through the way. The singing of “The rock to which I cling” asa eolo by the organist snd the pronouncing of the bene- diction brought tho service to a close, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST—SERMON BY BEY. FATHER DEALY, 8. J, The festival of Pentecost was appropriately cele- brated at the balf-past ten o’clock services yesterday morning at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Cardinal McCloskey being present, accompantod by his secretary, Rev. Father Farrelly. He occupied a seat on bis throne during the services, and gave benediction to the people. The high altar was decked with flowers and a large number of lights; cardinal red drapery glittering with goluen decorations encircled {ts base. High mass was celebrated by Vicar General Quinn, assisted by Rev. Father Kano and an Italian clergyman. Rev. Father Hogan officiated as master of ceremonies, Rev. Father Dealy preceded his remarks by reading from the second chapter of tle Acts of the Apostles, which narrates the descent of ihe Holy Ghost upon the disciples. Ten days, whey were told, elapsed, dur- fog which time the apostics persevered in prayor, awaiting the fulfilment of the Divine promise, Then there came the sound of a mighty wind and small tongues of fire descended upon tho heads of the aposties, and they were filled with the Spirit of the Holy Ghost. This fire was only an embiem of the light whieh filled their souls, ‘Their hearts were also inflamed with Divi charity. These aposties, on- dightened with ight from above, immediately com- fenced the mission entrusted to them. The faith thus commenced ander the protection of the Holy Ghost destmed to extend to all parts of the earth, That day was commemorated in the Chureb, the commencement of the great work, spirit of God descended upon mai ras this spirit $hat bound them in unity, giving true cbarity and working, through the apostics, a sanctification which ee rckld pever witnessed before, The Scriptures taught us that toe Holy Ghost was the immeaiate and substantial principle of reliyious truth, Through the Holy Ghost we wore reconcilca to God, It was through the Holy Ghost that we prayed. No sooner wore the ideal not to be unhappy, but, like Paul, to forge: tho past, and press torward with their eyes fixed upon the law. The Jow, he said, who started out to go up to Jerusalem to attend the feast of tabsroacies was on his way to thi ty the moment he crossed the threshold of his door mile: y. He was not at Jerusalem, but be was going toward it and would reach it in due time. BROOKLYN ‘TABERNACLE. GOD'S PROVIDENCE—SERMON BY THE REV, DE WITT TALMAGE, Mr. Talmage yesterday spoke on God’s providence, His text was takon from Job, xxxvilL, 28:—‘Hath the rain a father?” This question, said Mr. Talmage, was asked by the Head of the universe to humble and to save Job, Of the scientific wonders of the rain I have nothin, way. A minister gets through with that kind of preaching after the first three years, or, if he has piety enough, alter throe mouths, A sermon with me has come to be just one word of four letters—Holp. You all know bat the rain is not an orphan, cast out of th tes of heaven a foundiing, It is not an acctdent of the world’s economy. It is the gospel of the weather. You know that God is its fatner, If that be true how indescriba- bly wicked 18 aliour murmuring aboutclimatic change: Merchants compiain of a wet season and agricultart: of adry one lf we only knew what a vast enterprise it is to provide and prepare tho weather for this world ‘we would not be so critical of the Lord. There is only one Being in this universe that knows enough to pro- vide weather for this world, My text suggests God’s minuie supervisal, You see the divine sonsbip of every drop of rain, They are all children of a King, THE LESSON OF THE RAIN. Af God takes notice ot ery mimute rain drop thea He will take notice of the moat insignificant affair of my life, It 1s the astrovomical effort that both Curistians, They look up into the heavens and see the ity of the universe, and then think if God at Vast machbi.ery through immensity He Will not take the trouble to look down after me. I fidel conciusion! Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter a not more launched and weighed and swung by the hana of God than are the globules of rain drops on a lilac bush the morning after the shower. Are not the hairs of your head all numbered? And it the Himalaya has aGod hath pot tue rain a father? I take tis doce trine of w particular providence and I thrust it into the very midst of your every day lite. If God fathers the rain drop is there anything so insignificant in your aflairs that God won’t jather that? God iseitner tn the affairs of men or our religion is worth nothing at all, and you bad better take itaway. On, let us rise to the appreciation of the jact that ali the affairs of lite are uuder a King’s command and under a Father's watch! Again, my subject teaches me that Gou’s deal. ings areg@nexplicable. ‘There is un infinite mystery aboutarain drop If you cannot understand even ne drop of rain do not be surprised if God's deal- ings are inexplicable. We ask ‘*wuy’” at covery mo- ment. Let us stop pursuing this everlasting why. It @ man should take that ono question and pursue it he would lead a miserable lite on earth and am lite in hell, We want in our theology fewer in tion marks and more exclamation puints, THR kal) Again my text make is of divine origin, is nothing but @ drop of ilympoatic fiw by the lachrymal Blands—it is only a sign of weuk cyen, That's a gi) mistake; it is one of the Lord’s richest ber the world. Lt is a tender, all-compassionate God who that rain, There are threo or four Kinds of tears that God cans, boities and eternize First, there are the parental tours; and ther mor Of those than any other kind, because the most of the and that keeps parents mourning there are the filial tears, We get ling for our motber tu the first ten yeu 80 used to Of our life that wo can never got over it, and when she ve t makes a deep and overwheiming sorro Vears vo divine origin? Why, take all the Warm hearts that ever vet and put them together and their united throb would be weak compared to the throb | of God's eterual sympathy. Yes, God aiso i# the father of all » When one tear of re- pentance starts out it tnrilis all heaven, and the gued tow spirit than they commenced ‘and speak for Christ, whose ministers they ‘expressing thomseives Willing to jay down thoir ‘pecessary, for tho sake of thoir Redeomer. Pee eee rateced ee irieenen oat. oa bouse angols cannot keep their eyes off of i. OU you would move this audionco with tue great waveol reli- emotion—repen: Tepentance! You pave in the Lord Josus Christ, the King of tho Church, away irom your heart, He comes back to-day and rey y | beard ‘St Paul speak betereand confound the learned through, the destinies of the race were in tbe bands of woman. ‘‘Tbere is not,” said Mr. Woodruff, “a woman listening t© me but is sweeping her fingers over chords which will vibrate through all evernity.’” ADVICE TO MAIDENS. Woman’s strength, the preacher contended, did not exist in apy nal beauty or glitter ol adornment, and wise, and at his first. sermon convert 5,000 their astonishment knew no bounds. Here, then, wo have the miraculous effects of the grace intused by the oly Ghost. A few menchosen trom that class of being the lowest in the scale of MT by their daily avocations from, knowledge of human society regarded speaking, all vices of all conquered nations, [be command given the apostles to preach to all nations was not given to them alone, but to their lawful successors to the end of and we sce it being carried out now as They were given a head in Peter, and his suc- cessor is the present Popa, It is look back and see thet the Church, notwit! jg ber many and severe trials, 13 to-da: hat she w: in the time of Peter, united, fe and, potl It is sad to con- template the number of sects in existence without any bond of unity, bus it is consoling to think that in the Catholic Church is to be found the reliving vigor of youth and unity, and to-day is rated 1n Rome the Afueth anniversary of the nomination of the Pope as Bishop, and 250,000,000 of loving children spreud over the earth contemplate in rapturous joy his outliving even the days of Peter as well. 8 heart may be bowed d with sadness at the trit of the Chureb, but it rejoices at the thought that she Will outlive her enemies. makes the two hun- dred and hird link im the golden chain jpremacy, and he will hand 1t down unbroken We see by the apostles how Goa makes use of tho weak and simpie to confound the strong and wise, aud that without His grace we can do no good, We should, then, constantly pray for it, and so order our lives that in our sphere we may be to apostles, With grace all things are possivie, nd unity dwell wi itis, THE PASSIONIST MONASTERY. PENTECOST SERVICES—THE GRAND ORGAN. Over 3,000 people attended solemn high mass yester_ day in the magnificent church attached to St. Michuel’s Monastery, West Hoboken, The celebrant was Father Aleaander; Deacon, Father Eugene; sub-Deacon, Father Ambrose; Master of the Ceremonies, Father Paul, while the rest of the fathers and students were in the sanctuary, The sermon was delivered by tne Vice Superior of the Monastery, Father Timothy, who preachod {rom the Gospel of St, John, from the twenty- third to the thirty-first verse, The eloquent preacher stated that the feast of Pentecost was instituted by God Himself, who commanded that it should be sol- emoly kept, and then gave an interesting descrip. tion of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles, The preacher moralized as tohow many people offend against the Holy Ghost, and depicted in glowing terms: what would ensue from such upgodly conduct, while those who acted in a way to please the Spirit were certain of eternal life, In the afternoon fully two thousand people attended Vespers and benediction, Next Sunday, May 27, » rand sacred concert and organ recital will be given at for o’clock 1m the afternoon, under the direction of Mr. H. Bialler, organist of St. Ann’s Church, of tnis city, who will be assisted by Mr. Lansing, the pianist of St. Stepben’s Church, and the following solviste:— Miss A, E. Borie, Miss A. Henne, Mr. Charles Fritsch and Mr, A. Blum, with a large chorus. The occasion of the concert will be the opening of the grand organ just completed for this church at a cost of $15,000. It ‘occupies tho entire space of the choir gallery, and is 44 leet in height and 42 feet in width. It contains three vanks of keys, filty-eight stops and over 4,000 pipes, and has also the celebrated stop the ‘vox humana.” In design and floish the organ is very ubandsome. The froutis divided into five arches, in consonance with the architecture of the church; in each of the arches are clustered goiden pipes, surmounted by fine crosses of tho game character and finish as the pipes. The programme will be as follows‘—‘Torchlight Pre = cession,” by Meyerbeer; ‘‘Kyric’’ (imperial ma: Haydn; “Juxta Crucem’? (Stabat Mater), by M Grandal; “Et Incarnatus Est,” from Humme'! ond Mass; “Quoniam’? (Messe Solennolle), by R ; “Overture to William Tell,” oy Rossini; 0 Salu- taris,”” by St. Jnens; variations of “Annie Laarie,”’ by Buck; ‘Parola Terza,” “The Last Seven Words,” by Mercadante; Marche, '‘La Reine de Saba,” by Gou- nod. MADISON AY. REFORMED CHURCH. THE BLESSING OF CHILDRKEN—SERMON BY THE REY. WILLIAM IZOYD, “Little children, a source of praise to God and strength to mon,’’ was the topic of the Rev. William Lioyd’s sermon, at the Madison Avenue Reformed Church, at the corner of Fifiy-seventh street, yester- day morning. The text upon which he founded his remarks ia to be foand in Psalms, viii, 2—‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength,” &c, In orderto attain to an understand- ing of the tcaching of the words quoted, he said it would be necessary first to remove a common error of interpretation—namely, that the expression was merely figurative, in filustration of the weakness of the early Christian Church in comparison with the strength of the systems with which it had to contend, Although this viow had the sanction of the Christian fathers it appearod to him antenabie, because of two fundamental laws of sound Scriptural interpretation—tirst, that the text should be literally understood when it involves no violence to common sense or morality; second, that it should be inter- preted by Scripture, Christ Himself is the beat ex- positor of the Bible. In the Temple He rebuked the scribes and the Pharisees, who would navo silenced the children who were singing this psalm with the very words of the text. 4 TOWER OF STRENGTH. Its meaning is that God bas out of the character and utterance of little children founded a tower of strength tor men and a source of praiso to Himeell. Di troubled at the matinies of men—eins against himself. As be thought of man’s ineana tried to comfort himself with the image of his o1 greatness, acd then turned for stili deeper comfort to the beauty, faith and innocence of littiechildren. They No woman, he said, shoula depenu upon marriage to increase her power to do good. That was an honorable estate, divinely inatituved, made precious by the mem- ories Of mothers, and sanctified by honored wives; but some of the vest and purest women that ever walked the earth lived oatsiae of the marriage circia, 1t was to ve feared that many a wo! married because she lacked courage to be single, and has accepted an unworthy offer to escape the scoffs of the care- less ana the flings of the vulgar. “Maidens,’? said the preacher, ‘‘dare to remain as you ure. It is inflattery better for you and for society than to have yourselves allied to un- worthy men. If, in your own consciences, a single seems preferable for you, or it circumstances do pot IaVor a suitable marriage, be true to yourselvos, cust what it may. Indeed, the statistics of the human family prove beyond question that in almost every country there are more women than men, and is there not in this fact a divine intimation that spiritual mothers and sisters are needed by the race?” Humun lite, Mr. Woodraff wont on to say, wad jull of barsh- ness and critivism, and it was the mission of woman to soothe, There were numberiess opportunities ior & good and brave woman to do good, though sne pever stood atthe marriage altar. Accordi! vo Mr. Woodruff the groat element of woman’s strength is piety—tho sort of piety that is penetrated with kind- ‘bess, quietness and earnesiness, ‘The kindness of a religious woman should be pre-eminently displayed toward the weak and erring of her own sex. WOMAN'S WRONGS, To be judged too harshly fora false step was one of the great wroogs which woman has to suffer. if so- committed ove wrong greater than ull others it im sheltering men aud crushiog women for the same offence, Mr, Woodrafl declared that he did not appear as the apologist of sin in apyocdy, but bo wished to protest against the undue and uniair barsh- ness shown to woman jn her faults, ‘THK CONAKQUENCH OF ONE FALSE STEP. “One taiso step,” suid no, “and inatantuy society erects a wail of brass against that woman’s returo. It may not have been a criine; it may have been only an imprudence, and ac imprudenc in early it but, alas, how bitterly is the erring one pursued!’ Yvars ot righteous living with thousands of veartal eee for nothing; society refuses vo be satisied, Aud all this without crime baving been committed by the unhappy and suspected wi 0. But allow that it was a crime; bay, more, tI continued for ‘hile in sin, where, yet, is ¥ apology ior y bunting that fallen one to the arave A woman bavo her beart ail torn with Fepeniance, but,if she have the least taint upon ber bustory, with what holy borror the wh: sex will draw back irom her! How many a n one has cried ‘Ob, if only I could get buck once to hume ana purity, 1 would ar fidolity to virtue’ Soci- ety bears her cry and auswers her with a laugh of con- tempt, and betoro the echo of that sarcastic laugh has died upon her ear she dashes down into the maci- strom torever!’’ ST. STEPHEN'S BR. C. CHURCH, “THE WONDERFUL E¥FECTS OF GRACE” —BSER- MOM BY REV. FATHER M’CAULEY. Tho services at St. Stepten’s Church yesterday were ot a solemn and interesting character, the day being Whitsunday. Rev, Father McCauley preached from ‘Acts iL, 1-2 verses, saying the aposties were all assem- bled in unity, awaiting tho coming of the Holy Ghost, who was to strengthen them by grace before going into all parts of the world to preach a doctrine opposed to the prevailing foelings and inclinations of men at the time. 1t was doctrine hard to accept, as its accept ance required the giving up of what men then, like too many now, prized most highly and worshipped moat devoutly, the pride and Just of the world. They needed strength from heaven to face the tide of corruption and depravity that then flowed unrestrained, and to openly reprimand and denounce vice in high places as woll as low. Thoy had already received powor to baptize and to lorgivo sing, but they awaited the final order, accompanied by the corresponding grace, to disperse and cuter all the nations of w earth, How wondertul the transformation when t Holy Ghost descended upon them was at once a parent. From weak and tumorous men they became dy, Hay panting, for the fignt ol con- atan. There woro muled in Jerusalem nen from all patio { the eurth aod speaking evoy ton; How surprised and contounded they were when they heard tue Aposties, who, a fow moments betore, were ignorant of their language, how speak to them with fl This wonder was Daturaliy commented o: th are a stronghold of comiort to men. It is a sad Bact that many people seem to regard the advent of children into the:r homes as something to be recated and avoided if poss Their absence m mpt them from care and may give them more time for irivolity, bat a bom never such as God meant it to be unless children are there, There is much in this world to chafe us, There are providential problems which cause our faith in mun to failand often even our trust in God to founder. We do not find the comfort seck in the great world, and then wo turn our footsteps homeward, Tnere we are greeved by our little chit dren who Climb our knee the envied kiss to share, and we find in their pure hearts and gulleless af- jection such comfort as wecan never gain irom the cold and heartless world. A STRONGHOLD OF HOPS. Children are a stronghold of hope. The mutisies of mon against God disturd the Christian heart, but we think an Was a cbild once, aod by the grace of God may become a little child again. There was pro- found philosophy im the action of Christ to His dis- ciples when He placed the little children in thotr midst, er to their inquiry as to which of them should ter beiore God. ‘Ibe pathway to trust and tho highest honor was not on the mountain’s brow, where the brain grows dizzy at the height, but through the ‘of a spiritaal childnooa, Lite to many isa ruggie, Few havo not felt constrained to cry sometimes, Oh, for a to be born in me, That the man | am may cease to be! Little children have taugnt the wisest men lessons tn faith, 1p Divine Providence and the future. Our living children teach us trast for the present and our children that are under tho green sod strengthen our fuith in tmmertality. Children are the strength of tho Church. Very few adults are converted to God. More than four-filtns ot the persons who bad been led to the faith by the pastor during the nine years were not twenty-one years of age. He called upon parents to come to Christ and to lead their little children to Him, EIGHTEENTH STREET M, E. CHURCH. FRIENDS IN HEAVEN—SERMON BY THE REY. W. E. HATFIELD. “Pho recognition of triends in heaven’? was tho subject of s sermon by Rev. W. E. Hatfleld in tho Etghteenth Street Methodist Church yesterday morn- ing. Alter the singing of the hymn, “Come, let us Join our iriends above,” Mr. Hatield announced his vext as foliows:—*But I would not have yo to be igno- rant, brethren, concerning them that sleep,” &c.— L Thessaionians, iv., 13-14 Tho preacher said that he preached upon this subject by request. It i ub. ject than which, perbaps, there is nono other that takes so early a hold upon men, and upon which thoy are so fF to obtain all the light to be found in the Gospels, 1t is that of meeting and knowing our friends who have departed in Christ in the spirit Jana, mh nly recognition, as it is not conlined to apy age of nation of the world. It is almost univor- gai and bejongs to what is called natural religion, in that respect differing {rom revelation, which finds its only prool iu the Sc! behef common iy for reunion with departea friends. Ail tho rites and ceromonies of the Hindoo religion point to this belict, and oven the Indian i» confident that after death be wil o the chase in the happy hunting grounds of the Great Spirit, in company with his warrior triends. ‘The argument in favor of this beliet 1s that God would not have implanted in our bosoms such a noble desire upless be micnded to grattly it. Memory will remain the same alter death, only greatly intensified. We will remember and recognize those whom we have known in lite, for death docs uot destroy personal jdeotity and individuality. Our bodies will be more beautiful, more glorious, but the sume, Among the millions that inhabit the earth there nO two ex- actly alike, and the distinguishing points of difference will be as strongly marked alter death, As parents, long separated irom their children, know (hem 1h after yeurs by some mark or scar, so atter deatn there will @ mark by which friends may identity one an- ‘Tho Scriptures are not altogether silent on the ject, ax some may suppose, ‘AL this point Mr. Hathvid read two or three passages from the Old and (he New Testament in support of his argument, He then proceeded to consider one objec- Won to tho theory which Is proposed more frequently than any other, It is that our pleasure at recognizing individ the friends we have known upon earth eeslt he outweighed the disappointment ot no that others, beloved, beavenly Diisa, otnat Koowlcage, like a drop of gall, would embitter the whole cup of joy, and we would be far happier ifwe were never to know the fricods we meet in heaven, To this it may be said that our hearts and minds will be so far elevated as to lose the Yenc | of pain, and that we will pen ‘as well and good all that springs from the Divine will. This belief not re epcou! us to save ourselves, but to persuade all our kii and friends to seek salvation, ST. JAMES' k, ©. CHURCH. SERMON BY THE REY. YATHER EDWARD KENNA, A large congregation crowded the Church of St. James yesterday. The officiating clergymen at high mass were the Rev, Father Felix Farrelly, pastor; Rev. Father Corkery, deacon, and Rev. Father Far- Tell, sub-deacon, The altar decorations were excced- ingly chaste and appropriate, Father McKenna, who has recently become pastor of the church at Monti- cello, preached a sermon, selecting his text from the gospel of the day, Prior, howevor, to entering upon his discourse the reverend gentleman called attention to the fact that the esteemed pastor of Su James had afforded additional proofs of nis generosity 1: lowing all the collections to be taken upto be devoted toward the new parish church at Monticello, Father McKean! proceeded to dwell upon tl feast which the Church celebrated, lucidly explainibg its meaning and drawing wholesome de- ductions from the logsons it imparted, He traced in eloquent terms the bistory of tne Catholic Church—its foundation by the Saviour, the ones given to His apostles by the descent of the Holy Ghost to carry out and Fpetuute its existence to the end of time. the course of an oxhanstive argument the reverena gentieman showed that in everything done throughout the lite of the Saviour, He was actu- ated solely by His love for mankind, aod the fulfilment of His promises in the coming of the third person of the Trinity was conclusive in that respect. The ser- mon of the reverend gentleman was listened to with devout attention by the vast congregation. The Kev. Father Farreily announced that the preparatory instruc. tions to the children of the parish about to tuko their first communion would be imparted to-morrow and on Wednesday, The interesting services of tho day did not terminate until alter twelve o'clock. MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, Mc THE ANNUAL BECEPTION YESTERDAY—COMPLE- TION OF A SUCCESSFUL YEAR—WHAT Has BREN DONE IN THE PAST—¥FINANCES AND NEW OFFICERS, ‘The annual reception of the Mount Sinai Hospital took place yesterday at the hospital buildings, At eleven o’clock the entire buildiug was thrown open for the inspection of all who chose to enter, and the guests wore bountifully entertained by a committee of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Society, consisting of Mrs. H. Bett- man, Mra. S, Wormser, Mra, H. Guitterman, Mra. J, Heller and Mra, bt. H. Moses, The wards and corridors of the entire building wore -elean and in pertoct order and the air was, owing to the excellent ventilation, as pure and iresh as that f the building. nearly all filled with patients, whose wan and pale lighted up at the sight of 0 many sympathizing Visitora. There was about th ance of comfort and satisfaction not bospitais, The food and atten re of th t, while the mod: sone of the most eminent physicia: nd surgeons in the city. present number of patients about one- third are Christians. ORK, The number of patients treated during the year was 1,616 aga‘nst, 1,33u for the previous yeur, being a daily averago of 114.64, or increase of over twenty-one patients daily. The cost of food tor each inmate was twenty-six and four-{i/tus couts per day. The following will give an idea of the work of the bospital during the past year:—Whole number of patients treat during the year, 1,516; discharged, cured, 964; discharged, improved, 320; discharged, not improved, 23; left beiore treatment began, 25. Of deaths, 18 were irom consumption and 17 trom other incurable diseases ; 15 were admitted in @ hopeless con- dition, Percentage of deaths was 4.9. Daily average of patients, 11484, Average length of time each patient remained, 2734 days, Tho number of presorip- tions prepared was 14,625. The financial condition of the hospital is excellent. The receipts during the year amounted to $163,009 84, and the disbursements were ‘as follows:—Investments in bonds and mortgages on real estate in the city of New York, $77,695; cash paid on warrants, $52,323 96; casb on hand, $33,090 88, THE PRESENT OFFICERS. The following 18 a list of the new officers and di- Teotors of the ussociatior Adolph Hullgarten, President; Harris Aronson, Vice President; Samuel M. Schafer, Treasurer; Harmon H. Nathap, Honorary Secretary; Joseph L. Sobor ‘stant Secretary. mon Sommerich, L, Fatman, Kurzman, V. H. Rothschild, Nathan Livtacer, Stine, Edwin Einstein, Levi Samuels, Hyman Bi Isaac Blumenthal, Louis Stix, Solomon Sulzberg: Isaac Wallach. THE CARNIVAL COLLAPSE, Diroctors—Henry Gitterman, THE REY. MATHAN HUBBELL EXPLAINS TAB BEASONS WHY AND WHEREFORE. At the Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church the pastor, Rev. Natban Hubbell, preached last night on “The Carnival Collapse,” endeavoring to draw ao moral lesson from the recent failure of that much talked of pageant. His text was taken from Ecclesias- tes, vil, 5—“It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of teols.””” THERES FAILURES IN ONE. The word carnival, he said, was derived from tho Latin words carnis, flesh, and vale, tarewell, signitying farewell to meat, It wasa permanont institution in Rome, Venice and other European cities, where it was observed with great splendor about tno beginning of Lent, The event had been much spoken of inthe daily press. Some of the papers had decried it {rom the beginning; others had praised it too much. The Herarp had dealt most fairly and justly with the carnival, speaking of it in terms Bot too sanguine belore its ocourrence and impartially chronicling tts failure, pausing to moralize op the Jessons that that failure taught. As in tho Jungles of India the natives arive out serpents and ‘tigers by lighting a circular fire and letting it buro toward tho centre, fo the fires of the press and the pulpit should surround such immoral exhibitions and drive them out of our free country. In the first place the caroival wasa tinaocial failure, Not only those who originated the carnival anid those who took part 1m it lust money, but the actual loss outside of these expenses the preacher estimated at ovor city as w red its introduction. ing ree and by the people in the surrounding country losing their ti ana work at this important season of the year, TramMo, too, was blocked. All this nuisanco was permitted on to give the people a little fe come afterall, it was a failure us an ex- hibition as might difficult to be fupny by a well try to keep bimseil in beaith by resolving to ve well. The haifa million of spectators waitod for weary hours for something, and at i by and revealed t that king was Ja; the worst failure of ‘The very word carnival came from the sume root as the word curnal, which showed is wholo claracter. It appealed to low a assions and could not there! a id been shown in Europe. There, wherever the carnivais were conspicuous, they had driven out pu ligion, Then among other bad effects of the car; were the physical effects that would result from such late carousals, The failure of the carnival bassettied the question of future carnivals, Decause no person would think of repeatin; mont of Tuesday last in New York if in bit THE CASE OF REV. MR. M‘KELVEY, To THe Epitor or THe iinaL.p:— The Presbyterian Church at Westfield, N. Rov. Alexander McKelvey aro in this position at pres. ont;—Tho appeal ana compiaint of the congregation aro pending before the General Assembly at Chicago, asking tho Assembly to enforce its judgment of 1876, directing adissolution between Rey. Mr. McKelvoy and the church, Mr, McKelvey remained in the parson- ago and preached and received support trom the church up to the time of the Assembiy’s moeting this year, and refused to say when he would vac: Alter the papors were presented to the Assembly at Chicago Mr. McKelvey and nis family weot from the parsonuge to reside with a neighbor in Weatie:d, without re- moving bis goods from the premises, The question is whether the Assembly will leave the matter in such @ condition that Mr, McKelvey may return to the par- sonage and remain till the noxt Assembly (1878) alter the adjournment of this session? The courre pursued In respect to the parsonage is very much like that in respect to the dissolution directed last year. The dis- solution bemg directed by the Assembly through the Synod and the Presbytory of Elizabeth, Mr. McKelvey, anticipating sach ibjunciion, tendered bis resignation, which being accepted, Mr. McKeivey at once became a candidate for re-election and was elected over. Can the Assembly maintain ite authority and respect if such cvasions and practices are allowed, which deteat the spirit of its mandates end bring its authority into reproach? Is this Presbyterian government? The Assembly shoula decide. x. SOAP-OSED TO BE HONEST, Jobn Downs, aged twenty years, a salesman in the grocety store of John Gaynor, No, 554 Grand strect, ‘Was charged at the fombs Police Court yesterday with stealing @ barrel of sugar and a box of eoap from his employer and carrying the same to a rival establish. meat on Sheriff sirect. Tho prisonor, who was com- mitted in default of bail, was always supposed ve an honest, reliable young man, —_— CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN PUBLIO SCHOOLS. MOT IN FAVOR OF THE ZOD, Norman Coureas, Naw Youu, May 19, 1597, | To Tue Eorror or tax Henaup: Please permit me to correct a statement which ape peared In one of the editorials of the Hxratp on Thure- day last, It 1s to the following effect:—“The President of tho Normal Schoo! 1s credited with originating the romarkable proposition that certain schools be desig- nated in different parts of the city ta which entldren may be boaten at the pleasure of the teachers, and to which aumanageable children may be sent.” This “remarkable proposition’? indeed, but the President of jormal oleae never originated it; uever even ed it, The HERauD has been misinformed, The jent of the Normul College ts opposed to corporal shment, root aud branch, utterly and forever, rain of truth which forms the basis of the above rkable proposition” ts this:—The President of the Normal College, in discussing this question, has recommended, if necessary, a central school in which vicious boys could be boarded, lodged and reformed, and made morally fit for the public schools. The ob- ject was to save the public scnool system from the ‘degradation of the rod, Respectfully, THOMAS HUNTER, President Normal College, A DEFENCE OF THE TEACHERS, To rus Epiron oF THR HERALD:— An article in yesterday’s issue of your paper on tt subject of corporal punishment tn the schools of N York certainly does the teachers an injustice by tone and inferences, and as certainly is calculated make a false impression on the minds of hitherto ur prejudiced persons. In the first place the proportion of teachers whoare in favor of the reintroduction of the rod so far from being overstated by its champions at nine-tenths 1s, 1 can positively affirm, underrated, Ih a very extended acquaintance among the teach. ers of this city, and of all of them 1 know but one who is not in favor of the measure now before the Board of Education; that one is no longer personally interested in the matter, As far as my knowledge goos, it is safe to say not ono per cent of our teachors think the pres- ent plan is better than the old one, In the next place our teachers are not in favorof any such outrageous and high-handed proceedings ag char. acterized Dotheboys Hall, and it is a gross injustice to them as respectable men and women to suppose that they aro, What they wish isa nupport in discipline, something of which they are almost entirely destitute, Can the writor of that article offer an efficient substi- tute forthe rod? if he can let bim do so, and the teacbers will bail him as one who has been able to do what nobody else has succeeded in doing; but uni! he has endeavored for six months to teach # class of fifty boys, made up from every grade of society, and com- ply with the prosent requirements, he should not in- form the public that all teachers who dosire corporal punishment do not deserve to hold their positions, In my acquaiutance 1 have many iriends who have the mn of boing excellent disciplinarians—some, ho are considered by both superintendents and priucipa: unexceiled in this particular—agd they, without exception, are strongly in favor of ite raturn to the schools. Toe fact 1s that the mere pres. ence of the rod ip bool does nine-tenths of the work as twenty voys will {ako advantage Precipitate punishment under its sway scarcely one will dare atiempt any act of the sort when sure of its applica. wi Again, the proportion of beys who are properly governuble only by this means is not at all as small as the writer of the editorial would imply; itis enor. mously larg jome schools of the city fully one- halt, And indeed, as getting along without tt 18 concerned, why, the teachers do not got along with- out ti, for in many instances they reier the cases to the parents, who ure apt to be far more severe than even acaim, disinterested principal would be in a merely pertunctory rcise of his duty. Then, too, the inference in regard to the assumed presi cient condition of the schools witaont corpo! ishment, as compared with their supposed inefiot with it, 18 a great mistake. The schools are not nearly such good discipline now asthey were ten yoarsago, [ama teacher, and through my acquaint- ances 1 am napa constantly of cases occurring all over the city the like of which would not have been heard once in a yi Only a week ago a tem teacher, who da high as a disciplinarian, d a boy tell her he would knock her dor he was turned out of school, It might Lave coat her a week’s pay if she bad but seized him by the collar and ejected him from the room. Another teacher, who had had no trouble ta speak of in his class for a month or more, was recently astounded by baving # boy tell him be lied. The boy ‘was sent to the class below to lose six months of bis Ife because the disciplinary measures of our schools 0 miserably inefficient that he could not be forced to keep good order where he was, Anotber boy in the fourth grade flatly and impudeatly rotused-to obey bis toacher. Ho went down to the class below, where he tried the same thing again, and passed thence to the sixth grade, where he is yet, thereby losing a year. Another young hopeial, after making an excellent reputation in his class, persuaded a friend to forge a note in his father’s name excusing bim from attend- ance. He was sent to the ciass below; if he bad not been twenty notes would have been forged within a week. Now, then, what measure have the ents of the rod to offer in its place? They say ‘the moral in- fluence ol the teacher.’’ How millenaial that sounds outsiders! How ingentously farcical to teachers! How entirely convincing to the profession that these sentimental theorists never attempted to take charge of aclass for even a day or two! Theeflicacy of a remedy ireaseney, depends on the manner of its ad. ministration, the ‘moral influence” of teachers ‘will be felt 1m all its effictency only at the Les ig end of awhip. The mero presence of the rod will prevent nine-tenths of the disorder that exists without it, Tho Iittie that {t will have to be used in most scnools will be all that is necessary to preclude many times ag much disorder as it corrects, Tne moral effect of possible whipping will be infinitely greater than t! of any other means of re yet suggested. SECOND ASSISTANT, Nuw Yorn, May 19, 1877. DON’T GIVE AN INCH, To tae Eviror or THe Haraup:— Your article on the disciples of Wackford Squeers is right to the point, and a well merited rebuke to those who wish to perpetuate the barbarous practice of child beating. All experience has shown that any ligenso to strike childreu is sure to be abused. In- stances of thig are continually occurring in all parts of the country. Where tho inch is given the ell is sure to be taken. It follows as naturally as night to the day. How many more children are to be tortured and maimed to demonsirate tnis fact to some bay au TEACHERS’ SALARIES, An arravgement has been made between Comptrolicr Kelly and L, D. Kiernan, by which provision is made for the payment of May, Jane and July salaries to all the teachers of this city before, tho commencement of the summer vacation, The money will be paid by the Comptroller as follows:—For May, on the I3ik of June; for June, June 25; tor July, July3 This timely programme will, doubtless, allay much appree beosion among the toachers, A RHODE ISLAND CLAM BAKE. BUSHELS OF CLAMS, SHEEPSHEAD, CHICKEN AND OYSTERS DISPOSED OF, An old-time Rhode Island clam bake was held yess terday at Joe Crocheron’s Bay Side House’ on Long Island, Tho house ts at present leased to Tony Muller, and his friends, headed by ex-Superintendent Kelso, made all the arrangements for the bake, As it was ‘understuod that a well known son of Rhode Island, as yd by John Arcutarius, was to superintend the cooking of the luscious bivalves and the other deliea- cies composing a Rhode Island clam bako, thero was large attendance of heavy weights and clam eaters trom New York. Some came by the cars to Flushing, and then drove the remainder of the distance, while others preferred to drive direct from the city, The driving portion of the Journey was not pleasant, as the heat was intense and the dust was in clouds, but the traveller was amply repaid for the discomfort he endured when he arrived at Bay Side, On the covered platform tu frout of the house, where the tables were ako, there was plenty of shade aud a nice ‘wus Cooling and refreshing, A Jarge fire was buroiug on the top of a heap of stones to the right of the hotel, and industrious colored assistants of the chiet covk were busy piling on the flrewuod go as to get the stones good and hot, A dozen heavy weights wore standing around, headed by Kolso, Joe Crocheron, Cheeks anda well known alderman, watching with anxious solicitade the preparations, an occupation which they occasionally varied by a trip to the hotel to get a glass of ice water. PREPTRING THE FRAST, In tho meantime the son of Rhode I Arcularius were preparing to piace steaming stones. First came a layer ot hard clams, and thon some soit » Which were followed by oY nd and dir. od ne jams wore thrown on the top, carefuily covered with « wet sailclotb, and then sea rock weed was pitched on top, covering up every rent, so that the stcam could poveseape following stulf was worked in tne bal Punean, b0sheepshead, 150 pounds of of lovsters, 1 barrel of i enickens, 60 pounds of bels bard clams ai out halt an hour's time the cooks ai that everyching was ready, and the bungry ried to take their seats at the tables, Loa the watters were busy running backword with the plates of steaming clams, fis chicken. It was surprising to see the eatabi disape eur, somo Of the guests exciting the admiration ot ol¢ whick adopted Ume clam bake patrons by tho handy way 1 thoy disposed of soit clams. Koiso and his 1 (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGEI ; RE a oe ee war