The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1877, Page 8

. 8 SUMMER SERMONS From New York and Brooklyn Pul- pits Yesterday, {THE BURDENS OF LIFE, Mr. Frothingham on the Papal Anniversary. SERVICES IN THE GOSPEL TENT. | CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. WEEMON BY REV. DB. HEPWORTH—HOW TO LIGHTEN THE BURDENS OF LIFE—FAITH AND SCEPTICISM—DYSPEPSIA BAD FOB RELIGION. Rev. Mr. Hepworth yesterday morving preached to sue of bis usually large audiences from the text—St Matthew, xi, 30—‘‘For my yoke is easy and my bur- den is light,” taking os his tneme, ‘How to lighten ‘the burdens of lite.” THE SERMON. ‘The preacher said:—I desire to call special attention to the last clause in that verse—**My burden is light.” For that is the utterance of a profound philosopher who evidently discovered a truth which men have often sought for yet not always found. It contains the secret of all happiness, the means of discovering beauty everywhere, the means by which the tear 1s ebanged into the smile, and the frown into a golden wown of glory. Qneof the chief thoughts embodied jB the passage is that man’s life at its very best 8 a buraen. Wo are living in the midst of per- plexities; we grow despondent in failing to forecast the future and so escape the evils that continually Mreaten us. A gecona thought ts that most men shoose the greator burden ratner than the less, We $rust too much to our personal judgment and in our pride look to the results of this as the means whereby ‘we may control the exigencies by which we are sur- rounded, But the truth is that be who trusts himself foes his own way to heaven, while the man who srasts God goes under the authority of the Chief of the Universe. It isa difficult thing to give oursolves Op to the directing churacter of another, and yet if we are thoroughly couvinced that that being is thoroughly \nterested in our weltare, and guiding and goerding urely ougat to be willing wo fl His commands contravene our judgment, Still another thought that grows out of the ext is the golden one that religion as it bus been revealed to us m the lite and death of Lord and Master gives Jightness to the ur lives, guides us without trust to it and follow its precepts to secure greater bappiness here aad Bereaitor, and attain a larger spiritual, manly aud Boral growth, than can be ined in any other way. An unconditional surrender to the voice and will of jou will win us the victory. But look a little turcher. What does Christ mean wnen He suys, ‘Mv burden is ight?” Lanswer by asking the question, What is the Iifference between an attitude of obedience and an stitude of bedience? The Bible tella us “the way pt the transgressor is hard.” The meaving is not that the end of the journey in awaited by punishment, but ‘bat punishment follows us all along the journey, for Mis isa world of trouble. There 1: species of phi- wosopby that, although shrewdness and dishonesty are unished in the end, so far as this fie goes, they pay well. The Bub! pats Qs foo. on that doctriue empbaticaily, and all experi- wwce proves that it i illogical. Evil ways caunot bring oy, and uvless w man 18 guided by moral principles, mch as God himself approves, naught can follow but esticysness aud misery, These are but the naturale results of the want of peace in the conscience—ot peuce with Heaven and peace with mankind. No bad ad can, 10 the uature of thiuge, be happy, for “the way of the transgressor is hard,” and beneath all the Apparent Joy and contentment of the evil doer there is A craving and ao unrest that forbids the peucolul sleep Bhat is enjoyed by bis Ubristian brother, to wuom God somes sometimes in bis dreams saylug “Forget the things that are behind, and reaching fortn unto these things which are belore press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” PAITH AND SCEPTICISM. Look in at the difference in the attitude of faith and that of scepticism, What isit that makes the lif of our Lord precious to many ot us? Why 1 it, on th Sther band, that so many ‘ure in constant rebellioa’ aguinst the decrees of Gud Why is it that when dis- appoiwtmeuts tbr mm to crush us and domestic brouble throws its shadows around us, we stand aghust and bewildered, not comprepending the signiticance uf the event and not being able to say, “Iby will and bot Mine be done.” It iy because we cannot pursuade our- selves tbat God’s will is just and right, The difficulty, ty frienvs, is not in events but in our own hearts, tor when these are rigbt everything else is right. [be av who looks out upou the splendor of the firmament through diseased eyes sees ulmost nothing, DYSPEPSIA VERSUS KAD THEOLOGY. The mau afflicted with dyspepsia can scarcely be sheertul in Lis social intercourse or religion, He be- somes gloomy aud morose, and this gives a character wo his faith which is cold, bard and forbidding, You i Hud bim speaking against ull innocent umase- ments, and insisting tbat they must be wicked because ae is’ incapable of participating io their pleasure, There is » great deal of bad theology in the world that comes irom physical disease; u great deal cf religious Darsuness that has its cause bot so Oilen in a misap- prehension ol the Scriptures us 1p some personal do- fect or delect in education, Ub, brethren, how often you and I bave tulked this matter over when there was trouble in your households, for the skeleton is everywhere, and Low often you have becn told that God only requires tuith und implicit obedience to over- tome the perplexity, distrust und tears from which you suffered. Accept what God says us un everlasting tutu; putit in, practice tu your daily lives, and you @ill toa as you uear the end of your jourvey that the burdens will ali be lifted and forgotten in the presence of that maagsion not made with hunds that God keeps iMuminated with the sunlight of His love, Faith is tho goigen key that-will uplock the gate of the New Jeru- eulem. ‘ PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR, BEECHER ON 1HE INFLUENCE OF GOD ON MAN AND THE PROGRESS OF MODERN THOUGHT. Plymouth Church yesterday morning put on for the $ret time this season its summer aspect; the duors were open on all sides, ‘There were several pews purt!y ovoupiod, and there was no crowding of stran- sersat the different entrances. The floral decorations of the platiorm were abundant and of great variety of wlor, The subject of Mr. Beecher’s sermon was the action of the divine nature on man, and ao oppor- éunity was taken to comment on recent scien- WGc theories that are generally supposod to be Qntagonistic to orthodox beliet. The text selected was the thirteenth verse of the secund chapter of the Epistle of Paul tothe Philippians—*For it 18 God which worketh in you both vo will and todo ol bis good pleasure, This passage, said Mr. Beecher, is go- mg to be @ point of much greater interost thun it tas ever been, although it is always precious, itis really a philosophical statement of the relation of the vivine mind to the whole phenomena ot na- ture, and baa within it questions that are just now Agitated by Various discoveries and the relation of theolugy to science. These ure questions that are pressing just wow upon the minds of all thoughtiul ople, uBd the result of any change in philosophy is aiways to breed doubt, unless very careiully acter apon, It is always necessury to remember thut Statement of a truth may vary und be diflerent trom @bat it was u hundred or tive huaured years and yet shat the truth in thutst utremaing, Weare upt to think toat because it comes to us ina different form the wrath itsel! bes been abandoned. Wo have hi statement that God is the cause of vitulit; Jouk within and without in the physi jp the spiritual world we see that God iaspii tivity of the general or norma condition of oar na- bure. WHat Was ONO THOUGHT. Look at the progress of buman thought on this sub- so Originally 1t was beld that everything proceeded i a direct act of the divine sovereiguty; tuat God @ade ail the countiess myriads of ile, aod that 1b was aerived from a local und direct auction of God. Everything was foreorduived, all the phases of social wd Datiopal life were the direction of God. Men shougnt that Guu put Jadgibente vn kings, wod that it was all thought out jo Leaven, and that He directed sven the sirategy of battie-. jwody adovts this ilosophy as the method of the divine action in these ys. The government of God is intermediate, God \s net Working out your saivation, He iy working in you for you tv work it out, Men ut urst began to feel thut there were natural jaws; aod then they made further progress by beginning to recognize the indi- vieuanty of the buman will, and thus men begau to feel responsibility, which Was af impossible emotion unless tbay could controt their Own conduct. then ant Mies Were uoder of certain laws It was almost bias- e time toway that God wus on tbe side of jugest battalions, Nobody tuinks blasphemous ‘Then men are last begmaing tv think tbat this be true philosophy of the intellectual reaiw, that wil intelects the result of great menial laws, and ing influence may be irom Gou, but that po mao ean do moro than bis moutal powers will allow bim to do, It is the same im tbe fpr realm, yet men, for the most part, say thut ie is tbe Holy ut Holies, and that im this realin God smote Himselt up. Yer itis not so. sphere of religious experience, us ui every ovbel tb effect is general upon you, 1t ia Gou that worketh im as. A who studies mathematics don’t pray to jod to solve his probiems for him; be may pray that God may give Dim vitulity of mind and energize he Rasere, Dut that is ali Re bas any right to expovt. This ‘WEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, thought will revolutionize religious life, Mep pray to God to get them out of trouble. Ip that act of prayer (heir faith ts exercmed, their miads get calmer and clearer, their brain becomes more active and the map 1 better Usted to yo to work and to exiricate bimsell, GHEKN AND RIPE THOUGHTS. 1 bave been biamed for not ing all that I thought, 1 preach for t! a larger activity, and in the first piace I know enough to wthat the things which] think are oftentimes green, and that 1 bavea right to walt until they are ripe xud gee if they will keep over winter into the ligion nd morality to men. A things to see if they are really true, umd prove them, too, from the mother’s standpoini—that 1s, speaking the truth in love. A man that public teacher must dear in mind that be is dealing with God’s chil- dron, No man must talk dangerous truth uatil be is sure how it wit! work on the liviug consciousness of men. ‘This ideal I bave set out for myself, not to rush into tke pulpit with rash opiuions, and not to preach things belore I think men are ableto take them. When a man has been sick, and 1s just be- ginning to get well, I don’t go und eut off a largo piece of beef and tuke it im to bim and say, “kati? I make beet tea first and give bim a tea- spoonful, and if 1 Oud 18 good for bim continue it and give bim a tablespoonful next time, but if | think that it {g not good I stop it. 1 never will hoodwink people. I never will dally lightly and toohsbly trifle with your faito and with your cousciences, I never preach any- thing to you unless I have come to the fnul convic- tion thut it is the truth and tb adaptation to your Rac wants; aod i! apy one says, **What do you think is the eifect of your preucbing?’’ I will point to Plymouth Church that pas goue (through tivo years of conflict aud trouble with @ unity unparalieled in the Binoy, of Christianity, and say, ‘That is what 1 whink.’ MASONIC TEMPLE. MR, FROTHINGHAM’S DISCOUKSE ON THE FIF- TIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POPK’S CALL TO THE EPISCOPACY. Mr. O. B. Frothingham delivered yesterday morning in the Masonic Temple un address on the subject of re- ligious superstition, Before entering upon his dis- course the learned speaker treated his heurers to the reading of an appropriate extract trom sacred anthol- ogy. 1t was the story of King Vena, who devoted bim- selt to the equitable government of his kingdom and the practice of an austere religion, One day a person of splendid form and appearance entered, sat ip the royal assembly aod said to the King, ‘Know- est thoa me as an adorning virtue, before whom evon gods must bow, for virtue is the source of all onor. Listen, O King! 41 perform uo ceremonies; study not the Vedas; prac- tigo no austerities vor incantations—my aim and highest work is to reverence the holiest map. He alone is the true worshipper of God—the Brahmin or pariah—who cherishes all beings with generosity or compassion.’ Alter this toterview King Vena ceased to govern by austerity or blind adherence to old cus- toms, and began to do so by natural right and equity botween man and map. Atfer a lapse of time seven rajahs came to King Vena and said:—**Chose acts of thine are such as shall be pertormed by mankind at the entrance of Kubli or the Jast siniul age.” The wrath of the Menis, the en sons of Brabma, spread out the sacred grass, and, having periormed a holy mantra over it, bugned King Venatoasbes. A Purapio myth says that from bis right hand sprang ove who milked the earth of wealth and wisdom, and the very great Prithu, lord of tho earth, versed in virtue was he, through woom King Vena was raised to tho blessed seat of Vishou, THX PALB FACE OF SUPERSTITION. The speaker said that the members of the Roman Gatholic Church all over the world celebrate to-uay the uitieth niversary of the elevation of Po; Pius IX to the episcopacy us Bishop of Spoleto. 1: Pope bas issued a special prociamation promis plenary indulgence anu forgiveness of their sins to all who im bumbieness of heart do purtake of the sacra- ment. Ibe Jesuit Futhers woula make it appear that there is nothing at all barmiul or wroug 10 this. But tbe injury 18 great to humble, ignorant Catholics woo believe that wut of the celestial treasury, Which Isat t Pope’s command, they shall be paid Jor their works done in the Church—ail ther sins be wiped away and @ pew account commenced with Heaves, ‘Tbe condition upon which the fuitbful are to receive these eternal benetits is allegiance und obedience to the Catnolic Church. This Church arrogates to her- self the power of conducting men safely torough th: vale of ain and lodging them ut last in heaven. The Pope, as the Vicar of Christ, is supposed to possess— 0: course, under Divine guidance—the power to allot to all members of his jold that amount of heaveniy grace for which eacb one is fitted, ‘bis sort of belle: is the heart of supersti- tion, as understood from its Groek and Latin origin—superstare—to stand above; some one standing suprewe above our heads, Superstition the recognition of the powers that stand ubove, and the bolief tost the incantat: and muchinations of those who stand above are partaken of by us who stand below. Sometimes: the power reverenced is a church, an altar, @ priest, @ prediction, a beliet, @ book, fhght ofa bird, of the entrails of a beust. Som: it consists of uecromancy, waiting upon tho dead, as Saul did when he went to the Wich of Endor to cull up the sbade of Samuel, und Macbeth aid when he consulted the witches on tn th in order to learn ‘Dis fate in vattle, SUPSRSTITION STILL RAMPANT. It isa mistuke to say that the days of superstition are umong the past aud an error to believe that it be- Jongs to the Agiatic more than to tbe European pa- tyons—tu the South more than tothe North. Hi io this great city of New York, tno metropulis oi a so- called sivilized and free coun it is to be jound es rampant, wild, frantic, grovesquo and absurd as it could be iound anywhere in former days or places, ‘The Roman Catholic Church teacbes to-day precisely the game superstitions, severe rules and ritos that it did 1,500 years ago. lo Paris. little book, caliod *The Holy Crusade,” has lately been publwhed. It bas gone through sixty editions, and 18 ap- Proved by the bishops and prieats as beiug a work which gives the best directions Jor tue buttie of lie, What are tearguments? None. ‘Tbe Church vever argues. It gives an amulet for a reasov, a scapular for a proof, and refers you to the ultur us undoubied evidence tor all its dogmas. It suys your military decoration is the medal struck in bupor of the 1nnmaculate ounception; the artiliery to be used, the fervent voice anu upturned eye in prayer. AD amulet, a scaputar, a cord, a bit of wood- these are which the Roman Church at this very to combat modern philosophy and the facts. ‘This 18 the “ALL TARR The Protestants rightly charge the Roman Catholics with superstition, but thuse who live in glass nouses snvuld pot throw stones. 1s there no superstition about the Protestauts’ exaggerated belief iu the Bibie; the Bacred Lolines of the Sabbath; their fury of prayer and the 1uea that by its efficacy blessings can bo reached which are not otherwise uttainabie? Protestanta careful to urge that those who romain away trom communion wable are in dauge! i darkness, and the “Eat of this brvad and drink of this cup, which ure the body and biood of Christ, that your souls saved from riasting death in the the teachings of superstition; ‘s, Can the Christian jo but superstition? Hear Moody and Sankey; attend any church in New York and you wiil soe thut all, including the Universalists, believe in the worsuip of the Corisi—who 1 anseen by the cye, untelt by tbe Senses, but still there present, somehow, yet Unapprouchable, Superstition will oot pass away Wil this habit of applying for relief to some supposed power outsice ourselves, perbups la.ent 10 ourselver, shall wave passed und’ disappeared, Tho method to combat it which was employed by Voltaire, Diderot, Thomas Puine und in the French Cyclopeaiu, of denouncing ft, 1s not the rigut way to couquer super. tition, An aituck in iron: by this mexns only makes men who are about to abindon the fort rou back into it and deiend their cherished errur with moro zeal than ever, Supersti- ton, in the boroms oj such admirable men as Dr. Samcel Joboson, Sir Thomas Moor and other gr acd good characters, is a misfortune to the human race. Here the «peuker toid the historical anecdote of Pom- joy’# SuccecUing in Capturing the citade! of Jerusalem, atter all other means bad laiied, by attacking it on Suuday, at a time when the Jews woud not tigut, aud when they superstitivusly expected the Lord God of Hosts to work taeir salvation as He 1s said to have done Providence, but take care the wal your powder,” That saying rang t! Jt was then urgued thut a general 1 temperature all overt! jon, would yields to the gentle influ BROOKLYN ‘TABERNACLE, THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN—SERMON DY THE REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, Mr. Talmage preached his last sermon tor the season yesterday moroing. Hes avoutto enjoy « vacation uotil the rst Sunday in August, During his absence the pulpit willbe ia part supplied by the Rev. Dr, Fowler, of the Methodist Church, and editor of the Christian Advocate, Mr, Talmage prefaced bis remarks yesterday morning by saying that one of the religious pupers had misrepresented the financial condition of his churcp, He desired, thereiore, to state that during the year the revenue was $41,117 78, and the debt bud | been reduced $11,460 46, He hoped the ume would soon come when the entire debt would be wiped out, The text for bis sermon Mr. Talmage took from Joshua, ii, 15-17, a description of the passuge of the Jordan by the Israetives. CROSSING THE JORDAN, Standing on the sand of that river of Jordan, said Mr. Talmage, I learo jor myself and tor you, first, that obstacles when they ure touched vanish, The text says that when the priests came down and touched the edge of the water with their feet it parted, Almost all the obstacles of lite nord only to by approached ia order to be copquered, Dilticuities toucued vanisued, The fact is thar a great mavy things that cross our pathway are only (ho poantasms, (he apparitions, the delusions of lite, Any auiy underiaken with a con sake of educating men toto” fident spirit becomes a plossure, and the bigher the duty the higher the pleasure, Difficulties toucbed are conapennd, Jordan advanced vanishes. There are u great many people who sbudder in passing @ graveyard, and So eke ‘@are think of Va naan be- cause the Jordan intervones, Bat once down on a sick bed all the terrors are gone. Again the text teachez me the completeness of every- ung God does. When God put the invisible dam over the Jordan it would bave been natural for the river to overflow and flood the land above. Bu pata dam on both sides of it Oh, the completences of everything that God does! A complete Saviour, a com- plete Bible, a complete universe, u complete Jordavic Passage. Again I learn from this Jordanic passage that be- eu nd every Canaan of success and prosperity cre is a river that must be passed, There is a river of difficulty between us and everything that is worth bav- jog. ‘That which cogts Botving ws worth nothing. God does Dot intend this world ior au easy parior, ‘hrough which we aro to be drawer in 4 reckiug-chair. Wo are to work our e, climb masts, it battles, scale mountains, ford rivers, God makes everything vaiua- ble difficait to get at, for the same reason that He puts the gold dowu in the mine and the pearl clear down in the sex, [visto make us digand dive tortbem. We acknowledge this Briscinie 1a worldly things; oh, why ot tn religious things? Iti so im regard to the ac- wore ot knowledge. The uncients used to say that ulcan struck Jupiter on the bead he God of ‘Wisdom jumped out, illustrating the that wis comes by bard knocks. So, my friends, there tice of tussle and trial and pcsb apd upxiery through which every man must go belore he uchi success, You udinit it; now be wise om tin religion, No map just happens to got good, ag by digging, toiling, pushing. rupaing ip the Christian life that that man got so strouy tor good. [aa byndred shipwrecks bi rned how to swim. Tears over tours over Z'on’s desolation, tears over the impeniteat, tears over graves made a Jordan which thet man had to pass, There are mourning gurmonis in every ward- robe, deathsu every family record. ‘the Caristian has through bis Rod Sea of trouble aad he tinds that there is a Jordan of death between bim aod heaven. As be comes toward it bis breath gety shorter and bis last breath leaves him as be touches the stream. But thon it is parted and God shall wipe away all tears from his eyes. A HRAVEN FOR BRUTES, When I see the Israelites going through the Jordan and ali their flocks aud herds fuliowing right. ou after them the LE soenta comes over iny mind that perhaps, after all, the best part of the brute creation may bave a Chance in the greattutare, You say, **Hurmonize that with the passage, ‘Tbe spirit uf the brure goes down- ward.’” I can barmovize those two things a great deal easier thun the anvibilation of the bruty creation and the treatment they bere receive, When 1 sve a Christian man maltreating his horse my common senso telis me that that horse ought to have an the fu- turea better time than his driver, I should like to sco them the moment they cross the river, their necks cured, their toundered kneos straigbtcned and their coughing distempers healed, free from the guil of the tight checkrein and at liberty to range in tho celestial asturage forever. el should be giad if uot only all the got into heaven, but if the brute creation got bom, CONSOLATION POR THE BERKAVED, in Que thing certain, we have a right to expect our families to be there, You let your children town on this side of the bauk, they are all ready to help you up on the other. We cannot ull go thero to- gether; we must go one by one. What @ pleasure to Jook round and sce your childreu present. On, 1 pray for all my people a safe Joraanio 1c. Une word of comiort for all the bervit, You'sev our de- paried iriends have not been submerged or swampett, they bave only crossed Ot Bick, DOL cead, not ex- bausied, not extinguished, bat with boulthier resp! tion, stronger pulsation, vesight since the physical and mental dist this side=ein oternou! flow o! i.upassabie obstacles be- tween thein uod ail buman sorrow. I congratuiate all 1 the bereft that their departed Christian iriends are safe. bem back again to take their risks 10 of the world? The Jordan ot death will part for us awit parted for them. May our Great High Priest go abead of us and witb bis foot touch tho water and thon shall be fulilied the word of my text. THE, GOSPEL TENT. INAUGUEBATION OF THE SUMMER SEASON OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES, The summer season of religious services in the Gos pel Tent, Thirty-lourth street, near Sixth avenue, was inaugurated yesterday morning at eight o’clock by a prayer and temperance meeting. The morning vices were very brief, and but few persons were in at- tendance, e THR TEMPERANCh MERTING, Mr, Bunting opened the exercises. ‘There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emanuel’s veins,’’ was sung, alter which Brother Carter prayed. The byma commencing ‘What a iriend wo bave in Jesus” was followed by the reading of that portion of the venth chapter of St. Luke in which 1s related the story of the Good Samaritan. Brother Bunting then delivered a sbort address, in the commencement of which he said it filled his heart with Joy to see so many people present His heart is very easily filled, for the array of empty scats was only too paintully evide He said that rum was one of the greatest hindrances to the disseminatiun of ‘Gospel truth: d had caused the downlall of more men than all of the other vices combined. The whole world was lost in the darkness of sia and the light of the world was Jesus, He would pot detain the au- dience with any extended remarks, as there wore many present who would testify to the saving grave of the crucified Redeomer. Mr. Marsden then took the stand and gave a running skeich of his past career, and the balejul effects of in- temperance were iilustrated by his own exporience, “1 pave,” he said, ‘not only tasted but drank deep of the bittor dregs of intemperance. 1 do not see the man betore me who has been brought so low by reason of the intoxicating cup 4s I have been, Through it 1 occupied a cellin the State Prison and wore the con- vict’s garb of injamy. It not only sent me to the State Prison but it impoverished my wile and children, Through it I deprived my wife of a husband’s proper tr tment and my cbildren of a father’s love, has been an unlortunate career. When but a young man I tbrew off all restraint and resolved, as tuo many young men do, that | would uch =the of m =. at Migs Png sustained me, snd how much their love and have stropgthened iny efforts in the struggle of the last ten dvys—I may say the last twelve months, Angels have been wi ig Over my sorrow and through the per- sous of my iriends have lent me sid They supported me when with studied secrecy and covertness a trap was sprung upen me, and my character was submitted to « test which, bad I known of its com: would have broken me down. ly, 1 was pot allowed Jo anticipate full attack and nave beon enabled tu bear it”? jolivery of the above lew lines the rev- which had the effect weeping among tion, Ever; @ hand- and when the refereuce ic guardians, sobs were distinctly parts of the little room, This mn was observablo during the re- donly the doxology couid f grie! fi venly Fatner,’’ the me in the ow m wipe away tho final trace: He mercitul of my preacver conclud “thus to te of my great trials, these mes-ages of id aid! and it a my bigi can go to God and say, have no meuns to show my gratituie; now, ‘Thou the father of it, aud doit’ At theconclusion of the services Mr, SoCs thy’s hand was warmly pressed by nearly everv m ver of the congregation, aod hopeful smiles boamod rom all facos. ANNIVERSARY OF AN OLD CHURCH. Had it pot been for the exccasive beat there is litt o doubt that the Forsyth Methodist Episcopal Chorch would bave been crowded to its utmost capacity yes- terday morning upun the occasion of the eighty-eighth anuiversury of its organization. As it was, the pretty little building was only purtially filled. Rev. Nathan Hubbell, who bas been pastor of tho church since April 1, occupiod the pulpit, and, bolore the services com- menced, announced that Bishop Peck, who was adver- tised to be present, bad not appeared, and be was at a loss to guess the reason of bis avseuce. The Bishop bad written to Lim on the 4th of May and promised to take part in the exercis ad preach au anniversary sermon, Since then be had beurd nothing more trom him, and had fluoded the West with postal curus aud circulars, but without eliciting any response, At this juncture the door opened and iu walked the Rev, Dr. Miley, President of Madison University, aud a former pastor of the cuurch, who was at onco seized upon and compelled to deliver a sermon without previous prep- aration—"Methodist ministers beiug,’? a8 Mr. Hav- bell said, ‘ready ut all times to preacd or to die,” Dr. Miley did bis best under the circumstances, taking fur bis text tbe words of Paul, ‘For wo are waved bv hope,” which the Doctor proposed toumend b; substituting the word **sustained”’ for the word*-saved.”? 11s the element of hope, be said, that gives fwitn ite ractical power. It was the element of hope ia the oman cburacter that made Rome the conqueror of the world; it isthe Jack of hope thut nas kept the Chinese nation behind all Europe for thousands of years, 1t was tue mighty iuspiration of nope thut Made the Revolution a succuss, Our foretathers did as wuch for their posterity as Jor themselves, When Gibbon, the great historian, looked torward to the eud of bis life, “sadness cume upon tim,’’ He was a scep- tic; he bad no tuture to hope; that was the trouvle, ‘Alver the sermon Mr, ‘Hubbell produced a number cf parchments und papers relating to the early history of the church. 1t was erected in 1790 10 wuat was then an most uDinhabitea portion of the city, and was the cond Metbod:st church im tbe country, coming next to the old John Street Church, It originally stovua on the upposiue side of Forsyth, then called Second street, on land that bud been confiscated when the tories lett the cy, At thet e thero were only 622 Methodists m thecity, and since then there bave veen nearly three times that number in this churep alone. Tho church was rebuilt on its present site iu 1833, and bi Teceutly been made as goud as new. 1t is handsome! treseoed and suiticiently large and comfortable, I¢ 1 bors at present under a debt of $60,000, and to meet some imporiant expenses acollection of $100 was taken up after twelve o'clock, In tue afternuun a pve feast was beld, SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY. Five buodred bappy children arrayed in their brightest summer dresses and singing their favorito bymos is a sight to glad the eye and cheer the heart, and it is just such a spectacie that met the gaze of all who attended the semi-centennial anniversary of the Fourth Presbyterian Church yesterday aivervoun. Tne banasome stone building on Thirty-iourtn atrect, near Broadway, was filled, despite the heat, and the occasion may well be remembered by the children who were present, and recalled, when they are men and women, at the centennial anniversary just fitty years hence. The children of the school, which pumbers over six hundred members, occupied the seats in the central aisics, the rematoing pows on the groand floor and the two capacious galleries of the church being filled with visiting friends. The scholars of the tmission schcola joined with the atiernoon school in all theexercises, After singing the bywn “Rejoice and be glad”? three or four babies were bap- tized by the pastor of the church, Rev. Juseph R Kerr, by whom the various announcements were made and bymns read in stentorian tones that might have been heard by the deaf. ‘Those who occu- pied seats far removed from the pulpit lost uothing of the services, Alter baptism pt came u prayer by Mr. Kerr and the reading of Scrip- tural passages, with responses from the cougregatiou, ‘Yuen iolowed another bymn and the reading of a summary of the Sunday school’s history by the Saper- intendent, Mr. Frederick Biume, Tbe Sundsy school was organized in 1827, 10 the Fourth Presvyteriun Church, which at that time stood at tbe coroer of Grand and Mercer streets, but was removed in 1853 to the corner of Graud and Crosby streets, Twelve years later aod just twelve yoars ago the present costly structure ‘on ‘Thirty-tourth street, pear Broud- do just as I pleased. As long as | bad mo! Iwasa good fellow, The rumseller welcomed me until my money was all gone; bat when it was all gone 1 was novody. Night after night l walked the public streets, with the rain from beavea pouring down and drenching me throug! a hole to crawl Into, 8 the dogs could get place of shel Dut there was none for me, bad but one idvl, the bottle, and but one object—t bottle full But biessed be the Great Johor 111 smal Yoroe to whisper to iny sou camo a reclaimed may. My wile always a good Christian woman, but What sorrow and disgrace did I junge her into! Now, thank God, she is happ; ry can go out into the world and clasp the band of any honest man,” 4 NEW CONVERT. The next speaker was a gentleman whose name Dot given. He was above the ordinary class of formed drunkards’ who testily at mevtings of this cbaracter, for bis personal appearance, address aod language bespoke the gentioman of refinement. He said in substance that it was only four weeks ago that be found himself in this city alone, penniless and hopeless. He had been on one long, protracted spree, The money be brought with bim was not ouly all gone, but every article of value be brought from bome had Deen pawned to satisiy his craving forrum, For days he hac been contempiating suictue, or rather a method of suicide, which would leave no trace of who he was bebind. By accident be roamed into a meeting of the Young Men's Christiae Ascociation, and the night be thought would be nis on earth was the birth- day of a glorious hope im Christ. He do- scribed the horrors of delirium, to which be freely admitted be bad more than once been a victim, and told of pledges made by the dead bodies of is beloved children, pledges made only to be broken when the madness of thirst was upon bim. For four weeks not adrop of nquor bad passed his lips and be bad not or desire tor ih He concluded by making an eut ppeul to any who might be present und wero addicted to drink not to lose 4 moment in making Christ their saleguard, THK KVKNING @ERVICK. TI ing service was well attended, as it was uD- derstood that several of the prominent preach ot the city would te present. ‘There will be services every evening during the coming week, exvept on Sut- urday, and tated intervals ‘Age to be agreed upon. Reva. George H Hepworth, J. D. Herr, W. Lioyd and J. Bennett Anderson, of Eugiand, will preach, THE AMERICAN FREE CHURCH. REV. MB, M’CARTHY’S SERMON AT THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS—TEARS AND FLOWERS, ‘bere is no toar ehed in thia world by a sufforing heat at 18 not bottied by the angels: and looked upon by God with loving tenderness,” said the Rev. Mr. McCarthy yesterday morning, as he peered over a diminutive flower garden upon bis diminutive congre gation in one of the schoolrooms of the University Building. Notoriety in the pulpit usually draws a crowd, butin this ipatance such was not the case, jor not more than fifty men und women were present. Upon a black- board behind the desk was chulked tbe inscription, “God bless the American Free Church,” a portion of which was negtived upon the back of the r gentioman’s coat during the delivery of 4 His text was chosen from tho & the Hebrews, 1v., 15-16, relative to tho trial of the High Priest, By way of au explanatory ope! ing, he suid that the Bible diferedjrom ail other fu that the reader bad always ready access to the thor when necessary to preserve wu understanding. Tne sympathy of God for man was wondrous, and His vowe to the soul in times of bardsbip was tender beyond measure, While in the fest, struggling with the trials of life, we 1ound ourselves, like Peter, singing with our weight of sin, then came the cry of sympathy to the soul, and we were liked onco more Upuo tue treacherous billows, Mr. Mo- Curtoy said that mere humao syimpathy was # great blessing, wend whenever we reach that feeling im another we reach Christ. ‘Some peuple,” said he, “confound pity and mercy. For myspart, though I do nut wish to be cou- siderea eccentric, | bave ceased to ask God’s mercy. lt was given to mo long ago, butl do need and earn- estly pray tor bis pity.’” jay, was rst occupied, and now the school is larger than {t ever was before. The mem- bership has greatly increased, and the weekly atiend- dunce is fully double what it was in 1827. bir. Blume concluded his report by reading a list of the various superintendents aud teachers who bad work in the Snaday school from the day of its commencement, Four of the ex-superintendoats were present, and one of them, Mr. Jobn Aitken, who bad ucen connected with the school tor forty yeura, addressed the children in & lew well chosen words, ‘His example was fuiloweu by Mr. Jamwes Mitchell, who was teacher ip the School twenty-live years ago and who recognized some of his coluborers of 1843 still at tho head of their classes, Mr. Mitchell spoke at some length, addressing bis remarks chiefly tw tho obtldren. ln hw childhood, he said, bymos were not sung in the Sunday school, nothing but the Psalms boing ullowed, Tt would be well if that custom still prevailed, for he Dad vev eard #0 much trash as was sung by the cuildren at tne Brovkiyn Jubilee a fortnight since, Tue Sunday school, he incidentally remarked, was o good piace for young men to choose wives. The next speaker was Mr. Ralph Wolls, The exercises concladed with the benediction, Betweon the aifferent addr &c., tho Sunday school and congregation sang bymas, HEBREW SUNDAY SCHOOLS. EXERCISES aT THE FORTY-FOURTH STREET AND PORTUGUESE 8YN4GOGUES, Our readers may not be aware that the institution of Sunday scbools is in full vogae among our Hebrow follow citizens. Every ial congregation, whether worshipping in a temple or synagogue, Las its scovol attached, iu which the elements of the Jewish faith, bistory and the Hebrew language ure taugnt, Sucb schools are attached to the following congrega- tions, the rabbi of which performs the functions of superintendent, aided by a numerous Board of Educa- tion:—The temples Bethel, Emanuel and Abawatn Chesed; the synagogues Gates of Prayer, in Forty- fourth street; the Sons of Jesurun, in Tolrty-fourth street, and tne Portugaese congregation, which ocvu- pies tho Harvard Rooms and is the largest of the downtown syuugogues, These schovis assemble every Sunday mornsny lor instruction, and generaiy on sev. eral evenings 1m tho week, GATKS OP PRAYER, Yesterday the avnuai ciosing exercises of two of the above were hvid—inut of the Gates of Pri id of the Portuguese. The programme at the fut if con: fisted Of reports ol progress und studies made in the Tespective classes Guriug the year vy tho touchers, byiuos, recitutions aud dialogues, iuter-persed with Picasing duets, One Ite Hebrew maiden, by name Rachel Levi, about the uge of uive, sung Claribei’s well known ‘song “Karly Morn” with exquisite taste. She possesses u flexible and sweet voice, rare iu oue go young, anu elicned the heartiest applause, The pieces were naturally all ot u reigious patare. Some ot the greatest truths ol life were prettily pronounved by jofupt lips. The great feature of the entertaiawent at this #yoagogue was the debate, which 1s quite 4 bovelly On (uese Occasions, Some of young ladies and gentlemen ot maturer years ear soine of the Vital points wiereon Ci daism clash, It wus quite inierest' (hese young minds bau grappl Mendes touk occasion to aterm the audionce that the ideas were atrictiy original with the children, uly Laving dressed iber 1 Hitiog language, The novelty Was evidently pleusing to the audivuce, 101 listenea vo it with the utmost atteation, The proceediogs were on by presentations, among Chairmun oF the School Commitice, who received @ pair of candvladra trun the Iuuy teachers and superintendent, aud Ur, Mendes, who Was made the recipient of a diamond ring and a wet of Smith's hucyclopedia of the Bibie, Atter dir, 5, M. Isaacs, thi red rabbi of the con- gregauion, bad mad jury remarks, the inaid business ol t bribution ul tue prizes to tue Buccessiul cou 1s wus proceeded with. ‘The priveipal recipients of prizes were Kucnel Levi, Philp Pozsanski, ne Hoitsmans (brotber and sister), Bessio Schriwber, George Benjainiu, Florence Davis and about thiity others of lesser pute, PORTUGUESE AYNAGUGUE, Contemporanevusiy with these exercises, the Por. thguese congregation bad their Jestival in the welg! boring Harvard rooms, The programme was much of the e nature, The principal of the school 1 Dr. J. Lyons, Who yesterday celebrated the lorty-fith tw bow how tu them, Dr, DWELLING ON HIS TRIALS. Mr. MeCartb: a retorred brietly, but with charac. | termtie earn to bis persouul affiictios ith which the public nave latery been acquainted, but conclude tuis sermon,’ be remarked, ‘wish niversary of bis eutrance into the minwtry. Short ureeses were delivered by Dr. H. Gomea, H. V. endes and tho priucipal, The speckers suzzasted that the Board of Education of the city should be peti- toned to allow Hebrew children to quit the public schools at two o'clock P. M. in order to atteud the Hebrew religious schools, AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION. From the full attendance at Science Hall yesterday afternoon it was evident that the sweltering weather was not allowed to interrurt the progress of the war the American Temperance Uuion is waging against King Alcohol, The ball was noarly or quite full and the heat must havo geil bigh up smong the nine- tes. Walter Logon, the President of the Union, occu- piel the chair, After tho usual reading of the Seript and prayer and singing of temperance songs and hymns from Moody und Sankey’s collectiva Dr. J. . Taber, of Brooklyn, wax introduced as principal ofator of the occasion, The Doctor rf pretty much of the feild used by way of itluse ila of ipwmperance. He showed how had falien, how bomes had been in- curse of liquor, He pre- sented severa! cusos of more or less horror. He urged them all to work perse' ily im the cause of tom perance, Any work, great or small, bowever so little, migbt do good. Anything that they did would mérit and receive God's praise, Me op-osed the license law, He was opposed to legislating oa the liquor traffic, unless 1¢ coald be legislated vut of existence le showed the iucousisteney of the liquor in it allowed men to sell liquor and pun- ished them for so dutng, He would bave the law and the rum trafflc abolished forever. FREE TRADE IN SHIPS. WHAT AN AMERICAN SHIPOWNER 8AX¥S—HOW FOREIGN SHIPS IN WAR TIME MIGHT CABRY OUB FLAG 1F THE SHIPPING LAWS AnD CHANGED—HOW AMERICANS. MAY OWN FOREIGN BUILT SHIPS—THE REAL REMEDIES NEEDED, The queation of free trade in ships is exc &@ good deal of attention iu America at present, in view of the opportunities to which u general state of war tu Europe muy give rise, and a Heratp reporter was despatched to the reprosentutives ct various New York shipping firms to leura their opinions. Mr, Frederick ©, Schmidt, a large owner of shipping, gave the writer his impresgions on this sudject, us follows :— “think the popular cry of ‘Free trade in free sbips’a tallacy. Hail tho people who aro seeking a panacea tor existing evils in free trade av not know what it means or do not know what they are talking apout. My own impression 1s, thore isa fund raised vy British capitalists in order to operate in Washing. tom to repeal what is known asthe Navigution laws, This would give Americans the privilege of putting foreign built sbips under Amorican rogistries or enrolments, As the law now stands there is no debarring an American citizn trom owniug a forergu built vedael, but he is restricted, in the most positive way, 1M regard to the trade in which he is to be employed. For example, such a vessel can be used in commerce between Great Britain and the East Indies or Brazil, of, io fact, to any portion of the world except to the United States They are not granted a registty or corolment, but entitied to fly Américaa ensigos, and carry with thom # documentary certificate from the custome that tno vessel is owned by American citizens avd entitled to all protection as a rogular registered crait. Here Mr. Schmidt turned to tothe customs regulations, printed by the Treasury Department, and pointed out the act under which this can be done, It is found in chupter 3, page 50, articles 93, 94and 96, und bave not betore been pub- lished, save by tue government siuticLe 93.—Foreign bullt vexsels purchased and wholly owned by citi: of the United states, whether purchased Of belligerents or ucuttals duriuz 4 wur to whieh the United Statew are not @ party, or in pe foreign owners, are evtislea to the protection of the authorities and the flag of the United Stases, xs the property of Americun citisen: though no register, enrolment, license ur other marine we. umout prescribed by the laws’ of the United Stutes can be lawfully issued tu such vessels. enable ,bowever, the owners of such a 1 nced to protect their righty, ii molested d, the Collector of the custems, though for- y law to grant any marine document or certificute, of ownership, may lawfully make record of the bit) of sale iu his office, duthentioute Is valivity in iurm wad substance, und detiver to the owner x» certificate tu that effect, certi: ing uiso that the owner is » citizen ot the United Staten, ‘hose tacts thus authenticated, if the transfer wus ia good faith, entitle th see] to protection as the lawful property of a citizen of the United states, und the autheotication of the bill of sale aud of citizenship will ve prima lacie evi- dence of such good faith, ‘Agr. 95.—In all cases, theretore, where the evidence of the purchase of « forvign vessel by a citisua wf the United Btutes, with proof of citizeuship sud of the ebar- acter of the purchase, shull be furnished to « collector of the customs, he will, it the provt be sutistactory, «nd pur- chase deemed in good faith, record the bill of sale in bis olfice and deliver to the party the original, with » certificate indorsed thereon in the tollewing torm ; NO. - 1, ——. Collector of the customs for the port of ——, in the mtate of ——, in the United Staten of america, do hereby certity that the within bill of sale, bearing Ute of —— of the —— there tullows description of vessel), sold and transferred by —— to form and substance vatid and effective in law, and hus be duly recorded in Mice. aud that the suid (meaning owners) are eltl United states. y hand and seal, dc, THE KFFECT OF THE LAW. Upon being queationed tn regard to se provisions the shipowaer numed told the Hexato reporter that be considered tne idea that the repeai of ihe Naviga- tion act would venellt American commerce was ab- imple reason that for $50 foreigners can e Amorican owners they may want This 1s doce by seiling tho vesseis to merely nowinal sum, so om Hou: during a wa au American citizen for But. is the real owner not in danger of being ndied ??? ‘No The owners generally sclect their man; be- sides, when the stup to sea 8 i$ munued Ly ao Ronnnie: of the owner's choice and acrew selected by 1m, ‘This seoms, however, to be a risky business.’” “When it 1s considered 20 the owoers bu’ notner remedy. They take irom the vomiual owners powers ol attorney, apd ou the mortgage they cau take pos- session ulmost any time. *’ “Can we build ships tere as cheaply as in England or on the Ciyde in case our business should revive t’’ “Certainly. As regurds woudeu ships they cau be built more cheaply thau at any other period within Jorty years, and if Congress will lot the people along they will work out their own salvation. a general Furopean war wouid merely permit the American flag to be used as a cover, and after tuut the vessels would be retarned original owuers under foreiga flags, leaving us bure of tuuuege end our competout seamen aud o 1 can see no way to imu icans would be benefited and, therciore, I consi we cry ot treo trade ip iree ships as uowme and fooliso, £ been asked the question why wo cannot run abips as proutably asthe English. 1 an- [—We pay our seamen higher wages; wo iecd ‘Second—Our capitalists look for a larger roturn for their investmeais foreignera. Where they are cunteat with irom toree to #ix per cent Americans want Ufieen or twent, “Third—The deivcis in our marine laws, A mortgage 00 & sbip should be a tirst hen, always excepting seu- men’s Wages of a botiomry Lond, as at tue present moment it 1s almost impossible to borrow moucy oa vessels, Decuuse Capitalisis od so INMavy uncertainties in regard to the collection of their luuns, As the law Dow siands 4 Vessel cannot be held tur supplies tur- nished ber in a home port, although she cau be held im w foreign port. Also, the rights of minority owns ers should bo recognized. Suppose a sbip is owuea by two partios, one pocsesves a uve-eightn aud the olher a three-ergbin interest, Am uccouuting is demanded by the owner of the smaller shure and ty reiuseu by the lurger sbarebuider, ‘Ihe vessel is seized and the larger owner, iu order to releaso Der, simply enters into w bood to retain the property in good condition until final adjudication tx vbtained = This injustice has been practined so often and the large holt have proved their ability to figut off smaller owuers by simply insuring tueir interests that the rights of the minority wre trampled upou with impuut oyneh pra be pormitted tu tuke out a certain w of suppiiew out of bond, iree of duty, the amount to be ciroum- scribod according to tounage aud Jength of voyage. Tue repeul vi the tonoage duties also would be auotuer step (oward commercial prosperity MALES IN FORKIGN PORTS, “The acts of cuvsuls who fuidl certain laws without Commou seuse night also be wodited wito januaye. For snswoce, the Secroury of tue treasury, accordiwg to regulations, exacts turee inontbe’ extra pay fur ony seaman discharged from American Vessels iu case of 4 sgie of said orders frequently come trom the * Porto Kivo and the Spanish ma;n for small steam ves- sels uuu tugs, and @ large trade bas been built up vy supplying this demand. Suppose a contract is made tu deliver wu Veusel at vue of (ue above ports, the owner inakes his calculation, suips w crew, gives them high wages lor taking the Vessel oul,,und. agrees to pay their passege home, When the trausier vi ibe vessel 1s mauy velore Lue American Consul the latter exucts three mouths’ wages tor every wan, althougn | huve known some canes where (ne men declined to receive the mouey and speciaily protesteu against it, To ibe-e men the consuls returo the explanation that the sums Were for Lospital funds, sov.eties for the benelis Of shipwrecked wud disavied seu, aud so forty, although 1 18 shrewdly suspecteu that the consulur oilive is solvly benotited by these enforced sums.” A SLRIKE POSTPONED. The engineers and firemen on the Pennsylvania Railroad are anxiously awaiting the result of the couterence to be Leld at Philadelpbia to-day between the commitiees from different parts of the road aod the comuniitee of the Grand Lodge of the United States, Toe latter comuitiog, alter bearing tau representatives from the dillerent vrauches on (he proposed reductiva of ten per coutirom the present Wages, will pared to subunit propositions to the Rxecany: tnittee of the Bourd of Vireciors of the Penosylvan: Ratiruan oo Wednesday or Thu ys ie the engineers ure eujoimed to preserve order and remain at their posts wilisthe decree vi the Grand Council be promulgated, THE MORMON DISGRACE. “‘BLOOD-ATONING” JOURNALISTS. [From the Providence Journal) ‘The statement tnat attempt has been made te ansusul its correspondent in Utah is in all proba- bility true. The correspondent hus been severe in bis strictures upon Brigham Young and other Mormon leaders, and more than hinted his beliet in their com- plicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre, This would be enough to excite the bitterest indignation umong the fanutical Mormons, and there are plenty there who would feel 1t a righteous deed to slay him, even if the Prophet bad not gi a bint or command, He would not be the iret newspaper man whose lite had beea put ia jeopardy by his too severe utterances concerning the evils of Mormonism, aud, if we are poi mistaken, an cditor of the first Gentile paper in Salt Lake City was ac.ually ossussinated by the Daniter| Assossipation bas been common enough as @ weapon of the Churoh for it revive again im the present stare of exasperation exiating among the Mormons, and somo fanatic might Dave thought to anticipate the wishes of the Prophet or to avenge the insalis to his Charch on his own account by executing “the blood Btouement.” Brigham Young himself is probably too astute to authorizo or even to wish apy such thing done, knowing the sengation and indignation that would be created. 1t was only when Utah was com- pictely isolated from the world and those who disap. peared could ieave no tokeu of their tute to poople out- side thut the assussiuation of apostates aud davgeroug Gentiles could be made available. Now the Mormoa Kingdom is linked to the rest of the world by telegraph and railroad, and ia dependent upon good bebavior tor existence, ‘The removal of no ono individual by murder would pay for the indignation that would be excited in the United States and the ill repute thas would be brought on the colony, Brigham Young ie probably in bo way personally responsible for this attack apon the HekaLp correspondeat, but it is noae the leas the direct result of bis teachings and the legitimate continuation of bis original policy. BRIGHAM’S MADNESS. {From the Buffalo Courier.) It Brigham Young desires to protract his reign a despot of Utah bo will do well to reatrain bis cat throat retainers from doing harm to a New Yous Hexavp's special correspondent, JUSTICE NOT ASLEEP. [From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, } The New York Hxerkavp has been waging relentless wariare on the Mormons, and much to their discoma. ture and wrath. The telegraph reports that they have attempted to shoot and stab Mr, Stillson, the Harany’s correspondent. Go right on, Sr, Young, and you will get your deserts, Justice is notasleep, She will cer. tainly overtake you aud your lecherous legions, ZION TO BECOME TERRIBLE AND THE NATIONS TO TREMBLE. [Orson Pratt in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, May 13.) By and by, when this people shall bave sanctified themselves before the Lord and organized according to the laws and commandinents of God, having beea taught by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and by His gervanty that minisier in their midst, carrying oul the counsels ana teachings they receive, they will become like anto one body, as it ts written in the parable coftained in the Book of Mormon, that the Lord will prune tho vineyard, or tuke somo of the branches away and graft them into avother branch, &e.; He will make a change of the branches; He will prune the trees and dig about them, that the roots and the tops thereof may be keptequal Understand that the roots and the tops thereof shall be made equal, so that the tops and branches may oot over- come the roots by taking strength uuto themseives, Why? That the tree may bring forth that fruit woich is the most precious unto the Lord. Therefore bo is gathering us here that we may be. come like anto one boay, being sanctified, aud become, asanother revelation says, ‘‘as tair as the sun, as clear asthe moon, that the banners of my people may be terrible unto all tbe nations of the earth.” Why terri- ble? Because of the power of the Lurd, which will be im the midst of His people; because of the manifesta- tions of Heaven unto His people; becauso the nationr + will bear that God is indeod in the midst of Zion, ‘They will hear all those things, and the wicked will fear and tremble” They will: tear because of theit iniquity; fear and tremble, because of their wicked. ness; fear and tremble because they have supported all manner of wickedness aud corruption, division and strife, aud abominations of every kind in their midst. Therefore teartulness will seize upon them, and they will know of a surety that the Lord God is in the miast ot the people of Zion; that His power is there, that His spirit is there, and that He manifests nimseit there im great glory. Ain THE OLD STYLE OF MOBMON TACTICS, [From the Philadelphia Times] ‘The old style of Mormon tactics wore followed in the attempted assassination of Mr. Stilison, of the Nuw Yorx Heratp. Mr. Stillson bas made a taithiul pre fentation of the situation in Utab, and thut bas in- volved the telling of many unpleasant things about Brigham Yonog and bis people, Thus ne has been a thorn in sho side of the Mormon Unurch, and now they have attempted to put him out of the way. The cowardly assault apom him is the logical reault of the incendiary harangues against the Hera.» and its rep- reaentatives to which the Tabernacie hat echoed for weeks, We cannot believe, however, that, like many crimes in the past, the assassination was at- tempted under the orders of the head of the Charen; Young knows that the day for that sortof thing bas passed, But it is anothor ovidence of the temper of the masses in Utab, Only give those people rege enough and they will hang themselves, ITS SINS CRY TO HEAVEN, [From the Newark Journal.) If Mormonism be such frait as a legitimate out. come of its teachii the sooner it is put down the Detier. Its sins cry to Heaven, and cail aloud for the interposition of jawiul authority to end them and the whole Mormon institution. THE FEDERAL GOVERNOR OF UTA, [From the Scranton Times.) ‘The worst news from Utah is that the federal Gov- ernor of Utah 1s 19 sympathy with the criminal and reluses to do hie duty in the matter of arrest. One of them now in the 6 office in New Mexico is reported to have joined the Mormon Church belore it was trans. ferrod from Utah and declared to be working agai: right and justice in tho fotcrest of the Prophet in bis bew fleld, The popular verdict is that no such persons should hold office under the federal government, NOT SURPRISING, {From the Norih American.) The correspondent of the New Yore Hematp tele graphs, under date of May 31, that two atiempte had been mado at Salt Jake to assassinate him— owce with a bullet and ogain with a knife, the last beimg ip broad daylight wad in bisown room, As Mr. Stillson has been exposing the villanies of polyg- amy as it exists in Utan he bas drawn upon himself the hatred of the Mormon leaders, and as they pever hesitate tu use the piwtul or the dagger through thoir agents it is not surprising that efforts have been made toeffectuatly silenge his tongue and pen, He hasdone a good work thus {ur in bringing before the public the iniquities prevailing among the followers of Joseph Smith and bis successors, Mormonism is a bideous blot on the fame and name of the United States, and he who bolds it up to viow and points out the abbor- rept nature of the thing deserves the gratitude of our Christian people, This subject of polygamy ought never to be allowed to pass out of sight. lt sbould be agitated, and there should be such a general awakeu- jug among our people to the vileness and revolting im- morality of the system as to coi 1 our representa lives in Congress to enact laws 10F its extermination, root and branch, from the land in which it isa curse and a blight, SILVER RESUMPTION, [From the Ciocinnats Timea.) ‘ ‘The New Yor« Hxratp comes to the front with® Suggestion concerning Secretary Sberman’s policy which 1s entitied to consideration, ia that it presents & means of harmonizing bis move toward contraction, ‘ t ' ’ C i bis uneasiness at being charged with contraction, yet ® bis reiusal to aeny the intent of contraction, rather like this—it isa plevsant idea, and very likely \o bo the correct vue; wud it bas in it elements success, wo, Bec Y Suerman is only wise {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE)