The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1877, Page 8

8 SPIRITUAL LESSOMS, Vacant Chairs and the Uses of Adversity, FUTURE LIFE? THE Popular Religion and Why It Prevails. THE VOICE OF GOD. MASONIC TEMPLE. WHY THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION PREVAILS—DIS- COURSE BY REV. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM. Rey. 0. B. Frothinghiam addressed a large congroga- tion yesterday morning. His subject was Christianity, 1 wish, b id, to enter upon a brief discussion of the power and causes of tho popular religion, and by that term, I, of course, refer to the religion that 1s called. Christianity. It :ncluaes all those who work in grace, who have, as the centre of their belief, an image of race, who look upon grace as their saviour; who took toa future when they may meet with grace apd enjoy its smile. Itinciudes all those who look to Christ as a source of powor, and ali such as belong to the Christian Church, whether Greek, or Roman, or German, or English, whether Catholic or Protestant, ad of whatever Protestantdenomination, At includ the Universalists, who, though calling themselves a liberal sect, yet believe in Christ, and it includes the old school of Unitarians, who, though calling themselves a liberal sect, also, atter a fasbicn, believe in Christ; but it does not inciude the new school of Unitarians, hor any who believe in education, in culture, in Science, in knowledge, ip the intrinsic capacity of man to answer all questions that bave to be auswered, and to lift bimself alone from tho mire of materialism and Destiality. The popular religion is the religion of those who do not believe in man, That it prevails is not surprising. It has all the churches, administers all the sacraments, ordains all the ministers and sends out all the missionaries Now the question is, way does this religion live, why does it prevail? The multitude will say, of course, because it is trae, and the truth must prevail, But we do not say this, else we should not be here, ‘Tho only thing that justifies my speaking at ail, and your coming here to listen to me, is that we believe this religion not to be true; that we believe it to be a superstition, ® fancy, an imagination, aud that i is not founded in history, im law or in reason, Uit be true, why has it not prevailed more? If backed by supernatural powers and used by the Deity 482 means of spreading the truth why has it not pre- vailed entirely? In these latest days, when there is more knowledge than ever before in the world, when ail the powers of man are at their Jullest stretch of activity, why is it that now this religion prevails less and less? Why, if the system be true, does it not prevail more and more as man is better abie to receive tod appreciate it? Do you say that is because mun 18 Jower in intelligence and power than ever betore? 80 you fall into an abyss of scepticism utterly bottom- jess; you throw into outer darkness ail human capacity and ability, and all knowledge is fa vain, Yoar civi- ization 1s an illusiou and a dream. Are we preparea so say thet, in order to maintain tuis system as true, | ine bumah mind must vo biotted out? do not jay that it bas — prevailed because it 1s Wrong. 1 do not Ddelleve that untruth rules the worla, that mendacious prophets bave so long prevailed over the minds of men. There are charla- tans, false creeds abd 1aise prophets—men who preach what they don’t believe, vat they are not the supports of the system; they are eating out sts Beart und throwing it down, 1 would never cast such a slur on the human mind as to say that veceiviug priests and lying prophets baye misied the world for ages. The system prevails because inen beiieve it to be true. Vhe iirst cause of 1s power lics im the universal rever- ence for antiquity, {t is vider than ihe prophets, olaer than Moses: it had its origin way back in the past, where history cau only conjecture, not walk. | Antiquity is always credited with power, It is thougut | that it anything prevails it must do so. by Muherent strength. Gigantic oaxs that have | Dreasted the storms of centuries and grown | mighuer with increasing years are moro veneradle in | proportion to their age. A house that is built of well | baked bricks and seasoned wood muy stand for ages; is isa good house. But what is true of trees and | houses 1s not true of men. A man’s age 18 not a sign of mherent worth, It is merely a sign that he as guved himself. that he has not been worn by the Iric- tion of duty, (nat he has not cared tor others. Sel- | is his main principle. Ig it life that pre- | shim’ No; it 1s deat. ‘Au institution becomes strong from age, from the accumulations of time, though it may be they are the accumulations of déoria, It may be fith and fraud has preserved it. 1t lives by virtue of having lived as | w habit. Men cling to it because their agcestors have Deleved in it, It 1s not questioned, not analyze history 1s notexamined. 1tis taken upon trust. What does the Bibte owe its preservation ? herent avd absolute virtue? Not at all, book ever issued from the press has been so hursed, so followed uiter, so guarded and defended, lu the early ages, during the supremacy of Cathol- icisin, it wal hidden away. Lt was deciared to be a sin to read it, and the Churco thundered excommuuieation | On those Who dared to read it with open vyes. When Provstuntisi ame in the book was freed, but fol- | lowed by a select train of theologians, and infldels and critics were warned away. ‘This 19 the first generation that has freeiy read and crivicised 14 Its preservation has not been due to its essential truth vut to the cure taken that it should not be exposed to harm. Is an- tiquity 4 guarantee of worth? Is (here anything older (ban ignorance, than superstition, than brutality? One of the oldest superstitions 16 @ belief in demontacal possession. You tiudit among the ludiavs in this To ‘To its in. No other country, among the negroes in Ceutral Africa, among ‘the aucient Egyptians. Fariher back i was even deeper and more wiuely spread. |e Uiere anything older tuan the beuef that calamity of all kinds was sent by the Doity asa sign of His wrath? It 4s one of the oldest superstitious in tne world. {8 the belief any inore beautifal for being old? Is it any the less contemptivie, any the less ab- York to-day than in Thebes 2,000 years THE NRW RELIGION, Science was born only yesterday, philosophy is just maturing. We are ony dow beginaing tu know some- thing of the world, We are learuing that men svould Beck (he truth; that they should question their own heurts aud the constitution of nature ant of society. The newness of this system is the sign that it velongs to @ world of light aud nut of darkness The same creed bas been preached, though in slightly diferent forms, by all the theologians of the world. Bur it 13 forgotten that ali meu are weer than any single Wise man. That the wisest is wiso only in streaks aud jines. Men aro shut up iu their systems, nowing everytuing that re- laces to cheir partiulur study, may ve us iguorant as d that Christianity bas veen be- hed by the Wisest, greatest and Lest Men who ever lived; vut itis lurgotien that some of the wisest wen who ever lived haye bad their super- Btitions. Bucon, oue of the greatest minus oi the race, Dad superstitions that cuiluren uow would luuxu at. Sir Phomas More, ope o| tue greatest oi Bughsh minds, | one of the grand heads of Henry VILL 8 reign, be- | lieved in transuustautiation az “devoutiy as the | Mos ignorant Catholic you could pick up | in the eet; Samuel Johnson, a giguu- | uc iniell to whom we wke off our caps | the present day, bad a fearing belief in spirits. die hud BeVer Drougut tue powers of Lis mind to bear on this suuject, What gives Christianity ils hold upou the | winds of men and lastens its root deep iu tie heart is | the belie! that 1b is the religion of the poor, of the down-trodden, outcast, defeuceiess—a religiow of sor. | row. Cheist’ avowed that it was for tie weak, | “Blessed are the meek, for they shall invert the eurth ; the sorrowful, for they shall be comforted; the peor, for tucy sual! be rich.” FIFTH AV, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, THE JOYFUL SOUND OF THE GOSPEL MEysaGk— SERMON BY Di, JOHN HALt. At tho Filth Avenue lresbytertau Church, corner ot Pitty-filth street, Dr, Jonn Halt proucied vis tirst ser- won eince lis retura trom Bu tue joylul message of the Uo bis text from Pealus, [xx xis. people who know the joylui sou U Lora, in tue light of thy couute: reverend gonticnan commenced bis dis remarking that uo truth couit be moro tue circumstances in which they wero gothor that morning thau ta: which was pres fu this passage, ‘How bicssed is ihe people’ is tho exclamation of the (ct Mon waturaily sock for happiness, although men uuiappily iui to find it through mistaking the modes by which it ts reached. 3 observed im the ci'y of Edinburgh, anid tho preacher, that a ime gon is fired every duy at one o'clock, and i.siantly on the castle | aud in the valley of the During the meeting of bil, au Fr the castle wal ey the sound roverbera tho Presbyterian Counell recently veld there i noticed | that there was a littie surprico at Grst among the dele. | gator, but alter two or three days | observed that , Kk out hig wateh to Fett by that boom tip aneocs aod thos every man bad learued tow & jee iy enat sound to his owm personal advantage, J ub only knowing the rigut thing, bat it is the upp! ut | fo that which we know to be tutes the bappiness of munki “Blessed is the peo- ple who know the jeytul soun: 1” Phe passage divides itself for us, First, what | Us joylal sound? Men bave a general idea that it is an intimation trom God of a reveiation that ile bas ! given ua im various degrees of clearness and under va- rious circumstances, here ix no doubt as to the per- son who makes this communication. It is a royal personage, und it is truth and mercy that Ho makes proclamation of. It is iie who makes this joyful sound, This communication was made in | the earliest days of Eden; it was repeated to the cbil- dren of Laraol in the pining of arnon, and there pre- sented tn various appropriate sorms; then it 13 trans- mitted to man turough our Lord aud Saviour Jesus chr who bas brougot to us through His death 11 everiasting, There are iour reasous why this Joyful sound should be receivea by men aud sbouid be up- plied by them to their reinsions to eternal life, First, nen everywhere huve ap instiuctive craving for soine- thing beyond the present. Meu cali landa aud build~ ings by their own uames, Men desire to transmit their Lames to those who are dear to them, 1 ba souietimes thought, wrongly or rightly, that the 101 of tame by the ancients is to be accounted for im some degree by the fact that there wus not then the knowledge of tife auc immortality, as in more modern times, and that men were then striving Ju some earnest way to ges thai which we bave In tho truth that prevails now in the world, in the message of the cross, aud the mercy thatit brings, Christ says ting confidence, “I am the resurrection TO APPRENENSIVE CHRISTIANS, econd reuson why this should ve a joytul mes- ¢age ia that men are full of apprehensions in regard to their meeting with God. Aj] natural religion 1s (ull of the prot of this, lL can make my appeal to you who hear me. ‘Those of you who have not accepted Christ, know how real are the apprebensions you have con- cerning the day of your death and the meeting, with 1 make m, ‘tls to believers, Who feel how momentous meeting, and low natural is that feeling which luoks with dresd tothe meeting with God. Jt is this joy- ful sound that enables the believer to substitute for this fear joy and gladness. It is in the completed work of Christ that this redemption is found. here is another benefit offered to us ia this revelution of d that He will be our sons aud daughters, ‘The bel: can thus say, of which God the nead.”” That is a joyful sound whieb in- spiring to the nutare of man. Tbe atonement hag made man # member of the d.vine family in « way thut appeals even more stronuly to uuother element in human uature. We have « leader that can arouse our euthusiasm, who inspires us with ap earnest und ubso- lute dependence upon Him, wko 1s our captain and our guide, who comes to us with His gurmeuts stained im blood, and that, too, His own bived. Wuen we thus realize our saviour in the Lord Jesus Christ we lly divine. r the second part of this a the light of thy countenance, ’” wo words walk aud light are easily understood. Tho reference to: the general course of a man’s lite; that which is the ordiary course of his being. When it18 our privilege to walk in the light of the Lora’s countenance there 1s no doubt in our mind; we walk in the clearness of a noonday be Religion 18 some- thing that 18 concerned in man’s walk and light, for it hus to do with that wich is absolutely to come in the | tuture and about which there Will be uo mistrust. | “Dr. Hall concluded with uu earnest appeal to those of bis congregation who had not acknowledged the Saviour to yield tu tue influences of the joyful tidings tu this gospel of gr: FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REY. DR ABMITAGE—FUTURE LirB. The Rev. Dr. Armitage, of the Forty-sixth street and Filth avenue Baptist Churen, preached an elo- quent and argumentative sermon yesterday on tho subject of “Chriss Silent festimony to a Future ) Lite. The reverend gentleman took bis text from | Joun, xiv., 2, containing the following words—‘‘In my | father’s house are many mausions; if it were not 30 | i would have told you”? No fecling of the human soul tons. household aud home obtain @ courage that is | is deeper, said the preacher, more universal or change- leas thau the aspiration for immortality; {say nauve, | because the deep conviction of anereatter seems to have been implanted in the breast and to be eugraved thore us the foundation of all human principle, motive and action, No being ever recognized this more fully (bun Christ ta His teachings, both by direct avowal and sunplication, So fully did He comprehend the Sweep of tnis supreme claim tbat be took special precaution not to connive at the wild demand for special reveJations on tne subject by the return of “one from the dead,”? a8 we should last Sunday, bo- cause no such showing could make the doctriue moro clear. And im the text be looks into the faco of His disciples on the last night before His death and admits the obligation to unuceeive them if they were mistaken On 80 grave # subject: if it were not so I would have told you, It would have been a pivce of guile to have seit those wuo trasted implicitnes buoes misled and deceived in @ mutter so vital, gave our Lord their 1uil credence so far as t stood Him, and He professed to open H to them in'all the confidence of u bosom triend, ieay- | 10g nothing unvosomed which it was of consequence for them to know He wish them to und stand that His inuate truthiuluess bad uttered His whole heart to them, go that He could not be silent aud leave them bewildered. Whatever might come after He were gone thero should be no room to doubt his candor or to suspect Him of guile. We are bero naturally led to inquire why Jesus 13 so careful to throw the sacred guard around His own consciousness of sincerity and veracity. He- wished to leave an in Gelivie imprint of His own transparency upon the Minds of His people, and evidemiy for those two reasons:—First, the perfect establishment of His own character 48 a teacher, It seems somewhat uncom: mon, if not wbaccountuble, tuat he should make such jorceful asseverat‘on in a negative form as the words, It it were not so 1 would bwve told you.” He had never been suspected of complicity with untruth, much less of equivocation or prevaricauion, Now, if you would weigh His whole motive you must take iuto account (hat He bad never put the doctrine of a hereafter iuto We frouvrank of His stirring truths. Therefore there suould be no miswke or nullowness on the momentous issue. Every word must be so frank that {1 glances through their bosoms like a sua- beam. Ordinary goodness could not allow Him to de. lude them by u seitish dream 11 the feariul secret lay in His breast that empty nothingness would mock all their aspirations when once they come to stumble out uce twto a bottomless grave. How could a cher put the cup of immortality to their lips | And then dash at to the ground untasted? Could | Christ look on in dumb iudiflerence, mute composure, while His misied people were tantalized by cruel mockery, He couples His veracity in this matter with His established character of His Fatuer, saying | “Ye believe God, believe me. Ye trust God, trust me. Contidein meas ye confidein Him.” He asks that the same reliance may be put upon His word which they reposed in the verity of Jenovab. Second, He makes this uvowal that He may lay the | Me tondescends to fortily His own word against the possibility of any questioning whatever; He puts under their feet a solid founaation for hope, support 4 consolation by irankly avowing that it it were vot He would bave toid them. They would svon be jed to suffer and die tor Him, and it was an act of common justice that He should tell them if they were grasping & Shadow or pursuing a dreuin, He could not ailow them to make the price of martyrdom perpetual | delusion. Neea I show you that Christ’s silence in bot avowing # future state forms the most positive testimony lor its existence, and puls a rock beueath your feet, om whicu you can build your confidence ot immortality, “If it were not sof would have told you.’ BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, | VACANT CHAILS--SERMON BY THE KEV. WiITE TALMAGE. Mr, Talmage preached yesterday on “Vacant Chairs,” taking bis text irom L Samuel, xx., 18. thou shalt be missed becuuse Luy seut will be empty.’ In almost gverv, house, be said, the articles of iurniture take a living persoumiity. #0 cloquent and so mighty-voiced as a vacant chair, Have theso charms auy Jesson fur us to learn? any bettor men aud women than when they teat ad- T. DE | dressed us ? First L point out to you the father’s vacant chair, sume chair; they somehow fect more at nome. The fatner’s vacant chair 13 probably wm armeuair, He never locked so happy as when, wiih bis eyes closed, hesatin the armchair in the corner, The wave of ail the past yoara of ius iifo broke at the foot of bis chair. 1 hope you don’t erowd that old chair and that it don’t got very much in tie way, Sometimes the old man's chair has got very rauch im the way, especially it he taakes over all his property to the elijdren with the rstunding that they are co tuke care of him iu his | old age. Your father's chair is 4 sacred place; that cuair bas been Vacunt tur somo tine, bus it wa throne of influence im Sour domestic circle, Speak out, od armenair! LUASONS OF THR VACANT CHtAIne Lgoa litte turikerou in your house and I find the mother's Vacant chair, [tis very apt to be a rock- tag chair, J rewember it weil—tho ola chair and the rockers were aitust worn oul—ior | was the youngest, aud the chair hud rocked a whole family. 1b made a creaking sound as it moved, but there Was music ia the sound, It was just big evouge to aliow us chil. drev to put our heady into her Jap. 1s was very dil | foreut irom the latner’s ehwir, Vorhaps tere was about this Chair more gentleness, tenderness and care. When we hud doue things wrong, wheu we Were Ways ward, laiber scolded, but mother cried, [It was a very Wake) chair, Inthe sick days of childhood other chairs could dot keep awake, Tbat chair stopped rocklug 4 good inauy years ugo, And it nay ve Bet oUt jn tue loit, but i Wivids a queenly power tt | has been Vacant a long while, vat it m8 all the mightier for that it is omnipotent; ib whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it ‘ols, it mourns, it praises, 1 Wi 1 go ‘a lit Whata are aod I come hair, | eadurauce! The occupants think the; | yoou im the world, but that chair is « mighty pulpit | irom which they have beon preaching uli hese years | ‘rast in God, Whate monas af grace to the world this irmvest possible basis for the confidence of His people; | k There is nothing 1 all your house | Are wo | Old men always like to sit im the eame place and in the | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1877.—TRIPLY invalid’s chair is! The graco of God gives it victory; it is the tu0st conspicuous thing on earth for God’ to reat upon, Ob, these men and women always suffering but never coinplaining, they will tear the | roll cali of the murtyrs at lust, and they will anewer anJ rise to the throne waving the martyr’s palin. ‘That invalid chair may be folded up or taken apart or set away; it will uever lose its queenly power, pres 8 preact ing of trust in God and cheerful submis- THE CHILD'S VACANT CHAIR, I pass onanc | find one more vacant chair; itis a high chair, achild’s chair. I! that chair be occupied 4 da the most potent cbairin the household if you have vo cuildren of your own adopt one; it will open heaveu to your soul. it will pay its way its crowing tn the morning will give the day a cheeriul starting; its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. fon’t hke childrea! you had better stay out of heaven, for there are so many there 1t would mako you erazy—only about five bundred millions, ‘There is bothing to subdue soul like a child’s voice. But when God tak: the high chuir becomes a ", is degolation al! round about ‘That high chair tx to call you higher. What a drawing upward it must be to dave coildren in heaven! My hearers, | have gathered up the voices of your departed friends this morning and tried to intone them into one invitation upward. 1 set ip array all the elo- queut chairs and bid them cry oul, Time is short, eterpiy is near.” 1 have been very earvest this morning because | have realized the fact that the ume will come when the pastor's chair will be empty. Frow this point bow olen | have looked off into your Iriendty faces, 1 bave seen & great many beautiful and thriling sights, I wonder what tuis chair wil testity when | hove lett it for the last time. Will it tel} of a useful | h earnest mninistry, a pure gospel? God grant it, The most powerful sermon that is ever preached is by the Vacant chair of a pastor the Sub- bath after be bas beeu carried away from {. When we are ali through with this worid aud we have shaken bands Jor the iaat time und all our chairs ia the home circle aud the outside world shull be vacant, may we be worsmipping God in the place from whieh’ we shail gO no more forth, ‘Thank God, there will Le no vacant chairs 19 heaven! CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY RE THE LONELINESS OF THE SOUL—SERMON BY BISHOP KIP, OF CALIFORNIA, | At the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street, yesterday morning, Bishop Kip, of California, occupied the pulpit, The subject of his discourse was ‘The Loneliness of the Soul,’? the text being taken irom Proverbs, xiv., 10—‘The heart knoweth bis own bitterness, and o stranger doth not intermeddle with bis joy.”? The Bisbop sal most intensely interesting history in the antyerse would bo that of a single soul, could the story be taithfully and fully writen, In comparison with it the narrative of the rise and fall of pong I sinks into insignificance. What to us, for instunce, are those mighty movarchies of the olden word, with all their tnterests, which once seemed so great? Or what abiding influence has many of them left upon thoearth? For atime they expanded tuto greatness aud ulled men’s eyes with wonder, and then passed away forever. Tho period during which they lived 18 but an instant in the sweep of ayes as they roll along, and, contrasted with tne long duration of eternity, it is only a bubble on the rusning stream of time, ‘They are gone as entirely as 18 the summer shower when for a few brief moments it falls upon the burning sauds which again at once uredry, But of w single tmmortal spirit @ far diferony record must be mage, I! once its Maker h breathed into it the Dreath of Iife, it tm that moment was gifted with an immortality which it cap ne" lose, ow affecting, then, must be the history of such aw spirit while itis passing through its probation on earth, fa see it go forth in the innocency of early youth, to coniict and suflering, to behold the cares of this world gather around it. The vices of an evil Ife perhaps throw their dark shadow over its brightness, The ceaseless wariare which It wages (o the end; tho spiritual and immortal striving, perbaps in vain, to gain a victory over the earthly aod the sensual, wuile all the transi- things which are around lend their influence to the soul down to this lower world. What this in sublimity? What hours of con- the remembranco of this bring up thougbttul wind? What wrestlings against temptation? What nidden contests ve- tween the claims of the present und the tuture, which go on inthe very deptns of thy spirit. On, said we not right, then, tbat the world can offer nothing wuich in interest would equal the (rue uxrrative of such a apirit, and yet it 1s one which might be written in colors of lightor darkness of any one of us—of the humblest individual in this house to-day. It is the history which will bo proclaimed with regard to each one ut tho inst great day to come. THE VONELINESS OF THE HUMAN SOUL, There is, however, ove traito the spirit which is brought forward in the words of our text .o whicu we would oow direct your attention as one of the most aflecting oun take of tho smiritual state of man, itis whar we would call tue lonciiness of the human soul, ‘I'he slight degree of true sympathy tt has with anythiug or any oi round it, it seems to stand isulatea and alone, he heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger dotu uot mtermeddie with bis joy.”” Now, look at this statement and see now widely the tratn aud the reality differ irom our usual praguce ‘on this subject. We ure rather disposed to look upou men 1n uarses, logiug sight of euch one’s individuality. We group them together or regard them in classes, forgetting the distinct personaitty of every one, We think, tor example, of a u:ighty mation, and as the remembrunce of its gathered mithons rises before us how little do we roalize that each anit which composes (hat great nutuber is as tully ulive to his own interests as if he were alone in ihe universe of God, And yet so it 1s, Associated together as we may be, as citizens and as paftakers in one common nature, 80 lar as it regards all the deepest, holiest feelings of oar pawure, every Ove moves Im an entirely separate orbit. In one sense he ts perfectly severed from every @ On earth, Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe, Our hermit spirits dwell aud rauge apart, CHURCH OF ‘TH INCARNATION. GOD THE GOD OF THE LIVING—SERMON BY ‘HE REV. DR. BROOKS. Rev. Dr. Brooks, rector of the Church of the Inear- nation, yesterdey morning preached trom Matthew 20, Xxxil—God is uot the God of the dead, but of the living.”? **This,’? said the speaker, “4s one of the grandest traths ever uttered by Christ. It sparkles like a jewel, and shows how great God really is, One application of the truth teaches us to use always the bigher principies of living. A few rules of action on the suriace, a few graces developed on exceptional oc- casious, are nut what are required, ‘ney should be the rule of daily lite, and not the excepuon, Much of the opposition that Christianity has is based upon the tendency to belivve that Ged 13 the God of the dead ané pot of the living. There is nv Goa tor the living oul Of mad, cay Many. This 18 just the reverse of God’s utterance, He 1s the God of tue light of men, Every individual Christian feels and kuows wig, And this great trath is the armor agutust which all tue Weapons hurled ut Christianity Gave faliea harmless. Unuil a religion comes that recogaizes God ag the God ot the living, butot the dead, tho rival of Corisi- uly bas wot arisen, God is w living God, He is a present God, He is wherever mun is. God is God of riguteousmess among the living. ‘he holi- ness of Christianity t6 the holiuess of tue God of tue living, God 1s Gud of love of the living, proven by His deat and sacrifice for us. Some say that Christianity is 4 scheme, u doctrine; otuers tut it is @ sort ol religious boasting. The history of Christ jauity answers these, Wuen men get rid of the Wea tunt God saves thew by @ plao, and wat wey are Dot to be killed when suyed, they’ will rush more gliuly toward (ue tratus that give them salvation, Auother danger to Christ: ty tual part of the Chureb of the present is not the Churct of the liviag God. A religion that never gets eur the weuris ol men is Of but httle service.” The preacner was not inchined 10 UurGw stones at Leighuors, but wanted his own people to look imto the mutter, There was danger that Coristianity was becoming a mechanical ullair; that | they were josing sigut of its reui meauin v We ure drm,” be coutinued, “Christ way be felt epeak- ing tous, flose why are gong Ww climd the Christ | tau Ub must start ous With w stout Ucar, Remember Curist is wt the top and He will wid yo Si. Pat RICK'S CALHEDRAL, LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD—SiRMON BY REY. PATHER HOGAN, lu St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday Rey, Father Hogan read the gospel for the day, Matthew, xxik, 2-14, Wnere the parable of the king who ordered the | Martiage feast ana invited his subjects to the banquet is warratod, and said:—Tho king, feeling justly in- | dignant with those who refused, and iuceused at the others who Jaid hans ou bis umbussadors and put them to death, culied wis army togetuer and directed it to slay the perpetrators of syed an outrage and to burn their city, He then ordered wis legates to go ito the Mighway and invite all they mei, bowl the yood aud tue vad. Wuen the banquet hall was filled | he went im to see i Was ready und | uere saw 4 oman who fad wot vrought wu Weuuing garmevt, Le axked the mau why he came without but tue mau remained seu. Me (hen ordered that be should be bound baud aud toot and thrown iio exterior carkness, und suid there suouid be weeping and guashing of Wein, From wis parable we are prepared to iearn, said che preacher, the danger of wot heeding ihe voice of God. He ts absolute Master of Us aud Cu do ue Jie pleases With us, We were created tu the mauuer tt pieased Kui | we were vaptized wuen We tad uot Lue use of reasun, and through our spuusors contracied a must solemn Ovugation Which in wier life we are nov at liberty tw aunul. To Abrahaw Was yiveu the order Jor circum- cision, aud it Was uot OMly Obiigatory on Lim vUL on his household, And when tue jailer alluded to 1 the Soriptures Couverted ail nix household were bap- tized Wih bim, We bad not eveu the choiwe of our Coristian education, yet we are drwly Wwund to live up bo 18 Strick requirements, God orders and directs everything lor our good Without consulting us about M4, aud He demauds that we taltully ooay Hin. He wakes kuown His will w ue in ways He iuspires us to and to avoid what is wrong, heed this voice, We havi do What is rigi and it is for us to FFOWIUI CXuMple O1 fe= tue dispersion of His once chosen people. not only heed His iwspirations, bu we mast continue | Wau Heeusing thom to sell ram un the authority of i cy to beed them. It is expected of us advance in doing good, for each given us in proportion to thi of what was aiready give! refuse to listen to the grow daily deut become dead to all sense oi ty Consequences, We ha’ amples of men who, whea dying, refused even then to restore thi wealth, and of others who led vicious Ii that in ive minutes they would be to eternity, yet would not separate themselves froin the purtuers of their crimes, 11 18 a fatal mistuke to think that after piration, lor men \d_ regardless of the having spurnod all graces and inspirations for 4 Iifo- time, in the end the necessary grace would be given, There {s no reason whatever to expect that sucb a miracle would then be performed. If we ex- pect to be among the few that are chosen we must heed the voice of God and implicitly obey Him, EIGHTEENTH ST, (M. E.) CHURCH. THE SWEET USES OF ADVERSITY—SERMON BY 2 REV. DB. HATFIELD. * 3 ills and blessings” was che theme of Rev. Dr. Hatfeid’s discourse at the highteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday morning. The object of this sermon was, to the main, to demon- strate that many of life’s tlle were blessings in dis- guise, and that adversity, like prosperity, tad its benc- ficent uses in the will of the Divine Ruler. ‘We all look upon the loss of our property,” suid the reverend gentleman tn the course of his remarks, ‘as a great evil, «8a woofn! calamity, There is none among you who would not regard it as a crushing misfortune to “Ly lose hait bis property. Wealth i# such power; i fis men to & position which they would never ettain but fortheir money, Men in thia city and in this nation buve reached positions by the mere power o!f their wealth which they could never occupy without i, But are tbore not instances where the loss of fortune becomes a blessing in disguise? The man who bas been purse proud all his life, wao bas used his great means soicly for the gratification of his own selfish ende, who has given jittle or nothing for charitable purposes, sces a jesson iu the loss of his fortune, and he determines that if by pe: and industry he can more liberai and more un: Froperty in the Old World, for iastunce, i into the posses: Of the meaus by an secure a CON) petence, ¥, perchunce, how will he Know how to eurn bis own living except by the uses of adversity!” Tne reverend preacher pursued Unis train of argument to show thut adversity and poverty often soltened men’s hearts und mage them better and stronger, while wealth and power burdened their bearts and made them selfish and coveious. It was only reasonubie to assuime that the Divine Ruler, who allowed no spartow to fall unnoticed, did ull for the best, and we should in all vur misfortunes and Pluce implicit faith im the su. love of the Almighty for all His Take physical afflictions,” be continued; “*they are used, like the adversity of ‘ortune, to hum- bie those that ure proud, and to make them tuke sition In the economy of tho universe which A is inscrutable wisdom assigns them. Physicul a vantages, like the power of wealth, are uot ulways beneficial to the roal interests, tu the eternal interests, of our souls, | speak to fathers, Whut kind pareat ig there here who would grant every whim and caprice of hisciild? Who does uot kuow the story of the boy who urged hig father, the commander ofa ship, to let him go to sea that he might become a captain also? very He thought it would all easy and smooth, but his tather, of taking bim into the cabio, o h into the forecasiic, and when a furious broke over the ship ke ordered the boy to climb to the ib whence he descended only at the risk of r je cried and said that he bad not expected such treatment, ‘But,’ said bis father, 4f you want to become the commander of a vessel you must kuow all its parts,’ And do you suppose that in after years, whben the boy reaily hud become the captain of the ehip, he was sorry for this stern training which be bad received in youth? We ail require this drill, th training, to steer the ship of lile tote haven af peace. ROW IN THE TEMPERANCE CAMP. be LIVELY MEETING OF THE AMERICAN TEMPER- ANCE UNION—INTEBRUPTION OF THE PRO- CEEDINGS WHILE A LADY WAS SPEAKING— SHARP REBUKE FROM THE PRESIDEN‘. The usual placid character of the meetings of the Amorican Temperance Calon at Cooper Institute was relieved yesterduy by a couple of rather spicy epi- sodes, It being the last meeting for the quarter ar. Tangement had to be made for the election of officers for the ensuing term. Ordinarily such proceedings are merely routine and vuinterosting, but in the present instance they wore otherwise. THR FIRST SQUALL, Mr. Parks, an ex-President of the Union, moved that a commitioe of five be appointed by the Chair to select a board of oflicers tor tho ensuing term, to be voted tor pext Sunaay. Mr, Rol (a member among the audience) declared that he did not want any clique busisess about the eloction of offeurs, They should be voted for publicly, every member acting for himself. (Ap- plause. ) A gentleman among the audience indorsed the same views, ‘rhe President (to the latter)—Are you a memoer of the Union, sir? Answer—No, I am not; but I am bere, President (Vlandiy)—I am glad to ace you here, sir; but not being a membver you are not ut liverty to tako part in the busihess procecdings. (Applause.) Mr, Parks explained that members were not obliged to vote for the nominations made by the commute Mr. Ross (exciedly)—Is Mr. Parks bimsel! a member of the Union? (Seusation.) Some conlusion bere ensued, but it was finally settiod by ex-President Logan aflirmicg that Mr. Parks Was not only regular membor of the Union, but a certiticate member, The proceedings theu resuwed their usual course, The President appointed Messrs, Parks, Cady, Logan, Dudiey and Mrs. Dickinson (tteasurer) as the commities ob nominations LASHING THK LIQUOR DEALKRS—-ANOTHER FLARE UP. Alver President Gibbs, Mr. ©. UC. Leigh aua others had brielly uudsessed tue Union, dirs, Jane Weikun, of Pougukeepsie, was introduces, Mra Welton was u Voice which, When put at its highest puch, becomes a Bort of locomotive whistle at its bighest key. Sbe speaks with great volubility and with u zealov’s fervor, und does not hesitate to call things vy their right names, She is a pronounced probibitionist, 1s in the Yau of the alvauce guard of tue temule temperance Crusaders, and the show she levs fly at Loe s.quor di ors and saloon keepers cume ag if ejected .rom tui mouth of a human mitrailleuse. Mrs. Welln wells ou her Viclims ina manner that would buve made them Writve witb agony had they beeu present, Sno suid ber ueart wis im the cause, and i she | thought there Was anyining wrong in ver heart she | would loaritout, When she came bere to attend tue Prohivition Contereuce she said she did aot think she would prove a disturbing @lement, But sho did not care for societies with Joug numes, Sbe could get along without them. Jesus of Nazareth did pul have 4 jong name. She did wor want to be associaied with people in this cause who Were nut absolutely (oval uostuiners. jSue spoke Of tLe prejudice agaiust Ler because she was a woman, but sue suid Women suould hold tbe temperance Light as igh us uuy map, She bad neuber a arunken fatuer, a druuken busband vor aarunken brothor. Sue was thaokiul for wut, She devoted bersen to the cause Wheu ihe Wowen crusuders cawe out in Poughkcoysic. She visited the salvuns im compauy with them, aud Wien hvse Women prayed and sung Aud exuoried ibe liquor sellers to give up their vile | business whey coully poinved io the certificate on ine | the Siate. Here the speaker became almost suffocated With tue indiguation Luis fact aroused, und aiter puy- 10g her rewpects Lo the State lor its suure in legalizing | tue trafile she bext waited envenomed arrows at tie | clergy Who did not emphatically denounce tue whole Heiarious LUsiness, Maukind generally were Bext ar- Feigued und underwent an eloquent layaing. “it you men,” exciauned ium Voice reaching im wit, “iuink you are the lords of creauon uud have ull the Urains of creation, | will tell you you | are mightily mistuken.”” (shouts of iaugurer sud ap. plause.) She wid what tue prowibitioniats proposed to do lo Strike at the Foot or the evil (WhIEL, us Cx- plained at the late Prouibition Lonlereuce, means Imporiution, HO Manaiucture, no sule). She velieved that prevention was better (baa cure. Lue speaker continued fur awhile longer, wuen there were indica tions that a portion of the audience did vot agree with ures proposed by the prowibitionists. mterrupted by applause and stamp- which at Orst mgnt Wave veen thought perlecily sincere and ¢, but their prolouged continuance suowed patup. Ata poiut w @ “thanked Gud Wuat (here was one tetuperauce suciety Which was not sceturian, that ali could join w—the Awerican ei: perance Uniou’—the mock applause became so marked that the speaker, as they say sometimes about ine Walking Deum of 4 slekm engine, “got off her centre,” And a gentienian in tue audience protested against (ois undailed for interruption. THK AUDIENOR RENUKED, President Gibvs o: immeuiately to the rescue and pereviptorily demanded tout the disturbers of the Mevting should preserve order, at lens. while a lady Was speak! ‘Those who did wot like ber talk snouid eitter Keep suill or go oul, (Applause. ) | Mrs. Woellou, resuming, said the interruption had contused ver, She could baraly Up tue thread of her rewarks at the pomnt they were oroken off, but she beileved 1+ was where she deciared hersell to be still strong lor the work, Sho shortly after coucluded, and took her seat, . President Gibbs again excitedly rebuked the dis- turbers, and said be belived that there always bad been un element im the Union which was turowing ov- sticles 14 the way of the success of ihe ‘emperanco cause, He wanted to kuow way they did nov stick | Logetbor inke the rumsellers, Vrowessur J. Jay Watsou nd Miss Annie Watson the Violin and piano at Rev, W. H. Bickle, pastor of tue Lexington Ave Courch, conducted the opeai, SHEET. MARRIED LIFE, IT 18 GOOD THAT MAN SHOULD HAVE 4 HELPMEET—VIEWS OF A PRESBYTERIAN AND A METHODIST MINISTER ON MATBI- ‘MONY. Ip the Spring Street Presbyterian Church yesterday morning Rev. Alfred Moment, the pastor, preached, taking ag his text Genesis 1)., 28—'+ And the Lord God suid, Lt 18 BOs good that man should be alove, I will make him « helpmeet for bim.’”” The greater part of the reverend gentleman's dis- course was devoted to demonstrating the various iv- terpretations that could be pizeed upon the word “hely),’? and be took the position that, besides mean- ing “assistagce,”’ the word also meant “companion.” In support of this position the premcuer cited numerous authorities, as be did also when proving that the word ’ was the knowledge of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Setting asice this train of arguinent, and Gigressing somewhat from the worn matter of his text, Mr, Moment spoke substantially as follows:—There are two kinds of preachioy. The first is that 1m which men seck only to give expression lo pet theuries of their own, and, instead of taking words from the text, place words apon it, The second kind of preacbing is that which presents God's Word jo its proper color and adaptation independent of what man may think and feel concerning it, ‘There are also two kinds of Bible teaching, The frst is a delineation of biblical character vot at all based upon the true spirit of the text—a sem)-scientitic and cur- sory glance over the sacred pages, a picking through the Seriptures, just us one would seurch a feld rich im historic fore, Ip this teaching Christ does nut form the maim figure, the ceutre of attrac- tion, bot He is merely tacked on the ena ike tho fifth wheel ofu coach, The secoud kind hat whieb x to the historical portion of the Bible; to the sublime strains of tue propbets aua tho sweet songs of the Psalmist; to tue exuortations of Paul and the iw. spired pages of the N ‘Testament The man that preaches in this vein says to himself, I have deter. mined to know but one, t esus Christ aad Him crucied, and the Bivie w given to such a manasa help, srom vegiuuing vo end, he finds nothing on which idle curiosity may teed, notniug to punder to the poor and idle intellect ofany'mau, He only sees in the Soriptures un inspired lesson, an adinonition trom Heatan (odo bis Work to the honor aud glory of the jord God, WOMAN AS MAN'S HELPER. Tu the text: of to-day, said the speaker, wo are told that God suid 1 was meet und just and good that man should have abelpweet. He was led to this declaration the spectacle of Adam’s solitude in the Garden of Eden, He saw that Adam was aione and He deter- mined to give him a companion, He accordingly cast e-deep sleep over him, und Whi be was in that condi- tiou openeu his side aod took thereirom a rib. Tuts riv He then formed into a woman, lovely und fair, and presenting ber to Adam told him that she was heuce forth to be bis companion, at tbe sae time admon. isbing Dim that it was bis duty to love, cherish and protect bor, ‘The woman that God gave Adam as his help 18 the woman tuat he gives to man to-day as a wile, To man a wifo ftis w place that none other can fil Spe cheers nim in his solitude, re- joices with bim in bis joys; shares his misfortunes and bis successes With the same unswerving devotion, is path through ile is rendered one of happiness avd brightness by the electric sunshine of her pres- 3 16 any wonder, io, that mau should idolize this wite as bo does: tobim all and ail, dea bi Ob, may God biess the wives of this world; bouy? may He look down upoo them with a kind and propi- tious eye, and i! vy any mischance men cannot brighten and cheer their lives, may a warm, sunshiny ray of heaven fail aslant over their pathways and ilamine them with happiness and joy. MARRIAGE & DIVINE INSTITUTION, In the Centra! sethodist Charch, in Seventh avenue, near Fourteeuth street, Rev. Mr. Esray spoke ou tho relations of busbanus and wives. His toxt was from St. Paul—*-Therejore shall a man leave his father aud his mother und cleave unto his wife, und they shall be one flesh.” After a few suggestions’ preparatory to tis sermon in Fregard to the remarks of St, Paul, **Wiyes, sabmit yourscives unto your husbands as to the Lord,”? in which be spoko of the ordination of marriage being a peculiarly sacred one and worthy o1 cont atiou in every civilized community, Mr. Esra: Among the things that should be assuredio every honest and enlightened country is the sacred institu- Uon of home. Now, | would not enter upon this sub- joct if { did not realize fully its importance. The institution or marriage is eminontly a Christian one, Jobn the Baptist does not fully realize my idea ofa holy man in this respect; he represented tne monastic, wtoetic Mun, Who was constantly denying himeell. He was full of renunciation, fated in his habits; hi represented atype of religion that Iam glad to’ see passing . Jesus Christ came und altered all that, Almost the first social act He performed was to susta the ceremouy of marriage, ‘'hut was not morely « religous occasion—it was « joyous occasion, IT Was WHAT WE CALL FUN, It was intended to be a social business, where men and women were to lovk into each other’s eyes, to clasp bands, to know each other, and to go through life joyously until death should them part. Marriage therciore was sauciified, aud received the sienet uf the Master as tho only moral way in which the race svould be perpetuated, This was substautiaily Christ's thought im regard to the union of the sexes, No minister, L think, ever marries a couple without being diled with dea, It ia his bigh priviledge to sanction the union even while he does not cre t, There no picture more beautiful than that of two persons ber, whe have already given their bearts aud asking the benedio- of the Courch on their marriage, The music, the flowers, the wedding marcb, all have signilicance ; bat | when the loving couple promise the clergyman to | observe their vows toward each other, to be fuith{ul, loving, \euder and true, there 18 sowetuing inexpress- ibly touching tp ail this which words cannot portray. MARRIAGES OF CONVINIENCK, When I think of marriages made ior convenience I feelindignant, Une party bas a daughter, another one @ son, and 4 business arrangement 18 made for purely commercial purposes or to Keep up a tamily connec- tion, This is no marriage, and society is cursed by ! such cases, where men and women throw discredit on | stitution ever created. Ii there is auy- | thing in this world more contemptible than another it is money. It is a thing we must have and use of | course, but when we tuiuk of it as influencing a mar- Tiage wod that it 18 made a basis of a ifelong uaion be- tween two lives it is simply outrageous and detestable, Now, there is another cousideration in regard to mar- Piage that should not bo Jost sight of, and that is com- promise, This life is made up of compromises, ‘Iwo men join in # business relationship, Their tempers are different and organizations yenerally opposed, but by reason of a desiro for protit they yield to one an- | other, assimilate in fact, so that their duion is not only | protitable but pleasant; and ali this is attained by a spirit of compromise. Imagine, therefore w tnan and woman living together for 4 whule lifetime without bein to yield and compromise. Of course a man who illed and seif-opinionated can get ona rock in a desert and denounce all creation, and he will hurt nobody, but when he comes into society and ihe domain of tue family he cannot thus assert his indi- Viduality; he must suppress bimseit somebow in order that otvers may be avie Ww euuure him, DOMESTIC TYRANTS. There are some domestic tyrants whose names never pet into the newspapers, Some incu who say in the household, ‘lam master here!'? Such men generally iL ol opposition among the women, woo say, botvel” Aad so the spirit of petty bickering goes ou until a divorce court 1s the endui ii. When « tun feels that his home 18 unpleasagt, wheu he xeta tired and weery wih the commonplace and everyday appearance of the ordinary grooves of bis family life, 14 would not be a bad pian for him to drop away lor six meuths; be would then see thut bouely things were Dewutitul, and, missing the goutie voices aud uttentions, would return to bis tawily. The couple | who can go bhrougn lite trusting, faituidl, pavieat and forgiving Lave the Divine halo about tueir brows and prove that wurrtage 1t6:If 13 uivine JAMES HANRAHAN'S DEATH. On the night of Saturuay, September 22, Officer alvert, of the Fuib precinct, found a man lying at the corner of Hubert and Hudson streets in an insensibie | condition, He bad him removed to the Chumbers Street Hospital, where be subsequently died, Captain Baksns sovn alter the occurrence learned thatthe de- | ceascd was James Hanrahan, of No. 306 Green- wich sirest, and (hat on the night of tu 224 he bad bad w difliculty wito a young man wamod Poter Mccabe. This was deuied by the latter when arrested, bus be adwmitted having drauk with the de- ceased, Who vecame iioxieated, and later i the evening havicg pushod him away im order to get rid of | bin, ay be We holding bis coat wad weting in drunken, mauaitu way, Coroner Flagugan yesterday collected such evidence at the Filth precinct as could be procured there. Eaward O'Neil stated to tue Coroner that be saw the prisover und deceased walking aivug to- gether the might tho latter was fujured, At tue corner of Hubert street he Huor: fail, but was unable to say whether ne w: siruck or stumbled upon toe Walk. ‘Toe priso siooped over him und attempted to litt him up, bi When ianranan was alioost on uts feet be let hig fall aguil, Deceased Luis time struck his Lead on the side- walk. ‘Ihe prisoner then Went away. Soon after the p appeared and carried Hanrahan of to the station Luuse, Capwain Eakins was directed to hold MeCabe till to- day, to enable him to procure $1,0U0 bail. A BAD MEMORY. Early on Friday morning Detectives Clark and Stuith arrested a man who was crossing Harlem Brid With a bandsome vlack colt, mx yeurs oid and fifteon hands bigh, The mao said he had bought the borse from a stabiekeoper in Hamilton street, The latter, oo being questioned, denied 1% The prisoner theo xave the name of a party in White Plains, but be aiso denied Knowledge Of tue mutter. Tho detectives were then reterred to parties in White Plas aud Port- chester, but no information could be obtained, ‘Tho prisoner hiinseif seemed to be in doubt as tu his own ldentity, or when Urst arrested he gave his name as John &. Smith and alterward wrote it James McKen- When asked bis esterday in tbe Hariem Police Court smith wiias McKenzie began scratching his bead and Justice Kilureta interrupted with the re that it Was of no consequence, Ws be Would have hurged for lack of evidence. His Honor told ives tu retain the horge anu endeavor to find tee as there was oo doubt the animal bad booa stolen. OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. [Norm —Letters intended for this column must be accompanied by the writer’s (ull name and address te Insure attcation, Complainants who are aowilling to comply with this rule simply waste ti Write on ony on WHERE IS THE MONEY? To Tuk Epiror ov Tae Hexatp;— Why does not the receiver of the German Sav Bank pay us another dividend? What has beco:n the money obtained for the building? J. W. 3. THE PROMISE AND THE PERFORMANCE. To tue Eviror ov THe Herano:—~ Is i, usual for the proprietors of Gilmore’s Garden & advertise an attractive programme, thereby attract ing persons to their establishment, and then fatl ta carry it oat? This occurred at the matinée last Fri- day. Let me mention a few of tho sina of omission aod commission Mr. 1ufner aid not appear to invite Maud into the garden. In place of tho aria trom “LW Atricaine,”’ we had “She is fooling thee” badiy rendered, as though we did not know we were being fooled without being told of 't tn such @ borrib! a In piace of « piccolo solo a flute solo was aud soon, No apology wha mado for t ver Wi ir DISAPPOINTMENT, PAWNBROKERS' IMPOSITIONS. To tne Epiror ov tan HeraLp:— Last month I was compeited to go to one of those usurers, or, as they are geoerally called, pawnbrokers, and pawn my watch and chain for $40, tor whioh they gave me two tickets—$20 on exch article, At the end of not quite one month and a half! went there to re. deem them, when ono of the attendants demanded $1 60 Interest on each ticket. 1 answered him that at the rate of twenty-live per cent, as was expressed om the ticket only $1 26 1n all was due him. I do not wish to waste paper and time on what followed; enough ta know that to get rid of them, and being ashamed of being seen there, 1 guve them $1 60 interest for both tickets, that being as mach as was demanded for each ut tirst, This reduction they probably made be. cause of the crowd who bad by that time gatoered in front of the counter, and would thus learn the extent of their imposition, During my stay I witnessed the charging of three ceuis monthly on $1 to a poo woman, which 16 at tho rate o/ thirty-siz per cent per anoum, Do you not think that this is @ system o! robbery that ought to be stopped, more ea; ite victiins generally belong to the ne ot people? POISONOUS WHISKEY, To tne Epiror or tuk HEKALD:—~ Allow me to call the attention of those who sell whiskey aud those who use it toa system of prepan ing and “doctoriug’’ it that bas prevaiicd for some years, by which rank poisons are used in giving the article artificial flavor and mellowness, in imitation genuine old whiskey. The amount of harm thu: wrought, 10 the increase of crime, idiocy, madness aud murder within the last ten years, is simply in calculable. It will bo readily admitted that par straight whiskey, if it has age, or pure liquors of any kind, are wholesomer and not nearly so deleterious o: aestructive im their eff an adulterated articic, There are dealers now supplying the hotels, restau- rants and retail dealers in New York with what is known as “‘blemied whiskeys’—« ¢, whiskoys represented to be a mixture of differently made whiskeys, ot ‘jous ages, young and old, which of course can be supplied at a lower price than pure old whiske; But the: culled “blended whiskeys’? are really whiskeys mixed with chloroform, hartshorn and other pura poisons, Chloroform mixed with new whiskey bas the effect of deadening the rough freshness and hard taste peculiar to new Whiskey; it impurts an olliness and smoothness such as old whiskeys acquire only through age, but tue effect ou the consumer is simply deuth, After a few drinks of such vile stuff tho con- sumer becomes partially stupefled; Jarger indulyence Produces idiecy or maduess, and under its intinencs crimes of ali degrees are committed of which the sul- forer, as tar as his mind is concerned, is partially, 1! ot totally unconscious, Any respectable house in ihe woikey trade will teil you that this is not sensation), but pure matter of fact. ‘The deulor buys these whis- keys because he makes more profit, auu genuine oid whiskeys, such as we were accustomed to drink before the war, are now d only by @ fow of tne more conscientious wholesale dealers, Th facts would not cveo be so bad if tue retail dealers were not cognizant that the exere lawa of the United states folly protect them jn the mai of the adul ‘They know, altbough there may ve some the tact, that accurding to t of whiskey mado at uuy aistillory iu the Uaited stutea must beara stamp toiliug the bame of tho distille! tbe number oi gallons it contains, and the da; month, year, place or district where the barrel was filled, and another stamp showing when the tax was paid.” Any persou wuo opens such a package for the purpose of mixing or docioring its contents, without sending Notice to the collector of his district, is lable to have every drop of whiskey be owns seized; and furthermore, after the mixing, doctoring or com. pounding 18 doue, the above two stamps are cancellea aud Dew slamp attaci 1 th Place, The: r now in eifect and aro curried out to the letter. Consequently the retailer who bas any conscience and who doves not desire to murder his customers should buy whiskey with two uucuncelied stamps upon tue barrel, {ben be absolutely knows to a day Low oi¢ or how young the whiskey is. Ho lurther knows posi- tively that tue whiskey 1s pure as itis made. The best of whiskey, goodness knows, ts bad enough, but 1 suppose people will drink whiskey as long as tue world lasts; theretore please try aod save us from poisonous Whiskeys. VRITAS, AN AULUMN DAY. Another cool and enjoyable day dawned upon the city yesterday morning, It came atu most welcome time, (or tho two or threo sultry days that bad pre- ceded it seemed forerunners of anotner warm spel but on Saturday night the air grew cool, a brisk breeze, which was by Ho means unpleasant, swept over the city, and when the people weut to bed and to sleep it blew in at the windows with u rush that was strougiy Buggestive of the necessity of extra blankets. And with the dawn of yesterday morning tho breeze still lingered over the city, to tbe delight of all, Central Park was crowded from early dawo until long after the twinkling stars had taken up their places Jo the vaults of heaven, The people cumo iu droves, to large groups and small groups, in dozens and half dozens, in twos and threes and singles. Once inside the Park the crowds scattered in all directions. Waile sume wandered along the cout aud sequestered paths leading by driving routes to the interior others made their way direst to the Lake, the Mus the Menagerie. Not a few found repose beneath tue vine-covered roof of the ‘the seats for talking age und whisper! were ata premium. Utners were sailing on the Lak whose rippling waters were covered with bright hue: beats, wuiel hen the shades of evening feil over the automa tinted foltage of the Park, were illumi. nated with bright lanterns. All day jong the variour ai were tilled with an endless line of carriages, vecupants inhaled cool bracing air with evident pleasure, A large number of persons, princi pally Germans, visited the various parks in Hoboken und along Jersey City Heights io Union Hill, wuile boats to H Bridge aud Astoria were pretty com- foriavly Biled upon the various trips. “CONEY ISLAND. CLOSE OF THE SEASON AT THE PEOPLE'S WATER- ING PLACE. The suv of Coney Isiand’s summer glories may be said to have set yesterday for the year 1877. There wore several hundred visitors ja the afternoon, but at all the leading botels—Cable’s, the Oceau, the Manvattan, Clarendon, Thompson's aud Nortou’s—a dreary waste of uuoveupied seats und tables met tae eye, About four o'clock, When the sun’s heat was greatest, ouly two persons wore to en in bathing at thus potnt below the concourse wRere a month ago (uousands of people tiled tb rt aud the seu beyond, ‘The broeze irom the veean acted asa deterrent, aud, though pleaswut und braciuy, was a trifle wo cuol to tnako timmersion in the water very tempting, A fair show of vebiclos kept the dust alive ou Ocean ayenu but the occupants tarried ouly tor a short while on the bes eating aud drivking were uv ao ex. trumely limited scale, The sale of lager beer, that greas sluple refresument ol Lhe istund, reacued the low- est notch vf tue seasvn, aud the clans appeared to be only amemory of the past. The hotel men bud no complaints to make. ‘The splendid returns of the past summer tilled their hearts With joy, aud they feel 16 would be a sort of ingratitade to fortune wo seem othe: wise than Lappy aud contented. From the s:naliest to tue largest hovel oF restaurant the Was a huge benelit The railroads, vo prosperity that fell like a “hu on Coney Isl All the — crowding” in the = curs and nthe ats nd alt the pell mell rushing for seats and tables at tho nutels which wi of July aud August wa: Characterized tue hut mopins tirely missing. The vast plaza in front of Cablo’s, Where the muste stand was erected and cupavle of accommodating 10,000 people, was utterly deserted, and (he (ow remaining waiters 19 the hovel leaned pousively against doorposts and twirled thoi limp napkins by the hour, lt ie rougnly estimated that over a mision people visited Coney island dufiug the sammer, and that o beer Was consumed to float the whole an navy. Ceriaia it is that 1t bad a lutger patron: year than fn filteon yours togetner oi ity p tory, and wh: or driv ig extended New Y great resort of the boargeo! have become so manifoia and dg that the créme de la crime can no longer ige nore