The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1877, Page 8

THE LORD'S DAY. | History and Meaning of Christ’s Church. - THE IMPERFECTION OF MAN. Honesty the Great Need of Our Day. THE SAVIOUR'S DISCLOSURES Farewell Sermon of Archbishop Gibbons at Richmond. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. . THR HISTORY AND MEANING OF CHRIST'S ‘CHURCH —SERMON BY REV. DR, HEPWORTH. The Rev. George H. Hepworth yesterday morning based bis discourse on the Book of Acts, 1,, 3—"*Being seen of them forty days, and speaking of things per- faining to the kingdom of heaven,’”? Ho said what the Saviour said during the forty days alluded to in the text, during which the new kingdom of Christ was constructed, we may never know. ‘There uvdoubt- edly was a sweet communion between Him and those unlearned disciples who looked to Him for the joys and rewards of another world. Jesus Christ in found- ipg anew Church only acted in uccordauce with the exigencies of His work. So long asa reform repos! Quiesceutly in the mind of the teacher it remains mop- erative, but whon it is embodied in an institution, and ralses up man to expound its spirit, the world adopts it as a practical meuns of progress and development. Now, this new kingdom which Jesus founded 1s called by various names. It is calledthe kingdom of heaven, as though it bound the earth to heaven; it is called the kingdom of God, as though 1t bound man to God; fagain it ts called the kingdom of the Son of God, as ‘though it would reveal that Jesus is the Vice Regent and pon of tho Everlasting Father. And those that belong to this kingdom are also callea by precious Dames, They are spoken of as Christ’s flock, the shep- herd being the God on High, ang the sheep being His children dwelling here upon earth. Again they are culled Christ’s housenold, and we realize that the Head of this bousehold would rather porish than to allow ‘His own to be lost to Him. THE BIKTH OF CHRIST'S CHURCH AND IT3 GROWTH. “Let us ay for alew mowents,” coutinued Mr, Hepworth, ‘to the piuce where tue now Cuurch was born, There were the eleven aposties, the faithful Women, the Suviour’s mother, some discipies, Lhe brethren of Christ—in all, as’ wo are told by Luke, about one hundred and twenty persons. ‘hoy seemed all like orphans bereit of their parents; they were all 1n deep despair, and only boping that Curiat would mani- fest Himsel! in some way. Their first preaching on Pentecost Day was rewarded by tue conversion of 8,000 of their bearers, and theso 3,000 aud the 120 Vhave spoken of above copatituted, us it were, the very first Christian congregation we kuow ol.” ‘The reverend speaker descrived how the diflerent apostles, Scattered over the various portious of the earth, Taising up @ band of faithiul believers in Christ in the very midst of idolators and heathens ‘You have heard how the deposits of bouldere and tho Bl accretion of supd form isiands in the sea,” he continued; ‘so these apostles were boulders Of faith round which the eddying tide of humanity de- posited here « soul and tnere a soul until these doposits were raised into islands und continents and reared a now Church, a better civilization and truer beliof The time 1s not far distant woen Unristianity will have conquered this world, and it will be heathenism that will ve straggling for existence and not the Church of Christ The Churen of Christ bus thus fur fulfilled its destiny, and as the brooks swell into rivers, and these flow into the vcean, so the hopes and hearts Of humunity swell from brooks into rivers and are Dorue out into the sea of eternal life, THE CHOKCU A UNIT, “But if thie fs the Kizgdom of God, you will ask, woy is it that tore are so many divisions in i? But ip reality the Church is one. Concerning certain noo essentials the different sects of the Curistian religion differ; concerning the essentials they are substantially Bunit. 4t makes no difference whether a Methodist or Bi strikes the blow inst the evil; 1 makes no difference whether you are called by tuis or tout ame; these are but the outside trappings of religion. If you are right tn your heart, if you ure fuithful and true as a servant aud as asteward, God will not care woether you worship Him in tuis building or in that, You know that im @ chorus the one sings bass, the other tenor, the third baritone, whilo all produce Feally one tone, one harmony, all contribute to the sume eftect. Why do they sing differently? Be- Cause their voices are of different quality. So it 1s in loves to worship ais Saviour in becuuse bis temperament is of that simpie, plain character. The other deiguts in lighta, in pictures, in the enblems of decorative art, abd it is these Which he likes to surround himself ‘With when worsbipping bis God. That sympathy which we like to have bestowed upon us in the hours of our necessity, uud which we ow extend to the sin-sick und the suffering, te Church ot Christ has taugnt us to practise, What was 4t that taught us to build homes for the aged and for the sick? ‘ihe Church, Behind the roar of war we can bear the bicssings and scoubings of tue Samaritan, the Sister of Charity, the minister and the prie their kindiy aaministrations were taught by tho Cuurch of Christ. it is the Church which has poured the oiland wine upon poor, suflering and bieeding humanity, Tne Church should be sacred to us In the cathedrals of Euruye there is sometuing far more ‘Deautiiul than the stained windows and jofty piilars and groined arches; it 18 the gratitude of the people who belped to ruige these temples of God.’* Mr. Hep- | worth then related his experience whedral of Venice, which was erected im the pcople’s gratiude for the extinction of plague wih whica Venice was then visited. 1t was for this that (ue church was built and christened Santa Maria del Salute, He also related how deeply touched he was to see in the cathedral of Ven: above alluded to, seattered Found ail sorts of tokens and gifts of more or less value. He asked bis guide what these gifts meant, jae explained that when some member had Prayed to his patron saint for his protection or deliv- erance from sutlering or sickness aud bis prayer was 68 bis graticude vy laying tude of his heart at the pa- tron saint’s shrine. This spirit of religious gratitude Was beautiful indeed. “Let every ove of you, my brethren,” the speaker continued, ‘take a personal interest in this church in which your children have been baptized, in which you Buve been joiued in holy wedlock, aud from whese pulpit you bave received spiritaal consolation tu the hour of your need and dis- tress, Let this winter bot pass by without seeing you display in this very building in which we worsuip, this spirit of gratitude to God, who bas led us bere to His feet, God bless the people iu the Church and God bless the chureh which the peopic have raised to Him. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTISL CHURCH. CHRIST'S GRADUAL DISCLOSURUS—SELMON BY REV. DR, ARMITAGE, The Bev. Dr. Armitage yesterday at the morning Service took ior the text of Lis sermon Joba, xvi., 12— “1 have yt many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.” Is there a sweeter feature in our Lord’s character than His delicate vindication of His disciples, both in their personal weaknesses and their arrow capacities? We have an illustrious example Of this comparison in tue text. He utiered these Words, a8 we suppose, somewhere between nine and twelve o’clock by our time on the mght betore His crucifixion, so that in twenty hours after they fell from Ais lips those lips were seaiod juJosephi’s tomb, Yet, | although He bad been with them three long years and | consumed from three to five bours with them in this | Swootly solemn cunversation, He says with marked | emphasis, “1 bave many things to say to you.” The question, therefore, uaturally arises in our breasts why so many things lay ip His t heart uoreveaied at that jae hourr Nay, we are oven liable to regret that He had not unbowomed them long belore, on the Supposition that jor want of ume at the jast Ho leit many valuable socrots sealed up in His bosom, und so we bave absolute silence where we might Lave had His voice, The Evangelists tell us but little that He said, | at the most, and yet He himself tells us thas | on that lust night of ilis ministry there were immense stores of vow and Vital truth romaiuing uu- told, If, however, He leit the veil turown over this cou- Conled treasure, we must bear \u mind that [lis silence becbmes the very essence of love, when Ho tells us the | Feagon which governed Him in the concealment, He | tells us in a tone of regret that it wus not for want of time that He tailed the full serol! of truth, but the im- maturity, the unfitness, the incapacity of iis Disciples 806 & sen) upon the folds which forbid its outire revola- ton, T could teil you, he seoms to say, the lossons are perfect and tho teacher is willing to communicate them, The trouble doos now lodge there, The lesson for commuuication, but the learner is not receive it. The tutor longs to make it jot the pupil has not capacity vo grasp it, VL y, MaiNgE LO Hay LO You, DU yo cannot bear f joo at this jon presents the greatness of to us, fn full colossal, stature, us a Wwacher, infant 18 born and loving irieuus gathor avout Strapger to admire and When grees Lim, they NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET Diaze of sunlight, lest tie Orst flery ray should injure Lhe delicate tissure ot his eye: ‘This care shows not only their compassion, but their jot our Lord’s reason, “Ye cannot bear them now,” set forch bis skill as tue Great ‘Youcber, pay, bis gigantic wisdom in treating bis dis- ciples tu the Same guarded way? Ii you are kindling a Bre in the effulgence of the meridian sun, there are a thousand chances that its dazziing radiance will scorch and quench the spark in the uuinitiguted flood of light, But shade ita iittie, and fan it by a cool breath, then the smoking flax will become a tame, So gently did Christ treat bis disciples in their weakness and slowness to learn, “Ye are notable to bear them now.” Wherein were they unable to bear them? His words imply that he bad great tacts to reveal, great doctrines to bring forth or new application to make, both of fact and doctrine, lor which they were not prepared, Either thei prejuaices were so fiemly crystalized and improguablo as to obstruct the tree reception of these truths, or their profound and sub. ime character would prove too great a strain upon their mental powers, or theirfwonderfuiness would ve too trying a test of their faith and ioral torti- tute, So thatthe attempt ut the ume to inform them fully would be like the attempt to push @ child atone bound out of the alphabet into the depths of metaphysiog or out of words of one syliavle into the dryness of abstract dogina. At the same time he rec- ognized that they wero capable of growth; wiat as they pondered i0re and more they would grow, would reach after things bigher and deeper, tll by thoughtiul, patient painstaking they would shoot out of childhood into manbood, and out of manyood iato ginpthood, “Ye cannot bear these things now.” Thero Were noble things in store for them. The grain had only been sown, but it should mature to au immensely rich harvest, ‘The skiff but launched on the mar- gin, but one day the proud bark should plough its way foto unexplored seus and lay new worlds of dis- covery, At present their minds were nearly blank, but soon they shoula become storebousees, living ar- chives of precious, pure, profound wisdom, In their immature state they could not even bear to receive a softeued statement from the gentile lips of the Son, but whon the Spirit of Truth should come, he should lead them, a8 a philosopher would tuke @ rustic by the und and attract him on from step to step tll he leads ‘them into all truth, RETICENCE OF THB REDEKMER How reticent the Kydeemer was in disclosing truth, and yet bow willing to unvosom ali bis secrets, as the scholar wag able to bear them, But what were the many things which Jesus had yot to say to them? It may be impossibio for us to fully answer this ques tion, while some of the many things may bo tolerably clear. It has been conjectured that one of these things was a full disclosure of the fact that wheu He should finally part with them their eyes would vever rest upon Him again till they beheld Him as the King jo His beauty and tho landafsrof ‘Tuat prospect would have been intolerable, and they might have sunk under such forcbodings of long absence, which would seem to involve their entire abandonment to perpetual earthly orphanage; or, perliaps, He wished to make known to them the unreserved evidences of His Deity, 80 that they could not feel one lingering doubt concerning His Diviue person. It is pretty evi- dent that, despite all the evidence which He had sub- mitted tn that direction, they yet comprelieuded His Divinity but imperiectly, They needed the supor- naturalaid of His Holy Spirit to testify of Him, to glorify Him, to lead them inio “all the truth” on tharsubject, But why could they not bear all that truth now? For the sume reason (hat a young plant could not bear an instantaneous change from the pitch darkness of mid- night to the blazing noontide of a midsummer day, God never treats the tender productions of nature in that way. He gives the day by a gradual dawnivg out ot the bosom of night, till 1rom the Jurid horizon the sun shines more und more to the brilliancy of mid- day. ‘Then as sottly the sun recedes again into the gray of \wiligbt, that night may anew hold her silent and restful reign. Could the full thought have seized them at once! hat they were in the presence of the great God; ‘that they were seated at His sido; that they looked | | of peoplo in this country are overworked and their into bis eyes: that they leaned on the bosom of the living Jehovah; that without reserve He inspected all their [railty and listened to all their petty complaints and contentions with the eyes and cars of aman, and that while they had been walkiug at the side of the younk carpenter of azareth—all the time tbey had beev im converse with the embodied God—it might have been impossible for them | to have borne up against the overpowering thought. The entire realization of that great truth ‘was to grow upon them, as the Spirit should bring one thing after avotber which He had suid and done to their remembrance, till, by looking back upon things which at the time bad appeared trivial or been passed by unnoticed altogether, they should come to seo, as of tbe profoundest interest, universal instead of local im their bearings, and eternal instead of transicnt Its, This master truth tney came to uo- its infiuite scope. WHY THE DISCIPLES WERE NOT TOLD ALI. The same remark may bo upplied to the wonderful and original doctrine of Christ, concerning the giit and reign of the Holy Spirit. “To have kuown fuliy that the Spirit was to endow them with miraculous power—such as the command of foreign languages without studying the grammar, the discerning of spirits by the mea to whom he bad said, “Ye know not What spirit ye are of,” and the ability to look into the bosgm of the future ‘as ‘‘propnets,” while at pres- ent they could not see one finger’s length betore thein— would have atartied, and, perhaps, alarmed them into the cowardice and Weakness of babes, But it is more likely that the ebief things “which He bad to say to them,’ related more to themselves taan to Him and the Spirit whom Hesbould send, He knew of an ex- haustless test of sufferings which awaited them in the juture, by every conceivable form of human and dia- volicul cruelty, ending in tho most excruciating and obnoxious forms ot demh, the kuowledge of which they wore not then ‘able to bear.”” And to have told them the occasion of all this, would have thrown thom into perfect bewilderment if not despair. ‘To have told them that they mast abandon all the distinctive features of the Jewish religion, that zeai therefor ‘would cease to be patriotism, that the foundations of their faith in the eflicacy of animal sacrifices must be renounced, that the gorgeous worship of the temple at Jerusalem was to bo supplanted and its altars crum- ble to dusi—nay, that even their boly facherlaud, given by promise to Abrabam, was to be abandoned fora home among ‘gentile dogs,’? would have been at once to convulse and stupety them. Much less, then, could they have borue to have been told that these ‘dogs’? were to rank as their equals in brotherhood, ay, that the time would come when they would be glad not only to account themselves less than the least uf these in saintship, but would count it an honor that they could ve permitted to shed their owa vivod and lay down their own lives for the privilege of winning such outcasts and offscourings to the cail- jog of saints with themselves. Judging from what Peter suffered in his prejudices ana his reluctance to go to the Geutiles at all, even after Pentecost, such a revelation would have crushed every one of tuem if given prematurely, And now, my brethren, may I not usk if this is not exactly the way in which Ubrist con- tinually makes the most momentous disclosures to usY Siould we be better abie to endure them than tue aposties Were It he made them suddenly? Often. in a long courso of providentiai instrucuion for us, He is compelled by our prejudices and oar ignorauce and our incupucity to begin bis lessons in parables, PLYMOUTH CHURCH, SIMPLE HONESTY THE GREAT NEED OF OUB DAY—THE CONSCIENCE AND ITS TRAINING— SERMON BY HENRY WARD BEECHER, “Ie ts cloarly implied in the text I have read,” said Mr, Beacher to his immense congregation yesterday, ‘that ignorance confides men to very imperfect guides in lfe—that trae relision ought to develop growth in knowledge not only, but skiil in using knowledge us the means of rectitude.” ‘Tue passage referred to was from the Ofth chapter of Heprews:—But strong meat volongeth to*them that are of full ago; those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” That the conscience of men requires education, Mr, Boechor thought is declared in the closing words of the passage. ‘Use’ exercising and disciplining the human conscience according to the inspired writer was the method by which it might be made to | discern both good and evil, Mr, Beecher stated that he proposed to preach a sories of sermons on con- science—its nature, unctions and scope and also ita education and its perversions. First as to its nature, It lg, he said, a moral sentiment or emotion, subject to all the conditions of ail other emotions in tho mind of man, All the great desires or moral sentimenia are dependent for opportunity and tor incitement upon the foregoivg action of the wteilect, thinks and perce:ves for the conscience just as much | ag it does for hope, for fear or veueration—it is the procrsor, There are uot, theretory, any of the de- sires or sentiments in and of them: antellige It 1s (he intel which sees an agre tor a differ. ence between the conduct and any ruie of rigut, With. outun imielligent mind there 18 vo inteligent cou | scieuce, The emotions wud sentiments are like ibe pipes of au orgau and the mind corresponds (0 the keyboard—they all possess the power of atteriug curuuin sounds, but they uever open their throuts uuu tue key 18 prossed aud the wuole range aod harmony ol the justrument is determined by the keyboard, Strong emotions inspire the imteliect with sensibility Aud with a sensibility peculiar to the truths which belong to the sentiment or to the emotion which is acting. in conclusion, Mr. Beccher expressed the opinion that our times peeded training in Judicial ethics ratuer tan io iptensily of spirituality. Slorality was the foundation of spirituality, and ip our days the questions of right wud Wrong are, by the very fertility of men’s brains, so multiplied and multiplying that men need truming in courctenee u great deal more than they need spirituulizing im affection, mon to emotion are reversing the order of nature, It is morality that develops spirituality and not spiritual ity that develops morality, and that whieh wo need everywhere, im politics, 1 professions, 1a busiuess, as Wo know by the sad exposures und rovelutions that are daily taking place—men need to be educated im the simple practice of honesty and honor and justice. This is the want of our time, and the Jack of it is tho weakness of our time, Jt oagut to be (wught not ouly in he family, Mr, Beecher con- tended, but also iu the schools, Morality was tni- versal. 1p India, in China, or on the Pampas of South Amoriva the (undamental elements of truth, fluelity, Justice, honor and uovesty, the root forms were unt Versal and belong to ali mon, Lt could not be said, therelore, that their introduction into the schools had anything sectarian about thom. Heyond that the seugols ought not to go; but the very tounuations of society sland upon those principles, and :herefore they should be taught as much a tng oF writing; for we bad NO Fight to Louch these eiiur unless tney wore considered necessary for the well being of (he State, REFORM NKEDED IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS, There ought also, the proachor said, to bea revolu Careiul not to bring him at once into the full tion ja Sunday schools, It was all vory well to have picnics and concerts and entertainments of various kinds to attract and please the pup jut where that constivuted the sum and substauce of the work dove t ought to be in every class, from the bighost to the lowest, discussions iu etnics, and us one uscended from the lower to the higher to be instruction in the hity by which wo are taught to be just j lor we would be | Just to God in proportion as we were just to our fellow men, A child might commit the whole Bible to mem- mory and yet be @ scamp; it was the Bible rubbed in that did good, There should be taught, tirst, what is Tight and Wrong; and, gecondly, thers should be de- veloped in the tuougnt of the calid an instantaneous perception of what is right and sont 80 that he will dn all casys do bis duty without thinking of it, Thou- sands of persons bad speculations on right and wrony, but were incapable of coupling them with life, Waoen the stress of temptation comes, continued Mr. Beech- 11 staud wnlegs ho has trained bimacit to He must throw bis whole soul against the temptation at once. It 1s not enough to \hrow an inkstand at the devil as Luther did; liera- ture doesn’t kill the devil, No man will bo abie to re- sist tho devil uuless he bas begun to do right curly, und kept it up late and trained himself to instantly Tosist wroug. no-0-0"? to the devil will He thut says ‘No-0-0, have the latter courting bim all the time till be wing him. ‘Shall we,” asked Mr, Beecher, ‘seo State, after State send in its recruits to tho groat army of darkness; and shall wo see stars falllag from the firmament—men that shone quenched in the dark- hess—-uad draw no lesson’ lw a mere momentary torill and shudder enough? Is: it not time, men and fathers, that we begaa to look deoper at the foundu- tions of honesty; abd is it not time in the Church, in the school, and in all the affairs of bi that we began to turn and ure and exalt integrity, and to nuke conscience the arbiter of men‘s conduct 7”? BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, THE ANNOYANCES OF LIPE—-8ERMON BY THE BEY. T. DK WITT TALMAGE. Mr. Talmage preached yesterday morning on ‘The Annoyances of Life,”? taking bis text from Deuter- onomy, vit., 20—*And the Lord will send the hornet,”’ It seems, said Mr. Talmage, a if the insectile world were determined to extirpate the human race. It is bombarding the corn fields and the orchards and the vineyards, The Colorado bettle, the Nebraska grass- hopper, the New Jersey locust, tho universal potato bug, seem to carry on the war which was begun ages ago when the insects buzzed and droped out of Noah’s ark as the door was opened. In my text the hornot flies out on ite mission, This burning insect stung out the Hivites and Hittites and Canaanites from their country. My friends, when we are assailed by great bohomoths of trouble we become chiyalric and assail them, and if God bo with us we come out stronger und botter than we went in; bat, alas for those insectile annoyances of life, theso things that have no avoirdupois weight, the gnats, the midges, the flies, the wasps and the hornets, In other woras, it is the small stinging annoyances of life which use us up. our fellow mi HOW THE ANNOYANCES COME, ‘These small anuoyances may como In tho shape ofa sensitive nervous organization, Feople who are pros- trated by typheid fever or with broken bones get plenty of sympathy, but who pities anybody that is nervous? Any one of 10,000 annoyances opens the | door for the hornet, The fact is that the vast majority | nerves are shattered. These sensitive persons I speak of have a bleeding nervous: luke the people spoken of in the context, they have very thin covering, and are vulnerable at all points, Again, these insectile annoyances come in the sbapo of friends aud acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people tall of | cheer and comiort, then thera are others whom you 4) can’t be with Gve minutes witbout feeling miserable. Whey don’t mean to disturb you, but they sting you to the bone, They gather up all the differ- eut criticism abouts you and make your ear a funnel into which they pour it, Whon I en- red the munisiry L looked very pale for years, aud every year for four or live years a hundred times a year | was asked if 1 hadn’t thé con- sumption; and, passing throueh the room, I some- times heard people sigh and say, ‘Ah, not long lor | this worla!? (Laugbter.) 1 resolved in those days that I never in conversation would say anthing ais- paraging, and, with the belp of God, I Kept the rego- jution. STANLEY AND THR DOUBTING THOMASES, These people of whom I speak bind and reap in the great harvest full of discouragement, 1 ts astonish- ing how some people preter to write and say disagree able things, So much is that the case that when, four or tive yours ago, Honry M. Stanley returned trom his maguificent explolt of funding Dr. David Livingstone, and when Mr. Stanley stood betore the savans of rope, and many of the email critics of the day under pretence of getting geographical information asked him doubting and insulting questions, he lolded lis arms and retased to ans\ je Lord sent the The intellect ibe class meetings | aud exhortations aud simiar methous of stimulating | | | sits down on the Woat Coast of Africa, sick aud worn | hornet at the very time when you would huve thought Stanley would have been recelving tho applause of all decent inen, And now at this time, whea that man out, there are smail critics all over the world buzzing, buzzing and caricaturing und deriding bim; and ulter a while be will get the London papers, and, as be opens them, out will fly tue hornet, The small anuoyances of life sometimes come in tho shape of jocal physical trouble, which does not amount to @ positive prostration, but which bothers you when you want to feel best, like a sick headache or a heuralgic twinge Perhaps it comes in the suape of domestic irritation; the parlor and the kitchen are not always harmonious, diarth nerves were all unstrung when she rusned out asi ing Christ to scold M There are ten thousand women dying, stung to death by these pestiferous do- mestic annoyances, Perhaps these disturbances come in the shape of business irritation. ‘tere are many merchants here who went through the paatc of 1867 andthe 24th of September, 1869, wuo are every day uuhorsed by little annoyances, It 1s not the panics that kill the merchants—they come only once in ven or twenty years--it is the coustant drain of these small annoyances which 1s sending so many of our best merchants into nervous dyspepsia or paralysis, TUB USK OF ANNOYANCES I have noticed in che history of some of my congro- gation that their annoyances ure multiplied; thoy used to hat burdreds where pow they have thousands, Naturalists teli us that the Wasp sometimes breeds a family of 10,000. By the belp of God to-day I want to set im a counter current. Naturalists tel! us that wasps Ga. grett deal of good by killing spiders and clearing tue atmosphere. I believe God sends these annoys ances to kill the spiders of the soul and to clear the atmosphere of the skies Those anuoyances are sent to wake us up from our teth- argy. ‘There 1s nothing tbat makes a man so lively as a mest of redjackets, (Laughter ) And | think these annoyances are invended to persuade us that this is nota world to stop in, If we had all that was perlect we would not want a heave: 1 annoyances come on us to culture our patience; it cun’t be cultured in fair weather—it is tue child o: the storm, The time to cultare paticnce ts when you are, lied about and cheaied and sick and bulf dead. When you stand chin deep in appoyances is time to swim | out toward the great headlands of Ubristian attain- | ment. It takes just so much trouble to tit us for use- iulness and for beaven, ‘The only question is whether we will take it im bulk or pulverized or ground, ‘Tho vast majority of people tuke theirs in piecemeal, 1b is better to have five aching teeth than one broken | jaw; better ten bhsters than ove amputation; better | twenty squalls than oe cycione. There may bea | difference of opinion as to allopathy and hommopa- tuy, but I would preter the small pills of anvoyauces rater than some knock-down dose of calamity. Now, my iriends, woulan’t you rather bave these small drafts of anuoyances on your bank of ta(th than some all-staggering demand upon your endurance ¥ It | bad my way with yo { would give you all pos- sible worlaly prosperity—the four quarters of tne world would pour their luxuries on your table; I would have cach of you live to be 150 years old— (laughter)—and you should not have # pain or an ache to the just brewtu, But I vethink myseil, God is | It would make fools of us ull if each had Lis owu way. God meunt tnis world to be only the vesti- | bule of heaven. Lf we bad all we want in this world | we would want no heaven, Aged people are so willing | to go out of this world because they lvei seventy years | of earthly trouble is enough for them. They would sie | down in the solt meadows of this world lorevor, but | the Lord seut the horuet. My trionds, 1 shall not have preached this morning in vain if'I shuii have showh you that the annoyances of this lite may be | made suoservient to your oternal advantage In heaven you will acknowledge the fuct that you never | hud one annoyance too much, aud throughout ali | eternity you will be grateful that in this world the Lord had sent the hornet. MASONIC TEMPLE, THE IMPERFECTION OY MAN—SEBMON BY BEV, ©, B, FROTHINGHAM, The theme of Rev. 0. B. Frothingbain’s sermon at | the Independent Liberal Chureh, in the Masonic Tem- | ple, yesterday morning, was “Ibe Imperiection of | Man.” At the very outset tho preacher remarked that | the theory tn all times with regard to man was that be emanated trom Deity, was a betng from the “eternal source of life—and people rise im the morning and go to sleep at night with the theory ongraited on their minds “that they come from God.” Accepting this as literally true, he said, we are at a loss to explain the evil that exists im the world. Man muy natu. rally ask, “If haman nature be divine why is the world so bad? Woy is thero no perfect man or Woman? ‘This straining after so much and finding so litte is unsatisfactory,” But, contioued Mr. Frothingham, band ip band with the theory of man’s divine origin bas goue trom the earless ages another of man’s fall which wag not the invention of Chri timuity wove, ¥rom the very beginning te two had existed, Pythagoras, Socrates, Zoroaster and Eastern suges of forter centuries were continually harping upon them, But those Oriental sages thought that if men and women would seek iu their fallen state ihe best and couid find 1 tuey Would rise Lo a higher and purer estate. In respect to man’s being a fallen angei Mr. Froth- ingham thought that the Roman Catholics hud not wiser. twugnt doctrines so horrivle as the Provwstants, iso. Neving that man was an tmmortal spirit, they could do justice to the sages or guinis of all the Gentile world ‘of jormer ages. Roman Catnoliciem gavo credit to Socrates, Contucius, Buddha, Pythagoras and others for the gooa that was im them. “Ii,"? guid whe preacher “man 18 whoily bad, a8 1s taught by Proteat- antism, bow comes it that the world 18 as good as it How ean utterly falien creatures ‘an ovil or right awrong? Yet such attempts and efforts being madeevery day. The product of this veliel of the utter depravity of human nature makes it all but impossible for men to expect any goo iu tue world.”? HUMAN NATURK STRONGER IAN CREEDS, ‘The preacher then referred en passant to the recent exu:npies of men high in eburch standing who Luve falien from grace, He mentioned no names, but merely used the allusion to prove that human nature is stronger than creeds, Faments aud ovher charch observances, Said ne, “The larger the church the greater the number of sinners; which would indicate that the Christian was no better than the pagan, the best church member no bettor thin the infidel, Bus alter all = we may conclude,” said the speaker, “that man’s purity or error is notw matter of ci He does pot go wroug because he believes or disbelieves this or that doctrine, His condition 1s dependent on his suitability to bis circumstances,” MAN 13 AN IMPERFECT CREATURE. ‘Therefore Mr. Frothingham thought we might dis- miss the theory that man is @ falleu angel and set up another, that he is an imperfect creature, simply a crude and unfinished product of nature, the best pos- sible under tho circumstances; not the bust possible under any conceivable circumstances; nota being to be bien a) or despised, The advuntaye to be de- Fived from this theory Was that it enabled us to recognize good in any one of ancient or modern times. ‘through it we were able to understand why, ander differeat circumstances and in other times und climes, bamap character should assume such different aspects. We could see good Wherever it appeurs and allow tor its limitations. ‘There never existed nor can exist, Mr. Frothingham cootinued, a virtue that will be unt- Versul or fitted for wll time; no man or woman to wbom the world can bow down forever, Every one may and can admiro such characters a8 Buddha or Christ for boing suited to their day and generation, They were saints ail over, “But wouid they suit our nd people?” said Mr, Frothimgham. “We can that question in a moment by trying to see what we could do with them in New York to-duy. Imagine either as the president of a bank or an imsuravce company, (a perceptivle murmur of applause, “Our imagination fails at the first attempt, We see bow utterly untitted either would be for the circumstunces attending such posi- tions, Christ was a Jew, an ideal gow, tho iucarna- tion of the Hebrew model mau, We more you criti- cwe Him the more you limit dim, He suited thay time; He would not suit ours.” ihe preacher thea weul on to suow how evory glass and epoch: had its own virtues, begotten by and fitted to circumstances, He cited the great devotion and wholesouled generosity 0/ actors and actresses aud poiuted out how little some people ascribe to them. Qutcasts of the lowest grades had their virtues, aud men and women In every phase of life had theirs. In short, there was no such thing as an tial virtue, Virtues were born of neces- sity. Tn conelusion, the preacher said that 1t behooved us to believe that virtue was not ail of one kind, and that We Must never trust to artificial staudards of charac- ter. Men aud women are not so good as they scem, but they are duing the best they can, CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION. WAIT AND BE PATIENI—SERMON BY THE REV. DB. BROOKS. Dr. Brooks, rector, preached in this church yester- day morning from Amos, ix. 1s—'Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the ploughman shall over- take the reaper, and tho treader of grapes him that soweth seed,’’? The text, suid the speaker, is one of mapy passages in the book of Amos roferring to the future, From the reference made to the hurvost wo are taught the lesson of patience, Nothing chafes aman so much as to be compelled to wait The ten- dency of the age is to live faster than was the case with our fathers, Instead of one crop a year being consid- ered satisfactory two and three harvests are now wanted, Which, then, ts right, or nature? The Prophets of old foretold that some of hindrances Oi nature would pass away, and we ar 10 seo the change. The rushing lile of this ag autbor- izoa by God, if we move along iu the rignt direction, We are not willing to wait for legitimate results trom our vontures in lie, In our hurry to accomplish a great deal honesty is olten violated. We forget that patience is required 1m all the concerns of our daily existence, Eugerpess may not be wrong, but impae tience Js an error and Works mischief Patience should ever be our watchword The lessons it teaches when properly considered will make man better udapted to utile with the world, while 1t gives him the power to grapple with che principles of bigher life. We are taught as Curistiaus thut in order to be ready for the great juture we should possess much patience. Av helps us to brush away the obstacles (bat .m ‘on every side, ‘This 1s the time for us to practise this precept, and all proper. results will como im the goud time of God, There 1s work of this kind tor us all, Keep this cloarin your mind, Remember that tho gospel ig @ gospel of redemption, It takes away all obstacle Gou’s power is as old as the tills. Thon comes Cariat, and We should uot forget that we have a Saviour tn our midst. We must not only battle against the moral. hindrances we have, but the pliys- jal obstacles that trouble us. We must admit to our earts the love of Jesus Christ Then as our work goes on it becomes easier aud te resulis are nearer at hana, Work as He Work completely and let everything done be done with His exampie in view. Sen even wish for immediate results in tho matter of spiritual biessedness. We doo’ it as God means that we should. Many Christians do their duty, but long for a quick realization of their reward, and are disappointed, Tho spiritual day wil come; don’t despond. Let us ‘have trust and pationce. Ov- stacle after obstacle will be romoved, and the great future come nearer. Every time a new sin is brashea aside and a hew Lemptation conquered, we are getting closer aud closer to that day. the brigntest picture is more than realized when the Cnristian richer and higher life. SI. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. MERCY OF GOD AND FORGIVENESS OF OUR NEIGHBOR—SERMON BY THE"REV. DR, CUR- BAN. At St. Stephon’s Church yesterday morning the bigh mass wus celebrated by the Rey, Father Colton ana the sermon preached vy the Kev, Dr. Curran. There ‘was a very large attendance at the servic. The preacher wok bis text from the parable con- tained in the gospel of the day, in which was related the story of the king who forgave to bis steward tho ten thousand talents which he had not accounted for, the steward bimscit then forgetting the mercy shown bim and demanding from a fellow servant the oue hundred pence duc him, From tbis tho preacher drew the lesson that we should forgive one another as wo ourselves expected to be forgiven by God. Mav, he said, in bis relation to God, is always tho sud- ject for torgiveness, he bewg a signer, God does not ieuve him im bie sins, does not turn His face against bim nor repel lim from Him when he has erred, but draws him to Himself by gra that He way restore bim two that friewdstip which be has lost Were man left to limsell, wituout the di- Vine grace, to be resuscitated, his condiion would be deplorable, lor he would then be lost. Heuce we must recoguize in God a cuntinuous merciful dealing with the siuuer, for Ho is coustautly Jorgiving the weak- hesses of our fulien nature and Taisiug us up by His mercy to hope (uat we Lave received trom His bouuty a lorgiveness for our offences, Mau is made iu the iunage of God, and if we appreciate God’s good- ness toward us we wil reciprocate it ia our relations = with our fellow = man— “Forgive that yuu may be forgiven.” are ail brothers in our datly cares and Weaknesses, aud are euch of us utterly dependent on the Pacer, and being so We must necessarily lean OD One und auother for support, “Beur ye one auother’s burdens, and thus ye shall fuili the saw of Corwt.”? Our Lord Hinaseit, Who was the model man, gave us a beautitul exampio of thisin His lie. In His public teachings to the aul Utudes aud in his private conversations with His dis- cipies Le always wculeated the necessity of forgiving injuries. In response to the disciple asking how olten he should forgive tis brother, our Lord answers, “Not seven wines only, but seventy times seven times.’ And if we come Ww His passion we see, noi. withstanding the persecutions to which He was sub- Jueted, and after His enemies had exhausted all the arts of torture and humiliation, aud while they were stil adding to His torments by mockeries and revilings, that He Sought His sweetest reveuge 10 forgiveness, “ather, lurgive them, tor they know not what tuey do.” Thus should we act if we would be foliowers of the Crucified. And whea mon injure us and persecute us we wiso should ugk the Fatuer to forgive them, for wey kKuow not what they do, The epitome of one’s lie should be forgiveness ol one’s neighvor, as the epiome of the lite of each of us con- sists 1m God's forgivonesa of human iralities, forgive us why Ut God ould not we forgive each other, ‘@ remember that this forgivences tunel As we hope for anion and happiness in the next life, We must anticipate it here, for nu soul turuished with hatred can hope for the realization of the beauttiul vision, God loves man and requires joys in revurn, but He has made it an essential condition of loving Him that we love our neighbor, and, humau as we are, we CAnNOL ive exch ober without being lorbearing with cach other in our infirmities, SI, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, MIRACLES AND THAIN APPLICATION—-8ERMON BY REV, FATHER KBABNEY, In St, Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday Rev, Father Kearney selected as the subject of bis discourse the text, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat??? and said:—The maititude that had been listening to the Redeemer for three days being very hungry He asked ifany among them had something to wat, On being told that five loaves and a few small fishes were to be found He called for them, and, blessing them, they became so multiplied that after all bad eaten heartily there was more left than ud been at frst Ths miracle was to prepare them for what was tw take place next day, Every miracle wrought by the Saviour bad two objects—first, the cure; and seound, the application. In giving sight vo the blind man He Alev showed that He would give light to bis soul tos00 and 1 learn she truths that it tieeded for ite salvation. In giving hoaring to the deaf He gave it to bo understood that He would at the same time give to divine left it to soul the po of hearing wiedom aud truth; im curing the ley be interred that He would cure th 4 inflicted by sin and restore it to its former health and purity. The day followi the miracle of the multi- lication of the loaves and fishes the Jews, ou bearing im say that He would give them His flesh to eat au His blood to drink, left Him, saying, “How can this man give us bis fleeh ‘to eat?” The mira- clo which they bad so receutly scen performed did pot convince them that such was possibile, and thoy teft im disgust, ‘Turning to His Aposties He asked them if they, too, would leave Him? but they wpswored that they believed Him to be the Sonof God, aud would tollow Him. reat miracie uf His love which He left us the night His passion com- menceu is still being perpetuated, and will ve 10 the end. In it we really and traly partake of His body and blood for the nourishment of our souls. He is ly present on our altars and to our taber- and desirous that we approach Him with con- trite hearts aud purpose to receive Him into our souls, He declares that unless we eat of His flesh and drink of His vlood we cannot have life in us. Why, then, should we aliow our souls to die when such life-giving fuod 18 at baud f ST. PELTER’S CHUKCH, BROOKLYN. LEARNING OBEDIENCE THROUGH SUFFKRING-— SERMON BY REY, E. W. HAGER, Rev. FE. W. Hager, D. D., chapiain United States Navy, officiuted yesterday in old St. Peter’s Church, Brooklyn, the rector, Rev, Dr Paddock, being absent at the General Convention, The church was woil filled with an appreciative audience, The subject of the morning sermon was taken from Hebrews v., 8, “Christ learning obedience through suffering."? And this, said the speaker, was not in His bigber oature, but in His human pature, In that nature, and in that nature only, He acquired a knowledge of what our suf- feriugs are, and thus became a merciful bigh priest to us. As mun He sulleroad whut, as God, He could never sufler, and gv learned to enter by sympathy into the sorrows of those who suffer, fecling our sor- rows us ove of ourselves. This part of the subject was well wrought out by the reverend gentieman, carefully distinguishing she two matures of Curist, at the sume time acknowledging the wondertul mystcry, viz., that His Godhead and manhood were so united as to be absolutely one, yet the manbood suffered; while ho wearivess, nor thirst, vor buuger, nor paiu could reach the Godhead, Then the speaker proceeded to show that Curisv’s toilowers must suffer and that they should also learn obedionce through suf- fering. God veaches in a@ variety of ways, and the true Christian often ieels in a season of sut- fering, that bo bas really learued nothing till then, When tho ailiiction of pain, sickness, sorrows, auxie- ties and the like vome wo begin to learn whut liie is and what death will be, Christ suffered, and wo m uffer; Chriat died, and we must die; He vonquerea suflering aud death; He rose, lives and reigns, and we may conquer, rise, ive and reign. The hours on the cross were long, (be thirst wag bitter, the darknogs anu horror real, but they ended, After the wail, “My God, my God, why bast Thou forsaken me? camo the calm, “it 1¢ fimisued’’ was a pledge to us all, the preacher said, and he hoped that our ‘It is finished’? shall come also, CUBA LIBRE. At the Spanish Protestant Episcopal Church of San. tlago, on Twenty-second street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, the rector, the Rey. Joaquin de Palma, preached yesterday bis annual sermon on the anniver sary of the proclamation of the Republic in Cuba, Among the 200 Cubans present wero Mr, Echeverria, General Juho San Guill, Colonel Manuel San Guill, Mr. N. Ponce de Leon, and Valder Mendozs, A Ye deum and three hymns were sung by a choir under tho conductorship of Signor EF. Agramonte. M. de Paima’s sermon was short and to tho point. His text was found im John, iv,, 34—‘Jesus saith unto them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me andto finish his work.”? The lesson taught was that the Cubans must have constancy and sacrifice everything to the realization of their work. Indepen- deuce in Cuba means not only political freedom but hberty of conscience and the preaching of the trae Gospel of Christ. ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS. HE DELIVERS A TOUCHING VALEDICTORY SER MON TO HIS DIOCESE—A TESTIMONIAL PROM- ISD HIM BY HIS FRIENDS, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Ricroyp, Va, Oct. 14, 187%. Archbishop Gibbons, of Bultimore, now Primate of the Catuolic Church of America, delivered his furewell sermon to the congregation of St Peter’s Cathedral this morning during high mass, His text was taken from St. Paul's epistle to the Hebrews, chapter v., after reading which be satd:— THE SERMON. When a man holding a position of responsibility and trust is about to surrender his oflice it is proper that, bofore rotiring, he should render an account of his stewardship. Called, as I am, by the highest authority in the Church, from this fleid of labor to another of still greater responsibility, I decm it my duty to give you a brief summary of the present condition of this diocese, Here the Archbishop gave a relative statement of the present financial condition of the diocese of Rich- mond, as compared with that of 1872, at the time of his instailation, In the course of which he took occa- | sion to show that the diocese was free trom debt. He then proceeded: — I can consistently say that from the day of my’ in- stallation in this Cathedral until the moment that I resigned my trast I have devoted myself to the inter- ests of this diocese as far as my limited strength and ability would enable me todo so, Duri bat period my miud and heart ana wiil have been concentrated upon your spiritual udvancoment. Whenever | cele= brated mass at the altar, not a day has passed in which 1 have not remembered you before God in my prayers, 1 know, indeed, full well that jt 18 not difficult to con- vince you all of tuis, What I apprehend ts not that you will withhold from me any tribute of justice to which I can lay claim, but that your kind partiality will ascribe to me more credit than 1 really deserve, 1 wish, therefore, to disabuse you of false or exaggerated 1inpreasions by informing you to Whom and to what you are mainly indebted for the healthy condition of Foligion in our midst, and the respectable hold which it hus attained inthe community, You aro indebted, first, to God; eccond, to the lute Bishop; third, to the clergy, and fourth, to yourselves. Ever since I took charge of this poriion of the Lord’s vineyard Gow bus singularly blessed us. ‘'o Him be all hover and giory, Every other cxase of saccess 18 secondary to Him, ‘aul soweth, Apollos watoretn, but od giveth the increaso.’’ Without Him we would have sailed all night and made no progress. We would have fiabed all night, like Pecer, and caught nothing. Next to God you are indebted to my vonerable and illustrious pre- decessor, who lett the diocese in a solvent and wealtby condition. He was @ man of ominent prudence and discretion aud of caution verging on timidity. Ho might bave gained for himself a great name for enterprise and material progress by erecting churches aud other institutions throughout the diocese, Without regurd to expense, but with ail that he might have bequeathed to h« successor a load of devt which would bave piralyzeu wis useluiners and crushed bis heart. He left me tew debts to pay and few scandals to heal. He left a diocese without inoumbrance and a character without reproach, It was fortunate for this diocese that Bishop McGill presided over its destinics for upward of twenty years, forhe stamped bis character upon the older clergy, who had the bappiness of observing his edify- ing lite and of being assoeiated with him in the min- istry. Itas very gratilyiug to me, though this ts the first occasion | bave done so, to speak in terms of praise of the clergy of this diocese, Ocher priests, in- I have met who have a greater reputation rning and polished manners, and who muy have been more conversant with the canons of refiued so- ciety, but taken as a body I never met any pricsts to rpass those of this diocese in attachment to duty, in singleness of purpose, in personal virtue and in obedt- ouce to the voico’ of aushority, And it I be ermitted to singlo out some of the clergy rom among their golleagues, surely I can pent with peculiar joy to the Cathedral clergy, Who have lived with me as members of the same household, and who bave always deported them- svives in a munaer becoming their svered caliing. They are not members, a8 you know, of any religious order, nor are tuey bound by any special rules of hifu; there 13 no community bell 10 wake them from sleep oF to sun- mon them to prayer or to the various duti of the ministry; and yet I thivk it would aimical to find, even 12 4 monastery, more exactness of din- ciplive, more promptness to tho call of duty than could be fouud among the privets of this Cathedral pu and if I were to lift the veil and reveal to you tueir domestic life I could disclose to you a spirit of order, peace and brotherly concord which I hope to seo imitated, but dure not hope to see surpassed, And as for you, brethren of the laity, you can bear me wituess that { never indulged you vy vain Hattery, Dut thas | have always endeavored to propose tw yo baked duty, no matter bow distastatul it might bi nto flesh and blood, Bat on the present occasion 1 would ve doing violence to my own feel- ings and to my deep seuse of admii tor you if I did not give public expre to my admiration for the piety of many of you, which fled meg for the obedience of all of you, whieh cou- soled me, 4nd for your spirit of generosity, which strengthened my bands, Ihave never had occasion to reproach you for any factious opposition, till ioxs for aby manifestation of a reboliious epirit, and 1 bave always found you ready with beart and hand to second every effort 1 proposed jor the advancemout of religion, Aword about myself in conclusion, 1 have be ofien asked what are my feelings in leaving the cose of Kichmona, OF course, f cannot be 10s tothe unmerited favor couterred upon me Holy Father in transiating mo to the ancient Baluimoro, nor cau 1 be insensivle to the pleasure L ghail experience in being associated with tue excel- Jent and edifying clergy of Baltimore, with many of whom I have the plewsure of being acquainted, Bat as no one has sounded as much as myself the depth of my own impertec- tions and nothingness, so no one can appreciate more thao myself the dread respopsibility which | feelin agsuthing my new charge, I cannot without rogret depart trom a city to wich | am bound by so many attachments and trom a people woo have always maii- Hested so much kKindnuss tuward mo; 1 ask your pray- «ts Ld not ask you to pray thal may ea long Iie—that is Immaterial but pray that God may xive Hight vo my ubderstanding, strength to my hoart an rectitude to my will, In order to fulfil weil the duti that may devolve upou me, and pray that God may ae oeeention: $0 bis own heartt—a man , who will gauge virtue and rlig- and faith to flourish and bear fruit througbous the diocese, hedral was deusely packed. At the conclu- sion of the sermon, which was very impressively de- meveety Dumbers of the congregation were visibly af- factor It ts understood the Archbishop will be made the recipient of a handsome testimonial by the congrega- tion bere preparatory to his leaving for Baltimore. RELIGION AMONG THE INDIANS, DISCOURSE BY RIGHT REV. BISHOP HARE, OF NEBRASKA, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Newrort, R, 1, Oct, 14, 1877, Right Rev. Bishop Hare, of Nebraska, missionary amoung Indians, preached at two of the Episcopal churches to-day and gave some interesting inciaenta of Indian life, He thought the Indians, notwitnstand- ing their treachery, &c., were worth saving. Ho eaid that it wag the grand idea of the American people to cater only to that class who were rich or who had other attractions, and that the poor Indians Lad been cou: i of no account until the latter had become restive, aud were determined to show thut they had rights which even the white mon were bound to re- spect. He predicted that Christianity would do more good among them than vayonets. CONFIRMATION. The sacrament of coufirmation was administered yesterday afternoon to upward of five hundred people atthe Church of St Mary, Star of the Sea, Court Btreet, near Luqueer, South Brooklyn, At the carly masses the candidates for confirmation received hol; communion, Tho girls of the paroctial school, who arc under the instruction of Sister Verina and othor Sisters of Charity, attired in spot. less wuite, and wearing wreaths and vells, were seated together in the pews on the leftnand side of the main alsie, and pumbered 250, ‘The boys to the num- ber of 200, who aro under the tuition of the Franciscan Brothers, were attirea neatly and occupied pews on the right. The suppliants, among whom were about filty adults, approached the altar railing in twos, and they wero confirigod by Right Rev. Bisbop Lougbiia, assisied by the pastor, the Rev, Fatner Toner. The services were brought to a close by vespers and bene. diction, A NEW METHODIST MISSION. A branch of the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South Brooklyn, was yesterday tor- mally dedicated for religious worship. The new structure is located on Forty-fourth street and Is to be known as “The Mission.”? Ove of the 6 the Missionary Board, Rev. Dr, Dash the morning, and io the afternoon Ri preached. Lu the evening addresses wore delivered by Rev. R. C, Putney, of the Carrol Park Church; Rey. 4. 8. Graves and Roy. Ro! W. Jones, GEORGE FOX'S FOLLOWERS. THE BROODING SILENOZ OF A QUAKKR MERTs ING—TME PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERS STANDING. [From the Woonsocket (R. I.) Patriot, Oct, 13,] It was a beautiful morning, “so calm, so bright, 80 fair,” as the Sabbath aay should be, and subdued and Swoet with the tender associations of early autumn. Wo thought we had teft the churches behind usas we strolled leisurely along in eur morning walk, and already the sound of tho stoepfe bells was dying away inthe aistance, when suddenly a turn in the road brought to our view a small, neat, unpretending wooden building, which but lor its somewhat isclased condition and’ the long line of carriages in the sheds adjoining, would have passed with us for a eimple country larmbouse. No sound of music or psulmedy came from the open windows, nor sound of Voices, A deathlike silence reigned about tho pla now and then by the stamp o! horse’s foot, Not surmising the cuaracter of the turned aside und entered the vestibule, Wi ‘@ moment at the door but heard nothin; aud if it bud not been broad daylight, aud if we hi not becn certain of the flesh ana bioog naturo of the borses outside, there might bave beer something uu- canny about the place. As it was we felt no ghostly terrora about lilting the latch of the little door, only the natural hesitation perbaps which precedes one’s sudden appearwace upon a ew scene, und en- tered, Some oue rose in the aisle on the right and motioned us to a seat I, was only alter we wore fairly seated that we began to take in the character of tye surroundings. Wnhen we had looked for the pulpit and the minister and found neither, but in their place @ raised plattorm with two rows of benches—one on the right ocoupied by four men and one on the left by four women, and nad observed that the church was likewise divided into two parts, with the same division as regurdg sex, (hen it was tbat we became aware shat aed were ainong the Fricnds and io a Friends’ mecting jouse. Then the silence began to make Itself felt deep. op- pressive, lethargic, a silence broken by no rastlings of silka, und in wHiok we alinoss elt afraid to move, lost by the creaking of a board the motion suould become AD act prolane, At iirsi tue stillness scomed burden- some aud aggravating. We thought of the Gauls who made the irruption toto the silent Roman senate chamber aud were almost inclined to find an apology for him who puilod the aged senator’s beard. We jooked at tue four maie elders, sitting there with life- less downeast eyes and long drawn faces, and at the four female elders, with tueir witvered faces framed op black ‘bonnets and wondered if they bad t there and had become a part of tne fix ‘Then we noticed the piain and modest apparol send yous bis! onseainnd oon tures, ot the congregation, especially the female portion of it, apd somehow it seemed peculiarly in keeping with’ the surroundings and gave to their worship # more sincere and unafiected air. Soon the silence lost all oppresiveness and seewed to permeate tho whole ing with a sweet repose. ‘The world and the things tue world iuded away, aud there came @ rich, dreamy peace—a peace not untinged with melancholy, Whatever of tender aud sad there was in the expo- riences of the past arose once more to the recollection, we thought, with eyes filied with tears, of the dea, So we’ bathed in the rich blessing ot the ‘holy silence, and it was as balm upon our spirits, ‘This silent, imward communion seemed a grateful thing, We thought with longing Of open cuthedrals, fail of sacred associations, aud always open, in Whose holy sbudows oue could go in soul-weary hours and kneel and know that higher and porer iuflueuce that 18 wround us and abovo us, There cume to our memory also the church in which we last sul in the heart of « great city, elegantly upholstered, with carved seats and stained and decorated windows; the orname:.tal pulpit and the ornamental minister, biack-gowned, white-kercbielea; we listeued to thé operatic singing of the choir, while around us were rusting silks aod gorgeous bonnets, and broadcloth Dd and presumpuon. It came to ustben wita a grievous distaste, and somehow thia Bimplicity seemed better and more Christian, SUMMER WEATHER IN OCTOBER. SUNDAY SCENES IN THE PARK, ALONG THE AVENUES AND IN THE SUBURBS. Summer lingered jazily in Autumn’s lap yesterday, and the thousands upon thousands who, week after week, look to Sunday asa day of relief from labor and the ordinary routine of life were not slow io taking advautage of the beautilul weather, As if hesitating to cast asido their summer garments while the mellow atmosphere stilienticed young and old out of doors the early church goers, amoung whom ladies always constitute w large majority, appeared in Qs guy colors and ligat attire as i a July sun Was still Shedding its rays upon metropolitan pavements, Toe houses of worship were all crowded wit tue devout, who thronged the avenues on their way homeward, bent upon promenading through the streets waile tue beautitul Weather lasted. ludeed, notwiibstauding the continued pleasant duys onjoyed during August aud September, New Yorkers did not appeur ag it they had a surteit’ of it yesterday, Rockaway, Coney Isiand and other places aloug the sou shore Wore wen the great attraction; but yesterday New York’s un- equalled pleasure ground showed the superior delight with which our people love to roam winid the green and foliage at their own doors, ‘The Central Park, iu- deed, presented a pictare yestorday of which a New Yorker mignt well be proud. Nowhore on tue face of the globe could @ city show w fuer spot of grou filled with huppier people, better dressed en an more lovely women and wide-awake children than aid our great ark yesterday, clad in its wutumu garb, with Ibs olored loaves und as yet thick foliage, I. was oue continuous procession of wel! benaved, or- derly, huppy people, Who showed by their manbers and Culiu demeanor that they bad abundoued care und b us for still another day to take io ouce mure ail the beauties of their beloved pleasure ground and all the charms of @ fue Ocwber day, Li needed notte interference of the ever vigilant police to keep the thousands of people iu order, They ull knew bow to Control their movemeuts with decendy aud with duet Fogard for the rights of otners—a feature characteris. tig cf our population and so seldom met with in the grout popular resorts of Une masses abroad. Not 4 stuyle Case Of Intoxication required tue attenti ‘he police, and merry children, with ther happy mothers aud well dressed nurses, wore bot in a Bue’ gle instance jostled against or intorierod with, whether on the Mull, aiong the crooked pathway or when looking 4: the Wid anumais, Not only tue Park, but tho avenues also were full of promenuders, especially during the atternuon, Fitth avenue, irom Fourteenth siree, to Thirty-iourth Street, Was respleudent wilh metropolitan beauty and hie. Handsome women and well dressed gonuemen, forming one long line of happy people, passed one au O:her wuinterruptedly up to past the hour of suMset, Aud the avenue looked its vory best una 118 very , Of course, abounded, but nov ny Of tuom, still wore bho light material peculiar to the days of summer, for summer Wouther it Was, nOotwiibstanding all apnouncements to the contrury by the ever onward pointing calou- dar, ‘Tho excursion and ferry outa uiso bad thoir full share of putronage yesterday. Ho boken, vhe ‘Teuton’s Mecca, wax not by avy means nogleciod, aad rivers of lager flowed as Une juterruptediy as {{ King Gambrinus was sull endeavor- ing to protect His buirsty chiidron against the oa. sluugbts of a cruel midsummer gol: Stawa Islana, & Place Of attraction, not for its own sake, bat lor the sake ol its upprouches—the beautiful bay— was visited by hundreds of people who never become Autinted With the varied scenery met wita on @ trip to aud from tho island. Eyorywhere aloug the suburbs Gnd along Jer people uppearod c th the summer, and made yosterday ‘ile 18 lasted, " ling to part the most of 14