The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1877, Page 8

SABBATH SAYINGS. Views, Religious and Otherwise, of the Pulpit Preachers. IS RELIGION. A HUMBUG? The Gospel of Hatred and the Tidal Wave of Evil. THE USES OF CREEDS. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. MATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF DREEDS—SEBMON BY BEV. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. ‘The second of bis series of sermons upon the sub- ject of creeds was preached by Rev. George H. Hep- Worth yeaterd: “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art tho Christ, tho son of the living God, ad from the sixteenth chapter of Matthew, formed the text of the discourse, These words, Mr, Hepworth said, are remarkable not only for their intrinsic worth, but also tor the circumstances which gave rise to them and the locality in which they were utterod, Christ had been preaching in tho upper regions of Pulestine and had retired to the mountainous district to hold a conference with His @isciples, He stood at the very source of the River Jordan, which had always been considered typical of the Hebrew race, It started in the mountain fast- neesos of the North, flowed through a tertile valley and at last lost :tself in the mysteries of the Dead Sca, From the life of Christ, the preacher pointed out, thero started another river flowing through the rich valleys of human lite and pouring itsclf at last into the ocean of eternal love, We are surprisod, in read ing the New Testament, to find tho simplicity of its creeds and their brevity; and during the iirst ages of the Charch, up to the beginning of the fourth century, fhe Apostles’ creed was deomed suflicient for all prac- tical purposos. A creed, the reverend gentieman con- tinued, is a statement of certata doctrinal proposi- tions which are the foundation of tho organization, ‘THE USE OF CREEDS. Their use is twofold, They serve, in the first place, to bind together those who enjoy a common belie!, and 4m the second place they separate the latter from those whose belief'is thought t be dangerous, A creed1s absolutely necessary as the basis of any united action. Every organization of whatever kind bas a distinct and well-defined purpose in view in its action, and thas parpose is its creed. The various charities which dot American soil have for their creed that love tor and pity toward the lowly which the Scriptures enjoin. The American flag contains the political creed of our country. It is the symbol of free speech, free institutions, and the right ot every man to be and to do his best, and to receive pompensation theretor. Even those’ who believe in nothing necessarily havea creed. The Christian’s creed tonsiats of the doctrines which he believes ; thi eist’s ereed consists simply of a series ot denials. And yet, whether one believes or disbelicves, he is actuated by tho sume spirit in pushing his views, and 1s moved by the same intolerance toward those who differ with him, There 18 one problem in the history of the burch which has always seemed dark, It has engaged the attention, not only of piilosophors, but of Christians themselves, 1 1g the despotic intolerance woieb characterized the Cnurch during a large period of tts history. 1t has gcon ft to issue tho bull of excommuuication against those who differed from it, und in certain cases of ox- treme persistency it has resorted to the faggot, tho Fack und the dupgeon, The reason for this course ‘Was not dificult \o understand. 1p péoportion to a ‘TMun’s earnestness 18 his desire to convert others and to keep those who differ with bim from iujuring the _work he js doimg, Earnestness and intolerance are ‘Very Closely allied. When one is completely possessed with a feeling that he in the right it 1s impossible for him to tolerate views which contravene bis own. Every man who 1s thoroughly in earnest is more or Jess of u bigot by the forceo! circumstances, Now, if a man believes that certain doctrines have been given from God and that he has God’s authority to teach them, und if he 1s, moreover, Uxed in his belief that o do not accept them will be eternally damned, patural to suppose that he will puta barrier to heresy ut any cost. 1f one enters the fold of his Church who teaches doctrines diametrically oppos tw those which he is himself trying to enforce closes the man’s lips, even if he is compeiled in order to do 80 to end bis lie. THK PERSECUTION OF UERETICS. Mr, Hepworth weat on to say that in these facts could be seen the origin of the persecutions which had marked the history of the Church. These coustituted One of the necessary stages in the advancement of mankind, but they were not a part of an enlightened Corutianity, We, 1m tbe nineteenth century, are whut we ure becuse the world hud passed through the til ‘And yet, to-day, if one looked closely at the reiations of rengious denomimations toward each other he would find here and there relics of the old barburiem, if, for instance, he a Christian ian ’ from any — reason retires from the Episcopal fold and deires io suter the Church of auotber denomination will he re- seive from his rector a leiter of kindly totroduction aud commendation? By no means. Uve naturally asked why? 1s it because the Church with which he desires to* unite ts Jess evangelical or 18 loose in ite doctrinal basis? Not at all, vut it 18 the result of ecclosiustical conceit, ‘They have an impression that ‘heir Church ts on the only true foundation, and at the late convention in Loston they tried to make a decroe that the kpiscopal Church should thereafter be culled “the” Church, Aguin, Mr. Hepworth said if be shouid find himseif in the midst Oo: a congregation of Baptists on the Lord’s Day, would he be invited as a Christian brother to partake of the Lord's pper? Assuredly not, and whyf Not on ground of detective theology or of any immorality in his life, but simply because he Dad nos used in his form of buptisin us much water us they dvemed suflicient tor the purpore of regenera- tion, He might be baptized with the Holy Spirit, but uniess he Lad also been baptized with water he would hot be considered their equal, vor could he sit by their Bide at the table of a common Lord, These things med te the preacher the Felics Of u past age au euurely unworthy of the civilization under the shelter of which we aro living. He remarked that a great msiey, poopie talk of acharcn which bus uo creed at all. He did not wish to be the minister of such o eburen. 1 we buve couvictions,”’ he said, “let us adhere to them, and those convictions will constitute our creed.” He would like to go buck to the old apostolic creed aud spirit; be would have the statement of doctrine which is deemed necessary asa preliminary to Church membership as coucie And brief as Christ mado it when Ho asked His dis say ye thatlam??? ‘That was all the Courch needed as w sure aud strong foundation. You muy dress that fact up im the mugniticeuce of Catholicism, said Mr. Hepworth, or you tnuy leave it Buked, ay the Quakers do—the {uct that a man believes to Christ ay bis Saviour is ali that any Church bas a Fight to require, und that Charch is securely built which 1s founded on that rock. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. A SERMON BY ML, BEECHER ON THE HATRED O¥ EVIL—NASTY NEWSPAPERS AND WHO ARE RESPONSICLE FOR THEM. Mr. Boecher preached on the hatred of evil, select. fog for bia text Romans xii, 9—“Abbor that which is evil.” Mr, Beecher said that tis verse showed that hatred hada place among Christian graces, It was one O1 (hose graces that did not require the conversion of @ man to bring him into the full exercise of it, Ib was one of the few gruces im which there was no sell-de- Hial, and we were ready to hate, ready all the time and all hours, The psulmist said, “1 bate and abhor lying, but to love 1s thy law.” There was a great truth lifted up to ovr view in that deciaration, and it Was a truth that stood between satety and dan- ger. It was the truth that was mauifested iu our ever; duy experience, when wo came suddenly upon some- Shing that was abborent to us and we repelled it. That was a state of mind that was familiar to man in every form of civilization, even the lowest, With regara to men's physicat salety, be said, exist enco required that men should have certain leclings or | ppmions, They were called prejudices sometimes, but | Men could not always wait to form judginents, They Were in circumstances which required them to act in stantiy. here was a certain condition of mind aroused when & man met avother that Migt be culled prejudice, out | was a necessity for the instant and must be tell to the future to be subjected to revision and correction, Woon a tran met @ leopard he did not stay ana reason eto whether an animal that was so beautiful was hot unjustly treated when it Was said of it that it Was not so beautitul within, That was vot the mental process that went on, What was thougut of was au- nibilation or fight There were certain qualities, cer- tain states of mind, that were by UUIVersal exp regarded ay bateiul; for example, lylug, ‘re: just, co (in other folks), hese always warded as batelul aod turned in rep ; had ail the way up, of their nature, been gi ® kind of training that had accumulated within themselves— that which Was for them @ sort of self-acting urtil- lery. This abhorrence was 80 active in men that it resembled spring gun! did not wait for anybody That kind of abhoi very great propriety, introduce into the economy of the soul @ principle that was go fatal as that of abborrence and of hatred ? Was it not likely to fill the soul with ujust prejudices of every kind? Is was, bowover, like fire; fire was necessary to civilization, Without fire men would perish, apd yet, when a man kindied # fire ip the wood to cook his mealsgrio warm himself, astray spark might set » prairie on fire and rush along until it be- conflagration, ‘1 was a dangerous thing fora to go into a training for bating, especially when that batred go forth from him like am avalanche, theless it was true that there was a principle of d abhorrence in the soul, Men said that thoy hated the quality but not the person, Thore was a deal of trach in that, It was possible to separate were many ti such wickedness, Could not abhor the serpent that carried the fang? The Scriptures had, however, provided us with a guide, #o that we need have no reasou for misinterpreting that which we sbould avhor, ‘nis was found ip the filth chapter of the Epistie to the Gulatians It was clear trom that cbapter that we were to abbor those evils which bad beem mude evils by the experience of tions and nos the intirmities and weaknesses to all mankind, Certunly we en becuuse of dilference of ud no difficulty iu wbhorrms @ ‘a republican if we were demo- we were repuvlicans, We abhor- vetter than we did; we perve quality of our nature, and instead firing ito the camp of the enemy we fired into own camp. WHAT P, RITY WITH EVIL DOKS, Familiarity with evi, ever since the world began, haa had the effect of diminishing or destroying our sense of the perception of evil. It was not wiso lor men to familiarize themselves with morbid things A day along the common sewer of away that fine sense of sensi iniquity cers bility which to revolt against that which was evil, A man Wi jd this bad taken from him the bloom of that exquisi@psensibility which i@ uecessary to aro us for th@etastinctive hating of evil, It was asked very (reqapmtly in this connection—what about surgeons, lay justices at the Tombs Police Court. These must beovme so familiar with suffering as to be hardened to tt# appearance, The reply to that was that the sugeou Was just us sensible to suffering as anybody, but it wage sensibility that took the form of service, ‘The thought that pervaded the mind of the lawyer was to savetbe man. ‘This activity of the mind in the lawyer and the surgeon prevented the contemplation of moral weakness or bodily pain from bardeping their hearts. So always it was said that tae way to make young men avhor evil was to let them see the world. But he who goes in tho right state of heart to see wickedness and did not abhor it, was on the way to ruin, ‘Them there was auother modern mode of softening the effect of evil, and that wi calling wicked things by mild names, ‘hero wer tain words in the anguage that seem made for pur- poses of moral reparation, but these had been largely supplanted by words that were like courtlors, used tor the purpose of velling the evil. A thiel wasa thiet; a liar was a ilar; a Kuavo war u koave, and a fool wasa fool. Meo took tho chances of com- merce with other people’s money and called it specu- lasion, but two-tnirds Of speculation was gambling, and when men Were found out they did not like being called gamblers acd thieves. Then there wus the question that every young minister had to deal with, and that was generally asked by the young folks of his congregation, Were there not things that were not im themselves wrong that people ought to te cautioned agaist? It was true that there were many things that were right, but they ran so near the edge of that which was wrong that they were better avoided. 1, was wrong to guther things that were so right on the edge of a cliff that if a nan gathered them and went over he was lost. It was suid of some places that good mer go there; that ministers go. Well, there were many places where minisiers could go and get no harm, but tbat if their parishion- 8 went they would yo to the devil. NASTY AND NICE NEWSPAPERS. Nowspapers sprung up among us ax our population Sprung up and very wuch alter the manuer of a germ, Tho idea was the printing of news, ‘To-day they were & yreat institanon in the modern civilization of the world and were productive of great bevetlts, As a rule newspapers, whethor secular or religious, con- jormod to the great principles of right and wrong, and were largely influenced by the current of pubiic opia- jon, In referring to their characteristics Mr. Beecher said:—Now newspapers are much like w net, and they go out into the sea and come back, wud what they bring asbore~ that they have got. ‘They send forth and collect things, North and Soutp, and Eust and West, and bring us news whutever 1a new. But that discrimination wich sorts and separates 13 to be more brougnt into requisition, and I think | can gee indications that gome ol our great daily ‘journals 10 New York aré steadily more and more every year snoring. and goparaiing Rews and retusing to publish things that are below acertain equatorial line. The ideal of the Dewspaper is that it shall riso to that point where it shall represent what mon do best by the best sides of thomseives, or that will bo the ideal of the newspuper of the near future, But at prese: it cannot be good for tne slime of destitution, for tne corruption of the passions, to flow through the dining room every single morning uud jor the children to dabble their fect in tho mud that has been stirred up during duys aud weeks before. And the fault of it is with you. I don’t blame the editors so muc! are blameworthy, but the measure of their bi not so great us you would like to have it, You that don’t take that paper, but buy it sometimes to see what '8 in it; you that will not take it home to your family, but like to have it in the office; you that dis- dain the man that edits it and would pot touch him, but will constautly support him by your contribution ; you that tuink yon have periect purity, bi that have rather the enamel of — purit; you that love such things secretly; you that go away to eat scandal, but ‘that do not ablor it—you, all of you, put your tiuger in the sewer, You like the feculent matter, You want to know just what that dissipated husvand is, and just how that quurrel begav aud went on; and the nastier it is the more you read it Aud thus you give power to papers to goon publishing that form of feculent news; and there ougot to be among Christian men and women a periect ubuorrence of everything that is an the naturo of scandal FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. JESUS ALONE, YET NOT LONESOME~SERMON BY REV. DR. ARMITAGE. Tho Rev. Dr. Armitage preached in his usual happy and Jorcible stylo in this church, He took his text from Jobn, xvi., 82, in the following words:—“Behold tho hour cometh, yea, 1s nuw come, that ye shall be Scattered every man to bis own, and shall leave mo alone, and yet I am not aloue, because the Father ig with me.”’ “True greatness,’? Suid the reverend genticman, “must always carry with it a degree of loneliness, Tho etatcly tree which towers above tho rest of tho Jorest, or Mont Blanc rising for leagues above the Alps which group at their feet, are fair emblems of the solitude which groat souls must feel pre-ominently above the level of ordinary spirits, They repose in storms and bask in beams which others never know. While their joys and sorrows muy be of the same geveral nature, their superior range alters their whole beizg. 1n this point of view, our Lord must have been the most solitary of all the sons of bumanity, As Ho looked out upon the world of men about Him, aud His heart went forth after the simple, the poor and the lowly, in such exquisite, tender sympathy as no infant broast could feel, there must have been a most touching senso of profound loneliness which threw | Him back tanto a world of Hisown, His mighty mys- terious soul must have felt something of that strong and vivid cousciousuess of isolation in which our Poetic sentiment enwrups the lottiest member of au Alpine range, looking down irom tne clouds upon His dwarfish brethren grouped meckly at His feet, When heavy sorrow bowed the childrea of man to the dust the hight which gathered about His sublimo brow spoke of & meusurelesy distance between the gut which sbove in darkness and the darknoss which com. | prenended it not. Tho grander scale and the lotwer sphere in which He lived coutrastod Him with the 1n- foriority of other men in motive and principle, in pure pose und association, these being drawn frum the in- fuite, (ho inability Of wan to understand Mim muse huve made Him ivel that He was a native of anowuer ciime while the elder broiier im His Father's house, ‘Tue petty prejudices und passivos im whieh tbe race abut Him groveiled, their narrow-mindedness and sacle fish Contentions were in strong coptrast with the high atmosphere in which He moved, pervaded us it was by aims of unusual benevolence, sucriticing love, invisible companwosuips and high thoughis, which came wandering duwu to Him from the bosom of cternity, The musings of His wind upon the aflairs Of Mon and the destinies Of uoiversal veing hed His iwner breast with those ineifuvic joys aud sorrows Which bo other mighty one coud fathom, so that We greater the crowd uf auappreciative ones who gatue ered about Him, te more unupprouchable the seclu- sion in which He moved, Truly He was alone, in ail the Isolativa oF persouul charseter, ‘This ixolauon, however, is Wtally diflerent from that imsuiativa of Space Where league alter league stretches vetween Luan heart and human heart, and where there is un inexpressivle soul-iouging lor Kindred spirits and ree ciprocul sympatoy. It true sentimeat Hes i the beart, man’s abode tay be cast in tue most mysterious haunts of man, tu cave of island or desert, but the social desire will create 4 thousund beings to Converse with (here, aud will listen Ww responsive language from Mnanyuate ovjects, The wilugst solitudes of naiure in Wich he wanders will be peopied with sym- pathouc spirits which meet Lim ju every solitary walk, WatebIng and waiting for warm compat s at every turn of bill oF Vulley, where no #iKu MAN association breaks the tondtony of speechle iste tbe very wetury of tormer iriendsbips & joyed ut home, wherever tome may be, Wransiases Luo busy recollections of the past inW Lhe freduness Of bbe present, sv that it UaturY Is Vuivelets the sympathetic human sight and sound and touch are tuere as @ reality. A streamict, dancing over smouth pebvies, lwughing as if in love with (he sunbeam whieh glances down On 18 vosem, is full of vumantty, espeoraily If the breeze sighs Httuly through the rit in the over hanging folage. 11% pare waters run between mar- gins of Soll green turf, enomelled with Lowers, OF | cause of tho struggles between Church and State, to | unostontatious disol water lilies float on its bosom in their alabaster beauty, and altbough silence reigns in tho deep blue sky above, and unbroken peace around on every side, stil the streamlet sings of the brook at home, and its wild melody makes the heart happy. In the dell, where no foottull 18 heard but his own, tho fone of bumanity d like an elvish queen, thing on a dewy | r limbs as white us a now fallen flake of suo ju by day and the stars home at night. The ra croaking of the frog, the shrieking owl, th of the mandrake, the roaring wind whi cedar, and the rolling sea which beats the rock are all agbuman to bim as the zepbyr in the grove und th murmur of the inspired rivulet, The solitary may walk through green grass or cornileids, climb mountains or posh through the tangled forest, may thread trackless caves or glide bis skifl over mys- terious lakes, being everywhere alone, yet not alone, for both the attributes and fellowships of mau afe with hia, However sequestered, there is a sibyl in the grot; the drowsy waterfall is tuneful to his ear; the solemn soothes him to restfulness, while the sombre cy} nd the flitting bat conspire to crowd solitude with welcome society. In the words of Rob- ertson— ‘WHAT 18 SOLITUDE? The fisherman on the ocean alone at nightis not alone, when he remembors tbe eurvest longin; ich ure arising up to heavon at home for his salety. The traveller 1s not alone, when the faces woich will grect him on big arrival seem to beam upon him as he trudges on, The solitary student 1 not alone, wheu bo teels that buman hearts will respond tothe truths which be 1s preparing to address to them, But tus is not the isolation of which our Lord speaks when ho says, ‘Ye shall leave me alone,’ tor to Him the des- ert was “the home of God,’’ and the mountain top the very gate of heaven, ‘hen thero is unother sort of Jones noss of which it would seem that Ho could not possibly bea partaker. I aliudo to that solitude which famiiarises the mind with its own actings, which 18 necessary to right thinking, and the arrest of pernicious associations, The isolation of some haunted tower, the trackloss gloom of some catacomb, the clitted side of some dizzy alp, or the waste ubout tue rim of some yawning crater are not the most dreaded solituue, for these are tho handiworks of God. ‘The most terrible desolations of solitude are the maddening cells which lie between the wails built vy the nands of man, That 18 solitude, indoed, when vice doomsa man to the prison dungeon, where no- sentiment can create a Voice but that of & guilty conscience and where no expression of face 1s read but shat of ghastly despair. ‘This is the solitude which makes the darkness of ueath visible und prompts the criminal to seek reiuge in solf-murder, ‘The isolation of a human spirit io this order of solitary confiuement is more than death, A living maa isthere buried up in a silent sepuichre of stone, as if to bury bis very soul while breathing where unotler heart does not best, but a lonely spirit tor- ments itself by 4 clash of pavsions aud facultios with- out aim or object. [here the tongue is chained, the eyo fastened to the floor, while doletul torebodings draw iorth the piercing sigh aud the deep groan, till the motion of 4 mouse would startle the culprit into dismal aflliction. The separation of a man irom bis own sympathies is death and works rapid destruction to the pow ff both soul and body, A mun without hope will become both a cripple in frame and au Wide in inind, for brain a nerve aro not only robbed of their natural stimulus, but have become the jountain of agonizing sensations, _ IS RELIGION DYING OUT? AN EXTRAORDINARY DISCOURSE BY REV. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM ON GOD AND THE CHURCHES, After having read a chapter from the Hebrew Ecclo- siastics and a selection out of the Persian anthology, , the Rey. Mir. O, B. Frothingham preached an impres- sive sermon on tho unfruitfuluess of formal roligion, The eloquent speaker’s uudience was large, attentive and seemingly highly appreciative. 1g the course of his sermon the preacher said, in substance, that he laid particular stress on the words “formal religion,’’ the religion of custom or conveni- ence, a8 contradistinguished from the religion of thought. Real religion le the inspiration of life, not the limitation of it, No one is weaker for giving force to his best iueas or swee! hopes. It nover injured any one to have a mind open to the ,most delicate impression looking upward to the highest happinese. ‘True re- Jigion makes people worspipiul, thoughtful, puro ot character. The formal religion that people practise without thinking—call it Jewish, Christian or what you will—in becoming a mere formality is convertod into a real clog, A great question with denomina- 3 Is how to reconcile religion with the prog- ross of tho a; The best way todo that, accord- ing to the preachers, is to put life into the form; fill tho vase, but do not broak it; keep up the force on the machinery, do not strain it. lt is never Foooguized that the machinery may be worthless and rusty, and therefore require to be broken up. The speaker alluded toan able article on religion which lately appeared in ono of. the daily Journals, and drew inferences theretrom which tonded to illustrate bis arugmeont that the usefulness of formal religion is gone. NO FEAR OF HELL, People no longer fear hvil and tho devil; they do not Jook to the Judgment Day with fear and trembling, nor live uoder the authority of what 1s called divine Jaw, With the decay of beliet we see religion go one way and the world another, igion 18 uo longer the educator of the people; it may be found ignorant of the mass, on tho protection of the priests, and not on the strength of intellect. No so- lution of the anomalous struggle between religion and intellect presents itself excepting this—that religion must aisappear before the march of a cultivacod, higher intellect. The force of discipline would, it was claimed, greatly aid the work of progress, The cxawpies afforded by the merchant, the railroad, the army und navy, Were used to illustrate the line of argument and to show the necessity of the economy of time; and 1¢ was urged that t apline of the army and navy is the noblest education and the grandest to which the race has been subjected. It is @ machine to do great and noble works. WHY BUSINKSS MEN DO Why, 1t was asked, do busine really they are not business men; they are feeble, 1n- fatuated and carried away by some special scheme, They were men who expected assistance from tho clouds, calling upon the Church or the priest to ala them. ‘Finally, when they see that the God whom thoy called upon did not respond, and tho Christ they cried out to could not bo relied upon, they becomo seepticnl of tho efficacy of formal religion, which failed thom because it 1s false, and they lailed Decause they were not practical. In Now England, Balt a century age family worship was the custom with the head of nearly every tamily. Itis said that tn those days fam:lies were more happy and parents received greater respect than now, 80, was this due to family prayers or to the peculiar make-up of society in the long ago? At present, in this great city, that exact discipline of old times 13 not brought to bear in domestic cireles, The heads of tuimilies havo their own affgirs to call them away, and children Jeavo home sooner than they did formerly. If any- moat thing is wrong now in society must the rev edy come trom the re-establishment of tam- ily prayers? Not so, but by considering society us it is, and applying a remedy suitable to its wants A Greek sage bas said that those sitting down to food must remember that there are two to be ililed, the body and the mind; therefore the physical and in- telloctual wants of society must both be utvended to. RELIGION AND THK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, On one side religiouists claim that the public schools make atheists, and on tho other that the intluence of religion 1n Wuemn 18 cramping tne power of education, ‘The Catholic Church says that tho schools cannot flour. ish without its benediction, and the Protestant Church contends that if tho Bible is taken from the schools rel gion will be lost, But in the din of this coutro- vVersy tne poopie are beginning to know’ that learning ig not necessarily sssociated with any particular dogma or denomination. Thetr Cuthohcism, Protes- tantism, the Bible, priests aud parsons—all stand in the way of progress. ‘They throw all the higher ro- sponsibility of the scholar away with the mumbled prayer. 1s it possible that this should nave the power of quickening the mima or ot making the more fh to meet the schools will not be perfect un+ Ul they aro compietely unsectarian, ibere must be no priest, bo pastor, no sacrameut, no Bible in them, The whole question must be to rationally educate the young iniod for the best enjoyment of an intel- lectual hie. The office of teaching must not bo con- demned to a subordinate; lot religion litt its hund off aud leave the results to conviction only. The in- trusion of formal religion breeds sectarian strife, We have Catholic and Protestant textbooks, histories, tn- terpretations of the sciences and all sh 1, pone of thein baving a comprehensive view of ¢ subjects and oll beut on imposing their own peculiar viows upon the American youth, This is an outrage ot i describable magnitude; it is a domg against which every man in the country should arra; iL Wo know that bistery, pnilosophy aod thi hot be sectarian; that Romavism, Protostantism, tho Greek Church—all are but sects; that ibey ure ethi- cally the same und seeking identical interests, In tho light of this knowledge of truth, the books put into tue handa of our boys and girls should ot be on the side of Romanism or of Protestantism, but on the grounds of eterna: truth. Uniess the schoois be unti- rectarinn they must degenerate, and can never fuldl their mission to educate Americana. Gop IN THE CONSTITUTION, Certain people believe that we would be more happy y constitutionally avowing ourselves a Christian pe ple; that our not saying this by the voice ot Cong’ Jeaves us in the piace of outlaws among nations. opponents of this measure think it is cul, Useless aud Unconstitutional, ing whatever to do wih the working of the laws, The idea that the avowal of Christianity in the constitution would make the American peopio more Luppy oF prosperous 14 ubsurd, and it is bara to believe thut aby get_o! men could wutertain such & irengied potion. *What expectation is there tu tl heart of the people that this ulteration of the constitu. tion would make the millions better of? Many of them are uuable to read i, und more who cannot undorstand the meaning thoreo!, 1s is needful ‘hat Americans should oall their attention trom abroad and fx it sharply at home. Let religion ap- point no chaplains in the army, wavy or Legislature Upob WHose idle prayers the ignorant should depeud; appoint po Sabbata to be kept in aoy purwoular way vier than that of the general cesire, Let re- higton set po fast or feast days, telling people when they ought to be sorrowtul or glad. ‘The peopie can Hud these things unerriogly envagh the ilogr having not for themselv We have not had an opportunity, be- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. a see what an unsectarian government could do. Lot the State mind its own affairs and religion bless the world as bess it knows how. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, TEMPTATIONS THAT BESET YOUNG MEN—SERMON BY THE REY. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. Mr, Talmage preached on the ‘Temptations of Young Men,” taking bis text trom Proverbs, vi, 7—**Surely in yain is the net spread in tho sight of any bird.’” Tho net in my text, said Mr, Talmage, stands tor temptation. The call bird of sin tempts men on irom poiat to point uotil they are about to drop into the net. Ifwman Jods out in time that it is the temptu- tion of the devil he pulls back. There are two classes of temptations, the superficial and the subterraneous, those above ground and those under ground. Ifa man could see sin ag it is, he would no more embrace it than be would embrace a Jeper. Sin is the daughter of hell, yet it 18 garlauded and robed and trinketed, aud her voive 1s a warble. I wart this morning, my dear friends, to point out the insidious temptations trat assailing young me Tho only kind of nature tI 18 entirely iree from temptation, so far I know, 1s the cold, hard, stingy, mean temperament. It is the generuus, ar- dent, warm hearted, social young man that is in es pectal ri, For the former you want no Young Men’s Christian Association to kecp safe; he is sale, He wili pot gamble, unless it is witn somebody else” money; he will not drink, unless some one el: treuts—too mean to goto perdition unless somebody wise pays his expenses. For such young men we will not fight, but only for ‘those who aro buoyant, ‘entuusiasiic, who are determined to do something und to be something, Tue first cluss of temptations that assault the you! men in New York and Brooklyn is tho influences 0! the sceptic. He 164 tiveral man, 60 very liberal that he will give up the Bible and lis own soul and those of bis triends, He says, “fbero ure a great many things in the Bible that story about the whale iowing Jouab, iration would have been hindered ; Le would have been digested; the gastric juices of the whale’s stomach would bave dissolved him, and Jonah would have been changed from prophet into chyme I be Neve in the lignt of nature, Progress, sir, progress!” ‘Thousands of young mou ure duily going down unucr such artillery of scorn, Don’t give up your Bivles! What has tnildelity ever done to lift the 1,400,000,000 of the human race out o1 barbarism ? Young man, hold on to your Bible; it is the best book you ever owned. EMPLOYERS’ RESPONSUMLITIKS, ‘The second ciags of iusidious temptations that come Bpan aan yang tet is led on by the busiuose em- ployer, Every commercial establishment 1s a school, und in pine cages out of ten the principles and mo- Fulity of the employer become the priociples and imo- raiity of the empioyé. There ure bundreus of com- mercial establisumenta in our groatcitics which uro educating u cluss of young men who will ve the honor 1 our cities; then there ure other establish ments edu- cating young men to ve nothing but sharpers, What chauce is there for a young man who is taught that it ts rightto he if it is proticable, or that be is always to be bonest when it pays? I am not talking au ab- straction, 1 um talking a terrible and o crushing fact. 1 undertake to say that the employer is responsible for ull the iniquities of nis clerks and ail the iniqaiti those who are clorks of these clerks, down tu the teith generation, if the employer bus ine culcated ipiquities and damuing principles. 1 stand before young men this morning Who ure under this pressure, and | to them, “Come out of itl”? No youug man permanently suffered by an Lonost course Ot conduct. Young men, it is safe to doright, Lay hold of God and be faithiul, There is a mistake about young men, Weare upt to put them in two ciasses; (he Ove class 1s moral and the othor dissolute; tne moral will be saved and the dissolute .cubnot ve re- claimed. I deny both propositions The moral aro not saved unless they tay bold of God and tho dissolute can be reclaimed. O seli-righteous men, without God you are inperil | There is no salary jor @ map without God, Butl may be addressing some who uave gon y, ud so 1 assail (oat otter proposition, that the dissolute may not be reclaimed. Perhaps you bave only gone a little astray; but evon it you have gone 80 far as to commit all iniquities and have gone through the whole catalogue of sins I in- vite you back this morning. Come bome to your tutners’ God, Ob, 1 wish thut all the batteries of the Govpel were unlimbered against the drinking saloons and gambling hells aud houses of death which are tuking down so many of our young men, 1 would like to blow @ trumpet that would send this whole audience out on a crusade against the evils that are destroying our young men. But my beare is high with hope, The dark horizon is blooming in the moroing hight, of which prophets have spoken and poets dreamed und painters sketched. Mr. Tulmago concluded with tue following rather extraordinary figure of speech :— ‘The world’s bridal hour advances, the morning rad- fant und effulgent, and tue waves of the sou will become tue crystal chords of a grand organ, on which tne fingers of everlasting joy shall powl the grand march of a world redecmed. "ustead of the thorn there shall come up the tir tree, aud imstead of the brier there sbull como up the myrtle tree, and the mountains and the hills evall break forth into singing and all the trees of the wood shall clap their hands, ST. JOHN'S, CHAPEL, THE DUTY OF FORGIVENESS—SERMON BY REV. SULLIVAN H. WESTON. St. John’s Chapel, Trinity Church, io Varick street, is one of those landmarks of old New York which, though now situated in a quartor far removed from tho seat of wealth and fashion of which it was the centre in former years, still retains the affectionate loyalty of its uptown attendants, Rev. Sullivan H. Weston preached there on the theme of forgive- ness, taking for his text, “Then came Peter to nim and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till soven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee seven times, but unul seventy times seven.” The reverend gentle. man explained that this expression meant forever, for all time, We needed forgiveness every day from the Lord tor our trespasses, Should we, then, sot a limit to our own forgiveness tor the trespasses of our neighbors? Tho difference tn the number of umes which Peter and the Saviour thought were proper tor the exercise of forgiveness illustrated the dillerences tn their dispositions, 14 was hard to attain the divive ideal, however, We all were ready to overlook the first Or second offence, but, as the modern proverb put it, the time arrived when, in our opinion, “or- Deurauco ceased to be a virtue.” But where in the Gospel could Warrant be foung for this maxim? It was pagan, ceftainly not Chfistian in its spirit. How should we like our heavenly Master tw adopt this rule toward us when we prayed to Him every day to forgive us our trespasses? Rice only should there be no limit to this spirit of Christiaa forbearance, but the Gospel taught us also tuut it should be sincere. We should not meet our brethren ut home, in tne social circle, im the church or in business, aud with smiles on our faces carry hatred and malice in our hearts, He nad often ad- mired the dissimulatioa with whick meu aud womea— particularly women, however—quarrellod politely aud hid thoir enmities uoder smooth, smiling faces. It med vulgar to quarrel outright and it was con- weilbred to be a living lie. FORGIVE AND PURGET, Another maxim which moderu society seemed to have largely adopted was “Forgive, buat do not for- get;” im other words, people said, “1 forgive Lim asa Christian, but I owe wt to myself as a man not to forget.” There were certain ollences wo deadly, cor- twin injuries’ inspired by such diabolical malice, that 44 seemed impossible to inost men to eflace their Fecul- Jection {rom their minds But while 14 was undoubt- edly most diflicult to atiain tbe divine ideal set by our Suviour we sbould yet all try our hardest to reach it far ax we could. We talked about the great evils that afflicted modern society—frivolity, seep. ticism, extravayanco, luxury, the betrayal of bigh trusts-—but thero was prubably nothing which had shipwrecked so many Christians as this stubborn spirit. of revenge, of a desire to retaliate for injuries done tous. What would bo the consequence if the divine Saviour’s commund was faitutuily carried out by men? We should sce no armies, then, engaged i sanguinary conflict on tve Danube; our armies and pavies would be dissolved, 4 sword would be turned into the ploughsharo; indeed, be would aimost say that the milleunium bad arrived. We should remetwber that while it is sweet to humbiea proud or arrdgant enemy aud to retaliate fora grievous wrong, 1} cannot be done witnout forieiting that divive forgivencss of which we stand in such imminent need. We suould live, then, so that we may trutniuily be able to pray every day, ‘‘Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us ” ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS AND WIAT IS RE- QUILED OF US—BERMON BY REV. FATHER FARLEY. In St Putrick’s Cathedral Rev. Father Farley te lected the text of his discourse from Apocalypso vin After this | saw a great number which no man could number,” &¢,, and said:—Every day the Church commomorates the feast of one or more saints, but the number veing so great one day 1s set apart for the commemoration of all, and that day will be Thurs- day next. On that day the Charch, as tt were, draws uaide the veil before the sanctuary of the Lord and presents to the view of the faithful the multitude of the blessed, the hosts of cherubim, soraphim, apostles, martyrs and coufessors basking and bathing iu the ligut of God’s presence, aud without the tear ol ever losing that ineffable uappiuess, But who aro those revealed to view? Many of tuem were once mortals as we are now, but baving cooquered the temptations of the world. tne flesh and the devil, are pow opjoying their reward. Tho object of toe Church im presenting this view before us ts vot that wo should honor (hem, (or they are tn no peed of our honor, vat that we should be inspired to follow their exainplo, Many will give a8 an excuse fur not leading holy, lives thut their business requires all their time aud ‘aitontion; but that excuse falls to the yround when Wo read the'hves of the saints, It 18 toolish to think that tu order to become holy we must practise the extraordinary 500s Which the saints imposed Upon tuemselves,” These are not the essentinis of sunctity, but omy the results of 1. One mortification properly performed brought its reward, aud that in turn ‘gave more astrougth tor the accompilsh- ing of still greasor deeds, But all that is required of, us 18 tO pertorm our ordi pary duties im tho best possible manner, There was nothing ve rdinary in the lile of the Saviour, o of thitty years 1s totally un- was de sidered ptodly lived, as others, in tho ar ‘of Hus bio dutios as j carpenter. He fasted and prayed and was beloved by every one but His enemies, but there was nothing about Him that was so very austere ——— St Paulin his Epistle to the Hebrews, chapters xi, Xi1., takes away all excuse trom those who would say they could not live holily, There he names one after another the saints of the old law, and tells how they lived. Tho great penitent, St. Augustine, having read the hfe of a saint, heard a voice within him, the voice of God, say, “What they did do.” Ho did it and conquered bis passions, So likewise cvn every do, Weare not required to do extraordinary things, but to perform our ordinar; actions as well as, aided by the grace of God, whic! will never be wanting, we can do, The lives of the saints ure for our edification, not for our example, but 1n 80 far as wo {eel able to follow them. We have our crosses and trials; let us bear them with patience and resignation, ay coming from God. Let us boar pa- tently with one another and act with charity and kindness toward all, Tho examples set us 10 tho lives of the saints show what we can do if we only try. We should, then, be stimulated by thoir deeds to follow, at least in part, im their footsteps, that so we may in the end be admitted into their company. OLD JOHN STREET CHURCH. ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY SEBVICES—SERMON BY RBY. ©. H, FOWLER, One of the most noticeable buildings of the olden time, situated in the very maze of business houses in John street, below Nassau, is the above named church, over whose plain portals is the inseription:—‘First Methodist Church in America,”’ The services duringthe day, celevrating the one hundred and cleveath anuiver- sary, were of a most interesting character, At an early hour in the morning, before nine o’clock, the plain old edillce was crowded with worshippors to attend a love feast, over which Rov. J.. L, Peck presided, and by hall-past ten o’clock every seat in the edifice was ‘filled to listen to o sermon. by Rev. CG H. Fowler, editor of tho Christian Advocate, Previous to the discourse some excellent sacred music was given by the Hutchinson amily apd tho Arion rtette, Rev. Mr. Fowler took his text from Paul's Epistle to the Romana, viti., 14—'*For as many as ure led by the spirit of God they are tho sons of Go4,”’ “I shall bo especially thankful and comforted,” said the proacher, “il you will be both thoughtiul and prayertul ia considering this, I think I am only anxious that you should gu out of this place more cer- tain of heaven than when you came into it, and if you wilkwccopt the word with the prayer this will bo so, Modern doubters proclaim the incarnation of Jesus Christ infinite egotism, but those of us whu by blessed experience know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins proclaim that it ts infinite humility, Humility and not pride governs all true believers, “Ihe faith of aChristian, too, can be exemplified by a story told of Dr, Hayes when be was making his ex- edged in the Arctic regions, He had separated his command, and had sent one portion under a lieutenant to flod what mignt prove to bo the open sea, Tho offictr after a time ro.urned and reported that two sailors were lying sick ina hut in tue ive, about seven days’ march trom the spot, They were only two sailors, but Dr. Hayes called back his dogs, prepared is sledges and went to their relief, Arriv: ing at the but he got down on his knees in tho snow and calied to know if the men were within, A faint response Was given. ‘We ure saved,’ said one; ‘Wo knew you would come,’ cried the other, And this was a Cbristian’s faith in the holp of the Lord.” In the afternoou addresses were made by Hon. W. T. Price, of Philadelphia; Judge Reynolds, of Brooklyn, and Rev. Dr. Hurst, Presidept of Drow Theological Seminary. There was a yourg peoplo’s prayer meet- ing in the evening. Way St MARINERS' CHURCH AT ANTWERP. 118 DEMANDS UPON AMERICA—APPEAL BY REV. EDWARD W. MATTHEWS. Previous to Rev. Dr. Taylor’s sermon in the Con- gregational Tabernacle, on Sixth avenue, last evening, the congregation was addressed by the Rev. Edward W. Matthews, pastor and manager of the Mariners’ Church and [ustitute at Antwerp, whose object was to present, ina forcible way, the demands of that mis- sion upon the charitable of this land and city, The church 18 under the caro of the British and Foreign Saulors' Society of London and the American Sea- men’s Friend Society of New York. Mr. Matthows, tho agent of these societies, 18 an indefatigable worker and a man of much ability; so it 18 to bis efforts that tne Mi ers’ Church owes its success and present im- portance, lu his brief address last ovening Mr. Matthews set forth the important position which Antwerp occupies upou the Continent of Europe, comparing it to the metropolis of this country for the extent and variety of its commercial interests, 1t is specially important, be said, that in a city where thousaods of English speaking sailors are thrown together throughout the yeur there shall be some place where they could at- tend religious services in their own language, and where there may be some iuiluence to counteract the thousand temptatious of a groat seaport, The Mart- ners’ Church has been established not many years, and it is still Slightly enfeebied by its labiiities, It is the great wish of those interested in it to set it free from all financial embarrassments, and it 13 chiefly for that purpose that I have 1s- ited this country. The importance of such a mission work cannot be over estimated, and that its {mportance is realized ut bome 18 shown by the friendly interest which 18 tuken in its success by tho Belgiau goverument, which for a time provided as with rooms, tree of charge, in Hanseatic House. ‘Ine King of the Belgians also has showao mis appreciation of the work by a handsome present, to be sold at a fair in aid of the building tund. He bas also expressed a hope that the church aad institute may Gnally lead 10 a sailors’ home, Assistance hus also been received from other mem: of the royal family, and on all hands we receive cordial encouragement, not only from public and private individuals of all grades and Classes, bat from the press of England, Belgium aud France. Indeed, no one who knows the power of the Gospel and the immense good done wherever it is preached to the vicious and degraded can doubt what has been and ws still to be done by this mission to the satlora who frequent this port in such numbers, The more money We bave the more extended will be our opera- tious and the greater will be the amount of good work accomplisued. Inatoad of being in debt we should have «surplus of money always ou band, Tho plan has been proposed and is now in course of execution to pay off the rematuing debt by a tund, to be known as the ‘'yndale fund, by which, frst of all, a ding memorial wilt be raised in the chureo in honor of Wiilam Tyadale, by whom the Bible was first trans- lated into Euglish and published in the city of Aut- werp. Collections for that fund are nuw being mado in several directions, and 19 many cases the assistance hus been liberal. Mr. Matthews then read a letter which ho had ro- ceived from the Rizht Hon, W. E. Glaustone, In which the ex-Promier says:—“l incline to the belief that we robably owe more to Tyndale than to apy other man in regard to the groat work of the English traaslation of the Kible. What place could ve more appropriate for such a memorial than the Muroers’ Church, the tirat erection for worship in the English Janguage in the historic city of Antwerp??? Tue following letter is irom the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon:— “7 am glad to find you at work iu Antwerp, and irom what I have heurd I believe you have a flue fleld and are having a blessing on it. You ask me to recom- mend a memorial to Tyndale. 1 think 1t commends 1t- sell, aud | am happy to send my mite toward it.” Bishop Simpson bas also praised the mission as an excellent enterprise aud one which “cannot be accom. plished without help from abroad.” ‘the worthy Mayor of Autwerp has also written a letter to Mr, Mutthews commeuutory of his endeavors and tho line portance of his work, THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. MEETING OF THE AMLERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION—AN ORIGINAL POEM—ADDRESSES BY RE DR J, H. BAYLISS, OF INDIANA, AND OTHERS, Atthe regular meeting of the American lemperance Union, held in Cooper Lustituto, yesterday afternoon, Prodident Cady in the chair, Mrs. Emma Gates Couk- Nn read an original poem on the pending topic, and the Rov, Dr. J. H. Bayliss, of Indianapolis; Mr. Dox- tor, of Broad strect, and Mr. Drew, of New Hampshire, a well known temperauce advocate, made addresses, ‘The principal one wus by Dr, Bayliss, Di, BAYLISS’ ADDRESS. ‘The Doctor said he had traveiied a good deal, but ho could not go uuywhere that he did not run’ square against the greatevil of intemperance. ‘Even that moruing ho Was run against by a dranken man who was lesding a litue child—or perhaps tuo hitule child was jeading =him—home ufter a night's debauch, aud he could not help reilecting what w sud sight that bome would present whon, with staggering steps, the drunken husband crossed the thresuold and bis patient aud sorruwing He saw to-day in this city she sane wife met him, far succeeded as to get a bill passed by the Legislature which aided them. But the fight is not ail’on ono stue, ‘The tiger 1s bard to kil, Sometimes we got him down and put our feet on him, He hoped it would be so here, avd when they got their fect upon the curse he prayed tue Lord to give them strength to keep them the He hod just listened to « tecture on “Biun- ders,"’ by Jobn is. Gough, It affordeu nim food tor reflection, There are blunders everywhere; in the cause of temperance and in the curso of intemperance. If he saw a man biundoring over 4 precipice be believed it to bo bis duty to at- tompt to rescue him, just as he would a mau about to plunge down tho precipice of drunkenness, lt is & blunder tor & mau to wdulgo in moderate drinking, for, said the Docior, moderate drinking is the mate- rial out of which bell makes contirmed drunkards, 1b isa blunder for men to suppose that thoy can stop drinking when they have a mind to, It they can way don't tbey do it, instead of allowing themselves to become Invetorate has said Inebriates apd sets? Ciriyle that in order to make @ man ap- eu the best way ts to let him heve a of the torments of the othér place. Leta man have a few attacks of delirium tremens and ho would be able to realize the heaven of total abs the part of tho State to pass laws which enable a rumyoller to flaunt @ picco of paper and say toat he bas paid for bis privilege to make drunkards and has ag much right to do so as I have to preach the Gospel, The reverend goutleman declared that by proper efforts every temperance man and woman doing bis aud her best they would crowd this grand temperance work to the Paciile Oveun, and concluded by saying ‘that the politicians would be on their side as foon as they discovered, as they bad in Indiana, that it was their interest to be 50, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, Review of the Week—A Feverish Stock Speculation. THE GOLD AND MONEY MARKETS, Investment Securities—Government, State and Railroad, Bonds. ge Watt Staesr, Sunvay, Oct 28, 1977, To others than the chronic speculator, dyed in the wool, the events of the last week upon the Stogk Ex- change have offered little intorost, Although the fluctuations of prices have been sharp and severe they have been rather due to local causes than to the instigation of popular influences. The carly part of the week was marked by a goneral depression, partly the result of real and partly of artificial causes, A general dumping ot stocks by some of the large hold. ors lately connected with the bull movement pro- duced « surfeit of securities which at one time threatened a panic of indigestion, but ail danger was removed by the speedy assistince on the part of the remaining bulla and the somewhat timid bears who rasbed to tne Féscue. To give additional force to a downward move. ment, which naturally grow out of tho lirge offerings of stocks, the scandal mongers of tho street busied themselves with fabrications concerning this and thag financial institution, to the extent of frightening timid Speculators and of producing an unquestionable run upon the Dime Savings Bank, The crop, sowed in mendacity, nevertheless failed in its harvest Boyond tbe savings bank episode, which turned out to be a senseless scare, the residuum of lies soon sunk out of sight as a wicked and gratuitous sediment with which it had been sought to befoul the crodit of several well known institutions, Theo recovery in prices was immediate and important, but, unfor- tunately for the bulls who had taken a band, did not last long, sincein twenty-four hours later. a second collapse took place, not so formidable as the first, it is true, but sufficiently severe to upset prices for the rest of the week and to close business in a state of feverishness and doubt, During this whole period of uncertainty and while tho railroads were being kvocked about at the whim of speculators the anthra- cite stocks remained steady and even firm, Tho coal sale on Wednesday proved to bo the reverse of satistac- tory, lower prices to the extent of 40a 75 cents por ton being made. The share prices held, however, as noticed, tothe manifest disgust of the shorts. That the companies are doing business at a lose will proba- bly be concoded by themselves, and the steadiness of their securities becomes tho more inexplicable from the fact. Rates for money have not increased, and the logs in legal tenders for the week is less than was ¢: pected. TRANSACTIONS OF THE WERK. r The following table represents the opening, highest and lowest sales, regular way, of tho principal stocks _ during tho past week, together with the number of shares dealt in:— Wo, be Highe Low Shares, ing est. est. Albany and Susqueh’na... 100 7 1 ™ Chicago and Northwestern 43,850 373 893g © 82H Chicago and Northw'n pf.. 42,155 643{ 6734 61} ©., R. L. and Pacitic. ...... 10,673 101% W2% 100% Chic Bur, and Quincy. 495 10236 103 102, G,, Cand LC i 950 3: 4% =O C., GC, G and I, 8,931 40% 44° 38 Cieveland and Pittsburg... 1,087 793, 80 9 Canton. ..eeees seeeeeeeee U0 22) 22 22 Del, Lack. and Western..135,161 51 52% 49. Delaware and Hudson... 22,378 42 40% 41. American Express... 2700 54 4 b+ United States Express. 400 47 47 45 Wells, Fargo & Co, Ex Erioseee Harlem, Han. and 3 sep) Han, and St, Joseph iiinois Central, Lake Shore... Mil and St. Paul.......... 74,493 85% S736 31 Mil. and St. Pad pref... 86,350 68% Tu 68 N. ¥. Contral ... 104% N. J. Central. Sie 820 17 17 1634 N.Y... N, H. and Hartford 120 154% 15434 16436 lWsy 10% 9K Big 2H, 23K 90% 905, 9055 1 19-20% «16 Quicksilver pret, 10,325 85 = 43 BG St. L., K. C. and N, 1,616 5 5M OOC*S St. L.K. Cand N. prot.. 200 2444 24g 24g St. Louw & San Francisco, 100 3% 38% 3% Wabash see 9282 15% 16% 1536 Union Pacitlc ae 0 66 67% «66 Western Union Telegraph.211,066 784% 83% 17% New Jersey Southern. 18,850 % 2 % Total for the week. ...1,090,397 TUE MONKY MARKET, Tne money market worked smoothly during the week, money oa call lenaing at 6 a 7 per cent, with exceptions as low as 5 per cont. Prime mercantile papor was quoted at 7 a 9 percent. Leading note brokers furnish the following quotations: ~ Currency Paper. Sizt, Four Doublo-named— Dave, Months, First ciass 8 ago Good. Single-namod— Birdie First class. 7 a9 Good... 9 all Not so well known. ui alz Gold Paper. Lo ol atin crs rinse... stecerecenees T 8 8 8 Single-nameu— bt Good... Ta 9 8 210 The bank statement was rather favorable, showing an increase in the total reserve of $88,300, tho surplus reserve now being $8,095,325, There was a decrease of $1,896,400 in the loans, $714,200 in legal tendors and $1,712,800 in the deposits, while the specie in- creased $802,500 and the circulation $495,700, Foreign exchange has beon active, and demand sterling some- thing easier, owing to tho Jow rate in the open market in London, which is 33g por cent, against the 5 per cont bank rate. The following are the latest quota: tions:— Staty Days. Three Days, + 480% 048134 4.855 2486 10 » 4.80 Prime bankers’ sterlin; bills on London Good bankers’ and comtnercial, Good commercial Documentary com’L . Paris (francs)... Antwerp (Irancs). Swiss (francs) posi Amsterdam (guilders). 406 Hamburg (roichmarks).. 93,0 9446 4% 8 955 Franklort (reichmurks), 95% 0 9434 94% a 9515 Bremen (reichmarks) Wyo sy BAe D5 Berlin (reichmarks).. 13% 4 Why Wee 65 TUX GOLD MARKET. The gold market was duli and the price declined from 103 to 102%, with a slight subsequent recover The following shows the fluctuations for the weel Opening, Lowest, Highest, Clonng, % 103 03 Monda; + 102% = 102s X 102% = 102% 12% = 102% 102% 102, 1oz% lua We 102% COINS AND BULLION, Tho following are the quotations for gold im for eign and American coin:— Sovereigns. a$4 88 Nagoleons. 38h a 8 8g XX reiebmark 4 a 430 X guide 390 a 410 Spanish doubloons 16 65 a 16 15 Mexican douvlos «1660 a 15 60 Fino silver ba + 119K a 1 20% Fine gold bars... + Par aj prom, 06a «OTK - Wye BM »« 8 a % Mexican dollars + 9 @ 04% English suver,, 47% a 485 Prussian silver thaler: 6 8 0 ‘Trade dollw 96 a 6g INVESTMENT SECURITIES, There was no movement in government, State or Tailroad bonds, Tho following woro the bids for the various Stato securities :— $8. . i NY O8 fold loan og Nv o's oid, J ad Alabania 8's, Alabaue 8's, 1% Alabanna 3's, 18 Like Pests. “4 Ark 7's, Mem & LRK.. 4 Ark 7's, LU, PBANO, 4 Ark7', MO& Riv, 4 Ark 7's, Ark Con RRA. 4 Georgin U pockul Georgia 7! 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